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Historical Dictionary of Mesoamerica
Authors: Witschey Walter R. T. , Brown Clifford T.
Published: February 2025

Mesoamerica is one of six major areas of the world where humans independently changed their culture from a nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle into settled communities, cities, and civilization. In addition to China (twice), the Indus Valley, the Fertile Crescent of southwest Asia, Egypt, and Peru, Mesoamerica was home to exciting and irreversible changes in human culture called the “Neolithic Revolution.” The changes included domestication of plants and animals, leading to agriculture, husbandry, and eventually sedentary village life. These developments set the stage for the growth of cities, social stratification, craft specialization, warfare, writing, mathematics, and astronomy, or what we call the rise of civilization. These changes forever transformed humankind.

The Historical Dictionary of Mesoamerica covers the history of Mesoamerica through a chronology, an introductory essay, an extensive bibliography, and over 900 cross-referenced dictionary entries covering the major peoples, places, ideas, and events related to Mesoamerica. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Mesoamerica.
Library Programs for Teens
Authors: Siwak Karen J.
Published: February 2025

It's no mystery that fun and exciting programs bring teens into the library. Theater programs provide a venue for teens to express themselves creatively, encourage their participation in library programming, and offer them the opportunity for lively interaction with peers and adults. In Library Programs for Teens: Mystery Theater, Karen Siwak provides readers with complete instructions for creating a successful mystery theater program. With this guide, Siwak solves the ever puzzling programming issues of timing, setting clues, props, costumes, decorations, and food.

In addition to providing a basic formula for such programs, Siwak presents nine original teen-tested scripts—from the intriguing "Medieval Murder" to the hijinks of "Case of the Looney Librarian"—that will appeal to a wide variety of audiences. Reproducible graphics, flyers, bookmarks, invitations, nametags, book tie-ins, and player worksheets are included with each script. Programming is no longer perplexing with this heavily-illustrated collection of original mystery theater scripts for teens. Public and school librarians will find this volume a valuable tool for educational and entertaining programming and also for simply planning a fun party.
Historical Dictionary of Singapore
Authors: Corfield Justin
Published: February 2025

In spite of Singapore's small size, it has long had a major impact on the world because of its geographical location and its wealth. The British initially made the island a major port for the shipping of goods and later as an airline hub for the region. These factors, along with a steady government, have helped to contribute to the country's affluence. This multicultural, multiracial, and multi-religious island-nation is the envy of many countries in the world, which have tried to emulate the economic success of Singapore.

The new edition of the Historical Dictionary of Singapore has been completely rewritten since the first edition was released 20 years ago. It relates the history of this country through a chronology, an introductory essay, an expansive bibliography, and over 500 cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant persons, events, places, organizations, and other aspects of Singapore history from the earliest times to the present.
Information Pathways
Authors: Fulton Crystal
Published: February 2025

With the advent of the Information Society, access to resources is vital to the ordinary citizen, the academic, and the career professional, as well as in public administration and private enterprise. Information Pathways: A Problem-Solving Approach to Information Literacy is designed to serve as a textbook for courses that address the need of college students to develop a basic knowledge of the complex matrix of core resources for the retrieval, management, and exploitation of information. This book shows students how to:

• Build effective search strategies for solving information problems

• Evaluate and use information and information sources

• Apply information skills to the writing process

• Be at ease with numeric information

• Integrate information skills for smooth problem solving

• Maintain their new fluency with information

Organized into chapters that examine different ways in which information is structured, Information Pathways will help students develop and evaluate strategies for finding and adopting information.
Donna Jo Napoli
Authors: Crew Hilary S.
Published: February 2025

Donna Jo Napoli has received acclaim for her young adult works and is especially known for her historical novels and her retellings of myth and fairy tales. In this full-length critical study, Hilary S. Crew integrates criticism and biographical information to illuminate Napoli's many novels, as well as other writings by Napoli such as her essays on writing for young people and her book, Language Matters.

A comprehensive critical analysis of 19 novels, Donna Jo Napoli: Writing with Passion provides an understanding of how Napoli's life and profession as a professor of linguistics influences her writing for young adults. The novels analyzed in this study include Napoli's retellings of such fairy tales and myths as The Magic Circle, Zel, Bound, Beast, and Sirena; novels whose stories are drawn from religious and traditional sources such as Song of the Magdalene, Breath, and Hush; such historical works as The Smile, Daughter of Venice, and two novels set during WWII, Stones in Water and Fire in the Hills; and her most recent book for young adults, Alligator Bayo. An interview with Napoli concludes this significant resource for those working with young adults.
Historical Dictionary of Westerns in Literature
Authors: Varner Paul
Published: February 2025

