bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Efek Pemberian Pakan Komplit Mengandung Tepung Daun Gamal (Gliricidia sepium) terhadap Pertumbuhan Kelinci Rex
Authors: Soleh Arif Rohmat , Amrullah Amir Husaini Karim , Badarina Irma
Published: October 2023

The aim of the study was to determine the best percentage of Gamal (Gliricidia sepium) leaf meal in complete feed to increase the growth of Rex rabbits. The design used was a completely randomized design (CRD), which consisted of 3 treatments with 4 replications: P0 (control treatment), P1 (5% Gliricidia sepium leaf powder, P2 (10% Gliricidia sepium leaf powder). The varriabels were feed consumption, Averga Daily Gain (ADG) and Feed Efficiency. The research data were analyzed by means of variance (ANOVA), if the results of the analysis had a significant effect (P<0.05) then Duncan's Multiple Range Test (DMRT) was further tested to see differences between treatments.The results of the study showed that the treatment had no significant (P>0.05) effect on feed consumption, average daily gain (ADG) and feed efficiency. The average of daily consumption of rabbits was 100.17-111.10 g/head/day, average daily gain (ADG) was 19.16-22.80 (g/head/day), and feed efficiency was 19.51-20.85 %. Based on the results of the study, it was concluded that the use of Gliricidia sepium leaves up to 10% did not have a significant effect on feed consumption, average daily gain, and feed efficiency.
 
Key words: growth, pellet, Rex
 
ABSTRAK
Penelitian bertujuan untuk mengetahui persentase terbaik penggunaan tepung daun gamal (Gliricidia sepium) dalam pakan komplit sehingga dapat meningkatkan pertumbuhan kelinci Rex. Rancangan yang digunakan adalah Rancangan Acak Lengkap (RAL), yang terdiri dari 3 perlakuan dengan 4 ulangan : P0 (perlakuan kontrol), P1 (5% tepung daun Gliricidia sepium), P2 (10% tepung daun Gliricidia sepium). Variabel yang diamati terdiri dari konsumsi pakan, Pertambahan Bobot Badan Harian (PBBH) dan Efisiensi Pakan. Data hasil penelitian dianalisis dengan ANOVA, apabila hasil analisis berpengaruh nyata (P<0,05) maka diuji lanjut Duncan’s Multiple Range Test (DMRT) untuk melihat perbedaan antar perlakuan. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa perlakuan berpengaruh tidak nyata (P>0,05) terhadap konsumsi pakan, pertambahan berat badan harian (PBBH) dan efisiensi pakan. Rataan konsumsi pakan kelinci bekisar 100,17-111,10 g/ekor/hari, pertambahan berat badan harian (PBBH) berkisar 19,16 -22,80 (g/ekor/hari), dan efisiensi pakan berkisar 19,51-20,85 %. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian disimpulkan bahwa penggunaan daun Gliricidia sepium sampai 10% tidak menurunkan performa pertumbuhan kelinci rex yang meliputi konsumsi pakan, pertambahan bobot badan harian,dan efisiensi pakan.
Pemilihan dan Pengolahan Daging dalam Situasi Wabah Penyakit Mulut dan Kuku
Authors: Santoso Urip
Published: October 2023

This literature review aims to provide information on how to select and process meat in an outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD). FMD is not a zoonotic disease, so meat from infected livestock is safe for consumption. To prevent the spread of FMD, consumers need to understand and apply it in distributing, selecting, storing and processing meat. The concept of ASUH in choosing livestock products is very important for consumers. Dissemination of knowledge about the above matters is very important to be carried out by the government, universities, the livestock industry and by community leaders so that Indonesia is soon free from FMD. In addition, the level of knowledge of housewives in selecting and processing meat during an FMD outbreak ranges from low to moderate. It can be concluded that meat from livestock infected with FMD is safe for consumption, and efforts are needed to increase public knowledge and its application in distributing, selecting, storing and processing meat as an effort to prevent the spread of FMD.
 
Key words: Foot and Mouth Disease, meat, zoonoses, ASUH
 
ABSTRAK
Telaah pustaka ini bertujuan untuk memberikan informasi tentang cara memilih dan mengolah daging dalam situasi wabah Penyakit Mulut dan Kuku (PMK). Hasil telaah menunjukkan bahwa PMK bukan penyakit zoonosis, sehingga daging yang berasal dari ternak yang terinfeksi aman dikonsumsi. Untuk mencegah penyebaran PMK maka konsumen perlu memahami dan mengaplikasikan dalam mendistribusikan, memilih, menyimpan dan mengolah daging. Konsep ASUH dalam memilih produk ternak sangat penting bagi konsumen. Sosialisasi pengetahuan tentang hal tersebut sangat penting dilakukan baik oleh pemerintah, perguruan tinggi, industri peternakan maupun oleh tokoh masyarakat agar Indonesia segera bebas PMK. Pengetahuan ibu rumah tangga dalam memilih dan mengolah daging dalam kondisi wabah PMK berkisar antara rendah sampai dengan sedang. Dapat disimpulkan bahwa daging dari ternak yang terinfeksi PMK aman dikonsumsi, dan perlu adanya upaya peningkatan pengetahuan masyarakat dan penerapannya dalam mendistribusikan, memilih, menyimpan dan mengolah daging sebagai salah satu upaya untuk mencegah penyebaran PMK
 
