bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Internationalization in Higher Education: University’s Effective Promotion Strategies in Building International Trust
Authors: Rosyidah Naeli , Matin Matin , Rosyidi Unifah
Published: January 2020

University attempts to respond to globalization to build international trust by conducting internationalization as the bridge of their selected strategies. The efforts needed to build international trust are promotion strategies. This study aims to elaborate the effective promotion strategies in Jenderal Soedirman University, Indonesia. The data were collected by some deep interviews, observation, and documentation. The result shows that the promotion strategies includes, first, the university’s direction to be recognized globally by a strong vision, international accreditation for its study programs, and being the center of special studies. Second, the university publicizes the university’s programs, activities, excellence, and uniqueness through printed or online media, foreign institutions, and individuals. Third, the university initiates international collaborations with foreign universities and institutions by building good interpersonal communication, forming teams for international collaborations, initiating activities to build trust among individuals, and getting involved in international events. Last, the university offers scholarships for foreign students to increase inbound students.
Ultra-low stress SiO2 coatings by ion beam sputtering deposition
Authors: Davenport Aaron , Randel Emmett , Menoni Carmen S.
Published: January 2020

High mechanical stress can affect the performance of multilayer thin film optical coatings, causing wavefront aberrations. This is particularly important if the multilayer stack is deposited onto thin substrates, such as those used in adaptive optics. Stress in thin film coatings is dependent on the deposition process, and ion beam sputtering (IBS) thin films are known to have high compressive stress. In the present work, we show that stress in IBS

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thin films can be reduced from 490 MPa to 48 MPa using high-energy

O

2

assist ion bombardment during deposition while maintaining high optical quality. A comparison of the reduction of stress in

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deposited from oxide and metal targets is provided.
Anisotropic two-photon absorbers measured by the Z-scan technique and its application in laser beam shaping
Authors: Hu Yueqiu , Gu Bing , Wen Bo , Lv Changgui , Rui Guanghao , He Jun , Cui Yiping
Published: January 2020

We investigate anisotropic two-photon absorption (TPA) effects in a cubic-symmetry crystal excited by scalar and vectorial optical fields. First, we present the anisotropic TPA coefficient, which depends on the anisotropy coefficient, the dichroism coefficient, the crystal orientation angle, and the ellipticity of the polarized ellipse. Second, we develop the elliptically polarized light Z-scan technique for characterizing anisotropic two-photon absorbers, which is demonstrated experimentally. Last, we present the laser beam shaping of vectorial optical fields with Gaussian intensity distribution into a flat-top profile through anisotropic TPA effects. It is shown that the anisotropic TPA offers a new avenue to manipulate the intensity distribution of the polarization-structured light field, which may find interesting applications in beam shaping, optical limiting, and photodetection.
Nonlinear self-channeling of high-power lasers through controlled atmospheric turbulence
Authors: DiComo Gregory , Helle Michael , Kaganovich Dmitri , Schmitt-Sody Andreas , Elle Jennifer , Peñano Joseph
Published: January 2020

High-power laser beams are demonstrated to resist the spreading effects
of atmospheric turbulence over a 180-m-long path. This “nonlinear
self-channeling” behavior occurs when nonlinear self-focusing balances
diffraction, maintaining the beam radius at a size smaller than the
inner scale or coherence radius of turbulence, over the length of
propagation. Nonlinear self-channeling is shown to persist into the
strong-turbulence regime. However, the turbulence-induced increase in
beam wander remains unchanged.
Coupled-mode theory for plasmonic resonators integrated with silicon waveguides towards mid-infrared spectroscopic sensing
Authors: Chen Che , Oh Sang-Hyun , Li Mo
Published: January 2020

Advances in mid-IR lasers, detectors, and nanofabrication technology have enabled new device architectures to implement on-chip sensing applications. In particular, direct integration of plasmonic resonators with a dielectric waveguide can generate an ultra-compact device architecture for biochemical sensing via surface-enhanced infrared absorption (SEIRA) spectroscopy. A theoretical investigation of such a hybrid architecture is imperative for its optimization. In this work, we investigate the coupling mechanism between a plasmonic resonator array and a waveguide using temporal coupled-mode theory and numerical simulation. The results conclude that the waveguide transmission extinction ratio reaches maxima when the resonator-waveguide coupling rate is maximal. Moreover, after introducing a model analyte in the form of an oscillator coupled with the plasmonics-waveguide system, the transmission curve with analyte absorption can be fitted successfully. We conclude that the extracted sensing signal can be maximized when analyte absorption frequency is the same as the transmission minima, which is different from the plasmonic resonance frequency. This conclusion is in contrast to the dielectric resonator scenario and provides an important guideline for design optimization and sensitivity improvement of future devices.
Deep-learning projector for optical diffraction tomography
Authors: Yang Fangshu , Pham Thanh-an , Gupta Harshit , Unser Michael , Ma Jianwei
Published: January 2020

