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Role of Social Media Dependency Factors and Tabayyun Towards Youth Behaviour on Social Media
Authors: Salman Ali
Published: December 2024

In today’s society, social media is a primary source of information, particularly regarding events occurring around us. However, information on social media is not necessarily accurate and true. The social media users need to verify what is being disseminated on social media continuously. Thus, this study is conducted to identify the factors, including tabayyun, that influence youth behaviour on social media. Tabayyun, an Islamic concept, denotes verification and confirmation, surpassing the English equivalent by evaluating the information source’s character and trustworthiness. This study used the Media Dependency Theory by Sandra Ball-Rokeach and Melvin DeFleur as the guide study. Some 200 Malay youths aged 15 to 40 responded to a questionnaire about social media usage, tabayyun, awareness, social media systems, social systems, and individual and social information needs. According to the findings, there is a significant correlation between these variables and self-reported youth behaviour. Thus, the notion of tabayyun emerges as a significant aspect in verifying social media information in Malaysia.
AUTOFICTION AS A WAY OF MEMORIZING EVENTS OF THE RUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN WAR
Authors:   Kryvyi Rih National University, Ukraine, ТSYMBAL Tetiana
Published: December 2024

The article presents the results of a study of the problem of memorialization of the events of the Russian-Ukrainian war, starting in 2014 and continuing to the present day. The author analyzes the established, effective ways of preserving the memory of the war, namely: the creation of digital archives and online platforms, memorials, monuments and murals, documentaries and feature films, public and religious rituals, recording memories in blogs and diaries, prose and poetry, etc. It is emphasized that the use of the method of auto-fiction in literature opens up wide opportunities for memorializing the events of the war. It is noted that this genre is quite popular in European and world literature, but domestic writers are just beginning to work in this genre, and as a result, literary criticism and general humanitarian discourse on the genre of auto-fiction are only just being formed.
It is argued that works written in the genre of autofiction have both their advantages, strengths, and certain problems of interpretation. The author emphasizes the perspectives offered by the genre, namely: the ability to present not only the essence of events, but also to convey the deep inner experiences of the hero, to see the war not only as an external conflict, but also as an internal one; the ability to highlight emotions with a high level of authenticity, not only describing traumas, but also comprehending them. The latter can help to overcome the consequences of war, which at first glance may seem hidden, as auto-fiction is an important way to transform personal pain into an artistic form that allows not only the author but also the reader to find a way to healing. On the other hand, it is noted that autofiction also has certain limitations and problems in its application, which can negatively affect the effectiveness of memory preservation, as it creates risks of losing historical accuracy due to selective coverage of events and certain ethical conflicts. The author emphasizes the need for further development of the genre, which has become an important practice that allows exploring the subtle boundaries of literature and historical truth, fiction and personal experience.
GEOPOLITICAL AND FEDERAL IDEAS OF MYKHAIL DRAGHOMANOV IN THE CONTEXT OF TODAY'S CHALLENGES
Authors:   Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine, CHUPRII Leonid , GOTRA Olena ,   State Tax University, Irpin, Ukraine
Published: December 2024

The article highlights the key geopolitical ideas of M. Drahomanova. It is noted that the Ukrainian thinker paid considerable attention to the issue of federalization of the peoples of Eastern Europe, pointing out that stability and peace in heterogeneous Eastern Europe will come only under the conditions of national and social liberation, which can be realized through the formation of a federal union of peoples living between the Russian and German ethnic blocs. It is indicated that the researcher's approach emphasized the importance of interaction and unification of the peoples of Eastern Europe, as well as their gradual integration into the Western European community. It is noted that M. Drahomanov also called for the federalization of Austria-Hungary and the Russian Empire. Regarding the latter, he indicated that the Russian Empire should be divided along ethnic lines, taking into account the experience of Switzerland, where the cantons have their own spheres of competence, which the federal government could not influence. It is emphasized that the Ukrainian thinker emphasized the fact that the federal system in the Russian Empire will be effective only if the subjects of the federation have real powers. If they are formal, on the contrary, this can lead to the strengthening of centralized power, which will only be covered by imaginary federalism, which is currently observed in modern Russia. Attention is focused on the fact that a special place in the concept of M. Drahomanov occupied Galicia, which was part of the Habsburg Empire and Eastern Europe. M. Drahomanov had a significant influence on the development of the Galician-Rusyn radical party, which was supposed to implement the historical national-democratic tendencies and achievements of the Ukrainian national-democratic progressive movement. It is emphasized that M. Drahomanov attached a significant role to the Ukrainian people, who will be able to play an important role in the process of federalization of free nations, although perhaps not at the current historical stage, since it is quite difficult to implement large-scale geopolitical projects in the conditions of despotic imperialism.
Racial Attitudes Among Asian American Parents and Their Influence on School Choice
Authors: Wu Tiffany , Villavicencio Adriana , Ponce Soria Verenisse
Published: December 2024

