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Curriculum Management in Indonesia at Madrasah Tsanawiyah Al-Ittihadiyah North Sumatra
Authors:   UIN Sumatera Utara, Jln. IAIN No. 1 Sutomo Ujung Medan 20253, Indonesia, Lubis Saiful Akhyar
Published: January 2021

This study aims to analyze the planning of the curriculum at Madrasah Tsanawiyah Al-Ittihadiyah in North Sumatra. Then describe the organization of curriculum resources at Madrasah Tsanawiyah Al-Ittihadiyah in North Sumatra. Furthermore, to describe the implementation of the Madrasah Tsanawiyah Al-Ittihadiyah curriculum program in North Sumatra. Then to describe the supervision of the Al-Ittihadiyah Madrasah Tsanawiyah curriculum in North Sumatra. Lastly, to describe the curriculum evaluation of the Al-Ittihadiyah Madrasah Tsanawiyah in North Sumatra. This research is qualitative in nature. The process of extracting data in a holistic manner either by means of in-depth interviews with a series of questions, observation in the form of observations, and collecting documents with the aim of obtaining correct and valid data. There are 5 (five) findings which are the results of this study.
Nanotechnology an Option in Mexican Agriculture
Authors:   Agricultural Machinery Engineer Graduated in Autonomous Agrarian Antonio Narro University, Mexico, Negrete Jaime Cuauhtémoc
Published: January 2021

In Mexico, agriculture is increasingly less profitable, due to this situation its contribution to the country’s economy decreases day by day, which has encouraged the import of food, thus causing poverty and migration, food dependency and other undesirable situations for the healthy development of society in general, not only the rural population but also the urban population is affected, so all the technologies that can change this scenario are sought and explored, one of them being Nanotechnology, despite the benefits of nanotechnology, as is always the case, it is not applied in agriculture as most of the most widely used technologies in the world today, such as mechatronics, and other modern technologies such as neural networks, Artificial vision, and internet of things , this is also happening with nanotechnology, De la Revision made only some Authors have done the rest of the research only publishing revisions of research done abroad, so it is proposed that decision makers support researchers who really do work on this discipline that is so promising at present for the good of our agriculture , this being the objective of this work will review what has been done in this field in this regard in the nation
Anti-Microbial and Anti-Oxidant Activities of Ziziphus Spina Christi, Sudanese Medicinal Plant
Authors:   Department of Biology and Technology, College of Applied Sciences, University of Bahri, Sudan, Hamadnalla Hatim MY , Mohamed Ali Mahdi Abdu-Almageed ,   Department of Biology and Technology, College of Applied Sciences, University of Bahri, Sudan, Ahmed Asaad Alsiddig ,   Department of Biology, Khartoum International Preparatory School, Sudan
Published: January 2021

This work is an anti-Microbial and anti-Oxidant activity of Ziziphus spina Christi based on four selected bacteria: Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Bacillus subtilis and Staphylococcus aureus. These species were collected and prepared in Sudan. The concentrations were carried out and compared with standard control sample, the suspension of anti-microbial activities have shown different results in Fagonia cretica. The anti-oxidant activity is the ability of bioactive compounds to prevent, delay and protect against oxidant of virus substrates such as DNA and lipid materials, both in living organisms (e. g. human) and in food products. The result showed an anti-oxidant activity based on standard liquid reagent [1].
Super-Antiferromagnetics Nanoparticles for Magnetic Hyperthermia Applications: Effect of the Dc and Ac Magnetic Field
Authors:   University of Tlemcen, Physics department, Pôle La Rocade, Algeria, Ouari Bachir , Madani Malika ,   University of Tlemcen, Physics department, Pôle La Rocade, Algeria
Published: January 2021

The importance of magnetic hyperthermia cancer treatments is based on the magnetic characteristic of the nanoparticles and their dependence on the DC and AC magnetic fields. In this paper we Study the dynamic magnetic hysteresis (DMH) of Super Antiferromagnetic nanoparticle, we use Brown’s continuous diffusion model to we evaluate the hysteresis loops, for extensive ranges of the anisotropy, the ac and dc magnetic fields.
Cross-Border Tomato Trade and Susceptibility to HIV Infection: A Case of Ghana-Burkina Faso Tomato Traders: A Qualitative Study
Authors:   C/O PATH-Ghana, PMB CT 307, Cantoment, No.74 Osu Badu Street, Airport West, Ghana, Suuk Laar Alexander , Tiire Koxwell Kaba ,   St. Vincent College of Education, P. O. Box 184, Yendi, Ghana, Azongo Daniel K ,   Navrongo Health Research Centre, Ghana Health Service, Navrongo, Ghana
Published: January 2021

