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Association between Body Mass Index (BMI) and the Incidence of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD)
Authors: Villarsi Devinda , Sungkar Taufik
Published: February 2024

Background: The prevalence of obesity among the population has risen dramatically due to a sedentary lifestyle. Obesity is a risk factor for the incidence of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and the prevalence of NAFLD rises to 90% in obese. NAFLD is a clinically silent disease that has become one of the most common causes of liver disease worldwide also due to multiple extrahepatic complications or comorbidities. This study aims to find the association between the Body mass index (BMI) and the incidence of NAFLD. Method: This analytic study with a cross-sectional design was conducted on the 3rd of July 2022 in Boho Village, Samosir District of North Sumatra. The participants were based on a simple random sampling that meets the criteria of inclusion. BMI was calculated as weight in kilograms divided by the square of height in meters (kg/m2), meanwhile, we performed an abdominal ultrasound to diagnose NAFLD. Statistical analyses were performed using SPSS and using Chi-Square test to see the association between BMI and the incidence of NAFLD. Result: Among of 48 participants, most of them were fatty liver grade 1 (31.25%), and Overweight/Obese (62.5%). The incidence of NAFLD is more prevalent in obese than non-obese participants (p = 0.0001). Conclusion: The most of participants were fatty liver grade 1 (31.25%), and Overweight/Obese (62.5%). There was a significant association between BMI and the incidence of NAFLD
Structure, Composition, Carbon Stocks of Dipterocarpaceae in West Batang Toru Forest Block, North Tapanuli Regency, North Sumatra
Authors: Pratiwi Suci , Pasaribu Nursahara , Julius Paolo Siregar
Published: February 2024

The West Batang Toru Forest Block in the North Tapanuli Regency, North Sumatra, is one of the lowland forests in Sumatra with a variety of plant communities and populations that have not been fully documented. This area is considered a potential high-value carbon reserve of ecological significance. The purpose of the study was to determine the structure and composition of the Dipterocarpaceae at the West Batang Toru Forest Block. This research was conducted from September 2021 to March 2022. The research location was determined by using the purposive sampling method with a transect length of 300 m. Each lane had plots of 20 × 20 m measured in a zigzag position and had an interval of 10 meters. The number of plots in each lane was 10, for a total of 90 plots. Based on the observations, there were nine species of Dipterocarpaceae obtained from a total of 621 individuals. The basal area ranged from 578.02 cm2/Ha to 397,894.43 cm2/Ha, and the largest basal area was at the tree level. The vegetation composition ranged from 60% to 66%, and the highest composition was at tree level. Sixty-two trees were classified as having the largest basal area, followed by poles (42 individuals) and saplings (64 individuals). Shorea platyclados occurred consistently with a compositional percentage value at the tree level with a value of 66%, the pole level of 53%, the sapling rate of 34%, and the seedling level of 9%. The carbon stocks from Dipterocarpaceae stands were 91534 tons/ha, which is the first estimate of their ecological importance
МЕТОДИ ТА ПІДХОДИ ДО ВИКОРИСТАННЯ ВІДЕОКОНТЕНТУ В СОЦІАЛЬНИХ МЕДІА
Authors: Довбуш О.С.
Published: February 2024

У статті досліджено можливості відеоконтенту виступати в якості дієвого інструменту комунікацій- ної політики підприємства. Акцент зроблено на особливостях відеомаркетингу у соціальних мережах. Адже, враховуючи війну, яку розв’язала Росія на території України, більшість брендів з метою мінімізації витрат та можливого соціального резонансу, переспрямували свою рекламну активність саме до соціальних медіа. У статті розглянуті основні вимоги до відеореклами в соціальних мережах. Доведено, що враховуючи той факт, що користувачі стають більш лінивими, що пояснюється роками карантинних обмежень, актуалізацією онлайн сфери та розвитком технологій, вони намагаються максимально заощаджувати час, ‒ тому необхідно вміти привертати увагу за лічені секунди. Тому відеомаркетинг є перспективним інструментом, який може забезпе- чити ефективне просування. Автором запропоновано класифікацію підходів до створення рекламних відео для соціальних медіа, заснована на власному професійному досвіді та результатах досліджень рекламного контенту на платформах YouTube, Instagram та TikTok.
ОСОБЛИВОСТІ ФРАЗЕОЛОГІЧНИХ ОДИНИЦЬ У МЕДІЙНОМУ ПРОСТОРІ (НА ОСНОВІ АМЕРИКАНСЬКИХ СЕРІАЛІВ)
Authors: Бровкіна Оксана Володимирівна , Кондратенко Катерина Віталіївна
Published: February 2024

