Original Identity Research Articles

Understanding Betawi Culture in Jakarta People Through the Implementation of the Betawi Lebaran Event

Betawi culture has a very important role as the original identity of Jakarta city. Globalization and multicultural in Jakarta increasingly erodes the culture of Betawi. Event Lebaran Betawi is presented to educate and provide cultural understanding of Betawi to the people of Jakarta. The purpose of this research is to find out how far the cultural understanding of Betawi gained by Jakarta community from the implementation of the Event Lebaran Betawi 2014. The main theory used in this research is propaganda Lasswell theory and his communication concepts. The method used is descriptive qualitative. Results of this study explained that the implementation of the Event Lebaran Betawi can provide insight of Betawi culture to the people of Jakarta so that the purpose of organizing this event as media education and Betawi culture preservation can be achieved.

A Review on Deepfake Attack Detection of User

Abstract: The Deepfake attacks are common these days. It is hard to detect the faces of users are real or fake. Deepfake is mainly used in different fields as having positive points regarding virtual presence of any user but this also has drawback which leads to misuse of the replacing the user’s facial data with someone else facial data. These changing of user’s original identity to fake identity is done by the deepfake attackers who replace its own identity or human imposters to hide the originality of the user. These attacked images or videos need to be detected. There are various face detectors among which few detect the real or fake deepfake images or videos. There is procedure also which used for authentication purpose such as visual speaker authentication. Also, convolutional neural network is used for facial feature extraction purpose and recurrent neural network is used for detecting the video is manipulated or not

Contrastive Learning from Extremely Augmented Skeleton Sequences for Self-Supervised Action Recognition

In recent years, self-supervised representation learning for skeleton-based action recognition has been developed with the advance of contrastive learning methods. The existing contrastive learning methods use normal augmentations to construct similar positive samples, which limits the ability to explore novel movement patterns. In this paper, to make better use of the movement patterns introduced by extreme augmentations, a Contrastive Learning framework utilizing Abundant Information Mining for self-supervised action Representation (AimCLR) is proposed. First, the extreme augmentations and the Energy-based Attention-guided Drop Module (EADM) are proposed to obtain diverse positive samples, which bring novel movement patterns to improve the universality of the learned representations. Second, since directly using extreme augmentations may not be able to boost the performance due to the drastic changes in original identity, the Dual Distributional Divergence Minimization Loss (D3M Loss) is proposed to minimize the distribution divergence in a more gentle way. Third, the Nearest Neighbors Mining (NNM) is proposed to further expand positive samples to make the abundant information mining process more reasonable. Exhaustive experiments on NTU RGB+D 60, PKU-MMD, NTU RGB+D 120 datasets have verified that our AimCLR can significantly perform favorably against state-of-the-art methods under a variety of evaluation protocols with observed higher quality action representations. Our code is available at https://github.com/Levigty/AimCLR.

Integral relations for the skin-friction coefficient of canonical flows

We show that the Fukagata et al.'s (Phys. Fluids, vol. 14, no. 11, 2002, pp. 73–76) identity for free-stream boundary layers simplifies to the von Kármán momentum integral equation relating the skin-friction coefficient and the momentum thickness when the upper bound in the integrals used to obtain the identity is taken to be asymptotically large. If a finite upper bound is used, the terms of the identity depend spuriously on the bound itself. Differently from channel and pipe flows, the impact of the Reynolds stresses on the wall-shear stress cannot be quantified in the case of free-stream boundary layers because the Reynolds stresses disappear from the identity. The infinite number of alternative identities obtained by performing additional integrations on the streamwise momentum equation also all simplify to the von Kármán equation. Analogous identities are found for channel flows, where the relative influence of the physical terms on the wall-shear stress depends on the number of successive integrations, demonstrating that the laminar and turbulent contributions to the skin-friction coefficient are only distinguished in the original identity discovered by Fukagata et al. (Phys. Fluids, vol. 14, no. 11, 2002, pp. 73–76). In the limit of large number of integrations, these identities degenerate to the definition of skin-friction coefficient and a novel twofold-integration identity is found for channel and pipe flows. In addition, we decompose the skin-friction coefficient uniquely as the sum of the change of integral thicknesses with the streamwise direction, following the study of Renard & Deck (J. Fluid Mech., vol. 790, 2016, pp. 339–367). We utilize an energy thickness and an inertia thickness, which is composed of a thickness related to the mean-flow wall-normal convection and a thickness linked to the streamwise inhomogeneity of the mean streamwise velocity. The contributions of the different terms of the streamwise momentum equation to the friction drag are thus quantified by these integral thicknesses.

