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Evaluasi model explore-apply-present dengan english audiopedia untuk pembelajaran bahasa inggris SMP
Authors: Suparti Suparti 
Published: June 2021

EVALUASI MODEL EXPLORE-APPLY-PRESENT DENGAN ENGLISH AUDIOPEDIA UNTUK PEMBELAJARAN BAHASA INGGRIS SMP Abstrak Pengembangan model Explore-Apply-Present (EAP) dengan English Audiopedia perlu dievaluasi untuk mendapatkan rekomendasi terkait degan pengambilan keputusan tentang keberlangsungan proyek yang sedang dikembangkan. Penelitian evaluatif ini dilaksanakan pada bulan Oktober-Desember 2019 dengan responden 30 guru Bahasa Inggris SMP dan 420 peserta didik SMP dari empat lokasi yaitu Tangerang, Bandung, Surakarta, dan Surabaya. Instrumen yang diguunakan dalam penelitian ini yaitu angket, panduan wawancara, dan diskusi kelompok terfokus. Hasil evaluasi menunjukkan bahwa model EAP dengan pendekatan saintifik dapat dimanfaatkan sebagai alternatif dalam pembelajaran menyimak. Ditinjau dari tingkat kelayakan, English Audiopedia layak digunakan sebagai alternatif sumber belajar karena baik dari sisi materi, teknis maupun kemediaan telah memenuhi standar produksi dengan melibatkan ahli di bidangnya. Model ini layak untuk dikembangkan sebagai alternatif pembelajaran listening dan alternatif dalam mememuhi keterbatasan sumber belajar listening yang sering dikeluhkan guru. Namun model ini perlu diperbaiki baik dari sisi format sajian, konten, maupun kemasan agar lebih menarik dan tepat sasaran.Kata Kunci: EAP, English Audiopedia, menyimak, evaluasi EVALUATION OF THE EXPLORE-APPLY-PRESENT MODEL WITH ENGLISH AUDIOPEDIA FOR ENGLISH LEARNING IN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLSAbstractThe development of the Explore-Apply-Present (EAP) model with English Audiopedia needs to be evaluated to obtain recommendations related to decision making regarding the sustainability of the project being developed. This evaluative research was conducted in October-December 2019 with 30 junior high school English teachers and 420 junior high school students as respondents taken from four locations, namely Tangerang, Bandung, Surakarta, and Surabaya. The instruments used in this study were questionnaires, interview guides, and focused group discussion. The results of the evaluation showed that the EAP model with a scientific approach can be used as an alternative in teaching listening. Judging from the feasibility level, English Audiopedia was suitable for use as an alternative source of learning English because both material and technical aspects have met the standards in the development and production process by involving experts in their fields. This model was feasible to be developed as an alternative to teaching listening and as an alternative in meeting the limitations of English audio resources that teachers often complained about. However, this model needs to be improved both in terms of presentation format, content, and packaging to make it more attractive and suitable with the users.Keywords: EAP, English Audiopedia, listening, evaluation
Analysis of Vocational High School Teachers’ Competency Profiles
Authors: Lolo Yatwawan , Sudira Putu 
Published: June 2021

Educators serving in Vocational High Schools have not met the competency standards. This study aimed to describe: (1) pedagogy, professional, personality, and social competence of teachers in vocational high schools, and (2) the performance of teachers in vocational high schools. This descriptive study was conducted at four vocational high schools in North Morowali that have been nationally accredited. The respondents consisted of 23 principals, vice principals, heads of the study program, and 178 student. The data were collected using documentation and questionnaire. It were further analyzed using descriptive analysis. The results showed that: (1) 66.76% of the teachers have the competence of the teacher's pedagogy with high category, 77.92% of the teachers have the professional competence with high category; 78.66% of the teachers have the personality competence with high category; 79.82% of the teachers have social competence with high category, (2) 75.35% of the teachers have the performance with high category.
Usability Evaluation of a Tablet-Based Intervention to Prevent Intradialytic Hypotension in Dialysis Patients During In-Clinic Dialysis: Mixed Methods Study
Authors: Willis Matthew , Brand Hein Leah , Hu Zhaoxian , Saran Rajiv , Argentina Marissa , Bragg-Gresham Jennifer , Krein Sarah L , Gillespie Brenda , Zheng Kai , Veinot Tiffany C 
Published: June 2021

