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SEMILLERO DE INVESTIGACIÓN ESCOLAR: FOMENTANDO LA INNOVACIÓN CIENTÍFICA EN EL COLEGIO EPISCOPAL DE PANAMÁ
Authors: Sánchez Batista Arianny Ivelisse , Ramos Sánchez Erick
Published: October 2023

Las competencias investigativas forman parte de las necesidades del todo ciudadano del siglo XXI. Este proyecto surge como una respuesta a la necesidad de fomentar el pensamiento crítico y científico entre los estudiantes. La iniciativa se originó en la búsqueda de una educación más enriquecedora y enfocada en la investigación desde el nivel del bachillerato. El mismo será liderado por un equipo de educadores del Colegio Episcopal de Panamá, los cuales estarán a cargo de la formación de grupos de discentes en diferentes áreas de interés. El semillero de investigación escolar centrará su atención en la indagación, experimentación y búsqueda de soluciones a problemas reales. La misión fundamental es proporcionar a los estudiantes las herramientas y el apoyo necesario para explorar sus inquietudes y desarrollar habilidades investigativas desde el nivel de bachillerato. La implementación de este proyecto aborda la efectividad de esta iniciativa en el desarrollo educativo. Se aplicarán metodologías de seguimiento y evaluación para medir el progreso académico, la adquisición de habilidades y el interés en esta área. Además, se explorará cómo este semillero impacta en la formación de futuros profesionales y su contribución al avance científico y tecnológico. Los resultados que se esperan contemplan que los estudiantes muestren un mayor compromiso con el abordaje de proyectos escolares, la innovación y una mayor disposición a enfrentarse a desafíos académicos. Además, se desea identificar cómo estas experiencias influyen en la autonomía, resolución de problemas, trabajo en equipo y liderazgo, como competencias esenciales para el éxito en cualquier campo.
APLICACIONES MÓVILES OFFLINE COMO APOYO DIDÁCTICO EN EL CEBG ROBERTO CIBALA, VERAGUAS
Authors: Pinzón Lydia Isabel , Ramos Sánchez Erick
Published: October 2023

Este trabajo surge de la necesidad de brindar a los docentes estrategias innovadoras para el aprendizaje en estudiantes en las áreas de español, matemáticas y ciencias del CEBG Roberto Cibala ubicada en Río Luis, en Veraguas Panamá. Considerando que los dispositivos móviles forman parte de las vidas de la sociedad ya que no sólo se utilizan para comunicarse o hacer llamadas, sino que también se utilizan para acceder a páginas de internet, jugar, reloj con alarma, mapas, guía turística entre otros, y que el centro educativo cuenta con un proyecto de 30 tabletas, las cuales pueden ser incorporadas al proceso de enseñanza aprendizaje como recurso y estrategia pedagógica, para hacer las clases más dinámicas y atractivas al estudiante. El propósito de la investigación recae en la propuesta de contar con una biblioteca de aplicaciones móviles gratuitas y descargables para ser utilizadas por estudiantes y docentes de nivel primaria, para la adquisición y comprensión de los contenidos de matemáticas, ciencias y español e igualmente fortalecer las competencias digitales, comunicativas y un aprendizaje significativo entre los docentes y estudiantes del centro educativo.
SISTEMA DE GESTIÓN DE LABORATORIOS DE FÍSICA BASADO EN INTELIGENCIA ARTIFICIAL
Authors: Menéndez Samudio Johans Jair , Maldonado Hernández Mayerlin Magalys , Ramos Sánchez Erick
Published: October 2023

Una educación moderna se focaliza en el desarrollo de competencias, que incluyen el aprender a conocer, aprender a ser, aprender a convivir y aprender a hacer, la integración de esos saberes lleva al camino del desarrollo de competencias donde la práctica y la experiencia forman los criterios necesarios en el estudiante para la toma de decisiones profesional. Parte fundamental lo constituyen las experiencias del estudiante en los laboratorios. El objetivo general de esta investigación es el desarrollo de un sistema automatizado de gestión de laboratorios de física basado en Inteligencia Artificial (IA) en el Centro Regional Universitario de Bocas del Toro CRUBO de la Universidad de Panamá. La administración de laboratorios presenta desafíos, como la asignación de horarios, seguimiento de equipos, inventarios y seguridad. Una solución prometedora es implementar un sistema automatizado de gestión de laboratorios basado en IA. Este enfoque mejorará la eficiencia y calidad de la educación al optimizar la programación de laboratorios, gestionar inventarios y fortalecer la seguridad. Programará experimentos y actividades considerando la disponibilidad de equipos, recursos y la carga académica de los estudiantes, y docentes, evitando conflictos de horarios y maximizando el uso de recursos. También facilitará un seguimiento detallado de equipos y generará informes útiles. La seguridad se reforzará mediante el monitoreo en tiempo real y sistemas de control de acceso. El desarrollo de esta solución requiere una infraestructura tecnológica sólida y capacitación del personal y promoverá la eficiencia y calidad educativa en ciencias e ingeniería, Esta es una investigación en desarrollo.
Injury mechanism of patellar dislocation in professional athletes: a video analysis study
Authors: Yüce Ali , Yerli Mustafa , Misir Abdulhamit
Published: October 2023

Objective: Patellar dislocation (PD) is a devastating injury in professional athletes. An important aspect of injury prevention requires not only identifying the risk factors but also determining the responsible injury mechanism. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate the injury mechanisms by examining the videos of PD injuries that occurred in professional athletes.

