Navigating the Cultural Landscape towards Self-Determination: Results of an Exploratory Study in American Samoa

The American Samoa University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities, Education, Research, and Service (AS-UCEDD) with the University of Hawaii Center on Disability Studies, conducted an exploratory study to better understand how state agencies deliver services, and how disability is perceived by agency staff and consumers in American Samoa. While it initially was envisioned as a needs-sensing study that used surveys and targeted database reviews to systematically capture client needs, the study transformed to a largely qualitative preliminary investigation that was dependent on personal interviews. Findings revealed how contextual, linguistic, and cultural factors play a hugely important role when researching western-based ideals and concepts within indigenous communities

PENGARUH PROFITABILITAS TERHADAP NILAI PERUSAHAAN DENGAN STRUKTUR MODAL SEBAGAI VARIBEL INTERVENING PADA PERUSAHAAN SUB SEKTOR SEMEN

In observation of this research is to analyze and examine the influence of profitability on firm value with capital structure as an intervention variable. The authors use a sample of companies sub-cement sector listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) as many as 30 samples from 6 companies from the 2016-2020 period. Testing is also done through sampling techniques purposive sampling and assessment that has been done by the author. Some testing is done by processing the data with the cast multiple regression test and test of Sobel to find the hypothesis in research. By doing this test, then obtained the result that in the regression test variables affect profitability capital structure because the results of the significance of the low with the results of 0.000 from the boundary of the significance determined as 0.05. On the structure of the capital is also not seen any influence with the result that 0.11978 that where such a result is higher than the significant level 0.05. Subsequent testing with the test of Sobel shows if the variable profitability of the variable the value of the company with capital structure as an intervening variable does not prove the existence of the element of mediation because in the testing of the obtained results 0.80 smaller than the limit significantly by 1.96

UPAYA PENGEMBANGAN MASYARAKAT DI TENGAH PANDEMI COVID-19 MELALUI URBAN FARMING DI DESA CIHIDEUNG ILIR KABUPATEN BOGOR

Pandemi Covid-19 di Indonesia menyebabkan dikeluarkannya kebijakan yang berpengaruh pada aktivitas kehidupan masyarakat. Salah satunya yaitu himbauan agar masyarakat tetap tinggal dan melakukan aktivitas dari rumah. Keterbatasan selama pandemic, menyebabkan masyarakat berpikir untuk keluar dari masalah terutama dalam pemenuhan kebutuhan pangan. Oleh karena itu, kegiatan tridharma perguruan tinggi diinisiasi berupa program pengabdian masyarakat dengan tema urban farming bertujuan untuk memecahkan masalah tersebut. Urban farming atau berkebun di rumah menjadi populer di tengah pandemi Covid-19 sehingga berdampak pada meningkatnya permintaan terhadap tanaman hias dan sayuran. Pemanfaatan pekarangan rumah yang masih tersisa atau area rooftop, merupakan solusi berkebun di lahan yang terbatas. Kegiatan pengabdian masyarakat dilaksanakan di Desa Cihideung Ilir, Kecamatan Ciampea, Kabupaten Bogor, Jawa Barat dengan peserta yaitu ibu-ibu kader penggerak Pemberdayaan Kesejahteraan Keluarga (PKK). Tahapan pelaksanaan meliputi penjajakan potensi desa, koordinasi dengan perangkat desa, pelaksanaan praktik dan evaluasi kegiatan. Metode pelaksanaan melalui 1) pendidikan masyarakat, yaitu penyampaian materi yang bertujuan meningkatkan pemahaman serta kesadaran pada kader sebagai agen of change akan pentingnya urban farming dan pemanfaatan lahan pekarangan dalam rangka mewujudkan ketahanan pangan rumah tangga. 2) Pelatihan dan praktik demonstrasi, untuk menghasilkan keterampilan bercocok tanam. Berdasarkan hasil evaluasi program ini dapat dikatakan berhasil melihat antusiasme dari para peserta pada setiap materi yang disampaikan sangat dibutuhkan oleh masyarakat.   &nbsp

Kriteria Planet Layak Huni sebagai Analisis Keberadaan Doppelganger Bumi

The discovery of extrasolar planets has reached rapid development. Until now, various earth-sized planets called terrestrial planets around their parent stars have been discovered . It is well known that some of these planets orbit their parent stars in habitable zone around their parent stars in class G-M. Some parameters have been determined to re-categorize these planets whether as habitable planets or as Earth's doppelganger, so that various fundamental parameters assumptions to re-categorize the planets appear. We have studied 300 extrasolar planets－ located in habitable zone － data by using our calculations to determine the fundamental parameters which determine the position of these planets whether as habitable or as Earth's doppelganger. Earth's doppelganger must be able to maintain water in liquid form and must have fingerprints which are exactly same like Earth does. Therefore, we determine four fundamental parameters, the physical condition of the planet, the surface temperature of the planet, the parent star parameters, and the location of the habitable zone. We set the Earth's doppelganger to have the standard parameter of ±1 and assume all of Earth parameters as the standard values. After carrying out four analysis processes, we have foundonly two Earth's doppelganger candidates

Sistem Penentuan Lokasi Objek Target Untuk Manipulator Lengan Robot Berbasis Sensor Penglihatan Biaya Rendah

