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Preparing, Governing, and Managing the Paris Declaration Evaluation
Authors: Dabelstein Niels , Kliest Ted
Published: April 2023

Abstract: Joint or multi-partner evaluations are evaluations of development cooperation policies, programs, and projects in which different donors, development agencies, and partner countries participate. The complexities of a large number of diverse stakeholders and multiple units of analysis in joint evaluations pose significant governance and management challenges to ensure the evaluation’s independence, credibility, quality, and utility. This article reports how governance and management were structured and operated to facilitate the evaluation of the Paris Declaration. A common evaluation framework was established to facilitate synthesis. The integrity of national evaluations had to be ensured, including capacity-building and support as needed. National and international reference groups were established to ensure the engagement and buy-in of different stakeholder groups, including input and feedback to the core team that synthesized the results of the national evaluations. The article concludes with three important lessons about complex joint evaluations.
Dissemination and Early Use of the Paris Declaration Evaluation
Authors: Wood Bernard , Dabelstein Niels
Published: April 2023

Abstract: Reflecting the long experience of the main organizers of the Paris Declaration evaluation, dissemination and use of the national and synthesis evaluation results were conceived, born, and carried out with a consistent view to the usefulness of both its processes and products for policy. This shaped all aspects of the Evaluation: governance, stakeholder participation, setting the evaluation questions, design and implementation of the processes and methods, and injecting findings and recommendations into the policy bloodstream. The focus on utility imposed the challenges of combining rigorous evaluation with a high degree of transparency and accessibility for the intended users and audiences, while building a network of stakeholders sufficiently committed, engaged, and comfortable with the results to be able to champion them through the tools and channels available to them, individually and collectively. However, the early record of influence illustrates the limits of evaluation in the face of rapidly changing political agendas.
Evaluator Competencies and Professionalizing the Field: Where Are We Now?
Authors: Podems Donna
Published: April 2023

Abstract: This article addresses the question “What is happening around the globe in terms of evaluator competencies, and in what ways has this influenced the professionalization of evaluation?” Using a Development Evaluation framework to address this question, the article examines the five case narratives provided in this issue. Several common themes are identified and the arguments for and against evaluator competency lists are discussed. The article then grapples with the next steps related to identifying core competencies and conducting related research, and suggests a potential way forward.
Evaluability Assessment in Health Care: An Example of the Patient Care and Outcome Process
Authors: Casebeer A. , Thurston W. E.
Published: April 2023

Abstract: Evaluability assessment is a critical first step toward successful program evaluation. Programs aimed at making difficult and significant changes to important health care services must be open to both the encouragement and the critical review that follow systematic evaluation efforts. The article introduces the principles and values of evaluability assessment; provides an example of the application of this evaluation tool within a dynamic, rapidly changing health care environment; and identifies some lessons learned as a result of conducting the evaluability assessment.
Assessing Educational Programming from a Social Marketing Perspective: An Illustration
Authors: Hughes Andrew S. , Murphy H. Joseph
Published: April 2023

Abstract: This article considers the value of a social marketing perspective as a coherent and unifying framework where a large number of separate initiatives must be reviewed within the context of a single evaluation project. It presents a social marketing perspective as applied to evaluation and briefly illustrates the application of social marketing principles as program assessment standards in a review of public education programming in the Canadian Cancer Society.
Recent Advances in Questionnaire Design for Program Evaluation
Authors: Mason Greg
Published: April 2023

Abstract: Evaluation uses questionnaires as a central data-gathering technique, yet researchers often appear unaware of recent developments in questionnaire design. This article reviews issues beyond the creation of standardized questions and the basic rules researchers find useful in data collection. These elementary guidelines remain robust for much evaluation research and should not be abandoned hastily. However, rapid change in the theory underlying questionnaire design has important implications for evaluation. Three themes illustrate these changes. First, magnitude scales and their use in client satisfaction scales show how response categories can improve individual questions. Second, decision theory sees respondents as selecting “correct” responses from a portfolio of potential answers. In this view, the answer to a question is conditioned by the values held by the respondent and his or her perception about the risks of revealing true feelings. Third, in some cases it is possible to cast the entire questionnaire into a framework that replicates how choices are made by respondents. In one application, the questionnaire simulates the decision-making of a consumer in the market place. Each of these three themes is applied to problems evaluators face in data collection involving surveys and questionnaires.
Toward Effectiveness Assessment of Public Management Education in Canada: Convergence and Complementarity
Authors: Caro Denis H. J.
Published: April 2023

Abstract: A growing theme in management education literature is that of effectiveness assessment. Integrated effectiveness assessment systems represent a growing important challenge in public management education in Canada. This paper examines the service effectiveness framework that evolved from comprehensive auditing developments in the public domain. It presents an integrated model of effectiveness assessment systems and the current issues that impede its full development and implementation in Canada. Finally, the paper examines the evolving effectiveness assessment challenges that could fundamentally change public management education in Canada.
Participatory Evaluation in the Context of CBPD: Theory and Practice in International Development
Authors: Ottier Audrey
Published: April 2023

