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Praktik Konseling Kelompok Dalam Novel Hello Salma Karya Erisca Febriani
Authors: Salma Kartika Maharani  , Dyan Aprilia Puspasari  , Eva Dwi Kurniawan
Published: February 2024

Karya sastra merupakan wadah untuk mengungkapkan ide dan pesan melalui tulisan. Novel Hello Salma karya Erisca Febriani memilih topik kesehatan mental, khususnya depresi, yang dikemas dengan apik. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengungkapkan latar belakang terbentuknya konseling kelompok dalam novel dan bentuk praktik konseling kelompok di dalamnya. Penelitian ini berbeda dari penelitian sebelumnya dengan berfokus pada objek formal praktik konseling kelompok yang terdapat dalam novel. Dengan menggunakan pendekatan hermeneutik, penelitian ini menggunakan metode deskriptif kualitatif untuk menganalisis elemen-elemen praktik konseling kelompok dalam novel Hello Salma karya Erisca Febriani. Hasil penelitian mengungkapkan tiga unsur praktik konseling kelompok dalam novel. Pertama, terbentuknya kelompok melalui kegiatan berkumpul dan menciptakan suasana yang akrab. Kedua, anggota kelompok saling bercerita mengenai masalah yang dialami. Ketiga, anggota kelompok memberikan respon dan dukungan emosional satu sama lain, baik dalam bentuk verbal maupun non-verbal. Penelitian ini menyimpulkan bahwa novel Hello Salma karya Erisca Febriani mencerminkan unsur-unsur praktik konseling kelompok, menjadikan cerita ini sebagai representasi yang kuat tentang pentingnya dukungan sosial dalam mengatasi depresi dan masalah kesehatan mental.
Peran Guru BK Terhadap Perilaku Agresif Siswa dalam Novel Dilan Tahun 1990 Karya Pidi Baiq
Authors: Rahmadani Nadila , Rhamizard Seif , Kurniawan Eva Dwi
Published: February 2024

Tujuan penelitian ini untuk memperjelas peran guru BK terhadap perilaku agresif siswa dalam novel Dilan Tahun 1990 karya Pidi Baiq. Tokoh Dilan merupakan tokoh yang sering melakukan  tindakan  agresif, beberapa diantaranya yaitu agresif fisik, agresif verbal, marah dan juga permusuhan, metode penelitian yang digunakan di dalam penelitian ini  menggunakan metode deskriptif kualitatif dengan pendekatan hermeneutika, karena penulis hanya mengandalkan kumpulan buku novel Pidi Baiq dengan judul novel Dilan Tahun 1990 sebagai sumber dan memilih perilaku agresif sebagai tema karena pembahasan masalah tersebut telah banyak dilakukan pada penelitian sebelumnya. Hasil penelitian yang penulis temukan terkait dengan pemahaman tentang bentuk-bentuk perilaku agresif serta peran guru BK dalam mengelola perilaku agresif melalui pemberian layanan bimbingan dan konseling.
دور الابتكار الأخضر في التأمين الأخضر: بحث تطبيقي في شركة التأمين الوطنية
Authors: محمود Hanan
Published: February 2024

يهدف البحث الى استكشاف دور الابتكار الاخضر في التأمين الأخضر وتأمين هذا التمويل، كما يهدف الى تقديم اطار مفاهيمي بما يخص الابتكار الأخضر وبيان أهدافه واهميته وابعاده المتمثلة في (استخدام مصادر الطاقة المتجددة، تحسين كفاءة استخدام الموارد، تطوير منتجات صديقة للبيئة، تقليل النفايات والحد من التلوث، تحسين الزراعة)، وأيضا التعريف بالتأمين الأخضر وخصائصه واهميته بأبعاده المختلفة والتي تتمثل في: (توفير التأمين على المشاريع الخضراء، تغطية التأمين للمخاطر البيئية، تحفيز الشركات على تحسين اداءها الأخضر عبر تقديم خصومات على التأمين، تطوير منتجات التأمين الاخضر)، تم اجراء هذا البحث في الشركة الوطنية للتأمين في العراق، والتي تقوم بتقديم مختلف اشكال التأمين منها التأمين الزراعي، وبغية تحقيق الأهداف المنشودة من البحث تم الاعتماد على المنهج الوصفي التحليلي، بالاستناد الى استبيان اراء تم توزيعه على عينة عشوائية مكونة من (40) شخصاً من العاملين في الادارة الوسطى والعليا ضمن الشركة الوطنية للتأمين، وتمت الاستعانة بالاختبارات الاحصائية المناسبة على البرنامج الاحصائي SPSS وتشمل هذه الاختبارات (المتوسط الحسابي والانحراف المعياري، وارتباط بيرسون، والانحدار الخطي البسيط)، وخلص البحث الى مجموعة نتائج اهمها: ان الابتكار الأخضر يساهم في عديد من المنافع والميزات منها التنمية المستدامة والاستهلاك للموارد بشكل اقل ودعم القطاع الزراعي، كما بينت النتائج ان الابتكار الاخضر يعزز التأمين الاخضر ويرفع مستوياته نظراً لدوره الهام في هذا المجال.
فقد اظهرت النتائج أظهرت النتائج ان هناك علاقة بين عناصر الابتكار الأخضر مجتمعة او مستقلة والتأمين الأخضر في الشركة محل البحث، كما بين البحث ايضا ان التأمين الاخضر يسهم في زيادة الاستثمار بالمجالات الخضراء وبالتالي يحافظ على المشاريع الخضراء ويحسن اداءها، واوصى البحث بتحفيز تطبيق الابتكار الأخضر في كافة المجالات بما يتناسب مع البيئة الطبيعية لتحقيق الإنتاج والاستهلاك المستدام، اضافة الى تعزيز الوعي بقطاع التأمين وخصوصا التأمين الأخضر والاستفادة من تجاري الدول المتقدمة بهذا المجال.
Pain syndrome in patients with diabetes after hip and knee endoprosthesis operations
Authors: Zenkina Larysa , Halushko Oleksandr
Published: February 2024