У статті окреслено особливості вживання фразеологічних одиниць у медіадискурсу на основі американських серіалів. Поняття дискурсу є ключовим у поданому дослідженні, оскільки воно охоплює лінгвістичні й екстралінгвістичні аспекти, які надають можливість чітко розкрити сутність і специфіку серіального явища як форми комунікації. Розглядаються особливості медіадискурсу та його вплив на суспільство. Також досліджуються лексико-семантичні та дискурсивно-прагматичні особливості англомовних фразеологізмів у серіалах. Ретельний розбір лексично-семантичних компонентів фразеологічних одиниць дає змогу зрозуміти не лише їхнє пряме значення, але й відтінки, які вони надають мовленню персонажів серіалів. Фразеологічні одиниці слугують для заповнення прогалин у лексичному складі мови, часто виступаючи єдиними виразами для опису ознак, станів і дій. Їхнє призначення полягає в тому, щоб пом’якшувати конфлікти, що виникають між когнітивними потребами й обмеженим лексичним складом мови. Наведені в роботі приклади вживання фразеологічних виразів сприяють більш глибокому контекстуальному аналізу, розкриваючи ефективність їх використання в передачі нюансів і тонкощів комунікативних ситуацій. Це дослідження поглиблює розуміння того, як фразеологізми стають не тільки засобом вираження, але й ключовими елементами культурного коду, вбудованими у структуру серіалів. Подана наукова праця виявляє важливі зв’язки між вживанням фразеологічних одиниць і сприйняттям контенту серіалів, поглиблюючи розуміння того, як вони впливають на аудиторію та формують культуру нації. Аналізуючи фразеологію у медіадискурсі, стаття вносить важливий внесок у лінгвістичні та культурологічні дослідження, розширює розуміння взаємодії мови, культури й сучасного медійного простору. Подане дослідження сприяє глибшому розумінню взаємодії мовленнєвих елементів із контекстом культурного та медійного середовища. Отримані результати можуть слугувати основою для подальших робіт у галузі медійної лінгвістики, спрямованих на розвиток нових методологій і теорій.
Reflexiones sobre el indicador de productividad material a nivel regional
Authors: Larrea Basterra Macarena
Published: February 2024

La productividad material (PM) relaciona parámetros económicos con el uso eficiente de las materias primas en una economía. En este trabajo se realizó una estimación de la PM para evaluar su idoneidad como indicador en un análisis sectorial. Los resultados empujan a buscar otra manera de evaluar la eficiencia económica en el uso de materiales de los distintos sectores económicos.
‘The Innocence Project’ – An Online Exhibition and Archive on Children and Comics in the 1940s and 1950s
Authors: O'Malley Andrew
Published: February 2024

The 1940s and 1950s saw a widespread outcry over children's reading of comic books, most pronouncedly the often violent, gory and erotic crime and horror genres. Concern and outrage over the assumed effects of the ubiquitous magazines on young minds was expressed in a deluge of newspaper editorials, magazine articles, professional and academic journals, and elsewhere. A grassroots movement to restrict children's access to comics led to a Senate Subcommittee hearing in the US investigating links to juvenile delinquency and to legislation in several countries prohibiting the sale of certain comics to minors. Using Omeka publishing and exhibition software, this digital humanities project takes the form of an online exhibition and digital archive and considers the ways in which the comics crisis was structured around the idea of childhood innocence
’Crusoe at Home:’ Coding Domesticity in Children’s Editions of Robinson Crusoe
Authors: O'Malley Andrew
Published: February 2024

[para. 1]: "This essay has emerged from a reconsideration of Robinson Crusoe through the ideological lens of domesticity. Recent scholarship on Defoe’s novel has tended to emphasise its articulations of colonialist, bourgeois individualist, and proto- capitalist ideologies. Coming from decidedly different critical perspectives, Pat Rogers and Nancy Armstrong have both rightly drawn attention to the generally overlooked, or at least underconsidered. importance of the domestic both within the novel itself and in the didactic functions the novel has been deemed most suited to serving. Arguing against the increasingly popular reading of Robinson Crusoe as narrative of imperialist ambition and colonial expansion, Pat Rogers emphasises what should seem quite obvious: the novel spends more time accounting for Crusoe’s day-to-day household duties than it does anything else. Rogers is half right, however. Robinson Crusoe is about making a comfortable nest, but it is still also about colonial adventure. In her brief remarks on Defoe’s novel in Desire and Domestic Fiction, Armstrong remarks that it was, in the very late eighteenth century. considered by such pedagogical experts as Maria Edgeworth better suited to girls’ than to boys’ reading. This evaluation of Robinson Crusoe was based precisely on the anticipated effect its attention to the minutiae of homemaking and domestic comforts might have on young female readers. At the same time, Edgeworth worried about the potentially dangerous wanderlust, with its attendant shirking of domestic responsibility, that Crusoe might inspire in boys."
The Coach and Six: Chapbook Residue in Late Eighteenth-Century Children’s Literature
Authors: O'Malley Andrew
Published: February 2024

 [para. 1]: "The predominantly didactic form of the children's book characteristic of the rational and evangelical writing movements of the late eighteenth century did not, of course, appear on the market fully formed. Predating, and, indeed, eventually coexisting with, the rational diversions and evangelical children's books by such authors as Maria Edgeworth, Thomas Day, Sarah Trimmer, and Dorothy Kilner that flooded the English market in the last two decades of the eighteenth century were scores of what I have dubbed "transitional" or "hybrid" books. These books, while acknowledging the trend toward inculcating middle-class values and ideology in young readers, still clung to earlier chapbook forms and themes. The survival of such chapbook elements in a middle-class pedagogical environment that was growing increasingly hostile to plebeian influences raises issues of class relations and the cultural production of class. To demonstrate the ubiquity of these transitional books in the late eighteenth century, this article will survey not only such well-known early children's books as A Little Pretty Pocket Book (1744), and The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes (1766), but also such works as The Friends; or the History of Billy Freeman and Tommy Truelove (c. 1787), and Nurse Dandlem's Little Repository of Great Instruction (c. 1784), which have received little or no critical attention."
Children's Literature
Authors: O'Malley Andrew
Published: February 2024

