bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Pelvic rotation correction combined with Schroth exercises for pelvic and spinal deformities in mild adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: A randomized controlled trial
Authors: Zhang Yafei , Chai Tingting , Weng Hao , Liu Yang
Published: July 2024

Introduction

Individualized treatment of spinal deformity is needed for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS), and the integration of pelvic rotation correction based on proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation (PNF) into regular physiotherapy may be a promising approach. However, few high-quality studies have investigated its effects. This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of pelvic rotation correction combined with Schroth exercises in the treatment of mild AIS.

Methods

This was a randomized controlled trial. Forty-two AIS patients were randomly divided into experimental and control groups. Both groups underwent 20 therapeutic sessions over 24 weeks. All patients (n = 42) performed Schroth exercises at each session. In addition, the experimental group (n = 21) also participated in a pelvic rotation correction program based on PNF at each session. The primary outcome was the concave/convex ratio of hipbone widths, and the secondary outcomes included the Cobb angle, trunk rotation angle, self-perception, apical vertebral translation, and apical vertebral rotation. Patients were evaluated before and after 24 weeks of intervention.

Results

There was a significant between-group difference in the change from baseline between the experimental and control groups for the following parameters: concave/convex ratio 2.89% (95% confidence interval [CI], 1.58 to 4.20, P<0.001), trunk rotation angle −1.26° (95% CI, −2.20 to −0.32; P = 0.01), and apical vertebral rotation improved by at least one class from baseline in 3 patients (14.3%) in the control group and 9 patients (42.9%) in the experimental group (P = 0.04). While Cobb angle −1.60° (95% CI, −7.75 to 0.54; P = 0.14), self-image 0.149 (95% CI, 0.001 to 0.297; P = 0.049), apical vertebral translation −0.58 mm (95% CI, −3.83 to 2.67; P = 0.72), and pelvic obliquity 0.10° (95% CI, −0.21 to 0.41; P = 0.52) did not differ significantly.

Conclusions

Pelvic rotation correction combined with Schroth exercises more effectively improved pelvic axial rotation and other spinal deformities, including trunk rotation and apical vertebral rotation, than Schroth exercises alone in the treatment of mild AIS.
A systematic review on the level of risk perception of diabetes mellitus: The role of environmental factor
Authors: Jane Ling Miaw Yn , Ahmad Norfazilah , Noor Aizuddin Azimatun , Ja’afar Mohd Hasni
Published: July 2024

Background

Risk perception plays important role in motivating preventive health behaviours. The objective of this systematic review was to explore the level of diabetes risk perception among individuals with and without apparent risk for diabetes, and to consider the effect of environmental factors on the level of diabetes risk perception.

Methods

This systematic review was reported according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines. The literature search was carried out through PubMed, Web of Science, and Scopus. Original articles written in English and published between 2013 and 2023 were considered. Study quality was appraised using the Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool. Narrative synthesis was undertaken due to methodological heterogeneity in the included studies.

Results

A total of 13 cross-sectional studies, two randomized controlled trials, two cohort studies, two mixed methods studies and one quasi-experiment with a control group were included. An overall low level of diabetes risk perception was reported particularly in those without apparent risk for diabetes. The 20 included studies reported widely varied measures for calculating diabetes risk perception. The influence of environmental factors on the risk perception of diabetes was highlighted.

Limitations

The use of study-specific and non-validated measures in the included studies weakens the authors’ ability to compare across studies. The role of language and publication bias within this systematic review should be acknowledged as we included only English-language studies published in peer-reviewed journals. Another limitation is the exclusion of dimensions of risk perception such as optimistic bias as search terms.

Conclusion

The overall low risk perception of diabetes calls for urgent need of public health interventions to increase the risk perception of diabetes. In the future, researchers should ensure the validity and reliability of the measures being used. The influence of environmental factors on the diabetes risk perception indicates that diabetes preventive interventions targeting environmental factors may be effective in increasing the risk perception of diabetes.
Erg251 has complex and pleiotropic effects on sterol composition, azole susceptibility, filamentation, and stress response phenotypes
Authors: Zhou Xin , Hilk Audrey , Solis Norma V. , Pereira De Sa Nivea , Hogan Bode M. , Bierbaum Tessa A. , Del Poeta Maurizio , Filler Scott G. , Burrack Laura S. , Selmecki Anna
Published: July 2024

Ergosterol is essential for fungal cell membrane integrity and growth, and numerous antifungal drugs target ergosterol. Inactivation or modification of ergosterol biosynthetic genes can lead to changes in antifungal drug susceptibility, filamentation and stress response. Here, we found that the ergosterol biosynthesis gene ERG251 is a hotspot for point mutations during adaptation to antifungal drug stress within two distinct genetic backgrounds of Candida albicans. Heterozygous point mutations led to single allele dysfunction of ERG251 and resulted in azole tolerance in both genetic backgrounds. This is the first known example of point mutations causing azole tolerance in C. albicans. Importantly, single allele dysfunction of ERG251 in combination with recurrent chromosome aneuploidies resulted in bona fide azole resistance. Homozygous deletions of ERG251 caused increased fitness in low concentrations of fluconazole and decreased fitness in rich medium, especially at low initial cell density. Homozygous deletions of ERG251 resulted in accumulation of ergosterol intermediates consistent with the fitness defect in rich medium. Dysfunction of ERG251, together with FLC exposure, resulted in decreased accumulation of the toxic sterol (14-ɑ-methylergosta-8,24(28)-dien-3β,6α-diol) and increased accumulation of non-toxic alternative sterols. The altered sterol composition of the ERG251 mutants had pleiotropic effects on transcription, filamentation, and stress responses including cell membrane, osmotic and oxidative stress. Interestingly, while dysfunction of ERG251 resulted in azole tolerance, it also led to transcriptional upregulation of ZRT2, a membrane-bound Zinc transporter, in the presence of FLC, and overexpression of ZRT2 is sufficient to increase azole tolerance in wild-type C. albicans. Finally, in a murine model of systemic infection, homozygous deletion of ERG251 resulted in decreased virulence while the heterozygous deletion mutants maintain their pathogenicity. Overall, this study demonstrates that single allele dysfunction of ERG251 is a recurrent and effective mechanism of acquired azole tolerance. We propose that altered sterol composition resulting from ERG251 dysfunction mediates azole tolerance as well as pleiotropic effects on stress response, filamentation and virulence.
Cinécriture Féminine: Female Subjectivity in Varda’s Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962) in Comparison with Godard’s Films
Authors: Liang Wenxin
Published: July 2024

