bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
EugenicTech
Authors: Cohn Jonathan
Published: October 2024

By discussing various AI-generated artworks that seek to represent, mimic, and delimit how humans look and think, this chapter explores the various eugenic aspects of contemporary AI and the purposes it is put toward. The author uses the concept of an infrastructural gaze to argue that works by Marilène Oliver, Mario Klingemann, and Alexander Mordvintsev intercede in the growing threat of the tech industry’s black-box efforts to make AI more eugenic and less open to humanity’s variousness. In other words, they steer AI toward becoming less banal and more weird.
Coding and Encoding Streamed Media
Authors: Gaw Fatima
Published: October 2024

This chapter investigates “when” algorithms are enacted as infrastructures in situated practices where the technical and the cultural become inextricable—algorithms as designed by developers, imagined by media, and experienced by users. In its interrogation of the Netflix Recommender System (NRS), the chapter illustrates how algorithms govern cultural processes by classifying, categorizing, and codifying cultural constructs, artifacts, and identities. Mapping these ontological models materializing from “code” and translating them into contexts of “encoding” exhibit the instability and contradictions of the NRS. The chapter argues that the algorithms supersede these discrepancies by operating as cultural infrastructures, performing the dual work of the governance of social processes and generation of cultural standards through the mutually constitutive relations between the infrastructures’ material and social conditions.
Mythical Media Backends
Authors: De Ridder Sander
Published: October 2024

To address the financial costs of the “loneliness epidemic,” technological solutions are being prioritized. This chapter examines whether the promise of human-machine communication (HMC) as a technological solution for loneliness (e.g., virtual assistants and social robots) is harmful, rather than a solution. Focusing on commercial, computational, and scientific promises of advancements in HMC and AI, this chapter deconstructs the mythical promise of human-machine communication to make us less feel lonely, drawing upon science and technology studies, the study of emotions in critical theory, and the work of hermeneutic phenomenologists. The chapter concludes that the social, political, and economic consequences when communicative and social robots are broadly adopted to care for people’s social needs would harm people’s capacities for living together across difference: tactile communication, empathy, and meaningful relationships may be lost in HMC.
Afterword
Authors: Mukherjee Rahul
Published: October 2024

This afterword provides a brief response to the book’s chapters and themes, focusing on the formation of new metaphors, issues of site-specificities and temporalities, forms of address to and ways of serving as users, publics, and workers. The chapter also points toward the corporate behemoths behind infrastructures and apps, their impact upon global and local mediascapes, and the new forms of media power that institutionalize corporate logics.
The Testimony of Two Nations
Authors: Austin Michael
Published: October 2024

The Book of Mormon has always claimed to be “another testament of Jesus Christ,” joining the Old and New Testaments to proclaim a belief in Christ’s divinity and define the consequences of this belief. The Book of Mormon is printed and bound in ways that emphasize its similarity to the Bible, and its word choices and cadences are modeled directly on the King James Version of the Bible, from which it also quotes liberally. This book argues that the Book of Mormon does not seek to expand or even clarify the Christian canon, as Latter-day Saints often argue; rather, it creates an entirely new canon out of itself and the Christian Bible in the same way that the New Testament created a new canon out of itself and the Hebrew Bible. In order to do this, the Book of Mormon, like the New Testament, uses shared typologies to reinterpret its predecessor text in light of its own revelations and assumptions. Each of the book’s main chapters examines a different way in which the Book of Mormon attaches itself to the Christian Bible by replicating its narrative patterns and creating shared typologies that both extend and subvert their biblical counterparts.
A Theory of Types
Authors: Austin Michael
Published: October 2024

The chapter outlines the main arguments and the critical vocabulary that the rest of the book employs. It explains the nature of typology and type-scenes using examples from both classical and biblical studies, two areas in which the study of typology is traditionally important. The definitions and examples include instances of both connective typology (or type-scenes that establish connections between otherwise dissimilar works) and corrective typology, or what Judy Klitsner calls “subversive sequels,” which constrain or revise the interpretation of similar type-scenes in earlier works.
Reimagining the Exodus
Authors: Austin Michael
Published: October 2024

The Book of Mormon begins with an Exodus type-scene, and versions of the same type-scene occur throughout the text. Most instances of the Exodus type in the Book of Mormon do not end in the conquest of a foreign people. However, through a post-colonial reading of the books of Mosiah and Alma, this chapter suggests that the most important Exodus type in the text—the escape of the Nephites from their Lamanite enemies and their subsequent discovery of the city of Zarahemla—conceals a narrative of the conquest and annihilation of an indigenous culture. This initial conquest, rather than a pattern of Nephite dissent, drives the war narratives in the book of Alma.
The White Way
Authors: Pegg Carole
Published: October 2024

