bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Morphological characteristics of sex dimorphism in Gobiopterus sp. (Gobiiformes: Oxudercidae) from Ranu Grati Lake, Pasuruan District, East Java, Indonesia
Authors: ANITASARI SEPTI , ARFIATI DIANA , SUSILO SUSILO , MARHENDRA AGUNG PRAMANA WARIH
Published: May 2024

Abstract. Anitasari S, Arfiati D, Susilo, Marhendra APW. 2024. Morphological characteristics of sex dimorphism in Gobiopterus sp. (Gobiiformes: Oxudercidae) from Ranu Grati Lake, Pasuruan District, East Java, Indonesia. Biodiversitas 25: 1214-1222. Ranu Grati is a volcanic lake located in Pasuruan, East Java, Indonesia which has high ecological value as a habitat for a unique endemic fish found only in this lake, namely the Lempuk fish (Gobiopterus sp.). The aim of this research is to determine the morphological characters based on sexual dimorphism of Lempuk fish. in Ranu Grati Lake. The result showed the body color of male and female Lempuk fish is transparent. Lempuk fish do not have sexual dichromatism or their sex cannot be distinguished based on their body color. Lempuk fish have vomer teeth and canine teeth. Types of male and female ctenoid scales have a comb-like shape. The position of the mouth of the Lempuk Fish is located near the top or head of the fish but not precisely at the tip. There are variations in the superior subterminal mouth type between male and female fish, especially in terms of anatomical details and mouth structure. Based on meristic observations of the Lempuk fish, it can be explained that this fish has a fusiform body shape, this shows that gobies generally have a small fusiform body and also has pectoral fins, pelvic fins, dorsal fins, tail fins and anal fins. In this study, we found from histological observations of the Lempuk fish, mature oocytes and spermatids were found in one histological tissue sample at male fish with gonad maturity level II. This change from female to male occurs at the size of the fish with fish size of 21.21-30.58 ± 2.14mm. It indicates that is Lempuk fish is a species hermaphrodite protogyn.
The effect of colchicine treatment on phenotype and genotype characteristics of Detam-2 variety of soybean Glycine max
Authors: FATHURRAHMAN F. , ULPAH SARIPAH , SODIQ NOER AFNY MULIYATI , MAHADI IMAM
Published: May 2024

Abstract. Fathurrahman F, Ulpah S, Sodiq NAM, Mahadi I, 2024. The effect of Colchicine treatment on phenotype and genotype characteristics of Detam-2 variety of soybean Glycine max. Biodiversitas 25: 1230-1238. The enhancement of soybean plant mutagenesis to obtain phenotypic and genotypic diversity is essential in agriculture. This study aimed to analyze the effect of colchicine concentration on phenotypic and genotypic characteristics based on RAPD markers of detam-2 variety. The experiments were carried out from January to June 2023 in the experimental farm of the Agriculture Faculty, Universitas Islam Riau, Pekanbaru, Indonesia. Therefore, 600 plants were used, consisting of 200 controls and 400 samples treated with 3,500 ppm of colchicine. The growth parameter was analyzed using a DMRT statistical test at p<0.05, and stomata densities were compared using T-test. The mutant-1 produced the highest yield, a total of 235 pods (with 233 phity pods), seed weighed 93.20 g, which was significantly different from those of controls. Mutant-2 produced the highest dry weight of 100 seeds, which was 12.80 g, with a dry seed weight per plant of 63.30 g. Leaf types in mutant samples varied, including normal, purple leaf stems, and curly leaves. The genotypic study showed that primer OPAA-01 produced a different number of DNA bands. The highest genetic similarity was 0.961 among the controls, while the lowest was 0.451 between mutant-1 and the controls. Based on the results, the dendrogram produced two groups: control and mutant-1.
Seasonal species composition, abundance and public health importance of mosquito vectors (Diptera: Culicidae) in Huai Tha Khoei Reservoir, Ratchaburi, Thailand
Authors: CHAIPHONGPACHARA TANAWAT , LAOJUNA SEDTHAPONG
Published: May 2024

