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Isu Kesetaraan Laki-Laki dan Perempuan (Bias Gender)
Senyata-nyatanya Allah SWT telah menciptakan manusia (laki dan perempuan) dari dzat yang sama, tetapi secara biologis dan fisiologis mempunyai kodrat yang berbeda. Kodrat merupakan ketetapan Allah yang mutlak dan bersifat universal, sedangkan kesetaraan gender merupakan pembagian peran antara laki-laki dan perempuan yang diatur oleh manusia (masyarakat) itu sendiri yang bersifat dinamis, dan sangat mungkin berbeda dari satu masyarakat ke masyarakat lain.Dalam realita kehidupan, hampir semua tugas gender dapat dilakukan oleh kedua kaum laki-laki dan perempuan (kecuali yang bersifat mutlak, melahirkan misalnya). Namun dalam stereotip masyarakat (terutama Indonesia), masih sering terjadi kesalahan pemaknaan terhadap perbedaan gender sebagai kodrat fisiologis dan biologis. Sehingga muncul isu bias gender yang dilatarbelakangi oleh adanya ketidakpuasan perlakuan terhadap kaum perempuan. Implikasi bias gender secara tidak langsung dapat merugikan masyarakat secara menyeluruh. Apabila perempuan diposisikan tertinggal, maka akan sulit bagi perempuan untuk menjadi mitra sejajar laki-laki, sehingga hubungan keduanya akan menjadi timpang. Ketimpangan yang dapat berakibat negatif, selanjutnya dapat dihindari dengan mengisi kehidupan yang “harmoni dalam berbeda”
Myelin figures: the buckling and flow of wet soap
Myelin figures are interfacial structures formed when certain surfactants
swell in excess water. Here, I present data and model calculations suggesting
myelin formation and growth is due to the fluid flow of surfactant, driven by
the hydration gradient at the dry surfactant/water interface; a simple model
based on this idea qualitatively reproduces the various myelin growth behaviors
observed in different experiments. From a detailed experimental observation of
how myelins develop from a planar precursor structure, I identify a mechanical
instability that may underlie myelin formation. These results indicate the
mixed mechanical character of the surfactant lamellar structure, where fluid
and elastic properties coexist, is what enables the formation and growth of
myelins.Comment: 11 pages, 10 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. E. Corrected
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Structures of K0.05Na0.95NbO3 (50–300 K) and K0.30Na0.70NbO3 (100–200 K)
Rietveld refinement using neutron powder diffraction data is reported for the potential lead-free piezoelectric material KxNa1 - xNbO3 (x = 0.05, x = 0.3) at low temperatures. The structures were determined to be of rhombohedral symmetry, space group R3c, with the tilt system a-a-a- for both compositions. It was found that some of the structural parameters differ significantly in the two structures, and particularly the NbO6 octahedral strains as a function of temperature. The 300 K profile for K0.05Na0.95NbO3 shows the coexistence of rhombohedral and monoclinic phases, which indicates that the phase boundary is close to room temperature; the phase boundary for K0.30Na0.70NbO3 is found to be at approximately 180 K
Strong Aperiodic X-ray Variability and Quasi-Periodic Oscillation in X-ray Nova XTE J1550-564
We report the discovery of strong aperiodic X-ray variability and
quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) in the X-ray light curves of a new X-ray Nova,
XTE J1550-564, and the evolution of the observed temporal properties during the
rise of the recent X-ray outburst. The power spectral analysis of the first
observation reveals strong aperiodic X-ray variability of the source (~28%), as
well as the presence of a QPO at ~82 mHz with fractional rms amplitude ~14%
over the 2-60 keV energy range. Also apparent is the first harmonic of the QPO
with the amplitude ~9%. As the X-ray flux increases, the source tends to become
less variable, and the QPO frequency increases rapidly, from 82 mHz to 4 Hz,
over the flux (2-50 keV) range of 1.73-5.75 x 10^{-8} ergs cm^{-2} s^{-1}. The
amplitude of the fundamental component of the QPO varies little, while that of
the harmonic follows a decreasing trend. The fundamental component strengthens
toward high energies, while its harmonic weakens. Initially, the power spectrum
is roughly flat at low frequencies and turns into a power law at high
frequencies, with the QPO harmonic sitting roughly at the break. In later
observations, however, the high-frequency portion of the continuum can actually
be better described by a broken power law (as opposed to a simple power law).
