bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Risk Of Eviction And Women’s Technology Adoption: Some Evidence From Southwestern Nigeria
Authors: Soneye Olurotimi O.
Published: April 2024

ABSTRACT: In the presence of tenure insecurity that many women face in developing societies because of patriarchal norms, farmers may not adopt farm technologies because there is no assurance of reaping the benefits. This article examines how the risk of eviction affects women’s fertilizer use and adoption of early maturing seed varieties. For the empirical analysis, I employ individual-level data that was collected from 180 women rice farmers in southwestern Nigeria with a multistage sampling technique and analyse the data with both econometric methods that address possible endogeneity issues and those that do not. I analyse the relationship between the risk of eviction and fertilizer use with the Two Stage Least Squares (2SLS) and Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) methods and analyse the relationship between the risk of eviction and the adoption of early-maturing seed varieties with the Two Stage Conditional Maximum Likelihood (2SCML) and probit methods. I find women who are cultivating family-allocated, husband-allocated and purchased plots to be significantly less likely to have fears of eviction than those who are cultivating fixed-rent plots, even as the risk of eviction have different effects on fertilizer use and on the adoption of early-maturing rice varieties respectively. While it makes the women spend less on fertilizer, it makes them more likely to adopt early maturing seed varieties. These would suggest that the women are responding to the unfavourable production environment from tenure insecurity with lower investments in soil fertility and shortened time horizons towards minimizing their losses in the event of eviction. The results also suggest that the women may invest in soil fertility if the operating environment becomes more favourable with better tenure. The policy implications of the findings are thus evident. Women are evidently not averse to adopting farm technologies by default; to thus improve adoption rates of farm technologies, policymakers should adapt technologies to local socioeconomic conditions, while exploring how to make tenancy contracts and the social norms that underpin customary tenure systems more amenable to granting women tenure security. These would help protect land resources from degradation, make agricultural incomes sustainable, and facilitate socio-economic development.
Criteria for Implementing Smart Contract Technology for Hr Practitioners
Authors: Ioakimidis Marilou , Magoutas Anastasios
Published: April 2024

ABSTRACT: It is widely held that smart contracts on a blockchain possess several unique properties, including immutability, disintermediation, and enhanced security, that can be advantageous to organizations. In particular, having these properties can enable smart contracts to benefit human resources departments in a number of ways, including applicant verification, tracking employee skills and tasks, and facilitating compensation. However, it is also reported that effectively implementing smart contracts involves a number of challenges to HR managers. To address these challenges, it would be valuable to establish criteria to help HR managers employ smart contracts successfully. The purpose of this paper is to develop a set of such criteria. The paper first provides an overview of the nature of blockchain and smart contracts and then, based on a review of relevant literature, describes how implementation of blockchain-enabled smart contracts in an HR department may benefit an organization by producing transaction cost savings through expediting processes, enhancing security, and reducing intermediaries. The paper then focuses on various challenges that have been identified in the literature to the successful use of smart contracts. These include issues regarding smart contract integrity, immutability, and security, as well as potential problems associated with a variety of legal issues. Synthesizing this information, the paper develops a set of best practice guidelines to help HR managers determine whether and how to employ smart contracts successfully for HR-related processes. The guidelines emphasize the importance of initial understanding and testing of planned smart contracts, protecting security by ensuring that only permissioned people can access smart contract data, and guaranteeing the integrity of smart contracts by paying very close attention to the translation of natural to programming language and establishing robust reviews of programmed contracts. Policy implications of the guidelines include the importance of HR departments ensuring that all employees who are involved in implementing the technology have a good understanding of the nature and capabilities of smart contracts, that robust methods be implemented to guarantee that the contracts are correctly programmed, and that HR managers keep abreast of legislative environment related to legal issues that may affect their department’s use of smart contracts.
"A Gratifying Divergence": Immigrant Settlement and the National Narrative in Willa Cather's My Ántonia
Authors: Kvidera Peter
Published: April 2024

Abstract: This essay examines Cather's 1923 essay "Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle" and her 1918 novel My Ántonia to analyze her representation of the immigrant figure that simultaneously defines the region (Nebraska) and enriches the story of America. The essay contextualizes Cather's writing within the statutes of nineteenth-century homesteading legislation, which allowed Nebraska to be settled and the nation to expand westward. It first considers opportunities and challenges afforded by homesteading, and then discusses Cather's use of immigrant settlement and the cycles of storytelling it produces to revise monolithic interpretations of the national narrative.
Metamorphosis: Embodied Narrative at Play in the Seventeenth-Century Fairy Tale
Authors: Kukkonen Karin
Published: April 2024

Abstract: This article discusses how the seventeenth-century French fairy tale investigates embodiment through the figure of metamorphosis in the examples of Charles Perrault's "The Mirror or the Metamorphosis of Orante" (1661), Charlotte-Rose de La Force's "Les jeux d'esprit" (1701) and "Plus Belle que Fée" (1698), and Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy's "La Chatte Blanche" (1696). These fairy-tale metamorphoses do not present a rich embodied language, but rather invite us to reconsider the dichotomies between mind and body, at stake in Cartesian philosophy, and between cognition and culture, central to today's conceptualization of the mind as "extended" beyond the body. Deploying the marvelous in playful ways, the conteuses take embodiment beyond the limits of everyday mimesis.
Queer Disabled Bodyminds in the Fairy Tales of Dinah Mulock Craik and Oscar Wilde
Authors: Pazdziora John Patrick
Published: April 2024

Abstract: The potential influence of Dinah Mulock Craik on Oscar Wilde's fairy tales has been often remarked but seldom analyzed. This article suggests that Wilde enters a dynamic engagement with Craik's literary fairy tales, particularly in their shared critique of nineteenth-century notions of deviance and wholeness. Locating these texts at the intersection of disability studies and queer theory, this article uses Margaret Price's conception of bodymind to read Craik's The Little Lame Prince and His Traveling Cloak (1875) and Wilde's A House of Pomegranates (1891) as a complex literary encounter that subverts ableist assumptions regarding "a sound mind in a sound body."
Love, the Moon, and the Body: George MacDonald's "The Light Princess" and "Little Daylight" as Reflections on the Embodied Mind
Authors: Arnavas Francesca
Published: April 2024

Abstract: In George MacDonald's "The Light Princess," the connection between states of mind and bodily reactions is represented and explored, with a particular focus on the meaning of lightness and heaviness in relation to love and emotions—which the form of the tale itself mirrors by alternating comedy and tragedy. Likewise, "Little Daylight" offers innovative meditations on the female body, its changes, and its interrelation with the mind's states. Both stories are inspired by the traditional tale "Sleeping Beauty," but they propose a very different take on the unconscious sleep of mind and body portrayed in the original story by concentrating instead on their complex and dynamic intertwinement. This article aims to elucidate and analyze the provocative representations of the two princesses' embodied minds in George MacDonald's unconventional and ingenious fairy tales.
Fairy-Tale Bodies and Embodying the Fairy Tale in Telltale Games' The Wolf Among Us
Authors: Bellini Mattia
Published: April 2024

Abstract: Bodies often play an important role in all sorts of fairy tales. Is this the case when fairy tales are reinterpreted in video games? And what can the embodied and enactive participation afforded by video games tell us about their players' understanding of these new fairy tales? This article provides reflections over both these questions by analyzing the video game The Wolf Among Us, a 2013/14 graphic adventure game developed and published by Telltale Games and inspired by fairy tales. Through this analysis, I ultimately discuss how contemporary sensibilities further transformed traditional fairy tales and their postmodern adaptations, highlighting the ever-evolving life of the fairy tale.
A Short-Term Longitudinal Study on the Moderating Effect of Sibling Trust on Internalizing Difficulties in Early Adolescence
Authors: Persram Ryan J. , Howe Nina , Bukowski William M.
Published: April 2024

Abstract: Adolescents' perceptions of their sibling relationship are important to their well-being, yet there is little work on the role of trust as a predictor of their adjustment. The present study investigated the effects of domain-specific facets of sibling trust on adolescent internalized adjustment. Participants included 169 early adolescents (51% girls) 10–13 years old with an older or younger sibling, who rated their perceptions of trust in that sibling and their depressed affect and intolerance of uncertainty across a 2-month period. Findings showed a positive association between reliability trust and honesty trust at T1. Results also indicated that reliability trust and honesty trust differentially moderated the stability of depressed affect. Specifically, higher levels of reliability trust attenuated the stability of depressed affect, whereas higher honesty trust appeared to strengthen it. Results emphasize the influence that sibling relationships, and trust between siblings, has on adolescent well-being. Findings are discussed in relation to theory and application to future interventions.
“Ready to Be Terminated”: Guy Jennison and Ottawa Traditions of Autonomy through Elimination
Authors: Dry David
Published: April 2024

Abstract: The 1950s and 1960s policy of tribal termination is justly regarded as a genocidal federal effort to extinguish tribal sovereignty and identity. Some tribal leaders, however, like Guy Jennison, chief of the Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma from 1930 to 1962, supported termination. Jennison’s advocacy for termination developed out of an Ottawa political tradition that sought greater autonomy through embracing federal policies aimed at tribal elimination. In this political tradition, the Ottawa endeavored to escape federal control through eliminatory policies while subverting the eliminatory intentions of policy-makers by ensconcing their community in other dimensions of the dominant society. For Jennison, endorsing termination was a strategy to escape federal paternalism and gain greater control over tribal affairs. In anticipation of termination, Jennison led the Ottawas to reestablish tribal government through a state-chartered nonprofit corporation; by perpetuating tribal identity and prerogatives through this vehicle, the Ottawa undermined the eliminatory intentions of termination policy. Placing Jennison’s advocacy for termination within a longer tradition of Ottawa activism reveals the Native intellectual genealogies that informed his perspective and demonstrates how policies intending tribal elimination represented a complex site of Ottawa struggle against federal authority.
The Strength of the Papuan Mamas: Storytelling as Resistance to Violence, Dehumanization, and Silencing, and for Communal Dreaming
Authors: Smythe Julian
Published: April 2024

Abstract: Papuan Mamas exemplify the use of storytelling and popular expressive traditions of resistance to totalitarian systems. Living with laughter and resilience within a reality termed by some as genocidal since Indonesia’s takeover in 1962, Papuan Mamas carry and reproduce Papuan identity. Through their use of stories, they model how to resist annihilative violence and to practice what Vizenor (1993) termed “survivance” to create and exist in a freedom made real through communal dreaming.
Storytelling for Economic Justice: The Role of Stories in Galvanizing for Change
Authors: Rhodes Abi
Published: April 2024

