bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Restricción de las cirugías electivas durante la pandemia por coronavirus como factor asociado a complicaciones quirúrgicas abdominales en el Hospital Regional de Ica 2020-2021
Authors:   , Donayre Araujo Claudia Susana
Published: August 2023

Objetivo: Determinar la asociación de la restricción de las cirugías electivas durante la pandemia por coronavirus en las complicaciones quirúrgicas abdominales en el Hospital Regional de Ica 2020-2021. Metodología: Investigación de tipo analítica, transversal, retrospectiva, observacional, de nivel relacional en la que se compra la proporción de complicaciones post quirúrgicas antes de la pandemia y durante la pandemia. Se compararon 128 intervenciones quirúrgicas abdominales antes de la pandemia y 128 intervenciones quirúrgicas durante la pandemia respecto a las complicaciones post operatorias. Resultados: La prevalencia de complicaciones de todas las intervenciones de la cavidad abdominal fue de 37.9% (97), 50,8% (130) de todos los pacientes eran de sexo masculinos, la media de las edades fue de 52,78 (IC95%: 50,81 - 54,75) siendo el paciente de menor edad 19 años y la de mayor edad 79 años. Las complicaciones post operatorias en tiempos de pandemia de las cirugías abdominales son más frecuentes 54,7% (70) frente a las complicaciones en tiempo de no pandemia 21,1% (27) con diferencias significativas p=0,000 OR=4,5 (IC95%: 2,6-7,8), en las cirugías de vías biliares 44,7% (19) frente a las complicaciones en tiempo de no pandemia 23,3% (10) p=0,04 OR=2,6 (IC95%: 1,1-6,6), en las cirugías de apendicitis aguda 72,1% (31) frente a las complicaciones en tiempo de no pandemia 18,6% (8) p=0,000 OR=11,3 (IC95%: 4,1-31,2), y en cirugías de del tubo digestivo 47,6% (20) frente a las complicaciones en tiempo de no pandemia 21,4% (9) p=0,012 OR=3,3 (IC95%: 1,3-8,7). Conclusiones. La restricción de las cirugías electivas durante la pandemia por coronavirus es un factor asociado a complicaciones quirúrgicas abdominales en el Hospital Regional de Ica 2020-2021.
Correlación entre severidad y mortalidad por COVID-19 con el número de vacunas anticovid en pacientes internados en el Hospital Regional de Ica noviembre 2021 a marzo 2022
Authors:   , Morales Muñoz Dalia Gissela
Published: August 2023

Objetivo. Determinar la correlación entre severidad y mortalidad por COVID-19 con el número de vacunas anti-COVID en pacientes internados en el Hospital Regional de Ica noviembre 2021 a marzo 2022. Metodología. El estudio es de tipo observacional. Transversal. Retrospectivo. Analítico porque el estudio es bivariado de correlación. En una población de 446 pacientes tratados en los ambientes de hospitalización del Hospital Regional de Ica desde estadíos moderados, de donde se obtuvo una muestra de 229 pacientes. El estadístico de correlación utilizado fue la Tau-b de Kendall. Resultados: Se encontró 10,9% de tasas de mortalidad, 20,5% en estado crítico, 34,1% en estado grave y 34,5% en estado moderado por Covid-19. El 18,3% de pacientes no vacunados, 19,2% con una dosis, 31,9% con 2 dosis y 30,6% con 3 dosis. El 65,1% de pacientes hospitalizados por la Covid-19 fueron de 60 a más años. Existe una correlación de nivel regular entre la severidad y mortalidad por COVID-19 con el número de vacunas anti-COVID Tau b de Kendall= -0,217 p= 0,000. La correlación es no significativa entre severidad y mortalidad por COVID-19 con el número de vacunas anti-COVID en pacientes menores de 60 años Tau b de Kendall= -0,042 p= 0.667. Existe una correlación regular significativa 35,9% entre severidad y mortalidad por COVID-19 con el número de vacunas anti-COVID en pacientes de 60 a más años Tau b de Kendall= -0,359 p=0,000. Conclusión. Existe correlación entre severidad y mortalidad por COVID-19 con el número de vacunas anti-COVID en pacientes internados en el Hospital Regional de Ica noviembre 2021 a marzo 2022, siendo más efectivo en la población adulta mayor.
Nivel de conocimiento, actitudes y prácticas sobre métodos anticonceptivos en estudiantes de medicina humana de la Universidad Privada San Juan Bautista, Lima 2021
Authors:   , Ruiz Ramos Allison Medalit
Published: August 2023

Objetivo: Identificar el nivel de conocimiento, actitudes y prácticas sobre métodos anticonceptivos en estudiantes de Medicina Humana de la Universidad Privada San Juan Bautista, Lima 2021. Materiales y métodos: estudio cuantitativo, de tipo observacional, descriptivo, prospectivo, transversal. La población de estudio estuvo conformada por estudiantes de medicina humana. La muestra fue de 355 estudiantes. Se realizó una encuesta virtual, de elaboración propia, el instrumento fue validado por una terna de jueces, se realizó una prueba piloto, obteniendo un alfa de Cronbach mayor de 0,7. Para el análisis de datos se utilizó la hoja de cálculo de Excel 2019 y el programa IBM SPSS Statistics 25. Resultados: se identificó que el 56, 06% posee un conocimiento medio, 28,95% conocimiento alto y 15,49% conocimiento bajo. El 99,15% tienen una actitud de aceptación, el 85,07% de estudiantes tienen prácticas responsables y 14,93% restante prácticas no responsables. Conclusiones: El mayor porcentaje de estudiantes de Medicina Humana presentan un nivel de conocimiento medio, la actitud que predomina es la de aceptación y en cuanto a las prácticas presentes son responsables.
Prevalencia de la gestión financiera de la empresa pesquera Centinela S.A.C del distrito de Tambo De Mora, Chincha – Ica, 2019
Authors:   , Márquez Márquez Lisseth Griselda
Published: August 2023

