Kinds Of Media Research Articles

EKSISTENSI PUBLIC RELATION PEMERINTAH KOTA YOGYAKARTA DALAM KOMUNIKASI DAN NEGOSIASI KEBIJAKAN RELOKASI PEDAGANG KAKI LIMA

The local government as a system, organizationally, has the public relations (PR) board which should ideally have a large capacity in supporting management of policy development.This study is intended to describe the existence of PR to support the successful implementation of relocation policies of street vendors in the Yogyakarta City. This research is a qualitative research with the unit of analysis is the staff of PR and information from the government of the Yogyakarta City. The problem to be questioned is to what extent of the local government PR are performing the function and roles based on the main duties and functions which is set based on, theoretically, the essence of the ideality. The results showed that the success of the relocation of street vendors in the Yogyakarta City performed collaboratively between PR and its stakeholders. Processes and mechanisms impasses through the stages of fact-finding, planning, and negotiation. PR is not involved directly in the process of communication and negotiation to street vendors, but it is become a bridge of information, mediator, and facilitator in the process of relocation. Media of communication which widely used are mass media and interpersonal media. Both kinds of media are used by PR board and its stakeholders in creating the awareness of the street vendors to be relocated.

The Influence of Advertisements in Increasing the Sales in Kosovo

The advertisement is a form of marketing communication which is used to encourage, convince or manipulate an audience (the viewers, listeners or readers, sometimes a special group) to take or to continue taking some actions. Advertisements have an important role in increasing sales. Successful ads that result with the growth of sales require competent personnel including a number of specialists; therefore it is very necessary to choose the personnel carefully, to ensure firms a stable position in the market. Advertisement costs are quite large, but they have to be in accordance with the growth of sales. From the collected and analyzed data, we can conclude that kosovar businesses pay great attention to advertisements and share their budget for them. In this paper, the importance of advertisements in sales growth is explained, as well as how many ads do they do, how much budget do they share for this, for which kinds of media do they share more budget and what obstacles they encounter during the advertising. The paper consists of two parts: the part of literature review that is connected to the topic and the research part. Primary data was used for the realization of the paper, which was obtained through questionnaires by direct contact with the general managers, marketing managers, directors and owners with a wide knowledge about advertisements in enterprises. For the realization of this paper, quantitative methods were used.

To Be or Not to Be…? Part I: Is Global Climate Change a Future Reality?

In the popular, scientific, and politically directed press, and in all kinds of media, e.g., television debates, fictional films, pseudoscientific programs, and animations for children, global climate change is presented as a future reality as a result of human activity. The contrary perspectives on global climate as a global climate stability or a global climate that is independent of human activity, and global climate dependency on other-than-human (e.g., lunar or solar) activities have not been presented in official press, and have been suppressed in popular and “scientific literature”. It is obvious that politicians are not interested in the real state, and their decision has already been done based on other grounds than the reality. A great variety of narrow-minded persons should feel subdued, live safely, and be tranquil in their ignorance even if in future they may be robbed for their money and made to look foolish. Our series of papers, “To be or not to be…?” will discuss actions performed by humans that are harmful to the environment and to the global climate, global climate fluctuations that do not depend on human activity, or depend on causes that are beyond human activity.

A modal interferometer based on single mode fiber-hollow core fiber-single mode fiber structure filled with alcohol and magnetic fluid for simultaneously measuring magnetic field and temperature

