Pengembangan media pembelajaran berbantuan komputer berbasis RME untuk siswa SMP kelas VII pada materi perbandingan

This research and development is motivated by student’s difficulties in learning proportion material especially in determining the direct and inverse proportion material. The students are difficult to distinguish problem about direct and inverse proportion material. Moreover, at this time there has been no development of computer assisted learning media based RME on direct and inverse proportion material. This development aims to produce a computer assisted learning media on direct and inverse proportion material which are valid, practical, and effective. The result of research and development is “GO!MATH” courseware in the form of executable file in CD that can be use independently by students both in classroom or at home. This research and development is done by adapting Thiagarajan development model which only up to the third stage, because the stage develope due only for limited testing stage. The limited testing in this research involved nine student of SMP Brawijaya Smart School Malang which has heterogeneous ability. The results show that “GO!MATH” are valid, practical, and effective.

Modern Colonialism and Cultural Continuity Through Material Culture: An Example from Guam and CHamoru Plaiting

This article analyzes cultural persistence in Guam through plaiting, material culture, and maintenance activities, a set of daily practices that are essential to social continuity and well-being. The colonization of Guam began in 1668 with the Jesuit missions. Jesuit policies utilized maintenance activities to colonize Indigenous lifeways and subjectivities, but we believe those activities also functioned as reservoirs of traditional knowledge. Although plaiting has been situated in different historical contexts across the centuries, it no doubt expresses material continuities stretching from a precolonial past. The article also challenges today’s widespread belief that the search for change is a universal value. It argues that societies appreciate continuity over change in inverse proportion to technological control over nature, asymmetrical relationships of power, and specialized fragmentation of functional tasks. In the absence of such features, the best guarantee of survival lies in maintaining the balance achieved by traditional lifeways.

‘Do Mormons think The Book of Mormon is funny?’

Public ridicule of a minority typically predicts a defensive response from the target of that humor. This is because public ridicule provides a polarizing spectacle, where the majority enjoys a humorous face reward, and solidarity, at the expense of that minority. Logically, we could expect a faith-based minority to be especially sensitive to public ridicule, since their face investment is greater, in inverse proportion to their social position and power, and because their group (and personal) identity is linked inextricably to what would normally be inviolable: a sacred text, a prophet, or deity. However, the official response from the LDS Church to the musical comedy The Book of Mormon defies this expectation. This paper analyses this response, in order to understand why a religious minority chose to creatively engage with what should have been a highly face-threatening satire.

Why Does Child Mortality Decrease With Age? Modeling the Age-Associated Decrease in Mortality Rate Using WHO Metadata From 25 Countries

Background: Our previous study analyzed the age trajectory of mortality (ATM) in 14 European countries, while this study aimed at investigating ATM in other continents and in countries with a higher level of mortality. Data from 11 Non-European countries were used.Methods: The number of deaths was extracted from the WHO mortality database. The Halley method was used to calculate the mortality rates in all possible calendar years and all countries combined. This method enables us to combine more countries and more calendar years in one hypothetical population.Results: The age trajectory of total mortality (ATTM) and also ATM due to specific groups of diseases were very similar in the 11 non-European countries and in the 14 European countries. The level of mortality did not affect the main results found in European countries. The inverse proportion was valid for ATTM in non-European countries with two exceptions.Slower or no mortality decrease with age was detected in the first year of life, while the inverse proportion model was valid for the age range (1, 10) years in most of the main chapters of ICD10.Conclusions: The decrease in child mortality with age may be explained as the result of the depletion of individuals with congenital impairment. The majority of deaths up to the age of 10 years were related to congenital impairments, and the decrease in child mortality rate with age was a demonstration of population heterogeneity. The congenital impairments were latent and may cause death even if no congenital impairment was detected.

SINGLE SUBJECT RESEARCH: PEMBELAJARAN PERBANDINGAN SENILAI DAN BERBALIK NILAI BERPENDEKATAN CONTEXTUAL TEACHING AND LEARNING UNTUK SISWA SLOW LEARNER

Slow Learner students often have difficulty understanding mathematics content, one of which is direct and inverse proportion. This study aims to improve the student's understanding of the direct and inverse proportion material using the Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL) approach. The research subject in this study was a single subject, namely Slow Learner student who studied in seventh grade in one of the Junior High School in Bantul district, Yogyakarta Special Region. This study used the Single Subject Research method with an A-B design. Researchers collected the data in this study through audio documentation, photos, videos, and written documentation. The data were then analyzed using analysis in conditions and between conditions. The results showed that students had an average score of learning outcomes that was 32 before being given intervention and had an average score of 78 after being given an intervention to implement learning with the CTL approach. This result shows that using the CTL approach can improve the understanding of Slow Learner student in understanding the direct and inverse proportion and minimizing the learning difficulties of Slow Learning student during teaching and learning activities.

Gluck in the Theatre

The 1859 revival of Gluck’s Orphée at the Théâtre-Lyrique is well known, the revival of Alceste at the Opéra in 1861 less so. Taken together with the 1867 production of the composer’s L’arbre enchanté and the 1868 one of Iphigénie en Tauride describes a history of decline with the success of the revivals in inverse proportion to the levels of participation of the 1859 Orphée, Pauline Viardot.

The relationship of the epicardial fat and adipo-fibrokines in myocardial infarction

Analysis of the relationship between the epicardial fat with adipokine and system ST2/IL-33 in-hospital period, and also with the extent of fibrosis of the atrial myocardium through the year after myocardial infarction in patients with visceral obesity. Examined 88 patients with myocardial infarction (MI). Visceral obesity (VO) is established by computed tomography. In fact the presence VO the patients divided into two groups. Determined the concentration of leptin, adiponectin, stimulating growth factor (ST-2) and interlekin-33 (IL-33) in serum on 1st, 12-day in-hospital period and 1 year after MI. Thickness epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) and the percentage of cardiovirus of the myocardium was measured by the method MRI, respectively, on the 12th day of hospitalization and a year after MI. The control group consisted of 30 people. Statistical analysis of data was performed using nonparametric tests. Patients with MI is associated with an increase in the thickness of EAT, imbalance of adipokines with increased leptin, decreased adiponectin in early in-hospital period and development of cardiovirus. Higher values of IL-33 and ЅT2 in the early in-hospital period MI patients with no accompanied by a lower prevalence of cardiovirus in the post-hospital period. The thickness of epicardial fat is directly dependent on the prevalence of myocardial fibrosis, the concentrations of IL-33 and in inverse proportion to the concentration of ЅT2. The degree of cardiovirus is in inverse proportion to the concentration of IL-33 and directly dependent on the concentration of ST2. The increase in EAT closely linked to the development of fibrosis of the atrial myocardium after year. The thickness of EAT more patients MI, which is most pronounced imbalance of adipokines. The metabolic activity of EAT correlated with increased IL-33 and ST2 decrease.