bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
The Incidental Person: Reviewing the Identity of the Urban Acoustic Planner
Authors: Sven Anderson
Published: December 2024

At the intersection of the urban and the aural lies a territory that remains largely unplanned and frequently marginalized by more dominant agendas that shape contemporary urban development. This paper explores this territory – as both an experiential and an administrative space – through a two-year public art commission in which I initiated an artist placement for myself within the city council in Dublin Ireland, working in the self-declared position of urban acoustic planner. By stepping away from the centralizing concept of the soundscape and drawing parallels with participatory artworks that lie somewhat outside of the traditional canon of works embodied by contemporary sound studies, this paper seeks to discover the identity of this role at its most open, inclusive, and plural.
Sound Scraps and Resources of Ethnographic Writing
Authors: Julie Métais
Published: December 2024

Ethnographic work generally involves making sound recordings (recorded interviews, field recordings, or archival documents), whether or not the research includes a sonic dimension. But the sonic corpus of ethnographical research does not stop there; it also includes recorded "notepads," recordings related to daily life, telephone messages, etc. A large part of these sound data is discarded at the time of analysis and writing. What if it were otherwise? Relying on my research on cultural expressions of political conflicts in Oaxaca (Mexico), I propose a reflective approach to an initially discarded corpus of sounds, in order to reevaluate my listening and recording position as an anthropologist.
How to Fail a Field Recording. An Ethnomusicologist’s Perspective
Authors: Victor A. Stoichita
Published: December 2024

This paper reflects on the relation between “field” and “recording” in listening to “field recordings.” It is rooted in the author’s experience as a student and, subsequently, a researcher in the anthropology of music. The paper strives to map the gap between academic and artistic conceptions of field recording by asking whether and how field recordings can be failed. The author’s own experience with the genre is indeed one of frequent disenchantment. The paper identifies different meanings of field, discusses how recordings are supposed to make those fields available to the listener, and asks whether in field recording “music” and “soundscapes” should be treated as different kinds of objects.
The Acoustic Space of Television
Authors: Anthony Enns
Published: December 2024

Critics often argue that television is primarily an acoustic rather than a visual medium, as the soundtrack anchors the meaning of the images and the sound practices developed for television are largely derived from radio. In recent years, however, the television screen has become increasingly saturated with textual information, and it has gradually transformed from “illustrated radio” into something that more closely resembles a computer or web interface. Rather than suggesting that television is no longer a primarily acoustic medium, this paper employs Marshall McLuhan’s concept of “acoustic space” to argue that contemporary television is actually more acoustic than ever before, as the television screen has become a non-linear and multisensory information space that reflects the immersive qualities of sound itself.
EDITORIAL: TOWARDS NEW SONIC EPISTEMOLOGIES
Authors: Marcel Cobussen
Published: December 2024

Brian De Palma’s famous 1981 thriller film Blow Out starts with a movie sound effects technician, Jack, who, while recording sounds for a low-budget slasher film in a wooded area near a river, serendipitously captures audio evidence of an assassination involving a presidential candidate. The candidate is sitting in a car that gets a blowout; the car slips into the water, and the candidate drowns. However, listening to the audiotape he inadvertently recorded of the accident, Jack distinctly hears a gunshot just before the blowout. What appears to be an accident caused by a flat tire turns out to be an attempted murder.
Domesticated Noise: The Musical Reformation of Identity in Urban Vietnam
Authors: Lonan O Briain
Published: December 2024

In his composition “New Moon” (Trăng non), saxophonist Trần Mạnh Tuấn appropriates sounds from the musical cultures of Vietnam’s ethnic minorities to create a fusion of regional Vietnamese and international jazz music. The musical cultures are reduced to the raw sounds of instrument timbres which are then reformulated as part of a new popular style by the composer. His detachment of these sounds from the minority cultures and propagation of them as sonic referents to an internal Other nurtures an essentialized understanding of the minorities as different and distant from the urban majority. This research deploys Georgina Born’s proposal of four planes of distinct socialities that are mediated by music and sound (2011) to examine how the musical domestication of these ethnic-themed sounds contributes to the conceptualization of new economically-endowed social classes in urban Vietnam.
STRAßENMUSIK AND EARDVERTS: PUBLIC LISTENING INTERVENTIONS AS AN ARTISTIC PRACTICE FOR ENCOURAGING AURAL AWARENESS IN AN EVERYDAY CONTEXT
Authors: Florian Hollerweger
Published: December 2024

This article discusses public listening interventions as an artistic research method to encourage and study aural awareness in everyday environments. I will first provide an overview of aestheticized listening practices in the sonic arts. This will be followed by a discussion of my public listening interventions Straßenmusik and EaRdverts, which I will situate within this wider context of artistic practice. From this perspective, I will adopt a sound artist’s perspective on the questions of how to study sound and enable a discourse on sonic experience. I will suggest possible contributions that sound art makes to this process.
TOUCHING AS LISTENING: PULSE PROJECT
Authors: Michelle Lewis-King
Published: December 2024

