Comfortable Place Research Articles

Low-Cost Apartment Design with Tropical Architecture Approach in Bekasi City

Bekasi city is one of the largest Jakarta’s satellite cities that is experiencing population growth very quickly, especially in Bantargebang district. Bantargebang has the most population growth rate and is considered as slums as the Landfill Disposal located there. Bekasi is geographically located in the lowlands and experiences a massive growth in industrial and residential activities throughout the year, causing an increase in the temperature of the microclimate in which makes people feel thermally uncomfortable living there. This paper describes the design process of Low-Cost-Apartment (Rusunawa) with Tropical Architecture approach to answer the problem of thermal comfort. This research was conducted by analyzing the impact of application of Tropical Architecture such as building orientation, building configurations, building coverage, vegetations, openings, and materials to create a more comfortable place for living. The design process of these indicators is based on building simulations such as SunHour, CFD (Computational Fluid Design), and RayMan Tools to obtain the ideal design. This paper presents the usage of sunshading on the top 2 floors of each tower, specifically at the north side, and the building configuration with various level of height on each towers to help maximize the air flow within the site in order to reach thermal comfort. From simulations with these three tools, it can be concluded that the thermal comfort can be reached with the application of Tropical Architecture.

Comfortable place for quantum walker on finite path

Comfortable place for quantum walker on finite path

An Interpretative Phenomenological Study on the Marriage Maintenance Experiences of Couples with a 10-Year Age Gap or Greater:Focusing on Younger Wives’ Experiences

본 연구의 목적은 연하아내의 경험을 중심으로 연령차 10년 이상 부부의 결혼유지 경험에 대하여 탐색하는 것이다. 연령차 10년 이상 부부인 연하아내 6명을 대상으로 심층 면접을 진행하였고, 해석현상학적 분석(Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis)을 적용하여 자료를 분석하였다. 본 연구 결과 5개의 주제와 16개의 하위주제가 도출되었으며, 5개의 주제는 ‘지금보다 안락한 공간으로’, ‘타인의 시선이 늘 함께 함’, ‘부부라는 같은 이름, 그러나 다른 궤도’, ‘남편의 시간 속으로 건너감’, ‘신체의 유한성을 바라보며 돌봄이 교차되다’로 나타났다. 본 연구는 연하아내의 경험을 중심으로 연령차 10년 이상 부부의 결혼유지 경험과 의미를 탐색함으로써, 연령차 큰 부부관계에 대한 학문적 이해를 높이고 이들을 위한 부부상담의 기초자료를 제시하였다는 점에서 의의가 있다.Objectives: The purpose of this study is to examine the marital maintenance experience of married couples with a 10-year age gap or greater, focusing on the younger wives’ perception. Methods: In-depth interviews were conducted with six younger wives, and the data was analysed based on interpretative phenomenological analysis. Results: A total of 5 large themes and 16 small themes with components were derived: “into a more comfortable place than now,”; “with others attentions followed always,”; “sometimes we are considered under the same title ‘married couple’, but sometimes not,”; “going into husband’s time,”; and “role of caring changes due to physical limitations.”. Conclusions: This study is significant in that it raises the academic understanding of the marital relationship where a large age gap instructs basic data for couples counseling for those couples.

INDONESIAN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS' INTEREST IN READING BOOKS

This research aimed to investigate Indonesian junior high school students' interest in reading books in the digital era, the factors that influence their interest, and the teacher's efforts to increase their interest in reading books in the digital era. The participants of this study were the students and the English teacher of VIII A and VIII B classes of MTs Muhammadiyah 2 Kalijambe Sragen in the academic year 2021/2022. The researcher used a mixed-method research design using quantitative and qualitative data and analysis. The data were collected through interviews and observations. The results revealed that the students' interest in reading books in the digital era was 31%. Several factors influenced the students' interest in reading books, both internal and external. The students' willingness and laziness/boredom were revealed as the internal factors, while the external factors were gadgets, the types of text or reading materials, and free time. The teacher's efforts to increase the students' interest in reading were by providing interesting books, having reading activities together, creating a comfortable place and atmosphere, and analyzing texts together. This study implies the prominent role of a teacher in increasing students' interest in reading books.

