bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
À luz do riso: entrelaçamentos possíveis entre a performatividade da luz e a comicidade
Authors: Leris Pereira Sugiyama Milena
Published: September 2022

Este estudo busca evidenciar a interferência mútua existente entre a iluminação cênica e a comicidade quando colocadas em relação. As evidências surgem dos pontos de encontros traçados entre o conceito de performatividade da luz, de Nadia Luciani, e a análise do riso na história do pensamento, de Verena Alberti. Entre pandemia e isolamento, ambos os universos mesclam-se em movimentos feitos em uma mesa de luz improvisada e metafórica com o objetivo de dar luz à investigação e permitir vislumbrar, enfim, uma luz “cheia de graça”. A cada movimento desta mesa/pesquisa a iluminação demonstra ser mais do que instrumento de visibilidade, tornando-se afetação sensível e construção de sentido a partir da ação da operadora de luz. A fim de comprovar a proposta da investigação, um de seus movimentos dedica-se à análise de números cômicos nos quais a luz tem ação fundamental na composição da cena cômica.
Teatro lambe-lambe: uma intervenção no cotidiano dos transeuntes
Authors: Ramos de Queiroz Rômulo
Published: September 2022

A pesquisa analisa o Teatro Lambe-Lambe como intervenção no cotidiano de transeuntes em meio às aglomerações urbanas. Investiga, através de cinco intervenções com os espetáculos A Noiva e Solitude, apresentados em lugares distintos de Pernambuco, de que forma o palco-caixa afeta o fluxo dos transeuntes. Como metodologia, foram feitas breves entrevistas com os espectadores, colhendo relatos sobre suas sensações e reações após bisbilhotarem a caixa. O trabalho traz uma breve contextualização histórica sobre os antecedentes da animação e os dispositivos ópticos. Aborda, também, o surgimento dos fotógrafos ambulantes, a origem do Teatro Lambe-Lambe, seus 30 anos de existência e sua relação com a rua. Finaliza com uma análise dos resultados alcançados durante as intervenções.
Mães dos jogos: uma história de uma comunidade de aprendizagem a partir de um coletivo de mães na escola
Authors: Adolfo Vidal Felipe
Published: September 2022

A partir de relatos de entrevistas e do método autoetnográfico, a pesquisa conta a história do projeto Mães dos Jogos desenvolvido na EMEIF Maria da Graça de Souza, Vila Floresta, Santo André, cidade do ABC Paulista, que tinha por objetivo que mães de alunos fabricassem e aplicassem jogos em horário de aula a fim de diminuir as dificuldades dos alunos com os conteúdos das matérias, é discutido com ajuda de Paulo Freire, bell hooks, Allan da Rosa e Carminda Mendes André. O território em que o espaço da escola está inserido, o fazer dos jogos por essas mães. Depois, é abordada as práticas da comunidade de aprendizagem que se formou. E por fim é feita uma análise sobre a gestão da escola e os caminhos que viabilizaram as ações do projeto Mães dos Jogos e os fazeres artísticos teatrais.
A field and laboratory study for effect of heat on some chemical properties of soils of Northeastern of Libya
Authors: Eldiabani Gibrel Salah  , Hale William H.G  , Heron Carl P
Published: September 2022

Libya is one of semi-arid regions in the world except in a small area called (Aljabal Alakhdar) forests. It is the only wet area in Libya. This region exposing to encroachments such as burning parts of it to convert trees to charcoal trees and other purposes. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effects of heat on chemical properties of soil of Aljabal Alakhdar. The chemical properties of soil following heat in two geographic areas were determined in one coastal (old burned) and one mountain site (recently burned). The properties studied were: soil moisture content, soil particle size, soil electrical conductivity (EC), soil pH and soluble Na, K, Ca and Mg, a soluble Cl, HCO3 and SO4. The results showed except for the soil particle size, heat has a clear effect on the soils in the two studied areas. It is particularly interesting to note that many of the results when assessed by ANOVA, showed these properties were affected by heat and very few of the data sets proved to be showing no or low significance due to the effect of heat. This is still true at the coastal site even though the burned area there affected by heat several years ago. However, the affected parameters showed a recovery towards unburned levels with time, being less strongly different in the coastal site than in the mountain site. Many of these effects are pronounced in the upper soil layer, reflecting the rapid decline in temperatures with soil depth.
Acute anterior uveitis following severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection
Authors: Tsukii Rika , Kasuya Yuka , Makino Shinji
Published: September 2022

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DETERMINAN VARIABEL WORD OF MOUTH (WOM) DAN ISLAMIC BRAND IMAGE TERHADAP KEPUTUSAN PEMBELIAN PROPERTI SYARIAH (THE MATA RESIDENCE KABUPATEN GOWA)
Authors: Soumena Fadly Yashari , Qayyum Nurul
Published: September 2022

Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan Kuantitatif Deskriptif. Data yang digunakan bersifat primer dengan menggunakan kuesioner dan observasi. Metode analisis yang digunakan adalah Uji regresi linear berganda. Populasi dalam penelitian ini ialah semua konsumen yang melakukan pembelian perumahan syariah The Mata Residence di Kecamatan Pattallassang Kabupaten Gowa, sedangkan sampel yang dimanfaatkan dalam penelitian ini sebanyak 50 responden. Secara parsial hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa (1) Word of Mouth (WoM) berpengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap keputusan pembelian perumahan syariah The Mata Residence di Kecamatan Pattallassang Kabupaten Gowa. (2) Islamic Brand Image berpengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap keputusan pembelian perumahan syariah The Mata Residence di Kecamatan Pattallassang Kabupaten Gowa. (3) Word of Mouth (WoM) dan Islamic Brand Image secara bersama-sama/simultan berpengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap keputusan pembelian perumahan syariah The Mata Residence di Kecamatan Pattallassang Kabupaten Gowa. WoM dan islamic brand memberikan kontribusi pada keputusan pembelian, selama ini perumahan The Mata Residence tidak terjadi adanya denda atau sita jika terjadi penundaan pembayaran. Sehingga, dalam mengatasi masalah tersebut untuk para pencari rumah sebelum membeli properti syariah, cek terlebih dahulu karena dikhawatirkan momentum justru akan dimanfaatkan para pengembang nakal yang ingin mendapatkan keuntungan pribadi atau merusak nama syariah. Konsumen harus berhati-hati jangan sampai niatnya syariah tapi malah tertipu  dikemudian hari.
Analytical Study of the Cohesion Libraries and Historical Research; A Case of Libraries, Research and Muslim’s Historiography in Sub-continent (A Historical Analysis)
Authors: Sakhani Dr. Sohail Akhtar , Qazi Dr. Rashida , Subhani Dr. Mamuna
Published: September 2022

In the discipline of intelligentsia literature on various topic of research has been considered significant through ages while the best option to preserve the literature as a place of the documentary material i.e. books or other documents for research is library. In recent times, libraries have found a very high place in the field of historical research. This refers to a place where books are kept in an organized form by giving them a holistic form. By this we can also mean that the library is a collection of material that is helpful not only for study but also for research on various topics that can benefit everyone, including students, researchers and the general reader. The flourishing of knowledge is a reflection of full dedication to the pursuit of knowledge. Wherever knowledge is sought, blessings, blessings, good tidings and accomplishments are revealed. The establishment and existence of the library is very old in the history of the world, but from the time of Greece, the library gained a prominent place in the development of knowledge and literature. This research paper, in fact, clarifies and highlights the usefulness of libraries and historiography with books in the presence of modern scientific sources of innovation, as well as offers a historical analysis of the importance of books in this advanced age.
Análise microbiológica e eficiência da desinfecção com álcool 70% em aparelhos de
Authors: Rodrigues Juliane Alves , Guilhon Karina Raquel Machado , Santos Danyelle Cristina Pereira , Furtado Haryne Lizandrey Azevedo , Gomes Paulo Dyago Borges , Pereira Ludmylla Fernanda Almeida , Viana Pâmela Ruth Santos , Nunes Márcio Anderson Sousa , Rêgo Adriana Sousa , Aliança Amanda Silva dos Santos , Silva Maria Raimunda Chagas , Sabbadini Priscila Soares , Firmo Wellyson da Cunha Araújo
Published: September 2022

O objetivo do trabalho foi analisar os microrganismos presentes em aparelhos de academia e a eficiência da desinfecção com álcool 70%. Foi realizada uma pesquisa experimental, descritiva e quantitativa. A coleta foi realizada em superfícies de aparelhos/equipamentos de academia de uma instituição de ensino privada, antes e após desinfecção, em seguida as colônias crescidas foram identificadas pelo teste de coloração de Gram, prova de catalase e crescimento em Ágar manitol, e realizado o teste de susceptibilidade aos antibióticos. As placas de cultura apresentaram crescimento de colônias bacteriológicas antes da limpeza, e também foi possível observar crescimento em algumas placas após a desinfecção, ainda que em menor expressividade. Na identificação, houve predominância de Staphylococcus aureus, que apresentou boa sensibilidade ao norfloxacino (73%) e a eritromicina (59%), e resistência à penicilina (100%) e ertapenem (67%). Todas as superfícies dos instrumentos estudados estavam contaminadas e, apesar da eficácia do álcool 70%, são necessárias formas adicionais de prevenção.
Sustainability policies and strategies for Indonesian millennials and the role of environmental law experts
Authors: Sembiring Tamaulina Br , Maruf Irma Rachmawati , Bangkara B. M. A. S. Anaconda , Fatmawati Endang , Purbaningsih Yuli
Published: September 2022

This study discusses the issue of government strategies and policies on a sustainable environment for Indonesian millennials and the contribution and role of legal experts to protect the environment rather than environmental law experts who contribute to sustainability and sustainability in the form of policies and strategies. To prove this, we reviewed several publications, books, and journals, which we then analyzed carefully to obtain valid and convincing answers from scientific evidence sources, both in the scope of national and international studies. This study relies on data published between 2010 and 2022, where we examine the data with in-depth analysis and interpretation under phenomenology to find valid data. Based on the results of the study and discussion, we can conclude that the contribution of environmental law experts is significant in inviting Indonesian millennials to maintain a healthy environment for sustainability and everyday health through the formulation of policies and strategies proposed for the government and to be implemented in all projects and governance. It is hoped that these findings will be helpful in further environmental studies.
Producción de Biomasa en banco proteico de Quelite (Cnidoscolus aconitifolium (Mill)) y Marango (Moringa oleífera (Lam) Finca Las Mercedes, Nicaragua
Authors: Narváez Espinoza Olman José , Pérez Rivera Lucilizabeth
Published: September 2022

