bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
ANALISIS FAKTOR – FAKTOR YANG MEMPENGARUHI LAMA WAKTU TUNGGU (DWELLING TIME) BONGKAR MUAT DI PELABUHAN TANJUNG EMAS SEMARANG
Authors: Rusmiyanto Dedy , Alit Sumardiatna I Ketut
Published: March 2021

Pelabuhan Tanjung Emas Semarang pada saat ini menjadi pilihan masyarakat khususnya di Jawa Tengah dalam menggunakan jasa transportasi laut, karena selain mengangkut dalam jumlah yang besar juga menempuh jarak yang jauh. Arus container yang melalui Pelabuhan Tanjung Emas Semarang semakin meningkat. Hal ini dapat dilihat dari pertumbuhan bongkar muat peti kemas (container) dari tahun ke tahun. Untuk mengantisipasi lonjakan permintaan pengiriman barang melalui Pelabuhan Tanjung Emas Semarang, maka sarana dan prasarana di pelabuhan harus diperhatikan karena hal tersebut akan berpengaruh langsung kepada kinerja pelabuhan. Tujuan penelitian ini untuk menganalisis pengaruh antara variable independen terhadap variable dependen, dengan populasi pegawai TKBM (Tenaga Kerja Bongkar Muat) PT. Pelabuhan Indonesia III Tanjung Emas Semarang dan diambil sampel sebanyak 80 responden. Dari hasil penelitian terdapat hubungan antara variabel bebas dengan variabel terikat, Pengujian hipotesis menggunakan uji t menunjukkan bahwa ketiga variabel bebas yaitu Faktor bongkar muat (X1), faktor penjaluran barang (X2), faktor kondisi alam (X3) yang diteliti terbukti variabel (X1 dan X2) berpengaruh positif dan signifikan mempengaruhi variabel terikat yaitu Dwelling time (Y), sedangkan variabel (X3) tidak berpengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap Dwelling time (Y) dan variable faktor bongkar muat (X1) memiliki pengaruh tertinggi yaitu (6,227) daripada variabel yang lain dalam mempengaruhi faktor keputusan perusahaan pelayaran. Pada uji koefisien determinasi (R Square) nilai Adjust R square sebesar 0,346 artinya 34,6% variasi variabel terikat Dwelling time dapat dijelaskan oleh variabel bebas bongkar muat, penjaluran barang dan kondisi alam. Sedangkan sisanya yaitu 65,4% dijelaskan oleh sebab-sebab yang lain diluar variabel yang diteliti
EFEK MEDIASI WORK-FAMILY CONFLICT TERHADAP STRES KERJA PADA IBU BEKERJA DI RUMAH SELAMA PANDEMI COVID-19
Authors: Alifah Abdu
Published: March 2021

Teleworking mothers in Indonesia have been stressed due to work-family conflicts during the Covid-19 pandemic. Whilst most scholars likely have been studied work-family conflict and work stress partially, this study proposed a more comprehensive structural model of causality by analyzing the effect of spousal and organizational support toward work stress on teleworking mothers during the Covid-19 pandemic through the mediation of work-family conflict. This study used a purposive sampling technique in collecting 57 respondents that appropriated to the criteria of study such as teleworking mother during the Covid-19 pandemic, live in Jabodetabek, and possess one child or more. This study used path analysis with two models of direct and indirect. The results indicated that spousal support and organizational support directly and negatively affected work-family conflict, but did not directly affect work stress. Work-family conflict directly and positively affected work stress, while spousal and organizational support indirectly and negatively affected work stress through the mediation of work-family conflict. Therefore, teleworking mothers who have been stressed during the pandemic due to work-family conflicts are recommended to improve their spousal dan organizational support in reducing their level of work stress.
The Influence of Social Capital on Pro-environmental Behavior of Individuals
Authors: Kudryavtseva O. V. , Kulikov P. A. , Kulikova A. O. , Fokina V. V.
Published: March 2021

By way of our investigation  we examine the interconnection between the social capital and the pro-environmental behavior of an individual. To estimate the influence, we use WVS’s data for 2011 referred to the USA, as well as we build models assessed by using OLS. We suppose that the general confidence, trust in neighbors, as well as an individual’s shared identity affect greatly and positively participation in ecological demonstrations, donations to ecological companies, as well as the general evaluation of an individual’s pro-environmental behavior. Our results confirm the positive influence of the trust in neighbors on the general evaluation of individual’s pro -environmental behavior. And the dependence is stronger for those who trust in people in general. Self-identity as a cosmopolitan  influences  all  variables  examined  of  pro-environmental  behavior.  This  testifies  the strong connection between the social capital and environmental protection concern.
Review of the 148th meeting of the Dispute club “Economic Policy Knots” of the Association of the Russian Economic Think Tanks on the Topic “How does the economy of Russian cities go through the crisis?”
Authors: Zubova Е. А. , Izmailov A. A. , Tutov L. A.
Published: March 2021