Optical diffraction tomography is an effective tool to estimate the refractive indices of unknown objects. It proceeds by solving an ill-posed inverse problem for which the wave equation governs the scattering events. The solution has traditionally been derived by the minimization of an objective function in which the data-fidelity term encourages measurement consistency while the regularization term enforces prior constraints. In this work, we propose to train a convolutional neural network (CNN) as the projector in a projected-gradient-descent method. We iteratively produce high-quality estimates and ensure measurement consistency, thus keeping the best of CNN-based and regularization-based worlds. Our experiments on two-dimensional-simulated and real data show an improvement over other conventional or deep-learning-based methods. Furthermore, our trained CNN projector is general enough to accommodate various forward models for the handling of multiple-scattering events.
Determining terahertz resonant peaks of biomolecules in aqueous environment
Authors: Jeong Seo-Yeon , Cheon Hwayeong , Lee Donggun , Son Joo-Hiuk
Published: January 2020

The resonant peaks of biomolecules provide information on the molecules’ physical and chemical properties. Although many biomolecules have resonant peaks in the terahertz region, it is difficult to observe their specific signals in aqueous environments. Hence, this paper proposes a method for determining these peaks. We found the specific resonant peaks of a modified nucleoside, 5-methlycytidine and modified HEK293T DNA in an aqueous solution through baseline correction. We evaluated the consistency of various fitting functions used for determining the peaks with various parameters. We separated two resonance peaks of 5-methlycytidine at 1.59 and 1.97 THz and for artificially methylated HEK293T DNA at 1.64 and 2.0 THz.
Does deep learning always outperform simple linear regression in optical imaging?
Authors: Jiao Shuming , Gao Yang , Feng Jun , Lei Ting , Yuan Xiaocong
Published: January 2020

Deep learning has been extensively applied in many optical imaging problems in recent years. Despite the success, the limitations and drawbacks of deep learning in optical imaging have been seldom investigated. In this work, we show that conventional linear-regression-based methods can outperform the previously proposed deep learning approaches for two black-box optical imaging problems in some extent. Deep learning demonstrates its weakness especially when the number of training samples is small. The advantages and disadvantages of linear-regression-based methods and deep learning are analyzed and compared. Since many optical systems are essentially linear, a deep learning network containing many nonlinearity functions sometimes may not be the most suitable option.
Subvolt electro-optical modulator on thin-film lithium niobate and silicon nitride hybrid platform
Authors: Ahmed Abu Naim R. , Nelan Sean , Shi Shouyuan , Yao Peng , Mercante Andrew , Prather Dennis W.
Published: January 2020

A low voltage operation electro-optic modulator is critical for applications ranging from optical communications to an analog photonic link. This paper reports a hybrid silicon nitride and lithium niobate electro-optic Mach–Zehnder modulator that employs 3 dB multimode interference couplers for splitting and combining light. The presented amplitude modulator with an interaction region length of 2.4 cm demonstrates a DC half-wave voltage of only 0.875 V, which corresponds to a modulation efficiency per unit length of 2.11 V cm. The power extinction ratio of the fabricated device is approximately 30 dB, and the on-chip optical loss is about 5.4 dB.
Laser cooling in a silica optical fiber at atmospheric pressure
Authors: Knall Jennifer , Vigneron Pierre-Baptiste , Engholm Magnus , Dragic Peter D. , Yu Nanjie , Ballato John , Bernier Martin , Digonnet Michel J. F.
Published: January 2020

For the first time, to the best of our knowledge, laser cooling is reported in a silica optical fiber. The fiber has a 21-µm diameter core doped with 2.06 wt.%

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and co-doped with

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to increase the critical quenching concentration by a factor of 16 over the largest reported values for the Yb-doped silica. Using a custom slow-light fiber Bragg grating sensor, temperature changes up to

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were measured with 0.33 W/m of absorbed pump power per unit length at 1040 nm. The measured dependencies of the temperature change on the pump power and the pump wavelength are in excellent agreement with predictions from an existing model, and they reflect the fiber’s groundbreaking quality for the radiation-balanced fiber lasers.
CMOS-compatible all-optical modulator based on the saturable absorption of graphene
Authors: Wang Hong , Yang Ningning , Chang Limin , Zhou Chaobiao , Li Shiyu , Deng Meng , Li Zhenwei , Liu Qiang , Zhang Chi , Li Zhiyong , Wang Yi
Published: January 2020

Graphene resting on a silicon-on-insulator platform offers great potential for optoelectronic devices. In the paper, we demonstrate all-optical modulation on the graphene–silicon hybrid waveguides (GSHWs) with tens of micrometers in length. Owing to strong interaction between graphene and silicon strip waveguides with compact light confinement, the modulation depth reaches 22.7% with a saturation threshold down to 1.38 pJ per pulse and a 30-μm-long graphene pad. A response time of 1.65 ps is verified by a pump–probe measurement with an energy consumption of 2.1 pJ. The complementary metal-oxide semiconductor compatible GSHWs with the strip configuration exhibit great potential for ultrafast and broadband all-optical modulation, indicating that employing two-dimensional materials has become a complementary technology to promote the silicon photonic platform.
SERS study on the synergistic effects of electric field enhancement and charge transfer in an Ag2S quantum dots/plasmonic bowtie nanoantenna composite system
Authors: Wang Bin , Zhao Chen , Lu Huanyu , Zou Tingting , Singh Subhash C. , Yu Zhi , Yao Chaonan , Zheng Xin , Xing Jun , Zou Yuting , Tong Cunzhu , Yu Weili , Zhao Bo , Guo Chunlei
Published: January 2020

Localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) of nanostructures and the interfacial charge transfer (CT) of semiconductor materials play essential roles in the study of optical and photoelectronic properties. In this paper, a composite substrate of

Ag

2

S

quantum dots (QDs) coated plasmonic Au bowtie nanoantenna (BNA) arrays with a metal–insulator–metal (MIM) configuration was built to study the synergistic effect of LSPR and interfacial CT using surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) in the near-infrared (NIR) region. The Au BNA array structure with a large enhancement of the localized electric field (E-field) strongly enhanced the Raman signal of adsorbed p-aminothiophenol (PATP) probe molecules. Meanwhile, the broad enhanced spectral region was achieved owing to the coupling of LSPR. The as-prepared Au BNA array structure facilitated enhancements of the excitation as well as the emission of Raman signal simultaneously, which was established by finite-difference time-domain simulation. Moreover,

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semiconductor QDs were introduced into the BNA/PATP system to further enhance Raman signals, which benefited from the interfacial CT resonance in the

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system. As a result, the Raman signals of PATP in the

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system were strongly enhanced under 785 nm laser excitation due to the synergistic effect of E-field enhancement and interfacial CT. Furthermore, the SERS polarization dependence effects of the

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system were also investigated. The SERS spectra indicated that the polarization dependence of the substrate increased with decreasing polarization angles

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of excitation from p-polarized

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excitation to s-polarized

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excitation. This study provides a strategy using the synergistic effect of interfacial CT and E-field enhancement for SERS applications and provides a guidance for the development of SERS study on semiconductor QD-based plasmonic substrates, and can be further extended to other material-nanostructure systems for various optoelectronic and sensing applications.
Frequency-tuning-induced state transfer in optical microcavities
Authors: Xu Xu-Sheng , Zhang Hao , Kong Xiang-Yu , Wang Min , Long Gui-Lu
Published: January 2020

Quantum state transfer in optical microcavities plays an important role in quantum information processing and is essential in many optical devices such as optical frequency converters and diodes. Existing schemes are effective and realized by tuning the coupling strengths between modes. However, such approaches are severely restricted due to the small amount of strength that can be tuned and the difficulty performing the tuning in some situations, such as in an on-chip microcavity system. Here we propose a novel approach that realizes the state transfer between different modes in optical microcavities by tuning the frequency of an intermediate mode. We show that for typical functions of frequency tuning, such as linear and periodic functions, the state transfer can be realized successfully with different features. To optimize the process, we use the gradient descent technique to find an optimal tuning function for a fast and perfect state transfer. We also showed that our approach has significant nonreciprocity with appropriate tuning variables, where one can unidirectionally transfer a state from one mode to another, but the inverse direction transfer is forbidden. This work provides an effective method for controlling the multimode interactions in on-chip optical microcavities via simple operations, and it has practical applications in all-optical devices.
Vocación y precariedad laboral en la profesión de la danza en España: Efectos de una política cultural ineficaz
Authors: Bonnin Arias Patricia , Rubio Arostegui Juan Arturo
Published: January 2020

Uno de los ejes de la invención de la política cultural en el siglo XX consistió en el apoyo social y laboral al artista, desde un conjunto de acciones desde el lado de la oferta. En el caso español y en concreto en el sector de la danza, en este trabajo se muestra la debilidad e ineficiencia por parte del Estado en dotar de unas condiciones laborales que permitan el desarrollo de una carrera artística al margen de la precariedad. Esta se evidencia tanto en las condiciones objetivas –debilidad de la oferta de compañías estables– e incremento insostenible de los conservatorios profesionales y superiores por parte de las Comunidades Autónomas, como en los propios discursos de los bailarines españoles en el paradigma del nuevo espíritu del capitalismo.
Reflexiones en torno a la formación de un organismo asociativo que acoja y represente al colectivo de trabajadoras culturales
Authors: Zorita Agirre Itziar
Published: January 2020

Existen múltiples asociaciones conformadas por artistas y trabajadoras culturales cuya misión es principalmente aunar esfuerzos para defender y reivindicar mejoras desde el punto de vista laboral, político, social y existencial. Sin embargo, siguen siendo pocas las trabajadoras culturales que se afilian a algún tipo de organismo estructurado y formal. Frente a esta realidad, ejemplos como la comunidad de  InsultARTe, ofrecen alternativas complementarias para el encuentro entre profesionales de la cultura. Se trata de otro tipo de colectividad de carácter más informal que se establece en espacios digitales, desde los márgenes y en condiciones de una mayor precariedad en cuestión de recursos, visibilidad y capacidad de instaurarse como sujeto interlocutor social. El caso de InsultARTe plantea el debate sobre qué tipo de organización se podría crear, cuáles son los perfiles que conforman esa posible asociación o sobre cuál debería ser su funcionamiento y modelo organizacional.
Sororidad en los procesos de resistencia a las prácticas artísticas precarias
Authors: García Estrada Angélica
Published: January 2020

