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Relevant Designers from the Tarsney Act Era
Authors: Achurra G. Maria Eugenia
Published: May 2024

Chapter 3 highlights relevant architects and contractors involved in the design and construction processes of U.S. Civic Beaux-Arts buildings in the U.S. and abroad. During the Progressive Era, they transformed the Beaux-Arts architectural experience into branded formal standards and patterns that conveyed worldwide a strong, exceptionalist message of U.S. leadership in the Western Hemisphere.
Such Beaux-Arts Federal architecture fell into oblivion after modern architecture, and the International Style emerged. Also, following a major scandal involving bribery and extortion by private architects, the 1913 revoking of the Tarsney Act eventually forced the closing of the Office of the Supervising Architect.
Understanding Jazz Education’s “Race Problem”
Authors: Prouty Ken
Published: May 2024

This chapter examines efforts to address jazz education’s intransigent racial disparities. The first section spotlights the experiences of two school bands from majority-Black schools who, in 1972, entered and succeeded in major jazz ensemble competitions, challenging the conventional notions of the school jazz world by entering spaces that were often not accustomed to the participation of Black students. The second study focuses on the establishment of Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Essentially Ellington competition, which I position as an intentional corrective to what many jazz figures saw as the lack of representation of both Black students and major jazz figures; the centrality of Ellington to this narrative places a major Black artist at the core of the student experience. Despite the program’s intent to democratize jazz education, the results of the contest have demonstrated the persistence of race and class barriers to full participation from public school in America.
Heads Will Roll, Bodies Will Shake, Souls Will Shatter
Authors: Diffrient David Scott
Published: May 2024

This chapter directs the reader’s attention toward critical, historical, and theoretical approaches that have been instrumental to the author’s understanding of what horror is, how it works on our bodies, and why even the “silliest” examples of the genre should be taken seriously as slightly (or grossly) exaggerated representations of real-world concerns. It builds upon the work of Gary D. Rhodes, Murray Leeder, Kendall Phillips, and other scholars who have explored the early history of cinematic horror, illustrating how two figures of speech used frequently by the first film critics (in the 1910s and 1920s)—“the horror of it holds you” and “right before your eyes”—foregrounded phenomenological and sensorial aspects of the genre familiar to contemporary audiences. Such language, centered on representations of damnation and horrible deaths (including decapitations), suggests that what the earliest moviegoers felt and saw is not all that different from what those of us who watch horror films today experience. Holding and beholding are not unrelated in terms of “disbelief mitigation,” a concept that is unpacked in relation to corporeal claims to knowledge (touching with one’s own fingers and seeing with one’s own eyes).
Dead, But Still Breathing
Authors: Diffrient David Scott
Published: May 2024

Breathing is an implicit, rarely remarked-upon bodily phenomenon in cinema. Indeed, one of the most undertheorized yet taken-for-granted aspects of the motion picture medium, which makes an ontological break from still photography by presenting viewers with the illusion of movement, is its capacity to forge an intersubjective bond between the living, breathing bodies of characters (as well as the actors who play them) and the embodied spectator whose own respiratory activity is as key to phenomenological engagement or sensual perception as seeing and hearing are. Building upon the work of Davina Quinlivan, this chapter explores some of the ways that breath can paradoxically sever a viewer’s link to that apparatus and draw her or his attention to the fictionality of a narrative. This is particularly true in horror films, where actors are frequently asked to perform “fake deaths” and the themes of mortality, physical trauma, and supernatural survival figure prominently. Those themes are lent visual texture not only through graphic representations of the body’s destruction and the taking of one’s “last breath,” but also in the sexually suggestive way that women’s breasts (or heaving chests) are lingered on by filmmakers whose predilection for “base” material is echoed in their narratives’ gravitation toward basements and other underground settings.
Roots Punk, a Reckoning
Authors: Ensminger David A.
Published: May 2024

This chapter traces the history and early evolution of punk, especially focused on the garage music scene, and the development of the cow-punk/roots-punk genre as a particular subculture with its own styles and conventions.
Mike Watt
Authors: Ensminger David A.
Published: May 2024

This chapter hones in on Mike Watt, journey man bass player who was a foundational part of Minutemen, a “hardcore” punk band that delved into jazz, folk, classic rock, funk, and more. In doing so, the chapter reconsiders what exactly “roots” means—rather than seeing it as a pastiche of older music, it addressed the notion of memory and heritage, of being faithful to a sense of place and experience, and incorporating the elements of one’s life directly into song practice.
The Devil’s Wanga
Authors: Shields Tanya L.
Published: May 2024

In this chapter, Tanya L. Shields analyzes The White Witch of Rosehall, the 1929 novel of Jamaican author H. G. de Lisser, and two independent race films, The Love Wanga (1936) starring Fredi Washington and The Devil’s Daughter (1939) starring Nina Mae McKinney. In these texts about female planters, spiritual power is one path women pursue to inhabit the realm of ownership. The films use women to sexualize the region and convey its instability: as voodoo practitioners, they are tied to the primitive; as land owners, they are an indication of the Caribbean’s disturbed social hierarchy. De Lisser’s novel and the two films highlight fears and desires that dominate the white colonial imaginary and are displaced onto the “throbbing drums” that recall Africa. In the films, Haitian “degeneracy” is mapped onto Caribbean spaces to suggest that they all need the management of white imperial powers.
Devil in a Blue Dress
Authors: Baron Cynthia
Published: May 2024

