Daily Events Research Articles

The Effect of Student Adversity Quotient on Mathematics Test Scores Using PISA Questions

This research aimed to determine the effect of student adversity quotient (AQ) on mathematic test scores of 12th-grade students in Pademawu High School, Pamekasan for geometry material. The questions used in the mathematic tests were PISA questions. The type of research was quasi-experimental research applying a quantitative method, and the populations selected were all students of class XII MIPA, as many as 115 people. By using a purposive sampling technique, the sample members were 90 people. Data was collected using questionnaires and tests. The questionnaire used contained 30 daily events, where each event had 2 questions. The math test contained 2 geometry questions. Furthermore, data collected was analysed using descriptive statistical and simple linear regression analysis. It was obtained that the regression model Y=24,328+0,373X with Y was math test scores and X was AQ scores. From the model, the result showed that there was a significant positive interaction of AQ on the results of mathematic tests at 12th-grade students in Pademawu High School.

KONSEP NYUPAK DALAM KARAWITAN JAWA THE CONCEPT OF ‘NYUPAK’ IN JAVANESE TRADITIONAL MUSIC INSTRUMEN

The word ‘nyupak’ is a Javanese term which is often used in daily events or activities. ‘Nyupak’ is simply an activity of joining two objects so that the main object joined with another object can be used again according to its function. As a matter of fact, the term ‘nyupak’ is also used in karawitan organology in the process of (1) the tuning of ‘gender bumbungan’ (‘gender’ resonance) and (2) the tuning of gamelan, both in the form of blades and in the form of ‘pencon’. The current study aims at exploring the concept of ‘nyupak’ in Javanese traditional music instrument from acoustic perspective. The results of the study demonstrate that ‘nyupak’ in the tuning on ‘gender bumbungan’ (‘gender’ resonance) ranges from the intervals of 2 cents up to 12 cents, or written as 2 ≤ x ≤ 12 cents, and ‘nyupak’ in the tuning on gamelan ranges from the intervals of 10 cents up to 33 cents, or written as 10 ≤ x ≤33 cents. The result of the study provides a referential formulation for the tuning process of ‘gender bumbungan’ and gamelan, particularly to cope with ear sensitivity in capturing the tone frequency.

The mnemonic effect of central and peripheral misinformation on social media

ABSTRACT The increasing use of social media has amplified the spread of false information. Yet little is known about the mnemonic consequences associated with exposure to different types of false information online. In two studies, we examined in a simulated online context how exposure to false information either central or peripheral in events affected memory. European American and Asian/Asian American college students (Study 1 N = 200; Study 2 N = 225) were presented with GIFs of daily life events and read tweets about the events that included four types of information: central true information, central false information, peripheral true information, and peripheral false information. They then took a True/False recognition test that included tweeted and untweeted true and false information and indicated how confident they were in their responses. Regardless of cultural background, participants in both studies demonstrated the misinformation effect, whereby they falsely recognised more and resisted less tweeted than untweeted false information. Furthermore, they showed higher susceptibility to peripheral than central false information exposed via tweets. Asian participants were less influenced by misinformation than European Americans in Study 2. These findings have important implications to combat misinformation in online environments.

Media and its dominance in contemporary Iraqi painting

The current study deals with the topic of the effectiveness of narrated, visual, and printed media as documents and data conveying the culture and knowledge of people, as well as a discursive structure with sensory authority that affected the nature of the artistic experience through the dynamic interaction between the artist’s creative intentions and his experience, in addition to the intellectual and historical influences resulting from the power of the medium as an effective tool in directing the artist’s vision The research was divided into four chapters, first chapter devoted to the research problem, which ended with the following question: What are the areas of media structure and how do they dominated on the visual surface appearances? The second chapter, it included two sections, the first section entitled Mediality of language/versus the oral and the copied, while the second section was entitled Mediality of the Image/versus the audio-visual. The third chapter contained the research procedures represented by the method, community, research tool, and analysis of the research sample which included three models. The fourth chapter included the results and conclusions. The following are some of the results: 1-The effectiveness of the medium emerged as a symbolic and ideological material that enhances the concept of cultural identity through artists adopting it. 2-The media appeared as a reference that carries data from which the artist draws his cultural and historical topics, as well as daily events.

