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Fasilitas dan Pelayanan Prima: Meningkatkan Minat Wisatawan Untuk Berkunjung Kembali Ke Pantai Watulawang, Kabupaten Gunungkidul.
Authors: Aneke Rahmawati  , Azmy Hanif
Published: February 2025

Tujuan: Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis dampak fasilitas dan kualitas pelayanan terhadap minat wisatawan untuk berkunjung kembali ke Pantai Watulawang, Kabupaten Gunungkidul, dengan menggunakan pendekatan deskriptif kuantitatif berbasis survei wisatawan. Penelitian ini juga mengevaluasi tingkat kepuasan wisatawan terhadap fasilitas yang tersedia, termasuk kebersihan, pengelolaan sampah, toilet, area parkir, serta usaha mikro, kecil, dan menengah (UMKM), serta kualitas layanan yang diberikan oleh pengelola dan masyarakat setempat.Metode Penelitian: Penelitian ini menggunakan metode survei deskriptif kuantitatif, dengan pengumpulan data melalui kuesioner berbasis skala Likert. Sebanyak 30 wisatawan dipilih sebagai responden dengan teknik quota sampling. Data yang diperoleh dianalisis untuk mengetahui tingkat kepuasan wisatawan terhadap fasilitas dan layanan serta hubungannya dengan minat wisatawan untuk berkunjung kembali ke Pantai Watulawang.Implikasi: Hasil survei menunjukkan bahwa sebagian besar wisatawan merasa puas dengan fasilitas dan layanan yang tersedia di Pantai Watulawang. Namun, beberapa aspek masih perlu ditingkatkan, seperti akses parkir yang jauh, keterbatasan jumlah toilet umum, serta variasi produk yang ditawarkan oleh UMKM. Selain itu, hasil analisis juga menunjukkan bahwa kualitas pelayanan, terutama keramahan pengelola dan pelaku UMKM, memiliki peran penting dalam membentuk kepuasan wisatawan dan minat untuk kembali berkunjung.
Heavy Metals Assessment in Different Fresh and Processed Tuber Crops Grown with Fresh and Sewage Water
Authors: Ramzan Khadija , Randhawa Muhammad Atif , Seher Maria , Zehra Syeda Hijab
Published: February 2025

The problems from heavy metals content increasing day by day over the world. Heavy metal contamination in vegetables has become a serious food safety concern in developing Asian countries, including Pakistan. Due to lack of clean water resources in many Asian countries, sewage water is frequently utilized to irrigate the crops, particularly in Pakistan. Irrigation of sewage water may increase the levels of heavy metals in such soil, which eventually transfer to crops. In humans, these metals induce a variety of illnesses, i.e. cancer. In this study, the concentrations of heavy metals (As, Pb, Cd, Hg, Co and Cr) in raw and processed tuber vegetables irrigated with ground water and sewage water were compared utilizing a wet digesting method. Different levels of heavy metals in raw, oven baked, air fried and deep-fried vegetables have been evaluated. Results showed higher levels of heavy metals in vegetables grown with sewage water and were above the permissible limits. It also shows that different processing methods had a significant effect on the level of heavy metals but was unable to reduce it to the safe limit designated by FAO and WHO. Maximum level of percentage decrease of lead (Pb) and cadmium (Cd) was found in deep fried vegetables.
STRATEGI PENGEMBANGAN KREATIVITAS ANYAMAN OLEH KOMUNITAS ANYAMANDIRI KOTA MAKASSAR
Authors: Anggraeni A. Firahayu , Kadir Irsan , Pasyah Soekarno Buchary
Published: February 2025

Hasil penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui bagaimana strategi pengembangan kreativitas oleh komunitas seni anyamandiri Kota Makassar dan mengetahui eksistensi Anyaman di Kota Makassar. Metode 4P adalah suatu cara untuk mengidentifikasi berbagai faktor secara sistematis dalam rangka merumuskan strategi pengembangan UMKM. Teknik pengumpulan data dilakukan dengan obserasi, wawancara dan dokumentasi kepada UMKM Anyamandiri Kota Makassar, kemudian juga menambahkan dari buku- buku bacaan dan juga sumber lain yang berhubungan dengan judul penelitian. Data yang diperoleh dari hasil pengumpulan kemudian dianalisis dengan menggunakan pendekatan 4P untuk mengetahui bagaimana personal, press, process dan produk dalam mengembangkan kreativitas produk UMKM Anyamandiri. Person sebagai pelatihan diri untuk mencari ide, menyaring ide dan melaksanakan ide. Person juga melatih diri berfikir kreatif, serta rasa ingin tahu yang besar sehingga mampu mengembangkan produk. Press atau pendorong dapat diartikan sebagai motivasi eksternal maupun internal yang dapat menjadi pendorong bagi UMKM untuk dapat mengembangkan bisnis atau usaha, selanjutnya proses dibagi menjadi empat tahapan yaitu tahap pertama adalah pengenalan masalah, tahap kedua adalah pembangkitan ide, tahap ketiga adalah pemilihan ide, dan tahap keempat adalah melaksanakan ide yang dipilih sehingga empat tahapan diatas dapat memecahkan masalah perusahaan agar dapat berjalan lancar. Dan yang terakhir adalah produk itu sendiri dimana merupakan tahapan akhir dari semua yang telah dipaparkan diatas mulai dari person, press sampai pada process.
Geometry of Integrable Linkages
Authors: Perline Ron , Tabachnikov Sergei
Published: February 2025

