bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
The Quality-of-Life Measurement with a Stochastic Choice of Parameters of the Weighted Principal Component
Authors:   Lomonosov Moscow State University, Mironenkov Alexey A. , Kurbatskii Alexey N. ,   Lomonosov Moscow State University, Mironenkova Marina V. ,   Lomonosov Moscow State University
Published: March 2024

The quality of life of the population is a latent category, and due to the impossibility of direct measurement it has to be assessed as an integral indicator of many variables. According to the established methodology, one of the main tools in this case is the first principal component, that is, a linear convolution of variables, which has the property of minimizing the variation of the original characteristics. The fact that parameters’ variation is taken into account with equal weight may cause criticism from economists. The use of a weighted principal component which is free of this drawback can be considered as a development of the initial method. In this case to minimize the total variation, the weighting coefficients of features are set expertly. However, in this case, a logical question arises: won’t expert subjectivity have a significant impact on the final integral indicator, as it happens in the case of simple linear convolution with expert weights? Thus, the purpose of this work is to test the applicability of the weighted first principal component as the main tool in constructing an integral indicator of the population quality of life. In particular, it is necessary to test the hypothesis that the influence of heterogeneity in the weights of expert assessments on the final integral indicator is insignificant. In this case, it would be useful not only to illustrate the presence or absence of this influence, but also to estimate its extent. To do this, the simulation modeling is carried out to assess the latent variable “quality of life of the population”, based on empirical expert weights and macro statistics data. Moreover, in contrast to most works related to the topic, the values of the integral indicator (and, accordingly, the ranking of observations) are presented as an interval estimate. In other words, the result is presented as a random variable where the element of randomness is the subjectivity of the expert choice of weights for the weighted principal component. It turns out that even in this case it is possible to obtain robust and meaningful results that are in good agreement with the conclusions of well-known research in this area.
Assessment of Turbulence in the Industrial Environment of the Russian Machine-Building Complex
Authors:   South Ural State University, Vaisman Elena D. , Zheleznova Tatyana Yu. ,   Joint Stock Company "Chelyabinsk Mechanical Plant"
Published: March 2024

In recent years, the term "turbulence" has been increasingly used to describe the state of the environment for business entities. The analysis of the identified approaches to defining its essence provides grounds for treating turbulence as an integral, essential and, most importantly, complex characteristic of the external environment. The relevance of its study is determined by the increasing speed of change, increasing complexity and uncertainty, mutual influence of changes in the national economy and its individual industries and, as a consequence, the need to take into account the level of turbulence in the justification of strategic decisions at any level. At the same time, in modern publications we could not find any studies focused on the peculiarities of assessing the turbulence of the industry and, accordingly, correct quantitative approaches to its implementation. The aim of this study is to develop a method of quantitative assessment of the level of industry turbulence in the case of machine-building industries. The scientific hypothesis of the research is as follows: the level of turbulence of a particular branch of modern Russian industry is defined by the variability of indicators characterising its condition. The methods of the research were structural-logical and matrix analysis, tools of statistical data processing. The quantitative method developed to assess the industry turbulence includes such steps as the choice, taking into account the accepted assumptions, of evaluation indicators, justification of the decision regarding the use of the coefficient of variation as a tool for assessing their variability, collection of the necessary information, calculation and interpretation of the results. The testing on a sample of 17 machine-building sub-sectors by assessing the turbulence of each for a 10-year period confirmed the hypothesis of the study and showed a significant differentiation of industries by the level of turbulence. The key role in the formation of the turbulence level of the modern Russian machine-building industry is played by the degree of its technological sophistication and import dependence. The obtained results allow us to assess the state of the environment of various industries objectively enough, which should increase the degree of the validity of strategic decision-making at all levels of economic activity.
Analysis of the Sensitivity of the Corporation's Market Activity Indicators with a Neutral Approach to the Dividend Policy
Authors:   Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin, Krylov Sergey I.
Published: March 2024

Under the conditions of a modern developed market economy, a fairly important characteristic of the activities of a public joint stock company (PJSC) is its activity on the stock market (market activity). This involves the development of a dividend policy, which, on the one hand, should contribute to achieving the main goal of financial management - maximizing the material well-being of shareholders , and, on the other hand, take into account the interests of all other stakeholders interested in the activities of the PJSC (including potential investors) to ensure its sustainable development in the long term. Fulfillment of this requirement is possible only within the framework of a neutral approach to the dividend policy of the public joint stock company. In this regard, the purpose of the research is to study the market activity of a public joint stock company by analyzing the sensitivity of its most important indicators to their main determining factors under the conditions of a neutral approach to the implementation of dividend policy. The working hypothesis is to consider the possibility of using the relevant elasticity models as tools for analyzing the sensitivity of the most important indicators of market activity of PJSCs to their main determining factors under the conditions of a neutral approach to the implementation of dividend policy. The generated elasticity models of the most important indicators of market activity are expected to be used in forecasting and analytical assessments of changes in their values. In addition, they will make it possible to reveal the reasons for these changes by determining the influence on the elasticity data of the determining factors included in their models through appropriate methods and techniques of factor analysis with a neutral approach to the dividend policy of a public joint stock company. The author concludes that the elasticity models he developed for the most important indicators of the activity of a public joint stock company on the stock market are sufficiently effective to change their main determining factors as tools for managing the market activity of a public joint stock company with a neutral approach to its dividend policy.
Vivências de mulheres com deficiência física na assistência ao trabalho de parto e parto
Authors: Carvalho Camila Fernandes da Silva , Leal Luciana Pedrosa , Amorim Rebeca Paes Barreto Ponce de Leão Vasconcelos , Pontes Cleide Maria
Published: March 2024

