bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Research on fast frequency response to AC grid of a Battery-Free MVDC System Incorporating a high proportion of Distributed Photovoltaic Generation Units with reserve capacity
Authors: Fan Yiwen , Chi Yongning , Liu Hongzhi , Li Yan , Jiang Bingwei , Lei Yu
Published: November 2022

With the fast development of renewable energy, system operators intend
to require renewable energy generation to have more grid support
capabilities to ensure the safe operation of AC grid. This paper studies
the grid-connected control strategy of a battery-free medium-voltage DC
(MVDC) system with distributed photovoltaic generation units (DPVGUs),
aiming to realize the rapid grid support function to AC grid frequency.
Firstly, a master-slave coordinated control (MSCC) strategy of DPVGUs is
proposed. Under this strategy, the master DPVGU with the maximum dynamic
output characteristics adopts an improved DC constant voltage control
(DCCVC) strategy to maintain the MVDC bus voltage, and the remaining
DPVGUs adopt an improved droop control strategy to quickly provide
corresponding power and can keep some reserve capacity for the MVDC
system. Secondly, when the frequency deviation of AC grid exceeds the
deadband of primary frequency control, DPVGUs with the MSCC strategy in
the MVDC system can deliver responsive power to AC grid through MMC
adopted fast frequency response control (FFRC) strategy, which can
quickly provide frequency support to AC grid and help the grid bringing
the frequency back quickly. Finally, simulations are carried out in RTDS
to verify that the proposed control strategies are effective.
A postpartum uterine dehiscence in a pregnant woman with brucellosis; A cases report
Authors: Mirzaei Monire , Yazdi Zahra , Asgarian Azadeh , Savari Marzieh
Published: November 2022

A 26-year-old woman at 30 weeks of gestation referred due to PPROM. From
second day after CS, the patients fever increased and Doppler sonography
shows low fluid and hematoma in the uterus. Wound debridement conducted
and during laparotomy the adhesions were released. The Wright-Coombs 2ME
showed infection to brucellosis.
Emulsification properties of plant and milk protein concentrate blends
Authors: Khalesi Mohammadreza , Dowling Shauna , comerford jack , sweeney ciara , FitzGerald Richard J. (Dick)
Published: November 2022

Blending is a promising strategy during the partial replacement of plant
with animal proteins. This, however, may lead to alteration in the
technofunctional properties of the resultant blends. In this study, soy,
rice and pea protein concentrates (SPC, RPC and PPC, respectively) were
blended with milk protein concentrate (MPC) at different ratios: 25:75,
50:50 and 25:75 and the technofunctional properties relevant to their
emulsification behaviour, e.g., emulsion stability, viscosity and water
and oil binding capacity, were investigated. At equivalent
concentrations, the plant protein concentrates had higher apparent
viscosities compared to MPC and the blends. RPC-MPC, at all ratios, had
a lower oil binding capacity when compared with the SPC-MPC and PPC-MPC
blends. Plant protein-MPC blends showed higher emulsion stability
compared to the individual plant protein concentrates. Blending MPC with
plant protein concentrates resulted in promising improvements in
emulsification behaviour of relevance to different composite protein
ingredient applications.
Circularly polarized quasi-rectangular patch UWB antenna for GPR applications
Authors: Chaabane Abdelhalim , Guerroui Mohammed , Aissaoui Djelloul
Published: November 2022

In this paper, a Circularly Polarized (CP) rectangular patch Ultra-Wideband (UWB) antenna is presented for Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) applications. The designed geometry is constructed of a quasi-rectangular radiator and a partial ground plane. It is printed on the low-cost FR-4 substrate that has a compact size of 25?30?1.5 mm3. The calculated Impedance Bandwidth (IBW) of the proposed CP quasi-rectangular patch antenna is spanning from 3.16 GHz to 13.7 GHz (125.03%). Moreover, the measured IBW of the fabricated prototype is spanning from 3.2 GHz to greater than 14 GHz (>125.58%) which covers the entire UWB range. Besides, the designed antenna reveals a wide Axial Ratio Band-Width (ARBW) extending from 4.23 GHz to 7.02 GHz (49.6%). Therefore, stable radiation patterns with an agreeable peak gain and high radiation efficiency are simulated over the whole working bandwidth.
Obama’s Rhetorical Signature: Cosmopolitan Civil Religion in the Presidential Inaugural Address, January 20, 2009
Authors: Frank David A.
Published: November 2022

Drawing on his two books, Dreams from my Father and The Audacity of Hope, the prophetic African American Christian mythic system, and a rhetoric of argumentative reason, Barack Obama developed literary, mythic, and rhetorical signatures during his campaign for president. His signatures recast binary oppositions and answered questions of identity with a set of dissociations, rhetorical acts intended to transform the relationship between contraries. In his inaugural address, Obama adapts these signatures to the assumption of power as president by recalling and rescuing the cosmopolitan expression of American civil religion.
Civic Rhetoric-Meeting the Communal Interplay of the Provincial and the Cosmopolitan: Barack Obama’s Notre Dame Speech, May 17, 2009
Authors: Arnett Ronald C.
Published: November 2022

