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Parents’ rights, yes. But parent responsibilities, too

While there are plenty of people who decry the parents’ right push, viewing it as manufactured and mean-spirited, Frederick M. Hess and Michael Q. McShane think it has been a healthy and overdue development. Yet while parents have rights, they also have a responsibility to send students to school ready to learn. Schools are ultimately reliant on parents being active partners in preparing their children to be responsible students and citizens. With clear communication and a willingness to listen, families and schools can form more productive partnerships to help students learn.

The Research on the Communication Characteristics and Strategies of Dialect Short Videos from the Perspective of New Media

Increasingly, people put much time into their phones and laptops for works and joy since the Internet has developed in a rapid speed in the recent years. It is particularly evident that this trend towards entertainment and work change the dissemination of Chinese culture especially the Chinese dialects. However, at the same time, it leads to some negative influence on the promotions of dialect short videos, such as less people now are willing to watch this kind of videos. Due to that reason, dialects from some areas have been forgotten and a plenty of people will not use their dialects during the daily communication with others. The lack of national policies can also be one of the reasons why people pay less attention to the Chinese dialects. Nevertheless, the causes and effects of dialects low use rate are relatively complex. Therefore, this paper aims to discuss and analyze the causes, potential risks and countermeasures of the limitation of dialect short videos dissemination. This research aims to clarify the factors and consequences of the problems of dialect short videos through using the research reviewing measures, and finds that the government, media network platform, video creators and local residents all need to stand out and find the efficient solutions to help the dissemination of dialect short videos.

Fear of Missing Out and Perceived Quality Effect on Purchase Intention by Students

In this modern business world, plenty of people in the society had the tendency for having Fear of Missing Out (FOMO) symptoms. This tendency is getting worsed when the person perceived his or herself lack of quality and had the tendency of rejected by the society. These two kind of problems usually blocked someone to buy a product they needed. It is hypothetically appear not only in the business world but sometimes the symptoms already appear in the education fields. As researchers from different background, anticipation of these problems is needed. Because of that, the main objective of this research is determining the effect of FOMO and perceived quality to purchase intention. The research will took 66 samples from students across various program in the university and using the Statistical Product and Service Solutions (SPSS) for interpreting the regression model output. The research concluded that FOMO and perceived quality have significant influence to students’ purchase intention.

Optimization The Utility Of E-Learning Platform Through Integrating Smart Emotional Recognition Feature

Educational applications of image processing have emerged due to data collection tools development. Education is vital field in human life where highly accurate performance is required. Integrating image processing and deep learning with the education will help to optimize the performance of entire system. It is possible now to make out the student’s emotional status through study the features from facial images taken for a group of students. That reduces the time and cost of the education by providing a facility similar to the regular classrooms environments. Which may help plenty of people who are unable to access regular educational facilities due to intolerable cost. In this paper, automatic emotional detection is being performed using neural network. Two models are used namely artificial neural network and CNN neural network. The models are tested using emotional images data. Results are reported 96.7 % and 99.2 % accuracies from bother artificial neural network and CNN respectively.

Home, green home

With energy bills on the rise, plenty of people are interested in ditching the fossil fuels currently used to heat most UK homes. The question is how to make it happen, as Margaret Harris explains.

The Battle Rages On

The Battle Rages On

Design and Build Educational Game "New Normal"

Indonesia’s first confirmed case of COVID-19 infection was in early March 2020. Of course, the citizens in Indonesia want this pandemic to end soon. The fact is, there are plenty of people who do not apply the health protocols properly in daily life. Therefore, the effort to formulate the educational media in the form of a game will be carried out in this study. “New Normal” game is an educational media about how to apply the health protocols properly that have a nice user interface design so that the players will not get bored easily while playing. Thus, the knowledge about the importance of applying the health protocols properly will be embedded in every player’s mind.

