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Understating Poetry
Authors: McGrath Brian
Published: January 2023

When Charles Baudelaire declares that hyperbole and apostrophe are most important to the lyric, he leaves little room for understatement. What would it mean to think poetry not through hyperbole or apostrophe but through litotes, a trope that prominently figures poetic restraint? In this chapter I track several uses of poetic understatement, specifically litotes, through to what M. H. Abrams calls the Greater Romantic Lyric. Alongside a poetic tradition that embraces hyperbole is one that embraces understatement, litotes in particular, where the poet's minimal affirmation is accomplished through the weak work of double-negation. I situate a poetic interest in less in relationship to modern capitalism's various demands for more.
On the Poetry of Posthumous Election
Authors: McGrath Brian
Published: January 2023

This chapter situates questions around the lyric and tropes of address in the context of contemporary representative democracy. Specifically, the chapter explores the frequency with which the dead win election in contemporary U.S. politics and connects the results of these elections to the poetic trope prosopopoeia, a literary trope whereby poetics grant a face and a voice to an absent, dead, or inanimate entity. The election of the dead to public office helps make legible the ways a poetic trope like prosopopoeia conditions representative democracy, as one's vote (one's voice) is lent to another, even a deceased one. Attention to the poetics of posthumous election offers readers a chance to think differently the relation between poetry and politics. Just as poetry is political so too is politics poetical. Questions about politics and poetry, democracy and prosopopoeia, and race and representation, which emerge in Romantic poems, are developed through a reading of Lucille Clifton's “jasper texas 1998.”
Prescriptions for Virtuosity
Authors: Karchmer Eric I.
Published: January 2023

This book tells the story of how doctors of Chinese medicine have responded to the postcolonial encounter with biomedicine and developed new forms of virtuosity to keep their clinical practice relevant and efficacious in contemporary Chinese society. Based on extensive ethnographic and historical research, this book traces the theoretical and clinical changes that transformed Chinese medicine during the 20th and 21st centuries. Doctors of Chinese medicine have developed two strategies for responding to the growing dominance of biomedicine in China. First, they have defined the essential features of their practice in opposition to the perceived characteristics of Western medicine. Second, they have simultaneously found points of convergence to facilitate combining the two medical systems in their clinical practice. Drawing on Bruno Latour’s analysis of the Modern Constitution, this book analyses the postcolonial condition of Chinese medicine as being shaped by these dual processes of purification and hybridization. To guide the reader through the postcolonial transformation of Chinese medicine, the book is structured around three common comparisons of Chinese medicine and Western medicine that shape contemporary practice. These comparisons concern the speed of therapeutic action, the nature of the body, and the method of diagnosis. Each comparison operates as axis of purification that divides Chinese medicine from Western medicine as well as an axis of translation that facilitates blendings of the two medical practices. Special attention is given to the historical emergence of “pattern discrimination and treatment determination” bianzheng lunzhi as the central clinical methodology of contemporary Chinese medicine.
Introduction
Authors: Karchmer Eric I.
Published: January 2023

This chapter argues that contemporary Chinese medicine has been transformed by its postcolonial predicament. The concept of postcolonialism is used to describe the power inequalities that exist between the practice of biomedicine, the dominant form of medical practice around the globe, and the profession of Chinese medicine in China, particularly as mediated by the Chinese state. Drawing on the work of Bruno Latour, this chapter lays out a framework for analyzing these postcolonial power inequalities as shaped by the competing dynamics of purification and hybridization. Doctors of Chinese medicine frequently distinguish their practice from Western medicine, through the act of purification, by asserting Orientalist distinctions between East and West. At the same time, doctors enthusiastically make hybrid mixtures of the two medical practices in their clinical practice. The chapter introduces three dualisms, acute–chronic, structure–function, and disease–pattern, that exemplify this postcolonial dynamic of purification and hybridization and structure the remainder of the book.
Frail Bodies and the Problem of Diagnosis
Authors: Karchmer Eric I.
Published: January 2023

This chapter traces the Republican period debates around the concepts of bing and zheng, precursors to disease and pattern respectively, which constitute the third dualism of this book. Debates about the correct interpretation of bing and zheng were spurred by the colonial crisis that was eroding Chinese sovereignty and the fear that Chinese bodies were too frail for strong medicines and presumably the fight against colonization. Inspired by Confucian evidential scholarship, a deep knowledge of Western medicine, and an interest in Japanese Kampo medicine, reformist doctors advocated a return to the clinical methods of Zhang Zhongjing’s The Treatise on Cold Damage. They also disparaged late imperial medical developments, such as the Warm Disorder current. Their scholarship inspired experiments in diagnosis and treatment that were ultimately cut short by the war with Japan. Although these visions of a reformed medicine failed to materialize, the scholarship on bing and zheng paved the way for emergence of the disease–pattern dualism in the Communist era.
New Textbooks, New Medicine
Authors: Karchmer Eric I.
Published: January 2023

This chapter traces the emergence of the disease–pattern dualism in the Communist era, particularly as it relates to the creation of the new clinical methodology of “pattern discrimination and treatment determination” bianzheng lunzhi. This new dualism emerged through the establishment of the new institutions of Chinese medicine profession in the early Communist era. The state-directed, collective efforts to produce national textbooks in the early 1960s were particularly significant, transforming older connotations of bing and zheng into disease and pattern, and enabling the creation of “pattern discrimination and treatment determination” as the central clinical methodology of Chinese medicine. Through a close reading of the early editions of the national textbooks, this chapter demonstrates that bianzheng lunzhi operates in two modalities. First, it purifies, opposing the diagnostic practices of Chinese medicine to those of Western medicine. Second, it facilitates the hybrid mixing of Chinese medicine and Western medicine nosological categories.
Introduction
Authors: Wilder Gary
Published: January 2023

