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Analysis of palm oil raw material supplies to support sustainable economic strategies at PT Perkebunan Nusantara VIII Bogor Regency
Authors: Yusiana E , Maryani S , Melani A , Abadi S 
Published: August 2024

Abstract
Palm oil is a very important plantation commodity, its availability is the main source for palm oil production. Therefore, raw material supplies are an effort to support the availability of palm oil raw materials. PT Perkebunan Nusantara VIII. Companies need to pay attention to the quality of raw materials and procurement to achieve maximum production goals. Factors determining success in procuring raw materials are important, such as transportation, as well as fluctuations in raw material prices in the sustainability of processing palm oil fresh fruit bunches. This research aims to analyze factors that influence the supply of palm oil raw materials. The sample used in this research is simple random sampling. The analysis technique used is multiple linear regression. The research results show that 80% of the variables of raw material prices, raw material sources and transportation influence the supply of palm oil raw materials.
Challenges and sustainable economic strategies in global vegetable oil trade: A qualitative analysis of cadets in nautical and technical programs
Authors: Bernadtua Simanjuntak Marudut , Sawitri Wulandari Retno , Barasa Larsen , Soritua Sijabat Panderaja , Mudakir  , Gunawan Malau April 
Published: August 2024

Abstract
The global trade of vegetable oils is a critical component of the global supply chain, with significant economic, environmental, and policy implications. This research focuses on cadets in nautical and technical programs, who are prospective seafarers responsible for the distribution of vegetable oils. Incorporating a qualitative research approach and a comprehensive literature review, this study aims to elucidate the cadets’ understanding of and perspectives on the challenges and sustainable economic strategies associated with vegetable oils. The methodology includes semi-structured interviews with cadets, followed by thematic data analysis. The findings are expected to provide insights for policy change, curriculum development, and industry strategies. Understanding the cadets’ viewpoints is crucial for crafting effective solutions in an industry marked by price fluctuations, environmental concerns, and geopolitical influences. This research emphasizes the importance of sustainable economic strategies in ensuring the long-term viability and environmental responsibility of the vegetable oil supply chain. By enhancing the awareness and preparedness of future seafarers, this study contributes to the ongoing dialogue on sustainable and economically viable vegetable oil trade.
Fluctuations oil prices in the world and their impact on Indonesian macroeconomics
Authors: Lizein B , Triansyah F A , Acheampong K , Ahmad S Y , Mosavi H 
Published: August 2024

Abstract
Changes in international crude oil prices can significantly impact economic outcomes. This study tested the impact of oil price fluctuations on macroeconomic variables in Indonesia. The data used is annual data from 1990 to 2021 with the specific purpose of solving the current research deficiency about swings in oil prices. study adds five macroeconomic variables as explanatory factors to accomplish this purpose. We use five macroeconomic variables: economic growth, inflation, interest rates, industrial production, and exchange rates. The impact of oil price fluctuations on GDP, inflation, exchange rates, interest rates, and industrial production indices in Indonesia is examined within a structural vector autoregressive (SVAR) framework. Research shows that oil price shocks significantly impact GDP, inflation, and exchange rate. The results also show that oil price shocks hurt two other variables: the interest rate variable and the industrial production index. The findings derived from the analysis of the impulse response function indicate a detrimental effect on the growth of production, while exerting a favourable influence on inflation. However, the impact on industrial production, interest rates, and exchange rates is very modest and characterised by a degree of uncertainty.
The South African Short Story in English, 1920-2010
Authors: Fossati Marta 
Published: August 2024

Abstract
This book explores, through a detailed close reading and several digressions into the history of print culture, the development of the South African short story in English from the late 1920s to the first decade of the new millennium. It explores a selection of short stories by Black South African writers (Rolfes and Herbert Dhlomo, Peter Abrahams, Can Themba, Alex La Guma, Mtutuzeli Matshoba, Ahmed Essop, and Zoë Wicomb) with particular focus on the dialogue between ethics and aesthetics performed by these texts with regards to the evolution of South Africa’s socio-political situation. By focusing on Black short fiction, this book problematizes and complicates the often-polarized readings of Black literature in South Africa, torn between the notions of literariness, protest, and journalism. Owing to a set of material constraints, short fiction in South Africa indeed circulated first and foremost through local print media, which this study analyses in some detail with a focus on the cross-fertilization between journalism and the short story. While rooted in the South African context, this book is also alert to the translocal dimension of the short stories considered, exploring the ethical and aesthetical practice of intertextuality. It is thus also a book that complicates the aesthetics/ethics binary, generic classifications, and the categories of the literary and the political.
Getting Away With It?
Authors: Nili Shmuel 
Published: August 2024

