bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Ethnographic Research, Local Power Brokers and the Political Reorganization of Colonial Ewedome, British Mandated Territory, 1914-1930s
Authors: Yayoh Wilson K.
Published: April 2021

Present-day scholars have critically examined the nature and dynamics of indirect rule in Africa and have found it to be riddled with contradictions and ambiguities. Colonial officers were often accused of imposing colonial structures on local people in the name of tradition. Native Authorities (NAs), for instance, were seen as colonial inventions that often lacked real legitimacy. This article, however, extends the counter argument that the colonial state was actually the product of complex local dynamics rather than a straightforward ‘imposition’. This article uses both primary and secondary sources to provide evidence which shows how ethnographic research shaped the British policy of amalgamation in colonial Ewedome and secondly adds to our knowledge on the role of local power brokers in the formulation of colonial policies in Africa.Keywords: Ethnography; Power Brokers; Colonial State; Intermediaries; mediation; legitimacy
The Prophetic Statement in Sophocles’ Oedipus the King and Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart: A Textual Comparison
Authors: Goodhead Dokubo Melford
Published: April 2021

Oedipus the King and Things Fall Apart show fundamental similarities. This essay explores these similarities in an attempt to give more of a formalist interpretation and a somewhat fresh insight into Achebe’s path-breaking novel, anchored on his use of the prophetic statement. In drawing a comparison between the two texts, the paper is not seeking to engage in a “colonialist” or “neo-colonialist” critique. Rather, it employs the formalist approach to read Achebe’s timeless masterpiece beyond its use as an anthropological text in certain quarters of the Western academy in order to situate the novel in the tradition of the best literary writing.Keywords: Formal critique; prophetic statement; fate; agency; proverbs; character; colonialism; cosmopolitanism
African fractals as a tool for transformative education in Africa
Authors: Bembir P
Published: April 2021

Nature is replete with repetitive patterns in diminishing scales. Similarly, cultures produce recursive patterns that characterize their specific social, cultural, economic and political organisation. These self-similar, variously scaled and mostly infinitive patterns are called fractals. The uniqueness of African fractals emanates from the culture of the African peoples. Particular elements of these fractals have contributed immensely in mathematical learning especially in modern computing. This paper contends that the inclusion of African fractal education in curricula at all levels in Africa have the potential to contribute to better understanding of African identity, and promote African centred education that forestalls the alienation of the African from their environment. The paper argues that the teaching of African fractals in Africa is a needed project to facilitate understanding of the intricacies between nature and humans. It should deepen understanding about the concept of embedded humanity expressed in ideas of Ubuntu; and help awaken African consciousness about possibilities beyond empiricism. Recommendations are made on ways to include African fractals in the syllabus in Africa using the Ghana’s pre-tertiary level (Senior High School) as an example.
Towards a Pan African political culture: Critical pedagogy, reparative justice and the end of global white supremacy
Authors: Bunting I
Published: April 2021

This paper is an extension of previous work on African peoples’ experiential knowledge, cognitive interests, contested political and cultural power. African centered critical pedagogy, reparatory justice and Pan African political culture are presented as integral to realizing emancipation from the destruction of imperialist domination. The paper posits that to realize AU Agenda 2063 and the global Pan African aspirations, a Pan African political culture must be inculcated in all institutions of the African world.  Challenges related to the Pan African Movement and realization of the AU Agenda 2063 are noted.  Rather than a consensus of meaning, ideological clarity and strategic purpose, a dissonant cacophony of ideas and agendas proliferate. The paper notes a disconnect between African governments’ state centric approach to Pan Africanism and the endogenous people centric Pan Africanism, and despite recognition of the need for Pan Africanist institutions and policies there is an absence of cohesive and persistent effort, clarity of purpose and sustainable institutional support. It concludes that there is a general consensus that continental political unity, global Pan African solidarity, participatory democracy and non-capitalist people centered economy are fundamental to the Pan African purpose, and global Pan African organization is necessary for African peoples to regain power of political self-determination, overcome impoverishment, racial based oppression and the structural violence of global white supremacy.
Abstracts of the College of Surgeons of East, Central and Southern Africa (COSECSA) 19th Annual General Meeting and International Scientific Conference
Authors: Of Surgeons of East, Central and Southern Africa College
Published: April 2021

Conference Abstracts
Information System for Integrated Medical Records with Access via IOT Technology
Authors:   Center for Engineering, Modeling and Applied Social Sciences (CECS), Federal University of ABC – UFABC, Pereira Daniel Augusto , Muñoz Rodrigo Reina
Published: April 2021

