bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
การหาปริมาณสารในกลุ่ม PBBs และ PBDEs ในชิ้นส่วนพลาสติกของเครื่องใช้ไฟฟ้าและอิเล็กทรอนิกส์ตามระเบียบ RoHS โดยเทคนิคแก๊สโครมาโทกราฟี/แมสสเปกโทรเมตรี
Authors: สิทธิเดช มาณพ , ปัญญวัฒนกิจ ณฐลมนต์
Published: August 2023

งานวิจัยนี้ศึกษาพัฒนาวิธีทดสอบหาปริมาณสารในกลุ่ม พอลิโบรมีเนเต็ดไบฟีนิล(PBBs) และพอลิโนรมิเนเต็ดได ฟีนิลอีเทอร์ (PBDES) ในพลาสติกชนิดต่างๆ ประกอบด้วยอะคริโลไนไตรล์-บิวทาไดอื่น-สไตรีนพอลิโพรพิลีนพอลิเอทิลีน ไฮอิมแพ็คพอลิสไตรีนและ พอลิเอทิลีนเทเรฟทาเลตโดยการสกัดตัวอย่างพลาสติกด้วยวิธีตัวทําละลายแบบซอกเล็ต แล้วตรวจวัดปริมาณสารด้วยเทคนิคแก๊สโครมาโทกราฟี/แมสสเปกโทรเมตรี พบว่าวิธีทดสอบนี้สามารถใช้วิเคราะห์ หาปริมาณสารในกลุ่ม PBBs และ PBDEs ในชิ้นส่วนพลาสติกชนิดต่างๆโดยมีช่วงความเข้มข้นของสารในกลุ่ม PBBs และ PBDEs ดังต่อไปนี้คือ โมโนโบรมีเนเต็ดไบฟีนิล ถึงเดคาโบรมิเนเต็ดไบฟีนิล, โมโนโบรมีเนเต็ดไดฟีนิลอีเทอร์ ถึง โนนาโบรมีเนเต็ดไดฟีนิลอีเทอร์ ในช่วงความเข้มข้น100 ถึง 1,750 มิลลิกรัมต่อกิโลกรัม และ เดคาโบรมีเนเต็ดไดฟีนิล อีเทอร์ในช่วงความเข้มข้น 100 ถึง 8,000 มิลลิกรัมต่อกิโลกรัมขีดจํากัดการตรวจพบอยู่ในช่วง 3.9-25.5 มิลลิกรัมต่อ กิโลกรัม ขีดจํากัดการวัดปริมาณอยู่ในช่วง 13.1-85.0 มิลลิกรัมต่อกิโลกรัมความเที่ยงระบุในรูปร้อยละของส่วนเบี่ยง เบนมาตรฐานสัมพัทธ์อยู่ระหว่าง 1.8-10.2 ยกเว้นกรณี เดคาโบรมีเนเต็ดไบฟีนิล (BB-209)ที่ระดับความเข้มข้นต่ําสุด (100 มิลลิกรัมต่อกิโลกรัม) เท่ากับ 17.0 ความแม่นระบุในรูปร้อยละของการคืนกลับอยู่ระหว่าง 80.9-116.8 ยกเว้น กรณี เด็ดตราโบรมิเนเต็ดไดฟีนิลอีเทอร์ (BDE-047)ที่ความเข้มข้นต่ําสุด (100 มิลลิกรัมต่อกิโลกรัม) เท่ากับ 130.1 ดังนั้นวิธีทดสอบนี้มีค่าความแม่นและความเที่ยงเป็นไปตามเกณฑ์การยอมรับของวิธีทดสอบมาตรฐานสากล IEC 62321: 2008ที่ได้กําหนดให้ค่าความแม่นของวิธีทดสอบต้องอยู่ระหว่างร้อยละ 70-130 และค่าความเที่ยงของวิธีทดสอบ ที่ระบุในรูปร้อยละของส่วนเบี่ยงเบนมาตรฐานสัมพัทธ์น้อยกว่าร้อยละ 20
The Effect of Using DRTA Strategy on Developing Reading Comprehension Skills for Seventh Graders in Gaza Governorates
Authors: Al-Nahhal Mohammed
Published: August 2023

This research aimed to investigate the effect of employing the DRTA as a strategy to develop the reading comprehension skills among seventh-graders in Gaza governorates. The quasi-experimental approach was used on a sample of (80) female students divided into two equivalent groups. The experimental group included (44) female students, while the control one included (36) female students. The tools of data collection were a checklist of reading comprehension skills and a reading comprehension test. To analyze the collected data, a t-test was conducted. Furthermore, to examine the effectiveness of the DRTA strategy in developing reading comprehension skills, the effect size was measured. The results indicated that there were statistically significant differences at (a0.05 ≥ ( in the mean scores of the reading comprehension skills in favor of the experimental group. In light of these results, the researcher recommended that English teachers use the DRTA strategy to develop reading comprehension skills for students.
Distance Learning Difficulties Experienced by School Principals of Irbid Governorate during Corona Pandemic from their Points of View
Authors: Aslan Omar
Published: August 2023

