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Manejo de gestante com paraplegia espástica em membros inferiores secundária a tumor em coluna torácica e assistência ao parto vaginal: relato de caso
Authors: Rodriguez Isabela Carmona Castro , Menezes Gabriela Oliveira de , Izzo Aline Silva
Published: September 2023

Introdução: A deflagração do início das contrações uterinas provavelmente ocorre devido a alterações na expressão de proteínas que controlam a contratilidade, como o receptor de ocitocina, prostaglandina F e conexina 43. Essas alterações são iniciadas durante as últimas 6 a 8 semanas de gestação e se intensificam durante a fase ativa do parto. Isso leva ao aumento da irritabilidade e reatividade do útero aos estímulos que promovem as contrações. Portanto, as contrações uterinas são involuntárias e independentes do controle externo. Em relação à percepção sensitiva, é importante considerar a anatomia pélvica. As fibras sensitivas aferentes são responsáveis por perceber estímulos dolorosos resultantes das contrações uterinas. Essas fibras ascendem pelo plexo hipogástrico inferior e entram na medula entre T10-T12 e L1. Essa situação explica por que gestantes com paraplegia apresentam contrações miometriais normais, mas sem dor. Relato de caso: Uma primigesta de 22 anos relatou paresia no membro inferior esquerdo, evoluindo para paraplegia nos membros inferiores em um período de quinze dias. Procurou uma unidade de saúde para investigação. Inicialmente, foram realizados exames laboratoriais, que não apresentaram alterações, e uma ressonância magnética da coluna torácica foi solicitada, revelando uma massa intrarraquidiana extramedular de 2,25 × 3 × 1,5 cm, localizada em T2. Diagnosticou-se mielopatia compressiva. Após avaliação pela equipe de neurocirurgia, recomendou-se abordagem cirúrgica de urgência para descompressão medular. Com 35 semanas de idade gestacional (IG), a paciente foi submetida a uma laminectomia descompressiva em T2, com ressecção parcial do tumor, sob anestesia geral. A cirurgia foi realizada com a paciente em decúbito lateral esquerdo. A paciente teve uma evolução adequada no pós-operatório e permaneceu internada para tratamento fisioterapêutico. Com 37 semanas de IG, a paciente apresentou trabalho de parto espontâneo, sem percepção de contrações, e o parto pélvico vaginal foi identificado após a exteriorização dos membros inferiores do feto. O parto foi realizado sem complicações, e o recém-nascido teve uma evolução adequada. A paciente teve um puerpério fisiológico. Atualmente, a puérpera está sendo acompanhada em uma maternidade de alto risco por uma equipe multidisciplinar. Comentário: A gestação de alto risco representa um desafio para o obstetra, pois ele deve ser capaz de lidar com situações que não são comuns na gestação de risco habitual. O caso relatado acima destaca a importância do acesso aos diferentes serviços disponíveis no hospital para garantir a melhor assistência à paciente. Além disso, ressalta a importância do conhecimento sobre a fisiologia da gestação e do trabalho de parto. A capacitação adequada dos profissionais e o cuidado multidisciplinar são fundamentais para alcançar desfechos positivos durante a gestação, o parto e o puerpério.
Perfil obstétrico, demográfico e socioeconômico de gestantes assistidas por um projeto de extensão no município de São Pedro da Aldeia (RJ)
Authors: Paula Millena Duarte de , Ribeiro Yasmim Garcia , Braga Isabella Rodrigues , Souza Inglidy Oliveira de , Pereira Bárbara Rodrigues , Duarte Ana Clara de Moraes , Souza Giovana Secco Alberto , Braga Fernanda Amorim de Morais Nascimento
Published: September 2023

Introdução: O pré-natal obstétrico é fundamental para promover a saúde materna e fetal, proporcionando um ambiente propício para a promoção do aleitamento materno e a identificação de possíveis vulnerabilidades socioeconômicas e doenças preexistentes que possam afetar a saúde da gestante e do feto. Objetivo: Analisar as características gestacionais do pré-natal de mulheres atendidas por um projeto de extensão em uma unidade básica de saúde. Metodologia: Trata-se de um estudo descritivo do tipo relato de experiência, realizado com base nas ações desenvolvidas semanalmente pelo projeto de extensão intitulado "Grupo de apoio e promoção do aleitamento materno em unidade básica: promovendo uma rede de apoio e cuidados à saúde da mulher e criança". O projeto foi realizado no período de maio a novembro de 2021 na Unidade Básica de Saúde vinculada ao Programa de Atenção Integral à Saúde da Mulher, Criança e Adolescente (PAISMCA) em São Pedro da Aldeia (RJ). Os dados foram analisados utilizando-se o software Excel for Windows® 365. As informações coletadas incluíram idade, profissão, estado civil, moradia, acesso à água encanada e rede de esgoto, renda familiar, planejamento familiar, doenças prévias, experiências anteriores com amamentação, além do início do acompanhamento nutricional e do pré-natal. Resultados: Durante os seis meses do projeto, foram acompanhadas 21 gestantes, com idade média de 31 anos. A maioria das gestantes vivia com o companheiro ou era casada, e a profissão declarada mais frequente foi "do lar". Todas as gestantes tinham acesso à água encanada em suas residências, e a maioria delas tinha acesso à rede de esgoto. A maioria também possuía casa própria e tinha renda familiar de 1 a 2 salários mínimos. Todas as gestantes estavam em acompanhamento regular de pré-natal, sendo que a maioria iniciou o acompanhamento até a 9ª semana gestacional. A maioria das gestantes afirmou que a gestação atual não foi planejada. O acompanhamento nutricional foi iniciado após a 17ª semana gestacional para a maioria das gestantes. Além disso, algumas gestantes apresentavam doenças cardiovasculares pré-gestacionais, e a maioria delas teve experiências anteriores de amamentação. Conclusão: As gestantes acompanhadas apresentaram risco de vulnerabilidade social e de saúde, principalmente devido à não adesão ao acompanhamento nutricional desde o início do pré-natal e ao baixo índice de amamentação materna, abaixo das recomendações do Ministério da Saúde.
AKUNTANSI DAN PENERAPANNYA : USAHA JASA YANG TERABAIKAN
Authors: Adella Fitri Sri , Dema Aldino Revanda , Merdianza Fitra , Fitri Fitri , Shintia Helma
Published: September 2023

