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KAYU BAHAN BANGUNAN TRADISIONAL BALI DALAM PERSPEKTIF EKOLOGI BUDAYA
Authors: Suyoga I Putu Gede , Anadhi I Made Gede
Published: January 2023

Kayu adalah bahan bangunan utama dalam khasanah arsitektur tradisional etnis Bali. Pemanfaatannya sudah diatur dalam sejumlah pustaka kearsitekturan tradisional Bali. Hal ini dapat dipahami sebagai hasil adaptasi ekologis yang terabstraksi dari filosofi Tri Hita Karana. Bagaimana aspek-aspek filosofi tersebut teraplikasi dalam praktik kultural etnis Bali? Studi dengan kualitatif dengan deskriptif interpretatif ini, menelaah dengan pendekatan Ekologi Budaya. Hasil studi menunjukkan praksis etnis Bali dalam pemanfaatan kayu sebagai bahan utama bangunan tradisional Bali, merupakan kompleksitas gagasan, etika pola prilaku, dan artefak simbolik yang sarat makna ekologi. Ketentuan klasifikasi kayu, arah tebang, tabu/larangan, dan lain-lainnya adalah sebagian kecil dari aplikasi sosio kultural. Aspek parhyangan menekankan pendekatan sistem kepercayaan dan ritual periodik. Aspek pawongan dan palemahan dengan panduan pilihan kayu untuk masing-masing bangunan. Pada akhirnya praksis kolektif etnis itu menjadi karakter sosial, yakni mencintai lingkungan alam sekitar sebagai bagian dari ekologi global.
DIGITAL LITERACY IN THEMATIC LEARNING OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF FLIPBOOK MEDIA
Authors: Yani Dwi , Saifullah Ahmad , Kusumaningrum Shirly Rizki , Indra Dewi Radeni Sukma
Published: January 2023

This study aims to analyze digital literacy in thematic learning of elementary school students with the help of Flipbook media. To obtain data about digital literacy of elementary school students using questionnaires, observation sheets and in-depth interviews. Questionnaires were given to 23 grade VI elementary school students at SDN Trawas 1 who had operated flipbook media. For the validity and validity of the data conducted intensive interviews with students. Data analysis by reducing data in questionnaire tables, observation sheets and interviews. Then present it in narrative form to draw conclusions. The results of this study indicate that students' digital literacy in Thematic learning with the help of flipbook media is in the high category. Therefore thematic learning assisted by flipbook media needs to be developed and implemented so that elementary school students' digital literacy increases.
The Relationship between Environmental Management Practices and Environmental Performance: The Role of Organisational Culture
Authors: Muhammad Jamil Che Zuriana , Johari Husna
Published: January 2023

Nowadays, organisations and their management are working very hard to forecast and respond to ever-changing new markets and fierce competition. Due to increase in globalisation and technological advancements, the constant variable for todayâ€™s workplace is perhaps the ability to continuously evolve. Organisations must ensure that their activities do not harm or negatively impact the environment. This study investigated the effect of organisational culture on the relationship between environmental management practice and environmental performance. Organisational culture was measured using an adapted version of the Henriâ€™s 2006 instrument which was based on a competing values perspective. Questionnaires were administered to 300 respondents (general managers/general managers) from various hotels in the Malaysian hotel industry. The hierarchical multiple regression method showed that organisational culture is not significantly related to environmental performance. However, to some extent, organisational culture has moderated the relationship between environmental management practice and environmental performance. This result implied that most of the sampled hotels in Malaysia employed a control dominant type of culture in achieving objectives. The results also showed even though hotels create an environmental culture in their activities, if people are not ready and not willing to share their knowledge toward creation of new values and beliefs, better environmental performance will not be achieved. This insignificant finding may be due to new beliefs relating to environmental issues in the Malaysian hotel industry.
Factors Influencing Adoption of Green Practices by Small and Medium Sized Hotels in Thailand
Authors: Satchapappichit Sruangporn , Hashim Noor Azmi , Hussin Zolkafli
Published: January 2023

This article investigates factors that influence hotel owner-managersâ€™ perception toward green practice adoption in Southern Thailand. The driving factors in research consisted of owner-manager attitudes, environmental awareness, perceived benefits, green consumers, and competitors. A quantitative research design was employed in conducting this study. A total of 236 questionnaires were distributed to hotels ranging from mid-scale hotels to budget hotels. A sample of 145 hotel owner-managers completed questionnaires, which were used for the analysis. This study found that owner-manager attitudes, environmental awareness, and competitors have significantly influenced the adoption of green practices. However, the effect of perceived benefits and green consumers is not significant. This article provides practical implications for small and medium sized hotels (SMHs) to adopt more green practices.
Entrepreneurial Development and its Learning Process: Evidence from Indonesia
Authors: Rohmat H , Minai Mohd Sobri , Hj. Din Mohd Salleh
Published: January 2023

