bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Effect of Zinc and Nickel Treatments on Improvement of the Osmotic Defense System of Wheat Plant Under Salinity Stress
Authors: Abd El-Samad Hamdia M. , Taha Rania M.
Published: September 2022

The present experiments were performed to determine the effects of Zn (20 µM and 200 µM) and Ni (1 µM and 100 µM) on the growth and metabolic activities in the roots, shoots, and spikes of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) cv. Gimiza 11 grown under different salinity conditions. In addition to identifying the osmotic tolerance of wheat, the roles of Zn and Ni in alleviating osmotic stress were examined. The root was the organ most sensitive to osmotic stress, whereas the shoot was the most resistant, and the spike was the intermediate. These three organs negatively responded to increasing osmotic stress levels, as fresh and dry matter decreased, and related biochemical parameters were adversely affected. However, fresh and dry matter were generally elevated when plants were supplemented with Zn or Ni under increasing osmotic stress. The sensitivity of roots was associated with depletion in the concentrations of sugars and free proline, whereas soluble protein and amino acid levels were increased. The stress tolerance of shoots and spikes was accompanied by an increase in soluble sugars, soluble proteins, and proline, while amino acid levels increased in spikes only. The Na+ and K+ content in wheat plants increased with increasing NaCl-induced osmotic stress levels. In turn, the accumulation and partitioning of Na+ and K+ did not vary among the three organs, both at different salt concentrations and between Zn or Ni treatments. Moreover, the present results show that the concentrations of anthocyanins, flavonoids, and l-ascorbic acid increased under exposure to osmotic stress and did not change significantly under Zn or Ni treatments.
Influence of the artificial defect on the flexible pipeline twist angle
Authors: Nazarenko S. , Kovalenko R. , Kolienov O. , Saveliev D. , Miachyn V. , Demianyshyn V.
Published: September 2022

To establish the dependence of the change in the values of the twisting angle of the flexible pipeline on the internal water pressure and the defect length, which is directed along and across the axis of the sleeve.

Experimental studies were conducted in two stages. At the first stage, the methodology and plan of the experiment were developed, the factors and their values were determined, and experimental studies were conducted. The limits of variation in the area of factor spaces were established based on the basic analysis of a priori information. The length of the defect was 0, 50 and 100 mm. The pressure values in the sleeve were 0.2, 0.4 and 0.6 MPa. Adequacy of the obtained regression equations was checked using Fisher's test. At the second stage, the analysis of the research results was carried out and the numerical values of the factors that most affect the change in the value of the twisting angle of the sleeve were established.

According to the results of experimental studies, the dependences of the change in the twisting angle of the flexible pipeline on the internal water pressure and the length of the defect were obtained. It was established that the dependence of the previously mentioned factors is close to linear. The largest discrepancy in the maximum sleeve twist angle – 21% was observed at pressure values of 0.4 MPa.

The research was limited to only two factors: the defect length and the pressure in the middle of the sleeve. Such factors as the degree of wear of the sleeve, the type of sleeve and the number of defects on the test sample were not taken into account.

The obtained results can be used during the development of a new method of testing flexible pipelines, which will allow to establish hidden defects in them.

For the first time, the dependence of the influence of the size and direction of the defect on the reinforcing frame of the pressure fire hose on the value of its twist angle at constant internal pressure indicators was established.
Use of unmanned aviation by State Fire Service (PSP)
Authors: Parczewski Rafał
Published: September 2022

This article describes its author’s State Fire Service Officer questionnaire results. The research topic is unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) usage during service in this formation. The State Fire Service’s statutory tasks are threats reconnaissance and rescue tasks during natural disasters. Some State Fire Service units are equipped with UAVs and use them to their full capabilities. Unmanned systems are increasingly employed by many institutions and the state. Unmanned aerial vehicles can be used in search and rescue operations, waste control, or environmental monitoring. The current possibilities of unmanned aviation are very extensive and often save lives. The numerous impacts of unmanned aviation during the COVID-19 pandemic began with their enormous potential and wide scope of operation. Recognition, effective monitoring and further development of UAVs have a significant impact on improving state security. Research results prove undoubtedly that UAV’s role in State Fire Service is beneficial, especially during missing person search and firefighting actions. Because of the cyclical character of crises in Poland, it is necessary to equip State Fire Service units with tools like UAVs to fight various threats.
Comparative analysis of tender procedures conducted in military units by Regional Infrastructure Boards – case study
Authors: Tryk Katarzyna
Published: September 2022

Military units are the fundamental elements of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Poland (Polish abbrev. SZ RP). As part of the state defense system, they implement tasks resulting from the National Security Strategy of the Republic of Poland and the Defense Strategy of the Republic of Poland. The units carrying out tasks for the defense of the state must be adequately equipped, and the infrastructure they have is efficient. To ensure its proper functioning, investments carried out on the premises of military units are necessary. Tasks in this regard are possible thanks to the Regional Infrastructure Boards (Polish abbrev. RZI) supervised by the Ministry of National Defense. They deal with the management of military real estate, investment, renovation, and equipping real estate with the necessary infrastructure. There are ten RZIs in Poland. Out of ten, eight are Regional Infrastructure Boards; the other two are the Military Infrastructure Board in Poznań (WZI) and the Capital Infrastructure Board in Warsaw (SZI). Expending public funds for the implementation of tasks entrusted to Regional Infrastructure Boards should be carried out following the procedures compliant with the Public Procurement Law. The research presented in the publication aims to identify differences and similarities in tenders carried out by two selected RZIs in Zielona Góra and Bydgoszcz in 2014-2017.
Experimental Study of Air-Assisted Rocket System Models for Launching Payloads into a Low Earth Orbit
Authors: FRANT Michał , MAJCHER Maciej , Omen Łukasz , Zalewski Piotr
Published: September 2022

