bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Prophylactic effect of lactobacilli and bifidobacteria probiotic strains on experimental bacterial vaginitis
Authors: Babenko L. P. , Lazarenko L. M. , Bubnov R. V. , Spivak M. J.
Published: August 2019

The objective of the study was determining the prophylactic effect of Lactobacillus casei IMV B-7280, L. acidophilus IMV B-7279, L. delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus IMV B-7281, Bifidobacterium animalis VKL and B. animalis VKB probiotic strains on experimental vaginitis in BALB/c mice induced by Staphylococcus aureus 8325-4. The infection with S. aureus 8325-4 caused an imbalance of microbiota in the vagina and intestine, as evidenced by an increase in the number of opportunistic microorganisms and a decrease in the amount of lactobacilli and bifidobacteria. L. casei IMV B-7280, B. animalis VKL and B. animalis VKB probiotic strains altered the microbiota spectrum of the vagina and intestine of Staphylococcus-infected mice: the amount of Lactobacillus and bifidobacteria increased with the reduction of the number of opportunistic microorganisms. Also under the influence of these strains, the normalization of the microbiota spectrum typical for vagina and intestine was observed in different periods of observation – in the intestines of mice the number of coliform bacteria increased, the number of microscopic fungi, streptococci and staphylococci decreased; in the vagina, the number of coliform bacteria and microscopic fungi decreased, the number of streptococci normalized. Rapid elimination of S. aureus 8325-4 from the vagina and prevention of the spread of infection to the intestine were observed after use of probiotics. Preventive effect of L. acidophilus IMV B-7279 and L. delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus IMV B-7281 for bacterial vaginitis in mice was less effective. So, the target probiotic strains L. casei IMV B-7280, B. animalis VKL and B. animalis VKB are promising for the creation of highly effective novel probiotic drugs that can be used for directed prevention of infectious and inflammatory diseases of the genitourinary system caused by pathogenic and opportunistic microorganisms.
Influence of essential oils of plants on the migration activity of Tribolium confusum (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae)
Authors: Martynov V. O. , Titov O. G. , Kolombar T. M. , Brygadyrenko V. V.
Published: August 2019

Pest control should be ecologically-based, therefore use of ecologically safe approaches is the best variant. Essential oils of plants can affect the main metabolic, biochemical, physiological and behavioural functions of insects. In the experiment, we evaluated the influence of 20 essential oils on migration activity of imagoes of Tribolium confusum Jacquelin du Val, 1863 in the conditions of a laboratory experiment. Notable repellent activity against T. confusum was exhibited by essential oils of Jasminum officinale and Thuja occidentalis. Essential oils of Zingiber officinale and Cedrus atlantica had an attractant effect on imagoes of T. confusum. Essential oils of Rosmarinus officinalis, Melaleuca alternifolia, Lavandula angustifolia and Cinnamomum verum exhibited repellent properties while essential oils of Juniperus communis and Citrus sinensis had an attractant effect on the pests. Therefore, out of 20 studied essential oils, only four samples had notable biological effect on migration activity of T. confusum imagoes. These data indicate the possibility of using essential oils or their main components as ecologically safe natural repellents against pests of stored wheat and products of its processing.
Estratégias patêmicas nos discursos divisivos: interfaces entre a neurociência e a semiolinguística
Authors: Antunes Junior Fernando Simões , De Freitas Ernani César
Published: August 2019

Este artigo explora alguns pressupostos da semiolinguística de Charaudeau (2009; 2010; 2011; 2016), de forma a colocá-los em interface com conhecimentos acerca das emoções (DAMÁSIO, 2000; EKMAN, 2011; MAURANA, 2009) e do dialogismo sistêmico (BATESON, 1987; WATZLAWICK et al., 2007). O objetivo é identificar e analisar as correspondências entre as visadas patêmicas do discurso e os acionamentos emocionais que constituem a pragmática da comunicação humana. Acredita-se que tais interfaces possam lançar um olhar sistêmico sobre o fenômeno dos discursos divisivos (BENESCH, 2012). O corpus de análise é constituído por uma postagem do MBL publicada no Facebook sobre o assassinato da vereadora carioca Marielle Franco. A pesquisa é descritiva, bibliográfica, com abordagem qualitativa. Como resultado, tem-se que as estratégias discursivas categorizadas por Charaudeau (2010) encontram correlatos entre as funções homeostáticas das emoções de Damásio (2000), lançando novas compreensões sobre a eficácia e o efeito viral dos discursos divisivos.
Os saberes da pedagogia no telejornalismo: Paulo Freire e a prática jornalística
Authors: Da Silva Laerte José Cerqueira , Júnior Alfredo Eurico Vizeu Pereira
Published: August 2019

