Character Of Products Research Articles

Correlation between Voltammetry of Immobilized Particles and Mott-Schottky analysis of metal corrosion patinas.

The conjoint application of the voltammetry of immobilized particles (VIMP) methodology and the Mott-Schottky analysis (MS) of impedance data to studying metal corrosion patinas is described. The study is applied to copper and bronze objects exploiting the semiconducting character of cuprite and other copper corrosion products. A simplified theoretical modeling of MS analysis at microparticulate deposits extracted from metal corrosion layers attached to graphite electrodes is provided. The proposed model compensates for the disturbing effect of the regions of the basal electrode directly exposed to the electrolyte. Alternative models accounting for the variation of the density of charge carriers with depth are tested as well as the correlation between VIMP and MS data with reasonably satisfactory results.

Growth and Production Character Response of Kuantan Singingi Local Rice Mutants Resulting from Gamma Irradiation

Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is a crucial crop with significant importance in various regions. In Riau, specifically in Kuantan Singingi Regency, it ranks as the fourth largest area for rice production, showcasing numerous local rice varieties with substantial development potential. This study aimed to generate mutants exhibiting early maturity and reduced plant height through gamma-ray induced mutations. A non-factorial Randomized Block Design (RAK) was employed, with the primary factor being the irradiation dose: R0 served as the control group without radiation, while the experimental group received an irradiation dose of 300 Gy, determined to be effective in prior research. Each treatment was replicated five times, utilizing a total of 600 plants per treatment. The findings indicated that rice plants subjected to 300 Gy irradiation exhibited shorter heights compared to those in the control group. Additionally, the stem circumference of plants irradiated with 300 Gy was significantly greater than that of the non-irradiated plants. Furthermore, the number of productive tillers was higher in the 300 Gy group compared to the control. However, the harvest age for rice plants exposed to 300 Gy was extended relative to those without radiation. Conversely, the length of the flag leaf in rice plants irradiated at 300 Gy was shorter than that of the control group. There remains a considerable need for data on the desired characteristics of rice mutants to facilitate advanced breeding efforts.

Konfigurasi Politik Atas Undang-Undang Nomor 1 Tahun 2023 Tentang Kitab Undang-Undang Hukum Pidana

This research focuses on examining the character of legal products in the Joko Widodo regime, one of which is Law Number 1 of 2023 concerning the Criminal Code. The problem in this study is that the political situation in a country greatly influences the formation of a law. The research method used in this research is normative legal research that examines legal issues and examines norms, as for what is studied in this study is the character of legal products of Law Number 1 of 2023. This research aims to answer (1) How is the political configuration of the presence of Law Number 1 of 2023 concerning the Criminal Code in law enforcement in Indonesia? (2) What is the character of legal products of Law Number 1 of Year 2023? This research concludes that the political situation can affect the formation of a law. A democratic political configuration will give birth to responsive legal products while an authoritarian configuration will give birth to legal products that are conservative or elitist. In this study, the author assesses Law Number 1 Year 2023 as a responsive legal product, the reform of the Criminal Code is a form of legal development aimed at answering the needs of society.

Optimalisasi Penguatan Karakter Santri Melalui Kegiatan Intrakulikuler di Pondok Pesantren

Concern about the decline in ethics, morals and morals in Indonesia which has a negative impact on society. Strengthening character is considered the right solution to overcome this problem, with a focus on formal or non-formal education, including Islamic boarding schools. This research aims to determine character strengthening through Sabilul Competition activities at the Sabilul Muttaqin Islamic Boarding School, Mojokerto City. The characters studied include self-confident character, character who appreciates achievement, and productive character. The method used in this research is a qualitative descriptive method with data collection techniques through observation, interviews and documentation. The results of the research show that the students' confident character is formed because of their courage in participating in various competitions with confidence in their abilities. The character of appreciating achievements is shown by the support between friends and the ability to accept defeat. The productive character can be seen from the students' participation in competitions in their free time. Sabilul Competition activities at the Sabilul Muttaqin Islamic Boarding School are held at the end of every month on Thursday in the hall of the women's Islamic boarding school.

