bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Technique and outcome of day case laparoscopic hiatus hernia surgery for small and large hernias: a five-year retrospective review from a high-volume UK centre
Authors: Mayo D , Darbyshire A , Mercer S , Carter N , Toh S , Somers S , Wainwright D , Fajksova V , Knight B
Published: July 2020

Introduction

Laparoscopic anti-reflux surgery is the standard surgical treatment for gastro-oesophageal reflux disease in patients for who long-term pharmacotherapy is intolerable or ineffective. Advances in anaesthesia and minimally invasive surgery have led to day case treatment being adopted by some centres. The objective of this study is to describe our day case pathway and peri- and postoperative outcomes.

Materials and methods

This is a single centre, retrospective case series review of a prospectively collected database from October 2014 to August 2019 performed in a tertiary centre for upper gastrointestinal surgery. Data collected included demographics, comorbidities, indications, complications, length of stay and readmission.

Results

A total of 362 patients underwent laparoscopic anti-reflux surgery with or without hiatus hernia repair of up to 10cm, with day case rates of 59%. Unplanned admission following day surgery was 5.1% (13/225) and 30-day readmission was 2.2% (8/362); 90.6% of patients remained in hospital for less than 24 hours. There was one intraoperative complication and one patient required revisional surgery within 30 days. The rate of all postoperative complications was 1.38% (5/362) with one postoperative mortality.

Discussion

The inclusion of larger hernias is unusual, as most studies limit size to 5cm or less. Our results show the safety and feasibility of the procedure even when applied to hiatus hernias up to 10cm. Success was multifactorial and based on standardisation of procedures and support from dedicated specialist nursing staff.

Conclusion

Laparoscopic anti-reflux surgery can be performed safely as a day case procedure even in larger hiatus hernias, with a dedicated care pathway and specialist nurse practitioners to support it.
Bleeding gastric ulcer from a pulmonary artery 20 years post-oesophagectomy: a common presentation with a rare cause
Authors: Munro SP , Phillips AW , Griffin SM
Published: July 2020

This case presents an unusually late complication of oesophagectomy 20-years post-surgery, with upper gastrointestinal bleeding. Further investigation revealed a gastric conduit ulcer eroding into the lower lobe of the right lung, forming a fistula with a basal branch of the right pulmonary artery. Upon successful embolisation, the HydroCoil® was visible on endoscopy. This case highlights the need for lifetime proton pump inhibitor cover post-oesophagectomy and demonstrates that when approaching uncommon presentations of common problems, careful consideration to treatment technique is essential.
A type VI acromioclavicular joint injury: subcoracoid dislocation in a patient with polytrauma
Authors: Balai E , Sabharwal S , Griffiths D , Reilly P
Published: July 2020

The Rockwood type VI acromioclavicular joint injury describes subcoracoid dislocation of the distal end of the clavicle. This injury pattern is exceedingly rare, with only 12 cases described in the literature. Diagnosis can be challenging; it is often the result of a high-energy mechanism and patients frequently have other severe distracting injuries. We report the case of a 23-year-old man who presented to our department after falling from a fifth-floor balcony. Alongside multiple intra-abdominal and musculoskeletal injuries, the patient sustained a type VI acromioclavicular joint dislocation. This injury was not picked up on the initial clinical assessment or described in the initial radiology report, with the diagnosis only made upon subsequent repeat review of the imaging by the admitting team. Fortunately, this delay did not increase the time to the patient receiving appropriate treatment. Despite its rarity, awareness of this injury pattern and its association with polytrauma is essential to reduce the risk of the diagnosis being overlooked in the acute setting.
For women of colour in social work: black feminist self-care practice based on Audre Lorde’s radical pioneering principles
Authors: Nayak Suryia
Published: July 2020

This article offers women of colour in social work a black feminist self-care practice based on three principles from Audre Lorde’s work. The colonial situation of social work inevitably marginalises black feminist thinking and methods. In the context of chronic racist denigration, generic social work models of recovery, reparation and resilience equate to complicity with intersectional racism. Social work values and ethics alone are not enough. A material shift in power relations is required. Black feminist self-care practice responds to the physical, material and emotional impacts of silence, exhaustion and vilification of feeling that women of colour encounter in their living. In a call for women of colour in social work to gather together for mutual sharing of experience, this article affirms the power of collective dialogues as the primary strategy of black feminist self-care practice.
Demonstration of photonics-aided terahertz wireless transmission system with using silicon photonics circuit: erratum
Authors: Moon Sang-Rok , Han Seungjun , Yoo Sanghwa , Park Heuk , Lee Won-Kyoung , Lee Joon Ki , Park Jongwoo , Yu Kyoungsik , Cho Seung-Hyun , Kim Joonyoung
Published: July 2020

We present an erratum for our recent paper [Opt. Express 28, 23397 (2020)10.1364/OE.398460] to include funding information in the funding section.
Dancing in two worlds: Experiencing n/om inside the Ju/’hoan Bushman dance
Authors: Keeney Hillary , Keeney Bradford
Published: July 2020

