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A Closer Look At Multi Word Verbs In Pakistani English E-Newspapers: A Wordsmith Concord Tool Approach
Authors: (correspondence Author) Dr. Bisma Butt , Kayani Asma Iqbal , Shafi Dr. Sehrish , Bux Dr. Illahi 
Published: February 2024

The study focuses on the particle or "multi-word" verbs (PVs) in online Pakistani English Newspapers’ feature articles corpus (NFAC) and news articles corpus (NAC). The study is confined to the period between January 1st and March 31st, 2022. To conduct a detailed analysis, the WordSmith Concord Tool was employed, utilizing a specific set of parameters: particles were defined as context words, and the context search horizons were set to 0L (zero left) and 5R (five words to the right of the search phrase).
The present research starts with the assumption that in terms of frequency of use and structural behavior, particle verbs could acquire genre-specific characteristics. There were methodical variances among the focused sections of the newspapers. Daily Times NFAC, particularly, was discovered to have the highest particle verbs’ frequency, as well as the broadest range in terms of structural applications, formal and semantic innovations. In various genres for particle verbs, it was discovered that specific forms and connotations are predominant, even though the dataset’s small size and the resultant lower frequency of individual particle verbs make generalization relatively hard.
Effect of Different Concentrations of Potassium Metabisulphite and Bavistin on Postharvest Life of Litchi (Litchi chinensis Sonn var. Muzaffarpur)
Authors: Khanal Asmita , Baral Ashmita , Timilsina Sandip , Khanal Susmita 
Published: February 2024

Litchi (Litchi chinensis Sonn var. Muzaffarpur) is cultivated in 57 districts of Nepal. However, proper post-harvest loss reduction activities are lacking, resulting in significant losses every year. In June 2023, an experiment on Litchi post-harvest was conducted at HRS, Malepatan. The Litchi fruits were uniformly mature and treated with varying concentrations of potassium metabisulfite (50, 75, 100, and 125 ppm) and Bavistin at 100 ppm. They were then stored at ambient conditions (29±4°C and RH 75±5%) for 10 days. The following parameters were recorded: physiological loss in weight (PLW), decay loss, total soluble solids (TSS), titratable acidity (TA), ascorbic acid content (Vit-C), and fruit weight to juice ratio. The fruit that was treated with 50 ppm of potassium metabisulphite recorded the lowest PLW at 20.12%. The fruit treated with 125 ppm of potassium metabisulphite had a minimum decay loss of 23.08%. The control treatment had the highest TSS at 23.65% with a minimum TA of 0.50%. The fruit treated with 100 and 125 ppm of potassium metabisulphite had the maximum ascorbic acid content at 87 mg and 85 mg, respectively, and the highest fruit weight-to-juice ratio at -2.80 and 2.73, respectively. Therefore, this study concludes that applying potassium metabisulfite at a concentration of 100-125 ppm is suitable for postharvest treatment of Litchi fruit to prolong its shelf life and maintain its quality parameters.
Efektivitas Penyelesaian Secara Diversi Pada Tahap Penyidikan Perkara Penyalahgunaan Narkotika oleh Anak Terhadap Pengulangan Tindak Pidana
Authors: Gunawan Mohamat , Philips A. Kana  , Fitriati  
Published: February 2024

