bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Social media or online shopping websites: Will/How platforms influence eWOM effectiveness
Authors: Ni Yue , Cheng Qiqi
Published: October 2022

This article examines how the message topics of electronic word of mouth (eWOM) (feasibility vs. desirability) and platforms with different psychological distances contribute to the eWOM effect. Within the framework of construal level theory, we focus on the moderating role of the platforms (Social media vs. Online shopping websites) on the suggested eWOM message-Perceived credibility-Perceive diagnosticity-eWOM effect relationship. The results from 317 participants (M = 29.4, SD = 8.95, Range = [17, 70], 220 females) show that for social media eWOM readers, the effect of feasibility orientation eWOM is greater than desirability eWOM, and for online shopping websites eWOM readers, there is no difference between the two types of eWOM messages. The results support the moderating effect of platforms on the relationship. The effect of feasibility eWOM is greater for readers on social media than for readers on online shopping websites, and the effect of desirability eWOM is similar for online shopping websites and social media readers. The findings provide managerial implications for an eWOM marketing strategy and theoretical implications for studying the platforms effect, construal level theory, and Elaboration Likelihood Model of information adoption.
Konsep dasar dan rancang bangun ekonomi mikro islam
Authors: Azilla Hanum
Published: October 2022

Rancang bangun merupakan pondasi untuk menggapai suatu tujuan yang akan dicapai, begitu juga dengan konsep dasar yang menjadi acuan untuk melaksanakan suatu proses.
A single-nucleotide variant on chromosome 5, rs4302565, residing within TMEM174 is associated with the basal-like (triple negative) phenotype in human breast cancer, and black women display an allelic frequency imbalance at this site.
Authors: Mamoor Shahan
Published: October 2022

Patients diagnosed with basal-like breast cancer face a more aggressive disease course and more dismal prognosis than patients diagnosed with luminal A and luminal B breast cancer molecular subtypes (1-4). Black women are disproportionately diagnosed with basal subtype or triple negative breast cancer for reasons that are not yet understood (3, 4). We mined published microarray data (5, 6) to discover in an unbiased fashion the most distinguishing genetic and transcriptional features of tumors from patients with basal or basal-like subtype breast cancer and integrated this with DNA sequence information aggregated from across earth to identify sites that are blindly associated with the basal subtype and that harbor imbalance of allelic frequency based on race. We identified a single nucleotide polymorphism, rs4302565, residing within TMEM174 as among the most significant genetic differences in the tumors of patients with basal-like breast cancer. Allele frequency at this site was significantly different between black women and white women. Analysis of patient survival data revealed that TMEM174 primary tumor expression was correlated with overall survival in patients with basal-like and HER2+ breast cancer. Tumor expression of TMEM174 was correlated with overall survival both in black women and in white women. Sequence variation in the TMEM174 gene may be important in understanding differences in genetic background that favor development of basal subtype human breast cancer.
The study of life architecture as a discipline
Authors: jetchen
Published: October 2022

To sort out the historical lineage and main research status of life architecture; to compare the life architecture doctrines in the East and West, to clarify the disciplinary definition of life architecture and to specify the main contents of the discipline; to propose the life development index CLI; to determine the scientific data analysis method, to indicate the development direction and research direction of the discipline; to promote the prosperity of the life architecture industry.
Using the CeHReS roadmap to develop a sleep intervention for autistic students
Authors: Schouwenaars Ilona , Magnée Maurice , Geurts Hilde , van Bennekom Coen , Pillen Sigrid , Teunisse Jan-Pieter
Published: October 2022

Teachers at schools for special education observe that their autistic students experience sleep problems that negatively impact their daytime functioning. Although schools are willing to support their students in reducing sleep problems, the implementation of sleep interventions in schools seem to have been unsuccessful. We co-created a school-based sleep intervention. In this paper, we describe which lessons were learned from the school-partnered development of a school-based sleep intervention for autistic students. We will focus on the first three phases of the Centre for eHealth & Wellbeing Research (CeHReS) roadmap: contextual inquiry, value specification, and design. Each phase had specific goals and activities that led to iterative development with the active involvement of relevant stakeholders (future users and professionals). These stakeholders indicated that four factors, with corresponding operationalizations, were important to include in the sleep intervention: limited burden, sense of usefulness, clear guidance and structure, and support cues. The iterative approach with an emphasis on stakeholder participation enabled us to notice possible barriers to the application of the intervention during its development. We could then identify those barriers and apply lessons to adapt the sleep intervention during development, which will likely increase the successful implementation in schools.
What can evidence accumulation modelling tell us about human social cognition?
Authors: Parker Samantha , Ramsey Richard
Published: October 2022