Em várias obras e, em especial no livro Pedagogia da Autonomia, Paulo Freire apresenta saberes à prática educativa. Eles servem de orientações e recomendações aos profissionais da área. São eles: o rigor no método, a criticidade, a ética e a estética, a reflexão crítica sobre a prática, a apreensão da realidade, o reconhecimento de ser condicionado e o saber escutar. Como foco, uma ação ética, dialógica e emancipadora. Neste trabalho, fazemos a aproximação reflexiva do trabalho do profissional do (tele) jornalismo com esses sete saberes, construindo uma conexão que nos ajuda a entender o quão importante podem ser essas reflexões freirianas para o método de investigação jornalística, principalmente no que se refere ao protagonismo do profissional na construção da realidade. Percorremos este caminho para lembrar o inegociável compromisso social do jornalismo e para fortalecer a sua teoria, com foco na formação e conscientização do jornalista, enunciador pedagógico.
Augmented Reality and Live Streaming in the Classroom
Authors: Lateva Radka
Published: August 2019

Digital technologies not only change human life and information users’ habits and behaviour, but they also require different approaches and methods in education and learning. This article shows modern educational means, tools and technologies used in the classroom in Geography and economics teaching.
THE ROLE OF ADVERTISING IN SHAPING CHILDREN'S PREFERENCES OF CONSUMPTION
Authors: Hoffmann B.
Published: August 2019

The society of "Western civilization" is a consumer society. A special role belongs here to the media, which have become an inseparable element in the life of a modern man. Their universality, as well as rapid development have caused that they deeply penetrated various areas of social life, becoming available not only for adults but also for children from their early age. The life of contemporary children is very strongly associated with the mass media, and the media have become an extremely important link in the process of socialization. The range and influence of the media are not only growing, but they are also completely different than they used to be. In addition to many functions that the media meet, they are also an important carrier for advertising. Children and young people can be both the recipients of the advertisement and its active participants. More and more advertising messages are directly or indirectly addressed to minors. Advertising affects an important cognitive sphere of a child and its interpersonal and social relations. A child left on the impact of advertising, accepts its content uncritically. This leads to the formation of many defective and, unfortunately, lasting beliefs that affect the formation of a child’s personality, the system of beliefs and values. The following text aims to present, based on the literature of the subject, a broad spectrum of advertising impact on a child, with a particular emphasis on television advertising. My assumption is to show the problem from the perspective of social sciences, including sociology. For this reason, I am not concentrating only on the psychological dimension of the phenomenon but I am also trying to outline important aspects of socio-cultural reality in which the process of socialization of child consumption takes place.
This is a review article. The basis of the scientific workshop is the research - analysis of the secondary media with regard to reports, publications, newsletters, catalogues and information relating to the influence of media on consumer behavior of children, both in Poland and in some western societies in the world. I hope that the article will help to draw attention to the problem not only of the communities involved in psycho-social aspects of a child's development, but will also increase public awareness of the impact of media advertising on children.
Low Toxocara seroprevalence in people in rural Durango, Mexico
Authors: Alvarado-Esquivel Cosme , Alvarado-Félix Ángel Osvaldo , Alvarado-Félix Gustavo Alexis
Published: August 2019

The epidemiology of Toxocara infection in rural Mexico is largely unknown. Therefore, we sought to determine the seroprevalence of Toxocara infection in rural people in a northern Mexican state. We performed a cross-sectional seroprevalence study of 641 people living in rural Durango State including 282 subjects of the general population, 214 subjects of Huichol ethnicity, and 145 subjects of Mennonite ethnicity. Sera of participants were analyzed for the presence of anti-Toxocara immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibodies using a commercially available enzyme immunoassay. Three (0.5%) of the 641 subjects tested were positive for anti-Toxocara IgG antibodies. Of the 3 Toxocara seropositive subjects, two were females, aged 19 and 39 years, and one was male, aged 59 years. They had contacted with dogs, cleaned cat excrement, consumed unwashed raw fruits, contacted soil, or lived in a house with soil floors. Seroprevalence of Toxocara infection was similar among the 3 groups of population studied: 0.4% for the general population, 0.9% for Huicholes, and 0.0% for Mennonites (P = 0.41). In conclusion, the Toxocara seroprevalence found in subjects in rural Durango is low as compared with those reported in people from rural areas in other countries.
Memory Bounded Open-Loop Planning in Large POMDPs Using Thompson Sampling
Authors: Phan Thomy , Belzner Lenz , Kiermeier Marie , Friedrich Markus , Schmid Kyrill , Linnhoff-Popien Claudia
Published: August 2019

State-of-the-art approaches to partially observable planning like POMCP are based on stochastic tree search. While these approaches are computationally efficient, they may still construct search trees of considerable size, which could limit the performance due to restricted memory resources. In this paper, we propose Partially Observable Stacked Thompson Sampling (POSTS), a memory bounded approach to openloop planning in large POMDPs, which optimizes a fixed size stack of Thompson Sampling bandits. We empirically evaluate POSTS in four large benchmark problems and compare its performance with different tree-based approaches. We show that POSTS achieves competitive performance compared to tree-based open-loop planning and offers a performancememory tradeoff, making it suitable for partially observable planning with highly restricted computational and memory resources.
Compiling Bayesian Network Classifiers into Decision Graphs
Authors: Shih Andy , Choi Arthur , Darwiche Adnan
Published: August 2019