Undang-Undang Nomor 11 Tahun 2012 tentang Sistem Peradilan Pidana Anak mengatur bahwa pemidanaan seharusnya merupakan jalan terakhir bagi anak yang berhadapan dengan hukum, sehingga pendekatan pemidanaan pun berubah. Di wilayah hukum Polresta Padang Sat Reskrim Narkoba telah menetapkan penyelesaian Perkara tindak pidana penyalahgunaan narkotika yang dilakukan anak secara Diversi. Namun, pengulangan tindak pidana penyalahgunaan narkotika yang dilakukan anak masih terjadi di wilayah hukum Polresta Padang. Permasalahan yang diteliti adalah Pertama, Bagaimanakah Bentuk penyelesaian penyalahgunaan narkotika yang dilakukan anak oleh penyidik di Polresta Padang? Kedua, Bagaimanakah efektivitas bentuk penyelesaian penyalahgunaan narkotika yang dilakukan anak secara diversi oleh penyidik terhadap pengulangan tindak pidana di Polresta Padang? Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian hukum dengan spesifikasi deskriptif analitis. Pendekatan yang digunakan adalah pendekatan Yuridis Normatif yang didukung pendekatan Yuridis Empiris. Data yang digunakan adalah data sekunder dan data primer yang dikumpulkan melalui studi kepustakaan dan wawancara. Data yang didapat dianalisis secara kualitatif dan disajikan dalam bentuk deskriptif analitis. Berdasarkan hasil pembahasan dan analisis dapat disimpulkan bahwa Pertama, Bentuk penyelesaian penyalahgunaan narkotika yang dilakukan anak oleh penyidik di Polresta Padang adalah diversi dalam hal ini penyerahan kembali kepada orangtua/wali dan meneruskan penyelesaian ke pengadilan (sidik). Kedua, efektivitas bentuk penyelesaian penyalahgunaan narkotika yang dilakukan anak secara diversi terhadap pengulangan tindak pidana oleh penyidik di Polresta Padang sangat dipengaruhi oleh sikap orang tua dan ketentuan Undang-Undang Nomor 11 Tahun 2012 tentang Sistem Peradilan Pidana Anak. Berdasarkan data pengulangan tindak pidana penyalahgunaan narkotika pada anak di Polresta Padang, dapat dikatakan bahwa bentuk penyelesaian penyalahgunaan narkotika yang dilakukan anak secara diversi cukup efektif terhadap pengulangan tindak pidana karena angka pengulangan tindak pidana penyalahgunaan narkotika pada anak di Polresta Padang cukup kecil.
Barreras para la Inclusión de Estudiantes con Necesidades Educativas
Authors: Cuello Brioso Nairys , Sánchez Elizabeth 
Published: February 2024

El siguiente articulo tiene como finalidad presentar los resultados obtenidos como parte de una investigacion realizada, enfocada en el objetivo de identificar las barreras para la inclusión de estudiantes con necesidades educativas en los centros del nivel primario. El desarrollo del estudio se realizo por medio de la metodología cualitativa, mediante la técnica de grupos focales a directores de centros educativos.
LIQUIDITY, PROFITABILITY, AND SOLVENCY: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE
Authors: Tri Purwanti  , Sry Wahyuni Hasan  , M.U. Falah  , Sri Hermuningsih  
Published: February 2024

This study aims to analyze the comparison of financial performance of PT Timah Tbk with PT Golden Energy Mines Tbk in terms of liquidity, profitability and solvency ratios. This type of research data is secondary data. Data collection techniques with literature and documentation. Data analysis used in liquidity ratio analysis consists of Current Ratio (CR), and Quick Ratio (QR), profitability consisting of Return on Asset (ROA) and Return On Equity (ROE), and solvency ratios namely Total Debt To Equity Ratio and Total Debt To Total Asset Ratio. The results showed that PT Timah has more ability to pay its short-term debt, more ability to pay its short-term debt that has been reduced by inventory when compared to PT Golden Energy Mines Tbk. PT Golden Energy Mines Tbk has more ability to obtain net profit after tax from total assets, more ability to obtain net profit after tax from total equity when compared to PT Timah Tbk. PT Timah Tbk has a lower level of debt risk and a lower level of debt risk when compared to PT Golden Energy Mines Tbk.
Building SimCity
Authors: Gingold Chaim 
Published: February 2024