Chapter 5. The White Way (Ak Jang) considers how adherents of this Altaian movement create pathways between Middle and Upper Worlds during domestic and clan rituals. Analysis of two clan rituals illustrates how local place is performed and seasonal and personal transitions accomplished through kaleidoscopic connections, multi- and extra-sensory experiences in hidden open-air mountain temples. Combining Altaian traditions with creative improvisations, the ritual leader (“Messenger”) calls spirit-owners, epic heroes, cosmic substances, burkhan emanations, and the temple’s living architecture to participate; spirit-interceders are enlivened by verbal interjections, song-chants, praises, and ritual songs; and sound avoidance respects the Soviet period suffering of its founders. Kai vocal tone, essential for a with-spirit epic performer, has become integral to this spiritual complex and the presence of Arzhan Közörökov illustrates the overlapping skills of contemporary spiritual specialists.
Down Ballot
Authors: Wohl Patrick
Published: October 2024

Penny Pullen is a Republican state legislator representing a suburban district outside of Chicago. She becomes a conservative leader in Illinois after helping to defeat the Equal Rights Amendment and pushing controversial solutions to the HIV/AIDS crisis. Ronald Reagan appoints her to a commission on the issue. Above all, Pullen is most active on the issue of abortion and she supports banning abortion in all cases. As a legislator, she works slowly toward this goal. When the Supreme Court comes down with its Webster v. Reproductive Health Services ruling in 1989 that allow states more leeway in restricting abortion, she faces a contentious primary challenge from Rosemary Mulligan, a pro-choice activist who is a relatively unknown entity in the area. Money and attention are showered on this race and it becomes viewed as a proxy war on the national question of access to abortion. Eventually, the race is close, becomes tied after a recount, a legal battle over so-called “dimpled chads” ensues, and the Illinois Supreme Court declares Pullen the winner. Two years later, the two duke it out again in a rematch that is equally as raucous.
Raccoons, Reporters, and Rapists’ Rights
Authors: Wohl Patrick
Published: October 2024

State Representative Penny Pullen helps a friend who is in political trouble. The campaign with Rosemary Mulligan continues to heat up as both candidates continue fundraising and attending community events. Mulligan sets up her campaign office.
Rematch
Authors: Wohl Patrick
Published: October 2024

Undeterred by her loss, Rosemary Mulligan continues campaigning until the next March 1992 primary. Mulligan is cut out of the district after redistricting and suspects Pullen had a hand in the political machinations. Learning her lesson from the last cycle, Pullen works even harder to defeat her opponent. The competitive atmosphere turns to hatred in 1992.
Talk of the Town
Authors: Wohl Patrick
Published: October 2024

Accusations are thrown by both Rosemary Mulligan and Penny Pullen’s respective campaigns. Newspapers print rumors about both sides. A third candidate enters the race.
The Subject of Work
Authors: Bruno Robert
Published: October 2024

As presented in chapter 5, it is apparent that work always has a subject. Labor is always done for someone. Work is done for notions of the self but also included family, others, and society. We work on behalf of people who are loved as well as those who are complete strangers. This chapter demonstrates that the subject of our work reveals the individual agency and interdependency of our lives. Work is inspired by a desire for personal and social well-being. The labor we do becomes a powerful contributor to our identity. But we are also the sum of the labors of others. In the collective work we perform our sense of self coexists with selflessness. Work always happens because of and for people.
Finding Solid Footing
Authors: Chambers Jason P.
Published: October 2024

Finding clients for the Burrell-McBain agency proved difficult. Eventually, Burrell landed an account with the McDonald’s company. His agency produced advertising to reach McDonald’s black consumers. Burrell also built a close relationship with the cadre of the Black McDonald’s Operators Association (BMOA). This organization gave Burrell critical support and a base from which to build his young agency. Also, after four years with the agency, Emmett McBain left to pursue artistic work. Consequently, Burrell grew as an agency owner and a Chicago business leader.
The Burrell Agency
Authors: Chambers Jason P.
Published: October 2024

As the sole leader of the Burrell advertising agency, Burrell built a leadership team of African American professionals. This impressive group helped stabilize the agency’s growth and supported Burrell’s efforts to get the agency’s creative work on television. No black-owned agency had ever developed significant advertising work on television. Yet, through his leadership, calculated risk-taking, and research, Burrell convinced clients like McDonald’s and Coca-Cola to fund advertising work to reach black consumers through commercials. Burrell also developed the “Positive Realism” philosophy to encapsulate his ideals of creating effective advertising work for black consumers. This philosophy guided his agency for the next several decades and was one of his most important contributions to the broader advertising industry.
The Final Years
Authors: Chambers Jason P.
Published: October 2024

By the early 1990s, the Burrell Agency had weathered its most significant economic crisis since its inception. In this decade, the Burrell Agency built impressive campaigns for Sprite, Toyota, Procter & Gamble, and other major brands. Burrell also expanded the agency with the purchase of the DFA Communications Agency. Burrell had also become one of the country’s most recognized African American business leaders. He was invited to events at the White House and counted some of the most influential people in the country as friends. Broader changes in the advertising industry also led him to sell 49 percent of the agency to the international advertising giant Publicis. Additionally, after nearly forty years in the advertising industry, he had done all he felt he wished to do and retired.
Women’s Work
Authors: Alker Gwendolyn
Published: October 2024

