bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Tracing the Origins of Refractory Inclusions - the Solar System's Oldest Solids: a Petrographic, Geochemical and 26Al-26Mg Dating Study of CV and CK Refractory Inclusions
Authors:   , Town Christopher Campbell 
Published: November 2021

<p>Refractory inclusions in carbonaceous chondrite meteorites are of particular interest because both long- and short-lived chronometers have shown that they are the oldest sampled material to have formed in the Solar System. The objective of this study was to establish high-precision petrographic, chemical and isotopic analyses of refractory inclusions and thus offer insights into the chemical and astrophysical environments present during the formation of the Solar System. The former presence of the short-lived isotope 26Al (T1/2 = ca.730 KYr) has been established in a majority of refractory inclusions. Recent studies using both solution-based and in situ methodologies have suggested that the initial 26Al/27Al0 value of refractory inclusions is ca.6 x 10-5, higher than the established "canonical" value of [5.00 +/- 0.05] x 10-5. Knowing the initial concentration of 26Al within the Solar System provides a useful anchor from which ancient materials can be dated. Petrographic and trace element analyses were performed on nine newly-extracted refractory inclusions from CV3 and CK3 chondrites. These analyses revealed all but three refractory inclusions to have experienced multiple episodes of melting and evaporation prior to crystal closure. Mg isotope analyses were performed on eight of the newly extracted refractory inclusions in addition to five inter-laboratory samples. All refractory inclusions shown to have remained unaltered following crystal-closure, regardless of thermal history prior to closure, yielded a model 26Al/27Al0 of [4.89 x 0.265] x 10-5; within error of the canonical value. This result confirms that 26Al was homogenous and at canonical concentrations in the solar nebula. The results also suggest that chemical fractionation and crystal closure for the analysed refractory inclusions was completed within no more than 160 Kyr.</p>
Oxygen Consumption Rates of Sponges and the Effect of UV-B Radiation and Sediment
Authors:   , Murray Heather Joanne Rose 
Published: November 2021

<p>Sponges are an important part of many benthic ecosystems, but little is known of their physiology and ecology, which is alarming given the predicted rise in global environmental stress and observed increases in mortality and disease of these organisms. The overall aim of this study was to further understand the physiological processes of sponges and the influence of environmental stress on these organisms. Oxygen consumption rates were investigated, as this is an important measure of the energy required for all physiological activities. The impact of ultraviolet-B(UV-B) radiation and sedimentation on sponges were selected because their input into the marine environment has been predicted to increase in the future, yet little is known about their affect on these organisms. Oxygen consumption rates were measured from a number of temperate and tropical sponges in New Zealand and Indonesia. Variability in oxygen consumption rates was found within and between species from their respective habitats. Interestingly, oxygen consumption rates in the temperate sponges appeared to increase with the proportion of inorganic material (spicule load). Ultraviolet-B radiation, at 60microWcm-2, was found to have no affect on the oxygen consumption of model temperate and tropical sponges. Sponge oxygen consumption, however, increased with repetitive exposure to 2.5 g L-1of sediment, while rates decreased in specimens under higher levels at 8.5 and 16.5 g L-1. Explanations for differences in oxygen consumption rates were constrained by the low level of information on sponges at a species-specific level, and highlighted the needed for future bioenergetic research. The results from the UV-B and sedimentation work suggest that some sponge species may be able to tolerate increasing environmental stress with the onset of global climate change, although interactions between factors could have the potential to negatively affect these organisms.</p>
Torn Between Boundaries: Bodies-in-Pain, Christianity and Feature Film
Authors:   , Hill Shona F 
Published: November 2021

<p>The central argument of this dissertation, contrary to the secularisation thesis which predicts the decline of Christianity, is that Christian-inspired values tacitly influence embodied experience. Crossing disciplinary boundaries, various theoretical perspectives and empirical studies, the case of bodies-in-pain is used as the focus for empirical analysis. This study draws heavily on Mellor and Shilling's (1997) ideal-type analysis of Medieval Catholic and early Modern Protestant forms of embodied sociality and knowledge to produce an original model of bodies-in-pain. This model is then used as a comparative heuristic tool to assess to what extent bodies-in-pain can be identified as communicating meaning in the 'reel world' of fiction films. Three films that on the surface do not appear to have explicit Christian motivation are chosen for detailed examination. These are: Se7en (1995), Minority Report (2002) and Cape Fear (1991). The final chapter relates the bodies-in-pain models to a pre-existing audience response study focused on Cronenberg's film Crash (1996) to indicate what it is about the body that allows it to be depicted and constructed in certain ways. Overall this dissertation departs from the idea that Christianity must be at odds with secular society, instead, secularisation is reframed as a catalyst for social change that does not mean the end of Christian influence in society. In light of this, I claim Christianity remains socially and institutionally significant for contemporary Western people and the way in which they make sense of the body.</p>
Measuring E-Learning Readiness in the Forestry Research and Development Agency of Indonesia
Authors:   , Mutiaradevi Retisa 
Published: November 2021

