Street Points Research Articles

Analyzing Total Suspended Particulate at AP Pettarani Street in Makassar City

AP Pettarani Street is one of the main roads that is the center of activity in urban areas in Makassar City. The area on this road segment is almost entirely commercial and office area. This causes high motor vehicle traffic activity and frequent traffic jams. This activity can lead to decreased air quality as well as human health problems. One of the air pollutants is Total Suspended Particulate (TSP). This study was conducted to determine the concentration of TSP in ambient air and complaints of health problems felt by the people around AP Pettarani Street. There are six street points as TSP sampling sites and questionnaires. Measurements were carried out using the HVAS (High Volume Air Sampler) for TSP concentration and Google Form to distribute questionnaires to the community around the AP Pettarani Street Section. The results of the study showed that the concentration of TSP in the AP Pettarani Street of Makassar City ranged between 183.93 g/Nm3 - 301.64 g/Nm3. Furthermore, the health complaints perceived by the community around the AP Pettarani Street are still in a low scale – very low, but it is still recommended that the public continue to wear masks while outdoors to reduce the risk of health disturbances due to particulate dust.

Use of Artificial Intelligence in the Real World

Artificial Intelligence is a significant innovation that is an important part of our day-to-day lives as well as our industry. Today, artificial intelligence is a rapidly advancing innovation in our daily lives. From the Innovation Industry to ordinary people, it will change the way of life. A human's state is updated by the AI at every point in their lives. As an example, a school today uses AI programming to enable participation based on face recognition. In the future, driverless cars will be the best. Vehicles are completely constrained by the AI programming that detects signs and street points. In most ICT models, enormous amounts of information are incorporated, self-thought capability is not addressed, and there is a lot of confusion. There is an explosion of creative innovations, such as corporate collaboration and profound learning. As AI frameworks learn to adapt to individuals' character and goals, individuals' future relationships with machines will always become contact, liquid, and customized. As a result of these AI applications, individuals will be able to monitor their wellbeing, be alerted to risks in advance, and receive administrations when they need them. While AI continues to bring significant benefits in every field, it also raises significant moral and social issues, such as security issues. A number of occupations have already been dislodged due to robotics and other artificial intelligence advancements. In this paper, we focus on the more extensive and smaller scope of man-made consciousness, its shrewd gadgets, and future advancements. Additionally, this paper shed a few light on how man-made brainpower is used in the day-to-day world.

The Nature of the Exile: Discourse and Power inThe Thief of Bagdad

Although made primarily in England, the production of The Thief of Bagdad was completed in America and as such has much in common with Hollywood cinema. As Street points out (2002: 58), it was one of the top-grossing films of 1940 in the US market, and with the eminently recognisable backdrop of the Grand Canyon where some of the exteriors were shot it is easy to mistake it for an American film. This was by no means accidental: Alexander Korda’s commercial ambitions meant that his placed an emphasis on the spectacular in an effort to improve their chances at the American box office. Moreover, The Thief of Bagdad is a loose remake of Raoul Walsh’s 1924 silent spectacular starring Douglas Fairbanks. While the use of Technicolor dictated a reliance on the technology, expertise and creative talent of Hollywood; associate producer William Cameron Menzies , for instance, is to be credited with the look of the film as much as the uncredited set designer, the youngest Korda brother, Vincent. The film’s Hollywood flavour is reaffirmed by the near-universal silence surrounding it in British film historiography. It is totally absent in key works on British cinema by Ashby and Higson (2000), Sargeant (2005), Barr (1986) and Drazin (1998); while those by Aldgate and Richards (1999), Murphy (2001), Armes (1978) and Low (1979) afford it only the most fleeting mention. In a recent article Drazin gives an overview of Korda’s Technicolor films in which The Thief of Bagdad appears, almost as an afterthought (2010: 18). And even Glancy’s (1999) book, When Hollywood Loved Britain: the ‘Hollywood’ British Film 1939-1945, omits any mention of the film. Indeed, the most ‘exhaustive’ analysis of The Thief of Bagdad in overviews of British cinema is a paragraph devoted to it by Landy (1991: 110), who remarks on the film’s focus on the spectacular and the problematic representation of foreigners and women (Sabu and Duprez), but, puzzlingly, has nothing to say about Veidt. It is this critical silence around the film, and more generally around the star body of Conrad Veidt, that I seek to redress here. While it may be a stretch to argue that Jaffar is the hero of the piece, I will consider his character as victim, as the rejected, denied and excluded ‘other’. I read Veidt’s star body as an exilic body, and analyse Jaffar, his actions, motivations and representation, through a cultural studies approach concerned above all with the issue of exile. This essay offers, then, a detailed textual analysis of a key performance by a significant exilic actor in the starring role of a Technicolor super-production in order to show that there is more to cinema and exile than the tragic irony of exilic actors playing their own persecutors (Garncarz 2006: 103-114), or the counter-hegemonic inflection of the film style of ‘accented’ filmmakers (Naficy 2001: 4). The Thief of Bagdad (re)presents the exilic body in hitherto unconsidered ways, contributing to a normative discourse constructing the nation within a binary system best described as ‘us versus them’.