This paper presents the results of aerodynamic testing of air-launch rocket kit models for launching payloads into a low Earth orbit. The work was performed in a low-speed wind tunnel at the Military University of Technology (MUT, Warsaw, Poland)), using symmetrical airflow. Two carrier aircraft models were tested, i.e., Su-22 and MiG-29 aircraft without launched payloads and with these payloads at a dynamic pressure of q = 500 [Pa] and the range of angles of attack at α = -2828. The values obtained related to the aerodynamic drag coefficient, aerodynamic lift coefficient, pitching moment coefficient and lift to drag ratio, and are given in tabular and graphic forms. The tests were primarily used to validate the numerical results obtained during implementation of the project “Air-assisted rocket system for launching payloads into low Earth orbit - feasibility study”.
IMPACTS OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON AGRICULTURE AND ECONOMY OF NEPAL
Authors: Shah Kabita Kumari , Modi Bindu , Gautam Kaurab , Lamsal Bibek , Pandey Hari Prasad , Tiwari Injila , Shrestha Jiban
Published: September 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in an increasing number of confirmed cases and death cases in Nepal. In this study, we review the current situation of COVID-19 and its management strategies in Nepal, commutative and death cases, and challenges to contain the spread of COVID-19 so far executed. Besides, this review outlines the effect of the coronavirus on agribusiness and food security, economic status, market fluctuation. The covid-19 interferes with the supply chain of the market with impaired production and distribution accompanied by a lack of labor and supply of inputs. The planting of agricultural corps can't be operated because of this pandemic. Thus, the pandemic has provided a serious impact on food security. Nepal is suffering the most unexpected and extensive closure of economic activity due to the outbreak of the coronavirus. The impact has been seen in many sectors such as tourism, trade, and production linkages and supply. Especially the entire service industries: tourism, aviation, and hospitality sector have been hit hardly by the outbreak. As disease outbreaks are unlikely to disappear soon, proactive action is needed not only to save lives but also to protect economic prosperity.
DETERMINATION OF ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY OF PHYTOCHEMICALS TOWARDS XANTHOMONAS CITRI PV. CITRI CAUSING CITRUS CANKER
Authors: Mazhar Hafiz Rizwan , Faizan Ullah Muhammad , Atiq Muhammad , Rajput Nasir Ahmed , Ali Shafqat , Usman Muhammad , Ahmad Usama , Nawaz Ahmad , Faizan Ullah Muhammad , Iqbal Shahid
Published: September 2022

Citrus canker, caused by Xanthomonas citri pv. citri, is the most destructive disease of citrus throughout the world. Synthetic chemicals have so far proved ineffective and harmful to the environment. That is why in current study, phyto-extracts were examined due to their less hazardous and eco-friendly nature. For the management of citrus canker, nine medicinal phytoextract (C. colocynthis, N. sativa, C. tamala, Z. officinale, P. nigrum, C. verum, S. aromaticum, E. globu, T. Graecum) were evaluated under lab condition. Maximum inhibition zone was produced by C. colocynthis (25.71mm) followed by N. sativa (21.52mm), C. tamala (18.63mm), Z. officinale (20.42mm), P. nigrum (18.99mm). C. verum (15.73mm), S. aromaticum (18.75mm), E. globu (15.37mm), T. Graecum (14.57mm) as compared to control under lab conditions. The most effective phytoextract (C. colocynthis, N. sativa) were evaluated under greenhouse and field condition. Minimum disease severity (12.62%) was observed when of (C. colocynthis + N. sativa) were applied in combination followed by C. colocynthis (23.23%) and N. sativa (28.31%) as compared to the control under greenhouse condition. Maximum disease incidence was noticed by N. sativa (42.18%), C. colocynthis (36.79%) and minimum disease incidence (27.40%) was observed when (C. colocynthis+ N. sativa) were applied in combinations under field condition as compared to the control and reduce the disease severity up to 50%. The results showed that C. colocynthis+ N. sativa can be implicated for the management of citrus canker.
Assessment of Some Heavy Metal Concentration in Fish, Water, And Sediment Of River Ndakotsu, Lapai, Niger State
Authors: Usman gabi Alhassan , Salihu I. M. , Hamza U. I. , Yahaya I , Muhammad H. M. , Aliyu A. D.
Published: September 2022