This effect becomes more apparent at higher energies. The overall amplitude of
the continuum shows a similar energy dependence to that of the fundamental
component of the QPO. Strong rapid X-ray variability, as well as hard energy
spectrum, makes XTE J1550-564 a good black hole candidate. We compare its
temporal properties with those of other black hole candidates.Comment: 12 pages, including 5 figures. To appear in ApJ Letters, vol. 512
(1999
Obscuring Gender-Based Violence: Marriage Promotion and Teen Dating Violence Research
This article argues that United States public policies have prioritized marriage and healthy relationship promotion over research and education about gendered violence in adult and teen relationships, despite evidence of the prevalence of intimate partner and teen dating violence that disproportionately impacts women and girls. The lack of a gender-based analysis reflects a shift from a feminist framing of violence that focuses on the safety and well-being of women and girls based on an analysis of gender, power, and structural inequalities, to ward a conservative focus on individualistic solutions to gendered social problems like poverty and violence
Possible complex annihilation and B -> K pi direct CP asymmetry
We point out that a sizable strong phase could be generated from the penguin
annihilation in the soft-collinear effective theory for B meson decays. Keeping
a small scale suppressed by O(Lambda/m_b), Lambda being a hadronic scale and
m_b the b quark mass, in the denominators of internal particle propagators
without expansion, the resultant strong phase can accommodate the data of the
B^0 -> K^-+ pi^+- direct CP asymmetry. Our study reconciles the opposite
conclusions on the real or complex penguin annihilation amplitude drawn in the
soft-collinear effective theory and in the perturbative QCD approach based on
k_T factorization theorem.Comment: 8 pages, 1 figure, added reference
Kemampuan Manajerial Pengurus Organisasi dalam Upaya Meningkatkan Kinerja Organisasi Islam Perempuan di Jawa Barat
Ormas (organisasi massa) Islam perempuan di Jawa Barat ternyata telah berperan aktif dalam mendukung pembangunan Indonesia, ke arah terwujudnya “izzul Islam wal muslimin menuju baldatun thoyyibatun wa robbun ghofur”. Prinsip yang telah ditetapkan itu, tentunya, harus mendasari dan mewarnai berbagai aktivitas organisasi yang dilaksanakannya. Keberhasilan organisasi dalam mencapai tujuan dan berbagai sasarannya serta kemampuan menghadapi berbagai tantangan, baik yang sifatnya internal maupun eksternal, sangat ditentukan oleh kemampuan mengelola sumber daya manusia dengan setepat-tepatnya.Sumber daya manusia merupakan unsur penting dan terpenting dalam suatu organisasi, karena melalui sumber daya manusialah aktivitas penting organisasi, terutama dalam pengambilan keputusan, penentuan tujuan, pelaksanaan pekerjaan dan evaluasi pekerjaan dilakukan. Dalam rangka mewujudkan organisasi yang efektif inilah, para pengurus ormas Islam perempuan di Jawa Barat perlu memiliki keterampilan khusus dalam aspek manajerial
mixing effects on charmonium and meson decays
We include the meson into the -- mixing formalism
constructed in our previous work, where represents the pseudoscalar
gluball. The mixing angles in this tetramixing matrix are constrained by
theoretical and experimental implications from relevant hadronic processes.
Especially, the angle between and is found to be about
from the measured decay widths of the meson. The pseudoscalar glueball
mass , the pseudoscalar densities and the U(1) anomaly
matrix elements associated with the mixed states are solved from the anomalous
Ward identities. The solution GeV obtained from the
-- mixing is confirmed, while grows to above the pion
mass, and thus increases perturbative QCD predictions for the branching ratios
. We then analyze the -mixing effects on charmonium
magnetic dipole transitions, and on the branching
ratios and CP asymmetries, which further improve the consistency between
theoretical predictions and data. A predominant observation is that the
mixing enhances the perturbative QCD predictions for
by 18%, but does not alter those for . The puzzle due to the
large data is then resolved.Comment: 12 pages, version to appear in PR
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