Material and Methods: Injury videos of identified athletes and/or sports competitions where the injury occurred were detected on social media platforms (YouTube®, Twitter®, Facebook®). On January 1, 2021, 32 patella dislocation videos were found. A total of 28 PD that occurred in professional athletes between 1999 and 2020 were identified. Of these, 18 PD injuries with adequate video data were analyzed for injury mechanism, body posture, and player and sports characteristics. Three independent reviewers evaluated the videos.

Results: There were 17 (94.4%) male and 1 (5.6%) female athletes. The mean age was 26.2±3.1 years. Distribution of athletic branches were such: four basketball (22.2%), two football (11.1%), nine rugby (50.0%), two soccer (11.1%), and one boxing (5.6%). In 13 cases (72.2%), the injury occurred by contact mechanism. Eight of these injuries (61.5%) occurred as a result of direct contact. The most important findings of this study were that patellar dislocation occurred when the trunk, hip, knee and ankle were slightly flexed. Dislocation occurred with the contraction of the quadriceps while the foot and tibia were performing external rotation.

Conclusion: In professional athletes, PD most frequently occurs during a collision. The most common posture of the athlete who lost his balance is the trunk in flexion, knee and hip in flexion, ankle in plantar flexion.
Remote Digital Solutions for Organization of Treatment and Monitoring of Patients with Heart Failure Abroad
Authors: Kamynina Natalya N. , Andreev Dmitry A.
Published: October 2023

Introduction. Cardiovascular pathology is one of the leading causes of global mortality burden, being responsible for more than 30% of all deaths. Continuous monitoring of patients with heart failure is crucial in developing measures aimed at reducing cardiovascular mortality. The advancement of digital technologies in this field will improve the quality of monitoring and treatment of patients with heart failure. Objective. The goal of the study was to summarize the results of implementation of some well-known approaches to digital healthcare for patients with heart failure. Materials and methods. The data is obtained from PubMed databases and Google search results. Scientific articles in English were selected by the following keywords: “heart failure”, “information technologies”, “remote monitoring”, “digital technologies”, etc. In some cases, the search was also conducted in еру Russian Internet segment using such keywords as “сердечная недостаточность [heart failure]”, “распространенность [prevalence]”, etc. Results. The use of digital technologies for recording health indicators in people with heart failure has been examined. The aspects of self-monitoring of health indicators are considered, examples of sensor and artificial intelligence technologies for continuous remote monitoring of patients are given, the principles of digital patient management for achieving adherence to treatment are presented, aspects of remote rehabilitation using telehealth technologies are discussed.
Burnout Aspects Among Health Care Managers
Authors: Tuillet Polina S. , Savinova Tatiana L. , Khalfin Ruslan A. , Madyanova Victoria V. , Stolkova Anastasia S.
Published: October 2023

Burnout is emotional exhaustion caused by chronic stress at the workplace, which is not ad-equately managed. Health care managers face high requirements for professional level and stress-resistance, which can lead to problems in the emotional sphere. The data about burnout prevalence and its determinants among health care managers is contradictory that demands further studying. To define prevalence of burnout syndrome and to identify factors associated factors among health care managers within Orenburg region.
Medical Law as a Separate Area of Law
Authors: Gavrilenko Ksenia A.
Published: October 2023

Existence of medical law as a separate area of law in the legal system of the Russian Federation is considered. This article will be helpful in determining the legal basics of medical law, as well as scientific and historical aspects of its development.
Paid Medical Services in Public Healthcare Organizations: Policy Management and Prospects
Authors: Smirnova Elena V.
Published: October 2023

In Russia, healthcare facilities of any form of ownership provide paid medical services that are in high demand among all groups of Russian population. Due to the economic challenges and the high social signifi-cance of these services, specialists and healthcare public authorities pay close attention to this issue. Changes in the regulations on paid medical services should eliminate existing difficulties and minimize the risk of issues in the future.The author carried out a comparative analysis of the following documents: Rules for the provision of paid medical services by medical organizations (approved by the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federa-tion No. 1006 dated 04.10.2012), and Rules on a similar topic developed by the Ministry of Health of the Rus-sian Federation and amended during the preparation and publication of draft document at the platform regu-lation.gov.ru (approved by the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 736 dated 11.05.2023).The author addressed the innovations introduced by the new regulations and evaluated their potential impact on the provision of paid medical services.
Derecho a la defensa de funcionarios policiales inmersos en procesos penales por actos de servicio en Venezuela
Authors:   Ministerio Público de la Circunscripción Judicial del Estado Mérida, Paredes Vielma Gilberto José , Zerpa Bonillo Sonia Mercedes ,   Universidad de Otavalo, Romero González Ana Julia ,   Universidad de Otavalo
Published: October 2023