Background
Patients on hemodialysis receive dialysis thrice weekly for about 4 hours per session. Intradialytic hypotension (IDH)—low blood pressure during hemodialysis—is a serious but common complication of hemodialysis. Although patients on dialysis already participate in their care, activating patients toward IDH prevention may reduce their risk of IDH. Interactive, technology-based interventions hold promise as a platform for patient activation. However, little is known about the usability challenges that patients undergoing hemodialysis may face when using tablet-based informatics interventions, especially while dialyzing.

Objective
This study aims to test the usability of a patient-facing, tablet-based intervention that includes theory-informed educational modules and motivational interviewing–based mentoring from patient peers via videoconferencing.

Methods
We conducted a cross-sectional, mixed methods usability evaluation of the tablet-based intervention by using think-aloud methods, field notes, and structured observations. These qualitative data were evaluated by trained researchers using a structured data collection instrument to capture objective observational data. We calculated descriptive statistics for the quantitative data and conducted inductive content analysis using the qualitative data.

Results
Findings from 14 patients cluster around general constraints such as the use of one arm, dexterity issues, impaired vision, and lack of experience with touch screen devices. Our task-by-task usability results showed that specific sections with the greatest difficulty for users were logging into the intervention (difficulty score: 2.08), interacting with the quizzes (difficulty score: 1.92), goal setting (difficulty score: 2.28), and entering and exiting videoconference rooms (difficulty score: 2.07) that are used to engage with peers during motivational interviewing sessions.

Conclusions
In this paper, we present implications for designing informatics interventions for patients on dialysis and detail resulting changes to be implemented in the next version of this intervention. We frame these implications first through the context of the role the patients’ physical body plays when interacting with the intervention and then through the digital considerations for software and interface interaction.
Lateralization and Bodily Patterns of Segmental Signs and Spontaneous Pain in Acute Visceral Disease: Observational Study
Authors: Shaballout Nour , Aloumar Anas , Manuel Jorge , May Marcus , Beissner Florian 
Published: June 2021

BackgroundThe differential diagnosis of acute visceral diseases is a challenging clinical problem. Older literature suggests that patients with acute visceral problems show segmental signs such as hyperalgesia, skin resistance, or muscular defense as manifestations of referred visceral pain in somatic or visceral tissues with overlapping segmental innervation. According to these sources, the lateralization and segmental distribution of such signs may be used for differential diagnosis. Segmental signs and symptoms may be accompanied by spontaneous (visceral) pain, which, however, shows a nonsegmental distribution.ObjectiveThis study aimed to investigate the lateralization (ie, localization on one side of the body, in preference to the other) and segmental distribution (ie, surface ratio of the affected segments) of spontaneous pain and (referred) segmental signs in acute visceral diseases using digital pain drawing technology.MethodsWe recruited 208 emergency room patients that were presenting for acute medical problems considered by triage as related to internal organ disease. All patients underwent a structured 10-minute bodily examination to test for various segmental signs and spontaneous visceral pain. They were further asked their segmental symptoms such as nausea, meteorism, and urinary retention. We collected spontaneous pain and segmental signs as digital drawings and segmental symptoms as binary values on a tablet PC. After the final diagnosis, patients were divided into groups according to the organ affected. Using statistical image analysis, we calculated mean distributions of pain and segmental signs for the heart, lungs, stomach, liver/gallbladder, and kidneys/ureters, analyzing the segmental distribution of these signs and the lateralization.ResultsOf the 208 recruited patients, 110 (52.9%) were later diagnosed with a single-organ problem. These recruited patients had a mean age of 57.3 (SD 17.2) years, and 40.9% (85/208) were female. Of these 110 patients, 85 (77.3%) reported spontaneous visceral pain. Of the 110, 81 (73.6%) had at least 1 segmental sign, and the most frequent signs were hyperalgesia (46/81, 57%), and muscle resistance (39/81, 48%). While pain was distributed along the body midline, segmental signs for the heart, stomach, and liver/gallbladder appeared mostly ipsilateral to the affected organ. An unexpectedly high number of patients (37/110, 33.6%) further showed ipsilateral mydriasis.ConclusionsThis study underlines the usefulness of including digitally recorded segmental signs in bodily examinations of patients with acute medical problems.
Exploring Associations of Housing, Relocation, and Active and Healthy Aging in Sweden: Protocol for a Prospective Longitudinal Mixed Methods Study
Authors: Zingmark Magnus , Björk Jonas , Granbom Marianne , Gefenaite Giedre , Nordeström Frida , Schmidt Steven M , Rantanen Taina , Slaug Björn , Iwarsson Susanne 
Published: June 2021

