Unfamiliar Term Research Articles

Undercommoning Anthrogenesis

Sophie Lewis coined anthrogenesis as “the production of human beings” and, using this unfamiliar term, calls for the radical reimagining of gestational politics, as an alternative to liberal feminism's focus on choice. Revivisng Shulamith Firestone, for feminists like Lewis and Helen Hester this reimagination takes shape within a techno‐utopic communist framework. While enticing, such a framework relies on a modernist understanding of institutions that has been critiqued by decolonial and abolitionist theory and risks undervaluing the fugitive underground work of radical care and mutual aid that already exists today. In this article, two strategies at play in the contemporary Marxist reimagination of anthrogenesis are differentiated: (1) a communist approach focusing primarily on fundamentally restructuring the commons of reproductive care on a grand societal scale and (2) an “undercommons” approach that aims to fugitively abolish public institutions through small‐scale mutual aid and radical care practices that are already constituting otherworlds of reproductive justice through transnational coalitions. Highlighting abortion and birth networks in the Netherlands (the Abortion Network Amsterdam and the Geboortebeweging, a loose collaborative network of midwives) who transnationally and fugitively care for anthrogenesis, the second strategy is proposed as the more promising one for the anthrogenesis of human beings otherwise. The author develops another possible outcome of Firestone's revolutionary thought: not a gestational communism but an anarcho‐abolitionist fugitive undercommoning of anthrogenesis, through the work Stefano Harney and Fred Moten, Marquis Bey, and Chiara Bottici.

The Impact of Gamification on Slovenian Consumers’ Online Shopping

Gamification involves integrating game mechanics into non-game environments such as business intranets, online communities, websites, and learning management systems to boost participation. Its aim is to actively engage employees, customers, and other stakeholders, fostering collaboration, sharing, and interaction. Gamification is a relatively unfamiliar term in Slovenia. The objective of this study is to investigate the influence of gamification on Slovenian consumers, specifically how it affects the online shopping process and user engagement during purchases. To test the hypotheses, we used appropriate statistical tools: chi-square, Friedman, and Wilcoxon tests. The findings indicate that gamification’s strongest influence is not on the post-purchase evaluation phase but rather on the alternative evaluation phase. It is interesting that highly rated reviewers significantly influence product purchases in online stores, while consumers are unwilling to increase their spending on online purchases in exchange for gamification-related benefits.

Risk perception of food chemicals and technologies in the Midwest of Brazil: A population-based cross-sectional survey

This cross-sectional study aimed to assess the risk perception of three different population groups in the Federal District, Midwest Brazil, regarding chemical and technological risks related to food. An objective questionnaire was applied from May 2018 to January 2020 to 1,000 individuals in supermarkets, universities (only students) and hospitals/clinics. Risk perception was assessed through five general questions, and the degree of worry regarding 11 food-related hazards measured by a three-point scale (low, medium and high). The impact of belonging to a group and of sociodemographic variables on the worry level was assessed by multinomial logistic regression and expressed as Odds Ratio (OR). Over 80% of the participants had high or medium worry level about the presence of chemicals in food, hospital/clinic group having significantly higher level than the university group. Heavy metals had a significant higher worry score than all other hazards (2.76 ± 0.55) and was the only hazard that was not impacted by the group or any sociodemographic variable. Nanotechnology had a significantly lower score than all others hazards and, along with mycotoxins, was the most unfamiliar term to the respondents. In the adjusted multinomial model, older individuals, those interviewed in hospital/clinic, and women showed significantly greater risk perception to most hazards. Income and education exerted less effect, except for the technologies, which significantly caused more worry among individuals with lower income and/or education. The results of this study can help government authorities in the implementation of effective risk communication strategies aimed at different population segments.

Will blue hydrogen lock us into fossil fuels forever?

Will blue hydrogen lock us into fossil fuels forever?

Recovery from 'schizophrenia': Perspectives of mental health nurses in the Eastern island of Indonesia.

