Straight to the (Revenue) Source: Contextual and Individual-Level Determinants of Attitudes Toward Local Taxes

In this article, we investigate the relative roles of local tax policies and respondent attitudes and characteristics in shaping support for local taxes. Using a unique set of survey data collected across dozens of cities over several years, combined with contextual data on local tax systems, we can offer a comprehensive picture of who supports, and who opposes local taxes. The contributions of our approach are three-fold: We use measures of satisfaction with local taxes, using data gathered across dozens of localities; we incorporate measures of the local tax systems to help account for city-to-city variation in local tax attitudes; and we incorporate measures of racial attitudes to account for an important non-material element heretofore not incorporated in studies of local tax attitudes. Integrating these factors into an explanation of local tax policies rounds out and offers a more realistic understanding of attitudes in this critical policy area.

Optical Efficiency Enhancement of Nanojet-Based Dielectric Double-Material Color Splitters for Image Sensor Applications

We propose a new type of color splitter, which guides a selected bandwidth of incident light towards the proper photosensitive area of the image sensor by exploiting the nanojet (NJ) beam phenomenon. Such splitting can be performed as an alternative to filtering out part of the received light on each color subpixel. We propose to split the incoming light thanks to a new type of NJ-based near-field focusing double-material element with an insert. To suppress crosstalk, we use a Deep-Trench Isolation (DTI) structure. We demonstrate that the use of a dielectric insert block allows for reduction in the size of the color splitting element. By changing the position of the DTI, the functionality of separating blue, green and red light can be improved.

AGGRESSION AND STATE RESPONSIBILITY AT THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT

The definition of the crime of aggression in Article 8 bis of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (Rome Statute) stipulates that a State act of aggression is a material element of the crime, suggesting an intrinsic link between individual criminal responsibility and State responsibility for aggression. This article argues that the Rome Statute provides a legal basis for the International Criminal Court (ICC) to determine State responsibility for aggression when considering the material elements of the crime of aggression, which has important practical and conceptual implications for the law of international responsibility. Although the content of State responsibility flows automatically from the breach of the obligation, it is argued that a finding of aggression pursuant to Article 8 bis of the Rome Statute may be considered as a form of satisfaction for the purposes of Article 37 of the 2001 ILC Articles on Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts (2001 ILC Articles). Furthermore, the material element of the crime in Article 8 bis of the Rome Statute requires the act of aggression by its character, gravity, and scale to constitute a manifest violation of the Charter of the United Nations, in line with the nomenclature used within the 2001 ILC Articles regarding serious breaches of obligations arising from peremptory norms of general international law (jus cogens). The article considers the important role that the ICC may play in relation to serious breaches of the jus cogens obligation to refrain from an act of aggression.

On the role of input welding parameters on the microstructure and mechanical properties of Al6061-T6 alloy during the friction stir welding: Experimental and numerical investigation

The Taguchi method was employed to find the optimum values of friction stir welding parameters including welding speed, rotating speed, and tilt angle for joining AA6061-T6 aluminum alloys. The combined influences of these parameters were entirely analyzed. Statistical outcomes were investigated by the study of variances and signal-to-noise ratios. A Coupled Eulerian and Lagrangian technique is implemented to simulate and verify the optimal parameters during the friction stir welding. To verify results, a comparison between the welding process under optimized parameters with experimental and non-optimized parameters was simulated for the friction stir welding process. The material flow, strain rate, thermal behaviors, and mechanical properties of samples fabricated with optimal welding parameters are higher than those produced from the non-optimal parameters. It was also concluded that the grain size of the stir zone under optimal welding parameters (6–8 µm) is finer than that of non-optimal welding parameters (11–13 µm). Low uniform distribution of material element and coarse microstructure were some of the results of welding with non-optimized parameters. Based on residual stress analysis, the application of optimal joining conditions can decrease the peak tensile residual stress by about 38.3%. The much desirable results obtained in terms of microstructure and mechanical properties could be of great significance to the welding industry.

Physico-chemical Processes at the Interface of Heterostructures Ag-Pd – Sn-Pb

Physicochemical processes taking place at the interface of film elements (conductors) of hybrid integrated circuits, thick-film sensors and other microelectronic devices (MED) based on silver-palladium pastes and elements of standard soldering materials have been studied. Physicochemical mechanisms of processes of the material element mutual dissolution at the interface are proposed and analyzed. Conclusions are made that these processes affect the degradation of the electrophysical parameters and contact switch connections operational characteristics. It is established that the degradation main cause (partial or complete destruction of the contact connections on substrate ceramics (glass) Ag-Pd – Sn-Pb) is the functional film material significant dissolution in the Sn-Pb melt.

