10 research outputs found
Pengaruh Kualitas Produk Terhadap Keputusan Pembelian Konsumen Pada Produk Body Care Scarlett Di Toko Istana Cosmetics Pekanbaru
No full textThis study aims to determine and analyze The Effect Of Product Quality On Consumer Purchasing Decisions On Scarlett Body Care Products At The Istana Cosmetics Store In Pekanbaru. The type of research that the author uses is descriptive survey research and quantitative research methods using SPSS 22. The results of this study indicate that the variable Product Quality with indicators Performance, Features, Reliability, Conformance, Durability, Serviceability, Estetika, and Perceived get results from respondents in the Strongly Agree category. As for variabel Consumer Purchasing Decisions with indicators of Need Recognition, Information Search, Evaluation Of Alternatives, Purchasing Decisions, and Post Purchasing Behavior getting results from respondents in the Agreed category. The results of the simple linear regression research show that the Product Quality has a significant relationship to Consumer Purchasing Decisions
A politics of métissage: Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
No full textIn her Autobiographical Voices: Race, Gender, Self-Portraiture (1989), Françoise Lionnet identifies the life writing of women of color as the reflection of their heterogeneous differences and theorizes female autobiographical narratives as métissage. Métissage, nearly untranslatable, meaning “braiding,” views autobiography as an engagement of the author with history, myth, and cultures, and defines it as a braid of multiple voices and disparate forms. In The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (1976), Maxine Hong Kingston combines numerous voices into the (auto)biographical “I” as well as various forms in the narrative to express her identity as comprising manifold, different elements. In her life writing, she neither follows the unique self-representation propagated by male writers nor validates the inner personal tradition of women. Instead, breaking the fixities of thought and expression, she juxtaposes the historical with the mythical, the biographical with the autobiographical to form a language of resistance and solidarity. The present paper argues that by articulating her identity as a braid of differences, constructing self as a braid of multiple voices, and making her narrative a braid of multiple genres and traditions Kingston enacts her life writing as a politics of mé[email protected] Akter Popy - is an Associate Professor in the Department of English, Noakhali Science and Technology University, Bangladesh. Her research articles have appeared in reputed peer reviewed journals like Crossings, Harvest, Commonwealth Review, Dialogue and Overtones. Her area of interest is autobiography studies. She is currently involved in a research project on selected South Asian Women’s autobiography.Noakhali Science and Technology University, BangladeshBlinde, P. L. 1979. The icicle in the desert: Perspective and form in the works of two Chinese-American women writers. The Ethnic Perspective 6:3: 51-71.Bolaki, S. 2009. It translated well: The promise and the perils of translation in Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior. MELUS 34:4: 39-60.Cheung, K. 1988. ‘Don’t tell’: Imposed silences in The Color Purple and The Woman Warrior. PMLA 103:2: 162-174.Fong, B. 1989. Maxine Hong Kingston’s autobiographical strategy in The Woman Warrior. Biography 12:2: 116-126.Friedman, S. S. 1998. Women’s autobiographical selves. In: S. Smith & J. Watson (eds.), Women, Autobiography Theory: A Reader, 72-82. Madison: The University of
