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PENGARUH KOMUNIKASI ORANG TUA TERHADAP PERILAKU SISWA DI SEKOLAH
Authors: Mujianti  , Iskandar Karmila
Published: November 2022

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui seberapa besar pengaruh komunikasi orang tua terhadap perilaku siswa di Sekolah. Penelitian ini menggunakan jenis penelitian kuantitatif dengan desain korelasional. Populasi dalam penelitian ini berjumlah 176 orang. Selanjutnya pengumpulan data menggunakan observasi, angket dan dokumentasi. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa nilai X (Pengaruh Komunikasi Orang Tua) sebesar 0.911 dan nilai thitungnya sebesar 13.578 Dengan dk (derajat kebebasan)= n-2=40-2=38 dan α=0.05, sehingga diperoleh nilai ttabel=2.024 sehingga nilai thitung>ttabel atau, 13.578>2.024, yang berarti koefisen regresi berpengaruh secara signifikan. Dengan demikian terbukti berdasarkan Uji t bahwa pengaruh Komunikasi Orang Tua (X) berpengaruh Secara signifikan terhadap perilaku anak (Y) di Sekolah.
College Students Improvised Ideas during Physics Laboratory Activities
Authors:   University of Rwanda College of Education, Ndihokubwayo Kizito
Published: November 2022

This study aims at checking college student-teachers’ transferability ideas from physics laboratory activities to improvised materials. We employed undergraduate students from the University of Rwanda College of Education to carry it out during their laboratory experiments session. Since these students are future secondary teachers, we first observed them performing Ohms Law, Faraday law, Wheatstone bridge, and Compass magnet experiments. We followed them, asking them to compare how they could improvise from what they did at school whenever there were no conventional materials. We found that students face challenges in performing provided experiments even if the instructional protocols are provided and receive laboratory technician support. These students could also not imagine how they could improvise these experiments. These results were caused by the fact that they do not possess improvisation skills, and few experiments were provided to them. In this regard, the author recommends that college lecturers not only increase laboratory experiments but also instruct their students by reflecting on their future careers.
The Concept of World Alienation in Hannah Arendt
Authors: Rößler Jonathan ,   Philosophy Documentation Center
Published: November 2022

This article explores the concept of “world alienation” in the work of Hannah Arendt. It seeks to answer two sets of questions. First, what exactly is “world alienation” and how does Arendt’s concept differ from other theories of alienation? Second, what does “world alienation” mean in regard to Arendt’s characterisation of modernity, and what remedies does Arendt equip us with to overcome alienation? The article shows that Arendt’s notion of alienation emerges from her understanding of the “world” as a realm of both human-made things and political action, thus differing from Rousseauian and Marxist notions of alienation. It argues further that Arendt’s analysis of modernity as being defined by world alienation constitutes a critique of capitalism, globalisation, and the destructive potentials unleashed by modern science.
Platonic Dialogue and Transformative Philosophy
Authors: Sriraman Bharathi ,   World Union of Catholic Philosophical Societies
Published: November 2022

The present paper is primarily concerned with the application of the transformative approach within the Western philosophical context. My aim is to show how the idea of a transformation is present in Platonic thought based on John Taber’s work on transformative philosophy. According to Taber, transformative thinkers tell us that the unreflecting mind lives in a dream and, if it is to know the truly real, one “must awaken from the dream, enliven slumbering faculties, make a transition to a new state of awareness.” I will use the Platonic dialogue to illustrate how some of the main features of transformative philosophy developed by Taber are exhibited there, if only to emphasize the transformative aspect of Platonic philosophy, although not dismiss the systematic reading of Platonic texts.
Use of Brachionus Plicatilis (rotifera) to assess the quality of marine water in Callao bay, Peru
Authors: Osorio Marco , Romero Seid , Guabloche Angélica , Alvariño-Flores Lorena , Ayala-Sulca Yuri , Carrasco-Badajoz Carlos , Castañeda Luz , Carrasco Luis , Iannacone Jose Alberto
Published: November 2022

ASBTRACT The present investigation used Brachionus plicatilis (Rotifera) to evaluate the water quality in Callao Bay, Peru. The water samples were taken in four areas: P1 in La Punta, P2 in Chucuito, P3 in front of the Callao Port Terminal and P4 in the San Lorenzo and El Frontón Islands, and in four seasonal periods: autumn-2015, winter- 2015, spring-2015, and summer-2016. Physical-chemical parameters, chlorophyll, phycocyanin, heavy metals, and bioassays with seawater at 24 h and 48 h of exposure to Brachionus plicatilis obtained from a standardized culture were evaluated in each area and seasonal period. High concentrations of Ag, Pb, Hg, Cu, Cr, Ni and Zn were found at all the sampling sites. The ​​ no observed effect concentration (NOEC) values (concentration at which a significant effect of mortality is not observed with respect to the control) and lowest observed effect concentration (LOEC) (minimum concentration at which a significant effect of mortality is observed with respect to the control) at 48 h of exposure to the B. plicatilis bioassay were lower for P1 (winter-2015) and P2 (winter-2015). Principal components analysis (PCA) showed that principal component 1 (PC1) contributed 38.70% and PC2 17.70%. PC1 was formed by LOEC of Cd, Hg, Ni, Ag, and Pb while PC2 was related to Cu, Cr and Zn. According to these results Brachionus plicatilis can be used as a bioindicator organism to assess water quality in the marine environment. Keywords: acute bioassay, Brachionus, heavy metals, mortality, rotifer.
Environmental impacts on marine energy: collision risks for marine animals and priority species for monitoring in Brazil
Authors: Lima da Silva Catarina Luiza Damasceno , Castello Branco Dágola Pedro Henrique , Cruz Moreira Marcos Antônio , Umbelino dos Santos Luís Felipe
Published: November 2022