Terdapat banyak jenis usaha yang ada di lingkungan masyarakat, terutama usaha jasa. Berbagai macam usaha jasa dilakukan oleh masyarakat untuk memenuhi kebutuhan kelangsungan hidup dan ekonomi, salah satunya adalah layanan jasa angkutan/transportasi. Usaha travel di Sumatera Barat bergerak di bidang transport yang menyediakan layanan angkutan antar kota yang biasanya menggunakan Avanza, minibus, elf, dan lain-lain. Dalam industri travel banyak sekali kegiatan akuntansi seperti booking/reservasi, serta budgeting. Dalam hal perusahaan transportasi, perlu untuk mengkonfirmasi jumlah deposit beserta penumpang ketika keberangkatan rute. Perusahaan juga perlu memeriksa persediaan kendaraan untuk disewakan. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan kebanyakan jasa travel di Batusangkar masih memakai sistem cash basis. Catatan sistem cash basis mengakibatkan laporan keuangan  tidak seimbang antara pendapatan dan pengeluaran. Karena pembayaran di muka tidak dapat diakui sebagai pendapatan, catatan akuntansi harus memperhitungkan aktivitas bisnis perjalanan dalam pengakuan pembayaran di muka dan pengakuan pendapatan.
EFEKTIVITAS PROGRAM PERENCANAAN PARTISIPATIF PEMBANGUNAN PEDESAAN BERBASIS DIGITAL
Authors: Sari Dian Mardiati , Niarti Upi
Published: September 2023

Tujuan Penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui tingkat efektifitas perencanaan partisipatif dalam pembangunan pedesaan di Kecamatan Talo Kabupaten Seluma. Dengan menggunakan metode penelitian kuantitatif, dianalisis efektifitas pelaksanaan perencanaan partisipatif dalam enam dimensi, yaitu dimensi fokus pada kepentingan masyarakat, dimensi partisipatoris, dimensi sinergitas, dimensi fisibilitas, dimensi dinamis, dan dimensi legalitas. Dari hasil penelitian dapat diambil kesimpulan pelaksanaan perencanaan partisipatif yang dilakukan di Kecamatan Talo Kabupaten Seluma cukup efektif jika dilihat dari dimensi fokus pada kepentingan masyarakat, dimensi partisipatoris, dimensi dinamis dan dimensi legalitas, sedangkan jika dilihat dari dimensi sinergitas dan dimensi fisibilitas pelaksanaan perencanaan partisipatif kurang efektif. Jika dilihat secara keseluruhan dimensi pelaksanaan perencanaan partisipatif cukup efektif.
Antioxidant Potential of the Biosynthesized Silver, Gold and Silver-Gold Alloy Nanoparticles using Opuntia ficus-indica extract
Authors: Adebayo E. A. , Oke, M. A. , Aina D. A. , Afolabi F. J. , Ibikunle J. B. , Adetayo M. O.
Published: September 2023

Nanobiotechnology has become a resourceful/crucial research area due to their copious applications in industrial, pharmacological and medical fields. In the current study, silver nanoparticles (OFI-AgNPs), gold nanoparticles (OFI -AuNPs) and bimetallic alloy nanoparticles (OFI-Ag-AuNPs) were mediated with Opuntia ficus indica (OFI) extract. Evaluation of antioxidant potential of the biosynthesized nanoparticles was done through total phenolic content (TPC), total flavonoid content (TFC) and Nitric oxide scavenging assay. The nitric oxide scavenging activity, total phenolic and total flavonoid contents of the synthesized nanoparticles increased in a dose dependent manner as compared to the standard. The OFI-AuNPs had highest total phenol of 258.28 µg GAE/g and OFI-extract gave the least value of 216.64 µg GAE/g at concentration of 100 µg/ml. The highest value of total flavonoid content (83.88 µg g-1 QE) was recorded at OFI-AgNPs, while the least value of 21.38 µg g-1 QE obtained in OFI-extract. OFI-Ag-AuNPs showed the highest nitric scavenging power of 50.8%, followed by OFI-AgNPs (42.2%), OFI-AuNPs (40.3%) and the least value of 29.7% were obtained in OFI-extract at concentration of 100 µg/mL. These results indicate Opuntia ficus indica as a suitable biomaterial for the synthesis of the nanoparticles which can be utilized as an antioxidant agent. In conclusion, these fascinating bioactivities exhibited by the synthesized nanoparticles established their usefulness in the production of antioxidants OFI-AgNPs, OFI-AuNPs and OFI-Ag-AuNPs for their biomedical applications
Keywords: Opuntia ficus indica, antioxidant activity, nanoparticles, nitric oxide, total phenolic (TPC), flavonoid content (TFC)
Traditional phytotherapy among the tribals in Raigarh district of Chhattisgarh
Authors: Sikarwar R. , Lal Brij , Maheshwari J.
Published: September 2023