Evidence accumulation models are a series of computational models that provide an accountfor speeded decision making. These models have been used extensively within the cognitive psychology literature to great success, allowing inferences to be drawn about the psychological processes that underlie cognition that are sometimes not available in a traditional analysis of accuracy or reaction time. Despite this, there have been few applications of these models within the domain of social cognition. In this paper we explore several ways in which the study of human social information processing would benefit from application of evidence accumulation modelling. We begin first with a brief overview of the evidence accumulation modelling framework and their past success within the domain of cognitive psychology. We then highlight five ways in which social cognitive research would benefit from an evidence accumulation approach. This includes 1) greater specification of assumptions; 2) unambiguous comparisons across blocked task conditions; 3) quantifying and comparing the magnitude of effects in standardised measures; 4) a novel approach for studying individual differences; and 5) improved reproducibility and accessibility. These points are illustrated using examples from the domain of social attention. Finally, we outline several methodological and practical considerations, which should help researchers use evidence accumulation models productively. Ultimately it will be seen that evidence accumulation modelling offers a well-developed, accessible and commonly understood framework that can reveal inferences about cognition that may otherwise be out of reach in a traditional analysis of accuracy and RT. This approach, therefore, has the potential to substantially revise our understanding of social cognition.
Reply to Barnes-Holmes & Harte (2022) “The IRAP as a Measure of Implicit Cognition: A Case of Frankenstein’s Monster”
Authors: Hussey Ian
Published: October 2022

Barnes-Holmes & Harte (2022) recently provided an account of the history of the development and use of the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP), and used this account as a springboard for suggestions for future research. Unfortunately, their core assertions are at odds with the published scientific record. This raises questions about the reliability of their recommendations. This reply uses the publications found by an existing systematic review of the published IRAP literature to show that, contrary to Barnes-Holmes & Harte’s (2022) account, (1) Barnes-Holmes repeatedly and explicitly stated that the IRAP is an implicit measure, and (2) Barnes- Holmes did not “lose control” of the task. Rather, he and his research group have produced the majority of all IRAP publications. The credibility of Barnes-Holmes & Harte’s (2022) suggestions regarding the future of the IRAP is undermined by their inaccurate account of its past. However, their analogy with Frankenstein’s monster still holds, albeit under an alternative and correct reading of Shelly’s novel as a cautionary tale about scientific recklessness.
Understanding the First-offer Conundrum: How Buyer Offers Impact Sale Price and Impasse Risk in 26 Million eBay Negotiations
Authors: Schweinsberg Martin , Petrowsky Hannes M. , Funk Burkhardt , Loschelder David D.
Published: October 2022

How high should the first offer be? Prior to any negotiation, decision-makers must balance the tradeoff between two opposing first-offer effects. On the one hand, more assertive first offers benefit negotiators by anchoring the negotiation in their favor. On the other hand, a first offer that is too assertive increases impasse risk. Past research has demonstrated either the first offer’s anchoring benefits (while largely ignoring the risk of impasse) or its impasse risk (while largely ignoring anchoring benefits). The literature also frequently builds on simulated laboratory or classroom scenarios and has yet to provide an empirical, applied answer to the question of how high the ideal first offer should be. We integrate these separate literature streams and establish, based on over 25 million incentivized real-world sales negotiations, (1) a linear anchoring effect of first offers on sale prices and (2) a nonlinear quartic effect on impasse prevalence. We further identify three magnitude zones with distinct first-offer effects, identify specific points with particularly low impasse risks and high anchoring benefits, empirically examine the opening-offer midpoint bias—the assumption that buyer and seller eventually meet in the middle of their opening offers—and establish moderation by price certainty and product demand (the impasse risk decreases, the more uncertain a product’s objective value is and the fewer potential buyers are interested). Finally, we apply machine learning analyses to predict agreements and impasses and present a website that provides first-offer advice configurable to negotiators’ particular product, list price, and risk preferences.
VOL. 8 NÚM. 1 (2015): INVESTIGACION Y DESARROLLO
Authors: Andrade Naranjo Adela Alexandra , Salazar Ing. Pablo
Published: October 2022

Revista SemestralINVESTIGACIÓN Y DESARROLLOJunio 2015Volumen 8, Número 1ISSN: 1390-5546

Publicado: 2020-04-13
Bronchoscopy findings in 1074 lung cancer patients in a tertiary care center in Nepal
Authors: Shrestha Shashank , Thakur Binay , Devkota Mukti , Bhandari Nikesh , Kharel Ashish , Thapa Asha
Published: October 2022

Background: Fiberoptic bronchoscopy is the most important diagnostic tool for lung cancer. Early tissue diagnosis and proper staging remains the key to the management of the lung cancer patient. Endobronchial forceps biopsy has high diagnostic yield from the visible lesions. The aim of the study was to evaluate diagnostic yield of endobronchial biopsy.
Methods: A retrospective cross-sectional study was conducted at B.P. Koirala Memorial Cancer Hospital, Bharatpur, Nepal. Bronchoscopy reports of 1074 patients from January 2000 to December 2009 were included. Endobronchial biopsy was the main procedure performed.
Results: A total of 1074 patients underwent bronchoscopy for suspected lung cancer. Majority of the patients (N=340) had lesion in lobar bronchus. Squamous cell carcinoma was the most common histological diagnosis. The diagnostic yield of endobronchial biopsy was 75%. The diagnostic yield for central tumor was 82.3% which was statistically significant (p<0.001) compared to peripheral tumor and extrinsic compression.
Conclusion: Endobronchial biopsy provides good diagnostic yield especially in central tumors. Fiberoptic bronchoscopy is a safe procedure.
Perencanaan Strategis Sistem Informasi Dan Teknologi Informasi Dengan Pendekatan Model: Enterprice Architecture, Ward And Peppard
Authors: Lawu Suparman Hi , Ali Hapzi
Published: October 2022