El derecho a la defensa es una garantía que forma parte del debido proceso de conformidad con lo pautado en la Constitución de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela. Los funcionarios que forman parte de los órganos policiales colaboran con el Ministerio Público en la persecución de hechos delictivos, y en el ejercicio de sus funciones pueden incurrir en conductas que den lugar a la instrucción de procedimientos en su contra, por lo que la investigación analizó el derecho a la defensa de funcionarios policiales en procesos por actos de servicio en la Policía del Estado Mérida. Se realizó un estudio de campo, descriptivo, cualitativo y se aplicó un cuestionario contentivo de diez preguntas con varias alternativas de respuestas a una muestra de 50 personas. Los resultados permitieron inferir que las situaciones de servicio se generan principalmente por aprehensiones en flagrancia y procedimientos de captura, en cuyo cumplimiento los funcionarios pueden incurrir en irregularidades que den lugar a la apertura de investigaciones disciplinarias y penales, razón por la cual se requiere de una defensa pública especializada. Se concluyó que el derecho a la defensa se hará valer en las instancias administrativas y jurisdiccionales, y se recomienda la puesta en funcionamiento de la Defensoría Pública con competencia en materia penal policial.
Performance Metrics of an Intrusion Detection System Through Window-Based Deep Learning Models
Authors: Isiaka Fatima
Published: October 2023

Intrusion and prevention technologies perform reliably in harsh conditions by fortifying many of the world's highest security sites with few defects in high performance. This paper aims to contribute by designing an intrusion/preventive system using a window-based convolutional neural network (CNN), an integrated recurrent neural network (RNN), and autoencoders (AutoE) to detect and test the performance of the intrusion detection system. The data packets were converted to images where the pixels were used as input. The CNN architecture shows a three-layer model with high predictive performance. The result shows high performance on CNN as compared to both RNN and AutoE; CNN seems to resist overfitting more than the rest of the models. The future perspective would be to test the model on other standard methods such as support vector machine (SVM) and dynamic control systems.
 
Received: 7 August 2023 | Revised: 13 October 2023 | Accepted: 30 October 2023
 
Conflicts of Interest
The author declares that she has no conflicts of interest to this work. 
 
Data Availability Statement
Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no new data were created or analyzed in this study.
Carta editorial: Nmujayu nmëëtnakyojtsumjata nmëëtnamyaaytükumjata. Diálogos y perspectivas actuales sobre la investigación desde los pueblos indígenas
Authors: Mixe Colectivo
Published: October 2023

Por la naturaleza de la revista y de la convocatoria, recibimos textos pensados como artículos académicos y preparados para responder a las exigencias de formato de las revistas arbitradas. Ingresar al mundo académico implica adaptarse a las normativas propias del género de la tesis y, no pocas veces, nos obliga a ocultarnos tras el lenguaje objetivista. Por ello, debemos expresar que entendemos la investigación, en un sentido más abarcador, como una capacidad humana. Vinma'yün tonpäjtün (investigación) se refiere, más que al acto de creación de conocimiento, a la reflexión acerca de los procesos o las maneras en las que se llega a los conocimientos. Es plantearnos interrogantes acerca de it naxviijn (nuestro mundo vital o el universo) y jööntykün (la vida o la existencia) y plantear caminos hacia su resolución. En ese sentido, no es prerrogativa de ningún pueblo o pueblos, ni exclusiva de ciertas tradiciones de pensamiento y mucho menos de determinadas profesiones, aunque en la actualidad exista una asociación directa entre una tradición particular de hacer investigación (la científica) con el concepto mismo de “investigación”, al tiempo que otras maneras son señaladas como inferiores o, incluso, no son reconocidas como “conocimiento”.
English Public Theology
Authors: O’Donovan Joan Lockwood
Published: October 2023

This study commends the public theology of the English Reformation as a fruitful though neglected resource for a critical analysis of the contradictions of freedom that riddle late-modern liberal democracies and a constructive response to them. Drawn from the key legal, liturgical, homiletic and confessional elements of the English Reformation, this foundational Anglican tradition provides a theological vantage point for understanding current moral and political impasses in the western legacy of natural rights.

The extensive development of natural rights in pre-modern scholastic theory and practice and its continuity with theoretical development from the seventeenth century onward make the Reformers’ criticisms of scholastic moral, political, and ecclesial thought germane to identifying the problematic features of the prevailing modern tradition and to furnishing a theological alternative to them. These problematic features are: an individualistic and voluntarist conception of moral agency, a regulative and juridical orientation to human relationships, and an anthropocentric concentration on human rather than on divine right, judgement, and freedom. The humanity they portray, detached from its created ordering to Christological perfection and bound within a self-enclosed ethical and political self-understanding, is effectively countered by the English reformers’ presentation of the salvation of creation in Christ, faith working through love, the spiritual fellowship of the church, and the provisional character of political jurisdiction.
Theological Metaphysics
Authors: Robles Ray C.
Published: October 2023

Insofar as Christian theology aims to make truthful claims about the nature of reality, it is necessarily involved in the enterprise of metaphysics. Pentecostals, precisely as Christians, are thus obliged to participate. Through this study it becomes evident that pentecostals aim to participate in the metaphysical discipline in the same way they theologize — that is, informed by the norms, practices, and speech acts that constitute their spirituality.

