bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Perceptions and Teachers’ Experiences of Distance Learning Towards Challenges in the New Normal Education
Authors:   Head Teacher I, Dolores National High School, Eastern Samar Division, Dolores, Eastern Samar, 6817, Philippines, Anabo Roy O
Published: December 2024

Objective: This research study explored the experiences and perceptions of distance learning towards readiness and the challenges teachers face in implementing Distance Learning in the New Normal. Methods: An adopted survey questionnaire was used to collect the challenges faced by 140 teacher respondents during the COVID-19 pandemic for the SY 2021-2022. The data on lived experiences, perceptions, and challenges met by teachers was fielded online via Google Forms. Findings: Data revealed the challenges met in module preparation were highly evident with a mean of 3.46, the distribution of module garnered a 3.49 mean as highly evident, and retrieval of module got a mean of 3.01 interpreted as moderately evident. Formative assessment results are moderately evident with a mean of 3.38, while summative assessment is highly evident with a mean of 3.41. In the implementation of distance learning home visitation, remediation was a moderate and highly evident challenge with a mean average of 3.33 and 3.47 respectively. However, challenges met by teachers in new normal education were moderate to highly evident. The teachers expressed their readiness to switch to distance learning education; they felt hampered due to a lack of facilities, equipment, and capacity building for distance learning education. The results showed no budget in the modular setup of education, learners are not available at home. Sometimes learners did not seriously answer the module and have unrealistic answers about their work on the module. Novelty: Many challenges emerge inadequate knowledge, time management, reliability, and validity of learners’ performance are difficult to identify, only a few or very low retrieval of modules of the learners, and performance of learners was low from preparation to retrieval of modules. Advanced further tests were done on a bigger sample to validate other challenges of distance learning modalities in new normal education.

Keywords: Perception, New normal education, Distance learning, Teachers experiences
Metal Cored Wire on Mechanical Properties and Microstructural Characteristics of Wire Arc Direct Energy Deposited Component
Authors:   Centre for Materials Joining and Research (CEMAJOR), Department of Manufacturing Engineering, Annamalai University, Annamalai Nagar, Chidambaram, 608002, Tamil Nadu, India, Prabhakaran B , Sivaraj P , Malarvizhi S , Balasubramanian V , Sathiya S
Published: December 2024

Objectives: Fabrication of a cylinder-shaped High-Strength Low Alloyed steel wall component through wire (metal cored) arc additive manufacturing and assess the homogeneity and integrity of the built component. Method: Mechanical testing and microstructural characterizations such as optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy and electron backscattered diffraction techniques were performed at distinct regions (namely, bottom and top). Findings: The conducted tensile test at the bottom area recorded a tensile strength of 864 MPa, which is 5.9 % higher than the top region but with a lower total elongation. The microhardness study revealed that the average hardness at the bottom region was 266 HV0.5, while the top region was 241 HV0.5. The microstructural analysis conducted in both areas indicates that the bottom region exhibits better hardness and strength due to the presence of a high value of geometrically necessary dislocations, High-Angle Grain Boundaries and increased grains with reduced size. However, the built component proves to have better homogeneity with marginal deviations in the properties estimated. Novelty: Solid wire was used as a predominant filler material for the Wire-Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM) process, which requires high heat input to melt the material. Hence, to reduce the heat input, metal-cored wire was used instead of solid wire for the Gas Metal Arc -WAAM process.

Keywords: Gas metal arc welding, Metal cored wire, Mechanical properties, Direct energy deposition, Wire-arc additive manufacturing
Degree, Neighbourhood, and Connectedness in Fuzzy Digraph
Authors:   Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Jamal Mohamed College (Autonomous), (Affiliated to Bharathidasan University), Tiruchirappalli, 620020, Tamil Nadu, India, Ismayil A Mohamed , Ahmed S Syed Asad
Published: December 2024

Objective: In the context of fuzzy digraphs, degree neighborhood, and connectedness play important roles in understanding the structure and relationships within the graph. Here are the objectives of degree, neighborhood, and connectedness in fuzzy digraphs: 1. Degree Neighborhood: The degree neighborhood of a vertex in a fuzzy digraph refers to the set of vertices that are directly connected to it. In fuzzy digraphs, the concept of degree neighborhood is extended to include the strength or degree of connection between vertices, which is represented by fuzzy values. 2. Connectedness: Connectedness in fuzzy digraphs refers to the existence of paths between any pair of vertices, considering the fuzzy nature of relationships. Methods: By using fuzzy vertex and fuzzy edges in fuzzy digraph to find degree (in-degree and out-degree), neighborhood (in-neighborhood and out-neighborhood), and to find connectedness in fuzzy digraph. Findings: In this study, some types of fuzzy digraphs are introduced, neighborhood (in-neighborhood and out-neighborhood) and degree (in-degree and out-degree) in fuzzy digraphs, and strong, weak, unilateral connectedness in fuzzy digraphs are introduced. Novelty: To show that let 𝐺𝐷 ∶ (𝜎, 𝜇) be a fuzzy digraph with fuzzy vertex set 𝜎 and fuzzy edge set 𝜇. In this paper, some types of fuzzy digraphs are introduced, neighborhood (inneighborhood and out-neighborhood) and degree (in-degree and out-degree) in fuzzy digraph and strong, weak, unilateral connectedness in fuzzy digraph are introduced. Furthermore, this paper establishes various results and theorems, and some properties of different fuzzy digraphs are discussed.

