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Analisis Podcast Close The Door Tentang Pelanggaran Etika Episode Catheez

The purpose of this research is to conduct an analysis of possible ethical violations contained in the episode "CRAZY KAYA GINI TURNS OME TV⁉️ - CATHEEZ - WHERE IS THE BOCIL OME TV!?" from the "Close the Door" podcast narrated by Catheez. This research uses a qualitative approach to identify and evaluate ethical aspects that appear in the conversations and narratives in the podcast. This research also integrates feminist discourse theory with Vand DJik which is divided into 3 structures, namely macro structure, super structure and micro structure to explore the influence of this episode on gender construction and social norms in the context of conversation. The results of the research identified several forms of ethical violations which were emphasized in the episode including gender stereotyping, verbal harassment, as well as the use of derogatory language. With a feminist discourse perspective, this research also reveals the ways in which these episodes may strengthen or undermine gender norms in society. The results of this research provide important insights regarding the influence of podcasts on understanding ethics and social norms, taking into account gender and feminist perspectives. This research makes an important contribution to understanding the ethical issues that arise in the world of podcasts and also how feminist discourse theory can be applied to analyze the impact of audio media such as podcasts in the social and cultural realm.

Dokąd zmierza historia w Afryce?

Translation of the opening lecture during XXIII International Congress of Historical Sciences (WHERE IS HISTORY GOING IN AFRICA?)

Unpacking Aid in Africa- The Decolonization Turn

WHERE IS THE MONEY COMING FROM? Is development aid invested in Africa a beacon of hope or an example of ‘Afro-pessimism’?[1] Today, Africa finds itself at a crucial juncture of development with a growing population, burgeoning market, expanding resource base, and, more importantly, a willingness to orchestrate a future driven by an African development vision. The vital caveat in this discussion is that Africa’s bright future is not merely privy to African nation-states or its citizens but finds itself within policy briefs of Western countries, budgets of philanthropic organizations, and audit reports of development partners. Rooted within the call to decolonize knowledge, systems, and universities, there is a growing agreement that philanthropy in Africa must be decolonized (Krauss, 2018). Development aid must be unpacked to engage with colonial and hegemonic institutions, power, and dynamics that operate or structure it. Development practitioners engaging with African development, its multiple futures, and stakes highlight essential considerations to critically analyze the colonial basis of aid invested in Africa. Firstly, scholars question the characterization of aid as a free handout or a generous investment for improving ‘unhopeful’ lives. The reality is that support in Africa is conditional, directed at strategic interest to gain influence, partners, workers, market, and resources, to name a few (Iweala, 2017). The second complexity is the investment history and the ideology that propels it. Historically, Africans were ‘helped’ to ‘liberate’ and ‘save’ them by displaying poverty and violence as the continent’s reality (Goris & Magendane, 2021). This ideological basis laid the ground for humanitarian interventions and logic wherein infrastructure was built to reinforce colonial purposes, exposing the lasting overlap between aid and colonialism in its operations. Colonialism extends far beyond the occupation of ‘territory’ by force (Banerjee & Shriram, 2022). Within this context, the call for decolonization means that acts of generosity cannot absolve individuals (read philanthropists) from accountability for their actions. Thirdly, the sector’s expected investment outcome from ‘capacity building’ to ‘capacity bridging’ by rooting philanthropy in social justice, equality, representation, and empowerment is a recurring debate (Peace Direct et al., 2023). An often-quoted argument is that humanitarianism historically disabled African states to not invest in their development or generate wealth for development purposes (Goris, 2021). Does the call for decolonization imply a complete withdrawal of humanitarian aid to help states find their grounding, and is a disconnected approach the solution to incoming foreign aid in an interconnected world (Krauss, 2018)? While problematizing the basis of philanthropy in Africa, this paper also engages with possible policy solutions that, rather than absolving philanthropists of responsibility, look at involving Africans as equal partners within the aid ecosystem.

