bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
English education in Turkey: Why are we ‘very low level’?
Authors: TUZCU EKEN Derya
Published: June 2021

In the education policy of countries, FL education has never played such an important role as it has recently done. Most of the countries decreased FL learning age to the early years of education with a wide array of reasons ranging from the increasing interactions among nations to finding a prosperous occupation. Whatever the reason, every stakeholder expects the results of FL education to be satisfying. However, though some countries achieve better results, some others still fail to succeed as in Turkey. In Turkey, even at tertiary education most of the students are not so good at English which is also officially registered by some tests. Therefore, the current study aimed to scrutinize primary and secondary level English education in Turkey, to compare it to the countries that are among the most successful in learning FLs and in this respect to make suggestions for the improvement of FL education in Turkey. This qualitative study hinged on document analysis of relevant research and texts. As a result, it was found that on paper there are not so many differences among countries. However, having a centralized curriculum in all levels of education, problems in teacher education and training, and incompatibility of FL assessment practices to international tests and to the aims of language teaching are the issues that come into prominence in Turkish FL education and they require immediate action.
PLC ve SCADA Kullanılarak Bir Orcik Üretim Sisteminin Otomasyonu
Authors: ÜSTÜNDAĞ Aybike , GENCER Çetin
Published: June 2021

Orcik, Elazığ yöresinde üzümden ya da duttan elde edilen şıranın un ve özel bir toprakla bulamaç haline getirilip ceviz dizili ipin bu bulamaca istenilen kalınlığa göre bir veya daha fazla kez batırılıp güneşte kurutulmasıyla elde edilen yöresel bir üründür. Bu çalışmada, Türkiye'de tüketiminin yanısıra Avrupa ülkelerine de ihraç edilen orciğin fabrika otomasyon sistemi ile üretimine yönelik bir benzetimi yapılmıştır. Doğal klasik yöntemlerle üretilen orciğin her bir üretim aşaması ele alınarak Programlanabilir Mantıksal Denetleyici (PLC) otomasyon sistemi ile tasarımı yapılmış ve SCADA üzerinde benzetimi gerçekleştirilmiştir. Tasarlanan sistemle, orcik üretiminin klasik yöntem yerine PLC tabanlı otomasyon sistemine geçişi amaçlanmıştır.
Elektrikli makineler, hızla büyüyen otomasyon hızının bir sonucu olarak sektörün bir parçası haline gelmiştir. Geleneksel endüstriyel işlemler makinelerin manuel çalıştırılmasıyla olur ve bu işlemler manuel müdahaleye bağlıdır. Bu süreç zaman alıcı ve pahalıdır. Endüstrilerdeki yönlendirme görevlerinin otomatikleştirilmesi verimliliği arttırır. Minimal insan müdahalesiyle PLC gibi otomasyon araçları kullanılarak tekrarlayan sürecin otomasyonu, geliştirilmiş verim, azaltılmış işletme maliyetleri, geliştirilmiş üretim hacimleri, daha iyi kalite kontrol ve endüstriyel güvenlik sağlanır
L1-Norm DVM ve Ki-Kare Tabanlı Öznitelik Seçme Algoritmaları ile Parkinson Hastalığının Konuşma Sinyalleri Üzerinden Saptanması
Authors: DEMİR Fatih
Published: June 2021

Parkinson hastalığı, genel nöro-dejeneratif bozukluklardan biridir. Konuşma / ses bozukluğu Parkinson hastalığının erken dönemdeki semptomlarından biri olarak kabul edilir. Ses sinyallerini işleme yöntemleri, Parkinson hastalığı ile ilgili ses bozukluğunu potansiyel olarak değerlendirebilir ve ölçebilir. Bu çalışmada, Parkinson hastalığını konuşma sinyallerinden teşhis etmek için etkili bir makine öğrenmesi tekniği önerilmiştir. Önerilen yöntemde, sağlıklı kişilerin ve Parkinson hastalarının konuşma sinyallerinden çıkarılan öznitelikleri içeren bir veri seti kullanılmıştır. L1-Norm Destek Vektör Makinesi ve Ki-Kare Tabanlı öznitelik seçme algoritmaları kullanılarak veri setinde bulunan ayırt ediciliği yüksek öznitelikler seçilmiştir. İki yöntemden elde edilen öznitelik setleri birleştirilerek sınıflandırma aşamasında kullanılmıştır. Sınıflandırma aşamasında Destek Vektör Makinesi, K-En Yakın Komşu ve Rasgele Alt Uzay K-En Yakın Komşu Toplulukları sınıflandırıcılarının tahmin sonuçlarının kullanıldığı Çoğunluk Oylaması yöntemi ile önerilen yöntemin başarımı artırılmıştır. Önerilen yöntem %95.11 doğruluk ile aynı veri setini kullanan geçmiş çalışmalara göre daha iyi bir performans sağlamıştır. Önerilen yöntem ile Parkinson hastalığı otomatik olarak teşhis edileceğinden bu uygulama hekimlere karar verme süresinde yardımcı bir araç olarak kullanılabilir.
Pemberdayaan Kelompok PKK Desa Ilomata melalui Wirausaha Keripik Pisang Aneka Rasa
Authors: Handayani Tri , Olii Nurhayati , Pelangi Kartika Chandra
Published: June 2021