In the chapter, Cynthia Baron analyzes Walter Mosley’s 1990 detective novel and Carl Franklin’s 1995 black noir film in relation to Black literary traditions that include Frederick Douglass, early twentieth-century writers Pauline Hopkins and John Edward Bruce, and contemporary authors Ralph Ellison and Chester Himes. The chapter references legal scholar Michelle Alexander and others who highlight the laws and social conventions of systemic racism “invisible” to white Americans. It sees the novel and the film as the work of Black artists expert in using popular literary and film genre conventions to create social commentaries and illuminate Black subjectivities. The chapter analyzes the intersecting aesthetics in Mosley’s novel and Franklin’s film to describe how the film’s choices in music, performance, and cinematography parallel the novel’s narrative strategies that convey the subjectivity of the central character and the elegiac mood that gives his everyday experiences the weight of an historical account.
Portrait of a Young Enslaved Woman Standing Still in the Cathedral Silence of the Deep Woods after a Dance
Authors: Gutstein Dan
Published: May 2024

The book concludes with an attempt to ascertain the identity of the original “Liza Jane.” To do so, this chapter examines the refrains of various “Liza Jane” songs, the typical “word hoards” (or vocabularies) associated with several variants, and naming conventions prevalent during the reprehensible days of American slavery. It is possible, even likely, that woman known as “Little Liza Jane” or “Liza Jane” inspired the first one-verse songs that developed among enslaved people during Saturday night celebrations or “frolics.” After presenting a surprising relationship between “Liza Jane” and iconic jazz multi-instrumentalist Rahsaan Roland Kirk, POOR GAL’s final image involves a young enslaved woman standing by herself in the cathedral properties of the woods, considering the word “freedom.”
11 Eine »Ausstellungsoper« in fünf Akten
Authors: Grotz Kathrin , Rahemipour Patricia
Published: May 2024

In diesem Beitrag nehmen Frau Prof. Dr. Rahemipour und Frau Grotz mit der »Pharaonen-Dämmerung« ein französisch-deutsches Ausstellungsprojekt unter die Lupe, das vor über drei Jahrzehnten die Gemüter erhitzte, Besucher*innen begeisterte und zugleich ein durchaus kritisches Rauschen im Feuilleton verursachte. Was war damals innovativ vor allem hinsichtlich der Szenografie und des Medieneinsatzes, wie reagierte das Publikum - und was bleibt an Erkenntnissen für das »heute«?
16 »Doing [Art] Museum«
Authors: Hübscher Sarah , Neuendank Elvira
Published: May 2024

Der Beitrag versammelt Möglichkeiten des machtkritischen und kollaborativen Kuratierens als wissenschaftliche-pädagogische Praxis. Das Kunstmuseum wird als Ort der Potenziale beschrieben - als Kontaktzone - in dem Kunst und Gesellschaft Formen der Transformation gestalten können.
Precursors to and Reinterpretations of the National Museum
Authors: Strunck Christina
Published: May 2024

Christina Strunck's essay provides a framework for the texts contained in this volume. She focuses on three pictorial programmes - from sixteenth-century Italy, eighteenth-century Britain, and nineteenth-century France - in order to discuss different conceptions of the nation as well as the role of religion in creating a sense of national unity and purpose. The first two examples demonstrate how the nation was visualized in architectures of display before the emergence of national museums. The third case study takes as its starting point a nineteenth-century national museum and traces the reinterpretation and deconstruction of such nationalist imagery in the twenty-first century.
History in the Dutch National Museums 1800-1900
Authors: Bergvelt Ellinoor
Published: May 2024

In this article, Bergvelt discusses how historical objects were handled in the Dutch 19th-century national museums. Three examples are given: a painting by Jan Asselijn, The Threatened Swan (later made into an allegory on Grand Pensionary Johan de Witt); an 18th-century cannon captured in Sri Lanka (which would have belonged to the 17th-century admiral Michiel de Ruyter), and a portrait of Michiel de Ruyter by Ferdinand Bol. In general one can say that history was subordinate to art, both when we look at acquisitions and at the amount of space and attention that history received in the museum presentations.
5 Between Uncertainty and Routinization
Authors: Reinsch Stefan
Published: May 2024

Stefan Reinsch seeks to understand how a new predictive genetic test, NIPT, is becoming routinized in prenatal diagnosis, while at the same time introducing uncertainty and the potential for women to gain more agency within the complex relationship between pregnancy, disability, and family life. Based on qualitative interviews with women and their partners in Germany, he shows how, far from being prey to technology, some make pragmatic use of NIPT as a resource or tool for gaining knowledge, while others reject the demands and obligations of testing practice by embracing the uncertainty of an unfolding pregnancy as an alternative logic.
11 Affective Processes and the Diagnosing of Chronic Fatigue
Authors: Bech Risør Mette , Nissen Nina
Published: May 2024

In this article, Risør and Nissen are dedicated to examining the assessment of chronic fatigue and clinical encounters in a clinic in Norway. We particularly attend to affects, which drive the setting of diagnosis and care. In our analysis, intensities, affective attunements, and atmospheres determine the course of the consultations and play a decisive role in enacting the relational encounters. We suggest that affectivity clarifies that being "under diagnosis" (Martin 2007) and working out a diagnosis or treatment advice is an arrangement of affect, practices, relations, and participation in these relations, rather than merely a discursive and linguistic performance.
»Befreundete Seelen«?
Authors: Zürner Christian
Published: May 2024