[para. 1]: "Discussions of eighteenth-century children's literature tend often to coincide with debates over the origins of the genre, since many critics and historians have asserted that this century - notably its second half - saw the emergence of a new species of writing directed specificially at child readers. Just what scholars mean by the seemingly intuitive label "children's literature" remains an open, perhaps unresolvable, problems: does the term designate, simply, those texts to which children have had access historically? Should it be more narrowly construed to include only those text expressly written with a juvenile readership in mind? Or, even more narrowly, does the term only properly refer to those books written for the purposes of entertaining and pleasing young readers? The definition under which scholars operate will go some way to determining where and when they locate the origins of this particular literary species."
Children, Poetry, and the Eighteenth-Century School Anthology
Authors: O'Malley Andrew
Published: February 2024

[para. 1]: "Those who have applied themselves to the study of poetry written for children often remark on the relative scarcity of scholarship in the ﬁeld, compared to the number of studies written about prose works for children. Nowhere is this discrepancy more pronounced than in the analysis of children’s literature of the eighteenth century. Donelle Ruwe observes that“[m]ost scholars know very little about early children’s poetry and its origins in the long eighteenth century, and standard anthologies of British literature truncate the history of the genre so dramatically that we are left with only two titles, Watts’s Divine Songs (1715) and Blake’s Songs of Innocence (1789). We then skip over the children’s poets of the Romantic era altogether and move straight to the Victorians Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, and Robert Louis Stevenson” (2). Ruwe’s excellent study concerns itself primarily with the second of the two gaps she notes (Romantic-era children’s poetry); but one might also wonder about the ﬁrst – the period between Watts and Blake. The dearth of scholarship on eighteenth-century children’s poetry is due in no small part to the relative lack of original children’s poetry published in the period. While “children in early modern Britain” may indeed have been, as Matthew Grenby claims, “immersed in a culture of verse” (116), much of it was not what might nowadays be called “children’s poetry”: verse designed for young readers seen as needing their own thematically and stylistically specialised poetics. Along with such devotional forms as hymns, children had access to (often in oral form) the popular songs, ballads, and riddles adults enjoyed, too. A poetry for children, operating as its own genre and occupying a speciﬁc place in the print market for a young readership, only really began to crystallise with the publication in 1804 of the Taylor sisters’ Original Poems for Infant Minds: as Ruwe notes, after “1804, the ﬂoodgates opened. In the ﬁrst decade of the nineteenth century alone, more than ﬁfty collections of original, non-hymn children’s poetry on serious subjects appeared, in contrast to the handful of volumes in the previous century” (Ruwe 3)."
VIII Congresso de Ortopedia e Medicina Esportiva da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora
Authors: Santana Vitor Franco de , Areias Pedro Castro , Guimarães Ana Beatriz Maia de Almeida , Leal Isadora de Cássia Oliveira , Lobato Matheus Azevedo , Gamonal João Vitor Santos , Teixeira Henrique Correa , Silva Henrique Tadeu Resende
Published: February 2024

Resumos do VIII Congresso de Ortopedia e Medicina Esportiva da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF) e do IV Congresso Multidisciplinar de Ciências do Esporte, 5 e 6 de outubro de 2023, Juiz de Fora, MG, Brasil
Establishing the influence of the quarry depth on the indicators of cyclic flow technology during the development of non-ore deposits
Authors: Sobko B. Yu , Lozhnikov O. V , Chebanov M. O , Kriachek V. P
Published: February 2024

Purpose. To determine the efficiency of the cyclic flow technology at the development of non-ore deposits depending on the location of haulage level, mobile crushing and sorting plants with variable productivity of the enterprise. Methodology. The research implemented the following methods: analytical method – to establish the dependence of the required number of dump trucks at the enterprise on the depth of non-ore quarry development at a given annual productivity; simulation modelling – to determine the influence of the mining depth of a non-ore quarry on the haulage distance of mining mass to the surface of the quarry. Findings. The performance indicators of the haulage system for the development of a non-ore quarry using dump trucks and conveyor transport in combination with a mobile crushing complex, as well as a mobile crushing and sorting plant on the haulage level, were determined. It was established that the use of cyclic flow technology with a mobile crushing complex on the haulage level allows reducing the haulage distance by 1.9 times at a quarry depth of 150 m. Originality. The dependence of the dump trucks productivity and their required number on the depth and production capacity of a non-ore quarry when using the haulage mining system was established. It was determined that an increase in the quarry depth from 50 to 150 m will lead to an increase in the number of dump trucks by 2.6 to 3.6 times, depending on the quarry productivity. At the same time, the use of cyclic flow technology with a mobile crushing complex in the quarry allows increasing the productivity of dump trucks by 2.1 times from 94.1 to 197.6 thousand tons/year due to the reduction of the haulage distance of dump trucks from 2525 to 575 m. Practical value. A methodology for determining the impact of the quarry depth on the parameters of the mining haulage complex has been developed when using the technique of cyclic and current action on non-ore raw material quarries, which takes into account the location of the mobile crushing and sorting plant, changes in the depth and annual productivity of the quarry, its area and parameters of the trenches. The indicators of the cyclical-flow mining technology, necessary for the further technical and economic assessment of the proposed solutions, have been established.
Improvement of the methodology for calculating the expected drilling speed with PDC chisels
Authors: Ratov B. T , Sudakov A. K , Fedorov B. V , Ruslyakova-Kupriyanova I. A , Sundetova P. S
Published: February 2024