A deep dive into the trailblazing simulation game SimCity, situating it in the history of games, simulation, and computing.
Building SimCity explores the history of computer simulation by chronicling one of the most influential simulation games ever made: SimCity. As author Chaim Gingold explains, Will Wright, the visionary designer behind the urban planning game, created SimCity in part to learn about cities, thinking about the world as a complex system and appropriating ideas from traditions in which computers are used for modeling. As such, SimCity is a microcosm of the histories and cultures of computer simulation that engages with questions, themes, and representational techniques that reach back to the earliest computer simulations.
Gingold uses SimCity to explore a web of interrelated topics in the history of technology, software, and simulation, taking us far and wide—from the dawn of programmable computers to miniature cities made of construction paper and role-play. An unprecedented history of Maxis, the company founded to bring SimCity to market, the book reveals Maxis's complex relations with venture capitalists, Nintendo, and the Santa Fe Institute, which shaped the evolution of Will Wright's career; Maxis's failure to back The Sims to completion; and the company's sale to Electronic Arts.
A lavishly visual book, Building SimCity boasts a treasure trove of visual matter to help bring its wide-ranging subjects to life, including painstakingly crafted diagrams that explain SimCity's operation, the Kodachrome photographs taken by Charles Eames of schoolchildren making model cities, and Nintendo's manga-style “Dr. Wright” character design, just to name a few.
What's That Smell?
Authors: Hajdini Simon 
Published: February 2024

How our sense of smell engages with philosophy, psychoanalysis, and political economy—and how it can help enrich our understanding of the nature of truth, language, economy, and sexuality.
Why is it that, in Indo-European languages at least, we have no language to describe smells, leaving us (and famously Juliet) no choice but to call the scent of a rose simply “sweet”? In What's That Smell?, a groundbreaking exploration of the intersection between philosophy, psychoanalysis, and the oft-neglected sense of smell, Simon Hajdini sets out to answer this complex question. Through new readings of traditional and modern philosophical texts, Hajdini places smell at the very center of a philosophical critique of the traditional notion of truth, challenging the idea that smell is the antiphilosophical sense par excellence.
Through fresh engagements with fundamental philosophical issues, original analyses of modern literature and film, and the novel use of scientific research into smell within a humanities context, Hajdini situates problems of olfaction at the very point of inception of cultural life. He proposes that ontology, civilization, and capitalist economy alike can be said to amount to "shit management." And only by following the philosophically most deplorable of the senses, the book argues, can we better understand the central philosophical, psychoanalytical, and political issues of truth, sex, and exploitation.
Cryptography
Authors: Louridas Panos 
Published: February 2024

A broad introduction to cryptography—what it is, how it really works, what its future holds, and why every informed citizen should understand its basics.
We all keep secrets—from our gym locker codes to our email passwords to our online interactions. And we choose to share those secrets only with those whom we trust. So, too, do organizations, businesses, governments, and armies. In this fascinating book Cryptography, Panos Louridas provides a broad and accessible introduction to cryptography, the art and science of keeping and revealing secrets. Louridas explains just how cryptography works to keep our communications confidential, tracing it back all the way to its ancient roots. Then he follows its long and winding path to where we are today and reads the signs that point to where it may go tomorrow.
A few years back, interest in cryptography was restricted to specialists. Today, as we all live our lives attuned to our digital footprint and the privacy issues it entails, it becomes more and more essential to have a basic understanding of cryptography and its applications to everyday life. Starting with classical cryptography, Cryptography takes the reader all the way up to the twenty-first century cryptographic applications that underpin our lives in the digital realm. Along the way, Louridas also explains concepts such as symmetric cryptography, asymmetric cryptography, cryptographic protocols and applications, and finally, quantum and post-Quantum cryptography as well as the links between cryptography and computer security.
Vox ex Machina
Authors: Bell Sarah A. 
Published: February 2024

How today's digital devices got their voices, and how we learned to listen to them.
From early robots to toys like the iconic Speak & Spell to Apple's Siri, Vox ex Machina tells the fascinating story of how scientists and engineers developed voices for machines during the twentieth century. Sarah Bell chronicles the development of voice synthesis from buzzy electrical current and circuitry in analog components to the robotic sounds of early digital signal processing to today's human sounding applications. Along the way, Bell also shows how the public responded to these technologies and asks whether talking machines are even good for us.
Using a wide range of intriguing examples, Vox ex Machina is embedded in a wider story about people—describing responses to voice synthesis technologies that often challenged prevailing ideas about computation and automation promoted by boosters of the Information Age. Bell helps explain why voice technologies came to sound and to operate in the way they do—influenced as they were by a combination of technical assumptions and limitations, the choices of the corporations that deploy them, and the habits that consumers developed over time.
A beautifully written book that will appeal to anyone with a healthy skepticism toward Silicon Valley, Vox ex Machina is an important and timely contribution to our cultural histories of information, computing, and media.
The Emperor's New Nudity
Authors: Kremnitzer Yuval 
Published: February 2024