This book aims to construct a Christian metaphysics that is at once attuned to pentecostal spirituality/theology and informed by the classical tradition of Christian metaphysics.

Ultimately, this work offers a constructive and critical engagement with pentecostal spirituality, and with pentecostal theology via the larger ecumenical, creedal, and dogmatic metaphysical tradition. Thus, this book is explicitly and intentionally limited to understand metaphysics in conversation with the historical Christian tradition, and to understand a pentecostal vision of it.
Love and Russian Literature
Authors: Nadel Ira B.
Published: October 2023

Russia haunted the British cultural imagination throughout the 20th century – whether as a romantic source of literary and political inspiration or as a warning of creeping totalitarianism. In this new book, Ira Nadel, charts the story of that influence through the work of some of the key figures in British literature across the century, including Joseph Conrad, Somerset Maugham, Jane Harrison, Virginia Woolf, and H.G. Wells. Framed by the story of two romantic encounters, between Walter Benjamin and the actress Asja Lacis in Moscow in 1926 and between Isaiah Berlin and Anna Akhmatova in 1945, Love and Russian Literature casts a vivid new light on the ways in which responses to Russia shaped the history of British modernism.
A Short History of Judaism and the Jewish People
Authors: Jacobs Steven Leonard
Published: October 2023

In this exciting addition to Bloomsbury’s Short Histories series, Steven Leonard Jacobs critically yet concisely examines the history of Judaism and the Jewish people, drawing from maps, photographs and archives to illuminate the history of one of the world’s oldest religions.

Beginning by establishing a definition of Judaism, Jacobs explores the historiography of the Jewish people, in addition to the role of memory in charting history. Including a comprehensive breakdown of the history of Judaism, the author splits discussion into defined eras, taking readers from the beginnings of Judaism, to the split between Judah in the South and Israel in the North, the united Monarchy, and the Age of the Prophets.

Exploring the social structures and institutions of ancient Israel, Jacobs incorporates key themes such as civic life, economics, and art – before analysing the interactions of Judaism with Romanism and Hellenism. Moving through the Middle Ages and Pre-Modernity, and acknowledging the role of key figures such as Yosef Karo and Moses Mendelssohn, this book brings the narrative up to the present day, and uncovers the foundations of Judaism in modernity.

Jacobs’ authoritative yet engaging prose shines through each of the thirteen chapters, which seamlessly intertwine to produce a thorough yet concise examination of the history of Judaism and Jewish peoples.
New Perspectives on Language Mobility
Authors: Schaefer Sarah Josefine
Published: October 2023

The diffusion of English and the increasing mediatisation of our globalised world have significant impacts on our perceptions of language and culture. Beginning with an overview of how the conceptualisation of language is currently debated in sociolinguistics and related fields, this book highlights the need for a new perspective on language mobility.

Through examining the use of English on German radio morning shows, the book explores the dynamics of language use in times of accelerated globalisation and provides insights into how the media operate within the global flows of messages and linguistic resources that characterise our mediatised societies. In doing so, it demonstrates how combining the different perspectives of a sociolinguistics of mobility and contact linguistics allows for a thorough investigation of language practices in society, and advances the theoretical and practical approaches to the study of language mobility as a result.
Ethics Within Engineering
Authors: Robison Wade L.
Published: October 2023

Exploring key ethical concerns in the engineering industry, this 2nd editionof Ethics Within Engineeringis fully revised and updated to educate a new generation of engineers in ethical decision-making. By focusing on critical issues concerning tracking harm, contract work, and collective action, Wade L. Robison provides educational tools and solutions that match the complexity of the engineering landscape today.

Two new chapters on the responsibility of the engineer and the ethical issues that arise when teams work together to solve design problems, together with new material on tracking harms in the design process, provide a fuller comprehension of risk and harm in engineering. Robison further enhances this new edition with contemporary examples that highlight the enduring necessity of ethics to engineering. These range from the Boeing 737-MAX to General Motors’ controversial 20-gallon fuel tanks. Using real life examples that bring the theory to life, this student-led textbook encourages students to present, challenge, and work through different engineering problems and solutions with confidence and a strong evidence-based approach.