El trabajo a ejecutar tiene como objetivo determinar que ocasiona la prevalencia de la Gestión Financiera de la empresa Pesquera Centinela SAC del Distrito de Tambo de Mora Año 2019 El desarrollo de la investigación fue de tipo descriptiva, porque se comprobó actividades favorables principales sobre el tema de investigación, asimismo el diseño de la investigación fue transversal y transeccional, ya que dicha investigación fue de lapso de tiempo corto. La población del presente trabajo estuvo constituida por los gerentes y/o directivos, Jefes de departamento y trabajadores involucrados del departamento de Finanzas de la empresa Pesquera Centinela SAC del Distrito de Tambo de Mora Año 2019. La técnica que se utilizó para la investigación fue la encuesta y el instrumento utilizado el cuestionario. Para el presente trabajo de investigación se concluyó que los presupuestos financieros, los financiamientos externos y los sistemas de control son determinantes dentro de la gestión financiera de la empresa pesquera Centinela SAC, ya que ello contribuye a un buen manejo de los recursos de la organización a través de los planeamientos y de los controles debidamente implementados para el control de las erogaciones que se dan dentro del proceso productivo y con ello mejorar la rentabilidad de la empresa, objetivo que toda organización establece para un determinado ejercicio económico.
Factors For Adherence To Exercise: Motivation To Pursue Fitness Among Mapeh Teachers In Zamboanga City
Authors: Dante T. Ramírez
Published: August 2023

The pursuit of a sustainable fitness program is viewed as a global issue and mission. Clearly, this is a global problem, and it should be prioritized as the first step in any health-care program. It is the value, knowledge, talents, and experiences obtained via physical activity in order to achieve and maintain health-related fitness and maximize health. This study examines what factors motivate MAPEH instructors to exercise. There are 72 MAPEH teachers from Zamboanga City's top eight (8) schools participated in the research. The findings reveal that respondents demonstrated above-average level on Identified Regulation motivating component. MAPEH teachers choose to exercise freely because they appreciate the benefits of exercise. They like exercise sessions, regard physical activity as a pleasurable pastime, and receive pleasure and fulfillment from physical activity. The respondents in this study do not believe they should exercise because other people, such as friends/family/partner, have pushed them to do so. This study revealed that exercising is a personal responsibility of someone for health, social belonging, and personal development. This study is very vital in analyzing the features of exercise and how active participants are motivated to consistently doing the practice. The information from this study can help program fitness programs for the faculty and other employees of organizations with similar profile.
السجالات السياسية في برامج الحوار السياسي في الفضائيات العراقية وانعكاساتها على المجتمع من وجهة نظر أساتذة الإعلام والسياسة
Authors: أ.د عبد النبي خزعل
Published: August 2023

يسعى هذا البحث الى الكشف عن الانعكاسات التي تولدها السجالات السياسية والطرح المتشدد للآراء الذي تبديه بعض أطراف الحوار في برامج الحوار السياسي في الفضائيات العراقية. متخذا من المسح منهجا ومن الاستبانة أداة لجمع البيانات والمعلومات المتعلقة بمشكلة البحث وأهدافه والتي وزعت على عينة من الأساتذة الجامعيين المتخصصين في مجالي الإعلام والسياسة باعتبارهم جهة التخصص الأكثر اهتماما بالشأن السياسي الذي تتناوله برامج الحوار السياسي.

وقد بلغت عينة البحث بعد استعادة جميع الاستمارات والأخذ بملاحظات الخبراء 92 استمارة . جرى تطبيق المعادلات الإحصائية عليها من تكرارات ونسب مئوية ووسط مرجح و وزن مئوي، ويعد هذا البحث من البحوث الوصفية. واعتمد الباحث فيه على المنهج المسحي. ويمكن تلخيص أهم النتائج التي توصل إليها البحث بما يأتي :

أن برامج الحوار السياسي في الفضائيات العراقية تحظى بنسبة مشاهدة عالية من لدن الجمهور العراقي مما يدل على قدر عال من الاهتمام بالشأن السياسي. وأن بعض السياسيين ممن يدعون تمثيل فئات معينة من المجتمع تفرط إفراطا متعمدا في استخدام لغة غير ودية أثناء اشتراكها في برامج الحوار مما ينعكس سلبا في السلوك الاجتماعي للأفراد . وظهر أن أسلوب الإثارة والتهويل الذي تتبعه بعض برامج الحوار السياسي في تناول الأزمات والأحداث الطارئة يتسبب في قدر عال من إثارة مخاوف الجمهور وتوقعاته السلبية بشأنها . ظهر من نتائج البحث كذلك أن حداثة الموضوعات المطروحة للنقاش مع استضافة شخصيات معروفة بتطرف طروحاتها ، تجعل الجمهور أكثر قلقا وتوترا من النتائج المترتبة على هذه البرامج على الشارع العراقي .
آراء النخب الاكاديمية ازاء دور الفضائيات العراقية للحد من الارهاب دراسة مسحية على اساتذة الإعلام والعلوم السياسية في جامعة بغداد
Authors: أ.م.د.حيدر شلال متعب
Published: August 2023

جاء البحث  ليتعرف على اراء النخب الاكاديمية ازاء دور الفضائيات العراقية للحد من الارهاب  بأعتبار ان هذه الفضائيات اصبحت منبراً مهماً يسلط الضوء على هذه القضايا ويحدد حجمها، ويبين سبل القضاء عليها او الحد منها، ومن اجل ذلك فقد تم اختيار عينة من النخب الاكاديمية اعتماداً على مستواها العلمي والثقافي الذي يمكنها من التقييم الدقيق ووضع الاليات الملائمة للحد من الارهاب ، وتم الاستعانة بالمنهج الوصفي واسلوب المسح الميداني من خلال الاعتماد على الاستبيان كأداة لجمع البيانات  لملائمة ذلك مع أغراض البحث واجرى البحث على عينة عمدية  قوامها (140) مشاهداً  لمضامين الارهاب  في الفضائيات العراقية.

أمّا أهم النتائج التي توصل إليها البحث، فهي كالاتي:

بينت نتائج الدراسة ان مضامين الارهاب في الفضائيات العراقية حظيت بنسب مشاهده عالية وبانتظام من قبل المبحوثين .

