Pedagogies of Race: The Politics of Whiteness in an African American Studies Course

This paper evaluates students\u27 arguments for a color-blind society to avoid discussions related to the continued existence of racism in USA culture. Relatedly, this writer finds that as an black woman her status as facilitator in the classroom is directly challenged, on occasion, and that race and gender play a primary role in students\u27 perception of classroom material and how she is perceived. Classroom discussions related to historical texts reveal that structures of domination have slanted perception of black and white people in U.S. culture. Finally, a key to open dialogue about race and racism, primarily for white students, is to explain and demonstrate the invisibility of whiteness or white privilege in American society

Implementasi Kebijakan Pemerintah Daerah dalam Pelayanan Kesehatan Masyarakat ( Studi di Kecamatan Kotamobagu Selatan Kota Kotamobagu)

Di era reformasi, kata Perubahan menjadi kata yang sering disuarakan,baik untuk individu ataupun oleh anggota kelompok masyarakat lainnya.Tuntutan Perubahan sering ditujukan kepada aparatur birokrasi yang kuatpelayanan publik yang diberikan kepada masyarakat. Dalam pelayananpemerintah, rasa puas masyarakat terpenuhi bila apa yang diberikan olehpemerintah kepada mereka sesuai dengan apa yang mereka harapkan,dengan memperhatikan kualitas dan kuantitas pelayanan itu di berikanserta biaya yang relative terjangkau dan mutu pelayanan yang baik.Jadi, terdapat tiga unsure pokok dari pelayanan itu sendiri. Pertama,biaya harus relative lebih rendah, kedua, waktu yang diperlukan, danterakhir mutu pelayanan yang diberikan relative baik.Tujuan pembangunan kesehatan sebagai komitmen nasional dapatdilihat pada pasal 3 Undang-Undang Nomor 36 tahun 2009 TentangKesehatan, seperti berikut: “Pembangunan kesehatan bertujuan untukmeningkatkan kesadaran, kemauan, dan kemampuan hidup sehat bagi setiaporang agar terwujud derajat kesehatan masyarakat yang setinggi-tingginya,sebagai investasi bagi pembangunan sumber daya manusia yang produktifsecara sosial dan ekonomis.

Teaching Writing Recount Text Through Personal Journal Writing

This research was conducted to find out whether Personal Journal Writing is effective and how effective it is in teaching writing recount text. This research was conducted to the tenth grade students of SMAN 3 Pontianak in Academic Year 2014/2015. In this research, a quasi experimental design was used by the writer. The samples were class XD as the experimental group and the control group was class XE. In this research, the result of t-test computation was 4.57 with degree of freedom is 65 and t-table is 2.00. It showed that the alternative hypothesis (Ha) that teaching writing recount text through personal journal writing is effective is accepted and the effectiveness was strong. In conclusion, personal journal writing can be a good alternative in teaching writing recount text on the tenth grade students of SMAN 3 Pontianak and in other schools which have similar characteristics to SMA Negeri 3 Pontianak

Algae and cyanobacteria in soils polluted with heavy metals (Northwest Russia, Murmansk region)

The analysis of algae and cyanobacteria in Albic Podzols affected by emissions of the copper–nickel plant Pechenganikel in the forest-tundra of the Arctic region was carried out. The main pollutants contained in the emissions and entering the soil are sulfur compounds and heavy non-ferrous metals. Algae and cyanobacteria were identified in soil samples collected in three zones differing in their distance from the pollution source: the zone of strong pollution (at a distance of 3 km southwest from the source of the emission), the zone of medium pollution (5-7 km), and the zone of weak pollution (16-25 km). In total, 61 species of eukaryotic algae and 2 species of cyanobacteria were found. In the studied soils, several species of algae were found with a high frequency, apparently resistant to unfavorable natural and anthropogenic factors: Chloromonas sp., Neocystis brevis, Parietochloris alveolaris, Pseudococcomyxa simplex, Stichococcus bacillaris, Interfilum terricola, Leptosira cf. obovata, Myrmecia bisecta, Nostoc muscorum. Algae from the Chlorophyta division predominated in all soils studied. Yellowgreen algae and diatoms were found only in the zone of strong pollution and were represented by a very small number of species. The presence of Microthamnion kuetzingianum, which is resistant to high acidity and heavy metals concentration, can be useful as an indicator of severe heavy metal contamination. Our study confirmed sensitivity of Vischeria magna to soil contamination with heavy metals. In long-term aspect, the species diversity of algae has increased by 35% in the soils influenced by the Pechenganikel plant in comparison with the data obtained 30 years ago, which probably indicates a certain decrease in anthropogenic load on the adjacent territories

Amygdalar function reflects common individual differences in emotion and pain regulation success

Although the co-occurrence of negative affect and pain is well recognized, the mechanism underlying their association is unclear. To examine whether a common self-regulatory ability impacts the experience of both emotion and pain, we integrated neuroimaging, behavioral, and physiological measures obtained from three assessments separated by substantial temporal intervals. Out results demonstrated that individual differences in emotion regulation ability, as indexed by an objective measure of emotional state, corrugator electromyography, predicted self-reported success while regulating pain. In both emotion and pain paradigms, the amygdala reflected regulatory success. Notably, we found that greater emotion regulation success was associated with greater change of amygdalar activity following pain regulation. Furthermore, individual differences in degree of amygdalar change following emotion regulation were a strong predictor of pain regulation success, as well as of the degree of amygdalar engagement following pain regulation. These findings suggest that common individual differences in emotion and pain regulatory success are reflected in a neural structure known to contribute to appraisal processes

STM-induced surface aggregates on metals and oxidized silicon

We have observed an aggregation of carbon or carbon derivatives on platinum and natively oxidized silicon surfaces during STM measurements in ultra-high vacuum on solvent-cleaned samples previously structured by e-beam lithography. We have imaged the aggregated layer with scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) as well as scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The amount of the aggregated material increases with the number of STM scans and with the tunneling voltage. Film thicknesses of up to 10 nm with five successive STM measurements have been obtained