President Obama’s commencement address on the University of Notre Dame campus evoked substantial controversy, providing public demonstration of rhetorical differences and demands generated by differing provincial and cosmopolitan positions. Icontend that public civic rhetoric, in an era of narrative and virtue contention, must address the creative interplay of both provincial and cosmopolitan perspectives. In this essay I examine reactions to the Obama address from news sources connected with the local Catholic diocese, as well as the South Bend and University of Notre Dame newspapers. I argue that Obamas address is an example of a public civic speech that openly engaged the interplay of provincial and cosmopolitan understandings of a controversial communal common center. Obamas Notre Dame speech framed discourse that walks within a world of tension and difference on the public stage, highlighting the communal rhetorical constitution of a speech moment shaped through the interplay of provincial and cosmopolitan commitments.
An Uneasy Peace: Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize Lecture
Authors: Terrill Robert E.
Published: November 2022

An unexpected Nobel Peace Prize placed Barack Obama in a difficult position. He was, after all, commander-in-chief of a military currently engaged in two wars, one of which many felt was unjustified. The doubled rhetoric through which Obama managed this situation forecast the strategy he deploys in his Nobel Lecture itself: he invites his audience to attend to war and peace neither as wicked nor ideal but as realistic y interdependenty and indeed comparable modes of human interaction. The result is that war and peace are held in a delicate balance through the force of a somewhat vaguely articulated moral compass.
Governing the Swamp: Health and the Environment in Eighteenth-Century Nouvelle-Orléans
Authors: Stange Marion
Published: November 2022

En s’installant, en 1718, dans la région marécageuse de la vallée inférieure du Mississippi, les colons prirent des risques énormes pour leur santé. Les conditions régnant dans les environs de La Nouvelle-Orléans, préjudiciables à la santé humaine, étaient en forte contradiction avec les avantages stratégiques et économiques que la région offrait. Les colons réussirent à s’adapter rapidement à leur nouvel environnement. En plus de s’habituer à la chaleur, à l’humidité, aux marais et aux moustiques, les habitants modifièrent les terres pour qu’elles soient plus adaptées aux besoins des colons et présentent moins de risques sanitaires. Cherchant à se protéger des épidémies et des maladies, les français combinèrent les connaissances des ingénieurs royaux sur place à des méthodes de contrôle des maladies utilisées en Europe. Ayant reçu une formation solide en France, les ingénieurs prenaient en considération les conditions topographiques particulières de la colonie pour créer des méthodes adaptées aux exigences des colons. Les plus importantes de ces mesures furent la construction de levées et le creusement de fossés pour protéger les terres des inondations qui auraient non seulement endommagé les maisons et les récoltes des habitants, mais aussi généré des miasmes. Les fonctionnaires coloniaux tâchaient de prévenir l’apparition des épidémies en promulguant des ordonnances sanitaires très similaires à celles des villes européennes du Moyen Age et de l’Ancien Régime. En outre, la santé des colons fut améliorée par l’établissement d’hôpitaux très tôt dans le développement de la colonie. Cependant, malgré l’engagement fort des fonctionnaires royaux, toutes ces mesures n’auraient pas pu réussir sans le soutien des colons et leur acceptation des mesures adoptées.
Aristotle in New France: Louis Nicolas and the Making of the Codex canadensis
Authors: Warkentin Germaine
Published: November 2022

Le Codex canadensis est un manuscrit remarquable du XVIIe siècle, composé de dessins d’autochtones, ainsi que de la flore et de la faune nord-américains. Le manuscrit fut redécouvert dans les années 1930. L’on détermina que son auteur était le jésuite Louis Nicolas seulement en 1979, et sa date précise demeure toujours incertaine. Cet article examine la provenance du manuscrit, sa présentation matérielle, son écriture, ses origines dans l’expérience jésuite en Amérique du Nord, ses sources dans les sciences naturelles antérieures à Linné et les conditions sociales de sa composition. A partir d’approches et d’informations fournies par plusieurs domaines de l’histoire politique, de l’histoire scientifique, de l’étude du mécénat et de la codicologie, il conclut que Nicolas travaillait encore sur le manuscrit en 1700, et qu’il s’agissait probablement d’un livre destiné à être présenté à Louis XIV. Le Codex canadensis n’est pas un simple portfolio de dessins. Sa présentation est une mise en scène des populations et créatures qui peuplaient la Nouvelle France, selon les concepts de hiérarchie de l’imaginaire des Européens de l’époque.
“Il sera important de me mander le détail de toutes choses” Knowledge and Transatlantic Communication from the Sulpician Mission in Canada, 1668–1680
Authors: Pearson Timothy G.
Published: November 2022

