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Author(s):  
Muhammad Khofi ◽  
Noor Amelia ◽  
Karolina

Pesantren Nurul Muhibbin Tanah Laut, which is classified as a new Islamic boarding school, was founded in 2018, and as such, it requires significant input and assistance in resolving issues, particularly those relating to financial management and accounting information systems. If an error is made, not only social sanctions are imposed, but also legal sanctions; this must be a bright spot in the pesantren's financial management. This research employs a qualitative approach in the hope of identifying financial phenomena that can be used as material for joint evaluation. The study examines financial planning, implementation, supervision, and reporting phenomena. This financial process will be visualized as a flowchart in the hope that the relationship between the various components is obvious. Several of the findings in this study indicate that financial planning has been successful in terms of implementing a priority scale, deliberatively forming APBPP, and developing plans to strengthen pesantren financial management. The implementation process has not perfectly implemented the principle of accountability and generally continues to make ineffective cash payments, the supervisory process continues to violate the principles of organizational adjustment and responsibility, and the management accounting process and reporting continue to have numerous shortcomings, such as conventional accounting processes and the use of accrual accounting. The pesantren currently lacks a flow chart that adequately depicts the financial management process.


Author(s):  
Zhefeng Zhang ◽  
Lijun Wang ◽  
Ze Yang ◽  
Ming Luo ◽  
Jiagang Li

Abstract As the main source of the vacuum arc plasma, cathode spots (CSs) play an important role on the behaviors of the vacuum arc. Their characteristics are affected by many factors, especially by the magnetic field. In this paper, the characteristics of the plasma jet from a single CS in vacuum arc under external axial magnetic field (AMF) are studied. A multi-species magneto-hydro-dynamic (MHD) model is established to describe the vacuum arc. The anode temperature is calculated by the anode activity model based on the energy flux obtained from the MHD model. The simulation results indicate that the external AMF has a significant effect on the characteristic of the plasma jet. When the external AMF is high enough, a bright spot appears on the anode surface. This is because with a higher AMF, the contraction of the diffused arc becomes more obvious, leading to a higher energy flux to the anode and thus a higher anode temperature. Then more secondary plasma can be generated near the anode, and the brightness of the ‘anode spot’ increases. During this process, the arc appearance gradually changes from a cone to a dumbbell shape. The appearance of the plasma jet calculated in the model is consistent with the experimental results.


2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 72
Author(s):  
Imam Syafi'i ◽  
Ika Qurrotul Afifah

The writing of this article contains an overview of the important role played by guidance and counseling teachers during covid-19. With the aim of finding a bright spot on the problems experienced by students during online learning. Given that some activities outside the home are limited, researchers have the opportunity to use the literature study method. Techniques for collecting data are sufficient by reviewing book references, journal articles and social media if necessary. From the data that has been collected, the next step is to analyze it so that conclusions can be easily drawn. Building communication and friendship between teachers and parents allows a counseling guidance teacher to have an idea of how to create an online learning atmosphere that is not boring. So that students will be enthusiastic and enthusiastic in participating in these activities.Keywords: teacher role, guidance and counseling, online learning


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudio Giacomozzi ◽  
Lisa Nicolì ◽  
Carlo Sozzi ◽  
Enrico Piovan ◽  
Mohamad Maghnie

IntroductionMagnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is the best approach to investigate the hypothalamic-pituitary region in children with central precocious puberty (CPP). Routine scanning is controversial in girls aged 6-8 year, due to the overwhelming prevalence of idiopathic forms and unrelated incidentalomas. Cerebral lipomas are rare and accidental findings, not usually expected in CPP. We report a girl with CPP and an unusually shaped posterior pituitary gland on SE-T1w sequences.Case DescriptionA 7.3-year-old female was referred for breast development started at age 7. Her past medical history and physical examination were unremarkable, apart from the Tanner stage 2 breast. X-ray of the left-hand revealed a bone age 2-years ahead of her chronological age, projecting her adult height prognosis below the mid parental height. LHRH test and pelvic ultrasound were suggestive for CPP. Routine brain MRI sequences, SE T1w and TSE T2w, showed the posterior pituitary bright spot increased in size and stretched upward. The finding was considered as an anatomical variant, in an otherwise normal brain imaging. Patient was started on treatment with GnRH analogue. At a thorough revaluation, imaging overlap with adipose tissue was suspected and a new MRI scan with 3D-fat-suppression T1w-VIBE sequences demonstrated a lipoma of the tuber cinereum, bordering a perfectly normal neurohypophysis. 3D-T2w-SPACE sequences, acquired at first MRI scan, would have provided a more correct interpretation if rightly considered.ConclusionThis is the first evidence, to our knowledge, of a cerebral lipoma mimicking pituitary gland abnormalities. Our experience highlights the importance of considering suprasellar lipomas in the MRI investigation of children with CPP, despite their rarity, should the T1w sequences show an unexpected pituitary shape. 3D-T2w SPACE sequences could be integrated into standard ones, especially when performing MRI routinely, to avoid potential misinterpretations.