أن سمات البرامج التي تتناول موضوعات الإرهاب عبر الفضائيات العراقية حسب رأي المبحوثين تمثلت بأن تتميز بالمصداقية والموضوعية، إذ حصلت على أعلى مجموع من التكرارات بلغت (42) تكراراً وبنسبة (30%).

اكدت النتائج  أن الفضائيات العراقية (اسهمت) في التعريف بقضايا الإرهاب من خلال المواد والبرامج التي تقدمها، إذ حصلت على أعلى مجموع من التكرارات بلغت (82) تكراراً وبنسبة (58،57%).

اشارت النتائج فيما يتعلق بعدد ساعات مشاهدة القنوات التلفزيونية، إلى أن الذين يشاهدون من 1-2 ساعة وعددهم (59) مبحوثاً وبنسبة مئوية قدرها (42،14% ) جاء وبالمرتبة الأولى.
การปรับปรุงสมบัติดินในพื้นที่จังหวัดมหาสารคามด้วยการเติมดินเชื้อ
Authors: พันธ์สุขุมธนา ลดา , พละบุญ ศศิธร , กิจชัยนุกูล ดนัย
Published: August 2023

รายงานการศึกษาวิจัยนี้เป็นการศึกษาการปรับปรุงสมบัติดินในพื้นที่จังหวัดมหาสารคามด้วยการเติมดินเชื้อ ซึ่งมีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อนําข้อมูลไปใช้ในการพัฒนาเนื้อดินและผลิตภัณฑ์สําหรับการผลิตเครื่องปั้นดินเผาของชุมชนบ้านหม้อ ตําบลเขวา อําเภอเมือง จังหวัดมหาสารคาม ประเทศไทย โดยดินเชื้อเตรียมจากดินโคลนที่หนองเลิง ตําบลเขวา อําเภอเมือง จังหวัดมหาสารคาม กับแกลบ นําดินเชื้อที่ผ่านการเผามา บด และร่อนผ่านตะแกรง 60 เมช ผสมกับดินจากแหล่งเดียวกัน ที่อัตราส่วน ดินต่อดินเชื้อ เป็น 80:20 70:30 60:40 50:50 ส่วนผสม ดังกล่าวผ่านกระบวนการหมัก การนวด การขึ้นรูป และเผาที่อุณหภูมิ 700-1200 องศาเซลเซียส โดยส่วนผสมตามอัตราส่วนที่ได้จะทดสอบ สมบัติกายภาพทั้งก่อนและหลังเผา ได้แก่ การหดตัว การดูดซึมน้ํา ความหนาแน่น ความต้านแรงดัด ทดสอบเฟส การขยายตัวเมื่อร้อน พร้อม ทั้งศึกษาโครงสร้างทางจุลภาค ผลจากการศึกษาวิจัยพบว่าการเพิ่มดินเชื้อจะเป็นการเพิ่มรูพรุนแบบเปิดในโครงสร้างทําให้การหดตัวเมื่อแห้ง ของดินตัวอย่างก่อนและหลังเผาลดลง การดูดซึมน้ําเพิ่มขึ้น ความหนาแน่นลดลง สําหรับดินตัวอย่างที่เติมดินเปื้อนําไปเผาที่อุณหภูมิต่ำ 800 องศาเซลเซียส ในตัวอย่างจะมีรูพรุนและพบผลึก Quartz เป็นองค์ประกอบ มีความต้านแรงดัดและสมบัติการขยายตัวเมื่อร้อนต่ำ ในขณะที่เมื่อเพิ่มอุณหภูมิการเผาไปที่ 1200 องศาเซลเซียส ทําให้ดินตัวอย่างที่เติม และไม่เต็มดินเชื้อ มีรูพรุนลดลง การดูดซึมน้ำลดลง การหดตัว หลังเผา และความหนาแน่นเพิ่มขึ้น นอกจากนี้ยังพบผลึกของ Cristobatite และ Mulite ในดินตัวอย่างส่งผลทําให้การขยายตัวเมื่อร้อนและ ความต้านแรงดัดเพิ่มขึ้นตามลําดับด้วย ผลการศึกษาวิจัยนี้สรุปได้ว่าสามารถปรับปรุงสมบัติดินด้วยการเติมดินเชื้อจะเป็นการพัฒนาเนื้อดิน และผลิตภัณฑ์สําหรับการผลิตเครื่องปั้นดินเผาได้
การทํากลีเซอรอลดิบให้บริสุทธิ์ด้วยเทคนิคโครมาโทกราฟี
Authors: จินดาวุฒิกุล สุพะไชย์ , บุราคร จิราภรณ์ , บรรยงวิมลณัฐ นงลักษณ์
Published: August 2023