The Raigarh District is situated on eastern most part of Chhattisgarh, covering an area of 12,924 sq. km. The district is inhabited by a large number of tribes, namely, Oraons, Birhor, Gonds and Baigas. The ethnobotanical survey was conducted in tribal areas during the year 1990-1991. The first-hand information regarding the ethnomedicinal uses was gathered from old medicine men who are actually using herbal medicines for meeting their health care needs.In the present paper ethnomedicinal uses of 30 plants are given such as Ardisea solanacea Roxb. (Cuts wounds), Arisaema tortuosum (Wall.) Schott. (Constipation), Bauhinia variegata L. (Veterinary Diseases), Cyperus rotundus L. (Stomachache), and Lagerstroemia speciosa (L.) Pers. (Small Pox), etc. The data will be useful to Phytochemists, Pharmacologists and herbal practitioners for detection of active principles to be used as green medicine for human welfare.
Introduction
Authors: Gill Michael
Published: September 2023

The introduction explores the rise of food allergies in the United States including discussions of origin, plans for accommodation, and the economic impacts of living with food allergy. The introduction also discusses how only forwarding whiteness in discussions of food allergies fails to challenge structural inequalities in which Black, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian, and other children and adults of color continue to experience limited access to testing, prescription drugs, and safe food options, and exclusion from food allergies communities.
Introduction
Authors: Schoen Brian , Towers Frank
Published: September 2023

This chapter introduces the volume A Continent in Crisis. It highlights the benefits of broadening the chronological and geographical approach to the origins, course, and aftermath of the American Civil War. It situates the book within historiographical traditions tracing back to borderlands history, Atlantic-focused diplomatic histories, and new sophisticated histories of indigenous peoples. The introduction suggests that Civil War history can be usefully viewed as an entangled history of imperial rivalry between a Republican led Northern Union, a proslavery-Confederacy, British North American provinces, indigenous peoples, Mexican Republics, and French-backed Empires. Political power in nineteenth-century North America was multipolar and contested; sovereignty, as a public conflict over who should rule and how, seemed fluid and control elusive.
Slowing Down and Opening Up
Authors: Grooters Stacy
Published: September 2023

This chapter details the evolution of a faculty development program meant to support pairs of instructors as they collaborated to develop linked and co-taught general education courses as part of a curricular renewal at Boston College. Facilitated by the university’s teaching center, the program drew on backwards design principles to structure a course design process meant to encourage instructors to slow down and reflect on their pedagogical assumptions. Recognizing the potential for faculty resistance to a required teaching seminar, the program was designed to center the needs of instructors, even as it strove also to meet the needs of a re-envisioned curriculum. In the end, facilitators settled on three core principles that guided the program: honor faculty expertise; focus on the particular challenges of co-teaching; and leave plenty of time for collaborative work.
Surprised by Conversation
Authors: Robinette Brian D.
Published: September 2023

Originally published in 2019, this essay provides a brief overview of core renewal underway at Boston College by explaining how its unique design overcomes the sense of scarcity that often frustrates such efforts. By foregrounding enduring questions and complex problems as ways to organize direct collaboration among faculty, core renewal at Boston College generates a sense of creative surplus that at once strengthens each discipline while stretching all of them beyond their presently imagined boundaries. The effect is that faculty and students often find themselves surprised by conversation. For this reason, core renewal of this variety goes to the very heart of what it means to be a university.
Death in Ancient Greece and Modern Russia
Authors: Eisenfeld Hanne , Epstein Thomas
Published: September 2023

This essay focuses on the pedagogical and cognitive importance of the four reflection sessions for our Enduring Question courses on death. While the spatial and temporal distance of “Death in Antiquity” and “Life and Death in Russian Literature” created a useful gap through which students could engage a difficult subject, the reflection sessions were constructed so as gradually to bring the subject of death closer to home, to transform the students from receivers of knowledge about death in two distant, distinct cultures to producers of knowledge. The piece describes how we designed our reflection sessions to increase in complexity over the course of the term with the goal of inviting our students to develop increasing comfort and competence in the skill of synthesizing course materials, personal experience, and the world beyond the classroom.
Conclusion
Authors: El Guabli Brahim
Published: September 2023

