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Evaluasi Kandungan Nutrien dan Fraksi Serat Pakan Fermentasi Berbahan Dasar Kulit Nanas dan Daun Singkong sebagai Pakan Ruminansia
Authors: Jepri Juliantoni  , Anwar Efendi Harahap  , Arsyadi Ali  , Triani Adelina  , Dewi Ananda Mucra  , Bakhendri Solfan  , Restu Misrianti  , Muhamad Rodiallah  , Evi Irawati  , Eniza Saleh
Published: June 2024

Kombinasi limbah kulit nanas dan daun singkong berbentuk silase berpotensi sebagai alternatif penyediaan sumber pakan hijauan pengganti rumput lapang. Tujuan penelitian ini untuk  mengevaluasi nilai nutrien dan kualitas serat silase kulit nanas dan daun singkong dengan penambahan berbagai level molases sebagai pakan ruminansia. Penelitian  menggunakan Rancangan Acak Lengkap Pola Faktorial (4x2) dengan 2 ulangan. Faktor A adalah perbandingan komposisi antara kulit nanas dan daun singkong  terdiri dari : A1 = 100 % kulit nanas ; A2 = 75% kulit nanas + 25% daun singkong; A3 = 50% kulit nanas + 50% daun singkong ; A4 = 25% kulit nanas + 75% daun singkong dam A5 = 100% daun singkong. Selanjutnya faktor B adalah level pemberian molases terdiri dari : B0 = 5% molases ; B1 = 10% molases. Parameter yang diukur meliputi  bahan kering, protein kasar, lemak kasar, dan TDN serta komposisi fraksi serat meliputi NDF dan ADF. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan terdapat interaksi (P<0.05) antara proporsi kulit nanas + daun singkong dengan penambahan molases terhadap parameter  protein kasar, lemak kasar,  serat kasar, TDN, NDF, dan ADF (%). Selanjutnya faktor  proporsi kulit nanas + daun singkong berpengaruh nyata (P<0,05) terhadap bahan kering. Kombinasi bahan 100% daun singkong dengan penambahan 5 % maupun 10% molases menghasilkan nilai protein kasar dan TDN tertinggi serta nilai serat kasar terendah dibandingkan perlakuan kombinasi lainnya. Penambahan kulit nanas hingga 75%  mampu secara optimal  menurunkan kandungan  NDF dan ADF silase.
Analisis Peran Ekosistem Kewirausahaan dalam Mendukung Program Penumbuhan Wirausahawan Muda Pertanian (PWMP) di Politeknik Pembangunan Pertanian Medan
Authors: Anggi Apriliani  , Yuliana Kansrini  , Puji Wahyu Mulyani
Published: June 2024

Peran ekosistem kewirausahaan adalah pengaruh yang diharapkan dari pihak stakeholder untuk membuka peluang interkoneksi dan antar koneksi dengan berbagi pengetahuan, budaya, menciptakan inovasi dan kreativitas, serta mengintegrasi sumber daya. Ekosistem kewirausahaan telah menjadi faktor penting dalam mendukung manajemen usaha kelompok PWMP dan menciptakan lingkungan yang memungkinkan untuk pertumbuhan serta perkembangan kelompok PWMP. Kajian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui dan menganalisis peran ekosistem kewirausahaan dalam mendukung Program Penumbuhan Wirausahawan Muda Pertanian (PWMP) di Politeknik Pembangunan Pertanian Medan. Kajian dilakukan pada bulan Desember 2022 sampai Mei 2023 di lokasi kelompok Program Penumbuhan Wirausahawan Muda Pertanian (PWMP) yang tersebar di beberapa provinsi yaitu Aceh, Sumatera Utara, Sumatera Barat, Sumatera Selatan, Bangka Belitung, dan Kalimantan Barat. Penelitian ini dilakukan menggunakan kuesioner dan wawancara kepada 119 orang yang tergabung ke dalam Kelompok PWMP Tahun 2021-2022. Pengambilan sampel menggunakan sampel jenuh. Data dianalisis menggunakan skala Likert. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan peran ekosistem kewirausahaan pada aspek peningkatan Sumber Daya Manusia (SDM) adalah sebesar 80,17 persen, aspek akses permodalan adalah sebesar 82,92 persen,  aspek akses pasar adalah sebesar 76,07 persen, aspek pengembangan jejaring pendukung adalah sebesar 79,97 persen sehingga peran ekosistem kewirausahaan dalam mendukung Program Penumbuhan Wirausahawan Muda Pertanian (PWMP) di Politeknik Pembangunan Pertanian Medan termasuk kategori tinggi yaitu 79,78 persen.
SISTEMA DE ADOPCIÓN EN ECUADOR
Authors: Hoyos Escaleras Ángel Medardo , Jiménez Torres Johanna Elizabeth , Andrade Hidalgo Rolando David
Published: June 2024