Hip and knee arthroplasty (HKA) are common surgical interventions in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM). An important factor in the postoperative recovery of these patients is the correction of the postoperative pain syndrome. Aim of the study To establish the features of the pain syndrome after hip and knee endoprosthesis operations in patients with diabetes and to develop optimal methods of its correction.
RAHASIA AMTSAL DALAM AL-QUR’AN
Authors: Karim Dudung Abdul , Nurcahyati Nurcahyati , Hasan Abdur Rokhim , Iskandar Nur Muhammad
Published: February 2024

The Qur'an is the word of Allah SWT which contains many miracles, both in terms of meaning and language. One aspect of the beauty of its language lies in the use of metaphors or proverbs. Amtsal is a form of comparison that describes an expression by equating it with another expression because of similarities. Therefore, this paper discusses the Secret of Proverbs in the Qur'an, focusing on: 1) Definition, history, and characteristics of Qur'anic Proverbs; 2) Types of Qur'anic Proverbs; and 3) Benefits and wisdom of Qur'anic Proverbs; 4) Ethnography regarding the actualization of human quality in the verse of proverbs. This research uses a qualitative approach with Library Research as a data collection technique. Qur'anic Proverbs is a method used in the Qur'an to describe something abstract to become real. The characteristics of proverbs involve similarities between two objects, concretizing something abstract, and explaining vague properties or circumstances. Proverbs are divided into three types, namely musharahah proverbs, kaminah proverbs, and mursalah proverbs. Proverbs can also reflect the ethnography of the actualization of quality human beings, as illustrated in the parable of Allah SWT in Q.S. Ibrahim: 24-25, which shows that good speech (Tayyibah) is an indicator of human quality.
Hepatitis C prevalence and cascade of care among patients in the decentralised opioid agonist therapy programme of the canton of St Gallen, Switzerland: a cross-sectional study
Authors: Wissel Kerstin , Vernazza Pietro , Kuster Stefan , Hensel-Koch Katharina , Bregenzer Andrea
Published: February 2024

BACKGROUND: To eliminate chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection by 2030, 90% of those infected must be diagnosed and 80% treated. In Switzerland, >40% of the estimated 32,000 infected people are still undiagnosed. In the canton of St Gallen, HCV prevalence and cascade of care have only been studied in the centralised opioid agonist therapy (OAT) setting (institutions), although about 80% of OAT patients are treated decentrally (general practitioner [GP] or pharmacy).
AIM: To describe HCV prevalence and cascade of care among patients in the decentralised OAT programme of the canton of St Gallen, Switzerland, and compare it to contemporaneous data from the centralised setting.
METHODS: For each patient receiving his/her OAT from a GP or pharmacy on 1 April 2021, the cantonal medical office sent a questionnaire to the prescribing GP. Patient characteristics, HCV antibody (Ab)/RNA screening uptake, HCV Ab/RNA prevalence and HCV treatment uptake were obtained and compared to those of patients of the Medizinisch-soziale Hilfsstelle 1 in St Gallen (centralised setting).
RESULTS: Of the 563 OAT patients under the care of 127 GPs, 107 patients from 41 GPs could be analysed (median age: 48 years [IQR: 40–56]; ongoing intravenous drug use: 25%; OAT provider: 66% GP, 34% pharmacy). HCV Ab screening uptake was 68% (73/107) with an HCV Ab prevalence of 68% (50/73) among those tested. Of the HCV Ab-positive patients, 84% (42/50) were HCV RNA-tested, among whom 57% (24/42) were viraemic. HCV treatment uptake was 83% (20/24), with 95% (19/20) achieving a sustained virological response. Non-uptake of HCV screening and treatment tended to be higher among patients receiving OAT at the pharmacy vs at the GP’s office: 37% vs 26% (p = 0.245) for screening and 30% vs 7% (p = 0.139) for treatment. The proportion never HCV Ab-tested and the proportion of HCV Ab-positives never HCV RNA-tested was significantly higher in the decentralised compared to the centralised setting: 32% vs 3% (p <0.001) never Ab-tested and 16% vs 0% (p = 0.002) never RNA-tested. In contrast, HCV treatment uptake (83% vs 78%), sustained virological response rate (95% vs 100%) and residual HCV RNA prevalence among the HCV Ab-positive (12% vs 14%) were comparable for both settings.
CONCLUSION: In the decentralised OAT setting of the canton of St Gallen, HCV Ab prevalence is high. Since HCV Ab and RNA screening uptake are markedly lower than in the centralised setting, potentially >40% of patients with chronic HCV are not diagnosed yet. HCV screening in the decentralised setting needs improvement, e.g. by increasing awareness and simplifying testing. High HCV treatment uptake and cure rates are possible in centralised and decentralised settings.
Preoperatif Değerlendirmede Pediatrik Akciğer Grafisi: Anormal Görünümlü Ancak Normal Olan Timus
Authors: SALMAN ÖNEMLİ Canan
Published: February 2024