We propose an algorithm for compiling Bayesian network classifiers into decision graphs that mimic the input and output behavior of the classifiers. In particular, we compile Bayesian network classifiers into ordered decision graphs, which are tractable and can be exponentially smaller in size than decision trees. This tractability facilitates reasoning about the behavior of Bayesian network classifiers, including the explanation of decisions they make. Our compilation algorithm comes with guarantees on the time of compilation and the size of compiled decision graphs. We apply our compilation algorithm to classifiers from the literature and discuss some case studies in which we show how to automatically explain their decisions and verify properties of their behavior.
Depth Prediction without the Sensors: Leveraging Structure for Unsupervised Learning from Monocular Videos
Authors: Casser Vincent , Pirk Soeren , Mahjourian Reza , Angelova Anelia
Published: August 2019

Learning to predict scene depth from RGB inputs is a challenging task both for indoor and outdoor robot navigation. In this work we address unsupervised learning of scene depth and robot ego-motion where supervision is provided by monocular videos, as cameras are the cheapest, least restrictive and most ubiquitous sensor for robotics.

Previous work in unsupervised image-to-depth learning has established strong baselines in the domain. We propose a novel approach which produces higher quality results, is able to model moving objects and is shown to transfer across data domains, e.g. from outdoors to indoor scenes. The main idea is to introduce geometric structure in the learning process, by modeling the scene and the individual objects; camera ego-motion and object motions are learned from monocular videos as input. Furthermore an online refinement method is introduced to adapt learning on the fly to unknown domains.

The proposed approach outperforms all state-of-the-art approaches, including those that handle motion e.g. through learned flow. Our results are comparable in quality to the ones which used stereo as supervision and significantly improve depth prediction on scenes and datasets which contain a lot of object motion. The approach is of practical relevance, as it allows transfer across environments, by transferring models trained on data collected for robot navigation in urban scenes to indoor navigation settings. The code associated with this paper can be found at https://sites.google.com/view/struct2depth.
Mirroring without Overimitation: Learning Functionally Equivalent Manipulation Actions
Authors: Liu Hangxin , Zhang Chi , Zhu Yixin , Jiang Chenfanfu , Zhu Song-Chun
Published: August 2019

This paper presents a mirroring approach, inspired by the neuroscience discovery of the mirror neurons, to transfer demonstrated manipulation actions to robots. Designed to address the different embodiments between a human (demonstrator) and a robot, this approach extends the classic robot Learning from Demonstration (LfD) in the following aspects:i) It incorporates fine-grained hand forces collected by a tactile glove in demonstration to learn robot’s fine manipulative actions; ii) Through model-free reinforcement learning and grammar induction, the demonstration is represented by a goal-oriented grammar consisting of goal states and the corresponding forces to reach the states, independent of robot embodiments; iii) A physics-based simulation engine is applied to emulate various robot actions and mirrors the actions that are functionally equivalent to the human’s in the sense of causing the same state changes by exerting similar forces. Through this approach, a robot reasons about which forces to exert and what goals to achieve to generate actions (i.e., mirroring), rather than strictly mimicking demonstration (i.e., overimitation). Thus the embodiment difference between a human and a robot is naturally overcome. In the experiment, we demonstrate the proposed approach by teaching a real Baxter robot with a complex manipulation task involving haptic feedback—opening medicine bottles.
Probabilistic Model Checking of Robots Deployed in Extreme Environments
Authors: Zhao Xingyu , Robu Valentin , Flynn David , Dinmohammadi Fateme , Fisher Michael , Webster Matt
Published: August 2019

Robots are increasingly used to carry out critical missions in extreme environments that are hazardous for humans. This requires a high degree of operational autonomy under uncertain conditions, and poses new challenges for assuring the robot’s safety and reliability. In this paper, we develop a framework for probabilistic model checking on a layered Markov model to verify the safety and reliability requirements of such robots, both at pre-mission stage and during runtime. Two novel estimators based on conservative Bayesian inference and imprecise probability model with sets of priors are introduced to learn the unknown transition parameters from operational data. We demonstrate our approach using data from a real-world deployment of unmanned underwater vehicles in extreme environments.
Action Knowledge Transfer for Action Prediction with Partial Videos
Authors: Cai Yijun , Li Haoxin , Hu Jian-Fang , Zheng Wei-Shi
Published: August 2019

Predicting action class from partially observed videos, which is known as action prediction, is an important task in computer vision field with many applications. The challenge for action prediction mainly lies in the lack of discriminative action information for the partially observed videos. To tackle this challenge, in this work, we propose to transfer action knowledge learned from fully observed videos for improving the prediction of partially observed videos. Specifically, we develop a two-stage learning framework for action knowledge transfer. At the first stage, we learn feature embeddings and discriminative action classifier from full videos. The knowledge in the learned embeddings and classifier is then transferred to the partial videos at the second stage. Our experiments on the UCF-101 and HMDB-51 datasets show that the proposed action knowledge transfer method can significantly improve the performance of action prediction, especially for the actions with small observation ratios (e.g., 10%). We also experimentally illustrate that our method outperforms all the state-of-the-art action prediction systems.
Improving Image Captioning with Conditional Generative Adversarial Nets
Authors: Chen Chen , Mu Shuai , Xiao Wanpeng , Ye Zexiong , Wu Liesi , Ju Qi
Published: August 2019