In many fields, such as aerospace and marine environmental monitoring, magnetic field measurement is an important link. In recent years, optical fiber magnetic field sensor has received much attention because of its advantages such as small size, electromagnetic immunity, resistance to erosion and capability of remote sensing. In that case, magnetic fluid as a kind of medium between photons and magnetic field is widely used in optical fiber magnetic field sensors. Moreover, in the process of magnetic field measurement, disturbance introduced by temperature fluctuation always happens and brings uncertainty to the sensor. Temperature is also an important parameter in production process and needs to be measured. Therefore, designing a high-sensitive optical fiber sensor for simultaneously measuring magnetic field and temperature is a valuable work. In this paper, we present a high-sensitive hollow core fiber (HCF) interferometer for simultaneously measuring magnetic field and temperature. A segment of HCF filled with alcohol is inserted into single mode fiber (SMF) with 50 m offset at two splicing joints to guide light into the wall of HCF. And then this SMF-HCF-SMF structure is packaged by a capillary tube with full magnetic fluid (MF) inside it. Since the modal field area is large enough, the silica wall can support a series of guiding modes among which modal interference occurs and the interference spectrum can be recorded by an optical spectrum analyzer. Besides thermo-optic effect and thermal expansion effect of silica itself, the RI variations caused by thermo-optic effect of alcohol and MF as well as the magneto-optic effect of MF can also cause the phase difference of the guiding modes to change, thereby rendering interference dips movable. Thus, the sensitivity of temperature or magnetic field is higher than those given in some other previous studies. In addition, it is calculated that the effective RI sensitivities of guiding modes for inside and outside liquid are different because of the peculiar non-circular symmetry structure of HCF. So there is a possibility to find two dips in interference spectrum, which are formed with different modes and have various sensitivities to the variations of temperature and magnetic field. Finally, a sensitivity matrix can be built to demodulate those two parameters simultaneously. Experimental results show that within 20-58℃, the temperature sensitivities are 112 pm/℃ and 468 pm/℃ for dip1 and dip 2 whose magnetic field sensitivities are 37 pm/Oe and 82 pm/Oe within 0-169 Oe, respectively. The proposed sensor possesses high sensitivity and good mechanical strength, and can effectively eliminate the cross disturbances between temperature and magnetic field.

The Mid-Term Model Forecast Test of North China Rainstorm from July 19th to 20th, 2016

Heavy rain is a kind of severe weather, often causing floods and serious soil erosion, leading to engineering losses, embankment rupture and crop flooding and other significant economic losses. Especially for some low-lying terrain areas, rainwater cannot quickly vent caused by farm water and soil moisture being too saturated, so it will cause more geological disasters. This article combines live and forecast data, aiming at the results of the mid-rainstorm forecast in North China during the period of 7.19-2016, and compares with the actual situation of rainstorm. We carry out the mid-term forecast of the rainstorm. The atmosphere is a kind of medium with various fluctuation phenomena, and its physical properties and changes are studied by the analysis of volatility which is an important research method. It is important to improve the accuracy of such severe weather forecasting rainstorms and to take precautionary measures in a timely manner to minimize the losses caused by rainstorms.

Vigorous Distance Learning Applications Using the Stream Control Transmission Protocol

Distance learning software is a ‘hungry’ type of software in terms of performance metrics and its requirements for handling different kinds of media effectively. Video-based applications in particular are considered to be an extremely demanding type of software. Although up to this point software designers have spent considerable time improving applications, they have neglected the effects which are due to the use of the various network protocols. This work attempts a critical view of transport layer protocols and their effects on distance learning applications. This study shows that the stream control transmission protocol provides many advantages – especially the multi-homing and multi-streaming features. This protocol is recommended for video-based applications and its usage will improve the quality of service of contemporary distance learning applications.

GROWTH OF FOUR TREE SPECIES ON MEDIA CONTAINING GOLD MINE TAILING OF PT ANTAM UBPE PONGKOR

PT Antam UBPE Pongkor is a gold mining company that produces waste in the from of tailing mud which contains heavy metal with sufficiently high concentration. The aim of this research was to study the growth of four types of plant, i.e. Casuarina junghuniana, Pinus merkusii, Melia azedarach, and Gmelina arborea in a media containing tailing mud. This research used a completely randomized factorial design with two factors, i.e. types of plant and media. Two kinds of media was used i.e. 1200g tailing and a mixture of 900g tailing and 300g compost. Growth parameters observed were plant diameter, height, number of leaf, leaf lenght and widht, total wet and dry biomass, root-shoot-ratio and number of stomata. Soil and plant analysis was done after four months of experiment. The results showed that plant types have significant effects on all parameters except root-shoot-ratio and plant height. Media types significantly affect plant diameter, wet and dry biomass. Interaction between plant types and media gave sifnificant effect on diameter, wet and dry biomass. G. arborea had the best growth response on all parameters except root-shoot-ratio and plant heigh. Its average diameter was 4.56 mm, leaf lenght 3.67 cm, leaf widht 3.000 cm, total wet biomass 50.21 g, total dry biomass 32.19 g and number of stomata is 89.Key words: C. junghuniana, G. arborea, metal, M. azedarach, tailing, P. merkusii.

