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Pengembangan Local Instructional Theory Topik Perbandingan Berbasis Pendekatan RME di sekolah Dasar
Authors: Hered Friska , Bentri Alwen , Fauzan Ahmad , Fitria Yanti
Published: October 2021

Penelitian ini membahas tentang pengembanganlocal instructional theory berbasis RME pada topik perbandingan di sekolah dasar. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah penelitian pengembangan tipe Gravemeijer & Cobb (2013). Penelitian ini dilakukan dalam tiga tahap, yaitu preparing for the experiment, experimenting in the classroom dan conducting retrospective analyses. Data penelitian dikumpulkan melalui analisis dokumen, tes, observasi, wawancara, dan catatan lapangan. Data yang terkumpul dianalisis secara kualitatif dan kuantitatif. Berdasarkan penelitian yang telah dilakukan, dihasilkan LIT yangvalid, praktis, dan efektif untuk kemampuan pemecahan masalah matematis peserta didik. Peserta didik dapat menyelesaikan masalah perbandingan dengan berbagai aktivitas yaitu menemukan konsep perbandingan, menentukan perbandingan senilai, menentukan perbandingan berbalik nilai dan menemukan konsep kecepatan
Keefektifan Penggunaan Microsoft Office Sway dalam Memengaruhi Motivasi Belajar Siswa di Sekolah Dasar
Authors: Agustin Mila , Ibrahim Muslimin , Kasiyun Suharmono , Ghufron Syamsul
Published: October 2021

Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui keterlaksanaan pembelajaran menggunakan Microsoft Office Sway, tingkat motivasi belajar siswa kelas IV Sekolah Dasar, dan keefektifan pembelajaran menggunakan Microsoft Office Sway. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini yaitu metode penelitian kuantitatif deskriptif. Adapun teknik pengumpulan data yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini meliputi observasi keterlaksanaan pembelajaran dan pemberian angket motivasi belajar siswa. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa keterlaksanaan pembelajaran mendapat skor 90% yang mana pembelajaran terkendala oleh masalah gadget dan internet. Penggunaan media Microsoft Office Sway di dalam pembelajaran yang dilaksanakan di kelas IV SD dengan responden sebanyak 10 siswa dapat dikatakan efektif karena pada kondisi attention diperoleh skor 4,6 (sangat baik), kondisi relevance diperoleh skor 2,84 (cukup baik), kondisi confidence diperoleh skor 2,24 (kurang baik), dan kondisi satisfaction diperoleh skor 3,1 (cukup baik). Solusi untuk masalah keterlaksanaan pembelajaran yaitu siswa bisa meminjam gadget saudara, tetangga atau mengerjakan di sekolah untuk mengikuti pembelajaran. Bagi siswa yang tidak memiliki kuota internet bisa datang ke sekolah menggunakan wifi dengan tetap menjaga protokol kesehatan
Studi Komparasi Metode Pembelajaran Role Playing dan Demonstrasi Terhadap Hasil Belajar IPS di Sekolah Dasar
Authors: Khoiro Dina Muta’allimatul , Akhwani Akhwani
Published: October 2021

Metode pembelajaran memiliki karakteristik dengan kelebihan dan kelemahan masing-masing. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis perbandingan antara metode pembelajaran Role playing dengan Demonstrasi terhadap hasil belajar siswa. Penelitian menggunakan metode eksperimen dengan pretest-posttest control group design. Penelitian ini dilaksanakan di MI Al-Hidayah Sidoarjo pada mata pelajaran Ilmu Pengetahuan Sosial materi kegiatan ekonomi masyarakat. Sampel dalam penelitian berjumlah 28 siswa. Instrumen yang digunakan adalah soal tes kemampuan awal (prestest) dan soal tes kemampuan akhir (posttest). Data dianalisis dengan menggunakan analize descriptive statistics dan t-test dengan bantuan SPSS 16 for window. Hasil Penelitian menunjukkan bahwa rata-rata hasil belajar yang menggunakan metode pembelajaran Role playing sebesar 89,29, sementara rata-rata hasil belajar yang menggunakan metode Demonstrasi sebesar 82,86. Metode pembelajaran role playing lebih unggul dari metode demonstrasi. Hasil uji t menunjukkan bahwa antara metoderole playing dengan demonstrasi sama-sama berpengaruh terhadap hasil belajar siswa dengan nilai signifikansi 0,00. Terdapat perbedaan yang signifikan antara metode role playing dengan demonstrasi terhadap hasil belajar siswa pada mata pelajara IPS siswa di MI Al-Hidayah Sidoarjo dengan nilai signifikansi 0,033
Penerapan Model Value Clarifications Technique (VCT) pada Pembelajaran PKn di Sekolah Dasar
Authors: Ermawati Ermawati , Sofiarini Andriana , Valen Andri
Published: October 2021

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui ketuntasan hasil belajar PKn setelah diterapkan Model Value Clarification Technique (VCT) pada pembelajaran PKn Siswa Kelas V SD Negeri 1 Sungai Pinang. Jenis penelitian yang digunakan adalah penelitian Eksperimen. Populasi penelitian adalah seluruh siswa kelas V SD Negeri 1 Sungai Pinang tahun ajaran 2021/2022. Pemilihan sampel dilakukan dengan teknik sampling jenuh. Sampel yang diambil adalah 16 siswa dan diajarkan dengan model pembelajaran Value Clarification Technique (VCT). Metode penelitian menggunakan eksperimen semu. Teknik pengumpulan data menggunakan tes berbentuk soal essay. Data yang diperoleh dianalisis menggunakan uji-z. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian dan pembahasan diperoleh nilai rata-rata 71,56 dengan ketuntasan belajar 87,5%. Hasil analisis uji-z diperoleh zhitung = 4,82 > ztabel = 1,64 yang menunjukkan bahwa hipotesis Ho ditolak dan Ha diterima. Jadi dapat disimpulkan bahwa Hasil Belajar PKn siswa kelas V SD Negeri 1 Sungai Pinang setelah penerapan model Value Clarifications Technique (VCT) berada pada kategori signifikan tuntas
Meningkatkan Kemampuan Membaca Siswa Kelas I dengan Metode Silaba di Sekolah Dasar
Authors: Lailah Zianatul , Amin Siti Maghfirotun , Nafiah Nafiah , Hartatik Sri
Published: October 2021