Wisconsin Press.Hasebe-Ludt, E. et al. 2009. Life Writing and Literary Métissage as an Ethos for Our Times. Switzerland: Peter Lang Publishing.Hermans, H. J. M. 2003. The construction and reconstruction of a dialogical self. Journal of Constructivist Psychology 16:2: 89–130.Hsu, H. 2020. Maxine Hong Kingston’s genre-defying life and work. The New Yorker, June 8 & 15. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/06/08/maxine-hong-kingstons-genre-defying-life-and-work (accessed 1 June 2020).Hua, A. 2013. Chinese diasporic women’s writing, gender and identities: Rereading Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior for mnemonic traces. Asian Women
29:3: 71-96.Huntley, E. D. 2001. Maxine Hong Kingston: A Critical Companion. United States: Greenwood Press.Kingston, M. H. 1981. The Woman Warrior. London: Picador.Kingston, M. H. 1989. China Men. New York: Vintage International Edition.Li, L. D. 1988. The naming of a Chinese American ‘I’: Cross-cultural sign/ifications in The Woman Warrior. Criticism 30:4: 497–515.Lionnet, F. 1989. Autobiographical Voices: Race, Gender, Self-Portraiture. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.Ludwig, S. & Alexoae-Zagni, N. (eds). 2014. On the Legacy of Maxine Hong Kingston: The Mulhouse Book. Berlin/Münster: LIT Verlag.Neuman, S. 1992. From different poetics to a poetics of differences. In: M. Kadar (ed). Essays on Life Writing: From Genre to Critical Practice, 213-230. University of
Toronto Press.Patel. N. 2019. Challenging the canon: How Maxine Hong Kingston narrates nonfiction with ghosts and talk-story. Paper Shell Review. https://english.umd.edu/research_innovation/journals/paper-shell-review/paper-shell-review-spring-2019/challenging-canon (accessed 1 June 2021).Shu, Y. 2001. Cultural politics and Chinese-American female subjectivity: Rethinking Kingston’s Woman Warrior. MELUS 26: 2: 199-223.Smith, S. 1987. A Poetics of Women’s Autobiography: Marginality and the Fictions of Self-representation. Indiana: Indiana University Press.Smith, S. & Julia W. 2001. Reading Autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives. Minneapolis: University Minnesota Press.Thompson, P. H. 1983. This is the story I heard: A conversation with Maxine Hong Kingston and Earll Kingston. Biography 6:1: 1-12.Watson, J. 1993. Toward an anti-metaphysics of autobiography. In: R. Folkenflik (ed.), The Culture of Autobiography: Constructions of Self-representation, 57-124. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.Zuss, M. 1999. Subject Present: Life-Writings and Strategies of Representation. New York: Peter Lang Publishing Inc.35 (4/2021)172
TANGGUNG JAWAB PELAKU USAHA TERHADAP PRODUKSI MAKANAN YANG MENGANDUNG FORMALIN MENURUT UU NO 8 TAHUN 1999 TENTANG PERLINDUNGAN KONSUMEN
No full textThe abundance of food availability in the community, besides being able to grow positive things, can also have a negative impact. However, not all business actors are able to meet the food needs that will be consumed by the community that are fit for consumption. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the legal consequences of business actors on the production of food containing formaldehyde. The method that the author uses in this paper is normative law. The results of the research that the authors get are actions that are carried out by business actors, there are actions that are against the law, causing a loss for consumers, there is a formalin substance in yellow noodles that are traded by business actors, the actions they do have an impact on the health and safety of consumers
Analisis Efektivitas dan Kontribusi Pajak Hotel terhadap Pendapatan Asli Daerah Kota Pematang Siantar dalam Masa Pandemi Covid-19
No full textSalah satu sumber pendapatan asli daerah adalah pajak daerah yang digunakan untuk kepentingan suatu daerah tersebut. Salah satu jenis pajak daerah yang juga turut berkontribusi dalam penerimaan pajak daerah adalah pajak hotel, namun dalam masa pandemi penerimaan dari sektor hotel mengalami penurunan dikarenakan tingkat okupansi hotel yang juga menurun.
Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui efektivitas dan kontribusi pajak hotel terhadap pendapatan asli daerah Kota Pematang Siantar dalam masa pandemi Covid-19, serta untuk mengetahui bagaimana kendala yang dihadapi dan upaya yang dilakukan oleh BPKD Kota Pematang Siantar dalam memaksimalkan penerimaan pajak hotel itu sendiri
Metode penelitian yang digunakan penulis adalah metode deskriptif kualitatif, yaitu dengan mendeskripsikan data yang sudah dikumpulkan melalui studi dokumen dan wawancara lalu disusun sistematis dan dianalisa hingga pada akhrinya menghasilkan kesimpulan
Melalui penelitian yang sudah dilakukan menunjukkan bahwa efektivitas penerimaan pajak hotel Kota Pematang Siantar pada tahun 2019 dan 2020 sangat efektif, masing-masing persentasenya berada di atas angka 100 %. Sementara itu untuk kontribusi pajak hotel terhadap Pendapatan Asli Daerah Kota Pematang Siantar pada tahun 2019-2021 (per bulan Mei 2021) berada di bawah angka 10 %, hal ini menunjukkan bahwa kontribusi pajak hotel masih sangat kurang. Dalam pelaksanaannya masih terdapat kendala, terlebih lagi masa pandemi Covid-19 sangat mempengaruhi penerimaan pajak hotel itu sendiri dan BPKD Kota Pematang Siantar tetap berupaya untuk mengatasi kendala yang ada guna memaksimalkan penerimaanOnce source of regional own income is local taxes which are used for the purposes of an area. One type of local tax that also contributes to local tax revenue is hotel tax, but during the pandemic, revenue from the hotel sector has decreased due to the declining hotel occupancy.
The puprose of this research was to determine the effectiveness and contribution of hotel tax to regional own income in Pematang Siantar City during the Covid-19 Pandemic, as well as to find out how the obstacles faced and the efforts made by the Pematang Siantar City BPKD to maximizing hotel tax revenue.
The research method used by the author is a qualitative descriptive method, by describing the data that has been collected through document studiest and interviews and then systematically arranged and analyzed to finally produce conclusions.
Through research that has been done shows that the effectiveness of Pematang Siantar City hotel tax revenue in 2019 and 2020 is very effective, each percentage is above 100 %.Meanwhile, hotel tax contributions to Pematang Siantar City’s local revenue in 2019-2021(as of May 2021) is below 10 %, this shows that the hotel tax contributions is still very low.In its implementation there are still obstacles, especially during the Covid-19 Pandemic, which greatly affects hotel tax revenue and the Pemtang Siantar City BPKD is still trying to overcome existing obstacles in order to maximize revenue.58 HalamanKertas Karya Diplom
Understanding Zalora's Neuromarketing-Based Online Marketplace Customer Choices
No full textThe development of the internet has popularized Digital commerce (e-commerce). There are various types online marketplaces with unique customer bases. Customers develop preferences or choices for certain online marketplaces over competitors. This research is to find out the choice variables that can influence. This study looks at online parameters that affect user experience when shopping. Included in this research are the discoveries of neuroscience, a type of limbic system that is basically similar to a client's personality. Descriptive analysis was used to analyze the customer's limbic personality, and regression analysis using the SPSS application was used for online shopping attitudes. The research subject is an online shop with Zalora marketplace. The author uses the snowball method to collect data into Google Forms. The total of all respondents is 36 people. Zalora types of emotional types found as joy and pleasure. Zalora Limbic Map is a fantasy/entertainment system for balance. The most important aspects of brand identity are interaction, quality of information, usability, entertainment and personalization of customer preferences when shopping with Zalora. The SPSS partial test results show that the personalization variable significantly influences Zalora's marketplace preferences. In addition, the usability variable and the domain name affect it negatively, although not significantly. The model can explain consumer preferences for the Zalora marketplace by 63.7%
Stock Investment Portfolio Optimization Using Mean-Variance Model Based on Stock Price Prediction with Long-Short Term Memory
No full textStock investment in the technology sector in Indonesia offers high potential returns. However, like any other investment instruments, the associated risks cannot be overlooked. Therefore, an appropriate portfolio optimization strategy is needed to enable investors to achieve optimal returns while managing risk. In this study, the author combines stock price prediction approaches with portfolio optimization methods to construct an efficient portfolio. The Long-Short Term Memory (LSTM) model is used to predict daily closing stock prices, with model performance evaluated using Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) and Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE) metrics. An optimal LSTM model is obtained with a batch size hyperparameter of 16 for ISAT, MTDL, MLPT, and EDGE stocks, and a batch size of 32 for DCII stock. For all stocks, the average prediction error from the actual values falls within the range of 1.53% ≤ MAPE ≤ 3.52%. The optimal portfolio is constructed using the Mean-Variance risk aversion model to maximize expected returns while considering risk. The resulting optimal portfolio composition consists of a weight allocation of 19.7% for ISAT stock, 36.8% for MTDL stock, 34.8% for MLPT stock, 3.6% for EDGE stock, and 15% for DCII stock. This portfolio yields an expected portfolio return of 0.001249 and a portfolio variance of 0.000311
Rituals, routines and religion: understanding the experiences of brothel-based sex workers in new delhi, india
No full textAn estimated 20 million sex workers live in India, yet few scholars have asked if and/or how religion shapes the sexual practices of women who are seen as violators of their faith’s tenets, cultural expectations and societal values. To date, studies focusing on sex work have been dominated by a few concerns: crime and exploitation (sex trafficking), public health (spread of disease), and market forces and agency (labor/capital). While some scholars have examined religion, especially the connection between particular religions and prostitution (e.g., Buddhism and Christianity), the role of religion in the lives of Hindu and Muslim sex workers remains largely unexplored.