Keywords: Fuzzy digraph; Degree in a fuzzy digraph; Neighborhood in a fuzzy digraph; Fuzzy diwalk; Fuzzy dicycle; Fuzzy diacyclic digraph
A Study of Intolerance of Uncertainty and Trauma in OCD Patients
Authors:   Ph.D Research Scholar, Department of Psychology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Manipal University Jaipur, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, Maheshwari Palak , Tankha Geetika
Published: December 2024

Objectives: Intolerance of Uncertainty (IU) and Trauma both are seen in the OCD population and have been recognized as a vital component of the illness. Both can interfere with the progress of the treatment yet limited research has been documented comparing OCD patients on the basis of trauma (its presence or absence) in the context of IU and OCD severity. The current study therefore highlights the role of IU and Trauma in OCD patients who have experienced trauma compared to those who have not experienced trauma. Methods: For the current study 188 OCD patients were recruited from private clinics in Delhi NCR over a period of 12 months (2021-2022) in the 18–50 age range, the total sample was evaluated for OCD severity, IU, and Trauma through YBOCS severity rating scale, Intolerance of Uncertainty Scale and Early traumatic events measure of Childhood trauma and recent trauma scale respectively. The sample was divided into two groups (94 had trauma history, and the remaining 94 had none). Findings: Results highlighted significantly higher OCD severity and IU in the trauma group and a significant positive correlation was discovered amongst IU, OCD, and trauma. Clinicians can utilize this knowledge by combining IU and trauma-based intervention in the management of OCD. Novelty: The findings add to the existing knowledge of OCD by incorporating the two significant variables together (IU and Trauma) through a comparative study that has not been much researched more so in India.

Keywords: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Trauma, Core Beliefs, Cognitive Behavioral model
Masjid sebagai Hab Kebajikan Masyarakat serta Sinergi Dakwah di Malaysia dan Aceh
Authors: Mohd Sharif Mohd Farid
Published: December 2024

Masjid memainkan peranan penting dalam membangunkan peradaban umat Islam melalui misi dakwah. Situasi yang wujud dalam era baru menjadi satu cabaran yang memerlukan pendekatan dakwah itu sentiasa seiring dengan perkembangan dan keperluan masyarakat terkini. Misi dakwah yang dilaksanakan oleh masjid perlu diperhalusi dengan meletakkan perancangan kukuh dan berpanjangan agar mereka kekal relevan dan salah satu perancangannya itu ialah menawarkan perkhidmatan kebajikan sosial. Justeru, kajian ini dijalankan bertujuan ingin menonjolkan peranan unik masjid dalam melaksanakan perkhidmatan kebajikan sosial. Kaedah kajian menumpukan metode kualitatif menggunakan temu bual mendalam dan analisis kandungan. Sebanyak empat buah masjid dari seluruh Malaysia dan sebuah masjid dari Aceh dipilih menjadi informan untuk meneroka pengalaman mereka dalam melaksanakan perkhidmatan kebajikan sosial yang efisien dan efektif melalui proses sinergi yang kondusif. Kemudian, hasil temu bual di lapangan disusun mengikut tema yang bersesuaian dengan kehendak kajian. Hasil kajian mendapati, teras maqasid sharʿiah dijadikan panduan dalam menguruskan kebajikan masyarakat. Sementara dari aspek aplikasi, sinergi dakwah masjid dengan pelbagai pihak berautoriti dapat memperkasakan peranannya agar kekal relevan dengan perkembangan dan keperluan masyarakat terkini. Kajian menyimpulkan bahawa masjid di Malaysia dan Aceh sentiasa bersifat responsif dengan kehendak masyarakat seiring dengan perubahan masa dan diyakini akan terus berperanan aktif sebagai hab kebajikan dalam masyarakat bagi memastikan sinergi dakwah itu dapat diperkasakan.
A Rare Case of Cervical Rhabdomyosarcoma in an Adolescent- A Case Report
Authors:   Paediatric and Adolescent Gynaecology (PAG)fpr 36 vnk Unit, Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Birmingham Women’s Hospital, Mindelsohn Way, B15 2TG, England
Published: December 2024

We present a rare case of cervical embryonic rhabdomyosarcoma (ERMS) in adolescents, managed with fertility-sparing surgery and chemotherapy. This type of malignant tumour is rare, and the management is not codified. A 15-year-old girl presented with a tongue-like mass per vagina and abnormal discharge. She underwent vaginoscopy under anaesthesia, which revealed a polyp from the endocervix. Hysteroscopic resection was performed, and histopathology showed ERMS. Postoperative imaging suggests the presence of residual local disease without evidence of distant metastasis. A multidisciplinary team (MDT) meeting was conducted, and the family opted for fertility-sparing management. The patient underwent repeat hysteroscopy-guided local excision, followed by eight cycles of chemotherapy, with close surveillance. In conclusion, polyps are rather odd in adolescents; malignancy should always be suspected. Fertility-sparing surgery with chemotherapy is a plausible option in well-selected cases.
MACHINE LEARNING ENSEMBLE CLASSIFIERS TO PREDICT TYPE 2 DIABETES IN A COHORT STUDY
Authors: Khaledi Elham , Ghomi Farnoosh , Ghanei Azam , Meidany Abass , Shamsi Farimah
Published: December 2024