Kata kunci: Penyakit Mulut dan Kuku, daging, zoonosis, ASUH
Control of TAF5 by NOD2.
Authors: Mamoor Shahan
Published: October 2023

We provide evidence here from loss-of-function studies in mice and gain-of-function studies in human cells (1, 2) which demonstrate that the NLR (nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain-like receptor) family protein NOD2 controls expression of the TATA-box binding protein associated factor 5, TAF5.
Evaluation of Early CRRT Interventions in Patients with ECMO (ELITE) Statistical Analysis Plan
Authors: Du Xin
Published: October 2023

This study is a prospective, multicenter, open, randomized controlled clinical trial to determine the effect of early continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) therapy with Veno-Arterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (VA ECMO) on 30-day mortality. In the study, patients with VA ECMO were randomized into early CRRT treatment group and conventional CRRT treatment group. A plan of 248 patients with VA-ECMO from about 10 study sites will be randomized to early CRRT within 24 hours of initiation of ECMO, regardless of whether there is a conventional indication, or to the control where patients only receive CRRT according to a conventional indication. All patients will be followed up for one year, survival status, ECMO related index and data about quality of life will be collected during baseline and follow-up period.
Xist induction following p53 disability features Nlgn4x modulation.
Authors: Mamoor Shahan
Published: October 2023

We recently described a sex-specific transcriptional regulation mechanism, found in physiologically relevant settings in breast cancer cells in vitro and in cells of the embryo in mice and humans, wherein mutation or loss of the p53 tumor suppressor results in transcriptional perturbation of the non-coding RNA that functions in X-inactivation, Xist, with this transcriptional change being among the most quantitatively substantial changes transcriptome-wide - naturally, in the presence of p53 mutation, or experimentally following deletion of p53 (1). Here, we studied p53 wild-type and p53 mutant breast cancer cell lines as well as Xist-positive and Xist-negative human embryonic stem cell clones (2, 3) to understand the transcriptional consequences of Xist up-regulation following loss of p53 tumor suppression in development and transformation. We reveal induction of Nlgn4x (4-6) as a transcriptional feature of Xist activation following impairment (disability) of p53.
Biến đổi khí hậu, thuyết phủ nhận, lập luận hoài nghi và vai trò của truyền thông khoa học
Authors: La Viet-Phuong , Nguyen Minh-Hoang , Vuong Quan-Hoang
Published: October 2023

Biến đổi khí hậu, thường được gọi là sự nóng lên toàn cầu, hiện đang ngày càng trở thành thách thức nghiêm trọng nhất đối với hành tinh của chúng ta. Vấn đề này vô cùng phức tạp, chủ yếu bởi việc con người liên tục thải ra khí nhà kính vào khí quyển, gây ra những hậu quả đáng kể và ảnh hưởng khắp mọi khía cạnh của môi trường, xã hội và kinh tế toàn cầu. Mặc dù hầu hết các nhà khoa học về chuyên ngành khí hậu đều đồng thuận rằng hoạt động của con người đang đẩy biến đổi khí hậu ngày càng trầm trọng hơn, nhưng một phần xã hội vẫn còn hoài nghi hoặc từ chối thực tế này. Cuộc tranh cãi xoay quanh sự nóng lên toàn cầu liên quan đến việc xác định liệu hiện tượng này có đang diễn ra và mức độ nghiêm trọng của nó tới đâu. Các câu hỏi còn liên quan đến nguyên nhân gây ra biến đổi khí hậu, cũng như việc nên hay không nên thực hiện các biện pháp hạn chế và cách thực hiện chúng. Bài viết này tìm hiểu nguyên nhân, hậu quả và ý nghĩa của việc phủ nhận biến đổi khí hậu, nhấn mạnh tầm quan trọng của việc giải quyết vấn đề này vì lợi ích của hành tinh chúng ta và các thế hệ tương lai.
Xist induction following p53 disability features FAT1 modulation.
Authors: Mamoor Shahan
Published: October 2023

We recently described a sex-specific transcriptional regulation mechanism, found in physiologically relevant settings in breast cancer cells in vitro and in cells of the embryo in mice and humans, wherein mutation or loss of the p53 tumor suppressor results in transcriptional perturbation of the non-coding RNA that functions in X-inactivation, Xist, with this transcriptional change being among the most quantitatively substantial changes transcriptome-wide - naturally, in the presence of p53 mutation, or experimentally following deletion of p53 (1). Here, we studied mouse embryonic stem cells deficient in p53 as well as Xist-positive and Xist-negative human embryonic stem cell clones (2, 3) to understand the transcriptional consequences of Xist up-regulation following loss of p53 tumor suppression in development and transformation. We reveal modulation of FAT1 (4-6) as a transcriptional feature of Xist induction following impairment (disability) of p53.
KEKERASAN SEKSUAL DILINGKUNGAN PERGURUAN TINGGI
Authors: ANANTA MUHAMMAD YUSUF
Published: October 2023