Purpose. Determination of the dependence of the depth of penetration of the PDC cutter into the bottom hole rock, taking into account its geometric parameters and spatial placement in relation to the destroyed array. Methodology. The tasks were solved by a comprehensive research method, including analysis and generalization of literary and patent sources, conducting theoretical research, which consists in solving the theoretical problem of the impact of a superhard circular cutter on an elastically fragile mountain range, using computer and mathematical modeling methods. Findings. A simplified expression has been obtained that allows taking into account the features of the PDC cutter with sufficient accuracy for engineering calculations when determining the depth of its penetration into the bottom hole rock. A method is proposed for calculating the depth of fracture in one revolution of a diamond carbide cutter PDC into the rock of the bottom of the well. The patterns of destruction by the proposed diamond-hard-alloy PDC chisel of a rock mass at the bottom of the well from the parameters of the drilling regime and the hardness of the drilled rocks have been established. Originality. For the first time, the dependence has been obtained of the influence of the geometric parameters of the shape of a single diamond-carbide PDC cutter and its spatial placement in the body of the bit matrix on the magnitude of the technological parameters of drilling a well, and their effect on the nature of the destruction of the array PDC cutter. Practical value. A technique for determining the depth of penetration of a single PDC cutter is proposed, the use of which will allow predicting the mechanical speed, depending on the geological and technical conditions of drilling wells. And taking into account the abrasive properties of rocks, it is possible to reduce the wear of the bits, and therefore the amount of necessary rock-crushing tools for the entire volume of drilling operations during the construction of the well.
Influence of ice structure on vitability of frozen sand-water and sand-clay mixtures
Authors: Solonenko L. I , Uzlov K. I , Kimstach T. V , Mianovska Ya. V , Yakymenko D. Yu
Published: February 2024

Purpose. To establish influence regularity of sand, water and clay preparation conditions on vitability of frozen mixtures made from combinations of these components and to increase the castings quality in foundries, as well as to improve technologies for artificial freezing of soils for underground constructions. Methodology. In this research, sand, clay, and water are used. Ice quality is estimated visually after water freezing at -15 °C in glass tubes. Frozen mixtures’ vitability at -15 °C is studied on beam-type samples. As indicators of survivability, the time to 1 mm bending of samples on supports and the time to their destruction are accepted. The time is recorded with a stopwatch, the temperature with an alcohol thermometer, the mass with electronic scales and the deflection arrow with a clock-type indicator. Findings. The presence and amount of water-soluble impurities in rare water significantly influence the nature, size and distribution of gas bubbles in ice, as well as frozen sand-water mixtures vitability. Frozen mixtures’ survivability increases with water content in them increasing, and, for sand  water mixtures, survivability is maximum if ice has a homogeneous structure. Among mixtures with clays, the mixture with non-swollen kaolin clay has the greatest vitability. Regarding survivability, recommendations for manufacturing products from frozen foundry mixtures have been developed. Originality. For the first time, deformation change kinetics (bending arrows) under the influence of beam-type samples’ self-mass from mixtures of quartz sand and water and quartz sand, clay and water frozen at -15 °C, which have been previously prepared in different ways, have been investigated. Insights into the influence of various factors and ice quality on the vitability of frozen mixtures have been further developed. Practical value. The obtained results can be useful for expanding ideas about natural frozen soils’ behavior during their cyclic temperature changes, soils artificially frozen during mine shafts elaboration, escalators’ and junctions’ tunnels, etc. when constructing subways. In foundries, the developed recommendations will reduce technological losses and will improve casting quality made using frozen casting molds and cores from sand-water or sand-clay-water mixtures, castings’ patterns and their pouring systems from sand-water mixtures.
Advantages of using CONCRETE CANVAS materials in railway track construction
Authors: Eller B , Szalai S , Sysyn M , Harrach D , Liu J
Published: February 2024

Purpose. Justification of the feasibility of using new types of drainage materials, such as Concrete Canvas (CC), under the upper structure of the railway permanent way. Methodology. The tasks were solved by a complex research method, including analysis and generalization of literary and patent sources, analytical, experimental studies, using computer and mathematical modeling methods. Tests were conducted with and without the CC layer in a multi-level shear box. After the shear test, the specimens were also tested for load-bearing capa­city (E2, according to the Hungarian standard) and particle breakage. The contact surface between the bottom of the ballast and the CC was measured using a precision 3D laser scanner (GOM ATOS) and visualized graphically using AutoCAD software. Findings. Experimental testing of the vertical load during connection and analysis compared with the test results of geocomposite/geogrid structures, internal shear resistance, and other parameters proved the structure’s higher load-bearing capacity with the CC layer. Based on the results, the Concrete Canvas structure provides higher reinforcement than the average geogrid type. Originality. The advantages of using new Concrete Canvas materials in the structure of a railway track have been demonstrated for the first time to provide greater internal shear resistance than the average for geogrids. Practical value. These results may provide primary data for using Concrete Canvas in railway tracks and superstructures in the future.
Mengembangkan Aplikasi E- Voting Untuk Pemilihan Danmen dan Wadanmen Pada SMK Penerbangan PBD
Authors: Leman Dedi , Edy Victor Haryanto  , Noprita Elisabeth S
Published: February 2024