Relief, Development, Empowerment Part Three: Looking at the Larger Picture Amidst a Global Pandemic

Relief, Development, Empowerment Part Three: Looking at the Larger Picture Amidst a Global Pandemic

The nuclear accident at Chernobyl: Immediate and further consequences

The accident at Chernobyl occurred in April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Union. The incident occurred during a scheduled safety test. A combination of inherent reactor design flaws and operators’ mistakes resulted in reactor’s No.4 disaster and the emission of a large quantity of radiation. The immediate actions involved the fire extinguishing, the cleanup of radioactive residues and the prevention of a new explosion. For this purpose, plenty of people worked with self-sacrifice. The people who lived nearby were removed. As far as the socio-economic impact for the Soviet Union is concerned, it was quite serious. Moreover, the environmental and human health consequences were also alarming with thyroid cancer being the most studied. Useful conclusions, especially for the safety both of reactors and nuclear power, as well as for the impact of radiation at ecosystems have been drawn. The debate about the use of nuclear power has remained open ever since.

Sharing the Game

Sharing the Game Jean Ardell (bio) Thirty years ago this summer, Penny Marshall's A League of Their Own appeared in theaters. I did not know of the film earlier that year, when unbidden, one gray Southern California winter morning came the idea to examine the women's side of baseball. I figured I'd have to turn to fiction as there wouldn't be enough material for a non-fiction book. Little did I know. My office wall, lined with file drawers stuffed with interviews, photos, and newspaper clippings, would later demonstrate that non-fiction would suffice just fine. I found the stories I discovered compelling, inspiring this lifelong fan to get busy and spread the news that women have long been a part of every aspect of baseball, despite the constraints and mores that sought to keep it a man's game. It was downright thrilling to discover Ella Black, a Pittsburg (yes, it was spelled this way in the nineteenth century) woman whose regular column "A Woman's View" in The Sporting Life reported on the seminal 1890 season during which the upstart Players' League challenged the established National League. Then there was South Dakotan Amanda Clement's 1904 entrance into five years of paid semipro umpiring in the Upper Midwest. I was able to interview both Toni Stone and Mamie "Peanut" Johnson about their playing days in the Negro Leagues. Unfortunately, Connie Morgan, the third woman to play in that league, died before I could reach her. As for Marshall's film, I learned that she had run into difficulty raising money for the project—the concern being who would pay to see a movie about a bunch of women playing baseball during World War II? Plenty of people, it turned out. The movie went on to become the only baseball film in history to top $100 million in revenue and remains among the most beloved of the genre. You can read more about that here, in Kelly Candaele's reflections about his mother and aunt, Helen and Margaret Callaghan, whose story was central to Marshall's movie. [End Page xi] ________ In 1993, when I attended my first Society for American Baseball Research national conference in San Diego, I walked into a roomful of men. Barbara Gregorich, the author of Women at Play, and I were the only women presenters. Was I intimidated? Yes, until men like Andy McCue welcomed me into the brotherhood. And when I attended the NINE Spring Training Conference in Phoenix, Arizona, the following year, I experienced similar collegiality from Bill Kirwin, the founder of this journal and its accompanying NINE Spring Training conference, as well as Larry Gerlach, Steve Gietschier, and later David Block, Lee Lowenfish, John Thorn, and so many others. In Cooperstown, Tim Wiles's nineteen years as Director of Research at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum showed him to be another enthusiastic advocate of the women's side of the game. The same was true of Jim Gates and Bill Simons, the chairs of the Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, who welcomed the growing number of women scholars and authors who were discovering that the game they love offers a vast tableau for intellectual inquiry into America's labor relations, immigration issues, urban planning, foreign policy, segregation and race relations, gender and LGBTQ history. After MLB named former major leaguer Billy Bean its first ambassador for inclusion in 2014, it launched the Office of Diversity and Inclusion to good effect in the years since. The contents of this issue of the journal demonstrate just how much times have changed. Some may ask, why devote a special issue to the subject of women and baseball? Why not just leave us to take our place alongside our male colleagues without further ado? Several reasons: If ever there were a time in our divided country to celebrate the ability of diverse Americans to work together, it's now. Over the past thirty years, the men and women at the NINE Spring Training Conference have presented their work in a collegial environment, followed by time spent together that Bill Kirwin considered so essential: "field research"—attendance...