2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 144-161
Author(s):  
Edwin Firmansyah ◽  
Zubaedah Nasucha ◽  
Suci Muzfirah

This study focuses on the concept of Ki Hajar Dewantara's thinking for its relevance to education in Mi at this time. MI. Practically, this research is expected to provide clarity on the concept of education according to Ki Hajar Dewantara, thus providing a bright spot on its relevance to education at MI today, and can contribute to finding solutions to the problems that are being faced by the Indonesian nation. This research is a qualitative research with the type of library research, namely exploring Ki Hajar Dewantara's thoughts on education. The data collection technique that the author uses is to collect books, journals and others related to the subject matter. The data that has been collected was analyzed using descriptive methods, namely research methods that seek to reveal the facts of an event, object, activity, and process. The results of this study indicate that Ki Hajar's educational concept is still relevant today. Judging from his thoughts in accordance with the concepts that are still being implemented, namely education and teaching which is a deliberate effort to liberate the outer and inner aspects of humans.


2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. T1133-T1141
Author(s):  
Feng Tan ◽  
Jun-Xing Cao ◽  
Xing-Jian Wang ◽  
Peng Bai ◽  
Jun Liu ◽  
...  

The Shaximiao Formation in the Zhongjiang Gas Field of the Sichuan Basin was initially a high-productivity gas field with the bright spot channel as the vital exploration target. With further development, gas wells were obtained in some nonbright spot areas, which caused interpreters to pay great attention to the channels with nonbright spot abnormal amplitudes. We have developed a method to delineate nonbright spot channels from the complicated sand-mudstone contact relationship. First, we classified sandstone into types I, IIa, IIb, and III, depending on the responses of the amplitude variation with offset from the drilled data, to produce a forward model. We the explain why the hidden channel cannot be identified using the full-angle stack seismic data based on this model. Afterward, we put forward a difference, between the synthetic seismogram responses of bright and nonbright channels, in creating seismic-to-well ties for nonbright channels. This difference from bright channels is that the synthetic data’s wave peak is not corresponding to the peak of the real seismic data. The wave trough has the same situation. Finally, we used far-angle stack seismic data to calculate coherent energy and instantaneous spectral attributes (the latter produced for red-green-blue blending) to identify the hidden channel. We observed that parts of the channel are more clearly visible in the far-angle stack than in the full-angle stack data. In the latter situation, we cannot describe the geometric shape of the channel elaborately. The Shaximiao Formation example is a relatively effective analog for nonbright spot plays compared with elsewhere.


2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (Suppl 1) ◽  
pp. e001259
Author(s):  
Michael Topmiller ◽  
Peter J Mallow ◽  
Kyle Shaak ◽  
Autumn M Kieber-Emmons