In the Ecuadorian state, adoption is a process that focuses on the child's right to have a family, a right that is proper to the child and that includes ensuring the best interests of the child, as well as the prevalence of the child's rights, but also the exercise of the child's right to be heard. The State plays a fundamental role in this process. On the one hand, it seeks to find suitable families for abandoned or orphaned children, and on the other hand, it is responsible for guaranteeing the principle of the best interests of the child. The main objective of this descriptive analytical article is to give an account of the development of the adoption process in its two phases: administrative, whose main body in charge is the Ministry of Economic and Social Inclusion (MIES), and judicial, managed by the Judicial Function. The methodology used responds to the legal and normative approach that has been given to this study, for which a qualitative methodology is used, through the technique of selection, analysis, contrast and determination of secondary data such as information systems, regulations and jurisprudence. The hermeneutic method was used to interpret legal texts. This process allows us to determine that, although adoption is a figure that guarantees the child's right to a family, it presents obstacles in terms of speed, an obstacle that is justified
Pengaruh Kualitas Pelayanan Berbasis CHSE Terhadap Loyalitas Wisatawan Dimediasi Kepuasan Wisatawan (Studi Wisatawan Luar Daerah di Kawasan Borobudur)
Authors: Novitaningtyas Ivo , Lionora Clarisa Alfa , Achsa Andhatu , Hartono Budi , Nurhidayah Siti , Agustin Hesti
Published: June 2024

This research examines the impact of implementing the CHSE certification policy in the tourism sector especially the accommodation or hospitality business on tourist behavior based on satisfaction and loyalty. This study uses a quantitative approach. This research uses primary data obtained from 73 tourists selected based on the purposive sampling method. The sample criteria are tourists who have stayed at a hotel or homestay around Borobudur Temple more than once and come from outside the province of Central Java. The data collection method uses questionnaires distributed online and offline. The data analysis method uses PLS-SEM. The results show that tourist satisfaction mediates the influence of CHSE-based service quality on tourist loyalty. The results provide managerial implications for accommodation business managers to become CHSE-certified to satisfy overnight tourists and increase tourist loyalty.
A schoolscape in the north of Sweden. Visual representations of the national minority languages Finnish, Meänkieli, and Sami
Authors: Brännmark Theres
Published: June 2024

This study investigates how a compulsory school, catering for students from the preschool class to grade nine in the north of Sweden, visually opens spaces in the schoolscape for multilingualism involving the national minority languages, Finnish, Meänkieli, and Sami. The analysed material consists of photographs of language-related images, objects, symbols, and written texts in the school’s common spaces such as entrances, corridors, and stairwells. Geosemiotics is used to analyse discourses and representations of languages in the school environment. Furthermore, the connections between discourses in the schoolscape and the larger context of national policy are explored. The analysis reveals that there is a complete absence of representations of multilingualism in significant parts of the examined schoolscape, and that Finnish, Meänkieli, and Sami are treated as temporary elements with the representations tending to become a museum exhibition, despite the school's ambition to recognise and value the three languages. The study thus demonstrates the complexity of the issue and that the renegotiation of national ideology in a local setting is not unproblematic.
Comentario a la Sentencia 46/2023, de 10 de mayo: ¿previsión de un incidente de ejecución de resoluciones del TC, a través de la desnaturalización del recurso de amparo parlamentario?
Authors: Gómez Iñigo Raúl
Published: June 2024

En esta sentencia el Tribunal Constitucional aplica su consolidada jurisprudencia sobre el deber de las mesas de las cámaras legislativas de inadmitir las iniciativas parlamentarias cuya tramitación puede suponer el incumplimiento de sus sentencias y autos, con ocasión de un recurso de amparo interpuesto ex art. 42 LOTC por parlamentarios que no son autores de la iniciativa parlamentaria, objeto de este. El TC estima el recurso, afirmando que en el ius in officium del art. 23 CE también se comprende el derecho de los parlamentarios a impedir que se tramiten iniciativas parlamentarias de terceros parlamentarios, cuando estas últimas supongan la inejecución de previas resoluciones del TC. El análisis de la sentencia defiende que dicha doctrina arbitra un incidente de ejecución de las resoluciones del TC a favor de los parlamentarios a costa de desnaturalizar el recurso de amparo parlamentario.
La comunicación y la depresión postparto. Estudio de opinión en el subcentro de salud 29 de Noviembre, Cantón Santa Rosa, 2023
Authors:   Universidad Técnica de Machala, Silva Joselyn , Tusa Fernanda ,   Universidad Técnica de Machala, Pacheco Patricia ,   Universidad Técnica de Machala, Román María ,   Universidad Técnica de Machala
Published: June 2024

El presente estudio investiga la relación entre comunicación y depresión postparto en un contexto de salud pública. Durante el embarazo, las mujeres enfrentan profundos cambios físicos, hormonales y emocionales, que pueden agravar el riesgo de depresión postparto.
Características socioeconómicas de la población pesquera artesanal del perfil costero de la provincia de El Oro
Authors:   Universidad Técnica de Machala, Fernández Espinosa Cira , Villavicencio Aguilar Carmita ,   Universidad Técnica de Machala, Guachichullca Ordóñez Laura ,   Universidad Técnica de Machala
Published: June 2024

El desarrollo científico y tecnológico permite avanzar en estudios sobre la importancia de aprovechar de forma razonable los recursos marítimos, pues constituyen una fuente para la seguridad alimentaria a nivel planetario. La pesca sin duda ha tenido muchas fases de evolución primero como mecanismo de subsistencia, luego artesanalmente, para terminar, industrializando su práctica (Morán et al., 2010). En este libro conoceremos sobre la pesca artesanal en la provincia de El Oro.
La planificación del desarrollo rural. Caso comunas Ribereñas del cantón Santa Rosa, provincia de El Oro
Authors:   Universidad Técnica De Machala, Valdiviezo Cacay Manuel Horacio , Sánchez Flores Francisco Samuel ,   Universidad Técnica De Machala
Published: June 2024