Riset terdahulu atau riset yang relevan sangat penting dalam suatu riset atau artikel ilmiah. Riset terdahulu berfungsi untuk memperkuat teori dan fenomena hubungan atau pengaruh antar masing-masing variabel sehingga masing-masing artikel memiliki nilai tambah terhadap hasil kesimpulan masing-masing peneliti. Artikel ini mereview faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhi perencanaan strategis sistem informasi dengan Pendekatan model: ward, peppard, dan architecture delivery, suatu kajian studi literature review executive support sistem for business. Metode penulisan artikel ilmiah ini adalah dengan metode kualitatif dan studi literature. Hasil dari library risearch ini adalah: 1) Pendekatan dengan model Enterprice Architecture berpengaruh terhadap Perencanaan Strategis Sistem Informasi; 2) Pendekatan dengan model Enterprice Architecture berpengaruh terhadap Teknologi Informasi; 3) Pendekatan dengan model Ward and Peppard berpengaruh terhadap Perencanaan Strategis Sistem Informasi; dan Pendekatan dengan model Ward berpengaruh terhadap Teknologi Informasi. Sehingga dapat disimpulkan bahwa dengan pendekatan Model Enterprice Architecture dan Ward and Peppard dapat berpengaruh terhadap perencanaan strategis sistem informasi dan teknologi informasi.
Functional networks for ergonomics and reliability tasks on the 90th anniversary of A. Gubinsky and V. Evgrafov
Authors: Lavrov Evgeniy A. , Siryk Olga E.
Published: October 2022

The paper considers the tasks of discovering ergonomic reserves for increasing the reliability and efficiency of automated systems. The authors show the necessity of using the Activity Approach and the Theory of Functional Networks, developed by the scientific school of Professor Anatoly Ilyich Gubinsky. The authors describe the history of Functional Networks approach and the current state of development of the functional networks models and show the possibilities for automating the assessment of reliability of human-machine interactions. The research describes the common ergonomics issues and its effective solution by the introduction of automated procedures for the analysis and evaluation of functional networks. The authors further present the ways of using the developed models in decision support systems in the automated systems design and operation.
Boškovićev kozmološki argument
Authors: Čuljak Zvonimir
Published: October 2022

U raspravi O duši i Bogu Ruđer Bošković iznio je specifičan kozmološki argument za Božje postojanje u formi zaključka iz niza determinirajućih uvjeta. Iako se tradicionalni kozmološki argument kao argument iz kontingentnosti svijeta na postojanje nužnoga bića obično tumači kao argument a posteriori, pokazuje se da je taj tip argumenta, osobito u Boškovićevoj formulaciji, u relevantnom smislu argument a priori. Apriornost Boškovićeva argumenta proizlazi iz načela uzročnosti i determinizma kao njegovih pretpostavaka a priori te iz njegova pojma svijeta kao apstraktnoga entiteta.
The Culture of Communion in Truth in the Thought of Edith Stein
Authors: Pinezić Mirjana
Published: October 2022

This article deals with the reflections of philosopher, mystic and martyr, Edith Stein, on the relationship of culture and the community which produces it through gifted individuals. Her life and her theoretical deliberations on culture provide a strong contribution to a more complete understanding of true culture. From her writings we can conclude that she sees true culture as being subject to continual development due to the need for open–mindedness toward the diversity of individuals and communities. She also elaborates on the importance of culture’s contribution to building the human community in general. Edith Stein deems that culture is not appropriated only through the spontaneous absorption of values imprinted into the various cultural objects and customs of the people in a specific community, but likewise through education for communion whereby a sensitivity to community values is fostered, the spirit of which is expressed in that particular culture. Each community which nurtures higher spiritual values and creates true communion among the people produces a culture which carries within it the deeper values of that community and transmits them to other people as well as other communities. Each individual who, through cultural and artistic expression, contributes to the creation of culture needs to be sensitive to the spirit of the community to which he or she belongs.
Ab imo pectore
Authors: Sobol Walentyna
Published: October 2022

