bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
PENGEMBANGAN MEDIA KOMIK UNTUK MENINGKATKAN HASIL BELAJAR SISWA KELAS IV
Authors: Suganda Angga Piki , Setiawan Angga , Ma'ruf Moh Farid 
Published: May 2022

Latar belakang dari penelitian ini adalah kreativitas guru kurang dalam menggunakan media pembelajaran dan belum tersedianya media pembelajaran. Jenis penelitian yang digunakan adalah Research and development (RnD) dan menggunakan model ADDIE (Analysis, Design, Development, and Evaluation). Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengukur peningkatan pada siswa setelah menggunakan media komik berbasis media cetak. Penelitian menggunakan instrument berupa wawancara, observasi, lembar angket validasi ahli materi, lembar angket validasi ahli media, lembar angket validasi praktisi, angket respon siswa, dan soal test untuk mengukur pengetahuan siswa. Penelitian ini dilakukan di SDN 5 Siki, dilihat dari tingkat kelayakan media komik berbasis media cetak ini pada penelitian ini didasarkan pada validasi yang dilakukan oleh ahli materi, ahli bahasa,ahli media dan ahli praktisi. Yang pertama dilihat dari aspek angket validasi ahli materi pembelajaran memperoleh nilai 91,66%,kriteria kevalidan jika dicocokkan yaitu sangat valid sehingga media dapat digunakan dalam proses pembelajaran. Selanjutnya dari aspek angket ahli media pembelajaran memperoleh nilai 80,76%, kriteria kevalidan jika dicocokkan yaitu valid, selanjutnya dari aspek angket ahli bahasa memperoleh nilai 87,5%, kreteria kevalidan jika dicocokan yaitu valid sehingga media dapat digunakan dalam proses pembelajaran dan yang terakhir yaitu ditinjau dari aspek angket ahli praktisi guru kelas IV SDN 5 Siki memperoleh nilai 94,4%, kriteria kevalidan jika dicocokkan yaitu sangat valid, sehingga media dapat digunakan dalam proses pembelajaran. Sedangkan berdasarkan nilai pretest dan posttest digunakan untuk mengukur peningkatan pengetahuan siswa tentang gunung meletus. Nilai pretest memperoleh rata-rata 50,85% dan nilai post test memperoleh nilai 90,71% . Dari perbandingan nilai tersebut dapat diartikan bahwa siswa mengalami peningkatan sebanyak 39,86%. Nilai pree test dan post test jika dihitung menggunakan N-Gain nilainya meningkat sebanyak 0,80 termasuk kedalam nilai tinggi.
Studi geomorfologi karst dan potensi pengembanganya sebagai kawasan geowisata di Daerah Wawo Kabupaten Kolaka Utara Propinsi Sulawesi Tenggara
Authors: Alkhatami Syamsul Ali , Hasria Hasria , Hasan Erzam Salahuddin 
Published: May 2022

Penelitian ini berlokasi di daerah Wawo, Kabupaten Kolaka Utara, Provinsi Sulawesi Tenggara. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah menganalisa karateristik geologi kars yang terdapat di daerah penelitian untuk pengembangan kawasan geowisata. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini yaitu metode mendiskripsikan dan menganalisis potensi suatu lokasi geologi karst sebagai situs warisan geologi yang meliputi dari nilai - nilai sains, nilai – nilai edukasi, nilai – nilai pariwisata, dan resiko degradasinya. Pada penelitian ini terdapat beberapa objek situs geologi yang menjadi objek pengamatan seperti Gua, Danau dan kondisi geomorfologi.Sedangkan untuk menentukan nilai kelayakan pada pengembangan geowisata yaitu Danau Biru, Air Terjun Sila dan Air Terjun Latawe. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian, terdapat 1 (satu) situs geologi yang termasuk dalam kategori “sedang” artinya berpotensi dan layak menjadi geowisata yaitu situs geologi Danau Biru, situs geologi, dan 2 (dua) yang termasuk dalam kategori “rendah” artinya tidak berpotensi dan layak menjadi geowisata yaitu situs geologi Danau Biru. Wawo memiliki morfologi karst pedataran 30% dari luas daerah penelitian, Morfologi karst perbukitan 20% dan morfologi karst pegunugan sebesar 50%.
Analisis Faktor Pengontrol Longsor di Daerah Boro-Boro dan Sekitarnya Kecamatan Ranomeeto Kabupaten Konawe Selatan Provinsi Sulawesi Tenggara
Authors: Batupadang Zeth Yoseptian , Hasria Hasria , Anshari Erwin 
Published: May 2022

