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"To Come into the Story as Late as Possible, and To Tell It as Fast as You Can": Pace in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Authors: Hepburn Allan
Published: September 2023

Abstract: Why do some novels have a fast pace and others slow? Pace in narrative gauges the movement of a story in a specific direction with respect to time. Dialogue, descriptive summaries, chapter breaks, and other formal elements speed up or slow down the perceived tempo of a narrative. In Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy , John le Carré creates pace by exploiting the discrepancies between fabula and syuzhet . By his own admission, he prefers to begin a story as late as possible to induce pressure between the content of a story and the manner of its telling, a pressure that sets and regulates narrative pace.
Modernism's World Drama: Joyce, Wagner, and the Anti-Systemic Stirrings of a Global Artwork
Authors: Haley Madigan
Published: September 2023

Abstract: Two of James Joyce's earliest essays identify a kind of artwork that would remain a model for his fiction: the world drama. Joyce's notion of the world drama built upon an aspect of Richard Wagner's theoretical writing that has been largely forgotten: the program for a revolutionary, nonnational artwork. Joyce reimagined this program within the conditions of colonial Ireland and an increasingly international print culture, conceiving of a work that is oriented toward the world at large and meant to articulate a revolutionary consciousness for its audience. Joyce's works of fiction can be understood, in these terms, as world dramas, which is one of the reasons for their influence. The history of the world drama reveals how the effort to create a revolutionary world-oriented artwork spanned international modernism, evolving as it passed from Wagner to Joyce and then later to artists such as Sergei Eisenstein and Mulk Raj Anand.
James Joyce's Liebestod : Fascism as Civil War
Authors: Chinitz Michele
Published: September 2023

Abstract: The ending of James Joyce's novel Finnegans Wake rewrites the Liebestod , or love-death aria, at the end of Richard Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde . Joyce's parody of the Liebestod replaces the fascist myth of national redemption with endless cycles of love and suffering in history. The novel's circularity thereby forms a riposte to the redemption narrative in fascist politics. Joyce's composition and revision of Finnegans Wake from 1922, during the Irish Civil War, to 1939, when he left Paris ahead of the Nazi occupation, illustrate how he understood racial, sexual, and bourgeois desires in nationalism through an artistic trope like the Liebestod , and how he used it to narratively resist the seemingly teleological ascent of fascism in Europe. Further, civil war provides a model for parodying the ideology of racial supremacy by casting it as an attack on one's countrymen and kin.
Joyce, Nussbaum, and the Value of Disgust
Authors: Eichholz Patrick
Published: September 2023

Abstract: James Joyce's Ulysses is a famously obscene novel. What is the purpose and emotional effect of the novel's obscenity? In court, Morris Ernst defended Ulysses as an emotionally static work of high art that was only to be accessed intellectually. After the legal battle had been won, critics became more forthright about the novel's broader emotional appeal. Martha Nussbaum ends Upheavals of Thought (2001) celebrating Ulysses as the apotheosis of an aesthetic tradition progressing toward the frank acknowledgment of all our everyday emotions—all except for disgust. A central tenet of Nussbaum's theory of the emotions is that disgust is per se morally suspect. Joyce, however, admitted that he had disgusted himself writing Ulysses , a novel that demonstrates the hidden value of our most irrational emotion.
"I am other I now": Identity, Intertextuality, and Networks of Debt in Ulysses
Authors: Coogan Sarah
Published: September 2023

Abstract: Scholars acknowledge the significance of economics to James Joyce's Ulysses , but few have noted the pervasive significance of debt to the novel. Debt functions metaphorically as well as literally to organize competing networks of relationships within the novel. Using Caroline Levine's theory of forms to analyze the affordances of three such networks—financial debt, familial obligation, and duty to nation—provides a motivation for Stephen Dedalus's idiosyncratic financial decisions throughout the novel. Stephen's embrace of financial debt, while rejecting duty to family or country, reflects his desire for flexible relational modes, which afford greater self-determination. His quest for flexible networks of identity and relationship meets with ambiguous success. By contrast, Ulysses itself models a mode of intertextual debt that permits artistic self-creation.
New Reading: Notes on a Critical Phenomenology of Reading with Finnegans Wake
Authors: Goyal Shantam
Published: September 2023

Abstract: In reading James Joyce's Finnegans Wake , two of the many shapes that phenomenology as a method has taken during and since the twentieth century come to light. The first is its use in constructing phenomenologies of reading; the second, its use as a critique of its own methods in the form of critical phenomenology. Bringing these two strands together and using the Wake as an illustration can help us imagine what a critical phenomenology of reading might look like. The three sections following the introduction respectively "pilot" three forms of critiques of reading: the phenomenological, which is often purely descriptive and does not change our ways of reading; the critical-phenomenological, which can fall into absolute skepticism and ennui toward the text; and the one provisionally termed "new," which can be imaginative yet impossible as an academic exercise. Together, they speculate upon possibilities for new ways of bringing phenomenology into literary critique.
Agency after the Subject: Beckett with Merleau-Ponty
Authors: Borg Ruben
Published: September 2023

Abstract: In Beckett and Embodiment , Amanda Dennis argues for an ecological rethinking of the concept of agency in Beckett, offering a powerful conceptual framework by which to reorganize poststructuralist, posthumanist and new materialist concerns. The book's central claim is that in his life-long engagement with embodiment Beckett invites us to disarticulate the concept of agency from intentionality and to redistribute it onto a space shaped by what Merleau-Ponty calls the body-subject. Beckett's prose reimagines agency as such a spatial phenomenon—irreducible to individual will and untethered from old mind-matter dichotomies. In developing this idea, Dennis reinvigorates the debate on agency in contemporary criticism by shifting the focus from questions of will, desire, and intention to figures of embodiment and lived space.
Quietism and Literary Creation
Authors: Brown Llewellyn
Published: September 2023