In analogy with the well-known 2-linkage tractor-trailer problem, we define a 2-linkage problem in the plane with novel non-holonomic “no-slip” conditions. Using constructs from sub-Riemannian geometry, we look for geodesics corresponding to linkage motion with these constraints (“tricycle kinematics”). The paths of the three vertices turn out to be critical points for functionals which appear in the hierarchy of conserved quantities for the planar filament equation, a well known completely integrable evolution equation for planar curves. We show that the geodesic equations are completely integrable, and present a second connection to the planar filament equation.
Performance Comparison of Classification Algorithms for Chronic Kidney Disease Prediction
Authors: Fauzan Farin Junita , Putri Celine Mutiara , Laura Prita
Published: February 2025

Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is an abnormal kidney function or failure of the kidneys to filter the bloodstream and remove metabolic waste that progresses over months or years. Chronic kidney disease is asymptomatic in its early stages. It has no age limit, and if you already suffer from chronic kidney disease, the likelihood of a sudden decline in kidney function increases. The medical record data of chronic kidney disease patients can be utilized to make predictions and can be processed using machine learning to classify the risk of death. This research will use Ensemble Learning, which combines Decision Tree, XGBoost, and Extra Trees algorithms. In the pre-processing stage, value filling is carried out using the random sampling method. It was concluded that the highest accuracy value in Extra Trees was 96%. In comparison, the Decision Tree was 94%, and the XGBoost method obtained 95% accuracy so that Pathologists can use it in developing a program to predict chronic kidney disease
Comparative Analysis of the Combination of AHP-SAW and AHP-WP in Making Decisions on Hiring New Employees
Authors: Andreas Rizki , MP Margareta Amalia , Sinaga Sri Maharani , Brahmana Teguh , Kusmawati Dian
Published: February 2025

This paper's web-based employee recruitment the goal is to help Human Resource Development (HRD) managers automatically calculate criterion weights and alternative weights, refinement of potential employees  and a faster selection process. Recommendation system applications use Combination of Simple Additive Weighting (SAW) and Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). The AHP method determines the importance of each professional criterion is at the moment. SAW, on the other hand, determines the position or priority of a potential employee, calculated from alternative options. In the AHP method, criteria influence the outcome of a decision. The resulting calculations are examined using the specified priority weights to see which criteria are most important. The weight value for the CI criterion was 0.0603, and the CR value was 0.0538. However, a sensitivity analysis of criterion priorities is required to examine the extent to which small effects on criterion weights change the ranking of alternatives. Based on the ranking results using AHP-WP, Fajar ranked first with a preference value of 0.1037289. You can also see how important the selection criteria are to the ranking results.
Impact of the Presentation Medium, Viewing Angle, and Iconicity of Maps on Four-Year-Old Children’s Map Reading
Authors: Park Yu Jin , Park Youjeong
Published: February 2025

Objectives: This study investigated whether map reading by four-year-old children is affected by the presentation medium, viewing angle, and iconicity of maps.Methods: Ninety-eight four-year-old children were shown pairs of a model village and its map. The maps were presented either on an electronic screen or paper, with an oblique or vertical view and either on high or low iconicity. The children observed a researcher hiding a figure in a building in each model village and were asked to identify the figure location on the map.Results: The children identified figure locations more accurately with oblique view maps than with vertical view maps. They were also more accurate with high-iconicity maps than with low-iconicity maps. The presentation medium affected the children’s performance only when the maps had vertical views, with the children performing better on electronic maps than on paper maps. Similarly, the children performed better on electronic maps than on paper maps only when the maps had high iconicity. With low iconicity, the participants struggled regardless of the presentation medium.Conclusion: Map reading by four-year-old children is affected by the viewing angle and iconicity of the maps. In addition, presenting maps on an electronic screen may be beneficial for children as young as four years of age when the maps have vertical views or high iconicity.
SNS Usage Time and Self-Esteem Among Middle School Students: The Mediating Role of Body Image and Sense of Safety
Authors: Park Hayeon , Hong Yea-Ji
Published: February 2025