Selection of wetted media for pre-cooling of air entering natural draft dry cooling towers

The performance of natural draft dry cooling towers (NDDCTs) can be improved by wetted-medium evaporative pre-cooling. However, the pre-cooling benefit is season dependent and is significantly affected by wetted media. To further investigate the effect of wetted medium type on pre-cooling performance, the current study simulates a pre-cooled NDDCT using two typical types of wetted media, i.e., film (Cellulose7060 and PVC1200) and trickle (Trickle125 and Trickle100). A MATLAB program was developed and was validated against published data. The model was then used to carry out case study of a 120m-high NDDCT pre-cooled using the selected wetted media with fixed thickness of 300mm. Both the medium performance and pre-cooled NDDCT performance were compared to recommend the characteristics of wetted media promising for evaporative pre-cooling. Simulation finds that the media with high or low cooling efficiencies and pressure drops are not promising for the studied pre-cooling case while those media with middle cooling efficiencies and pressure drops intend to produce much performance enhancement and Cellulose7060 is a representative of such kind of medium. For the 120m-high NDDCT, the wetted-medium pre-cooling can raise the heat rejection rate of the tower without pre-cooling from 45MW to 92MW, 76MW, 68MW and 65MW by Cellulose7060, PVC1200, Trickle125 and Trickle100, respectively at ambient temperature of 50°C and humidity of 20%.

Chemical study on Paenibacillus odorifer, a bacterial species isolated from lichen

Recent studies have admitted that bacterial communities were an important united partner of mini-ecosystem lichen symbiosis. Lichen, moreover, is also a rich source of new bacterial lineages and novel bacterial compounds. Therefore, microorganism communities isolated from lichens became a significant subject as a great potential of natural product discovery. Paenibacillus odorifer, a bacterium belonging to Firmicutes, was isolated from Rhizocarpon geographicum, a particular popular crust-forming rock lichen. Assessing its optimal growth conditions was conducted to improve its metabolite production yield by measure of optical density (OD) and by analysis of its chemical profile via TLC, HPLC, LC-MS. Firstly, the parameters chosen for optimal culture were kind of medium, pH and temperature. Results revealed that the growth of P. odorifer was better at 250C using Gym Streptomyces liquid medium supplemented with CaCO3 at pH=7. Secondly, the fermentation was launched by applying the best conditions of bacterial growth. After the 3-day culture using a bioreactor, the supernatant and bacterial cells were separated by centrifugation and organic compounds were absorbed from supernatant by XAD-7 resin. The desorption from resin was carried out through several stages to collect raw extract. TLC, HPLC and LC-MS analyses highlighted that this extract was a rich source of metabolites. Then, the crude extract was fractionated via flash chromatography on a 40 g C18 reversed-phase column, using a gradient solvent system of CH3CN-H2O at 15 mL/min flow rate in 75 min. Two diketopiperazines were isolated from the fractions by applying semi-preparative HPLC (Prevail C18 column, various ratios of CH3CN) such as cyclo(L-Phe-L-Val) and cyclo(L-Phe-L-Ile). Correspondingly, fermentation of P. odorifer could produce valuable compounds for future research.