The objective of this study was to describe a novel geospatial methodology for identifying poor-performing (priority) and well-performing (bright spot) communities with respect to diabetes management at the ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) level. This research was the first phase of a mixed-methods approach known as the focused rapid assessment process (fRAP). Using data from the Lehigh Valley Health Network in eastern Pennsylvania, geographical information systems mapping and spatial analyses were performed to identify diabetes prevalence and A1c control spatial clusters and outliers. We used a spatial empirical Bayes approach to adjust diabetes-related measures, mapped outliers and used the Local Moran’s I to identify spatial clusters and outliers. Patients with diabetes were identified from the Lehigh Valley Practice and Community-Based Research Network (LVPBRN), which comprised primary care practices that included a hospital-owned practice, a regional practice association, independent small groups, clinics, solo practitioners and federally qualified health centres. Using this novel approach, we identified five priority ZCTAs and three bright spot ZCTAs in LVPBRN. Three of the priority ZCTAs were located in the urban core of Lehigh Valley and have large Hispanic populations. The other two bright spot ZCTAs have fewer patients and were located in rural areas. As the first phase of fRAP, this method of identifying high-performing and low-performing areas offers potential to mitigate health disparities related to diabetes through targeted exploration of local factors contributing to diabetes management. This novel approach to identification of populations with diabetes performing well or poor at the local community level may allow practitioners to target focused qualitative assessments where the most can be learnt to improve diabetic management of the community.


2021 ◽  
Vol 53 (53) ◽  
pp. 17-32
Author(s):  
Nguyen Tran Tuan

Abstract The phenomenon of agricultural land shrinkage is widespread in the world. This phenomenon has many causes, of which industrialisation is one. The industrialisation process is supported in most countries by the use of land acquisition as a tool to convert land use from agricultural to non-agricultural. This research surveyed 100 land-lost households to examine the impact of farmland shrinkage on their livelihoods in Vietnam. The study focuses on three factors: employment and income, how compensation money is used, and quality of life after land loss. The results show that revenue increased by USD 1,500 per household compared to before. The rate of employment depends on age and gender. There is a drop in employment among women over 35 years old and men over 40. The use of compensation money focuses on non-farm goals, with the bright spot being an investment in education for future generations. The environment and society tend to be worse according to the subjective assessment of households, but their ultimate choice is still to enjoy life after land acquisition.


2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (8) ◽  
pp. 4631-4650
Author(s):  
Alyssa J. DeVincentis ◽  
Hervé Guillon ◽  
Romina Díaz Gómez ◽  
Noelle K. Patterson ◽  
Francine van den Brandeler ◽  
...  

Abstract. Water resources management in Latin America and the Caribbean is particularly threatened by climatic, economic, and political pressures. To assess the region's ability to manage water resources, we conducted an unprecedented literature review of over 20 000 multilingual research articles using machine learning and an understanding of the socio-hydrologic landscape. Results reveal that the region's vulnerability to water-related stresses, and drivers such as climate change, is compounded by research blind spots in niche topics (reservoirs and risk assessment) and subregions (Caribbean nations), as well as by its reliance on an individual country (Brazil). A regional bright spot, Brazil, produces well-rounded water-related research, but its regional dominance suggests that funding cuts there would impede scientifically informed water management in the entire region.


Cancers ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (16) ◽  
pp. 4126
Author(s):  
Skand Shekhar ◽  
Jorge A. Irizarry-Caro ◽  
Ninet Sinaii ◽  
William A. Gahl ◽  
Juvianee I. Estrada-Veras ◽  
...  

Purpose: We examined abnormal pituitary imaging (API) and associated endocrine dysfunction in subjects with ECD. Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive examination of a natural history cohort study diagnosed with ECD was conducted at a clinical research center. Subjects underwent baseline endocrine tests of anterior and posterior pituitary function and dedicated pituitary gland MRI scans. We determined the frequency of various pituitary imaging abnormalities in ECD and assessed its relationships with age, sex, body mass index (BMI), BRAF V600E status, high sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP), erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), pituitary hormone deficits and number, diabetes insipidus (DI), and panhypopituitarism. Results: Our cohort included 61 subjects with ECD [age (SD): 54.3 (10.9) y, 46 males/15 females]. API was present in 47.5% (29/61) of ECD subjects. Loss of the posterior pituitary bright spot (36.1%) followed by thickened pituitary stalk (24.6%), abnormal enhancement (18.0%), and pituitary atrophy (14.8%) were the most common abnormalities. DI and panhypopituitarism were more frequent in subjects with API without differences in age, sex distribution, hsCRP, ESR, and BRAF V600E status compared to normal pituitary imaging. Conclusions: We noted a high burden of API and endocrinopathies in ECD. API was highly associated with the presence of panhypopituitarism and DI. Therefore, a thorough assessment of hypothalamic–pituitary integrity should be considered in subjects with ECD.


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