Background
While housing and neighborhood features have the potential to impact opportunities for active aging, there is a lack of knowledge related to how older people reason regarding their housing situation and how housing and fulfillment of relocation are associated with active and healthy aging.

Objective
The objectives of Prospective RELOC-AGE are to study housing choices and relocation and explore effects on active and healthy aging among men and women aged 55 years and older in Sweden considering relocation.

Methods
The estimated sample (2800) will include people aged 55 years and older being listed for relocation at either of two housing companies: a local public housing company in Southern Sweden and a national condominium provider. Prospective RELOC-AGE has a 2-level longitudinal mixed methods design and includes quantitative surveys (implemented by a professional survey company) and a telephone interview for baseline data collection in 2021, with follow-ups with the same procedures in 2022 and 2023. The survey and interviews include questions related to present housing and neighborhood, relocation plans and expectations, a range of perspectives on active and healthy aging, and demographics. Linking to national registers will provide additional data on home help and health care use, objective housing, and neighborhood characteristics. To explore what housing attributes older adults considering relocation find important and to what extent when making their decisions on housing, we will develop a discrete choice experiment to be implemented with a subsample of participants. Further, a grounded theory approach will be applied to collect in-depth interview data from participants who have moved to another dwelling, within 6 months of the move. A follow-up interview 12 months later will focus on participants’ deepened experience over time in terms of fulfilled expectations and relocation experiences.

Results
As of submission of this protocol (June 2021), recruitment has commenced with approximately 960 respondents to the survey and ongoing telephone interviews. We anticipate recruitment and data collection based on surveys and interviews to continue during 2021.

Conclusions
Prospective RELOC-AGE has the capacity to generate new policy-relevant knowledge on associations of housing, relocation, and active and healthy aging. Such knowledge is relevant for the development of proactive approaches to housing in old age on the individual, group, and societal levels.

Trial Registration
ClinicalTrials.gov NCT04765696; https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04765696

International Registered Report Identifier (IRRID)
DERR1-10.2196/31137
Liderazgo en escuelas categorizadas como insuficientes en Chile: percepciones de directoras
Authors: Aravena Castillo Felipe , Madrid Romina 
Published: June 2021

Las personas directores son una pieza clave en la mejora escolar, especialmente en escuelas categorizadas como insuficientes por los sistemas de inspección de desempeño. Este estudio utiliza un enfoque exploratorio y cualitativo, cuyo objetivo es describir las percepciones de los directores que lideran las escuelas “más críticas” en la región de Valparaíso, Chile. Para ello, de acuerdo con la metodología cualitativa se realizaron entrevistas en profundidad con siete personas directoras de establecimientos escolares, con el fin de describir las razones por las cuales consideran que sus escuelas se encuentran en una situación de deterioro. Se concluye que las personas directoras de este estudio reportan que la situación de deterioro crónico se explica de manera multifactorial. Estos factores pueden ser agrupados en cinco categorías: (1) nivel socioeconómico de estudiantes y sus familias, (2) alta rotativa directiva, (3) calidad de las prácticas pedagógicas, (4) compromiso docente y (5) características idiosincráticas del sistema educacional chileno. Se presentan recomendaciones para la política pública nacional sobre cómo brindar apoyo profesional a los líderes que tienen la tarea de dirigir en la complejidad.
Measuring Performance Efficiency Indicators
Authors: Ahmed Ali S. , Ibrahem Tariq N. 
Published: June 2021