This research was conducted to assess the levels of heavy metals in fish tissue, sediment and water body, at river Ndakotsu, Lapai, Niger state, Nigeria. River Ndakotsu is the major river that serve as a boundary between Lapai local government and Agaie local government and is useful to surrounding towns and villages for irrigation farming fishing and domestic purposes. Due to this, it is necessary to monitor the level of heavy metals contamination in the water body, sediment and aquatic species tissue habiting this environment. The study water samples were collected using water sampler in three different locations. Equally, In-situ water physicochemical parameters such as temperature, ph and dissolve oxygen were determined using portable multi probes meter. Fish samples were collected from fishermen immediately they arrived from fish exploration and specimen were digested using concentrated nitric acid in wet digestion technique. The level of selected heavy metal in samples were determined by the use of Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer (AAS model: Accusys 211 USA) after samples dilution. The water quality of the river was within the acceptable range for fresh water species. The concentration of heavy metals, cadmium (Cd), lead (Pb), copper (Cu), iron (Fe), manganese (Mn) and zinc (Zn). From the results obtained from this study, the concentrations of heavy metals (Mn, Zn, Cd, Cu, Pb and Fe.) found in all the water samples are lower than that in the fish sample species and higher in sediment sample than fish sample
NGHIÊN CỨU ẢNH HƯỞNG CỦA HÌNH DẠNG TƯỜNG CHỐNG NỔ ĐẾN ÁP LỰC SÓNG NỔ TÁC DỤNG LÊN CÔNG TRÌNH
Authors: Ngô Ngọc Thủy
Published: September 2022

Bài báo trình bày việc nghiên cứu xác định giá trị áp lực lớn nhất của sóng nổ tác dụng lên tường trước, tường bên, nóc và tường sau của công trình trong các trường hợp thay đổi hình dạng tường chắn, bằng cách sử dụng phần mềm ANSYS Autodyn 2D. Phân tích kết quả tính toán, nhận thấy đối với tường trước công sự, tường chắn hình chữ nhật ngăn cản sóng tốt hơn các hình dạng tường chắn hình thang, hình nêm. Đối với tường sau, tường bên thì tường chắn hình thang có mặt vát hướng vào trong sẽ ngăn cản sóng tốt hơn.
MỘT SỐ HIỆU CHỈNH BẢNG GIÁ TRỊ MÔ MEN UỐN ĐƠN VỊ TRONG TCVN 10907:2015
Authors: Nguyễn Văn Hiếu
Published: September 2022

Bài báo phân tích một số giá trị chưa hợp lý trong bảng mô men uốn đơn vị trong TCVN 10907:2015 “Sân bay dân dụng - Mặt đường sân bay - Yêu cầu thiết kế”. Trên cơ sở lời giải bài toán lý thuyết tấm mặt đường cứng sân bay trên nền đàn hồi, các tác giả tính toán lại các miền giá trị và kiến nghị hiệu chỉnh bảng giá trị mô men uốn đơn vị này.
Refugees in Counseling Journals: A 20-Year Content Analysis
Authors: Attia Mina , Li Hanyun , Tang Shiyu
Published: September 2022

This article is a 20-year content analysis of counseling journals exploring refugees and refugee issues from 1998-2018. The investigation intended to identify publication trends in counseling journals and the field’s responsiveness to the refugee crisis and global climate. An exhaustive analysis of American Counseling Association (ACA) and ACA division journals was conducted. Themes of the publishing trends, gaps in the literature, and recommendations for future research are presented for the counseling field.
Experiences of School Counselor Trainees in Group Supervision During Practicum: A Phenomenological Study
Authors: Minor Jill , Duchac Neil
Published: September 2022

In this phenomenological study, we explored experience of students (N=6) in group supervision within a practicum field experience course. Using a narrative-focused approach for data analysis and interpretation of journal entries, were created a thematic structure of the participants’ lived experiences using the Critical Incident Questionnaire (CIQ). Discussion and implications of this journal writing activity are offered to help reveal and understand the instructional effectiveness of a field practicum counseling course.
Variability of Lime-based Lateritic Soil enhanced with Bitumen with varying proportions.
Authors: Wasiu John  , Lucia Omolayo Agashua  , Samuel Adebanji Ogbiye
Published: September 2022

This research investigated the bituminous additive prerequisite of some lateritic soil samples as pavement materials. Both chemical and geotechnical experiment were carried out on untreated (raw) and improved laterite. Bituminous material was utilized in the present research as admixture. The California bearing ratio (CBR), Atterberg limit (Liquid and plastic limit), specific gravity, moisture content, and compaction experiments of the samples were performed with varying percentages or proportions of bitumen; 3, 6, 9 and 12%. The soil categorization test reveals that the lateritic soil is between A-2-7 and A-2-4 which is Silty or clayed clayey gravel and sand based on AASHTO soil categorization. The C.B.R values are 9.87, 4.35% and 7.28% for samples A, B and C correspondently at 0% additive content, while for 12% additives, the result showed maximum C.B.R values for sample A and Bas 41.21% andSample C as 40.04%. Thus, bitumen has been verified to be a good admixture on the enhancement of the properties of lateritic soil as pavement materials.
Fundamentos Generales de Salud Pública en Ecuador
Authors: Martín Estévez Lizette , Martínez Angulo María Auxiliadora , Paliz Sánchez Cindy del Rocío , Vera García Martha del Rocío
Published: September 2022