When in 1902 Owen Wister, a member of the Eastern blueblood aristocracy and friend of novelist Henry James, became a best-selling novelist with the publication of The Virginian, few readers would have guessed that a new kind of American literature was being born. While Owen Wister was enjoying his success, Edwin S. Porter in New Jersey was filming the first cinema Western The Great Train Robbery, which would usher in a new era both of movies in general and of Western movies in particular. Both events would lead to a century of cultural fascination with stories of the old West. The Historical Dictionary of Westerns in Literature tells the story of the Western through a chronology, a bibliography, an introductory essay, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on authors such as Owen Wister, Zane Grey, Max Brand, Clarence Mulford, Ernest Haycox, Luke Short, Dorothy Johnson, Louis L'Amour, and Cormac McCarthy.
Historical Dictionary of Children's Literature
Authors: O'Sullivan Emer
Published: February 2025

Children's literature comes from a number of different sources-folklore (folk- and fairy tales), books originally for adults and subsequently adapted for children, and material authored specifically for them-and its audience ranges from infants through middle graders to young adults (readers from about 12 to 18 years old). Its forms include picturebooks, pop-up books, anthologies, novels, merchandising tie-ins, novelizations, and multimedia texts, and its genres include adventure stories, drama, science fiction, poetry, and information books.

The Historical Dictionary of Children's Literature relates the history of children's literature through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, a bibliography, and over 500 cross-referenced dictionary entries on authors, books, and genres. Some of the most legendary names in all of literature are covered in this important reference, including Hans Christian Anderson, L. Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, Roald Dahl, Charles Dickens, C.S. Lewis, Beatrix Potter, J.K. Rowling, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jules Verne, and E.B. White.
History of the Telugu Christians
Authors: Taneti James Elisha
Published: February 2025

Christian communities in the state Andhra Pradesh of south India and the Telugu Christians in diaspora have passed their stories from one generation to the next by oral traditions as well as in scattered texts. These memories have sustained Telugu Christian communities for over four centuries. Yet there has been no significant attempt made to compile a comprehensive history of the Telugu Christians until James Elisha Taneti's History of the Telugu Christians: A Bibliography.

This annotated bibliography lists more than 700 published and unpublished textual sources related to the history of Telugu Christians from south India. Opening a window into the histories of 15 mission societies from the North American region, History of the Telugu Christians lists monographs, journal articles, letters, reports, minutes and the proceedings of missionary conferences, unpublished theses, dissertations, souvenirs, and manuscripts. The documents selected by Taneti were written or printed in the English or Telugu languages by native Christians and western missionaries.

Aimed to facilitate research and writing on Telugu Christians, Taneti's insightful historiographical analysis and comprehensive list of bibliographic sources offer seminarians, historians of Christianity, and scholars of India the opportunity to study closely the meeting of East and West and the religious history of India through the founding and evolution of this community.
Historical Dictionary of Multinational Peacekeeping
Authors: Mays Terry M.
Published: February 2025

As long as there have been wars, there have been peace processes to settle them. In the 12th century BC, the Egyptians and Hittites concluded one of the earliest peace treaties still in existence. Peacekeeping as understood as a modern concept emerged out of the League of Nations after World War I. The League fielded many international military operations that were essentially deployments by the victorious Allied powers to oversee local plebiscites. Peacekeeping operations have evolved to become essential elements in most international attempts to guide belligerents through a peace process. Peacekeeping operations can be great examples of the international community cooperating to help settle a crisis.

Historical Dictionary of Multinational Peacekeeping: Third Edition is a single source research guide for current and completed peacekeeping operations. With an extensive chronology; an introductory essay; an appendix with the mandates for three UN peacekeeping operations; a research oriented bibliography based on numerous categories of peacekeeping operations and issues related to peacekeeping; 32 photographs of UN, EU, and NATO peacekeeping operations; and over 500 cross referenced dictionary entries on peacekeeping operations, people, organizations, countries, and events associated with peacekeeping and brief descriptions of all currently fielded operations as well as those that have completed their missions dating back to the League of Nations in 1920.
Historical Dictionary of East Timor
Authors: Gunn Geoffrey C.
Published: February 2025

East Timor, also known as Timor-Leste, comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor, located at the eastern end of the Indonesian archipelago. East Timor was among the last of colonial territories to become independent, and it actually had to be liberated twice. First, after more than four centuries of Portuguese colonial rule, it achieved independence in 1975 only to be invaded and occupied by Indonesia. After a blood-soaked occupation of 24 years and following intense international pressure, the Jakarta-regime only grudgingly allowed East Timor to form a nation of its own in 1999. Since then, the new state has faced further armed clashes and is only now able to seriously engage in nation-building. Historical Dictionary of East Timor relates the turbulent history of this country through a chronology, an introductory essay, an expansive bibliography, and over 200 cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant persons, events, places, organizations, and other aspects of East Timor history from the earliest times to the present.
What Makes Music European
Authors: Sorce Keller Marcello
Published: February 2025

We seldom consider how much we mistakenly presume in hewing to definitions of music that differ dramatically from the standpoint of other cultures. In What Makes Music European, Marcello Sorce Keller examines the limitations of accepted wisdom about the concept of music in Euro-Western culture. His investigations of the conclusions reached by music researchers of the past several decades considerably upsets the concepts relied upon by the concert-going public. Sorce Keller insightfully asks: Who makes the music? Should music be original, and how much can it be? Why do people identify with songs, pieces, styles, and repertoire? Why is music so ideological? Why do we misunderstand the music of different times and places, and why do we enjoy doing so? He also explores the juxtaposition of economy, society, and music making, as well as the concept of "illegal harmonies."