Abstract. Chaiphongpachara T, Laojuna S. 2024. Seasonal species composition, abundance and public health importance of mosquito vectors (Diptera: Culicidae) in Huai Tha Khoei Reservoir, Ratchaburi, Thailand. Biodiversitas 25: 1264-1275. Mosquitoes are vectors for pathogens that cause life-threatening diseases in humans and animals. Significant mosquito-borne diseases include malaria, dengue, chikungunya, Zika, Japanese encephalitis, and filariasis. Anthropogenic environmental changes can significantly impact the dynamics of disease vector populations, which can lead to outbreaks of mosquito-borne diseases. This study investigated the seasonal variation in species composition and abundance of mosquito vectors around the Huai Tha Khoei Reservoir in Ratchaburi Province, Thailand, across cool, hot, and rainy seasons. A total of 1363 mosquitoes, representing 30 species from five genera, were collected. In particular, 25 of these species, accounting for 83.33% of the total, were identified as vectors of human pathogens. The most dominant species across all seasons was Culex tritaeniorhynchus Giles 1901, representing 39.47% (n=538) of the total, followed by Anopheles barbirostris Wulp 1884 s.l. (14.38%, n = 196) and Culex vishnui Theobald 1901 (9.02%, n=123). The Shannon diversity index was highest during the rainy season (H’= 2.144) and lowest in the hot season (H’=1.788). This is consistent with the results of the UPGMA tree based on beta diversity, indicating that mosquito diversity in the rainy season differs significantly from that in the cool and hot seasons. The findings enhance our understanding of the impact of seasonality on mosquito vectors in this region, which is crucial for developing effective disease control strategies. Additionally, this study serves as a valuable reference for understanding the diversity of mosquito vectors in other areas.
Mangrove density and delta formation in Segara Anakan Lagoon as an impact of the riverine sedimentation rate
Authors: CAHYO TRI NUR , HARTOKO AGUS , MUSKANANFOLA MAX RUDOLF , HAERUDDIN HAERUDDIN , HILMI ENDANG
Published: May 2024

Abstract. Cahyo TN, Hartoko A, Muskananfola MR, Haeruddin, Hilmi E. 2024. Mangrove density and delta formation in Segara Anakan Lagoon as an impact of the riverine sedimentation rate. Biodiversitas 25: 1276-1285. Segara Anakan Lagoon (SAL) is in Southwestern of Central Java Province, Indonesia. The Western Part of SAL (WP-SAL) gets its sediment load from the Citanduy River. This research aimed to determine the temporal pattern of the shoreline, water body area, depth, delta formation, and mangrove density at WP-SAL. Shoreline data were extracted from a base map and the satellite imagery. Overlapping analysis of several shorelines and depth maps showed different results in terms of values or patterns. The western part of SAL had silted up and reached more than 85% in 161 years. The sediment accretion impacted the shoreline (between 177 ha yr-1 in 1999-2003), and the average decrease of the water bodies speed was 61 ha yr-1. The Pelawangan Barat waters (PBW) and the main lagoon had a decreasing depth because of the sediment deposits. The sedimentation also greatly impacts mangrove species distribution, clustering and association, and density and mangrove affinity. Mangrove density growth-based and the delta formation were formed and developed following the tidal pattern during floods and ebbs. It can be used to predict the future morphology of WP-SAL. The WP-SAL will be sediment filled and left the waterways channels, it was reached within 13.6 years from 2018, which would be in 2032.
Phenotypic performance of Srikayang's shallot variety M1 by colchicine induction
Authors: RAHMAWATI ANNISA ADELIA NUR , NANDARIYAH NANDARIYAH , PARJANTO PARJANTO
Published: May 2024

Abstract. Rahmawati ADN, Nandariyah, Parjanto. 2024. Phenotypic performance of Srikayang's shallot variety M1 by colchicine induction. Biodiversitas 25: 1297-1303. Srikayang shallot is one of the shallot varieties from Kulonprogo Yogyakarta, and it has relatively small bulbs. Indonesian consumers prefer shallot, which has dense bulbs, is large (diameter ? 2.5 cm), has a spicy taste, and is fragrant. The efforts to increase shallot's diversity are important. This study aimed to evaluate the performance of Srikayang shallot M1 and evaluate Lethal Doses (LD50) of colchicine. This research was conducted from September to November 2023 at Balecatur Planting Garden, Yogyakarta. Srikayang shallot bulbs were used, and colchicine concentration consisted of 0%, 0.05%, 0.075%, and 0.1%, with a soaking period of 3, 6, and 12 hours. The study was conducted using a randomized block design (RBD). Data were analyzed using descriptive analysis and probit analysis. The colchicine concentration and soaking duration affected the morphological character of Srikayang plants in leaf color, bulb skin color, bulb shape, bulb neck shape, and root tip shape. This study showed that the interaction of colchicine concentration and soaking duration improved variability on plant height, number of leaves, number of saplings, bulb weight in the cluster, main bulb weight, and main bulb diameter. The LD50 of Srikayang shallots was obtained at a colchicine concentration of 0.065%.
Ethnoecology of home garden landscapes on Seliu Island, Belitung District, Indonesia
Authors: EFENDI DOKI , CHIKMAWATI TATIK , SULISTIJORINI SULISTIJORINI , DJUITA NINA RATNA
Published: May 2024