El cambio climático contribuye a la reducción en los valores de producción y rendimiento en los sistemas de producción de Nicaragua. El efecto debido a las variaciones en las precipitaciones y temperatura, afectan directamente la producción de alimentos, tanto para consumo humano, como animal. En el presente estudio se evaluó la producción de biomasa total y comestible, sobrevivencia y agentes biológicos que afectan las especies Quelite (Cnidoscolus aconitifolium (Mill) L.M) y Marango (Moringa oleífera (Lam)), como alternativa de alimentación animal en condiciones de trópico seco. El estudio se realizó en el Centro de Experimentación y Validación Tecnológico Finca Las Mercedes en Managua, Nicaragua. Estas especies, se establecieron en parcelas de 10.25 m² con el objetivo de evaluar la cantidad de biomasa producida, realizando dos podas durante un periodo de un año. La mayor producción de biomasa verde total la obtuvo Quelite, con 26 572 kg ha-1   en la primera poda y en la segunda poda con 62 666 kg ha-1. Esta misma especie mostró los mejores rendimientos de biomasa seca comestible en la primera y segunda poda con 3 954 kg ha-1 y 11 505 kg ha-1 respectivamente, la especie Marango mostró rendimientos en biomasa verde total en la primera poda de 8 951 kg ha-1 disminuyendo en la segunda poda a 5 350 kg ha-1. Los mayores porcentajes de sobrevivencia, en la primera poda fueron obtenidos por la especie Quelite con el 100 %. Cinco meses después esta misma especie mostró rendimientos de 98 %, siendo clasificados como muy buenos. El Marango mostró sobrevivencia de 95 % y 79 %. Los agentes biológicos encontrados no ocasionaron daños a las plantas de Quelite, pero en Marango fueron severos e incidieron en la producción de biomasa y sobrevivencia de las plantas.
LIPID AS AN EXCIPIENT FOR DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF FORMULATIONS
Authors:   Dept. of Quality Assurance, AET’s St. John Institute of Pharmacy and Research, St. John Technical Campus, Vevoor, Manor Road, Palghar – 401 404, Maharashtra, India, V. More Apoorva , V. Dhokchawle Bharat , J. Tauro Savita , V. Kulkarni Savita
Published: September 2022

Lipids are present abundantly in human body in several forms. Different types of lipids are available with diverse physical properties, based on which suitable lipids can be selected for development of formulations. Lipids are also available for specific purposes like lubrication, emulsification, emollientes and enhancement of bioavailability. Conventionally, many lipids are used in formulation of tablets, capsules, emulsions and cosmetics. In recent years, use of lipids for drug delivery has been extended to Solid Lipid Nanoparticles (SLN), Nanostructured Lipid Carriers (NLC), and Self-Micro Emulsifying Drug Delivery System (SEDDS), which are emerging technologies designed to address challenges like solubility and bioavailability of poorly water-soluble drugs. This paper mainly focuses on different types of formulations in which lipids are used, and parameters which are critical for selection of lipid in any dosage form development. Several examples are quoted for different uses of lipids. Finally challenges in use of lipids and regulatory aspects are discussed.
ANALYTICAL METHOD DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION FOR QUANTIFICATION OF EXEMESTANE IN NANOEMULSION BY RP HPLC
Authors:   Department of Pharmaceutics, Shree S. K. Patel College of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Ganpat University, Mehsana-Gozaria Highway, Kherva - 384 012, Gujarat, India, G. Prajapati Bhupendra , B. Prajapati Bhavesh , M. Rathod Sapna
Published: September 2022

A simple, precise, reproducible and sensitive RP HPLC method was developed and validated for the quantification of exemestane (EXM) in nanoemulsion. The method was developed using Phenomenex C18 column (250 mm × 4.6 mm i.d., 5 µm) and acetonitrile: methanol (40:60 V/V) was used as mobile phase. The flow rate was maintained at 1.0 mL min-1. The analyte was monitored at 249 nm. The analyte shows linear response in the range of 0.5–5 µg mL-1. The developed method was validated as per ICH guidelines for accuracy, precision, limit of detection, limit of quantitation and robustness. The data for precision studies revealed that the method is precise, as % RSD is less than 2. The standard addition method was used for the accuracy study and the method showed 100.3 ± 0.47 % recovery for the drug. The proposed method can be successfully applied to the dosage form.
EVALUATION OF DIACEREIN MICROSPHERE MANUFACTURED BY FLUID BED BOTTOM SPRAY COATING TECHNIQUE AS SUSTAINED RELEASE DRUG DELIVERY FORM
Authors:   Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Jadavpur University, 188, Raja S. C. Mallick Road, Kolkata - 700 032, West Bengal, India, Mukhopadhyay Soumen , Chatterjee Nilendra , K. Chatterjee Tapan
Published: September 2022

