bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Exploration of customer churn routes using machine learning probabilistic models
Authors:   , Garcia Gomez David
Published: October 2023

The ongoing processes of globalization and deregulation are changing the competitive framework in the majority of economic sectors. The appearance of new competitors and technologies entails a sharp increase in competition and a growing preoccupation among service providing companies with creating stronger bonds with customers. Many of these companies are shifting resources away from the goal of capturing new customers and are instead focusing on retaining existing ones. In this context, anticipating the customer¿s intention to abandon, a phenomenon also known as churn, and facilitating the launch of retention-focused actions represent clear elements of competitive advantage.
Data mining, as applied to market surveyed information, can provide assistance to churn management processes. In this thesis, we mine real market data for churn analysis, placing a strong emphasis on the applicability and interpretability of the results. Statistical Machine Learning models for simultaneous data clustering and visualization lay the foundations for the analyses, which yield an interpretable segmentation of the surveyed markets. To achieve interpretability, much attention is paid to the intuitive visualization of the experimental results. Given that the modelling techniques under consideration are nonlinear in nature, this represents a non-trivial challenge. Newly developed techniques for data visualization in nonlinear latent models are presented. They are inspired in geographical representation methods and suited to both static and dynamic data representation.
Propagació d'informació en grafs i digrafs que modelen xarxes d'interconnexió simètriques
Authors:   , Mitjana Riera Margarida
Published: October 2023

L'objectiu d'aquesta tesi és aprofondir en l'estudi d'una certa família de dígrafs, els dígrafs de prefix-cicle, donant nous detalls sobre la seva estructura, noves maneres d'enfocar el seu estudi, i dissenyant bons esquemes de comunicació. Es completa d'aquesta forma l'estudi iniciat per altres autors i s'en refoça el seu interès com a bon model de xarxa d'interconnexió.
Death Rattle, not Dashikis
Authors: Terrefe Selamawit D. ,   DePaul University
Published: October 2023

“Death Rattle, not Dashikis: Nikki Giovanni’s Black Judgement Meets Hannah Arendt” presents a critical interdisciplinary perspective on racial formation and modern political thought. Deploying blackness as a principle that simultaneously animates and interrupts the logic of Western political and philosophical thought, the essay contends that the construction of blackness is central to the discursive violence imposed by Western political theory and metaphysics. It argues that the “death rattle” emerging from Giovanni’s Black revolutionary poiesis bears no distinction between creating, knowing, and doing—poiesis, theoria, and praxis. Rather, it calls for the destruction of the theoretical principles organizing the world of its (non)being. In other words, the aporia of Black revolutionary poiesis is its politics. Accordingly, this paper examines what is at stake politically, poetically, and philosophically when modern antiblackness becomes critically foregrounded as a suppressed and hitherto mostly invisible parameter of modern thought.
Every Man Has His Price
Authors: Capener Sean ,   DePaul University
Published: October 2023

Immanuel Kant’s moral philosophy is organized around an exclusive disjunction of dignity or price, equality or equivalence. In his 1797 Doctrine of Right, however, Kant places enslaved black people on the wrong side of this disjunction when he speculates that their status as currency may offer insight into the origins of money. Recent work in black studies has begun to speculate on the link between blackness and money in modernity, and this paper draws attention to Kant’s role as an unlikely and unwitting precursor for monetary theories of blackness. Precisely in his attempt to secure the priceless and unconditional character of freedom and dignity, it argues, Kant ends up demonstrating the positional value of both.
Properties of Infinite Matrices and Sequence Spaces
Authors: Sahani Suresh Kumar , Tiwari S.K.
Published: October 2023

Some general theorems on the product of matrices and their applications to infinite series have been obtained. All theorems include, as special cases, a set of well-known results. Several specific new results can also be deduced from it.
Analysis Of Patient Satisfaction In Health BPJS Services In Wilaya Garut Hospital, West Java- Indonesia
Authors:   Bachelor Program Nurse, Bhakti Kencana University, Bandung, Indonesia, Situmorang Roganda , Lolan Yosef Pandai ,   Bachelor Program In Public Health, Bhakti Kencana University, Bandung, Indonesia
Published: October 2023

Background: Based on the result data release received on the official website of the Organizing Body Social Security on March 1, 2022 is available as many as 10,234 souls BPJS participants as user facility health the most that are (BPJS Health, 2022). Based on Perpres Number 12 of 2013 Article 21 states that, the First Level Health Facility (FKTP) is a service handling health stage beginning at the health center as the primary level in gift service health. In the Health Center JKN/BPJS system owns a sufficient role for all BPJS Health participants. Methods; Study This is a study descriptive analytic qualitative with an approach cross-sectional. The sampling technique purposive sampling is a sampling technique with certain considerations. Results; Education Variables with a p- p-value of 0.383 which means No There is no significant relationship and variables Type sex with an value p-value of 0.043 which means There is a meaningful relationship between type sex on satisfaction Health BPJS services. Conclusions; Conclusion from study This is an influential variable with Satisfaction patients with BPJS service is a type variable Sex.
Örgütsel Çeviklik ve Öğrenen Örgütler
Authors: Önalan Oya
Published: October 2023