Diabetes, being a chronic disease, has the potential to result in various severe health complications, such as stroke, heart attack, chronic kidney diseases, and other associated ailments. The main objective of this research was to develop the ensemble ML-based learners for predicting diabetes. Logistic regression (LR), ML-based classifiers, decision tree (DT), random forest (RF), bagging classifier (BC), boosting classifier (AdaBoost), gradient boosting decision tree (GBDT), and supporting vector machine (SVM) were utilized for detecting the diabetic cases and determination of most important attributes related to Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). The performance of the methods was evaluated by 5-fold validation method through reporting accuracy, sensitivity, precision, the area under curve (AUC), and other indices. The Shahedieh cohort dataset in Yazd province including 9398 participants, conducted from 2014 to 2016, got used in this study. The dataset consisted of 1697 diabetic and 7701 non-diabetic cases, and 13 features, and used synthetic minority oversampling technique (SOMT) to remove the imbalance in dataset. Among ML methods, LR had the highest performance in original data and AdaBoost achieved the highest accuracy and AUC values of 86.2% and 94%, respectively. Based on AdaBoost model, age and years), family history of diabetes, triglycerides and NonHDL were the most important features, respectively. The study indicated that AdaBoost classifier was the best ML-based learning for diabetes prediction, and family history of diabetes.
Explicit ways of expressing comparativity in Ukrainian paremias of the 19th century
Authors:   Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine, BONDARENKO Maksym
Published: December 2024

Background. For modern historical linguistics, the study of the comparativity of linguistic units is extremely relevant, because the verbalization of the processes and results of comparing actions, phenomena or objects not only sheds light on the system of views of our ancestors, their ideas about people and their place in the world, but also makes it possible to trace the peculiarities of the linguistic system on a certain synchronous slice. It is especially interesting to identify the specificity of the selection of linguistic means for the implementation of comparative semantics in paremias, which were an integral part of the linguistic picture of the world of Ukrainians in the past.

Methods. In the study, we applied the comparative method to consider the peculiarities of the ways of expressing comparativity in paremias, attested in the collections of I. Franko “Galician-Ruthenian folk paremias” (1901–1910) and M. Nomys “Ukrainian proverbs, sayings, and the like” (1864), as well as a descriptive method with the using of internal interpretation for the classification of analyzed units according to clearly defined parameters.

Results. On the basis of existing classifications of comparative constructions, a separate classification of ways of expressing comparativity in paremias was proposed. Two main ways of expressing comparative relations in paremic units are defined – explicit and implicit, as well as their subspecies. Structurally complete comparative constructions (comparative inflections (uncommon and common) with conjunctions як, мов, немов, наче, неначе, неначебто, ніби, нібито, немовби, немовбито etc. + subordinate clauses); constructions with forms of degrees of comparison of adverbs and adjectives: кращий, ніж…; вищий, ніж…; units that only have an object of comparison are analyzed in detail. Special attention is paid to comparative paremias, which include comparative conjunctions of ancient origin (мол, аки/ак, коби), which the modern Ukrainian language does not record, as well as units with two comparative conjunctions, which act as means of linguistic design of comparative semantics.

Conclusion. The study of comparative paremias, attested in the analyzed collections, makes it possible to reveal the specifics of the verbalization of reality by Ukrainians of the 19th century, to clarify the role and place of paremias in their linguistic picture of the world, to trace the dynamics of the lexical and phraseological subsystems of the Ukrainian language of this period. Among the explicit ways of expressing comparativity, the most productive is the creation of structurally complete comparative constructions (comparative phrases (uncommon and common) with comparative conjunctions, as well as subordinate clauses).
Factors associated with the use of psychotropic drugs by students at a Brazilian public university
Authors: Fares Gianjacomo Telma Regina , Molino Guidoni Camilo , Rodrigues Renne , De Andrade Selma Maffei , Vertuan Rufino Jéssica , Girotto Edmarlon
Published: December 2024

Objetivo. Analizar el consumo de medicamentos psicotrópicos y sus factores asociados en estudiantes universitarios, estratificado segun sexo. Materiales y Métodos. Se realizó un estudio transversal con estudiantes de pregrado de una universidad pública de Brasil. El instrumento fue un cuestionario autoadministrado en línea. La variable de resultado fue el uso de medicamentos psicotrópicos, con base en el sistema de clasificación Anatómico Terapéutico Químico (ATC) y las variables de exposición fueron socidemográficas, académicas y relacionadas con la salud. La asociación entre las variables de exposición y el resultado se verificaron mediante el cálculo de razones de  prevalencia y sus intervalos de confianza al 95%. Resultados. El 12,2% (n=396) de los 3238 participantes refirieron consumir psicofármacos, la mayoría fueron mujeres (78,3%). La prevalencia de consumo de psicotrópicos fue mayor entre los estudiantes con acceso a seguro de salud, diagnóstico de depresión y diagnóstico de ansiedad. También fue mayor en el grupo de mujeres que informaron consumir drogas ilícitas en los últimos tres meses y en el grupo de hombres que informaron estar insatisfechos o muy insatisfechos con su rendimiento académico. Se detectó una menor frecuencia de uso de psicofármacos entre las mujeres que consumen alcohol semanalmente. Conclusiones. Los resultados indican una mayor frecuencia de consumo de medicamentos psicotrópicos en las mujeres, así como en los estudiantes con accesoal seguro de salud, diagnóstico de depresión y diagnóstico de ansiedad, independientemente del sexo.
Victim and Villain: Shylock in the African American Imagination
Authors: Meyer Adam
Published: December 2024

