DICO Toolkit for Digital Career Stories

Digital Career Stories – Opening new career paths for arts and culture students, or DICO for short, has been a 2-year-long pedagogical development project. Its main objective was to develop innovative narrative and arts- and design-based methods that together form the Digital Career Story methodology introduced in this toolkit. Through the methodology developed, the project aimed to encourage reflection and self-reflection skills in higher education students, along with their digital and creative skills, and to help them build professional identities and design career paths, as well as enhancing their resilience, self-efficacy and self-esteem. The specific target group of the project was students of arts and culture subjects, but the pedagogical methods can just as well be used with other higher education students. The DICO project was the joint effort of a consortium of five European universities: Turku University of Applied Sciences (TUAS), Finland (as the applicant and coordinator of the project), University of Macerata (UniMC), Italy, Staffordshire University (SU), United Kingdom, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME), Hungary, and the Technical University of Dublin (TU Dublin), Ireland. The project was funded by the Erasmus+ programme and lasted from March 2021 to February 2023.The DICO Toolkit contains the project results in the form of a handbook intended for lecturers, counsellors and mentors in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), and for cultural and creative organisations and professionals. It aims to provide both theoretical frameworks and practical tools for developing art-based methodologies with HEI students in the arts and culture. The book is structured into three sections – Theories and methodologies, Implementing creative methods, and Project evaluation and further resources – and concludes with an Appendix

Multicomponent bionanocomposites based on clay nanoarchitectures for electrochemical devices

Based on the unique ability of defibrillated sepiolite (SEP) to form stable and homogeneous colloidal dispersions of diverse types of nanoparticles in aqueous media under ultrasonication, multicomponent conductive nanoarchitectured materials integrating halloysite nanotubes (HNTs), graphene nanoplatelets (GNPs) and chitosan (CHI) have been developed. The resulting nanohybrid suspensions could be easily formed into films or foams, where each individual component plays a critical role in the biocomposite: HNTs act as nanocontainers for bioactive species, GNPs provide electrical conductivity (enhanced by doping with MWCNTs) and, the CHI polymer matrix introduces mechanical and membrane properties that are of key significance for the development of electrochemical devices. The resulting characteristics allow for a possible application of these active elements as integrated multicomponent materials for advanced electrochemical devices such as biosensors and enzymatic biofuel cells. This strategy can be regarded as an "a la carte" menu, where the selection of the nanocomponents exhibiting different properties will determine a functional set of predetermined utility with SEP maintaining stable colloidal dispersions of different nanoparticles and polymers in water

Reasons versus Causes in Arocha’s Scientific Realism

Arocha’s scientific realism (2021) puts at the center of psychology the individual and their variability in behavior: the individual appears to be irreducible to what emerges from the analysis of aggregate data. According to this position, psychology’s aim is to uncover the mechanisms underlying the observable world. This entails adopting the cause-based approach of the natural sciences. Arocha’s article also refers to final causes and intentions and thus to the reason-based approach of the human sciences in contrast to that of the natural sciences. Thus, it is not clear whether the article aims to reduce the final causes to mechanical causes or supports the irreducibility of the former. Starting from these remarks, this comment will argue that the reason-based approach is preferable to the cause-based approach in order to have a scientific psychology. Adopting the reason-based approach also avoids the appeal to aggregate data by focusing upon the single case

The Relationship between Introspection and Folk Psychology: An Overview

The epistemic status of introspection remains a controversial topic. due to its subjective char- acter, introspection is not an easy fit with natural sciences or a physicalistic picture of the mind. In literature, introspection is conceived as dealing only with macro-cognition and not with micro-cognition, the supposed object of study of scientific psychology. This essay dis- cusses the epistemic status of introspection in light of its relationship with folk psychology and spells it out through an analysis of the positions of Wilkes, Alston, Schwitzgebel, and Churchland. Specifically, the essay makes a distinction between folk and scientific psychol- ogy and addresses the issue of the incorrigibility/infallibility of introspective judgments. The essay endorses a view according to which introspection should be conceived as a cognitive process the contents of which are provided by folk knowledge. It shows how this view can be appreciated as scientific, provided that a physicalistic image of the mind is rejected

