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Introduction: Performance et handicap
Authors: Johnston Kirsty
Published: December 2020

Le 30 avril 2016, l’événement Cripping the Stage: A Disability Arts Cabaret mettait en vedette « des artistes handicapés faisant figure de pionniers au Canada et au Royaume-Uni ». Animé par Alex Bulmer and Mat Fraser, l’événement avait comme projet de placer « des interprètes handicapés au devant de la scène pour célébrer le symposium de trois jours intitulé Cripping the Arts, présenté par Tangled Art + Disability en vue de promouvoir la pratique des artistes handicapés ou sourds au Canada et d’appuyer le dynamisme de la culture canadienne » (« Cripping »).1 Comme le démontre le présent numéro, cet événement d’envergure internationale figure parmi toute une série d’initiatives du théâtre pour personnes en situation de handicap qui ont eu lieu au cours des saisons 2015 et 2016. Pendant cette même période, des artistes du théâtre pour personnes handicapées ont travaillé au Centre national des Arts, au Festival Stratford, à l’École des beaux-arts de Banff, au Playwrights Theatre Centre, au Playwrights’ Workshop Montreal et au Festival Luminato. Ce numéro paraît donc à un moment d’effervescence remarquable pour ce genre de théâtre au Canada. Ces cinq dernières années, des institutions nationales et des organismes subventionnaires ont voulu prendre en compte et encourager un dialogue entre les praticiens et les artistes du théâtre pour personnes handicapées. À titre d’exemple, le Conseil des arts du Canada annonçait en 2012 l’adoption d’une stratégie d’accès et d’égalité à l’intention des artistes handicapés ou sourds. L’initiative signalait une nouvelle orientation au chapitre du financement et de l’appui accordé par le CAC à « l’art à part entière » et prenait acte du fait que « les arts des artistes handicapés ou sourds représentent un secteur et des pratiques de grande importance dans le milieu artistique canadien et qu’il faut soutenir, promouvoir et favoriser son évolution » (Conseil des arts du Canada, « Sommaire »).
PUSH(ed) to the Periphery: The Intersection of Disability, Race, and Gender at the 2015 Parapan Am Games
Authors: Ruddy Pippa
Published: December 2020

In conjunction with the 2015 Pan Am and Parapan Am Games, the host city of Toronto commissioned twenty-eight performing arts productions as a part of the cultural initiative called Panamania. Dozens of free concerts, events, and a festival-like atmosphere contributed to the Panamania project, which aimed to enhance the overall experience of the Pan Am/Parapan Am Games (“Panamania Arts amp; Culture Program” 1). Remarkably, however, out of the twenty-eight ticketed events, only three took place during the Parapan Am Games, suggesting an expectation bias (either explicit or implicit): specifically, that the Pan Am Games would draw more attendance than the Parapan Am event, and therefore boost Panamania sales in the earlier period.
Ryga, Miss Donohue, and Me: Forty Years of The Ecstasy of Rita Joe in the University
Authors: Day Moira
Published: December 2020

While the seminal role that George Ryga’s 1967 classic, The Ecstasy of Rita Joe, played in igniting the modern Canadian theatre has often been acknowledged, the extent to which its success also constituted a concentrated attack on what Ryga termed the “complacent educator” in 1977, and helped revolutionize the publication and teaching of Canadian plays at the post-secondary level, may have been less well acknowledged. This article, which documents Moira Day’s own forty-year odyssey with the play in the (largely) prairie university classroom as both a student and an instructor, investigates the play’s initial impact on scholarship, publication, curriculum at the post-secondary leve , and some of its ramifications on school and university production and actor training over the 1970 and 1980s. It also deals with the challenges of continuing to teach and interpret the play from the 1990s onward, as new practices and theories have continued to alter its meaning, and considers why this odd, iconoclastic text, despite its flaws, continues to fascinate us fifty years after its initial production.
Introduction: Festivals
Authors: Knowles Ric
Published: December 2020

In Canada, as elsewhere, “the festivalization of culture” proceeds apace (Bennett et al). Even setting aside the ubiquitous music, film, and cultural festivals that have sprung up like mushrooms—not to mention mushroom festivals themselves (such as the “Fungus Among Us” Festival in Whistler, B.C.)—from the Sound Symposium in St. John’s to the Victoria Fringe Festival, and from the Island Unplugged festival on Pelee Island (Canada’s southernmost point) to the Alianait Arts Festival in Iqaluit, Nunavut, festivals dot the theatre and performance landscape in the land now called Canada. Across the country they turn small towns into tourist destinations and urban centres into “festival cities” (see Johannson, Thomasson). In editing the Cambridge Companion to International Theatre Festivals I compiled a list of over forty international theatre, performance, and multi-arts festivals in Canada, a list that does not include music or sound, circus or visual arts festivals, nor does it include the various Shakespeare festivals (from the “Shakespeare by the Sea” festivals on the east coast to Bard on the Beach in BC), the big repertory seasons at Stratford and Niagara-on-the-Lake, or the many festivals such as the peripatetic Magnetic North that have no international component. In addition to all of these, there are twenty-one Canadian members of the Canadian Association of Fringe Festivals (along with nine U.S.-based members), not including other “rogue” fringes.
“Festival Sites: The Civic and Collective Life of Curatorial Practice” An Interview with Deborah Pearson and Joyce Rosario
Authors: Zaiontz Keren
Published: December 2020

