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Involving child and youth advisors in academic research about child participation: The Child and Youth Advisory Committees of the International and Canadian Child Rights Partnership
Authors: Collins Tara , Jamieson Lucy , Wright Laura H.V. , Rizzini Irene , Mayhew Amanda , Narang Javita , Tisdall E Kay M , Ruiz-Casares Monica
Published: March 2024

Nearly thirty years ago, the world recognised the participation rights of children with the adoption by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Since then childhood researchers in the Global South and Global North have been at the forefront of promoting these rights. The increased involvement of children and youth in research has challenged ‘traditional’ adult research practices in numerous ways. This article explores the role and contributions of Child and Youth Advisory Committees (CYACs) in the research process. It discusses the establishment of CYACs and how they supported the International and Canadian Child Rights Partnership (ICCRP). The ICCRP began as a three-year multi-country research project addressing children’s rights to participation and protection and monitoring this connection internationally within several Global South and North countries: Brazil, Canada, China and South Africa. This article describes the creation and functioning of the ICCRP CYACs and the strengths, challenges, and creative processes in implementation. Findings presented relate to ethics regulation, differing expectations and assumptions about CYAC involvement, and virtual communication. These are discussed with the inclusion of adult researchers’ and the CYAC members’ perspectives. The article shares lessons learned about the role and significance of dialogue to support other child and youth advisory bodies in research at the local and global levels.

 
Global health is political; can it also be compassionate?
Authors: Cislaghi Beniamino , Bukuluki Paul , Chowdhury Mushtaque , Miranda Angélica Espinosa , Kenny Leah , Kohli Anjalee , Kusumaningrum Santi , Brah Balkissa Harouna , Love Catherine , Mathpati Mahesh Madhav , Nkwi Paul , Ona Fernando , Porter John , Ruiz-Casares Monica , Saldanha Neela , Sulaiman Munshi , Wessells Mike
Published: March 2024

One would think that global health, as “trans-national research and action for promoting health for all”, should be rooted in the compassionate desire to alleviate suffering. Yet, its current operationalisation has been criticised for bureaucratising action into addressing technical (rather than moral) problems. This bureaucratisation doesn’t help global health researchers and practitioners resist a natural sense of disconnect with people living in very distant places. As Addis noted, compassionate responses to global health issues both require recognising suffering as such and demand purposeful action. Ethical questions for compassionate global health practitioners then become: how do we identify (as opposed to assume) people’s suffering, and what should we do to alleviate it, without making it worse? 
Health workers' perceptions of access to care for children and pregnant women with precarious immigration status: Health as a right or a privilege?
Authors: Vanthuyne Karine , Meloni Francesca , Ruiz-Casares Monica , Rousseau Cécile , Ricard-Guay Alexandra
Published: March 2024

The Canadian government's recent cuts to healthcare coverage for refugee claimants has rekindled the debate in Canada about what medical services should be provided to individuals with precarious immigration status, and who should pay for these services. This article further explores this debate, focussing on the perceptions of healthcare workers in Montreal, a large multiethnic Canadian city. In April–June 2010, an online survey was conducted to assess how clinicians, administrators, and support staff in Montreal contend with the ethical and professional dilemmas raised by the issue of access to healthcare services for pregnant women and children who are partially or completely uninsured. Drawing on qualitative analysis of answers (n = 237) to three open-ended survey questions, we identify the discursive frameworks that our respondents mobilized when arguing for, or against, universal access to healthcare for uninsured patients. In doing so, we highlight how their positions relate to their self-evaluations of Canada's socioeconomic situation, as well as their ideological representations of, and sense of social connection to, precarious status immigrants. Interestingly, while abstract values lead some healthcare workers to perceive uninsured immigrants as “deserving” of universal access to healthcare, negative perceptions of these migrants, coupled with pragmatic considerations, pushed most workers to view the uninsured as “underserving” of free care. For a majority of our respondents, the right to healthcare of precarious status immigrants has become a “privilege”, that as taxpayers, they are increasingly less willing to contribute to. We conclude by arguing for a reconsideration of access to healthcare as a right, and offer recommendations to move in this direction.

 
tau-Safe (I, k)-Diversity Privacy Model for Sequential Publication With High Utility
Authors: Zhu Hui , Liang Hong-Bin , Zhao Lian , Peng Dai-Yuan , Xiong Linghong
Published: March 2024

 Preserving privacy while maintaining high utility during sequential publication for data providers and data users in mathematical statistics, scientific researching, and organizations making decisions play an important role recently. The τ -safety model is the state-of-the-art model in sequential publication. However, it is based on the generalization technique, which has some drawbacks such as heavy information loss and difficulty of supporting marginal publication. Besides, the privacy of individuals is the major aspect that needs to be protected in privacy preserving data publishing. In this paper, to protect the privacy of individuals in sequential publication, we develop a new τ -safe (l, k)-diversity privacy model based on generalization and segmentation by record anonymity satisfying l-diversity and individual anonymity satisfying k-anonymity. This privacy model ensures that each record’s signatures keep consistency or have no intersection in all releases. It can get high data utility while resisting the linking attacks due to arbitrary updates. In addition, it can also be applied to a dataset where individual has multiple records and arbitrary marginal publication. The results of our experiments show that the proposed privacy model achieves better anonymization quality and query accuracy in comparison with the m-invariance and τ -safety model in the sequential publication with arbitrary updates. 
The Clinical Utility of Food Addiction: Characteristics and Psychosocial Impairments in a Treatment-Seeking Sample
Authors: Oliveira Edgar , Kim Hyoun Soo Andrew , Lacroix Émilie , Vasques Maria de Fátima , Durante Cristiane Ruiz , Pereira Daniela , Cabral Janice Rico , Bernstein Paula Sanches , García Ximena , Ritchie Emma V , Tavares Hermano
Published: March 2024

