bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Analysis of Students’ Mathematical Connection Ability of Two-Variable Linear Equation System Material with Card Sorting Activity (CSA)
Authors:   FMIPA Universitas Negeri Surabaya, Jl. Ketintang, Ketintang, Kec. Gayungan, Surabaya, Jawa Timur 60231, Damayanti Nia Wahyu , Kaka Dominggus ,   Universitas Wisnuwardhana, Jalan Danau Sentani 99 Malang, Jawa Timur
Published: December 2024

This study aims to describe students’ mathematical connection ability on the material of two-variable linear equation system with card sorting activity (CSA). This research was conducted in 2 subjects, namely at SMP IS and SMK SH Malang City in March to April 2020. The subjects used in this study were VIII grade students of SMP IS and X grade students of SMK SH. The subjects of this study were 9 people, 5 students at SMP IS and 4 students at SMK SH. Data collection techniques in this study are tests and non-tests where the test here students are given a connection ability question card as many as 20 question cards in which there are indicators of the connection itself, then for non-tests in the form of interviews with students and observations.
Efectos del Crossfit© en la Educación Física durante la Educación Secundaria Obligatoria. Una Revisión Sistemática
Authors: Sotelo Besada Iván , Pizarro Mateo David
Published: December 2024

El objetivo de este trabajo fue investigar los efectos de la práctica del CrossFit© en las capacidades físicas, salud y variables psicológicas de los estudiantes de la Educación Secundaria Obligatoria (ESO) en el contexto de la asignatura de Educación Física (EF), así como analizar su posible relación con el rendimiento académico. Para el desarrollo de la revisión sistemática se usaron los criterios de la guía PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses). La búsqueda bibliográfica se inició el 30 de enero del 2023, y se utilizó PubMed, ERIC, CRAI y ScIELO como bases de datos para la selección de artículos. Inicialmente se recopilaron 6.244 trabajos localizados por palabras clave, de los cuales, tras aplicar el proceso de cribado fueron seleccionados un total de veintiún estudios que cumplían los criterios de elegibilidad. El análisis de estudios muestra que el CrossFit© y los programas de alta intensidad tienen un efecto positivo en varios componentes relacionados con la condición física y el rendimiento cognitivo en otras asignaturas. Como conclusión, el CrossFit© u otras metodologías basadas en la alta intensidad son estrategias eficaces dentro del contexto escolar para mejorar la aptitud física y el rendimiento académico.
Escape Room: ¡Sé inteligente, Muévete!: Una propuesta didáctica para conocer los efectos del ejercicio físico en la salud mental y cerebral en Educación Primaria
Authors: Violero Mellado Jesús , Segovia Yessica , Redondo-Tébar Andrés , Sánchez-López Mairena , Bermejo-Cantarero Alberto , Navarro-Martínez Óscar , Ruiz-Hermosa Abel , Díez-Fernández Ana , Visier-Alfonso María Eugenia
Published: December 2024

Introducción: La alta prevalencia del sedentarismo y la insuficiente actividad física en la infancia es un problema persistente con graves repercusiones para la salud y el rendimiento escolar. Las escuelas, respaldadas por las leyes educativas que subrayan su importancia, deben fomentar hábitos y estilos de vida saludables y activos. Estrategias como los Escape Rooms, que motivan y fomentan la colaboración y la reflexión, podrían ser efectivas para enseñar al alumnado los beneficios de la actividad física y la reducción del sedentarismo para la salud física y mental. 
Objetivo: El objetivo de este trabajo es presentar una experiencia didáctica mediante el Escape Room “¡Sé inteligente, Muévete!” para que el alumnado de Educación Primaria conozca los efectos de los hábitos saludables y la actividad física en la salud mental y cerebral. Además, se evaluó la percepción de aprendizaje y disfrute de los y las participantes. 
Resultados: Los resultados mostraron una alta percepción de aprendizaje y disfrute. Las chicas puntuaron más alto en disfrute que los chicos, aunque sin diferencias estadísticamente significativas. No se encontraron diferencias estadísticamente significativas en la percepción de aprendizaje por curso, aunque los estudiantes de 3º curso puntuaron más alto que el resto de los grupos. En cuanto al disfrute, el alumnado de 6º curso percibió un menor disfrute que el resto de los cursos.
Conclusiones: El Escape Room "¡Sé inteligente, Muévete!" mostró ser divertido y efectivo para adquirir conocimientos y reflexionar sobre los efectos de los hábitos saludables y la actividad física en la salud mental y cerebral.
A Study on Employee Satisfaction at Aster Medcity, Kochi, Kerala
Authors: Tia Clarice Jose  , Huzna. R  , Libin John  , Balabhaskar P. Raj  , Christin Mathew
Published: December 2024

One important measure of organizational health that is examined in this paper is employee satisfaction. The study delves into the complex relationship between cognitive (thoughts), affective (feelings), and behavioral (actions) components of satisfaction. Affective research stresses emotional well-being, whereas cognitive study focuses on how people perceive their jobs. We distinguish between the more specific work satisfaction and employee satisfaction, which includes broader organizational experiences. We stress the value of assessing employee satisfaction in order to obtain knowledge that can be used to enhance work conditions and performance in general. Establishing a positive work culture and identifying opportunities for growth are made possible by regular measurement.
Strategic Management: Case Study on Polaris Industry
Authors: Nandana M  , Jisha Joy  , Karthika Salu  , Tojo Philip  , Dileep P. V
Published: December 2024