Consistent with the 1st edition’s emphasis on the original design problem which drives ethical questions in engineering, this new edition positions the nascent engineer as its focus for driving positive change in practice, design, and delivery.
Anglo-Hispania beyond the Black Legend
Authors: Lawrence Mark
Published: October 2023

This book traces and analyses the relationship between Britain and Spain in its various forms since 1489. So often viewed as antagonistic rivals in history, the two countries are here compared and contrasted in order to shed light on their international connection and how this has evolved over time. Mark Lawrence reflects on the similarities of their composite monarchies, their roles as successive projectors of European global power, and the common fondness for peculiarly patriotic expressions of Christianity through the ages. At the same time, Lawrence is alert to recognising other ways in which Britain and Spain have seemed worlds apart in their respective corners of the European continent. He examines how British Protestants excoriated Spain in a ‘Black Legend’, while Catholic propagandists dismissed rising English power as the work of pirates and heretics during the early modern period.

In a series of chronological chapters rich with a diverse range of sources, Anglo-Hispania beyond the Black Legend considers the cultural exchanges which flourished amidst the growth of travel and new ideas in the 18th century, the surprising alliances of the 19th century and the shared international causes of the 20th. Whereas Spaniards feared or admired Britain for its successful political and fiscal system, the book convincingly argues, Britons romanticised Iberia for its supposed failures. It ultimately concludes that British campaigns in the 1700s and 1800s established a Romantic Spain in memoir culture which the 20th century gradually dissolved in the ideological cauldron of the 1930s and the advent of mass tourism.
August in Kabul
Authors: Quilty Andrew
Published: October 2023

Told through the eyes of witnesses to the fall of Kabul, Walkley award-winning journalist Andrew Quilty's debut book offers a remarkable record of this historic moment.

As night fell on 15 August 2021, the Taliban entered Kabul, capital of Afghanistan. After a 20-year conflict with the United States, its Western allies and a proxy Afghan government, the Islamic militant group once aligned with al Qaeda was about to bury yet another foreign foe in the graveyard of empires. And for the US, world superpower, this was yet another foreign disaster. As cities and towns fell to the Taliban in rapid succession, Western troops and embassy staff scrambled to flee a country of which its government had lost control.

August in Kabul is the story of how America's longest mission came to an abrupt and humiliating end, told through the eyes of Afghans whose lives have been turned upside down: a young woman who harbours dreams of a university education; a presidential staffer who works desperately to hold things together as the government collapses around him; a prisoner in the notorious Bagram Prison who suddenly finds himself free when prison guards abandon their post. Andrew Quilty was one of only a handful of Western journalists who stayed in Kabul as the city fell. This is his first-hand account of those dramatic final days.
The Poisoned Chalice of US Democracy
Authors: Young John
Published: October 2023

US-style democracy has failed the world. To understand why this is so and where we can go from here, it makes sense to look to the Global South, where US-style democracy has never developed strong roots, and where alternative models have already begun to emerge.

Drawing on three decades of personal, on-the-ground experience as well as on extensive research, renowned investigative journalist John Young offers a groundbreaking new account of that failure and of the emerging alternatives. Focusing on the countries in which his expertise is most authoritative—Ethiopia, Sudan, and South Sudan—Young shows that US democracy’s fatal flaw is that it is not democratic at all. Its exclusive focus on the supremacy of market capitalism necessarily entails a loss of national sovereignty and a truncated notion of human rights that leaves little room for citizens’ engagement or socio-economic justice. These shortcomings explain much of the struggle and conflict that have plagued the Horn of Africa since the 1970s, they lie at the heart of similar problems across the globe, and they have long since been particularly apparent in problems faced across Global South. It is little wonder, then, that the Global South leads the way in developing new and innovative grassroots struggles to overcome national oppression, end unequal development, and raise living standards

For its rich first-hand accounts of grassroots social and economic developments in the Horn of Africa, and for its theoretical rigor in extrapolating the lessons of those developments to interactions between US market-democracy and democratic movements in the Global South, this book is a must-read for researchers and students interested in international development, international political economy, African studies, and politics and international relations.
Nazi Germany, Annexed Poland, and Colonial Rule
Authors: O’Sullivan Rachel
Published: October 2023

This book examines Nazi Germany’s expansion, population management and establishment of a racially stratified society within the Reichsgaue (Reich Districts) of Wartheland and Danzig-West Prussia in annexed Poland (1939-1945) through a colonial lens. The topic of the Holocaust has thus far dominated the scholarly debate on the relevance of colonialism for our understanding of the Nazi regime. However, as opposed to solely concentrating on violence to investigate whether the Holocaust can be located within wider colonial frameworks, Rachel O’Sullivan utilizes a broader approach by investigating other aspects, such as discourses and fantasies related to expansion, settlement, ‘civilising missions’ and Germanisation, which were also intrinsic to Nazi Germany’s rule in Poland.