Abstract: This article reviews current trends in community-based participatory evaluation (CBPE) and presents an overview of related evaluation tools. These approaches have been widely implemented in an international arena, including Canada and the United States and the developing world. The theoretical approach guiding this article stems from current trends in international development thinking. The author argues that participatory evaluation is the most effective means of assessing community-based development initiatives. A comparative examination of three evaluation methodologies, however, reveals that not all those claiming to support the central tenets of CBPE actually promote democratic participation. This article reflects a growing international interest in CBPE and Canada’s participation in development efforts of this nature, both locally and in the global South.
Evaluability Assessment as a Tool for Research Network Development: Experiences of the Complementary and Alternative Medicine Education and Research Network of Alberta, Canada
Authors: Vanderheyden Laura , Verhoef Marja , Scott Catherine , Pain Kerrie
Published: April 2023

Abstract: Many research networks have emerged as means to increase research involvement, build research capacity, and develop a research culture, but little is known regarding their effectiveness. Evaluations require that networks have a clearly specified program theory and clearly specified objectives; many networks do not. This article describes the experience of the Complementary and Alternative Medicine Education and Research Network of Alberta, a network that undertook a modified evaluability assessment to assist in developing the network and to plan a meaningful evaluation. Lessons learned may help other research networks to think strategically and plan for effective evaluations.
Considérations théoriques et méthodologiques lors de l’évaluation de programmes d’intervention de crise
Authors: Touchette Luc , Pauzé Robert
Published: April 2023

Abstract: Intensive crisis programs have been the object of numerous evaluations and evaluative inquiries. Nevertheless, experts and researchers are unable to make clear statements about the effectiveness of these programs in helping families and children in crisis. Methodological bias and confusion in the definition and implementation of these programs may have contributed to the issue. This article identifies the main stakes in the evaluation of these programs and suggests solutions such as the early involvement of the evaluator in the program implementation process and new definitions of objectives and success criteria.
La méthode de cartographie conceptuelle pour identifier les priorités de recherche sur le transfert des connaissances en santé des populations : quelques enjeux méthodologiques
Authors: Dagenais Christian , Ridde Valéry , Laurendeau Marie-Claire , Souffez Karine
Published: April 2023

Abstract: This article discusses methodological issues in the use of the concept mapping technique in a study that identifies research priorities for perspectives on knowledge transfer in the field of population health. This method proved appropriate, and the results produced clearly identify research priorities from the viewpoint of both research and practice. We propose a critical analysis of methodological issues in the use of this technique to facilitate potential replication. Solutions are proposed to reduce obstacles encountered at each step of the procedure.
Learning Through Evaluation? Reflections on Two Federal Community-Building Initiatives
Authors: Bradford Neil , Chouinard Jill Anne
Published: April 2023

Abstract: In recent years, the federal government has launched numerous pilot projects to tackle complex, localized policy problems through new modes of governance involving vertical engagement with community-based organizations and horizontal collaboration across departments. A key purpose of these time-limited projects is policy learning, with an emphasis on action research and stakeholder dialogue to inform future innovation. However, realizing the possibilities for learning through pilot projects requires evaluation frameworks sensitive to the particular challenges of collaborative and community-based policy making. Through comparative case study analysis of two recent federal pilot projects, we highlight tensions in prevailing approaches and explore strategies for better alignment of federal evaluation frameworks with the needs and capacities of local communities.
Décentralisation et renforcement des capacités de suivi-évaluation des collectivités territoriales : expériences de l’afrique de l’ouest
Authors: Bay Sonia Le , Loquai Christiane
Published: April 2023

Abstract: Since the mid-1980s, there has been a growing interest in performance management and measurement tools for local authorities. Today, the debate on such tools also extends to developing countries, including the countries of West Africa. While the challenges faced when designing and using appropriate tools for performance measurement are of a somewhat different nature than in the industrialized countries, they are nevertheless very relevant for the international debate.
Performance Auditing and Policy Evaluation: Discussing Similarities and Dissimilarities
Authors: Leeuw Frans L.
Published: April 2023

Abstract: For a long time, policy evaluation and performance auditing, were quite distinct activities. In several supreme audit institutions in the industrialized world, there now appears to be a growing collaboration between auditors and evaluators. This paper focuses on possible similarities and dissimilarities of both professional activities. It also points at spin-offs from evaluation to auditing and from auditing to evaluation. The paper is based on the few case studies that are available, as well as on personal experiences of the author, both with auditing and evaluation inside the Netherlands.
Evaluating Participation in Community Programs: An Empowerment Paradigm
Authors: Boyce William
Published: April 2023

Abstract: This article introduces the paradigm of empowerment as being more appropriate for evaluation of community participation than the paradigm of efficiency. A variety of critical theories have been proposed as an expression of the empowerment paradigm. These theories, when applied to community evaluation problems, assume that there is conflict and unequal distribution of power between community groups. This unequal power is reflected in groups’ different abilities to make independent choices to meet their needs. Evaluation under the empowerment paradigm focuses on determining whether program reforms alter power relations between groups. An evaluation model for community participation in health promotion programs is presented as an illustration of the empowerment paradigm.
Sensitivity Analysis in Multicriteria Decision Aid: A Demonstration of Child Care Need Assessment
Authors: Skelton Ian
Published: April 2023