The work is devoted to a review of the results of the 148th meeting of the Dispute Club “Economic Policy Knots” of the Association of Russian Economic Think Tanks (hereinafter referred to as ARETT) on the topic "How the economy of Russian cities going through the crisis". The purpose of the event was to discuss a number of issues related to the impact of the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on the economy of  Russian cities. The debaters were  Leonid Eduardovich Limonov, Director-Coordinator  of  Research  Programs  of  ICSER  “Leontief  Center”,  and  Irina  Dmitrievna Turgel, Deputy Director for Science and Innovation of the School of Economics and Management, Ural Federal University. The review presents the key ideas of the disputants, and also summarizes the main results of their answers to questions.
Modern features and tendencies of population settlement in the Far Eastern regions of the Russian Far North
Authors: Chaika Egor E. , Mizerovskaya Ulyana V.
Published: March 2021

The article regards the tendencies in the population distribution in the Far Eastern part of the Russian Far North, taking into account both country-wide trends and specific features of northern territories. The analysis covers the period from 1989 to 2020, that is, from the the last Soviet census to the present moment. The authors analyze the dynamics of the population size and its distribution, identify weaknesses in the statistical assessment of the actual population of the northern territories, define trends in the population distribution, namely, reveal the permanent population concentration along the southern borders of the Far Northern part of the Far East and the development of shift workers’ settlements across the remaining territory. In conclusion, the article puts the population distribution dynamics in the Far Eastern part of the Far North into the context of the identified trends.
La politique africaine de la France : l’heure du renouvellement ?
Authors: Gaulme François
Published: March 2021

La politique africaine de la France s’est mise en place au moment des décolonisations, sous la direction du général De Gaulle. Depuis soixante ans, le système résiste, avec le soutien des dirigeants africains qui en tirent profit. Les évolutions récentes mettent l’accent sur les engagements militaires, plus ou moins couronnés de succès, et sur un développement identifié à l’occidentalisation. Il est temps de réorienter cette politique en prenant davantage en compte les sociétés et leurs cultures.
Le déni de l’inceste
Authors: Joseph Laurence
Published: March 2021

En qualité de psychologue clinicienne et de psychanalyste, Laurence Joseph a été plusieurs fois confrontée à des situations d’inceste. Tenue au secret professionnel, elle n’évoquera pas les thérapies qu’elle mène mais c’est en écho à elles qu’elle écrit, ainsi qu’à la lumière de l’ouvrage de Camille Kouchner, La familia grande . Chaque clinicien peut être confronté au récit de faits incestueux de multiples manières : ils peuvent être passés ou contemporains et chaque situation exige une prudence particulière, un respect fort, car cette parole qui dévoile les faits est d’une grande fragilité et demande à l’enfant, qu’il le soit toujours ou qu’il soit devenu adulte, un immense courage.
Et le pape François délia les langues vertes…
Authors: Jérome Vanessa
Published: March 2021

Depuis quelques années, et surtout les dernières élections municipales, le grand public a découvert la présence de chrétiens dans le parti vert français. Passée sous le radar de la plupart des enquêtes, peu médiatisée et contre-intuitive à bien des égards, elle s’inscrit pourtant dans l’histoire longue des Verts. L’attention portée aux histoires familiales des militants, à leurs socialisations primaires ainsi qu’à la diversité de leurs engagements permet de révéler cette présence et la relation chaotique mais ténue qui unit les chrétiens verts et leurs Églises.
Croire en la fiction
Authors: Mauvignier Laurent , Vaissière Sébastien
Published: March 2021

S’essayant à tous les genres avec la minutie du vivisecteur, Laurent Mauvignier bâtit depuis vingt ans une œuvre romanesque puissante dont Histoires de la nuit , paru en septembre dernier, semble être à la fois la synthèse et l’aboutissement. Dans ce texte au propos et au volume hors normes, l’auteur de Continuer , Apprendre à finir et Des hommes , semble une fois de plus faire la démonstration d’une grande maîtrise du style, de la narration et du sens.
La finance à l’heure des limites planétaires
Authors: Ekeland Ivar
Published: March 2021

Les concepts-clés de la finance ‒ le rendement et le taux d’actualisation ‒ sont également présents en économie et dans d’autres disciplines, mais avec des significations différentes, ce qui cause nombre de malentendus. Un effort important a été fait pour les dissiper, en distinguant par exemple un taux d’intérêt écologique, ou en introduisant une comptabilité carbone pour les entreprises. On construit ainsi des indicateurs qui permettent d’encadrer l’activité des entreprises et de traduire dans l’activité économique les objectifs climatiques. Il revient aux États de fixer ceux-ci, mais l’on constate de nombreuses carences, notamment en ce qui concerne les subventions persistantes octroyées aux combustibles fossiles. Le jour où une politique climatique sera clairement établie, on ne manquera pas d’instruments pour la financer.
Le rôle des outils financiers pour des populations plus résilientes
Authors: Hallegatte Stéphane
Published: March 2021