Christian Zürner analysiert in diesem Text frühromantische Strategien, Religion ästhetisch und Kunst religiös zu profilieren. Solche kunstreligiösen Strategien wirken fast ungebrochen in gegenwärtige Bestimmungen des Ästhetischen wie des Religiösen hinein. Der Beitrag zeigt, dass mit der scheinbaren Attraktivität und Plausibilität dieses reziproken Vermittlungsmodells jedoch prekäre Engführungen im Verständnis sowohl von Religion wie von Kunst verbunden sind.
Transformationspolitik - eine Halbzeitbilanz der Ampel-Koalition
Authors: Bergmann Knut , Diermeier Matthias
Published: May 2024

Knut Bergmann und Matthias Diermeier, die Herausgeber des vorliegenden Bandes, beschreiben in ihrem Überblicksbeitrag die Herausforderungen der Ampel-Koalition und den Ausgangspunkt des Projektes. Sie bieten damit eine Zusammenfassung des Buches, in dem die enormen Herausforderungen, vor die die Regierung unter Bundeskanzler Scholz gestellt wurde, deutlich werden. Unübersehbar sind es aber auch in der inneren Tektonik der Ampel-Koalition liegenden Vorstellungen, Widersprüche, Ideologien und Streitigkeiten, die das Regieren zugunsten der auf fast allen Politikfeldern nötigen Transformation erschwert haben und erschweren. Die Halbzeitbilanz der Bundesregierung fällt somit ambivalent aus - Anspruch und Wirklichkeit fallen deutlicher als bei jeder Regierung in der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik auseinander.
Für immer geteilt - kollektive Enttäuschungen trotz ökonomischer Erfolge in Ostdeutschland?
Authors: Hüther Michael
Published: May 2024

Die ostdeutschen Bundesländer haben ihre Wirtschaftskraft nach der Wiedervereinigung enorm ausgebaut, die Annäherung zwischen der ostdeutschen und westdeutschen Wirtschaftskraft verlangsamte sich jedoch nach dem Jahr 2000. Nun mehren sich die Erfolgsmeldungen. Industrieansiedlungen, Großinvestitionsprojekte, lebendige Universitätsstandorte und eine niedrige Arbeitslosigkeit zeichnen ein Bild von Prosperität und erfreulichen Zukunftsperspektiven. Michael Hüther diskutiert in dem Beitrag, welche spezifischen Standortvorteile einen Aufschwung Ost in der Zeitenwende ermöglichen und wie ökonomische Erfolge und eine vermeintlich kollektive Unzufriedenheit der ostdeutschen Bevölkerung zusammenpassen.
Industriepolitik ist mehr als Standortpolitik
Authors: Bardt Hubertus
Published: May 2024

Bardt thematisiert in diesem Beitrag die neue Rolle der Industriepolitik in Deutschland. Grundlegende Veränderungsprozesse der Volkswirtschaft stellen neue Anforderungen an die Wirtschaftspolitik. Gerade die Industrie ist von Dekarbonisierung und neuen geopolitischen Risiken besonders betroffen. Kern der Industriepolitik bleibt die Schaffung guter Rahmenbedingungen für Investitionen am Standort Deutschland. Nur so kann die Attraktivität für Investoren hergestellt werden, die für den kommenden Umbau der Industriestruktur notwendig ist. Darüberhinaus müssen spezifische Voraussetzungen geschaffen werden, damit eine Dekarbonisierung bestimmter Branchen in Deutschland möglich wird. Gleichzeitig darf die Industriepolitik den üblichen Strukturwandel nicht verhindern und damit Wachstumschancen verbauen.
Überlegungen zur Transformationspolitik
Authors: Weizsäcker Jakob von
Published: May 2024

Deutschland und Europa haben mit ihren ambitionierten Klimaschutzzielen eine Vorreiterrolle übernommen. Für unsere klimapolitische Glaubwürdigkeit ist entscheidend, dass wir diese Ziele auch erreichen. Für unsere Prosperität ist entscheidend, dass wir die Ziele mit wirtschaftlicher Dynamik erreichen. Für unseren sozialen Zusammenhalt ist entscheidend, dass die Lasten der Umstellung sozial ausgewogen und, wo erforderlich, kompensiert werden. CO2-Bepreisung, Ordnungsrecht und Investitionen in Innovation, Infrastruktur und Industriepolitik müssen hierzu zusammen gedacht werden. Finanzpolitisch müssen wir zudem die Verbesserung der Qualität der öffentlichen Finanzen und die Verbesserung der Qualität der Schuldenbremse zusammen denken. Wenn uns das gelingt, dann gelingt uns die Transformation.
Wieviel Solidarität können und wollen wir uns im demografischen Wandel leisten?
Authors: Pimpertz Jochen
Published: May 2024

Jochen Pimpertz untersucht am Beispiel der umlagefinanzierten Gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung in Deutschland die Wirkungen des Solidaritätsprinzips in einer alternden Bevölkerung. Der solidarische Risikoausgleich sowie der soziale Ausgleich zwischen unterschiedlich leistungsfähigen Mitgliedern bewirken mittelbar einen solidarischen Ausgleich zwischen jüngeren und älteren Versicherten (analog in der Sozialen Pflegeversicherung). Altert die Bevölkerung, müssen die jüngeren Beitragszahler aber immer höhere Solidarlasten schultern. Eine Erweiterung der Beitragsbemessung vermag diese Bevölkerungsgruppe nicht zu entlasten. Stattdessen sollte der Beitragssatz eingefroren werden, um die Akzeptanz des Solidaritätsgedankens bei den Jüngeren dauerhaft zu sichern, und die solidarische Krankenversicherung um eine verpflichtende kapitalgedeckte Krankenversicherung ergänzt werden.
Keine Zeitenwende im Verteidigungshaushalt
Authors: Bardt Hubertus
Published: May 2024