The purpose of the article is to analyze a unique fragment of the manuscript of the hetman’s Pylyp Orlylk’s „Diary” („Diariusz”) from May-June 1730. The methodological basis is the understanding of handwritten notes in terms of combining matters of public importance and private life. The dominance of private discourse in the fragment analyzed here is obvious. In the tenth year of his exile in Thessaloniki, when Hetman Pylyp Orlyk actually lost hope of escaping from „mourning Babylon”, the eldest son came to the father incognito under a disguised name. The hetman’s diary entries about his last meeting with his son in Thessaloniki are extremely sincere and touching. These notes represent picturesque figures of people whom fate brought to distant Thessaloniki. Not only father and son, but the whole environment – multi-ethnic, multifunctional, multi-religious, multilingual, but still able to understand the threat of pandemic and war. In general, the „Diary” of 1720–1732 pp. – which is one of the largest in the history of world literature – is the dominant motive is „discourses”: conversations, games, discussions, including theological and philosophical. The arrival of his son inspires a powerful anthropology of memory. The conversations refresh those experiences that are related to everything that happened before and after the Poltava battle. And it was this defeat that shocked the whole being of the hetman. According to Vladislav Tatarkevich, none of the other events gives as much suffering as wars, including lost ones. The hetman noted in detail the meetings and conversations with his son. They convincingly testify that his young diplomat is a new type of figure, a strategist of the European type. Hryhor (Grégoire) Orlyk is the successor of the project by the hetmans Petro Doroshenko and Ivan Mazepa, seeks to rely on France, which during the 18th century – which was almost the only great power in Christendom – opposed Moscow’s expansion in Europe.
Fractal Dimension as an Indicator of Thermal Spray Coating Roughness
Authors: Guessasma S. , Montavon G. , Coddet C. , Mancini C. , Berndt C.C.
Published: October 2022

The chemical and physical properties of thermally sprayed coatings depend in part on surface characteristics, such as texture and roughness, that can be difficult to quantify. This paper demonstrates the use of fractal analysis for quantifying surface roughness based on images obtained from cross-sectioned samples. An isolated profile of an Al2O3-TiO2 coating on an aluminum substrate is used as the test case. The first part of the paper covers the basic concept and the procedures used. The second part presents practical examples and precautions that must be observed to obtain accurate and reproducible results. Paper includes a German-language abstract.
Analysis of the state and potential of technological development of small agribusiness in the Volgograd region
Authors:   Volgograd State Agrarian University, Volgograd, Russia, Vinogradova Natalia A.
Published: October 2022

The article examines the state and development trends of small agribusiness at the regional level. The production niches and specialization of agricultural producers are generalized. The parameters of resource availability and technological effectiveness of the functioning of small business entities, as well as the conditions and possibilities of financing the modernization of the material and technical base of small agribusiness are characterized. The relevance and potential of the introduction of new technologies are substantiated. Based on the criteria of the effectiveness of the functioning of agrarians, reproductive opportunities for the development of individual entrepreneurs and peasant (farmer) farms are identified.
Adaptation of rural territories in the process of socio-economic development of the Tambov Region
Authors:   Russian New University, Truba Anatoly S. , Volkova Anna A. ,   Russian New University, Kuzicheva Natalia Yu. ,   Michurinsk State Agrarian University
Published: October 2022

The article presents an assessment of the level of adaptation to environmental conditions of all major groups of representatives of the economic space of rural territories (municipal self-government, population, agribusiness), which showed the uneven socio-economic development of municipal districts of the Tambov region, the priority of the choice of high-intensity agricultural production technologies by agribusiness. Proposals are given to increase the profitability of rural areas as the main direction of growth of the adaptive potential of all participants in this economic space.
Living on a Time Bomb: Local Negotiations of Oil Extraction in a Mexican Community
Authors: Schöneich Svenja
Published: October 2022

Providing a holistic understanding of extensive oil extraction in rural Mexico, this book focuses on a campesino community, where oil extraction is deeply inscribed into the daily lives of the community members. The book shows how oil shapes the space where it is extracted in every aspect and produces multiple uncertainties. The community members express these uncertainties using the metaphor of the time bomb. The book shows how they find ways to "live off the time bomb" by using mechanisms of short-term coping and long-term adaptation and thus, developing the capability to determine their lives despite the ever-changing challenges.
Ömie Sex Affiliation: A Papuan Nature
Authors: Rohatynskyj Marta
Published: October 2022

The practice of affiliating the female child with the mother and the male child with the father was considered a rare and inexplicable practice in Papua New Guinean ethnography at the time the original data was collected some forty years ago. Marta Rohatynskyj undertakes a shift in her analytical concepts of kinship studies to reveal the deep-seated disjuncture between female and male that this practice represents. The author argues that this practice is associated with a totemic/animistic ontology and has currency in a particular type of Melanesian society.
Protest and the Democratic Order
Authors: Gobbi Danniel , Gorriahn Laura , Staemmler Daniel , Volk Christian
Published: October 2022

The introduction of this special issue elaborates a research perspective on the meaning and function of political protest in the context of democratic orders. Starting from the consideration that protest and democratic orders form a close interrelationship, we ask how and to what extent democracy is imagined, negotiated, and problematized within protest, and how democratic orders and politics shape the formation of protest. To this end, we argue for a combination of Democratic Theory and Social Movement Studies. Interweaving these two traditions allows for empirically saturated and theoretically sound interpretations of recent episodes of contention. With this research perspective, we not only gain a deeper understanding of protest dynamics, but also of contemporary social and political transformations within modern democratic societies.
Reform, Transformation, Emancipation
Authors: Volk Christian
Published: October 2022