The Ju/’hoan Bushmen or San of southern Africa host one of the oldest surviving dance forms. Openly conducted in public for the whole community, the dance serves as the primary locus for healing, conflict resolution, wellbeing, rejuvenation, social reunion, spiritual expression and performance art. Central to the dance is awakening n/om, what the Bushmen regard as a vibrational force that resides in the body of the strongest dancers. Often described as an energy or power that makes the body shake, n/om is more accurately a blend of somatic vibration, heightened emotion and sacred song. N/om is also the source of a dancer’s capacity to heal sickness in themselves and others. The following composite account of an insider’s perspective of the n/om dance is based on decades of field research interviews with Ju/’hoan n/om dancers and our own experience as accepted members of several Bushman dance communities. We focus on the experience of n/om in the body and how this enables the dancer to dance between two worlds – that of everyday knowing and the ineffable spiritual realm or what the Ju/’hoansi call second creation and first creation, respectively.
Bio-somatic dance movement naturotherapy: The occiput, scapulae and sacrum – fulcrums of support and reorganization
Authors: Williamson Amanda , James Maisie Beth , Tucker Vanessa , Ortuzar Macarena , Henderson Miranda , Hussain Adam , Rugman Karin
Published: July 2020

This extensive article shares foundational practices and theory developed in the field of bio-somatic dance movement naturotherapy (a two-year professional training in association with The International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association ISMETA). Unique to this programme is the experiential study of the cranial bones, craniosacral motion, restoring balance through the parasympathetic experience, and a deep blend of western anatomical knowledge with the subjective living experience of the organism. In this article I share foundational practices that often start sessions. The key areas covered in this article ares‘the occiput as a fulcrum’, ‘the scapulae as fulcrums’, ‘the sacrum as a fulcrum’, ‘sensory awareness of the foramen magnum and the jugular foramina’, ‘releasing soft tissues in the suboccipital region’, ‘expansion, contraction, flexion and extension of the cranial bones’, ‘craniosacral and thoracolumbar divisions’ and ‘the flow of cerebral spinal fluid’. Here I discuss discreet areas of the body in anatomical and physiological detail, but always in relation to the whole. In this way, I am working in a post-cartesian framework, which is one of the defining educational and therapeutic features of practice internationally, where there is an applied balance between objective science and the subject experience of living breathing tissues.
A body of work
Authors: York-Pryce Sonia
Published: July 2020

This article examines the paradigm of ageing regarding older professional dancers who prolong their careers, challenging the normative standards set down in western dance culture. With interest gaining momentum in introducing dance to an ever-increasing ageing population, it seems ironic that the older professional dancer continues to be undervalued or often invisible. The established aesthetics that persist within classical ballet, but less so within contemporary dance, supports the rejection of the bodies of these disenfranchised dancers, who embody a palimpsest of lived danced experience. It is undoubtedly an example of corporeal politics, the lack of exposure of seeing older dancers performing, a loss of identity tempered with the dilemma of the acceptance of youth and intolerance of decline. The aim is to acknowledge through film documentation and interviews the artistry these older dancers embody and to commend the positives surrounding ageing.
The Flourishing Folds
Authors: Roberts June Gersten
Published: July 2020

The Flourishing Folds is a solo video-art project, which re-negotiates the author’s relationship with ageing through creating intimate skin-portraits in near-touch close-up. The article reflects on these processes of re-possessing and re-purposing images of ageing skin and shares affirming experiences of embodied, sensory-perceptual video making. Tibetan Buddhist meditation practices inform the project and the article shares reflective writing on deep body meditations that dwell in locations where creasing skin offers pockets for holding spiritual humility and where folds form valleys that map sacred sites of vulnerability, self-acceptance and self-esteem. Writings by Stephen Connor, Claudia Benthien and Michel Serres illuminate the text with reflections on skin and embodied consciousness. New paradigms for dancing into maturity and the visual artwork of Helen Chadwick, Pipilotti Rist, Marna Clarke and Faith Wilding inform the project. The article writes into locales where creasing skin may increase skin-on-skin contact and offer sites of sensual, sensed soul, consciousness.
Post-Newtonian anatomy and physiology: The gravitational and parasympathetic experience in bio-somatic dance movement naturotherapy
Authors: Williamson Amanda , James Maisie Beth
Published: July 2020

In this article, I expand western anatomy’s normative geography of the vertebral column to include the atlantooccipital joints, the sphenoid-basilar joint, the occipital bone, the cranial sutures and the sacroiliac joints. The sphenoid-basilar joint is considered one of the most important joints to contact in the practice of bio-somatic dance movement naturotherapy; it is a central joint and point of conscious awareness that organizes the entire vertebral column. Further, I share scientific reasons why gravity and an extended sense-perception of the vertebral column beyond the normative is essential to health. The article invites the craniosacral system into expression, the dural membranes into awareness, and the vagus nerve into creative play. Other areas discussed are the intervertebral discs, the facet joints and the primary and secondary curves. Notably, this anatomical theory is enacted through post-Newtonian somatic principles that bring objectified theory alive through the living soma on the academic page.
Music for good: Reflections on a community music project through the lens of historical nostalgia
Authors: English Helen J. , Davidson Jane W.
Published: July 2020

This study investigates a large-scale community project that called for a long preparation period and involved over a hundred participants. The researchers were interested in the contributory factors that led participants and leaders to commit and persevere with the project, for which there were almost two years of planning and five months of rehearsals. The project related a suppressed wartime history and had re-enactment aspects. Interpretative phenomenological analysis methodology was used to engage participants in sharing their lived experiences. Through focus group sessions, a theme of restoration emerged, among other themes that are frequently expressed in community music groups, such as social and emotional well-being. A deep emotional engagement with the project centred on historical restoration, which aligned with personal restoration experiences. Restoration was closely linked to storytelling and three other themes of personal growth, connections and self-discovery/journey. In light of this theme and the historical basis for the community project, the researchers chose to examine the findings through the lens of historical nostalgia.
Sobre as fantasias originárias no cinema de ficção científica
Authors: Vicente Henrique Testa , Farate Carlos
Published: July 2020

O presente artigo recorre ao conceito de fantasia inconsciente como instrumento de análise de um conjunto heterogéneo de filmes de ficção científica, desde a space opera ao filme sobre viagens no tempo, que marcaram este género cinematográfico, desde a década de 50 do século passado à atualidade. Através de uma revisão da literatura, do tipo narrativo ou não sistemático, procurou-se identificar e explorar as protofantasias subjacentes à trama dramática de obras fílmicas de referência, nomeadamente as fantasias de sedução, castração e da cena primitiva. O cinema de ficção científica parece facultar uma espécie de mitologia arquetípica contemporânea, com os seus próprios deuses e heróis, em conexão com as fantasias originárias dramatizadas, cuja apropriação idiossincrática é transversal a povos e culturas diferentes.
Avaliação de desempenho acadêmico pelo professor
Authors: Silva Thays Nogueira , Santos Daiane Silva , Osowski Vinicios Santos , Campos Junior Ricardo Fernandes , Rocca Julia Zanetti
Published: July 2020

O objetivo do presente estudo foi investigar as possíveis influências do status sociométrico do aluno na avaliação de desempenho escolar realizada por professores. Participaram 276 estudantes do segundo, terceiro e quarto ano escolar com idades de sete a 10 anos de uma escola pública no Brasil. Foi utilizada uma avaliação de status social e uma avaliação dos repertórios de leitura e escrita. O procedimento envolveu três etapas: (a) avaliação e identificação do status sociométrico dos alunos, (b) indicação do professor de alunos com baixo desempenho escolar e (c) avaliação do desempenho acadêmico dos alunos indicados. Os resultados demonstraram que, no grupo geral, em relação ao status sociométrico, 20% dos estudantes foram percebidos como populares e 13% como impopulares. No grupo de alunos indicado pelos professores, 2% eram estudantes classificados como populares e 22% como impopulares. A diferença entre o grupo indicado e o grupo geral foi confirmada estatisticamente pelo método de reamostragem. Por fim, a avaliação do desempenho acadêmico revelou que alunos classificados como impopulares indicados pelos professores tiveram melhor desempenho escolar do que seus pares caracterizados como populares. Relações entre variáveis sociais e avaliação do professor são discutidas.
Rotordynamics analysis of solar hybrid microturbine for concentrated solar power
Authors: Arifin Maulana
Published: July 2020

Microturbine based on a parabolic dish solar concentrator runs at high speed and has large amplitudes of subsynchronous turbo-shaft motion due to the direct normal irradiance (DNI) fluctuation in daily operation. A detailed rotordynamics model coupled to a full fluid film radial or journal bearing model needs to be addressed for increasing performance and to ensure safe operating conditions. The present paper delivers predictions of rotor tip displacement in the microturbine rotor assembly supported by a journal bearing under non-linear vibrations. The rotor assembly operates at 72 krpm on the design speed and delivers a 40 kW power output with the turbine inlet temperature is about 950 °C. The turbo-shaft oil temperature range is between 50 °C to 90 °C. The vibrations on the tip radial compressor and turbine were presented and evaluated in the commercial software GT-Suite environment. The microturbine rotors assembly model shows good results in predicting maximum tip displacement at the rotors with respect to the frequency and time domain.
El impacto económico-territorial del turismo internacional por vía aérea (2010-2017)
Authors: Azcuy Grisel Victoria
Published: July 2020

Cuando se estudia la relación entre el transporte aéreo y la actividad turística suele ponerse el foco en los impactos económicos positivos generados por la atracción de turismo receptivo. Sin embargo, así como los servicios aéreos pueden incentivar la llegada de visitantes, también facilitan la salida de turistas residentes hacia el exterior. El presente trabajo examina la evolución reciente de la red aerocomercial internacional argentina y los cambios en el marco regulatorio -tendientes a lograr una mayor apertura y liberalización del mercado- en relación con el impacto económico generado por el turismo aéreo internacional. A través del uso de estadísticas aerocomerciales y encuestas sobre turismo se identificó un incremento sostenido del impacto negativo del turismo por vía aérea reforzado por la nueva configuración de la red de servicios. A este déficit de la balanza comercial turística por vía aérea se sumó un desequilibrio en la cuenta corriente de servicios aéreos relacionado con la remisión de utilidades por parte de las compañías extranjeras hacia el exterior.
A Test of Neo-Fisherism: 1964–2019
Authors: Bias Peter V. , Hall Joshua D.
Published: July 2020

