Perbandingan Penerbitan dan Harga Buku Mengikut Genre di Malaysia dan Jepun Menggunakan Data Akses Terbuka dan Simulasi Monte Carlo

[The article is written in Bahasa Malaysia] Reading habits are often associated with an increased cognitive level. However, book genre can also affect the cognitive level. This is because different book genres can be attributed to different type of knowledge and tendency towards a specific book genre can be viewed as a preference toward a specific type of knowledge. Research on Malaysian’s interest and the tendency towards book genre and type of knowledge can be investigated using the publication data of each book genre and its prices. The objective of this research is to analyze and compare the book publications and the average price of each book’s genre in Malaysia with Japan. Comparison was done based on book categorization genre strategy to 12 book genre. Based on Monte Carlo simulation method data, Malaysians are attracted to book genre on Language, literature, and science. While the Japanese are more interested in the book genre of social sciences and hobbies/art. The similarity between Malaysian and Japanese are that both societies also favors book genre of literature. However, it is possible that the themes of literary genre in Japan and Malaysia are very different. The result of this study can be used to identify the differences between Malaysian and Japanese reading habits as well as used for formulating strategies to changed Malaysian reading habits toward the style of Japanese reading habits.

The 2005 Lancet review proved superior quality of homeopathy trials: what's next?

Several former reviews showed positive effects of homeopathy, but in 2005 The Lancet published a review which claimed that homeopathy is a placebo effect. This review was criticised for not revealing essential information. A reconstruction of post-publication data challenges the negative conclusion. The only conclusion that was rectified by the methodology of the 2005 review was that the quality of homeopathy trials, and especially of smaller trials, is better than quality of conventional trials. The comparison of the effect of 110 homeopathy trials with 110 matched conventional trials was flawed by selection bias, different publication bias, different quality, and different safety. Nevertheless, there is no significant difference of effects between both methods. Discussions about proof for homeopathy are in fact discussions about science. The prior assumption that homeopathy cannot work pervades all aspects of this discussion and is not properly evaluated in the introduction of most analyses.

Analyzing the Scientific Community Focused on Nursing Informatics Using Publication Data

The scientific community focused on nursing informatics can be described as a graph with the authors as vertices and the author-coauthor relationship as the connecting edges. Methods to describe and analyze networks like average path length, diameter, centrality measures, or partitioning into subcommunities are applied to the nursing informatics community. It is shown that the community consists of one large connected subnet with many small disjoint subnets, each representing one or several authors. The interconnectivity of the large subnet is quite high indicating an information flow along several different paths. Using different centrality measures important authors for e.g. the information flow can be identified. While each small disjoint subnet represents a small sub-community, the large central subnet can also be partitioned into subcommunities connected with each other. Some seem to be focused on specific aspects of nursing informatics.

Ocular related emergencies in Spain during the COVID-19 pandemic, a multicenter study

Purpose To evaluate ophthalmological emergencies (OE) during the COVID-19 pandemic comparing them with the same period of the previous year. Methods Retrospective observational study of all OE visits in four tertiary hospitals in Spain comparing data from March 16th to April 30th, 2020 (COVID-19 period) and the same period of 2019 (pre-COVID-19 period). Severity of the conditions was assessed following Channa et al. publication. Data on demographics, diagnosis and treatments were collected from Electronic Medical Records. Results During lockdown, OE significantly declined by 75.18%, from 7,730 registered in the pre-COVID-19 period to 1,928 attended during the COVID-19 period (p < 0.001). In 2019, 23.86% of visits were classified as emergent, 59.50% as non-emergent, and 16.65% could not be determined. In 2020, the percentage of emergent visits increased up to 29.77%, non-emergent visits significantly decreased to 52.92% (p < 0.001), and 17.31% of the visits were classified as “could not determine”. During the pandemic, people aged between 45 and 65 years old represented the largest attending group (37.89%), compared to 2019, where patients over 65 years were the majority (39.80%). In 2019, most frequent diagnosis was unspecified acute conjunctivitis (11.59%), followed by vitreous degeneration (6.47%), and punctate keratitis (5.86%). During the COVID-19 period, vitreous degeneration was the first cause for consultation (9.28%), followed by unspecified acute conjunctivitis (5.63%) and punctate keratitis (5.85%). Conclusions OE visits dropped significantly during the pandemic in Spain (75.18%), although more than half were classified as non-urgent conditions, indicating a lack of understanding of the really emergent ocular pathologies among population.