Somebody's Child

Somebody's Child Jena Woodhouse (bio) 1 She rode into town on the back of a friend's motorbike. I'd just put a sign in the window: "Staff wanted for busy hotel snack bar. Apply within." I remember it like yesterday. She swung her leg over the pillion and walked straight up to the sign. There was a rucksack on her back, but that was all she carried. She asked if I was the owner, then she asked about the job. She said she had experience as a cook, barista, waitress, barmaid. Within five minutes she was hired. Told me the motorcyclist was a friend she'd hooked up with on the road. She was Swiss, he was German, so they spoke the same language. I said he could stay for a few nights too, do some odd jobs in return for a bed, gave them a room upstairs. He was a photojournalist, wanted to take photos of the old mine workings on a property near here. Said some of his countrymen had been digging there, a century or so ago, hoping to find gold. But as we know, there wasn't much of that. She was as good as her word. Could do all she said she could, and more. Energy in spades. A great little worker, she turned out to be. Lovely girl too, and a bit of a looker. The bachelors from miles around got wind of her arrival, and business boomed. We could hardly keep up. I had to keep an eye on her, though. She being so young, and a foreigner and all. I had to tell her a few times, It's not a good idea to get too friendly with those young blokes. They're starved for company like yours, don't give 'em ideas or you might be sorry. I worried about her being so young and so far from home. What about your family, lovey? What about your Mum? She must be worried sick about you being on the other side of the world— But she wasn't having any of it—reckoned she could take care of herself, and that was that. I just had to hope she was right. 2 Yeah, I remember her well. Worked for Ma Driscoll, who owns the pub and caf, for about six months. All us blokes liked the look of her, but she wasn't having any. Polite, real nice to talk to, liked a good laugh, but wouldn't get too familiar, like. Didn't accept invitations unless it was to a general wingding—a barbecue or something where there were plenty of people. Wary, she was, until she met Gray. Reckon she must've seen some of them TV series about lonely blokes in the bush. Reckon he fitted the bill. Tall, dark, [End Page 361] handsome. Brooding type. Man of few words. Women seem to like a bit of a mystery, but there was no mystery there: he just wasn't much of a talker. Anyway, she seemed to fall for him, hook, line, and sinker. Moved into the homestead real quick, she did. Course, he wasn't short of a quid, he's got the biggest run in the district, but I don't reckon it was just for the money. She seemed to be head over heels for a bit. She wasn't much more than a kid, for all she acted so grown up. She was too young for him. He had a history. Not as if she was the first. The others couldn't stick it for more than a few months. Couldn't say why. Some were city girls he'd met through one of them dating sites. Didn't know what they were in for, did they, out here where the crows fly backward. Anyway, this one thought she knew better, thought she could make a go of it. Poor little blighter, now she's gone missing, the devil knows what's become of her— 3 He was my only surviving son, his father's pride and joy. His dad was killed in an accident a few years back. Sinking a bore. He...

A manuscript regarding suicidal death of physicians resulting from psychological stress in their inner world (No. 355)

The author is a 73-year-old medical research scientist who recently read an article regarding physician health and death (Reference 1). Inspired by the story and his own past experiences, he decided to write a special manuscript to be shared with medical doctors. This article has a different writing style compared to his previous 354 math-physical medicine research papers, based on a quantitative method to derive analysis results with high precision, aimed at helping patients. The goal of helping patients must go through the delivery channel of physicians and surgeons, while being concerned about the psychological health of medical doctors. This is the reason why he wrote this article with a qualitative style with an aim at medical physicians. Being a physician is an enviable profession, where they greatly invested and sacrificed to reach to where they are today. In terms of financial rewards, that is money, even though they are not generously rewarded, at least they are handsomely compensated. With their added knowledge advancement, skill improvement, and society contribution, they may even earn their deserved fame. Their ultimate goal should come from saving people’s life, not the same as people with political power or financial power. In the author’s opinion, saving lives is the outmost power to achieve; therefore, it is a desirable profession indeed. By having pride and feeling prestige at commencement by getting their MD degree, the physicians should not allow their accomplishments between the ages from 20 to 30 years of age become the only internal strength and emotional support. They should continuously improve themselves to expand into different areas in exploring new findings, learning additional skills and knowledge. This life-long learning will make a broader and more capable person, even for a physician. These newly gained inner strengths will aid physicians to face new challenges in their post-graduate school life. However, there is a price to pay from having a decent, enviable, and well-compensated profession. In terms of reducing and controlling stress, burdens, and psychological pressure that comes along with their job, life, and relationships, the author believes that they must go deeper into their own inner world, i.e. their mind and heart, to search for strength. When different types of stress overwhelms them, they must return to their original motivation when they decided to become a physician which is helping their patients. Only this type of compassion in their heart, similar to having faith in a religion, can then help them survive many types of tests and challenges they encountered in their profession and private life. For those medical doctors who chose medicine for other reasons, with material or superficial motivations, they should search their heart again to see whether another career is better for them. For example, if their initial motivation was monetary, they better shift their career early enough to be an entrepreneur who takes big risks for larger financial returns. When physicians face various stressful situations, they should not fight this battle alone. There are plenty of people who would support them as long as they speak up and seek assistance, such as from a mental health professional, like the author did. The author is an educated individual, knowledgeable scientist, and experienced engineer, but more importantly, he had many rich life experiences that were long, colorful, striving, and challenging. Through his brief self-introduction, the reader can see many similarities and also identify some connections. He cares about his medical colleagues as much as he cares about patients with chronic diseases. This is his motivation of writing this manuscript aiming at physicians, even though he knows that it is a unique article with a qualitative style instead of his previously published quantitative research papers. If anyone has interest on this subject and would like to provide feedback, please contact the author at g.hsu@ eclairemd.com. You will remain anonymous and any information provided will be confidential.