En el presente trabajo de investigación se aborda el tema de la ruralidad, desde la mirada holística que proporciona la investigación, que en este caso permite desnudar realidades que aparecen matizadas por el utilitarismo viciado de la libre oferta y la demanda que le arrebata sus elementos constitutivos de su naturaleza, alejándose de mecanismos efectivos de recompensa que le hagan volver a su estado originario.
La creatividad del profesorado, como medio para reducir el estrés áulico
Authors:   Universidad Técnica de Machala, Reyes Roman Dorinda Mireya , Belduma Cabrera Karla Yaritza ,   Universidad Técnica de Machala
Published: June 2024

El presente estudio tiene la finalidad de analizar la función del desarrollo de la creatividad en las aulas de clases como medio para reducir el estrés en los estudiantes. Por tanto, se ha utilizado una investigación de tipo documental con enfoque cualitativo, usando como medios de recolección de datos repositorios digitales de acceso libre a información científica. Como resultado principal se ratifica que la función docente con la práctica pedagógica es una actividad crucial para la mejora del clima áulico, dicha mejora educativa se podría adquirir a través de la creatividad, la cual permite que el alumno con apoyo del facilitador ejercite sus habilidades cognitivas, afectivas y comportamentales, para ubicarlo en un contexto de oportunidades, donde se promueva interacción social positiva y aprenda con entusiasmo y motivación.
Ayres Sensory Integration® Intervention for Autistic Children: A Telehealth Adaptation
Authors: Schiano Natalie , Sivori Taylor , Dumont Rachel , Weaver Molly , Shehadeh Aseel , Ridgway Elizabeth , Schaaf Roseann
Published: June 2024

Importance: Ayres Sensory Integration® is an evidence-based, manualized occupational therapy intervention for autism that is delivered in person. A telehealth adaptation could bridge service gaps for families who may have challenges accessing services.

Objective: To create a telehealth adaptation of the evidence-based manualized protocol of Ayres Sensory Integration using best practice for telehealth guidelines and to obtain input on the adaptation from experts.

Setting: Online survey of U.S. telehealth experts and occupational therapy clinicians in fall and winter 2022.

Participants: Two telehealth experts and six occupational therapy clinicians.

Outcomes and Measures: Two Qualtrics surveys focused on perceived feasibility and acceptability, resources included, and clarity of instructions.

Results: Telehealth experts and occupational therapy clinicians rated the Ayres Sensory Integration telehealth adapted manual as easy to follow, aligned with telehealth best practices, and feasible for remote delivery. Suggestions for additional adaptations included adding resources for technology troubleshooting, intervention planning, rapport building, and continuing education.

Conclusions and Relevance: Suggested adaptations were made; the manual is ready for feasibility testing.

Plain-Language Summary: This report is the first to describe a telehealth adaptation of Ayres Sensory Integration®. The manual provides comprehensive training and resources to support clinicians in delivering sensory integration, telehealth-based interventions to autistic children. Two telehealth experts and six occupational therapy clinicians rated the Ayres Sensory Integration telehealth adapted manual as easy to follow, aligned with telehealth best practices, and feasible for remote delivery. The manual will be available to clinicians after feasibility and pilot testing.
Andrew Fuller and the Search for a Faith Worthy of All Acceptation
Authors: Rathel David Mark
Published: June 2024

The eighteenth-century English minister Andrew Fuller lived a consequential life, debating noteworthy contemporaries such as Thomas Paine and contributing to the pioneering international work of William Carey. However, his soteriology remains his most significant theological contribution. Fuller explored the role that human agency plays in salvation’s reception, and he offered substantive theological proposals that many religious historians now credit with advancing the Evangelical Revival. Fuller’s work was both traditional and creative. He sought faithfulness to the broader Protestant tradition but developed that tradition in unique and contextually relevant ways.

Despite Fuller’s influence, much research into his life and work remains. Andrew Fuller and the Search for a Faith Worthy of All Acceptation examines heretofore underutilized primary sources related to Fuller’s theological development. It attends to neglected texts produced by Fuller’s opponents and mentors.

Analysing these sources provides a fresh reading of Fuller’s historical setting, one that contextualizes his theology and illuminates his constructive work on faith as a human response to the Gospel. This new interpretation allows scholars to discern more accurately the concepts that animated Fuller, the persons he sought to refute, and the sources on which he relied. This interpretation of Fuller challenges assumptions in contemporary scholarship and raises new questions for further research.
Access, Opportunity, and Success
Authors: Bauer Laura , Casazza Martha E.
Published: June 2024

Behind the hallowed walls of higher education are students who did not grow up expecting to attend college, students who walked through open doors not knowing what to expect on the other side. For some, these open doors became revolving doors, and they simply gave up. For many others, however, there were unexpected successes, successes that included more than academic accomplishments. These people came through the system with an increased sense of self-confidence that empowered them in the world beyond college. This oral history tells the story of the struggles as well as of the triumphs related to the fight for access and high quality in higher education. Thus, it provides a unique look at the past state of higher education, and at the measures that might be taken to improve our future educational system.

The book begins with a brief historical overview of what access to higher education looked like before the 20th century. Following chapters tell the actual stories and are organized around four themes: the power of belief in students; access with success; institutional commitment; and effective support systems. Finally, a set of recommendations is provided that will help to keep the doors open for those still wishing to enter. Educators at all levels, graduate students studying higher education, and interested readers in the general public will all find this book an invaluable resource.
Andrew Johnson
Authors: Zuczek Richard , Schroeder-Lein Glenna R.
Published: June 2024

This A–Z encyclopedia provides carefully selected entries covering the people, events, and concepts relevant to Andrew Johnson's life.