Challenges recent tendencies to conflate radicalism with pessimism. Argues that framing political issues in terms of optimism vs. pessimism misses the point. Argues that the opposite of a categorical political pessimism is neither optimism nor idealism but concrete utopianism. Introduces idea of concrete utopianism through discussion of earlier heterodox Marxists, Global South anti-imperialists, and Black radicals who lived through revolutionary failure and were clear about dismal political prospects, but displaced conventional opposition between optimism and pessimism.
Concrete Utopianism and Critical Internationalism
Authors: Wilder Gary
Published: January 2023

In this chapter, I underscore how realist epistemology and political realism reinforce each other. Specifically, I discuss how political realism cannot adequately grasp the kind of anti-imperial internationalism that animated projects as different as Léopold Sedar Senghor's and Aimé Césaire's postnational federalism and Samir Amin's call for a new common front of the South and internationalism of peoples. At the center of this discussion is a critical reading of Partha Chatterjee's recent writing about internationalism and cosmopolitanism.
Practicing Translation
Authors: Wilder Gary
Published: January 2023

This chapter explores the potential affinity between translation practices and solidarity politics that are foreclosed by recent currents of Left culturalism (from within postcolonial and poststructuralist theory) whose important attention to cultural singularity often leads to a quasi-ontological insistence on categorically incommensurable forms of life. This tendency to ontologize cultural differences is evident in one-sided critiques of translation (or solidarity) as an instrument of racial or imperial subordination. Here I discuss Tala Asad, Dipesh Chakrabarty, and Walter Mignolo. After outlining this tendency, I will engage other thinkers—Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Édouard Glissant, and Boaventura de Sousa Santos—who elaborate understandings of translation as a critical practice oriented toward the creation of differential unities. From this angle of view, translation could serve as both medium and model for the solidarity practices that Samir Amin's “internationalism of peoples” would require.
A Prophetic Vision of the Past
Authors: Wilder Gary
Published: January 2023

Based on close readings of Edouard Glissant's critical theory, cultural criticism, novels, and a play, I examine and interpret his important but understudied concepts of: nonhistory, tormented chronology, a painful sense of time, and a prophetic vision of the past. I suggest that Glissant is a crucial resource and reference point for the untimeliness and dialectic of past and future that I have been developing in this part.
Spirit Power
Authors: Kwon Heonik , Park Jun Hwan
Published: January 2023

This is an innovative, first book-length study of Korea's Cold War experience seen from its religious sphere. Combining a broad historical investigation with close attention to fascinating ethnographic details, the book explores how Korea's strong evangelical community and its old shamanism tradition have responded to the crisis of the Korean War and the enduring Cold War.
Seeking Good Luck
Authors: Kwon Heonik , Park Jun Hwan
Published: January 2023

This chapter looks back on religious politics, addressed to Korea's traditional popular religiosity, in the colonial era. It discusses the concept of superstition both in the context of colonial history and in the history of anthropological research on religion.
Football, Community, and Politics
Authors: Tournadre Jérôme
Published: January 2023

The world of amateur football is one of the main spaces of sociability within the South African townships. In Grahamstown, for example, several UPM members have gained a certain notability by coaching teams of teenagers and young adults. In their eyes, amateur football is a highly political world, one which they do not hesitate to compare to that of protest activism. First of all, it is likely to give some momentum and hope to young people whose horizons are clouded by unemployment and poverty. But above all, it can help these young people to acquire a sense of community, a social conscience and moral values which will help them better understand the injustices characterizing post-apartheid society.
“It Is Moral to Rebel”
Authors: Tournadre Jérôme
Published: January 2023

Post-apartheid social protest has most often been read from a purely materialist point of view. It is true that its demands focus at first sight on very concrete things: a house, electricity, and so on. However, this chapter seeks to show that such an interpretation deprives the problem of all its real density and conceals the fact that protest is a complex social phenomenon in which material claims and more symbolic and moral aspects are intertwined. These latter are part of the demands for respect and justice that are perceived when we analyze the way in which activists and the poorest residents interpret their living conditions. They see them as a sign of social contempt and unfinished citizenship. The UPM's campaign to change the most concrete aspects of the daily life of the poor is therefore akin to a struggle for their recognition.
Breakups
Authors: Tournadre Jérôme
Published: January 2023

Violence is present in the lives of most township residents. It irrupted into the movement a few years ago. One of its main spokespersons received a life sentence for murder. The event divided the UPM and led to the departure of one of its women members, the victim's cousin. As the ethnographic interview in the middle of this book shows, the young woman nevertheless retains an attachment to this movement, to which she had dedicated most of her days for several years.
Faces: Between Trace and Image, Encoding and Measurement
Authors: Weigel Sigrid
Published: January 2023