Abstract: Multicriteria Decision Aid (MCDA) can provide a useful framework for many types of evaluation problems. The article focuses on sensitivity analysis in MCDA and uses a sample problem of establishing priorities for child care service. The main steps in MCDA applications are outlined and some detail is provided on three types of aggregation procedures and on sensitivity analyses appropriate for each. Two general strategies for sensitivity analysis are discussed: comparative analysis, which is suitable for data on any scale; and calculative analysis, which requires cardinal data. Examples show how sensitivity analysis can be used to concentrate mediation efforts on the most important assumptions of an evaluation.
Evaluating the Outcomes of Literacy Training: A Feasibility Study
Authors: Madill Cheryl L. , Myers Anita M.
Published: April 2023

Abstract: Challenges inherent in evaluating literacy training programs include strict confidentiality policies, the reluctance to “test” students, irregular meeting schedules, and the limited attention span of low-literate students. Guided by interviews and focus groups, this project explored the feasibility of tutor-based assessments in three domains: cognitive skills, functional literacy, and literacy-related self-confidence. Over a period of one and a half years, the assessment battery was returned by 38 of 67 tutors from two literacy programs—one highly structured and curriculum based, the other learner centered. Level of formal education and program placement were found to be important indicators of functional performance and confidence. Length of time the student had been in the program, meanwhile, was unrelated to functional performance and inversely related to ratings of self-confidence. Recommendations for further evaluation of literacy programs are based on our findings regarding utility of the various measures, feasibility for administration, and acceptability to students, tutors, and program administrators.
Coming to Grips with Changing Canadian Health Care Organizations: Challenges for Evaluation
Authors: Myers Anita M.
Published: April 2023

Abstract: Canadian health care organizations are in the midst of rapid change. Reduced federal transfer payments have necessitated radical cost containment measures, including mergers, restructuring, downsizing, and outsourcing. At the same time, health care organizations are undergoing a transition in approach to management and accreditation, from quality assurance (QA) to continuous quality improvement (CQI). This article describes that transition, examines the status quo of evaluation activities in both QA-based and CQI-based organizations, and discusses some of the opportunities and challenges facing evaluators in the health care sector.
Peer Assessment of Evaluation Products: Practice in the Department of National Defence
Authors: Lewis Ira , Browell J. Edward
Published: April 2023

Abstract: Although evaluation reports produced in the Department of National Defence have been subject to peer assessment since 1972, limited evidence to support this practice was found in the evaluation literature. Peer assessments are used to ensure that evaluation standards have been met, to correct gaps in reasoning and errors, and to solicit insights from reviewers.
Le développement des capacités pour les évaluateurs de programmes: apporter une solution au mauvais problème?
Authors: Kishchuk Natalie
Published: April 2023

Abstract: Although the three articles in this segment propose well-founded systems for capacity development, they are fairly silent on the fundamental issue of how the development of the competencies of individual evaluators will improve the positioning of evaluation in public management and expand evaluation’s contribution to societal change. Without disagreeing with the move toward capacity development of evaluators, this article notes that the evaluation function within public systems remains underdeveloped and underfunded and recommends parallel progress on other fronts toward more adequate resources and structures in evaluation.
Comment favoriser la réussite d’une démarche d’implantation d’un programme au sein d’un milieu d’intervention : leçons tirées d’une étude de cas
Authors: Lanctôt Nadine , Chouinard Julie
Published: April 2023

Abstract: Using a case study methodology, this article describes the process of implementing a cognitive-behavioural program in eight residential facilities in a Centre jeunesse du Québec. The objectives were to better understand the steps required to consolidate the implementation of the program and to identify structural factors that facilitate and impede the progress of successful implementation. Documentary analysis and qualitative interviews allowed deconstruction of the implementation process into seven phases: initial reluctance, training, exploration, resistance, application, reconciliation, and integration. The analysis shows that several structural factors have a noteworthy influence on the implementation process in this case study: the opportunities for discussion, the quality of the program to be implemented, the organizational context, and the team social climate. These factors largely shape the framework of the implementation process. The results of the case study may be useful in other implementation processes, allowing identification of potential difficulties and the mechanisms required for their resolution.
Development of a Framework for Comprehensive Evaluation of Client Outcomes in Community Mental Health Services
Authors: Bishop Joan E. H. , Vingilis Evelyn
Published: April 2023

Abstract: The conduct of outcomes research on clients with serious mental illness using community mental health services is a challenge. Causal models with inclusion of mediating and moderating variables from social sciences evaluation methods provide a framework for conceptualizing and evaluating the complexity of community mental health services. This article presents the conceptualization and development of a framework for comprehensive evaluation of client outcomes in community mental health services and describes a case example of operationalizing and testing the framework in an evaluation of Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. The initial framework was developed by hypothesizing a cause-effect pathway and links among delivered treatment variables, the implementation system, external factors, and intermediate and longer term outcomes. The framework was further validated and modified through stakeholder input. All variables identified in the framework were then operationally defined and instruments with good psychometric properties were chosen to measure the variables. This framework can provide a generic example for the conduct of community mental health evaluations.
Challenges in Applying Indigenous Evaluation Practices in Mainstream Grant Programs to Indigenous Communities
Authors: Grover Jane Gray
Published: April 2023

