bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
English Consonant Mispronunciation by Jakarta International University's Final Year English Department Students
Authors: Yagi Joy Ivana , Rosari Maria Dewi 
Published: January 2024

Understanding how to produce and how to use speech sounds are essential for English learners to avoid mispronunciation. However, most of the English learners would then likely to mispronounce the English consonants that can lead to misunderstanding, miscommunication and even negative expression. This study attempts to find out the mispronounced English consonants and the most commonly mispronounced English consonants by final year English Department students of Jakarta International University. Qualitative descriptive was used in this research with a pronunciation test as the research instrument. In discovering the data, the researchers listened to the audio recording from the participants and transcribed the pronounced English words containing English consonants into IPA symbol systems. The result of this study shows that there are 12 English consonants mispronounced by the 10 students and four of them became the most frequently mispronounced consonants. This study is beneficial for the lecturers and students as a heads-up in being aware of English consonant sounds that tend to be mispronounced even by final year English Department students. This research is also expected to be a reference for future research to fill in the gaps in the research field of English mispronunciation.
Machine Images As Media to Improve Cadet's Ability in Writing Descriptive Texts
Authors: Sulistyorini Dwi 
Published: January 2024

This study aims to determine the benefits of using machine images in improving the writing skills of cadets. Quasi-experimental designed was used by the researcher because the subjects were not randomly assigned. The population was the Polytechnic Bumi Akpelni of Marine Mechanical Engineering Technology Cadets in 2022/2023 academic year. In this study, the researcher used purposive sampling technique. The samples consisted of the cadets of Batch 57 semester 3 consisting of two classes. At the beginning of data collection, the researcher prepared the data through a lesson plan, namely the instruction instrument for the writing test and statements for the questionnaire. The teaching phase was carried out to measure whether both were appropriate, pre-test to find cadets' initial abilities and post-the test tests whether the treatment is effective in learning descriptive text. Through data analysis used, namely the scoring system in the form of rubrics, then to see significant differences in scores through studies of normality and homogeneity. From the pre-test result, the average score obtained was 56.66 from the experimental group, while it was 57.77 from the control group. After getting the treatment, the post-test average score of experimental group was 77.77 and control group was 70.10. From the t-test analysis, it was found that t-count was greater than t-table (2.50> 1.55). It indicates that there is a significant difference of the scores from the two groups. Therefore, the researcher concluded that Learned Image Machine is very helpful in improving the ability to write Descriptive Text compared to ordinary teaching without this media.
O raciocínio geográfico tem lugar num currículo progressista? Para começar um debate sobre a revisão da BNCC
Authors: Rocha Ana Angelita 
Published: January 2024

O presente texto é resultado das minhas inquietações sobre a teoria curricular e o ensino de geografia. A minha proposta tenciona o debate sobre conhecimento escolar à luz da teoria política, a partir da discussão de antagonismo empreendida por Ernesto Laclau e seus interlocutores (2000; 2005a). Com essa costura teórica, o artigo defende que a revisão da Base Nacional Comum Curricular (BNCC) se torna uma agenda prioritária num cenário democrático. Para sustentar este argumento, busco interlocutores de língua inglesa que já problematizaram os limites e as potências de metáforas organizadoras do currículo, como o raciocínio geográfico. Nessa direção, vejo a relação entre o conhecimento escolar e a abordagem da teoria política como chave de interpretação das reformas curriculares em escala nacional e global. A hipótese deste texto opera com a desconfiança de que o raciocínio geográfico induz um protagonismo que desloca para a margem do currículo algumas tradições do ensino da Geografia muito caras para a pauta da comunidade disciplinar e para a crítica da sociedade com regime conservador e autocrático.
PELATIHAN PEMBUATAN WAYANG JERAMI SEBAGAI MEDIA AJAR KREATIF BAGI KELOMPOK PKK KABUPATEN BOYOLALI
Authors: Hapsari Putri Sekar , Cahyani Anisa Putri 
Published: January 2024