Uno de los rasgos que más ha caracterizado a los pueblos de América Latina, ha sido la constante movilización en función de alcanzar mejores condiciones de vida y mejores situaciones económicas y sociales, especialmente para una numerosa población que ha sido sistemáticamente vulnerada en todos sus derecho, y excluida de los beneficios básicos que deberían garantizarse a todos los pueblos del mundo. De hecho la humanidad toda cuenta con un largo historial de luchas en este sentido, avanzando hacia planteamientos cada vez más equitativos e incluyentes.
Nociones Elementales de Finanzas: Guía para entender las Finanzas
Authors: Mora Tufiño Michael Melitón
Published: September 2022

El estudio de las finanzas, como disciplina científica, se ocupa de los aspectos relacionado con la asignación de recursos escasos en el tiempo, en ambientes de incertidumbre. Se trata entonces, de un campo dinámico como arte y como ciencia, pues relaciona procesos, instituciones, mercados e instrumentos financieros que participan en la transferencia de dinero entre personas, empresas y gobiernos. Desde el punto de vista científico, las finanzas tienen como objeto de estudio la rentabilidad de una inversión, la estructura de capital de una entidad, la administración optima del valor del dinero en el tiempo y el riesgo financiero, apoyado en métodos, teorías y técnicas para la toma de decisiones. Como arte, se vincula con la sensibilidad y el talento que se requiere para las actividades financieras.
Producción Apícola en la Provincia de Santa Elena
Authors: Macías Socarrás Idalberto , Arteaga Figueroa Gregoria Natividad , Drouet Candell Andrés Enrique
Published: September 2022

Toda actividad productiva tiene como finalidad el bienestar de las personas y, a esta premisa, la apicultura no se encuentra ajena. Es así como las diferentes formas y métodos desarrollados en la apicultura, deben ser considerados como parte de una empresa productiva rentable, que genera ingresos al apicultor aumentando su estándar y calidad de vida, con el beneficio adicional de mejorar la calidad del entorno, al buscar una mejor producción de frutos y semillas de los vegetales que son visitados por las abejas.
Trastorno de Salud Crónicos en los Niños y su Atención Multidisciplinaria
Authors: Serdán Ruiz David , Carrillo Ibarra Stiven , Bustamante Cruz Rosa , Chisaguano Chisaguano Luis , López Araujo Janet , Carrera Chulde Ana
Published: September 2022

La Organización Mundial de la Salud expone: “Las enfermedades crónicas son consideradas actualmente como un problema de salud pública tanto en países desarrollados como en países en vías de desarrollo. Se caracterizan por su larga duración y lenta evolución y son la primera causa de muerte y discapacidad en el mundo entero”, e indica también que éstas “...representan el mayor desafío de los sistemas sanitarios modernos. La atención integral a estos pacientes se presenta como uno de los mayores retos del milenio”.
Cardiovascular Vital Signs at Solid Tumor Diagnosis: Hypotension and Tachycardia Predict Shorter Overall Survival
Authors: Aktas Aynur , Walsh Declan , Lasheen Wael , Brady Bernadette , Barrett Michelle , Estfan Bassam
Published: September 2022

Objective: We examined whether cardiovascular vital signs (VS) were prognostic for overall survival (OS) in newly diagnosed adult cancer outpatients. Methods: Electronic medical records data for patients with a solid tumor diagnosis and ≥2 consecutive weight measurements were analysed. BP (mmHg) and RHR (beats/minute) were identified at diagnosis (T1) and final visit (T2; >=7 days after T1). Systolic blood pressure (SBP) categories: <120; 120-129; 130-139; 140-149; ≥150. RHR categories: <60; 60-69; 70-79; 80-89; 90-100; 101-109; ≥110. Proportional Hazards Models examined potential prognostic factors for OS. Kaplan-Meier analysis estimated OS using lower (<80), normal (80-119), higher (≥120) SBP, and RHR of normal (60-100), bradycardia (<60), tachycardia (>100) categories. Results: N=5819; 59% men; mean age 61 (±12) years; 77% Caucasians; 9% African Americans. The most common tumor sites: prostate (19%), lung (15%), breast (14%). 18% had metastatic disease. Median OS after diagnosis was 27 months (range 25-28). Tachycardia had 2 to 3-fold increase in mortality. Survival time decreased by 8-10 months with lower SBP. RHR and SBP remained independently prognostic after adjusting clinically relevant characteristics at both timepoints. Conclusion: Elevated RHR and lower SBP independently predicted greater mortality in newly diagnosed cancer outpatients. These associations remained statistically significant longitudinally, and the differences observed were clinically important.
Enfermedad Trofoblástica Gestacional: Reporte de un Caso
Authors: Flores-Naranjo Paulina
Published: September 2022

