DECONSTRUCTION AND RECONSTRUCTION OF THE KACU CONCEPT OF BATIK AS INSPIRATION FOR ARTWORKS

Batik is one of the arts that contains a whole descriptive belief about how Javanese interpret their lives. It is found inclassical batiks, which are still committed to the standard elements from Keraton as a center for preserving Javaneseculture. Through studying classical batik, the writer finds a concept of Kacu ratio used in making batik. For thewriter, the kacu is a local form of genius that belongs to the Javanese community. The consciousness of the emptinesspermeates all material forms that exist in the universe. This belief is also applied to the process of designing batikfabrics. For the Javanese, beauty lies in the balance of macro and microcosmos. The actual balance lies at the pointof paradox. Through this research, similarities in the numbers of the Kacu ratio, which is believed to be the goldenratio of the Javanese people in ancient times were sought. Then the equation would be applied to the artwork. Thisstudy uses a qualitative method with several literature sources to dissect the Kacu concept and apply it to works ofart. The writer uses the Kacu concept to arrange visual objects as a scale and balance composition through a formalistapproach. Finally, the writer presents batik and screen-printing techniques on textile. Therefore, the writer needsto study the Kacu ratio further to understand what this ancient ratio means in the beliefs of the Javanese people.

Epidemiology, evaluation and management of tinea pedis

Tinea pedis, known as athletics foot, is defined as a dermatophyte infection leading to a condition called dermatophytosis. Usually, the mode of infection is fungal. Trichophyton rubrum is the most common organism which is responsible for the infection. This fungus is endemic in some geographical regions as in Asia and Africa. The mode of transmission and risk factors depends on several factors: the weather, type of clothes and shoes, body response to different organisms, present history, family history, and endemic geographical areas. Increased temperature and humidity were correlated in the literature to the increased incidence and prevalence of tinea pedis compared to those areas which have low temperature, wearing specific types of shoes or clothes might be associated with an increased rate of infection, especially if the shoes are adherent to the foot and occlusive, prolonged exposure to humidity and water was also shown to be among the causes for tinea pedis infections. The clinical presentation of tinea pods varies according to the site and severity of infection. Generally, antifungal drugs are effective in most cases. The application of antifungals may be in oral form or local form, or mixed form. Terbinafine was proven to be effective in mild cases to fully treat the infection within a period of one week, extending to four weeks in more aggressive cases. This was a brief look at the article. This article aimed to review tinea pedis from different prospections clinically.

The effects of pre-task explicit instruction on L2 oral self-repair behaviour

The present study examines the effects of pre-task explicit instruction on second language (L2) oral self-repair behaviour while controlling for the effects of working memory. The participants were 121 Iranian learners of English at incipient levels of language proficiency. Their working memory was measured using an operation span task and then they were randomly assigned to a control and an experimental group. Both groups performed a picture story-retelling task that was preceded by five minutes of planning time. During the planning time, the experimental group also received a grammar handout that explained English relative clauses. The instances of self-repairs were identified through stimulated recall interviews that immediately followed performance on the oral task. They were then classified into categories of global form repairs (FG-repairs), local form repairs (FL-repairs), and content repairs (C-repairs). A series of one-way ANCOVAs were run, the results of which indicated pre-task explicit instruction had significant and beneficial effects on FL-repairs and adverse effects on C-repairs. The covariate was only associated with repairing the target structure. The findings are discussed in light of the Extended Trade-off Hypothesis and confirm the view that pre-task explicit instruction tends to foster a focus on form at the expense of meaning.