PENERAPAN MANAJEMEN KEPEMIMPINAN DALAM MENINGKATKAN HAFALAN AL-QURAN SANTRI (Study Kasus pondok Pesantren Darun Hamzanwadi NW Nusa Jaya Kecamatan Manggelewa Kabupaten Dompu)

Abstract: This study aims to determine the application of leadership management in improving the memorization of the Qur'an in students at Darun Hamzanwadi Islamic Boarding School NW Nusa Jaya. In addition, this study also aims to determine the supporting and inhibiting factors in implementing leadership management when improving the memorization of the Qur'an of students at Darun Hamzanwadi Islamic Boarding School, NW Nusa Jaya. This research is motivated by the lack of optimal leadership management in improving the memorization of the Qur'an of students. Based on the research results, Darun Hamzanwadi Islamic Boarding School NW Nusa Jaya has implemented leadership management in memorizing the Qur'an. The application of management concepts which include planning, organizing, actuating, and controlling, there are supporting and inhibiting factors in memorizing the Qur'an including: Supporting factors in improving the quality of memorizing the Qur'an For students, these are: the ideal age, good time management, a comfortable place to memorize. While the inhibiting factors are Internal Factors: (1) Lack of interest and talent (2) Lack of self-motivation (3) Health that is often disturbed (4) Low intelligence. External Factors: (1) Instructors in providing guidance (2) Problems with economic capacity

Dreamers of Peace: Laboratory School Mentors Notions of Peace and Their Aspirations

This study illustrates the concepts, reflections, and aspirations for the culture of peace of the Integrated Laboratory School mentors. Through narrative inquiry, the participants’ notions and understanding of peace were explored. Themes emerged from the narratives. The study reveals that the mentors’ concepts of peace are reflected in these themes: Peace as the Absence of Violence and Conflict, Peace as a State of Mind, and Peace as a State of Tranquility and Security. A peaceable classroom is described as a learning space that embraces diversity and a place of comfort and security. The experiences that compelled the mentors to reflect on their concept of peace are categorized into Diversity of Students and Working with Parents. Moreover, Engaging Activities in the Classroom and Teachers as Peace Bearers are the themes that reflect the teachers’ experiences that made them reflect on what a peaceable classroom is. Narratives also reveal the mentors’ aspirations for a culture of peace which are as follows: Equal opportunities for Everybody, an Integrated Peace Education Program, a Peace Lounge, and Learning Space, and the Creation of Peace Peer Mediators and Facilitators. Based on the findings, recommendations were advanced.

A qualitative exploration of how the COVID-19 pandemic shaped experiences of self-managed medication abortion with accompaniment group support in Argentina, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Venezuela

Globally, people self-manage their medication abortions without clinical assistance. Feminist activist collectives (accompaniment groups) support people through self-managed abortion with evidence-based guidance. We sought to understand the impact of COVID-19 and related restrictions on the need for and experiences of self-managed abortion with accompaniment support across varied legal and social contexts. Between May and October 2020, we conducted in-depth interviews with individuals who self-managed abortions with support from accompaniment groups during the pandemic in Argentina, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Venezuela. We conducted a thematic analysis to understand the impact of COVID-19 on participants’ experiences with accompanied self-managed abortions. Across 43 in-depth interviews, participants in all four countries described how the COVID-19 pandemic created challenges at each step of their abortion process, from confirming the pregnancy, accessing abortion pills, finding a private, comfortable place, and verifying abortion completion. For most people, conditions related to the pandemic made it harder to self-manage an abortion; for a minority, being at home made aspects of the experience somewhat easier. Nonetheless, all participants reported feeling supported by accompaniment groups, and COVID-19 and related lockdowns reinforced their preference for accompaniment-supported self-managed abortion. These findings highlight the essential role that accompaniment groups play in ensuring access to high-quality abortion care in a multiplicity of settings, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. Efforts are needed to expand the reach of accompaniment groups to increase access to the high-quality abortion support they provide, filling a critical gap left by health systems and legal infrastructure.

