Survey of Leading Commodities Of Aceh Province As Academic Effort To Join And Build The Country

Local governments must be able to prioritize superior commodities which are considered as the basis for sub-sectors to optimize regional economic advantages. Understanding the priorities of development planning and commodities in the agricultural, plantation and livestock sub-sectors in Aceh Province, it is necessary to know which agricultural, plantation and livestock sub-sectors are the leading and leading commodities in the agricultural, plantation and livestock sectors in Aceh Province. This research for community service was carried out on September 25, 2020 - August 25, 2021 with the location survey method. The criteria used based on this survey are 7 leading commodities in Aceh Province which include red chilies, cayenne peppers, shallots, beef, chicken meat, rice and eggs. The results of this service show that the agriculture and plantation sub-sectors are superior commodities from the period September 2020 - August 2021 with 9 regional locations in Aceh Province. Likewise with the nominated livestock sub-sector as a superior commodity in Aceh Province.

Counterterrorism Evaluation and Citizens: More Than about Policing?

The police force is one of the few institutions still trusted by the public today. Yet, whilst the recent waves of terrorism have “stimulated” academic activity on the determinants of public fear of terrorism, much less academic effort has been focused on measuring and assessing the effectiveness of anti-terrorism strategies. The present article makes some contributions towards addressing this gap by investigating what shapes public attitudes towards the effectiveness of terrorism policing. Using Eurobarometer data, our results demonstrate that objective national economic, societal and political indicators do not tend to influence popular opinion on the effectiveness of the police in dealing with terrorism. They also show that individuals’ perceptions about the national socio-economic situation are better predictors of public opinion on terrorism policing than individuals’ financial and social positions or levels of education. The influence of these perceptions on public attitudes towards the effectiveness of counterterrorism seems to be more potent than the one on public fear of terrorism found in the extant literature. The implications of these findings are then considered.

Stability of Transaction Fees in Bitcoin: A Supply and Demand Perspective

Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin are breakthrough financial technologies that promise to revolutionize the digital economy. Unfortunately, their long-term adoption in the business world is imperiled by a lack of stability that manifests as dramatic swings in transaction fees and severe participant dissatisfaction. To date, there has been little academic effort to study how system participants react to volatility in fee movements. Our study addresses this research gap by conceptualizing the Bitcoin platform as a data space market and studying how market equilibrium forms between users who demand data space while trying to avoid transaction delays, and miners who supply data space while trying to maximize fee revenues. Our empirical analysis based on past bitcoin transactions reveals the existence of a relatively flat downward-sloping demand curve and a much steeper upward-sloping supply curve. Regarding users, the inelastic nature of demand signals the utility of Bitcoin as a niche platform for transactions that are otherwise difficult to conduct. This result challenges the belief that users may easily abandon Bitcoin technology given rising transaction costs. We also find that the use of bitcoins as a trading asset is associated with higher levels of tolerance to fees. Regarding miners, the comparatively elastic nature of supply indicates that higher fees stimulate mining by a larger magnitude than suppressing demand. This finding implies that, ceteris paribus, the Bitcoin system turns to self-regulate transaction fees in an efficient manner. Our work has implications for the management of congestion in blockchain-based systems and more broadly for the stability of cryptocurrency markets.

Inter-Relationships Among Several Person-Related Attributes in Reading and Metacomprehension: Complexity and Educational Implications

Reading is one of the most basic academic skills. An accurate monitor of one’s text comprehension (i.e., metacomprehension) is essential for effective reading as it guides learning and choices of appropriate strategy used to maximize overall understanding. The processes of reading comprehension and metacomprehension are affected by text-related, task-related, and reader- /person-related factors. One of the two purposes of this report is to provide a brief review of consistent research findings on the interrelationships among several person-related variables and the complexity of those associations in reading and metacomprehension. The person variables discussed include personality, motivation, goal orientations, self-regulation, reading strategy use, and academic effort expenditure. A second purpose is to highlight practical educational implications from the prominent research evidence for classroom teaching.