Abstract: How can indigenous evaluators implement culturally competent models in First Nations communities while ensuring that government grant evaluation requirements are met? Through describing the challenges in one tribal community in the United States, this article will discuss how American Indian/Alaska Native substance abuse prevention programs are evaluating the implementation and outcomes of Strategic Prevention Framework grants from the federal government’s Center for Substance Abuse Prevention. Requirements for implementing evidence-based programs normed on other populations and for evaluating data based on quantitative methods add to the challenge. Throughout the process, much is being learned that it is hoped will strengthen indigenous grantees and increase the cultural competence of government evaluation requirements.
Une analyse du processus d’évaluation de la politique régionale de santé dans le nord pas-de-calais (France)
Authors: Jabot Françoise , Turgeon Jean
Published: April 2023

Abstract: In France, health policy evaluation is a recent development. The evaluation conducted in the Nord Pas-de-Calais region is of particular interest in that it deals with a policy and its programs. The article presents an analysis of the various questions tackled in this evaluation and compares them to the questions in a program evaluation scale based on a sequential progression. Evaluation culture in France appears to be characterized by an approach that is both pluralist and evaluation criteria-based, which reflects the normative, or judgment-focussed, dimension of the activity. The comparison examines the relationship between the questions in the scale and the criteria approach taken in France to identify similarities between the two approaches and advance thinking on evaluation in France as well as in Canada.
A Journey Through Five Evaluation Projects with the Same Analysis Framework
Authors: Gervais Marie
Published: April 2023

Abstract: Evaluation is increasingly called upon to act in support of the management and accountability process, regardless of the field of activity. Often conducted in a complex and changing environment, it must make allowances for different interests and challenges that might occur at a number of levels. In this context, the analytical framework developed by the author may prove to be an interesting tool to organize planning of the evaluation process and for the interpretation of related results. In addition to a description of the five dimensions of this framework, a number of examples of use will be presented. A critical analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the analysis framework, along with its principal contributions to the evaluation processes where it is in use, will be conducted based on comments issued to date by some of its users.
La fidélité de l’implantation d’un programme d’intervention pour des adolescentes agressées sexuellement : une mesure par observation systématique
Authors: Paquette Geneviève , Joly Jacques , Tourigny Marc
Published: April 2023

Abstract: Reported here is a first study of the implementation fidelity group intervention program for sexually abused adolescent girls, consisting of 18 sessions centered on 9 themes. Through systematic observation of the intervention protocol used with two groups of adolescents, the case study describes implementation fidelity and its evolution. Results show that the first group outperformed the second in terms of implementation adherence. Levels of participation were similar between groups but quality appears to have improved for the second group. The activities implemented lasted longer than planned in both groups. Results are discussed in light of the factors that promote fidelity and the debate between fidelity and adaptation.
L’étude des mécanismes de changement, une avenue de recherche prometteuse pour optimiser les programmes de traitement destinés aux jeunes en difficulté : enjeux conceptuels et méthodologiques
Authors: Tougas Anne-Marie , Tourigny Marc
Published: April 2023

Abstract: To date, many treatment programs for troubled youth have been shown to be effective on the basis of rigorous studies, but the processes responsible for the success of these programs are still unknown. This article presents the study of mechanisms of change as a promising research avenue for optimizing treatment programs based on their capacity to identify why, how, for whom, and in what contexts they work best. The theory-driven approach to program evaluation is proposed as a useful framework to guide the identification of potential mediating and moderating variables in treatment outcomes. Finally, conceptual and methodological clarifications are provided, illustrated by examples based on treatment programs for children with problematic sexual behaviour or for juvenile sex offenders.
Interpreting Pain: On Women’s Embodiment and Dialogical Self-Understanding
Authors: Davis Karen E.
Published: April 2023

The experience of chronic pain can disrupt an understanding of oneself in terms of ability and possibility. In response, the pain sufferer needs an understanding conversation partner to help reinterpret their sense of self. Yet women in pain often encounter neglect, disbelief, or worse in today’s medical institutions. They may end up seeking the authoritative pronouncement of a diagnosis rather than a partner in recovery. We must develop new language and new relationships within the medical field for helping women in pain renegotiate their self-understanding and reinvigorate their engagement with the world and others through dialogue and play.
ReclaimingHeimat, Uprooting National Socialism in Anna Seghers’s “Das Ende”
Authors: Riddle Lucas
Published: April 2023