Abstract
Foreign exile has often served as an important solution to high-stakes standoffs between opposition forces and autocrats who dread imprisonment or death at the opposition’s hands. Commencing the book’s applied part, this chapter examines the morality of autocratic exile, focusing on the tension between exile’s contribution to domestic peace and its threat to global deterrence against autocracy. The chapter starts by arguing that transitioning societies normally have the moral prerogative of accepting an exile arrangement, even though such an arrangement harms global deterrence against autocracy. Applying Chapter 2’s relational priority principle, the chapter then argues that, absent clear evidence of domestic opposition to an exile arrangement, foreign countries who have been entangled in an autocrat’s rule normally ought to facilitate his exile, despite exile’s repercussions for global deterrence. Finally, the chapter anticipates the worry that autocratic exile could harm the evolving regime of international criminal accountability for mass atrocities.
Displaced Subjects and Ventriloquized Voices
Authors: Lawlor Hannie 
Published: August 2024

Abstract
Chapter 2 turns to the second potential pitfall that Hirsch perceives in postmemorial narratives: the possible displacement of the second generation as the overwhelming nature of the inherited trauma threatens to overshadow their own life experiences. Through the lens of Dulce Chacón’s novel La voz dormida (The Sleeping Voice) (2002) and Lydie Salvayre’s autofictional account in Pas pleurer (Cry, Mother Spain) (2014), it compares approaches to articulating women’s repression and resistance during and after the Spanish Civil War, as narrative responsibility passes from the first to the second generation. Focusing on questions of ventriloquism, it reflects on how an ethical representation of the other’s voice might rely on subverting fixed subject positions and the sense that there is but one ‘place’ in the text from which the story is told.
Clashing Family Stories and Inconceivable Conversations
Authors: Lawlor Hannie 
Published: August 2024

Abstract
Chapter 5 compares attempts to represent both halves of a family history divided by the traumatic secret at its centre. Christine Angot’s Un amour impossible (An Impossible Love) (2015) gives an account of the incestuous abuse of the narrator by her father and her mother’s perceived silent complicity, while Cristina Fallarás’s Honrarás a tu padre y a tu madre (Honour Your Father and Mother) (2018) relays how, long before the marriage of their children, one of the narrator’s grandfathers formed part of the Nationalist firing squad that executed the other during the Spanish Civil War. In view of this painful conjunction between incompatible sides of the story, the chapter compares the extent to which the authors succeed in balancing the clashing versions of events. By examining the impossible conversations they stage, it investigates whether life writing can and should perform a kind of negotiation between versions and voices.
Determinants of preparedness in family caregivers of patients with heart failure
Authors: Li Ximiao , Zhang Jie , Li Jinliang , Fang Wenjie , Zhang Xiuting , Fan Xiuzhen 
Published: August 2024

Abstract

Aims
Inadequate preparedness of family caregivers contributes to adverse outcomes of patients with heart failure (HF). However, evidence on caregiver preparedness is limited. This study aims to examine the determinants and potential mechanisms of preparedness in family caregivers of patients with HF.

Methods and results
In the cross-sectional study, 298 HF patient–caregiver dyads were recruited from 4 tertiary hospitals in China. Preparedness, uncertainty in illness, family relational quality, social support, and positive aspects of caregiving (PAC) were assessed in family caregivers using self-reported questionnaires. In the path analysis model, uncertainty in illness had an indirect negative effect on preparedness via reduced PAC [indirect effect = −0.020; 95% confidence interval (CI) −0.050 to −0.002]. Whereas, family relational quality had direct (β = 0.266; P &lt; 0.001) and indirect positive effects on preparedness through increased PAC (indirect effect = 0.027; 95% CI, 0.003–0.067). Similarly, social support also had direct (β = 0.184; P = 0.004) and indirect positive effects on preparedness through increased PAC (indirect effect = 0.027; 95% CI, 0.004–0.065).

Conclusion
This study highlights that diminishing uncertainty in illness may indirectly improve caregiver preparedness through the enhancement of PAC, while raising family relational quality and social support may improve caregiver preparedness both directly and indirectly by augmenting PAC. These findings provide insightful implications for healthcare professionals in developing tailored interventions to ameliorate preparedness in family caregivers of patients with HF.
Socio-economic status and head and neck cancer incidence in the Nordic countries
Authors: Nikkilä Rayan , Carpén Timo , Hansen Johnni , Heikkinen Sanna , Lynge Elsebeth , Martinsen Jan Ivar , Selander Jenny , Mehlum Ingrid Sivesind , Torfadóttir Jóhanna Eyrún , Mäkitie Antti , Pukkala Eero 
Published: August 2024

Abstract

Background
The impact of societal factors on the occurrence of head and neck cancers (HNCs) remains understudied, especially in the Nordic countries.