La mayor parte de las prácticas artísticas en México son precarias, donde se gestan diversos procesos de resistencia.  El presente artículo tiene como objetivos dar cuenta de las estrategias de resistencia que las artistas crean, de qué maneras inciden en los cuerpos y qué procesos afectivos se generan. Se realizó una etnografía a un grupo de mujeres artistas visuales de 32 a 42 años, donde se encontró que el trabajo colectivo es utilizado como una forma de resistencia, destacando en la dimensión emocional una sororidad que provee de un sentido de pertenencia, identidad, empatía y empoderamiento; y en los procesos de resistencia la imaginación, la creación y la transformación.  Todos estos elementos son fuertemente influenciados por la postura feminista que tiene el grupo y han contribuido a que ellas generen otras resistencias, resistencias colectivas, resistencias sororas.
Las tres economías del sector artístico
Authors: Echevarría Madinabeitia Izaskun
Published: January 2020

Gracias a las reflexiones desarrolladas a partir de la obra History Zero de Stefanos Tsivopoulos mostrada en la Bienal de Venecia de 2013, en relación con el análisis de Bourdieu acerca del sistema del arte, nos adentramos en las ambigüedades de conceptos tales como valor y precio para entender que lo que obtenemos de nuestra labor es la consecuencia de monetizar nuestra fuerza de trabajo dentro de un sistema mercantil. Este es un aspecto que debemos aprender a manejar, ya que no es algo dado dentro de un marco perfectamente regulado, sino una potencia de la que extraer rentabilidad, un espacio donde se establecen relaciones mutantes entre agentes diversos que atraviesan vida y praxis artística. A partir del propio lenguaje del arte, así como de la investigación en arte y la gestión cultural, tocando aspectos del derecho y la economía, se muestran una serie de obras que reflexionan acerca de la relación entre arte y trabajo.
Characteristics Of Hypospadia Patients In Plastic Reconstructive And Aesthetic Surgery Division At National Hospital Cipto Mangunkusumo Jakarta
Authors: Aulia Indri , Sukasah Chaula L. , Kusumawardani Evanti
Published: January 2020

Background : Hypospadias is a genital congenital abnormality with a variable prevalence. There are risk factors associated with hypospadias. This study analyse the characteristics of hypospadias patients, hypospadias with other genital anomalies, and family history of hypospadias.
Method : We used the National Hospital Cipto Mangunkusumo Medical Record Database, which contains all the patient's data from 2013 to 2017. All the information of the diagnosis, type of hypospadias, and the family history are provided. After collecting all the data, we analysed the total cases of hypospadias and the characteristic of hypospadias patients.
Result : Based on the data, 6,254 patient that registered in the Plastic Surgery Division, forty-nine patients were diagnosed with hypospadias. Among them, 16% are penoscrotal type hypospadias. Furthermore, there is only 3% of the patients who has a history of hypospadias running in the family. Approximately 29.4% of the patients associated with other genital anomalies. However, only 35% of the sample population underwent surgical repair at the age of 0-5 years.
Conclusion: The number of hypospadias cases treated by Plastic Surgery Division at The National Hospital Cipto Mangunkusumo is parallel with the global prevalence of hypospadias. The most common hypospadias type treated in Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital is penoscrotal, which is similar to the previous study in Europe. The prevalence of hypospadias in Indonesia remains unknown therefore, the data management of hypospadias patients ought to be improved.
Bilateral Gastrocnemius Flap For Harlequin Defects Around The Knee
Authors: Chabra Tarun , Hari Venkatramani , SR Sabapathy
Published: January 2020

Background : Tibial plateau fractures (especially bicondylar Schatzker type 5 and type 6) are a result of high energy trauma. Along with bony component, soft tissue injury is a major determinant in the treatment and final outcome. Bicondylar fractures needs bicolumnar fixation and as such require separate approaches: postero-medial and lateral incisions. The soft tissue of the proximal tibia swells significantly after the injury, coupled with extensive soft tissue dissection during fixation this can lead to subsequent wound breakdown and infection along either side of the proximal tibia which resembles “harlequin eyes”. This study describes outcome of management of post operative soft tissue complications following bicolumnar fixation of proximal tibia with medial and lateral gastrocnemius flap.
Method : Three patients who had bilateral soft tissue necrosis at surgical incision sites treated with debridement and bilateral gastrocnemius flaps between January 2016 and December 2017 were included in this study. The mean age was 38 years (range 18–50 years) and the mean duration of follow-up was 10 months. Outcome assessments included the condition of the flap and fracture healing time.
Result : All fractures united after surgery. There were no soft tissue complications and all flaps healed well. The mean bony union time was 6 months.
Conclusion: Our technique of covering soft tissue loss at surgical site on medial and lateral side of proximal tibia with bilateral gastrocnemius flap in the same setting is a reliable and safe surgical method for these conditions.
"La corona de Hungría" de Lope de Vega en busca de traductor
Authors: Katona Eszter
Published: January 2020

