Cognitive collaborations: sounding Southeast Asian sensibilities in Thai and Balinese rituals

This article assesses the relationship between Thai and Balinese healing rituals focusing on music and indigenous explanatory models about emotional and cognitive processes. Emphasis is placed on how music and cognitive processes are conceptualised in both historical literature and contemporary interpretive frameworks in two geographically distinct areas of Southeast Asia. Both authors have spent decades observing rituals, performing music, and analysing musical structures. Yet there have been few opportunities to collaborate on a comparison of their findings. This essay will articulate how music is thought to have a direct physiological affect on its participants. The article first examines cross-cultural discourses in the literature that contain theoretical approaches to music and cognition. Then the article describes and compares Thai and Balinese healing rituals that address not only cognitive, but also corporeal and spiritual concepts that relate to broader Southeast Asian approaches to music and the mind

Sexual HIV Risk Among Male Parolees and Their Female Partners: The Relate Project

Background: The massively disproportionate impact of America’s prison boom on communities of color has raised questions about how incarceration may affect health disparities, including disparities in HIV. Primary partners are an important source of influence on sexual health. In this paper, we investigate sexual HIV risk among male-female couples following a man’s release from prison. Methods: We draw upon data from the Relate Project, a novel cross-sectional survey of recently released men and their female partners in Oakland and San Francisco, California (N=344). Inferential analyses use the actor-partner model to explore actor and partner effects on sexual HIV risk outcomes. Results: Dyadic analyses of sexual HIV risk among male parolees and their female partners paint a complex portrait of couples affected by incarceration and of partners’ influences on each other. Findings indicate that demographic factors such as education level and employment status, individual psycho-social factors such as perception of risk, and relationship factors such as commitment and power affect sexual HIV risk outcomes. Conclusion: The Relate Project provides a novel dataset for the dyadic analysis of sexual risk among male parolees and their female partners, and results highlight the importance of focusing on the couple as a unit when assessing HIV risk and protective behaviors. Results also indicate potentially fruitful avenues for population-specific interventions that may help to reduce sexual health disparities among couples affected by incarceration

DETEKSI DERAJAT KEBENGKOKAN TULANG BELAKANG BERDASARKAN CITRA MEDIS DIGITAL MENGGUNAKAN METODE LOCAL BINNARY PATTERN DAN K-NEARESTNEIGHBOR

Salah satu kelainan pada tulang punggung yang terjadi diakibatkan karena adanya kemiringan pada tulang belakang sehingga tulang tidak pada bentuk normalnya atau biasa disebut skoliosis. Skoliosis adalah melengkungnya tulang kearah samping sehingga tulang belakang seolah-olah membentuk huruf S atau C. Pada penelitian ini, akan dibuat sistem yang dapat mengklasi?kasikan kondisi tulang belakang berdasarkan citra pengolahan tulang belakang menjadi tiga jenis yaitu tulang belakang dengan kondisi normal, tulang belakang dengan kelainan dekstrokoliosis atau tulang belakang dengan kelainan levoskoliosis. Pada Tugas Akhir ini akan menggunakan metode Local Binnary Patterns (LBP) dan Algoritma K- Nearest Neighbor (KNN) sebagai klasi?kasinya. Salah satu sifat paling penting dari operator LBP ialah kesederhanaan perhitungannya, memiliki waktu komputasi yang lebih cepat, dan sifatnya yang invarian terhadap perubahan fotometri dari objek yang sama, dikarenakan LBP merupakan ukuran intensitas relatif suatu piksel dengan intensitas piksel disekitarnya. Poses pengujian ini, dilakukan pengujian dengan 135 citra tulang belakang, dengan komposisi masing-masing kelas citra memilki 45 citra normal, 45 citra dekstroskoliosis, dan 45 citra levoskoliosis. Hasil pengujian diperoleh hasil akurasi identi?kasi terbaik sebesar 65%. Akurasi tersebut diperoleh dari pengujian menggunakan parameter level radius dengan nilai 2, ciri orde satu yang digunakan adalah ciri var, std, dan mean pada metode ekstraksi ciri serta nilai K=1 dan skema jarak euclidean. Kata Kunci: Tulang Belakang, Local Binnary Patterns (LBP), K-Nearest Neighbor (K-NN)