In examining the allusions that a variety of African American writers have made to the figure of Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, this essay demonstrates that these writers have followed a general pattern that has long existed of viewing the character as either a victim or a villain. While some African American writers see a kindred spirit in Shylock, one whose vilification by Venetian society parallels the negative ways in which African Americans have been treated in America, others view him as an embodiment of Jewish economic exploitation. By appropriating Shylock in these opposing ways, these writers attempt to place Shakespeare on their side in promoting either positive or negative views of the history of Black-Jewish relations.
Cinematic Hamlet: The Films of Olivier, Zeffirelli, Branagh, and Almereyda, by Patrick J. Cook Authors
Authors: Starks-Estes Lisa
Published: December 2024

Patrick J. Cook. Cinematic Hamlet: The Films of Olivier, Zeffirelli, Branagh, and Almereyda. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2011. 257 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-8214-1944 (cloth). ISBN 10: 0-8214-1944-7 (alk. paper). ISBN 13-978-0-8214-4365-1 (electronic).
"[M]ake your garden rich in gillyvors, / And do not call them bastards": Perdita and the Possibilities for Redemptive Interracialism Authors
Authors: Wickman Tom
Published: December 2024

Of Shakespeare's plays, The Winter's Tale offers unique and until recently unexplored possibilities for interracial casting. With a black Leontes, The Winter's Tale can be seen as a redemptive alternative to Othello. Recent productions of The Winter's Tale have illustrated the fruitfulness of exploring racial issues in plays ostensibly not concerned with race and also the ambiguity that can result in an age of colorblind casting. Perspectives of directors and African-American actors, such as Curt Tofteland and Dmetrius Conley-Williams, are given from recent interracial productions of The Winter's Tale, with an emphasis on the desire of some black actors to embrace racial roles.
Titus Andronicus: South Africa's Shakespeare
Authors: Seeff Adele
Published: December 2024

One of the more interesting examples of the global circulation of texts and productions is the Antony Sher-Gregory Doran 1995 production of Titus Andronicus at the Market Theatre, Johannesburg. Gregory Doran, an English actor/director with experience at the Royal Shakespeare Company, made the decision to direct the play with Antony Sher as Titus during a visit by the Royal National Theatre's Studio in September 1994, just months after the first democratic elections in post-apartheid South Africa. In this paper, I argue that Doran, who cast his production as a conflict between extreme right-wing Afrikaners and tsotsis (black township gangsters) in a post-apartheid South Africa, set off a debate in the metropolitan center/colonial/postcolonial arena that had its origins in the earliest introduction of formal theater to the Colony in 1801 and in key historical/political events of nineteenth and twentieth-century South Africa.
Touching the Spectator: Intimacy, Immersion, and the Theater of the Velvet Rope Authors
Authors: Gordon Colette
Published: December 2024

Immersive media is a hot topic, especially in the United States. The novelty value of Punchdrunk's Sleep No More, which became New York's hottest ticket in 2011 and 2012, has positioned the British company's trademark brand of "immersive theater" at the front of debate about new media and the future of storytelling. This work is supposed to "shatter" the fourth wall of traditional non-immersive theater, and spectators describe the experience as "mind-blowing." For audiences, the ability to interact physically with objects and the actors' bodies is the core of this hardcore theater experience. But it can be argued that Punchdrunk does very little to engage the fourth wall and that its commodification of the one-on-one encounter bypasses an opportunity to break down the distinction between audience and performer, the radical boundary crossing that immersive media is supposed to achieve. Both media pundits and performance scholars have been remiss in praising this sexy new theater. Comparing scope for theatrically significant audience-actor interaction here and in théâtre érotique, I propose that sex shows, while acknowledging their foundation in sex and voyeurism, may in fact produce a theater less compromised by voyeurism and audience neediness than Punchdrunk's theater of intimacy. The argument is not that SNMisn't serious theater because it's too much like a skin show, but that the skin show might do more as theater.
"My Mother's Fussing Soliloquies": Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Shakespeare
Authors: Roark Chris
Published: December 2024

While Toni Morrison famously rejects the idea that Western authors have influenced her work, The Bluest Eye mentions Ophelia in a way that suggests parallels between Shakespeare's victim and Pecola Breedlove. Opposing song, as a form of collective sharing of information that heals the individual, to what this essay identifies as an isolating "soliloquy sense of self," Morrison uses Hamlet as a foil in order to critique Western tragedy. In the process, however, she raises questions about the limitations of Shakespearean drama and of the novel as her own artistic medium. The essay also considers, by extension, Morrison's indictment of readers as selectively appropriating African American culture when they pursue traces of Hamlet in The Bluest Eye. Vernacular African American culture, in particular the blues, emerges as a powerful alternative to the alienation imposed by Hamlet's "soliloquy sense" of the self.
To Notice or Not To Notice: Shakespeare, Black Actors, and Performance Reviews Authors
Authors: Thompson Ayanna
Published: December 2024

