bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Industry Structure and Stock Price Synchronicity
Authors:   Singapore Management
            University, Cheng Hao , Lim Kian Guan ,   Singapore Management
            University, Wang Long ,   ShanghaiTech
            University
Published: February 2022

This paper provides a non-information-based explanation to the stock price
synchronicity for firms sorted by country, size-decile and industry sector. Using a
panel of listed firms in 40 countries that span over 23 years, we find that the
governance and the market size effects are highly collinear in predicting stock price
synchronicity at the decile and the industry sector levels. Moreover, the effect is
larger in the real estate industry than in the non-real estate industry. The channel of
information extraction by large firms and firms in markets with weak governance of
property rights cannot be easily disentangled. This study explores the industry
structure as an alternative explanation for the stock price synchronicity. Our proposed
sales growth co-movement indices of firms exhibit highly significant and positive
effects in driving price synchronicity after controlling for observed and unobserved
cross sectional and temporal variations. Firms in a market with highly inter connected
business networks have higher stock price synchronicity (R2 ). The results are robust
and consistent, which do not hinge on whether a market is informational
efficient.
Use of Google Trends to Predict the Real Estate Market: Evidence from the United
Kingdom
Authors:   Gdynia Maritime
            University, Bulczak Grzegorz Michal
Published: February 2022

This paper demonstrates how Google Trends data can be used to improve real estate
market predictions. Online searches produce valuable data that precede economic
decisions. This study explores the usefulness of Google search engine data in predicting
the real estate markets. The results indicate that Google data can be an additional
source of information for investors and policymakers. This analysis adds to the existing
literature that explores the role of behavioral factors in the decision-making process.
Google Trends data are identified as an important predictor of real estate market prices
and sales volume.
Pandemi Sürecinde Okulların Kullandığı Medya Temelli Başetme Stratejileri: Okul Sosyal Hizmeti Çerçevesinde Bir Değerlendirme
Authors: TOKUROĞLU Cemile
Published: February 2022

Pek çok sistemin kesişim noktası olan okul iklimi, COVID-19 pandemisinden olumsuz yönde etkilenmiştir. Okulların kapanması ve eğitimin uzaktan sürdürülmeye devam etmesi, okul çağındaki çocukları psikolojik olarak etkilemiştir. Bu süreçte okul temelli olarak karşılaşılan problemlerle başa çıkmak için çeşitli medya stratejileri geliştirilmiştir. Geliştirilen stratejiler ile öğrencilere, öğrencilerin ailelerine ve öğretmenlere destek olmaya çalışılmıştır. Bu araştırmada, COVID-19 sürecinde okul sisteminde karşılaşılan problemler ve bu problemlere yönelik geliştirilen medya temelli baş etme stratejileri incelenmiştir. Çalışmada sistematik derleme yöntemi kullanılmıştır. Elde edilen bulgulara göre karşılaşılan sorunlar öğrencilerin, ailelerin ve öğretmenlerin karşılaştıkları problemler şeklinde sınıflandırılmıştır. Ayrıca okullarda kullanılan medya temelli baş etme stratejileri, okul sosyal hizmeti kapsamında incelenmiştir. İncelenen makalelere göre medya temelli stratejiler genellikle öğrenci odaklıdır. Çalışmada ailelerin ve öğretmenlerin, destek stratejilerinden öğrencilere oranla daha az yararlandıkları tespit edilmiştir. Bununla beraber medya stratejilerinin genel itibariyle stres ve motivasyon düşüklüğü gibi sorunları hedef aldığı görülmektedir. Yas süreci, yoksulluk, sınav kaygısı ve teknolojik aletlere erişim kısıtlığı gibi pandemide öne çıkan diğer problemlere yönelik müdahaleler yetersiz kalmaktadır. Okul sosyal hizmeti ekolojik perspektifi temel alarak okul iklimindeki tüm sistemlere müdahale edebilmektedir. Medya kaynaklarından etkin biçimde yararlanabilen sosyal hizmet uzmanlarının pandemi sürecinde önemli rolleri üstlenebileceği düşünülmektedir.
Adverse events following immunization Post Moderna (mRNA-1273) booster vaccination after two primary doses of CoronaVac
Authors: Rakhmadhani Irzal , Yulida Erna , Fauzan Akhmad , Jaelani Abdul Kadir
Published: February 2022

This study aims to investigate the prevalence of Adverse Events Following Immunization infection among health workers in the Hulu Sungai Utara Regency following two doses of CoronaVac.  The study takes a descriptive research method. This research data is taken from two hundred fifty-eight individuals who indicated their willingness to participate in the study. 99 health workers (38.37%) had a history of AEFI at the first and second doses, with symptoms of malaise (36.36%), local pain (32.32%), and fever (22.22%) with an onset of 1–5 days (24.81%), and the majority did not require treatment (72.48 %). The study results showed that almost all health care professionals developed AEFI, both local and systemic, following the third immunization dosage. 257 health care workers (99.6 %) reported experiencing local AEFIs, with pain (95.35 %), swelling (37.60 %), and a red rash (37.60 %). Systemic AEFI was diagnosed in 239 health care workers (92.63 %), with the most common systemic reaction being arthralgia, myalgia (70.54 %), fever (62.02 %), and malaise (38.37 %). The response length was between 1 and 5 days (74.03 %), and 195 health workers (75.58 %) took NSAIDs to alleviate the reaction.
Students’ Interest and Cognitive Ability through the Implementation of Comic Media
Authors: Baga Sisean , Hendriyani Mila Ermila , Suratmi Suratmi , Rosaline Maria Magdalena
Published: February 2022