Jerami adalah limbah sisa pemanenan padi yang belum termanfaatkan secara optimal. Volume limbah jerami yang luar biasa dan nilai manfaatnya yang rendah oleh karena itu pemanfaatan limbah jerami penting untuk dilakukan. Pemanfaatan merujuk pada karakteristik jerami atau batang padi, memungkinkan untuk dimanfaatakn dalam bentuk serat. Tujuan dari penelitain ini adalah untuk mengolah jerami menjadi bahan produk kerajinan dan mebel; desain dan perwujudan produk kerajinan dan mebel berbasis serat jerami; perlindungan inovasi produk dan uji pasar. Proses kegiatan pengabdian kepada masyarakat ini menggunakan pendekatan daan pertimbangan aspek desain dan manufaktur. Sumber data terdiri dari sumber utama, literatur dan informan sedangkan analisis data yakni dengan model analisis interaktif, meliputi reduksi data, data display dan verifikasi data. Luaran atau target penelitian meliputi penemuan hasil hutan non-kayu sebagai bahan produk kerajinan, dan pencatatan kekayaan intelektual. Pemanfaatan jerami sebagai limbah sisa pemanenan menjadi produk jadi maupun produk setengah jadi merupakan upaya untuk memberdayakan petani dan kelompok-kelompok industri kreatif.
Baseline Characteristics And Outcome Of Covid-19 Patients In Bangladesh
Authors: Islam ANM Shamsul , Abbas Md Golam , Hassan Refat Md Nazmul , Amin KM Baizid , Hasan Md Mahmudul , Rahman Mosfika 
Published: January 2024

Background: Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) is the disease caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Corona virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The disease was declared as a pandemic by WHO in a press release on 11 February 2020. The virus was confirmed to have spread to Bangladesh in March 2020. To combat this pandemic disease, baseline characteristics of the COVID-19 patients are essential to be identified in the context of Bangladesh.
Methods: The cross-sectional study was conducted among 1016 COVID-19 patients diagnosed by Reversed Transcriptase-Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) assay at the National Institute of Preventive and Social Medicine (NIPSOM) laboratory. The study was conducted during the period from March to June 2020, Data were collected form the participants, who were selected conveniently and were interviewed by using a pre-tested semi-structured questionnaire over telephone.
Results: The study revealed that among 1016 respondents, 64.1% were male and the rest 35.9% were female. Almost half of the respondents (46.5%) were aged 19-39 years. Among the respondents, 72.6% were married and 39.6% were graduated and above. More than two-thirds (69.3%) of the respondents lived in urban area and 72.7% were from nuclear family. On the fourteenth (14th) day or onwards of being positive, RT–PCR Test-1 found 12.5% positive and on twenty-eighth (28th) day or onwards RT–PCR Test-2 found positive only 3.3%. On the other hand, RT–PCR Test-1 was not done by 11.6% and RT–PCR Test-2 by 41.8%. While on the fourteenth (14th) day or onwards of being positive, 62.1% patients were continuing treatment and on the twenty-eighth (28th) day or onwards only 3.5% patients were continuing treatment due to covid related complications.
Conclusion: Baseline characteristics, severity and outcomes of sequentially tested patients with confirmed COVID-19 positive cases in Bangladesh. Such information should be disseminated across the country to raise awareness and initiate necessary measures by the policy makers to prevent spread of corona virus in Bangladesh.
JOPSOM 2021; 41(2):36-42
Record of Anoplocnemis phasianus (Fabricius, 1781) (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Coreidae) from Goa, India
Authors: Gadekar Vijaykumar S. , Shetkar Ayesha E. , Naik Aishwarya S. 
Published: January 2024

In the survey on diversity of Coreidae, Anoplocnemis phasianus (Fabricius, 1781) is recorded for the first time in the state of Goa. External morphology of A. phasianus is described with its present geographical distribution, taxonomic photo plate, host plants, and natural photographs of the nymphs and adults are provided.
Biology of shoot and fruit borer, Earias vittella Fabricius (Noctuidae: Lepidoptera) on okra
Authors: Subba Bikash , Chudhuri Nilanjana , Senapati S.K. 
Published: January 2024

