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No full textThis study discusses the deconstruction of death in “In Memoriam” written by Alfred Lord Tennyson. This study tries to challenge the centralized meaning of the book of poetry “In Memoriam”, death is a scary experience for human. The author uses the deconstruction theory developed by Derrida. This deconstruction theory tries to replace the centralized-meaning contained in a literary work. There are three stages to apply the theory of deconstruction in this research. The stages are the reconstruction stage, the deconstruction stage, and the reinscription stage. The method used in this research is a qualitative method. The data that has been found comes from quotation in the poetry book "In Memoriam". The result of the deconstruction reading is the discovery of "another meaning", the author finds death is the beginning of immortality. This "another meaning" succeeded in refuting the position of centralized meaning in "In Memoriam".Abstrak
Penelitian ini membahas tentang dekonstruksi kematian dalam “In Memoriam” yang ditulis oleh Alfred Lord Tennyson. Penulis menerapkan Teori Dekonstruksi untuk mendekonstruksi kematian adalah pengalaman menakutkan bagi humas sebagai makna terpusat untuk “In Memoriam”. Hasil dari pembacaan dekonstruksi adalah ditemukannya “makna lain”, penulis menemukan kematian adalah awal dari keabadian. “Makna lain” ini berhasil menyanggah posisi makna terpusat dalam “In Memoriam”.
Keyword: Kematian, Dekonstruksi, Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoria
PENGARUH SELF-EFFICACY DAN MOTIVASI BERPRESTASI TERHADAP KEMANDIRIAN BELAJAR SISWA MADRASAH ALIYAH SWASTA INSAN KESUMA MADANI
Full text linkPenelitian ini bertujuan untuk menguji dan menganalisis; 1) pengaruh self-efficacy terhadap kemandirian belajar siswa Madrasah Aliyah Swasta (MAS) Insan Kesuma Madani dalam menghadapi asesmen madrasah; 2) pengaruh motivasi berprestasi terhadap kemandirian belajar siswa Madrasah Aliyah Swasta (MAS) Insan Kesuma Madani dalam menghadapi asesmen madrasah; serta 3) pengaruh self-efficacy dan motivasi berprestasi terhadap kemandirian belajar siswa Madrasah Aliyah Swasta (MAS) Insan Kesuma Madani dalam menghadapi asesmen madrasah. Pendekatan penelitian menggunakan tipe kuantitatif dengan jenis survei. Pengumpulan data melalui penyebaran kuesioner kepada 104 siswa Madrasah Aliyah Swasta (MAS) Insan Kesuma Madani. Analisis data menggunakan regresi linear berganda. Hasil analisis data menunjukkan bahwa; 1) self-efficacy berpengaruh terhadap kemandirian belajar siswa Madrasah Aliyah Swasta (MAS) Insan Kesuma Madani; 2) motivasi berprestasi berpengaruh terhadap kemandirian belajar siswa Madrasah Aliyah Swasta (MAS) Insan Kesuma Madani; serta 3) self-efficacy dan motivasi berprestasi berpengaruh terhadap kemandirian belajar siswa Madrasah Aliyah Swasta (MAS) Insan Kesuma Madani. Kontribusi penelitian diketahui sebesar 19,5%, sedangkan 80,5% merupakan faktor yang tidak terkandung dalam penelitian ini
The role of women's identification with math and academic major in women's susceptibility to stereotype threat and stereotype lift
Full text link2015 Spring.Includes bibliographical references.A stereotype threat (ST) occurs when individuals underperform in a domain, for example in math, as a result of exposure to a relevant negative stereotype. Women engaged in math-intensive tasks can experience ST when negative stereotypes about women's math ability are made salient, via for example, test instructions that allege superior math performance by men. Evidence regarding the role of ST test instructions on women's math performances has been mixed (e.g., Bell, Spencer, Iserman, & Logel, 2003; Schmader, 2002). While prior studies found that women underperform in ST conditions that emphasize the validity of a math test (i.e., when a math test is presented as indicative of math ability), no study has included a condition in which the validity of a math test is downplayed (i.e., "test not indicative of math ability" conditions). Studies examining conditions alleging men's superiority in math (i.e., "men perform better than women" conditions) have not included conditions that presented a math test as indicative of math ability (Cadinu, Maass, Frigerio, Impagliazzo, & Latinotti, 2003; Johnson, Bernard-Brak, Saxon, & Johnson, 2012). Additionally, it is unclear which women are most vulnerable to math ST conditions. While ST is found to have greater impact on women who are highly identified with math relative to women with low identification with math (e.g., Aronson, Quinn, & Spencer, 1999), there is also evidence that women in math-intensive majors (e.g., engineering) have lower susceptibility to math ST than women not in math-intensive majors (e.g., psychology) (Crisp, Bache, & Maitner, 2009; Croizet et al., 2004). Furthermore, the roles of identification with math and academic major have been researched independently. The present study examines the roles of women's identification with mathematics and college majors on their susceptibility to math underperformance under two ST conditions, one related to the validity of the math test and the other involving comparisons in math performance between women and men. Women (n = 847), of whom 231 were in math-intensive majors and 616 were not in math-intensive majors at a large Mountain West state university, completed the Identification with Math Scale and reported their college majors five to seven days before completing a mathematics test. They were then randomly assigned to one of six math ST conditions in a 2 (Validity of Math Test Variable: test indicative of math ability, test not indicative of math ability) × 3 (Women-Men Math Performance Differences Variable: men perform better than women, no mention of differences in math performance, or women perform better than men) factorial design experiment. It was hypothesized that women in the "men perform better than women" condition would underperform relative to women in the "no mention of differences in math performance" condition. It was also hypothesized that women high in identification with math who were assigned to the "test indicative of math ability" condition would experience greater math underperformance than women in the "test not indicative of math ability" condition. A significant interaction between the Women-Men Math Performance Differences Variable and the Identification with Math Variable was found. Women high in identification with math in the "men perform better than women" condition scored significantly lower than women in the "no mention of differences in math performance" condition. No such difference in performance was observed for women low in identification with math. Women in the "women perform better than men" condition performed better than women in other conditions regardless of their identification with math. This study's findings suggest that women who strongly identify with math may be especially vulnerable to ST, consistent with past findings (e.g., Steinberg, Okun, & Aiken, 2012). In support of findings from past studies (e.g., Johnson et al., 2012), this study also demonstrates that to do well in math tests women may benefit from exposure to information explicitly contradicting female math incompetence stereotypes. Current study's findings have implications for intervention programs with highly math-identified women
Representations of migrant and nation in selected works of Rohinton Mistry and Salman Rushdie
Full text linkThis thesis explores the representations of, and the relationship between. the migrant and the nation in selected works of the Bombay-born novelists Rohinton Mistry and Salman Rushdie. I explore each writer's engagement with contemporary debates surrounding the material, political, social and imaginative consequences of the crisis in secularism in India during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, and consider how this engagement is informed by their
migrant positions beyond India's borders. A primary concern is the way in which Mistry's and Rushdie's representations of the nation, and of migrant and diasporic subjects, intersects with the representation of Bombay in their work.
This thesis is divided into five chapters. The first two chapters concentrate on Mistry's fiction, the remaining three on Rushdie's work. Published between 1988 and 2002, the central novels examined are situated within debates regarding the founding principles of the Indian nation, and notions of Indianness, the rise of communalism in general and Hindu nationalism in particular, and the renaming of Bombay as Mumbai. My readings foreground the necessity of a
close understanding of the historical and political transformations taking place within Bombay and India during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, but also during the 1950s and 1960s. I argue that Mistry's and Rushdie's work is informed by a deepening anxiety over these socio-political transformations, and over how reconfigurations of Indianness increasingly position minority communities, and migrant and diasporic subjects, outside of definitions of national identity.