Abstract. Efendi D, Chikmawati T, Sulistijorini, Djuita NR. 2024. Ethnoecology of home garden landscapes on Seliu Island, Belitung District, Indonesia. Biodiversitas 25: 1304-1319. Seliu Island, Belitung District, Indonesia, once famous for its copra production, is now a popular tourist destination for its mangoes. People on this island use many plants from their home gardens, but more information about the diversity of plants in the landscape needs to be presented. This study explored the ethnoecology of the home garden landscape on Seliu Island to determine vegetation cover and its role. Research methods include interviews, cruising, and purposive sampling for vegetation inventory to calculate the Importance Value Index (IVI). The research results showed that 119 species belonging to 58 families were identified as growing in Seliu Island home gardens. Based on the habit type, herbaceous plants are the mostly found. Based on the aspect of utilization, medicinal plants are the most found plants. Ananas comosus (L.) Merr. had the highest IVI (14.65). People use seven parts of plants for medicinal purposes, and the leaves are the most widely used part. Home gardens on Seliu Island have social, economic, cultural, and ecological functions. Plant diversity in home gardens on Seliu Island must be preserved and improved, considering that Seliu Island is separated from the main island, Belitung Island, so plants' availability must be maintained.
Profiling of the intestinal microbiota of stunted children in Semarang, Indonesia
Authors: SUSANTI R. , ZAENAFREE INTAN , CHRISTIJANTI WULAN , MUSTIKANINGTYAS DEWI , YUNIASTUTI ARI
Published: May 2024

Abstract. Susanti R, Zaenafreee I, Christijanti W, Mustikaningtyas D, Yuniastuti A. 2024. Profiling of the intestinal microbiota of stunted children in Semarang, Indonesia. Biodiversitas 25: 1337-1343. Stunting is a top global health priority. Gut microbiota profiles correlate with growth biomarkers, including stunting. This study aims to profile the intestinal microbiota of stunted children in Semarang, Indonesia. This research is an observational analytical study with a cross-sectional design, conducted on children aged 3-3.5 years with stunting and normal nutritional status in Bandarharjo Village, North Semarang District, Semarang City, Central Java Province, Indonesia. Fecal samples were collected, kept in a cooler box, and taken to the laboratory to be analyzed for pH, worm eggs, Alpha-1-Antitrypsin (AAT) levels, and microbiota profile. Microbial DNA was extracted from stool samples. The diversity and abundance of the gut microbiota were determined using the 16S rRNA V3-V4 gene marker region. The diversity and abundance of the intestinal microbiota of stunted children are smaller than those of non-stunted children. The ratio of Firmicutes/Bacteroidetes in intestinal stunting is 96.45, while in healthy, it is 26.05. The intestinal microbes of healthy children were dominated by Lactobacillus rhamnosus (30.92%) and Bifidobacterium breve (21.49%). The intestinal microbiota of stunted children is dominated by the bacterial species Blautia obeum (23.5%) and Faecalibacterium prausnitzii (19.13%). The concentration of AAT in the feces of stunted children is higher (75.49±7.68) than that of healthy children (26.73±4.48). The pH value of the feces of stunted children was higher (6.84±0.31) than that of healthy children (6.29±0.43). In conclusion, the composition of the microbiota indicates a condition of dysbiosis in intestinally stunted children. The intestines of stunted children may experience inflammation based on data on higher pH values, higher AAT levels, and deficiencies in bacterial species that benefit the host.
‘In a very few years, we stepped several miles’: how eliminating gender-based violence became (and remained) public policy in Norway
Authors: Beavis Kara
Published: May 2024

Since the 1970s, important struggles were won to improve the ‘publicness’ of gender-based violence (GBV) in Norway. Since 2000, the Ministry of Justice has coordinated policy work to combat GBV for the Norwegian government. In 2010, a Shelter Act made the provision of domestic violence shelters by local governments mandatory. This article turns to the question of how a public responsibility for GBV was established, and how dedicated public policy, legislation, funding, and services were subsequently realised. This article identifies the crucial actors, factors, and conditions that have had the greatest influence on agenda-setting, policy development and decision making in the policy cycle. Analysis is based on 22 interviews, policy analysis and previous Norwegian studies that have theorised about the success, how it came about, and the decisive factors in achieving change. Participants of this study were academics, activists, specialist service providers, politicians, lawyers, survivor-advocates, and political advisors. In exploring campaigning for change with participants, the study uncovered fault lines within gender equality and violence scholarship and public policy in Norway that may help explain why GBV is still commonplace. The article offers future directions for policy and research that reflect on these discursive exclusions and normative assumptions.
Learners’ everyday experiences of violence in English medium secondary education in Uganda
Authors: Milligan Lizzi O. , Isingoma Bebwa , Aciro Tina , Mirembe Dorica Deborah , Krause Nadia , Nuwategeka Expedito
Published: May 2024

This paper explores how Ugandan secondary school learners experience schooling in English-medium schools where the use of English only is strictly enforced. We conceptualise the ways that the learners sit at the intersection of direct, systemic and cultural violence that in turn impacts their educational experiences. We particularly focus on instances of direct violence through corporal punishment, and the ways that such violence, and associated fear, are part of many learners’ everyday schooling experiences. We demonstrate this through presentation of findings from thematic analysis of individual and focus group interviews with 64 learners at two public and two private secondary schools in the Amuru and Kitgum districts of Northern Uganda. Our conclusions advocate for greater attention to be paid to the ways that changes to enforced English-only policies could support more positive well-being and educational outcomes.
The Abyss Behind the Mask: Ekphrastic Disembodiment and the "Bronzino" of Henry James's The Wings of the Dove (1902)
Authors: Daniels Harry
Published: May 2024