This article outlines a theoretical framework for interpreting the meaning and function of political protest in modern democracies and develops normative criteria for assessing its democratic quality. To allow for a better understanding of how social structures, legal institutions, and political engagement interact in protest, I combine analytical perspectives from social theory and democratic theory. A useful first distinction, I argue, is between reformist and transformative forms of protest. While reformist protest does not challenge the given framework of the modern democratic order, transformative protest politicizes the basic principles of that order. Finally, I develop four criteria to identify emancipatory traits within protest movements: 1) expanding the circle of those who benefit from the fulfillment of democracy’s promises; 2) the establishment of discursive democratic spaces; 3) a balance between dramatization and exchange; and 4) a willingness to become someone else.
The Duties to Protest and to Listen to Protest
Authors: Medina José
Published: October 2022

This article argues that the duties to protest and to listen to protest are central democratic obligations required for active citizenship. Section 1 sketches protest as communicative resistance. Section 2 argues that we always have a duty to listen to felicitous protests against injustice and that, under conditions of social uprising, we also have a duty to protest. Section 3 defends a view of protest participation that takes into account subjects’ positionality with respect to the injustice being protested, arguing for the special prerogatives of victims and the duties to defer and yield of non-victims within protest movements. Finally, Section 4 elucidates the notion of giving proper uptake to protest and what I call echoing a protest, that is, expressing communicative solidarity with that protest.
STRATEGI SURVIVAL DAN DETERMINAN PENDAPATAN UMKM DI AREA MAKAM BUNG KARNO DALAM ERA PANDEMI COVID-19
Authors: Zainuri  , Nugraha Elbi , Saleh Moh. , Fathorrazi M.
Published: October 2022

This study aims to analyze the determinants of MSME income and formulate a survival strategy in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic. This research was conducted in the Bung Karno Tomb area, Blitar City, East java. This study uses primary data activities. The use of multiple linear regression aims to see the effect of capital, education and working hours on the income of the MSMEs. This study found that capital,education, and working hours had a positive and significant effet on income during the era of COVID-19. The strategy taken to survive during this COVID-19 was by changing employee entry schedules, cutting salaries, reducing types of merchandise that quickly expired and switching  profession to handicrafts, t-shirts, batik and use social media such as Shopee and Facebook to boost their sales.
PERAN PERIKLANAN MEDIA CETAK, DIGITAL MARKETING, DAN KELOMPOK REFERENSI TERHADAP KEPUTUSAN MAHASISWA MEMILIH PERGURUAN TINGGI
Authors: Khairani Zulia , Kamilah Faizah , Soviyanti Efrita
Published: October 2022

This study was conducted to determine and analyze the influence of print media advertising, digital marketing, and reference groups on student decisions to choose colleges. This study conducted a survey on new students at the Lancang Kuning University. The population in this study were 2001 freshmen from the Lancang Kuning university undergraduate program. The sample in this study was 100 students with quota sampling method and then analyzed the data obtained using quantitative and qualitative data analysis. Quantitative analysis includes: validity and reliability test, classical assumption test, multiple regression analysis, hypothesis testing through t test, and analysis of the coefficient of determination (R2). Qualitative analysis is an interpretation of the data obtained in the study and the results of data processing that has been carried out by providing information and explanations. Print media advertising, digital marketing, and reference groups partially and simultaneously have a positive and significant effect on the decision to enroll in college
Method for Calculating the Radius of an Electromagnetic Availability Zone based on a Surface Wave Source with a Given Spectrum Density of an Isotropically Emitted Signal
Authors: Popov O. , Tumashov A. , Borisov G. , Korovin K.
Published: October 2022

Thematic justification. When planning HF radio communication using surface waves, it is necessary to determine the signal-to-noise ratio at the inputs of each radio link receiver. Given a sufficiently high ratio, a conclusion can be drawn concerning the effective functionality of the analyzed radio link in a radio communication system. The planning process will be significantly simplified if the radius of the electromagnetic availability zone (REAZ) can be defined for surface waves at each radio station. Thus, the task of developing a methodology for engineering calculation of REAZ is relevant and practically important.

Goal. To develop an estimating technique for engineering calculations of a REAZ based on a surface wave source with a given isotropically emitted signal spectrum density.

Results. A technique for calculation of the radius of the electromagnetic accessibility zone was developed. A general approach for determining the limiting length of radio links of surface waves is proposed, based on the introduced "technical factor of a radio link" concept.

