Companion Book Research Articles

Green Energy and Infrastructure: Securing A Sustainable Future

This book is more or less a companion volume to Sustaining Resources for Tomorrow, which I reviewed for Leonardo (June 2020) [1]. The two books, by the same editors, are essential reading for all those interested in the immediate and long-term future of our planet.There are 13 chapters; all are well written and interesting. They may be read in any order to suit the reader’s specific interests. As with the companion book, the main thing that impressed me is the lack of hysterical, one-sided, fanatical hype that often accompanies the arguments on either side of the sustainable future debate. This book is in some sections a little complex, especially in the statistical analysis and specialized scientific areas; however, it presents clear factual discussions that appear unbiased. This is of the greatest importance because the stakes are so high—what we do now will either allow survival or bring about extinction of, at minimum, our species.It is fairly obvious that if we continue producing and polluting as we have been, the future looks gloomy; however, the glib, poorly researched answers to our problems by extreme conservationists do not provide satisfactory, sustainable practices for the future. How do we proceed? This book does an excellent job in a realistic way by dispelling many myths as it attempts to bring the “facts” to our attention with detailed real-world scenarios.The book has a rather poor, scanty preface followed by the 13 chapters, numerous illustrations and a very good index; all essays have detailed references, useful for future research. The chapter titles will help prospective readers get a clear picture of this book’s approach:The first is a very important chapter as the creation of our built environment uses massive amounts of energy and resources:A major user of energy is the buildings and construction sectors, whether commercial or residential. Although the energy used in buildings as a sector does not attract as much media attention as the other categorized energy-usage sectors, it is proportionally just as significant, if not more so, than the transportation and industrial sectors. According to the 2018 United Nations Environmental Programme ... report, the building construction and operation sector accounted for, 36% of global final energy use and nearly 40% of energy related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in 2017 (UNEP 2018) (pp. 1–2).The last chapter looks at the big broad picture by discussing the three pillars of sustainability: environmental sustainability, social sustainability and economic sustainability. This chapter makes it quite clear that my previous remark about glib answers being unsatisfactory is correct, that we need to consider the overall complexities, not just the “solar power will fix everything” mentality.The road to achieving sustainability is a difficult one indeed; we cannot achieve sustainability without considering the three pillars of sustainability, just mentioned, or by leaving the problems to others. We all live on this planet together and have to be aware of the problems and make our own, however small, contributions to a sustainable future for ourselves and our children. This book helps greatly in this urgent action by putting into practice a CS. Lewis quote in the Preface: “The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts.”As with Sustaining Resources for Tomorrow, this book is also essential reading for everyone interested in their own and their children’s futures. Also, as I previously mentioned, I can envisage many artists, including those avant-garde of the Leonardo community, being inspired by the wealth of information and ideas in this book to create works of art that will bring to the public’s attention sustainable ideas in provocative and stunning projects.

REVIEWS

This month I am thrilled to have Aaron Bradbury back again with another insightful review, alongside a fantastic home-learning companion book which I share a snippet from here. As for our picture books, take a look at a hand-picked selection of recently published children's texts focusing on two important areas: friendships and feelings.

Review: Cold War and Architecture: The Competing Forces That Reshaped Austria after 1945

Review: <i>Cold War and Architecture: The Competing Forces That Reshaped Austria after 1945</i>

P87 Imparting Anti-Diet and Weight Inclusive Approaches in a University Dietetics Curriculum

