Transcendence over Diversity: black women in the academy

Universities, like many major public institutions have embraced the notion of ‘diversity’ virtually uncritically- it is seen as a moral ‘good in itself’. But what happens to those who come to represent ‘diversity’- the black and minority ethnic groups targeted to increase the institutions thirst for global markets and aversion to accusations of institutional racism? Drawing on existing literature which analyses the process of marginalization in higher education, this paper explores the individual costs to black and female academic staff regardless of the discourse on diversity. However despite the exclusion of staff, black and minority ethnic women are also entering higher education in relatively large numbers as students. Such ‘grassroots’ educational urgency transcends the dominant discourse on diversity and challenges presumptions inherent in top down initiatives such as ‘widening participation’. Such a collective movement from the bottom up shows the importance of understanding black female agency when unpacking the complex dynamics of gendered and racialised exclusion. Black women’s desire for education and learning makes possible a reclaiming of higher education from creeping instrumentalism and reinstates it as a radical site of resistance and refutation

EFFECT OF FEED TYPE ON THE NUMBER AND HATCHABILITY OF EGGS BLACK SOLDIER FLY (HERMETIA ILLUCENS L.)

The increase in the rate of population growth and peoples consumption patterns causes the amount of waste to accumulate, one of which is organic waste. One alternative for reducing landfills is by using the Black Soldier Fly (Hermetia illucens L.). H. illucens L plays an important role as a decomposer of organic waste. This research aims to determine the effect of various types of feed on the number and hatchability of H. illucens L eggs. Type of experimental research. The research was conducted at TPA Tlekung Batu in June 2023. The types of treatment were various types of feed including A (leaf waste), B (rice waste), C (pineapple waste), D (withered vegetable waste, carrots and mustard greens). The number of eggs and the hatchability of Black Soldier Fly eggs were measured with six repetitions. The research procedure began with preparing tools and materials, placing 14-day-old pupae in a cage, preparing organic feed and placing egg-laying wood on top of the feeder, and spraying water into the cage, collecting and analyzing data. The sampling technique used simple random sampling with a sample size of 24 pairs per cage. Data analysis used One Way Anova and Duncan. The research results showed that various types of feed influenced the number and hatchability of Black Soldier Fly. The type of feed that has a higher influence is on pineapple waste because the water content is very high and for the type of feed the influence is very low on leaf waste. The conclusion of the research is that the type of feed influences the number and hatchability of Black Soldier Fly eggs. The best type of feed is found in pineapple waste which has quite a significant difference

Closed orbit correction at synchrotrons for symmetric and near-symmetric lattices

This contribution compiles the benefits of lattice symmetry in the context of closed orbit correction. A symmetric arrangement of BPMs and correctors results in structured orbit response matrices of Circulant or block Circulant type. These forms of matrices provide favorable properties in terms of computational complexity, information compression and interpretation of mathematical vector spaces of BPMs and correctors. For broken symmetries, a nearest-Circulant approximation is introduced and the practical advantages of symmetry exploitation are demonstrated with the help of simulations and experiments in the context of FAIR synchrotrons

Tales from the playing field: black and minority ethnic students' experiences of physical education teacher education

This article presents findings from recent research exploring black and minority ethnic (BME) students’ experiences of Physical Education teacher education (PETE) in England (Flintoff, 2008). Despite policy initiatives to increase the ethnic diversity of teacher education cohorts, BME students are under-represented in PETE, making up just 2.94% of the 2007/8 national cohort, the year in which this research was conducted. Drawing on in-depth interviews and questionnaires with 25 BME students in PETE, the study sought to contribute to our limited knowledge and understanding of racial and ethnic difference in PE, and to show how ‘race,’ ethnicity and gender are interwoven in individuals’ embodied, everyday experiences of learning how to teach. In the article, two narratives in the form of fictional stories are used to present the findings. I suggest that narratives can be useful for engaging with the experiences of those previously silenced or ignored within Physical Education (PE); they are also designed to provoke an emotional as well as an intellectual response in the reader. Given that teacher education is a place where we should be engaging students, emotionally and politically, to think deeply about teaching, education and social justice and their place within these, I suggest that such stories of difference might have a useful place within a critical PETE pedagogy

Promoting Resilience Among African American Girls: Racial Identity as a Protective Factor

Peer Reviewedhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/146551/1/cdev12995.pdfhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/146551/2/cdev12995_am.pd

Perencanaan Struktur Rumah Sakit Islam Sultan Agung Semarang

Structure design of Sultan Agung Islamic Hospital designed by SNI 03‒2847‒2002 and SNI 1726‒2012, where analysis of earthquake load structure the building made by Spectrum Analysis Method of Dynamic Response. The analysis dynamic response spectrum of building structure is included in Seismic Design Criteria of type D with high seismicity level of risk, so that the planning system is the method used by the building frame structure configuration bearers Special Moment Frame System(Sway‒special). Sway‒special system is designed to be the building does not collapse during an earthquake in excess of the earthquake that has been designed, therefore Sway‒special the model is designed to qualify the strong column weak beam, where the columns are designed to withstand the beam when the beam undergo plastic hinge. Additionally joint should also be designed to prevent well collapse when the beam experiencing first plastic hinge. The structure design of Sultan Agung Islamic Hospital has asymmetrical shape configuration , so when an earthquake the building will undergo rotational stiffness caused by the center of mass and the center of rigidity is not located in a single point, so that should be dilated so that the center of mass and center of stiffness becomes coincide

Thermodynamic curvature and black holes

I give a relatively broad survey of thermodynamic curvature $R$, one spanning results in fluids and solids, spin systems, and black hole thermodynamics. $R$ results from the thermodynamic information metric giving thermodynamic fluctuations. $R$ has a unique status in thermodynamics as being a geometric invariant, the same for any given thermodynamic state. In fluid and solid systems, the sign of $R$ indicates the character of microscopic interactions, repulsive or attractive. $|R|$ gives the average size of organized mesoscopic fluctuating structures. The broad generality of thermodynamic principles might lead one to believe the same for black hole thermodynamics. This paper explores this issue with a systematic tabulation of results in a number of cases.Comment: 27 pages, 10 figures, 7 tables, 78 references. Talk presented at the conference Breaking of Supersymmetry and Ultraviolet Divergences in extended Supergravity, in Frascati, Italy, March 27, 2013. v2 corrects some small problem

Thermodynamic Geometry of black hole in the deformed Horava-Lifshitz gravity

We investigate the thermodynamic geometry and phase transition of Kehagias-Sfetsos black hole in the deformed Horava-Lifshitz gravity with coupling constant $\lambda=1$. The phase transition in black hole thermodynamics is thought to be associated with the divergence of the capacities. And the structures of these divergent points are studied. We also find that the thermodynamic curvature produced by the Ruppeiner metric is positive definite for all $r_+ > r_-$ and is divergence at $\eta_2=0$ corresponded to the divergent points of $C_{\Phi}$ and $C_T$. These results suggest that the microstructure of the black hole has an effective repulsive interaction, which is very similar to the ideal gas of fermions. These may shine some light on the microstructure of the black hole.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure