Birthday Party Research Articles

An outbreak of acute diarrhoeal disease caused by Shigella sonnei in a village in Dibrugarh district, Assam.

Background & objectives Food and waterborne illnesses remain a neglected public health issue in India. Events with large gatherings frequently witness outbreaks of acute diarrheal diseases due to consumption of contaminated food or water or poor food handling practices. In the present study, an outbreak of acute diarrhoeal disease (ADD) occurring among the attendees of a birthday party in rural Dibrugarh district in the northeastern Indian State of Assam was investigated. Methods Sociodemographic information along with details of ADD outbreak that included information about source of foods, food handlers, illness details, etc., were collected using an outbreak investigation form for descriptive and analytical epidemiology. Rectal swabs from affected individuals and food handlers were collected along with bore-well water samples and tested in the laboratory by performing bacterial culture, biochemical analysis and polymerase chain reaction. Due to the delayed report on the outbreak, collecting leftover food for laboratory testing and analysis was impossible. Results A total of 25 cases of ADD had similar signs and symptoms. The mean incubation period for developing acute diarrhoea was 26.36±8.76 (± standard deviation) hours from food consumption. The overall attack rate was 60.04 per cent (25/41); 20 per cent (5/25) required hospitalization. Thirteen rectal swab samples were tested for pathogens and found positive for Shigella sonnei. Antibiotic susceptibility test of isolated S. sonnei showed resistance to nalidixic acid, ciprofloxacin and cefotaxime. Consumption of one of the food items - chicken curry was significantly associated with illness (Odds Ratio=14.8; 95% Confidence Interval: 2.75-85.11); P value<0.05 and Population Attributable Fraction (PAF) was 70.18 per cent. The water samples were found satisfactory for human consumption. Interpretation & conclusions The findings suggested that S. sonnei infection could be implicated in the investigated food-borne diarrhoeal disease outbreak and that there was a potential for human-poultry cross-infection. Additionally, the study revealed concerning levels of S. sonnei resistance to recommended antibiotics and drew attention to their public health relevance.

More Than a Boarding House: Generation of Heterotopia in Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party

One of the pioneering playwrights of postwar British drama, Harold Pinter is usually known for his plays’ absurd features and for his combination of elements like comedy and threat in an unprecedented way. Nevertheless, Pinter’s ingenuity cannot merely be confined to such a specific framework, and this paper explores a rather neglected main dramatic element in his most well-known and commonly-studied play The Birthday Party (1959). Taking Michel Foucault’s definition of heterotopia into consideration, this paper analyses the specific selection of a boarding house as the setting of the play and focuses on the spatial markers’ contribution to the ambiguity intentionally engendered by the playwright. Meanwhile, the status of the boarding house put under scrutiny reveals the perfectly heterotopic nature of the place. The boarding house in the play hosts a spectrum of contradictory places in its complicated constitution such as a delivery room, a hideout, a womb, and a playground. In this sense, the boarding house constitutes a catalyser which Pinter employs to further blur the relationships and the dialogue between the characters. This study, investigating all these heterotopic features in detail, once again marks the undeniable influence of the setting on the action and dialogue in a play. By putting an emphasis on the heterotopic features of the setting in The Birthday Party, it underlines the significance of the setting in denying the revelation of a unique and simple conclusion and promoting multiple ways of reading the play.

Boosting Memory Through Magnetic Brain Stimulation

When you think back to a past birthday party, you can probably remember who was there and what you ate. This might seem easy to you, but memory is a complicated process that scientists are still trying to understand. Memory takes place in the brain, which is made up of billions of cells called neurons. Recent research has shown that memory can be improved safely using a tool called transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). TMS works by sending a very strong magnetic field through the skull and into the brain, where it changes the activity of neurons, causing changes in behavior. In this article, we will discuss how the brain remembers, how we can make the brain remember better using TMS, and how TMS could be used in the future to help people with memory problems.