En raison de l’augmentation continue des coûts des catastrophes naturelles, la réduction des risques est aujourd’hui une priorité (bienvenue). Toutefois, il est impossible d’éliminer complètement les dommages causés par les catastrophes : il y aura toujours des routes emportées par des inondations et des logements endommagés par des tremblements de terre. Pour réduire autant que possible l’effet des catastrophes, il est donc essentiel d’améliorer la capacité des personnes, communautés, entreprises, régions et pays à faire face aux chocs. Dit autrement, la résilience est un complément indispensable à la réduction des risques. Cet article passe en revue la large gamme des outils financiers permettant d’augmenter la résilience, avec une attention particulière portée à la situation des pays et populations les plus pauvres. Il insiste sur la nécessité de disposer d’un ensemble de solutions complémentaires pour couvrir les différents besoins, sur le rôle-clé des systèmes de protection sociale pour venir en aide aux plus pauvres et compléter les autres mécanismes assurantiels, et sur l’importance d’incorporer les risques dans les processus et les outils budgétaires des gouvernements.
Risques de transition, énergie et actifs échoués
Authors: Lepetit Michel
Published: March 2021

Au cœur de la finance verte, le concept d’« actif échoué » appliqué à la production d’énergie est stérile, voire trompeur. La transition bas-carbone est sensée révéler des risques pour les investissements dans des actifs trop exposés aux énergies fossiles. Mais en ce qui concerne la filière du charbon thermique, la théorie des actifs échoués semble ignorer l’existence d’un traité international qui sécurise les investissements énergétiques. Du côté des actifs pétroliers, cette théorie n’intègre pas l’impact majeur des interventions des banques centrales depuis une décennie. Ces deux exemples illustrent les enjeux d’une sous-estimation du rôle crucial et systémique de l’énergie en macroéconomie.
Comment réduire les soutiens publics dommageables à l’environnement ?
Authors: Sainteny Guillaume
Published: March 2021

La question des subventions publiques et des dépenses fiscales dommageables à l’environnement a, jusqu’ici, reçu moins d’attention que celle de la création de nouvelles taxes environnementales. Pourtant, les soutiens publics dommageables à l’environnement se chiffrent à plusieurs centaines de milliards de dollars avant taxes et a plusieurs milliers de milliards de dollars après taxes. Ils présentent de nombreux inconvénients : coût budgétaire ; entraves aux économies d’énergie ; freins aux transitions écologique et énergétique, voire au progrès technique ; faible efficience ; régressivité sociale ; sous tarification des ressources ; effets négatifs sur la santé et les balances commerciales, etc. Le lancement par l’OCDE de l’initiative Green Budgeting donne une nouvelle actualité à ce sujet.
Adapter la gouvernance budgétaire aux impératifs écologiques
Authors: Grandjean Alain
Published: March 2021

La crise de la Covid-19 a mis entre parenthèses les règles budgétaires en Europe et a autorisé des plans de relance significatifs, dont une partie a été affectée à la lutte contre le changement climatique. Celui-ci nous impose néanmoins des dépenses publiques lourdes et récurrentes, sur une décennie ou plus, qui ne sont pas compatibles avec un retour rapide au respect des règles antérieures, un retour dangereux par ailleurs au plan macroéconomique. Pour autant, une coopération budgétaire et monétaire structurée est indispensable au sein de l’Union européenne, sous peine de dérives économiques, politiques et sociales. Il nous faut donc adapter ces règles, définies il y a plus de trente ans, pour relever ce défi, tout en limitant la crise sociale inévitable à court terme, et en évitant une crise des dettes publiques. Cet article propose des pistes pour répondre à ces enjeux-clefs pour l’avenir de l’Europe et sa capacité à faire face aux multiples crises à laquelle elle a à faire face.
Les enjeux de la taxonomie européenne pour la finance verte
Authors: Creti Anna
Published: March 2021

Nous décrivons ici les principaux éléments de la taxonomie verte, soit l’ensemble des critères définissant les activités compatibles avec l’ambition d’atteindre la neutralité carbone. Constituant la première tentative en Europe de classer les secteurs émissifs à une granularité assez fine, celle des codes NACE, la taxonomie se veut un processus évolutif. Nous mettons également en avant la nécessité, dans le cadre de ce processus, de rendre les principes applicables et concrets, mais aussi coordonnés avec les politiques européennes en matière de décarbonation des activités économiques.
De la compensation du carbone au financement de la neutralité
Authors: Bettin Renaud
Published: March 2021

Dans le sillage de l’avalanche des engagements pris par les grandes entreprises à devenir un jour « neutres en carbone », le marché, jusque-là confidentiel de la compensation carbone, prépare son décollage. Réglementé dans le cadre du Protocole de Kyoto, ce mécanisme est utilisé volontairement par un nombre croissant d’acteurs privés et trouve désormais toute sa place au sein d’une stratégie carbone. Loin d’inciter à réduire à la source les émissions carbone, cet outil finance néanmoins la transition et un développement bas-carbone partout sur la planète. Pour que la confiance s’installe du côté des entreprises comme du côté des porteurs de projet, la compensation carbone doit faire sa mue. Son utilisation doit être davantage cadrée et sa perception renouvelée pour qu’enfin, nous la considérions comme ce qu’elle est vraiment : un moyen de contribuer à une neutralité carbone mondiale et collective.
La compensation biodiversité, un instrument économique au service de l’intérêt général
Authors: Benoît Jean-Christophe , Cadi Antoine , Ménard Sophie
Published: March 2021

