bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
TEORIA DA APRENDIZAGEM SIGNIFICATIVA E CICLO DE APRENDIZAGEM EXPERIENCIAL: UM ESTUDO SOBRE TERMOLOGIA DO ENSINO FUNDAMENTAL
Authors: Darroz Luiz Marcelo , Giaretta Pedro Henrique , Rosa Cleci Teresinha Werner da
Published: August 2022

O presente estudo partiu da constatação de que, no ensino de Física, assuntos como a termologia são apresentados, em geral, sob aspectos muito distantes do cotidiano dos estudantes, e o ensino é focado na transmissão de conteúdos de forma expositiva. Diante disso, buscou-se subsídio na Teoria da Aprendizagem Significativa (TAS) e na metodologia intitulada Ciclo de Aprendizagem Experiencial (CAE), a fim de responder à seguinte questão norteadora: como o CAE pode servir de suporte metodológico para promover a aprendizagem significativa de termologia para alunos do 9º ano do ensino fundamental? O objetivo do estudo consistiu, portanto, em identificar indícios de aprendizagem significativa de termologia no 9º ano do ensino fundamental a partir da utilização do CAE. No intuito de alcançá-lo, elaborou-se uma sequência didática para abordar os conceitos básicos de termologia, alicerçada nos fundamentos da TAS e constituída de dois ciclos que contemplam as quatro etapas propostas por Kolb e vinculadas ao CAE. A sequência didática foi estruturada em nove encontros e desenvolvida em uma escola da rede privada. De natureza qualitativa e participante, a pesquisa teve como foco a identificação de indícios da aprendizagem. A proposta foi avaliada por meio do diário de bordo preenchido pelo professor pesquisador e pelos materiais produzidos pelos participantes. A análise dos dados coletados apontou para a viabilidade da proposta e a importância de metodologias pautadas na aproximação dos conteúdos aos conhecimentos que os educandos já possuem.
Estratégias de prevenção de recaída utilizadas por mulheres usuárias de drogas
Authors: Soccol Keity Laís Siepmann , Terra Marlene Gomes , Tisott Zaira Letícia , Zubiaurre Priscila de Melo , Siqueira Daiana Foggiato de
Published: August 2022

Qualitative study, developed with 20 female drug users assisted at a Psychosocial Care Center for alcohol and drugs, located in a city in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, with the objective of identifying the relapse prevention strategies used by female drug users. Data collection was carried out through audio-recorded individual interviews, following the ethical principles that establish the norms for conducting research involving human beings. For data processing, thematic content analysis was used. Factors such as family, religiosity, and spirituality, animals, plants and music are important strategies for women to prevent relapses to drug use. These strategies proved to be capable of promoting the redefinition of experiences and improved quality of life, in addition to indicating subsidies to health professionals for the planning of actions for women using drugs.
Análisis de la reducción de perdidas comerciales en empresas prestadoras de servicio de acueducto
Authors: Solarte Bejarano Jhon Jairo , Hernández Héctor Andrés
Published: August 2022

Contextualización: La reducción de las pérdidas comerciales se ha convertido en un reto para las empresas prestadoras del servicio (EPS) de acueducto. Estas pérdidas son un componente clave del agua no facturada (ANF). El volumen global del ANF es de 126 billones de metros cúbicos por año, representando pérdidas de USD 39 mil millones por año. Las pérdidas comerciales son las pérdidas de agua no físicas que, por temas no controlados por las empresas como los fraudes clandestinos y la inexactitud de la medición, no se logran facturar unos volúmenes de agua producidos y consumidos por los clientes. Este documento analiza cada uno de los factores o causas de las pérdidas comerciales, además, las estrategias o métodos utilizados por diferentes autores para la reducción de estas pérdidas, desde un contexto internacional y nacional.
Vacío de conocimiento: Con el presente artículo de carácter formativo, se pretende aportar al Sector de Agua Potable y Saneamiento Básico y los diferentes entes reguladores a estandarizar una metodología que permita cuantificar y analizar las pérdidas comerciales en las EPS de acueducto, con el fin de seleccionar la estrategia más adecuada para la reducción de estas pérdidas.
Propósito: Este artículo tiene como objetivo informar a las EPS de acueducto la importancia de conocer las perdidas comerciales y el impacto financiero que estas generan, con el fin de aplicar estrategias para la cuantificación y reducción de las mismas.
 
Metodología: Se elaboró un estado del arte utilizando fuentes primarias y secundarias como estudios y artículos de investigación publicados a un año superior del 2011 en revistas indexadas relacionados con las estrategias o métodos utilizados por diferentes autores desde un contexto internacional y nacional para reducir las pérdidas comerciales.
Resultados y conclusiones: A nivel global se presenta un valor excesivo de agua no facturada en términos de volumen. Este problema se evidencia con mayor fuerza en los países en desarrollo. A nivel internacional, se encontraron estudios que muestran métodos para la cuantificación de las pérdidas comerciales y estrategias para la reducción de las mismas. Por su parte en Colombia, no existen estudios de cuantificación de las perdidas comerciales siendo un limitante para seleccionar la estrategia apropiada para el factor que contribuye a estas pérdidas.
Protein-Protein interactions of human gut cell receptor α, β-3-integrin, and ErbB2 with SlpAKB290 homology model
Authors: Swamy Vyshanava Satyanarayana , P Teja
Published: August 2022