This essay examines the 2006-2007 Royal Shakespeare Company's performances of The Winter's Tale and Pericles. Part of the RSC's Complete Works Festival, these shows employed an extremely diverse cast in repertory performances of the two plays. Through interviews with several of the actors employed and analyses of the published theater reviews, I highlight the challenges theater reviewers face when writing about non-traditionally cast productions. In the end, I advocate for a more progressive and responsible theater-reviewing style that takes into account the complexities of race in performance.
Shakespeare and Contemporary Fiction: Theorizing Foundling and Lyric Plots, by Barbara L. Estrin. Newark
Authors: Sanders Julie
Published: December 2024

Shakespeare and Contemporary Fiction: Theorizing Foundling and Lyric Plots, by Barbara L. Estrin. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2012. xxvii + 255pp. ISBN 978-1-61149-369-6. $80.00 (cloth).
Home / Archives / Vol. 5 No. 2 (2010): Shakespeareans in the Tempest: Lives and Afterlives of Katrina / Articles Culture and Anarchy on the Coast of Bohemia
Authors: Richardson Malcolm
Published: December 2024

The paper describes the experience of teaching the early English literature survey at Louisiana State University during and immediately after the "Katrina Semester" of Fall 2005. It describes the critical roles Louisiana State University faculty and students played — working with the medical centers for New Orleans evacuees and hosting parents and relatives in their apartments and dorms — and then the reactions of students as LSU re-opened as a teaching institution in the following weeks. In general, although they were relieved to be back in class, students were highly reluctant to discuss the disaster directly in connection with literature, even with obvious connections such as King Lear. Lear, however, brought to the surface family conflicts nearly all were undergoing, although these were not discussed in conjunction with the storm's aftermath. However, they were more engaged than usual with The Canterbury Tales, possibly because of its sense of societal failures, of people who neglect responsibilities to others, and of a society on the edge of collapse, all presented with Chaucer's distance and irony. In general, the classroom served as a stabilizing influence in their lives, and although they were intellectually disengaged, the presence of the familiar classroom structure was important therapy in itself.
Flipping the Coin on Colorblind Casting? Richard Rose on Directing The Merchant of Venice
Authors: Ormsby Robert
Published: December 2024

This interview with Richard Rose concerns the 2007 Merchant of Venice he directed at the Stratford Festival in Ontario. With Native actor Graham Greene playing Shylock, the production held the potential to extend the work of recent Merchant stagings that have purposefully cast performers of color as a way to examine legacies of colonial oppression and racism far removed from early modern England. However, the production made little obvious connection between Shylock's Jewishness and Greene's Native identity and, as Rose relates, although the actor's own experience of racism was something he could draw on himself to inform the role, they did not discuss this experience explicitly during rehearsal. In the interview, Rose further touches on his decision to have Greene's Shylock grow more outwardly Orthodox during the play, the production's explicit use of religious symbolism to amplify the profound religious antagonism amongst the characters, and the difference between staging Merchant at Stratford and producing contemporary drama that deals with historical instances of officially sanctioned anti-Semitism.
Filming The Taming of the Shrew in Franco's Dictatorship
Authors: Cerdá Juan F.
Published: December 2024

In Sam Taylor's film of The Taming of the Shrew (1923), Mary Pickford winked at the camera after Kate's submission speech, linking the start of Shakespeare's sound film career to a tradition of interpreting The Taming of the Shrew within the boundaries of modern sexual correctness. As films and theater productions started to mitigate or expose Katherina's denigrating submission, in 1956 Spain provided the optimal context for an overtly doctrinal and regressive rewriting of the initial text. This essay describes how La fierecilla domada appropriates Shakespeare's play to reinforce a conservative view of national, social, religious, and sexual identity under the Franco dictatorship. The essay explores some of the connections between the film's production team and the regime, then analyzes the filmic text's (re)vision of Shakespeare within the context of the Spanish dictatorship.
What's Missing in Sleep No More
Authors: Richardson Sophia , Shohet Lauren
Published: December 2024

This essay explores dialectics of absence and presence in Sleep No More, considering how the production plays with fullness and vacancy in its source, its audience, its theatrical space, and its program book. Inverting the tradition of masked performers by instead masking the audience, Sleep No More thematizes the obscuring and revealing inherent to performance and particularly to adaptive performances. Insofar as Macbeth itself is a play haunted by absence, Sleep No More multiplies the resonant echoes of what is not quite there in ways that illuminate larger operations of adaptation and of drama.
Punchdrunk's Sleep No More: Masks, Unmaskings, One-on-Ones Authors
Authors: Cartelli Thomas
Published: December 2024

This essay examines Sleep No More in the context of interactive entertainment in contemporary culture, with a focus on the production's much discussed "one-on-one" encounters between performers and audience members.
Medieval and Early Modern Film and Media, by Richard Burt
Authors: Cavanagh Sheila T.
Published: December 2024

Richard Burt. Medieval and Early Modern Film and Media. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. 304 pp. ISBN-10: 0230601251, ISBN-13: 978-0230601253 (cloth). ISBN-10: 0230105602, ISBN-13: 978-0230105607 (paper).
Shakespeare in Stained Glass: The Shakespeare Memorials of Southwark Cathedral and "Local" Bardolatry
Authors: Walsh Brian
Published: December 2024

