bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Correlation between concrete cracks and corrosion characteristics of steel reinforcement in pre-cracked plain and fibre-reinforced concrete beams
Authors: Chen E. , Berrocal Carlos G. , Löfgren Ingemar , Lundgren Karin 
Published: March 2020

AbstractThis paper presents results on corrosion characteristics of 66 rebars extracted from un- and pre-cracked plain concrete and fibre-reinforced concrete (FRC) beams suffering from corrosion for more than 3 years. The influences of fibre reinforcement, flexural cracks, corrosion-induced cracks and loading condition on the maximum local corrosion level (defined as the maximum cross-sectional area loss percentage) and pit morphology were examined. With 3D-scanning, the corrosion characteristics were analysed, and pit types were classified based on the maximum local corrosion level and geometric parameters of pits. Corrosion pits were observed near some flexural cracks, while the bars at other cracks were free from corrosion. Most rebars in FRC had less maximum local corrosion level than those in plain concrete under the same loading condition and maximum flexural crack width. However, the maximum local corrosion level was not dependent on the maximum flexural crack width (0.1 and 0.4 mm). Longitudinal cracks (corrosion-induced cracks) aggravated the total steel loss and changed the pit morphology by promoting the pit length development. However, longitudinal cracks did not always form, even with severe pitting corrosion. A hypothesis about the time-dependent interplay between transverse and longitudinal cracks and corrosion development was proposed. Further studies on predicting the pitting corrosion evolution and experimental work on specimens exposed for longer periods are needed to understand and quantify the long-term durability of concrete structures reinforced with both conventional reinforcing bars and fibres.
Synergy and Universality as New Approaches to Training in the Field of Media Law
Authors: Timofeev Alexey 
Published: March 2020

The review is a response to the textbook Legal Regulation of Mass Media for undergraduate students of journalism faculties. Professor I. Pankeev examines the legislation on the media, the rights and duties of journalists, the protection of intellectual property rights to the content journalists create, state regulation in the media and much more. The textbook is relevant as it takes into account the trends of legal regulation of the media in 2017–2018, it is also fundamental as it combines information from different areas of law, which is extremely rare, and the textbook is universal: for many reasons, it will be practically useful not only for university students, but also for the media editorial staff, specialists in the field of media communication and scientists studying the state regulation of the media.
Foreign Media About the Great Patriotic War in the Context of Information Confrontation
Authors: Antonenkova Anastasia 
Published: March 2020

The article presents the research results of the media information activity in the United States, Britain and Germany in the coverage of the 70th anniversary of the end of the Great Patriotic War. This event serves as a plot prism, through which methods of information confrontation producing and its subject orientation are considered, as well as the reasons for the predominance of negative tonality when covering a memorable event all over the world.
As a method of measuring media content, the method of political mediametry was used, which is based on a quantitative calculation of the mass media publications of the world media, determining their tonality and deriving the final result based on the obtained data. Its use allows us to more accurately assess the degree of foreign media participation in shaping the context of information confrontation and measure the parameters of their activity in the display of current events.
The specificity of the information strategy implementation in relation to Russia lies in the fact that the American media act primarily as a general tone generator, while the powers of the translator are transferred to their European allies. At the same time, the tonality indicator inside the country shows that in a small volume of American publications the negative dynamics is more pronounced than in a large volume of materials from the English and German press, where the negative is leveled down. It is not necessary to take into account the level of positive tonality due to its insignificant presence.
The article focuses on the Russian president V. Putin’s media figure. The number of mentions of his name in the titles of the presented publications demonstrates the vector of the information policy pursued within the state, and in proportion to the general information activity according to the specified plot. By force of the personification of public political relations, the placing of V. Putin’s media figure in the center of media attacks by Western countries leads to an extrapolation of aggressive sentiments to all Russian society. Added to this is the participation of domestic media, which are trying to use retaliatory measures, but their orientation does not always correspond to the declared goal.
The results of the research allow us to consider the media as participants in the formation of information confrontation conditions, whose actions are directly correlated with the foreign policy aspirations of the country in which they operate.
On the almost sure convergence of randomly indexed maximum of random variables
Authors: Krajka Andrzej , Rychlik Zdzisław , Wasiura-Maślany Joanna 
Published: March 2020