Peran Paradiplomacy dalam Presidensi G20 Indonesia: Studi Kasus Diplomasi Kota Jakarta pada Urban 20

This article aims to explain the role of paradiplomacy in utilizing the Indonesian presidency in the G20. Using the case study of the Provincial Government of DKI Jakarta, this article argues that the role of DKI Jakarta’s paradiplomacy through city diplomacy has the opportunity to get positive results. This can be seen from the role of Jakarta as an actor in city diplomacy capable of conducting city-level diplomacy at U20. This diplomacy aims to discuss strategic issues at the city level such as mobilization, health, labor, Covid 19 and other issues. With city diplomacy, it is able to become a means of sharing experiences between cities in the world to solve a number of strategic problems at the city level. In addition, Jakarta can play a role as a safe, comfortable place to live through a number of strategic policies, especially in the environmental field. The role of this paradiplomacy through urban diplomacy is a form of motivation, strategy, level of collaboration and level of involvement to assist the central government in solving increasingly complex world problems.

Cancer patients' satisfaction with telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic.

ObjectiveTo examine factors associated with cancer patients’ satisfaction using telehealth during COVID-19, including video conferencing platforms and secure messaging systems.MethodPatients with cancer participated in a cross-sectional, web-based survey was conducted with patients with cancer. The survey included questions about satisfaction with video-conferencing and secure messaging platforms to interact with clinicians during the COVID-19 pandemic. Logistic regression analyses were conducted to examine predictors of satisfaction for each telehealth platform.ResultsParticipants generally reported positive satisfaction with each telehealth platform. Both platforms were commonly used to review medical results and discuss symptoms or treatment. Participants identifying as a man were most satisfied with their video-conferencing session, especially if they had a comfortable place to sit. Patients were more satisfied with secure messaging because they could ask a question without scheduling an appointment.DiscussionWhen strategically used together, video-conferencing platforms and secure messaging may increase patient satisfaction in cancer care during the remainder of the pandemic and beyond. Attention must be paid to optimizing factors that promote satisfaction for each telehealth platform.

Through “the rose window of the west”: Nostalgia, Gothicism, and the Imaginary in Theodore Dreiser’s A Hoosier Holiday

Through “the rose window of the west”Nostalgia, Gothicism, and the Imaginary in Theodore Dreiser’s A Hoosier Holiday Donna Packer-Kinlaw (bio) In August 1915, Theodore Dreiser traveled with fellow Hoosier, Franklin Booth, from New York to Indiana. For Dreiser, the journey was long overdue. In a February 1916 letter to H. L. Mencken, Dreiser confesses that this was something “which I have been wanting to do for years—a sort of native heath, back home—here I once spent my boyhoods happy days stunt, only in this case I have used it as a means of sizing up the middle west and interpreting American character as well as tossing in a little personal history” (Dreiser-Mencken Letters 218–19). The resulting text, A Hoosier Holiday, conveys Dreiser’s assessment of America at a time of dramatic cultural change and narrates a psychological journey through time and space, and even into memory. It is that bit of “personal history” and the emotional impact of that experience that is at issue in this essay, for A Hoosier Holiday provides a unique opportunity to examine the nostalgic motives for Dreiser’s return to his boyhood home as well as the psychological pain that resulted from reentering that lost world of his youth. The pilgrimage back to Indiana and his travel narrative were always personal. Dreiser had been absent from his native state for twenty-six years and had not seen Terre Haute, the city where he was born, since he was seven years old. It was a long-awaited return, and, in A Hoosier Holiday, he confesses that “it had been one of my dearly cherished ideas that some day, when I had the time and the money to spare, I was going to pay a return visit to Indiana” (15). Eager to reclaim his “boyhood mood,” Dreiser sought to resituate himself in the memories and physical spaces of his past (330). However, instead of taking him back to a place of comfort and easy reminiscing, his uncanny journey exposes the difficulty of bridging the gap between memory and lived experience and indicates the complexity [End Page 25] of nostalgia and the hazards that it poses to one’s sense of self. As Dreiser struggled to negotiate twentieth-century scenes with his nineteenth-century memories, he battled feelings of deracination and loss. Ultimately, the return shattered his sentimental illusions of recapturing his boyhood mood and left him in a space of psychological homelessness. Scholarship on A Hoosier Holiday has primarily emphasized Dreiser’s observations from the road and his engagement with the nation’s infrastructure as well as its social and physical landscapes. Andrew Gross and Gary Totten have offered analyses of Dreiser’s views on democracy, consumer culture, and the visual elements of road travel, but their discussions largely overlook the psychological reasons for or the emotional impacts of Dreiser’s return to Indiana and the personal landmarks of his youth.1 Andrew Vogel rightly posits that “Dreiser assiduously aimed to track and record how the journey was impacting him psychologically” (147), but his focus on “the significance of automobile travel at a decisive historical moment” (146) also glosses over Dreiser’s engagement with the sites of his personal past. James E. Dobson has offered the most comprehensive discussion of the psychological effects of Dreiser’s return to date. Referring to the trip as “a homecoming journey” taken “to rediscover his origins and to measure the temporal distance between past and present,” Dobson draws much-needed attention to both the motives for and the consequences of Dreiser’s return (64). Dobson is also the first to consider the role of nostalgia in the journey, but as one small part of a much broader discussion of Dreiser’s concerns with temporality and modernity, that discussion is rather limited. My essay builds on the work of these scholars, for they all acknowledge Dreiser’s nostalgia, but, in the end, they essentially bypass it as they turn to Dreiser’s uneasy relationship with modernity. It is time to shift gears and thoroughly analyze Dreiser’s nostalgic tendencies, to comprehend how nostalgia distorted Dreiser’s memories and even served as a means of repressing...

