bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Evaluating the Robustness of Transfer Learning with Recipes on Small Data– Using Data of Birds as an Example
Authors: Liu Chuan-Ming , Wu Jung-Chih , Chang Chih-Le , Lin Hsiu-Hsia
Published: September 2024

Processing small data in machine learning often leads to challenges like low accuracy and overfitting. To address these issues effectively, it is essential to assess the integrity of the underlying problem. One effective approach to tackling such challenges is to adopt a top-down strategy, focusing on adjusting and creating a suitable framework. In this paper, various techniques will be employed to fine-tune the model for optimization. Experiments will be conducted on six distinct datasets to enhance the model’s accuracy and prevent overfitting.
Étude de l’impact du télétravail sur les travailleurs d’une entreprise de télécommunation en période de pandémie de la covid-19 en république de Guinée
Authors:   Université Gamal Abdel Nasser de Conakry, Faculté des sciences techniques et santé., Diallo FBA ,   Service National de Santé au Travail, Km9 - Matam Conakry, Rép. de Guinée., Yansane A ,   Université Gamal Abdel Nasser de Conakry, Faculté des sciences techniques et santé.,   Service National de Santé au Travail, Km9 - Matam Conakry, Rép. de Guinée., Sow A ,   Université Gamal Abdel Nasser de Conakry, Faculté des sciences techniques et santé.,   Service National de Santé au Travail, Km9 - Matam Conakry, Rép. de Guinée., Barry MS ,   Université Gamal Abdel Nasser de Conakry, Faculté des sciences techniques et santé,   Service National de Santé au Travail, Km9 - Matam Conakry, Rép. de Guinée, Keita M ,   Université Gamal Abdel Nasser de Conakry, Faculté des sciences techniques et santé,   Service National de Santé au Travail, Km9 - Matam Conakry, Rép. de Guinée, Tchicaya AF ,   Service de médecine du travail et de pathologie professionnelle, CHU de yopougon,21 Bp632 ,21 Abidjan, Côte D’ivoire
Published: September 2024

Introduction: La pandémie de COVID-19 a contraint les organisations à mettre en place des mesures de résilience parmi lesquelles, le télétravail. Dans notre contexte africain en général et subsaharien en particulier, les coupures régulières de courant et le débit internet instable compliquent le télétravail. L’objectif de ce travail était d’évaluer l’impact du télétravail sur la productivité et la satisfaction des travailleurs en télécommunication au cours de la période Covid-19. Méthodologie : Il s’agissait d’une étude transversale étendue sur 2 mois au sein d’une entreprise de télécommunication en Guinée. L’étude a porté sur les télétravailleurs durant notre période d’enquête qui ont accepté de participer à l’étude. Nous avons recueilli et analysé avec une attention particulière sur les caractéristiques socioprofessionnelles, les caractéristiques du télétravail, l’évaluation de la satisfaction et la productivité des télétravailleurs. Résultats: le taux de télétravailleur était de 32%. L’âge moyen était de 36,94 ± 6,69 [23-52] avec 58% d’hommes. Il n’y avait pas de différence statistiquement significative entre les horaires du travail chez les télétravailleurs et les travailleurs en présentiel (P=0,275). Les télétravailleurs avaient une satisfaction élevée que dans 5.41%. Cependant, le télétravail avait un impact positif sur les conditions de travail dans 72,97%. Comparés aux travailleurs en présentiel, la productivité des télétravailleurs était supérieure (P = 0.0356). Conclusion: Le télétravail avait un impact positif sur les conditions de travail , la productivité des télétravailleurs ainsi que la relation avec leur famille. Mots-clés : Télétravail, Télécommunication, Covid-19, Guinée.
Gigantomastie bilatérale non gravidique à propos d’un cas
Authors:   Service de chirurgie générale, Faye AC ,   Hôpital Général Idrissa POUYE. BP 3270 Dakar, Ndiaye M ,   Service de chirurgie générale ; Hôpital Général Idrissa POUYE. BP 3270 Dakar, Diop A ,   Service de chirurgie générale ; Hôpital Général Idrissa POUYE. BP 3270 Dakar, Ka I ,   Service de chirurgie générale ; Hôpital Général Idrissa POUYE. BP 3270 Dakar, Diop PS ,   Service de chirurgie générale ; Hôpital Général Idrissa POUYE. BP 3270 Dakar
Published: September 2024

La gigantomastie est une affection bénigne rare de cause inconnue qui touche habituellement la femme jeune. Une hypersensibilité aux hormones sexuelles est souvent évoquée. Du fait des complications mécaniques et psychologiques liées aux poids et volume excessifs des seins, un traitement chirurgical rapide et efficace s’impose car un traitement médical est souvent voué à un échec. L’objectif de cette étude est de rapporter un cas rare de gigantomastie non gravidique non juvénile survenant chez une patiente de 42ans. Mots-clés : gigantomastie, mastectomie curage axillaire.
Not Your Father’s Islamist TV: Changing Programming on Hizbullah’s al-Manar
Authors: Baylouny Anne Marie
Published: September 2024