The biology of fruit and shoot borer (Earias vittella F.) was studied under the natural conditions in the instructional farm of Uttar Banga Krishi Viswavidyalay in pre-kharif, kharif and post-kharif on okra. The study revealed that the egg incubation in pre-kharif, kharif and post-kharif revealed that the egg incubation were 3.18±0.40, 3.61±0.70 and 4.25±0.67 and larval period were 11.00±0.88, 11.00±0.82 and 13.01±1.81 during corresponding seasons respectively. The pupal period in pre-kharif, kharif and postkharif were 13.01±1.81; 11.00±0.82; 10.97±2.15 days respectively. The adult male longevities observed were 3.64±0.67, 5.60±0.70 and 7.33±0.97 during pre-kharif, kharif and post-kharif. On the other hand female longevities observed were about 7.45±1.57b; 8.87±1.10; 9.41±1.51 days in corresponding seasons respectively. The female fecundity during pre-kharif, kharif and post-kharif were 91.55±10.93, 117.55b±10.60 and 132.04±5.83 eggs in their lifetime. The pre-oviposition during pre-kharif, kharif and post-kharif were 1.64±0.50, 1.52±0.53 and 1.88±0.57 and the oviposition periods in corresponding seasons were 2.73±0.47, 3.22±0.79 and 4.32±0.52. While post-oviposition periods in pre-kharif, kharif and post-kharif were 3.09±0.70, 4.14±0.63 and 3.23±0.92 respectively. Its total life-cycle was completed in 27.45±1.57, 31.60±1.90 and 41.35±2.55 days during pre-kharif, kharif and post-kharif respectively. Higher fecundity may lead to faster population growth that may surpass the economic threshold level (ETL), even though the shoot and fruit borer’s life cycle is longer in Kharif and post-kharif. Thus, it may be said that the kharif and poskharif seasons are the most susceptible to shoot fruit and shoot borer infestation.
New faunistic records of two species of pygmy backswimmers (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Pleidae) from Kerala, India
Authors: Jyothylakshmi K. , Nandakumar S. 
Published: January 2024

Members of the family Pleidae are commonly referred to as pygmy backswimmers. They are small predatory bugs; usually reside in stagnant or slow moving aquatic habitats with plenty of vegetation. Two species of aquatic insects Paraplea frontalis (Fieber, 1844) and P. liturata (Fieber, 1844) in the family Pleidae are reported for the first time from Kerala. Both species are relatively common and widespread in India. However, the present faunistic records shall add to the database of geographical distributional range of these species.
Pendidikan Karakter Aswaja berbasis Multidisipliner
Authors: Amaliano Adam Gio 
Published: January 2024

Istilah aswaja sudah tidak asing didengar yang mana diindonesia terdapat organisasi NU yang mengikuti faham aswaja, namun banyak orang-orang yang mengaku faham aswaja namun hanya sekedar formalitas sedangkan nilai-nilai karakter aswaja sama sekali tidak nampak dalam pribadi mereka. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan penerapan pendidikan karakter aswaja berbasis multidisipliner. Penelitian merupakan penelitian kualitatif dengan menggunakan pendekatan studi kasus. Hasil yang diperoleh dalam penelitian ini yaitu, seharusnya sebagai seorang pendidik sebelum materi disampaikan pada peserta didik diharapkan pendidik telah mengamalkan atau menerapkannya terlebih dahulu dalam pribadinya sendiri, maupun kehidupannya sehari-hari. Berdasarkan konsep ini akan lebih memudahkan pendidik dalam menyampaikan pengetahuan pada peserta didik, sebab hal ini seirama dengan watak manusia. Disamping itu peneliti menambahkan pemahaman, bahwa seharusnya antara pendidik dan peserta didik dalam mengajarkan dan menuntut ilmu harus memiliki sikap saling menghormati dan ikhlas Â dalam menjalankannya, agar terjadi sebuah hubungan bukan hanya jasmani namun juga rohani.
Toxicological risk assessment of mechanical-chemical vs. chemical weed control techniques in sugar beet in Germany using SYNOPS-GIS
Authors: Fishkis Olga , Strassemeyer Joern , Pöllinger Franz , Roß Christel Anne , Koch Heinz-Josef 
Published: January 2024

IntroductionThe EU Farm to Fork strategy aims to reduce the use of pesticides and associated toxicological risks. However, the risks coming along with currently available alternatives to chemical weed control in sugar beet have not yet been evaluated. Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine the toxicological risks to arthropods, aquatic and soil organisms caused by mechanical-chemical in comparison to conventional chemical weed control in sugar beet.Materials and methodsThe risk assessment was performed using SYNOPS-GIS, a process-based model calculating the environmental fate of pesticides and the exposure risk to arthropods, aquatic and soil organisms.Results and discussionOverall, broadcast spraying of conventional herbicides caused low to very low toxicological risks in most regions and years in Germany. Nevertheless, there were considerably higher risks to aquatic and soil organisms from conventional broadcast spraying in northern Germany than in other regions of Germany. With conventional herbicides, mechanical-chemical weed control reduced toxicological risks proportionally to the reduction in application amount. In contrast, band spraying of the new herbicide with the active ingredients foramsulfuron and thiencarbazone-methyl caused an aquatic risk as broadcast spraying with conventional herbicides, although the application rate was 120 times lower. This was due to high toxicity of both active ingredients of the new herbicide to water plants.ConclusionsNot only the application amount of herbicides but also environmental toxicity should be included in assessment approaches such as the EU “Harmonized Risk Indicator”.
The influence of the combined impairments and apical mesh surgery on the biomechanical behavior of the pelvic floor system
Authors: Xue Xianglu , Zheng Qiuyu , Gao Zhenhua , Shen Jihong , Yao Tingqiang 
Published: January 2024

