bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Ritual, Feasting, and Community Building on the Copacabana Peninsula, 1000 BC–AD 200
Authors: Juengst Sara L. , Hutchinson Dale L. , Chávez Sergio J. , Chávez Stanislava R. , Schober Theresa , Norr Lynette , Bythell Abigail
Published: September 2023

This chapter investigates access to ritual resources (maize) was linked to socioeconomic changes associated with early agriculture in the Titicaca Basin of Bolivia between 1000 BC and AD 200. Based on skeletal evidence of malnutrition and isotope analysis of dietary composition of burials from six burial groups, the chapter investigates if maize was consumed during this period and if it was accessible to all individuals. The evidence suggests communal feasts featuring ritual use of maize may have been used to prevent status aggrandizing or power hoarding for individuals.
Edible Metaphors and the Mississippian Phenomenon
Authors: Briggs Rachel V.
Published: September 2023

While archaeologists have long studied the economic and political ideas that made food a powerful resource in the past, we have neglected to consider how food can serve as a formative force by bringing people together through the creation of a shared, pervasive worldview. This chapter explores this formative power through the adoption and spread of the hominy foodway in the Black Warrior River Valley of Alabama during the Mississippian Periods (AD 1070–1250). During this time, people began to gather and densely populate this valley, ultimately resulting in Moundville, the second-largest Native American settlement in the Eastern Woodlands prior to European contact. To help explain this formative power, this chapter draws on Monica Smith’s concept of the edible metaphor, arguing that the practices, tools, and ingredients of the hominy foodway provided a shared set of foundational ideas central to the Moundville worldview.
Conflicted Landscapes
Authors: Berger Steph M. , Graham Anna F.
Published: September 2023

This chapter examines the lived experiences of residents of the Forbush Creek site, a Late Woodland period Native American village site located in the Yadkin River Valley of the North Carolina Piedmont. During the Late Woodland period (AD 800–1200) communities across the Piedmont, began to settle in more permanent, agriculturally focused village settlements. While this lifestyle and settlement system would more or less persist in the rest of the Piedmont into the seventeenth century, residents of the Yadkin River Valley appear to abandon these lifeways a few centuries after adopting them. This chapter employs a landscape perspective alongside an integrative analysis of bioarchaeology and archaeobotany remains from Forbush Creek to explore how one community navigated the changes associated with the transition to village life. The floral remains highlight the complexities of balancing seasonal foraging and agricultural tasks, and new evidence of interpersonal violence in the skeletal assemblage demonstrates the difficulties of living in a more crowded landscape. The authors speculate that these challenges may have led subsequent Yadkin River Valley residents to abandon village lifeways for more dispersed settlements.
Reviewing Research Literature and Choosing a Topic
Authors: Sherman Leah Reilly , Morris Merry Lynn
Published: September 2023

This chapter provides guidance for gathering and analyzing research literature and selecting a research topic. The research process and best practices are described as organic and iterative rather than strictly prescriptive. Strategies are discussed for assessing the existing literature including employing multiple databases and types of sources, seeking summative sources such as existing literature reviews, keeping resources organized, approaching a librarian for research assistance, using citation managers, and being attentive to the frequently cited seminal literature in the field. Methods for collecting, summarizing, and analyzing the existing research on a topic of interest provide both the early career and more seasoned scientist with resource management tools for writing literature reviews, and research proposals and reports.
Case Studies, Case Reports, and Case Series
Authors: Coates Wendy C. , Shah Selina
Published: September 2023

Case reports (and series) provide an important mechanism for the scientific community to become aware of new conditions that fall outside standard practice and previously reported phenomena. An astute researcher who notices a deviation from the norm can use the case report method to alert colleagues of new information. Accompanied by a thorough review of the literature, case reports can update readers about the current state of knowledge and can convey the novelty of the case that is described to place the findings into a broader perspective. Case-based reports are particularly appealing for novice researchers, since the subjects studied are familiar and available and the scope is focused and manageable. Writing a case report or a case series can serve as an introduction to the process of conducting research from the literature search through the publication process. Scientists can use the information presented in a case report as a basis to conduct advanced qualitative or quantitative research studies to further elucidate the observed phenomenon.
Within-Subject Experiments
Authors: Welsh Tom , Chatfield Steven J.
Published: September 2023

Within-subject experiments offer dance science researchers a method for assessing the influence of robust interventions (IV) on responsive outcome measures (DV).They employ frequent, repeated measurements, graphic analysis, and a design logic that makes it possible to isolate the influences of an IV on a DV without employing a large sample or participants or inferential statistics. One quasi-experimental design (simple comparison) and three experimental designs (multiple baseline, reversal, and alternating treatments) are explained, and dance examples are provided. The strengths, requirements, and limitations of each design are identified as well. Within-subject experiments are especially useful for studying patterns of individual performance over time and across conditions.
Aquatic Hunter-Gatherer-Fishers
Authors: Tushingham Shannon
Published: September 2023