Penelitian ini dilatar belakangi oleh rendahnya kemampuan membaca siswa, ini terbukti dari jumlah keseluruhan siswa dengan presentase 71% kemampuan membaca siswa kelas I masih tergolong rendah, dan guru di lembaga masih menerapkan metode ceramah sehingga siswa cenderung hanya mendengarkan. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk meningkatkan kemampuan membaca siswa kelas I UPT SD Negeri 266 Gresik. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah Penelitian Tindakan Kelas (PTK) dengan menggunakan dua siklus dan setiap siklus terdiri dari empat tahap yaitu: perencanaan, tindakan, pengamatan (observasi), dan refleksi. Alat pengumpulan data dengan teknik tes lisan dan observasi. Subjek penelitian ini yakni seluruh siswa kelas I UPT SD Negeri 266 Gresik yang berjumlah 14 siswa yang terdiri dari 9 siswa perempuan dan 5 siswa laki-laki. Hasil analisis data observasi yang dilaksanakan pada saat pembelajaran dengan menerapkan metode silaba terdapat peningkatan hasil belajar siswa dari siklus I dan siklus II. Hasil penelitian ini menujukkan bahwa pada siswa kelas I UPT SD Negeri 266 Gresik Presentase kemampuan membaca setiap siklus semakin naik dengan presentase tuntas 43% pada siklus I dan 78,57% pada siklus II. Penerapan pembelajaran dengan menggunakan metode silaba terbukti dapat meningkatkan kemampuan membaca siswa
Pengaruh Kepemimpinan Kepala Sekolah terhadap Kinerja Guru Sekolah Dasar
Authors: Yunus Alya Adelia Safrina Putri , Hidayat Muhammad Thamrin , Djazilan Muhammad Sukron , Akhwani Akhwani
Published: October 2021

Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian kuantitatif dengan metode eksploratif. Populasi dalam penelitian ini yaitu guru-guru SD Negeri Ngagel I/394 Surabaya yang berjumlah 17 guru. Teknik pengumpulan data dalam penelitian ini dengan angket, serta dokumentasi yang dianalisis menggunakan analisis statistik deskriptif. Uji prasyarat analisis meliputi Uji normalitas data dan Uji linieritas regresi. Uji hipotesis meliputi uji regresi sederhana. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa: (1) Kepemimpinan Kepala Sekolah dengan persentase 58,8% tergolong sedang (2) Hasil kinerja guru dengan persentase 52,9% tergolong sedang (3) Terdapat pengaruh yang signifikan antara Kepemimpinan Kepala Sekolah dengan Kinerja Guru dengan nilai kolerasi sebesar 5,806>2,145. Simpulan dari penelitian ini adalah menyatakan ada pengaruh yang signifikan Kepemimpinan Kepala Sekolah terhadap Kinerja Guru di SD Negeri Ngagel 1/394 surabaya
Pengaruh Penerapan Model Pembelajaran Mind Mapping terhadap Hasil Belajar IPA Siswa Sekolah Dasar di Masa Pandemi Covid-19
Authors: Ruhama Inisti Adelia , Erwin Erwin
Published: October 2021

Latar belakang dari penelitian ini adalah rendahnya hasil belajar IPA dilihat dari KKM yaitu 68 dimana 43,75% siswa kelas IV memiliki nilai dibawah KKM. Penelitian ini dilakukan dengan tujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh penerapan model pembelajaran mind mapping terhadap hasil belajar IPA pada siswa kelas IV SDN Sawangan 07 Kota Depok di masa pandemi Covid-19. Metode dalam penelitian ini menggunakan quasi eksperimen dengan desain penelitian yaitu pretest-posttest nonequivalent control group design. Jumlah sampel dalam penelitian yaitu 64 siswa terdiri atas siswa kelas IV-A dan kelas IV-B dengan teknik sampling total. Pengujian persyaratan analisis untuk uji normalitas menggunakan uji chi kuadrat dan uji homogenitas menggunakan uji-F (Fisher). Setelah dilakukan perhitungan pengujian persyaratan analisis, data yang diperoleh dari kedua kelas tersebut berdistribusi normal dan homogen. Pengujian hipotesis dalam penelitian ini menggunakan uji-t separated varians diperoleh thitung > ttabel , 2,854 > 2,000 maka H1 diterima, artinya terdapat pengaruh dalam penerapan model pembelajaran mind mapping terhadap hasil belajar IPA materi gaya pada siswa kelas IV SDN Sawangan 07 Kota Depok di masa pandemi Covid-19
Pengembangan Modul Pembelajaran IPS Berbasis Karakter di Sekolah Dasar
Authors: Tamrin M
Published: October 2021