ABSTRACT Brazil has great potential for the development of technologies for the conversion of marine energy from waves and tides, which raises the discussion about the possible environmental impacts of these projects. This article seeks to synthesize knowledge about the risks of collision of marine animals, such as mammals, fish and birds, with marine renewable energy (MRE) devices, as well as to identify priority species for environmental monitoring along the Brazilian coast. The risk of marine mammals colliding with MRE devices is influenced by regional and behavioral factors. The risk of collision in a fish community is influenced by the avoidance behavior, the distribution of fish in the MRE sites and the stages of the enterprise (installation, operation and maintenance). Seabird collision risk is influenced by species behavior (geographical distribution, seasonal habitat use, diving time and depth) and the location of MRE structures (surface and/or water column). The survey of priority species for monitoring the risk of collision with MRE devices in Brazil consisted of 5 species of marine mammals, 13 taxa of seabirds, 5 species of endangered sea turtles and 18 species or groups of species of fish of economic importance to the country. The research review did not record the occurrence of collisions with marine animals. However, this does not mean that they did not occur, but that they may not have been observed due to monitoring challenges. The study concluded that research on the interaction of marine animals with MRE devices should be encouraged, even in prototypes and non-commercial projects, in order to reduce knowledge gaps and support the development of MRE in an environmentally sound manner. Keywords: Marine renewable energy, Collision risk, Species, Marine animals.
Long-term Coastline evolution of Figueira da Foz – Nazaré sector (Portugal)
Authors: Rebêlo Luís , Nave Sílvia Osório
Published: November 2022

ASBTRACT Some sectors of the west Portuguese coast are particularly endangered by erosion and flooding. Regional to local scale information, on coastline evolutionary trend, is particularly valuable in sectors that includes areas with relevant erosion. A continuous, high-resolution, dataset on coastal evolution, from 1947 and 2015, between Figueira da Foz and Nazaré, was achieved within the Programme “Geological and Coastal Hazard Mapping at a 1:3000 resolution scale” at the National Laboratory of Energy and Geology (LNEG). This work, due to the detailed scale of analysis in a wide geographic context, allows to have both, a general overview of the coastal evolution and, at the same time, when zooming in up to 1:3000 scale, to observe the local behaviour and to quantify the occurred changes. Also, the well time-spaced aerial photograph dataset allows to compare the resultant coastline movement between the oldest and the youngest coastline (NSM index), with the total coastline oscillation (SCE index), bringing new insights on the coastline stability at a local scale. The evolution trend shows an overall erosional behaviour, if considering the entire sector. Erosion occurs predominantly in the north, as the south shows more stability and progradation. Quantification of the land-lost and land-gain due to the coastline shift in a 68-year period shows that 1 164 888 m2 of land were lost along 30 470 m of the coastal fringe, and 462 330 m2 were gained along an extension of 21 010 m. Keywords: Coastal hazard mapping; Western Portuguese coast; Coastline evolution; Coastal erosion and accretion; Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS).
On quasi-Sasakian structure on a totally umbilical hypersurface of a six-dimensional Hermitian planar submanifold of Cayley algebra
Authors: Banaru G.A.
Published: November 2022

Six-dimensional planar submanifolds of Cayley algebra equipped with almost Hermitian structures induced by Brown — Gray three-fold vector cross products in are considered. We select the case when the almost Hermitian structures on such six-dimensional planar submanifolds of Cayley algebra are Hermitian, i. e. these structures are integrable. We study almost contact metric structures on totally umbilical hypersurfaces in such six-dimensional Hermitian pla­nar submanifolds of the octave algebra. We prove that if these almost contact metric structures on a totally umbilical hypersurface of a six-dimensional Hermitian planar submani­fold of Cayley algebra are quasi-Sasakian, then they are Sasakian.
Generalized bilinear connection on the space of centered planes
Authors: Belova O.O.
Published: November 2022

We continue to study the space of centered planes in projective space . In this paper, we use E. Cartan's method of external forms and the group-theoretical method of G. F. Laptev to study the space of centered planes of the same dimension. These methods are successfully applied in physics. In a generalized bundle, a bilinear connection associated with a space is given. The connection object contains two simplest subtensors and subquasi-tensors (four simplest and three simple subquasi-tensors). The object field of this connection defines the objects of torsion, curvature-torsion, and curvature. The curvature tensor contains six simplest and four simple subtensors, and curvature-torsion tensor contains three simplest and two simple subtensors. The canonical case of a generalized bilinear connection is considered.
Access, Power, Identity, and Healing in Mathematics
Authors: Gartland Sara , Wong Shellee , Silverstein Laurie
Published: November 2022