<p>This research investigates organisational readiness for implementing organisational elearning systems (OES) in the Forestry Research and Development Agency (FORDA) of Indonesia. The study measures the level of organisational readiness for OES implementation at FORDA; and determines factors that need to be addressed in order to implement successful OES at FORDA, in a context with no prior OES knowledge. A mixed-methods approach was employed in this study. A cross-sectional survey was delivered in two forms: online and paper-based. The survey sample consisted of 288 employees of FORDA (policy makers, researchers, research assistants, and general employees). Statistical measures - reliability analysis, factor analysis, and multiple regression - were conducted using SPSS version 16.0. As a complementary method, 12 semi-structured interviews were conducted with 12 policy makers at FORDA. A comprehensive organisational e-learning readiness instrument (COERI) was developed to assess the level of organisational readiness for OES from the perspective of all target respondents (policy makers, e-learning providers, facilitators, and learners). The study proposes twelve readiness dimensions: technological skills; positive online learning style; negative online learning style; equipment/infrastructure; attitude; human resources; environmental; positive cultural; negative cultural; financial affordability; financial availability; and financial possibility. Overall, to implement successful OES at FORDA the results show that only five areas are ready but need a few improvements (equipment/infrastructure, attitude, environment, positive online culture, and financial availability); five areas are not ready of which three areas need some improvements (technological skills, positive online learning style, and human resources), and two areas need major improvements (financial affordability and financial possibility). Factors that affect organisational readiness and need to be developed further in order to implement successful OES are: personal characteristics (age, education, gender, and computer experience), Internet access, central support, finance, environment, face-to-face contact, human resources capacity, English proficiency, and prior e-learning knowledge. Further exploration is required to achieve a more reliable instrument and to improve the applicability of COERI to similar research contexts.</p>
Preparing Chinese Students for the New Zealand Academic Environment: The Foundation Studies Programme
Authors:   , Hall Melinda 
Published: November 2021

<p>This research project examines the Foundation Studies Programme at Victoria University of Wellington to see if it succeeds in its aim to prepare students for undergraduate study in New Zealand, and to identify what factors contribute to a Chinese international student's success. The research is conducted in two phases -the first phase considers the achievement of 40 Chinese international students - half of whom have been through the Foundation Studies programme and half of whom have not - and finds that there is a significant correlation between completing the Foundation Studies programme and academic achievement in undergraduate courses. Reasons for this are explored in the second phase of study through interviews with twenty Chinese international students, ten who have taken the Foundation Studies programme and ten who have not. Some of the explanations found for the difference in achievement are that the Foundation Studies graduates are more confident in using English, are more adjusted to life in New Zealand, and are more prepared for the New Zealand academic environment, having gained essential essaywriting and study skills during the Foundation Studies programme. The main issue raised is the need for institutions to better prepare Chinese international students who gain admission directly into undergraduate programmes before they commence their studies, so that they are more able to succeed in the New Zealand academic environment.</p>
Sublime Pixels: Exploring the Audience Experience in Digital Special Effects Cinema
Authors:   , Antonsen Torben 
Published: November 2021

<p>When exploring the audience perception of digital special effects cinema and the staggering success it has enjoyed, the explorer will often be left with a sense of confusion. They may ask: What is it that the audience is looking for or at when confronted with these pixilated illusions? This thesis attempts to answer that question. It starts with the basic assumption that what the audience is hoping to achieve when 'touched' by the phenomenal spectacle of the digital image is the very best feeling achievable, or the truly sublime. To do this, the thesis unravels the philosophical and theoretical quandaries that surround audience perception theory. It then examines digital special effects and digital cinema to understand, not only its attraction, but also its power over the viewer lost in its awesome potential. By exploring the governing theories behind the sublime and audience perception, the thesis is able to contend that the digital special effects image becomes carnally real or 'alive'. Through the examination of a number of seminal digital special effects movies the thesis tries not only to de-mystify the digital image, but to also create an aesthetic, situational 'map' to the feeling of the sublime.</p>
Promoting Sociability: Staff Perceptions of Music Therapy as a Way to Enhance Social Skills.
Authors:   , Boniface Emma Jane 
Published: November 2021