Surface layer protein, which is abundant in the gram-positive bacteria
like Lactobacillus sp, for its adherence and symbiotic activity in the
normal flora of gastrointestinal tracts. In this study, we showed the
relative binding of the SlpAKB290, a homology-based model with a higher
binding affinity to ErbB2 rather than the α, β-3integrin-binding domain
through molecular docking. The critical binding affinity had been
demonstrated with the protein-protein docked clusters’ flexibility and
rigidity through the normal mode simulations and thermal unfolding to
identify the constraint networks. The results showed a better
performance SlpAKB290 with the ErbB2. The current study provided
essential insight into the Lactobacilli sp.’s adherence to the host
cells through protein-protein interactions.
Evolution of Clinical Complexity, Treatment Burden, Health Care Use, and Diabetes-Related Outcomes Among Commercial and Medicare Advantage Plan Beneficiaries With Diabetes in the U.S., 2006–2018
Authors: Benning Tyler J. , Heien Herbert C. , McCoy Rozalina G.
Published: August 2022

OBJECTIVE

To characterize trends in clinical complexity, treatment burden, health care use, and diabetes-related outcomes among adults with diabetes.

RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS

We used a nationwide claims database to identify enrollees in commercial and Medicare Advantage plans who met claims criteria for diabetes between 1 January 2006 and 31 March 2019 and to quantify annual trends in clinical complexity (e.g., active health conditions), treatment burden (e.g., medications), health care use (e.g., ambulatory, emergency department [ED], and hospital visits), and diabetes-related outcomes (e.g., hemoglobin A1c [HbA1c] levels) between 2006 and 2018.

RESULTS

Among 1,470,799 commercially insured patients, the proportion with ≥10 active health conditions increased from 33.3% (95% CI 33.1–33.4) in 2006 to 38.9% (38.8–39.1) in 2018 (P = 0.001) and the proportion taking three or more glucose-lowering medications increased from 11.6% (11.5–11.7) to 23.1% (22.9–23.2) (P = 0.007). The proportion with HbA1c ≥8.0% (≥64 mmol/mol) increased from 28.0% (27.7–28.3) in 2006 to 30.5% (30.2–30.7) in 2015, decreasing to 27.8% (27.5–28.0) in 2018 (overall trend P = 0.04). Number of ambulatory visits per patient per year decreased from 6.86 (6.84–6.88) to 6.19 (6.17–6.21), (P = 0.001) while ED visits increased from 0.26 (0.257–0.263) to 0.29 (0.287–0.293) (P = 0.001). Among 1,311,903 Medicare Advantage enrollees, the proportion with ≥10 active conditions increased from 51.6% (51.2–52.0) to 65.1% (65.0–65.2) (P < 0.001); the proportion taking three or more glucose-lowering medications was stable at 16.6% (16.3–16.9) and 18.1% (18.0–18.2) (P = 0.98), and the proportion with HbA1c ≥8.0% increased from 17.4% (16.7–18.1) to 18.6% (18.4–18.7) (P = 0.008). Ambulatory visits per patient per year remained stable at 8.01 (7.96–8.06) and 8.17 (8.16–8.19) (P = 0.23), but ED visits increased from 0.41 (0.40–0.42) to 0.66 (0.66–0.66) (P < 0.001).

CONCLUSIONS

Among patients with diabetes, clinical complexity and treatment burden have increased over time. ED utilization has also increased, and patients may be using ED services for low-acuity conditions.
Cluster formations as instruments of interregional integration at the Federal District level
Authors: Skibin S. A.
Published: August 2022

The role and place of clustering processes in ensuring interregional integration are considered. At the same time, it is noted that the increasing importance in deciding on the formation of interregional clusters belongs not to the interaction of counterparties within a single technological chain, but to the common goals of regional development. The expediency of the formation of interregional poly-clusters is substantiated.
Determination of factors of innovative development of the construction complex of the Donetsk People's Republic in conditions of integration with the Russian Federation
Authors: Tarasov A. S.
Published: August 2022

The construction industry is very dynamic in nature due to the increasing uncertainty in the economic

environment in which building projects have now become much more complex. In the construction

industry, it is often required to draw inferences about a relationship or relationship between two or

more variables. In this article, we analyze how to establish a relationship or association between two

quantitative variables, i.e. variables that can be "measured". the number of people employed in the

construction industry and the actual costs of this industry and others. Correlation analysis helps answer these questions.

The construction industry is also known for its conservatism and lack of innovation. In order to increase the level of use of construction innovations, the real drivers of innovation in the context of

construction were considered.
Management of regional key competencies as a tool for ensuring territorial competitiveness
Authors: Cheshev A. S. , Melenkin V. L.
Published: August 2022

The role and place of regional key competencies as elements of human capital in the process of increasing the level of competitiveness of territories are considered. The general and distinctive features of corporate and regional key competencies are outlined, their constituent elements are highlighted. The necessity of using the creative potential of human capital carriers in the process of improving the efficiency of regional development in modern conditions is substantiated.
The Crisscrossing of Time in Spenser’s Amoretti LXXV and Shakespeare’s Sonnet XVIII
Authors: Araujo Laura Ribeiro
Published: August 2022