Little is known about the characteristics of individuals seeking treatment for food addiction (FA), and the clinical utility of FA has yet to be established. To address these gaps, we examined (i) the demographic, eating pathology, and psychiatric conditions associated with FA and (ii) whether FA is associated with psychosocial impairments when accounting for eating-related and other psychopathology. Forty-six patients seeking treatment for FA completed self-report questionnaires and semi-structured clinical interviews. The majority of the sample were women and self-identified as White, with a mean age of 43 years. Most participants (83.3%) presented with a comorbid psychiatric condition, most commonly anxiety and mood disorders, with a mean of 2.31 comorbid conditions. FA was associated with binge eating severity and anxiety symptoms, as well as psychological, physical, and social impairment. In regression analyses controlling for binge eating severity, food cravings, depression, and anxiety, FA remained a significant predictor only of social impairment. Taken together, the results suggest that individuals seeking treatment for FA are likely to present with significant comorbid conditions, in particular anxiety disorders. The results of the present research provide evidence for the clinical utility of FA, particularly in explaining social impairment.
Aerial Grasping of an Object in the Strong Wind: Robust Control of an Aerial Manipulator
Authors: Zhang Guangyuan , He Yuqing , Dai Bo , Gu Feng , Yang Liying , Han Jianda , Liu Guang Jun
Published: March 2024

An aerial manipulator is a new kind of flying robot system composed of a rotorcraft unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and a multi-link robotic arm. It gives the flying robot the capacity to complete manipulation tasks. Steady flight is essential for an aerial manipulator to complete manipulation tasks. This paper focuses on the steady flight control performance of the aerial manipulator. A separate control strategy is used in the aerial manipulator system, in which the UAV and the manipulator are controlled separately. In order to complete tasks in environments with strong wind disturbance, an acceleration feedback enhanced robust H∞ controller was designed for the UAV in the aerial manipulator. The controller is based on the hierarchical inner-outer loop control structure of the UAV and composed of a robust H∞ controller and acceleration feedback enhanced term, which is used to compensate for the wind disturbance. Experimental results of aerial grasping of a target object show that the controller can suppress the wind disturbance effectively, and make the aerial manipulator hover steadily with sufficient accuracy to complete aerial manipulation tasks in strong wind.
Dynamic Finite Element Modeling and Simulation of Soft Robots
Authors: Ding Liang , Niu Lizhou , Su Yang , Yang Huaiguang , Liu Guang Jun , Gao Haibo , Deng Zongquan
Published: March 2024

Soft robots have become important members of the robot community with many potential applications owing to their unique flexibility and security embedded at the material level. An increasing number of researchers are interested in their designing, manufacturing, modeling, and control. However, the dynamic simulation of soft robots is difficult owing to their infinite degrees of freedom and nonlinear characteristics that are associated with soft materials and flexible geometric structures. In this study, a novel multi-flexible body dynamic modeling and simulation technique is introduced for soft robots. Various actuators for soft robots are modeled in a virtual environment, including soft cable-driven, spring actuation, and pneumatic driving. A pneumatic driving simulation was demonstrated by the bending modules with different materials. A cable-driven soft robot arm prototype and a cylindrical soft module actuated by shape memory alley springs inspired by an octopus were manufactured and used to validate the simulation model, and the experimental results demonstrated adequate accuracy. The proposed technique can be widely applied for the modeling and dynamic simulation of other soft robots, including hybrid actuated robots and rigid-flexible coupling robots. This study also provides a fundamental framework for simulating soft mobile robots and soft manipulators in contact with the environment.

 
Distributed Operation Health Monitoring for Modular and Reconfigurable Robot With Consideration of Actuation Limitation
Authors: Zhou Fan , Li Yuanchun , Liu Guang Jun
Published: March 2024

A distributed operation health monitoring (OHM) method of modular and reconfigurable robot (MRR) is presented in this paper. The proposed method is shown to be able to monitor the health of each MRR joint module based on the deviation of the actuator output from what is commanded. Driven by the desire of avoiding the need of joint acceleration measurement, a novel health indicator that reflects the operation health of an MRR module is developed by filtering the commanded joint torque generated by the joint controller and comparing it with a filtered torque estimate derived from the dynamic model of MRR. The proposed approach can work effectively for MRR modules in any working mode, including stationary state. The proposed scheme has been evaluated experimentally, and the results demonstrate its efficacy.
Virtual Decomposition Based Modeling for Multi-DOF Manipulator With Flexible Joint
Authors: Xia Kerui , Xing Hongjun , Ding Liang , Gao Haibo , Liu Guang Jun , Deng Zongquan
Published: March 2024

