bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Menganalisis Karakteristik Sedimen Dan Morfologi Muara Sungai Kapuas Guna Memperlancar Alur Pelayaran
Authors: Budiman Farid , Setyawan Yudha , Ando Yosafat Aditya 
Published: February 2024

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Muara sungai merupakan tempat pertemuan antara air laut dengan air sungai dan merupakan bagian hilir dari sungai. Pada dasar perairan muara sungai terjadi pengendapan, karena terjadi pertemuan partikel pasir/lumpur yang dibawa oleh arus sungai bertemu dengan pasir berada di daerah sekitar pantai. Berkaitan dengan hal tersebut, maka sangat penting untuk meneliti karakteristik dari muara serta karakteristik sedimennya, khususnya untuk memberikan informasi kepada masyarakat sekitar serta memberikan data mengenai karakteristik sedimen yang mengendap untuk menentukan metode pengerukan yang lebih efisien atau mencari solusi agar tidak dilakukan pengerukan tiap tahunnya. Penelitian ini dilaksanakan di Laboratorium Mekanika Tanah Fakultas Teknik Universitas Tanjungpura serta pada penggambilan sampel sedimen di Muara Sungai Kapuas. Waktu pengambilan sampel sedimen pada 9 titik dan pengambilan data batimetri pada 21 titik adalah tanggal 14 juni 2019 sedangkan untuk uji laboratorium pada tanggal 14 – 22 juni 2019. Metode yang digunakan ialah purpose sampling untuk mengambil sampel di lapangan, metode kuantitatif untuk pengujian di laboratorium. Untuk analisa data menggunakan metode sistem USDA dan kategori kemiringan Van Zuidam. Dari hasil pengambilan data lapangan, menunjukkan bahwa batimetri di Muara Sungai Kapuas berkisar antara 2,6 m hingga 8,7 m pada MSL +0,8 m dengan kontur dasar di Muara Sungai Kapuas di kategorikan Datar. Jenis sedimen dasar di Muara Sungai Kapuas didominasi oleh kategori tanah liat berlanau. Sedimen bisa berasal dari pantai berlumpur yang mengalami abrasi oleh aliran air. Oleh karena itu, solusi agar tidak dikeruk setiap tahunnya maka perlu dibangun Jetty atau dinding penahan pantai.
Kandungan Nutrien Pada Air Baku, Bozem, Kolam Peminihan Dan Meja Kristalisasi Di Tambak Garam
Authors: Kartika Ary Giri Dwi , Effendy Makhfud , Zain Arya Galin Fakhrul Islam , Fadloli Bahri , Asih Eka Nurrahema Ning 
Published: February 2024

Tambak garam terdiri dari beberapa kolam dengan fungsinya masing masing. Pada kolam kolam air tersebut terdapat biota mikro lengkap dengan nutrien yang mendukung asupan nutrisinya. Nutrien yang terakumulasi terlalu banyak dalam air akan mempengaruhi kualitas hasil produksi garam. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui kandungan nutrien yang terdiri dari nitrat, fosfat dan amonia serta pengaruhnya terhadap parameter kualitas air. Penelitian dilakukan pada 2 tambak garam di Kabupaten Bangkalan dan Pamekasan. Pengambilan sampel air dilakukan di air baku, bozem, peminihan, dan meja kristalisasi tambak garam yang kemudian sampel air tersebut dimasukan kedalam botol PET. Selanjutnya, sampel tersebut air dianalisis kandungan nitrat dengan metode brusin disulfanilat (SNI 06-2480-1991), asam askorbat untuk fosfat (SNI 06-6989.31-2005) dan alkalin sitrat untuk amonia (SNI 06-6989.30-2005). Hasil uji Kruskal-Wallis menunjukan adanya perbedaan kandungan nitrat, fosfat dan amonia yang signifikan pada masing masing tiitk pengambilan sampel. Hal tersebut menunjukkan bahwa tiap kolam dengan kondisi kualitas air dan lingkungan sekitar mempengaruhi kandungan nutrien di air baku garam.
Prevalence and Antifungal Susceptibility of Fungal Isolates Associated with Otomycotic Patients in Lafia
Authors: Chuku Aleruchi , Sani Bashiru Eya , Akharenegbe Pedro , Obande Godwin Attah 
Published: February 2024