Alienation, Ferocity, and Rhetoric of Confusion in Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party

Printer’s ‘The Birthday Party’ has received considerable recognition among literary critics over the last decade. This is mostly due to the fact that Pinter abandons the traditional portrayal of characters. Many critics, however, scarcely paid attention to the significance of the characters’ linguistic style, particularly, the extent the players’ rhetoric is used as a means for confusion and manipulation. As this research explains, Printer’s play exposes the ferocious and confusing functions of language beyond its normal function as a means of productive communication. To do so, the research concisely analyses the rhetorical style of the two main antagonists in The Birthday Party as they try to control and manipulate the main protagonist linguistically. The play also, as the research explains, reveals the link between the lack of communication among characters in a domestic space and the development of a sense of loss and alienation by the main protagonist.

Analisis Pengaruh Kualitas Produk Dan Kualitas Pelayanan Terhadap Keputusan Pembelian Ulang Pelanggan Produk Dummy Cake Melalui Kepuasan Pada United Foam (Studi Kasus Yang Bertransaksi Di Tokopedia)

Marriage and birthdays are sacred moments and important celebrations. One tradition observed during wedding or birthday parties is the cake-cutting tradition. A fake wedding cake is also a good option if you want to showcase a large and beautiful cake but have a smaller guest list. The purpose of this research is to determine and analyze: 1) the influence of product quality on consumer repurchase decisions, 2) the influence of service quality on consumer repurchase decisions, 3) the influence of product quality on consumer satisfaction, 4) the influence of service quality on consumer satisfaction, 5) the influence of consumer satisfaction on consumer repurchase decisions, 6) the influence of product quality on consumer purchase decisions, and 7) the influence of product quality on consumer purchase decisions, mediated by consumer satisfaction on Tokopedia. The research method used in this study is path analysis; the researcher used path analysis (SPSS ver. 26) to determine cause-and-effect relationships. To obtain reliable research results, validity and reliability tests. The hypothesis results show that 1) product quality has an influence but not significant on consumer repurchase decisions, 2) product quality has a significant influence on consumer repurchase decisions, 3) product quality has a significant influence on consumer satisfaction, 4) service quality has a significant influence on consumer satisfaction, 5) consumer satisfaction has a significant influence on consumer repurchase decisions, 6) product quality does not influence consumer satisfaction through consumer satisfaction, and 7) service quality does not influence consumer satisfaction through consumer satisfaction. Keywords: Product Quality, Service Quality, Consumer Satisfaction, Repurchase Decisions.

A Profound Irrationalism Anchored in Postmodernism: A Study of Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party

This paper examines the presence of profound irrationalism in Harold Pinter's play, The Birthday Party, through the lens of postmodernism. The analysis draws on postmodernist theories of language, meaning, and power, to explore the ways in which the play reflects and critiques the socio-political context of the postmodern era. The paper argues that the play is an important work of postmodern literature that embodies the postmodern critique of rationality, reason, and truth.

Dynamic capability and competitive advantage of event management ventures in Kenya

ABSTRACT Event management in the hospitality industry came into being because many corporate firms, families and friends asked hotels to organise their gatherings. For corporate firms, these events are considered training programmes, meetings, or conferences. For families, events include weddings, birthday parties, or even garden parties. When large numbers of people gather for any purpose, it requires proper management. This management of arrangements provided to people is done by the event management team. The hospitality sector includes event management. Hotel event management ensures that any event in the hotel runs smoothly. Event ventures use resources and create economic costs and benefits in equal measure. Apart from the provision of job alternatives, events raise the level of population participation in economic development, generate secondary income, enhance community stability, and are often considered to leave minimal damage to the physical environment. With rising competition in the events management industry, competitive strategies help focus on assessing organisations’ strengths, growth opportunities and competitive threats. Traditional competitive advantage models may not be applicable for smaller firms because they assume the existence of scale economies. Yet small firms cannot compete with larger organisations in economies of scale. This article therefore tries to determine the influence of dynamic capabilities on the competitive advantage of event management ventures (EMvs) in selected counties in Kenya. The sample size comprised 230 managers selected through stratified and simple random sampling techniques respectively, and 15 entrepreneurs selected using purposive sampling. The regression analysis revealed that dynamic capabilities (β = 0.295, p < 0.001) significantly influenced the competitive advantage of EMvs. The study recommends that managers should be flexible in the constantly changing environment and adapt their competencies to achieve competitive advantage.