Üniversiteler, yalnızca sürdürülebilir değişime en iyi uyum sağlayabilenlerin başarılı olacağı bir ortamda rekabet etmektedir. Bu zorlu dönemde gelişmek için üniversiteler dönüşümsel değişim stratejilerini benimsemelidir.Üniversitelerin toplumumuz için önemi, sayısız faaliyetleri ve bileşenleri ile hizmet ettiği toplumun değişen doğası, deneyimli, sorumlu ve aydınlanmış bir üniversite yönetimi ve liderliğinin önemini ortaya koymaktadır. Örgütsel çeviklik, üniversitelerin hem işgücü piyasası gereksinimlerine hem de hızlı teknolojik ilerlemeye olumlu bir şekilde uyum sağlamasına olanak tanır, yeteneklerini, çevrelerini ve rakip kurumlarını tanımlamalarına katkıda bulunur, yeni seçenek ve alternatifler üreterek sürekli iç ve dış değişiklikleri yönetmelerini, kontrol etmelerini ve etkilemelerini sağlar.Başarılı üniversitelerin en önemli özelliklerinden biri, ani ve beklenmedik değişiklikleri akıllıca ve mantıklı bir şekilde tahmin edebilmelerini ve bunlarla başa çıkabilmelerini sağlayan işleyişlerini değiştirmelerini, tehditlerin ve risklerin üstesinden gelmelerini, avantajlarını en üst düzeye çıkarmalarını ve gelecek vaat eden fırsatları yakalamalarını sağlayan, yüksek düzeyde kurumsal çevikliğe sahip olmalarıdır. Başarılı örgütler, öngörülemeyen dünyada hayatta kalmak, sürdürülebilir olmak ve stratejik avantaj için bilgi ve bilgi teknolojilerinden yararlanma stratejilerine ihtiyaç duymaktadır.Dünya genelinde üniversitelerin rekabet gücündeki artışa paralel olarak Türkiye'deki üniversiteler de daha rekabetçi ve çevik olmalıdır. Giderek bilgi odaklı hale gelen bir toplumda her geçen gün daha fazla insan, daha iyi bir geleceğe, istihdama ve kariyere sahibi olmak ayrıca başarılı ve tatminkâr bir yaşam için eğitim ve öğretimi anahtar olarak görmektedir.
Enhancing Community Engagement and Outreach: Strategies for Information Dissemination at the Bangladesh National Museum
Authors:   Bangladesh National Museum, Shahbag, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh., Rabbi Abul Hasanat Md. Fazle
Published: October 2023

Museums, traditional custodians of cultural heritage, are adapting to the digital age. The Bangladesh National Museum faces the challenge of effectively disseminating information to engage with an evolving, diverse audience. This research explores strategies for enhancing community engagement and outreach through innovative information dissemination. Using a mixed-methods approach, including surveys and interviews with museum visitors, staff, and community members, this study captures quantitative and qualitative data. It emphasizes contemporary roles, such as inclusivity, accessibility, and relevance. Findings offer insights into current community engagement and information dissemination at the Bangladesh National Museum. Recommendations, informed by visitor perspectives and global best practices, empower the museum to navigate the digital era while preserving its core role as a cultural steward and educator. By enhancing information dissemination, the museum can bridge cultural understanding, foster lifelong learning, and contribute to sustainable societal development.
From seditiones, certamina civilia, secessiones, to intercessio
Authors: Ziółkowski Adam
Published: October 2023

The paper examines the significance of political crises (seditiones, certamina civilia, secessiones) in the history of the Early and Late Republic. Its main contentions are as follows. (1) The plebeian organization, created by a part of the ‘hoplite class’ (classis) as a syndicate of self-defence against what they considered persecution by the state authorities, became the champion of the Roman poor only after the viritane assignation of the ager Veientanus Capenas, which, by depriving the great landowners, i.e. the patricians, of the client labour force made debt-slavery an acute socio-political problem. Tribunes’ auxilium offered in 380 to the insolvent debtors led to a prodigious growth of the plebeian organisation which by 367 broke the patricians’ monopoly on political power. (2) The military revolt of 342 and the resulting upheaval of 341–339 fixed the democratic formula of the Republic’ empire, the principle of constant participation of the whole community in profits it generated, thus making possible the acceptance of horrible losses which went with continuous imperial expansion. (3) The third secession of 287/286 was a part of a revolutionary period when the plebeian organisation reverted to its original position of a counter-state, inherently antagonistic to the state institutions, winning for the tribunes unrestrained political initiative (lex Hortensia) and giving them an instrument for paralysing actions of state authorities aiming at thwarting it or putting in peril social, economic and political gains of the preceding century (re-formulation of the tribunes’ intercessio as their right to veto actions of the magistrates and resolutions of the senate they found harmful to the plebs’ interests).
From Iasos to the Court of a ‘Divine’ King
Authors: Aresi Giacomo
Published: October 2023

Gorgos son of Theodotos was a prominent citizen of the polis of Iasos in Karia who came to enjoy a close relationship with Alexander the Great and to hold an office at his court. Even though he is completely absent in the major narratives of Alexander’s life, Gorgos is mentioned in a fragment of the first-generation Alexander historian Ephippos of Olynthos and in four inscriptions stemming from Iasos, Samos, and Epidauros. By re-examining this evidence, the paper aims at providing an overall assessment of this individual. It is argued that Gorgos was a markedly political figure, who exploited his proximity to Alexander to favour the interests of the communities he had relations with. Furthermore, Gorgos actively promoted Alexander’s policies and his self-presentation as a superhuman being both at court and in the wider Greek world. The paper deals also with the recently discovered Iasian joint cult of Alexander and his mother Olympias, arguing that it was likely established during the king’s reign and that Gorgos might have been instrumental in promoting this initiative among his fellow-citizens.
New Imperial Court of Diocletian and Constantine
Authors: Doležal Stanislav
Published: October 2023