This paper discusses a problem that has plagued researchers for a long time regarding the dynamic modeling of a multiple degree-of-freedom (multi-DOF) manipulator such that its manipulation exhibits a higher computational efficiency and accuracy. Unknown friction, unknown gravitational torque, an uncertain moment of inertia, and severe joint coupling are the primary disturbing factors in multi-DOF manipulator modeling. In addition, joint flexible problems caused by the integration of harmonic drives increase the modeling complexity. Hitherto, no effective method has been found to address these problems. The virtual decomposition (VD)-based method exhibits the advantages of joint dynamics decoupling and minor computation compared with the traditional Lagrangian formulation or Newton–Euler formulation. In this study, an estimation method for the deformation-related torque of harmonic drives is established based on a novel experimental model; subsequently, this method is utilized in the VD-based model for the multi-DOF manipulator. Hence, the decoupling dynamic model for the manipulator considering joint flexibility is established. The performance of this new method has been evaluated by a contrast simulation with the Newton–Euler formulation, and the multi-DOF manipulator control simulation and experiment have been conducted with a VD-based model as a feedforward compensator to verify its performance in real-time control. The results demonstrated the validity and efficiency of e proposed approach. 
On the Relationship between Tariff Levels and the Nature of Mergers
Authors: Yildiz Halis , Ulus Aysegul
Published: March 2024

This paper employs an endogenous merger formation approach in a two-country oligopoly model of trade to examine the international linkages between the nature of mergers and tariff levels. Firms sell differentiated products and compete in a Bertrand fashion in product markets. Two effects play key roles in determining equilibrium market structure: the tariff saving effect and the protection gain effect. The balance between these two effects implies that, when foreign country practices free trade, low home tariffs yield international mergers irrespective of the substitutability levels. By contrast, when foreign tariffs are sufficiently high and products are close substitutes, national mergers obtain in the equilibrium. Unlike this asymmetric result of unilateral trade liberalization, we find that when bilateral tariffs are sufficiently low, international mergers arise. These results fit well with the fact that global trade liberalization has been accompanied by an increase in international merger activities. From a welfare perspective, we show that international mergers are preferable to national mergers and thus social and private merger incentives become aligned together as trade gets bilaterally liberalized. Finally, if countries can commit to a trade policy, they would optimally commit to a low tariff to induce international mergers when products are close substitutes while any tariff commitment is optimal when products are sufficiently differentiated.
Emancipatory engagement: An urban womanist social work pedagogy
Authors: McLane-Davison Denise
Published: March 2024

Standing on the hope of the initial social work course from 1914 at Morgan College, this article provides insight into the significant learning outcomes of contemporary students in advanced social work practice with urban African American families. This research introduces the conceptual framework of urban womanist social work pedagogy as an inclusive practice-informed knowledge produced through the rituals, traditions, values, culture, and resilience of historically disenfranchised communities. Urban womanist social work teaching methods honor truth telling from the ones who have lived there. Urban womanist social work affirms transformative-centered research, teaching, and scholarship produced through institutions such as historically black colleges and universities (HBCU’s). The students’ reflective narratives reveal a process of transformation, centered in the freedom standpoint, which includes recognizing the location and context of their individual and collective identity as African Americans in the profession of social work. Urban womanist social work pedagogy cumulatively equips our students with intergenerational knowledge that inform their assessment of critical issues in Baltimore’s African American communities.

 
Readiness for Graduate Social Work Education: Does an Undergraduate Social Work Major Make a Difference?
Authors: Bowie Stan L. , McLane-Davison Denise
Published: March 2024

This study assessed the extent that a large sample of MSW-level social workers perceived that their undergraduate programs prepared them for graduate social work education. A survey collected data using the Undergraduate Preparation Subscale of the Preparation for Graduate Social Work Education (PGSWE) Scale. The sample (N = 1,056) consisted of MSW graduates from CSWE-accredited social work programs in the United States. Females represented 83.6% of the sample. Most respondents (64.1%) were White, followed by Black/African American (32.5%), Latinx (1.9%), Asian/Pacific Islander (0.9%), and Native American (0.5%). The remaining 0.1% of respondents were categorized as “other.” While 35.7% were undergraduate social work majors, followed by psychology (21.8%), sociology (11.7%), education (2.7%), and English (2.3%), an array of other majors was reported (25.8%), primarily business administration, liberal arts, history, political science, and criminal justice. The vast majority of respondents received their MSW degrees in the States of Tennessee (70.8%) and Florida (13.2%). The other 16% received MSW degrees in 28 other states. Most respondents (64.3%) had undergraduate degrees in majors other than social work. A surprising finding was that social work majors did not feel significantly more prepared for graduate social work education than non-social work majors. Implications are discussed regarding a need to strengthen the BSW/MSW continuum and seek evidence to guide curricular decisions in social work education.