<h3>Objective</h3> To evaluate student agreement with weight-inclusive principles in a university Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT) course. <h3>Use of Theory or Research</h3> Preoccupation with diet culture is an emerging topic in dietetics education that is shifting how students view weight and body image. This course introduced Health at Every Size® and Intuitive Eating concepts to the existing weight-normative approaches typically delivered in dietetics coursework. <h3>Target Audience</h3> One hundred undergraduate students enrolled in a senior-level MNT course. <h3>Course/Curriculum Description</h3> The 4-credit course includes weight-normative approaches to obesity prevention and treatment with an emphasis on body weight in defining health and disease management, including diet, exercise, and behavior change. Weight-inclusive concepts, which uncouple weight and health, center body diversity, and advocate for non-stigmatizing healthcare, were added to the course in spring 2020 through class discussions, guest speakers, and the assigned popular-press book Anti-Diet, along with required reflections after each chapter. <h3>Evaluation Methods</h3> Student agreement with weight inclusive principles was assessed using a 5-point scale with 1 referring to agreement that dieting is appropriate for weight loss and 5 in agreement of the use of weight inclusive approaches. Statistical analyses included multivariate linear regression, paired <i>t</i> test, and Wilcoxon signed rank test. <h3>Results</h3> Agreement with weight-inclusive principles increased significantly by 0.051 units/chapter, with statistically significant spikes in upward agreement after chapters 3, 6, and 8. The paired <i>t</i> test showed a mean gain in agreement from the end of chapter 1 to the end of chapter 11 of 0.565 points (33%) with a 95% CI of (0.369, 0.760). A Wilcoxon signed rank test likewise showed a significant increase in agreement from chapters 1-11 (<i>P</i> < 0.0001). <h3>Conclusion</h3> Introducing anti-diet principles into a traditional weight-normative curriculum was effective in shifting student agreement with weight-inclusive practices. This project also demonstrated feasibility of incorporating a contemporary companion book project within a pre-existing MNT curriculum that is inclusive of the many ways in which nutrition professionals approach health.

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Development of Pocket Book Based on Science Literacy

The purpose of this study was to determine the feasibility of science literacy based pocket books for fifth grade elementary school students. This research method refers to the Borg band Gall theory, using ten stages of research, namely information gathering, research planning, initial product development, field testing, revision, product testing, revision of field product testing results, validation, final improvement, and implementation. The data collection techniques used were observation, interview and questionnaire techniques. Sources of data in this study were fifth grade students and teachers in Rembang Regency. The design of the pocket book development is based on scientific literacy developed by the researcher, consisting of 3 parts, namely introduction, content, and closing. In the content section, the material integrates 4 aspects of scientific literacy. Product feasibility is seen from the validation results of material experts and linguists. From the material expert validation process obtained an average result of 3.33 with a percentage of 83% and very good category. The validation of linguists obtained results of 85% with an average of 3.40 and the category was very good. Based on the validation results, a scientific literacy-based pocket book is suitable for use as a companion book in learning.

Review: Gordon Parks: The Flávio Story, edited by Paul Roth and Amanda Maddox

Review: <i>Gordon Parks: The Flávio Story</i>, edited by Paul Roth and Amanda Maddox

Selling Women’s History: Packaging Feminism in Twentieth-Century American Popular CultureTwenty-First-Century Feminisms in Children’s and Adolescent Literature

Selling Women’s History: Packaging Feminism in Twentieth-Century American Popular CultureTwenty-First-Century Feminisms in Children’s and Adolescent Literature

What if you are someone new?

PurposeThis early grades lesson set for the age group of 4–8 years explores the concepts of diversity, inclusion and friendship, involving three young students who are recent immigrants. The lesson set uses two companion books. In the book I am New Here, three recently immigrated young children from Guatemala, Korea and Somalia step into and experience their new school in their new country, the USA. In the companion book Someone New, their classmates explore how to reach out to and become friends with these new peers. The companion books are a resource for this lesson set, as they portray typical young learners who are immigrants exploring their identities and sources of support and how their presence and experiences challenge their classmates to find ways to support them in their new environment.Design/methodology/approachStudents are guided to see themselves and others as unique individuals, with a range of abilities including the ability to speak different languages, to read and write in different ways so that they may initiate discussion and connect with classmates. Students occupy both the roles of new immigrant students and domestic students while they read the books, model how to interact with a new friend and represent their experiences in the lesson set.FindingsThe books promote young learners' interactions within and across groups. Both the domestic and immigrant students are encouraged to approach the experience of difference in school spaces as mutually beneficial, providing opportunities to learn more about self and others, as well as to develop a sense of inclusivity and friendship.Originality/valueSomeone New and I am New Here are companion books that together present a story of diversity, inclusion and friendship rendered in different perspectives. Efforts are made by three young students, who are immigrants from Guatemala, Korea and Somalia, and their classmates to understand and relate to each other. The books promote young learners’ interactions within and across groups.