This study aimed at finding out the difficulties that encounter school principals in Irbid governorate schools during the period of distance learning amid the Corona pandemic from their points of view using three variables: gender of the principal, the school level, and the authority of the school. A descriptive approach, and a questionnaire were used. The questionnaire consisted of (42) paragraphs divided into five themes which are difficulties related to (i) the education platform, (ii) the official letters, (iii) the students, (iv) the teachers, and (v) the administrative difficulties. The study sample consisted of (200) principals of public and private schools in Irbid governorate. The results showed a medium degree of difficulties (i.e., mean value 3.3) for all areas of questionnaire except the difficulties related to the platform which were strong. The difficulties related to the field of "official letters" came in the second level followed by the difficulties related to "students" followed by the difficulties related to "the teacher" and, finally, those related to "the administration". The study indicated that there were statistically significant differences at the significance level (α≥0.05) depending on the gender variable in favour of females; the school level in favour of the lower basic stage, and the school authority in favour of private schools. The author concluded with a set of recommendations.
Study on Genetic Variability, Heritability and Genetic Advance in Spinach Beet under Garhwal Region of Uttarakhand
Authors: Raturi Ganesh , Goswami Gargi , Pant S. C.
Published: August 2023

An investigation was carried out at the Vegetable Research and Demonstration Block, College of Horticulture, Veer Chandra Singh Garhwali, Uttarakhand University of Horticulture and Forestry, Bharsar Pauri (UK) during September, 2021 to evaluate diverse germplasm of spinach beet under temperate conditions of Garhwal region of Uttarakhand. The experiment was laid out in RCBD with three replications. In this study, fifteen genotypes including one check cultivar Pusa Harit were evaluated for different horticultural traits. Eight genotypes viz., Genotype-4, Arka Anupama, All Green, Palak Haryali, Genotype-1, Genotype-10, Genotype-2 and Genotype-7 performed better yield attributing traits and recorded higher than check cultivar. These genotypes need further testing to be released as a substitute of already existing spinach beet varieties or they can be involved in further breeding program for development of superior varieties in spinach beet. Genetic analysis indicated that phenotypic coefficient of variance (PCV) was higher than genotypic coefficient of variance (GCV) in all the attributes studied. The phenotypic coefficients of variance (PCV) and the genotypic coefficients of variance (GCV) were found high in total leaves weight per plot, the least was found in dry matter content. High heritability estimates coupled with high genetic gain were found highest for the character average leaves weight per plant and lowest for dry matter content, indicated that these traits are under additive gene effects and are more reliable for effective selection.
Large Scale Hevea brasiliensis Plantation Impact on Non-Human Primate and Floral Diversity in Khowai District of Tripura
Authors: Patari Prasenjit , Barma Maria Deb , Devi Huidrom Babina , Dasgupta Sabyasachi
Published: August 2023

Over the past three decades, a large proportion of forest area in Khowai district of Tripura has been converted into a rubber plantation (Hevea brasiliensis) area. There is less information about the deleterious effect of such changes on non-human primate populations and plant diversity. To address this deficit, line transect and quadrat sampling programs were carried out in Khowai district of Tripura with the purpose of comparing non-human primate species diversity, number of individual primate species observed and also plant species diversity observed in the rubber plantation area and nearby forest area. Less number of non-human primate was observed in the rubber plantation area than in the forest area and individual numbers of tree, shrub and herb species were found to be maximum in the nearby forest area than in rubber plantation area. In shrub layer Shannon and Simpson diversity index were higher in the forest area, whereas in herb layer, Shannon index was lower and Simpson index was higher in rubber plantation area. From this study it was divulge that, rubber plantation have harmful impact on non-human primate and plant species.
Field Bioefficacy of Thiamethoxam 25WG over Lipaphis erysimi (Kalt.) in Mustard Eco- System in Open Field Conditions
Authors: Sujatha B. , Sahoo Sanjay Kumar , Kumar Vijay
Published: August 2023

Mustard aphid, Lipaphis erysimi Kaltenbach is a key pest of rapeseed-mustard and form the basis of crop loss from December to March. Field assessment was done to evaluate the bioefficacy of various doses of thiamethoxam over L. erysimi in mustard agroecosystem. Thiamethoxam 25%WG @ 25g a.i per ha was highly efficient against aphid with high grain yield, cost-effective. The results of former dose was on par with 37.5 g a.i per ha and 50 g a.i per ha after first and second spray with an interval of 10 days under open field environment with > 80% of decline in aphid populations. This was further followed by standard check dimethoate 30 % EC @ 200 g a.i per ha which was on par with thiamethoxam 25%WG@ 12.5 and 16.67 g a.i per ha. The control plot was least efficient and showed huge number of the mustard aphids. To manage the aphid population that reaches ETL, two applications with thiamethoxam 25 WG @ 25 g a.i. per ha at 10 days interval will be quite effective and provide good return.
Assessment of a Hydrocarbon Exploration Site in North Eastern State of Tripura
Authors: Devi Huidrom Babina , Patari Prasenjit , Barma Maria Deb , Dasgupta Sabyasachi
Published: August 2023

Recently abandoned hydrocarbon exploration sites generally support a smaller number of plants since there are few spaces for plants to grow and survive in the exploration site with all the concrete structure around and very few areas of soil to support vegetation. Metals are required by plants for their growth while a higher level can cause the plants to die. The study has been conducted to explore the concentration of metals in an abandoned hydrocarbon exploration site and their adjacent site of Tripura to determine the species diversity in the area with the metal concentration. The highest concentration of iron, chromium, and sulfur in the site were recorded in Chromolaena odorata, Urena lobata and Crotalaria pallida. All the plants collected have some levels of iron, chromium, and sulfur in their shoot as well as their roots. This study will be beneficial as the plants which have highest level of a particular metal can be used in future research to remediate the area of that metal. In this way, the cost of searching for plants to be used for phytoremediation experiment will also be reduced. The growth of plants in the abandoned hydrocarbon exploration sites will also help in reducing the contaminants of that sites.
Assessment of Growth and Yield Attributes of Chilli and Capsicum Varieties in Baramulla District in Union Territory of J and K
Authors: Kirmani S. N. , Kumar Manoj , Malik Geetika
Published: August 2023