Penelitian ini terletak di daerah Boro-Boro dan Sekitarnya, Kecamatan Ranomeeto, Kabupaten Konawe Selatan, Provinsi Sulawesi Tenggara. Secara geografis daerah penelitian terletak pada koordinat 3°58,56’-4°31.52’LS, dan 121°58’-123°16’BT. Lokasi penelitian termasuk ke dalam Formasi Alangga yang tersusun oleh batupasir dan konglomerat berumur Plistosen. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menentukan faktor pengontrol longsor serta jenis longsor pada lokasi penelitian. Metode yang dipakai pada penelitian ini adalah survey lapangan secara langsung meliputi pengambilan data litologi, sampel tanah, mengukur kemiringan lereng selanjutnya dilakukan pengolahan data lapangan dan analisis data hasil lapangan. Faktor pengontrol yang berpengaruh di daerah penelitian terdiri dari kemiringan lereng, litologi, dan jenis tanah dengan potensi jenis longsoran berupa luncuran dan runtuhan batuan.
The Paduan Philosopher at Prayer: The Continuity of Being in Niccolò Leonico Tomeo’s Sadoleto
Authors: Corradi Allegra Baggio 
Published: May 2022

This chapter analyses the theory of prayer contained in Niccolò Leonico Tomeo’s Sadoleto, a dialogue published in Venice in 1524 as part of the Dialogues, a collection of texts on the powers, life and afterlife of the soul. The main focus is on Tomeo’s doctrine of prayer and, specifically, on the way in which this coheres with his Christian humanism, his understanding of late Platonism and his approach to natural magic. Each one of these three elements will be considered in light of Tomeo’s philological and philosophical activity. It will emerge that prayer as it is described in the Sadoleto, is a token of Tomeo’s eclectic theory of the soul as a mixed substance, both eternal in essence and temporal in activity.
Pletho and Scholarios on Using and Abusing Plato and Aristotle
Authors: Karamanolis George 
Published: May 2022

This paper focuses on the controversy over the primacy of either Plato or Aristotle in the last years of Byzantium and it sets out first to address first the question of why such a controversy broke out and, secondly, to investigate the main arguments that figured in it. I argue that one important factor for the Byzantine controversy was the centuries-long tendency of Byzantine philosophers for centuries to draw on both Plato and Aristotle and often blend their doctrines without explaining how the two philosophies diverge and often without explicitly committing themselves clearly to the one or the other philosophical school. In the second part of my paper I will focus on the controversy itself and I will argue that the decisive arguments were not of a purely philosophical nature but were rather supported by historical and cultural factors, namely an appeal to antiquity, truth, and Christianity. I will discuss each of these and try to trace their origins to the ancient sources.
Olhares descoloniais na formação continuada de professores desde a América Latina
Authors: Silva Gilberto Ferreira da , Zawaski Tatiane Peres , Machado Juliana Aquino 
Published: May 2022

Neste trabalho parte-se das seguintes questões: em que estágio se encontra a formação continuada de professores na região latino-americana? Onde se concentram as similaridades e diferenças entre as diferentes nações da região? Que sínteses são possíveis de realizar? Que horizontes operacionais emergem dessas perspectivas de formação? Para dar conta desse desafio recorre-se a produção do tipo estado da arte disponível, tomando por critério, estudos que contemplem o máximo de países latino-americanos. Na exploração e análise do material selecionado foi possível constatar, dentre outros aspectos, que a abundância e a diversidade de ações empreendidas no campo da formação continuada de professores são geralmente acompanhadas pela descontinuidade, dificultando ou até mesmo impossibilitando o acompanhamento dessas ações. A falta de institucionalização das ações formativas, através de políticas públicas, agrava o quadro. A abertura dos meios acadêmicos para ações planejadas, contemplando e priorizando demandas originadas do chão da escola ainda permanecem sendo desafios a serem enfrentados.
Por la senda de los 'profesores taxis': los efectos de la desprofesionalización académica en educación superior. Una aproximación cualitativa desde Chile
Authors: Cantillana Barañados Raphael , Portilla-Vásquez Isabel 
Published: May 2022