Worth-Focused Design, Book 2: Approaches, Contextx, and Case Studies

This book introduces the concept of worth for design teams, relates it to experiences and outcomes, and describes how to focus on worth when researching and expressing design opportunities for generous worth. Truly interdisciplinary teams also need an appropriate common language, which was developed in the companion book Worth-Focused Design, Book 1: Balance, Integration, and Generosity. Its new lexicon for design progressions enables a framework for design and evaluation that works well with a worth focus. Design now has different meanings based upon the approach of different disciplinary practices. For some, it is the creation of value. For others, it is the conception and creation of artefacts. For still others, it is fitting things to people. While each of these design foci has merits, there are risks in not having an appropriate balance across professions that claim the centre of design for their discipline and marginalise others. Generosity is key to the best creative design—delivering unexpected worth beyond documented needs, wants, or pain points. Truly interdisciplinary design must also balance and integrate approaches across several communities of practice, which is made easier by common ground. Worth provides a productive focus for this common ground and is symbiotic with balanced, integrated, and generous (BIG) practices. Practices associated with balance and integration for worth-focused generosity are illustrated in several case studies that have used approaches in this book, complemented them with additional practices. Table of Contents: Preface / Acknowledgments / Wo-Fo Success Needs Appropriate Design Progressions / Framing Design Purpose as Worth / Mixing Balance at All Scopes of Design / Integrating Across Design Arenas / Supported Case Studies: From Grounded to Worth-Centred Design / Unsupported and Taught Case Studies: Adding BIG to Wo-Fo / The Past, Present, and Future of BIG Wo-Fo / Glossary and Abbreviations / References / Author Biography

The role of dance in French Baroque opera

In a robust series of publications spanning some 30 years, Rebecca Harris-Warrick has taught us to appreciate and understand the role of dance in French Baroque opera. Thanks largely to her work, we no longer think of divertissements as mere decorative parentheses; we have learned to read them as an essential component of the drama. Now Harris-Warrick has pulled together the disparate pieces of the argument and fleshed them out with related topics and additional detail to create the wide-ranging narrative in this book, which covers the period of Jean-Baptiste Lully’s operas (1672–86) and the ensuing period, dominated by André Campra’s operas (1687–1735). A companion book, on the era of Jean-Philippe Rameau’s operas (from 1733 to the 1760s), is in preparation. While this book does not pretend to deal with the operatic scenes that unfold in vocal monologues and dialogues, it does such a thorough job of contextualizing the divertissement within the larger dramatic arc, and of covering genre and other aesthetic issues, that it can easily serve as an introduction to French Baroque opera writ large.

Pengembangan Buku Ajar Matematika Terintegrasi Nilai-Nilai Keislaman dalam Penanaman Karakter Siswa Madrasah Ibtidaiyah