Pulse Project (2011 - ) is a performance series exploring the social interfaces between self and other, art and science, contemporary western music composition and traditional Chinese medicine. This performance-study series aims to interrogate the axioms that underpin contemporary medicine and digital technology through the exploration of its corollary “other” - traditional Chinese medicine and music theory - in order to generate a new approach to embodiment and soundscape composition.
Audio Acid: Affective Design and the Psychoacoustic Trip
Authors: Ryan LaLiberty
Published: December 2024

As a New Age commodity, binaural beat audio comes packed up with the pseudoscientific imagery and discourses of the loose social movement. If this material is to believed, the listener can expect a broad range of effects, from increased sexual prowess to a deeper connection with the infinite cosmos. While refraining from critiquing such claims, this paper explores how affective experience has been –– and is being –– designed and commodified through binaural beat audio, in the interplay of synthesized sound and the sensing body. The affective subjects of binaural beats are positioned across materialities and temporalities, from the psychoacoustic capacities of the body, to the abilities of precision-synthesized sound towards producing the specific microtemporalities of binaural beat audio. This paper will situate these materialities and temporalities historically, with an ear lent to the processes of “crystallization,” to use the language of Bruno Latour, that have cemented binaural beat audio as contemporary media objects.
Sound Intuition
Authors: Henrik Frisk
Published: December 2024

This paper introduces the method of intuition as it is presented by French philosopher Henri Bergson in the book An Introduction to Metaphysics (Bergson 1912). Its usefulness as a tool to observe relevant information in artistic practice in sound is further discussed in relation to a series of works by the author. Exploring this complex field the author makes a preliminary conclusion that sound is not a thing, and it is not limited to what we listen to. It is a system of interrelated threads, the meaning of which is much larger than the actual sound itself.
The Production of High Fidelity Audio Electronics and the Politics of Technological and Social Modernization in Late State Socialist Poland
Authors: Patryk Wasiak
Published: December 2024

This paper investigates the development of the production of High Fidelity (Hi-Fi), audios and the emergence of an accompanying audiophile culture in late state socialist Poland of the 1970s. My case study offers a discussion on the re-negotiating of the cultural values of a specifically marketed technology that was used as a status symbol in affluent market economy countries. In state-socialist Poland, a host of social actors appropriated Hi-Fi audios technologies and audiophile culture to be part of a nationwide project of technological and social modernization. I investigate how in this specific historical setting the mass-scale development and the production of Hi-Fi audios emerged, and how this was embedded into the government policy of building “consumer socialism.” This development also corresponded with a state-sponsored program of technological modernization, in which the electronics industry was identified as a flagship sector that received substantial government investment. I also discuss the emergence of a local audiophile culture, which was redefined by intermediary actors, from being a Western elitist “consumption microculture” into an accessible form of cultural uplift for working-class youth.
Music Discoveries That Could Have Been
Authors: Andreas Helles Pedersen
Published: December 2024

Envision a mobile application focusing on music discovery via operationalized and interrelated metadata. Imagine that this application builds on a certain record collection developed under the auspices of a public service institution. Then visualize the application as a vehicle for telling forgotten and neglected histories of recorded music, and you have DR DJ. This article reads the digital music archive of the Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR) through the media archaeological notion of imaginary media by discussing a proposal for music discovery that never came to be. This proposal is a discarded idea for a mobile application called DR DJ, which the article assesses through Siegfried Zielinski’s concept of variantology. The article provides an analysis of DR’s actual digital music archive by viewing the unfulfilled potentials and desires of DR DJ as imaginary media co-constituting the realized technologies of DR’s music communication. The article evolves a speculative scenario where an actualized DR DJ potentiates experiences of concurrent lines in the history of recorded music, while also highlighting structural limitations and a reaffirmation of Western modalities.
Smorzando. Chopin on the MP3 player
Authors: Michel Roth
Published: December 2024

My article focuses on the phenomenon of the ephemeral in music in general. I would like to stay with piano music for a while, where the rapid fading away of tone is normal, and a central component for the regulation of this process, the damper, is called il smorzatore in Italian. The Préludes Op. 28 by Frédéric Chopin will serve as one example; I will later move on to a piano LP by the Swiss artist Dieter Roth and will end with an orchestral work by the young German composer Hannes Seidl.
Record, Rewind, Rewrite. Acoustic Historiography with the Presidential Tapes
Authors: Monika Dommann
Published: December 2024