Abstract: In Still: Samuel Beckett's Quietism , Andy Wimbush examines Quietism, considered both as a practice and a perennial standpoint in religion and philosophy, showing it to have nourished Samuel Beckett's creation. It favored detachment from set models, and the acceptance of contradiction and incoherency. Thus, rather than leading to a search for solutions or solipsism, Wimbush argues, Beckett's mode of Quietism was turned toward maintaining the problematic nature of his literary constructions, highlighting tension and the absence of any solution. Quietism also offered Beckett the means to confront his own personal problems, including his bodily symptoms, in his aim to transform them into creation.
Fighting Over Rice Swamps: Conflict and Community across the Gambia River Basin, Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Authors: Sarr Assan
Published: September 2023

Abstract: The importance of rice farming in the Gambia region is evident in the contestation over ownership of rice fields, a form of conflict that escalated greatly over the second half of the nineteenth century. This article analyzes several of these conflicts, places them in their historical context, and argues that they are the result of a breakdown of traditional methods of resolving conflict, a product itself of the enormous changes taking place in society at the time. These changes include the end of the slave trade, the growth of cash-crop farming, the rise of militant Islam, and the gradual increase in British control, climaxing in the colonial takeover by the 1890s. These broad social changes put in jeopardy long-held ways of settling disputes. L'importance de la culture du riz en Gambie se traduit par des conflits concernant la propriété des champs. Ces conflits s'accentuent pendant la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle. Cet article analyse plusieurs de ces conflits et les replace dans leur contexte historique. L'auteur cherche à démontrer qu'ils sont le résultat de la disparition des méthodes utilisées traditionnellement pour résoudre les conflits. Cette évolution est elle-même liée aux changements importants dans la société à cette époque. Parmi ces changements, se trouvent la fin de la traite des esclaves, la croissance des cultures de rente, la montée en puissance de l'islam militant et l'affirmation de la mainmise britannique qui aboutit à la conquête coloniale des années 1890. Ces bouleversements sociaux menacent la façon même dont étaient réglés les conflits jusqu'alors.
"WALKING CARAVANS" OF NINETEENTH CENTURY FUUTA JALOO, WESTERN AFRICA
Authors: Mouser Bruce L.
Published: September 2023

Abstract: This paper investigates the modes and patterns of travel in pre-colonial Fuuta Jaloo and along the Upper Guinea Coast during the nineteenth century, with special emphasis on caravan commerce. It describes a network of indigenous protectors who were assigned or simply assumed the task of insuring that trade roads within Fuuta Jaloo remain open and that caravans be allowed to operate smoothly and properly while using state regulated roads. Based closely on accounts written by Europeans who visited the Upper Guinea Coast or who traveled into Fuuta Jaloo, the paper also reviews types of caravans, operational and organizational standards that governed those that crossed or crisscrossed Fuuta Jaloo, and costs and advantages of caravan membership. Cet article étudie les modes et les habitudes de voyage en Guinée précoloniale du Fuuta Jaloo et le long de la côte de la Haute Guinée au cours du dixneuvième siècle, avec un accent particulier sur le commerce caravanier. Il décrit un réseau de protecteurs indigènes qui devaient assurer que les routes commerciales au sein du Fuuta Jaloo restent ouvertes et que les caravanes soient autorisés à opérer en douceur et en utilisant correctement les routes réglementées. Basé sur les recits de voyages écrits par des Européens qui avaient visité la Haute Guinée côtière ou qui avaient voyagé dans le Fuuta Jaloo, le document examine également les types de caravanes, les normes opérationnelles et organisationnelles des caravanres qui sillonnaient le Fuuta Jaloo, aussi bien que les avantages et désavantages de participer aux caravans.
Muslim and Jewish Female Religious Trailblazers
Authors: Roded Ruth
Published: September 2023

Abstract: In the last century, in both Islam and Judaism, female religious trailblazers have taken on roles traditionally dominated by men. In this study, I examine parallels between individual Muslim and Jewish female religious trailblazers under three rubrics: Exegesis of the Holy Book : Nehama Leibowitz and Aisha Abd al-Rahman; Delving into Oral Law : Judith Hauptman and Kecia Ali; and Crafting Responsa : Suad Saleh and Malka Puterkovsky. Remarkably, although these Muslim and Jewish women functioned in very different societies and within rather different religious traditions, they have much in common. The reasons for this seem to be the similar sociologies of Judaism and Islam, on the one hand, and the increasing globalization of the twentieth and twentyfirst centuries, on the other. Inevitably, there has been disagreement as to the extent to which these women were themselves feminists or contributed to women’s advancement, dealt with the patriarchy of their time and place, or explicitly supported male dominance.
Reflections on Kenya's Economic Impasses: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's Matigari and Wizard of the Crow
Authors: Yiğit Ali
Published: September 2023

ABSTRACT: Departing from the regularly made references to Kenya's economy in the post-independence period by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o in his works Matigari (1989) and Wizard of the Crow (2006), this essay argues that Ngũgĩ, under the influence of Marxist aesthetics and Walter Rodney's dependency theory, has both chastised and offered strategies/suggestions to counter the persistent economic problems of Kenya and, to a broader scale, of Africa. Considering the developments in the Kenyan economy in the 20th century onward, this paper comparatively sketches Ngũgĩ's treatment of economy-related problems in their evolving process in Matigari and Wizard of the Crow for Kenyans and syncretizes the changing economic conditions in Kenya with the Ngũgĩ's literary criticisms and approaches to the issue.
Introduction: Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift : Disruption
Authors: Nyangulu Deborah
Published: September 2023