The image of Islamist media is one of grim old men dictating extremist and male-centered religious precepts; Hizbullah's al-Manar television, not just Islamist but also owned by a political party with a militia, has been equated with broadcasting terrorism and waging psychological operations against its enemies.[i] Yet much of al-Manar today is nothing like the picture painted of the station. Classified as terrorist by the U.S., most topics broadcast have little to do with Hizbullah, its resistance, Shi'a religious teaching, or the fight against Israel. On Hizbullah’s al-Manar, non-veiled women dominate the airwaves on many programs. Only a small minority of programs on the television is religious. Christians regularly participate as experts and audience members, including priests and bishops, and scientific studies from the west are used as affirmative demonstrations of how Lebanese need to change. Problems are discussed in an open-ended, non-authoritative format, and a broad, multi-communal audience regularly participates. Programming promotes values often considered western, such as individual and human rights, and non-violence. Television shows tackle domestic violence by patriarchal figures and protest violence in video games. In a style echoing Oprah, civil society is urged to volunteer and help the disadvantaged, even though this affects the core of what many assert is Hizbullah's base of legitimacy--its provision of social services.
Libyan Berbers struggle to assert their identity online
Authors: al-Rumi Aisha
Published: September 2024

In Tmazight tawalt means “word.” In 2001, one of Libya’s leading Berber activists in exile chose Tawalt as the name for a website that he had conceived as a forum open to Libyan Berbers who wanted to have their voice – or words – heard. Over the following eight years Tawalt.com became more than just another blog for the Libyan community in exile. Mohammad Umadi, who was 30-years-old when he launched the website and has since adopted the Berber name Madghis, started collecting scholarly publications on Libyan Berbers, and assembled the largest digital database on the history and language of his native community, including poetry recordings and downloadable books. True to its name, Tawalt gradually became the main cultural and political conduit for Libyan Berbers, a platform they also used to press for greater rights and recognition for their community, which the government allegedly discriminated against. The following it drew among the exiled community as well as inside the Jamahiriya led some scholars to believe that Tawalt was contributing to the birth of a Libyan Berber civil society. In February 2009, however, Tawalt suddenly froze all its activities. Those discussion forums and recorded words, which had previously launched the site as a loquacious meeting point for the Libyan Berbers, were gradually removed. Umadi stopped updating the website and posted the announcement “Tawalt closes its doors” on its Arabic homepage. Users were warned that by the end of 2009 the website will be removed altogether from the ether. Had Tawalt been forced into silence? Had this nascent Berber civil society muffled itself? Reached by phone, Umadi declined to comment on the decision to shut down his website. “I hope you understand…” he pleaded, leaving possible explanations unaddressed.
I want my MTV
Authors: El Baltaji Dana
Published: September 2024

It was bound to happen. Given globalization’s boost of celebrity obsession around the world, it was only a matter of time before the world’s biggest name in the music and youth entertainment industry would tap into the consumer hungry, but conservative Middle East. The fact is, Arab youth are far too lucrative of a market to let politics and prejudices get in the way of business. It’s that simple. So simple, in fact, it astonishes that up until MTV Arabia’s crew of teeny-bobs—with their spiky hair and western education—flashed their designer jeans on screens across Arabia that no one has tapped into this money-spinning market before. While there are over 50 music channels in the region, only one of them airs primarily western content. But with the hefty number of music channels already in operation in the Middle East, what is the big deal about introducing yet another? The obvious answer is that MTV has a penchant for airing controversial material and making a mockery of convention. And of course, it’s an American brand.
Censorship and social realism at the Cairo Book Fair
Authors: Wassmann Ingrid
Published: September 2024

The once bustling Nasr City Fair Grounds now stand empty. The hundreds of participating publishers have packed up, the exhibition stands dismantled and the thousands of visitors, scholars, students and families gone home with their new books. This year marked the 40th Cairo International Book Fair (CIBF), the oldest and largest in the Arab world. But how does this milestone reflect the state of Egypt’s book industry? Today the country’s around 300 private and public publishers continue to face hurdles of censorship and low readership. While some experts argue that a new breed of gritty social realist literature is finding popularity among a growing reading public, ambivalent public and government attitudes towards censorship mean that certain areas will remain out of bounds. One of the optimists is economist and social critic Galal Amin, author of Whatever Happened to the Egyptians? that won him the CIBF prize for best book in social studies in 1998. He attributes some of the improvements in the country’s book industry to the wider distribution of books and the emergence of new, more user-friendly bookstores. “Buying a book here has now become altogether a more pleasant experience,” said Amin at a book launch, joking about how until recently browsers were discouraged from touching books in bookstores. Amin also believes that as a result of globalization, people around the world are more prone to buy Egyptian literature as a means to learn about the Arab world. But most importantly, he credits the changing tastes of a new generation of Egyptians who would rather read and write about the social ills and hardships of average people rather than the nation’s past political wounds.
BOOK REVIEW | Media Censorship in the Middle East
Authors: Measor John
Published: September 2024

This slim volume by Jabbar Audah al-Obaidi promises to address questions of media censorship and the techniques used to bring it about in the Middle East. It delivers a spirited argument summoning the need for an open and unfettered media environment across the region. Identifying an insular and regressive culture as well as poor socioeconomic development as evidence of past failures, al-Obaidi calls on authorities to alter policy in an effort to advance their societies and engage citizens. He sees this as beneficent to regime and populace alike and claims that advances in information technology make constitutional, security, and political brakes on media expression and consumption untenable moving forward. Al-Obaidi would have been more persuasive had his examination incorporated the many critical analyses examining Arabic language media that have emerged in recent years. Absent any engagement with such recent scholarship, he brazenly states, “…information and data on this issue are both nonexistent and scarce.” (11-12) Moreover, this text was poorly edited, and the grammatical, word choice, and spelling errors run the risk of distracting readers from the substantive issues engaged in his analysis. Additionally, the volume is characterized by its imprecision, especially in its unwillingness to clarify terms or to place the processes al-Obaidi describes in the context of the authoritarian state apparatus prevalent across the Arab world. Finally, it is at times unclear what time period al-Obaidi is addressing, as repeated references to a bi-polar world are undermined by contradictory claims addressing the post-Cold War global expansion of liberal humanitarian agendas. In al-Obaidi’s exposition, references to the importance of new communications technology used elsewhere in the world following the end of the Cold War are left disconnected from the experience of the Arab world. Furthermore, he argues that the advances of the post-Cold War, American-centered liberal order, have yet to fully penetrate the Arab World because of state- and elite-supported censorship and the sociological limitations of Arab culture.
Sampling Folklore: The re-popularization of Sufi inshad in Egyptian dance music
Authors: Peterson Jennifer
Published: September 2024

