bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
ANALYSIS OF LABOR MOTIVATION TO ENSURE EFFECTIVE EMPLOYMENT OF RURAL POPULATION
Authors:   Esil University, Kushebina G. , Ryumkin S. ,   Novosibirsk State Agrarian University
Published: April 2024

Labor potential is the main driving force of modern agrarian transformations and at the same time an objective factor in the sustainable development of agricultural production. The importance of this determines the need to stabilize the economic system by increasing the employment of labor as a fundamental element of rural production potential, reducing unemployment, increasing the income level of workers and reducing their poverty, overcoming the negative consequences of demographic processes in rural areas. The paper analyzes agricultural personnel by the nature of labor motivation. It is determined that in agricultural production, the achievement of rational employment is possible only under certain conditions, in particular when each individual employee becomes the actual owner of the property, actually participates in production management, fully receives for successful work and is responsible for possible losses.
FORMATION OF A DYNAMIC MODEL OF IT MAJORS USING GAMIFICATION
Authors:   Toraighyrov University, Tokzhigitova N. , Lili N. ,   Universiti Putra Malaysia, Tokzhigitova A. ,   Toraighyrov University
Published: April 2024

Currently, gamification in education has become a full-fledged object of research. The current state of gamification allows us to consider it as an innovation that has potential in terms of didactics, organizational and methodological support of the educational process and management of educational institution as a whole. The main advantage of gamification is the possibility of modernizing the learning process, which increases students' intrinsic motivation and their involvement in the learning process. The purpose of this article is to present a dynamic model based on the analysis of gamification models. As a theoretical contribution of gamification, we form a dynamic model of gamebased learning, which aims to improve the effectiveness of learning related to five main factors (difficulty, interest, observation, imagination and choice). The dynamic model was used to teach first and second year students of the Computer Technology Faculty of Pavlodar universities (Toraighyrov University and Pavlodar Pedagogical University named after Alkey Margulan) the Python programming language using educational resources consisting of gamification elements, and the theory of educational environment design is called ARCS (attention, relevance, confidence and satisfaction) and the theoretical foundations of gamification are defined by the framework of MDA (mechanics, dynamics and aesthetics).
USING STEM EDUCATION AND MACHINE LEARNING FUNDAMENTALS IN THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS
Authors:   L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University, Serik M. , Sadvakassova A. ,   L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University, Kultan J. ,   University of Economics, Akhmetova B. ,   Nazarbayev Intellectual School of Physics and Mathematics
Published: April 2024

The article examines the state of training of future teachers of computer science in higher educational institutions of the republic and the introduction of STEM education and the basics of machine learning into the educational process. The materials on the development of special courses and their implementation in universities in these two areas, on the content of special courses to improve students' knowledge, the formation of new knowledge and skills are presented. The implementation of the training of future computer science teachers in STEM directions within the framework of the Erasmus+ program is also being considered.
Ergonomic Evaluation Of Farm Women’s Drudgery In Rice Production System: Current Research Trends
Authors:   Department of Family Resource Management, College of Home Science, GB Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand, India., Singh Divya , Unesha Fareq Rupanagudi
Published: April 2024

Women are the backbone of agricultural workforce but worldwide her hard work has mostly been unpaid. She does the most tedious and back-breaking tasks in agriculture, animal husbandry and homes. Farmwomen’s participation was crucial in various operations such a sowing/transplanting (86%), weeding (84%), storage of grains (78%), land preparation (72%), cleaning seed for sowing (70%), gap filling (68%), manure and fertilizer application (68%), harvesting (64%), and threshing and winnowing (62%).During the peak season of sowing and harvesting rural women spend 8-9 hours in the field. Women’s contribution to the operations related to wheat and rice cultivation is significantly higher than that of men in terms of man days of work done. All of these activities contribute to anincrease in the physiological costs and physical loads to a great extent. It also causes unbalancing of the body with heavy workloads. Musculoskeletal disorders are common among farm workers especially lower and upper back disorders due to bending and squatting body posture in manual rice transplanting and uprooting activity. Considering the above facts and point of view, it was proposed to investigate changes in the physiological responses and perceived exertion due to heavy workloads and body postures in rice production system. to better understand how the manual rice production system activity perform, identify potential health risk factors, and gain insight into the health effects of the task.
Coles Fracture at Wazir Mohammad Akbar Khan Hospital, Kabul
Authors:   مؤسسۀ تحصیلات عالی سپین غر, حیات رسول خان , ایوبی شفیع‌الله ,   مؤسسۀ تحصیلات عالی سپین غر, نیازی عبیدالله ,   مؤسسۀ تحصیلات عالی سپین غر
Published: April 2024