Co-teachers in a ninth-grade algebra 1 class offered instruction that integrates mathematical learning with social and emotional learning during hybrid (online and face-to-face) class meetings, promoting healing and positive identity development among students.
Teaching Is a Journey: Eek! I’m Moving!
Authors: Jordan Benjamin
Published: November 2022

This department provides a space for current and past PK–12 teachers of mathematics to connect with other teachers of mathematics through their stories that lend personal and professional support.
GPS: When Is “Close Enough” Enough?
Authors: Marin Katherine Ariemma , Gerstenschlager Natasha E.
Published: November 2022

Growing Problem Solvers provides four original, related, classroom-ready mathematical tasks, one for each grade band. Together, these tasks illustrate the trajectory of learners’ growth as problem solvers across their years of school mathematics.
Monitoring and baseline of glyphosate-resistant sourgrass in the main soybean growing regions of Brazil
Authors: Gonçalves Netto Acácio , Carvalho Saul Jorge Pinto de , Nicolai Marcelo , Lopez Ovejero Ramiro Fernando , Presoto Jéssica Cursino , Andrade Jeisiane de Fátima , Resende Laís Sousa
Published: November 2022

Frequent application of glyphosate for consecutive years has enhanced the selection pressure on sourgrass (Digitaria insularis) populations, which resulted in the development of glyphosate-resistant biotypes. Therefore, this work was developed with the objective of monitoring sourgrass resistance to glyphosate, develop a baseline of sourgrass susceptibility to this molecule and, consequently, identify the discriminatory dose between resistant and susceptible populations.  This work was divided into three steps. The first step consisted of identifying and sorting sourgrass resistant and susceptible biotypes among 30 samples. In the second step, glyphosate baseline was elaborated considering exclusively the glyphosate-susceptible biotypes, which allowed the definition of a discriminatory dose. At the end, the third step, monitoring of glyphosate-resistant biotypes was achieved, considering five growing seasons (2016 – 2020) and 809 samples of sourgrass populations, collected throughout 12 states of Brazil.  Glyphosate baseline was elaborated to sourgrass and ideal discriminatory rate was identified as 960 g ha-1. Glyphosate-resistant populations of sourgrass were found in all soybean growing regions sampled. Among 809 populations, 25.96% were considered resistant to glyphosate. The states with the highest frequency of glyphosate-resistant populations were Rio Grande do Sul, Mato Grosso do Sul, Bahia, Mato Grosso and Paraná.
Postharvest quality of apples from ‘Maxi Gala’ trees grafted on different rootstocks
Authors: Martin Mariuccia Schlichting de , Macedo Tiago Afonso de , Steffens Cristiano André , Soethe Cristina , Heinzen Angélica Schmitz , Rufato Leo
Published: November 2022

This study analyzed the effect of rootstocks G.213, M.9 and Marubakaido with M.9 interstem of 30 and 20 cm (MB/M.9-30cm and MB/M.9-20cm) on postharvest quality, mineral composition and functional properties of 'Maxi Gala' apples. The evaluations was performed using fruits from a commercial orchard located in Vacaria, RS, Brazil. Fruits were stored for 135 and 147 days in the 2014/2015 and 2015/2016 seasons, respectively, and analyzed one day after harvest and after cold storage (1.0±0.2 °C) followed by seven days in ambient condition. The mineral composition of fruits showed small and inconsistent differences between rootstocks. The MB/M.9-20cm provided higher total antioxidant activity and levels of total phenolic compounds in fruit peel than MB/M.9-30cm. For 2014/2015 season, soluble solids content at harvest was higher in fruits from trees with G.213 rootstock, not differing only from MB/M.9-30cm. In 2015/2016 season, G.213 and M.9 provided higher soluble solids content after storage compared to MB/M.9-30 cm and MB/M.9-20cm. G.213 rootstock anticipated fruit maturity compared to M.9 in 2014/2015 season. Other quality attributes of ‘Maxi Gala’ apples, at harvest and after cold storage, were similar between rootstocks G.213, M.9 and Maruba with M.9 interstem of 30 and 20cm.
Germinative capacity of native plant species with forage potential under tropical rainforest conditions at the mountain-foot
Authors: Alvarez Carrillo Faver , Sterling Armando , Rios Parra Paula Andrea
Published: November 2022

The humid tropics harbor great biological diversity, in addition to native species with forage potential as alternatives for animal feed. However, using trees and shrubs and having plantations are limited by the absence of information on their growth and seed germination. Therefore, the goal was to evaluate the germination capacity of native plant species with forage potential in tropical rainforest conditions, selecting eight species with important nutritional value: Bauhinia tarapotensis, Crescentia cujete, Zygia longifolia, Cecropia ficifolia, Piptocoma discolor, Piper bredemeyeri, Calathea lutea and Heliconia rostrata. Two treatments were evaluated: T1: Seeds (sexual and asexual) immersed for 12 hours in water, and T2: Seeds (sexual and asexual) without any pre-germination treatment (control). Significant differences were found in the germination percentage among species, treatments and the interaction of the two factors (p < 0.01). The species C. cujete, C. ficifolia and P. discolor presented better germination percentages with T1, in contrast to P. bredemeyeri, which adapted better to T2. In the same sense, H. rostrata (93%), C. cujete (91%) and Z. longifolia (89%) with T1, were the species with the highest germination capacity when compared to the other species, being desirable for use as fodder in agricultural production systems, due to their high germination power. In general, the pre-germinative treatment with water was very effective in increasing the permeability of the seed coat and, therefore, favored the breaking of endogenous physiological dormancy.
Bacillus coagulans as an alternative to antibiotics in the performance and control of Salmonella Enteritidis in broilers
Authors: Lacerda Dielly Inêz de Oliveira , Maciel Mônica Patricia , Araújo Wagner Azis Garcia de , Aiura Felipe Shindy , Gonçalves Deyvison da Silva , Brito Hebert Fernandes de
Published: November 2022