This presentation examines the strategic management practices of Polaris Industries, a leading manufacturer of outdoor recreational vehicles. By analyzing the company's approach to market positioning, product innovation, and competitive advantage, we explore how Polaris has successfully navigated challenges in the dynamic landscape of the power sports industry. The study highlights key strategic initiatives, including diversification into electric vehicles and the enhancement of customer experience through technology integration. Furthermore, we assess the impact of external factors such as economic trends and regulatory changes on Polaris's strategic decisions. Through this case study, we aim to provide insights into effective strategic management frameworks that can be applied across various industries, emphasizing the importance of adaptability and foresight in achieving sustainable growth.
Use of social networks and academic performance of nursing students in an Ecuadorian technological university institute
Authors: Bonilla Arotingo Cynthia Mishell , Rosero Palacios Jacqueline Pilar , Reyes Víctor Manuel , Sequera Morales Adriana Gabriela , Davelouis Casana Paula Francisca
Published: December 2024

The relationship between the use of social networks (SN) and academic performance (AP) in nursing students was investigated. This research is part of the framework of institutional diagnostics aimed at improving the quality of education. A quantitative, descriptive-correlational approach was adopted in 140 nursing students (N=n) of a university technological institute in Quito, during the 2024-1 academic period. The use of SNs was measured with the ERA-RSI scale (Peris Hernández et al., 2018); and its four dimensions were assessed: addiction symptoms (SAD), social use (USOC), geek traits (RFRI) and nomophobia (NOM). To assess AP, the students' summary report card was analyzed. The Jamovi 2.4.14 program was used, obtaining frequency data, percentages and measures of central tendency (mean) and variability (standard deviation). The bivariate correlation was based on Spearman's test. The results show that SNs do not have considerable use among students, presenting low levels and isolated cases of problematization. This suggests that, although SNs are part of student life, they do not necessarily lead to a risk of addiction in a generalized way, except in some cases of excessive use. The correlation observed between SN use and AP was negative, which is not statistically significant. Despite widespread use of SNs, this does not yet raise concerns about the potential for addiction and its associated negative consequences, especially with AP. There are therefore no arguments to point to evidence of addiction symptoms, social use patterns, geek traits and nomophobia, and their manifestation in AP.
Readiness of LGU Key Personnel on the Implementation of Tourism Projects Under the Mandanas-Garcia Supreme Court Ruling in the Philippines
Authors: San Jose Dr. Jennifer Cordez
Published: December 2024

Full autonomy, transparency, and greater opportunities are purportedly the outcomes of the Mandanas-Garcia Supreme Court (SC) Ruling. The increase in the national tax allocation should have significantly strengthened fiscal decentralization. The study utilized a descriptive-evaluative research design. Primarily, it assessed the implementation of the Mandanas-Garcia Ruling on Tourism projects in LGU-Tinambac, Camarines Sur. It has the following objectives: 1) Identify the Tourism projects proposed by LGU for Fiscal Year 2024; 2) identify issues and challenges of LGUs in implementing Tourism projects under the Mandanas Ruling Reforms, 3) assess the readiness of the key officials on the implementation of the Mandanas-Garcia Ruling. Data were derived from key personnel and staff of the Municipal Government of Tinambac, Camarines Sur using survey questionnaires and interviews aided by document review, thematic-content analyses, and percentages as the data analysis tools. Findings revealed that Tourism projects for the fiscal year 2024 are limited to cultural promotion, celebration of festivals and holidays, and sports development. Personnel structure and budget are two dominant themes regarding issues and constraints in implementing the Mandanas-Garcia Supreme Court Ruling. Although more than 50% of the respondents knew the Supreme Court Ruling, many believed that the same is not a doorway to full autonomy, neither strengthens fiscal decentralization, accountability, and transparency, nor a gateway for greater opportunities to a self-sufficient community. The study recommends augmenting the budget for Tourism projects and implementing community-driven projects. Organizational structure, fiscal management, and capacity building are key to sustainability and community development.
Ảnh hưởng của tro bay và xỉ lò cao đến cường độ của bê tông hạt nhỏ tính năng cao
Authors: Ngô Đức Chinh , Lê Thanh Hà , Đỗ Anh Tú
Published: December 2024

Sử dụng tro bay (TB) và xỉ lò cao (XLC) thay thế một phần xi măng trong bê tông hiện nay đang được sự quan tâm lớn của các nhà khoa học trong nước cũng như trên thế giới, nhằm giải quyết lượng lớn phế thải công nghiệp này theo hướng phát triển bền vững. Bài báo trình bày ảnh hưởng của TB và XLC đến cường độ chịu uốn và nén của bê tông hạt nhỏ tính năng cao (BTHNTNC). Trong nghiên cứu này, TB được thay thế xi măng với hàm lượng 30% theo khối lượng, XLC được thay thế xi măng từ 15-45% theo khối lượng. Kết quả cho thấy, TB và XLC làm giảm lượng dùng phụ gia siêu dẻo và làm tăng tính công tác của hỗn hợp bê tông; có thể chế tạo BTHNTNC với tổng lượng dùng TB và XLC lên tới 75% thay thế xi măng và cường độ chịu nén đạt đến 80 MPa. Tăng hàm lượng TB và XLC thay thế xi măng làm giảm cường độ chịu nén của bê tông ở tuổi sớm 3 ngày, nhưng ở 7 ngày và đặc biệt ở 28 ngày cường độ chịu nén của BTHNTNC bằng hoặc cao hơn bê tông sử dụng 100% xi măng tùy theo lượng TB và XLC thay thế. Tuy nhiên, cường độ chịu uốn của bê tông sử dụng TB và XLC ở 3 ngày, 7 ngày và 28 ngày nhỏ hơn cường độ chịu uốn của bê tông 100% xi măng
Nghiên cứu ảnh hưởng của một số yếu tố thành phần vật liệu tới độ rỗng và cường độ chịu nén của bê tông xi măng rỗng
Authors: Nguyễn Tiến Dũng , Nguyễn Văn Hưng
Published: December 2024