Ilomata Village is one of the villages in Gorontalo District which has the potential of banana farming commodities, but it has not been utilized optimally. The aim of this community service activity are empowering the Ilomata Village PKK group through training activities for making various flavors of banana chips, simple bookkeeping training and product marketing training. The method applied is training and mentoring, whose activities include 1) Training in making various flavored banana chips; 2) Simple bookkeeping training; 3) Product marketing training; and 4) Mentoring in determining the name of the product, making packaging labels, and handling PIRT distribution permit. The results of the activity showed that the PKK group members understood and had skills in making banana chips with various flavors, doing simple bookkeeping and marketing the product. The availability of a banana chip product named banana chips I-Bas (Ilomata-Banana chips) with No. distribution license for PIRT 214750201001324 and has been marketed both offline and online. Thus, the empowerment of the PKK groups through banana chips entrepreneurship can increase the utilization of the potential of the banana commodity in line with the increased understanding and skill of PKK group members in making and marketing various flavored banana chips products.
Evaluation of DAT positive AIHA cases by elution study at a tertiary care centre in South India
Authors: Kavitha G  , Latha B  , Swathandran Hamsavardhini
Published: June 2021

The Direct Antiglobulin Test [DAT] is widely used in Immunohematological laboratory test because it is simple, quick and inexpensive test. It is performed when the presence of haemolysis and is the most important diagnostic tests for determining Immune Hemolytic Anemias. With this background this study was conducted, to evaluate the DAT positive cases Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia [AIHA], along with antibody classes, severity and finally to perform elution studies to specify the antibody coated onto the red cells. 34 DAT positive AIHA cases with clinical and laboratory evidence of hemolysis were evaluated in this study. In these cases 25 warm Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia [WAIHA]. 6 Cold Agglutinin Disease [CAD] and 3 Mixed AIHA. Our study suggests a significant association between the strength of DAT, the IgG class and subclass of Immunoglobulins either alone or in combination with other classes of immunoglobulins and/or complements. The specificity of auto and alloantibodies were identified by adsorption and elution techniques, which revealed exclusively anti-e in 6 cases of WAIHA and 5 cases with alloantibodies. The elution provides unbound RBCs for phenotyping and provide appropriate transfusion support for the needy patients. In our study revealed a strong association between the severity of hemolysis and the strength of DAT, the IgG and subclass (IgG 1 & IgG 3) of IgG Antibodies either alone or in combination with other classes of Antibodies and/or complements. The autoantibody specificity had anti-e in 6 cases of WAIHA and 5 cases had clinically significant alloantibodies. The positive DAT with falling hematocrit, jaundice appear to be clinically helpful in identifying alloantibodies.
How popular is X-ray hysterosalpingography in the investigation of infertility by radiographers and radiologists in Nigeria?
Authors: Adebayo Jamiu Isiaq  , Chukwuemeka Christopher Ohagwu  , Jovita Ada Daniel  , Jovita Ada Daniel  , Kelechi Kyrian Okwara  , Tobenna Henry Okafor
Published: June 2021

Background: Nigeria has an infertility rate of 4% to 48.1%. This health condition is the most frequently investigated in radiology departments across the country. Although ultrasound is used as first line investigation, its limited sensitivity to tubal patency has made hysterosalpingography (HSG), despite its radiation risks, as the procedure of choice. Objective: To determine the throughput of all special investigations in the study locations with a view to ascertaining if the use of hysterosalpingography is declining or flourishing. Methods: A retrospective extraction of data about special investigations from physical archives in the radiology department of two tertiary hospitals. Concluded special investigations between 2012 – 2014 and 2017 – 2019 were enlisted. The physical film jackets in both centers were consecutively scrutinized and the type and date of special investigation was noted. Results: A total of one hundred and forty-eight thousand, three hundred and twenty-two (148,322) patients aged 2 days to 95 years (mean: 34.85 ± 16.61 years) passed through the radiology departments between 2012 – 2014, and 2017 – 2019. Those for special radiological investigations numbered 4,806 (3.24 %). Hysterosalpingography (n = 2.148; 44.7%) and lateral invertogram (n = 39; 0.8%) were the special investigations with the highest and least throughputs, respectively. There were five specific HSG findings and fibroid had the highest frequency (n = 683; 31.80%). Conclusions: Hysterosalpingography is the most common special radiological procedure for investigating infertility by radiographers and radiologists in Nigeria.
Emulsion formulation assays based on natural substances stimulating the hair growth and evaluation of its biological activity
Authors: Emery Kalonda Mutombo  , Marsi Mbayo Kitambala  , Victor Ngambi Nyambi  , Joseph Mbayo Mukala  , Evodie Numbi Wa Ilunga  , Jean-Baptiste Kalonji Ndumba  , Kahumba Byanga Joseph  , Jean-Baptiste Lumbu Simbi
Published: June 2021