زمینه‌ و ‌هدف: واقعات کسور کولیس به‌صورت دیسکرپتیف، به شکل case series ‌در شفاخانۀ وزیر محمد اکبرخان در مدت سه سال صورت گرفته است. در جملۀ مریضانِ اورتوپيدی و تروماتولوژی مریض مصاب کسور کولیس بوده است. روش بررسی: از جمله، 99 مریض بالاتر از ۱۵ سال، که تحت مطالعه بوده و از کتاب راجستر عملیاتی و دوسیه‌های مریض، که در آن شهرت مکمل مریضان درج شده‌اند. تجزیه و تحلیل ارقام توسط برنامه‌های SPSS – Excel انجام یافت. یافته‌ها: بیش‌ترین واقعات کسور در جنس مؤنث بوده، که %67.7 ‌را تشکیل داده و از نظر سن بیش‌ترین واقعات بین 51 الی 70 ساله‌گی بوده، که %40.4 را تشکیل می‌دهد. و %65.7 در بین ساکنین شهرها ثبت گردیده، و از جمله %53.5 کسور ثبت شده را از نظر علل افتادن از ارتفاعات بلند تشکیل می‌دهد؛ هم‌چنان از نظر نوعیت کسر %92.9 واقعات کسر بسته کولیس ثبت ‌گردیده است. نتیجه‌گیری: مراجعۀ زیاد مریضان به شکسته‌بندها که از همین سبب کم‌تر مریضان کولیس به شفاخانۀ ما مراجعه می‌کند، این مسأله با لیتراتورهای طبی جهانی تفاوت ندارد؛ یعنی گفته می‌توانیم از نظر جنسیت، وقوع کسر کولیس در لیتراتور‌های طبی تقریباً شباهت دارد. از نظر محل سکونت وقوعات کسر کولیس بیش‌تر در نواحی شهرها بوده، البته علّت آن کار میخانیکی است. از نظر نوع کسر کولیس کسور بسته، نسبت به کسر باز وقوع ‌بیش‌تر داشته که علّت مراجعۀ زیادتر مریضان از اثر افتادن است. از نظر تداوی معلوم شد که اکثریت واقعات کسر کولیس به‌ تداوی محافظه‌وی تداوی می‌شود، و بسیار کم به تداوی عملیاتی ضرورت پیدا می‌کند.
Resisting Whiteness: Christian Speech as Mutual Articulation
Authors: Draper Andrew T. ,   Religious Communication Association
Published: April 2024

Over the past eight years, the rhetoric of many pundits, politicians, and preachers has shifted from pronouncements about the beginning of a “post-racial” age to proclamations about the persistence of racism in the social fabric of the West. What of the tenacity of what Willie Jennings has called the “racialized imagination” owes to its genesis in religion?1 What if race is at heart a theological construct? This paper traces the genealogical accounts of Jennings and J. Kameron Carter, two recent contributors to the field of theological race studies,2 and contrasts them with common theological ways of thinking about Christian identity as a return to traditions of Western virtue.3 The paper closes by suggesting a way forward in resisting the sociopolitical order of whiteness through a scandalous mutual participation in joined bodies politic marked by difference and inhabiting shared space.
Beyond the Veil: A Critique of White Christian Rhetoric and Racism in the Age of Trump
Authors: Harris Tina M. , Steiner Rebecca J. ,   Religious Communication Association
Published: April 2024

The elections of Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012 to the role of President of the United States were noted as benchmarks in our country's history. There was a strong societal belief that his historic elections reflected a shift in societal attitudes towards racial differences, primarily between Whites and people of color, specifically African Americans; however, public discourse over time revealed deep-seated hate for the country's first African American president. Despite his efforts to fight for social justice for all, he received unrelenting opposition from Congress, and the US public was subjected to horrifying racial attacks on Obama, his wife Michelle, and his daughters that went largely ignored and dismissed. The racist tenor of the US became much clearer with the election of Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential run. What is more troubling is that Christian evangelicals came out in full force to elect a man whose very being is the antithesis of what it means to be a Christian. To better understand this national and global phenomenon, this critical essay will explore the various arguments that White Christian evangelicals have used to rationalize the election of a man whose policies and behaviors are in direct opposition of Christian ideologies and sensibilities. This contradiction was not lost on many others within and outside of the Christian world, including Black Christians and other evangelical communities of color who have had a range of reactions to the racism that has been revealed by their fellow White believers. Thus this essay will offer greater insight into the gulf that exists in the racism of the Christian community through the lens of this historic political election. It will also aim to offer suggestions for reformation in the Christian community that can potentially serve as a model for positive race relations in society and the larger political landscape of the US.
Communion with Babylon: Alienation, Sacralization, and Hope in Ellul’s 'Technological Society'
Authors: Kearney Michael R. ,   Religious Communication Association
Published: April 2024

The globalizing potential of digital communication technology evokes frequent comparisons, both hopeful and foreboding, to the Judeo-Christian story of the tower of Babel. Under the guiding metaphor of Babel, this paper integrates the sociological and theological dimensions of Jacques Ellul’s scholarship in an attempt to better understand the profound implications of la technique. To Ellul, the Tower of Babel represents the alienation and sacralization characteristic of the technological society. Yet the metaphor also provides a ray of hope for human flourishing, leveraging media ecology in the service of interpersonal communication while responding to the totalizing demands of the digital age.
Eschatology, Pluralism, and Communication in Tom Perrotta’s 'The Leftovers'
Authors: Hurley Gavin ,   Religious Communication Association
Published: April 2024