The objective of this project was the development of an information management system for healthcare purpose using cloud computing and IoT technology. The system was designed to receive data coming from medical instruments, as well as documents issued by healthcare professionals and doctor responsible for the care of a patient. For medical consultation, patients must use an identification card that allows access to the corresponding medical history stored in the cloud. This access can be done through an RFID reader, making it possible to consult patient information on a human-machine interface, where new information can also be registered. For the development of the interface, an application for the Android operating system was created, where information can be accessed, and documents can be stored. Storage was implemented on Google's Firebase® platform. Akyiama's RFID reader integrated in a Raspberry Pi was used to access the information. Exemplifying the connection with biomedical instruments, a sen-11574 heart beats sensor was connected to a Raspberry Pi, whose measurements were converted to the I2C format with an ADS-1115 module. Results obtained are very promising to be applied in the automation of hospitals, first aid and private assistance in medical offices. the main benefit for patients is the fact that they can keep their medical history in the cloud, which can prevent loss of patient information in usual cases such as changing doctors, offices, or hospitals, which is commonly the case. Therefore, the system allows the preservation of the patient's historical record. The medical care system would make it more effective as it facilitates the work of medical professionals and assists in the patient's day-to-day life with updated health information
LA CATARSIS DEL IMPUESTO DE PLUSVALÍA MUNICIPAL: CRISIS INMOBILIARIA; LA SENTENCIA DEL TRIBUNAL CONSTITUCIONAL 59/2017, DE 11 DE MAYO; Y LOS PRONUNCIAMIENTOS JUDICIALES POSTERIORES MÁS RELEVANTES
Authors:   Universitat Politècnica de València, Hernández Guijarro Fernando , Gomar Giner Vicente ,   Grant Thornton
Published: April 2021

La regulación del Impuesto sobre el Incremento de Valor de los Terrenos de Naturaleza Urbana (IIVTNU) presentaba un vicio de origen a la hora de determinar la base imponible ya que no partía del principio de capacidad económica. Esta configuración daba lugar a tributación aunque no existiera incremento de valor y, por lo tanto, capacidad contributiva alguna. Ello conllevó una gran conflictividad en los tribunales de la Jurisdicción, llegando a pronunciarse el Tribunal Constitucional en varias ocasiones declarando la nulidad de varios preceptos de la ley del impuesto, y alentando al legislador a modificar y adaptar dicha norma. Sin embargo, la debida regulación no se ha producido y ello ha derivado en una creciente inseguridad jurídica y, con ello, a un incremento de la conflictividad judicial. Este trabajo de investigación estudia la situación jurídica del impuesto antes y después de la Sentencia del Tribunal Constitucional 59/2017, y analiza, con una finalidad práctica, la abundante jurisprudencia dictada que está supliendo el déficit normativo.
The Effect of Empowerment Program for Nurses Regarding Management of Children with Phenylketonuria
Authors: Said Khadiga M. , Draz Safaa F.
Published: April 2021

Context: Phenylketonuria (commonly known as PKU) is an inherited disorder that increases the levels of a substance called phenylalanine in the blood. If PKU did not diagnose early in life or the affected children with PKU do not be compliant with the treatment regimen (food), it leads to severe cognitive or behavioral problems, seizures, and autistic symptoms.

Aim: The current study aimed to evaluate the effect of empowerment program on nurses' management of children with phenylketonuria.

Methods: Quasi-experimental research (one group pre/post-test) design was used to conduct this study. The study was carried out in the hereditary unit, and hereditary outpatient clinics at Ain Shams Specialized Hospital for children affiliated to Ain shams University. A convenient sample of all available nurses working in the previously mentioned study settings (80 male and female bedside nurses) from the beginning of May 2018 to the end of October 2018. Two tools were utilized for data collection for the current study. They are the structured interview questionnaire to assess the nurses' knowledge regarding the management of children with phenylketonuria and the nurses’ performance observation checklists regarding nursing care provided for children with phenylketonuria

Results: nurses' knowledge regarding phenylketonuria was unsatisfactory before the empowerment program, while there is a statistically significant improvement between pre and post empowerment program implementation. Nurses' practice regarding phenylketonuria was incompetent before the empowerment program compared to post empowerment program. There is a positive statistical relationship between nurses' knowledge and practice post-program implementation.

Conclusion:  The study revealed that the empowerment program had a positive effect on the nurses' knowledge and practice towards the management of children with phenylketonuria. The current study recommended continuous education and training sessions about the management of children with phenylketonuria that should be provided to upgrade the knowledge and improve the practice of nurses caring for PKU children.  Availability and accessibility of printed guidelines, posters, and simple handouts regarding the management of children with phenylketonuria.
Effect of Expressive Arts Therapy Interventions on Comfort of Children Undergoing Surgery
Authors: El Sayed Zeinab F. , Sadek Bothayna N.
Published: April 2021

Context: Children undergoing surgery may experience pain and discomfort. Unfortunately, it is not always possible to completely prevent postoperative pain and discomfort with analgesics. Therefore, there is an increasing interest in non-pharmacological interventions through expressive arts therapy.

Aim: This study aimed to evaluate the effect of expressive arts therapy interventions on the comfort of children undergoing surgery.

Methods: A quasi-experimental design utilized in this study. This study conducted at the Pediatric Surgical Department in Children's Hospital affiliated to Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, on a purposive sample of 84 children undergoing surgery. Children randomly assigned to two equal groups (control group 42 and study group 42). A child's assessment record was used to gather data related to characteristics of the studied children and surgery data. Pain assessment record to assess the child's physiological and physical parameters of pain. A Numeric Pain Rating Scale to assess a child's pain intensity. State-Trait-Anxiety Inventory for Children to measure anxiety levels.  Besides, A Comfort Assessment Scale to assess children's numerical pain intensity and discomfort.

