bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Critical incidents in anorexia nervosa
Authors: Leppanen Jenni , Tosunlar Lara , Blackburn Rachael , Williams Steven , Tchanturia Kate , Sedgewick Felicity
Published: July 2020

Background: Although social-emotional difficulties are believed play a key role in anorexia nervosa (AN), there is uncertainty regarding what these difficulties might look like. Previous research has largely focused on a “disease model” of social-emotional processing in AN with little attention paid to positive emotions and experiences. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to obtain a fuller picture of critical life events in AN. Methods: Thirty-four participants aged 16-48 with current or past AN completed an online survey describing self-defined positive and difficult critical events.Results: Two major themes were identified in the descriptions of positive critical events: Moments of celebration, reflecting external focus, and Unexpected positive outcomes, revealing negative biases. Difficult events were broadly divided into included eating disorder (ED) related and Non-ED life events, involving discussion of relational conflict and feeling unsupported. Discussion: The findings suggest that AN is characterised by negative emotionality and bias. However, reduced self-focused attention and increased “big-picture” thinking, and shifting negative expectation through corrective experiences may be helpful in AN and could be useful targets for further research.
Exploring Gender Differences in Marriage and Parental Income Premiums among Financial Advisors
Authors: Tharp Derek , Parks-Stamm Elizabeth , Lurtz Meghaan , Kitces Michael
Published: July 2020

This study examined marriage and parental income premiums among financial advisors. Financial advisors provide an interesting context for exploring such premiums, as financial advising is a historically male-dominated profession that has been found to exhibit large unadjusted gender pay gaps. Using a large sample of financial advisors recruited via a professional continuing education website (n=555), this study investigates whether gender differences exist among financial advisors with respect to the marriage premium, the parenthood premium, the parental leave effect, and the stay-at-home spouse premium. This study examined premiums both with and without potentially endogenous human capital covariates. Without including potentially endogenous covariates, a marriage premium was observed among men but not women, a parenthood premium was observed among women but not men, a parental leave premium was observed among neither men nor women, and a stay-at-home spouse premium was observed among men but not women. When potentially endogenous covariates were included, a marriage penalty was observed among women but not men, a parenthood premium was observed among women while a parenthood penalty observed among men, a parental leave premium was observed among men but not women, and a stay-at-home spouse premium was observed among men while a stay-at-home spouse penalty was observed among women. Exploratory Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition analyses revealed sizeable unadjusted income gaps by gender (16.7%), marriage (32.8%), parenthood (8.1%), parental leave (16.7%), and spousal employment (39.8%).
Unchurched Christian Nationalism and the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election
Authors: Stroope Samuel , Froese Paul , Rackin Heather , Delehanty Jack
Published: July 2020

Prior research found that Christian nationalism was strongly associated with voting for Trump in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. However, the effects of Christian nationalism may depend on voters’ religiosity. We assess whether the association between Christian nationalism and Trump support differed for churchgoers and non-churchgoers and find that Christian nationalism is not significantly associated with Trump support among churchgoing voters. Instead, Christian nationalism is only significantly associated with Trump support among unchurched voters. These results suggest that while religious ideology remains a key driver of political attitudes and behavior in the U.S., its effects may have less to do with embeddedness in traditional religious organizations and more to do with the ways people use religious narratives in everyday life to construct and defend symbolic boundaries. At a time when fewer Americans attend religious services, religious narratives about Christian nationhood may have their strongest political effects when, and perhaps because, they are detached from religious institutions.
An assessment of empathy levels of dental students’ in Nepal: A cross-sectional comparative study
Authors: Ghimire Siddharth , Dixit Punam Basnet , Roy Deepak Kumar , Dhital Shweta , Dahal Sirjana
Published: July 2020

Background: Empathy is a behavioural aspect of understanding and communicating with a desire to help. Empathy in medical personnel with patient is one of the basic ingredients of good physician/dentist –patient relationships.

Objectives: To assess empathy level among dental undergraduate students, interns and dental postgraduate students of Nepal and to investigate the differences in empathy scores based on gender and year of dental training.

Methodology: A cross-sectional questionnaire study was carried out among 240 dental students of different dental colleges in Nepal. Eighty students were included in each group of third to final-year undergraduate dental students, interns and postgraduate students. Data was collected using a standard-validated, self-administered Jefferson Scale of Empathy-Health Care Provider Student Version (JSE-HPS). This questionnaire included 20 items with a seven-point Likert scale. This scale has relevant content that allows assessing empathy between students and their patients. The collected data was entered in Microsoft Excel and statistical analysis was done in Statistical Package for the Social Sciences version 20.

Results: Out of 240 dental students, 74 (30.8%) were males and 166 (69.2%) were females with the mean age of 25.35 ±3.203. The mean empathy score was 79.59 ± 6.492.There was no significant difference in mean empathy level score by gender. The interns were the most empathetic (80.80 ± 6.147). The mean empathy score was found to be highest for the students with less than one year of experience of treating patient (81.85 ± 7.841).

Conclusion: Empathy should be given importance to in dental curriculum to improve dentist-patient relationship, thereby improving the treatment outcomes.
Median and ulnar nerve functions in taxi/microbus drivers and helpers in Kathmandu
Authors: Amatya Mrigendra , Khanal Bibek
Published: July 2020

Background: Occupational drivers are exposed to various stressors such as ergonomic restriction, whole body vibration, vehicle exhaust and dust exposure. Drivers are reported to have higher rates of morbidities, especially of the musculoskeletal and peripheral nervous systems. Reports on drivers’ nerve functions by specific electrodiagnostic methods are lacking.

Objectives: To compare electrophysiologic parameters of median and ulnar nerves in drivers with other population.