<p>This thesis is the result of working with nine students and one teacher aide in group music therapy in special education. Through opportunities to learn about music and sound, the students were invited to use descriptive language to express emotions and thoughts about their music therapy experience. This research used a qualitative research design, where the purpose was to learn about the perceptions that staff may have of music therapy and to highlight how music therapy can promote sociability in an educative setting. The data collected mainly through research journal entries and two interviews (as well as material from a discussion group) offer evidence about how improvisational group music therapy can help create a positive social environment in the classroom and complement socialisation goals in education.</p>
Stanley Milgram's Obedience to Authority Experiments: Towards an Understanding of Their Relevance in Explaining Aspects of the Nazi Holocaust
Authors:   , Russell Nestar John Charles 
Published: November 2021

<p>Two leading Holocaust historians, Yehuda Bauer and Christopher Browning, have in recent years independently asked how so many ordinary Germans (most of whom in the 1930s had been moderately anti-Semitic) could become by the early 1940s willing murderers of Jews. Social psychologist, Stanley Milgram, had years before been interested in finding answers to similar questions, and to that end in the early 1960s carried out his widely debated "Obedience to Authority" (OTA) experiments at Yale University. Drawing on previously unpublished material from Milgram's personal archive at Yale, this thesis investigates how Milgram developed his research idea to the point where, by the time he ran his first official experiment, he was able to convert the majority of his ordinary subjects into torturers of other people. It is argued that Milgram's experiments were in themselves structured as a bureaucratic microcosm, and say less about obedience to authority, per se, than about the ways in which people in an organisational context resolve a pressing moral dilemma. The thesis uses insights gained from Milgram's experimental innovations to assist in answering the question posed by Bauer and by Browning, focusing on the Nazis' progressive development of mass killing methods, from 1941 to 1944, during Operation Barbarossa and Operation Reinhard. It is shown how these methods were designed to diminish perpetrators' perceptual stimulation, in order to make the "undoable" increasingly "doable", in ways that were later reflected in Milgram's development of his own experimental methodology.</p>
Dissemination of nutrition and healthy diet in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic
Authors: Kartikasari Dhian , Alma Lucky Radita , Katmawanti Septa , Ulfah Nurnaningsih Herya , Rahmawati Indana Tri , Lestari Nugraheni Puji , Wismaningsih Endah Retnani 
Published: November 2021

The purpose of this community service was to increase knowledge about healthy diet arrangements for female students during the new normal period. A total of 21 female students participated in the socialization of balanced nutrition during the pandemic. Nutrition outreach activities were carried out in the form of online webinars through zoom cloud meetings. Before and after outreach activities, the measurement of knowledge before and after the intervention (2 times the measurement of post-intervention). The research instrument used was a questionnaire in the google form. From the results of this community service, it was found that the nutrition dissemination activities carried out had an impact in the form of increasing nutritional knowledge, especially related to balanced nutrition guidelines during the pandemic. This shows that the subject's knowledge was increasing and the subject understands about nutrition education. The most noticeable increase in knowledge was about the largest portion in balanced nutrition. There was a difference between the results of the pre-test, post-test 1, and post-test 2.
EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON SOME PROTECTIVE METHODS AGAINST HYDATID CYST INFECTION IN MICE
Authors: AL- Sultan I. T. , AL- Kanany E. R. 
Published: November 2021

Experimental study albion mice as a host was conducted in on attempt to inactivate the larval stage of Echinococcus granulosus by formalin treatment. Animals were divided into three groups. The first group was inoculated subcutaneously with alive ovine hydatid protoscolices , whereas the second group was inoculated similarly with 0.75% formalin- treated protoscolices. The rhird group was remained as negative control. a comparison was held between the three groups from haematological , immunological and histopathological points of view. The haematological picture revealed lymphopenia, eosinophilia and neutrophilia in both treated groups of mice. Infected mice in groups 1 and 2 responded subcutaneous injection of the antigen by production of antibodies detected by indirect haemagglutination test. Similar responses did not occur in noninfected control mice. Pathologically, results showed that the cellular were concentrated at the site of inoculation and at the draining lymph nodes without spreading to other organs. The formalinized protoscolices failed to induce development or formation of any cysts at the site of inoculation , in comparison with live protoscolices . The challenge of both treated groups at 4 weeks post primary infection showed that 80% of the infected and vaccinated animals resisted infection .
Analisa Perbandingan Squid 2.7, Squid3, Dan Squid Lusca Sebagai Cache Proxy Server Pada Ubuntu Server
Authors: Ferdiansyah Gilang , Kustanto Kustanto , Fitriasih Sri Hariyati 
Published: November 2021