WARTOK: NETWORKED SOUNDSCAPES OF MEMETIC WARFARE

This panel investigates the networked soundscapes of memetic warfare on TikTok, a platform crucial in mediating the ongoing war in Ukraine since February 2022. Introduced to the public as a unique form of war programming during the first week of Russia's full-scale military invasion (Mobilio 2022), WarTok—a portmanteau of ‘TikTok’ and ‘war’—signifies "the war of super-empowered individuals armed only with smartphones" (Friedmann 2022). Producing headlines such as "TikTok's Amazing Russian-Ukraine War Videos," (Figure 1) the term necessitates critical and ethical scrutiny, not only for its sensationalist stance but also for the collapse of contexts it entails. Integrated into a platform that thrives on remixing, WarTok seamlessly intertwines on-the-ground war reporting with war propaganda—an aspect explored across all panel contributions through the lens of music. Networked Soundscapes The choice for sound as the primary step in our exploration not only derives from the platform’s logic of content creation, it also acknowledges music’s affective impact and its historical role in propaganda (Thompson & Biddle 2013). Music on TikTok serves as both an affective mediator and a highly templatable networker. Recent studies highlight the templatability of TikTok sounds, offering insights into content creators' attention-grabbing techniques (Abidin & Kaye 2021), logics of trend dilution (Bainotti et al., 2022), issue-specific remix cultures (Primig et al. 2023), and infrastructural meme collection (Rogers & Giorgi 2023). Aural linkages between templates can intersect with other platform-native modalities of expression, producing networked soundscapes. A soundscape, as we approach it by leaning into TikTok’s logic of indexing “listed” and “original” sounds, foregrounds audio as the main memetic stratifier, opening up different paths for navigating content (Geboers et al., forthcoming). Hashtags and sounds, for example, can turn into a source of mutual amplification or may remain disengaged even when united through technical means (Pilipets 2023). Feeding into contested attentional dynamics of digital media (Boler & Davis 2021), propaganda by means of TikTok sharing takes on a new dimension in a highly contested space, which is said to “raise memes to the level of infrastructure” (Zulli & Zulli 2021). Memetic Warfare Often driven by a cynical hunt for eyeballs, memetic warfare on social media taps into humor and mockery, inviting playful participation (Divon 2022), channeling disinformation (Bösch 2023), and using agitainment to captivate publics beyond the explicitly political (Tuters and Noordenbos forthcoming). In the context of war propaganda, memes become central agents of partisan bonding through recognizable templates and inscribed in-group cues (Arkenbout & Scherz 2022). TikTok music expands the toolbox of crafting memes, opening up new venues of boundary work and populist instrumentalization (Boichak & Hoskins 2022). TikTok is renowned for its ability to implant short video earworms, perceived as stickier than complete songs (Vizcaíno-Verdú & Abidin 2022). Some attribute this phenomenon to the cognitive principle that human memory retains unfinished tasks more effectively than completed ones, generating affective tension (Carson 2022). Walter J. Ong’s “secondary orality”, a concept revived by Venturini (2022), is one way to address this tension in online spaces where written words often become spoken words and where evanescence is ingrained into the logic of engagement. Foregrounding the memetic function of TikTok, the panel sets out to explore how the ultra-nationalist landscape of Russian WarTok and the tactics of pro-Ukrainian hijacking intertwine in a complex ecology of imitation and attention hijacking. THE SOUND OF DISINFORMATION: TIKTOK, COMPUTATIONAL PROPAGANDA AND THE INVASION OF UKRAINE Tom Divon and Marcus Bösch “ДОБРОГО ВЕЧОРА WHERE ARE YOU FROM”: MEMETIC REVERSAL, CULTURAL APPROPRIATION, AND SOUND HIJACKING Daria Delavar-Kasmai AMBIENT PROPAGANDA: THE DARK REFRAIN OF WARTOK Marc Tuters and Boris Noordenbos WHAT IF THEY ATTACK? КАТЮША AND THE COUNTERMOBILIZATION OF SOUND ON WARTOK Elena Pilipets and Marloes Geboers AMBIGUOUS STANCE-TAKING AND OPPOSITIONAL SOUND PUBLICS ON DOUYIN DURING THE RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR Richard Rogers and Xiaoke Zhang

INVOLUNTARY TREATMENT OF PERSONS WITH MENTAL DISORDERS IN THE REPUBLIC OF SRPSKA - WHERE WERE WE AND WHERE ARE WE NOW?

The first Law on the Protection of Persons with Mental Disorders of the Republic of Srpska was passed in 2004 and in it the social interest (endangering others) and vital interest (endangering oneself) are emphasized as indications for involuntary detention of a person for treatment, and the new Law of 2020 puts medical indication (health condition) in the foreground which is in line with the humanization of attitudes towards those persons. In this paper, special emphasis is placed on the analysis of the applicability of the first adopted Law critically from the aspect of the profession which implemented it. In the empirical research we conducted on the frequency of involuntary treatment in the institution for mental disorders of the highest health level, which receives patients from all over the Republic of Srpska, we show that our data are not different from data in other European countries, according to the frequency of involuntary detention, the type of disease and the socio-demographic data of persons forcibly detained and then accommodated.. However, when viewed from the aspect of the Law, not all articles were respected, because it was influenced by objective circumstances and the impossibility of implementing certain legal stipulations. A special problem was caused by the impossibility of imposing medical measures on insane persons by the legislator. It remains to be seen whether the greater reorientation of the new Law from 2020 towards professional medical recommendations will affect better respect for the rights of those persons, but also reduce the need for their involuntary detention. What we assume is that moving away from clear legal guidelines will be a stumbling block in its implementation.