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menghasilkan modul pembelajaran IPS berbasis karakter pada kelas V SD Negeri 07 Koto Panai yang memenuhi kriteria valid dan praktis. Jenis penelitian ini adalah penelitian pengembangan atau Research and Development (R&D). Model pengembangan menggunakan 4-D yang dimodifikasi menjadi 3-D. Tahapan yang dilakukan adalah define, design, dan develop. Penelitian ini dilakukan pada semester genap tahun ajaran 2020/2021 pada KD IPS 3.4. Pada proses validasi, modul divalidasi oleh 3 orang dosen validator, yaitu validator ahli materi, ahli bahasa dan ahli desain. Pada proses praktikalitas, modul diujicobakan oleh 1 orang guru dan 29 siswa kelas V SD. Data untuk validitas diperoleh dari hasil lembar validasi yang telah dinilai oleh validator ahli materi 89,4%, ahli bahasa 95,5%, dan ahli desain 84,72%, sehingga rata-rata keseluruhan nilai validitas dari tiga orang dosen ahli 89,8% dengan kriteria valid. Data untuk praktikalitas diperoleh dari lembar praktikalitas (angket respon guru dan siswa) yang mendapatkan nilai praktikalitas oleh guru 93,18% dan praktikalitas oleh siswa 88,55%, sehingga rata-rata praktikalitas oleh guru dan siswa 90,86% dengan kriteria sangat praktis. Hal ini menunjukkan bahwa modul pembelajaran IPS berbasis karakter telah valid dan sangat praktis untuk digunakan sebagai sumber belajar atau bahan ajar untuk siswa maupun guru.
Pengaruh Aplikasi Youtube sebagai Media Pembelajaran Daring untuk Meningkatkan Hasil Belajar Siswa pada Materi Ekosistem di Sekolah Dasar
Authors: Hidayati Nur Isnainy , Hidayat Muhammad Thamrin , Kasiyun Suharmono , Rahayu Dewi Widiana
Published: October 2021

Di dalam penelitian ini menggunakan salah satu jenis penelitian dengan desain quasi eksperimen dengan menggunakan rancangan kelompok Nonequivalent control group design. Subjek Penelitian adalah siswa kelas VA SDN Ngagel 1/394 Surabaya tahun ajaran 2020/2021 yang berjumlah 25 siswa. Acuan yang digunakan dalam instrumen penelitian ini ialah postest dan pretest yang berupa hasil belajar. Data postest dan pretest di analisis dengan menggunakan SPSS versi 25. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian, disimpulkan tiga hal berikut ini. Hasil belajar materi ekosistem siswa sebelum menggunakan media aplikasi youtube di kelas V SDN Ngagel 1/394 Surabaya tergolong rendah. Hal ini dibuktikan dengan nilai rata-rata siswa 62,8, hasil belajar materi ekosistem siswa sesudah digunakan media aplikasi youtube di kelas V SDN Ngagel 1/394 Surabaya tergolong tinggi. Hal ini dibuktikan dengan nilai rata-rata siswa 91,8, ada pengaruh yang signifikan dari penggunaan media aplikasi youtube terhadap hasil belajar siswa pada materi ekosistem pada kelas V SDN Ngagel 1/394 Surabaya. Hal ini dibuktikan dengan nilai signifikansi 0,000 < 0,05
Pengembangan Bahan Ajar Pendidikan Kependudukan dan Lingkungan Hidup dalam Peningkatan Perilaku Peduli Lingkungan
Authors: Khoiri Ahmad , Peterianus Septian
Published: October 2021

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menghasilkan suatu produk yaitu bahan ajar Pendidikan Kependudukan dan Lingkungan Hidup (PKLH) untuk meningkatkan perilaku peduli lingkungan mahasiswa. Penelitian ini menerapkan metode penelitian pengembangan (Research and Development), melalui tahap desain bahan ajar, tahap validasi ahli, serta uji coba untuk mengetahui keefektifan bahan ajar. Teknik perancangan yang digunakan adalah model ADDIE yaitu analyze, design, develop, implement, dan evaluate. Instrumen yang digunakan terdiri dari instrument kevalidan berupa angket validasi penilaian bahan ajar, instrument kepraktisan angket respon mahasiswa, instrument perilaku peduli lingkungan mahasiswa dengan subjek mahasiswa STKIP Melawi. Teknik pengumpulan data dalam penelitian ini adalah observasi dan angket. Analisis data yang dilakukan melalui observasi dan angket yang diberikan pada validator dan hasil kepraktisan serta perilaku peduli lingkungan mahasiswa dianalisis secara kuantitatif. Hasil analisis non parapetrik menunjukkan bahwa nilai signifikan lebih kecil dari α yaitu 0,000 < 0,05. Kriteria tersebut menyatakan bahwa hipotesis alternatif diterima, yaitu bahan ajar PKLH berpengaruh terhadap peningkatan perilaku peduli lingkungan mahasiswa
Selected Ensemble Sonatas, Part 2
Authors: Castello Dario
Published: October 2021

These ten works, for various small groups of string and wind instruments, are taken from the 1621 and 1629 volumes of Castello's Sonate concertate. A follower of Gabrieli and a contemporary of Monteverdi, Castello was one of the most innovative and respected instrumental composers of the early seventeenth century.
Clavier Concertos in E Major and A Major
Authors: Nichelmann Christoph
Published: October 2021

Nichelmann's concertos occupy a historical position between the inception of the keyboard concerto by J. S. Bach and its first apogee in the works of Mozart. Founded on stylistic elements of the baroque, this music reflects an advance in the establishment of the keyboard concerto as a genre and as a cornerstone for the development of the later classical style.
The Role of Authenticity in Developing Successful Leadership Practices: A Review of Literature
Authors: Masimane Bethuel
Published: October 2021