The paper offers an understanding of the process of entrepreneurial learning that iscritical to the development of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship. The paper revealsthe relationship between entrepreneurial learning process and the success of thebusiness among small-scale entrepreneurs for selected learning types. The materialsfor analysis were obtained from a field work conducted in Surakarta, Indonesia byusing a survey method. Four hundred and eighty-five 485 respondents were identifiedbased on stratified random sampling for urban, suburban and rural areas. The totalpopulation identified was 1,040 small entrepreneurs. The reliability of the researchinstrument was 0.9, which is considered high. It was found that the types of learning,i.e., formal, non-formal and informal, had different effects on the learning processof small-scale entrepreneurs. Such findings are important to the development of theentrepreneurial learning and policy to improve the effectiveness of entrepreneurshipdevelopment program.
Disentangling the Empirical Evidence between Personality, Work Experience, and Improvisation among Middle Management Government Officers
Authors: Hj. Ahmad Arshad Darwina , Al-Idrus Sharifah Nora
Published: January 2023

This study examined the empirical association between personality traits, workexperience, and improvisation. Big five personality traits (Extraversion, Agreeableness,Conscientiousness, Neuroticism, and Openness) and individual work experience werethe independent variables; whereas individual improvisation was the dependentvariable. Data were collected from middle management level of government officersfrom various ministries in Putrajaya, Malaysia. Results revealed that Extraversionand Openness had a significant and positive contribution towards improvisation whileother traits (Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Neuroticism) did not demonstratea significant association with improvisation. The findings of this study could contributeto the collective knowledge of management and be useful to both theorists and managers.
Work-Life Balance in Relation to Workload Experience and Work-Life Programme: A Study in a Government Ministry of Malaysia
Authors: Zainuddin Sharifuddin , Muhamad Asma , Kahmis M.Hairolnezam , Mamat Noorhidayah
Published: January 2023

This study focused on the work-life balance and gender which was tested using t-test; andwork-life balance in relation to workload experience at workplace, and work-life programmevalued as important among staff at Ministry of Youth and Sports in Putrajaya, both of whichwere measured using Pearson correlation. The findings indicated that staff at the Ministryexperienced a balance in their work-life, regardless of gender, while having intermediate levelof workload at the workplace. The relationship between workload and work-life balanceamong staff was negatively correlated. Although work-life balance was reported at asatisfying level, none of the work-life programmes valued by the employees were associatedsignificantly with work-life balance experienced by them. Nevertheless, there is hope thatprogrammes valued by staff as important to them and capable of reducing workload levels areapplicable for future consideration by respective parties in implementing policies related tothe work-life programme.
A Study on Workforce Requirements at Besgrade Products Sdn. Bhd.
Authors: Ismail Russayani , Mahat Nor Idayu , Eam Lim Hock , Hj Azizan Norizan , Khadri Norhana Shaibatul
Published: January 2023

The Malaysian timber industry is a competitive industry that has the potential to grow. Since most of the production in this industry is for the export market, the global economic conditions and competition from other producing countries will nevertheless affect the performance of the industry. Therefore, in order for this market to expand, the quality of timber production should be further enhanced and offered at a more competitive price. Generally, issues related to high dependency on foreign workers and low level of automation are believed to seriously affect the viability and sustainability of the Malaysian timber industry. Following these issues, a case study was carried out on Besgrade Products Sdn. Bhd., which is one of the largest plywood manufacturers in Malaysia. The findings revealed that, in general, the percentage of foreign workers in the company is far higher than the percentage of local workers. It was also found that the majority of foreign workers occupied the operator position. Probing further into the problem facing by the firm in hiring local workers revealed that long working hours and unpleasant work environment are the major factors that contribute toward low participation of local workers. With regard to foreign workers, communication problems and â€œred tapeâ€ in permit approval are among the major issues. Based on the findings, various suggestions related to labour issues have been put forth. These include the rebranding of the timber industry to be more dynamic, providing a more conducive work environment, introducing competitive wages for local workers, intensifying efforts toward automation through the use of technology thereby promoting the training of skilled workers who can handle high technology machines, and finally establishing policies to gradually reduce the dependency on foreign labour while at the same time training local workers with the necessary skills.
Entrepreneurial Skills and Business Success in the Informal Sector: A Qualitative Study
Authors: Ismail Nik Zirwatul Fatihah , Mohamad Mohd Rosli
Published: January 2023

The informal sectorâ€™s activities account for a significant proportion in production,consumption, employment, and development. There are contrary arguments saying thatthe informal sector would shrink and disappear on its own when the level of economyadvances in the country, but the trend nowadays shows the opposite, where there is anexpansion, mainly in business operating in the urban areas. In early entrepreneurshipresearch, it only focused on finding general individuality and motives of successfulentrepreneurs, where entrepreneurs require capability like traits, knowledge, and specificskills in order to be capable of achieving success as an entrepreneur. Yet, research on therelationship between entrepreneurial skills and business success is scarce, especially inthe informal sector because of availability of data in terms of management, workertraining, growth potential, and access to the world market. In this case, this study focusedon entrepreneurial skill which is the most important factor that contributes to businesssuccess in the informal sector. The result of this study showed that communication andnegotiation skills are the most influencing skills for the success of business in the informalsector in Malaysia.
A Case Study of Solid Waste Management in Malaysia: Issues, Challenges and Its Business Management Practices
Authors: Mat Zin Rosliza , Othman Siti Norezam , Abdullah Zarifah
Published: January 2023