The resettlement of the ethnic Germans—individuals of German descent who lived in Eastern Europe until the outbreak of the Second World War—forms a main focal point for this study’s analysis and investigation of colonial comparisons. The ethnic German resettlement in the Reichsgaue laid the foundations for the establishment and enforcement of German society and culture, while simultaneously intensifying the efforts to control Poles and remove Jews. Through this case study, O’Sullivan explores Nazi Germany’s dual usage of inclusionary policies, which attempted to culturally and linguistically integrate ethnic Germans and certain Poles into German society, and the contrasting exclusionary policies, which sought to rid annexed Poland of ‘undesirable’ population groups through segregation, deportation and murder. The book compares these policies, and the tactics used to implement them, to colonial and settler colonial methods of assimilation, subjugation and violence.
The Patterns of Comics
Authors: Cohn Neil
Published: October 2023

Comics are a global phenomenon, and yet it’s easy to distinguish the visual styles of comics from Asia, Europe, or the United States. But, do the structures of these visual narratives differ in more subtle ways? Might these comics actually be drawn in different visual languages that vary in their structures across cultures?

To address these questions, The Patterns of Comics seeks evidence through a sustained analysis of an annotated corpus of over 36,000 panels from 350+ comics from Asia, Europe, and North America. This data-driven approach reveals the cross-cultural variation in symbology, layout, and storytelling between various visual languages, and shows how comics have changed across 80 years. It compares, for example, the subtypes within American comics and Japanese manga, and analyzes the formal properties of Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes across its entire 10-year run. Throughout, it not only uncovers the patterns in and across the panels of comics, but shows how these regularities in the visual languages of comics connect to the organizing principles of all languages.

Comics are a global phenomenon, yet we can recognize the visual styles originating from comics in Asia, Europe, or the United States. Yet, might these visual narratives differ in more subtle ways? Might comics actually be drawn in different visual languages that vary in their structures across cultures, just like the variation in spoken languages? To address these questions, The Patterns of Comics carries out a sustained analysis on data of more than 36,000 panels from over 350 comics from Asia, Europe, and the United States. This data-driven approach reveals the balance between cross-cultural diversity and universals in the visual morphology, layout, and storytelling of various visual languages used in comics. It shows how comics from the United States and Europe have changed across 80 years, compares the differences within types of American comics and Japanese manga, and analyzes the formal properties of Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes across its entire 10-year run. Throughout, it not only uncovers the hidden complexity in the structures of comics, but reveals how these regularities in the visual languages of comics connect to the organizing principles of all languages. Just what are the patterns of comics?
The Art of Mary Linwood
Authors: Strobel Heidi A.
Published: October 2023

The Art of Mary Linwood is the first book on Leicester textile artist Mary Linwood (1755-1845) and catalogue of her work.

When British textile artist and gallery owner Mary Linwood died in 1845 just shy of 90 years old, her estate was worth the equivalent of £5,199,822 in today’s currency. As someone who made, but did not sell, embroidered replicas of famous artworks after artists such as Gainsborough, Reynolds, Stubbs, and Morland, how did she accumulate so much money? A pioneering woman in the male-dominated art world of late Georgian Britain, Linwood established her own London gallery in 1798 that featured copies of well-known paintings by these popular artists.

Featuring props and specially designed rooms for her replicas, she ensured that her visitors had an entertaining, educational, and kinetic tour, similar to what Madame Tussaud would do one generation later. The gallery’s focus on picturesque painters provided her London visitors with an idyllic imaginary journey through the countryside. Its emphasis on quintessentially British artists provided a unifying focus for a country that had recently emerged from the threat of Napoleonic invasion.

This book brings to the fore Linwood’s gallery guides and previously unpublished letters to her contemporaries, such as Birmingham inventor Matthew Boulton and Queen Charlotte. It also includes the first and only catalogue of Linwood’s extant and destroyed works. By examining Linwood’s replicas and their accompanying objects through the lens of material culture, the book provides a much-needed contribution to the scholarship on women and cultural agency in the early 19th century.
Invocational Media
Authors: Chesher Chris
Published: October 2023

Invocational Media critiques the sociotechnical power of digital technologies by introducing the concept of invocational media.

What is an invocation? Ask your voice assistant and it will define it for you. It is a media artefact that responds to many invocations such as seeking the weather forecast, requesting any song you can name, or turning on the lights, almost magically. This contemporary manifestation of the ancient practice of invocation gives an immediate response to your call in a way that Chris Chesher argues is the characteristic power of all computers, which he redefines as invocational media.

This book challenges the foundations of computer science by offering invocation as a powerful new way of conceptualising digital technologies. Drawing on media philosophy, Deleuze, Guattari, Heidegger, Latour, Austin, Innis and McLuhan, it critiques the representationalism of data processing, artificial intelligence and virtual reality. Invocational media seem to empower individuals, but necessarily subject users to corporate and government monopolies of invocation. They offer many ‘solutions’, but only by reducing everything to the same kind of act. They complicate agency in their indifference as to whether invokers are human or non-human. With robotics they invoke material form to act physically and autonomously. People willingly make themselves invocable to surveillance and control by creating their own profiles and marking themselves with biometrics. This ground-breaking book will change how you think about digital media by showing they are, in fact, invocational media.
The Drive-In
Authors: Barefoot Guy
Published: October 2023

The Second World War was followed by a period of overall box-office decline but the rapid growth of one form of American cinema: the drive-in. Combining the private space of the car with the public space of the auditorium, and often functioning as a children’s playground and in other ways as more than a place for viewing films, the drive-in provided a particular kind of cinema experience.