La loi de 1976 traduit, pour la première fois dans la législation française, l’esprit de ce qu’est la conception progressive d’un projet d’aménagement du territoire, laquelle doit, en premier lieu, chercher à éviter les impacts négatifs de celui-ci sur l’environnement, puis, dans un second temps, à réduire ceux qui n’ont pu être évités, en adaptant techniquement le projet. Enfin, pour la fraction des impacts résiduels, il s’agit alors de les compenser par une action guidée par l’objectif de non-perte de biodiversité. Bien que renforcée par la loi sur la reconquête de la biodiversité en 2016, cet outil demeure toutefois mal utilisé, puisque le succès de sa mise en œuvre dépend non seulement de l’interprétation des textes normatifs nationaux par les acteurs du territoire (Bigard et al. , 2018) 1 , mais également de l’existence de contrôles et de sanctions. Pour dépasser cette vision, l’approche de la séquence Éviter-Réduire-Compenser (ERC) adoptée par les leviers économiques et financiers semble permettre de dessiner une application plus juste de l’outil considéré afin d’agir en faveur de l’intérêt général.
Leviers économiques pour la biodiversité
Authors: Piermont Laurent
Published: March 2021

L’atteinte des objectifs de préservation de la biodiversité suppose d’intégrer celle-ci dans l’économie et de trouver des leviers de création de valeur permettant un financement, en complément de l’action publique, de cette préservation par le secteur privé qui a les moyens techniques et financiers pour ce faire. Dans cet article, sont abordées les méthodes pertinentes de l’action avec la nature (et non contre elle), aboutissant à des solutions fondées sur cette dernière. Sont également examinés, outre les leviers et outils disponibles, les conditions de la création de valeur permettant de financer cette action en faveur de la biodiversité, en considérant que contrairement à ce qui est observé en matière climatique, les résultats de cette action ne permettent que difficilement de dégager les moyens nécessaires pour la rémunérer directement.
Paris, je t’aime ! Quand la finance épouse les objectifs climatiques
Authors: Voisin Stéphane , Raynaud Julie , Tankov Peter
Published: March 2021

Facteur-clé du succès de l’Accord de Paris et de sa mise en œuvre, le concept d’alignement fait référence à des méthodes utilisées par un nombre croissant d’institutions financières pour évaluer la compatibilité de leurs portefeuilles avec les objectifs de cet accord. Censées informer les investisseurs et les particuliers sur la performance climatique de leur épargne, ces démarches sont sujettes à caution en raison des nombreuses variantes dans les hypothèses sous-jacentes et du cumul d’incertitudes qui peuvent en affecter le calcul et le résultat, comme l’analyse l’étude de l’ILB Alignement Cookbook. Peu comparables, ces méthodes peuvent être utilisées à des fins de communication pour exprimer la cohérence d’une stratégie de gestion avec un engagement climatique et informer de « la température implicite » d’un portefeuille, mais elles ne sont pas aptes à servir d’indicateurs dans la gestion du risque climatique. Les allégations d’impact positif qui les accompagnent parfois sont également discutables, même si la dynamique d’alignement, adoptée à une grande échelle, peut conduire à décarboner l’économie réelle, ce qui est précisément l’objectif qui lui est assigné dans l’Accord de Paris.
L’hybridation des pratiques de gestion des ressources humaines. Le cas de la fonction publique territoriale française
Authors: Desmarais Céline , Dubouloz Sandra , Bichon Arnaud
Published: March 2021

La diffusion des principes du NMP transforme les pratiques de GRH dans le secteur public. Les transformations ainsi opérées obéissent à quatre logiques : logique de formalisation, contractualisation, individualisation et politisation. L’article s’interroge sur les conséquences de la concomitance de ces logiques sur l’hybridation des pratiques de GRH. Pour cela, deux méthodologies complémentaires ont été mobilisées : une méthodologie quantitative à travers une enquête auprès de 223 collectivités territoriales d’un département français et une méthodologie qualitative par le biais d’entretiens réalisés auprès de 25 de ces collectivités. Les résultats montrent que ces logiques cohabitent, ce qui amène à s’interroger sur les micro-négociations qui permettent cette cohabitation. Remarque à l’intention des praticiens Les pratiques de gestion des ressources humaines dans les organisations publiques sont le résultat composite d’un ensemble de logiques différentes, voire contradictoires : logique d’individualisation, de contractualisation, de formalisation et de politisation. Dans les collectivités territoriales françaises, on n’observe pas une évolution commune vers un nouveau modèle unique de GRH. Ce sont principalement des dynamiques internes entre les acteurs (élus, professionnels des ressources humaines, directions…) qui expliquent la combinaison, toujours différente, de ces logiques.
9-0 Monofilament Polydioxanone (PDS): A New Synthetic Absorbable Suture for Cataract Wound Closure
Authors: Blaydes J Elliott , Werblin Theodore P
Published: March 2021

SUMMARY

This study describes the intraoperative and postoperative performance of 9-0 monofilament Polydioxanone (PDS*) suture for cataract wound closure. This newly developed synthetic absorbable suture is designed to meet the need for a "long-term" absorbable suture material suitable for cataract wound closure following intraocular lens implantation. Polydioxanone's advantages over cu rrently used "short-term" absorbables and biodegradable nylon are described in this report.
Stereo visual odometry based on dynamic and static features division
Authors: Xu Hui , Cai Guangbin , Yang Xiaogang , Yao Erliang , Li Xiaofeng
Published: March 2021