Aim: This study aims to identify the physicochemical parameters for the stability of emulsions prepared with medicinal plant extracts (i); to study the optimum parameters contributing to the stabilization of emulsions used for hair care (ii); to determine the physicochemical and galenical conditions for better stable formulation and the reproducible to ensure a pharmaceutical use (iii) and finally to evaluate the capillary activity of the emulsions prepared in vivo on Cavia porcellus L. (iv). Methodology: To achieve the goal of this study, the water-oil emulsions prepared by the mixture of Hibiscus rosa-sinensis L. flowers extracts (1mg/g and 10mg/g), Cannabis sativa L. seeds oil (1mg/g and 10mg/g), Ricinus communis L. oil, Olea europaea crude oil, and beeswax. The prepared emulsions were tested in vivo on Cavia porcellus L. for 28 days following the protocols established in preliminary studies on cosmetic systems with natural extracts as well as those established for the evaluation of the antialopecic activity. Results: The water-oil emulsion, with a ratio of 4/6, a Hydrophilic/Lipophilic Balance [HLB] of 7, an average globule size of 2.57 ± 1,91μm made with Cannabis sativa L. seed oil (10mg/g), Ricinus communis L. oil, Olea europaea oil, extract of flowers of Hibiscus rosa-sinensis L. (10mg/g), and beeswax exhibited good stability as well as stimulating activity of capillary growth. Conclusion: The stability of a water-in-oil emulsion formulated with natural substances selected for this research depends on the hydrophilic/lipophilic balance, uniformity of the globules distribution in their average size as well as the hydrophilic/lipophilic ratio.
Teknologian ja ekologian yhteenkietoutumia
Authors: Raipola Juha
Published: June 2021

Taffel, Sy, Digital Media Ecologies: Entanglements of Content, Code and Hardware. New York & London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019, 250 s.
DRILL BIT MONITORING AND REPLACEMENT OPTIMIZATION IN OPEN-PIT MINES
Authors: Uğurlu Ömer Faruk
Published: June 2021

Since 2012, low commodity prices have forced many mining companies to suspend or cease operations. To remain in business, some mine managers are exploring strategies to reduce operational costs. Given its importance as a cost element, increasing bench drilling efficiency and performance in open-pit mines has the potential to generate considerable savings. Efficiency and performance gains can be realized by monitoring the drilling operation, analyzing monitoring data with statistical tools and optimizing operational variables. Finding the best configuration of controllable drilling parameters would help to increase penetration rate and optimize drill bit replacement time so that fewer drill bits are consumed. In this paper, the optimal replacement time of a tricone drill bit is formulated as a cost minimization problem and solved by a genetic algorithm (GA). To demonstrate the proposed approach, the effects of controllable variables on drilling performance are experimentally quantified by statistical methods and used for optimization. Results show that the proposed approach can be used to determine the optimal replacement time for drill bits in open-pit mines.
Overview of Depression Levels in Elderly People at Tresna Werdha Nirwarna Puri Samarinda Social Home
Authors: Rusman Nada Octavia , Aminuddin Muhammad
Published: June 2021

Background : Depression is a mental disorder characterized by a mood that experiences stress, loss of pleasure or interest, feelings of guilt or low self-esteem, impaired eating or sleeping, reduced energy and concentration (Narulita, 2009). One tool for measuring depression is using the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) scale. Objective : To determine the incidence of depression in the elderly that occurred at the Tresna Werdha Nirwana Social Home Puri Samarinda. Method : The study design used a descriptive research type with a survey approach. Performed in May 2019 with 30 respondents at the Tresna Werdha Nirwana Social Home Puri Samarinda. Results : 23 elderly did not experience depression and 7 elderly experienced mild depression. Conclusion : Older people who are not depressed may be caused by coping and good social support. And the elderly who experience mild depression are caused by poor social support, a history of illness and age.Keywords : Depression, elderly
Психотропные и нейрорецепторные эффекты циклопролилглицина при интраназальном введении
Authors: Абдуллина Алия Анвяровна , Васильева Екатерина Валерьевна , Кондрахин Евгений Анатольевич , Колясникова Ксения Николаевна , Гудашева Татьяна Александровна , Ковалёв Георгий Иванович
Published: June 2021

Изучено влияние хронического интраназального введения циклопролилглицина (ЦПГ, 1 и 2 мг/кг) на поведение мышей BALB/c и C57BL/6 и на рецепторы мозга мышей BALB/c. В тесте Порсолта интраназальное введение ЦПГ (1 и 2 мг/кг, 2 недели) мышам BALB/c оказало значимый антидепрессивноподобный эффект, более выраженный по сравнению с внутрибрюшинным введением, в то время как в тесте «Подвешивание за хвост» интраназальное введение ЦПГ мышам C57BL/6 не отличалось от внутрибрюшинного и приводило к умеренному эффекту (1 мг/кг, 4 недели). ЦПГ не влиял на исследовательскую активность и тревожность животных в закрытом крестообразном лабиринте. В радиолигандных исследованиях интраназальное двухнедельное введение ЦПГ увеличивает плотность ГАМКА-рецепторов в коре (1 мг/кг) и снижает плотность NMDA- и 5-HT2A-рецепторов в гиппокампе и стриатуме (1 и 2 мг/кг), не влияя на mGluII-рецепторы гиппокампа. Выявленная разница в отношении плотности NMDA-рецепторов в зависимости от пути введения может указывать на вовлеченность этого типа рецептора в механизм антидепрессивноподобной активности ЦПГ.
A sociedade exponencial: Ensaio sobre o fim da humanidade
Authors: Triana Yago Quiñones
Published: June 2021

We live today in the Exponential Society. It has arrived already, we are part of it and it brings us several challenges as a species. Including that of not extinguishing us. We must and can make the Exponential Society not the last type of human society on our planet. Human activities have been experiencing an extraordinary acceleration relatively recently: production, consumption, population, pollution, indiscriminate use of water are growing exponentially. This means that this growth is not only continuous and constant, but that the rates of such growth are drastically increasing. In addition to the fact that not all of these processes are positive – pollution for example – there is a limit that we cannot forget: our planet. Here is a basic and dramatic contradiction: how can a species that tends to grow limitlessly survive if it basically depends on limited resources? The risks of the Exponential Society are among us, and the threats increase, of course, exponentially as well. Current ecological responses, sustainable initiatives such as recycling, do not offer fundamental changes if the logic that sustains the Exponential Society does not change. But, even if the situation seems inexorable, the change of course is not necessarily in the hands of the powerful or in the global decision-making centers. We are all part of the Exponential Society and that is why we have an impact on it. Transforming it is a matter of conscience, number and will.
Opportunity-as-Hologram, real or artificial in Entrepreneurship
Authors: Leong David
Published: June 2021

Entrepreneurship concerns actions under uncertainties. Situated within that uncertainties are opportunities
that entrepreneurs seek. How are these opportunities seen? Within the entrepreneurial opportunities are
seeds with potentialities. Potentialities for profits. They are the reasons that entrepreneurs act up to exploit
and to set in motion the entrepreneurial emergence. The intentionality follows with construction of a coherent
set of activities or incoherent intuitive moves to pursue the opportunity, including injecting resources and
mobilizing social and material networks. How are opportunities discovered, and perceived? The current
academic debates feature discovery and creation. Are they existing independently, with pre-existing reality,
even without being observed? Or as some argued that opportunities are not pre-existing in space and time with
an objective existence but are subjectively and socially constructed. On contact with such opportunities, what
spur entrepreneurs to act and what are the forces at work? Are they real or artificial? Can they be holographic
representation and provide cues and signals to entrepreneurs to act? Can opportunity-as-hologram explains
how entrepreneurs get inspired and motivated to pursuing the opportunities?

This paper will explore, revisit and recast perspectives on opportunities and addressing the subtle conceptual
issues at the core of entrepreneurship theories that hold the two views, discovery and creation of opportunities
to be both valid and mutually non-exclusive, on holographic terms. In the discussion, this paper will explore
implicate order and explicate order which are quantum theory concepts theorized by physicist David Bohm as
these theories were developed to explain the bizarre and unpredictable behaviours of subatomic particles,
which have strong semblance to the same free-spiritedness and free-will self-organization behaviours of
entrepreneurs.

Our theorization will have implications for entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial researches relating to quantum
science references.
The COVID-19 pandemic and the menstrual cycle: research gaps and opportunities
Authors: Sharp Gemma , Fraser Abigail , Sawyer Gemma , Kountourides Gabriella , Easey Kayleigh , Ford Gemma , Olszewska Zuzanna , Howe Laura D. , Lawlor Deborah A , Alvergne Alex , Maybin Jacqueline
Published: June 2021

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, discussions on social media and blogs have indicated that women have experienced menstrual changes, including altered menstrual duration, frequency, regularity, and volume (heavier bleeding and clotting), increased dysmenorrhea, and worsened premenstrual syndrome. There have been a small number of scientific studies of variable quality reporting on menstrual cycle features during the pandemic, but it is still unclear whether apparent changes are due to COVID-19 infection/illness itself, or other pandemic-related factors like increased psychological stress and changes in health behaviours. It is also unclear to what degree current findings are explained by reporting bias, recall bias, selection bias and confounding factors. Further research is urgently needed. We provide a list of outstanding research questions and potential approaches to address them. Findings can inform policies to mitigate against gender inequalities in health and society, allowing us to build back better post-COVID.
Pembelajaran IPS: Pemanfaatan Budaya & Lingkungan Sebagai Sumber Belajar
Authors: Firnanda Muhammad
Published: June 2021

IPS atau social studies bertujuan untuk mendidik warganegara menjadi warganegara yang baik dengan cara menjawab masalah-masalah dalam kajian ilmu sosial dan humaniora. Dalam pembelajaran IPS, khususnya komponen sumber belajar kurang dimanfaatkan secara maksimal dan terbatas hanya pada buku teks. Oleh sebab itu untuk memanfaatkan secara maksimal sumber belajar dapat dilakukan dengan cara mengamati budaya dan lingkungan sekitar agar pembelajaran menarik dan kontekstual.
Hubungan Hospitalitas Dan Teologi Kristen Di Masyarakat Dalam Menjaga Toleransi Antara Umat Beragama Di Masa Pandemi Covid-19
Authors: RUDDING RISDAYANA
Published: June 2021

Artikel ini membahas bagaimana tradisi pengajaran Paulus dalam Galatia 6:2 dapat menginspirasi gereja-gereja dalam melaksanakan pendidikan agama Kristen di tengah masyarakat majemuk di Indonesia, yang tengah menghadapi pandemi virus Corona. Dengan mengangkat ideologi imperialis sebagai latar belakang permasalahan yang tengah dihadapi oleh Paulus dan jemaat-jemaat di Galatia, serta hakikat dan tujuan Pendidikan Agama Kristen maka gereja-gereja dipanggil untuk memiliki kreativitas dalam menghadapi pandemi tersebut. Kreativitas yang dapat dikembangkan adalah menjadikan budaya gotong royong sebagai dialog yang membebaskan dan menyejahterakan. Kreativitas ini dapat muncul ketika masyarakat mampu diajak bersikap positif dalam menghadapi situasi sulit. Bangsa Indonesia menghadapi era di mana konflik horizontal kerap terjadi. Dengan menggunakan pendekatan studi literatur, tulisan ini bermaksud menjelaskan bagaimana orang Kristen berdampak dan menjadi pelaku aktif dalam menciptakan kehidupan yang rukun dan menjadi pelopor pemersatu perdamaian. Itu dapat dicapai bila orang Kristen mengupayakan kehidupan yang rukun dengan adanya aksi nyata di dalam lingkungan masyarakat maupun dalam komunitas media sosial yang sekarang disebut masa globalisasi di era disrupsi. Melalui era disrupsi dan tantangannya orang kristen dapat memahami bahwa situasi dan kondisi apapun yang terjadi tetap memberikan kontribusi bagi kemajemukan bangsa Indonesia. Hal itu selaras dengan dasar Iman Kristen dalam kerukunan yang selanjutnya dapat diaktualisasikan oleh orang Kristen dalam masyarakat di era disrupsi.
SUMBER ZAT GIZI DAN PENILAIAN STATUS GIZI
Authors: Khaeria Najwa
Published: June 2021