It first emerged in the early 1930s, expanded rapidly in the late 1940s, and was central to coming-of-age for millions of Americans in the 1950s. The appeal of the drive-in subsequently waned but it has retained a place in the popular imagination. This book examines the relationship between the popular image and the historical evidence. It contrasts the drive-in’s reputation as a space for dating or delinquent teenagers and for screening subsequent run or exploitation films with the way in which it was promoted as entertainment for families and other audiences who felt excluded from indoor cinemas. Through a study of the drive-ins’ roadside locations, what facilities they provided, who attended and what they saw, it provides a detailed picture of a particular form of post-war American cinema-going and an analysis of the complexities that underlie images of the American 1950s.
Alchemies of Blood and Afro-Diasporic Fiction
Authors: Simek Nicole
Published: October 2023

Alchemies of Blood and Afro-Diasporic Fiction focuses on the resurgence of biological racism in 21st-century public discourse, the ontological and material turns in the academy that have occurred over the same time period, and how Afro-diasporic fiction has responded to both with alternative visions of bloodlines, kinship, and community.

In thinking through conceptions of race, ethnicity, and materiality at work within both humanities research and popular culture, Nicole Simek asks how the figure of alchemy – that semi-scientific, semi-mystical search for gold and the elixir of long life – can help scholars address the epistemological and affective investments in blood, bloodlines, and genetics marking both academic and mainstream discourses. To answer this question, Simek examines neo-plantation and Afrofuturist narratives, Afropessimist interventions, museums and public memory projects, and direct-to-consumer genetic testing services in the French Caribbean and the United States. This comparative approach to cultural production helps pinpoint and better understand the intersections and divergences between scholarship trends and troubling features of a broader Zeitgeist.
Performing Folk Songs
Authors: Bennett Elizabeth
Published: October 2023

Performing Folk Songs is the first full-length volume to explore folk singing from the perspective of performance studies. Using archival sources, family repertoire, and recorded performances of interviewees, this book argues that archives and repertoires are produced in sensory environments and through embodied encounters. Autoethnography, sensory ethnography, life-writing and landscape writing are used to explore the affective and emotional aspects of learning songs ‘by heart’.

Drawing on her experience as a folk singer, Bennett contributes to discourse on British folk traditions in the 21st century and the brings performance scholarship to the contemporary folk song resurgence (Winter and Keegan-Phipps: 2013). In analyzing the performance of English folk songs in the affective context of the archive and the landscape, the book engages with and contributes original insights to scholarship on folk music, performance studies, affect theory, cultural geography, and intangible cultural heritage studies.
A Guide to Post-classical Narration
Authors: Thanouli Eleftheria
Published: October 2023

In A Guide to Post-classical Narration, Eleftheria Thanouli expands and substantially develops the innovative theoretical work of her previous publication, Post-classical Cinema: an International Poetics of Film Narration (2009).

A Guide to Post-classical Narration: The Future of Film Storytelling presents a concise and comprehensive overview of the creative norms of the post-classical mode of narration. With dozens of cases studies and hundreds of color stills from films across the globe, this book provides the definitive account of post-classical storytelling and its techniques. After surfacing in auteur films in varied production milieus in the 1990s, the post-classical options continued to gain ground throughout the 2000s and 2010s, gradually fertilizing several mainstream productions in Hollywood. From Lars von Trier’s Europa (1991) to Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead (2021) and Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis (2022), the post-classical narration has shown not only impressive resilience but also tremendous creativity in transforming its key formal principles, such as fragmented and multi-thread plotlines, hypermediated realism, parody, graphic frame construction, complex chronology, and intense self-consciousness.

Through the meticulous textual analysis of the post-classical works, Eleftheria Thanouli addresses head-on a series of methodological questions in narrative research and brings the tradition of historical poetics back into the limelight. By reinforcing her previous work with numerous new films as well as more nuanced narrative terms and concepts, she not only strengthens her position on post-classical cinema but also establishes the relevance of formalist analysis in the study of film today.
Pensions Law Handbook
Authors: CMS Pensions Team
Published: October 2023

The Pensions Law Handbook is the definitive guide to pensions law and practice in the UK.

Outlining the main responsibilities of key personnel in the operation and governance of occupational pensions, it provides guidance through the complex web of pensions-related statutes, regulations, regulatory guidance and case law.

The 16th Edition covers:
- Changes to the lifetime allowance announced in the Spring Budget 2023- The Pension Schemes Act 2021 (including new powers for the Pensions Regulator)- Updated chapters on winding-up and tax- New content on master trusts and de-risking

This is an indispensable text for pensions lawyers and consultants, accountants, HR professionals and managers of pensions fund trusts.

This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Pensions Law online service.
Quack Medicine
Authors: Boyle Eric W.
Published: October 2023

This timely volume illustrates how and why the fight against quackery in modern America has largely failed, laying the blame on an unlikely confluence of scientific advances, regulatory reforms, changes in the medical profession, and the politics of consumption.

