41 research outputs found
Can workers of the world unite?: a multi-sited ethnography of transnational labor organizing across the apparel commodity network
No full textThis dissertation analyzes transnational labor activism and activist discourses developed in relation to the deadliest garment industrial disaster in the human history - the 2013 collapse of Rana plaza, a factory building housing five garment factories in Savar, Bangladesh. The project takes an intersectional and interdisciplinary approach, involving two-year-long physical and digital ethnographic observation and interviews with Bangladeshi women garment workers, labor rights activists, researchers, and policy makers in Bangladesh and the United States. In this research, I ask what it means for grassroots labor organizers in the Global South, who are often restricted by national borders and neoliberal socio-economic-political forces, to engage in transnational solidarity building. I specifically examine why some grassroots organizing initiatives in the Global South can engage in solidarity building with transnational allies while others do not gain such access. Drawing on the case study of the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh - a transnational govenrance structure that aspired to ensure safety and security for Bangladeshi garment workers after the Rana Plaza collapse, I argue that the post-Rana Plaza transnational collaboration between workers and labor organizers in the Global North and the South reproduces a neoliberal attention economy where gendered and racialized Southern workers receive attention from their Northern allies only if they speak the preferred language, subscribe for a preferred politics, and mobilize donor funds in a preferred way. My ethnographic fieldwork documents how attention from the Northern allies often comes at the cost of losing attention from Southern workers and activists. Therefore, the neoliberal attention economy offers the impossible choice between engaging in transnational collaboration while losing material impact on the ground and focusing on grounded struggles while losing transnational allies.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Nafisa Tanjee
A randomised trial to assess whether the addition of a beta blocker infusion (landiolol) to standard treatment in patients with septic shock, requiring prolonged (>24 hours) support with high-dose vasopressor agents, improves organ failure (The STRESS-L Trial)
No full textPerancangan Sistem Informasi Manajemen Toko (Point Of Sales) Berbasis Website di UMKM Hijab Nafisa
No full textTransaction management at Hijab Nafisa used to be done manually, causing errors in record keeping and periodic inventory checks, resulting in inefficient service. The author designed an information system using PHP as the programming language and MySQL as the database. This paper described the analysis and design of a store management information system (point of sales) that has successfully facilitated the transaction process and inventory checks. After that, a system test was carried out and compared with the old method of manual and ineffective information transaction processes, resulting in a proposed system that facilitated the transaction process and inventory checks. Additionally, there was also ease in data reporting that could be printed out for easy reading.
 
The impact of nostalgia on college belonging and college optimism among first-generation college students
No full text• First generation (students whose parents did not earn a college degree) often come to college feeling uncertain about whether they fit or belong in college
• Belonging concerns are linked to pessimistic attitudes about success; when first-gen students face academic struggles they are likely to view these struggles as evidence that they do not belong
• Different psychological interventions and foundational initiatives (i.e, TRiO and summer bridge programs) have been implemented to promote adaptive mindsets for their belonging concerns.
• We hypothesize that nostalgia has the capacity to promote sense of belonging and academic optimism among first-generation college students.