In What Makes Music European, Sorce Keller addresses the little-discussed matters that are essential to an understanding of how music intersects with the life of so many people. Readers are offered an approach for thinking about music that depends as much on its history as on the concepts and attitudes of the social sciences. What Makes Music European concisely demonstrates, to those familiar with Western music, how peculiar Euro-Western concepts of music appear from a cross-cultural perspective. At the same time, it encourages ethnomusicologists to apply their knowledge to Western music and explain to its public how much of what listeners take for granted is, at the very least, highly debatable.
A Pete Seeger Discography
Authors: Dunaway David King
Published: February 2025

Pete Seeger is one of the most recorded artists in American history, and his recording catalog tells us not just the story of his career but the story of our culture and its political and social history. A Pete Seeger Discography: Seventy Years of Recordings is a comprehensive listing of the 45s, 78s, LPs, and CDs recorded by Seeger in his various incarnations: with the Almanac Singers, with the Weavers, as a solo artist, and with other musicians and contributors. David King Dunaway provides information, with easy to use cross-references, on rare recordings and archival collections.

The discography offers details on Seeger's recording history, including the album title, song(s), other artists on the recording, the publisher and number, and the year or exact recording date if known, as well as the original release date and the re-releases of each recording. Structured to make locating details easy for readers, the recordings are organized chronologically and categorized by albums, singles, private pressings, and foreign releases. Readers can easily cross-reference through album and song title indexes and a contributing artist index. An appendix listing the unreleased archival holdings of the Smithsonian Folkways collection under Moe Asch completes the volume, and a photospread with more than 30 of Seeger's album covers convey a pictorial recording history of this well-loved artist.

The authors gratefully acknowledge Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund, for their funding assistance in preparing this discography.
Literary Research and the Literatures of Australia and New Zealand
Authors: Christenberry Faye H.
Published: February 2025

Literary Research and the Literatures of Australia and New Zealand: Strategies and Sources is a research guide to the literatures of the two major countries of Oceania: Australia and New Zealand. Covering over 200 years of these geographically and chronologically connected countries, this guide contains references to many different types of resources, illustrating how the researcher is best served by using the increasing variety of research tools in combination with each other. The book emphasizes research methodology and outlines the best practices for the research process, paying special attention to the unique challenges inherent in conducting research on the literatures of Australia and New Zealand specifically. The book includes commentary on general literary reference materials; library catalogs; print and online bibliographies, indexes, and annual reviews; scholarly journals; contemporary reviews; period journals and newspapers; microform and digital collections; manuscripts and archives; and web resources. It is an essential tool for anyone conducting research on Australia or New Zealand, and it is a helpful guide for readers with a special interest in these countries' literatures.
Historical Dictionary of Japan To 1945
Authors: Henshall Kenneth
Published: February 2025

The Historical Dictionary of Japan to 1945 spans the entire period from the earliest evidence of human habitation in Japan through to the end of the Pacific War. It includes substantial topics such as cultural and literary history, with entries ranging from aesthetics to various genres of writing. Other branches of history also feature, such as economic history, industrial history, political history, and so forth. And of course there are the makers of Japanese history, ranging from emperors and shoguns to politicians and extremists – as well as foreign arrivals.

The early history of Japan is told through a detailed chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, an extensive bibliography, and over 800 cross-referenced dictionary entries on important people, organizations, activities, and events. The Historical Dictionary of Japan to 1945 will appeal to both academics and the general public who have an interest in Japan, particularly those who want reliable information quickly and easily.
Harlem Jazz Adventures
Authors: Rosenkrantz Timme
Published: February 2025