Fighting flat-Earth theory

Physicists will find it shocking, but there are plenty of people around the world who genuinely believe the Earth is flat. Rachel Brazil explores why such views are increasingly taking hold and how the physics community should best respond

Heart Beat Rate Monitoring using GSM Technology

Heart-related problems and parameters are very much important to human beings. With the gradual technological advances, it made easier for the people to capture and monitor changes in their health parameters irrespective of time and location. Atrial fibrillation is one of the most common diseases and at times can be deadly too. Detection and verification of atrial fibrillation can be done by checking the variation in the period of heart rate, if a patient has this disease then the period between each heartbeat will vary. With the increase in the population and the rise of healthcare costs, plenty of people will suffer worldwide due to lack of thorough monitoring of the patients and the inability to pay the bills. This has increased the demand for affordable quality healthcare from remote locations with the periodical inspection by the hygiene officer through GSM technology. Technological advancements in the field of hardware resulted in the depreciation of cost and most importantly reduced the communication gap between the patient and the medical personnel. In this paper, the capability for alarm systems with SMS and MATLAB is implemented as optimization techniques to reduce error and perform real-time monitoring of the patient properly.

Sylvia Weve: The Perfection of Simplicity

Sylvia Weve:The Perfection of Simplicity Ted van Lieshout (bio) Translated by Emma Rault When I graduated from art school in 1980 and embarked on the arduous process of finding my way as an illustrator, I did so with painstakingly precise drawings for publications such as NRC Handelsblad (a Dutch daily newspaper). I'd get two commissions a month at most. Each drawing would earn me 150 guilders [about $175 by today's standards]. I'd spend at least two full days working on them, because of the endless shading involved, and I was beginning to dislike drawing more with every passing day. Truth be told, I knew the moment I graduated art school that I'd picked the wrong profession. Though I liked some of the limitations imposed by illustration work, at the same time I felt trapped and straitjacketed. Drawing the same figure in the same way over and over and again made me feel like I was stuck on repeat. Until the Kiel came along. It featured poems that were kind of like the things I was scribbling in secret, and drawings by a woman who did what I'd believed to be impossible. This Sylvia Weve didn't make illustrations—she simply handed in her sketches! The sheer audacity! I thought it was amazing, and I thought: that's what I need to be doing. Why torture myself with intricate detail or endless shading, when I could be happily sketching away, letting my pen dance wildly across the page? I cut Sylvia's drawings out of the Volkskrant and in a hop, skip, and jump I transformed my style, embracing my newfound freedom. Click for larger view View full resolution So what is it that's so great about Sylvia's work—what motivated me to cut it out of the paper and save it between the pages of a tattered book? It's the perfection of simplicity, and the confidence. It doesn't matter whether or not that simplicity is really the result of one perfectly placed stroke of the pen—what matters is what the drawing looks like. When you look at this portrait, you'll see that it consists of just a few lines, and they're each of them exactly right. You can't say: this line here should have been a little more to the left or a little less slanted. It's a perfect portrait, partly because those—superfluous—details that might have ruined it have been left out. In a sense, it's abstraction, because no human face consists of just a few [End Page 69] lines, and yet it isn't abstract, because it's a portrait of a woman in whom we can recognize dozens of women. Karel Eykman wrote about his favorite drawing of Sylvia's: "Her drawings aren't finicky or 'precise,' nor are they virtuosic or 'dazzling.' More than anything, she's bold and gutsy. That's what makes her work so personal. Plenty of people have tried to copy her… But you can see right away whether it's a real Sylvia or a rip-off. And no-one can pinpoint why that is." Joke Bellemans tried, in 1999, to put Sylvia's work into words. She wrote: "Her drawings look off-the-cuff. And yet she does lots of sketches before she's satisfied. To retain the spontaneous character, she never does a 'tidy' final version of a drawing once she's reasonably happy with it. She'll glue bits of paper on top of the parts she doesn't like and then draw improvements on those, or she'll use white paint to cover up the less felicitous parts. As a result, the original drawings often look like patchwork. Over the years, she's become more and more skilled, and she doesn't need to use this cutand-paste approach as often. She has the TV on when she's working because she can't stand silence." In 1993, Sylvia illustrated my book Toen oma weg was (When Grandma Was Gone). What's striking about the drawings Sylvia made for When Grandma Was Gone is how tender they are. No fluid...