Neo-Fisherism, the theory that monetary authorities should expect inflation rates to be positively and causally related to their targeted nominal interest rates, is reviewed and empirically investigated. Using several different measures of interest rates and inflation we analyze US monthly data from January 1964 to April 2019. Granger causality tests are performed in search of a Neo-Fisherist impact of interest rates causally impacting inflation or the reverse. The full period is reviewed and is also divided into three sub-periods: the period before the Federal Reserve targeted federal funds rate at 25 basis points (labeled here as the effective lower bound, ELB), the ELB period, and the post-ELB period. Prior to the effective lower bound, we find evidence largely supporting the classical view of causality from inflation to interest rates, however the relationship is bidirectional depending on the measurement of inflation and interest rates. During the ELB, we find moderate evidence in support of Neo-Fisherism. In this period, federal funds rate Granger-cause changes in inflation as measured using the CPI and Core CPI. In contrast, during the effective lower bound period, the standard classical result holds when considering the Shadow federal funds rate. In the period following the effective lower bound, the standard relationship is found as well, in which inflation granger causes movements in the interest rates. Overall, the results regarding causality between interest rates and inflation largely support the classical view of causality but are dependent on data measurements and the observed time period.
Existence and uniqueness of mild solutions for a fractional differential equation under Sturm-Liouville boundary conditions when the data function is of Lipschitzian type
Authors: Harjani Jackie , López Belen , Sadarangani Kishin
Published: July 2020

In this article, we present a sufficient condition about the length of the interval for the existence and uniqueness of mild solutions to a fractional boundary value problem with Sturm-Liouville boundary conditions when the data function is of Lipschitzian type. Moreover, we present an application of our result to the eigenvalues problem and its connection with a Lyapunov-type inequality.
Progestogen addition with low-dose levonorgestrel intrauterine system in menopausal hormone treatment gives less normal breast tissue proliferation than oral norethisterone acetate or medroxyprogesterone acetate
Authors: Lundström Eva , Virijevic Ivana , Söderqvist Gunnar
Published: July 2020

Background

The impact of hormones on the development of breast cancer is despite extensive studies, incompletely understood. Combined estrogen-progestogen treatment augments the risk for breast cancer beyond that of estrogen alone, according to numerous studies. The role of breast cell proliferation as a promoter in the development and growth of breast cancer is well recognized.

Materials and methods

Seventy-nine patients from three randomised trials were subject to a re-analysis of breast cell proliferation: (1) 22 women received continuous combined treatment with oral estradiol (E2) 2 mg/norethisterone acetate (NETA) 1 mg once daily for 3 months. (2) Thirty-seven women received 2 months of sequential treatment with oral conjugated equine estrogens (CEE) 0.625 mg daily combined with medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA) 5 mg for 14/28 days of each cycle. (3) Twenty women received oral estradiol-valerate (E2V) 2 mg daily combined with levonorgestrel (LNG) intrauterine system (IUS), 20 μg/24 h for 2 months. Fine needle aspiration (FNA) (studies 1 and 3) and core needle biopsy (CNB) (study 2) were used for the assessment of breast cell proliferation.

Results

There were no baseline proliferation differences, but at the end of treatment there was a highly significant between-group difference for E2V/LNG IUS versus the other two groups (p = 0.0025). E2/NETA and CEE treatments gave a 4–7-old increase in proliferation during treatment (p = 0.04) and (p = 0.007), respectively, which was absent in the E2V/LNG group, showing a significant correlation with insulin-like growth factor binding protein-3 (IGFBP-3) serum levels.

Conclusion

E2V in combination with very low serum concentrations of LNG in the IUS gives no increase in proliferation in the normal breast.
Preparation and characterization of double-coated probiotic bacteria via a fluid-bed process: a case study on Lactobacillus reuteri
Authors: Zaghari Leila , Basiri Alireza , Rahimi Somayeh
Published: July 2020

In this research, a specific fluidized bed coater, Wurster, was used to double-coat Lactobacillus reuteri. The first layer of coating was shellac (16, 17 and 18% w/v) and sodium alginate (0.5, 1 and 1.5% w/v). The microcapsules coated by 1% sodium alginate showed the highest relative survival of bacteria (11.1%) after 1 h in simulated gastric conditions (pH 2) and was, therefore, selected as the first layer of the microcapsules. Chitosan (0.5, 1 and 1.5% w/v), and arabic gum (1.5, 3 and 6% w/v) were used for the second layer. The best second layer was determined on the basis of relative survival of bacteria after acidic (simulated gastric conditions) and heating (80 °C for 15 and 30 min) examinations. The results showed that the relative survival of bacteria in microcapsules with a second coat of 1% w/v chitosan was higher than the others in both acidic (11.6%) and heating (7.31% at 15 min and 0.63% at 30 min) conditions.
Relative rarity of small wild cats in the Brazilian Pantanal
Authors: Tortato Fernando R. , Devlin Allison L. , Boulhosa Ricardo L. P. , Hoogesteijn Rafael
Published: July 2020