Missionnaires en Nouvelle-France, les prêtres de la Compagnie de Saint-Sulpice ont produit énormément d’informations et une importante correspondance, échangée entre le Canada et la France sous le régime français. Cet article poursuit un double but: il s’agit de montrer, d’une part, comment cette institution religieuse a collecté et disséminé des connaissances sur la colonie et, d’autre part, de démontrer comment le supérieur général, Louis Tronson (1676-1699), a utilisé son réseau en Nouvelle-France afin de gagner en faveur et en influence à la cour de France. Ainsi à travers le cas de la mission sulpicienne de Kenté, située sur la côte nord du Lac Ontario, se révèle sous un jour nouveau le rôle joué par les institutions religieuses comme celle de Saint-Sulpice dans la formation et l’administration d’un Atlantique français au dix-septième siècle.
Anatomy of a Slave Insurrection: The Shipwreck of the Vautour on the West Coast of Madagascar in 1725
Authors: Bialuschewski Arne
Published: November 2022

Basé sur les manuscrits des Archives départementales de La Réunion et de la Hispanic Society of America, cet article analyse une insurrection d’esclaves sur le navire le Vautour sur la côte ouest de Madagascar en 1725. Il identifie un certain nombre de facteurs qui ont contribué à la perte du vaisseau, démontrant en quoi le succès de l’insurrection sur le Vautour a inspiré d’innombrables révoltes d’esclaves, ce qui a conduit à un changement dans la traite des esclaves pratiquée par les Français entre l’ouest et l’est de Madagascar.
Solidarité nationale et captivité coloniale
Authors: Mabon Armelle
Published: November 2022

After the debacle of June 1940, many French soldiers were imprisoned. While the combatants from metropolitan France left for Germany, those from the colonies were sent to frontstalags throughout occupied France. Welfare services and support organizations were solicited to assist this group materially and to give them moral support. This captivity in metropolitan regions led to an unexpected rapprochement with the French population, especially since the actions of the Resistance managed to intensify under the cover of these organizations, facilitating the escape and transfer to the Maquis of these prisoners from the colonies. This is perfectly illustrated by the commitment of the great ethnologist Germaine Tillion. Even the Vichy government recognized all the benefits they could derive from these privileged contacts and sought to use this collective solidarity to spread a colonialist propaganda about the "subjects" of the empire fallen into the hands of enemies whose nationalistic positions they especially feared.
Une « décolonisation » par défaut? Le cas de Lacroix, centre de colonisation de la commune mixte de La Calle (1920–1950)
Authors: Mussard Christine
Published: November 2022

This paper explores the case of a village named Lacroix, located in a commune mixte of French East Algeria—La Calle—where many European settlers abandoned their land a few years after obtaining it. In the early1920s, most of the first settlers put their land up for rent or sale to native people, because they were attracted by Tunisia, the border of which was just next to the village. In the 1950s, only five French families were still living in Lacroix. This movement can be considered as a sort of decolonization, even if this concept must be handled with care. Those migrations were very usual throughout the country at that time, but the case of Lacroix is a good example of a colonization area being recovered by the natives. The analysis of this long and complex process shows how the French authorities tried to retain land, creating inventive strategies for over 20 years. The process was very difficult, however, and finally failed, especially because of the conflicts between the local administration and central authorities. Moreover, the General Government showed no interest in this rural part of the colony, located at the Tunisian border. This case also raises the issue of the influence of local politicians, who managed to be heard over the administrator of the village or the settlers themselves. Finally, this paper discusses the objections that colonization had to face to be efficient while French Algeria was nearing its centennial.
Overcoming Burdens of Proof in Science Regulation: Ephedra and the FDA
Authors: Paroske Marcus
Published: November 2022

At moments when science regulators perceive a crisis that requires market intervention, they must craft arguments to overcome the burdens of proof placed upon them by both their authorizing statutes and scientific standards of knowledge formation. These "presumptive breaches" lend themselves to rhetorical analysis. This essay offers the eight year bid by the Food and Drug Administration to regulate ephedra dietary supplements as a case study to explicate the role rhetoric plays in proposing and reviewing science regulation.
The Rhetorical Presidency Meets the Unitary Executive: Implications for Presidential Rhetoric on Public Policy
Authors: Beasley Vanessa B.
Published: November 2022

Communication scholars interested in presidential rhetoric on public policy are very familiar with the rhetorical presidency, but there is another paradigm worth our consideration: the unitary executive. This model emphasizes the institutional reasons why presidents might not use public discourse to promote theirpolicies, relying instead on the expanding powers of the executive branch. Although there is relatively little discussion of one model within scholarship dedicated to the other, this essay argues for the benefits of considering both models simultaneously. As changes occur within the executive office’s capacity for creating and enforcing public policy, so too must our critical orientation to the study of presidential rhetoric.
From Marinetti to Pasolini: Massawa, the Red Sea, and the Construction of "Mediterranean Africa" in Italian Literature and Cinema
Authors: Trento Giovanna
Published: November 2022