Hungría se convirtió en uno de los espacios fabulosos en la dramaturgia áurea y fue Lope de Vega quien escogió con más frecuencia esta ambientación. Podríamos pensar con razón que estas “comedias húngaras” despertaron la atención de los hispanistas húngaros, sin embargo, no era exactamente así. De entre los 25 dramas de temática húngara la única pieza que fue traducida y estrenada en Hungría fue El animal de Hungría, sin embargo, otro, La corona de Hungría causó mayor repercusión en la prensa húngara. La copia del manuscrito de esta comedia fue una donación de Stefan Zweig enviada en 1935 al Teatro Nacional de Budapest. El objetivo del presente artículo es, por un lado, resumir la suerte enigmática de este regalo perdido y luego encontrado y, por otro, llamar la atención a la falta de traducciones húngaras de “las comedias húngaras” de Lope de Vega.
La oralidad como horizonte temporal de la infancia y del hogar materno en la poesía de César Vallejo y Attila József
Authors: Menczel Gabriella
Published: January 2020

La nostalgia, la añoranza del regazo materno, la búsqueda constante de recuerdos de la infancia, la memoria de la vida familiar son elementos recurrentes y comunes de la obra poética del peruano César Vallejo y del húngaro Attila József. Sin embargo, además de los motivos temáticos, se encuentran muchos rasgos retórico-discursivos de sus poesías, que también aluden –siguiendo la sugerencia de Julio Ortega– a la clara división de al menos dos horizontes temporales: el del pasado añorado y el del presente desilusionado. La ponencia se propone demostrar cómo la voz oral de la infancia constituye una ruptura sintáctica del discurso, en combinación con el silencio y la mudez, para convocar la palabra materna al presente continuo a través de algunos poemas de Los heraldos negros (1918) y Trilce (1922) de César Vallejo y de Medvetánc (1934) y Nagyon fáj (1936) de Attila József.
La genealogía y vida del sacerdote agustino Fulgentius Rodriguez del Banato
Authors: Barsi Béla
Published: January 2020

El estudio recopila, a base de documentos entrelazados como una especie de mosaico, la vida del sacerdote ya conocido de la obra anterior del autor, dedicada a la historia de la familia Rodriguez (Rodrich) que se había instalado en el Banato. Como resultado de los estudios y la perseverancia, a pesar de los obstáculos de la época, el hijo de una familia española inmigrante, logró convertirse en una persona eclesiástica honorable, tal y como lo guarda la tradición oral familiar. La inscripción sobre su defunción en Mistelbach puede servir como punto de partida para una futura investigación sobre la familia Rodriguez, por lo tanto, el autor hará un intento de remontar hasta las raíces de la familia en España.
Low Prevalence of Helicobacter pylori-Positive Peptic Ulcers in Private Outpatient Endoscopy Centers in the United States
Authors: Sonnenberg Amnon , Turner Kevin O. , Genta Robert M.
Published: January 2020

OBJECTIVES:

During the past decades, the prevalence of gastric and duodenal ulcers, as well as Helicobacter pylori infection, has markedly declined. We hypothesized that the decline in H. pylori prevalence has decreased the fraction of H. pylori-positive gastric and duodenal ulcers. The present study was designed to test this hypothesis in a large US population undergoing esophagogastro-duodenoscopy in community-based endoscopy centers.

METHODS:

The Inform Diagnostics database is a national electronic repository of histopathologic records of patients distributed throughout the United States. A cross-sectional study among 1,289,641 individual esophagogastro-duodenoscopy patients analyzed the prevalence of peptic ulcers stratified by age, sex, ethnicity, H. pylori status, year of diagnosis, and ulcer type. The joint influence of multiple predictor variables on the occurrence of gastric and duodenal ulcers was analyzed using multivariate logistic regression analysis.

RESULTS:

Between 2009 and 2018, the general prevalence of H. pylori infection fell significantly from 11% to 9%. This decline was accompanied by a similar decline in the fraction of H. pylori-positive gastric ulcers from 17% to 14% and H. pylori-positive duodenal ulcers from 25% to 21%. Nowadays, only 17% of all patients with ulcer harbor H. pylori. The fraction of H. pylori-positive ulcers was significantly greater in duodenal than in gastric ulcers and in male than in female patients with ulcer. The prevalence of H. pylori was 2.6-fold higher among Hispanics and 3.2-fold higher among East Asians compared with the general population. The H. pylori prevalence fell from 24% to 22% among Hispanics and from 21% to 15% among East Asians. In East Asians and Hispanics, the fraction of H. pylori-positive gastric ulcers was 37% and 35%, respectively.