This article discusses the rhetorical and pluralistic underpinnings of the 2010 novel The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta. It examines how the novel’s characters manage their lives after the “Sudden Departure,” a mysterious eschatological rapture event. By emphasizing the role of cooperative communication, the novel provides “pluralistic theater” wherein ideological rearrangement and pragmatic reasoning unfolds. By evaluating The Leftover’s “pluralistic theater,” the article establishes the novel as literary equipment that can help readers contemplate the fabric of democratic living and sustainable communicative relations. Moreover, it unpacks the value of eschatology and spirituality in driving such didactic aims.
Responding to the Meme-ing of the Religious Other
Authors: Campbell Heidi A. , Joiner Lane , Lawrence Samantha ,   Religious Communication Association
Published: April 2024

This article explores how Internet memes about religion present a distinct range of frames that offer distinct understandings of how religion is viewed in American culture. Through a critical overview of four research studies conducted on different meme strategies, genres, and forms of humor used to represent religious cultures in memetic discourse, we discover a tendency towards primarily negative messages about religious traditions and their believers online. The results are that meme messages can be seen as promoting religious stereotypes and serve as microaggressions objectifying the religious other. Based on my 2017 RCA Scholar of the Year lecture, this article suggests Martin Buber’s I-Thou relation can be used as a framework for reading Internet memes about religion in ways that lead to dialogue over distancing of religious traditions.
Apologia Ad Hominem
Authors: Lessl Thomas ,   Religious Communication Association
Published: April 2024

This essay explores the apologetic value of arguments for faith that are built upon premises accepted by the skeptic—the kind of argument originally denoted by the term ad hominem. I illustrate the apologetic efficacy of ad hominem argument by working with the premise of ‘factuality.’ The skeptic supposes that facts may lead to scientific inferences but not to metaphysical ones compatible with religious faith. But, by examining the meaning of factual knowledge more closely, I undertake to show that it necessarily leads to conclusions about moral truth and freewill that lie outside the limits presupposed by skeptics. I conclude by considering how this argument type enables apologists to circumvent what Eric Voegelin has called modernity’s “prohibition of questions,” its tendency to rule out arguments for faith on procedural grounds.
Social Identity Construction and Negotiation among Hijab-wearing Indonesian University Students
Authors: Simorangkir Deborah N. , Pamungkas Sigit ,   Religious Communication Association
Published: April 2024

Today, increasingly more Indonesian young women wear the hijab. This trend continues in Indonesia with the booming of pop culture – including fashion, film, and music – featuring Islamic themes. This article analyzes how the hijab shapes identity. In-depth interviews with 10 hijab-wearing university students were conducted, and results were analyzed using the perspectives of Social Identity and Identity Negotiation theories. The hijab is an important cultural symbol of social identity. The social categorization is evident in the respondents’ perception of non-hijab-wearing Muslim women; and their social identification is reinforced by the media’s portrayal of women in hijab. Fashion also plays a crucial part in identity negotiation.
“It’s Not Catholicism that is Broken, It’s the Structure”: Exploring How Women Discursively Navigate the Identities of Catholic and Feminist
Authors: Pauly Jessica A. ,   Religious Communication Association
Published: April 2024

While many individuals identify as Catholic and feminist, these two identities are often seen as incompatible because of stark differences in origin, beliefs, and political orientation. To understand this potential conflict better, this study uses a structuration view of identification to explore how individuals who identify as Catholic and feminist navigate tensions associated with these seemingly irreconcilable identities. Analysis reveals two strategies by which participants discursively navigate Catholicism and feminism: (1) highlighting endurance; and (2) minimizing difference. These strategies support and extend theory by revealing the tenuous, but enduring nature of involuntary identities, and showcasing transcendent possibilities.
Communication and Culture as Catalysts for Rewriting the African Narrative in the Nigerian Church
Authors: Dyikuk Justine John ,   Religious Communication Association
Published: April 2024

The Catholic Church in Nigeria is vibrant. The presence of two emeriti Cardinals and a serving one in Abuja plus its array of human capital in terms of priests, religious and laity, as well as rich cultural dynamics, tells the story more. Despite this seeming flamboyance, the Church in the West African country has not reached its potentials. This qualitative paper, “Communication and Culture as Catalysts for Rewriting the African Narrative in the Nigerian Church” used the Cross-Culture theory as theoretical framework to ascertain the matter. It argued that lack of a unified theology of inculturation and implementing same, reliance on handouts from Europe and America, ethnicity and mediocrity are responsible for the backwardness. The study suggested developing an inculturated language of faith through creating a nexus between African communication and culture as ways of rewriting the African narrative in the Nigerian pastoral context. It concluded that effective communication and culture can create a new template not only in telling the Nigerian version of the narrative but in enabling the Church in Nigeria reach its full potentials.
Platonic Rhetoric and the Art of Faith Production
Authors: Wachs Anthony ,   Religious Communication Association
Published: April 2024

Plato has widely been interpreted as an enemy of rhetoric. His Gorgias is especially used as evidence that he despised rhetoric as a deceitful producer of opinion (doxa) and upheld philosophy as the true art of knowledge (episteme) discovery. However, in his Theaetetus, he complicates the concept of knowledge, and can be interpreted as developing an art of persuasion that is concerned with the production of faith (pistis) rather than knowledge or opinion. The result of rereading Plato as such tempers the disciplinary narrative concerning Plato and strengthens James Kinneavy’s thesis that relates the development of Christian faith with Greek rhetoric. Reevaluating Plato’s epistemology in relation to the concept of pistis not only nuances the discipline’s understanding of Plato, but also challenges advocates of a “Christian rhetoric” to reconsider the relationship of faith and reason in relation to persuasion.
Daring to Prophesy: A Challenge to Patriarchy
Authors: Gaines Steven Tramel ,   Religious Communication Association
Published: April 2024