Results: There are statistically significant differences in mean pain intensity scores were observed between the control and study groups on the second day after surgery and before discharge (p > 0.05). The mean anxiety scores were significantly lower in the study group compared to the control group in the day after surgery and before discharge (p < 0.05). Also, there were observed improvements in mean comfort scores between the study and the control group on the day after surgery scores and on the day of discharge with a statistically significant difference (p < 0.05). There were statistically significant differences at (p-value=0.000) between children in the control and study group regarding children's postoperative pain intensity, anxiety levels, and comfort scores.

Conclusion: The application of expressive arts therapy interventions was positively improving comfort and reducing pain intensity and anxiety levels among children undergoing surgery in the study group compared to the controls, emphasizing the importance of using expressive arts therapy interventions for improving children's postoperative comfort.
Effect of Pre-Marital Care Educational Program on Knowledge and Attitude of Female University Students
Authors: Ali Hala A. , Ahmed Amany M. , Ghazy Heba K.
Published: April 2021

Context: Health and well-being before marriage help to maintain the health of future children. Therefore, healthcare should begin before marriage through premarital care as it can recognize and modify health risk factors well-known to have adverse effects on pregnancy outcomes.

Aim: The current research carried out to examine the effect of pre-marital care educational program on the knowledge and attitude of female university students.

 Methods:  A quasi-experimental design (Pre-test/Post-test) was adopted to achieve the stated aim. A stratified sample of one thousand female students was recruited. The research was conducted at the Nursing and Commerce Faculties at Kafrelsheikh University, Egypt. Two tools constructed by the researchers: self-administered questionnaire and Pre-marital care attitude assessment scale.

Results: The research findings revealed that 32.30% of nursing students have a high level of knowledge pre-program compared to 54.00% post-program, while 21.00% of commerce students have a high level of knowledge pre-program compared to 41.00% post-program. Moreover, there was a statistically significant difference between mean knowledge score pre and post-program (p< 0.001). Concerning students’ attitudes, it was observed that positive attitude expanded from 54.700% to 66.00 % among nursing students and from 49.00% to 57.500% among commerce students.  As well, there was a statistically significant difference between pre-program and post-program attitude levels (p< 0.001).

Conclusion:  the research hypotheses were accepted as the knowledge and attitude of students were improved after receiving the program suggesting its effectiveness. The study recommended that university students should be equipped with adequate in-depth health information related to pre-marital care to expand the general population mindfulness and impact their attitude toward pre-marital care.
Legal Politics of Corruption Criminal Enforcement In Indonesia
Authors:   Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Hang Tuah University, Surabaya Indonesia, Pramono Budi
Published: April 2021

Corruption is the main problem of the deterioration in Indonesia, that corruption acts committed by a few of people resulted in the entire nation must bear the consequences. Corruptive behavior has been a culture since ancient times, before and after independence, in the era of the Old Order, New Order, and continuing to the Reformation era, so that special strategies are needed in it’s eradication. This research is a normative legal research using the statuta and historical approach. Legal politics in the enforcement of corruption in Indonesia by forming several laws and regulations and the movement to eradicate corruption. The improvement is good in the substance of its rules, the eradication movement which is part of the nation's culture, and improvement in its institutional aspects, so that it is expected to be able to eradicate corruption with efficient and effectiveness.
Associativismo e Percepção do Mercado de Trabalho: uma amostra desta relação entre fisioterapeutas
Authors: Tommaso Maria Cristina De Carvalho , Silva Elidiane Aparecida da , Poloniato Gildelice Stival
Published: April 2021

Este artigo pretende identificar o grau de associativismo entre fisioterapeutas e a percepção do mercado de trabalho na região sulfluminense para estes profissionais. Para FREIDSON (1994) o grau de associativismo reflete uma categoria organizada, que controla seu trabalho e quem a ele pode se credenciar. Este estudo mostra como fisioterapeutas  percebem que o aumento do número de profissionais repercute-se no mercado de trabalho, o médio grau de associativismo entre os entrevistados, o grau de satisfação com os órgãos que os representam e suas expectativas para mercado de trabalho na região em que estão. A pesquisa aponta ainda, que as profissões mais antigas são modelo de profissionalismo. Enquanto isso, estudos de orientação de escolha profissional revelam a importância do comportamento dos profissionais na formação da identidade profissional. Portanto, de que forma estes sentimentos norteiam comportamentos e podem influenciar jovens que pretendem ingressar ou ingressaram recentemente na profissão.
Relevo E Edificações Tridimensionais Usando Fractais
Authors: Junior Jason Paulo Tavares Faria
Published: April 2021

Neste trabalho será apresentado o desenvolvimento de um software que permite a visualização tridimensional de mapas cartográficos bidimensionais utilizando fractais para a representação geométrica de relevos e edificações. Envolvendo várias disciplinas como computação gráfica, matemática, Topografia, linguagem de programação e física. Este projeto é orientado aos alunos dos últimos anos dos cursos de graduação e de iniciação científica com o objetivo de desenvolver este procedimento automatizado com a finalidade de comercialização.
Identificação por Radiofrequência: Aplicações e Vulnerabilidades da Tecnologia RFID
Authors: Pinheiro José Maurício Dos Santos
Published: April 2021