Beneath the looming limestone precipice that borders the old city of Cairo stands the shrine of Omar Ibn Al-Farid, a 13th century Sufi mystic and poet. Much of his verse is metaphorical love poetry, and, now deemed classic, is most typically recited in the Sufi lyrical genre called inshad. Most poignantly, perhaps, it is performed live at the late-night celebration held annually in Ibn Al-Farid's honor.[1] Revered as a saint since the generation following his decease, Ibn Al-Farid is today venerated with a mulid, or saint festival, held in and around his shrine. [Music Clip 1: Sheikh Yassin Al-Tuhami performs Ibn Al-Farid lyrics live] Although relatively modest in scale, the mulid of Ibn Al-Farid is a festival much like those held for hundreds of other saints in Egypt, combining spiritually-focused ritual with fairground fun. Pilgrims visit the shrine to pay their respects and make supplications amidst crowds praying, socializing, singing Sufi poetry, eating, and even sleeping in the mosque area. Near the shrine and throughout the festive space, Sufi patrons provide charitable "services" of food, water, hot drinks, and sweets to the public. Outside upon a stage draped in colorful cloth, a professional performer of inshad provides the musical and lyrical setting for dhikr, an emotionally-charged, rhythmic swaying movement whose practice is meant to engender a heightened spiritual state. Dervishes in eccentric dress converge on the mulid space, sometimes sporting ornate canes, flags, and symbolic props such as wooden swords. Families picnic on the pavement and children frolic among the fairground attractions, rambunctiously riding swings and playing at shooting galleys. Youth swagger in their most fashionable clothes, makeshift cafés fill up, and itinerant vendors hawk snacks, toys, party hats, trinkets, and cassette tapes of inshad and other music genres.
Taking Stock
Authors: Pintak Lawrence
Published: September 2024

One step forward, two steps back. That seems to be the depressing pattern of Arab media these days. If my kids brought home a report card with such mixed grades, they would be grounded for a month. Unfortunately for Arab journalists, the stakes are even higher. We begin the new year with scores of Arab reporters, editors and bloggers languishing in prison cells across the region. Even more depressingly, in 2007 48 journalists gave their lives practicing their craft in the Middle East, the vast majority of them in Iraq, where, as of this writing, 207 journalists have died since 2003, the greatest toll of reporters since World War II. There are many reasons journalists have become targets in the conflict zones of the Middle East and broader Muslim world. Among them is the sad reality that the media has allowed itself to become a weapon of war and, in the process therefore, a target. Just look at the pattern: over the past six years, according to Reporters sans Frontiers, journalist deaths worldwide have increased by 244 percent, from 25 in 2002 to 85 last year. In the years after 9/11, news organizations in the West – particularly the U.S. – and the Arab world came to be identified with the combatants on each side. More recently, there has been a recognition in newsrooms on both sides of the world that news organizations have allowed themselves to become participants in the conflict. But the damage has already been done. Today, those who plan war – whether in the Pentagon, the slums of Baghdad or the mountains of Pakistan – recognize that, as al-Qaeda’s Ayman Al-Zawahiri put it, "More than half of the battle is taking place on the battlefield of the media.”
The rise and decline of London as a pan-Arab media hub
Authors: Jarrah Najm
Published: September 2024

Slowly but surely over the past few years, London has been losing its status as unchallenged capital of the pan-Arab media. Some important players on the London Arab media scene have moved out, either wholly or in part. Those that remain are being eclipsed by newer outlets based in the region, or challenged by changing media production and consumption patterns in the Arab world. Others have waned, or wound up completely. The factors that combined to turn the British capital into a magnet for the Arab media – money, technology, expertise and political conditions – are nowadays having something of a reverse effect. There is still an enormous amount of Arab media activity around. But while London was central to the emergence of a pan-Arab daily press and the proliferation of transnational Arabic publications from the late 1970s to the 1990s, it is a relatively modest participant in the pan-Arab media’s current satellite TV-led and entertainment-oriented booms. So, what has changed over the years? Not much about Britain as host, but plenty about the Arab media and the environment in which they operate. London’s stint as their hub can be seen as having marked a transition between two stages in the development of the pan-Arab media: the Lebanese phase, when the Beirut press and publishing industry acted as a kind of pan-Arab media by proxy, and the al-Jazeera era with concomitant relaxation of media controls in many Arab countries.
Palestinian anti-narratives in the films of Elia Suleiman
Authors: Abu-Remaileh Refqa
Published: September 2024

