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A Spider's Approach To Steam, Stefan Haesen

The Transdisciplinary STEAM+ Journal

In this paper we present an overview of different approaches towards STEAM education, including the choices in methodology and pedagogy. From these various viewpoints we build up a framework for STEAM education and relate it to a real-world problem, namely, how a small spider can catch a prey.

Case Studies Which Demonstrate The Financial Viability Of Precision Dairy Farming, Ian Yule, Hayden Lawrence, Craige Mackenzie, Carolyn Hedley, Miles Grafton

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

A number of case studies are used to demonstrate the financial viability of precision farming methods for intensively managed pastures. Precision farming has sometimes been criticized as being technology-led where the management goals and desired outcomes are sometimes poorly defined. Case studies presented in this paper demonstrate a strong management approach where appropriate technologies are selected to contribute to the financial success of the farm. The first case study farm has increased milk production by 70% in four years, increased pasture production by 43%, reduced fertilizer costs to 43% of previous levels and has successfully predicted annual production to within …

“Putting The Arts In Their Place”: A Case For Map-Making In Art History, Marco Jalla

Artl@s Bulletin

The use of cartography in art history is less than common. Because of its link to the old artistic geography (Kunstgeographie) once used to defend nationalist issues in Nazi Germany, it fell into disfavor until the 1960s and 1970s, when maps regained some attention from a new generation of art historians. Mapping arts indeed proves to be very useful to visualize and organize large dataset and to formulate new hypotheses, both as a descriptive and a prospective tool. The challenge we proposed to the authors was to use maps for questioning the territorial logics, the centers and peripheries of the …

Visual Contagions, The Art Historian, And The Digital Strategies To Work On Them, Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel

Artl@s Bulletin

How do images and styles spread out over time and place? This article presents how art historians can use digital methods to study “visual contagions”– the visual part of globalization: how images circulate, as material artefacts (paintings, sculptures, engravings, etc.…) or in reproductions (in illustrated periodicals, in photography, or on the internet…), through which channels (cultural, geographical, political…) and according to which visual logics. It sketches the new possibilities offered by deep learning and artificial intelligence algorithms applied to images, to better understand the epidemiology of visual diffusions. This Paper is also an opportunity to assess 10 years of digital …

Perivascular Waste Metabolites Clearance In Central Nervous System (Cns), Yiming Cheng

Dissertations

Efficient clearance of interstitial waste metabolites is essential for normal brain homeostasis. Such effective clearance is hampered by the lack of a lymphatic system in the brain, and the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is unable to clear large size waste metabolites in the brain. Here, a novel idea that brain arterial endothelium and smooth muscle cells reactivity regulates the clearance of these water-insoluble large size waste metabolites through the perivascular dynamic exchange, and that low dose ethanol promotes this perivascular clearance is proposed.

In Aim 1, the biodistribution of a large size waste metabolite (Amyloid-β protein mimic) in rat perivascular space …

Amyloid Proteins And Fibrils Stability, Farbod Mahmoudinobar

Dissertations

Compared to globular proteins that have a stable native structure, intrinsically disordered peptides (IDP) sample an ensemble of structures without folding into a native conformation.One example of IDP is the amyloid-beta(Abeta) protein which is the main constituent of senile plaques in the brain of Alzheimer's patients.Understanding the process by which IDPs undergo structural changes to form oligomers that eventually aggregate into senile plaques/amyloid fibrils may significantly advance the development of novel therapeutic methods to treat neurodegenerative diseases, for which there is no cure to date. This dissertation has two main objectives. The first one is to investigate and identify structural …

Mitochondria Imaging And Targeted Cancer Treatment, Tinghan Zhao

Dissertations

Mitochondria are essential organelles as the site of respiration in eukaryotic cells and are involved in many crucial functions in cell life. Dysfunction of mitochondrial metabolism and irregular morphology have been frequently found in human cancers. The capability of imaging mitochondria as well as regulating their microenvironment is important both scientifically and clinically. Mitochondria penetrating peptides (MPPs), certain peptides that are composed of cationic and hydrophobic amino acids, are good candidates for mitochondria targeting. Herein, a novel MPP, D-argine-phenylalanine-D-argine-phenylalanine-D-argine-phenylalanine-NH₂ (rFrFrF), is conjugated with a rhodamine-based fluorescent chromophore (TAMRA). The TAMRA-rFrFrF probe exhibits advantageous properties for long-term mitochondria tracking of …