An analysis of contemporary authoritarianism and the medium in which it flourishes, the internet, as well as what lies at the complex intersection of authority and technology.
In recent decades, a new style of authoritarian politics has taken hold throughout the liberal-democratic world. The new authority figures are characterized by obscene, transgressive behavior, reminiscent of the “crowd” leader as theorized by Freud, only far less transient. In The Emperor's New Nudity, Yuval Kremnitzer considers the fraught intersection of authority and technology—the internet being the medium that has allowed contemporary authoritarianism to thrive—asking foundational questions such as: How can we think of the network as a social phenomenon? What can social and political phenomena teach us about the nature of the new technology? And how does technology reshape the very fabric of social and political life?
Technology, Kremnitzer writes, leads us toward an impersonal and hyperrational world to such an extent that it renders human subjectivity outmoded. Authority, on the other hand, anchors our subjective identifications to certain figures and seems to be hopelessly primitive and irrational. What is required, then, is a dialectics of the primal—a study of the way in which what strikes us as essential enters into the dynamics of historical change. From this perspective, authority and technology can be said to be divided by a common object—the unwritten law, and the special knowledge that pertains to it: a knowledge without knowers.
Counting Feminicide
Authors: D'Ignazio Catherine 
Published: February 2024

Why grassroots data activists in Latin America count feminicide—and how this vital social justice work challenges mainstream data science.
What isn't counted doesn't count. And mainstream institutions systematically fail to account for feminicide, the gender-related killing of women and girls, including cisgender and transgender women. Against this failure, Counting Feminicide brings to the fore the work of data activists across the Americas who are documenting such murders—and challenging the reigning logic of data science by centering care, memory, and justice in their work. Drawing on Data Against Feminicide, a large-scale collaborative research project, Catherine D'Ignazio describes the creative, intellectual, and emotional labor of feminicide data activists who are at the forefront of a data ethics that rigorously and consistently takes power and people into account.
Individuals, researchers, and journalists—these data activists scour news sources to assemble spreadsheets and databases of women killed by gender-related violence, then circulate those data in a variety of creative and political forms. Their work reveals the potential of restorative/transformative data science—the use of systematic information to, first, heal communities from the violence and trauma produced by structural inequality and, second, envision and work toward the world in which such violence has been eliminated. Specifically, D'Ignazio explores the possibilities and limitations of counting and quantification—reducing complex social phenomena to convenient, sortable, aggregable forms—when the goal is nothing short of the elimination of gender-related violence.
Counting Feminicide showcases the incredible power of data feminism in practice, in which each murdered woman or girl counts, and, in being counted, joins a collective demand for the restoration of rights and a transformation of the gendered order of the world.
Artificial Intelligence
Authors: Martinez David R. , Kifle Bruke M. 
Published: February 2024

The first text to take a systems engineering approach to artificial intelligence (AI), from architecture principles to the development and deployment of AI capabilities.
Most books on artificial intelligence (AI) focus on a single functional building block, such as machine learning or human-machine teaming. Artificial Intelligence takes a more holistic approach, addressing AI from the view of systems engineering. The book centers on the people-process-technology triad that is critical to successful development of AI products and services. Development starts with an AI design, based on the AI system architecture, and culminates with successful deployment of the AI capabilities. Directed toward AI developers and operational users, this accessibly written volume of the MIT Lincoln Laboratory Series can also serve as a text for undergraduate seniors and graduate-level students and as a reference book.
• In-depth look at modern computing technologies
• Systems engineering description and means to successfully undertake an AI product or service development through deployment
• Existing methods for applying machine learning operations (MLOps)
• AI system architecture including a description of each of the AI pipeline building blocks
• Challenges and approaches to attend to responsible AI in practice
• Tools to develop a strategic roadmap and techniques to foster an innovative team environment
• Multiple use cases that stem from the authors' MIT classes, as well as from AI practitioners, AI project managers, early-career AI team leaders, technical executives, and entrepreneurs
• Exercises and Jupyter notebook examples
A Book about Ray
Authors: Levy Ellen 
Published: February 2024