Abstract: Explicating overlooked art-historical allusions to Vasari and other commentators, this article recontextualises Henry James's ekphrasis of Bronzino's Portrait of Lucrezia Panciatichi (c. 1540) in The Wings of the Dove (1902). James's ekphrastic prose imitates the painterly abstraction of the body characteristic of Bronzino's portraiture, in which faces become masklike, to dwell on dysphoric experiences of dis-embodiment. In placing his incurable heroine Milly Theale in front of the Bronzino in the novel, James intimates how the characteristic deformations of mannerist portraiture can help us accept the vagaries of both interpersonal and embodied existence—our vulnerability to disease, betrayal, and death.
Henry James and Beethoven: The Critique of Bildung and Pure Sound in The Portrait of a Lady
Authors: Yun Misun
Published: May 2024

Abstract: This article explores the influence of Beethoven on The Portrait of a Lady and how the novel critiques contemporary beliefs about pure music, asserted by critics such as George Grove, editor of Macmillan's Magazine where the novel was serialized. By considering the serial structure of the novel, the article argues that The Portrait , much like Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata," questions its own formal ideals and unsettles its Bildungsroman structure that parallels the sonata's tripartite formation. The Portrait problematizes the self's ultimate union with the world, undermining the idea of transcendence that the Beethovenian sonata and Bildungsroman were believed to inspire.
"Heaven save the market!": Henry James in the Fin de Siècle Literary Field
Authors: Edwards Mitchell
Published: May 2024

Abstract: This article situates James's late nineteenth-century career within the context of the British literary field. Taking The Princess Casamassima (1886) as an example, I recast the novel's socialist drama as an exploration of tensions between aesthetic autonomy and external commitment, especially the pressures of a commercial literary marketplace. While James vies for simultaneous critical and commercial success in mid-career novels like Princess , after its commercial failure he turns to a new "experiment": seeking these polarized incentives in separately designated experimental and marketable works.
Birds after Geertz: The Rise and Fall of Songbirds in Indonesia
Authors: Bubandt Nils
Published: May 2024

Abstract: In the fifty years since Geertz described the “popular obsession” with fighting cocks in Bali, a new obsession with birds has grown to eclipse it: the keeping and training of endemic species of songbirds to enter them into song competitions. Songbird competitions are at the vortex of a “songbird craze” that has spread from Java to much of Indonesia. Propelled by the intense love that Indonesian men harbor for birds with beautiful song, and a mix of multispecies affects and imaginaries stretching across avian natural history, bird aesthetics, multispecies sociality, money politics, divination, and the law, the huge demand for songbirds now threatens dozens of endemic songbird species with extinction. I describe the political-ecological history of this multi-species but also “non-innocent” care that is driving what has been called “the Asian songbird crisis.” I show how Geertz is useful to understand this multispecies love, which environmental concerns about extinction mostly fail to appreciate. At the same time, I also highlight that a Geertzian approach “cages” birds in universes of symbolic meaning that fails to appreciate the ecological, biological, and political lives of birds. In a spirit of anti-anti-Geertzianism that seeks to strike a balance between defending and disavowing Geertz’s insights into why Indonesians care so intensely about birds, the paper describes the cosmo-ecology, cosmo-sociality, cosmo-aesthetics, cosmo-politics, cosmo-legality, and cosmo-economics of songbirds in contemporary Indonesia. Along the way, it also traces what has happened to birds, to Indonesia, and to anthropology since Geertz.
"J'aurai un salon magnifique […] et moi seul j'y entrerai": Hospitality as Potency in Stendhal's Armance
Authors: Lepper Ellamae
Published: May 2024

Abstract: This article highlights feminist thought on hospitality in order to stress the implicit cultural connection between the salon and the hostess in Armance . Furthermore, it argues that theories of hospitality can reopen the debate about impotence in the novel by raising questions of self-mastery and the power to act. Drawing on Derrida's contention that hospitality is a necessary condition for recognisable selfhood, the article suggests that Octave's dilemma of impotence is encapsulated by his fantasy, early in the novel, of owning a salon which no-one else would enter. Considering the potential unruliness of both phallus and hostess, it asks to what extent Armance shows us Stendhal reflecting on the illusory nature of masculine self-sufficiency. By suggesting that potency in the novel can be understood in terms of mastery over detail, moreover, the article connects Octave's preoccupation with his private salon to Stendhal's own concerns with achieving a succinct literary style.
"Le point d'interrogation de Clotilde": Doubt, Experience, and Experiment in Le Docteur Pascal
Authors: Acquisto Joseph
Published: May 2024