Diacerein (DCN), an anti- inflammatory, anti-osteoarthritic drug having short-acting properties was formulated as microsphere following fluid bed bottom spray coating technique for sustained release drug delivery, where HPMC (6cps) and ethyl cellulose (N7) were used as coating polymers. Assay of DCN microsphere was done following HPLC method. Drug content in microsphere was found to be 147 mg g-1. Drug entrapment efficiency was calculated as 61%. SEM study of microsphere showed that microsphere was spherical in shape and porous in structure. Particle size, size distribution, zeta potential and poly disparity index were studied by dynamic light scattering method. particle size range was found between 396-615nm, zeta potential 10.8-19.6mv and PDI 0.65. In vitro drug release rate from microsphere was studied in different buffers like phosphate (pH 6.8), citrate (pH 6.0) and acidic medium (0.1N HCL). DCN microsphere released about 97% of its drug content in 20 h in phosphate buffer, 57.8% of its drug content in citrate buffer in 20 h and negligible drug release was found in acidic medium. On the contrary, market preparation of diacerein 50 mg capsule (Orcerin, Macleod’s) released 80% of its drug content in 1 h in phosphate and citrate buffer. Pharmacokinetic study of DCN microsphere vis a vis DCN capsule market preparation in plasma level of rabbit showed as Cmax4.02/3.97 mcg ,Tmax4h/ 2.67h, AUC0-t 21.26/17.80 mcg h mL-1, AUC 0-∞ 21.35/19.38 mcg h mL-1, T1/2 1.98/ 2.30 h and Kel 0.35/0.31. Study as mentioned above showed that DCN microsphere manufactured by fluid bed bottom spray coating technique using HPMC (6cps) and ethyl cellulose (N7) as coating polymers exhibited sustained release drug delivery. So it is a useful method for manufacture of sustained release dosage form.
INERTIA TO ADOPT DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES IN PHARMA
Authors:   Indian Drugs, G. Nair Dr. Gopkakumar
Published: September 2022

Dear Reader, During the turn of the century and early millennium, when the potential of online pharmacies was predicted, there was widespread hue and cry including the regulators.The regulator agencies had cautioned against any proposal for online selling of medicines and had declared such actions, illegal and not compliant to the provisions of the Drugs and Cosmetics Act. AIOCD and other associations of wholesale and retail chemists had vehemently opposed the proposals. Over the years, online Pharmacies have not only come to stay but have flourished.
DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF RP-HPLC METHOD FOR DETERMINATION OF NORTRIPTYLINE HYDROCHLORIDE IN BULK AND DOSAGE FORM
Authors:   Department of Quality Assurance, SVKM’s Dr. Bhanuben Nanavati College of Pharmacy, Vile Parle (W), Mumbai - 400 056, Maharashtra, India, Sherje Atul , Dias Sneha
Published: September 2022

The present work reports a validated reverse phase-HPLC method for determination of nortriptyline hydrochloride (NORH) in bulk and in its pharmaceutical dosage form. Chromatographic separation was performed on Waters C-18, (250×4.6mm, 5µm) stationary phase using a mixture of 50 mM KH2 PO4 pH 3.0 phosphate buffer: methanol: acetonitrile in the proportion of 50: 10: 40 V/V/V as mobile phase components at 1.0 mL min-1 flow rate. Detection of drug was carried out in isocratic mode at 235 nm. The validation of the method was carried out as per ICH guidelines. The LOD and LOQ for NORH was 0.22 µg mL-1 and 0.69 µg mL-1, respectively. NORH showed linearity range of 5-50 µg mL-1 and correlation coefficient (r2 ) value, 0.9937. The method was tested for assay of NORH in tablet dosage form.
RP-HPLC METHOD FOR SIMULTANEOUS QUANTIFICATION OF BERBERINE CHLORIDE AND GALANGIN IN TINOSPORA CORDIFOLIA M. AND ALPINIA GALANGA L. AND THEIR FORMULATIONS
Authors:   Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, K. B. Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Sector 23, Gandhinagar - 382 023, Gujarat, India, K. Patel Rajendra , D. Trivedi Priti
Published: September 2022

Berberine chloride is a quaternary ammonium compound obtained from Tinospora cordifolia M. and galangin is a member of the flavonol class of flavonoids from Alpinia galanga L. They are reported to have various pharmacological activities. The separation was carried out by using Hypersil BDS 100 RP C18 (5 µm, 250×4.6 mm i.d.) column using an isocratic mobile phase comprising acetonitrile: 10 mM phosphate buffer (45:55 V/V) pH 4.5 adjusted with orthophosphoric acid. The flow rate was maintained at 1.50 mL min-1. The detection was carried out at 365 nm. The method was validated according to ICH guidelines. The retention times of berberine chloride and galangin were found to be 3.41 and 14.13 min, respectively. The developed RP-HPLC method was found to be simple, accurate, precise, sensitive and specific for the simultaneous quantification of berberine chloride and galangin in T. cordifolia M. and A. galanga L., respectively, and their herbal formulations.
COMPARATIVE EVALUATION OF AYURVEDIC FORMULATION SITOPLADI CHURNA OF DIFFERENT BRANDS
Authors:   Department of Herbal Drug Research, B.R. Nahata College of Pharmacy, Research Centre, Mhow Neemuch Road, Mandsaur University, Mandsaur - 458 001, Madhya Pradesh, India, Soni Vishal , Soni Priyanka
Published: September 2022