Time is a prevalent motif in Elizabethan love sonnets, presenting itself not only as natural force to be reckoned, but also as an oppositional element in humanity’s constant search for immortality. Through the analysis of both Edmund Spenser’s Amoretti LXXV and William Shakespeare’s Sonnet XVIII I intend to explore, compare and contrast the representations of Time in their verses as well as the poets’ promises of immortality through their own writings. Drawing from Horace’s Odes and Ovid’s Metamorphoses as referential works in the discussion of Time in poetry, I will highlight how the struggle to survive the natural passage of time and its corrosive effects while having art as medium may have inspired both Spenser and Shakespeare’s efforts into building their own metonymical pieces of art. Through this work I hope to delve further into the motif of Time as a force that opposes the logic of stability and immutability often proposed by an art that promises the immortalization of one’s love interest.
SAJPEC: A new dawn for pre-hospital emergency care in South Africa
Authors: Sobuwa Simpiwe
Published: August 2022

The South African pre-hospital setting has made remarkable progress since the development of emergency care short courses more than three decades ago. The profession has moved from boxtype ambulances staffed with ambulance drivers to well-equipped emergency response vehicles and ambulance aircraft staffed with paramedics with professional degrees.1 Paramedics are now in a position to enroll for a Doctoral degree in emergency medical care or equivalent, a first for the African continent.1 Having paramedics with postgraduate qualifications means that there is an opportunity for research output emanating from their research projects. It is against this backdrop that a working group of the Emergency Care Society of South Africa conceptualized the idea of the South African Journal of Pre-hospital Emergency Care (SAJPEC).
Introducción al dosier: "Malvinas, 40 años después: reflexiones y desafíos en clave de memoria y soberanía"
Authors: Cisilino Juan Manuel , Codaro Laura , Cingolani Fariday
Published: August 2022

Introducción al dossier: "Malvinas, 40 años después: reflexiones y desafíos en clave de memoria y soberanía
2022: ¿Hacia los 40 años de la guerra del Atlántico Sur?
Authors: Guber Rosana
Published: August 2022

Este artículo se pregunta qué se conmemorará realmente en el 40° aniversario de la guerra de Malvinas (1982-2022), contrastando las modalidades de recordación pública que tendrán lugar en 2022 y las lecturas que ha aportado la academia sobre lo sucedido en aquel entonces. La reflexión elabora comparativamente estos significados y describe qué hemos hecho los investigadores argentinos en ciencias sociales con el conflicto armado anglo-argentino por las Malvinas e Islas del Atlántico Sur, examina los fundamentos que subyacen a esos significados y sostiene la tesis de que los académicos universitarios hemos ignorado el carácter bélico de la iniciativa de la tercera junta de la última dictadura militar, el autodenominado Proceso de Reorganización Nacional (1976-1983). Así, este artículo muestra que los protagonistas directos de la guerra y sus analistas postulan sentidos alternativos que se reelaboran como una paradoja de difícil comprensión: una causa popular originada en una cuestión de soberanía territorial pendiente fue acometida, con éxito y respaldo popular, por una ya antipopular y sangrienta dictadura militar.
Continuidades y bifurcaciones en la literatura de Malvinas. Otras inscripciones posibles
Authors: Semilla Durán María Angélica
Published: August 2022

Nos interesa mostrar, a través de una selección de textos, cómo va evolucionando la representación de la Guerra de Malvinas desde los primeros textos hasta otros más recientes; y poner en evidencia cuáles son las líneas de continuidad así como las rupturas. Ello implica un itinerario en búsqueda de los lugares de inscripción de la memoria, territoriales o simbólicos; que incluye el tránsito del relato nacional, materializado en cuerpos y territorios concretos, a la progresiva des-materialización y des-historización que culmina en un universo espectral, para acabar re-historizándolo, pero esta vez en el flujo de la Historia de la guerra como constante universal.
El “Más que nunca” y las memorias de la democracia: caracterización de una experiencia de línea programática en el Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos de Santiago de Chile
Authors: Cortés Ferreira Cleyton Edison
Published: August 2022

Se propone que la propuesta de la nueva línea programática “Más que nunca” del Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos reconfigura la temporalidad de la exhibición permanente, uniendo las movilizaciones en dictadura y en democracia bajo un mismo proceso cuyo horizonte es el logro de una “democracia plena”, dotando de significado histórico y re-politizando la lucha por los Derechos Humanos en el presente. Para ello, se examinaron los documentos institucionales y se realizó una entrevista, siendo estudiadas mediante las categorías “espacio de experiencia” y “horizonte de expectativa” de Koselleck usadas en las investigaciones sobre las intelectualidades de la Transición de Cecilia Lesgart.
Desde sus miradas: una reseña sobre la muestra fotográfica "Cruces, idas y vueltas de Malvinas."
Authors: Dubois Pamela , Nieto María Emilia
Published: August 2022

¿Qué imágenes tenemos para pensar Malvinas?, ¿qué historias de ese pasado nos relatan? pueden ser las preguntas que hilan los motivos por los cuales “Cruces, idas y vueltas de Malvinas” constituye una valiosa muestra fotográfica para ser recuperada a 40 años del Conflicto del Atlántico Sur.
Mejía Arregui, Erandi (2020). A la mano tendida la prueba de la parafina: Memoria de la represión sobre el movimiento estudiantil de 1968 . Tesis para optar por el grado de Magíster en Historia y Memoria
Authors: San Vicente Lucero
Published: August 2022