The use of antimicrobial growth promoters in broiler feed has been beneficial for improving performance and preventing diseases. However, the indiscriminate use of these products in the feed can result in the development of resistant bacteria, the accumulation of residues in the products, and an imbalance in the microflora of birds. Therefore, it is necessary to evaluate alternatives, such as beneficial microorganisms that improve microbial growth without affecting animal health and product quality. This research aimed to evaluate the supplementation with the probiotic Bacillus coagulans on the performance, carcass characteristics, and health of broilers from seven to 42 days. In total, 720 broilers were used, distributed in a randomized block design with six treatments and eight replicates. The evaluated treatments were as follows: Control ration (RC); PROB1 (Probiotic 400 g/t); PROB2 (Probiotic 400 g/t until 21 days and 200 g/t from 22 to 42 days); RC + antibiotic; RC + Salmonella inoculation; PROB1 + Salmonella inoculation. The treatments did neither influence feed intake, carcass yield, and cuts nor the incidence of injuries to the chest, hock, and footpad. Weight gain and feed conversion were better in birds that received antibiotic or probiotic diets. There was an incidence of Salmonella in the e challenges excreta at 42 days only in the treatment with challenge without adding probiotics. We conclude that the probiotic Bacillus coagulans can be used as an alternative to antibiotics in the diet of broilers as it facilitates similar performance and is efficient in the control of Salmonella Enteritidis.
Production of lettuce cultivars in greenhouse in Humaitá, southern Amazonas state
Authors: Mendonça Amannda de Souza , Pereira Carlos Eduardo , Silva Douglas Marcelo Pinheiro da , Kikuti Ana Lúcia Pereira
Published: November 2022

Lettuce is the main leafy vegetable commercialized in Brazil and it is cultivated in many different environment conditions and regions. But, under high temperature and high light intensity lettuce plants tend to early flowering, making it difficult to obtain high-quality lettuce harvest. Thus, this study was aimed to evaluate the productive performance of lettuce cultivars in a greenhouse in the municipality of Humaitá, Amazonas state (AM). The cultivars used were Rafaela and Hanson, Veneranda, Mônica SF 31, Simpson, Solaris, Elba, Quatro Estações and Babá de Verão. The lettuce seedlings were transplanted 24 days after sowing into a greenhouse covered by 100 micra polyethylene transparent agrofilm. It was used bed with 33-m-long and 1-m-wide, using 30 cm x 30 cm spacing between plants. The experimental design was randomized complete block with four replications. The parameters evaluated 32 days after transplanting were plant diameter, number of leaves, stem length and shoot dry mass. Cultivars Babá de Verão and Elba presented a better agronomic performance for cultivation in greenhouse in municipality of Humaitá, Amazonas state.
The wages of acclimation
Authors: Thompson Michael D.
Published: November 2022

Epidemic disease regularly tore through nineteenth-century American cities, triggering public health crises and economic upheaval. These epidemic panics also provoked new racialised labour regimes, affecting the lives of innumerable working people. During yellow fever outbreaks, white authorities and employers preferred workers of colour over ‘unacclimated’ white immigrants, reflecting a common but mistaken belief in black invulnerability. This article chronicles enslaved burial labourers in antebellum Virginia, who leveraged this notion to seize various privileges – and nearly freedom. These episodes demonstrate that black labour, though not always black suffering or lives, mattered immensely to white officials managing these urban crises. Black workers were not mere tools for protecting white wealth and health, however, as they often risked torment and death to capitalise on employers’ desperation for their essential labour. This history exposes racial and socioeconomic divergence between those able to shelter or flee from infection, and those compelled to remain exposed and exploitable.
Biorecuperation, the epidemic of violence and COVID-19 in Mexico
Authors: Cruz-Santiago Arely , Schwartz-Marin Ernesto
Published: November 2022

COVID-19 has reinstated the sovereign enclosures of corpse management that mothers of the disappeared had so successfully challenged in the past decade. To explore how moral duties toward the dead are being renegotiated due to COVID-19, this article puts forward the notion of biorecuperation, understood as an individualised form of forensic care for the dead made possible by the recovery of biological material. Public health imperatives that forbid direct contact with corpses due to the pandemic, interrupt the logics of biorecuperation. Our analysis is based on ten years of experience working with families of the disappeared in Mexico, ethnographic research within Mexico’s forensic science system and online interviews conducted with medics and forensic scientists working at the forefront of Mexico City’s pandemic. In the face of increasing risks of viral contagion and death, this article analyses old and new techniques designed to bypass the prohibitions imposed by the state and its monopoly over corpse management and identification.
‘I can’t return to the village without my baby’
Authors: Rial Carmen
Published: November 2022

