127 research outputs found
Civic Culture in a Multi-Religious Society: A Case Study of the Sekaran Community
Get PDFThis article discusses the role of civic culture in the context of a multi-religious society, using a case study of the community in Sekaran Village, located in Kayen Kidul Subdistrict, Kediri Regency, East Java Province. The people of Sekaran represent the social reality of Indonesia, where various religions and beliefs coexist harmoniously. This research aims to explore how civic culture plays a key role in fostering tolerance, cooperation, and social integration amidst religious diversity. The research method used is a qualitative approach through participatory observation, in-depth interviews, and content analysis of both primary and secondary data. The findings show that the Sekaran community possesses a strong civic culture, reflected in inclusive attitudes, mutual respect, and a spirit of communal cooperation (gotong royong). Interfaith collaboration in daily activities such as religious ceremonies, traditional rituals, and social events strengthens the sense of unity and togetherness among community members
Exporting environment awareness to mobile applications
No full textIn mobile computing, factors such as add-on hardware components and heterogeneous networks result in an environment made up of changing resource constraints. An application in such a constrained environment must react to these changes so that available resources are properly utilized. In this paper, we propose an architecture to report changes in the environment to interested applications. The architecture is based on an event delivery mechanism that decouples event detection from delivery, giving the flexibility and extensibility that is necessary in a mobile computing environment. Information associated with the event is delivered as part of the event notification, while delivery latency is reduced by clever thread scheduling. We demonstrate the utility of our architecture by structuring an environment aware networking subsystem around a prototype implementation. The performance of this implementation is competitive with current event delivery mechanisms such as the Unix signal.Technical report lcsr-tr-27
Event delivery abstractions for mobile computing
No full textAn application intended for a mobile computing environment is different from more traditional ones in that it is more event driven. The reason is that mobile computing is associated with constraints, both in terms of mobile host hardware and the network environment. The effect of these constraints is complicated by the fact that the environment in which a mobile host operates changes as it moves. An application in such an environment will have to metamorphose as changes occur, in order to make the best possible use of the constrained environment and thus provide the best possible quality of service to a user. We choose to model these changes in the environment as events which are delivered to each application that is interested. This paper describes a language abstraction to deliver events along with the run-time support required. The idea itself is not restricted to the mobile computing environment: it could be used in all such environments where an application may be interested in altering its behavior in response to changes in the state of its environment.Technical report lcsr-tr-24
Developing a tested vision for the design of a child participation toolkit for the SWKGroep
No full textThis report describes my graduation report for the Master Design for Interaction, part of Industrial Design Engineering at the technical University Delft. The project is in collaboration with both the Play Well Lab and the SWKGroep. The SWKGroep asked for a child participation toolkit which would help them discover the latent knowledge of the children. In order to be able to go into depth while designing this toolkit, the project is split up into two individual graduation projects. This report describes the first project.“My design goal is to develop a substantiated and partly tested vision for the development of a child participation Toolkit, which is suitable within the context of the SWKGroep facilities and based on the expectations, wishes, needs and capacity of both the staff members as well as the children.”The first chapter will introduce the different stakeholders involved in the project. These are the SWKGroep and the Play Well Lab. The chapter will conclude with the relevance of this project for both stakeholders. The second chapter will describe the research phase, including different interviews, a generative session and an analysis of the results. The chapter will conclude with the discovered problem area and my design focus within this project. Within the third chapter, an approach for this defined problem area will be defined. The chosen approach will be explained and the chapter concludes with an explanation on why this approach would fit the defined problem area. After describing this approach, the approach will be elaborated into ideas. This is done in chapter 4, which includes the ideation phase. This chapter will end with a set of 23 ideas/tools which could be used for child participation at the BSO. The next step, described in chapter 5, is validation of the approach. This is done by testing a selection of the ideas at the BSO to see what the obstacles and enablers are when doing child participation at the BSO. The insights from the user-tests are discussed and this chapter will conclude with a validation of the approach including conditions to be met and an overview of opportunities which were found during the tests. Chapter 6 will conclude this report with recommendations for the follow-up project and a reflection on this project.Design for Interactio
A building for the United Nations Environmental Council: Employing natural resources as an essential part of the architectural appearance.