MENGARUSUTAMAKAN HALAL LIFESTYLE: ANTARA PELUANG DAN TANTANGAN KAPASITAS PERLINDUNGAN SOSIAL DALAM TREND GLOBAL

The development of the halal industry is moving rapidly and is supported by various groups to the global level. The purpose of writing this article is as an effort to mainstream the issue of halal which is no longer seen as having a religious meaning but has become a global lifestyle with the awareness that halal products have provided comfort and tranquillity as a form of protection for consumers. Writing articles using qualitative methods and data collection techniques using literature studies with the help of the Publish and Perish application on Google Scholar data sources without being limited by the year of publication. Data analysis using the VOSviewer application to identify trends in halal lifestyle topics from various references obtained and then described descriptively. The study shows that the halal lifestyle is constructed by market demands that require halal assurance of a product that is safe and brings peace of mind to consumers, so that it becomes an opportunity as well as a challenge, especially for the people of Indonesia. because the halal lifestyle is increasingly mainstreaming in global life. The concept of halal lifestyle requires strengthening regulatory instruments that can provide legal certainty. In the long term, it can be an indication of the creation of social welfare in the community. Perkembangan industri halal bergerak pesat dan didukung berbagai kalangan hingga tataran global. Tujuan penulisan artikel ini sebagai upaya mengarusutamakan issue halal yang tidak lagi dipandang bermakna agamis, melainkan telah menjadi gaya hidup global atas kesadaran bahwa produk-produk halal telah memberikan kenyamanan dan ketenangan sebagai bentuk perlindungan bagi konsumen. Penulisan artikel menggunkaan metode kualitatif dan teknik pengumpulan data menggunakan studi literatur dengan bantuan aplikasi Publish and Perish terhadap data sources google scholar tanpa dibatasi tahun terbit publikasi. Analisa data menggunakan aplikasi VOSviewer untuk mengenali trend topik halal lifestyle pada berbagai referensi yang diperoleh dan kemudian diuraikan secara deskriptif. Hasil kajian menunjukkan bahwa halal lifestyle dikonstruksi oleh tuntutan pasar yang menghendaki adanya jaminan kehalalan suatu produk yang aman dan membawa ketenangan bagi konsumen, sehingga hal ini menjadi peluang sekaligus tantangan khususnya bagi bangsa Indonesia seiring semakin mengarus utamanya halal lifestyle dalam kehidupan global. Halal lifestyle juga membutuhkan penguatan berbagai perangkat peraturan kebijakan yang dapat menjamin proses rantai produksi yang dipastikan halal, sehingga dalam rentang waktu panjang dapat menjadi indikasi adanya dan bahkan terpenuhinya capaian kondisi kesejahteraan sosial pada masyarakat.

Perbandingan Penerbitan dan Harga Buku Mengikut Genre di Malaysia dan Jepun Menggunakan Data Akses Terbuka dan Simulasi Monte Carlo

Reading habits are often associated with an increased cognitive level. However, book genre can also affect the cognitive level. This is because different book genres can be attributed to different types of knowledge and tendency towards a specific book genre can be viewed as a preference towards a specific type of knowledge. Research on Malaysians’ interest and the tendency towards book genre and type of knowledge can be investigated using the publication data of each book genre and its prices. The objective of this research is to analyse and compare the book publications and the average price of each book’s genre in Malaysia with those of Japan. Comparison was done based on book categorisation genre strategy to 12 book genres. Based on Monte Carlo simulation method data, Malaysians are attracted to book genres on language, literature and science. While the Japanese are more interested in the book genres of social sciences and hobbies/art. The similarity between Malaysian and Japanese societies are that both societies also favour book genre of literature. However, it is possible that the themes of literary genre in Japan and Malaysia are very different. The result of this study can be used to identify the differences between Malaysian and Japanese reading habits as well as for formulating strategies to change Malaysian reading habits towards the style of Japanese reading habits.

THE ADVANTAGES AND CHALLENGES OF IMPLEMENTING SUKUK THROUGH BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY

Financial instruments must be able to adapt quickly in the 4.0 era. One of the Islamic financial innovations highlighted at this time is the application of blockchain technology-based sukuk. This study aims to determine specifically the advantages of applying sukuk through blockchain technology and to scale the point of view regarding the challenges faced in applying sukuk through blockchain technology. This research uses a qualitative approach. The data collection technique used is literature study by collecting data from previous studies in the form of documentation of articles, journals or books as well as publication data from other parties. The data analysis techniques used were data reduction, data presentation, and conclusion drawing. The results show that sukuk can get many benefits from blockchain technology. Although blockchain has its advantages, there are risks and challenges that need to be resolved. In responding to this challenge, it is necessary to have a harmonious synergy among all stakeholders, from Syari'ah scholars, academics, to regulators and industry

Growth rates of modern science: a latent piecewise growth curve approach to model publication numbers from established and new literature databases

Growth of science is a prevalent issue in science of science studies. In recent years, two new bibliographic databases have been introduced, which can be used to study growth processes in science from centuries back: Dimensions from Digital Science and Microsoft Academic. In this study, we used publication data from these new databases and added publication data from two established databases (Web of Science from Clarivate Analytics and Scopus from Elsevier) to investigate scientific growth processes from the beginning of the modern science system until today. We estimated regression models that included simultaneously the publication counts from the four databases. The results of the unrestricted growth of science calculations show that the overall growth rate amounts to 4.10% with a doubling time of 17.3 years. As the comparison of various segmented regression models in the current study revealed, models with four or five segments fit the publication data best. We demonstrated that these segments with different growth rates can be interpreted very well, since they are related to either phases of economic (e.g., industrialization) and/or political developments (e.g., Second World War). In this study, we additionally analyzed scientific growth in two broad fields (Physical and Technical Sciences as well as Life Sciences) and the relationship of scientific and economic growth in UK. The comparison between the two fields revealed only slight differences. The comparison of the British economic and scientific growth rates showed that the economic growth rate is slightly lower than the scientific growth rate.