WHERE ARE WE GOING? AND WHAT HAVE WE DONE?

AbstractThis article discusses responses to the survey-score Where are we Going? and What have we Done?, which sets out to explore how Anglophone composers choose to ground the impacts of their compositional practice. The composers’ responses primarily centred around the psychosocial impacts of composition, and the article unpicks some of the implications of this focus. The article then details the effect the survey-score had on my own composing, before outlining the affordances of narrative approaches to the act of scoring, and their ability to shine a brighter light on the impacts of our practice, both retrospectively and also with regards to future performances.

WHERE ARE WE AND WHERE ARE WE GOING: EDUCATIONAL INNOVATION INITIATIVES IN SAN PABLO COLLEGES

This study explored the relationship between employees’ attitude, values, intentions, and readiness towards innovation. The study employed a mixed-methods design with a sample of 70 employees from various departments of San Pablo Colleges including teachers, non-teaching staff and administrators. The participants completed a survey to assess their attitude, values, intentions, and readiness towards innovation. A focused-group discussion involving 13 employees was also conducted to ascertain directions as regards innovation efforts of the college. The results showed that employees’ positive attitude, strong values and intentions, and high level of readiness towards innovation were positively correlated. Specifically, employees who had a positive attitude towards innovation also had strong values that aligned with the innovation goals and were more likely to intend to participate in the innovation initiatives. Furthermore, employees who had a high level of readiness for change were more likely to have positive attitudes, strong values, and intentions to participate in the pursuits for innovation. Based on the focused-conversation results, SPC is considering 3 priority innovation areas: Teaching and Learning Innovation; Social-Ecological Innovation; and Technology and Governance Innovation.

POLYPHARMACY IN ASSISTED LIVING: WHERE ARE WE NOW AND EFFECTIVE APPROACHES TO IMPROVE MEDICATION MANAGEMENT

Abstract There are many definitions for polypharmacy used within clinical practice and research and many factors contributing to this problem. Definitions vary from being based on the number of medications the older adult is taking to a more qualitative evaluation of the appropriateness of medication based on the benefit of the drug for a specific problem. For research purposes the definition is more commonly conceptualized as being equivalent to taking five or more medicines. Polypharmacy is noted to be presented in about 40% of older adults living in the community. Limited research has focused specifically on polypharmacy in assisted living settings. In addition to concerns about polypharmacy in assisted living there has also been a focus on the use of psychotropic medication and opioids in these settings as prevalence ranges from 53% to 68%. Although there are not regulations related to decreasing polypharmacy via deprescribing or to decrease use of psychotropics or opioids in assisted living, there are currently major initiatives in geriatrics to focus on these areas. This symposium will provide current data on medication use and polypharmacy among a large sample of 781 assisted living residents from 85 communities across three states and address the impact of a Function Focused Care approach on decreasing polypharmacy and use of psychotropics and opioids. Lastly data will be provided on the value of Deprescribing Networks to help decrease polypharmacy within these settings. The findings from this symposium will provide recommendations for future research as well as guidance for clinical practice.

Competency-Based Medical Training in Anesthesiology: Has It Delivered on the Promise of Better Education?

Competency-Based Medical Training in Anesthesiology: Has It Delivered on the Promise of Better Education?

ОБЩАЯ КУЛЬТУРА, ОБРАЗОВАННОСТЬ, ЭРУДИЦИЯ: ГДЕ МЫ ТЕПЕРЬ?

ОБЩАЯ КУЛЬТУРА, ОБРАЗОВАННОСТЬ, ЭРУДИЦИЯ: ГДЕ МЫ ТЕПЕРЬ?

Millennial Leaders: Ready or Not, Here They Come

Millennial Leaders: Ready or Not, Here They Come

RELIME: CONSTRUCTION, DEVELOPMENT AND CONSOLIDATION, WHERE ARE WE GOING TO?

Desde su fundación, la Revista Latinoamericana de Investigación en Matemática Educativa (Relime) ha sido parte de un amplio proyecto disciplinar cuyas medidas de acción han sido lideradas por grupos activos de miembros de una comunidad de referencia: la Matemática Educativa en Latinoamérica. La revista surge con un objetivo dual; el de promover y fomentar la escritura de artículos de investigación de alta calidad en la región, así como favorecer el proceso de profesionalización de la disciplina en beneficio de los sistemas educativos de América Latina (Farfán, 1997). Este objetivo, si bien aún no alcanzado plenamente, ha sido un factor de desarrollo en la región y en el orbe.