In ayurvedic system of treatment, churnas are as good as are asavas and arishtas for the eradication of diseases. As a part of evaluation, Dabur and Baidhyanath brands properties of Sitopladi churna were tested for relevant organoleptic, physiochemical, micromeretics and fluorescence properties. The Dabur formulation is more elegant in colour, odor and in taste. Moisture content of both formulations was found within pharmacopoeial limit. In the present study, Dabur churna emitted white and Baidhyanath emitted off white fluorescence under day light, in short UV light and in long UV light. The micromeretic parameters (bulk density, tap density, angle of repose & Carr’s index) were checked to determine its flow property; both formulations were found with good flow. Preliminary phytochemical screening indicated presence of saponins, tannins, alkaloids, flavnoids and phenolics. The results were found in close proximity for both brands. This study on Sitopladi churna was reproducible, precise and may be considered as a method for its quality control.
NARINGENIN LOADED CYCLODEXTRIN NANOPARTICLES FOR IMPROVED DRUG DELIVERY
Authors:   Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, H.N.B. Garhwal University (A Central University) Srinagar (Garhwal)- 2461 74, Uttarakhand, India, Adhikari Lokesh , Kumar Nitin , Saha Abhijit , Semalty Ajay , Semalty Mona
Published: September 2022

Herbal drug naringenin is well known for its anti-cancer, anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory activities, as carbohydrate metabolism promoter, immunity system modulator, BCRP/ABCG2 inhibitor, hormone substitute and hormone antagonist since decades. However, use of naringenin as pharmaceutical aid is hindered due to its low aqueous solubility. In the present study, β-cyclodextrin and hydroxy propyl -β- cyclodextrin based biocompatible nanoforms were developed by the exploitation of self-assembly properties of cyclodextrins in aqueous media using sodium dodecyl sulphate and Pluronic F108 as co-surfactants. Prepared formulations were evaluated for various parameters such as particle size, zeta potential, polydispersity index, percent encapsulation efficiency, drug solubility and in vitro permeation studies. Particles present in all the formulations were not greater than the 161.2 nm with surface charge up to -24.8 mV and highest polydispersity index of 0.739. Aqueous solubility of drugs in prepared formulations was increased by 4 fold. Drug permeability was increased twice of free drug naringenin. It was concluded that the cyclodextrin based biocompatible nanosystems can be developed in the improvement of aqueous solubility and hence the bioavailability of herbal drugs.
KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDE OF ANTIBIOTIC PRESCRIPTION AMONG IMPLANTOLOGISTS: AN OBSERVATIONAL STUDY
Authors:   Dept. of Periodontology, FODS SGT University, Gurgaon-Badli Road Chandu, Budhera, Gurugram - 122 505, Haryana, India, K. Shalini , S. Vidushi , Y. Nisha
Published: September 2022

This article discusses the knowledge and attitude of antibiotic prescription among implantologists performing implant surgery and how we contribute to over prescription of antibiotics. Antimicrobial resistance is a substantial catastrophic threat to International Public Health. Antibiotic-resistant infections carry a burden in longer duration of illness, higher rates of mortality and increased treatment costs. Antibiotic resistance has become one of the substantial threats to the successful treatment of infections. A self-administered questionnaire was distributed to a sample of 200 participants and filled by the periodontist, oral surgeon, prosthodontist or dentist who were placing dental implants. The questionnaire comprises of knowledge and attitude of the implantologist related to antibiotic prescription patterns.
Pod and seed characteristics and effect of pretreatment on seed germination of Acacia robusta Burchell.
Authors: Bahar Nawa
Published: September 2022

Acacia robusta, a multipurpose tree species produces hardcoated and dark brown colour seeds. Seed has physical dormancy due to hardiness of testa. Suitable pretreatment to break the dormancy was investigated. Germination was enhanced from 36.80% (untreated) to 92.00% (mechanical scarification). Although mechanical scarification treatment gives early, uniform and highest germination but it is not practicable in large-scale purposes. Therefore, hot water soaking for 24 hours or sulphuric acid for 15 minutes soaking is recommended.
Nowe formy pracy - ich charakterystyka oraz związki z dobrostanem osób pracujących
Authors: Mockałło Zofia , Barańska Paulina
Published: September 2022

Tempo ewolucji środowiska pracy zwiększa się – również pod względem form zatrudnienia. Zmiany te sprawiają, że współczesna definicja „pracy” odbiega coraz bardziej od tradycyjnej. W artykule omówiono różne koncepcje nowych form pracy, ich występowanie w ramach polskiego rynku pracy oraz możliwe skutki w kontekście psychospołecznych warunków pracy, dla zdrowia i samopoczucia osób pracujących.
Vertigo Effect
Authors: Cavalletti Andrea
Published: September 2022

The famous opening scene in Hitchcock’s movie Vertigo introduces a brief history or rather a genealogical sketch of the concept of vertigo, from medicine in the early modern era to Freud, from Montaigne and Pascal to Charles Renouvier, Alain, and Simone Weil, passing through the treatise of Kant’s friend and pupil Marcus Herz. If Montaigne and Pascal could still consider dizziness a perturbation of reason and a trick of the imagination that had to be subdued, subsequent thinkers stopped considering it an occasional imaginative instability to be overcome in order to recognize it as part of reason’s workings: identity manifests itself as tottering, kinetic, opaque and, indeed, vertiginous. If cinema is the art of the effect, the “vertigo effect” invented by Hitchcock concerns the subject in an eminent way.
Chasm
Authors: Cavalletti Andrea
Published: September 2022