Chilli and capsicum being popular in district and is grown by all groups of people but due to insufficient knowledge regarding improved varieties and management practices, the productivity and quality is facing a barrier to reach to its maximum. Moreover, selection of a variety most suited for the locality is an immediate need of the hour. In the present study, various growth and yield characteristics of promising lines developed by ICAR-CITH, Srinagar were studied in comparison with the local varieties used by the farmers kept as check. Eleven locations in several different villages of district were selected. One trial was also laid out at KVK farm. Capsicum lines CITH-N-4-1-1, CITH-SP-4, CITH-SP-3-1, CITH-CW-4-1/15, CITH-NS-284-1/15, Nishat-1-Sel-5 and Gold Selection-1 and chilli line CITH HP-111-1 were planted in May, 2021 under scientific management. The data for several parameters in chilli showed that CITH-HP-111-1 exhibited higher fruit length, fruit width and fruit yield than the local variety. CITH-HP-111-1 was of red color darker than local chilli variety having light red color. In capsicum, CITH-NS-284-1/15, CITH-CW-4-1/51, CITH-SP-3-1 exhibited superior mean performance for all the characteristics compared with the check variety and was accepted by the farmers for future planting. Also, technology gap of 7.55 t ha-1, extension gap of 2.60 t ha-1 and the percentage increase over farmers’ practice was 17.5 % in case of chilli, hence indicating a positive response to yield attributes.
Effect of presowing treatments and growth regulators on the propagation of Strychnos potatorum L.F. – cleaning nut tree.
Authors: C. H. Bhargavi , Milkuri Chiranjeeva Reddy , singh Lalji , Mhaiskar Priya Rajendra , kale Indu , M. Ooha , P. Rajashekar , Toppo Shalini
Published: August 2023

Strychnos potatorum L.F. (family Loganiaceae) is a medium-sized tree, which have high demand in traditional medicine to cure the variety of diseases such as jaundice, bronchitis, diabetes, and their coagulant effect is frequently utilized to clean dirty water. Seed exhibits physiological and morphological dormancy. In order to break their seed dormancy, various pre-sowing treatments were performed. The seeds were subjected to nine treatments which includes GA3 (100 ppm, 500 ppm, 1000 ppm, 1200 ppm, 1500 ppm), H2SO4 (5, 10 min) and cold stratification in three replications. Various parameters like germination and survival percentage, germination energy, germination period, root length, shoot length, number of leaves, collar diameter, dry weight of shoot and root, shoot: root for seedlings were studied. Highest germination percentage, germination energy, germination period, shoot length, root length, number of leaves, collar diameter were observed in the seeds of Strychnos potatorum when the seeds are treated with GA3 of 1000 ppm for 24 h while dry weight of shoot and root and shoot: root ratio was maximum with GA3 of 1200 ppm for 24 hrs treatment.
Woody Plant Diversity of Tropical Dry Deciduous Forest of Ranchi, Jharkhand
Authors: Panda Mihir Ranjan , Tirkey Pushpa , Oraon Prabhat Ranjan
Published: August 2023

The study was conducted to determine the composition and diversity of three different growth stages of plant in tropical dry deciduous forest in Horhap under Mahilong Range, Ranchi during the year 2018- 2019. The entire area was divided into two sites based upon the physiographic factors. The simple random sampling procedure was followed with quadrates of 10×10 m2 for trees and saplings and 2×2 m2 quadrates for seedlings were taken. A total of 1430–1810 stems ha-1 in trees, 1080–1240 stems ha-1 in saplings and 45500–56500 stems ha-1 in seedlings were encountered. The total basal area was varied between 35.97 to 48.01 m2 ha-1 for trees, 4.67 to 5.42 m2 ha-1 for saplings and 3.78– 3.88 m2 ha-1 for seedlings. Shorea robusta showed highest value of IVI in tree sapling and seedling layers. Shannon index ranged from 2.43–2.97 for trees, 3.07–3.08 for saplings and 2.21–2.26 for seedlings. The concentration of dominance was 0.24–0.33 for trees, 0.19–0.21 for saplings and 0.37–0.4 for seedlings. Equitability ranged from 0.92–0.99 for trees, 1.0 for saplings and 0.84–0.86 for seedlings. Species richness ranged from 1.79–2.53 for trees, 2.11–2.43 for saplings and 1.19–1.21 for seedlings. However there is a need for ideal silvicultural operations and scientific approach-based management practice to retain the diversity ultimately a healthy forest ecosystem.
The Bioregional Imagination: Literature, Ecology, Place
Authors: Harris Stephen
Published: August 2023

REVIEW: The Bioregional Imagination: Literature, Ecology, Place. Edited by Tom Lynch, Cheryll Glotfelty, and Karla Armbruster. University of Georgia Press: Athens. 2012.  US$24.95; Hardcover US$69.95; Kindle US$25.85.  ISBN: 978-0-8203-3592-6
Site Fidelity: Rock Pigeons and Refugees
Authors: Bleach Lucy
Published: August 2023

