bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Storage of biochemical information as the start of life: A hypothetical model for the development of the first cell
Authors: Schreiber Ulrich
Published: January 2022

The storage of biochemical information, which is a prerequisite for the development of the first cell, is an unsolved problem affecting all concepts of the origin of life. However, if the protected environment in the continental crust is taken into account, completely new possibilities emerge for identifying processes that may have been crucial for the formation of the first cell. Under this background, we can hypothesize that, before cellular life began, a self-sustaining cycle of molecular reaction steps with information storage in RNA existed outside of a cell. This cycle was made possible in an open system bound to gas-permeable tectonic fracture zones with a high proportion of CO2 and N2. The formation of peptides and vesicles in supercritical CO2 and the chemical evolution of peptides have already been proven for the upper continental crust. Further considerations include the interactions of vesicles with catalytic peptides and the emergence of proto-tRNA. In combination with the formation of proto-tRNA synthetases, which consist of only two amino acid species and associated proto-tRNAs, the first RNA as an information storage system could have been formed with the information of proto-enzymes.
Effects of Data Quality and Quantity on Deep Learning for Protein-Ligand Binding Affinity Prediction
Authors: Fan Frankie J , Shi Yun
Published: January 2022

Prediction of protein-ligand binding affinities is crucial for computational drug discovery. A number of deep learning approaches have been developed in recent years to improve the accuracy of such affinity prediction. While the predicting power of these models have advanced to some degrees depending on the dataset used for training and testing, the effects of the quality and quantity of the underlying data have not been thoroughly examined. In this study, we employed erroneous datasets and data subsets of different sizes, created from one of the largest databases of experimental binding affinities, to train and evaluate a deep learning system based on convolutional neural networks. Our results show that data quality and quantity do have significant impacts on the performance of trained models. Depending the variations in data quality and quantity, the performance differences could be comparable to or even larger than those observed among different deep learning approaches. This implies that continued accumulation of high-quality affinity data is important for improving deep learning models to better predict protein-ligand binding affinities.
Minimal Residual Disease Using Liquid Biopsies in Hematological Malignancies
Authors: Colmenares Rafael , Álvarez Noemí , Barrio Santiago , Martínez-López Joaquín , Ayala Rosa
Published: January 2022

The study of cell-free DNA (cfDNA) and other peripheral blood components (known as “liquid biopsies”) is promising and has been investigated especially in solid tumors. Nevertheless, it is increasingly showing greater utility in the diagnosis, prognosis, and response to treatment of hematological malignancies; in the future, it could prevent invasive techniques, such as bone marrow (BM) biopsy. Most of the studies about this topic have been focused on B cell lymphoid malignancies; some of them have shown that cfDNA can be used as a novel way for diagnosis and minimal residual monitoring in B cell lymphomas, using techniques such as next-generation sequencing (NGS). In myelodysplastic syndromes, multiple myeloma, or chronic lymphocytic leukemia, liquid biopsies may allow for an interesting genomic representation of the tumor clones affecting different lesions (spatial heterogeneity). In acute leukemias, it can be helpful in the monitoring of early treatment response and the prediction of treatment failure. In chronic lymphocytic leukemia, the evaluation of cfDNA permits the definition of clonal evolution and drug resistance in real-time. However, there are limitations such as the difficulty in obtaining sufficient circulating tumor DNA for achieving a high sensitivity to assess minimal residual disease or the lack of standardization of the method and clinical studies to confirm its prognostic impact. This review focuses on clinical applications of cfDNA on minimal residual disease in hematological malignancies.
Anomalous Geomagnetic Signal Emphasized Before the Mw8.2 Coastal Alaska Earthquake, Occurred on 29 July 2021
Authors: Stănică Dragoș Armand
Published: January 2022

A very strong earthquake of magnitude Mw8.2 struck the coastal zone of Alaska (USA), on July 29, 2021. This earthquake was felt around the Gulf of Alaska, on a wide offshore area belonging to USA and Canada. In order to identify an anomalous geomagnetic signal before the onset of this earthquake, we retrospectively analyzed the data collected on the interval June 17 - July 31, 2021, via internet (www.intermagnet.org), at the two geomagnetic observatories, College (CMO) - Alaska and Newport (NEW)-USA, by using the polarization parameter (BPOL) and the strain effect–related to geomagnetic signal identification. Thus, for the both observation sites (CMO and NEW), the daily mean distribution of the BPOL and its standard deviation (STDEV) are carried out using an FFT band-pass filtering in the ULF range (0.001-0.0083Hz). Further on, a statistical analysis based on a standardized random variable equation was applied to emphasize the following: a) the anomalous signature related to Mw8.2 earthquake on the both time series BPOL*(CMO) and BPOL*(NEW); b) the differentiation of the transient local anomalies associated with Mw8.2 earthquake from the internal and external parts of the geomagnetic field, taking the NEW observatory as reference. Finally, on the BPOL*(NEW-CMO) time series, carried out on the interval 07-31 July, 2021, a very clear anomaly of maximum, greater than 1.2 STDEV, was detected on July 22, with 7 days before the onset of Mw8.2 earthquake
Determination of Location-Specific Solidification Cracking Susceptibility for a Mixed Dissimilar Alloy Processed by Wire-Arc Additive Manufacturing
Authors: Sridar Soumya , Sargent Noah , Wang Xin , Klecka Michael A. , Xiong Wei
Published: January 2022