ABSTRACT: This special issue is dedicated to Namwali Serpell’s novel The Old Drift (2019), and the introduction makes a case for reading the book as a disruptive novel. While the degree of its disruptiveness is a moot point, the novel displays a formal innovativeness that stems not from doing something entirely new but from recycling old art forms and mixing genres, re-asking old (un)answered questions, embracing open-endedness and engaging with the contradictory. In its handling of multiple narrative voices, the novel opens up, among other issues, possibilities for countering historical origins, unnarrating the nation and disbelonging to it. I first present the triadic logic underlying The Old Drift ’s formal and thematic choices in eight fragments that sometimes include close readings. I reserve the discussion of the implications of my argument on scholarly debates and African letters for last, choosing to first engage in a critical appraisal of the text. I also articulate my motivation for putting together this special issue under the rubric of disruption and trace the links in the articles contained herein.
“DECOLONISE YOUR PUSSY”: Other Idioms of Decolonization in Serpell’s The Old Drift
Authors: Siluonde Mwaka
Published: September 2023

ABSTRACT: I examine how the statement “DECOLONISE YOUR PUSSY” in Serpell’s The Old Drift (2019) deconstructs the term decolonization by introducing a feminist agenda that emerges when the term is not fixed on nationalist goals of postcolonial society. I discuss the phrase as a gesticulation toward a postcolonial self-reflexive attention to women’s issues and decolonization of the female body. My overall thesis draws on recent Afro-feminist and decolonization ideas of scholars such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Naminata Diabate, Sylvia Tamale, Achille Mbembe, and others who I use to interpret Serpell’s feminist agenda in the novel as a subjective/contingent Afro-feminism.
“Turning the Fables”: Counterfactuality in Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift
Authors: Kwanya Joseph
Published: September 2023

ABSTRACT: This article argues that The Old Drift represents a post-nationalist narrative—authored by a female writer and partially narrated by nonhumans—that creates alternate versions of Zambia’s nationalist histories through counterfactuals. The discussion pays attention to how Serpell achieves counterfactuality through interludes that fragment the text. These are brief sections that offer information that disnarrate the main sections of the narrative. I argue that they are distinct spaces within the text where mosquitos as narrators address the readers directly by offering extra information about Africa’s and Zambia’s past. By focalizing an alternative history through the collective voice of a swarm of mosquitos, Serpell draws our attention to the existence of a different memory of the nation that human-authored histories have obscured or covered insufficiently. Rendering this memory through a counterfactual fable is thus to suggest the fallibility of these nationalist histories and foregrounding the relevance of African oral forms in attempting to capture a more complete version of African histories before and after colonialism.
The Insect Metaphor: Intrusion, Parasitism, and Transformation in Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift
Authors: Stefanova Svetlana
Published: September 2023

ABSTRACT: Literary insects have long attracted critical attention; however the potential of the insect motif in postcolonial literature remains underexplored. This essay analyzes the insect metaphor and its relation to the concept of disruption in Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift (2019). First, I explore the italicized sections, asking how their insect narrator produces formal, linguistic, and acoustic disruption, immersing the reader in soundscapes that make audible previously unheard or silenced voices. I am also concerned with three insect-like phenomena: intrusion, parasitism, and metamorphosis in the context of three periods in the making of Zambia—colonialism and its immediate aftermath, the AIDS epidemic, and recent technological developments. Analysis of the insect motif shows that imperfection, in its varying forms, is at the heart of disruption in Serpell’s interconnected stories. From the desire to penetrate the secrets of otherness in “The Grandmothers” to embracing imperfection as a means of stirring up protests in children’s revolutionary utopia, the author expresses her concerns about the interdependence between human, animal, and machine and warns the reader about the ethical implications of politically conditioned use of advanced technology.
Zambia and the Drift of World Literature
Authors: Primorac Ranka
Published: September 2023

ABSTRACT: Pascale Casanova’s assertion that a world-literary author “embodies and reactivates [their] whole literary history, carrying this ‘literary time’ with [them] without even being fully conscious of it” resonates with Namwali Serpell’s work. This essay places her acclaimed The Old Drift into dialogue with Andrea Masiye’s Before Dawn —a foundational Anglophone novel published in the 1970s by NECZAM (The National Educational Company of Zambia). I argue that Serpell’s text reactivates a local novelistic history not only through its cosmopolitan utopianism, but also via specific aspects of its narrative form. Rather than exemplifying the de-realization of the novel as a genre on the African continent (and vice versa), The Old Drift arguably functions as a conduit of literary connection and realization. The novel enables an imagination of a world-literary system in which forms capable of being labeled “African” are not merely discursively present or absent, but drift across unevenly connected segments of global literary circulation.
The Curse of Manhood: Reflections on Male-Bashing in Radical Separatist Feminist African Literature
Authors: Acheampong Kelvin
Published: September 2023

ABSTRACT: Feminism represents the battle for equal access to opportunities in society for males and females and, therefore, a necessary struggle for social justice. It is sometimes the case, however, that feminism degenerates into a battle against men, a tendency Mawuli Adzei refers to as “radical separatist feminism” (47). In African literature, this standpoint is reflected in the abject degradation of male characters, who are usually presented as the oppressors of women, enemies of women, barriers to women’s progress, and only without whom women would be able to achieve their highest potentials in society (Adzei 47). Against this backdrop, and using El Saadawi’s Woman at Point Zero as a primary text, this paper, while acknowledging the validity and necessity of the crusade for gender equity in African societies, contests the logic fueling male-bashing by foregrounding certain often-ignored variables in this debate: first, the faulty homogenization/essentialization of men and women (and by extension, the neglection of intersectionality) and, second, the constraints certain cultural expectations pose to men. I conclude by highlighting Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s point that—because feminism is potentially liberating for both women and men—we can all be feminists.
Udje, Ecosystem, and Sustainability
Authors: Ojaide Tanure
Published: September 2023