Bê tông rỗng (BTR) là một vật liệu tiềm năng cho các giải pháp xây dựng bền vững, đặc biệt trong bối cảnh yêu cầu cao về quản lý nước mưa và giảm ngập úng. Nghiên cứu này trình bày ảnh hưởng của các yếu tố thành phần vật liệu đến một số tính chất cơ lý của BTR bao gồm độ rỗng, cường độ chịu nén và khối lượng thể tích. 12 cấp phối bê tông đã được chế tạo với các tính năng cơ lý được điều chỉnh trong một phạm vi tương đối rộng: cường độ chịu nén dao động trong khoảng 7-22 MPa, độ rỗng từ 11-35%, khối lượng thể tích từ 1760-1930 kg/m3. Các kết quả thí nghiệm cho thấy các yếu tố quan trọng ảnh hưởng đến tính chất cơ lý của BTR bao gồm kích thước và phân bố cốt liệu, tỷ lệ nước/xi măng, tỷ lệ thể tích cốt liệu/ hồ xi măng, hàm lượng xi măng và hàm lượng nước. Việc tối ưu hóa các yếu tố này là chìa khóa để đạt được sự cân bằng giữa cường độ và độ rỗng, đáp ứng yêu cầu của các ứng dụng trong thực tế. Các kết quả trong nghiên cứu này góp phần bổ sung thêm dữ liệu thực nghiệm cho công tác thiết kế thành phần BTR trên cơ sở sử dụng các vật liệu phổ biến tại Việt Nam
Đáp ứng uốn và ổn định của tấm nano chịu nén trên một đoạn chiều dài cạnh
Authors: Lê Trường Sơn , Văn Minh Chính
Published: December 2024

Ngày nay, các tấm nano làm từ vật liệu có một số hiệu ứng đặc biệt (hiệu ứng flexomagnetic, flexoelectric) ngày càng được sử dụng phổ biến để chế tạo các cảm biến, các vi mạch hoặc các thiết bị cỡ nhỏ công nghệ cao. Do vậy, việc nghiên cứu tìm ra đáp ứng cơ học của các tấm nano là một yêu cầu cấp thiết, vì điều này sẽ góp phần quan trọng trong việc tối ưu hóa thiết kế và nâng cao hiệu quả sử dụng chúng trong thực tế. Bài báo này đã kết hợp giữa lý thuyết biến dạng cắt kiểu mới và phương pháp phần tử hữu hạn để trình bày nghiên cứu đáp ứng uốn tĩnh và ổn định của tấm nano tựa trên nền đàn hồi biến đổi chịu ảnh hưởng của hiệu ứng flexomagnetic, điều khác biệt của nghiên cứu này so với các nghiên cứu đã có là lực nén không tác dụng lên toàn bộ chiều dài cạnh tấm mà chỉ tác dụng lên một đoạn nhất định. Sự hội tụ và độ tin cậy của bài báo này được kiểm tra thông qua sự so sánh với các kết quả đã công bố. Bài báo cũng đưa ra các số liệu khảo sát ảnh hưởng của các tham số hình học, vật liệu, điều kiện biên, chiều dài tác dụng của tải trọng và nền đàn hồi đến chuyển vị uốn và tải tới hạn của tấm nano
Đánh giá độ tin cậy của toa xe và đoàn tàu metro tuyến Cát Linh - Hà Đông trong quá trình khai thác
Authors: Nguyễn Đức Toàn , Đỗ Đức Tuấn
Published: December 2024

Tuyến đường sắt đô thị Cát Linh - Hà Đông có 13 đoàn tàu, mỗi đoàn tàu gồm 4 toa xe có cấu hình Tc1-M0-M1-Tc2, với 26 toa động lực và 26 toa kéo theo. Sử dụng phần mềm “Đánh giá giá độ tin cậy và an toàn của phương tiện đường sắt đô thị tuyến Cát Linh - Hà Đông trong quá trình khai thác”, với số liệu thống kê về các sự cố gây gián đoạn chạy tàu trên tuyến và sự cố dẫn đến sửa chữa đột xuất tại depot, đã xác định được độ tin cậy của các phân hệ, độ tin cậy của các loại toa xe và đoàn tàu, độ tin cậy và thời hạn làm việc của bộ trục bánh xe do hao mòn. Bài báo này trình bày một trong những nội dung nêu trên, đó là đánh giá độ tin cậy của các toa xe và các đoàn tàu trong quá trình vận hành trên tuyến và trong quá trình bảo dưỡng, sửa chữa tại depot. Kết quả tính toán cho phép hình dung được mức tin cậy, tính sẵn sàng, khả năng bảo dưỡng của các đối tượng đã nêu, giúp cho đơn vị sử dụng có các giải pháp thích hợp trong việc lập kế hoạch dự phòng phụ tùng, vật tư thay thế; các giải pháp giảm thời gian dừng để bảo dưỡng, sửa chữa, góp phần nâng cao hiệu quả khai thác của phương tiện
Exploring the Perception of Medical School Regional Talent Selection System Revealed through Internet Discourse and Medical School Entrance Exam Experience
Authors:   The Korean Career·Entrepreneurship & Business Association, An Yoonjung
Published: December 2024