Operasyon planlanan pediatrik hastalarda yapılan preoperatif değerlendirme biz anestezi uzmanlarının vazgeçilmezidir. Yapılacak laboratuvar testleri ve gerekli olan durumlarda akciğer grafisiyle görüntüleme, peroperatif olarak oluşabilecek zorlukları belirleme açısından anesteziste yol göstericidir. Özellikle konjenital anomali öyküsü olan pediatrik hastalarda, başka bir anormalliğin daha potansiyel olarak olabileceği bilindiğinden, bu hastalarda daha iyi bir inceleme yapılmalıdır. Pediatrik bir hastamızda preoperatif değerlendirme sırasında rastladığımız akciğer grafisindeki görüntünün, tüm meslektaşlarımıza öğretici olabileceğini düşündüğüm için konu hakkında bir yazı kaleme almak istedim.
Online Instruction
Authors: Mroczek Emily
Published: February 2024

Online Instruction: A Practical Guide for Librarians provides an overview of online instruction, teaching, and programming in all types of libraries. It features actionable steps for starting and improving online programs.

Starting with the history of online instruction and moving into creating a personal pedagogy, establishing organizational policies and procedures, and tips for general programming, author Emily Mroczek features specific examples from librarians to help readers find their way in the digital world. Public librarians, school librarians, and special librarians are featured with experiences and tips that can be modified and applied to any library setting. Ideas exist to help librarians learn from successes and mistakes and establish an engaged and productive online learning community.

Mroczek identifies the pros and cons of different options available for online instructions, tips and tricks for engaging various audiences and strategies for hybrid learning.

Technical tips include pros and cons of various online platforms and streaming services, an in-depth look at Zoom and a guide to evaluate and recommend specific digital resources in categories from content curation to games to calendars and scheduling.

Guidelines for navigating copyright law and staying up-to-date with accessibility standards serve as an educational starting point for librarians, managers, and program designers.

As technology, online instruction, and librarianship continue to evolve, this book will help librarians navigate the ever-changing functions and offer better instruction for their communities.
Getting Real about Sex Addiction
Authors: Daniels Graeme , Farley Joseph P.
Published: February 2024

As the controversial field of sex addiction treatment reaches for legitimacy across the disciplines of medicine, psychiatry and psychotherapy, Getting Real about Sex Addiction: A Psychodynamic Approach to Treatment applies psychoanalytic framework to concepts of addiction and sex, as well as related concepts of personality and attachment development. Authors Graeme Daniels and Joe Farley explore the intersection of sex and culture and address social undercurrent relating to gender, such as objectification and sexual aggression and how those influence conceptualization goals and procedures in treatment. Through a number of case illustrations and vignettes, this text demonstrates psychodynamic method across treatment contexts, in formats of individual, couples, and group therapy. The result is a work that critiques theoretical, intervention, and gender biases that have infiltrated this important yet embattled field, and provides a fresh, alternative approach from a source with the oldest pedigree in modern psychology.
Childcare Professionals
Authors: Hamilton Tracy Brown
Published: February 2024

Welcome to the childcare field! If you are interested in a career as a childcare professionals, you’ve come to the right book. What exactly do these people do on the job every day? What kind of skills and educational background do you need to succeed in this field? How much can you expect to make, and what are the pros and cons of these various professions? Is this the right career path for you? How do you avoid burnout and deal with stress? This book can help you answer these questions and more.

Chidcare Professionals: A Practical Career Guide, which includes interviews with professionals in this field which has proven to be a stable, lucrative, and growing profession.

•Day care provider

•Day care owner

•Nanny

•Preschool teacher

•Teaching assistant
Medical Technicians
Authors: Endsley Kezia
Published: February 2024

Welcome to the medical technician field! If you are interested in a career as a medical technician, you’ve come to the right book. What exactly do these people do on the job every day? What kind of skills and educational background do you need to succeed in this field? How much can you expect to make, and what are the pros and cons of these various professions? Is this the right career path for you? How do you avoid burnout and deal with stress? This book can help you answer these questions and more.

Medical Technicians: A Practical Career Guide, which includes interviews with professionals in this field book covers the following medical technician careers.

Cardiovascular Technologists (ECG or EKG Technicians)

Nuclear Medicine Technologists

Phlebotomy Technicians

Laboratory Technicians

Surgical Technologists

Radiologic Technologists (x-ray, MRI, and CT Technicians)
The Brain-Friendly Workplace
Authors: Fabritius Friederike
Published: February 2024

WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER

A smart, science-based approach to retaining your talent and making the world of work a better place.

Today’s work isn’t working. Stress and burnout are driving talented professionals out of the workforce while the corporate standard of extreme hours, sleep deprivation, and nonstop travel proves unsustainable. But innovative leaders are using this once-in-a-century opportunity to create a future of work that’s better for everyone.

The workplace of tomorrow is a hybrid ecosystem that thrives on flexibility and diversity of thought, enabling all employees to reach peak performance. Every person’s brain is different and by taking an inclusive view towards neurosignature diversity, organizations can get a competitive advantage.