งานวิจัยนี้เป็นการทําให้กลีเซอรอลดิบ (Crude glycerol) ซึ่งเป็นผลิตภัณฑ์พลอยได้จากการผลิตไบโอดีเซลให้มีความบริสุทธิ์สูงขึ้นเพื่อเพิ่มมูลค่าของกลีเซอรอลดิบ ซึ่งกลีเซอรอลดิบมีลักษณะเป็นของเหลวหนืดสีดํา จากการวิเคราะห์พบว่ามีกลีเซอรอลเพียงร้อยละ 54 จึงไม่สามารถนําไปใช้ประโยชน์ได้ นอกจากใช้เป็นเชื้อเพลิง การทํากลีเซอรอลให้บริสุทธิ์ด้วยเทคนิคโครมาโทกราฟีนั้น จําเป็นต้องเตรียมกลีเซอรอลดิบตามขั้นตอนต่อไปนี้ คือ นํากลีเซอรอลดิบมาเติมเมทานอล เพื่อลดความหนืดของกลีเซอรอลดิบในเบื้องต้นจากนั้นจึงปรับค่าความเป็นกรด-เบสโดยใช้กรดซัลฟิวริกเพื่อแยกเกลือออกไป พบว่าที่ค่าความเป็นกรด-ด่างเท่ากับ 2 สามารถตกตะกอนเกลือได้ดีที่สุด จากนั้นกรองเกลือและสารเจือปนอื่นๆ ออก พร้อมทําการฟอกสีและกําจัดกลิ่นด้วยถ่านกัมมันต์ จากนั้นได้ปรับเปลี่ยนค่าความเป็นกรด-เบส เพื่อตกตะกอนถ่านกัมมันต์ พบว่าใช้เวลาตกตะกอนถ่านกัมมันต์น้อยที่สุดที่ค่าความเป็นกรด-เบสเท่ากับ 6 ซึ่งถ่านกัมมันต์จะถูกแยกออกด้วยชุดเครื่องกรองสุญญากาศ จากนั้นได้กําจัดเมทานอลและน้ำด้วยความร้อน 120 องศาเซลเซียส โดยแปรเวลาในการให้ความร้อน พบว่าที่เวลา 120 นาที จะได้กลีเซอรอลบริสุทธิ์ที่สุดที่ร้อยละ 89 จากนั้นจึงนํากลีเซอรอลมากรองด้วยเทคนิคคอลัมน์โครมาโทกราฟี พบว่าสามารถเพิ่มความบริสุทธิ์ของกลีเซอรอลได้ถึงร้อยละ 92.19 มีความเหมาะสมที่จะนําไปใช้ในอุตสาหกรรมเครื่องสําอาง เช่น สบู่ และโลชั่น สร้างมูลค่า เพิ่มแก่กลีเซอรอลให้มากยิ่งขึ้น
Predictive Ability of Kindergarten Teachers' Relationships with Children of Insecure Attachment to Curiosity and Interaction with Peers According to their Levels of Verbal Ability in the City of Amman
Authors: Matar Jihan , Al-Salhout Kawthar
Published: August 2023

The present study aimed to identify the predictive ability of kindergarten teachers' relationships with children of insecure attachment to curiosity and interaction with peers according to their levels of verbal ability in the city of Amman in Al-Jami’ah district. The sample of the study consisted of (110) children (71 male children and 39 female children). To achieve the objectives of the study, the scale of Attachment pattern was used in addition to the measures of the teacher-child relationships, interaction with peers, curiosity and verbal ability. The findings showed that the level of the positive relationships between the kindergarten teacher and the children of the insecure attachment style, the level of children’s curiosity, and the level of their verbal ability were all moderate, with an average of (2.60), (0.63) and (% 51.8), respectively. Besides, children had a high level of interaction with their peers with an average of (3.03). The findings also showed that the kindergarten teacher's relationship with the children of the insecure attachment pattern explained (19.6%) of their curiosity, and (17.8%) of their interactions with peers. Results also revealed that there were no statistically significant differences in the relationship between the teacher's relationship with children, and their curiosity from one hand, and their interaction with peers on the other hand according to the variables of verbal ability and gender.
The Corona Virus Pandemic Psychological Effect and its relationship to Future Anxiety Among Teachers
Authors: Al- Shraifin Ahmad , Jarwan Ali , Megdadi Mu’ayyad
Published: August 2023

The study aimed at revealing the relation between Corona virus pandemic psychological effect and future anxiety among teachers considering some variables (i.e., gender, social status, and school type). To achieve the aims of the study, the Impact of Event Scale-Revised IES-R scale and the future anxiety scale were utilized, after examining their validity and reliability. The sample consisted of 254 teachers from public and private schools in Irbid. The results show that there are statistically significant differences in the means of corona virus pandemic psychological effect scale due to the type of school; private school teachers were more affected by the pandemic than public school teachers. Whereas the results indicate that there are no statistically significant differences due to gender and social status. On the other hand, the results reveal that there are statistically significant differences in the means of future anxiety scale due to gender, school type, and social status. The results also show that there is a statistical positive relationship between corona virus pandemic psychological effect and future anxiety.
Studies on effect of various seed priming treatments on seed yield in Barnyard Millet (Echinochloa frumentacea) cv CO1
Authors: Kumar S. Arun , Narayanan G. Sathiya , Ranjithrajaram S.
Published: August 2023

Field investigation was carried out to study the effect of various seed priming treatments on seed yield in barnyard millet cv CO 1. The seeds of barnyard millet cv CO 1 were given with following seed treatments i.e., dry dressing with Thiram @ 2 g/kg, Hydropriming, bio priming with Pungam leaf extract @ 5%, Moringa leaf extract @ 5%, organo priming with Vermiwash @ 5%, Panchagavya @ 5%, halo priming with MnSO4 @ 2%, ZnSO4 @ 2% along with control. The primed seeds were evaluated for the growth parameters, physiological parameters, gas exchange parameters and yield attributing characteristics. The Moringa leaf extract @ 5% seed priming treatment recorded higher values for the growth parameters such as field emergence, plant height at 45 days and plant height at 90 days. It also recorded early days to first flowering, early days to 50 % flowering when compared to other treatments. The Moringa leaf extract @ 5% seed priming treatment registered significantly higher values for the physiological parameters such as chlorophyll content at 45 DAS, chlorophyll content at 90 DAS, net assimilation rate at 30-50 DAS and 50-95 DAS, leaf area and gas exchange parameters such as photosynthetic rate, transpiration rate and stomatal conductance. In addition to the above characters, Moringa leaf extract @ 5% seed priming treatment also registered significantly higher values for the various seed yield attributing characteristics such as panicle weight plant-1, panicle to seed recovery, seed yield plant-1, seed yield plot-1 and 1000 seed weight.
Effect of Various Microbial Inoculums on the Growth, Quality and Nutrient Uptake of Mung Bean (Vigna radiata L.)
Authors: Singh Vikash , Singh Adesh , Verma Shikhar , Kumar Monu , Kumar Vivek , Singh Shekhar
Published: August 2023