Objectives: Given the growing concerns about adolescent SNS (Social Networking Sites) use and inconsistent findings in previous research, this study investigates the mechanisms linking SNS usage time to self-esteem among middle school students. Specifically, we examine how body image and a sense of safety mediate this association, aiming to better understand the developmental pathways through which SNS usage affects adolescent self-esteem.Methods: This study utilized data from the 14th wave of the Panel Study on Korean Children with a sample of 1,323 first-year middle school students. The key variables included SNS usage time, body image, sense of safety, and self-esteem, while controlling for gender, peer attachment, and subjective socio-economic status. Structural equation modeling was employed to analyze the associations among the variables, and bootstrapping with 1,000 resamples was conducted to test the significance of the mediating effects.Results: While the direct path from SNS usage duration to self-esteem was not significant, a significant negative association was found between these variables, indicating that increased SNS usage tends to be associated with lower self-esteem among middle school students. Both body image and sense of safety demonstrated significant indirect effects in mediating this association.Conclusion: This study delineates the specific pathways through which middle school students’ self-esteem is impacted by the amount of time they spend on SNS, particularly highlighting the mediating roles of body image and sense of safety. The findings suggest the need for careful attention to these students’ SNS usage time, along with comprehensive support to foster positive perceptions of their appearance and environmental surroundings.
Stanislavsky and Female Actors
Authors: Ignatieva Maria
Published: February 2025

Every single artistic endeavor in Stanislavsky's life was achieved in close collaboration with female partners. First, it was his own mother, Elizaveta Alekseyeva, who shaped his personality, and encouraged his exploration of theatre. Then it was his artistic mother, Glikeria Fedotova, who guided him through the ten years of his work. Then Maria Lilina, his wife, who became his best student, and later one of the best actresses of the Art Theatre. It would be impossible to understand Stanislavsky's development as an actor and director without his work with Maria Andreyeva, the 'femme fatale' of turn of the century Russian theatre, or Olga Knipper, whom he directed and acted with for forty years. And near the end of his life, when Stanislavsky introduced the method of physical action (metod phizicheskix deistvii), another woman embraced his work, a young actress named Irina Rozanova. Stanislavsky and Female Actors is the exploration of Stanislavsky's artistic and personal relationship with the leading actresses of the Moscow Art Theatre. It seeks to portray their life-long artistic dialogue and offers a new biographical study of the previously unknown spheres of Stanislavsky's life, as well as the lives of the Moscow Art Theatre's principal actresses.
The Global Factory
Authors: Grunwald Joseph , Flamm Kenneth
Published: February 2025

Since the early 1960s exports of manufactures from developing countries have grown rapidly. Widening gaps between the wages of rich and poor countries, coupled with dramatic declines in transportation costs and increased technological capabilities, led to this growth. Production of labor-intensive goods in newly industrializing economies became a significant factor in work markets. Industrial country firms responded to this situation by integrating production processes were transferred abroad to countries with an abundance of cheap labor, while technologically advanced components were supplied at home. In this book the authors evaluate the positive and negative aspects of foreign assembly and suggest ways in which it may develop and affect the future of North-South relations. They examine in detail the U.S. semiconductor industry, the first to go abroad on a large scale. They also chart the development of the semiconductor industries of Western Europe and Japan, and show the strengths and weaknesses of the various policy alternatives available in this rapidly growing, highly competitive industry. In other chapters they present case studies of the assembly industries in Mexico, Haiti, and Colombia. Mexico, which shares a 2,000-mile border with the United States, is the most important partner of the United States in assembly activities abroad. Haiti, one of the poorest countries in the world, has received a strong economic stimulus from assembly. The explosive growth of Colombian assembly for the U.S. market came as that country rose to be the fifth largest industrial producer in Latin America. The book concludes with an overview of the domestic political, social, and economic effects of the reorganization of industry abroad and a summary of the policy implications, both for the United States and for the developing countries that are its manufacturing partners.
My Life in Prison
Authors: Qisheng Jiang
Published: February 2025

In 1999, leading dissident Jiang Qisheng was given a four-year sentence for inviting the Chinese people to light candles to honor the victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Drawn with indignant intensity from Jiang’s time in prison, his memoirs record chilling observations of the modern “civilized” Beijing jails in which he was held.

While awaiting a farcical trial, he shares a cell crowded with common criminals, among them a murderer who had dismembered his victim with an electric saw. Along with intriguing vignettes of his fellow prisoners, Jiang describes the brutal conditions they all faced: inmates led to execution with necks corded to silence them, savage fights between prisoners, and rare moments of unexpected kindness. He describes the frequent beatings by guards, the use of the electric prod, and a dehumanizing regime aimed at humiliation and the destruction of individual personality.

After he is sentenced, conditions are even worse. Prisoners, used as slave labor, become bitterly exhausted and emaciated, while facing new depths of mental degradation. Throughout, however, Jiang retains his dignity, his detached and perceptive intelligence, and his concern for his fellow sufferers, guards included.