Solidification cracking is a major obstacle when joining dissimilar alloys using additive manufacturing. In this work, location-specific solidification cracking susceptibility has been investigated using an integrated computational materials engineering (ICME) approach for a graded alloy formed by mixing P91 steel and Inconel 740H superalloy. An alloy derived from a mixture of 26 wt.% P91 steel and 74 wt.% Inconel 740H, with high configurational and total entropy, was fabricated using wire-arc additive manufacturing. Microstructure characterization revealed intergranular solidification cracks, which increased in length along with the build height. With inputs from experiments, such as secondary dendrite arm spacing, the DICTRA (diffusion-controlled transformations) module within the Thermo-Calc software was used to model location-specific solidification cracking susceptibility. The top region, with the highest cooling rate, has the highest solidification cracking susceptibility and is in good agreement with the experimentally observed crack length. From Scheil simulations, it was deduced that pronounced segregation of Nb and Cu within the cracks increased the solidification range by suppressing the solidus temperature. The overall solidification cracking susceptibility and freezing range was highest for the 26 wt.% P91 alloy amongst the mixed compositions between P91 steel and 740H superalloy, proving that solidification characteristics play a major role in alloy design for additive manufacturing.
Salinity Gradient Controls Microbial Community Structure And Assembly In Coastal Solar Salterns
Authors: Song Tianran , Liang Qiyun , Du Zhaozhong , Wang Xiaoqun , Chen Guanjun , Du Zongjun , Mu Dashuai
Published: January 2022

Salinity acts as a critical environmental filter on microbial communities in natural systems, negatively affecting microbial diversity. However, how salinity affects the community assembly remains unclear. This study used Wendeng multi-pond saltern as a model to evaluate the prokaryotic community composition and diversity and quantify the relative importance of ecological processes across salinity gradients. Results showed that low saline salterns (45-80 g/L) exhibited higher bacterial diversity than those in high saline salterns (175-265 g/L). The relative abundance of taxa assigned to Halanaerobiaceae, Haloferacaceae, Desulfohalobiaceae, Phormidiaceae, Rohodobacteraceae, and Nitrococcaceae was higher with increasing salinity. Salinity and pH were the primary environmental factors that directly or indirectly determined the composition and diversity of prokaryotic communities. Microbial co-occurrence network dynamics were more complex in the sediment than in water of salterns. An infer Community Assembly Mechanisms by Phylogenetic-bin-based null model analysis (iCAMP) showed that microbial community assembly in sediment and water differed. Our findings provide more information about microbial community structure and the importance of various ecological processes in controlling microbial community diversity and succession along salinity gradients in water and sediment environments.
The Implementation of Fardiyah Da'wah in Peer Counseling to Prevent Free Sex
Authors: Kibtyah Maryatul , Sari Fitria Nofita
Published: January 2022

This paper explains how to analyze teenagers’ life using a case study in Adolescent Friendly Health Services (AFHS) at Public Health (Puskesmas) Blora. The research data were obtained through observation, interviews with the client, peer counseling, doctor, and paramedics in Puskesmas. The result found some forms of teenager’s free sex in Adolescent Friendly Health Services (AFHS) at Puskesmas Blora. Those actions were holding hands, kissing hands, kissing lips, making out, and doing premarital sex. The prevention effort with the peer counseling had been conducted in two ways of methods that are personal approach with the client and couching with the material given to them. The analysis showed that the implementation of fardiyah da'wah in peer counseling was in line with stages of fardiyah da’wah proposed by Abdul Wahid, namely building good relationships with mad’u and giving motivation to mad’u.
SOLUTION FOCUSED BRIEF THERAPY (SFBT) PADA ORANG TUA ANAK JALANAN DI YAYASAN KOMUNITAS RUMAH ALIF-JAKARTA
Authors: Bustan Radhiya , Mailani Liana , Novianti Marsyela
Published: January 2022

The problems faced by street kids are quite numerous and varied. Such as living in inappropriate places, poor family income, unmet living needs, and lack of relationship with parents. Most of their parents do not have a proper educational background, so in educating children they still use patterns of violence without considering the psychological effects on the child. The problems faced by street children cannot be separated from the influence of their parents, so need to involve their parents as the main educators. The purpose of this study is to apply a Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) approach to provide understanding to parents of street children at the Rumah Alif Community Foundation in educating and building good relationships with children. SFBT is carried out with an individual approach and strengthened with group counseling. This approach is appropriate because SFBT only takes less time and resources for treatment. Through a qualitative research approach with an interview and observation methods, results described that SFBT can help parents to understand their child's problems, find various alternative solutions and pay attention to the child's psychological side. The relationship between parents and children becomes better so that children become open to their parents.
The Character of Adolescents In The North Aceh Coastal Area: An Impact of Authoritarian Parenting Style
Authors: Ma'awiyah Aisyah
Published: January 2022