The Official Journal of ATTD Advanced Technologies & Treatments for Diabetes Conference Berlin, Germany—February 20–23, 2019

The Official Journal of ATTD Advanced Technologies &amp; Treatments for Diabetes Conference <i>Berlin, Germany—February 20–23, 2019</i>

POLICY SERIES: MISSING FROM MEDICARE: WHERE ARE WE ON ORAL, HEARING, AND VISUAL HEALTH

POLICY SERIES: MISSING FROM MEDICARE: WHERE ARE WE ON ORAL, HEARING, AND VISUAL HEALTH

Last Night In Asaba

Last Night In Asaba Chike Frankie Edozien (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution [End Page 140] I knew that I shouldn't have picked up the call. I feel the chills that come when Baba is in one of his moods. Those little puddles on my arms—goosebumps, Alhaji calls them—are sprouting up. I'm sitting in the cramped back seat of a rickety Volkswagen kombi bus that is past the halfway point on the Niger Bridge, heading into Onitsha. Minutes after dropping the phone, I'm still shaking. The passengers are gawking at me. Why did I have to answer? Baba never calls unless something is terribly wrong. I could have stayed on the bus and gotten off at the club and had a fantastic night dancing. Tomorrow, I would have just said my battery died. Or that I misplaced my phone. This one Friday night that I need to let off steam, I took the call, and now, I have to get off, catch another bus, and head back to Asaba. No dancing. No flirting. No Star beer. I answered and what did I get? "WHERE ARE YOU?" Baba's voice was so loud that the market woman sitting next to me squirmed. It seemed like everyone onboard heard. "Get back here now! If I don't see you in five minutes you will see what will happen." I have been very good this whole year. I have stayed out of his way and out of the [End Page 141] way of all the Aladura Prayer Warriors Baba has over every other day for Bible study. I always tell the white garment shoeless brothers who are my father's latest obsession, that work is keeping me away from the meetings. But truly, what work is there really to do when you're a youth corper? The National Youth Service Corps mandate is that we spend the year after university working somewhere in Nigeria where we are not indigenes. Somehow, they posted me to Okpanam. Of all places. I've had to move back to Papa's home in Asaba and go to work from there. It could have been worse; they could have sent me to Yola, or someplace in the Northeast where I could have been ravaged by Boko Haram sympathizers. They must have thought we still lived in Lagos. But Baba is retired and the Lagos home is no more. And with retirement, he is around all the time. We all know not to cross Baba when he is in one of his moods. I still remember when I was finishing High School. That term, of the three hundred people in S. S. 2, at Ogbomosho Grammar School, I was number two when the results were compiled. Even in the deadly boring Health Science, I was on top. But during that first mathematics midterm, I had been sick. So, missing the test got me a zero score. No mercy for being at the Sick Bay that day with stomach cramps. There was no way to get an "A" in that one. So it was all "As" except for the "F." On the cramped bus ride back to Lagos that day, I kept smiling. If not for the stomach issues, I might have ended up in first position, but second was fine too. I was happy walking into the house for my holiday with my report card. Even with that missing test, I had still been placed second. But Baba was already in a bad mood when I arrived in Lagos. I didn't know what the problem was. But there he was, frowning, with visitors. One of them was kneeling. I'm not sure what they were there for, but I recognized some of them as Ilesha people. Baba's last wife is from Ilesha and these were her kin. She had been gone for some time, since I'd left for the boarding school two years before. It seemed like I was always an inconvenience to her. And Baba did everything to make her happy. Even sending me to board in Ogbomosho was her idea. Sending her to England, too, was her...

RESEARCH ON CARE AND SUPPORT INTERVENTIONS: WHERE ARE WE AND WHERE DO WE NEED TO GO?

RESEARCH ON CARE AND SUPPORT INTERVENTIONS: WHERE ARE WE AND WHERE DO WE NEED TO GO?

13‐ICML Satellite symposia programs (updated on May 9, 2015)

13‐ICML Satellite symposia programs (updated on May 9, 2015)

Do genetic susceptibility, Toll-like receptors, and pathogen-associated molecular patterns modulate the effects of wear?