The chapter analyses the ‘facial-expression’–code in recent emotion-research (neuro-psychology) as a modern equivalent to the vera icon-problem in the image of Christ's face, namely the image of the face representing inaccessible traces of something entirely heterogeneous: emotions on the one hand and Christ's lacking body on the other. Departing from recent empirical emotion research, the data-iconography of digital imaging, and the underlying ‘Facial Action Coding System’ (FACS), the chapter presents an archaeology of the components of the system: a limited number of facial movements-patterns represented on the frontal face as code or indicator of certain emotions. Whereas the equation of certain facial patterns with one of the emotions from the catalogue of emotions is traced back via Duchenne de Bologne's physiognomic orthography up to Le Brun, the schema of the frontal face refers to the enface-format or frontal icon in the history of the likeness. The chapter closes with examples from art and photography to demonstrate the large distance between the facial expression code and the multiplicity and partial unreadability of expressive faces in humans.
CONSUMO SUSTENTÁVEL NO BRASIL
Authors: Mapurunga Azevedo Carolina , Enéas da Silva Minelle
Published: January 2023

O consumo sustentável tem recebido cada vez mais atenção como tema de pesquisa. No entanto, pouco se sabe sobre a evolução da temática no Brasil. Com esta perspectiva, este artigo analisa como a temática do consumo sustentável está sendo abordada nos principais periódicos brasileiros. Por meio de uma revisão de literatura foram selecionados 54 artigos publicados em português e inglês, no período de 2009 a 2018. Para a análise foram considerados: (1) quantidade de publicações; (2) autoria; (3) método de investigação; (4) tipologias de consumo; e (5) resultados dos artigos, com ênfase nas limitações e proposições (o que gerou uma agenda de pesquisa). Os resultados deixam evidente o avanço do tema no país, no entanto pouca consistência teórica em comparação com outros tipos de consumo voltados à sustentabilidade. Propõe-se uma agenda de pesquisa com foco em três elementos: aprofundamento teórico, abrangência de escopo e diversificação de contexto. Com isso, esta pesquisa contribui ao debater sobre o avanço da temática deixando claro quais são os novos caminhos para a pesquisa de consumo sustentável.
Strategi Kepala Madrasah Dalam Meningkatkan Kinerja Guru Di MTS Negeri 1 Probolinggo Dengan Mts Nurul Jadid Paiton Probolinggo
Authors: Manshur Umar
Published: January 2023

Tulisan ini menyajikan tentang strategi kepemimpinan kepala madrasah dalam meningkatkan kinerja guru.Metodologi penelitian ini adalah penelitian lapangan yang bersifat kualitatif deskriptif, dengan jenis penelitian penelitian lapangan. Lokasi penelitian adalah di MTs Negeri 1 Proboliggo dan MTs Nurul Jadid Paiton Probolinggo. Metode pengumpulan data yaitu obervasi, interview, dan dokumentasi. Teknik pengolahan dan analisis data dilakukan dengan cara reduksi data, penyajian data, dan verifikasi data. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa strategi kepemimpinan yang diterapkan oleh kepala madrasah dalam meningkatkan kinerja guru sangat efektif, hal itu terlihat pada peran kepala madrasah dalam mengontrol, menyusun program, mengorganisasikan kegiatan, menciptakan situasi dan kondisi yang kondusif di lingkungan madrasah, membangun hubungan kerjasama yang harmonis, mendorong semangat guru agar terus mengembangkan kreativitas dalam pembelajaran, dan  melakukan evaluasi pada setiap kegiatan yang sudah dilaksanakan.kepemimpinan seperti ini akan menjadikan guru memiliki kreativitas dan inovasi kerja,  sehingga para kinerja guru akan lebih meningkat dengan baik.
Strategi Penanaman Karakter Semangat Kebangsaan Dan Keterampilan Organisasi Di Pondok Pesantren Nurul Jadid Paiton Probolinggo.
Authors: Bahri Saiful
Published: January 2023

Pesantren akhir-akhir ini semakin dikenal oleh masyarakat secara umum, bahkan pemerintah sendiri pada tahun 2019 lalu telah membuat undang-undang sebagai sebuah upaya legimitasi pesantren sebagai peneyelenggara pendidikan nasional. Hal ini tak lepas dari kontribsui pesantren dalam mendukung tujuan pendidikan nasional dalam hal pembentukan karakter. Dengan demikian pesantren pun menerapkan beberapa strategi dalam pembentukan karakter, utamanya penanaman karakter kebangsaan. Penelitian ini mendeskripsikan beberapa strategi di sebuah pesantren, yakni Pondok Pesantren Nurul Jadid Paiton Probolilnggo. Strategi dilakukan dalam upaya mewujudkan mutu lulusan pesantren yang dibekali karakter kebangsaan sekaligus kompetensi berorganisasi. Hal ini tak lepas dari para pengasuh dan pendiri pesantren yang terlibat langsung dan penanaman karakter kebangsaan dan keterampilan organisasi
Peranan Pemerintah Kabupaten Situbondo Dalam Menanggulangi Informasi Hoax
Authors: Baidawi Imam
Published: January 2023