Teaching materials is one important component in learning. Teaching material is packaged in an interesting learning resource so that it can help cultivation of character in student, especially elementary school students. At this age is the right time to instill the concept in children, especially concepts related to character. This is a challenge for teachers to be able to integrate concepts in subject matter with Islamic values that can help grow student character. Therefore, in this study the development of mathematics textbooks that integrated Islamic values in the character planting of Madrasah Ibtidaiyah Zainul Hasan Balung students was carried out. The purpose of this study is 1) to explain the process of compiling mathematics textbook that integrated Islamic values for the cultivation of characters in students of Madrasah Ibtidaiyah Zainul Hasan Balung; and 2) Knowing the feasibility of mathematics textbooks that integrated Islamic values for the cultivation of character in students of Madrasah Ibtidaiyah Zainul Hasan Balung. The approach and type of research used in this study is Research and Development (RD). Research and development are a research method used to produce certain products and test the effectiveness of these products. This research was designed using the Borg W.R. and Gall M.D. textbook development model. The development of this teaching material produces mathematics textbooks integrated Islamic values as a teacher and student companion book in learning mathematics. The resulting textbooks were tested on third grade student’s “A” of MI Zainul Hasan Balung. Trial of mathematics textbook products that integrated Islamic values to find out the attractiveness or feasibility of textbooks. From the calculations using formulas, the percentage of feasibility or attractiveness of the use of mathematics textbooks that integrated Islamic values is 84.30%. In accordance with the table of eligibility or validity shows that the results of the validation or the feasibility of developing a mathematic textbook that integrated Islamic values included in the category is very interesting

Handbook of Financial Risk Management - Companion Book

This companion book contains the solutions of the tutorial exercises which are included in the Handbook of Financial Risk Management.

The Order and the Material is the Message

The Order and the Material is the Message Alex Wermer-Colan (bio) Perhaps the most under-examined, yet voluminous and multifaceted cut-up works in William S. Burroughs's oeuvre remain his innumerable scrapbooks. Produced over nearly half a century, from 1963-64, when he first began to intentionally create "scrapbooks," to the last years of his life, in the late '80s and early '90s, Burroughs's scrapbooks arguably amount to his most important contribution to the history of collage, and his most complex application of what he called the "cut-up" method. Nevertheless, Burroughs's scrapbooks, numbering in the dozens, if not hundreds, have yet to be catalogued comprehensively. They also are rarely discussed in scholarship on Burroughs, much less in studies of avant-garde aesthetics, or literary and art history scholarship more generally. This is not least because none of Burroughs's scrapbooks have yet to be published as works unto themselves. Since the 1994 Los Angeles County Museum of Art exhibit and the publication of its companion book, Ports of Entry: William S. Burroughs and the Arts (1996), Burroughs's scrapbooks have slowly become recognized for their significance to his cut-up practice and the history of collage. These enigmatic works, however, have only become available to the public as excerpts, with decontextualized pages presented individually, evocative fragments of a larger, but inaccessible whole. This essay, insofar as it attempts to review a set of such books, requires a caveat: it's difficult to write about a multitude of "books" that were never published and probably never will be, at least not in print. As a negative outline of what could be read or viewed, this essay's second-hand form is actually quite fitting for a series of works whose potential and purpose remain speculative. After a critical turning point in Burroughs's cut-up practice, his scrapbooks were rarely created to be published or shared. As outsider art, the scrapbooks are still waiting to be re-contextualized, to be understood not just as "derivative" notations for Burroughs's published novels, but as multimedia, collage narratives, in a uniquely impressionable form, capable of retaining material traces of their sources in a way his cut-up novels and poems never could. Burroughs's wide-ranging cut-up practice, from poems to audiobooks, newspapers to films, inevitably blurs what counts as a "scrapbook." The Oxford English Dictionary offers a straightforward definition: "A blank book in which pictures, newspaper cuttings, and the like are pasted for preservation. Hence occasionally as the title of a printed book of miscellaneous contents." As recounted in The Scrapbook of American Life (2006), the practice of scrapbooking in the West can trace its conceptual roots to ancient Greek "koinoi topoi"—for Aristotle, models of places and things that serve as souvenirs or "memory aids." For the editors of The Scrapbook of American Life, the modernist art of scrapbooking is comparable to early modern commonplace books: they are flip-sides of the same coin, personal anthologies with miscellaneous materials, useful for recalling quotes, information, places, and objects, while serving as a means of "constructing an identity outside" the "formalized and authoritative records" contained in "bureaucratic files and databanks." By the late nineteenth-century, like cabinets of curiosities and albums of art prints, scrapbooking had even become a popular practice transcending traditional gender norms. But by Burroughs's era of the Cold War, the practice of scrapbooking was typically regarded as [End Page 6] a marginalized, minoritarian practice, usually as a feminist or queer counterpoint to patriarchal and heteronormative Western culture. An early use of the word as a verb occurs in Mark Twain's Autobiography (1924): "He usually postponed the scrap-booking until Sunday." Unlike Twain, for Burroughs, scrapbooking was often a daily practice, like his routine of noting down his dreams. His scrapbooking also served diverse purposes, from the creation of collage art-books and "dream calendars" to the archiving of grey literature, travel souvenirs, and ephemera. Burroughs's scrapbooks arguably represent his most anti-canonical set of works, evocative of Arthur Rimbaud's affinity for cultural detritus in the "Alchemy of the Word" section of A Season in Hell (1873). Burroughs made a...