Kekerasan seksual merupakan salah satu tindakan kekerasan yang bersifat langsung, dimana tindakan tersebut melibatkan orang lain dalam aktivitas seksual yang tidak diinginkan, baik secara verbal, maupun tindakan yang bersifat tidak diinginkan dilakukan oleh seseorang untuk menguasai atau memanipulasi orang lain.Sebagai suatu keadaan hukum, Indonesia tercatat memiliki tingkat pengaduan Berbasis Gender yang tinggi Kekerasan Seksual (KBG) sebanyak 338.496 kasus Kekerasan Berbasis Gender terhadap perempuan, dimana angka ini menunjukkan peningkatan kasus sebesar 50% jika dilihat dari pencatatan kasus pada tahun 2021 yaitu sebanyak 327.629 kasus.Dalam peningkatan dalam kasus-kasus tersebut antara lain adalah kasus-kasus yang terjadi di lingkungan universitas.Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan yuridis normatif, pendekatan penelitian ini adalah berdasarkan bahan hukum pokok dengan mengkaji teori, konsep, hukum prinsip dan peraturan perundang-undangan yang berkaitan dengan penelitian ini.Bertujuan untuk menentukan pengaturan penerapan sanksi pidana terhadap pelaku kekerasan seksual dalam penggunaan multitafsir dalam Permendikbud Nomor 30 Tahun 2021. Peran lembaga pemerintah dan lembaga pendidikan dalam memberikan sosialisasi mengenai penanganan dan pencegahan seksual kekerasan di perguruan tinggi terhadap masyarakat dan lingkungan sekitar perguruan tinggi mengenai hal-hal yang tercantum dalam Menteri Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan nomor 30 tahun 2021.
Analisis Non-Parametrik Uji Median Terhadap Ukuran Sepatu Mahasiswa Prodi Matematika 2020
Authors: zein ichsan
Published: October 2023

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui apakah median ukuran sepatu mahasiswa Prodi Matematika 2020 memiliki kesamaan atau tidak. Dalam melakukan uji median pada pembahasan ini dipakai uji Fisher, karena sampel yang digunakan kurang dari 20 (N<20). Hasil yang diperoleh adalah terdapat perbedaan antara median ukuran sepatu pria dan wanita pada mahasiswa Prodi Matematika 2020.
Representation of neurodivergence in fiction books: Exploring neurodivergent young peoples' perspectives
Authors: Webber Charlotte , Santi Elena , Cebula Katie , Crompton Catherine J , Fletcher-Watson Sue , McGeown Sarah Patricia
Published: October 2023

In recent years there has been growing awareness of the importance of representation in fiction books for children and young people (Best et al., 2020) to ensure all children and young people can see themselves reflected in what they read. Much of this work has focused, importantly, on increasing ethnic representation, yet other minority experiences, such as those of neurodivergent children and young people, have not been explored. This article provides new insights into neurodivergent young people’s perceptions of representation of neurodivergence in fiction books (and other text types) based on semi-structured interviews with 16 neurodivergent young people (14–17-years-old) from 2 high schools in COUNTRY. Using an inductive data-driven thematic analysis process, three themes were identified: (1) Representation of neurodivergence should be complex, realistic, and positive; (2) Representation of neurodivergence should be normalised; (3) Representation of neurodivergence beyond books is important. Each of these themes is explored in detail, followed by implications for future research, practice and the publishing of Young Adult fiction.
When the wisdom of Sheep shines
Authors: Vuong Quan-Hoang
Published: October 2023

The original idea of this narrative comes from the above cartoon by Panos Maragos, a Greek cartoonist (according to S. Berger [1]), which I stumbled upon on the Internet some time ago. It was originally intended to be included in the book Meandering Sobriety [2] but was later left out due to its fictitious nature.
Early electrophysiological correlates of perceptual consciousness are affected by both exogenous and endogenous attention
Authors: Doradzińska Łucja , Bola Michał
Published: October 2023

Perceptual Awareness Negativity (PAN) is an early ERP component proposed to constitute a neural correlate of perceptual consciousness, independent of mechanisms of perceptual and cognitive processing. In the present study, we investigated whether PAN is indeed a specific marker of phenomenal awareness or rather reflects the involvement of attention. To this end, we reanalyzed data collected in a previously published EEG experiment in which awareness of visual stimuli and two aspects defining attentional involvement - namely the inherent saliency and task relevance of a stimulus - were manipulated orthogonally. Specifically, during the experimental procedure participants (n = 41) were presented with images of faces, which were backward-masked or unmasked, fearful or neutral, and defined as task-relevant targets or task-irrelevant distractors. Single-trial ERP analysis revealed that in its early time window (140-200 ms) PAN was highly dependent on attentional manipulations, up to the point that the effect of awareness was not observed for attentionally irrelevant stimuli (i.e. neutral faces presented as distractors). In the late time window (200-350 ms) PAN was present in all attentional conditions but its amplitude was significantly higher in response to fearful faces, when compared to neutral ones; and to task-relevant face images, compared to task-irrelevant ones. In conclusion, we demonstrate that PAN's amplitude is highly dependent on both exogenous (stimulus saliency) and endogenous attention (task requirements), and thus challenge the interpretation of PAN as an attention-independent correlate of phenomenal awareness.
Critical Analysis of Theories of Consciousness
Authors: Tyler Christopher
Published: October 2023

Many thinkers have provided analyses of the properties of consciousness, though not generally in the context of framing the putative properties in terms of their specific testability. To avoid the criticisms of untestability leveled against the 19th century phenomenologists, the goal of the present overview is to review influential views on the specific properties of consciousness in terms of empirical testability in physiological terms. Of course, the properties of consciousness are, of their nature, subjective, but they may gain a measure of objectivity by consensus agreement on their validity. After proposing a working definition of consciousness and related terms, a representative range of proposals as to its properties is reviewed and assessed in terms of the testability of the properties proposed.
The Empowerment Leadership and Mentorship Program (ELM) is a train-the-trainer and skills transfer platform for student success and culture-shaping.
Authors: Orgel Joseph P.R.O. , Madhurapantula Rama Sashank , Jagannathan Nisha , Moller Arlen C.
Published: October 2023