Hoax adalah usaha untuk menipu atau mengakali pembaca/pendengarnya untuk mempercayai sesuatu, padahal sang pencipta berita palsu tersebut tahu bahwa berita tersebut adalah palsu. Rumusan masalah adalah bagaimana strategi Pemerintah Kabupaten Situbondo dalam menanggulangi informasi hoax (Studi Kasus Dinas Komunikasi Informatika dan Persandian), Bagaimana dampak Pemerintah Kabupaten Situbondo dalam menanggulangi informasi hoax (Studi Kasus Dinas Komunikasi Informatika dan Persandian). Metode penelitian yang digunakan yaitu metode kualitatif deskriptif, pada teknik pengumpulan datanya meliputi observasi, wawancara dan dokumentasi sedangkan analisis datanya menggunakan analisis deskriptif dan pada tehnik pemerikasaan keabsahan data menggunakan triangulasi sumber.
Berdasarkan hasil penelitian Strategi yang digunakan Dinas Kominfo Situbondo dalam memerangi beruta bohong adalah dengan menggunakan duta anti hoax dan memanfaatkan media sosial sebagai media penyampaian pesan mereka. Sementara itu Dinas Kominfo Situbondo menggunakan media sosial sebagai media penyamapaian pesan mereka. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, dan juga Website Dinas Kominfo Situbondo berisikan konten-konten seputar hoaks.
Manajemen Kurikulum Pesantren dalam Membentuk Karakter Santri di Pesantren Darunnajah Al-Mas’udiyah Denpasar Tahun Pelajaran 2020/2021
Authors: Hasanah Uswatun , Sudarsono  , Wahyudi Nur
Published: January 2023

Pesantren is an Islamic educational institution that grows and is recognized by the surrounding community and has its own characteristics, kiai as leader figures and students as objects given religious knowledge and dormitories as a place to live for students. Education aims to foster citizens to have Muslim personalities in accordance with the teachings of Islam and to instill this religious sense in all aspects of their lives and make them useful for religion, society, nation and state. The purpose of this study was to determine the curriculum management planning of Darun-Najah Al-Mas'udiyah Denpasar Islamic boarding school in shaping the character of students. The results of this qualitative research show that in planning the pesantren curriculum, the head of the Darun Najah Al-Mas'udiyah Islamic Boarding School Denpasar carries out a work program. management, in the Darun Najah Al-Mas'udiyah Islamic Boarding School Denpasar, routine evaluations are carried out once a month or quarterly.
Kepemimpinan Kepala Sekolah dalam Meningkatkan Kinerja Guru di SMK Al-Falah
Authors: Hotima Hosiyatun , Sa'diyah Halimatus
Published: January 2023

This study aims to describe the Principal's Leadership in Improving Teacher Performance in Al-Falah Vocational School. The research method uses qualitative research. The informants in this study are school principals and educators or teachers. The key informant is how the principal in supervising and developing teacher performance, either directly or through the Deputy Head of Curriculum. The data collection procedure used three techniques, namely through observation, interviews and documentation studies. For the validity of the data, researchers used triangulation techniques. The results showed that: the principal's leadership in improving teacher performance at SMK Al-Falah was good. Thus, it can be concluded that the principal's leadership contributes well to the advancement of the quality of education where the performance of educators or teachers is the key to success in the world of education.
Peran Guru dalam Meningkatkan Prestasi Belajar Siswa pada Mata Pelajaran Akidah Akhlak di MTs. Al-Falah Bungatan Situbondo
Authors: Baidawi Imam , Elga Yanuardianto
Published: January 2023

Peran dan profesionalisme guru dalam pembelajaran di sekolah sangat diperlukan. Guru dituntut untuk mampu meningkatkan kualitas belajar para peserta didik dalam bentuk kegiatan belajar yang sedemikian rupa dapat menghasilkan pribadi yang mandiri, pelajar yang efektif dan pekerja yang produkti sehingga dapat mencapai tujuan pembelajaran yang diinginkan dalam meningkatkan prestasi belajar siswa. Metode penelitian yang digunakan yaitu metode kualitatif deskriptif, teknik pengumpulan data meliputi observasi, wawancara dan dokumentasi sedangkan analisis data menggunakan analisis deskriptif dan tehnik pemerikasaan keabsahan data menggunakan triangulasi sumber. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian dapat disimpulkan bahwa peran guru Akidah Akhlak dalam meningkatkan prestasi belajar Akidah Akhlak siswa MTs. Al-Falah sebagai pembimbing, model dan teladan dalam meningkatkan prestasi siswa di MTs. Al-Falah yaitu selalu berusaha membimbing siswa-siswi untuk berperilaku dengan baik, mengingatkan jika mereka melakukan perbuatan yang tidak terpuji, memberikan contoh nyata pada saat mengajar yaitu mengucapkan salam terlebih dahulu, setelah itu berdoa secara bersama-sama. hambatan yaitu siswa yang kurang mampu pada pelajaran akidah akhlak, kurangnya memperhatikan pada pelajaran akidah akhlak sedangkan langkah-langkah guru Akidah Akhlak MTs. Al-Falah Bungatan dalam mengatasi hambatan dalam meningkatkan prestasi belajar Akidah Akhlak meliputi menfokuskan terhadap siswa, memberikan bimbingan khusus, kerjasama antar pihak luar, adanya sarana dan prasarana.
Formulasi Sarana Publikasi Sekolah Berbasis Podcast
Authors: Ahmad Rifdur Rohman  , Ahmad Musaddad
Published: January 2023