This paper presents a series of multi-disciplinary artworks developed from collaborations with local Tasmanian pigeon fanciers and homing associations. The artworks explore the desire to locate habitat in unstable environments, exposing bespoke ecosystems and visualising agency within a locational / relational feedback loop. The homing instinct of the rock pigeon is segued into the loss of home felt by local refugees. The wild rock pigeons' cohabitation with humans 10 000 years ago triggered a unique and mutually beneficial association, allowing safe shelter for bird and unprecedented carrier utility for human. The enduring relationship between bird and human has evolved in response to the pigeon's homing instinct, evidencing an empathetic bond driven by an urge to continually re-establish contact.Homing is an innate instinct to return to known territory via new and unknown environments. The contemporary bird / fancier relationship reveals layers of belonging, between animal, human and place. It more abstractly reflects a desire to be local; to belong within an emotional and spatial system, confronting and navigating tenuous places and experiences. Pigeon fanciers typically inhabit suburban environments, establishing the birds' lofts amongst the conglomerate nest of human habitation (sheds, carports, BBQ areas, clotheslines). From this domestic grotto, fanciers travel impressive distances to reach wilder places, releasing their birds to find their way back home. The bird's instinct of site fidelity sits counter to the fancier's instinct to reconnect to wild environs. It is a symbiotic relationship drawn from divergent urges.
Green Sense: the Aesthetics of Plants, Place and Language by John Ryan
Authors: Holloway Barbara
Published: August 2023

Review of John Ryan's Green Sense: the Aesthetics of Plants, Place and Language (2012): a study situated in the Western Australia region.
Editorial Introduction: 'Encountering Australia, Confronting Catastrophe'
Authors: Rigby Kate , Collet Anne
Published: August 2023

'Encountering Australia, Confronting Catastrophe'. These articles are based on papers presented at one of two consecutive conferences on Australia held in Europe during the northern summer of 2014. The European Association for Studies on Australia held a conference at the Monash University Prato Centre, Italy, in September that explored sites of contact, connection and exchange between Australia and the world, with particular emphasis on Europe, and with the aim of highlighting the importance of cross cultural dialogue. The conference drew on diverse modes and ideas of encountering Australia- imaginatively, theoretically, institutionally, politically, socially, historically, pedagogically and symbolically. Themed sessions included ‘Ecocultural Encounters' and ‘Ecopoetics', but animated discussion of our natural-cultural environment, whether in terms of climate change, migration and mobility, histories of war and violence, or national and collective memory, was evident across the varied foci. Tellingly, this conference was preceded by a symposium in the same month, hosted by the Australian Studies Centre at the University of Copenhagen, on ‘Cultural Response to Environmental Disaster in Australia.'
Ecopoetic Encounters: Amnesia and Nostalgia in Alexis Wright's Environmental Fiction
Authors: Barras Arnaud
Published: August 2023

In Carpentaria (2006) and The Swan Book (2013), Alexis Wright establishes an allegorical mode where she reimagines Europeans' first encounters with Australia from an Aboriginal environmental perspective. In this narrative system, the discovery of Australia is not realised by exploring colonisers, but by vulnerable strangers who apprehend the continent both experientially and linguistically. In Carpentaria, the Stranger-figure of Elias Smith is left amnesic after surviving a shipwreck during a cyclone; his first encounter with Australia is extremely violent and results in a loss of personal (hi)story. In The Swan Book, the character of Bella Donna seeks refuge in the nostalgia of swan stories after the disappearance of her native lands due to climate change; her first encounter with Australia is characterised by slow violence and results in a profusion of stories. In this essay I argue that by drawing attention to the interweaving of language and experience and by dramatising the relationship between organism and environment, ‘ecopoetic encounters’ allows readers to rediscover major episodes of Australian environmental history. Indeed, through the experiential and poetic meetings of Stranger-figures with Australia, Wright does not depict the initial moment of discovery as a nation-building event; rather she re-narrates it as a counterdiscursive episode of environmental historical rediscovery. Journeys of migration, environment transformations, and the marginalisation of populations are translated in an Aboriginal allegorical mode that allows European readers, through self-reflexivity, to rediscover the Australian continent through the perceptions, actions and emotions of Stranger-figures.
Ikawai freshwater fishes in Māori culture and economy (2011) by R.M. McDowall
Authors: Young David
Published: August 2023

This beautifully produced work will be a crucial reference for many generations of not only fisheries scientists but also for so many of us amateurs who work with awe and respect in the realm of freshwater.  It is thanks largely to the work of Bob McDowall and his scientific associates that New Zealanders now (should) know that their beloved delicacy, whitebait is fry derived from five species of galaxiidas.      The primary purpose of this book is more holistic, more cultural than scientific, than anything McDowall had ever attempted. It represents an attempt to resurrect comprehensively in book form the evolving wisdom (matauranga Māori) of tangata whenua (‘the people of the land') of freshwater customary use and practice from the widest range of sources.
REVIEW: Walden’s Shore: Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Science (2014) by Robert M. Thorson
Authors: Kim Yeojin
Published: August 2023

Robert M. Thorson draws on the methodologies of bibliography studies, Ecocriticism, and the history of geology, and investigates another aspect of Thoreau’s career – that of a field geologist with a keen insight into the glaciated landscape of Concord during the late Pleistocene.
Bodies of Water: Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology by Astrida Neimanis (2019)
Authors: Campbell Marion May
Published: August 2023