RESUMO Objetivo: Compreender o significado atribuído por mulheres com deficiência física à assistência de saúde recebida e esperada durante o trabalho de parto e parto. Métodos: Estudo qualitativo, fundamentado na Teoria de Rede Social, realizado por meio de uma oficina online em abril de 2022, com a participação de seis mulheres com deficiência física. Os dados, coletados por meio da técnica de grupo focal, foram submetidos à análise de conteúdo temático com o auxílio da ferramenta IRaMuTeQ. Resultados: Três categorias temáticas emergiram: Problemas vivenciados na gravidez; A experiência dentro da maternidade; e A importância das redes sociais. A assistência prestada pelos profissionais de saúde, por vezes, diferiu entre o esperado e o recebido pelas mulheres com deficiência física durante o trabalho de parto e parto. Considerações Finais: As vivências foram predominantemente negativas, resultantes de condutas profissionais inadequadas devido a atitudes capacitistas. O apoio dos membros das redes sociais é fundamental para a prevenção de fatores estressores.
Ethnically distinct populations and coping with violence against children in the COVID-19 pandemic
Authors: Navarro Ana Tereza Torquato de Morais , Fornari Lucimara Fabiana , Egry Emiko Yoshikawa , Borges William Dias , Shoji Rosemeire Natsuko
Published: March 2024

ABSTRACT Objective: To identify policies and programs adopted by a Brazilian municipality to address violence against children during the COVID-19 pandemic. Method: A qualitative documentary study. The study setting was the municipality of Ananindeua, Pará, Brazil. Data was collected from official websites between November 2021 and February 2022. Thematic content analysis was used with the support of webQDA software. Results: Three empirical categories emerged: a) Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on violence against children; b) Action strategies for tackling violence against children in the COVID-19 pandemic; c) Evaluation indicators and targets for action strategies for tackling violence against children. Final considerations: The documents revealed few direct mentions of children, especially traditional populations; they presented superficial and ineffective evaluations of the policies and programs adopted, using exclusively quantitative indicators.
POLITICAL OBLIGATION, CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE AND RESISTANCE WITHIN THE DEMOCRATIC REGIME: ALESSANDRO PASSERIN D’ENTRÈVES’ NOTION OF THE STATE
Authors: Pardo Maísa Martorano Suarez
Published: March 2024

ABSTRACT This paper examines the role that the notion of political obligation has in the thought of the Italian philosopher of politics and law Alessandro Passerin d’Entrèves (1902 - 1985), especially in its relationship with the democratic regime and forms of resistance on the part of citizens. By analyzing the author’s main arguments in this regard, it seeks to demonstrate the flexibility of the author’s concept of State, and the importance of philosophy as a point of intersection between morality and law, constituting itself as an instrument of phenomenological approach to the forms of human association.
ANTROPOLOGÍA, OBSTINACIÓN Y NATURALEZA: DESARROLLOS CONCEPTUALES EN LA TEORÍA CRÍTICA DE OSKAR NEGT Y ALEXANDER KLUGE
Authors: Fuente Ricardo Samaniego de la
Published: March 2024

RESUMEN El presente artículo reconstruye la teoría crítica de Oskar Negt y Alexander Kluge mediante la articulación de algunos conceptos clave de su libro Historia y Obstinación. El objetivo es detallar las bases de la teoría crítica de Negt y Kluge y mostrar cómo es que ésta adquiere su carácter normativo. Con este fin, primero se reconstruyen las bases de la antropología desarrollada por Negt y Kluge, mediante la cual se argumenta que los sujetos - en tanto que seres creadores - poseen ‘obstinación’, que entienden como un potencial intrínseco y material para resistir a la opresión. En segundo lugar se discute el concepto de ‘acumulación primitiva’ usado por Negt y Kluge para mostrar la relación entre el capitalismo y la obstinación. Finalmente, se aclara el uso que hacen Negt y Kluge del concepto de la ‘naturaleza humana’ con el fin de mostrar cómo es que su teoría deriva su carácter normativo. Para esto, se recurre al trabajo de Christoph Menke sobre la ‘naturaleza interna’.
O que há entre o real e o digital nas redes sociais? Análise das representações e etnografia digital de adolescentes pretas e pardas da periferia do Recife no Instagram
Authors: Lima Gerbson da Silva , Black Taciana Lima de Paula , Silva Anderson Vicente da , Silva Kalina Vanderlei
Published: March 2024