Abstract: I argue that Clotilde can be seen as the main character of Le Docteur Pascal on account her conceiving experience and experiment in ways that challenge dogmatic approaches to scientific method; her approach reflects the experience of reading and interpreting the novel. What Zola identifies as the "point d'interrogation de Clotilde" leads readers to understand the novel as a roman à hypothèse that impels them to enter a process of interpretation of experience that is both modeled and questioned by Clotilde. By maintaining a place for mystery even while her mind is "nourri de science," she calls attention to the fact that Pascal seems to misalign science with its content, or "facts," rather than its method, of which Clotilde emerges as the embodiment, as she tests initial hypotheses against her lived experience in order to accept, reject, or modify them.
Saving Walker Lake: A Pleistocene Terminal Lake in the Anthropocene
Authors: Garone Philip
Published: May 2024

Abstract: Just to the east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range a series of Pleistocene terminal lakes are present in the Great Basin of the intermountain West between the Rockies and the Sierra. Among them is Walker Lake, fed by the branches of the Walker River that flow eastward from their snow-melt sources in the Sierra. The terminal lakes have no natural outlets. Water is lost from the lakes' surfaces by evaporation during the hot summer months in the high desert. Since the arrival of Euro-Americans in the nineteenth century, the diversion of water for agricultural, industrial, and domestic uses from the Walker River has reduced the level of the lake to a point where it no longer supports a once-thriving fishery of native cutthroat trout. In the past, western Nevada Paiute peoples relied on the lake's fish as a food source. In the twentieth century the inland anadromous trout drew sports fishing enthusiasts. Climate change has caused additional strains on the water supply for the lake to the point where many have declared Walker Lake a dead lake with only shrinking shorelines and increased salinization in its future. In response, Nevada's U.S. senator Harry Reid, members of the Walker River Indian Reservation, sport fishing organizations, as well as environmental organizations pushed for legislation from Congress to promote efforts to save the lake in the 1990s. These efforts have produced some promising results.
Bilinguismo, língua inglesa e mercantilização de línguas: investigando ideologias linguísticas de escolas com programas bilíngues no contexto brasileiro
Authors: Valadares Marcus Guilherme , Fernandes de Miranda Débora
Published: May 2024

Inserido no campo de estudos das ideologias linguísticas do bilinguismo, este trabalho busca analisar as concepções de bilinguismo de sete instituições de ensino de uma cidade do sudeste do Brasil, assim como os discursos ideológicos que subjazem a escolha pedagógica pelo ensino bilíngue feita por essas escolas. O estudo foi desenvolvido a partir de uma busca exploratória por temáticas recorrentes nos textos e nas imagens encontradas na página Web dos programas bilíngues dessas instituições. Os materiais foram, então, interpretados tendo como abordagem a análise crítica do discurso. Os resultados revelam três pontos em comum a essas escolas: primeiramente, seus programas bilíngues refletem uma concepção fractal de bilinguismo, tratando o conhecimento das duas línguas de forma isolada e tendo padrões monolíngues como referência; em segundo lugar, o material analisado apresenta o bilinguismo como sinônimo de uma habilidade do século XXI, essencial para a inserção no mercado de trabalho e no mercado de bens simbólicos; finalmente, a ideia sobre o que é ser bilíngue está relacionada meramente ao domínio da língua inglesa, refletindo discursos ideológicos alinhados com a globalização e com a geração de lucros materiais ou simbólicos no contexto linguístico em que o idioma está inserido.
Inalienable possession (and lack thereof) in Spanish
Authors: Suárez-Palma Imanol
Published: May 2024

This paper revisits the phenomenon of inalienable possession between a dative argument and a body-part noun in Spanish. Specifically, it looks at contexts where the inalienable possession interpretation is obligatory, as in constructions containing monoeventive verbs of perception, and those where the inalienable reading becomes optional, namely with bi-eventive predicates denoting a change of state. I offer a possessor raising and applicative hybrid analysis, whereby the inalienable possessor originates inside the body-part DP and raises to the specifier of an applicative head to license dative case; the position ApplP occupies in the derivation determines the dative’s interpretation as a mere possessor (low applicative), or as an affected possessor as well (middle applicative). Alternatively, cases where the dative is not understood as the inalienable possessor but simply as affected occur when this argument is an additional one originating in the specifier of the middle applicative head, and the possessor of the body-part noun is encoded internally via a clitic or strong possessive, or by means of a genitive PP inside the DP. Thus, I propose the existence of two types of affected applicative heads: (i) one whose specifier is available for the possessor inside the possessum DP to move into to be case licensed, and (ii) another introducing an additional argument in its specifier. Additionally, this analysis accounts for the complementary distribution between dative possessors and possessive determiners in Spanish.
Xenophobia within the Immigrants in the Netflix’s Squid Game Series
Authors: Elsa Rizky Femilya , Husein Rahmad , Lubis Fauziah Khairani
Published: May 2024

The study aims to find out about the types of xenophobia, and its realization as well as the justification of that matter which appears in some scenes by the characters of Netflix’s the Squid Game series. The analysis used descriptive qualitative as a method to meet the objectives of the study. The source of the data in this study is taken from episodes 1 to 6 of the Squid Game series aired on Netflix. Xenophobia which mostly happened to the immigrants found in the series due to the existence of the two immigrant characters. To analyze the data, the theory of types of xenophobia which proposed by Harris (2002). The isolation hypothesis is the most dominant type found in the study due to feeling isolated in most of the scenes just because they are immigrants and they feel like they have no right to mingle with the natives.
Rhetoric as Media’s Persuasive Strategy Toward Readers in the Headline on Market Issues
Authors: Mulya Rina , Sumarsih Sumarsih , Dirgeyasa I Wayan
Published: May 2024

