Bagaimana hobi membaca fiksi berperan terhadap empati di kehidupan nyata?

Penelitian terdahulu mengenai pengaruh fiksi terhadap empati di Indonesia umumnya dilakukan dengan desain eksperimen, yang mana terbatas hasilnya pada setting eksperimen itu sendiri. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk meneliti hal yang serupa namun dengan desain non-eksperimen. Bersama variabel narrative empathy, penelitian ini berupaya meneliti pengaruh fiksi terhadap empati dengan menggunakan Author Recognition Test (ART) untuk keterpaparan fiksi, Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) untuk empati, dan skala EDI untuk narrative empathy. Partisipan penelitian adalah 332 pembaca fiksi di Indonesia yang merupakan pengikut akun seputar sastra di media sosial Twitter. Partisipan penelitian diminta mengisi kuesioner online melalui Google Form. Data kemudian dianalisis dengan teknik regresi linear berganda menggunakan SPSS IBM versi 20. Hasil penelitian menemukan bahwa keterpaparan fiksi dan narrative empathy secara simultan berpengaruh terhadap empati pada pembaca fiksi sebesar 26,1%

'Yeah, this one will be a good one', or tacit knowledge, prophylaxis, and the border: exploring everyday health security decisionmaking

Approaching health security from a practice-theoretical perspective, this article advances our understanding of the everyday and locality in health security decisionmaking, and is guided by the following two questions: How is it determined when a health security threat is likely to be present at a point of entry? What knowledge informs everyday health security decisions at borders? Markedly little is known about health security decisionmaking, though conventional wisdom tells us that health security decisions are based on stringent processes and – importantly – anchored in epidemiological knowledge. The assumed primacy of epidemiological knowledge in health security decisionmaking is well illustrated by the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: evidence-based responses emerged globally following sophisticated epidemiologic investigation. Are health security decisions always rooted in epidemiology? A 12-month period of non-participant observation of Port Health Officers – who, under the auspices of the 2005 International Health Regulations, are responsible for numerous prophylactic measures at the UK border – gives a unique, privileged entry point for understanding the health security decisionmaking process and tells a story that both questions the centrality of epidemiology and foregrounds the role of tacit knowledge and intuition in health security decisionmaking. This article, which draws on insights from the science and technology studies literature on tacit knowledge, shows how observed health risk taxonomies and corollary decisions in prophylactic border security are predicated almost exclusively on hunches and ‘just knowing’ that something ‘doesn’t feel right’

Dispositifs hybrides et formation continue des enseignants en Algérie

Depuis mars 2020, la pandémie a affecté l’ensemble des systèmes éducatifs. Cet article propose un aperçu de la formation continue des enseignants en Algérie et met en exergue le rôle de l’Université de la formation continue (UFC), bientôt « université ouverte », avant, pendant et après le confinement sanitaire. Formation des enseignants stagiaires au ministère de l’éducation nationale Les enseignants algériens nouvellement recrutés bénéficient d’un double accompagnement : celui de l’inspecteu..

The International Health Regulations, COVID-19, and bordering practices: Who gets in, what gets out, and who gets rescued?

It is often said that “diseases know no borders,” but COVID-19 has once again shown that policy responses certainly do. Governments have implemented bordering practices in a variety of ways to ensure that their own citizens are protected, even when in direct contravention to the International Health Regulations (IHR) of 2005. The IHR and the World Health Organization (WHO) have a strong preference for borders to remain open. Yet, we argue here, non-compliance by WHO member states is not the only problem with the IHR’s treatment of borders. Bringing insights from critical border studies and exploring the varied ways in which the response to the COVID-19 crisis has been “bordered,” we argue that a much broader understanding of “borders” is required in the IHR and by the WHO, given that much of the exclusionary bordering we find takes place away from physical points of entry

Morfometrija tijela i analiza oblika otolita inćuna (Engraulis encrasicolus (Linnaeus, 1758)) u alžirskom bazenu

Body morphometric characteristics and otolith shape described by elliptic Fourier descriptors analyses were carried out on European anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus) samples collected from six locations in Algerian waters during the acoustic survey ALPEL2018 (south-western Mediterranean Sea, GFCM-GSA04). The discriminant analysis was applied over twelve morphometric body distances and 31 normalized elliptic Fourier descriptors. It highlighted significant difference between areas but with high overlapping. No significant difference was detected between males and females, or right and left otoliths. Hierarchical clustering analysis conducted on the mean form of body and otolith shape showed a clear geographical cline. The results indicate that the geographical trend is present with a high level of overlapping between the near areas, suggesting that European anchovies in Algerian waters are not completely isolated.Morfometrijske karakteristike tijela i oblik otolita opisane eliptičkim Fourierovim deskriptorima analize su provedene na uzorcima europskog inćuna (Engraulis encrasicolus) prikupljenim sa šest lokacija u alžirskim vodama tijekom akustičkog istraživanja ALPEL2018 (jugozapadno Sredozemno more, GFCM-GSA04). Diskriminantna analiza primijenjena je na dvanaest morfometrijskih udaljenosti tijela i 31 normalizirani eliptički Fourier deskriptor. Naglašena je značajna razlika između područja, ali s velikim preklapanjem. Nije otkrivena značajna razlika između mužjaka i ženki, odnosno desnog i lijevog otolita. Provedena hijerarhijska klasterska analiza srednjeg oblika tijela i oblika otolita pokazala je jasnu geografsku klinu. Rezultati pokazuju da je geografski trend prisutan s visokom razinom preklapanja između obližnjih područja, što navodi da europski inćuni u alžirskim vodama nisu potpuno izolirani