 
Job satisfaction: a positive attribute of work-family integration for female social work faculty
Authors: Simmons Catherine A. , Weiss Eugenia L. , Schwartz Sarah L. , McLane-Davison Denise
Published: March 2024

Academic literature exploring the experiences and needs among women in the social work professorate has yet to explore the ways in which work-life and family-life are compatible, including work-life enrichment and job satisfaction. To remedy this empirical gap, the current descriptive exploratory study of 504 female tenure-track social work academics investigates components essential to job satisfaction, which are also important to work-life enrichment. A particular emphasis is placed on differences and similarities between women who have dependent children (e.g., under 18 and in the home), women who have adult children, and women who have no children. Data were collected using an on-line survey of social work faculty working at CSWE accredited programs. Variables explored include professional connectedness, workplace empowerment, career satisfaction, and stress. The most salient finding is that having dependent children is not a detriment to factors essential for successful work-life enrichment and job satisfaction, even though overall stress is higher. The three groups have more similarities than differences. Implications for policy, practice, and future research are addressed.

 
Community organizing against homophobia and heterosexism: The world through rainbow-coloured glasses
Authors: Wehbi Samantha
Published: March 2024

Examine how community organizing can help eliminate sexual oppression!

This book presents insights from activists working in dramatically diverse cultures toward a common goal—the eradication of sexual oppression. Contributors share their experiences in organizing for sexual emancipation in many parts of the world, documenting progress in transforming oppressive sexual attitudes, policies, and practices, while acknowledging the long road to sexual democracy that remains to be traveled. Community Organizing Against Homophobia and Heterosexism: The World Through Rainbow-Colored Glasses highlights the importance of building alliances with social service providers and community organizers, of physical space as an element of identity-building, of understanding the tension between members of sexual minority communities and their other communities of belonging, and the transformation of individual efforts into movements necessary to affect long-term social change.

Community Organizing Against Homophobia and Heterosexism presents chapters that focus on community organizing against homophobia and heterosexism, bringing to light the history and contemporary face of resistance in global contexts. The book highlights practical actions to liberate sexual and gender expressions, including:

the challenge of organizing within a Two-Spirit (LGBT people of Aboriginal descent) community in Montreal

the organization of Tongzhi (LGBT and their supporters) rights in Hong Kong

the work of Yoesuf, a Muslim association that works on battling homophobia and xenophobia in communities in the Netherlands

the foundation of GALF, a Peruvian feminist group dedicated to organizing against lesbophobia and heterosexism

the development of GALZ, the gay liberation movement in Zimbabwe

Community Organizing Against Homophobia and Heterosexism: The World Through Rainbow-Colored Glasses is an essential resource for social service professionals, community activists, and anyone else working to eliminate sexual oppression in all forms. 
The Indian Ideology: Three Responses to Perry Anderson
Authors: Chatterjee Partha , Kaviraj Sudipta , Menon Nivedita , Ruparelia Sanjay
Published: March 2024

When the Marxist historian Perry Anderson published The Indian Ideology—his scathing assessment of India’s democracy, secularism, nationalism, and statehood—it created a furore. Anderson attacked subcontinental unity as a myth, castigated Mahatma Gandhi for infusing Hindu religiosity into nationalism, blamed Congress for Partition, and saw India’s liberal intelligentsia as by and large a feckless lot.

Within the large array of responses to Anderson that appeared, three stand out for the care and comprehensiveness with which they show the levels of ignorance, arrogance, and misconstruction on which the Andersonian variety of political analysis is based. Collectively, these three ripostes represent a systematic critique of the intellectual foundations of The Indian Ideology.

Confronting Anderson’s claim to originality, Nivedita Menon exposes his failure to engage with feminist, Marxist, and Dalit scholarship, arguing that a British colonial ideology is at work in such analyses. Partha Chatterjee studies key historical episodes to counter the “Great Men” view of history, suggesting that misplaced concepts from Western intellectual history can obfuscate political understanding. Tracing their origins to the nineteenth-century worldview of Hegel and James Mill, Sudipta Kaviraj contends that reductive Orientalist tropes such as those deployed by Anderson frequently mar European analyses of non-European contexts.
Understanding India's New Political Economy: A Great Transformation?
Authors: Ruparelia Sanjay , Reddy Sanjay , Harriss John , Corbridge Stuart
Published: March 2024

A number of large-scale transformations have shaped the economy, polity and society of India over the past quarter century. This book provides a detailed account of three that are of particular importance: the advent of liberal economic reform, the ascendance of Hindu cultural nationalism, and the empowerment of historically subordinate classes through popular democratic mobilizations.