RT/RW Net Joho Baru is one of the internet service provider organizations. As one of the growing internet service provider RT/RW Net Joho Baru has to give the best and the quickest services to the customers. So that it need appropriate technology which is support to the best networks to give good services to the customers. The Important factors are cost and speed factors which related to the material efficiency and time. This research is comparing about proxy server operating systems such as Squid 2.7, Squid3, and Squid Lusca, so that it can easier to find out the appropriate operating systems to build the best network. SDLC Method has several steps. The first step is the analysis of feasibility study which included software and hardware. The second step is the analysis of needs which is planning relate to the system project. Then network planning design is going apply. Next, continuing design system to system testing. Based on these steps, the proxy server is successfully to shorten time management on accessing the website. The results of the efficiency acquisition are Squid 2.7 at 75,1%, Squid3 at 83,5%, and Squid Lusca at 86,9%.
EVALUASI KUALITAS DAN PENGARUH WEBSITE GALERI MEDIKA TERHADAP KEPUASAN PELANGGAN MENGGUNAKAN METODE WEBQUAL 4.0
Authors: Sulistyowati Rini , Meisiana Dina 
Published: November 2021

<p>Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh kualitas website Galeri Medika berdasarkan metoder WebQual 4.0 yang terdiri dari tiga variabel yaitu kualitas kegunaan, kualitas informasi dan layanan interaksi terhadap kepuasan pengguna. Data dikumpulkan melalui pernyataan kuesioner yang berisi 26 butir pernyataan kepada 60 responden yang merupakan pengguna website Galeri Medika. Data yang diperoleh kemudian diolah dengan menggunkan teknik analisis regresi linear berganda. Berdasarkan pengolahan data dapat diketahui bahwa persepsi pengguna dimensi kemudahan pengguna, kualitas informasi, dan layanan interaksi termasuk dalam kategori baik. Sedangkan berdasarkan pengaruh ketiga variabel tersebut terdapat dua variabel yang berpengaruh secara positif dan signifikan terhadap kepuasan pelanggan yaitu dimensi kemudahan pengguna dan dimensi kualitas informasi. Sedangkan variabel layanan interaksi tidak berpengaruh secara signifikan terhadap kepuasan pelanggan. Berdasarakan hasil penelitian maka yang harus difokuskan adalah untuk meningkatkan kualitas dalam layanan interaksi</p>
Russia’s Policies in the Post-Soviet Space: Between Constructive Relations and Fighting the New Cold War
Authors: Kazantsev Andrei , Lebedev Sergei , Medvedeva Svetlana 
Published: November 2021

Abstract
The article challenges the view that Russia’s goal in the post-Soviet space is to make the region an exclusive zone of Russian influence and keep other world powers out entirely. In fact, Russia has two policies towards the influence of other powers that are active in the region: a ‘business as usual’ approach, applied to China and Turkey; and a securitized ‘New Cold War policy’, applied to the US and West (especially towards their presence in Ukraine). Growing Chinese and Turkish influence has not been ‘securitized’, although the presence of both powers creates clear obstacles to the reintegration of former Soviet countries around Russia. The article draws on three bodies of literature (Realism, Liberalism and Constructivism) to explain this variation. While Moscow perceives growing Western influence in Ukraine as a threat to its domestic regime and identity as a great power and regional leader, it finds common ground with Beijing and Ankara in its concerns about the Western liberal democracy promotion agenda and views both powers as potential allies in the construction of a ‘multipolar world’.
The Utilization of Lamtoro leaves (Leucaena leucocephala L.) Extract as an Alternative Nitrogen Source on The Formation of Nata de Soya Cellulose from Tofu Whey Waste
Authors: Mardiana Ummy 
Published: November 2021

Nata is not only made from coconut water; it is also possible to produce it from other raw materials. In our study, nata de soya has successfully made using tofu whey as raw material. Research focused is on the utilization of lamtoro (Leucaena leucocephala L.) leaves as an alternative source of nitrogen in addition to the use of ammonium sulphate and urea which have generally been used in nata production. The selected research method was experimental. First, the Lamtoro leaves were mashed and then inserted into the medium and cooked until it boils. The medium was incubated at room temperature for 12-14 days and the thickness of the cellulose was then measured. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of the using of lamtoro leaf extract (Leucaena leucocephala L.) as an alternative source of nitrogen for nata de soya cellulose formation. The optimization of pH and nitrogen contentration have been obyained. Three types of formula have been arranged, i.e. 1⁄2 of the control nitrogen concentration, equivalent, and 2 times of the control nitrogen concentration, to provide the variation concentration. Results found that the optimum pH was 3 and the optimum nitrogen concentration was ½ of the control nitrogen level. Nata de soya has then prepared using optimum condition of pH and nitrogen concentration. The maximum average of nata de soya thickness was 7.6 mm. In addition to leveraging the ability of medicinal plants and reducing the use of chemicals in the food processing, the use of alternate sources of nitrogen may also be adopted in the wider cellulose nata application.