N La presente producción está orientada a describir y reflexionar sobre los efectos que produce la desprofesionalización académica en el desarrollo propio de las universidades. Esto se realiza a partir de los discursos de académicos, directivos y estudiantes como actores y sujetos activos de los contextos universitarios. El trabajo corresponde a parte de los resultados de una investigación cualitativa de tipo inductiva cuyo levantamiento de información se realizó a través de la aplicación del método etnográfico. El análisis se articuló a partir de la problematización del vínculo inconexo entre académicos, su campo disciplinar y las instituciones de educación superior. La desprofesionalización académica, la distorsión de su contexto y las lógicas de la institucionalidad, se constituyen como los tópicos centrales de este trabajo, el cual concluye que estos fenómenos producen negligencias y dislocan los proyectos educativos de las instituciones de educación superior.
Impacts of the Gospers Mountain Wildfire on the flora and fauna of mining-impacted Newnes Plateau Shrub Swamps in Australia’s Eastern Highlands
Authors: Krogh Martin , Gorissen Sarsha , Baird Ian R.C. , Keith David A. 
Published: May 2022

ABSTRACT
The Gospers Mountain Fire was the largest wildfire on record in New South Wales. All of the swamps on the Newnes Plateau were burnt, with some areas experiencing fire of very high severity. Despite this severity, the vegetation in all unmined reference swamps recovered relatively quickly, with substantial vegetation cover and biomass returning within 10 weeks. These swamps retained most of their peat and plant species, and both their surveyed endangered fauna species (Blue Mountains Water Skink Eulamprus leuraensis; Giant Dragonfly Petalura gigantea). This demonstrated the resilience of reference Newnes Plateau Shrub Swamps and their endangered species populations to significant bushfire events.
In stark contrast, after the wildfire there was evidence of extensive combustion and oxidization of peat soils in swamps located above the footprint of prior longwall coal mining operations. Populations of endangered species, which were already in significant decline (due to longwall mining impacts on swamp hydrology), are now vulnerable to localised extinctions in these undermined swamps. Mining is ongoing in these areas and failure to protect the remaining Newnes Plateau Shrub Swamps from the hydrological impacts of longwall mining will likely lead to further ecosystem collapse in undermined swamps, and further localised extinctions of endangered species populations in these swamps.
Assessment of Safe Sexual Practice and Knowledge of HIV/AIDS among Female Sex Workers in Port Harcourt
Authors: Ene-Bongilli Goodness , Akoko Sokiprim , Uahomo Precious Ojo 
Published: May 2022

Introduction: Monitoring of the practices and behaviour of populations more vulnerable to HIV infection is essential for effective interventions and it is of importance to curtail the spread of HIV and to help generate significant changes in the transmission pattern of HIV/AIDS in the general population. The aim of this study was to assess safe sexual practice and knowledge of HIV/AIDS among female sex workers in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria.
Method: Two hundred female sex workers participated in this cross-sectional study. Data was collected using an adapted IBBSS-2014 semi-structured questionnaire and interview method. Knowledge of HIV among Female Sex Workers (FSWs) was also assessed with questions on Test for HIV, modes of transmission, prevention, behavioural attributes of HIV and safe sexual practice assessed for with the options of answers of these dimension: YES and NO. Data for this study was collected by trained peer educators who are familiar with the environment via interview method with FSWs. Data Obtained were analyzed and presented using descriptive statistics of frequency tables, simple percentage and bar charts using Microsoft Excel 2016.
Results: Result obtained showed that the mean age of FSWs was 25.7±3.7years, majority of the respondent (59.5%) had secondary education, majority (81.0%) of FSWs are Single and about 2.5% are married. Also more than a quarter (44.5%) started sex work at 20-24 years with a mean age of 22.0±3.0 years. Also, majority of them do not have other source of income (70%). On Assessment of risky behaviours such as multiple sex partners, no condom use during sexual intercourse, there was a high prevalence of use of condoms with most especially paying partners (70.5%) and casual partners (52.5%). On assessment of female Sex Workers’ knowledge on HIV, majority of FSWs have good knowledge of HIV transmission, prevention and the need to get tested.
Conclusion: Though FSWs practice a minimal safe sexual practice by the use of condoms with higher percentage of different identified partners as well as having acceptable knowledge of HIV, the few FSWs who lack this knowledge and do not practice safe sex needs to be re-sensitized of the need for their benefit and the benefit of the general population. Conclusively, safe sexual practices and acceptable knowledge about prevention, transmission and the need to be tested for HIV were observed.
The Role of Customer Bonding as a Customer Trust Mediator and Service Performance on SMEs Performance
Authors: Wahyuni Ida , Jasfar Farida , Kristaung Robert , Warsindah Lucy 
Published: May 2022

Aims: This study aims to prove customer trust and service performance that affects customer bonding and the implementation of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs).
Study design: Hypothesis testing.
Place and Duration of Study: 210 SMEs managers in Mimika district, Papua province, Indonesia.
Methodology: Structural Equation Modeling.
Results: First, service performance positively affects customer bonding because friendly service increases customer bonding. Second, Customer Trust positively affects SMEs Performance because varied prices and new products will increase SME Performance. Third, Customer Trust positively affects SMEs Performance because honesty and integrity will improve SMEs Performance. Fourth, Service Performance positively affects SMEs Performance because friendly service will improve SMEs Performance. Fifth, Customer Trust positively impacts SMEs Performance through Customer Bonding because varied prices support honesty and integrity, and new products will increase SMEs Performance. Finally, service performance positively affects Customer Bonding because friendly service supported by varied prices and new products will increase SMEs Performance.
Conclusion: Customer trust and service performance affect customer bonding and SMEs performance, and customer bonding directly influences SMEs performance. Customer bonding has a significant influence as a mediator between customer trust and service performance on SMEs performance in Mimika Regency, Papua.
On the Cat-Stane, Kirkliston
Authors: Simpson J Y 
Published: May 2022

This article offers an overview of the significance of the Cat-stane inscribed stone in Kirkliston. The author cites various historical accounts of the inscription on this stone and why it might have been placed in Kirkliston. By comparing these older readings of the inscription to his own contemporary reading, the author attempts to decipher the meaning of what is written on the Cat-stane. He dismisses the proposals suggested in some of the older accounts of the stone that it may have been raised as a memorial for either King Constantine IV or a Pictish King named Geth. Instead he argues that this stone memorialises an Anglo-Saxon named Vetta son of Victa, who may have fought with the Picts against the Romans and could have been the grandfather of the Saxon leaders Hengist and Horsa.

Meeting notes for 11 March, 1861 are appended.
Notice of the recent Excavation of an underground Building at Buchaam, Strathdon, on the property of Sir Charles Forbes, Baronet, of Newe and Edinglassie
Authors: Mitchell Arthur 
Published: May 2022

Arthur Mitchell summarises the excavations at Buchaam and Glenkidie in Aberdeenshire, as related to him by a series of letters from the excavator. The dimensions of each site and the finds from both sites are noted, as is the excavator’s suggestion for how these sites may have been constructed.

Meeting notes for 14 April, 1862 are appended.
Electrical Behaviors of the Co‐ and Ni‐Based POMs Interlayered Schottky Photodetector Devices
Authors: Yıldırım Murat , Kocyigit Adem , Torlak Yasemin , Yenel Esma , Hussaini Ali Akbar , Kuş Mahmut 
Published: May 2022

AbstractPolyoxometalates (POMs) are attractive materials for various applications such as energy storage, catalysis and medicine. Here, Co and Ni‐based POMs are chemically synthesized and characterized by X‐ray diffractometer (XRD) and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopies (FT‐IR) for structural characterization. While the morphological behaviors are analyzed by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and atomic force microscopy (AFM), the optical properties are investigated by UV‐Vis spectrometer. Electrochemical characterizations are carried out by cyclic voltammetry to determine oxidation levels of the metal centers in the POMs. The CoPOM and NiPOM are inserted in between the Al metal and p‐Si semiconductor to obtain Al/CoPOM/p‐Si and Al/NiPOM/p‐Si Schottky‐type photodetector devices. Current‐voltage (I–V) and current‐transient (I–t) measurements are employed to understand the electrical properties of the Al/CoPOM/p‐Si and Al/NiPOM/p‐Si devices under dark and various light power intensities. The devices exhibit phototransistor like I–V characteristics in forward biases due to having POMs active layers. Various device parameters are extracted from the I–V measurements and discussed in details. I–t measurements are performed to determine various detector parameters such as responsivity and specific detectivity values for under 2 V and zero biases. The Al/CoPOM/p‐Si and Al/NiPOM/p‐Si Schottky‐type photodetector devices can be employed in optoelectronic applications.
A 79‐kb paternally inherited 7q32.2 microdeletion involving MEST in a patient with a Silver‐Russell syndrome‐like phenotype
Authors: Vincent Krista Marie , Stavropoulos Dimitri J. , Beaulieu‐Bergeron Melanie , Yang Chen , Jiang Mary , Zuijdwijk Caroline , Dyment David A. , Graham Gail E. 
Published: May 2022