This essay offers a novel history and analysis of a little known episode in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Shakespeare appropriation: Southwark Cathedral's claim to Shakespeare as its most famous parishioner. During a decade when the church was undergoing a major renovation in anticipation of its translation to a cathedral, it memorialized Shakespeare in stained glass windows, an act that anticipated the later installation there of a prominent Shakespeare effigy, and a replacement Shakespeare window when the first was destroyed in WWII. I show how the rhetoric of the Cathedral's main historian at the turn of the century shifted from making claims about the relationship between his parish and a thoroughly Christian Shakespeare to emphasizing more forcefully a "local" Shakespeare of Southwark, whose genius was nursed in South London. I suggest that this was the first iteration of the thinking that seeks to celebrate Shakespeare in a site-specific London location, the fruits of which include the new Globe Theatre in Bankside.
"The Eye of Anguish": Images of Cordelia in the Long Eighteenth Century
Authors: Ford Susan Allen
Published: December 2024

Nahum Tate's version of King Lear, the version that defined stage productions during the long eighteenth century, transformed Shakespeare's Cordelia from a figure who could contain the definitions of both dutiful daughter and Christ militant into a romantic and sentimental heroine circumscribed by contemporary conventions of ladylike behavior and filial relation. More varied interpretation was provided by representations in other media: paintings as well as prints designed to illustrate editions of Shakespeare's plays. The variety of available artistic modes — conversation piece, portrait, history painting — provided a range of different ways, from the sentimental and domestic to the sublime, of comprehending Cordelia, juxtaposing a passive and grief-stricken feminine piety with an energized, though emotional, feminine agency. These competing versions of Shakespeare's heroine — interacting, influencing, commenting on each other — discover a complex fidelity that the stage version could not.
Hamlet's Soliloquy
Authors: Trillini Regula Hohl
Published: December 2024

Scholars of Shakespearean appropriation tend to take the bard as their point of departure, assuming that rewritings reference the Shakespearean original; intertextual citations, however, often are varied in their range of allusion. This study of eighteenth-century Hamlet parodies uses the HyperHamlet database to examine a large corpus of parodies of the "To be or not to be" soliloquy. If we allow rewritings of Hamlet's soliloquy to transcend their status as samples of parasitic hackwork by reading them as a corpus, there emerges a pattern of recurrent features that makes them look like a genre. Shakespeare parodies make it possible to posit a process by which adaptations of a famous text become recognizable as tokens of a readily available pattern, with no particular reference to the Shakespearean original.
Collaboration Among Early Childhood Professionals in Higher Education
Authors: Fabbruzzo Caroline
Published: December 2024

Collaboration among professionals is promoted in various disciplines. In the context of this literature review, I define collaboration as an ongoing multidimensional process that includes interaction, time commitment, the exchange of expertise, and the maintenance of a professional working relationship with stakeholders to promote best outcomes. There is an absence of collaboration among early childhood professionals: those supporting children and families and those in higher education. The absence of collaboration among early childhood professionals is a disservice to children, their families, and future early childhood professionals. Early childhood professionals in higher education have an ethical obligation to collaborate with one another to promote skills, knowledge, and pedagogical practices that will produce graduates of the highest quality. A consequence of collaboration is that graduates will be better prepared to make the greatest possible difference by supporting children and their families to achieve equal outcomes and well-being.
The Unsubmissive Islands: Children’s Memories During the Cold War
Authors: Chmiel Fira
Published: December 2024

This book review aims to provide a broad reflection on (An)Archive: Childhood, Memory, and Cold War, highlighting its theoretical and methodological relevance for the study of past childhoods and childhood studies in general. It emphasizes the innovative approach of creating an alternative public archive, as well as the compelling focus on constructing collective memories through biographical narratives situated in various geographies and time periods influenced by the Cold War.
Conversion of ethylene to propylene over NiO-MoO3/Al2O3 catalyst
Authors: Karpova T. R. , Lavrenov A. V. , Moiseenko M. A. , Potapenko O. V. , Koveza V. A. , Buluchevskii E. A. , Arbuzov A. B. , Vasilevich A. V.
Published: December 2024

The effect of operating conditions of ethylene conversion to propylene on the yield of products, activity and stability of NiO-MoO3/Al2O3 catalyst was studied. The catalytic tests were carried out in a fixed-bed flow reactor at temperatures of 100-250 °C, atmospheric pressure and weight hourly space velocity of 0.25-2 h-1. The maximum propylene yield of 57 wt.% is achieved at 150 °C and 0.25 h-1. Under these conditions the degree of ethylene conversion reaches 90 %. The kinetic model for the process has been proposed, which described the formation of the main reaction products. It has been shown that carbonaceous deposits are formed on the catalyst surface during the ethylene conversion. The amount of these deposits increases with increasing temperature and contact time. Moreover some Mo species change the oxidation state from +6 to +4/+5.
Additives to cracking catalyst based on MeOx/Al2O3 systems (Me = Cu, Fe, Ce, Co, Mn and La) to reduce the content of nitrogen oxides in regeneration gases
Authors: Kobzar E. O. , Bobkova T. V. , Potapenko O. V. , Ananyeva M. O. , Ogurtsova D. N. , Koveza V. A.
Published: December 2024