We prove an almost sure random version of a maximum limit theorem, using logarithmic means for \(\max_{1\leq i\leq N_n} X_i\), where \(\{X_n, n \geq 1\}\) is a sequence of identically distributed random variables and \(\{N_n, n \geq 1\}\) is a sequence of positive integer random variables independent of \(\{X_n, n \geq 1\}\). Furthermore, we consider the almost sure random version of a limit theorem for \(k\)th order statistics.
Emergence of Corporate Philanthropy: Chapter Bangladesh
Authors: Parvez Md. Shahriar 
Published: March 2020

The study objective is to focus on emergence of corporate philanthropy on Bangladesh. Corporate philanthropy is a phenomenon which associates the business sector with the social sector. Social historians and researchers alike as a subset of a larger corporate social responsibility (CSR) subject, philanthropy provides an opportunity for corporations to establish an ethical and moral mantra within the organization. The study also aims to find out, understand the perspective of attributes, legal context, importance, advantages and disadvantages, competitive advantage, Sectors contribution analysis of emergence of corporate philanthropy on Bangladesh. The study used published secondary source of data from various relevant sources reports, websites, journals, publications and the researcher have used own personal experience regarding the country’s corporate behavior and following background and their impact on this research paper. After conceptualizing the various situations and literatures review the study find out that corporate philanthropy is a new concept in the corporate world and increasing clients/ customers demand on the products and services towards the corporate in the meantime cooperate responsibilities towards their clients/ customers also increasing day by day, so emergence of the corporate philanthropy in Bangladesh is a vital part of the corporate sector and Bangladeshi business culture for centuries and it seems that an emphasis on charitable contributions from philanthropic programs has enhanced the visibility of this practice in Bangladesh.
GEL Classification Code: M14; N30
Clinical profile of falciparum, vivax and mixed infections of malaria, from a tertiary care hospital, Coastal Andhra, India
Authors: Gangaram Usham , Sarikonda Giri Raju , Soren Bhimasen , . Venkatakrishnan 
Published: March 2020

Background: Malaria is a major health problem in many parts of India and some parts of Andhra Pradesh is one of the endemic areas for malaria. The objective was to study clinical profile and outcome of malaria in both species and mixed infection.Methods: Present study was carried out on 100 patients admitted during the period of November 2016 - October 2018 in Narayana medical college and hospital, Nellore. Malaria confirmed by Peripheral thick and thin smear or Antigen Assay underwent detailed clinical history and physical examination. This was followed by monitoring the outcome of the patients with respect to morbidity and mortality.Results: Out Of the 100 patients 58 patients were from rural background, males were predominant, most common age group was 20-30 (34%) followed by 31-40 (31%). Out of 100 patients, 54 patients were falciparum,44 patients had vivax and two had mixed infection. All of the patients had fever followed by chills and rigors (75%), nausea and vomiting (59%), easy fatiguability (28%), pain abdomen (17), cough (14%) in both infections, altered sensorium was seen in only falciparum (20.3%). On clinical examination,70% of the patients had pallor, splenomegaly in 46%, icterus (23%), hepatomegaly (14%) and pedal edema in12 patients were observed. All 0f the patients were treated with appropriate antimalarial drugs for appropriate duration, and all were recovered without any mortality.Conclusions:Malaria is very common disease in our country especially in South India, which is one of the endemic areas. Severe malaria usually caused by the falciparum more than vivax, early diagnosis and treatment decreases the mortality and morbidity.
Celui qui boit, ne pense pas à mal (Comment dire boire et boisson en langage familier et en argot bulgare ?)
Authors: Armianov Gueorgui 
Published: March 2020