Based on the anthropological classification of death into ‘good
deaths’, ‘beautiful deaths’ and ‘evil
deaths’, and using the methodology of screen ethnography, this article
focuses on mourning in Brazil during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially the
extreme cases of deaths in Manaus and among the Yanomami people. The article
‘follows the virus’, from its first role in a death in the
country, that of a domestic worker, to hurriedly dug mass graveyards. I consider
how the treatment of bodies in the epidemiological context sheds light on the
meanings of separation by death when mourning rituals are not performed
according to prevailing cultural imperatives. Parallels are drawn with other
moments of sudden deaths and the absence of bodies, as during the South American
dictatorships, when many victims were declared ‘missing’. To
conclude, the article focuses on new funerary rituals, such as Zoom funerals and
online support groups, created to overcome the impossibility of mourning as had
been practised in the pre-pandemic world.
When ‘Seeing Was Believing’
Authors: Gorin Valérie
Published: November 2022

Focusing on the pivotal period of 1919–23 and the large-scale humanitarian responses in Central and Eastern Europe, this paper discusses the development of advocacy in the movies made by organizations like the ICRC, Save the Children Fund or American Relief Administration. While aid agencies observed and competed with each other for visibility, humanitarian cinema shaped visual advocacy, grounded in the idea that ‘seeing is believing’. Exploring the fragmented audiovisual archives, as well as magazines and promotional material, this paper explores the testimonial function of humanitarian films in the 1920s. It first shows that the immediacy of the cinema technology increased the immersive and affective experience of the viewers by using forensic evidence and images of the body in pain. It then analyses how these films compelled audiences to witness suffering and act through persuasion, suggestion, and emotions. Finally, it inquires into the use of eyewitness images and first-hand accounts during the screenings, to show how these movies operated within larger regimes of visibility, while making claims on behalf of distant beneficiaries.
Red Cross Museums as Media of Historical Communication
Authors: Kunkel Sönke
Published: November 2022

An accomplished academic, collector, and long-time Red Cross volunteer, Professor Dr Rainer Schlösser is head of the Red Cross Museum of the Red Cross Chapter Fläming-Spreewald in Luckenwalde. He has directed the museum since 2000. Since 2006, he has also served as official spokesperson of the Association of the Red Cross Museums in Germany, a group connecting thirteen Red Cross museums across Germany. I met Rainer Schlösser in his office at the Red Cross Museum in Luckenwalde. After an extended and insightful tour through the museum we sat down to discuss his ideas and his work at the museum.1
Ethical Traditions in Humanitarian Photography and the Challenges of the Digital Age
Authors: Marshall Dominique
Published: November 2022

As the production, content and display of humanitarian images faced the requirements of digital media, humanitarian organizations struggled to keep equitable visual practices. Media specialists reflect on past and current uses of images in four Canadian agencies: the Canadian Red Cross, the Multicultural Council of Saskatchewan, the World University Service of Canada and IMPACT. Historically, the risk to reproduce the global inequalities they seek to remedy has compelled photographers, filmmakers and publicists in these agencies to develop codes of visual practice. In these conversations, they have shared the insights gained in transforming their work to accompany the rise of new digital technologies and social media. From one agency to the other, the lines of concern and of innovation converge. On the technical side, the officers speak of the advantage of telling personal stories, and of using short videos and infographics. On the organizational side, they have updated ways to develop skills in media production and visual literacy among workers, volunteers, partners and recipients, at all levels of their activity. These interviews further reveal that Communications Officers share with historians a wish to collect, preserve and tell past histories that acknowledge the role of all actors in the humanitarian sphere, as well as an immediate need to manage the abundance of visual documents with respect and method. To face these challenges, the five interviewees rely on democratic traditions of image-making: the trusted relationships, both with the Canadian public and with local peoples abroad, which have always informed the production and the content of visual assets. For this reason, humanitarian publicists might be in a privileged position to intervene in larger and urgent debates over the moral economy of the circulation of digital images in a globalized public space.
Resilience Unfiltered
Authors: Pacoma Ara Joy , Su Yvonne , Genotiva Angelie
Published: November 2022

In the context of disasters, the term ‘resilience’ is viewed by some humanitarians as overused, underdefined and difficult to operationalise. Moreover, much of this process has been expert- and humanitarian-led, leaving out the understanding of resilience at the local level, among disaster-affected people and in local languages. And when local input from disaster-affected households is included, their understanding of resilience is often filtered through expert and professional opinions. Looking at the case study of resilience-oriented interventions in Tacloban City, Philippines, after Typhoon Haiyan, this study examines local conceptions of resilience by disaster-affected households. Designed and led by local researchers who were also Haiyan survivors, we conducted in-depth interviews with 31 Haiyan survivors in a typhoon-affected community. Results reveal that disaster-affected people have drastically different conceptions of resilience than those promoted by institutions, such as family’s well-being, intactness of the family members after the disaster, durability and having faith in God. Food, financial capacity and psychosocial status significantly influence people’s contextualised meanings of resilience. Access to social and material resources from a household’s social capital networks was also found to be an important factor to understanding resilience.
Gender Transformation in Humanitarian Response
Authors: Nwoke Chikezirim C. , Becker Jennifer , Popovych Sofiya , Gabriel Mathew , Cochrane Logan
Published: November 2022