In this paper, we propose a novel conditional-generativeadversarial-nets-based image captioning framework as an extension of traditional reinforcement-learning (RL)-based encoder-decoder architecture. To deal with the inconsistent evaluation problem among different objective language metrics, we are motivated to design some “discriminator” networks to automatically and progressively determine whether generated caption is human described or machine generated. Two kinds of discriminator architectures (CNN and RNNbased structures) are introduced since each has its own advantages. The proposed algorithm is generic so that it can enhance any existing RL-based image captioning framework and we show that the conventional RL training method is just a special case of our approach. Empirically, we show consistent improvements over all language evaluation metrics for different state-of-the-art image captioning models. In addition, the well-trained discriminators can also be viewed as objective image captioning evaluators.
Learning Resolution-Invariant Deep Representations for Person Re-Identification
Authors: Chen Yun-Chun , Li Yu-Jhe , Du Xiaofei , Frank Wang Yu-Chiang
Published: August 2019

Person re-identification (re-ID) solves the task of matching images across cameras and is among the research topics in vision community. Since query images in real-world scenarios might suffer from resolution loss, how to solve the resolution mismatch problem during person re-ID becomes a practical problem. Instead of applying separate image super-resolution models, we propose a novel network architecture of Resolution Adaptation and re-Identification Network (RAIN) to solve cross-resolution person re-ID. Advancing the strategy of adversarial learning, we aim at extracting resolution-invariant representations for re-ID, while the proposed model is learned in an end-to-end training fashion. Our experiments confirm that the use of our model can recognize low-resolution query images, even if the resolution is not seen during training. Moreover, the extension of our model for semi-supervised re-ID further confirms the scalability of our proposed method for real-world scenarios and applications.
Data Fine-Tuning
Authors: Chhabra Saheb , Majumdar Puspita , Vatsa Mayank , Singh Richa
Published: August 2019

In real-world applications, commercial off-the-shelf systems are utilized for performing automated facial analysis including face recognition, emotion recognition, and attribute prediction. However, a majority of these commercial systems act as black boxes due to the inaccessibility of the model parameters which makes it challenging to fine-tune the models for specific applications. Stimulated by the advances in adversarial perturbations, this research proposes the concept of Data Fine-tuning to improve the classification accuracy of a given model without changing the parameters of the model. This is accomplished by modeling it as data (image) perturbation problem. A small amount of “noise” is added to the input with the objective of minimizing the classification loss without affecting the (visual) appearance. Experiments performed on three publicly available datasets LFW, CelebA, and MUCT, demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed concept.
Impacts of NBTI and hot-carrier stress on silicon nanowire transistor characteristics
Authors: Das Sanghamitra , Dey Suprava , Dash Tara Prasanna , Mohapatra Eleena , Jena Jhansi Rani , Maiti Chinmay Kumar
Published: August 2019

Following the downscaling road map for planar metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistors, non-planar (three-dimensional) multiple-gate architectures are becoming essential for the ultimate scaling of complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor devices. Gate-all-around (nanowire) field-effect transistors have proven to be the most suitable below-22 nm technology nodes. Hence the reliability of these devices is of great concern. Negative-bias temperature instability (NBTI) and hot-carrier degradation (HCD) are the key device reliability issues that exhibit some different features at nanoscale. In this work, the NBTI reliability issues of p-channel gate-all-around silicon nanowire transistors (SNWTs) under direct-current and alternating-current stress were investigated. When stressed, the NBTI behavior in SNWTs showed fast initial degradation, quick degradation saturation and then a special recovery behavior. Along with that, the effects of hot-carrier stress on n-channel SNWTs were studied. Due to the surrounded gate structure, it was observed that the effects of HCD were significant in the nanowire transistors.
Transfection of Micromonas commoda CCMP2709 v1
Authors: Sudek Lisa , Worden Alexandra , Ares Manny
Published: August 2019

This protocol describes the transformation of the picoprasinophyte alga Micromonas commoda, a green alga that is found in tropical to temperate oceans. The strain used was genome-sequenced in (1). The original strain name was NOUM17, housed as RCC299. The latter was rendered axenic, genome-sequenced, and deposited at the CCMP (now NCMA) as CCMP2709 and also maintained in the Worden lab. The below protocol is an adaptation of transformation methods used for the choanoflagellate Salpingoeca rosetta. We are grateful to N. King and D. Booth for their invaluable support in initial stages of experiments, as well as help from C. Poirier, M. Hamilton, K. Hoadley, C. Eckmann and especially C. Yung throughout the entire development.
Barriers to Achieving “Economic Self-Sufficiency”: The Structural Vulnerability Experienced by Refugee Families in Denver, Colorado
Authors: Chen Xiaoling , Hulsbrink Eloiss B.
Published: August 2019