Written in a light and ironic style, Jiang’s stories of prisoners, many of whom come from the most primitive and impoverished layer of Chinese society, are related with vividness, insight, humor, and compassion. Dismayed by their fatalistic docility, the author asks, “Where lies China’s hope? Can democracy ever take root in China?” The answers, surely, lie in the voices of those, like Jiang, who dare to speak out.
Coming for to Carry Me Home
Authors: Martinez J. Michael
Published: February 2025

Coming for to Carry Me Home examines the history of the politics surrounding U.S. race relations during the half century between the rise of the abolitionist movement in the 1830s and the dawn of the Jim Crow era in the 1880s. J. Michael Martinez argues that Abraham Lincoln and the Radical Republicans in Congress were the pivotal actors, albeit not the architects, that influenced this evolution. To understand how Lincoln and his contemporaries viewed race, Martinez first explains the origins of abolitionism and the tumultuous decade of the 1830s, when that generation of political leaders came of age. He then follows the trail through Reconstruction, Redemption, and the beginnings of legal segregation in the 1880s. This book addresses the central question of how and why the concept of race changed during this period.
Project Management for Environmental, Health and Safety Professionals
Authors: Pierce, CSP, CIH, F. David CSP
Published: February 2025

Learn the project management skills you need to survive as an EH&S professional. This book presents a simple-to-use 18-step approach for effective project management. Each of the three phases are explained in detail, using case studies to illustrate the best tools to use and pitfalls to avoid. You'll learn how to identify project objectives and constraints, establish elements and resource needs, create project schedules, find ways to make up for lost time, monitor and measure progress, document the project, and more.
An Insider's View of Sexual Science since Kinsey
Authors: Reiss Ira L.
Published: February 2025

In a personal, nontechnical, and informal style, eminent researcher Ira L. Reiss discusses the many situations he has encountered during the past fifty years while researching sexuality and developing useful and innovative explanations of its different aspects. Most of the problems that were present during those years are still confronting those who work on human sexuality. Reiss discusses his experiences in sexual science in areas such as premarital sex, the sexual revolution, Masters and Johnson's therapy, feminism and sexuality, crises in sexual organizations, responses to HIV/AIDS, child and adolescent sexuality, radical social constructionism, biology versus sexual science, international trends, and the movement toward a Ph.D. in sexual science. The insights and solutions Reiss proposes are of great importance to all those who are interested in the sexual issues that affect people today.
Iraq, Terror, and the Philippines' Will to War
Authors: Tyner James A.
Published: February 2025

After September 11, 2001, United States President George W. Bush put together a "Coalition of the Willing." From the very beginning this coalition included the Philippines, a willing participant in the U.S.-led invasion and occupation of Iraq and the larger War on Terror. This timely and persuasive book argues that the Philippines' recent foreign policy must be understood by considering three factors: the crucial role of overseas employment to the Philippine economy, the mendicant relationship between the Philippines and the United States, and the Catholicism of Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.

Between September 11 and August 4, 2004, the Philippine State identified itself as a loyal and supportive member of the Coalition of the Willing, in part to take advantage of the labor opportunities in the reconstruction efforts of Iraq. However, in the face of mounting violence and instability in the war-torn country, the Philippines became increasingly reluctant to actively participate in the coalition. When Angelo de la Cruz, a Filipino truck driver, was kidnapped, the Philippine government withdrew its forces from Iraq. This decision can only be understood in the context of Macapagal-Arroyo's political fundamentalism. Specifically, Macapagal-Arroyo believed that it was God's will to spare the life of de la Cruz.

This study of the Philippines' recent foreign policy examines the interconnections of international relations, transnational labor migration, military conflict, theology, and terrorism. It is unique in its explicit examination of peripheral states' participation in the War on Terror, the invasion of Iraq, and the Coalition of the Willing, as well as its willingness to discuss the religious context of a state's foreign policy.
The Kindness of Strangers
Authors: Elliott Deni
Published: February 2025

In The Kindness of Strangers, Deni Elliott examines ethically questionable situations that have arisen in response to institutional dependency on external benefactors. Major concerns analyzed include: The increased professionalism of fundraising and of donating, an increased willingness of institutions to cater to the demands of donors, creation of dual roles for faculty, students and staff when they are fundraisers and donors in addition to playing their primary roles in higher education, business-university research partnerships that put business values in conflict of academic values and mission, commercialization of student athletics, and endowment use and investment. Supplemented by a series of carefully selected articles, The Kindness of Strangers needs to be read by anyone who is concerned by higher education's increasing dependency on corporate and individual donors.
China, Taiwan, Japan, the United States and the World
Authors: Thompson Kenneth W.
Published: February 2025

China, Taiwan, Japan, the United States and the World is the fifth volume in the Miller Center's series on Asian political leadership. As part of the Center's ongoing research program, recognized authorities participate in forums, colloquia, and conferences. The contributors are a unique mix of scholars, administrators, and diplomats whose expertise serves as a rich resource for students of government and foreign policy. Their efforts provide a comparative dimension to the Center's programs. The book is divided into four sections. Part I focuses on China, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia after the Cold War. Part II focuses on Japan and its role in the future of international politics. Part III addresses the patterns and principles that dictate Asian culture and development. Part IV provides a theoretical and structural analysis of the future of Asian politics and economics. China, Taiwan, Japan, the United States and the World provides valuable information on the economics, politics, and culture of Asian countries from theoretical and historical perspectives. In addition, the book predicts the future of these nations, their relations with the United States, and their role in the international arena.
The Ambassador from Wall Street
Authors: Lamont Edward M.
Published: February 2025

This is the first biography of the man who, as J.P. Morgan's CEO and the leading banker of his generation, helped establish U.S. economic policy through his broad-reaching financial, political and social connections.