A field experiment was conducted at Technology Park of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel University of Agriculture and Technology, Meerut (UP) to study the Growth, Quality, and Nutrient Uptake of Mung Bean (Vigna radiata L.) as Influenced by Different Microbial Inoculums during the kharif season of 2020. The experiment including ten treatments was conducted in RBD design and replicated thrice. The maximum values of growth attributes viz., Root length (15.7 cm), Root weight (1.4:1.06 fresh/dry g/plant), Effective nodules (41.5 no./plant), Nodules dry weight (96.3 mg/plant) and Grain yield (1106 kg/ha), Quality i.e., Protein content (25.4%), Protein yield (279.7 kg/ha) and nutrient content and uptake viz., nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium were recorded under NPK Consortia +ZSB, each @ 20 ml/kg followed by NPK Consortia @ 20 ml/kg. This shows that NPK Consortia with ZSB have better adoptability in growth, yield and quality of mung bean.
Influence of Phosphorus and Foliar Spraying of Zinc on Growth and Yield of Summer Groundnut
Authors: Nikitha Kottala , C. Umesha , Vandana Boyapati
Published: August 2023

A field experiment was conducted during Zaid 2022 at Crop Research Farm, Department of Agronomy, SHUATS, Prayagraj (UP). The experiment was laid out in Randomized Block Design with ten treatments which are replicated thrice based on one-year of experimentation. The treatments consists of 3 different levels of phosphorus (40, 50, 60 kg/ha) and chelated zinc (0.5, 1g, 2 g/liter) as a foliar spray and a control. The results revealed that the application of 60 kg/ha P2O5 + 2 g/liter chelated zinc (EDTA) was recorded significantly higher plant height (36.80 cm), No. of Nodules/plant (117.5), Plant dry weight (26.06 g/plant), Number of pods per plant (37.6), Seeds/pod (2.37), Test weight (38.00 g), Seed yield pod yield (3.80 t/ha), Seed yield (2.74 t/ha), Haulm yield (4.87 t/ha), Harvest index (46.00%), Shelling percent (59.07%), Gross returns (Rs 89,600.00/ha), Net return (Rs 62,340.00/ha) and Benefit-cost ratio (2.28).
What we Leave Behind: Exploring Multiple Environmental Legacies in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Gardens in the Dunes
Authors: Blair Ruth Marion
Published: August 2023

Leslie Marmon Silko's novel Gardens in the Dunes (1996) is unlike her earlier novels both in its reliance to a considerable degree on straegies of the traditional European realist novel and in its inclusion of a variety of global locations. Once again, it is a deeply political novel concerning abuses of indigenous peoples at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. But it is also a novel about gardens and in this essay I approach its issues from an ecocritical perspective, exploring its depiction of a range of gardening and horticultural practices and its valuing of ancient legacies. I attempt to evaluate the ability of the Gardens in the Dunes to offer a visionary view of sustainable agriculture.
‘The Name Blossomed’: Landscapes, Habitats and the Botanical Poetry of South-West Australia
Authors: Ryan John Charles
Published: August 2023

Habitat poetry represents the lives of plants, animals and the features of the natural world within their ecological networks. Commonly detailing physical contact with nature, habitat poetry narrates moments in which the senses engage with ecological processes. Additionally, habitat awareness in poetry tends to convey a sense of grappling with scientific discourses. These characterisations of habitat poetry will be articulated in the context of the biodiverse South-West of Western Australia. The works of South-West poets Alec Choate (1915-2010) (Gifts; A Marking; Mind); Andrew Lansdown (1954-); and John Kinsella (1963) (Poems; The New Arcadia) use sensory language to express something about nature and convey the dynamics between science and poetry. The concept of habitat provides an interpretative framework for reading Choate,  Lansdown and Kinsella. The three could be described not only as landscape poets but more precisely as habitat poets, a distinction pursued in this discussion.
International Regionalism as American-Australian Dialogue: William James and Henry David Thoreau in John Kinsella’s Jam Tree Gully Poems
Authors: Bristow Tom
Published: August 2023

Henry David Thoreau’s Walden; or Life in the Woods (1854) is America’s nineteenth century scriptural call to establish the foundations of nationhood.  The epic event of America underwritten by English literature, politics and economics, alongside the idea to self-realise anew and afresh is pregnant with Transcendentalist notions of self-reliance: the triumph of principles and latent convictions that constitute enlightenment within the self. In Jam Tree Gully Poems (2011) poet John Kinsella mimics this experimental temperate consciousness to outline degrees of freedom that are yoked to a satirical position on the extent that nature (or humans for that matter) can be autonomous. For Thoreau, free will is answered in terms of improvement – to environment and to the spirit.  Improvements are accounted for by framing action and events over time. An issue at stake here is: to what extent does Thoreau’s desire to project a Protestant sense of improvement rely upon an externality operating on micro and macro scales that is subservient to human experience? In Walden, seasons do not come first; human emotion and intellect precede chronotopic and atmospheric abstractions.  Human autonomy within the midst of nature – the central focus of Kinsella’s and Thoreau’s experiment – offers a Romanticism, a mode of feeling rather than a choice of subject.
Minds in the Cave: Insects as Metaphors for Place and Loss
Authors: Nankin Harry
Published: August 2023

The practice-led PhD art research project 'Gathering Shadows' investigates the visual poetics of a speculative ‘ecological gaze’ at a time of ecological crisis. The project considers two environments but avers from the distancing objectification characteristic of lens-based capture and the tired genre of ‘landscape’. Instead, it proposes a symbolic order in which imagery of native invertebrates are presented as indices of the generic non-human 'Other'. This is conveyed with reflections on deep time, ecological sited-ness, ecological continuities and, most importantly, ecological disruption. Employing a unique analogic plein air technique for recording diminutive live subjects without a camera, the research pivots upon a trio of ecomimetic cues: first, its deeply indexical processes reveal an insect umwelten of uncanny intimacy and semiotic presence. Second, it is a process in which images tend to be facilitated not predetermined, where results are partially outcomes of chance-driven, counter-anthropocentric interactions between artist and environment. Third, rather than evoke traditional use of chiaroscuro the artworks present an inverted world of x-ray-like shadows—an oblique and somber metaphor appropriate to the 'dark' ecological conditions the project confronts. The project responds to two sites: semi-arid Lake Tyrrell in the Victorian Mallee, and the sub-alpine plateau of Mount Buffalo. Lake Tyrrell once informed a sacred reciprocity of sky with country in indigenous culture. The loss of this reciprocity is memorialised by using raw starlight falling on the lakebed to contact-print fresh photographic films with the imagery of relics of insect fauna gathered from the lakeshore. In the Australian Alps (the subject of this paper) the project focuses on the keystone species Bogong Moth Agrotis Infusa. These iconic invertebrates, and the imminent decline of their ecosystem due to climate change, inform the exquisitely detailed digital enlargements derived from cameraless images of swarming moths gathered from a summit cave.
Entertaining the Environment: Towards an Ethics of Art events.
Authors: Goodman Andrew
Published: August 2023

