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From Millennial To Generation Z: The State Of Digital Literacy Among Youths Dealing With Disinformation During Elections, Wasisto Raharjo Jati

JURNAL KOMUNIKASI INDONESIA

The role of the younger generation in politics has played an important role in shaping Indonesian democracy. Since the era of the independence revolution until the post- reform era, young people have become central actors to be a guardian of democracy, especially participation in elections. Although the active role of young people is mostly carried out in various extra-parliamentary ways, such as street demonstrations, young people are now increasingly focusing on efforts to combat disinformation/misinformation in cyberspace. This stance is in line with the current development of democracy which leads to the digital world so that young people are also …

Smart Grids As Regulators: A Critical Assessment, Jesse Valente

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

No abstract provided.

Crisis In The Oil And Gas Industry: Custody Of Orphan Wells, Katie Plas

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

No abstract provided.

Brazil’S Local Content Requirements: Evolution, Lessons Learned & International Trade Limitations, Eduardo G. Pereira, Aaron Koenck, William A. Clavijo Vitto, Fernanda Delgado, João Victor Correia Lopes, Ana Carolina Marins De Carvalho

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

No abstract provided.

Fountains Of Living Waters: How Early Mormon Irrigation Innovated The Legal Landscape Of The West, Ellen (Melton) Carr

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

No abstract provided.

Two Imagined Chinas In Tel Quel, Wang Yichen

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

From the mid-1960s, the literary review Tel Quel shifted its anti-traditional and avant-garde stance in arts and literature toward politics within the radical political context in France. Its editor Philippe Sollers initiated a “political turn,” marked by its transformation from its “structuralist period” to its “China period.” Its “China period” inadvertently created a “textual spectacle” of two imagined Chinas: first, a poetic, static “ancient China” represented by Daoism (Taoism), Chinese ideograms, and classical Chinese art and poetry; and second, a revolutionary, subversive “modern China” represented by Maoism along with Lu Xun and other left-wing writers. Taking appropriation, rather than misreading, …

Deleuze’S Challenge To Hegel’S Aesthetics—Chinese Aesthetics In The Confrontation Between German Classical Aesthetics And Postmodernism, Wu Yuyu

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

German classical aesthetics, featuring a systematic analysis of concepts and theories, plays a fundamental role in the founding of Chinese modern aesthetics. From the 1980s, when the spread of Western theories began to flourish, Chinese scholars assimilated deconstructionist thought (for example, that of Deleuze) and started to reflect on German classical aesthetics as represented by Kant and Hegel. Chinese aesthetics presents various characteristics in the confrontation between German classical aesthetics and French deconstructionist thought. From the perspective of German classical aesthetics, China has no philosophy, tragedy, or system. The Chinese culture became a thinking resource for criticizing essentialism and dualism …

Chinese Modern Leftist Affect And Aesthetic-Affective Modernity In The Global Affective Turn, Yan Fang

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Influenced by China’s distinctive “qing” tradition, ranging from the “affective Enlightenment” to the sentimental/affective revolution, both China’s modern Enlightenment movement and the Chinese leftists’ endeavors for social transformation and revolution heavily relied on the emotions and affect, especially those within literature, art, and aesthetics. The dyna mics of “moods” proposed by Qu Qiubai, the “national form” movement, and the Maoist affect not only foreshadowed and actualized but also enriched the conceptualizations of feelings, emotions, and affect by Western theorists such as Gramsci, Raymond Williams, Gilles Deleuze, and Jacques Rancière. With its meticulous portrayal and innovative theorization of the …

The Making Of Chinese Meixue, Li Qingben, Wang Gang

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In “The Making of Chinese Meixue,” Li and Wang discuss the Chinese translation of the term “aesthetics.” It had been believed that it was the German missionary Ernst Faber who first coined the Chinese term “meixue,” which is refuted in this paper. The view that the term “shenmeixue” in Japan was derived from Wilhelm Lobscheid’s English and Chinese Dictionary also lacks factual basis. It is true that the term “meixue” was introduced to China from the West via Japan, but it was then a term that had not yet developed within a specific …