‘When you’ve got friends like mine’: Company as tragedy and the queer potentiality of friendship

My first experience with Company was the 2011 concert version, released in theatres across the nation the same month that marriage equality was passed in New York State. With so many people fighting so hard to get married, the answer to Company’s big question, ‘Should I get married?’, seemed obvious, and Bobby’s final outcome inevitable. However, as a queer, aromantic viewer who values the importance of friendship, the end was a tragedy: rather than celebrating his birthday with his friends, Bobby spent it alone, abandoning the relationships he had already cultivated for an empty romantic ideal. For a show about marriage, Company spends an inordinate amount of time showcasing friendship, such as Bobby’s platonic connection with Amy and his many birthday parties. Queer historians, such as Michel Foucault and Peter Nardi, have theorized the radical potentiality of friendship to undermine heteropatriarchal capitalism and build community. What does it mean to centre Company on friendship? What new possibilities could appear if we intentionally staged and read the show as a failure of community rather than a triumph of maturity? If we take Bobby’s final claim seriously – ‘Alone is alone, not alive’ – we are left condemning single people to less than full lives, including Sondheim, who spent most of his life ‘alone’, invested primarily in intense, deep and lasting friendships. A queer reading provides a liberatory if tragic analysis that Bobby was, in fact, never alone but instead, stuck in a society that undervalues community, friendship and chosen family.

P135: Electroencephalography-Based Neuro-emotional Responses during interactive scenario therapy in the person with dementia – case study

Background:Immersive technologies have the potential to control cognitive and behavioural symptoms in people with dementia. A safe environment can be designed through a specific interactive scenario, according to the preferences and experiences of each user.Objective:Mapping neuro-emotional responses during the interactive scenario therapy experience in a case study, with dementia, using electroencephalography (EEG).Methods:A participant, 78 years old and diagnosed with moderate to severe Alzheimer's disease (female; Mini Mental State Examination score of 17 points; frontal assessment battery score of 8 points), underwent EEG analysis (EMOTIV EPOC X) using a protocol with interactive scenarios tailored to the participant's needs and preferences, the scenarios were designed from reminiscence strategies. The protocol included a stimulus that alternated between motor and cognitive activities (3 minutes), and breath-centered relaxation (1 minute). The scenarios used in this study were: setting up a living room; composing a cake recipe; shopping in the market to make a cake; looking for objects in the park; organizing a birthday party. These variables are provided, on a scale of 0 to 100, after processing by the algorithms of the EmotivPRO v3.0 software.Results:The values found in the EEG analysis will be described without stimulus and with stimulus respectively. Thus, engagement (68.57 to 71.86); arousal (57.86 to 49.86), focus (61.57 to 57.00), interest (54.86 to 49.57), relaxation (33.86 to 30.86), and stress (53.71 to 43.00). The EEG data showed an increase in engagement when the patient was stimulated (68.57 to 71.86). Relaxation also increased (30.86 to 33.86) when the stimulus was removed. The stress level, as analysed by the EEG, was also higher in the period without stimulus and reduced in the period with the stimulus (53.71 to 43).Conclusion:During a stimulus period in interactive therapy, there was an increase in engagement, which was related to an increasing focus during the stimulus. Lower values were observed compared to the period without stimulus, indicating a period of recovery after a period of concentration/arousal. Therefore, therapy with an interactive and familiar scenario, using a circuit of stimulus-breathing exercises, promotes a positive and adequate neuro-emotional response in a person with dementia.