This article explores Anna Seghers’s use of nature and pastoral writing in her exile tale “Das Ende” (1945). I argue that, by writing a story in which villagers and nature work together to hunt and rid Germany’s war-torn landscape of Zillich, a former concentration camp guard, Seghers engages critically with German traditions of Heimat writing to “reclaim” the style as a productive mode to depict the monumental task of rebuilding Germany after the Second World War. Much of Anna Seghers’s postwar and exile works refl ect in literature what she viewed as the responsibility of writers to contribute to the re-education and denazifi cation of the German people during and following the war. “Das Ende” is no exception; it seeks to understand how fascism permeated the minds and hearts of ordinary Germans, and the work Germans must undertake to overcome such indoctrination.
“Hollow Men” andÜbermenschen: The Aporia of Competing Intertextual Motifs in Elfriede Jelinek’sRechnitz (Der Würgeengel)
Authors: Hellig Isabella
Published: April 2023

Elfriede Jelinek’s 2009 play, Rechnitz (Der Würgeengel), concerns the 1945 massacre of approximately 180 Jewish men in the eponymous town of Rechnitz. Like much of Jelinek’s oeuvre, the play brings Austria’s fraught relationship with its National Socialist past into question, for which the Rechnitz massacre is an analogy. In the postdramatic appropriation of the Greek chorus that dominates her work, Jelinek crafts a distinctive pastiche of (often creatively [mis]appropriated) intertextual imagery to decidedly satirical effect. The diametric contradiction between the intertextual motifs of Friedrich Nietzsche’s Übermensch and T. S. Eliot’s “hollow man” in Rechnitz (Der Würgeengel) poses a double standard and a fundamental aporia. On the one hand, the perpetrators’ weakness is applauded, while on the other, the massacre victims are derided for being too weak to prevent their own deaths. Such a contradiction signals Jelinek’s trademark postdramatic satire, and in turn the duplicitousness she posits as inherent to the myth of Austrian non-participation in the Holocaust.
قطر وبطولة كأس العالم لكرة القدم 2020: السياسة والجدل والتغير
Authors: حمشي محمد
Published: April 2023

عنوان الكتاب في لغته: Qatar and the 2022 FIFA World Cup: Politics, Controversy, Change.
المؤلف: بول مايكل براناغان Paul Michael Brannagan ودانيال رايخ Danyel Reiche.
سنة النشر: 2022 .
مكان النشر والنا شر: سويسرا: بالغراف ماكميلان.
عدد الصفحات: 186 صفحة.
Minimizing sequences for a linear-quadratic control problem with three-tempo variables under weak nonlinear perturbations
Authors: Kurina G.A. , Kalashnikova M.A.
Published: April 2023

The paper deals with the construction of minimizing sequences for the problem of minimizing a weakly nonlinearly perturbed quadratic performance index on trajectories of a weakly nonlinear system with threetempo state variables. For this purpose, the so-called direct scheme for constructing an asymptotic solution is used, which consists in immediate substituting the postulated asymptotic expansion of the solution into the problem conditions and constructing a series of optimal control problems (in the case under consideration, linear-quadratic ones), the solutions of which are terms of the asymptotic expansion of the solution of the original nonlinear control problem. An estimate is obtained for the proximity of the optimal trajectory to the trajectory of the equation of state when some asymptotic approximation to the optimal control is used as a control. An example is given that illustrates in detail the proposed scheme for constructing minimizing sequences.
Miastenia gravis adquirida em cão da raça Golden Retriever: Relato de caso
Authors: Caetano Zaiden Letícia , Moraes Júlia de Miranda
Published: April 2023

A Miastenia gravis (MG) é a doença mais comum da junção neuromuscular em cães e gatos, cujas manifestações clínicas variam dependendo de sua classificação, podendo ser classificada em focal ou generalizada e em congênita ou adquirida. É comum gerar como consequência megaesôfago e pneumonia aspirativa, sendo muito importante que ambas as enfermidades sejam identificadas e tratadas. O padrão-ouro para o diagnóstico de MG em cães e gatos é a mensuração da concentração dos autoanticorpos contra receptores nicotínicos de acetilcolina (AChR) pelo rádioimunoensaio. Todavia, outra maneira é pela administração de inibidores da acetilcolinesterase. Para esse diagnóstico, em que se espera uma melhora explícita da fraqueza muscular. O tratamento se baseia no uso de inibidores da acetilcolinesterase, como o Brometo de piridostigmina e neostigmina, imuno-supressor tratamento de suporte. Este trabalho objetivou relatar o caso de um cão, idoso, da raça Golden Retriever, diagnosticado com Miastenia gravis adquirida que evoluiu da forma focal para a generalizada e desenvolveu megaesôfago e pneumonia aspirativa secundariamente.
Uso da ozonioterapia no tratamento de dermatite úmida aguda em cães: Relato de três casos
Authors: Santos Jéssica dos , Souza Marcos Gonçalves de , Seixas Ferreira Barbosa Nathalia , Bueno Rita de Cássia Lopes , Fernandes Danieli Rankel
Published: April 2023