The ongoing nature of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has had a marked effect on Palestinian literature and film. Palestine has been and continues to be an intensely political and politicized subject matter. As the youngest of the art forms to treat the conflict, the medium of film raises a number of questions on art and politics. With many claiming that wars are being fought as much on our TV screens and in the media as they are on the ground, documentaries and fiction films have played a vital role in challenging stereotyped media images of the conflict. In this paper I will focus on the Palestinian-Israeli filmmaker Elia Suleiman, whose films have pioneered a reflective meditative cinematic language, introducing a new visual vocabulary to images of the conflict. Born in Nazareth in 1960, Suleiman began by making short films in the early 1990s during his self-imposed exile in New York. He later resettled in Jerusalem, out of which emerged his two full-length fiction films, Chronicle of a Disappearance (1996) and Divine Intervention (2002). Suleiman’s hallmarks are non-linear episodic narratives that rely less on plot and characterization and more on the combination of film structure, editing and soundtrack to create meaning. The emphasis on form and the non-verbal is in stark contrast to many other Palestinian films where the spoken word plays an important role, and understandably so. The oral tradition surrounding the conflict is brimming with stories waiting to be told, documented or covered. In fact, the ongoing occupation of Palestinians is like a story-factory, with countless stories being produced every day.
Social media and the Gaza conflict
Authors: Ward Will
Published: September 2024

Israel’s assault on Gaza in response to Hamas rocket fire has returned social media to the forefront of Middle East politics. More than any previous round of Israeli-Palestinian fighting, Israel is using its military might to control media on the battlefield, while partisans of both sides strive to influence public opinion using social media. As its air campaign ramped up in late December, the Israeli military debuted its own YouTube channel to broadcast clips of surveillance and airstrikes, eager to portray its weapons as precise and show off its technological command of the battlespace. Hamas has also sought to use the media. In Gaza, a group of Hamas fighters allowed Algerian journalist Zouheir Alnajjar to videotape the inside of their homemade rocket factory. In a gripping clip making the rounds in the blogosphere, we see the camera jerk suddenly as a masked man casually flicks a lighter to ignite a test spoonful of homemade rocket fuel. While belligerents sought to telegraph their strength, groups supporting both Israel and the Palestinians also used social media to do just the opposite, inviting supporters to advertise their side’s plight on the social networking site Facebook. Users were asked to “donate their status,” that would automatically display an up-to-the-minute tally of the rockets hitting southern Israel or a running count of the Palestinian dead and wounded. When logging in to Facebook, friends and acquaintances of a ‘status donor’ would see a gripping reminder of the conflict, such as “9:25pm: 3 additional Hamas rockets hit Israel. Total today: 33. Total since the year 2000: 8706,” in place of a mundane update like, “Jim is at the movies.” The Jerusalem Post reported that 10,000 users signed up to display the “Qassam Count” in the conflict’s first three days.
BOOK REVIEW | The Moral Resonance of Arab Media
Authors: Olszewska Zuzanna
Published: September 2024

Flagg Miller’s painstakingly researched work is an ethnographic and historical inquiry into the intersections of media technologies, discourses of political engagement, and Yemeni poets’ “struggle… to craft moral authority [and] to promote and preserve their relevance for contemporary audiences” (p. 2). At 525 pages (including appendices with translations, transliterations of some poems discussed and exhaustive endnotes), it takes some dedication to complete. Nonetheless, it bears ample rewards for the patient reader, particularly for advanced students of Arabic literature, media studies, linguistic, social and communication anthropology, comparative political theory and public sphere studies. It is thoroughly grounded in, and makes important rejoinders to, the theoretical literature of most of these fields. If Steven Caton’s well-known ethnography on oral poetics and its political efficacy in face-to-face tribal communities in northern Yemen can be seen as a largely synchronic analysis, Miller picks up where Caton leaves off, adopting a broader perspective and a more diachronic approach to poetics and media. Focusing on audio-cassette poets and singers from Yafi‘ in southern Yemen, he seeks to link “modes of social subjectivity to historical shifts in media practice” (p. 454). Moreover, he offers a nuanced reading of such shifts by exploring how Yemenis understand the ethical valences of different kinds of media, particularly the visual and the sonic, the graphic and the oral, and their various re-combinations, and how they deploy them for rhetorical purposes.
PENGARUH PELAKSANAAN SHALAT JUMAT TERHADAP KUALITAS HIDUP MASYARAKAT: PERSPEKTIF PSIKOLOGI POSITIF
Authors: Muhammad Hajid Hasibu Wahab  , Rawuh Yuda Yuwana
Published: September 2024

Artikel penelitian ini menginvestigasi pengaruh pelaksanaan Shalat Jumat terhadap kualitas hidup masyarakat dari perspektif psikologi positif. Shalat Jumat adalah salah satu ibadah penting dalam agama Islam, dan penelitian ini bertujuan untuk memahami bagaimana praktik ini dapat berkontribusi positif terhadap aspek-aspek kualitas hidup seperti kebahagiaan, kesejahteraan, dan hubungan sosial. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode penelitian kuantitatif dan kualitatif untuk menganalisis data dari survei dan wawancara dengan masyarakat Muslim yang aktif dalam melaksanakan Shalat Jumat. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa Shalat Jumat dapat memiliki dampak positif pada kualitas hidup masyarakat, termasuk meningkatkan kebahagiaan dan kesejahteraan psikologis. Artikel ini juga mengidentifikasi faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhi pengaruh positif Shalat Jumat dan memberikan rekomendasi bagi pemangku kepentingan terkait untuk lebih memahami dan memanfaatkan praktik ini dalam konteks kesejahteraan masyarakat.
Optimalisasi Pendidikan Islam di Kuttab: Strategi untuk Meningkatkan Pemahaman Anak-Anak terhadap Nilai-Nilai Islam
Authors: Jannah Iswara Wasundari Tamarul , Yuwana Rawuh Yuda
Published: September 2024