Accurate camera pose estimation in dynamic scenes is an important challenge for visual simultaneous localization and mapping, and it is critical to reduce the effects of moving objects on pose estimation. To tackle this problem, a robust visual odometry approach in dynamic scenes is proposed, which can precisely distinguish between dynamic and static features. The key to the proposed method is combining the scene flow and the static features relative spatial distance invariance principle. Moreover, a new threshold is proposed to distinguish dynamic features.Then the dynamic features are eliminated after matching with the virtual map points. In addition, a new similarity calculation function is proposed to improve the performance of loop-closure detection. Finally, the camera pose is optimized after obtaining a closed loop. Experiments have been conducted on TUM datasets and actual scenes, which shows that the proposed method reduces tracking errors significantly and estimates the camera pose precisely in dynamic scenes.
Decision framework for location and selection of container multimodal hubs: A case in china under the belt and road initiative
Authors: Zhang Xinfang , Lu Jing , Peng Yan
Published: March 2021

The location and selection of logistics nodes that facilitate the China Railway Express and rail-sea intermodal transportation has received increasing attention in China under the Belt and Road Initiative. The objective is to solve problems caused by the increasing number of origin cities opening international trains, such as disorderly competition, insufficient cargoes and low overall coordination. This study screens 22 cities as candidate Chinese international container multimodal hubs (CICMHs) in consideration of the actual situation of China's trade transportation. Thirteen indicators are screened using the information contribution rate-information substitutability method. Then, a comprehensive evaluation model is proposed to evaluate the candidate CICMHs and rank them. The model is based on the extended grey relational analysis-technique for order preference similar to ideal solution in combination with prospect theory. Chongqing, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Wuhan, Chengdu, Xi'an, Nanjing, Tianjin, Zhengzhou and Dalian are selected as the CICMHs. Moreover, a sensitivity analysis of the index weight fluctuations and decision-makers' preference and a comparative analysis of different decision-making methods are performed. The robustness and stability of the proposed model are demonstrated. This study can support the location and selection of CICMHs and expand the methods and applications in the decision-making field.
Althusser, Machiavelli, and the PCF
Authors: Morfino Vittorio
Published: March 2021

In this essay I consider the fundamental features of Althusser’s reading of Machiavelli in its historical development, starting from the 1962 lecture course, passing through the 1972–76 course published with the title of Machiavel et nous as well as the writings of 1977–78, concluding with the group of writings written during the 1980s. I show that any teleological reading that sees in the final writings the truth finally revealed of the path of Althusser’s reading of Machiavelli (or its inversion, that is, the path itself as a corruption of an original truth) should be rejected, and instead present the thesis that Althusser, through the figure of Machiavelli, theoretically reworks his relationship with the Party.
From Traces of Communism to Islets of Communism: Revisiting Althusser’s Metaphors
Authors: Sotiris Panagiotis
Published: March 2021

Promises of communism, traces of communism, outlines of communism, islets of communism: Althusser’s metaphors for communism emerging at the margins of existing social forms point towards important open questions for any rethinking of a strategy for communism: Is communism just a political project or a political design for a post-capitalist society or is the projection, elaboration, and expansion of social forms already appearing within contemporary capitalist society as a result of collective struggles, resistances, and experimentations that bring out the collective ingenuity of the subaltern classes and groups? Can a political project for radical social transformation simply be a generalisation of the dynamics emerging within contemporary social dynamics? How can we think the political and organisational labour needed to turn these elements into new social forms? The aim of this paper is to attempt to revisit and rethink the tensions of Althusser’s thinking of communism emerging at the margins or interstices of capitalist society.
Photography between Affective Turn and Affective Structure
Authors: Benčin Rok
Published: March 2021

The affective turn in photography theory takes as its point of departure Roland Barthes’s move from semiology to affective phenomenology in Camera Lucida. This article, however, considers the way affective phenomenology is itself grounded in the semiological structure of photography. It looks at how, before Camera Lucida was even written, Thierry de Duve had already discussed the affective implications of Barthes’s understanding of photography’s indexical nature. The article then proceeds to rethink the structural affectivity of photography beyond Barthes’s and de Duve’s emphasis on a direct relation between indexicality and loss. Reconsidering photography through Jacques Rancière’s conception of the aesthetic regime of art, the article rather puts emphasis on the indeterminacy of photography, which results from the way the camera captures and isolates a spatio-temporal fragment. Shifting the focus from indexicality to indeterminacy sheds a different light on the loss implied by the structure of photography, parallel to how Freud understood the difference between mourning and melancholy.
For a Rationalist Politics of the Event: Zermelo–Fraenkel Set Theory and Structuring the Multiple
Authors: Erkan Ekin
Published: March 2021