Timme Rosenkrantz (1911–1969) was a Danish journalist, author, concert and record producer, radio show host, and entrepreneur with a consuming passion for jazz and little head for business. Known in Denmark and New York as the “Jazz Baron” because of his noble lineage, he was the first European journalist to cover the jazz scene in Harlem. Harlem Jazz Adventures: A European Baron’s Memoir, 1934–1969 recounts Rosenkrantz’s happy years in New York City, where he would produce jazz concerts, record top musicians and bands in his midtown apartment, organize a “dream band” for Timme Rosenkrantz and His Barrelhouse Barons, a 1938 RCA Victor recording, (DL) live in Harlem and run a record shop with his life companion, journalist and singer Inez Cavanaugh. A good friend of jazz impresario John Hammond, Rosenkrantz would become the James Boswell of the Harlem jazz scene. Duke Ellington, Art Tatum, Coleman Hawkins, Billie Holiday—there wasn’t a New York jazz musician unknown to “Honeysuckle Rosenkrantz,” as christened by Fats Waller. Drawing on the published Danish-language original Dus med Jazzen, and an unpublished English free translation (DL) by Rosenkrantz and Cavanaugh, translator-adapter Fradley Hamilton Garner gives polish and context to Rosenkrantz’s stories of meetings with Cecile and Louis Armstrong, Benny Carter, Willie “The Lion” Smith, Eddie Condon, Erroll Garner—whom Rosenkrantz discovered and was first to record—and many others. This book is a must-have for jazz lovers. Social historians interested in the intersection of race and the music business will find in Rosenkrantz’s memoir an invaluable primary source on Harlem’s social scene and its musical legacy.
Historical Dictionary of Lesotho
Authors: Rosenberg Scott , Weisfelder Richard F.
Published: February 2025

Lesotho is rather different from most other African countries. For starters, it is a kingdom, which preserves a traditional hierarchy and customs, and its population consists of one fairly homogenous ethnic group, although admittedly there are differences and occasional rifts within it. Then, it is a landlocked country, completely surrounded by South Africa on which is depends heavily. Economically, it has not been doing particularly well, this partly because the country is so poorly endowed by nature, and its people often eke out a living abroad. Politically, there have been ups and downs, the downs fortunately lying in the past, with Lesotho doing somewhat better since the latest elections. Socially and culturally, as hinted, it is quite unique and this can be gathered from reading the book.

This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Lesotho covers the full scope of Lesotho’s ancient, colonial, and independence eras. It gives greater emphasis to the more recent period and brings the book fully up-to-date. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 400 cross-referenced entries on civil society, key events, leaders, governmental, international, religious, and other private organizations, policies, political movements and parties, economic elements, and many other areas that have shaped the country’s trajectory. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Lesotho.
Historical Dictionary of Burkina Faso
Authors: Rupley Lawrence , Bangali Lamissa , Diamitani Boureima
Published: February 2025

Burkina Faso, known as Upper Volta until its independence from France in 1960, and locally called the “land of the upright people,” is a medium-sized land-locked country with no less than six neighbors, some of which periodically get into trouble… which makes it reasonably strategic in some ways. While it has not done as poorly as some other African states, its economic has certainly not prospered and many Burkinabe go abroad to earn a living. As for politics, it is another case of stability without democracy, even if there are periodic elections. Still, this is better than not even having stability.

This third edition of Historical Dictionary of Burkina Faso covers its history through a chronology, an introductory essay, maps, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1000 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Burkina Faso.
Historical Dictionary of the Bengalis
Authors: Chakrabarti Kunal , Chakrabarti Shubhra
Published: February 2025

The Bengali (Bangla) speaking people are located in the northeastern part of South Asia, particularly in Bangladesh and two states of India – West Bengal and Tripura. There are almost 246 million Bengalis at present, which makes them the fifth largest speech community in the world. Despite political and social divisions, they share a common literary and musical culture and several habits of daily existence which impart to them a distinct identity. The Bengalis are known for their political consciousness and cultural accomplishments

The Historical Dictionary of the Bengalis provides an overview of the Bengalis across the world from the earliest Chalcolithic cultures to the present. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 750 cross-referenced dictionary entries on politicians, educators and entrepreneurs, leaders of religious and secular institutions, writers, painters, actors and other cultural figures, and more generally, on the economy, education, political parties, religions, women and minorities, literature, art and architecture, music, cinema and other major sectors. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Bengalis.
Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau
Authors: Mendy Peter Karibe , Lobban, Jr. Richard A.
Published: February 2025

Guinea-Bissau is a small country in West Africa, and yet it managed to wrest its independence from Portugal back in 1973, at the cost of a long and bitter struggle against seemingly implacable odds. This was a time to be proud of, and there was also a moment about two decades ago, when it looked like a trendsetter for democracy. Since then things have gone seriously wrong, with a collapsing infrastructure, a dilapidated economy and a political stage prone to military coups d’etats. This fourth edition of Historical Dictionary of Guinea-Bissau tells the long and sometimes unpleasant story.

However, like all the country historical dictionaries, it tells it several times and in several ways. First, the chronology traces the history of what became Guinea-Bissau, and this over a period of centuries and not just decades. Then the introduction recounts that history again, providing more insight and understanding, and conveys a good idea of how things are going now. The details follow in the dictionary section with entries on important persons, places, institutions, and events among other things. And the bibliography points to further reading.
IDENTIFICATION OF MARINE IRON REDUCING BACTERIA (IRB) ISOLATED FROM PASIR PANJANG, PORT DICKSON, NEGERI SEMBILAN AND ITS ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITIES
Authors: Nasruddin Muhammad   Izzuddin , Mohamed Shakrin Nik Noorul Shakira , Wan Yunus Wan Md Zin , Knight Victor Victor Feizal , Abdul Rashid Jahwarhar Izuan
Published: February 2025

This study focused on the identification of iron reducing bacteria (IRB) isolated from the waters off Port Dickson, Negeri Sembilan and its antimicrobial activity. Ten marine IRB isolates were successfully obtained from five different steel sample coupons immersed in seawater off Pasir Panjang, Port Dickson, Negeri Sembilan for one month. The samples were cultured in VMNI medium for 72 hours at 37oC. A total of ten pure colonies named A1, C1, etc. were obtained. Identification of the isolates was done using Gram-stain and polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Then, the antimicrobial activity of IRB isolates was investigated using the overlay method against four pathogens, namely Escherichia coli, Enterococcus faecalis, Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). These four pathogens were selected because of their predominance in causing disease in humans and animals. The antimicrobial activity results showed inhibition zones except for isolates A1 towards E. coli and C1(2)(2) towards S. Typhi. Eight out of ten isolates of IRB strains showed antimicrobial activity towards selected pathogens. This study was able to demonstrate that there is antimicrobial activity of IRB against selected pathogens and, in the meantime, manage to identify the IRB down to the species level as well. This finding showed potential uses of IRB against pathogens that warranted further research.
DEFENDING AGAINST DENGUE: A PILOT STUDY OF KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE, AND PRACTICE (KAP) OF DENGUE FEVER AMONG RESIDENTS IN SS 3 PETALING JAYA
Authors: J. Nilam , Mohamed Shakrin Nik Noorul Shakira , J. Maya , S. Asyraf , M. Dhinesh , S. Adlina , Abdul Hamid Mohammad Wisman , Ibrahim Nadiah
Published: February 2025

Dengue fever is the most common vector-borne disease and a major concern in Malaysia. Thus, the present study aimed to evaluate factors influencing knowledge, attitude, and practice of dengue fever among residents in Taman Subang, SS 3 Petaling Jaya. A total of 81 residents were incorporated into a descriptive, public-based cross-sectional study. The questionnaires were formulated to include questions on demographic data, knowledge, attitude, and practice concerning dengue fever. Most of the respondents were in the age range of 39-58 (35.8%). Most participants were Malay (61.7%), with tertiary level being the highest education level (70.4%), and most of the residents were aware of dengue fever. Television and radio were voted as the most frequent sources of information (97.3%). For socio-demographic characters, there was a significant correlation between attitude and practice score. Good practice towards dengue fever is associated with good knowledge and attitude. Actions to raise the awareness of the population about dengue fever, such as health campaigns and health education at the community level, are important. These initiatives will aid in cultivating better knowledge, attitudes and practices towards dengue fever and thus reduce its incidence in Malaysia.
A MINI REVIEW ON ELECTRON TRANSPORT LAYERS (ETLS) FOR PEROVSKITE SOLAR CELLS
Authors: Azmi Asyraf Hakimi , Abdul Manaf Nor Azlian
Published: February 2025

Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have demonstrated rapid efficiency and advanced photovoltaic technology in the last decade. Ideally, the absorber layer in PSCs is sandwiched between a highly conductive electron transport layer (ETL) and a highly stable hole transport layer (HTL). The presence of these two layers significantly impacts the performance of PSCs. This paper will review the common materials used for ETL, various deposition techniques to grow ETL, their advantages and disadvantages, and recent advances of TiO2 filmsas an ETL including their challenges and future perspective. In this context, TiO2 nanostructure due to their low cost, non-toxicity, and ease of manufacture, are the most prominent photocatalyst choices. Finally, this review shows how doped TiO2 can be abeneficial approach to improve the PSC’s performance and stability.
OPTICAL AND MORPHOLOGY OF SELF-ASSEMBLEDPOLYHEXYLTHIOPHENE (P3HT) NANOWIRES
Authors: Ahmad  Poad Nursaadah , Abdul  Halim Norhana , Sa’aya Nurul Syahirah Nasuha , Ngah Demon Siti  Zulaikha
Published: February 2025

Poly (3-hexylthiophene-2, 5-diyl) (P3HT) is a well-known p-type semiconductor for electronic and optoelectronic applications with a bandgap of ~ 1.9 eV. It is believed that the nanowireform of the polymer offers better structure, stability,and carrier pathways as an electronic device. In this study, P3HT nanowires weresynthesized by aggregation under the dark for 72 h in a partial solvent, toluene. Toinvestigate the change in polymer chain entanglement, spectra of UV-Vis absorption, FTIR and Raman of both P3HT nanowires and amorphous P3HT films were compared and further analysed. The result showsthat the optical absorption of P3HT nanowires had blue shifted to higher energy indicating bandgap widening compared to amorphous P3HT. This electronic behaviour change is supported by FTIR and Raman resultsthat implied increasing P3HT conjugation length with nanowire formation. The randomly oriented nanowires had an estimated diameter size of 10 –20 nm. This improved nanostructure is majorly driven by intermolecular π-π stacking interactions that can produce P3HT film with better performance as charge carrier layer and photon absorber.
ASSESSING LOCAL CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT LEVERAGING ON INDUSTRY COLLABORATION PROGRAM (ICP) USING ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY ELEMENTS
Authors: Safari Zailani
Published: February 2025

Industry Collaboration Program (ICP) is an initiative by the Government of Malaysia that leverages on mega procurement to support local industry capacity and capability development. It is envisaged that the ICP platform cancreate ‘value for money’ in forms of economic returns based on the procurement made. It is capitalised to further enhance current national economic development activities by ensuring participation of local players in high technology industry sectors, such as transportation and security; with the aim to create employment, skills enhancement, and technology development capability within the local firms. The foundation of effective ICP implementation is availability of competent local industry players that consists of competent personnel with relevant know-how and equipped with relevant technology. Therefore, it is desirable that the outcomes of ICP implementation are measurable to assess the impact and one of the methods is by using Absorptive Capacity(AC) elements measurement. This paper had proposed a construct using the AC elements and the Confirmatory Factor Analysis method is used for its validation. Based on the conducted analysis on the stipulated hypotheses, some confirmations and gaps for further research had been obtained for conclusion.
On Models of Malaria with Natural Recovery
Authors: K Adamu A. , M Bulus S. , B Williams , D Yavalah
Published: February 2025

This study presents a mathematical model for malaria transmission dynamics, incorporating natural recovery and public awareness/sensitization within the human population. The model evaluates the impact of sensitization alongside conventional control strategies in mitigating malaria spread. Through qualitative analysis, the basic reproduction number was determined to be less than unity, suggesting the feasibility of disease control. Additionally, stability analysis confirmed that the disease-free equilibrium is locally and asymptotically stable. Our findings indicate that, with a combination of natural recovery, public sensitization, and conventional interventions, malaria can be successfully eradicated from the population.
إشكالية مصطلح "الأشخاص ذوي الاحتياجات الخاصة"، والأهلية القانونية، والدمج من خلال اضطراب طيف التوحد بتطوان
Authors: Klaina Mekki
Published: February 2025

The condition of individuals with mental, physical, or visual disabilities, whether temporary or permanent, is an issue that requires attention and study in order to highlight its dimensions, discuss the social status of these individuals, and their ability to act based on their legal capacity. They are an integral part of society and deserve to enjoy all the rights that others benefit from, especially as their numbers continue to rise. I have chosen Autism Spectrum Disorder as a model to better understand it. This study aims to examine the appropriate term for these individuals, its historical development, and the extent to which they can perform legal actions. I have provided an example of associations working in this field, such as the Yahya Association for Children with Autism in Tetouan, Morocco. For the preparation of this research, I relied on the historical method to study the term "disability," and the analytical and critical method to study the social behavior with this group, as well as to analyze the legal texts related to them. In this study, I emphasized the need to pay attention to the words used when talking about them, their right to full inclusion, and the necessity of granting them legal capacity.
Dynamic Economic Analysis from Difference Equation
Authors: Kumar Nand Kishor
Published: February 2025

Dynamic economic analysis often involves understanding how economic variables evolve over time. One approach to modeling these dynamics is through the application of difference equations. Difference equations provide a framework for describing the evolution of economic variables in discrete time periods, making them particularly useful for analyzing time series data and economic processes that unfold in steps. In dynamic economic analysis, difference equations are an effective tool for modeling and comprehending how economic variables change with time. These difference equations are used by to study the behavior with economic systems and forecast future trends. Examples of these systems include market dynamics in the cobweb model and capital accumulation in the Solow growth model. Understanding the long-term behavior of complex systems is further aided by stability analysis, which guarantees that the models offer insightful information about economic processes. Stability analysis further aids in understanding the long-term behavior of these systems, ensuring that the models provide meaningful insights into economic processes.
The Influence of Peer Support on the Nutritional Status of Adolescents at Madrasah Tsanawiyah in Sleman Regency
Authors: Tjahjono Moedji Widodo Soepri , Inayah Inayah
Published: February 2025

Overnutrition or obesity is a condition of increased body weight due to the accumulation of body fat, which is not only experienced by adults, but also by children and adolescents. The prevalence of overnutrition in adolescents continues to increase every year. One of the contributing factors is changes in diet, which are strongly influenced by the social environment, especially peer support. This research aims to determine the relationship between the influence of peer support and the status of overweight in adolescents. This research uses an observational design with a cross-sectional approach. The sample consisted of 20 students from the Sunan Pandanaran Sleman Madrasah Tsanawiyah who were taken using stratified random sampling. Data collection was carried out through the self-reported method to measure nutritional status and the peer support questionnaire to assess the influence of the social environment. The research was carried out in September 2024. The results of the analysis showed that 75% of the respondents were influenced by peer support in their nutritional status, while 25% were not. There is a significant relationship between peer support and overweight status in adolescents (p = 0.028). This research concludes that peer support plays a significant role in determining the nutritional status of adolescents. It is hoped that these findings will form the basis for the development of obesity intervention and prevention programs that consider aspects of the social environment, especially the role of peers.
Becoming Daiboo’: Avowing Settlerness to Reduce Settler Harm in Rhetoric, Composition, and Writing Studies
Authors: Wilkes Lydia
Published: February 2025