The influence of the nature of nitrogen-containing compounds introduced into a model cracking feedstock (n-hexadecane) on the composition of regeneration gases formed during catalyst regeneration was studied. An increase in the content of CO and NOx in the composition of regeneration gases was observed with an increase in the basicity and molecular weight of nitrogen compounds in the range: pyridine < n-butylamine < pyrrole < quinoline < indole. The effect of a Pt-based CO promoter on the composition of regeneration gases was studied. The use of a CO promoter reduces CO emissions by 99.4% but leads to a significant increase in NOx emissions. Additives were synthesized and studied to reduce the content of nitrogen oxides in the regeneration gases of a cracking catalyst. The additives were mixed oxides containing Cu, Fe, Ce, Co, Mn and La deposited on γ-alumina. The use of these additives at the stage of regeneration of the cracking catalyst led to a decrease in the content of nitrogen oxides formed during regeneration. For an additive based on copper oxide, the efficiency of reducing the content of nitrogen oxides in regeneration gases reached 12.2%.
Ecological Monitoring of the Areas of the Angara A5 Launch Vehicle Separation Parts Fall
Authors: Puzanov A.V. , Balykin S.N. , Balykin D.N. , Saltykov A.V.
Published: December 2024

An ecological survey of the areas of the Angara A5 launch vehicle separation parts fall before and after its launch from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in 2014, 2020 and 2021 was carried out. The acidity, Eh, ionic composition (Ca2+, Mg2+, HCO3–, Cl– и SO42–), mineralization, COD, content of petroleum products and kerosene in snow samples after melting were determined. In the surface layer of air, the concentrations of NO, NO2, CO and kerosene content were determined in real time using the gas analyzer “GANK-4”. It is concluded that chemical pollution of snow cover and surface layer of atmospheric air in the areas of the Angara A5 launch vehicle separation parts fall has not been revealed, and there is only insignificant local mechanical pollution of landscapes by elements of structures with damage to vegetation and soil cover in the places where fragments of the launch vehicle's separation parts fell.
Impact of Altitude Variation and Lifestyle variables on the Sperm Parameters among Indian Population residing in Northeast India particularly North Bengal and surrounding areas: A Cross Sectional Study
Authors:   Embryologist, Newlife Fertility Centre, Siliguri, West Bengal, Kundu Anindita
Published: December 2024

Background: Several lifestyle factors have been proven to have a significant impact on male fertility;
however, the effects of geographic location, such as continuous living at high altitudes, on fertility in the
male population of India have not yet been identified. The purpose of this study is to ascertain how lifestyle
variables coupled with altitude impacts the quantity and quality of sperm in male Indian inhabitants who
have been long term residents from the northeastern region of India, specifically hailing from North Bengal
and the surrounding areas.
Materials & Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 243 male participants were divided into two groups: the
High-altitude group (HAG, n=105) and the Low-altitude group (LAG, n=138). Participants' demographic
information was gathered using a set questionnaire, the laboratory semen analysis was done in compliance
with WHO-2021 recommendations. Statistical analysis was performed using the Statistical Package for the
Social Sciences (SPSS) Version 20.0 from SPSS Inc. in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Results: On semen analysis, HAG showed significant negative correlation on all parameters. The analytical
findings indicated that 11.9% of the total patients had oligozoospermia, of which 19.8% belonged to the
HAG and 6.16% to the LAG. Among lifestyle variables, increase in BMI and age showed a significant
difference on the overall parameters (p<.05), smoking showed a negative impact on all parameters (p<.01)
with a strongly negative corelation with sperm count, motility and progressiveness, and alcohol and
occupation had no significant difference only on the sperm volume (p>.05), with urbanization showing no
significant difference on all parameters (p>.05).
Conclusions: Sperm count, motility, and progressiveness have all been found to be severely negatively
impacted by high altitude, whereas sperm volume has been found to be less negatively impacted.
Additionally, it was shown that the three lifestyle factors that had the greatest detrimental effects on sperm
quality were smoking, obesity, and advancing age, followed by sedentary employment and alcohol use, while
urbanization had no discernible effect.
Keywords: altitude, male fertility, semen analysis.
Role of CK20 immunocytochemistry as an adjuvant to urine cytology in the detection of urothelial malignancy
Authors:   Department of Pathology, Sawai Man Singh Medical College, Jaipur, Kaur Dr Kanwalpreet
Published: December 2024

Introduction: Urine cytology has been a non-invasive method of choice for detecting urothelial
carcinomas but it has several drawbacks including low sensitivity for low grade urothelial lesions,
morphology being easily affected by infection, instrumentation, surgery, chemo or immune therapy.
Additional screening tests with high sensitivity and specificity for urothelial tumours of all grades are
indicated to help improve the diagnostic ability of urine cytology as well as to reduce the need for
frequent cystoscopies, especially in those with low-risk disease.
Objective: We studied the role of CK20 immunocytochemistry (CK20 ICC) and compare the results with
efficacy of cytology in detecting urothelial carcinomas.
Material and Methods: We studied 160 cytospin centrifuged smears of urine cytology stained with
hematoxylin and eosin and were reported according to the Paris system. Cell blocks were prepared in
each case and stained with CK 20 monoclonal antibodies.
Results: Sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value and negative predictive value of urine cytology
was 78.72%, 98.05%, 94.87% and 91.15% respectively while that of CK20 ICC was 85.11%, 94.29%,
86.96% and 93.40% respectively.
Conclusion: CK20 ICC is more sensitive than urine cytology for detection of all grades and stages of
bladder cancer. It is recommended as useful adjuvant to urine cytology in controversial cases.
Keywords: voided urine cytology, The Paris System, CK 20 immunocytochemistry.
Un análisis jurídico sobre la intelección de los stakeholders en el derecho societario chileno
Authors: Vásquez Palma María Fernanda , Vargas Almonacid Gloria
Published: December 2024

