To what extent can the Positive Masculinity Approach contribute to the Population Control Program in Bangladesh?

This significant success in Population Control Program PCP in Bangladesh has surprised many researchers both inside and outside of the country But still there is a major gap related to the involvement of men in the program As the Bangladeshi community is patriarchal and most members are conventional it is therefore assumed that the participation of men in PCP is incompatible with manhood This paper is an attempt to argue that men s involvement as a tool of Positive Masculinity approach can contribute to the PCP in Bangladesh It also aims to show the significance of Positive Masculinity in PCP to lessen the burden on female lives and to dispel the ignorance surrounding male roles in PC

Stress Intensity Factor on a Surface Crack of Cylindrical Pressure Vessel

Cylindrical Pressure Vessel is widely used in the industries. The wide application of this vessel has made the studies and engineering design to be more important than before. The best design need to be obtained in order to ensure the safety, performance and reliability of the vessel. Because of wrong selection of material, design and overloading cracks can occur at the surface of the pressure vessel. This is due to high Stress intensity Factor (SIF) that occurs at the crack. This report basically discusses the research done and basic understanding of the chosen topic, which is Stress Intensity Factor on a Surface Crack of Cylindrical Pressure Vessel. The objective of the project is to do the investigation and understand the surface crack propagation in a cylindrical pressure vessel. A standard practice of the fracture testing is referred to the ASTM Standard Test Practice for Fracture Testing with Surface-Crack Tension Specimens (E 740 – 88). The analysis used A516 Grade 60 mild steel (0.25 carbon) as a reference of material of this project. It is based from Pressure Vessel Design Manual, Third Edition by Dennis R. Moss where it states the material for the surface material for cylindrical pressure vessel. Software called ANSYS had been used to analyze the effect of surface crack to the Stress Intensity Factor (SIF). Theorically, if the crack size and crack depth increase the value of Stress Intensity Factor will also increase at the crack tip of the crack. This has been proves with the result that the author get. From the analytical approach the crack length, c and crack depth, a influences the value of SIF. This result can be approved with the ANSYS analysis where the value of SIF will increase with the increasing of crack depth and crack size

penggunaan media pembelajaran berbasis android untuk meningkatkan kemampuan membaca wiring diagram sistem pengapian konvensional

Pelaksanaan penelitian ini dilatarbelakangi dengan rendahnya hasil ujian mahasiswa pada mata pelajaran Kelistrikan Engine Otomotif tahun2017-2018 yaitu terdapat 27 mahasiswa dengan standar penilaian 7,5 setelah diambil rata-rata perolehan nilai mahasiswa berada pada nilai 5,17 yang menunjukan, nilai rata-rata mahasiswa berada jauh dibawah nilai kriteria ketuntasan minimum. Peneliti memperkirakan rendahnya pencapaian nilai ujian mahasiswa dikarenakan rendahnya pemahaman terhadap materi pembelajaran, dan pemahaman materi ini dipengaruhi atas penerapan media pembelajaran yang belum optimal. Media pembelajaran pada hakikatnya jembatan dari pesan-pesan pembelajaran yang disampaikan dosen kepada mahasiswa agar dapat diserap dengan cepat dan tepat sesuai tujuannya. Penerapan media pembelajaran yang optimal sebagian diantaranya dapat menggunakan media berbasis android, khususnya Media Unity. Peneliti menstigmasi bahwasanya dengan penggunaan media pembelajaran berbasis android dengan media pembelajaran dapat meningkatkan hasil belajr mahasiswa. Pelaksanaan penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui apakah penggunaan aplikasi berbasis android tersebut dapat secara signifikan meningkatkan kemampuan mahasiswa dalam membaca wiring diagram pengapian konvensional pada mata kuliah Kelistrikan Engne Otomotif. Pengambilan data dalam penelitian ini diambil dari sampel mahasiswa pendidikan teknik mesin konsentrasi otomotif yang sedang menempuh mata kuliah Kelistrikan Engine Otomotif. Adapun desain penelitian yang peneliti gunakan, yaitu dengan jenis Eksperimen One Group Pre test-Post test Design. Berdasarkan data hasil penelitian, data menunjukan bahwa terjadi peningkatan prestasi belajar mahasiswa yang cukup signifikan, yang di dapat berdasarkan nilai pretest dan posttest. Skor rata-rata N-gain yang diperoleh dari penelitian ini sebesar 0,41 dengan kategori sedang. Kata kunci: Media Unity Berbasis Android, N-gain The implementation of this research was motivated by the low results of student examinations in the Automotive Engine Electricity subject in 2017-2018, namely there were 27 students with an assessment standard of 7.5 after taking the average score of students at a value of 5.17 which indicates the average value of students. is far below the minimum completeness criteria value. Researchers estimate that the low achievement of student test scores is due to low understanding of learning materials, and understanding of this material is influenced by the application of learning media that is not optimal. Learning media is essentially a bridge of learning messages conveyed by lecturers to students so that they can be absorbed quickly and precisely according to their purpose. Some of the optimal application of learning media can use Android-based media, especially Unity Media. Researchers stigmatize that the use of Android-based learning media with Unity media can improve student learning outcomes. The implementation of this study aims to determine whether the use of android-based applications can significantly improve students' ability to read conventional ignition wiring diagrams in the Automotive Engineering course. Retrieval of data in this study was taken from a sample of automotive concentration mechanical engineering education students who are currently taking Automotive Engine Electrical courses. The research design that the researchers used was the Experiment type One Group Pre-test-Post test Design. Based on the research data, the data shows that there is a significant increase in student achievement, which is obtained based on the pretest and posttest scores. The average N-gain score obtained from this study is 0.41 in the medium category. Keywords: Android-based Unity Media, N-gai