The problems with sponsorship in us broadcasting, 1930s–1950s: perspectives from the advertising industry

Sponsorship, or advertiser control of programming, was the predominant form of program financing in American commercial broadcasting in the 1930s; by the end of the 1950s, only a minority of progra...

INVESTIGATION INTO HEAVY METALS IN STORM WASTEWATER FROM VILNIUS ŽIRMŪNAI DISTRICT AND POLLUTANTITS SPREAD MODEL IN NERIS RIVER

The paper discusses investigation into uncleaned storm wastewater pollution with heavy metals in Vilnius Žirmūnai district. The goal is to determine the dependency of storm wastewater pollution with heavy metals on transport intensity. After determining this dependency, sweeps from street points is experimentally studied with the most intensive transport flows. As the street sweeps together with storm wastewater are both outflow from streets and through outflow pipes directly to the Neris, heavy metals in the outflow pipe sludge are also studied for each pool. The following heavy metals have been experimentally studied: Pb, Mn, Cr, Zn, Cu, Ni. The flame atomic absorption spectrometry method was used. The process of analysis is explained in short and its results are provided. A mathematical model by Phoenics 3.5 version program showing the distribution of heavy metals in the Neris river stream is made on the basis of the results received. Santrauka Nagrinejama nevalomu lietaus nuoteku tarša sunkiaisiais metalais Vilniaus Žirmūnu rajone. Siekiant nustatyti ryši tarp lietaus nuoteku užterštumo sunkiaisiais metalais nuo transporto eksperimentiškai tiriamos sašlavos nuo gatviu, kuriuos su lietumi išplaunamos i upe. Taip pat tiriami sunkieji metalai iš lietaus ištekamuju vamzdžiu i Neri. Eksperimentiškai nagrinejami šie sunkieji metalai: Pb, Mn, Cr, Zn, Cu, Ni. Tam panaudotas liepsnos absorbcijos spektrometrinis metodas. Trumpai aptariamas analizes procesas ir pateikiami tyrimu rezultatai. Remiantis gautais rezultatais sudaromas matematinis teršalu sklaidos modelis Neries upes tekmeje taikant Phoenics 3.5 programa. Резюме Исследуется загрязнение неочищаемых дождевых стоков тяжелыми металлами в районе Жирмунай г. Вильнюса. Для определения степени загрязнения дождевых стоков тяжелыми металлами от транспорта экспериментально исследовался мусор с улиц, вымываемый с дождем в реку. Также исследовались тяжелые металлы в дождевых стоках, попадающих в реку Нерис. Экспериментально с применением абсорбционно-спектрометрического метода исследовались тяжелые металлы Pb, Mn, Cr, Zn, Cu, Ni. Рассмотрен процесс анализа и результаты исследований. На основе полученных результатов составлена математическая модель распределения загрязняющих веществ в течении реки.

Heterogeneity in the expression of female sexual commerce in Mexico City

To evaluate the relationships among the socio-economic, demographic, and sexual behavior characteristics of commercial sexual workers (CSW) and their work site. A sampling frame was constructed in the Delegación Cuauhtémoc, México City, which included massage parlors, bars, and street points. During 1993,women were selected who answered a questionnaire that inquired about socio-economic and demographic characteristics and sexual behavior, and who gave a blood sample for evaluating the seroprevalence of the herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2), which was evaluated using a Western blot test. Characteristics such as age, education, socio-economic level, sexual behavior, and seroprevalence indicators were related with the work site variable. This last variable was associated with the women's sexual behavior and with the prevalence of antibodies against HSV-2. Socio-economic and sexual behavior characteristics of the women studied, measured at the individual level, were significantly related with social processes such as the organization of commercial sex in Mexico City. This organization is heterogeneous, taking on different expressions depending on the type of work site.