This article aims to reinstall the understated significance of female auteur Agnès Varda in French New Wave cinema. By analyzing distinctions in cinematography and characterization between Varda’s film Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962) and Jean-Luc Godard’s oeuvre from the same period, I argue that Cléo from 5 to 7 advanced a vision of female subjectivity that controverted the construction of silenced female characters in Godard’s films. With her feminist pen of cinécriture, or “film-writing,” Varda challenged the prevalent androcentrism in the New Wave and pioneered second wave feminism in France.
The Lesser Examined Coming of Age: Luchino Visconti’s Death in Venice (1971)
Authors: Rubino Sophia
Published: July 2024

This study is a combination of Simone de Beauvoir’s phenomenological studies and Christopher Bollas’s theories on object-relations psychoanalysis to contextualize the age-induced anxieties as revealed through Luchino Visconti’s Death in Venice (1971). I will utilize Beauvoir’s The Coming of Age, which focuses on the affairs of older people as they are disparaged by a society that problematizes and isolates their aging bodies to establish the situation of the film’s protagonist, Gustav von Aschenbach (Dirk Bogarde), within a larger sociological climate. This conscious, lived experience Beauvoir describes is the manifestation of what Bollas notes as the “generative state”: a mood space that allows for a subject to regress into a former, childhood state to negotiate their current affairs, often brought forth by personal crisis. The subject, in this case, is Gustav—an aging composer who travels to Venice per recommendation of his doctor following a poorly received concert, which led to sickness. The anxiety boiling inside him cools over time with help from his generative state—communicated through the film’s visual form and gesture—upon first sight of Tadzio, a boy who embodies the traditional Western standard of beauty found in the young. He further acts as Gustav’s object of desire, that is a longing for both youth and the physical abilities it provides, which ultimately allows for his recognition of life’s inevitability death. Death in Venice, in its simultaneous examination of beauty and decay, operates both as a reminder of the harm in denying one’s age and as a criticism of the societal antipathy that leads many, like Gustav, down a self-loathing-filled path fueled by aging, and finally demise.
Believing in Film: Christianity and Classic European Cinema, Mark Le Fanu (2020)
Authors: Benson Tanner
Published: July 2024

Review of: Believing in Film: Christianity and Classic European Cinema, Mark Le Fanu (2020)

London: Bloomsbury Academic, 288pp., ISBN: 9781350160491 (pbk), $35.95
Nightmare Alley (2021)
Authors: Fuller Dason
Published: July 2024

Review of: Nightmare Alley (2021)

USA

Director Guillermo del Toro

Runtime 150 minutes
Media Circus and Mass Hysteria: The Representation of the Press in Flemish Fiction Series
Authors: De Wulf Helskens Maxine
Published: July 2024

By undertaking a textual analysis of five Flemish (Belgium) television series, this study contributes to the broader understanding of European journalism fiction. The findings underscore a prevailing negative representation of journalism, emphasizing commercial interests and portraying news outlets as disruptive forces in democratic processes. As such, the Flemish series advocate for a collaborative relationship between news media and government officials, aligning with a public service-oriented model. At the same time, a discernible pattern emerges wherein critical assessments predominantly target fictional news brands, systematically contrasted with more neutral portrayals of non-fictional news brands. Lastly, the series perpetuate gendered stereotypes thereby highlighting a lack of inclusivity.
Poetic Politics: Renewing a Black Jeremiad on the Inaugural Stage
Authors: Johnson Rachel , Kornfield Sarah
Published: July 2024

National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman stunned the United States with her captivating performance of “The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country” during the 2021 inaugural ceremony for President Biden and Vice President Harris. Analyzing this political poem, we contribute to the rhetorical scholarship of inaugural ceremonies and demonstrate how Gorman's performance renews a tradition of Black jeremiads. Specifically, we argue that Gorman's performance creates a “double play” on white expectations, thereby crafting a rival version of democratic unity as she poetically envisions a “we the people” that does not center on the U.S. system of white supremacy and is not sponsored by white aesthetic and rhetorical traditions. Ultimately, we demonstrate how Gorman's Black poetic jeremiad calls Americans into a democracy that rejects white supremacist assumptions of the good life.
(Post)pandemische Neukonfigurationen forschender Feldeingebundenheit
Authors: Lätzsch Cornelius , Runge Pauline
Published: July 2024