Recovery is a way of life to make people's lives more meaningful by working and interacting socially in the community. The recovery has become a new vision of mental health services, including in persons with schizophrenia. However, this concept is relatively new and still limited to nurses in developing countries, such as Indonesia. Several studies among nurses related to this topic have been conducted in the Western part of Indonesia. Yet, no studies have been implemented in the Eastern part of Indonesia. Therefore, exploring nurses' perspectives in the Eastern island of Indonesia is necessary to provide a complete understanding of recovery in patients with schizophrenia. To explore the perspectives of mental health nurses on recovery from schizophrenia. This was a qualitative study using a phenomenological design. The study was conducted from April to May 2020 at community health centers in Maluku, Indonesia. Eight nurses recruited using purposive sampling participated in in-depth interviews. The interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed verbatim, validated, and analyzed based on Colaizzi's method of data analysis. Five themes were generated, including (i) treat a patient like a brother, (ii) recovery as an unfamiliar term with various meanings, (iii) medication as the primary action but also the main problem, (iv) being recovered if referred to a mental hospital, and (v) ineffective mental health programs. The findings of this study can be used as an input and evaluation for nurse managers to make an effort to uniform the perception among nurses in Indonesia regarding the recovery process in schizophrenia. It is also suggested that community health centers leaders and mental health policymakers prioritize and optimize recovery-oriented mental health programs and services in the Eastern island of Indonesia. Additionally, the findings offer new insight about 'we are brothers' or called 'hidop orang basudara', which is expected to be one motto for nursing care in Indonesia and beyond.

An Early Stage Researcher's Primer on Systems Medicine Terminology.

Background: Systems Medicine is a novel approach to medicine, that is, an interdisciplinary field that considers the human body as a system, composed of multiple parts and of complex relationships at multiple levels, and further integrated into an environment. Exploring Systems Medicine implies understanding and combining concepts coming from diametral different fields, including medicine, biology, statistics, modeling and simulation, and data science. Such heterogeneity leads to semantic issues, which may slow down implementation and fruitful interaction between these highly diverse fields.Methods: In this review, we collect and explain more than100 terms related to Systems Medicine. These include both modeling and data science terms and basic systems medicine terms, along with some synthetic definitions, examples of applications, and lists of relevant references.Results: This glossary aims at being a first aid kit for the Systems Medicine researcher facing an unfamiliar term, where he/she can get a first understanding of them, and, more importantly, examples and references for digging into the topic.

Backwash in Higher Education: Calibrating assessment and swinging the pendulum From Summative Assessment

Now more than ever, there exists a plethora of empirical evidence to uphold that examinations used in educational institutions have a backwash effect, a well-recognized phenomenon among applied linguists, educators and teachers, which is the effect of test on teaching and learning (Alderson & Wall, 1993; Bailey, 1999; Messick, 1996; Widen et al., 1997; Hughes, 2003; Yi-Ching, 2009). This article essentially targets this phenomenon in Moroccan higher education. It seeks to provide a concise theoretical framework to render the reader au fait with such an unfamiliar term. It aims at examining the extent to which higher education assessments affect EFL students’ academic achievements through sketching examples from the summative assessment practices used by faculty instructors at Ibn Zohr University, Agadir, Morocco. It also aims at suggesting some pedagogical implications to harness teaching and learning in Moroccan higher education.

Improving Performance Management System of Human Resource Aspect in Health Drink Industry Startup

In a company, Human Resource Management is important in order to make sure the quality of people in the company are in the best state. Human Resource Management is focusing on how to recruit and develop the best people, that’s why there are many different tools and systems that can be used in order to achieve the goal. Moringa Culinary is a new company in the health drink industry that sells variant beverages from moringa leaves as the main material. In Moringa Company, Human Resource Management is still an unfamiliar term, and by looking at the data of the company, it is shown that Moringa Culinary still doesn’t have an established system about performance management that causes the percentage of company’s target achievement from September 2019 to March 2020 is unstable. Hence, the researcher made this study to analyse the best performance management system that can be implemented in Moringa Culinary. This research was conducted using qualitative methods by interviewing similar businesses in the same industry to know about the current applied management system in the company and to compare the effectiveness between one and another. The researcher will also use SWOT analysis to evaluate the internal condition in Moringa Culinary. The most suitable performance management system for Moringa Culinary in order for Moringa Culinary to be able to achieve all the company’s target can be revealed in the result of this study.