Headline is intended to highlight the main point or category of the news article. They commonly attract readers using strong and emotive words and attention-grabbing vocabulary. This situation made journalists often manipulate the headline news to ensure its appeal and allure to the reader using some linguistic device. This research discussed the rhetoric on market issues in headline news of CNBC Indonesia and to examine the types of rhetoric used on market issues. Descriptive qualitative research is applied in this research. The data sources were headline news on market issues and taken from the website of CNBC Indonesia. There were 300 selected headlines in total around November 2022 – February 2023. In addition, documentation was employed in collecting the data. The data were analyzed by using Van Dijk’s Critical Discourse Analysis framework (2015). The findings showed that there are 25 types of rhetoric. It was identified that rhetoric was not limited to alliteration, rhyme, parallelism, hyperbole, understatement, metaphor, and metonymy (Van Dijk, 1991). Other rhetorical devices like personification and onomatopoeia were discovered in the headline. It was also found a headline incorporating two or more rhetoric, for instance, the combination of hyperbole and rhyme, which called as compound rhetoric.
Investigating the Role of Volitional and Motivational Factors for Postgraduate Students’ Self-Regulated Learning in Academic Reading
Authors: Dewi Annisa Satriani , Kuswandono Paulus
Published: May 2024

Academic readings are meaningful and useful sources for academic writing. Both of them are inextricably intertwined. Postgraduate students need to read a lot of academic reading in order to get new insight and knowledge that will be useful for writing academic journals. In order to be successful in reading academic materials, postgraduate students need to apply metacognitive strategies. One of them is being self-regulated learners. There are many factors that promote good self-regulation. Two of them are motivation and volition. Using a mixed-methods explanatory framework, this research aimed to investigate how postgraduates self-regulate themselves in academic readings and to what extent motivational and volitional factors contribute to postgraduate students’ self-regulation in academic reading. The data was gathered through questionnaires completed by 31 postgraduate students and interviews with four chosen students. The findings found that most postgraduate students have motivational and volitional factors that influence their reading habits. It was shown that postgraduate students attributed self-regulated learning to their academic reading. Additionally, it was revealed that self-regulated learning showed a positive, significant, and moderate correlation with motivation (r=.355) as well as a positive, significant, and moderate correlation with volition (r=.456). The study found that academic reading requires postgraduate students to have strong self-regulated learning, motivation, and volitional strategies. Even though the results of the measurement were relatively positive, help from others was still needed, such as from the universities and master’s program lecturers, especially when it came to encouraging students to establish self-regulated learning habits. This study may be useful to the university and master’s program lecturers.
The Kind of Hedonism Life Styles Found in John Hughes’s The Home Alone Movie (1990)
Authors: Pribadi Tinto Sakti , Prastiwi Yeny
Published: May 2024

This research was conducted to analyze the types of hedonism that exist in the 1990 Home Alone film. Home Alone itself is not even a film that focuses on luxury, this film focuses on a situation where a child lives alone at home and is terrorized by a group of robbers who want the priceless stuffs in the house. Several scene on this movie feature scenes related to lifestyle. One of them is the hedon lifestyle. It also includes experiences that are intrinsically valuable, such as reading a good book. Hedonic lifestyles can be divided into 2 (two), as follows: (a) Egoistic Hedonism and (b) Universal Hedonism. The method of this study is descriptive and qualitative. The object of this study is to analyze kind of the hedonism life style aspect in this movie. The author collects data primary data by watching scenes in the filmHome Alone to know and understand what the meaning of scenes shown in the film. In analyzing data, author use the literature study method which requires author to find and analyze research or journals from various sources. The results of the data there are has found kind of the Hedonism like eating style, house style, fashion style, pet option, and vacation style. All of them has divided into 2 kind of hedonism type egoistic and universal hedonism. By studying the case of hedonism in the film Home Alone 1990, it is hoped that readers will be able to choose wisely in seeking satisfaction/pleasure in life. So as to avoid the bad impacts of hedonism.
Shaping The Way to Teach? Exploring the Adoption of Digital Multimodal Texts As Instructional Tools in EFL Teaching Practicum
Authors: Widyaningrum Lulut , Fadhilah Ma'rifatul , Sholihah Nurus , Rochmawati Pryla
Published: May 2024