Andrew Johnson was—and is—an American paradox. He never attended school, yet fought for public education. He was a Southern slaveholder who opposed secession and enforced emancipation. Born into poverty, he became the 17th president of the United States—and the first U.S. president to be impeached.

This new volume thoroughly examines the troubled career of our most unpopular president—not to resuscitate his reputation, but because his personal contradictions reflected those of his country: a democratic nation conceived in liberty, yet existing half slave and half free; an economy of yeoman farmers and independent artisans being swept into industrialization and a market system; a country fond of tradition, but caught up in social, economic, and political revolution.
Berlin in Focus
Authors: Becker-Cantarino Barbara
Published: June 2024

This collection of essays breaks new ground in looking at Berlin after the fall of the Wall as the city struggles to re-establish itself as the cultural and political capital of Germany. The essays offer insightful readings of the metropolis, its people and institutions, as a paradigm for modern Germany. They focus on important cultural developments and changes as they occurred especially, but not exclusively, in Berlin. Issues explored include women's role in the restructuring of higher education in Berlin, the impact of State Security at Humboldt University, problems of a growing immigrant population, and the innovative counter-culture ventures in the Prenzlauer Berg district. Other chapters address major cinematic responses to the city by reknowned filmmakers Wim Wenders, Walter Ruttman, and Helke Sander; and the representation of Berlin and the Berlin Wall in modern fiction. This volume makes an important contribution to the discourse on German identity.
Christianity and the Race Problem.
Authors: Oldham Joseph Houldsworth
Published: June 2024

[No abstract available]
Comic Tales of the Middle Ages
Authors: Wolterbeek Marc
Published: June 2024

Three groups of comic narratives composed in Latin in the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth centuries are made accessible to both scholar and general reader alike in Mark Wolterbeek's collection and analysis. The volume contains the author's own translations into idiomatic English accompanied by the original Latin texts as well as extensive commentary. This exploration of an area of medieval comedy that has been largely ignored in both classic and recent scholarly works focuses on the ridicula, nugae, and satyrae, three genres that anticipate the great literary flowering of the High Middle Ages. Wolterbeek contends that the ridicula seem to be the Latin ancestors of the Old French fabliaux and other popular genres of the later Middle Ages and Renaissance, such as the Schwanke novelle and facezie, and that the writers of the nugae pave the way for the learned comic tradition of the twelfth century, notably the comediae elegiacae, which in turn are the forerunners of Renaissance drama. The narrative satires, satyrae, offered here contain penetrating insights into medieval life. These poems and Wolterbeek's accompanying commentary demonstrate not only the evolution of medieval comic literature but also the development of man's notion of the comic during this seminal period in the history of Western civilization.

A chapter is devoted to each of the three genres: the ridicula, funny stories recounted in rhythmic verse that often present tales of human deceit and presumption; the nugae, trifles of scholarly Latin poets writing in metrical verse; and the satyrae, narrative satires that offer penetrating insights into medieval life. An appendix contains the texts and translations of more than a dozen works including seven ridicula from the famous florilegium known as the Cambridge songs and the lengthy Unibos; nugae by Fulcoius of Beauvais as well as Radulfus Tortarius; and two satyrae,Satyrae contra Moriuht by Warnerius of RouenandDe matronisby Peter the Painter. Knowledge of these early comic traditions is of great value to the literary scholar and to the humanist.Comic Tales of the Middle Agesshould be part of the collections of major public libraries and large university libraries in the United States and Europe and will be a useful addition to the reading lists for courses in Medieval Latin, Medieval Literature, World Literature, Comparative Literature, and Comic Literature.
Controversy, Courts, and Community
Authors: Corgan Verna C
Published: June 2024

How a trial judge used rhetorical strategies in controversial cases and challenged traditional roles of the courts and community in pursuing justice.
Cooperation and Conflict in Occupational Safety and Health
Authors: Wokutch Richard A.
Published: June 2024

The result of an eight-year, international research study, this volume examines the methods used to promote occupational safety and health in the automotive industries of the United States, West Germany, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Japan, and Kenya. The author pays particular attention to the ways in which the broad national social, economic, political, and legal environments influence occupational safety and health activities and outcomes. The study also focuses on the differing degrees of cooperation and conflict exhibited among involved parties in the handling of occupational safety in different countries and companies. Based upon his findings, the author develops a contingency theory of labor-management-government cooperation and conflict that has broad implications for current debates about the need to develop more cooperative relationships within U.S. firms.

Following an introductory chapter that defines key concepts and presents an overview of the research design, Wokutch provides a historical overview of occupational safety and health in the United States for the reader unfamiliar with these issues. He goes on to describe occupational safety and health activities and relationships in the U.S. automotive industry, contrasting them with the handling of these issues in the five other countries under study. National work injury statistics are then compared and related to the economic and sociopolitical environment in which they occur. The next three chapters shift the focus of analysis to the firm and plant level and provide intra and inter-company comparisons. Finally, Wokutch discusses the conclusions and implications of his research and offers recommendations for the handling of occupational safety and health issues derived from his study. Students of labor and industrial relations as well as occupational safety and health and human resources managers will find Wokutch's study an important contribution to the business and management literature.
Corporate Management in Developing Countries
Authors: Wint Alvin G.
Published: June 2024

Managers in developing countries, whether operating in the private or public sectors, are constantly aware of the problems of underdevelopment. Effective management of international business activities in developing countries can improve the competitiveness and development prospects of these countries and, in turn, the companies operating within them. But to do so, managers need a developing country perspective on international trade agreements, international finance, foreign exchange, and national financial management. These topics, as well as practical chapters on the management of export production, financing exports, government export programs, and international investment make this very valuable reading for executives and those interested in international business.
Crash Course in Storytime Fundamentals==ABC
Authors: Peck Penny
Published: June 2024

Based upon materials used by this experienced children's library and university instructor, this is a vital and essential how to for doing storytimes.