One of the core objectives of establishing the West African regional integration body (ECOWAS) is to promote cross-border trade and cooperation among member states. HIV infection has been found to be associated with population mobility, including cross- border trade and labour migration. The objective of this study is to provide evidence based recommendations for government and other stakeholders to respond to and address the HIV/ AIDS epidemic in a multi-disciplinary approach. Qualitative method was used to collect data for the study. It involved 2 Focus Group discussions, 15 in-depth interviews with women tomato sorters and 3 Key Informant interviews with tomatoes market Queens. A purposeful sampling method was used to select eligible participants. The data were analyzed using a thematic framework approach. The women admitted that poverty, household’s food insecurity and household assets were the main motivational factors for them engaging in the cross border tomato trade. This study has highlighted the risk of HIV susceptibility among cross border tomato traders in rural Ghana. Improving the knowledge and livelihood opportunities of women and young girls engaged in the cross border tomato trade, calls for a comprehensive community- based educational campaigns targeted at mobile women engaged in the cross border trade in the study area.
Pulmonary tuberculosis co-infection and COVID-19 in Senegal
Authors:   Thies Infectious Diseases Service / UFR health sciences, Lawson Agbogbenkou Tevi Déla-dem , Faye Fulgence Abdou ,   Internal Medicine Department of the Thiès Regional Hospital Centre, Berthe Adama ,   Epidemic Treatment Centre (CTE) in the Thies Region
Published: January 2021

New Coronavirus Disease (SARS-CoV-2) is responsible for the severe acute respiratory syndrome. Appeared in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, it affects more than 188 countries around the world to date. Africa is not spared by this pandemic (COVID-19), which is on the rise. Tuberculosis (TB), a disease endemic in Africa with a fatality of 1.5 million people per year , like COVID-19, is transmitted mainly by the respiratory route and affects the lungs[1,2]. In the literature, few studies have demonstrated the association and interactions between these two pathologies. However, the fragmented data reveal that tuberculosis with pulmonary localization must be considered as a potential risk factor for aggravation or complication of the disease. COVID-19, especially since the lung damage is significant, therefore In the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, we must not forget to suspect and appropriately manage tuberculosis [2]. We report here the case of 3 patients who presented with COVID-19-Tuberculosis co-infection, treated at the level of the Epidemic Treatment Center (CTE) of the Thiès regional hospital in Senegal and whose evolution is favorable under early and adequate treatment.
Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children associated with COVID-19: Report of four cases in Mexico across the Mexico-US Border
Authors:   Institute for Global Health, University of Siena, Italy, Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, General Hospital of Tijuana, Mexico, Chacon-Cruz Enrique
Published: January 2021

Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) is a newly described autoimmune disease mostly occurring in older children, adolescents, and young adults associated with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-Coronavirus type 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. Several MIS-C publications from Europe and North America are available, with only a few from Latin America. This is the first Mexican publication of four case reports of MIS-C. Median age at admission was of 8.2 years. All cases manifested with fever, cutaneous rash, conjunctivitis, abdominal pain, and nausea/vomiting. All were admitted with shock, developed coronary abnormalities in the echocardiogram, and had lung abnormalities in the computerized tomography scan. Three needed medical care at the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, all were resistant to intravenous immunoglobulin, and one patient died of severe myocarditis, shock and acute myocardial infarction. All four cases had a positive SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR from nasopharynx.
The Novel Coronavirus (nCoV) – A Worldwide Threat
Authors:   RT (Research Triangle) Europe, Non-profit Research Center, University of Western Hungary, Rajčáni Július
Published: January 2021

This review aims to asses the data from recently published literature related to the novel Coronavirus (nCoV), which had been isolated in the automn of 2019. Similarly to the classical Coronavirus (cCoV) isolated nearly 18 years ago, the nCoV has also emerged in China, though in a different region of the same country. The majority of papers published in the current year 2020, clearly demonstrates the actual nature of the given topics. Despite of the unusual criteria used for information selection, all the collected data have turned up useful as the virion structure and its properties concerns. Neither were omitted the clinical signs of virus related disease(s) nor understanding the spread of any other pathological state(s) occurring in infected patients. Last but not least, the presented epidemiological data contribute to understanding the spread of nCoV in human community(ies).
Impact of Creativity, Innovation, and Spiritualism on Improving the Efficiency of the Media Managers
Authors:   Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Technology, GGSIP University, New Delhi- 110086, India, Chopra Kamal Nain
Published: January 2021

Role of Creativity, Innovation; and Spiritualism in improving the Efficiency of the Media Managers is becoming increasingly important. The present paper has provided detailed discussion of these parameters, and also analytical approach to quantify them. The paper should be useful for the managers engaged in the media management, and also the researchers by providing useful inputs on the topic.
Historical and Contemporary Laws Related to Forest and Environment with the Perspective of the Role of the Indian Media in Environmental Conservation: A review
Authors:   I.F.S, Post Doctoral Fellow, Department of Management Studies,Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. Uttarakhand, India, Joshi Kapil Kumar
Published: January 2021

This paper attempts to highlight all the forest, wildlife and environmental laws prevailing in India with their brief introduction and the genesis. It portrays a consolidated picture of all such regulatory measures being implemented since the colonial rule in India. Under today’s circumstances, media also plays a vital role in shaping the public opinion over any social, economic and political issue. Media is supposed to be the fourth and a strong pillar of the society and is entrusted with the responsibility of bringing real facts and figures before the public in general and the policy makers and implementers in particular. This paper also aims in educating the media with the prevailing rules, regulations, acts, guidelines and policies related to natural resource management in India and analyzing a symbiotic relationship with the implementers for a wider cause of conservation and sustainable development.
Evaluation of Television as a Medium for Promotion of Indigenous Culture and Traditional Heritage; a Study of the Nigeria Television Authority
Authors:   1 Department of Mass Communication, Institute of Management and Technology (IMT), Enugu Nigeria, Nnadiukwu Marcel Ikechukwu , Afam Anih Cyprian ,   Evangel University, Okpoto Ebonyi State, Nigeria
Published: January 2021