Penelitian ini membahas tentang peran podcast sebagai sarana publikasi di SMA Nurul Jadid Paiton Probolinggo. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif jenis studi kasus. Datanya diperoleh dari hasil observasi dan wawancara. Sumber data dalam penelitian ini berjumlah satu orang yaitu Wakasek Ur. Humasy dan Infokom SMA Nurul Jadid Paiton Probolinggo. Hasil penelitian yang diperoleh ialah perencanaan sekolah dalam melakukan kegiatan langkah awal yang dimulai dari penetapan tujuan. Penetapan tujuan sangat menentukan arah dalam mencapai tujuan organisasi secara efektif dan efisien, setelah adanya penetapan tujuan pesantren maka langkah selanjutnya yaitu menyusun progam kerja sebagaimana mampu mempertahankankan eksistensi SMA Nurul Jadid dengan memberikan sebuah pelayanan terbaik melalaui pemanfataan podcast di SMA Nurul Jadid.
The Lived Experiences of Graduate School Students on the Implementation of Innovative Classes
Authors:   https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8813-0242, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4963-4154, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1710-874X,  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4887-671X, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7090-9784 diokno.jp@mpc.edu.ph, jeofrey.robles@deped.gov.ph, jayamberr23@gmail.com, francisarmanc@gmail.com, Institute of Graduate Studies, Marikina Polytechnic College, Sta. Elena, Marikina City, Philippines, P. Diokno Jonathan , F. Robles Jeofrey , T. Ong Jayson Amber , T. Cos Francis Arman , M. Colocar Rene
Published: January 2023

Educational paradigms have shifted from face-to-face to distance learning due to the impact brought by the COVID-19 pandemic. This shift is inevitable from the preparatory to the graduate level of education. Various improvements to adapt to this change are inevitable. One of which are the innovative classes implemented in the graduate school of Marikina Polytechnic College. Like any other program, evaluation is necessary based on the lens of key actors for its improvement. To evaluate the innovative class program implemented in the College, this study utilized phenomenological research design as lived experiences of the key actors play major roles in the evaluation process. Purposive sampling was utilized in the study and data were gathered through focus group discussion. Gathered data went through two-layered qualitative data analysis following the TPACK model as a priori. It was revealed that the availability of internet connection and appropriate devices, and familiarization of application were the subthemes under the Technology aspect; Appropriateness of pedagogy to content, teacher-centered discussion, a grouping of students, and research-based approach on Pedagogical aspect; Assessment and Evaluation Planning, Reflection-based assessment and Feedback mechanism are the sub-themes under Assessment Aspect; the integrated curriculum is the subtheme of Content Knowledge aspect. Keywords: TPACK, innovative class, graduate school, phenomenology, education adaptation
Organizational Culture and Customs Towards School Effectiveness as Practiced in Public Elementary Schools
Authors:   https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0032-0269, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9095-4734, 10318-4113@lspu.edu.ph, edilberto.andal@lspu.edu.ph, C. Gudoy Marilyn , Z. Andal, Ed.D. Edilberto
Published: January 2023

This study aimed to determine the relationship between organizational culture, and customs toward school Effectiveness as practiced in public Elementary Schools. Specifically, it sought to answer the following areas: perception of organizational culture in terms of leadership, teamwork, and adaptability, perception of school custom practices that support school improvement, and perception of teachers on school effectiveness. Furthermore, the study investigated how the respondents assess if there is a significant relationship between Organizational Culture and School Effectiveness. This study used a descriptive research design following a correlation procedure to examine the relationship between organizational culture and customs toward school success as practiced in public elementary schools. In addition, random sampling was used to determine the respondents. Findings revealed that a significant correlation was assessed between organizational culture and school effectiveness. More so, the organizational culture and customs were correlated to the school’s effectiveness. Accordingly, sustained and further promotion of organizational culture and application of its practices is highly recommended to promote better school performance. Keywords: organizational culture, customs, school effectiveness, adaptability, leadership
Knowledge, attitude, and practicing behavior regarding personal use of antibiotics and awareness of antimicrobial resistance in urban and semi-urban population living around tertiary care hospital
Authors: Butul Maleha , Masood Juwaria , Misbah Nabiha , Nishat Samreen , Siddiqua Syeda
Published: January 2023

Background: Irrational use of antibiotics and wrong practicing behavior leads to the problem of antimicrobial resistance. This can be confronted by spreading awareness with the assistance of doctors in a community.

Aims and Objectives: The purpose of our study is to evaluate the knowledge, attitude, and practicing behavior regarding personal use of antibiotics and awareness of antimicrobial resistance in urban and semi-urban population.

Materials and Methods: This is a questionnaire-based cross-sectional study, conducted in July–September 2022 at Shadan Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad. Participants were divided into (1) urban coming from Greater Hyderabad municipal corporation limits and (2) semi-urban coming from Rangareddy district. Institutional ethical committee approval was obtained before the study. After obtaining consent from 130 participants, regional and English language questionnaires were distributed, data were collected and analyzed.

Results: The study showed a majority (61.5%) in 18–40 years age group with female predominance (63.8%). Most of them had formal education (73%) with a middle-class background (39.2%). The actual knowledge of participants seems to be accurate (96.9%) about antibiotics. Most of the participants reported inappropriate antibiotic use such as disposal (63.1%), skipped doses (61.5%), without medical advice (62.3%), increased dose duration (60.8%), and decreased dose duration (64.6%) drug intake as per their understanding. Cold and flu (45.4%) were an indication for an antibiotic prescription. According to majority, hospital hygiene (51.5%) must be focused to slow down the occurrence of antimicrobial resistance. A significant difference between urban and semi-urban community members in knowledge (χ2 = 47.250, P = 0.01), attitude (χ2 = 46.357, P = 0.01), and practicing behavior (χ2 = 21.373, P = 0.02) was noticed.