As dermatopatias integram os maiores problemas clínicos na rotina de animais de pequeno porte. O presente trabalho objetiva relatar três casos com recuperação clínica de feridas de animais que foram tratados somente com uso da ozonioterapia, com intuito de atenuar o uso indiscriminado de antibióticos e outros medicamentos, contribuindo para redução da resistência aos antimicrobianos. Ao final do tratamento, os cães acompanhados mostraram resultado satisfatório, com reparação completa do tecido, sem a necessidade do uso de outros tratamentos. O gás ozônio possui propriedades de oxidação da membrana celular e seus componentes citoplasmáticos, assim, consequentemente eliminando os microrganismos presentes, tornando-se um gás fungicida, bactericida e viricida. Esse tratamento é característico por melhorar a circulação e aumentar a oxigenação tecidual, diminuindo a agregação de plaquetas e melhorando as respostas do sistema imunológico. Por ser um tratamento menos invasivo, com respostas satisfatórias, é uma ótima opção para os tutores, que, atualmente, estão buscando maior qualidade de vida e bem-estar para seus animais, proporcionando melhores condições para viver com menor uso de medicações.
Uso de cannabis medicinal no tratamento da doença intestinal inflamatória em felino: Relato de caso
Authors: Novais Carla Lemos , Roberto Veridiana Soares , Blaitt Regina Maria Nascimento Augusto , Oliveira Elisângela França de
Published: April 2023

A doença intestinal inflamatória (DII) em felinos é decorrente de uma resposta imune exacerbada a presença de antígenos na mucosa gastrointestinal. Essa afecção é uma das principais causas de vômitos e diarreias crônicas em pequenos animais, não apresentando predisposição sexual e sendo observada em animais de meia idade. O tratamento mais empregado é a terapia imunossupressora, que de maneira ideal, deve ser diminuída gradativamente até ser completamente suspensa. Porém, alguns animais precisam de uma terapia a longo prazo, que pode acarretar uma série de efeitos colaterais. Pensando em uma alternativa terapêutica menos deletéria, esse trabalho tem como objetivo relatar o caso de um felino da raça persa, macho, de seis anos de idade, diagnosticado com DII que foi encaminhado para o tratamento com a cannabis medicinal. O animal chegou com um histórico de diarreia com hematoquezia e êmese após a tentativa de diminuição da dose de budesonida. A budesonida foi trocada pela prednisolona e foi receitado o óleo de cannabis, com evolução gradativa da dose administrada, até a interrupção completa dos sinais clínicos. Após o ajuste de doses, foi possível observar a melhora clínica do felino, que além de não apresentar mais sintomas gastrointestinais, se mostrou menos receoso a situações que, anteriormente a terapia canábica, geravam estresse e alterações comportamentais. Considerando a evolução do quadro clínico e do bem-estar do animal, sugere-se que o uso da cannabis medicinal no tratamento da DII, foi eficaz.
Do grafite ao cinema, letramentos visuais e educação linguística dão as mãos
Authors: Ferraz Daniel , Mizan Souzana
Published: April 2023

O livro apresenta discussões em torno dos estudos das imagens em contexto de pós-graduação. A primeira parte - Letramentos Visuais e Sociedade - problematiza o cinema, as redes sociais, as artes fotográficas e o grafite. A segunda parte – Letramentos Visuais e Educação Linguística – nos brinda com capítulos que versam sobre a educação linguística e letramentos visuais nas aulas de língua inglesa, língua espanhola e língua portuguesa. Conversamos sobre os monumentos históricos, formação docente, projetos de educação linguística para o ensino médio, EJA e para alunos portadores de TDAH.
Os alterlugares do corpo: a diáspora caribenha de Shani Mootoo
Authors: Moyano Thiago Marcel , Ilari Mayumi , Ferraz Daniel
Published: April 2023

Este livro se dedica a uma leitura crítica da obra da escritora queer, indo-caribenha, radicada no Canadá, Shani Mootoo. Interlaçando teorias de gênero, feminismo, pós-colonialismo e diásporas contemporâneas, esse trabalho analisa a obra da autora, desde o início dos anos 1990 até as primeiras décadas do século 21. A partir da noção de “Alterlugares”, proposta nesse trabalho, a constituição de subjetividades queer e pós-coloniais será colocada em primeiro plano na investigação do texto literário.
O ensino da escrita em inglês em um curso de idiomas: um estudo de caso
Authors: Carvalho Daniela Cleusa de Jesus , Ilari Mayumi , Ferraz Daniel
Published: April 2023

A demanda da escrita em inglês no cenário global tem crescido exponencialmente, impondo a necessidade de seu ensino com qualidade no Brasil. Esta obra investiga o ensino da escrita em inglês no nível avançado de uma escola de inglês. A pesquisa revela a disparidade entre as práticas declaradas e as efetivamente observadas. A escrita se torna crucial para o desenvolvimento profissional e acadêmico, logo, não promover seu ensino pode ser culminar na negação de participação global e desenvolvimento econômico.
AN AUSTRALIAN INDIGENOUS DIASPORA: Warlpiri Matriarchs and the Refashioning of Tradition
Authors: Burke Paul
Published: April 2023