Urban Horticulture, From Local Initiatives To Global Success Stories, Roland Ebel, Esmaeil Fallahi, John L. Griffis Jr., Dilip Nandwani, Donielle Nolan, Ross H. Penhallegon, Mary Rogers

Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Faculty Research

Urban horticulture describes economically viable horticultural production activities conducted in a city or suburb. It is a growing segment of horticulture in the United States as well as in developing countries, where the enormous growth of megalopolis is not backed by a simultaneous increase of farmland or agricultural productivity. Today, urban horticulture includes food sovereignty in underprivileged neighborhoods, increased availability of vegetables and fruits in big cities, healthy and diverse diets, improved food safety, low transportation costs, efficient resource use, and the mitigation of environmental impacts of horticultural production such as the emission of greenhouse gases. The workshop “Urban horticulture: …

Hermeneutic Circle In Digital Literation And Its Relevance As An Antidote To Hoax, M. Rodinal Khair Khasri

Informasi

This article presents the results of the observations about digital literacy that were studied philosophically through Gadamer's hermeneutic approach. The reason for using this approach is to achieve an understanding of how the subject and its history play a role in the digital literacy process, where ontologically, the content of information has been visualized into the digital world so that a philosophical understanding is needed in understanding the virtual reality. This research is included in the classification of qualitative research with an analysis with three stages, namely reducing data that is very general and broad in a more specific form, …

Ohio's Avoidance Of Total Maximum Daily Load And The Continued Relevance Of The Constructive Submission Doctrine, Ashley Kirk

Global Business Law Review

This Note examines several provisions of the Clean Water Act (CWA)—in particular, Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs)—in the context of recent litigation over the State of Ohio’s plan to address Lake Erie water quality. It looks at the role of TMDLs in CWA implementation and explains Ohio’s response to Lake Erie water quality, asserting that Ohio’s ranking of Lake Erie as a "low priority," in conjunction with its plan to follow a non-binding international agreement, the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, is simply an attempt to create another CWA loophole and avoid TMDL obligations. This Note also considers federal courts' …

Dampak Sosialisasi Empat Pilar Mpr Ri Terhadap Pendidikan Pancasila Di Perguruan Tinggi, Hastangka Hastangka, Armaidy Armawi, Kaelan Kaelan

Jurnal Civics: Media Kajian Kewarganegaraan

Penggunaan istilah empat pilar kehidupan berbangsa dan bernegara untuk program sosialisasi telah menimbulkan polemik dan perdebatan di masyarakat. Empat pilar tersebut meliputi Pancasila, UUD 1945, NKRI, dan Bhinneka Tunggal Ika yang dirumuskan oleh MPR RI. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mendeskripsikan dampak sosialisasi Empat Pilar tersebut terhadap pendidikan Pancasila di perguruan tinggi. Data penelitian diambil dari buku, jurnal ilmiah, artikel surat kabar, dan berita di media online ataupun offline, dan dokumen yuridis, seperti peraturan perundang-undangan. Analisis data menggunakan pendekatan interpretatif, induksi-analitis, semiotik, dan analisis wacana. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa (1) sosialisasi empat pilar berdampak pada ambiguitas pemaknaan dan …

Teachers And Technology: The Perspective Of Digital Citizenship, Rini Triastuti

Jurnal Civics: Media Kajian Kewarganegaraan

Perkembangan teknologi informasi dan komunikasi telah menghasilkan beragam produk baik dalam bentuk hardware dan software. Produk tersebut telah menawarkan berbagai kemudahan bagi penggunanya. Salah satu contoh di bidang komunikasi. Saat ini komunikasi dapat dilakukan setiap saat tanpa dibatasi oleh jarak dan waktu. Berbagai kemudahan yang ditawarkan bagi penggunanya membuat mereka sangat tergantung pada teknologi. Bahkan saat ini manusia tidak hanya berada dalam dunia nyata saja namun juga dalam dunia maya. Tulisan ini bermaksud menggambarkan karakteristik kewarganegaraan guru-guru pendidikan pancasila dan kewarganegaraan. Pendekatan yang digunakan adalah deskriptif kualitatif. Instrumen yang digunakan dalam penelitian adalah angket, wawancara dan studi pustaka. Data menunjukkan …