PENGARUH PENERAPAN SISTEM INFORMASI AKUNTANSI TERHADAP KINERJA KARYAWAN BRI CABANG BANDA ACEH

ABSTRAKPermasalahan dalam penelitian ini adalah apakah Bagaimana Sistem Informasi Akuntansi berpengaruh terhadap Kinerja Karyawan. Tujuan penelitian ini untuk mengetahui pengaruh pengaruh Sistem Informasi Akuntansi terhadap Kinerja Karyawan.Lokasi penelitian adalah pada PT Bank BRI Banda Aceh, jumlah responden sebanyak 105 nasabah, sedangkan teknik sampling dengan menggunakan Non Probability Sampling dimana peneliti secara kebetulan bertemu dengan karyawan, teknik pengumpulan data adalah dengan kuisioner, analisa data dihitung dengan bantuan SPSS 19.0 dengan alat analisis kualitatif dan kuantitatif serta menggunakan uji hipotesis analisis regresi sederhana.Dari hasil penelitian dan pembahasan analisis hasil yang telah dilakukan pada penelitian ini maka dapat diambil kesimpulannya adalah Sistem Informasi Akuntansi berpengaruh positif terhadap Kinerja Karyawan pada BRI Cabang dan Wilayah Banda Aceh. Dapat dikatakan bahwa sistem informasi akuntansi sangat membantu beberapa pekerjaan karyawan, dan SIA di Bank BRI saat ini cukup baik dalam mengukur kinerja. Sudah terbukti dalam penelitian ini SIA menilai bahwa kinerja karyawan dapat dinilai dari sebuah program.Kata Kunci : Sistem Informasi Akutansi, Kinerja Karyawam?ABSTRACTThe problem in this study is whether How Accounting Information Systems affect Employee Performance. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of the effect of Accounting Information Systems on Employee Performance.The location of the study is at PT Bank BRI Banda Aceh, the number of respondents is 105 customers, while the sampling technique uses Non Probability Sampling where researchers accidentally meet with the Employee, the technique of collecting data is a questionnaire, data analysis is calculated with the help of SPSS 19.0 with qualitative analysis tools and quantitatively and using a simple regression analysis hypothesis test.From the results of the research and discussion of the analysis of the results that have been carried out in this study, it can be concluded that the Accounting Information System has a positive effect on Employee Performance at the BRI Branch and the Banda Aceh Region. It can be said that accounting information systems are very helpful for a number of employee jobs, and SIA at Bank BRI is currently quite good at measuring performance. It has been proven in this study that AIS assesses that employee performance can be assessed from a program.Keywords: Accounting Information Systems, Employee Performanc

HUBUNGAN DUKUNGAN SOSIAL DENGAN DEPRESI, KECEMASAN, DAN STRES PADA REMAJA YANG KEHILANGAN ORANG TUA AKIBAT COVID-19 DI DKI JAKARTA

Penelitian ini dilakukan untuk mengetahui hubungan dukungan sosial dengan depresi, kecemasan, dan stres pada remaja dengan orang tua yang meninggal akibat covid-19 di DKI Jakarta. Sampel pada penelitian ini adalah 100 remaja berdomisili di DKI Jakarta. Pengambilan sampel menggunakan teknik purposive sampling. Alat ukur yang digunakan pada penelitian ini adalah Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS) dan The Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS). Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan tidak terdapat hubungan dukungan sosial dengan depresi, kecemasan, dan stres pada remaja yang kehilangan orang tua akibat Covid-19 di Jakarta. ***** This study was to knowing the effect of social support on depression, anxiety, and stress for adolescents whose parents died for Covid-19 in DKI Jakarta. The sample in this study was 100 adolescents who live in DKI Jakarta. Sample was selected using the purposive sampling technique. The measuring instrument used in this study is Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS) and The Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS). The results of this study indicate that there is no effect of social support on psychological distress for adolescents whose parents died for Covid19 in DKI Jakarta

Role of metformin and AKT axis modulation in the reversion of hypoxia induced TMZ-resistance in glioma cells

Hypoxia is a key driver of tumor adaptation promoting tumor progression and resistance to therapy. Hypoxia related pathways might represent attractive targets for the treatment of Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM), that up to date is characterized by a poor prognosis. Primary aim of this study was to investigate the role of hypoxia and hypoxia-related modifications in the effect of temozolomide (TMZ) given alone or in association with the antidiabetic agent Metformin (MET) or the PI3K/mTOR blocker, BEZ235. The study was conducted in the TMZ responsive U251 and resistant T98 GBM cells. Our results showed that during hypoxia, TMZ plus MET reduced viability of U251 cells affecting also CD133 and CD90 expressing cells. This effect was associated with a reduction of HIF-1\u3b1 activity, VEGF release and AKT activation. In T98 TMZ-resistant cells, TMZ plus MET exerted similar effects on HIF-1\u3b1. However, in this cell line, TMZ plus MET failed to reduce CD133 positive cells and AKT phosphorylation. Nevertheless, the administration of the dual PI3K/mTOR inhibitor BEZ235 potentiated the effect of TMZ plus MET on cell viability, inducing a pro-apoptotic phenotype during hypoxic condition also in T98 cells, suggesting the block of the PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway as a complementary target to further overcome GBM resistance during hypoxia. In conclusion, we proposed TMZ plus MET as suitable treatment to revert TMZ-resistance also during hypoxia, an effect potentiated by the inhibition of PI3K/mTOR axis