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A Beast to Be Slain: The Tiger and the Unquenched Desire of Man

Abstract: Ever since the British colonists blessed tiger hunting as the cardinal "royal" sport of the Haut monde , a surge of interest took place among the leisure class to travel to the British Raj in order to re-practice their ancestral fox hunting on foreign hunting grounds—this time with a more fearsome quarry. Since tigers were considered exotic and fierce creatures, overpowering these beasts secured a certain cachet for the victor, signifying his virility and manliness. As a result, the encounter between man and the tiger—both in the metaphoric and non-metaphoric sense—provided a literary trope for the twentieth-century writers who associated the animal with the erotic hunger of the male protagonists. By studying the traditional beliefs surrounding these mystical creatures, the present article reads some of the notable literary fictions of the twentieth century that use the tiger as a central animal motif— The Beast in the Jungle (1903), Death in Venice (1912), and The Remains of the Day (1989)—in light of each other.

Halal Entrepreneurialism effect on Halal Food Industry Future in Ethiopia: Mediation role of Risk Propensity and Self Efficacy

As the Prophet and His followers engaged in it as a respectable vocation, the idea of entrepreneurship is not a novel one in Islam, as can be seen from history. To describe and distinguish entrepreneurs in the Halal market from those in other industries, Islamic economic researchers have recently coined the phrase "Halal entrepreneurship" or "Halalpreneurship." The incorporation of Islamic principles reshapes business owners in the Halal sector through specific characteristics that allow for the use of the terms "Halalpreneurs" and "Halalpreneurship." Only a few academic studies, though, have attempted to define Halalpreneurship. This chapter seeks to accomplish two key goals in this context. First, to give a thorough introduction to Halal entrepreneurship (Halalpreneurship) by highlighting the key characteristics that set it apart from other forms of entrepreneurship. Such comprehension and information will enable one to recognize his or her position as a Halalpreneur in the Halal sector. Second, to identify business prospects for Halalpreneurs in various Halal industrial areas around Ethiopia through self-efficacy and risk propensity. The chapter uses content analysis methods to accomplish its goals through reading research papers, books, journals, and articles from various secondary sources.

The effects of text direction of different text lengths on Chinese reading

This study investigates the effects of text direction (horizontal and vertical) and length (long and short) on Chinese reading performance. The experiment enrolled 68 university students aged 19–29 years who were asked to read articles. We recorded reading times and measured recall after reading using a memory test and measured task load using the NASA-TLX scale. The results show that horizontal text was read faster than vertical text. When reading long texts, horizontal reading has a better memory effect than vertical reading. When reading short texts, the effect of text direction on memory was not significant. Moreover, the mental, physical, and temporal demands of horizontal text were lower than those of vertical text. These findings contribute to a better understanding of the impact of text direction, provide valuable suggestions for Chinese typography, and help readers obtain better reading outcomes.

Learning Strategies and Challenges of EFL Learners in Enriching English Vocabularies

Challenges always exist in learning any English skills, including vocabulary building. This leads to the fact that EFL learners still do not know what strategies can be used to enrich English vocabularies. This qualitative study therefore aims to investigate what strategies are used by EFL learners and the challenges experienced by them in enriching and memorizing vocabularies. To achieve those objectives, this research categorizes the respondents into three groups, namely the first, second and third grades of senior high school. They are all interviewed in a semi structured way to find out in-depth data. The analyses reveal that the respondents employ various strategies to enrich the English vocabularies. The majority of the first grade respondents use the strategy of watching movies, reading English books and saying English words repeatedly. Then, the second grade respondents prefers to use the strategy of saying the English words repeatedly, watching movies and reading articles. Lastly, the third grade of the respondents use the strategy of watching movies and listening to music. This indicates that enriching vocabulary not only requires formal strategies in the classroom but also informal strategies outside the classroom.