Pelaksanaan Kewenangan Pemerintah Daerah Dalam Upaya Rehabilitasi Pasca Bencana Gempa Bumi Di Nagari Kajai Pasaman Barat

Natural disasters seem to be daily events and news in Indonesia, and even the world. Various forms of disasters have caused enormous losses, both moral and material losses. The earthquake that occurred on February 25 2022, centered in Talamau District, West Pasaman Regency, was a major disaster. As the epicenter of the earthquake, Talamau District was the worst affected area. It was recorded that 25 people were killed and 465 people were injured, 14 of whom were residents of East Pasaman. Apart from immaterial losses, the earthquake that occurred in West Pasaman Regency also resulted in material losses such as heavily damaged public facilities, schools and houses of worship (mosques). Due to this disaster, thousands of West Pasaman residents are waiting for development assistance from the government, however the expected assistance is still being delayed before it can be realized immediately by the Regional Government. This problem needs to be formulated into two problem statements. First, how is the implementation of regional government authority in post-earthquake rehabilitation efforts in Nagari Kajai, West Pasaman Regency? Second, what are the obstacles to implementing Regional Government Authority in post-earthquake rehabilitation efforts in Nagari Kajai, West Pasaman Regency? This research is a type of normative legal research or doctrinal legal research. The results of this research show that as a form of disaster management, the West Pasaman Regional Government carries out rehabilitation activities, one of these activities is providing assistance to repair houses for people affected by the disaster. This development is carried out through three systems, namely: independent reinbuce, facilitator reinbuce, and self-sufficiency. In an effort to exercise its authority to carry out post-disaster rehabilitation, the Regional Government encountered obstacles, including APIP's finding that there was an error in collecting data on houses of disaster victims which required data collection again, which took quite a long time and the regional financial capacity was inadequate.

Constraining Projected Changes in Rare Intense Precipitation Events Across Global Land Regions

AbstractRare precipitation events with return periods of multiple decades to hundreds of years are particularly damaging to natural and societal systems. Projections of such rare, damaging precipitation events in the future climate are, however, subject to large inter‐model variations. We show that a substantial portion of these differences can be ascribed to the projected warming uncertainty, and can be robustly reduced by using the warming observed during recent decades as an observational constraint, implemented either by directly constraining the projections with the observed warming or by conditioning them on constrained warming projections, as verified by extensive model‐based cross‐validation. The temperature constraint reduces >40% of the warming‐induced uncertainty in the projected intensification of future rare daily precipitation events for a climate that is 2°C warmer than preindustrial across most regions. This uncertainty reduction together with validation of the reliability of the projections should permit more confident adaptation planning at regional levels.

Positive event diversity: Relationship with personality and well-being.

Examining the personality and well-being correlates of positive event diversity. Past research has highlighted that personality traits are linked to the frequency of daily positive events. This study is the first to examine positive event diversity, the extent to which positive events are spread across multiple types of positive life domains, as well as its personality and well-being correlates. We conducted parallel analyses of three daily diary datasets (Ns = 1919, 744, and 1392) that included evening assessment of daily positive events and affective well-being. The Big Five personality traits were assessed in baseline surveys. Positive Event Diversity was related to higher person-mean daily positive affect but not negative affect. Higher Extraversion, Agreeableness, Openness, and lower Neuroticism were correlated with more positive event diversity. These associations became nonsignificant when controlling for positive event frequency. Positive event frequency moderated the link between positive event diversity and person-mean affect, such that higher positive event diversity was associated with higher negative and lower positive affect for people who experienced more frequent positive events. No consistent evidence was found for personality as a moderator of the positive event diversity-well-being link across the three studies. Further, the well-being implications of positive event diversity may be better understood when interpreting them alongside indexes of positive event frequency.

Traumatic losses permeate daily emotional experiences: roles of daily uplifts and subjective age.

Daily emotional experiences may vary depending on a stressor's intensity or source. The present study aimed to examine the interaction between traumatic loss, daily uplifts, and daily subjective age predicting daily negative affect. Results from a 14-day daily diary study of 440 US adults aged 50-85 showed that daily increases in uplifts were associated with decreases in negative affect, especially for those who reported a traumatic loss when they also experienced increases in subjective age. Based on our study, daily events and perceptions can have a considerable impact on daily functioning and may serve as important mechanisms after a traumatic loss. Although traumatic losses may impact individuals differently, incorporating daily uplifts, based on available resources and capacities, may foster daily emotional well-being.

