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JARINGAN KOMUNIKASI ANTAR MAHASISWA PEMAIN JUDI ONLINE DALAM APLIKASI HIGGS DOMINO DI KOTA MALANG
The development of technology and information has enabled many aspects to be conducted digitally, leading to both positive and negative impacts for its users. One of the negative impacts is the increasing prevalence of online gambling phenomena among university students. Engaging in online gambling entails communication among players, thus forming a communication network. This study aims to analyze the communication network structure among university student online gamblers in the Higgs Domino application in the city of Malang. Additionally, it seeks to identify the factors that drive students to engage in online gambling practices. The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative. Data collection techniques involved interviews with research subjects conducted using snowball sampling theory. Once data was obtained, it was collected and analyzed using sociometric analysis techniques. Utilizing sociogram analysis via the UCINET 6.0 application, this study successfully identified a Y-shaped communication pattern within the network. Moreover, the research explored individual characteristic variables including age, level of formal education, level of social media ownership, and frequency of playing Higgs Domino online gambling as supportive factors in understanding the researched phenomenon. Based on interview results, it was found that individuals are interested in playing online gambling due to several factors: influence from friends or environment; desire to obtain a large amount of money quickly without working; seeking entertainment and feeling bored or saturated; easy internet access; and difficulty in self-control to refrain from gambling
The Microbial Ecology of Bacterial Vaginosis: A Fine Scale Resolution Metagenomic Analysis
The vaginal microbiota play an important protective role in maintaining the health of women. Disruption of the mutualistic relationship that exists between bacterial communities in the vagina and their hosts can lead to bacterial vaginosis (BV), a condition in which lactic acid producing bacteria are supplanted by a diverse array of strictly anaerobic bacteria. BV has been shown to be an independent risk factor for adverse outcomes including preterm delivery and low infant birth weight, acquisition of sexually transmitted infections and HIV, and development of pelvic inflammatory disease. National surveys indicate the prevalence of BV among U.S. women is 29.2%, and yet, despite considerable effort, the etiology of BV remains unknown. Moreover, there are no broadly effective therapies for the treatment of BV, and reoccurrence is common. In the proposed research we will test the overarching hypothesis that vaginal microbial community dynamics and activities are indicators of risk to BV. To do this, we propose to conduct a high resolution prospective study in which samples collected daily from 200 reproductive-age women over two menstrual cycles are used to capture molecular events that take place before, during, and after the spontaneous remission of BV episodes. We will use modern genomic technologies to obtain the data needed to correlate shifts in vaginal microbial community composition and function, metabolomes, and epidemiological and behavioral metadata with the occurrence of BV to better define the syndrome itself and identify patterns that are predictive of BV. The three specific aims of the research are: (1) Evaluate the association between the dynamics of vaginal microbial communities and risk to BV by characterizing the community composition of vaginal specimens archived from a vaginal douching cessation study in which 33 women self-collected vaginal swabs twice-weekly for 16 weeks; (2) Enroll 135 women in a prospective study in which self-collected vaginal swab samples and secretions are collected daily along with data on the occurrence of BV, vaginal pH, and information on time varying habits and practices; (3) Apply model-based statistical clustering and classification approaches to associate the microbial community composition and function, with metadata and clinical diagnoses of BV. The large body of information generated will facilitate understanding vaginal microbial community dynamics, the etiology of BV, and drive the development of better diagnostic tools for BV. Furthermore, the information will enable a more personalized and effective treatment of BV and ultimately help prevent adverse sequelae associated with this highly prevalent disruption of the vaginal microbiome
Kasimir Malevitch, Maurice Blanchot. Le silence de l’oeuvre
C'est sans doute le terme de « suprématiste » qui conviendrait le mieux pour décrire le travail de Maurice Blanchot à cause de ce qui se donne comme un thème récurrent dans toutes ses publications : le défi qu'il s'est lancé de considérer comme absolues les limites de la représentation. Dans l'un ou l'autre de ses ouvrages, l'abstraction du langage devient paradoxalement le genre suprême de la qualité concrète, en peinture aussi bien qu'en littérature, de sa praxis. À ce stade, les enjeux naissent de la crise qui affecte une avant-garde qui ne parvient plus à soutenir les signes de renouvellement perpétuel de la forme de sa création. Entre les années 1910 et 1913, l'aporie de la modernité conduit rapidement à la formulation de l'idée de la mort de l'art et, après la deuxième guerre mondiale, avec l'apparition de L'Espace littéraire de Blanchot, cette même aporie amène à engager la littérature dans l'expérience des limites. Cet