The chapter is an analysis of the main concepts of Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time. The definition of the spatiality of Dasein as a “de-distancing,” the relationship between spatiality and temporality, and the very concept of “being-toward-death” are interpreted in the sense of vertigo.
Remapping the Race/Class Problematic
Authors: Chandra Sarika , Chen Chris
Published: September 2022

Sarika Chandra and Chris Chen intervene in contemporary U.S. scholarly and activist debates over the theoretical relationship between race and capitalism—including debates over whether racism or “economic anxiety” drive 21st-century white nationalist politics, or over the internally fractured class politics of contemporary antiracist movements. Such debates often reproduce a reified opposition between race and class as forms of identification intrinsically associated with competing or complementary political objectives. The authors argue that the scholarship on these questions reveals a number of persistent theoretical impasses generated by the discrepant ways that critics define race, class, and capitalism. Building on recent scholarship, the essay moves beyond the concept of identity to retheorize race not as an intrinsic property of individuals and groups but as a politically contested signifier emerging from the historical interplay of racial domination and changing experiences of what Michael Dawson calls “linked fate.” At the same time, the authors argue that the politically heterogeneous and historically shifting experiences of racialized “linked fate” are embedded within a field of capitalist value relations, as a medium of social cohesion on a global scale, reproduced through co-constitutive, recursive, and specifically capitalist processes of exploitation, expropriation, and expulsion.
Seeing, Knowing, and Believing in the Prose Edda
Authors: Heslop Kate
Published: September 2022

Sight is closely allied to knowledge in the premodern west, and the parallel between extramission’s searching visual ray and the mind’s attempt to apprehend the divine was also theologically compelling. Norse homiletic literature explores psychological and cognitive aspects of seeing, and sight is crucial to the Prose Edda’s epistemology. The Edda’s Prologue reports how antediluvian humanity depended on sight for knowledge of creation, while the framing trope of sjónhverfing (ocular delusion), drawing on romance descriptions of courtly entertainments, also mobilizes theological accounts of the gap between embodied perception and deeper spiritual or poetic envisionings. Christian praise poems such as Líknarbraut and Geisli accordingly use light and sight to evoke the divine and enact the community of believers as sharers of a visio pacis; the inclusion of these poems in Prose Edda compilations implies that medieval readers were aware of such resonances. The pre-Christian skaldic picture poems nonetheless retain their validity when framed as sjónhverfing, enabling the medieval reader to observe, if not emulate, ancestral experiences of visually mediated knowing.
The Noise of Poetry
Authors: Heslop Kate
Published: September 2022

Encomiastic poetry, performed before and handed down by the retinue, aimed at a maximally vivid evocation of the glory of war, this group’s defining activity, in which the glorious drone of dróttkvætt drowned out battle’s pain and fear. Battle-kennings involving sound-words and the sonorous echoes of rhyme remediated the aural experience of combat as performance, while equivalences drawn between the voices of humans and weapons made a song out of battle and the poet’s tongue into a sword. The affective charge of sound effects is double-edged: in encomia such as Glymdrápa and Hallfreðr’s Erfidrápa for Óláfr Tryggvason, powerfully cohesive sonic patterning contrasts with semantic proliferation; the poet claims to preserve the ruler’s words into perpetuity, but his agency is undermined as he is himself mastered by the imperatives of rhyme and repetition. Thirteenth-century commentators explore the mnemonic and polysemous potential of rhyme (hending); in the later rímur tradition the highly patterned play of rhyming sound proves long-lived.
Introduction
Authors: Sabbā Yūḥannā ibn , Kabar Abū al-Barakāt ibn , Gabriel V Pope
Published: September 2022

The present volume contains excerpts from three medieval Arabic works on the Coptic liturgy. These are The Lamp of Darkness by Ibn Kabar, The Precious Jewel by Ibn Sabbā‘, both from the fourteenth century, and The Ritual Order by Pope Gabriel V written in the fifteenth century. In this introduction, a brief overview each work is provided, giving background on the author, the contents of the work, and some observations on the purpose and style of each. The introduction also provides a survey of liturgy in medieval Egypt, both in terms of ritual practice and historical evolution.
The Lamp of Darkness and the Elucidation of the Service
Authors: Kabar Abū al-Barakāt ibn
Published: September 2022

Ibn Kabar, a Coptic scholar and priest in Cairo’s famous Hanging Church, dedicated Chapter 17 of his masterpiece The Lamp of Darkness to explaining the ritual of the Eucharist as he knew it at the time. From its beginning until the conclusion of the service, Ibn Kabar proves himself to be an expert in the intricacies of Coptic liturgical practice, taking the time to delve into the technicalities of chant and ritual needed by the clergy, deacons, and chanters. In doing so, he sought to provide a helpful educational tool for professionals, who may otherwise seek this knowledge in a variety of arcane sources. In the process, Ibn Kabar demonstrates a well-rounded knowledge of the diversity of practice in medieval Egypt, often commenting on differences in ritual between Cairo, Scetis, and Southern Egypt.
The Gothic Zany
Authors: Wang Orrin N. C.
Published: September 2022