In this article Tiffany Wu, Adriana Villavicencio, and Verenisse Ponce Soria investigate how Asian American parents define and understand diversity and explore how racial attitudes influence parents’ school choices. Drawing on a broader study of a school choice policy designed to reduce racial segregation in a large, urban school district, the authors focus on interviews conducted in English and Mandarin with thirty-four Asian American parents to examine how they conceptualize school diversity and how, or if, race influences their school choices. In exploring the motivations behind their preferences, they found that parents’ statements reflected an internalization of the model minority myth and that their preferences were also based in their beliefs about school and neighborhood safety, including concerns over growing racial discrimination against Asian Americans. This study is aimed to help policy makers better understand the complex motivations within multiracial communities when designing and implementing school integration plans.
The legal regime of quantum communication lines in free space
Authors: Evsikov K. S.
Published: December 2024

The article discusses the features of regulating communication in free space as a key technology for quantum communication. An analysis of domestic and foreign experience in regulating this technology has been conducted, which has made it possible to highlight the advantages and disadvantages of its legal regime compared to other types of communication. It has been proved that communication via free space has advantages over wired communication since it does not require using other people’s land or establishing an easement as there is no need for a wire to create an atmospheric communication channel, while at the same time it is impossible to establish a security zone around atmospheric communication lines to protect wired communication lines from construction on them. It has been proved that communication in free space has advantages over radio frequency communication, as it does not require obtaining a permit/license for the use of radio frequencies. However, atmospheric communication lines do not have legal protection against technical interference. In order to improve the legal regime for quantum communication lines in free space, it has been proposed to eliminate terminological ambiguity in regulatory legal acts, define atmospheric optical communication as a special legal entity requiring equal protection with other communication channels, include atmospheric optical quantum communications in the security zone system for communication lines and structures, and establish administrative liability for interference with laser communications analogous to radio frequency interference.
Brain-computer interface and the legal protection of personal data
Authors: Li Yao
Published: December 2024

The human brain is the material carrier of mental activity and is an extremely complex neural network consisting of countless neurons. With the current development of brain-computer interface technology, humans can collect and amplify electrical signals in the brain caused by neuron activity using sensors, process them to achieve the effect of decoding brain activity state and intention, and transmit the brain activity state and decoding results to a brain-computer interface manipulator. Human thought is no longer an area that cannot be touched by any means. Brain-computer interface technology interferes with human thought with specificity, and people can be probed and change their thoughts unknowingly. The application field of brain-computer interface is gradually expanding from the medical industry to entertainment, recreation and commercial applications. This article analyzes and evaluates the various risks caused by brain-computer interface technology, their extent and the main problems existing in the current legislation, proposes the enshrinement of “neurological rights” in the law and clarifies the key aspects that government agencies, medical institutions and enterprises should pay attention to when introducing brain-computer interface technology.
Perio­dontitis apical y sus efectos sobre el tejido renal en ratas
Authors: Jara Cynthia Mireya , Ramírez Roccio Raquel , Barreto Regina Susana , García-Salinas H´ector , Adorno Carlos Gabriel , Fretes Vicente , Amarilla Shyrley Paola , Díaz-Reissner Clarisse
Published: December 2024

Objetivos. Evaluar el efecto de la periodontitis  apical (PA) inducida en ratas Wistar sobre el tejido renal examinado histológicamente. Materiales y métodos. Fueron utilizadas 14 ratas Wistar macho, de 12 semanas y 250 gramos promedio. La PA fue inducida con la exposición pulpar de los primeros molares superiores e inferiores utilizando una fresa esférica #1011 HL en alta rotación. Las lesiones se dejaron expuestas al medio bucal por un periodo de 7 semanas. La presión arterial fue medida mediante el método de pletismografía del manguito de la cola a partir de la cuarta semana.  Fue realizada la disección del riñón para análisis histológico (H&E). Fue utilizada la prueba de Mann-Whitney y t de Student para datos no paramétricos y  paramétricos, respectivamente, con un nivel de significancia del 5%. Resultados. Se observó un aumento estadísticamente significativo tanto en el área del espacio de  Bowman como en el área del corpúsculo renal en el grupo PA (p<0,05). El grupo con PA presentó mayor porcentaje de tejido renal con infiltrado inflamatorio, pero sin diferencia significativa. La presión arterial no sufrió modificaciones durante el periodo experimental y no fue identificada diferencia entre los grupos. Conclusiones. La inducción de PA en ratas Wistar resultó en modificaciones significativas de ciertos parámetros histológicos renales, sugiriendo unaposible interacción entre la PA y el tejido renal que requiere de investigaciones adicionales.
Multimorbilidad y su asociación con la salud mental en una población adulta del Perú
Authors: Angulo-Ramírez Alejandro M. , Costa-Berlanga Flavio C. , Bernabé-Ortiz Antonio
Published: December 2024

Objective. To evaluate the association between multimorbidity and mental health in adults aged 30 to 69 years. Materials and methods. Secondary data analysis of a population-based study conducted in theperi-urban area of Tumbes in the northern coast of Peru. The dependent variables were: depressive symptoms, using the PHQ-9; anxiety symptoms, using the Goldberg scale; and perceived stress, assessed withthe Cohen’s 14-question scale. The exposure variable  was the presence of multimorbidity (presence or not of two or more chronic conditions and the number of chronic conditions). We assessed associations using crude and adjusted Poisson regression models. Results.  Data from 1600 participants were analyzed, mean age was 48.1 years (SD: 10.5), and 50.4% were women. The  prevalence of multimorbidity was 15.9%, 23.3% presented depressive symptoms, 42.0% anxiety  symptoms and 31.4% had high levels of perceived  stress. The multivariable model showed that  multimorbidity was associated with a higher prevalence  of depressive symptoms (61%, 95%CI: 32% - 98%), anxiety symptoms (46%, 95%CI: 28% - 66%) and high  (22%, 95%CI: 14% - 33%) but not moderate levels of perceived stress (6%; 95%CI: 0% - 12%). A higher number of chronic conditions was associated with higher prevalence of depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms, and perceived stress levels. Conclusions. The presence of multimorbidity is associated with a higher prevalence of depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms, and perceived stress levels. Our results suggest the  need for adequate mental health management in patients with multimorbidity.
Síndrome de fuga capilar por mordedura de serpiente en la Amazonía. Reporte de un caso
Authors: Ramírez-García Edgar A. , Perez-Mori Arley , Mori-Coral Mónica , Canchanya-Olimar Maria Jose V. , Celis-Salinas Juan C. , Casapia-Morales Martín
Published: December 2024

Capillary leak syndrome is a unique complication characterized by extravasation of liquids in the interstitial  space due to protein loss caused by snakebite  envenoming. We describe the case of a 12-year-old boy  from the district of Napo in the city of Iquitos in the  Peruvian Amazon, who had edema and increased face volume due to the bite of a snake of the Bothrops genus in the lateral aspect of the right leg; he was the hospitalized and diagnosed with severe ophidism complicated with face edema. The patient received eight vials of antivenin, antibiotics and analgesics. Finally, the patient was  discharged from the hospital after eight days of hospitalization, with favorable evolution and recovery.
Adherencia al tamizaje de cáncer colorrectal en un seguro privado de salud de Argentina durante los años 2008-2022
Authors: Sguiglia Sebastián , Volij Camila , Rodríguez-Tablado Manuel , Terrasa Sergio , Esteban Santiago
Published: December 2024

In order to evaluate adherence to colorectal cancer (CRC) screening among members of the Health Plan of the Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires in Argentina, we conducted a retrospective cohort study using secondary data from the electronic medical record. We included all members over 50 years of age during the period 2008-2022. We assessed the number and type of screening tests performed and the proportion of members  covered for screening. We analyzed 112,112 participants, with a median age of 58.6 years and a follow-up time of 8.6 years. Colonoscopy was the most commonly used  test. The maximum coverage reached was 47.1% in December 2022. In conclusion, adherence to CRC screening was suboptimal, as was the method used. This information can be used for the design of a  multicomponent intervention.
Búsqueda activa de tuberculosis en tres centros penitenciarios juveniles de Perú
Authors: Jimenez Judith , Millones Ana Karina , Puma Daniela , Peinado Jesús , Martínez Blanca , Tovar Marco , Lecca Leonid
Published: December 2024

El objetivo fue describir la tasa de tuberculosis (TB) hallada por la estrategia de búsqueda activa en adolescentes y jóvenes en tres centros penitenciarios juveniles. Realizamos detección de TB a través de un algoritmo de búsqueda activa con toma de radiografía de tórax, lectura automatizada por software de inteligencia artificial, prueba molecular de GeneXpert Ultra MTB/RIF, y evaluación clínica. Se tamizaron 640 personas, 94 (14,6%) tuvieron una radiografía de tórax anormal. De los tamizados, se obtuvo 105 pruebas de GeneXpert de los cuales 94 tuvieron radiografía anormal, 9 fueron sintomáticos respiratorios y 2 estuvieron en tratamiento antirretroviral con cuadro clínico de TB. Obtuvimos 8 (8,5%) casos de TB detectados con GeneXpert, 7 con radiografía anormal y 1 con radiografía normal. Por último, de estos 8 casos, 3 fueron tuberculosis resistente a rifampicina (TB-RR) (42,8%). La tasa de tamizados por búsqueda activa fue de 1250 por 100 000 tamizados, siendo 10 veces más que la tasa en población general. Recomendamos la inclusión de centros penitenciarios juveniles como grupos de interés para búsqueda sistemática y desarrollar intervenciones para disminuir riesgo de contagio de TB.
Rapid spread of the emerging cosmopolitan genotype of dengue virus serotype 2, and expansion of dengue virus serotype 1 genotype V in Peru
Authors: Bailon Henri , Jimenez Víctor , Galarza Marco , Medrano Princesa , Mestanza Orson , Figueroa Dana , Lizarraga Wendy , Silva Iris , Sevilla Luren , Hurtado Verónica , Izarra Vanessa , Padilla Carlos , Barcena Luis , Caceres Omar , Merino Susy , Marcelo Adolfo , Ruiz Nora , Hapuarachchii Hapuarachchige Chanditha , Cabezas Sánchez César , García María P.
Published: December 2024