This paper considers the potentials and tasks of human behavioral ecology (HBE) frameworks for understanding the evolution of aquatic hunter-gatherer-fishers in the northeast Pacific Rim. At the time of Euro-American contact, Indigenous communities throughout the region tended to practice collector-type logistical strategies and storage. The development of such practices has been hypothesized to be associated with the intensification of aquatic resources and boat technologies, which afforded people with efficient means of extracting and transporting a wide range of plant and animal species. While not without challenges, HBE models can offer powerful means of elucidating aquatic adaptations and understanding past human behaviour. Key applications reviewed here surround questions of human decision-making in several key realms, such as mobility and colonization, diet choice, central-place storage and logistics, and the gender division of labor. HBE derived storage models that elucidate women’s decision-making and childcare opportunity costs are under-represented but hold great potential as understanding such dynamics is critical to understanding mid- to late-Holocene developments. While HBE has had many interesting applications in the northeast Pacific Rim, there are abundant opportunities to advance research and build more realistic models for instance by incorporating complementary approaches including Indigenous and traditional ecological knowledge frameworks.
Human Niche Construction and Shifts in Subsistence and Settlement during the Early Formative in the Eastern Soconusco Mangrove Zone
Authors: Daniels James T. , Thakar Heather B. , Neff Hector
Published: September 2023

In this chapter, the authors examine archaeological and paleoenvironmental evidence from the mangrove estuary of southern Pacific Chiapas, Mexico, through the theoretical lenses of niche construction theory and human behavioral ecology to examine the evolving relationship between humans and the environment. Specifically, we assess the impact of the subsistence strategies of the Archaic period Chantuto and the Early Formative Mokaya cultures on the ecology of the region, including the availability and diversity of resources and how those factors influenced decisions regarding subsistence and settlement.
Swordfish Hunting as Prestige Signaling?
Authors: Fernandez Carola Flores , Olguín Laura
Published: September 2023

Marine hunting is a high-risk practice that requires physical skills for a successful capture and the manufacture and use of specialized artifacts such as harpoons and rafts to hunt and navigate offshore. Offshore fish species such as swordfish and marlin has been identified in the archaeological record of the southern Atacama Desert coast, dated around the middle Holocene. Marine hunting scenes are also present on rock art, suggesting a public and symbolic context for these practices. Local ethnographic descriptions suggest status and prestige for the hunters who practice swordfish hunting. Under this context, the present chapter applies Costly Signaling Theory to evaluate these practices and enrich our interpretations of the sociopolitical context of the fishing communities that inhabited the Atacama Desert during the middle Holocene.
What Makes a Forager Turn Coastal?
Authors: Wren Colin D. , Janssen Marco A. , Hill Kim , Marean Curtis W.
Published: September 2023

Long-term and broad-scale landscape perspectives on human foraging behavior may be simulated with a computational approach known as agent-based modelling. This chapter describes the PaleoscapeABM which simulates the aggregated effects of foraging, using optimal foraging theory logic, on a reconstructed habitat landscape set on the Cape South Coast of South Africa during the Later Stone Age and Middle Stone Age. Through simulated foraging for shellfish, mammal, and plant resources, the PaleoscapeABM’s results illustrate the complex inter-relationships between diet, mobility, population density, human cognition, and occupied coastal landscapes. This agent-based modelling approach provides a conceptual bridge between the local-scale understanding of human decision making from optimal foraging theory and the longer-term and broader-scale patterns represented in the archaeological record.
The Homed and Unhomed in Comparative Perspective
Authors: Sayers Daniel O.
Published: September 2023

In this chapter, a brief history of the home and unhome in the now-U.S. sets the stage for introducing three archaeological case studies. First, archaeological work in the Great Dismal Swamp of North Carolina and Virginia, which was home to enslaved African American canal and lumber workers and to African American Maroons and Indigenous Americans from ca. 1607 to 1863, is detailed. Second, archaeological explorations of the mid-nineteenth Shepard Farmstead site and its resident family and workers in Battle Creek, Michigan, are discussed. And third, details are provided on archaeological work at the Wye Trestle site in Delta, Pennsylvania, which was the location of a ca. 1880–1950 hobo and transient people’s community.
Whose Rights? Whose Heritage?
Authors: Hogg Erin A. , Meloche Chelsea H. , Nicholas George P. , Welch John R.
Published: September 2023

For many Indigenous peoples, exercise of fundamental rights over their heritage remains elusive. This is especially true in so-called settler states where Indigenous authority over heritage is systematically regulated. In Canada, the patchwork of provincial and territorial heritage policy and legislation institutionalizes heritage management as a continuing colonial enterprise. Countering this are efforts to effect change—from grassroots movements to legal actions, including the Supreme Court of Canada’s repeated affirmation of constitutionally protected rights for Indigenous peoples. This is reflected in land rights and title claims, in repatriation proceedings, and in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s Calls to Action. While Canada is positioned to foreground Indigenous values and preferences in future policy and practice, there remain considerable obstacles to accomplishing this. In this chapter, two political initiatives that seek to ensure the protection of Indigenous heritage rights are considered: 1) the repatriation of ceremonial objects in Alberta; and 2) the protection of burial grounds in British Columbia. This examination identifies important examples of policy change in Canada that reflect efforts to increase protection for heritage and heritage sites. However, these examples also emphasize the continued, tenacious state-control of these resources and their disposition.
Late Holocene Sociopolitical Complexity and Changes in Archaeological Patterns at Secondary Settlement Locations on California’s Northern Channel Islands
Authors: Sunell Scott D. , Jazwa Christopher S.
Published: September 2023