Analisis kualitatif pembingkaian akhbar The Star dan Utusan Malaysia mengenai kontroversi majlis “Thanksgiving” di DUMC

Kajian ini meneliti dan membandingkan bagaimana dua akhbar arus perdana berlainan bahasa di Malaysia, The Star dan Utusan Malaysia melaporkan isu konflik agama yang mencetuskan kontroversi berkaitan akidah dan kepercayaan umat Islam dalam satu majlis Thanksgiving yang melibatkan pelbagai kaum di Damansara Utama Methodist Church (DUMC). Majlis ini dianjurkan oleh organisasi Komuniti Harapan pada 3 Ogos, 2011. Tindakan diambil oleh Bahagian Penguatkuasa Jabatan Agama Islam Selangor (JAIS) yang menjalankan operasi pada majlis Thanksgiving itu menarik perhatian besar pihak media khususnya akhbar The Star dan Utusan Malaysia. Isu ini dianggap sebagai sebuah kes yang kontroversi untuk dikaji dan dibandingkan bagaimana media utama tempatan dan berlainan bahasa menonjolkan seterusnya membingkaikan isu konflik ini. The Star dan Utusan Malaysia dianalisis dengan objektif untuk menentukan pembingkaian berita (news frame) yang digunakan oleh kedua-dua akhbar dalam melaporkan mengenai isu ini seperti yang diperkenalkan oleh sarjana Robert Entman pada 1993. Dapatan kajian mendapati kedua-dua akhbar membingkai isu ini dengan memberi penekanan kepada isu konflik politik yang berlaku dalam parti gabungan Pakatan Rakyat (PR) terutamanya parti Parti Islam Semalaysia (PAS) dalam menangani isu ini. Selain bingkai konflik politik, kedua-dua akhbar menunjukkan perbezaan dalam membingkai isu ini. Akhbar The Star lebih membingkai isu ini dari sudut etika moral manakala akhbar Utusan Malaysia lebih membingkai isu ini dari sudut perlembagaan

Designing Phonetic Alphabet for Bahasa Indonesia (PABI) for the teaching of intelligible English pronunciation in Indonesia