Introduction to digital pathology and computer-aided pathology

Digital pathology (DP) is no longer an unfamiliar term for pathologists, but it is still difficult for many pathologists to understand the engineering and mathematics concepts involved in DP. Computer-aided pathology (CAP) aids pathologists in diagnosis. However, some consider CAP a threat to the existence of pathologists and are skeptical of its clinical utility. Implementation of DP is very burdensome for pathologists because technical factors, impact on workflow, and information technology infrastructure must be considered. In this paper, various terms related to DP and computer-aided pathologic diagnosis are defined, current applications of DP are discussed, and various issues related to implementation of DP are outlined. The development of computer-aided pathologic diagnostic tools and their limitations are also discussed.

Sentiment Categorization through Natural Language Processing : A Survey

Sentiment is an attitude, thought, or judgment prompted by feeling. Sentiment analysis, which is also known as opinion mining, studies people’s sentiments towards certain entities. Sentiment Analysis isn’t an unfamiliar term anymore. Today, smart phones, high speed Internet and various forums and social networks, have made it very common for people to give voice to their opinions. Therefore, a lot of textual data is available in various forms where people express their opinions. Analysing this data to know the underlying sentiment behind it has also become quite popular these days. Various techniques and applications have been created in the past and even today to perform sentiment analysis. This paper contributes towards understanding some of the modern techniques and in knowing which technique to use under what circumstances. It also studies feature extraction which is an important aspect of sentiment analysis. Feature extraction allows us to identify the features in the given text and analyse the sentiment for each feature.

FUNGSI DAN PERAN HUMAS DI LEMBAGA PENDIDIKAN


 AbstractThe demand for quality human resources in order to compete in the ASEAN Economic Community or the ASEAN Free Market is a challenge for educational institutions to continuously improve their quality in preparing human resources with good morals and have competitive advantages. The current development of public relations is quite encouraging. Public relations or public relations is no longer an unfamiliar term. The term is indeed quite popular and has become popular in Indonesia and the public relations profession is now becoming a "trend" in society. This is indicated by the increasing number of institutions or companies that place public relations in their organizational structures, including in educational institutions. The purpose of this research is to find out the Function and Role of Public Relations in Educational Institutions. The theory used in this study is the role of public relations according to Dozier & Broom as follows: Expert Prescriber, Communication Facilitator, Problem solving process facilitator, Communication technician. The approach and research method used in this study are qualitative descriptive. In this study, it was determined who became the key informants and informants. If it is related to the main problem of the research, the author determines the purposive technique namely: Principal and Deputy Principal. Based on the explanation of the discussion it can be concluded that the position of public relations in the 3 schools that were used as samples differed. There are others that are doubled by other parts but some have started to have a stand-alone public relations department so that the roles and functions of public relations are different. However, the role and function of public relations is still not in accordance with what it should be. There are still schools that feel it is not important to have public relations. Whereas in other schools, the role of public relations has been little seen even though it is only aimed at just one public such as industry. 
 Keyword: PR Function, Role of PR, Public Relations Education Institution

New paradigm of functional regulation by DNA mimic proteins: Recent updates.

For many, "DNA mimic protein" (DMP) remains an unfamiliar term. The key feature of these proteins is their DNA-like shape and charge distribution, and they affect the activity of DNA-binding proteins by occupying their DNA-binding domains. Functionally, DMPs regulate mechanisms such as gene expression, restriction, and DNA repair as well as the nucleosome package. Although a few DMPs, such as phage uracil DNA glycosylase inhibitor (UGI) and overcome classical restriction (Ocr), were reported about 20 years ago, only a small number of DMPs have been studied to date. In 2014, we reviewed the functional and structural features of 16 DMPs that were known at the time. Now, seven new DMPs, namely anti-CRISPR suppressors AcrF2, AcrF10 and AcrIIA4, human immunodeficiency virus essential factor VPR, multi-functional inhibitor anti-restriction nuclease (Arn), translational regulator AbbA, and putative Z-DNA mimic MBD3, have been reported. In addition, further study of two previously known DMPs, DMP19 and SAUGI, increased our knowledge of their importance and function. Here, we discuss these updated results and address how several characteristics of the structure/sequence of DMPs (e.g. the DNA-like charge distribution and structural D/E-rich repeats) might someday be used to identify new DMPs using bioinformatic approach. © 2018 IUBMB Life, 71(5):539-548, 2019.

