Community art practices to elevate spiritual and environmental awareness

The purpose of my research study is exploring possibilities of impacting spiritual and environmental awareness of art event participants by engaging them in community art projects.Structured participatory art research was conducted between dozens of participants and resulted in various art events and spiritual exercises, there are two artistic parts contributing to research data collection: the bio-art work made with community together with living fungi and second part is documentary film presenting the art creation process.The documentary “Community Based Art Project Chatra-BioMandala" can be watched online at https://youtu.be/t57iZ3_zRdw My qualitative analysis shows positive interest of participants and people interested in spiritual art topics on one hand and dispirited attitude from policy makers in the media field on the other hand.The main conclusions of my research are that participation in spiritual-environmental art events significantly promotes positive impact on the mental wellbeing of participants who are interested and in need of this type of support while seeming irrelevant to outsiders

EVALUATING THE EFFECTS OF ECONOMIC RECESSION ON IRANIAN SHIPPING MARKET

The financial crisis which started in 2007 is considered to be responsible for the creation of the greatest financial dislocations since the Great Depression in the 1930s causing a drop in the international trade. In this respect, shipping market as the main service provider to international trade experienced a downfall wherein many shipping companies lay-upped or scrapped their vessels. The main purpose of this research is to evaluate the changes in Iranian liner shipping connectivity index caused by economic recession. For this purpose, this paper studies the Iranian economy from 2007 to 2009, i.e. the recession period, and evaluates the effects of world financial crisis on the Iranian shipping market

Praktik Arisan Menurun di Kelurahan Cabbenge Kecamatan Lilirilau Kabupaten Soppeng: Tinjauan Mazhab al-Syafi’i dan Mazhab Hambali

The main problem in this study is how the views of the Shafi'i and Hambali Schools on the practice of social gathering decreased in Cabbenge Village, Lilirilau District, Soppeng Regency The type of research used in this study is field research which is descriptive analytic. The sources of this research are the organizers of the social gathering and people who have joined the social gathering group. Furthermore, the data collection methods carried out are observation, interviews, and documentation. Then, data processing techniques and data analysis are carried out through data reduction, data presentation, and conclusion or verification. In this study, it can be concluded that this declining arisan practice has a debt contract that has different advantages and disadvantages for each participant. The existence of these advantages and disadvantages. The distinct advantage is that the initial participant gets a time gain and a loss in the amount of money earned. Whereas, the end participant gains the amount of money earned and the time loss. So that social gathering is not allowed because it contains elements of usury'. The implication of this research is for parties who carry out arisan with a declining system in order to be able to carry out the arisan activities in accordance with the basics of Islamic law that have been regulated in the Quran, as-Sunnah, Ijma, along with the provisions of the scholars, and in the implementation of declining arisan there should be no difference (+/-) between what is paid and obtained by each member in order to create the main purpose of the arisan, namely help.The main problem in this study is how the views of the Shafi'i and Hambali Schools on the practice of social gathering decreased in Cabbenge Village, Lilirilau District, Soppeng Regency The type of research used in this study is field research which is descriptive analytic. The sources of this research are the organizers of the social gathering and people who have joined the social gathering group. Furthermore, the data collection methods carried out are observation, interviews, and documentation. Then, data processing techniques and data analysis are carried out through data reduction, data presentation, and conclusion or verification. In this study, it can be concluded that this declining arisan practice has a debt contract that has different advantages and disadvantages for each participant. The existence of these advantages and disadvantages. The distinct advantage is that the initial participant gets a time gain and a loss in the amount of money earned. Whereas, the end participant gains the amount of money earned and the time loss. So that social gathering is not allowed because it contains elements of usury'. The implication of this research is for parties who carry out arisan with a declining system in order to be able to carry out the arisan activities in accordance with the basics of Islamic law that have been regulated in the Quran, as-Sunnah, Ijma, along with the provisions of the scholars, and in the implementation of declining arisan there should be no difference (+/-) between what is paid and obtained by each member in order to create the main purpose of the arisan, namely help