Crash Course in Storytime Fundamentalsis a vital and essential how to. It is perfect for anyone who is asked to do storytime, but has never been trained-or for anyone who simply needs a new idea. The book is based upon materials designed for and used during an all day workshop, Storytime Fundamentals offered by this veteran children's librarian.
Delinquency in Puerto Rico
Authors: Nevares Dora , Wolfgang Marvin E. , Tracy Paul E.
Published: June 2024

This volume describes the findings of a longitudinal, birth cohort study of juvenile delinquency in Puerto Rico. Carried out under the auspices of the Puerto Rican Senate's Special Crime Commission, the book represents a new type of birth cohort study, based on the classic work done in Philadelphia. The authors have traced Puerto Rican children born in 1970, both male and female, through the greater San Juan police departments, charting the incidence of delinquency and the number of recurring offenders. These findings are compared to the Philadelphia studies of 1945 and 1958.

The book begins its examination with a discussion of the background for the current study. Literature on juvenile delinquency in Puerto Rico is reviewed, official statistics are cited, and a discussion of the birth cohort and the importance of longitudinal studies is provided. Chapter 2 addresses the prevalence of delinquency, and chapter 3 details its incidence, severity, and types of offenses. Succeeding chapters cover such areas as age and delinquency, delinquent recidivism, and police and court dispositions. The volume concludes with a section on cohort comparisons, a summary of the findings, and some policy implications and suggestions for legislation. A group of appendices is also included. This work will be an important addition for courses in criminology and sociology, as well as a valuable resource for college and university libraries.
Fostering Community through Digital Storytelling
Authors: Diaz Karen R. , Fields Anne M.
Published: June 2024

Digital stories are brief multi-modal digital videos, which libraries can use to engage their staff members with one another, to market library services and collections, to attract donors, and most importantly, to engage students and faculty with the library. Fields and Diaz address the how-tos of creating digital stories, as well as the challenges of building a digital storytelling program and creating partnerships across campus. Of primary interest to academic librarians and instructional technology staff.
General Principles of Human Power
Authors: van Ginkel
Published: June 2024

Though power is commonly seen as a special feature of exceptional personalities, van Ginkel argues that power is actually a given feature of all humans, animals, and plants. Each has different power, of a special kind and a special degree. All plant, animal, and human power is sparked and specified by a fusion of varieties of the same four general elements:Faculty, Object, Effect, and Limit. Unlike animal power, human power rises and falls irregularly, both in history and in individual life. Van Ginkel's straight, logical analysis asserts that a human individual is at any given moment either a dependent impulse-driven agent whose pursuits cause his given power to fall or an independent design-driven agent whose operations cause his given power to rise. The difference between the two is sometimes slight, sometimes dramatic. In the near future all human power may be reduced to zero by such man-made perils as environment devastation, self-dementing addictions, or mass-destructive weapons, unless eductional and governmental power expand on an unprecedented scale. Human power is unlimited as long as it expands within a philosophically or theologically defined limit.
A New North America
Authors: Drischler Alvin , Doran Charles F
Published: June 2024

This edited collection brings together a group of leading scholars to examine what North America might look like after NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement. Although the economic numbers for the three nations involved—Canada, Mexico, and the United States—are impressive, they do not tell the whole story. The real underlying question, according to these experts, is where is the North American region going? How strongly do Mexico, Canada, and the U.S. identify with the region? What strategies exist to propel North America into the 21st century? The authors divide their analysis into 2 parts: the first considers the perspective of each of the 3 countries towards the region and towards the problems they face in adapting to structural change; in the second, the analysis moves from present circumstances and expectations to strategy and options for strengthening the regional alliance.
Al Jolson
Authors: Fisher James
Published: June 2024

From the early days of his stage career in the decades before World War I through his unparalleled comeback after World War II, Al Jolson was billed as The World's Greatest Entertainer. This book provides an insightful sketch of Jolson's life and a comprehensive record of his extensive career. The volume begins with a biography which discusses the factors that shaped Jolson's development as a performer. A chronology of the chief events in his life follows. Chapters are then devoted to his stage, film, recording, and broadcast career. Each of these chapters contains annotated entries for Jolson's performances. A bibliography follows, with entries for books, periodicals, and newspaper articles. Appendices list stage shows based on Jolson's life, along with newsreels, cartoons, awards, and endorsements related to his career. Name and title indexes conclude the work and add to its reference value.
American Culture in Europe
Authors: Epitropoulos Mike-Frank G. , Roudometof Victor , Cushman Thomas
Published: June 2024

These essays examine the proliferation of American culture in Europe. Throughout the collection, the authors raise the issue of the degree to which Europe becomes Americanized. They examine in concrete detail the way this process operates with reference to specific research areas such as advertising, consumerism, science, law, and politics.