Methodology: In a cross-sectional comparative study, nerve conduction study was performed in median and ulnar nerves in three groups of participants – Drivers (driving taxi/microbus for at least six months), Helpers (microbus conductors for at least six months) and Controls (college staff/students). Parameters for sensory nerve action potentials and compound motor action potentials were compared among groups by ANOVA and right versus left sides within groups by paired t test.

Results: The study involved 145 male participants – 51 Drivers, 34 Helpers and 60 Controls. Compared to drivers and helpers, conduction velocity of nerves was significantly higher in controls for sensory component of all nerves (p values for right median = 0.001, left median = <0.001, right ulnar = <0.001 and left ulnar = 0.019) and motor component of right ulnar nerve (p=0.002). In right-left comparisons, conduction was slower in left median sensory than right (p=0.001) and right ulnar sensory than left (p=0.015) in the helpers but not significant in other groups.

Conclusion: Electrophysiological evidences of afflictions of median and ulnar nerves are detectable in urban taxi/ microbus drivers and helpers with at least six months’ occupational duration.
Medical complications during inpatient rehabilitation in patients with ischemic stroke in a tertiary care hospital in Nepal
Authors: Dhungana Krishna , Shakya Dipesh , Shrestha Rabindra , Bhatta Sabnam , Maharjan Sabbu
Published: July 2020

Background: Complications are common in patients with ischemic stroke and hinder successful rehabilitation. Timely identification and management of complications are key factors in the management of patients with ischemic stroke.

Objectives: The aim of this study is to find the occurrence of different types of complications in patients admitted with the diagnosis of ischemic stroke and to find the risk factors associated with the occurrence of complications.

Methodology: The study is a cross sectional descriptive study. A total of 96 patients with ischemic stroke admitted to the Department of Neurology of Kathmandu Medical College Teaching Hospital over a period of six months (July 2018 to December 2018) were recruited. Data was recorded according to a designed proforma and analysed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences version 20.

Results: The age group ranged from 25 to 91 years with the mean age of 64.36 years and 50 (52.1%)patients were male. A total of 62 (64.6%) patients developed at least one complication during hospital stay. Pneumonia and urinary tract infection were the most common complications occurring in 22(22.9%) patients. The occurrence of complications was positively correlated with National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale and Glasgow Coma Scale.

Conclusion: Pneumonia and urinary tract infection were the most common complications in our study and were similar to those quoted in the western literature. Severity of stroke had positive correlations with occurrence of complications.
Awareness on Cancer and Barriers to Health Care Seeking Among Adults of Bardiya
Authors: Sah Chanda , Aryal Srijana , Neupane Gita
Published: July 2020

INTRODUCTION: Cancer is a leading public health problem worldwide. Low awareness on cancer leads to increase in burden of cancer diagnosis and treatment.

MATERIAL AND METHODS: Descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted to find out awareness regarding cancer among people. Total 100 samples were selected by using non-probability purposive sampling method. Semi-structured interview schedule was developed with the guide of the Cancer Awareness Measure (CAM) to collect data. Collected data were analysed by using descriptive and inferential statistics.

RESULTS: The findings of the study showed that none of the study respondents were aware of all the nine warning signs of cancer. Majority (80%) of the respondents were aware that “a sore that doesn’t heal” and minority (15%) knew about “change in bowel and bladder habit” as warning signs of cancer. Regarding risk factors, majority knew chemical fertilizer and pesticides and unseasonal fruits and vegetables (90%), smoking (88%) as risk factors of cancer and minority (32%) knew about excessive sun exposure. There was statistically significant association between respondents’ level of awareness regarding cancer with education status (p= 0.011).

CONCLUSION: Findings of the study revealed that more than half (68%) of the adults had low awareness regarding cancer. Emotional barriers (88%) were known to be affecting health care seeking behaviours for cancer. Therefore, it is recommended to organize health awareness campaigns addressing emotional barriers might improve in early diagnosis and treatment of cancer.
Aplikasi Triple Exponential Smoothing Untuk Forecasting Jumlah Penduduk Miskin
Authors: Jana Padrul
Published: July 2020

This study aims to predict the number of poor in Indonesia for the next few years using a triple exponential smoothing method.The purpose of this research is the result of the forecast number of poor people in Indonesia accurate forecast results are used as an alternative data the government for consideration of government to determine the direction of national poverty reduction policies. This research includes the study of literature research, by applying the theory of forecasting to generate predictions of poor people for coming year. Furthermore, analyzing the mistakes of the methods used in terms of the count: Mean Absolute Deviation (MAD), Mean Square Error (MSE), Mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) and Mean Percentage Error (MPE). The function of this error analysis is to measure the accuracy of forecasting results that have been conducted.These results indicate that the number of poor people in 2017 amounted to 24,741,871 inhabitants, in 2018 amounted to 24,702,928 inhabitants, in 2019 amounted to 24,638,022 inhabitants and in 2020 amounted to 24,547,155 people. The forecasting results show an average reduction in the number of poor people in Indonesia last five years (2016-2020 years) ranges from 0.16 million. Analysis forecasting model obtained an mean absolute deviation (MAD) obtained by 0.246047. Mean squared error (MSE) of forecasting results with the original data by 1.693277. Mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) of 3.040307% and the final Mean percentage error (MPE) of 0.888134%.Kata Kunci: Forecasting, Triple Exponential Smoothing
Analisis Nilai Risiko Portofolio Optimum Pada Reksadana Campuran Dengan Pendekatan EWMA
Authors: Pratiwi Noviana
Published: July 2020

Value at Risk (VaR) is one of the risk measurement techniques and is considered a standard method of measuring risk. EWMA is one method to find standard deviation value of Conditional Variance which used to calculate the VaR. Investors use VaR to determine the risk level. VaR defined as the estimated loss of portfolio with a certain level of confidence. A portfolio composed of several mixed mutual funds. Of the four mutual funds only two mutual funds that can be arranged to get an optimum portfolio, 20% of mutual funds Kresna Flexima and 80% Nikko BUMN Plus. Portfolio VaR is calculated by EWMA method because it found the existence of conditional Variance. With a 95% level of trust and decay factor in accordance with the proposed risk metrics of 0.94 for daily data than obtained the VaR value of 0.26221011. This means that the maximum losses that may be received by investors amounted to 26.22% if investors invest in assets recommended by the optimal portfolio. This level of risk will be used by investors to control investment risk. Keyword: VaR, EWMA, Portofolio Optimum, Reksadana
Upaya Meningkatkan Kemampuan Komunikasi Matematika Melalui Model Kooperatif Tipe Think Pair Share (TPS)
Authors: Prihastuti Leny , Riyadi Ahmad
Published: July 2020

Penelitian ini bertujuan mendeskripsikan pelaksanaan Model Pembelajaran Kooperatif tipe Think Pair Share (TPS) untuk meningkatkan kemampuan komunikasi matematika siswa kelas VII E SMP N 2 Pajangan. Penelitian ini dilakukan di SMP N 2 Pajangan, dengan subyek penelitian kelas VII E yang berjumlah 28 siswa. Jenis penelitian adalah penelitian tindakan kelas (PTK) kolaboratif antara guru matematika kelas VII E SMP N 2 Pajangan dengan peneliti. Teknik pengumpulan data yang digunakan ialah observasi, dokumentasi, wawancara, catatan lapangan dan tes. Data hasil penelitian dianalisis secara deskriptif kualitatif dan kuantitatif. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa setelah diterapkan pembelajaran matematika dengan model pembelajaran kooperatif tipe Think Pair Share (TPS) pada materi sifat-sifat bangun segiempat dan keliling serta luas bangun segiempat, siswa mengalami peningkatan kemampuan komunikasi matematika. Kata Kunci: Komunikasi matematika, model pembelajaran Kooperatif tipe Think Pair Share (TPS)
Core competencies for BESTCO certified sex therapists
Authors: Winterton Vicky , Dzendoletas Darlene , Holzapfel Stephen , Kleinplatz Peggy J. , Lackey Neil , Neeb Susan , Pelletier Lisa
Published: July 2020

In 2015, the leadership of the Board of Examiners in Sex Therapy and Counselling of Ontario (BESTCO) struck a committee to establish the first set of core competencies for the field of sex therapy. The inter-disciplinary committee used a modified Delphi approach. The resulting document, introduced here, was ratified by the BESTCO membership in 2019. BESTCO members must be able to demonstrate competence in assessment and therapy in core clinical areas as a condition of certification. Eleven clinical topics were identified for assessment and therapy with general and key features for each topic. These clinical topics include not only the DSM disorders (e.g., arousal difficulties, orgasm difficulties) but also broader areas including Lack of Knowledge about Sexuality, Desire Discrepancies, and Sexual Sequelae of Sexual Assault, Abuse or Other Trauma. The General Key Features for assessment are organized into 7 domains: History of the Problem, Sexual History, Medical/Psychiatric, Psychological, Cultural, Relational and Quality of Sex. The General Key Features for Therapy are organized in terms of principles of Clinical Orientation, Clinical Formulation, Referral/Collaboration, Psychoeducation, Interventions and Therapy. The emphasis in this document is on allowing therapists of differing clinical perspectives to articulate principles of assessment and case conceptualization from within their own frames of reference. We affirm that this must be a fluid document, updated to reflect developments in language, assessment, conceptualization, and treatment as those factors shift.
Canadian Literature and the Temporality of Dying Colonialism
Authors: Derksen Jeff
Published: July 2020

This article historicizes cultural appropriation in Canadian literature today by examining key texts from the critiques of cultural appropriation in Canadian culture in the 1990s. Appropriation is contextualized in relation to a modernist temporality that constructs an Other outside of modernity and to the temporality in Frantz Fanon’s A Dying Colonialism, a temporality in which the colonized is liberated but the colonizer is still “choked” and not yet rehabilitated. Reading appropriation through its cultural historical context in relation to modernist art and conceptual art, the practice of appropriation emerges as an extension of colonial practices and as an extractivist economy. Countering this, I point to the Indigenous concept of “cultural belongings” as a form of critique and alterity that counters the logic of cultural appropriation.
White like Me? Reading the Room at Mikinaakominis/TransCanadas 2017
Authors: Marel L. Camille van der
Published: July 2020

At the Mikinaakominis/TransCanadas conference held at the University of Toronto in May 2017, Rinaldo Walcott described Canadian literature as being as white then as it was when Insomniac Press published his Black like Who? twenty years prior. This essay responds to Walcott’s critique with a personal ethnography that describes Canadian literature as a field of study, that pays particular attention to the internal fractures that belie the field’s whiteness, and that considers students’s self-governance within neo-liberal universities. Beyond Canadian post-secondary education’s anti-Black structural barriers, graduate-level studies in the humanities depend on students’ access to financial and social credit. In turn, credit limits who can afford to study Canadian literature. Academic labour’s growing precarity further redlines non-professional fields of study, intensifying racial divisions within Canadian post-secondary education.
Visibility and Captivation in Kim Fu’sFor Today I Am a Boy
Authors: Cho Lily
Published: July 2020