To read Astrida Neimanis’s Bodies of Water is to immerse oneself in a fluid poetics, contemplating the teeming, virtual infinity of lifeforms for which water, in its myriad incarnations, supplies the medium of connection and dispersal; of gestation and differentiation through space-time. Through its feminist posthuman phenomenological lens, this work recasts the intertextual net eloquently and generously, re-inflecting a polyphony of feminist, philosophical, poetic, and scientific voices to address our planetary emergency in the wake of ecocidal extractionist and consumerist practices. Neimanis’s project seeks to ‘inaugurate’ new ‘ontologies [that…] are not only about correcting a phallologocentric understanding of bodies, but also about developing imaginaries that might allow us to relate differently’ (Neimanis 11).
Writing Belonging at the Millennium: Notes from the Field on Settler-Colonial Place by Emily Potter (2019)
Authors: Singer Hayley
Published: August 2023

History, Emily Potter proposes in Writing Belonging at the Millennium: Notes from the Field on Settler-Colonial Place, ‘does not end when we stop telling a particular story of a particular time’ (146). The stories sit right here, in the ground. As Potter shows, they radiate in unpredictable ways. They continue to mark the present no matter how colonial culture attempts to encyst narratives of Indigenous knowledge, cultural practice and unextinguished connection to Indigenous Country.
False Claims of Colonial Thieves by Charmaine Papertalk Green and John Kinsella (2018).
Authors: Leane Jeanine
Published: August 2023

False Claims of Colonial Thieves is the founding myth of colonial Australia. Yamaji poet Charmaine Papertalk Green and settler poet John Kinsella launch into the long overdue conversation Australia needs to have between the Country’s First Peoples and the settler-invaders. Australia needs this radical intervention in publishing to move forward in dialogue with First Nations people.
Photography with/in a Broader Humanity
Authors: Houghton Christopher
Published: August 2023

In 2010, I was commissioned to create a portrait of Ngarrindjeri artist, Rita Lindsay Jnr for Country Arts SA (South Australia). We met at a healing ceremony at the coastal town of Goolwa in Ngarrindjeri Country. The aim of the ceremony was to attend the trauma caused by the building of the Hindmarsh Island Bridge; an action by developers that instigated South Australia’s most tragic land rights battle. Becoming familiar with the story of Kumarangk and the bridge became a catalyst for a two-year conversation with Rita, her mother and grandmother. What followed was an invitation to use the medium of photography to explore the metaphysical relationship between Country and its human kin. What began as a single exhibition of works in 2013 has now prospectively become a life’s work. To date this has spanned three exhibitions, an Honours project and a PhD, all of which aim to articulate a practice of relational photography over one that objectifies its subjects. Acknowledging the ontological divide between Indigenous and non-Indigenous knowledge production, my aim is to talk about the notion of relational photography through the idea of kin-making across cultural knowledges and thinking. This paper is an introduction to a practice-based research project I have enacted over the last decade that troubles landscape photography and is motivated by the desire to decolonise my own thinking. By decolonisation, I mean the disinvestment in colonial hierarchies, binary thinking and practices of anthropocentrism.
Drawn Chorus
Authors: O'Toole Maria
Published: August 2023

Sound is essential to humpback whales, Megaptera novaeangliae. It is their primary means of communication. Noise—unwanted sound—travels through the sea as pressure, and it travels further in the sea than in air. This practice-led research situates my drawing practice within the context of aesthetic developments arising from responses to environmental pollution that originates in human activity. The methodological investigations underpinning the research speculate on and imagine the humpback whale’s experience of human created sound as it interferes with their oceanic waters. Through the development of an in-depth drawing research process that tunes into bodily, sensory and gestural responses to ocean acoustics, a visual language for the unseen sound forces experienced by whales has evolved. Relational encounters with science and ‘nature’ played a role in the production of this knowledge.
Effectiveness of E-Marketing Platforms and Consumer Buying Behaviour of Akwa Ibom State University Students Towards Selected Online Products
Authors:   Akwa Ibom State University, Obio Akpa Campus, C. UFORD Imoh , I. CHARLES Imaeka ,   University of South Wales, Cardiff, Wales, UK, J. ETUK Aniebiet ,   Akwa Ibom State University, Obio Akpa Campus
Published: August 2023

This study examined the effectiveness of e-marketing Platforms and buying behaviour of students at Akwa Ibom State University (AKSU) towards selected online products. It was carried out based on a paradigm shift in product positioning from conventional ways to online platforms. The study objectives were to determine the relationships between independent variables (Facebook usage, Instagram usage, and Twitter usage) and the buying behaviour of AKSU students. It employed a survey research technique to collect data from a sample of 384 to draw inferences on the total population of 9254 students. The data were collected through an online Microsoft link, and descriptive data were analyzed using frequency tables and simple percentages. The regression analysis in (SPSS Version 21) was used to test the hypotheses. Findings from the results revealed that all three null hypotheses were rejected. This implies that there is a significant relationship between Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter usage and buying behaviour of AKSU students. The authors recommended that; marketers on the Facebook platform should create Facebook groups in order to find a niche within their customers’ interests and also to give them a space to connect. Furthermore, marketers on the Instagram platform should endeavour to apply an attractive design on their advertised product with a simple and understandable description of the product in order to attract positive buying behavior among students. Finally, the study recommends marketers using the Twitter platform should endeavor to retweet their tweets at least every day in order to keep their online target audience updated with their products related tweets.
Analyses of Macroeconomic Drivers of Stock Market Development in Nigeria
Authors:   University of Calabar, Obeten OKOI Innocent , Ugboaku IHEANACHO Maryjoan ,   University of Calabar, Gbenga LAWAL Suleiman ,   University of Calabar
Published: August 2023