E-Voting adalah metode pemilihan kandidat secara online atau digital, metode ini memudahkan user dalam melakukan pemilihan karena tidak membutuhkan kertas sehingga menjadi efisien dan praktis. SMK Penerbangan PBD salah satu instansi yang bergerak dibidang pendidikan di mana di dalamnya terdapat berbagai oranisasi yang terdaftar termasuk organisasi himpunan yang setiap tahun pergantian taruna/taruni baru akan dilakukan pemilihan Danmen dan Wadanmen masing-masing dari himpunan. Tujuannya yaitu merancang dan membanguan sistem pemilihan Danmen dan Wadanmen pada SMK Penerbangan PBD dengan menggunakan e-voting berbasis android. Adapun manfaatnya yaitu mendapatkan pemahaman tentang implementasi ataspemilihan ke dalam aplikasi elektronik e-voting, menambah pemanfaatan teknologi informasi dan komunikasi di universitas. Teknik pengumpulan data menggunakan observasi, interview serta menggunakan metode pengembangan Extreme Programming. Hasil yang dicapai dari penelitian ini adalah adanya pemanfaatan teknologi yang mempermudah dalam perhitungan pemilihan Danmen dan Wadanmen himpunan. Selain itu e-voting juga dapat melihatsecara langsung profil calon kandidat Danmen dan Wadanmen dan visi misi dari calon tersebut,sehingga semua proses pemilihanmenjadilebih efektif.
Feminist Ethnographic Case Study: Financial/Emotional Stressors of Parenting Trans-Children
Authors: Siebler Kay
Published: February 2024

When a child resists gender socialization, many parents struggle to understand the path forward. Even supportive parents trying to help a gender-nonconforming child navigate a gendered world experience stress. These stressors are extended to the family. Through their attempts to navigate support for their gender-nonconforming children, parents are often without support or assistance when faced with systems of institutional power such as education, medicine, and government. This case study examines the complexities of being a supportive parent of a trans-identified child and the emotional, physical, and financial stress on the parent/family, using a feminist ethnographic approach. This case study of Jen[1], a mother of four children including Evan who is a 15-year-old trans boy, attempts to offer the important perspective to educators, administrators, and health care providers. Through reading Jen’s narrative, power brokers and gatekeepers within the medical and educational systems (teachers, administrators, doctors, and other health care providers) can gain some empathetic insight to assist parents.
Development of the head collar and collar spines during the larval stages of Isthmiophora hortensis (Digenea: Echinostomatidae)
Authors: Sohn Woon-Mok , Jung Won-Jae , Shin Eun-Hee , Chai Jong-Yil
Published: February 2024

It is uncertain when the head collar and collar spines of Isthmiophora hortensis (Digenea: Echinostomatidae), a zoonotic echinostome species in Far Eastern Asia, develop during its larval stages. In this study, the appearance of the head collar and collar spines was studied using light and scanning electron microscopy in cercariae and metacercariae experimentally obtained from freshwater snails (Lymnaea pervia) and tadpoles (Rana nigromaculata), respectively. The cercariae were shed from the snail on day 30 after exposure to laboratory-hatched miracidia. Metacercariae were obtained from the experimental tadpoles at 3, 6, 12, 15, 20, 24, 26, and 30 h after exposure to the cercariae. The head collar was already visible in the cercarial stage, although its degree of development was weak. However, collar spines did not appear in the cercarial stage and even in the early metacercarial stage less than 24 h postinfection in tadpoles. Collar spines became visible in the metacercariae when they grew older than 24 h. It was concluded that the head collar of I. hortensis developed early in the cercarial stage, but the development of collar spines did not occur until the worms became 24-h-old metacercariae in our experimental setting. Counting the number of collar spines was concluded as an unfeasible diagnostic method for I. hortensis cercariae when they are shed from the snail host.
LITERARY REPRESENTATION OF THE MEMORY OF WAR IN THE SHORT PROSE BY OLES HONCHAR
Authors: Приліпко Ірина
Published: February 2024

The paper examines the specifics of the literary expression of war memories in small epic forms by O. Honchar. The literary representation of the wartime past determines the actualization of autobiographical factors and deepens the psychologization of the image. It also shapes the peculiarities of the time-space and narrative organization of the works.

Referring to the past causes modifications of the chronotope: the war is integrated into the present of the author and his interlocutors. It appears through the prism of the perception of participants and eyewitnesses, seemingly relived here and now. The representation of the past in new temporal coordinates determines its understanding from the distance of time and reinterpretation of the experience on the worldview and philosophical plane. The traumatic impact of war in the stories of O. Honchar is most often revealed through moral and ethical issues, such as the behavior and choice of a person in a borderline situation. Therefore, in the space of memories of the war, which are always alive and relevant for the author and his heroes, the theme “man and war” plays a key role. The problem of preserving moral and ethical values in the extreme conditions of war (“From Those Nights,” “March Mud,” “Always Soldiers”) is closely related to issues of individual self-realization, choice, and sacrifice (“Ode to the House in the Snow,” “Woman in Gray,” “Bondarivna”). In the stories by O. Honchar, the memory of the war is represented in various forms of the heroes’ reminiscences of their experiences, embodied in specific, generalized images (breadcrumbs, March mud, place of arms).