Parenting style is an activity of guiding, educating, and raising children. There are three types of parenting styles, i.e., authoritarian, authoritative, and permissive. This study investigates the effects of authoritarian parenting on adolescents' character in the coastal community at North Aceh. It is a qualitative study in which the participants were fifteen fishermen who have adolescent children between 12-18 years old. The data were obtained through interviews and observations, which were subsequently analyzed qualitatively. The results showed three negative effects of authoritarian parenting on adolescents' character, i.e., disobedience, impudence, indiscipline, and irresponsibility. Negligence of these adverse effects may lead to criminal acts in adolescents and affect their future mental development. 
JURNAL SISTEM INFORMASI MANAJEMEN PEMBERKASAN PERKARA PIDANA UMUM PADA KEJAKSAAN NEGERI KABUPATEN MADIUN
Authors: Maria Ulfa Indrasari  , Wiji Setiyaningsih
Published: January 2022

Sistem Informasi Manajemen (SIM) Pemberkasan Perkara Pidana Umum dalam upaya kemudahkan akses berkas penyidik dan surat perintah bidang pidum, terdapat permasalahan pengiriman berkas penyidik menggunakan kurir yang kurang efisien karena jarak tempuh yang cukup jauh, penumpukan berkas tidak tertata, Kasi Pidum masih menggunakan buku agenda untuk merekap penanganan perkara JPU, penomoran surat perintah menggunakan buku besar pada bidang pidum, setiap surat membutuhkan tandatangan kepala kejaksaan negeri (kajari). Penelitian ini bertujuan memudahkan penyidik area Kabupaten Madiun dan pegawai pada Kejaksaan Negeri Kabupaten Madiun dalam  manajemen  penanganan perkara untuk mengelola berkas perkara data tersangka. Metode pengembangan sistem menggunakan waterfall. Perancangan penelitian ini menghasilkan sebuah aplikasi SIM pemberkasan perkara Bidang Tindak Pidana Umum di Kejaksaan Negeri Kabupaten Madiun untuk mengelola  berkas perkara data tersangka yang ada di Kejaksaan Negeri Kabupaten Madiun. Hasil prosentase UAT pada penelitian ini adalah 75.6% menyatakan user menerima aplikasi SIM pemberkasan perkara yang dibuat dan dapat diterima dengan baik. Sistem yang dibuat dapat memudahkan pengiriman berkas bagi penyidik dengan adanya upload file, kasi pidum dapat memonitoring perkara, memudahkan jaksa dan staf dalam pembuatan surat perintah mengurangi redudansi data sehingga pelaporan lebih optimal, dan kajari dapat melihat rekapitulasi surat masuk dan keluar bidang pidum
UPAYA MENINGKATKAN KEMAMPUAN KERJASAMA DAN BERPIKIR KRITIS SISWA SMP MELALUI MODEL COLLABORATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING
Authors: Elviani ovesarti Maria
Published: January 2022

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk: (1) keterlaksanan model collaborative problem solving untuk tingkatkan kemampuan kerjasama dan berpikir kritis siswa SMP Nasional Malang, (2) model peningkatan kemampuan kerjasama siswa kelas VIII SMP Nasional Malang melalui model collaborative  problem  solving, (3) model peningkatan kemampuan berpikir kritis siswa kelas VIII D SMP Nasional Malang melalui model collaborative problem solving. Penelitian ini ialah penelitian tindakan kelas (classroom action research) dengan menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif. Penelitian tindakan kelas yang terdiri dari empat tahap, yakni perencanan, perlakuan, penglihatan, dan  refleksi. Penghasilan dari penelitian merupakan : (1) dari hasil tes siklus I diperoleh bahwa nilai rata-rata kemampuan kerjasama sebesar 72,50%. Dan memenuhi kriteria tinggi. Jika melihat dari hasil ketuntasan belajar siswa yang sudah meemenuhi KKM ( 75). Pada tindakan I, 9 siswa atau 37,5% dari 24 siswa, (2) dari hasil angket siklus II diperoleh bahwa nilai rata-rata kemampuan kerjasama siswa sebesar 81,67%. Dan memenuhi kriteria sangat tinggi. Jika dilihat dari ketuntasan belajar siswa yang memenuhi belajar siswa yang memenuhi  KKM ( 75). Pada siklus II sebanyak 20 siswa yang memenuhi kriteria ketuntasan minimal (KKM) atau 83,33% dari 24 siswa. (3) kemampuan berpikir kritis yang mencapai siswa pada siklus II 77,10%, yaitu memenuhi kriteria baik, ini berarti untuk prestasi berpikir tingkat tinggi sangat kritis peserta didik sudah meningkat. Dapat menyimpulkan untuk belajar menggunakan model collaborative problem solving yang dilaksanakan di SMP Nasional Malang memenuhi kriteria baik sekali, hal itu dapat dibuktikan dengan melihat hasil presentasi pembelajaran pada siklus I dan siklus II.
ANALISIS KEMAMPUAN BERPIKIR KRITIS PADA SISWA KELAS X SMA ISLAM KEPANJEN
Authors: Suriati Arista , Sundaygara Chandra , Kurniawati Maris
Published: January 2022