It is believed that emotional intelligence may drive cognitive intelligence and certainly influences cognition, memory and communication effectiveness. With this in mind we devised an integrated social emotional intelligence, metacognition, and peer led approach to student support at the Illinois Institute of Technology that led to nearly immediate and significant gains in observable student success. The Empowerment Leadership and Mentorship Program (ELM) is a platform for student success and culture-shaping through individual and cooperative empowerment. Both these goals were assisted by actively encouraging a personal narrative based on a common set of core principles that formed a foundation for developing human-centric communication and leadership skills. This was applied at an institutional level also, in 3 areas of practice or tracks: 1) Peer lead co-instruction, 2) metacognitive instruction with peer lead coaching, and 3) peer-lead mentoring. Each track was based on following the ELM program supported with training and mentorship from institutional personnel who actively followed the program themselves. The methodology is simple and intuitive, enabling its rapid adoption and incorporation into meta-skills toolkits. It also lends itself to organic word-of-mouth-based dissemination to support culture shaping, vision setting, and peer influence. This was developed on a partially iterative basis, having determined from best practices, 5 tenets (or pillars or skill-sets) that form the foundation of the first of several frames, in what we have termed skills reframing. By showing students how to apply these core skills, so called soft or power skills, and how to reframe the same principles in metacognition and community interactions this also helped form the basis of empathetic and empowering communications for student success and community curation. The first frame is: Empowerment, Leadership, and Mentorship to develop and practice social-emotional intelligence, the second frame is metacognition for learning, the third, metacognition for leadership and so forth. The program was designed in collaboration with undergraduate student leaders and clinical psychology PhD students, primarily aimed for the undergraduate population pursuing degrees at a STEM institution, but not exclusively so. In its fourth year and with around one thousand students trained, three hundred of them in an applied ELM metacognition methods class, a dozen graduate students and twice that number of faculty and staff, the ELM program at Illinois Institute of Technology is making a positive impact on student success both inside and outside of the classroom.
A Re-Examination of the Sexual Opinion Survey
Authors: Kafaee Nazanin , Kohut Taylor , Joel Samantha
Published: October 2023

The Sexual Opinion Survey (SOS) has been one of the most widely used and influential measures in sexuality research cross-culturally since the 1980s. This scale is designed to measure individuals’ tendencies to avoid or approach sexual stimuli, also known as erotophobia-erotophilia. Although evidence of the scale’s validity has accumulated over the years, much of this work is limited to investigations of convergent and divergent validity. It has also been decades since the criterion validity of the original items has been reviewed and in that time some conceptual gaps in the scale’s item coverage have become apparent. Specifically, in this research we sought to determine if either the original or new SOS items of our own devising were better able to predict affective responses to a large range of sexual stimuli, compared to a variety of other sexuality measures (e.g., sociosexuality, sexual compulsivity, sexual health, etc.). To this end, we employed a machine learning method called Random Forests, in which all questionnaire items were entered as separate predictors. Results of this analysis indicated that a combination of the original and new SOS items better predicted affective responses to sexual stimuli than other sexuality measures that were tested. These findings confirm the validity of some of the existing SOS items but also suggest that further measurement refinement may be needed. Moreover, results of the exploratory factor analysis on the new SOS items identified a five-factor solution. Future validation efforts should confirm this structure.
Inside the mindful moment: The effects of brief mindfulness practice on large-scale network organization and intimate partner aggression
Authors: Rahrig Hadley , Ma Liangsuo , Brown Kirk Warren , Martelli Alexandra , West Samuel James , Lasko Emily , Chester David
Published: October 2023

AbstractMindfulness can produce neuroplastic changes that support adaptive cognitive and emotional functioning. Recently interest in single-exercise mindfulness instruction has grown considerably due to the advent of mobile health technology. Accordingly, the current study sought to extend neural models of mindfulness by investigating transient states of mindfulness during single-dose exposure to focused attention meditation. Specifically, we examined the ability of a brief mindfulness induction to attenuate intimate partner aggression via adaptive changes to intrinsic functional brain networks. To do so, we employed a dual regression approach to examine large-scale functional network organization in 50 intimate partner dyads (total n = 100) while they received either mindfulness (n = 50) or relaxation (n = 50) instruction. Mindfulness instruction reduced coherence within the Default Mode Network and increased functional connectivity within the Frontoparietal Control and Salience Networks. Additionally, mindfulness decoupled primary visual and attention-linked networks. Yet this induction was unable to elicit changes in subsequent intimate partner aggression and such aggression was broadly unassociated with any of our network indices. These findings suggest that minimal doses of focused attention-based mindfulness can promote transient changes in large-scale brain networks that have uncertain implications for aggressive behavior.
You are not enough: Inefficient search strategies persist for self-relevant targets
Authors: Bhat Manjiri , Nowakowska Anna , Clarke Alasdair D F , Hunt Amelia R.
Published: October 2023