What follows is an interview (over Skype) conducted by Keren Zaiontz in December 2017 with Deborah Pearson, founder of Forest Fringe, an artist collective she runs with Ira Brand and Andy Field, in the UK, and Joyce Rosario, Associate Artistic Director of the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival in Vancouver. At the time of this conversation, both Pearson and Rosario were in a series of remarkable professional transitions. Rosario, then Director of Programming, was at the helm of PuSh as interim Artistic Director. Norman Armour had stepped down from his position in April 2018, after fifteen years of managing the festival. Since the appointment, in 2019, of Franco Boni to Executive and Artistic Director, Rosario has moved into her current role as Associate. In 2017, Pearson and her Forest Fringe co-directors had rounded off ten years of curating groundbreaking work at the Edinburgh Festivals. They are currently producing an experimental narrative feature film, shot on location in the Channel Islands, as part of a company residency at ArtHouse Jersey.
Irena R. Makaryk and Kathryn Prince, eds., Shakespeare in Canada: Remembrance of Ourselves
Authors: Pearce Wes D.
Published: December 2020

As noted in the introduction, “[t]his collection is the final fruit of a [University of Ottawa] project marking the four-hundredth anniversary of Shakespeare’s death,” (11) and this collection of essays was primarily drawn from the Shakespeare + Canada symposium held at the University of Ottawa in April 2016. It is not surprising that the essays within, approach and situate both Shakespeare AND Canada from a wide range of disciplines, critical lenses, and theoretical positions. While the organizational structure is not always clear, Shakespeare in Canada is an approachable and engaging collection that demonstrates the deep connections between Canada and the Bard of Avon.
Kirsty Johnston, Disability Theatre and Modern Drama: Recasting Modernism
Authors: Watkin Jessica
Published: December 2020

What do you think of when you hear the words “Disability performance” together? I will not guess, because I know my answer may be different as a Disabled theatre artist in Toronto, but bringing attention to what we think of and how we consider Disability in performance, and specifically modern drama, is the crux of Johnston’s new contribution to the growing field of critical disability theatre studies. Johnston asks us to consider early on in the text: “how art is changed when we conceive of disability as an aesthetic value in itself. In particular, it is worth asking how the presence of disability requires us to revise traditional conceptions of aesthetic production and appreciation” (5-6). This book decentres the familiar to subvert cultural assumptions of Disability and open up aesthetic, representational, and cultural possibilities of considering Disability content in modern drama plays, and Disability representation (Disabled performers in iconic roles).
Author Guidelines
Authors: Knowles Ric
Published: December 2020

Theatre Research in Canada / Recherches théâtrales au Canada welcomes submissions that draw from a range of critical and historical approaches applied to the study of theatre and performance, in the context of the cultures of Canada and Quebec. For our (non-peer reviewed) Forum section we will consider position papers, commentary on issues of significance to the journals mandate, information about new and old projects, and research notes. We will also consider the publication of fully annotated documentary evidence, normally appended to articles
Roots, Routes, RUTAS
Authors: Alvarez Natalie
Published: December 2020

In this article, author Natalie Alvarez examines how the Caminos and RUTAS festivals of Toronto’s Aluna Theatre harness the interactional, mass gathering of the festival and its high visibility to form a theatrical commons grounded in a heterogeneous and intercultural Americas, one that includes Latin American, Latinx, Indigenous, and Afro-Caribbean artists that have historically been excluded both from the Eurocentric vision of “Latin America” and Canadian performance histories. With a producing mandate to foster Canadian-hemispheric cultural exchanges, Beatriz Pizano’s and Trevor Schwellnus’s curatorial practices aim to generate alternate genealogical routes of Canadian performance history for a new generation of artists to travel. The performance routes of these festivals speak to the critical role festivals can play in directing—and redirecting—transnational flows of knowledge and artistic production. But Pizano and Schwellnus’s curatorial aims are also driven by an interest in how festivals like RUTAS and Caminos can generate a structural shift in the kinds of artistic traditions that are sustained on Toronto’s stages and the ways in which they are sustained by fostering hemispheric collaborations and co-productions. The RUTAS and Caminos festivals demonstrate very powerfully the work that a theatrical commons can do to advance alternative producing structures and transnational coalitional politics.
A Small Festival for Small People: The WeeFestival as Advocacy
Authors: Fitzsimmons Frey Heather
Published: December 2020