Bardt analysiert in diesem Beitrag die Entwicklung der deutschen Verteidigungsausgaben. Nach dem Ende des kalten Krieges konnte eine erhebliche Friedensdividende erzielt werden. Das Ziel der NATO, mindestens 2 Prozent des BIP für die Verteidigung auszugeben, wurde nicht erreicht. Spätestens mit dem russischen Überfall auf die Ukraine wurde deutlich, dass die Ausrüstung der Bundeswehr deutlich verbessert werden musste. Das Sondervermögen von 100 Milliarden Euro wird aber nicht ausreichen, dauerhaft die notwendigen Ausgaben zu finanzieren. Wenn das 2 Prozent-Ziel erreicht werden soll, müssen ab 2027 rund 30 Milliarden Euro zusätzlich aus dem Bundeshaushalt bereitgestellt werden.
Theorie beruflicher Didaktik
Authors: Tecklenburg-Rapske Ruben
Published: May 2024

Wie kann das Fundament einer Theorie beruflicher Didaktik aussehen, die den Anspruch der Prozessorientierung in aller Tiefe und Breite aufnimmt? Ruben Tecklenburg-Rapske verknüpft zentrale Ansätze der Philosophie, Bildungstheorie und Didaktik. Er entwickelt so miteinander verzahnte, modellhafte Vorschläge, die bestehende theoretische Grundlagen ergänzen oder ersetzen. Die pädagogisch didaktische Theorie wird dadurch als eigenständig erfahrungsbezogener Zusammenhang von Begriffen, Urteilen und Schlüssen fassbar, in dem komplexe Themen und Fragen der Berufspädagogik neu diskutierbar sind.
Securitising Decolonisation
Authors: Heise Julius
Published: May 2024

With the right to petition the United Nations, the Ewe and Togoland unification movement enjoyed a privilege unmatched by other dependent peoples. Using language conveying insecurity, the movement seized the international spotlight, ensuring that the topic of unification dominated the UN Trusteeship System for over a decade. Yet, its vociferous securitisations fell silent due to colonial distortion, leaving unification unfulfilled, thus allowing the seeds of secessionist conflict to grow. At the intersection of postcolonial theory and security studies, Julius Heise presents a theory-driven history of Togoland's path to independence, offering a crucial lesson for international statebuilding efforts.
Horizontale Wissensproduktion
Authors: Corona Berkin Sarah
Published: May 2024

Wissen gehört nicht nur einer Disziplin oder einer bestimmten Region der Welt - so die These von Sarah Corona Berkin. Die horizontale Produktion von Wissen, so macht sie deutlich, bezieht sich stattdessen auf die Kraft sozialen Wissens, also auf den disziplinären Dialog der vielfältigen Stimmen, die mit sozialen Problemen und ihrer Lösung konfrontiert sind. Forschung, die horizontal auf soziale Fragen eingeht, trägt dazu bei, diesen Zusammenhang genauer zu beleuchten: Sie schafft neues Wissen, aber auch neue Beziehungen zwischen Menschen.
Mediating the Real
Authors: Sigg Pascal
Published: May 2024

As a literary genre, the nonfictional reportage has particular implications for the role of the writer. Pascal Sigg shows how six U.S. American writers, including David Foster Wallace, George Saunders, and Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, reflect on themselves as human media in their reportage. The writers assert themselves in a postmodern way by scrutinizing their own mediation. As it also traces and develops the theorization of reportage as genre along the reporters' early concerns with technical media, this pioneering contribution to literary journalism studies paves a way for a new materialist approach in the under-researched field.
Deciphering a Non-meal
Authors: Lasco Gideon , Mendoza Jhaki
Published: May 2024

Pantawid-gutom literally means “to bridge hunger” and refers to a range of food and non-food products and practices in the Philippines that allow people to survive in between “serious meals.” What does its existence as a liminal category between food/non-food or serious/non-serious meal signify, particularly for millions of Filipino families who regularly experience hunger? Drawing on fieldwork in low-income urban communities on Luzon Island, and from a review of the scholarly and popular literature, we use local conceptions of pantawid-gutom—hitherto overlooked in the scholarship—as a starting point for exploring the lived reality of food insecurity in the country. The efficacy of pantawid-gutom, we argue, is both material and symbolic, providing temporary relief from the feeling of hunger and allowing people to suspend their ideas of what is good to eat while maintaining the hope that their socioeconomic predicament is something bridgeable. 

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Sa Pilipinas, ang tambalang salitang “pantawid-gutom” ay tumutukoy sa mga pagkain at iba pang bagay o gawain na ginagamit o ginagawa ng mga tao upang “maitawid” ang kanilang gutom sa gitna ng kahirapan o mahirap na sitwasyon. Ano ang maaari nating matutunan sa pagsasabuhay ng mga tao sa konseptong ito, at sa relasyon nito sa pagkain, lalo na sa milyon-milyong pamilyang Pilipino na araw-araw nakararanas ng gutom? Hango sa˛ isang etnographiya (pakikiag-usap, pakikipagkwentuhan, at pagmamasid) sa˛ iba’t ibang mga komunidad sa Timog Luzon, at sa pagsasaliksik ng mga nauna nang naisulat tungkol sa naturang paksa, ginamit namin ang mga lokal na pag-unawa sa “pantawid-gutom” (isang paksang sa pagkakaalam namin ay hindi pa napagtutuunang-pansin sa antropolohiya) upang simulan ang isang malalim na pagtanaw sa karanasan ng pagkagutom at kakulangan ng pagkain sa bansa. Mula sa aming pagsusuri, ang bisa ng pantawid-gutom ay nakaugat sa silbi nito bilang isang bagay na sadyang nakakapawid ng gutom at sa pagiging simbolo nito ng pag-asa: pag-asa na may mas ‘tunay’ na pagkain na nakaabang sa kanila, at, gaya ng gutom, maging ang kanilang mga suliranin sa buhay ay maaari ring ‘maitawid’.
The Relationship between Intensive Care Unit’s Nurses’ Informatics Competency and Quality of Patients’ Electronic Health Record’s Documentation
Authors:   Jordan University of Science and Technology, Akhu-Zaheya Laila , Etoom Mohammad
Published: May 2024