In the article, the author tried to identify the main changes that the imperial court underwent during the period of tetrarchy and, by comparing it with earlier periods, to see what was new about it. Of course, the imperial court of Diocletian and other tetrarchs, including Constantine, was an institution that was constantly evolving, not least due to the changing political situation (each emperor created his own court after ascending the throne), but also due to the mobility of the imperial court and the very large and varied agenda of the consistory, which came to form a core of the imperial court during the second part of Constantine’s reign.
Evidences on Meroitic Court
Authors: Ferrandino Gilda
Published: October 2023

Although the documentation about the Meroitic court is limited the most recent archaeological discoveries and the improvement in the translation of the Meroitic language can help to define a general view of the court. The court of the kingdom of Meroe, in Nubia between the 3rd BC and 5th AD, was likely organised around the royal family. The cemeteries, especially in the south of the kingdom, suggest that there was not a clear difference between royal family members and other court members. Most probably, the others were simply lesser members of royalty. Many Meroitic funerary inscriptions presenting the biography of the deceased in the form of cursus honorum include a final formula that might define a direct relationship between the king and the deceased.

The archaeological evidence highlights numerous centres of power in the country. A large number of palaces were discovered in urban sites and religious centres, most of them dated to the same period. The Napatan royal inscriptions (8th BC to 3rd BC) of the kings who governed Nubia before the Meroitic dynasty, describe multiple enthronements of the king characterised by coronation journeys in all the kingdom’s main religious centres. The repetition of the royal investiture may be explained as a formulation of originally independent polities. This practice may have continued in the Meroitic period, suggesting the existence of more than one local elite family. A reference to different clans has been found in the most ancient Meroitic royal text (REM 1044).
Freedman Courtiers in Civic Life and Administration outside of Rome during the Principate
Authors: Kłodziński Karol
Published: October 2023

The relationship between ‘secretarial’ and ‘domestic’ freedman courtiers and the external world in the Principate, especially with provincial society and administration is still unclear. I aim to analyze traces of freedman courtiers’ activities outside of Rome and present some ties between the court and local administrations and societies.
Kepamongprajaan Education System
Authors: Sururama Rahmawati
Published: October 2023

The civil servant education system is an educational process used to improve the quality of civil servant human resources so as to create good government. However, the civil service education system has not been studied in depth, especially at one of the civil service schools in West Java province which has been operating for quite a long time. For this reason, researchers want to study the civil service education system so that they can find out the existing civil service education system at civil service schools in the city that carry out civil service education at other civil service schools. The research method used is qualitative with data collection techniques through observation, interviews and surveys, then the data received is processed in depth to determine the research results. The results of this research show that there are 8 standards in the education system, namely content standards, process standards, graduate competency standards, teacher and education staff standards, facilities and infrastructure standards, management standards, financing standards and assessment standards. Each of these standards already has good value, but there are several things that need to be improved immediately, such as management standards and facilities and infrastructure standards so that they can support learning well and achieve educational goals effectively and efficiently because each of these standards has different values. Good. an interrelated relationship. with other people.
Teorías que hipotetizan la presencia de disfunciones olfatorias en pacientes Covid-19
Authors: Soto Rodríguez Maykel , Manuel Reyes Víctor , Sánchez Ancajima Raúl Alfredo
Published: October 2023

La  ausencia, disminución o distorción en la percepción olfatoria no solamente ha sido uno de los principales síntomas en los pacientes afectados por la enfermedad COVID-19 dentro del contexto pandémico actual, sino también ha constituido unas de las secuelas en pacientes postcovid. Las disfunciones olfatoria afecta de manera significativa la calidad de vida de las personas, ya que se les dificulta percibir los olores, identificar condiciones ambientales peligrosas y realizar otras funciones que dependen del sentido olfativo. Si bien es cierto que la etiopatogenia de muchas alteraciones olfatorias se relacionan mayormente con infecciones respiratorias como resfriado, congestión nasal, rinorrea y recientemente con la COVID-19, hasta la fecha no se había esclarecido los mecanismos fisiopatológicos aplicable a estas alteraciones. El  objetivo de este artículo fue esclarecer los posibles mecanismos por los cuales los pacientes COVID-19 presentan alteraciones del olfato, y así ofrecer un referente teórico con respecto a la influencia de la infección del virus SARS-CoV-2 en los tejidos olfatorios. Durante el desarrollo del tema se abordó las generalidades del COVID-19, las evidencias científicas y los principales mecanismos fisiopatológicos que demuestran que las disfunciones olfatorias se producen principalmente por el mecanismo neurosensorial como respuesta inflamatoria del sistema inmunitario antes la infección del virus SARS-CoV-2 y no por lesiones directas al epitelio olfatorio. Se concluye que la presencia de disfunciones olfatorias presentes en pacientes COVID-19 podría ser un marcador clínico para el diagnóstico oportuno y tratamiento eficaz desde etapas temprana de la enfermedad, y legitima la necesidad de la preparación profesional para ser capaz de una evaluación precisa del sistema olfatorio para la prevención y control de la COVID-19.
Avaliação nutricional em pacientes hospitalizados em um Centro de Oncohematologia Pediátrica no nordeste do Brasil
Authors: Santos Iago Alves Miranda , Schmitz Érica  Patrícia Cunha Rosa , Bacalhau Silvia  Patrícia de Oliveira Silva
Published: October 2023