ABSTRACT: Recent scholarly publications on African literature discuss the African environment and the need to “naturalize” it as if the continent’s environment is not or has not been “natural.” By looking at only recent written African literature and not studying African oral literatures, the works on environmentalism have missed important parts of what the African creative mind has done before later postcolonial writers started. It is this gap that this essay on udje, an African oral poetic genre, is used to fill. This essay looks at how African oral poets made use of land that embraces bush/forests and water with its resources to express the congenial relationship between human and nonhuman beings. The physical environment becomes a repository of tropes to express human relationships and existential ideas. Oral literatures such as udje expressed a complementarity that newer literary works lack and so should be studied for a holistic environmental condition and solution.
Heteronormative Plots and African Feminine Powers in Buchi Emecheta’s The Rape of Shavi
Authors: Anand Nikita , Parag Kumar , Prakash Aditya
Published: September 2023

ABSTRACT: Buchi Emecheta’s The Rape of Shavi (1985) is representative of African women’s subordination in “motherhood,” “body movements” (used for communication in the absence of any bridge language), and “marriage” after the arrival of a group of uninvited exclusively white people (albinos) from England in the land of Shavi, a land that was abundantly blessed with a robust matriarchal spirit and self-sustaining powers of African women. This article examines how African women novelists shaped heteronormative plots as a compulsory gendered perspective for articulating the politicized disappearance of African femininity left for organizing African manhood and the masculine principle of the social, political, and heterosexual in a community like Shavi. Extending old Shavian men’s vision, Queen Mother attempts to reawaken European visitors’, such as Flip, Mendoza, Ronje, Andria, and Ista, struggle for a heterosexual role and desire limited to their race so as to save Shavian women from the men’s sexual advances and to assist Shavian women in the preservation of African virtues such as hospitality, cooperation, equality, and love besides protection against Western and young Shavian men’s critical and oppressive attitudes. This article thus contributes to persistent discussions on heterosexuality, the masculinity-femininity division, and heterosexual imaginary.
From the Early Days of Rock and Roll to the Minneapolis Sound and Beyond: Pepé Willie Talks About His Life in the Business
Authors: Kiene Tony
Published: September 2023

ABSTRACT: Pepé Willie’s start in the music industry came during the early 1960s as a teenage valet for Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees Little Anthony and The Imperials (founded by his Uncle Clarence Collins). By way of his marriage to Prince’s first cousin Shauntel Manderville, Pepé relocated to Minneapolis in December of 1974, where he began tutoring a 16-year-old Prince Rogers Nelson and his band Grand Central, which also included the likes of André Cymone and Morris Day. Pepé was the first person to ever take Prince into a professional recording studio with his band 94 East. In addition to Prince, André, and Morris, Pepé helped to guide the early careers of Twin Cities music legends such as Dez Dickerson, Cynthia Johnson, Sue Ann Carwell, members of The Revolution, members of The Time, and many more.
Gender-Based Violence, Activist Practices and Politics: The Movement against Gender-Based Violence and "Politics from Below" in Contemporary Turkey
Authors: Kanner Efi
Published: September 2023

ABSTRACT: Resistance against gender-based violence in contemporary Turkey is the topic of this article which covers the years from the late-2000s to the present day. These years are marked by the turn of the ruling party towards authoritarianism and interventions against women's rights, as well as an unprecedented rise in gender-based violence and particularly women's murders. A new movement against gender-based violence appeared in that same period. I examine what is novel about the social and political profile of the participants in this movement, in comparison with the profile of the Turkish feminists of the 1980s and 1990s. I subsequently investigate to what extent these new characteristics account for the political dimensions of the movement. I explore the way activism produces new political subjectivities and the interaction of the movement with the political parties; the way the movement affects gender discourses and initiatives that the political parties adopt.
Optimización de instalación eléctrica y consumo en base a la eficiencia energética en el actual edificio central de la Universidad Americana
Authors: Gamen Hector Ricardo
Published: September 2023

El fin principal del trabajo analizado es abaratar el consumo eléctrico de un edificio, los avances que ofrece la energía solar habían hecho imaginar que el consumo de energía del edificio de la Universidad Americana era una excelente elección. Pero el desarrollo de la misma implica el uso de paneles solares, baterías, etc., y la transformación así como la adaptación del sistema de iluminación de acuerdo con los requisitos de esta tecnología. Por tanto debimos primero considerar la viabilidad económica (costo-beneficio) para incorporar la misma. Desde el inicio de la investigación se realizó una inspección del lugar y un relevamiento de la situación actual, para lo cual se tuvieron en consideración los planos iniciales y se realizó una verificación detallada de cada área mediante la comprobación de los artefactos de iluminación actualmente en uso. Razonar el monto de esta inversión en sí no justifica el uso de la tecnología solar para nuestro propósito. Por tal motivo decidimos descartar el estudio solar y dedicar el mismo a la TECNOLOGIA LED. Comparativamente un tubo fluorescente tiene una "vida útil" y una "vida media". En el caso de un tubo utilizado con balastro electromagnético, su vida será de aproximadamente 6.000 horas (en función del número de encendidos y temperatura ambiente, etc.), mientras que su vida media puede llegar a 10.000 horas. Sin embargo, se está considerando que después de las primeras 6000 horas se ha producido una degradación de la luminancia del 40%, por lo que el tubo ya no proporcionar valores de luz aceptables y debe ser reemplazado. Sin embargo, las luces LED tienen muchas más horas de duración, alrededor de 50.000 horas, lo que indica una larga vida aparte de una salida de luz más alta y, por tanto, un descenso desde el punto de vista del consumo de energía.
La inclusión un desafío para la educación superior
Authors: Martínez vda. de Dietrich María Elena
Published: September 2023