In The Brain-Friendly Workplace, Friederike Fabritius offers a science-based and field-tested blueprint for tomorrow’s workplace. Leaders capable of enacting change or individuals searching for ways to work smarter will discover that even small and inexpensive changes can lead to advantages like better employee performance, higher job satisfaction, and stronger talent retention. If you have been longing for a better way of working where you and your people are both happy and productive, The Brain-Friendly Workplace can make that vision a reality.
Building Boys
Authors: Fink Jennifer L. W.
Published: February 2024

Offers parents tips and tools to help boys move beyond persistent gender stereotypes to full humanity.

We want to raise well-rounded human beings—we're just not quite sure how best to do it. Confounded by rapidly changing gender norms, today’s parents are attempting to raise kind, compassionate, emotionally sensitive boys in a society that simultaneously rewards stereotypical masculinity and is increasingly hostile to boys. Surrounded by messages of female empowerment, young boys ask their parents, “Why don’t they ever say that boys can be anything they want to be?” Teaching boys to respect others will help them in the future—but can make life awfully difficult in the here and now. Making the world a safer place for women and girls is not the only reason to rethink our boy raising practices. Current culture harms our boys too—and they need (and deserve) as much support as girls and women.

Building Boys is written by an in-the-trenches #boymom who intimately understands male development and the challenges currently facing boys and their families. Fink offers ten rules that parents can use to guide their parenting choices throughout their sons’ lives—guidelines that are as relevant to parenting toddlers as they are to parenting teenagers. These rules range from emphasizing emotional intelligence to letting your son struggle and ultimately accepting him as he is. Fink explains both the science and research behind each rule as well as stories and anecdotes from families, including her own. Parents are taught how to apply the rule to a variety of common parenting challenges. And because these rules are broad, they are as applicable to boys with ADHD, autism and learning challenges are they are to neurotypical boys.
Making Dinosaurs Dance
Authors: Joseph Barry
Published: February 2024

Making Dinosaurs Dance: A Toolkit for Digital Design in Museums takes the reader behind the scenes to learn how the American Museum of Natural History innovates visitor digital engagement, highlighting design techniques used both there and at museums around the world. Based on the author’s six years at the landmark institution that inspired the Night at the Museum franchise, the book introduces The Six Tools of Digital Design - user research, rapid prototyping, public piloting, iterative design, youth collaboration, and teaming up – then applies them through case studies across a range of topics:

Combining digital experience design with physical museum assets in a guided format, featuring Crime Scene Neanderthal (CSN), a youth co-designed and facilitated in-Hall experience that invited museum visitors to use a mobile app and other tools to investigate a science-based mystery.

Game-based learning, featuring three case: a tabletop games (Pterosaurs: The Card Game), mobile games (Playing with Dinos), and commercial off-the-shelf games (Minecraft).

Mobile augmented reality games, featuring MicroRangers, which used AR to invite visitors to shrink to microscopic size and explore the Museum to combat threats to global biodiversity.

XR experience design, featuring case studies about 360 videos on paleontology and virtual reality projects about ocean life.

Science visualizations, featuring Galactic Golf, an astro-visualization that addressed the topics of mass and gravity through a round of mixed reality Martian golf; interactive science visualizations that invited visitors to hold CT-scans of bat skulls in their hand; and Finding Flamingos, a youth program focused on how Conservation Biologists protect endangered flamingos through GIS mapping and predictions software.

In addition, the book explores related topics at institutions in Greece and France, and from Washington, D.C. to California.
Who Let Them In?
Authors: Lannin Joanne
Published: February 2024

An inspiring look at the women who broke the glass ceiling in sports journalism.

Women in sports journalism have faced an uphill battle to succeed within the “old boy” world of sports. The early trailblazers faced colleagues who ignored them, athletes who tried to humiliate them, fans who ridiculed them, and executives who kept them from doing their jobs—challenges many still face today.

In Who Let Them In? Pathbreaking Women in Sports Journalism, Joanne Lannin recounts the stories of the tenacious and resilient female sportscasters and writers who paved the way for those that followed. Exclusive interviews with such pioneers as CBS Sports’ Lesley Visser, NFL Today’s Andrea Kremer, and Baseball Hall of Fame inductee Claire Smith reveal the many challenges these women faced as they sought to break down the gender-based barriers that kept them from press boxes, locker rooms, and broadcast booths. And while great strides have been made in the sports world to correct the gender imbalance, Lannin discusses how misogyny and sexual harassment continues to permeate the industry even today.

Who Let Them In? offers compelling insight into how women sports journalists broke into this male-dominated field and managed to stay there, despite the many obstacles put in their way. It shows the sacrifices and commitment it takes to succeed in sports journalism and discusses what the future may hold for women in a media landscape that continues to evolve almost daily.
One More War to Fight
Authors: Goldman Stephen A.
Published: February 2024

This book will captivate readers interested in the legacy of the Civil War, the role of military veterans after they return to civilian life, and the fight against racism in America. Steven A. Goldman looks at the contentious post-Civil War era from the perspective of that special breed, Union soldiers who lived by the bayonet and survived to carry on the fight for equality in the decades to come. He explores the root causes of this historic contest, the changing attitudes of northern servicemen with respect to the Civil War’s purpose, and the psychological effect of involvement in what, from hindsight, was an unfinished work in the cause of freedom and equality for all Americans. Relying on unpublished letters and other primary sources, Goldman uses the veterans’ words and actions to depict their steadfast struggle to preserve the memory and understanding of why the war was fought, and to confront the implications of remembrance, commemoration and reconciliation for America's future.
Transforming Conflict
Authors: Cooley Terasa G.
Published: February 2024