Kathy J. Pulley is a scholar of religion and a leading proponent of women’s rhetorical agency in her denomination of Christianity. She was the first woman to preach a Sunday morning sermon in the presence of women and men in the Churches of Christ since the Stone-Campbell Movement’s split in the early twentieth century. In a religious culture shaped by a history of patriarchy, Pulley combined prophetic and pastoral rhetoric to lead organizational change in an egalitarian direction. This paper analyzes her sermon through lenses of prophetic and feminist rhetoric, integrates literature from rhetoric and homiletics to develop the concept of pastoral rhetoric, and presents implications for ecclesial engagement with social controversies.
Towards Patho-logology: Love as God-term of Terministic-Affect Screens
Authors: Slater Jarron ,   Religious Communication Association
Published: April 2024

This article synthesizes studies of the emotions or passions (pathē) with Burkean logology to argue for a concept of patho-logology, which, consummating in the god-term love, transforms our understanding of Burke’s larger corpus and implies that rhetoric is a connecting link between religion and science. Patho-logology’s companion-concept, terministic-affect screens, allows the description of ways of seeing that involve the pathē. Love is the god-term of a patho-logological terministic-affect screen because “God is love,” illustrating a relationship between Burkean identification and its related term consubstantiality. Patho-logology complements John Hatch’s notion of dialogology, helps people to get along, and unifies the Judeo-Christian-based logology with the Talmudic tradition of not confining logos to propositional logic alone and improves understanding of Aristotelian pisteis.
Thoughts on Reading Kierkegaard in a Pluralist Society
Authors: Habermas Jürgen ,   Saint Louis University
Published: April 2024

Soren Kierkegaard’s Lutheran existentialism represents a distinctively postmetaphysical philosophy of religion, focused in particular on a Christian vision of ethical authenticity. His philosophy continues to pose challenging questions for postmetaphysical philosophers in contemporary pluralistic settings. Focusing on specific works of Kierkegaard, this essay develops three such questions: (1) Can philosophy in a postmetaphysical vein still give advice for the pursuit of the good life, today’s diversity of life styles and values notwithstanding? (2) How can a postmetaphysical philosophy relate to the ethical teachings and truth claims of religious doctrines? (3) Is postmetaphysical philosophy still capable of an “upbuilding and awakening” discourse that can induce and stabilize an ethical self-consciousness?
The Habermasian Translation Proviso of Religious Content
Authors: Sánchez Corrales Carlos José ,   Saint Louis University
Published: April 2024

Habermas’s translation proviso aims to legitimize religious argumentation in the informal part of the public sphere while requiring religious citizens to express their arguments in the formal part of the public sphere using a universal (secular) language. By considering secular scholars Gonzalo Scivoletto’s and Javier Aguirre’s critiques of the meaning of “translation,” this article highlights the inconsistency of the proviso as manifested in its application to the religious concept of tzimtzum (“divine contraction”), from which Habermas attempts to extract a secular worldview and moral intuitions that contradict the beliefs of religious citizens, thus undermining the reassessment of religion in the public sphere.
The Conceptual Plurality in Jürgen Habermas’s Auch eine Geschichte der Philosophie
Authors: Nascimento Amos ,   Saint Louis University
Published: April 2024

In Auch eine Geschichte der Philosophie (Also a History of Philosophy), Jürgen Habermas weaves together various themes such as faith and knowledge, history and theology, naturalism and epistemic justification, learning processes and moral development as well as multiculturalism and deliberative democracy in a transnational public sphere. This article argues that to articulate these multiple elements, Habermas adopts a robust framework built upon four conceptual pillars that can be clearly identified: postmetaphysical, postconventional, postnational, and postsecular. This “conceptual plurality” underlies his genealogy of the centuries-long tension and mutual learning between religious faith and scientific knowledge in the Western philosophical tradition. By considering the interplay of these concepts, it is possible to understand the several ways in which religion emerges in contemporary society and the equally multiple strategies Habermas uses to interpret religion throughout his career, which are masterfully reconsidered and articulated in his opus magnum on religion.
Jürgen Habermas
Authors: Haiden Michael ,   Saint Louis University
Published: April 2024

Jürgen Habermas has defended Germany’s cautious support for Ukraine against the ongoing Russian invasion. Instead of trying to defeat Russia on the battlefield, he argued that Western nations should seek a compromise with the attacker. Critics worried that this would lead to more suffering than the war, encourage further Russian aggression, and ignore the concerns of the Ukrainian population. However, one question that has not been addressed is if Habermas’s pleas are part of a wider pacifist commitment—and if so, what kind of pacifist he is. Examining Habermas’s writings on the Ukraine War, his cosmopolitan views and his idea of a “constitutionalization of international law,” I argue that Habermas can be called a political pacifist—someone who seeks to abolish the institutions that provide the ultimate causes of war. While one can still criticize his vision, it deserves to be taken seriously as a pacifist account.
How Lincoln Scooped Habermas
Authors: Davenport John ,   Saint Louis University
Published: April 2024