Synoptic conditions conducive for compound wind-flood events in Great Britain in present and future climates

Extreme wind is the main driver of loss in North-West Europe, with flooding being the second-highest driver. These hazards are currently modelled independently, and it is unclear what the contribution of their co-occurrence is to loss. They are often associated with extra-tropical cyclones, with studies focusing on co-occurrence of extreme meteorological variables. However, there has not been a systematic assessment of the meteorological drivers of the co-occurring impacts of compound wind-flood events. This study quantifies this using an established storm severity index (SSI) and recently developed flood severity index (FSI), applied to the UKCP18 12 km regional climate simulations, and a Great Britain (GB) focused hydrological model. The meteorological drivers are assessed using 30 weather types, which are designed to capture a broad spectrum of GB weather. Daily extreme compound events (exceeding 99th percentile of both SSI and FSI) are generally associated with cyclonic weather patterns, often from the positive phase of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO+) and Northwesterly classifications. Extreme compound events happen in a larger variety of weather patterns in a future climate. The location of extreme precipitation events shifts southward towards regions of increased exposure. The risk of extreme compound events increases almost four-fold in the UKCP18 simulations (from 14 events in the historical period, to 55 events in the future period). It is also more likely for there to be multi-day compound events. At seasonal timescales years tend to be either flood-prone or wind-damage-prone. In a future climate there is a larger proportion of years experiencing extreme seasonal SSI and FSI totals. This could lead to increases in reinsurance losses if not factored into current modelling.

Appraisal of Daily Temperature and Rainfall Events in the Context of Global Warming in South Australia

In recent decades, there have been significant problems worldwide related to global warming and the intensification of extreme temperature and rainfall events. This research evaluated daily temperature and rainfall indices trends to identify whether warming signals have occurred in South Australia over the past fifty years. Extreme cold, hot, and rainfall events were calculated using climatic data from 37 weather stations. A Mann–Kendall test was used for trend analysis with Sen’s estimator. As a result, we determined that for the 1970–2021 period, the maximum and minimum temperatures increased by 1.1 and 0.7 °C, respectively, while precipitation had a negative trend (−52.2 mm per period). Since statistical significance was found in analysing extreme cold and hot events, we find that warming signals have several impacts on South Australia. In the case of rainfall events, we identified a heterogeneous pattern characterised by a reduction in the annual amount and an increase in extreme rainfall events. The findings enable us to conclude that the area shows signs of global warming that could affect the intensity and magnitude of droughts. This information is essential for continuing with current management strategies to adapt and mitigate the effects of global warming in South Australia.

Impact of Atlantic multidecadal variability on rainfall intensity distribution and timing of the West African monsoon

Abstract. Previous studies agree on an impact of the Atlantic multidecadal variability (AMV) on the total seasonal rainfall amounts over the Sahel. However, whether and how the AMV affects the distribution of rainfall or the timing of the West African monsoon is not well known. Here we seek to explore these impacts by analyzing daily rainfall outputs from climate model simulations with an idealized AMV forcing imposed in the North Atlantic, which is representative of the observed one. The setup follows a protocol largely consistent with the one proposed by the Component C of the Decadal Climate Prediction Project (DCPP-C). We start by evaluating model's performance in simulating precipitation, showing that models underestimate it over the Sahel, where the mean intensity is consistently smaller than observations. Conversely, models overestimate precipitation over the Guinea coast, where too many rainy days are simulated. In addition, most models underestimate the average length of the rainy season over the Sahel; some are due to a monsoon onset that is too late and others due to a cessation that is too early. In response to a persistent positive AMV pattern, models show an enhancement in total summer rainfall over continental West Africa, including the Sahel. Under a positive AMV phase, the number of wet days and the intensity of daily rainfall events are also enhanced over the Sahel. The former explains most of the changes in seasonal rainfall in the northern fringe, while the latter is more relevant in the southern region, where higher rainfall anomalies occur. This dominance is connected to the changes in the number of days per type of event; the frequency of both moderate and heavy events increases over the Sahel's northern fringe. Conversely, over the southern limit, it is mostly the frequency of heavy events which is enhanced, thus affecting the mean rainfall intensity there. Extreme rainfall events are also enhanced over the whole Sahel in response to a positive phase of the AMV. Over the Sahel, models with stronger negative biases in rainfall amounts compared to observations show weaker changes in response to AMV, suggesting that systematic biases could affect the simulated responses. The monsoon onset over the Sahel shows no clear response to AMV, while the demise tends to be delayed, and the overall length of the monsoon season enhanced between 2 and 5 d with the positive AMV pattern. The effect of AMV on the seasonality of the monsoon is more consistent to the west of 10∘ W, with all models showing a statistically significant earlier onset, later demise, and enhanced monsoon season with the positive phase of the AMV. Our results suggest a potential for the decadal prediction of changes in the intraseasonal characteristics of rainfall over the Sahel, including the occurrence of extreme events.