La enfermedad trofoblástica gestacional se da por un desarrollo altamente anormal del tejido trofoblástico placentario, constituido por trastornos benignos y malignos. La mola hidatiforme es la de mayor incidencia, en su desarrollo intervienen varios factores dentro de los cuales la edad, embarazo molar previo y los hábitos influyen en un gran porcentaje. La mola hidatiforme constituye la proliferación trofoblástica excesiva además del desarrollo embrionario anormal, siendo completa o parcial diferenciándose genéticamente por su cariotipo diploide y triploide respectivamente. El objetivo del presente estudio fue dar a conocer la presentación de la enfermedad trofoblástica gestacional y la importancia de su detección, tratamiento y seguimiento, para prevenir posibles complicaciones. El diagnóstico se basa en un enfoque multifactorial que constituye las características clínicas, la determinación cuantitativa de beta gonadotropina coriónica humana, ecografía abdominal o transvaginal. Se llega a confirmar a través del estudio anatomopatológico e inmunohistoquímica, técnicas citogenéticas y el análisis de ADN, que ha permitido identificar y diferenciar el embarazo molar completo y parcial. El tratamiento se basa en el legrado espirativo previa dilatación cervical mecánica y bajo guía ecográfica, en pacientes con paridad satisfecha la histerectomía es la mejor opción. Es muy importante la vigilancia y el seguimiento para evitar que se llegue a un neoplasia trofoblástica gestacional después de un embarazo molar.
Burmese Python Colonization and Eradication
Authors: Rochford Michael R.
Published: September 2022

This chapter discusses how the eradication efforts of the Burmese python failed in the Everglades National Park. Burmese pythons firmly established themselves in southern Florida by the early 2000s. Interagency efforts were ramping up to control or eradicate the new poster child for invasive species. However, biologists had struggled to convince stakeholders that the python was even a problem. Strong incentive existed to dismiss the gravity of the situation. Python breeders feared their livelihoods would be impacted, and breeders held influence over many hobbyists. For some agencies, official recognition of the existence of a wild python population would have meant having to allocate funds to combat the emerging issue, and to the average person this may have sounded like a far-fetched idea. By the time biologists succeeded in convincing stakeholders of the looming python threat, the window for eradication had passed.
A Strange Place to Find Jazz …
Authors: Cooper Kimberley
Published: September 2022

This chapter focuses on the jazz journey, inspiration, and philosophy of choreographer and current Artistic Director of the Canadian jazz dance company, Decidedly Jazz Danceworks (DJD), Kimberley Cooper. This chapter offers insight into the history of DJD, as well as a personal perspective of Cooper’s relationship to jazz dance and music. There is a distinct focus on Cooper’s creative process in creating dance and collaborating with jazz musicians in the creation and performance of her work.
The Duality of the Black Experience as Jazz Language
Authors: Taylor Pat
Published: September 2022

There is a duality in the Black experience in America, a constant awareness of how African Americans view themselves and how the world sees them. In 1903, sociologist, civil rights activist and historian W.E.B. Du Bois termed this reality a double-consciousness. This chapter explores the resulting sense of tension and resistance as paramount in the instigation of the birth of jazz music as a language reflective of a distinct experience and a self-determined means of expression. Chapter author Pat Taylor reflects on her own jazz choreography along with the influences of an interdisciplinary arts exploration of the jazz aesthetic, and how this notion of a twofold existence manifests as a juxtaposition of seemingly disparate dynamic qualities that meld within jazz dance, in turn providing one of its most unique flavors.
Valuing Cultural Context and Style
Authors: Hubbard Karen W.
Published: September 2022

This chapter presents a model for experiential learning that acknowledges the history and style of authentic jazz dance; also known as traditional jazz dance. Described for students on the first class-day as “your great-grand parents’ jazz,” the course is an introduction to the stylistic characteristics of an indigenous US form evolved primarily from African American culture in the first half of the twentieth century. Course components are outlined, and a resource list is provided at the end of the chapter.
Environmental Structures, Resources, and Economy of the Villa of San Salvador
Authors: Fowler William R.
Published: September 2022

Ciudad Vieja and the surrounding region of the Paraíso Basin, in the middle Lempa region of El Salvador, are situated within the Central American depression or graben, one of the most significant, and one of the most ancient, structural features of the geology of Central America. Soils in the immediate vicinity of Ciudad Vieja consist of dark reddish brown andosols and latosols, formed from parent material of volcanic origin and characterized by deep sediments of good quality, suitable for cultivation of all types of crops. Our excavations have shown, however, that the deeper, richer soils tend to occur where houses, kitchens, stables, and other domestic structures once stood. In general, the entire region from Cerro Tecomatepe and Guazapa volcano to the Lempa River contains soils of restricted or limited agricultural potential, with few zones that can be cultivated successfully even with chemical fertilizers. As the residents of San Salvador stated in 1548, poor soil quality was one of the reasons they sought permission from the audiencia to relocate the villa in 1545. Tribute documents show that the majority of agricultural subsistence for the town was provided by surrounding indigenous Pipil towns.
Joyce, Swift, and the “Creep o’er Skull” of the Gods
Authors: Vincenti Giovanna
Published: September 2022

This chapter’s aim will be to illustrate Joyce’s attempt to textualize his personal experience with illness, through the analysis of a very particular piece of writing, namely the fragment “Twilight of Blindness Madness Descends on Swift”. Placed at the border between private and public writing, the fragment reflects Joyce’s concerns at the time of its composition. Through the evocation of Swift, the fragment reflects an idea of madness as something implied by others as a consequence of fame, but also as a result of a physical exhaustion. In particular, an association in terms of siblings will emerge with which Joyce seems at once to acknowledge their points of resemblances but at the same time reflect the refusal of a complete identification: as this chapter shows, Joyce is projecting himself, or rather his illness, upon an Irish writer with whom he had many points of contact but who is other than him, possibly in the attempt to sublimate his sufferings through writing, reshaping them through the image of Swift’s legendary madness. And this chapter will argue that this fragment, even though never found any space in the final texts, it is nonetheless still part of the compositional process in a wider sense: it coincides with what John Nash has described as “a point of maximum exhaustion, of the materials but also of the writer himself”, which nonetheless represents “a restless point which ensured renewal”.
Domestic Health Care and Informal Specialists
Authors: Hutchinson Dale L.
Published: September 2022