Many refugees resettled in the United States do not receive adequate resources upon their arrival, causing dissonance in the humanitarian effort that drives refugee resettlement. Our study addresses how and why refugees have difficulty adjusting to life in the United States at the structural, organizational, and individual levels. While many recent studies have addressed the obstacles affecting refugee integration, there is no investigation into how these factors interact with and compound each other. Adopting the concepts of “structural vulnerability” and the “web of effects,” we argue that the vulnerability of refugees originates from their positionality in United States society and that structural and organizational barriers compound with multiple individual factors to amplify difficulties for refugees to attain economic self-sufficiency. As a result, the structural forces that prevent successful and timely integration become more resistant to individual efforts and effective interventions, resulting in chronic poverty for refugees. We conclude with recommendations to improve the resettlement process and to validate the accomplishments of refugees, which can set the stage for genuine self-sufficiency and integration.
Técnicas para la predicción espacial de zonas susceptibles a deslizamientos
Authors: Florez García Andrés Camilo , Pérez Castillo José Nelson
Published: August 2019

The implemented techniques for the prediction of landslide-prone areas have been effective at a certain degree. However, many approaches tend to face difficulties to determine non-linear landslides triggering factors, due to the absence of Spatio-temporal dependency structures that evaluate spatial effects as autocorrelation and heterogeneity when describing complex problems. Therefore, results understanding may not be precise and lead to a less reliability condition. The main objective of this article is to provide a solid document that offers both, a general and a detailed perspective about Spatial Prediction Techniques. Finally, we propose an innovative methodology that allows us to use automatic learning and spatial statistics to improve the predictive performance of landslide-prone areas.
ACESSIBILIDADES: uma experiência de intervenção urbana com atores/performers cegos em Paris
Authors: Ferreira da Silva Carlos Alberto
Published: August 2019

O presente texto apresenta o termo acessibilidades pela perspectiva da intervenção urbana da encenação somático-performativa Cidade Cega, em Paris (2017). Dessa forma, a partir das experiências artísticas e de produção cultural, desde a proposição do projeto à encenação, o artigo relata os passos de como ocorreu a intervenção urbana com os atores/performers cegos na França, apresentando os diferentes níveis de acessibilidades, no plural, para o processo inclusivo da cena artística na rua. Portanto, a fim de compreender as etapas desta escrita, propõe-se uma narrativa descritiva, cujos detalhes desta viagem além-mar, do Brasil para França, se estruturam por meio de uma série de questões, sendo elas, a adaptação da encenação na cidade; as políticas públicas da França; as noções de acessibilidades; e, por fim, o processo inclusivo entre a própria equipe.  
PRIVAÇÃO DE LIBERDADE: possibilidades de escuta com adolescentes autores de atos infracionais no CESEIN
Authors: Silva Andressa Conceição Souza da
Published: August 2019

Este artigo, fruto de uma experiência de estágio ocorrido no Núcleo de Medidas Socioeducativas de Internação Masculina – CESEIN, em Macapá, teve como intuito o subsídio no sentido à amenização do sofrimento psíquico dos socioeducandos, em que foi possibilitada a escuta grupal, juntamente com o manejo da expressão, da fala, das vivências psíquicas e corporais, tendo como ferramenta o Psicodrama de Moreno, além de algumas dinâmicas experienciais. Tendo em vista a escassez de projetos relacionados a estratégias grupais de escuta na instituição, este artigo traz luz a novas formas de atuação nesta área, além de outras que trabalhem com a promoção da saúde mental. Com isso, através da sensibilização e reflexão dos adolescentes privados de liberdade, pode-se gerar a possibilidade de ressignificação do sofrimento.
”The Framing of Gay Candidate for Human Right Commissioner in the Religious-Based Indonesian Online Portals”
Authors: Listiorini Dina , Sarwono Billy , Hidayana M. Irwan
Published: August 2019

The representation of homosexuality in Indonesian media tends to be discriminative and negative, with stigma, prejudice, and stereotypes. It occurs not only in the mainstream but also in the cyber media such as online news-portals. The discriminating views against homosexuals have even penetrated into the political sphere. In 2012, when Dede Oetomo, an activist of LGBTIQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, and Queer) proposed as a candidate for the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) commissioner, various reactions arose from people as he was exposed by the media. The controversy of Dede Oetomo’s candidacy occurs and spread widely, especially amongst online media portals. The public resistance to Dede Oetomo is mostly due to his gay identity. This paper studies how Dede Oetomo’s candidacy as the Human Right Commissioner is portrayed in the Indonesian online portals, based on Robert Entman’s framing model. The results show the online media portals’ framing of homosexual issues is still influenced by the majority religion (Islam) and the local cultural norms. The portals also differ from one another concerning the way they depict the issue although showing similar resentment towards homosexuality.
Religious and Ritual Space in New Media World: A Study of “Internet Zazenkai” in Japan
Authors: Yiwen Duan
Published: August 2019