Filling a gap in existing literature, the book goes beyond looking at the transformations in isolation, managing to:

Explain the empirical linkages between these three phenomena

Provide an account that integrates the insights of separate disciplinary perspectives

Explain their distinct but possibly related causes and the likely consequences of these central transformations taken together

By seeking to explain the causal relationships between these central transformations through a coordinated conversation across different disciplines, the dynamics of India’s new political economy are captured. Chapters focus on the political, economic and social aspects of India in their current and historical context. The contributors use new empirical research to discuss how India’s multidimensional story of economic growth, social welfare and democratic deepening is likely to develop. This is an essential text for students and researchers of India's political economy and the growth economies of Asia.
Contesting the Right to Law: Courts and Constitutionalism in India and China
Authors: Ruparelia Sanjay
Published: March 2024

[para. 1]: “Since the 1980s, the People’s Republic of China has witnessed a massive concerted effort to introduce fazhi (rule by law), as set out in the 1982 Constitution. A significant justification for the shift was the need to enhance “citizens’ right to legal justice” (gongmin de hefaquanyi) (Lee 2010b, 50, 57). The Chinese Communist Party proceeded to unveil a series of legislation through the 1990s that proclaimed various rights of citizens, encompassing new procedures for civil affairs as well as laws to protect consumer rights. Indeed, by the end of the de cade, the PRC had signed the International Covenant for Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the International Covenant for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), ratifying the latter several years later. Interestingly, the passage of these various laws coincided with a growing tide of social activism (shehui huodongjia) demanding civic rights and basic entitlements, ranging from subsistence and labor to property, work, and land, codified in the new legal regime (Lee and Hsing 2010, 2). A variety of actors, from “barefoot lawyers” in the countryside and public attorneys in the cities to “rights defense” (weiquan) activists, mobilized the law to press various claims (Alford 1995; Fu and Cullen 2008; Xing 2004). The meaning and ramifications of these laws, and aim and character of the campaigns and movements associated with their emergence, inspire much debate. Some observers perceive incipient demands for greater civil liberty and political freedom, heralding a demand for liberal capitalist democracy (Gilley 2004; Goldman 2005; Liu 2006; He 2012).”
‘Minimum Government, Maximum Governance’: The Restructuring of Power in Modi's India
Authors: Ruparelia Sanjay
Published: March 2024

This article examines the politics of development during the first year of the new Modi government. In particular, it explores the meaning of its guiding maxim, ‘Minimum Government, Maximum Governance’, by analysing specific reforms and broader changes in state–society relations. First, the Modi government has imposed greater discipline in public administration through a personalistic, centralised and technocratic style of rule. But it has bolstered executive power by limiting political transparency, parliamentary government and social dissent. Second, the new government has promoted urbanisation, manufacturing and infrastructure through greater economic liberalisation, public investment and institutional reform. Yet it has weakened many labour protocols, environmental regulations and participatory mechanisms regarding land acquisition and forest conservation. Lastly, the Modi administration has introduced new insurance schemes and championed digitally-enabled cash transfers to deliver social entitlements. However, it has reduced public spending on primary education and basic health, and undercut many rights-based welfare acts introduced by the previous administration, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA). These three trends have narrowed the spaces of power and contestation in contemporary Indian democracy, frustrating the promise of ‘maximum governance’.

 
How the Politics of Recognition Enabled India’s Democratic Exceptionalism
Authors: Ruparelia Sanjay
Published: March 2024

This article explores a significant puzzle: the persistence of modern representative democracy in post-independent India. It demonstrates how a politics of recognition, based on identities of caste, language and religion, is crucial for understanding the origins, character and trajectory of modern Indian democracy. These politics suffer various infirmities. Yet liberal, Marxist and republican critiques of the politics of recognition in India, while offering valid theoretical alternatives and powerful moral visions, also suffer their own limitations. Perhaps more importantly, they evade questions of historical possibility, political efficacy and practical reason that confront every political theory. The relative historical predominance of the politics of recognition in post-independent India, in contrast, reflects its capacity to engage powerful social imaginaries that enabled the realization of democratic norms, institutions and practices. The general argument put forward develops several key themes that distinguish Charles Taylor’s philosophical vision of alternative modernities – the power of social imaginaries, nature of explanation in the human sciences, and vicissitudes of culture, politics and history – to explain the trajectory of modern Indian democracy.
Rethinking Institutional Theories of Political Moderation: The Case of Hindu Nationalism in India
Authors: Ruparelia Sanjay
Published: March 2024

In March 1998, following India's twelfth general election, a coalition of sixteen parties led by Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) secured a majority of seats in Lok Sabha, lower house of parliament, and formed a national government in New Delhi. For many observers, it marked a crucial turning point in modem Indian pol itics. The BJP, as front party of sangh parivar a family of militant Hindu organi zations led by Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS, National Volunteer Corps), escaped its erstwhile political isolation by convincing a number of smaller secular par ties to join its ranks. In exchange, BJP shelved most contentious aspects of its agenda. Chief among them was campaign, spearheaded by its sister organization, Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP, World Hindu Council), since mid 1980s, to build a temple for Hindu god Ram in town of Ayodhya in northern state of Uttar Pradesh. The Ramjanmabhoomi campaign had led to demolition of Babri mosque, which allegedly stood on birthplace of Ram, on December 6, 1992, unleashing worst communal riots in India since partition in 1947.1 The events in Ayodhya and their aftermath convinced most secular parties to renounce electoral alliances with BJP. The BJP agreed prior to 1998 election, however, to remove Ram temple issue from its official policy platform. It also set aside other controver sial proposals such as adoption of a union civil code, which would nullify spe cial judicial arrangements regarding personal family laws governing various minority groups, and abrogation of Article 370 of constitution, which gave disputed Muslim-majority state of Jammu and Kashmir special asymmetric rights in union. As a result of these gestures, many commentators portrayed the politics of social exclusion that BJP has carried forward to new extremes [as] self-limiting in domain of representative democracy.'2 In general terms, two versions of self-limiting thesis underwrote these confident expectations. The first, more general version was that BJP as a party would respect rule of law due to general exigencies of democratic electoral politics. Committing excessive violence towards minority groups would harm its prospects at polls.3 The second, more particular version claimed that it would have to moderate its policies due to the compulsions of coalition politics.4 The inability of any single party to capture a parliamentary majority on its own after 1989 forced larger parties, such as