Nonlinear optical properties of dielectric nanocolloids: Particle size and concentration effects

The nonlinear optical properties of different samples of dielectric nanocolloids and their application to generate optical spatial solitons in two transverse dimensions are investigated. Each sample is constituted by a suspension of polystyrene nanospheres in water, and we analyze four cases with two different particle sizes (62[Formula: see text]nm and 77[Formula: see text]nm in diameter) and concentrations (0.5% and 1.0% solids). The z-scan technique is used to evaluate and compare the nonlinear refractive index of the nanocolloids. A detailed experimental study on the formation of soliton-like beams as a function of different parameters is also presented. Importantly, the generated solitons propagate along distances exceeding by one order of magnitude the propagation distances observed previously in the same kind of media.

De potentiële impact van informele online communicatie op de spellingpraktijk van Vlaamse tieners in schoolcontext

Abstract The potential impact of informal computer-mediated communication on the spelling performance of Flemish adolescents in school contexts In recent decades, all kinds of media have been echoing the concerns of parents and teachers who fear that online chat practices corrupt the writing and especially the spelling skills of youngsters. The main objective of the present study was to assess the potential impact of the informal online writing practices of adolescents on their formal offline spelling performance at school. 2584 school tasks, tests and exams by Flemish secondary school students were analysed for spelling mistakes. 6306 word forms with deviations from the Dutch spelling norms were primarily classified as either classic spelling mistakes versus instances of chat language interference. The dominant findings relate to the minimal proportion of direct interference from informal chat practices. Students generally do not integrate chat conventions into their school tasks. However, the educational track appears to be a determining variable: students with a vocational training seem to have more trouble to distinguish informal online from formal offline writing repertoires than students in a technical or general secundary school programme. Finally, the correlation between students’ production of classic spelling mistakes and chat language interferences appears to be weak, which suggests that these two types of deviations from the norm spelling might have different grounds.

Models, Measurement, and the Problem of Mediation in the New York Fashion Industry

From age and body measurements to the number and kinds of models featured in advertising campaigns and runway presentations, numbers are a seemingly less subjective way of monitoring aesthetic shifts and representational imbalances in the fashion industry. Yet an ethnographic investigation of how modeling agents actually use numbers in their everyday practices reveals something different. In this essay, I situate agents’ numerical performances within their local theories of mediation to explore how agents use numbers and measurements as a discursive resource for constructing models’ bodies as particular kinds of media.

A brief investigation on Gu Dehua, a female healer from Wuzhong in the Qing Dynasty

The female healer is a special community in traditional Chinese medical professionals. Since the Song-Yuan Dynasties, although the literati class holding the social voices and the male healers acting as medical orthodoxy were always suspicious of the female healers' behaviors and their medical morality, and tarnished their images through all kinds of media. Meanwhile, the female healers were still badly needed on the account of recognition of distinction between sexes between both sexes due to the rising of neo-Confucianism. An excellent female healer could still earn wide respect from the society. Gu Dehua was a famous female healer from Wuzhong in the Qing Dynasty's Daoguang-Xianfeng period. By investigating Gu Delua's family conditions, deeds and works, and her career, the community of the female healers in the Ming-Qing Dynasties can be thus understood.