Pelaksanaan Penyimpanan Rekam Medis Berdasarkan Unsur Manjemen 5M di Puskesmas Medan Johor

The implementation of medical records carried out at the puskesmas requires management in managing all existing activities with the aim of creating good health services, in accordance with procedures and guidelines. To achieve the goal of processing medical records, 5 elements of management are needed, namely man, money, material, machine, and method. The purpose of this study was to determine the management elements of man, money, material, machine, and method in the implementation of medical records carried out at the Medan Johor Health Center. This type of research uses qualitative research methods with a phenomenological approach. The study was conducted from May to July 2020. The population was all medical record officers at the Medan Johor Health Center. The research sample amounted to 5 people who were taken by saturated sampling. The research instrument is an interview guide and recorded using an audio recorder and a check list sheet for observation. The results showed that the man element was 5 people and none of them had a medical record background and had never received training, the money element was the funding obtained from JKN and APBD, the material element was that a family folder was used to store all patient forms, while the use of tracers and register books has not been used to control the borrowed files out of the storage rack, and the filling cabinet is used as a tool to store medical record files, the machine element is a primary care application to register patients, the SIMPUS application is used for reporting, the method element is Not all SOPs in medical records exist. The advice given is to provide training to medical record officers so that their officers better understand the importance of medical records.

On Global Plasticity: Framing the Global Through Affective Materiality

As a pervasive, material element of the global, plastics raise potent social and environmental questions. More than merely the “stuff” of potential global prosperity, plastics are substances that people inscribe with varied cultural meanings. Deploying four conceptual “entry points” for global research, we explore how global plastics have become not only a site of an emergent socioecological crisis but themselves a point of leverage for a more humanized globalization. We approach the problem first as an exercise in reframing, shifting our viewpoint away from debates on waste to re-examine ideas of culture and symbolism. Then, working through the entry points of the particular, materiality and affect, we ground our argument in examples from the contemporary pandemic response, earlier ethnographic work, and our own ethnographic projects. We show how plastics have failed people’s desires for a durable modernity, but nonetheless come to shape the ways they feel and think about themselves and each other as sharing responsibility for a global world.

Materials extrusion-inspired engineering reflection of social pressure-induced environmental impact on academy community well-being

BACKGROUND: Existing issues with student mental health are the sources of ongoing violation of academic and educational integrity in learning and instructional dynamics in all educational institutions worldwide. OBJECTIVE: This didactical paper addresses the practical case of educational integrity violations induced by student mental illness. It presents a thought-provoking unified viewpoint of the existence of a non-obvious geometric analogy between the irreversible psycho-social process of mental disorder growth and the irreversible pressure forming-induced deformation process of materials extrusion through an angular domain. METHODS: This paper uses the method of geometric analogy between the dynamics of social irreversible processes in human society and technical irreversible processes in materials extrusion. RESULTS: The novel analogy between the loss of elliptical shape of an initial circular material element within pressure-extruded material and the development of student mental inadequacy during intensive university education was firstly studied and analyzed in detail. CONCLUSIONS: The author-proposed original socio-technical cross-disciplinary analogy improves and broadens student understanding of nonlinear dynamics both in the technical processes of macroscopic rotation formation in pressure-formed material and in the bio-social processes of psycho-neurological pathology development within a learner’s mind.

Cinema as Object I

Chapter 4 looks at works of expanded cinema that emphasize what could be called a “sculptural” property—the physicality and tactility of a moving image medium (e.g. film, projectors, screens). These works isolate one material element of the film medium, such as the filmstrip, screen, or projector, removing it from its place in a system of machines and displaying it as an object in its own right. In doing so, such works break apart the unified machine of the cinematic apparatus, pulling the objects that constitute that apparatus out of the obscurity and endowing them with aesthetic qualities. In normal cinematic exhibition, these objects disappear, replaced by the ephemeral experience of watching the illusory images of light and shadow that they invisibly produce. Object-based works of expanded cinema reverse this process, returning the sense of mass, weight, and gravity to the materials of the medium, thereby forcing a new consideration of the possibilities film offers for direct, sensuous physical experiences. Such expanded cinema works include direct displays of filmstrips (e.g. woven forms made from celluloid), projectors, and other physical materials, objects, and technologies.

Perampasan Ruang Hidup Dalam Referensial Alquran

Deprivation of the living sphere always interconnects with the power, precisely through a scenario of territorial and capitalist interests. In practical terms, deprivation of living space has neglected social aspects, as well as confirmed the occurrence of crisis at the social-ecological level. The crisis can also be categorized as the turbulent relationship between humans and humans with nature. In the Qur’anic referentiality, deprivation of living space is a kind of denial of the mandate of God. The essence of spreading mercy to all, as like giving rights to those who reserve, not doing unjust, no activities that damage and hurt anyone, humans, animals, nature, and all creatures, has been eliminated by the dominance of the sectoral ego. As a result, a form of injustice manifests a series of violence and destruction. As an essential factor in life, it is urgent to return the living space to its position as a social function attached to the material element. In this context, the social capital framework can be a node that could bring the community back to the trusted living, that the living sphere is a common need. The social capital framework will, in turn, bring back the social aspects that are absent from the material elements.