Implementasi Kebijakan Hutan Pendidikan (Studi pada Dusun Sumbersari, Desa Tawangargo, Malang)

This paper aims to explain and analyze the implementation of educational forest policy with the implementation model as administrative and political process from Grindle (1980), study on the UB Forest employee forest. The results of this study indicate that the implementation of education forest policy in UB forest is still difficult and be potential for failure. The failure is due to the achievement of the objectives of UB Forest, the program of activities which have not been carried out according to the programs design, and have not yet impacted to social group. This is influenced by various aspects of both the contents of the policy, which includes a) the interests affected; b) type of benefits; c) extend of change envision; d) site of decision making; e) program implementor, and f) resources committed, and the contect of implementation, which includes three (3) aspects; a) power, interests and strategies of the actors involved; b) institutionand regime characteristic; c) compliance and responsiveness.

Implementation of Gender Mainstream Policy in the Implementation of the Duties and Functions of People's Representatives of the Republic of Indonesia

The research objectives are to discuss the implementation of gender mainstreaming policies in the implementation of the duties and functions of the DPR and to compile a new concept from the results of the discussion on the implementation of gender mainstreaming policies in the implementation of the tasks and functions of the Indonesian Parliament. The implementation of gender mainstreaming policies in the implementation of the duties and functions of the DPR is not yet optimal to support the realization of gender equality and justice in the life of society, nation, and state, especially to improve the position, role, and quality of women. With the Grindle public policy implementation model it can be revealed the performance of gender mainstreaming policies according to the parameters of interests affected; type of benefits; the extent of change envisioned; site of decision making; implementor program; committed resource; power, interests, and strategies of actors involved; institution and regime characteristic; compliance and responsiveness. The new concept structured on the Strategy for Implementing Gender Mainstreaming Policies in National Development with the definition: Strategy for Implementing Gender Mainstreaming Policies in National Development is a structured strategy, tips and ways in implementing policies, programs, and activities to increase the position, role, and quality of women to realize equality and gender justice consisting of formal legality strategies, structural synergy strategies, cultural adaptation strategies, and individual strengthening strategies.

РАСПРЕДЕЛЁННАЯ ОБРАЗНОСТЬ: ИМАГИНАТИВНЫЕ ПРАКТИКИ СОВРЕМЕННОЙ КУЛЬТУРЫ

В статье идёт речь о формах образного, которые во всё возрастающей степени становятся характерными для современной культуры. Центральная характеристика этих форм – распределённость в пространстве и времени, их способность сопровождать нас практически повсеместно, не будучи привязанными к каким-либо организационным формам. Распределённые разновидности образного противопоставляются «традиционным», нераспределённым образам, «репрезентирующим» некоторое идентифицируемое содержание. Одна из базовых черт нераспределенного образного – заключённое в нём нормативное притязание, затрагивающее не только способы его интерпретации, но и телесные практики воспринимающего «субъекта», релевантные для его восприятия. В отличие от репрессивного характера нераспределённого образа, являющегося его структурной характеристикой, связанной с характерным для него режимом восприятия, распределённая образность базируется не на редукции и контроле телесности воспринимающего, но – напротив – на интенсификации (и в этом смысле эмансипации) его эмоционально-телесного самоприсутствия. В диахронической перспективе отношение между нераспределённой и распределённой образностью опосредовано сложной социально-исторической и материально-технологической динамикой развитого и позднего модерна. Реконструкция этой динамики позволяет выстроить генетическую связь (континуальность) между нераспределённой и распределённой образностью. В синхронической перспективе распределённая и нераспределенная разновидности образности генерируют несовместимые типы опыта с взаимоисключающими структурными характеристиками и социально-политическими импликациями (дискретность).Main theme of the article are the types of imagery becoming increasingly characteristic of contemporary culture. The core feature of these types is their being distributed across time and space, their ability to accompany us virtually everywhere, without being tied to any organizational form. Distributed imagery opposes “traditional”, non-distributed images “representing” some identifiable subject-matter. One of the essential traits of non-distributed imagery is its normative claim addressing not only the ways of its interpretation but also bodily practices of the perceiving subject, relevant for experiencing images of this kind. In contrast to the inherent oppressiveness of non-distributed image connected to a perceptual regime characteristic of it, the distributed imagery draws not on reduction and control of body of the perceiving subject but – on the contrary – on intensifying (and in this sense, on emancipating) its bodily emotional self-presence. From a diachronic point of view, the relationship between distributed and non-distributed imageries is mediated by quite a complicated socio-historical and material-technological dynamic of the developed and late modernity. Reconstruction of this dynamic enables us to identify the genetic interrelation (continuity) between non-distributed and distributed imagery. From a synchronic point of view, distributed and non-distributed imagery forms generate incompatible experience types with mutually exclusive structural characteristics and social-political implications (discontinuity).