Within bilateral and multilateral funding circles, there has been a strong and growing emphasis on the importance of understanding and responding to gender inequalities in humanitarian settings. However, given the often-short funding cycles, among other operational challenges, there is limited scope to incorporate interventions that address the root causes and social norms underpinning gender inequalities, or other gender transformative interventions. In the context of the decade-long crisis in the Lake Chad Basin, fuelled by incursions from non-state armed groups (NSAGs), including Boko Haram, and the resultant protracted and chronic humanitarian crisis, this article examines Save the Children’s child nutrition programmes in northeast Nigeria. Taking an ethnographic approach focused on volunteer-driven peer support groups (mother-to-mother and father-to-father) that aim to increase knowledge on best practices for infant and child nutrition, we investigate whether these activities are transforming societal gender norms. While evidence shows an improved understanding and awareness of gender-positive roles by both men and women, restrictive gender norms remain prevalent, including among lead volunteers. We suggest the possibility of longer term shifts in power dynamics in the home and society at large as well as suggest how humanitarian response can better integrate gender transformative programming.
Thermocapillary migration of thin droplet on wettability-confined track
Authors: Li Chun-Xi , Ma Cheng , Ye Xue-Min ,   Hebei Key Laboratory of Low Carbon and High Efficiency Power Generation Technology, North China Electric Power University, Baoding 071003, China
Published: November 2022

The thermocapillary migration of droplets on a solid surface is widely used in daily life and industrial fields. Regulating droplet thermocapillary migration by changing surface wettability has received extensive attention. According to the lubrication theory and slip boundary conditions, we establish a mathematical model of the thermocapillary migration dynamics of a droplet on wettability-confined tracks subjected to a uniform temperature gradient. Combined with the contact line dynamics, a method of determining the velocity of the contact line in a different direction of the three-dimensional droplet is proposed, the simulation is carried out with FreeFEM++. The evolution of droplet migration is examined, and the effects of track width and wettability on the droplet migration dynamics are emphatically investigated. The results show that the main part of the droplet moves from the high-temperature region to the low-temperature region, the trailing edge of the droplet forms a small bulge during the movement, and a thin liquid film is formed between the bulge and the main part of the droplet. The droplet spreading perpendicular to the track direction is inhibited and remains pinned after shrinking to the track edge. Negative correlation between the velocity of the advancing contact line and the track width is observed. The velocity of the advancing line first rapidly and then slowly decrease to a steady state. The squeezing effect caused by the wettability confined perpendicular to the track direction accelerates the thermocapillary migration of the droplet on the track in the initial short time. The enhanced track wettability increases the initial velocity of the receding contact line but has little effect on its stable value. The velocity of the advancing contact line is positively correlated with track wettability. Changing the track width is possibly easier to regulate the thermocapillary migration of a droplet than varying the track wettability.
High precision measurement of spectroscopic parameters of H2S in 6320—6350 cm–1 band
Authors: Tian Si-Di , Du Yan-Jun , Li Ji-Dong , Ding Yan-Jun , Peng Zhi-Min , Lü Jun-Fu , Pan Chao , Feng Xiao-Ya ,   State Key Laboratory of Power Systems, Department of Energy and Power Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China,   School of Control and Computer Engineering, North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, China,   State Key Laboratory of Clean and Efficient Coal-fired Power Generation and Pollution Control, National Energy Group Science and Technology Research Institute Co. LTD, Nanjing 210046, China
Published: November 2022

As a highly corrosive and highly toxic gas, hydrogen sulfide (H2S) is an important intermediate product or pollutant in many fields such as chemical industry, energy and environment. Accurate online measurement of its concentration is of great significance for process control and production safety. Tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy (TDLAS), as a quantitative absorption spectroscopy technique, is suitable for high-precision on-line measurement of H2S concentration in atmospheric environmental monitoring and industrial processes control. Considering that most of the spectroscopic parameters of H2S in the HITRAN2020 database are mainly calculated based on semi-empirical theoretical model and the experimental data to support them are lacking. In this work, direct absorption spectroscopy (DAS) method is firstly used to measure the absorption spectra of H2S in the band of 6320–6350 cm–1. Six groups of characteristic lines with strong absorption and relative independence are selected as the target transitions for experimental measurement. Then, the wavelength modulation-direct absorption (WM-DAS) method with no calibration and high signal-to-noise ratio is used to measure the absorbances of the six groups of transitions under different pressures. Voigt, Raution and quadratic speed-dependent Voigt profiles fit the measured absorbances by least squares method in order to obtain the spectroscopic parameters such as the collision broadening coefficient, line strength and Dicke narrowing coefficient. And the minimum standard deviation of residual error of absorbances is 7×10–5. The measurement uncertainty of each line strength is less than 2%, and the uncertainty of collision broadening coefficients, Dicke narrowing coefficients and the speed-dependent coefficients are all less than 10%. This work is helpful in improving the H2S spectral database and providing the spectral data basis for the high-precision measurement of H2S concentration.
Sålding av løsmasser fra Kjellerhaugen på Seivåg
Authors: Blom Jon Gunnar
Published: November 2022

Prosjektet omfattet sålding av masser som lå over en forstyrret grav på Kjellerhaugen (se Henriksen 2022), samt sålding av masser fra grøfteoppkast i forbindelse med graving av ny vannlinjetrasé til våningshuset.