Les dernières décennies du XIXe siècle marquent le début des recherches scientifi consacrées aux sociolectes bulgares, notamment aux argots secrets des artisans : maçons, cordonniers, musiciens de la rue, mendiants, petits voleurs. Progressivement, l’intérêt se tourne vers les argots corporatifs des écoliers et des étudiants des grandes villes et ces sociolectes restent au centre des études jusqu’à nos jours. Toutefois, le vocabulaire argotique relatif aux boissons et à l’action de boire n’a jamais été spécialement étudié en Bulgarie. L’article proposé, qui est basée sur plusieurs ouvrages littéraires et journalistiques, les forums d’Internet et le discours quotidien, examine le vocabulaire de l’argot bulgare relatif aux boissons et à l’action de boire, ses relations avec la langue standard et le langage familier, leurs différences et leurs similitudes. Le vocabulaire analysé est classifié selon son appartenance à une variété spécifique de la langue nationale : langue standard, langage familier et sociolecte ; puis, chaque groupe est organisé selon les caractéristiques lexico-morphologiques des éléments constitutifs : verbes, substantifs ou adjectifs, expressions verbales ou substantivales.
Il y aura à boire ? Les boissons dans le langage d’Aristide Bruant
Authors: Szabó Dávid 
Published: March 2020

Dans ce travail, nous présenterons la terminologie relative aux boissons dans le langage du chansonnier, écrivain et lexicographe Aristide Bruant (1851-1925) telle qu’on la trouve dans son dictionnaire L’Argot au XXe siècle (1901, avec Léon Drouin de Bercy) et dans les paroles de ses chansons qui constituent un document particulièrement précieux pour ceux intéressés par le français argotique et populaire au tournant des XIXe et XXe siècles. Le dictionnaire de Bruant et de Bercy peut être critiqué à juste titre du point de vue de la lexicographie de notre époque, mais ses points forts indéniables en font un dictionnaire particulièrement important pour son époque, sans oublier qu’avec les textes des chansons il constitue un corpus d’argot ancien d’une valeur inestimable. Selon notre hypothèse, ce lexique comprend, d’une part, les noms argotiques et populaires des différentes boissons et, d’autre part, des éléments lexicaux ayant diverses significations dont on doit la formation – par des procédés sémantiques – à l’imagerie alimentaire relative à la notion de boire.
PRODUK ENKAPSULASI ASAP CAIR SEKAM PADI DAN APLIKASINYA UNTUK MENGAWETKAN TAHU PUTIH
Authors: Andiana Ana , Aini Nur , Karseno Karseno 
Published: March 2020

Tofu is a perishable food product, thus requiring a safe natural preservative. Liquid smoke from rice husk can be used as a tofu preservative, but its use in liquid form is less practical. Liquid smoke encapsulation process is a way to resolve the issue. The research objectives were to study the antibacterial activity of liquid smoke from rice husks and their encapsulated products, the effect of the concentration of liquid smoke encapsulation products on the shelf life of white tofu during storage, and the optimal concentration of liquid smoke encapsulation products that were able to maintain the quality of white tofu during storage. This type of research was experimental using a Split Plot Design, with the main plot was the concentration of encapsulated products, while the sub-plot was the storage time. Factors studied were the storage time (0, 2, 4 and 6 days) and encapsulation product concentrations (0, 0.5, 1, 1.5 and 2%). There were 20 combinations of treatment, repeated two times in order to get 40 units of trial. The results showed that the liquid smoke of rice husk had total phenol of 1,624.62 mg GAE/g, also had antibacterial activity against Escherichia coli ATCC and Staphylococcus aureus ATCC. Encapsulation product of rice husk liquid smoke had total phenol of 3,125 mg GAE/g and antibacterial activity against Escherichia coli ATCC and Staphylococcus aureus ATCC. The concentration of the encapsulated product affected the value of water content, protein content and the total plate count (TPC) during storage. The concentration of 2% encapsulated product produced the lowest changes during storage. The concentration of 1% encapsulated product resulted in tofu quality that was still organoleptically feasible until the second day of storage.
Keywords: encapsulation, liquid smoke, white tofu
DETERMINASI DIVERSIFIKASI VERTIKAL PRODUK OLAHAN JAMBU MERAH
Authors: Ekawati Marina , Wibowo Yuli , Arum Dalu Kiky Chily , Nurhayati Nurhayati 
Published: March 2020