Pacientes pediátricos em tratamento antineoplásico requerem crescimento linear e ganho de peso para um desenvolvimento adequado, mas a desnutrição representa um obstáculo. A desnutrição pode impactar negativamente o prognóstico desses pacientes, destacando a importância da utilização de parâmetros de avaliação nutricional mais sensíveis para detectar e prevenir complicações nutricionais. O objetivo deste estudo foi utilizar diferentes parâmetros para caracterizar o estado nutricional de crianças e adolescentes internados em um centro de oncohematologia pediátrica de referência no Nordeste do Brasil. A avaliação nutricional foi realizada utilizando o índice de massa corporal e estatura para idade, juntamente com a medição da circunferência do braço, prega cutânea tricipital e circunferência muscular do braço. A amostra foi predominantemente composta por pacientes do sexo masculino, com idade média de 9,88 (± 5,37) anos. O diagnóstico mais comum foi a leucemia. Os sintomas gastrointestinais foram observados em 71,88% da amostra, mesmo sem associação direta com o estado nutricional. Os percentuais de desnutrição foram mais elevados quando avaliados por meio dos parâmetros de composição corporal, como PCT (46,88%), seguido por CB (37,5%) e CMB (25,00%), em comparação com o IMC/I (10,94%). A maioria das crianças e adolescentes apresentou estatura adequada para idade (92,19%). Conclui-se que os resultados encontrados neste estudo indicam que a utilização da antropometria do braço pode ser uma ferramenta relevante na avaliação nutricional em crianças e adolescentes em tratamento antineoplásico, no qual pode oferecer medidas mais precisas e diretas da composição corporal e do estado nutricional, permitindo a identificação precoce da desnutrição e a implementação de intervenções adequadas.
In the beginning was the Word
Authors: Eve Martin Paul
Published: October 2023

There is no single cause of the problems with the economics of scholarly communications. The expectation that we can publish more and more research on the same, or lesser, budgets is one factor. The rise of profiteering commercial publishers is another. There is also a group of smaller other aspects, though, one of which I will discuss here.
My 2014 round-up
Authors: Eve Martin Paul
Published: October 2023

2014 was a good year for me. I spent my time mostly working on scholarly communications projects, including the meTypeset software for the Public Knowledge Project and then establishing the Open Library of Humanities with a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
"A Web of Rights": Roundtable and Conversation at the British Library (Feb 19th, 2015) #bldigital
Authors: Eve Martin Paul
Published: October 2023

This event will debate how and in what ways the web has complicated, enhanced, and changed the rights of citizens for better or for worse. The ongoing fallout from the Snowden revelations has both sharpened awareness of how our rights are changing and highlighted a culture of indifference towards once cherished rights and freedoms.
Metrics in the Arts and Humanities
Authors: Eve Martin Paul
Published: October 2023

Tomorrow I will be speaking at the HEFCE Metrics and the assessment of research quality and impact in the Arts and Humanities workshop, commissioned by the independent review panel. Here are some notes on what I am planning to say. These are just brief notes for a ten-minute talk. They're not particularly nuanced but I thought they were worth sharing.
Ethics of a Journal's Surplus
Authors: Eve Martin Paul
Published: October 2023

I wrote the following letter in this week’s Times Higher Education. I post it here for those who can’t get past the paywall. As debates rage on how to spend the £1.2 million surplus of The Sociological Review (“Journal board in dark over £1m surplus”, 19th February 2015), it is disappointing that there is no comment on how this surplus was possible or whether it is ethical.
Was bringen Open Educational Resources für Stiftungen?
Authors: Weitzmann John Hendrik
Published: October 2023

Im Rahmen der Berliner Stiftungswoche lud die Technologiestiftung Berlin vergangene Woche in die Räume von Wikimedia Deutschland, um zu diskutieren, welche Potenziale freie Lehr und Lernmaterialien – Open Educational Resources, kurz OER – für Stiftungen haben können.
The planned vandalism of the Natural History Museum: a modest proposal
Authors: Taylor Mike
Published: October 2023

Go to Google and do a picture search for “natural history museum”. Here are the results I get. (I’m searching the UK, where that term refers to the British museum of that name — results in the USA may very.) In the top 24 images, I see that half of them are of the building itself — rightly so, as it’s a beautiful and impressive piece of architecture that would be well worth visiting even if it was empty.
Why Mike is interested in Royal Society Open Science, and why Matt isn’t
Authors: Wedel Matt
Published: October 2023

Copied from an email exchange.  Mike:  Did we know about the Royal Society’s PLOS ONE-clone? http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/about I am in favour of this. I might well send them my next paper while the universal waiver is still in place.  Matt:  Did not know about it. Their post-waiver APC is insane. How can they possibly justify $1600?
Elsevier illegally sold me a Creative Commons non-commercial licensed article
Authors: Mounce Ross
Published: October 2023

*[Update 2015-03-13: I have blogged further about this here and provided a recap here. This post has been viewed over 10,000 times. Clearly some people want to sweep this under the carpet and pretend this is just ‘a storm in a teacup’ but it did happen and people do care about this.
Why I feel horrible about Nature‘s article-sharing initiative
Authors: Taylor Mike
Published: October 2023