The Theatre of Tom Murphy: Playwright Adventurer by Nicholas Grene

Reviewed by: The Theatre of Tom Murphy: Playwright Adventurer by Nicholas Grene Adam Goldstein The Theatre of Tom Murphy: Playwright Adventurer. By Nicholas Grene. London: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama. Pp. xv + 233. $102.00, hardcover. In a more than fifty-year career of diverse creations ranging from productions at iconic international theatres to Broadway, Hollywood, and beyond, Irish playwright Tom Murphy carved a long journey to establish himself as one of world’s most vital and dynamic playwrights. Recognized as an invaluable cultural voice in the exploration of Irish identity, Murphy’s canon explodes assumptions of colonial, postcolonial, and an ever-evolving Ireland through a myriad of dramatic forms, structures, and voices. Cementing Murphy’s cultural significance, Irish president Michael D. Higgins wrote in his official statement following the playwright’s passing in May 2018, “The importance of Tom Murphy’s contribution to Irish theatre is immeasurable and outstanding. We have had no greater use of language for the stage than in the body of work produced by Tom Murphy since his earliest work in the 1960s. His themes were not only those which had influenced the very essence of Irishness, emigration, famine and loss—they were universal in their reach.” This notion of “universality” represents the exciting launchpad for Nicholas Grene’s [End Page 250] extraordinary critical companion book, The Theatre of Tom Murphy: Playwright Adventurer. This wonderfully comprehensive “deep-dive” into the vast landscape of Murphy’s storytelling endeavors to analyze each of Murphy’s works—both major and minor—in the hopes of granting universal viability for the playwright’s work, not only to his native Ireland but to the world of theatre at large. Grene loads the beginning of his work with an assertion that Murphy’s writing, particularly in comparison to his contemporary, the globally lauded Irish icon Brian Friel, is “understudied and undervalued” (xiv). Garry Hynes, artistic director of Druid Theatre Company, echoes this sentiment in the 2018 New York Times report of Murphy’s death, that non-Irish audiences often struggle with his plays because Murphy does not gift his audience easy thematic, narrative, or personal access points. Murphy’s plays are challenging for global audiences to penetrate because as Hynes states, he is “unflinching in his rage about the way things were. He wrote with a very raw essence.” This rawness of essence sparks the subtitle of the work “playwright adventurer,” which identifies both the greatness and the challenge of the playwright in critique. Grene proposes that Murphy is an “adventurer” in that he discovers a story as it emerges and adapts form to fit this emergence rather than write to a predetermined style, outline, structure, or theatrical vocabulary. Through an exhaustive exploration of archival information as well as via significant direct interviews with the playwright himself, Grene guides us into the heart of a writer who follows impulse, delves into the visceral of the moment, and who does not need to know in advance where a story is heading to arrive at powerful catharsis. The author skillfully implies that the challenge for Murphy’s work in achieving “universality” lies in the sheer difficulty in pinning down the playwright’s voice. Murphy’s worlds jump from the page as individual moments in the playwright’s mind that transcend one voice and instead mine numerous the-atrical vocabularies, sounds, tones, and tools in the pursuit of complex truths. Grene examines Murphy’s plays thematically rather than chronologically. He groups works under linking categories that denote important connective tissues that span Murphy’s career. This structure allows the reader to view Murphy’s narrative complexity through a lens of recurring questions, themes, and ideas rather than through a basic linear chronology. Further, by looking at the playwright’s creative process in crafting each story, the book’s framework observes Murphy’s work as incredibly political by identifying it as utterly personal. Grene sees Murphy’s work as universal because it is so universally human despite its often-localized vantage point. The first chapter, “Retrospectives,” lays out the playwright’s biographical [End Page 251] information as well Grene’s key strategy of exploring Murphy’s process rather than just product. Through this refreshing method of analysis...

