bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Antibacterial and antifungal effects of acetone extracts from fifty spice and herb plants
Authors: Demirkol Gurkan , Erturk Omer 
Published: December 2019

Summary

Introduction: Chemical industry is obligatory to improve new chemically effective components. Spices are potential new antimicrobials.

Objective: The present study was designed to evaluate the antibacterial and antifungal activity of fifty aromatic spices and medicinal herbs obtained from Turkey.

Material and methods: In vitro antibacterial activities of a total of fifty acetone extracts from aromatic spices and medicinal herbs were studied by disc diffusion and agar diffusion method. The extracts were tested against three Gram-positive bacteria (Listeria monocytogenes, Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus cereus), four Gram-negative bacteria (Proteus vulgaris, Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Salmonella typhimurium) and two fungi (Aspergillus niger, Candida albicans).

Results: The highest antimicrobial activity was observed in the extract of Alpinia officinarum against Salmonella typhimurium and Cassia angustifolia against Bacillus cereus. Many of the extracts showed minimum inhibition concentration at even lowest dose.

Conclusion: The obtained results showed that aromatic spices and medicinal herbs may be used as natural antimicrobials against diseases.
Are Sexual Minorities Hard-to-Survey? Insights from the 2020 Census Barriers, Attitudes, and Motivators Study (CBAMS) Survey
Authors: Bates Nancy , García Trejo Yazmín A. , Vines Monica 
Published: December 2019

AbstractAs a stigmatized and vulnerable population, sexual minorities are often assumed to also be a hard-to-survey population. Despite this implicit assumption, there is little empirical evidence on the topic. Using a nationally representative survey that included sexual orientation (the Census Barriers, Attitudes, and Motivators Survey), we examine level of effort, the Census Bureau’s Low Response Score (LRS), and stated intent to respond to the 2020 Census as proxy measures to explore this assumption. We found no evidence that sexual minorities required higher levels of effort to secure participation in the survey. Additionally, we found that compared to straight respondents, lesbians, gays, and bisexuals had a higher intent to respond to the 2020 Census. We surmise the current social climate in the United States may be a contributing factor to these findings.
Can They and Will They? Exploring Proxy Response of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in the Current Population Survey
Authors: Holzberg Jessica , Ellis Renee , Kaplan Robin , Virgile Matt , Edgar Jennifer 
Published: December 2019

AbstractWithin the United States Federal Statistical System, there has been interest in capturing sexual orientation (SO) and gender identity (GI), collectively known as SOGI, on surveys to allow researchers to estimate the size and distribution of sexual and gender minority populations. SOGI measurement in federal surveys may also help to identify disparities between people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) and those who do not in domains such as health, crime, or employment. Although research has been conducted on best practices for SOGI measurement in surveys, it has largely been limited to examination of self-reports. Many federal surveys use proxy reports, when one person generally responds for all household members. This research used cognitive interviews and focus groups to explore proxy response to SOGI questions. We explored potential sources of measurement error in proxy responses to SOGI questions, including sensitivity, difficulty, as well as the willingness and ability of respondents to answer SOGI questions about other household members. We also conducted paired interviews with members of the same household to assess level of agreement for SOGI questions. Findings suggest that measuring SOGI by proxy may be feasible in federal large-scale, general population surveys.
Principal-Agent Relation and Contracting-out for Employment Case Management to Enable Third-Country Nationals’ Transition to Work
Authors: Bruno Esien Eddy 
Published: December 2019

Abstract
This paper analyzes the role of public and private employment-service agencies in contracting-out for employment case management under principal-agency relation to understand young third-country immigrants’ transition to work in Czechia, Poland, and Hungary. Existing research pointed to contracting-out as a major trend in public-service reforms when the government (principal) hires private employment agencies (agents) to perform service delivery, but overall the control of standards and the accountability to the public remains with the authority. Although the principal-agency relation shows human beings as rational and opportunist in corporate governance, there is still little research in CEE countries explaining the role of public and private employment agencies under principal-agency relation in contracting-out for case management to understand young third-country immigrants’ transition to work. Based on a qualitative cross-national case-oriented research approach with fewer-country comparison, documents and scholastic texts are collected and analyzed by means of a document and content analysis technique to fill in this gap. The findings show that open information, regulation, and monitoring administrative devices are a major perceived influence in principal-agency relational governance with a lack of cooperation that may impair the quality and service when looking at issues such as employment-related transition of young third-country immigrants and socio-economically disadvantaged groups in a contracting-out setting. The study demonstrated certain decentralized new public administration governance similarities but dissimilarities from the country’s institutional context. The outcome points to regulatory administrative devices to target agencies’ behavior and young vulnerable people’s need for paid work. This is relevant to performance monitoring in contemporary fluid society targeting benefits and scarce resources that may not only constrain ethnic minorities’ upward mobility, but the economy and the social cohesion process.
‘Because Migri Says So’:
Authors: Bodström Erna 
Published: December 2019