Practical implications. Nomograms for determining the radius of an electromagnetic accessibility zone were constructed. The dependence of the maximum temperature of external noise on frequency in the HF range can be approximated using an analytical expression. The developed frequency dependence of the temperature coefficient of the input of an ShT4N81 antenna is presented in a graphical form. The feasibility of using the proposed technique for solving practical problems is demonstrated on the example of calculating the radius of the electromagnetic accessibility zone of a TTR-2101M radio station for a monopulse direction finder with a ring antenna array consisting of eight elements of the ShT4N81 type.
Simulation Model of 5G NR Network Positioning Technology with Meter Accuracy. Part 2. PRS Signals Processing
Authors: Fokin G.
Published: October 2022

The second part of the study on 5G NR network positioning technology with meter accuracy modeling is devoted to the procedures for range-difference measurements processing based on configured PRS positioning reference signals with the resulting estimate of the user equipment coordinates based on observed time difference of arrival (OTDOA) of the signals. The software implementation of the procedures for PRS signals primary and secondary processing in the simulation model uses the built-in functions of the 5G Toolbox extension package of the special MATLAB software. The assessment of the positioning accuracy of user devices in 5G NR networks using simulation modeling in the FR1 range shows that the accuracy of coordinate estimates of less than one meter is achieved when increasing the bandwidth from 50 to 60 MHz with the maximum positioning accuracy in the FR2 band in a channel having a bandwidth of 400 MHz and a sampling rate of 491.52 MHz was 0.2 m.
Contextualisation of Library Usage during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond
Authors: Mahwasane N. P.
Published: October 2022

This literature review paper reviews the appropriate usage of libraries during the COVID-19 pandemic to discuss various viewpoints of the library for the improvement of its service rendered to its users while on the other hand considering the safety of librarians and users. The objective of this paper is to provide a basic understanding of library usage during the lockdown as a result of COVID-19. This paper aims to introduce some early considerations, discussions and to put forward the author’s personal critical positioning on the issues, challenges and potential benefits emerging during the COVID-19 pandemic era for libraries and to underline areas of importance for the usage and direction of the library. The purpose of this review is to provide inspiration for the new ways of library usage for the development of library service provision. The research method utilised to collect data concerning the library usage during and after the COVID-19 pandemic was a literature review. Data was collected from survey reports, journal articles about the topic and books. Main findings and recommendations of this conceptual paper are also based on a literature review.
Indigenising Informal Financial Mechanism (IFM) of Rural Women in the Northern Region of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa
Authors: Vincent Mthembu Andile , Kolanisi Unathi , Delight Qumbisa Nothando , Prudence Kheswa Thembekile
Published: October 2022

There is little documentation of umholiswano from local people’s perspective, as local knowledge has evolved with time. A phenomenology research design outlined the attributes and their meaningful value as perceived by local communities. 65 participants participated in a series of focus group discussions and complemented six key informant interviews. Umholiswano (stokvel) is an indigenous concept that has been part of the life of many indigenous communities before the money era. It was used as a mechanism to achieve social justice, establish peace and create socio-economic balance toward improved well-being. In this study, umholiswano is a household financial planning and management tool, saving/investment system, a social-cohesion-nurturing and therapeutic mechanism founded on six core value principles (6CVPs), such as ubuntu, trust, solidarity, dignity preservation of social wealth and ukudlala (fun). Most key players are women, and umholiswano is regarded as the 21st livestock for women. The majority are in the economically active age group but lack the skills to enter the formal economy. They rely on social grants and entrepreneurship activities. Umholiswano is undervalued as an economic strategy, nevertheless, its significant contribution to the quality of life of rural women is observable. But, there is an existing gap for a quantifiable tool to assess the umholiswano’s contribution, as the measurability should start by identifying indicators designed “with people and for the people” and the above six core value principles identified in the study could be set as a guiding framework towards indicators development.
Women’s Contribution to Indigenous Knowledge Food Security in the Lokaleng village, North West Province, South Africa
Authors: Ekobi Gabriel , Mboh Lovelyne , Tanga Pius
Published: October 2022

There is an increasing trend of directing food security policies toward empowering women, because, studies have found that indigenous knowledge among women plays a significant role in reducing poverty and food insecurity in their rural households. Although South Africa is considered food secure, many households still suffer from food insecurity. This study intends to investigate women’s contribution to indigenous knowledge of food security. This study employs a qualitative approach and exploratory research design to solve the research objective. Thirty participants took part in the study and data was collected using semi-structured and unstructured interviews. Data analysis was thematic and themes identified were: indigenous knowledge technologies, indigenous food types and contribution to food security. The study found that most women used indigenous technologies, such as animal traction, plough-pull by donkey, kraal manure and cow dung to improve food security. Women also used paraffin, wild onion and “sunlight” bar soap mixture solution to control pests. However, indigenous knowledge of food security might disappear because young people (women) in the community have no interest in indigenous knowledge due to modernisation. Workshops and seminars could be organised to train, empower and educate women on indigenous knowledge and food security. Previous Article
Gender in Civil Engineering Education: A Case Study of the University of Ibadan, Nigeria and Institut d’Enseignement Superieur de Ruhengeri, Rwanda
Authors: O. Akintayo Folake , Nyirajana Jacqueline , Okunlola Olatunde , B. Baruwa Ikeoluwapo
Published: October 2022