The individual and collective memories of the war take shape as heroes verbalize their wartime past. This process helps them to overcome the trauma. As the heroes-narrators of Honchar’s stories return through memories to the space-time of the war, they relive the traumas of the past, consciously or subconsciously attempting to release and, consequently, overcome them.
Az életmódi és gyógyszeres testsúlycsökkentés újabb eredményei
Authors: Bajnok László
Published: February 2024

A különböző fogyókúrás étrendek rövid távú hatásai között nincs meggyőző alapvető különbség – nincs csodamódszer, hosszú távon pedig mindegyik mellett általános a visszahízás (annál nagyobb mértékű, minél több volt a csökkenés), így a rászorultak többségének egyik sem érdemi hatású (–10% / 2 év viszonylatában). Csak az étrendi módszerek egy részének a biztonságossága tisztázott. Bár a mediterrán diéta a legelfogadottabb (tágabb összefüggésben a Magyar Dietetikusok Országos Szövetsége által hazai viszonyokra kidolgozott Okos - tányér is), de lehet előnye az időszakos éhezésnek, például az időkorlátos étkezésnek. Jogos volna a páciens preferenciájának nagyobb jelentőséget adni a(z ismételt) dietetikai meg beszélés(ek) során (de ki közvetítse ezeket hitelesen?). A táplálkozásterápia alapvetően igényli/igényelné a súlyfelesleg gyógyszeres kezelését, ami segíti/segítené az obezitológia felnőtté válását is. A metabolikus medicinában az enterohormonok, első helyen a glucagon-like peptide-1- receptor-agonisták (GLP-1 RA) új fejezetet nyitottak az orvoslás történetében. Ezen gyógyszercsalád újabb, hatékonyabb módozatai a rászorultak nagyobb részének elérhetővé teszik a legalább 10%-os súlycsökkenést addig, amíg az alkalmazásuk folytatódik; ennek cardiovascularis előnye is igazolt.
Analysis of the global eSports market: value chain, business models and developments
Authors: Nufer Prof. Dr. Gerd , Gröber Nicolas
Published: February 2024

This paper aims to provide support in understanding the current difficulties in the eSports industry. It outlines the various players active in the eSports ecosystem and how they benefit from the success of eSports: Sponsors present themselves to an attractive target group, publishers promote more intensive use of their video game and broadcasting platforms receive professionally organized content for distribution to a growing audience. Only teams and organizers have so far concentrated solely on generating revenue through the practice or organization of eSports competitions. Driven by profitability weaknesses, however, they are trying to reduce their dependence on sponsorship and tap into new sources of income. Team organizations in particular tend to see opportunities for this outside of the original eSports business and are therefore increasingly developing into marketing and entertainment companies.
Into the Cold War: Checkpoint Rabbie (1948–1959)
Authors: Malgrati Paul
Published: February 2024

This chapter analyses the reception of Burns’s legacy during the Cold War, at a time when the Soviet Union attempted to claim Scotland’s poet as part of the Communist pantheon. Whilst tension grew, in Scotland, between revolutionary Burnsians, including the author James Barke, and the centre-left leaders of the Burns Federation, Soviet interference became particularly insistent in the run up to the poet’s Bicentenary celebrations in 1959. Certainly, such uses of Burns increased the poet’s international profile, but they further undermined unionist attempts to bolster Burns’s British image in post-imperial era. By the end of the decade, following the combined effects of Cold War and Decolonisation, it became increasingly clear that Burns’s ambiguous legacy could pave other ways than those of Union and Empire.
Rabbie for Yes? (2000–2014)
Authors: Malgrati Paul
Published: February 2024

This chapter studies the reception of Burns in the early twenty-first century. It begins with a study of the political consensus about Burns, evident across the benches of the Scottish Parliament in the years following its inauguration. Such cross-party unity, I argue, allowed the poet’s memory to become a significant object of Scotland’s devolved cultural policies. From the organisation of the 2009 ‘Year of Homecoming’, launched on Burns’s 250th anniversary, to the creation of a brand-new museum at Burns’s birthplace in 2011, Scottish government interventions throughout the 2000s broke with the tradition of laissez-faire regarding Burns’s memory-making. Yet post-devolution unity rapidly faded after Alex Salmond and the SNP won an absolute majority at the 2011 Scottish election, thus paving the way for a referendum on Scottish independence in September 2014. Relying on a broad range of primary sources, including interviews and social media archives of both the ‘Yes’ and ‘No’ Campaigns, this section demonstrates how the poet’s patriotic image, once a totem of devolution, became a divisive touchstone when debating Scotland’s independent future.
ANALISIS PORTOFOLIO OPTIMUM MENGGUNAKAN METODE SIMULASI MONTE CARLO PADA SEPULUH SAHAM LQ45 TERBAIK DI INDONESIA
Authors: Herlisa  , Arman  , Saidi La Ode , La Gubu  , Jufra  , Ruslan
Published: February 2024