The paper investigates the long run and short run relationship between the endogenous variable (stock market development) and exogenous variables (economic growth, banking sector development, inflation, stock market liquidity and trade openness) in Nigeria. Annual data were collected using desk survey approach. Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) test and ARDL error correction regression model was used after preliminary tests were carried out to ascertain stationarity properties. From the result of the analyses, it was discovered that gross domestic product, domestic credit to private sector and trade openness has negative impact on Nigeria stock market development in the long run, whereas inflation rate and total value of shares traded had a positive impact on the development of the Nigeria stock market in the long run. The results suggested that domestic credit to private sector, stock market liquidity, ratio of credit to private sector, total value of traded stock as well as ratio of trade openness are key drivers of stock market development in Nigeria. As part of recommendations, government should strengthen and solve the weaknesses affecting development of Nigeria’s stock market. Policy makers should pursue those policies that stimulate banking sector development so as to promote immediate development of the stock market and government should intensify efforts in stability of inflation rate so as to promote stock market development in the long- run.
Implication of Domestic Debt on Economic Growth in Nigeria
Authors:   University of Calabar, Walter MBOTO Helen , Obeten OKOI Innocent ,   University of Calabar, Onyam EDOM Edom ,   University of Calabar, Akeh UKONGIM Monica ,   University of Calabar
Published: August 2023

The study assessed the implication of domestic debt on the growth of the Nigerian economy using treasury bills, treasury bond and other domestic debt instruments on economic growth. The ex-post facto research design was used. Secondary data were gotten from the CBN statistical bulletin for the period 1990 to 2019. The data were analyzed using the Autoregressive Distributive Lag (ARDL) technique. Findings from the analyses showed that there was an insignificant effect of treasury bill on the growth of the Nigerian economy both in the short run and long run. The study showed that there is a significant short run effect of treasury bond but an insignificant long run effect on the growth of the Nigerian economy and lastly, it was discovered that domestic debt instruments other than treasury bond in Nigeria had no significant effect on economic growth. Based on the findings, the study recommended that government should reduce short term domestic borrowing and use more of long-term debt instrument in mobilizing funds for its activities to enhance economic growth. Also, in using long term borrowing instrument the focus should be on treasury bond as it promises high economic returns and prospects in the short run which could add up to long term economic progress and lastly borrowed funds should be monitored closely to avoid embezzlement and to ensure that it is used for infrastructural building and for the attainment of peace and security of lives and properties as this would trigger economic growth both in the long run and short run.
Critical Success Factors and Strategic Change Management in Selected Deposit Money Banks in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State
Authors:   Akwa Ibom State University, Obio Akpa Campus, Augustine AKPAETOR Ubong , Soludo MADUBUIKE Emmanuel ,   University of Uyo, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State
Published: August 2023

Strategic change is an integral part of contemporary business operation. In the Nigerian banking industry, strategic changes have occurred, which affected banks in different ways and magnitude. Surviving in such uncertain and turbulent periods would require careful and systematic implementation of critical success factors. As such, this study is an attempt to assess critical success factors and strategic change management in selected deposit money banks in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State. Two specific objectives were developed for the study, as well as two research questions and hypotheses. Survey research design was applied in the course of the study. The population of the study was 454 employees of the studied deposit money banks, while the sample size was 213 respondents as determined using Taro Yamane sample size determination technique. Structured questionnaire was used in eliciting the required primary data. A total of 213 copies of the questionnaire was administered, while 208 copies were returned in a useable form. Data analysis was done using Pearson Product Moment Correlation (PPMC) analysis. Results from the analysis revealed that the studied variables showed positive and significant relationship with strategic change management in the selected deposit money banks in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State. It was concluded that critical success factors have positive and significant relationship with strategic change management in the studied deposit money banks in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State. On the evidence of these findings, it was recommended that top level managers in the studied deposit money banks should maintain the habit of supporting their employees during strategic change periods in the banks by giving them the necessary resources that is required to cope with the change; and the outcomes of strategic change should be communicated to the employees ahead of time regardless of the effects it will have on them.
Corporate Attributes and Environmental Disclosure of Listed Breweries in Nigeria
Authors:   Department of Accounting, Akwa Ibom State University, Obio Akpa Campus, Ezekiel UDOSEN Robson , Lawrence ENOIDEM Kinglsey ,   Department of Accounting, Akwa Ibom State University, Obio Akpa Campus
Published: August 2023

This study examined the effect of corporate attributes on environmental disclosure of listed breweries in Nigeria from 2012 to 2021. The independent variable of the study was corporate attributes and was proxied by profitability, leverage and firm size while the dependent variable of the study was environmental disclosure. Secondary data were used, three hypotheses were formulated and the research design employed in this study was ex post facto research design. To test the hypotheses of the study, the researcher adopted the pooled logistic regression technique and the statistical package employed was STATA 16. The results from the analysis revealed that firm size has a significant effect on environmental disclosures of breweries in Nigeria while profitability and leverage have no significant effect on environmental disclosures of listed breweries in Nigeria during the period under study. Thus, it was concluded that only the size of the firm can significantly determine the likelihood of listed breweries to disclose more of their environmental engagements. It was recommended among others that the management of the Nigerian brewery should expand the total assets base of the companies so that they can be confident of disclosing more environmental information in their financial reports.
Analisis Tingkat Kebangkrutan Perusahaan Dengan Model Altman Z-Score
Authors: Marshita Marshita Marshita , Nurman Nurman , Wardhana H Muhammad Ilham
Published: August 2023