article se propose donc d'évaluer, par le biais de la présence du silence dans l'oeuvre, le degré d'aridité qui affecte la représentation, de celle des sens en particulier, et les limites que peuvent atteindre de telles aventures.Maurice Blanchot’s work can be best described as suprematist with the recurring theme amongst all his publications of imposing the following common challenge : to render absolute the limits of representation. In any of his works, the abstraction of language paradoxically becomes the supreme genre of its concrete quality, in painting as well as literature, of its praxis. At this point, the issues arise from the crisis that affects the Avant-garde, which can no longer uphold its signs of continuous renewal from the form of its creation. Between the years of 1910 and 1913, the apory of modernity drives rapidly towards the idea of considering the introduction of the death of art, and after World War II, with the introduction of Blanchot’s Espace littéraire, to engage literature in the experience of limits. Hence, this article proposes to evaluate, by the bias of the presence of silence, the degree of aridity that affects representation, that of the senses in particular, and the limits of such adventures
Radio-detection of UHECR by the CODALEMA experiment
International audienceThe principle of the CODALEMA experiment is based on an original approach of the de-tection of radio transients associated with extensive air showers induced by ultra high-energy cosmic rays. Since September 2006, CODALEMA has been under operation with a new setup at the Nançay Radio Observatory, France. It uses 16 broadband dipole antennas associated with 13 particle detectors generating the trigger and allowing the primary cosmic ray energy estimation. We will present evi-dence for the radio detection of cosmic rays above eV, based on an event-by-event analysis and we will discuss the radio characteristics of these showers
Le sport comme espace favorable à l’expression de sexualités non traditionnelles : le cas de différents sports d’équipe féminins au Québec
Cet article porte sur l’affirmation de l’identité sexuelle (coming out) dans le monde sportif et, de façon plus générale, sur l’expression de sexualités non traditionnelles dans ce domaine. Il est basé sur une étude réalisée avec des jeunes femmes francophones de Montréal qui définissent leur sexualité comme « gaie », « lesbienne » ou « bisexuelle » ou encore qui refusent toute étiquette à ce sujet. Les constructions discursives de la sexualité et du processus de coming out de ces participantes sont examinées avec une approche inspirée du poststructuralisme féministe. Les résultats de l’analyse rejettent la conception traditionnelle de la sexualité et rejoignent plutôt la théorie fondée sur la diversité sexuelle (queer). En effet, ils remettent en question le modèle binaire hétérosexuel/homosexuel ainsi que la notion de sexualité fixe et stable. Ils montrent également la complexité du processus de coming out qui ne peut pas être compris de façon uniforme et immuable. Enfin, ils suggèrent que le sport peut jouer un rôle dans la façon dont les participantes se constituent en tant que femmes ayant une sexualité non traditionnelle.This paper deals with coming out and the expression of non-conventional sexualities in sport. It is based on a study conducted with 14 Francophone women from Montréal who identify themselves as “gaie”, “lesbian”, “bisexual”, or refuse labels altogether. Their discursive constructions of sexuality and of the coming out process are examined with a feminist poststructuralist perspective. The results tend to challenge traditional assumptions about sexuality (e.g., the heterosexual/ homosexual binary) and to echo queer theory. Moreover, they highlight how complex the coming out process can be and the role that sport can play in the expression of non-conventional sexualities
Husband-Killer, Christian Heroine, Victim: The Execution of Madame Tiquet, 1699
The case of Angélique-Nicole Carlier Tiquet, convicted of organizing a plot to assassinate her husband in 1699, prompts questions about histories of torture and public execution over the last several centuries. During the two-month trial that followed the assassination attempt against her husband, official inquiry and public opinion coalesced around the idea that Madame Tiquet was guilty. At least some observers came to believe that her crime represented a threat to husbands and paternal authority more generally throughout the kingdom. In the wake of her torture and public execution, which she endured so gracefully that many observers found themselves lamenting her death, male Catholic polemicists argued in print about the meanings of her demise, while one female Protestant writer, Anne Marguerite Petit du Noyer, asserted her innocence. Several years later, in the 1702 edition of his Dictionnaire historique et critique, Pierre Bayle cited the case in the context of a broader secular reflection on marital relations in morally corrupt societies. The affair that prompted these texts is fascinating precisely because it resists insertion into misleading histories of progress and civility, or ever-expanding statist surveillance of citizens
Early cosmic ray research in France
International audienceThe French research on cosmic rays in the first half of the 20th century is summarized. The main experiments are described as the discovery of air cosmic ray showers by Pierre Auger. The results obtained at the French altitude laboratories like the "Pic du Midi de Bigorre" are also briefly presented
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