Authentic leadership in the postmodern world is a necessary concept for organizations. It is a new kind of leadership grounded in the understandings and memories gained in human lives. Organizations need a leadership that is able to critique the shortcomings and myths that support the status quo. It is a leadership grounded in new anthropology and in understanding of the human condition as both feminine, masculine and multicultural, as embedded in nature. This paper reviews literature on the realities associated with authentic leadership in an attempt to answer the question of whether authenticity is significant in developing successful leadership practice. It also evaluates effects of authenticity to leadership practice today. For a better perspective of authentic leadership, a four-component model of authentic leadership consisting of self-awareness, balanced processing, internalized moral perspective and relational transparency is analyzed. The article analyzes the implications of the model to the leader today and identifies practical steps for developing authentic leaders. Authentic leaders help organizations to sustain competitive advantage. Extant literature focuses on studies with practical implications for authentic leadership. The paper generally conceptualizes authentic leadership and authenticity in leadership.
Revising the Black decolonialization process: Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN. and the poetics of violence
Authors: Grosu Delia
Published: October 2021

Frantz Fanon’s writings on decolonization have constantly been read as a call for violence against oppressive colonial rulings. The choice that the subjugated individual must make between remaining a victim or using the colonial violence against those who originally initiated it represents one of Fanon’s main arguments in The Wretched of the Earth. Drawing on Kendrick Lamar’s music album DAMN. (2017), this article aims to show how the rapper rewrites the decolonization process in a poetic way, using metaphors, hyperboles and allegories. The interactions between white and Black individuals that Lamar examines in his songs provide an answer to Fanon’s urge to choose. Moving beyond the Fanonian binary thinking (Black/white, colonizer/colonized), DAMN. provides an insight on how whiteness and Blackness co-inhabit a space full of violent encounters. While presenting an X-ray image of the present-day United States of America, Lamar does not offer an answer on the questions on racism, but he delivers a vivid picture of the outcomes of personal choices, collective failures and perpetual violence.
A ‘Palimpestuous’ Reading of Lisa Strøme’s The Strawberry Girl
Authors: Bădulescu Dana
Published: October 2021

This reading of Lisa Strømme’s debut novel The Strawberry Girl (2016) is informed by Gérard Genette’s approach to literature as ”hypertextual,” by which the literary theorist means that any text evokes “some other literary work” (Palimpsests: Literature in the Second Degree 9). To weave the story of how Munch painted the first version of his iconic Skrik (The Scream) at Åsgårdstrand, Strømme read Munch’s journals, newspaper archives, an old memoir by a local woman, Inger Alver Gløersen, whose stepfather was a friend of Munch’s, she explored Munch events and exhibitions, Munch’s paintings, and she had talks with local people. Aside from these non-literary sources, the writer referenced Goethe’s Faust, the legend of Peer Gynt, the Poetic Edda, Dostoevsky, and she prefaced each chapter of the novel with a quote from Goethe’s Theory of Colours. This kind of multi-layered writing lends itself to what Genette calls, using Philippe Lejeune’s coinage, “a palimpsestuous reading” (399) done by readers whose barthesque “jouissance” leads them into the temptation of loving “(at least) two [texts] together” (399), and, in this case, a lot more than two, and not just texts, but also the enthralling art of painting, in a synesthetic experience.
The Archetypes of Holmesian World: A Study of Sherlock (BBC) and Elementary (CBS) as Appropriations of Archetypes
Authors: Das Rituparna
Published: October 2021

The idea of Sherlock Holmes or what I am calling Holmesness has evolved with each of Holmes’s onscreen representations and with it has evolved his Victorian England. My paper argues that Holmes has become an emblem of victory of good over evil, thriving in his ecosystem comprised of other characters, incidents and Holmes’s Victorian England; and Holmes can only be successfully represented along with his ecosystem. To support this, I will analyse two recent television adaptations of Sherlock Holmes – Sherlock by BBC and Elementary by CBS and highlight how these series have successfully adapted Holmes and his ecosystem emblematically—not as narrative laments, but as archetypes. The chosen adaptations have not only appropriated Holmes in contemporary time, but also have appropriated his world as well.
D. H. Lawrence’s Etruscan Places. A Modernist Revaluation of Temporality
Authors: Anghel Camelia
Published: October 2021

The article deals with the literary modes of constructing temporality in D. H. Lawrence’s Etruscan Places (1932), a travel book written in 1927 and published posthumously. Typically for the first decades of the twentieth century, the work reflects the writer’s anxieties about war force, scientific discoveries and cultural exhaustion in a series of interrelated essays on the remnants of ancient Etruria and the powerful memory of Etruscan civilization. In this article, Etruscan Places is read like a subjective re-creation of a lost civilization; it is interpreted as the writing of an imaginary philosophy attributed to an ancient people and modelled on Lawrence’s personal engagement with the renewal of life potentialities. Patterning his book on the past-present opposition, the author recuperates the Etruscan past within the mythical framework of modernist coherence. The repeated movements between the lost Etruscan world and the writer’s mostly disappointing contemporary age reveal the possibility of establishing continuities not only on an anthropological plane, but also on a philosophical-aesthetic one. The Etruscans’ narrative of death brings to light an art of living; the historical perspective blends with existential and artistic considerations. Lawrence’s exploratory technique is based on similitudes and antitheses, being literarily rendered by a cross-cultural discourse that combines the factual with the fictional, and the epic with the lyric. The British author’s style puts forward repetition as a modernist rhetorical achievement that indirectly questions the validity of literary tradition. Furthermore, the explicit intertextuality of the book completes the writer’s modernist perspective, authenticating the cultural substance of the temporal links that Lawrence seeks to uncover.
Re-thinking the Metaphor of Shadow: From Plato to Shakespeare and Zeffirrelli
Authors: Dominte Carmen
Published: October 2021