Engineering and technology are basic in any country’s development. Addressing the gender gap in civil engineering education will help to narrow the gender pay gap, enhance women’s economic security and ensure a diverse and talented STEM workforce. This paper focuses on gender disparity in civil engineering education at Institut d’Enseignement Superieur de Ruhengeri (INES), Rwanda, and the University of Ibadan (UI), Nigeria. Data were sourced from the graduating records of the Departments of Civil Engineering, INES Ruhengeri, Rwanda, and the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, covering a period of 5 years (2016 - 2021). Data were analysed using excel tools. The Department of Civil Engineering, University of Ibadan, recorded a slight increase in the number of female graduating students from 5 in the 2015/16 session to 6 in the 2020/21 session, representing a 20% increment and a slight reduction in the number of male graduating students in the department from 37 in the 2016/17 session to 28 in the 2020/21 session representing a 32% reduction. At INES, Ruhengeri, the number of male graduating students in the Department of Civil Engineering increased from 46 in the 2016/17 session to 145 in 2020/21, showing a 215% increment, and the number of female students increased from 18 in 2016/17 to 23 in 2020/21 showing an increment of 28%. The overall percentage of females in civil engineering education is below 20% compared to over 80% of males in the two institutions. Although the number of male graduating students decreases as the year progresses, the increase in female graduating students is not significant. Hence the gender gap seems to remain with year progression. The study proposes an improvement in motivating female students by providing scholarships, including pedagogical motivation in science courses
The History of Gender Inequality: Analysis of Gender Inequality as a Colonial Legacy in Africa
Authors: Xolile Ntshangase Mohammed , Joel Matabane Tlhakodisho
Published: October 2022

The colonial legacy of African underdevelopment is widely debated but hardly written. Boserup’s theory advances the argument that African system of government prior to the colonial one had a deeply encultured notion of gender inequality. However, this work is set forth to argue that colonization was a radical disruption that brought serious imbalances that include gender inequality. Within the process of colonization, gender inequality helped as one of the tools to advance Africa’s underdevelopment. Against Boserup’s view, this paper will investigate the hypothesis that African gender inequality and female disempowerment are rooted in the colonial epoch. It is argued that the arrival of Europeans in Uganda ignited a century-long transformation of Kampala including a gender Kuznets curve. Boserup’s theory relates that as men rapidly acquired literacy and quickly found their way into white-collar employment in the economic system built by Europeans, women took longer to obtain literacy and enter decent jobs. Among other factors, this is one of those that gravely created a noticeable gap which aided gender inequality between the African men and women. Different works by African scholars will be consulted in attempt to clarify the argument that Boserup’s theory provides the incorrect view about African normative culture. Boserup argues that after Uganda’s independence in 1962 another wave of inequality took place as some women got educated and got decent jobs while some continued operating within the informal traditional economic system. In her writings, Boserup seems skewed towards the argument that African traditional system always had gender inequality embedded in it, but she does not care much to elaborate the background framework that makes her have that view. It seems somewhat indefensible to argue that brutal elements of the society like gender inequality are rooted within the traditional norms because that may create a situation whereby the underdeveloped gender, due to love of their tradition, do not make effort to better themselves. It is for that reason that this paper adopts analytic theoretical framework to critically analyse Boserup’s theoretical view that gender inequality was rooted in the indigenous African norms.
WITHDRAWN
Authors: Doe Jane
Published: October 2022

The document associated with this DOI has been withdrawn.
Radiologic Evaluation of the Anterior and Posterior Ethmoidal Foramen and Optic Canal by Paranasal Sinus Computed Tomography Scan among Adult Filipinos
Authors: Palacios Maria Katerina , Amable Jay Pee , Capio Kea
Published: October 2022

ABSTRACT

Objective: To measure the average distances from anterior lacrimal crest (ALC) to anterior ethmoidal foramen (AEF), anterior ethmoidal foramen to posterior ethmoidal foramen (PEF) and posterior ethmoidal foramen to optic canal (OC) using plain paranasal sinus (PNS) computed tomography (CT) scans of adults in a tertiary private hospital in the Philippines.
Methods:
            Design: Retrospective review of plain PNS CT scans
            Setting: Tertiary Private Teaching Hospital
           Participants: One hundred four (104) plain PNS CT scans from January 2018 to December 2020 were considered for inclusion.
Results: Of the 104 PNS CT scans, 35 were excluded - seven for age less than eighteen, six for undistinguishable PEF and twenty-two for chronic rhinosinusitis. The remaining 69 PNS CT scans demonstrated identifiable structures, with overall average distances from ALC to AEF of 23.71 ± 2.43 mm, AEF to PEF of 10.87 ± 2.39 mm and PEF to OC of 7.39 ± 2.28 mm.
Conclusion: Our study suggests average distances for localization of vital structures such as the anterior ethmoidal artery, posterior ethmoidal artery and optic nerve among Filipinos. Because of considerable variation between and within sexes, individual measurements should still be obtained for each patient in performing endonasal, skull base and orbital surgery.
Keabsahan Dokumen Fisik Sertipikat Hak Atas Tanah Terhadap Peran Pejabat Pembuat Akta Tanah (PPAT) Dalam Pengecekan Sertipikat Hak Atas Tanah pada Layanan Berbasis Online
Authors: Ramadani Surti , Hikmah Mutiara
Published: October 2022