Conclusions: Urban showed accurate knowledge toward antimicrobial resistance. Attitude and practicing behavior of semi-urban population was noteworthy on antimicrobial resistance. Awareness regarding the rational use of antibiotics needs to be imparted by doctors. They should address about it sensibly and timely in community to avoid misuse or overuse of antibiotics.
A comparative study to evaluate the efficacy of clobetasol and curcumin in patients with oral submucous fibrosis
Authors: Upadhyay Prerna , Barthunia Bhavna , Bhakta Poulomi , Upadhyah Amit
Published: January 2023

Background: Oral submucous fibrosis (OSMF) was considered primarily as a disease prevalent in Southern Asia and southern Asian immigrants. However, it has been associated with an increased risk of malignant transformation and beginning to garner considerable attention world-wide. The main aim in management of OSMF is to relieve burning sensation and improve mouth opening.

Aim and Objective: This study aimed to compare efficacy of curcumin (2 g) and topical clobetasol propionate (0.05%) cream in management of OSMF.

Materials and Methods: This prospective and randomized study was conducted among sixty clinically diagnosed patients between age group of 18 and 50 years of age. They were randomly divided into two groups. Group A patients were instructed to apply topical clobetasol propionate cream (0.05%) thrice daily for 6 weeks. Group B patients were prescribed oral curcumin lozenges for 6 weeks. Recalls were done every week for up to 6 weeks for both groups for which burning sensation and mouth opening parameters were recorded.

Results: The prevalence of OSMF was more in the younger age group which was due to increase in the chewing habit. Reduction in burning sensation was seen among patients in both groups but a significant reduction of 6.67 was seen with clobetasol group when compared with curcumin group with mean reduction of 2.53. Marked improvement in mouth opening was seen with Clobetasol ointment group when compared to curcumin group with a mean increase in mouth opening of 3.57 mm in the former and only 0.47 mm improvement in the latter.

Conclusion: In the present study, both treatments were beneficial in reducing burning sensation significantly with clobetasol group showing better improvement as compared to curcumin group. There was a significant improvement in mouth opening with clobetasol group and nonsignificant results were obtained with curcumin group. Therefore, clobetasol can be opted as a drug of choice in improving mouth opening in OSMF patients.
A study of sinonasal anatomy and its variations in chronic rhinosinusitis patients
Authors: Singh Parvinder , Singh Abhaydeep , Sahni Dimple , Bhagat Sajeev , Kaur Rajwant , Kaur Amandeep
Published: January 2023

Background: Nose and paranasal sinuses have wide range of anatomical variations that are best diagnosed by the computed tomography (CT) and diagnostic nasal endoscopic examination.

Aims and Objectives: This cross-sectional study was done to evaluate the incidence of anatomical variations in patients of chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) and its correlation with these anatomical variations.

Materials and Methods: One hundred subjects attending the outpatient department of ENT at Rajindra Hospital, Patiala, were enrolled in the study. These subjects were diagnosed to have CRS (with either one major, two minor, or two major symptoms of CRS according to the TASK FORCE criteria). All patients were assessed using diagnostic nasal endoscopic examination and CT scan.

Results: The anatomical variation that was found to be significant in the causation of CRS was deviated nasal septum (P = 0.042) and concha bullosa (P = 0.0003), which were highly significant.

Conclusion: In the present study, correlation between deviated nasal septum and concha bullosa with CRS was significant statistically.
Način i učestalost korištenja parkovske baštine i mogućnost vraćanja historijskih elemenata na primjeru Malog parka u Sarajevu
Authors: Hadžidervišagić Dino , Šačić Delila , Krstić Pavle
Published: January 2023

Ovaj rad prikazuje način i učestalost korištenja parkovske baštine na primjeru Malog parka u Sarajevu. Cilj istraživanja je utvrđivanje stavova posjetilaca Malog parka o načinu i učestalosti korištenja parkovske baštine, kao i mogućnost vraćanja pojedinih historijskih elemenata. Istraživanje je provedeno putem anketnog upitnika, kvantitativnog tipa, augusta 2021. godine. Ukupan broj ispitanika je 55, od čega je 58,2% ženskog i 41,8% muškog spola. Kao najbolje ocijenjeni sadržaj (ocjena vrlo dobar) većina ispitanika navodi dostupnost (40,0%), a najlošiji (ocjena vrlo loš) kulturne sadržaje (21,8%). Većina ispitanika ima pozitivan stav prema vraćanju izvornog izgleda pojedinih dijelova parka (65,4%), kao i prema vraćanju historijskih elemenata (80,0%). Park je potrebno zakonski zaštititi kao parkovsku baštinu odnosno kulturno-historijsko nasijeđe sa nepromijenjenim granicama. Potrebno ga je obnoviti i izdvojiti veća finansijska sredstva za održavanje i zaštitu. Rezultati ovih istraživanja proširit će postojeće saznanja o zadovoljstvu posjetilaca Malog parka u Sarajevu i doprinijeti da stručnjaci riješe probleme u pronalaženju mogućnosti primjene metoda obnove i vraćanja izvornog izgleda ovog historijskog parka.
Varijabilnost generativnog potomstva klena (Acer campestre L.) u rasadničkom testiranju
Authors: Hodžić Mirzeta Memišević , Ballian Dalibor , Miroslav Murlin , Kvesić Stjepan
Published: January 2023