Evaluation of Adaptive Reuse in the Context of Sustainability: Cases from Kastamonu, Türkiye

Changes in today's living and comfort conditions negatively affect the use of historical buildings in accordance with their original functions, and as a result, these buildings can become idle. It is very important to preserve and maintain the original identities of historical buildings, as they carry the accumulation of the period in which they were built, which is an important element of the urban identity. With the adaptive reuse method, historical buildings that have lost their original functions are given a function again, these structures are revived, and their sustainability is ensured. This study uses the survey data of five historical khans in Kastamonu to reveal the success of adaptive reuse practices and their contribution to the sustainability of the historical environment. It includes analyzes made in the sample area, on-site examinations and observations, archive and literature review. The research shows that some of the adaptive reuses are made without considering the spatial and structural features of the existing structures and that the applications are not suitable for the material and color texture of the structures. For this reason, adaptive reuse studies should be well analyzed and implemented by authorized institutions and organizations both in the project and restoration stages. The study is important in terms of determining criteria for evaluating adaptive reuse in terms of international standards and evaluating adaptive reuse applications in Kastamonu historical city center within the framework of these criteria and emphasizing the problems.

Musahipsiz Otman Babalılarda Kimlik Mücadelesi

Otman Baba, one of the important religious figures of the 15th century, won the hearts of the Rum Abdals with his charisma and became famous in the region. The Otman Baba order, which is characterized by its seven symbolism, was built by Otman Baba. His followers, who came after him, continued to follow this tradition. Following the spread of the Bektashi sect in the Balkans in the 16th century, the Babalı people without musāhib living extensively in Northern Bulgaria, melted in to the Bektashi identity under the influence of Sheikh Şüceaddin Veli ocak (hearth). On the other hand, the Babalı people without musāhib living in Southern Bulgaria call themselves Babalı and continue to preserve their original identity. They approach the Bektashi identity with revulsion. The Babalı people were attached to the Şücâeddin Veli Dervish Lodge for a limited time. From looking at their collective memories, this attachment has started in the Bulgaria, with the guidance activities from 1911. Among the Otman Babalıs, whom Şücâeddin Veli Lodge attached to themselves, the dissident Baba and aspirants reject the attachment of Şücâeddin Veli Lodge. We think that the group, formed by them is the Otman Babalıs without musāhib. The hierarchical relationship between Babalıs and Şücâeddin Veli is not a relationship of necessity. The former group try to protect their independence by developing a self-readings strategy to protect their original identity. The symbolism of the seven are the original figures of the Babalıs. This order was most likely developed by Otman Baba against the expansionism of the Bektashi sect. Our study is based partly on historical data, partly on interviews with Babas, Ana-Bacis, service owners and participant observation data in Edirne/Köşan Çiftliği, Babaeski, Çorlu, Çorlu/Türkgücü villages. Regarding the existence of seven rituals and their use as a part of identity, the religious-political events in the Balkans and Thrace region during Otman Baba’s lifetime, are reviewed. Then, for the sources of the period, by looking at the Velāyet-nāme of Otman Baba and Demir Baba, signs of the originality of the line were sought. Finally, it has been reflected on how the Babalıs who have seven rituals built their existence and their identity struggle today. 