THE ENHANCED RECOVERY AFTER SURGERY PROTOCOL IMPLEMENTATION STATUS OF THE HEALTH STAFF WORKING IN THE GYNECOLOGY-OBSTETRIC CLINICS

This study was performed to determine Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Protocols (ERAS) protocols implementation status before and after surgery by the health personnel working in gynecology and obstetrics clinics. This descriptive quantitative study was performed in gynecology and obstetrics clinics of two university hospital and applied to 151 health personnel in between December 2020 and January 2021. Data of study were collected by “ERAS Protocols Implemantation Status of Health Personnel Working in Gynecology and Obstetric Clinics Questionnaire”. The health personnel’s 86.8% didn’t know the protocol. Those who know it was 65% men, 75% in 20-30 age range, 65% had undergraduate education and doctors, 33.3% have experienced difficulties in practice. Significant association was found between participants' gender, reading articles about the protocol, believing in usefulness, learning resources and knowing it (p

HIGHER-ORDER THINKING STRATEGY IMPLEMENTATION WHILE READING AUTHENTIC TEXTS

Productive reading is the key component of the productive linguodidactic technology system. One of the important professional competences that college undergraduates are supposed to acquire is a skill to reflect critically on what they read. They have to learn how to analyze and interpret large flows of information from various sources including those from the foreign media. The important skill of interpretating the value and the meaning of the text in terms of ideas and author’s intentions can be built through productive linguistic reading. The effective application of the text structure strategy can be seen as one of the ways to implement a productive reading approach.This article focuses on the ways used to engage students in higher order thinking activities while reading articles and other authentic texts on various topics. Identifying the main ideas and logical relationships between them, providing background information, and generating inferences enhance undergraduates’ skills to form and articulate an informed and well-grounded opinion on different issues.

Win the next war vs innovate or die: framing the digital transformation across the Taiwanese sectors

PurposeThis paper examines the framing of digital transformation. The research questions are specified as follows: what are the different types of framing strategies in response to digital transformation? How do the strategies differ across organizations? Theoretically, the authors draw on the framing perspective to emphasize the use of linguistic frames in shaping innovation and change processes. Empirically, the authors choose to study the Taiwanese sectors, including publicly governed entities, traditional private business or technology-based ventures.Design/methodology/approachThe authors’ approach combines topic modeling and qualitative analysis. Using data collected from newspaper and magazine articles, the authors employ topic modeling to generate a set of distinctive framings that Taiwanese actors typically adopt to motivate and justify their digital move. The authors also conduct personal interviews to qualitatively complement the authors’ topic modeling analysis and to identify the rationale behind the linguistic framings and the strategic differences brought about by the various organizations.FindingsThe authors identify five topics that the Taiwanese actors commonly used in the framing of digital transformation. These topics or frames are labeled as cross-domain coordination, market demand, intelligent technology, global trend and competition and digital innovation. The practical use of the framings is contingent on organizational characteristics. Furthermore, the authors show how the framings can be classified as either positive framing (e.g. winning the next war) or negative framing (e.g. innovate or die), generally applicable to organizations around the world struggling to cope with digital disruption.Research limitations/implicationsThe authors’ study has two research implications. First, the authors extend the appreciation of the digital transformation from the usual concern with technological and business model innovations to linguistic or framing practices. Second, the authors enrich the framing analysis by emphasizing a practice or contingency perspective based on sector difference. The findings are subject to the limitations of the choice of only established and reputable media outlets, the diatextual reading and filtering of useful articles for topic modeling analysis and the use of world frequency to account for frame significance.Practical implicationsThe authors shift actors' attention from improving technical efficiency to acquiring linguistic resources in the pursuit of digitalization. For example, framing the digital transformation in terms of creating a market orientation calls for not only real consumer power but also strategic discursive competence that enables the move to change. The findings also point out that practitioners can enlarge the scope of their agency rather than being trapped in the habituated routine of practices. Despite social embeddedness, organizations are more often widely connected and built enough to call for more of the cognitive frames to appeal to heterogeneous stakeholders.Originality/valueThe authors study contributes to the literature by developing a linguistic or socio-cognitive view of digital transformation strategy that is capable of expanding organizational attention toward change and innovation. The authors explore menus of strategic frames employed by actors in response to digital transformation. We also address the application of a machine-learning tool such as topic modeling to explore the socio-cognitive dimensions of digital transformation. Furthermore, the analysis leads us to identify the outcomes or effects – either positive or negative – that move beyond the particular Taiwanese case to explain the framing of digital transformation in general.

Rethinking the nineteenth‐century museum via the Ottoman imperial museum

AbstractMost accounts of the Ottoman Imperial Museum view the museum primarily as a Westernization project for the Ottoman Empire. In such readings, the museum follows a teleological trajectory toward the European norm. This article reads several of the early practices of the Ottoman Imperial Museum (such as interactive museum displays and the sultan's casual gifting of museum holdings to other European monarchs), not as hiccups on the way to Westernization, but rather as a distinctly Ottoman vision of museology and imperial power. Seen in this light, the early history of the Ottoman Imperial Museum challenges the standard account of the nineteenth‐century imperial museum as a site where imperial subjects are molded and where the empire displays its might. Instead, in the case of the Ottoman Imperial Museum, the scientific and orderly organization of the museum artifacts become a testament not to imperial power, but to imperial powerlessness.

