Use of Taguchi Methods for Hierarchy of Influence Factors in the Application of Carbonitration in a Fluidized Bed Steel for 41Cr4 Steel

The work is based on carbonitriding in a fluidized layer with methane and ammonia gas applied to 41Cr4 steel samples. To achieve the best possible results, other factors must be taken into account, than those specific to carbonitring. It was necessary to use a partially factorial working procedure due to the increase in the number of factors. An A18 matrix has been used, with 18 lines of experiments in which three levels have been modified for 6 factors. The objective function was fixed at the final hardness after carbonitriding, hardening and tempering. The carbonitriding was performed in fluidized bed with granular solid ground and sorted to 0.1- to 0.16mm, and brought to fluidization with a mixture of methane and ammonia. The hardening has been done directly after carbonitriding in the fluidized bed. The experiments have been performed according to Taguchi Methods and the results indicate an optimal regime and the influence of the factors considered on the hardness after the thermo-chemical treatment and the thermal treatment. Metallographic analysis has been performed on the carbonitrided layer.

THE DEVELOPMENT OF CORPORATE SECURITY IN THE CONTEXT OF COUNTERING THREATS TO DOING BUSINESS

The principal purpose of the study is to determine the main parameters of corporate security development in the enterprise in the context of determining the level of impact of external and internal threats. The study uses survey methods on the main internal and external threats that may affect the corporate security of enterprises. The purpose of the practical part of our study is to determine the level of these threats to corporate security. The methodological basis of our study is the method of expert evaluation, which was conducted by interviewing people involved in the process of corporate security management of enterprises, as well as methods of the hierarchical organization using matrices of pair-wise comparisons. The major results of the study can be considered determining the hierarchy of influence of each of the threats affecting the corporate security of industrial enterprises, which will allow optimizing the security system and directing its activities to more pressing issues. Our method of the hierarchical organization of threats to corporate security does not take into account the specifics of the corporate security system of industrial enterprises in most European countries and now can be freely implemented mainly in industrial enterprises of Eastern Europe. The proposed method of assessing external and internal threats is currently optimized for the activities of industrial enterprises in Eastern Europe, including Ukraine and Poland. In the following, at an expansion of the given research, there is a possibility of introducting this methodology to the enterprises of other countries or other profiles. The relevance of this study lies in determining the level of threats that affect the corporate security of industrial enterprises. The methodology for assessing the level of influence of these threats is universal, therefore it can be used in the event of a change in the main threats, it is extremely relevant in the context of rapid globalization changes in the world.

Fake Online News

Today, the media environment has traversed several phases of technological advancements and as a result, there is a shift in the production and consumption of news. This chapter conceived fake news within the milieu of influencing information spread in the society, especially on the cyberspace. Using the hierarchy of influence model trajectory with fake news, it was established that it has become almost impossible to sustain trust and credibility through individual influences on online news content. The primary reason is that journalists are constrained by professional ethics, organizational routines, and ownership influence. Rather than verify facts and offer supporting claims, online users without professional orientation engage in a reproducing information indiscreetly. The chapter recommends that ethics be reconsidered as a means to recreate and imbibe journalistic values that will contend with the fake news pandemic.

The New Advertisers: How Foundation Funding Impacts Journalism

Many journalism stakeholders have begun looking to philanthropic foundations to help newsrooms find economic sustainability. The rapidly expanding role of foundations as a revenue source for news publishers raises an important question: How do foundations exercise their influence over the newsrooms they fund? Using the hierarchy of influence model, this study utilizes more than 40 interviews with journalists at digitally native nonprofit news organizations and employees from foundations that fund nonprofit journalism to better understand the impact of foundation funding on journalistic practice. Drawing on previous scholarship exploring extra-media influence on the news industry, we argue that the impact of foundations on journalism parallels that of advertisers throughout the 20th century—with one important distinction: Journalism practitioners and researchers have long forbidden the influence from advertisers on editorial decisions, seeing the blurring of the two as inherently unethical. Outside funding from foundations, on the other hand, is often premised on editorial influence, complicating efforts by journalists to maintain the firewall between news revenue and production.

PENERAPAN REKA BENTUK PADA HALAMAN MUKA SURAT KABAR

ABSTRACT Every newspaper has its own characteristics on the visual aspect or design of newspaper. This is evident from the differences in each media appearance of dimension (make-up) and layout on the main page newspaper. The characteristics of design certainly are based on different forms of media, readers segmentation, and content of message presented. The purpose of this research is to analyze the policy of Inilah Koran Daily Newspaper and Pikiran Rakyat Daily Newspaper in applying design on front page of a newspaper. The rationale of this research comes from The Hierarchy of Influence Theory by Pamela J Shoemaker and Stephen D Reese. The method used in this research was a descriptive-comparative with qualitative approach. The result obtained from this research is the application of design policy on front page Inilah Koran newspaper uses the functional layout format and oriented visual journalism, while design policy implementation on front page Pikiran Rakyat newspaper uses layout combination and influenced by the results of the audience analysis performed routinely. Keywords: Design, Newspapers, Hierarchy of Influence Theory, Comparative ABSTRAK Setiap surat kabar memiliki karakteristik tersendiri pada aspek visual atau desain surat kabar. Ini terlihat dari perbedaan dimensinya masing-masing media yaitu tampilan (make-up) dan tata letak di halaman utama koran. Karakteristik desain tentu didasarkan pada berbagai bentuk media, segmentasi pembaca, dan konten pesan yang disajikan. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk menganalisis kebijakan Surat Kabar Harian Inilah Koran dan Surat Kabar Harian Pikiran Rakyat dalam menerapkan desain di halaman depan sebuah surat kabar. Rasional dari penelitian ini berasal dari The Hierarchy of Influence Theory oleh Pamela J Shoemaker dan Stephen D Reese. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah deskriptif-komparatif dengan pendekatan kualitatif. Hasil yang diperoleh dari penelitian ini adalah penerapan kebijakan desain pada halaman depan koran Koran Berikut ini menggunakan format layout fungsional dan jurnalisme visual yang berorientasi, sedangkan implementasi kebijakan desain pada halaman depan koran Pikiran Rakyat menggunakan kombinasi layout dan dipengaruhi oleh hasil analisis audiens. dilakukan secara rutin. Kata kunci: Desain, Surat Kabar, Teori Hierarki Pengaruh, Komparatif