Red guava as tropical fruit is widely cultivated in Indonesia. The abundant production of red guava is not accompanied by the processing of this fruit with 30-40% post harvest damage. This study aimed to determine the vertical diversification of red guava products. The study used a descriptive and analytical approach. Vertical diversification of red guava products were juice, puree, jam, “dodol”, and crakers. The lowest cost of production was guava juice i.e Rp 5,398.-per unit. Evaluation of sensory showed that guava juice was the most preferred for taste and aroma with score 4.30 (like) and 3.73 (like). The most preferred product for color was “dodol” with score 4.30 (like). Based on production cost and preferred value, guava juice was the most potential as a vertical diversification of guava product than the other products (puree, jam, “dodol”, and crakers).
Keywords: vertical diversification, jam, juice, production cost, red guava
INDONESIAN NANOCLAYS FOR THE REMOVAL OF NITRATE IN LIQUID WASTE CONTAINING PALM OIL MILL EFFLUENT
Authors: Sudadi Untung , Anwar Syaiful , Anggriawan Rendy , Afrizal Tengku 
Published: March 2020

Land application of liquid waste containing palm oil mill effluent (LW-POME) as soil ameliorant can cause water contamination due to its high content of nitrate if improperly treated. Indonesia is rich with volcanic tuff materials that contain variable charged soil clay minerals. This study was aimed at to extract nanoclays (fraction sized <200 nm) from volcanic tuffs of Mt. Salak, West Java, Indonesia, and evaluate their potential use as adsorbent of nitrate in LW-POME. By applying dispersion, ultrasonication, centrifugation, and dialysis separation techniques, it could be extracted positively charged nanoclays nc3 and nc4 from the respectively tuff materials tv3 and tv4. Their potential use as natural adsorbent of nitrate as anionic contaminant was evaluated using Langmuir isothermal adsorption model. After 48 h equilibration, it could be extracted 4.33 mg nc3/g tv3 and 7.73 mg nc4/g tv4 with nitrate adsorption maxima of 48.3 and 40 mg/g for nc3 and nc4, respectively. The removal of nitrate in the LW-POME from 62 to 20 mg/L as to comply with the Indonesian liquid waste quality standard required 29.81 mg nc3/L or 39.34 mg nc4/L. The extracted nanoclays were considered prospective to be utilized as natural adsorbent for nitrate removal in LW-POME.
Keywords: anionic contaminant, natural adsorbent, nitrate adsorption, volcanic tuff
Mythical Pasts, Speculative Futures: The plasticity of the post/pre-human body
Authors: Porter Ryan 
Published: March 2020

This paper examines the plastic figure as it appears in both Ray Kurzweil's vision of the post-singularity human body and in Thomas King's retelling of North-American Indigenous myth. It proposes that the plastic figure, true to its name, serves very different symbolic purposes. While in Kurzweil's vision, the plastic figure is part of a vision of unfettered consumption, in King's vision, plasticity suggests a chaotic quality that must be 'fixed.' The paper ultimately suggests that Kurzweil's and King's futuristic and mythical narratives possess vastly different views on the human body as it exists in the present.
‘We want what you have’: Faustian Finance in The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim and Capital
Authors: Di Bernardo Francesco 
Published: March 2020

‘We want what you have’ is the most emblematic sentence in Lanchester’s Capital: it is printed on a postcard left in the houses of Pepys Road and evokes the spectre of house repossessions followed by the 2008 financial crisis. Conversely, in literature the repossession by definition is that of Faust’s soul by Mephistopheles. Ian Watts (2006) tracing the origins of the Faustian myth recounts the historical and fictional roots of the myth and affirms that that Faust represents the ‘unrepentant individualist’. Faust’s unstoppable desire to achieve his own interests by any means is eventually the cause of his own ruin and perpetual damnation.
The financial crisis started in 2008 in the UK revealed the fallacy of the “alchemic” dream of the deregulated finance to constantly generating wealth through dubious gambling practices. The result of that individualistic and greedy pursue of wealth is the current economic and social crises. In this paper I will investigate how the parable of greed, success, crisis and final ruin is represented through Faustian echoes in Coe’s The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim and Lanchester’s Capital. I will focus specifically on those characters and sections of the novels that revoke the Faustian parable in the context of the representation of deregulated finance.
Of Spiritual Failure: The Matter of Hegel's Pyramids
Authors: Kingston Andrew 
Published: March 2020