From Marxan to management: ocean zoning with stakeholders for Tun Mustapha Park in Sabah, Malaysia

Tun Mustapha Park, in Sabah, Malaysia, was gazetted in May 2016 and is the first multiple-use park in Malaysia where conservation, sustainable resource use and development co-occur within one management framework. We applied a systematic conservation planning tool, Marxan with Zones, and stakeholder consultation to design and revise the draft zoning plan. This process was facilitated by Sabah Parks, a government agency, and WWF-Malaysia, under the guidance of the Tun Mustapha Park steering committee and with support from the University of Queensland. Four conservation and fishing zones, including no-take areas, were developed, each with representation and replication targets for key marine habitats, and a range of socio-economic and community objectives. Here we report on how decision-support tools informed the reserve design process in three planning stages: prioritization, government review, and community consultation. Using marine habitat and species representation as a reporting metric, we describe how the zoning plan changed at each stage of the design process. We found that the changes made to the zoning plan by the government and stakeholders resulted in plans that compromised the achievement of conservation targets because no-take areas were moved away from villages and the coastline, where unique habitats are located. The design process highlights a number of lessons learned for future conservation zoning, which we believe will be useful as many other places embark on similar zoning processes on land and in the sea

PROSES PENULISAN KREATIF DENGAN MENGGUNAKAN TEKNIK KOMUNIKASI INTRAPERSONAL DALAM NOVEL SENGGANG

Setiap manusia terlahir dengan keinginan yang berbeda-beda, tentunya akan ada beberapa hal yang mempengaruhi manusia dalam mencapai suatu keinginan tersebut. Terlebih lagi, dalam proses kreatifitas penulisan novel, tentunya akan banyak hal yang mempengaruhi proses penulisan kreatif yang di mana bergantung kepada kondisi Intrapersonal pribadi penulis. Dikatakan bahwa, proses penulisan kreatif ini akan saling berhubungan dengan komunikasi intrapersonal yang sedang di alami olah penulis novel senggang, sehingga ada saat di mana pengaruh intrapersonal sangat kuat yang membuat bebagai cara dalam menyelesaikan sebuah novel, yang di mulai dari sebuah konteks awal yang terlintas dalam diri penulis yang diperkuat dengan keadaan intrapersonal penulis novel. Oleh karena itu, penulis novel ingin memberikan sebuah konten kepada pembaca, melalui cerita dalam novel mengenai kisah atas kehilangan, dan kehadiran sesorang dalam hidup penulis, yang dapat menentukan bagaimana alur dan jalan certia novel tersebut akan berakhir dan juga mempengaruhi minta penulis novel dalam proses penulisan kreatif menjadi sangat besar. Penelitian ini mengunakan metode kualitatif dengan pendekatan Hermeneutika. Informan dari penelitian ini adalah pengarang novel senggang yaitu Bapak Raiy Ichwana, di mana tehnik yang digunakan penulis dalam penelitian ini adalah wawancara secara mendalam untuk mengetahui bagaimana komunikasi intrapersonal dan proses penulisan kreatif berlangsung selama pembuatan novel Senggang. Kata Kunci: Komunikasi Intrapersonal,Proses Penulisan Kreatif, Hermeneutika, Konteks, dan Konte