Im Kontext von Forschung zu prekärer Unterbringung verdeutlichte sich mit dem Ausbruch der Coronapandemie das asymmetrische Verhältnis zwischen ,Beforschten' und ,Forscher*innen' auf besonders deutliche Art und Weise: Während Forschende bestimmte Unterbringungsformen nicht mehr betreten konnten, durften die Beforschten solche Orte nicht mehr verlassen. Forschungskontakte, Feldaufenthalte und Erhebungen wurden damit oftmals verunmöglicht, vor allem dort wo Zugang zu digitalen Alternativen kaum möglich war. Im Beitrag widmen sich Cornelius Lätzsch und Pauline Runge der Frage , wie die entstandene leibliche Un-/Eingebundenheit dennoch als potentielles Erkenntnisfenster produktiv gewendet werden kann und beziehen sich dazu auf Überlegungen zu Selbstreflexivität aus dem Kanon der Reflexiven Grounded Theory.
Wissen als Gestaltungsressource
Authors: Siegfried Meike
Published: July 2024

Meike Siegfried-Laferi nimmt in diesem Beitrag gesellschaftliche und bildungspolitische Erwartungen an das Problemlösepotential wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisse zum Anlass, um ausgewählten historischen wie aktuellen Deutungsansätzen einer transformativen Kraft wissenschaftlichen Wissens nachzugehen. Im Mittelpunkt steht dabei die Auseinandersetzung mit den begrifflich-theoretischen Fundamenten und normativen Implikationen transdisziplinärer Forschung als eines aktuell besonders wirkmächtigen Paradigmas praxisorientierter Wissensgenerierung. In der Herausarbeitung kritischer Perspektiven auf den gesellschaftsverändernden Anspruch eines solchen Forschens und im Rückgang auf frühere wissenschaftsdidaktische Reflexionen des Praxisbezugs von Wissenschaft erschließt der Beitrag alternative Deutungsmöglichkeiten der Wirksamkeit wissenschaftlichen Wissens.
Building Hip-Hop Music Educators
Authors: Hein Ethan , Blackman Toni
Published: July 2024

In order to prepare preservice music education students to engage with Hip- Hop in their classrooms, it is not enough for them to learn it as subject matter. We argue that Hip-Hop educators should also be active creative participants in the music. Learn- ing by creating original beats and verses fosters personal expression, growth, and trans- formation, along with engagement in larger social and political issues. Writing and pro- ducing rap songs forces music education students to confront issues of identity formation, cultural appropriation, and the politics of race, class, and gender. As an antiauthoritar- ian street music, Hip-Hop fits uncomfortably in formal institutions. Hip-Hop music ed- ucators must be prepared to create "brave spaces" that can be used to confront harsh and caustic language, depictions of violent and antisocial behavior, and general defiance of authority and convention.
Raum oder Ausstattung?
Authors: Isler Binz Monika
Published: July 2024

Monika Isler Binz widmet sich in ihrem Beitrag zwei Aufzugsanlagen in Hamburg und München, die jeweils in den späten 1920er Jahren in Bauten des gehobeneren Wohnens eingebaut wurden. Sie geht anhand dieser noch erhaltenen Beispiele der Frage nach, auf welche Weise Aufzüge in die Gestaltung des Erschließungsraums integriert wurden und welche Schlüsse daraus über das Verhältnis von Technik und Architektur gezogen werden können.
Aufzugskonstruktionen als Wahrzeichen
Authors: Schepers Lukas
Published: July 2024

Der folgende Aufsatz setzt sich mit der Frage auseinander, welche ästhetischen Konsequenzen die technische Entwicklung von sogenannten Malakowtürmen zu stählernen Fördergerüsten in sich birgt. Dabei soll herausgearbeitet werden, wie die technische Rationalisierung den repräsentativen Gestaltungswillen der industriellen Bauherren unterläuft. Zentral hierfür ist eine Auseinandersetzung mit den Theorien der Werkbundfunktionalisten um Hermann Muthesius. Mit diesen lässt sich der besondere gestalterische Wert dieser Zweckbauten hervorkehren, die vonseiten der Kunstgeschichte bisher wenig Aufmerksamkeit erfahren haben.
Theatre in Handwriting
Authors: Schäfer Martin Jörg , Weinstock Alexander
Published: July 2024

In German spoken theatre, prompt books used to be written by multiple participants engaging in diverse manuscript practices which continually revise the unfixed literary text within its theatrical context. Based on examples of the vast Hamburg »Theatre-Library« from the 1770s to 1820s, this study proposes a transdisciplinary approach towards handwritten artefacts in modern European theatre. Martin Jörg Schäfer and Alexander Weinstock examine the many-handed creation, handwritten transformation and often decades of use of prompt books in a time increasingly dominated by print. This perspective changes our notion of theatre history around 1800 as well as that of literature and authorship.
The activities, benefits, and challenges of Awada women's self-help groups in empowering women in Sidama region, southern Ethiopia
Authors: Shibru Abate Dagne , Getachew Amare Hanna
Published: July 2024

In Ethiopia, there are several types of indigenous rotating savings and cooperative associations. These indigenous associa-tions help members to save fundamental resources like money, labour, and time. Among the inhabitants of central Ethiopia, the Mareko and the Arsi-Oromo have indigenous rotating savings and cooperative institutions known as wijjo and kochoo. Wijjo is a type of indigenous rotating savings association established by neighbouring village women, with the aim of saving milk their cattle produced daily. Kochoo is a type of men's savings and cooperation association. Farmers set up this type of association so its members can take turns taking care of the cattle. For the Mareko and the Arsi-Oromo in Adami-Tulu Gido-Kombolcha, wijjo and kochoo associations are guardians of their resources. This paper assesses the role that both institu-tions play in the social and economic development of the study area.
"Trust a man after you bury him"
Authors: Tafere Reda Kelemework
Published: July 2024