Zazenkai, also known as Zen meditation or Zen Mindfulness, is held in Japan for the general public, usually with time, place and procedures set by a Buddhist Zen Temple. With the emergence of the Internet and new media, several Zen Temples have started to hold Zazenkai by utilizing these media technologies including online live streaming. This new type of Zazenkai is known as Internet Zazenkai. Compared with traditional Zazenkai that are held at a certain time and place, the application of new media enables Internet Zazenkai to go beyond the spatial and temporal limits of nature, where Zen practitioners in different global locations participate together using webcam. Individuals spatially separated from each other could share the same time and space of Zazenkai on the Internet. While the new media technologies open up new opportunities for Zazenkai, they also invite examinations into religious meanings of time and space for Zen practitioners. This paper is based on the study and examination of Internet Zazenkai regularly held by Treeleaf Zendo, a Soto Zen temple in Tsukuba. Its homepage Treeleaf.org is a virtual space where live streaming of Zazenkai is provided, its recorded videos are kept, web podcast of lectures and talks are heard, and so on. By analyzing the techno-ritual phenomenon, this paper attempts to analyze the role of Zen masters and participants in the process of Internet Zazenkai and to examine the differences and similarities between traditional Zazenkai and Internet Zazenkai. This paper will shed new light on the influence of new media upon religious and ritual space in modern society.
Instagram As the “Identity Workshop” for Female Travelers
Authors: Vida Helen Diana , Udasmoro Wening , Noviani Ratna
Published: August 2019

Instagram is one of the most popular social media platforms used by societies, with one of the key groups being female travelers. Nowadays, Instagram does not only become a social space, but it is also a space of identity construction, or an “identity workshop”. Traveling is one activity which is often found on women’s Instagram accounts. It is an activity chosen by women to show their personal authority. The purpose of this paper is to understand how female travelers use Instagram as their “identity workshop”. This research analyzes the Instagram account of a female traveler, Claudia Kaunang’s (@claudiakaunang) by applying virtual ethnography methods. Alongside this, the research uses Angela McRobbies’s postfeminist theory which focuses on ‘empowerment’ and ‘choice’. The research findings confirm that a female traveler constructs herself to be what she wants through Instagram.
Patterns of Truth: Explaining Trust, Social Media and Truth in Indonesian Contemporary Politics
Authors: Ariestyani Kencana
Published: August 2019

This study analyzes the utilization of social media in political communication processes in the post-truth era. Today, the utilization of various social media has had a significant impact on the process of politics worldwide. Facebook and Twitter are the most popular social media platforms in the world, therefore, the most used in politics. Both of them directly influence the democratic process. The lack of transparency on social media platforms, however, has become a major problem. Information on social media is often misleading and ignores facts and truth. Social media users can easily disseminate unverified information to other social media users. Moreover, in the age of post-truth, people tend to disclose themselves to ideas, values, and opinions that they have already accepted, instead of the true facts. The objective of this research is to assess the usage of social media in the democratic process in the post-truth era. Therefore, the research question is: how do people use social media to seek truth and trust in politics in the age of the information overload? Using phenomenology as the method, the main focus of this study is the experience of the informants. The results of this research suggest that social media can be used as an opportunity for, as well as a challenge to democracy. Besides playing a role in the democratic process, social media can be a dangerous weapon in political discourse. That is why critical thinking is needed so that we can distinguish between true or factual information and fake news delivered through social media.
When The Office Becomes in Hand: Control Practice to the Prosumer in News Aggregator Uc News
Authors: Subagio Maruti Asmaul Husna
Published: August 2019

In the last decade, many social networking sites and platforms are increasingly being driven by a user-generated content system. Now, users can be actively involved as a consumer and producer (prosumer) simultaneously. One of the digital platforms that has become a trend in the last decade is news aggregator. This research will examine how the control practices are carried out by the manager or administrator of UC News application, one of the largest news aggregator in Indonesia, to the content writers on the platform. The methodology that is applied in this research employs virtual ethnography to obtain representation of digital culture mediated by the internet. The data were obtained from the responses to a set of open-ended questions to six informant selected according to rate of activity in the platform and the period of involvement as a content writer in UC News. In conventional work systems, the relationship between workers and superiors often restricted by the geographical constraints. However, the development of the internet has changed many things. Clients, bosses, workers, and end-user products can be located in different corners of the planet. This research found that the controls carried out by ‘the superiors’ on content writers were not lost, but rather ran more naturally and manipulatively so that workers did not feel objected to them. The new form of capitalism in the prosumer era shows a new type of hegemony that is increasingly not simple.
Privacy and Social Media: Defining Privacy in the Usage of Path
Authors: Fandia Purwaningtyas Mashita Phitaloka
Published: August 2019