AbstractMaternal uniparental disomy of human chromosome 7 [upd(7)mat] is well‐characterized as a cause of the growth disorder Silver‐Russell syndrome (SRS). However, the causative gene is not currently known. There is growing evidence that molecular changes at the imprinted MEST region in 7q32.2 are associated with a phenotype evocative of SRS. This report details a patient with a SRS‐like phenotype and a paternally inherited microdeletion of 79 kilobases (35‐fold smaller than the previously reported smallest deletion) in the 7q32.2 region. This microdeletion encompasses only five genes, including MEST, which corroborates the hypothesis that MEST plays a central role in the 7q32.2 microdeletion growth disorder, as well as further implicating MEST in upd(7)mat SRS itself.
Mechanism of METTL3‐mediated m6A modification in depression‐induced cognitive deficits
Authors: Niu Juan , Wang Bailing , Wang Tian , Zhou Tiantian 
Published: May 2022

AbstractDepressive disorder (DD) is associated with N6‐methyladenosine (m6A) hypermethylation. This study sought to explore the molecular mechanism of Methyltransferase‐like 3 (METTL3) in cognitive deficits of chronic unpredictable mild stress (CUMS)‐treated rats and provide novel targets for DD treatment. A DD rat model was established via CUMS treatment. Cognitive deficits were assessed via body weighing and behavioral tests. METTL3, microRNA (miR)‐221‐3p, pri‐miR‐221, GRB2‐associated binding protein 1 (Gab1) expressions in hippocampal tissues were detected via RT‐qPCR and Western blotting. m6A, DiGeorge syndrome critical region gene 8 (DGCR8)‐bound pri‐miR‐221 and pri‐miR‐221 m6A levels were measured. The binding relationship between miR‐221‐3p and Gab1 was testified by dual‐luciferase and RNA pull‐down assays. Rescue experiments were designed to confirm the role of miR‐221‐3p and Gab1. METTL3 was highly expressed in CUMS rats, and silencing METTL3 attenuated cognitive deficits of CUMS rats. METTL3‐mediated m6A modification facilitated processing and maturation of pri‐miR‐221 via DGCR8 to upregulate miR‐221‐3p. miR‐221‐3p targeted Gab1. miR‐221‐3p overexpression or Gab1 downregulation reversed the role of silencing METTL3 in CUMS rats. Overall, METTL3‐mediated m6A modification facilitated processing and maturation of pri‐miR‐221 to upregulate miR‐221‐3p and then inhibit Gab1, thereby aggravating cognitive deficits of CUMS rats.
Should social work become a registered profession? An examination of the views of 15 Australian social workers
Authors: Tangney Meghan , Mendes Philip 
Published: May 2022

AbstractIn contrast to most Western jurisdictions, social work in Australia is not currently a registered profession. However, in late 2021, the South Australian Parliament passed a Bill to register social workers in that state. This follows a long‐standing but previously unsuccessful campaign by the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW) to attain social work registration at a national level. Yet, to date, there has been no empirical research on the views of social workers—whether members or the AASW or not—concerning the merits of registration. This paper presents the findings of a qualitative study of the views of 15 social workers regarding registration. The findings suggest that the profession holds diverse views concerning the potential benefits or harms emanating from registration. Some conclusions are drawn regarding priorities for future research including particularly the impact of registration on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social workers and service users.
Single intratesticular injection of blood‐serum‐derived exosomes can potentially alleviate testopathy following testicular torsion
Authors: Keivan Mona , Mansouri Torghabeh Fatemeh , Davoodi Samira , Moradi Maryamneghari Shima , Dadfar Reza 
Published: May 2022

AbstractBackgroundTesticular torsion (TT) is an acute inflammatory process leading to male infertility. Today, anti‐inflammatory effects of exosomes derived from blood serum are used in various laboratory procedures. In the present study, the anti‐inflammatory effects of blood‐serum‐derived exosomes in treatment of acute inflammation following TT in mice were evaluated.Materials and MethodsEighteen male mice were grouped as healthy control, TT, and TT + exosome. TT was induced surgically, and exosomes were extracted from blood serum and administrated by a single intratesticular injection (10 IU). Malondialdehyde (MDA) and Griess assays were used to evaluate the level of oxidative stress. Sperm indices, testosterone (Tes), and apoptotic gene expression (p‐53, Bcl2, and Caspase‐3) were also assessed. H&E and immunohistochemistry (IHC) stainings were used for histopathological investigations. Data analysis was applied by SPSS (v.19) software.ResultsOxidative stress and apoptotic genes expression were increased significantly (p < 0.05) in TT group compared with control. Sperm parameters and Tes were significantly increased, and expression of apoptotic genes was significantly reduced in TT + exosome group (p < 0.05).ConclusionSince the blood‐serum‐derived exosomes have anti‐inflammatory features, the intratesticular application of blood‐serum‐derived exosomes can be used clinically in acute phase of orchitis following TT to inhibit testicular inflammation.