Pada penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui hasil analisis risiko dan penerapan portofolio optimum menggunakan Metode Simulasi Monte Carlo pada sepuluh saham LQ45 terbaik di Indonesia. Objek pada penelitian ini adalah sepuluh saham LQ45 periode Februari-Juli 2021. Peneliti tertarik mengambil penelitian ini karena ingin mengembangkan kembali penelitian sebelumnya dan menyelesaikan permasalahan yang ada misalnya investor kesulitan dalam memilih portofolio optimum yang nantinya akan dilakukan investasi dan meminimalisir risiko yang ada. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan dari penerapan portofolio optimum menggunakan Metode Simulasi Monte Carlo pada sepuluh saham LQ45 terbaik di Indonesia pada periode Februari-Juli 2021 terletak pada saham UNVR sebesar 90%, saham BCA sebesar 77,99%, saham JSMR sebesar 32,53%, saham PGAS sebesar 30,77%, saham BRI sebesar 28,62%, dan saham ASII sebesar 10,29%. Hasil analisis menunjukkan dari sepuluh saham ada 6 saham yang dijadikan  sebagai portofolio optimum dan ada 4 saham dengan bobot portofolio yang lebih rendah adalah saham BNI sebesar 10,07%, saham ACES sebesar 7,69%, saham MDKA sebesar 2,01%, dan saham ANTM sebesar 1,03%. Hal ini disebabkan adanya efek diversifikasi antara saham sehingga dapat menurunkan risiko. Efek diversifikasi akan semakin bernilai besar jika korelasi antara saham rendah.
PERHITUNGAN PREMI MENGGUNAKAN METODE ACCRUED BENEFIT COST PADA ASURANSI DANA PENSIUN BERDASARKAN TABEL MORTALITAS (Studi Kasus: Pegawai Negeri Sipil (PNS) Tahun 2021 Berdasarkan PP No 15 Tahun 2019)
Authors: Sarina  , La Ode Saidi  , Aswani  , Somayasa Wayan , Cahyono Edi , La Gubu
Published: February 2024

Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui perhitungan dana pensiun dengan mempertimbangkan aspek suku bunga menggunakan metode accrued benefit cost dan besar biaya tambahan yang akan dibayarkan kepada penerima dana pensiun menggunakan metode accrued benefit cost. Metode accrued benefit cost adalah iuran yang umumnya lebih rendah dibandingkan dengan metode lainnya, dan hutangnya akan konsisten dengan target pengembangan manfaat karena kenaikan gaji yang digunakan dalam perhitungan biaya pensiun adalah sesuai dengan realisasinya. Hasil yang diperoleh pada perhitungan premi menggunakan metode accrued benefit cost yaitu berdasarkan usia masuk kerja (PNS)  tahun, suku bunga (i) sebesar  dengan masa kerja  tahun pada tabel mortalitas Indonesia  untuk laki-laki. Pegawai wajib membayarkan iuran (premi) pada usia  tahun menggunakan metode accrued benefit cost. Besarnya iuran normal terus meningkat seiring dengan bertambahnya usia pegawai. Sedangkan untuk perhitungan besar biaya tambahan dengan menggunakan metode accrued benefit cost diperoleh nilai sebesar Rp.  per tahun berdasarkan pengolahan data yang telah dilakukan, diperoleh besar manfaat pensiun selama  tahun adalah Rp. . sehingga dengan besar biaya tambahan yang diperoleh yaitu Rp. Rp dapat menutupi kekurangan besar manfaat pensiun yang diperoleh oleh peserta dana pensiun yang dapat digunakan untuk kekurangan defisit.
The Effect of Sex Education and Counseling Based on the Ex-PLISSIT Model on Sexual Life in Primigravidas
Authors: Altunbaş Nermin , Gölbaşı Zehra
Published: February 2024

Objective: This study was conducted to determine the effect of sexual education and counseling based on the Ex-PLISSIT model on sexual function, attitudes towards sexuality during pregnancy, sexual distress, and quality of sexual life in primigravidas.
Methods: This study was carried out on 62 primigravidas in a pretest posttest, a quasi-experimental control group. Primigravidas meeting the inclusion criteria were assigned to the groups by simple random sampling method. The intervention group received training and counseling sessions twice. The control group received routine care during the follow-up period. The results were compared with the evaluation forms 10 weeks after each training and counseling session. The forms were administered to the control group at the same time as the intervention group.
Results: The mean scores of the intervention and control groups’ attitude towards sexuality during pregnancy in the second test (95%CI=2.33-19.01; d=0.65, p=.013) and in the posttest (95%CI=2.28-19.34; d=0.64, p=.015) were statistically significantly different. Sexual life quality scale mean scores of the intervention and control groups were statistically significant in the second test (95%CI=8.27-18.54; d=1.33, p=.000) and the posttest (95%CI=12.14-22.01; d=1.76, p=.000) level was different. In addition, the mean scores of the intervention group were higher after sexual education and counseling based on the Ex-PLISSIT model.
Conclusion: In this study, sexual education and counseling based on the Ex-PLISSIT model positively affected primigravida’s attitudes towards sexuality and their quality of sexual life. Therefore, this model can be used as a cost-effective and simple counseling method to improve the sexual life.
DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS IN DETERMINING THE DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS OF BLENDED LEARNING SUCCESS IN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
Authors: Kurniawan Heri , Warsihna Jaka
Published: February 2024