This study aimed to determine the students' interest and cognitive ability through the implementation of comic media on the environmental pollution concept at one of Junior High School in Serang City, Indonesia. The method used in this study is a descriptive research. The subject in this study was class VII.2. The class was chosen because of the information from the subject teacher that it has students who are less active in learning and obtained the lowest average score of all class VII in the first semester. The data collection technique used non-test instruments in observation sheets and questionnaires to determine the students' interest. The test instrument was in multiple-choice questions and open-ended essay to determine the students' cognitive ability. The results showed students' interest as measured by observation and questionnaires were in the high category with 56% and 88%, respectively. The average value of the students' cognitive ability is 65.59, with a good category. It can be concluded that the implementation of comic media can foster students' interest in learning. The results of this study can be a suggestion for curriculum developers to use comics as an alternative media for an exciting learning process. Future studies can focus more on specific comic components that can attract students' attention in the learning process.
The Effect of Biotechnology Learning using Pulau Tunda’s Local Potential on Students’ Creative Thinking Skills
Authors: Rusmiyati Iis , Fitri Siti Gia Syauqiah , Sari Indah Juwita
Published: February 2022

This study aimed to determine the effect of learning using local potential of Pulau Tunda on the creative thinking skills of class XII students on biotechnology concept. The method used is quasi-experimental and research design used in this study is a posttest-only control design. The independent variable in this study is Biotechnology learning using local potential of Pulau Tunda while the dependent variable is the creative thinking skills. The subject in this study were students at one high school in Indonesia consists of two classes, namely class XII IPA 2 as an experimental class and XII IPA 3 as a control class. The sampling technique is done simply random sampling. Data were collected through posttest to measure students' creative thinking skills and student response questionnaires Ability results creative thinking was analyzed using the t-test. Based on those results that there is an influence of learning with the utilization of the local potential of the Pulau Tunda on students' creative thinking skills on biotechnology concept.
Indonesian Students' Scientific Literacy in Islamic Junior High School
Authors: Ramli Munasprianto , Susanti Baiq Hana , Yohana Media Putri
Published: February 2022

Scientific literacy is one of the main and key aspects of facing various challenges in the 21st century. Building students' scientific literacy does not mean making every student a future scientist. However, this is more about building their knowledge of science and technology to play a role in making choices that impact the survival of life today and in the future. This study aimed to analyze the scientific literacy skills of Islamic Junior High School students in Indonesia by using PISA questions from the previous year and finding out their perceptions of PISA academic literacy questions. This study used a sequential explanatory research method with a mixed quantitative and qualitative approach. A total of 150 students from eight Islamic Junior High Schools in West Sumatra and DKI Jakarta Provinces in Indonesia were selected using a purposeful sampling technique. The instruments used are scientific literacy tests to collect quantitative data, interview guides, and open questionnaires for qualitative data. The quantitative data obtained were analyzed by descriptive statistics, while the qualitative data were analyzed by thematic analysis. The results show that the science literacy score of Indonesian Students in Islamic Junior High schools value of Islamic Junior High School students is lower than the average value of the OECD countries and the United States. Then, the students also thought that the scientific literacy questions tested were difficult because they rarely got similar questions. This results also suggest that several factors cause the low literacy scores of Islamic junior high school  students, namely their lack of habit of working on similar questions, the limited number of teachers in giving questions that promote critical and analytical thinking skills and the low desire of students to read and explore knowledge other than what they get in school.
Learning Innovations: Students’ Interest and Motivation on STEAM-PjBL
Authors: Suryaningsih Siti , Nisa Fakhira Ainun , Muslim Buchori , Aldiansyah Fauzan
Published: February 2022

The purpose of this study was to 1) determine the results of the prerequisite test of the research instrument consisting of tests of validity, reliability, and normality, 2) know students' responses to interest and motivation to learn using chemistry learning innovations. The method used is descriptive quantitative. A sample of 76 students was selected by purposive sampling at one of the senior high schools in Indonesia. Data was collected using a questionnaire instrument with ten items arranged based on a Likert scale based on student interest and motivation indicators on the acid-base titration concept. The instrument used was declared valid, and reliability was proven by a corrected item-total correlation of 10 items. Each of them has a value of more than 0.325. A reliability value of 0.785 and a significance value of 0.2 indicates that the data is normally distributed. The Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics-Project Based Learning (STEAM-PjBL) innovation received a good response from students in the form of a high percentage of interest and learning motivation. Students' interest in learning got an average score of 4.17 in the high category of 83.4%. Likewise, learning motivation scored 4.22 in the high category of 84.4%. In general, student responses gave positive responses or agreed to the application of STEAM-PjBL in chemistry learning because it gave students high interest and motivation to learn. The results of this study can be used as innovations in the science learning process.
Assessment for Enhancement of the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Physics Equipment and Laboratory Activity: Basis for the Development of a Physics Laboratory Activity Kit
Authors: Malicoban Elesar V. , Castro Ellen
Published: February 2022