Resumo Este artigo se propõe a analisar as contribuições do Instagram na construção das performances identitárias das adolescentes escolares autodeclaradas pretas e pardas da cidade do Recife, uma vez que o ciberespaço se constitui como espaço de embate, representatividade e de produção de subjetividades. Estudo de abordagem qualitativa e natureza interdisciplinar, com base em pesquisa de campo, desenvolvido em ambiente escolar. Foram utilizadas observação participante, diário de campo, etnografia digital e entrevistas semiestruturadas. Os dados foram analisados por meio da análise do discurso em conexão com a teoria das representações sociais. Foi possível apreender que a rede social Instagram tem se configurado como ambiente limitado de autorrepresentação e performance identitária, visto que os discursos racistas e sexistas operados nos espaços on-line e off-line atuam favoravelmente para esse silenciamento. Desse modo, a plataforma tem se estabelecido como mais um meio de estruturação do sistema de opressões interseccionais vivenciadas no mundo “real”.
Morphophysiology of cowpea under salt stress and application of carbon-based nanobiostimulant in the vegetative stage
Authors: Oliveira Letícia K. B. de , Costa Rafael S. da , Silva Johny de S. , Silva Bruna A. da , Lima Késsia V. G. de , Pinto Maria B. dos S. , Batista Ana B. P. , Silva Felipe J. L. da , Silva Toshik I. da , Mesquita Rosilene O.
Published: March 2024

ABSTRACT Several technologies have been implemented to improve plant performance in irrigated crops, and one of them is the use of nanobiostimulants. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to explore the effects of applying different concentrations of a carbon-based biostimulant on the morphophysiology of cowpea plants subjected to varying electrical conductivities of irrigation water. The experiment was performed in a completely randomized design, in a 2 × 6 factorial scheme, with two electrical conductivities of irrigation water (ECw: 0.35 and 4.0 dS m-1) and six concentrations of nanobiostimulant applied through the leaves (0, 80, 160, 240, 320, and 400 mg L-1), with four replications. Growth and gas exchange variables were evaluated 31 days after sowing (V9 stage). Concentrations between 240 and 320 mg L-1 of carbon-based nanobiostimulant promoted greater increases in growth and physiological variables, but they caused decreases in non-photochemical quenching. Water electrical conductivity of 4.0 dS m-1 reduced the number of leaves (17.1%), stem diameter (10.0%), SPAD index (10.3%), net photosynthesis (10.9%), stomatal conductance (46.4%), transpiration (34.5%), instantaneous carboxylation efficiency (22.4%), and photochemical quenching (4.5%); in contrast, it increased the ratio between internal and ambient CO2 concentration (18.0%), leaf temperature (2.9%), water use efficiency (32.5%), and non-photochemical quenching (12.4%). Concentrations of 240 to 320 mg L-1 of the nanobiostimulant enhance the development and gas exchange of cowpea plants under non-stress conditions, whereas the concentration of 240 mg L-1 promotes the maximum increase in plant height under salinity.
Situação de cuidar de uma criança com condição crônica pelas famílias: estudo de métodos mistos
Authors: Felizardo Melissa Joice de Abreu , Macêdo Maísa Mara Lopes , Henriques Nayara Luiza , Deodato Sérgio , Duarte Elysângela Dittz
Published: March 2024

RESUMO Objetivo: Analisar os significados atribuídos por familiares a situação de cuidar de uma criança com condição crônica (CCC), à luz do Family Management Style Framework (FMSF). Método: Pesquisa de métodos mistos, do tipo paralelo convergente, orientada pelo referencial teórico FMSF, utilizando o componente conceitual “Definição da Situação”. Participaram 53 famílias de CCC. Os dados foram coletados por entrevista semiestruturada, questionário de caracterização dos participantes e escala de Medida de Manejo Familiar. Realizou-se análise estatística descritiva e inferencial dos dados quantitativos e os dados qualitativos foram submetidos à análise temática do tipo dedutiva. Resultados: Familiares referem uma visão de normalidade em relação à CCC, verificada também pela escala Vida Diária da Criança. Contudo, indicam as repercussões da condição crônica na família, e que dedicam maior atenção e tempo para atender às necessidades de cuidado da criança, também verificado nas escalas de Visão do Impacto da Condição e Esforço de Manejo. Conclusão: As famílias possuem uma visão positiva da situação de cuidar das CCC no domicílio, apontando, contudo, alguns efeitos negativos, como é o caso do maior tempo despendido na atenção à criança.
Social determinants and access to health services in patients with COVID-19: a cross-sectional study
Authors: Ventura Maria Williany Silva , Lima Francisca Elisângela Teixeira , Brito Paula dos Santos , Pascoal Lívia Maia , Albuquerque Nila Larisse Silva de , Almeida Paulo César de
Published: March 2024