Este artículo se refiere a la relevancia de la inclusión en la universidad, la necesidad de afrontar este desafío conociendo los distintos aspectos que se debe tener en cuenta para responder con eficacia a la tarea de incluir y no solamente integrar. El objetivo es ahondar teóricamente en los temas más importantes de la inclusión, a fin de brindar información para aplicar políticas y prácticas que respondan con éxito a este desafío en la educación superior. Los temas que se desarrollan responden a los distintos criterios a considerar para la inclusión: 1) diversidad, se sabe que los seres humanos somos diferentes; necesidades educativas especiales que están relacionadas con el contexto social y con la historia educativa y escolar de los alumnos; interculturalidad, se entiende que estamos viviendo un tiempo de gran movilidad social, por lo tanto es relevante atender a aquellos que provienen de distintas culturas; integración versus inclusión, una materia pendiente es la inclusión real en la universidad de cualquier persona que pretenda acceder a estudios universitarios; la formación del profesorado a fin de que los procesos de enseñanza y aprendizaje inclusivo sean válidos. Se concluye que es importante establecer políticas y prácticas para atender la diversidad; es ineludible asumir la presencia de la diversidad en cuanto al estudiantado, la universidad tiene que estar abierta hacia “los otros”; para la inclusión en la educación superior corresponde cuidar dos aspectos importantes, una son las actitudes y los valores sociales; por otro lado está el espacio de carácter profesional donde es necesario técnicas para llevar adelante procesos de enseñanza aprendizaje acondicionados a cada persona para poner en práctica el aprendizaje centrado en el alumno y orientar con eficacia hacia este nuevo paradigma inclusión en la educación superior.
Análisis de factores que influyen en el Consumo Privado
Authors: Ovelar Wammann Diana Elizabeth , Benítez Pereira Sandra Cristina , Duré Méndez Cinthia Yohanna , Pereira Alonzo Ever Javier
Published: September 2023

En términos económicos conocer las variables que explican el nivel de consumo, podría generar grandes posibilidades de generar políticas comerciales, estrategias para empresas, estrategias de marketing, generar nuevos productos para el mercado, fijar precios de productos y así realizar planificaciones estratégicas en forma empresarial. Esta investigación pretende generar los primeros medios para conocer cómo se comporta el consumo privado en el Paraguay en los periodos 2000- 2016.
Criopreservación seminal en equinos: Efecto de la Trehalosa sobre la célula espermática
Authors: Remezovski Luzko Nadia , Azcurra Miriam , Benitez Norma Beatriz , Miragaya Marcelo , Stornelli Maria Alejandra
Published: September 2023

En los últimos años, el desarrollo de las técnicas de criopreservación de semen en el equino ha permitido congelar semen de padrillos con escasa tolerancia a la criopreservación. La composición del diluyente utilizado es uno de los factores críticos en la congelación espermática, ya que de ella depende que la célula espermática resista el descenso de temperatura a la que es sometida. Los disacáridos entre ellos la trehalosa, incorporada al diluyente de congelación ejerce un efecto osmótico y protege las membranas celulares en semen de varias especies por medio de su acción estabilizante.
The use of ICT in the education of students with dysgraphia
Authors: Taxiarchis Vouglanis  , Anna Maria Driga
Published: September 2023

In the modern society of technological developments, the various means of technology enter more and more both in daily life and in education. In this context, ICT plays an important role in the school. They are a valuable assistant in the pedagogical and teaching work of all teachers and in the achievement of the cognitive and social goals, determined during the planning of the teaching. In education, ICT can support all subjects and contribute to inquiry and collaborative learning, communication and the development of students' critical thinking and creativity. By integrating various ICT tools into teaching subjects, teachers aim for personalized teaching, place the student at the center of learning and seek their active involvement.
Efektivitas Peningkatan Kemampuan Kinerja Guru Melalui Organisasi KKG
Authors: Munawir Munawir , Nasrullah Aulia Syahda , Washilah Haadiyatan , 'Adilah Meifika Fatin
Published: September 2023

Kelompok Kerja Guru atau yang biasa disebut dengan KKG ini merupakan salah satu kegiatan kelompok atau komunitas  profesional bagi para pendidik atau guru SD/MI yang berada dalam satu kecamatan. Tujuan dari penelitian adalah untuk mengetahui dan menganalisis tentang kemampuan guru sebelum dan sesudah mengikuti organisasi KKG yang meliputi tentang bagaimana guru mengembangkan materi, mengorganisasikan materi, penggunaan media dan sumber pembelajaran, serta hal lain yang menyangkut proses pembelajaran berlangsung. Pada penelitian ini, kami menggunakan metode kualitaif. Pada metode kualitatif ini akan memaparkan tentang penyajian data berupa hasil wawancara guru yang telah diwawancarai pada salah satu SD Negeri di Surabaya, berdasarkan hasil wawancara guru pada salah satu SD Negeri di Surabaya ini Organisasi KKG memberi capaian hasil pada peningkatan kompetensi guru.
Analisis Gaya Belajar Peserta Didik pada Hasil Belajar Penjumlahan Pecahan Sekolah Dasar
Authors: Kusumasari Dian Aprilia , Nugraheni Nursiwi
Published: September 2023