Most of the essays suggest a great variation in the manner in which American cultural influences are appropriated within specific European countries. Such appropriation is conditioned by the local needs and perceptions as well as the way local elites employ Americanization in order to bolster their own context specific political agendas. This variation suggests that Americanization is a label frequently employed to describe the more multifaceted and complex process of globalization. This collection of essays will be of special interest to students and scholars involved with Cultural Studies, Sociology, and European Studies.
Ancient and Medieval Theatre
Authors: Vince Ronald W.
Published: June 2024

Vince uses written and artifactual evidence of theatre history to explain the nature of its current state. His study of theatre's early forms discloses a wealth of significant facts, and some conjectures, that stimulate understanding and appreciation of the art. Backstage
Black Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Authors: Watts Thomas D. , Wright Roosevelt
Published: June 2024

[No abstract available]
A Century of American Icons
Authors: Cross Mary
Published: June 2024

Dogs eat burritos, camels smoke cigarettes, and frogs drink beer. Welcome to the Century of the Consumer. In the 20th century, Americans were romanced by consumer culture, which in turn reflected the changing attitudes, priorities, and values of the country. This book compiles entries on 100 consumer products—ten per decade—that figured prominently in the rise of consumer culture in the United States, telling the story behind the century's most popular products, slogans, and symbols.

A unique format provides glimpses into American popular culture from each decade in the century. In addition to the history of advertising, economics, and the media, students will learn how perceptions of class, gender, and race were conveyed through advertising-and how those perceptions changed from 1900 to 2000. A-Z entries for each decade include bibliographic information on the product, as well as vivid illustrations showing the visual evolution of advertising icons and strategies throughout the century.
Class and Consciousness
Authors: Cobley Alan G.
Published: June 2024

This is the first book to discuss the emergence and nature of the black bourgeoisie in South Africa in its historical context as a class in itself and for itself. It reveals how, by the 1920s, the black petty bourgeoisie was emerging in South Africa through the process of capitalist development, out of pre-existing elites and out of new elites based mainly in the new industrial centers. The book then discusses how the black petty bourgeoise deployed, in the 1930s, a wide range of class-specific social and cultural networks (using forms borrowed from the dominant classes) as a means of entrenching and reproducing its class position.

The book details the significant differentiation within the black petty bourgeoisie--revealing it to be divided into a more economically secure upper stratum and a much larger lower stratum which was always vulnerable to proletarianisation. The book also shows that members of the petty black bourgeoisie virtually monopolized political leadership in black communities up to 1950 and beyond. This had very important consequences for the formulation and articulation of black political objectives at both the local and national levels and especially for the developing African nationalist movement.
Commissions, Reports, Reforms, and Educational Policy
Authors: Ginsberg Rick , Plank David
Published: June 2024

The editors have collected original papers dealing with the impact of commissions on educational policy and reform. This book is a combination of the perspectives of practitioners directly involved with writing or reacting to commission reports, and scholars analyzing the significance and impact of educational policy. Chapters are written by some of the country's leading authorities on education. This book will prove to be a valuable resource for educators, administrators, political scientists, sociologists, and others interested in the state of education. Includes a foreword by Paul E. Peterson of Harvard University.
Desmond Tutu
Authors: Gish Steven D.
Published: June 2024

History will remember Desmond Tutu, who has been called South Africa's Martin Luther King, Jr., as a great leader in the struggle against apartheid. In this new biography, which includes original quotations from the author's interviews with Tutu, readers will follow the steady progress of a boy and man who has held an irrepressible faith in humankind and his God. They will learn about his family, schooling, important mentors, and extraordinary career trajectory in South Africa and abroad. Now retired, Tutu's accomplishments and contributions to the world can be fully appreciated.

The clear explanation of the policy of apartheid, how it affected Tutu and his family, and how he helped to bring it crashing down will affect and inform students as no history alone can. They will marvel over his sparkling wit and effervescent personality, his nonviolent stance in the face of intense racial hatred and harassment, and his persistence against enormous odds. This will be an effortless, enjoyable, enlightening and inspiring read.
Doing Business in the New China
Authors: Zinzius Birgit
Published: June 2024

Provides an objective, unbiased portrait of the Chinese market for investors, managers on global assignments, and entrepreneurs.
Earth Science Resources in the Electronic Age
Authors: Bazler Judith
Published: June 2024

The Web is notoriously unreliable, yet it is the first place many students look for information. How can students, teachers, parents, and librarians be certain that the information a Web site provides is accurate and age appropriate? In this unique book, experienced science educator Judith A. Bazler reviews hundreds of the most reliable earth science-related Web sites.

Each review discusses the most appropriate grade level of the site, analyzes its accuracy and usefulness, and provides helpful hints for getting the most out of the resource. Sites are organized by topic, from Air Movements to Wetlands, making it easy to locate the most useful sites. A handy summary presents the best places on the Web to find information on science museums, science centers, careers in the earth sciences, and supplies.
An Easy Out
Authors: Buffington Jack
Published: June 2024

Outsourcing is as controversial as ever in today's globalized world. But for all the noise about it in the media, whether reflecting the perspectives of labor, business, consultants, academics, employees, or protestors, there is far more emotion surrounding the benefits and drawbacks of the trend than there is common sense. Not only are these messages from different constituents polarizing, they are also confusing because they muddy the waters regarding corporate performance. Buffington clarifies the role of outsourcing in business today so that Americans can focus on something that really matters—real increases in productivity and competitiveness in a global economy. In most cases, he contends, neither outsourcing nor its close cousin, offshoring, are effective as a means to their intended end. Moreover, he points out, Americans focus a lot of negative energy on offshoring, not realizing that domestic outsourcing might be more harmful to our economy in the long run. Corporations lack awareness of this distinction, according to Buffington, and therefore they don't know which should be implemented in what circumstances. That ignorance is not only an obstacle for any company seeking to implement a successful outsourcing strategy, but it is also a dire threat to the long-term growth of the American economy.