Some indigenous people, while remaining attached to their traditional homelands, leave them to make a new life for themselves in white towns and cities, thus constituting an “indigenous diaspora”. This innovative book is the first ethnographic account of one such indigenous diaspora, the Warlpiri, whose traditional hunter-gatherer life has been transformed through their dispossession and involvement with ranchers, missionaries, and successive government projects of recognition. By following several Warlpiri matriarchs into their new locations, far from their home settlements, this book explores how they sustained their independent lives, and examines their changing relationship with the traditional culture they represent.
ALL TOMORROW'S CULTURES: Anthropological Engagements with the Future
Authors: Collins Samuel Gerald
Published: April 2023

The first edition of All Tomorrow’s Cultures explored the legacy of futures-thinking in anthropology and marked the beginning of a resurgence of interest in anthropological futures. The new edition has been updated to reflect some of the outpouring of work since then, particularly in science and technology studies and in anthropological analyses of indigenous futures. In addition, Collins has updated the final chapter to expand the field of anthropological possibility in an age of both despair and hope.
AMNESIA REMEMBERED: Reverse Engineering a Digital Artifact
Authors: Aycock John
Published: April 2023

Our modern culture is increasingly expressed in the form of digital artifacts, yet archaeology is in its infancy when it comes to researching and understanding them. The study and reverse engineering of digital artifacts is no longer the exclusive domain of computer scientists. Presented by way of analogy to the process of archaeological fieldwork familiar to readers, the 1986 Electronic Arts game Amnesia is used as a vehicle to explain the procedure and thought process required to reverse engineer a digital artifact. As a go-to reference to learn how to begin studying the digital, Amnesia is shown to be a multi-layered artifact with a complex backstory; through it, topics in data compression, copy protection, memory management, and programming languages are covered.
THE BURDEN OF GERMAN HISTORY: A Transatlantic Life
Authors: Jarausch Konrad H.
Published: April 2023

As one of the leading historians of Modern Europe and an internationally acclaimed scholar for the past five decades, Konrad H. Jarausch presents a sustained academic reflection on the post-war German effort to cope with the guilt of the Holocaust amongst a generation of scholars too young to have been perpetrators. Ranging from his war-time childhood to Americanization as a foreign student, from his development as a professional historian to his directorship of the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung and concluding with his mentorship of dozens of PhDs, The Burden of Germany History reflects on the emergence of a self-critical historiography of a twentieth-century Germany that was wrestling with the responsibility for war and genocide. This partly professional and partly personal autobiography explores a wide range of topics including the development of German historiography and its methodological debates, the interdisciplinary teaching efforts in German studies, and the role of scholarly organizations and institutions.
THE RICH AND THE POOR IN MODERN EUROPE,: 1890-2020 A Historian’s Response to Recent Debates among Economists
Authors: Kaelble Hartmut
Published: April 2023

As social inequality grows, historical analysis on wealth and income distribution across the 20th century often does not take into account inequality of education, health, housing and chances of social mobility, nor does it differentiate statistical inequality from the realities of peoples’ actualexperience. With this broad understanding in mind, in a long look back on the history of social inequality in Europe, The Rich and the Poor in Modern Europe addresses these neglected subjects. It also tackles the commonplace notion that modern capitalism inevitably produces wealth gaps and asks whether the facts and figures we possess also lead to alternate interpretations of examples of mitigated inequality. Covering the 20th century and the beginnings of the 21st century in Europe through wars, and economic crises, through periods of unprecedented economic prosperity and staggering economies, both exacerbating and dampening the problem, acclaimed historian Hartmut Kaelble offers a rigorous response to understanding our present-day challenge of social inequality.
AZAMACROCYCLIC Cr(III) COMPLEXES: SYNTHESIS AND SPECTROSCOPIC STUDIES
Authors: Kumar Sushil , Soam Shweta , Chandra Sulekh , Kaushik Hariom Kumar
Published: April 2023

The new tetra dentate aza-macrocyclic ligands LA prepared by 2,6 –diamino pyridine and 3-methyl-2,4-pentadione, Ligand LB prepared by 2,6-diamino-pyridine and 3-ethyl-2,4-pentadione, Ligand LC was prepared with the reaction of 5-bromo-2,3-diamino-pyridine with. 3-methyl-2,4-pentadione and Ligand LD were prepared with the reaction of 5-bromo-2,3-diamino-pyridine with 3-ethyl-2,4-pentadione. Ethyl Alcohol was used in the preparation of ligands as a solvent. All the Ligands were characterized with the help of elemental and spectral studies. Cr(III) complexes were prepared with these newly synthesized ligands. All the newly synthesized Chromium complexes are known to bind with overall composition M(L)X3 [where {M Cr(III), X = Cl- , & NO3,}]. Cr(III) complexes are categorized by electronic spectral studies, Electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy, Infrared spectroscopy, mass spectroscopy, magnetic susceptibility measurements, and conductivity bridge measurements, and with the help of these studies Cr(III) complexes were allocated with octahedral geometry.
SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF HYDROXY PROPYL METHYL CELLULOSE-BASED CITRIC ACID CROSSLINKED NANOGELS OBTAINED VIA GREEN PROTOCOL
Authors: Dharela Rohini , Kaushik Anupama , S. Chauhan Ghanshyam
Published: April 2023