Objectives. This study aimed to evaluate the prevalence and distribution of dengue virus genotype V serotype 1 (DENV-1) and cosmopolitan genotype serotype 2 (DENV-2) in Peru between 2019 and 2022. Materials and methods. The envelope (E) gene region was amplified from 79 serum samples by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and sequenced by next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology. The obtained sequences were subsequently analyzed with bioinformatics tools. Results. The study generated envelope gene sequences of DENV-1 and DENV-2 serotypes. Our study revealed a rapid dispersal and wide distribution of the cosmopolitan DENV-2 genotype in several regions of Peru in 2022, as well as the spread of DENV-1 genotype V to new Peruvian regions, along with the cosmopolitan DENV-2 genotype. Conclusions. Our findings suggest the urgent need to strengthen epidemiological and genomic surveillance systems to understand and control the spread of circulating DENV genotypes in Peru. This will allow a more rapid response, as well as the monitoring of its potential dissemination to other countries in the Americas.
FINDRISC modificado para Cuba como herramienta para la detección de prediabetes y diabetes no diagnosticada en población cubana
Authors: Cabrera-Rode Eduardo , Díaz-Díaz Oscar , Orlandi González Neraldo , Ronald Mohan
Published: December 2024

Objectives. To evaluate the Finnish Diabetes Risk Score (FINDRISC) modified for Cuba as a tool for the detection of prediabetes and undiagnosed diabetes in Cuban  population. Materials and methods. An analytical cross-sectional and secondary source epidemiological study was conducted in 3737 adults aged 19 years and older with at least one risk factor for diabetes, they did not have previous diagnosis of prediabetes and diabetes mellitus and underwent oral glucose tolerance test for the diagnosis of dysglycemia. We applied the FINDRISC and the FINDRISC modified for Latin America (LA-FINDRISC) and Cuba (CUBDRISC), each with their own anthropometric parameters. The ROC curve was used to establish the cut-off point of each scale for the diagnosis of dysglycemia. Sensitivity, specificity, predictive values and likelihood ratios were calculated. The concordance between scales was calculated with Cohen's Kappa coefficient. Results. We found that 34.5% (n=1289) of the subjects were diagnosed with dysglycemia (28.1% had prediabetes and 6.4% had type 2 diabetes without previous diagnosis). The LA-FINDRISC and CUBDRISC scales showed an almost perfect concordance with the FINDRISC scale for the different cut-off values from 11 to 16 (0.882-0.890 and 0.910-0.922, respectively). The optimal cutoff point for detecting persons with dysglycemia was ≥ 13 for the FINDRISC and CUBDRISC scales (sensitivity was 63.6% and 61.6%; specificity was 84.3% and 86.0%, respectively) and ≥11 for LA-FINDRISC (sensitivity 58.0% and specificity 88.0%). Conclusions. We found almost perfect concordance between the diabetes risk scales. The FINDRISC score modified for Cuba proved to be a useful tool to identify persons with prediabetes and diabetes with a cut-off point of 13 in a Cuban population.
La prueba de significancia de la hipótesis nula y la dicotomización del valor p: Errare Humanum Est
Authors: Mezones-Holguin Edward , Al-kassab-Córdova Ali , Soto-Becerra Percy , Hernández-Díaz Sonia , Kaufman Jay S.
Published: December 2024

Decision-making in healthcare is complex and needs to be based on the best scientific evidence. In this process, information derived from statistical analysis of data is crucial, which can be developed from either frequentist or Bayesian perspectives. When it comes to the frequentist field, the null hypothesis significance test (NHST) and its p-value is one of the most widely used techniques in different disciplines. However, NHST has been subjected to questioning from different academic points of view, which has led to it being considered as one of the causes of the so-called replicability crisis in science. In this review article, we provide a brief historical account of its  development, summarize the underlying methods, describe some controversies and limitations, address misuse and misinterpretation, and finally give some scopes and reflections in the context of biomedical research.
A retrospective study investigating prevalent diagnosis prompting endodontic treatment in a local North Indian population
Authors: Bharti Simran , Kaur Harpuneet , Kaur Sapanpuneet
Published: December 2024

: Several risk factors, such as dental caries, periodontal disease, and trauma, can affect the dental pulp and lead to pulpitis. The main goal of root canal treatment are to eradicate infections within the canal and prevent future reinfection, creating an environment that supports healing. Endodontic treatment maintains the function of teeth while protecting the patient’s overall well-being.

This study aims to investigate the factors influencing the demand for root canal treatment among patients, with a focus on diagnosis.

: A retrospective review was conducted using hospital records of patients who visited the dental department and underwent root canal treatment between January 2023 and January 2024. Patient records provided information on age, gender, and indications for the treated tooth for endodontic treatment. Data analysis was performed using SPSS 20 software.

A total of 2,280 patient records were reviewed, with 35.1% representing male patients and 64.9% female patients. The age range of the patients was 10 and above 60 years while the mean age was 36.26. The association of gender and age was statistically significant with p value of 0.001. The highest incidence of RCT was found in the 31-40 years age group. The commonest indication of RCT was symptomatic irreversible pulpitis.

The most prevalent reason for root canal treatment is symptomatic irreversible pulpitis. There is a need for dental awareness among patients so that carious lesions can be treated early. Additionally, educating patients will help prevent dental caries.
Effect of hypertension on salivary flow rate and pH
Authors: Reddy Rishika , Nagalaxmi Velpula , Zardi Faisal Taiyeballi , Sadathullah Ayesha , Mohammed Haris Iqbal
Published: December 2024

The aim of this studywas to determine the relationship between pH and viscosity of cumulative unstimulated saliva and hypertension in adults with normal, stage 1 and stage 2 hypertension.