Status gizi adalah suatu ukuran mengenai kondisi tubuh seseorang yang dapat dilihat dari makanan yang dikonsumsi dan penggunaan zat-zat gizi di dalam tubuh. Status gizi dibagi menjadi tiga kategori, yaitu status gizi kurang, gizi normal, dan gizi lebih.
Menumbuhkan Sikap Kerukunan Dalam Prespektif Iman Kristen
Authors: sarapang desna rura
Published: June 2021

Keterbukaan begitu penting bagi kebersamaan yang hidup dalam masyarakat majemuk, dengan adanya peristiwa ini terjadi pemahaman estrem dalam beragama yang tidak menghormati keharmonisan dalam masyarakat. Sehingga banyak memperlihatkan kerugian bagi bangsa dan negara. Dari permasalahan tersebut penulis memakai metode penelitian pustaka dengan pendekatan kuntitatif deskriptif untuk menjawab bagaimana tugas orang yang percaya dalam menumbuhkan sikap kerukunan dalam iman orang Kristen. Kesimpulan dari hasil hasil artikel ini adalah sebagai orang yang percaya harus memililih pemahaman bahwa keterbukaan atau toleransi itu sebagai bagian dari berbangsa dan berbegara, sehingga akan muncul sikap atau perilaku kerukunan sebagai spirit perdamaian, dan peran orang Kristen harus bersikap toleran. Karena kerukunan sangat penting, dari kerukunan hendaknya manusia sebagai tiang dalam mempersatu masyarakat majemuk dan dinegara. Sehingga penelitian ini dapat memberikan wawasan dan sikap yang mengedepankan kerukunan dalam masyarakat sebagai orang Kristen bagi bangsa dan negara.
Controllability of structural brain networks and the waxing and waning of negative affect in daily life
Authors: McGowan Amanda L. , Parkes Linden , He Xiaosong , Stanoi Ovidia , Kang Yoona , Lomax Silicia , Jovanova Mia , Mucha Peter J. , Ochsner Kevin , Falk Emily B. , Bassett Danielle S , Lydon-Staley David M.
Published: June 2021

Background: The waxing and waning of negative affect in daily life is normative, reflecting an adaptive capacity to respond flexibly to changing circumstances. However, understanding of the brain structure correlates of affective variability in naturalistic settings has been limited. Using network control theory, we examine facets of brain structure that may enable negative affect variability in daily life.Methods: We use diffusion weighted imaging data from 95 young adults (Mage = 20.19 years, SDage = 1.80; 56 women) to construct structural connectivity networks that map white matter fiber connections between 200 cortical and 14 sub-cortical regions. We apply network control theory to these structural networks to estimate the degree to which each brain region’s pattern of structural connectivity facilitates the spread of activity to other brain systems. We examine how the average controllability of functional brain systems relates to negative affect variability, computed by taking the standard deviation of negative affect self-reports collected via smartphone-based experience-sampling twice per day over 28 days as participants went about their daily lives. Results: We find that high average controllability of the cingulo-insular system is associated with increased negative affect variability. We find that greater negative affect variability is related to the presence of more depressive symptoms, yet average controllability of the cingulo-insular system was not associated with depressive symptoms. Conclusions: Our results highlight the role brain structure plays in affective dynamics as observed in the context of daily life, suggesting that average controllability of the cingulo-insular system promotes normative negative affect variability.
Collective Emotions during the COVID-19 Outbreak
Authors: Metzler Hannah , Rimé Bernard , Pellert Max , Niederkrotenthaler Thomas , Di Natale Anna , Garcia David
Published: June 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the world's population to unprecedented health threats and changes to social life. High uncertainty about the novel disease and its social and economic consequences, together with increasingly stringent governmental measures against the spread of the virus, likely elicited strong emotional responses. We analyzed the digital traces of emotional expressions in tweets during five weeks after the start of outbreaks in 18 countries and six different languages. We observed an early strong upsurge of anxiety-related terms in all countries, which was related to the growth in cases and increases in the stringency of governmental measures. Anxiety expression gradually relaxed once stringent measures were in place, possibly indicating that people were reassured. Sadness terms rose and anger terms decreased with or after an increase in the stringency of measures and remained stable as long as measures were in place. Positive emotion words only decreased slightly and briefly in a few countries. Our results reveal some of the most enduring changes in emotional expression observed in long periods of social media data. Such sustained emotional expression could indicate that interactions between users led to the emergence of collective emotions. Words that frequently occurred in tweets suggest a shift in topics of conversation across all emotions, from political ones in 2019, to pandemic related issues during the outbreak, including everyday life changes, other people, and health. This kind of time-sensitive analyses of large-scale samples of emotional expression have the potential to inform risk communication.
The role of template matching in the attribution of immorality
Authors: Restrepo Ochoa Nicolas Restrepo
Published: June 2021