The paper aims to explore the business management practices and the implications for its use in tackling the issues and challenges faced by a solid waste management company in Malaysia, FreshAir. Experiencing rapid industrialization, with warm climate and high humidity, Malaysia is exposed to serious environmental and health related hazards. The case study research used semi-structured interviews conducted with the key participants of FreshAir in order to understand the use of business management techniques in tackling the issues and challenges faced by the solid waste company. Waste implies unwanted resources, which clearly create additional environmental costs and health related issues if they are not well managed. The study proposed that to sustain and remain competitive, organizations must ensure that the issues and challenges they face are managed effectively, which can be achieved by adopting relevant business and management accounting techniques. The findings suggest that the primary purpose of having business management and accounting information is to help FreshAir to make appropriate decisions to tackle the issues and challenges in solid waste management. The business management practices of FreshAir serve as an integral part of strategic, operations management and quality management, which lead to its sustainability. The study is of benefit to academics and managers by implying that the management functions of planning, organizing, directing and controlling should be in place to support sustainable waste management solutions.
Blessings as a Validity Indicator of Attaining Truth in Research
Authors: Ismail Nor Hanani
Published: January 2023

Blessings refer to the cause of a good outcome, and is said to be associated with the truth. In research, validity refers to the truth. Indicator is a tool that can be used to measure the achievement of a goal. This paper has two main objectives. First, to analyze the concept of blessings in Islam. Second, to formulate blessings as a validity indicator in research. This paper aims to address both of these issues through textual analysis of some literatures. For the first issue, this paper discusses the views of Islamic scholars concerning the concept of blessings in Islam. For the second issue, the findings sum up that blessings can be used as the indicator of validity in research.
Academic Field Trip as a Teaching Pedagogy to Accounting Students
Authors: S. Mohammad Hapsah
Published: January 2023

Academic field trip is organised to attain several objectives. The objectives are in general, among others, to enhance social, personal and emotional development of students as well as to add value to students academic development. However, the specific objectives, as outlined in the syllabus of strategic management courses, include ability to function as a consultant, owner of a business, make strategic decisions and to justify those decisions through oral and written communication, both as an individual and as a member of a team. To meet these objectives, general and specific, at the beginning of the semester, students are briefed about the academic field trip and expectation (knowledge and experience) from it. To ensure that the studentsâ€™ will benefit from the trip, they are required to make some preparations before going for the academic field trip. The preparation includes research on the company and its industry, and to get the necessary information during the trip in order to complete some tasks. To complete the tasks, students have to form groups of three and they are given some assignments. The information necessary to complete the assignment will come from their observations during the trip. Basically, the assignments relate to the concepts and theories they have learned in class. The assignments will reflect the ability of the students to link them to the industry. Thus, the objective of this paper is to discuss the preparation before, during and after field trip as a teaching pedagogy in line with output-based education system. However, the effectiveness of academic field trips as a teaching pedagogy is not measured directly, therefore, it becomes a limitation of the paper. Nevertheless, this paper may serve as a useful input in the involvement and commitment of students during fieldtrips and the content of the assignment submitted will give an insight into the level of understanding of the students on class-room learning.
Budaya Organisasi, Kepuasan Kerja dan Prestasi Kerja Pegawai Polis di Jawa Barat Indonesia
Authors: Mintawati Hesri , Md Zain Ali Yusob , Minai Mohd Sobri
Published: January 2023

Kajian mengenai prestasi kerja dan prestasi pekerja di dalam organisasi telah banyak dijalankan tetapi kajian serupa di dalam organisasi pegawai beruniform sukar didapati, khususnya di Jawa Barat Indonesia. Tambahan pula, kebanyakan kajian memberi fokus kepada budaya dalam organisasi berasaskan perniagaan, bukannya organisasi kerajaan badan beruniform. Di samping itu, kajian berkaitan prestasi kerja hampir kesemuanya menggunakan data primer berdasarkan persepsi responden. Data sedemikian mempunyai kelemahan kerana terdapat unsur bias yang menguntungkan diri sendiri (self-serving bias), di mana responden berkecenderungan untuk memberi penilaian yang lebih tinggi terhadap prestasi mereka sendiri. Kajian ini melibatkan prestasi individu (pegawai polis) di dalam organisasi polis di Indonesia. Dalam kajian ini, penilaian majikan digunakan untuk menentukan prestasi kerja pekerja di dalam organisasi. Dengan mengambil kepuasan kerja pegawai polis sebagai faktor mediasi, dimensi-dimensi budaya organisasi (motivasi, ganjaran dan saling-percaya) dianalisis untuk mengetahui pengaruhnya terhadap prestasi kerja berdasarkan nilai prestasi sebenar yang diberikan oleh majikan, bukannya persepsi pekerja itu sendiri. Analisis faktor menunjukkan bahawa dua dimensi kepuasan kerja iaitu (i) dimensi faedah dan (ii) dimensi hubungan di antara staf di dalam organisasi memediasi hubungan di antara budaya organisasi (dimensi motivasi, ganjaran dan saling-percaya) dan prestasi kerja pegawai polis di Indonesia. Dapatan analisis ini menunjukkan terdapat perbezaan dengan model hubungan di antara budaya organisasi dan prestasi kerja bagi penjawat awam, khasnya pegawai polis and begitu juga dengan faktor mediasi, kepuasan kerja.
Learning Organization, Strategy Adoption and Knowledge Transfer as Factors for Improving Performance of Higher Education Institutions: A Literature Review
Authors: S. Habtoor Ammar , Ahmad Arshad Darwina , Hassan Hazlinda
Published: January 2023