Postwar Italian historiography tended for decades to exclude colonialism from national history, and the country largely forgot its colonial past. The interconnections between the academic schools and anthropological scholarly theories that focused on the Horn of Africa during Italian colonialism and twentieth century Italian literary and cinematic representations of the Horn and the Red Sea have been understudied and underestimated. This article will argue that during Italian colonialism, Italy and the Horn of Africa were interconnected through the Mediterranean and Red Sea by scholarly, literary, cultural religious, and imaginary links that contributed to the construction of a "Mediterranean Africa," based on genetic continuities and the legacies with Latin antiquity and ancient Roman values. Such baggage affected or was affected by the building of Italian-ness after the country’s unification, Italy’s self-representation, the country’s Southern question, and its articulation of "modernity." As this article will show, the construction of "Mediterranean Africa" influenced the Italian literary and cinematic representations of Northeast Africa, throughout the 20th century; from the founder of Futurism—the Egypt born writer Filippo Tommaso Marinetti—in the first four decades of the century, to the leftist writer and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini, in the 1960s and 1970s. The problematic transnational links constructed between Italy, the Horn of Africa, and the Red Sea would also surface in the works of the most prominent film directors during Fascism, Alessandro Blasetti and Mario Camerini, and other important writers, like Giovanni Comisso, Ennio Flaiano and Giorgio Manganelli.
Rite of Swing: Stravinsky, Woody Herman, and the Ebony Concerto
Authors: Hollerbach Peter
Published: November 2022

This article considers the historic collaboration between classical music’s preeminent, cosmopolitan twentieth century composer, Igor Stravinsky, and American big band auteur, Woody Herman. Emblematic of a nascent artistic cross-fertilization at the dawn of postwar "postmodernism," the Ebony Concerto’s fusion of "serious" music and American jazz prefigured contemporary discourse concerning "high" and "low" culture, elite and popular expressive modes, and music as a site of contestation, wherein attempts at "top down" cultural definition are opposed by demotic values signifying democratic thought and action. Of particular importance to the first-hand, authoritative nature of this account is its telling in the words of those involved, most notably, the late Woody Herman. Participants’ interviews with the author give voice and authenticity, rather than interpretation and mystification, to a unique dialogical achievement in American music and culture.
Boats, Beginnings, and Repetitions
Authors: Goff Alan
Published: November 2022

Ancient texts are too often approached using modern assumptions. Among those assumptions obstructing an understanding of ancient texts is the modern emphasis on originality and on writing as intellectual property. Ancient writers relished repetition—stories that were repeated in succeeding generations—over originality. The Bible is full of repeated or allusive stories, and the Book of Mormon often reinscribes this biblical emphasis on repetition. One such biblical reverberation in the Book of Mormon is Nephi’s ocean voyage, which evokes biblical stories of origination: creation, deluge, and exodus. These three stories of beginnings are carefully alluded to in Nephi’s own foundational story, exactly as we would expect an ancient Hebraic text to do.
The Design of the Liahona and the Purpose of the Second Spindle
Authors: Bunker Robert L.
Published: November 2022

The Liahona was given by the Lord as a communications device for Lehi to determine the appropriate direction of travel. This device contained two pointers, only one of which was necessary to provide directional information. But the Liahona was more than just a simple compass in function, for it additionally required faith for correct operation. Since a single pointer always "points" in some direction, the additional pointer was necessary to indicate whether or not the first pointer could be relied upon. This proposed purpose for the second pointer conforms to a well-established engineering principle used in modern fault-tolerant computer systems called "voting," in which two identical process states are compared and declared correct if they are the same, and incorrect if they are different. Hence the second pointer, when coincident with the first, would indicate proper operation, and when orthogonal, would indicate nonoperation.
The Missing Scripture
Authors: Johnson D. Lynn
Published: November 2022

During his visit to the Nephites, the Savior instructed Nephi to add to their records a missing scripture concerning the resurrection of many of the dead immediately following his own resurrection, and their appearance to many people. There is good evidence that it was Samuel the Lamanite’s prophecy of this resurrection that was missing. Aspects of the manner of recording, abridgment, and translation of the text of the Book of Mormon are elucidated through this missing scripture as it appears in the English text.
The Book of Mormon Wars: A Non-Mormon Perspective
Authors: Introvigne Massimo
Published: November 2022

The Protestant Bible wars were fought between fundamentalists, who initially claimed for the Bible the same "truth" that Englightenment claimed for science, and liberals, who denied that historical "truth" could be achieved at all. In the present Book of Mormon wars the opposite seems to be true: the liberal camp appears deeply rooted in the Enlightenment paradigm, while the orthodox (but not fundamentalist) position often uses postmodernist arguments, claiming that absolute objectivity is a "noble dream" never achieved nor obtainable in historical studies. The article reviews the present Mormon controversies by comparing them to the discussions on biblical interpretation in the Roman Catholic Church, as summarized in the semiofficial 1993 document "The Interpretation of the Bible in the Church" by the Pontifical Biblical Commission.
Glowing Stones in Ancient and Medieval Lore
Authors: Tvedtnes John A.
Published: November 2022

One of the great miracles of the Book of Mormon occurred when the brother of Jared asked the Lord to touch some clear stones so they would provide light inside the barges that would take his people across the ocean to the New World. To some modern readers, the story seems implausible. This article surveys a number of ancient and medieval accounts of glowing stones, including some said to have been used in Noah"s ark and the "fish" the Lord prepared to swallow Jonah. The parallels to the Jaredite story are remarkable and suggest an ancient milieu for the book of Ether.
Making a Nation Modern
Authors: UKELINA BEKEH UTIETIANG
Published: November 2022