• Nostalgic reflection inspires the confidence needed to connect with others
• Nostalgia inspires optimism about future successPresented at the annual Celebration of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity while the author was an undergraduate student at Rutgers University-Camden
Belonging intervention among first-year students
No full textPersistent negative stereotypes and underrepresentation can lead racial-ethnic minority and firstgeneration students to believe that they do not belong to college (i.e., feel unaccepted or unsupported). Belonging is important because first-generation and minority college students are more inclined to drop out when they struggle academically because they view academic struggles as evidence they do not belong in the college environment. The purpose of this project was to adapt and apply a well-established belonging intervention at Rutgers University - Camden in order to find evidence that the belonging intervention encourages a sense of belonging and self-efficacy in first-year students. As part of the intervention, we have also collected written samples from students on their journey in the first year of college and what they think will help other students transition to college. Students reported feeling like the belonging intervention activities were successful in encouraging their feelings of belonging and their academic self-efficacy. The belonging intervention seemed to be particularly impactful in promoting belonging among firstgeneration and racial-ethnic minority students. In contrast, first-generation and non-firstgeneration, white and students of color, seem to report similar benefits in academic self-efficacy. A recurring theme in the student writings was feeling anxious at the beginning of the first semester as they did not have an idea of what to anticipate from the new academic atmosphere. Also, the thought of not being enough to fit in triggered many students to not seek support. Over time, they were able to socialize more and connect with people and find the resources they needed in order to overcome their worries. The thematic focus of student writings implies that student involvement and building on-campus social support are critical in assisting first-year students to overcome their belonging concerns and feel at home in college.Presented at the annual Celebration of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity while the author was an undergraduate student at Rutgers University-Camden
Information about Dagestan in the Arabic Geographical Work Kitab al-a’lak an-nafisa of Ibn Rusta
No full textThe article provides information on the history of Dagestan in the 10th century on the basis
of translation, commentary and comparative analysis of excerpts from the Arabic geographical
work Kitab al-a’lak an-nafisa (Book of Precious Gems) by Abu ‘Ali Aḥmad ibn ‘Umar ibn
Rusta who lived and wrote in Isfahan at the turn of the IX–X centuries about the history of
the peoples of the Caucasus. As for information on Dagestan, Ibn Rusta’s work contains more
information than Ibn Khordadbekh’s and Ibn Faqih’s works. In his work, Ibn Rusta adopts the
ancient Greek theory of the division of the inhabited parts of the Earth into seven climates,
for example, he places the region in question in the sixth and seventh climates. Ibn Rusta’s
data on the geography and ethnography of northeastern Europe, as well as the political formations
in the Caucasus, are unique and significantly supplement the author’s predecessors.
The parts dedicated to Sarir, which gained its regional hegemony in the X century, are of particular
importance. The author of the current article compares several reports on Dagestan
from Ibn Rusta’s work with Ibn Khordadbekh’s Kitab al-masalik wa-l-mamalik and Ibn Faqih’s
Kitab al-Buldan in order to determine whether the origin of the material is the same for these
authors. As a result, only one passage was found that overlapped with the work of Ibn Khordadbekh.
Also, it is noted that N. A. Karaulov’s translation contains interpretative flaws and
some fragments from Ibn Rusta’s work are missing. The scientific significance of this article is
determined by the fact that its materials can be used in further source studies in writing the
medieval history of the Caucasus
SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF A LITERARY TEXT
No full textThe given article represents the main ideas of the integrity of the pragmatic structure of the literary text. The author provides a description of the pragmatics in the literary text, as well as the interpretation of some linguistic conditions for it by applying certain interpretation strategies
Thriving in the dry: arthropod responses to precipitation variability in the Atacama Desert
No full textThe global decline in arthropod populations is a growing ecological concern because of its consequences on ecosystem stability and functioning. Research is needed to understand the causes of changes in arthropod diversity. Here, we investigated the impact of variation in precipitation on arthropod diversity (i.e., total abundance and trophic guild abundance), along a geographical gradient in the Atacama Desert in Chile. We found that the abundance of arthropods was higher in the site with the lowest precipitation, which points to a complex interplay of ecological factors that may include resource availability, microclimate conditions, adaptation strategies, and behaviors that arthropods use to survive in the challenging environmental conditions of the Atacama Desert. In addition, with the exception of predators, arthropod abundance across sites differed between trophic guilds. The site with the greatest plant diversity,cover, and precipitation contained the greatest number of detritivores. These findings highlight the significance of precipitation and plant cover on arthropod diversity. The implications of our research could be extended to ecosystem management and conservation as these can guide.Presented at the annual Celebration of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity while the author was an undergraduate student at Rutgers University-Camden
Pedagogical Conditions for the Development of Individual Characteristics of Students of a Higher Educational Institution
No full textthis article deals with the pedagogical conditions for the development of individual characteristics of students in higher establishments. In addition, author provides several propositions of prominent researchers who contributed in the sphere of pedagogy and psychology