Erin Manning’s concept of an art that ‘entertains the environment’, proposes a ‘minor’ practice that might be capable of provoking reconnection with a wide field of non-subjective forces. Rather than a concentration on a replicating of human/object hierarchies, it implies a focus on how various assemblages of human and nonhuman, concrete and abstract, virtual and actual forces have the potential to be realigned through the artistic process. Drawing on recent writing and artwork by Manning, this essay will propose the potential of such a shift in focus in the art event as a tactical approach towards development of a new conception of a political art. This might be seen as an ecological approach to art, which reconnects us with lively worlds and non-human agencies. This essay also explores the entertainment of the environment through an examination of Lygia Clark’s propositional art work  'Caminhando' (1963), concentrating on the transductive potential of the opening of the body to a wider field of distributed agency to produce a sensation of being ‘always more than’ a subject.
Embracing the ineffable: landscape art, gesture and environmental ethics.
Authors: Stockfeld K John
Published: August 2023

I explore the interrelationships between environmental ethics and landscape art. An environmental ethic has long proven to be elusive, and I make the case that this is because it has been mistakenly viewed as an addendum to our established ethical systems, wherein some particular notion of value will serve as its basis. Affirming Taylor’s insight that our deeper values are those we find most difficult to articulate, I make the case that this inarticulacy is something we ought to embrace. Seeking to identify or specify environmental values is counterproductive, and if we are to succeed in arriving at an environmental ethic, then we must chart a very different course. The starting point is to return to fundamental questions, indeed to the most fundamental of them all, the Question of Being as Heidegger formulated it. Gesturing turns out to be the key to a middle-voiced engagement with the natural world that brings this question to life. Landscape art, whether verbal or visual, has an indispensible role to play in this endeavour: being the leading edge in our gradual maturing towards an ecological ethic, it has its basis in an engagement with our deeper, more inchoate values, and environmental philosophy finds its rightful place by following in its wake.
Sensible spectators: emancipation from mastery through the more-than-human
Authors: Pyke Susan Mary
Published: August 2023

This essay practices a mode of story-telling embedded in Freya Mathews’s argument for the ontopoetic. By approaching the ecofeminist ontopoetic moment, with an awareness of Jacques Rancière’s identification of the sensible possibilities of literature enacted through the body, new networks of the sensible are suggested in the interchange between the text and the body. Writing and reading non-human sentience through the co-affective ontopoetic moment creates a critical resistance to human containment, providing the potential to redistribute the position of the spectator, decentralising the human perspective in ways that might create more diverse relations with the more-than-human. Viewing the world outside the human skin in such ways may help reform the shared body of the earth.
Finding a Spiritual Home in the Australian Environment: Katharine Susannah Prichard and Vance Palmer in the 1920s
Authors: Jordan Deborah
Published: August 2023

Eco-centric ideologies recognise humans as an interdependent part of a larger biotic community and the biophysical systems that support them. Constructions and narratives of one’s ‘spiritual home’ in the environment by authors and critics can challenge colonial and postcolonial understandings, of — in  this instance — Australia. Vance Palmer, Australia’s leading man of letters of the inter-war period, claimed his was a generation seeking to find ‘harmony’ with the environment; Nettie Palmer believed that writers’ powers depended on their capacity to find a spiritual home in place. Without the literary imagination, people and places appear ‘uncanny and ghostlike’, and Nettie evolved a schema in and through language to help others learn how to dwell in the land. In a time of rapid environmental change, this essay re-visits these writers, that is, Vance and Nettie Palmer, Katharine Susannah Prichard and others of their generation, and it investigates their important initiatives in challenging dominant and habitual ways of understanding and seeing the natural environment. Often as a result of their beliefs they sought out remote country locations and ‘wilderness areas’ in which to live and write about. Two key texts, Working Bullocks (1926) by Prichard and The Man Hamilton (1928) by Palmer, can be explored in context of recent discourses on ecological sensibilities, identities of place and transnational cosmopolitanism, home and homecoming in the literary imagination, and rapid change through climate change. Building on earlier literary critiques and gender analysis, very different readings of the environmental imagination at play in these texts are possible.
The Sea and Eternal Summer: Science Fiction, Futurology and Climate Change
Authors: Milner Andrew
Published: August 2023

This paper will be concerned to analyse what is almost certainly the earliest Australian climate change dystopia. In 1985 George Turner published a short story, The Fittest, in which he began to explore the fictional possibilities of the effects of global warming. He quickly expanded this story into a full-length novel published as The Sea and Summer in Britain and as Drowning Towers in the United States. The Sea and Summer is set mainly in Melbourne, a vividly described, particular place, terrifyingly transformed into the utterly unfamiliar. Turner’s core narrative describes a world of mass unemployment and social polarisation, in which rising sea levels have inundated the Bayside suburbs; the poor ‘Swill’ live in high-rise tower blocks, the lower floors of which are progressively submerged; the wealthier ‘Sweet’ in suburbia on higher ground. The paper will argue that Turner’s novel is long overdue a positive critical re-evaluation.
Prismatic Ecology: Ecotheory Beyond Green by Jeffery Jerome Cohen
Authors: Kankahainen Nick
Published: August 2023