La voz stakeholders alude a un conjunto de individuos que tienen un interés en una empresa, que a su vez tiene interés en ellos. Los Principios de Gobierno Corporativo de la OCDE y del G20, así como otras normas internacionales, han planteado la necesidad de prodigarles un manto protector normativo, especialmente en las sociedades de capital. La presente investigación tiene por objeto establecer si la legislación societaria chilena cumple con el deber de prodigar protección a estos sujetos y, en caso de hacerlo, de qué manera. Esto permitirá identificar las brechas existentes y efectuar algunas propuestas de mejora acordes con las exigencias actuales.
¿“Feminismo razonable” o “nuevo cinismo”? Encuentros y desencuentros entre Judith Butler y Susan Haack
Authors: Orellano Carlo
Published: December 2024

La presente investigación busca generar un diálogo entre la filosofía de las ciencias de Susan Haack y la teoría queer de Judith Butler. Para ello, recorreremos primero los hitos más importantes del feminismo y, en un segundo momento, veremos cómo estos desembocaron en la teoría queer. Luego, tomaremos como hilo conductor el problema del cuerpo y de la evidencia objetiva para analizar, en un tercer momento, la postura butleriana y, en un cuarto momento, la haackiana. Como sección conclusiva, pondremos ambas posturas en diálogo considerando sus planteamientos en un caso concreto: la intersexualidad.
De la eternidad al flujo: apuntes para pensar una filosofía primera desde la temporalidad
Authors: Bouroncle Sebastián
Published: December 2024

El presente artículo busca mostrar un recorrido sobre los modos en que el concepto de “filosofía primera” ha sido apropiado en la historia de la filosofía occidental, primero como metafísica y luego como filosofía trascendental. Esta transformación, se sostiene, viene acompañado de un cambio de paradigma en la comprensión del tiempo: como un elemento cuya explicación exige su superación en la eternidad, y como dimensión originaria auto-fundante. Asimismo, se argumenta por qué esta transformación mantiene un mismo hilo conductor en los motivos filosóficos que se encuentran dentro del concepto mismo de “filosofía primera”
El tiempo fundamental. Tres aproximaciones: Mangabeira, Husserl y Scheler
Authors: Carbajal César
Published: December 2024

Partimos de la propuesta pragmática y de filosofía natural de Roberto Mangabeira, de un tiempo real, que concluye en un escepticismo respecto al conocimiento del mundo. Profundizamos el asunto por vía fenomenológica, enfocándonos en algunos desarrollos de Husserl en los Manuscritos de Bernau de 1917-1918 y concluimos que su concepción de tiempo absoluto es correlato de la conciencia absoluta. Seguimos con la propuesta fenomenológica de Scheler, centrándonos en su artículo de 1927, Idealismo-Realismo, encontramos entonces que el tiempo tiene un carácter ficticio pero basado en un tiempo absoluto, aunque no carente de perspectivismo.
La teoría del tiempo en la fenomenología sartreana: instante, temporalidad e historialidad
Authors: Cotrina Juan Pablo
Published: December 2024

La reflexión sobre el tiempo en la fenomenología sartreana ha estado presente desde sus inicios, pero no ha dado lugar a una sola teoría del tiempo, sino que ha pasado por tres momentos diferentes, en los cuales han surgido por cada momento una teoría distinta. Así, en relación al primer momento encontramos una teoría instantaneísta, en relación al segundo, una teoría de la temporalidad, y en relación al tercero, una teoría de la historialidad. Por esta razón, el objetivo principal de este trabajo es explicitar los desarrollos intrínsecos de cada teoría para, de esta forma, mostrar cómo la fenomenología sartreana contribuye al esclarecimiento de uno de los temas más importantes para filosofía, y en especial para la fenomenología, como es el tiempo.
Economic Impact of Biotech and Nanotech Approaches in Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) Cultivation
Authors: Das Abhijit , Deka Nivedita , Munshi Sahin Aktar , Barman Bikram , Mondal Indrajit , Hemant D.B.
Published: December 2024

Background: Chickpea cultivation plays a vital role in India's agricultural economy, yet it faces challenges like low yields, high input costs, and environmental concerns. Emerging biotechnological and nanotechnological approaches offer potential solutions to enhance productivity and sustainability in legume cultivation. This study evaluates the economic and environmental impacts of these technologies in comparison to conventional farming methods. Methods: A cost-benefit analysis was conducted for chickpea cultivation using both conventional and biotech/nanotech methods across key input categories. A regression model was developed to assess the impact of factors like farm size, irrigation access, and labour costs on profitability. Additionally, a scenario analysis was performed to project economic and environmental outcomes under varying levels of technology adoption. Results: Biotech/nanotech methods demonstrated a significant yield increase of 33% (1.6 tons/hectare vs. 1.2 tons/hectare), resulting in a 60% higher net return (₹48,800 vs. ₹30,500 per hectare). The cost-benefit ratio (CBR) improved from 2.03 (conventional) to 2.56 (biotech/nanotech). Environmental savings amounted to ₹1,800 per hectare through reduced pesticide and water usage. Scenario analysis showed that high adoption rates (90%) could lead to additional revenue of ₹17,000 per hectare and environmental savings of ₹16,200. These results indicate that biotech and nanotech approaches can significantly improve the economic and environmental sustainability of chickpea farming in India.