Uma das novidades tecnológicas mais controvertidas no momento é a tecnologia RFID, acrônimo de Identificação por Rádio Frequência (Radio Frequency Identification), que representa uma evolução em termos de tecnologia para computação embarcada e que vem sendo cada vez mais utilizada em conjunto com outras tecnologias de identificação automática e as redes de computadores nos setores onde há necessidade de rastreamento e coleta de dados, como transportes e logística, indústria, comércio e segurança. Apesar das grandes vantagens apresentadas, tal tecnologia pode trazer também grandes problemas aos seus usuários dependendo da forma como é aplicada. Este artigo tem como objetivo apresentar um breve histórico do desenvolvimento e funcionamento da tecnologia RFID, abordando com maior profundidade suas aplicações, vantagens e fragilidades, bem como as alternativas para contornar os problemas decorrentes de sua aplicação.
Globalização, Estado e Soberania: reflexões.
Authors: De Castro Flávia Lages
Published: April 2021

O presente artigo discute a globalização, o Estado e a ingerência desta, neste. Busca, com isso, debater o tão propalado fim da Soberania das Nações com o advento da Globalização.
Os Benefícios da Política de Segurança Baseada na Avaliação de Riscos e na Integração de Ferramentas The Benefits of the Security Politics Based on the Evaluation of Risks and the Integration of Tools
Authors: Pinheiro José Maurício Dos Santos
Published: April 2021

Com a expansão das redes de comunicação, as barreiras sociais e territoriais deixaram de existir e os sistemas de informação tornaram-se acessíveis a um público cada vez maior, passando a incorporar cada vez mais novas funcionalidades. Entretanto, quanto mais recursos são requeridos para um sistema, maior será sua complexidade, maior o número de acessos disponibilizados e maiores as dificuldades para garantir sua segurança. Devido a esse fato, os ambientes computacionais passaram a ser alvo freqüente de ameaças e ataques com um grau de sofisticação crescente. Este artigo fornece uma visão geral dos impactos das invasões sobre os sistemas computacionais, abordando suas causas determinantes e predisponentes e descrevendo os elementos-chave e benefícios de uma política de segurança baseada na avaliação de riscos e na integração de ferramentas.
Tabagismo e Gravidez: Repercussões no Desenvolvimento Fetal Tobaccoism and Pregnancy: Repercussions in the Fetal Development
Authors: Silva Clarissa Oliveira Muniz , Da Silva Mariane Oliveira , Utagawa Claudia Yamada , De Souza Renata Almeida
Published: April 2021

O cigarro é composto de quase cinco mil substâncias químicas, muitas delas reconhecidamente maléficas à saúde do ser humano. No Brasil, estima-se que cerca de 200.000 mortes por ano são decorrentes do tabagismo. O hábito de fumar durante o período gestacional propicia o aparecimento de inúmeras patologias que podem se desenvolver desde o período intra-uterino até a vida adulta. Dentre as substâncias químicas lesivas ao feto, destacam-se a nicotina, que está intimamente relacionada com o retardo do crescimento intra-uterino, e o monóxido de carbono, responsável pelo baixo peso ao nascer. As conseqüências podem ser percebidas no período puerperal, principalmente pelo nascimento de bebês pré-termo, além do surgimento da Síndrome de Morte Súbita Infantil e redução dos sinais antropométricos no recém-nascido. A correlação do tabagismo com outros hábitos de vida da gestante também influencia no desenvolvimento neuropsicomotor infantil. É de extrema importância alertar as gestantes quanto aos riscos do fumo à saúde de seus bebês durante o período pré-natal.
Meio Ambiente – Na Perspectiva do Criador e da Criatura
Authors: Silva Marcos Bella Cruz , Ravaglia Rosana
Published: April 2021

Este ensaio procura utilizar o livro de Gênesis apenas como um marco referencial da história da humanidade, sem a obrigatoriedade de vínculo, tanto de cunho religioso como de profissão de fé. (AMEM!). Os livros utilizados como referências foram: Livro de Gênesis, capítulo 1, versículos 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 26, 29 (Gn1,1; Gn3,4;Gn6,7; Gn 26; Gn29). Gênesis significa nascimento, origem da vida e da história. O livro de Gênesis está inserido dentro do chamado Pentateuco, palavra derivada do grego que significa “cinco livros”. Esta palavra é utilizada para indicar os cinco primeiros livros da Bíblia Sagrada: São eles, Gênesis, Êxodo, Levítico, Números e Deuteronômio. Muito embora Sua Santidade João Paulo II em seu livro “Cruzando o Limiar da Esperança” ao ser perguntado sobre a certeza do credo em que a cada missa repete e professa, respondeu (resumidamente). “Não tenham medo do mistério de Deus; não tenham medo do Seu amor; e não tenham medo da fraqueza do homem nem de sua grandeza!”. Em contrapartida, na perspectiva da criatura, a problemática ambiental será baseada nos sintomas de uma crise de civilização contemporânea referendada atualmente, pelo capitalismo exploratório e injusto, através da globalização direcionada fincada nos pilares da modernidade e regida principalmente pelo predomínio desenvolvimentista com razões tecnológicas tornando míope o sistema de organização da natureza. Recentemente foi lançado nos Estados Unidos, o livro chamado “Deus, um delírio”. Seus autores Alister Mc Grath e Richard Dawkins possuem trajetórias profissionais bastante parecidas. Ambos são cientistas e professores universitários em Oxford, estudiosos das ciências naturais, ambos mantêm uma relação de amizade apenas de cordialidade. São abertos a novas formas de pensar, desde que as evidências os levem a isso. A diferença é que o raciocínio lógico levou Dawkins a pregar o ateísmo e Mc Grath a acolher a fé.
O Conceito de “Vida Humana” e as Novas Biotecnologias da Reprodução: analisando uma rede de controvérsias
Authors: Nobre Júlio Cesar De Almeida , Vale Mateus De Oliveira , Andrade Eder Frossard de , Ribeiro Rafael Lima
Published: April 2021