Learning organization plays an important role in improving organizational performance. It is well-known from various sectors that this variable plays a significant role in enhancing the performance of various organizations and is used for promoting effective competitive advantage. Although there are many studies in this area of management, very few studies are available on Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). The objective of this study is to review the literature on learning organization and its relationship with organizational performance. In addition, the study reviews the literature on strategy adoption and knowledge transfer as they are also ascribed to the improvement of organizational performance. Hence, there are relationships between strategy adoption and knowledge transfer and organizational performance. Finally, the study makes a conclusion based on previous studies on the relationship among the variables and recommends that empirical studies use moderating and mediating variables between learning organization and organizational performance improvement in the HEI setting.
Communicating Organizational Strategy to Employees Using the Balanced Scorecard (BSC): Case Study of a Malaysian Company
Authors: Ayoup Hazeline
Published: January 2023

Communicating organizational strategy to employees has been identified as one of the factors that influence success of strategy implementation in an organization. This study presents a case study of the use of BSC as a strategy communication tool in the strategy implementation process of a large Malaysian service provider. Specifically, the study explores how the BSC was used to facilitate strategy communication from the top to the lower management team, the factors affecting its effectiveness and its implication. Data was collected using interviews with 30 managers from various management levels and observations in eighteen meetings and BSC training sessions. Findings of this study show that, if applied properly, the strategy map and scorecard improve strategy communication among the different management levels. It was also found that among the factors that may influence the effectiveness of it usage are the content of the maps and scorecard and the channel of communication used to convey the information. In addition, this paper provides evidence of the application of BSC as a communication tools.
Total Quality Management: Perspective of Saudi Healthcare Organizations
Authors: G Alotaibi Ghanem Barjes , Yusoff Rushami Zien , Mohd Mokhtar Sany Sanuri , Taib Che Azlan
Published: January 2023

Total Quality Management is essential in the healthcare sector. Delivering good healthcare services is one of the main issues among healthcare organizations. Healthcare customers are satisfied with healthcare providers when their services meet the level of their expectations. Satisfying healthcare customers (both public and private) can be attained through Total Quality Management. This paper highlights the importance of using Total Quality Management in healthcare organizations in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). A review of the implementation of TQM among Saudi healthcare organizations highlighted the challenges faced in the sector. The sustained efforts in improving the service quality in Saudi healthcare have led to remarkable results. However, there are more challenges regarding the quality of services. This paper is helpful for strategic planners, policy makers, and management in the KSA healthcare sector and in other jurisdictions.
FAKTOR-FAKTOR MEMPENGARUHI PRESTASI PEKERJA MENGIKUT PERSPEKTIF PEKERJA
Authors: Azman Maisarah , Sieng Lai Wei
Published: January 2023

Prestasi organisasi bergantung sepenuhnya kepada prestasi kerja yang ditonjolkan oleh pekerja. Kegagalan organisasi untuk mengekalkan prestasi kerja yang baik membawa kepada masalah isu kadar pusing ganti pekerja yang tinggi yang seterusnya menjejaskan produktiviti syarikat dan ekonomi negara. Objektif kajian ini adalah untuk mengenal pasti faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhi prestasi kerja dalam kalangan penjawat awam dan swasta di kawasan sekitar Lembah Klang. Data primer diperoleh melalui soal selidik dengan sejumlah 139 responden yang terlibat dalam kajian ini. Analisis faktor digunakan untuk menganalisis data yang sekadar diperoleh. Hasil kajian mendapati pekerja berpendapat bahawa ketiga-tiga faktor, iaitu motivasi, persekitaran tempat kerja serta latihan dan pembangunan mempengaruhi prestasi kerja. Pihak organisasi perlu mengutamakan keperluan motivasi intrinsik kepada pekerja dan menetapkan matlamat latihan yang dijalankan dengan jelas untuk meningkatkan prestasi kerja.
Social Media for Social Good or Evil: An Introduction
Authors: Hemsley Jeff , Jacobson Jenna , Gruzd Anatoliy , Mai Philip
Published: February 2023

In the heyday of social media, individuals around the world held high hopes for the democratizing force of social media; however, in light of the recent public outcry of privacy violations, fake news, and Russian troll farms, much of optimism toward social media has waned in favor of skepticism, fear, and outrage. This special issue critically explores the question, “Is social media for good or evil?” While good and evil are both moral terms, the research addresses whether the benefits of using social media in society outweigh the drawbacks. To help conceptualize this topic, we examine some of the benefits (good) and drawbacks (evil) of using social media as discussed in eight papers from the 2017 International Conference on Social Media and Society. This thematic collection reflects a broad range of topics, using diverse methods, from authors around the world and highlights different ways that social media is used for good, or evil, or both. We conclude that the determination of good and evil depends on where you stand, but as researchers, we need to go a step further to understand who it is good for and who it might hurt. 
DIMENSI FITRAH DALAM PERSPEKTIF PENDIDIKAN ISLAM
Authors: Nawawi Jafni
Published: February 2023