A tool of audio manipulation available to all (recording, fast-forwarding and rewinding, dictating, deleting, overwriting, etc.), tape recorders became a universal feature of offices and living rooms in the 1950s. Between 1962 (when John F. Kennedy installed a secret recording system in his Oval Office) and July 1973 (when Richard Nixon’s extensive recording system was revealed in the aftermath of Watergate and switched off on 18 July) (Haldeman 1988: 86), taping was even used by American presidents as a secret memo technique. From the perspective of the history of knowledge and media studies, this article examines the explosive political force of sidestepping the ephemerality of verbal communication through the secret tape recordings, historical and archival examinations of the Presidential Tapes and their remixes in Public History and film projects, where communicative acts once concealed from the public now continue as endless media loops. A paradoxical form of acoustic nostalgia emerges here: It tackles the problem of invisible power and ritualised politics with a sensorially-accessible “presence” and acoustically-perceptible corporeality – drawing on media in the process. The plea for acoustic historiography developed in this article is an examination of the soundscapes previously neglected by historiography but augmented by media history. While historiography, up to the 20th century, could record the sounds, tones and voices of the past only through writing, the Soundscape Projects initiated by R. Murray Schafer since the 1970s used tape to store and document sound and to create acoustic archives. Since the 1990s, the digitalization of analogue magnetic tapes has facilitated previously inconceivable access to acoustic sources and contributed to the rise of Public History within general societal awareness. Acoustic historiography must therefore engage with the media characteristics of recording and playback devices; the social situations in which recordings are produced; the potential of acoustic sources for storage, manipulation and transmission and their use in art, politics and society.
The sounds of food: Defamiliarization and the blinding of taste
Authors: Tara Brabazon
Published: December 2024

This essay – situated within the small but emerging field of sonic food studies and gastronomic auditory cultures – is positioned in the gap between the sounds of food and the meanings derived from the behaviors and practices encircling food. In food studies literature, assumptions abound about multi-sensory engagement. Yet, the sonic components of food remain undertheorized. This sonic research article – consisting of an sonic artifact and exegesis – emphasizes and prioritizes sensory incongruity. Intentionally, the non-eating sounds of the digital and analogue interactions surrounding food are summoned. There is a reason for the focus on these interfaces. Working with Viktor Shklovsky’s theorization of defamiliarization or ostranenie (остранение), presented in his 1917 essay “Art as Device,” I am interested in reducing “automatization” and value “disruptions.” I have produced a sonic artifact that textualizes three slices of food sound: shopping for groceries, the delivery of food to a domicile, and cooking. These sounds were not slotted into a convenient narrative of a sonic documentary. They were not staged; they were not sound effects. There is a gap – of experience, expertise, perception, and meaning – between signifier and signified, the sound and its reception. The deferral of meaning creates hesitation, confusion, instability, and unsettles meaning systems.
Editorial: Materials of Sound
Authors: Caleb Kelly
Published: December 2024

Editorial: Materials of Sound
Bodies and Energy, Circuits and Sound: Rethinking and Listening to Leon Ernest Eeman’s Relaxation Circuit with a Bio-synthesizer
Authors: Pia van Gelder
Published: December 2024

Leon Ernest Eeman’s Cooperative Healing: The Curative Properties of Human Radiations (1947) documents decades of the author’s experiments with bio-circuits, beginning in 1919. Detailing the many configurations and uses of Eeman’s Relaxation Circuit, the book proposes that these circuits promote muscular relaxation, counter fatigue and disease, and stimulate activity by harnessing and circulating radiant energy from within the body. Using only electrical conductors and copper wire, the circuit connected subjects to themselves, redirecting energies internally, or in parallel with a number of subjects, sharing energy collectively. Eeman’s work explores the body as a kind of battery, working with configurations based on polarities—from head to toe and left to right. Although writing on Eeman is scarce, recent literature examining historical conceptions of energy and the body, including the work of Carolyn Thomas De La Peña, stress the importance of examining similar practices of energetic healing using bioelectricity as they inform our present relationships with technology, medicine, energy and the body.

This paper will introduce Eeman’s work and discuss my artistic reenactment of the Relaxation Circuit as a participatory installation. This work, also entitled Relaxation Circuit, was presented in 2015 at Underbelly Arts Festival on Cockatoo Island in Sydney. The work recreated Eeman’s circuit for five participants with the addition of a bio-synthesizer, which included five oscillators modulated by the conductivity of each participant’s skin. In this reworking, participants were asked to lie in the circuit and listen to the amplified sounds of their collective bodies. This paper examines people’s experiences with bioelectricity in the work, both embodied and sonified.
Breaching Sonic Barriers? Sound Studies as a Transdiscipline
Authors: Vincent Meelberg
Published: December 2024

According to Bernie Krause snow creates a distinct acoustic environment, one that is as capricious in range as are the conditions under which snow occurs (Krause 2012, 47). Just as the acoustic characteristics of snow are heterogeneous and variable, so are its semantics and the psychoacoustic level on which its sounds can be described. When we woke up on the morning of December 7, 2012, we were not very happy with the view of an immaculately white urban landscape nor with its accompanying specific, dampened, snowy silence. On that date we, the editors of the Journal of Sonic Studies (JSS), were supposed to host some 25 Dutch sound experts in the center for contemporary art in Leiden, Scheltema, and snow would imply that some of them would not be able to make it to Leiden due to train cancellations.
Sonifying for Public Engagement: A Context-Based Model for Socially Relevant Data
Authors: Milena Droumeva
Published: December 2024