Avowing settler status positions settler scholars to join in storying less harmful futures for the discipline. The author’s journey toward avowing settler status through the Northern Shoshoni word daiboo’ helps clear a path for this world-making.
Campañas de comunicación persuasiva y lobbying en los procesos de licitación y adjudicación de eventos
Authors: Oliver González Ana Belén
Published: February 2025

Las estrategias de comunicación persuasiva y el lobbying juegan un rol decisivo en los procesos de licitación y posterior adjudicación de grandes eventos internacionales. Estas estrategias permiten a las ciudades y países candidatos influir en las percepciones y decisiones de los organismos encargados, destacando sus fortalezas y utilizando relaciones personales para inclinar la balanza a su favor. Sin embargo, el uso indebido de estas tácticas ha generado controversias significativas, como casos de corrupción, tráfico de influencias y falta de transparencia, que han afectado la legitimidad de los procesos de selección, revelando cómo el lobbying puede comprometer la integridad de las decisiones. Estos escándalos han llevado a reformas contundentes en las instituciones organizadoras, como el COI y la FIFA, para mejorar la transparencia y reducir las oportunidades de influencia indebida.
A través de un análisis exhaustivo de la influencia del cabildeo y la comunicación en la organización de eventos, el estudio busca demostrar cómo estas estrategias son determinantes en la selección de sedes. Para ello, se plantean objetivos específicos que evaluarán la influencia del lobbying y la efectividad de las campañas de comunicación en estos procesos.
No obstante, las campañas de comunicación persuasiva siguen siendo esenciales para generar apoyo tanto entre los tomadores de decisiones como en la opinión pública. Una estrategia de comunicación eficaz puede ser decisiva en un entorno de competencia intensa, destacando los beneficios económicos y sociales del evento para la comunidad local.
Las conclusiones corroboran la hipótesis planteada que, mientras que las campañas de comunicación persuasiva y el lobbying son herramientas necesarias en los procesos de licitación, su regulación y la implementación de procesos más transparentes son fundamentales para garantizar la equidad y la integridad en la adjudicación de grandes eventos internacionales.
KWT KENCONO WUNGU TRAINING IN AN EFFORT OPTIMIZING DIGIT-BASED MARKETING THROUGH FACEBOOK WITH STUDENT TEACHING
Authors: Prambada Kirsaputa Imam , Iga Pramesty Nadia , Afivaturokhmah Neila , Raharjo Anisyah , Rinofah Risal , Fauzi Fitriya
Published: February 2025

This socialization program aims to provide understanding and skills regarding digital marketing through the Facebook platform to KWT Kencono Wungu members who manage layinghens businesses. The activity was held on October 20, 2024 located in Blambangan village, Jogotirto, Berbah, Sleman, Yogyakarta, attended by 14 members out of a total of 20 invitations. The materials presented included the basics of digital marketing, strategies for using Facebook for promotion, and the application of the Tamansiswa teaching principles of Niteni, Nirokke, Nambahi in entrepreneurship. During the socialization, participants showed high enthusiasm and actively discussed, especially regarding the application of effective marketing strategies. The evaluation results showed that the majority of participants felt that they got significant benefits from this training and hoped for similar activities in the future. With this socialization, it is expected that KWT members can be more optimal in marketing their egg products, increasing competitiveness, and supporting local economic growth.
COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT OF SENGONKEREP HAMLET GUNUNG KIDUL THROUGH TRAINING ON KUNIR ASEM CANDY AND SOAP PRODUCTION
Authors: Hidayat Riskin , Hadi Syamsul , Fadhilah Muinah , Agus Setiawan Eko , Ayu Larasati Adelia , Chandra Putry Nur Anita , Kirana Putri Fuadhillah , Heru Pratama Yhoga , Fauzi Fitriya
Published: February 2025

Community service activities in Sengonkerep Hamlet, Gunung Kidul, aim to improve residents' skills and economic independence through training in making tamarind candy and dish soap. The training involved a participatory approach, introducing ingredients, production practices, and mentoring. As a result, participants' level of understanding increased from 20% to 80%, and small business income rose from 20% to 75%. In addition, customer satisfaction with the products reached 85%, while participation and cooperation among community members increased to 80%. The program succeeded in improving technical skills and opened up new business opportunities based on local and environmentally friendly materials. For sustainability, further training and strengthening partnerships with various parties to support the marketing and innovation of local products are recommended
Análisis socioestilístico del discurso de políticos andaluces durante sus intervenciones públicas en Madrid
Authors: Mackova Eliska
Published: February 2025