Revisión de Tesis A la mano tendida la prueba de la parafina: Memoria de la represión sobre el movimiento estudiantil de 1968
To the Question on Origin of Color Symbolism in the Novel “Petersburg” by A. Bely
Authors:   Lomonosov Moscow State University, Pasko Ellina
Published: August 2022

The article attempts to fi nd the origin of color symbolism in the novel “Petersburg” by A. Bely. The meaning of colours is interpreted in the context of color theories of J. Goethe and R. Steiner, who infl uenced Bely’s worldview. There is one aspect, which stands out in the study of writer’s work, and this aspect is picturesqueness, more precisely, coloristics. The features of the use of color in the novel “Petersburg” are compared with the requirements for the color design of the picture, which are put forward by V. Kandinsky in the treatise “On the Spiritual in Art”. The basis for this comparison was the general literary and pictorial sources, equally relevant for both Bely and Kandinsky. The result of the study was determination of the functions and meaning of the most frequently used colors in novel “Petersburg” in their correlation with the subject and the hero, as well as the episode, the leitmotif, and ultimately – with the author’s position.
The Commandment of John Chrysostom on Church Law in East Slavic Tradition (on the issue of new texts in the monastic libraries)
Authors:   The Institute of Russian History RAS, Belyakova Elena
Published: August 2022

The article continues the study of the pseudepigraphic Commandment of John Chrysostom on Church Law, known in Serbian Trebniks of the 14th–15th centuries, as well as in Bulgarian and Moldavian manuscripts of the 15th–16th centuries. For the fi rst time, the characteristics of four East Slavic editions of the Commandment are given. Three of them date from the beginning of the 15th century. and are part of stable collections: collections of the “Arkhangelsk” type, the Myasnikov edition of the Kormchaja, the Kiril-Belozerosky edition of the Nomocanon of John the Faster and refl ect the process of creating new types of canonical collections. Only in the collections of the “Arkhangelsk” type is the Commandment in its entirety, including the chapter on the Bogomils. The text of the Commandment was subjected to the greatest revision in the “Barsov” edition, which is found in the composition of the “nomocanons” addressed to priests. These collections do not have a stable composition, although they contain many matching blocks. A study of the “Barsov” edition shows that the text is found not only in the tradition of monasteries, but also among collections addressed to priests.
The Relevance of Diachronic Approach to Grammaticalization Research
Authors:   Russian State University of Tourism and Service, Avagyan Asmik
Published: August 2022

The present paper proves the relevance of the diachronic approach to grammaticalization research. The article contains defi nitions of the concept of grammaticalization and makes a distinction between diachronic and historical grammar. The theoretical review is based on research carried out by such scholars as I.A. Baudouin de Courtenay, W. von Humboldt, E. Kuryłowicz, B. Heine, Ch. Lehmann, E. Traugott, J. Bybee and others. Grammaticalization is defi ned as a process whereby lexical units turn into grammatical units or the latest increase their grammatical status. It is noted that a diachronic approach to this process enables researchers to identify the grammaticalization sources, fi nd out the patterns and possible ways of development of universal grammaticalization paths in diff erent languages and prove the unidirectionality hypothesis. This approach also provides the explanatory value of a linguistic theory, allows us to identify the cognitive and communicative factors, analyze the dynamics of grammatical changes and fi nd out the similarities between languages in the most explicit way. Based on the example of the English grammaticalized construction be going to, it is proved that the grammaticalization process is gradual and requires a diachronic approach for a more comprehensive analysis of intermediate stages of development of grammatical units.
Temporal Motives in the Composition of Metropolitan John of Tobolsk
Authors:   Lomonosov Moscow State University, Pautkin Alexey
Published: August 2022

The article is devoted to one of the most prolifi c authors of the beginning of the 18th century – John Maximovich, Metropolitan of Tobolsk, who made a forced journey from Chernigov to the capital of Siberia in 1711. His huge poetic work “The Trave ler” combines lengthy theological arguments and everyday details. Mundane motives and plots occupy a prominent place in this text, complicating the question of its genre affi liation. Some aspects of the poetics of the “Traveler” anticipate the artistic discove ries of poetry of the second half of the 18th century. The diversity and variability of the world, the baroque macaronic variety are combined with autobiography, which opens the way to the “golden age” of private life notes.
A Rare Source Aimed at Kokand Studies
Authors:   Khujand State University named after academician B. Gafurov, Nigmatov Nu᾿monjohn
Published: August 2022

The article dwells on the issue beset with the study of peculiarities of Mirzo Shams Bukhari᾿s historico-literary production entitled as “The History of Bukhara, Kokand and Kashgar” and its signifi cance as the most important historical source in the historical studies of Kokand Khanate. The article deals with the issues concerned with the history of the relevant literary production creation, with its structural peculiarities, ideological content and the ways of interpreting facts by Bukhari himself. As well as, the author of the article pays particular attention to the analysis beset with the constituent parts of the historico-literary source under study, proceeding from this assumption he comes to important results. It is concluded that the former in question is recognized as one of the valuable sources aimed at the study of socio-political and cultural situation of Kokand Khanate and contains the rarest evidence of literary circles and centers of the relevant period, which had a profound sway over the literary and social life of the Tajik people.
Quantifying the Industry Specialization of Subjects of the Volga Federal District
Authors: EDRONOVA Valentina N.
Published: August 2022