Does our conception of a target affect how we look for it? Previous investigations have shown that search for an object with a unique identity is more efficient than search based on unique orientation. Here we asked whether giving an orientation target an identity label is sufficient to boost search efficiency. Participants completed two blocks of search for a line tilted 45 ̊ to the right. Between blocks we induced an identity-based connection between the participant and search target using the self-reference effect (SRE): participants learned to associate the target to the label “you” and distractor lines to the label “strangers”. A second experiment used the same paradigm but introduced a more intuitive relationship between the label and the object form by embedding the line in a circle and adding two dots to create face pictograms. The results of both experiments replicated the standard SRE as measured by reaction time, but search was similarly inefficient when the instructions were to search “for you” as they were in search for orientation. The results suggest search strategies are not strongly influenced by how a target is conceived, ruling out an intuitively appealing explanation for the large individual differences typically observed in search performance.
Adolescents flexibly adapt action selection based on controllability inferences
Authors: Raab Hillary , Goldway Noam , Foord Careen , Hartley Catherine A.
Published: October 2023

From early in life, we encounter both controllable environments, in which our actions can causally influence the reward outcomes we experience, and uncontrollable environments, in which they cannot. Environmental controllability is theoretically proposed to exert an organizing influence on our behavior. In controllable contexts, we can learn to proactively identify and select instrumental actions that bring about desired outcomes. In uncontrollable environments, we can instead rely on simpler Pavlovian learning processes that enable hard-wired reflexive reactions to anticipated, motivationally salient events. Recent empirical work has demonstrated that adults exhibit flexible controllability-dependent arbitration between instrumental and Pavlovian learning systems. In this study, we examined how the flexible arbitration between learning systems based on the degree of environmental controllability changes from childhood to adulthood. Based on prior empirical findings from a cross-species literature, we hypothesized that adolescents’ action selection may be particularly sensitive to environmental controllability. Ninety participants, aged 8-27, performed a probabilistic learning task that enables estimation of the degree of Pavlovian bias on instrumental learning. Participants completed the task in both controllable and uncontrollable conditions. We fit participants’ data with a reinforcement learning model in which controllability inferences adaptively modulate the dominance of Pavlovian versus instrumental control. Relative to children and adults, adolescents exhibited greater flexibility in calibrating the expression of Pavlovian learning biases to the degree of environmental controllability. These findings suggest that adolescence may be a period of heightened sensitivity to environmental reward statistics that organize motivated behavior across the lifespan.
The Intersectional Role-(In)Congruity Effects of Age and Gender on Leadership Evaluations
Authors: Thrasher Gregory , Rudolph Cort , Hammond Michelle
Published: October 2023

Over the past decades, the Western workforce has experienced two notable demographic shifts: there has been an increase in the percentage of women occupying leadership roles and the workforce is aging. Considering these two trends in unison, it would be intuitive that the future workforce will be defined by an increasingly age and gender-diverse group of leaders. However, although the general percentage of female leaders has increased, this percentage decreases sharply in upper leadership and executive roles. The current theory on barriers to female leadership ascension contains conflicting propositions and has largely examined gender issues in isolation from other factors (i.e., age stereotypes). We aim to create consensus across the literatures on age and gender-based leader prototypes by investigating intersectional role- congruity bias as a predictor of barriers to career advancement for age and gender-diverse individuals. We integrate fundamental propositions from role congruity theory within an intersectional framework to examine the joint influence that age- and gender-based agentic- communal role norms exert on leadership evaluations. Through the application of experimental vignette methodology across two studies (N1 = 163, N2 = 466), our results suggest that a) the positive effect of age on leadership prototypicality is attenuated for women, b) traditional biases associated with female leadership are dependent upon age, and c) male leaders receive a consistent and age-dependent bonus in ratings when displaying gender atypical communal behaviors. Implications for practice and research are discussed.
Investigating the Use of Online Bilingual Resources by Translation Students: The Vertical/Sequential Model Revisited
Authors: Elamin Saadia
Published: October 2023

Four experiments were carried out in a university translation course after noticing the recurrence of specific errors identical in most target texts produced by students. The purpose was, to identify the errors and verify whether they could be attributed to using online bilingual resources before comprehension of the source text, and, second, to implement a teaching strategy for addressing this problem and later assess its effectiveness. Participants in the study were twenty-seven female students in two groups registered for the course in two semesters: a group in one semester and the other in the following term. They translated two experimental texts from English L2 into Arabic L1. Each text was translated twice: the first time by one group at the beginning of their course, where students were allowed to access all types of resources, and the second by the other group towards the end of their course, after implementation of the teaching strategy. Comparison between the target texts produced before the implementation of the strategy and those made following the strategy reveals that the latter category contained f fewer translation errors -regrouped in the study as inappropriate renderings, with almost no occurrence of the type termed excessive literality. The findings suggest that the use of bilingual resources by translation students before full-text comprehension is the main cause of most otherwise avoidable errors. Consequently, it should be banned at the first phase of the translation process. The teaching strategy, based on the vertical/sequential translating model, is recommended in translation teaching.
Through the Secret Gate: A Study of Member-Contributed Submissions in PNAS
Authors: Andersen Jens Peter , Horbach Serge P. J. M. , Ross-Hellauer Tony
Published: October 2023