Throughout the 20th century, anti-quackery crusaders investigated, exposed, and attempted to regulate allegedly fraudulent therapeutic approaches to health and healing under the banner of consumer protection and a commitment to medical science. Quack Medicine: A History of Combating Health Fraud in Twentieth-Century America reveals how efforts to establish an exact border between quackery and legitimate therapeutic practices and medications have largely failed, and details the reasons for this failure.

Digging beneath the surface, the book uncovers the history of allegedly fraudulent therapies including pain medications, obesity and asthma cures, gastrointestinal remedies, virility treatments, and panaceas for diseases such as arthritis, asthma, diabetes, and HIV/AIDS. It shows how efforts to combat alleged medical quackery have been connected to broader debates among medical professionals, scientists, legislators, businesses, and consumers, and it exposes the competing professional, economic, and political priorities that have encouraged the drawing of arbitrary, vaguely defined boundaries between good medicine and "quack medicine."
Securitization of Human Rights
Authors: Kim Mikyoung
Published: October 2023

This important book focuses on North Korean refugee human rights issues—a topic largely ignored in favor of addressing North Korea’s domestic politics and deterrence of Pyongyang’s nuclear threat.

The first book of its kind, Securitization of Human Rights: North Korean Refugees in East Asia examines the complex problem of “what to do with North Korea“—specifically, regarding human rights issues and treatment of North Korean refugees.

The book spotlights four key countries—China, Japan, South Korea, and the United States—with regard to their policy stance towards North Korean human rights issues, analyzing the dynamic tension between realpolitik and moral principle by looking at the regional governments’ responses. Rather than focusing only on politics and foreign policy, this book is about the people involved, describing the plight of North Korean refugees, the perspective of South Korean citizens, and the quandary facing power elites in the regional governments.
Waking to Danger
Authors: Rosenbaum Robert A.
Published: October 2023

This intriguing study is the first comprehensive survey of American public opinion about Nazi Germany in the prewar years.

The 1930s were years when Americans struggled to define their country’s role in a dangerous world. Opinions were deeply divided and passionately held. Waking to Danger: Americans and Nazi Germany, 1933-1941 traces the evolution of American public opinion about Germany as it spiraled from ignorance and isolationism to a sense of danger and interventionism.

This brief, but broad survey fills a gap in the historical literature by bringing together, for the first time, the reactions toward Nazi Germany of a variety of groups—peace advocates, Jews, fascists, communists, churches, the business community, and the military—that have hitherto only been treated separately in monographic literature. The result is a picture of evolving national public opinion that will be a walk down memory lane for the members of The Greatest Generation, while offering those who did not live through these turbulent years a fresh understanding of the era.
“Greed Is Good” and Other Fables
Authors: Osborne Tony
Published: October 2023

This book spans three centuries of popular entertainment and everyday culture, showcasing both mainstream and submerged channels and voices to examine how once reviled business values gained supremacy and poisoned the American spirit.

The office in popular culture is often depicted as a topsy-turvy parallel universe where psychological disorders are legitimized as “managerial styles” and comically depraved bosses torment those who do the actual work. During the 1950s, the Beats chose denim and the open road over gray flannel suits and office jobs, but today their grandchildren—Generation Y—aggressively covet desk jobs.

“Greed Is Good” and Other Fables: Office Life in Popular Culture examines how office life is both extolled and lampooned in popular culture. The book tracks how business values ascended to cultural dominance in the United States today, revealing our incessant struggle between financial and spiritual goals in the pursuit of "freedom" and the fulfillment of the American dream. By drawing upon sources as varied as books, newspapers, magazines, television shows, movies, blogs, message boards, documentaries, public speeches, corporate training films, and employee newsletters, the author provides compelling insights into the range of competing values and ideals interwoven throughout office life.
“Islam” Means Peace
Authors: Pal Amitabh
Published: October 2023

This decisive account of the role of nonviolence in Islam and Muslim societies, both historically and in current times, chronicles an often-obscured but longstanding pacifist tradition.

“Islam” Means Peace: Understanding the Muslim Principle of Nonviolence Today provides a rebuttal to general misperceptions about the religion by documenting its rich tradition of nonviolence. To that end, the book examines the sources of Islam–the Qur’an, the main religious text of Islam, and the Hadith, the deeds and sayings of the Prophet Muhammad. It contests the prevalent notion that Islam is built on violence in part by illuminating the role of the tolerant, mystical tradition of Sufism in Islam, while at the same time examining the misunderstood place of jihad in the religion.

The book is not, however, a historical or theological treatise. Rather, it focuses on the tradition of nonviolence in modern Muslim societies. By spotlighting recent peaceful protest movements in Muslim communities, the book underscores the truly global and multicultural nature of the Islamic tradition of nonviolence. The findings here will be invaluable for Muslims and non-Muslims alike, revealing an alternative tradition both can embrace.