Peserta didik dengan kemampuan berpikir kritis tinggi akan memiliki kemampuan memecahkan masalah atau persoalan dengan efisien. Berdasarkan indikator kemampuan berpikir kritis meliputi interpretasi, analisis, evaluasi, interpretasi, eksplanasi, dan regulasi diri, ditemukan permasalahan pada siswa kelas X MIPA SMA Islam Kepanjen yang berkaitan dengan kemampuan berpikir kritis. Permasalahan yang dihadapi yaitu siswa sulit menjawab soal-soal uraian yang diberikan, sulit mengajukan pertanyaan pada materi yang sudah diajarkan, dan sulit memberikan alasan dalam menjawab pertanyaan. Tujuan penelitian adalah untuk mendeskripsikan keterampilan berpikir kritis siswa kelas X SMA Islam Kepanjen pada materi gerak lurus dan gerak melingkar dan mengidentifikasi komponen berpikir kritis siswa pada sub keterampilan analisis, evaluasi, interpretasi dan eksplanasi. Jenis penelitian merupakan penelitian deskriptif dengan menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif. Subjek penelitian siswa kelas X MIPA 2 di SMA Islam Kepanjen dengan jumlah 22 peserta didik yang terdiri dari 18 peserta didik perempuan dan 4 peserta didik laki-laki. Hasil pengumpulan data dianalisis melalui reduksi data, penyajian data dan penarikan kesimpulan. Hasil penelitian menunjukan bahwa kemampuan berpikir kritis siswa kelas X MIPA 2 SMA Islam Kepanjen memperoleh rata-rata 70,06, dan tingkat kemampuan berpikir kritis siswa pada indikator interpretasi 87,64, analisis 73,3, eksplanasi 62,64 evaluasi 56,67. Sehingga dapat disimpulkan bahwa kemampuan berpikir kritis siswa kelas X MIPA 2 SMA Islam Kepanjen pada materi gerak lurus dan gerak melingkar masuk dalam kategori cukup kritis, dan tingkat kemampuan berpikir kritis pada indikator interpretasi masuk pada kategori sangat kritis, keterampilan analisis, eksplanasi serta evaluasi masuk pada kategori cukup kritis.
RANCANG BANGUN SISTEM INFORMASI PENJUALAN LAPTOP BERBASIS WEB DENGAN METODE WATERFALL
Authors: Manis Ritalia , Setiyaningsih Wiji , Kuswinardi Wiwin
Published: January 2022

Sistem penjualan di toko Flobamora Computer masih menerapkan sistem penjualan langsung, dimana sistem penjualan, promosi dan informasi produk akan di dapatkan konsumen hanya pada saat mendatangi toko secara langsung. Jangkauan promosi toko flobamora computer sangat terbatas dikarenakan promosinya masih menggunakan iklan cetak dan brosur. Aktifitas Administratif penjualan dan pencatatan stock barang pada Toko Flobamora masih dengan cara mencatat pada sebuah buku besar. Dampak dari permasalahan tersebut adalah banyaknya terjadi kehilangan data stok, data penjualan sehingga untuk membuat laporan penjualan harus melakukan pencatatan ulang untuk mengembalikan data stok dan data penjualan. Berdasarkan permasalahan di atas, penulis berinisiatif membuat sebuah rancangan sistem penjualan dengan tujuan untuk mengefektifkan administratif penjualan hingga pembuatan laporan bulanan pada toko flobamora Computer serta untuk meningkatkan promosi produk dari toko flobamora ke jangkauan yang lebih luas. Dengan adanya sistem informasi penjualan ini diharapkan dapat membantu memecahkan masalah administratif penjualan pada toko flobamora dalam hal pencatatan stock, data penjualan dan pembuatan laporan penjualan dan memmbantu pemasaran dan promosi toko flobamora computer ke jangkauan yang lebih luas yakni dengan pemasaran dan promosi secara online.Kata kunci : Penjualan online, Administratif Penjualan, Pencatatan Stock
Application System Document Submission to Improving Services in Jedongcangkring Village, Prambon District Web-Based
Authors: Santoso Muhammad Fadil , Fitrani Arif Senja
Published: January 2022

One of the problems faced by the Jedongcangkring village government, Prambon sub-district, is the process of submitting village documents in making or submitting manual letters, where this has an impact on services that are less than optimal for Jedongcangkring village residents, Prambon sub-district. During this Covid-19 pandemic, information technology is needed by humans in carrying out various human jobs. A computer is a device that was created to facilitate human work, while achieving rapid progress both in terms of hardware and software. The use of Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, and other office software in making letters has several weaknesses, such as dependence on high village administrative capabilities resulting in letter formats often changing and prone to inaccuracies in recording data from letters that have been made. With this web-based village village document submission application, it is hoped that it can solve the problems that are being faced by Jedongcangkring village, Prambon sub-district in carrying out correspondence activities and improving correspondence administration services to be better.
The Phenomenon of Online Shopping Among the Cangkringmalang Village Community, Beji District, Pasuruan Regency During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Authors: Mayasari Auria Eka , Maika Ruslianor
Published: January 2022

This study discusses two main issues of technological progress, the second issue is the trend of doing online shopping. Data were obtained through interviews with the Cangkringmalang village community, Beji sub-district, Pasuruan district using qualitative methods with a phenomenological perspective. In this study, primary data was collected using the Atlas.ti application to obtain efficient data. This study aims to find out how the phenomenon of online shopping among the public during the covid-19 pandemic. The conclusion is that the intensity of people's online shopping increases four to six times in a month, this is due to the Regulation of the Minister of Health regarding Large-Scale Social Restrictions in the context of Accelerating the Decline of the Covid-19 Virus. So that the impact of the regulation is limited space for informants.
Employee Productivity in Administrative Services (Case Study in Kedungcangkring Village, Jabon District, Sidoarjo Regency)
Authors: Prianka Firda Anggi , Mursyidah Lailul
Published: January 2022

