Hubungan Antara Kontrol Diri Dan Perilaku Konsumtif Mahasiswi Universitas Esa Unggul

Mahasiswi termasuk dalam usia remaja akhir, yg masih labil dam membutuhkan pengakuan dari lingkungan sosialnya dan memiliki emosi yang labil. Dalam keadaan tersebut, membuat kemampuan mengendalikan diri atau kontrol diri menjadi lemah, sehingga mereka cenderung mengambil tindakan berdasarkan emosi. Tindakan yang dimaksud salah satunya adalah tindakan dalam membeli. Tujuan penelitian adalah mengetahui hubungan antara kontrol diri, melihat dominan dimensi kontrol diri dan tingkatan dari perilaku konsumtif. Penelitian ini bersifat kuantitatif non-eksperimental.Sampel penelitian berjumlah 90 mahasiswi Universitas Esa Unggul. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan korelasi sebesar -0,304 dengan sig 0,002 (p < 0,05), artinya ada terdapat hubungan negatif antara kontrol diri dengan perilaku konsumtif mahasiswi Universitas Esa Unggul. Mahasiswi yang memiliki kontrol diri lemah lebih banyak dibanding dengan mahasiswi yang memiliki kontrol diri yang kuat. Sedangkan pada mahasiswi yang berperilaku konsumtif tinggi lebih banyak daripada mahasisiwi yang berperilaku konsumtif rendah. Dari ketiga dimensi dari kontrol diri,yang paling dominan ialah dimensi behavioral control atau kontrol perilaku

Stance Detection in Web and Social Media: A Comparative Study

Online forums and social media platforms are increasingly being used to discuss topics of varying polarities where different people take different stances. Several methodologies for automatic stance detection from text have been proposed in literature. To our knowledge, there has not been any systematic investigation towards their reproducibility, and their comparative performances. In this work, we explore the reproducibility of several existing stance detection models, including both neural models and classical classifier-based models. Through experiments on two datasets -- (i)~the popular SemEval microblog dataset, and (ii)~a set of health-related online news articles -- we also perform a detailed comparative analysis of various methods and explore their shortcomings. Implementations of all algorithms discussed in this paper are available at https://github.com/prajwal1210/Stance-Detection-in-Web-and-Social-Media

Dexamethasone Administration During Late Gestation Has No Major Impact on Lipid Metabolism, but Reduces Newborn Survival Rate in Wistar Rats

A rise in plasma triacylglycerol levels is a common physiological occurrence during late gestation and excess of glucocorticoids (GCs) has been shown to impair lipid metabolism. Based on those observations, we investigated whether the administration of dexamethasone during the late gestational period could exacerbate this pregnancy associated hypertriacylglycerolemia in rats. For this, female Wistar rats were treated with dexamethasone (0.2 mg/kg of body mass in the drinking water on days 14–19 of pregnancy; DP group) or equivalent days in the virgin rats (DV group). Untreated pregnant rats (control pregnant group) and age-matched virgin rats (control virgin group) were used as controls. Functional, biochemical, and molecular analyses were carried out after treatment with GC and in the control groups. Euthanasia was performed on day 20 of pregnancy. The metabolic parameters of the mothers (dams) at the time of weaning and 6 months later, as well as newborn survival, were evaluated. We observed that neither dexamethasone nor pregnancy affected blood glucose or glucose tolerance. Hypertriacylglycerolemia associated with lipid intolerance or reduced hepatic triacylglycerol clearance was observed during the late gestational period. GC treatment caused a further increase in basal plasma triacylglycerol levels, but did not have a significant effect on lipid tolerance and hepatic triacylglycerol clearance in pregnant rats. GC, but not pregnancy, caused few significant changes in mRNA expression of proteins involved in lipid metabolism. Dexamethasone during pregnancy had no impact on lipid metabolism later in the dams’ life; however, it led to intra-uterine growth restriction and reduced pup survival rate. In conclusion, GC exposure during the late gestational period in rats has no major impact on maternal lipid homeostasis, soon after parturition at weaning, or later in the dams’ life, but GC exposure is deleterious to the newborn when high doses are administered at late gestation. These data highlight the importance of performing an individualized and rigorous control of a GC treatment during late pregnancy considering its harmful impact on the fetuses’ health