ABSTRACT Objective: To verify the association between social determinants of health and access to health services for COVID-19 patients. Method: Analytical, cross-sectional study, carried out in three states in the Northeast of Brazil (Ceará, Maranhão and Pernambuco), with 968 patients, using questionnaires with sociodemographic data, determinants and the Primary Care Assessment Tool, adapted to the reality of COVID-19, with 58 items, classified as high (score ≥ 6.6) and low (score < 6.6), whose high value reveals better standards of access to health services. The Chi-square test was used for comparative analysis. Results: There was a significant difference (p < 0.05) between the domains of the instrument and the following determinants: age, skin color, body mass index, origin, schooling, employment, services close to home, first service, income and means of transport. Conclusion: Access to health services for people with COVID-19 was associated with various determinants, including individual, behavioural and social ones, correlated with the structural and organizational aspects of the health services offered by the three states of Northeastern Brazil.
Design thinking como metodologia na elaboração de uma proposta de matriz curricular
Authors: Castro Mario Augusto Ferrari de , Castro Andrea Anacleto Ferrari de , Dedivitis Rogério Aparecido , Santos Elaine Marcilio , Diniz Ricardo Edésio Amorim Santos , Fraiz Ipojucan Calixto
Published: March 2024

Resumo Introdução: A matriz curricular do curso de Medicina pode variar de acordo com o projeto pedagógico de curso (PPC) de cada instituição de ensino superior (IES). Nem sempre a visão da coordenação e do corpo docente do curso de Medicina está alinhada às opiniões dos alunos. Assim, a utilização de uma metodologia para identificar a visão do corpo discente seria fundamental. O design thinking (DT) é um processo que propõe a busca, de forma empática, colaborativa e criativa, de soluções para problemas complexos. Objetivo: Este estudo apresenta o DT como uma metodologia para identificar como os alunos do internato acreditam que deva ser a matriz curricular do primeiro ao quarto ano de um curso de Medicina no estado de São Paulo, e, para tanto, coletaram-se sugestões e pontos que exigiram a reavaliação na matriz original. Método: Realizou-se uma avaliação qualitativa com base no modelo do DT. Os alunos foram divididos em três grupos de cinco alunos, e cada grupo dedicou-se a discutir livremente sobre suas ideias acerca da matriz curricular. Posteriormente, apresentou-se um painel para cada grupo com a separação dos semestres correspondentes - do primeiro ao quarto ano - com post-it representando a matriz curricular vigente do curso de Medicina, e cada grupo teve uma hora para remontar a matriz curricular da maneira que julgasse mais adequado. Resultado: Após a fase de discussão, cada grupo montou sua matriz curricular, e propuseram-se algumas mudanças do ano em que a disciplina era ministrada e a inclusão de algumas matérias. A maioria das sugestões foi julgada procedente e incorporada na matriz curricular. Conclusão: A metodologia do DT contribuiu para a identificação de várias demandas acerca da matriz curricular de uma forma ordenada, empática e colaborativa, levando em consideração a opinião do estudante, sendo, portanto, uma estratégia de planejamento capaz de evidenciar fragilidades e fortalezas do currículo que talvez não fossem percebidas por outras estratégias.
Ela, Linn da Quebrada: travestilidade e representatividade no Big Brother Brasil 22
Authors: Quadrado Jaqueline Carvalho , Belchior Júlio Sylvester Vasconcelos , Fonseca Bárbara Dutra
Published: March 2024

Resumo Neste artigo, partimos das lições de Foucault acerca da arte de governar como uma multiplicidade de formas de gerenciamento de si, do outro, dos bens, do estado ou de outros fenômenos, para compreendermos como ocorre o governo de si e do outro a partir da participação de Lin da Quebrada no BBB 22. O objetivo é analisar o modo de enunciar a travestilidade e a representatividade e as condições de emergência desse discurso. A discussão será empreendida com base nos estudos discursivos foucaultianos (Foucault, 1999a, 1999b, 2002, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2013a, 2013b, 2013c) e nos estudos de gênero e sexualidade (Louro, 2001; Butler, 2000). A metodologia utilizada é a análise enunciativa de Foucault (2008). Concluímos que o governo de si e do outro é empreendido no BBB 22 por intermédio de práticas discursivas que se inserem na ordem do discurso da travestilidade e da representatividade.
Celso Furtado, crítico da “colonialidade”
Authors: Viana Henrique , Pelegrini Isadora
Published: March 2024

Resumo Questionando algumas narrativas sobre o pioneirismo e as inovações conceituais do grupo Modernidade/Colonialidade, o objetivo deste artigo é discutir algumas formulações teóricas de Celso Furtado que se aproximam do que se entende atualmente nas ciências sociais latino-americanas como uma análise da “colonialidade” e que são anteriores ao trabalho do grupo. Discutindo a teoria da dependência desenvolvida pelo autor nos anos de 1970, examinamos os seus elementos de crítica ao eurocentrismo, à racionalidade instrumental, à ideologia moderna do progresso e às formas de vida associadas à civilização industrial.
Práticas integrativas e complementares em saúde entre estudantes universitários: motivos de uso e de não uso
Authors: Carvalho Vinicius Pereira de , Coelho Maria Thereza Ávila Dantas , Carmo Maria Beatriz Barreto do
Published: March 2024