The patient’s blood pressure was measured and patients fitting the inclusion criteria were selected for the study. Their unstimulated cumulative saliva was collected by spitting method and pH of the samples was measured by pH strip. The flow rate of the samples was measured by comparing the amount of saliva displacement in sterile polypropylene centrifuge tube with control fluids at mm/10 seconds. The data was analysed by SPSS version 20 software and ANOVA tests and their nonparametric equivalent (p≤ 0.005).

The results of this study showed that there was a significant relationship between pH and viscosity of unstimulated saliva of normotensive and borderline hypertensive patients with p value <0.000. Therefore, hypertension had a direct and significant relationship with saliva flow rate and saliva pH.

Hypertension can reduce the pH and increase the salivary viscosity in hypertensive patients, which subsequently lead to changes in quality and quantity of secreted saliva and influence the oral health and quality of the patient’s life.
A short communication on interrelationship among oral health and nutrition
Authors: Dubey Shivam
Published: December 2024

Oral health, nutrition, and diet are closely related. Like other bodily tissues, oral tissues are influenced by nutrition and diet. The diet provides the food molecules that metabolic processes convert into nutrients that support life and foster health. The amount and frequency of free sugar intake are linked to dental caries, according to strong evidence gathered from epidemiological, animal, experimental, and human intervention studies. One of the many elements of intervention methods for health improvement is nutrition education.
La Rematriación de maíz (Zea mays. L) nativo para el pueblo indígena Kamëntsá, en el departamento del Putumayo, Colombia
Authors: Hernandez Nopsa John Fredy , Barreto Rojas Juliene Andrea , Guzmán Hernández Manuel Alejandro , Osorio Guerrero Karen Viviana , Rincón Manrique Luis Felipe , Ramírez Durán Julio
Published: December 2024

La pérdida de la agrobiodiversidad y la erosión de los recursos fitogenéticos son fenómenos acentuados recientemente por el impacto de la variabilidad climática y de acciones antropogénicas. Estos fenómenos fueron identificados en sistemas locales de producción de semilla (SLS) y en comunidades agrícolas locales, como el pueblo indígena Kamëntsá-bija en el Putumayo, Colombia, para maíz. El diálogo intercultural le permitió a AGROSAVIA acercarse a comunidades agrícolas y construir estrategias para fortalecer los SLS, y simultáneamente, mejorar la seguridad y soberanía alimentarias locales. Una estrategia para mitigar la pérdida de maíces nativos es la que denominamos “Rematriación”, y que desarrollamos con los Kamëntsá-bija. Para ellos, el fortalecimiento de su sistema de producción agrícola —denominado jajañ— inicia con la recuperación de maíces nativos desaparecidos por factores antropogénicos o climáticos. La “Rematriación” robustece su base agrícola, alimentaria y cultural. Para recuperar los maíces desaparecidos empleamos las accesiones en los Bancos de Germoplasma para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (BGAA) de Colombia, que son administrados por AGROSAVIA. Allí identificamos 10 accesiones recolectadas en el Putumayo y conservadas por más de tres décadas. Posteriormente, acordamos con los Kamëntsá-bija incrementar estos materiales para retornarlos a la comunidad. Este incremento se ejecutó en el Centro de Investigación La Selva, de AGROSAVIA (Rionegro, Antioquia), cuyas condiciones agroclimáticas son óptimas para incrementar maíces de clima frío moderado, además de ser similares a las del Putumayo. Establecimos una parcela exclusiva de incremento bajo polinización controlada por accesión y obtuvimos semilla de calidad. Paralelamente, fortalecimos la Red de Guardianes de Semillas Kamëntsá para que incrementen, produzcan y conserven —bajo sus prácticas culturales— la semilla retornada. La “Rematriación” es el retorno consciente y respetuoso de semillas nativas a las comunidades, con el reconocimiento de su valor intrínseco y la preservación de las prácticas culturales asociadas a las semillas. La “Rematriación” se fundamenta en el respeto y la compresión cultural, y prioriza la participación comunitaria durante el fortalecimiento de los sistemas de producción agrícolas propios desde la interculturalidad. Finalmente, esta contribuye a la soberanía, seguridad e identidad alimentarias de las comunidades. Facilita la conservación y el rescate de la agrobiodiversidad con procesos ex situ e in situ. Aquí, describimos los principios de la Rematriación y detallamos las acciones hechas con los Kamëntsa-biya para articular la conservación en el BGAA y la recuperación de semillas de las comunidades. Así, enriquecemos la entrega de semilla a las comunidades y fortalecemos las capacidades de los SLS.
"Nothing like the image and horror of it": King Lear and Heart of Darkness Authors
Authors: Meek Richard
Published: December 2024

Cluster: Shakespeare's Literary Afterlives

Edited by Mark Bayer

There are several allusions to King Lear at the end of Heart of Darkness, suggesting that Joseph Conrad might have had Shakespeare in mind during the composition of his novella. Both texts are concerned with the difficulty of producing meaning in the face of unspeakable horrors, and the problems involved in constructing an intelligible or meaningful "report." Heart of Darkness thus emerges as a sophisticated and skeptical "reading" of Shakespeare's tragedy: both texts reveal narrative to be a kind of confidence trick, while at the same time demonstrating the power of narrative and our need for coherent ends.
Extending the Filmic Canon: The Banquet and Maqbool Authors
Authors: Thornton Burnett Mark
Published: December 2024