‘Out of interest’: Klara and the Sun and the interests of fiction

ABSTRACT Kazuo Ishiguro’s penchant for affectless, stilted or robotic narrators, along with his tendency to return across his oeuvre to the same concerns and motifs, has led to a growing critical tendency to identify his writing as (interestingly) uninteresting. His most recent novel Klara and the Sun (2021) (swiftly condemned as boring by many online opiners) seems to address this question head on, by thematising interestingness itself. This article reads Klara and the Sun in light of recent work (by Sianne Ngai and others) which theorises interestingness as one of our contemporary aesthetic categories. Exploring Ishiguro’s iterated fictional concerns, in particular via a comparison with Never Let Me Go, it tests out a number of ways in which the uninterestingness of Ishiguro’s narratives has been turned to critical account, but argues that Klara and the Sun withstands these critical manoeuvres. Instead, it demonstrates – via engaging with John Frow’s formalist work on literary interest – that Klara offers a phenomenological investigation of how fictional interest is made. This account serves as a quiet manifesto for the interest of fiction tout court, and for the interest of Ishiguro’s ongoing fictional project.

Update Aetiopathogenesis and Treatment of Psoriasis: A Literature Review

Background: Psoriasis is a very common skin condition that is caused by an immune system problem. T-cells, dendritic cells, macrophages and neutrophils all play a role in the proliferation of keratinocytes. Several genetic and environmental factors are involved in the development of this condition. Objectives: The purpose of this study is to review aetiopathogenic causes and therapeutic aspects of psoriasis. Therefore, the literature review aims to address the following: Explore psoriasis theories and factors that influence psoriasis. Review of effectiveness of different treatment methods in the management of mild, moderate and severe psoriasis. In addition, there is a need to identify and evaluate new or novel therapies in the treatment of moderate and severe forms of psoriasis. Methods: A narrative literature review provides an overview of the extensive literature on the etiology, pathogenesis and treatment of psoriasis. The data comes from well reads articles published over the last 30 years (1992-2022). Electronic databases were taken from Google Scholar, PubMed, Medscape and the University of South Wales. Results: Two hundred two articles, which varied between literature reviews, systematic reviews, review articles, randomized controlled studies, meta-analyses and comparative studies. 100 out of 202 of the articles in this thesis focused on discussing the etiology, pathogenesis, pathophysiology and psoriasis treatments. Conclusion: Psoriasis is a multifactorial chronic disease. Genetics, immune and environmental factors play a significant role in its development. Psoriasis is a treatable but incurable disease that is widespread and has a significant impact on quality of life. Advances in understanding the etiology and pathogenesis of psoriasis will undoubtedly lead to the discovery of new treatments and better patient outcomes and improve quality of life for patients.

Building of the Pancasila Character with Religious Harmony in the Globalization Era

Globalization is a global condition where change is shown and has a good or even bad impact on its users. They grew up with all the digital conveniences at their fingertips. Today's youth are privileged to grow up in a digitally advanced and globally connected world. However, a moral dilemma does hit the millennial generation in the classroom. The moral deviations indicated that many of the younger generations do not have good character in themselves. This research case illustrates why this research is worth discussing. This research contributes to a generation of young people who are characterized and civilized according to Islamic values and the values of Pancasila (citizenship). In this study, data collection used a qualitative approach with a literature review approach: reading journals, articles, or books as research data. The findings in this research (a) the nation's youth need to have full awareness to encourage themselves to take ethical values that combine knowledge, understanding, and action to create a comprehensive character. (b) the best practice in the formation of the Pancasila character is implementing and applying what is received so that it becomes a habit of attitude/behaviour in the life of the nation and state. (c) the values of Pancasila are contributed by Islamic religious education as a construction for the formation of a young generation with character, global outlook, love of the motherland, and the spirit of Pancasila in order of religious harmony. Limitations in this study only focus on discuss the prospects and challenges of character building in the midst of the globalization era, the best practices in character building in terms of Religious character and Pancasila, and the relevance of Islamic religious education and Pancasila values