Resumo O objetivo deste estudo é compreender os motivos de uso e não uso das práticas integrativas e complementares entres estudantes universitários da área da saúde. Trata-se de uma pesquisa quanti-qualitativa, com dados coletados por meio de questionários (667) e entrevistas (34) e submetidos à análise de conteúdo. Os efeitos terapêuticos, a influência familiar e a oferta de alternativa à biomedicina foram as principais razões elencadas para o uso das práticas integrativas e complementares, ao tempo que a ausência de demanda, o desinteresse e a falta de oportunidade foram as motivações mais frequentes para o não uso. Nesse sentido, as motivações de uso enfatizam as vantagens obtidas através da interlocução com essas práticas e alguns contextos que determinam sua adoção. Em relação às motivações de não uso, destaca-se um cenário de baixa oferta e dominância da biomedicina na cultura ocidental contemporânea. Portanto, esses resultados corroboram a demanda de enfrentamento da monocultura da biomedicina, bem como a abordagem das práticas integrativas na educação superior. Desse modo, a universidade pode se construir a partir da tessitura entre diferentes culturas em saúde, com a facilitação do emprego das práticas não hegemônicas e a ampliação das bases epistêmicas de cuidado na formação e vida da comunidade acadêmica.
Vertical transmission of HIV in the health network: bioethics reflections on gender and care based on an emblematic case
Authors: Gonçalves Tonantzin Ribeiro , Tavares Gabriela , Guimarães Nathalia Luiz , Junges José Roque , López Laura Cecilia
Published: March 2024

Abstract In a still worrying epidemic scenario, the prevention of Vertical Transmission (VT) of HIV poses complex problems, due to the individual, social, and moral vulnerabilities of women living with the virus, in addition to the weaknesses of the health network. Based on an emblematic case, this study sought to understand the bioethical challenges of HIV VT prevention in the scope of the Porto Alegre/RS Committee. The analytical categories developed reflect on how the production of care is articulated, on the one hand, with relational discourses and practices based on gender and intersected by race and social class and, on the other, with programmatic vulnerabilities of health policies. A process of extreme stigmatization was revealed, in which the few offers for cisgender women were aimed toward reproductive regulation and perpetuated dynamics of structural violence. We discuss ways of building care that incorporates a decolonial perspective and seeks to produce equity and social justice by recognizing women’s trajectories.
@Concert: Liveness in the Time of Coronavirus
Authors: Palmer Landon
Published: March 2024

This video essay isolates spaces between songs across nineteen COVID-era virtual performances in order to explore how musicians handled the conspicuous absence of a crowd. By attending to the moments in which these musicians are not performing during their so-called 'quarantine concerts' (Aswad 2020), I seek to refocus what might otherwise be dismissed as interstitial gaps. These spaces between songs are key components of musicians’ mediated performances that speak to how they adapted (or didn’t) to the context of the global pandemic and its threats to the music industry.
Reclaiming Uncanny Spaces: Australian Landscapes from the New Wave to the New Indigenous Cinema
Authors: Campora Matthew
Published: March 2024

This video essay contrasts the representation of the Australian landscape in the early films of Peter Weir with those of three contemporary Indigenous filmmakers. It uses Douglas Keesey’s psychoanalytic reading of Weir’s Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) and The Last Wave (1977) to frame the theme of dispossession in Australian New Wave cinema before considering the response of contemporary Indigenous filmmakers to the same theme.
Joining Up: Scotland, Cinema and the First World War
Authors: Velez-Serna Maria , Archibald David
Published: March 2024

This video analyzes a series of extant local topical films of the period from the Scottish Screen Archive, and argued that their shifting modes of address are indicative of a strategic alignment which took place between the early cinema trade and the state at a time when they were both involved in projects of market expansion.
Indefinite Visions: An Introduction
Authors: Misek Richard
Published: March 2024

This special issue of [in]Transition forms part of a collaborative project inspired by the edited collection Indefinite Visions: Cinema and the Attractions of Uncertainty (Martine Beugnet, Allan Cameron, and Arild Fetveit [eds.], Edinburgh University Press, 2017).
Occupying Time: The Battle of Algiers
Authors: O'Leary Alan
Published: March 2024

This videoessay is concerned with temporalities in the influential political/historical film The Battle of Algiers (Italy/Algeria, 1966, dir. Gillo Pontecorvo). Apart from credits, intertitles and explanatory captions, the essay uses only sounds and images from the film itself. The essay presents nine distinct (though also related) orders or dimensions of time in sections that vary in form, rhythm and length. This list of temporalities does not pretend to be exhaustive, but the variety signals something of the complexity of the film and the essay’s brevity is intended to communicate in a concise manner a sense of the invigorating pace of the original.
Compilation and Found-Footage Traditions
Authors: Creekmur Corey K
Published: March 2024

Whether named compilation or found-footage films, films made out of other films are as old as cinema itself, although they became most prominent as distinctive possibilities via their manifestations in documentary and avant-garde traditions.
Sound in Hanna-Barbera
Authors: Sullivan Patrick
Published: March 2024

