Mental Health is not Affected by Multiple Concussions in Young Adults

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RFD-SF and Time to Peak Force for Grip Strength is not affected in College Aged Students with Multiple Concussions

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PENGARUH PERILAKU PEMERIKSA PAJAK DAN PROFESIONALISME PEMERIKSA PAJAK TERHADAP KINERJA PEMERIKSA PAJAK (Studi Pada KPP Pratama Bandung Karees )

ABSTRAK Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui seberapa besar pengaruh perilaku pemeriksa pajak terhadap profesionalisme pemeriksa pajak dampaknya pada kinerja pemeriksa pajak dan untuk mengetahui seberapa besar pengaruh perilaku pemeriksa pajak dan profesionalisme pemeriksa pajak terhadap kinerja pemeriksa pajak . Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah analisis deskriptif dan verifikatif. Populasi dari penelitian ini adalah pemeriksa pajak di KPP Pratama Bandung Karees yang berjumlah 30 responden. Te knik sampling yang digunakan adalah teknik sampling jenuh yaitu keseluruhan populasi dijadikan sampel penelitian. Analisis data dilakukan dengan menggunakan analisis path dan analisis regresi linier berganda. Hasil penelitian menunju k kan bahwa Perilaku Pemeriksa Pajak masuk ke dalam Kriteria cukup baik karena nilai rata - rata sebesar 33,77 berada pada interval 26,1 s/d 34. Secara parsial Perilaku Pemeriksa Pajak berpengaruh signifikan terhadap Kinerja Pemeriksa Pajak dengan kontribusi pengaruh sebesar 21, 6%. Profesionalisme Pemeriksa Pajak masuk ke dalam Kriteria cukup tinggi karena nilai rata - rata sebesar 47,8 berada pada interval 36,6 s/d 47,8 . Secara parsial Profesionalisme Pemeriksa Pajak berpengaruh signifikan terhadap Kinerja Pemeriksa Pajak dengan k ontribusi pengaruh sebesar 37,2%. Secara simultan Pengaruh Perilaku Pemeriksa Pajak dan Profesionalisme Pemeriksa Pajak terhadap Kinerja Pemeriksa Pajak adalah Perilaku Pemeriksa Pajak dan Profesionalisme Pemeriksa Pajak berpengaruh signifikan terhadap K inerja Pemeriksa Pajak dengan kontribusi pengaruh sebesar 59%. Pengaruh tidak langsung Perilaku Pemeriksa Pajak terhadap Kinerja Pemeriksa Pajak melalui Profesionalisme Pemeriksa Pajak sebesar 26,3%. Total pengaruh Perilaku Pemeriksa Pajak, Profesionalism e Pemeriksa Pajak terhadap Kinerja Pemeriksa Pajak sebesar 47,9%. Kata kunci : Perilaku Pemeriksa Pajak , Profesionalisme Pemeriksa Pajak dan Kinerja Pemeriksa Pajak

Being in Reference to the Person: Christos Yannaras and the Ecclesial Event.

The central aim of this dissertation is to offer a focused study on Christos Yannaras’ unexplored response to Martin Heidegger’s onto-theological critique of metaphysics, with the further intention of advancing Yannaras’ proposal as a possible way forward from the metaphysical impasse of Western nihilism in the emerging field of Continental philosophy of religion. Accordingly, this essay sets out to address the following questions: how and in what way can Yannaras’ response overcome the metaphysical impasse of Western nihilism as illuminated by Martin Heidegger? Further still, this inquiry gives rise to the following question: how in and what way does Yannaras’ response contribute to contemporary post-Heideggerian discourse? In response to the first question, this essay will argue that Yannaras’ response to Heidegger’s critique is able to overcome the metaphysical impasse of Western nihilism by A) arguing that the historical unfolding of nihilism is an event that must be restricted to the Latin (Western European) philosophical tradition alone, and thus neither accounts for nor applies to the non-Western, Hellenistic tradition of the Christian East, which he summarizes as the philosophical tradition of the Greek Church Fathers. Second, and for this reason, Yannaras is able to B) present the tradition of the Greek Church Fathers as capable of successfully overcoming the nihilistic implications of Heidegger’s fundamental ontology insofar as he believes it to offer a non-essentialist, testimonial metaphysics of ecclesial existence which is not derived from the onto-theological structure of value-laden metaphysics, but is capable of being known and validated through praxis, participation, and intersubjective experience. In response to the second question, I will then argue that C) Yannaras’ ontological understanding of ecclesial existence offers a key methodological hermeneutic which would allow for richer discourse amongst Christian thinkers within the post-Heideggerian field of Continental philosophy of religion insofar as it would not restrict phenomenological discourse within Christianity to theology or religion, but would open the possibility for Christian experience to be discussed ontologically within the discipline of philosophy proper