This anxiety extends into the negotiation of their own migrant positions. My reading of the differing representations of the migrant in Mistry's and Rushdie's work engages with ideas of accountability, political responsibility, and with notions of cosmopolitanism. In doing so, I question familiar assumptions regarding the migrant condition as one of predominantly empowering political agency. I argue that, while both authors emphasise the importance of the migrant sustaining a critical engagement with India's politics, they also foreground the anxious difficulties of doing so. This difficulty informs Mistry's and Rushdie's divergent negotiation of their own position as migrant writers, and I examine how their fiction is marked by an anxiety over the adequacy of writing as a mode of political engagement with the crisis in secularism and the parochialisation of Bombay, and as a means of negotiating the politics of migrancy
From deterministic methods to a Bayesian approximation: towards reliable segmentation of multiple sclerosis Lesions in magnetic resonance imaging
No full textEn este trabajo, se presenta una metodología para la segmentación de lesiones de esclerosis múltiple (EM) en imágenes de resonancia magnética (IRM) que aborda las limitaciones de los modelos deterministas mediante la incorporación de la estimación de incertidumbre. Se compara una arquitectura U-Net 3D determinista con una versión modificada que emplea una aproximación bayesiana con Monte Carlo Dropout (MCD) para cuantificar la incertidumbre epistémica. Los resultados demuestran que, si bien ambos modelos alcanzan un rendimiento competitivo en términos de las métricas estándar de segmentación de imágenes médicas, la estimación de incertidumbre proporciona información valiosa sobre la fiabilidad de las predicciones, especialmente en regiones desafiantes como los bordes de las lesiones. Esto tiene el potencial de mejorar la aplicabilidad clínica de la segmentación automática al permitir a los usuarios médicos evaluar la confianza en los resultados y enfocar su revisión en áreas de mayor incertidumbre.In this work, we present a methodology for the segmentation of multiple sclerosis (MS) lesions in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) that addresses the limitations of deterministic models by incorporating uncertainty estimation. We compare a deterministic 3D U-Net architecture with a modified version that employs a Bayesian approximation with Monte Carlo Dropout (MCD) to quantify epistemic uncertainty. The results demonstrate that while both models achieve competitive performance in terms of standard medical image segmentation metrics, the uncertainty estimation provides valuable information on the reliability of the predictions, especially in challenging regions such as lesion borders. This has the potential to improve the clinical applicability of automatic segmentation by allowing medical users to assess confidence in the results and focus their review on areas of higher uncertainty
Racial differences in systemic sclerosis disease presentation: a European Scleroderma Trials and Research group study
Full text linkOBJECTIVES: Racial factors play a significant role in SSc. We evaluated differences in SSc presentations between white patients (WP), Asian patients (AP) and black patients (BP) and analysed the effects of geographical locations.
METHODS: SSc characteristics of patients from the EUSTAR cohort were cross-sectionally compared across racial groups using survival and multiple logistic regression analyses.
RESULTS: The study included 9162 WP, 341 AP and 181 BP. AP developed the first non-RP feature faster than WP but slower than BP. AP were less frequently anti-centromere (ACA; odds ratio (OR) = 0.4, P < 0.001) and more frequently anti-topoisomerase-I autoantibodies (ATA) positive (OR = 1.2, P = 0.068), while BP were less likely to be ACA and ATA positive than were WP [OR(ACA) = 0.3, P < 0.001; OR(ATA) = 0.5, P = 0.020]. AP had less often (OR = 0.7, P = 0.06) and BP more often (OR = 2.7, P < 0.001) diffuse skin involvement than had WP. AP and BP were more likely to have pulmonary hypertension [OR(AP) = 2.6, P < 0.001; OR(BP) = 2.7, P = 0.03 vs WP] and a reduced forced vital capacity [OR(AP) = 2.5, P < 0.001; OR(BP) = 2.4, P < 0.004] than were WP. AP more often had an impaired diffusing capacity of the lung than had BP and WP [OR(AP vs BP) = 1.9, P = 0.038; OR(AP vs WP) = 2.4, P < 0.001]. After RP onset, AP and BP had a higher hazard to die than had WP [hazard ratio (HR) (AP) = 1.6, P = 0.011; HR(BP) = 2.1, P < 0.001].
CONCLUSION: Compared with WP, and mostly independent of geographical location, AP have a faster and earlier disease onset with high prevalences of ATA, pulmonary hypertension and forced vital capacity impairment and higher mortality. BP had the fastest disease onset, a high prevalence of diffuse skin involvement and nominally the highest mortality