The purpose of this study is to explore the discourse in the Internet community surrounding the regional talent allocation system in Korea through the medical school regional talent selection system and the perceptions of young adults who have gone through the medical school admissions process. The discourse on the medical school regional talent selection system was analyzed through posts from five representative internet communities related to admissions, as well as in-depth interviews with five medical students and two parents who had gone through the medical school admissions process, using the methodology of internet ethnography. The findings are as follows.
First, the goals and design of the medical school regional talent selection system were questioned, revealing ‘doubts about the policy's effectiveness’, ‘issues with shortsighted policy design’, and ‘the lack of a fundamental solution to regional depopulation’. Second, negative evaluations of the regional talent selection system for medical schools included claims of 'reverse discrimination and anti-meritocracy for students from metropolitan areas', 'proof of the incompetence of rural students', 'the stigmatizing effect of rural medical schools', and 'a policy benefiting privileged classes in rural areas'. Third, positive evaluations of the regional talent selection system for medical schools were analyzed as 'contributing to solving rural depopulation', 'reflecting disparities in rural education', and 'beliefs that students will remain in the region after graduation'. “Fourth, participants expressed a dual perspective on educational disparity in rural areas, noting both the 'difficulty in overcoming the disparity even for capable students' and the possibility of 'overcoming the disparity through internet classes'. Fifth, alternatives to improve the policy were suggested in the following order: 'implementing a mandatory local service period', 'adjusting the ratio of regional talent admissions', 'separately selecting students for mandatory local service', and 'the boundaries of exploiting loopholes'. The findings of this study provide insights into the significance of analyzing discourse and perception on regional talent selection in medical schools from multiple perspectives, along with suggestions for institutional improvements.
College Student Startups and Employment Performance: Complements or Substitutes? Evidence from Korean Universities
Authors:   The Korean Career·Entrepreneurship & Business Association, Kim Jong-woon
Published: December 2024

This study analyzes the relationship between university graduates’ employment rates and its student startup activities to investigate whether they are complements or substitutes. We formulate 3 hypotheses that link university graduates’ employment rates and the number of student startups and their performance, controlling for universities’ several types of available resources to focus on the relationship between employability and startup activies. Data from 130 universities in South Korea ranging from 2017 to 2023 are utilized for the panel-data analysis. The findings of the research show that there is a significant relationship between a university graduates’ employment rates and its students’ business formation, indicating they are complementary. However, there is insufficient evidence to establish a significant relationship between a university graduates’ employment rates and job creation by student startups, despite the positive trend. The relationship between a university graduates’ employment rates and its student startups’ sales is positive and marginal significant. Our analysis holds important implications for both researchers and policy-makers regarding student startups in academic institutions. Recognizing the complementary relationship between university graduates’ employment prospects and student startups, efforts to integrate the startup support programs with employment support programs are needed. Since universities typically have separate programs for these different purposes, careful approaches should be implemented to ensure these programs address both objectives.
Overview of the evaluation of the destructive effect of procarbazine on the ovarian reserve in the apoptotic, inflammatory, and oxidative pathways
Authors: Kartlasmis Kezban , Cakir Gungor Ayse Nur , Kuyucu Yurdun , Kara Samet
Published: December 2024

The use of chemotherapeutic agents during childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood has a detrimental effect on ovarian functions, leading to a decrease in ovarian reserves, thus adversely affecting fertility. Alkylating agents are one of the most frequently used groups of chemotherapeutics in this age group. An important and effective chemotherapeutic drug, procarbazine is used to treat brain tumors and Hodgkin lymphoma in children, adolescents, and young adults. This agent is also an indispensable component of combination-type chemotherapy. Procarbazine has a detrimental impact on ovarian reserve by directly targeting the oocyte or indirectly through somatic cell destruction. Evidence gathered thus far indicates that procarbazine’s mode of action in the ovaries may involve apoptosis, inflammation, and oxidative stress. This review seeks to clarify the processes by which procarbazine might induce apoptosis, inflammation, and oxidative stress, hence affecting ovarian reserve and functioning.
Potenziale von Carbonfasern für einen nachhaltigen Leichtbau
Authors: Vogt Claudia
Published: December 2024

Mit der Klimaschutz-Novelle vom 17. Juli 2024 unterstreicht Deutschland sein Ziel der Treibhausgasneutralität bis 2045. Um dies zu erreichen, ist nicht nur der Ausbau erneuerbarer Energien, sondern auch die Weiterentwicklung innovativer Schlüsseltechnologien entscheidend, die den CO2-Ausstoß signifikant senken. Hierzu gehört z.B. der Leichtbau mit Carbon­fasern (CF). Diese sind mittlerweile in vielen Industrien aufgrund ihrer spezifischen mechanischen Eigenschaften wie Festigkeiten und Steifigkeiten unverzichtbar.
Wearable-Technologie zur Bewegungsüberwachung und -optimierung für die Gesundheit
Authors: Oberlé Robin , Xiang Zhen , Boich Robert
Published: December 2024

Immer mehr Menschen nutzen digitale Wearables, um ihre Gesundheit und Fitness zu überwachen. Diese Geräte wie etwa Fitnessarmbänder und Smartwatches ermöglichen es, Echtzeitdaten wie Herzfrequenz, Temperatur und Bewegung zu messen. Bisher konzentrierten sich die meisten Produkte und Forschungsprojekte jedoch auf Wearables mit nur wenigen Sensoren, die oft nur in kontrollierten Laborumgebungen zum Einsatz kommen.
Übernahme-Markt nimmt wieder Fahrt auf
Authors: Brück Mario
Published: December 2024

Nach schwierigen Jahren zeichnet sich im deutschen Markt für Unternehmenstransaktionen eine Trendwende ab. Die M&A-Beratung Capitalmind Investec erwartet eine Zunahme von Übernahmen.
The Oat Factory geht ambitioniert an den Start
Authors: Lenders Dirk
Published: December 2024

Mit The Oat Factory betritt ein neuer Player den Markt für Haferdrinks. Und der will sich nicht hinten anstellen, sondern bei den Handelsmarken einen der vorderen Plätze belegen.
Mehr Lust auf Nachhaltigkeit
Authors: Vongehr Ulrike
Published: December 2024

Forscher konstatieren eine gewisse Klimamüdigkeit, zumindest in Teilen der Bevölkerung. Um das Engagement von Mitarbeitern zu stärken, setzen Unternehmen auf einen Mix aus sachlicher Information und Emotionalität.
Niederspannungs-Servomotoren: Fahrerlose Transportfahrzeuge mit mehr Drive
Authors:   Nabila Dewolfs
Published: December 2024

In der Intralogistik werden zunehmend Fahrerlose Transportsysteme eingesetzt.Für batteriebetriebene Fahrzeuge werden energieeffiziente Antriebe für kompakteBauräume benötigt, die hohe Anforderungen an die Leistungsdichte und Dynamikerfüllen. Um für solche Anwendungen optimale Antriebslösungen zu realisieren,geht ein Spezialist für Antriebstechnik bei der Konstruktion seiner NiederspannungsServomotoren an die Grenzen des physikalisch Machbaren.
Über die IT hinaus: Ausfallsicherheit bedeutet auch OT-Sicherheit
Authors:   Mirco Kloss
Published: December 2024

Ausfälle von Maschinen verhindern: Das gehört zu denKernaufgaben der Fachleute für Operational Technology (OT).Gerade im Bereich der Sensorik, wo mit den Sensoren höchstsensible und wichtige Geräte gebaut werden, braucht dieOT-Sicherheit die Priorität. Anwendungsfälle ziehen sich durchgroße Branchen wie die Automobilindustrie, erneuerbareEnergien, Logistik, oder Schiffsautomation. TXOne berät in diesemBereich Unternehmen verschiedenster Größenordnungen.
Family Album: the people who make up 20 years of Information Design research in Pernambuco
Authors: Ranoya Guilherme , Rolim Miranda Eva , Galvão Coutinho Solange
Published: December 2024

This article presents the comprehensive trajectory undertaken to map the Information Design researchers trained in the Postgraduate Program in Design at UFPE, identifying and categorizing their research, the period in which it was conducted, their advisors, their themes, that is, the entire production of ID in the region, and the people involved in it. The problem originates from the construction of the memory of how Information Design developed in the northeast of Brazil, and the difficulty encountered in accurately presenting simple quantitative data. We report here the process and strategies applied to carry out this survey. The mapping, which continues, leads to an interactive memory artifact, which contributes in a subtle but relevant way to ID research: a “family album”, which establishes a sense of community. Perhaps the most significant contribution of this work lies in demonstrating that memory and the sense of belonging are part of the research support infrastructure, operating on delicate and often overlooked aspects of scientific production, such as the motivation and emotional well-being of researchers.
Evaluación de una propuesta tecnológica basada en la aplicación de Blockchain para la inclusión financiera en grupos de ahorro
Authors: Duran León Claudia Vanessa , Flores Gutiérrez Julio Noe , Gutiérrez Hernández Ada Mabel
Published: December 2024

Financial inclusion has boomed with various initiatives and community-based entities, such as savings groups, seeking to offer alternatives to sectors underserved by traditional financial institutions. The digitisation of traditional services has revolutionised social life by democratising access to a wide range of services, including investments, credit, financing and savings, thanks to decentralised technologies. Although blockchain technology is in its early stages of mass adoption, it has already demonstrated efficiency in solving problems linked to financial inclusion through various protocols, presenting a diversity of options and solutions with different approaches and complexities. The philosophy behind blockchain implementations is based on fundamental principles: transparency, immutability, efficiency and cost reduction by eliminating intermediaries. These values are reflected in the technical components of blockchain networks, such as consensus protocols and transaction models. Web 3.0 solutions, by adopting decentralised technologies, have the potential to empower underbanked and geographically remote savings communities, enabling them to achieve financial autonomy and improve their quality of life. Therefore, this paper addresses theoretical foundations that allow the design of a base network applied to a community savings and loan group of the economic initiative promoted by the CLC Solidarity Service Association.
Revival
Authors: Carter Eric D.
Published: December 2024

This chapter focuses on how actors, networks, and ideas wove together to construct a distinctive field, social medicine, during the 1970s and 1980s. This chapter begins with a discussion of Juan César García, a PAHO functionary who initially shaped this second-wave Latin American social medicine network. Meanwhile, in Chile, the overthrow of Allende in 1973 not only meant a reversal of hard-won progress in health equity but also scattered a group of health workers into exile across the world, many to be absorbed into the growing network of Latin American social medicine. The experience of political exile and authoritarian regimes is also a theme in the last two sections of the chapter, focused on Argentina and Brazil and their roles in the new LASM. In Argentina, a small group of scholars interested in social medicine, based largely in Buenos Aires and Rosario, carried on their work clandestinely or in exile during the dictatorship, without having much impact on health policy or even on the teaching of health social sciences, at least not immediately. By contrast, in Brazil a movement that came to be known as collective health developed rapidly, achieving the most thorough institutionalization of any of the national groups in the new social medicine.
Resistance
Authors: Carter Eric D.
Published: December 2024