광산 김씨 김노헌 가문의 내방가사 작품 고찰

The fact that women in the Kim no-heon family have been creating Naebanggasa for generations is significant in that it led to the creation of modern Naebanggasa. Kim no-heon, whose pen name was Songseok, left behind a collection of works called 『Songseokyugo』. With his wife, Jeonju Yoo, he gave birth to four sons and two daughters. His wife, Jeonju Yoo, wrote Susimtan, his second daughter, Kim gi-rye, wrote Hoehongyeongchukga, and his granddaughter, Kim Seong-jong, wrote Susindonggyeongga.&#x0D; Susimtan is a work with a total of 114 lines and 231 phrases written by Jeonju Yoo in late spring of 1921 when she was 70 years old, lamenting the worries that settled in her heart. The root of her anxiety was, among other things, due to the fact that she had suffered from a disease in one of her legs, making my daily life become inconvenient. The work consists of 7 paragraphs. What is noteworthy in terms of the author's consciousness is that the location of her parents' house is conveyed from the perspective of aspect of geomantic theory of feng shui theory, and conveyed that his parents' family members are leading a comfortable life in a famous place. In terms of expression, it can be seen that various rhetorical techniques are used, including exclamatory endings.&#x0D; Hoehongyeongchukga is a song with a total of 106 lines and 201 phrases containing the contents of congratulating the party, when Kim no-heon and his wife held the wedding feast on March 17, 1927, their 60th wedding anniversary. The work consists of five paragraphs. Looking through her works, the author is identified as a woman with very high self-esteem, bright and energetic, and with a sense of honoring her family. In terms of her expression, she uses various rhetorical techniques alone or in combination to enhance her literary beauty. In addition, looking at the narrative of her work, it can be seen that she was influenced by Susimtan in the way she developed the poetic sentiment.&#x0D; Susindonggyeongga is a work of 98 lines and 191 phrases written by the author in 1912 celebrating the birthday party of her grandparents who celebrated their 60th birthday at the same age. The entire work consists of eight paragraphs. The author has a good sense of humor, and is a woman having a sense of honoring her family. In particular, through her works, the author's taoist consciousness is brought into focus. In terms of expression, it can be seen that she is enhancing her literary beauty through the use of various rhetorical techniques and word play. In addition, it is noticeable that she appropriately uses various poetic words cheering the atmosphere up throughout her work to convey the excitement of the party.

Juan Kasal App: Web based application for event planning and cost estimation with linear regression

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the services. That will provide quality in event management processes. Our goal is to not only provide quality, but also to make it affordable and customized for the clients. Primary and secondary data were gathered for the study. Data sources (observations, internet resources, press and other sources. The proposed system intends to use Android application for effectively managing all stages of an event management procedure and give the user the ability to customize the event's quality based on his or her preferences needs. The application of project management to the creation and development of large or small events is known as event management. Festivals, conferences, ceremonies, formal parties, concerts, and conventions are examples of large-scale events. Given the current situation we are developing an Android application for event management to address system issues. The application will only be available to Android users. The application will primarily cover educational, medical, and social events. The app will be built with Android Studio, and the back end will be managed in a SQL database. The application will be have easy and feasible GUI for all type of users. The event management industry has expanded rapidly in recent years industry (3rd). We present an Android mobile phone application in this paper to make it easier for a layman to plan an event in a hassle-free manner. This application will assist him/her in planning a successful and fun event. The system allow users to register on the application for an event. This proposed to be a web application. The project provides most of the basic functionality required for an event type e.g. [marriage, Dance Show birthday party, etc.], the system then allows the user to select date and time of event, place and the event equipment. All the data is logged in the database and the user is given a receipt number for his booking. The data is then send to administrator (website owner) and they may interact with the client as per his requirement.