Petunjuk dalam QS. 30. Al Rum: 30 menggambarkan fitrah memiliki dua  dimensi yaitu fitrah agama dan fitrah manusia. Fitrah agama berwujud  wahyu dan sunnah, dan fitrah manusia merupakan potensi-potensi yang  baik. Keduanya kembar, Q.S. 7. Al A‟raf: 172 menginformasikan bahwa  setiap manusia di alam ruh telah mengucapkan syahadat mengakui  Allah sebagai Tuhan dan siap siaga menerima agama tauhid. Sabda  Rasulullah saw. bahwa “setiap orang dilahirkan dalam keadaan fitrah”  sama maksudnya dengan Al A‟araf 172. Bila fitrah manusia tidak diisi  dengan agama tauhid maka terjadi penyimpangan dan kedurhakaan  terhadap Allah. Rasulullah saw. mengingatkan bahwa ibu bapaknya  (dan lingkungan) dapat membuat perkembangan fitrah manusia menjadi  menyimpang seperti orang Yahudi, Majusi, dan Nasrani. Untuk  memelihara fitrah tetap berkembang dengan ajaran agama tauhid  memerlukan proses memadukan dan menginternalisasikan ajaran agama  tauhid ke dalam diri manusia. Memadukan kedua fitrah itu memerlukan  proses pendidikan Islam yang teleologis untuk menyempurnakan akhlak  menjadi mulia guna mewujudkan Manusia Berkepribadian Muslim.
Искусственный интеллект в спортивном менеджменте
Authors: Летягина Елена Николаевна , Перова Валентина Ивановна
Published: January 2023

В учебнике рассматривается применение искусственного интеллекта в спортивном менеджменте. Предлагаются существующие и авторские методологические подходы к исследованию развития физической культуры и спорта на основе искусственных нейронных сетей. Представлены наиболее важные модели искусственных нейронных сетей, что должно обеспечить понимание основ изучаемого предмета. Подробно описаны наиболее популярные нейросетевые архитектуры. Большое внимание уделено рассмотрению алгоритмов и методов обучения искусственных нейронных сетей различной структуры. Показано практическое использование инструментов искусственного интеллекта в фокусе совершенствования менеджмента в сфере физической культуры и спорта. Каждая глава учебника сопровождается контрольными вопросами, способствующими более эффективному усвоению материала. Учебник предназначен для студентов магистратуры, обучающимся по новым укрупненным группам направлений подготовки: «Физическая культура и спорт», «Экономика, бизнес и управление», «Информатика, вычислительная техника и искусственный интеллект», «Информационная безопасность». Он может быть использован при изучении нейросетевых технологий аспирантами, преподавателями, а также специалистами в области спортивного менеджмента.
Vietnam’s Policies on Child Abuse Prevention and Abatement: Facts and Solutions
Authors:   Judicial Committee, Vietnam’s National Assembly, No. 22 Hung Vuong Street, Ba Dinh District, Hanoi City 100000, Vietnam. Email: doduchongha@gmail.com, Ha Do Duc Hong , Nga Pham Thanh ,   FPT University (FU), Vietnam. Email: ngapt40@fe.edu.vn
Published: January 2023

Children are the future of a country, and they should be at the center of the national development strategy and policies. However, these are also objects of vulnerability and abuse. Therefore, child protection and child-abuse prevention are the responsibilities of each country. In this article, the authors have mentioned and analyzed the following main issues: (i) The facts and the problem of child abuse in Vietnam; (ii) Causes of child abuse in Vietnam; (iii) Recommendations to improve laws and policies and the effectiveness of implementation of child abuse prevention and abatement in Vietnam.
A Comparative Study on the Concept of Accountability Between Vietnam and Japan
Authors: Linh Kim Hoan My
Published: January 2023

This paper aims to describe the civil servant reform process in Vietnam. Also, the government concentrated on accountability of the public administration aligning with the civil servant system’s development. With the specialty of the socialist country, the concept and characteristics of accountability have contained uniqueness, especially in the Japanese paradigm. Thus, this paper will investigate accountability from the perspective of civil servants’ duties in Vietnam. In the comparative legal study, the research also refers to Japanese experiences. Some legal problems of accountability related to the civil servant law scheme will be pointed out to understand further obstacles of Vietnam in public administration reform over twenty years.
Joseph Shine v Union of India: Farewell to a Victorian-Era Adultery Law
Authors: Sathiaseelan Rathivaani , Aurasu Anusha
Published: January 2023