Primary Care Behavioral Health Partnerships Advancing & Transforming Health Sciences (Pcbh Paths), Mayrin Perez, Maria Hernandez

Research Symposium

Primary Care Behavioral Health Partnerships Advancing & Transforming Health Sciences (PCBH PATHS) is a workforce development pipeline project aimed at permanently augmenting UTRGV’s institutional capacity to address shortage of an Integrated Behavioral Health (IBH) competent workforce locally, regionally and nationally. Our initiative, aligned with UTRGV strategic priorities and key initiatives, will integrate basic(model specific strategy and operational elements), mid-level (role identity and profession specific behavioral competencies specific to each health profession), and advanced (behavioral medicine clinical skills) applications of the evidence based PCBH model of delivery. A PCBH focused delivery system (clinical and educational), in which primary care providers (PCPs) …

Muc13- A Novel Cancer Biomarker For Early Pancreatic Cancer Diagnosis And Imaging, Sheema Khan, Anupam Dhasmana

Research Symposium

Pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PDAC) has a very poor survival rate due to late diagnosis. Therefore, identification approaches that aid in early diagnosis are highly desirable. MUC13 is a recently identified high molecular weight glycoprotein that is aberrantly expressed in PDAC and allows its progression via alterations of multiple tumor signaling pathways. Overexpression of MUC13 in PDAC cells leads to enhanced tumorigenic and metastatic phenotypes. These characteristics of PDAC cells are mediated by physical interactions between MUC13 and HER2/Neu. This study elucidates significance of MUC13, as a diagnostic and imaging marker of PDAC. Additionally, a collaborative effort has commenced to investigate the …

Hidden Creature Features, Shan Martinez

Lorgnette: Quarterly Review of Children's and Young Adults' Books

No abstract provided.

The Imitation Game: Drug Reaction Presenting As Autoimmunity Presenting As Syphilis, Victoria W. Murray, Liam Courtney, Judith Lightfoot

Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow Symposium

Introduction: Syphilis screening, a common medical test in the US, is recommended annually in sexually active women younger than 25, annually for women older than 25, and annually for men(1). Standard tests include rapid reagin tests and Venereal Disease Research Laboratory tests, which react to membrane antigens of Treponema pallidum(2). Case reports of patients with autoimmune conditions have been described (3) but rarely considered in clinical practice. Additionally, patients may be underdiagnosed with autoimmune conditions with clinically relevant antibodies (4). Here, we describe one such case where a patient received delay in care prior to referral to our service. Case …

Dyvir: Virtual Reality Generated Synthetic Training Datasets For Ai, Garrett Williams

Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow Symposium

Artificial Intelligence (AI) can perform complex tasks quickly such as object detection. To perform these tasks, the AI algorithms are first trained on data. However, some data such as labeled imagery of aerial objects is hard to obtain. Utilizing Virtual Reality (VR) software, a custom tool called DyViR was made to generate synthetic training datasets. Users customize the virtual environment, aerial objects, and sensor modality to produce custom-tailored datasets.

Performance Assessment Of Microencapsulated Phase Change Materials With Low To High Thermoregulation Range In Asphalt Binder, Anil Kumar Baditha, Ayyaz Fareed

Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow Symposium

Asphalt pavements face significant challenges due to low temperature cracking and rutting caused by extreme temperature fluctuations and traffic loading. These issues result in higher maintenance costs and reduced service life of the pavements. To address this, researchers explored the use of Microencapsulated Phase Change Materials (MPCMs) to induce thermoregulation in asphalt pavements. However, the existing research focused on high-temperature performance of binders, highlighting the need of research on evaluating the low-temperature performance. Therefore, the study aims to evaluate the impact of incorporating MPCMs on low to high temperature performance of binders. Three types of MPCMs were incorporated into asphalt …

Black Boys Om: A Case Study Of The Impacts Of Community And Culture On Wellness Practices, Khanh Pham

Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow Symposium

Black men continue to face health disparities due to systemic oppression. Research indicates that mind-body-spirit practices (MBSPs) can effectively improve mental and physical health, thereby reducing health disparities among Black men. However, MBSPs are often White-female-dominated practices, thus putting Black male practitioners at continued risks of under-representation and marginalization in MBSP spaces. The culturally specific nature of MBSP spaces may then be an important factor in MBSPs’ influence on Black men’s health. Therefore, we aimed to explore how culturally specific MBSP spaces impact Black male practitioners’ MBSPs. We collaborated with Black Boys OM (BBO), a global community of Black male …

Computer Aided Design Of Aromatic Foldamer Targeting Protein-Protein Interaction, Bamidele Towolawi

Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow Symposium

With the computational tools developed in our lab for accurate prediction of structures and solution dynamics of aromatic foldamers, we now target protein-protein interaction (PPI) by appending proteinogenic side chains on the external surfaces of the helical aromatic foldamers. Particularly, the activation of a regulatory protein NF-κB, a key player in the inflammatory response and cell proliferation, involves binding of NEMO (NF-κB Essential Modulator) with linear di-ubiquitin. In this study, we designed various sequences based on established protocols and investigated, by utilizing molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, their potential binding to di-ubiquitin, specifically targeting the NEMO binding interface. This study complements …

Location-Based Carbon Dioxide Adjustment Factor For Use In The Design And Deployment Or A Networking Device, Marisol Palmero, Snezana Mitrovic, Gonzalo A Salgueiro, Derek W Engi, Joel Richard Goergen

Defensive Publications Series

Techniques are presented herein that support a carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2eq) adjustment factor that may be applied during the design and deployment of a networking device in, for example, a data center environment. Such an adjustment factor may consider the impact of altitude or elevation on, among other things, power consumption, cooling requirements, heat dissipation, and other related environmental design-impacting considerations.

Large Language Model Driven Automated Software Application Testing, Fei Wang, Kamakshi Kodur, Michael Micheletti, Shu-Wei Cheng, Yogalakshmi Sadasivam, Yue Hu, Zening Li

Defensive Publications Series

Testing, including user interface testing and A/B testing is an important part of application development. It can be difficult for human testers to write appropriate test assertions or checks for user interface tests. Human testing is costly and not scalable. This disclosure describes the use of a large language model (LLM) to automate testing for software applications, including UI tests, A/B tests, and simulating manual QA tests. A dataset of prior known errors in the UI rendering is constructed and labels are associated with different types of errors. Prompt engineering is carried out to develop a library of prompts that, …

Campus Assembly Minutes 03/26 & 3/28/2024, Campus Assembly

Campus Assembly

No abstract provided.

Spartan Daily, March 26, 2024, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily, 2024

Volume 162, Issue 26

Faculty Senate Agenda April 1, 2024, Utah State University

Faculty Senate & Faculty Senate Executive Committee

• 3:00 Call to Order
• Approval of Minutes – March 4, 2024
• 3:05 University Business
• 3:30 Faculty Senate Business
• 3:40 Information
• 4:00 Reports
• 4:05 Old Business
• 4:10 New Business
• Adjourn: 4:30 pm

Comprehensive Constraints On Dark Radiation Injection After Bbn, A. C. Sobotka, A. L. Erickcek, Tristan L. Smith

Physics & Astronomy Faculty Works

We derive constraints on the injection of free-streaming dark radiation after big bang nucleosynthesis by considering the decay of a massive hidden sector particle into dark radiation. Such a scenario has the potential to alleviate the Hubble tension by introducing a new energy component to the evolution of the early Universe. We employ observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) from Planck 2018 and South Pole Telescope 2018, measurements of the primordial deuterium abundance, Pantheon+ type Ia supernovae data, and baryon acoustic oscillation measurements from BOSS DR12 to constrain these decay scenarios. Prerecombination decays are primarily restricted by observations of …