In opposing Stephen Douglas’s alleged popular right to choose a slave constitution, Abraham Lincoln developed a rudimentary conception of the normative presuppositions of democratic rights that prefigures the theory of popular sovereignty articulated by Jürgen Habermas. While Lincoln was influenced by a civic republican conception of natural rights, and referred to personal autonomy in arguing that some political choices violate the grounds of collective self-governance rights, both Lincoln—as read by Jaffa—and Habermas conceive human rights not as trans-political principles but as linking moral norms with the rule of law (or coordination through political power in general). The comparison shows that Habermas’s approach to the co-originality of civil liberties and democratic rights implies that legitimate secession, revolution, and primary constituent authority must be oriented toward creation of a just legal order. This enriched linkage approach explains why the right to democracy, like the right to basic liberty, is inalienable.
Penerapan Teknik Self-Regulated Learning Untuk Meningkatkan Kemandirian Peserta Didik TK Santa Anna Surabaya
Authors: Hati Angela Amanda Berlian , Abdullah Mirza Ghulam , Lestari Ayu , Habsy Bakhrudin All
Published: April 2024

Anak Usia Dini merupakan fase dimana individu mengalami tahap perkembangan secara signifikan pada hidupnya. Kondisi tersebut membutuhkan adanya pembelajaran dan pendampingan yang tepat untuk mendukung tumbuh kembang diri peserta didik secara optimal. Hal tersebut relevan dengan sasaran pengabdian dimana adanya permasalahan mengenai memandirikan peserta didik untuk bisa melakukan aktivitas sehari-hari. Teknik Self-Regulated Learning membantu peserta didik dalam menyadari dan memahami diri sendiri akan kebutuhannya menjalani pendidikan. Secara garis besar, Self-Regulated Learning merupakan upaya yang dilakukan untuk memandirikan peserta didik dalam rangka pemahaman dan perkembangan diri dalam memperoleh pendidikan serta kehidupan sehari-hari. Pengabdian penerapan teknik Self-Regulated Learning ini bertujuan untuk memandirikan peserta didik TK Santa Anna Surabaya. Pengabdian dilakukan dengan metode Tindakan Kelas dengan cara observasi, wawancara dan dokumentasi. Self-Regulated Learning terbukti efektif untuk meningkatkan kemandirian peserta didik. Peningkatan kemandirian melalui Self-Regulated Learning  dengan sasaran anak usia dini dapat lebih efektif jika dilakukan dengan memberikan penguatan (reinforcement) sebagai motivasi positif agar anak bisa melakukan instruksi.
Pendampingan Pelaksanaan Masa Kesetiaan Anggota (MAKESTA) IPNU IPPNU SMK NU Kesesi Pekalongan
Authors: Lutfi Muhammad Imam , Ningrum Vivi Avilia , Putri Antika , Hermawan Hendri , Shulthoni Muhammad
Published: April 2024

Perkembangan spiritual seseorang berlangsung melalui interaksi internal dan lingkungan eksternal secara resiprokal. Perkembangan internal spiritual pelajar semasa SMA memasuki masa kritis, usia dimana sedang mencari kebebasan untuk mengetahui jati diri dengan menunjukkan eksistensinya. Maka dibutuhkan kegiatan yang dapat mengembangkan kecerdasan spiritual misalnya Makesta. Tujuan kegiatan makesta ini adalah untuk menghasilkan kader-kader yang mampu membangkitkan NU di tengah masyarakat. Metode pendampingan ini menggunakan observasi, dokumentasi, dan wawancara dengan pemateri, panitia dan peserta. IPNU IPPNU merupakan solusi cerdas yang dinilai mampu memberikan arahan kepada generasi muda, mengingat orientasi pendidikan dan pelatihan mereka lebih mengarah pada generasi muda dan sekolah. Materi yang diberikan pada kegiatan makesta ini adalah aswaja, Nuansa, CPB KPP, dan wawasan kebangsaan. Didapatkan kesimpulan bahwa signifikansi kecerdasan spiritual siswa melalui pendampingan Makesta IPNU IPPNU SMK NU KESESI, dengan enam jalur yaitu: Pertama, melalui penugasan. Kedua, melalui pola asuh. Ketiga, melalui pengetahuan. Keempat, melalui perubahan pribadi (kreativitas). Kelima, melalui persaudaraan. Keenam, melalui kepemimpinan pengabdian. Bangkitkan kembali NU di tengah masyarakat.
Optimizing Learning Environments: Strategic Planning, Organizing, and Storage Techniques Needed for Building Construction Workshops in Technical Colleges
Authors: Gana D. , Mohammed U. , Kumazhege S. Z.
Published: April 2024