Fungsi Partai Politik Pada Kekuasaan Eksekutif Dan Legislatif Berdasar Pada Sistem Pemerintahan Di Indonesia, Taufikkurrahman Taufikkurrahman

Jurnal Civics: Media Kajian Kewarganegaraan

Partai Politik memiliki peran strategis dalam konsolidasi demokrasi setelah Indonesia merdeka khususnya setelah bergulirnya era reformasi. Kehadiran partai politik memiliki fungsi urgen untuk diperhatikan dan diberikan ruang. Salah satu fungsinya adalah pada recruitment politik dalam pengisian jabatan politik pada kekuasaan eksekutif dan legislatif di Indonesia. Fungsi tersebut akan dirasa berbeda karena sistem pemerintahan yang diterapkan di Indonesia agak berbeda dengan sistem negara lain sekalipun sama-sama menggunakan sistem presidensial. Fungsi recruitment dapat dilihat pada sistem pemilu yang diselenggarakan di Indonesia baik pada pemilihan anggota legislatif atau juga dalam pemilihan pasangan Presiden dan Wakil Presiden. Disamping itu terdapat perbedaan fungsi partai secara …

Analisis Nilai-Nilai Dalam Undang-Undang Simbur Pada Masyarakat Ogan Ilir, Asmaul Husna, Alfiandra Alfiandra, Sri Artati Waluyati

Jurnal Civics: Media Kajian Kewarganegaraan

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui nilai-nilai yang terkandung dalam Undang-undang Simbur Cahaya yang masih diamalkan masyarakat Sakatiga Kecamatan Indralaya. Sampel diperoleh dengan menggunakan teknik purposive sampling dan snowball sampling dengan jumlah informan sebanyak enam orang yang terdiri dari masyarakat Desa Sakatiga dan dua informan pendukung dari Kesultanan Palembang Darussalam dan Budayawan Palembang. Teknik pengumpulan data yang digunakan adalah dokumentasi, wawancara, dan observasi. Uji keabsahan yang dilakukan dalam penelitian ini adalah uji credibility, uji transferability, uji dependability, dan uji confirmability. Teknik analisis data yang digunakan adalah reduksi data, penyajian data, dan verifikasi data. Nilai-nilai yang terkandung dalam Undang-undang …

State Ownership And Banks Information Rents: Evidence From China, Fengyan Ru, Qi Liang, Wei Wang

Business Faculty Publications

In a lending relationship, a bank with an information advantage regarding its client tends to hold up the borrower and charge higher interest rates. We conjecture that state-owned enterprises (SOEs), with worse information asymmetry, are subject to greater information
rents. State-owned banks place less emphasis on information production and hence extract lower rents compared to profit maximizing private banks. We use the decline of loan interest rates around the borrowers’ equity initial public offerings (IPOs) as the proxy of banks’ information rents. We find SOEs in China experience
larger declines in loan interest rates around their IPOs; the central government-controlled …

China's K-12 Teacher Qualification System, Dani Surya Lee

Jurnal Penelitian dan Evaluasi Pendidikan

A strict teacher qualification system is vital to ensure a steady stream flow of high-quality human resources. In 1993, the People's Republic of China established the Teacher Law demanding that teachers must have legal status and qualifications. It has put into effect a system of qualification that could determine the readiness of K-12 teacher candidates to be practitioners of education. This country's teacher qualification system has experienced changes and adaptations until it has reached the current form in 2016's Teacher Qualification Examination, as more than a tool merely for formality or evaluation of rote learning, but an actual assessment of …

An Educational-Evaluation Study For Street Children In Rumah Impian Foundation, Aulia Ninda Haryoni, Istiana Hermawati

Jurnal Penelitian dan Evaluasi Pendidikan

This research aims to evaluate the education of street children at Rumah Impian Foundation in Yogyakarta. This is an evaluation research using a responsive evaluation model with a naturalistic qualitative approach. The evaluation stages carried out in this study consist of Rational, Anteccendent, Transaction, and Outcome. The sampling technique used was purposive sampling with snowball sampling because the data were obtained from the community of the subjective sample, or in other words, the sample used is very rare and is grouped in a set. The data were analyzed using qualitative analysis techniques by Milles and Huberman. The results of the …

Dari Terminologi Ke Subtansi Pendidikan Kewarganegaraan: Implikasi Terhadap Revitalisasi Pancasila, Freddy K. Kalidjernih, Winarno Winarno