This chapter focuses primarily on the translation of second-wave Latin American social medicine (LASM) ideas from the realm of academia into progressive health policy. This chapter begins with a discussion of the landmark health reform that took place in Brazil during the 1980s and 1990s, which culminated in the creation of the SUS, the country’s unified health system, possibly the most noteworthy achievement of the second wave of LASM. But this achievement of collective health in Brazil was not widely emulated, due to unfavorable conditions produced by the rise of free-market ideologies across the region. The LASM community mounted a fierce critique of neoliberalism from academia, and when the Pink Tide came, starting in the late 1990s, LASM found an opportunity to directly influence health policy, including in Venezuela, Bolivia, and Mexico City. Cuba and Costa Rica are also considered: these two often-cited public health “success stories” from the Global South have seen little of the cutting-edge social theory and militant political praxis that have characterized social medicine over the past few decades.
A Man of Bad Reputation
Authors: Swanson Drew A.
Published: December 2024

Five years after the Civil War, North Carolina Republican state senator John W. Stephens was found murdered inside the Caswell County Courthouse. Stephens fought for the rights of freedpeople, and his killing by the Ku Klux Klan ultimately led to insurrection, Governor William W. Holden’s impeachment, and the early unwinding of Reconstruction in North Carolina. In recounting Stephens's murder, the subsequent investigation and court proceedings, and the long-delayed confessions that revealed what actually happened at the courthouse in 1870, Drew A. Swanson tells a story of race, politics, and social power shaped by violence and profit. The struggle for dominance in Reconstruction-era rural North Carolina, Swanson argues, was an economic and ecological transformation. Arson, beating, and murder became tools to control people and landscapes, and the ramifications of this violence continued long afterward. The failure to prosecute anyone for decades after John Stephens's assassination left behind a vacuum, as each side shaped its own memory of Stephens and his murder. The malleability of and contested storytelling around Stephens's legacy presents a window into the struggle to control the future of the South.
Promise
Authors: Swanson Drew A.
Published: December 2024

This chapter describes the history of Caswell County from Euro-American settlement through the Civil War, establishing the background for the political and social unrest of the Reconstruction era. The county’s growth was based on tobacco cultivation, which came to shape daily life. Likewise, enslavement became central to Caswell’s economy, social structure, and political stances. This tobacco addiction only increased with cultivation of a new variety: bright leaf. The Civil War shattered these antebellum patterns by fostering political divisions, threatening the tobacco economy, and ending enslavement, setting the stage for Reconstruction to serve as a contest between old and new visions for the county.
Winter of Our Discontent
Authors: Li Alison
Published: December 2024

Harry Benjamin and his wife Gretchen spent their final years cared for by a small group of friends including Charles Ihlenfeld, Christine Wheeler, Leah Schaefer and his long-time associate Virginia Allen. He was known for his kindness and concern, and he continued to take an interest in the latest research in the field. He died in 1985 at the age of 101.
The Final Fourth Rounder
Authors: Menconi David
Published: December 2024

Thanks to the New Orleans movie “The Big Easy,” all the Louisiana music Rounder had been releasing started doing big business in the late 1980s. Another lucky break was Rounder act Spanic Boys winding up on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” in 1990 when Sinead O’Connor pulled out at the last minute. The three Rounder founders had been seeking a fourth partner for many years and finally found it in John Virant, a Harvard-educated lawyer. After two decades, Rounder was launching acts like Nanci Griffith and Bela Fleck to the major labels – and sometimes welcoming them back afterward. Changes in the distribution business led to the dissolution of Rounder Distributing.
Raising Sand, and the Roof
Authors: Menconi David
Published: December 2024

Alison Krauss and Robert Plant first sang together in 2004 at a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame concert, launching a remarkable collaboration. T Bone Burnett produced their 2007 “Raising Sand” album, a huge sales success and album of the year Grammy winner. Rounder kept up its high release volume with work by Irma Thomas, Uncle Earl, Raffi, and Jelly Roll Morton reissues. Somehow, the Canadian progressive-rock power trio Rush wound up on Rounder, too, because Fourth Rounder John Virant was a huge fan.
Barriers
Authors: Nelson John William
Published: December 2024

Chapter Two takes up the story of France’s imperial visions for North America—the construction of a maritime or “Atlantic” empire within the continental interior. Encouraged by the freshwater networks of the Great Lakes region, French adventurers, missionaries, fur trade merchants and imperial officials all projected hopes of a North American empire connected by water routes that stretched from New France to lower Louisiana. French colonization efforts failed in the Great Lakes, however, as Indigenous agency and local geographic knowledge stymied French ambitions at Chicago. Meskwakis began using Chicago’s portage and other canoe routes to prey upon French traders and effectively blockade waterborne movement in the western Lakes. Escalating into the Fox Wars (named for a translation of the Meskwakis), these conflicts challenged French authority in the region by directly harnessing geographic channels like Chicago’s portage route to disrupt fur trade commerce, threaten French allies, and frustrate military operations. By the late 1740s, Chicago’s route remained an open thoroughfare for illegal traders and hostile Indians as French authority failed to penetrate this elusive space.
A Freakish Party
Authors: Woolner Cookie
Published: December 2024