Strategi Inovasi Pariwisata Indonesia Untuk Bertahan Pada Masa Pandemi Covid 19

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed various aspects of life, including the economic sector such as tourism. At the same time, an innovation strategy is needed so that tourism can survive in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. This study aims to introduce applicable strategies that are the key to the revival of tourism in Indonesia. This study uses a descriptive qualitative approach, using a literature study. The results of this study explain how the tourism sector, such as: 1. The travel agency uses one of its strategies in dealing with the pandemic, namely the Virtual Experience where this strategy is an expert trying to teach the audience how to make or do something, make coffee, and learn make-up for example; 2. Tourist Attractions also use the Virtual Music Concert strategy for music lovers who still want to hear their idols sing live during the pandemic even though they are not in the same location as their idols; 3. MICE (Meeting, Incentive, Convention, Exhibition) even implements the Online Exhibition Matters strategy where art lovers can still enjoy indigenous artworks online; 4. Hospitality implements one strategy, namely Work From Hotel specifically for workers who must continue to complete work during the pandemic and hotels provide a comfortable place for workers with complete facilities; 5. Tourism transportation is a public space that can become the center of the spread of the pandemic, therefore each tourist transportation must implement a strategy such as the Chse Protocol In Public Transportation, where transportation must serve passengers who want to travel by paying attention to health protocols (obligation to wash hands, wear masks and maintain distance), in addition, hand sanitizers are placed at each point, checking body temperature, filling e-HAC and many other protocols. and 6. The restaurant also implements the Dine-In Loyalist, Experience Seeker strategy where each restaurant customer is separated by a transparent barrier so that they can still enjoy food but also communicate.

Effectiveness of Rapid Transition to Online Learning During the Covid-19 Pandemic

COVID-19 is prevalent in almost every corner of the globe, meanwhile Sri Lanka is also experiencing it. Higher education providers of the department of agriculture (extension and training division) had to rapidly transition their teaching programs to online learning and assessment. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of online learning during the COVID-19 period. Accordingly, students from four different schools of agriculture (Paranthan, Palamuna, Vavuniya, and Palwehera) were purposively selected (n=210). Google form was used to collect data. The results revealed that 53.3% preferred a combination learning system of both traditional learning and online learning. Advantages of online learning were the ability of recording lectures as video (51.7%) and learn in a comfortable place (42.1%). With regards to the obstacles to online learning during the COVID-19 technical problems significantly (91.9%) affected learning while reduced interaction with their teachers/instructors (43.8%) and poor learning environment at home (39%) also were considerable barriers. There was a statistical difference (p<0.05) between face-to-face and online learning in terms increase knowledge, practical skills, social competencies, and assessment methods. However, successful implementation of online learning into the curriculum requires a well-thought-out strategy and a more active approach.