A local meshless analysis of dynamics problems / Uma análise local desordenada dos problemas dinâmicos

This paper is concerned with new formulations of local meshfree numerical method, for the solution of dynamic problems in linear elasticity, Integrated Local Mesh Free (ILMF) method. The key attribute of local numerical methods is the use of a modeling paradigm based on a node-by-node calculation, to generate the rows of the global system of equations of the body discretization. In the local domain, assigned to each node of a discretization, the work theorem is kinematically formulated, leading thus to an equation of mechanical equilibrium of the local node, that is used by local meshfree method as the starting point of the formulation. The main feature of this paper is the use of a linearly integrated local form of the work theorem. The linear reduced integration plays a key role in the behavior of local numerical methods, since it implies a reduction of the nodal stiffness which, in turn, leads to an increase of the solution accuracy. As a consequence, the derived meshfree and finite element numerical methods become fast and accurate, which is a feature of paramount importance, as far as computational efficiency of numerical methods is concerned. The cantilever beam was analyzed with this technique, in order to assess the accuracy and efficiency of the new local numerical method for dynamic problems with regular and irregular nodal configuration. The results obtained in this work are in perfect agreement with Mesh-Free Local Petrov-Galerkin (MLPG) and the Finite Element Method (FEM) solutions.

Governance of Marwari capital: Daily living as a decolonial ‘matrix-of-praxis’ intermeshing commercial, religious and familial spheres

This paper is a narration on practices of unlimited liability Marwari businesses of a textile town in Western India. Although depicted as an ‘outdated’ form of incorporation, these businesses were surprisingly resilient prompting us to engage in exploration of their ways of doing business. We deployed Mignolo’s concept of colonial-matrix-of-power to anchor our interpretive sense-making of enactments of our participant businessmen. The daily doings of the businessmen and their families enacted a ‘way of life’, Marwaripan. Activities created an intermesh across ‘local’ spaces of family, business and religion, constituting, what we call, a decolonial matrix-of-praxis. It created a ‘local’ form of Marwari governance where circulation and access to capital depended on extensively (and labouriously) negotiated construction of ‘status’ within open spaces of ‘enunciation’. However, preserving Marwaripan also required arduous striving and collective toil to continuously construct subjectivities based on customary dharma through a communitarian pedagogy that could wean away actors from the state driven pedagogy of regular schools.

On local and integrated stress-tensor commutators

We discuss some general aspects of commutators of local operators in Lorentzian CFTs, which can be obtained from a suitable analytic continuation of the Euclidean operator product expansion (OPE). Commutators only make sense as distributions, and care has to be taken to extract the right distribution from the OPE. We provide explicit computations in two and four-dimensional CFTs, focusing mainly on commutators of components of the stress-tensor. We rederive several familiar results, such as the canonical commutation relations of free field theory, the local form of the Poincaré algebra, and the Virasoro algebra of two-dimensional CFT. We then consider commutators of light-ray operators built from the stress-tensor. Using simplifying features of the light sheet limit in four-dimensional CFT we provide a direct computation of the BMS algebra formed by a specific set of light-ray operators in theories with no light scalar conformal primaries. In four-dimensional CFT we define a new infinite set of light-ray operators constructed from the stress-tensor, which all have well-defined matrix elements. These are a direct generalization of the two-dimensional Virasoro light-ray operators that are obtained from a conformal embedding of Minkowski space in the Lorentzian cylinder. They obey Hermiticity conditions similar to their two-dimensional analogues, and also share the property that a semi-infinite subset annihilates the vacuum.

Manifest form of the spin-local higher-spin vertex $$\varUpsilon ^{\eta \eta }_{\omega CCC}$$

Vasiliev generating system of higher-spin equations allowing to reconstruct nonlinear vertices of field equations for higher-spin gauge fields contains a free complex parameter $$\eta $$ η . Solving the generating system order by order one obtains physical vertices proportional to various powers of $$\eta $$ η and $${\bar{\eta }}$$ η ¯ . Recently $$\eta ^2$$ η 2 and $${\bar{\eta }}^2$$ η ¯ 2 vertices in the zero-form sector were presented in Didenko et al. (JHEP 2012:184, 2020) in the Z-dominated form implying their spin-locality by virtue of Z-dominance Lemma of Gelfond and Vasiliev (Phys. Lett. B 786:180, 2018). However the vertex of Didenko et al. (2020) had the form of a sum of spin-local terms dependent on the auxiliary spinor variable Z in the theory modulo so-called Z-dominated terms, providing a sort of existence theorem rather than explicit form of the vertex. The aim of this paper is to elaborate an approach allowing to systematically account for the effect of Z-dominated terms on the final Z-independent form of the vertex needed for any practical analysis. Namely, in this paper we obtain explicit Z-independent spin-local form for the vertex $$\varUpsilon ^{\eta \eta }_{\omega CCC}$$ Υ ω C C C η η for its $$\omega CCC$$ ω C C C -ordered part where $$\omega $$ ω and C denote gauge one-form and field strength zero-form higher-spin fields valued in an arbitrary associative algebra in which case the order of product factors in the vertex matters. The developed formalism is based on the Generalized Triangle identity derived in the paper and is applicable to all other orderings of the fields in the vertex.