American health care began in the home. For many, women provided the principal means of ensuring household health and well-being in the early colonies. They were the focal point of household well-being, and were generally responsible for the health and well-being of anyone in the household. Their knowledge often placed them in positions as medical practitioners, whether formally or informally. Informal specialists were also often present, such as midwives, wet nurses, doctoresses, and itinerant physicians. Hutchinson also notes the Eurocentric image of women in domestic health care, and briefly touches on the disparity in records regarding women of African or Indian descent.
The Rise of Institutional Care
Authors: Hutchinson Dale L.
Published: September 2022

With the rise of urbanization in the United States, populations across the country saw massive population growth, increased mercantilism, and faster migration and mobility. All of these factors facilitated the break-down of family structure and created a vastly new social and economic stratification in America. The growing population numbers and poverty were linked to the rise of institutional care through almshouses and hospitals to provide help in caring for people, though these instituions were largely reserved for the impoverished, elderly, homeless, and ill. Hutchinson also discusses how risky trades, such as maritime workers and sex workers, illustrate how occupational hazards contributed to health concerns.
The Civil War and the Reformation of American Medicine
Authors: Hutchinson Dale L.
Published: September 2022

The Civil War necessitated reformation of American medicine. The weapons used in the Civil War often did not have the strength or accuracy to kill immediately. Rather, they permanently altered bodily structures or created wounds that opened a person up to infection. Survival, if it was to occur, was often at the expense of severe disfigurement and lessened physical abilities. With the dramatic scale and immediacy of wound treatment, amputation, and sterilization found American military medical personnel totally unprepared. Hospital design, hygiene, anesthesia, amputation, ambulances, dietary reform, and embalming all mark changes in medical technology that occurred as a result.
Why Am I Ephemeral?
Authors: Laluk Nicholas C.
Published: September 2022

Various terms and descriptions have been used to explain the lack of visibility of Ndee (Apache) landscape occupations and material traces over time. Such terms as low-visibility, highly mobile, and ephemeral are abundant in the archaeological and anthropological literature in reference to Ndee groups throughout the U.S. Southwest. Such terms imply a lack of material or environmental modifications is equivalent to non-existence. Archaeologists have spent much time attempting to construct diagnostic material check-lists suggesting Ndee landscape presence but often miss the critical ongoing associations Ndee communities have to the land beyond material remains. Such associations form understandings of the past, present and future that inform Ndee culture, identity, sovereignty and overall well-being beyond archaeological reasoning. Therefore, what is needed is not only continued collaborative research with Ndee communities, but moving beyond such collaborations defined by western research goals and assumptions. Looking at questions of Indigenous presence and applying Indigenous methodologies can help archaeologists better understand how the past defines the present. Moreover, restrictive archaeological recording categories and terminologies often perpetuate one-sided and stereotypical understandings of Ndee culture and history. This chapter attempts to highlight examples of contemporary Ndee lived experiences in reference to ongoing visibility over time despite restrictions imposed by archaeological and anthropological method and theory.
Introduction
Authors: O'Rourke Fran
Published: September 2022

The present study aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the significance of Aristotle and Aquinas in the work of James Joyce. It is concerned exclusively with philosophical themes that are of material significance for Joyce’s writings or that provide inspiration for their artistic construction; it is not concerned with the literary merit of their application by Joyce. Much of what has been written on Joyce’s relation to Aristotle and Aquinas is superficial and speculative, not looking beyond what is stated in his writings and lacking reference to the philosophers’ own texts. On the other hand, many studies in recent decades have progressed beyond the analysis of sources and influences to an interpretation of a “meta” character. The present investigation adheres to a more traditional style; convinced that a fundamental examination of Aristotle and Aquinas as sources of Joyce has been lacking, I have confined my study to explicit references and allusions and eschewed speculative exegesis. I aim to examine Joyce’s use of these two important sources and to assess its accuracy and importance. This study is also intended to provide the nonphilosophical reader with a background to, and explanation of, the philosophical topics that occur.
Knowledge and Permanence
Authors: O'Rourke Fran
Published: September 2022

The philosophical problem of knowledge is dramatized in the opening pages of both A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses, as well as the final section of Finnegans Wake. Joyce had a lifelong preoccupation with the process of knowledge. Do we know ideas or things? Is there enduring certainty in a world of flux. In Ulysses Stephen carries out his own introspective experiments on Sandymount Strand, as he distinguishes between the sensual experience of sight and hearing, giving rise to the famous twin phrases ‘Ineluctable modality of the visible’ and ‘Ineluctable modality of the audible’. Objects are seen simultaneously in space, and heard successively in time. Although a committed Aristotelian he is tempted by the idealism of George Berkeley, according to whom all realties are ideas. The conflict between ethereal idealism and crude realism is enacted in the final pages of Finnegans Wake in the dialogue between the Archdruid/Berkeley and St Patrick.
The Intersectionality of Race and Class
Authors: Barton Christopher P.
Published: September 2022