Edward Lamont offers fresh insight into the turbulent period between the two world wars through this fascinating account of the life of the most influential banker of his era.
Words of Intelligence
Authors: Goldman Jan
Published: February 2025

Words of Intelligence: A Dictionary is intended for the intelligence and national security men and women who are fighting the Global War on Terrorism at all levels: local, state, and federal. The intelligence community has undergone massive changes since the Central Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency, and the Department of Defense were created, and recently, with the establishment of Homeland Security and a Director of National Intelligence, it has taken on even more duties and responsibilities. Intelligence now must be transmitted to state and local public administrators, health officials, and transportation planners (to name just a few) in times of a possible domestic attack. Containing over 600 terms related to theoretical aspects of intelligence, intelligence operations, intelligence strategies, security classification of information, obscure names of intelligence boards and organizations, and homeland security, this dictionary is an invaluable tool for those requiring a working knowledge of intelligence-related issues. A topical index is also included.
Come Along
Authors: Respondowska Jacinta
Published: February 2025

Quest for Confirmation, the second volume of the series Come Along: We Are Truth-Bound, is a cross-examination of the concepts derived in Volume One, A Dialogue and Dialectic: Bridging the Great Epistemic Divides. The cross-examination is conducted by means of a dialogue with a representative thinker from each of the related bodies of knowledge. The study reveals reality to be an intricate, harmoniously-integrated whole and terminates in "An Epistemological Atlas" that depicts the major processes of human knowledge in their application to different disciplines. The process itself exposes the latter to be the stepping stones of our mind's ascent to the ultimate truth. In light of this understanding, the unresolved controversies in philosophy gain a new degree of clarity and reveal their relevance to human life.

This volume, a work in epistemology that encompasses human knowledge in general, lends itself to different courses but is of special significance to philosophy, theology, and physics.
Job, Jonah, and the Unconscious
Authors: Corey Michael
Published: February 2025

Job, Jonah, and the Unconscious is the latest work by natural theologian M.A. Corey. It is a ground-breaking synthetic work utilizing the unique perspective of modern depth psychology to interpret the underlying meaning of two of the most fascinating books of the Old Testament, Job and Jonah. In the process it weaves together a unique development perspective on the age-old problem of evil that satisfies both the traditional theologian and the hard- core skeptic. It is able to do this by resorting to a concept of metaphysical necessity that is able to account for the temporary existence of evil in the world, while simultaneously preserving the omnipotence and omnibenevolence of God. The end result of this fascinating study is the elucidation of the cause of moral evil, along with the general defense of traditional monotheistic religion. Contents: JONAH AND THE UNCONSCIOUS; History or Allegory?; A Psychological Analysis of the Book of Jonah; The Identity of the Shadow; Repression and the Concept of Demon Possession; The Storm; Significance of the Fish; The Prayer; The Mission to Nineveh; A Theodicy for Natural Evils; JOB: The Story of Job; The Relationship Between Knowledge and Evil; Job's Goodness and the Nature of Evil; The Nature of Hell; A Developmental View of Salvation; Elipjaz's First Speech; Job's Reply; Contingency, Necessity, and the Ultimate Transformation of Evil into Good; EVIL IN THE OLD TESTAMENT; Evil, Monotheism, and the Divine Goodness; A Developmental Interpretation of Evil; ANSWER TO JUNG; Jung and the God of The Old Testament; Why Bad Things Happen to Good People; A Pluralistic View of Salvation; Jung's View of Job; The Power of Doubt; The Severity of the Developmental Process; Could God Have Done Better?; The Image and the Likeness of God; Jung, Evil and the Trinity; The Incarnation; Conclusion.
Breaking the Mold of Education
Authors: Cohan Audrey , Honigsfeld Andrea
Published: February 2025

Similar to the previous three volumes, Breaking the Mold of School Instruction and Organization: Innovative and Successful Practices for the 21st Century (Honigsfeld & Cohan, 2010), Breaking the Mold of Preservice and Inservice Teacher Education: Innovative and Successful Practices for the 21st Century (Cohan & Honigsfeld, 2011), and,Breaking the Mold of Education for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students: Innovative and Successful Practices for the 21st Century (Honigsfeld & Cohan, 2012), the purpose of this book is to offer a carefully selected collection of documented best practices for empowering students.

The contributing authors represent diverse backgrounds, cultures, and experiences, yet their chapters recognize similarities among students so that the innovations can be transferred to other contexts. Each chapter represents practical, research-based success stories as well as authentic accomplishments which motivate and engage all students.