On California’s northern Channel Islands, changes associated with increasing social complexity occurred during the late Holocene (after ~3600 cal BP), with an acceleration during the Medieval Climatic Anomaly (1150–600 cal BP). Although there were general patterns, how they manifested in the distribution of large settlement sites and smaller camps varied across the islands. This chapter includes examples from two locations: Laguna Canyon in southwestern Limuw between the historic villages of Liyam and Shawa; and Dry/Soledad Canyons in northwestern Wima between the villages of Nimkilkil, Niaqla, and Silimihi. In both cases, the growth of complexity was accompanied by an increase in territoriality. In Laguna Canyon, low-density settlement persisted despite the decrease in use of local, low-quality toolstone. In Dry/Soledad Canyons, large settlement sites that had been occupied for at least 4000 years were depopulated as the landscape became an intermediate area of prominent village sites. This has implications for our understanding of local expressions of increasing social complexity within broader systems.
Taphonomy of Human Remains from Point San Jose Hospital, San Francisco
Authors: Peters Mallory , Curry Jessica , Bartelink Eric J.
Published: September 2023

The human remains recovered from the pit excavated near the Point San Jose Hospital were analyzed to determine the possible causes of the observable taphonomic modifications. Microscopy was used to distinguish root etchings from incised and saw cut marks. Localized staining was analyzed using portable X-ray fluorescence. The results of these analyses suggest that the remains had previously been used as teaching specimens or were the result of practice medical amputations. These remains were eventually improperly discarded along with medical waste in an unmarked pit on the grounds of the fort.
Age, Sex, and Ancestry Estimations of the People from Point San Jose
Authors: Sgheiza Valerie , Willey P.
Published: September 2023

This chapter presents the demography of the people from Point San Jose. Age estimation, sex estimation, and ancestry estimation based on single skeletal elements are provided when possible due to the commingled state of the remains. Demographic data from groups with known context (military deaths, hospital deaths, California living census, i.e., catastrophic mortality, and California mortality census) are used to evaluate the demography of the people from Point San Jose relative to that of nineteenth-century California. Survivorship is compared between groups graphically and for the most similar group (hospital deaths) via the delta method using Gompertz equations. These comparisons provide evidence that nineteenth-century Californians were selectively included or excluded in Point San Jose by age and possibly by ancestry, but not by sex.
Synthesis of α-amino carbonyl compounds: a brief review
Authors: Mukherjee A. , Mahato S. , Kopchuk D. S. , Santra S. , Zyryanov G. V. , Majee A. , Chupakhin O. N.
Published: September 2023

α-Amino carbonyl compounds are an important class of nitrogen-containing substances. This review highlights their synthesis using various strategies and considers mechanisms of the processes. The strategies are classified into subcategories based on the type of starting materials, chemical reactions and synthetic methods in use. In the literature survey, different types of reactions are discussed like oxidation, reduction, addition, coupling, C–H amination, oxidative cleavage and rearrangement, amidation, multicomponent cascade reaction, etc., for the synthesis of these compounds.
 The bibliography includes 100 references
Thermodynamics and vapourization of Cs-, Sr-, Ba-containing oxide systems valid for nuclear safety problems
Authors: Stolyarova V. L. , Shilov A. L. , Sokolova T. V. , Kurata M. , Costa D.
Published: September 2023

The review provides a systematic analysis of the studies carried out mainly in the last decade in which the thermodynamic properties and vapourization of the systems containing cesium, strontium, and barium were studied by high-temperature mass spectrometry. Such systems are of particular interest for considering the problems of environmental safety in the nuclear power industry. Particular attention is paid to the issues of reliable identification of the content of the gaseous phase over oxide systems, which are important in various high-temperature technologies, including the disposal of radioactive waste, reprocessing of nuclear fuel, as well as ensuring the safe operation of nuclear power plants. A discussion and comparison of thermodynamic data found in the literature for the systems under consideration in a wide temperature range were also carried out featuring the main advantages of the Knudsen mass spectrometric effusion method.
 The bibliography includes 117 references.
Proton uptake and proton distribution in perovskite materials for protonic ceramic fuel cell applications
Authors: Liu B. , Liu Ch. , Zou X. , Yan D. , Li J. , Jia L.
Published: September 2023