Chapter three focuses specifically on northern Prohibition-era spaces like speakeasies, rent parties, and buffet flats, and their roles in Black lady lovers’ lives. Gladys Bentley, one of the most popular performers in Harlem at this time, who wore men’s clothing on stage and flirted with the women in her audience, is a central figure here. The relationship between sex work and Black lady lovers’ worlds is also examined, as both were overlapping forms of “outlaw” behavior associated with vice underworlds at this time, which allowed women to make independent lives from men. The oral histories of Mabel Hampton, a working-class Black woman who lived in Harlem during Prohibition are also central to this chapter as are vice reports from the citizens group the Committee of Fourteen, who surveyed Harlem nightlife spaces.
Intimate Friends and Bosom Companions
Authors: Woolner Cookie
Published: December 2024

Chapter four turns to Black lady lovers in “high society” from Lucy Diggs Slowe, the dean of women at Howard University, to writer and club woman Alice Dunbar-Nelson, dramatic actor Edna Thomas, Harlem Renaissance writer Dorothy West, and literary host and heiress A'Lelia Walker, the daughter of Madame CJ Walker. This chapter focuses on the strategies these “respectable” women used to take part in queer relationships in a time when they were deemed abnormal if not unimaginable. Lucy Diggs Slowe and her partner, playwright and teacher Mary Burrell, lived together in Washington DC but did not speak of themselves as romantic partners, which was common for the era with its focus on respectability.
Introduction
Authors: Márquez Cecilia
Published: December 2024

This book is a history of how a diverse group came to be seen as “Latino” and how southerners ascribed meaning to that categorization. By examining the evolving racial position of Latino people in the South between 1945 and 2010, Making the Latino South uncovers a very different timelines of Latino identity and community formation than elsewhere in the country. This book shows how non-Black Latino people lost their access to white privilege over the second half of the twentieth century to eventually become seen as “illegal aliens” by the dawn of the twenty-first century. In doing so, Making the Latino South tells a new history of race in the post-1945 US South, one that uncovers the central role of Blackness in the creation of the category of “Latino.”
Not a Negro
Authors: Márquez Cecilia
Published: December 2024

Chapter 1 examines Latino people in the 1940s in Washington DC. As Latinos arrived in the nation’s capital, which was becoming increasingly international with the arrival of embassies at the end of World War II, they were forced to navigate the strict Jim Crow segregation still enforced in Washington DC. The chapter centers on the story of Karla Galarza, a girl who was kicked out of a “colored” vocational school for not being Black. Non-Black Latinos in D.C. were “provisionally white”: able to access white spaces and institutions while still experiencing some forms of discrimination and exclusion. This chapter analyzes how Karla’s case, alongside the rest of DC’s Latino population, reveals important new insight about Jim Crow and the nature of Latino identity in the South.
Black, White, and Tan
Authors: Márquez Cecilia
Published: December 2024

Chapter 3 focuses on Latino activists who traveled south to participate in the southern Civil Rights Movement. Specifically looking at the role of Latinos in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, this chapter shows that in the Deep South of the 1960s, in a moment when war was being waged over the future of race, Latino communities were being sorted based on whether they were black or not-Black. This meant that non-Black Latino people occupied a fraught and eventually contested space in southern civil rights organizing as the movement became increasingly focused on Black self-determination.
I Love My Mexicans
Authors: Márquez Cecilia
Published: December 2024

Chapter 4, which focuses on the large-scale migration of Latinos to the southeast in the 1980s-2000s through the story of Dalton, Georgia. Dalton, the central hub of U.S. carpet manufacturing, became the home to a growing Latino community starting in the 1980s as a result of changes in immigration legislation, crises abroad, and active recruitment on the part of the carpet industry. This chapter traces how, in the post-civil rights movement era, Latino people first emerged as a cohesive non-white racial group and moved from “provisionally white” to racially other when they became “Hispanic.” More specifically, this chapter details how both Latino and white Daltonians mobilized the language of “Hardworking immigrants” to justify bilingual education programs and other resources necessary to support the growing Latino community.
The Aliens Are Here
Authors: Márquez Cecilia
Published: December 2024

Chapter 5 represents yet another moment of transformation as perceptions of Latinos people in the South changed from hardworking immigrants to “illegal aliens.” This chapter looks at the first two waves of anti-immigrant legislation enacted in the South to show how race for Latino communities after the September 11th terrorist attacks and again during the Great Recession in 2008. It shows how in some communities, the same people who lived as “provisionally white” and then became “Hardworking Hispanic immigrants,” would eventually find themselves maligned as “illegal aliens.”
Mutual Visits
Authors: Dizon Mark
Published: December 2024

This chapter starts with the grand visits to Manila by Indigenous chiefs prior to conversion. It then situates these visits within the context of the general movement of people in the hinterland, particularly the initial feelers sent out by parish priests and their parishioners and the official inspection tours conducted by Spanish judges, bishops, and provincials. However, missionary attempts at penetrating inland depended on intermediaries and permissions. Simple everyday visits among friends and kin connected people together at an intimate personal level. Visits underpinned the conversion and alliances that spanned the borderland because they made affinity and kinship palpable and real. Instead of generic concepts of conquest and conversion, mobility in the form of visits and meetings transformed strangers into relatives.
Teak and Trade
Authors: Cothran Boyd , Shubert Adrian
Published: December 2024