어떤 가족의례가 살아남는가?: 결혼과 임신·출산의례의 젠더 및 세대 비교

This study examines which traditional family rituals have survived among marriage, pregnancy, and childbirth rituals, focusing on gender and generational differences. In total, 1,319 adult participants were recruited for the survey, and this group comprised adults from the baby boomer generation (BB: born between 1955 and 1963), Generation X (born between 1964 and 1980), Generation M (born between 1981 and 1996), and Generation Z (born between 1997 and 2003). Cross-tabulation analyses were utilized for the comparison according to gender and generation, and STATA 17.0 was used. The results demonstrated that both men and women agreed with having marriage rituals such as going on a honeymoon, taking wedding photos, and making and sending out wedding invitations. Regarding pregnancy and childbirth rituals, both men and women agreed with having prenatal education, eating seaweed soup after birth, and having a first-year birthday party. Regarding the generation analyses, generations X and M tended to disagree with marriage rituals, while generations BB and Z tended to agree with them. In this study, we discussed the necessity of family rituals according to gender and generation based on the family rituals that have survived.

APPROACHES TO THE DESCRIPTION OF EXCEPTIVE AND ADDITIVE CONSTRUCTIONS IN RUSSIAN STUDIES

This article presents a review of papers describing exceptive (e.g. All my classmates came to the birthday party, except for Ivan) and additive (e.g. Besides Ivan, all my classmates came to the birthday party) constructions. The main aims of this work are to compare different points of view, as well as identify some features of functioning of these constructions in the Russian language that were not mentioned before. Section 1 discusses the markers of addition or exclusion. Section 2 is devoted to the constituents of the constructions. Section 3 deals with the issue of monosemy and polysemy of krome ‘except; besides’, as well as examples of ambiguous interpretation of krome. Section 4 raises the question what part of speech krome belongs to and the possibility to include krome into the functional class of connectors.

DESIGN THINKING SEBAGAI METODE PERANCANGAN LOGO PERAYAAN ULANG TAHUN KOTA MAKASSAR 416 TAHUN

Design Thinking as The Method for Designing the Logo of Makassar City’s 416th Anniversary. A city's birthday party is a representation of enthusiasm and appeal in a series one year earlier. The general government will issue a logo as a visual element of the celebration attribute. The city's birthday celebration becomes an annual event for the city community and a space for casual communication together. The published logo will become a celebration of communication identity as well as a space for public expression. This design will aim to create an appropriate visual identity to represent expectations and as a forum for wider public expression. Design thinking is a structure of thinking and acting in producing solutions or policies. This method precipitates the process of empathy and reframing in determining the ideas produced. In the process of designing expressions and expectations are found as insights in realizing a visual identity which is then derived in the form of a logo. The visual identity of Makassar City's 416th anniversary celebration brings togetherness and innovation as a theme. This is also a message contained in communications to the public. A good visual identity can motivate people to be more participatory in urban changes in the future. Keywords: logo, visual identity, city anniversary, design thinking, Makassar city

When Magnus Johanson turned fifty

This article examines birthday party decorations as a way of understanding the materiality and religious place-making of an expanding Baptist congregation in central Sweden in the early twentieth century. The fiftieth birthday party for Magnus Johanson, held at Salem Chapel in Falun, Dalarna county, in 1906, was decorated with birch branches, large Swedish flags and bunting and an elaborately laid table featuring coffee cups and refreshments. From an analysis of these material elements and a deeper investigation into the lives of Johanson and his wife Kristina, it can be seen that evangelicals had a flexible approach to their ‘sacred’ spaces. Social activities and the act of decorating them created not only a sense of congregational fellowship and belonging but also the opportunity for congregations to display their connection to external cultural and political identities. Through the construction of chapel buildings and their subsequent decoration, male and female members were able to demonstrate a complementary creativity. Together they contributed to the cre-ation of Salem as a multi-purpose, comfortable and accepted place within Falun’s evolving religious landscape.