This essay develops a feminist analysis to revisit and reinterpret recent labor histories of academia and the birth of a silent majority of contingent faculty. The author, a full-time contract faculty member and former union organizer, suggests that a feminization of certain types of academic labor has enabled the vast shift towards part-time, unstable, and underpaid faculty positions. Rethinking the academy through the idea of “women’s work” provides a useful way to understand trends in academic employment and working conditions in the United States and beyond. Reclaiming and respecting feminized labor also creates a path to move forward collectively.
Common Ground for the Common Good
Authors: Maisto Maria
Published: October 2024

This chapter explores the academic labor movement’s motto “faculty working conditions are student learning conditions.” That foundational principle has shaped activist strategy, linking the purpose and process of higher education—including employment practices—to the definition and advancement of the common good. In a rhetorical analysis of the motto, the chapter reviews its strengths, weaknesses, and potential for strengthening campus solidarity and broadening its understanding of the common good beyond narrow conceptions of academic excellence, service learning, democratic and civic engagement, and social justice. Building on the work of faculty activists Rich Moser and Paulina Kroik, the author argues that a reflective praxis of adjunct and contingent faculty advocacy must focus on the symbiosis of students’ and campus workers’ labor and learning.
So Many Roads, So Much at Stake
Authors: Herbert William A. , Der Naald Joseph Van
Published: October 2024

This chapter traces the history of faculty bargaining unit composition in higher education. From the emergence of faculty unionism in the early twentieth century, practical and legal factors have largely shaped how faculty of different ranks and statuses organize. The chapter argues that another factor, the hegemony of professional craft unionism over industrial unionism, has been a major cause of contingent and tenure-track faculty forming separate bargaining units and faculty organizing separately from other campus workers. Using data from recent faculty representation efforts, the chapter demonstrates how professional craft unionism persists into the present. To successfully respond to the myriad threats facing labor and higher education today, faculty, staff, and unions must embrace a forgotten legacy of wall-to-wall industrial unionism in the academy.
Selling the Speedway
Authors: Ingrassia Brian M.
Published: October 2024

This chapter details how Detroit auto executive and World War I flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker bought the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and perhaps saved it from demolition in 1927 but then doubled down on pop-culture spectacle. Around this time, too, Hollywood films about the speedway started to become common, and sociologists, including the authors of the famous Middletown studies (based on Muncie, Indiana), showed how important automobility was becoming within American life. Indianapolis was seemingly becoming a central place within North America, and an airport was almost built at the speedway in the mid-1920s.
Prelude
Authors: Miller Leta E.
Published: October 2024

This opening chapter, Prelude, sets forth the subject of the book, namely the formation of segregated locals by the American Federation of Musicians in the early twentieth century at the expressed request of Black musicians; the difficulties eventually encountered through this policy; and the resistance of Black locals to merge with much larger white locals holding jurisdiction over the same territories. The chapter also describes the dissolution of the last remaining Black local, Philadelphia’s Local 274, which resisted amalgamation to the end of the merger process, forcing the federation to cancel its charter and mandate merger with white Local 77 in 1971.
The Formation of Black AFM Locals, 1897–1927
Authors: Miller Leta E.
Published: October 2024

This chapter documents the formation of segregated Black locals in the AFM and the benefits that African American musicians anticipated in requesting them: namely, setting competitive pay scales that could undercut those of the white locals in the same regions; diversifying the repertory for the required entrance audition in order to include improvisatory techniques; and securing a voice in the national association (as each local was guaranteed at least one representative to the annual convention). The first Black local (no. 44 in St. Louis) formed prior to the organization of the AFM; Black locals in Chicago and New Orleans followed in 1902; and sixty-three more segregated locals were chartered between 1902 and 1927. A descriptive table summarizes the complex history of each of these locals. This chapter also documents the way in which Local 310 in New York City (later replaced by Local 802) managed to permanently thwart the establishment of an independent Black local by offering a “modified audition” process. The chapter ends with a discussion of the relation between Black political actions in the post–World War I era and the formation of Black AFM locals, which could potentially empower African American musicians to have an influential voice in the national labor movement.
Leading the Pack
Authors: Miller Leta E.
Published: October 2024

This chapter describes the first merger of segregated locals in the AFM: the amalgamation of Locals 767 and 47 in Los Angeles in 1953. Los Angeles presented a particularly favorable environment for this merger, which resulted directly from productive collaborations between Black and white musicians. The chapter traces the details of the merger process, led by prominent members of Black Local 767: Marl Young, Buddy Collette, Benny Carter, and others, and supported by a vocal contingent from white Local 47. Collette initiated a racially inclusive 65-member training orchestra which expanded to include Sunday afternoon jazz sessions, offering Blacks training in symphonic literature and whites training in improvisatory techniques. After Marl Young developed a merger proposal that addressed concerns such as death benefits, membership initiation fees, property dispersal, and other financial matters, both locals approved of the terms, although there was opposition to merger by some of the older members of the Black local. Locals 47 and 767 formally merged on April 1, 1953.
Coda
Authors: Miller Leta E.
Published: October 2024