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui potensi tingkat kebangkrutan perusahaan pada Sub Sektor Tekstil dan Garmen yang terdaftar di Bursa Efek Indonesia dengan menggunakan model Altman Z-Score. Penelitian ini menggunakan teknik dokumentasi yakni berupa data laporan keuangan pada perusahaan Sub Sektor Tekstil dan Garmen yaitu PT Eratex Djaja Tbk, PT Ever Shine Tex Tbk, PT Panasia Indo Resources Tbk dan PT Tifico Fiber Indonesia Tbk periode 2016-2020. Teknik analisis data yang digunakan adalah analisis deskriptif dengan menggunakan model Altman Z-Score. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan analisis tingkat kebangkrutan menggunakan Altman Z-Score pada PT Eratex Djaja Tbk tahun 2016 diklasifikasikan berada dalam kategori daerah abu-abu, lalu PT Eratex Djaja Tbk tahun 2017- 2020, PT Ever Shine Tex Tbk dan PT Panasia Indo Resources Tbk tahun 2016-2020 diklasifikasikan berada dalam kategori daerah bangkrut. Sedangkan PT Tifico Fiber Indonesia Tbk tahun 2016-2020 berada dalam kategori sehat, atau diklasifikasikan tidak mengalami kebangkrutan.
Influence of Family Interaction on Early Childhood Independence
Authors: Mohzana Mohzana , Murcahyanto Hary
Published: August 2023

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of interaction in the family on the independence of early childhood. The type of research used in this study is a type of quantitative research using the experimental method. The research design used is a pre-experimental design in the form of a One-Group pretest-posttest design. The subjects of this study were the entire group B of the Islamic Kindergarten, totaling 15 children. The instruments used to collect data are validation sheets, observation sheets, and documentation. The results showed that children's independence during the pre-test amounted to 214 with an average percentage of 31% and in the category of assessment Starting to Develop (MB) and after being given treatment or (treatment) then held a posttest obtained the independence of all children, namely 585 with an average of 97% and the assessment category Developing Very Well (BSB). In addition, it can also be seen from the results of the hypothesis test t-count ≥ t-table difference (7.3131) ≥ (2.145) at a significant level of 0.05 so it can be concluded that Ha is accepted and Ho is rejected, so between the pre-test and post-test results are significant.
Economics Teacher Quality: Challenges, and Alternative Development
Authors: Sukardi  , Fahrurrozi Muh , Jauziati Baiq
Published: August 2023

The quality of graduates as school’s output is largely determined by many things related to teachers, including economics teachers. At a macro-level, the teacher’s task is related to the development of human resources, which will most determine the sustainability and glory of national life. However, internally the economics teacher is still faced with several problems both concerning the number and qualifications of academic, distribution, and the quality or competence of economics teachers. Besides that, the demands of globalization, changes in the fields of science and technology, economics, socio-political, socio-cultural, and government policies are challenges faced by economic teachers. Minimizing internal problems into strength and anticipating challenges into opportunities is the main strategy to achieve the figure of a professional economics teacher who produce the students who are economically literate, characterized, and have an entrepreneurial spirit. At least four ways are carried out through education, training, experience, and habituation, with religion as the commander.
Eficacia del bloqueo regional interescalénico en cirugía de hombro
Authors: García Santana Carlos Luis , Procel Macías Nelson Antonio
Published: August 2023

Introducción: El bloqueo interescalénico (BIE) es un bloqueo regional que se usa para proporcionar anestesia y analgesia para la cirugía del hombro. El objetivo del estudio fue determinar la utilidad y eficiencia del BIE en el tratamiento del dolor postoperatorio tras la cirugía de hombro.
Métodos: El presente estudio observacional fue realizado en el Hospital Alcívar de Guayaquil, Ecuador, de enero a septiembre de 2022 con pacientes sometidos a cirugía de hombro, clasificados como Grupo 1: anestesia general + BIE y Grupo 2: sin BIE. Las variables registradas fueron: edad, dolor con escala de valoración subjetiva (EVS), satisfacción subjetiva (SS). Las medias se compararon con T de student y las proporciones con Chi cuadrado.
Resultados: El estudio incluyó 20 pacientes en cada grupo.  El análisis del dolor postoperatorio en reposo en 24 horas fue EVS percentil 75 del Grupo 1: 1, en el Grupo 2 fue de 2. El dolor en movimiento fue EVS de 2.25 en Grupo 1 y de 3 para el Grupo 2 (P<0.05). La necesidad de rescate se dio en 2 casos (5 %) en Grupo 1 y 5 casos (12.5 %) en Grupo 2 (P <0.05). La náusea y el vómito no se presentó en el grupo 1, y en 8 casos (20 %) en grupo 2 (P<0.05). El tiempo quirúrgico en el Grupo 1 fue de 125 min y en el Grupo 2 fue de 116 min (P>0.05). En tiempo de estancia fue de 36 horas en el Grupo 1 y 60 horas en el grupo 2 (P<0.05).
Conclusiones: El BIE produce mejor anestesia, un mejor movimiento del hombro en el postoperatorio y disminuye la estancia hospitalaria.
Resultados clínicos y funcionales de la artroplastia de revisión
Authors: Villarroel Rovere Hugo Ernesto , Jaramillo Becerra Carlos Alberto , Machado De La Rosa Gabriel Eduardo , Encalada Espinoza Manuel , Tapia Angamarca Jéssica
Published: August 2023