관광 스토리텔링이 브랜드 가치, 관광 만족에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구: 전북지역 사립대 유학생을 중심으로

As the environment changes rapidly, story-telling including original identity and image distinction is noted to meet the demand and desire of visitors in the tourism industry. There are a burgeoning number of international students, which directly affects the tourism industry. Since this effect helps to revive the local economy, the tourism industry can expect a positive development from it. This study is designed to provide the relationship between landmark storytelling, brand value, and tourist satisfaction by surveying international students in Jeonbuk private universities. Also, this research is focused on presenting the marketing strategy to help foreigners satisfy landmarks and to maximize the number of international tourists. A total of 282 surveys were done by the foreign students who visited popular Jeonbuk landmarks before. The result has shown that tourism storytelling has a statistically significant positive effect on brand value and tourist satisfaction, and brand value has a statistically significant positive effect on tourist satisfaction. In conclusion, there are research limits based on this result and some suggestions for the later study.

Performing Arts As A Medium For Social Integration Of Migrant With Local Community: Lesson From Indonesia

The migrants in Barito Kuala Regency developed the art of dance originating from their area. However, the art performances they show are one of the reinforcements for their social integration with the local community. This paper aims to: (1) describe the reasons for the migrants to develop their performing arts. (2) analyzing the role of performing arts as a medium for social integration of migrants with local communities. This research uses qualitative research methods and has been carried out in Sidomulyo Village and Dandan Jaya Village, Barito Kuala Regency, South Kalimantan Province. 10 Informants were interviewed. Data was carried out by observation, in-depth interviews, and diaries and was analyzed by ethnographic analysis. This study found that (1) the reason of migrants to develop art is to always remember their original identity. (2) Art becomes a medium for social integration through (a) adapting the art of the migrant community to the art of the local community (b) Performing arts As a means of public entertainment (c) social interactions that are developed among all residents during performing arts performances. Based on the research findings, this study suggests strengthening arts that adapt local arts to strengthen social integration, especially in multi-ethnic communities.

Blocking Of Spam Mail Using K-Means Clustering Algorithm

Email is a method of exchanging digital messages between people using digital devices such as computers, tablets and mobile phones. Email spam also known as junk email is unsolicited bulk messages send through email. The use of spam has been growing in popularity since 1990s and is a problem faced by most email users. Recipients of spam often have had their email addresses obtained by spambots which are automated programs that crawl the internet looking for email addresses. Origin blacklisting is used to detect and filter these kinds of emails. The sources of emails are provided by origin detection. In this origin identity, the spam blocking system finds the source and if any source matches with the user identity, the spammer is blocked to send email. But the system cannot check the contents of spam. The Propose system verifies the mail contents. If the spam content matches with the spam database cluster, then it blocked while sending to receiver. In this system blocks the mail and prevents the flow of data in a network. The porter stemmer and k-means clustering algorithms are using in this propose system.

Blocking Of Spam Mail Using K-Means Clustering Algorithm

Email is a method of exchanging digital messages between people using digital devices such as computers, tablets and mobile phones. Email spam also known as junk email is unsolicited bulk messages send through email. The use of spam has been growing in popularity since 1990s and is a problem faced by most email users. Recipients of spam often have had their email addresses obtained by spambots which are automated programs that crawl the internet looking for email addresses. Origin blacklisting is used to detect and filter these kinds of emails. The sources of emails are provided by origin detection. In this origin identity, the spam blocking system finds the source and if any source matches with the user identity, the spammer is blocked to send email. But the system cannot check the contents of spam. The Propose system verifies the mail contents. If the spam content matches with the spam database cluster, then it blocked while sending to receiver. In this system blocks the mail and prevents the flow of data in a network. The porter stemmer and k-means clustering algorithms are using in this propose system.

Development of Affine Transformation Method in the Reconstruction of Songket Motif

Songket is one of the clothes with a high artistic value besides Batik originating from Indonesia. Songket is widely used at weddings and other traditional formal events. Songket is the result of a traditional craft consisting of the main ingredients of cloth made of cotton and silk threads by inserting the feed (basic material) transversely on the Lunsing (yeast cloth). The quality of Songket art is found in the motifs on the Songket. This research has a conceptual outline in terms of improving the quality of Songket cloth and making it easier for craftsmen and artists to spare their art for the reconstruction process of the Silungkang Songket motif. This research aims to get a new Songket motif with a more modern and aesthetic motif but still has its original characteristics and identity. Based on these objectives, the researchers focused and motivated to develop the motif of one of the types of Songket in Indonesia, namely Silungkang Songket, in the form of a more modernized motif. This research develops a digital image transformation method named Affine Segmentation Point (ASP) to produce modernized Songket motifs. The basis of the developed ASP method is the Affine transformation. Songket image input was used as data and created a new motif in this study: a Songket image with the Rangkiang Lumbung Padi Besar motif. The results of this study can create excellent Songket motifs and modernization. The new motifs produced have been tested by Songket experts, Songket observers, Songket craftsmen, and Songket sellers with an interest rate of 97.5%. The method developed is very precise and can be used to develop other high-value artistic motifs on traditional cloth.