Protonic ceramic fuel cells can generate electric power directly by converting the chemical energy stored in fuels through electrochemical reactions, offering a great potential for practical applications due to their high efficiency, low emissions and fuel flexibility. Lower and intermediate working temperatures (400–700 °C) are prerequisites for the commercialization, but inefficient proton uptake and the conduction ability of electrolyte and cathode materials limits the output performance. In this review, we summarize the common methods used to detect the proton concentration and distribution in some typical proton-conducting perovskites. The infrared absorption and Raman spectra combined with the first-principle calculations could provide the most information about hydrogen bond types with vibrational frequencies at 1000–4500 cm-1, the local proton environment and interactions between proton and crystal defects. The protons in a symmetric environment are easier to transport in the structure compared with that in an asymmetrical and trapped environment. A good understanding of proton uptake and proton distribution features in perovskite materials is necessary to design suitable proton-conducting materials.
 The bibliography includes 167 references.
Photopolymerization in 3D printing of tissue-engineered constructs for regenerative medicine
Authors: Generalova A. N. , Demina P. A. , Akasov R. A. , Khaydukov E. V.
Published: September 2023

The progress in the field of tissue engineering is largely driven by the development of 3D laser printing technologies, which allow precise creation of hydrogel scaffolds containing cells (the so-called tissue-engineered constructs), using photoinduced radical reactions of polymerization and crosslinking. The review considers the main mechanisms and features of such reactions, presents the most common materials for photocompositions, including natural and synthetic polymers and precursors, and describes various mechanisms for photoinitiator activation. Advances in the field of photopolymerization enable application of modern laser 3D printing techniques based on extrusion and stereolithography to design tissue-engineered constructs in a wide range of sizes and shapes with a finely organized architecture. The integration of such methods with the methods of bioengineering and cell technology is discussed, including for the creation of tissue-specific and in vivo polymerized constructs. The bibliography includes 225 references.
Clear Beautiful Spring Watter
Authors: O'Dell Gary A.
Published: September 2023

This chapter outlines how the town's boundaries were drawn after Elijah Craig's passing. Royal Spring, ever the inspiration for the town's foundation, only grew in its industrial, cultural, and spiritual significance for the community it quenched. The 19th century in this Inner Bluegrass town saw the erection of mills, a bridge, wells, and several other staples of civil life that enabled Georgetown to blossom.
Protecting Royal Spring
Authors: O'Dell Gary A.
Published: September 2023

Safeguarding of the Royal Spring water supply first and foremost required determining the boundaries of the watershed. Methodology for tracing the subterranean drainage system is surveyed in this chapter. Research conducted in the second half of the 20th century by University of Kentucky graduate students made it possible to develop a strategic plan to protect the quantity and quality of Georgetown's water supply.
Temples for Governing
Authors: Lucas Patrick Lee
Published: September 2023

Investigating U.S. Capitol and state capitol buildings in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Alabama to uncover both national political scene and the regional variants in the Ohio valley through the work of Thornton, Strickland, Shryock, Davis, Nicols, and Button.
“The Many Untruths”
Authors: Rountree Travis A.
Published: September 2023

'The Many Untruths': Newspaper Accounts of the Hillsville Shoot-Out" focuses on rhetorical representations in media depictions of the event. This chapter establishes three rememberings: violent mountaineer, gangster, and uncolonized other. These appear in front page articles, editorials, and even in political cartoons drawn about the shoot-out. These initial portrayals demonstrate how the media presented the shootout to the public and, in turn, how the public reacted to the shoot-out. These reactions spanned from initial stereotypes to sympathetic portrayals during Floyd and Claude's electrocution. The future tropes that cover the shootout echo these rememberings.
Criteria of Good English Textbook for Students: A Senior English Textbook Analysis
Authors: Akhmad Enni , R. Saleh Yuwin , Pakaya Susanti
Published: September 2023

Background: English textbooks are a medium for delivering a material; good textbooks must support good material in accordance with eight ideal textbook criteria.         
Objective: This study aims to analyze and describe English textbooks used in SMA Negeri 1 Gorontalo Regency.
Purpose: This study aims to analyze and describe English textbooks used in SMA Negeri 1 Gorontalo Regency.
Method: This study used a qualitative method with a content analysis approach to textbooks. Data were obtained through a system of observation of topics, language aspects, task forms for four language skills, and task structures in each chapter of the book. The textbooks analyzed were for grade X high school students published by the Ministry of Education and Culture of the 2017 edition of the K-13 curriculum. The data were analyzed descriptively in accordance with eight criteria for textbook analysis, namely the purpose and approach of book design and organization, language content, language skills, topics, methodology, teachers' books, and language practice situations.
Results and Discussion: The results showed that of the eight criteria for a good textbook, this book fulfills five criteria. The five criteria have clear objectives and approaches, book design and organization, language content, language skills, topics, and language practice situations.
Conclusion and Implications: This research has implications for efforts to improve students' mastery of English language skills through the teaching materials in the textbooks used.
АНАЛИЗ ПРИНЯТЫХ ИЗМЕНЕНИЙ НОРМАТИВНЫХ ДОКУМЕНТОВ В ЧАСТИ РАСЧЕТА ЖЕСТКИХ АЭРОДРОМНЫХ ПОКРЫТИЙ
Authors: Макарова Екатерина Александровна , Суравикин Денис Алексеевич , Цикин Семен Михайлович
Published: September 2023

