Empowerment of Semi Formal and Informal Sector in Realizing A Cheap and Environmentally Friendly Alternative Energy of PLTSa Sumur Batu Business Process

The development of PLTSa has become a government priority program to overcome electricity needs and reduce the amount of waste in Indonesia. However, the program also harms informal groups who earn a living and survive through collecting plastic waste. The objective of this paper is to design a PLTSa business process that not only aims to generate electrical energy and overcome the problem of landfills but also accommodate the needs of informal groups. The situational analysis is conducted using PESTLE and SWOT to enhance a business process canvas that is beneficial to all stakeholders by recommending business innovation for PLTSa. Society as a source of waste is entitled to sort out the waste according to the specified category. The Semi-formal group of workers assist the government in the process of collecting, recycling the waste, and finally selling it to third parties. In addition to building PLTSa, government should provide waste management facilities and infrastructure and simultaneously developing an application for elaborating B2B and B2C business processes including collecting waste and selling recycled products. PLN is appointed to be in charge of buying electricity generated by PLTSa and selling it to the community at a reasonable price. The semi-formal groups of workers are expected can improve their business performance and willing to realize environment waste free. The community will be supported with the cheaper electricity bill, while the government will not be burdened with the operational costs of PLTSa.

PhD Students Learning the Process of Academic Writing: The Role of the Rhetorical Rectangle

PhD students are enculturated into scholarly writing through relationships with their supervisors and other faculty. As part of a doctoral writing group, we explored students’ experiences that affected their writing, both cognitively and affectively, and how these experiences made them feel about themselves as academic writers. Six first and second year doctoral students participated in formal group discussions, using Edward de Bono’s (1985/1992) Six Thinking Hats to guide the discussions. In addition, the students wrote personal narratives about their writing experiences. Data were analyzed according to the rhetorical rectangle of logos, ethos, pathos, and kairos. Analysis revealed that students were having struggles with their identities as academic writers, not feeling as confident as they had before their programs, and questioning some of the pedagogy of teaching academic writing.

THE BOREL CHARACTER

The main purpose of this article is to define a quadratic analogue of the Chern character, the so-called Borel character, that identifies rational higher Grothendieck-Witt groups with a sum of rational Milnor-Witt (MW)-motivic cohomologies and rational motivic cohomologies. We also discuss the notion of ternary laws due to Walter, a quadratic analogue of formal group laws, and compute what we call the additive ternary laws, associated with MW-motivic cohomology. Finally, we provide an application of the Borel character by showing that the Milnor-Witt K-theory of a field F embeds into suitable higher Grothendieck-Witt groups of F modulo explicit torsion.

Turkey and Indonesia: A Relationship of Muslim-Majority Middle Powers

Turkey and Indonesia are both members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, a group of 57 Muslim-populated countries, and the D-8 Organization for Economic Cooperation, a group of Muslim-majority states, but their respective Constitutions do not give preference to the Islamic faith. While developing relations as part of the Muslim world, Turkey and Indonesia are also members of the G20, an organization of countries with some of the most important economies as well as mikta, a less formal group of middle powers in the G20 to deal with matters of common interest designed to enhance their soft power vis-à-vis the political dominance of major world and other regional powers. In addition, the founding fathers of modern Indonesia in their struggle for independence against the colonial power of the Netherlands following the Second World War found inspiration in the actions of founding father of the Republic of Turkey following the First World War. Yet despite all these connections and the importance of these two countries in world affairs, the study of the bilateral relations of Turkey and Indonesia and their interactions as part of multilateral organizations has been either neglected or extremely limited in coverage. This article attempts to ameliorate that situation.

On the cohomology of Kobayashi’s plus/minus norm groups and applications

The plus and minus norm groups are constructed by Kobayashi as subgroups of the formal group of an elliptic curve with supersingular reduction, and they play an important role in Kobayashi’s definition of the signed Selmer groups. In this paper, we study the cohomology of these plus and minus norm groups. In particular, we show that these plus and minus norm groups are cohomologically trivial. As an application of our analysis, we establish certain (quasi-)projectivity properties of the non-primitive mixed signed Selmer groups of an elliptic curve with good reduction at all primes above p. We then build on these projectivity results to derive a Kida formula for the signed Selmer groups under a slight weakening of the usual µ = 0 assumption, and study the integrality property of the characteristic element attached to the signed Selmer groups.

Silence as a Political Behavior in Academic Organizations: A Phenomenological Study

The purpose of this study is to reveal the causes and meanings of silence in formal group settings of academic organizations. To this end, a deep and comprehensive investigation was performed using the phenomenological approach, which is a qualitative method, with 36 academic staff who had experienced silence within the relevant formal structure. The findings revealed that silence in the context produced by structural and cultural characteristics of formal group settings of academic organizations was caused by psychological, socio-cultural, individual, situational, and managerial factors, and factors attributed to the organizational context, besides the system. On the other hand, the synthesis of textural and structural descriptions showed that silence reflects a form of political behavior in formal group settings of academic organizations. The study identified different definitions and insights related to the phenomenon of silence in organizational life.