Background: Nursing informatics and the development and growth of health information technology are becoming a necessary part of all aspects of the nursing practice, especially in critical care settings. In addition, researchers agree on using standardized and electronic documentation to support the nursing process and promote nursing documentation quality. Purpose: To examine the relationship between Intensive Care Unit Nurses' Informatics Competency and Quality of Patients' Electronic Health Record Documentation. Methods: A descriptive, correlational, retrospective, cross-sectional design was used. Three hospitals that implemented the Electronic Health Records (EHRs) system were included in this study, using non-probability convenience sampling technique to recruit a total of 176 nurses. The nursing informatics competency was measured by the Self-assessment of Nursing Informatics Competencies Scale (SANICS). The Quality of Electronic Health Record Documentation was assessed by the audit instrument for nursing care plans in the patient record (Cat-ch-Ing). Descriptive and inferential statistics were utilized to answer research questions. Results: The overall mean informatics competency score among nurses was 2.49 (SD = 0.73), with most of the nurses (81.79%) reporting a low competency score of less than three. The highest percentage of participants 29.4% (n = 52) have moderate quality of EHR documentation. Also, related personal and clinical characteristics account for 93.7% of the variance in quality of patients’ electronic health record documentation (R2 = 0.937, F = 8.707, p = 0.004). Once nursing informatics competency was entered into the model, R2 is still the same, making a total explained variance of 93.7% (R2 = 0.937, F = 6.907, p = 0.013). Conclusion: The present study revealed low levels of nursing informatics competency among nurses, and the highest percentage of participants have moderate quality of EHR documentation. In addition, personal and clinical related characteristics account for 93.7% of the variance in the quality of patients’ electronic health record documentation. Implications for Nursing: This study provides evidence to guide nursing leaders, supervisors and policymakers in their planned actions and policies to support nursing capacity, nursing education, and nursing practice in the area of nursing informatics and electronic nursing documentation.
Direct Isolation Method for Tomato-Infecting Phytophthora infestans
Authors: Parlindo Fitra , Khairani Hagia Sophia , Papona Alisya Talita , Tondok Efi Toding
Published: May 2024

Infection of Phytophthora infestans at high altitudes in tropical regions causes symptoms of tomato late blight throughout the year. Even though it is very easy to find in the field, P. infestans is often very difficult to isolate aseptically in the laboratory. This study aims to evaluate direct isolation techniques that can increase the success of isolating P. infestans. Isolation was carried out on a non-specific medium, consisting of potato dextrose agar (PDA), corn meal agar (CMA), oatmeal agar (OMA), and water agar (WA) with three alternative types of antibiotics, i.e. chloramphenicol, amoxicillin, and rifampicin. Observations were carried out to determine the effect of the medium on sporangia induction and the age of the original colony’s growth in CMA and OMA media. The results showed that the isolation of P. infestans using the direct method was successfully carried out on non-specific PDA, CMA, OMA and WA medium.  The highest isolation success rate was obtained on CMA medium with the addition of 50 mg L-1 rifampicin. The fastest sporangia induction (8 days) was shown by colonies grown on OMA medium with the addition of 50 mg L-1 rifampicin based on the category of abundant sporangia after 20 days of incubation. Rejuvenation of P. infestans colonies for research purposes in the laboratory is recommended to be carried out routinely twice a month. This research provides practical guidance for understanding the bioecology of P. infestans infecting tomato plants, especially for further study on oomycetes fungi.
Pre-treatment of Dryopteris cristata (L.) A. Gray rhizome as a method of elimination of contaminants and explant browning micropropagation
Authors: Zenkteler Elżbieta , Kwaśna Hanna
Published: May 2024

Micropropagation of Dryopteris cristata (L.) A. Gray by rhizome explants requires a pre-treatment procedure as a <>. Mycological examinations of fungi from fern rhizomes allowed to determine 24 species represented by 66 isolates and a group non-sporulating colonies. Most frequently fungi were represented by Cylindrocarpon destructans and Mycelium radicis atrovirens. The pre-treatment procedure reduces exogenous and endogenous contamination by fungi, actinomycetes and other bacteria in developing adventitious buds. Starvation of rhizomes during pre-treatment significantly reduces starch and phenolic contents and thereby prevents browning of the explants. The present data revealed that in decontaminated, actively growing buds there are less phenolics than in contaminated rhizomes.
EXAMINING GREEN GROWTH CONDITIONS AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE OECD COUNTRIES: A DESCRIPTIVE ANALYTICAL APPROACH
Authors: Çağlar Mehmet
Published: May 2024

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is the leading actor for green growth. The main purpose of this study is to analyze the green growth conditions and achievements of the OECD countries. The Green Growth Index 2022 proposed by the Global Green Growth Institute is used in the analysis. 34 OECD countries are included in the analysis. The OECD countries are examined using green growth index, the dimensions and indicators of green growth index. Descriptive statistics and cluster analysis are used to analyze green growth achievement of the OECD countries. This study tries to identify achievements, needs, strengths and weaknesses of the OECD countries in terms of green growth.
O império brasileiro em crise: prismas da história e da crítica literária nos séculos XIX e XX
Authors: Rivas Gagliardi Laura
Published: May 2024