Field maple (Acer campestre L.) is naturally distributed in most of Europe, with the exception of its northern parts. Field maple can serve as a valuable model for researching the sensitivity of its populations to habitat fragmentation, considering lack of silvicultural treatments in its stands. The research aims to determine interpopulation and intrapopulation variability of field maple populations from Bosnia and Herzegovina in the nursery test.
The authors researched measured root collar diameter, height, observed forkness and calculated slenderness coefficient of the one-year-old generative material from 18 Bosnian-Herzegovinian populations of field maple, produced in the nursery of Žepče. The descriptive statistics and variance analysis was performed.
All analyzed traits showed a high degree of intra-population as well as interpopulation variability, as confirmed by the analysis of variance. The highest average height had provenance Bosanski Brod (46.08 cm) and the smallest Bosanska Dubica (19.11 cm). Kreševo provenance had the highest average root neck diameter (8.27 mm) and Bosanska Dubica (5.24 mm) the lowest. A very low percentage of forkness (6.86%) was determined, and the values of the slenderness coefficient were acceptable for all provenances.
The results indicate need for further systematic research on this ecologically valuable species.
DA OPÇÃO (?) DO OFENDIDO NO PAGAMENTO DA PENSÃO (INDENIZAÇÃO) PREVISTA NO ART. 950 DO CÓDIGO CIVIL EM PARCELA ÚNICA
Authors: Guimarães Geane Monteiro , Dias Clara Angélica Gonçalves Cavalcanti
Published: January 2023

Busca-se aqui investigar, através da revisão de literatura e pesquisa jurisprudencial, se do parágrafo único do art. 950 do Código Civil vigente pode-se ou não concluir que há direito potestativo da vítima de ato ilícito de escolher que o pagamento da pensão (indenização) ocorra em parcela única, já que referido dispositivo prevê que “o prejudicado, se preferir, poderá exigir que a indenização seja arbitrada e paga de uma só vez”. A análise se desenvolve em conjunto com as disposições do art. 533, §1º e §2º, e art. 371 do Código de Processo Civil, entre outros dispositivos legais, além de julgados do Superior Tribunal de Justiça e do Tribunal Superior do Trabalho.
The Ups and Downs of Learning and Using English: Aviation Students’ Voices
Authors: Mahmood Aina Suriani , Saad Noor Saazai Mat , Nur Nurhayati Mohd
Published: January 2023

Proficiency in English has become the standard language in the international aviation industry. To avoid accidents, all aviation personnel needs to communicate in English. The communication skills of aviation personnel should be developed during their studies. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate aviation students' successes and challenges in learning and using English. Six aircraft maintenance students from three different aviation schools in Malaysia participated in the study. Using a qualitative research design, the study collected information from open-ended interviews and document analysis gathered from online postings. The data were analyzed thematically and managed using ATLAS. ti software. Overall, the results showed that students experienced more successes than challenges in learning English. There were three themes categorized under successes and challenges: opportunities, feelings, and progress. The results could help course module developers and language teachers create modules that meet the needs of aviation students.
Empowerment of Health Cadres in Utilizing Local Foodstuffs through Modisco Corn Processing to Increase Breast Milk Production for Postpartum Mothers
Authors: Agnes Isti Harjanti  , Mudy Oktiningrum  , Fransisca Glori
Published: January 2023

Nutrition status monitoring data in Indonesia in 2017 noted that the coverage of exclusive breastfeeding for babies up to the first 6 months only reached 35.7%. This is very low and still far from the coverage target set at 80%, which means that around 65% of babies do not get breast milk (ASI). In the Boja Health Center area, the coverage of exclusive breastfeeding is still low at 65%, while the target for the city of Semarang is 90%. From the description of the Puskesmas work area, the lowest breastfeeding coverage is in Meteseh Village. Exclusive breastfeeding coverage is still low at 45%. On average, postpartum mothers in Meteseh village don't think about additional nutritional intake to increase milk production, because they get little information or evidence on processing food ingredients that can be taken from local types of food. Health cadres don't know how to increase milk production for postpartum mothers, through providing additional food for making Modisco Corn. Modisco stands for Modified Dietetic Skim and Cotton Sheet Oil, which was discovered in 1973 by May White Head, according to White, the manufacture of Modisco is used to add nutrition to malnourished children, Modisco Corn is an additional modification given to facilitate breastfeeding and add nutrition to postpartum mothers. Processing Modisco Corn as a solution for postpartum mothers who breastfeed their babies, because corn fruit has the benefit of increasing milk production and is rich in nutrients. Modisco Corn is taught to Health Cadres, so that cadres have the ability to teach postpartum mothers at any time from generation to generation to increase the coverage of exclusive breastfeeding.
Managing Legal Pluralism in the Maltese Legal System: Processes, Driving Forces and Effects
Authors: Sammut Ivan
Published: January 2023

Managing Legal Pluralism in the Maltese Legal System: Processes, Driving Forces and Effects – A ‘Loving’ Marriage of Legal Systems or a Curse?

This article seeks to discover whether a state who has ended up with a hybrid legal system, whether by choice or by history over time, is in a better position to face the new legal challenge posed by economics and politics or whether it makes sense to opt for a legal system that more or less follows one of the legal families which historically is a source of the current legal system. The approach is taken from a private law perspective. Hence, reference is made to both constitutional law and private law, and in the case of Malta, the former is mainly derived from the English common law while the latter applies to the main civil law and private law systems. The article refers to the Maltese legal system as a case-study. After independence, Malta opted out of a free choice to consolidate the mixedness in its system, and common law’s influence became stronger than before. For the past two decades, there has been a strong influence from the European Union (EU) legal system, Malta being the smallest among the EU Member States. Reference is also made to how the Maltese legal system adapted itself to its ‘marriage’ with the EU legal order and how Malta reconciled the Westminster model of parliamentary supremacy with constitutional supremacy and later with EU law supremacy.
Pelayanan di BBPJN Sumut dengan Metode Naive Bayes
Authors: Lestari Reni , Elfiandani Nasution Syahira
Published: January 2023