This essay intervenes in debates on visibility in Asian Canadian literary criticism by engaging with Kim Fu’s novel, For Today I Am a Boy, through Rey Chow’s theorization of capture in Entanglements. In Asian Canadian literary criticism, the idea of visibility is both a demand and a site of critique. Fu’s novel responds to the doubled experience of being invisible and yet all too visible as a minority subject. This essay is interested not only in how visibility functions as a trap, but also in how the experience of being trapped can be one that captivates. For Today brings into relief the relentlessness of the entanglement of race, of its seemingly inescapable visibility, and calls it out for the trap that it is. In so doing, Fu’s novel demands an engagement with what it means to be held by something and to be caught in beholding.
BERTEOLOGI DALAM KONTEKS INDONESIA YANG MULTIKULTURAL
Authors: Buru Puplius Meinrad
Published: July 2020

This article aims at introducing the content and purpose of the Apostolic Constitution Veritatis Gaudium (Joy of Truth), namely the renewal of theological faculties and ecclesiastical institution of higher education. This renewal needs to be brought into the public sphere, so that it can be realized by paying attention to the sociocultural context of the local Church. By analyzing qualitatively data collected through the study of literature and employing the contextual theological approach, it is concluded that the Catholic Church in Indonesia, especially the theological faculties as well as Catholic higher education institutions need to intensify dialogue in theology and in preaching, to build solidarity, networking and interand trans-disciplinary cooperation with other institutions. Through dialogue theology will be more context-oriented and the preaching will be an invitation to others to deepen God’s self-revelation in the history, culture and the local social context. In this way, the Gospel or the Good News would be Joy of Truth (Veritatis Gaudium) for all people.

 

Keywords: Veritatis Gaudium, the joy of truth, contextual theology, theology and culture, church in Indonesia, multicultural, dialog, catholic education.
THE CHARACTERISTICS OF REED LIGHTWEIGHT CLAY BRICKS AFTER DRYING PROCESS
Authors: Algburi Ghazwan Abdulsamad Salman
Published: July 2020

The drying procedure is one of the basic stages in the brick making process, particularly when utilizing the extrusion framing technique. This stage decides the quality and amount of the brick samples. One of the characteristic waste vegetable materials is reed, whish is found in huge amounts in Iraq and numerous other nations. Five weight proportions of reed crumbs (5,10,15,20 and 25%) were utilized to produce lightweight clay bricks. Lab samples were shaped with dimensions of (25×38×76mm) using the vacuum extraction method. Brick properties were tested after drying to determine the values of longitudinal drying shrinkage, bulk density, and compression strength. In order to check the property of lightweight clay brick samples, the samples were burned in the furnace at a temperature of 1000°C with a burning rate of 2°C per minute. The significance of this research is to know the optimal proportions of the reed crumbs that prompts exact control of the drying procedure. This fine control brings about samples of lightweight bricks of the required dimensions and without cracks that influence their properties after drying and become more visible after burning. This knowledge will prompt the decrease of waste in raw materials and energy utilized in the manufacturing of a particular amount of lightweight bricks and, along these lines, reduce the expense of production.
ABSTRAK: Prosedur pengeringan merupakan salah satu peringkat asas dalam proses membuat bata, terutamanya apabila menggunakan teknik pembingkaian penyemperitan. Peringkat ini memutuskan kualiti dan jumlah sampel bata. Salah satu daripada bahan-bahan sayur-sayuran sisa buatan adalah buluh, ia didapati dalam jumlah besar di Iraq dan banyak negara yang berbeza. Sebanyak 5 buah berat serbuk reed (5,10,15,20 dan 25%) digunakan untuk menghasilkan bata tanah liat yang ringan. Model makmal dibentuk dengan dimensi (25 × 38 × 76mm) dengan menggunakan kaedah pengekstrakan vakum. Ciri-ciri bata telah diuji selepas pengeringan untuk menentukan nilai-nilai kepekatan pengeringan longitudinal, ketumpatan pukal dan kekuatan mampatan. Untuk memeriksa sampel tanah liat ringan tanahpropertyof, model-model tersebut dibakar dalam relau pada suhu 1000 ° C dengan kadar pembakaran 2°C seminit. Kepentingan kajian ini adalah untuk mengetahui perkadaran optimum serbuk reed yang menimbulkan kawalan tepat terhadap prosedur pengeringan. Kawalan halus ini membawa model-model bata yang ringan dari dimensi yang diperlukan dan tanpa retak yang mempengaruhi sifatnya selepas pengeringan dan menjadi lebih terlihat selepas terbakar. Pengetahuan ini akan mendorong penurunan sisa bahan mentah dan tenaga yang digunakan dalam pembuatan sejumlah bata ringan dan di sepanjang garisan ini mengurangkan perbelanjaan pengeluaran.
Acute Pancreatitis in Child with Relapsing Hepatitis A Viral Infection
Authors: Dutra Álvaro Pimenta , Dutra Álvaro Pimenta , Mattos Fernando Filizzola , de Carvalho Inácio Roberto , Oliveira Melo Suzana Fonseca de , Sanchez Candian Talitah Michel
Published: July 2020

Acute pancreatitis in association with acute viral hepatitis A is uncommon. We report a 12-year-old boy
with acute pancreatitis associated with relapsing hepatitis A viral infection who made a satisfactory
recovery.
TEACHING READING COMPREHENSION FOR THE TENTH GRADE STUDENTS BY APPLYING THE INQUIRY BASED LEARNING APPROACH
Authors: Ramasari Maria
Published: July 2020