This study assessed the fungal pathogens associated with otomycosis and their antifungal profile. A cross-sectional study was done to collect, examine and culture 177 exudate swabs from patients presenting with otomycosis at the Dalhatu Araf Specialist Hospital for three months. Fungal isolates were identified using their morphological and microscopic structure and characteristics. Mycological assessments showed that 20.90% were positive for fungal agents. Males (70.27%) had more positive cases than females (29.73%). Age group 31-40 had the most predominant number of cases (49.95%) than any other age group. A. niger (51.35%) was the most predominant, followed by Candida spp. (32.43%), while A. flavus (16.22%) was the least prevalent. The month of May had the most positive cases (16; 43.24%), and March had the least (24.32%). Antifungal assay showed varied susceptibility of the isolates to the antifungals. A. flavus showed no resistance to Itraconazole. However, multiple drug resistance was observed amongst the samples, with A. niger showing high resistance to ketoconazole and fluconazole. This study showed that A. niger, A. flavus and Candida spp. are etiological agents associated with otomycosis in Lafia. Caution also needs to be taken in managing this infection as multiple drug resistance was also observed.
Customer Relationship Management Sales Shop Istana Boneka-Website
Authors: Purwasih Ratih , Mittra Candana Dori , Afuan M 
Published: February 2024

Saat ini Jumlah industri kecil yang mempromosikan dan menjual produknya terbatas pada wilayah tempat usaha tersebut berada.Hal ini akan menyebabkan produk hanya dikenal oleh masyarakat sekitar dan penjualan tidak akan meningkat. Salah satu cara untuk meningkatkan area pemasaran adalah dengan menggunakan sistem informasi berbasis web atau crm penjualan online. Dengan memanfaatkan sistem informasi berbasis web dengan menambahkan crm untuk penghubung antara konsumen dengan pemilik toko,serta produk-produk usaha industri kecil tersebar luas dari kawasan regional hingga internasional.Oleh karena itu untuk meningkatkan konsumen maka diperlukan media promosi dan juga wadah untuk transaksi jual beli Boneka agar para penggemar Boneka bukan hanya kalangan anak-anak saja orang dewasa juga dan konsumen dapat memantau boneka yang ada dan jika ingin melakukan transaksi pembelian boneka bisa langsung melalui web, promosi media penjualan dan boneka.
Cyborg
Authors: Forlano Laura , Glabau Danya 
Published: February 2024

A concise introduction to cyborg theory that examines the way in which technology is situated, political, and embodied.
This introduction to cyborg theory provides a critical vantage point for analyzing the claims around emerging technologies like automation, robots, and AI. Cyborg analyzes and reframes popular and scholarly conversations about cyborgs from the perspective of feminist cyborg theory. Drawing on their combined decades of training, teaching, and research in the social sciences, design, and engineering education, Laura Forlano and Danya Glabau introduce an approach called critical cyborg literacy. Critical cyborg literacy foregrounds power dynamics and pays attention to the ways that social and cultural factors such as gender, race, and disability shape how technology is imagined, developed, used, and resisted.
Forlano and Glabau offer critical cyborg literacy as a way of thinking through questions about the relationship between humanity and technology in areas such as engineering and computing, art and design, and health care and medicine, as well as the social sciences and humanities. Cyborg examines whether modern technologies make us all cyborgs—if we consider, for instance, the fact that we use daily technologies at work, have technologies embedded into our bodies in health care applications, or use technology to critically explore possibilities as artists, designers, activists, and creators. Lastly, Cyborg offers perspectives from critical race, feminist, and disability thinkers to help chart a path forward for cyborg theory in the twenty-first century.
Algorithms of Resistance
Authors: Bonini Tiziano , Treré Emiliano 
Published: February 2024