The existence of social media has changed the landscape of human’s relationship. Through social media, people are able to present many versions of themselves in many platforms. In this era of polymediation of the self, the discussion regarding to privacy becomes arguable, moreover, with the presence of Path; a social media platform which presents itself as a private social media. Hence, in the sociocultural context of Indonesian society, it is important to see how the definition of privacy is constructed by the existence of Path. Therefore, this research is conducted in order to analyze and explore how privacy is perceived by the social media users nowadays, particularly the users of Path, and why they perceive it in that certain way. This research is conducted with ethnography as the main method and virtual ethnography as the supporting method. From the research, it is found that users’ way of defining privacy is embodied in two levels: online self-presentation and personal space construction. In the first level, the stages of privacy offered by Path have created the fragmented-self among users. This fragmentation has resulted in “the ambivalent self”, “self that desires recognition”, and “self that searches for freedom”. In the second level, the mediality of Path has served the users of the ability to construct their own personal space in social media space. This construction of the personal space has resulted in “space of comfort in similarity”, “space of pseudo-liberation”, and “space that demolishes the panoptic”. Henceforth, these findings lead to a conclusion that usage practices of social media has killed the authentic self and created a personal space that gives the sense of the absence of control, hierarchy, and social surveillance. Eventually, privacy for Path is defined by the process of exchange of “the self and personal information” with “social recognition, sense of equality, and reciprocal relationship”.
Representation and Negotiation of Women Syar’i Hijab Shaff Hijrah Community Through Instagram
Authors: Mahanani Prima Ayu Rizqi , Chairani Putri Risky
Published: August 2019

The emergence of hijrah community does not bring its members to abandon the old habits which are forbidden by religion necessarily. Especially for female members who continue to take selfies and self-existence on Instagram media. The aim of this study to analyze how the self-representation of women in the Hijrah community on Instagram media and the negotiations which carried out on the established discourse. This study uses an observation method on three Instagram account from informants which combined by open ended interviews. The informants who is chosen are three members of the Hijrah or Shaff community in Kediri, East Java who wears different Syar’i hijab, with chadar and without chadar. The discovery in this study are members of the Hijrah community are represented against dominant construction and creating religious identity according toheir own version. They reject the logic of appearance as a representation of faith. While the activity on Instagram recognized as unavoidableactivity even though it’s been decided to hijrah. Negotiations on religious discourse is also shown in how they make resistance identity, which is free to do activities that are commonly carried out by women without the headscarf of Syar’i.
Tarling Music Digitalization and Transformation in Network Society Era
Authors: Imawan Khaerudin , Sari Tribuana
Published: August 2019

Since its birth in the 1930s tarling music recordings have undergone many changes, depending on technological developments. Starting from recording types of vinyl, cassette tapes to Compact Disk technology. In fact, along with digital technology the production of tarling music recordings can be done indie in the form of document files. The process of digitizing tarling music production is also inseparable from the weak regulation of copyright, so that the results of massive tarling music production can spread through cyberspace. This qualitative study uses the Historical Materialism paradigm by analyzing how Tarling’s music undergoes transformation, distribution and consumption. As a result, the tactic of digitalization has contributed greatly to the changing transformation of Tarling’s music. The phenomenon of network society also forces the role of the agents behind Tarling’s music to contest by using digital production and marketing strategies through Youtube accounts that are disseminated through social media channels. Digital technology has revived tarling music, which was originally a classic-music that is almost extinct, is now able to stand side by side and even collaborate with various other popular music.
Online Mass Media As Arena of Sultanah Discourse
Authors: Gunarto Wempi
Published: August 2019

In the year 2015 King of the Kraton Yogyakarta in succession issued Sabda Raja, Dawuh Raja, and Sabdajejering Raja which caused a polemic in Yogyakarta society. Sri Sultan Hamengku Buwono X changed his name to Sri Sultan Hamengku Bawono ka 10 following the accompanying title, has appointed GKR Pembayun, his eldest daughter to be the crown princess with the title of GKR Mangkubumi which is identified as the title of the future male king. The effort of Sultan HB ka 10 wants to smooth his daughter’s step become Sultanah later determined to be the rules applicable in the internal of Kraton Yogyakarta. The group that supports and reject the Sultana discourse also appear in the internal of Kraton Yogyakarta. Both groups are equally using mass media in the network (daring or online) to gain support. Through The Theoretical of Social Practise of Pierre Bourdieu, the author shows how the daring mass media has become an arena to strengthen the sultanah discourse in Kraton Yogyakarta, and the arena has been won by the Disciplinary Supporters of the Sultanah Discourse
Adaptation of the Spatial Pattern of a Settlement to Disaster in Simeulue Regency, Aceh Province
Authors: Nubli Gadeng Ahmad , Maryani Enok , Gadeng Ramli
Published: August 2019

This study aims to find out how the spatial pattern of settlements in disaster areas adapt to earthquake and tsunami disaster in Simeulue Regency, Aceh Province. The research used a qualitative approach and descriptive method Data collection technique used literature study and field observation., Data analysis used the Delphi method. The study result showed that the influential factors that save many Simeulue people from earthquake and tsunami disaster occurred on Sunday, 26 December 2004 is the spatial pattern of settlement which is very suitable to tsunami disasters such as geographical condition in the form of the pattern of human settlements, vegetation formation, condition of topography and morphology. The geographical condition was beneficial where people can save themselves to highland when a tsunami occurs. The implication of the spatial pattern of settlement in Simeulue Regency is very friendly for tsunami disaster mitigation.
Potential of Energy Saving through Modification of Low Energy Housing Models
Authors: Nurjannah Amalia , Sindu Suryo Mahatma , Ahmad Bahtiar Tedi , Sujatmiko Wahyu , Hadi Maryoko
Published: August 2019