The objective of this research was to find out whether or not it was significantly effective to apply the Inquiry Based Learning Approach in teaching reading comprehension for the tenth grade students. In this research, the researcher proposed two hypotheses. They were null hypothesis (Ho) and alternative hypothesis (Ha). The method applied was pre-experimental with one group pre-test posttest design. The object of this research consisted of 20 students. The data were collected by means of test consisting 20 items of multiple choices. The data obtained were analyzed through three techniques: 1) Individual Score, 2) Conversion of Individual Score Based on Minimum Mastery Criteria, and 3) Matched t-test. The results of this research shows that  the students’ mean  score in the pre-test was 60.13 and those in the  post-test was 75.25. The result of matched t-test was 5.25, which was higher than t-table value (1.725) of 20 with 95% significant level for one tailed-test. Therefore, the null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected and the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted. It means that it was significantly effective in teaching reading to the tenth grade students by applying Based Learning Approach.
Blood glutamate scavengers and exercises as an effective neuroprotective treatment in mice with spinal cord injury
Authors: Goldshmit Yona , Banyas Evgeni , Bens Nicole , Yakovchuk Alex , Ruban Angela
Published: July 2020

OBJECTIVE

Excitotoxicity due to neuronal damage and glutamate release is one of the first events that leads to the progression of neuronal degeneration and functional impairment. This study is based on a paradigm shift in the therapeutic approach for treating spinal cord injury (SCI). The authors tested a new treatment targeting removal of CNS glutamate into the blood circulation by injection of the blood glutamate scavengers (BGSs) recombinant enzyme glutamate-oxaloacetate transaminase (rGOT1) and its cosubstrate oxaloacetic acid (OxAc). Their primary objective was to investigate whether BGS treatment, followed by treadmill exercises in mice with SCI, could attenuate excitotoxicity, inflammation, scarring, and axonal degeneration and, at a later time point, improve functional recovery.

METHODS

A pharmacokinetic experiment was done in C57BL/6 naive mice to verify rGOT1/OxAc blood activity and to characterize the time curve of glutamate reduction in the blood up to 24 hours. The reduction of glutamate in CSF after BGS administration in mice with SCI was confirmed by high-performance liquid chromatography. Next, SCI (left hemisection) was induced in the mice, and the mice were randomly assigned to one of the following groups at 1 hour postinjury: control (underwent SCI and received PBS), treadmill exercises, rGOT1/OxAc treatment, or rGOT1/OxAc treatment followed by treadmill exercises. Treatment started 1 hour postinjury with an injection of rGOT1/OxAc and continued for 5 consecutive days. Starting 1 week after SCI, the exercises and the combined treatment groups recommenced the treadmill exercise regimen 5 days a week for 3 months. Locomotor function was assessed for 3 months using the horizontal grid walking test and CatWalk. Axonal anterograde and wallerian degenerations were evaluated using tetramethylrhodamine dextran. Tissue sections were immunofluorescently stained for Iba1, GFAP, GAP-43, synaptophysin, and NeuN.

RESULTS

BGS treatment decreased the CSF glutamate level up to 50%, reduced axonal wallerian degeneration, and increased axonal survival and GAP-43 expression in neuronal cells. Combined treatment reduced inflammation, scarring, and lesion size. Additionally, the combination of BGS treatment and exercises increased synapses around motor neurons and enhanced axonal regeneration through the lesion site. This resulted in motor function improvement 3 months post-SCI.

CONCLUSIONS

As shown by biochemical, immunohistochemical, and functional analysis, BGSs exhibit a substantial neuroprotective effect by reducing excitotoxicity and secondary damage after SCI. Furthermore, in combination with exercises, they reduced axonal degeneration and scarring and resulted in improved functional recovery.
Sosialisasi Pendirian “Bank Sampah” Bagi Peningkatan Pendapatan Dan Pemberdayaan Perempuan Di Margasari
Authors: Kusuma Wardany  , Reni Permata Sari  , Erni Mariana
Published: July 2020

The garbage bank has the function of channeling the waste obtained in accordance with the needs and providing an additional economy for the community. This service aims to make the mothers in Margasari Village know about the existence of a garbage bank, waste management techniques so that they are of economic value and are expected to increase the awareness and enthusiasm of mothers to process waste and preserve the environment. The realization of problem solving is carried out in a socialization program on how to establish and benefit the Waste Bank for increasing income and empowering women. The impact of empowering the garbage bank to customers can be said to be still lacking, this is evident from the average income earned by the community in the first three months of Rp. 10,786,00,-.The impact of empowerment for craftsmen and management can increase income with monthly income of around Rp.  900,000,-.
The role of communicative failures in the creation of Internet memes
Authors: Sapozhnyk Iryna , Tsygan Nataliia
Published: July 2020

The article deals with the notion of communicative failure as one of the key issues in communicative linguistics. The types of communicative failures are examined and the main causes that become a catalyst for the creation of Internet memes are analyzed. Scientists in communicative linguistics mainly explore the processes that help to create the images of a "perfect speaker" or a "perfect listener", since the factors which contribute to successful communication are certainly one of the most important tasks in this ﬁeld. However, taking into account all the key factors that may inﬂuence a communicative act when using a language in the process of real communication, there is always a place for linguistic asymmetry. Therefore, it is not surprising that one of the main issues in communicative linguistics is the phenomenon of communicative failure, its causes and consequences. Having analyzed a certain number of memes according to the generalized classiﬁcation of F. S. Batsevych in order to identify the main reasons for the Internet memes formation, we conclude that communicative failure is a very popular phenomenon, which occurs constantly and everywhere, where interaction takes place. All types of communicative failures can serve as a background for Internet memes. In our future research, we intend to focus on exploring the strategies and tactics of the communicative act based on English-language Internet memes.
Prognostic function of audiovisual media in the analyses of international political communication
Authors: Yeriomyn Mykola
Published: July 2020