Television is a medium of communication and communication is a means through which culture is spread, shared, maintained, repaired and transformed. Contemporarily, the term culture covers the domains of arts, sciences, beliefs, manner or even attitude of a group of people such as tribe, religious body or society. It can be defined as the sum total of way of life of a people such as festivals, dances, religion, language, norms/traditions etc. This study examined how the Nigeria Television Authority has been or not used in promoting Nigeria cultural values and heritage. The method adopted in the study is survey. The interview technique was used involving a total of 400 respondents drawn from the staff members of the NTA, Enugu zonal station, and the Station’s audience. Findings of the study revealed that television is a powerful medium through which a people can, through programming and content, share and export their cultural values for sustainable development, as well, a medium for eroding culture and tradition. It was further found that the NTA has not been sufficiently utilized to promote the Nigerian culture. The study recommended that mass media workers, particularly television programmes designers should sit up in the area of promoting Nigeria cultural heritage through TV programme content. Secondly, it is recommended that TV producers should endeavour to down play indecent dressing and violence, while emphasizing more of educative, informative, technological and entertainment in their productions.
Conus Medullaris Syndrome Days After A Single Epidural Steroid Injection
Authors:   Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, Rochester, MI, Kasir Rafid , Khalil Jad ,   William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, MI
Published: January 2021

Background: Epidural steroid injections (ESI) are commonly used in treatment of chronic lower back pain. Conus medullaris and cauda equina syndromes are rare complications of ESI. However, these typically occur after multiple injections within a few minutes to hours. Some reported cases are also transient, with patients completely regaining neurological function. We discuss a unique case of a patient developing conus medullaris syndrome over 24 hours after a single epidural steroid injection without resolution of symptoms.
Delirium And Visual Loss After İntravenous Ondansetron Application in a Pediatric Patient: A Case Report
Authors:   Pediatrics specialist, Duzce University Faculty of Medicine Department of Pediatrics, Engin Muhammet Mesut Nezir , Kılıçaslan Önder ,   Assıstant Professor Doctor, Duzce University Faculty of Medicine Department of Pediatrics, Kocabay Kenan ,   Professor Doctor, Duzce University Faculty of Medicine Department of Pediatrics
Published: January 2021

Ondansetron is a selective 5-hydroxytryptamine receptor (5HT-3) antagonist caused by cancer treatment and put into clinical practice as an antiemetic for anesthesia-related nausea and vomiting. Delirium is an organic mental disorder that develops in a short period of time and manifests itself with impairments in various cognitive functions, especially consciousness. In this case report, we aimed to present the patient who presented to the another hospital due to vomiting, who received intravenous (IV) ondansetron treatment, followed by blurred consciousness and vision loss, and to draw attention to the side effects that may occur after ondansetron
Congenital Bilateral Shoulder Dimples in a Newborn Case report and Review of the literature
Authors:   Paediatrics Specialist Mediclinic Alnoor hospital, Abu Dhabi, UAE, Soofi Amin N A , Abdelhadi Ola ,   Genetic Academic Trainee, Centre for Genetic Medicine, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK, Abdelhadi Abdelhadi ,   Consultant Neonatologist, Mediclinic Alnoor hospital, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Published: January 2021

Congenital Acromial or Shoulder dimples are cutaneous depressions overlying the acromial process of the scapula. They are usually bilateral and symmetrical. Isolated biacromial dimples are usually benign and warrant no further investigations. Family history in an autosomal dominant pattern, as in our case, is frequently obtainable but the majority of isolated bilateral shoulder dimples are sporadic. There are few reports of syndromic associations as well as two cases of associated maternal cocaine abuse. Our case is a term female neonate who was noted on routine new-born check to have bilateral symmetrical shoulder dimples. She was otherwise healthy, had normal range of shoulder movements and was not dysmorphic. On further assessment it transpired the father has the same bilateral shoulder dimples but was not aware of their existence. No further investigations were carried out. This case add to the few reported cases of Biacromial Dimples with autosomal pattern of inheritance in an otherwise normal baby
Social Networking Websites and Family Relationships; Students’ Perceptions
Authors:   University of Ioannina, Athens, Giotsa Artemis , Spiropoulou Stiliani ,   Panteion University, Athens
Published: January 2021

This article examines on the one hand whether the remembrance of perceived paternal and maternal rejection affects positively the search for social support on social networking websites and on the other hand to what extent the high quality of a friendship affects the search for social support on these websites. Data were collected from 200 Greek university students and were analyzed with binary logistic regression model which was used to predict the outcome ‘’Search for social support on social networking websites’’. The scores of the following three questionnaires; (α) Perceived parental remembrance of the rejection was estimated via the Short form of the Adult Parental Acceptance and Rejection Questionnaire (PARQ) (24 items), (b) The friendship quality was evaluated with the Adult Friendship Questionnaire (AFQ) (27 items), (c) The need to seek support was measured with the questionnaire Attraction to Computer-Mediated Social Support (33 items), were included as predictive variables in this model. Enter method was also used. The final model was able to define 15.6% till 21.4% of the variance, while it was able to successfully predict in total 69.1% of the cases. It has been proved that the increase of friendship quality entails reduction of the possibilities of seeking social support through social networking sites (OR 0.965). Present study is thought to be important because to the best of our knowledge it is the first study that examines students’ perceptions with regard to family relationships and social networking websites
Focal Seizure in A Patient Receiving Terbutaline : A Case Report
Authors:   Ankara City Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, Turkey, AVCİ Eda , UNAL Yasemin ,   Ankara City Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, Turkey, YAKUT Halil İbrahim ,   Ankara City Hospital, Department of Pediatric Emergency Medicine,Turkey, KURT Funda ,   Ankara City Hospital, Department of Pediatric Emergency Medicine,Turkey
Published: January 2021