This article critically examines GWF Hegel's treatment of the Egyptian pyramids in his Aesthetics as an aporia at a crucial juncture of his systematic philosophy. For Hegel, the pyramids are the aesthetic and historical moment at which 'Spirit' begins to extricate itself from matter. However, this article claims that such a transition is only possible through a repression and a forgetting of the material situation upon which it is predicated. In forming this argument, this article will examine Hegel's dismissive treatment of the pyramids in six sections. In the first and second sections, the pyramids will be situated within Hegel's larger project. In the third section, the article will look at his writings on the pyramids themselves. The fourth section will examine Jacques Derrida's critique of 'Hegel's semiology' as a way to open up a critical perspective. The fifth section turns to Hegel's writing on geology in Philosophy of Nature as a way to focus on the materiality of the pyramids. And finally, the sixth section concludes by considering their labor and the construction. Each of these latter sections attempts attempts to highlight aspects of the pyramids that fundamentally challenge the Hegelian transition from matter to 'Spirit'.
The Network Imaginary in J. G. Ballard's 'Crash'
Authors: Gillie Calder 
Published: March 2020

This paper focuses on the representation of the network in J. G. Ballard’s Crash. I investigate the relationship between the car crash and the road network: specifically the political potential of the crash to provide access the exterior of the capitalist road network's regime of 'auto-mobility' (the combination of discourses of autonomy and mobility). My theoretical focus is on Jean Baudrillard’s proposition that ‘there is no exterior’ to postmodern subjectivity. Baudrillard reads Crash as a literary manifestation of surface without exterior. In opposition to this, I explore the possibility that the car crash is an attempt to reach a terrain outside of late capitalism. My conclusion presents an amendment to Baudrillard’s argument. I suggest that if Baudrillard’s analysis is applied to the network it actually describes the impossible promise of the network: absolute connection, a system without exterior. As opposed to something that is already present, I suggest that this is what the crash is trying to reach: crashing is the attempt to go anywhere precluded by the impossible combination of autonomy and mobility.
Pengaruh Etika Bisnis Terhadap Produktivitas Kerja Karyawan (Studi di KSPPS BTM Sang Surya Pamekasan)
Authors: Jannah Khairul , Handayani Erwin Yuli 
Published: March 2020

Istilah et ika dalam bahasa Indonesia sebenarnya berasal dari bahasa Yunani: ethos, yang berarti kebiasaan atau watak. Etika juga berasal dari bahasa Perancis: etiquette atau dalam bahasa Indonesia dengan kata etiket yang berarti juga kebiasaan atau cara bergaul, berperilaku yang baik. Etika bisnis adalah aturan-aturan yang menegaskan suatu bisnis boleh bertindak dan tidak boleh bertindak, dimana aturan-aturan tersebut dapat bersumber dari aturan tertulis maupun aturan yang tidak tertulis. Penelit ian ini merupakan penelit ian penjelasan (explanatory research) yang akan membuktikan hubungan kasual antara variabel bebas (independen variabel), yaitu variabel etika bisnis yang diprosikan denga norma sopan santun, norma hukum, dan norma moral dengan variable terikat (dependen variabel) yaitu prodiktifitas kerja karyawan. Produktifitas adalah perbandingan antara keluaran/output dan masukan/input. Produktifitas kerja merupakan sikap mental, yang selalu mencari perbaikkanterhadap apa yang telah ada. Suatu keyakinan bahwa seseorang dapat melakukan pekerjaan lebih baik hari ini dari pada hari kemarin dan hari esok lebih baik dari hari ini. Secara normat if etika bisnis menciptakan hubungan yang erat antar perusahaan baik pimpinan maupun karyawan membentuk kerjasama yang adil dan sehat serta membangun kerjasama yang erat.