As a collective, the essays in Prismatic Ecology mark an inspiring new direction in ecophilosophical and ecocritical thinking. With caution towards viewing ecology (solely) in terms of ‘green’, Prismatic Ecology is a timely encouragement to think carefully about the symbols we use to represent the world, whilst finding within the colour spectrum a range of motifs to express and drive different ways of thinking  about human and other-than-human interaction.
Environmental Crisis in Young Adult Fiction by Alice Curry
Authors: Kessler Deirdre
Published: August 2023

Environmental Crisis in Young Adult Fiction: A Poetics of Earth
REVIEW: The Broken Promise of Agricultural Progress by Cameron Muir
Authors: Holloway Barbara
Published: August 2023

Though not ecocriticism, this is an important work for anyone working anywhere on representation of the inter-being of natural and cultivated worlds. It shows the health of a bioregion changing through social, political, natural, economic and scientific influences from local, national and global sources. Muir’s primary focus is the dynamics of ‘agricultural progress’, a concept that so often results in damaging exploitation of earth and ecosystems.
Country and climate change in Alexis Wright's 'The Swan Book'.
Authors: Gleeson-White Jane Lee
Published: August 2023

Alexis Wright’s novel, The Swan Book (2013), set one hundred years in the future on a climate-changed Earth, introduces a new note into her fiction: that of doubt about hope. Extending postcolonial discussions of Wright’s fiction, this essay uses ecocriticism to consider Country and climate change in this novel. It argues that the element of doubt about hope, of despair even, evident in The Swan Book derives from the fact that for the first time in Wright’s fiction the essence of the land—Country—has been altered, by anthropogenically-caused climate change. Drawing on the work of ecocritics Timothy Clark and Adam Trexler, the essay argues that to engage with climate change Wright has introduced formal innovations in her novel; and more overtly figured Western culture in terms of its global manifestation, that is, as Christianity conflated with capitalism. I argue that The Swan Book writes a book of Country into the Christian and other stories of the planet, telling a new story of the earth for an age of climate change.
Editor's Note AJE Vol. 6
Authors: Cranston CA
Published: August 2023

The Editor's Note surveys the contributions to the current AJE Volume 6, Summer 2016/2017.
Whakapapa: Stories through Time and Space
Authors: Tapsell Paora
Published: August 2023

All my academic writings and publications have grown out of an emotional engagement with my field of study: the Arawa people. By capturing moments in prose – reflexive ethnography on first approach – I create a layer of narrative continuity that is galvanised through encoded memories. This ‘‘whakapapa” is like archaeological stratification: providing genealogically ordered layers of code transmitted through time and space. Decades after writing I can ‘‘relive” my embedded memories and recognise the repeating patterns, codes and algorithms that underpin humanity itself from my uniquely Te Arawa informed perspective of the universe.
Story (telling)
Authors: Van Dooren Thom
Published: August 2023

Debbie taught me about stories. I was lucky enough to have her as my PhD supervisor, and then as a collaborator and friend. Over the fifteen years that we worked together, she slowly, sometimes painfully, taught me to tell stories. At the same time, she taught me that stories are more than a mode of expression, they are a means of understanding, of thinking, of attending, of relating, and so a profoundly important opening into responsibility.
How Mangroves Story: On Being a Filter Feeder
Authors: Judith Kate
Published: August 2023

The relationship between gravity, the moon and the ocean translates into the regular rhythm of tides, which provide a powerful energy, both productive and destructive, across intertidal zones. Mangroves, like other intertidal ecologies, negotiate the regularities and disturbances of tidal energies through many processes and build up complex worlds. One of these processes is filter feeding, which transforms incoming detritus into many kinds of bodies, while mucus covered faeces are excreted into the bacterial-rich mud, to be transformed again. Filter feeding stories the relationship between the moon and the sea into thick embodied mangrove narratives. This paper demonstrates and explores an account of relationality as narrative within a semiotic material ontology, as told in the storying of the relationship of the moon and the sea within the materiality of mangroves.
Storying with Groundwater
Authors: Wardle Deborah
Published: August 2023

Subterranean waters enable life. Humans, non-human animals and enmeshed ecosystems of more-than-human entities, such as river and creek sides, mound springs and swamps, interact with groundwater in a myriad of complex relationships. Hundreds of Australian inland towns and communities rely on bore water. Population counts of people dependent on aquifers across Australia, on the Asian and African continents, in the Middle East and across the Americas reach into the billions. Despite this, there are few literary expressions of groundwater’s potency and vulnerability in the Australian imaginary (Wardle). This essay draws upon fictional portrayals of groundwater from the climate fiction manuscript, Why We Cry (Wardle), to suggest the ways that climate fiction might make a small shift from the ‘derangement’ of blindness to subterranean places through the novel’s endeavours to osmotically affect readers.
The Flight of Birds: A Novel in Twelve Stories by Joshua Lobb (2019)
Authors: Lennox Rowena
Published: August 2023

This book feels good. The cover, designed by Miguel Yamin and Alexandra Guzmán, is smooth, matt laminated, with a luminous blue watercolour background that fades in places to white—designating clouds, perhaps, or sunspots? Three black cockatoos fly towards the top right-hand corner of the front cover. They are representations of the three black cockatoos who, in flight, came eye to eye with author Joshua Lobb as he walked across a rail bridge in North Wollongong, before they dropped and flew under the bridge.
Seeping, maintaining, flooding and repairing
Authors: Phillips Perdita
Published: August 2023

This paper outlines the experiences of a short artist in residency called Follow the water at the Vancouver Arts Centre in Albany, Western Australia that began in November-December 2018. Investigating the local network of urban and peri-urban drainage, the project was an attempt to reframe drains from what they are normally seen as—of a way of transferring ‘problems’ to elsewhere—into a space of reparative engagement. Intimate, makeshift walks were taken with drain allies along road culverts and agricultural drains and through snaky, polluted and weedy country. Walks were recorded with cyanotypes and a further cyanotype workshop was conducted with the public on the subject of local watercourses. Whilst being attentive to the local stories of water, settler history and regeneration, the project nevertheless attempted to problematise the current quasi-legal and commonplace notions which see the flow of water leaving a property downstream (and downslope) as being ‘not my problem’. In a small way, this art project works through the “impurity of caring” (that acts of caring contain the wish that it were not so (Shotwell), at the same time that they are entangled) with a tactical move that I have termed “porous repair.” It therefore provides a short example of the complications of thinking through water stories using artistic means.
Walking in Merri Circles
Authors: Hesterman Heather
Published: August 2023