This video essay addresses the sonic register of Hanna-Barbera Productions’ animation. Sound was central to Hanna-Barbera’s animation process, yet this centrality of sound—particularly in the construction of movement—has led to both industrial and academic disparage and neglect. Against this neglect, this video essay illustrates Hanna-Barbera’s sound, offering an experience of the studio’s aural and visual style.
The Audiovisual Research Essay as an Alternative to Text-Based Scholarship
Authors: Kiss Miklos
Published: March 2024

Among many of the emerging possibilities, the creative exploration of videographic practice not only supports the self-expression and visibility of humanities students, but, through the inevitable reliance of this practice on the ‘multimedia principle’ and a ‘learning by doing’ approach, such an exploration might also be capable of deepening theoretical reflections on representation, medium-specificity and contemporary art and culture more generally.
A Homeless Ghost: The Moving Camera and its Analogies
Authors: Keating Patrick
Published: March 2024

The central subject of the essay is a crucial contradiction defining the debates about camera movement from the late 1920s to the early 1930s: the contradiction between anthropomorphism and omnipresence.
Layers of Paradox in F for Fake (Benjamin Sampson)
Authors: Morton Drew
Published: March 2024

An application of Bill Nichols's documentary modes to F for Fake and Ben Sampson's videographic response.
The Poetics of the Explanatory Audiovisual Essay
Authors: Garwood Ian
Published: March 2024

Intrigued by the possibilities of the audiovisual essay through my viewing of other people's work, I wanted to make one of my own, in order to learn relevant production skills and also to provide an example for students of the kind of practice they might themselves attempt (in terms of process and the final product). This video was conceived, therefore, as a training exercise that would also produce a number of pedagogic tools.
Essay Meets Plot: JFK and the Boundaries of Narrative
Authors: Sampson Benjamin
Published: March 2024

An analysis of the essayistic properties in Oliver Stone's JFK.
The Birds After Hitchcock
Authors: Duarte Miguel Mesquita
Published: March 2024

This video aims at creating an alternative experience of Hitchcock’s The Birds (1963), emphasizing issues of legibility, composition, and narration. I started by selecting a small set of frames of Hitchcock’s film and then I digitally manipulated the images by erasing the figures. The digital stills were recombined with fragments of the original soundtrack, creating a dissociative relation between image and sound, movement and fixity. As a result, the apparent neutrality of each frame is transformed into a distorted and uncanny vision that depicts empty sets inhabited by ghostly presences.
Sight and Sound Conspire: Monstrous Audio-Vision in James Whale’s Frankenstein
Authors: Denson Shane
Published: March 2024

The video essay “Sight and Sound Conspire” offers a meditation, in three acts, on the relations between the visual and the auditory in James Whale’s classic horror film Frankenstein.
Opening Movements in Ophuls
Authors: Gibbs John
Published: March 2024

This video provides an analysis of the orchestration of long takes and camera movement in the opening of Caught (Ophuls, 1949), and develops a comparison with the opening of Madame de… (Ophuls, 1953 – U.S. release title The Earrings of Madame de…), not least through a series of juxtapositions which can be directly presented and compared in an audiovisual essay.
"You Looking at Me?" The Misleading Counter-Shot in The Hour of the Star (1986)
Authors: Couret Nilo
Published: March 2024

This video essay provides a close reading of the 1986 adaptation of Clarice Lispector's final novel, The Hour of the Star.
Videographic Criticism and Documentary Modes
Authors: Morton Drew
Published: March 2024

A reflection on how Jason Mittell's video "Adaptation.'s Anomalies" complicates stereotypical documentary rhetorical norms.
Grammatology of the Nymph: Godard and Warburg
Authors: Duarte Miguel Mesquita
Published: March 2024

This audiovisual essay presents a comparative study between Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas and Jean-Luc Godard’s Histoire(s) du Cinéma, focusing on the metaphorical figure of the nymph (i.e. the image of woman) in both projects. The essay is composed of five variations related to thematic and formal inflections organized around the motif of the nymphal body.
Muscular Nationalism, the Female Body, and Sports in India
Authors: Banerjee Sikata , Newkirk Rachel Malia , Murchú Niall Ó
Published: March 2024

This videographic essay is a comparative examination of the manner in which women are located within a particular vision of masculinized nationalism that is ascendant in a globalizing India.
¿Por qué me miras así? Magaly, Dolores, and the Authentic Indigenous Icon
Authors: Middents Jeffrey Romero
Published: March 2024

A reflection on two stars - Dolores del Rio and Magaly Solier - with regard to how we view indigenous women in Latin America.
Median pelisäännöt
Authors: Kuutti Heikki
Published: March 2024

The online publication examines the implementation of freedom of speech and the requirements set for editorial work based on selected legal cases and the decisions of Council for Mass Media in Finland, which evaluates the ethics of journalism. The presentation aims to identify and illustrate" the problem areas of journalistic work by connecting the discussed case examples as part of the chronological editorial work process. Presentation starts from the external starting points of journalism (Journalism's operating environment), the general rights related to freedom of speech and access to information (The public's relationship with the media) and the journalistic decision-making power and independence of newsrooms, where we also look at possible abuses of media power (Journalism's credibility). The chapters following these parts deal with the time-sequenced practices of editorial work (Information acquisition, Story implementation, Publishing, and Follow-up journalistic activities).
"Efforts have been made to follow selected legal cases until their final, legally binding decisions" Some of the cases have been resolved in the national district court, court of appeal or supreme court proceedings, but some of these have progressed to the decision of the European Court of Human Rights, which interprets freedom of speech. The examples also include non-accusation settlements regarding the use of freedom of speech.