Nolite te Bastardes Carborundorum? Using Kylie Jenner and Reproductive Rights to Examine the Cultural Afterlife of The Handmaid’s Tale

Emerging from the shocking image of Kylie Jenner's 2019 Handmaid's Tale themed birthday party — in which women clad in red dresses and bonnets drank cocktails and celebrated — this paper analyzes the cultural afterlife of the Handmaid symbol from Margaret Atwood's celebrated novel The Handmaid's Tale. Spanning from Jenner's birthday celebration to abortion protests in Philadelphia, I begin by understanding how the Handmaid herself is conceived of by Atwood in the novel. Building from this literary analysis, I question all modern utilizations of the Handmaid symbol. In the same way that acts of resistance are subsumed by the tyrannical system in The Handmaid's Tale, I argue that contemporary deployments of the Handmaid symbol — whether for protest or not — have no lasting impact, as they are inevitably assimilated into the oppressive cultural from which they emerged.

Visualization of Seeking Identity on Transnational Children In “Be Prepared” Graphic Novel

Be Prepared is a graphic novel about Vera, the daughter of immigrants from Russia. In her storyline, Vera faces many cultural challenges when dealing with American and other Russian immigrant children. Vera attempts to find identity amidst the differences between the original culture of Russia and the American culture as the country she lived in. The situation between 2 cultures is a challenge for transnational children. This study aims to analyze and see the meaning represented in the graphic novel, especially how transnational children obtain identity and adapt to their environment. The research method used in this research is semiotics and literature review. The semiotic method is used to see the relationship between signs to get the meaning. The semiotic theories used in this research are based on Roland Barthes’s theories. Another method is the literature review which is conducted by overviewing the signs through several published literature to expand the meanings. The base theory used in the literature review is a cultural study that consists of ideas about acculturation, immigration, and cross-cultural theories. From this research, it can be seen that in the comparison of situations of 2 birthday parties, there are expectations in acculturation. The worship scene in the Russian Orthodox church represents immigrant families' coping mechanism for acculturation stress. The signs seen in the graphic novel are also seen in the acculturation stage of Vera's character to gain identity, which can be divided into three stages, namely, the stage of seeking recognition, the stage of imitating, and the stage of integration.&#x0D; Keywords: transnationalism; immigrant; acculturation; graphic novel; sequential arts.&#x0D;

조선시대 궁중연향과 교방문화의 술

The purpose of this thesis is to examine alcoholic beverages and its brewing method, which are the main components of the banquets of the royal court and Gyobang during the Joseon Dynasty. As a research method for this purpose, the aspects of alcoholic beverages and folklore shown in court banquets were compared and analyzed through a classic cooking book of the Joseon Dynasty. Among the subjects of the study, ‘Soju’, which was used at the 60th birthday party of Hyegyeonggung Hong during the reign of King Jeongjo, as the alcoholic beverage that appeared in the royal banquet, and makgeolli in the Yeongnam region were examined as alcoholic beverage that appeared in the table setting of the Gyobang banquet. In particular, in the course of the research, it was revealed that the alcoholic beverage called ‘Hyangonju’, which has been handed down in the private sector, was derived from the common noun ‘Hyangon’, which means the alcoholic beverage that the king gave in the royal court.&#x0D; On the other hand, before and after 1910, Gyobang's artistic culture led to the ‘Gisaeng association’ and ‘Gwonbeon’, and the aspects of alcohol that appeared in Gyobang's food culture were examined, focusing on Gyeongnam-affiliated newspapers and magazines, with examples of synthetic sake and beer advertisements in the Jinju region. It is a representative center of Gyobang art and culture, and it has been called ‘Pyongyang in the north and Jinju in the south’.

Terrifying Memory: An Interview with Carey Perloff

Terrifying Memory: An Interview with Carey Perloff

Pinter and Stoppard: A Director’s View

Pinter and Stoppard: A Director’s View