The 20 chapters in this volume are organized into four sections: (a) making personal connections and engaging students in reflection; (b) engagement with literacy and language; (c) music, movement, arts, drama and other creative engagements; and (d) school culture, community, and student success. The compelling chapters shared in this volume—focused on innovation and transformation—will help thrust education and teacher action (rather than reaction) in a positive trajectory of change.
Newman and the Intellectual Tradition
Authors: The Portsmouth Institute The Portsmouth Institute
Published: February 2025

Newman and the Intellectual Tradition highlights the proceedings of the 2010 Portsmouth Institute on Newman and the Intellectual Tradition. John Henry Newman was an Anglican priest for two decades in the 1800s, and was one of the founders of the Oxford Movement, which sought to reinvigorate the Church of England. In 1845 he left the Anglican Church to convert to Roman Catholicism. He was ordained a priest soon after, and was elevated to Cardinal in 1879. The richness of Newman’s thought and the felicity of his prose remain powerful and provocative today. This book includes speeches, articles, and thoughts about Newman from a distinguished array of speakers. They successfully explore Cardinal Newman’s far-ranging life and thought. For anyone wanting to further their own understanding of Cardinal Newman’s character this is a must-read.
Declaring War Against Schooling
Authors: Glines Don
Published: February 2025

Declaring War Against Schooling documents 100 years of educational wars between Visionary learning leaders and Traditional school people. Ironically, to win the existing war, both opposing groups must unify to overthrow the control of education by politicians.

The script cites the eras when education was in the hands of flexible educators with support, not opposition, from many politicians. President Lyndon Johnson called for “Tomorrow’s Schools”—a vision not yet achieved. The Reagan, Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations transformed education into politics. Traditionalists submitted to one-size-fits-all mandates. Visionaries failed to unify to prevent unjust political requirements.

Research is presented which validates the flaws in current school and college rituals. Outlined are venues to overcome political control, offer educational alternatives, and create voluntary personalized choices for all learners.

Declaring War Against Schooling calls for ACTION NOW by visionary critics, educators, parents, and students. The goal is optional learning paths, not mandated schooling systems.
Clyde Fitch and the American Theatre
Authors: Dearinger Kevin Lane
Published: February 2025

Clyde Fitch (1865-1909) was the most successful and prolific dramatist of his time, producing nearly sixty plays in a twenty-year career. He wrote witty comedies, chaotic farces, homespun dramas, star vehicles, historical works, stark melodramas, and adaptations of European successes, but he was best known for his society plays, mirroring themes found in the novels of Henry James and Edith Wharton. In fact, Fitch collaborated with Wharton on a stage adaptation of her House ofMirth. He was also a gay man, although that gentler adjective was not the term of his time. He was bullied in school and baited by critics throughout his career for what they supposed of his private life. He responded with impressive strength and integrity. He was, at least for a short time, Oscar Wilde’s lover, and Wilde influenced his early plays, but Fitch’s study of Ibsen and other European dramatists inspired him to pursue the course of naturalism. As he became more successful, he took greater control of the staging and design of his plays. He was a complete man of the theatre and among the first names enrolled in New York’s theatrical hall of fame.
Collecting from the Margins
Authors: Andrade María Mercedes
Published: February 2025

From the cabinets of wonderof the Renaissance to the souvenir collections of today, selecting, accumulating, and organizing objects are practices that are central to our notions of who we are and what we value. Collecting, both private and institutional, has been instrumental in the consolidation of modern notions of the individual and of the nation, and numerous studies have discussed its complex political, social, economic, anthropological, and psychological implications. However, studies of collecting as practiced in colonized cultures are few, since the role of these cultures has usually been understood as that of purveyors of objects for the metropolitan collector.

Collecting from the Margins: Material Culture in a Latin American Context seeks to counter the historical understanding of collecting that posits the metropolis as collecting subject and the colonial or postcolonial society as supplier of collectible objects by asking instead how collecting has been practiced and understood in Latin America. Has collecting been viewed or portrayed differently in a Latin American context? Does the act of collecting, when viewed from a Latin American perspective, unsettle the way we have become accustomed to think about it? What differences, if any, arise in the activity of collecting in colonized or previously colonial societies?

Spanning the period after the independence wars until the 1980s, this collection of ten essays addresses a broad range of examples of collecting practices in Latin America. Collecting during the nineteenth century is addressed in discussions of the creation of the first national museums of Argentina and Colombia in the post-independence period, as well as in analyses of the private collections of modernistas such as Enrique Gómez Carrillo, Rubén Darío, José Asunción Silva, and Delmira Agustini at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. The practice of collecting in the twentieth century is discussed in analyses of the self-described revolutionary practices of Oswald de Andrade, Augusto de Campos and the films of Ruy Guerra, as well as the polemical collections of Pablo Neruda, and the unsettling collections portrayed in Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Performing Bodies
Authors: Ramsey-Portolano Catherine
Published: February 2025