Subject. To maintain sustainable development of regions, it is necessary to quantify the localization of regional activities, to focus on industries that ensure economic and food security and relieve social tension.
Objectives. The study aims to substantiate the choice of methods to quantify specialization of industries in the subjects of the Volga Federal District.
Methods. I apply the method of calculating the localization coefficients of industries in regions, using the official statistical information on the average annual number of employed persons by type of economic activity. The specific number of employees in a particular type of activity of the territory and the country serves as a base indicator.
Results. The paper underpins the choice of quantitative assessment of regional industry specialization on the basis of calculated coefficient of localization by the number of employees in the subject and in the country. I calculated localization coefficients for each subject of the Volga Federal District and the district as a whole, and identified sectors with high and medium level of specialization.
Conclusions. The subjects of the Volga Federal District are characterized by significant diversification of regional economies and distribution of labor resources between different types of activities. The main branches of specialization are manufacturing and agriculture. Social sectors are well-developed. For the district as a whole, the main specialized activity is manufacturing, which, under the sanctions regime, is a factor for economic stability.
Comparative Analysis of Biotechnology Market Development in the BRICS Countries under the World Economy Decarbonization
Authors: RATNER Svetlana V. , SINEL'NIKOVA Anastasiya V.
Published: August 2022

Subject. Rising prices for mineral fuels, their depletion, dependence of many countries on energy imports are the main factors for countries to switch to alternative fuels. Biofuels provide energy security, reduce environmental damage, and contribute to agriculture development.
Objectives. Our aim is to analyze the BRICS countries policies on bioenergy development, to assess the degree of their compliance with the roadmap for decarbonization of the world economy by 2050.
Methods. The study employs methods of bibliographic analysis, descriptive statistics, and comparative analysis. It applies statistical materials of the World Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), the UN Climate Program, recent works by Russian and foreign scientists on bioenergy economics.
Results. The analysis of time series of data on generation of bioenergy and capacities for bioenergy production in the BRICS countries revealed that Brazil was a leader in bioenergy development until 2019. Then it was replaced by China that increased the production capacity in bioenergy. Both these countries have had a steady growth of bioenergy capacities for ten recent years. The growth is also observed in India, but in Russia and South Africa, bioenergy is poorly developed, and no growth occurs.
Conclusions. With competent implementation of the State policy to support biofuels, the development of biofuel technologies can bring significant economic and social benefits. However, the development of biofuel production requires a legal framework, clarity in the implementation of biofuel policies, and incentive mechanisms, like mandatory standards for fuel blends.
Figures of Consolidated Income Statement of the World's Leading Publicly Traded Oil and Gas Corporations
Authors: SHIMKO Oleg V.
Published: August 2022

Subject. The article considers the main figures of consolidated income statements of twenty five leading listed oil and gas companies from 2006 through 2018.
Objectives. The purpose is to determine the current values of the main components of consolidated income statements of leading publicly traded oil and gas companies, to identify key trends in their change during the studied period, and to establish the factors that led to changes.
Methods. The study draws on methods of comparative and financial-economic analysis, as well as generalization of materials of consolidated income statements.
Results. The paper determines dynamics of changes in the value of key indicators and their correlation in the structure of income statements in the stock market sector of the industry, establishes the main factors that contributed to this transformation, based on the results of a comprehensive analysis of annual reports of 25 oil and gas companies. It shows a decrease in the sectoral level of net income of shareholders within the framework of the studied period, which occurred against the background of an increase in net revenue from core activities. The main factor behind such changes in the structure of the income statement was the increase in operating expenses outpacing revenue, primarily due to depreciation, depletion and amortization of assets. The strengthening of the role of interest expenses occurred in the stock market sector after the sectoral crisis. The overall reduction in income tax burden is a positive development. A return to the previous structure is possible only with a significant increase in oil prices, a reduction in operating costs, and a decrease in excises, duties and all other taxes not related to income tax.
Conclusions. Net income of companies in the stock market sector of the oil and gas industry is decreasing due to an increase in expenses for core activities, which are faster than the growth of the corresponding revenue.
Is COVID-19 the New Atherosclerosis? Acute Aortic Dissection Type A in the Early Period after COVID -19 Infection
Authors:   Aristotle University Of Thessaloniki, Vergopoulos Stavros
Published: August 2022

The novel corona virus pandemic has since spread rapidly throughout the world resulting in more than 400 million cases. The clinical manifestations and complications associated with COVID-19 is yet to be elucidated. The clinical presentation may be variable, as it has been previously described. In the published literature many cases of acute aortic dissection caused by COVID-19 infection have been described, but only one in the early period after the resolution of the infection. We present a39year-oldwoman, who was admitted to our department complaining of chest pain after the yoga session. Her past medical history was notable for COVID-19 infection two weeks ago. Her electrocardiogram showed sinus rhythm and mild ST segment elevation in lead a VR, while the transthoracic echocardiogram revealed a dilation of the ascending aorta. After the echocardiographic examination, contrast enhanced computed tomography of aorta was conducted, which revealed an acute aortic dissection (type A- Stanford classification). The patient was admitted for emergent cardiovascular surgery, that was successful and eventually was discharged at the ninth post-operative day.
Diagnosis and Management of Acute Limb Ischemia
Authors:   Gafsa Regional Hospital, Daly Hafedh
Published: August 2022