The book’s final chapter summarizes and further analyzes the AFM’s history of segregated locals. In the 1910s and 1920s, authorizing the formation of Black locals, as requested by African American musicians, was actually the progressive stance, as Black musicians gained economic, social, and musical advantages from them. But ultimately the system was untenable and the federation went through a painful process of dismantling the dual union structure in more than fifty cities, often in the face of strong opposition from African American members. The result, as Black musicians feared, was loss of power by African Americans, who in many cases lost their distinctive musical communities as well as their voice in the federation. Noting the dramatic decrease in Black representation at the national convention, the AFM instituted a policy of granting merged locals an extra representative chosen from among the former Black locals. The AFM continues to work toward racial equality through an active Diversity Council.
Abolishing Mean Girl Feminism
Authors: Nguyen Kim Hong
Published: October 2024

In contrast to how feminism effaces its own violence as a form of civility that toys with patriarchy and reaffirms colonial sovereignty, this chapter prefigures the worlding of feminism as a decolonial and postcolonial form that challenges the civility of meanness by looking at examples of meanness by racialized women. Racialized meanness operates differently in popular culture, and racialized mean girls are accountable to their communities and to the futures their actions build. Even in these popular representations, racialized meanness signals the possibilities for realizing intersectional feminist politics. Where feminist civility gaslights people of color, gatekeeps anger, and girlbosses a future that holds a special place for white women in patriarchy, that anger could otherwise be sublimated into liberation.
Enough of That Garbage
Authors: Patterson Eleanor
Published: October 2024

Chapter 5 explores the history of televised wrestling and the role bootlegging played expanding the geographic reach of broadcast content alongside new fan identity formations. As a result of TV executive taste cultures and the logics of wrestling promoters, televised wrestling was a distinctly local form of broadcasting from 1955 until 1976. This chapter considers the how the history of tape trading televised wrestling demonstrates audiences attempts to overcome the challenges of space and time, and gain access to regional, international, and classic wrestling matches. Moreover, the research in this chapter points to the ways bootlegging televised wrestling became integral to the development of a masculine intellectual wrestling fan subjectivity characterized by demonstrating mastery of detailed wrestling knowledge.
Toward Socially Responsible Music History Pedagogy
Authors: Hung Eric
Published: October 2024

When we teach music history, we introduce students to many historic and contemporary communities. We present contexts that trigger positive or negative memories and alter students’ ideas about these populations. Our pedagogy potentially benefits or harms the groups about whom we teach. When we teach works containing stereotypes of submissive and sexualized Asian women, for example, we can reinforce tropes that continue to impact many women of Asian descent today. This essay applies theories of “colorblind teaching,” “information poverty,” and “research refusal” to diagnose our general reluctance to think about the effects of our teaching on marginalized communities, and argues that the feminist ethics of care can provide a way forward. A sample module on “music and incarceration” is included.
Teaching the First-Generation College Student in the Music History Classroom
Authors: Wissner Reba A.
Published: October 2024

This chapter considers the various ways that faculty can address the unique needs of the first-generation college student in the music history classroom. It examines the challenges particular to the music history classroom that first-generation college students face. Significantly, this chapter is written from the perspective of a first-generation college student turned professor, offering concrete suggestions and practices for how to address these needs, moving from what the author would have liked to see as a first-generation college student to the practices employed in the music history classroom to mitigate these issues as a faculty member who frequently teaches such students.
Modeling Cura Personalis
Authors: Wright Trudi
Published: October 2024

Reeling after the deaths of two undergraduate suicides on her campus and the U.S. mental health crisis, a musicologist found herself on a desperate search for answers and understanding for her students and her academic community. Thankfully, one possibility came in the form of a Jesuit value, cura personalis. A philosophy that pertains to all those concerned about “caring for the whole person,” cura has become a guiding principle, which she is mindfully infusing into her class planning, music history pedagogy, student interaction, and community care both inside the classroom and with her colleagues.
Burning Out, Turning Off, and Disconnecting
Authors: Bossio Diana , Bélair-Gagnon Valérie , Holton Avery E. , Molyneux Logan
Published: October 2024

Chapter 2, “Burning Out, Turning Off, and Disconnecting,” introduces the disconnection strategies journalists use to navigate professional use of social media. We argue that new forms of social media connection have also led to journalists’ frustration with increased affective labor, unsafe communication environments, and negative impact on professional reputations and personal well-being. Using interviews with professional journalists, we show how experiences of social media fatigue have resulted in a careful renegotiation of professional and personal boundaries around journalists’ social media use. These strategies of disconnection are influenced by the technological, social, and cultural affordances of specific media platforms, organizational and institutional constraints, and the online literacies and behaviors of journalists themselves.
Conclusion
Authors: Bossio Diana , Bélair-Gagnon Valérie , Holton Avery E. , Molyneux Logan
Published: October 2024

The Paradox of Connection concludes by conceptualizing the frameworks used in the book to understand different forms of online connection and disconnection within broader understandings of media work. We provide an overview of the implications of these practices for platforms, audiences, media organizations, and creative industries engaged with online and social media environments. The dynamism of social media spaces reconfigures the context for private and public interactions; thus, the spaces for work, pleasure, and engagement are becoming increasingly complex. We suggest that disconnection practices should be considered part of journalism's labor and outline some of the impacts of these new frameworks for media work on the constitution of journalism and ways forward to increase journalism’s online accuracy, safety, and relevance in future.
Challenged Sovereignty
Authors: Griffith Ivelaw Lloyd
Published: October 2024

This book examines contemporary manifestations and consequences of four Problems Without Passports (PWPs)—the drug phenomenon, crime, terrorism, and cybercrime—facing the Caribbean, explains their security impact, and assesses the interrelationships and the implications of those interrelationships for state sovereignty. It clarifies the use of the concepts “vulnerability” and “security” and analyzes some relevant conceptual aspects of sovereignty. Moreover, it analyzes the impact on security and sovereignty of the linkages between drugs and crime and ponders the question, “How secure is security, and how sovereign is sovereignty in the Caribbean?” Quite significantly, it also advances the concept of challenged sovereignty as a condition where the state’s vulnerability is exacerbated by internal or external developments that compromise the ability of the supreme authority of the state to promulgate and execute domestic and foreign policy in its own deliberate judgment and on its own terms. The study comprises eight chapters, including case studies on the 2010 Christopher “Dudus” Coke affair in Jamaica and the 2011 State of Emergency in Trinidad and Tobago. It also carries as an appendix the extradition treaty between Jamaica and the United States that was at the center of the controversial Coke extradition, which led to armed confrontation between Coke supporters and Jamaican security forces and more than one hundred fatalities.
Understanding Security and Sovereignty
Authors: Griffith Ivelaw Lloyd
Published: October 2024

As part of establishing the study’s theoretical-conceptual architecture, this chapter clarifies the use of the term “vulnerability” and explains the usage of two concepts that are central to the study—security and sovereignty. Important to the study’s conceptual foundation is the notion of challenged sovereignty, which is postulated as a condition where the state’s vulnerability is exacerbated by internal or external developments that compromise the ability of the supreme authority of the state to promulgate and execute domestic and foreign policy in its own deliberate judgment and on its own terms. It is represented as CS = Σ‎ (C1 + C2 + C3), where CS is Challenged Sovereignty, C1 is Condition 1, C2 is Condition 2, and C3 is Condition 3.
Locating the Hmong Diaspora in Ambivalent Local Belongings
Authors: Lee Sangmi
Published: October 2024

This chapter examines how the local and national experience of socioeconomic marginality and ethnic exclusion of Hmong in Laos and Hmong Americans have made them conscious of their status as an ethnic minority and develop a sense of partial belonging to the nation-states where they reside. Hmong in both locations have had ambivalent perceptions of and relations with their own countries of residence. The ethnic and socioeconomic status of diasporic Hmong communities in Laos and the United States is discussed for both younger and older generations of Hmong. Because the contemporary Hmong diaspora is also the product of a more recent dispersal from Laos after the Vietnam War, this chapter also highlights how the country may also function as an ethnic homeland.
An “Imagined” Community of Transnational Kin
Authors: Lee Sangmi
Published: October 2024

This chapter analyzes how three kinship principles (clan hospitality, clan exogamy, and ethnic endogamy) initially became hegemonic among diasporic Hmong as a pervasive cultural system that transcends national boundaries. Since these rules were inculcated through parental education and are seen as essential for the cohesion of the dispersed diasporic community in the absence of a coherent ancestral homeland, they became taken for granted by Hmong through their voluntary consent and did not have to be enforced by coercive means. However, the hegemonic Hmong kinship system has been challenged and contested on the level of discourse as it is enacted in the different nation-states and is transitioning to an ideology that needs to be actively enforced and imposed by the direct use of power, especially among Hmong Americans.
The Church Ascendant
Authors: Sargent Joseph
Published: October 2024

Sowerby emerged in the late 1920s as a serious composer of sacred music, in tandem with his employment at Chicago’s Saint James Cathedral. His avid cultivation of new works, commitment to high artistry, devotion to the Episcopal faith, and outspoken declarations on church music aesthetics all secured his leadership status. If Sowerby had previously been a mainstay of the American concert tradition, his post-1927 activities initiated a shift in which sacred music became increasingly prominent. Yet Sowerby hardly abandoned the concert hall; he continued to appear on concert stages and developed important relationships with leading conductors and performers. The years between 1927 and 1940 represented not a wholesale tilting of the scales from secular to sacred, but rather a new balance between the two.
COMPOSIÇÃO MICROBIANA DE PROCESSOS INFECCIOSOS DE ORIGEM ENDODÔNTICA: UMA REVISÃO INTEGRATIVA
Authors: Travassos Rosana Maria Coelho , Júnior Luiz Gustavo de Sousa Duda , Maranhão Andressa Rayanne Medeiros , Albuquerque Maria Eduarda de Moura Silva , Miranda André Vinicius de Lima , Araújo João Gabriel de Melo , Miranda Mylkiane Costa , Costa Júlia Alves
Published: October 2024

O objetivo do presente estudo foi analisar a variedade de composição microbiana presente em processos infecciosos de origem endodôntica, através de uma revisão integrativa da literatura. Constatou uma dominância de bactérias  Gram-negativas e anaeróbias na composição microbiana de processos infecciosos de origem endodôntica. O estudo consistiu de uma revisão integrativa da literatura, método que proporciona a síntese do conhecimento e a combinação de dados da literatura teórica e empírica, além de incorporar um vasto leque de propósitos, como definição de conceitos, revisão de teorias e evidências, e análise de problemas metodológicos de um tópico específico. Para o desenvolvimento da revisão integrativa, iniciou-se pela definição da pergunta norteada, construída através da estratégia PICO, acrônimo para População (P), Intervenção (I), Comparador (C) e Desfecho (O), conforme presente no Quadro 1. Assim, nossa pergunta norteadora foi “Qual é a composição e variação microbiana encontrada em processos infecciosos endodônticos. Concluiu-se que bactérias como a E. faecalis, Gram-positiva, anaeróbia facultativa, podem representar grandes riscos, sobretudo devido à resistência antibiótica. Além disso, foram observadas evidências na literatura quanto à composição de vírus e fungos nessas infecções; mas, as evidências ainda são escassas e, portanto, mais estudos de maior rigor metodológico e tamanho amostral são necessários.
ANÁLISE DA VIABILIDADE DA UTILIZAÇÃO DE TECNOLOGIA PARA ALCANÇAR REDUÇÃO DE FILAS DE ESPERA EM UNIDADES BÁSICAS DE SAÚDE
Authors: Casatte Gisela de Barros , Manfio Felipe Haddad , Bronzeri Marcia de Souza
Published: October 2024

O capítulo a seguir apresenta o processo completo da análise de viabilidade de implementar tecnologia para obter redução em filas de espera em unidades básicas de saúde através da utilização de aplicativo para ingresso em fila de atendimento. Através da ferramenta Desing Science Research (DSR), que possibilita projetar artefatos para solucionar problemas e avaliar os resultados obtidos, foi possível demonstrar nesse estudo as etapas para identificar um problema de espera para atendimento, demonstrado em um pequeno distrito no estado do Paraná, desenvolver uma solução possível, considerando a realidade de acesso à tecnologia, e testar os efeitos e resultados da utilização dela por meio de um trabalho minucioso de pesquisa, comprovando que essa solução seria positiva para melhoria do desempenho do atendimento fornecido e pode agregar maior satisfação do consumidor final do serviço.
THE INTELLECTUAL AND POLITICAL PROTAGONISM OF ANTONIETA DE BARROS
Authors: Gaya Sidneya Magaly , Laffin Maria Hermínia Lage Fernandes
Published: October 2024

This article, whose research is of a bibliographic nature, aims to present the contributions of the professor, director and deputy Antonieta de Barros in the formation of Santa Catarina society, from the perspective of the universalization of the right to education and, through the conquest of this right, access to the set of political rights of the population, analyzed based on the reflections of historians such as Michel de Certeau (2020) and Sidney Chalhoub (2010). In a context of frank consolidation of racist, classist and sexist structures, Antonieta was formed and affirmed herself as a great intellectual; columnist, director and contributor to periodicals; competent teacher and school principal; in addition to being respected by parliament, and reformulated relevant elements of the educational legislation of this state such as the change in the contents of women's professional schools, including the contents of instruction; the creation and regulation of the positions of School Group Director and School Inspector, and also that access to these positions occurred through competitive examinations; the creation of Teacher's Day, as a school holiday; in addition to fighting for the universalization of education and secondary education. Among the main conclusions, it argues that their protagonism and example contributed to the affirmation of the right to education, intellectual production and political participation of subalternized groups; in that context, women, the black population and the poor population, in Santa Catarina and in Brazil.
CHRONIC OROFACIAL PAIN AND ENDODONTICS: DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC CHALLENGES
Authors: Signorelli Nara Sarmento Macedo , Srour Hassan Ali , Moura Camilla Christian Gomes
Published: October 2024

Orofacial pain involves a variety of conditions, including dental, musculoskeletal, and neuropathic origins, and differential diagnosis is essential to avoid inappropriate treatments. Acute pain is often associated with pulp inflammation and periapical infections, while chronic pain can result from neuroplastic changes and central sensitization. In addition, neuropathic pain, such as trigeminal neuralgia, is described by its intensity and resistance to common analgesics. Musculoskeletal pain, related to temporomandibular disorders, presents as diffuse and radiated, often exacerbated by emotional stress. The management of chronic orofacial pain requires a multidisciplinary approach, integrating pharmacological and non-pharmacological therapies, such as physiotherapy and cognitive behavioural therapy. Emerging therapies include the use of ion channel modulators and transcranial stimulation, among others, reflecting advances in neuroscience that may provide more effective treatments for these complex conditions. Recognition of phenotypic differences in orofacial pain is crucial for its diagnosis and effective management.
THE PHILOSOPHY OF ALL OF US: THE MEANING OF LIFE ACCORDING TO AYN RAND
Authors: Kasprike Milton Leonardo Espíndola
Published: October 2024