Abstract: This article explores the role storytelling plays in taking action for economic justice. It draws on responses from interviews and questionnaires conducted in collaboration with the charities Journey to Justice and Share-wear Clothing Scheme. The research used stories from an economic injustice archive developed by Journey to Justice and the author. The findings reveal that stories play a predominantly positive role in enabling people to imagine a better future and begin to take action for that future, which demonstrates the role of storytelling in galvanizing for economic justice. This study adds to the existing and varied academic literature on storytelling for justice and extends it to include “economic” justice in grassroots communities in the United Kingdom, a currently underexplored area.
Sub-kHz linewidth free-running monolithic cavity VECSEL with 10⁻¹² stability
Authors: Moriya Paulo Hisao , Lee Martin , Hastie Jennifer E.
Published: April 2024

We report the development of a compact, highly stable, monolithic-cavity, GaInP/AlGaInP-based VECSEL with electronically-tunable emission wavelength centered at 689.4425 nm for neutral strontium (Sr)-based applications. The output power reaches 40 mW (pump-power-limited) with ultra-low frequency and intensity noise performance resulting in a free-running linewidth of 720 Hz, reduced to 390 Hz when frequency locked to a reference cavity, verified via a heterodyne beat note measurement with 2 s averaging time. For shorter averaging times (0.1 ms), the free-running linewidth is as low as 40 Hz. We estimate a Lorentzian, or intrinsic, linewidth of 64 mHz from the frequency noise power spectral density at high frequencies, thus providing further evidence of the ultra-narrow fundamental linewidth of VECSELs. High frequency stability was measured via Allan deviation resulting in 1.05×10⁻¹² at 2 s and 2.11×10⁻¹³ at 7 s averaging times when the 689 nm monolithic cavity VECSEL is free-running and locked, respectively, suitable for neutral Sr-based quantum technologies, such as optical clocks and atom interferometry.
Crematorio: An X-ray of corruption in contemporary Spain – A conversation with the Sánchez-Cabezudo brothers
Authors: de Austria Giménez de Aragón Alfonso M. Rodríguez
Published: April 2024

The brothers Jorge and Alberto Sanchez-Cabezudo have a very important role in the leap in quality taken by Spanish series in the second decade of the twenty-first century. With referents such as The Sopranos (1999–2007) and The Wire (2002–08), they adapted film language and narrative style to television series with Crematorio (2011) and La Zona (The Zone) (2017–18). In this interview we talk specifically about Crematorio as a social and political critique of contemporary Spain.
iZombie: Evil corporations, culpability and ir/responsibility
Authors: Crofts Penny
Published: April 2024

iZombie (2015–19) is set in Seattle where part of its population is infected with a zombie virus created by a corporation. iZombie sustains the productive use of the zombie to explore consumption and late-stage capitalism, but unlike most other zombie fiction, situates this in a familiar, banal present where social and governmental institutions, laws and bureaucracies continue to operate. Central to these questions is the role and responsibility of corporations, situated within an eminently recognizable, but not particularly effective, law and order. iZombie accurately portrays the continued production of a dangerous product within a legal framework that protects corporations and investors, rather than customers. Given the dependence of zombies on access to brains, the series sheds light on the responsibility of consumers, legal authorities and broader society in perpetuating harms. In light of our increasing dependence upon corporations and the systemic harms that they cause, what kinds of justice are available? This article will consider how corporate wrongdoing, legal conceptions of corporate criminal responsibility and the im/possibility of justice are mis/represented in the first season of the series.
Job satisfaction in the armed forces: Differences among ranks
Authors: Gargallo-Castel Ana F. , Marzo-Navarro Mercedes
Published: April 2024

Human resource management has attracted significant attention among researchers of public management. It is increasingly accepted that committed and satisfied employees are strategic resources in any organization. The idiosyncrasies of the armed forces and the professionalization processes they have undergone necessitate a study of the attitudes of military personnel towards work in the sector. This paper analyses the determinants of job satisfaction in the military. Three factors (“Work itself”, “Economic aspects” and “Personal relationships”) are identified based on data from the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP). Both the composition and the impact of these factors on job satisfaction vary according to the hierarchical rank of a worker. The findings confirm the importance of differentiated human resources policies that take into account the hierarchical diversity of the military. Our results provide new evidence and valuable practical information for human resource management in the armed forces. We provide policymakers and managers of the military sector with recommendations that allow them to reinforce the ability of the armed forces to attract, retain and motivate talent.
What about my future career after the pandemic? SARS-CoV-2 and distance learning in the evaluation of future professional opportunities
Authors: Kołodziej Arkadiusz , Kołodziej-Durnaś Agnieszka
Published: April 2024

In this article we present the results of a survey among 556 Polish university students, conducted in the summer of 2020 using an online CAWI survey questionnaire method. We investigated whether the students perceived that the transition to distance learning during the pandemic period had changed their future career prospects. The survey shows a distinct influence of the university (and its support) and the course of study on the students’ assessment of their career prospects. In addition, the results of exploratory factor analysis, multiple linear regression, and logistic regression indicate that attractive and engaging distance learning bolsters the students’ belief in their perceived value on the labor market. Notably, the students perceived the pandemic as an important structural factor that went beyond individual biographies. The students’ assessment of how the pandemic is changing the economy was an important predictor of how they perceived their chances on the job market.
Three-dimensional model of financial resilience in workers: Structural equation modeling and bayesian analysis
Authors: Flóres Bañuelos Miriam , Zamora-Lobato Teresa , García-Santillán Arturo
Published: April 2024