Nihilizmas ir naũjosios įsivaizduojamybės formos modernybės pabaigoje

Straipsnyje nagrinėjamas (at)vaizdų įsiveržimas į mūsų pasaulį, sukėlęs estetinės patirties revoliuciją. (At)vaizdai jau nebelaikomi priklausančiais visatai, skirtingai nei realus pasaulis, aiškiai „suspenduotai“ kaip opozicija realybei. Jie gali net įtraukti mediją. Būtent medija paverčia (at)vaizdą atpažįstamu. Ji padaro jį suvokiamą kaip (at)vaizdą ir leidžia mums nesupainioti jo su realybe. Tačiau ši užtvara buvo griaunama, ne tik šiandien, bet labai dažnai (at)vaizdo istorijoje, pradedant Zeuksidu ir Parazijumi, o baigiant XVIII a. fantasmagorija ir 3D šiandien. Būtent šia užtvara naudodamiesi nuo XVIII a. iki šių dienų apibrėžiame nihilizmą. Žinoma, visa tai sukuria teorinių ir etinių problemų. Mat dabar, skaitmeninių medijų atveju, susiduriame su tokia medija, su kuria sueiname į mainų santykį, su medija, kurioje esame. Autoriaus teigimu, ją galėtume apibūdinti kaip „gyvą“ mediją, taip sugriaudami tradiciškai XX a. filosofijoje įsitvirtinusį technikos / subjektyvybės santykį, kai technika dominuoja žmonijos atžvilgiu, o ne atvirkščiai. Be to, tai naratyvi medija. Ji veikia tik interaktyviame mainų santykyje ir dialoge su ja besinaudojančiu subjektu. Šis santykis labai reikšmingas, kai susiduriame su (at)vaizdais: pavyzdžiui, kai turime reikalą su pasakojimu, skirtis tarp žodinės ir vaizdinės komunikacijos tampa taki. Šis interaktyvus santykis su (at)vaizdu išryškina jo performatyvų virtualumą ir primygtinai reikalauja plėtoti (at)vaizdų ir naujųjų technologijų etiką. Remdamiesi šiuo „gyvu“ santykiu su (at)vaizdu, galime tvirtinti, kad šiandieną turime reikalą su „sekuliaria“ mitologija, mitologija be dievų. Kitaip sakant, „pasaulio vėl užkerėjimo“ problematika.

Separation and concentration of ionic liquid aqueous solution by vacuum membrane distillation

Due to the high cost of ionic liquids (ILs), how to economically recycle them from aqueous solutions is one of the critical issues for their large-scale applications. In this work, vacuum membrane distillation (VMD) technique was proposed to separate and concentrate the 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride ([Bmim]Cl) aqueous solutions at high concentration (e.g. ≥20wt%), where a polyacrylonitrile-based (PAN-based) hydrophobic membrane was prepared and used. The chemical resistance and VMD separation performance of the PAN-based membrane were estimated. The results showed that the homemade membrane possessed good chemical resistance to several kinds of media and favorable VMD flux and rejection. Four different groups of VMD concentration processes with intermittent operation mode were then carried out to separately concentrate a 20wt% [Bmim]Cl solution. The concentration process, membrane fouling and wetting, as well as cleaning strategy were compared and discussed. It was found that for the hydrophobic PAN-based membrane, surface hydrophilization resulted from surface chemistry rearrangement happened especially at high feed temperature, which might aggravate the adsorption of [Bmim]Cl on membrane surface. Membrane top layer wetting would occur due to the synergistic effect of surface hydrophilization and deposition of [Bmim]Cl, which not only induced the reductions of the membrane flux and rejection, but also further caused internal pore wetting. Therefore, the fouling mechanism during the VMD concentration might be divided into three stages, surface deposition, top layer wetting and internal pore wetting. Timely cleaning (i.e. before surface wetting) could effectively prevent the fouling deterioration (i.e. from surface deposition to surface wetting) and improve the VMD concentration process, resulting in a high flux recovery over 95%. Under the optimal conditions, a final [Bmim]Cl concentration as high as 65.5wt% with a total [Bmim]Cl recovery over 99.5% was achieved, indicating that VMD was a promising candidate for concentrating ILs aqueous solutions.

Understanding Neoliberalism, Media and the Political: An Interview with Sean Phelan

In this interview, Sean Phelan discusses the differences between ‘ideological’ and ‘post-ideological’ or ‘post-political’ neoliberalism, and sets out his own approach to critiquing neoliberalism, which draws on Laclau and Mouffe’s discourse theory and Bourdieu’s field theory. Arguing for the benefits of a comparative cross-national approach, he illustrates examples of ‘actually existing neoliberalism’ in UK, US, Ireland and New Zealand contexts. Phelan concludes the interview by suggesting potential sites of cultural politics and the possibility of a radically different kind of media and political culture.