Small wild cats (SWC) are naturally cryptic species. The current study presents occurrence information and capture-rates on four SWC species found in the Brazilian Pantanal. The most commonly recorded SWC by camera trap was Leopardus pardalis. Leopardus colocolo and Puma yagouaroundi were relatively rare, while Leopardus guttulus was not recorded in any survey year. We interpret our findings based on the potential competitive influences of L. pardalis and practical implications of camera trap survey design. We recommend that future studies should design camera trap grids with spacing appropriate for SWC to more directly address questions on local population status and interspecific interactions.
Global existence of solutions to some semilinear integro-differential evolution equations with sign-varying kernels
Authors: Jin Kun-Peng , Liang Jin , Xiao Ti-Jun
Published: July 2020

In this paper, we study the global existence of solutions to some semilinear integro-differential evolution equations in Hilbert spaces with sign-varying kernels. By treating the problem through fixed point theory and energy method, we obtain the global existence theorem on [0, +∞) of mild and strong solution to the evolution equations with memory effects for oscillating and sign-varying kernels. This theorem generalizes and improves some previous existence results.
Some insights into the lives of builders of early Saint Petersburg
Authors: Gutsmiedl-Schümann D. , Gerling C. , Lapshin V. A. , Moiseyev V. G. , Shirobokov I. G. , Solov’ev S. L. , Uchaneva E. N. , Zubova A. V. , Meyer M.
Published: July 2020

In 2014, the unexpected discovery of some mass graves shed light on the earliest days of the newly founded city of Saint Petersburg. The graves could be dated to the beginning of the 18th century, and analyses of the 255 excavated skeletons indicate that the individuals buried there were some of the workers who were forced to the construction sites and contributed tobuilding early Saint Petersburg.

In this article, we aim to examine the possible origins of the workers and their general living conditions, including pathologies, diet and nutrition. For this, we will use various methods from archaeology, anthropology and isotopic analyses, and we will give some insights into the lives of those people.
Elemental composition analysis of Pistacia lentiscus L., leaves collected from Mitidja plain in Algeria using instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA) technique
Authors: Benarfa Adel , Begaa Samir , Messaoudi Mohammed , Hamlat Nadjia , Sawicka Barbara
Published: July 2020

Most of the rural Algerian communities believed that Pistacia lentiscus L. leaves have therapeutic capacities to treat many gastric diseases and abdomen aches, whereas, the rural habitants of Mitidja, Algeria powdered P. lentiscus L. leaves and consume it fresh in order to heal mild dyspeptic disorders and peptic ulcer. Therefore, the current study was conducted to investigate and monitor the amount of essential and toxic elements of these leaves. The leaf samples were collected from a place called Mitidja, Algeria in autumn 2014. Thereafter, those samples were subjected to an instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA). Fourteen elements were assessed (As, Br, Ca, Co, Fe, K, La, Na, Rb, Sb, Sc, Sm, Th and Zn). Where, the elements Ca, Fe, K, Na and Zn presented significant concentrations. On the other hand, it was found that the tolerable daily intake (TDI) of these leaves for an adult person per day, is with the tolerance limits and satisfy the nutritional references. Moreover, P. lentiscus L. leaves might be an important nature supplier source of Ca, K, Na, Fe and Zn for the human body, since these elements are considered as the most dietary supplements recommended by doctors to maintain good health.
Distinct Temporal Structure of Nicotinic ACh Receptor Activation Determines Responses of VTA Neurons to Endogenous ACh and Nicotine
Authors: Morozova Ekaterina , Faure Philippe , Gutkin Boris , Lapish Christoper , Kuznetsov Alexey
Published: July 2020

The addictive component of tobacco, nicotine, acts via nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs). The β2 subunit-containing nAChRs (β2-nAChRs) play a crucial role in the rewarding properties of nicotine and are particularly densely expressed in the mesolimbic dopamine (DA) system. Specifically, nAChRs directly and indirectly affect DA neurons in the ventral tegmental area (VTA). The understanding of ACh and nicotinic regulation of DA neuron activity is incomplete. By computational modeling, we provide mechanisms for several apparently contradictory experimental results. First, systemic knockout of β2-containing nAChRs drastically reduces DA neurons bursting, although the major glutamatergic (Glu) afferents that have been shown to evoke this bursting stay intact. Second, the most intuitive way to rescue this bursting—by re-expressing the nAChRs on VTA DA neurons—fails. Third, nAChR re-expression on VTA GABA neurons rescues bursting in DA neurons and increases their firing rate under the influence of ACh input, whereas nicotinic application results in the opposite changes in firing. Our model shows that, first, without ACh receptors, Glu excitation of VTA DA and GABA neurons remains balanced and GABA inhibition cancels the direct excitation. Second, re-expression of ACh receptors on DA neurons provides an input that impedes membrane repolarization and is ineffective in restoring firing of DA neurons. Third, the distinct responses to ACh and nicotine occur because of distinct temporal patterns of these inputs: pulsatile versus continuous. Altogether, this study highlights how β2-nAChRs influence coactivation of the VTA DA and GABA neurons required for motivation and saliency signals carried by DA neuron activity.
The Impact of Teacher-Student (Dis)Connection on Black Student and Teacher Identity Development in U.S. Schools
Authors: Wandix-White Diana
Published: July 2020