The WeeFestival, English Canada’s first performance festival dedicated to children from ages 0 to 5, acts as an advocate for the early years demographic and for the artists who create for them through three key elements of festival structure: programming, space, and creative/artistic exchange. Engaging with research by Ben Fletcher-Watson, Lise Hovik, Matthew Reason, and Adele Senior, this article uses company archives, artist interviews, and the writer’s personal experiences to analyze how the WeeFestival temporarily establishes an alternative public sphere that challenges policy-makers, funders, and artists to rethink relationships between arts, very young citizens, and urban life. Even though very young citizens may not initially know that they want to experience art, the festival attends to the interests and responses of young people, demonstrates respect for their capacity to be emotionally and intellectually engaged by artful and thoughtful productions, and establishes festivalized spaces that put an alternative public sphere into action, gesturing to the possibility of real social change. Taking into account the significance of programming for artists, educators, and policy-makers alongside the significance of meaningful audience-artist exchange, the analysis suggests that events like the WeeFestival have the capacity to gently shift how urban dwellers perceive very young children and the way they interact with the arts in daily life.
Making Knowledge/Playing Culture: Theatre Festivals as Sites of Experiential Learning
Authors: Budde Antje , Samur Sebastian
Published: December 2020

(A project of the Digital Dramaturgy Lab at the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Toronto)

This article discusses the 2017 festival-based undergraduate course, “Theatre Criticism and Festival Dramaturgy in the Digital Age in the Context of Globalization—A Cultural-Comparative Approach” as a platform for experiential learning. The course, hosted by the University of Toronto’s Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, and based on principles of our Digital Dramaturgy Lab, invited a small group of undergraduate students to critically investigate two festivals—the Toronto Fringe Festival and the Festival d’Avignon—in order to engage as festival observers in criticism and analysis of both individual performances and festival programming/event dramaturgy.
Une culture urbaine en mouvement. Se déplacer et consommer en milieu populaire à Québec, 1930-1980
Authors: Gilbert Dale
Published: December 2020

Cet article porte sur les mutations de la mobilité et des pratiques de consommation en milieu populaire québécois au cœur du XXe siècle dans une perspective intégrant usages, demande et planification. À partir du cas du quartier Saint-Sauveur de Québec, nous examinons l’évolution de l’expérience du quartier et de la ville des résidants, de même que les réactions des instances planificatrices et les demandes citoyennes face à celle-ci. Les résultats d’une enquête orale démontrent que l’automobile a transformé l’expérience de la consommation au tournant des années 1960 en redessinant les rapports à la proximité et à l’accessibilité physique des résidants, habitués jusqu’alors de se déplacer à pied. Les projets des instances planificatrices de la Ville de Québec découlant du nouveau contexte né de cette transformation, fortement teintés par la variable automobile, ont fait l’objet d’une opposition de la part de citoyens. Les interventions de ces instances ont conduit néanmoins à une redéfinition durable de la structure de ce quartier populaire ancien et conséquemment de la vie qu’on y menait, redéfinition acceptée par une grande partie de ses résidants.
Constructing an Urban Drug Ecology in 1970s Canada
Authors: Marquis Greg
Published: December 2020

In 1970, youthful researchers carried out participant-observer studies of the drug scene in Vancouver, Winnipeg, Toronto, Montreal, and Halifax. This ethnographic research, prepared for the federal Commission of Inquiry into the Non-Medical Use of Drugs (the LeDain Commission), was part of the commission’s extensive series of unpublished studies. The commission, which released an initial report in 1970, one on cannabis in 1972 and a final report in 1973, adopted a broad approach to the issue of drugs and society. This article examines the unpublished studies as examples of social science “intelligence gathering” on urban social problems. The reports discussed the local market in illegal drugs, its geographic patterns and organizational features, the demographic characteristics of drug sellers and consumers, the culture of the drug scene, and the attitudes of users. Unlike earlier sociological and anthropological studies that focused on prisoners and lower-class “junkies” or more recent studies that examine marginalized inner-city populations, the city studies reflected the era’s fixation on middle-class youth culture and the addiction-treatment sphere’s growing concern with amphetamine abuse.
Sex, Intimacy, and Desire among Men of Chinese Heritage and Women of Non-Asian Heritage in Toronto, 1910–1950
Authors: Chenier Elise
Published: December 2020

Because few women of Chinese heritage came to Canada, Chinese migrant communities before 1950 are described as “bachelor societies.” Sojourners’ own ambition to return home with more wealth, the imposition of ever-increasing head taxes on migrants from China, the 1923 Chinese Exclusion Act, and deeply entrenched racism toward people of Chinese heritage meant that the vast majority were doomed to live their lives without the emotional, material, or domestic support or companionship provided by wives and children. They were de facto bachelors, if not bachelors in fact. New research, however, shows that since the 1910s young men of Chinese heritage carved out spaces for themselves in Toronto’s urban sexual culture, and young white women a space for themselves in Toronto’s Chinatown. During the first half of the twentieth century, many men of Chinese heritage enjoyed sex, companionship, love, and family life. Perhaps as many as a third were married to or lived common-law with women of white heritage, and many more frequently engaged in sexual and intimate relationships with sex workers they sometimes sought as long-term companions. The evidence presented here challenges the current perception that “Chinese bachelors” lived sexless, loveless lives. These relationships were not without controversy, of course, but many people within the community accepted them, and women of white heritage, including sex workers, were integrated into the community in diverse ways.
White-Collar Workers and Neighbourhood Change: Jarvis Street in Toronto, 1880–1920
Authors: Lombardo Nicholas
Published: December 2020