This work studies “Contributed” articles in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), a streamlined submission track for members of the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS). We assess the nature and impact of those articles and the background and status of their authors and contributors, by comparing these articles to PNAS articles following the traditional editorial process. Analyzing over 46,000 articles published between 2007 and 2020, we find that: (1) PNAS-Contributed articles tend to spend less time in the review process than Direct submissions; (2) Direct submissions tend to be slightly higher cited than Contributed articles, which are particularly overrepresented amongst least-cited PNAS papers; (3) PNAS-Contributed articles generally appear in lower per-author citation deciles than Direct submissions, but are more likely to appear in the overall top citation deciles of authors; (4) authors with lower mean normalized citation scores are profiting most from articles published as Contributed papers, in terms of citation impact; (5) NAS members tend to publish most Contributed articles in the first years after becoming an NAS member, with men publishing more of these articles than women; (6) Contributing authors take up a unique niche in terms of authorship roles.
The invisible city: The unglamorous biogeographies of urban microbial ecologies
Authors: Bradshaw Aaron
Published: October 2023

More-than-human, multispecies, and animals’ geographic accounts of the city have tended to focus on large, charismatic, and wild organisms, to the detriment of spatially invisible other-than-humans central to urban reproduction. At the same time, urban microbial geographies have foregrounded embodied interactions between humans and microorganisms, whether they are symbiotic or pathogenic, often marginalising the material contributions of extracorporeal microbiomes to the urban fabric. Building from these two blindspots, this article focuses on microbial ecologies that live constitutively outside of (other-than-)human bodies and which are intimately caught up in the metabolic intensities and infrastructural environments of the urban realm. There are two key aims: 1) to explore different forms of urban microbial ecologies and 2) to examine their relationships with urban infrastructures and reproduction. My disciplinary lenses are animals’ geographies and urban ecology and my case study focuses on urban water metabolism. Thus, based on empirical fieldwork on the urban river Lea in East London, and supplemented by scientific literature and technical documents, I analyse three urban microbial ecologies that correspond to the urban realms ‘extended microbiomes’: those involved in slow sand filtration for the treatment of drinkable water, those involved in sewage treatment via the activated sludge process, and those emerging and evolving in disused urban canal infrastructure. These processes spatially manage microbial growth and modulate the distribution of different forms of microbial agency with important effects for the smooth functioning of urban water metabolism. Yet, considering the specific materiality and ecological agency of microbes points to a more-than-human contingency and indeterminacy at the centre of urban reproduction. Urban human-microbial co-evolution and is mired with uncertainties, ‘black boxes’, and unintended consequences.
After-school Care, Child Development & Women’s Economic Empowerment - Rationale, Progress and Challenges
Authors: K.Murthy Ranjani
Published: October 2023

After-school care services are important from the lens of women’s economic participation and empowerment and child development & protection. Reduction in the unpaid care work of women has been argued as a right of women in the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and as a target in Sustainable Development Goal 5 (SDG 5) on gender equality. At the same time, the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) refers to the rights of children to care, though not necessarily after-school care. There are more studies in India on early childhood care services (for 0-6 years) than on after-school care services (for 6-18 years).
Modeling social norms: an integration of the norm-utility approach with beliefs dynamics
Authors: Gavrilets Sergey , Tverskoi Denis , Sánchez Angel
Published: October 2023

We review theoretical approaches for modeling the origin, persistence and change of social norms. The most comprehensive models describe the coevolution of behaviors, personal, descriptive, and injunctive norms while considering influences of various authorities and accounting for cognitive processes and between-individual differences. Models show that social norms can improve individual and group well-being. Under some conditions though deleterious norms can persist in the population through conformity, preference falsification, and pluralistic ignorance. Polarization in behavior and beliefs can be maintained, even when societal advantages of particular behaviors or belief systems over alternatives are clear. Attempts to change social norms can backfire through cognitive processes including cognitive dissonance and psychological reactance. Under some conditions social norms can change rapidly via tipping point dynamics. Norms can be highly susceptible to manipulation, and network structure influences their propagation. Future models should incorporate network structure more thoroughly, explicitly study online norms, consider cultural variations, and be applied to real-world processes.
Władimir (Zeew) Żabotyński: O narodowym wychowaniu [1910]; Zamiast apologii [1911] (wprowadzenie i przekład Marian Kisiel)
Authors: Kisiel Marian
Published: October 2023

Tłumaczenie trzech esejów Władimira Zeewa Żabotyńskiego Mowa do nauczycieli oraz Mowa w odeskim Towarzystwie Oświatowym, tworzących dyptyk zatytułowany O narodowym wychowaniu, a także eseju Zamiast apologii.
Architektura i urbanistyka manifestem władzy w PRL
Authors: Kędzierski Maciej
Published: October 2023

Celem artykułu jest przedstawienie różnych projektów architektonicznych i urbanistycznych, które są przykładem zamanifestowania władzy. Nie jest to zjawisko nowe, wszak potęgę kultu jednostki, oddawano w architekturze już w czasach starożytnych. Jakkolwiek w niniejszym artykule skoncentrowano się na Polsce, przyjmując cezurę czasową przypadającą na okres istnienia PRL. Do analizy wybrano poszczególne projekty, które symbolizowały ówczesny sposób rządzenia krajem. Zatem wspomniano o początkach odbudowy socjalistycznej Warszawy, szkołach „Tysiąclatkach”, budownictwie w czasie rządów Edwarda Gierka w tym słynnej autostradzie „Gierkówce” oraz o mniej znaczących inwestycjach realizowanych przez polityków niższego szczebla.
Language as an ethno-identification sign of the German minority in the upper Nitra in the context of historical and social changes
Authors: Letavajová Silvia , Kurpaš Michal
Published: October 2023