This case commentary critically analyses the rationale behind the decision made by the Indian Supreme Court in the case of Joseph Shine v Union of India [2018] Indlaw 899 (SC). The constitutionality of section 497 of the Indian Penal Code and section 198(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, which criminalise adultery, was challenged in this case. Being well aware that this case was a call made due to societal changes, the Supreme Court was prepared to adopt a liberal interpretation of the Indian Constitution. However, it had to face the sea of precedents flowing in the opposite direction of the societal changes. The Supreme Court, in dealing with these archaic provisions had carefully scrutinized Articles 14, 15 and 21 of the Indian Constitution to declare that the impugned provisions have long outlived their purpose and do not fit within today’s constitutional morality. This case is definitely one of the significant decisions made in the history of Indian law as it portrayed the Supreme Court’s bold move in finally bidding farewell to a Victorian-era law. As a result, adultery is no longer a crime in today’s India and this decision is the reason behind it.
The Night the Epic Poem Died: Ends of Poetry in Giuseppe Parini’s La Notte
Authors: Dule Griseldo
Published: January 2023

During the eighteenth century, the Italian peninsula witnessed many cultural changes coming from abroad, among which figured a new way of conceptualizing and experiencing the night. The dissemination of Enlightened ideas accelerated societal changes and solicited new literary endeavors. As the neoclassical season was burgeoning, there was an absence in the literary canon of acclaimed and national epic poems, a once-prestigious genre that elsewhere in Europe had already been replaced by the novel. This essay focuses on Il Vespro and La Notte, the last two unfinished sections of Il Giorno, Giuseppe Parini’s epic and satirical poem, and investigates the ways in which the Milanese poet analyzes the changes in his representation of the night. Through textual and thematic analysis, the essay underlines the original aspects of Parini’s antiphrastic depiction of the night.
Le visioni letterarie di Alfonso Varano e Giacomo Leopardi: tra teologia e ghost story?
Authors: Di Martino Simona
Published: January 2023

L’articolo intende analizzare il ruolo della notte come momento privilegiato per il manifestarsi di visioni di defunti ed entità soprannaturali nelle Visioni sacre e morali di Alfonso Varano, pubblicate postume nel 1789, e nell’“Appressamento della morte,” composto nel 1816, di Giacomo Leopardi. Nonostante l’impianto moralistico di tali opere e il loro debito alla tradizione medievale e soprattutto dantesca, i poemetti presi in esame dimostrano che il fenomeno delle visioni è fortemente caratterizzato da elementi, quali terrore e meraviglia, che compaiono anche nei romanzi gotici che nello stesso periodo si stavano diffondendo nel resto d’Europa e particolarmente nel contesto anglosassone. La notte, pertanto, confermandosi lo spazio temporale più propizio per l’apparizione degli spiriti, contribuisce alla creazione di un immaginario “fantasmagorico” italiano moderno, suggerendo un’interpretazione delle due opere scelte in termini di una ghost story italiana ante litteram.
“In camera oscura.” Fenomenologia del notturno ed estetica dell’indefinito in Giacomo Leopardi
Authors: Grandi Tommaso
Published: January 2023

Questo contributo analizza i temi della notte e dell’indefinito nell’opera di Giacomo Leopardi, muovendo dalla concezione preromantica del notturno, dalla Philosophical Enquiry di Burke e dalla meditazione zibaldoniana intorno al primato gnoseologico della facoltà immaginativa. Attraverso il confronto con il pensiero di Novalis sul motivo della lontananza e con la psicologia sartriana de L’imaginaire (1940), s’intende mostrare come la notte, nell’opera leopardiana, rappresenti la dimensione estetica privilegiata per la manifestazione dell’immaginario, in una prospettiva che, non solo delinea un’estetica del lontano e dell’indefinito, ma apre anche alla specificità fondativa, nei confronti della coscienza, dell’atto immaginativo, operando lo stesso ribaltamento nella gerarchia delle facoltà che Sartre porrà in essere oltre un secolo più tardi.
“La notte” di Dino Campana e Faust: tra metamorfosi e iniziazione
Authors: Tognocchi Luca
Published: January 2023

Questo articolo indaga il tema della notte e la funzione poetica del personaggio di Faust all’interno delle prime sezioni dei Canti Orfici (“La Notte” e i “Notturni”) di Dino Campana. Campana dichiarò di voler fare del suo libro un “piccolo Faust,” e nomina proprio Faust come io-lirico della “Notte.” Inoltre, sono presenti espliciti richiami testuali alla scena “Notte di Valpurga” della tragedia goethiana, parzialmente tradotta da Campana in una lettera del settembre 1917.

    In entrambe le opere, la notte permette la violazione dello status quo e consente all’io di valicare i propri confini. Se il notturno faustiano presenta continue metamorfosi e/o travestimenti dei personaggi in scena e include un rituale d’iniziazione cui lo stesso Faust prende parte, la notte campaniana diventa luogo e momento di trasformazione, secondo modalità carnevalesche, e di iniziazione ai culti misterici, che verranno studiate e approfondite nell’articolo.
Death-in-life: Staging Trauma and Loss in Goliarda Sapienza’s Destino coatto
Authors: Bazzoni Alberica
Published: January 2023