In 1880, Jarvis Street, just east of Toronto’s central business district, was the city’s premier residential district, home to notable Torontonians such as the Masseys and the Gooderhams. By 1920, the street would host a new group of young, unattached, white-collar workers. Changes to the social, demographic, and occupational character of Jarvis Street were accompanied by physical changes to its built form. The family estates of the nineteenth-century elite were converted into boarding and rooming houses, or torn down and replaced by some of the city’s first apartment buildings. These changes were driven by the growth of corporate capitalism in Toronto and the attendant growth of white-collar workers, as well as changes to urban form associated with the growth of the city outwards. This article examines the relationship between neighbourhood change and larger socio-economic changes occurring across the North American urban landscape at the time. It does so by using a variety of historical data, including City of Toronto tax assessments, city directories, as well as contemporary newspaper accounts. This case study of Jarvis Street’s social, gender, occupational, and physical changes shows the way that larger socio-economic processes are written at the scale of the neighbourhood. In doing so, it demonstrates the importance of understanding neighbourhood change as local materialization of larger social, economic, and demographic processes.
Urban Environments and the Animal Nuisance: Domestic Livestock Regulation in Nineteenth-Century Canadian Cities
Authors: Kheraj Sean
Published: December 2020

In the nineteenth century, municipal authorities in Canadian cities faced a common set of environmental challenges associated with domestic livestock animals. This article examines the regulation of livestock in Montreal, Toronto, and Winnipeg. As these cities each grew over the course of the nineteenth century, their urban environments became ecologically more alike and their responses to animal nuisances reflected these ecological similarities. Municipal authorities in each of these cities adopted broadly similar approaches to the regulation of livestock animals. Over the course of the nineteenth century, municipal governments developed extensive and increasingly restrictive bylaws, pound systems, and public health regulations to control the use of livestock. These approaches to livestock regulation were the results of emerging common ecological transformations in cities as humans attempted to live together with domestic animals in increasingly densely populated spaces.
“On Their Knees”: Politics, Protest, and the Cancellation of the Pickering Airport, 1972–1975
Authors: Rowan Michael
Published: December 2020

The Pickering Airport in Ontario was announced in March 1972 and cancelled in September 1975. During that three-year period there was a bitter struggle between protesters, whose land was expropriated for the airport, and the federal government. The expropriation process gave both protesters and bureaucrats the opportunity to plead their cases through public forums on why the Pickering Airport was necessary or not. By the 1970s, citizens became more distrustful of experts and believed they deserved a full seat at the policy table, while bureaucrats were frustrated by challenges to their authority and the slow policy process. The debate over the Pickering Airport raises important questions about the effectiveness of public forums like hearings or public inquires in determining policy. Citizens groups may have a seat at the policy table, but the policy process has remained bitter and divisive.
La contribution des édifices municipaux au développement des villes québécoises en région, 1870–1929
Authors: Déom Claudine
Published: December 2020

Les villes québécoises situées en région connaissent une croissance importante au cours de la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle. L’industrialisation, qui s’est d’abord manifestée à Québec et à Montréal, s’installe dans les secteurs de la province plus éloignés des grands centres. La venue du chemin de fer et des entreprises manufacturières engendrent un accroissement de la population urbaine québécoise, transformant ainsi d’anciens noyaux villageois en de petits centres régionaux. Concurremment, cette période est marquée par l’avènement des premières lois municipales. Suite à l’établissement de la Confédération canadienne, le Code municipal du Québec voit le jour en 1870, instituant de façon permanente les municipalités de la province. La municipalité est désignée comme la responsable de la gestion du territoire et de la desserte de services auprès de ses contribuables, et ces années de développement intense obligent les instances municipales à assumer pleinement ces responsabilités. À un moment où les conditions d’hygiène dans les quartiers ouvriers sont précaires et où les incendies constituent des menaces quotidiennes, les villes procèdent à l’aménagement d’infrastructures, les aqueducs notamment, et à la construction de bâtiments qui répondent à de nouveaux besoins urbains. Cet article propose un examen de la production architecturale municipale des villes québécoises en région entre les années 1870 et 1929. L’ensemble des halles de marché, casernes de pompiers, stations de pompage et hôtels de ville a contribué d’une manière insoupçonnée à l’histoire des villes en devenir. Ce corpus sera examiné du point de vue de sa contribution à l’organisation et au fonctionnement des villes à une période cruciale de leur développement. L’intérêt de ces constructions repose également sur le fait qu’elles témoignent d’une volonté manifeste des administrateurs de projeter l’image d’un idéal civique.
Introducing Canada to Urban Planning? Henry Vivian’s Canadian Planning Tour, 1910
Authors: Mary Ulmer Catherine
Published: December 2020

From the late nineteenth century onwards, an informal but dedicated group of middle- and upper-class Canadians came to embrace urban planning, building networks across the growing international movement that they used to import and circulate foreign innovations within Canada. This article studies the impact of such transnational planning exchanges through exploring British Garden City planning expert Henry Vivian’s 1910 tour of Canada. Arriving at the request of Earl Grey, Canada’s ninth governor general and an influential planning advocate, Vivian spent three months touring municipalities, lecturing on the Garden City approach, and advising on local urban issues. The article studies the wider Canadian and transnational planning movements from which Vivian’s tour emerged before considering the tour itself and Vivian’s ultimate influence on Canada’s planning movement.
Psychological and pedagogical and social dimensions of gender deprivation in education
Authors: Kiz Olha
Published: December 2020

The factors of the educational environment that have a depriving effect on participants in the educational process of both sexes in the form of unequal treatment, harassment, restrictions, exclusions or preferences, hidden or overt discrimination, any manifestations of gender-based violence have been analyzed in the article. At the macrosocial level the subject of analysis of gender deprivation in education is gender perceptions as a reflection of the state gender policy in general and the educational level in particular has been revealed. At the level of intergroup interaction there are gender stereotypes, at the level of interpersonal relations there are gender guidelines, at the intraindividual level there is a gender identity. Gender relations of participants in the educational process are considered as real practices and models of intersex interaction, determined by gender perceptions, prejudices, stereotypes, social rules, which are reflected in the minds of subjects. Gender bias is analyzed as social rules with negative and distorted content, as a prejudised opinion towards the representatives of one or another sex, which reflects the common norms of gender-specific behavior. Three components in the structure of gender bias: cognitive which is unreasonably biased, irrational thoughts about men/women in general or about their ability to be successful in some areas or unsuccessful in others; affective which means rejection, humiliation, underestimation, negative feelings towards members of one or another sex; behavioral which is connected with destructive, negative behavior towards them have been distinguished. The need to study the gender deprivation in education from the standpoint of different psychological approaches in the context of a comprehensive analysis of deprivation conditions, deprivation factors, the consequences of being brought up or living temporarily in such conditions and ways of their resocialization and integration into society in the process of socio-psychological support has been emphasized. The importance of systematic monitoring and finding diagnostic indicators of gender deprivation in the education system in order to prevent the deprivation of subjects of the educational process and create a gender-sensitive educational environment has been established.
Psychological aspects of the development of leadership skills of students of vocational institutions
Authors: Kozak Oksana
Published: December 2020

The article presents results theoretical study of the leadership. The author analyzes leadership qualities in the field of psychological research, reveals the results of theoretical interpretation of the concept leadership by modern domestic and foreign scientists, the concept of leader’s personality as a set of integrative psychological qualities of the person is researched. Actuality the theoretical and practical research of the leadership concepts, leadership qualities and leader’s personality in modern psychological research has been confirmed. New social realities require the creation of conditions for the training of a person capable of adapting as quickly as possible to study and develop. This necessitates research in the personality of leadership qualities, through which it will be able to make timely independent decisions, persuade others to correct their position, lead them on their way to achieving their goals, effectively interact with the society, self-actualize and become an active full and, above all, a productive part of society. Therefore, the problem of leadership and leader’s personalit, becomes the great importance in the context of modern psychological discourse. The student’s personality of the vocational education system is analyzed, and the essence of the structure vocational’s educational institution as the environment for the development of students' leadership qualities and the psychological properties of the leader's personality are revealed. The psychological aspects of the empirical study of leadership qualities in the psychological structure of student’s personality of vocational institution education are revealed. The results of the study levels of development the key personal qualities of students, corresponding to the most significant leadership qualities, are analyzed.
Carvacrol: A Brief Analysis of Molecular Properties and Their Therapeutic Potential
Authors: de Oliveira Aldo Sena , de Oliveira Aldo Sena
Published: December 2020

This mini review presents some research involving carvacrol, a phenolic monoterpenoid that has been
investigated due to its low toxicity and its applicability in the synthesis of derivatives with important
biological properties. The molecular properties of carvacrol were calculated to broaden the discussion about
its bio dynamicity.
Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Atrial Fibrillation Associated with Ischaemic Heart Disease
Authors: Torres Oriol Yuguero , Pérez-Mur Jesús , Gutiérrez Eric , Valls Joan , Fornés Sònia , Torres Oriol Yuguero
Published: December 2020

Objective: To describe cardiovascular risk factors in Atrial Fibrillation (AF) in relation with ischaemic
diseases in an emergency service.
Methodology: Cross-sectional study of patients with AF attended in the (ES) of the HUAV during 2016.
Epidemiological and clinical data and their CVRF were analysed. The statistical association was made
through the Chi-Square or Mann-Whitney test. The risk factors associated with AF were adjusted with
logistic regression models, calculating OR.
Results: We evaluated 552 patients with 46% men and (54%) women with an average age of 72.9 years. In
57 patients (10.3%), the detection of AF was coincidental. The younger patients presented with more
frequent palpitations (p <0.05) and the older patients had dyspnea (p <0.05). The older patients are the ones
that take longer to consult (p <0.05). 17% (94) of patients with AF have a heart attack before, during or after
the episode of AF, with a higher prevalence among men (p <0.05). The probability of diagnosing ischaemic
heart disease in a male patient with AF, hypertensive and diabetic is 71%.
Conclusion: In men with hypertension and DM a correct diagnostic and therapeutic management, should
consider the diagnostic possibility that AF is related to the presence of ischaemic disease. AF can be
considered as an anginal equivalent in patients who meet the three conditions: being male, with hypertension
and DM.
Wildfire in Ukraine: an overview of fires and fire management system
Authors: Zibtsev S. V. , Soshenskyi O. M. , Myroniuk V. V. , Gumeniuk V. V.
Published: December 2020