This research scrutinizes a case study conducted with 15 pre-service English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers in a microteaching class at the English Education Department at UIN Walisongo Semarang. The purpose of the study was to examine the forms, implementation, and reflection of digital multimodal instructional media utilized by pre-service teachers. Observations of classrooms and document analysis were employed to acquire data. Pre-service EFL teachers employ digital multimodal instructional media, including PowerPoint presentations, films, and songs, to enhance English language learning. These tools integrate text, images, video, and audio elements to teach language structures, vocabulary, and emotions effectively. Student portfolios showcase diverse educational strategies across different grade levels, using videos, songs, and PowerPoint presentations to engage students and reinforce language skills. Educator reflections underline the significance of digital multimodal media in simplifying complex topics, improving comprehension, and fostering a holistic learning experience. They also stress the importance of adequate equipment and resources for successful multimedia implementation, affirming the value of multimodal approaches in providing impactful and engaging English language education. The study highlights the potential for these digital tools to provide an engaging and interactive learning environment for EFL students. It is recommended that more research investigate ways for optimizing the use of digital multimodal media in diverse EFL teaching scenarios.
Compliments in Turn Taking: Analysis During Foreign L2 Speakers Class Session
Authors: Wiratmoko Gandung Aulia , Haryanti Dwi , Laila Malikatul , Wijayanto Agus
Published: May 2024

This study aimed on elaborating the rules of turn taking and the primary intentions of turn taking containing compliments done by the Foreign L2 Speakers and the students at De Access Hotel and Culinary Training Centre. The writer applied descriptive research design which applied the participant observation method with passive observer. The data of the research is the conversations spoken by the foreign L2 speakers and the EFL learners in the teaching learning process and the data source was the teaching learning process done by the foreign L2 speakers in teaching the EFL Learners in De Access Hotel and Culinary Training Centre. In collecting the data, the writer as a passive observer attended the class and without disturbing the teaching learning process, the writer observed while recorded the classroom activity then the writer transcribed the conversation between the foreign L2 speakers and the EFL learners. The result of the study showed that the rules of turn taking are; (1) turn-taking 1A {S (who is talking) chooses NP (next Speaker) in the speech}; (2) Turn-taking 1B {NP (next Speaker) is not chosen by S (speaker)}; and Turn-taking 1C {S can stop or continue speaking} and the rule 1B is dominant and often used in turn-taking in classroom session. And also there are four primary intentions of speech in classroom that are; to express an opinion, to elicit a reaction, to encourage specific behavior and to express satisfaction.
Harsh Words in Mobile Legends Online Game: Influences in Real Life
Authors: Nurdiansyah Yogananda , Darma Virga Putra
Published: May 2024

Mobile legends is an online game that is very popular among all circles, be it children, teenagers, or adults. The game is a five-on-five multiplayer game with each person using one person. In the game there is a message feature provided by the application itself with the aim of communication between players both inside and outside the game. However, the message feature is abused by many players by throwing harsh words at other players. They say these words because they feel upset and angry about the results and the performance of others. This study aims to find out whether the harsh words can affect the players in the game and in their real lives. This research uses a mixed research method, which uses a quantitative approach and a qualitative approach. Starting with a quantitative approach where researchers give questionnaire questions to respondents. Furthermore, the qualitative approach is by analyzing and identifying the answers given by respondents and identifying the situation of respondents directly. From this study, it was found how often they heard and used harsh words in the game. As well as how often they hear and use these harsh words in real life. These harsh words are enough to affect them, but they still maintain their speech in real life and in the game.
Illocutionary Acts in Retno Marsudi’ Speech at the General Debate of the 78th Session of the United Nations General Assembly
Authors: Putri Rossa Dwi Nova , Prastikawati Entika Fani , Hawa Faiza
Published: May 2024

This study focuses on analyzing the illocutionary acts present in Retno Marsudi’s speech during the general debate of the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly. This study aims to describe the types of illocutionary acts employed, discerning the most and least frequent types as well as their implications. The data were analyzed by the descriptive qualitative method, and collected by finding out the video, watching the video, transcribing the speech video, and then identifying the data that were related to the theory. The writers used Searle’s theory for the types of illocutionary acts, which categorizes illocutionary acts into five types: representative, directive, commissive, expressive, and declarative. The findings from the study revealed that there are a total of 87 data points found in the speech, with directive acts being the most dominant with a total of 37 (42,5%), followed by representative at 27 (31%), commissive at 13 (15%), declarative at 6 (6,9%), and expressive being the least dominant at 4 (4,6%). The findings indicate that directive acts are primarily used to convey urgent messages and prompt action, while expressive acts are the least dominant, reflecting Retno Marsudi’s emphasis on advocating for action rather than expressing personal emotions or attitudes.
Improving Student’s Descriptive Writing Skill through Silent Card Shuffle Strategy
Authors: Sari Rosi Kumala , Putri Dwi Megista Putri , Dania Rahma
Published: May 2024