DISCUSSION:

H. pylori infection continues to fall in the general population. Nowadays, even among patients with ulcer only a small minority harbors H. pylori infection.
Comics, Trauma, and the New Art of War
Authors: Earle Harriet E. H.
Published: January 2020

Conflict is one of the most prevalent themes in comics, film and literature; we have been writing stories of war and violence since time immemorial. Comics is no stranger to such narratives and is writing them in ways that are different from (and complementary to) literature and film. This book brings together two distinct areas of research–trauma studies and comics–to provide a new interpretation of this long-standing central theme. Focusing on representations of conflict and war in post-Vietnam American comics, it claims that the comics form is able to mimic traumatic experience in order to represent the events as accurately and viscerally as possible. The textual focus spans the whole form, placing mainstream superhero comics alongside alternative and art comics. The specific comics fit a narrow set of criteria, all being published after 1975 by American creators, discussed in conversation with critical material from a wide range of thinkers, including Sigmund Freud, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Fredric Jameson, as well as contemporary trauma theory and clinical psychology. This book is structured around six key issues in conflict and traumatic representation, with close analyses of the chosen texts to consider the effectiveness of comics, both formally and thematically, in the areas of mourning, dreams, and personal identity. Comics, Trauma and the New Art of War also consider how timescales, temporality, and postmodernism affect, and are affected by, the dual focus of comics and trauma.
The Limits of Loyalty
Authors: Ruminski Jarret
Published: January 2020

In The Limits of Loyalty, Jarret Ruminski examines the lives of ordinary people in Confederate Mississippi to show how military occupation and the ravages of war tested the meaning of loyalty during the American Civil War.
The extent of southern loyalty to the Confederate States of America has long been a subject of historical contention that has resulted in two conflicting conclusions: southern patriotism was either strong enough to carry the Confederacy to the brink of victory or so weak that the Confederacy was doomed to crumble from internal discord. Mississippi, the home state of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, should have been a hotbed of Confederate nationalism, but the reality was more complicated.
This study breaks the “weak/strong” Confederate loyalty impasse by examining how people from different backgrounds–women and men, white and black, enslaved and free, rich and poor–negotiated the shifting contours of loyalty in a state where Union occupation turned everyday activities into a potential test of patriotism. While the Confederate government demanded total national loyalty from it citizenry, this book focuses on wartime activities like swearing the Union oath, illegally trading with the Union army, and deserting from the Confederate army to show how Mississippians acted on multiple loyalties to self, family, and nation, thereby thwarting the government’s attempt to enforce nationalism at any cost. Ruminski also explores the relationship between loyalty and slavery to demonstrate how an internal war between slaves and slaveholders defined Mississippi’s social development into the twentieth century.
Intimate Partner Violence in New Orleans
Authors: Baggett Ashley
Published: January 2020

Intimate Partner Violence in New Orleans: Gender, Race, and Reform, 1840–1900 examines the shifting nature of gender, race, and intimate partner violence in New Orleans—a place dramatically affected by countless social and cultural changes during six decades that encompassed the end of American slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the new and oppressive racial order that ushered in the twentieth century. The work utilizes documentation contained in local and state court cases to make new arguments about gender representation, legal reform, and the changing ways in which intimate partner violence was practiced and controlled and sanctioned and prohibited. It offers new insight to regional distinctiveness the South and race played into cultural and legal practices.
The Know Nothings in Louisiana
Authors: Carriere Jr. Marius M.
Published: January 2020

This book examines the Know Nothing party in Louisiana. In the early 1850s, the Whig party disintegrated. Several third party movements appeared in the country. Know Nothings seemed to have a strong chance of replacing the Whig party and by 1854 the Know Nothings appeared throughout the United States. This book examines Louisiana because one feature of the Know Nothings, or American party as it was sometimes called, was its anti-foreign and anti-Catholic prejudice. Louisiana, particularly, South Louisiana had a large Roman Catholic population. The book seeks to address whether this feature hurt the party. The book also examines how northern Know Nothings, many of whom were anti-slavery, affected the party’s success in the South. Additionally, early studies of the Know Nothing party in Louisiana argue the party was made up of old Whigs and that traditionally, the party was seen as consisting of older, large slaveholding planters or town businessmen and lawyers connected to the slave-holding interests. This book concludes that Know Nothingism was unique in Louisiana; who actually were Know Nothings does not meet the traditional historical view for the state and the book concludes that the anti-Roman Catholic feature did not preclude South Louisiana slave-holding Catholics from belonging to the party. Louisiana Know Nothings did have difficulty because of the anti-Catholic feature, but it did not prevent Catholics from belonging. Northern Know Nothings’ abolitionism did cause problems for Louisiana Know Nothings, but the election outcomes in the 1850s demonstrated that Union and conservatism was strong in the state.
Gary Larson and The Far Side
Authors: Soper Kerry D.
Published: January 2020