Corrigendum to “An Antinomy in Alexy's Theory of Balancing”

Ratio JurisEarly View CorrigendumFree Access Corrigendum to “An Antinomy in Alexy's Theory of Balancing” This article corrects the following: An Antinomy in Alexy's Theory of Balancing Giovanni B. Ratti, Volume 36Issue 1Ratio Juris pages: 48-56 First Published online: January 20, 2023 First published: 05 May 2023 https://doi.org/10.1111/raju.12379AboutSectionsPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL In Ratti 2023, the closing sentence of Section 5 of the article reads: “Indeed, if the theory of proportionality is assumed, the theory of principles cannot be accepted, and if the theory of proportionality is assumed, the theory of principles cannot be accepted.” The sentence should read as follows: “Indeed, if the theory of proportionality is assumed, the theory of principles cannot be accepted, and if the theory of principles is assumed, the theory of proportionality cannot be accepted.” Reference Ratti, G. B. 2023. An Antinomy in Alexy's Theory of Balancing. Ratio Juris 36(1): 48– 56. https://doi.org/10.1111/raju.12367. Early ViewOnline Version of Record before inclusion in an issue ReferencesRelatedInformation

Dieter Wolf (1941–2023): a life dedicated to understanding protein quality control and the ubiquitin‐proteasome system

Dieter Wolf (1941–2023): a life dedicated to understanding protein quality control and the ubiquitin‐proteasome system

Cripping the pain scale: literary and biomedical narratives of pain assessment

This article analyses the literary representation of pain scales and assessment in two chronic pain narratives: ‘The Pain Scale’, a lyric essay by Eula Biss, and essays from Sonya Huber’s...

Shifting Comprehension in Novels by Abdulrazak Gurnah and Zoë Wicomb: Lingualism in Action

Abstract In an attempt to conceptualise literary multilingualism—or just “lingualism,” to use Robert Stockhammer’s term—without reifying language boundaries, this article reads literary fiction as a negotiation of different regimes of comprehensibility. These negotiations occur (1) on the level of the story-world, (2) materially, in the mediation of the narrative as book artefact and (3) between these two levels. Lingualism, then, is not just context-sensitive but context-constituted. The apparently anarchic freedom of literary language is held in check by regimes of comprehensibility that ensure that even nonsense will carry meaning. The article’s analysis of works by Abdulrazak Gurnah and Zoë Wicomb shows how they engage potentially transformative moments of (in) comprehensibility in what Pratt named the colonial “contact zone.”

“Scotch! Scotch! Scotch!”: The Inoperative Domestic Scene in Chantal Akerman's Saute ma ville

Abstract This article reads Chantal Akerman's short film Saute ma ville (Blow Up My Town, Belgium, 1968) with and against texts by Giorgio Agamben, Gilles Deleuze, and Herman Melville. Rather than being merely a precursor to Akerman's later genre-defining efforts in recording female domestic life, I propose that Saute ma ville displays the potentiality for domestic labor itself to be a destituent practice, rather than an expected component of reproductive, conventionally gendered work. The way that Akerman mobilizes the inoperative actions of her protagonist — a “girl without references” — in her “preference not to” perform the supportive labor of the domestic space and in so doing literally “blow up her town” makes this early work interpretable as structurally concerned and politically motivated recit in the mode of her later films, rather than merely narrative-focused histoire. The protagonist of the film, in her Chaplinesque resistance to allow household chores to sustain her home, displays a conceptual paradigm in which those still separated from politics and from the space of the polis may yet act politically. Reading the film with Melville's Bartleby the Scrivener and Deleuze's and Agamben's responses to that text puts pressure on the limits of Agamben's thought on inoperativity and reinscribes the importance of Akerman's deeply affective cinematography within an anti-capitalist feminist critique.

ANALISIS YURIDIS ATAS KLAIM HAK MILIK ATAS TANAH OLEH INSTANSI PEMERINTAH

We are researching to learn how the government controls land ownership according to the Basic Agrarian Law and what happens when they claim ownership of land. We also want to know how they use the term "Property Rights" and what legal things could happen because of that. This study used the Normative Juridical method, which means using legal sources to find the truth based on the logic of law. One way to gather information is by reading books and articles. The research found that the Basic Agrarian Law gives people the right to control and use land in different ways, like owning property, farming, renting buildings, etc. The government ensures that people use land fairly and take care of it. They also decide who can have land and ensure the rules are followed. If there are problems with land, they can help solve them. They also keep track of who owns the land.