Globally, building sector currently consumes around of 40 percent of total energy and it is predicted to further rapidly increasing up to 80 percent by 2040. This study aims to investigate some design options to achieve thermal comfort and reduce energy consumption. In Indonesia, building sector consumes around of 37.8 percent of the total nationwide energy consumption. Computer simulations using EDGE and EnergyPlus were performed in this study to obtain embodied energy value and obtain operative temperature respectively. EDGE uses monthly quasi-steady-state calculation method based on the European CEN5 and ISO 13790 standards while EnergyPlus uses dynamic simulation model based on hour-by-hour (or higher resolution) outputs. A single storey building with 12 different parameters and design configurations including one base model were developed for this simulation. Some parameters were evaluated such as wall materials, roof materials, Window to Wall Ratio (WWR), window shading, ventilation opening, solar PV and ceiling fan. The simulation results showed that modification of U-value of wall and roof, increased WWR value, presence of window shading, additional rooster above windows with WWR of 9 percent and additional ceiling fans would optimize the embodied energy saving of building by 20.2 percent. Under these circumstances, final embodied energy saving of building was around of 63,939 MJ. This result was 10,837 MJ higher than that of the base model. Simulation results showed that the operative temperature mostly did not exceed the upper comfortable limits.
Eco-friendly Wastewater Treatment Technology in Tidal Area
Authors: Ashuri Amallia , Medawaty Ida
Published: August 2019

Access to public sanitation in the tidal area in Indonesia is limited. The people in the tidal area tend to dispose of their domestic wastewater to the water body directly without treating it first. The lack of wastewater infrastructure provision in the tidal area could cause water body pollution that degrades its carrying capacity and destructs aquatic ecosystems. Eco-friendly technology could be used to treat the wastewater in the tidal area as the solution to improve water quality. In this research, the eco-friendly wastewater treatment technology was chosen to observe the effluent quality of individual scale biofilter-phytoremediation. Performance test of wastewater treatment technology was done by measuring the effluent quality. The effluent quality of the biofilter-phytoremediation system was compared to the effluent quality standard that stated in Ministry Regulation of Environment and Forestry No. P.68/Menlhk/Setjen/Kum.1/8/2016. The study showed the following results such as the average concentration of TSS was 7,63 mg/L, pH 6,70, ammonia was 1,78 mg/L, COD was 18,16 mg/L, and BOD was 9,38 mg/L. These results indicated that in general, the effluent quality of biofilter-phytoremediation system had met the above standard.
Implementation of Re-used Shipping Containers for Green Architecture (Case Study: ITSB Creative Hub-Cikarang)
Authors: Primasetra Anjar
Published: August 2019

The largest of CO2 emissions on earth derives from construction activities. It is necessary to solve the problem to reduce the impact of CO2 emissions. One of the solution to reduce the impact of CO2 emission because of construction activity is using re-used material for building construction, such as re-used shipping container because the re-used material has low embodied energy. This paper has three purposes, and there are: explaining the application of re-used containers as building materials in the context of green architecture, explaining the application of building design using re-used containers as material, and explaining the advantages and disadvantages of used containers as building materials. Creative Hub ITSB as a case study owned by the campus of ITSB. The building construction consists of 20 units of a re-used container (20 feet size). The prefabrication construction uses for each steel material. Each component of the building assembled in the workshop, then it delivered to site by truck. The main issues that need to be solved are a matter of the delivery system, the structure, and joints, and the component assembly. Cross-ventilation system and insulating material also crucial because it can reduce building temperature.
Alternatives to Long Distance Resettlement for Urban Informal Settlements Affected By Disaster and Climate Change
Authors: Doberstein Brent
Published: August 2019

Planned or managed resettlement is increasingly being seen as a logical and legitimate disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation strategy for urban informal settlements in many developing country cities. Our understanding of the 50+ year history of “Development-induced Displacement” (i.e. resettlement for resource extraction or development project purposes) strongly suggests that resettlement, particularly long distance resettlement, often triggers significant, negative impacts for resettled communities. We now understand that long distance resettlement should be seen as an option of last resort. Under most climate change scenarios, informal settlements in coastal, or riverside locations are expected to be impacted negatively by climatic change, and thus the question of whether or not to resettle (despite the negatives associated with this) still arises. This paper will present several emerging and innovative alternatives to long distance resettlement, including the so-called “vertical resettlement”, amphibious and floating housing, “near-site” resettlement, and in-situ climate change adaptation/upgrading. These alternatives collectively allow for a local “re-imagining of informal settlements” rather than simply “resettlement”. The research methods used in this paper include a review of secondary data (n=20), and limited primary field research involving resettlement site observation and several key informant interviews (n=2).