Este artigo pretende descrever o modo como a crise do império brasileiro, que levou à dissolução do Segundo Reinado e à Proclamação da República em 1889, foi representada nos estudos paradigmáticos de Ferdinand Wolf (1863), Silvio Romero (1888), Ronald de Carvalho (1919) e Antonio Candido (1959) sobre a história e crítica da literatura brasileira. Vistos em conjunto, esses estudos mostram como a crise foi interpretada de maneiras distintas no correr do tempo, fenômeno revelador dos processos de escrita e reescrita da história da literatura, bem como de reinterpretação do passado imperial.
Efficacy of tacrolimus monotherapy in primary membranous nephropathy
Authors: Zhang Ya-pu , Ran Lei , Guo Li , Gou Yan-Li , Guo Shan-shan , Xu Yang , Hua Xin , Chen Hang
Published: May 2024

Objective

The aim of this study was to observe the remission of primary membranous nephropathy (PMN) and evaluate the efficacy of tacrolimus (TAC) monotherapy for PMN in comparison with TAC combined with a low-dose glucocorticoid (GC) protocol (TAC + GC).

Methods

This was tested in a prospective monocentric observational trial of 70 patients with PMN, of whom 34 received TAC (0.05–0.075 mg/kg/day) or 36 received TAC (0.05–0.075 mg/kg/day) and GC (0.3–0.5 mg/kg/day of prednisone).

Results

At 3, 6, 9, and 12 months of treatment, the effective rates in the TAC group and the TAC + GC group were similar (P > 0.05). The urinary protein quantification was reduced in patients under both therapeutic protocols, and the differences in the proteinuria quantification at 3, 6, 9, and 12 months of treatment were not statistically significant between the two groups (P > 0.05). The overall incidence of adverse reactions in the TAC group was lower than that in the TAC + GC group (23.5% < 36.1%), and the difference was statistically significant (P < 0.05).

Conclusion

TAC monotherapy for PMN could effectively reduce urinary protein quantification and increase serum albumin levels. Compared with TAC + GC, TAC monotherapy for PMN had no difference in efficacy and fewer incidences of adverse reactions.
Compact subsets of C

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Authors: Kumar Prashant , Garg Pratibha
Published: May 2024

The famous Ascoli-Arzelà theorem served as a springboard for research into compactness in function spaces, particularly spaces of continuous functions. This paper investigates compact subsets of spaces of continuous functions endowed with topologies between the topology of pointwise convergence and the topology of uniform convergence. More precisely, this paper studies necessary and sufficient conditions for a subset to be compact in C

λ,u
(X) for a locally-λ space X when λ ⊇ 𝓕(X), for a hemi-
λ

λf
-space X when λ ⊆ 𝓟 𝓢(X), and for a k-space X when λ ⊇ 𝓚(X). This paper also studies that every bounded subset of C

λ,u
(X) has compact closure for some classes of topological spaces X.
Lithium niobate on insulator – fundamental opto-electronic properties and photonic device prospects
Authors: You Bin , Yuan Shuangxiu , Tian Yuan , Zhang Haisu , Zhu Xiaolong , Mortensen N. Asger , Cheng Ya
Published: May 2024

Lithium niobate on insulator (LNOI) combines a variety of optoelectronic properties and can meet practical performance requirements that are uncommon in optoelectronic materials. This review introduces the fundamentals and the photonic device concepts that arise from the LNOI materials platform. Firstly, the nonlinear optical response of LNOI is presented, including birefringent phase matching (BPM), modal phase matching (MPM), and quasi-phase matching (QPM). The tunable properties are also introduced, including electro-optical (EO), thermo-optical (TO), and acousto-optical (AO) effects. The structures of nonlinear optical devices, such as ridge waveguides (including periodically polarized inversion waveguides), Mach–Zehnder interferometer (MZI) modulators and micro-resonators (such as disks and rings) are demonstrated. Finally, the future of LNOI devices is discussed. In the already mature and developed optoelectronic material systems, it is rare to find one particular material system supporting so many basic optical components, photonic devices and optoelectronic devices as LNOI does in the field of integrated photonic chips.
Das Unabgeschlossene (das Glück). Walter Benjamin’s “Idea of Happiness”
Authors: Liska Vivian
Published: May 2024

The considerable literature discussing Walter Benjamin’s “idea of happiness” points both to the important role it plays in his thought and, in this context, to the diversity of interpretations his elliptic style has generated. The pivotal role played by the term in Benjamin’s oeuvre from his early writings on language to his Passagenwerk originates in what has been regarded as his “dialectics of happiness.” While this is certainly a plausible diagnosis, a closer look at the wording of the relevant passages in Benjamin’s oeuvre reveals more nuanced and numerous manifestations of the indirectness that characterizes his approach to happiness. Benjamin invokes the term “happiness” (Glück) at crucial crossroads in his thought. It oscillates between potentiality and inaccessibility; individual and collective experience; commemoration and utopia, Eros and emancipation, concrete phenomena and abstract ideas, and last but not least between politics and theology. Equally striking are the divergent modes of expression in which Benjamin’s notion of happiness is articulated. They range from the inexpressible (das Ausdruckslose) to the most lyrical effusions. My talk will correlate Benjamin’s seemingly incommensurable invocations of happiness with the very detours, incompletions, and indirections in his writings about this state of being.
Long-term hypothyroidism in patients started on levothyroxine during pregnancy
Authors: Demartin Sophie , Constantinescu Stefan Matei , Poppe Kris G , Maiter Dominique , Furnica Raluca Maria , Alexopoulou Orsalia , Daumerie Chantal , Debiève Frederic , Burlacu Maria-Cristina
Published: May 2024

Background

Current guidelines recommend different postpartum approaches for patients started on levothyroxine (LT4) during pregnancy.