The sociolinguistic development of English has placed a greater emphasis on intelligibility as the ultimate goal of pronunciation instruction. However, various studies have indicated that English pronunciation of Indonesian English learners was not satisfactory due to difficulties in learning English pronunciation and lack of emphasis given to the teaching of English pronunciation in English classrooms in Indonesia. In this paper we propose the development of Phonetic Alphabets for Bahasa Indonesia (PABI). This practical instrument allows English teachers and students in Indonesia to transcribe the pronunciations of English words into phonetic transcription with locally-appropriate readability and accessibility without compromising the pronunciation intelligibility. The development of PABI started with contrastive analysis of common phonemes in the two languages, i.e., English and Bahasa Indonesia (BI). Next, we identified the English phonemes missing in Bahasa Indonesia which English learners in Indonesia have to conceptualise. We then located those English sound ‘pairs’ which seem identical to Indonesians and are thus used interchangeably in BI. A corpus of 30,000 commonly used English words was transcribed in PABI using a computer software IPA to L1PA developed by Rahman and Bhattacharya (2020). Proposals to modify the IPA to suit the BI sound system entailed the adjustments in the consonant phonemes, vowel phonemes, and cluster sounds. These adjustments are expected to improve the readability and accessibility of the conventional IPA in facilitating the teaching and learning of intelligible English pronunciation in Indonesia. Practical uses of the PABI guidelines are drawn to improve its utility. Implications for the development of context sensitive and locally-appropriate pronunciation teaching and learning are drawn based on the findings

Media Coverage on Religious Conflict in Malaysia: A preliminary Study on how The Star and Utusan Malaysia Framed the Attempts to Subvert the Faith and Believe of Muslims in a Multiracial Thanksgiving Dinner at DUMC

AbstractThis study proposes to examine and compare how two mainstream newspapers in Malaysia with different languages – The Star and Utusan Malaysia reported one of the most controversial religious problems encountered in Malaysia's history which was the attempts to subvert the faith and belief of Muslims in a multiracial Thanksgiving Dinner at DUMC in Jalan 13/1, organised by Harapan Komuniti on 3rd August, 2011. The actions taken by the Enforcement Division of the Selangor Department of the Religion of Islam (Jais) which carried out a search at the Thanksgiving Dinner attracted a great attention from the mainstream media. Considered as a sensitive issue among Malaysians, it is an interesting case to examine and compare how major local media represented this conflict. The Star and Utusan Malaysia were analyzed with the objectives determining (1) the pattern of coverage of this issue; (2) the predominant news sources used by both newspapers; (3) the news framed used by the newspapers; and (4) slant of the news articles towards the parties in conflict

Wacana Kontroversi Agama di Malaysia: Satu Kajian Terhadap Pelaporan Akhbar Utusan Malaysia dan The Star Mengenai Tuntutan COMANGO

Negara Malaysia sebelum ini telah mengalami pelbagai insiden dan isu yang melibatkan kaum dan agama sehingga telah mendatangkan masalah dari segi perhubungan antara kaum dan agama. Isu-isu yang melibatkan agama dan kaum ini sering kali melibatkan agama Islam, yang juga adalah agama rasmi negara Malaysia. Agama Islam sering kali menjadi subjek yang sensitif kerana ia sering kali dijadikan sebagai alat untuk mengekalkan hegemoni dan status quo oleh pihak kerajaan dalam konteks di Malaysia. Pada tahun 2013, sebuah pertubuhan NGO yang dikenali sebagai COMANGO telah menghantar beberapa tuntutan yang melibatkan hak asasi manusia di Malaysia kepada Pertubuhan Bangsa-bangsa Bersatu (PBB) di Penilaian Berkala Sejagat (UPR). COMANGO telah dikatakan telah membuat beberapa tuntutan yang mencabar kedudukan Islam dan Melayu di Malaysia dan mempromosi seks bebas. Isu ini telah mendapat liputan yang meluas di media akhbar di Malaysia khususnya akhbar arus perdana di Malaysia dan ia dilihat sebagai sebuah isu yang boleh mendatangkan manfaat kepada pihak kerajaan untuk mengukuhkan kuasa mereka dengan memainkan isu ini kepada khalayak umum. Oleh itu, artikel ini bertujuan untuk mengkaji mesej-mesej yang disampaikan oleh akhbar arus perdana mengenai isu ini, iaitu akhbar Utusan Malaysia dan The Star. Dapatan kajian menunjukkan kedua-dua akhbar yang dikaji memberikan liputan yang hampir sama dengan sedikit kelainan. Akhbar Utusan Malaysia dilihat sangat menentang tuntutan COMANGO tersebut dan mengangkat parti UMNO sebagai parti yang memperjuangkan Islam manakala akhbar The Star walaupun dilihat lebih banyak memberikan peluang kepada pihak COMANGO untuk menyatakan pendirian mereka, namun dilihat masih berhati-hati dalam pelaporan mereka mengenai isu tersebut