This study aimed to assess the enhancement of the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Physics equipment and laboratory activity as the basis for the development of the physics laboratory activity kit to be used in physics classes of high school students. This study used mixed methods. The researcher did the modification on the original DIY Physics equipment constructed by the DepEd-NSTIC to improve the workability of the equipment. We used rating sheets to assess the workability of the improvised DIY Physics equipment and laboratory activity. Rating sheets were designed by the pre-service general science teachers. Enhancements were made to improve the workability of the improvised DIY Physics equipment and laboratory activity and produce enhanced DIY Physics equipment. Results revealed that the improved DIY Physics equipment was workable in its physical feature, ease of manipulation efficiency, accuracy, safety, and appropriateness. The enhanced laboratory activity for the DIY Physics equipment was also workable in terms of its title, introduction, objectives, materials, procedure, questions, layout, spelling and grammar, and time allotment. Therefore, the enhanced DIY Physics equipment and laboratory activity could be used for the development of a Physics laboratory activity kit.
Indonesian Science Teachers' Ability to Design Scientific Literacy Test
Authors: Qadar Riskan , Haryanto Zeni , Subagiyo Lambang , Junus Muhammad , Syam Muliati
Published: February 2022

The ability of junior high school teachers to design scientific literacy tests is necessary. This research is focused on finding out how teachers can elaborate their ability to design scientific literacy tests. There are eight indicators related to scientific literacy in the developed instrument. We analyzed 41 packages in junior high schools from 9 regencies/cities in Indonesia. Based on the analysis, it was found that there were indicators that had not been achieved because curriculum materials were not available in that semester. This study shows that Indonesian science teachers can develop tests containing scientific literacy with an average of 76.4% of all scientific literacy indicators.
Natural Product Chemistry (NPC) Laboratory Activity in Indonesia
Authors: Hakim Aliefman , Jufri Abdul Wahab , Jamaluddin Jamaluddin , Ramandha Muhammad Eka Putra
Published: February 2022

The purpose of this research is to integrate to provide design recommendations for the implementation of good natural product chemistry (NPC) laboratory activity. This study was used systematic review which consists of data presentation, data reduction, and drawing conclusions. The data sources come from several articles. The data are: (1) data on natural product chemistry (NPC) laboratory activity methods, (2) data on the validity of the natural product chemistry (NPC) laboratory activity module, (3) data on the effectiveness of the natural product chemistry (NPC) laboratory activity module method data. Module validity was analyzed using the aiken index. The results of the analysis show that the implementation of the natural materials practicum will be carried out if it meets several requirements, namely (1) practicum design (2) practicum module. The validity results show that the natural materials chemistry practicum module is very feasible and practical to use.
Enhancing Pre-service Physics Teachers' Higher-Order Thinking Skills Through STEM-PjBL Model
Authors: Haryadi Rudi , Pujiastuti Heni
Published: February 2022

This study aimed to determine the higher-order thinking skills of pre-service teachers through STEM-PjBL Model. The research method used was a quasi-experimental with one group pretest-posttest design. The N-Gain results mention the N-gain in both experimental and control classes that the physics learning process through the STEM-PjBL Model is 21% higher in improving higher-order thinking skills than Direct Learning. Improvement of students' ability to solve HOTS categorical questions in the experimental group taught by applying STEM-PjBL Model scored N-Gain 75% or 0.75, which increases the high category. In comparison, the control group led by applying the Direct Learning model achieved 54% or 0.54, meaning a moderate increase in categories. The results showed that learning using STEM-PjBL Model could improve higher-order thinking skills more than Direct Instruction Learning. The implications of this research include: gaining new knowledge that can be used as a pre-service teacher’, adding insight regarding STEM-PjBL Model that can be used to grow students' science process skills, assisting schools in improving the quality of students, and the quality of the physics learning process in schools.
The Relationship Between Motivation and Learning Outcomes of Biology Subject Through Distance Learning
Authors: Salsa Feni Julia , Sari Rona Taula , Muhar Nawir , Gusmaweti Gusmaweti
Published: February 2022

This study aimed to determine the relationship between motivation and biology learning outcomes through distance learning in senior high school in Indonesia. The change in the face-to-face learning process to distance learning since the Covid-19 pandemic has had an impact on learning motivation that affects student learning outcomes. This type of research is descriptive with quantitative research methods. The research was conducted at one high school in Indonesia. The research subject consist of 80 students. The sampling technique was simple random sampling, which was done randomly, using an error rate of 5%. The data collection in this study used a questionnaire containing statements of students' learning motivation through distance learning using a Likert scale, and documents on students' biology learning outcomes in the odd midterm exams for the 2021/2022 academic year. The results of the Pearson product moment correlation test were obtained at 0.86 on intrinsic motivation and extrinsic motivation of 0.85, meaning that there is a relationship between motivation and biology learning outcomes through distance learning. The results of the t-test showed that the t-count of intrinsic motivation was 15.27 and the t-count of extrinsic motivation was 14.47, indicating that there was a significant relationship between motivation and learning outcomes of biology subject through distance learning. The coefficient of determination of intrinsic motivation is 75% and extrinsic motivation is 73%, this means that intrinsic motivation (X1) and extrinsic motivation (X2) contribute to student biology learning outcomes (Y).
Engineering Design Process: A Review and Bibliometric Analysis
Authors: Sudrajat Ujang , Ardianto Didit , Permana Irvan
Published: February 2022