Lepowsky's and Wakimoto's product formulas for the affine Lie algebras [formula omitted]

In this paper, we recall Lepowsky's and Wakimoto's product character formulas formulated in a new way by using arrays of specialized weighted crystals of negative roots for affine Lie algebras of type Cl(1), Dl+1(2) and A2l(2). Lepowsky–Wakimoto's infinite periodic products appear as one side of (conjectured) Rogers–Ramanujan-type combinatorial identities for affine Lie algebras of type Cl(1).

Degrowth or Class Struggle? A Critique of Matthew Huber’s Climate Change as Class War

ABSTRACT This article interrogates Matthew Huber's criticism of degrowth theory, specifically his claim that the socialist project must foreground class struggle over and against calls for degrowth. We identify two key problems with Huber's approach. First, he offers no response to the central empirical thesis of the degrowth literature, i.e. that ecological sustainability is incompatible with increasing aggregate material throughput. Second, he limits his discussion to class struggle internal to the “Global North,” obscuring the global character of production that so concerns degrowth theory. When these two points are understood, it becomes clear that degrowth should not be positioned against class struggle. In fact, the former should be understood as a prerequisite for any authentic realization of the latter (as well as vice-versa). This article therefore defends a version of ecosocialist degrowth.

The Interactional Histories of Performance Bodies: From Describing to Depicting Proposed Ideas at Opera Rehearsals

ABSTRACT This article investigates opera performers’ ideas on what they can do on stage to music in the service of portraying the characters of an opera production. The performers both describe and depict their ideas, that is, tell and show them, in proposals. Using multimodal interaction analysis, the article examines how the relative deployment of depictions and descriptions in performer proposals change over time. During joint decision-making micro-histories, the proposals become increasingly depictive, as displayed access, alignment, and agreement with the ideas increase. If ideas originate in previous instructions and decisions, however, proposals are immediately constructed with depictions, and if ideas are resisted, they are never fully depicted. The article thus reveals the dialogical and interactional development of ideas on their way to materialize as artwork. The data consist of 20 hours of video recorded opera rehearsals in Swedish, English, and some Italian, which is the language of the libretto.

Occurrence of "Natural Selection" in Successful Small Molecule Drug Discovery.

Published compounds from ChEMBL version 32 are used to seek evidence for the occurrence of "natural selection" in drug discovery. Three measures of natural product (NP) character were applied, to compare time- and target-matched compounds reaching the clinic (clinical compounds in phase 1-3 development and approved drugs) with background compounds (reference compounds). Pseudo-NPs (PNPs), containing NP fragments combined in ways inaccessible by nature, are increasing over time, reaching 67% of clinical compounds first disclosed since 2010. PNPs are 54% more likely to be found in post-2008 clinical versus reference compounds. The majority of target classes show increased clinical compound NP character versus their reference compounds. Only 176 NP fragments appear in >1000 clinical compounds published since 2008, yet these make up on average 63% of the clinical compound's core scaffolds. There is untapped potential awaiting exploitation, by applying nature's building blocks─"natural intelligence"─to drug design.

Differentiation Strategy and the Performance of Medical Insurance Companies in Kenya