Pendidikan Islam di Kuttab memiliki peran sentral dalam membentuk karakter anak-anak, namun tantangan dalam meningkatkan pemahaman nilai-nilai Islam seringkali muncul. Artikel pengabdian masyarakat ini mengusulkan dan mengimplementasikan strategi optimalisasi pendidikan Islam di Kuttab dengan fokus pada meningkatkan pemahaman anak-anak terhadap nilai-nilai Islam. Strategi ini mencakup perubahan metode pembelajaran, penggunaan teknologi pendidikan, peningkatan keterlibatan orang tua, dan pemberdayaan guru melalui pelatihan terkait. Metode penelitian menggunakan pendekatan pengembangan dengan lokasi penelitian di Kuttab tertentu. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa implementasi strategi berhasil meningkatkan pemahaman nilai-nilai Islam di antara siswa. Partisipasi aktif siswa dalam kegiatan pembelajaran meningkat, didukung oleh metode pembelajaran yang lebih interaktif dan pemanfaatan teknologi. Keterlibatan orang tua juga terbukti meningkat melalui pertemuan rutin dan kolaborasi dalam kegiatan pendidikan. Guru, setelah mendapatkan pelatihan, mampu mengadaptasi metode pembelajaran baru, menciptakan lingkungan belajar yang lebih menarik. Kesimpulan dari penelitian ini menegaskan bahwa strategi optimalisasi pendidikan Islam di Kuttab memiliki dampak positif pada pemahaman nilai-nilai Islam, partisipasi siswa, dan keterlibatan orang tua. Artikel ini memberikan kontribusi pada pemahaman praktis tentang pendidikan Islam di lembaga tradisional seperti Kuttab dan menggarisbawahi pentingnya kolaborasi aktif antara sekolah, siswa, dan keluarga. Implikasi dan arah penelitian selanjutnya juga dibahas untuk memperkuat dan mengembangkan strategi ini dalam konteks pendidikan Islam yang lebih luas.
Peningkatan Keterampilan Literasi di Merauke: Program Baca-Tulis untuk Anak-Anak Pedesaan
Authors: Yuwana Rawuh Yuda
Published: September 2024

This program aims to improve literacy skills in reading and writing among children in rural areas of Merauke, who still face disparities in access to quality education. Through a participatory approach, the program involves teachers, parents, and the local community in implementing literacy activities designed to foster reading interest and enhance children's writing abilities. Activities include providing relevant reading materials, training for teachers and volunteers, and interactive reading and writing sessions. Preliminary results show a significant improvement in children's literacy skills and increased community awareness of the importance of literacy education. This program is expected to serve as a sustainable model that can be replicated in other rural areas in Indonesia.
STRATEGY AND TYPE OF RELATIVE CLAUSE IN KLATEN JAVANESE
Authors: Wigati Maharsi Sri , Yuwana Rawuh Yuda
Published: September 2024

Relative clauses are essential for updating specific nouns or pronouns that can be used as explanatory meanings. This research is to study the use of markers "sik" and "kang" in the Javanese language in Klaten. The method in this study is descriptive qualitative. The data extraction technique is the skilful free-reference, while the data analysis technique is recorded analysis and note. The results of this study reveal that the relative marking language indicated by particles "sik" and "kang" uses a composition of relative clause constituents in VO type that can be used to allow the arrangement pattern of main constituents - relative clauses. Javanese language in Klaten is also included in the VO type. The basic strategy of forming its relative clause by placing main constituents in front of relative clauses or relative clauses related to relative markers consists of particles "sik" and "kang". This particle is called a ligature which functions as a connective.
SEMANTIC ANALYSIS: LEXICAL RELATIONS IN KATY PERRY'S SONG LYRICS
Authors: Talohanas Selvira A. R. , Yuwana Rawuh Yuda
Published: September 2024

Song or singing is a literary product or work of art that connects sound art and language art to become sound art which involves the melody and vocal color of the singer. This study aims to classify the types of lexical relations in Katy Perry's song lyrics and then describe their meaning according to the context of the song lyrics. Saeed's theory is used in this study as a reference for analyzing data. Based on the research results, found Homonymy, Polysemy, Synonymy, Antonymy, Hyponymy, and Meronymy in song lyrics (1) Firework (2) Roar (3) Wide Awake (4) Hot N Cold (5) Teenage Dream (6) Part of Me ( 7) Dark Horse (8) Unconditionally.
Carbon Capture Performance Enhancement of Solid State Synthesized Li4SiO4
Powders by Using Different Kind Steel Slags as SiO2 Source
Authors: Mete Fatih Kutay , Benzeşik Kağan , Turan Ahmet , Izquierdo Maria Teresa , Yücel Onuralp
Published: September 2024

The potential of lithium orthosilicate (Li4SiO4) as a material to
capture carbon dioxide (CO2) is being explored due to its excellent capture
capability and thermal stability. Currently, a significant portion of the
world's energy needs are met through the burning of fossil fuels, which
leads to an increase in atmospheric CO2 and contributes to global warming.
While fossil fuels will remain the primary source of energy for several more
years, it is crucial to develop cost-effective and environmentally friendly
technology for large-scale CO2 capture and storage before its release into
the atmosphere in order to mitigate the associated greenhouse effect. This
study focuses on optimizing the synthesis of lithium orthosilicate using a
solid-state method to enhance CO2 capture. The research involves assessing
the key characteristics of the synthesized material that improve CO2 capture
efficiency. The starting materials used for comparison include lithium
carbonate (Li2CO3), BF (blast furnace), BOF (blast oxygen furnace) and EAF
(electric arc furnace) slags, and pure reagents of silicon dioxide (SiO2).
The effect of process conditions, such as synthesis temperatures ranging
from 850 to 950°C and varying holding times of 4, 6, 8, and 10 hours in a
muffle furnace, were studied and compared. X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis
was performed to characterize the samples and slags. CO2 capture performance
of the samples were evaluated in thermobalance test under 92 vol% CO2 (N2
balance) gas concentration at 600°C. As to conclude, carbon dioxide
capturing sorbent material was produced by utilizing the slags generated as
a by-product in steel production. Thus, considering the principles of
circular economy, a material defined as waste was used as raw material for
the production of another product used for lowering atmospheric CO2 levels.
Metode Indikator Stabilitas Pada Penetapan Kadar Vitamin C Menggunakan Spektrofotometri Uv-Vis Dengan Degradasi Paksa Berupa Fotolisis
Authors: Fernanda M.A. Hanny , Kamaliyah Muhimmatul
Published: September 2024