Belonging on Rounds: Translating Research Into Inclusive Practices for Families With Limited English Proficiency to Promote Safety, Equity, and Quality.

Belonging on Rounds: Translating Research Into Inclusive Practices for Families With Limited English Proficiency to Promote Safety, Equity, and Quality.

Trust based anonymous intrusion detection for cloud assisted WSN-IOT

A network system called Wireless Sensor Network is made up of wireless sensor node devices that are spread at random (WSN). WSNs are a critical paradigm for the Internet of Things' evolution (IoT). Strong security measures must be done to protect the network from security threats and malicious assaults in order to make it more efficient. To identify and isolate hostile sensor nodes in a cloud-assisted WSN-IoT system, the Trusted Anonymous Lightweight Attacker Detection (TALAD) scheme is presented. The TALAD strategy creates a routing path to the cloud with highly trusted nodes, subject to a desired path length limit. Using the binomial algebraic theorem, the node identities are formed with bogus identities, and the original identity is hidden from the other nodes in the network. If only the forward key and the reverse key string are matched, the nodes' original identities are exposed. The forward and reverse keys are mapped using a context-free grammar rule. Even when a major chunk of the network drops to forward packets, TALAD successfully avoids incursions, according to the simulation results.

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Impact of country of origin and national identity on air travel purchase decisions for prospective buyers: The case of American travelers

This study focuses on how the concept of country of origin (COO) and national loyalty affect purchasing decisions of prospective travelers when purchasing airline tickets. The objectives of this study are to understand: (a) the relationship between demographic structures of travelers and their national loyalty status, (b) the relationship between national loyalty and national airline perceptions, (c) the construction and analysis of the measurement of national airline preference scale, and (d) testing the relationship between national loyalty, national airline perception, and preferences of foreign airlines. Data collected from 136 people residing and employed in three districts of Pennsylvania. The study findings denote that the national loyalty status of travelers affects the purchasing behaviors of air travelers. Prospective travelers do not prefer foreign airline service providers, thinking that they may damage the national airline companies and national economy. The effects of national loyalty include overrating the service quality and merit of national airlines and underrating the merits of foreign airline services. The findings of this research propose that foreign airline companies should convince international travelers that preferring their services over other airlines would not result in a disadvantage of national airlines or deteriorate economic conditions in their home countries.

Coptic Orthodox Cleric’s Perspective on the Formation of Coptic Identity in the Diaspora


 
 
 Through its multi-decade existence, the Coptic diaspora continues to grapple with identity formation issues, both at the individual and collective levels. Efforts reflect a wide range of attitudes toward the identity of origin, ranging from retention and maintenance to rejection and formation of a new identity. Additionally, the Coptic diasporic identity is influenced by how the identity of origin is perceived. For this factor, the choice is usually made between two positions, victimhood or triumphalism. Some can step outside this false dichotomy, embracing an empowered identity of action, which is neither ignorant of the past nor subjugated by it. Furthermore, the process of identity formation is influenced by an array of moderating factors, operating in a complex web of interactions. The complex process of identity formation can be observed in the Coptic diaspora. A look at this complex issue from a Coptic Orthodox cleric’s perspective, serving the largest Coptic Orthodox congregation in Canada established in the early 1980s, is presented in this paper within the timeframe of 2007–2021. Unless otherwise stated, views presented in this paper reflect the author’s observations over the stated timeline and within the stated geographical area.
 