Terbutaline sulfate is a β2 adrenergic agonist agent used in treatment of asthma. Terbutaline’s adverse effects such as skeletal muscle tremor, tachycardia, hyperglicemia and various metabolic effects are mediated by beta-adrenoceptor stimulation .Terbutaline is not recommend use for children younger than 2 years of age.The case of a 44-day-old girl who experienced focal seizure following oral terbutaline sulfate use is presented.For exclusion of other causes of focal seizure, we used brain magnetic resonance imaging, and electroencephalography and it is concluded that focal seizure developed as a result of terbutaline sulfate use
The Congenital Absence of the Portal Vein
Authors:   Pediatric B Department, Mohammed VI university Hospital, Marrakesh, Morocco, Lagrine M , Bourrahouat A ,   Pediatric B Department, Mohammed VI university Hospital, Marrakesh, Morocco, Sab I Ait ,   Pediatric B Department, Mohammed VI university Hospital, Marrakesh, Morocco, Sbihi M ,   Pediatric B Department, Mohammed VI university Hospital, Marrakesh, Morocco
Published: January 2021

Congenital absence of the portal vein (CAPV) is a rare defect often accompanied by other abnormalities such as heart defect, skeletal anomalies and / or liver tumors [1]. We describe here a case of CAPV revealed by an upper gastrointestinal tract hemorrhage in a child aged 02 years and 8 months. The esogatro-duodenal fibroscopy revealed the presence of Esophageal varices grade II, abdominal ultrasound revealed a large liver with no visualization of the spleen. Subsequent abdominal computed tomography revealed the presence of a spleno-mesaraic trunk measuring 7 mm in anteroposterior diameter receiving the inferior and superior mesenteric vein and a small splenic vein draining by dilated peri-gastric and peri-esophageal leads. Associated with splenic hypoplasia and portal trunk atresia. The rest of the malformative assessment was negative
PENDIDIKAN ISLAM PADA MASA DAULAH FATIMIYAH DI MESIR
Authors: Saputra Aidil
Published: January 2021

During the Fatimid Dynasty, Islamic education was growing rapidly and advanced. The First,, for more than two centuries the Fatimid controlled Egypt, the existence of the Fatimid dynasty had contributed greatly to civilization. The greatest progress is to provide space for the development of science in the Islamic world that has given birth to many scientists, an organized system of government administration that has resulted in prosperity, known for its diversity of tolerance. Second, the Fatimid dynasty was the only Shi'ite dynasty in Islam that existed for approximately two and a half centuries and could prevail over the territorial achievements of the previous Islamic kingdoms, and had contributed a lot of civilization to the Islamic world, especially Egypt, because in During the Fatimid dynasty, Egypt experienced a level of cultural prosperity and vitality that surpassed Iraq and Baghdad as the center of Islamic power. In the context of education, the Fatimid dynasty became a reference at that time in parts of the Islamic world even today and has become a reference for education in parts of the Islamic world, quite rapid progress. The intellectual development of this dynasty made a major contribution to the development of science in the East and West world; covering the development of religious and general science so that we can still see its development today.
DUKUNGAN KELUARGA DALAM KUNJUNGAN PEMERIKSAAN ANTENATAL CARE DI WILAYAH KERJA PUSKESMAS SENTANI, JAYAPURA
Authors: Rachman Nurmah , Rusman Dian Irawati
Published: January 2021

Kematian ibu dapat dicegah dengan menerapkan antenatal care secara tepat. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui hubungan dukungan keluarga dengan kunjungan antenatal care pada ibu hamil. Penelitian ini menggunakan desain cross sectional yang dilaksanakan di wilayah kerja Puskesmas Sentani, Jayapura pada bulan Februari 2020. Populasi penelitian adalah ibu hamil yang berada di wilayah kerja Puskesmas Sentani dengan jumlah sampel sebesar 111 orang yang dipilih menggunakan teknik simple random sampling. Pengambilan data menggunakan kuesioner dengan subjek penelitian adalah ibu hamil yang memenuhi kriteria inklusi. Analisis data uji chi square dengan tingkat kemaknaan Î±
Устойчивость российских регионов к экономическим шокам
Authors: Михеева Н.Н.
Published: January 2021