Sianne Ngai’s zany is an unrelenting symptom of late capitalism, the expression of manic industriousness that blurs the difference between labor and recreation, workplace and play site, and production and consumption, making all part of the same experience of slapstick energy. This essay sees in the high wire scheming of late eighteenth-century gothic villains in Horace Walpole and Radcliffe the affect of the zany, where these archetypical figures are the emerging experiential signs of late capitalist life’s frantic, zany pace. Wordsworth’s shadowy ghostly human figures model another symptom of what the gothic zany anticipates, the experiential character of life under capital not as the zany hyper-active but as the gothic hypo-active, an equally valid social reaction to a world system of capital too much, always, with us. The zany and the minimally expressive become two reactive formations attuned to the always on, oppressively televisual dimensions of capital’s global character.
Prometheus Unbound and Commemorative Thought
Authors: Wang Orrin N. C.
Published: September 2022

The technology of commemoration becomes unsettled when asked to commemorate the future. The radical indeterminacies inherent in that proposition comment upon the debate between praxis and theory formulated by Adorno, where praxis can best be approximated by theory. The challenges of that assertion underwrite our understanding of Percy Shelley and his lyric drama, Prometheus Unbound. Both Shelley and Prometheus emit a queer detumescence that is not the failure of praxis but theory as a register of the future’s alterity. Shelley’s work is also suffused with a revolutionary pleasure that contrasts with his other piece written at the same time, The Cenci. The self-aware, intentional language of Prometheus turns that pleasure into the stately rave concluding Act IV. It is also the language of theory performed by Asia’s interrogation of Demogorgon, where much is explained, and nothing and everything happens. In Asia theory happens, in a techno-magistic manner that belies the calculable metrics of praxis.
The Young Americans at Home and Abroad
Authors: Katz Wendy Jean
Published: September 2022

Young America was a movement that supported territorial expansion, land reform, and international liberation. The Young America writers in Walcutt’s circle were mostly Democrats, the party that provided Irish immigrants with a powerful political base. But their hostility to foreign cultural imports extended to the influence of the Pope on susceptible American citizens, at the same time as they urged a democratically American school of art. The patronage of Donn Piatt, John Brougham, Cornelius Mathews, and Thomas W. Strong influenced the energetic comic illustrations of nativist themes by Walcutt, F. O. C. Darley, Tompkins H. Matteson, and John McLenan. Walcutt’s historical paintings of the American Revolution, like those of fellow Odd Fellow illustrators Junius Brutus Stearns and Henry Brueckner, were among the subjects advocated for by both Young America and nativists.
Conclusion
Authors: Katz Wendy Jean
Published: September 2022

The conclusion considers the fate of the Walcutt’s portrait of Commodore Perry during the Colonial Revival of the early twentieth century, when Progressive-era elites turned to the colonial past to reassert cultural control. The 1928 bronze reproduction of Walcutt’s statue for the Capitol of Rhode Island was a sign of the recurrence of nativism in this later period, which saw the passage of stringent and racist immigration laws. But Walcutt’s “fiery” portrait style continued to carry Young America’s message of expanded rights for ordinary people. Rhode Island, a bastion of “old stock” rule, was transitioning to less restricted voting requirements, which for the first time permitted its Catholic majority to have a voice. So too Walcutt’s affiliation with the Taft family in Ohio reflects both the strength of nativism within the Republican party and internationalists’ reaction against it.
Introduction
Authors: Trumbull Robert
Published: September 2022

The Introduction argues for the continued relevance of Derrida and deconstruction in contemporary Continental philosophy by showing that deconstruction speaks to resolutely material issues via its thinking of life death and in turn survival and autoimmunity. It contends that Derrida’s deep engagement with Freud across the full trajectory of his work, and in particular Freud’s theory of life and death drives, supplies the key way into this problematic and its consequential implications. The recasting of life as survival legible in Derrida’s dealings with Freud, it argues, bears directly on the question of normativity in deconstruction and the question of deconstruction’s ethics and politics. Specifically, the Introduction elaborates how the logic of survival enables deconstructive critique to destabilize and put into question, to “shake up,” certain inherited understandings of life and death, and the political, understood as the theological-political.
Sovereignty, Cruelty, and the Death Penalty
Authors: Trumbull Robert
Published: September 2022

This chapter explores the implications of the thought of survival in Derrida for rethinking political practice, looking in particular at Derrida’s very late work from the late 1990s and early 2000s on sovereignty and the death penalty. The chapter maps out the deconstructive contestation of the death penalty undertaken in this period, one which, it shows, proceeds by mobilizing survival as a critical concept undercutting the phantasm of something “worth more than life” found at the heart of the theological-political logic of the death penalty. Freud is shown to provide key deconstructive resources in this project, via his thinking of cruelty and a drive toward mastery. The chapter ends by showing why the death penalty is not a mere “case” or “example” of deconstruction’s normative purchase. It shows that the death penalty in fact represents the crucial point of entry for a deconstruction of the political generally, insofar as its dominant configurations are fundamentally theological, bound up with the fantasy of superlife. In conclusion, it argues that this makes possible deconstructive engagements with contemporary political concepts and practices well beyond those Derrida himself took up and beyond those commonly associated with the logic of sovereignty.
On History, Development, and Filipinx American Studies: Emergent, Dominant, and Residual
Authors: Bascara Victor
Published: September 2022