This book explores Gary Larson’s unlikely career as the creator of the groundbreaking, syndicated panel cartoon, The Far Side. To help contemporary readers understand the controversial qualities and cultural significance of Larson’s work, the author recreates the historical context in which The Far Side first emerged: the early 1980s when “family-friendly” mainstream mediums like the newspaper comics page were largely intolerant of alternative worldviews or irreverent brands of comedy. As a self-taught cartooning auteur with a morbid sense of humor and subversively scientific perspective on life, Larson resisted or bypassed most of the established rules about “appropriate” art and comedy on the Funnies Page. That independence allowed him to introduce a set of innovative aesthetic devices, comedic tones, and philosophical frames that challenged and delighted many readers, while upsetting and confusing others. In sum, this book reminds old fans and new readers of the ways that Larson’s iconoclastic work and career effectively broadened the culture’s palate for alternative comedy, profoundly shaping the worldviews and comedic sensibilities of a generation of cartoonists, comedy writers and every day readers.
Consuming Katrina
Authors: Horigan Kate Parker
Published: January 2020

When survivors are seen as agents in their own stories, they will be seen as agents in their own recovery. A better grasp on the processes of narration and memory is critical for improved disaster response because stories that are widely shared about disaster determine how communities recover. This book shows how the public understands and remembers large-scale disasters like Hurricane Katrina, discussing unique contexts in which personal narratives about the storm are shared: interviews with survivors, Dave Eggers’ Zeitoun, Josh Neufeld’s A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge, Tia Lessin and Carl Deal’s Trouble the Water, and public commemoration during the storm’s 10th anniversary in New Orleans. In each case, survivors initially present themselves in specific ways, counteracting negative stereotypes that characterize their communities. However, when adapted for public presentation, their stories get reduced back to stereotypes. As a result, people affected by Katrina continue to be seen in limited terms, as either undeserving of or incapable of managing recovery. This project is rooted in the author’s own experiences living in New Orleans before and after Katrina. But this is also a case study illustrating an ongoing problem and an innovative solution: survivors’ stories should be shared in a way that includes their own engagement with the processes of narrative production, circulation, and reception. In other words, we should know—when we hear the dramatic tale of disaster victims—what they think about how their story is being told to us.
Jazz in China
Authors: Marlow Eugene
Published: January 2020

This book traces China's introduction to jazz in the early 1920s, its interruption by Chinese leadership under Mao in 1949, and its rejuvenation in the early 1980s with the start of China's opening to the world under Premier Deng Xiaoping. Covering a span of almost one hundred years, the book focuses on a variety of subjects—the musicians who initiated jazz performances in China, the means by which jazz was incorporated into Chinese culture, and the musicians and venues that now present jazz performances. Featuring unique, face-to-face interviews with leading indigenous jazz musicians in Beijing and Shanghai, plus interviews with club owners, promoters, expatriates, and even diplomats, the book marks the evolution of jazz in China as it parallels China's social, economic, and political evolution through the twentieth and into the twenty-first century. Also featured is an interview with one of the extant members of the Jimmy King Big Band of the 1940s, one of the first major all-Chinese jazz big bands in Shanghai. Ultimately, the book is a cultural history that reveals the inexorable evolution of a democratic form of music in a Communist state.
Caribbean Masala
Authors: Ramsaran Dave , Lewis Linden F.
Published: January 2020

In 1833, the abolition of slavery in the British Empire led to the import of exploited South Asian indentured workers in the Caribbean under extreme oppression. This book concentrates on the Indian descendants' processes of mixing, assimilating, and adapting while trying desperately to hold on to that which marks a group of people as distinct. In some ways, the lived experience of the Indian community in Guyana and Trinidad represents a cultural contradiction of belonging and non-belonging. In other parts of the Caribbean, people of Indian descent seem so absorbed by the more dominant African culture and through intermarriage that Indo-Caribbean heritage seems less central. The book lays out a context within which to develop a broader view of Indians in Guyana and Trinidad, a numerical majority in both countries. They address issues of race and ethnicity but move beyond these familiar aspects to track such factors as ritual, gender, family, and daily life. The book gauges not only an unrelenting process of assimilative creolization on these descendants of India, but also the resilience of this culture in the face of modernization and globalization.
Gender and the Superhero Narrative
Authors: North Ryan
Published: January 2020

This book sits at an intersection between academic and public discourse. It seeks to advance the debate around gender and representation in superhero narratives by connecting with existing scholarship and expanding the conversation to include recent and previously unstudied texts and fan movements. We seek to contribute to the growing number of voices, from both fan and academic communities, who argue that diversity is not only the future of the superhero genre, but that diversity has always been present, if sometimes hidden, in the genre’s history, readership, and concerns. The authors in this book argue that In terms of narrative, then, differences in character lead to the consideration that such deviations from established, patriarchal practice lead to differences in narrative structure.
PENGEMBANGAN ASIPP (ALAT ASESMEN IBU POSTPARTUM) MENGGUNAKAN PEMODELAN RASCH
Authors: Ardiyanti Difa , Dinni Siti Muthia
Published: January 2020