Com o advento das novas biotecnologias de reprodução, passamos a conviver com intensas turbulências no que se refere ao conceito de vida humana. Tais tecnologias parecem produzir um mundo bastante vertiginoso para olhares habituados a conceber a representação de humano como sendo uma fronteira natural. Essas perspectivas parecem ancoradas em uma concepção de tecnociência e humanidade como polaridades estanques. Na atualidade, nos deparamos com uma constante mistura entre aquilo que entendemos por humanidade e não-humanidade. Questões como a infertilidade, a reprodução medicamente assistida, a clonagem e principalmente as pesquisas com células embrionárias apontam para a reprodução e condição humanas cada vez mais imbricadas com o artifício. No presente trabalho,  abordamos tal cenário a partir do pensamento de Bruno Latour. Em sua teoria das Redes Sociotécnicas, todo e qualquer fato sólido depende de um processo bastante conectivo, onde humanos e não-humanos o colocam em circulação. O foco se volta para a potência de intensas traduções. Com o conceito “vida humana” não é diferente. A partir de lentes híbridas nos debruçamos sobre uma atualidade de intensa controvérsia, onde a natureza do que chamamos humano parece estar em jogo em meio a uma diversidade de mediações. Com o intuito de estudarmos a dinâmica conectiva de tais controvérsias a envolver as novas biotecnologias da reprodução, objetivamos as diferentes traduções da vida humana feitas por múltiplos actantes no controvertido tema. Analisamos alguns periódicos de grande visibilidade e influência no Brasil. Nosso recorte temporal foi limitado entre 2007 e 2008 devido ao grande dinamismo na área de discussão.
Calculation of stresses and strain with the analytical method of pipes in high frequency longitudinal welded pipes
Authors: Mjaku Malush
Published: April 2021

In general, the different phenomena in the production, the different technological processes, are characterized by one or more factors and indicators. These factors, with their specific nature and with the special way of influencing the phenomena or the different technological processes, give the latter a complex character in practice. During the formation and calibration of the pipes, the thickness and radius of bending of the pipes is very important. It is expected that the smaller the bending radius, the greater the stresses and deformations as a result of the large degree of deformation. To calculate the stresses and deformations, pipes of different thicknesses and diameters were obtained: Ø 139,7×4 mm, Ø 139.7×7.72 mm, Ø 219.1×5 mm, Ø 219.1×8 mm, Ø 244.5×8.94 mm, Ø 323.9×7.10 mm and Ø 323.9×10 mm.
An Overview on Biopolymer: A Novelistic Bio-Excipient in Nanoparticulate Drug Delivery
Authors: Kumar Sushant , Satheesh Madhav N. V. , Verma Anurag , Pathak Kamla , Pnadey Swarnima
Published: April 2021

The point of this review is to feature the novelistic properties as bioexcipient, isolated from different regular natural sources like legumes, seeds, leaves, vegetables, bits, roots, barks and so on and to investigate the probability in medication conveyance framework. The biomaterial s have been exposed to different physicochemical assessments alongside unearthly examination including UV, FT-IR, Mass and 1H NMR. The confined biomaterial was discovered tom be polymeric in nature having a various utilitarian properties. Based on its inbuilt polymeric properties, the biomaterial secluded from various sources, can be utilized as an option in contrast to accessible standard polymers at extremely efficient economical scale. The separated biopolymer comprised of an interesting polymeric properties like accessible standard polymers. The isolated biomaterial from natural sources shown distinctive inbuilt polymeric properties by execution of various physico-substance examination. As we probably are aware there are various polymers accessible and oftentimes utilized design of novel medication. Yet, detached biomaterial from natural sources have demonstrated about their novelistic various properties like biodegradability, bioretardant, bioadhesive, filmability etc.
PENGARUH MODAL, TENAGA KERJA DAN PENGALAMAN TERHADAP PRODUKSI PENGOLAHAN UBUR-UBUR DI DESA TEMAJUK
Authors: Rivaldo  , Saifullah  , Januardy Uray
Published: April 2021

Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui pengaruh modal, tenaga kerja dan pengalaman terhadap produksi pengolahan ubur-ubur di Desa Temajuk. Metode yang digunakan adalah observasi, wawancara dan kuisioner dengan data primer dan data sekunder. Data yang telah didapatkan di analisis dengan metode hitung uji korelasi menggunakan SPSS versi 25. Hasil pada uji korelasi variabel modal didapat R hitung 0,813 > R tabel 0,514, hasil tersebut menunjukan variabel modal berpengaruh terhadap variabel hasil produksi. Untuk variabel tenaga kerja didapat R hitung 0,793 > R tabel 0,514, hasil tersebut menunjukan variabel tenaga kerja berpengaruh terhadap variabel hasil produksi. Untuk variabel pengalaman didapat R hitung 0,273 < R tabel 0,514 hasil tersebut menunjukan variabel pengalaman tidak berpengaruh terhadap variabel hasil produksi.
Tracking and Monitoring Fitness of Athletes Using IoT Enabled Wearables for Activity Recognition and Random Forest Algorithm for Performance Prediction
Authors: K. Krishna Prasad , Aithal P. S. , K. Geetha Poornima , Vinayachandra
Published: April 2021

Purpose: The progression in technology is made the best use of in every field. Sports analytics is an essential sector that has gained importance in this technology-driven era. It is used to determine the hidden relationships among different quantitative parameters that affect the performance of athletes. This type of analysis requires a large amount of data to be stored periodically. Cloud acts as a scalable centralized repository that can store the massive data essential for analysis purpose. From the technological perspective there are numerous wearable activity tracking devices, which will be able to provide feedback of physical activities. With the help of random forest (RF) algorithm it is possible to classify huge datasets to perform predictions. In this paper, different smart devices that can be used to measure physical activity, use of RF algorithm for converting data obtained from smart devices into knowledge are explored. A conceptual model that uses wearable devices for tracking and monitoring and RF algorithm to predict the performance is suggested.
Methodology: The study was conducted by referring to scholarly documents available online and by referring to websites of companies offering healthcare and sports related services. A conceptual model is developed based on the theoretical perception that incorporates the components needed for measuring the physical activities to predict the performance of athletes.
Findings/Result: In this paper the proposed system contains four major activities as Capture, Store, Analyze, and Predict. The model considers use of IoT-enabled wearable devices to measure the physical activities of athletes and the information collected will in turn be used to analyze predict their performance and suggest them how to increase the chances of winning. However, the outcome of a game does not only depend upon the PA of athletes. It depends also upon the physical, mental, emotional health, nutrition and many other factors.
Originality: In this paper, a theoretical model is deduced to integrate IoT and RF Algorithm to track and monitor fitness of athletes using wearables for activity recognition and performance prediction.
Paper Type: Conceptual Paper
Proposed Recommended System for Employability Skilling using Neural Network
Authors: Suryawanshi Dr. Kavita , Patil Mrs. Arati , Choudhari Ms. Sarika
Published: April 2021

Higher educational institutions are apprehensive with using approaches to enhance the development of competences for post graduate employability. Subsequently witnessing, rate of students regarding unemployability are gradually increasing after post-graduation, we are proposing a framework to improve student’s skillset for getting placed in preferred career profile. This paper aims to propose a framework for post graduate students to increase employability and proficiency enhancement. The proposed framework based on artificial neural network will produce desired skillsets. This skillsets will map to their determined career possibilities. This Proposed recommended system will be helpful to not only higher educational institutes for mentoring students towards employability rate but also to post graduate students towards attainment of expected career path by improving their skillsets.
LSTM Based Sales Prediction System for Supermarket
Authors: Subhalakshmi M. , Pradeepa R. Selva , Priyadharshini S. , Maheswari S.
Published: April 2021

Many supermarkets today do not have a better forecasting system for yearly sales. This is due to the lack of skills, resources, and knowledge to make sales estimations. The use of the conventional statistical technique to forecast grocery supermarket sales has left many demanding situations unaddressed and, in general, results in the creation of predictive models that perform poorly. The era of big data, coupled with access to massive computing power, has made deep learning a go-to for sales forecast. This proposed system investigates forecasting sales for several stores. The essential variables that helped in better sales forecast were store type, date, item and sales. Product sales forecasting is a significant aspect that mainly aims to manage the purchase. Forecasts are crucial, especially in determining the accuracy of estimating the future demand for goods and inventory stock levels, which has been vital, mainly in the Grocery or supermarkets. Consider if goods are not available readily or the availability of goods is more than the demand, it can compromise overall profit. As a result, product sales forecasting may be critical to ensure that losses are reduced. Besides, the issue is becoming complicated for retailers to add specific consumer criteria that involve new, ever-changing seasonal preferences and volatile product marketing items. Hence a forecasting model is developed using Long short term memory (LSTM) to improve product sales accurate forecasts. The proposed model is mainly targeted to support the future purchase and a more precise prediction of sales and is not meant to alter Forecasting's existing subjective methods. A model based on a real grocery store's data for four years is developed to predict the store's sales. This method's impact is to forecast the availability of products in stores to ensure that they have just enough products at the right time.
O movimento estudantil e a luta pela transformação da FUNESA em universidade de fato: uma análise sobre o período de 2005 a 2007
Authors: Silva Willames Nunes da , Silva Jemima Quézia Souza , Rocha Luiz Gomes da
Published: April 2021