Waste on the Tip of the Tongue: Social Eating Livestreams (Chibo) in the Age of Chinese Affluence

This article investigates Chinese social eating livestreams (chibo) in the context of China’s 2020 campaign against food waste. It argues that the subgenre ‘big stomach kings’, a target of the campaign, evinces the moral implications of Chinese affluence, of which food waste is exemplary. The emerging affluence in China has normalized conspicuous, wasteful consumption and given rise to a local form of flaunting wealth called ‘xuanfu’. Chinese social media are inundated with xuanfu images, a symptom of the necessary psychosocial adaptation to affluence. Isolating the ‘big stomach kings’ livestreams from the social context of xuanfu, the anti-waste campaign glosses over the underlying social issue of the vast wealth gap between the affluent and the poor. To expose the ethical controversy of these livestreams, the article also analyzes their gender politics by parsing the mystifying image of female ‘big stomach kings’, whose slim bodies are in stark contrast to their enormous appetites.

Local Form of Loss of Stability of Honeycomb Energy Absorber Plates

Landing devices perform the energy absorption function during the spacecraft motion. Precise analytical solution to the problem of stability of a lengthy plate with free edge exposed to the edge compressive load was obtained in order to analyze operation of the honeycomb materials used in structural elements absorbing the moving bodies energy. General solution analysis of the differential equation for a lengthy plate bending in the deflected position was carried out, and general solution is subjected to the boundary conditions corresponding to the loaded free edge. Critical load value and form of the loss of stability were determined. Critical load identified value was significantly lower than the critical load for a plate supported on the loaded edge. The loss of stability identified form was characterized by sharp deflection localization near the loaded edge and could create conditions for forming a local fold near the loaded edge. Obtained analytical solution was verified by comparing it with results of the similar numerical solution. Comparison performed revealed satisfactory agreement both in the critical load value and in the form of loss of stability for two solutions obtained by different methods. The results obtained could be used in designing energy absorbers made of honeycomb materials, as well as in other areas of technology

Acute Hematogenous Osteomyelitis of the Rib in 14 Years Old Child: Clinical Case

Background. Rib osteomyelitis is extremely rare in childhood. This localization of purulent focus represents only 1% of all osteomyelitis cases. The typical manifestations of ribs osteomyelitis are fever, chest or back pain. However, these clinical signs are not always present, and the disease can manifest in other way.Clinical Case Description. Mother with 14 years old child K. have applied to the regional children's hospital admission department. The child had complains of right upper quadrant abdominal pain and in right part of the chest, difficulty in breathing. The disease began 2 days before admission with fatigue, weakness, and pyretic fever (39 °C). Complaints remained over time. The patient was hospitalized with the diagnosis: “Chest impact injury with severe pain syndrome? Right lung contusion?". The ultrasound examination of pleural cavities and the right anterior chest surface has revealed osteomyelitic phlegmon in VII intercostal space on the 3rd day of hospitalization. It was lanced and drained under general anesthesia, about 7 ml of liquid pus were obtained. The child received treatment according to clinical guidelines for the management of patients with such nosology. The final diagnosis was: «Acute hematogenous osteomyelitis of the VII rib, local form. Osteomyelitic phlegmon of VII intercostal space. Right pneumonitis. Bilateral mild hydrothorax». The boy was discharged on the 10th day since surgery in satisfactory condition.Conclusion. The described clinical case is interesting for pediatric surgeons, traumatologists, infectious disease specialist. Particular attention should be paid to the clinical features of the disease and anamnestic information in such unclear clinical cases. It will allow to exclude traumatic injuries and assume the local inflammatory process.