Blended learning has become an increasingly popular approach in the educational field because it combines traditional/conventional learning with digital technology-based learning. However, the success of implementing blended learning in educational institutions can be influenced by various different factors depending on the characteristics of the educational institution. Therefore, this study aims to analyze the differentiating factors that influence the success of blended learning in educational institutions. The discriminant analysis method in this study was used to identify and determine the differentiating factors that distinguished the high success blended learning group from the low success group. Research data was collected from various educational institutions that have implemented blended learning in their curricula. The results of the analysis show that there are several significant differentiating factors between the high and low success groups in applying blended learning. Some of these factors include Implementation Standards and Guidelines, Infrastructure and Technology mastery, Learning Strategy, Human Resources, Learning Content and Learning Environment. This research makes an important contribution to the development of more effective blended learning implementation strategies in educational institutions. By understanding the differentiating factors that influence success, educational institutions can increase their efforts to create a conducive learning environment and improve the quality of student learning outcomes.
Flöden i stadsodlingar : ett konstnärligt och vetenskapligt utforskande av hur näringsämnen rör sig i Linköpings trädgårdar
Authors: Metson Genevieve , Tonderski Karin , Carlsson Elizabeth
Published: February 2024

Denna broschyr har tagits fram i anslutning till en utställning där en forskargrupp samverkar med en konstnär. Den utforskar hur stadsodling kan bidra till hållbara resursflöden och därigenom stödja produktion av livsmedel, rekreation och god vattenkvalitet.
Pautas de crianza y su relación con los problemas de conducta infantil
Authors: Huerta Vargas Rosario , Grimaldo Salazar Edgar , Chavez Soto Blanca Ivet
Published: February 2024

Las actitudes y comportamientos de los padres hacia la crianza de los hijos pueden ser factores de riesgo o de protección e influir en la presencia de problemas de comportamiento en los menores. El objetivo de esta investigación fue identificar la relación entre los problemas de conducta internalizantes y externalizantes con las pautas de crianza referidas por los niños de cuarto a sexto grado de una escuela primaria pública del estado de Tlaxcala. El estudio fue correlacional-transversal, cuantitativo. Con una muestra no probabilística, intencional, conformada por 278 alumnos (Medad 9.54, D.=0.87). Se utilizó el Inventario de Pautas de Crianza y el Cuestionario de Problemas Internalizados y Externalizados para Niños (CPIEN). Para el análisis de los datos se utilizó el SPSS versión 22. Los resultados mostraron correlaciones negativas que van de bajas a moderadas significativas entre la disciplina de apoyo y la conducta disruptiva (r= -.30**), agresiva (r= -.19*), autoagresión (r= -.31**) y depresión (r= -.26**) y positiva con el comportamiento adaptativo (r= .31**). En la disciplina coercitiva hubo una correlación positiva y moderada con depresión (r= .28*). Finalmente, la disciplina indiferente mostró una correlación negativa fuerte con la conducta disruptiva (rs= -.56**) y otra positiva con la conducta adaptativa (rs= .68**). Se concluye que, es fundamental que los padres ejerzan un estilo de crianza de apoyo para favorecer el desarrollo óptimo de sus hijos, así mismo se sugiere tomar en cuenta otros factores relacionados con la familia en próximas investigaciones.
Insight into Covid-19: An Update on Dentistry
Authors: Kurien Vino Tito V , Shamsuddeen Suhana
Published: February 2024

Coronavirus disease 2019, also known as COVID-19, has recently become a worldwide emergency. The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared it a global pandemic. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is found to be the pathogen responsible for this infection.

The spread of COVID-19 has raised major challenges for dentistry and medicine in the affected countries. Direct contact, droplet and aerosol transmissions are the possible routes of transmission of the infection. Many of the dental procedures generate droplets and aerosols resulting in increased risk of transmission of disease.
This review article highlights the COVID-19 pandemic and offers certain guidelines with recommendations on infection control and preventive measures. These measures will help to prevent the spread of the infection and further worsening of the current disease scenario.

KeyWords:Coid-19,Spread,Dentistry
Prevalence of smokeless tobacco use and oral pre-malignant lesions among heavy load truck drivers and general male population in Mumbai, India
Authors: Tungare Sayali , Shirodkar Gautam , Oswal Kunal , Haris Craig , Dhoble Ashok
Published: February 2024

Background:A majority (89 percent, 268.6 million) of smokeless tobacco users are from Southeast Asia, which also has the highest oral cancer rates in the world.One of the highest smokeless tobacco use prevalence and oral cancer incidence is found in India, with India contributing approximately 30% of all new oral cancer cases globally. The aims of this study were to determine the prevalence of smokeless tobacco use and oral pre-malignant lesions among heavy load truck drivers and the general population from Mumbai, India; and to study the association between smokeless tobacco use and oral pre-malignant lesions in this population.

Methods:Secondary data analysis of two datasets – one belonging to truck driver population and the other to general population (obtained from the Indian Dental Association) – was conductedusing appropriate statistical methods.

Results: The prevalence of smokeless tobacco use was 75.3% among truck drivers and 28.3% in the general population. The prevalence of oral pre-malignant lesions in truck drivers was found to be 17.5% and 15.7% in general population. The odds ratio for presence of oral lesions and smokeless tobacco use was 2.84 (95% CI = 0.578 – 27.424, p-value = 0.22) in truck drivers, and 11.7 (95% CI = 4.475 – 32.503, p-value <0.001) in general population.

Conclusions:This study did provide a good insight on the prevalence of smokeless tobacco useand oral lesions among Indian truck drivers.

Keywords:Tobacco, Smokeless; Mouth Neoplasms; Leukoplakia; Diagnosis, Oral; Oral Health