Salah satu penyebab perbedaan hasil belajar adalah gaya belajar. Penelitian bertujuan mendeskripsikan gaya belajar yang sesuai dengan materi penjumlahan pecahan ditinjau berdasarkan hasil belajar. Peneliti menggunakan metode penelitian kualitatif deskriptif. Subjek penelitian adalah peserta didik kelas VA SDN Purwoyoso 04. Temuan penelitian yaitu terdapat 11 peserta didik memiliki gaya belajar visual (45,83%), 10 peserta didik dengan gaya belajar auditori (41,67%), dan 3 peserta didik gaya belajar kinestetik (12,50%). Berdasarkan hasil ulangan matematika dengan gaya belajar visual memiliki rata-rata 80,00. Gaya belajar auditori 77,00. Sedangkan gaya belajar kinestetik 76,67. Simpulan penelitian yaitu subjek gaya belajar visual mendapatkan hasil belajar terbaik dalam materi penjumlahan pecahan. Pembelajaran yang sesuai berorientasi pada kebutuhan peserta didik yaitu pembelajaran berdiferensiasi.
Peningkatkan Prestasi Belajar Matematika dan Keterampilan Kolaborasi Peserta Didik Melalui Model Problem Based Learning
Authors: Lilis Lilis , Irianto Sony
Published: September 2023

Penelitian ini adalah Penelitian Tindakan Kelas (PTK) yang bertujuan untuk meningkatkan prestasi belajar matematika dan keterampilan kolaborasi peserta didik. Subjek penelitian adalah peserta didik kelas V A SD Negeri 1 Tambaksogra yang berjumlah 31 peserta didik. Penelitian ini terdiri dari dua siklus. Setaip siklusnya meliputi kegiatan perencanaan, tindakan, observasi, dan refleksi. Teknik pengumpulan data menggunakan tes, observasi, dan angket. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa prestasi belajar matematika siklus I mencapai presentase ketuntasan 44,03% dengan kriteria kurang, sedangkan pada siklus II meningkat memperoleh presentase ketuntasan 83,38% dengan kriteria sangat baik. Keterampilan kolaborasi peserta didik siklus I memperoleh rata-rata skor 3,29, sedangkan pada siklus II meningkat menjadi 3,32 dengan kriteria sangat baik. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian dapat disimpulkan bahwa model problem based learning dapat meningkatkan prestasi belajar matematika dan keterampilan kolaborasi peserta didik.
Pengaruh Penggunaan Silica fume Terhadap Sifat Mekanis Beton Mutu Tinggi High Volume Fly Ash (HVFA)
Authors: Solikin Mochamad , Ariska Ayu
Published: September 2023

High Volume Fly Ash (HVFA) merupakan inovasi beton dengan menggunakan Fly ash dengan volume tinggi minimal 50% sebagai pengganti semen. Beton HVFA mempunyai perkembangan kuat tekan yang lambat namun penelitian sebelumnya menunjukkan bahwa penambahan silica fume dapat mempercepat pengerasan pada beton. Makalah ini membahas hasil studi eksperimental pengaruh penambahan silica fume sebanyak 10% terhadap sifat mekanis beton High Strength - High Volume Fly Ash yang ditinjau dari perkembangan nilai kuat tekan pada umur 7, 14, dan 28 hari. Selain pengujian perkembanagan kuat tekan dilakukan pengujian durabilitas beton berupa pengujian absorbsi dan pengujian penetrasi ion klorida pada umur 28 hari. Kuat tekan diuji menggunakan benda uji silinder berukuran diameter 15 cm dan tinggi 30 cm, sedangkan dalam pengujian absorbsi dan penetrasi ion klorida menggunakan benda uji dengan ukuran diameter 10 cm dan tinggi 5 cm. Pengujian perkembangan kuat tekan beton menunjukkan, beton HVFA dan beton HVFA-HS memiliki perkembangan kuat tekan yang lebih lambat dibandingkan perkembangan kuat tekan beton normal pada umur 7 dan 14 hari, namun memiliki kuat tekan yang lebih tinggi pada umur 28 hari. Selanjutnya hasil uji absorbsi memiliki hasil yang sejalan dengan hasil uji penetrasi ion klorida, dimana pemakaian silica fume pada beton HVFA menhhasilkan nilai absorbsi terendah dan menghasilkan tingkat penetrasi ion klorida terendah jika dibandingkan dengan beton HVFA dan beton normal.
Klasifikasi Jenis Biji Kopi Menggunkan Convolutional Neural Network dan Transfer Learning pada Model VGG16 dan MobileNetV2
Authors: Murinto Murinto , Rosyda Miftahurahma , Melany Martania
Published: September 2023

Proses pengklasifikasian juga digunakan dalam artificial intelligence (AI), yang merupakan kecerdasan yang dibuat oleh komputer, sehingga dapat menirukan tindakan seperti halnya manusia pada umumnya dan dapat menangkap kejadian yang terjadi di lingkungan sekitarnya. Melihat perkembangan perdagangan kopi internasional yang sangat tinggi, dapat disimpulkan jika terdapat jenis kopi yang memiliki kualitas terbaiklah yang akan banyak dicari oleh negara pengimpor kopi. Terdapat beberapa jenis kopi diantaranya adalah kopi Arabica, kopi Robusta, kopi Liberica. Pada saat ini kopi sangat banyak di nikmati oleh masyarakat baik itu kalangan muda atau pun tua, dengan seiring berjalannya waktu pun peminat kopi terus meningkat. Melalui teknologi yang ada saat ini maka dapat dibedakan jenis biji kopi Robusta, Arabica, Liberica. Salah satu teknologi yang dapat digunakan adalah deep learning. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah mengusulkan model Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)-Transfer Learning untuk diimplementasikan pada sistem cerdas untuk proses klasifikasi citra jenis biji kopi. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah model CNN transfer learning VGG16 dan MobileNetV2. Dari hasil pengujian yang dilakukan pada 3 model yakni model CNN, Model CNN-transfer learning VGG16 dan MobileNetV2 didapatkan hasil bahwa akurasi yang paling tinggi didapatkan ketika melakukan klasifikasi citra biji kopi dengan menggunakan CNN-transfer learning model MobileNetV2 yakni sebesar 96%. Tingkat akurasi yang meningkat jika dibandingkan dengan model CNN biasa mengindikasikan bahwa penggunaan transfer learning memberikan efek yang baik pada tingkat akurasi yang didapatkan. Kenaikan sebesar 1% memang tidak terlalu besar akan tetapi dengan adanya kenaikan tersebut membuka peluang untuk meningkatkan lebih tinggi menggunakan model transfer learning lainnya.
Pengembangan Hidrogel Sebagai Media Tanam dari Poli (Asam Akrilat) dan Polivinil Alkohol (PVA) Menggunakan Metode Crosslinking Kimia
Authors: Haryanto Haryanto , Wahyadi Riska Anisa , Priyono Eko , Purnawanto Agus Mulyadi
Published: September 2023