In any work of art, from literary to visual, theatrical and cinematographic, the presence of shadow, most of times associated with the presence of light, emerges as a particularly motivated sign. The very act of placing a shadow in a specific context makes the shadow subject to the same area of interpretation as the rest of the artwork. Within each artistic field, there are lots of meanings associated to shadow: from philosophical, theological and psychological to symbolic and metaphorical. According to the artistic medium it belongs to, the metaphor of shadow is usually engaged in creating and modifying the atmosphere, in visualising images, in diminishing or increasing the dramatic intensity and mainly in accumulating meaning. The present study intends to explore the transposition of the metaphor of shadow from its allegorical roots, as in Plato’s allegory of the cave, into new artistic environments such as literary and cinematographic. Be it employed in the service of an idea, as in Shakespeare’s Hamlet or used for creating a visual and cinematic effect as in Zeffirelli’s homonymous film, the metaphor of shadow adapted its means of expression in order to extend the area of significances.
Public Performance of Private Interviews: Reinserting the Self into the Family Narrative
Authors: Predescu Alina
Published: October 2021

Serban Oliver Tataru and Alfred Guzzetti are filmmakers that investigate on camera the role of memory in the construction of family history. They interview family members, gather old home movies and family photographs, and dig for public archival footage, in an effort to assume their position within a personal historical continuum, and to affirm their agency within their familial community. In their creative affirmation of generational subjectivity, they push against accepted familial narratives, and use the camera as a surgical tool that troubles lingering wounds beyond the surface of old images. In Anatomy of a Departure (2012), Romanian-German filmmaker Serban Oliver Tataru interviews his parents about their decision to emigrate from Ceausescu’s Romania while he was a teenager, scrutinizing on camera the conditions and consequence of a life-changing decision. While the dynamic of filming one’s own family is reminiscent of home movie tropes, and the tension built around sharing delicate memories reveals an intimacy usually intended to remain private, the film proposes a multilayered performance of the authorial self. As the film reveals a self-portrait set against the familial portrait (Marianne Hirsch), an inherent performative element acts as the necessary mediator between private and public, between ethic, aesthetic and politic. Negotiating between a restorative and a reflective nostalgia (Svetlana Boym), Tataru proposes a live performance of homecoming.
John Pomfret’s “The Choice”, or (Re)Inventing Empire
Authors: Năstase Florina
Published: October 2021

The present paper intends to re-read the popular neoclassical poem “The Choice”, written by (the now forgotten) John Pomfret at the dawn of the eighteenth century, and to demonstrate how it both fulfils and subverts several requirements of its genre. The paper contends that eighteenth-century pastoral poetry often served the purpose of recommending, rather than condemning the “vulgar” concerns of public and city life. The poetry of “retirement”, popular in an age of growing commerce, industry and Empire, was meant to assuage the guilt of enterprising spirits and give a gentlemanly varnish to an England hungry for consumption and expansion. While Pomfret’s poem certainly plays its part in such a narrative and comforts the anxieties of a business-oriented society, it also undermines the illusion of its “gentility”, an aspect which will be exposed in a deconstructive close-reading of the text, employing Derrida’s concept of aporia. The paper will also look at the poem from a socio-cultural perspective, relying on the ideas of eighteenth-century scholars such as Ian Watt, John Sitter, Ros Ballaster, Paula R. Backscheider and others.
Rewriting Girlhood. Ambiguous Bodies in Contemporary American Visual Arts: Sally Mann’s At Twelve
Authors: Botescu-Sireteanu Ileana
Published: October 2021

Drawing on cultural studies, gender theories, feminist theories, visual culture and semiotics, the present study investigates the subversive ways in which particular visual representations of teenage bodies introduce the generic transgression of cultural boundaries and limits in order to reflect the process of identity formation. Departing from various theories of corporeality and the semiotics of the body as a cultural entity, this study looks at contemporary American photographer Sally Mann’s collection of photographs, At Twelve, in order to discern the visual mechanisms through which the staged representation of adolescent girls introduces the generous subversion of generic normative categories such as gender, age or social status. Furthermore, the present analysis suggests that trespassing boundaries is a necessary stage in the construction of self-sustainable identities in the aftermath of-postmodernism. Thus, the article tackles gender construction as a cultural edifice in which visual representation plays a significant part. Sally Mann’s photography is eventually viewed as an instance of the contemporary interrogation of norms and boundaries of classical Western culture, as well as an innovative visual documenting of the transgressions, transitions and avoidance of limits that characterize adolescence.
From Confessio to Calderón de la Barca: the Literary Evolution of St. Patrick’s Biography and the Question of his Legacy
Authors: McCreedy Jonathan
Published: October 2021

In the following text, I will discuss the gradual erosion of historical accuracy in connection to a series of hagiographic texts concerning the biography of Saint Patrick, Ireland’s patron saint. I will outline each one against a wide historical and cultural backdrop and subsequently ascertain whether or not the changes that hagiographers introduced over the centuries have been detrimental to his legacy. The texts I have chosen to analyse can be separated into two major time periods: the first being the trio of works that construct the absolute basics of the Saint Patrick legend, all originating from the 5th to 7th centuries, which are the autobiographical Confessio, with its heavy focus on relaying a Christian moral about sin, and the historical sources Bishop Tírechán's Account of St. Patrick's Journey and Muirchú's Life of St. Patrick. With these early hagiographic texts serving as reference points, I will, however, primarily study two Spanish Patrician works from the 17th Century: Pérez de Montalbán’s 1627 work Vida y Purgatorio de San Patricio and Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s play El purgatorio de San Patricio, or The Purgatory of Saint Patrick in its English translation. Within my analysis I will determine whether or not the changes integrated into his story by Montalbán and Calderón in fact matter to the overall legacy of Saint Patrick in the modern-day and if they had any lasting impact to readers, bearing in mind that both texts, more or less, retain the essentials of his Christian message and promote him as an exemplary spiritual figure within history.
Re-writing Myth: An Analysis of Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad
Authors: Nistandra Namrata
Published: October 2021