Conflict is endemic to congregational life. Because congregations exist to help us find meaning and purpose, we find it difficult to realize that not everyone shares our understanding or approach. Many of us have cultural backgrounds that teach us that conflict is bad or to be avoided. Conflict Transformation, on the other hand, treats conflict as an opportunity to learn and grow, both individually, and institutionally. Exploring new understandings of how our bodies and minds respond to conflict, Cooley offers concrete strategies for personal growth and healthy congregational functioning. Anticipating new conflicts that may arise from recent traumas of pandemic response and political division, Cooley offers a way to make painful conversations sources of healing. Drawing on over 30 years of experience as a parish minister and denominational official, Cooley weaves personal reflections with intellectual theory. Each chapter includes discussion questions that make it a valuable resource for group conversation and learning.
Wisteria House
Authors: Montgomery Susan J.
Published: February 2024

Wisteria House is a North Andover, Massachusetts landmark, named for the vigorous vine that has flourished on the veranda for more than 150 years. More properly known as the Field-Hodges House, it belonged to only two families. The last owner, Sarah Moore Field, died in 1988, leaving her home completely furnished and packed to the rafters with the accumulated belongings of three generations and hoping that it would become a historic house museum. It did not. A variety of circumstances required a more creative solution.

Wisteria House: Life in a New England Home, 1839-2000 is a key element of that solution. It is a permanent record of the lives lived in a particular house in a particular town at a particular time based on the buildings, furnishings, clothing, personal effects, photographs, correspondence, and financial papers of two upper-middle class families. The text and illustrations address gender roles, childhood and education, household economy, health and medicine, work and leisure, and community history. The themes of public history, preservation, and stewardship underpin the narrative.

The story of the Field-Hodges Houses lies at the intersection of well-meaning, devoted amateurs trying to save a beloved old house and professionals charged with the dispassionate consideration of the financial viability and public relevance necessary for a successful historic house museum. The book is unique in that it is the final component of a preservation project. After the building and grounds were secured, the significant collections safely in the hands of public institutions, financial obligations met, and the intent of a Last Will and Testament fulfilled, Wisteria House preserves the history itself. As an example of stewardship, the entire project occupies a notable position in the current debate over the future of historic house museums in America.
Red Sauce
Authors: MacAllen Ian
Published: February 2024

Tells the story of Italian food arriving in the United States and how your favorite red sauce recipes evolved into American staples.

In Red Sauce, Ian MacAllentraces the evolution of traditional Italian-American cuisine, often referred to as “red sauce Italian,” from its origins in Italy to its transformation in America into a new, distinct cuisine. It is a fascinating social and culinary history exploring the integration of red sauce food into mainstream America alongside the blending of Italian immigrant otherness into a national American identity. The story follows the small parlor restaurants immigrants launched from their homes to large, popular destinations, and eventually to commodified fast food and casual dining restaurants. Some dishes like fettuccine Alfredo and spaghetti alla Caruso owe their success to celebrities, and Italian-American cuisine generally has benefited from a rich history in popular culture.

Drawing on inspiration from Southern Italian cuisine, early Italian immigrants to America developed new recipes and modified old ones. Ethnic Italians invented dishes like lobster fra Diavolo, spaghetti and meatballs, and veal parmigiana, and popularized foods like pizza and baked lasagna that had once been seen as overly foreign. Eventually, the classic red-checkered-table-cloth Italian restaurant would be replaced by a new idea of what it means for food to be Italian, even as ‘red sauce’ became entrenched in American culture. This booklooks at how and why these foods became part of the national American diet, and focuses on the stories, myths, and facts behind classic (and some not so classic) dishes within Italian-American cuisine.
Building Back Truth in an Age of Misinformation
Authors: Stebbins Leslie F.
Published: February 2024

How can we build back truth online? Here’s how.

How can we build back truth online? In this book, researcher Leslie F. Stebbins provides solutions for repairing our existing social media platforms and building better ones that prioritize value over profit, strengthen community ties, and promote access to trustworthy information.

Stebbins provides a road map with six paths forward to understand how platforms are designed to exploit us, how we can learn to embrace agency in our interactions with digital spaces, how to build tools to reduce harmful practices, how platform companies can prioritize the public good, how we can repair journalism, and how to strengthen curation to promote trusted content and create new, healthier digital public squares.

New, experimental models that are ethically designed to build community and promote trustworthy content are having some early successes. We know that human social networks—online and off—magnify whatever they are seeded with. They are not neutral. We also know that to repair our systems we need to repair their design.

We are being joined in the fight by some of the best and brightest minds of our current generation as they flee big tech companies in search of vocations that value integrity and public values. The problem of misinformation is not insurmountable. We can fix this.
Personal Finance for Musicians
Authors: Borg Bobby , Hastey Britt
Published: February 2024

Are you tired of living paycheck-to-paycheck, being broke and in debt, and watching everyone else become independently wealthy? Well, you’ve come to the right place. Most musicians will admit they know little about personal finance.

In Personal Finance for Musicians, music industry and finance experts Bobby Borg and Britt Hatsey coach you on how to:

Make and save money

Increase your credit score

Protect yourself from identity theft

Get out of debt

Understand investment apps

Invest responsibly

Protect your assets

Build a “freedom fund” for the future

Limit your tax liability

And so much more…

With step-by-step action tips and short digestible chapters that can be read in any order, this book is presented in a no-nonsense, easy-to-read style that any musician can grasp. The objective is to educate and inspire you, without intimidating, or even worse—boring you. Let this book be your guide to financial success today!
Prostate Cancer and the Man You Love
Authors: Katz Anne
Published: February 2024

Presents evidence-based guidance to help partners support their men from diagnosis through survivorship.