 

Reconsidering Lost Opportunities for Diverse Representation

AbstractThis article considers the cultural politics of frustrated potential for diverse representation in games by examining developer comments on the 1995 digital game I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream, adapted from Harlan Ellison’s 1967 science fiction story of the same name. While Ellison’s story featured a gay man named Benny among the protagonists, the game developers adapted Benny without his original sexual identity. In a 2012 Game Informer magazine article, however, the developers reflected on their version of Benny as a “lost opportunity” for exploring gay identity. Rooted in discussion of this frustrated potential for a gay in-game Benny, this article interrogates a logic of lost opportunity for diverse representation present in game-development discourse, which manifests in a longing for more diverse characters that could have been but never came to be. This logic suggests particular ways that developers might conceive of diverse representation as simply a design issue under neoliberal logics of economic opportunity, commercial risk, and fetishized innovation—without meaningful consideration of political significance. Opposing this instrumentalization of frustrated diverse representation, this article draws on queer game studies and speculative design and literature to explore the possible contours and implications of diverse characters that never were more seriously than such comments typically do. Doing so demands more than romanticized longings for lost opportunities for diverse representation that treat this longing as the end in itself.

Getting into Character: Racial Passing and the Limitations of Performativity and Performance in Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half

ABSTRACT Judith Butler’s notion of performativity has been criticized because of its overemphasis on the individual’s performance, while it remains questionable how it changes heteronormativity. In the same way that drag performance challenges the man/woman binary, racial passing challenges the White/Black binary. However, whether passing alters the societal perception of race remains debatable. Analyzing the tropes of acting and passing in Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half, I argue that the novel delineates a tension between a liberal mind-set, according to which passing exemplifies the performativity of identity and a close-minded perspective, according to which one cannot choose one’s racial identity. While the novel unsettles the line between acting and being authentic, and, analogously, the line between an original racial identity and an adopted one, it depicts most of its characters as refusing to accept racial transformations. Likewise, the novel presents gender identity as performative, but not in the eyes of society.

Replacing urban identity: the disappearance of Sha’biya Al Safa Neighborhood

The meaning of identity of a place is manifested in its genius loci, or rather in the hidden spirit of the place itself. The immanent value of the built environment represents its physical and materic sedimentation, as well as the collective memory testifies to the emotional stratification of the space itself. The spatial component involves not only the sphere of urban form and public spaces, but also the private dimension of domesticity. It is a process of accumulation of the historical memory of a place, through fragments of shared community life as well as of family and domestic identities. In this sense, the theme of loss of urban historical memory in newly developed contexts, in cities such as Dubai for example, appears relevant. Furthermore, how in such areas the built environment is suddenly altered by the dynamics of real estate.
 This contribution documents, also by means of photography, the case of the disappearance of Sha’biya Al Safa Neighborhood (also known as Sha’biya Al Shorta). Neighborhood built to house the low-income local population, as part of the social housing program wanted by the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan since the end of the 1960s. These photos, taken in September 2018, document the state of the neighborhood shortly before its demolition, when its inhabitants had already abandoned this place. Instead, the pictures taken in February 2021 describe the current state of the area: an infrastructured tabula rasa ready for real estatedevelopment.
 The images narrate the loss of daily living in the neighborhood. They speak of a community, which has now disappeared, characterized by a vibrant everyday life with cultural values rooted in the place and tradition. It is a visual testimony that identifies the urban peculiarities of the neighborhood in its morphological and typological dimension, as well as reveals the traces of the family life of its inhabitants. This case documents, once again, how urban transformations based on demolition and new construction inevitably lead to a zeroing of the original social identity and of the collective memory connected to the place itself.

TRANSLATION OF CAPTIVES OF SUPERSTITION STATE NOVEL FROM CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE

This paper analyzes the strategies adopted in the English translation of the Arabic novel Captives of Superstition State (2019) from a Cultural perspective. In translating literary works, especially between Arabic and English which belong to two distant cultures, cultural loss seems to be inevitable. Salih’s translation focuses on the transfer of the verbal message of the source text and is mostly concerned with its target reader. In terms of culture, Salih’s translation employs many strategies to provide the same equivalent in the receiving culture to maintain the original cultural identity preserved in the source text.