Det ble funnet flere beinfragmenter og gjenstander, men ingen av beinene stammet fra menneske og gjenstandene var moderne.
Effectiveness of COVID-19 Vaccination against COVID -associated Mucormycosis
Authors: Mahla Rohit , Shrivastava Saurabh
Published: November 2022

Introduction: Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) infections may be associated with a wide range of opportunistic bacterial and fungal co-infections. Both Aspergillus and Candida have been reported as the main fungal pathogens for co-infection in people with COVID-19. During the COVID-19 pandemic, another threat has emerged as a challenge to India was in the form of COVID-associated mucormycosis. Aim: To study the incidence of COVID-associated rhino-orbital mucormycosis in vaccinated and unvaccinated patients. Materials and Methods: A prospective observational study was carried out at Gajra Raja Medical College and Jay Arogya Hospital, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India, over a period of two months (May to June 2021). A total of 94 patients with post-COVID rhino-orbital mucormycosis were reported in the institute during the study period. Biopsy or postoperative surgical specimens were received for histopathological examination with a proper history of diabetes mellitus, steroid intake, and vaccination status. Histologically confirmed COVID-associated rhino-orbital mucormycosis cases were included in the study and its incidence was compared in vaccinated and unvaccinated patients. Results: Total 94 patients were confirmed histopathologically, with mucormycosis. It was noted that mucormycosis was more common in males as compared to females. Of the total number of cases, 71 (75.5%) cases had a history of diabetes mellitus and 73 (77.7%) had a history of steroid intake. Eightysix (91.5%) cases were unvaccinated while only 8 (8.5%) were either completely or partially vaccinated. Incidence of mucormycosis was found to be more amongst unvaccinated patients as compared to vaccinated patients. Conclusion: Mucormycosis is one of the major post-COVID threats. Diabetes mellitus and steroid intake were found to be the main risk factors for post-COVID mucormycosis. However, it has also been noted that mucormycosis can occur without a previous history of diabetes and steroid intake. Incidence of mucormycosis was found to be higher amongst unvaccinated patients as compared to vaccinated patients. Hence, vaccination against COVID-19 is likely to be effective in the prevention of COVID-associated mucormycosis.
Factors Influencing Changing Boundaries and/or Routes of Fulani Herders in the North Eastern Corridors of Ghana: A Count Model Approach
Authors: Yenibehit Nanii , Amikuzuno Joseph , Abubakari Abdulai
Published: November 2022

This study was designed to examine the factors influencing the movement or changing of herding routes among herders in the North – Eastern corridor of the Northern and Northeast Regions of Ghana. The study followed a cross-sectional descriptive survey research design and adopted the Poison and Negative Binomial regression Models. A total of 210 Fulani herders and seven community/opinion leaders from seven communities across four (4) districts were randomly selected for this study. Duration of a herder’s stay in a community (P≤.01), being given a range of land for kraaling or grazing (P≤.01), having access to education for children (P≤0.1), losing cattle before (P≤.01) and ever being harmed or witnessing same due to conflict (P≤.01) are important factors that prevent or reduce the number of times a herder changes location or route. On the other hand, factors including hired herding (P≤.01), years of education of a herder (P≤.05) and restriction or lack of grazing land for cattle (P≤.1) are some of the most compelling factors that lead to changes in location or herding routes of Fulani herders.  Fulani herders should be registered and integrated into the various communities whilst encouraging them to educate their children and have permanent living status.
Learning Behavior towards Modular Instruction, Sex, and Academic Performance in English of Grade 7 Public High School Students
Authors: Lazaro Christiany Joy S. , Mascuñana Chona G.
Published: November 2022

Learning behavior is accounted to be pivotal to academic success. During the pandemic, concerns about students’ learning behavior toward Printed Modular Distance Learning (PMDL) modality were put to consideration. Thus, using descriptive-correlational analysis, this study examined the extent of learning behavior (LB) in English PMDL of 242 Grade 7 students in a district in Northern Negros. The level of English academic performance was identified and correlated with the extent of LB. For data collection, an English test and a contextualized LB Scale were given. Using percentage, weighted mean, Mann-Whitney U test, and Spearman rank correlation, the results yielded a high extent of LB toward English PMDL and an average level of academic performance as a whole and by sex. The difference in the extent of Attention-Persistence behavior was insignificant in terms of sex while females’ extent of Competence-Motivation, Attitude toward Learning, and Strategy/Flexibility were significantly higher than males. The level of English academic performance was also insignificant according to sex. Lastly, no correlation was found between learners’ extent of LB in PMDL and the level of English academic performance. Although learners still fell short in achieving higher academic performance in consideration of stronger interplaying factors, the findings still shed light on the learners’ status during pandemic where positive behaviors were displayed. The findings may serve as basis to revisit the PMDL implementation, and craft contextualized English 7 materials and enhancement programs to fill the language gaps of learners during the school year.
The Nutcracker Syndrome: Rare Cause of Pediatric Abdominal Pain
Authors: Elmahi J. , Amhager S. , Kriouel Y.
Published: November 2022