Buffington demonstrates that outsourcing often functions as an easy out for corporations that are reluctant to look instead at the root causes of their problems, whether low productivity, lack of innovation, or an unwillingness to invest in marketing, promotion, and sales. The reason that corporations aren't focusing on these core issues has a historical element as much as an evolutionary one within a global economy; the divisions today between workers and management are as sharp as they were back in the early 20th century, Buffington argues. But as much as we have to learn from the past about the impact of worker/management relations on worker productivity, we have even more to learn about all aspects of the productivity puzzle. Corporate productivity, or lack thereof, drives the success or failure of outsourcing or offshoring more than the act itself, according to Buffington. This book challenges business leaders to find their productivity and only then to make outsourcing decisions. This approach will work for corporations, consulting firms, outsourcers, and in the end, customers themselves. A more productive, worker-manager friendly business environment will lead to greater U.S. productivity, and therefore, more effective outsourcing/offshoring decisions.
Frecuencia de ocurrencia de microplásticos en contenido gastrointestinal de orestias sp. y odontesthes bonariensis de la laguna Pomacanchi-Acomayo-Cusco
Authors: Mio-Diaz Mirian , Álvarez Moscoso Modesta Esther
Published: June 2024

El excesivo uso de los productos plásticos y una gestión insuficiente de los mismos, resulta en la acumulación de los residuos plásticos, siendo una fracción de este tipo de contaminantes los microplásticos (Mps) como riesgo para la salud por llegar a interactuar con la biota. La presente investigación estimo la presencia de Mps en el 72.5% en 20 individuos de Orestias sp y 20 individuos de Odontesthes bonariensis, identificándose un total de 61 Mps en 29 de los ejemplares analizados y respecto a la caracterización de los Mps predominaron el color blanco (21.3%), amarillo (13.1%), celeste (11.5%) y transparente (11.5%); de igual manera, se encontraron tres formas de Mps: fibras, fragmentos y films donde se observaron en mayor cantidad las dos primeras formas con 55.7% y 41% respectivamente; en cuanto al tamaño se encontraron los Mps cortos del rango comprendido de 101-500μm con 29.5%, en mayor cantidad. El 65% de la especie Orestias sp contenía una ingesta promedio de 0.95 ± 0.887 Mps/0.2ml que fue menor a comparación de la especie Odontesthes bonariensis Valenciennes, que presentó una frecuencia de ocurrencia de Mps de 80% con un rango de ingesta promedio de 2.10 ± 1.86 Mps analizadas en 0.2ml por individuo en ambas especies. Los resultados proveen la primera evidencia de ingesta de Mps en peces de la laguna de Pomacanchi.
Recrudecimiento de la violencia en El Salvador
Authors: ECA: Estudios Centroamericanos
Published: June 2024

No hay resúmenes disponibles.

ECA Estudios Centroamericanos, Vol. 43, No. 480, 1988: 861-881.
El FMLN no está terminado
Authors: C. G. R.
Published: June 2024

No hay resúmenes disponibles.

ECA Estudios Centroamericanos, Vol. 43, No. 480, 1988: 927-930.
Movimientos preelectorales
Authors: C. A.
Published: June 2024

No hay resúmenes disponibles.

ECA Estudios Centroamericanos, Vol. 43, No. 480, 1988: 931-939.
Ambigüedad de las nuevas elecciones presidenciales
Authors: ECA: Estudios Centroamericanos
Published: June 2024

No hay resúmenes disponibles.

ECA Estudios Centroamericanos, Vol. 43, No. 481-482, 1988: 995-1012.
Las propuestas económicas de los partidos y la necesidades de las mayorías populares
Authors: Martínez Evelin , Montoya Aquiles
Published: June 2024

No es hora de sectarismos ni de dogmatismo, sino de buscar creativamente alternativas reales a la crisis económica que afecta a El Salvador así como al resto de América Latina. La crisis no es exclusiva de El Salvador. Ante esta hora tan decisiva para el futuro del país ninguno de los partidos políticos mayoritaris ofrece soluciones a la altura de las exigencias planteadas por la crisis general y particular.
En efecto, aquí se analizan las propuestas económicas de los partidos Demócrata Cristiano, ARENA y Convergencia Democrática dentro del contexto de esa crisis general latinoamericana. Los partidos mayoritarios están ofreciendo, con sus matices, por supuesto, viabilizar el funcionamiento del sistema, es decir, no es su objetivo satisfacer las necesidades de las mayorías populares.
 
ECA Estudios Centroamericanos, Vol. 43, No. 481-482, 1988: 1013-1035.
Biểu hiện và ảnh hưởng của viêm tai giữa thanh dịch mạn tính đến phát âm của trẻ 4 - 6 tuổi tại Bệnh viện Đại học Y Hà Nội năm 2020 - 2023
Authors: Đào Phạm Thị Bích , Tâm Trần Văn , Trang Nguyễn Thị Huyền , Dũng Phạm Anh , Thảo Vũ Phương , Chung Thái Thị , Hòa Nguyễn Xuân , Ngọc Nguyễn Thị , Hằng Nguyễn Thị , Phương Mai Thị Mai
Published: June 2024