This contribution focuses on trust dynamics in informal saving institutions (equbs) among Ethiopians residing in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The main objectives of the study were to examine the distinctive features of equbs and identify the sa-lient factors in trust and trust responsiveness within these informal associations. Trust is an important asset for solidarity, cooperation, and collective action, but trust becomes difficult to achieve in an environment of chaos, disorder, and uncertainty as well as a lack of familiarity and safety. Goffman's theory of interaction order (Misztal 2002) notes that trust materializes well with normality. The trust¬-commitment theory also argues that trust and commitment are fundamental ingredients in the process of building effective relationships (Morgan/Hunt 1994). In the context of an insecure and highly mobile diaspora population in the UAE, trust becomes difficult to envisage, and informal saving institutions are compelled to develop their own idiosyncratic qualities in response to this reality.
Transformative Perspektiven auf das utopische Potenzial ländlicher Räume und die Debatte um Left-behind Places
Authors: Kübler Felicitas , Harris Jack L.
Published: July 2024

Der Beitrag nimmt die aktuelle politische und akademische Debatte um left-behind places zum Anlass um zu fragen, inwiefern progressive bzw. emanzipatorische Theorietraditionen diesen Diskurs in utopische Möglichkeitsräume verschieben könnten. Wir schlagen anarchistische Geographien, dekoloniale Ansätze zur Territorialisierung und feministische Politische Ökologien als theoretische Rahmen für eine progressive Neukonzeption von Left-behind Places vor.
Urban Hubs - Utopien der Widersprüche im Ländlichen
Authors: Lüdemann Jana , Schmitt Tobias , Neuburger Martina
Published: July 2024

Jana Lüdemann, Martina Neuburger und Tobias Schmitt widmen sich in diesem Beitrag Zukunftsvisionen im ländlichen Raum und der Frage, inwiefern diese die bestehenden Verhältnisse reproduzieren oder aber aufbrechen und über sie hinausweisen können. Anhand eines Fallbeispiels dem sogenannten Social Activation Hub "BASIS Vinschgau Venosta" in Südtirol soll untersucht werden, welche Utopieverständnisse der Initiative zugrunde liegen und - in Anlehnung an Eric Olin Wright mit welchen Transformationsstrategien sie umgesetzt werden sollen. Dabei wird das Spannungsverhältnis zwischen utopischer Transformation und den Bedingungen des Möglichen nachgezeichnet.
Die Liebe zur Natur und die Auflösung des ›Ich‹
Authors: Lieb Daniel
Published: July 2024

Daniel Lieb unternimmt in diesem Beitrag eine pädagogische Lektüre der surrealistischen Philosophie George Batailles (1897-1962) aus Post-Kritischer Perspektive. Bataille wird methodisch im Sinne Alain Badious als Antiphilosoph gelesen, der einen Wahrheitsüberschuss jenseits der Ratio produziert. So verfolgt der Text in einem ersten Schritt Batailles ontologische Überschreitung der modernen Subjekt-Objekt-Dichotomie, um im zweiten Schritt Gefühle der Angst als radikale Infragestellung der Existenz zu untersuchen. Die beiden Vorgängen inhärente Auflösung der Gegenüberstellung von Mensch und Natur wird im Sinne einer Entsubjektivierung pädagogisch rückgebunden und als Erweiterung des Post-Kritischen Diskurses um eine negative Epistemologie interpretiert.
Umweltungerechtigkeit als Handlungskontext Sozialer Arbeit
Authors: Maren Harter Laura
Published: July 2024

Natur und Soziale Arbeit? Wo ist da der Zusammenhang? Sollen wir uns nun auch noch darum kümmern? Diese Fragen werden häufig gestellt, wenn Personen aus Profession und Disziplin Sozialer Arbeit zum ersten Mal auf-gefordert sind, den Zusammenhang zwischen Natur und dem Fachgebiet Sozialer Arbeit zu reflektieren. Herausforderungen aufgrund von fehlendem Fachpersonal, ein großes und weiter wachsendes Aufgabengebiet sowie steigende Belastungen im Berufsalltag, sind relevante Themen für die Fachkräfte Sozialer Arbeit. Die Klimakrise als massive Bedrohung einer intakten Natur und deren Auswirkungen werden hingegen selten als bestimmende Themen im Alltag der Sozialen Arbeit genannt. Doch die Folgen der Klimakrise werden immer deutlicher spürbar und somit rücken auch Fragen in Bezug auf Klima und Natur in der Profession Sozialer Arbeit näher. Der folgende Beitrag erläutert, weshalb es für die Soziale Arbeit unumgänglich ist, sich mit ökologischen Fragestellungen auseinanderzusetzen, Wissensbestände, Methoden und Techniken Sozialer Arbeit kritisch zu reflektieren und endet mit einem Plädoyer für die Etablierung einer ökologisch-reflexiven Sozialen Arbeit.
Klangwelten digitaler Spiele
Authors: Redecker Björn
Published: July 2024