This work focused on evaluating financial health indicators, namely their perception, experiences lived during the pandemic, and actions carried out to face the financial crisis caused by the COVID-19. The eight financial health indicators proposed by BBVA bank and the Center for Financial Services Innovation were used for the study. These make up a 24-item scale and are often used to measure perception, experiences during the pandemic, and financial resilience. The sample included 357 workers from the Duxom Company, which has national coverage and operates in the private security sector. The validity test showed an acceptable Cronbach's alpha index for each construct (α; 0.848; α; 0.779; α; 0.818), denoting reliability and internal consistency. The values obtained from asymmetry (<2) and kurtosis (<7) justified the normality of the data. The research findings suggest that, while the perception of financial health indicators has a very low influence on financial resilience (.05), the experiences lived during the pandemic in relation to these indicators influenced (.74) the actions carried out to face the financial crisis caused by the COVID-19. The confirmatory model shows that the P-ISF construct is explained with 6 of the 8 variables; the Ev-ISF construct – with 3 of 8, and the financial resilience construct is explained with 7 of 8 variables (CMIN/DF:1.913; CFI:0.981; TLI: 0.973; RMSEA=0.05). The excluded variables show very low estimates; therefore, it is recommended to expand future studies to other populations and samples.
Lesões na mucosa bucal resultantes da somatização do estresse
Authors: Consolaro Alberto
Published: April 2024

Algumas lesões na mucosa bucal podem ser resultado da somatização do estresse psicossomático. Essas lesões devem ser reconhecidas, diagnosticadas, tratadas e os pacientes orientados sobre sua evolução e o prognóstico ao longo da vida, independentemente da especialidade que o clínico exerce, pois esses pacientes requerem todo tipo de abordagem odontológica. Depois de classificadas em três grupos distintos de lesões, apresenta-se os seus aspectos clínicos e conceituais na forma de atlas, para auxiliar no diagnóstico clínico diferencial e conduta por parte do profissional.
Comparative geotechnical analysis for ultimate bearing capacity of precast concrete piles using cone resistance measurements
Authors: Shaban Alaa M. , Al-Hashimi Zahraa H. , Aleshaiqer Bashar H. , Cosentino Paul J.
Published: April 2024

Computing the axial load capacity of pile foundations is often challenging for geotechnical engineers. Different theoretical and empirical approaches were proposed for determining the ultimate bearing capacity. Among these approaches, the in situ testing methods are based on cone penetration test (CPT) measurements. This study compares five CPT methods in estimating the axial load capacity of precast concrete piles evaluated at four piling construction projects in Northwest and Central Florida. The analytical methods used in this work are the Aoki and De Alencar method (1975), the Schmertmann method (1978), the Bustamante and Gianeselli Laboratoire Central des Ponts et Chausees method (1982), the Eslami and Fellenius method (1997), and the Eurocode 7 (2007). The outcomes indicated that the Eurocode method 7 had the most increased load capacity estimates, whereas the Eslami and Fellenius method yielded the lowest estimates. The results also indicated that the Aoki and De Alencar (1975) method consistently demonstrated the slightest differences among these values, showing its potential for reliable and consistent pile-bearing capacity estimations.
Experimental and numerical analysis of temperature distributions in SA 387 pressure vessel steel during submerged arc welding
Authors: Makaraci Murat , Senol Mert Turgut
Published: April 2024

The present study aims to explore experimental investigations and numerical simulations for temperature distributions at heat-affected zones within SA 387-Gr.11-Cl.2 steel during the submerged arc welding (SAW) process. Experimental endeavors entailed welding steel plates under controlled conditions, precisely measuring temperatures at key locations by thermocouples. A special program based on 3D Goldak’s double ellipsoidal model was developed in ANSYS Parametric Design Language for moving heat source calculations in the finite-element analysis (FEA). For welding an 8 mm thick plate with one pass, the suitable parameters were found to be 600 A current, 31 V voltage, and 10 mm·s−1 welding speed. The experimental cooling periods were found to be slower than predicted by FEA. When temperature distributions were compared between experimental and FEA results, an average variation of 1.88% at peak temperatures and 11.8% at completion time was observed. The results showed the temperature distribution at various time steps, illustrating the transient nature of the welding process. The results highlight the capacity of the FEA model to predict temperature profiles during SAW accurately, presenting a potent tool for optimizing welding parameters without extensive trial and error.
Model text as corrective feedback in L2 writing: the role of working memory and vocabulary size
Authors: Mujtaba Syed Muhammad , Zhang Tiefu , Mao Shiman , Ahmed Nisar
Published: April 2024

Recent research highlights model texts as a form of written corrective feedback (WCF) for enhancing L2 writing skills. This study, conducted at a South Asian university, assessed the impact of model texts on the argumentative writing skills of 71 undergraduate ESL students. Divided into treatment and control groups, assessments at various stages employed an analytic rubric and CALF metrics (complexity, accuracy, fluency, lexical richness). Additionally, regression analysis was used to gauge the effect of working memory capacity (WMC) and vocabulary size on the success of the method. The findings revealed that the treatment group exhibited significant improvements, particularly in vocabulary use and structural aspects of their writing. Both WMC and vocabulary size were found to influence the efficacy of model texts. This study underscores the potential of model texts in WCF and highlights the role of individual learner attributes in determining its effectiveness.
Oedipus Haerens: Paranoid Lagging in Seneca’s Phoenissae
Authors: Graf Chiara
Published: April 2024

This paper is an attempt to think through paranoia’s epistemic and affective features, which pervade both the worldview presented in Senecan tragedy and the inner life of many of its protagonists. Drawing upon recent literary-critical work, I argue that paranoia is temporally and epistemically ambivalent: subjects simultaneously attempt to “get ahead” of a looming cataclysm—looking to the future in an attempt to avert disaster—while inevitably “falling behind,” failing to predict or preempt the future in time to protect themselves. Much of Senecan tragedy plays out paranoia’s future-oriented vigilance on the formal level. Foreshadowing, allusions, and meta-literary flourishes serve to render both readers and characters hyperaware of the earth-shattering horrors to come; however, in doing so, they also reveal that this forward-oriented bracing only serves to dredge up negative affect in advance. By contrast, I argue that Seneca’s Phoenissae thematizes in the character of Oedipus not only paranoia’s future-looking vigilance but also its inherent lagging, the failure to know and act in advance. These elements of slowness, stuckness, and delay open a space for stillness, relief, and intimacy, even within a narrative which hurtles toward cataclysm.
The Autoethnography of a Teacher Educator
Authors: Au Christopher
Published: April 2024

I turn to evocative autoethnographic storytelling as a means to experiment with the text of teacher education and re-imagine my role as a professor of education and early childhood literacy. When I feel that the rigidity of rubrics and standards designed to evaluate my students is creating an uncomfortable distance between us, I invite the formation of a literate thirdspace. My stories convey the feeling of being in-between states of authority and imagination, and question the image of the child’s fragility, including my own. As my students respond with their own memories through discussion, commentary, and writing, my autoethnography emerges as more personal and concrete. The inevitable death of my mother collides in my mind with the university’s literacy curriculum as I am teaching it, and I am forced to revisit the absence of friends, and my mentor to cancer. The denial of death as part of our own, and our children’s experience, is challenged by a child’s words at the end of this paper, where I finally learn to accept loss and the painful act of saying goodbye.
Journey to LD Proud to Be
Authors: White Dave
Published: April 2024

In this autoethnographic essay, the author explores a wide range of personal experiences as a neurodivergent student. The author challenges the reader (students, educators, parents, whoever they may be) to self-reflect on their own experiences with the neurodivergent community to broaden the understanding of each person’s unique academic journey. The author’s hope is that readers feel inspired to recognize their own personal capacity to create real change in expanding upon what it means to be part of the neurodivergent community and beyond.
Trespassing Limits
Authors: Vázquez Valenzuela David Adán
Published: April 2024

This article examines the links between a political rebellion that occurred in Coahuila in 1893 and the activism that was carried out by some members of the Partido Liberal Mexicano (PLM) in the early 1900s in Southern California. It builds upon connected and transnational history to study continuities between the conflicts in the early 1890s in the Mexican countryside and the growth of discontent against the government of Porfirio Díaz. It argues that the support gained by the PLM in parts of the U.S. Southwest cannot be separated from the political experience that many of its sympathizers had in Mexico. Furthermore, it argues that to better understand the PLM’s mobilization north of the border, it is necessary to study the social and economic conditions in which they lived and moved in both countries.
Gesellschaftliche Spannungen: Die Rolle der Kollektivgüter
Authors: Quitzau Jörn
Published: April 2024

Politikverdrossenheit ist zu einem guten Teil darauf zurückzuführen, dass der Staat seinen Bürgern nur „One size fits all“-Lösungen anbieten kann. Die Bürger müssen mit dem leben, was die gewählte Regierung beschließt. Sie müssen Kompromisse eingehen, die sie von privaten Konsumentscheidungen kaum noch kennen – denn hier erhalten sie maßgeschneiderte Lösungen. Es liegt daher nahe, dass die Politik bei möglichst vielen Themen keine kollektiven Lösungen anstreben, sondern sich auf die klassischen öffentlichen Güter konzentrieren sollte. Zudem wären Volksentscheide geeignet, die Präferenzen der Bürger besser zu berücksichtigen als es gegenwärtig der Fall ist.
Quiet quitting - Dienst nach Vorschrift
Authors: Munser René K.
Published: April 2024

Viele Arbeitskräfte engagieren sich bei der Arbeit nur noch in den Grenzen ihrer Stellenbeschreibung, jedoch nicht darüber hinaus. Dieses Phänomen wird „quiet quitting“ genannt. Die veränderte Einstellung junger Generationen zum Arbeitsleben als auch die COVID-19 Pandemie tragen zu einem Nachdenken über den Stellenwert von Arbeit im Leben bei. Das muss nicht nur negative Folgen haben. Für beide Seiten – Mitarbeiter und Führungskräfte – bietet „quiet quitting“ ein unausgeschöpftes Potential.
Características sociodemográficas y personales de la víctima y feminicida en Lima Metropolitana
Authors: Alvarado-Muñoz Erika , Nolberto-Sifuentes Violeta , Fernández-Giusti Alicia
Published: April 2024

Introducción. El feminicidio es un problema de salud mundial. América Latina presenta altas tasas, el Perú implementó su legislación, normativas, sanciones penales y programas preventivos; pero las estadísticas y desaparición de las mujeres siguen en aumento. Objetivo. Determinar las características sociodemográficas y personales en los protagonistas del feminicidio. Métodos. Se realizó un diseño descriptivo, de recolección de datos secundarios. Se analizó documentación forense del Instituto de Medicina Legal y Ciencias Forenses del Perú constituido por 46 protocolos de necropsia médicolegal de víctimas de feminicidio en Lima Metropolitana durante los años 2019 al 2020 e informes periciales físicos y psiquiátricos de los feminicidas. Resultados. El perfil común de las víctimas fue tener 18 a 29 años, soltera, secundaria con un trabajo formal, la causa muerte fue por proyectil de arma de fuego y el lugar de muerte fue en su domicilio. El perfil de los feminicidas incluyó ser esposo/conviviente, con antecedentes policiales, familia disfuncional y tener hijos con la víctima. Conclusión. Se encontraron principales características de víctimas y sus homicidas como la edad, grado de instrucción, el domicilio de la víctima, antecedentes policiales, familias disfuncionales. En caso de los homicidas eran disociales y el argumento del homicidio fueron los celos.
Adaptabilidad de la tecnología para afrontar las brechas de aprendizaje generadas por la pandemia del COVID-19
Authors: Malca Casavilca Michan Alberto , Aliaga Viera Segundo Eleazar
Published: April 2024

Sr. Editor,
Recientemente hemos leído con gran interés el artículo titulado “El impacto de la pandemia del COVID-19 en la educación médica: adaptabilidad y experiencia con enseñanza a distancia de la Sociedad Médica Peruano Americana" de Valdivieso y col. (1) donde se relata la valiosa experiencia de empleo de las plataformas tecnológicas a distancia como estrategia de afrontamiento de crisis en la educación de profesionales de la salud. Es menester aprovechar esta iniciativa como aliciente para mejorar el empleo y la adaptabilidad de la tecnología en el aprendizaje y evaluación de competencias en pregrado, posgrado.
Resistencia a los azoles en cepas de Aspergilus fumigatus sensu stricto aislados de muestras clínicas respiratorias
Authors: Guevara José , Villanueva-Cotrina Freddy , Cayampi Quispe Betsy , Cabezas Sánchez César , Sanchez-Perez Jorge , Vergaray Ulffe Germán , García Effrón Guillermo , Gamarra Soledad , Béjar Castillo Vilma
Published: April 2024

La aspergilosis invasiva presenta alta mortalidad en pacientes con enfermedades crónicas e inmunocomprometidos. Aspergillus fumigatus sensu stricto (AFSS) es el principal agente etiológico y su tipificación requiere de métodos moleculares. La incidencia incrementada de AI resistentes a los antifúngicos demanda un diagnóstico certero y oportuno. Métodos. Se estudiaron 20 cepas de la micoteca del Instituto de Medicina Tropical – Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, aisladas de muestras respiratorias e identificadas como Aspergillus fumigatus sensu lato mediante el estudio macroscópico y microscópico. Las cepas fueron referidas a la Universidad Nacional del Litoral para su tipificación mediante una PCR screening para AFSS basada en secuencias del gen CYP51A y el estudio de sensibilidad antifúngica para voriconazol (VOR), itraconazol (ITC), posaconazol (POS), isavuconazol (ISA), anidulafungina (ANF), caspofungina (CSF) y anfotericina B (AMB) obteniendo la concentración inhibitoria mínima (CIM) mediante el protocolo de CLSI M38M51S-Ed3. Resultados. Las 20 cepas fueron identificadas como AFSS. Ninguna de las cepas tuvo una CIM por encima del punto de corte clínico (VOR), ni epidemiológico (ITC, ISA, AMB y CSF). POS fue la droga más potente frente a la colección de cepas evaluadas (media geométrica (GM) de CIM de 0,042 µg/ml). Conclusiones. Todos los aislamientos fueron tipificados como AFSS sensibles a los azoles según los puntos de corte clínico, posaconazol tuvo la mayor actividad antifúngica. Nuestros hallazgos aportan a incrementar la escasa información sobre la etiología y sensibilidad a los antifúngicos de uso clínico de las aspergilosis invasiva en nuestro país.
Uso de antimicrobianos en la unidad de cuidados intensivos de un hospital público de Loreto
Authors: Perez-Mori Arley , Mori-Coral Mónica , Marín-Lizárraga Johan , Ramírez-García Edgar Antonio , Zevallos K. , Velarde-Mera Miguel Angel , Góngora-Pinedo Fritz Glenn
Published: April 2024