Introducción: La cirugía de revisión de artroplastia de cadera y rodilla, son procedimientos de rescate en pacientes con infecciones o aflojamiento mecánico de la prótesis. El objetivo de este estudio es evaluar los resultados funcionales posteriores a la cirugía de revisión durante el transcurso de 2 años, aplicando las escalas de funcionalidad respectivas.
Métodos: El presente estudio observacional fue realizado en el Hospital Alcívar de Guayaquil, Ecuador, de enero 2021 a diciembre de 2022 con pacientes sometidos a cirugía de revisión de artroplastía de hombro y rodilla. Las variables fueron: edad, sexo, tiempo de inicio de los síntomas, presencia de inestabilidad articular, Escala de valoración del dolor (EVA) pre y posquirúrgico. Movilidad articular y escala funcional post operatoria.
Resultados: El estudio incluyó 23 pacientes. En 17 casos (73.9 %) se revisaron prótesis de rodilla y 6 casos (25.1 %) de cadera. Fueron 15 hombres (65.21 %) y 8 mujeres (34.79 %), con un promedio de 67 años.  La causa de cambio de prótesis fue mecánica en 15 casos (65.21 %), infecciones en 8 casos (34.78 %).  Se presentó inestabilidad articular en 17 casos (73.91 %) y sin inestabilidad en 6 casos (23.08 %). El dolor disminuyó de percepción grave en 18 casos (78.3 %) en el período preoperatorio a leve en 18 casos (78.3 %). La funcionalidad de rodilla a los 3 meses fue buena en 7 casos (41.2 %), a los 6 meses fue buena y excelente en 9 casos (52.9 %). La funcionalidad de cadera fue regular a los 3 meses en 5 casos (83.3 %) y buena a los 6 meses en 5 casos (83.3 %).
Conclusiones: En general, los resultados de este estudio sugieren que las artroplastias de revisión son un procedimiento efectivo para mejorar la funcionalidad de los pacientes con aflojamiento aséptico y fallo séptico de la prótesis de rodilla y cadera.
Lyrismes écosophiques contemporains : lyrisme de résistance et critique lyrique de la philosophie chez Pierre Vinclair et Jean-Philippe Pierron
Authors: Monginot Benoît
Published: August 2023

Cet article montre, à partir de la comparaison des essais d’écopoétique publiés en 2020 par Jean-Philippe Pierron et Pierre Vinclair, comment l’inscription de problématiques écologiques en littérature reconfigure certaines des distinctions traditionnelles de la théorie littéraire. S’ils partent d’une même critique du rationalisme instrumental et trouvent dans la tradition lyrique les moyens d’une résistance par l’écriture à la crise écologique que ce rationalisme aurait provoquée, les deux auteurs aboutissent à la mise en œuvre de deux poétiques diamétralement opposées (un lyrisme naïf capable de dire le sujet et ses appartenances chez Jean-Philippe Pierron, un lyrisme critique anti-propositionnel et conscient de ses moyens chez Pierre Vinclair). L’article fait pourtant l’hypothèse que la perspective écosophique dans laquelle s’inscrivent ces poétiques conduit à relativiser leur opposition et à ne pas les hiérarchiser. En effet, dans la mesure où toute écosophie se fonde sur une ontologie qui refuse de faire de l’homme un empire dans un empire, la littérature n’est plus pensable selon l’alternative de l’expression naturelle et de l’artifice conscient : elle devient une forme de vie, se constituant comme expérience et dans la continuité d’une expérience qui est d’abord celle d’un vivant.
L’essai lyrique : une question de genre ? The Glass Essay de Anne Carson et Citizen de Claudia Rankine
Authors: Manara Matilde
Published: August 2023

Avec cet article, nous nous proposons de comparer les textes d’Anne Carson (The Glass Essay, 1995) et de Claudia Rankine (Citizen. An American Lyric, 2014) afin de montrer que, d’une part, le caractère hybride de ce que la critique anglosaxonne appelle désormais le « lyric essay » permet de dénoncer la porosité des frontières séparant le discours lyrique des discours savants ; et, d’autre part, qu’une telle dénonciation n’est pas suffisante pour reconfigurer l’espace littéraire. Tout en manifestant une attitude « critique » à l’égard du lyrisme, les deux œuvres analysées continuent en fait de s’appuyer sur l’alliance entre dimension individuelle de l’expérience et portée universelle de son expression qui est propre à ce genre au moins depuis le romantisme.
The impact of globalization on the art market and national art cultures
Authors: Shatilov Vadim Vadimovich
Published: August 2023

The object of the study is the process of globalization, the subject of the study is its impact on the structure of the art market and national artistic cultures. Based on the idea of a dialogical cultural model, which was adhered to by V. Bybler and M. Bakhtin, the author justifies the use of the term "dialogue of cultures" to characterize the processes taking place in the space of the modern art market. Special attention in the study is paid to the analysis of its structural transformations: according to the author, inclusivity, which primarily consists in the decentralization of the internal structure of the art market, is a key characteristic that allows to periodize its development into classical and modern stages. A special contribution of the author of the study is an in-depth analysis of exhibition projects: "Magicians of the Earth" by J.-Y. Martin, as well as "Cities in Motion" by H.-W. Obrist and H. Hanru. It is established how these projects aroused the interest of Western collectors in the exotic and changed the share of representation in the art market of non-European art. The main conclusion is that the process of globalization of the art market acutely poses the problem of deformation of the perception of cultural heritage: the appeal of the Western world to traditional cultures in the forms of cultural and art tourism leads to fragmentation and differentiation of once integral national artistic cultures.