Ascorbic acid as an antioxidant and for endurance, especially during the covid â€“ 19 season. Due to high demand, ascorbic acid manufactures are increasing their production. With the production of ascorbic acid, it is necessary to prepare a large stock of ascorbic acid in the factory. For that we need a method that can be used for ascorbid acid if degradation occurs during the storage period, especially due to photolysis. The study was conducted on samples of ascorbic acid with concentrations of 8, 10, and 12 ppm which were replicated 3 times. From the results of the absorbance value can be calculated the value of %RSD, correlation coefficient, and %Recovery. In this case, the value of %RSD = 2,0% (8 ppm); 1,7% (10 ppm); 0,5% (12 ppm); r = 0.9894; and %Recovery = 105% (8 ppm); 925 (10 ppm); 101% (12 ppm) which is in accordance with the acceptance criteria, namely %RSD = <2; r = 0.995; and %Recovery = 90-107%. Therefore, the UV spectrophotometry method can be carried out on ascorbic acid that has undergone photolysis degradation. In this case, the research results are still not perfect, so it is necessary to deepen the material on photolytically degraded ascorbic acid.
Pengaruh Brand Image Dan Label Halal Terhadap Keputusan Pembelian Kosmetik Pada Mahasiswa Sarjana Terapan Farmasi
Authors: Friska Adelia S
Published: September 2024

ABSTRAK
Kosmetik adalah produk yang menunjang penampilan fisik konsumen khususnya wanita agar terlihat lebih menarik dan menambah kepercayaan diri, maraknya produk kosmetik yang diperjual belikan di pasaran mempengaruhi minat dan menjadikan konsumen lebih selektif dalam mengambil keputusan pembelian produk kosmetik yang tepat. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui secara parsial dan simultan pengaruh Brand image  dan Label Halal terhadap keputusan pembelian kosmetik pada Mahasiswa Sarjana Terapan Farmasi Poltekkes Kemenkes Makassar. Metode penelitian bersifat deskriptif cross-sectional. dengan teknik pengambilan sampel yaitu Stratified Proportional Sampling, diperoleh 120 responden terdiri dari angkatan 2018, 2019, 2020 dan 2021. Data penelitian diperoleh dari hasil kuesioner yang dibagikan secara online dan diolah menggunakan SPSS 21. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan  bahwa secara parsial (uji t) dan simultan (uji f) pada variabel brand image  dan label halal, berpengaruh signifikan terhadap keputusan pembelian kosmetik. Hal ini juga didukung oleh hasil distribusi jawaban responden menunjukkan kategori sangat baik terhadap semua variabel.
Kata Kunci : Brand image, Label Halal dan Keputusan Pembelian
ABSTRACT
Cosmetics are products that support the physical appearance of consumers, especially women to make them look more attractive and increase self-confidence, the proliferation of cosmetic products traded in the market affects interest and makes consumers more selective in making the right purchasing decisions for cosmetic products. The purpose of this study was to determine partially and simultaneously the effect of Brand image and Halal Label on cosmetic purchasing decisions for undergraduate students of Applied Pharmacy Poltekkes, Ministry of Health Makassar. The research method is descriptive cross-sectional. with a sampling technique, namely Stratified Proportional Sampling, 120 respondents were obtained consisting of the 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021 classes. The research data were obtained from the results of questionnaires distributed online and processed using SPSS 21. The results showed that partially (t test) and Simultaneous (f test) on brand image and halal label variables, has a significant effect on cosmetic purchasing decisions. This is also supported by the results of the distribution of respondents' answers that show a very good category for all variables.
Keywords: Brand image, Halal Label and Purchase Decision
Uji Angka Kapang Khamir (Akk) Pada Jamu Beras Kencur Di Desa Karangpakel, Kecamatan Trucuk, Kabupaten Klaten
Authors: Fitri Desietha , Rahmawati Aulia Nur
Published: September 2024

Tingkat konsumsi jamu beras kencur masih diminati hingga saat ini karena dipercaya mampu memberikan berbagai manfaat untuk kesehatan. Rimpang kencur mempunyai kandungan senyawa minyak atsiri, flavonoid, dan saponin dan memiliki bioaktivitas antijamur. Tujuan dari penelitian ini yakni guna mengetahui Angka Kapang Khamir (AKK) pada jamu beras kencur. Teknik random sampling diadopsi guna memilih sampel jamu tersebut didapat dari tiga pedagang jamu di Desa Karangpakel, Kecamatan Trucuk, Kabupaten Klaten. Sampel yang telah dihomogenkan dan diencerkan ditanam dalam media PDA (Potato Dextrose Agar). Hasil yang diperoleh bahwa nilai AKK tertinggi dari jamu tersebut memiliki jumlah 140 koloni. Apabila nilai AKK tinggi, maka jamu tersebut tidak layak untuk dikonsumsi.
Kata Kunci : Jamu Beras Kencur, Nilai Angka Kapang Khamir (AKK)
Penentuan Nilai Sun Protection Factor (SPF) Ekstrak Kulit Buah Langsat (Lansium domesticum L) Sebagai Tabir Surya
Authors: Faisal Eka Oktaviani , Jumain Jumain , Salasa Alfrida Monica
Published: September 2024