The conclusion highlights the major findings of this book and points out ways to expand their uses to study other topics within Morocco and other geographical areas in the Maghreb and the Middle East. The conclusion provides an up-to-date reading of other-archives in connection with Morocco’s recent normalization of its relations with Israel and a discussion of other-archives’ relevance to the study of race and racism in Morocco as well as their importance for developing a better understanding of the return of political repression in Morocco since 2014. Finally, the conclusion also makes a case for interdisciplinarity as a method for the study of other-archives. Given other-archives’ location at the intersection of different scholarly fields, an interdisciplinary collaboration between specialists of different areas can help tease out historical knowledge from other-archives and enable the (re)writing of forbidden histories.
Paleophonics
Authors: Brehm Brett
Published: September 2023

This chapter examines the literary and scientific works of French poet and inventor Charles Cros (1842–1888) as they relate to modern audiovisual media. While examining how the scientific and the literary are mutually inflected in Cros’s imagination, the chapter considers his stories about subjects ranging from technological surveillance in a dystopian Paris of the future, to telecommunications, to disability studies (Cros taught at a school for the deaf), to the origins of cinema. Ultimately, the chapter argues that Cros’s visions about the future of society harbor both optimism and pessimism about the progress of human knowledge through scientific research and the place of art in the capitalist marketplace. The chapter begins with origin stories at the heart of Cros’s audiovisual imagination, turns to acoustic inscription as both theory and social reality, and, finally, concludes with Cros’s short narratives about mass media, privacy (of data and personal correspondence), and surveillance, with comparison to Albert Robida’s novel The Twentieth Century (1882).
Nina’s Song
Authors: Brehm Brett
Published: September 2023

This chapter illuminates Nina de Villard’s (1843–1884) role in shaping avant-garde thought in Paris (from Impressionism to the early days of Symbolism to the celebrated Chat Noir cabaret) together with concepts of performance at the dawn of mechanically recorded sound. Villard emerges as the architect of a social space with particular acoustic features central to the history of modern audiovisual culture. Villard’s salon helped cultivate a performance culture and aesthetic that entertained and portended different directions in modern music. The chapter reevaluates Villard’s roles as muse and listener by demonstrating how she can be considered a visionary creator, one who imparted a legacy of rebellious thought, with a heritage and impact far greater than scholars have typically supposed. Supported by archival research uncovering forgotten literary works and journalism authored by Villard, the chapter highlights Villard’s overlooked imprint on the arts of an era and reverberations beyond.
A Grammar of the Corpse
Authors: Spragins Elizabeth
Published: September 2023

No matter when or where one starts telling the story of the battle of al-Qasr al-Kabir (August 4, 1578), one always stumbles across dead bodies—rotting in the sun on abandoned battlefields, publicly displayed in marketplaces, exhumed and transported for political uses. A Grammar of the Corpse: Necroepistemology in the Early Modern Mediterranean proposes an approach to understanding how dead bodies anchored the construction of knowledge within early modern Mediterranean historiography. A Grammar of the Corpse argues that the presence of the corpse in such narrative is not just incidental. It fills a central gap in testimonial narrative, providing tangible evidence of the narrator’s reliability while provoking an affective response to the presence of the dead. The use of corpses as a source of narrative authority mobilizes what cultural historians, philosophers, and social anthropologists have pointed to as the latent power of the dead for generating social and political meaning and knowledge. A Grammar of the Corpse analyzes the literary, semiotic, and epistemological function these bodies serve within text and through language. It finds that corpses are indexically present and yet disturbingly absent, a tension that informs their fraught relationship to their narrators’ own bodies and makes them useful but subversive communicative and epistemological tools. By reading Arabic texts alongside Portuguese and Spanish accounts of this key event, A Grammar of the Corpse responds to the fundamental provocation of Mediterranean studies to work beyond the linguistic limitations of modern national boundaries to study the literature of the region.
Introduction
Authors: Schuster Joshua
Published: September 2023

The Introduction takes up the task of thinking extinction as intertwining conceptual and ethical demands while inquiring into the cultural forms and media that have been used to represent the loss of an entire life form. It examines the intellectual history of how extinction first became a natural science in the late eighteenth century and how artists and philosophers initially responded to the knowledge of species finitude. The Introduction also shows how to think both ecologically and existentially about the limit ends of species.
Photographing the Last Animal
Authors: Schuster Joshua
Published: September 2023

Chapter 1 examines the near-extinction of the bison in North America as one of the most prominent extinction events to occur right after Darwin’s work popularized the scientific verification of species finitude in the context of natural and artificial selections. In 1860 there were an estimated 30 million bison across the North American plains, but by the 1880s the bison was nearly extinct in the wild, with only a few hundred remaining. The killing of the bison was the first major intentional attempt at animal extinction in an era aware of the scientific knowledge of extinction. What also marks this event as a significant turning point in the conception of extinction is that it was documented, photographed, and discussed in “real time” as the decimation was happening. Archival photographs that depict the killing of bison marked a new kind of photograph, the extinction shot, in which the visualization and documentary evidence of the end of an animal species also frames how the human gaze contributes to the meanings of extinction.
Terror Trials
Authors: Suresh Mayur R.
Published: September 2023