Using ethnographic observations and interviews, this dissertation examined the lives of 96 brothel workers who were recruited using Respondent-driven Sampling (RDS). These women work in the Red-Light District in Delhi which features over seventy brothels squeezed into close proximity to each other and strung along a street known as Garstin Bastion Road (G.B. Road). This study examined the link between religion and three aspects of sex work. First, it showed religious rituals and routines punctuated the lives of brothel workers. Second, it elucidated the influence of religion and moral boundaries on sex work. Finally, the study highlighted the women’s attitudes about Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) services and their hope in God(s) for a better future.
This dissertation contributed to extant scholarship in distinct ways. First, it added a fresh perspective to the literature on sex work by focusing on religion as a source of meaning and empowerment for brothel workers. Second, it made a sampling/methodological contribution by deploying RDS to recruit a diverse sample of sex workers from G.B. Road. Third, it departed from the theoretical frameworks typically employed by criminologists and applied an interdisciplinary approach which borrowed from social theorists of religion, moral boundaries and labor to understand agency and empowerment among Hindu and Muslim sex workers. Finally, given religion’s importance in society, this study’s findings are especially salient for the sex workers, the NGOs who provide services to them, and more broadly, the citizens of multi-cultural and multi-faith societies struggling with conflicts between religious beliefs and sexuality.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical reference
Luminescent Cyclometalated Platinum and Palladium Complexes with Novel Photophysical Properties
No full textabstract: Organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) is a rapidly emerging technology based on organic thin film semiconductors. Recently, there has been substantial investment in their use in displays. In less than a decade, OLEDs have grown from a promising academic curiosity into a multi-billion dollar global industry. At the heart of an OLED are emissive molecules that generate light in response to electrical stimulation. Ideal emitters are efficient, compatible with existing materials, long lived, and produce light predominantly at useful wavelengths. Developing an understanding of the photophysical processes that dictate the luminescent properties of emissive materials is vital to their continued development. Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 provide an introduction to the topics presented and the laboratory methods used to explore them. Chapter 3 discusses a series of tridentate platinum complexes. A synthetic method utilizing microwave irradiation was explored, as well as a study of the effects ligand structure had on the excited state properties. Results and techniques developed in this endeavor were used as a foundation for the work undertaken in later chapters. Chapter 4 introduces a series of tetradentate platinum complexes that share a phenoxy-pyridyl (popy) motif. The new molecular design improved efficiency through increased rigidity and modification of the excited state properties. This class of platinum complexes were markedly more efficient than those presented in Chapter 3, and devices employing a green emitting complex of the series achieved nearly 100% electron-to-photon conversion efficiency in an OLED device. Chapter 5 adapts the ligand structure developed in Chapter 4 to palladium. The resulting complexes exceed reported efficiencies of palladium complexes by an order of magnitude. This chapter also provides the first report of a palladium complex as an emitter in an OLED device. Chapter 6 discusses the continuation of development efforts to include carbazolyl components in the ligand. These complexes possess interesting luminescent properties including ultra-narrow emission and metal assisted delayed fluorescence (MADF) emission.Dissertation/ThesisPh.D. Materials Science and Engineering 201