The main purpose of the study was to optimize the learning environments through strategic planning, organizing, and storage techniques needed by teachers for building construction workshops in technical colleges. The study was guided by three specific objectives, three research questions as well as three null hypotheses conducted in Gombe State using descriptive survey research design. The population for the study was 63 individuals, consisting of 21 School Administrators, 28 Building Construction Teachers, and 14 Workshop Staff from all Government Science and Technical Colleges in Gombe State. There was no sampling as the entire population was used because it was manageable. A structured questionnaire tagged titled "Management of Building Construction Workshop for Effective Teaching and Learning Questionnaire (MTBCWETLQ)," divided into four sections (A-D) covering personal data (Section A) and addressing the research questions (Sections B-D). The instrument was validated by three experts from Department of Technology Education, Modibbo Adama University of Technology Yola. A trial test conducted on 10 building construction teachers, 10 workshop staff, and 6 administrators in Adamawa State, outside the study area, yielded a reliability index of 0.90 using the Cronbach alpha method. Data collected for the study was analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 26.0. Mean statistics was used to answer the three research questions while ANOVA was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Findings of the study revealed among others that Planning techniques for managing building construction workshops involve identifying machine locations for safety, arranging facilities based on student enrollment projections, setting up layouts with clear student roles, and establishing appropriate workshop durations. Organizing techniques include arranging tools and materials before and after use, ensuring an efficient flow of materials, selecting equipment based on learning activities, and organizing materials according to their uses for enhanced supervision and safety. It is recommended that Staff involved in managing building construction workshops should undergo training or workshops to improve their planning techniques. Staff should be encouraged to adopt more effective organizing techniques in building construction workshops.
Exploring Employability Competencies in Construction Trades: A Comparative Analysis of Bricklaying/Block Laying and Concreting Graduates in Diverse Specializations in Gombe State, Nigeria
Authors: V. Apagu, V. , A. Baba , T. Abba, A.
Published: April 2024

The purpose of this study was to Explore the Employability Competencies in Construction Trades: A Comparative Analysis of Bricklaying/Block Laying and Concreting Graduates in Diverse Specializations in Gombe State, Nigeria. The study was guided by three research questions and three null hypotheses guided the study.  The study's population comprised 85 respondents, including 21 administrators, 48 teachers, and 16 building supervisors, making sampling unnecessary due to the manageable size of the population. Data collection utilized a structured questionnaire titled "Perceived Employability Competencies Questionnaire (PECQ)," specifically designed by the researchers to align with the research questions. The questionnaire featured two sections, A and B, and underwent face validation by three experts in the Department of Technology Education at Modibbo Adama University, Yola, Adamawa State. The instrument demonstrated a high reliability coefficient of 0.83, determined through Cronbach Alpha. Data analysis for the research questions involved calculating mean and standard deviation, while ANOVA was employed to test null hypotheses at a 0.05 level of significance. Findings of the study revealed among others that 24 employability competencies in bricklaying/block laying possessed and required by Graduate Students of BBC trade. 15 employability competencies in concreting were possessed and required by Graduate Students of BBC trade. It is recommended that Students of BBC trade should be exposed to activities that involve bricklaying and block laying works so that the students can improve their competencies when performing blocklaying work. And administrators of Technical Colleges should ensure that materials for concrete practice are provided to ensure adequate skill acquisition during practical lessons.
Pembelajaran Pendidikan Agama Islam Berbasis Proyek
Authors: Budiono Slamet , Sanusi M. , Ghafur Octa Abdul , Ardianto Risko Aris
Published: April 2024

The project method is a way of teaching that provides students with the opportunity to use daily life units as learning material and aims to make students interested in learning. The project learning method is a teaching and learning activity whose process is based on inquiry. In this learning, the focus is on complex questions and problems. Then answer questions or solve problems through an investigative process carried out collaboratively over time. Most projects are carried out by investigating authentic issues and topics found outside of school. During the inquiry process, students learn the content, information and facts needed to draw conclusions from each question. During the process students also learn valuable skills and thinking habits. The project-based learning method is a learning method that uses problems as the first step in collecting and integrating new knowledge based on experience in real activities. Then the problem is solved in groups. In this learning, students are able to find their own solutions to the products/tasks given. Project-based learning methods can increase students' learning motivation in Islamic religious education, project-based learning methods can facilitate more active learning experiences.
The Effect of E-Service Quality and Ease of Use on Customer Satisfaction of Welma Application at PT Bank Central Asia, Tbk
Authors: Setiady Hendy , Widiyanti Marlina , Maulana Ahmad , Rosa Aslamia
Published: April 2024

This study aims to determine the effect of e-service quality and ease of use on customer satisfaction of the Welma application at PT Bank Central Asia, Tbk. The population in this study is all customers who are active users of the Welma application at PT. Bank Central Asia, Tbk in 2023 will total 126,440 customers. Based on calculations using the Slovin formula, the sample of respondents in this study became as many as 400 customers at PT Bank Central Asia, Tbk. The results of multiple linear analyses show that e-service quality and ease of use positively and significantly affect customer satisfaction. In the variable e-service quality, maintenance is expected to be carried out outside the hours that customers often use. In the variable ease of use, it is expected to provide features that have been adjusted to customer needs in making transactions. In addition, an evaluation is carried out on what features are unnecessary or need to be added to the application, which allows the display of features in the Welma application to be used according to customer needs.
Effects of Social Media to the Political Attitude that Counters Misinformation
Authors:   Laguna State Polytechnic University San Pablo City Laguna, Philippines, D. Umali Shaira Michaela , R. brion Ruby ,   Laguna State Polytechnic University San Pablo City Laguna, Philippines
Published: April 2024