This book is an ethnography of terrorism trials in courts in Delhi, India. Amidst the grinding terror trials—which are replete with stories of torture, illegal detention and fabricated charges—I found letters written to judges appealing for justice, an extensive knowledge of legal procedure, friendships with police officials, a cautious faith in the courts, and a deep sense of betrayal when this trust was belied. By looking at the everyday life of the law in these courts, I argue that legal technicalities enable forms of life to emerge in the courtroom. The book shows that though seemingly mundane, legal technicalities are fraught and highly contested and acquire urgent ethical qualities in the life of a trial: Legal language becomes a question of a form of life, the file becomes a space in which the world can be made or unmade, the petition a way of imagining a future, and investigative and courtroom procedures enable the unexpected formation of close relationships between police and terror-accused. I argue that in attending to the ways in which legal processes are made to work—through legal language, through files and the everyday interactions among lawyers, judges, accused terrorists, and police—we are offered a way of understanding how human expressiveness, creativity and vulnerability emerge through the law.
Custodial Intimacy
Authors: Suresh Mayur R.
Published: September 2023

This chapter seeks to frame the relationship of the police and terror-accused through the idea of intimacy. This intimacy has two sides. On the one side, the police appear almost friendly in their relationship with terror-accused. On the other, the police as incarnated through rumors seem almost monstrous. This intimacy that emerges between police and terror-accused is marked by a fundamental uncertainty. The police constantly fluctuate between these two forms in the lives of terror-accused. This intimacy paradoxically does not yield clarity but is marked by opacity. This chapter argues that the opaque intimacy that characterises how terror-accused relate to the police also marks the relationship that terror-accused have with the legal technicalities. Even as they seek to cultivate an intimate knowledge of technicalities in an effort to obtain an acquittal, the technicalities have the potential to harm their case.
Law and the Vulnerable State
Authors: Suresh Mayur R.
Published: September 2023

This chapter focuses on the metaphor used by the terror-accused to describe the law—as something that the state ‘said’. In doing so, it draws upon Stanley Cavell’s reading of Austin’s influential text, especially the idea that one might be vulnerable to one’s utterances. For many terror-accused, as the law was something that the state ‘said’; it was bound to follow the law. When the state did not follow its ‘own laws,’ in the minds of terror-accused, this signified state vulnerability to its utterances and enabled them to hope that they may be acquitted. This chapter thinks through the idea of how the law may not signify the state’s power but its weakness. In pointing to an idea of the state that is present through its vulnerability, it joins other recent anthropological though that thinks of the state through the idea of incapacity.
Introduction: Secrets and Secretions
Authors: Knight Michael Muhammad
Published: September 2023

This introductory chapter examines the opportunities and challenges of placing Deleuze’s theological consequences in conversation with Islamic tradition, laying out the book’s chapter structure and key themes and arguments.
The Immanence of Baraka: Bodies and Territory
Authors: Knight Michael Muhammad
Published: September 2023

This chapter explores the concept of baraka as it relates to transcendence and immanence with focus on Jannat al-Baqi, a cemetey in Medina that hosts the graves of numerous heroes from early Islam. With the emergence of the modern Saudi state in 1925, the various mausolea honoring these figures were demolished in accordance with the new state’s “Wahhabi” platform and its transcendence-favoring model of baraka. This chapter considers the various ways in which Muslims imagine baraka’s flows into/through the world and their political and theological consequences.
Arm Leg Leg Arm Head: Five Percenter Theologies of Immanence
Authors: Knight Michael Muhammad
Published: September 2023

This chapter explores an Islamic theology of pure immanence, the construction of divinity found within the Five Percenter tradition. This tradition emerged in 1960s Harlem when a former Nation of Islam member, then known as Clarence 13X, changed his name to Allah and began teaching secret Nation lessons to young Black men who had not registered with the Nation as Muslims. Allah taught that all Black men were gods themselves, not “incarnations” or “manifestations” of a greater supreme being. He called attention to his theology of immanence with a bacronym of his own name as “Arm Leg Leg Arm Head,” deifying the human form. This chapter investigates the diverse and productively “rootless” ways in which Five Percenters conceptualize their theology.
Nancy with Hegel
Authors: Smith John H.
Published: September 2023

Nancy’s work on Hegel can best be conceived in terms of its intense focus on the relationship between finitude and the infinite. For both philosophers, the infinite cannot be thought of in opposition to the insistence on “finite thinking” but, rather, as an opening within finitude itself, which produces both a restlessness and a pleasure. Hence, they also have a philosophical interest in infinitesimal calculus, a tool that works with infinities to calculate change in the world. His lifelong work on Hegel can thus be used to locate Nancy within contemporary engagements with the infinite.
Sexistence: Nancy and Lacan
Authors: Apter Emi Ly
Published: September 2023

This chapter focuses on the philosophical difference between Nancy and Lacan. This difference is already present in The Title of the Letter that Nancy coauthored with Lacoue-Labarthe, but it becomes even clearer in Nancy’s “The ‘There Is’ of Sexual Relation,” which runs counter to Lacan’s declaration that “there is no sexual relation.” This thought trajectory furthermore allows Nancy to develop in the more recent Sexistence an ontological difference that is de jure sexual, which this chapter argues can be read as postdual, transindividual, essentially trans. In this regard, Nancy’s thought, additionally, can be instrumental in thinking a Fourth Wave feminism: one that insists on not bracketing the fact that we are not beyond historical struggles for parity within binary differences; one that involves the philosophizing in sex that mobilizes psychoanalysis, philosophy, and translation studies.
Ritualizing Solidarity
Authors: Reynolds Susan Bigelow
Published: September 2023