: Myths provide a fertile ground for adaptation and appropriation. The preoccupation of writers with the stories and characters from the margins leads to interesting variations of age-old stories. As a consequence, the familiar stories are re-worked and transformed as an act of subversion. The embedded mythical framework in the revised text enriches its meaning infinitely. This paper is an attempt to understand Atwood’s text as trying to fill in some gaps in Homer’s Odyssey. As a feminist writer, Atwood re-visits the canonical text from a new perspective. She attempts “not to pass on a tradition but break its hold over us” (Rich). The re-writing of grand narratives becomes a strategy whereby a shift in power becomes possible. Atwood’s text is subtitled ‘The Story of Penelope and Odysseus’ making the shift quite clear. The narrative voice alternates between Penelope’s disembodied spirit from the underworld and the chorus of her twelve, faithful maids. The Penelopiad, in this way, becomes a polyphonic text where the different voices blend and clash and no final, authoritative meaning is possible. The re-working, thus, becomes an act of liberation.
Multi-criteria Optimization for Parametrizing Excess Gibbs Energy Models
Authors: Forte Ester , Kulkarni Aditya , Burger Jakob , Bortz Michael , Küfer Karl-Heinz , Hasse Hans
Published: October 2021

Thermodynamic models contain parameters which are adjusted to experimentaldata. Usually, optimal descriptions of different data sets require differentparameters. Multi-criteria optimization (MCO) is an appropriate wayto obtain a compromise. This is demonstrated here for Gibbs excess energy(GE) models. As an example, the NRTL model is applied to the three binarysystems (containing water, 2-propanol, and 1-pentanol). For each system,different objectives are considered (description of vapor-liquid equilibrium,liquid-liquid equilibrium, and excess enthalpies). The resulting MCO problemsare solved using an adaptive numerical algorithm. It yields the Paretofront, which gives a comprehensive overview of how well the given model candescribe the given conicting data. From the Pareto front, a solution that is particularly favorable for a given application can be selected in an instructedway. The examples from the present work demonstrate the benefits of theMCO approach for parametrizing GE-models.
Second Century Defences around Small Towns in Roman Britain Structured by Road Network Connectivity
Authors: Lewis Joseph
Published: October 2021

The large-scale provision of defences around small towns in Roman Britain during the second century is without parallel in the Roman Empire. Whilst the relationship between defended small towns and the Roman road network has been noted previously, provincial-level patterns remain to be explored. Using network analysis and spatial inference methods, this paper shows that defended small towns in the second century are on average better integrated within the road network, as well as located on road segments important for controlling the flow of information, than small towns at random. This research suggests that the fortification of small towns in the second century was structured by the connectivity of the Roman road network and the functioning of the cursus publicus
Differential expression of IQSEC1 in cancer of the vulva.
Authors: Mamoor Shahan
Published: October 2021

In these brief notes we document work using published microarray data (1, 2) to pioneer integrative transcriptome analysis comparing vulvar carcinoma to its tissue of origin, the vulva. We report the differential expression of IQ motif and Sec7 domain 1, encoded by IQSEC1, in cancer of the vulva. IQSEC1 may be of pertinence to understanding transformation and disease progression in vulvar cancer (3).
Management of Covid-19 booster mRNA vaccines with Colchicine and NSAIDS
Authors: Tabaee Damavandi Pardis
Published: October 2021

An opinion article on the management and prophylaxis of cardiac inflammation during covid19 booster vaccinations in populations at risk. Some jurisdictions have decided on mixing several vaccines to bypass risks posed by one vaccine or the other.
Employee Agility Paper
Authors: Anggoro Bagus
Published: October 2021

Dalam pelaksanaan operasional suatu perusahaan atau organisasi, komunikasi merupakan hal yang penting dalam rangka menjaga keunggulan dalam melakukan perdagangan atau latihan perdagangan yang kompetitif. Komunikasi juga dapat menawarkan bantuan menyampaikan informasi tentang barang, biaya, dll. Atau dapat juga disebut latihan promosi. Keuntungan lain yang harus dimiliki oleh pekerja adalah kerjasama yang baik dengan perwakilan individu atau pihak luar (kerjasama). Hal ini sering diperlukan karena akan menghasilkan energi kooperatif dari setiap orang untuk terhubung, sehingga akan membingkai sebuah kelompok. Kolaborasi juga merupakan kunci atau perhitungan kemenangan bagi suatu perusahaan atau organisasi karena setiap orang memiliki kompetensi yang dimilikinya, sehingga kolaborasi akan saling melengkapi.
Hospitalitas Gaya Kepimpinan Dalam Disituasi Pandemi Covid-19
Authors: Musu' Nengsi
Published: October 2021

Artikel ini menyangkut tentang hospital gaya kepemimpinan dimasa pandemi covid-19. Covid-19 ini merupakan penyakit yang disebabkan oleh jenis corona virus yang baru ditemukan di Wuhan, tiongkok, bulan Desember 2019.Covid ini sekarang menjadi sebuah pandemi yang terjadi di banyak negara diseluruh dunia. Corona virus disense 2019 (covid-19) menimbulkan kekhawatiran dunia global karena penyebaran yang sangat cepat dan mematikan. Indonesia juga adalah salah satu negara yang dikejutkan oleh covid-19. Kepemimpinan dimasa krisis menjadi ujian yang sangat menentukan dalam ketahanan nasional sebuah negara. Artikel ini bertujuan untuk menentukan model krisis leadership yang dibutuhkan indonesia dalam menanggulangi kejadian krisis yang diakibatkan pandemi covid-19 serta memberikan rekomendasi perbaikan dan penerapan yang sudah dilakukan.Metode yang digunakan adalah metode kualitatif secara naratif dengan menggunakan referensi kajian berbagai literatur, baik literatur terkait teori krisis dan manajemen krisis, teori leadership atau kepemimpinan maupun kajian tehadap sosial kultural bangsa indonesia.Tulisan ini bertujuan untuk mengarahkan bagaimana hospitalitas gaya kepemimpinan dimasa pandemi covid-19.
employee Agility
Authors: Aldieka Rafli Putra
Published: October 2021