Nutcracker syndrome results from compression of the left renal vein (LRV), usually in the fork formed by the abdominal aorta and the superior mesenteric artery (SMA), leading to stenosis of the aorto-mesenteric part of the left renal vein and dilation of its distal part. We report the case of a 10-year-old child, with no family history of renal disease, diabetes or hematuria. He was admitted to our clinic for paroxysmal abdominal pain in the epigastric area that was not improved by the usual analgesics, associated with vomiting without transit disorders or hematuria, and had been evolving for 10 days prior to his admission. The clinical examination was normal, the normal biological check-up, the abdominal CT scan was in favor of the Nutcracker syndrome. The treatment was symptomatic with a good evolution.

Nutcracker syndrome is a rare entity, to be evoked in the diagnostic range of rare etiologies of unexplained abdominal pain.
Marker Based Screening of F1 (Rosalie x Fuji) Mapping Population for Major Scab Resistance Gene Rvi6 in Apple (Malus × Domestica)
Authors: Rasool Aatifa , Bhat Khalid M. , Mir M. A. , Parray M. A. , Murtaza Imtiyaz , Shikari Asif B. , Sheikh Altaf Ahmad
Published: November 2022

Apple (Malus domestica Borkh.) being the most significant and profitable crop cultivated in temperate areas is extremely susceptible to the apple scab disease. It becomes problematic when pathogens develop resistance and farmers spend a lot of money on fungicides. These widespread worries reasonably call for a different disease resistance management strategy in order to use fungicides less frequently. As a result, the current study focused on scab resistance gene introgression in cultivar ‘Fuji’ using phenotypic and marker-assisted screening in hybrids created by crossing scab succeptible cultivar ‘Fuji’ with a scab resistant cultivar ‘Rosalie’. There was a 1:1 Mendelian segregation ratio between susceptible and resistant hybrids. From our study, the resistant hybrids obtained have the potential to be utilized as commercial varieties after evaluation for important pomological traits and also as resistant gene sources in downstream breeding programs.
Geo-spatial Analysis of the Nexus between Population Growth, Environmental Transformation and Local People’s Livelihoods in Coastal Areas: The Case Study of Kigamboni Municipality, Tanzania
Authors: Malekela Asnath Alberto
Published: November 2022

The world is facing an unprecedented population increase in coastal areas. This situation is mainly the result of human migration. The population increase has multiplier effects on the environment and development. In Kigamboni Municipality, land-use changes have been witnessed and new expansions, including agricultural, commercial, industrial and urban-related expansions, happen every day. Thus, this study investigates the impact of population growth on the environment and the local people’s livelihoods in Kigamboni. Land-use/land-cover (LULC) changes were quantified using satellite images. In addition, a total of 156 respondents were randomly selected from four sub-wards in the municipality. Primary data were collected using a structured questionnaire, in-depth interviews, observations and focus group discussions (FGDs). Remote sensing techniques were used to map the spatial and temporal variation of the area between 1995 and 2021 by using a Supervised Classification method in Random Forest Classifier model in R software to generate land-cover types. Seven major LULC categories were identified. The results show that the area under cultivation and the built-up area increased by 40% and 4%, respectively, and that bushlands, forests and grasslands had a declining trend of 34%, 6% and 13%, respectively.  The population increase has both positive and negative effects on the local people’s livelihoods, including access to social services, improvement of infrastructure, the availability of markets, the increase in waste, pollution and the increase of the cost of land. The study recommends the formulation of appropriate policies on land-use planning in relation to population dynamics.
Designing and Manufacturing a Single-Phase Transformer and Analyzing Its Performance
Authors: Arafat Eyasir , Oyon Md. Shihab Sharar , Kabbyo Md. Habib A Hasan , Khan Khan Mohammad , Shuvo , Md. Shahriar Hasan , Sarker Arnab , Haque Md. Rokibul , Islam Rakibul , Bhuyan Muhibul Haque
Published: November 2022

Aims: This work aims to design a single-phase transformer for analyzing its performance based on some requirements.

Study Design:  At first, requirements are set, then the design was completed using AutoCAD, after that the designed machine was simulated in MATLAB Simulink, manufactured in real-time in the laboratory, tested experimentally, and then the equivalent circuit parameters were computed from the experimental data.

Place and Duration of Study: The design, manufacturing, simulation, and performance testing were conducted in the electrical machine 1 laboratory of American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB). It took around four months to complete the whole task.

Methodology: This work is a bit expensive and complicated process for students without any funds. So, a group was formed with eight students. The tasks were to design, simulate, implement, and test a single-phase transformer that would step down 220 V (ac) to 110 V (ac) having a 440 VA capacity, and core loss should not exceed 5 W.

Results: MATLAB Simulink was used to simulate the designed transformer to get the primary and secondary winding voltage and current wave shapes that were confirmed by the experimental results. Open and short circuit tests indicate that loss is only between 5 W and 8 W respectively. The total design cost is only BDTK1, 270.

Conclusion: The results satisfied the design and performance parameter requirements and the designed transformer worked very well. The design cost was also kept minimum.