Objective

We studied the postpartum management of these patients and determined factors associated with long-term hypothyroidism.

Methods

A retrospective study was conducted at a tertiary center between 2014 and 2020, with LT4 initiation according to 2014 ETA recommendations. We performed multivariate logistic regression (MVR) and a receiver operating characteristic curve analysis to determine variables associated with long-term hypothyroidism and their optimal cutoffs.

Results

LT4 was initiated in 177 pregnant women, and 106/177 (60%) were followed at long-term (at least 6 months post partum) (28.5 (9.0–81.9) months). LT4 could have been stopped in 45% of patients who continued it immediately after delivery. Thirty-six out of 106 (34%) patients were long-term hypothyroid. In them, LT4 was initiated earlier during pregnancy than in euthyroid women (11.7 ± 4.7 vs 13.7 ± 6.5 weeks, P = 0.077), at a higher thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) level (4.1 (2.2–10.1) vs 3.5 (0.9–6.9) mU/L, P = 0.005), and reached a higher dose during pregnancy (62.8 ± 22.2 vs 50.7 ± 13.9 µg/day, P = 0.005). In the MVR, only the maximal LT4 dose during pregnancy was associated with long-term hypothyroidism (odds ratio (OR) = 1.03, 95% CI: 1.00–1.05, P = 0.003). The optimal cutoffs for predicting long-term hypothyroidism were an LT4 dose of 68.75 µg/day (87% specificity, 42% sensitivity; P = 0.013) and a TSH level ≥ 3.8 mU/L (68.5% specificity, 77% sensitivity; P = 0.019).

Conclusion

One-third of the patients who started on LT4 during pregnancy had long-term hypothyroidism. The TSH level at treatment initiation and the LT4 dose during pregnancy could guide the decision for continuing long-term LT4.
Patients’ biology and immunotherapy – a review of literature
Authors: Michalcova Simona , Tomasko Lenka , Gaweł Władysław , Helbig Olaf
Published: May 2024

Immunotherapy is a novel modality in the treatment of both melanoma and cancer patients. The safety of this advanced treatment is modified by a number of environmental factors. This paper reviews the most common factors that may affect the incidence rate of adverse events as well as the effectiveness of immunotherapy. Sex, age, BMI and smoking status have been discussed in this paper, as these account for the most frequent factors in clinical practice. The paper discusses the results with the overall conclusion that the therapy should be patient-centered and consider all biological factors.
Automated machine learning for accurate and low-latency object recognition in optical satellite imagery
Authors:   , Gudžius Povilas
Published: May 2024

Automatinis mašininis mokymasis, skirtas tiksliam ir greitam objektų atpažinimui optiniuose palydoviniuose vaizduose
Classification and prediction with very imbalanced group sample sizes: an illustration with COVID-19 testing
Authors: Qiao Xin , Ding Yishan , Ying Chengbin , Jiao Hong , Macready George
Published: May 2024

This study explored predictions of COVID test results using statistical classification methods based on available COVID-related data such as demographic and symptom information. The perfor Table mances of logistic regression, machine learning models, and latent class analysis in the predictions of extreme imbalanced COVID data were compared. One technical challenge of using statistical classification methods was tackled in the extreme imbalance sample sizes of the COVID data. The oversampling method was applied on the training dataset to mitigate the impact of such data structure on the training process. Further, the adjusted pooled sampling method based on the statistical classification results was proposed to facilitate the efficiency of COVID testing. Results indicate that some machine learning models (e.g., support vector machine) had better performance than traditional logistic regression model and latent class analysis under extreme imbalance data condition. Further, the oversampling method increased the sensitivity of various statistical classification methods when different cut-off values were applied. The adjusted pooled sampling was shown to be more efficient than the traditional pooled sampling method.
Diversity, productivity and biomass patters of epiphytes along successional gradient in the Andean Colombian
Authors: Molina-Garcia Luz Adriana , C Benavides Juan , Baquero-Rojas Julio Cesar
Published: May 2024

Our objective was to determine the relationship of different successional stages with the diversity, assimilation rates and net productivity of different growth forms of vascular epiphytes in a humid montane forest in Andean Colombian. Three successional stages were selected according to the site conditions. The 30 trees sampled in the three successional stages 4,610 epiphytic individuals to 54 species. A main finding was that species richness, abundance and biomass increased with stage age. Additionally true epiphytes were the growth form with the greatest richness, abundance and biomass. Regarding photosynthesis rates decreased with stage age and were higher for treelets, shrubs and lower for true epiphytes. According the analysis of the ordering of the epiphytes found by stages shows the existence of a successional trajectory with the presence of representative species of each stage. This research can contribute as a basis to the knowledge of epiphytes, with the purpose of enriching and supporting management measures for these species.
Safe Administration of Medication in School: Policy Statement
Authors: Miotto Mary Beth , Balchan Brooke , Combe Laurie ,   COUNCIL ON SCHOOL HEALTH, O’Leary Sonja C. , Bode Sara , Baum Marti , Connor Katherine A. , Frank Emily , Gibson Erica , Larkin Marian , Newman Tracie , Okuizumi-Wu Yuri , Padrez Ryan , Schumacher Heidi , Goddard Anna , King Kate , Ladegard Kristie , McCarty Carolyn Lullo ,   NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL NURSES
Published: May 2024