En esta investigación llevaremos a cabo un estudio sociolingüístico sobre la variación lingüística aplicada a distintos contextos públicos de algunos políticos andaluces en Madrid: Juan Manuel Moreno, Susana Díaz, José Guirao y María Jesús Montero. De esta manera, conoceremos los factores lingüísticos y extralingüísticos que marcan el habla de dichos políticos durante sus intervenciones públicas en la capital. Por un lado, observaremos los cambios lingüísticos de estas cuatro personalidades cuando entran en contacto con el español normativo, propio del norte-centro peninsular. Y, por otro, trabajaremos con intervenciones que los mismos políticos realizan en Andalucía, para así conocer cómo se comportan lingüísticamente en ambos contextos. En nuestros resultados se ha comprobado que, efectivamente, existen variaciones lingüísticas aplicadas a contextos públicos en los discursos de ciertos políticos andaluces; no obstante, sigue predominando el empleo de las variantes regionales propias del español hablado en Andalucía.
Politeness in Petitions Signed by Nineteenth Century British Women before being Transported to Australia
Authors: Calvo Cortés Nuria
Published: February 2025

The nineteenth century witnessed the consolidation of the self within British society, which explains the development of the concept of face and the categorisation of the so-called Face Threatening Acts (FTAs), which became directly linked to the concept of politeness in the twentieth century. This study analyses fifteen nineteenth century manuscript petition letters signed by four women in prison. The analysis is two-fold. First, it compares these petitions with the model ones presented in letter-writing manuals of the time and the politeness instruction provided in them. Second, it provides a description of the FTAs found in the original petitions. The conclusion shows that these women probably had an awareness of politeness rules despite possibly never having read one of these manuals first-hand. It also suggests that the use of the politeness strategies analysed may have contributed to the granting of these women’s requests.
el Stylistic Patterns ‘On Air’: Intra-speaker Variation in Canarian Radio Presenters
Authors: Hernández Campoy Juan Manuel , Almeida Manuel
Published: February 2025

Social identities are created from the organisation of a series of coordinates that cross different areas in a community: the characteristics of the social group to which the individual belongs, the position that this individual has within the group, the social attitudes towards the own group and other groups, the type of activity that takes place (public or private), the linguistic policies existing in the community towards the different linguistic norms that coexist in it, etc. By incorporating all these (and other) aspects to the variationist analysis, we are admitting that neither the strictly structuralist nor the strictly interactional positions in Sociolinguistics allow us to properly explain the social dimension of language. The analysis of these relationships allows us to analyse with better criteria the different levels in which the sociocultural meaning that the forms of language acquire in specific social situations is organised. Within the framework of these ideas, this research analyses the way in which six radio broadcasters from the Canary Islands stylise their speech in order to achieve certain communicative purposes.
Applying RRG to the Lexical Paradigms of Old English Strong Verbs
Authors: Fidalgo Allo Luisa
Published: February 2025

Este artículo evalúa la aplicabilidad de la Gramática del Papel y la Referencia (GPR) en los paradigmas léxicos de los verbos fuertes del inglés antiguo. Se analizan 328 paradigmas léxicos y 1,509 verbos extraídos de la base de datos Nerthus. Tras una exhaustiva revisión de los paradigmas, se implementa la taxonomía de Aktionsart de la GPR en cada verbo. Las conclusiones abordan aspectos teóricos y descriptivos, ofreciendo una revisión crítica de la teoría de la GPR y proponiendo actualizaciones, como la inclusión de un nuevo tipo de Aktionsart para procesos no delimitados en el tiempo. Además, se presenta una perspectiva innovadora sobre la naturaleza de los estados causativos y se identifica un significativo grupo de verbos que no se ajustan a las clases de Aktionsart de la GPR, ofreciendo una solución. En síntesis, se concluye que la GPR es aplicable al inglés antiguo, considerando los hallazgos obtenidos.
The Translation of Adolescence Language by means of Apertium, Systran and Google Translate
Authors: Napoletano María , Canga Alonso Andrés
Published: February 2025

The present paper explores the translation of adolescents’ speech from English into Spanish using three free online translation tools (Apertium, Systran and Google Translate), and two corpora based on oral communication (COLT and LIC). Additionally, errors were classified in terms of accuracy and fluency, and a revised version after post-editing is provided in order to overcome these mistranslations. Our findings show that the errors these MT applications produce have to do with the translation of cultural aspects, abbreviations, proper names of cities and people, as well as the loss of coherence of some extracts due to the character limit imposed by some of the tools used. Finally, emphasis is placed on the need to open new lines of research considering proverbs and idioms with a wider range of data.
Book review. Domínguez Romero, E. et al. (2023). Rethinking Multimodal Literacy in Theory and Practice. Bern: Peter Lang.
Authors: Pascual Bolivar Victoria
Published: February 2025

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