The article dwells upon the original research on the subject of analyses of aspects of international political communication employing the prognostic function of audiovisual media. Shown is certain, lesser-studied effectiveness of creative approaches and «artistic filter» in the field of international political studies. Underlined are the problems and advantages of the use of narrative fiction audiovisual works as additional empirical sources in the research of international political processes.
Scientometric analysis of research on political sciences: authors, magazines, topics, citation (based on WoS)
Authors: Shyliuk Oleh
Published: July 2020

The absence of quantitative data on published researches in political science preconditioned writing this work. The objective of the research was to study publications in political sciences using bibliometric analysis. Articles in political science published within the period of time from 1970 to 2018 have been separated from the database of the Web of Science (as of March 15, 2018). The acquired records have been analyzed according to the citation characteristics, with publications divisioned depending on the language, country, journal and author. There have been found over 222,5 thousand articles in total, which have been published in various peer-viewed journals. From 2007 to 2017 there was observed a significant increase in the number of articles published on this topic.
Most articles are written in English (87.7%), with the United States of America being the leading country in terms of the total number of articles published (over 80 thousand, 35.3%). There is no obvious leader among journals with regard to the number of publications, but four publishers (ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL WEEKLY; NEW REPUBLIC; NEW SOCIETY and NATION) publish the majority of articles on this topic (over 15%) in aggregate. The analysis of the most cited publications allows dividing topics for research into three clusters: election as a part of the political process; transformation of political regimes; global influences and interactions. This research provides a systematic review of efficiency and ostensiveness of research work in the field of political sciences. Conclusions can be used for organizing and determining priorities of future research in political science.
Prospects of Consolidation of Ukraine’s Information Space in the Strategy of the Parliamentary Activity of the Political Party «PEOPLE’S FRONT»
Authors: Rotar Nataliya
Published: July 2020

The national information space in today’s geopolitical conditions is an extremely important area for the realization of state sovereignty. The support and reproduction of such a functional feature of the national information space is an urgent task of the Ukrainian political community, especially in conditions where a part of Ukraine’s territory is temporarily occupied by the Russian Federation. Integration of the information space of Ukraine around the idea of state sovereignty becomes especially important in the context of systematic information attacks and sabotage by the aggressor country that deconsolidate the information space of the Ukrainian state.An extremely important marker in the context of the information war against Ukraine, which was determined by the Ukraine’s integration prospects, the parliamentary faction «PEOPLE’S FRONT», is a marker of the integration of Ukraine’s information space. For the discourse on the integration of Ukraine’s information space, two strategies were identified – the strategy of distinguishing between Russian informational influences and the strategy of consolidating the Ukrainian national information space.
The strategy of distinguishing between Russian informational influences and the strategy of consolidating the Ukrainian national information space through which the parliamentary faction «PEOPLE’S FRONT» defined the integration prospects of Ukraine were mutually supportive. Their implementation envisioned not so much internal fractional debates as putting into the agenda of problems that reflected the need for the integration of Ukraine’s information space around state-building ideas and the need to confront Russian aggression in the Crimea and the Donbas.
STRATEGI RADIO SUARA PADANG FM DALAM PENGELOLAAN SIARAN DAKWAH
Authors: Alfajran Febry , Nupiah Ali
Published: July 2020

Permasalahan penelitian ini bagaimana strategi Radio Suara Padang FM dalam pengelolaan siaran dakwah. Tujuan dari penelitian ini untuk memaparkan strategi Radio Suara Padang FM dalam pengelolaan siaran dakwah. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode  pendekatan kualitatif. Teknik pengumpulan data yang digunakan adalah wawancara, observasi, dan dokumenter. Sumber data penelitian ini adalah kordinator siaran, divisi dakwah dan penyiar Radio Suara Padang FM. Teknik analisis data yang digunakan adalah deskriptif kualitatif. Hasil penelitian bahwa Strategi Radio Suara Padang FM dalam pengelolaan siaran dakwah adalah (1) pengelolaan siaran dakwah dikelola oleh divisi dakwah dengan melibatkan staff dan penyiar, target pendengar masyarakat Kota Padang. (2) Keterlibatan penyiar dalam pengelolaann siaran dakwah adalah kemampuan menguasai materi dalam bersiaran dan menerapkan konsep dakwah itu sendiri. (3) Faktor penghambat siaran dakwah di Radio Suara Padang FM adalah kurangnya pemasukan iklan serta kalau seandainya listrik padam. Adapun cara mengatasi hambatan siaran dakwah adalah dengan memperbanyak link dan pemasukan  serta menelpon teknisi jika listrik padam. Evaluasi yang dilakukan penyiar Radio Suara Padang FM, dengan melakukan evaluasi rutin setiap bulannya.
ANALISIS IDDAH BERDASARKAN PEMANFAATAN TEKNOLOGI KEDOKTERAN DALAM MENAFSIRKAN KATA TSALATSATU QURU’
Authors: Istikomah Ade , Zubir Muhammad
Published: July 2020