Children Born of Rebel Captivity: Politics and Practices of Integration in Uganda

Many studies have documented and analyzed the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) forced conjugal association patterns and practices (“forced marriage”). However, the focus has been on the experiences of abducted girls forced to serve as conjugal partners to commanders (“forced wives”). The experiences of children born as a result of these relationships are under-investigated. Receptor communities in northern Uganda are assumed to be places of hope, comfort, and protection for these children. However, they can also be hostile, leaving the children in precarious and vulnerable situations. This article draws from ethnographic fieldwork in the Acholi region and interviews with formerly abducted mothers focusing on their children's integration processes and experiences. It argues that return is not integration, as it often coincides with further exclusion and alienation. In Uganda's patriarchal and patrilineal social systems, children with no paternal lineage are viewed as of lower status. Stigmatization facing children born of the LRA captivity condemns them to this status, consequently excluding them from mainstream society. Findings show that stigma remains central to the life experiences of these children several years after the end of the conflict in 2006. Their persistent stigmatization is linked to broader discriminatory socio-cultural and patriarchal ideas and practices.

Wartime captivity and homecoming: culture, stigma, and coping strategies of formerly abducted women in post-conflict northern Uganda.

One of the three durable solutions to mass displacement preferred by leading agencies is that survivors return to their home communities. It is believed that families and communities provide the best hope for recovery and reintegration owing to familiarity, care, and shared culture. Yet, these 'places of hope and comfort' can also be, potentially, a hostile environment in which stigma can flourish. Women who were abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army in northern Uganda find that achieving meaningful reintegration into their communities is a distant prospect despite being the home culture they once shared. The stigmatisation of formerly abducted persons by home community members who have never been abducted renders them 'outsiders' upon return. Meaningful relationships with fellow community members and access to cultural, social, and economic systems are hampered by the women's traumatic past. This experience has significant implications for these women, negotiating their journey to recovery and reintegration into home communities.

Ontology and Emotion in Reflexive Design Practices

Ontology and Emotion in Reflexive Design Practices

Maintaining Safety While Discussing Suicide: Trauma Informed Research in an Online Focus Groups

Although trauma informed (TI) care has been well researched and is used in many disciplines, TI practices for research are less developed. In this article, we explore the use of TI practices when discussing the sensitive topic of suicide within an online focus group. Qualitative studies on rural suicide are sparse, even though the incidence of suicide is higher rurally than in urban areas. Rural communities are often close knit and stigma can be greater toward non-normative experiences such as mental illness and suicide. Due to the nature of rural communities, the trauma of suicide can affect many people. We conducted focus groups with rural community participants who had an interest in suicide prevention to explore the gaps in rural suicide research and the best methods for knowledge dissemination of existing research. Steps were taken to mitigate re-traumatization and/or severe distress in the participants through a TI research approach. An online video conferencing platform became necessary due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The online features promoted safety and transparency by: enabling participants to turn off camera and microphone if they became distressed, allowing them time to self-regulate until feeling sufficiently safe to return to the focus group discussion; leaving the discussion at any time with little disruption; and being able to choose a comfortable place to join the discussion. Other TI activities included ensuring ongoing consent throughout the process, recruiting through a third party to enhance safety, having support resource lists tailored to the region, and encouraging participants to share and debrief final thoughts. A number of participants commented on feeling safe within the environment of the focus group. Limitations included challenges identifying distress online and technological difficulties associated with rural internet services. To our knowledge, this is the first article using a TI approach for discussing suicide through an online method.

From policy mobility to top-down policy transfer: ‘Comfortization’ of Russian cities beyond neoliberal rationality

As cities around the world increasingly seek to brand themselves as comfortable and liveable places, policies aimed at enhancing the quality of the urban environment are becoming more important. Scholars interpret this development as evidence of reinforced urban entrepreneurialism and neoliberalization. The current paper focuses on comfortable city policies in Russia, where political, social and economic transformations were often depicted as the ‘Eastern branch’ of the global neoliberalization project. It draws on field data from a case study of two cities in the Russian Arctic. By focusing on locations far away from global nodes, where the ideas of a comfortable city originally took shape, we trace and analyse policy mutations and local adjustments of such policies, as well as the related rationalities and policymaking dynamics. Our findings speak to the literature on policy mobility by questioning the focus on cities as entrepreneurial actors and the depiction of comfortable city policies as mere vehicles of neoliberalism. In Russia, what began with the introduction of entrepreneurial, globally circulating comfortable city policies incrementally turned into a top-down political project that cannot be easily explained – neither by neoliberal rationality nor by the legacies of urban planning and development.