A Universidade Estadual de Alagoas (UNEAL) tem na história de seus primórdios o marco indiscutível da participação singular do movimento estudantil atuante para a transformação da mesma em Universidade, dado que até então era apenas uma Fundação, a Fundação Universidade Estadual de Alagoas (FUNESA), título recebido após ser estadualizada. Visto isso, desde sua fundação foi necessária muita luta estudantil e docente para a sua manutenção e posterior transição dessa instituição de ensino superior privada para pública e gratuita; o processo de estatização foi fruto de muita luta. O mesmo ocorreu na transformação da FUNESA em UNEAL. Sendo assim, a partir de documentos conservados do movimento estudantil presentes no Grupo de Estudos de História e Movimentos Sociais (GEHMOV), num corte temporal de 2005 a 2007, de artigos e entrevistas com lideranças do movimento estudantil, além de questionários, seguindo o rigor metódico, o qual serviu de fonte oral para a construção do presente artigo, podemos reconstruir a conjuntura da época e a importante luta dos estudantes nesse processo.
Grave Visions: Visual Experience and Adaptation
Authors: David Evan Richard
Published: April 2021

Rather than approaching the ‘look’ of adaptation through point of view
or the ‘vision’ of the adapter, this chapter examines the material, visible
texture of screen adaptation. Using two adaptations of Bram Stoker’s gothic
novel Dracula, I analyse how each uses mise en scène, cinematography, and
editing to thicken and make tangible Stoker’s questioning of the reliability
of vision in modernity. The first, Nosferatu (F.W Murnau, 1922) employs the
tricks of early cinema to shock spectators, while the second—Bram Stoker’s
Dracula (Francis Ford Coppola, 1992)—uses a neo-baroque aesthetic that
ruptures the screen and engulfs the spectator, much like one of Dracula’s
victims. This chapter suggests that critical insight into an adaptation
can be found quite literally in sight, and embraces how the materiality
of adaptation overlaps with the materiality of vision.
Textural Analysis: Touching Adaptation
Authors: David Evan Richard
Published: April 2021

While the previous chapters have explored the materiality of adaptation
and perception, this chapter explicitly examines how screen adaptations
appeal to the spectator’s tactile sensitivity. This chapter draws on
film-phenomenological approaches—such as Vivian Sobchack, Laura
Marks, and Jennifer Barker—that characterize vision as being haptic and
synaesthetic. Drawing on an analysis of Jane Campion’s film In the Cut
(2002), I argue that the adaptation translates the novel’s protagonists tactile
experience of her world and language into a haptic experience, in what I
term the spectator’s ‘tactile orientation’. In doing so, this chapter further
explores how not how adaptation should be considered as a textual layering
of material, but also a textural layering that includes the spectator’s body
in a moment of entanglement.
Textures of Imagination
Authors: David Evan Richard
Published: April 2021

Rejecting any binary thinking that would have reading novels as an act
of imagination while films are received through perception, this chapter
examines how adaptations are experienced through the embodied imagination.
This chapter builds upon approaches to imagination in cognitive
aesthetics to argue that imagination is grounded in perception. This
chapter draws on two case studies, Wonder (Stephen Chbosky, 2017) and
Mood Indigo (Michel Gondry, 2013), both criticized for making tangible
their literary sources in a manner than nullifies imaginative engagement.
Rather, I argue that spectators feel their way into the worlds and
existential feelings of their characters through the embodied imagination.
This chapter suggests that perception can lead to a greater imaginative
understanding of a work, the world, and others, and how such an imaginative
connection might shift our point of view. That is, screen adaptations
are equipped to enact a leap from sight to insight.
(Re-)Mediating Memory’s Materiality
Authors: David Evan Richard
Published: April 2021

Adaptation criticism may begin as an act of memory, but while adaptation
is a medium for memory it is also a medium of memory. This chapter
considers adaptation as a form of memory work, paralleling adaptation’s
textual layering with memory’s layering of experience. Adaptations can
offer us experiential knowledge of the past—either fictional texts or a
historical ‘truth’—or be antagonistic or self-reflexive about its formal
remembrance. This chapter examines phenomenological approaches to
the ‘tissue’ of memory and puts them in contact with two adaptations
(one prestige, one arthouse), both concerned with the experience of
marginalized bodies. In doing so, this chapter not only asks ‘what texts
are remembered?’, or ‘who is remembered?’, but also questions ‘how are
stories, identities, and lives remembered?’. In doing so, this chapter points
to how an embodied approach to adaptation not only involves aesthetic
appreciation but also ethical understanding.
Strategies of (Self-)Empowerment
Authors: Fischer-Lichte Erika
Published: April 2021

By drawing on Butler’s concepts of assembly, appearance, and precarity,
it is argued that the aesthetic assembly in theatre, quite often, is closely
related to various forms of political assemblies, historical and recent, in
encouraging self-empowerment of its spectators, and at times also its
actors. To make the point, three periods in German theatre history from
1750 until today are considered: First, the theatre of the educated middle
class in the eighteenth century. Second, the workers’ mass spectacles in
the Weimar Republic. And third, some forms of choric theatre since the
1990s as well as Christoph Schlingensief’s productions featuring different
kinds of people in a precarious status. Finally, as regards their capacity to
self-empowerment, they are related to the Occupy movement.
Beyond Gender(s)
Authors: Nancy Jean-Luc , Irizarry Christine
Published: April 2021