Penelitian ini merupakan kajian terhadap QS. al-Baqarah: 228 tentang pembahasan waktu iddah dalam kata tsalatsatu quru’ berdasarkan pemanfaatan teknologi kedokteran. Perkembangan teknologi kedokteran saat ini dapat melihat dan menginformasikan kondisi rahim wanita yang dicerai suaminya apakah kosong atau tidak, tanpa perlu menunggu hingga tiga kali quru’ dan ini tentu akan menjadikan hukum Allah Swt dalam QS. Al-Baqarah: 228 tidak berlaku lagi. Peneliti mencoba menganalisis tentang pembahasan ini dengan penelitian yang berjenis library research menggunakan metode tafsir tahlili. Hasil penelitian yang didapatkan yaitu bahwa kita tetap harus berpegang pada hukum syari’at yang telah ditetapkan Allah Swt dalam al-Quran tentang iddah 3 kali quru’. Yaitu menggunakan 3 kali haid dan atau 3 kali suci dengan berpatokan kepada hitungan bulan sesuai dengan QS. Ath-Thalaq ayat 4. Adapun teknologi kedokteran memperkukuh syariat Allah Swt yaitu iddah harus dilaksanakan dalam hitungan waktu tiga quru’. Karena masalah iddah tidak hanya persoalan bara’ah ar- rahmi (mengetahui kekosongan rahim) tetapi lebih dari itu, bahwa iddah bersifat ta’abbudy (ibadah) serta merupakan masa berfikir kembali tentang keputusan cerai yang telah diambil untuk mempertimbangkan tentang baik buruknya keputusan tersebut.
Manfaat Mengikuti Pengajian Rutin dalam Meningkatkan Kesadaran Beragama Masyarakat
Authors: Oktavia Elva , Mastanora Refika
Published: July 2020

Pengajian rutin yang dilaksanakan di Masjid  penting diadakan karena pada saat sekarang ini masyarakat tidak menghiraukan adanya pengajian. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif deskriptif yang bertujuan untuk mengungkapkan kejadian atau fakta, keadaan, fenomena yang terjadi pada saat penelitian berlangsung. Informan penelitian adalah masyarakat Batubasa yang mengikuti pengajian.  Teknik pengumpulan data yang peneliti gunakan adalah observasi, wawancara terstruktur, dengan metode analisis data berupa reduksi data, penyajian data, dan kesimpulan data, sedangkan keabsahan data menggunakan metode triangulasi sumber. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa manfaat dari mengikuti pengajian rutin yang diadakan di Masjid membuat masyarakat lebih meningkatkan kesadaran beragamanya dalam aspek wawasan dan pengetahuan, serta peningkatan aspek sikap.
Kronologis Kisah Nabi Adam As dalam Tafsir Ibn Katsir
Authors: Bustamar Bustamar , M Dalil Fitri Yeni
Published: July 2020

Abstrak: Penelitian ini berdasarkan  kisah Nabi Adam As yang berbagai fragmennya tersebar diberbagai surah dan ayat, menurut Ibn Katsir dalam Tafsir al-Qur`anul Adzim.Tujuan dari pembahasan ini adalah mengetahui sekaligus menyusun kronologis narasi kisah Nabi Adam As dari proses awal penciptaannya hingga ia keluar dari surga.  Jenis penelitian yang digunakan adalah penelitian kepustakaan.  Untuk pengelolaan data penafsiran oleh Ibn Katsir digunakan pendekatan studi tokoh, konten analisis dan ilmu tafsir.Dari kajian terhadap tafsir Ibn Katsir, kronologis kisah Nabi Adam As terbagi tiga, yaitu pertama, penciptaan Nabi Adam : ini diawali dari zat yang disebut تراب dan طين serta حمٰإ مسنون hingga menjadi صَلْصٰلٍ كَالْفَخَّار. Setelah itu ditiupkan roh, pada proses inilah malaikat diperintah sujud kepada Adam As namun iblis enggan untuk bersujud. Kedua kisah Adam As tinggal di surga dengan segala fasilitasnya. Pada kejadian ini istri Adam As (Hawa) diciptakan oleh Allah. Ketiga, kisah Adam As dan istrinya dilarang mendekati pohon kuldi, yang kemudian aturan tersebut dilanggar oleh Adam As dan istrinya yang mengakibatkan Adam As dan istrinya dikeluarkan dari surga. Menurut Ibn Katsir keluarnya Adam As dari surga ini dalam dua tahap pertama tahap turun ke langit dunia dan kedua tahap turun ke bumi.
Perspektif Al-Quran Tentang Prinsip-Prinsip Konsumsi
Authors: Nengsih Desri , Auliya Sefri
Published: July 2020

Tulisan ini mengkaji tentang prinsip-prinsip konsumsi dalam Alquran dengan melakukan analisa terhadap ayat-ayat Alquran yang mengandung unsur-unsur konsumsi. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian kualitatif dengan pendekatan tafsir tematik. Adapun sumber utama penelitian ini adalah ayat-ayat Alquran yang mengandung unsur prinsip-prinsip konsumsi. Sebagai sumber pendukung digunakan juga kitab-kitab tafsir dan literatur-literatur lainnya yang terkait dengan pokok bahasan. Dari penelitian ini secara umum ditemukan lima dasar prinsip konsumsi dalam Alquran, yaitu memperhatikan kualitas makanan dalam aspek kehalalan dan thayyiban, tidak berlebih-lebihan dalam konsumsi, menghindari sifat boros, menghindari sikap kikir/bakhil terhadap barang yang dimiliki, dan menghindari gaya hidup mewah dan bermegah-megahan.
Karakteristik Pakaian Wanita Muslimah dalam Tinjauan Al-Qur’an dan Hadis
Authors: Syofrianisda Syofrianisda
Published: July 2020