В статье приведены исследования влияния внесения изменений в действующих нормативных документах в части расчета жестких аэродромных покрытий. Проанализированы и сопоставлены результаты расчетов на примере существующих конструкций аэродромных покрытий в соответствии с принятой схемой аэродрома.
Efektivitas Komunikasi Kelompok Pengajian Jemaah Lansia dalam Meningkatkan Pengetahuan Agama di Medan Sekitar Lingkungan Masjid Ar-Razab Deli Serdang
Authors: Padang Salsabila
Published: September 2023

This research aims to find out how the Dai group's communication method is towards the elderly and to determine the effectiveness of the Dai group's communication method towards the elderly in increasing religious knowledge around the Ar-Razab Mosque in Deli Serdang.The type and research approach used is a qualitative method with a descriptive qualitative approach (field research). The data analysis technique used is the descriptive qualitative approach proposed by Sugiyono. Systematics that explain the problem formulation that guides research to explore or photograph social situations that will be studied comprehensively, broadly, in depth and conclusions can be drawn in increasing religious knowledge in the elderly.The research results obtained are on religious knowledge material where this phenomenon is important to be raised as a problem for preachers and the elderly. The understanding of the elderly can be formed properly starting with routine recitation, from here they will be taught moral knowledge about Religion and the Koran by a preacher. Therefore, the role of the preacher is no less important in influencing the elderly or directing the elderly to have an interest in learning about religious understanding with a preacher who is an expert in their field. Because in general the memory of the elderly weakens or declines as they age. If they are not consistent, they will easily forget and not apply the knowledge that has been conveyed.
Clinical Studies On Romosozumab: An Alternative For Individuals With A High Risk Of Osteoporotic Fractures: A Current Concepts Review (Part II)
Authors: Rodriguez-Merchan E. Carlos , Moreno-Garcia Alonso , De la Corte-Rodriguez Hortensia
Published: September 2023

Romosumab (ROMO) should be used to treat postmenopausal women with osteoporosis at high fracture risk after carefully considering the cardiovascular status and the risk/benefit balance. Clinicians should avoid ROMO for patients with a history of myocardial infarction or stroke in the past 12 months. Although ROMO offers an alternative for patients with a high risk of osteoporotic fractures, it is affected by previous osteoporosis treatment: using denosumab (DENO) and oral bisphosphonates for over one year attenuates its effect. An additional 12 months of DENO appears to be more effective than ibandronate for the enhancement of bone mineral density (BMD) as a sequential agent after 12 months of ROMO, with few severe adverse events. However, it is important to emphasize that ROMO is not a first-choice medication. It is only indicated when bisphosphonates cannot help, and its clinical use has demonstrated cardiovascular risks. The cost and availability could also make its use problematic in clinical practice. Therefore, although ROMO represents an important advance in the treatment of osteoporosis, it is by no means a solution for osteoporosis.
The Impact of Education Level, Access to Transportation, and the Home Environment on Patient-Reported Outcomes after Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery
Authors: Echeverria Nicolas J. , Mandalapu Sai A. , Kaufman Alexander , Yu Daohai , Lu Xiaoning , Ramsey Frederick V. , Colon Jared , Luginbuhl Joshua , Rehman Saqib
Published: September 2023

Objectives

It is known that Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) impact a variety of health outcomes. Of these determinants, it remains unclear how education level, access to transportation, and the home environment influence Patient-Reported Outcomes (PROs) following orthopaedic trauma surgery.

Methods

A cross-sectional survey was conducted at an urban level 1 trauma center to collect data on demographics, education level, access to transportation, and the home environment of 120 patients who underwent fracture fixation surgery. Patient data was correlated with PRO data as measured by Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) survey scores, including global mental health (GM), global physical health (GP), pain interference (PI), and physical function (PF). A multivariable mixed-effects regression analysis was performed to determine associations between SDOH and PROs.

Results

Multivariable regression analysis results demonstrated that patients with high school or lower education levels were associated with better PF (P=0.007). Patients with access to transportation were associated with higher GM (P = 0.016), while those who lived greater than 5 miles from the hospital were associated with higher GP (P = 0.0498). Those with difficulty accessing the bathroom were associated with lower GP (P = 0.007) and GM (P = 0.0008), increased PI (P = 0.0002), and lower PF (P = 0.004). People living in apartments had higher GM (P = 0.0008). Navigating stairs inside the home was associated with lower GP (P = 0.030) and higher PI (P = 0.0007), while those who navigated stairs outside of their home reported higher GP (P = 0.038).

Conclusion

This study found that in our population, education level, access to transportation, and the home environment appeared to be associated with PROs following orthopaedic trauma surgery.
Supplementary Materials in Enhancing the Common Learning Competencies of Grade 7 Students in Computer System Servicing
Authors:   Lalig, Tiaong, Quezon, 4325, D. Celendro Reymund
Published: September 2023