Despite its origins as an ideological construction through time race has become an omnipresent social structure that influences the everyday lives of individuals. Black people have consistently been denied opportunities to garner cultural, economic, and social capital due to structures of race. This discrimination has resulted in people, like those at Timbuctoo, to endure life along the poverty line. This discussion provides a framework from which to contextualize the history and archaeology of Timbuctoo.
Display and Desire
Authors: Barton Christopher P.
Published: September 2022

The archaeology of Timbuctoo is not limited to a discussion of poverty, but is also about the agency of individuals to use consumer culture to construct their own aspirations. The people of Timbuctoo were part of a larger capitalist network that used objects to reflect and reconstruct middle-class ideologies. This chapter discusses inexpensive artifacts, like Depression glass and bric-a-brac that were displayed to contest perceptions of poverty. This chapter challenges traditional views of poverty by underscoring the dynamic disposition that object play in constructing identities.
Blackness and Racial Melodrama in 1970s Mexican Cinema
Authors: Fornoff Carolyn
Published: September 2022

In the 1970s, a quantitative and qualitative shift occurred in the representation of Black subjects in Mexican cinema. Black characters were given more screen time and leading roles, often in films thematizing interracial romance. The longstanding practice of using blackface to perform Black subjectivity was largely abandoned, and instead, Black talent hired. This chapter digs into this shift and its implications for Afro-Mexican representation. It concludes that the cinematic treatment of anti-Black racism reflected interest in ongoing hemispheric debates and was a strategic diversification to appeal to transnational markets. It also traces how these films nonetheless perpetuated racist clichés, were told from non-Black perspectives, and glossed over connections to other forms of racialized discrimination.
Introduction
Authors: Lehnen Jeremy
Published: September 2022

The introduction contextualizes the crime films of this study within the socio-political context of Brazil during the first two decades of the twenty-first century. Subsequently, the chapter offers an overview of the theoretical framing of the study, focusing on gender studies and sexuality studies, particularly masculinity studies. The theoretical frame of gender studies is then placed into dialogue with Erich Fromm’s category of the authoritarian character to arrive at the concept of neo-authoritarian masculinity that undergirds this study. Finally, the introduction offers a brief overview of the six primary chapters of the text.
Return to Pensacola Bay
Authors: Bense Judith A.
Published: September 2022

Chapter 2 describes the Spanish “rediscovery” of West Florida while searching for an intrusive French fort on the Texas coast in 1684 and a new presidio in 1698 on Pensacola Bay to the protect the northern Gulf coast. The presidio fort, San Carlos de Austria, is described in detail along with its wall construction, walls, public buildings, churches, cemetery, and barracks. The economy of the presidio is explained as well the mixed-race population sent from central New Spain. The bulk of the chapter focuses on the historical archaeology of Santa María: its discovery, maps, documents, and archaeological remains and a shipwreck, that supplied the presidio. This installation was violently attacked by British-led Creek Indian armies through most of its 21-year existence. A surprise attack by the French in 1719, captured and destroyed Santa María and the French occupied Pensacola Bay for three years.
Presidio San José de Panzacola
Authors: Bense Judith A.
Published: September 2022

Chapter 3 describes the retreat of the Spanish after the loss of Pensacola Bay to St. Joseph Bay, 115 miles to the east. The Spanish amassed a force of about 1,200 men there and quickly built a new large presidio among the tall dunes at the tip of the narrow St. Joseph Peninsula at the bay entrance. The site selection for the presidio on a barrier spit successfully avoided the incessant Indian attacks suffered on the mainland at Santa María. Unfortunately, the archaeological remains of San José have eroded into the bay, yet useful information is gleaned from historical documents and a large surface ceramic collection.
West Florida Presidio Integration
Authors: Bense Judith A.
Published: September 2022

Chapter 6 discusses the presidio population demography, ethnicity, social organization, families, and community cohesion of the soldiers, officers, convict laborers, and Native Americans. The settlement pattern of forts, outposts, and Indian mission villages is described. The eight forts are compared and contrasted as are the five outposts, and two mission villages. Architectural features are also described in detail including building materials, architectural style, residences, outbuildings, barracks and military housing, governors’ residences, administrative buildings, warehouses, churches, hospitals, powder magazines, arsenals, and guardhouses. The material culture from the presidio locations is compared and contrasted by artifact groups, classes, and ceramic trends through time.
Comparative Lessons from the Pariah’s Text
Authors: Barros Sandro R. , Ocasio Rafael , Willis Angela L.
Published: September 2022