Examining the relationship between ritual and solidarity in a community of difference, this chapter suggests that ritual offers an embodied script through which people practice the work of togetherness and improvise common belonging. It begins with accounts of how bilingual Holy Week liturgies at St. Mary of the Angels “mix people up on purpose.” It then examines these rituals of ecclesial solidarity in conversation with theorists Catherine Bell, Émile Durkheim, Edith and Victor Turner, Selva J. Raj, Adam Seligman, and Robert Weller. Arguing for an expansive, ecological understanding of practice and a view of ritual solidarity distinct from the Turners’ communitas, it proposes that we view the bodily vernacular of ritual as the language of community. Prevailing studies of multiethnic congregations emphasize the role of ritual in transcending cultural differences. Refuting such claims, this chapter shows that effective ritual does not erase difference but affirms it, inviting participants to join with others in their otherness.
​The Distinctive Relation between Creature and Creator in Christian Theology
Authors: Soars Daniel
Published: September 2023

In Chapter 1, I focus on the work of David Burrell and his somewhat surprising invitation to Christian theologians to explore the distinction-and-relation between creature and Creator in conversation with Sara Grant and the Hindu tradition of Advaita Vedānta. The aim of the chapter is to establish a Christian theological context for the subsequent comparative enquiry by pointing to early and medieval figures like Pseudo-Dionysius and Meister Eckhart, as well as Renaissance and contemporary thinkers such as Nicholas of Cusa and Kathryn Tanner, and their ways of articulating the sui generis relation between the world and God. In so doing, I suggest that nondualism has been latent—in spirit if not in letter—in certain Christian thinkers throughout the tradition. Perhaps somewhat unexpectedly, we see that this claim is also true of Thomas Aquinas: by paying close attention to his metaphysics of creation, Burrell shows how the notions of ‘distinction’ and ‘relation’ cannot be conceptually separated in Aquinas’s understanding of the world-God dialectic.
​Creation: “Ex Nihilo” or “ Ex Deo ”?
Authors: Soars Daniel
Published: September 2023

In Chapter 4, I look at the ontological structure of the world-God relation and at how the world comes to ‘be’ at all. Christian theology understands creation as the bursting forth of something ontologically new ‘from nothing’ (ex nihilo), while the Vedāntic doctrine of causality known as satkāryavāda suggests that the world, as an effect (kārya), always already implicitly exists (sat) in Brahman, its cause—i.e., that it is never really radically ‘created’ at all. I argue that a comparative exploration of Aquinas’s understanding of the nature of divine causation ex nihilo and Śaṁkara’s causal conception of satkāryavāda shows that these prima facie conceptual differences can be resolved, or even dissolved, in terms of a more fundamental alignment in two styles of relational ontology.
On Not Reading Freud
Authors: Spitzer Jennifer
Published: September 2023

Chapter 1 reads D.H. Lawrence’s two essays Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious (1921) and Fantasia of the Unconscious (1922) as explicit counter-statements to psychoanalysis. I argue that in these idiosyncratic texts, as in the novel Women in Love (1920), Lawrence participates in the production of new psychological genres and becomes, ironically, one of the key disseminators of popular Freudianism, while simultaneously indicting psychoanalysis for its privileging of mental life at the expense of the body. Challenging psychoanalysis’s emphasis on expertise and critical detachment, Lawrence champions amateurism and intuition as more direct vehicles to self-knowledge. Lawrence envisioned Freud as fundamentally antagonistic to his utopic ideas of social transformation, which aimed to reawaken modern subjects to the embodied consciousness that modern habits of “idealism” had jeopardized. Yet the textual kinship he shares with Freud is both the engine of Lawrence’s developing philosophy of self, as well as a source of the agonizing self-contradictions in his work.
The Soul under Psychoanalysis
Authors: Spitzer Jennifer
Published: September 2023

Chapter 2 traces the entanglements between Bloomsbury and psychoanalysis as a backdrop to Woolf’s ongoing discursive battles with Freud. Woolf was intimately involved in publishing and popularizing psychoanalysis to an English audience, yet she remained suspicious of Freud’s ideas for over two decades, reading his work only shortly before her death in 1939. In her essay “Freudian Fiction” and in Mrs. Dalloway, Woolf hyperbolizes the dangers of psychoanalysis and psychiatry as scientific dissections of the soul. As I go on to suggest, her discursive battle with Freud was tied to her aesthetic and ethical, albeit secular and modern, defense of the “soul,” and to her polemic against medical and psychological authoritarianism—a polemic that reaches its apogee in Mrs. Dalloway (1925). Yet Woolf’s use of free-indirect discourse as a narrative mode that offers access to the deepest recesses of the self by way of a distant and anonymous narrator, evokes analogous, albeit fictional, interventions that Woolf rejected in psychoanalysis.
Group Works
Authors: Philbrick Ethan
Published: September 2023