The sociology of culture provides tools to weigh in on key interdisciplinary debates that hinge around categorization and its underlying processes. For example, at present, there is widespread debate about how individuals come to perceive events as immoral. In this paper, I use sociological approaches to cultural meaning to test one of the leading theories of moral cognition: the idea that individuals attribute immorality through template matching. I use spatial measures of cultural meaning to define and locate a prototypical moral wrong. I then test the theory of template matching, and find evidence that distance from the typical moral transgression - in semantic space - is related to the time it takes to categorize an event as immoral or harmful. I then test these results on a corpus of naturally occurring text to assess their external validity. These studies provide empirical evidence supporting the notion that the attribution of immorality occurs through template matching. Furthermore, they also serve to illustrate that productive conversations can emerge when we take the insights that sociologists of culture and cognition have reached in the past few decades out of our disciplinary boundaries.
Concentration of Critical Events over the Life Course and Life Satisfaction later in life
Authors: Comolli Chiara L. , Bolano Danilo , Bernardi Laura , Voorpostel Marieke
Published: June 2021

Critical events are occurrences that create turning points, disrupt individuals’ life courses and affect wellbeing. Here, we investigate how the co-occurrence of critical events and, in particular, the spacing in time of events across the life course influences life satisfaction in later life. We argue that life phases densely populated of critical events may translate into an acute resource drain affecting wellbeing in long term more strongly than if the same events were sparsely distributed. We use retrospective biographical information on critical events in family, work, health and residential trajectories in Switzerland to construct a life course Concentration Index of events based on the number, the time-lag between the occurrences and the number of life domains involved. Our results show that the higher is the concentration in time of critical events, the stronger will be their negative long-term effect on wellbeing, net of socio-demographic characteristics, of the total number of events ever experienced and of the time since the last event. Furthermore, such negative effect is even stronger if the person experienced periods dense of events during midlife and older adulthood than during youth or early adulthood.
Affective blocs: Understanding affective polarization in multiparty systems
Authors: Kekkonen Arto , Ylä-Anttila Tuomas
Published: June 2021

Research has suggested that affective polarization (AP)—the extent to which partisans view each other as a disliked out-group—has increased, especially in two-party political systems such as in the US. The understanding of AP in multiparty systems remains limited. We study AP in Finland, characterized by a strong multiparty system and a low level of ideological polarization, between 2007 and 2019. We find that AP has increased, driven mainly by voters evaluating their least favorite party more negatively. We also propose an approach that goes beyond earlier literature, which has mostly used a single aggregate metric to measure AP. Using latent profile analysis, we find that voters are grouped into blocs that view some parties positively and others negatively. This suggests that the complex dynamics of AP in multiparty democracies involve relationships between not just individual parties but between what we call affective blocs that span across party lines.
Predictors of Professional Quality of Life in Veterinary Professionals
Authors: Rohlf Vanessa I. , Scotney Rebekah , Monaghan Holly , Bennett Pauleen
Published: June 2021

Working in the veterinary profession can be both stressful and rewarding. High workloads, long work hours, emotionally charged interactions with clients, and exposure to animal suffering and participation in euthanasia place many at risk of compassion fatigue, which then threatens their professional quality of life (ProQOL). Despite this risk, many veterinary professionals choose to stay within the profession. This study explores personal and organizational factors predicting compassion satisfaction (CS), burnout, and secondary traumatic stress (STS) in veterinary professionals, and the extent to which these aspects of ProQOL are linked with intentions to leave the profession. Regression results show that personal factors accounted for 31.1% of the variance in CS, 45.3% in burnout, and 33.8% in STS. Organizational factors significantly accounted for 33.3% of the variance in CS, 47.9% in burnout, and 32.7% in STS. Together, ProQOL accounted for 28.9% and 16.0% of the variance in intentions to leave one’s current role and to leave the profession altogether, respectively. These results suggest that both personal and organizational factors play a role in veterinary professionals’ ProQOL and highlight the importance of promoting CS and managing burnout and STS for the purpose of fostering veterinary staff well-being and retention.
Reading Comprehension Strategies Used by Students in Different Grades at MA Darul Ishlah (Al-Azhaar Boarding School Lubuklinggau)
Authors: Antasari Yunita , Sofyan Dedi , Azwandi Azwandi
Published: June 2021

This study aimed to find out and investigate the use of reading strategies used by students in different grades of MA Darul Ishlah (Al-Azhaar Boarding School Lubuklinggau). The study employed a mixed method (quantitative and qualitative). The total number of the participants in this study was 108 students which come from class X is 53 students, class XI is 25 students, and the last class XII is 30 students. The instruments of this research were questionnaire and interview. The data were analyzed by using percentage formula. The major findings are, first, all students in different grades were medium in level of use for all the strategies. Second, they only used some strategy in reading comprehension, because there are some strategy was difficult for them to apply in reading comprehension and the strategy was not teach explicitly. For instance, in the first grade students in global reading strategy rarely used memorized, read aloud, guessing, and summary. Meanwhile, While, the most frequently reading strategy used by students in different grade is global reading strategy, then following by problem-solving reading strategy and the last is support reading strategy.
Pemanfaatan Youtube sebagai Media Pembelajaran Menulis Puisi
Authors: Bakri Marlina , Yusni Yusni
Published: June 2021