Permasalahan ini dilatarbelakangi oleh bentuk pengungkapan istilah pakaian dalam al-Qur’an cendrung menggunakan istilah dalam bahasa Arab, jika ditafsirkan dengan bahasa Indonesia, maka pakaian yang harus dipakai oleh semua orang termasuk orang Indonesia harus memakai pakaian yang sesuai dengan budaya Arab. Realita yang terjadi pada masyarakat Indonesia pada saat ini adalah memakai pakaian yang tidak sesuai dengan budaya Arab. Sementara dalam al-Qur’an tidak banyak ayat yang membahas tentang masalah pakaian dan etika dalam berpakaian yang sesuai dengan standar syar’i, perlu rujukan lain yang dapat dijadikan sebagai sumber yang qath’i tentang masalah ini baik dari tafsir, hadis, fiqih dan lain-lain.
SYEKH MOHAMMAD ARSYAD THAWIL 1851-1934 : PERJUMPAAN ULAMA BANTEN DENGAN JEMAAT KRISTEN MINAHASA
Authors: Rusli Almunauwar Bin
Published: July 2020

The fight of Ulama in the history of Indonesian colonialism took place through eschatological awareness, ethical action and mystical reflection. Syeikh Mohammad Arsyad Thawil is one of the important Ulama in this case.  He was born in Tanara, Banten 1851 and died in Lawangirung, Manado 1934. Syekh Mohammad Arsyad Thawil studied Islam on three teachers: Syeikh Abdul Gani Bima, Syeikh Ahmad Zaini Dahlan and Syeikh Nawawi Al-Bantani. He lived in Makkah from 1868-1873 and was involved in the Banten peasant uprising 9-13 July 1888. First, since 1808 Banten fell under Dutch rule. Colonial bureaucracy destroys traditional bureaucracy. Second, abolition of inheritance, tax collection and forced labor. Third, the raises of sufi movements, pesantren and pilgrimage groups that formed the Pan-Islamic ideology. When exiled at Airmadidi, Minahasa 1888, the da’wah of Syeikh Mohammad Arsyad Thawil was supported by Kapiten Tan Tjin Bie. Thus, Islam and Tionghoa have relations of knowledge and power because of cooperation of commerce and memory of commerce.

 
HAJI FUNDS FOR INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT
Authors: Rahman Muh Fudhail , Shodiq Shubhan , Humaira Aida
Published: July 2020

As an implementation of the conditions for istita'ah, for person who want to register pilgrimage, the government requires paying amount of money called Biaya Penyelenggaraan Ibadah Haji (BPIH). The accumulated funds have reached untill trillions of rupiah, this accumulation has potential to be developed. Currently, there is debate about the permissibility of using BPIH outside the direct interests of pilgrims such as government infrastructure investment. This research uses normative juridical research. This study also uses a statutory approach and a comparative approach. The results of this study indicate the pilgrimage fund can be invested. However, in terms of the ability to use the pilgrimage funds for investment in government infrastructure, there must be permitted by people who want to go on pilgrimage, or can be used in infrastructure that is directly related to the pilgrimage.

 
REALITAS PEMBELAJARAN KONTEN KEISLAMAN DAN KEINDONESIAAN DI PONDOK PESANTREN HIDAYATULLAH BALIKPAPAN
Authors: Firman Firman , Rama Bahaking , Damopoli Muljono , Shabir U. M.
Published: July 2020

Abstrak

Penelitian ini bertujuan mengkaji bagaimana realitas pembelajaran konten keislaman dan konten keindonesiaan di Pondok Pesantren Hidayatullah Balikpapan. Jenis penelitian ini adalah deskriptif kualitatif sehingga peneliti mencari makna, pemahaman, fenomena, kejadian, maupun keadaan yang berkaitan dengan pembelajaran konten keislaman dan keindonesiaan di Pondok Pesantren Hidayatullah Balikpapan. Sumber data yaitu data primer melalui wawancara dan data sekunder melalui dokumen. Adapun instrumen penelitian adalah peneliti sendiri sebagai instrumen kunci dan pedoman wawancara. Sedangkan teknik analiasis data dengan menggunakan reduksi data, displai data, kemudian dilakukan verivikasi. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa Pertama, Pembelajaran keislaman di Pondok Pesantren Hidayatullah Balikpapan secara garis besar terdiri atas tauhid, ibadah, dan akhlak. (1) Pembelajaran tauhid yaitu pembelajaran untuk mentauhidkan Allah dengan cara semua materi pelajaran dilandasi dengan nilai-nilai tauhid. (2) Ibadah, yaitu pembelajaran diniyah, Baca al-Qur’an, Tahfiz, Tahsin, Salat lail, Ta’lim, Halaqah al-Qur’an. (3) Akhlak, yaitu melatih kemandirian, hidup sederhana, memiliki kepribadian akhlak al-karimah, sikap menghormati, menjaga hubungan baik dengan teman sesama santri, menghormati warga pondok. Kedua, Pembelajaran Keindonesiaan, yaitu PKn, Bahasa Indonesia, Matematika, IPS dan adanya Sosialisasi Empat Pilar yaitu Pancasila, UUD 1945, NKRI, Bhineka Tunggal Ika. Pembentukan Satuan Komunitas (SAKO) Pramuka Hidayatullah, dan bela diri.
ARCTIC NOMADIC DESIGN (THE NENETS CASE)
Authors: Golovnev Andrei V.
Published: July 2020

The nomadic technologies of reindeer herders from Yamal Peninsula, in their multidimensional complexity – from the space-time continuity of mobile camps on the open tundra to multi-functionality of material things – enable and facilitate mobility in the extreme environment of the Arctic. The nomadic tradition contains a whole array of concepts (or principles), which, on the one hand, are ultimately practical and, on the other, deserve a theoretical projection. These include: nomadic transformer, mobile module, movement effect, techno-animation, material austerity, space-time continuity, arctic aesthetics. A study of nomadic design implies the usage of new methods of movement recording – MTA (mapping–tracking–acting), including visual data such as UAV mapping, GPS-tracking and 3D-modelling.