Die auditive Ebene trägt maßgeblich zur transportierten Atmosphäre digitaler Spiele bei. Björn Redecker befasst sich einerseits mit der Bedeutung von Sound und Musik für Computerspiele selbst, andererseits mit dem wissenschaftlichen Zugang und der aktuellen Forschung dazu, die unter dem Begriff »Ludomusicology« zusammengefasst wird. Dabei macht er deutlich: Sound und Gamemusik sind zentrale, hoch relevante Elemente digitaler Spiele, die sich durch einen polyfunktionalen und -valenten Charakter auszeichnen und auch bei der Gestaltung von Spielen im Game Design maßgeblich beteiligt sind.
Das verflixte Problem mit Klassifikationen
Authors: Schneider Diana
Published: July 2024

Diana Schneider widmet sich in diesem Beitrag der Frage, welchen Einfluss die Digitalisierung auf die Soziale Diagnostik der Sozialen Arbeit haben könnte. Nach einem kurzen Rekurs auf den Diskurs zu Diagnose und Dokumentation stellt sie die semantische Interoperabilität als wichtige Voraussetzung von Digitalisierung heraus. Sie betont, dass die Auseinandersetzung mit Klassifikationen im Rahmen von Digitalisierungsprozessen als Chance begriffen werden kann, um diese aktiv mitzugestalten. Das Fehlen oder Negieren von Klassifikationen ist hingegen kein Garant dafür, dass ein Zustand der Offenheit sozialarbeiterischen Handelns aufrechterhalten werden kann. Vielmehr bestünde die Gefahr, dass andere Professionen durch ihre Klassifikationsarbeit Fakten schaffen, die durch die Soziale Arbeit übernommen werden (müssen).
ANÁLISE DOS FATORES METEOROLÓGICOS, SOCIOAMBIENTAIS E SOCIOECONÔMICOS RELACIONADOS A INCIDÊNCIA DE DENGUE EM JOINVILLE – SC NOS ANOS DE 2020 E 2021
Authors: Silva Ruan Carvalho da , Silva Silmara Costa da , Apel Romana Pedott , Lopes Catarina , Rocha Saulo Vicente , Dalonso Nicole
Published: July 2024

Em 2022 o Brasil bateu recorde no número de casos e mortes por dengue, chegando a 987 óbitos, e o estado de Santa Catarina está entre os mais preocupantes do país, sendo Joinville a cidade com o maior número de casos registrados na região. O objetivo do presente estudo foi identificar fatores climáticos, socioambientais e socioeconômicos que levaram ao aumento dos focos de dengue nos diferentes bairros de Joinville, nos anos de 2020 a 2021, período inicial da epidemia. Foram coletados dados climáticos como precipitação mensal, dias de chuva e temperatura média, a fim de identificar suas correlações e tempos de defasagem com casos e focos de dengue. Outros fatores socioeconômicos e socioambientais foram empregados nas análises de componentes principais (PCA). Os dados sugerem que as altas temperaturas e densidades demográficas são os principais fatores responsáveis pela maior incidência de dengue após o ano de 2020. Bairros com menor cobertura de esgoto e menores rendimentos em salários-mínimos são os mais afetados. A dengue em Joinville, entre 2020 e 2021 afetou principalmente os bairros mais povoados, com baixa cobertura de esgoto, exigindo medidas de controle mais efetivas para o desenvolvimento do mosquito transmissor Aedes aegypti.
Bonds not Claims. Political Representation as a form of Political Relationship
Authors: Zieliński Mateusz
Published: July 2024

In the article, I argue that Michel Saward’s popular approach to political representation leads to its particularly problematic understanding as a potentially coercive form of political relationship. Drawing primarily on the experiences of feminist theorists, I argue that beyond analyzing the mechanism of ‘claim-making’, it is also ethically necessary to consider the possibilities and consequences of ‘claim-breaking’. Situations where political representation is broken illustrate how even institutionalized forms of representation often stem from the emotional needs of specific individuals, which politicians cynically exploit. To illustrate this, I utilize and critically assess Saward’s general explanatory model, analyzing the example of Donald Tusk’s resignation from the position of Prime Minister of Poland to assume the role of President of the European Council.
The Translator’s Visible Touch in the First-person Narrative: On the Example of the Japanese Translation of Hyperion by Dan Simmons
Authors: Przybysz Aleksandra
Published: July 2024

The translators have an ambiguous role in the process of a literary translation – they have to be as transparent as possible, though they must often interpret the text before translating it. In fact, they present their own dialogue with the author to the reader and thus, it is difficult for them to not influence a narrative with their presence (Venuti 1986: 182). Translators can, however, choose how and where they are visible. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the way a literary translator becomes visible to the reader through the translation. Three short stories – in first-person narrative – from the novel Hyperion by Dan Simmons and translated by Sakai Akinobu are discussed. The article focuses on the analysis of translator’s choices regarding vulgarisms and emotional load in a text generally, that influences the way the reader understands the text.
Tailoring of the polarization-resolved second harmonic generation in two-dimensional semiconductors
Authors: Psilodimitrakopoulos Sotiris , Ilin Stepan , Zelenkov Lev E. , Makarov Sergey , Stratakis Emmanuel
Published: July 2024

Second harmonic generation is a non-linear optical phenomenon in which coherent radiation with frequency ω interacts with a non-centrosymmetric material and produces coherent radiation at frequency 2ω. Owing to the exciting physical phenomena that take place during the non-linear optical excitation at the nanoscale, there is currently extensive research in the non-linear optical responses of nanomaterials, particularly in low-dimensional materials. Here, we review recent advancements in the polarization-resolved second harmonic generation propertied from atomically thin two-dimensional (2D) crystals and present a unified theoretical framework to account for their nonlinear optical response. Two major classes of 2D materials are particularly investigated, namely metal chalcogenides and perovskites. The first attempts to tune and control the second harmonic generation properties of such materials via the application of specific nanophotonic schemes are additionally demonstrated and discussed. Besides presenting recent advances in the field, this work also delineates existing limitations and highlights emerging possibilities and future prospects in this field.
SOUND IMAGES IN POETICS BY O. F. BERGHOLZ
Authors: Prozorova Natalya
Published: July 2024