Methods
To quantify the association between socio-economic status (SES) and the occurrence of HNCs, this cohort study uses data from the Nordic Occupational Cancer project that combine occupational and cancer registry data from 1961 to 2005 of 14.9 million individuals aged between 30 and 64 years. Occupational categories were combined into seven socio-economic categories. Standardized incidence ratio (SIR) analyses were conducted with the cancer incidence rates for the entire national study populations used as reference rates.

Results
Altogether, 83 997 HNCs—72% in men and 28% in women—were recorded. Among men, a gradient of risk associated with SES was observed for cancers of the tongue, other oral cavity subsites, pharynx, oropharynx and larynx in groups with lower SES. Managers showed decreased SIRs of 0.50 to –0.90 also for cancers of the lip, tongue, other oral cavity subsites, oropharynx, nasopharynx, nose and larynx. In contrast, excess risks of tongue, other oral cavity subsites, pharyngeal, oropharyngeal and laryngeal cancers were observed among clerical (SIRs 1.05–1.16), skilled workers (1.04–1.14), unskilled workers (1.16–1.26) and economically inactive men (1.38–1.87). Among women, no risk gradient similar to that in men was revealed.

Conclusions
The current study underscores the influence of SES on the incidence of HNCs and highlights the need for targeted interventions, including tobacco and alcohol control policies, and improved access to healthcare services, particularly for socio-economically disadvantaged populations.
Persistence of an Infectious Form of SARS-CoV-2 After Protease Inhibitor Treatment of Permissive Cells In Vitro
Authors: Nair Manoj S , Luck Maria I , Huang Yaoxing , Sabo Yosef , Ho David D 
Published: August 2024

Abstract
Reports have described severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) rebound in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients treated with nirmatrelvir, a 3CL protease inhibitor. The cause remains a mystery, although drug resistance, reinfection, and lack of adequate immune responses have been excluded. We now present virologic findings that provide a clue to the cause of viral rebound, which occurs in approximately 20% of the treated cases. Persistence of infectious SARS-CoV-2 was experimentally documented in vitro after treatment with nirmatrelvir or another 3CL protease inhibitor, but not with a polymerase inhibitor, remdesivir. This infectious form decayed slowly with a half-life of approximately 1 day, suggesting that its persistence could outlive the treatment course to reignite SARS-CoV-2 infection as the drug is eliminated. Notably, extending nirmatrelvir treatment beyond 8 days abolished viral rebound in vitro. Our findings point in a particular direction for future investigation of virus persistence and offer a specific treatment recommendation that should be tested clinically.
Popular Control of Taxation, Accountability, and the Redefinition of Political Subordination (Germany, Seventeenth–Eighteenth Centuries)
Authors: Renault Rachel 
Published: August 2024

Abstract
Taxation is a well-known major instrument in the control of populations by powers, and in the collection of information about them. Starting from early modern Germany (Thuringia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries), I would like to show how it was also, conversely, an instrument of non-institutionalized control of the authorities by the taxpayers. By refusing to pay taxes to the Emperor, ordinary taxpayers constructed a means of negotiating political and social domination, creating a form of ordinary intelligence about the authorities’ practices, tax figures, and amounts and by making both of them public. What was at stake in those protest was indeed not only the burden of taxation, but also the transparency of its collection, the fairness (Billigkeit) of its distribution, and the delicate issue of tax consent. Transparency, equity, and consent were central, but debated political concepts, so that popular control also consisted of influencing the definition of those concepts and having a part in the definition of their concrete content. This also implies that popular control was neither marginal nor transitory, nor did build some kind of linear evolution towards modernity. While examining the specificities of the entangled configuration of power in Germany, which created specific forms of popular agency, this article would like to show how Empire taxation, as a regalian tool involving the definition of common good and the question of political representation, was a powerful vector for a demand for accountability from below, which aimed to redefine the conditions of subjection.
Rege Ribaldum: Participatory Punishment in the Pursuit of Urban Justice in Late Medieval Southern France
Authors: Turning Patricia 
Published: August 2024