EVALUASI PROGRAM INDONESIA PINTAR DALAM UPAYA PEMERATAAN PENDIDIKAN

This study aims to analyze the effect of the smart Indonesia program in an effort to equalize education in Indonesia. The data used in this study were obtained through a literature study by searching, collecting and reading various journals or articles about the Smart Indonesia program that has an impact on equal distribution of education in Indonesia. In the implementation of the Smart Indonesia Program itself, there are still various obstacles which are one of the inhibiting factors in suppressing the decline in the dropout rate in Indonesia. For example, the inaccurate determination of prospective students receiving the Smart Indonesia Program, delays in disbursing funds, insufficient socialization of this program, the length of the process in verifying card ownership, and the level of awareness of the guardians of students regarding the allocation of Smart Indonesia Program assistance is still lacking. That way the government's efforts to reduce the dropout rate are less than optimal which has an impact on equal distribution of education in Indonesia. So that the implementation of the smart Indonesia program needs to be supported by several factors that encourage this program to run more effectively.
 
 Keywords: Smart Indonesia program; Equal distribution of education.
 

Decision-Making: Human and Machine

Background: in modern society, decision-making happens everywhere and anytime. There are many factors influencing people in making decisions, which will be analyzed with examples in the paper. Technologies also help humans in making decisions: merits and demerits of them are briefly introduced with a discussion of the example in a hedge fund in which there have already been technologies used in the industry for years. Method: qualitative research -- case study research and record keeping by searching and reading articles written by scholars or official institutions, and reviewing and analyzing them to have a conclusion on the matter relating to humans and machines’ performance in decision-making. Conclusion: By comparing the merits and demerits of humans and machines in the decision-making process, it can be concluded that cooperation between humans and machines may lead to better results at a time since they have a supplementary relationship. In other words, machines might be excellent in the fields in which humans are weak, and vice versa, which makes the collaboration of them to be the best solution so far.

Characterization of Self-reported Improvements in Knowledge and Health Among Users of Flo Period Tracking App: Cross-sectional Survey.

Research shows that poor knowledge and awareness of menstrual and pregnancy health among women are associated with adverse reproductive health and pregnancy outcomes. Menstrual cycle- and pregnancy-tracking mobile apps are promising tools for improving women's awareness of and attitudes toward their reproductive health; however, there is little information about subscribers' perceptions of app functionality and its impact on their knowledge and health. This study aimed to explore knowledge and health improvements related to menstrual cycle and pregnancy, as well as improvements in general health among Flo app users. We also investigated what components of the Flo app were associated with the abovementioned improvements and evaluated whether those improvements differed based on education level, country of residence (low- and middle-income vs high-income countries), free or premium subscription to the app, short- or long-term use of the app, and frequency of use. Flo subscribers who had been using the app for no less than 30 days, completed a web-based survey. A total of 2212 complete survey responses were collected. The survey included demographic questions and questions about motivations guiding the use of the Flo app and which components of the app improved their knowledge and health, as well as to what extent. Most study participants reported improvements in menstrual cycle (1292/1452, 88.98%) and pregnancy (698/824, 84.7%) knowledge from Flo app use. Participants with higher levels of education and those from high-income countries reported using the app predominantly for getting pregnant (χ21=4.2, P=.04; χ21=52.3, P<.001, respectively) and pregnancy tracking (χ21=19.3, P<.001; χ21=20.9, P=.001, respectively). Participants with less education reported using the app to avoid pregnancy (χ21=4.2; P=.04) and to learn more about their body (χ21=10.8; P=.001) and sexual health (χ21=6.3; P=.01), while participants from low- and middle-income countries intended to mainly learn more about their sexual health (χ21=18.2; P<.001). Importantly, the intended use of the app across education levels and country income levels matched areas in which they had gained knowledge and achieved their health goals upon use of the Flo app. Period, fertile days, and ovulation predictions as well as symptom tracking were consistently the top 3 components in the app that helped users with their cycle knowledge and general health. Reading articles or watching videos helped with users' education regarding their pregnancy. Finally, the strongest improvements in knowledge and health were observed in premium, frequent, and long-term users. This study suggests that menstrual health apps, such as Flo, could present revolutionary tools to promote consumer health education and empowerment on a global scale.