Postpartum Depression (PPD) is a mental health problem in mothers that has a serious impact on mothers, children and families. Late detection and treatment can endanger the lives of mothers and their babies. Unfortunately, in Indonesia, research on developing an early detection instruments of PPD based on potential factors or the risk of PPD has not been widely implemented. This study aims to develop a more comprehensive assessment tool for postpartum mothers based on psychological variables that are theoretically correlated with PPD (emotional regulation, maternal confidence, and marital satisfaction) using Rasch model to obtain information regarding psychometric properties of Alat Asesmen Ibu Postpartum (ASIPP). The subjects of this study were 90 women with characteristics that had just given birth between the last 2-24 weeks. Based on the analysis using the Winsteps program, the results of the reliability coefficient of the maternal self-confidence scale and emotion regulation scale were the same which was 0,82 and the reliability coefficient of the marriage satisfaction scale was 0,91. All of the scales were able to reveal psychological constructs according to the objectives of measurement (unidimensional). The maternal self-confidence scale consists of 15 items that fit model. The emotion regulation scale consists of 12 items that fit model and the marriage satisfaction scale consists of 27 items that fit model. Overall, it can be concluded that Alat Asesmen Ibu Postpartum (ASIPP) which contains a maternal self-confidence scale, emotion regulation scale, and marriage satisfaction scale has good psychometric properties so that it can be used to measure maternal self-confidence, emotion regulation, and marriage satisfaction of postpartum women.
PEMODELAN KEMISKINAN DI JAWA MENGGUNAKAN BAYESIAN SPASIAL PROBIT PENDEKATAN INTEGRATED NESTED LAPLACE APPROXIMATION (INLA)
Authors: Maulina Retsi Firda , Djuraidah Anik , Kurnia Anang
Published: January 2020

Poverty is a complex and multidimensional problem so that it becomes a development priority. Applications of poverty modeling in discrete data are still few and applications of the Bayesian paradigm are also still few. The Bayes Method is a parameter estimation method that utilizes initial information (prior) and sample information so that it can provide predictions that have a higher accuracy than the classical methods. Bayes inference using INLA approach provides faster computation than MCMC and possible uses large data sets. This study aims to model Javanese poverty using the Bayesian Spatial Probit with the INLA approach with three weighting matrices, namely K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN), Inverse Distance, and Exponential Distance. Furthermore, the result showed poverty analysis in Java based on the best model is using Bayesian SAR Probit INLA with KNN weighting matrix produced the highest level of classification accuracy, with specificity is 85.45%, sensitivity is 93.75%, and accuracy is 89.92%.
MODELING LIFE EXPECTANCY IN CENTRAL JAVA USING SPATIAL DURBIN MODEL
Authors: Hakim Arief Rachman , Yasin Hasbi , Rusgiyono Agus
Published: January 2020

Central Java in 2017 was one of the provinces with high life expectancy, ranking second. Life expectancy of Central Java Province in 2017 is 74.08% per year. The fields of education, health and socio-economics, are several factors that are thought to influence the life expectancy in an area. To find out what factors that the regression analysis method can use to find out what factors influence the life expectancy. But in observations found data that have a spatial effect (location) called spatial data, a spatial regression method was developed such as linear regression analysis by adding spatial effects. One form of spatial regression is Spatial Durbin Model (SDM) which has a form like the Spatial Autoregressive Model (SAR). The difference between the two if in the SAR model the effect of spatial lag taken into account in the model is only on the response variable (Y) but in the SDM method, effect of spatial lag on the predictor variable (X) and response (Y) are also taken into account. Selection of the best model using Mean Square Error (MSE), obtained by the MSE value of 1.156411, the number mentioned is relatively small 0, which indicates that the model is quite good.
PENGARUH PENAMBAHAN MADU DENGAN DOSIS BERBEDA DALAM MEDIA PENGENCER NaCl FISIOLOGIS TERHADAP KUALITAS SPERMA IKAN TAWES (Barbonymus gonionotus)
Authors: Devi Oni Septiana , Susilowati Titik , Nugroho Ristiawan Agung
Published: January 2020

Silver barb (Barbonymus gonionotus) is one of the freshwater fish that is native in Indonesia. One of the problems in hatching of silver barb is because the maturation period of gamete broodstock male and female fish does not happen together. The solution to solving this problem is through the application of reproductive biotechnology in form of sperm storage. High sperm concentration can inhibit spermatozoa activity and affect sperm to find microphils. The addition of honey in dilute solution of physiological NaCl is expected to be able to improve the quality of sperm of silver barb. The aim this research was to know the effect and the best honey dosage in physiological NaCl on sperm quality of silver barb. The test fish that will be used in this research is 1 broodstock male and 1 broodstock female with 1-1,5 years old. In this research, the Completely Randomized Design experimental method is used. This research also using 4 treatments and 3 repetitions. Those treatment were A (0 ml honey + 100 ml physiological NaCl), B (0,2 ml honey + 99,8 ml physiological NaCl), C (0,4 ml honey + 99,6 ml physiological NaCl), D (0,6 ml honey + 99,4 ml physiological NaCl). The result of this research shows, addition of honey with different doses in dilute solution of physiological NaCl gave significant effect (p < 0,05) on fertilization rate and hatching rate of silver barb. The treatment D (0,6 ml honey + 99,4 ml physiological NaCl) gave the best on fertilization rate 90,67% and hatching rate 86,67%.