Currently, science and technology is developing very quickly, so efforts are needed to balance this acceleration, especially in the world of education. Innovations in learning must always be done to keep pace with the development of science and technology. engineering design process (EDP) is one of the strategies available to implement STEM education, has been utilized by many STEM-related subjects educators as a mean to implement STEM (Hafiz and Ayop 2019). The engineering design process allows students to use mathematics and science inquiry to create and conduct experiments for potential design solutions.. The purpose of this paper is providing an extensive bibliometric literature review on engineering design process'. Articles obtained from the Google Scholar database using Publishing or Perish (PoP) software. There were 762 out of 999 articles found from Google Scholar data base ranging from 2016 to 2021 analyzed in this study. The chosen references were then managed using a referencing manager software namely Mendeley. In this research, VOSviewer software is used to classify and visualize the database that has been managed. Overall, this review provides an appropriate reference point for further research on engineering design process
A guideline for development a short-term classical guitar curriculum in Thailand
Authors: Khositditsayanan Natthawat , Sosutha Chaloemchai , Promnil Kanit
Published: February 2022

The objectives of this research were to (1) study criteria for practice of the classical guitar test to be used as a guideline for the entrance examination for higher education in Thailand and (2) find the ways to develop curriculum of a short- term classical guitar for entrance examinations of higher education by studying the information from documents, principles, theories, and criteria of the classical guitar test to be used as a guideline for admission to higher education in Thailand. The results of the research were as follows 1) criteria for practice of classical guitar test to be used as a guideline for the entrance examination for higher education. There were 2 parts of the contents for examination including technically, candidates must be able to practice the scale, length was not more than 4 sharps, 4 flats in major and minor scales with arpeggio and the piece contained and exercise song and 2 general pieces, difficulty from Intermediate to advanced and there were differences in style of music eras or musical styles from different composers and all the pieces that test takers must play from memory, and 2) curriculum of a short-term classical guitar for tertiary entrance examinations that had a content consists of 2 parts. The first one, the content and course details, were the curriculum competency, course descriptions, tools, materials, equipment, training materials and learning resources and background knowledge and qualifications of trainees and the second one, measurement and evaluation consisted of 3 parts : a post-test to review the process and the duration of attending the training was not less than 80 percentage of the training time according to the curriculum.
KETERWAKILAN PEREMPUAN KADER PDI PERJUANGAN DALAM PEMILU LEGISLATIF 2019 DI DPRD DKI JAKARTA
Authors: Shinta Kartika Sari
Published: February 2022

Representasi perempuan kader Partai Demokrasi Indonesia Perjuangan (PDI Perjuangan) dalam Pemilu Legislatif 2019 di Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat Daerah (DPRD) Provinsi DKI Jakarta, berdasarkan hasil penelitian perannya cukup signifikan menunjukkan representasi dari perempuan serta juga sudah memenuhi kuota 30% keterwakilan perempuan dan sudah memenuhi persyaratan sesuai peraturan yang berlaku. Kualitas politik perempuan kader PDI Perjuangan dalam Pemilu Legislatif 2019 yang telah terpilih di DPRD Provinsi DKI Jakarta, sebagian besar telah paham terhadap yang menjadi tugas, pokok, dan fungsinya (tupoksi) sebagai wakil rakyat. Kualitasnya dapat dianggap sudah bagus dan terbukti bahwa sebelas orang kader PDI Perjuangan ini telah cukup aktif sebagai legislator di DPRD DKI Jakarta. Ini semua dapat terwujud karena memang proses kaderisasinya sudah sangat baik dan dapat dilaksanakan dengan baik oleh PDI Perjuangan.

Kata kunci: Keterwakilan Perempuan, DPRD DKI Jakarta, Pemilu Legislatif, PDI Perjuangan
IMPLEMENTASI KEBIJAKAN PENGEMBANGAN KOMPETENSI SUMBER DAYA APARATUR SIPIL NEGARA DI KABUPATEN YALIMO PROVINSI PAPUA
Authors: Leonard Nekwek
Published: February 2022