 
Pandemic failure, democratic backslide: Why India’s autocratic turn under Prime Minister Narendra Modi matters to Canada and the world
Authors: Ruparelia Sanjay
Published: March 2024

The desperate search for scarce oxygen supplies, frontline workers on the verge of breakdown, funeral pyres burning through the night: the second wave of the pandemic in India is a genuine humanitarian catastrophe. Officially, the daily number of cases and deaths exceeded 300,000 and 4,000 at their peak this spring. Independent epidemiological studies suggest the toll might be even worse, between 8000 and 32,000 excess deaths a day, according to reports in the Economist.

Yet it was only in January that daily mortality rates officially fell to less than 200 a day, leading Prime Minister Narendra Modi to declare at the World Economic Forum: India “has saved humanity from a big disaster by containing Corona effectively.”

New Delhi proceeded to launch a national vaccination drive, setting a target of 250 million by July, a bold figure in absolute terms. More strikingly, the Modi government decided to distribute vaccines freely to its neighbors in the subcontinent, and then to many low-income countries far beyond. A desire to match China’s vaccine diplomacy, and India’s impressive production capacity, motivated and enabled its largesse. The move stoked national pride and cast rich western democracies, which were hoarding limited vaccine supplies for themselves, in a terrible light.

Then a disaster unfolded. How did it go so wrong?
Modi’s Saffron Democracy
Authors: Ruparelia Sanjay
Published: March 2024

 In May 2014, Narendra Modi became India’s fourteenth prime minister since independence. Storming to power after a charged electoral campaign, the strongman from Gujarat represented a political earthquake. Under his leadership, the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was the first party to win a parliamentary majority since 1984, ending a quarter century of national coalition governments in New Delhi. It also became the only party apart from the Indian National Congress (known simply as “the Congress”), which had traditionally ruled the country under the direction of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, to win a mandate on its own. Roughly 66 percent of the electorate, the highest share ever, voted in the 2014 general election. Voter participation increased in virtually every state and across diverse segments of the population, including historically marginalized communities of Dalits and Adivasis and especially women. The stunning triumph of the BJP heralded a new political order in the world’s largest democracy. 
EFEKTIVITAS PELAKSANAAN FUNGSI LEGISLASI BADAN PERMUSYAWARATAN DESA DI DESA UMAKLARAN KECAMATAN TASIFETO TIMUR KABUPATEN BELU
Authors: Mau Yovita Marselina , Atanus Fidelis , Botha Hendrikus Hironimus
Published: March 2024

Tujuan penelitian ini untuk mengetahui efektivitas pelaksanan fungsi legislasi Badan Permusyawaratan Desa (BPD) di Desa Umaklaran Kecamatan Tasifeto Timur Kabupaten Belu. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah metode kualitatif. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa pelaksanaan  fungsi BPD sudah memiliki tujuan yang jelas berdasarkan hasil wawancara tujuan tersebut berupa membahas dan merancang peraturan Desa di Desa Umaklaran. Kejelasaan strategi yang dijalankan oleh BPD sudah mencapai tujuan dalam pelaksanaan fungsi legislasi yang ada di Desa Umaklaran. Proses analisis yang dijalankan BPD belum menjamin BPD dalam pencapaian tujuan dari fungsi legislasi di Desa Umaklaran. Perencanan dalam pelaksanaan Fungsi Legislasi BPD sudah sesuai karena BPD sudah mempunyai perencanaan yang matang untuk dikerjakan di masa depan yang akan datang di Desa Umaklaran. Penyusunan program yang dijalankan BPD belum sesuai dengan jangka waktu yang telah ditentukan dalam pelaksanaan fungsi legislasi Di Desa Umaklaran. Sarana dan prasaraan kerja yang disediakan sudah sesuai dan sangat membantu BPD dalam pelaksanaan fungsi legislasi di Desa Umaklaran. Dalam pelaksanaan fungsi legislasi BPD belum efektif dan efisien karena belum ada rancangan peraturan Desa di Desa Umaklaran. Dalam pelaksanaan fungsi legislasi BPD selalu membutuhkan pengawasan dan pengendalian untuk mencapai tujua dalam pelaksanaan fungsi legislasi BPD di Desa Umaklaran.
Research progress of perioperative immunotherapy for locally advanced gastric cancer
Authors: Ma Shanbo , Wei Zhang Wei , Xiaodi Guo Xiaodi , Chen Yuhan , Zhao Zhiyong , Jiang Hongbo
Published: March 2024