Performing Bodies: Female Illness in Italian Literature and Cinema (1860-1920) explores the variations in the portrayal of female illness in Italian fin de siècle literature and early cinema. Catherine Ramsey-Portolano begins her study with an overview of nineteenth-century theories on female inferiority and nervous disorders, especially hysteria. 19th-century European scientific and philosophical discourse on women’s bodies, which focused on female biological functions and malfunctions, accompanied an abundant fin de siècle literary representation of female illness, a theme which also carried over into the cinematic genre of diva films of the 1910s. Ramsey-Portolano’s analysis of fin de siècle Italian literary texts first discusses those novels in which illness represents the consequence and at times punishment for women who transgressed traditional societal roles and norms of behavior. Ramsey-Portolano also demonstrates, however, that there also existed within a portrayal of female illness which suggested sickness as a form of agency for women. Rather than depicting women as powerless victims who succumb to illness due to the pressures and limitations of patriarchal society, this second group of novels posits illness as a means for women to take control of their bodies and demonstrate self-mastery through illness as a chosen form of behavior. Performing Bodies: Female Illness in Italian Literature and Cinema (1860-1920) concludes with a discussion of the role of female illness in Italian cinema of the 1910s. Ramsey-Portolano analyzes the films Tigre reale (1916) and Malombra (1917), featuring the divas Pina Menichelli and Lyda Borelli, to show how illness granted centrality to the female character. By placing the diva and her point of view at the center of the film’s action, these films posit the female character as the active one in advancing the story, thus providing a progressive model for female Italian viewers and an early example of the female gaze in Italian cinema. Performing Bodies: Female Illness in Italian Literature and Cinema (1860-1920) examines how in Italian literature and film, as well as in society, women were confined to traditional roles and illness often represented the consequence for transgressing those roles. Feigning illness offered women a way to “own” the illness and become manipulators and masters not only of their bodies but of their stories and destinies.
Ideology in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath
Authors: Hili Ikram
Published: February 2025

With its distinctive poetic forms and themes, Sylvia Plath’s poetry patently epitomizes her personal and artistic struggle as a woman writer to be part of a largely male-dominated canon. In Ideology in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath: From Manuscript to Published Poem, Ikram Hili examines the difficulties that Plath encountered while drafting her poems, as she wrestled with what to reveal to, or conceal from, the reading public—a literary exertion that is even more visible when studying the poet’s manuscripts of published and unpublished poems. While examining the influence of ideology on Plath’s poetics, Hili traces different stages of the poet’s literary journey, as she moves from restriction, repression, and containment towards a liberating phase during which she carves out her own body of writing. Detaching herself from the rigid, crippling formalism of her earlier years, Plath confronts her own indecisiveness as a poet, cleans up her messy drafts, and embarks on an aesthetic healing process. The literary body that she aims to construct is no longer confined within the “great” writing tradition that she once perceived as predominantly male; nor is it perfect. It is a “perfected” body, the result of a process into which Plath’s captivated readers have also entered.
NoSQL Security in Web Application
Authors: M. Eassa Ahmed
Published: February 2025

The revolution in the amount of generated information has recently motivated the manufacturers of smartphones, tablets, and PCs for continuous development to lead to an increase in connected devices, which have become the largest source of data, and the worldwide success of social networks. The biggest social networks and significant Internet players like Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Amazon were the first to face these huge amounts of data “at the Internet scale” and devised adaptive solutions to overcome this situation and strive to launch new social network platforms such as the Threads platform. On the other hand, the latest advancements in cloud computing and Web Applications have created the need to store larger volumes of data in addition to the need for high availability, scalability, and security. Consequently, many businesses began adopting different types of nonrelational databases, which are referred to as NoSQL “Not only SQL” databases. NoSQL database systems do not use only SQL as a query language and usually do not have a schema, and they come with looser consistency models than traditional relational databases; there are many product vendors for NoSQL database systems, and many of them are open-source. However, some security issues appeared when applying NoSQL databases, the most important of which was injection attacks.
Circulating Tumor Cells and DNA in Early Diagnosis and Prognosis of Metastatic Cancer
Authors: Jahan Marium , Rubab Ayesha , Ali Mohsin , Sultan Aneesa , Zuhair Muhammad , Zakria Muhammad , Sarwar Jahangir , Waqas Hasan Syed
Published: February 2025

Metastatic cancer remains a major challenge in oncology, often diagnosed late with limited intervention options. This chapter highlights the role of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) and circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) as biomarkers for early detection, diagnosis, and prognosis. Liquid biopsy, a non-invasive method, analyzes blood components like CTCs, which provide insights into tumor heterogeneity and metastatic potential, and ctDNA, which reflects genetic mutations and tumor burden. These biomarkers enable real-time tumor monitoring, aiding in understanding progression, treatment response, residual disease, and resistance mechanisms. Advances in detection methods emphasize their clinical relevance in personalized cancer treatment. Integrating CTCs and ctDNA into oncology could revolutionize management through individualized strategies, enhancing early detection and outcomes. The chapter concludes with challenges and future directions for implementing these biomarkers in precision oncology.
Deconstructivist Gendered Esthetics in Vernon Lee’s Hauntings, Art Criticism and Isabella d’Este’s Studiolo
Authors: Worley Sharon
Published: February 2025