Jurnal Civics: Media Kajian Kewarganegaraan

Artikel ini mengeksplorasi berbagai istilah (terminologi) yang berkaitan dengan praktik kewarganegaraan atau pendidikan kewarganegaraan yang digunakan di Indonesia setelah runtuhnya rezim Orde Baru. Ia berpendapat bahwa penggunaan istilah tersebut agak serampangan karena mereka kurang dibahas dan diperebutkan di kalangan akademis. Akibatnya, agak membingungkan ketika pemerintah Indonesia berniat untuk memperkenalkan kembali Pendidikan Pancasila baru-baru ini. Makalah ini menyarankan bahwa penggunaan istilah-istilah tersebut secara konsisten dan sistematis akan memungkinkan kita untuk menempatkan Pancasila secara lebih proporsional dalam "peta" Pendidikan Kewarganegaraan Indonesia (Pendidikan Kewarganegaraan, PKn).

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practices of citizenship or civic education used in Indonesia after the demise of the New Order regime. …

Developing A Problem-Based Local History Module To Improve The Critical Thinking Ability Of Senior High School Students, Novita Mujiyati, Warto Warto, Leo Agung Sutimin

REID (Research and Evaluation in Education)

This research aims at developing a problem-based local history module as learning media to improve the critical thinking ability of Senior High School students. This research employed a research and development (R&D) method referring to ADDIE development design. The procedure of designing ADDIE development included (1) analyzing to identify the learning media needed, (2) designing to organize the material of module corresponding to basic competency and indicator, (3) developing to obtain the finished product of module through validation and limited and large-scale trials, (4) implementing the module during learning process, and (5) evaluating to find out the effectiveness of module. …

Sheida Hukman V. American Airlines Inc

2019 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Analisis Model Pembelajaran Berbasis Pendidikan Karakter Untuk Membentuk Karakter Siswa, Dada Suhaida, Fadillah Syarifah

Jurnal Civics: Media Kajian Kewarganegaraan

Pembelajaran Pendidikan Pancasila dan Kewarganegaraan (PPKn) merupakan mata pelajaran yang memfokuskan pada pembentukan karakter siswa untuk menjadi warga negara yang cerdas, terampil dan berkarakter yang diamanatkan oleh Pancasila dan UUD 1945. Tujuan untuk membangun karakter siswa tentunya tidaklah mudah, oleh karena itu diperlukan suatu upaya yang berkesinambungan dalam pembelajaran PPKn. Salah satu upaya yang perlu dilakukan adalah mengembangkan model-model pembelajaran yang berbasis pendidikan karakter untuk membangun karakter positif siswa dalam pembelajaran PPKn. Hasil analisis yang dilakukan memperoleh gambaran bahwa karakter positif siswa dapat dibentuk melalui penerapan model-model pembelajaran yang inovatif dalam pembelajara PPKn. Hasil analisis tersebut selanjutnya dapat digunakan dalam …

Melinda Watson, Petitioner/Appellant, V. Michael Watson, Respondent/Appellee : Brief Of Appellee, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (2007– 2019)

BRIEF OF APPELLEE

Appeal from Final Order of Dismissal of a Protective Order entered by Judge Michael S.
Edwards of the Second District Court

ORAL ARGUMENT REQUESTED

The Role Of Information Technology Competency In Activating Of Human Resources Management Practices/ Applied Study In The Informatics And Communications Public Company In Iraq, Nada Ismaeel Jabbouri

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

This research aims to clarify the role of Information Technology Competency (ITC) with dimensions' (IT Usage, IT Knowledge, and IT Operations) as an independent variable in the activation of Human Resources Management Practices (HRM Practices) as a dependent variable with dimensions' (Training and Development, Recruitment, Job Design, and Performance appraisal). Based on this, the correlation and effect relationships between the independent and dependent variables are determined by formulating two main hypotheses. There are a significant relationship and effect of IT competency with HRM practices within the dimensions. Furthermore, the scope and population of this research are the Informatics and Communications …

Prevent Administrative And Financial Corruption Behaviors By Activating The Functions Of The Organizational Immunity System, Ali Abdulhassan Abbas