Gastric cancer is a highly heterogeneous disease, and its occurrence and development are the result of genetic factors, environmental factors, and host factors. As one of the main types of cancer in China, radical gastrectomy is the only chance for patients to be cured, but only 50% to 60% of initially diagnosed gastric cancer patients are suitable for radical gastrectomy, especially in locally advanced and advanced patients. The results of MAGIC and ACCORD07/FFCD9703 confirm the status of combination chemotherapy with fluorouracil as the standard of perioperative treatment for locally advanced gastric cancer. Gastric cancer is one of the most common diseases in China, with high heterogeneity and poor prognosis. Immunotherapy has always been a difficulty in medical research. However, the 5-year overall survival rate for gastric cancer patients remains low. Immunotherapy is effective in the first-line treatment of advanced gastric cancer. At the same time, immunotherapies such as immune checkpoint inhibitors, tumor vaccines, and cell therapy also show certain safety and effectiveness in the perioperative treatment of locally advanced gastric cancer patients. This paper reviews the research progress of immunotherapy in the perioperative treatment of locally advanced gastric cancer.
Translating Ayahs Aleudul in the Quranic Contexts: An Interdisciplinary Jurisprudential
Authors: Alhaj Ali Albashir Mohammed
Published: March 2024

The current research paper aims to critically study translating Ayahs Aleudul العدول in the Quranic contexts from an interdisciplinary jurisprudential linguistic perspective. The findings of the study showed that Aleudul العدول in the Qur’anic context is a phenomenon that reoccurs in many ayahs. The researcher selected one of the many: the Quranic Arabic Aleudul العدول in Ayah 33 of Surat al-Ahzab to explain the phenomenon and discuss it in detail. The study also showed that the Quranic Arabic Aleudul العدول came in the Qur’anic context to reveal the importance of the meaning to be explained in the context to which it is assigned. The foremost of the problems encountered by translators of the Holy Quran was the dearth of most exegesis relating to this recurring phenomenon in the Holy Qur’an. This is because exegesis is founded on the segmentation of the ayahs rather than a single ayah to determine their denotations and memorize the rulings from them only once.
The Front-End Dilemma: How to Choose the Perfect Technology for your Application.
Authors: Naik Arjun
Published: March 2024

As the landscape of web development continues to evolve rapidly, choosing the right front-end technology stack for application development has become a critical challenge for developers and organizations. This research paper explores the multifaceted dimensions of the front-end dilemma, aiming to provide a comprehensive guide for decision-makers in the selection process. The study delves into the diverse range of front-end frameworks, libraries, and tools available, analyzing their strengths, weaknesses, and suitability for different types of applications. Based on the research done in the paper, we can say that each option is strong with Angular and React leading the pack but the choice will depend upon the use case, time on hand, maintenance and level of understanding.
O ensino de trompete em projetos sociais: um ensaio sobre a prática do instrumento
Authors: Soares Isac Costa
Published: March 2024

Este ensaio tem como ponto de partida reflexões sobre o ensino de trompete dentro de projetos sociais e traz proposições sobre a importância do desenvolvimento técnico/musical dos seus participantes, defendendo a tese de que o ensino de instrumentos dentro desses espaços não deve ser negligenciado a ponto de tais projetos terem apenas como objetivo a inclusão social. Ou seja, a ideia é que pensemos sobre este aspecto sem que um seja anulado em detrimento do outro. Neste sentido, proponho ao longo do texto uma reflexão de forma mais abrangente, analisando materiais possíveis, trazendo exemplos práticos e pensando sobre a profissionalização musical em projetos de ação social. Todavia, devido a minha experiência de vida, prática docente e conhecimento empírico do campo trarei como enfoque o ensino de trompete dentro desses espaços e, para trazer luz a discussão, trago autores da área que tem ao longo dos anos discutido sobre o ensino de música nesses espaços, tais como, Souza et al. (2014), Penna (2006), Kater (2004), entre outros.
Pogram Mind Body Intervention Spiritual Hipnoprenatal Dalam Menurunkan Tingkat Kecemasan Pada Ibu Hamil
Authors: Taqiyah Yusrah , Jama Fatma
Published: March 2024

Perubahan fisiologis pada sistem homonal yang terjadi pada kehamilan akan memicu mood swing, yaitu kondisi emosi yang cenderung berubah-ubah.Selain itu, masalah psikologis yang sering menyerang ibu hamil adalah kecemasan. Dalam pelayanan di PKM yang diberikan hanya terfokus pada kesehatan fisik ibu hamil saja, sehingga rasa cemas, khawatir, dan stres sering terjadi. Tujuan dari kegiatan ini adalah meningkatnya pengetahuan dan keterampilan ibu hamil dalam mengatasi kecemasan setelah diberikan Penyuluhan dan Pelatihan Program Mind Body Intervention Spiritual hipnoprenatal. Metode yang digunakan dalam kegiatan ini berupa ceramah, diskusi dan demonstrasi. Dengan jumlah sampel sebanyak 25 ibu hamil. Hasil yang didapatkan setelah dilakukan penyuluhan dan pelatihan dimana pengetahuan dan keterampilan ibu meningkat dalam mengatasi tingkat kecemasan selama hamil, Saran kepada pihak Puskesmas untuk tetap melanjutkan Kegiatan Program Mind Body Intervention Spiritual hipnoprenatal untuk mencegah dan mengatasi kecemasan pada ibu hamil.
Pemanfaatan Sumber Air Bersih Yang Sehat Bagi Masyarakat Di Desa Pucak Kec. Tompobulu, Kab. Maros
Authors: Abd. Gafur  , Hamzah Wardiah , Syam Nasruddin
Published: March 2024