This chapter explores Reinaldo Arenas’s biography and writing as a marginalized, activist engaged in an intertextual, pedagogical, and personal dialogue with fellow pariah, Spanish novelist Juan Goytisolo (1931-2017). While Goytisolo abandoned Franco’s totalitarian Spain for self-imposed exile, a disillusioned and persecuted Arenas fled Cuba in the Mariel Boatlift. Besides being political exiles using their queer narratives for advocacy, the pair also shares striking characteristics as writers reveling in Barthes’s “pleasures of the text” and eschatology. Focusing on Goytisolo’s Juan sin tierra (1975) [Juan the Landless] and Arenas’s El color del verano (1991) [The Color of Summer], this section examines how the narratives of the pair intersect. Additionally, it sheds new light on the personal relationship between the pair, which has generally been ignored by critics.
Extended Orbital Exenteration: A Step-by-Step Approach
Authors: Hussain Hakeem Arsheed , Javaid Hassaan , Iftikhar Novfa , Javaid Usaamah
Published: September 2022

Extended orbital exenteration is a highly disfiguring operation which entails complete removal of the orbital contents including periorbita, eyelids and involved surrounding bony walls with variations tailored to the specific clinical circumstances. The aim of such an extensive surgery is to achieve local control of the life-threatening progressive neoplasms, when other treatment modalities fail to achieve disease control. Eyelids can be preserved in posterior orbital pathology, while it may not be possible in neoplasms arising from the anterior eye tissues. Depending on the clinical circumstances, if the neoplasm is invading the surrounding bony orbit, the involved bony and soft tissue structures are removed en bloc to achieve complete resection (R0 resection). Although the steps of the orbital exenteration are well defined, the same is not true for extended orbital exenteration. We demonstrate the details of extended orbital exenteration in different clinical scenarios for the malignancy of orbit and periorbital tissues invading surrounding orbital walls.
Shifting Macrophage Phenotypes in Leishmaniasis
Authors: S. Vellozo Natália , L. Ribeiro-Gomes Flávia , F. Lopes Marcela
Published: September 2022

Macrophage phenotypes, such as macrophage (M) 1 (classically activated macrophage) and M2 (alternatively activated macrophage), determine the macrophage role as an effector immune cell or as a permissive host for the intracellular pathogenic protozoan Leishmania spp. Leishmania parasites and the host immune system shape macrophage phenotypes, which in turn can help parasite control or promote infection. Here, we discussed how shifting macrophage phenotypes might change disease outcome in leishmaniasis, by addressing: (1) macrophage phenotypes in leishmaniasis; (2) the functional phenotypes of resident and inflammatory macrophages; (3) the interplay with neutrophils modulates macrophage function; (4) the crosstalk with T cells shapes macrophage phenotypes; and (5) potential therapeutic tools to skew macrophage phenotypes and disease outcomes.
Updates on Multiple Myeloma: What’s New in Risk Stratification, Treatment, and Prognosis
Authors: Yahya Mutahar Enas
Published: September 2022

Multiple myeloma accounts for 10% of hematological malignancy and 1% of all cancer. It manifests with anemia, hypercalcemia, renal failure, and bone lesions, with the latter being the most common cause of morbidity. Over the last two decades, many advances were achieved in different aspects of the disease, including, but not limited to risk stratification and treatment approaches. With the approval of Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy in multiple myeloma, the main effort in clinical trials is toward studying different CAR T-cell products in different combinations at different disease stages. Although more options are becoming available, more trials are needed to compare their efficacy and safety in the long-term, as well it is essential to consider side effects and quality of life, which will be more noticeable with patients’ lives long after the myeloma diagnosis. There continue to be several unmet needs for multiple myeloma patients, including extramedullary plasmacytoma, plasma cell leukemia, CNS myeloma, and high-risk/ultra-high-risk disease. These are extremely challenging and further randomized clinical trials are highly needed.
Change Point Detection-Based Video Analysis
Authors: Yadav Ashwin , Jain Kamal , Pandey Akshay , Majumdar Joydeep , Sahay Rohit
Published: September 2022

Surveillance cameras and sensors generate a large amount of data wherein there is scope for intelligent analysis of the video feed being received. The area is well researched but there are various challenges due to camera movement, jitter and noise. Change detection-based analysis of images is a fundamental step in the processing of the video feed, the challenge being determination of the exact point of change, enabling reduction in the time and effort in overall processing. It is a well-researched area; however, methodologies determining the exact point of change have not been explored fully. This area forms the focus of our current work. Most of the work till date in the area lies within the domain of applied methods to a pair or sequence of images. Our work focuses on application of change detection to a set of time-ordered images to identify the exact pair of bi-temporal images or video frames about the change point. We propose a metric to detect changes in time-ordered video frames in the form of rank-ordered threshold values using segmentation algorithms, subsequently determining the exact point of change. The results are applicable to general time-ordered set of images.
Iterative Algorithms for Common Solutions of Nonlinear Problems in Banach Spaces
Authors: Bekele Wega Getahun
Published: September 2022

The purpose of this manuscript is to construct an iterative algorithm for approximating a common solution of variational inequality problem and g-fixed point problem of pseudomonotone and Bregman relatively g-nonexpansive mappings, respectively, and prove strong convergence of a sequence generated by the proposed method to a common solution of the problems in real reflexive Banach spaces. The assumption that the mapping is Lipschitz monotone mapping is dispensed with. In addition, we give an application of our main result to find a minimum point of a convex function in real reflexive Banach spaces. Finally, we provide a numerical example to validate our result. Our results extend and generalize many results in the literature.