Introduction: Acute limb ischemia is considered as a life threatening disease .After twelve hours of ischemia, chances of saving the ischemic limb are lower (78%), with higher mortality (31%) as well. Methods: A total of 54 patients who underwent surgery for acute non traumatic limb ischemia between January 2013 and December 2020 were retrospectively reviewed. Results: We included 30 women and 24 men; median age was 69 years. Twenty patients (37%) were presented with upper limb ischemia, where as 34 patients (63%) with lower limb ischemia. Mean delay between the onset of symptoms and hospital admission of upper limb ischemia was 22 hours, 35% of Patients were diagnosed at the stage IIA of Rutherford classification, while 65% were diagnosed at the stage of II B. Lower limb ischemia patients were admitted after 28.5 hours, 64.8% of patients were diagnosed at the stage of II A of Rutherford, while 32.3% were diagnosed at the stage of II B of Rutherford. Revascularization of all ischemic upper limbs (100%) and the majority of ischemic lower limbs (94.1%) were carried out through endovascular thromboembolectomy with Fogarty ballooncathete. Meanlength of hospitalstaywas 8.3 days for upper limb ischemia cases ; while lower limb ischemia patients required 9.2 days of mean hospitalstay. We report a total of 4 deaths (7.4%). Conclusion: Acute limb ischemia remains a challenging entity for clinicians with significant risk of patient limbloss and mortality. Prompt diagnosis, anticoagulation, and timely revascularization are crucial to minimize the risk of limbloss.
Approaches in Environmentalism and Feminism
Authors: Pearce Jacqueline
Published: August 2022

There is a global crisis. It manifests itself in war, in poverty and social injustices, in rape, in violence against children, and in the assault on nature. There are those who interpret all these problems as unrelated and temporary, and there are those who consider these problems, not as separate, but as the result of one single crisis of worldview, or world/self-consciousness. Environmentalists and feminists are two groups which have emerged in reaction to the crises of our time. While their initial concerns may have been quite separate, today the two focuses are beginning to come together as the interconnection of global problems is revealed.
Re-reading Silent Spring & (untitled art)
Authors: Lars Johanesson Gary A. Genosko &
Published: August 2022

Rachel Carson's historic book Silent Spring, published in 1962, may not have marked the beginning of what we might call modern environmentalism -- although she might have been the mother of such a movement -- but it did make a major contribution to the development of a widespread ecological consciousness and encouraged environmentally sound practices.
Shedding Our Skin, Dropping Leviathan's Armour: A Meditation on the Spirit of Disrespect and the Crisis of Civilization
Authors: Lvakhiv Adrian
Published: August 2022

Beginnings are useful, because they contextualize change. Once upon a time, there was changelessness. A point at which the nothing and the All were One, but which contained all possibilities. All-potent. All-promising.
Ecology, Witchcraft and the Enchanted World
Authors: Carr Mike
Published: August 2022

Pagans, or more properly neo-pagans have been growing in numbers and influence over the past decade or so in the U.S. and Canada. This is evidenced in the feminist, peace, green (or ecology), and anarchist movements. Margot Adler, author of Drawing Down the Moon, an examination of contemporary neo-paganism, has estimated that there are about 100,000 people in the U.S. alone who describe themselves as pagan or neo-pagan. Over the past 5 or 6 years, I have developed a strong sympathy, more, an empathy with the neo-pagan sensibility and earth centredness. Apart from reading Dreaming the Dark by Starhawk, I had not studied paganism or ritual practice. This summer however, both at the North American Anarchist Survival Gathering and the North American Bioregional Congress the presence of pagans was very obvious to me. At the Bioregional Congress I had the chance to experience paganism directly, through earthbonding rituals which had a powerful effect on many participants.
Masthead
Authors: Board The Editorial
Published: August 2022

Various metadata.
Water on Fire, Night Geese, & (untitled drawing)
Authors: & A.C. Lynn Ackerman, Lissa Chipps,
Published: August 2022

Two poems. Drawing by Lissa Chipps-Sawyer, commissioned by the Native Canadian Relations Theme Area, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University.
Elephant and River Street
Authors: Lloyd Sue
Published: August 2022

Photomontage.
Retrospective of Life in a Small Town
Authors: Bickford Deanna
Published: August 2022

The following are photographs from my perspective as an insider/outsider in a rural midwestern village. I would characterise Selma as a place of traditional sex roles, conservative politics, racial/ethnic bigotry, Christian fundamentalism, and a devastated economy. I would also characterise Selma as the place which has most strongly formed my identity, since I lived there for 19 years among my entire extended family.
Rethinking the Ecological Crisis
Authors: Lee Daryl
Published: August 2022

The stories we tell about nature reveal a great deal about how we think about ourselves, our society and the world in which we live. Nature is one of those potent cultural spaces within which a society plays out its dreams and fears, its ambitions and anxieties. As John Rodman reminds us, "just as our statements about other people tend also to be concealed statements about ourselves, so statements about nonhuman nature tend also to be concealed statements about the human condition. "1 Constructed through our various discourses, ideas of nature can be read as maps of our historically and culturally-constituted consciousness.
The Modern Battlefront of Natural History and the Emergence of Animal Heroes
Authors: Genosko Gary
Published: August 2022