This essay investigates the representation of traumatic loss in Goliarda Sapienza’s Destino coatto, a collection of short narrative fragments published posthumously in 2002. I explore these texts by focusing on the original representation they offer of temporality in relation to trauma and loss, refracting a condition of death-in-life into temporal and spatial images. In particular, the night, accompanied by images of immobility and enclosed spaces, is a key signifier that represents a protective shield from the destructive force of life. Reflecting the liminal state of a subject in crisis, several texts are set on the threshold between day and night, and between indoor and outdoor spaces. Against the endless re-enactment of trauma, Sapienza stages a quest for immobility, a state of death-in-life that at the same time rejects and protects life.
La voce “sull’orlo della notte.” Milo De Angelis e Stéphane Mallarmé
Authors: Polanowska Patrycja
Published: January 2023

Con la poesia moderna l’immagine onirica e il sogno di un’unità nuova, fortemente presenti nel Romanticismo, sfociano spesso nel quadro della lacerazione e dell’impossibilità della notte. Dal punto di vista filosofico tale tendenza viene rappresentata da Maurice Blanchot che nel saggio Lo spazio letterario propone una distinzione tra prima e altra notte. Il suo modello risulta direttamente applicabile all’opera di Stéphane Mallarmé, considerando soprattutto l’ottica di Igitur. L’articolo si propone di esaminare tale aspetto, mettendolo in contrasto con la poesia contemporanea di Milo De Angelis, l’autore che esordisce nel 1976 con Somiglianze, opponendosi in modo esplicito al mallarmeano “sogno” della purezza. Nelle sue raccolte, la notte viene tendenzialmente riscoperta attraverso la dimensione lirico-tragica. Un’analisi contrastiva di questi approcci permette di definire il senso profondo delle immagini notturne, ma anche i prerequisiti necessari perché esse si realizzino, indipendentemente dalle distanze poetiche.
The Wisdom of Israelite Mothers
Authors: Meyers Carol
Published: January 2023

The two major components of motherhood are biological and social reproduction. The former is examined extensively in biblical studies, while the latter is virtually ignored. This essay focuses on the social dimension of motherhood by considering two kinds of wisdom associated with the role of mothers in socializing and educating their offspring. The first is imparting technical knowledge, mainly to daughters, who must learn the technologies of the various household maintenance tasks they will need when they have their own households. Included in these technologies are food-processing and food-preparation activities, textile and crafts production, and also health-care techniques, food-related religious rituals, and certain specialized skills. The second is the socializing component of mothers’ wisdom, which involved instruction in the social and moral values of the household. That instruction was modeled as much as it was explicitly taught. Teaching life skills and inculcating life lessons both contributed to maternal authority in Israelite households.
Discourse and Intercourse
Authors: Fein Sarah
Published: January 2023

In this article, I consider three narratives, Genesis 38, 2 Samuel 13, and Judges 19, in which biblical authors deploy women’s speech at moments of crisis in the plot. These moments are caused by women’s precarious location in the bêt ʾāb, which I theorize using the framework of the Patrimonial Household Model (PHM). I assess the women characters’ speech through the lens of Laura Mary Elizabeth Hare’s sociolinguistic analysis of gendered speech in biblical narrative.  While Tamar in Gen 38 uses manipulation and “masculine” speech to successfully re-insert herself into the bêt ʾāb, Tamar in 2 Sam 13 is the victim of men’s manipulation and her “feminine” speech fails to protect her. The secondary wife in Judges 19 has no verbal speech, only speech-acts, which leaves her almost but not entirely at the mercy of men’s discourse. I argue that the biblical authors understood women characters as able to exercise some amount of agency through their leveraging of normatively masculine speech, but only for the purpose of re-establishing the social order of the PHM.
“No me desobedezcas, ¡solo ve! La política matrimonial de Zimri-Lim de Mari o de la disposición masculina sobre los cuerpos femeninos.
Authors: Urbano Luciana
Published: January 2023

El objetivo del artículo será abordar las alianzas matrimoniales del último rey de Mari, Zimri-Lim (1775-1762 a.n.e.), haciendo hincapié en la relación entre este rey/padre/hermano y sus hijas y hermanas. Toda sociedad posee reglas de filiación, un sistema de parentesco y normas que definen las modalidades de las alianzas matrimoniales. Estas últimas son prácticas usuales en el interior de la sociedad en su conjunto, pero adquieren un cariz particular cuando el Estado las utiliza para llevar adelante sus planes, transformando su concreción en una verdadera política matrimonial. En el marco de ésta y desde una perspectiva teórica que recupera los aportes de la perspectiva de género nos preguntamos ¿Cómo experimentaron la violencia las hijas y hermanas de Zimri-Lim? ¿Fueron agentes pasivos, casi fichas de ajedrez en un juego político que les era ajeno? ¿O pudieron desarrollar formas de conciencia (de género, de elite) que les permitieron poner límites a la violencia y de alguna manera resistir? ¿Es esto factible en las sociedades antiguas? En las dinámicas de este campo de poder, ¿el rey y padre/hermano limitó/ejerció/habilitó la violencia física y simbólica sobre las mujeres de su familia?
Other than Mother
Authors: De Graef Katrien
Published: January 2023