Ayn Rand states that everyone has a philosophy called the sense of life that acts as an automatic evaluator of all thoughts, emotions and actions of individuals. The objective of the article is to present this concept, demonstrate its practical application and expose what are the philosophical issues involved. Methodologically, the article performs a theoretical analysis of the works of Rand and her main collaborators. The article explores how the sense of life is formed subconsciously and how it influences the subject's perception of reality and self-esteem. Knowing about the meaning of life is fundamental to all men, as ignorance can lead to an existence guided by unexamined and contradictory ideas, which leads to negative emotions and the passivity of actions. The conscious confrontation of the philosophical questions that Rand presents is the process that all men must go through in order to achieve a more harmonious, self-confident, and fulfilled life. Finally, the article emphasizes that it is only through philosophy that man can develop a benevolent sense of life, which recognizes reason as an absolute, reality as knowable, the human being as good, and happiness as a goal.
CELL ADHESION MECHANICS: A WINDOW INTO THE EVOLUTION OF MULTICELLULARITY
Authors: Bacchi Henrique Rodrigues Correia , dos Santos Anderson Medeiros , Dias Geovanna Aguiar Alves , de Jesus Maria Luiza Gomes , Pereira Guilherme Victor Nippes , Bacchi Ricardo Rodrigues
Published: October 2024

Background: The study explores how single-celled organisms evolved into multicellular, focusing on the mechanisms of cell adhesion as a determining factor in this transition. Volvocaceae algae have evolved to form multicellular colonies, where cells communicate via cytoplasmic bridges. In contrast, multicellular animals have evolved complex junctions, such as gap-like junctions and desmosomes, that allow for communication and adhesion between cells. Cell adhesion is crucial for the formation of multicellular structures, ensuring cohesion and communication between cells. Methodology: A literature review was carried out between 2000 and 2024, using databases such as Web of Science, Zoological Record, and Google Scholar. Search terms included "Cell Adhesion," "Intercellular Junctions," "Tissues," and "Green Algae." Only peer-reviewed articles comparing the evolution of the mechanisms of communication between cells of Volvocaceae algae and multicellular animals were included, excluding narrative and editorial studies. Results: The results indicate that Volvocaceae animals and algae followed different evolutionary trajectories in the development of cell junctions. Animals have evolved complex junctions, such as desmosomes and gap-like junctions, which are essential for cell communication and adhesion. In comparison, the Volvocaceae algae maintained simpler adhesion mechanisms, using cytoplasmic bridges and connections with the extracellular matrix to maintain cell cohesion in the colonies, without the sophistication of the junctions observed in the animals. Conclusion: The comparative analysis reveals that, although both the animals and the Volvocaceae algae evolved for multicellularity, the animals developed more advanced cell junctions, while the algae opted for simpler communication and adhesion strategies. This illustrates the diversity of evolutionary pathways that underpin multicellularity in different groups.
VEGETABLE CULTIVATION AND AGROBIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION: CHARACTERIZATION OF URBAN BACKYARDS IN VARGEM GRANDE, MA
Authors: de Lima Allana Tereza Mesquita , Silva Raimundo Nonato Oliveira , Barros Gislanne Brito de Araújo , Santos Júnior Alexandre Cristiano , Moulin Monique Moreira , Santos Jardel Oliveira
Published: October 2024

The demand for unprocessed food makes urban spaces a required place for the cultivation and conservation of horticultural plant genetic resources that largely guarantee the valorization of agrobiodiversity, and are associated with a healthier diet. In this perspective, the objective of this study was to survey information on the profile of producers and to characterize the cultivation of vegetables in the backyards of the municipality of Vargem Grande, MA. The methodology used was the application of 40 questionnaires, the approach of the interviewees was made individually and randomly, the questionnaire was structured with objective questions focusing on the socioeconomic aspects of the producers, origin of the seeds, cultivated species, type of substrate, fertilization mode, phytosanitary aspects (weeds, pests and diseases) and harvest. The socioeconomic profile of vegetable producers in the urban perimeter of Vargem Grande, MA is formed mainly by women; aged 30 to 50 years; Married; with a family of more than four people; with an income of more than one, up to two salaries; with complete high school education and as the source of income work without fixed salaries. The most cultivated species are vinegar, chives, coriander, whose seeds are obtained in agricultural stores and planted directly in the soil, using cattle manure. Crops suffer interference from weeds, and harvesting is carried out in the morning and late afternoon, with the main objective of vegetable cultivation being family consumption.
A Study on the Impact of Green Consumption Information Dissemination and Green Concern on Consumers' Green Purchase Intention on Social Media
Authors: Zhou Ziyu , Ahmad Fauziah Sheikh
Published: October 2024