This article examines the relationship between Alain Badiou’s work on mathematics and politics by tethering his most recent work on the former, Migrants and Militants (2020) with L'Etre et l'évéenement (1988). Juxtaposing Badiou’s work on being with Deleuzean becoming, this article begins by detailing Badiou’s Platonism. Consequently, the paper seeks to demonstrate that Badiou’s political position on migration (as articulated in Migrants and Militants) is not only compatible with but serves as an extension of his work on Zermelo-Fraenkel axiomatized set-theory. This bricolage critically engages with Badiou’s conception of the truth-procedure and the event. In relation to the ontological order of the pure multiple and the objective order of presentation, subjectivation emerges as an interruption of the stability and stasis of the ontological order, both politically and in mathematics, stilting the process which Badiou names an “event,” which initiates the creative process of construction or “truth-procedure.” The nexus of Badiou’s case study on migration finds him repudiating what he sees as a faulty moral imperative lodged in Derrida’s conception of hospitality, which Badiou sees as denying true subjectivity and reaffirming pernicious (ethnic, racial) essentialisms.
Mathematics is Ontology? A Critique of Badiou's Ontological Framing of Set Theory
Authors: Bolz Roland
Published: March 2021

This article develops a criticism of Alain Badiou’s assertion that “mathematics is ontology.” I argue that despite appearances to the contrary, Badiou’s case for bringing set theory and ontology together is problematic. To arrive at this judgment, I explore how a case for the identification of mathematics and ontology could work. In short, ontology would have to be characterised to make it evident that set theory can contribute to it fundamentally. This is indeed how Badiou proceeds in Being and Event. I review his descriptions of the ontological problematic at some length here, only to argue that set theory is a poor fit. Although philosophers working on questions of being were certainly occupied with matters of oneness and the part-whole relationship, I argue that Badiou’s discussion of philosophical sources points towards a mereological treatment, not a set-theoretic one. Finally, I suggest that Badiou’s philosophical interpretations of key set-theoretic results are better understood as some sort of analogising between mathematics, ontology, and philosophical anthropology.
The indirect effect of a focus group for psoriatic patients on their caregivers
Authors: Demma Antonella , Suitner Caterina , Ferruzza Emilia , Nicolini Chiara , Donini Massimo
Published: March 2021

Psoriasis is a chronic skin disease involving not only epidermic damages but also psychological distress for patients and their family caregivers. Little is known about the effects of a psychological support for psoriatic patients on their caregivers’ well-being. The goal of the present study was to investigate the indirect effects of the participation in a dynamic focus group reserved for psoriatic patients on their caregivers in terms of quality of life. The study involved 52 psoriatic patients and 41 family caregivers. Patients’ wellbeing was assessed using the dermatology quality of life index, hospital anxiety and depression scale. The impact of the disease on caregivers was assessed using the family dermatology life quality index (FDLQI). Data were analyzed with linear mixed models. The caregivers of psoriatic patients involved in the psychodynamic focus group reported levels of FDLQI that decreased over time, therefore showing an improvement in their quality of life in relation to the pathology of their relatives; the caregivers of patients who did not participate in the psychodynamic focus group, instead, had levels of FDLQI that were stable over time. The results provide preliminary evidence that the group setting of the Psychodynamic Focus Group may alleviate the negative impact of psychosomatic disease on the caregivers.
A hybrid approach associating flow network modeling with AHP-Entropy for simulating and ranking water-demand management alternatives
Authors: Araújo Matheus Duarte de , Oliveira Rui De
Published: March 2021

In view of the water crises historically experienced by Brazil’s semi-arid region, it is necessary to search for methodological tools that allow us to propose efficient alternatives for managing water demand. In this regard, the present study developed and applied a hybrid approach of flow network modeling and the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) combined with Shannon’s entropy for simulating and prioritizing water demand management alternatives in the Epitácio Pessoa Reservoir in the Brazilian semiarid region. The approach initially performed simulations of the hydro system flow network to explore rational alternatives that evaluated the following criteria: meet the demands of human supply, meet the demands for irrigation, maintain the reservoir above the target volume, and reduce consumption. Subsequently, Shannon's entropy was used to assess the importance of the criteria and the multicriteria analysis of ranking of alternatives was built. Finally, a sensitivity analysis of the model was performed regarding the dependence on respective weights of the criteria. The results made enabled evaluation of the hydro system’s water security, highlighting insufficient supply by the single measure of water management transposition of the São Francisco River, and based on the hierarchy of alternatives, suggesting actions to improve the sustainability of water use, such as reuse of water, reduction of losses in supply systems and increasing irrigation efficiency. The proposed hybrid approach permitted the synthesis of the simulation’s results, which may simplify and support the decision-making process in water-demand management.
Evaluating Foreign Direct Investment and Africa’s Development
Authors: Alumona Nicholas Onyemechi
Published: March 2021

The question of Africa’s development has continued to occupy the front burner from the social and economic discussions by scholars of various divides. But Africa’s development through foreign direct investment has become a recent challenge to the African continent. African social critics and commentators as well as Western scholars have attributed the seeming slow pace of development in Africa to several factors discouraging foreign direct investment. Suggestions and literature on how to overcome these factors abound; all calling on African states to provide the enabling environment for foreign investors under this arrangement to help in solving Africa’s socio-economic problems. In this essay, we adopt the method of analysis and argue that rather than blame African states for the underperformance of foreign direct investment, policy makers should be more humanistic in entering into economic agreement with the advanced countries of the world and ensure that such agreements accommodate certain positive values of the host continent. It therefore concludes that with interculturalism as the foundation of any economic solution to Africa’s development problem, whether external or homegrown, Africans would appreciate and participate more in development activities that concern them.
The Concept of the Servant of God and Isaiah’s Connection: A Politico-Theological Response to Recession
Authors: Obielosi Dominic C.
Published: March 2021