Low employee performance in providing administrative services is a problem in government agencies. The purpose of the study was to analyze and describe the performance of employees in the service of the Kedungcangkring village, Jabon sub-district, Sidoarjo district. The research method used in this study is a qualitative descriptive method using interviews, observation and documentation. The results showed that the productivity of the village apparatus was good. but needs to be improved again to work optimally.
Manuel de Faria e Sousa y la Quinta de Santa Cruz (Maia, Portugal)
Authors: Plagnard Aude
Published: January 2022

Este artículo propone una primera aproximación a la Descripción de la Quinta de Santa Cruz de Manuel de Faria e Sousa, larga composición en 157 sextinas dedicada a Manuel Severim de Faria y publicada en la Fuente de Aganipe (1644). ¿Por qué tomó la pluma el poeta para elogiar, decenios después de sus respectivas muertes, el obispo fundador de la Quinta, Rodrigo Pinheiro, y la del obispo restaurador de la misma, Gonçalo de Moraes? ¿Cómo procedió para describir la Quinta de Santa Cruz como lugar ameno y ficción arcádica, exaltando las poblaciones locales de la región de Maia? ¿Consiguió participar de la moda ermitaña lanzada en especial por la construcción del Buen Retiro? En cada uno de estos aspectos, Faria e Sousa puso en el centro la formulación de su propio ethos, amparándose a la sombra de Lope de Vega.
La traducción del argot sexual en series juveniles: el doblaje de Sex Education
Authors: Ogea Pozo Maria del Mar , Hidalgo Bujalance Lara
Published: January 2022

Actualmente, resulta innegable que Netflix se ha instaurado en España como una de las plataformas VOD más exitosas del panorama audiovisual. Una de las claves de su éxito es la variedad de producciones disponibles, que satisfacen a suscriptores de todas las edades y grupos sociales. Una de las series más populares entre la población joven es Sex Education (2019), que se ha atrevido a representar fielmente el comportamiento y el habla de los adolescentes frente a situaciones cotidianas relacionadas con la sexualidad, reproduciendo su lenguaje sin ningún tipo de tabú. En el presente estudio realizamos un análisis de la traducción (EN-ES) del sociolecto juvenil en lo que respecta al argot sexual, con el fin de determinar el registro lingüístico predominante tanto en la cultura británica como en la española, así como los niveles de intensidad de la terminología empleada en ambas lenguas. Finalmente, evaluamos el efecto causado por la presencia del lenguaje sexual entre el público joven español para comprobar si el doblaje proporciona el mismo grado de naturalidad y adecuación del sociolecto, de modo que asegure el éxito de Sex Education entre sus consumidores.
Victor Margolin’s Early Years
Authors: Margolin Myra
Published: January 2022

When I was a small child, my father used to take me to a novelty shop in Chicago called Uncle Fun. It was filled with rows of cabinets with tiny drawers that seemed, to my small self, to reach the ceiling. Each drawer contained a small wonder: little rubber chickens, stickers of Renaissance angels, woven finger traps, wax lips, kazoos. We would venture from our apartment in suburban Chicago to this shop in the city where he and I both delighted in opening the drawers and discovering small bursts of surprise, returning home with bags of treasures. We would lay these out on the dining room table, get out his big box of rubber stamps and spend hours making kookie, kitschy art together. Another clear memory: searching with him for the perfect Chicago hot dog. First we decided it was at Fluky’s, where they gave out bubble gum in the shape of a hot dog. Then we switched our allegiance to Poochie’s, where they grilled the onions and slathered on melted cheddar cheese. When my uncles visited from New York, my father eagerly engaged them in the search, taking them around the city to sample hot dog after hot dog. My father was a seeker of culture, someone who dove into the human-made world, be it looking at paintings at a high-end gallery, questing for hot dog perfection, or buying curios with his pre-schooler. I don’t think there was much difference in his mind. He was endlessly fascinated with material culture, engaging in innumerable collecting endeavors throughout his life. He kept catalogs of every film he had seen, had drawers overflowing with records and CDs of music from every continent, and for years devoted shelves of his university office to his “Museum of Contemporary Art”, his collection of cultural kitsch.
Moholy-Nagy’s Light Prop for an Electric Stage. Design, Copies and Reproductions
Authors: Quiroga Fernández Sofía
Published: January 2022