Kulit Buah Langsat (Lansium domesticum L) memiliki senyawa yang dapat dipakai sebagai tabir surya. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui nilai SPF dan aktivitas tabir surya Ekstrak Kulit Buah Langsat (Lansium domesticum L). Maserasi merupakan teknik ekstraksi yang digunakan. Spektrofotometri UV-Vis digunakan untuk menghitung nilai SPF. Ekstrak Kulit Buah Langsat (Lansium domesticum L) dibuat dalam etanol 96 persen pada konsentrasi 500 ppm, 1000 ppm, 1500 ppm, 2000 ppm, dan 2500 ppm. Menghasilkan nilai SPF pada konsentrasi 500 ppm 1,78, 1000 ppm 4,5 (Minimum), 1500 ppm 6,23 (Ekstra), 2000 ppm 8,58 ppm (Maksimum), dan 2500 ppm 10,42. (Maksimum). Karena nilai SPFnya, Ekstrak Kulit Buah Langsat (Lansium domesticum L) berpotensi untuk dipakai sebagai tabir surya termasuk dalam rentang kategori minimal-maksimum.
Effects of Different Planting Densities and Planting Spaces on the Growth and Yield Attributes of Rice under Irrigated Condition
Authors: Wafa Imran Khan , Kakar Kifayatulla
Published: September 2024

Background: Rice is a staple food for majority of the world’s population. Biotic and abiotic factors can affect its growth, yield and quality attributes. An open field experiment was conducted during the rice-growing period from March to October 2015 to identify the effects of different planting densities and planting spacing on the growth attributes and yield performances of a high tillering capacity Indica rice variety (IR-28). Materials and Methods: The experiment was conducted under lowland condition in the research farm of Tsukuba International Center, Japan with four different planting densities and three replications in a randomized complete block design. Four different planting densities were selected as high density (15x20cm), standard density (15x30cm), medium density (25x25cm) and low density (30x30cm). Rice growth traits including plant length, tiller number, SPAD value and leaf color; yield and yield components consisting of panicle number per unit land area, spikelet number per panicle, ripening ratio, and 1000 grain weight were compared. Findings: The greatest grain yield was obtained from high planting density which was 6.5 ton per ha and the lowest (5.8 ton/ha) was from medium planting density. Low planting density increased plant length, tiller number per hill, SPAD value (chlorophyll content), leaf color beside panicle number per hill, spikelet number per panicle and percentage of ripened grain. Conclusion: This study clearly elucidated the effects of planting density on rice crop and helps farmers in the achievement of optimum yield. Thus, to obtain a satisfactory yield, planting density must be considered based on soil type and production requirement.
Effects of Supplemental Japanese Pepper Seed on Thermoregulation, and Blood Monoamines in Heat Exposed Broiler Chicks
Authors: Maroof Khushdil , Oka Takao , Himmat Jamaat Khan , Fujihara Mika , Bungo Takashi
Published: September 2024

Background: This study was carried out to assess the effects of enriched feed with Japanese Pepper Seeds (1 and 2%) on plasma monoamine and thermoregulation in broilers. Materials and Methods: A day old male broiler chicks were obtained from hatchery (Fukuda, Japan), and were kept in cages with floor of wire-mesh; 3 broilers in each cage. The surrounding heat was controlled at 30 ± 1 0C for three days in the beginning of experiment, and gently lowered to 26 ± 1 0C until broilers reached 11 days of age. Findings: The study result indicated that after 6 days of feeding, their feed intake and body weight gain were not significantly different among groups of control and supplemented with Japanese pepper seeds. However, feed conversion ratio decreased significantly with feed of 1% Japanese pepper seeds against 2% in Japanese pepper seeds broilers (P<0.05). Subsequently, all groups were subjected to high heat at 38o C, for 3 hours with water but not feed. The tendency was in wing drop and panting during temperature exposure groups (P>0.05). With acute heat stress, the temperature of all groups was elevated. The effects of time and Japanese pepper seeds were significant (P<0.05) in temperature exposed broilers. The interaction between time and Japanese pepper seeds were measured to reflect a tendency of significance (P<0.01). The affinities were measured in rectal temperature of control group and 2.0% group of Japanese pepper seeds broilers to reduce after 2h, although they kept advancing in 1% group of Japanese pepper seeds. There were no significant differences in the level of plasma monoamines in 5- HT, Ad and NA among groups (P>0.05), although the level of DA in plasma in 2% Japanese pepper seeds in broilers was lower than control one (P<0.05). Conclusion: Present investigation recommend that Japanese pepper seeds affect thermoregulation through the catecholaminergic system in broilers. Nevertheless, it may have adverse effects under long period high temperature in chicks.
Evaluation of Norfloxacin Acute Toxicity in Five Day old Broiler Chicken
Authors: Darmel Mohammad Bayer , Waziri Mohammad Yunas , Nassary NoorAgha , Rahmani Mohammad Malyar , Omari Palwasha , Halim Mahshed , Khalili Fazal Akbar , Ahmady Huma , Arain Muhammad Bilawal
Published: September 2024