Understanding of Prospective Physics Teachers Students Toward Pedagogical Content Knowledge on Optical Geometry Materials

This article discusses about Pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) profile of prospective physics teachers on optical geometry materials. Data collected using interview and questionnaire, and the data were analyzed descriptively. The results showed that PCK is an unfamiliar term to students. The extreme findings in this study is the lack of understanding of PCK by prospective physics teachers relating to the importance of recognizing the characteristics of students and how to manage questions from students, which teacher has to directly answer questions from students, and how to respond to the students’ incorrect answer, mostly prospective physics teachers assume that in case of the students answer incorrectly, the students should be directly blamed. Prospective physics teachers have not yet integrated the pedagogical knowledge with the content knowledge in their possess learning it he optical geometry material.

Peran Perbankan Syariah terhadap Eksistensi UMKM Industri Rumah Tangga Batik

This study aims to determine the degree level of Islamic banking participation to support the financial inclusion for the Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (SME). Through the qualitative descriptive approach, with batik Laweyan as its case study, the result revealed that the role of Islamic banking in the existence of SME batik Laweyan still very low, the socialization of their product also minimum, thereby the SME batik Laweyan not interested in doing loan or financing. Some of the influencing factors are Islamic banking considered having complicated in the procedure, unfamiliar term used for their product, feeling uncertain and afraid to make sharia the bank financing.Keywords:Islamic banking, SME, Batik Laweyan

Sulfur Atom in its Bound State Is a Unique Element Involved in Physiological Functions in Mammals.

It was in the 1950s that the term polysulfide or persulfide was introduced in biological studies. The unfamiliar term “sulfane sulfur” sometimes appeared in papers published in the 1970s, and was defined in the review article by Westley in 1983. In the article, sulfane sulfur is described as sulfur atoms that are covalently bound only with sulfur atoms, and as this explanation was somewhat difficult to comprehend, it was not generally accepted. Thus, in the early 1990s, we redefined these sulfur species as “bound sulfur”, which easily converts to hydrogen sulfide on reduction with a thiol reducing agent. In other words, bound sulfur refers to a sulfur atom that exists in a zero to divalent form (0 to −2). The first part of this review focuses on the fluorescent derivatization HPLC method—which we developed for measurement of bound sulfur—and explains the distribution of bound sulfur and the hydrogen sulfide-producing ability of various tissues, as clarified by this method. Next, we discuss diverse physiological functions and involvement of polysulfide, a typical type of bound sulfur, in the redox regulation system. Additionally, we also address its possible physiological role in the central nervous system, based on its action of scavenging reactive carbonyl compounds.

Affective Realism

Affective Realism

Ciclosporin in canine dermatology: a decade of comfort

I OFTEN begin a lecture on atopic dermatitis by reflecting what on our very limited (perhaps even naive) view of the pathogenesis of this challenging condition was 20 years ago,...

Medical writing in Finland

Finland has a flourishing pharmaceutical and life science industry and research scene. Medical writing, however, is an unfamiliar term to many Finns and there is no Finnish equivalent for the title ‘medical writer’. Those people who do medical writing in Finland, but are by job description something else, may be members of other associations or unions and may not even be aware that what they do is actually called medical writing. Finnish medical writers do not have an association of their own, so EMWA could serve as a forum for bringing medical writers in Finland together with each other and with medical writers in other countries.

Nietzsche, die Orchestikologie und das dissipative Denken

Nietzsche, die Orchestikologie und das dissipative Denken

Teachers as mental health promoters: a study of teachers' understanding of the concept of mental health

Based on results from a mixed method approach, using focus group interviews (N = 15) and survey research (N = 1575, this paper explores Norwegian K12 teachers' understanding of the concept of mental health. The theoretical framework of analysis is a socio-ecological and systemic perspective, seeing conceptual understanding as a result of a complex interplay between factors on individual, organizational and state/society levels. Existing research indicates that mental health is an unfamiliar term in a school context, and often negatively loaded. Our results support this, but show significant differences in school type, where teachers in higher grades report more frequent use of the term, more positive term-loading and less tendency to prefer ‘well-being’ as a substitute, rather than as a complementary term to mental health. These teachers also report significantly higher levels of organizational support on mental health promotion. At individual level, experience and further education were important for dif...