In Vernon Lee’s “Amore Dure: Passages from the Diary of Spiridion Trepka” from her collection of short stories, Hauntings: Fantastic Stories (1890), she satirizes the fascination with the Italian Renaissance by contemporary scholars. Her story makes fun of her Renaissance studies mentor, Walter Pater, as well as previous stories by her famous nineteenth authors, including notably, George Sand’s Spiridion, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Marble Faun, and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Valpurga, and Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess.” Writing at the turn of the century, Lee contributed to a formidable tradition of Anglo-French scholarship and creative works set in Italy. Her unique point of view places stories of ghosts and the supernatural in direct opposition to the prevailing style of aestheticism as well as her own emerging psychological theory of esthetics in which she sought a physiological foundation for art appreciation. A comparison of “Amore Dure” with the studiolo of Isabella d’Este and Botticelli’s Birth of Venus with “Dionea” demonstrates the extent to which Lee manipulates the Renaissance Venus/Virgin iconography and reinvents a new revisionist supernatural spirit who restores gender and racial equality. By contrast, an analysis of “Oke of Okehurst” demonstrates an affinity to Lee private studiolo based on her West Indian colonial ancestry and art criticism.
Linking China with the World: Yang Kuangman’s Long Poems as Global Poetry
Authors: Xu Kejun
Published: February 2025

With the rapid and irresistible progress of globalization, Chinese writers have begun to make their names in the world literary arena and have gradually caught the attention of Western readers, with Mo Yan winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2012. However, there are still a large number of contemporary Chinese writers whose names are only seldom noticed, not to mention being recognized by the Western world, among whom Yang Kuangman, the Chinese contemporary poet who has won many literary prizes in China, is one of the unnoticed ones. As a translator of Mr. Yang Kuangman’s three recently published long poems—“I Grow Old in Metro,” “Flights Delayed” and “Return to the Plains,” I attempt to elaborate on the recurrent and universal themes of death and rebirth of the self in Kuangman’s poetry by adopting a comparative methodology. My thesis involves not only the condition of how contemporary Chinese poets are received at home but also how Western poetry marks indelible imprints on their works. As for Kuangman’s works, the influence of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself, and Alexander Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin all contribute to the technique and themes of Mr. Yang’s three poems. I believe a comparative approach will provide the readers with more clues on the interplay between Chinese and Western literature in the highly globalizedtwenty-first century. Since literature is about humanity, while humanity is something that transcends the boundary of nation and race, it has a universal value.
Recovery of Cellulose from Food and Agricultural Waste
Authors: Alexander Symone , Alidu Mariama
Published: February 2025

This chapter covers current innovations in recovering cellulose from food and agricultural waste. The production of waste is increasing daily, which has led to a growing emphasis on cellulose-based materials in the literature as of 2024. Extracting high-value products like cellulose from waste resources can significantly reduce emissions that are detrimental to the environment. This chapter focuses on recovery and key characterization techniques for cellulose extracted from food and agricultural waste. It also describes the challenges associated with various waste feedstocks, the processes used to extract cellulose, and outlines potential solutions. Additionally, we will discuss opportunities for innovation and advancement along with the current state of the art.
Perspective Chapter: Wearable Energy Harvesting for Personal Navigation
Authors: Hui Teo Tee , Liang Kok Chiang , Zhang Xianlong , Heng Jovan
Published: February 2025

Energy harvesting technologies are driving sustainable innovations across various domains, from wearable devices to advanced satellite positioning systems. This chapter highlights transformative projects showcasing the potential of energy harvesting. The energy harvesting combat boot exemplifies the ability to convert kinetic energy from human motion into electrical power, enabling operations such as satellite positioning without external batteries. Advanced wearable devices, including global positioning system (GPS)-integrated systems, illustrate how energy harvesting supports efficient navigation and tracking. Emerging methods like triboelectric and piezoelectric harvesters, alongside cutting-edge materials such as carbon nanotubes, demonstrate scalable solutions for low-power applications. Innovations in satellite energy systems, such as thermoelectric generators and hybrid designs, further extend the versatility of energy harvesting by converting ambient energy into usable power for communication and navigation. Despite challenges like intermittent energy sources and integration complexities, these advancements underscore the critical role of energy harvesting in achieving autonomy, efficiency, and environmental sustainability.
The Aesthetic of Delight: Joy as Transformational Pedagogy in Early Learning
Authors: Karaolis Olivia , Little Cathy
Published: February 2025

This research tells the story of an interpretation of joy particular to early childhood education. For writer Zadie Smith, joy comes in many iterations; it may be a small pleasure or a grand affair, experienced internally or relationally, and, most importantly, has the capacity to increase rapidly when children are involved. The joy that accompanies children is much more than a feeling, it arrives unexpectedly at times of discovery and important moments in relationships. This chapter reports the findings of a qualitative research project involving early childhood educators in Australia that sought to identify the presence and significance of joy in their professional lives. This phenomenological study examined how educators felt about joy, how they experienced joy in their daily practice, with results revealing a joy that is particular to the field, and one that could be a valuable point of focus in early childhood education. This chapter re-defines and outlines this version of joy, and in doing so, proposes how attending to joy through an aesthetic lens can create a new narrative of the early childhood profession, one that is sustainable through the practice of joy.