The Types of research problem formulation of theses made by the English Departement Students At IAIN Palangka Raya

The purpose of the study was to know what the types of research problem of the theses that used by the English students department graduated in 2012 to 2014. In this study, the writer used library research. The problem of the study is what are the types of the research problems of the theses of the English department students at IAIN Palangka Raya who graduated 2012 to 2014. To get the data of study, it was used documentation. After getting the data was from documentation, the writer analyzed the data using content analysis. The subjects of this study was theses passed from 2012 to 2014. They were 48 students’ research problem in English department graduated in 2012, 44 students’ research problem in English department graduated in 2013, and 53 students’ research problem in English department graduated in 2014. The result of this study could be explained as criteria mentioned by Donald Ary that “the types of research reflected by the research problems. There are 89 theses using quantitative research problems, 47 theses using qualitative research problems, 2 theses using research and development (R&D) research problems, and 7 theses using mixed method. Therefore, it can be concluded that the most of theses scripted by students’ graduated from 2012 to 2014 were used the quantitative than qualitative and research & development (R&D) research problem. ABSTRAK Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah mengetahui apa saja tipe-tipe rumusan masalah yang digunakan dalam skripsi mahasiswa program studi bahasa Inggris lulusan tahun 2012 sampai tahun 2014. Pada penelitian ini, penulis menggunakan kajian kepustakaan. Rumusan masalah pada penelitian ini adalah apa saja tipe rumusan masalah yang dipakai pada skripsi-skripsi mahasiswa pendidikan bahasa Inggris yang telah lulus pada tahun 2012 sampai 2014. Untuk mendapatkan data, penulis menggunakan teknik documentasi. Setelah mendapatkan data dari documentasi, penulis menganalisa data tersebut menggunakan analisa isi (content analysis). Subjek penelitian ini adalah skripsi yang diambil dari tahun 2012 sampai tahun 2014. Diantaranya adalah 48 mahasiswa program studi bahasa Inggris IAIN lulusan tahun 2012, 44 mahasiswa program studi bahasa Inggris IAIN lulusan tahun 2013, dan 53 mahasiswa program studi bahasa Inggris IAIN lulusan tahun 2014. Hasil dari penelitian ini dapat dijelaskan sesuai dengan kriteria yang disebutkan oleh Donald Ary yaitu, “tipe-tipe dari penelitian digambarkan oleh rumusan masalah. Ada 89 skripsi menggunakan rumusan masalah quantitative, 47 skripsi menggunakan rumusan masalah qualitative, 2 skripsi menggunakan rumusan masalah penelitian dan pengembangan (R&D), dan 7 skripsi menggunakan rumusan masalah dengan metode campuran. Oleh karena itu, dapat disimpulkan bahwa kebanyakan skripsi yang ditulis oleh mahasiswa lulusan dari tahun 2012 sampai 2014 menggunakan kuantitatif daripada kualitatif dan penelitian & pengembangan (R&D)

Employability of international students: Strategies to enhance their experience on work-integrated learning (WIL) programs

This paper presents a systematic qualitative review of relevant literature, documents and reports, and critically discusses issues facing international students undertaking work-integrated learning (WIL) activities as part of their higher education in Australia. Initiatives utilised to better support international students on these WIL placements are described. Based on an evaluation of the data reviewed, the discussion highlights two main challenges to international students’ employment experiences: a limited competence in English communication, and a limited understanding of the local working context. In seeking explanations for the above, the authors identified factors such as inadequate student-entry procedures, limited opportunities for socialisation, limited input in cultural protocols, and the lack of soft-skills training. The recommended solutions include more uniformity between government and employer sectors, increased acceptance and support for multicultural diversity, an openness towards diverse ways of thinking, and an enhancement of training in diverse communication styles

Improving implant training for physicians and their teams in under-represented regions

The burden of cardiovascular disease is increasing globally, with low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) absorbing most of the burden while lacking the necessary healthcare infrastructure to combat the increase. In particular, the disparity in pacemaker implants between high-income countries and LMICs is glaring, partially spurned by reduced numbers of physicians and supporting staff who are trained in pacemaker implant technique. Herein, we will discuss current pacemaker implant training models, outline training frameworks that can be applied to underserved regions, and review adjunctive training techniques that can help supplement traditional training models in LMICs