Prostate Cancer and the Man You Love is fully updated for the women and men who love and support a man with prostate cancer. Written by an expert in supporting men with prostate cancer and their partners, this book describes the experiences of 12 couples dealing with prostate cancer, from diagnosis through survivorship. Covering the basics of prostate cancer, its treatments and supportive care, and advice about communication between the patient and his partner, the book offers stories of real couples in every chapter. Katz offers evidence-based guidance for the partner, who is challenged in different ways to support the man as he moves from diagnosis to treatment decision making and beyond. She carefully describes the treatment options along with the side effects that affect quality of life and couple satisfaction. Additional topics include cancer recurrence and end of life care. The book ends with a chapter on selfcare and the need to put on your own oxygen mask before you support your partner.

The first edition of the book received the Consumer Book Award from the prestigious Society for Sex Therapy & Research in 2015. The second edition is completely new and updated.
More than Music Lessons
Authors: Thompson Merlin B.
Published: February 2024

Award-winning music educator Merlin B. Thompson invites today’s teachers to link their teaching with notions of humanity and create success by building on what students naturally bring to their own musical journey.

Filled with over fifty practical and inspirational teaching tips, More than Music Lessons is a must-read for every genre of music studio teacher: vocal/instrumental, academic, traditional, individual/group, Suzuki, exam-based, and online. A four-part framework gets right to the heart of the matter:

Parents - understanding the complexity of parental involvement and students’ home life

Practicing - an adventure in autonomy, fluency, purpose, relatedness, reflection, and listening

Projects - amplifying students’ musical persona with non-performance projects.

Character - engaging students’ inborn authentic character to ensure meaningful musical participation

Grounded in research yet enriched with real-life experiences and frequently asked questions, More than Music Lessons offers a comprehensive view of student-centered teaching, where teachers share rather than direct students’ musical explorations. This book provides resources for teachers who work with diverse student demographics and sheds light on how teachers may thoughtfully incorporate students’ sense of self, personal and world views, culture, individuality, and spirituality as anchors for their unfolding and unique musical journeys. More than Music Lessons will help studio teachers support and inspire their students for a lifetime of genuine and joyful music making.
How Covid Crashed the System
Authors: Nash David B. , Wohlforth Charles
Published: February 2024

Why America’s health care system failed so tragically during the Covid pandemic, and how the forces unleashed by the crisis could be just the medicine for its long-term cure.

Covid patients overwhelmed American hospitals. The world’s most advanced and expensive health care system crumbled, short of supplies and personnel. The U.S. lost more patients than any other nation during the pandemic. How could this happen? And how could this disaster lead to a more resilient, rational and equitable health care system in the future?

How Covid Crashed the System answers these questions with compelling stories and wide-angle analysis. Dr. David Nash, a founder of the discipline of population health, and Charles Wohlforth, an award-winning science writer, pick up the pieces of the Covid disaster like investigators of a crashed airliner, finding the root causes of America’s failure to cope, and delivering surprising answers that may reorient how you think about your own health.

From the broadest, cultural flaws that disabled our health system to particular, institutional issues, America’s defenses fell due to racism and poverty, combined with a culture of misguided individualism that tore communities apart. We suffered from failed leadership and crippled public health agencies, and hospitals built to make money from services, not deliver health.

But How Covid Crashed the System goes beyond analyzing those problems, providing hope for change and fundamental improvement in ways that will transform Americans’ health. Covid’s market disruption encouraged new technology that allows for remote health care. Integrated health organizations gained ground, working to manage clients’ total wellness from cradle to grave. Covid also accelerated changes in medical education, to make doctor training more equitable and better aligned to the skills we need. And Covid forced employers to accept responsibility for their workers’ health in a new way, making them partners in this new movement.

Using systemic analysis of the Covid crash, the authors find reasons to hope. America’s health care establishment resisted reform for decades, mired in waste and avoidable errors. Now, the pandemic crisis has exposed its flaws for all to see, creating the opportunities for systemic changes. Even without new laws or government policies, America is moving toward a transformed health system responsible for our wellness. How Covid Crashed the System tells that story.
On This Day She
Authors: Bell Jo , Hershman Tania , Holland Ailsa
Published: February 2024

A fascinating page-a-day collection profiling extraordinary women of all races, eras, and nationalities.

Our past is full of influential women. Whether politicians, troublemakers, explorers, artists, and even the odd murderer, women have shaped society around the globe. But too often, these women have been unfairly confined to the margins of history.

On This Day She: Putting Women Back into History One Day at a Time corrects this imbalance. A day-by-day collection of inspiring stories about incredible women who made history but seldom received the acknowledgement they deserved, this book introduces readers to women of all colors, eras, and nationalities. From Queen Elizabeth I to Beyoncé, Doria Shafik to Lillian Bilocca, this book gives voice both to female icons and to those whom the history books have overlooked.