I wrote last week that I can’t support Nature’s new broken-access initiative for two reasons: practically, I can’t rely on it; and philosophically I can’t abide work being done to reduce utility. More recently I read a post on Nature’s blog: Content sharing is *not* open access and why NPG is committed to both. It’s well worth reading: concise, clear and helpful.
A new way of exploring the directing influence of (electron donating) substituents on benzene.
Authors: Rzepa Henry
Published: October 2023

The knowledge that substituents on a benzene ring direct an electrophile engaged in a ring substitution reaction according to whether they withdraw or donate electrons is very old.[cite]10.1039/CT8875100258[/cite] Introductory organic chemistry tells us that electron donating substituents promote the

ortho

and

para

positions over the

meta

. Here I try to recover some of this information by searching crystal structures.
What should we tell people about the AMNH apatosaurine?
Authors: Wedel Matt
Published: October 2023

Apatosaurines on the brain right now. I’ve been thinking about the question raised by Jerry Alpern, a volunteer tour guide at the AMNH, regarding the recent Tschopp et al. (2015) diplodocid phylogeny.
The “finger-like” parapostzygapophyseal processes of Qijianglong
Authors: Taylor Mike
Published: October 2023

There’s a new mamenchisaurid in town! It’s called  Qijianglong  (“dragon of Qijiang”), and it’s the work of Xing et al. (2015). Life restoration of  Qijianglong  , by Cheung Chungtat.
Can it be? Even more non-dinosaurian epipophyses? Yes, and this time they’re non-ornithodiran!
Authors: Taylor Mike
Published: October 2023

Having given pterosaurs all the glory in two earlier posts, it’s time to move yet further away from the sauropods we know and love, and look at epipophyses outside of Ornithodira.
My name is Giraffatitan, king of kings
Authors: Taylor Mike
Published: October 2023

Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair! [  Giraffatitan brancai  paralectotype MB.R.2181 (formerly HMN S II), mounted skeleton in left anteroventrolateral view.
Data discoverability
Authors: Rzepa Henry
Published: October 2023

I have written earlier about the Amsterdam Manifesto. That arose out of a conference on the theme of “

beyond the PDF

”, with one simple question at its heart:

what can be done to liberate data from containers it was not designed to be in

? The latest meeting on this topic will happen in January 2015 as FORCE2015. The format is suitably modern, starting with a Hackathon, and then two days of talks, posters and demos.
Pay Scientific Reports extra to bypass peer-review altogether
Authors: Taylor Mike
Published: October 2023

There’s been some concern over  Scientific Reports  ‘ new scheme whereby authors submitting manuscripts can pay $750 to have them peer-reviewed more quickly. Some members of the editorial board have quit over this development, feeling that it’s unfair to authors who can’t pay. Myself, I feel it at least shows admirable audacity — NPG has found a way to monetise its own lethargy, which is surely what capitalism is all about.
How conveniently can you package your results?
Authors: Wedel Matt
Published: October 2023

A couple of weeks ago, Mike sent me a link to this interview with ecologist James O’Hanlon, who made this poster (borrowed from this post on O’Hanlon’s blog): We had a short email exchange which quickly converged on, “This would work well for some projects, but not for others.” That’s the same conclusion I came to in my recent review of my own paper titles: I am increasingly enamored of titles that are full sentences, because then if all
The equivocal epipophyses of Cf. Quetzalcoatlus
Authors: Taylor Mike
Published: October 2023

It’s well known that there is good fossil material of the giant azhdarchid pterosaur  Quetzalcoatlus  out there, but that for various complicated reasons it’s yet to be published. But as part of our ongoing quest for pterosaur epipophyses, I have obtained these photos of a pretty well preserved single cervical, probably C3, which is either  Quetzalcoatlus  or something pretty darned close. TMP 1992.83.7, Cf.
Allotropic halogens.
Authors: Rzepa Henry
Published: October 2023

Allotropes are differing structural forms of the elements. The best known example is that of carbon, which comes as diamond and graphite, along with the relatively recently discovered fullerenes and now graphenes. Here I ponder whether any of the halogens can have allotropes. Firstly, I am not aware of much discussion on the topic.
Live-blog: the Future of Scholarly Scientific Communication
Authors: Taylor Mike
Published: October 2023

I’m at the Royal Society today and tomorrow as part of the Future of Scholarly Scientific Communication conference. Here’s the programme. I’m making some notes for my own benefit, and I thought I might as well do them in the form of a blog-post, which I will continuously update, in case anyone else is interested.
Aquilops wants to play
Authors: Wedel Matt
Published: October 2023

Here are three fun things to do with  Aquilops  , in descending order of how much gear they require.  1. Print your own  Aquilops  fossil.  Got access to a 3D printer? Download the 3D models of the holotype skull, OMNH 34557, that we published as supplementary info with the paper, and rock out.
My new paper on Haplocanthosaurus is out
Authors: Wedel Matt
Published: October 2023

 Fig. 3. MWC 8028,  Haplocanthosaurus  dorsal vertebrae.   A.  Lateral view of dorsal centrum with bottom edge of lateral pneumatic fossa preserved.  B.  Dorsal view of same centrum as in A, showing the median septum between the paired lateral fossae.  C.  Lateral view of dorsal centrum with smaller segment of the lateral pneumatic fossa margin preserved.
Sideshow Apatosaurus sans background
Authors: Wedel Matt
Published: October 2023

I made these for my own use in talks, and then thought, why be selfish? Like everything else on this blog, these images are now released to the world under the CC-BY license. Have fun with them. You can read my review of the Sideshow  Apatosaurus  here; the TL;DR is that it’s awesome.
Goldilocks Data.
Authors: Rzepa Henry
Published: October 2023