In one year, I moved from a diverse school where I felt pretty and smart to a predominantly White school where I felt ugly and dumb. This autoethnography examines how a little African American girl’s transfer from an urban to a suburban school resulted in a paradigm shift that had and continues to have profound consequences on her identity development and subsequent choices and practices as a marginalized student struggling to succeed academically, a teacher grappling with professional identity, and a doctoral student hoping to help preservice teachers prepare to meet the needs of diverse students. The research question that prompted this exploration is How does teacher-student (dis)connection impact the identity development of students of color in U.S. schools, and these same students’ professional identity development should they later become teachers themselves? In a larger social context, this work examines the impact of a culture of care, or lack thereof, in the milieu of teaching and learning, especially as it relates to the academic and personal growth and development of Black and Brown students in U.S. public schools. The inquiry aids in unpacking, storying, and restorying the school-related lived experiences of the researcher. The narrative exemplars that are illuminated reinforce the personal, relational, and professional significance of creating a school and classroom culture of care; and the “truths” revealed may offer new knowledge that encourages today’s teachers to develop behaviors and practices that lead to safe, productive, culturally solicitous learning environments.
Looking at/to/for My (Oppressed/Oppressor) Body
Authors: Raimondi Gustavo Antonio
Published: July 2020

This poem is a result of my paths through performance autoethnography. From cries and pains of my (oppressed/oppressor) carved body as a middle-class White gay man, physician and professor in the medical setting, I seek paths of potential contribution to change, reconciliation, healing, inclusion, and love. Thus, I invite you to think about how certain bodies (maybe your body too) are meant to be excluded from medical environments with hidden prejudices. Hoping that we can seek transformations, walking together, holding hands with others who desire to work, think, live, and love freely!
INDIVIDUALIZATION OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING OF FUTURE ENGINEERS: CONCEPTUAL PRINCIPLES
Authors: LAVRYSH Yulian
Published: July 2020

The article presents the conceptual principles of individualization in teaching foreign languages to engineering students. The author identified the components of the didactic structure of individualization of foreign language learning and approaches to the implementation of a learner autonomy in education. The stages of learning autonomy and didactic conditions were identified. The article highlights a number of conceptual ideas that reveal the essence of pedagogical phenomena related to the individualization of foreign language learning by digital educational technologies. The study highlights that the didactic potential of digital educational technologies ensures the successful integration of the research concept.
PEDAGOGICAL CONDITIONS OF FORMATION OF INFORMATION-ANALYTICAL COMPETENCE IN MILITARY INSTITUTE WHILE PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
Authors: MARCHENKOV Serhii
Published: July 2020

The article reveals the need for the formation of information and analytical competenc among cadets of a military institute. During training, future officers receive the basic skills that help is them become professionals in their field, as well as develop themselves as individuals. Therefore, now the question is urgently in accordance with the pedagogical conditions of modern requirements and the use of information and analytical communication tools in the educational process. The article is devoted to the analysis of the pedagogical conditions for the formation of information and analytical competence among cadets of a military institute while professional training. A theoretical analysis of the pedagogical conditions that meet modern requirements and information and analytical competence of future officers has been under sturdy.
THEORETICAL ANALYSIS OF THE CONCEPT OF PEDAGOGICAL CONDITIONS DUE TO TEACHERS' PROFESSIONAL GROWTH
Authors: SAHACH Oksana
Published: July 2020

It is presented in the article an analysis of the definitions condition, pedagogical conditions, organizational and pedagogical conditions. It is determined organizational and pedagogical conditions in the process of which occurs continuous professional growth of the teacher. Its stages were underlined with its integrity, are distinguished by purpose, content, and methods. It is proved that professional growth of the teachers is a process of qualitative and quantitative transformations of their professional prospects, which have a result both by internal and external conditions and by managed and unmanaged factors as influencing the specified requirements.
HEALTH PRESERVING COMPETENCES OF A PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHER: FOREIGN EXPERIENCE
Authors: BINYTSKA Kateryna , BALUKH Mykola
Published: July 2020

The article highlights foreign experience as for the health preserving competency requirements. In the historical retrospective the conceptual views of the ideas of health preserving have been examined.
 It is emphasized that the health preserving technologies used in the modern school, and, in particular, in the primary school, have changed with the change of understanding of the concept of «health». Different paradigms of health have been considered, the views of national and foreign scientists on the concept of «competence», «health preserving competences» have been explained.
It is generalized that the models of health preserving competency are generally considered at the following three «levels»: functional, interactive and critical.
It is emphasized that in the process of formation of health preserving competences of the future primary school teacher, it is necessary to ensure the increase of the level of knowledge about health, taking into account its socio-economic determinants, as well as knowledge and skills related to the healthy lifestyle in all conditions of vital activity, including self-appraisal, self-efficacy and social support. It is important to develop the understanding of the link between public health and the socio-economic development of the country.
E-TEXTBOOK AS AN INNOVATIVE MEANS OF EDUCATION
Authors: ILIICHUK Liubomyra
Published: July 2020

The article discloses the possibility of using e-textbook as an innovative educational means at general secondary schools. Different approaches to the interpretation of the notion «e-textbook» have been analyzed and systematically organized. The paper generalizes basic requirements for a modern e-textbook and describes how to provide them for primary school. A causal link between an e-textbook and educational reform New Ukrainian School has been outlined. According to the All-Ukrainian experimental project «Electronic Textbook for General Secondary Education» the e-textbooks for primary school have also undergone a detailed analysis.
INFORMAL SOCIAL AND CULTURAL INCORPORATIONS OF EDUCATORS IN TERMS OF HISTORICAL EVENTS OF THE FIRST THIRTY YEARS OF THE XIX CENTURY
Authors: DUDKA Tetiana
Published: July 2020