Introduction. Inappropriate use of antimicrobials in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) contributes to bacterial resistance. Objective. The purpose of the present study was to measure the use and type of antimicrobials in patients hospitalized in the Intensive Care Unit of the Loreto Regional Hospital (HRL). Methods. Descriptive study. We reviewed 120 medical records in ICU-HRL patients from January to June 2023. Results. Most patients used antimicrobials (74.2%), indicated for septic shock (42.7%), 1 to 3 antimicrobials (93.2%), with therapy of 1 to 3 days (45%). Of the total number of antimicrobials used, the greatest proportion were bactericides 89 (90.4%), from the cephalosporin family (33.1%) and carbapenemics (23.5%); the most commonly used drugs were ceftriaxone (26.5%) and meropenem (21.1%) by the intravenous route (90.4%). Conclusion. The highest proportion of hospitalized patients use antimicrobials of the cephalosporin and carbapenemics family.
Hiperandrogenismo por tumor ovárico de células esteroideas en paciente pediátrico
Authors: Del Águila-Villar Carlos , Pereyra López Sonia Adelaida , Tucto-Manchego Rosa
Published: April 2024

Los tumores de ovario son raros en pediatría. En este grupo, los tumores de células esteroideas representan el 0,1% de los casos y existen escasos reportes en la literatura. Presentamos el caso de una niña de 11 años con síntomas de engrosamiento de la voz, hirsutismo, acné y clitoromegalia. El análisis de laboratorio mostró niveles elevados de testosterona total y libre, niveles normales de 17-hidroxiprogesterona. La evaluación ecográfica reveló un agrandamiento significativo del ovario izquierdo. La paciente fue sometida a salpingooforectomía izquierda. Este hallazgo fue consistente con un tumor de células esteroideas de ovario. A esto le siguió la reducción gradual de los andrógenos y la mejoría clínica. Los tumores de células esteroideas son raros en pediatría, sin embargo, deben considerarse como diagnóstico diferencial al estudiar pacientes con síntomas de hiperandrogenismo.
Enseñanza de la epidemiología en pregrado de medicina humana durante la postpandemia en Perú
Authors: Chavez Mario G. , Peceros-Huillca Fiorella , Portugal Walter
Published: April 2024

Sr. Editor,
Las crisis suscitadas en los últimos años de nuestro siglo, como la pandemia COVID-19 o el impacto en salud de la crisis climática, han puesto en evidencia la relevancia y acrecentado el interés, a nivel mundial, en la salud pública (1,2). Estos eventos resaltan la importancia y la necesidad de disponer de médicos con una adecuada formación en epidemiología y estadística, disciplinas que constituyen la base para la formación médica en salud pública (3).
Psychosis as Eluding Agency: Perspective of Phenomenological Psychopathology
Authors: Baranovaitė Kristina
Published: April 2024

In the context of the current renewal of phenomenological psychopathology, the article presents one of its fundamental assumptions – the need to meaningfully incorporate experiences of a subject who has encountered pathology into their life narrative. It discusses how, as psychosis progresses, the subject gradually loses agency of their attention and meaning-making. With the help of the novel Cosmos by Witold Gombrowicz, an episode of the active phase of psychosis is reconstructed – in the beginning, the central objects structuring the subject’s attention establish themselves as if independently of the subject. As the delusional system, created on such a basis, expands, it becomes more and more difficult for the subject to preserve the relation with the surrounding world. Creating a narrative in such a situation comes forth as a self-healing effort – an attempt to meaningfully incorporate episodes of altered experience back into one’s realm of agency. For this reason, it is emphasized that, in psychotherapy, it is important not to try to replace the subject’s narrative with a rationalized narrative created by the therapist, but rather to involve the subject in a cooperative dialogue about the personal meaning of their lived experiences.
Fischer, F. (2009). Democracy and Expertise: Reorienting Policy Inquiry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 352 pp.
Authors: Sáenz Natalia
Published: April 2024

Sin duda alguna, el libro Democracy and Expertise de Frank Fischer supone una contribución relevante para el análisis de las políticas públicas, pues como sostiene Fischer en la introducción a su obra: “el libro explora el rol de la experticia política en la sociedad democrática” (p. 1). En efecto, aunque en el libro Fischer aborda la relación existente entre expertos, políticos y ciudadanos, su preocupación está en develar, a partir de esta relación, la manera en la que la elaboración e implementación de las políticas se constituye en un ejercicio democrático que posibilita la participación de otros actores, en un momento en el que se le atribuye el éxito o el fracaso de una política pública al conocimiento del analista.
Pronunciamiento de las revistas de la Facultad de Derecho, Ciencias Políticas y Sociales de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia frente a la indexación de revistas científicas
Authors: Ciencia Política Equipo de la revista
Published: April 2024

Los Comités Editoriales de las revistas Pensamiento Jurídico y Ciencia Política de la Facultad de Derecho, Ciencias Políticas y Sociales de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia manifestamos nuestra decisión de no volver a participar en la convocatoria de indexación de revistas de Publindex liderada por el Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (Minciencias).
Effects of bilateral tDCS over DLPFC on response inhibition, craving, and brain functional connectivity in Internet gaming disorder: A randomized, double-blind, sham-controlled trial with fMRI
Authors: Jeong Jo-Eun , Park Chang-hyun , Kim Minji , Cho Hyun , Pyeon Arom , Jung Suji , Jung Dongjin , Kim Jin-Young , Choi Jihye , Chun Ji-Won , Ahn Kook-Jin , Kim Dai-Jin
Published: April 2024

Background and aims

Impaired inhibitory control accompanied by enhanced craving is hallmark of addiction. This study investigated the effects of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on response inhibition and craving in Internet gaming disorder (IGD). We examined the brain changes after tDCS and their correlation with clinical variables.