Last August, I wrote about

data galore

, the archival of data for 133,885 (134 kilo) molecules into a repository, together with an associated data descriptor[cite]10.1038/sdata.2014.22[/cite] published in the new journal

Scientific Data

. Since six months is a long time in the rapidly evolving field of RDM, or research data management, I offer an update in the form of some new observations.
What are we going to call PLOS ONE-style peer-review?
Authors: Taylor Mike
Published: October 2023

When a paper goes for peer-review at PLOS ONE, the reviewers are told not to make any judgement about how important or sexy or “impacty” the paper is — to judge it only on methodical soundness. All papers that are judged sound are to be published without making guesses about which will and won’t improve the journal’s reputation through being influential down the line.
What’s that you say? No epipophyses in titanosaurs? Oh really?
Authors: Taylor Mike
Published: October 2023

This just in, from Zurriaguz and Powell’s (2015) hot-off-the-press paper describing the morphology and pneumatic features of the presacral column of the derived titanosaur  Saltasaurus  . (Thanks to Darren for bringing this paper to my attention.) Now, as everyone knows, titanosaurs don’t have epipophyses. In fact, they’re the one major sauropod group where Matt has not observed them. Until today. Zurriaguz and Powell (2015:figure 3B).
Wrongly paywalled articles: a recap of what we now know
Authors: Mounce Ross
Published: October 2023

Last Friday, I genuinely thought Elsevier had illegally sold me an article that should have been open access. This post is to update you all on what we’ve found out since:

The Scale of the Problem

No one really knows how many articles are wrongly paywalled at all of Elsevier’s various different sales websites.
Depictions of Expectation Versus Reality in Noviolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names
Authors: Ampeire Hellen
Published: October 2023

In the post-colonial era, Zimbabwe experienced a period of political and economic upheavals with a political regime whose ideology of socialism regimented Zimbabweans under an authoritarian state. In 1999, the opposition to President Mugabe and the ZANU-PF government grew considerably after the mid-1990s in part due to the worsening economic and human rights conditions brought about by the seizure of farmlands owned by white farmers and economic sanctions imposed by the Western countries in response. This economic upheaval was, and is still the cardinal reason why the citizens of Zimbabwe have almost not been a priority in the former regime, leading to their migration to seemingly better-off countries. No Violet Bulawayo is one such Zimbabwean who has left her motherland and now lives in America. In her novel, We Need New Names, she beautifully elaborates how the non-prioritized state of citizens in Zimbabwe is responsible for the huge number of immigrants who have left Zimbabwe and continue to leave, with hope as beautiful as a rainbow high up on their minds that maybe, just maybe, in a land far away from home, life can meaningfully reward their dreams which ironically, their mother country has so painfully failed to help them achieve.
Pengembangan Prototipe Papan Informasi Parkiran Gedung Bertingkat Berbasis Arduino Uno
Authors: Aulia Nurul Iftitah  , Hasrul Bakri  , Sugeng A. Karim
Published: October 2023

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengembangkan prototipe papan informasi parkiran gedung bertingkat berbasis arduino uno dan mengetahui hasil pengujian prototipe papan informasi parkiran gedung bertingkat berbasis arduino uno. Jenis penelitian ini menggunakan Research and Development (R&D) dan model pengembangan prototyping dengan tahapan: (1) Pengumpulan kebutuhan; (2) Perancangan prototipe; (3) Evaluasi prototipe; (4) Mengkodekan sistem; (5) Menguji sistem; (6) Evaluasi sistem; (7) Penggunaan sistem. Data diperoleh dengan memakai metode observasi dan angket. Teknik analisis data yang digunakan ialah analisis functionality suitability dan analisis usability. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian dihasilkan prototipe papan informasi parkiran gedung bertingkat menggunakan arduino uno, sensor inframerah, dan papan informasi denah slot parkir berfungsi dengan baik karena dapat memberikan output informasi mengenai parkir yang tersedia pada display. Berdasarkan hasil pengujian yang didapat dari analisis functionality, produk berfungsi dengan baik. Sedangkan dari analisis usability ditemukan 29 responden yang menyatakan kategori sangat baik dan 1 responden menyatakan kategori baik dari jumlah keseluruhan 30 responden
Pengaruh Problem Based Learning Terhadap Keterampilan Berpikir Kritis Peserta Didik SMK Negeri 2 Makassar
Authors: M. Miftach Fakhri  , M. Al Ihlas  , Irwansyah Suwahyu  , Amri Rahman  , Yuanita B  , Sitti Muthmainnah
Published: October 2023