The subject of the article is focused on the analysis of the issue of the personality self-realization is dictated by the necessity to turn to the progressive pedagogical experience of the previous epochs, which opens wide opportunities for rethinking the advancement of contemporary issues and prospects of education.
In these circumstances, progressive scientific and pedagogical intellectuals have made considerable efforts to ensure that local educational centers help preserve national orientation in the context of adaptation to international conditions, become the basis of national socialization and identification by attracting the young generation to national cultural values.
The general imperial direction was considered the only “right” and all the contradictory points were deleted from the agenda, which proved the excessive intensification of the government's efforts to create a fake landscape of social and cultural success.
Under such ambiguous conditions of social and political existence, the real elitism of the pedagogical staff was hidden in the functional and value potential of everyday realities. The functional potential was manifested in the fulfillment of academic and educational functions on the ground and was distinguished by clear subject-subject cooperation. The value potential was the consequence of the functional “capacity” and was reflected in the values ​​of the academic and educational process, which “touched” each pupil’s personality.
Ángel Rama: el influjo del Primer Encuentro de Narradores Peruanos en su obra
Authors: Simon da Silva Regina
Published: July 2020

El artículo busca analizar el diálogo establecido entre los narradores peruanos y los críticos presentes en el Primer Encuentro de Narradores Peruanos, en 1965, en Arequipa,Perú, sobre las técnicas de escritura empleadas por ellos, así como la influencia que estos debates tuvieron para el desarrollo de la obra de Ángel Rama, principalmente en su teoría de la transculturación presente en la obra Transculturación narrativa en América Latina (1982). Consideramos de suma importancia este encuentro para la formación del pensamiento crítico latinoamericano y el desarrollo de JALLA, que comenzó como estudios andinos y hoy son congresos latinoamericanos en el más amplio sentido del término.
América Latina y el tercermundismo en los medios de comunicación
Authors: Barrera Rivera Abner
Published: July 2020

Este artículo analiza cuatro entrevistas llevadas a cabo por periodistas de diferentes medios de comunicación de Estados Unidos, Gran Bretaña, Perú y Costa Rica a Rafael Correa, cuando era presidente de Ecuador. Las entrevistas abordan temas de derechos humanos, democracia, reelección presidencial, América Latina, Cuba, los Estados Unidos, la libertad de prensa y la Organización de Estados Americanos. En cada una de ellas Rafael Correa cuestiona las perspectivas que los entrevistadores tienen acerca de América Latina. A partir del intercambio de opiniones con ellos, hace su propio análisis y muestra que los medios de comunicación ahí representados expresan visiones y valoraciones que él cataloga de tercermundistas, etnocentristas y neocolonialistas sobre los Gobiernos progresistas de América Latina. Se concluye que las ideas desarrolladas por Correa respecto a las visiones de los periodistas contienen razonamientos históricos, políticos, sociales y culturales persuasivos, que dejan a los entrevistadores sin argumentos propios.
La danza académica en Honduras
Authors: Buck-Rodríguez Sara
Published: July 2020

Este artículo recorre la historia del Estudio Danzarte de Siguatepeque, y aborda algunos temas sobre el desarrollo de la danza académica en Honduras, su nexo con la danza costarricense y su proyección a la comunidad, considerando la danza como herramienta de educación individual y colectiva, como expresión artística desde Centroamérica.
El policial del desencanto: una lectura generacional de Máscaras, de Leonardo Padura
Authors: Gutiérrez Blanca Mario
Published: July 2020

Este artículo analiza Máscaras, de Leonardo Padura, desde un prisma generacional. En primer lugar, se caracterizará de la novela neopolicial de Padura a partir de la revisión de las coordenadas históricas y literarias del paradigma que lo precede y contra el que nace: la novela policiaca revolucionaria, que tuvo su auge en la Cuba de los setenta. En segundo lugar, nos detendremos en el origen, características y transformaciones del personaje protagonista Mario Conde. Finalmente, se explorará la estrecha relación que une a Conde y a otros personajes con la experiencia biográfica de Padura para observar cómo se proyecta en Máscaras una mirada generacional sobre el presente cubano.
Ultraísmo, poesía naíf y humor en los primeros poemas de Dámaso Alonso: Poemas puros, poemillas de la ciudad
Authors: Ramírez Riaño Adrián
Published: July 2020

En este trabajo se estudia la primera poesía de Dámaso Alonso, recopilada en Poemas puros, poemillas de la ciudad en 1921, a través del filtro estético de su época. Trataremos de averiguar la influencia formal de la primera vanguardia española, el ultraísmo, en el joven poeta y cómo se apropia de las técnicas novedosas (principalmente el juego de disposición textual) y las implementa en una poesía de corte personal. Junto con ello, la primera poesía alonsina no solo tiene como referente la estética novedosa, sino que, gracias a la poesía tradicional y al tono poético pesimista aporta elementos lúdicos y naíf. Además el humor juega un papel importante en estos poemas de tono más machadiano que ultraísta.
Ángelus y otros falsos demonios: desescrituras sacras en la poesía de Blanca Varela
Authors: Velayos Amo Beatriz
Published: July 2020