Saat ini, kita sudah mulai memasuki industry 4.0 yang dimana sudah banyak perusahaan yang mulai berfokus untuk bergerak dan bertransformasi ke arah digital tau teknologi. Oleh karena itu, karyawan harus dituntut memiliki keahlian dalam pengelolaan kemajuan teknologi. Tidak hanya itu saja, karyawan juga harus dibekali keahlian komunikasi, manajemen, dan kerja tim (Teamwork).
The application of the inventory models to manage and control overstocking in the production system
Authors: Sakib S M Nazmuz
Published: October 2021

Inventory management is a challenging problem area in a manufacturing Industry. Industries need to have inventories in warehouses in order to fulfill customer demand, meanwhile these inventories have holding costs and this is frozen fund that can be lost. This thesis presents a research for a manufacturing industry on inventory management & control. The manufacturing industry produces Mates which requires granules as the raw materials. These raw materials are supplied from another city which takes some time and carry cost on transportation. In this way, the raw material also carries holding & ordering cost. It is proposed to use inventory management & control in order to decrease overstock levels and also manage the lead time of transportation and to apply some strategy for improvement of inventory management processes. In this way the cost on the inventory should be optimized.The selected industry is not using a specific inventory model which can give them re-order point, ordering inventory & reduce costs related to inventory. This forces them to stock extra inventory which results in extra holding cost. The service level of the industry is low due to which the industry cannot full fill the customer demand and the industry is losing its customers.Production Order Quantity Model is used which gives 9845.47 Kg for daily production. But the daily production lies between 5360Kg & 9920Kg. Similarly, the model gives total no of orders place per year is 205, Maximum Inventory is 43,182 Kg, Re-order point is 23,740 Kg& Ordering Inventory is 19,422 KgThe stocked inventory was 80,000 Kg but now the maximum inventory level is found to be 43,182 Kg.
ANALYSIS ON FUNDAMENTAL ALGEBRAIC CONCEPTS AND INFORMATION SECURITY SYSTEM
Authors: Sakib S M Nazmuz
Published: October 2021

Cryptography plays a key role to protect the data from unauthorized access. Nowadays various cryptographic algorithms are used. It is not meant of information technology to secure proposed work main target to achieve these tasks and goals. In research study related to any field of science is based on some basic definitions and understandings of some previous results. Therefore we introduce the basic definitions of Algebra and information security system in this chapter which is important to understand the dissertation of the coming chapters. This chapter is further divided into sections which explain the various concepts comprehensively.
Negativity bias in the spread of voter fraud conspiracy theory tweets during the 2020 US election
Authors: Youngblood Mason , Stubbersfield Joseph Michael , Morin Olivier , Glassman Ryan , Acerbi Alberto
Published: October 2021

During the 2020 US presidential election, conspiracy theories about large-scale voter fraud were widely circulated on social media platforms. Given their scale, persistence, and impact, it is critically important to understand the mechanisms that caused these theories to spread. The aim of this study was to investigate whether retweet frequencies among proponents of voter fraud conspiracy theories on Twitter during the 2020 US election are consistent with frequency bias and/or content bias. To do this, we conducted generative inference using an agent-based model of cultural transmission on Twitter and the VoterFraud2020 dataset. The results show that the observed retweet distribution is consistent with a strong content bias causing users to preferentially retweet tweets with negative emotional valence. Frequency information appears to be largely irrelevant to future retweet count. Follower count strongly predicts retweet count in a simpler linear model, but does not appear to drive the overall retweet distribution after temporal dynamics are accounted for. Future studies could apply our methodology in a comparative framework to assess whether content bias for emotional valence in conspiracy theory messages differs from other forms of information on social media.
Dispositional Coping Profiles Moderate the Links between Racial Discrimination and Mental Health in Black Americans
Authors: Van Doren Natalia , Layland Eric K. , Mahlobo Christa T. , Bray Bethany C.
Published: October 2021

Objectives: Racial discrimination is consistently linked to negative mental health outcomes. However, less is known about how unique patterns of coping in Black Americans experiencing high discrimination stress may moderate the association of discrimination stress on mental health. The present study uses person-centered methods to identify and describe latent profiles of coping in Black Americans, understand how these coping profiles are linked to mental health, and examine whether latent coping profiles moderate the links between discrimination and mental health. Methods: Participants included Black Americans (N=289; Mage = 44.87; 63% women) from the MIDUS Milwaukee Refresher study. Latent profile analysis was used to uncover subgroups characterized by distinct patterns of coping responses. Direct associations between latent profile membership and mental health were examined. Finally, latent profiles were tested as moderators of associations between discrimination and mental health. Results: Four profiles of coping responses were identified: Passive Responders (29% of the sample), Evasive responders (15%), Diverse Responders (17%), and Engaged Responders (39%). Engaged Responders had the lowest prevalence of mental health symptoms. Further, membership in the Engaged Responders profile moderated associations between discrimination and mental health such that the associations between racial discrimination and mental health outcomes were generally stronger in other profiles. Conclusions: Person-centered methods uncovered meaningful subgroups characterized by unique coping patterns and pointed to Engaged Responders as being most resilient to the effects of discrimination. Future research should test these associations longitudinally and examine whether more adaptive coping profiles can be fostered through intervention.
Chapter 9 - Theory of Mind and Joint Attention
Authors: Pérez-Osorio Jairo , Wiese Eva , Wykowska Agnieszka
Published: October 2021