The Two Versions of Sketches of Young Gentlemen

The Two Versions of Sketches of Young Gentlemen William F. Long (bio) In February 1838 Chapman and Hall published a small book written anonymously by Dickens called Sketches of Young Gentlemen. At about the same time, a similarly named volume appeared, the publisher of which claimed that his work had been fraudulently imitated. Consideration of the publication history of the two books, revealed in contemporary press advertisements and notices, allows that claim to be evaluated. Background At the end of June 1837, Chapman and Hall, in addition to bringing out the fifteenth monthly number of “Boz”’s phenomenally successful Pickwick Papers, issued another, more modest pseudonymous production. Sketches of Young Ladies by “Quiz” was a slim volume containing humorous, gently mocking descriptions of 24 contemporary female “types” – “The Literary Young Lady,” “The Abstemious Young Lady,” “The Clever Young Lady” – and so on. Illustrated, like Pickwick, by “Phiz” (Hablot Browne), the book sold well, and by the end of the year was in its fifth edition.1 The identity of its author, a young future cleric called Edward Caswall (ODNB, 1814–78),2 remained unknown until revealed in a biographical note in 1908 (Ballasis). Caswall and Chapman and Hall followed up Young Ladies with a book for children called Morals from the Churchyard; in a Series of Cheerful Fables. In it, graves in a churchyard take turns to tell their (highly moralistic) stories. Illustrated by Browne, Morals was published anonymously to good reviews in December 1837. Caswall claimed later to have also written a companion book to his Young Ladies which contained descriptions of similarly classified young gentlemen, but, “on calm deliberation,” to have “put it aside” and [End Page 7] to have concentrated instead on studying for the ministry.3 Dickens was said to have expressed a wish, presumably at about this time, to meet him (Ballasis 7). No evidence for such a wish (or meeting) is recorded elsewhere. As the 1837 Christmas holiday season approached, Chapman and Hall began a modest press campaign designed to promote items in their current portfolio: Pickwick, the second number of the monthly part issue of Sketches by Boz, Young Ladies, Morals, a book on wines, another on chess, and a few additional “improving” children’s books.4 They did so no doubt elated by a recent formal agreement with Dickens that he produce for them “another and new Book or work the title whereof has not yet been decided on of similar character and of the same extent and contents in point of quantity as the […] work entitled ‘The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club’” (Dickens, Letters 1: 659). In the meantime, their star author, fresh from a triumphal dinner to mark the completion of Pickwick, and the more modest celebrations which accompanied the christening of his first-born, was engaged in editing the monthly Miscellany owned by another publisher, Richard Bentley. To it, he was himself contributing installments of Oliver Twist. He was also, for the same publisher, rather reluctantly converting into something commercially viable an unsatisfactory revision of the memoirs of the clown Grimaldi. In December 1837, then, the possibility of an imminent exploitation of the formula successfully used in Young Ladies is unlikely to have been high on the agenda either of Chapman and Hall, or of Dickens. Such a possibility had occurred, however, to another, enterprising publisher. William Kidd The firm of Edward Chapman and William Hall had begun in the early 1830s as a bookselling establishment and gradually taken on the additional business of publishing. William Kidd’s was one of several other businesses [End Page 8] which, at about the same time, followed the same path. By 1837, Kidd (ODNB, 1803–67)5 was operating from premises in Tavistock Street, Covent Garden. He dealt in a wide variety of what proved to be ephemeral novels, periodicals, pocket-sized travel and guide books, and miscellanies the commercial attractiveness of which lay at least as much in their illustrations as their letterpress. In one such miscellany, in 1834, a snippet of text taken from “The Bloomsbury Christening,” an anonymous story originally published in the Monthly Magazine, had been reproduced without authority as a basis for a small illustration...