En este trabajo se analizará el proceso de reescritura y desmitificación al que Blanca Varela somete el texto bíblico. A través de la profanización de diversas figuras del canon católico y especialmente del diálogo truncado con un Dios ausente, Varela termina reconfigurando en su poesía su visión de la creación y llegando a la conclusión de que, ante un Creador que no responde, la propia voz poética debe convertirse en la creadora de la realidad del poema.
La voluntad ciega de Las ciegas hormigas: de Schopenhauer y Nietzsche a (Unamuno, Baroja) Pinilla
Authors: Pérez Abellán María Encarnación
Published: July 2020

Las ciegas hormigas (1960), primera novela de Ramiro Pinilla, actualiza las claves de la narrativa vasca barojiana y unamuniana de pensamiento existencialista decimonónico. La confrontación irreconciliable entre el noúmeno y el fenómeno schopenhaueriano, devenidos en voluntad ciega y voluntad de poder nietzscheana, enlaza discursiva, pero también estilísticamente, con sendos escritores precedentes a partir de las peripecias de los vecinos de Algorta. Pinilla podrá, además, fundir ambos planteamientos con las formas de la tragedia clásica, pues las fuerzas nouménicas absurdas son fatum irrevocable, hamartías sucesivas e hybris contrapuesta a toda areté, cernido todo sobre la estirpe castigada de los Jauregui.
Coseismic Motion on the Delta Fault within the Sherashevo–Inkino Site (Baikal Area): GPR Evidence
Authors: Denisenko I.A. , Lunina O.V. , Gladkov A.S. , Kazakov A.V. , Serebryakov E.V. , Gladkov A.A.
Published: July 2020

—Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) surveys in the area between Sherashevo and Inkino villages provide insights into the structure of the Delta Fault and allow estimating the amount of vertical slip caused by the M = 7.5 Tsagan earthquake of 12 January 1862. The surveys with shielded AB-90 and AB 250-M antennas of an OKO-2 georadar along five profiles spaced at 25 m reveal normal slip from 2.6 to 4.5 m in different segments of the main seismogenic fault. The surface rupture caused by the 1862 event is traceable in interpreted radar images together with subsidiary faults; some possibly resulted from the 1959 Middle Baikal earthquake (M = 6.8). The GPR data are used to construct a 3D model of the area, which illustrates the evolution of the Delta Fault scarp since the Tsagan earthquake. Much of surface rupture during the Tsagan event is due to gravity sliding, judging by the amount of displacement estimated from GPR, structural, and field data of different years. Comprehensive understanding of the displacement pattern along the seismogenic fault requires further study extended to other segments of the fault zone.
Record of the Late Neopleistocene and Holocene Climatic Fluctuations in the Soils of the Upper Angara Region
Authors: Golubtsov V.A. , Cherkashina A.A. , Tukhta S.A. , Kuz’min M.I. , Sizov A.V.
Published: July 2020

—We present results of a study of carbonate coatings formed at the lower surfaces of pebble inclusions in Holocene–Upper Pleistocene deposits of the Irkutsk–Cheremkhovo plain. The coatings resulted from the leaching of carbonates from the overlying deposits during pedogenesis. They are composed of pure and magnesian calcite with minor inclusions of quartz and feldspars. The coatings form morphologically and compositionally different microlayers, which reflect a successive change in the pedogenesis conditions during their formation. The stable-isotope composition is as follows: δ13C is –6.80 to –2.05‰, and δ18O is –16.33 to –10.15‰. It reflects the precipitation of carbonates during the degassing of soil solutions in the course of periodic freezing–thawing processes, dynamic increase and decrease in the biological activity of soils, and alternating moistening of soil with meltwater and rain water and its subsequent freezing, which could occur in the region in spring and autumn. A joint analysis of the carbon isotope composition of the organic matter of soils and carbonate coatings shows that the latter formed in the phytocoenosis environment with predominant C3 vegetation. The differences in the morphology and occurrence of the coatings permit them to be divided into three groups. The coatings of the first group formed in the Middle Holocene (3.6–3.3 cal. ka BP), and the coatings of the second and third groups, in the second half of MIS 3 (24.1–23.3 and ~34–35 cal. ka BP, respectively). The paleoecologic conditions reconstructed for the established stages of carbonate coating formation are in satisfactory correlation with the general course of climatic fluctuations in the region and in the Northern Hemisphere as a whole. They reflect the influence of temperature and humidity fluctuations on the dynamics of soil formation processes. Comparison of the age of the coatings with the age of recent and buried soils shows that the pedogenic carbonate coatings in the Upper Angara soils are a relict feature of the previous epochs of pedogenesis (MIS 3) and the first stages of recent soil formation, which began, most likely, in the Middle Holocene. Based on analysis of the rates of coating formation and comparison of the isotope composition of the coatings of different age groups, we assume that the climate in the Karga (MIS 3) megainterstadial was more humid than that in the Middle Holocene, with the temperatures of pedogenesis being the same. Both in the Middle Holocene and in the Karga epoch, the regional soils received little heat and were seasonally frozen for a long time.