The sensory poetics of O. F. Bergholz’s artistic texts has not yet been specifically studied. Since childhood, the poetess was immersed in the folk song element and had a keen perception of the auditory sphere; for her, the “memory of sound” was the most important associative link in building an artistic picture of the world. When creating the image of the Valdai arc in the autobiographical novel “Day Stars,” it is the sound substance that has a function of meaning generation. The author’s distinct sound image of the Orthodox prayer read by nannie Avdotya in the “Day Stars,” is considered in the article in comparison with the icon of St. Seraphim of Sarov, described by Bergholz. The sound metamorphosis of the prayer functions as a conductor of the sacred meaning of the iconographic ecphrasis in the text of the story. Leningrad is the most representative image in Bergholz’s work; the city’s acoustic space is modeled by the author based on the historical context. The heightened perception of the sonosphere of the post-revolutionary city contributes to the creation of unusual sound metaphors in the “Day Stars” (talking, screaming walls; crying stone). In the Leningrad Symphony screenplay, the sound of a metronome, which arose on the eve of the blockade ordeal, is associated with Shostakovich’s Seventh (Leningrad) Symphony. In blockade-related lyrics, the visual (color) characteristics of images are replaced by auditory ones; the sounds of war — whistling, screeching, clanking, grinding, crunching — carry a negative connotation of destruction and death, and the creaking of the runners of blockade sleds is a sign-marker of death. The semantics of silence are ambivalent; at the same time, silence and soundlessness are semanticized in different ways: soundlessness in an existential sense is juxtaposed to sound as the death of life; the beginning of “universal death” occurs when sound “died” in space; the sound/ringing/noise returned to the world is isomorphic to life.
Heat flow in the Eurasian, North American and Atlantic regions
Authors: GORDIENKO V.V. , GORDIENKO I.V.
Published: July 2024

The article is a presentation of the research results of the next stage of complex geophysical control of models of deep processes in the tectonosphere of continents and oceans, built by geological theory. Models of the crust and upper mantle are located along a system of profiles encircling the northern hemisphere of the Earth, which have are DSS sections (in some places fragmentary, especially in the oceans). In the first stage, control was performed for density models. It is shown that the gravitational field can always be explained without fitting by calculated effects with discrepancies corresponding to the errors. The second stage focused on thermal models, the effects of which were compared with the observed heat flow (HF) distribution through the surface. Solving the problem is complicated by many features of the manifestation of a nonstationary thermal field. Some of them can be considered as nearsurface interference that needs to be eliminated (but usually this is not done). The work done covered the regions of Eurasia and North America, the Atlantic Ocean, a peripheral fragment of the Pacific Ocean, and transition zones between continents and oceans. Activated and nonactivated platforms, Phanerozoic geosynclines, and rifts were studied on the continents. In transition zones, there are depressions with recent oceanisation, island arcs, and deep9sea trenches. In the oceans, there are basins and the mid9ocean ridge (MOR). In the MOR and some other areas of the World Ocean, the intensity of interference does not allow the use of observed HF for routine monitoring. In other regions, the result was achieved, although often after smoothing out the heat flow field. On the continents, the cases are better, although there are also situations where significant parts of the profiles should simply be excluded from consideration due to an unacceptable level of error. However, here it was possible to confidently demonstrate the correspondence of thermal models of deep processes to experimental HF within the limits of observation and calculation errors.
THE WAR AS A SOCIO-CULTURAL PHENOMENON IN A CONTEMPORARY UKRAINIAN PHILOSOPHICAL DISCOURSE
Authors: BERESTEN Yuriy
Published: July 2024

An armed conflict between Ukraine and Russian Federation lasts for the past 10 years on and on February 24, 2022 it turned into full-scale war with all arsenal of conventional arm available used, nuclear excluded.The war turned into a new social and political reality that defined socio-political and socio-cultural vectors of development of Ukrainians and their state – focused on oppression to occupant’s conquer – for many years ahead.The war, as a socio-cultural phenomenon and the new stage of Ukrainian nation became a topic of research of the domestic academic environment. It defined in home philosophical research circles new polemic that aims at thinking through an ontological nature of the conflict, its social, cultural, and historical causes, to reveal its specific character in the past and in the present, to find out where the balance was lost in the structural order of the security, its lawful preventive mechanisms failure.Many analytical attempts to describe topological classification of that conflict (in the context of the growth of the contemporary philosophical discourse) were conducted. It were given some answers on the question on the roots of the conflict, on its continuity. It was pointed out its destructive impact on the condition of the Ukrainians, its social and cultural evolution from the point of view of different philosophical views and research programmes or contemporary historical narratives, modern principles of the native and Western-European philosophy.An evolution of the points of view on ontological and historical reasons of the war and philosophical reflections of the native scholars were considered in this article. Some problematic issues, determined by the different phases of the conflict were researched.
INFORMATION AND REALITY: PROBLEMS OF REFLECTION, PERCEPTION AND INTERPRETATION
Authors: MYKHAILIUK Oleksandr , VERSHYNA Viktoriia
Published: July 2024