The first full-career survey of the idiosyncratic life and work of Ray Johnson, a collagist, performance artist, and pioneer of mail art.
Ray Johnson (1927-1995), a.k.a. “New York's most famous unknown artist,” was notorious for the elaborate games he played with the institutions of the art world, soliciting their attention even as he rejected their invitations. In A Book about Ray, Ellen Levy offers a comprehensive study of the artist who turned the business of career-making into a tongue-in-cheek performance, tracing his artistic development from his arrival at Black Mountain College in 1945 to his death in 1995. Levy describes Johnson's practice as one that was constantly shifting—whether in tone, in its address to potential audiences, or among three primary artistic modes: collage, performance, and correspondence art.
A Book about Ray takes an elliptical path, circling around rather than trying to arrest in flight the elusive artist and his purposefully ephemeral art. By crafting the book in this way, Levy evokes Ray Johnson's art in the moment of its making and draws readers into the artist's world, while making them feel, from the beginning, that they somehow already know their way around that world. In exploring Johnson's scene, readers will also encounter the artists who influenced him, like Joseph Cornell and Marcel Duchamp, and his friends and peers like Jasper Johns, Allan Kaprow, Robert Rauschenberg, and Andy Warhol. The work of such figures will look forever different in light of Johnson's subversive take on their shared aesthetic.
Suitable for readers both new to Ray Johnson and those already familiar with his work, A Book about Ray is a complete and vital portrait of an American original.
Living Surfaces
Authors: Gil-Fournier Abelardo , Parikka Jussi 
Published: February 2024

An investigation of aesthetics and visualizations of planetary surfaces from an experimental media theory perspective.
What if every vista, every island—indeed, every geographical feature on Earth—could be viewed as an art object? In Living Surfaces, Abelardo Gil-Fournier and Jussi Parikka explore how the surface of the Earth has, over the last two centuries, become known and perceived as an environment of images. Living Surfaces features a range of case studies from eighteenth-century experiments with and observations of vegetal matter, photosynthesis, and plant physiology to twenty-first-century machine vision and AI techniques of calculating agricultural and other landscape surfaces. Mapping these different scales of vegetal images, Gil-Fournier and Parikka help us understand core questions that pertain to the artistic and architectural reference points for the Anthropocene.
With 42 black-and-white and full-color illustrations, Living Surfaces is an engaging and unique take on environmental surfaces as they come to occupy a central place in our understanding of planetary change.
Antiracist by Design
Authors: Hall Crystal C. , Hernandez Mindy 
Published: February 2024

How to confront the challenge of creating antiracist behavioral design—and how to successfully implement the solutions.
Behavioral science has been celebrated as a field whose insights can design a better world, but its color-blind approach has perpetuated unjust systems. With over three decades of collective experience at the forefront of applied behavioral science, authors Hall and Hernandez expose the consequences of this failure and the dangers of inaction. While our hesitancy is understandable—applied behavioral science alone won't dismantle structural racism—we've confused limitations with powerlessness. This book provides a call to action.
Antiracist By Design provides the tools and a roadmap to an antiracist approach to applied behavioral science, including a step-by-step guide to reimagined behavioral design processes, “fan fiction” with antiracist makeovers to classic studies, and a revised behavioral map template that prompts users to consider systemic barriers. Written for anyone who wants to make the world a more just place, Hall and Hernandez use scholarly research alongside accessible stories (from Mozart and Chris Rock to the TV show Insecure)to illuminate ways we can drive racial justice forward. Everyone from scholars to students to NGO program designers, will benefit from these renovated best practices.