Efektivitas Konseling Kelompok Cognitive Restructuring Untuk Meningkatkan Resiliensi Siswa di Masa Pandemi

Pada masa pandemi pendidikan dilakukan secara online hingga siswa mengalami stress. Upaya mengatasi stress akademik dapat dengan mengembangkan resiliensi. Resiliensi merupakan proses adaptasi seseorang dengan baik dalam menghadapi kesulitan, tragedi, ancaman, atau sumber stress yang signifikan. Tujuan penelitian untuk meningkatkan resiliensi siswa. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode quasi exsperimental tipe nonequivalent control group design. Alat pengumpulan data yang digunakan adalah angket. Subjek penelitian berjumlah 14 orang dibagi menjadi dua kelompok, yaitu kelompok eksperimen dan kontrol. Penelitian ini menggunakan uji beda. Hasil yang diperoleh adalah nilai sig  sebesar 0,001  lebih kecil dari 0,05 dan thitung lebih besar dari tabel (4,196> 2,365), artinya ada perbedaan yang signifikan antara kelompok eksperimen dan kelompok kontrol. Dapat dikatakan bahwa konseling kelompok dengan teknik cognitive restructuring berpengaruh terhadap tingkat resiliensi SMPN 1 Cikarang Utara

Environmental dose rate assessment of ITER using the Monte Carlo method

Exposure to radiation is one of the main sources of risk to staff employed in reactor facilities. The staff of a tokamak is exposed to a wide range of neutrons and photons around the tokamak hall. The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) is a nuclear fusion engineering project and the most advanced experimental tokamak in the world. From the radiobiological point of view, ITER dose rates assessment is particularly important. The aim of this study is the assessment of the amount of radiation in ITER during its normal operation in a radial direction from the plasma chamber to the tokamak hall. To achieve this goal, the ITER system and its components were simulated by the Monte Carlo method using the MCNPX 2.6.0 code. Furthermore, the equivalent dose rates of some radiosensitive organs of the human body were calculated by using the medical internal radiation dose phantom. Our study is based on the deuterium-tritium plasma burning by 14.1 MeV neutron production and also photon radiation due to neutron activation. As our results show, the total equivalent dose rate on the outside of the bioshield wall of the tokamak hall is about 1 mSv per year, which is less than the annual occupational dose rate limit during the normal operation of ITER. Also, equivalent dose rates of radiosensitive organs have shown that the maximum dose rate belongs to the kidney. The data may help calculate how long the staff can stay in such an environment, before the equivalent dose rates reach the whole-body dose limits

Scaleformer: Iterative Multi-scale Refining Transformers for Time Series Forecasting

The performance of time series forecasting has recently been greatly improved by the introduction of transformers. In this paper, we propose a general multi-scale framework that can be applied to the state-of-the-art transformer-based time series forecasting models (FEDformer, Autoformer, etc.). By iteratively refining a forecasted time series at multiple scales with shared weights, introducing architecture adaptations, and a specially-designed normalization scheme, we are able to achieve significant performance improvements, from 5.5% to 38.5% across datasets and transformer architectures, with minimal additional computational overhead. Via detailed ablation studies, we demonstrate the effectiveness of each of our contributions across the architecture and methodology. Furthermore, our experiments on various public datasets demonstrate that the proposed improvements outperform their corresponding baseline counterparts. Our code is publicly available in https://github.com/BorealisAI/scaleformer

A framework to select commercial bank partner using fuzzy BSC-DEA method

One of the primary concerns of many corporate organizations is to assess the weakness and strength of their future partners in an attempt to reduce all potential risks involved with them. In this paper, we present a BSC-DEA based model to indentify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of a firm. The proposed model of this paper assumes there are various uncertainties associated with all input/output parameters and uses fuzzy numbers to handle the uncertainties. We also consider a real-world case study of banking industry where four major banks are possible candidates of a partnership and implement the proposed model of this paper for this case study. The results of this study reveal some of the issues such as weakness of electronic banking, services and resource allocation as part of their infrastructure problems