Some Germans are among the traditional national minorities in Slovakia. Their ancestors came to this territory from the 13th century onwards, mainly as miners. One of the locations where they settled was the upper Nitra and the surroundings of Nitrianske Pravno. Until the late 1940s, the German population had a majority representation in these municipalities. Due to the political and social changes after the Second World War, when they were displaced, their numbers are radically reduced and the ethnic identity is also weakened. The study focuses on historical and social changes that condition the ethnicity of this minority community. It focuses on the elements by which the Germans in the upper Nitra declare their togetherness and difference from the majority population. We pay particular attention to language as one of the essential components of ethnic identity, its practice and significance in the self-identification of the German minority. The main methodological procedure is a biographical and oral history interview, conducted with respondents from the municipalities of Nitrianske Pravno, Malinová, and Tužina in 2022.
Directional Scopaesthesia and Its Implications for Theories of Vision
Authors: Sheldrake Rupert , Smart Pamela
Published: October 2023

The sense of being stared at, or scopaesthesia, is very common, and its existence is supported by experimental evidence. However, it contravenes the standard scientific assumption, dating back to Kepler’s discovery of retinal images in 1604, that vision involves only the inward movement of light – intromission – but not the outward movement of images or attention – extramission. From this point of view, scopaesthesia is impossible. Yet, paradoxically, the conventional explanation of virtual images in mirrors is still based on Euclid’s (c. 300 BC) extramission theory, and most people implicitly believe in visual extramission, which could help provide a basis for scopaesthesia. If scopaesthesia depends only on the detection of another’s attention, it could conceivably be a scalar phenomenon, with a magnitude but not direction, analogous to telephone telepathy, in which people feel who is calling but do not know where they are. In this case, scopaesthesia would tell us little about the nature of vision. But if scopaesthesia is normally directional, enabling those stared at to detect the direction from which the look is coming, it would be more like a vector phenomenon, with both magnitude and direction and would provide evidence for visual extramission. Experimental tests of scopaesthesia have so far been devoted to establishing its existence and have not looked at its directionality. Here, we examine the natural history of the phenomenon based on a collection of 960 case histories collected over 25 years involving both humans and non-human animals. This collection includes more than 80 interviews with surveillance officers, detectives, martial arts teachers, celebrity photographers, wildlife photographers, and hunters who have extensive experience of watching people or non-human animals. In 466 (49%) of the cases, directional effects were explicit, in that the person or animal looked at responded by turning and looking directly back at the looker rather than searching at random for the source of attention. In 186 (19%) of the cases directional effects were implicit. In most of the other cases, directional effects were not mentioned, usually because they were general statements lacking detail. In online surveys, including a survey of a group of skeptics, the great majority of respondents said they had experienced directional scopaesthesia. We conclude that directionality is a normal feature of scopaesthesia in real-life situations and suggest that this finding supports the idea that minds are extended beyond brains and that this extension involves some kind of visual extramission. We quote from more than 40 case histories and, in the online Supplementary Material make the entire collection of 960 cases available to those who would like to look at the data for themselves.
Channelers’ Answers to Questions from Scientists: An Exploratory Study
Authors: Wahbeh Helane , Speirn Paolo , Pederzoli Luciano , Tressoldi Patrizio
Published: October 2023

Background and Objectives. This exploratory study aimed to evaluate the potential usefulness of channeled information for ten questions from scientists. The study’s objectives were to 1) assess the correspondence of channeled and non-channeled answers within questions, 2) evaluate the correspondence of different channelers’ responses for each question while in channeling and non-channeling states, 3) examine whether channelers believe they are receiving information from the same source, and 4) explore qualitative themes that emerge for each question. Method. Fifteen channelers provided answers to 10 questions in a channeled and non-channeled state. The first three objectives were quantitatively evaluated by three judges using structured criteria to assess correspondence. The last objective employed qualitative thematic analysis of the channeled answers.

Results. The quantitative analyses found 1) low correspondence between channeled and non-channeled answers as hypothesized, 2) virtually no correspondence for each question across channelers, contrary to our hypothesis, and 3) little support that the channelers perceived they were accessing the same source of information. The qualitative analysis resulted in coherent and common themes in the channeled responses for many but not all ten questions. Several methodological lessons were gleaned from the study, such as refining inclusion/exclusion criteria and the questions asked of channelers, allowing a similar amount of time for channeled and non-channeled answers, ensuring consistent methods across study sites, and including additional quantitative measures informing on the channelers experience in channeling and non-channeling states.