How global workers, influencers, and activists develop tactics of algorithmic resistance by appropriating and repurposing the same algorithms that control our lives.
Algorithms are all around us, permeating more and more aspects of our daily lives. While accounts of platform power tend to come across as bleak and monolithic, Algorithms of Resistance shows how people can resist algorithms across a variety of domains. Drawing from rich ethnographic materials and perspectives from both the Global North and South, authors Tiziano Bonini and Emiliano Treré explore how people appropriate and reconfigure algorithms to pursue their objectives in three domains of everyday life: gig work, cultural industries, and politics. They reveal how forms of algorithmic agency and resistance are endemic and mundane and how the platform society is a contested battleground of contrasting forces.
Bonini and Treré begin by outlining their key theoretical framework of moral economies. This framework argues that algorithms exist on a continuum. At its two extremes are two competing moral economies: the user moral economy and the platform moral economy. From here, Algorithms of Resistance chronicles the various inventive ways that individuals can work to achieve agency and resist the ubiquitous power of algorithms. Casting a wide net with a diverse range of case studies, Bonini and Treré reveal the moral imperative for all of us—from delivery drivers to artists to social movements—to resist algorithms.
The Elephant and the Blind
Authors: Metzinger Thomas 
Published: February 2024

An engaging and insightful journey into human consciousness.
What if our goal had not been to land on Mars, but in pure consciousness? The experience of pure consciousness—what does it look like? What is the essence of human consciousness? In The Elephant and the Blind, influential philosopher Thomas Metzinger, one of the world's leading researchers on consciousness, brings together more than 500 experiential reports to offer the world's first comprehensive account of states of pure consciousness. Drawing on a large psychometric study of meditators in 57 countries, Metzinger focuses on “pure awareness” in meditation—the simplest form of experience there is—to illuminate the most fundamental aspects of how consciousness, the brain, and illusions of self all interact.
Starting with an exploration of existential ease and ending on Bewusstseinskultur, a culture of consciousness, Metzinger explores the increasingly non-egoic experiences of silence, wakefulness, and clarity, of bodiless body-experience, ego-dissolution, and nondual awareness. From there, he assembles a big picture—the elephant in the parable, from which the book's title comes—of what it would take to arrive at a minimal model explanation for conscious experience and create a genuine culture of consciousness. Freeing pure awareness from new-age gurus and old religions, The Elephant and the Blind combines personal reports of pure consciousness with incisive analysis to address the whole consciousness community, from neuroscientists to artists, and its accessibility echoes the author's career-long commitment to widening access to philosophy itself.
The Effectiveness of the Anti–Drug Program to Drug Reformists of Barangay Bato and its Effect on Their Human Well–Being
Authors: Estrebello, Frank Jay T.  , Sanchez, Darius Jhon C.  , Aleria, Vincent B.  , Otordos, Aljie P.  , Cañete, Raven M.  , Abaricio, Jay D.  , Pendon, Diana Rose L.  
Published: February 2024

This study aims to comprehensively investigate the effectiveness of an anti-drug program and its impact on the human well-being of 35 Drug Reformists residing in Barangay Bato, Toril, Davao City. The research focuses on three key components of the anti-drug program, namely the livelihood program, spiritual program, and educational program, serving as indicators for evaluating their effectiveness in contributing to the well-being of drug reformists. The research considers variables such as the financial, educational, and spiritual aspects to discern their influence on the overall well-being of the participants.
The comprehensive research method employed in this study involves the collection of quantitative data through structured questionnaires. Descriptive statistics are utilized to present a detailed analysis of the data, providing insights into the demographic characteristics and initial conditions of the participants. Furthermore, regression analysis, specifically the stepwise regression technique, is applied to identify the relationships between the variables and to determine the significant predictors of human well-being among drug reformists.
The results of the analysis revealed a high correlation between the variables, highlighting the intricate interplay between the effectiveness of the anti-drug program and the human well-being of the participants. Notably, the stepwise regression analysis excluded the educational program indicator, suggesting that it does not significantly influence the human well-being of drug reformists in this context. This finding contributes valuable insights for policymakers and practitioners involved in anti-drug initiatives, emphasizing the need for a nuanced approach that prioritizes certain program components over others based on their impact on human well-being.
Folic Acid Protection in Congenital Neural Tube Defects: A Narrative Review
Authors: Schettino Gabriela , Ramos-Silva Valmin , Sarti Thiago Dias 
Published: February 2024