Social media platforms impact consumer behavior, particularly regarding environmental sustainability. However, the impact of these platforms on promoting green consumption remains unclear, particularly in China. The gap between the widespread dissemination of green consumption information and actual behavioral change raises concerns about the effectiveness of social media campaigns in promoting genuine green consumption practices. A study aims to investigate the relationship between green consumption information dissemination, consumer green concern, and green purchase intentions in urban China. Preliminary findings show that green information significantly boosts green purchase intentions, particularly among younger and university-educated individuals
Relationship between anal condyloma and colorectal cancer
Authors: Benavides Perlaza Mauricio , Grzona Esteban
Published: October 2024

Introduction: anal dysplasia associated with human papillomavirus (HPV) 1 represents 95 % of confirmed cases of anal cancer, while the relationship between anal carcinoma and persistent manifestations of HPV reaches 84 % in high-risk serotypes.Objective: to determine the relationship that exists in oncological complications with anal condyloma infection.Method: an observational study was carried out where, based on the hypothesis of medical experience, a theory is established that is sought to be verified by observing interview data and sample results. The main search sources for this study have been official scientific pages and academic sources of medical examination. For the realization of this study, the data from the office and surgery of Dr. Esteban Grzone have been required.Results: 34 % of the patients evaluated had previously had a colonoscopy, 30 % were associated with promiscuity, 97 % of the patients had had anal sex in a passive/recessive role, 82 % reported using a barrier method, 80 % of the patients evaluated reported living with an HIV+ patient, 41 % of the patients evaluated reported having had anal warts at some point in their life.Conclusions: an association between anal condyloma and colorectal cancer is suggested but a definitive causal relationship has not been established. Therefore, this relationship is complex and requires further research, although the evidence is still limited, it is necessary to be aware of and take preventive measures
Escalas predictoras de mortalidad en pacientes con sobrepeso y obesidad diagnosticados de COVID-19 en la UCI del Hospital General IESS – Ibarra
Authors: Puente Terán Esteban Enrique , Guacho Mullo Maribel Liliana , Vallejo Terán Gerardo David , Izurieta Vallejo Isis Shanyra , Abumohor Ochoa Francois Andre
Published: October 2024

La infección por SARS COV-2 se ha asociado con múltiples comorbilidades, como sobrepeso y obesidad, que podrían generar un mayor riesgo de mortalidad. En Ecuador, la prevalencia de sobrepeso y obesidad es de 63.6% en ambos sexos. Este estudio busca caracterizar a los pacientes con un IMC ≥25 hospitalizados por COVID-19 en la UCI, así como describir la eficacia de las escalas utilizadas para la predicción de supervivencia. Se realizó un estudio observacional, retrospectivo, transversal en 60 pacientes adultos diagnosticados con COVID-19 en la Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos, se registraron parámetros sociodemográficos, signos vitales, PCR, escalas predictivas (APACHE II,  SOFA y CHARLSON), IMC, necesidad y días de VMI, días de estancia en UCI y el estado de alta médica (vivo o muerto). Se dividió a la población entre sobrepeso y obesidad para describir el comportamiento de estas variables, concluyendo que los principales factores de gravedad son edad, sexo, estado nutricional, comorbilidades y parámetros analíticos-clínicos en los que destaca la PCR como predictor de mortalidad. Las escalas APACHE II, SOFA y CHARLSON son herramientas útiles en los cuadros más graves de la enfermedad para poder identificar a pacientes con mal pronóstico. APACHE II y CHARLSON dieron mejores resultados que SOFA para predecir la mortalidad.
Empleo de la inteligencia artificial para la personalización de la experiencia de aprendizaje en instituciones de Educación Superior
Authors: De La Cruz Medina Santiago
Published: October 2024

En el mundo moderno la inteligencia artificial (IA), es un recurso de suma importancia para la optimización de la educación, puesto que permite ajustar los procesos de aprendizaje a las particularidades de cada individuo. El artículo establece como objetivo general establecer como el uso de esta herramienta permite la personalización de la experiencia de aprendizaje en las instituciones de educación superior, la metodología fue de tipo documental. De los hallazgos se pudo conocer que personalizar el aprendizaje mediante IA se alcanza por medio de algoritmos que permiten el análisis de datos. Con estos datos, la IA puede establecer un enfoque de aprendizaje adaptativo que se ajuste a los requerimientos de cada alumno. La incorporación de la IA para personalizar el aprendizaje en instituciones educativas universitarias ha demostrado varios beneficios. A través de esta personalización los estudiantes experimentan un aumento en la retención de conocimientos, y pueden mejorar su capacidad para resolver situaciones. De la misma manera, se sienten más satisfechos con su proceso de aprendizaje. Además, los docentes también se benefician al tener acceso a datos precisos sobre el comportamiento académico de los alumnos, lo que hace posible ajustar su enseñanza de manera más efectiva.