The Health Consequences of Urbanization in Nepal: Perspectives from a Participatory Photo Project with Recent Rural-Urban Migrants

What new challenges to health do recent rural-to-urban migrants in Nepal face? How do newly urbanized individuals navigate and seek healthcare in the city? This photo essay offers a glimpse of the answers to these questions from the perspective of newly urbanized people living in Kirtipur and Pokhara, two rapidly growing urban areas in Nepal. It draws on a nine-month participatory study which used participatory photography, amongst other methods, to better understand the health opportunities and risks faced by new rural-urban migrants. All photographs presented in this essay were taken and selected by research participants and are accompanied by their narrations of what these images represent to them. Consequently, this essay provides insights into how the newly urbanized themselves understand threats to their health, and how they understand the urban health system they are confronted with as service users

Soluble receptor for advanced glycation end products in COPD: relationship with emphysema and chronic cor pulmonale: a case-control study

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The receptor for advanced glycation end products (RAGE) is a multiligand signal transduction receptor that can initiate and perpetuate inflammation. Its soluble isoform (sRAGE) acts as a decoy receptor for RAGE ligands, and is thought to afford protection against inflammation. With the present study, we aimed at determining whether circulating sRAGE is correlated with emphysema and chronic cor pulmonale in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>In 200 COPD patients and 201 age- and sex-matched controls, we measured lung function by spirometry, and sRAGE by ELISA method. We also measured the plasma levels of two RAGE ligands, N-epsilon-carboxymethyl lysine and S100A12, by ELISA method. In the COPD patients, we assessed the prevalence and severity of emphysema by computed tomography (CT), and the prevalence of chronic cor pulmonale by echocardiography. Multiple quantile regression was used to assess the effects of emphysema, chronic cor pulmonale, smoking history, and comorbid conditions on the three quartiles of sRAGE.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>sRAGE was significantly lower (p = 0.007) in COPD patients (median 652 pg/mL, interquartile range 484 to 1076 pg/mL) than in controls (median 869 pg/mL, interquartile range 601 to 1240 pg/mL), and was correlated with the severity of emphysema (p < 0.001), the lower the level of sRAGE the greater the degree of emphysema on CT. The relationship remained statistically significant after adjusting for smoking history and comorbid conditions. In addition, sRAGE was significantly lower in COPD patients with chronic cor pulmonale than in those without (p = 0.002). Such difference remained statistically significant after adjusting for smoking history, comorbidities, and emphysema severity. There was no significant difference in the plasma levels of the two RAGE ligands between cases and controls.</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>sRAGE is significantly lower in patients with COPD than in age- and sex-matched individuals without airflow obstruction. Emphysema and chronic cor pulmonale are independent predictors of reduced sRAGE in COPD.</p

The Ser82 RAGE variant affects lung function and serum RAGE in smokers and sRAGE production in vitro

Introduction: Genome-Wide Association Studies have identified associations between lung function measures and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and chromosome region 6p21 containing the gene for the Advanced Glycation End Product Receptor (AGER, encoding RAGE). We aimed to (i) characterise RAGE expression in the lung, (ii) identify AGER transcripts, (iii) ascertain if SNP rs2070600 (Gly82Ser C/T) is associated with lung function and serum sRAGE levels and (iv) identify whether the Gly82Ser variant is functionally important in altering sRAGE levels in an airway epithelial cell model. Methods: Immunohistochemistry was used to identify RAGE protein expression in 26 human tissues and qPCR was used to quantify AGER mRNA in lung cells. Gene expression array data was used to identify AGER expression during lung development in 38 fetal lung samples. RNA-Seq was used to identify AGER transcripts in lung cells. sRAGE levels were assessed in cells and patient serum by ELISA. BEAS2B-R1 cells were transfected to overexpress RAGE protein with either the Gly82 or Ser82 variant and sRAGE levels identified. Results: Immunohistochemical assessment of 6 adult lung samples identified high RAGE expression in the alveoli of healthy adults and individuals with COPD. AGER/RAGE expression increased across developmental stages in human fetal lung at both the mRNA (38 samples) and protein levels (20 samples). Extensive AGER splicing was identified. The rs2070600T (Ser82) allele is associated with higher FEV1, FEV1/FVC and lower serum sRAGE levels in UK smokers. Using an airway epithelium model overexpressing the Gly82 or Ser82 variants we found that HMGB1 activation of the RAGE-Ser82 receptor results in lower sRAGE production. Conclusions: This study provides new information regarding the expression profile and potential role of RAGE in the human lung and shows a functional role of the Gly82Ser variant. These findings advance our understanding of the potential mechanisms underlying COPD particularly for carriers of this AGER polymorphism

Field, capital and the policing habitus: nderstanding Bourdieu through The NYPD’s post-9/11 counterterrorism practices

This article extends existing Bourdieusian theory in criminology and security literature through examining the practices of the New York City Police Department in the post-9/11 counterterrorism field. This article makes several original contributions. First, it explores the resilient nature of the policing habitus, extending Bourdieusian criminological findings that habitus are entrenched and difficult to change. Second, this article examines the way the resilient habitus drives subordinate factions to displace dominant factions in a field’s established social hierarchy through boundary-pushing practices, a concept previously unexamined in Bourdieusian criminology. Drawing on original documentary analysis, this article uses the illustrative example of the NYPD’s post-9/11 counterterrorism practices, exploring how it sought to displace the existing social structure by using its aggressive policing habitus and an infusion of ‘War on Terror’ capital to challenge the dominant position of the FBI in the post-9/11 counterterrorism field. The NYPD’s habitus driven counterterrorism practices were novel and unprecedented, creating strain with both the FBI and local communities