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk: (1) mengetahui pengaruh problem based learning terhadap keterampilan berpikir kritis peserta didik, (2) mengetahui perbedaan keterampilan berpikir kritis peserta didik antara kelas eksperimen dengan kelas kontrol. Metode penelitian adalah penelitian kuantitatif dengan jenis penelitian eksperimen. Desain penelitian yang digunakan adalah quasi experimental. Sampel penelitian ini adalah peserta didik di kelas X TKJ 1 sebanyak 35 orang sebagai kelas eksperimen dan peserta didik di kelas X TKJ 2 sebanyak 34 orang sebagai kelas kontrol. Analisis statistik yang digunakan adalah uji regresi sederhana dan independent sample t test. Hasil analisis menunjukkan : (1) Hasil uji regresi sederhana yang menunjukkan nilai t-hitung lebih besar dibandingkan t-tabel dengan nilai sig lebih kecil daripada 0.05 yang berarti terdapat pengaruh model problema based learning terhadap keterampilan berpikir kritis,  (2) Hasil uji independent simple t test yang menunjukkan nilai t-hitung lebih besar dibandingkan t-tabel dengan nilai sig lebih kecil daripada 0.05 yang berarti keterampilan berpikir kritis peserta didik kelas eksperimen memiliki perbedaan secara signifikan dengan peserta didik kelas kontrol.
Pengembangan Aplikasi Pembelajaran Penggunaan Arduino Beserta Komponen-Komponen Berbasis Android
Authors: Muhammad Syafaat Putra  , Massikki  , Satria Gunawan Zain
Published: October 2023

Pengembangan Aplikasi Pembelajaran Penggunaan Arduino Beserta Komponen-Komponen Berbasis Android. Skripsi. Program Studi Pendidikan Teknik Informatika Dan Komputer. Jurusan Teknik Informatika Dan Komputer. Fakultas Teknik. Universitas Negeri Makassar. Dibimbing Oleh Massikki dan Satria Gunawan Zain. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui hasil pengembangan, keefektifan, kepraktisan dan tanggapan pengguna terhadap aplikasi pembelajaran penggunaan arduino beserta komponen-komponen berbasis android. Jenis penelitian yang digunakan adalah Research & Development (R&D) dengan model yang digunakan adalah model ADDIE dengan menggunakan 5 tahapan. Subjek penelitian ini adalah mahasiswa kelas PTIK F 2021. Pengumpulan data menggunakan observasi, wawancara, angket dan tes. Hasil penelitian adalah menghasilkan aplikasi pembelajaran penggunaan arduino beserta komponen-komponen berbasis android yang praktis, efektif dan layak digunakan. Kelayakan dilihat dari hasil validasi ahli materi dan ahli media dengan mendapat kategori sangat valid dari masing-masing ahli. Dilihat dari hasil uji kepraktisan dengan pada kelompok kecil dan kelompok besar mendapatkan kategori sangat baik. Dilihat dari hasil uji keefektifan pada pre-test dan post-test menunjukkan tingkat pencapaian 98,1% dengan kategori sangat efektif. Dan untuk tanggapan pengguna mendapatkan kategori sangat baik. Dengan demikian dapat disimpulkan bahwa aplikasi Belajar Arduino dapat dijadikan alat bantu dalam proses pembelajaran di Program Studi Pendidikan Teknik Informatika Dan Komputer, Jurusan Teknik Informatika Dan Komputer, Fakultas Teknik, Universitas Negeri Makassar.
Pengembangan Aplikasi Taksasi Ketela Pohon Berbasis Android untuk Memprediksi Hasil Panen Ketela Pohon
Authors: Aldy Surya Darma  , Muh. Yusuf Mappeasse  , Firdaus
Published: October 2023

Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian pengembangan perangkat lunak yang bertujuan untuk mengetahui hasil pengembangan aplikasi taksasi ketela pohon berbasis android untuk memprediksi hasil panen ketela pohon di desa Lalabata Kabupaten Barru dan untuk mengetahui hasil uji kelayakan aplikasi tersebut. Model pengembangan yang digunakan adalah prototipe dengan 7 tahapan yaitu pengumpulan kebutuhan, pembuatan prototype, evaluasi prototype, pengkodean sistem, pengujian sistem, evaluasi sistem, dan penggunaan sistem. Serta menggunakan pengujian standar mutu ISO 25010 dalam uji kelayakan aplikasi. Sebelum melakukan penelitian terlebih dahulu dilakukan validasi sistem/aplikasi oleh validator ahli sistem dan diperoleh peringkat validasi dengan kategori sangat layak untuk digunakan dalam penelitian. Data penelitian diperoleh dengan menggunakan wawancara, observasi dan kuesioner. Hasil dari penelitian ini adalah aplikasi taksasi ketela pohon berbasis android untuk memprediksi hasil panen ketela pohon dan hasil pengujian menggunakan ISO 25010 dengan pengujian menggunakan aspek yaitu funcionally suitability, usability, performance efficiency, portability, compatibility, security, maintability, dan reability.
Project Management
Authors:   SRM Institute of Science & Technology, Kattankulathur, Chengalpattu, Tamilnadu, India, P. Shanthi , T. Sanchez Domenic ,   Assistant Professor III, Cebu Technological University-NEC, Philippines, Khan Jaffer Ali ,   University of Technology and Applied Sciences -Al Musannah, Sultanate of Oman., Raman Alamelu Mangai ,   University of Technology and Applied Sciences -Al Musannah, Sultanate of Oman.
Published: October 2023

Project Management for the Unofficial Project Manager provides insightful, real-world advice for successful project management and walks you through the fundamentals of the people and project management process in a step-by-step format: Initiate Plan Carry Out, and Finally, Monitor and Control Finish up The easily digestible and interesting real-life tales, memorable “Project Management Proverbs,” and thorough evaluations at the conclusion of each chapter are all beneficial to unofficial project managers working in any industry. This book is perfect for you if you have a hard time maintaining order among all of your endeavours. This book is ideal for you if you handle projects on your own and do not have the luxury of working with a team. Change the way you think about managing projects. “Project Manager” may not be your formal title, and it might not even be your ideal job, but if you have the appropriate methods, you can be successful in managing projects.
Effect of Environmental Costs and Environmental Performance on Profitability in Registered Manufacturing Companies on the Indonesian Stock Exchange
Authors: Jamali Hisnol
Published: October 2023

