In many esoteric traditions, there exists an iconic or linguistic corollary between the concepts of ‘poisoner’ and ‘sorcerer’, suggesting a sinistral magical kinship. Indeed, the use of plant, animal and mineral toxins is a strand of magic originating in remotest antiquity and reaching the present day. Beyond its mundane function as an agent of corporeal harm, poisons have also served a…
Artificial Earth: A Genealogy of Planetary Technicity offers an intellectual history of humanity as a geological force, focusing on a prevalent contradiction in the Anthropocene discourse on global environmental change: on the one hand, it has been argued that there are hardly any pristine environments anymore, to the degree that the concept of nature has lost its meaning; while on the other, t…
Humans have a long history of using fire and it is difficult to separate humaninfluence from the natural occurrence of fire on the landscape (Pyne1997). Forcenturies, Native Americans used fire as a tool for multiple purposes, includingagriculture, managing wildlife habitat and hunting grounds, and cultural practices.As a result of lightning fires and Native American burning, as well as agricul…
A sprawling, evocative, and groundbreaking autobiographical novel told in the unforgettable and hilarious voice of a young Iranian refugee. It is a powerfully layered novel that poses the questions: Who owns the truth? Who speaks it? Who believes it?
R is both a programming language and an environment used in data analytics, statistical computing, and scientific research. It is amongst the best programming languages for researchers, data analysts, statisticians, and marketers. They use R to retrieve, clean, analyze, visualize and then present their data. Some of the reasons behind the increasing popularity in the use of R are an easy to use…
I forget who first jokingly defined sculpture as something you bump into when you step back to look at a painting. I n any case, like most witticisms, this one contains a germ o f truth: both the general public and scholars pay more attention to painting than to sculpture. There are undoubtedly many reasons for this. We are a society geared to experiencing things on a flat plane rather than in …
In Medicine, the samples use to come from patients from whom a portion of tissue is extracted, which is called a biopsy. They also come from material obtained by surgical treatment (surgical specimens) and, of course, from people who have died of some type of disease and whose family authorizes the autopsy to be performed (clinical autopsy). Many of the studies are carried out using extensions …
Implementasi program kesehatan dan keselamatan kerja (K3) merupakan bentuk nyata kepedulian perusahaan/industri dalam melindungi jiwa dan raga manusia, aset dan kegiatan operasional, serta lingkungan sekitar. Perlindungan tersebut akan terwujud dengan menerapkan pola dan metode sistem manajemen keselamatan dan kesehatan kerja (SMK3) yang sistematis dan melibatkan berbagai sumber daya untuk mend…
Masyarakat perbatasan tidak hanya menarik dan penting untuk isu keamanan dan kedaulatan negara, tetapi juga di dalamnya berkelindan berbagai macam persoalan. Pulau Miangas merupakan contoh yang baik untuk melihat problem wilayah perbatasan dari perspektif sosial budaya. Pulau Miangas, yang disebut juga Las Palmas, adalah tapal batas paling utara Indonesia. Pulau Miangas merupakan salah satu dar…
Proses integrasi data pelayanan kesehatan yang lebih sederhana, nyatanya memiliki banyak tantangan. Banyaknya aplikasi kesehatan yang terbangun oleh pemerintah pusat, daerah, maupun pihak swasta menjadi tantangan dalam menuju integrasi sistem data kesehatan.Tantangan utama dalam membangun data kesehatan nasional adalah lebih dari 80% fasilitas pelayanan kesehatan di Indonesia saat ini belum te…