This study aimed to determine the effects of social media on the political attitude of senior high school learners, particularly in countering political misinformation. Using a descriptive correlational study method, it involved 160 senior high school students from Felix Amante Senior High School, during the academic year 2022-2023. Adapted survey questionnaires were employed to measure the data and underwent internal and external validation through the help of a panel of examiners and a group of teachers. Furthermore, the results revealed that social media plays a significant role in shaping students’ political attitudes, with both affordances and misinformation contributing to their perception of politics. Overall, the findings suggest that social media has a significant impact on the political attitudes of senior high school students, which underscores the importance of educating students on how to critically evaluate the information they encounter on social media.
Teacher’s Role in Developing Elementary School’s Student’s Literacy
Authors:   Universitas Katolik Indonesia Santu Paulus Ruteng, Niman Erna Mena
Published: April 2024

The purpose of this study was to determine the role of elementary school teachers in Manggarai in developing literacy culture. This research used observation and interview techniques. The respondents were elementary school teachers in Manggarai. The data analysis used in this study was descriptive qualitative analysis. From the results of observations and interviews, it was found that most of the teachers have implemented reading and writing literacy for 15 minutes before learning begins, used sources and image media to help and facilitate students in understanding the material read and written, guided and trained and guided students directly in reading and writing, created reading and writing habits during the learning process.
Teachers' Welfare as Determinants of Students Learning Outcomes in Junior Secondary Schools in Delta South Senatorial District
Authors:   Delta State University, Abraka, Nigeria. Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Urien James
Published: April 2024

The study examined teachers' welfare as determinants of students’ learning outcomes in Junior Secondary schools in Delta South Senatorial District. The study had a sample size of 364 participants, and the instruments employed were the teachers' welfare questionnaire and the mathematics BECE). An estimate of dependability, using the Cronbach alpha approach, was obtained, and the resulting reliability index was 0.78. The research questions were addressed by calculating the coefficient of determination using Pearson's product moment correlation. Based on this data, it was determined that there is a favorable association between teacher welfare, decent salary payment, teacher advancement, and teacher incentives and student learning outcomes in Junior Secondary Schools in Delta South Senatorial Districts of Delta State. A joyful teacher with first-class welfare package will increase their drive which will aid good outcome. Based on the study findings, it was recommended that teachers’ welfare should be prioritized to sustain learning outcome of pupils due to high decline in teachers population, Educational stakeholders should prioritize teachers' welfare as an indispensable factor that power students learning outcome in schools, car and housing loans should be made available to teachers to encourage the present and future generations to take teaching as a first choice.
IMMUNOCHEMILUMINESCENCE METHOD IN THE LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS OF SYPHILIS
Authors:   OOO “Medilux-TM”, SYUCH N.I.
Published: April 2024

In the study, the diagnostic capabilities of the immunochemiluminescence method in the diagnosis of syphilis in patients who applied for outpatient care were studied. The high diagnostic value of the method for detecting previously transferred syphilis is shown. Can be used for screening to identify infected individuals. False-positive reactions to syphilis are predominantly due to chronic disease, infection, or trauma.
LABORATORY BIOMARKERS FOR SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS
Authors:   State Budgetary Institution of Healthcare of the city of Moscow ", ALEKSANDROVA E.N. ,   Moscow Clinical Scientific and Practical Center named after A. S. Loginov of the Department of Healthcare of the City of Moscow, NOVIKOV A.A. , LUKINA G.V.
Published: April 2024

The development of innovative technologies using mono- and multiplex methods of immune analysis contributed to an increase in the sensitivity and specificity of laboratory tests and a significant expansion of the range of laboratory biomarkers of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). The article presents modern aspects of laboratory diagnosis of SLE. Screening and confirmatory methods for the study of antinuclear antibodies (ANA), the main immunological marker of SLE, are considered in detail. New classification criteria for SLE are discussed (EULAR/ACR, 2019), which for the first time single out “seropositivity” for the antinuclear factor as a mandatory “incoming” criterion that allows diagnosing the disease as SLE. The characteristics of clinical and laboratory subtypes of SLE associated with the detection of various autoantibodies in serum (antibodies to dsDNA, histones, nucleosomes, Sm, Ro/SSA and La/SSB, U1 ribonucleoprotein,ribosomal protein P, antiphospholipid antibodies, antibodies to C1q) are given. The diagnostic value of defects in the components of the complement system in SLE is indicated. The relationship between ANA and cytokine profiles in SLE patients using multiplex immunoassay of these biomarkers based on xMAP microarray technology is described. It has been shown that the formation of ANA and high activity of SLE are associated with overexpression of the IP-10 and MCP-1 chemokines induced by IFN. The clinical and pathogenetic significance of subpopulations of B-lymphocytes and CD4+ CD25high+ FoxP3+ regulatory T-cells (Treg) of peripheral blood in SLE was noted. SLE is characterized by an increase in the number of double negative memory B cells (CD19+ CD27-IgD-) and plasma cells, a decrease in the levels of naive and transitional B cells in the blood. A positive correlation was found between the number of double negative B cells and the activity of SLE and ESR. The effect of therapy with genetically engineered biological agents (rituximab and belimumab) on B-cell subpopulations in patients with SLE was analyzed. The decrease in the number of Tregs is most pronounced in patients with an acute variant of the course of the disease, high activity of the pathological process, hyperproduction of IgG and expansion of autoreactive B-cells. The study of modern molecularcellular biomarkers allows diagnosing, assessing activity, the nature of the course, clinical and laboratory subtypes of SLE, and predicting the effectiveness of therapy for this disease at a qualitatively new level.
ALPHA-AMYLASE AND METHODS FOR DETERMINATION OF ITS ACTIVITY USED AT CLINICAL LABORATORY
Authors:   AO “Vector-Best”, CHEREMISINA K.A. , GARIFULLINA F.Y. , AGLETDINOV E.F. ,   SBIH RPCC MH RB
Published: April 2024