In the period after World War II, Cold War politics and the rising tide of the decolonization movement propelled U.S. leaders and social scientists to intensify their involvement on the African continent. As imperial power shifted from Britain and France, the United States became the new hegemon. Like the Europeans who believed in a divine mandate to civilize the “backward” people of the world, the United States found that its financial capital and economic power gives it the authority to intervene in the affairs of the Global South and shape these emerging nations into a new image. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Center for International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (CIS) created what was known as the “African Economic and Political Development Project” to study emerging democracies in Africa. This article examines the role played by CIS in the design of Nigeria’s first national development plan and in influencing the Kennedy administration to pledge $225 million aid to Nigeria’s program. It argues that the modernists’ vision of making Nigeria a model modern state in Africa failed because of regional/ethnic politics and differences, the reliance on international experts over local Nigerian economists, and the economic prescriptions that favored short-term gains over long-term investments.
Individual Wealth Taxes and Corporate Payouts
Authors: Barroso Raúl , N’Gatta Donald , Ormazabal Gaizka
Published: November 2022

We examine the effect of individual wealth taxes on dividend policy. Using a comprehensive sample of European public firms from 26 countries, we document that wealth taxes paired with substantial increases in stock prices are associated with significantly larger dividend payouts. This pattern is stronger among closely held firms, family firms, and firms with shares directly owned by individuals. We also find evidence suggesting that the dividends induced by wealth taxes have meaningful economic consequences; the announcement of dividends with a higher probability of being induced by wealth taxes elicits lower stock returns, and such dividends are associated with lower levels of subsequent investment. Overall, our evidence contributes to the rekindled debate on wealth taxes by showing that this type of taxation affects corporate financial policies.

JEL Classifications: G14; G20; G28; G30; K2.
Análisis de la percepción sobre impuesto al consumo de bolsas plásticas cobrado en los establecimientos del centro de Florencia-Caquetá
Authors: Gómez-Monroy Cristian Andrés , Cuesta-Ramírez Didier Humberto , Gómez-Cano Carlos Alberto
Published: November 2022

El impuesto al consumo de bolsas plásticas, como parte de los tributos ambientales, es una medida legislativa generada como estrategia para desincentivar el uso del plástico por parte de los consumidores finales, la cual, si bien tiene unos costos asociados, tiene como propósito fundamental generar conciencia social por encima de recaudo. De esta manera, el presente manuscrito, de enfoque mixto y alcance descriptivo, expone los resultados de la investigación realizada desde el programa de Especialización en Gerencia Tributaria de la Universidad de la Amazonia, respecto a la percepción de los comerciantes de grandes y medianas superficies del centro de Florencia, Caquetá, alrededor del impuesto en cuestión. Los hallazgos demuestran, mayoritariamente, que existe conciencia social y respeto por la naturaleza. Sin embargo, cimentar una cultura ambiental demanda de esfuerzos sólidos y constantes donde, más allá de contextos legislativos, se hace necesario la intervención de actores dinamizadores de la sociedad, como es el caso de las instituciones de educación superior.
Bienestar psicológico, estrategias de afrontamiento y adaptabilidad de empleados a la condición de trabajo remoto por medidas de mitigación y propagación del covid-19
Authors: Pérez- Correa Kethy Luz , Cantillo-Zuluaga Jaime Rafael , López- Nieto Luis Jacobo , Correa- García Kiara Vanessa
Published: November 2022

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Keywords:
telework, workers, COVID19, strategies, well-being.

Esta investigación, tiene como propósito mostrar y exponer la importancia e incidencia de estas estrategias de afrontamiento y el bienestar psicológico dentro del proceso adaptativo en el trabajo remoto en tiempos de COVID 19, en el personal administrativo, docentes, secretarios, excluyendo el área de la salud. Metodología: Esta se desarrolló desde el enfoque cuantitativo implementando el inventario de respuestas de afrontamiento en adultos CRI-A, y la escala de bienestar psicológico. Resultados: Se observa una correlación estadísticamente significativa entre análisis lógico y dominio del entorno, es decir pensar en diferentes formas de solucionar sus problemas y evaluar las adversidades con mayor objetividad, permite satisfacer las necesidades y deseos. La dimensión solución de problemas, estuvo significativamente relacionada con la autonomía es decir mayor capacidad de crear un plan de acción con el fin de enfrentar sus problemas Discusión: los riesgos psicosociales se caracterizan por ser predictivos permitiendo describir las condiciones organizacionales cuando surge la oportunidad de producir un efecto negativo sobre la salud o el bienestar de los trabajadores. Conclusión: los resultados que las relaciones con la familia, los amigos y las personas cercanas, funcionan como estrategia de afrontamiento y adaptabilidad en situaciones surgidas que ocasionen o signifiquen cambios, refiriéndonos al covid-19.
Exploring Flouted Maxims in Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story Movie
Authors:   Sanata Dharma University, Yogyakarta, Sinom Patrick Adtya Pratama , Bram Barli ,   Sanata Dharma University, Yogyakarta
Published: November 2022