Lived residencies, experiential learning and thick geographies: how artists produce knowledge(s) in the social studio

This practice-based research articulates how contemporary artists learn from their peers and others within social studio, or group, artists’ residency (SSAR), and ways in which the disruption of one’s habitus contributes to processual learning. I ask, when undergoing a durational place-based residency event, how does an individual artist’s practice shift, and how does conversation and “hanging out” work towards this shift? I conduct this examination in part by doing residency as a means to study them. My principal research aims are to better understand and determine how peer-led experiential learning in situ and over time affects the creative process and imagination inside the SSAR, and how this is situated inside the arts ecology both globally and regionally. To do so, I draw from the immersive learning approach unfolding from Black Mountain College (1933-1956) as a key democratic model in reimagining the place and possible futures of residency. A recent cadre of self-organised residency initiatives reflects horizontal knowledge exchange evidenced in this and other artist-run initiatives, underpinned by social constructivist, pragmatic and non-representational theories (Dewey, Ingold, Manning). However, the perception of art residencies as merely exotic getaways for artists and an escape from everyday preoccupations persists. To address these misperceptions, my research seeks to (1) determine what knowledges are produced and how meaning is co-constructed through various intensities of experience and polytemporality in SSAR; (2) articulate how artists in residency affect and are affected by itinerancy, building and dwelling, and construction of the public sphere; and (3) by centering the artist, assess the degree to which the fracturing of traditional artistic methods engenders a new essential art practice. My methodology evolves from Practice-as-Research and Participant Observation. Through my experiential art practice, I created four itinerant residency events with a cohort of international transdisciplinary peer artists, each 3-4 weeks in duration and making place in both urban and rural settings centred in Edinburgh (SCOT) and Minneapolis (USA). Secondly, I conducted fieldwork at established SSAR case studies in Scotland in order to investigate closely how these spaces function, resources are distributed, and geographies affect residents. This thesis examines host and resident experiences through semi-structured interviews with artists and residency administrators, documentation photography, videography, fieldnotes, binaural sound recordings on site, and reflective narrative. Outcomes of the study show how SSARs can engender a social contract of place-keeping and hospitality, and triangulate trust amongst artists, hosts, and publics; this, in turn, does affect practice and thickening of place. Furthermore, my research contribution to the field proposes the doing of SSAR can engender a new artistic research methodology in itself: the Live Residency, which can be deployed by other researchers and applied across disciplines

Elements and stable isotopes as tracers for sleeper shark biology and the Iceland marine food web

Stable isotope studies often rely on only two tracers (usually [delta] 13C and [delta]15N) to study marine ecosystems, which are inherently complex. The ability of elements to act as additional tracers of ecological processes in marine organisms and in a marine food web was investigated. The element analysis of two sleeper shark species, Pacific ('Somniosus pacificus') and Greenland ('Somniosus microcephalus'), collected from different ecosystems demonstrated that elements are useful indicators of physiological and exposure differences between closely related species. The Greenland shark's food web about Iceland was more clearly resolved concerning trophic links and carbon sources by combining mercury data with stable isotope and stomach content data. Mercury also indicated that 'Lycodes' potentially belonged to a different food web than the other fishes. Results from this research demonstrated the value of elemental tracers in food web studies and generated new questions about the application and interpretation of trophic position designations

Information Processing is not Affected by Multiple Concussions in College Age Students

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Trophic positioning of meiofauna revealed by stable isotopes and food-web analyses

Despite important advances in the ecology of river food-webs, the strength and nature of the connection between the meio- and macrofaunal components of the web are still debated. Some unresolved issues are the effects of the inclusion of meiofaunal links and their temporal variations on the overall river food web properties, and the significance of autochtonous and allochtonous material for these components. In the present study we conducted gut content of macro- and meiofauna, and stable isotope analyses of meiofauna to examine seasonal food webs of a chalk stream. The results of the gut content analyses, confirmed by the δ13C signatures, revealed a seasonal shift from a dependence on autochthonous (biofilm) to allochthonous food sources. Here, we demonstrate that aggregating basal or meiofaunal species into single categories affects key web properties such as web size, links, linkage density, and predator-prey ratios. More importantly, seasonal variation in attributes characterized the entire web and these changes persist regardless of taxonomic resolution. Furthermore, our analyses evidenced discrete variations in δ15N across the meiofauna community with a trophic structure that confirms gut content analyses, placing the meiofauna high in the food web. We, therefore, conclude that small body-sized taxa can occur high in dynamic river food webs, questioning assumptions that trophic position increases with body size and that webs are static