These women campaigned, cured, and adventured their way through life. They include musicians, painters, scientists, poets, and more. Spanning centuries, On This Day She is a record of human existence at its most authentic.
Modern Conspiracies in America
Authors: Gambone Michael D.
Published: February 2024

"... an excellent guide to logic and credibility for all who are curious about this complex and urgent subject." Booklist Starred Review

America is awash with alleged conspiracies. It seems like today, no one with a cell phone escapes the vortex of skepticism, cynicism, paranoia, and fear that occupy our thoughts almost constantly. Seeking out valid answers in this cacophony can be confusing and deeply frustrating. In this book, historian Michael D. Gambone provides case studies of popular conspiracy theories in America from the past 100 years, from Protocol of the Elders of Zion to #stopthesteal. He offers an approach based on basic logic and historical case studies, not designed to win arguments, but to help readers separate truth from the avalanche of nonsense descending on us every day. In each case, Gambone outlines the conspiracy claim, provides historical context for the conspiracy, presents evidence of the conspiracy claim, and analyzes the claim, context, and evidence.

Modern Conspiracies in American History will appeal to a broad audience of readers interested in American history and those seeking to become better informed consumers of news in an era when social media spreads misinformation widely and quickly.
Pemanfaatan Kearifan Lokal sebagai Upaya memajukan Ekonomi melalui Pendampingan Kampung Tematik Drum Bujana Desa Pete, Kecamatan Tigaraksa
Authors: Goestjahjanti Francisca Sestri , Fayzhall Miyv , Winanti Winanti , Basuki Sucipto
Published: February 2024

Kegiatan PKM dilakukan di kampung tematik Drum Bujana, desa Pete, kecamatan Tigaraksa Kabupaten Tangerang mulai dari bulan Maret 2022 sampai dengan September 2022 yang diikuti oleh 5 orang dosen dan 6 mahasiswa dari semua jurusan. PKM diisi dengan berbagai kegiatan seperti sosialisasi, pelatihan, pendampingan, wokshop, fasilitasi dengan harapan pengetahuan masyarakat meningkat, motivasi, ketrampilan, pelayanan, pemasaran meningkat dan tercipta wirausaha-wirausaha baru yang dapat menampung lapangan pekerjaan bagi masyarakat setempat. Dosen dan mahasiswa terjun secara langsung ke kampung tematik Drum Bujana dengan harapan dapat membawa beberapa perubahan yang ada di masyarakat kampung tematik Drum Bujana. Beberapa kegiatan telah dilakukan dengan baik dan antusias masyarakat sangat tinggi. Beberapa UMKM yang selama ini sudah tidak bergairah menjadi bangkit dan bergerak kembali
MEMBUKA TAMAN BACA DAN MEMBANGGUN LITERASI PADA ANAK ATAU MASYARAKAT PADA KP. MAEN AER
Authors: Aman Mustar
Published: February 2024

Taman Bacaan merupakan tempat mengoleksi berbagai bahan bacaan dan memiliki kepedulian terhadap literasi terutama bagi para pengunjungnya. Budaya literasi perlu selalu ditingkatkan seiring berkembangnya zaman dan kemajuan teknologi. Sasaran utama kegiatan kampung tematik dalam pelaksanaan  program ini adalah membangun taman baca mulai dari anak usia dini sampai anak sekolah dasar serta semua pelajar  yang perlu digalakkan sejak dini tentang budaya literasi agar tidak terlena dan kecanduan akan   teknologi. Membaca adalah modal utama untuk kemajuan semua pelajar, maka dari itu hobi membaca perlu dikembangkan dalam masyarakat sejak dini. Kendala pada Kp. Maen Aer adalah belum adanya taman baca  sehingga kecintaan membaca pada anak-anak masih rendah. Jadi tujuan mendirikan taman baca dan membangun budaya literasi pada anak adalah untuk meningkatkan minat baca anak-anak dari segala usia.  Hasil dari membanguna taman baca ini adalah mengembangkan kebiasaan  membaca sehingga dapat mendorong peningkatan kualitas ilmu pengetahuan, kreativitas, kemandirian, daya juang dan daya saing dalam masa depan pada semua tingkatan pelajar sekolah dasar. Metode Pelaksanaan dalam memulai membuka taman baca dan literasi  adalah koordinasi dengan perangkat desa, menganalisis masalah objek yang akan dibangun di lokasi mitra, pelaksanaan program serta laporan hasil.
PEMANFAATAN LIMBAH RUMAH TANGGA KAMPUNG PRODUKTIF DESA JATIMULYA KECAMATAN KOSAMBI KABUPATEN TANGERANG
Authors: Yulis Nuryanti
Published: February 2024

Kehidupan yang nyaman, tentunya sangat diinginkan oleh setiap manusia baik didalam lingkungan keluarga, tempat kerja maupun pada lingkungan masyarakat. Dengan berlangsungnya kehidupan bermasyarakat, sudah tentu terjadi interaksi baik dengan warga masyarakat sekitar maupun dengan lingkungannya. Lingkungan yang bersih, rapi, aman dan asri tentunya membuat kehidupan lebih nyaman, begitu juga dengan sebaliknya. Program yang telah dicetuskan oleh para pemimpin di Kampung Tematik Produktif RT.002/RW.002 Desa Jatimulya, Kecamatan Kosambi, Kabupaten Tangerang yaitu menjadikan lingkungan  yang bersih, sehat, nyaman dan sejahtera. Hal yang berpengaruh signifikan terhadap kenyamanan lingkungan ini adalah cara atau teknik dalam penataan lingkungan salah satunya dengan bagaimana pengelolaan sampahnya. Dibeberapa tempat masalah sampah menjadi masalah yang serius yang dapat mengganggu kenyamanan masyarakat. Dalam kegiatannya PKM ini akan memanfaatkan sampah tersebut menjadi barang yang bernilai estetis dan ekonomis sehingga bukan hanya menyelesaikan masalah lingkungan akibat sampah yang berserakan tetapi juga dapat meningkatkan kesejahteraan masyarakat RT 002/002 Desa Jatimulya Kecamatan Kosambi Kabupaten tangerang.
DEVELOPMENT AND VALİDATİON OF A SPECTROPHOTOMETRİC METHOD FOR THE DETERMİNATİON OF POLYSACCHARİDES İN THE RAW MATERİAL OF ALTHAEA OFFİCİNALİS L.
Authors:   Azerbaijan Medical University, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Suleymanov Tahir A. , Balayeva Emilya Z. ,   Azerbaijan Medical University, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Farajova Jala А. ,   Azerbaijan Medical University, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
Published: February 2024