Fake Online News

Today, the media environment has traversed several phases of technological advancements and as a result, there is a shift in the production and consumption of news. This chapter conceived fake news within the milieu of influencing information spread in the society, especially on the cyberspace. Using the hierarchy of influence model trajectory with fake news, it was established that it has become almost impossible to sustain trust and credibility through individual influences on online news content. The primary reason is that journalists are constrained by professional ethics, organizational routines, and ownership influence. Rather than verify facts and offer supporting claims, online users without professional orientation engage in a reproducing information indiscreetly. The chapter recommends that ethics be reconsidered as a means to recreate and imbibe journalistic values that will contend with the fake news pandemic.

The Transnational Mosque

This catchy title, The Transnational Mosque, is timely and implies an analysisof global Islam and the multiplicities of mosque construction today. The premisepromises to contribute to the scholarship on Islamic architecture, and yetthere are some issues with the argument’s structure and even greater ones withthe analytical depth with respect to architecture. The book’s structure highlights the attempt to separate itself and “buildsupon” (p. 7) established texts on the subject of contemporary Islamic architecture.However, its relatively small format, dense with text, is populatedsparely with uneven visual representation. The photographs vary in qualityand vantage, and not all of the mosques discussed have images and architecturaldrawings – serious omissions in a field that is so visual, systematic comparativeanalysis requires analogous efforts with visual representation for theargument to sustain itself. The book contains an introduction; one chaptereach on Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE);and an epilogue that serves as a conclusion. But this four-fold argument,which focuses on the patron countries, is flawed because it inherently setsup a hierarchy of influence that situates equally the relatively minimal worksof the UAE with the far-reaching impact of Turkey, Iran, and Saudi Arabia.It also ignores the “transnational” quality of those mosques not patronizedby any of them.The introduction, “Agency of History: The Symbolic Potential for theTransnational Mosque,” begins with an italicized brief first-person narrativethat describes Beirut’s Muhammad al-Amin Mosque followed by a long accountof patronage and political climate. Rizvi promises an interdisciplinaryapproach with field work, architecture and photo documentation, interviewswith architects and patrons in a “study [that] interrogates multiple agents anddiverse agendas behind the construction of transnational mosques” (p. 5). Shedefines “trans” as “beyond and across time of history and spaces of nations,”but nevertheless frames the book in terms of nations ...

Konstruksi citra partai Islam pada pemilu 2014 pendekatan fikih-siyasah

The research of the Image Construction of Islamic Political Party at 2014 Election in Indonesia aimedat knowing the image construction of Islamic political party, especially at Republika and Sindo newspaper.The thoeries used in this research are fikih siyasat (the characteristic of muslim leader), socialconstruction of mass media and hierarchy of influence by using discourse analysis as an analyticaltechnique. The method of the research is qualitative. And the Informans as research subject are thejurnalist, redaction and management representative of both newspaper.The founds of research showedthat the news characteristic of both newspaper were almost same. From the social cognition there werea difference. Republika strived to counter every news related to the image of Islamic political party andSindo did not. From the social context, the background of this news was 2014 Election. And fromhierarchy of influence perspective, the impact of media organization level was strong as shown in thepower of the owner like Hary Tanoe in Sindo as a chairman of MNC Group. So, Sindo never producednews that contradicted to Hary or Hanura Party. The impact of ideological level also strong as we can seein the news of Republika which not only related to the profit, but also the benefit of Islamic Party.

Conceptual autonomy and dependence in Chinese lexical semantic analysis

The present study addresses the rate of conceptual autonomy and dependence in Chinese lexical semantic analysis, presenting an analysis of how image-schema, domains and co-text interact in the [v]–[shang] construction as an example. Following a Principled Polysemy methodology, I identify the semantic prototype and four metaphorical senses of the construction. I also show the co-textual characteristics associated with each sense, which opens up further discussion of how image-schema and conceptual domains collaborate to produce the various senses. Based on these findings, I further establish a hierarchy of influence from co-text, where the semantics of an RVC depends first of all on its collocating verb and secondarily on a collocating noun phrase. This paper aims to show in some detail how image-schema, conceptual domains and patterns of co-text co-contribute to the polysemy of RVCs. It moreover proposes a novel way of analyzing Chinese lexical semantics in terms of conceptual autonomy and dependence.