Pegawai Negeri Sipil (PNS) merupakan unsur utama sumber daya manusia yang mempunyai peranan penting dalam menentukan keberhasilan penyelenggaraan pemerintahan dan pembangunan. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui bagaimana implementasi kebijakan pengembangan kompetensi sumber daya ASN di Kabupaten Yalimo, faktor-faktor penghambat, serta upaya-upaya yang dilakukan BKPSDM Kabupaten Yalimo agar perannya dapat berjalan dengan baik. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah metode kualitatif dengan strategi penelitian studi kasus dan pendekatan teori secara deduktif. Informan ditentukan dengan teknik purposive sampling. Informan terdiri dari dalam BKPSDM dan SKPD lainnya. Hasil penelitian menunjukan bahwa implementasi kebijakan masih belum berjalan dengan optimal. Berdasarkan teori George C Edwards III, dari empat dimensi penentu keberhasilan sebuah implementasi kebijakan yaitu komunikasi, sumber daya, disposisi/sikap pelaksana dan struktur birokrasi, terdapat faktor penghambat yaitu faktor keterbatasan anggaran, faktor keterbatasan fasilitas dan faktor politik. Berbagai upaya telah dilakukan BPKSDM Kabupaten Yalimo di antaranya melakukan perbaikan proses perencaanan anggaran dan fasilitas, membangun komunikasi dan koordinasi yang intensif ke pihak penyelenggara, menyampaikan telaahan staf dan menyusun standar operasional prosedur agar ada transparansi dalam penetapan peserta Diklat PIM. Implementasi kebijakan pengembangan kompetensi sumber daya ASN di Kabupaten Yalimo belum berjalan dengan optimal sehingga diperlukan penataan komunikasi, sumber daya, disposisi, pola kerja/struktur birokrasi, dan perbaikan perencanaan anggaran dengan data yang akurat. Selain itu, diperlukan adanya penambahan anggaran, fasilitas dan penataan proses seleksi peserta Diklat PIM secara transparan serta pengangkatan pejabat struktural sesuai dengan kompetensi ASN.

Kata kunci : Implementasi Kebijakan, pengembangan kompetensi SDM ASN, Diklat Kepemimpinan
DINAMIKA SISTEM POLITIK OTORITARIANISME ORDE BARU
Authors: Yusa' Farchan
Published: February 2022

Beragam studi yang pernah dilakukan mengenai Orde Baru, pada umumnya melahirkan beberapa label tentang politik Indonesia. Beberapa label tersebut mencakup antara lain; "state-qua-state" yang dipopulerkan Benedict Anderson, "bureaucratic poliity" oleh Karl D. Jackson, "bureaucratic pluralism" oleh Donald Emmerson, "bureaucratic authoritarianism" oleh Dwight King, dan "limited pluralism"-nya William Liddle (Maclntyre 1990). Meskipun terdapat perbedaan pendapat antar mereka dalam menggambarkan politik Orde Baru, namun umumnya mereka sependapat bahwa aparat negara mendominasi arena politik dan mengontrol masyarakat. Kajian ini ingin menelaah bagaimana dinamika sistem politik otoritarianisme yang telah dipraktikkan Orde Baru. Selain itu, kajian ini juga ingin menjawab pertanyaan penting mengapa pemerintahan Soeharto memilih jalan otoritarianisme sebagai sistem politiknya?. Kajian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif dengan pendekatan studi kasus. Studi kasus yang diangkat adalah format sistem politik otoritarianisme Orde Baru. Analisis data dilakukan dengan pendekatan analisis deskriptif. Adapun teknik pengumpulan data dilakukan melalui studi pustaka dan dokumentasi teks-teks yang berkaitan dengan objek penelitian. Dari hasil kajian ditemukan beberapa hal. Pertama, kekuasaan politik Orde Baru yang yang bercorak otoriter setidaknya berakar dari lima sumber utama, yaitu; represi; kekuasaan material yang terkonsentrasi; wacana politik partikularistik; subordinasi bisnis terhadap negara; dan pengendalian birokrasi sipil dan militer. Kedua, dari aspek stabilitas, Indonesia di bawah Orde Baru dapat dikatakan stabil karena gejolak politik, ekonomi, dan sosial tidak terjadi, atau setidaknya jarang terjadi sepanjang pemerintahan Orde Baru. Dengan demikian, stabilitas Indonesia di bawah Soeharto dapat dikategorikan ke dalam Sistem Otoritarianisme Terbuka. Ketiga, jalan otoritarianisme sengaja dipilih Soeharto dengan tujuan untuk mempermudah agenda-agenda pembangunan ekonomi. Dalam konteks ini, diperlukan stabilitas politik yang terkendali melalui format sentralisme politik untuk mempermudah alat kontrol bagi penyelenggaraan kekuasaan.

Kata Kunci; Otoritarianisme; Orde Baru; Soeharto
“The Fate of Freedom Here”
Authors: Shannon Matthew K.
Published: February 2022

In November 1979, shortly after the seizure of the American embassy in Tehran, the Jimmy Carter administration introduced Section 214.5 to Title 8 of the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations (8 C.F.R. §214.5). It initiated the Iranian Control Program, which screened Iranian students in the United States and fanned the flames of anti-Iranianism. The domestic response to an international crisis endangered the basic human right to the security of person; civil liberties and the constitutional guarantee of equal protection before the law; and the rights of immigrants, refugees, and asylees. In response to this tripartite challenge, Iranian students and their American allies mobilized against Section 214.5. This article finds that the hostage crisis threatened the fate of freedom in the United States and, in the process, generated new forms of rights advocacy.
The Dangers of Italian Americans Reading (Besides Going Blind)
Authors: Orsi Robert A.
Published: February 2022