Gay men

Authors of monographs or Palgrave Pivot titles are not required to seek permission to archive your content provided that you adhere the terms outlined in this Policy (please print and date a copy for your records, as they are subject to review). Amount that may be archived: For single authored works: up to one chapter per work For contributed volumes: each contributor may archive up to one chapter per volume (provided they are the author or a co-author of such chapter). Please note that any linking, collection or aggregation of chapters from the same volume is strictly prohibited. Version that may be archived: Author's own version of their pre-copy-edited contribution. Embargo Period: No content may be archived until 36 months post publication.In our culture, men who have sex with men are generally oppressed, but they are not definitively excluded from masculinity. Rather, they face structurally induced conflicts about masculinity — conflicts between their sexuality and their social presence as men, about the meaning of their choice of sexual object, and in their construction of relationships with women and with heterosexual men (Connell, 1992, p. 737). The epigraph above from the early work of Connell succinctly captures the challenges in researching and speaking about the lives of gay men living in Western societies. As Connell notes, whilst gay men living in such societies experience oppression as a result heteronormativity and homophobia, they do so as men. What this suggests is that gay men in the West experience both oppression and privilege (as a result of living in societies where having been assigned male at birth or identifying oneself as male accords privilege which comes at the expense of people assigned female at birth or who identify as female). For gay men this intersection of oppression and privilege results in what Connell terms ‘structurally-induced conflicts about masculinity’. Specifically, and as this chapter outlines with reference to psychological and social scientific research on the topic, gay men living in Western societies are positioned in a relationship to norms of masculinity that are neither of their making, nor necessarily indicative of their lived experience. Importantly, however, and as is the emphasis of this chapter, there are other ways of understanding gay men’s lives that make it possible to move beyond simply affirming the category ‘gay man’, and instead question the ways in which we think about this category and its relationship to hegemonic masculinities

SCintillation and IONosphere eXtended (SCION-X): A 12U CubeSat for Ionospheric and Atmospheric Science

SCION-X (SCintillation and IONosphere eXtended) is a 12U CubeSat that is being designed and developed by Upper Air Dynamics Laboratory, National Central University (NCU). SCION-X is the second funded CubeSat project being developed by NCU and is the largest self-developed spacecraft to date. This mission will help to further understand the variation of ionospheric irregularities, remote sensing methods for PM2.5 pollution distribution, and thermospheric photochemistry while serving as a relay station for amateur radio. Furthermore, it will help increase the communication and cooperation between universities in developing spaceflight capacity

Tin-Containing Graphite for Sodium-Ion Batteries and Hybrid Capacitors

The limited Na-storage capacity of graphite anodes for sodium-ion batteries (∼110 mAh g−1) is significantly enhanced by the incorporation of nanosized Sn (17 wt%). The composite (SntGraphite), prepared by simple annealing of graphite with SnCl2, shows a specific capacity of 223 mAh g−1 (at 50 mA g−1) combined with excellent cycle life (i. e., 96 % of capacity retention after 2,200 cycles at 1 A g−1) and initial Coulomb efficiency (90 %). The combined storage of sodium in graphite (by solvent co-intercalation) and Sn (by alloy formation) is followed by in situ X-ray diffraction and in situ electrochemical dilatometry (ECD). While the additional tin almost doubles the electrode capacity, its contribution to the electrode expansion (∼3 %) is surprisingly small. The use of SntGraphite as anode for sodium-ion hybrid capacitors with activated carbon as cathode provides a maximum energy and power density of ∼93 Wh kg−1 and 7.8 kW kg−1, with a capacity retention of ∼80 % after 8,000 cycles.Peer Reviewe

Tin‐Containing Graphite for Sodium‐Ion Batteries and Hybrid Capacitors

The limited Na-storage capacity of graphite anodes for sodium-ion batteries (∼110 mAh g−1) is significantly enhanced by the incorporation of nanosized Sn (17 wt%). The composite (SntGraphite), prepared by simple annealing of graphite with SnCl2, shows a specific capacity of 223 mAh g−1 (at 50 mA g−1) combined with excellent cycle life (i. e., 96 % of capacity retention after 2,200 cycles at 1 A g−1) and initial Coulomb efficiency (90 %). The combined storage of sodium in graphite (by solvent co-intercalation) and Sn (by alloy formation) is followed by in situ X-ray diffraction and in situ electrochemical dilatometry (ECD). While the additional tin almost doubles the electrode capacity, its contribution to the electrode expansion (∼3 %) is surprisingly small. The use of SntGraphite as anode for sodium-ion hybrid capacitors with activated carbon as cathode provides a maximum energy and power density of ∼93 Wh kg−1 and 7.8 kW kg−1, with a capacity retention of ∼80 % after 8,000 cycles.Peer Reviewe