Peran Orang Tua Dalam Membimbing Anak Belajar Dari Rumah di Kelas IVb SDN Pakuhaji

This study aims to determine the role of parents in guiding children to learn from home at the Pakuhaji Parungkuda Public Elementary School (SDN). This research is a type of qualitative research with a case study method. Data collection techniques using observation, interviews, documentation and questionnaires. The data analysis procedure uses Miles and Huberman, through data reduction, data presentation, and drawing conclusions. Check the validity of the data using triangulation of sources and techniques. The respondents of this study were fourth grade teachers, parents and students. The results showed that parents prepared learning tools (tools) for children including cellphones, books, study tables and provided comfortable places for children such as in the room, in the tv room and in the terrace. Parents help children overcome learning difficulties, namely by helping explain material that they do not understand in learning and providing examples in working on the questions given by the teacher. The inhibiting factors faced by parents during learning from home are due to 1) the availability of parental time is inadequate in supervising children during learning such as dividing time by selling and taking care of the household by doing homework, 2) low economic conditions in meeting children's learning needs including quotas must always be available to facilitate learning and prepare cellphones to be able to take part in learning.

Treatment of stress urinary incontinence with polyacrylamide hydrogel in an office setting: patient perspectives.

The office setting provides the opportunity for surgeons to perform specific procedures more efficiently than in a day case operating theater. Consequently, health care systems are interested in altering surgical services from a day case operating theater to an office setting. The impact on patient's satisfaction is more challenging to estimate. The bulking procedure is an intervention for urinary stress incontinence. It was originally performed in the day case operating theater under general anesthesia or sedation. Today, the procedure is mostly done under local anesthesia. The aim of this study was to assess patient satisfaction changing from day case operating theater to office setting. Our hypothesis was that patients preferred the office setting. A prospective cohort study was executed from 15 September 2020 to 1 June 2021. A total of 115 women underwent a bulking procedure in the office setting. A follow-up (phone questionnaire) 3 months post-operatively for quality assurance is mandatory. The office setting experience was assessed concurrently. A total of 95.6% (110 out of 115) preferred the bulking procedure performed in the office setting. The reasons were: a short waiting time (71 out of 110; 64.5%), less nervousness (47 out of 110; 42.7%), and they felt more secure (49 out of 110; 44.5%). On a visual analog scale (VAS) from 0 to 10, 37.4% (43 out of 115) considered a short waiting time important (VAS 10) and 81.7% (94 out of 115) rated a short waiting time ≥ VAS 5. The office setting provides a patient-friendly and comfortable place for the bulking procedure and is generally preferred by the patient over the day case operating theater. Important for the preference is the accessibility and minimal waiting time. The office setting is therefore both convenient and efficient for surgeon and patient.

STRATEGI PENINGKATAN PENGUNJUNG PERPUSTAKAAN STKIP PARIS BARANTAI KOTABARU

This study aims to find out how the strategy to increase of visitors to the Library at the STKIP Paris Barantai is carried out by the manager. The indicator of the success of the library is not only seen from the collections and facilities and infrastructure that have met the National Library Standards, but the main thing is how many visitors to the library, for that we need a strategy to increase library visitors. This type of the research is descriptive qualitative where the primary sources are obtained through interviews with the head of the library. Meanwhile, secondary sources were obtained from documents belonging to the STKIP Paris Barantai Kotabaru library and other sources. Data obtained through the interviews, observation and documentation. The technique of presenting data is done by using a table that is described in a narrative manner. The strategy on the information function is carried out by facilitating the search for the required literature by classifying books and placing books on shelves according to their classification. Strategy on the research function by completing the collection. Strategy on the recreational function by providing recreational collections and making the library a comfortable place
 
 Keywords: strategy, increasing visitors.