The weight of planetary problems is distressing, and the forgetting seems to have multiplied when I wasn’t looking. In late 2020, whilst a global pandemic is also multiplying with disastrous and tragic consequences, I get my mask on. I make sure my shoelaces are tied and tell my children who are studying remotely, or streaming with screens blazing unchecked, that I am disappearing for a walk along the Merri Creek. Walking for one hour and now two for exercise, as mandated by the Victorian State Government, has been an activity that propels people out of their houses. Walking has taken on new significance for Melburnians living in COVID-19 lockdown: exercise is a reason to legally leave your house and you are reminded as you put one foot in front of the other that you can walk five kilometres in any direction. Knowing that is a quiet freedom. We are enmeshed and complicit, in the way we are also entangled, unpredictable, clever, complex, stupid and amazing, just like other organisms. Every action has a consequence, no matter how big or small.
Abiotic Perspectives?
Authors: Kettels Robert D
Published: August 2023

I want to begin with an image of the vast ephemeral salt lake called Wilkinkarra/Lake Mackay, sitting in Pintupi Country in the remote Western Desert of Western Australia. This was a key site for my early research into ways to reimagine abiotic perspectives—to work with a ‘geologic’ using creative methods of site responsive artworks. I document these explorations of place as a means to explore my attempts and struggles to unpack complexities in the colonial settler spatiotemporal imaginary of the environment in the Anthropocene. My art practice is informed by the concept of uncritical “White Geology” as identified by the inhuman geographer, Kathryn Yusoff. In particular, the Eurocentric sociohistorical entanglements that help maintain a hierarchical outlook regarding the perception of abiotic matter. In September 2020, following my introduction to this approach at Ngā Tūtaki – Encounter/s, I completed three experimental site responsive artworks on a field trip to the Jack Hills in Wajarri Yamaji Country, in the Murchison district of Western Australia. This creative focus piece discusses secular pilgrimage and presents my durational performance art from that project.
Present Pasts
Authors: Dickson Nicola
Published: August 2023

Viewing and contemplating archival objects and images provokes me—a female Australian settler artist—to imaginatively engage with and re-present stories of the past; pasts that resonate in the contemporary present. My focus over the last ten years has been to imagine and think within the historical records of the French Enlightenment voyages of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as led by the colonial governor, Antoine Bruni d’Entrecasteaux and cartographer and naturalist, Nicolas Baudin. These voyages to Australia and the Pacific are situated within a dismembering discourse of Empire, exploration, ‘discovery’ and exoticism (Chevallier). A major impetus for their undertaking was given by the emerging discipline of the natural sciences, and accompanying shifts in European conceptions of humankind’s relation to the natural world; a prime objective was the gathering/taking/making of knowledge by observation, measurement and material collection. In 2020, following the 2019–20 summer of ferocious bushfires, and during a COVID-19 lockdown in Canberra amidst a global pandemic, my focus in practice turned to the endemic birds around me: local, heard, seen, treasured. What emerged was a renewed close-to-home response to the Baudin collecting raid of ‘exotic’ Australian species.
Relationscapes of Extinction, and More Life
Authors: Boscacci Louise
Published: August 2023

3:20 a.m. Friday, 14 August 2020: Wildes Meadow, the Illawarra highlands, Wodi Wodi First Peoples and Yuin nation Countries, south-eastern Australia. A Boobook is calling. This sonorous guide in refrain, before and after the Ngā Tūtaki – Encounter/s: Agency, Embodiment, Exchange, Ecologies conference in Tāmaki Makaurau, some eight months later. Two days ago, the SARS-CoV-2 lockdown lifted in New South Wales. Only now can you light a match without visceral trepidation. Without a gut return to the climate crisis inferno of the 2019–2020 summer. Anthropocene-in-the-making? Yes. No. These are Viral Bushranger Times. Anything can happen now.

The shadows trace of the Zincland project is one mode of more-than-human wit(h)nessing that I have introduced elsewhere from an ecology and ethos of open field practice where contemporary art and writing converges with the feminist, decolonising environmental humanities and sciences. Following the conference, I had a plan to travel south, to Pōneke/Wellington and Ōtepoti/Dunedin, to continue a linked project of engaging with naturecultures of extinction, to wit(h)ness two sites of multispecies recovery and ecological restoration. If Zincland took me to Aotearoa, I had no inkling of what I might encounter in this onward momentum of and from the shadows trace. So, let me take you there. Let me pick up this passage of wit(h)nessing and translation one day after leaving Tāmaki Makaurau.
To the City of Murky Dreams
Authors: Bayes Chantelle
Published: August 2023

This letter is addressed to the quintessential city, an urban imaginary that encompasses the hopes of planners, writers, and those entangled nature-cultures who populate them. From Ebenezer Howard’s Garden Cities of Tomorrow that set off the garden cities movement, to fiction such as Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, and Antoni Jach’s Layers of the City that explore the socio-historical construction of urban imaginaries and more recently Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book set in a climate changed future, cities can be seen as places of abundant resources or destructive development. A swell of these voices build throughout the letter as the many idealistic versions of the city entangle and prevent any one vision from solidifying. This letter will explore these contested imaginaries, particularly the way these imaginaries impact those who are welcomed, fed and allowed to prosper and those who are chased out, excluded, and destroyed. But this letter is also about particular cities: Jach’s Paris, Calvino’s Venice and Wright’s Southern Australian City but also the Kombumerri country (Gold Coast), the city I live in and onto which I inevitably read these imaginaries. How might cities such as those built on Kombumerri country and Naarm be reimagined through critical posthumanism? Drawing on the work of Karen Barad, Astrida Neimanis, Donna Haraway and Val Plumwood, this letter meanders through the murky waters, entangled buildings and constructed garden spaces of literary urban imaginaries as I unsettle the quintessential city.