Abstract
This article argues that authorisation and moral evaluation are the dominant legitimation strategies used in asylum decisions by the Finnish Immigration Service (Migri). After the migration events of 2015, the percentage of accepted asylum claims dropped dramatically in Finland, causing concern about the legal rights of asylum seekers. Drawing on theoretical literature concerning asylum decisions, borders and language, this article is based on a systematic analysis of 77 asylum decisions. It aims to answer the following questions: What strategies of legitimation does Migri use to support their negative asylum decisions? How are these strategies used? The study reports that the reasons behind negative asylum decisions are often not openly provided. Instead, the decisions largely rely on authorisation and implicit moral evaluation; the decision is so ‘because Migri says so’. This lack of transparency has adverse consequences for the due process of asylum seekers, and these consequences can be life-changing.
Investigation of the level structure of 90Nb nucleus using the shell model
Authors: Yi-Heng Wu , Dong Yang , Ke-Yan Ma , Peng-Wei Luo 
Published: December 2019

Abstract
Shell model calculations have been carried out for 90Nb nucleus with the model space in which the valence protons occupy the f5/2, p3/2, p1/2, and g9/2 orbitals and the valence neutrons occupy the p1/2, g9/2, d5/2, and g7/2 orbitals. According to the calculated results, the negative parity is from the contribution of the proton of the f5/2, p3/2, and p1/2 orbits. The moderate spin states of 90Nb are mainly due to the excitation of protons from the f5/2 and p3/2 orbits to the p1/2 and g9/2 orbits across the Z = 38 subshell closure, and the high spin states arise from the excitation of a single neutron from the g9/2 orbit into the d5/2 orbit across the N = 50 shell closure.
Sorana Țopa – Journal Pages
Authors: Ciobotaru Anca Doina , Antochi Elena Carmen 
Published: December 2019

Abstract
In the spring of 2017, we had the chance of receiving several unpublished documents from actress Sorana Ţopa’s personal archive. Recovered by Mrs. Lucreția Angheluţă from a dark cellar in Bucharest and generously given to us to help our doctoral research1, the handwritten notebooks and typed pages help to shed... light both on the actress’ personality and the image of an era. Here are some of the pages from the manuscript Journal, fragments through which one can better see Sorana Ţopa’s personality, her reflexive abilities, her capacity to scan the relation human – destiny – era. With the hope that, one day, the Journal will be published in its entirety, we hence begin a project of restitutio in integrum – which we find both natural and necessary in a time when values are being overthrown and those who strive to start an artistic (or other type of) career feel the increasingly inequitable fight with the pressures of the socio-economic system. Reading these pages, one understands that freedom of spirit cannot be crushed by any political regime, on one condition: being aware of the fact that “becoming an easy prey for these masters of pulling ideological strings would be proof of downright superficiality and gross immaturity”. And maybe there is something else to be understood: any of Thalia’s servants’ chances are based equally on talent and the reading of profound pieces of writing. Beyond the pages of the Journal, there is the... telling silence of doubt. “Your eyes, becoming more accurate, clearer, could reflect the entire deposit at once; that is, you could have a clear image of the entire process and of the most intimate structure of this self. And if the eyes are not completely open, completely untouched by any intervention of the wish to see clearly and also of those obscure reactions that automatically appear from memory, then of course the state of fog persists somewhere, springing from who knows what corners of the consciousness that have not yet been cleared.”
The Language of Puppetry – Code for Remembering and Theatricalization
Authors: Bujoreanu-Huţanu Raluca 
Published: December 2019

Abstract
Ever since the prehistoric age, people have been endowing some objects with symbolic status and, by animating them, they have turned them into means of communicating profound truths about man and life. The need to communicate led to conceiving a system of representation through which exterior forms of expression were created and assumed, a particular way of making the invisible visible.
Medea – or the Fantasies of the Woman within Us
Authors: Botezatu Sandu Oana 
Published: December 2019