In the article, the results of the studies on the validation of polysaccharides in the raw material of medicinal rosehip (Althaea officinalis L.) are presented.Althaea officinalis - the method of determining the amount of polysaccharides in the raw material of medicinal rosehip by spectrophotometry was developed.Validation evaluation of the method was carried out and the reliability interval of the accuracy indicator of the method was ±0.37; relative standard deviation of the accuracy index: I day-0.04, II day-0.03; determination limit 0.001 mg/ml, quantity determination limit 0.004 mg/ml; linearity index: in the concentration interval of 0.02-0.06 mg/ml (R²=0.999). The proposed method is simple, fast and has sufficient accuracy indicators, it allows to control the quality of the raw material of the drug althaea.
Antidiabetic and Hepatoprotective Effects of Aqueous and Ethanolic Leaf Extracts of Mitracarpus Hirtus on Alloxan-Induced Diabetic Rats
Authors: Sunday Gabriel , Stephen Ezeonu Chukuma , Chinedu Imo , Tsuvini Jonah , Attah Atah David
Published: February 2024

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a metabolic disorder that remains a major health concern worldwide. It is associated with derangement of carbohydrate, protein, and lipid metabolism. This study evaluates the antidiabetic and hepatoprotective effects of aqueous and ethanolic leaf extracts of Mitracarpus hirtus on alloxan-induced diabetic rats. Fifty-five male Wistar rats were divided into 11 groups, with diabetes induced by alloxan. Treatment with aqueous and ethanolic extracts, along with Glibenclamide, lasted three weeks.   At the end of the treatment period, the rats were sacrificed and blood samples were collected via cardiac puncture for biochemical analysis. Findings revealed a significant decrease (p<0.05) in fasting blood sugar (FBS) in group 10 (99.8 ± 15.74 mg/dL) when compared with group 2 (274.2 ± 7.95 mg/dL) in week 1. Week 2 also revealed a significant decrease (p<0.05) in group 11 (84.6 ± 14.98 mg/dL) when compared with group 2 (262.8 ± 15.94 mg/dL). Week 3, further revealed a significant decrease (p<0.05) in group 9 (79.4 ± 25.13 mg/dL) and group 11 (83.6 ± 8.35 mg/dL) when compared with group 2 (289.6 ± 20.89 mg/dL). Aspartate Aminotransferase (AST) revealed a significant decrease (p<0.05) when group 11 (54.38 ± 15.74 U/L) was compared with group 2 (146.66 ± 11.35 U/L). Similarly, Alanine Aminotransferase (ALT) significantly decreased (p<0.05) when group 11 (53.46 ± 4.6 U/L) was compared with group 2 (101.42 ± 16.01 U/L), while total protein and albumin increased in all treated groups. Group 5 (0.64 ± 0.11 mg/dL) in Total bilirubin (TB) had the lowest mean when compared with group 2 (2.69 ± 0.52 mg/dL). All treatment groups significantly decreased (p<0.05) Triglyceride (TG) and Cholesterol (CHOL). From this study, it has been shown that the aqueous and ethanolic leaves extracts of Mitracarpus hirtus may have the potential to ameliorate the complications due to diabetes in a dose dependent manner.
Challenges and Opportunities in Biofertilizer Commercialization
Authors:   Department of Microbiology, C.P. College of Agriculture, Sardarkrushinagar Dantiwada Agricultural University, Sardrarkrushinagar,  Dist. Banaskantha, Gujarat-385506, India., Yadav Anurag , Yadav Kusum ,   Department of Biochemistry, University of Lucknow, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh-226007, India.
Published: February 2024

As eco-friendly alternative to chemical fertilizers, biofertilizers have gained significance in the quest for sustainable farming. While challenges exist, such as regulatory hurdles and technical complexities, the opportunities in this field are substantial. Understanding rhizosphere engineering can enhance biofertilizers' efficiency, ensuring they provide maximum crop benefits. Genetic engineering of bioinoculants offers a pathway to tailor biofertilizers to specific crop needs, potentially increasing their effectiveness. Multi-trait, multi-strain, and multi-nutrient microbial formulations have the potential to revolutionize the biofertilizer market, allowing for customized solutions that address a range of agricultural needs. These innovations are complemented by market dynamics and the integration of nanotechnology, which can further enhance biofertilizer performance and reach. Such opportunities indicate a bright future for biofertilizer commercialization, where sustainable agriculture can benefit from advanced formulations with an improved understanding of soil-plant interactions. Biofertilizers' prospects are promising, offering a more sustainable and environmentally friendly approach to nourishing the world's growing population.