Against a backdrop of escalating global competition, health insurance firms grapple with the need to stand out amidst a saturated market. The study recognizes the imperative for organizations to adopt differentiation strategies, with a focus on product, personnel, distribution, and image differentiation. Acknowledging the current dearth of comprehensive research in the Kenyan context, the research problem centres on the critical need to investigate the extent to which differentiation strategies influence the performance of health insurance companies in the region. The general objective of the study was to investigate the effect of differentiation strategy on performance of Health Insurance Companies in Kenya. Drawing on established theories such as Porter's Competitive Advantage Model, Upper Echelons Theory, Resource-Based View, and Transaction Cost Economics, the study employs a multi-theoretical framework to provide a nuanced understanding of the complex relationships between differentiation strategies and organizational outcomes. Adopting the descriptive research design, the target population comprises 980 employees in the medical insurance firms in the top management and middle level management in Nairobi, drawn from the respective insurance firms’ Human Resources Departments. Employing a multi-stage sampling technique, the established sample size is 101 top and middle level management staff who were reached by stratified random sampling. A semi-structured questionnaire was the main data collection instrument and was distributed through a drop-and- pick- latter approach. Data was analyzed using both descriptive and inferential statistics. Descriptive statistics measures of mean and standard deviation was used, while for inferential statistics, regression equations were employed. The study established that product differentiation strategy, personnel differentiation strategy, product differentiation strategy and image differentiation strategy had a positive significant effect on performance of health insurance companies in Kenya. The study concludes that product differentiation is the key aspect distinguishing one company’s products or services from its competition. Personnel differentiation strategy gives an organization the ability to respond in time to the needs of their members through the skills and knowledge of employees. A differentiated distribution strategy allows insurance companies to expand their sale potential by getting their product in front of more potential customers. An effective image establishes the product's character and value proposition and a person responds differently to company and brand images. The study recommends that the insurance companies should consider opportunities for differentiation in all of its production areas: marketing, product management, engineering, sales, and customer support. Organizations looking to build personnel differentiation strategy will need to produce or design extremely unique or distinctive products or services that create increased value for the consumer. The insurance companies should devote resources to channel management preferably at least one dedicated manager whose sole responsibility is to manage those relationships and build the marketing programs to drive revenue through the channel. The insurance companies should identify their brand gaps, which are the discrepancies between their desired and actual brand performance.

Variability and heritability of productivity characters in common wheat

During the 2020–2023 years, spike productivity and its associated characters were investigated in 45 genotypes of common winter wheat collection. It was found that the climatic conditions of the year had a decisive role for the level and correlational dependencies of the parameters under study. Genotypic variance, phenotypic variance, heritability coefficient in the broad sense, genetic and phenotypic coefficients of variation, genetic progress were calculated for the investigated characters. Through cluster analysis, 17 wheat genotypes with high spike productivity (2,68-3,44 g) were identified during four years of study that could serve as valuable parents for the creation of new genotypes.

The Character of Legal Products in Indonesia: A Study of Changes to the Marriage Law from a Political-Law Perspective

Politics and law are two variables that can influence each other in a legal system. Legal politics is a form of state policy carried out through authorized state institutions to establish the desired regulations, which are expected to be used to express what is contained in society and to achieve the desired goals. This research aims to examine the character of statutory legal products, namely the character of legal products of Law Number 16 of 2019 concerning Amendments to Law Number 1 of 1974 concerning Marriage. This research is normative legal research which makes norms the object of study using a legal approach analyzed using legal political theory. The data collection technique used is literature study. Research findings show that in general the character of the legal product of Law Number 16 of 2019 concerning Amendments to Law Number 1 of 1974 concerning Marriage is responsive in view of the birth of the law. However, the provisions of Article 7 paragraph (2) of Law Number 16 of 2019 do not show a responsive or conservative character. The provisions in this article are not in accordance with the spirit of change based on Constitutional Court Decision Number 22/PUU-XV/2017 and seem ahistorical. Theoretically, the conservative character in legal politics is a legal product that is not democratic, different from responsive legal products, namely legal products that accommodate a variety of opinions. Other findings show that there is no judicial institution that has the authority to check the consistency between the provisions of one article or paragraph and another in one form of legal product.