Abstract
Utilizing the lens of popular control to assess criminal sentences highlights the significance of effective public agency in the later Middle Ages, instead of political oppression, especially in the urban realm. The people who inhabited cities played a participatory role in setting the parameters involved in the spectacles of judicial chastisement by accepting or rejecting what unfolded before them. And this became a way in which neighbors surveilled and corrected both the residents who lived in their midst, and the agents of authority expected to orchestrate restitution through performative executions. This article unpacks jurisdictional disputes from the city of Toulouse, in order to analyze the notion of accountability among the inhabitants and of citizens over judicial officers, especially in crimes involving contested sexuality. In 1332, for example, a customary punishment known as a rege ribaldum (where authorities forced a criminal to run the streets of the town) spiraled out of control at the hands of one of the spectators, resulting in a gruesome disfigurement. Rather than dismiss this event as senseless mob violence, concepts of popular control shed light on the cooperative element of the officers and their people as it informed the distribution of punishment, rooted in principles that were sometimes congruent, and sometimes not.
Introduction to Popular Control in Pre-modern Europe
Authors: Martín Romera María Ángeles , Sabapathy John 
Published: August 2024

Abstract
This introduction to a special issue on popular control in pre-modern Europe reviews both the contemporary resonance of the term in an era of reviving populism, and the conceptual challenges it poses for historians of all periods. It reconsiders the problem of the “popular,” the question of what constitutes effective control, and the relationship between collective and coordinated action. Briefly highlighting particular aspects of articles in the issue, it stresses above all the usefulness of thinking with concrete cases. Here those range from the late medieval Languedoc to eighteenth-century Germany via Castile, northern France, and England. Doing so helps us to see how popular control operated across a range of scales. It frequently developed from bottom-up political practice, often being articulated within a range of micro-sovereignties of different sorts. Here it remained volatile and plural within a set of shared but often contested norms. That volatility extended to those exercising popular control since they could pass into the ranks of those holding official powers just as, at other times, office-holders might equally be found amongst the ranks of those acting more informally.
Sex determination in bryophytes: current state of the art
Authors: Božović Djordje , Li Mingai , Sabovljević Aneta D , Sabovljević Marko S , Varotto Claudio 
Published: August 2024

Abstract
With the advent of genomic and other omics technologies, the last decades have witnessed a series of steady and important breakthroughs in the understanding of genetic determinants of different reproductive systems in vascular plants and especially on how sexual reproduction shaped their evolution. In contrast, the molecular mechanisms of these fundamental aspects of the biology of bryophytes, a group of non-vascular embryophyte plants sister to all tracheophytes, are still largely obscure. The recent characterization of the sex chromosomes and genetic switches determining sex in bryophytes and emerging approaches for molecular sexing of gametophytes hold great promise for elucidation of the evolutionary history as well as the conservation of this species-rich but understudied group of land plants.
quantizer: a new collisionless N-body code optimized for small-scale devices
Authors: Contreras Felipe , Candlish Graeme , Bunte Kerstin 
Published: August 2024

ABSTRACT
We present quantizer, a new collisionless N-body code tailored for cosmological and galaxy-scale simulations. The code uses the particle-mesh method, combined with a novel adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) technique. The design of the AMR method of quantizer maximizes the efficient use of refinement zones by combining a cell-by-cell scheme with parallelization-friendly regular patches. We test the code using three astrophysical systems: a binary system of two particles without AMR to test orbital accuracy; an isolated elliptical galaxy modelled as a Plummer sphere; and a merger of two disc galaxies. Comparisons are made with the well-known particle-mesh AMR code ramses, and with our own direct particle-particle solver. The results show that the accuracy of quantizer is equal to or better than ramses, and the runtime is approximately 2.5 to 10 times faster than that code, depending on the problem.
Metallicities for globular clusters in the fornax, sagittarius, and canis major dwarf spheroidal galaxies and their total luminosities
Authors: Sarajedini Ata 
Published: August 2024

ABSTRACT
We present [Fe/H] values for globular clusters associated with the Fornax, Sagittarius, and Canis Major dwarf spheroidal galaxies based on the light curve properties of their ab-type RR Lyrae variables. Fornax is a classical dwarf spheroidal containing five globular clusters and exhibiting a spheroidal shape in the sky. Sagittarius and Canis Major, possess six and four globular clusters, respectively, and have both been tidally disrupted to a significant degree by the gravitational field of the Milky Way galaxy. Based on an analysis of the periods and light curve amplitudes of 76 globular cluster ab-type RR Lyraes in Fornax, 103 in Sagittarius, and 29 in Canis Major, we find mean metallicities of $\langle$[Fe/H]$\rangle$ = –1.67 ± 0.05, –1.76 ± 0.12, and –1.69 ± 0.25 for the globular clusters in Fornax, Sagittarius, and Canis Major, respectively. Given the similarity of these three values, and coupled with the well-established correlation between the mean metal abundance and total luminosity for dwarf spheroidal galaxies, we conclude that the absolute V-band magnitudes of these three galaxies are indistinguishable to within ∼0.8 mag.