The Banquet (dir. Feng Xiaogang, 2006) deploys a filmic method that, despite assertions to the contrary, is deeply read both in playing conventions and in the textual debates of Shakespeare's work. No less powerfully suggested is the film's awareness of its status as the latest in a long line of Shakespearean cinematic realizations. The outlines of the drama and the key players, for instance, are invariably doubly rephrased. Arguably taking energy from its contemporary surroundings, Maqbool (dir. Vishal Bhardwaj, 2003), too, is conscious, at least in part, of functioning as a remake. Allusions to the titular protagonist inheriting "Bollywood" and the fact that the Lady Macbeth figure is a type of frustrated actress, make logistical sense within the parameters of a film that openly confesses to being inspired by Macbeth. Central to the film's effect are the ways in which the traditional exercises of fatherhood are elaborated as the primary means through which power is transferred. Elsewhere, musical interludes in which a public woman's voice plays out the male protagonist's inner compulsions demonstrate the extent to which Maqbool pushes at some of the play's gendered preoccupations.
Dreaming of Orientalism in Kenneth Branagh's As You Like It
Authors: Klett Elizabeth
Published: December 2024

Kenneth Branagh's choice of Meiji-era Japan for Shakespeare's pastoral comedy inspires some visually pleasing imagery and tableaux in his film version of As You Like It, but the mingling of Asian cultures and marginalizing of Asian actors makes the film racially problematic and, ultimately, Eurocentric.
Inventing Isabel: Pig Iron Theatre Company (Re)Imagines Measure for Measure Authors
Authors: Steffy Rebecca
Published: December 2024

Pig Iron Theatre Company premiered their original performance work Isabella as part of the 2007 Live Arts Festival in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Their adaptation of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, featuring a mortician and the small troupe of cadavers under his care, shifts attention away from the issues of governance so central to Measure for Measure and towards the moral ambiguities of desire and invention. With additional influences from the Pygmalion myth and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Isabella performs its ambiguities on and through bodies, tracing the alternating potential for bodies to gain or lose control over particular uses. Isabella rifles through the dead to bring something new to life.
Shakespeare: It's What's for Dinner
Authors: Scott-Douglass Amy
Published: December 2024

Although the title of The Banquet (2006) suggests a large, public, celebratory meal, there is a noticeable lack of food in the film itself. Rather than cinematic representations of food, the film serves up a feast of Shakespearean references, including allusions to Hamlet, King Lear, Titus Andronicus, Othello, Macbeth, and Romeo and Juliet, as well as various of the history and Roman plays. While both The Banquet and The Celebration (dir. Thomas Vinterberg, 1998) share a sense of themselves as national films working within an international market and a similar philosophy of Shakespearean borrowing, they differ in their philosophies of filmmaking.
Swansong at the Seattle Shakespeare Company; Or, Historical Fiction vs. Disciplined Historicism
Authors: Borlik Todd
Published: December 2024

This essay opens with a review of the Seattle Shakespeare Company's production of Swansong, Patrick Page's new play about the stormy friendship between Shakespeare and Ben Jonson. After examining the highpoints of the script and performance, the essay proceeds to read the rivalry between the two playwrights as a meta-commentary on the unspoken rivalry between academic scholarship and historical fiction. Since New Historicism has in effect elevated the "plausible" to an acceptable target of scholarly inquiry, historical fiction has gained an unprecedented respectability. As literary historians now retreat from speculative methodologies, historical fiction may provide a significant alternative venue for imaginative reconstructions eschewed by documentary biography.
Martial Arts and Masculine Identity in Feng Xiaogang's The Banquet Authors
Authors: Ko Yu Jin
Published: December 2024

As cinematic clichés go, the image of the Asian martial arts master is about as well-worn as it comes. And yet in the hands of a director like Feng Xiaogang, the image is revitalized in ways that not only make it fresh again, but also reflect how the director re-imagines Shakespeare's characters. This paper considers the role of the martial arts in the conception of masculinity in Feng's The Banquet. As an adaptation of Hamlet, The Banquet subtly negotiates the strand in theatrical and critical history that effeminizes Hamlet as the sensitive melancholiac — but within a specifically global context in which China is an emerging superpower. As the paper examines how Feng refigures masculine identity in Hamlet, it will also argue that the film is confronting the issue of Asian masculine identity itself as represented in global cinema.
Spectator Violence and Queenly Desire in The Banquet
Authors: Chapman Rebecca
Published: December 2024

Unique among Hamlet adaptations, The Banquet resists the tendency in Hollywood cinematic tradition of minimizing Gertrude to a structural device used to develop the figures of Hamlet and Claudius. Instead, Empress Wan, loosely the Gertrude figure, emerges as a figure of adaptation itself, usurping the structural and visual focus as she usurps the throne. However, Wan's mysterious murder at the film's end poses the question of just how perverse an adaptation spectators are willing to accept.
Native Shakespeares: Indigenous Appropriations on a Global Stage, edited by Craig Dionne and Parmita Kapadia
Authors: Kozusko Matt
Published: December 2024

Craig Dionne and Parmita Kapadia, Native Shakespeares: Indigenous Appropriations on a Global Stage. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008. 258 pp. + 8 b&w illustrations. ISBN: 978-0-7546-6296-9. $99.95 US.
Blinders Off, Please: Creating a Color-Sighted Comedy of Errors
Authors: Ocampo-Guzman Antonio
Published: December 2024

This article serves as a critical examination of a production of The Comedy of Errors that I directed in the spring of 2007 at Arizona State University's School of Theatre and Film. My main goal was to produce a "color-sighted" production that would implicitly challenge the tenets of colorblindness. I wanted to see if I could be fully "color-sighted" and make casting and directorial decisions based on the ethnicities of my students as well as responding to their training needs and challenges.
Interiority, Masks, and The Banque
Authors: Tien Yuk Sunny
Published: December 2024

The Banquet (2006), the first Chinese feature film based on Shakespeare's Hamlet, explores and reformulates the nature of self and identity. Director Feng Xiaogang makes a clear distinction between the outer and inner selves, interpreting the outer self as a mask that is used to conceal one's emotions or inner self. On the other hand, the film challenges the binaries of interiority and appearance and suggests that behaviors can be internalized and gradually inhabit the inner self. The theatrical self and the inner self therefore can no longer be clearly differentiated.
Queer Appropriations: Shakespeare's Sonnets and Dickinson's Love Poems Authors
Authors: Finnerty Páraic
Published: December 2024

While it is expected that nineteenth-century love poetry would engage with Shakespeare's Sonnets, considering their status and pervasive appeal at the time in Anglo-American culture, this paper puts forward the case for Emily Dickinson's specific borrowings from these poems. More specifically, within the context of their afterlife, it argues that the Sonnets provided the American poet with an authoritative and, at the same time, controversial resource for her construction of love. It examines Dickinson's use of a vocabulary of aristocratic and economic tropes, love triangles, imagery of light and darkness, physical beauty and erotic multiplicity, which she would have identified as Shakespearean. His unconventional sonnets, it will be suggested, offered Dickinson a means of validating the traditionally feminine position of powerlessness within the discourse of love, of representing female desire for a male figure, and of constructing poems that connote same-sex love. Like the Sonnets, Dickinson's love poems are queer: They unsettle repressive categories of gender and sexuality and make possible the signification of same-sex passion. This paper continues current discussion of the queer afterlives of both writers as an antidote to the intrusive and spurious biographical readings of their brief, repetitious, and figurative lyrics.
Erotic Politics Reconsidered: Desdemona's Challenge to Othello Authors
Authors: Gruber Elizabeth
Published: December 2024

Adaptations frequently revamp their source-texts by reversing the disposition of margins and center. This principle is epitomized in Paula Vogel's Desdemona: A Play About a Handkerchief, which retells Othello, but focuses on the formerly marginalized female characters from Shakespeare's play. My essay examines Desdemona as feminist protest, showing how Vogel's adaptation responds to the elegiac politics of Shakespeare's play. Of particular significance is Vogel's transformation of the necrophilic impulse in Othello: in Shakespeare's play, of course, Othello vows to love Desdemona after killing her. Fittingly — given that adaptations employ repetition itself as a vehicle for transformation — Desdemona both reprises and critiques the death æsthetic of Othello.
Effects of a rotational motion of a liquid between curvilinear walls
Authors:   Lavrentyev Institute of Hydrodynamis SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia, Sennitskii Vladimir
Published: December 2024

The purpose of the work is the revealing and the researching of peculiarities of an average in time rotational motion of a viscous liquid which is bordering with solid bodies (curvilinear walls) under periodic in time influences which are characterized by the presence or the absence of a predominant direction in space.

Methods. The analytic investigational methods for boundary problems for Navier–Stokes and continuity equations are used that are the method of perturbations (the method of a decomposition by degrees of a small parameter), the method of Fourier, an averaging.

Results. A new problem on the motion of a viscous liquid is formulated and solved. New hydro-mechanical effects are revealed.

Conclusion. The fulfilled investigation is a continuation of previous investigations of non-trivial dynamics of hydro-mechanical systems under periodic influences. In particular the work is directed to the determination of the range of possibilities to create quality changes of a hydro-mechanical systems dynamics by periodic influences. The obtained results can be used in a scientific researching of perspective approaches to the solving actual applied and fundamental problems.
Kink dynamics in the φ4 model with two extended impurities
Authors:   Ufa University of Science and Technology, Russia, Fakhretdinov Marat , Ekomasov Evgenii ,   Ufa University of Science and Technology, Russia
Published: December 2024

The purpose of this study is to use numerical methods to consider the problem of nonlinear kink dynamics for the φ4 equation in a model with two identical extended «impurities» (or spatial inhomogeneity of the potential).

Methods. The φ4 model with inhomogeneities was numerically solved using the method of lines for partial differential equations. The kink was launched in the direction of the inhomogeneities with different initial velocities. The distance between the two impurities was also varied. The kink trajectory after interaction with the impurities was studied. The discrete Fourier transform was used to find the oscillation frequencies of the kink after interaction with spatial inhomogeneities.