Mục tiêu của nghiên cứu nhằm mô tả biểu hiện và ảnh hưởng của viêm tai giữa thanh dịch mạn tính đến phát âm của trẻ 4 - 6 tuổi. Nghiên cứu tiến hành trên 120 trẻ từ 4 đến 6 tuổi được xác định là viêm tai giữa thanh dịch mạn tại khoa khám bệnh bệnh viện Đại học Y Hà Nội từ năm 2020 đến 2023. Nhóm nghiên cứu sử dụng bảng chữ cái tiếng Việt để đánh giá khả năng phát âm của trẻ. Kết quả cho thấy 9,8% trẻ phát âm chuẩn, 90,2 phát âm chưa chuẩn. 12 nguyên âm đơn: đúng: âm a 91,8%, ă: 56,7%, â: 71,3%, e: 67,9%, ê: 83,5%, i: 21,5%, o: 76,1%, ô: 81,6%, ơ: 18,9%, u: 93,7%, ư: 26,5%, y: 65,9%. Trong 17 phụ âm: phát âm đúng: âm b: 92,3%, c: 34,9%, d: 76,4%, đ: 37,8%, g: 31,6%, h: 81,2%, k: 45,8%, l: 89,1%, m: 37,1%, n: 39,5%, p: 18,6%, q: 21,9%, r: 71,1%, s: 23,7%, t: 92,1%, v: 54,7%, x: 67,8%. Trong 3 nguyên âm đôi: phát âm đúng: ia-yê-iê: 18,2%, ua-uô: 34,7%, ưa-ươ.: 71,2%. 9 phụ âm đầu ghép 2 chữ: phát âm đúng: ph: 9,8%, th: 65,5%, tr 34,8%, vh 9,8%, gi: 87,3%, nh: 68,4%, ng: 45,8%, kh: 26,7%, gh: 28,9%. 1 phụ âm ghép 3 chữ: phát âm đúng: ngh: 21,7%. Các âm bị ảnh hưởng của nhóm trẻ bị viêm tai giữa thanh dịch mạn tính chủ yếu là những âm có âm vực cao, phối hợp âm đôi.
Nghe kém tiếp nhận tần số cao ở bệnh nhân đái tháo đường típ 2
Authors: Hân Châu Ngọc , Trân Lâm Huyền
Published: June 2024

Mục tiêu của nghiên cứu nhằm xác định tỷ lệ nghe kém tiếp nhận tần số cao và trung bình âm đơn ở các tần số cao thông qua thính lực đơn âm của bệnh nhân đái tháo đường (ĐTĐ) típ 2. Nghiên cứu trên 70 bệnh nhân tại khoa Tai Mũi Họng, Nội Tiết, bệnh viện Nguyễn Tri Phương, Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh từ tháng 10/2022 đến tháng 6/2023. Sau khi được hỏi về tiền sử bệnh và khám tai lâm sàng thỏa mãn tiêu chuẩn chọn mẫu, bệnh nhân sẽ được đo thính lực đồ. Kết quả ghi nhận có 60% nghe kém tần số cao, tỷ lệ nghe kém tiếp nhận lần lượt: 5%, 65,38%, 100% ở các nhóm tuổi 36 - 40, 41 - 50, 51 - 60 (p < 0,01). Yếu tố tuổi, thời gian mắc bệnh kéo dài, nồng độ HbA1C đều có liên quan đến nghe kém tần số cao (p < 0,01). Do đó, đo thính lực đơn âm trên bệnh nhân ĐTĐ típ 2 có các yếu tố nguy cơ trên giúp các nhà lâm sàng phát hiện sớm, phòng ngừa kịp thời nghe kém tiếp nhận diễn ra nhanh hơn.
Kết quả phẫu thuật kéo giãn xương điều trị tắc nghẽn đường thở ở hội chứng Pierre Robin thể nặng tại Bệnh viện Nhi Trung ương 2019 – 2023
Authors: Thơm Đặng Hoàng , Lâm Vũ Ngọc , Sơn Trần Thiết
Published: June 2024

Nghiên cứu của chúng tôi nhằm mô tả kết quả của phương pháp phẫu thuật kéo giãn xương hàm dưới (MDO) điều trị tắc nghẽn đường thở ở hội chứng Pierre Robin Syndrome (PRS) thể nặng tại Bệnh viện Nhi Trung ương từ năm 2019 đến 2023. Phương pháp này đã thay thế cho phẫu thuật mở khí quản trước đó. Đối tượng nghiên cứu là những bệnh nhân PRS thể nặng, khó thở nghiêm trọng do tắc nghẽn, bú khó, cần nuôi dương hỗ trợ, có chênh lệch hàm trên dưới lớn trên 10mm. Nghiên cứu được thiết kế can thiệp lâm sàng không đối chứng có đánh giá trước sau với 102 bệnh nhân từ 2 tuần đến 6 tháng tuổi được theo dõi trong thời gian từ 6 đến 36 tháng. Kết quả cho thấy sau MDO, với tỷ lệ công trong nghiên cứu là 95,1%. Kích thước đường thở trên CT scanner tăng gấp 4,16 lần trước mổ. Tỷ lệ thành công nuôi dưỡng đường miệng sau phẫu thuật là 82,4%. Phẫu thuật kéo giãn xương hàm dưới là một phương pháp an toàn hiệu quả trong điều trị tắc nghẽn đường thở ở PRS thể nặng, tránh được mở khí quản nhưng cần phải lập kế hoạch phẫu thuật và để hạn chế biến chứng.
Gas decarbonization pathways for the Baltic states and Finland
Authors: Muthukumaran Gowtham , Keypour Javad
Published: June 2024

This working paper presents four scenarios and identifies viable options for decarbonizing the gas sector in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Finland.