В статье рассмотрены вопросы устойчивости регионов к кризисным шокам и методы их оценки. В качестве критерия устойчивости использованы показатели динамики ВРП в кризисный период. Представлена группировка регионов в зависимости от реакции на экономический кризис, определены регионы, устойчивые к кризисам 2009 г. и 2015 г. Для оценки вклада в региональную динамику последствий национального, структурного и регионального шоков использован метод структурных сдвигов. Показано, что региональная компонента является существенным фактором, определяющим устойчивость региона. На основе регрессионного анализа количественно оценен вклад региональных факторов в устойчивость.
Nghiên cứu một số đặc điểm của chỉ số huyết học ở bệnh nhân mắc bệnh tim mạch người lớn được điều trị tại Trung tâm Tim mạch - Bệnh viện E từ năm 2019 đến năm 2020
Authors: Nga Dao Thi Thanh
Published: January 2021

Tổng quan: Bệnh lý tim mạch người lớn có thể xuất hiện một số thay đổi trên các chỉ số tổng phân tích tế bào máu ngoại vi. Mục tiêu của nghiên cứu: tìm hiểu sự thay đổi của một số chỉ số tổng phân tích tế bào máu ngoại vi ở bệnh nhân mắc bệnh tim mạch người lớn.

Đối tượng và phương pháp :7038 bệnh nhân người lớn mắc bệnh tim mạch được tiến hành nghiên cứu các chỉ số tế bào máu ngoại vi.

Kết quả: thiếu máu chiếm 28,4%, RDW tăng chiếm 30,4%, số lượng bạch cầu tăng chiếm 15,2%, số lượng bạch cầu trung tính tăng chiếm 26,6%, số lượng tiểu cầu bình thường chiếm 93,6%. Kết luận: một số thay đổi chỉ số tế bào máu ngoại vi đã được mô tả ở những bệnh nhân người lớn mắc bệnh tim mạch.
Calibración del Modelo Hydrus-3D para el riego localizado en suelos estratificados con cultivo intensivo (enarenado)
Authors: Zapata-Sierra A.J. , Roldán-Cañas J. , Reyes-Requena R. , Moreno-Pérez M.F.
Published: January 2021

El desarrollo del bulbo mojado bajo riego localizado en suelos enarenados presenta un comportamiento diferente del observado bajo suelos homogéneos. La presencia de un cultivo muy activo, también impone una serie de variaciones que no han sido plenamente caracterizadas. El objetivo de este trabajo es presentar la metodología de adquisición de datos y las precauciones necesarias para obtener un modelo que defina con precisión la evolución de la humedad en los bulbos húmedos generados en suelos enarenados característicos de los cultivos hortícolas intensivos. Se ha definido el procedimiento de toma y procesado de datos de humedad en suelos estratificados. Se ha ajustado experimentalmente la curva de retención de humedad del suelo y permeabilidad para cada material. Se ha comprobado que el modelo Hydrus-3D puede reproducir el comportamiento de un suelo enarenado y se ha podido comprobar que las predicciones son adecuadas a lo observado en campo.
Educação antirracista para crianças pequenas: ideias para começar um novo mundo
Authors: Nunes Míghian Danae Ferreira
Published: January 2021

Durante a emergência internacional em saúde pública decorrente da pandemia de COVID-19, que afetou o Brasil a partir de março de 2020, as crianças pequenas que frequentam instituições de educação infantil no país ficaram em casa. Este artigo está dividido em três seções e busca problematizar, a partir desta situação excepcional, temas vinculados à primeira infância e ao antirracismo. Na primeira seção, apresentamos breves considerações sobre a pandemia a partir da observação de alguns documentos oficiais relacionados à educação infantil.; na segunda seção, em defesa da educação infantil que não pode ser feita à distância, apresentamos reflexões sobre como esta concepção pode colaborar para revisarmos a própria compreensão da educação infantil; por fim, na terceira seção, apontamos algumas ações que, se tornadas cotidianas, colaboram com a luta antirracista que devemos travar em nossa sociedade para a construção de um novo mundo, que não precisa esperar pelo fim da pandemia.
A educação infantil e demandas postas pela pandemia: intersetorialidade, identidade e retorno às atividades presenciais
Authors: Cruz Silvia Helena Vieira , Amorim Martins Cristiane , Cruz Rosimeire Costa de Andrade
Published: January 2021

O artigo traz elementos relativos às exigências postas para a Educação Infantil pela pandemia da COVID-19. São evidenciadas demandas de maior coordenação e comprometimento entre as gestões dos níveis municipal, estadual e federal e de colaboração intersetorial envolvendo Educação, Assistência Social e Saúde, entre outros setores. Defendemos que, no planejamento do retorno, cada creche e pré-escola considere as crianças como prioridade e tenha como referência os princípios, conhecimentos e valores já construídos na área e expressos na legislação. Esse planejamento deve ser coletivo, para que todos contribuam e se responsabilizem pelas decisões. A clareza sobre a identidade da Educação Infantil deve guiar o diálogo com outras áreas e contribuir para a qualidade da educação de bebês, crianças bem pequenas e pequenas, garantindo os direitos desses sujeitos, de suas famílias e dos profissionais.
Educação infantil e pobreza infantil em tempos de pandemia no Brasil: existirá um “novo normal”?
Authors: Barbosa Ivone Garcia , Soares Marcos Antônio
Published: January 2021

É notório o apelo público por meio de veículos de comunicação para que a população brasileira invista esforços na constituição de um “novo normal” para balizar atividades cotidianas durante e após a pandemia. Com base no método dialético e investigação documental e bibliográfica, este artigo apresenta análises e reflexões sobre essa questão, considerando seus contornos e consequências para a educação de crianças de até seis anos de idade, assinalando expectativas sobre a ação de famílias e professores no processo de “isolamento social”. Destacam-se reflexões relativas à pobreza infantil, categoria analítica que amplia o olhar sobre a criança e sua condição de existência em um país capitalista, cuja política neoliberal tem estreitado os horizontes de direitos e levado à exaustão das forças do trabalhador e à exploração cruel do trabalho, aumentando os níveis de pobreza e miserabilidade e acirrando as contradições e a luta de classes.
Laisser aller e respeito agonístico: considerações sobre as apropriações agonísticas da filosofia de Nietzsche
Authors: Castro da Costa Jean Gabriel
Published: January 2021

Neste artigo analisamos o uso que os teóricos agonísticos da democracia tem feito da filosofia de Nietzsche com foco em uma de suas principais proposições normativas: a ideia de “respeito agonístico”. Na primeira seção apresentamos características gerais da apropriação da filosofia de Nietzsche pelos teóricos agonísticos da democracia. Na segunda seção apresentamos o que William Connolly e Lawrence Hatab entendem por “respeito agonístico” e “respeito democrático”. Na terceira seção criticamos estas apropriações da filosofia de Nietzsche a partir de textos do próprio Nietzsche, apontando alguns limites da noção de respeito agonístico e sustentando que estes teóricos utilizam Nietzsche para promover uma ética do laisser aller que foi duramente criticada por ele.
Looking Up, Looking Down: A New Vision in Motion
Authors: Pranolo Jennifer
Published: January 2021

This article traces a genealogy of what it means to ‘see’ photographically.
Turning to the eye exercises and perspective games of the educator László
Moholy-Nagy, the psychologist Adelbert Ames, Jr., and the artist Elad
Lassry, it focuses on the human body as a site of instability in exposing
the hidden potentialities of photographic space. The camera and
the photograph are not used to replicate a pre-existing vision of reality
but to explore the visual and cognitive terrain of a new spatial logic. By
examining how bodies are organized within and by the picture, it argues
that the synthetic topologies of photographic seeing can proprioceptively
reorient viewers to the heightened ambiguities of the digital screen as
photographic and computational space intersect.
Touch/Space: The Haptic in 21st-Century Video Art
Authors: Sæther Susanne Ø.
Published: January 2021

Through the conceptual framework of the haptic, this essay charts a
striking motif in much recent video art: the co-presence of a hand touching
the screen and a distinctly layered spatiality. Critically deploying various
notions of the haptic culled from film and media theory and perceptual
psychology, Sæther discusses Trisha Baga’s low-tech 3D video Flatlands
(2010) and Victoria Fu’s immersive video installation Belle Captive I (2012)
and expounds a contemporary haptic space that verges between planarity
and volume, between the near and far, and that exceeds the frame to enfold
us. As Sæther argues, the salience of this motif points to the split between
human sense perception and the networked, computational operations
of 21st-century media, and the attempt to grasp this split.
The King’s Coinage: The Beginning and Development of the Regal Coinage (c. 573-c. 720)
Authors: Kurt Andrew
Published: January 2021

Chapter Two analyses the transition from a pseudo-imperial coinage to an overtly Visigothic regal coinage under Leovigild. The chapter proposes a chronology of the various steps of that significant evolution, taking into account key stages in Leovigild’s reign including the rebellion of his son, Hermenegild. As the tremissis became the sole gold currency, intensified manipulation of standards and values developed alongside growing appreciation of the propagandizing use of minting, which frequently had a strong association with military operations. The chapter examines an apparently experimental period of silver coinage and a much more abundant bronze currency in certain areas, possibly emitted under the authority of municipalities or the Church. Copper-based currency brought parts of Spain in step with other Mediterranean regions.
Why Were Gold Coins Struck in the Visigothic Kingdom?
Authors: Kurt Andrew
Published: January 2021

From descriptions of tremisses, mints, and their operations, Chapter Four aims to explain why the Visigothic state minted gold currency. A smaller category of primary mints played a key role in fiscal operations: the major cities were the destinations for tax revenues and took the lead in minting. Secondary mints, widely dispersed, were a much larger category. Military connections emerge as the single obvious factor in the placement of these temporary mints. These connections explain how a seemingly odd geographical distribution was deemed convenient and could result in exceptionally high output. Southern Iberian mints, late on in the war against Byzantine occupation, are only the most obvious case here. Under Leovigild, propagandistic legends were also incorporated into numerous emissions.
A Socialist 007 : East European Spy Dramas in the Early James Bond Era
Authors: Kunicki Mikołaj
Published: January 2021

If the James Bond films were officially unavailable to East European
audiences until 1989, the Eastern Bloc did not escape the global reach
of the Bond phenomenon. East European spy dramas began to appear
during the late 1960s, and they were mostly made for television and not
all that distant in spirit from the Bond films. This chapter examines three
television series: More Than Life at Stake (1967-1968) from Poland, The
Invisible Gun Sight (1973-1979) from the German Democratic Republic, and
Seventeen Moments of Spring (1972) from the Soviet Union. While these
tales of espionage evince the projections of the west in the east during
the Cold War, they reveal foremost the powerful appeal of consumerism
behind the Iron Curtain.
On Enunciation without an Enunciator: Suture
Authors: Lie Sulgi
Published: January 2021