Background: Norfloxacin is a second generation fluoroquinolone, used widely against sensitive organisms. After the withdrawal of enrofloxacin by the U.S. FDA for its use in poultry, the importance of Norfloxacin is getting increased and already some veterinary formulations were introduced by pharmaceutical companies in the market. The present study was undertaken to evaluate the acute toxicity of Norfloxacin IP, a member of fluoroquinolone in five day old broiler chicken. Materials and Methods: Healthy 60 COBB broiler a day old chicks, with an average body weight of 45±5g were acclimatized to the laboratory condition for five days. Six groups; each group consisting 10 experimental birds were used for determining LD50 safety value. Clinical observations were made. The tissue samples from concerned organs of all the birds were collected for histopathological study. Findings: The maximum dose of Norfloxacin, where no mortality occurred was 1.4 g /kg. The dose at which 100 percent mortality observed was calculated to be 1.8 g/kg /body weight. The  clinical signs of toxicity observed before death were dullness, excitability, and drowsiness, circling, oozing of fluid from mouth and gasping for breath with beaks wide open. The calculated LD50 value for Norfloxacin was found to be 1.55 g/kg for 24 h observation period. The histopathological findings observed in concerned organs were: hemorrhage, congestion and tubular epithelium degeneration and necrosis in kidney, Hemorrhage, edema and infiltration of few inflammatory cells in heart. Congestion of vessels and dilatation of sinusoidal space were observed. Perivascular hepatocytes were degenerated with infiltration of few inflammatory cells on liver and sever lymphocytolysis in spleen. Conclusion: Norfloxacin can be classified as a moderately toxic drug according to Global Harmonization System (GHS) for classification of toxic compounds as per given protocol.
Diabetic Ketoacidosis Prevalence and Clinical Presentation in Diabetic Covid Comorbidity in Nangarhar Afghanistan
Authors: Ibrahimi Ikramullah , Ahmadzai Hayatullah , Sarwari Zakirullah , Shams Salam Jan , Azimee Mohammad Azim , Mohammadi Said Mohammad
Published: September 2024

Background: Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) as an acute complication of diabetes mellitus is a life threatening medical emergency causing mortality and morbidity in patients. The aim of the study was to find out DKA prevalence and existing clinical presentation in diabetic-covid comorbidity. Materials and Methods: The retrospective cross sectional study included 791 both male and female diabetic patients with a confirmed diagnosis of covid 19 based on purposive sampling for a period of one year from Aug 2021 to Aug 2022 from two centers (Corona Center and Nangarhar Regional Hospital) in Nangarhar, Afghanistan. Findings: The study included 300 (37.9%) male and 491 (62.1%) female patients, 45 (5.7%) Type 1, 746 (94.3%) Type 2 diabetic patients, 511 (64.6%) old diabetes, and 280 (35.4%) new onset diabetes patients. Mean age at the study was 58.7±13, BMI was31.2±4, Systolic BP128.3±24.4, oxygen was 79.1±15.4, glycaemia was 297.5±8, and mean hospital stay was 8.8±8.1 days. In fact, 149 out of 791 patients (19%) had diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) of which 140 patients out of 149 (93.96%) were hyperglycemic and 9 out of 149 patients (6%) were euglycemic DKA. Furthermore, DKA was more prevalent in males 58.4% vs 41.6% in females, young age (20-39 years) 31.2%, Type 1 diabetes 33.3% vs 21.9% type 2 diabetes, and old diabetes 19.5% vs 17.6% new onset diabetes. Moreover, clinical presentation included dyspnea 143 (96%), abdominal pain 124 (83.2%), nausea/vomiting 121 (81.2%), tachycardia 105 (70.5%), polydipsia of diabetic classic symptoms 70 (47%), and crepitation in chest auscultation though not significant 77 (51.7%). Pneumonia 92 (61.7%), and ARDS 54 (36.2%) were respectively the most prevalent clinical and X-ray findings in DKA patients. In addition, hospitalization duration was comparatively higher for females (10 vs 9), T2DM (10 vs 6), and new onset DM (14 vs 7) and it increased with advancing age (most for patients of ≥ 80 years) in DKA. Death and referral measures were significantly different across DKA positive and DKA negative patients i.e. 37.6% vs 14.8% and 16.1% vs 8.1% respectively. While, discharge status with home rest was more prevalent in DKA negative patients i.e. 46.3% vs 77.1%. Conclusion: We concluded that DKA prevalence has increased almost two fold in diabetic patients suffering from corona virus affecting in-hospital mortality, hospital stay, morbidity and the preexisting clinical picture. In fact, obesity, hypertension, young age and male gender were significant factors contributing to the prevalence. In addition, mortality and referral rates to specialty specific centers were significantly higher in DKA positive patients with the aforementioned factors being the leading contributors.
Determinants of Firm-Customer Relationship Quality: An Empirical Investigation using SME Technique
Authors: Ferdous Ahmed Shahriar , Chowdhury Abul Hannan
Published: September 2024

The aim of the study is to develop and empirically test a conceptual model that demonstrates the determinants of firm-customer relationship quality in the Bangladeshi mobile telecom sector. To test the theoretical model, 630 customers subscribed to different mobile operators in Bangladesh were surveyed. Structural equation modeling was applied to investigate the associations between the constructs in the model. The findings of the study reveal that of the different underpinnings of relationship marketing (RM), communication was the only underpinning having direct, nonetheless, negative impact on firm-customer relationship quality. Results further reflect that the key determinants of relationship marketing are significant predictors of overall satisfaction, which in turn impacts relationship quality.