Berlakunya Peraturan Menteri Agraria dan Tata Ruang/Kepala BPN RI Nomor 5 Tahun 2017 untuk pelayanan pengecekan sertipikat tanah pada Kantor Badan Pertanahan Nasional dilakukan dengan sistem elektronik yang terintegrasi secara online. Hasil pengecekan sertipikat tanah secara online berupa dokumen yang ditandatangani digital menggunakan sertipikat elektronik BsrE dan kode QR. Berbeda dengan hasil pengecekan sebelum online yang fisik sertipikatnya mendapatkan cap serta diberi tanggal oleh Kantor Badan Pertanahan, dengan demikian rumusan masalah yang dibahas yakni bagaimanakah keabsahan dokumen fisik sertipikat tanah yang diterima PPAT dan peran PPAT melakukan pengecekan sertipikat tanah secara online. Penelitian ini memakai metode kepustakaan bersifat yuridis normatif dan menganalisa isu hukum mengenai segala sesuatu yang berhubungan dengan objek penelitian dari bahan pustaka serta hukum positif. Hasil penelitian menunjukan alasan yuridis bahwa PPAT tidak berwenang menguji dan tidak bertanggung jawab terhadap syarat materil keabsahan dokumen fisik sertipikat tanah sepanjang PPAT melakukan tugas jabatannya sesuai kode etik dan peraturan Perundang-undangan yang berlaku.
Effects of US interest rate shocks in the emerging market economies: Evidence from panel structural VAR
Authors: Sikhwal Shweta
Published: October 2022

We examine, using a monthly dataset from 2007 to 2020, the US interest rate shocks’ effects on exchange rates, broad money aggregates, and foreign exchange reserves in emerging market economies (EMEs) post global financial crisis. To evaluate the impact of unconventional monetary policy initiatives, we employ Wu-Xia’s shadow interest rates. There are two parts to the methodology. The first part focuses on the identification of the unanticipated US interest rate shock in a SVAR model. In the second part, we incorporate the US interest rate shock into the panel structural VAR to analyze its impact on 29 countries from various regions. A positive shock to US interest rates depreciates the exchange rate of EMEs against the US dollar. According to our findings, it results in a decline in the broad money aggregate and foreign exchange reserves. The findings are consistent across multiple EME regions.
PEMBELAJARAN SENTRA IMTAQ BERBASIS MEDIA AUDIOVISUAL PADA MASA PADEMI DALAM MENGEMBANGKAN KEMAMPUAN KOGNITIF ANAK
Authors: Sri Rahayu Herni
Published: October 2022

Audiovisual media is one way to keep learning activities going during the current pandemic. We know that currently not only Indonesia but even the whole world is being affected by the corona virus (covid-19), therefore the government recommends that the process of learning activities be carried out online or distance learning to make it easier for teachers to continue to provide learning to children so that learning objectives can be achieved. still well conveyed, the purpose of conducting imtaq center learning activities based on audiovisual media during the pandemic is to develop the cognitive abilities of children aged 4-5 years at TKIT Insan Cendekia Mathla'ul Anwar to find out (1) what preparations are made by teachers in learning centers audiovisual media-based imtaq during the pandemic in developing cognitive abilities of children aged 4-5 years?, (2) How is the audiovisual media-based imtaq learning center during the pandemic in developing cognitive abilities of children aged 4-5 years?, (3) What are the characteristics of development cognitive of children aged 4-5 years?, (4) What are the supporting and inhibiting factors experienced by teachers in learning audiovisual media-based Imtaq centers during the pandemic in developing the cognitive development of children aged 4-5 years at TKIT Insan Cendekia Mathla;ul Anwar?. This study uses a qualitative approach with a qualitative descriptive method. The results of research conducted by researchers show that learning at the IMTAQ center using audiovisual media is considered very efficient in the midst of a pandemic like today in addition to minimizing the spread of Covid-19 and so that learning objectives can still be carried out properly
PERKEMBANGAN SOSIAL EMOSIONAL ANAK PRA SEKOLAH DENGAN INSTRUMEN KUESIONER MASALAH MENTAL EMOSIONAL
Authors: Emsya Salsabela  , Siti Khumaeroh  , Rr Deni Widjayatri
Published: October 2022

The period of social emotional development of pre-school children needs to be monitored as early as possible with the emotional mental problem questionnaire (KMME) instrument tool useful for early detection in emotional deviations that can be carried out on children aged 36-72 months, namely the pre-school period. The purpose of this study to provide knowledge about the social-emotional development aged 36-72 months of pre-school children. This research activity was carried out at KB Ar-Raudho Serang using descriptive qualitative methods with interview techniques using the KMME instrument. Doing this KMME is useful for parents to know the social emotional development of children by knowing if the child has or does not have emotional problems. The results of the survey, was found from the number of informants 15 children in KB Ar-Raudho Serang there were 6 children who had good emotional abilities, 2 children had an answer of 1 "Yes" and for 8 other children according to the KMME instrument if more than 2 " YES”, it is possible that the child has mental problems, and the educator can only do KMME and direct parents to check their children to mental health facilities or child development, without diagnosing mental problems the child has.