To say that Nigeria is yet to be met with great and good news of feats and development since after independence is not an exaggeration. The true face is that the little the colonial masters did before they handed over is what we have enjoyed. Now most of them have dilapidated. There is no sign of a better future. One wonders what happened to Nigerian Telecommunications. There was a time we have phone boots on the streets. With a coin one can conveniently make calls. Fax machines were available in offices for private and public use. One can even send a telegram. To say that GSM and internet replaced them is an escapist manoeuvre. Think of Lagos Main Land Bridges, Niger Bridge, trains etc. People attribute the cause to corruption. The leaders are singled out as corrupt. But who are the leaders? People tend to limit their searchlight to the President, Senators and Governors. Evidently, they are not the managers of parastatals. They are not the law enforcement agencies etc. Yet, the truth is still obvious that a good leader can always push his subjects to a set vision and mission. What Nigeria needs is a servant leader. This paper is structured to examine in the main, the concept of the Servant of God, a servant leader as envisioned by Prophet Isaiah in what is popularly known as the Servant Songs. It is the belief of the researcher that a leader of such calibre is what Nigeria needs even in her recession to move forward.
Genre-Based Approach to the Analysis of Introductions in Doctoral Seminars of the Department of English, Unizik, Awka
Authors: Ezeifeka Chinwe
Published: March 2021

This paper analyses selected research article introductions of doctoral seminars in the Department of English Language and Literature, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, to determine how these academic writings follow specific formats characteristic of such genres. Specifically the work looks at the staged cognitive organisation of the selected samples in line with the requisite schematic or generic structure postulated in Bhatia (1993) and adopted by the University of Southern California (USC). Every genre is characterized by culture-bound unique structuring and communicative purposes that give it generic coherence. Research article introduction is an academic sub-genre with specified conventions characterising genres from the academic culture/community. A total of eighteen samples of research introductions were analysed, the aim being to determine whether the cognitive move structures in the samples conform with, or depart from, the conventionalized patterns of this academic sub-genre and how the pattern used in the samples enabled or militated against the writers’ achievement of the desired communicative purposes. A critical reading of doctoral seminars in the Department shows lack of knowledge of the unique formatting of introductions, making this work to be anchored on English for Specific Purposes (ESP) with particular emphasis on English for Academic Purposes (EAP). The baseline of the findings is to discover the present proficiency of these group of learners, enlighten budding academics on the move structure of article introductions in order to achieve generic coherence as well as target proficiency in that sub-genre of academic writing.
Oil Exploitation, Neglect of Coal and the Ngwo Society, 1909 - 1987
Authors: Ani Uchenna S. , Odife Ikenna
Published: March 2021

Coal was one of the catalysts of the Industrial Revolution which started in England and spread to other parts of Europe. It provided the main source of primary energy for industry and transportation. The spread of coal mining to Africa was as a result of European conquest and subsequent colonization. The conquest of Ngwo in 1908 led to the discovery and eventual mining of coal in Enugu-Ngwo from 1915. In the period exploitation lasted, coal from the town furnished the energy needed for transportation, industrialization and urban development in Nigeria. It also provided direct and indirect employment to people across Europe and Africa and as well facilitated international trade between Nigeria and her partners across the world. Since petroleum was discovered in Nigeria in 1956 and as was found a better alternative to coal in terms of energy and wealth generation, the coal industry suffered neglect and gradually collapsed. How the collapse of the coal industry as a result of the rise of petroleum affected Ngwo people is the central theme of this paper. It contends that, though petroleum is regarded as a source of wealth to Nigeria, it is, nonetheless a source of poverty to Ngwo people. The British colonialists dispossessed them of massive farmlands upon which they operated their local economy to set up the colliery and other facilities. Also, more than 8,000 of the people who contributed their youthful years mostly as miners lost their jobs without compensation. The development prospects especially under corporate–social responsibilities and employment generation which the people ought to benefit from with the continued existence of the coal exploitation were lost with the demise of the industry. Primary sources constitute greater percentage of the sources deployed for this historical reconstruction. They include oral tradition granted by reliable informants and source materials acquired from the National Archives Enugu. They are be augmented by secondary sources which include books, journal articles and other un-published materials. Available facts will be analyzed using qualitative research methodology.
Abigbo’s Identity in Music Making and Repertory of Songs: The Mbaise People’s Heritage
Authors: Okoro Justice Chukwudi , Okubor Festus Goziem
Published: March 2021