Many youth with acute and chronic health conditions require medication to be administered during the school day. This policy statement offers guidance to school physicians, community prescribers, school nurses, other school health professionals, and groups providing oversight to school health activities and ensures patient safety and equity lenses are applied to administration of medications during school and for school-related activities. The American Academy of Pediatrics supports a robust collaborative model that allows all those involved in student health, including the student and family, to communicate, participate in effective medication management, inform delegated medication responsibilities, and promote safe medication storage and administration. School medication administration protocols are developed to help prevent medication administration errors specific to potential risks in the school setting and are responsive to the maturing students’ evolving understanding of their health needs, growing autonomy, and responsibility. All protocols involving school nurses, unlicensed assistive personnel, and prescribers must be consistent with state and federal regulations on scope of practice, student privacy laws, and professional nursing organization guidelines. Consistent policies and messaging on safety of the patient and the entire school community enable school health teams to ensure equitable treatment of students prescribed therapeutic agents newly regulated by the US Food and Drug Administration, over-the-counter medications, or products that are currently not regulated by the US Food and Drug Administration.
New Karbi Religious Movements
Authors: Teron The’ang
Published: May 2024

The Karbi people are one of the major indigenous groups residing in Northeast India, mainly in Assam. The history of Karbi identity has been one of misrepresentations, contestation, and negligence, mainly as a consequence of problematic colonial constructs and majoritarian cultural biases. In this paper, in order to analyze majoritarian influences, I focus on Lokhimon, a new religious movement among the Karbi, as an intersection, a dialogue space, of cultural exchange between old, traditional Karbi practices and mainstream Hindu religious traditions. Lokhimon serves as evidence of the continuously expanding impact of Hinduism, which has become profoundly embedded inside indigenous communities such as Karbi through subtle assimilation facilitated by media, politics, and prevailing knowledge systems. The foundation of Lokhimon is based on Hindu myths, and as dominant myths are hierarchical in nature, majoritarian narratives have come to dictate, dislocate, and dislodge aspects of identity, belonging, and representation of the Karbi lifeworld. Recently, Lokhimon has been gaining political influence, and local state-backed media is being used to facilitate the assimilation of the Karbi community into the Hindu majority. I analyze how this mythic, unified idea of Karbi belongingness to a larger Hindu tradition expressed through the mythopolitics of Hinduism affects Karbi lives while engaging with oral and new religious movement traditions among the Karbi community to understand identity formations.
Valorization of banana waste by optimizing nitrocellulose production, yield, and solubility via nitrating acid mixtures and reaction time
Authors: Hassan Maria , Zia Afia , Nauman Ahmad Muhammad , Baseer Us Salam Muhammad , Siraj Maria , Sabir Shahida , Arif Muhammad , Naveed Farooq Tahir , Aziz Tariq , Alshammari Abdulrahman
Published: May 2024

The current research investigated the conversion of banana stem waste into cellulose nitrate, a potential bioplastic precursor. The research is of prime importance in terms of environmental pollution and sustainable development goals. The study aimed to isolate cellulose from banana stems, synthesize nitrocellulose, and assess its stability. Two different methods, that is, Method A, comprising HNO3 and H2SO4, and Method B, comprising HNO3 and P2O5, were applied to synthesize nitrocellulose, each using different acidic mixtures. Method A resulted in high nitrocellulose yield and higher nitrogen content but lower cellulose content. On the other hand, method B yielded nitrocellulose with a lower nitrogen content but higher cellulose content. It was found that composition of nitrating acid mixture, nitrating time, and ratio of nitrating acid–cellulose material influenced the yield and solubility of nitrocellulose. The highest yield of nitrocellulose was obtained using a 60:1 ratio of nitrating acid–cellulose material in method A and a 100:1 ratio of the same in method B after 90-min nitration time. It was also observed that nitrocellulose A was soluble in acetone and pyridine whereas nitrocellulose B was soluble in 1,4-dioxane, esters, and pyridine. Overall, the study demonstrated the feasibility of converting banana stem waste into a bioplastic precursor.
Models of Composite Harmonic Half-Waves and the Relationship of Time Sampling with the Entropy of Time Parameters of Signals
Authors: Mayorov Boris
Published: May 2024

The problem of finding the absolute error of stepwise and linear interpolation of the control signal from uniform samples from it using models of composite harmonic half-waves is solved. Previously, during the inspection of the control object, the maximum values of the signal parameters and half-waves are determined: speed, acceleration and sharpness, there are no spectrum parameters. To determine the values of the intervals of uniform sampling of time, two groups of models of "harmonic half-waves" are considered. The first group of models is described by harmonic time functions whose parameters are consistent. The second group of models is described by composite harmonic functions of time, thereby the time parameters of the signals are consistent. It is proved that with an increase in the entropy of the maximum values of the signal parameters, the value of the time sampling interval increases without increasing the interpolation error. Thus, the entropy value of the signal parameters serves as an indicator of their inconsistency. The results of modeling and graphs obtained in the environment of the mathematical package are presented. The results are intended to optimize the loading of input tasks and primary information processing of processors in robust real-time automation systems, for example, used to control high-speed trains when braking in sliding or skidding mode.
First record of African Dusky Flycatcher on Robben Island
Authors: Oschadleus H. Dieter , Daniel Karis , Charlton Liam , Ellmore Felicity
Published: May 2024

An African Dusky Flycatcher Muscicapa adusta was observed on 23 May 2024 on Robben Island, Table Bay, South Africa. This brings the total number of bird species recorded on Robben Island to 166; the number reported since 2000 is 135.