Abstract
From generation to generation, the theatre teacher stands in front of a new experience and that is why, each time, they have to approach the group of students by a different manner, trying to find common points, the binder that unites the team, to determine it to function flawlessly, united. Taking into account that each student comes with different life experiences, a different personality from the other actors, different visions and expectations, the teacher has the difficult task, in the first stage, to build a team, to make the students aware that everyone should “bring their contribution” on the construction of the show (or exam), to help, to listen, to be present and involved. The stage is not a personal fight, but a battle of ideas, which helps us to evolve, grow professionally and this is why the theatre performance cannot be made in a hostile, conflicting environment. This is how, precisely because of this need to unite a divided group made up of extremely talented students, but with totally different and powerful personalities, the acting teacher suggests as a study theme for the first semester ancient theatre, forcing the team to be together throughout the rehearsals and the show-examination on the stage, giving the choir’s soul and voice, to listen, to take over and to put, each of them, a brick in the construction of the main character, which, through the directorial vision, belonged to all and not to a single performer. This is how a merged, united team and a festival performance were built: Medea.
The Dilemma of the Composition Role
Authors: Aftanasiu Doru 
Published: December 2019

Abstract
What could we possibly mean by the expression “composition role”? To this question we will try to find an answer as comprehensive as possible. Are we talking only about those “character roles” mentioned by Stanislavsky? This reference can be considered, since all those character roles require stage composition, the way Stanislavsky described his own acting experiences. But is this the only landmark? Should we label as composition roles only the characters that demand text-triggered stage composition? Indeed, there are characters that assume, within their construction, elements that do not belong to the actor as an individual. But are these the only cases when the term applies?
The composition role is therefore not limited to only a few obvious milestones identified in the text. On a closer look, some characters may require a stage composition based on external elements, even if this problem is not apparent. Yet we must not misunderstand things and come to the conclusion that all roles, following a deep psychological analysis, become composition roles. If we agree that the construction of a character involves many elements pertaining to externalization, we must consider the cases where such suggestions originate from the director. Some directors claim scenic effects from the actors, sometimes contradicting the natural line of the character created by the author, maybe even completely modifying its construction. How reprehensible, however, is the acting effect? Has it only arisen from a desire to simulate virtuosity?
The term “effect” in composition can be accepted in the sense of the element helping to achieve the contrasts indispensable to the stage creation, about which Michael Chekhov speaks in To the Actor. He confers to it a broader acceptance.
Solutions not related to elementary normality can give the actor an unbearable sense of awkwardness, inevitably leading to effort. This effort will not go unnoticed by the spectator. And the spectator, almost always without hesitation, gives a negative verdict to such a performance.
And yet, visible manifestations that seem to be chaotic can be lived from the inside, which averts effort in interpretation and artificiality. The actor can avoid some clumsiness in emotions, clumsiness that is spoken about by Dario Fo, among others.
The Role and Identity of the Young Dramatist in Romanian Theatre Today. The Dramatist between Two Paradigms: Author of Theatre Plays or Intermediary between the Performance and the Public
Authors: Creangă Adriana 
Published: December 2019

Abstract
The aim of this article is to identify the role and the identity of the young Romanian dramatist within the context of the collaborative theatre in our country. The main means of research have been the interview and the participatory assistance by actual involvement in the making of a performance. We started from the premise that the difficulties met throughout the work process begin as early as the study years at the faculty, as a result of the lack of communication between the departments from the Faculties of Theatre.
PEMBELAJARAN MENULIS ARTIKEL BERBASIS STRATEGI THINK-TALK-WRITE UNTUK MAHASISWA PBSI UMUS
Authors: Apryliana Agnes 
Published: December 2019

Pembelajaran menulis karangan eksposisi berbasis strategi Think-Talk-Write merupakan kegiatan pembelajaran aktif yang melibatkan siswa dan guru sebagai pelaku pembelajaran. Kemampuan menulis menjadi salah satu pembelajaran yang penting untuk dipelajari oleh mahasiswa. Menerapkan strategi TTW dalam pembelajaran menulis menjadi salah satu solusi bagi pengajar saat kegiatan pembelajran dimulai. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk (1) menguji keefektifan strategi Think-Talk-Write dalam pembelajaran menulis artikel ilmiah pada mahasiswa PBSI UMUS.Penelitian ini merupakan jenis penelitian eksperimen kuasi dengan membandingkan dua strategi dalam pembelajaran, yaitu strategi tradisional dan strategi TTW. Subjek uji coba adalah mahasiswa PBSI UMUS semester 6 tahun ajaran 2017/2018 yang diambil secara random. Prosedur penelitian memiliki tiga tahap, yaitu (1) tahap ujicoba instrumen penilaian dan uji normalitas, (2) tahap pembelajaran, (3) tahap uji akhir. Pengumpulan data menggunakan teknik tes dalam bentuk tertulis.
ASPEK LEKSIKAL DAN GRAMATIKAL PADA LIRIK LAGU “NYANYIAN RINDU” EBIET G ADE
Authors: Oktarina Puspita Wardani  
Published: December 2019