In the cases decided by the Council for Mass Media in Finland, features assessed as both unethical and meeting ethical requirements have been dealt with. In the examples, ethical interpretation of the considered part of the solution has been described, but the exempt-condemnatory marking that characterizes the conclusion as a whole has been removed.
The publication is based on the author's lecture courses on legal standards and ethics of journalism at the University of Jyväskylä and its partner institutions.
TÜRKİYE ÖRNEĞİNDE İMALAT SANAYİ ÜRETİM ENDEKSİNİN BELİRLEYİCİLERİ: ARDL YAKLAŞIMI
Authors: KÜÇÜK KARAMAN Sevim , KAPKARA KAYA Sevcan
Published: March 2024

Bu çalışmanın amacı Türkiye örneğinde imalat sanayi üretim endeksinin (LIPI) belirleyicilerini araştırmaktır. Bu amaç doğrultusunda seçilen değişkenler bankacılık sektörü tarafından imalat sanayisine kullandırılan krediler (LC), bu kredilere uygulanan faiz oranı (INT), imalat sanayi kapasite kullanım oranı (CU), imalat sanayi yurt içi üretici fiyat endeksi (LPI) ve COVID-19 sağlık krizi (D) değişkenleridir. Kullanılan veriler Bankacılık Düzenleme ve Denetleme Kurumu (BDDK) ile Türkiye Cumhuriyet Merkez Bankası (TCMB) tarafından yayımlanan 2007:1-2022:9 dönemine ait aylık verilerdir. Söz konusu ilişki Gecikmesi Dağıtılmış Otoregresif Model (ARDL) kullanılarak test edilmiştir. Çalışmadan elde edilen bulgular, imalat sanayi üretim endeksi ile seçilmiş değişkenler arasında eşbütünleşme ilişkisinin olduğunu ortaya koymuştur. Güncel veriler kullanılarak hazırlanan bu çalışmanın bankacılık sektörü tarafından imalat sanayisine kullandırılan kredilerin, kredi faiz oranlarının ve kapasite kullanım oranlarının, COVID-19 sağlık krizinin etkisi altında, sektörün çıktı potansiyeli üzerindeki etkisini ortaya koyması bakımından literatüre katkı sağlaması beklenmektedir.
Penile Cancer in the Region of Thies: Epidemiological, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Aspects
Authors:   Department of Urology, University Iba Der Thiam of Thies, Thiès, Senegal, Kouka Saint C. N. , Bentefouet Tonleu L. ,   Department of Anatomy Pathology, University Iba Der Thiam of Thies, Thiès, Senegal, Thiam Ngor M. ,   Department of Urology, University Iba Der Thiam of Thies, Thiès, Senegal, Faye Modou ,   Department of Urology, University Iba Der Thiam of Thies, Thiès, Senegal, Diop Mbayang ,   Department of Urology, University Iba Der Thiam of Thies, Thiès, Senegal, Cisse Mouhamed ,   Department of Urology, University Iba Der Thiam of Thies, Thiès, Senegal, Jalloh Mohamed ,   Department of Urology, University Cheikh Anta Diop De Dakar, Dakar, Senegal, Diame Aissatou A. ,   Department of Urology, University Iba Der Thiam of Thies, Thiès, Senegal, Diallo Yoro ,   Department of Urology, University Iba Der Thiam of Thies, Thiès, Senegal, Cheikhna Sylla ,   Department of Urology, University Iba Der Thiam of Thies, Thiès, Senegal
Published: March 2024

Aim This study aimed to determine the epidemiological, clinical, histopathological, and therapeutic characteristics of patients with penile cancer in hospitals in the Thiès region. Patients and Methods We conducted a retrospective descriptive study collecting all cases of penile cancer in the different urology departments in the Thies region from January 1st, 2015, to December 31st, 2020. Results We recorded 14 cases of penile cancer during the study period. The average age of the patients was 42.93-years (range: 26 to 82-years). The average consultation time was 18-months. All patients were circumcised during childhood. The circumstances of discovery were penile pain (64.3%), ulceration of the penis (26.6%), and hematuria (14.3%). Squamous cell carcinoma was found in 100% of patients. The cancer was locally advanced or metastatic in 64.3% of cases. Partial amputation of the penis was carried out in 50% of patients, and total amputation of the penis was carried out in 42.85% of patients. One patient refused a total penile amputation. After a 6-month follow-up, 35.7% of patients had died. Conclusion The presentation of penile cancers is often late in the Thiès region. Improving the technical platform will make it possible to better manage these cancers.
Somatic Human Rights – the Result of the Legal Regulation Scope Expansion?
Authors: Zaitseva Ekaterina
Published: March 2024