Hidrogel merupakan polimer yang mengalami ikat silang dan digunakan pada berbagai aplikasi termasuk untuk media tanam. Kemampuan utamanya yaitu dapat  menyerap dan mengikat air dalam jumlah yang besar. Salah satu jenis hidrogel yang telah banyak dikembangkan sebagai media tanam adalah hidrogel dari poliakrilat. Namun, hidrogel dengan bahan utama poli (asam akrilat) masih memiliki beberapa kekurangan yaitu sifat mekanik dan penyerapan terhadap air yang masih rendah. Penggunaan Polivinil Alkohol (PVA) dilakukan untuk meningkatkan berbagai parameter karakteristik dari hidrogel yang dihasilkan. Pada penelitian ini berhasil dilakukan sintesis hidrogel dari poli (asam akrilat) dan PVA dengan menggunakan asam sitrat sebagai agen pengikat silang serta ammonium persulfate sebagai inisiator. Penelitian ini dilakukan untuk mengetahui pengaruh PVA terhadap karakteristik hidrogel poli(asam akrilat)-PVA. Variasi konsentrasi PVA yang digunakan adalah 5%, 10%, 15%, 20% dan  25% (b/v). Karakteristik yang dianalisis meliputi fraksi gel, rasio swelling, sifat mekanik (tensile strength dan elongation). Struktur kimia dianalisis menggunakan Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR). Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa dengan adanya penambahan PVA dari 5% sampai 25% menyebabkan nilai fraksi gel nsik dari 73% sampai 80.9%. Nilai rasio swelling dengan komposisi PVA 5% sampai 25%% berkisar dari berkisar 6212% sampai 4141%. Nilai tersebut telah memenuhi persyaratan untuk aplikasi media tanam (300-600%). Sifat mekanik hidrogel ditinjau dari nilai tensile strength. Nilai tensile strength yang diperoleh dari penelitian ini yaitu pada 15% sebesar 1.05 MPa. Nilai tersebut telah memenuhi standar kuat mekanik sebagai media tanam yaitu antara 0,55-22,34 MPa. Sedangkan hasi analisis FTIR telah menunjukkan bahwa terdapat gugus PVA dalam hidrogel.
Penerapan Regulasi Emosi Pada Anak PAUD Melalui Lokakarya Daring Guru PAUD Aisyiyah Papua
Authors: Fadjaritha Feby , Sukarno Agus , Hertanto Adi , Wahyu Istiqomah Intan , Purwandari Eny
Published: September 2023

Regulasi Emosi bagi anak PAUD menjadi salah satu indikator pembelajaran dalam kurikulum PAUD. Guru diharapkan dapat memberikan pengalaman belajar menarik dalam penanaman karakter regulasi emosi pada anak. Berbagai macam metode pembelajaran dan penanaman karakter bagi anak PAUD, salah satu yang terbukti efektif dan menyenangkan bagi anak adalah metode berkisah. Program pengabdian masyarakat ini bertujuan untuk memberikan pengetahuan tentang regulasi emosi dan penusunan satuan pembelajaran serta aplikasi tekhnik berkisah dalam menanaman regulasi emosi ala Rasulullah. Menggunakan metode lokakarya/workshop dalam jaringan dengan fasilitas aplikasi Zoom Meeting. Peserta merupakan guru PAUD Aâ€™isyiyah Bustanul Athfal dari 7 Kota/Kabupaten seluruh Papua yang berada di bawah arahan Majelis DIKDASMEN PWA Papua dengan keseluruhan peserta sebanyak 52 orang. Kegiatan dilaksanakan selama dua hari dengan tiga materi lokakarya, pengerjaan kertas kerja dan demonstrasi metode berkisah yang diikuti oleh 7 perwakilan peserta. Hasil dari lokakarya ini, selain terdapat peningkatan pengetahuan tentang regulasi emosi ala Rasulullah, guru menyusun satuan pembelajaran berkaitan dengan regulasi emosi dan dapat mempraktikkan penanaman regulasi emosi dengan tehnik berkisah.
Pelatihan Pembuatan Cendol Rumput Laut bagi Perempuan Penjemur Rumput Laut sebagai Upaya Peningkatan Kesejahteraan Keluarga di Palopo
Authors: Kahfi Muhammad Ashabul , Masri Subekti , Bahtiar Bahtiar , Jamaluddin Fitriani , Ayyubi Muhktarram
Published: September 2023