László Moholy-Nagy worked on the prototype for Light Prop for an Electric Stage for eight years, from 1922 to 1930, developing several sketches and designs. The final drawings and model were made with the collaboration of the Hungarian architect Stefan Sebök (István Sebők). The device was built by the AEG company, and it was displayed for the first time in the Werkbund exhibition held in Paris in 1930, where it appeared as an autonomous aesthetic object. This was clearly captured in the film Light Play: Black-White-Gray, in which Moholy-Nagy recorded its kinetic quality in the spirit of the abstract films developed at that time. The film clearly shows the motion of the lighting device as a formal exercise of abstraction using double exposures, special effects and close-ups. The Light Prop underwent several alterations over time to keep it working in a variety of exhibitions around Europe and America. In 1956, after Moholy-Nagy passed away, his widow, Sibyl Moholy-Nagy, donated it to the Harvard Busch-Reisinger Museum, where it has remained ever since. After further damage caused by inappropriate restoration and its mechanical instability, the Light Prop was reconstructed in 1969 for the exhibition From Pigment to Light, celebrated at the Howard Wise Gallery in New York (Tsai et al. 2017). The idea of a copy emerged during the planning of this exhibition to preserve the legacy of Moholy-Nagy’s knowledge. Sibyl Moholy-Nagy finally approved this idea in 1970, allowing the production of two copies, one for the exhibition and the other for the 35th Venice Biennale (1970). Both reproductions were kept and sent to the Bauhaus Archive in Darmstadt and the Van Abbemuseum, where the original device had suffered repeated damage during the KunstLichtKunst exhibition (1966). The essay attempts to trace the timeline of modifications from the original device to the reproductions.
Literature, Mythmaking and National Identity: the Case for Seven Little Australians
Authors: Pearce Sharyn
Published: January 2022

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Thisness and Everydayness in Children's Literature: The 'being-in-the-world proposed by the text'
Authors: Johnston Rosemary
Published: January 2022

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Some Other Country's History
Authors: Scott Carole
Published: January 2022

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The Lost and Possessed Child in Henry James's The Turn of the Screw, William Friedkin and William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist and Victor Kelleher's Del-Del
Authors: Schober Adrian
Published: January 2022

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Watching Alice: The Child as Narrative Lens in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Authors: Cameron Rachael
Published: January 2022

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Postcolonial Pictures for Children: Gavin Bishop and the Folktale
Authors: Holt Jill
Published: January 2022

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Minding your 'Ps and Qs': Poetry, Propaganda, Politics and Pictures
Authors: Halliday Alison
Published: January 2022

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Neo-Confucianism in Chinese Children’s Books
Authors: Fang Xiangshu
Published: January 2022

A new leadership fell back on the concept of patriotism as the main plank of post-Mao ideologies following the death of Mao Zedong and the end of the Cultural Revolution. Translations of a number of neo-Confucian texts are discussed along with the principles of Confucianism and their deployment in contemporary Chinese texts, considering that Confucianism was reintroduced as a strategy of stabilization, after the turmoil of the 1980s and the suppression of the democracy movement.
Camphor Laurel: A Re-vision of Desire
Authors: McInally Kate
Published: January 2022

Sarah Walker's 'Camphor Laurel' demonstrates that the text is one of a few Young Adult fictions which destabilise cultural assumptions concerning a normative heterosexuality, as it engages with male-centred discourses that have attempted to reconcile feminine desire with sexual orientation and categorisation. The novel's representation of same-sex desire by young female characters moves beyond the models of maturational development and identity politics, which inform most mainstream fiction.
Potterliteracy: Cross-Media Narratives, Cultures and Grammars
Authors: Burn Andrew
Published: January 2022

This is an opportunity to think hard about the rhetorics of multiliteracy and media literacy. What exactly do these mean when we look at the detail, at the 'micro-level' of literacy (Buckingham 2003)? How does a particular image or narrative moment 'translate' across different media? If we expect children to learn about the notion of 'character' in literature or film, what does this mean in the context of a game? If they learn the category of 'verb' in language, how do we talk about this category in film? How is the 'verb' different in the interactive media of computer games? And how do these processes relate to macro-literacy, to the broader cultural experience of books, films and games within which such meanings are situated? And what are these different formal structures representing? At the heart of this question, I want to place the question about the social purpose of Harry Potter for children, and the forms of agency the character represents.
(W)reading, Wrangling and the Rhythm of the Text: Enhancing the Education of Young Boys with Game-Based Learning
Authors: Blashki Katherine
Published: January 2022

The introduction of games-based learning in areas such as literacy especially for young males may go some way towards ameliorating many of the notorious social, cultural and educational issues currently faced by teachers. Most essential in the design and development of curriculum for young males is the provision of agency, physical interaction and immersion, both virtually and in reality as these are the defining needs of boys' interaction with learning experiences.
‘You Can’t Say No to the Beauty and the Beast’: Shrek and Ideology
Authors: Takolander Maria , McCooey David
Published: January 2022

The film 'Shrek' is considered with a reflection on the discourses of post-feminism, which announce the redundancy of the feminist enterprise in a brave new world where girls and women have allegedly gone very far in achieving equality of opportunities and access to power. A number of suggestions for scrutinising this film are also suggested, as it has received some critical attention, despite the fact that it has also enjoyed enormous commercial success since its release.
Examination, Surveillance and Confession in Victorian and Late 20th Century Texts
Authors: Hodge Diana
Published: January 2022

Despite the overt differences in themes and foci between the Victorian period and the 1990s, fictional children from both eras are still represented as subject to, and constructed by, disciplinary forces. My focus in this essay is on the extent to which tropes of examination, surveillance and confession appear in texts from both eras as elements of a regime intended to form adolescent subjects.
Of the Postmodernists’ Party Without Knowing It: Philip Pullman, Hypermorality and Metanarratives
Authors: Keane Beppie
Published: January 2022