Alat komunikasi dibutuhkan oleh manusia sebagai alat untuk berinteraksi dengan lingkungan. Salah satu alat komunikasi yang bisa digunakan adalah bahasa. Lagu merupakan sebuah wacana yang memiliki unsur piuitis dalam liriknya. Lagu memiliki karakter masing-masing dairi tiap pengarang. Kekuatan dalam lagu dapat dilihat dari liriknya. Wacana lagu dapat dikategorikan sebagai wacana puisi dilihat dari segi genre sastra tergolong wacana rekreatif. Wacana lagu dapat dikategorikan sebagai wacana puisi dilihat dari segi genre sastra tergolong wacana rekreatif. Permasalahan dalam penelitian ini ialah bagaimana aspek leksikal dan gramatikal pada lirik lagu “Nyanyian Rindu” Ebiet. Ade. Tujuannya ialah mendeskripsikan bagaimana bentuk gramatikan dari litik lagu tersebut. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode deskriftif kualitatif. Teknik pengumpulan data menggunakan teknik catat. Analisis data menggunakan analisis kualitatif. Terdapat 34 data yang menunjukkan aspek gramatikal dalam lirik lagu Nyanyian Rindu” karya“Ebiet G. Ade”. pengacuan terdiri atas 21 data, pelesapan 10 data, dan konjungsi 1 data. Aspek leksikal menunjukkan 2 data terdiri atas 1 data kolokasi dan 1 data repetisi.
STUDI KAPASITAS TIANG BOR BERDASARKAN METODE PILE DRIVING ANALYZER (PDA) DAN LOAD CELL
Authors: Livia Livia , Suhendra Andryan 
Published: December 2019

Pondasi tiang bor adalah pondasi yang pengerjaannya dengan cara mengebor tanah sampai kedalaman tertentu kemudian diisi dengan tulangan dan dicor beton. Pelaksanaan pondasi tiang bor harus dilaksanakan dengan cermat karena pelaksanaan berpengaruh dengan kapasitas yang dapat didukung oleh pondasi. Kapasitas dukung pondasi dapat diketahui dengan uji lapangan (Pile Driving Analyzer, Loading Test) dan/atau perhitungan manual. Penelitian ini bertujuan mengetahui perbandingan nilai kapasitas dukung tiang bor menggunakan perhitungan manual (metode Reese&Wright, Meyerhof, Decourt, Kulhawy, Tomlinson) serta hasil tes PDA dan/atau Load Cell. Penelitian ini terdapat 6 data tanah yang berlokasi di Jakarta. Berdasarkan hasil perhitungan, diperoleh nilai rata-rata persentase perbedaan daya dukung pondasi tiang bor antara hasil perhitungan manual dengan hasil dari PDA dan load cell: metode Reese& Wright untuk tanah kohesif dan non-kohesif sekitar 30%, dengan metode Meyerhof untuk tanah kohesif sekitar 19% dan untuk tanah non-kohesif sekitar 30%, dengan metode Decourt untuk tanah kohesif dan non-kohesif sekitar 20%, dengan metode Kulhawy untuk tanah kohesif dan non-kohesif sekitar 40% dan dengan metode Tomlinson untuk tanah kohesif sekitar 20% sedangkan untuk tanah non-kohesif sekitar 30%.
AUDIT KESELAMATAN JALAN TOL PURBALEUNYI
Authors: Wijaya Dharmawan Nugraha , Setyarini Ni Luh Shinta Putu Eka 
Published: December 2019