Narrar o outro: notas sobre a centralidade do testemunho para as narrativas jornalísticas

Resumo Em sua dimensão contemporânea, o testemunho assume lugar central para as narrativas midiáticas, particularmente para o jornalismo. Este artigo propõe uma discussão em torno da narrativa de teor testemunhal em relatos jornalísticos que se insurgem pelo viés da subjetividade e dos afetos, contrariando a lógica de uma imprensa hegemônica pautada pela objetividade. Toma como ponto de partida uma reportagem onde a jornalista testemunha a morte da sua entrevistada. Essa narrativa nos permite elaborar pistas para pensar acerca do papel do testemunho e seus limites, reconhecendo que, quando valorizado no percurso da narrativa não apenas como procedimento de uma rotina jornalística mas enquanto experiência vivida e narrada, pode oferecer uma chave para colocar sujeitos em relação.

EXAMINATION OF SOCIAL MEDIA USING INDIVIDUALS’ RECREATION TENDENCIES

Nowadays, there has been an increasing count of actively social media using individuals. This new kind of media which is used by most of the population can generate an impact on users’ tendencies. Recreation activities increase individuals’ quality of life and provide them some physical, social, and psychological benefits. Individual’s participation to these recreation activities facilitate development primarily to the participant himself and then to the society. In this context, this study is an examination of active recreation tendencies on social media using individuals. It was conducted with 379 participants who studies at Higher Education in Sports. In order to measure social media users’ active recreation tendencies, a questionnaire based on the Recreational Exercise Motivation Measure which has the reliability and validity of Turkish version made by Gurbuz, Asci and Celebi (2006) and originally developed by Rogers and Morris (2003) and the Facebook Intensity Scale developed by Ellison, Steinfield and Lampe (2010) were prepared and used. According to Cronbach Alpha (α=0,878) the questionnaire found reliable. In order to analyze the results besides descriptive statistics of socio-demographics, the questionnaire was factor analyzed and three dimensions as physical, social and psychological tendency are obtained. Mann Whitney U and Kruskall Wallis tests are used to determine whether there are any significant differences. Article visualizations:

Design and Implementation of Low-Power and Mid-Range Magnetic-Induction-Based Wireless Underground Sensor Networks

Low-power wireless communication in underground settings and confined areas is considered one of last frontiers in communications. First, there is the energy challenge: because the nodes are embedded in some kind of medium, such as soil, concrete, or debris of a disaster event, many of the traditional energy solutions for communication devices are ruled out. Second, typical radio-wave-based solutions are significantly impacted in underground settings due to the high signal attenuation in lossy medium, such as wet soil. To address such challenges, wireless underground sensor networks (WUSNs) have been proposed. However, the lack of real-world deployments is an indication that some WUSN aspects still need to be addressed. In this paper, a soil path attenuation model for a magnetic induction (MI)-based WUSN is developed and the best operating frequency range is identified. Next, a strategic frequency and coil adaptation scheme is added to the design resulting in an efficient system in terms of energy and application bandwidth (BW), which can operate under typical variations of the electrical properties of soils, for example, due to a rain or dryout event. The model and design guidelines are validated by preliminary experiments in outdoors, and more recently, an indoor MI-based testbed is carefully developed. We concluded that this submegahertz MI-based communication testbed can also be perceived as an accurate noncontact sensor for dielectric spectroscopy. Such findings have the potential of not only helping in the proliferation of WUSNs but also providing the foundation for novel instrumentation possibilities in many fields of science.

What If Devices Take Command

The new generation of wearables, marketed as consumer electronics products, can be interpreted as a sign of radical innovation leadership from mobile device producers. Since the appearance of the iPhone –and also later of the iPad-, terminal vendors had lost traction as triggers of innovation within the mobile content ecosystem, giving way to the current platform-based paradigm of leadership. This paper proposes examining the innovation potential of wearable devices on the whole mobile set of actors, starting from a two-scenarios premise: one of sustaining innovation, and a second scenario of more prominent influence. The research finds significant innovating potential for the smart kind of wearables, with a range of influence that can modify the course of all current mobile players. Also, it points at the possibility that a strong development of these items can eventually give birth to a new kind of media, specifically conceived for the wearable experience.