SIPINTER (Sistem Pelayanan Informasi Publik Terintegretasi) adalah aplikasi pelayanan terpadu secara online BBPJN Sumatra Utara merupakan inovasi layanan publik Balai Besar Pelaksanaan Jalan Nasional Sumatra Utara meliputi; Layanan Perizinan, Layanan Sewa Peralatan BMN, Layanan Lab. Pengujian Bahan Kontruksi dan Layanan Pelaksanaan Komunikasi Publik (PIP dan Dumas). Aplikasi  SIPINTER adalah upaya pemerintah Sumatra Utara memudahkan masyarakatnya melakukan proses perizinan, dispensasi dan rekomendasi pemanfaatan bagian-bagian jalan di BBPJN Sumatra Utara tanpa perlu datang langsung untuk mengajukan permohonan jutru mengaksesnya secara online melalui PC atau komputer dan smartphone.  Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui bagaimana perancangan aplikasi SIPINTER dapat meningkatkan pelayanan BPPJN di wilayah sumatra Utara. Dalam penelitian ini menggunakan metode penelitian Kualitatif dengan pendekatan deksripsi analisis. Dalam penggunaan aplikasi SIPINTER menunjukkan keterbatasan dalam menguasai teknologi sehingga masyarakat pun harus menyelesaikan permasalahan tersebut melalui online. Dalam rangka mendorong terciptanya akuntabilitas kinerja instansi pemerintah sebagai salah satu prasyarat untuk terciptanya pemerintah yang baik dan terpercaya, diperlukan penyelenggaraan Sistem Akuntabilitas Kinerja Instansi Pemerintah (SAKIP) yang mengintegrasikan dari sistem perencanaan, pemrograman, penganggaran, serta pelaksanaan program dan kegiatan yang kemudian dituangkan dalam laporan kinerja instansi pemerintah. Sehingga pada pengaplikasian aplikasi SIPINTER BPPJN pada masyarakat Sumatra Utara perlu ditingkatkan.

Kata kunci: Aplikasi SIPINTER, Online, BBPJN
Using Writeabout as a Tool for Online Writing and Feedback
Authors:   Walailak University, Thailand, Waluyo Budi , Apridayani Aisah ,   Walailak University, Thailand, Arsyad Safnil ,   Bengkulu University, Indonesia
Published: January 2023

Writeabout is a web-based application specialized in writing that enables the implementation of synchronous and asynchronous formative writing tasks and the provision of written and oral feedback. Nonetheless, empirical research on the effects of this software on students' learning outcomes is extremely scarce. Thus, this study designed an English course incorporating formative online writing tasks and feedback mediated by Writeabout for 933 non-English major students (77.6% female, 22.4% male) at one autonomous university in southern Thailand. The pre- and posttest writing scores of students were compared, and a significant difference was noticed (t (932) = 38.49, p <.001). Formative online writing activities were found to predict students' accomplishments on the posttest writing (F (932) = 11.03, p <.001). Female and male students would receive similar learning outcomes in this case, but their proficiency levels would result in variances. The current study advances our understanding of how incorporating an online application may benefit EFL students.
Analisis Dan Perancangan Jaringan Local Area Network Pada Lab Komputer di SMK Negeri 5 Kota Serang
Authors: Julandra Bayu Prasetya , Putri Putri , Mabruri Ali
Published: January 2023

Currently technology is developing rapidly and has begun to enter into all aspects of the field, one of which is the development of network technology in the field of education. However, not all of these network technology developments have been implemented in SMK Negeri 5 Serang City, so that problems arise in the laboratory environment about how to analyze and utilize network technology to assist the teaching and learning process in the laboratory room. Network technology that will be applied later can assist in sharing data or devices in one laboratory room. Therefore, the author provides a solution by analyzing the need to design a local area network using a star topology. For the design of the local area network, this is only a design of the shape of the room with the number of computers that have been connected to the network. Where the results obtained from this research are in the form of analysis and design of local area networks in the laboratory of SMK Negeri 5 Serang City which can later be implemented further so that they can be applied in assisting the teaching and learning process in the laboratory space of SMK Negeri 5 Serang City
Anticancer activity and therapeutic uses of catechins on breast, prostate and lung cancer: Future perspective and clinical proofs
Authors:   Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Rajshahi-6205, Bhuiyan Md. Rokibul Hasan , Mamun Abdullah Al ,   Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Hajee Mohammed Danesh Science and Technology, Dinajpur-5200, Bangladesh., Sharker Bishal ,   Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Hajee Mohammed Danesh Science and Technology, Dinajpur-5200, Bangladesh., Jaman Md.Sadikuj ,   Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Rajshahi-6205
Published: January 2023

Breast, Lung and Prostate cancer are Leading Environmental issue among of them Breast cancer is the most prevalent cancer in the world and the second leading cause of cancer related mortality among women. These all cancer treatment options include surgery, chemotherapy, hormone therapy and radiation. However adverse effect from chemotherapy, hormone therapy and radiation are frequently reported and multidrug resistance, recurrence and the absence of treatment for metastasis are the main issue with breast, lung and prostate cancer treatment. Due to safe nature, dietary phytochemicals have recently become effective tools for the treatment and prevention of cancer. Catechins which are included in many commonly consumed fruits and vegetables, have been demonstrated to reduce breast, lung and prostate cancer cell growth and triggered apoptosis. In this review the anticancer characters and therapeutic uses of catechins are presented for breast, prostate and lung cancer cell line.