What happens when a working-class boy in an Italian American family in the Bronx begins to love reading and gets absorbed in the world of books? This essay explores the fears and the hopes raised in one family in the mid-1960s and the ambivalence of success American-style. When books are scarce, they arrive with an aura around them of promise and danger, like visitors from another place and time. The article takes up the possibility that reading may represent betrayal, albeit perhaps a necessary one, and suggests that to become a scholar from a working-class background comes with pain, and that this pain may become a source of conceptual insight.
Italian Diaspora in a Massachusetts Mill Town: Migration between Palestrina (Lazio), Italy, and Southbridge, Massachusetts
Authors: Thomas Teresa Fava
Published: February 2022

This article offers a transnational examination of the Italian diaspora community from Palestrina, Lazio, in Southbridge, Massachusetts between 1900 and 1945 that addresses the impact of education on the economic empowerment of Italian immigrants. Due to the labor shortage in the area, the assimilation of Italians was more effective and second-generation Italians remained in the public school system longer. This combination of factors created more economic mobility for both foreign-born and second-generation Southbridge Italians. Factors that contributed to this unique circumstance included the intense competition for labor between two factories, American Optical Company (AO) and Hamilton Woolen Mill. Both firms were among the first in Massachusetts to invest in workplace English education and citizenship programs. This educational investment had the goal of retaining and advancing entry-level workers into skilled level positions. Furthermore, AO encouraged the town to establish a high school in 1917 and made substantial contributions to the establishment of a trade school in 1927. The Italian community in Southbridge developed their own institutions to promote cohesiveness and assimilation via their own social, community, and citizenship groups. There was also an increase in entrepreneurship within the Southbridge Italian community. Assimilation and upward economic mobility for Italians in Southbridge began in the workplace.
Forging Transnational Identities in Italian American Chick Lit: The Novels of Adriana Trigiani and the Ethnic Bildungsroman
Authors: Donato Clorinda
Published: February 2022

The highly successful writing career of Italian American author Adriana Trigiani is examined from the perspective of diaspora theory and transnational studies to reveal how the abiding value of her work lies in its ability to offer a provocative new model of the ethnic Bildungsroman, or novel of education. This essay probes the seemingly facile label of “Chick Lit” often applied to Trigiani's work to redefine the genre as a dynamic site of ethnic women's empowerment, one that invites women to rediscover their salient role in the Italian American landscape. By highlighting the agency that has been heretofore invisible in the life stories of our first-generation immigrant great-grandmothers and grandmothers working as seamstresses and shoemakers, Trigiani inspires new generations of Italian American women, now pharmacists and writers, to take up the mantle of their forebears to become engaged, proactive members of society, always infused with the best traditions of Italian diaspora sisterhood.
From Garden to Table: Cultivating Southern Hospitality through Italian American Gardening Traditions
Authors: Giuliani-Caponetto Rosetta
Published: February 2022

While petitions around the country circulate demanding that American academic institutions rename buildings that pay tribute to historic figures tarnished by their ties to practices of racial subjugation, this article imagines a future in which namesake buildings can heighten inclusivity, equity, and universities’ commitment to the economic well-being of their surrounding communities. Specifically, the article draws upon the meaning of the term “transformative” to examine the philanthropic endeavor of an Italian American family whose donations made possible the creation of a culinary science center at Auburn University in Alabama. Drawing upon the center's “garden to table” slogan, the article examines the intersection between Italian American gardening traditions for self-sufficiency and Black Alabamians’ historical involvement in farming as a practice for self-sustenance. Named the Tony and Libba Rane Culinary Science Center, this facility can commemorate the history of its Italian American donors, uphold the rich history of Black farming in Alabama, be a driving force in advancing diversity on campus, and fulfill the mission of its land-grant institution by becoming the proponent of transformative food and transformative placemaking.
Perception of Dynamic Point Light Facial Expression
Authors: Takarae Yukari , McBeath Michael K. , Krynen R. Chandler
Published: February 2022

This study uses point light displays both to investigate the roles of global and local motion analyses in the perception of dynamic facial expressions and to measure the information threshold for reliable recognition of emotions. We videotaped the faces of actors wearing black makeup with white dots while they dynamically produced each of 6 basic Darwin/Ekman emotional expressions. The number of point lights was varied to systematically manipulate amount of information available. For all but one of the expressions, discriminability (d′) increased approximately linearly with number of point lights, with most remaining largely discriminable with as few as only 6 point lights. This finding supports reliance on global motion patterns produced by facial muscles. However, discriminability for the happy expression was notably higher and largely unaffected by number of point lights and thus appears to rely on characteristic local motion, probably the unique upward curvature of the mouth. The findings indicate that recognition of facial expression is not a unitary process and that different expressions may be conveyed by different perceptual information, but in general, basic facial emotional expressions typically remain largely discriminable with as few as 6 dynamic point lights.
High Destination Memory for Emotionally Incongruent Information
Authors: El Haj Mohamad , Allain Philippe , de Bont Leslie , Ndobo André
Published: February 2022