No full textThe building for the United Nations Environmental Council has an exemplary role, has to be recognizable, easily accessible, facilitate lobby, stimulate people to participate and above all radiate to the world the importance of sustainability. Since sustainability can not be confined and even more so the future interpretation of sustainability is entirely unknown, this design proposal focuses on the integration of environmental resources in the architectural appearance of the building. This will always be relevant as well that it increases the observers awareness and will lead to a gradual change of attitude with regard sustainability. An environmental approach has a significant effect of the aesthetics and functionality of the building. The building is optimized towards the sun positions in summer and winter, the prevalent wind directions in winter and summer, daylighting conditions and natural ventilation. Furthermore the building employs environmental resources (passively and actively), using wind turbines, algae cultivation, thermal solar panels, hydro storage, PV cells, river heat rejection and solar chimneys, which all have a determining effect on the appearance of the building. The extraordinary interior derives from the four themed towers (wind, algae, solar, hydro). Due to the slender tower, and small footprint, vertical chained spaces emerge, making use of the concept of the spiral: Vertical auditoria, vertical library and vertical offices, all are chained belong to the same space using spiraling ramps. The outline of the towers is visible in all interior spaces, occupying a significant factor is the atmosphere in the towers, making one feel the part of the tower. In the public hall, the encounters between various user groups occur. Spaces for short stay are created to stimulate encounters and lobby. With the coulisse-effect of the column one can withdraw oneself from the openness of the hall to a more secluded space, while still be part of the hall full of activities. The natural obstacle of height is used to separate several occupancy paces of various user groups. This allows for a very transparent organization, and signifies the accessibility. The construction of the hall, (north truss and roof beams are determinant) for the atmosphere in the hall. The rotation of the roof beam derives from the tower shape. The presence of the towers and the significance these bear can be felt throughout the whole interior, but also at the exterior of the building.Strategic Architectural Design DevelopmentMaterialisationArchitectur
Paradise lost. [electronic resource] : A poem, in twelve books. The author John Milton.
No full textWith two final advertisement leaves.frontis = ill. - These sheets were reissued in 1719 with a different titlepage bearing the imprint: printed for M. Welling. Pp.78,79,93,159,273 misnumbered 76,78,39,156,293 respectivelyElectronic reproduction.English Short Title Catalog,Reproduction of original from British Library
Is this AEDP? 6 unique characteristics of AEDP
No full textIn this article the author identifies the unique characteristics of Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy as compared to other models
Is this AEDP? 6 unique characteristics of AEDP
No full textIn this article the author identifies the unique characteristics of Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy as compared to other models
Is this AEDP? 6 unique characteristics of AEDP
No full textIn this article the author identifies the unique characteristics of Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy as compared to other models
Dasycladus vermicularis Krasser 1898
No full text<i>2.1. Sulfated metabolites of D. vermicularis</i> <p> <b>⇑</b> Corresponding author. <i>E-mail address:</i> [email protected] (G. Pohnert).</p> <p> Three candidate molecules for which sulfatation was indicated by the presence of a fragment of [M–H–80] – in the mass spectrum were detected by UPLC–MS/MS measurements in extracts of <i>D. vermicularis</i>. The metabolite with a mass of 273 [M–H] – and a fragment with <i>m</i> / <i>z</i> = 193 could readily be assigned to dihydroxycoumarin sulfate (Fig. 1) based on previous results and co-injection with a synthetic standard (Welling et al., 2009). For identification of the two unknown potentially sulfated metabolites (<i>m</i> / <i>z</i> = 217 [M–H] – and 231 [M–H] –, respectively) synthetic standards were prepared. Based on mass spectra and polarity in UPLC–MS (Fig. 2A, D and F) we selected 4-(sulfooxy)benzoic acid (SBA) and 4-(sulfooxy)phenylacetic acid (SPA) as likely candidates. After estimation of the content of the metabolites in the algal extract, co-injection experiments with algal extract and the synthetic standards were performed (Fig. 2C and E). Peak symmetry was important since the short retention times and strong solvent effects of the samples required a rigorous quality control of co-eluting peaks. SBA showed the same retention time and mass spectrum to the first sulfated metabolite in the <i>D. vermicularis</i> extract. When added in co-injection experiments, an increase of intensity of the first signal was observed (Fig. 2C). The mass spectrum remained unaffected by the co-injection. The <i>ortho</i> - and <i>meta</i> -isomers of (sulfooxy)benzoic acid eluted at different retention times (data not shown). The same procedure was applied for co-injection of SPA (Fig. 2E). No significant change in peak symmetry was observed upon addition of SBA or SPA, which unambiguously confirms the identity of the natural and synthetic products. Besides the occurrence as catabolic products in mouse urine, these metabolites have to our knowledge not been reported as natural products before (Manna et al., 2011; van der Hooft et al., 2012).</p>Published as part of <i>Kurth, Caroline, Welling, Matthew & Pohnert, Georg, 2015, Sulfated phenolic acids from Dasycladales siphonous green algae, pp. 417-423 in Phytochemistry 117</i> on page 417, DOI: 10.1016/j.phytochem.2015.07.010, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/10486436">http://zenodo.org/record/10486436</a>
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