Unh Announces 2024 Commencement Speakers, Tania Deluzuriaga, Jeremy Gasowski

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Generating Crispr Mutations In The Asymmetric Leaves1 Gene Of Arabidopsis, Gabriella J. Rueschhoff, Tara Phelps-Durr

SACAD: Scholarly Activities

The goal of this study is to create new mutations in the ASYMMETRIC LEAVES 1 (AS1) gene of Arabidopsis using CRISPR technology. AS1 is a myb domain transcription factor that represses the KNOX genes, a group of genes involved in maintaining an undifferentiated cell state. AS1 binds to the chromatin remodeling protein Histone Repressor A (HIRA). In animals, HIRA is involved in the permanent suppression of proliferation genes required for early development. The interaction between AS1 and HIRA provides clues to how AS1 maintains suppression at the KNOX genes; however, we must be careful applying what …

A Micrometeor Impact - Lake Wilson, Kansas?, Kenneth R. Neuhauser

SACAD: Scholarly Activities

Much ado about ‘nothing’ was raised when a suspect ‘object’ hit near Lake Wilson, Kansas on August 10, 2006. After a field investigation, a magnetometer survey, thin section analysis, shotgun field tests, and neutron activation analyses (NAA), no 100% conclusive physical evidence exists as to what caused the impact. However, enough NAA chemical evidence was found to suggest a micro-meteor was what created an 18” wide and 12” deep ‘crater’ at the site.

Confidence In Crises: School Nurses' Perceptions Of Self-Efficacy In Active Shooter Emergency Preparedness, Titilayo Idowu

Dissertations

The incidence and number of mass school shootings have increased since the first reported school shooting in 1840. Since then, extensive research has been conducted to explore school violence's underlying causes and precursors, resulting in many recommendations for preventative and mitigating practices. However, no national standard or legislation currently dictates the minimal requirements for competencies and training among school nurses in preparation for active shooter incidents. This interpretive qualitative phenomenological study was conducted to explore the lived experiences of postlicensure K-12 school nurses regarding their self-efficacy and confidence to prevent, protect, mitigate, respond, and recover from a school shooting incident. …

Hearing Loss Vs Length Of Employment In The Steel Industry, Sarah Jane Hattle

Student Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this research was to investigate if there was a relationship between hearing loss and length of employment in the steel industry. Participants included 11 males that worked in the steel industry. Participants completed questionnaires regarding demographics, employment, and noise exposure, as well as took part in an audiological exam. The results of the audiological evaluations showed that 45% of participants had hearing loss in the right ear, 36% of participants had hearing loss in the left ear, and 36% of participants had loss in both ears. While there was no significant relationship between hearing loss and the …

An Examination Of The Relational Aspect Of Cohesive Co-Teaching Relationships, Debra L. Byers

Student Theses and Dissertations

Co-teaching has developed as a successful instructional strategy to support various learning requirements and differentiation, especially as more students with disabilities are integrated into general education classrooms. To establish efficacious co-teaching partnerships, it is important to surmount some interpersonal barriers and apply relational skills. To better understand the dynamics of meaningful co-teaching relationships, this phenomenological study interviewed seven co-teaching pairs who had participated in the Arkansas Co-Teaching Project's year-long professional development program. Additionally, to understand how to foster equality and synergy, both individual and group interviews were conducted. Findings highlighted the need for more intensive training and support systems to …

Changing The Culture Of Secondary School Mathematics: What Are The Effects Of Interventions On Student Attitudes, Beliefs, And Motivation?, Meagan Coronado

Student Theses and Dissertations

In this study, 80 ninth-grade students enrolled in Algebra I from a high school in south Texas completed the Implicit Theories of Intelligence Scale for Children (ITIS) Survey and the Attitudes Toward Mathematics Inventory (ATMI) Survey, before and after a set of interventions. The students were divided into one of four groups, three with applied intervention and one control group: intelligence theory, utility value theory, both intelligence theory and utility value theory, and no interventions (control group). Analyses were conducted to determine the impact of the interventions on the overall scores on the ITIS and ATMI surveys. The results showed …