Measuring performance efficiency indicators is considered one of the most important topics that public or private companies should undertake, as it provides extensive information on its reality and highlights the most important strengths and weaknesses that guide the company's management, which is considered a fundamental basis for the decision-making process. This study was conducted on the General Company for Agricultural Supplies "GCAS" of the Iraqi Ministry of Agriculture in order to estimate the criteria of the efficiency of its performance in the years (2016) and (2018) and to make comparisons between the two years. The results showed that most of the performance criteria for the year (2018) fell below the base year (2016), which requires a pause to improve the performance efficiency in order to develop its future activity in a manner commensurate with its position in preparing the various agricultural requirements that the agricultural sector deals with. The research included some conclusions related to the decrease in the efficiency of the company's performance in managing working capital in (2018) comparing to the year (2016) as the liquidity ratio fell below the acceptable rates, which indicates that the company's ability to meet its obligations in the future has decreased. The working capital turnover rate also decreased, indicating that it was not used correctly in addition to other reasons. The research also included some important recommendations that enable the company to overcome the failures that it faced during the study period.
A Study of Stability of First-Order Delay Differential Equations Using Fixed Point Theorem Banach
Authors: Monje Zaid A.A. Mahdi , Ahmed Buthainah A.A. 
Published: June 2021

In this paper we investigate the stability and asymptotic stability of the zero solution for the first order delay differential equation
where the delay is variable and by using Banach fixed point theorem. We give new conditions to ensure the stability and asymptotic stability of the zero solution of this equation.
Courts' Involvement in the Electoral Process and Their Impact on Improving Election Quality in Nigeria
Authors: Omenma J. Tochukwu 
Published: June 2021

Abstract
This study provides evidence of the increasing cases of post-election petitions and substantial court determinations of election outcomes in the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Since 1999, Nigeria has organised four cycles of national elections. Each of the elections was contested either in or out of court (in the latter case, for example, in the form of election violence). The courts, for their part, have been required to decide some 2 596 post-election petitions, which have continued to increase in every election year. This raises an important question as to whether the frequent court involvement has had a significant impact on election quality: What is the implication of the increase in election contestations in court for the independence of the judiciary, given the allegations of judicial politicisation? The study concludes that the courtsâ€™ involvement in electoral processes has not significantly influenced conformance with the electoral laws; instead, the judiciary has become politicised, while some court decisions have interfered with the powers of the electoral management boards tasked with ensuring that the conducting of elections is free and fair.
Intraoperative tranexamic acid use in patients undergoing excision of intracranial meningioma: Randomized, placebo-controlled trial
Authors: Rebai Lotfi , Mahfoudhi Nahed , Fitouhi Nizar , Daghmouri Mohamed Aziz , Bahri Kamel 
Published: June 2021

Background:
Intracranial meningioma resection is associated with substantial intraoperative bleeding. Intraoperative tranexamic acid (TXA) use can reduce bleeding in a variety of surgical procedures. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of TXA treatment on blood loss and transfusion requirements in patient undergoing resection of intracranial meningioma.

Methods:
We conducted a prospective, randomized double-blind clinical study. The patient scheduled to undergo excision of intracranial meningioma were randomly assigned to receive intraoperatively either intravenous TXA or placebo. Patients in the TXA group received intravenous bolus of 20 mg/kg over 20 min followed by an infusion of 1 mg/kg/h up to surgical wound closure. Efficacy was evaluated based on total blood loss and transfusion requirements. Postoperatively, thrombotic complications, convulsive seizure, and hematoma formation were noted.

Results:
Ninety-one patients were enrolled and randomized: 45 received TXA (TXA group) and 46 received placebo (group placebo). Total blood loss was significantly decreased in TXA group compared to placebo (283 ml vs. 576 ml; P < 0.001). Transfusion requirements were comparable in the two groups (P = 0.95). The incidence of thrombotic complications, convulsive seizure, and hematoma formation was similar in the two groups.