The present chapter provides an overview from the perspective of social cognitive neuroscience (SCN) regarding theory of mind (ToM) and joint attention (JA) as crucial mechanisms of social cognition and discusses how these mechanisms have been investigated in social interaction with artificial agents. In the final sections, the chapter reviews computational models of ToM and JA in social robots (SRs) and intelligent virtual agents (IVAs) and discusses the current challenges and future directions.
Physical Strength as a Heuristic Cue of Political Conservatism
Authors: Brown Mitch , Sacco Donald F. , Lukaszewski Aaron
Published: October 2021

Social bargaining models posit physically formidable men tend to pursue strategies for acquiring resources and status through direct competition and promoting hierarchical social organization. Previous research indicates that formidable men espouse more conservative political viewpoints, as a means of advancing social policies favoring use of aggressive bargaining and hierarchy-maintenance strategies. If the mind is designed to utilize probabilistic cues of behavioral strategies, physical strength may function as a heuristic cue of political conservatism. Participants in three studies inferred conservatism of physically strong and weak men. Physically strong men were consistently perceived as more conservative (Studies 1 and 2). Inferences from strength cues were moderated neither by type of conservatism (i.e., fiscal versus social) nor presence of wealth cues. Inferences further extended to tradition-based and libertarian moral foundations domains (Study 3). We frame results using an affordance management framework, suggesting individuals utilize cues to formidability as heuristics to infer political attitudes.
Publishing, identifiers & metrics: Playing the numbers game
Authors: Van Teijlingen Edwin R , Dhakal Adhikari Shovita , Regmi Pramod R , Van Teijlingen Alexander , Aryal Nirmal , Panday Sarita
Published: October 2021

The number of scientific articles published each year is rapidly growing and so is the number of academic journals. This makes it impossible for an individual practitioner or researcher to keep track of all research published in their own field or sub-discipline. With the growing amount of publications, it is also becoming more difficult to distinguish between similar papers published on the same topic, in the same journal, or by the same researchers (or research team). This perspective paper could support students and novice researchers, outlines the difference between the unique identifier for: (1) you as the researcher, (2) a specific paper; and (3) a specific journal. This paper further outlines the various numerical identifiers associated with academic publishing to help demystify academic publishing.
Kidney health risk of migrant workers: An issue we can no longer overlook
Authors: Aryal Nirmal , Regmi Pramod R , Sedhain Arun , KC Radheyshyam Krishna , Faller Erwin Martinez , Rijal Aney , Van Teijlingen Edwin
Published: October 2021

Not applicable as this is an editorial.
Biology of Zygogramma Bicolorata Pallister on Parthenium hysterophorus Linn. under Laboratory Conditions
Authors: Ratna Bajracharya Ajaya Shree , Bahadur Thapa Resham , Bahadur K.C Gopal , Baba Pradhan Shree , Devi Ranjit Jagat
Published: October 2021

Parthenium hysterophorus Linn. is one of the most aggressive, invasive weeds threatening natural and agricultural ecosystems in the world including Nepal. Augmentative release of host-specific, leaf feeding beetle, Zygogramma bicolorata Pallister (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) is one of the sustainable management approaches of parthenium weed. Successful mass rearing program requires knowledge on biology of Z. bicolorata for augmentative release. Thus, life cycle and biology of Z. bicolorata were studied in lab at 26±2 °C temperature and 70±10% relative humidity at NARC, Lalitpur, Nepal during March to September, 2016. The average incubation, larval and pupal periods of the insect were 4.33, 12.20, and 11.00 days, respectively. A single female could lay 1,837 eggs in 58.80 days oviposition period with 73.01% egg hatchability. The insect completed its life cycle in 108.40 and 105.50 days with adult longevity of 91.90 and 75.00 days for females and males, respectively. The average length of egg, pupa, adult female and male was 1.19 mm, 5.90 mm, 6.58 mm and 5.32 mm and breadth 0.51 mm, 3.74 mm, 3.94 mm and 3.20 mm, respectively. The average lengths of the first, second, third and fourth instar larvae were found 1.30 mm, 3.02 mm, 4.96 mm and 8.08 mm and breadth of 0.44 mm, 1.13 mm, 2.02 mm and 3.16 mm, respectively. These findings will help in mass multiplication of Z. bicolorata for biological control of parthenium weed.
The Mineralization and Structural Geology of the Porphyry Copper Deposits of Pakistan
Authors: Shah Syed Tallataf Hussain , Khan Nangyal Ghani , Abbasi Muhammad Imran Hafeez , Tabassum Kamran , Shah Syed Khaizer Wahab
Published: October 2021

The purpose of this review is to shed light on copper deposits found in different regions of Pakistan. The geological attributes of copper deposits have been considered with their tectonic context. The porphyry copper deposits can be traced in Pakistan from the north through Kohistan Island Arc (KIA) up to the south to Chaghi Magmatic Arc (CMA). These deposits are mainly found in and around the Late Tertiary–Early Tertiary Himalayan Belt, Kohistan magmatic arc, Karakorum Block Foreland fold and thrust belt, Ophiolite Thrust belt, Suture zone and Chaghi Magmatic Arc. These deposits in Pakistan are chiefly established in different episodes of tectonic regimes, including subduction processes, oceanic island arc, continental arc, along with Chaman- OrnachNal Fault system and post-collisional settings.