The purpose of This study is to examine and analyze the effect of (i) environmental costs on profitability, and environmental performance on profitability in manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in the 2019-2020 period. Data collection uses secondary data obtained from the annual report published by the Indonesia Stock Exchange. The population in this study are manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange and participating in PROPER in the 2019-2020 period. The sampling technique used was purposive sampling. The data analysis method is in the form of quantitative analysis using multiple linear analysis and hypothesis testing using software E-Views 10. The results showed tha the environmental cost variable has an effect on profitability on Manufacturing companies liested on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in the 2019-2020 period and the Environmental Performance variable has no effect on profitability on Manufacturing companies liested on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in the 2019-2020 period.
Increasing Mutual Cooperation Values Using the Scramble Method in Class X Students of SMA Negeri 1 Palu
Authors: Idir Sya'ban Abdullah DM , Afni Nur
Published: October 2023

This class action research was carried out in class . with the aim of improving students' mutual cooperation skills during the learning process using the scramble type cooperative model, this type of research is descriptive quantitative, in the initial test students get a score of 2.65 or 66%, during the learning process it is seen that students still need to increase in collaboration and also communication/discussion of the problems being faced, in the implementation of the first cycle students see an increase in students who are able to discuss and exchange opinions to agree on joint decisions. The results of the student mutual cooperation skills questionnaire increased to 3.16 or 79%, the shortcoming in the first cycle was that the coordination of group members in compiling keywords still needed to be improved, in the second cycle changes were made to student activities in compiling keywords where the group leader was appointed to coordinate group members in the process of compiling keywords, the results of the second cycle questionnaire showed an increase to 3.54 or 88%.
Analysis of Associated Factors Breast Canser in Women at Pirngadi Hospital Medan in 2020
Authors: Sari Hayatur Ridha
Published: October 2023

WHO show breast canser is the most cases in Indonesia, namely 58,256 (16,7%) case of the total 348,809 cases of canser. The research objective was to analyze the factors associated with breast canser. The research was an analytic survey with a cross sectional approach. The population was 99 respondents who experienced breast canser in January-July 2020. The sample were 30 respondents as outpatient of Oncology Surgical Clinic Of Pirngadi Hospital Medan. The results showed that there was a relationship between age (p=0,0000), parity (p=.005), age at first menstruation (menarche) (p= .002), history of breast canser (p=.024), smoking habits (p=.024) and contraception (p=.005) with breast canser based on the result of the chi square test with p-value <.05. and the results of the multivariate analysis of the dominant factors were the variable age at first menstruation (menarche) with a significant value of .005 (p-value .05), the value of the B coefficient of 3.555 was positive, and the use of contraceptives with a significant value of.009 (p-value <.05), the value of the coefficient B, was 3.219 was positive. The conclusion showed a relationship between age, parity, age at fierst menstruation (menarche), history of breast canser, smoking habits, and use of contraceptives were found.
PEMBELAJARAN GAMELAN GONG KEBYAR BERBASIS METODE INOVATIF NOTASI DINGDONG PADA SEKAA GONG MREDHU KUMARA
Authors: Satya Kusuma I Putu Budi , Sudirga I Komang , Putra I Wayan Diana
Published: October 2023

Gamelan Gong Kebyar adalah salah satu barungan gamelan yang familiar di Bali. Perkembangannya begitu pesat dari kuantitas barungan hingga bentuk kekaryaannya. Namun dalam pembelajarannya masih perlu diberikan sentuhan inovasi salah satunya dengan menggunakan notasi. Tujuan dari penelitian ini yaitu mendeskripsikan pembelajaran gamelan Gong Kebyar berbasis metode pembelajaran inovatif dengan penggunaan media notasi ding-dong pada sekaa gong anak-anak Mredhu Kumara Banjar Oongan. Masalah yang akan dibahas dalam penelitian ini adalah penerapan metode inovatif, proses dan hasil pembelajaran inovatif, dan faktor pendukung dan faktor penghambat proses pembelajaran. Penelitian ini dirancang dengan menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif yang berhubungan dengan hasil data yang lebih menekankan pada data yang bersifat deskriptif. Teori yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini yaitu teori estetika, teori pembelajaran yang didalamnya terdapat tiga metode inovatif yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini yaitu, metode ceramah, metode demonstrasi, dan metode drill, dan teori yang terakir ada teori media pembelajaran. Sumber data penelitian ini diperoleh dari data yang ada dilapangan yaitu berupa data primer dan data skunder, dari buku-buku atau studi kepustakaan lainya. Teknik pengumpulan data yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah dengan observasi, wawancara, dokumentasi, dan studi kepustakaan. Hasil penelitian menunjukan penerapan metode inovatif dalam pembelajaran notasi karawitam Bali. Pada penelitian ini menggunakan empat tahapan yaitu: tahap persiapan (preparation), tahap penyampaian (presentation), tahap latihan (practice), dan tahap penampilan (perfomance). Hasil pembelajaran dalam penelitian ini yang mendapatkan nilai A (sangat baik) sebanyak 5 siswa dan yang mendapatkan nilai B (baik) sebanyak 11 siswa. faktor pendukung dan penghambat dalam penelitian terdiri atas faktor internal dan eksternal.