Conclusion:
TXA significantly reduces intraoperative blood loss, but did not significantly reduced transfusion requirements in adults undergoing resection of intracranial meningioma.
A perspective on wrong level, wrong side, and wrong site spine surgery
Authors: Epstein Nancy 
Published: June 2021

Background:
Four of the most common “errors” in spine surgery include: operating on the wrong patient, doing the wrong procedure, performing wrong-level surgery (WLS), and/or performing wrong-sided surgery (WSS). Although preoperative verification protocols (i.e. Universal Protocol, routine Time-Outs, and using the 3 R’s (i.e. right patient, right procedure, right level/side)) have largely limited the first two “errors,” WLS and WSS still occur with an unacceptably high frequency.

Methods:
In 20 studies, we identified the predominant factors contributing to WLS/WSS; unusual/anatomical anomalies/variants (i.e. sacralized lumbar vertebrae. lumbarized sacral vertebra, Klippel-Feil vertebrae, block vertebrae, butterfly vertebrae, obesity/morbid obesity), inadequate/poor interpretation of X-rays/fluoroscopic intraoperative images, and failure to follow different verification protocols.

Results:
“Human error” was another major risk factor contributing to the failure to operate at the correct level/side (WLS/WSS). Factors comprising “human error” included; surgeon/staff fatigue, rushing, emergency circumstances, lack of communication, hierarchical behavior in the operating room, and failure to “speak up”.

Conclusion:
Utilizing the Universal Protocol, routine Time Outs, and the 3 R’s largelly avoid operating on the wrong spine patient, and performing the wrong procedure. However, these guidelines have not yet sufficiently reduced the frequently of WLS and WSS. Greater recognition of the potential pitfalls contributing to WLS/WSS as reviewed in this perspective should better equip spine surgeons to avert/limit such “errors” in the future.
Contrast-induced encephalopathy and permanent neurological deficit: A case report and literature review
Authors: Cristaldi Paola Maria Francesca , Polistena Alessandra , Patassini Mirko , de Laurentis Camilla , Giussani Carlo , Remida Paolo 
Published: June 2021

Background:
Contrast-induced encephalopathy (CIE) is a rare condition that occurs after intravenous or intra-arterial contrast agent administration. Patients generally show different ranges of neurological deficits, which generally resolve themselves spontaneously within 24–48 h or in rare cases within 2 weeks.

Case Description:
We report a case of CIE in a 54-year-old woman during retreatment for recanalization of communicating anterior artery aneurysm and with no history of allergic reaction to contrast agent. After the procedure, the patient developed right hemiplegia and complete aphasia; an MRI performed at 6 days excluded any signs of new ischemia and revealed a hyperintense signal on FLAIR sequences in the left cortical precentral gyrus corresponding to a hyperintense signal on DWI, suggesting a vasogenic edema. After 6 months, she clinically improved even if her previous neurological status was never restored while radiological findings did not change.

Conclusion:
According to the literature, many risk factors may play a role in the pathogenesis of CIE: we hypothesized that, among all of them, chronic hypertension and previous cerebral ischemic lesions were the most important in our case. Further studies are necessary to find the correlation between possible risk factors and neurotoxicity.
“Vá bater naquele negro que eu garanto”
Authors: Lino Silva Diego , Frederico Ramaiana Moraes Oliveira Clóvis 
Published: June 2021

Este artigo versa sobre a trajetória de populações negras na Bahia entre as décadas de 1940 e 1960, tomando como referência a região de Feira de Santana. Composto utilizando processos criminais, vai explorar os indicadores do uso e negação da cor preta como instrumento de criminalização ou aceitação dos sujeitos pesquisados. A caminhadura das gentes negras demonstrada é marcada pela degradação da condição do ser e a associação da negritude Ã s “coisas do não”. Com atenção para as mudanças espaciais e na caminhada da população negra, explorará os mecanismos de hierarquização racial, enfocando os jogos táticos que as gentes de cor desenvolveram para encaminhar o viver em um ambiente de modificações rápidas e opressão racial, questionando, principalmente, pelos marcadores raciais usados pela população preta para o enfrentamento com o racismo.