Comprehensive evaluation of spring barley mutants according to their yield components

Background. The need to increase the genetic diversity of barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) is determined by its value and cultivation scope, which is especially important in the context of the changing climate.Material and methods. The study was carried out in 2021 and 2022 at the experimental site of the Lake Kuchak biostation located in Nizhnetavdinsky District, Tyumen Province (57°20ʼ57.3”N, 66°03ʼ21.8”E). Mutant forms were obtained by treating seeds of accessions ʻZernogradsky 813ʼ, Dz02-129 and C.I. 10995 with solutions of the chemical mutagen phosphemide at concentrations of 0.002% (2·10–3 М) and 0.01% (1·10–2 М). The mutants of the fifth (M5) and sixth (M6) generations were evaluated for a set of traits valuable for breeding in comparison with the original forms and reference cultivars ʻAchaʼ and ʻAbalakʼ. The main productivity characters were analyzed in the laboratory, and breeding indices were calculated (ear potential index, Canadian index, ear linear density index, Mexican index, plant productivity index, and Finnish-Scandinavian index).Results and conclusion. Most of the studied mutants under moisture deficit and elevated temperature conditions were superior to the original forms in their productivity characters. Mutant plant samples with stable manifestation of those traits, irrespective of the growing season conditions, were selected. Assessment of the genotype–environment interaction using breeding indices made it possible to identify promising mutants for inclusion in breeding programs. Correlation analysis helped to identify indices closely related to grain yield: Canadian index (r = 0.85), Mexican index (r = 0.76), and plant productivity index (r = 0.70). They can be recommended for selection of stress-resistant barley forms.

Biomimetic Dehydrogenation of Non-Conventional Lignin Monomers on Cellulose Ferulate Interfaces.

Cellulose ferulate, synthesized by Mitsunobu reaction, is shaped into thin films and also used as an aqueous dispersion to perform artificial lignin polymerization on anchor groups. This biomimetic approach is carried out in a Quartz crystal microbalance with a dissipation monitoring (QCM-D) device to enable online monitoring of the dehydrogenation, applying H2O2 and adsorbed horseradish peroxidase (HRP). The systematic use of phenylpropanoids with different oxidation states, i.e., ferulic acid, coniferyl aldehyde, coniferyl alcohol, and eugenol allowed to conclude structure-property relationships. Both the deposited material, as well as the surface roughness increased with the hydrophobicity of the monomers. Beyond surface characterizations, py-GC-MS, HSQC NMR spectroscopy and Size exclusion chromatography (SEC) measurements revealed the linkage types β-β, β-5, 5-5, and β-O-4, as well as the oligomeric character of the dehydrogenation products. All samples possessed an antibacterial activity against B. subtilis and can be used in the field of antimicrobialbiomaterials.

Production Choices and Food Security: A Review of Studies Based on a Micro-Diversity Perspective.

Given the 'subsistence' character of smallholder production, agricultural production diversification is often seen as an effective strategy for smallholders to improve their diets' diversity and nutritional status, yet the existing evidence remains inadequate. The study applies bibliometric data from the "Web of Science" database to synthesize 46 papers from developing countries to explore the relationship between production diversity, dietary diversity, and nutrition in smallholder households. The study identifies the most influential journals, authors, organizations, and countries and reveals research themes related to agricultural production and food security. This data analysis can help researchers target potential collaborators and access influential literature in agricultural production diversity and dietary diversity research. In addition, the results showed that agricultural production diversity potentially influences households' dietary diversity, with mixed results: Agricultural production diversification is the primary way to improve food and nutritional security among smallholder families with low socio-economic status, inaccessible transportation, and poverty; market access and trade have more potential to improve dietary diversity among smallholder households with well-developed markets and higher income levels; the significant measures of agricultural production diversity include Crop Counts, FGPD, SI, and SWDI; the significant measures of dietary diversity include HDDS and IDDS. This paper provides a roadmap for agricultural production and food security researchers by conducting a systematic review of the literature, summarizing some research methods and perspectives applicable to local socio-economic development.