Pengembangan manipulator lengan robot cerdas yang fleksibel dan otonom serta dapat berinteraksi dengan lingkungan ruang kerjanya merupakan tantangan mendasar dalam studi dan penelitian robotika. Agar dapat melakukan tugasnya dengan baik, suatu manipulator lengan robot memerlukan sinyal masukan berupa informasi persepsional terkait lingkungan dan bidang kerjanya yang diperoleh dengan menggunakan berbagai jenis sensor. Sinyal masukan tersebut selanjutnya digunakan dalam skema sistem kontrol umpan balik untuk menghasilkan sinyal kontrol yang dapat memastikan robot bergerak secara tepat dan sesuai dengan tujuan operasionalnya. Makalah ini memaparkan metode deteksi objek target dan desain sistem kontrol umpan balik berbasis sensor penglihatan (kamera) biaya rendah. Proses deteksi dan kontrol ini ditujukan untuk menggerakkan end-effector dari suatu purwarupa lengan robot dari posisi awal ke posisi akhir referensi tertentu. Deteksi objek dilakukan dengan menggunakan kamera Pixy2 Cmucam5 yang dilengkapi dengan modul khusus pengolahan citra yang memungkinkannya untuk mendeteksi pola tertentu pada objek target. Dengan menggunakan analisis dan desain berbasis metode kinematika balik (inverse kinematics), informasi posisi awal objek target yang diperoleh kamera digunakan sebagai umpan balik untuk mengontrol pergerakan end-effector menuju posisi referensi yang diinginkan. Hasil eksperimen metode deteksi dan desain pengontrol dipaparkan pada makalah ini untuk mengilustrasikan keefektifan metode yang dikembangkan

Barriers associated with emergency medical service activation in Italian patients with ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes

Abstract Background Many ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndrome (STEACS) patients fail to activate the Emergency Medical System (EMS), with possible dramatic consequences. Prior studies focusing on barriers to EMS activation include patients with any acute coronary syndrome (ACS) without representation of southern European populations. However, barriers are influenced by the ACS type and by socio-demographic and racial factors. Purpose We aimed to investigate the barriers to EMS call for patients diagnosed for STEACS in Italy. Methods A prospective, single-center, survey-based study, including all the patients treated with primary percutaneous coronary intervention for STEACS in a tertiary hospital in northern Italy from 1st June 2018 to 31st May 2020. Results The questionnaire was filled out by 293 patients. The majority of the participants were males (74%), married (70.4%), with a high-school degree (38.4%) and with a median age of 62 years. Chest pain as a possible symptom related to a cardiovascular attack is known by most of the respondents (89%), and left arm pain/shake by 53.7% of them, whilst the other possible signs and symptoms (i.e. dyspnea, asthenia, sweating, nausea, vomiting, dizziness) were unknown to the majority of the participants. Only 191 (65.2%) of the participants activated the EMS after symptoms onset. The main reasons for not calling EMS were the perception that symptoms were not related to an important health problem (45.5%) and that a private vehicle is faster than EMS to reach the hospital (34.7%). The median time to first medical contact was 60 minutes, and it was significantly higher in the patients who did not called EMS compared to those who did (180 [60–420] mins vs 35 [15–120] mins, p<0.001). The patients who called a private doctor after symptoms onset did not called EMS more frequently than those who did not (5.9% vs 8.2%, p=0.3). Moreover, 30% of the patients who did not call the EMS would still act in the same way if a new episode occurred and the main reasons for this were that they think to be faster than EMS (57.1%) and to live close to the hospital (17.9%). Analyzing predictors of EMS activation, only prior history of cardiovascular disease has been demonstrated to be a predictor of calling the EMS in case of symptoms suspected for STEACS. Conclusions Our study, from the southern Europe, showed that a substantial percentage of patients with symptoms suspected for STEACS preferred private vehicle rather than activating the EMS. Our results highlight the need for information campaigns targeted to both the general population and medical doctors, stressing that the EMS is faster than a private vehicle to direct the patient to the right hospital and increasing the awareness of the people on the type of possible heart attack symptoms, which seem to be the most neglected issues by patients who did not call the EMS. Funding Acknowledgement Type of funding sources: None

Adaptable data management for systems biology investigations

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Within research each experiment is different, the focus changes and the data is generated from a continually evolving barrage of technologies. There is a continual introduction of new techniques whose usage ranges from in-house protocols through to high-throughput instrumentation. To support these requirements data management systems are needed that can be rapidly built and readily adapted for new usage.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>The adaptable data management system discussed is designed to support the seamless mining and analysis of biological experiment data that is commonly used in systems biology (e.g. ChIP-chip, gene expression, proteomics, imaging, flow cytometry). We use different content graphs to represent different views upon the data. These views are designed for different roles: equipment specific views are used to gather instrumentation information; data processing oriented views are provided to enable the rapid development of analysis applications; and research project specific views are used to organize information for individual research experiments. This management system allows for both the rapid introduction of new types of information and the evolution of the knowledge it represents.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>Data management is an important aspect of any research enterprise. It is the foundation on which most applications are built, and must be easily extended to serve new functionality for new scientific areas. We have found that adopting a three-tier architecture for data management, built around distributed standardized content repositories, allows us to rapidly develop new applications to support a diverse user community.</p

Measurement of χ c1 and χ c2 production with s√ = 7 TeV pp collisions at ATLAS

The prompt and non-prompt production cross-sections for the χ c1 and χ c2 charmonium states are measured in pp collisions at s√ = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC using 4.5 fb−1 of integrated luminosity. The χ c states are reconstructed through the radiative decay χ c → J/ψγ (with J/ψ → μ + μ −) where photons are reconstructed from γ → e + e − conversions. The production rate of the χ c2 state relative to the χ c1 state is measured for prompt and non-prompt χ c as a function of J/ψ transverse momentum. The prompt χ c cross-sections are combined with existing measurements of prompt J/ψ production to derive the fraction of prompt J/ψ produced in feed-down from χ c decays. The fractions of χ c1 and χ c2 produced in b-hadron decays are also measured