In this paper we discuss the possibility for designing sonification as a tool for public engagement for socially relevant data. We do so through a case study of a specific sonification model and the results of a participatory focus group discussing ours and similar sonifications of “social” data. First we report on a unique and contextually-sensitive approach to sonification of a subset of climate data: urban air pollution for four Canadian cities. Similarly to other data-driven models for sonification and auditory display, this model details an approach to data parameter mappings, however we specifically consider the context of a public engagement initiative and reception by an “everyday” listener as a core principle informing our design. Further, we present an innovative model for FM index-driven sonification that rests on the notion of “harmonic identities” for each air pollution data parameter sonified, allowing us to sonify more datasets in a perceptually “economic” way. Finally, we discuss usability and design implications for sonifying socially relevant information based on user evaluation of our design and an open-ended discussion from two small-scale participatory focus groups.
Editorial: On Sonic Information Design
Authors: Stephen Barrass
Published: December 2024

Sonic Information Design refers to the design of sounds to provide useful information in applications that have impact in our daily lives. The articles in this special issue of the Journal of Sound Studies on Sonic Information Design had their origins as responses to the theme of the 22nd International Conference for Auditory Display, held in Canberra, Australia in 2016.
Beyond the Azhan: Abu Dhabi’s Cacophonous Soundscape
Authors: Diana Chester
Published: December 2024

In Abu Dhabi, a city where the adhan, (The Islamic Call to Prayer), is recited five times daily, mapping the cacophony of its sounds can provide insight into its built environment and the lived experiences of the people in it. By considering the urban ambiance of the city through the acoustical mappings of both the uniform and pre- recorded natures of the adhan in Abu Dhabi City, I will offer a perspective of how live recordings can participate in a discourse on the aesthetic and temporal landscape of the city. What is it about the process of recording what we hear that allows the sonic content of the recording to become live, and does this impact our understanding of place? What do recordings reveal about urban spaces, and how do we “listen back” to them?
Eroding Together: Mattering Processes of Sound
Authors: Samuel Thulin
Published: December 2024

I probe the complexity of material entanglements in situated sound art through an examination of the production and presentation of a recent project on the remote archipelago of the Îles-de-la-Madeleine, Quebec, Canada. The work, Compositional Routes of the Magdalen Islands (Thulin 2016), investigates the archipelago through sound, directly informed by the material processes that shape the islands, both physically and socially. In particular the project engages processes of erosion at the meeting point of wind, land, and sea, following the shifting contours of the littoral zone as sandstone cliffs turn to wandering dune formations. Sound here operates not only as material, or the voicing of materials, but as a mattering process that offers an opportunity to consider how different forms of material break apart and fold together. Drawing especially on work from science and technology studies, geography, and sound studies, I argue for a situated understanding of how sound matters and use the particularities of erosion on the Îles-de-la-Madeline as a way of understanding these processes.
Materials of Sound II
Authors: Caleb Kelly
Published: December 2024

This is the second issue of the Journal of Sonic Studies focused on the Materials of Sound (see issue no. 16). At the heart of these two issues is something of a twist in sonic thinking that sees the authors thinking about sound as more than sound, the opposite of Cage’s dictum of letting sound be itself – as hearing sound as sound. Instead, the materials that produce the sounds under investigation are understood as being more than the sounds that they create. Sound is not heard as innocent, pure, or transparent but rather as a part of a political ecology in which it is deeply linked to various histories and ecologies that form and hold the materials of any sound’s making.
An Exceptional Purity of Sound: Noise reduction technology and the inevitable noise of sound recording
Authors: Melle Kromhout
Published: December 2024

The phenomenon of noise has resisted many attempts at framing it within a singular conceptual framework. Critically questioning the tendency to do so, this article asserts the complexities of different noise-phenomena by analysing a specific technology: technological noise reduction systems. Whereas Sterne describes how engineers have sought to eradicate noise in order to reach what Dolby Laboratories called an ‘exceptional purity of sound,’ Serres and Kittler repeatedly stress that the presence of noise is not only inevitable, but even fundamental to sound and sound recording. Working at the crossroads of noise as a concept in information theory and noise as a physical and sonic phenomenon, a close reading of technological noise reduction shows how it not only produces its own notion of noise in the very process of reducing it, but even generates noise itself. Ultimately, this analysis offers valuable insights into the complexity of noise and the multiple levels on which it operates.
Secret Noise: Marcel Duchamp and the (Un)sound Object
Authors: Krzysztof Fijalkowski
Published: December 2024

Marcel Duchamp’s enigmatic sculpture With Hidden Noise (1916) is widely known, but its complex relationship to sound has received limited attention. Containing a secret object whose presence and identity is registered only by the noise it makes inside a ball of twine held between metal plates, this performative aspect of the work remains unavailable for contemporary audiences; as such, it participates in what Christof Migone qualifies as the “unsound,” the latent aural registers of silence or suppressed noise. Considering the secrecy and sonic capabilities of this object, as well as the work’s collaborative contexts alongside the repeated interest in sound found elsewhere in Duchamp’s activity, gives access to reading With Hidden Noise as a proposition about hidden or embodied knowledge, a knowledge whose complex and hybrid nature is specifically registered through the promise of a performance of sound that remains tacit but resonant.
Echoes - An exploration of the African rhythmic influence in Costa Rican folk music
Authors: Nelson Briceño Peraza
Published: December 2024

This exposition presents my final project for the Master of Arts in Jazz Performance, Drumset, undertaken from autumn 2022 to spring 2024. The project was motivated by my exposure to diverse African rhythms, which revealed potential connections with the traditional music of my Costa Rican heritage. Growing up surrounded by Costa Rican folk music, including African-origin instruments such as the marimba, quijongo, as well as cimarronas (street bands), deeply influenced my musical identity. This project aims to explore and integrate these rhythms, tracing their African roots and merging them with contemporary musical forms.

Inspired by Henry Cole's perspective on folklore as the essence and life of music, this research emphasizes the importance of connecting academic knowledge with folk traditions. Throughout my career, I have engaged with various musical traditions, always seeking to blend them with folk music. This project builds on my previous work, which examined the introduction and adaptation of Costa Rican folk rhythms on the modern drumset. In this continuation, I focus on the historical and rhythmic connections between Latin American and African traditions, using artistic research to deepen the understanding and appreciation of these intertwined musical heritages.
Manejo inicial de las emergencias médicas en la práctica odontológica. Una revisión de la literatura
Authors: Morales Romero Javiera Tahia , Herrera Barraza Víctor Andrés , Ferrer Valdivia Nicolás Francisco
Published: December 2024

Las emergencias médicas durante la consulta odontológica son eventos críticos e inesperados que comprometen la salud e integridad del paciente en el box dental. Según la literatura el 57% de los cirujanos dentistas se han enfrentado al menos a 3 eventos por año y un 36% a más de 10 eventos, estos altos valores constituyen una problemática. El conocimiento sobre soporte vital básico y la actualización de conocimientos en forma constante es de sustancial importancia en el diagnóstico, abordaje y manejo de cada emergencia. Para el manejo, se debe contar con insumos, instrumental y fármacos necesarios en el box dental. El objetivo de esta revisión es describir y detallar las emergencias más frecuentes, factores predisponentes, signos, síntomas, manejo inicial y tratamiento. Además, se mencionan los elementos que deberían estar presentes en un consultorio odontológico para brindar una atención primaria eficiente en estas emergencias.
Sialometaplasia necrotizante: reporte de unalesión autolimitante de apariencia maligna
Authors: de Souza Loureiro Caio Cesar , de Souza Júnior +Alberi José Thomas , Dutra Mateus José , Anbinder Ana Lia
Published: December 2024

Resumen
Presentamos el caso de un hombre de 45 años con úlcera en paladar de 10 días
de evolución. El paciente era consumidor de alcohol y tenía antecedentes de consumo de cocaína desde hacía 17 años, discontinuada durante los últimos 7 años. Se realizó biopsia incisional y los cortes histológicos revelaron una extensa área ulcerada recubierta por una membrana fibrinopurulenta, con pequeños nidos de células escamosas que presentaban citoplasma eosinófilo, nucleolos evidentes y en ocasiones múltiples, leve atipia celular y varias figuras mitóticas. Las características clínicas e histológicas indicaron el diagnostico de Sialometaplasia Necrotizante y el paciente fue sometido a seguimiento clínico. En la tercera semana de seguimiento se hizo evidente la remisión de la lesión. Destacamos la importancia del examen histopatológico e inmunohistoquímico en el correcto diagnóstico.
Do Environmental Provisions in Preferential Trade Agreements Reduce Emissions Traded in Global Value Chains?
Authors:   Maastricht University, Fairuz Maisha , Foster-McGregor Neil ,   Asian Development Bank
Published: December 2024

This paper examines whether preferential trade agreements (PTAs) increase emissions embodied in trade and considers whether environmental provisions in PTAs affect this relationship.

The results suggest PTAs are associated with increased emissions embodied in trade, mainly because of increased trade between PTA partners. The presence of an environmental provision in PTAs mitigates this effect, however, with environmental provisions reducing both the scale of trade and the emissions intensity of that trade.
Development of an analytical model to investigate temperature distribution and melt geometry in the laser powder bed fusion process under different operating parameters
Authors: Ökten Korhan , Örnek Bülent Nafi , Biyikoğlu Atilla
Published: December 2024

Laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF) fabricates components by melting layers of metal powder. Consequently, it has the potential to induce interparticle air gaps or generate unpredictable stresses. As such, understanding temperature distribution and predicting the melt pool based on process parameters are essential. While numerous numerical studies in the literature aim to determine these parameters, these numerical estimation methods often demand extensive computational time and powerful processors. This study introduces a new analytical model and a solution method, offering a significantly faster and more precise solution compared to numerical approaches. Furthermore, the developed model allows the identification of liquid and solid phase regions within the part during production, along with insights into the phase region changes over time. Eigenfunction expansion, separation of variables, and variable transformation methods were employed in the analytical solution of the model equations. Results obtained from this method have been validated by experimental studies available in the literature. By utilizing the derived solution function, the L-PBF process was parametrically investigated, revealing temperature distributions and melt pool geometries. The parametric study focused on the laser power, spot size, and powder layer thicknesses as variable parameters. The study determined that a 50 W increase in laser power raises the maximum melt pool temperature by an average of 800 K, and laser power has been identified as the most influential parameter affecting temperature distribution and melt pool geometry.
Blood Fruit: An Underutilized Fruit from Northeast India for Food Processing and Economic Sustainability
Authors: S* Raju , ST Kumar
Published: December 2024

The northeastern region of India, often referred to as
the biodiversity hotspot of the country, is home to a wealth
of indigenous fruits that remain underutilized and largely
unknown outside their native areas. Among these, blood
fruit (Haematocarpus validus) is a strikingly unique species
that deserves greater attention for its nutritional, functional,
and economic potential. Characterized by its deep red color
Rapid Detection of Aflatoxin Production by Aspergillus Flavus Using Coconut Agar Medium
Authors: B* Ramalingappa
Published: December 2024

Certain fungal species develop toxic substances called aflatoxins, which are extremely dangerous to both human and animal
health. This study focuses on the identification and detection of fungi that produce aflatoxin, which is a serious health danger
because of its carcinogenic and poisonous qualities. Using both macroscopic and microscopic techniques, fungal isolates were
collected and described in accordance with the taxonomic standards established by Klich & Pitt. Fluorescence under UV light,
which revealed the presence of aflatoxins, demonstrated the usefulness of the study's use of coconut agar medium (CAM) for
the quick analysis of aflatoxin production. The detrimental consequences of aflatoxins are emphasized in the conclusion, along
with the significance of creating quick and precise detection techniques to reduce the hazards involved.
Major Drawbacks of Blood Species Analysis Using Human Polyclonal MNS Antisera: The Turin Shroud as a Case Example
Authors: Kearse Kelly P
Published: December 2024

The Turin Shroud is a linen cloth that has been suggested to represent either the burial wrapping of the historical Jesus of
Nazareth, or a clever medieval forgery. Previously, the observation was made that blood fibers taken from the Shroud reacted
with human polyclonal antisera raised against the S antigen, located on glycophorin B. As expression of the S antigen is exclusive
to humans, this finding could support the idea that human blood is present on the Shroud, a notion often promoted in various
books and websites. A modern assessment of the experimental design, however, shows that such antisera were particularly
prone to cross-reactivity with blood from a bountiful number of other species. Indeed, it is now established that anti-alpha
galactose 1,3 antibodies are highly abundant in human sera, which recognize red blood cells of all non-primate mammals.
Thus, such human polyclonal antisera could not be used to distinguish blood species of origin as the cross-reactivity potential
is quite vast and would confound any potential binding observed with anti-S specific antibodies. These findings underscore
the necessity of using more current serological tools in any future investigation of blood-stained artifacts such as the Shroud,
particularly in relation to species determination.
The Role of Curricular Blueprinting in Forensic Learning
Authors: Parmar Pragnesh
Published: December 2024

Curricular blueprinting is an essential framework for designing effective educational programs that align with specific learning
outcomes and professional standards. In forensic learning, curricular blueprints ensure that all components of the curriculum
are coherently structured to provide students with the necessary knowledge, skills, and competencies. This article explores
the concept of curricular blueprinting in forensic education, highlighting its principles, benefits, and practical applications
with suitable examples.
Hazard Analysis and Safety Design of Manned Spacecraft Capsule Leakage
Authors: Wei Li
Published: December 2024

The primary goal of manned spacecraft is to ensure the safety of personnel in orbit. If space debris collides with the sealed
cabin during in orbit operation, it may cause a dangerous event of sealed cabin leakage. The rapid decrease in total pressure
caused by the leakage of the sealed cabin directly threatens the life safety of astronauts and belongs to an emergency major
malfunction. In response to the leakage of the sealed cabin of manned spacecraft after impact, the influence of multiple factors
on the leakage process of the sealed cabin of manned spacecraft was analyzed. An emergency response system with the main
goal of astronaut crew safety was established, and technical measures were proposed to control the pressure loss of the
sealed cabin of manned spacecraft under limited resource conditions and ensure the safety of the astronaut crew. Research
has shown that the diameter of leakage holes is the main influencing factor of pressure loss in sealed cabins, and in orbit gas
supply and personnel protection are important safety measures. Taking a manned spacecraft with a pressurized cabin volume
of 400m³ as an example, if the diameter of the leakage hole is 20mm, and 0.05MPa is used as the environmental pressure
survival lower limit, the emergency response cannot exceed 9000s (150min); if the oxygen content is 19.5%, the emergency
response cannot exceed 12000s (200min).
Orman Alaca Ağaçkakanı (Dendrocopos major)’un Üreme Sonrası Dönemdeki Meşcere Tercihlerinin Belirlenmesi Üzerine Bir Ön Çalışma
Authors: Karataş Mehmet Mahir
Published: December 2024