Methods

Twenty-four males with IGD were allocated randomly to an active or sham tDCS group, and data from 22 participants were included for analysis. Participants self-administered bilateral tDCS over the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) for 10 sessions. Stop-signal tasks were conducted to measure response inhibition and participants were asked about their cravings for Internet gaming at baseline and post-tDCS. Functional magnetic resonance imaging data were collected at pre- and post-tDCS, and group differences in resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC) changes from the bilateral DLPFC and nucleus accumbens were examined. We explored the relationship between changes in the rsFC and behavioral variables in the active tDCS group.

Results

A significant group-by-time interaction was observed in response inhibition. After tDCS, only the active group showed a decrease in the stop-signal reaction time (SSRT). Although craving decreased, there were no significant group-by-time interactions or group main effects. The anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) showed group differences in post- versus pre-tDCS rsFC from the right DLPFC. The rsFC between the ACC and left middle frontal gyrus was negatively correlated with the SSRT.

Discussion and conclusion

Our study provides preliminary evidence that bilateral tDCS over the DLPFC improves inhibitory control and could serve as a therapeutic approach for IGD.
DESARROLLO DE COMPETENCIAS DIGITALES DOCENTES Y SU TRASCENDENCIA EN LOS PROCESOS EDUCATIVOS
Authors: Fernández Juan Antonio Guevara
Published: April 2024

Las competencias digitales docentes se definen como los conocimientos, habilidades y actitudes que posibilitan un desenvolvimiento satisfactorio del profesional mediante el empleo de las tecnologías de la información y comunicación. El potencial de las herramientas y recursos digitales en el campo educativo es bastante alto, por lo cual se vuelve prioritario el desarrollo de estas competencias en los docentes. La investigación analizó de manera teórica y con base en fuentes documentales el impacto educativo que genera la implementación de las competencias digitales en los procesos educativos. La metodología fue de corte transversal y cuantitativa, se utilizó una encuesta aplicada a una muestra de 86 docentes. Los resultados sustentan el impacto positivo de la tecnología para optimizar los procesos educativos, por tanto, la importancia del desarrollo de competencias digitales docentes para el logro de mejores resultados educativos.
A SIMPLE STRUCTURED MULTIBAND TERAHERTZ METAMATERIAL ABSORBER WITH A HIGH Q FACTOR
Authors: S. Deepa Nivethika
Published: April 2024

A terahertz Eight-/Nine-/Twelve-/Fourteen-/Sixteen-Band Metamaterial Absorber (MMA) for sensing applications is built and simulated. The substrate is sandwiched between the bottom ground plane and the top patch structure of this primitive MMA. The top patch is made up of two concentric circular ring resonators. This structure generates a multiple number of multi bands without utilising stacked layers, multiple resonators, or overlapping in a single unit cell by altering the radius of the top patch structure within the shorter frequency range of 0.8 THz to 1.2 THz. The polarisation and angle insensitivity properties are investigated by shifting the angle values from 0 to 90 degrees. To learn about the inside mechanism of the planned structure, the magnetic field distribution, electric field distribution and surface current distribution plots are explained. For the sixteen-band MMA, the Q-Factor and full width half maximum are also determined. This proposed MMA will be used in biosensing applications, sensors and wireless communications.
EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON MAG WELDED E350 HSLA STEEL JOINTS
Authors: S. Bradeesh Moorthy , R. Malayalamurthy , K. S. Amirthagadeswaran
Published: April 2024

Activated flux has been used successfully to improve the penetration of Tungsten Inert-Gas (TIG) welding, which is normally a welding process with low penetration. But the same activated flux when used for Metal Active Gas (MAG) welding showed a moderate improvement in penetration. Hence only a few research articles reported on activated flux MAG welding. TIG dressing is a post-weld treatment intended to improve the fatigue life of welded joints. The use of activated flux along with TIG dressing were not yet reported. In this work, an experimental study was conducted on the metallurgical changes and their effects on fatigue life in E350 steel welded by MAG welding with activated flux coating as well as toe TIG dressing. The metallurgical changes induced by various weld conditions and the effect on the fatigue life of welded joints were discussed. Welding conditions were categorised as: as weld (AW), weld with flux coating (FW), weld with TIG dressing (AWT), and flux weld with TIG dressing (FWT). Fatigue tests at stress ranges closer to the yield stress (80 % to 90 % of yield) were studied. In comparison with AW joints, the AWT and FWT showed a fatigue-life improvement of 60 % to 80 %, and 69 % to 103 % respectively. Whereas the FW joints showed 10 % to 17 % deterioration in fatigue life. Upon investigation with electron microscopy it was found that the variation in grain sizes and phase changes induced by the usage of flux and TIG dressing, as well as the changes in weld toe radius by TIG dressing and root strengthening due to extra penetration induced by the use of flux were the reasons behind these fatigue behaviours. In this work a novel effort is made to find a way to improve the fatigue life of a welded joint with a combination of two techniques. The activated flux is used to improve the penetration, whereas TIG dressing is performed to reduce the stress concentration. This new combination of techniques has improved the fatigue life of the weld significantly, which can lead to reduced maintenance costs of welded joints and a longer life.