Overwhelming evidence supports the concept that wear particles are the primary initiator of aseptic loosening of orthopaedic implants. It is likely, however, that other factors modulate the biologic response to wear particles. This review focuses on three potential other factors: genetic susceptibility, Toll-like receptors (TLRs), and bacterial pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs). WHERE ARE WE NOW?: Considerable evidence is emerging that both genetic susceptibility and TLR activation are important factors that modulate the biologic response to wear particles, but it remains controversial whether bacterial PAMPs also do so. WHERE DO WE NEED TO GO?: Detailed understanding of the roles of these other factors may lead to identification of novel therapeutic targets for patients with aseptic loosening. HOW DO WE GET THERE?: Highest priority should be given to polymorphism replication studies with large numbers of patients and studies to replicate the reported correlation between bacterial biofilms and the severity of aseptic loosening.

What design and material factors impact the wear and corrosion performance in total elbow arthroplasties?

The survivorship of total elbow arthroplasties is lower than surgeons and patients would like it to be, especially in patients with posttraumatic arthritis of the elbow. To improve durability, it is important to understand the failure modes of existing implants. Total elbow arthroplasties were designed primarily for low-demand rheumatoid patients. As surgical indications have extended to more active patient populations, the mechanical performance of current designs must meet an increased mechanical burden. Evaluating the degree to which they do this will guide conclusions about which contemporary devices might still meet the need and, as importantly, what design and material changes might be needed to improve performance. WHERE ARE WE NOW?: The reasons for failures of total elbow arthroplasties include infection, loosening, polyethylene wear, locking mechanism failure, periprosthetic fracture, implant fracture, and instability. Implant design factors that have influenced wear include implant constraint, material, coatings, and metal backing. Surgical factors associated with increased wear and subsequent total elbow arthroplasty failure include soft tissue balancing and restoration of alignment and implant positioning. WHERE DO WE NEED TO GO?: A clear need exists for improving the performance of total elbow arthroplasty. Many of the failures that have limited the survivorship of elbow arthroplasties thus far are mechanical in nature with wear-related problems a dominating influence. Much of what we know about the results of total elbow arthroplasty is from small studies frequently involving the designer of the implant. The establishment of total elbow arthroplasty registries coupled with the increasing regulatory burden of postmarket surveillance would lead to a better understanding of the complications and survivorship of elbow arthroplasties. Another primary goal must be to achieve a better understanding of the biomechanics of the normal elbow and how the mechanics are altered after the insertion of elbow arthroplasty components. HOW DO WE GET THERE?: Improving the performance and survivorship of total elbow arthroplasty will require the integration of clinical and implant performance data gained through the establishment of registries with a concerted basic science effort to better understand the functional loads across the joint and to incorporate these loads into experimental and computational models to allow assessment of design and material changes intended to improve durability.

Are biologic treatments a potential approach to wear- and corrosion-related problems?

WHERE ARE WE NOW?: Biological treatments, defined as any nonsurgical intervention whose primary mechanism of action is reducing the host response to wear and/or corrosion products, have long been postulated as solutions for osteolysis and aseptic loosening of total joint arthroplasties. Despite extensive research on drugs that target the inflammatory, osteoclastic, and osteogenic responses to wear debris, no biological treatment has emerged as an approved therapy. We review the extensive preclinical research and modest clinical research to date, which has led to the central conclusion that the osteoclast is the primary target. We also allude to the significant changes in health care, unabated safety concerns about chronic immunosuppressive/antiinflammatory therapies, industry's complete lack of interest in developing an intervention for this condition, and the practical issues that have narrowly focused the possibilities for a biologic treatment for wear debris-induced osteolysis. WHERE DO WE NEED TO GO?: Based on the conclusions from research, and the economic, regulatory, and practical issues that limit the future directions toward the development of a biologic treatment, there are a few rational approaches that warrant investigation. These largely focus on FDA-approved osteoporosis therapies that target the osteoclast (bisphosphonates and anti-RANK ligand) and recombinant parathyroid hormone (teriparatide) prophylactic treatment to increase osseous integration of the prosthesis to overcome high-risk susceptibility to aseptic loosening. The other roadblock that must be overcome if there is to be an approved biologic therapy to prevent the progression of periprosthetic osteolysis and aseptic loosening is the development of radiological measures that can quantify a significant drug effect in a randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial. We review the progress of volumetric quantification of osteolysis in animal studies and clinical pilots. HOW DO WE GET THERE?: Accepting the aforementioned rigid boundaries, we describe the emergence of repurposing FDA-approved drugs for new indications and public (National Institutes of Health, FDA, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) and private (universities and drug and device manufactures) partnerships as the future roadmap for clinical translation. In the case of biologic treatments for wear debris-induced osteolysis, this will involve combined federal and industry funding of multicenter clinical trials that will be run by thought leaders at large medical centers.