Group Works is a book about what happens when groups become a medium for artistic and political experimentation in the neoliberal era. It is written against a phobia of collectivity in which collective experience means a suspicious corrosion of the individual and also against a romance of the more than one in which there is a tacit assumption that any scene of collectivity is in itself liberatory and ameliorative. Since the 1960s and 1970s, neoliberalization has isolated and atomized us, and yet it has also exploited our capacity to relate to each other, putting our ability to make groups, connect, and communicate to work. Ethan Philbrickshows how under these conditions, the group emerges as an ambivalent medium for artists to contest neoliberalism’s relational demands. Made up of four primary chapters that each cohere around a different small group form (huddles, communes, groupuscules, and ensembles), Group Works pairs works in dance, literature, film, and music from the 1960s and 1970s with more recent group works in order to recast debates about collectivism, art, and politics under neoliberalism. These group works articulate the politics of race, gender, and sexuality under neoliberalism as a question of group formation, and in drawing his critical attention toward them, Philbrick approaches the group not as a stable, idealizable entity, but instead as a kind of doing with the difficulties, impossibilities, and blockages of collectivity.
Groupuscule
Authors: Philbrick Ethan
Published: September 2023

The fourth chapter engages Lizzie Borden’s 1976 film Regrouping to consider the racial politics of radical feminist groupuscules in the 1960s and 1970s. Borden’s film is an experimental documentary about the formation, deformation, and reformation of a group of white feminists. It is a voyeuristic and self-reflexive filmic exploration of a group’s anxieties about their own group being and never coheres into a stable representation of group, instead persistently fragmenting as if from the weight of its own internal critique. Philbrick puts Deleuzian theories of assemblage and cinema in conversation with social movement texts by scholars and activists such as Wini Brienes and Jo Freeman before turning to Sharon Hayes’s 2014 piece, Women of the World Unite, They Said, in order to think about how the concepts and forms that can be gleaned from Borden’s cinematic work might allow us to re-consider how we narrate the mutual entanglement of gender, race, and sexuality in feminist history.
Afterword
Authors: Philbrick Ethan
Published: September 2023

Eschewing typical genres of academic closure, Philbrick ends with a series of scores for collective experimentation. These scores are instructions for assemblies yet to come that loosely synthesize and extend the leaderless huddles, disbanded communes, regrouping groupuscules, and dissonant ensembles of this book. They invite the reader to enact the concepts, forms, and questions discussed here as a way to blur the relationship between a book and a practice, between reading and doing. They ask the reader to socialize their reading. In a time of devastating disease, climate crisis, heightened racialized violence, and growing inequality, these scores propose small not yet actualized scenes of group work to continue negotiating the antagonisms and affiliations of life in common.
Introduction
Authors: Philbrick Ethan
Published: September 2023

In the introduction, Philbrick sets up the conceptual and historical terrain of the book by offering three short essays on the group tuned to three different registers—group theory, group politics, and group art—before turning to archival traces of one visionary small group from the 1970s, the Combahee River Collective, and the resonance of their work in Cauleen Smith’s 2018 film Sojourner.
Path planning algorithm based on Improved Artificial Potential Field method
Authors: Zhang Eryi
Published: September 2023

The domain of research and development concerning mobile robot obstacle avoidance continues to remain an active area of interest. Artificial potential fields (APF) are a common and effective method for obstacle avoidance path planning, where the robot is guided to the target location by a simulated environmental potential field. Traditional artificial potential field methods tend to trap robots in local minima, impeding their ability to reach the goal. This research endeavours to introduce a new approach, the Improved Artificial Potential Field (IAPF) algorithm, which incorporates the A-star method in constructing the artificial potential field. This technique more effectively addresses the issue of path planning for mobile robots, thereby avoiding local minimum solutions. Through simulation experiments in different scenarios, the feasibility of the IAPF algorithm of this paper is verified. The results show that, compared with the traditional APF method, the IAPF algorithm can solve problem of local minimum and plan a sensible path.
Analysis of wind power generation technology and its application in energy saving
Authors: Wu Maojiu
Published: September 2023

Demand for electricity is on the rise as the economy is constantly on the move. Traditional thermal power generation is inefficient and harmful to environment. Wind power generation has gradually become one of the most important energy sources developed by various countries because it is a clean energy source. Wind power is widely distributed in China and the geographic advantages accelerate the construction of large wind farms. In order to develop wind power generation more efficiently, it is necessary to analyse the technology and environmental conditions in detail. This article has been a review of the current state of wind power generation in China. The principles of wind power generation and the types of wind turbines are introduced. The impact of wind farms on the climate is also discussed. It also examines the role of wind energy as a means of saving energy and reducing pollution. This paper may offer a reference for the development of wind power generation.
Radio frequency identification review and development prospect research
Authors: Tan Zheng
Published: September 2023