Results. The interaction between the kink and two identical extended impurities described by rectangular functions is described. Possible scenarios of kink dynamics are determined, taking into account resonance effects, depending on the magnitude of the system parameters and initial conditions. Critical and resonant velocities of the kink motion are found depending on the impurity parameters and the distance between them. Significant differences are observed in the kink dynamics when interacting with repulsive
and attractive impurities. It is established that among the found scenarios of kink dynamics for the case of extended rectangular impurities, there are scenarios of resonant kink dynamics obtained earlier for the case of one extended impurity, for example, quasi-tunneling and repulsion from an attractive potential.

Conclusion. An analysis of the influence of system parameters and initial conditions on possible scenarios of kink dynamics is carried out. Critical and resonant kink velocities are found as functions of the impurity parameters and the distance between them.
Green technologies in the manufacturing industry in Russian regions
Authors:   Saratov State University, Preobrazhenskiy Yuri V. , Klyukin Sergey S. ,   Saratov State University
Published: December 2024

The green transformation of the country’s economy is a crucial process for the
sustainable development of spatial socio-natural systems. This transformation is closely linked to
the broader process of digitalizing the economy. However, the introduction of green technologies
into Russian industries is uneven, as shown by the analysis of the representation of advanced
green manufacturing technologies in different regions. This analysis has revealed a lack of using
green technologies and a low number of regions that generate these technologies. Despite
this, there are prerequisites for the successful implementation of green technologies in certain
regions of Russia, and leading regions for the adoption of the most significant green production technologies have been alternatives to green transformation through the adoption of nature-based technologies are also discussed.
On a record of cow shark’ tooth (Neoselachii, Hexanchidae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Saratov Volga region
Authors:   Saratov State University, Popov Evgeny V. , Lopyrev Vladimir A. ,   Saratov State University, Seltser Vladimir B. ,   Saratov State University
Published: December 2024

The discovery of a tooth of the cow shark Hexanchus microdon (Ag., 1835) from carbonate deposits of the Karsun Formation in the
‘Krasny Oktyabr’ quarry (Volsk, Saratov Volga River Right Bank) is described. Based on the associated foraminifera complex, the stratigraphic
position of the find was determined as Lower Maastrichtian, benthic foraminifera LC20 Falsoplanulina multipunctata Zone. It was calculated that
the individual size of the described shark species H. microdon was 153–166 cm. This is the first record of the species in the region and in the
Upper Cretaceous deposits of Russian Plate, which expands the paleobiogeographic range of the species.
Student autonomy and Learning Analytics: Philosophical Considerations for Designing Feedback Tools
Authors: Weydner-Volkmann Sebastian , Bär Dominik
Published: December 2024

LA-based feedback applications are becoming increasingly important in higher education institutions (HEIs). However, the impact of such systems on student autonomy is contested in parts of the research debate, where hopes and ambitions of learner autonomy and self-regulated learning are confronted with fears that learners are being reduced to mere numeric constructs and are caught up in neoliberal demands to self-optimize. We explore these challenges from the debate with a focus on automated, LA feedback systems in HEIs and their impact on student autonomy. As we show, such technologies must be seen within a field of tension between heteronomous (i.e., contextual and societal) demands and autonomous, self-organized learning. Aiming to bridge the critical parts of the debate with those that highlight the potential of such technologies, we build upon meaningful conceptions of limited, situated autonomy and explore what it would mean for such feedback systems to strengthen, not undermine student autonomy. To make the concept of student autonomy applicable, we propose a list of philosophical design considerations for LA-based feedback systems. We believe that this will offer a philosophically informed intellectual tool to address common concerns raised by parts of the debate and that it can encourage further discussion on recognizing, promoting, and preserving student autonomy in higher education.
Nos habíamos terruqueado tanto: cómo y por qué el poder instrumentaliza el concepto “terrorismo”
Authors: Jordán Rubén
Published: December 2024

El presente artículo explora la apropiación discursiva que el poder contemporáneo hace del concepto “terrorismo”. A partir de algunas indicaciones de las filosofías políticas de Platón y de Hobbes, similares en cuanto a su encomio de la violencia como herramienta del poder, se defiende que abusar del concepto “terrorismo” sirve al poder como mecanismo de autolegitimación y autoafirmación. Esto es así porque el poder, a través de sistemas doctrinales muy diseminados, presenta los actos terroristas como una muestra del hipotético estado de caos total que surgiría si se modificara su actual configuración.
La sorpresa en la experiencia estética de la música popular
Authors: Cercado Antonio
Published: December 2024

La música popular se ha servido de nuevas tecnologías y del carácter globalizador de nuestra época para expandirse por diferentes espacios de la vida cotidiana. Vivimos sobre estimulados por diferentes ritmos, melodías y sonidos. En este contexto tan diverso, ¿cómo explicamos que algo nuevo nos guste? La propuesta de este trabajo es explicar la génesis del gusto, partiendo de la estructura temporal de la sorpresa propuesta por Natalie Depraz: anticipación-impresión-resonancia. La idea es entender el gusto como una posibilidad de la sorpresa; como resonancia de la primera experiencia sonora. De esta forma, se podrá ofrecer una perspectiva distinta de la estética del gusto: fuera o diferenciándose de los modelos estéticos establecidos. Además, se podrá entender cómo la sorpresa participa en el origen de las distintas comunidades musicales que son responsables de sostener la producción musical masiva.