In the last decade, the problem of fires in the natural landscapes of Ukraine has aggravated due to climate change, changes in society and land use. Catastrophic wildfires in 2014, 2015 and 2020 indicate that Ukraine is now in the new climate conditions in terms of the level of fire danger. It is clear that in such conditions departmental forest and landscapes fire protection system is incapable of control over the situation. Such situation requires an analysis of the effectiveness of the existing forest and landscapes fire protection system and its improvement in accordance with new risks and challenges. Based on the methods of RS with the help of modern software products, it was established that in Ukraine over the past 19 years wildfires have damaged 38.4 million hectares of natural areas, an average of 2.0 million hectares annually. The most severe problem of wildfires is observed in the southern and eastern parts of Ukraine, where forest cover is low, part of agricultural lands is large (over 70%), which indicates, first of all, a problem of agricultural fires. In comparison to fires (burnings) on agricultural lands, the problem of forest fires does not seem very significant. Yet, taking into the account especially large forest fires in Ukraine during 2007 – 2020 that have led to human deaths, destruction of residential buildings, manufacture and social infrastructure, which has resulted in enormous ecological and economical losses, it is clear that forest fire protection system requires deep analysis and appropriate decisions for its improvement. The article is devoted to the study of fires in the natural landscapes of Ukraine, analysis of the current forest and landscapes fire protection system and ways to improve it. The first step towards establishing a modern fire management system in Ukraine should aim at establishing a reliable national fire statistics system, which would highlight the real problem and include all type of landscape fires - in open lands and in forests. The scientific article represents analyzes the landscape fires for the period 2001-2019 according to the global products of the MODIS system. Also in the article, performed the analysis of the components of the current fire management system and the main shortcomings and key recommendations for its improvement are formulated.
An Appreciation of the Ethnographic in Connell’s The Men and the Boys
Authors: Weaver-Hightower Marcus B.
Published: December 2020

In this short personal appreciation of The Men and the Boys, the author admires the ethnographic and writing skills Raewyn Connell displays—the craft and artistry that animates her insightful theories. From her prose’s clarity to the deftness of her interviewing, Connell models how to empirically ground foundational social theory.
Men and Masculinities the Journal
Authors: Nelson Joseph D. , Bridges Tristan , Barber Kristen
Published: December 2020

In this reflective piece, the new editors of the historic journal Men and Masculinities explicate how key tenets of Raewyn Connell’s scholarship informed their expanded vision of the journal. It begins with a meta-analysis of empirical research published in the journal for the last 20 years, and highlights its emphasis on contemporary scholarship from various disciplines and fields. Each facet of the journal’s new vision is relayed thereafter, including its feminist perspective, international focus, and interdisciplinarity. It concludes with efforts by the editors to actualize their vision in the service of broadening the field of gender, boyhood, and masculinity studies.
The Effect of Lockdown on the Mental and Physical Health of Romanian Medical Undergraduates
Authors: BAIU Octavian Ilarian , DUGAESESCU Monica , BLIDARU Teodor-Cristian
Published: December 2020

As a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, medical universities were closed in Romania, between March 2020 and July 2020. The educational process was transferred to an on-line environment, in person contact becoming nonexistent outside the group of people from one’s household. The purpose of this study is to provide an overview of the mental health status in medical undergraduates in Romania during lockdown. A questionnaire was used in April 2020 to collect information regarding the life of students during social isolations and to assess the mental health of students using a self reported 1-7 scale on 21 relevant endpoints. After data quality control, the remaining 1978 data entries were analysed in SPSS 20. We identified multiple factors that may contribute to the mental health of undergraduate students, such as: partner status and offline contact, personality traits, social media and streaming platforms usage. There were differences regarding the mental health status indicated by endpoints between: genders, living environment, owning a pet, etc. This study describes how mental health, a neglected subject in the Romanian public health arena, is influenced by various factors during lockdowns. Further research should be conducted and appropriate measures should be taken to prevent the degradation of mental health in medical students under pandemic circumstances.
Discovering and Implementing Self-Sustaining Networks of Cooperation with General Collective Intelligence
Authors: Williams Andy E
Published: December 2020

Leveraging General Collective Intelligence or GCI, a platform with the potential to achieve an exponential increase in general problem-solving ability, a methodology is defined for finding potential opportunities for cooperation, as well as for negotiating and launching cooperation. This paper explores the mechanisms by which GCI enables networks of cooperation to be formed in order to increase outcomes of cooperation and in order to make that cooperation self-sustaining. And this paper explores why implementing a GCI for the first time requires designing an iterative process that self-assembles continually growing networks of cooperation.
The Relation Between Stereotyped Thoughts and Self-Efficacy Beliefs of a Foreign Language in a Higher Education Context
Authors: ÇİMENLİ Betül , AKDOĞDU Eda
Published: December 2020