Suture theory overrides the central identification concept of apparatus
theory. Instead of the spectator’s primary identification with the camera,
there is a primary disidentification between camera and spectator that can
only be reconciled secondarily. With Oudart, suture theory can thus be
reconstructed as a negative apparatus theory: the camera is an apparatus,
but a phantomatic one. But in Daniel Dayan’s influential appropriation of
Suture theory, the emptiness of the subject of enunciation is short-circuited
with the repressed apparatus of production. Since Dayan’s reading, a false
compromise has prevailed in film theory between suture theory and
apparatus theory, which I try to once again separate from each other.
Hitchcock remains an important aesthetic point of reference, because
he stages (above all in Psycho) a free-floating subjectivity by means of
acousmatic voices and unsutured glances, which spectralizes the site of
enunciation as a diegetically unclosable (non-)place.
Introduction
Authors: Lie Sulgi
Published: January 2021

The idea of an outside of the film is based on the assumption that an
absent cause is structurally immanent to film. In a film, the absent
cause coincides with the camera’s gaze, which remains external to
the image precisely as the generator of the cinematic image. This is
the paradox of the cinema: the camera can never reveal itself as the
cause of the image, the generative outside cannot be transferred to the
inside of the image. With apparatus theory, however, this necessary
split between gaze and image, cause and effect, production process
and product, becomes the cardinal ideological problem of a political
film aesthetics. How can cinema produce political effects when its
the structure of its dispositif works towards concealing its productive
outside?
The Relationship between Architecture and Ritual in the Hindu Crematorium
Authors: Ikkurthy Srivalli Pradeepthi
Published: January 2021

Hindu philosophy sees death as part of the cycle of life, and celebrates
it. Despite this, crematoria and cemeteries have been largely ignored
in architectural treatises in India. Funerary spaces are influenced by
three centuries-old layers: religion, region, and time. This paper seeks to
understand the architectural variation in funerary space by focussing on
region (context) and time (temporal and/or political impact) to see how
they influence form and function. By comparing examples from Hyderabad
and Varanasi the paper lays out a theoretical framework for both rituals
(based on scriptures) and the spaces in which they are enacted, so that
these ancient traditions, and their architectural articulations, can be
passed on for the future.
The French Revolution and Napoleonic Inheritance
Authors: Kostantaras Dean
Published: January 2021

The present chapter describes the diverse ways in which claims concerning the nation, its condition, and the means necessary for its ‘regeneration’ entered into the debates and controversies in the years prior to and following the French Revolution. Further attention is given to historiographical problems concerning the degree to which the conflicts and diplomatic affairs of these years served to politicize the cultural revival movements discussed previously or may otherwise be credited as decisive in shaping the national consciousness of the European body politic.
Revolutions of 1830
Authors: Kostantaras Dean
Published: January 2021

The present chapter turns to the revolutions of 1830. Although events in France, Germany, and Italy are taken into account, the Belgian and Polish cases are treated with greatest depth. In doing so, the chapter explores the diverse sources of discontent – national, constitutional, and urban social distress – evoked in the concept of composite revolution. The chapter also describes significant developments in the evolution of nationalist thought during the period. Special attention is given to the productions of Polish authors who, in the aftermath of the 1830 revolutions, made particularly striking contributions to the elaboration of such doctrines.
Asian Self-Representation at World's Fairs
Authors: Peterson William
Published: January 2021

International expositions or "world’s fairs" are the largest and most important stage on which millions routinely gather to directly experience, express, and respond to cultural difference. Rather than looking at Asian representation at the hands of colonizing powers, something already much examined, Asian Self-Representation at World’s Fairs instead focuses on expressions of an empowered Asian self-representation at world’s fairs in the West after the so-called golden age of the exhibition. New modes of representation became possible as the older "exhibitionary order" of earlier fairs gave way to a dominant "performative order," one increasingly preoccupied with generating experience and affect. Using case studies of national representation at selected fairs over the hundred-year period from 1915-2015, this book considers both the politics of representation as well as what happens within the imaginative worlds of Asian country pavilions, where the performative has become the dominant mode for imprinting directly on human bodies.
The Master of the Form
Authors: Peterson William
Published: January 2021

By the early 20th century, Japan was the master of the international
exhibition format. With over fifty years of experience at world’s fairs in
the West, Japan knew how to market its culture and products in a manner
appealing to the Western consumer of both high art and decorative
objects. The 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition provided the
country with a unique opportunity to create a strong and lasting imprint
on American bodies in the country pavilion site with its famed gardens
and exotic, kimono-clad women. As the epicenter of Asian migration,
San Francisco also offered unique opportunities to further the power of
Japonisme in the arts, while politicians in both countries used the event
to champion Japanese-American relations.
Performing Japan in the ‘World of Tomorrow’
Authors: Peterson William
Published: January 2021

As Asia and Europe raced toward another catastrophic world war, the
Japanese government engaged Nippon Kōbō, its de-facto state propaganda
machine, to reinforce America’s love affair with all things Japanese at the
1939-1940 New York World’s Fair. The temple-like national pavilion set
amidst an extensive garden celebrated the strong diplomatic and trade
relationship between the two countries, while highlighting the ‘softer’
and more feminine side of Japan through displays featuring attractive,
kimono-clad women engaged in silk production, ikebana floral arranging,
and the ubiquitous ‘tea ceremony.’ The reception given to the genderbending
performing arts company, Takarazuka in May, 1939, suggests
Americans were unwilling to change their perception of Japan as the
land of cherry blossoms and willowy maidens.
Confucian Academies and the Materialisation of Cultural Heritage
Authors: Walton Linda
Published: January 2021