Observed changes in the contribution of extreme precipitation over the Zagros Mountains, Iran

Due to global warming, precipitation regimes are expected to change, and heavy events are expected to occur more frequently. This study investigates the relative share of heavy daily precipitation events to total precipitation for past and current climates. In this regard, daily precipitation data with a spatial resolution of 0.25° × 0.25° from the APHRODITE and CHIRPS databases are used. We used two nonparametric tests, the Mann–Kendall test and Sen’s slope estimator, to identify the trend. The results showed that the frequency of daily heavy precipitation has been increasing in most regions of Iran. The relative share of heavy daily precipitation events to total precipitation has increased over the southwest and central areas of Iran from a case of the past to the current climate. The rise in the share of heavy precipitation of the total precipitation has led to a decrease in the frequency of rainy days (wet days) and an increase in the intensity and concentration of precipitation in Iran. The amount of increase in the share of heavy rainfall to the total precipitation is more prominent in the middle parts of the Zagros Mountains. These conditions lead to heavy floods in the southwestern plains of Iran.

Trapped by family or compensated from work? The influence of daily negative family events on daily effective leadership behaviors

Trapped by family or compensated from work? The influence of daily negative family events on daily effective leadership behaviors

Circadian variations of neurotransmitters and cognitive dysfunction

To anticipate and adapt to recurring daily events driven by the earth’s rotation, organisms exhibit regulatory mechanisms designed to control homeostasis under different lighting conditions, called circadian rhythm (CR). The CR represents an endogenous biological network that coordinates 24-hour cycles at the genetic, biochemical, physiological, and behavioral levels. CR control systems transmit timing signals throughout the organism, with all internal processes exhibiting a daily maximum and minimum activity level managed through modulation of neurotransmission in critical neural structures. Knowing the daily variations of neurotransmitter activity in the central nervous system is essential in establishing effective neuroprotection mechanisms. This study summarizes current knowledge on the interplay between circadian rhythm, neurotransmitter fluctuations, and their impact on neuroprotection and mental health.

Márai Sándor húga, Grosschmid Katalin kamaszkori naplója

The Adolescent Diary of Sándor Márai’s Sister, Katalin Grosschmid Katalin Grosschmid (1904–1986) started writing her diary at the age of 14, on 9 March 1918. In the first years she often recorded daily events, but then her entries became less frequent and she wrote her last entry in 1931, when she already was a married woman. The diary is a subjective genre, reflecting the writer's innermost thoughts and feelings, and thus also everyday events. In this case, we get an insight into everyday life in 1918 and 1919 through the experiences and thoughts of a teenage girl, a member of a now famous bourgeois family in Kassa/Košice (Dr. Géza Grosschmid, notary, lawyer, legal advisor and senator, Sándor Márai, writer, journalist and Géza Radványi, film director). She gives us a picture of the family's relationships, conveying their opinions and views, and describing the historical events that are important today in their prime reality.

Investigative Journalism in Nepal: Practice and Impact

Investigative journalism has become a matter of growing interest in the wake of expanding practice of journalism in Nepal. For journalists, who are always busy in collecting and communicating news of daily events in society, it is a challenging task in itself to prepare investigative news after longtime study and research on a serious matter. Due to public interest in information and increased access to social media, reaching the depth of news has drawn interest for communication consumers. Events and topics that someone wants to hide or keep secret become public interest. Therefore, it is the main task of investigative journalism to study and inform about such matters of public interest to the society at large. It is also the professional integrity of journalist to expose wrongdoings kept secret. In the present article, the practice of investigative journalism in Nepal and its impact on good governance has been analyzed by adopting the study and explanatory method.

Do Men and Women Narrate Personal Regret Experiences Differently

Narratives are the principal means of encoding and conveying personal experiences. The current study aims to investigate the personal regret narratives of the Turkish university students regarding their personal experiences and to evaluate these narratives from a gender-based perspective. To this end, 116 Turkish university students have participated in this study and the selected personal regret narratives are analyzed within the frame of Labovian narrative categories: abstract, orientation, complicating actions, coda, evaluation and result or resolution. In addition to the existence of these categories, their organizational patterns are also compared with respect to the gender of the participants. The evaluation of the narratives demonstrated that all the narrative components are employed by the Turkish university students; however, female students seem to be more inclined to connect their experiences to daily events or other events in their life by applying coda more frequently than male students using language as independence symbol instead of employing it to develop intimacy as female students do. The results of this study might contribute to discourse analysis, sociolinguistics and social psychology as written regret narratives allow us to have a deeper understanding of how Turkish students organize their experiences which reflects social, discoursal and cognitive dimensions.