The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between undergraduate students’ stereotyped thoughts about foreign language and their perception of foreign language self-efficacy in terms of some variables. The study was conducted as correlational research method, one of the quantitative research methods. The sample of the study consists of undergraduate students studying at the Faculty of Education at a state university in Western Black Sea Region in Turkey during the academic year of 2018-2019. A total number of 352 participants were included into the study via simple random sampling method. As data collection tools, two five-point Likert-type " Stereotyped Thoughts about Foreign Languages Scale" and "English Self-Efficacy Scale" were used. As a result of the study, it was found out that participants' stereotyped thoughts about foreign language and their self-efficacy levels about English were at a medium level. In addition, it was found that there is a significant and positive relationship between stereotyped thoughts and self-efficacy of the participants, albeit at a low level. Researchers revealed that self-efficacy in L2 English significantly explained the variance in stereotyped thoughts about foreign language. Moreover, stereotypes about the foreign language significantly explain the variance in participants' English self-efficacy.
Okuma Güçlüğünü Gidermede Nörolojik Etki Yönteminin Rolü
Authors: ŞAHİN Murat , BAŞTUĞ Muhammet
Published: December 2020

Bu araştırmada görsel, işitsel ve zihinsel herhangi bir problemi olmayan bir üçüncü sınıf öğrencisinin okuma ve okuduğunu anlama problemi, nörolojik etki yöntemi ile giderilmeye çalışılmıştır. Araştırmada durum çalışması desenlerinden bütüncül tek durum deseni kullanılmıştır. Seçilen öğrencinin herhangi bir görsel, işitsel ve zihinsel probleminin olmadığından emin olduktan sonra öğrencinin okuma ve anlama düzeyini belirlemek için ön test yapılmıştır. Yapılan ön test sonucunda öğrencinin endişe düzeyinde olduğu tespit edilmiştir. Veri toplama aracı olarak “Hızlı Kelime Tanıma Tabloları”, “Araştırmacı Gözlem ve Notları”, “Hikâye Edici Okuma Metinleri” ve “Yanlış Analizi Envanteri” kullanılmıştır. Öğrencinin okuma sırasında heceleme hataları yaptığı, okuma hızının çok yavaş olduğu, akıcı okuyamadığı, yanlış okuduğu ve atlayıp geçtiği tespit edilmiştir. Öğrencinin okuma beceri düzeyi dikkate alınarak bireyselleştirilmiş bir okuma programı hazırlanmıştır. Program 48 saatlik bir süreyi kapsamakta olup her bir oturum bir saatlik dilimlerden oluşmaktadır. Çalışmanın her bir oturumu iki bölüm halinde gerçekleştirilmiştir. Birinci bölümde öğrenciye okunacak metinde en sık tekrarlanan kelimelerin yer aldığı, farklı desenlerde hazırlanmış “Hızlı Kelime Tanıma Tabloları” verilerek okuma çalışması yapılmıştır. İkinci bölümde ise öğrenci ile birlikte “Nörolojik Etki Yöntemine” uygun olarak okuma çalışması gerçekleştirilmiştir. Çalışmanın sonunda araştırmacı tarafından yapılan son testte öğrencinin okuma ve anlama düzeyinin endişe düzeyinden öğretim düzeyine çıktığı belirlenmiştir.
Analisis Kelayakan Isi dan Penyajian Buku Matematika Smp Kelas 7 Materi Aljabar
Authors: Rahmatudin Jajang , Hidayat Rifqi
Published: December 2020

Tujuan penelitian ini untuk menyajikan analisis konten materi aljabar siswa SMP. Jenis penelitian ini adalah penelitian deskriptif kualitatif, subjek yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah buku matematika siswa SMP kelas VII semester 1 kurikulum 2013 revisi 2017. Berdasarkan analisis diperoleh kesimpulan bahwa dalam penyajian materi aljabar pada buku matematika siswa SMP kelas VII masih terdapat beberapa kekeliruan diantaranya: penyajian fakta, penyajian konsep dan penyajian prosedur.
Proses Berpikir Kritis dan Kesalahan Peserta Didik Dalam Memecahkan Masalah Matematika Ditinjau dari Tipe Kepribadian Dominance-Influence
Authors: Herlinda Mega , Aripin Aripin , Siregar Nurfadilah
Published: December 2020

Proses berpikir kritis dan kesalahan yang dilakukan oleh peserta didik berbeda-beda, hal tersebut dipengaruhi oleh kepribadian yang dimiliki setiap individu. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah penelitian deskriptif kualitatif. Subjek penelitian terdiri dari empat subjek dengan tipe kepribadian yang berbeda di antaranya dua subjek dengan kepribadian dominance dan dua subjek dengan kepribadian influence. Analisis data yang digunakan terdiri dari reduksi data, penyajian data, dan menarik kesimpulan. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa: 1) Peserta didik dengan kepribadian dominance salah satun subjeknya belum memenuhi semua indikator tahapan proses berpikir kritis yaitu pada tahap klarifikasi, tahap asesmen, tahap inferensi, sedangkan pada tahap strategi kedua subjek belum memenuhi indikator proses berpikir kritis. Selain itu, pada saat memecahkan masalah peserta didik dominance melakukan kesalahan di antaranya kesalahan memahami masalah, kesalahan transformasi, kesalahan keterampilan proses, dan kesalahan penulisan jawaban. 2) Peserta didik dengan kepribadian influence memenuhi semua indikator proses berpikir kritis, namun pada saat memecahkan masalah peserta didik influence melakukan kesalahan di antaranya kesalahan keterampilan proses dan kesalahan penulisan jawaban. Jadi, diantara kedua kepribadian tersebut yang melalui semua tahapan proses berpikir kritis dan melakukan sedikit kesalahan sebesar 33,3 % dari tahapan yang seharusnya dalam memecahkan masalah yaitu peserta didik dengan kepribadian influence.
Brazilian green propolis promotes the cytoprotective expression of heme oxygenase-1 against oxidative stress injury in murine myoblast cells
Authors: Otsu Wataru , Chinen Naoki , Ohuchi Kazuki , Ando Shiori , Nakamura Shinsuke , Kono Hiroyuki , Shimazawa Masamitsu , Hara Hideaki
Published: December 2020