Objective: The prolapse mechanism of multifactorial impairment of the female pelvic floor system and the mechanics of the pelvic floor after apical suspension surgery are not yet understood, so we developed biomechanical models of the pelvic floor for the normal physiological state (0°) and 90° pathological state.Methods: Under different types and levels of the impairments and uterosacral suspensions, the possible changes in the morphometric characteristics and the mechanical characteristics of suspension and support functions were simulated based on the biomechanical models of the pelvic floor.Results: After the combined impairments, the descending displacement of the pelvic floor cervix and the stress and displacement of the perineal body reached maximum values. After surgical mesh implantation, the stresses of the normal pelvic floor were concentrated on the uterine fundus, cervix, and top of the bladder and the stresses of the 90° pathological state pelvic floor were concentrated on the uterine fundus, uterine body, cervix, middle of the posterior vaginal wall, and bottom of the perineal body.Conclusion: After the combined impairments, the biomechanical support of the bladder and sacrococcyx in the anterior (0°) and 90° pathological state pelvic floor system is diminished, the anterior vaginal wall dislodges from the external vaginal opening, and the posterior vaginal wall forms “kneeling” profiles. The pelvic floor system may evolve with a tendency toward the cervical prolapse with anterior and posterior vaginal wall prolapse and eventually prolapse. After surgical mesh implantation, the cervical position can be better restored; however, the load of combined impairment of the pelvic floor is mainly borne by the surgical mesh suspension, the biomechanical support function of pelvic floor organs and sacrococcyx was not repaired by the physiological structure, and the results of uterosacral suspension alone may be poor.
Synthesis and characterization of titanium dioxide nanoparticles from Bacillus subtilis MTCC 8322 and its application for the removal of methylene blue and orange G dyes under UV light and visible light
Authors: Rathore Chandani , Yadav Virendra Kumar , Amari Abdelfattah , Meena Abhishek , Chinedu Egbosiuba Titus , Verma Rakesh Kumar , Mahdhi Noureddine , Choudhary Nisha , Sahoo Dipak Kumar , Chundawat Rajendra Singh , Patel Ashish 
Published: January 2024

Over the last decade there has been a huge increase in the green synthesis of nanoparticles. Moreover, there is a continuous increase in harnessing the potential of microorganisms for the development of efficient and biocompatible nanoparticles around the globe. In the present research work, investigators have synthesized TiO2 NPs by harnessing the potential of Bacillus subtilis MTCC 8322 (Gram-positive) bacteria. The formation and confirmation of the TiO2 NPs synthesized by bacteria were carried out by using UV-Vis spectroscopy, Fourier transforms infrared (FT-IR), X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscope (SEM), and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX/EDS). The size of the synthesized TiO2 NPs was 80–120 nm which was spherical to irregular in shape as revealed by SEM. FTIR showed the characteristic bands of Ti-O in the range of 400–550 cm−1 and 924 cm−1 while the band at 2930 cm−1 confirmed the association of bacterial biomolecules with the synthesized TiO2 NPs. XRD showed two major peaks; 27.5° (rutile phase) and 45.6° (anatase phase) for the synthesized TiO2 NPs. Finally, the potential of the synthesized TiO2 NPs was assessed as an antibacterial agent and photocatalyst. The remediation of Methylene blue (MB) and Orange G (OG) dyes was carried out under UV- light and visible light for a contact time of 150–240 min respectively. The removal efficiency for 100 ppm MB dye was 25.75% and for OG dye was 72.24% under UV light, while in visible light, the maximum removal percentage for MB and OG dye was 98.85% and 80.43% respectively at 90 min. Moreover, a kinetic study and adsorption isotherm study were carried out for the removal of both dyes, where the pseudo-first-order for MB dye is 263.269 and 475554.176 mg/g for OG dye. The pseudo-second-order kinetics for MB and OG dye were 188.679 and 1666.667 mg/g respectively. In addition to this, the antibacterial activity of TiO2 NPs was assessed against Bacillus subtilis MTCC 8322 (Gram-positive) and Escherichia coli MTCC 8933 (Gram-negative) where the maximum zone of inhibition in Bacillus subtilis MTCC 8322 was about 12 mm, and for E. coli 16 mm.
Rapid and reliable diagnosis of Moraxella catarrhalis infection using loop-mediated isothermal amplification-based testing
Authors: Xiao Fei , Zhou Juan , Huang Xiaolan , Fu Jin , Jia Nan , Sun Chunrong , Xu Zheng , Wang Yi , Yu Lei , Meng Lihui 
Published: January 2024