The study of gender invites one to consider its prima materia, that is to say
sex. Sex is the play of genders. They gender it – which is to say they proceed
from it not as productions but as the expansion itself that it “is,” if this
can be called “being,” grasped in its nonexistence or rather meontology.
Sex brings forth emotions, motions, forms, figures, textures and flavors,
wounds and pains – the effervescent expression of its nonidentity or pluriidentity.
This difference to oneself and the dissemination and multiplying
effect of sex constitutes the deepest and most difficult lesson in the study
of genders, which is far from being finished, though this has less to do with
study, perhaps, than with an experience both meditative and amazed of
what has always already pushed and driven us through all possible genders
outside any kind of gender, assignation, and identification.
What’s in a Name?
Authors: van den Oever Roel
Published: April 2021

The film Private Romeo shows two male cadets falling in love as they
speak the lines of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. While intended as
an affirmative depiction of gay love without any homophobia, the film
for three reasons has the opposite effect. First, whereas the film’s main
intertext (Shakespeare’s play) and key historical context (Don’t Ask,
Don’t Tell, here read through Butler’s Excitable Speech) foreground the
significance of naming desire, no character in Private Romeo actually
speaks the word “homosexuality.” Second, the image of two young men
kissing is superseded by the primacy of the Shakespearean characters
and their heterosexual romance. Third, even if the spectator chooses to
ignore these first two reasons and takes Private Romeo as a representation
of homosexuality, this can only be achieved by assuming a homophobic
context for the portrayed romance.
Rethinking Counseling from a Relational Perspective
Authors: Schuhmann Carmen
Published: April 2021

Counseling practices are guided by an aspiration to alleviate suffering
and enhance well-being of clients. This entails a focus on minimizing
vulnerability to others and on preservation from injury and violation.
In the work of Judith Butler, too, there is a strong focus on the ethical
importance of alleviating suffering, more precisely suffering related
to oppression and social exclusion. Butler, however, also stresses the
ethical limitations of attempting to preserve ourselves from injury and
violation, in relation to her view that human beings are implicated and
intertwined in each other’s existence. An exploration of how this perspective
resonates in the domain of counseling suggests that the practice of
ethical counseling may benefit from rethinking the aim of counseling
in terms of “becoming human.”
Cultural Branding in the Early Modern Period
Authors: van Deinsen Lieke , Geerdink Nina
Published: April 2021

The early modern commercial book market was the cradle of authorial
branding. Authors and publishers increasingly explored the construction of
authorial brands: a set of recurring and recognizable characteristics associated
with authorial images. This chapter looks at branding in the context of the
media landscape of the early modern Dutch Republic. Authorial branding
developed over time in conjunction with new conceptions of the individual,
technological innovations, and the changing role of – amongst others – patrons
and publishers. Analyses of the branding of Jan Jansz. Starter (1593-1626)
and Sara Maria van der Wilp (1716-1803) illustrate how the non-formalized,
dynamic constellation of the literary field inspired various agents to create a
range of (multifaceted) author brands on the spectrum ‘economic-symbolic’.
A Hero and His History
Authors: Hulsenboom Paul
Published: April 2021

In the late 1820s and early 1830s, Europe saw the appearance of several
editions of the correspondence of Jan III Sobieski, former king of Poland
and liberator of Vienna in 1683. Three Dutch editions were published in
The Hague. This chapter analyses the ways in which Sobieski and his
letters were branded in these Dutch editions, particularly in the books’
extensive front matter. It argues that, while the Dutch branding was
directly inspired by the French and Polish versions, the motives behind
these different editions varied greatly, depending on their contexts. Of
key importance were events related to Polish patriotism, such as the
November Uprising. A number of reviews furthermore make clear how
the brands in the Dutch editions were received.
From Immorality to Immortality
Authors: Koffeman Maaike
Published: April 2021

This article analyses the publication history of Dutch translations of
Madame Bovary within the wider context of Flaubert’s reception more
generally. In the decades following its publication, Madame Bovary
was widely criticized due to its ‘scandalous’ subject matter. Gradually,
these moralistic views gave way to a growing recognition of the novel
as a modern classic. However, the immorality scandal continued to
resonate with readers. We investigate how these diverging views on
the novel informed the branding strategies employed by the publishers
of its Dutch translations. Combining reception history, translation
studies, paratextual analysis, and cultural sociology, we demonstrate
how each publisher established a branding narrative that was informed
by the status of the translator in question and that targeted a specific
readership.
Allegories of Branding
Authors: Franssen Gaston
Published: April 2021

The American author Charles Bukowski (1904-1984) has become an authorial
brand – that is, a complex symbol that projects a set of associations
onto commercial products. This brand emerges from interactions between
the fields of creation, production, and reception. Bukowski himself fuelled
this interaction by constructing a recognizable, albeit contradictory public
figure: that of the successful loser. Focusing on the Dutch reception of
Bukowski as a case study, I demonstrate how cultural producers and
suppliers capitalize on this figure, invoking it to suggest that their products
allow consumers to partake in the Bukowskian lifestyle. However, the
contradictions inherent in the persona of the successful loser subvert this
process. As a consequence, instances of Bukowskian branding appear
as normative failures, as their very success belies the values associated
with the author.