This article investigates the effect of emotion on destination memory. Participants were asked to tell neutral, positive, and negative information to neutral, positive, and negative faces. Afterward, participants were asked to remember to whom each piece of information was previously told. Results demonstrated high destination memory when the positive face was associated with negative information than with positive information. Results also demonstrated high destination memory when the negative face was associated with positive information than with negative information. These findings are attributed to the emotional incongruence between information and its destination. When positive or negative information is presented, one may expect that the listener would experience the same emotional state. Violation of this expectation seems to result in a high retention of the context in which the violation has occurred and consequently in a high destination memory.
Perceiving the Other Self: An Experimental First-Person Account of Nonverbal Social Interaction
Authors: Wagemann Johannes , Weger Ulrich
Published: February 2022

In psychology, the topics of the self and social perception in nonverbal interaction have been intensively examined but have so far been limited to certain aspects of their interdependence. The self is conceived mostly as a bundle of functions and personality traits that predominantly resist integration, except in the form of mental representations that do not allow conscious access to the processes that generate them. Similarly, in nonverbal interaction, the sending and receiving of particular social cues via different modalities are considered and usually traced back to subpersonal, especially neuronal processes. Because this does not allow the full potential of conscious self-development in social interaction to be exploited, the nexus between the two topics is examined in this study via an empirical first-person method with qualitative and quantitative aspects. A hypothesis about introspectively observable mental activity occurring in dyadic nonverbal interaction is developed and experimentally investigated. The results show that previous theoretical models can be supplemented by a sublayer of potentially conscious mental interaction that, because of its invariance regarding partial personality aspects, suggests a holistic and dynamic concept of the self.
Daily Implications of Felt Love for Sleep Quality
Authors: Dickens Chelsea N. , Gray Allison L. , Heshmati Saeideh , Oravecz Zita , Brick Timothy R.
Published: February 2022

This study introduces the concept of felt love as the monadic experience of love, a parallel of dyadic love, and presents a study examining the relationships between daily felt love and sleep quality across 28 days. Before beginning the daily protocol, participants answered 60 questions assessing common situations that may make people feel loved. These questions were used to establish a consensus on the meaning of felt love for the specific participants under study. During the daily life study, participants (N = 52) provided self-reports via smartphone surveys for 28 days. Each morning upon waking, participants assessed their subjective sleep quality, and each evening positive affect was assessed with a set of 5 questions. Participants also rated how much they felt loved at 6 semirandom times throughout the day. Felt love measures were aggregated to obtain daily means and individual means across the study. Variability in felt love was quantified by calculating within-day and between-day standard deviations. Multilevel modeling was used to account for repeated measurements for each participant across the study, and the final model includes age, sex, positive affect, and felt love as predictors of sleep quality. Participants who reported higher positive affect and higher within-day felt love variability reported better overall sleep quality. However, overall mean levels of felt love did not significantly predict sleep quality, nor were there effects at the daily level. These results suggest that experiencing a range of felt love intensities within an average day is associated with better sleep quality.
Concocting Justice: Dicaeopolis the Cook-Comedian
Authors: Christenson David
Published: February 2022

Discussion of costume in Acharnians has focused on Dicaeopolis’s appropriation of Telephus’s rags and violent un-costuming of Lamachus. No less metacomically significant is Dicaeopolis’s persona as a mageiros, made explicit by props rather than a costume-change when he eventually cooks onstage. The chiton- and phallus-wearing protagonist in fact throughout Acharnians assumes the persona of a cook-comedian, whose ultimate triumph is marked by his festively donning a himation. The metapoetics of cooking largely figure Acharnians’ melding of Aristophanes and Dicaeopolis, as the latter promotes τρυγῳδία as an innovative blend of comedy deserving a serious hearing and victory at the festival.
Poetics, Perversions, and Passing: Approaching the Transgender Narratives ofThesmophoriazousai
Authors: Ruffell Isabel
Published: February 2022

Aristophanes’s Thesmophoriazousai offers a complex engagement with transgender identity and practice. It explores up to seven different transgendered modes through a variety of motivations and audience response. While embracing fictional/dramatic performance, these modes are best understood within the larger social and cultural framework that the play directly and indirectly suggests. Perched, like much Old Comedy, on the horns of social conservatism and conceptual flexibility, but also acknowledging a broad transgender continuum, the play’s creative tension allows for it to be recuperated and re-used by queer audiences and readers.
Undressing and Cross-dressing: Costume, Ritual, and Female Empowerment in Aristophanes
Authors: Tsoumpra Natalia
Published: February 2022

This article argues that the abuse of costume by the women in Lysistrata and Ecclesiazusae displays their dominance over the men while underscoring their femininity. This is particularly important in a genre where women in power are commonly viewed as masculine or androgynous. Furthermore, the use of costume reflects fundamental concerns about female power in each fictional type of gynecocracy. In Lysistrata the handling of costume alludes to ritualistic practices which emphasize the women’s (positive) contribution to civic welfare, and articulates the women’s efforts towards the restoration of the institution of marriage and the former (male) political order. Conversely, in Ecclesiazusae the mutual cross-dressing highlights the men’s impotence and sterility, and reflects the consequences of the abolition of marriage and the subversion of the male order.
Choral Disrobing in Aristophanes
Authors: Farmer Matthew
Published: February 2022