The 1850s were a time of extraordinary change on a global scale as a variety of forces reshaped the world. The East India Company, which had long held a monopoly over trade with British India, had given way to the emerging dynamics of global free trade and global migrations that would characterize the second half of the nineteenth century. But trade was not the only force driving globalization. The increasingly colonial nature of relationships between European and other powers and Indigenous societies in the mid-1800s also drove the world closer together even as imperial struggles for control of the eastern Mediterranean brought them into conflict. This chapter explores these dynamics through the story of the construction of the Edwin Fox and its maiden voyage from Calcutta to London. It also examines the Edwin Fox’s first career as a troop transport vessel for the British Army during the Crimean War.
Convicts
Authors: Cothran Boyd , Shubert Adrian
Published: December 2024

In 1858, the Edwin Fox departed Gravesend with a shipment of 280 convicts bound for a penal colony in Western Australia. Penal colonies have a long global history stretching back into the eighteenth century. Indeed, after the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the transportation of indentured laborers, the transportation of prisoners to various penal colonies throughout the world was the third largest form of unfree migration in human history. This chapter tells the story of this global system of punitive mobility, which sought to punish perceived criminals, extract valuable labor from unwilling bodies, managed populations both in the homeland and in sites of incarnation, and propelled imperial expansion and colonization. This chapter explores the background of the convicts onboard the Edwin Fox and traces their experiences after arriving in Western Australia. It situates these penal colonies within the story of nineteenth century globalization. It argues that remote colonies like Western Australia turned to penal colonialism as a strategy for integrating itself into global networks of trade, knowledge, and governance and that the nineteenth century carceral state reinforced and advanced the larger project of settler colonialism throughout the antipodes, with dire consequences for Indigenous populations there.
Photovoltaic System Trainer
Authors: Joven E. Tuburan
Published: December 2024

Abstract: The main focus of the study was the development of a Photovoltaic System Trainer. It was designed and constructed as an instructional device to provide students with a more engaging and experiential learning of the photovoltaic system. This study utilized developmental and descriptive methods of research. For developmental method, processes were used like planning, designing, lay-outing, constructing, assembling, pre-testing and revising, final product testing and evaluating. While the descriptive method was evaluated in terms of product quality in performance efficiency, durability, reliability, maintainability, and conformance; and for the acceptability like design, functional suitability, security, usability, and portability were also evaluated. A research-made instrument was formulated and administered to twenty-five experts for quality product evaluation and seventy-five respondents for its acceptability. The result showed that the trainer has a dual-powered device, interactive learning, and can extend battery operation as its technical features can reinforce the teaching and learning processes; for quality evaluation, the overall results showed in terms of performance efficiency, durability, reliability, maintainability, and conformance were very good. Further, for acceptability evaluation, the overall results in terms of design, functional suitability, security, usability, and portability were very highly acceptable. The users manual was developed to guide the users on the product specifications, features, parts and functions, operating procedures, maintenance, dos and don’ts, and troubleshooting guide. The activity sheets were beneficial to both students and teachers in learning processes. Finally, the trainer is ideal for the BSIT Electronics/Electrical and BTLED Industrial Arts curriculum and conducting the National Competency Assessment by TESDA.
La despersonalización del cuerpo, un desafío para la técnica y la medicina. Sugerencias desde Zubiri, Xirau y Marcel
Authors: Antúnez Cid José
Published: December 2024

Zubiri, Xirau y Marcel resaltan el carácter personal del cuerpo eludiendo mecanicismos propios del paradigma tecnocrático. Aunque su reducción a objeto sirva para las ciencias, cuando se convierte en ‘la’ dimensión se despersonaliza: la persona sufriría cierta desencarnación (neognosticismo, H. Jonas) y se pensaría el hombre desde la técnica (neurocientificismo). Zubiri subraya la riqueza personal de la corporalidad, “la persona expresa”, en respectividad al mundo y los demás. Para Xirau no hay ni almas ni cuerpos intercambiables, pues la mirada del amor los descubre en “simultaneidad indivisible”, no mero instrumento manifestativo; el alma se inscribe en el cuerpo de manera cada vez más profunda, haciéndose paulatinamente más presente hasta transfigurarlo, la presencia corporal es alma voluminosa y encarnada, centro de toda perspectiva. Marcel, en la ontología del ser-amor, sostiene que el “yo y mi cuerpo” recuperan la unidad originaria desdoblada por la reflexión abstractiva, superando el tener posesivo y pasando de la indisponibilidad a la entrega.
Interiority and Trascendence. From Antiquity to Early Christianity
Authors: Peroli Enrico
Published: December 2024

Interiority is an underlying theme of the Neo-Platonic tradition. Since Plotinus, the Neo-Platonic tradition has indeed ascribed to interiority an absolutely central role in the path that man must follow in order to reach the ultimate goal of his existence. For in the Neo-Platonic view, the divine Principles of reality do not exist only in themselves, separate or transcendent from the whole universe, but they are at the same time actively present in us, making possible the exercise of our cognitive activities. The aim of this paper is to examine the reception and at the same time the profound transformation of this central theme of the Neo-Platonic tradition by fourth-century Greek theology. By this we mean to show how, through the confrontation with the philosophy of its time carried out by fourth-century Greek theology, the latter was able to place at the centre of its reflection the authentically Christian question of man’s insufficiency before himself, and was able to do so with a radicality and intensity unknown to the previous philosophical culture, thus endowing its spiritual theology with the strength and appeal that it continued to exert in the subsequent tradition.