The processes of formation and further consolidation of human rights, including somatic ones, presuppose their initial existence in the form of legal claims. The relationship between somatic legal claims and the expansion of the scope of legal regulation has a complex dialectical character. The emergence of certain legal claims and their further consolidation as subjective rights is not always the result of expanding the scope of legal regulation. All somatic claims can be divided into three groups according to their relationship with the sphere of legal regulation. The first group is somatic legal claims, which appeared as the result of the expansion of the scope of legal regulation, due to scientific and technological progress, giving rise to qualitatively new forms of social relations, including those directly affecting the legal status of the individual in society and the state. The second group is somatic legal claims, which are the result of a change in the vision of the sphere of legal regulation, due to the development of human civilization and the change in moral, ethical and value dominants in society. The third group is legal claims arising from social relations that do not have a legal nature, as the result of the designation of which an artificial expansion of the scope of legal regulation is possible. The moral and ethical component that accompanies the somatic claims of a person complicates the processes of their formal consolidation and causes the lack of a unified approach to the legal regulation of these issues, due to the historical, religious, mental features of the individual societies and states development. Each state in the transition of somatic legal claims to the normative legal form of subjective rights must consider them from the point of view of their compliance with the criterion of moral correctness. Responsibility for making such decisions, together with the state, should be assumed by society, by using of deliberative procedures in the process of law formation.
On the Financing of Initiative Projects: Municipal Experience of Priangarya
Authors: Pyatkovskaya Yulya , Yusupova Anastasiya
Published: March 2024

The article is devoted to the study of the municipal experience of legal regulation of various aspects of financing initiative projects in the trans-territory of the Angara region. The authors emphasize the widespread introduction of initiative budgeting practices in Russia, as well as the corresponding development of legal norms governing the selection and financing of foreign projects. The analysis of the federal basis made it possible to establish clearly the competence of local governments in the indicated area. With that in mind, the authors assessed the quality and effectiveness of municipal legal acts on the procedure and method of financing initiative projects. It is noted that due to the factor of high social significance of the participation of citizens in the budget process, norms on initiative projects and their financial support are included in the charters of most municipalities. However, the detailed legal regulation of financial support issues for initiative projects is rather heterogeneous. The authors highlighted two main approaches: regulation within a single complex act or by several municipal normative legal acts regulating individual issues of proactive budgeting. Based on the analysis of municipal rule-making, the authors conclude that, regardless of the chosen approach, approximately the same range of issues is meaningfully regulated, due to the rule-making competence of municipalities. The article provides examples of both direct duplication of federal legislation to mechanical borrowing of the main principles regarding the procedures of initiative budgeting, and very original norms. Of particular interest is the experience of municipal regulation aimed at guaranteeing making of initiative payments to the local budget. The study suggests the conclusion about necessity to improve the quality of legal technology and detail the mechanisms for making initiative payments, which will make the current procedure as transparent and understandable as possible for the initiator of any preparedness level.
Examining Trends and Effectiveness of Academic Institutions’ Website Content
Authors: Birhan Amare Tesfie
Published: March 2024

This research aimed to examine the trends in and effectiveness of website content on the websites of selected Ethiopian academic institutions. The data was gathered through content analysis and questionnaire and analysed through descriptive statistics (mean), One-Way ANOVA, and narration. The results confirmed that academic and research content were the strongest content categories compared to the other issues covered on the selected websites; and that program and office related content were the weakest (μ = 0.125). According to the data, Addis Ababa, Hawassa, Bahir Dar and Harmaya universities respectively had better content management trends than the other universities. The data also demonstrated that there were significant statistical differences among the website content offered by different universities. Poor navigation systems, inadequate content, empty menus and sub-menus, inconsistent branding, spelling and grammatical errors, as well as untargeted content were some of the observed limitations of the selected website content. Moreover, the data confirmed that the majority of universities updated their websites infrequently. Thus, the study recommends that universities manage their websites well in order to enhance their visibility and reputation.
Manutenção do cateter central de inserção periférica neonatal: protocolo de revisão de escopo
Authors: Miranda Ludmilla  Laura , Bolorino Natacha , Mathiolli Carolina , Pieri Flávia Meneguetti , Zani Adriana Valongo
Published: March 2024

Objetivo: Mapear e sintetizar as evidências sobre os cuidados realizados por enfermeiros para a manutenção do cateter central de inserção periférica neonatal. Método: O protocolo foi construído seguindo as recomendações do Instituto Joanna Briggs (JBI), atendendo às diretrizes Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR). A revisão de escopo descreverá e mapeará as evidências científicas relativas à manutenção do cateter central de inserção periférica neonatal presentes nas literaturas nacionais e internacionais.