The prominence of Philip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials' trilogy has prompted energetic debate around Pullman's treatment of organised religion and questions of morality and ethics. Pullman's treatment of religion is considered in a different way by drawing on George Bataille's notion of hypermorality, which proposes a view of morality based on rationality and enabling a critique of those moral codes, which claim the authority of institutionalised religions.
Sex Education, Hollywood Style: Gender, Sexuality and Identity in The Girl Next Door
Authors: Pearce Sharyn
Published: January 2022

In lieu of abstract, here is the first paragraph of the article:
Commentators as diverse as Henry Giroux (1989; 1994; 1997; 2002), David Buckingham (2003), Cameron McCarthy (1998; 1999) and Peter McLaren (1994; 1995) have contributed towards an understanding of how popular cultural texts such as films, television, music and magazines help to shape young people’s worlds, and how they exist as pedagogical sites where youth learn about the world. The respected ethnographer and cultural theorist Paul Willis, for example, argued some time ago that popular culture is a more significant, penetrating cultural force in young people’s lives than schooling:
The field of education ... will be further marginalised in most young people’s experience by common (i.e. popular) culture. In so far as the educational practitioners are still predicated on traditional liberal humanist lines and on the assumed superiority of high art, they will become almost totally irrelevant to the real energies and interests of most young people and have no part in their identity formation. Common culture will, increasingly, undertake, in its own ways, the roles that education has vacated.
(Willis 1990, p.147)
More recently still, Nadine Dolby has claimed that popular culture is not simply fluff that can be dismissed as irrelevant and insignificant; on the contrary, ‘it has the capacity to intervene in the most critical issues and to shape public opinion’ (Dolby 2003, p.259).
Playfulness in Lauren Child’s Picture Books
Authors: O'Sullivan Suzanne
Published: January 2022

Lauren Child is the author/illustrator of thirteen picture books, four board books and three novels, most prominently the Clarice Bean series and the Charlie and Lola series.1 She has been feted as ‘one of Britain’s foremost children’s writers and illustrators’ (Booth 2005, p.13). As Rose notes, ‘people rave about how clever the stories are, how the drawings and design are quirky and refreshingly different’ (2006). Child has won numerous awards, including the Kate Greenaway Medal (for I Will Not Ever Never Eat a Tomato) and the Smarties Prize (for Clarice Bean, That’s Me; What Planet Are You From, Clarice Bean? and That Pesky Rat).
Fantasy as Epanalepsis: ‘An Anticipation of Retrospection’
Authors: McGillis Roderick
Published: January 2022

This article begins by discussing the rhetorical turn of the first sentence in M. T. Anderson's Thirsty. That first sentence reads: 'In the spring, there are vampires in the wind' (1997 p. 11). Do not these words sound similar to the subtitle of Tolkien's The Hobbit: 'There and Back Again'? I mean, doesn't the shape of the sentence that begins Thirsty remind us of the meaning of Tolkien's subtitle? The sentence begins with a prepositional phrase and ends with a prepositional phrase; in other words, it begins, with a phrase blowing in the wind and ends with the return of that wind; it begins, goes there, and then comes back, so to speak. When winter passes, a spring wind is sure to follow. If we are of a psychoanalytic cast of mind, we might say that rhetorically, the sentence enacts a return - the return of the repressed - but it does so slyly; it disguises the return of the repressed because we always have to disguise repressed content when it insists on emerging from the unconscious. Those pesky vampires insist on returning time and again; this time they come in with the wind - a sort of undead Chinook. My argument, then, is that fantasy rhetorically enacts the journey of return. When we begin a fantasy, we anticipate a return; we read retrospectively. Fantasy can deliver a productive nostalgia, a looking backward in order to look forward, fantasy opens a space for invention, and what returns in fantasy is both the repressed itself and the mechanism of repression.
Roald Dahl’s Reception in America: The Tall Tale, Humour and the Gothic Connection
Authors: Schober Adrian
Published: January 2022

Dahl's hyperbolic children's fantasies appeal to the American love of overstatement, a hallmark of that most American of storytelling forms: the tall tale. Humour is an essential element of the tall tale; one of its most famous practitioners was Mark Twain. Dahl's brand of humour clearly profits from this national literary form. His employment of grotesque caricature also has links with the Gothic, a mode in which Dahl excels, as does America. However, as Petzold notes, the question of whether 'there are national differences in the use of the grotesque is... yet to be investigated' (2006, p.183). It may be that American culture is more willing to embrace a particular form of the grotesque.
From Colonial Superstition to the Hairyman: Aboriginality and the Politics of Race
Authors: O'Conor Juilet
Published: January 2022

The misconceptions of Indigenous incapacity and pastoral welfarism evident in the mid century texts are reversed by the end of the century and the texts that have made the same possible are discussed. Characterization of the Indigenous protagonists in each publication reveals much about changing perceptions of Aboriginality.
Metaphors of monstrosity: The werewolf as disability and illness in Harry Potter and Jatta
Authors: Weaver Roslyn
Published: January 2022