Moraxella catarrhalis (M. catarrhalis) was an important pathogen closely associated with respiratory tract infections. We employed the loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) coupled with nanoparticle-based lateral flow biosensor (LFB) and fluorescence testing technique for formulating two diagnostic methods for M. catarrhalis detection, termed M. catarrhalis-LAMP-LFB assay and M. catarrhalis-LAMP-FRT, respectively. The M. catarrhalis-LAMP-LFB system incorporated the use of biotin-14-dCTP and a forward loop primer (LF) with a hapten at the 5′ end. This design in LAMP reaction enabled the production of double-labeled products that could be effectively analyzed using the lateral flow biosensor (LFB). For the M. catarrhalis-LAMP-FRT assay, the LF was modified with a sequence at 5′ end, and a fluorophore, as well as a black hole quencher, were strategically labeled at the 5′ end and within the middle of the new LF. The restriction endonuclease Nb.BsrDI could accurately recognize and cleave the newly synthesized double-strand terminal sequences, resulting in the separation of the fluorophore from the black hole quencher and releasing fluorescence signals. Both assays have been proven to be highly sensitive and specific, capable of detecting genomic DNA of M. catarrhalis at concentrations as low as 70 fg, with no cross-reactivity observed with non-M. catarrhalis pathogens. Furthermore, both methods successfully identified M. catarrhalis in all clinical samples within 1 h that were confirmed positive by real-time PCR, exhibiting superior sensitivity than conventional culture methods. Herein, the newly developed two LAMP-based assays were rapid and reliable for M. catarrhalis detection and hold significant promise for deployment in point-of-care (POC) settings.
Breaking barriers: a statistical and machine learning-based hybrid system for predicting dementia
Authors: Javeed Ashir , Anderberg Peter , Ghazi Ahmad Nauman , Noor Adeeb , Elmståhl Sölve , Berglund Johan Sanmartin 
Published: January 2024

Introduction: Dementia is a condition (a collection of related signs and symptoms) that causes a continuing deterioration in cognitive function, and millions of people are impacted by dementia every year as the world population continues to rise. Conventional approaches for determining dementia rely primarily on clinical examinations, analyzing medical records, and administering cognitive and neuropsychological testing. However, these methods are time-consuming and costly in terms of treatment. Therefore, this study aims to present a noninvasive method for the early prediction of dementia so that preventive steps should be taken to avoid dementia.Methods: We developed a hybrid diagnostic system based on statistical and machine learning (ML) methods that used patient electronic health records to predict dementia. The dataset used for this study was obtained from the Swedish National Study on Aging and Care (SNAC), with a sample size of 43040 and 75 features. The newly constructed diagnostic extracts a subset of useful features from the dataset through a statistical method (F-score). For the classification, we developed an ensemble voting classifier based on five different ML models: decision tree (DT), naive Bayes (NB), logistic regression (LR), support vector machines (SVM), and random forest (RF). To address the problem of ML model overfitting, we used a cross-validation approach to evaluate the performance of the proposed diagnostic system. Various assessment measures, such as accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve, and Matthew’s correlation coefficient (MCC), were used to thoroughly validate the devised diagnostic system’s efficiency.Results: According to the experimental results, the proposed diagnostic method achieved the best accuracy of 98.25%, as well as sensitivity of 97.44%, specificity of 95.744%, and MCC of 0.7535.Discussion: The effectiveness of the proposed diagnostic approach is compared to various cutting-edge feature selection techniques and baseline ML models. From experimental results, it is evident that the proposed diagnostic system outperformed the prior feature selection strategies and baseline ML models regarding accuracy.