Masa sekarang teknologi dan informasi mengalami perkembangan semakin pesat sehingga teknologi berbasis komputer dapat diaplikasikan untuk mendapatkan informasi khususnya dalam dunia pendidikan. Internet menyediakan banyak aplikasi untuk pengintegrasian teknologi dalam pembelajaran. Pada era baru sekarang ini dalam berinteraksi manusia menggunakan jaringan informasi atau komunikasi yang inovatif. Salah satu media dapat dintegrasikan dalam pembelajaran adalah pemanfaatan Youtube. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mendeskripsikan sejauh mana Youtube dapat dimanfaatkan sebagai media pembelajaran menulis puisi. Jenis penelitian ini merupakan deskriptif kualitatif dengan jumlah responden sebanyak 40 mahasiswa. Pengumpulan data dilakukan melalui lembar observasi dalam menulis puisi. Temuan penelitian ini adalah media ajar Youtube yang digunakan selaras dengan minat mahasiswa yang saat ini menjadi salah satu tujuan utama generasi milenial untuk mencari berbagai konten edukatif dalam bentuk video, sehingga dapat menciptakan kreativitas dan kualitas dalam menulis puisi cukup kreatif dan memiliki gaya penulisan yang berbeda dari setiap karya yang dihasilkan. Temuan penelitian ini merekomendasikan pemanfaatan Youtube sebagai media dalam proses pembelajaran literatur.
Impact of destructive leadership styles on the psychological contract breach with the moderating effect of proactive personality
Authors: Kayani Muhammad Bilal , Imran Ibrahim Alasan
Published: June 2021

This research has an aim to investigate the impact of toxic and exploitative leadership and subordinate psychological contract breach, the moderation role of proactive personality within the proposed framework between the toxic leadership with psychological contract breach and exploitative leadership with psychological contract breach. Data was gathered utilizing a cross-sectional research technique. The sample of the study constituted 386 frontline nurses from public sector hospitals of Pakistan. Structural equation modelling was utilized for analyzing the collected data. Toxic and exploitative leadership had a significant positive impact on psychological contract breach. However, moderation of proactive personality was found to be insignificant between both relations.
La kétamine en médecine d’urgence
Authors: Galinski M.
Published: June 2021

La kétamine est un médicament de plus en plus utilisé en médecine d’urgence pour son action anesthésiante, sédative et analgésique. Si les deux premières indications s’appuient sur des preuves solides, la troisième repose sur des données plus controversées. Si les quelques données cliniques semblent montrer une efficacité antalgique de la kétamine dans ce contexte, les questions qui restent en suspens concernent sa place dans l’arsenal des antalgiques étant donné la fréquence élevée de ses effets indésirables. Une question de recherche en médecine d’urgence ouvrantencore des perspectives concerne la kétamine et son action antihyperalgésique qui pourrait permettre de limiter le risque de chronicisation de la douleur.
Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery
Authors: Lwisa Essa Georges
Published: June 2021

Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) techniques are currently one of the top priorities of technological development in the oil industry owing to the increasing demand for oil and gas, which cannot be fulfilled by primary or secondary production methods. The main function of the enhanced oil recovery process is to displace oil in the production wells by the injection of different fluids to supplement the natural energy present in the reservoir. moreover these injecting fluids can alter the reservoir`s properties; for example they can lower the interfacial tension (IFT) between oil and water, alter the rocks` wettability, change the pH value, form emulsions aid in clay migration and reduce the oil viscosity. In this chapter, we will discuss the following methods of chemical enhanced oil recovery: polymer flooding, surfactant flooding, alkaline flooding and smart water flooding. In addition, we will review the merits and demerits of each method and conclude the chapter with our recommendations
CLASSIFICATION OF THE COMORBID SYMPTOMATIC GROUPS ON AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER DIAGNOSIS
Authors: Manuel Ojea Rúa
Published: June 2021

A total of 126 people with a nuclear diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) participated in this study, corresponding to Galicia Community (Spain), found through survey regarding significantly more common symptoms related this disorder nuclear diagnosis. Hence, main aim is delimiting symptoms symptomatic groups that co-occur to each other, regarding basic diagnosis of ASD, in order elaborate predictive processes of comorbid recurrence along ASD diagnosis and develop the related psycho- educational approach.
Data analysis, achieved throughout CLUSTER K-MEDIAS test of SPSS statistic, 23 version, allowed conclude there´s an interaction of symptoms recurrent themselves, which let conclude a classification of 3 symptomatic groups that make up basic comorbidity of ASD diagnosis: 1) group I, formed by epilepsy (2.00) and severe cognitive deficit (1.86) interaction, 2) II group, with significant interrelated scores in schizotypal features (.82) and anxiety processes (.77), and 3) III group, characterized by interaction between motor tics (1.92), cognitive deficit (1.54), hypersensitivity (1.23) and severe behavior problems (1.38).
It´s possible conclude these symptomatic groups are predictors variables of comorbidity associated with ASD to carry out effective psycho- social- educational implementation to people with ASD.
Tanzania Citizens’ Participation in Domestic Tourism
Authors: Macha Lilian
Published: June 2021