This paper directs attention to Abigbo, an outstanding traditional music of Mbaise people of Igbo south, east of the Niger. It gears to interrupt and challenge willful observations by western-oriented music lovers’ derogatory opinion, contrary to music in traditional setting such as ‘Abigbo’. To realize this objective and prove wrong the ill-informed critics, ‘Abigbo’s uniqueness in song rendition and peculiarity in music making is conspicuously examined here as a case study. The origin and development of Abigbo, its uses, and relationship with other aspects of Mbaise culture are discussed in this work. The musical challenges are highlighted with the dance formation, movements/steps and the ensembles costumed critically analyzed. All these are essentially adumbrated in association with music making trends in contemporary Mbaise. Equally reviewed where applicable are Abigbo’s relevance and inevitable roles in achieving the goal of societal well being. Song communication supported with body language and phonic emission via vocals are equally matters of great interest here. Methods employed in the data collection are library source of information obtained from associated printed materials documented in the library shelves. The researcher consulted relevant ones, read through them during desk work, and use their extracts as backup information to the subject of discourse which he initiated. Few of the procured print media materials are equally paraphrased as and when due. Datum is also secured through participant observation. At this juncture, the researcher’s sense of sight and aural perceptions are actively utilized along with retentive memory with the view to capturing the salient points needed for the paper. A few literature reviews that border round music making in rural culture are altogether, examined to guide and back up the thrust of this discourse. Abigbo has proved its worth beyond all reasonable doubt during its performance presentation in Mbaise social culture. The musicians’ close attention to the masses, particularly the zealous ones who are inclined to get at African tribes’ traditional music to subject them to western notation is a spring board to its fame. At this juncture, we resolve that for music making through song communication to logically reign supreme in Abigbo, its practice by interested artistes should be enhanced and encouraged even beyond the ensemble’s environmental origin. This done helps to secure indigenous interest akin to norms and values within the fabric of Mbaise society.
Factors Influencing Adoption of Improved Robusta Coffee Technologies in Uganda
Authors: Luzinda Harris
Published: March 2021

Abstract. This paper draws from a cross sectional survey of 252 coffee households and 8 key informants to examine the economic, farmer and institutional factors influencing adoption of improved Robusta coffee production technologies in Uganda. Data was subjected to descriptive and inferential statistical analysis. A logit model was estimated to ascertain the factors and their influence on adoption of improved coffee production technologies. Results revealed that access to credit, availability of off-farm income, level of education, labor availability and access to extension services significantly influenced adoption. Size of land holding, gender and age (of farmer) had no significant influence on adoption, suggesting that improved coffee technologies are mostly scale, gender and age-neutral. It was concluded that coffee households’ agricultural technology adoption decisions depend on their economic circumstances, farmer characteristic and institutional effectiveness. Keywords: Economic factors;  Farmer characteristics; Institutional factors
Use of Artificial Diets with Plant Material to evaluate Banana Cultivars for Resistance to Cosmopolites sordidus
Authors: Bakaze Elyeza , Kiggundu Andrew , Tushemereirwe Wilberforce
Published: March 2021

Artificial diets rapidly establish the effectiveness of chemical-based control strategies. Diets permit preliminary evaluation of active compounds, study in-vitro larval growth cycles that are usually inaccessible and produce uniform large consistent numbers of insects as needed. With no known artificial diet, banana weevils, have always been reared on field-collected banana rhizome (corm). This study, therefore, developed and examined the effect of commercial diet recipes fortified with susceptible banana corm powder on weevil growth and development. Subsequently, corm powders from different banana cultivars were also evaluated for weevil performance. Successful laboratory rearing of the weevils to adult stage on diet was achieved in 48 days compared to 36 days in the natural banana stem. The difference in weevil larvae performance reared different corm powder, presented a novel screening method for banana genotypes. For example genotypes, Culcatta-4 (AA), Cavendish (AAA) and Kayinja (ABB) showed 0-35% of adult emergences compared to 65% in susceptible genotypes. The diet developed can be used to perform rapid bioassay experimentation to screen potential candidate proteins or molecules for a transgenic approach. It has also shown potential for rapid screening of genotypes for resistance. Keywords: Resistant banana, Laboratory weevil rearing, Resistance screening.
Host Range of Cotton Flea Beetle (Podagrica puncticollis) in a Hot Dry Tropical Environment of Ethiopia
Authors: Eshetu Agegnehu , B Mulatu , T Damte , M Wakgari
Published: March 2021

Cotton flea beetle, Podagrica puncticollis is the most destructive insect pest of cotton in north-western part of Ethiopia. This study was conducted to identify and determine the host range of cotton flea beetle in Metema area. The field survey was undertaken from June 27, 2015 to January 9, 2016 in ten kebele administrations of the district. At least three fields were prospected after every 15 days, in each kebele for host plants as well as to determine population density and percent leaf damage by adult cotton flea beetle, at different growth stages of cotton plant. The composition of plant species with damaged symptom or infested by flea beetle was analysed using quantitative means and identified by comparing specimens with description of identification manuals. A total of 11 host plant species of cotton flea beetle were identified in the cotton growing areas of Metema throughout a season. Indigofera longibarbata (Fabaceae), Hibiscus articulatus, H. cannabinus, H. vitifolius, Abutilon figarianum, Sida alba and S. urens (Malvaceae), Bidens pilosa and B. setigera (Asteraceae), Corchorus olitorius and C. trilocularis (Tiliaceae) found to be common host plants of cotton flea beetle. Thus, among the host plants, H. vitifolius, H. cannabinus, H. articulatus, C. olitorius and C. trilocularis were the most suitable hosts for adult cotton flea beetle in respect of the number of adults per plant and percent foliage damage they sustained. These findings could aid in developing longterm management strategies for this important insect pest existing in a hot dry tropical environment of north-western Ethiopia.