Jalan tol merupakan salah satu jalan bebas hambatan yang keberadaannya saat ini sangat dibutuhkan untuk mempercepat memperpendek waktu tempuh, hal ini akibat jalan arteri yang sudah ada semakin macet terutama pada saat jam – jam sibuk dan akhir pekan. Dengan semakin padatnya pengguna jalan tol membuat angka risiko kecelakaan mobil di jalan tol juga semakin meningkat. Dalam upaya meningkatkan keselamatan para pengguna jalan, khususnya jalan tol, Badan Pengatur Jalan Tol (BPJT) telah melaksanakan Audit Keselamatan Jalan (Road Safety Audit). Aspek yang diperiksa meliputi aspek geometrik jalan, manajemen lalu lintas serta geoteknik dan struktur. Sebagai hasilnya, didapatkan kesimpulan bahwa dari segi geometrik, secara umum jalan sudah dirancang sesuai dengan ketentuan, namun demikian ada bagian-bagian yang masih memerlukan penyempurnaan. Penelitian ini akan membahas kondisi eksisting jalan Tol Purbaleunyi berdasarkan pengamatan langsung dan persepsi pengemudi. Aspek yang ditinjau adalah aspek geometrik, perkerasan, dan bangunan pelengkap jalan. Persepsi perngemudi akan didapat dengan melakukan penyebaran kuisioner dan wawancara langsung yang akan diolah dengan menggunakan metode analysis of variance (ANOVA) dibantu dengan program SPSS yang dapat membantu kita untuk mengetahui bagaimana persepsi pengemudi terhadap kondisi eksisting geometrik, perkerasan, dan bangunan pelengkap jalan di jalan Tol Purbaleunyi. Pada akhirnya, akan didapatkan daerah rawan kecelakaan pada ruas tol Purbaleunyi dengan analisis perbandingan dari data persepsi pengemudi, pengamatan langsung, dan data kecelakaan lalu lintas.
ANALISIS DAYA DUKUNG FONDASI ENLARGED BASE BERDASARKAN DATA N-SPT DENGAN PROGRAM MICROSOFT EXCEL
Authors: Caecario Renaldi , Suhendra Andryan 
Published: December 2019

Secara umum fungsi fondasi adalah untuk meneruskan gaya yang diterimanya ke tanah dasar fondasi. Fondasi dalam digunakan apabila lapisan tanah keras terletak sangat dalam, untuk itu tipe fondasi yang cocok adalah tiang tahanan ujung sebagai penerus beban melalui ujungnya ke lapisan keras yang memiliki kuat dukung tinggi. Pada penulisan ini yang akan dibahas adalah tiang bor yang ujungnya diperbesar berbentuk trapesium. Berbeda dengan tiang bor lurus, tiang bor yang ujungnya diperbesar berbentuk trapesium akan memiliki daya dukung ujung lebih besar, karena pada prinsipnya bagian ujung fondasi dalam yang memiliki bentuk trapesium sama seperti fondasi dangkal. Jadi fondasi tiang bor yang ujungnya diperbesar berbentuk trapesium adalah fondasi dangkal yang diteruskan ke dalam tanah sampai mencapai tanah keras. Pada penulisan ini akan dilakukan analisis daya dukung vertikal dan penurunan seketika mengenai fondasi yang ujungnya diperbesar atau fondasi enlarged base. Karena perhitungan fondasi enlarged base lebih rumit dan sulit dibandingkan dengan menghitung fondasi tiang bor lurus, untuk mempermudah perhitungan akan dibuat dalam bentuk spreadsheet dengan program Microsoft Excel, yang akan menghasilkan perhitungan daya dukung selimut, daya dukung ujung, daya dukung ultimit, daya dukung ijin, dan penurunan seketika fondasi enlarged base. Dan untuk mengetahui apakah hasil perhitungan spreadsheet tersebut dapat di andalkan, akan dilakukan perbandingan dengan software komputer lain.
ANALISIS PUSHOVER TERHADAP FONDASI TOWER SUTET
Authors: S Edwardus Emmanuel , Pranata Giovanni , Yuwono Amelia 
Published: December 2019

Sebagai pemasok listrik utama, PT PLN(Perusahaan Listrik Negara) terus mengembangkan jaringan transmisi sebagai bentuk pengembangan sistem kelistrikan di Indonesia. Dengan adanya kebutuhan listrik tersebut, Pemerintah memberikan pasokan listrik kepada masyarakat yang berupa sistem sumber listrik menggunakan konstruksi tower Saluran Udara Tegangan Ekstra Tinggi (SUTET). Untuk membangun sebuah konstuksi seperti tower SUTET diperlukannya fondasi yang kuat untuk memikul beban dari Suatu bangunan. Dengan melakukan Analisa statis non-linear (pushover analysis) digunakan untuk mengetahui perilaku tiang pondasi akibat gempa besar dan merupakan salah satu performance based design dengan konsep memberikan suatu pola beban lateral statik terhadap tiang fondasi secara bertahap sampai memenuhi target perpindahan lateral yang direncanakan.