The quality improvement of medical care requires the developing of clinical laboratory patient support. To achieve the effective results need a searching, developing and applying in practice new, with improved properties, methods for estimation analytes, including common ones, such as α-amylase activity. This article presents a review of the main materials published over the past few decades. It includes a description of the structure of α-amylase and its main isoenzymes; its role in human physiology and pathology; diagnostic significance of the α-amylase isoenzymes activity determination in clinical laboratory diagnostics. The principles of the most common methods of α-amylase activity determination are presented, and their important characteristics are compared. The method based on the substrate GalG2CNP using has the best analytical characteristics for the developing reagent kits for measuring the total α-amylase and its pancreatic isoenzyme activities, which can be used in clinical diagnostic laboratories.
COMPARATIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF LABORATORY TEST RESULTS AND CAPABILITIES OF THE IMMUF6 IMMUNOCHEMICAL ANALYZER
Authors:   Main Military Clinical Hospital named after academician N.N. Burdenko Russian Defense Ministry, KAZAKOV S.P. ,   Russian Medical Academy of Continuous Professional Education, KARPOV V.O. , SUSLOVA L.A. , STAMM M.V. , PUTKOV S.B. , KUDRASHOV S.K.
Published: April 2024

The article presents the results of comparative studies on some tests determined using reagent kits for chemiluminescent analysis on the immunochemical analyzer ImmuF6 «MedCaptain» (PRC). Comparison of the results of blood tests of patients was carried out in parallel on the analyzer under study and on modern foreign automatic analyzers manufactured by companies considered world leaders in the development and production of reagents and analytical devices. The analysis was carried out on six tests: C-reactive protein, interleukin-6, creatine kinase MB isoenzyme, myoglobin, D-dimer,N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide in the field of reference and pathological values of the analyte. Statistical analysis showed a high degree of correlation of the results of the compared tests: C-reactive protein, interleukin 6, myoglobin, D-dimer, creatine kinase MB isoenzyme with the exception of N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide. This device can be recommended for use in clinical diagnostic laboratories, and, taking into account the established test sets, its use in urgent diagnostics units may be the most relevant.
Pelaksanaan Redistribusi Tanah Objek Reforma Agraria (Tora) dalam Rangka Pembangunan Sumber Daya Alam Berkelanjutan untuk Kesejahteraan Masyarakat
Authors: Jumali Jumali
Published: April 2024

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui kebijakan redistribusi tanah objek reforma agraria (TORA) yang berlaku umum di Indonesia dan implementasi kebijakan pendistribusian tanah di Kabupaten Kendal, Metode analisis data menggunakan model secara kualitatif. Pada hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa Peraturan Presiden Nomor 86 tahun 2018 tentang Reforma Agraria adalah aturan kebijakan redistribusi tanah yang dipakai saat ini. Peraturan Presiden 86/2018 perihal reforma agraria ini mengatur kaitannya penataan kembali pada struktur penguasaan, penggunaan, kepemilikan serta pemanfaatan tanah (P4T) yang berkeadilan dengan penataan aset serta akses yang memberikan manfaat untuk tujuan kesejahteraan rakyat di Indonesia. Implementasi kebijakan Redistribusi Tanah di Kabupaten Kendal bahwa berdasarkan pada prinsip pelaksanaannya telah berjalan dengan baik serta berkesesuaian dengan petunjuk teknis pada pelaksanaan dalam menjalankan kegiatan redistribusi Tanah Obyak Landreform (TOL) di tahun 2018 dan peraturan perundang-undangan yang diberlakukan, dimana pada tahun 2018 salahsatu penerimaan redistribusi tanah di Kendal dilakukan pada desa Ngargosari, kecamatan sukorejo sebesar ±24Ha. Apakah Reforma agraria dalam redistribusi tanah kepada masyarakat dapat mengatasi ketimpangan sosial ekonomi yang ada, Penelitian ini juga membahas tentang bagaimana secara normatif-empiris dapat mengungkapkan permasalahan pengaturan hukum, sudah berjalan sesuai dengan tujuan dan melihat bagaimana kebijakan kedepan dapat menghadapi tantangan dan kendala yang ada. Selain itu, kebijakan politik hukum harus dapat memberikan perlindungan hak atas tanah yang lebih adil dan dapat mengatasi masalah kemiskinan, meningkatkan kesejahteraan, memberikan pengakuan hak atas tanah yang lebih baik yang dibarengi dengan pemberdayaan ekonomi yang berkesinambungan