This essay discusses the uneven vectors utilized in the work of historicizing. Itprobes the uses and misuses of arcs of “development” and “progress” in plotting courses of history, while simultaneously undoing unquestioned unilinear forms in such an emplotment. Taking cues from eminent historian Reynaldo Ileto, cultural theorist Raymond Williams, and mining the critical work of scholars positioned within Filipinx/American Studies, it tackles the possibilities of re-formulating Filipinx American history as dynamically and simultaneously emergent, dominant, and residual.
Activism Is in the Heart of Filipinx American Studies
Authors: Ana Jeffrey Santa
Published: September 2022

This essay scrutinizes activist works by Filipinx writers and artists to reveal how the histories as well as ongoing realities of the US empire are tightly intertwined with environmental violence and devastation, making appeals for justice especially in recent times much more palpably urgent as themselves appeals for the preservation of life. Such intertwined calls for justice in the pursuit of life are not new but have already been de rigeur throughout the activist labors of Filipinxs across nations and generations.
A Tale of Two “X”s: Queer Filipinx and Latinx Linguistic Intimacies
Authors: Bolton Sony Coráñez
Published: September 2022

This essay focuses on how the “x” in Filipinx and Latinx indexes the intersections of Spanish colonialism and US imperialism in Filipinx and Latinx America. Drawing on critical ethnic studies, queer of color critique, and Filipino American studies, it analyzes the ways that a critical consideration of what is termed as the double “x” of Filipinx and Latinx open up conversations informed by relational thinking that are otherwise foreclosed.
Afterword
Authors: Apostol Gina
Published: September 2022

This essay, written as a reflection piece at the end of the book, engages with the multiple thoughts, diverse knowledges, overt and hidden nuances, and stakes involved in the production of this collection of articles.
Mediterranean Americans to Themselves
Authors: Cocola Jim
Published: September 2022

This chapter attends to the Italian American’s take on the Greek, and to the Greek American’s take on the Italian, focusing on Greek themes in Gregory Corso’s plays, poems, and letters, and on the portrayal of Sicilian American antagonist Silva Vaccaro in Elia Kazan’s controversial film Baby Doll (1956). Such depictions cut across distinct national origins but also emanate from common bioregional origins: not only cases of Italians regarding Greeks, or Greeks regarding Italians, but cases of Mediterraneans regarding themselves. These fraught identifications consistently trouble, being troubled by, poised against, and contrary to the discriminatory American paradigm of white nationalism. Since the expressive cultures of Greek and Italian Americans cannot be fully discerned by recourse to the Anglophone and the European, or to so-called white ethnicity, such figures should also be read as individuals of Mediterranean descent to be understood not only separately but also together.
Sound Translation
Authors: Teo Tze-Yin
Published: September 2022

Born in Shanghai and hailed as one of China’s great modern writers, Eileen Chang developed a serious interest in translation after she left mainland China in 1952, writing briefly for the United States Information Service. She would go on to live the final forty years of her life in Los Angeles. This chapter focuses on her lesser-studied essays and translations written after her move abroad. Where critics working on this later period tend to focus on the propagandistic realism or aesthetic complications of her Cold War Anglophone writing and self-translations, the chapter instead recovers a surprising kinship between that late turn to translation and the earlier May Fourth Republican interest in vernacular writing. Through a study of her Mandarin and English translations of the late Qing novel Haishang hua (Biographies of Shanghai Flowers), and short essays also written in the United States, the chapter traces Chang’s partial mediations between her hometown Shanghainese Wu, Mandarin, and English by lighting on disembodied sounds that substitute one word for another. Taken together, these sounds ultimately point to an anti-hermeneutic and pseudo-philological work of translation.
A comparative study to assess prescription pattern, cost, and appropriateness of antimicrobial usage in a rural government tertiary care hospital and rural private practitioners
Authors: Misra Piyush , Tyagi Neha , Upadhyay Prashant
Published: September 2022

Background: Antimicrobial resistance is defined as the ability of microorganism (bacteria, fungus, virus, or parasite) to resist the effects of a drug to inhibit microorganism growth, which is becoming a major concern worldwide particularly in developing country like India.

Aim and Objectives: The aim of this study was to identify, compare, and assess the appropriateness of antimicrobials prescribed in a rural tertiary care hospital and those prescribed by rural private practitioners and to assess the average cost of antimicrobials per prescription.

Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted, in which a total of 2003 prescriptions were analyzed from outpatient department (OPD) of rural tertiary and prescriptions from nearby chemist shops for prescription pattern, cost, and appropriateness.

Results: It was identified that most of the antimicrobial containing prescriptions in both private and public health sector were prescribed by MBBS doctors (56.33%). In Government Medical College (GMC) OPDs, antimicrobials were prescribed mostly for gastrointestinal infection (25.75%) and beta lactams (45.23%) followed by fluoroquinolones (27.10%) were the most commonly prescribed. While among rural private practitioners, gastrointestinal infections (33.50%) followed by fever (27.70%) were the most common clinical conditions, for which antimicrobials were prescribed and 13.40% prescriptions contained more than one antimicrobial. About 43.37% of antimicrobials prescribed in OPDs of GMC and 56.20% antimicrobials prescribed by private practitioners were found to be inappropriate which was statistically significant.

Conclusion: The study concluded that around half of the prescriptions analyzed were inappropriate and so there is a strict need of supervising the antimicrobials prescribing patterns, consumption, and it’s dispensing from the pharmacy shops.