Based on the existing literature and data, this paper starts from the principle of radio frequency identification technology, analyses the situation of the application field of RFID and predicts its development prospect. The results show that RFID technology is a kind of technology that uses the transmission characteristics of RF signals through space alternating electromagnetic coupling to identify targets and thus realize rapid automatic identification. Since it was developed and used in warfare in the mid-twentieth century, RF identification technology has developed rapidly and developed a variety of applications. Today, with the development of electronic technology and communication technology, RF identification technology already has a wide and irreplaceable role in medicine, military and food safety. It is not difficult to imagine that with more joint applications of new technology, radio frequency-related algorithm improvement, radio frequency tag price reduction, and other conditions, the technology will have a more extensive and profound application in the future.
Improving the artificial potential field by A-star to solve the local minima problem
Authors: Wu Dengjiang
Published: September 2023

This paper discusses the method for artificial potential field in traditional sense. It is based on the algorithm with the planning of physics that guides a robot along a gradient toward a target endpoint by applying forces with gravitation and repulse within a robot environment. The article proposes to improve the potential field method by incorporating the A-star algorithm for the improvement of path planning in accuracy and efficiency. The A-star algorithm uses a cost function to measure the goodness of a node and finds the optimal path totally and thoroughly through heuristic search. The proposed method uses the A-star algorithm to generate the optimal path, which takes potential field and its method as basis, thus repeating the process until the robot reaches the end point. By combining the A-star algorithm and the method based on artificial potential field, the robot's driving route is made more reasonable, and thus testing and verifying how the method works through an experiment with simulation.
Application of 3D printing, sensor and artificial intelligence technology in Braille field
Authors: He Zhengzhe
Published: September 2023

This article discusses the exciting advancements in technology that are being made in the Braille field, with a focus on 3D printing, sensor technology, and artificial intelligence (AI). These technologies are transforming the way that blind people access and interact with Braille, improving their quality of life and making the world a more inclusive place. The use of 3D printing is an important development in Braille production. Traditional printing methods can result in Braille books and materials that are difficult to read due to errors and inaccuracies. 3D printing, however, allows for more precision and accuracy, resulting in higher quality Braille materials. This technology can also be used to create custom Braille materials to suit individual needs. Sensor technology is another important advancement in the field of Braille. A new type of assistive device, such as a wristband-style smart reader, is being developed. These devices use sensors to detect and translate Braille into spoken or written language, thereby enhancing communication and access to information for blind people. Finally, AI technology is making significant progress in recognizing and translating Braille. With the help of AI tools, blind people can more easily and accurately understand Braille and interact with the world around them. For example, AI-powered reading machines can scan and recognize Braille characters and translate them into spoken or written language, allowing blind people to access a wider range of information with greater ease.
The control of proportional parqmeters helps in production and living
Authors: Dong Jingyi
Published: September 2023

PLC, or programmable logic controller, is a type of microprocessor-based digital computing controller. It can be used for automatic control, storing and executing control instructions loaded into memory at any moment. In the process of classroom learning, the author learned about PLC, and the device to implement PLC is PLD, that is, a programming logic device, whose letters represent proportional controller, integral controller, and differential controller. In the process of learning, people noticed that proportional control is relatively simple compared with integral and differential control, but it is the most frequently used and widely used, so the author can't help but have a strong interest in proportional control. Through research and search, the working principle and working characteristics of the PLC were found because it has high reliability, convenient programming, adaptable setup, full input/output functional modules, and quick processing speed, which are used by many modern precision instruments. In the process of research, it was found that it was the K value that affected the proportional control, and the simulation using the false data image found that the model curve formed under different K values was also very different. Therefore, the research topic of this paper is the transformation of different graphics caused by the change of proportional control K in the PLC. The plots obtained by different K values are different, and the advantages and disadvantages of proportional control can be found.
Application of SLAM in the biomedical field
Authors: Jin Tianyu
Published: September 2023

With the continuous development and improvement of sensors, sensor technology is also constantly making breakthroughs. It is also widely used in various fields of medicine today. This article summarizes the practice of two types of SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) in medicine. The detection and matching of human luminal feature points under SLAM were studied so as to reconstruct the human internal environment so that doctors can obtain three-dimensional reconstruction feedback within the surgical range and improve the safety of surgery. And for different surgical environments, the same SLAM is improved on the basis of innovation, which is more suitable for different scenarios. Three algorithms are described in this article for taking images of the inside of the abdominal cavity and collecting data based on the images using different algorithms. Based on the collected data, the internal abdominal cavity is reconstructed in 3D. Finally, a three-dimensional visualization system for the abdominal cavity was constructed. It has important research significance in the field of medical auxiliary research.
Research on visual SLAM for dynamic scenes
Authors: Xu Xincheng
Published: September 2023

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) technology has many applications, such as intelligent robots, autonomous driving, and smart cities. It is a key technology for achieving autonomous robot navigation and environmental awareness. Robots need to perceive the surrounding environment in real-time and construct maps while conducting autonomous localization and path planning, which involves algorithms of SLAM technology. This article aims to introduce the research on visual SLAM algorithms in dynamic scenes. This article will first introduce the traditional SLAM algorithm, its research status, and its limitations. Next, introduce the research on the visual SLAM algorithm in dynamic scenes. Finally, the current visual SLAM algorithm's problems and future research directions were discussed. The research in this article will have significant value for the research and application of autonomous robot navigation, environmental perception, and smart cities.