The causal role of numerical and non-numerical order processing abilities in the early development of mathematics skills: Evidence from an intervention study

Understanding the basis of mathematical development is essential for supporting mathematics learning and to develop efficient interventions for remediating early problems. In the past decade, evidence has accumulated in support of the importance of ordering skills (i.e., tasks that tap into children's ability to recall the order of items or to judge the correctness of the order of items) in predicting early mathematics performance. Nevertheless, so far these studies have only provided correlational evidence, and intervention studies are lacking. The aim of the current study was to fill this gap by investigating the potential causal role of three types of ordering abilities (number ordering, daily event ordering and order working memory) in the development of mathematics skills during the first year of primary school. Children participated in six brief training sessions over a three-week period, and their mathematics skills and mathematics anxiety were measured before and after the training. In addition to the three training conditions, an active control group was also involved, with children completing reading comprehension exercises. Our findings showed that children's performance improved substantially on all ordering tasks as a result of training. Additionally, training in daily event ordering and number ordering has led to large increases in children's formal mathematics skills. Mathematics anxiety was not affected by the interventions. The current results provide initial evidence for the usefulness of order processing training in developing children's early mathematics skills. They also show that these results are not specific to the domain of numerical ordering.

DOES STRESS MAKE YOU FEEL OLDER? A DAILY DIARY STUDY OF SUBJECTIVE AGING, STRESS, AND UPLIFTS IN TURKIYE

Abstract Subjective aging, how one perceives their age, is associated with psychological, emotional, and social well-being. Adults’ subjective perceptions of their age are malleable and can fluctuate on a daily basis, influenced by various life events such as experiencing stress or uplifts. We conducted a 14-day daily diary study to assess how subjective age and ageist attitudes are predicted by daily stressful events and uplifts in Turkey/Turkiye. 68 Turkish participants aged 50 to 90 years (M= 57) responded to subjective age, ageist attitudes, stress, and uplifts questionnaires every day. Multilevel model analyses indicated that individuals perceived themselves as emotionally and physically older on days when they encountered more stressors and fewer uplifting events. Additionally, on those days, participants reported that they looked and behaved older than their chronological ages. Uplifts corresponded negatively to ageist attitudes; individuals who experienced more uplifting events during the day had fewer negative judgments of aging. Taking age as a subjective construct, these results suggest that having fewer stressors in daily life changes people’s feelings about their aging process. In addition, involvement in uplifts can buffer ageist attitudes on a daily basis.

Implementation and Analysis of a Digital Twin for Propylene Glycol Production: Dynamic Simulation and Process Statistical Control

Purpose: Development of a dynamic simulation and analysis system for Propylene Glycol production through the hydrolysis of Propylene Oxide, utilizing market-available tools including a Digital Twin developed in the Unisim/Honeywell Simulation integrated to the PI System AVEVA/OSIsoft. This system aims to provide a realistic industrial environment for subsequent analysis and statical quality control. Theoretical framework: The manufacturing of Propylene Glycol involves complex reactive systems that require precise control and optimization. The integration of advanced simulation tools and statistical control charts, such as Shewhart Control Charts, is pivotal in monitoring and enhancing the quality of the process. This approach addresses the need for efficient process management in the chemical industry. Method/design/approach: The project employs a decoupled simulation structure, where the reactive system and the statistical control system operate simultaneously, exchanging information through the PI System supervisory software (AVEVA/OSIsoft) and a Python programming environment. The implementation of Shewhart Control Charts within the simulation provides real-time process quality monitoring. Results and conclusion: The outcomes demonstrate the feasibility of using a combination of software tools for daily industrial event simulation, as well as for training and acclimatizing engineers and operators. The analysis of statistical control charts allows for the detection of special cause variations, offering valuable insights for efficient process intervention, thereby enhancing the quality of both the process and the final product. Research implications: This study contributes to a deeper understanding of reactive systems in chemical engineering and the effective integration of simulation and statistical process control techniques. Originality/value: The development of a simulation framework that combines Digital Twin technology with statistical process control for the efficient and reliable production of Propylene Glycol.