The past two decades have witnessed a ‘boom’ in the restoration and
reconstruction of traditional Confucian academies (shuyuan 书院) as
cultural heritage sites. This phenomenon is related to the promotion of
Confucianism since the 1990s as both a value system of global relevance
and a distinctive marker of Chinese cultural – and national – identity.
The renovation of academies is also motivated by economic development
strategies undertaken by local and regional governments. However, I will
argue that public pedagogy, more than commercial profit, motivates the
investment of state resources in academies as sites of cultural heritage
tourism. The transformation of academies into cultural heritage sites
can be seen as the materialisation of a classless, ahistorical Confucian
past in the service of a socialist and nationalist present. It also signifies
the appropriation of a historically elite institution as a medium of mass
education.
‘Even If You Don’t Want to Drink, You Still Have to Drink’
Authors: Lawson Joseph
Published: January 2021

This chapter considers the history of alcohol in Nuosu Yi society in relation
to the formal codification of a Yi heritage of alcohol-related culture, and
the question of alcohol in Yi health. The relationship of newly invented
tradition to older practice and thought is often obscure in studies that
lack historical perspective. Examining the historical narratives associated
with the exposition of a Yi heritage of alcohol, this study reveals that
those narratives are woven from a tapestry of threads with histories of
their own, and they therefore shape present-day heritage work. After a
brief overview of ideas about alcohol in contemporary discourses on Yi
heritage, the chapter then analyses historical texts to argue that many
of these ideas are remarkably similar to ones that emerged in the context
of nineteenth and early twentieth century contact between Yi and Han
communities.
Proximate Forms and Sites of Encounter : Music Video and Experimental Tradition
Authors: Stevens E. Charlotte
Published: January 2021

Vids resemble music videos and found footage films. They have the form
and appearance of a music video, and they re-use existing moving images
in a way that appears to meet the definition of found footage work or remix
video art. This chapter establishes some parameters within which the vid
can be viewed in relation to proximate forms. This chapter works through
specific academic framings of similar forms such as found footage films
in the experimental tradition and music video before discussing canons
of vids that are formed through recent gallery contexts. These additional
lenses—beyond fan studies and television studies—offer further reference
points through which to understand vids.
Software-Making and Algorithmic Techniques
Authors: Rieder Bernhard
Published: January 2021

The third chapter builds on central ideas from Simondon’s work, such as
the distinction between invention and concretization and the delineation
of technical elements, individuals, and ensembles, to conceptualize
algorithmic techniques as the central carriers of technicity and technical
knowledge in the domain of software. In dialogue with the cultural techniques
tradition, it addresses them as methods or heuristics for creating
operation and behavior in computing and discusses how they are invented
and stabilized. Algorithmic techniques, in this perspective, are at the
same time material blocks of technicity, units of knowledge, vocabularies
for expression in the medium of function, and constitutive elements of
developers’ technical imaginaries.
Deformations: A Media Theory of Swarming
Authors: Vehlken Sebastian
Published: January 2021

Under the concept of deformations, this chapter presents crucial aspects that link the phenomena of swarms to media theory. Here swarms are treated as a materialization of Serres’s figure of the ‘parasite.’ By attending to disruptive potential, swarm research has yielded new information in the context of a comprehensive media theory of interference. This includes methodological insights that are productive for concepts of media historiography. The chapter closes by tracing the epistemological and cultural-technical expansion of the zone affected by swarms. The conversion of the swarm as an object of knowledge into an operative figure of knowledge by computer simulation signifies a general shift in epistemic strategies: self-organizational phenomena came to be applied to the study of complex interactive processes.
Transformations
Authors: Vehlken Sebastian
Published: January 2021

Concerned with the general concept of transformations, this chapter focuses on the overlappings of ‘fish and chips.’ Against the backdrop of an epistemology of computer simulation, it describes how a biologization of computer science coincided with a computerization of (swarm) biology. Biological studies, beginning around the year 1980, were increasingly informed by digital media. As a retreat from nature, they employed computer-supported data processing, agent-based computer simulation models, and sophisticated computer graphic imagery. For this epistemology, interference and noise received a constitutive function for setting the parameters and tuning the dynamic models themselves. Conversely, biological knowledge about swarms made its way into computational programming routines and likewise informed fields like agent-based modelling and collective robotics.
On the ground: Participatory screenings in everyday spaces
Authors: Vélez-Serna María A.
Published: January 2021

Film is not always the dominant element in the social situations it enters.
This chapter discusses instrumental forms of exhibition, which energize
the overlaps between the film’s discourse and the viewer’s world. The
screening space helps underline this proximity, and may offer opportunities
to shift the experience of reception into action. In the chapter, I
explain how ‘useful’ cinema expects active engagement from the audience,
encouraging discussion by activating the incompleteness of film.
Examples include ‘interrupted’ screenings, film discussions, and the use
of documentary film as a campaigning tool.