Five times in the extant comedies of Aristophanes, the members of the chorus remove part or all of their costumes. In this chapter, I seek to provide a new, unifying explanation for the practice of choral stripping: I argue that Aristophanes inherits a pre-comic tradition of choral disrobing, but that he uses moments of choral costume change for specific dramatic purposes within each of his plays. The theatrical audience’s knowledge of the comic tradition of choral disrobing allows Aristophanes to build suspense, to play with audience expectations, and to fulfill or deny the tradition as he sees fit.
Pindar, Hesiod, and the Charites of Orchomenos (Olympian14)
Authors: Hardie Alex
Published: February 2022

This essay offers a new reading of Olympian 14 as a civic or sacral commission for choral staging at the shrine of the Charites in Orchomenos. It is analyzed as a movement from prayerful hymn, indirectly seeking the Charites’ festive acceptance and blessings (1–12), through the accompanying komos’s overtly epinician presentation of the victor Asopichos to the goddesses (13–20), to a concluding apostrophe mandating Echo to replicate the Olympic victory proclamation and crowning for the victor’s father in the underworld (20–24). Particular attention is paid to dramatic effects within Pindar’s local re-enactment of Olympic victory-ritual. Shifting speaker-perspectives are traced as the three-stage drama of hymnic appeal, komos arrival/acceptance, and the mandated Echo’s katabasis unfolds. Pindar’s treatment of the Charites is analyzed both as an extension of lyric Muse-conventions and as a re-working of Hesiod’s references to both groups. The essay concludes with an assessment of the civic-sacral implications of Hesiod’s presence within the text, in relation to the belief that his re-interred bones lay close to the performance-site at Orchomenos.
A Positive Small Step in the Treatment of Animals in China
Authors: Cao Deborah
Published: February 2022

Due to the suspected link between the coronavirus pandemic and the consumption of free-living animals, the Chinese legislature imposed a comprehensive ban on the illegal trade and eating of terrestrial free-living animals in February 2020. This was followed by a revised national list of animals that can be farmed and eaten and a landmark ban of cat and dog eating in the cities of Shenzhen and Zhuhai, the first such bans in China. These recent developments in China may have a far-reaching impact on Chinese people’s attitudes and treatment of animals in the years to come. They should give us hope that Chinese culture and its traditional cultural practices toward animals can change in response to contemporary circumstances and ethical standards and sensitivities.
Ambiguous Care: More-Than-Human Care at the Beehive
Authors: Slater Jack
Published: February 2022

Ethical approaches rooted in care are distinct and important contributors to ethical discussions surrounding animals. Recently, however, concern has been raised that practices of care can facilitate the instrumentalization of animal life in a way that is antithetical to an ethical relationship toward animals. This article explores this debate through a discussion of contemporary apiculture (beekeeping) practices. This analysis reveals that the practices of care that constitute contemporary apiculture are the very same practices that have facilitated the instrumentalization of the honeybee. This suggests that accounts of care ethics regarding animal life need to be complicated and that care ethicists need to be more attuned to the ways in which care can become complicit in the practices they would seek to oppose.
The “Care” of Magical Creatures? A Moral Critique of the Animal Lover Trope in Harry Potter
Authors: Hugosson Annika
Published: February 2022

In Harry Potter, Hagrid is written as the “animal lover” who appreciates all creatures. Analyzing Hagrid’s interactions with animals is a unique approach to theorizing animal ethics at Hogwarts. This article problematizes Hagrid’s characterization within the “animal lover” trope. Many of Hagrid’s actions are imperialist toward animals as collectible, exploitable, and only valuable insofar as they provide something for humans, which contradicts the definition of moral status. The potential for “animal lovers” to relate to Hagrid suggests a need to more closely examine this trope in other works of fiction to avoid perpetuating unethical standards of animal care.
Zoroaster and the Animals
Authors: Otto Randall E.
Published: February 2022

Religion is often criticized for failing to uphold animal concerns, yet Zoroastrianism, an ancient religion that underlies the Abrahamic traditions as well as Eastern religions, offers some strikingly contemporary concerns regarding the kinship of human and nonhuman animals. Human and nonhuman animals alike have souls, free will, and life after death. In the middle of the second millennium BCE, Zoroaster called attention to the treatment of animals as necessary to the divine order and righteousness that has been disturbed by evil and sin. How humans treat animals also affects their own well-being in this world and the next.
“Being the Spiders”: The Human-Animal in Kazuo Ishiguro’s and Mark Romanek’s Never Let Me Go
Authors: Baker Djoymi
Published: February 2022

Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2005 science fiction novel Never Let Me Go and Mark Romanek’s 2010 film adaptation depict an alternate past in which human longevity is achieved by harvesting organs from clones. The clones seem ostensibly human and yet are considered nonhuman “creatures.” The book and film use differing strategies to align the nonhuman clones with nonhuman animals, a connection that is often ambivalent and contradictory. This article argues that through narrational and audio-visual address respectively, the reader and viewer are encouraged to bear witness from a liminal, creaturely position.