Almost all wreath product character values are divisible by given primes

Almost all wreath product character values are divisible by given primes

Labour Rights Of Women Construction Workers In India: A Socio-Legal Perspective

Neo-liberal policies introduced in 1991 to achieve wealth and profit have led to the decreasing social character of production in India due to privatization and deregulation. The nature of the appropriation of material resources and power by the private players in India’s growing market economy has widened the gap between the rich and poor. The increasing monopoly of business enterprises and the impact of global forces of capital have created underdevelopment and marginalization of workers. The capitalist nature of development in India has generated massive growth discounting the labour rights of workers thereby leading to social inequality and domination of workers. India’s real estate industry faced a boom with a spiralling increase in the information technology and information technology-enabled services sector leading to the emergence of urban metros and urban industrial hubs due to privatization. The real-estate dynamics in India is directly influenced by the growth of the construction sector. The construction sector comprises unskilled, skilled and semi-skilled workers. Women comprise a significant percentage of the informal work-force in the construction sector. The intersections of gender and class interplay leading to subversion and marginalization of women construction workers in particular. This qualitative research study employs narrative analysis of interviews with women construction workers to explore the scope of labour rights of women construction workers in India through a critical examination of India’s labour laws.

Growth and Production Characters of African Catfish (Clarias gariepinus) Stocked at different Stocking Densities in Earthen Ponds under Local Climatic Conditions of Pakistan

Growth and Production Characters of African Catfish (Clarias gariepinus) Stocked at different Stocking Densities in Earthen Ponds under Local Climatic Conditions of Pakistan

3D Animation Production and Generation Based on Human Body Base 3D Models

Abstract With the gradual increase in the demand for parametric human 3D models, the requirements for the accuracy of modeling and the quality of generation are getting higher and higher. In this paper, the human body structure model is constructed by 3D human posture estimation and spatio-temporal graph convolutional network, and after normalizing the data of the human body base, the 3D human body model based on the human body base is generated by combining the free deformation method, and the local light model is used to make the human body model more three-dimensional and real. In addition, the quality of 3D animation production is investigated by combining blind quality evaluation and validation analysis of the human body-based 3D model. The 3D human body modeling simulation error assessment has an error assessment root-means-square error that falls within 1.5%. In the validation analysis of model generation quality, the quality evaluation model proposed in this paper has a quality correlation coefficient and prediction accuracy of 0.9456 and 0.9454 on the dataset, respectively, and the performance of the ablation experiments and generalization experiments is stable. The mean value of the error between the animation production character generation effect and the actual testers is not more than 10mm.Combined with the research in this paper, it effectively improves the accuracy of human body modeling and provides an evaluation method for the quality of human 3D animation production and generation, which is of practical significance for its development.

AGRONOMIC PERFORMANCE AND SELECTION OF IDEAL SOYBEAN GENOTYPES

The study aimed to evaluate agronomic performance and select ideal soybean genotypes. The experiment happened at the Missions Agronomic Research and Results Center (CPRAM), located in Entre-Ijuís - Rio Grande do Sul, South Region of Brazil. The experiment used random blocks with 36 different types of soybeans in four different tests. The units of the experiment were 40 square meters. The research evaluated morphological and productive characters and meteorological data from the experiment's environment. The MGIDI index selected the genotypes DM 5958, BMX ZEUS, NS 6601, BMX FIBRA, and P 95R51 by potentiating the variables number of legumes per plant, the number of grains per plant, the thousand-grain weight, and the grain yield. The genotype selection with higher grain yield can be performed indirectly through the number of legumes per plant and legumes on the main stem.

Traducció dels sobrenoms de la màfia napolitana a l'anglès i al castellà de la sèrie de televisió 'Gomorra'

This study deals with the translation for subtitling and dubbing of a type of Italian expression called contronomi traditionally used by members of the Neapolitan mafia. We have focused on this special kind of nickname used in the Italian series Gomorra to identify and describe the techniques employed in the translation of these meaningful linguistic cultural elements found in the series into English and Spanish. A contrastive analysis of the source text in the Neapolitan dialect and the subtitled version in English and the dubbed version in Spanish of the first season has been carried out. Through this analysis, conclusions could be drawn about the translation tendency regarding the handling of a cultural aspect of the Neapolitan series: the contronomi of the main and secondary characters of this audiovisual product in the two target languages and cultures.