A survey of public restrooms microbial contamination in Tehran city, capital of Iran, during 2019.

Introduction:Daily use of public restrooms may have a significant impact on spreading infectious diseases. Human society could be affected by spreading of transitional infectious diseases through feces, urinary tract infection and poor personal hygiene. According to the World Health Organization reports, plenty of people's developed diseases caused by contaminated public restrooms that may result in severe health problems.Methods:This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted on 7,482 samples that were collected randomly in 6 months (spring and summer 2019) in different regions of Tehran. The Data were obtained by analyzing 804 restroom's indoor and outdoor handles, 1062 toilet faucet, 826 washbasin taps, 1,062 toilet hoses, 804 flush tank levers, 643 soap dispenser bottoms, 643 liquid soaps, 99 bar soaps, 169 toilet papers and paper towels, and 50 hand dryer machines. Samples which were tested, based on bacteriology standard methods.Result:7,482 samples were gathered of which 6,678 contaminated cases (89.25%) were observed and 804 cases (10.75%) were found non-contaminated. Escherichia coli with 28.48% and Pseudomonas with 0.39% were the most and the least common bacteria, respectively, in this study.Conclusion:The required tests to identify the bacteria that cause contamination through the use of public restrooms have been done. It is essential to inform the public of the mentioned items and teach how to prevent infectious diseases.

“Socially alien elements” in the Ukrainian society of 1929–1939 and means of their adaptation to the mechanisms of the social engineering of totalitarianism

The article analyzes particularities of the social situation in the Ukrainian SSR in 1929–1939. The mechanisms of the social engineering of the Stalinist regime, which created special difficulties for citizens with “unclean biography” and social origin, are determined. Archival sources reveal the complexity of such state campaigns as “cleaning”, passportization and verification of party documents in the republic. With the help of these campaigns the authorities identified “unreliable” citizens and created social tensions in society that pushed people to such methods of adap- tation to new conditions and rules that implied insincerity with the authorities. Particular attention is paid to Dnipropetrovsk and Odesa regions, which had certain specificity. Firstly, during the revolution in Ukraine there was an active peasant anti-Bolshevik movement there. Secondly, these were multinational, border and port areas, in which there were plenty of people who had relatives abroad or who were engaged in trafficking, illicit trade, or other “non-Soviet” affairs. The causes, methods and consequences of concealing the facts of one’s own biography (especially information about family ties) by the inhabitants of the republic are determined. Some examples of successful or unsuccessful attempts of document forging, corruption actions of local officials, through which “socially alien” citizens tried to “improve” their lives and their status, are considered. The article focuses on the techniques and methods used by the bureaucratic system to identify “socially alien” personalities in all the spheres of life of Ukrainian society. Such a policy of power was not always successful because of the inability of the system to use the resources necessary for total verification and control. Article received 10.03.2019