Impaired integrity of the brain parenchyma in non-geriatric patients with major depressive disorder revealed by diffusion tensor imaging
No full textDiffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is considered to be able to non-invasively quantify white matter integrity. This study aimed to use DTI to evaluate white matter integrity in non-geriatric patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) who were free of antidepressant medication. DTI was performed on 19 non-geriatric patients with MDD, free of antidepressant medication, and 19 age-matched healthy subjects. Voxel-based and histogram analyses were used to compare fractional anisotropy (FA) and mean diffusivity (MD) values between the two groups, using two-sample t tests. The abnormal DTI indices, if any, were tested for correlation with disease duration and severity, using Pearson product-moment correlation analysis. Voxel-based analysis showed clusters with FA decrease at the bilateral frontal white matter, anterior limbs of internal capsule, cerebellum, left putamen and right thalamus of the patients. Histogram analysis revealed lower peak position of FA histograms in the patients. FA values of the abnormal clusters and peak positions of FA histograms of the patients exhibited moderate correlation with disease duration and severity. These results suggest the implication of frontal-subcortical circuits and cerebellum in MDD, and the potential utility of FA in evaluation of brain parenchymal integrity. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved
Palimpsest poetics – medieval traditions revisited in 20th century Serbian poetry (as exemplified by the works of Momčilo Nastasijević, Vasko Popa i Miodrag Pavlović)
No full textWydział Filologii Polskiej i Klasycznej UAM: Instytut Filologii SłowiańskiejDwudziestowieczna poezja serbska podejmuje refleksję nad językiem symbolicznym literatury staroserbskiej, której wartości estetycznych dotychczas na rodzimym polu nie dostrzegano lub niedostatecznie doceniano. Ze względu na dialogiczny charakter przedmiotu badań autorka dysertacji posłużyła się metodami lektury palimpsestowej. Poezja dwudziestego wieku odwołując się do tradycji średniowiecznej, odnosi się właściwie do kilku tradycji, których nośnikami są ówczesne teksty: Starego i Nowego Testamentu, pism Ojców Kościoła i „ksiąg innych” zwanych heretyckimi. Głównie na ich podstawie wyprowadzono sześć tradycji: tradycję biblijną, patrystyczna, hezychastyczną ikonograficzną, ludową i manichejską. To one właśnie zostały zaktualizowane, receptywnie wyselekcjonowane w procesie ich odbioru przez wskazanych dwudziestowiecznych artystów. Opracowanie elementów konstrukcji poetyckiej pozwoliło wskazać na pewne trwałe wartości kultury serbskiej i umożliwiło realizację celu głównego, którym była próba uchwycenia modelu recepcji kultury średniowiecznej w odbiorze najwybitniejszych poetów dwudziestego wieku: Momčila Nastasijevića (1894-1938), Vaska Popy (1922-1991) i Miodraga Pavlovicia (1928).In the twentieth century in Serbia can be noted an interesting phenomenon, when poetry was taking consideration on the symbolic language of old Serbian literature, which aesthetic values so far in the domestic field weren’t perceived or appreciated. Due to the dialogic nature of the subject of research dissertation author used the methods of reading palimpsests. The poetry of XX-century poetry referring to medieval tradition in fact refers to couple of traditions which can be derived from its main texts: Bible, apofthegmata of Fathers of the Church and “other” so called heretical. Mainly using its base can be noticed six medieval traditions: biblical, patristic, hesychastic, iconographical, folk and Manichean. These ones have been updated and selected in the process of the reception in twentieth century poetry. Poetic structure elaboration has allowed to point some constant elements of Serbian culture and help to led the realization of the main objective, which was the reconstruction of the medieval culture reception model in the poetry of the most representative (hold on Harold Bloom’s theory of influence) in XX century authors which are Momčilo Nastasijević (1894-1938), Vasko Popa (1922-1991) i Miodrag Pavlović (1928)