Diabetes Education for Behavioral Health Inpatients: Challenges and Opportunities.

OBJECTIVE: To adapt a diabetes survival skills education (DSSE) program for delivery on inpatient behavioral health units (BHUs) and to evaluate implementation feasibility within nursing unit workflow. METHODS: We employed mixed methods to codesign, implement, and evaluate a DSSE program for inpatient BHUs. The Diabetes to Go core program incorporates linking knowledge deficits to video education content, a companion book on diabetes survival skills, and education for nurses on delivery processes and teaching content. The Diabetes to Go adaptation for BHUs was codesigned in partnership with BHU staff and patients. Implementation evaluation included patient surveys and nursing staff feedback obtained during field observations. RESULTS: A total of 89 patients participated in nine group education sessions among whom 17 (20%) had diabetes. Nursing unit staff and patients expressed willingness to engage in program design. Barriers to implementation were encountered in both groups including lack of standardization of education content by nurse facilitators and difficulty engaging patients for the time required for completion of surveys plus group education. Preferred education media for both nurses and patients was a book. Diabetes knowledge deficits were identified among over two thirds of participants with diabetes. CONCLUSIONS: Group class may not be the optimal delivery model for specialized DSSE on BHUs. It remains to be determined if individual diabetes education alone or a model which combines individual and group sessions is preferable. Translation of standardized approaches for diabetes education on inpatient BHUs will require further redesign to meet the unique needs of this population.

Pengembangan Bahan Ajar Pembelajaran Matematika Untuk Mahasiswa PGSD Semester 6

The purpose of this study was produce a mathematics learning companion book that was feasible to use and to measure the student's response to the teaching material. This study uses the Research and Development (R &amp; D) method with a 4D model, which includes needs analysis, design, development, and dissemination. The feasibility was measured with the validity test from material and the design expert. The effectiveness was measured with the test to one class of PGSD FKIP UMM students, then the second test was conducted in 2 classes. The results of the research obtained are the validity values of teaching materials worthed 91.6%, and the validation test the material experts scored 78.8%, all are in ‘valid’ criteria. The effectiveness of the teaching materials were also shown from positive responses obtained from lecturers and students as product users. After revision, the effectiveness of teaching materials reached 86.93%, in the ‘effective’ criteria. Lecturers and students concluded that the use of teaching materials companion book was effective for learning

ANALISIS STANDAR MUTU, DISKON DAN LOKASI TERHADAP KEPUTUSAN PEMBELIAN KEMBALI BUKU PENDAMPING MAESTRO (Studi pada Sekolah Dasar di Kabupaten Wonogiri)

Referring to government regulations regarding the regulation of companion books used in schools, this forces the book producers to innovate in order to produce quality and acceptable books on the market. One of the companion book producers in Central Java is CV Hasan Pratama with the brand Maestro. This study has the purpose to investigate the effect of quality standards, discounts and location on Maestro's companion book repurchase decisions. Samples were taken randomly as many as 115 respondents, but only 99 samples could be used. Research uses a type of quantitative research, and using multiple linear regression analysis techniques. Data was collected by giving questionnaires to teachers who taught elementary school level in Wonogiri District. The results of this study prove that quality standards, discounts and locations have a simultaneous effect on product repurchase decisions. But partially the discount variable has a negative effect on product repurchase decisions.&#x0D; &#x0D; Keywords: quality standards, discounts, location, repurchase decision

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