Background: Sarcopenia is a progressive skeletal muscle disorder characterized by the progressive loss of muscle mass and function, resulting in physical disability and mortality. Although sarcopenia impacts a large proportion of elderly individuals, no effective treatment for this disease has yet been identified. The excessive production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) can damage tissues and promote aging, and the daily use of dietary antioxidants can be effective for maintaining skeletal muscle health. Propolis, a natural substance that is collected by honey bees, has been used as traditional medicine, and many reports have described its antioxidative properties. However, how propolis exhibits cytoprotective effects and antioxidative effects in skeletal muscles remains unclear. The purpose of this study was to investigate the antioxidative effects of ethanol-extracted Brazilian green propolis (EEBP, from Baccharis dracunculifolia) and its three constituents using an in vitro myoblast cell model.Methods: Murine myoblast C2C12 cells were treated with either EEBP or its constituents, including caffeic acid, trans-ferulic acid, and p-coumaric acid, in the presence of 100 or 300 mM H2O2 to induce oxidative stress injury. The cell death ratio and cell viability were assessed by Hoechst 33342 and propidium iodide staining and the WST-8 assay, respectively. Simultaneously, intracellular ROS production was measured by CM-H2DCFDA [5-(and-6)-chloromethyl-2’,7’-dichlorodihydrofluorescein diacetate, acetyl ester] assay. Finally, immunoblotting was performed in myoblast cell lysates to assess the expression level of an antioxidative enzyme, heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1).Results: We demonstrated that EEBP significantly reduced H2O2-induced cell death at a concentration of 3 µg/ml in myoblasts. Additionally, caffeic acid at 100 µM improved cell viability under oxidative stress conditions, but not trans-ferulic acid or p-coumaric acid. Both EEBP and caffeic acid inhibited the H2O2-induced increase in ROS production. Finally, HO-1 expression was increased by treatment with either EEBP or caffeic acid. The increase in HO-1 expression induced by H2O2 was enhanced in the presence of EEBP and caffeic acid.Conclusions: These findings indicated that EEBP has protective effects against oxidative damage in C2C12 murine myoblast cell line. Caffeic acid is an EEBP constituent that contributes to cytoprotective activity. EEBP may act as an inducer of HO-1 to prevent oxidative stress-induced myoblast death.Keywords: C2C12 murine myoblast cells, heme oxygenase-1, oxidative stress, propolis, reactive oxygen species
Mit Maß ans Ziel – Ein Unterrichtsbeispiel für Verbraucherbildung in der Primarstufe zur Vermeidung von Lebensmittelverschwendung
Authors: Abu Zahra-Ecker Rim , Leitner-Wolfinger Anna
Published: December 2020

Die Autorinnen skizzieren auf der Grundlage einer Befragung von Lehramtsstudierenden der Primarstufenausbildung ein Unterrichtsbeispiel, das sich mit der Verschwendung von Lebensmitteln und entsprechenden Gegenmaßnahmen beschäftigt.
El niño con estridor persistente
Authors: Alvo Andrés
Published: December 2020

El estridor es un ruido respiratorio anormal generado por obstrucción o colapso de la vía aérea laringotraqueal, de manera aguda o de evolución crónica. Existen distintas causas tanto congénitas como adquiridas capaces de producir dificultad respiratoria, que puede llegar a ser grave y con potencial riesgo vital. El diagnóstico clínico del paciente con estridor persistente debe ser complementado con un estudio endoscópico de la vía aérea y en ocasiones con imágenes, para intentar determinar el o los sitios comprometidos y posibles malformaciones asociadas. La indicación de tratamiento debe ser individualizada, considerando el estado general del paciente, las etiologías responsables, el impacto sobre la respiración y la deglución, el pronóstico y la capacidad técnica del equipo tratante, entre otras. Las alternativas pueden incluir observación, medidas no farmacológicas, medicamentos locales o sistémicos, procedimientos endoscópicos, cirugías abiertas, o bien la instalación de una traqueostomía de manera temporal o como manejo definitivo. El objetivo de esta revisión es entregar un adecuado conocimiento de la fisiopatología y la etiopatogenia del estridor pediátrico persistente, fundamental para el correcto manejo de estos pacientes complejos, que debiera realizarse idealmente en un contexto multidisciplinario.