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

The current research aims at testing the relationship between organizational immunity and preventing administrative and financial corruption (AFC) in Iraq. The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences program (R& SPSS) was used to analyse the associated questionnaire data. The research problem has examined how to activate the functions of the organizational immune system to enable it to face organizational risks, attempt to prevent administrative and financial corruption, and access the mechanisms by which to develop organizational immunity. A sample of 161 individuals was taken who worked in the Directorate General of Education, Karbala. Also, it was concluded to a lack …

Learning Assessment Training Based On Curriculum 2013 By Using Vocational High School E-Report In South Tangerang, Aulia Nursyifa, E. Nurzaman, Alinurdin Alinurdin

ASEAN Journal of Community Engagement

Curriculum 2013 changes require teachers to be able to use technology the learning process until the stage of reporting learning outcomes, E-Report is one of the technologies used presenting learning outcomes. However, the problems today are that not all teachers can use the E-Report application. The purpose of this community service is to improve teacher’s ability to perform learning assessments based on the 2013 curriculum using the E-Report application. The method of community devotion activities is a method of instruction by providing training to teachers about E-Report application. Data retrieval is conducted using observations, tests, and questionnaires to participants. The …

Coal Mining Sector Contribution To Environmental Conditions And Human Development Index In East Kalimantan Province, Kunny Izza Indah Afkarina, Sindhung Wardana, Poerborini Damayanti

Journal of Environmental Science and Sustainable Development

Coal mining has been one of the issues that led to pros and cons in Indonesia. Research shows that mining activities are one of the factors that affect people’s incomes and local and national economic development. However, mining is a lucrative activity that leads to construction booms that attract population growth and lead to deforestation, thus affecting the environmental conditions of a region. The coal mining industry of Indonesian province of East Kalimantan, on the island of Borneo, provides most of the economic base needed to build the infrastructure and provide energy of the country. Kalimantan Province accounts for approximately …

Correlation Between Internal Jugular Vein Tunnel Cuffed Catheter Tip Position As Hemodialysis Access With Suspected Catheter Related Bacteremia And Related Risk Factors At Rscm 2018–2019, Susatyo J. Pratomo, Akhmadu Muradi

The New Ropanasuri Journal of Surgery

Introduction. Infection is the main complication of prolonged–term catheter uses as hemodialysis access. The KDOQI recommends the insertion of tunnel venous hemodialysis catheter in the right internal jugular vein (IJV) where the tip placed in the right atrium and the arterial opening enfacing the mediastinum. The previous study showed that the incidence of catheter–related bacteremia (CRB) is 35% at three months' use and 54% at six months' use. The TCC tip position as hemodialysis access in left IJV is correlated more to dysfunction and infection compared to the right IJV.

Method. A cross–sectional study was conducted with 62 subjects …

Melinda Watson, Petitioner/Appellant, V. Michael Watson, Respondent/Appellee. : Brief Of Appellee, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (2007– 2019)

BRIEF OF APPELLEE

Appeal from Final Order of Dismissal of a Protective Order entered by Judge Michael S.
Edwards of the Second District Court

ORAL ARGUMENT REQUESTED

Young Chinese Wechat Users' Brand Following Behavior, Wonsun Shin, Yan Huo

Makara Human Behavior Studies in Asia

Brand-following of consumers on social media constitutes an important return on investment (ROI) index in digital marketing. However, little is known to date regarding brand-following behaviors of young Chinese social media users on Chinese social media platforms, in addition to the factors associated with them. In this study, our in-depth interviews with 20 emerging adults who followed brands through WeChat indicated that materialistic values, brand-related peer communication, and parents’ opinions regarding different product categories impact the brand-following behaviors of young consumers. The interviews also demonstrated that young people’s brand-following affected their intentions to post brand-related messages that were pertinent to …

Percieved Threat Of Homosexuals In Indonesia: Construct, Measurement, And Correlates, Susana Tjipto, Elisabeth Haksi Mayawati, Allan B. I. Bernardo

Makara Human Behavior Studies in Asia

In Indonesia, homonegativity still exists and acts of violence against homosexual groups still happen, but there has not been much research on aspects of this homonegativity beyond inquiring into general attitudes towards homosexuals. This study has several aims: to qualitatively explore dimensions of perceived threat, to develop a measure of perceived threat of homosexuals, and to study some correlates and perceived threat of homosexuals in Indonesian samples. We used a mixed-method approach (qualitative-quantitative) to gather the data. Study 1 is a qualitative study that seeks to identify expressions and dimensions of perceived threat of homosexuals using thematic analysis of responses …