Nanogels are versatile tools in the hands of a biochemist, increasingly being used for medicinal applications and as bio-sensing tools. The utilization of biopolymer-based nano gels is a field that still has much exploration to be done. In this article, we will study the Hydroxypropyl Methyl Cellulose (HPMC)-based Citric Acid (CA) cross-linked nanogels synthesized via a green protocol. The nanogels were synthesized following a novel technique without using a surfactant at 55°C by employing citric acid as a crosslinker and Acryl Amide (AAm) as a co-polymer. The nanogels synthesized were categorized with swelling studies, FTIR, Particle size Analyzers and FESEM that provided proof for co-polymer synthesis and nanogel formation. The particle size analysis of HPMC-copoly(AAm)-cl-CA nanogels indicated a particle size below 10nm with spherical nature that was supported by FESEM data that presented spherical particles with a size below 50nm. The swelling studies carried out at acidic (4.0) and basic pH (7.0) exhibited their pH sensitivity as the nanogels showed 40% higher swelling at 7.0 pH than 4.0 indicating these could be utilized for site-specific drug delivery.
QUALITY TEST OF CMC (CARBOXYMETHYL CELLULOSE) USING SEMI-BATCH REAKTOR
Authors: R. Futeri  , Samah S.D. , Putri G.R.
Published: April 2023

Carboxymethyl Cellulose, one of the additives commonly used in the industrial sector, is carboxymethyl cellulose. The state of the art of this research is because no research makes a reactor to manufacture carboxymethyl cellulose. This study tested the quality of making carboxymethyl cellulose using a semi-batch reactor using samples of potential organic cellulose waste materials: durian seeds, taro rods, and bagasse. This sample has been used to make carboxymethyl cellulose in previous studies using a laboratory scale. Then compared, the manufacture of carboxymethyl cellulose using a reactor laboratory scale. From the result obtained, carboxymethyl cellulose from durian seeds, taro rod, and bagasse made on a laboratory scale and using a reactor has become carboxymethyl cellulose in quality number 1 and 2, which are commonly called carboxymethyl cellulose industrial grade and food chemical codex quality which met the minimum quality requirements by SNI 8762; 2019. Carboxymethyl cellulose from durian seeds, taro rod, and bagasse obtained from research that has been tested with FTIR, the spectra of the best results of carboxymethyl cellulose from durian seeds, taro rod, and bagasse can be seen in the picture there are similar peaks that appear indicates carboxymethyl cellulose durian seeds, carboxymethyl cellulose taro rod, and carboxymethyl cellulose bagasse produced in this study have the same chemical molecule as industrial grade and food chemical codex.1.2
Desmostachya bipinnata: A FOCUSED REVIEW ON ETHNOBOTANY, PHYTOCONSTITUENTS AND BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES
Authors: Putta Sanjay Kumar , K. B. Koteshwara , Kamath Venkatesh , Ram H. N. Aswatha
Published: April 2023

Traditionally Desmostachya bipinnata (D. bipinnata) known as darbh is commonly used in day-to-day life in various rituals. It is used for the treatment of cuts, wounds, and dysentery and used as a diuretic. The present study aimed in reviewing the botanical, phytoconstituents, biological activities, and some other activities of darbh. This study’s findings are based on a review of the literature conducted using search engines such as BioMed Central, SpringerLink, Scopus, Google Scholar, PubMed, Web of Science, and Science Direct. The extracts prepared from the plant are reported with various biological activities like an antibiotic, antioxidant, cytotoxic, anti-inflammatory, analgesic, antiulcer, anti-diarrhea, antipyretic, analgesic, and antihistamine activities, etc. The plant contains multiple phytoconstituents which include carbohydrates, alkaloids, steroids, proteins, glycosides, flavonoids, saponins, coumarins, volatile oils, tannins, and phenolic compounds. Its phytoconstituents are used as a biosorbent for the removal of heavy metals from industrial waste and also have great potential as a herbal medicine in treating several diseases, but more research is proving the activities of D. bipinnata by animal models is needed to link its medicinal uses to its phytochemistry and pharmacological properties.
ROLE OF FUNCTIONALIZED CHITIN-EDTA AS A PROMISING ADSORBENT FOR WATER PURIFICATION
Authors: Verma Manisha , Gautam Drashya , Yadav Ravina , Kumar Vikrant , Hooda Sunita , Dheer Neelu
Published: April 2023

Reactive chemical dyes widely used in colouring fabrics are primarily responsible for contaminating water leading to rampant water pollution. In this paper, we report the synthesis of Chitin modified with EDTA nanoparticles and its efficacy as a dye adsorbent. Physicochemical techniques such as XRD, SEM, and FTIR have been used for characterizing the as-synthesized nanocomposite. The synthesized nanocomposite was examined to check its adsorption efficacy with respect to Rhodamine 6G dye as a function of various variables. The adsorption equilibrium for EDTA-CH nanocomposite was determined using various isotherm models. The thermodynamic parameters ∆G0 , ∆S0 , and ∆H0 were also evaluated to check the dynamics of the dye adsorption process on EDTA-CH biopolymer. Our analysis showed that EDTA-CH can effectively adsorb cationic dyes and thus help in solving the problem of water pollution.