The popular nature writer and conservationist Ernest Harold Baynes (1868-1925) was instrumental in bringing the issue of the place of animals in war to the attention of nature historians in the United States. In Animal Heroes of the Great War,1 Baynes presented a general overview of the use of animals in the Allied war effort of World War I, describing the service of horses, camels, mules, donkeys, oxen, dogs and pigeons. As a representative of Harper's magazine, he travelled through England, France, Belgium, Italy, Egypt and Palestine from the winter of 1919 to the summer of 1920, collecting material for Animal Heroes and "Our Animal Allies in the World War," which appeared in Harper's in 1921.2
Toward an Original Forestry
Authors: Struthers Rolf
Published: August 2022

On a day in early spring, I was sitting on a small hummock eating lunch, enjoying the warmth of the spring sun and relieving my legs after a good, long walk in the Woods when it happened. It takes a while, it never happens right away but sometimes, after hours of walking, thinking, and feeling my way along the paths of the Woods, it can happen. The wall drops and conversation begins. I breathe in fresh spring air and I feel my blood go rushing through me in a flood of exhilaration. "LIVE, BREATHE, AWAKEN" the Woods say, "Let us begin again." The ground, the smell of fresh rotting leaves, the sound of the trickling water, the hum of the first bumblebee in the nearby leaves, the unhurried wariness of the wolf spider hunting in the leaf mold, the up-shooting lush green of the trilliums and other wood spring flowers--all these things create a rhythm. I feel the rhythm coursing through me; I feel like I too am being renewed. I leap up and caper around briefly, then stop. And the moment is gone. But it is not completely gone. Many times now I have re-called that moment, and I am there. I and the Woods are speaking, the Woods saying LIFE and I exclaiming yes! here, life dig, root, push, lift, spread! The rhythm of spring echoes in my ears and fills my nose with its vibrant odour.
Ways of Being & Infatuation
Authors: Fabiani & Rolf Struthers Louise
Published: August 2022

Poems.
My Nobel Prize
Authors: Barwin Gary
Published: August 2022

They stick the real Nobel Prize to my chest. The pin goes through my heart. Don’t worry: it’s made of a new material that I just invented. It is both wife and participle. Royal jelly and particle board. It is shadow and light rolled into one like chocolate, riot gear for the end of the world.In fact, I recently invented myself. I am entirely new. A new cloud, a new ant. Hook me up to the flat screen IV and let the 3D beam through my veins like weather. Change my channel. I sleep.I said, the mind is a lawnmower chewing up lawn. There was a dog in that yard. It was a problem but it is a problem no more. That’s why my heart got pinned with this prize. My mind-blades ran over something no one else noticed, but I don’t throw away the bags. I am all new.Newsflash: Nobel Prize pin insertion causes end of world. The end is very small. It’s far away. You would need a giant’s telescope or death-defying binoculars to see it. They thought we would all die. There are clouds over my tongue.An enormous whale or a bean from the edge of the universe, a universe that still doesn’t have a name because it keeps getting bigger. I invented bigger. And I forgot my newness because I invented it so fast I finished before I began. I said to the universe, You can’t kill me because only one of us is going to die because of some kind of spacetime thing which is very complicated and that only I can explain.Yes, you should thank me for receiving this prize with my only heart. My words are shadows in my hands. Now I open them and let the dove that was never there become something small and far away, far away as the end of the world. In conclusion, Mr. and Mrs. Committee, I’d like to begin by inventing someone else. All this new gets lonely.
The End of the Beginning: Environmental Apocalypse on the Cusp in Scott Fotheringham’s The Rest is Silence and Nicolas Dickner’s Apocalypse for Beginners; InVoice; Road’s End; & The Outside
Authors: Scott Conrad , Priegert Portia , Patrick Darren , Frances Frank
Published: August 2022

Scott Fotheringham’s novel The Rest is Silence and Nicolas Dickner’s novel Apocalypse for Beginners both mix coming-of-age narratives with environmental destruction through apocalyptic events. Similarly, concerns about global environmental destruction populate the bildungsroman in fiction from nuclear-era texts such as John Wyndham’s The Chrysalids to ongoing narratives such as Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam series. However, both Fotheringham’s The Rest is Silence and Dickner’s Apocalypse for Beginners integrate coming-of-age narratives with apocalyptic threats to the characters’ environments that climax at the edge of a point-of-no-return and then subside without having completely eradicated the living environment beyond recognition. The two novels represent a rethinking of how apocalyptic threat effects the world: these texts reject the idea of immediate doom represented by, for example, fiction focused on nuclear destruction, and the notion “’[t]hat there’s no problem that can’t be fixed with a good old end of the world’” (Dickner 89).....inVoiceimountainssoured with bitterroot stumps at half mastiibarren logs float in biers, await   their final rites —plywood and profitiiithe wind tuneless without branches to pluckthe outsidea swing forwardout the windowand into somethingbreaking bough into somethingfinding medicinein pain and poison
Hacking It; Laying New Pipe; & Clearing The Ground
Authors: Weishaus Joel
Published: August 2022