This research uses supplementary materials to enhance the common learning competencies in Computer System Servicing for Grade 7 students. The study explored the potential benefits and challenges of incorporating supplementary material into the curriculum to enhance student's understanding and mastery of the common learning competencies. The research methodology includes a review of the existing literature on supplementary material and its impact on student learning outcomes. Additionally, pretest and posttest data are collected to evaluate respondents' performance levels regarding common learning competencies in Computer System Servicing. The pretest results reveal that the students have basic knowledge and skills, with some competencies from approaching proficiency to developing proficiency. The posttest performance shows that the students achieved proficiency in most competencies, demonstrating a strong understanding and ability in computer system servicing. The significant difference in the pretest and posttest scores indicated that the supplementary material positively impacts students' performance, leading to improved knowledge and skills in computer system servicing. These findings highlight the use of supplementary materials in enhancing student learning outcomes in terms of computer system servicing for Grade 7 TLE students.
UPAYA MENGELOLA PSIKOSOMATIS DI TENGAH MASA PANDEMI COVID-19: SEBUAH STUDI KUALITATIF [THE EFFORTS TO MANAGE PSYCHOSOMATIC IN THE MIDST OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC: A QUALITATIVE STUDY]
Authors: Cahyaningrum Dwi , Muslim Aziz
Published: September 2023

The world was buzzing about the COVID-19 that altered the fabric of human life. Growing communities are psychosomatic by overactive anxiety, fear, and worry. The purpose of this study is to know and understand the efforts being made to manage excessive psychosomatic or anxiety in the midst of COVID-19 pandemic. This research uses qualitative methods with interviews techniques on subjects that are psychosomatic. The finding of this research is attempts on the subject's control of psychosomatic means by sifting the news, staying in good touch with the family, eating wholesome, nourishing food, thinking positive, and praying to god almighty to always be guarded and protected.
PENGARUH EMPATHY CARE TRAINING TERHADAP PERILAKU ALTRUISME PADA RELAWAN COVID-19 DI DUSUN TRAJAYA KABUPATEN MAJALENGKA [THE EFFECT OF EMPATHY CARE TRAINING TOWARD ALTRUISM BEHAVIOR ON COVID-19 VOLUNTEERS IN TRAJAYA VILLAGE, MAJALENGKA REGENCY]
Authors: Zain Ahmad Qomarudin , Jafar Abdul
Published: September 2023

This study aims to determine the effect of Empathy Care Training toward altruistic behavior in COVID-19 volunteers in Trajaya Village, Majalengka Regency. The design of this study used the pretest and posttest control group design. The research data collection used the altruism scale from Aviani (2019) and used the Likert scale. The research subjects were ten of COVID-19 volunteers in the village of Trajaya, Majalengka Regency who were divided into two groups of five people each for the experimental group and the control group. The data analysis method used the Wilcoxon and Mann Whitney U technique by testing the difference in gainscore in the control group and the experimental group. The results of the Mann Whitney U test analysis showed the value of Z = -1.781 and the value of p = 0.0375 (p 0.05) this indicated that there was a significant difference between the control group and the experimental group. The results showed that Empathy Care Training had an effect on altruism behavior in COVID-19 volunteers in the village of Trajaya, Majalengka Regency.
IMPLEMENTASI LAYANAN BIMBINGAN KARIR BAGI ANAK TUNAWICARA DI SMPLB YPAC PALEMBANG [IMPLEMENTATION OF CAREER GUIDANCE SERVICE FOR SPEECH IMPAIRED CHILDREN IN SMPLB YPAC PALEMBANG]
Authors: Rosyada Syeilla Amrina , Muslim Aziz
Published: September 2023

This study aims to determine the concept of career development for a speech impaired, as well as to understand the concept of implementation of development and strategies for the development of career guidance for a speech impaired children at SMPLB YPAC Palembang. This study uses qualitative research using data analysis techniques with Miles and Huberman models, data collection techniques through primary data, and secondary data through observation, in-depth interviews, and documentation. The findings of this study are a career guidance that has been programmed in a guidance and counseling services. But in its implementation it is not optimal, because there is several obstacles both in terms of learning and needs, learning barriers here are not optimal planning and a preparation of a career guidance programs. Career guidance services are a principle for children with special needs or children with disabilities where each process is the same as a career guidance for students in regular schools,but there is slight differences in the stages of implementation, services, development strategies and the results of a career guidance programs obtained for children with special needs or a speech impaired children.
Faktor yang Mempengaruhi Niat Beli Produk Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) Halal pada Muslim di Indonesia
Authors: Hakim Krisyanto Daffa
Published: September 2023

Skema penjualan multi-level-marketing (MLM) banyak diperdebatkan terutama dari perspektif Islam. Namun, saat ini mulai banyak ditemui produk MLM syariah yang masih terbatas diteliti dalam literatur terkait faktor yang mempengaruhi minat beli konsumen. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhi niat beli produk multi-level marketing (MLM) halal. Penelitian ini menggunakan teknik purposive sampling dengan kriteria mitra bisnis (anggota) dari perusahaan Armina Daily (PT. Arminareka Pharmasia Pratama) dengan sampel 208 responden. Data diolah menggunakan metode Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) dengan aplikasi LISREL versi 8.80. Hasil dari penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa religiusitas, pengetahuan, sikap, norma subjektif, dan kontrol perilaku yang dirasakan berpengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap niat beli produk MLM halal.
Literasi Kesehatan Dalam Pencegahan Covid-19 (Studi Kasus Unilak)
Authors: Hidayat Rahmad , Rismayeti Rismayeti , Amelia Vita
Published: September 2023