Homeless to Harvard (2003) is an actual event story and a motivational movie of Liz Murray, a woman whose parents are drug addicts. This research was focused on finding the maxims flouted and the reason for flouting the maxims. The study used a qualitative method. To analyse the collected data, descriptive research and pragmatic identity were used. Results showed 12 times maxims were flouted in total. The flouted maxims were quantity (five times or 41%), quality (two or 17%), relation (two or 17%), and manner (three or 25%). Results also revealed the motivation for flouting the maxims and motives for flouting them were collaborative, conflict, and competitive. Since this research was limited to Grice’s cooperative principles and motives in flouting maxims, future researchers are encouraged to investigate more variables, such as implicature, speech acts, and deixis. Keywords: Cooperative principles, flouting maxims, motivational movie
Inovasi retorika mahasiswa melalui model simulasi pada media penyiaran
Authors:   Universitas Muhammadiyah Kotabumi, Irawan Windo Dicky , Sumarno Sumarno ,   Universitas Muhammadiyah Kotabumi, Evanne Lovia ,   Universitas Muhammadiyah Kotabumi
Published: November 2022

Penelitian ini menerapkan model simulasi sebagai metode pengajaran dengan asumsi tidak semua proses pembelajaran dapat dilakukan langsung pada objek langsung. Banyak model dan media untuk meningkatkan kemampuan retorika pada mahasiswa, namun belum banyak penggunaan media radio dan audiovisual sebagai sarana peningkatan kemampuan retorika. Media siaran audio adalah radio BASUMA 102.5 FM dan audiovisual yaitu WARNAID. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk meningkatkan kemampuan retorika mahasiswa PBSI dengan media radio dan audiovisual. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode tindak kelas dengan model simulasi yang dapat digunakan dalam pembelajaran kelompok. Hasil penelitian diperoleh bahwa hasil belajar siswa pra siklus mendapat persentase tingkat kemampuan retorika yaitu 55,07. Pada siklus I siswa memperoleh persentase tingkat kemampuan retorika sebesar 71,01 sedangkan pada siklus II siswa memperoleh persentase tingkat kemampuan retorika sebesar 73,73. Artinya terjadi peningkatan sebesar 2,72% pada kategori mayoritas cukup. Artinya kemampuan retorika siswa meningkat dengan menggunakan model simulasi. Sehingga mahasiswa PBSI yang pandai beretorika dengan inovasi akan mudah menguasai lingkungan sosial dan dapat membangun relasi sosial. Saran dan keterbatasan dalam model simulasi ini harus memiliki waktu yang lama untuk memungkinkan lebih efektif dalam pelaksanaannya. Kata kunci: Inovasi Retorika, Model Simulasi, Mahasiswa
Optimization of the Сomposition of Solutions of the Aqueous Medium in the Metastable Phase State for Extinguishing Fires
Authors:   Academy of GPS of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia, Khalikov R.V. , Roenko V.V. ,   Academy of GPS of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia, Begishev I.R. ,   Academy of GPS of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia, Dvoenko O.V. ,   Academy of GPS of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia
Published: November 2022

Among the means of volumetric fire extinguishing, one of the most efficient agents is an aqueous medium in a metastable phase state, consisting of vapor and drop phases. Previously, the possibility of increasing its fire extinguishing efficiency by introducing surfactants and inhibitors separately was confirmed experimentally and theoretically. For a theoretical study of the possibility of achieving a double effect with their combined use, a model was created that allows to evaluate the contribution of each component of the inhibitory agent to the quenching process when the inhibitor and surfactants are used together. It is established that at a certain value of the foam supply rate, the inhibitory composition will not have a fire extinguishing effect, and vice versa, when a certain concentration of the inhibitory composition is reached, the fire will be extinguished without the participation of foam. The dependence of the time of extinguishing fires of spills of flammable liquids on the consumption of the inhibitory substance and the efficient consumption of foam was determined. Analysis of this dependence shows that time is a function of two arguments — the consumption of the inhibitory composition and the consumption of surfactants, which can be represented graphically in the form of a 3D model. It is concluded that the required inhibitor concentration in such solutions can be determined graphically. Theoretical calculations show that the maximum efficiency in extinguishing a fire with a flammable liquid with an aqueous medium in a metastable phase state containing a fluorosynthetic foaming agent and an inhibitory salt can be achieved when the inhibitor content in the solution is 0.4 of its fire extinguishing concentration. An aqueous medium in a metastable phase state, containing a fluorosynthetic foaming agent and an inhibitory salt, has a double effect when extinguishing flammable liquid fires. Foam, covering the surface, reduces the volume of the combustion zone, and the inhibitor reduces the rate of chemical reactions in it.
On the Formation of a Scientific and Methodological Apparatus for Assessing the Factors Affecting the Integrated Safety of the Enterprises of Oil and Gas Complex of Russia
Authors:   National Research Moscow State University of Civil Engineering, Gvozdev E.V.
Published: November 2022