Introduction: Neural tube defects, a congenital malformation of multifactorial source, affect more than 200,000 to 300,000 births a year, and are twice as common in developing countries. Food fortification with folic acid has been shown to be effective reducing this congenital malformation. The aim of this study was to look for evidence on the efficacy, interval and best dose of folic acid to be administered in the prophylaxis of neural tube defects.
Methods: Narrative literature review, using the PubMed database, available at: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/, using the keywords "Folic Acid and Pregnancy and Neural Tube", and applying the filters "Systematic review" and "last five years". Two researchers independently selected articles on the effects of folic acid in preventing neural tube birth defects. After reading the titles and abstracts, 11 of the 21 articles selected were read in full and all were included in the review. Another nine articles obtained from the PUBMED database, using the same keywords and published in the year 2023, were included to discuss the synthesis of the data.
Synthesis of the Data: Neural tube defects were associated with family history, previous stillbirth, unplanned pregnancy, stress during the periconceptional period, lack of prenatal care, use of alcohol, tobacco and exposure to medicines, pesticides, maternal age over 35, chronic maternal illness and low schooling. No evidence of side effects was found as to the supplementation with folic acid. Daily supplementation with 400-800μg, starting 1.5 months before conception and lasting 4 months, prevented the occurrence of neural tube defects and dietary supplementation with folic acid reduced the occurrence of the disease.
Conclusion: Current evidence indicates that folic acid supplementation for pregnant women, starting at 1.5 months before conception and lasting for 4 months, protects against congenital neural tube defects.
Beta-Lactam Resistance and Phenotypic Detection of Extended-Spectrum Beta-Lactamase in Entero bacteriaceae Isolated from Community-Acquired Urinary Tract Infections
Authors: Éric Kasamba Ilunga , Papy Hichika Tshikolasoni 
Published: February 2024

Introduction: Urinary tract infections can affect all individuals, regardless of gender and age, occupying a prominent place in nephrological pathology. The biggest problem is that a pathology with a wide range of antibiotics and other hygiene measures that can remedy it, remains so frequent with sometimes serious complications that can compromise the vital prognosis.
Objectives: To determine antibiogram profile of enterobacteria in urinary infections.
Methodology: This is a cross-sectional study with an analytical aim of enterobacteria isolated from urinary infections from samples from patients of all ages from January 1, 2020 to October 21, 2022.
Results: the isolated enterobacteria strains presented high rates of resistance, i.e. 92.61% for Ampicillin, 47.94% for cefadroxil, 45.14% for cefuroxime and 46.46% for cefotaxime, 72.86% for amoxicillin and 40.44% for amoxicillin + clavulanic acid. Qualitative detection of extended spectrum Beta Lactamase was generally evaluated at 24.8% with peaks for Citrobacter sp, Klebsiella sp and E coli. For the latter, cross-resistance to quinolones was evaluated in proportions ranging from 49.45% to 85.51%.
Conclusion: This study shows that the level of resistance of enterobacteria to beta-lactams is very high. We have observed co-resistance between beta-lactams and quinolones, antibiotics commonly used against Gram-Negative bacteria. This observation requires an improvement in the antibiotic management policy.
Transformation of nanocrystalline MgO pellets in reaction with 1‐chlorobutane
Authors: Gupta Piyush P. , Hohn Keith L. , Erickson Larry E. , Klabunde Kenneth J. , Bedilo Alexander F. 
Published: November 2004

AbstractNanoscale MgO, prepared by an aerogel method (AP–MgO), has been found to be a good destructive adsorbent for dehydrochlorination of 1‐chlorobutane. MgO is converted to MgCl2 during reaction, but conversion continues because MgCl2 itself is a good catalyst for dehydrochlorination. Pelletization will likely be required in industrial use of AP–MgO to ensure lower pressure drop. Pelletization, however, can lead to internal diffusion limitations. In addition, the phase transformation of MgO to MgCl2 inside the pellets leads to physical changes that may limit the reaction rate. This study reports the changes in AP–MgO physical properties upon pelletization and reaction with 1‐chlorobutane. Pore diffusion limitations are noted for all pellets. The phase transformation of MgO to MgCl2 plays an important role in the process, as the physical characteristics substantially change with this transformation. A layer of MgCl2 forms on top of MgO, rendering much of the starting pellet inaccessible to reactants. © 2004 American Institute of Chemical Engineers AIChE J, 50: 3195–3205, 2004
Endopeptidase activity of larval Lacanobia oleracea corpus allatum: Metabolism of Manduca sexta allatostatin and allatotropin
Authors: Audsley Neil , Weaver Robert J. 
Published: November 2004