The aims of this study to determine the level of health literacy of lecturers and employees at Lancang Kuning University, one of the steps in preventing covid-19, in addition to studying the behavior in implementing health protocols for awareness of the importance of preventing covid-19. This study uses a quantitative descriptive method with a population of 420 respondents and a sample of 80 respondents. This study instrument use a questionnaire that has been tested for validity with a total of 30 questions with a Cronbach alpha result of 0.926, there are 3 indicators in this study, namely functional health literacy, interactive health literacy and critical health literacy. The results of this study from those 3 indicators, functional health literacy by 72%, interactive health literacy 76% and critical health literacy 77% overall the level of health literacy of Lancang Kuning University lecturers and employees is 76% in the 76%-100% range. which is included in the very good category. This means that the health literacy of Lancang Kuning University lecturers and employees is very good.
 Keywords: Health literacy, covid-19; health literacy level; health protocol; lecturers and employees.
El juego-trabajo en el desarrollo cognitivo de estudiantes de educación inicial
Authors: Alvear Ortiz Luis Fernando , Salazar Almeida Pilar Aide , Román Proaño Zoila Grimaneza , Altamirano Álvarez Mercedes Catalina
Published: September 2023

Los estudios que se han desarrollado en el campo pedagógico respaldan la importancia de fomentar el aprendizaje desde una edad temprana, para ello sugieren trabajar en la ejecución de actividades lúdicas y didácticas que atraiga el interés de los niños y motive su participación. Se aplicó una metodología basada en el diseño no experimental, puesto que se buscó obtener información por medio de la revisión sistemática, de modo que no se trabajó con una población en particular sino por el contrario se realizó la recopilación y análisis de información proveniente de artículos científicos publicados en revistas indexadas. Se utilizaron criterios de inclusión y exclusión para seleccionar estudios que se ajustaran a la temática tratada, en cuyo caso se analizó un total de seis artículos científicos publicados en los últimos cinco años. Se encontraron similitudes en los aportes realizados por los autores referenciados, puesto que todos coinciden al destacar la importancia del juego como herramienta para propiciar el desarrollo cognitivo y el fortalecimiento de diversas habilidades en los niños que se encuentran en una etapa inicial de formación. Se concluye que los docentes deben incorporar adecuadamente la metodología juego-trabajo en el aula de clases, esto implica seleccionar juegos que motiven y atraigan el interés de los niños y niñas, y que a su vez les permita fortalecer una serie de habilidades que serán la base para el aprendizaje a futuro.
Reuse of Research Data: The Shape of Things to Come
Authors: Dallmeier-Tiessen Sünje
Published: September 2023

Open Science needs incentives. Tracking data and software citation can be one of them. To facilitate that, THOR strives to improve the usage of persistent identifiers for all scholarly objects. Tracking citations has proven difficult since there has been little reuse so far, but a first step in that direction can be improving the visibility and findability of data and software.
Using Magick with RMarkdown and Shiny
Authors: Ooms Jeroen
Published: September 2023

This week magick 1.5 appeared on CRAN. The latest update adds support for using images in knitr documents and shiny apps.
Community Call v13 - How to ask questions so they get answered! Possibly by yourself!
Authors: Butland Stefanie
Published: September 2023

Our Community Call on Tuesday, March 7th, 8-9 AM PST, will cover “How to ask questions so they get answered! Possibly by yourself!”. Asking questions about programming is a skill you can develop - we’re not just born with it. The speakers will cover some of the background and skills you’ll need to increase your chances of having your questions answered by your peers or by a busy expert.
Much more than infrastructure: working together to connect research
Authors: Duine Maaike
Published: September 2023

Crossref/THOR Outreach Meeting, Warsaw, Poland

Monday, 24 April 2017

Digital Humanities Centre at the Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences

This outreach meeting aims to explore how the research community can work together to help connect research and improve discoverability of content – publications, data and more.
ropenaq, a breath of fresh air/R
Authors: Salmon Maëlle
Published: September 2023

Do you fancy open data, R, and breathing? Then you might be interested in ropenaq which provides access to open air quality data via OpenAQ! Also note that in French, R and air are homophones, therefore we French speakers can make puns like the one in the title.
rOpenSci News Digest, September 2023
Authors:   The rOpenSci Team
Published: September 2023

Dear rOpenSci friends, it’s time for our monthly news roundup! You can read this post on our blog.Now let’s dive into the activity at and around rOpenSci!rOpenSci HQ WIP: WebAssembly support in R-universe! Thanks to some help from George Stagg, we added experimental support for building WebAssembly binary packages. This makes it possible to install packages in webr, directly from the R-universe.
Easy linguistic mapping with lingtypology
Authors: Moroz George
Published: September 2023

As all other types of visualization, linguistic mapping has two main goals: data presentation and data analysis.
Unconf projects 3: available, miner, rcheatsheet, ponyexpress
Authors: Ram Karthik
Published: September 2023

Continuing our series of blog posts (day 1, day 2) this week about unconf 17.available

Summary:

Ever have trouble naming your software package? Find a great name and realize it’s already taken on CRAN, or further along in development on GitHub? The available package makes it easy to check for valid, available names, and also checks various sources for any unintended meanings.
Unconf 2017: The Roads Not Taken
Authors: Ross Noam
Published: September 2023

Since June, we have been highlighting the many projects that emerged from this year’s rOpenSci Unconf. These projects start many weeks before unconf participants gather in-person. Each year, we ask participants to propose and discuss project ideas ahead of time in a GitHub repo. This serves to get creative juices flowing as well as help people get to know each other a bit through discussion.
THOR Bootcamp in Budapest
Authors: Chen Xiaoli
Published: September 2023

Magyarország!