The article presents a formalized model description of the sequence of solving the problem associated with the assessment of the state of the integrated safety system at the enterprises of the oil and gas complex of Russia. The rational variant is substantiated concerning the set of elements (methods, stages, means) included in the content of the scientific and methodological apparatus proposed for use in a certain logical sequence for solving specific problems. Determination of the hazard probability indicator, which is assigned to the activity that became the reason of causing damage from hazard (accident or fire). This allows to consider the integrated safety system not as a limited, closed system, but capable of accumulating new knowledge about the impact of hazards on industrial and fire safety subsystems. Determination of the indicator of the weight coefficient of influence assigned to the event that caused damage from the hazard (accident and fire). Determination of the probability indicator of occurrence of a hazard, which is considered in addition to the weighting coefficient of influence, is used to obtain an a priori estimate of the end events. This allows to speak about the reliability of the research results, which directly depend on the accuracy of the data presentation (taking into account the error) and the adequacy of the methods used (their compliance to achieving goals). At the output, the problem is solved by determining the indicator of the weighting factor of influence assigned to the event that caused the damage from the danger, as well as by determining the indicator of the probability of danger, which is considered in addition to the weighting factor of influence to obtain an a priori assessment of the final events. The use of the proposed approach will allow to take measures in advance to minimize (exclude) the conditions for the occurrence of the considered hazards, as a result, to transfer the management of the safety system of the enterprises of the oil and gas complex of Russia to a new qualitative level.
On the Indicator of the Population Protection from Secondary Damaging Factors of an Explosion in Emergency Situations of a Technogenic Nature
Authors:   Civil Defence Academy Emercom of Russia, Rybakov A.V. , Ochetov S.L. ,   Civil Defence Academy Emercom of Russia, Fedorovichev D.S. ,   Civil Defence Academy Emercom of Russia
Published: November 2022

An analysis of existing approaches to assessing the impact of secondary damaging factors of an explosion showed that when calculating the impact zones, only debris and fragments of equipment are considered, and the effect of flying glass fragments is not taken into account. Therefore, management bodies specially authorized to solve the problems in the field of protecting the population and territories from emergencies need to carry out a set of measures in advance to reduce the impact of secondary damaging factors of the technogenic emergencies on the population. A method of protecting the population from secondary damaging factors of explosion is proposed, which consists in substantiating the rational parameters of building elements, in which the protection of the population from secondary damaging factors of explosion in technogenic emergencies will be maximum under existing restrictions. The indicator of human protection from secondary damaging factors of an explosion in emergency situations of a technogenic nature means the probability of not hitting a person with glass fragments. As initial data for determining the index of protection of the population, the distribution of glass fragments by mass and the use of existing approaches to determining the degree of damage to a person by fragments are considered. Based on the graphical dependence of the degree of human injury on the speed and mass of the glass fragment, an analytical view of this dependence was obtained. Based on the previously known threshold values of the degree of human injury by glass fragments, a function of the probability of human injury was obtained. An example of determining the indicator of protection of the population from glass fragments with known initial data is given. The application of the proposed approach will help the management bodies of the Unified State System for the Prevention and Elimination of Emergencies and Hazardous Production Facility to take measures in advance to minimize the consequences of human injury by secondary damaging factors of the explosion, as well as to justify the size of sanitary protection zones.
Research and Development of the Components of Gas Generating Compositions based on Sodium Nitrate for Improving Safety during Artificial Objects Destruction
Authors:   Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Amir Zh.A. , Zhexembay A.K. ,   Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Afanasev N.V. ,   North-Eastern Federal University named after M.K. Ammosov, Chernyavskaya O.M. ,   Kostanay Regional University named after A. Baitursynov, Urymbayeva A.A. ,   International Kazakh-Turkish University named after Kh.A. Yassavi
Published: November 2022

In the process of extraction of the piece stone and in the destruction of concrete and brick buildings in dense urban areas, the issue of safety and efficiency of work is very important. For reducing the percussive action during blasting operations, various methods and means are used. Currently, when extracting block stone, the substances are used that can create pressure in the hole due to the combustion reaction in the deflagration mode. The article is devoted to the research and development of gas-generating compositions based on the sodium nitrate to improve safety during the destruction of artificial objects. Sodium nitrate was chosen as an oxidizer, this is primarily due to the low cost of sodium nitrate, low sensitivity to mechanical and detonation effects, and a significantly lower content of harmful compounds in the combustion products compared to analogues. Magnesium and carbon (from a gas mask and walnut) were used as fuel. Tests for the flammability of mixtures and thermodynamic calculations of combustion parameters were carried out to determine the optimal ratio of the initial components. It was established that a sufficiently high efficiency and uniformity of combustion are observed at a ratio of the initial components of 60 % — NaNO3, 20 % — Mg, 20 % — C. X-ray phase analysis of solid combustion products was carried out. It is shown that the main products are magnesium oxide and sodium carbonate. Field experiments on the destruction of concrete blocks were carried out. The performed studies and field tests showed high efficiency and safety of the use of the developed gas generator composition for the destruction of artificial objects, which can be used for the directed destruction of artificial objects or rocks of medium strength with a coefficient of 8 on the scale of the professor MM. Protodyakonov. The destruction of the concrete block occurred without the scattering of individual stone fragments, the formation and propagation of a shock air wave.
Potensi Desa Girirejo sebagai Desa Wisata dan Edukasi Mengenai Kebudayaan Keris
Authors: Hardjanti, S.H., M.H. Dewi Krisna
Published: November 2022