Ağaçkakanlar (Picidae familyası) sahip oldukları morfolojik ve ekolojik özellikleri nedeniyle orman ekosistemlerinin korunması ve biyoçeşitliliğin sürdürülmesi için oldukça önemlidirler. Hatta bu türlerin korunması sayesinde diğer türlerin de korunması mümkün olacağından şemsiye tür olarak da önerilmektedirler. Ülkemizde yaşayan 9 ağaçkakan türünden biri olan Orman alaca ağaçkakanı (Dendrocopos major) en yaygın ağaçkakan türüdür. Bu çalışma, Orman alaca ağaçkakanı (D. major)’un üreme sonrası dönemde Çatacık ve Mihalıççık orman işletme müdürlüğü ormanlarında yayılış gösterdiği alanlardaki ihtiyaçlarını anlamak ve tür koruma stratejileri ile sürdürülebilir orman yönetiminin geliştirilmesi için gerekli temeli sağlamak amacıyla, Temmuz 2023-Kasım 2023 tarihleri arasında 168 farklı alanda, toplam 17 gün saha çalışması gerçekleştirilerek yapılmıştır. Saha çalışmalarında, 135 alanda noktada gözlem ve 33 alanda hatboyu sayım (Transekt) metodu kullanılarak elde edilen türe ait var-yok verileri ile Orman Genel Müdürlüğünden alınan meşcere harita verilerine IBM SPSS Statistics 22 programı kullanılarak “Mann Whitney U testi” ve “Ki-Kare Testi” uygulanmıştır. Yapılan istatistiksel analizler sonucunda, Orman alaca ağaçkakanı (D. major)’un mevcudiyeti için meşcerede hakim olan ağaç türü, ağaç gövde çapı, ağaç yaşı, kapalılık derecesi, eğim derecesi ve yükseklik faktörlerinin belirleyici olduğu tespit edilmiştir. Bu belirleyici faktörlerin tümünü barındıran uygun meşcerelerin korunması, orman ekosistemleri için önemli görevleri olan bu türün devamlılığını sağlarken dolaylı olarak da birçok türün devamlılığını sağlayacaktır.
Peran Prodi Manajemen Dakwah untuk Memperkuat Profesi Pengelola Zakat: Studi Kasus di Lembaga Amil Zakat
Authors: Kahfi Al , Fadilah Nurul
Published: December 2024

This study aims to explore the opportunities for the profession of zakat management in Indonesia and emphasizes the role of students of da'wah management in increasing the effectiveness of zakat management. The method used is field and library research by combining empirical data from the field with existing theories and literature. The findings of this study indicate that professional and organized zakat management is very much needed to support the optimization of zakat in empowering the people's economy. In addition, this finding also confirms that students majoring in da'wah management have a strategic role in managing zakat in the future. Through proper education, application of technology, and effective collaboration, students of Da'wah Management can contribute significantly to optimizing zakat management. Therefore, it is necessary to optimize collaboration between zakat management institutions and professionals, especially Da'wah Management students, who have a good understanding of sharia and zakat management.
Interconnection of Islamic and Conventional Marketing in Muhammadiyah Charity Businesses
Authors: Basri Bifa Fanisa , Hadi Lukman , Nurudin Agus
Published: December 2024

This article aims to analyze the interconnection between Islamic and conventional marketing in the context of Muhammadiyah Charity Business (AUM) in the health sector with a focus on the Referral and Information Management (MAMARUDI) program in the Islamic Hospital Cempaka Putih Jakarta. This research aims to understand how these two marketing approaches can work together to improve service quality and hospital competitiveness without ignoring Sharia principles, which are the main foundation of Muhammadiyah's Charity Business. With a qualitative approach, this research collects data through interviews, observations, and document analysis related to implementing the MAMARUDI program. The research results show that Islamic marketing, which focuses on honesty, can be combined with conventional marketing, which utilizes digital technology to expand reach and increase service efficiency. This interconnection increases patient confidence in hospital services and strengthens the reputation of the Cempaka Putih Islamic Hospital. This interconnection model offers an approach that can be applied in other Islamic health institutions to create professional services on Islamic values.
Belonging to the Land: Indigenous Māori Narratives of Home and Place
Authors: Lindsay-Latimer Cinnamon , Allport Tanya , Potaka-Osborne Mel , Wilson Denise
Published: December 2024