This study examines the Tanzania citizens’ participation in domestic tourism. The study was based on the Social Exchange Theory and its components of trust on transport and destination visit price. The choice of the theory aimed to overcome possible limitations of using the theory in Tanzania. The study extends the applicability of the component of Social Exchange Theory to include additional construct such destination visit price (DVP) variable as a mediator. Data collection questionnaires were distributed to 400 respondents in Dar es Salaam, Arusha and Bagamoyo. Being a quantitative study, Structure Equation Modelling (SEM) was deployed to establish whether trust infrastructure (TI) and destination visit price (DVP) lead to the participation of Tanzania citizens in domestic tourism (PDT). The results of the study show that the measurement and structural model exhibited better model fit indices. The relationship between trust on transport results to participation in domestic tourism through destination visit price (DVP). It is recommended that the variables analyzed in this study be recognition for influencing the participation of Tanzania citizens in domestic tourism.
Komparasi Algoritma Quicksort dan Bucket Sort pada Pengurutan Data Integer
Authors: Audy Audy
Published: June 2021

Data sorting is a technique that widely used as a part of a bigger process. Therefore, data sorting should not be the problem of program complexity. This paper gives the reader a comparison between two sorting algorithms, which are comparison based and non-comparison based, in time and space performance. The data type that used in this paper is an integer data type. Testing is carried out by using two types of data’s condition, which are the worst-case condition in each algorithm, and two amounts of data, which represent the maximum and minimum amount data.
SOSYAL BİLGİLER DERSİNDE KAVRAM KARİKATÜRÜ KULLANIMININ ÖĞRENCİ BAŞARISINA ETKİSİ
Authors: ADA Sibel , SÖZEN Erol
Published: June 2021

Bu çalışmanın amacı, 4. sınıf sosyal bilgiler dersinde kavram karikatürü kullanımının öğrencilerin bu dersteki başarılarına etkisini belirlemektir. Bu çalışma, nicel araştırmalardan, ön test-son test kontrol gruplu yarı deneysel desende yürütülmüştür. Bu desen normal deneysel desenin devamında gelir ve eşitlenmemiş gruplara ön test ve son test uygulanarak yapılır. Araştırma için 44 adet çoktan seçmeli maddeden oluşan bir başarı testi hazırlanmıştır. Bu test için 4. sınıf SBDÖP’deki ‘üretim, dağıtım ve tüketim’ öğrenme alanı kazanımlarına yönelik olarak ders kitapları, eba gibi çeşitli eğitim platformlarından, sınavlara hazırlık kitaplarından faydalanılarak ve alan uzmanlarının görüşlerine de dayanılarak araştırmacı tarafından bir pilot çalışma hazırlanmıştır. Geçerlilik ve güvenirlilik çalışmasının yapılması amacıyla 143 beşinci sınıf öğrencisine başarı testi uygulanmış ve testin maddelerinin zorluk ve ayırt ediciliklerine yönelik Alt Grup- Üst Grup” yöntemi ile veri analizi yapılmıştır. Bu uygulama sonucunda başarı testi 25 maddeye düşmüştür. Araştırma için belirlenen amaçlar doğrultusunda, Mann Whitney U testi ve Wilcoxon İşaretli Sıralar testi yapılmıştır. Yapılan analizlere göre, çalışma başında yapılan başarı testinde her iki grupta da herhangi bir farklılaşmanın oluşmadığı tespit edilmiştir. Uygulama sonunda her iki gruba da uygulanan son başarı testinden elde edilen bulgulara göre kontrol grubunun sontest puanının uygulama öncesindeki puanına göre anlamlı bir fark oluşturmadığı, deney grubunun ise sontest puanların öntest puanlarına göre anlamlı bir farklılık gösterdiği tespit edilmiştir. Bu bulgulara gore, kavram karikatürüne dayalı öğretim etkinliklerinin, programa dayalı öğretim etkinliklerinden daha etkili olduğu sonucuna varılabilir.
Effect of goji berry on the formation of extracellular senile plaques of Alzheimer’s disease
Authors: Fernando Warnakulasuriya M.A.D. Binosha , Dong Ke , Durham Rosalie , Stockmann Regine , Jayasena Vijay
Published: June 2021

BACKGROUND:

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disease and a major source of morbidity and mortality. Currently, no therapy nor drug can cure or modify AD progression, but recent studies suggest that nutritional compounds in certain foods can delay or prevent the onset of AD. Diets with high antioxidants is one of the examples which is believed to influence AD pathogenesis through direct effect on amyloid beta levels. Compared to other fruits and vegetables, goji berry (GB) has high levels of polyphenolic substances with antioxidant activities which have shown some positive effects on cognitive function while its mechanism on neuroprotection is yet to be explored. We investigated whether GB would decrease the quantity of amyloid beta in cell culture model of AD.

OBJECTIVE:

To assess the protective effects of GB against amyloid beta toxicity in M17 cells using different techniques.

METHODS:

Goji berry powder (GBP) at different concentrations was treated with 20 μM amyloid beta-induced neuronal cells. MTS assay (3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-5-(3-carboxymethoxy-phenyl)-2-(4-sulfophenyl)-2H-tetrazolium), bicinchoninic acid (BCA) assay, Western blot analysis, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and atomic force microscopy (AFM) were performed to identify how GB affected amyloid beta.

RESULTS:

MTS assay indicated that GBP significantly increased cell viability up to 105% when GBP was at 1.2 μg/ mL. Western blot showed significant reduction of amyloid beta up to 20% in cells treated with 1.5 μg/ mL GBP. GBP at 1.5 μg/ mL was the most effective concentration with 17% reduction of amyloid beta in amyloid beta-induced neuronal cells compared to control (amyloid beta only) based on ELISA results. AFM images further confirmed increasing GBP concentration led to decreased aggregation of amyloid beta.

CONCLUSION:

GB can be a promising anti-aging agent and warrants further investigating due to its effect on reduction of amyloid beta toxicity.