Desa Girirejo merupakan salah satu desa yang berada pada kecamatan Imogiri, Kabupaten Bantul, DIY. Dengan metode pengabdian potensi yang ada pada desa ini adalah kebudayaan dalam pembuatan keris. Dengan potensi desa yang ada, Penulis berinisiatif dalam membantu dan menjadikan Desa Girirejo menjadi Desa Wisata. Para penulis membuat Iuran berupa video interaktif dan e-book yang menjelaskan dan mengedukasi masyarakat Desa Girirejo. Keris adalah salah satu warisan budaya Indonesia yang perlu dilestarikan, di zaman ini keris memiliki manfaat dan fungsi sebagai simbol ikatan keluarga, tanda jasa, status sosial, aksesoris bahkan sebagai senjata yang memiliki nilai tersendiri. oleh sebab itu, pengabdian yang dilakukan para penulis diharapkan dapat bermanfaat dan menjadi inovasi baru untuk desa dalam pengembangan inovasi Desa Girirejo. 
Kata Kunci- Desa Girirejo, Desa Wisata, Budidaya Keris
Pattern of Psychological Distress in Cancer Patients Visiting Out-Patient Department- A Prospective Study in A Tertiary Cancer Care Hospital in Northern India
Authors: Marik Sharanya , Arora Anshika , Saini Sunil
Published: November 2022

Context: Psychological distress in cancer patients is a well recognized but under diagnosed problem.

Aims: This study aimed to study the prevalence and pattern of distress among cancer patients visiting the out-patient department of oncology.

Settings and Design: This was a prospective observational study, carried out at Cancer Research Institute, Swami Rama Himalayan University, Dehradun, India, between January 2018 and April 2018.

Material and Methods: We enrolled 390 cancer patients prospectively after written informed consent. Their demographic, disease and treatment details were recorded. Self reporting Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale was used for anxiety and depression.

Statistical analysis used: After checking for normality of data, normal data was analyzed using Parametric, non-normal using Non-parametric methods. Association between baseline and outcome categorical variables was tested with Chi-square test. A p-value of <0.05 was considered significant. Spearman’s Rho was used for linear correlation.

Results: The prevalence of anxiety was 34.6% and depression 40.3% Factors significantly associated with anxiety were female gender (p=0.051), advanced stage (p=0.036), primary site (p=0.006); with depression advanced stage (p=0.001) and number of metastatic sites (p=0.025). Linear correlation between anxiety and depression was strong (Spearman’s rho= 0.735).

Conclusions: The prevalence of cancer related psychological distress is high in out-patients. Variables like female gender, primary tumor site, advanced stage and number of metastasis were significantly associated with distress.
Objective Structured Clinical Examination as A Reliable tool in the Summative Evaluation of Final Year Medical Students at Enugu State University College of Medicine
Authors: Eze Balantine U. , Okoloagu Nkiruka N. , Mba Sunday G.
Published: November 2022

Objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) is a reliable, objective and reproducible method of summative assessment of clinical competence. The aim of this study is to evaluate the reliability of OSCE for summative evaluation of final year medical students in both Internal Medicine and Surgery. This was a retrospective cross-sectional study of summative assessment of final-year medical students in Internal Medicine and Surgery at College of Medicine, Enugu State University of Science and Technology. The students’ clinical competence was tested by OSCE. The OSCE consisted of two parts. The A part (picture OSCE, replacing traditional short cases) in which questions were given to students from slide shows. The B part (clinical OSCE, replacing traditional long case) consisted of clinical OSCE stations to test students’ ability and skills in history taking, physical examination, counselling/communication skills, ability to make diagnosis, interpretation of laboratory/radiological results and ability to manage common medical emergencies and conditions. The students' scores in the picture OSCE, clinical OSCE, and final total clinical score scores in both Internal Medicine and Surgery were collated and subjected to analysis with SPSS version 25 (IBM; SPSS, Chicago, IL, USA). Correlation was assessed by Pearson correlation, mean scores compared with paired t-test, reliability assessed by calculating Cronbach's alpha. Statistical significance was considered as p <0.05. A total of 120 students sat for the examinations. There were significant positive correlations between students’ score in Surgery clinical OSCE and Internal Medicine clinical OSCE, r =0.617 (p=0.000); students’ scores in Surgery picture OSCE and Internal Medicine Picture OSCE, r=0.647 (p=0.000); and students’ scores in Surgery clinical examinations and Internal Medicine clinical examinations, r= 0.750 (p=0.000). The reliability of Surgery clinical examinations was 0.851 while the reliability of Internal Medicine clinical examinations was 0.816. OSCE is a more reliable tool than traditional method for the summative assessment of final year medical students. OSCE gives a higher correlation coefficient and Cronbach alpha than the traditional method of assessment.