Kehidupan masyarakat pesisir yang identik dengan lingkaran kemiskinan mendorong para perempuan pesisir di Palopo untuk terlibat menjadi penjemur rumput laut. Pendapatan mereka sebagai penjemur rumput laut tergolong masih rendah dikarenakan tidak adanya pengetahuan mengenai olahan rumput laut. Kegiatan pengabdian ini bertujuan untuk memberikan pengetahuan untuk mengolah rumput laut menjadi produk makanan, sehingga nilai jual dari rumput laut bisa meningkat dan berkontribusi positif bagi kehidupan mereka. Kegiatan ini dilakukan melalui kerjasama dengan penyuluh dari Dinas Kelautan dan Perikanan Kota Palopo, Dinas Koperasi dan UKM Kota Palopo, BAZNAS Kota Palopo, dan KUA Wara Selatan.Â  Perempuan penjemur rumput laut yang tergabung dalam Kelompok Cahaya Katonik diajarkan tentang budidaya rumput laut yang baik dan benar, mulai dari cara memilih bibit, cara mengikat rumput laut yang efektif, cara menebar rumput laut yang telah diikat, hingga cara menjemur rumput laut yang bersih sehingga mampu menghasilkan rumput laut yang berkualitas tinggi. Selanjutnya, perempuan penjemur rumput laut juga diajarkan cara mengolah rumput laut yang sudah kering menjadi produk olahan makanan menjadi cendol rumput laut. Melalui pengolahan produk cendol rumput laut, perempuan penjemur rumput laut dapat mengurangi anggaran rumah tangga untuk cemilan anak, dan membuka usaha baru bagi mereka untuk meningkatkan pendapatan rumah tangganya.
Efficacy of Ultrasound-Guided Caudal Epidural Steroid Injection for Axial or Radicular Low Back Pain
Authors: yilmaz ramazan , goksu hamit , karpuz savas , tekin levent , yilmaz halim
Published: September 2023

Amaç: USG kılavuzluğunda kaudal steroid enjeksiyonları (KSE), radyasyon maruziyeti olmaksızın daha kolay uygulanabilme avantajına sahiptir. Bu çalışmanın amacı, USG kılavuzluğunda yapılan KSE'nin aksiyel veya radiküler bel ağrısı tedavisinde etkinliğini değerlendirmektir.
Hastalar ve Yöntem: Bu çalışma retrospektif kesitsel olarak tasarlanmıştır. Aralık 2022-Mayıs 2023 tarihleri arasında, diskojenik veya radiküler karekterde kronik bel ağrısı olan ve USG eşliğinde kaudal epidural steroid enjeksiyonu yapılan 21 hasta çalışmaya dahil edildi. İşlemden 2 ve 6 hafta sonra, hastaların vizüel analog skala (VAS-ağrı), hasta memnuniyet ölçeği, uyku kalitesi düzeyi ve Roland Morris Özürlülük Anketi (RMÖA) düzeyleri değerlendirildi.
Bulgular: Tedavi öncesi düzeylere göre, 2. ve 6. hafta kontrollerde VAS-ağrı skorlarında belirgin gerileme saptandı (p<0.001). Anlamlı ağrı azalması olarak kabul edilen, %50'den fazla ağrı rahatlaması oranı 2. haftada %57,1, 6. haftada ise %38,1’idi. RMÖA skorlarında, benzer şekilde 2. ve 6. haftada anlamlı iyileşme gözlendi (p<0.001) ancak; 2. hafta ile 6. hafta arasında anlamlı fark gözlenmedi (p=0.447). Hastaların %71,4'ü başvuruda uyku kalitesini kötü olarak bildirirken, bu oran 2. ve 6. haftalarda sırasıyla %19,0 ve %23,8'e düşmüştü. Memnuniyet açısından hastaların %91,5'i 2. haftada daha iyi olduklarını belirtirken, bu oran 6. haftada %71,4'e düşmüştür.
Sonuç: USG kılavuzluğunda yapılan KSE, primer konservatif tedaviye dirençli diskojenik-radiküler bel ağrısı olan hastalarda ağrıyı, uyku kalitesini ve dizabiliteyi iyileştirmek ve aynı zamanda yüksek hasta memnuniyetini sağlamak için kısa-orta süreli takipte oldukça etkili ve güvenli bir tedavi seçeneğidir.
The Efficacy of Interfacial Plan Block Procedures on Postoperative Satisfaction of Surgeons: A Survey Study
Authors: alver selcuk
Published: September 2023

Amaç: İnterfasiyal plan blokları (İFPB) postoperatif dönemde multimodal analjezinin bir parçası olarak kullanılabilir. İFPB’nin postoperatif dönemde analjezik etkinliği, hastaların ve cerrahların memnuniyetini artırabilir. Anket çalışmaları anesteziyoloji araştırmalarında uzun yıllardır kullanılmaktadır Bu anket çalışmasında cerrahi ekibin memnuniyet düzeyini araştırmayı amaçladık
Gereçler ve Yöntem: Çalışma 1 Mayıs 2023 ve 31 Mayıs 2023 tarihleri arasında gerçekleştirildi. Anketimiz 450 uygulayıcıya telefon veya e-posta yoluyla gönderildi ve 30 gün içinde alınan yanıtlar çalışmaya dahil edildi. Yirmi yedi uygulayıcı anketi tamamlayamadığı için çalışma dışı bırakıldı.
Bulgular: 423 anketin cevapları geçerli cevaplar kabul edildi. Katılımcılara İFPB hakkında bilgileri soruldu ve cevaplar şu şekildeydi: 393'ünün İFPB hakkında bilgi sahibiydi. (%92,9). 360 katılımcı İFPB’nin, işlemin postoperatif analjezik tüketimini azalttığını (%85,1) bildirdi. 338 katılımcı İFPB’nin hasta takiplerine katkıda bulunduğunu bildirdi. (%80).
Sonuç: Bulgularımız cerrahi ekibin memnuniyet düzeyinin yüksek olduğunu ve cerrahların ameliyat olan hastaları için İFPB yapmak için anesteziden talepte bulunduklarını göstermektedir.