Getting Closer to Consumer Performance Experience: Research on Performance Experience Components through Online Post Analysis

오늘날 문화소비를 연구하는데 있어 실제 관람객의 경험을 구체적으로 이해하고 분석하는 작업은 핵심적이다. 이는 소셜미디어 등 표현할 수 있는 미디어 공간이 증가하면서 실제로 사람들이 많은 공연 경험들을 기록으로 남기고 있기 때문에 이 전에는 접근이 불가능했던 주관적인 경험의 기록들을 데이터로 활용할 수 있게 되었 다는 점과 깊이 관련되어 있다. 이 연구는 사람들의 공연 경험이 실제로 어떤 요소로 구성되어 있는지를 온라인상에 존재하는 공연 경험에 대한 사람들의 실제 표현에 기반해 살펴보고자 한다. 이를 위해 두 가지 유형의 데이터를 확보하였다. 먼저 관람 전에 공연 추천을 요청하는 글을 올릴 때 원하는 공연을 어떻게 표현하는가를 지식인과 카페 플랫폼에서 수집해 수식어를 중심으로 분석하였다. 그 결과 사람들은 동반자나 나이와 같은 개인의 구체적인 상황이 반영된 수식어를 주로 사용하는 것으로 나타났다. 한편 티켓예매사이트의 공연 후기 글을 통해 관람 후 경험이 어떻게 묘사되었는가를 분석하였다. 그 결과 기존 연구에서 공연 경험 만족 요소로 알려져 왔던 스토리나 음악과 같은 요소 외에도 동반자, 재관람 의도, 관람 경력과 관련된 표현이 중심을 이루는 것으로 드러났다. 연구 결과에 대한 이론적 논의 뿐아니라 실용적 의의와 한계에 대해서 논의하였다.In studying culture consumption today, it is essential to understand and analyze the actual visitors experiences in detail. This is deeply related to the fact that we can utilize subjective experience records that were previously inaccessible as data since plenty of people actually record many performance experiences in the media space such as social media. This study attempts to examine what elements actually consists of people s performance experience based on actual expression of the performance experience that exists online. For this, we collected two types of data. First, we collected posts which required performance recommendation on online platforms such as Jisik-In and Cafes to see how people describe what they want and analyzed data focusing on the modifiers. Results show that people mainly use modifiers that reflect the specific situation of the individual such as companion or age. In addition we analyzed how the experience was described after the show through the review posts of ticket booking site. Results show how expressions are centered around companions, revisit intentions, and viewing experiences besides elements such as story and music, which have been known as main satisfaction elements of performance experience in previous studies. In addition, we discussed the practical implications and limitations of the study as well as the theoretical discussion

The position of low carb diet in the cancer adjuvant therapy: Clinical nutrition with low carb diet in cancer patients

Low carbohydrate diet (Low Carb Diet; LCD) is known for ages and exert a positive effect on the health-related quality of life in plenty of people [1]. It is also used over 100 years as a therapeutic tool in various illnesses. In epilepsy this – and the more aggressive version, the ketogenic diet (KD) – is a well-accepted evidence-based treatment modality for patients suffering from pharmacotherapy resistant type of the illness [2]. LCD is also used as a slimming diet among others under the name “Atkins diet“, that has been introduced for public ca. 50 years ago (Atkins Nutritional Approach). However, originally it was developed by cardiologist Robert C. Atkins to publish his concept of healthy eating to help patients with obesity and related health problems (mainly cardiovascular disease, today, in a broader sense, the cardiometabolic syndrome). Public advantages of its moderate version has also been recently demonstrated by NIPPON DATA [3]. Oncological use of carbohydrate-restricted diet started earlier but research activity of Nobel laureate (1924) Otto Warburg supplied the real scientific background to continue this type of therapy in cancer patients. According to his hypothesis tumor cells mainly get energy from anaerobic glycolysis that is not normal in healthy human cells [4]. Of course, we know already that tumor cell metabolism is much more complex.

Meet the Associate Editors: Stephen Holman

Meet the Associate Editors: Stephen Holman