In Old Babylonian society, nadītu and other women who held religious offices were not allowed to bear children. Traditionally, this taboo on childbearing has been explained as a taboo on sex (chastity) or a taboo on blood (cultic impurity). I believe these traditional explanations to be faulty and inadequate, and suggest an alternative approach based on the concepts of alterity and constructed social identity. By not fitting the norm of their social group, viz. women, by definition birth giving beings, they are ‘othered’ as non-birth-giving-beings, which indeed is the literal meaning of nadītu: ‘the fallow (woman).’ However, their ‘otherness’ is not conceived as negative or problematic, on the contrary, it added greatly to their social status as a privileged group within society. As such, their childlessness was an important part of their social identity.
Two Sides of the Same Coin? Contrasting Narratives of Bosnian-Muslims Migration to Turkey in Late 19th and Early 20th Century
Authors: Merzić Omer
Published: January 2023

The decline of the Ottoman Empire at the end of the 19th century caused numerous consequences for the region of South-eastern Europe, most notably the mass migrations of Muslims from the European regions of the Ottoman Empire to Anatolia. In Bosnia, thousands of local Muslims feeling intra-state, but also external pressure by the non-Muslim population, left their homeland to find a safer refuge. Recognizing limited scholarly attention which was given to the sphere of the lived experiences of the migrant trajectories, this paper aims to give a portrayal of the reality regarding the nostalgia and financial everyday life of Muslims from Bosnia at the turn of the century in the Ottoman Empire. To this end, it predominantly through a narrative analysis of two letters sent by Bosnian Muslims who migrated to the Anatolian town of Durgut. The oddity of these letters is in two heavily conflicting views on the lived experience of migration. The first one embarked on a highly nostalgic, sceptical, and pro-return perception reflecting on a specific “othering” of Bosnian Muslims in Turkey.
New drugs before, during, and after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for patients with acute myeloid leukemia
Authors: Mohty Razan , El Hamed Rama , Brissot Eolia , Bazarbachi Ali , Mohty Mohamad
Published: February 2023

The treatment of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) has evolved over the past few years with the advent of next-generation sequencing. Targeted therapies alone or in combination with low-dose or high-intensity chemotherapy have improved the outcome of patients with AML treated in the frontline and relapsed/refractory settings. Despite these advances, allogeneic stem cell transplantation (allo-HCT) remains essential as consolidation therapy following frontline treatment in intermediate-and adverse-risk and relapsed/refractory disease. However, many patients relapse, with limited treatment options, hence the need for post-transplant strategies to mitigate relapse risk. Maintenance therapy following allo-HCT was developed for this specific purpose and can exploit either a direct anti-leukemia effect and/or enhance the bona fide graft-versus-leukemia effect without increasing the risk of graft-versus-host disease. In this paper, we summarize novel therapies for AML before, during, and after allo-HCT and review ongoing studies.
Correlation of the Covid-19 Pandemic and Act of Violence against Children in the Family
Authors: Sukiati  , Sumariati
Published: February 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic has had various impacts on people's lives. One of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic is believed to be the increase in acts of violence against children in families. The research will explore the factors that have made the COVID-19 pandemic a trigger for increased acts of violence against children in families in Indonesia. By using qualitative research this research was conducted from 2020-2022. Data collected by interview and observation. The participants involved in this research were parents, children, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and the community. The results of this study indicate that the COVID-19 pandemic can trigger factors of violence against children in the family. These factors include factors of religious teachings, economics, divorce, psychology, education, and social. This study concludes that there is a strong correlation between the COVID-19 pandemic as a trigger and factors for acts of violence against children in the family. By looking at the results of the research above, it is necessary to pay attention to the government and society from various aspects to prevent and minimize violence against children in the family, especially during difficult times such as disasters or pandemics.
Development and Validation of a New Method for Simultaneous Estimation of Ramipril and Carvedilol by HPLC
Authors: Islam Md Shariful , Sultan Md Zakir , Islam Md Saiful , Simol Hasina Akhter , Salam Md Abdus
Published: January 2023

The main target of this current research work was intended to construct and make affirmation of a facile, economical, very sensitive with high precision and accuracy, reversed-phase high performance liquid chromatographic method for simultaneous estimation of two drugs Ramipril and Carvedilol. The validation parameters were verified based on the standard requirements of International Council for Harmonization (ICH), U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and United States Pharmacopoeia (USP) by the determination of linearity, accuracy and precision. To develop the method, a C18 column (with a dimension of 250 × 4.6 mm, 5 μ, SUFELCOSILTM LC-18) was used. The mobile phase was comprised of aqueous KH2PO4 buffer solution and acetonitrile at the ratio of 55:45 (V/V) and flow rate was 1 mL per minute. 220 nm wavelength in the ultra-violet region was used to monitor the effluents and the retention times were found at 5.1±0.1 and 8.1±0.1 minutes for Ramipril and Carvedilol, respectively. Percent recovery for both drugs was above 98%, which demonstrated that the accuracy protocol was maintained. The linearity responses of the method for both Ramipril and Carvedilol were higher than 0.995 and the percentage of Relative Standard Deviation (RSD) (precision) for both of these two drugs were lower than the highest permissible limit or less than 2% (according to FDA). Therefore, it is easily perceptible that the corresponding RP-HPLC method was highly accurate, effective, rapid and precise which can offer huge potential for the application of simultaneous assay of Ramipril and Carvedilol in pure forms.
Bangladesh Pharmaceutical Journal 26(1): 15-19, 2023 (January)