Validation of the Chinese version of the Achievement Emotions Questionnaire–Elementary School

We developed the Chinese version of the Achievement Emotions Questionnaire–Elementary School (AEQ-ES), and tested its internal and external validity with a sample of 426 Chinese elementary school students aged between 6 and 10 years in three academic settings (class, homework, and test) of mathematics classes. The hierarchical model of the AEQ-ES for our Chinese sample was consistent with those obtained with samples of students in similar age groups in Italy, Germany, and the United States. We assessed the achievement emotions of enjoyment, boredom, and anxiety and found that girls (vs. boys) reported more class-related enjoyment, more academic effort, less classrelated anxiety, less boredom, and less homework-related boredom. Our results show that the Chinese version of the AEQ-ES is both valid and reliable; thus, it can be used in future studies.

An Expanded Analytical Gaze on Penal Power: Border Criminology and Punitiveness

Border criminology authors have recently called for an expansion of criminological conceptions on penal power to include migration law enforcement devices. An amplified analytical gaze on penality is critical to challenge mainstream notions of punitiveness—an academic effort that is particularly relevant because incarceration rates are declining in many Global North jurisdictions. This paper explores various implications of this border criminology contribution to academic debates on punitiveness by investigating the interrelation of incarceration rate changes with detention and deportation data. In so doing, it contributes to the burgeoning theoretical debate on the impact of immigration enforcement policies on current penal changes.

Cultures and Local Practices of Sustainability. ROUTES Towards Sustainability Network

The book Cultures and Local Practices of Sustainability is the result of a collaborative and interdisciplinary academic effort developed in the context of the ROUTES Toward Sustainability ROUTES Toward Sustainability University Network. The ROUTES Toward Sustainability University Network Sustainability, born in 2012, is a partnership of twenty association of twenty universities from different continents that hosts symposia, conferences, lectures, talks, study programs conferences, lectures, study programs and projects and projects from an interdisciplinary vision on sustainability. This book is based on a multidisciplinary multidisciplinary approach, which integrates cultural cultural elements of the humanities, environmental environmental humanities, design, economics, urbanism and urbanism and innovation, to understand to understand conceptions of sustainability from a complex from a complex and systemic perspective, addressing different areas of knowledge

Los Raros. La escritura excluida en México

More than a decade ago, the Literary Studies Program of El Colegio de San Luis and the Institute of Linguistic and Literary Research of the Universidad Veracruzana joined forces to undertake the study, rescue and dissemination of writers, works, and literary phenomena that could be called "rare", due to the lack of knowledge or neglect that both academia and literary critics have had towards them. The 14 articles in this book are the result of a genuine interest in settling this debt with the literary tradition in Mexico. In these pages, a group of specialists from prestigious higher education institutions, approach from a philological, literary criticism, historiography, cultural studies or intellectual biography perspective, to the analysis of singular texts, either for their style, or for the peculiar treatment of their themes, or simply because in their time they were ahead of generic determinations, aesthetic trends or group editorial processes, covering a broad period from the late eighteenth century to the twilight of the twentieth. As a whole, the gaze of these 14 study proposals focuses on the writing excluded from the Mexican canon, in search of the exceptional detail, the seed of that which opposes the norm, or the subjectivities that stand out as an anomaly in the great cultural processes that our country has experienced. Observed in their particularity, the works that integrate this corpus reveal themselves as a sort of refutation to the impositions of the literary histories of the preceding centuries, by recognizing that also those who advanced along falsely marginalized itineraries were involved in negotiations, transgressions, influences and important variants in the field of tradition. Prior to this academic effort, there was no specific bibliography in the academy on many of the topics, authors or perspectives discussed here, which makes Rare. The excluded writing in Mexico a rigorous compendium, as well as a guide to search for the other names that made up the ranks of Mexican literature.

Clinically relevant updates of the HbVar database of human hemoglobin variants and thalassemia mutations

HbVar (http://globin.bx.psu.edu/hbvar) is a widely-used locus-specific database (LSDB) launched 20 years ago by a multi-center academic effort to provide timely information on the numerous genomic variants leading to hemoglobin variants and all types of thalassemia and hemoglobinopathies. Here, we report several advances for the database. We made clinically relevant updates of HbVar, implemented as additional querying options in the HbVar query page, allowing the user to explore the clinical phenotype of compound heterozygous patients. We also made significant improvements to the HbVar front page, making comparative data querying, analysis and output more user-friendly. We continued to expand and enrich the regular data content, involving 1820 variants, 230 of which are new entries. We also increased the querying potential and expanded the usefulness of HbVar database in the clinical setting. These several additions, expansions and updates should improve the utility of HbVar both for the globin research community and in a clinical setting.