Statistical analysis and optimality of neural systems

Normative theories and statistical inference provide complementary approaches for the study of biological systems. A normative theory postulates that organisms have adapted to efficiently solve essential tasks, and proceeds to mathematically work out testable consequences of such optimality; parameters that maximize the hypothesized organismal function can be derived ab initio, without reference to experimental data. In contrast, statistical inference focuses on efficient utilization of data to learn model parameters, without reference to any a priori notion of biological function, utility, or fitness. Traditionally, these two approaches were developed independently and applied separately. Here we unify them in a coherent Bayesian framework that embeds a normative theory into a family of maximum-entropy “optimization priors.” This family defines a smooth interpolation between a data-rich inference regime (characteristic of “bottom-up” statistical models), and a data-limited ab inito prediction regime (characteristic of “top-down” normative theory). We demonstrate the applicability of our framework using data from the visual cortex, the retina, and C. elegans, and argue that the flexibility it affords is essential to address a number of fundamental challenges relating to inference and prediction in complex, high-dimensional biological problems.

Investigation of In-Air Droplet Generation in Confined PDMS Microchannels Operating in the Jetting Regime

Liquid-in-air generation of monodisperse, microscale droplets is an alternative to conventional liquid-in-liquid methods. Previous work has validated the use of a highly inertial gaseous continuous phase in the production of monodisperse droplets in the dripping regime using planar, flow-focusing, PDMS microchannels. The jetting flow regime, characteristic of small droplet size and high generation rates, is studied here in novel microfluidic geometries. The region associated with the jetting regime is characterized using the liquid Weber number (Wel) and the gas Reynolds number (Reg). We explore the effects of microchannel confinement on the development and subsequent breakup of the liquid jet as well as the physical interactions between the jet and continuous gaseous flow. Droplet breakup in the jetting regime is also studied numerically and the influence of different geometrical parameters is investigated. Numerical simulations of the jetting regime include axisymmetric cases where the jet diameter and length are studied. This work represents a vital investigation into the physics of droplet breakup in the jetting regime subject to a confined gaseous co-flow. By understanding the effects that different flow and geometry conditions have on the generation of droplets, the use of this system can be optimized for specific high-demand applications in the aerospace, material, and biological industries.

Intelligent Identification of Flow Regime Based on Improved BP and IMFs

Aimed at the characteristic of nonlinear and non-stationary of pressure drop, in this article a flow regime identification soft sensing method using Hilbert-Huang transformation combined with improved BP neural network is put forward. The method analyzes the intrinsic mode function (IMFs) obtained after the empirical mode decomposition (EMD), then extracts IMF energy as the characteristic vector of an improved BP neural network with self-adapted learning ratio. Learning form training samples, the network could accomplish the objective identification of the unknown flow regimes. The simulated results showed that the flow regime characteristic vector which was obtained by IMFs could reflect the difference between various flow regimes and the recognition possibility of the network could reached up to about 95 percent. This study provided a new way to identify flow regime by soft sensing.

The Return of Merchant Capitalism

To understand the economic character, transnational politics, and labor regime characteristic of contemporary globalization, it is useful to revisit the concept of “merchant capitalism,” a form of market exchange that dominated trade in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Then as now, commodities proved crucial to world commerce, merchants held the whip hand over manufacturers, while workers found their remuneration and working conditions subject to competitive pressures that often debased their status. The transnational retailers who today dominate so many global supply chains therefore play many of the same roles as did the antebellum merchants of New York and Liverpool who favored free trade and formed an alliance with those who deployed unfree labor to grow the cotton and other commodities upon which the trading system of their day was built.

Homo Sacer vs. Homo Soccer Mom: Reading Agamben and Foucault in the War on Terror

In the past decade there have been efforts to understand the war on terror through the writings of Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben. Some analyses reify certain concepts employed by Foucault and Agamben. Others do not accurately represent the actual occurrence of violence at ground level. Without claiming to present a sovereign gaze on the literature and the reading of sovereign violence in places such as Guántanamo, this article argues that there are at least three central elements that philosophers and theorists might want to reconsider in connection with sovereignty, biopower, and subjectivity: that there is a Derridean logic at play between sovereignty and biopower; that there is a connection between sovereignty and subjectivity informed by a “dangerous connection” between power and knowledge; and that sovereignty is informed by a classifying and hierarchizing regime characteristic of a regime of truth. Although Agamben claims to correct Foucault, he betrays important methodological and epistemological elements of Foucault's work. Nevertheless, there are elements in Agamben's work that can shape our understanding of a “biopolitical reading” of our contemporary era.