Dug wells are one of the sources of clean water used by the people of Pucak Village, Kec. Tompobulu, Kab. Maros Clean water is used for various daily activities. The quality of dug well water that does not meet the requirements will be a source of disease transmission. Problems faced by the community are the absence of clean water source sanitation inspections, interventions to clean water sources that are physically and bacteriologically ineligible and the lack of environmental health education related to clean water sources. The solutions offered are; (1) Inspection of environmental sanitation and quality inspection of clean water sources, (2) Interventions of clean water sources that do not meet health requirements by providing chlorine (Ca (ClO) 2) in well water, (3) Counseling environmental sanitation in relation to public health . Dug well sanitation inspection results show that there is a low risk of 6 (60%), moderate by 2 (20%), high by 1 (10%), very high by 1 (10%) of 10 wells. Physical quality, namely as many as 2 (20%) experienced turbidity, 1 (10%) that smelled and tastes. While the bacteriological quality showed that 6 (60%) of the samples taken did not meet the requirements. Provision of chlorine (Ca (ClO) 2) in community dug wells has improved water quality to become turbid, smelly and tasteless. Public health education provides knowledge and information on water and drinking water treatment. It is recommended that there be guidance and assistance to the community in managing clean water from puskesmas or universities
Penerapan Metode Kangguru pada Bayi BBLR
Authors: MR Rifka Riska , Wa Ode Sri Asnaniar  , Nur Ilah Padhila  , Sunarti Sunarti
Published: March 2024

Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) is one of the non-pharmacological measures in handling the incidence of LBW. The success of KMC is supported by several factors, namely knowledge, attitudes and family support. This study aims to determine the factors associated with Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) in low birth weight (LBW) infants in Sorowako Village. The research design used is a quantitative research with a cross sectional approach. This research was conducted in Sorowako Village in April 2022. The sample was determined using a total sampling technique with a sample size of 30 respondents. The relationship test was carried out using the chi-square statistical test with a significance level of < 0.05. The results showed that the majority of mothers had less knowledge as many as 17 people (56.7%), the majority of mothers had a good attitude as many as 17 people (56.7%), and the majority of mothers had good family support as many as 16 people (53.3%). ). There is a relationship between mother's knowledge and the application of the kangaroo method (ρ = 0.001), there is a relationship between mother's attitude and the application of the kangaroo method (ρ = 0.004) and there is a relationship between family support and the application of the kangaroo method (ρ = 0.002). The conclusion of this study is that there is a relationship between knowledge, mother's attitude and family support with the application of the kangaroo method. Therefore, it is hoped that mothers who give birth to LBW babies can learn about LBW and KMC and can apply them at home. It is hoped that there will be further research related to other factors that affect KMC.
Terapi Murottal terhadap Penurunan Kecemasan Pasien Pre Sectio Caesarea
Authors: Alya Islamiaty  , Suhermi Suhermi , Al Ihksan Agus
Published: March 2024

Anxiety in pregnant women will increase as the time of delivery approaches, especially when it is known that the pregnancy requires surgery. The treatment of anxiety can be done with non-pharmacological therapy, one of which is murottal Qur'an therapy. This study aims to determine the effect of murottal Qur'an on reducing anxiety levels in preoperative sectio caesarea patients at RSIA Sitti Khadijah Muhammadiyah 1 Makassar. This type of research uses a quantitative research design pre-experimental two groups pre-test-post test. As for the determination of the sample calculated using the Slovin formula, the results obtained were 60 respondents who were divided into two groups, 30 respondents for the intervention group and 30 respondents for the control group using the HARS Scale instrument. The relationship test was carried out using the Paired Sample T Test with an error value of = 0.05. The results of this study indicate that before being given murottal Qur'an therapy the level of anxiety in pregnant women for the intervention and control groups was in the mild to severe anxiety, after being given murottal Qur'an therapy the level of anxiety in pregnant women for the intervention group was at no. there was anxiety to mild anxiety, and the control group remained in mild to moderate anxiety. The conclusion of this study is that there is an effect of murottal Qur'an on reducing anxiety levels in preoperative sectio caesarea patients in the treatment room of RSIA Sitti Khadijah Muhammadiyah 1 Makassar with a value of 0.000 or <0.05. Therefore, the use of murottal Qur'an therapy can be used as a non-pharmacological therapy that can be done independently to reduce anxiety levels.