While vampires are proliferating in children's and young adult literature, the increasingly popular werewolf figure also deserves attention, particularly given the intriguing links that particular authors draw between the werewolf and disability. These links are seen in not only the two works I discuss in this paper, but others as well (for example, in Howl's Moving Castle, a man cursed into the form of a dog is said to have a 'terrible disability' [Jones 1986, pp. 119-20]). Readers might assume the authors are creating these associations with worthy intentions, but might also question if a werewolf, a monster, is indeed an appropriate metaphor for disability and illness. In this discussion, metaphor is understood in line with Fogelin's (1994) definition where 'both similes and metaphors express figurative comparisons: similes explicitly, metaphors implicitly' (p. 23). This paper explores the werewolf as metaphor for disability and illness in the Harry Potter series (Rowling 1999, 2003, 2005, 2007) and Jatta (Hale 2009).
Charity and Children's Literature
Authors: Moruzi Kristine
Published: January 2022

This special issue on charity and children’s literature emerges out of my current research on how children are encouraged to see themselves as charitable beings. In this historical project, I examine a range of children’s magazines from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to analyse which children are inducted into habits of philanthropy while other children are depicted as the recipients of good will and material benefits. This research has shown that children have been understood to have the potential to act as charitable agents for hundreds of years. Yet it also reflects the complex interaction between children and charity in children’s literature, where sometimes the charitable children are not only the recipients of charity, but are also inspired to help others as well.
Processes of Screenout Development and Avoidance
Authors: Barree Robert
Published: January 2022

In SPE 18955, published in 1989, a strong case was made suggesting that observed rapid increases in treating pressure were not caused by fracture "tip screenouts". These conclusions were further supported by extensive laboratory studies of proppant bridging in slot-flow geometries. These studies showed that conventional "bridging criteria" predicting slot widths of 3-6 particle diameters would cause permanent proppant bridging or packing, were invalid. These results were published in SPE 67298 in 2001. Yet, more than 30 years after the first cited publication the terms "tip screenout" and "tip screenout design" are still in common usage. This paper presents a physics-based description of the mechanisms that cause actual wellbore screenout and the associated rapid pressure rise, and easy to apply methods to prevent or avoid developing screenouts while pumping.

Field cases and numerical simulation studies will be presented to show that screenouts occur in the very near-wellbore region, particularly at the borehole sand-face. The proximity to the wellbore allows changes to be made to pump rate and other parameters, without the need to adjust fluid composition, stability, or prepad/pad volumes in future stages. A numerical simulator has been used to simulate observed screenout conditions, predict their occurrence, and demonstrate that screenout progression can be halted or controlled. The paper presents the underlying physical processes that control screenouts and explains why the proposed (and field tested) avoidance protocols work.

The numerical formulation presented in the paper models screenout development and shows how to avert progression of the associated treating pressure rise. The method has been tested and verified in the field, and examples are provided. The work shows conclusively that screenouts occur at the wellbore surface or entry to the fracture intersections with the borehole, and not in the body or tip (perimeter) of the propagating fracture.

The information presented in the paper invalidates decades of conventional fracture design theory including pad volume requirements based on fluid efficiency, design of fracturing fluid rheological stability at bottomhole temperature for the duration of pumping time, methods for proppant concentration scheduling (ramping), and virtually all conventional "design" practices.
Empirical Meets Analytical-Novel Case Study Quantifies Fracture Stress Shadowing and Net Pressure Using Bottom Hole Pressure and Optical Fiber
Authors: Haustveit Kyle , Elliott Brendan , Roberts Jon
Published: January 2022

The Anadarko Basin is located within a strike-slip faulting regime (SHMax>Sv>Shmin) which results in large, planar fracture geometries created during the hydraulic stimulation of low permeability formations. The Meramec formation is dominated by siltstones as part of a series of prograding, stacked clinoforms. The geomechanical properties and the regional stress regime are first order drivers in controlling fracture growth rates, size, and ultimately the drainage area. Net pressure and stress shadowing play a significant role in the design of cluster spacing, proppant selection, fluid selection, and resulting fracture geometry. This paper will review an operator’s case study designed to quantify stress shadowing and fracture net pressure using multiple bottomhole pressure gauges (BHPGs) in a horizontal, multi-stage stimulation in the Meramec formation of the Anadarko Basin.

The case study will review the measurements taken from two permanently installed BHPGs placed along a horizontal wellbore during a hydraulic stimulation. The first BHPG is located at the toe of a horizontal wellbore being stimulated and is in communication with hydraulic fractures created during the first stage; the second BHPG is located near the heel of the same well being stimulated. The BHPG at the toe of the well is used to measure the poroelastic pressure responses generated as stages are completed uphole from the first stage. Optical fiber is analyzed to evaluate Near Wellbore (NWB) and far-field fracture interactions. The measurements have been integrated into a fracture simulator to calibrate the far-field stress during hydraulic fracture growth.

Measured stress shadowing in this pilot allowed the authors to develop an equation that can be solved to estimate net pressure. The results are aligned with measurements obtained from DFITs in the area. Historically, net pressure and stress shadow values have been difficult to measure with high confidence due to various pressure losses between the wellhead and formation. Net pressure is a key for optimal cluster spacing design, and a critical matching parameter for hydraulic stimulation models, small errors in net pressure matches can have significant impacts in the resulting simulated fracture geometry. This paper will detail the integration of empirical data to advance an analytical model that quantifies net pressure and poroelastic stress transfer from a hydraulic fracture.