We are happy to announce that the THOR Bootcamp tour bus is on its way to Budapest! On September 28 and 29th, the next and final event of the series will be hosted in collaboration with our friends at the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (DataCite member and ORCID integrator), taking place on its campus by the bank of river Danube, overlooking the magnificent Széchenyi Chain Bridge.
Tackling the Research Compendium at runconf17
Authors: Ross Noam , Daish Alice , DeCicco Laura , Lewis Molly , Randhawa Nistara , Thompson Jennifer , Tierney Nicholas
Published: September 2023

Two years ago at #runconf15, there was a great discussion about best practices for organizing R-based analysis projects that yielded a nice guidance document describing

research compendia

. Compendia, as we described them, were minimal products of reproducible research, using parts of R package structure to organize the inputs, analyses, and outputs of research projects.
Welcome to our rOpenSci Interns
Authors: Chamberlain Scott , Butland Stefanie
Published: September 2023

There’s a lot of work that goes in to making software: the code that does the thing itself, unit testing, examples, tutorials, documentation, and support. rOpenSci software is created and maintained both by our staff and by our (awesome) community. In keeping with our aim to build capacity of software users and developers, three interns from our academic home at UC Berkeley are now working with us as well.
Getting the message to academics: promoting ORCID on a university campus
Authors: Herterich Patricia
Published: September 2023

This is a guest blog post by THOR ambassador Patricia Herterich. Patricia is the Research Repository Advisor at the University of Birmingham Library and a PhD candidate at the Berlin School of Library and Information Science.
emldown - From machine readable EML metadata to a pretty documentation website
Authors: Salmon Maëlle , MacDonald Andrew , Woo Kara , Boettiger Carl , Hollister Jeff
Published: September 2023

How do you get the maximum value out of a dataset? Data is most valuable when it can easily be shared, understood, and used by others. This requires some form of metadata that describes the data. While metadata can take many forms, the most useful metadata is that which follows a standardized specification. The Ecological Metadata Language (EML) is an example of such a specification originally developed for ecological datasets.
Discover hydrological data using the hddtools R package
Authors: Vitolo Claudia
Published: September 2023

I’ve worked for over 12 years in hydrology and natural hazard modelling and one of the things that still fascinates me is the variety of factors that come into play in trying to predict phenomena such as river floods.
Composite Methods in Quantum Chemistry
Authors: Wagen Corin
Published: September 2023

“A cord of three strands is not easily broken.” —Ecclesiastes 4:12 Computational chemistry, like all attempts to simulate reality, is defined by tradeoffs.
THOR at PIDapalooza
Authors: Duine Maaike
Published: September 2023

If November taught us anything, it’s that open identifiers clearly do deserve their own festival. On 9

th

and 10

th

November 2016, people from all over the world gathered in Reykjavik to share PID stories, demos, use cases, victories, horror stories, and new frontiers at PIDapalooza, the first conference dedicated to PIDs.
From a million nested `ifelse`s to the plater package
Authors: Hughes Sean
Published: September 2023

As a lab scientist, I do almost all of my experiments in microtiter plates. These tools are an efficient means of organizing many parallel experimental conditions. It’s not always easy, however, to translate between the physical plate and a useful data structure for analysis. My first attempts to solve this problem–nesting one ifelse call inside of the next to describe which well was which–were very unsatisfying.
crul - an HTTP client
Authors: Chamberlain Scott
Published: September 2023

A new package crul ison CRAN. crul is another HTTP client for R, but is relatively simplifiedcompared to httr, and is being builtto link closely with webmockr and vcr. webmockr andvcr are packages ported from Ruby’s webmockand vcr, respectively.They both make mocking HTTP requests really easy. A major use case for mocking HTTP requests is for unit tests.
rrricanes to Access Tropical Cyclone Data
Authors: Trice Tim
Published: September 2023

What is rrricanes Why Write rrricanes? There is a tremendous amount of weather data available on the internet. Much of it is in raw format and not very easy to obtain. Hurricane data is no different. When one thinks of this data they may be inclined to think it is a bunch of map coordinates with some wind values and not much else. A deeper look will reveal structural and forecast data.
Announcing pdftools 1.0
Authors: Ooms Jeroen
Published: September 2023

This week we released version 1.0 of the ropensci pdftools package to CRAN. Pdftools provides utilities for extracting text, fonts, attachments and other data from PDF files. It also supports rendering of PDF files into bitmap images. This release has a few internal enhancements and fixes an annoying bug for landscape PDF pages.