The concept of information is related to fundamental philosophical questions: the relationship between being and thinking, truth and delusion, problems of communication in human society, problems of virtual reality, their connection with language, etc. The topic of information in its various aspects has recently become one of the most popular among scientists, publicists, journalists, and politicians. To date, there is a wide variety of definitions of the concept of “information”, however, there is no generally accepted understanding of the nature of information and the ways of its existence. On the basis of the semantic approach in the theory of information using semiotic methodology, the problem of the relationship and relationship between information and reality is considered; on this basis, the symbolic nature of information is analyzed, the problem of perception and interpretation of information by its recipients is investigated, the reasons and mechanisms of information distortion are analyzed. Information is considered as a sign, a representative of reality. There is always an uncertain, unstable, situational connection between signs and reality. There is a possibility of the existence of information in its pure form, without real events, which is not tied to real reality. Distortion is considered as a property of information; it is caused by the symbolic nature of information. The concept of “reality” is analyzed. Reality is largely a cultural construct, culture and society play a significant role in shaping perceptions of reality. Information becomes a model of reality, and at the same time information models reality. The concepts of “virtual reality” and “informational reality” are in use, which, in fact, are iconic constructions simulating reality.
FORMATION OF CHROMATED COATINGS ON A PRESS TOOLING IN THE PRODUCTION OF RUBBER PRODUCTS FOR ROCKET AND SPACE TECHNOLOGY
Authors: Sereda B. , Udod A.
Published: July 2024

This research analyzes the influence of residual stresses formed as a result of the process of self-propagating high-temperature synthesis on the mechanical properties and durability of structural materials and protective coatings. The main emphasis is placed on the analysis of the relationship between residual stresses and adhesive strength and durability of the obtained coatings. Rubber-based composites may prove to be competitive and eventually replace traditional materials in a number of applications, as there are many advantages to using these materials. For example, rubber-based composites often have a lower density than traditional materials such as metals. This leads to a reduction in the weight of products, which is important in a variety of industries where lightness is a key characteristic. Rubber composites are characterized by cushioning, flexibility, and elasticity, which makes them able to handle dynamic loads and adapt to various forms of deformation without losing structural properties. Research was carried out on parts of press tooling used for manufacturing of rubber-technical products in rocket-space engineering. It was found that residual stresses formed during the SHS process have a significant effect on the adhesion properties of protective coatings. Residual stresses appear after SHS treatment under conditions of thermal self-ignition of SHS charges. At the cooling stage of the SHS process, residual compressive stresses appear as a result of the elastic interaction of the alloyed titanium coating and the structural material, which have different sizes and coefficients of thermal expansion. The maximum values of adhesion strength of titanium coatings on steel 45 were 120-150 MPa when alloyed with aluminum and 180-210 MPa when alloyed with chromium. This research emphasizes the importance of residual stress control for improving the strength and durability of protective coatings obtained under SHS conditions and their possible role in extending the service life of structures and equipment. Additional research in this direction may contribute to process optimization and product quality improvement in the aerospace industry.
АНАЛІЗ ПРАКТИКИ ВИКОРИСТАННЯ МЕТОДІВ МАШИННОГО НАВЧАННЯ ДЛЯ МОДЕЛЮВАННЯ ТРАЄКТОРІЙ РУХУ КОСМІЧНИХ ОБ’ЄКТІВ
Authors: Strembovskyi V.V. , Dreus A.Yu.
Published: July 2024

Зважаючи на експоненціальний ріст кількості космічних об’єктів та зростаючу небезпеку космічного сміття на орбіті Землі, розвиток ефективних методів для управління та прогнозування руху є актуальною проблемою. Наразі у багатьох галузях, у т.ч. аерокосмічній науці, активно впроваджують новітні технології досліджень, що ґрунтуються на методах статистичного аналізу, штучного інтелекту та машинного навчання. В статті розглянуто сучасні підходи та досягнення в галузі використання методів машинного навчання для аналізу та прогнозування траєкторій космічних об'єктів, зокремапри входженні в атмосферу. Проаналізовано стратегії для швидкої генерації та модифікації оптимальних траєкторій польоту на малій тязі. Зроблено огляд застосуваннянейронних мереж, методіврегресії, глибинного навчання та ін. Досліджено їхню ефективністьу різних сценаріях, з урахуванням навколишнього середовища та потенційних небезпек. Розглянуто компоненти забезпечення космічних операцій для сталого використання космічного простору. Також наведено приклади використання методів адаптивного керування та стратегії планування траєкторій для мінімізації ризику зіткнення об'єктів у космосі та оптимізації місій з активного видалення сміття. Подано стратегії планування і керування маневрами гіперзвукових літальних апаратів на етапі входу в атмосферу. Проаналізовано результати експериментів та перевірено ефективність розроблених моделей на реальних даних, що дає можливість зробити висновки про їх потенційну корисність у практичних застосуваннях. Результати проведеного аналізу створюють наукове підґрунтя для вибору та впровадження технологій машинного навчання в практику проектування систем керування космічними об’єктами та планування місій.
УДОСКОНАЛЕННЯ МАСОВОЇ ЕФЕКТИВНОСТІ СИЛОВОГО КОРПУСУ НАСОСА ВИСОКОГО ТИСКУ
Authors: Bondarenko O. , Tkachov Y.
Published: July 2024