AbstractThe degradation of synthetic Manduca sexta allatostatin (Manse‐AS) and allatotropin (Manse‐AT) by enzymes associated with the corpus allatum (CA) of larvae of the tomato moth, Lacanobia oleracea, was investigated using reversed‐phase high performance liquid chromatography and matrix‐assisted laser desorption ionisation‐time of flight mass spectrometry. Manduca sexta allatostatin was metabolised by CA extract to Manse‐AS5–15, Manse‐AS6–15, and Manse‐AS7–15, which indicates enzymic cleavage at the C‐terminal side of arginine residues R3 and R5 and the N‐terminal side of R5, suggesting this is due to a trypsin‐like enzyme. In support of this, the same degradation products were identified after Manse‐AS was incubated with trypsin, and CA enzymic activity could be inhibited up to 79% by aprotinin. Degradation of Manse‐AT by CA extract was also trypsin‐like, cleaving at the C‐terminal side of the basic residues K3 and R11 to produce Manse‐AT4–13 and Manse‐AT1–11. Metabolism by trypsin produced the same deletion peptides, but the major product due to this enzyme was Manse‐AT4–11. Hydrolysis of Manse‐AT by CA could only be partially inhibited by high doses of aprotinin (36%), and the CA extract also cleaved Manse‐AT between M8 and T9 to produce Manse‐AT1–8. A trypsin‐like peptidase appears to be the major enzyme present in the CA of larval L. oleracea that acts to metabolise Manse‐AS and Manse‐AT. In addition, an unidentified enzyme that cleaves between M and T residues degraded Manse‐AT. Arch. Insect Biochem. Physiol. 57:178–189, 2004. British Crown Copyright 2004. Published 2004 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
Case for mandatory fortification of food with folate in Australia, for the prevention of neural tube defects
Authors: Bower Carol , Stanley Fiona J. 
Published: November 2004

AbstractBACKGROUNDSince the publication of randomized controlled trials demonstrating the prevention of neural tube defects (NTDs) with periconceptional folate, several Australian states have promoted an increase in periconceptional use of folic acid supplements. Since 1996, voluntary fortification of food with folate has been allowed in Australia and New Zealand for the purpose of preventing NTDs.METHODSFor this report, we synthesized published and unpublished data on folic acid supplement use, voluntary fortification, and trends in NTDs.RESULTSThere has been an increase in the proportion of women (up to 30–40%) taking periconceptional folic acid supplements in Australia, and many foods (mainly breakfast cereals) are fortified. Supplement use is strongly correlated with educational and socioeconomic status; consumption of voluntarily fortified foods is not. There has been a fall in NTDs of about 30% in the non‐Aboriginal population, but no change has been seen in the Aboriginal population.CONCLUSIONSThese data support mandatory fortification of food as a more equitable approach to achieving sufficient folate intake in the periconceptional period for all women in Australia and New Zealand to prevent the majority of NTDs in their offspring. In May 2004, based on these and other considerations, the Australia and New Zealand Food Regulation Ministerial Council agreed that mandatory fortification of food with folate should be considered as a priority. Birth Defects Research (Part A), 2004. © 2004 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
Stimulating in‐soil rhamnolipid production in a bioslurry reactor by limiting nitrogen
Authors: Hudak Andrew J. , Cassidy Daniel P. 
Published: November 2004

AbstractA soil with aged contamination from lubricating oil (LO) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) was treated in a bioslurry reactor to investigate in‐soil biosurfactant production by Pseudomonas aeruginosa, the most abundant indigenous, culturable, hydrocarbon‐degrading microorganism. After 2 days of growth on LO, a depletion of nitrogen stimulated the production and accumulation of rhamnolipids to levels roughly 20 times the critical micelle concentration. Surface tensions and concentrations of monorhamnolipid and dirhamnolipid, PCBs, and total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPH) were measured in a slurry filtrate. Soil‐bound PCBs and TPH were also quantified. Rhamnolipid production was observed within 1 to 2 days after nitrogen depletion in each of the 10 batches tested. By day 6, total rhamnolipid concentrations increased from below detection to average values over 1,000 mg/L, which caused over 98% of soil‐bound PCBs and over 99% of TPH to be emulsified and recovered in the filtrate. After 70 days, rhamnolipid concentrations were only reduced by 15%, because of nitrogen‐limited rates of rhamnolipid biodegradation. The results show that in‐soil biosurfactant production can be stimulated in a controlled way with nutrient limitation and can be used to achieve soil washing. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.