HACKING IT cast iron pipe sawed straight through, blisters rising from the small hacksaw rushing to meet its end, singing, with you with you with you with you...LAYING NEW PIPE Where turds bob up with clogs of toilet paper and Tampax, mint trees & flowers thrive, the line was cracked by roots. One hundred year old terra cotta pipe, a young Bay tree broke her way through. We lay ten foot lengths black plastic tube, glue the joints, cross the stream, on out... CLEARING THE GROUND Clearing the ground, Frantically working the gears, Grabbing handles, pulling levers, billows of dust... O MAN, dragged over the land Behind a machine!! Tearing freeways, cracking sidewalks, Universities, libraries...whole worlds Of consciousness plowed back to seed.
Solidarity in Struggle: 32 years on... From Bhopal, India to Kanawha Valley, USA
Authors: Nye Maya , Shadaan Reena
Published: August 2022

With artwork by Kokila Bhattacharya A message to the people of Bhopal: We are writing you from the shadow of the Union Carbide plant at Institute, West Virginia. We are residents, professors, and college students who oppose MIC (methyl isocyanate) production in our community. Like you, we are people who need industry for jobs, and for the products that make our lives better. Like you, we now know that safety and health come first. May our common concern bond your community and ours for many years to come.- Estella Chandler, People Concerned About MIC (now called People Concerned About Chemical Safety), August 18th, 1985 (Chemical Valley)...Find full text in .pdf below.
A "Feast of Fools": Food Security and the Carnivalesque in Peterborough, Ontario's Food Not Bombs
Authors: McMahon Dylan
Published: August 2022

Counterculture movements in the 1960s and 70s dramatically reorganized the role of bodies within social frameworks and saw the internalization of political issues, both figuratively and literally. The political became the personal and quotidian moments of consumption became sites of resistance. As Warren Belasco suggests, in reference to the radical food movements that saw the expulsion of "Wonderbread" and the resurgence of home-cooked holistic foods, "[d]ietary radicalism could be lived 365 days a year, three times a day. If, as Leftists knew, the personal was political, what could be more personal than eating? And what could be more political than challenging America's largest industry, the food business?" (227). Food provides a dynamic vessel for engaging with politics and capital at both the gastronomical level (what we choose to put into our bodies) and the social level (how we arrange our bodies collectively and individually). The kneading, baking, and consumption of bread, for example, provide precious, intimate moments for expressing agency and resistance to systems of power. Belasco saw this...Find full text in .pdf below.
Mercury, Water, PCB, DDT
Authors: Gajewski Erica A.
Published: August 2022

Beluga whales living in the St. Lawrence River estuary are so contaminated with toxins that their bodies, when they wash ashore, are treated as toxic waste. They are exposed to industrial pollution from the Great Lakes region, which empties into the St. Lawrence. Using chemical formulas and symbols for mercury, PCB, DDT, and water allowed me to depict the primary toxins found directly in this animal’s watery habitat. These chemical structures render scientific information and knowledge visible, which highlights the impact that we, as a species, have in the environment and the lives of other animals...Find full piece in .pdf below.
My Animal, My Darling
Authors: Santana Elana
Published: August 2022

Poetry by Elana Santana.
From the River to the Sea: Israel, Palestine, and Queer/Feminist Ecologies
Authors: Goldsmith Mitch
Published: August 2022

This paper seeks to provide an ecofeminist and queer critique of Israeli aggression towards and occupation of Palestine in three parts. Firstly, providing a critical analysis of tropes surrounding the creation of the Israel including early policies relating to land and afforestation.  Secondly, by revealing how these tropes about the founding of Israel expose racist understandings about the supposed nature of Palestinians and Arabs (as backwards, queered and so on) and Thirdly, how these projections in the two previous sections about Israeli ingenuity and the supposed natural inferiority of Palestinians and Arabs informs current ecological mal/development in Israel and Palestine.
Part 1: From Queer/Natures to Queer Ecologies
Authors: Brochu-Ingram Gordon Brent , Hobbs Peter , Sandilands Catriona
Published: August 2022

This is a portion of a roundtable discussion on queer ecologies held on 11 September 2014. The roundtable is also available as a podcast and was produced in collaboration with CoHearence, an initiative of graduate students in the Faculty of Environmental Studies suppored by NiCHE (Network in Canadian History and Environment).
Creative Subversions: Whiteness, Indigeneity, and the National Imaginary
Authors: Hunter Fleurie
Published: August 2022

Review of Creative Subversions: Whiteness, Indigeneity, and the National Imaginary by Margot Francis (2011, UBC Press).
"A Canadian Climate of Mind: Passages from Fur to Energy and Beyond" by Timothy B. Leduc
Authors: Kapron Benjamin J.
Published: August 2022

Review of A Canadian Climate of Mind: Passages from Fur to Energy and Beyond by Timothy B. Leduc (2016, McGill-Queen's UP).Find full text in .pdf below.
Editorial Essay
Authors: Kapron Benjamin J. , Editorial Collective UnderCurrents
Published: August 2022

The opening editorial for Volume 20 of UnderCurrents.Find full text in .pdf below.
"Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition" by Glen Sean Coulthard
Authors: McMahon Dylan
Published: August 2022

Review of Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition by Glen Sean Coulthard (2014, U of Minnesota P).Find full text in .pdf below.