Conclusions. This exploratory study offers insight into improving future studies attempting to obtain valuable information through channeling.
Age of Ancient White Sands, NM, Human Tracks Questioned
Authors: Jett Stephen C.
Published: October 2023

Ae of Ancient White Sands, NM, Human Tracks Questioned
Introducing the “JSE Media Specialist"
Authors: Houran James
Published: October 2023

Introducing the “JSE Media Specialist"
Problematika Rendahnya Minat Baca di Dinas Perpustakaan dan Kearsipan Provinsi Sulawesi Tenggara
Authors: Sari Lusiana , Samrin Samrin , Karim Karim
Published: October 2023

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan: 1) Faktor Internal dan faktor eksternal yang mempengaruhi rendahnya minat baca di Dinas Perpustakaan dan Kearsipan Provinsi Sultra. 2) Upaya-upaya yang telah di lakukan dalam meningkatkan minat baca di Dinas Perpustakaan dan Kearsipan Provinsi Sultra. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode penelitian kualitatif  dengan pendekatan deskritif. Metode pengumpulan data penelitian ini terdiri dari observasi, wawacara, dan dokumentasi. Analisis data dalam penelitian meggunakan analisis data Miles dan Huberman dengan beberapa tahapan, yaitu tahap reduksi data, tahap penyajian data, dan tahap penarikan kesimpulan dan verifikasi. Sedangkan subjek penelitian ini adalah pegawai di Dinas Perpustakaan dan Kearsipan Provinsi Sultra. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa: 1) Faktor internal dan eksternal yang mempengaruhi rendahnya minat baca di Dinas Perpustakaan dan Kearsipan Provinsi Sulawesi Tenggara ialah berupa fasilitas sarana yang kurang memadai, perkembangan teknologi, koleksi bahan pustaka, kebutuhan anggaran, kurangnya sosialisasi dan kurang sumber daya manusia. 2) Upaya-upaya yang telah di lakukan dalam meningkatkan minat baca di Dinas Perpustakaan dan Kearsipan Provinsi Sulawesi Tenggara ialah berupa membuat kegiatan, kerjasama dengan stake holder, membentuk organisasi, peningkatan sarana dan prasarana, dan perpustakaan keliling.Kata kunci: Analisis, Rendahnya, Minat Baca
Sistem Penjaminan Mutu di SDIT Al-Qalam Kendari
Authors: Sucipto Sucipto , Alim Nur , Obaid Moh Yahya
Published: October 2023

Mutu dalam pengelolaan pendidikan sangat penting karena dengan pengelolaan yang bermutu akan menghasilkan pendidikan yang bermut pula. Penelitian ini membahas tentang system enjaminan mutu si SDIT Al-Qalam Kendari. Enelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan system penjaminan mutu guru dari berbagai aspek mulai dari proses rekrutmen guru, proses pembelajaran guru, dan evaluasi pembelajaran guru. Obyek penelitian ini adalah kepala sekolah, wakil kepala sekolah bidang kurikulum, kesiswaan, wakil ketua yayasan bidag SDM, dan Guru di SDIT Al-Qalam Kendari. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode  penelitian kualitatif dengan pendekatan deskriptif. Jeni data dalam penelitian ini diklasifikasikan menajdi data primer dan sekunder. Metode pengumpulan data terdidri dari wawancara, observasi, dan dokumentasi. Analisis data dengan cara reduksi, penyajian data dan penarikan kesimpulan selanjutnya teknik pengecekan keabsahab data mengguakan teknik triangulasi waktu, sumber dan teknik. Hasil penelitian menunjukan bahwa sisren penjaminan mutu di SDIT Al-Qalam Kendari terdiri dari beberapa bagian. (1) Rekrutmen guru dilakukan dari tahap analisis kebutuhan guru, pengajuan kebutuhan guru ke yayasan, penyebaran informasi rekrutmen guru, seleksi berkas, tes microteaching, tes menngaji, dan interview. (2) Proses Pembelajaran Guru dilakukan mulai dari tahap persiapan, pelaksanaan, evaluasi dan dalam proses pembelajaran terdapat pelatihan dan pengembangan guru. (3) Evaluasi Pembelajaran Guru dilaksanakan dengan dua cara yang pertama supervisi guru dan yang kedua evaluasi melalui rapor guru.Kata kunci: Mutu, Guru, SDIT Al-Qalam Kendari
Kepedulian Orang Tua Mengimplementasikan Nilai Pendidikan Agama Islam pada Anak di Desa Anggondara Kabupaten Konawe
Authors: Safitri Ika , Mu'min Sitti Aisyah , Awad Faizah Binti
Published: October 2023

Artikel ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui bentuk kepedulian orang tua terhadap anak dalam hal implementasi nilai pendidikan agama islam di Desa Anggondara, Kecamatan Palangga, Kabupaten Konawe. Penelitian deskriptif kualitatif ini, data dikumpulkan melalui observasi, interviu, dan dokumentasi. Hasil penelitian menunjukan bahwa bentuk kepedulian yang dilakukan orang tua kepada anaknya yakni membimbing anaknya dengan melakukan tindakkan secara langsung dan ikut mempratikkan tidak hanya menyuruh, memberikan perhatian terhadap belajar anak, mengajarkan berakhlak baik kepada orang tua dan orang lain, memotivasi dengan membantu dan mengembangkan cara belajar anaknya, menasehatianak tentang hak dan kewajibannya sebagai seorang anak yang wajib berbakti kepada orang tua, serta memberikan anak reward dan punishment. Faktor pendukung berupa kesadaran orang tua tentang pentingnya pendidikan agama bagi anak dan dukungan Taman Pendidikan Alquran yang berperan secara aktif mengajar anak-anak mengaji dan lingkungan masyarakat agamis dan punya toleransi yang tinggi Adapun faktor penghambat yang dihadapi orang tua yaitu masih terdapat pula masyarakat yang kondisi ekonominya kurang, serta faktor media yang ikut mempengaruhi pola pikir anak-anak.Kata kunci: Kepedulian Orang Tua, Implementasi Nilai Pendidikan Islam