This study aims to improve students’ descriptive writing skill by applying Silent Card Shuffle Strategy. The method used this research is action research. The subject was students on semester 3 from Management Class of UPI YPTK Padang. They are chosen because they are learning the English business subject on this semester and have learned simple present tense in previous semester. Writing English Skill is important for Management students for productive skill. One of them is creating the English brochure. English brochure can be as basic media for creating business for management students. Unfortunately, most of them have not master in writing English. So lecturer has chosen Silent Card Shuffle Strategy to improve the student’s English descriptive writing skill. The instruments were used to collect the data were observation, questionnaire, Students’ writing test. Then the qualitative data were grouped based on the indicators. In addition, quantitative data has analyzed by Anggoro Formula. Then the researcher interpreted the data to get the result of this research. The research shows that Silent Card Shuffle Strategy is quite good. It can improve the students ‘English descriptive writing skill. This is evidenced by the score of students’ writing test. It increases from the pretest, cycle I and cycle II. The increasing can be seen from of students ‘mean score on pretest, cycle I and II. The students mean ‘score are 50, 5 on pretest, 67, 7 on cycle I and 83, 8 on cycle 2. Thus, the application of Silent Card Shuffle Strategy can increase the students’ descriptive writing skill.
Nonlinear Time History Analysis of	a Single-Degree-of-Freedom Steel Structure Incorporating ADAS Damper Modeling Using ETABS
Authors: Soni Aashishkumar H
Published: May 2024

The incorporation of passive energy dissipation devices has emerged as a promising technique for mitigating structural response to dynamic loads such as wind and earthquakes. These devices are strategically mounted within buildings, allowing for the dissipation of a substantial portion of the input energy, thereby reducing the demand on the primary structural components. This paper presents a comprehensive approach to modeling and analyzing the behavior of a single-degree-of- freedom (SDOF) steel structure equipped with an Added Damping and Stiffness (ADAS) damper element. A mathematical formulation is developed to derive the combined stiffness of the structural system, considering the contributions of both the frame and the ADAS damper. Furthermore, a nonlinear time history analysis is performed on the SDOF steel frame utilizing the renowned El Centro ground motion record. The study aims to evaluate the efficacy of the ADAS damper in enhancing the seismic performance of the structure by dissipating a significant amount of the imparted energy. The proposed modeling technique and numerical simulations provide valuable insights into the design and implementation of passive energy dissipation systems for seismic risk mitigation in steel structures.
Analysis of morphometric and fractal properties of phase-contrast images of native and apoptotically changed MCF-7 cells
Authors:   Institute of Continuous Media Mechanics of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Bayandin Yuriy , Nikitiuk Aleksandr ,   Institute of Continuous Media Mechanics of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Voronina Anna , Beloglazova Yulia , Gagarskikh Olga , Grishko Victoria ,   Institute of Technical Chemistry of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Naimark Oleg ,   Institute of Continuous Media Mechanics of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Published: May 2024

This work was aimed at the determination of the morphometric and fractal characteristics of native and apoptotic MCF-7 cells on the basis of the analysis of phase contrast images obtained using laser interference microscopy. MCF-7 cells were cultured under standard conditions. The cell phase images were obtained using a laser interference microscope (model MIM-340) at Perm Federal Research Center of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In the work, 30 native MCF-7 cells and 30 MCF-7 cells apoptotically changed under the action of doxorubicin were studied. The phase images obtained were treated to highlight the cell contour so as to subsequently determine the morphometric parameters and fractal dimension of the cell phase image contour. The maximal and minimal diameters, perimeter and volume of the cell phase images were chosen as geometric characteristics of the images. The fractal dimension of the phase image contour was calculated as a scale-invariant parameter indicating the indented character of the cell contour. The comparative analysis of the morphology of native and apoptotic MCF-7 cells enabled differentiating the cells under study using the two-sample non-parametric Wilcoxon–Mann–Whitney test.
Indentation of a cylinder with different shape of the base into viscoelastic half-space
Authors:   Ishlinsky Institute for Problems in Mechanics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Yakovenko Anastasia ,   Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (National Research University)
Published: May 2024

During developing medical equipment and processing results of experiments on the study of biomaterials, it is necessary to describe the process of interaction of the working tool with soft tissues. With this, it is important to take into account not only the mechanical properties of the tissue under study, but also the technical characteristics of the equipment, such as the shape of the tool surface and the speed of the interaction process. For this purpose, a contact model describing the indentation of an axisymmetric rigid cylinder with different foundation surface shape into viscoelastic half-space at a constant speed was constructed. The theory of linear viscoelasticity was used to describe the mechanical behavior of the half-space. A three-parameter model of a standard viscoelastic body was chosen as a viscoelastic model that defines the type of relaxation function of the half-space material. The distribution of contact pressure under the cylinder surface and the dependence of the applied load on the depth of indentation for various forms of the contact surface of the cylinder were obtained. The influence of the shape of the cylinder base surface, the indentation speed and the relaxation properties of the half space on the characteristics of the contact interaction was studied. For describing the mechanical behavior of biological tissues, a one-dimensional model of a standard viscoelastic body was also considered. For this simplified model, the distribution of the contact pressure under the surface of cylinder with different shape of the base and the dependence of the applied load on time were also obtained. The results obtained using the continuous model and the one-dimensional model were compared. It was shown when it is more appropriate to use the simplified models to describe the interaction of an instrument with biological tissue.