На сьогоднішній день ракето-космічна галузь знаходиться на підйомі. Невпинний розвиток адитивних технологій та використання нових, сучасних матеріалів для 3Д-друку вносять в цьому неабиякий вклад. Цей розвиток почав ще більшу конкуренцію між космічними компаніями, як державними так і приватними. Кожна з них намагається презентувати щось дійсно нове та унікальне. В нашій країні теж є такі компанії, наприклад, Flight Control Propulsion. В цій роботі розглянуто конструкцію силового корпусу для турбонасосного агрегату рідинного ракетного двигуна. Цей агрегат має ключову роль у роботі двигунної установки, тому проектуванню такого агрегату приділяється окрема увага. Також дуже важливо зробити такий агрегат не тільки міцним, а ще й легким, оскільки критерій мінімуму маси дуже важливий та основний в ракетній техніці в цілому. Такі конструкції повинні витримувати високі тиски, та залишатись надійними. Адитивне виробництво значно скорочує час на виготовлення тих чи інших деталей та агрегаті, а також дає майже необмежені можливості у геометричних формах виробів. Фактично те, що було складно, чи неможливо виготовити класичними методами – зараз доступно. Адитивне виробництво має вже безліч технологій виготовлення, у цій роботі було розглянуто агрегат, який виготовлено за технологією SLM (Selective Laser Melting). В роботі наведено структурований алгоритм топологічної оптимізації, саме по кроках. Наведено головний принцип методу топологічної оптимізації SIMP (SolidIso tropic Material with Penalization). Проведено чисельне моделювання напружено-деформованого стану для варіанту вихідної конструкції з використанням методу скінчених елементів (МСЕ) у САЕ (Computer-Aided Engineering) системі, побудована розрахункова скінчено-елемента сітка, визначені запаси по міцності конструкції. Після проведення топологічної оптимізації було визначено кінцевий варіант конструкції та знов проведено чисельне моделювання напружено-деформованого стану для оптимізованої конструкції. Дана конструкція силового корпусу насосу була виготовлена та успішно пройшла усі необхідні випробування.
Biomonólogos: Creación de un autorretrato teatral para el autoconocimiento. Una intervención de expresión corporal y escritura creativa en mujeres extranjeras residentes del Caribe Sur, Costa Rica
Authors: Rodríguez Barquero Vivian
Published: July 2024

Introducción: Este análisis pone en discusión los resultados encontrados en un estudio realizado con mujeres extranjeras residentes del Caribe Sur costarricense, participantes de tres talleres prácticos de investigación corporal y escritura asociativa sobre la autobiografía. Desarrollo: El estudio se realizó durante tres años y comprendió dos planes piloto, tres laboratorios escénicos y un año de investigación dramatúrgica. El fin principal consistió en aplicar una metodología que combinara varias técnicas de improvisación teatral, movimiento y meditación para explorar escénicamente la autobiografía. Cada taller tuvo una duración de nueve sesiones, con una frecuencia de una vez por semana y noventa minutos de duración. La aplicación estuvo dirigida a tres grupos de mujeres en un rango de edad entre 35 y 70 años. Conclusión: Se reportan beneficios relacionados con autoreivindicación, autoconfianza, catarsis y un alto nivel de sororidad a lo interno de los tres grupos. El trabajo expresivo tiene un gran potencial para transformar emociones que cargan las mujeres en ritmo, movimiento, poesía o actuación. En ese espacio entre el estímulo y su reacción es que la mujer descubre su poder de elegir.
La universidad frente al paradigma eficientista de la educación neoliberal y tecnocrática
Authors: Corona Fernández Javier
Published: July 2024

El presente artículo propone una reflexión en torno a la formación universitaria del siglo XXI en el marco de la globalización capitalista. Para ello, analiza la manera en que la universidad ha sido sometida a criterios de eficiencia en un marcado contraste con la idea de educación emancipatoria. Por último, pone énfasis en la urgente situación que viven las sociedades contemporáneas que enfrentan un creciente deterioro en el mundo de la vida y el papel que la educación superior tendría para contribuir al conocimiento y eventual superación de la marginación y la pobreza extremas.
Tratamiento de aguas residuales ordinarias en Costa Rica: perfil tecnológico y perspectivas de sostenibilidad
Authors: Mora Erick Centeno , Cruz Zúñiga Nidia , Vidal Rivera Paola
Published: July 2024

En Costa Rica existen grandes desafíos en materia de tratamiento de aguas residuales. Este trabajo evaluó la gestión de aguas residuales ordinarias en Costa Rica, dando énfasis al perfil tecnológico, al uso de sistemas anaerobios y a la recuperación de los subproductos generados. Se consideró un abordaje mixto, combinando información secundaria de bases de datos, consultas a expertos y talleres participativos. Se logró evidenciar que la mayoría de los sistemas que existen trabaja con lodos activados y con vertido directo a cuerpo receptor.  Además, se evidenciaron brechas importantes para la implementación de los sistemas anaerobios para el tratamiento de aguas residuales: desde el punto de vista técnico, se identificó la falta de capacitación y de confianza en diseñarlos y operarlos, aunado a la relevancia de controlar el tratamiento de contaminantes emergentes; desde el punto de vista económico, se apunta la falta de sostenibilidad financiera de los proyectos y poca capacidad de pago de los usuarios, falta de incentivos o de sistemas tarifarios escalonados; dentro de las brechas institucionales la principal es la necesidad de tener una rectoría más clara del sector y evitar la duplicidad de funciones. Se demostró que lo anterior requiere ir ligado de una normativa robusta y clara, que permita la innovación en los sistemas a implementar. Finalmente, se pudo detectar que, para que el principio de economía circular sea una realidad, se requiere trabajar en un cambio cultural y en romper el paradigma de que las aguas residuales solo sirven para desecharlas.