Land is a place that Māori, the Indigenous peoples of Aotearoa New Zealand, are connected to ancestrally, spiritually, physically, and geographically. This relationship is emblematic in our native language, where whenua means both land and placenta, symbolising both as our sites of our origin and sustenance. For Māori, the land is a place that establishes our identity as iwi (tribal nations), hapū (sub-tribe) and whānau (constellations of extended family networks and friends). The imposition of land ownership has alienated Māori from our whenua, making us minorities in our previous home-spaces. Although colonially forced ideologies of land ownership complicate our relationship to place, for many Māori, land is a place of belonging and home. Drawing on research from a project on Māori conceptions of home and wellbeing, this article explores Indigenous experiences of home and place, which highlights Māori resistance to colonising narratives that associate place and home with economic wealth and power. Instead, ideas of identity, belonging, relationality, and self-determination are explored as lived realities of resistance. This article profiles Māori experiences across a range of urban and rural contexts that negotiate the tensions of colonisation, foster strong cultural identities, and cultivate meaningful enactments of home in diverse environments within Aotearoa New Zealand.
A IMPORTÂNCIA DA PRODUÇÃO E AVALIAÇÃO DE MATERIAIS DE ENSINO PARA A APRENDIZAGEM
Authors: Pessoa Lindovon Dias , Fernandes Caldas Iandra , Cesário de Oliveira Francicleide
Published: December 2024

Este artigo objetiva discutir sobre a importância da produção e a avaliação de materiais de ensino enquanto recursos que contribuem para aproximar o aluno do conhecimento, através da mediação do professor. Metodologicamente, a pesquisa fundamentou-se na abordagem qualitativa, com reflexões bibliográficas e análise interpretativa dos materiais pesquisados. O referencial teórico utilizado apresenta discussões teóricas acerca da produção de materiais de ensino, que abordam desde sua origem à necessidade de utilização nas práticas pedagógicas e da avaliação de forma geral. Serão apresentadas propostas para avaliação desses materiais de ensino, tanto os produzidos pelos professores como também os produzidos em fábricas especializadas. Os principais resultados apontam que a produção e a avaliação de material de ensino são fundamentais para aproximar o aluno do conteúdo e facilitar o processo de ensino-aprendizagem, tornando-o mais dinâmico, inclusivo e motivador, proporcionando uma prática pedagógica com intencionalidade positiva para consolidar uma educação de qualidade.
Adult facilitators creating a space for children to co-design a toothbrushing game for improved oral health
Authors: Fernandez Daniel , Conn Cath , Nikolai Jennifer
Published: December 2024

Introduction: The Pacific region has a serious problem of child dental caries, with negative health consequences. Urgent action is needed, including effective prevention in the form of toothbrushing. Efforts to encourage children to brush their teeth have focused on the idea that they have inadequate knowledge and motivation about oral health. However, contemporary health promotion theories indicate that ‘nudging’ or persuasion, and health promotion as ‘edutainment’ are also important strategies. In the case of oral health promotion for children this could include fun activities, such as the use of games.
The internet provides many tools and a platform for digital games to be created and accessed. This offers opportunities for children to be involved in co-designing and using digital games creating personalised approaches to oral health promotion. Adults are likely to play an important role in facilitating the process. This research project aimed to explore ideas about the role of adults as educational facilitators creating a space for children to be involved in the co-design of a digital toothbrushing game.
Methods: Participatory Action Research (PAR) methods were employed in this research emphasising partnership, creativity, and empowerment between researched and researcher offering a good fit with the project. Seven young adults, aged 21 – 30, were invited to undertake two PAR workshops to develop ideas for facilitating toothbrushing game co-design with children.
Results: The views and perspectives of the adult facilitators centred around five themes: What is a game? Introducing children to games; creating a space for children; children-centred membership; making learning fun and gainful for children. The themes emphasize creating a child-centred space where children’s voices and views in co-designing games are heard and respected.
Conclusion: The study proposed that collaborating with children in a partnership setting provides opportunities for adult facilitators to address power imbalances and foster a child-centred approach to oral health promotion activities. Child-centred approaches, including co-design and use of digital tools and games, where children participate in partnership and express their views and voices in oral health programmes, should be further explored.
Keywords: Participatory action research, child co-design, toothbrushing game, oral health promotion, school oral health, child digital prosumers, serious games
Development of Accounting Information System for Matahari Store With RAD Method (Rapid Application Development)
Authors: Oematan Virgine Widya , Chandrawati T. Brenda , Chrismastuti Agnes Advensia
Published: December 2024

Business company is a form of business in which business people purchase goods from vendors, then resell them to consumers without changing the form of the goods. Every business, be it large, medium to small businesses, requires an accounting system. From the accounting system, the owner can determine whether his business is running well or vice versa. One trading business that still does not use an accounting system is the Matahari Grocery Store. The accounting information system is needed by Toko Matahari to be able to compete with many other similar businesses. The method used in creating this accounting system is the Rapid Application Development method.
Design and Development of a Web Based Accounting Information System at TB Alam Lestari
Authors: Rahardjo Ervina Febriani , Sanjaya Ridwan , Koeswoyo G. Freddy
Published: December 2024

TB Alam Lestari is a store that selling some building material. In this store, there are some problems, such as missing invoice, don’t have financial statement, and different quantities during stock opname. Objective of this research is to design and implement accounting information system at TB Alam Lestari. To achieve the objective, researcher made accounting information system with RAD method. The result of this research is the owner of TB Alam Lestari starts to record transaction digitally, save the invoice automatically, have product quantity reference when stock opname, and have financial statement.