bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Manifestações orofaciais em pessoas com diabetes mellitus: revisão integrativa
Authors: Taveras Ismael David Lama , Pena Francineide Pereira Da Silva , Nazima Maira Tiyomi Sacata Tongu , Guimarães Mayla Rosa , Volpe Maria Izabel Cortes , Brandão Lethicia Barreto
Published: February 2025

O diabetes mellitus (DM) é caracterizado por níveis elevados de glicose no sangue e representa um desafio significativo para a saúde global devido às suas complicações sistêmicas. Diante disso, a presente revisão visa aprofundar a compreensão das manifestações orofaciais associadas a essa condição. Objetivo: Identificar as evidências científicas sobre as manifestações orais em pessoas com diabetes mellitus na atenção primária à saúde. Método: Realizou-se uma revisão integrativa nas bases de dados PubMed, Embase, Lilacs, Ibecs, BDEnf, Web of Science e Scopus, entre março e abril de 2024, sem restrições de idioma ou período de busca. Utilizou-se os descritores controlados Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) e Descritores em Ciências da Saúde (DeCS), combinando os termos "Manifestações Bucais" e "Diabetes Mellitus" com os operadores booleanos "AND" e "OR". Resultados: Foram identificados 389 artigos, dos quais 10 compuseram a amostra final. Os artigos mais relevantes foram selecionados para a construção do quadro sinótico dos resultados. Conclusão: Observou-se um predomínio significativo de complicações orais em pessoas com diabetes, como xerostomia, doença periodontal e lesões mucosas, destacando a necessidade de uma abordagem interdisciplinar para o manejo adequado dessas condições.
Dinheiro e Política Monetária em Friedman: da TQM às Metas Sobre a Emissão Monetária
Authors: Nascimento Pedro Henrique
Published: February 2025

O presente trabalho tem como objetivo explorar os principais pontos teóricos de Milton Friedman, grande expoente da teoria econômica, em particular, da teoria monetária do século passado. A estratégia adotada foi o de relacionar a sua nova interpretação da Teoria Quantitativa da Moeda como o ponto de partida para a elaboração teórica subsequente, a qual elenca a moeda como elemento central para a explicação da Grande Depressão e também para a elaboração de um arcabouço teórico capaz de explicitar diferentes efeitos da política monetária para o curto e longo prazo da economia. Desse arcabouço, sai a principal recomendação política monetária: regras sobre a emissão monetária. Como conclusão, o estudo aponta que nem todos os pontos teóricos conseguiram obter sucesso uma vez implementados na prática (como sua política monetária), mas a base para a construção dos modelos macroeconômicos modernos contempla tem o DNA friedmaniano da necessidade do controle inflacionário e das diferenças temporais de impacto da política monetária.
Avaliação morfológica e produtiva de capins elefantes e canas-de-açúcar cultivadas em neossolo irrigado no semiárido brasileiro
Authors: Machado Neiton Silva , Sá Chandler Belchior de , Freire Felipe Rodrigues , Mariano Daniel Siqueira , Lessa Bruno França da Trindade , Silva Adriano Victor Lopes da , Alencar Elisvaldo José Silva , Leite Daniel Mariano , Melo Junior Júlio César Ferreira
Published: February 2025

Este trabalho teve como objetivo avaliar as características morfológicas e produtivas de quatro variedades de capim-elefante e duas variedades de cana-de-açúcar cultivadas em neossolo irrigado por gotejamento na região do Vale do Submédio São Francisco, sob condições de baixa tecnologia. O delineamento experimental foi em blocos casualizados (DBC), com seis tratamentos e seis blocos. Foram confeccionados 24 sulcos de 24 metros de comprimento, espaçados em 1 metro. As parcelas experimentais consistiram em quatro linhas de 4 metros de comprimento cada. As avaliações semanais tiveram início 30 dias após o plantio, totalizando nove semanas de análises morfológicas das seguintes variáveis: diâmetro do caule, altura da planta, número de folhas, largura da folha e comprimento da folha. Aos 111 dias após o plantio, foi realizado o corte total das 24 parcelas experimentais para determinação da massa verde, massa seca, sólidos totais, sólidos fixos, sólidos voláteis e sólidos solúveis (Brix). Com base nos resultados observados, foi possível inferir que a cana-de-açucar Cayana apresentou o maior diâmetro do caule, a cana-de-açucar cv. VAT 90-212 obteve a maior altura da planta e o maior comprimento das folhas, o BRS Kurumi apresentou o maior número de folhas, e o Napier teve a maior largura das folhas. Além disso, o capim-elefante Napier destacou-se com a maior produção de massa verde (49.979,17 kg ha⁻¹) e massa seca (11.308,62 kg ha⁻¹), enquanto a cana-de-açucar Cayana apresentou o maior teor de sólidos solúveis (7,45 °Brix), com um coeficiente de uniformidade de distribuição da irrigação de apenas 79,4%.
Impacto da depressão no prognóstico de doenças crônicas
Authors: Ramos Ana Hisi Fujii , Finamore Maria Fernanda Mazi , Castro Rafaella Tancredi Andrade Nantes de , Massariol Mylena Magalhães , Casagrande Diego Eduardo , Mequi Fernando Barraca de Jesus , Marques Tainara Maier , Thomaz Gabriela Chaves , Perosa Lorenza , Bhering Karina Dias , Souza Ludmila Oliveira de , Avanci Júnior José Amarildo
Published: February 2025

A depressão é uma condição psiquiátrica que impacta negativamente a evolução de diversas doenças crônicas, afetando a adesão ao tratamento, a resposta terapêutica e a qualidade de vida dos pacientes. Estudos indicam que a coexistência de depressão em indivíduos com doenças como diabetes mellitus, hipertensão arterial, insuficiência cardíaca e doença pulmonar obstrutiva crônica (DPOC) está associada a desfechos clínicos desfavoráveis, incluindo aumento na morbimortalidade. Este estudo tem como objetivo revisar a literatura sobre a influência da depressão no prognóstico de doenças crônicas e as estratégias terapêuticas disponíveis para melhorar os resultados clínicos. Foi realizada uma revisão integrativa da literatura, considerando estudos publicados entre 2013 e 2023 em bases de dados como PubMed, Scielo e Web of Science. Os resultados apontam que intervenções farmacológicas e não farmacológicas, incluindo o uso de antidepressivos, terapia cognitivo-comportamental e programas de suporte psicossocial, podem contribuir para a melhora dos desfechos clínicos nesses pacientes. Conclui-se que o manejo integrado da depressão em pacientes com doenças crônicas deve ser uma prioridade na prática clínica, considerando a complexidade da interação entre saúde mental e doenças orgânicas.
Mini horta orgânica domiciliar: uma alternativa de baixo custo para o cultivo sustentável de alimentos
Authors: Rodrigues Adrielle Barboza , Fernandes Mônica Helena Pinto de Araújo , Silva Rachel de Andrade Avelar da
Published: February 2025

A implementação de uma mini horta orgânica domiciliar utilizando estruturas de canos de PVC representou um experimento inovador e sustentável, avaliando sua viabilidade e eficiência como alternativa para o cultivo de alimentos em áreas urbanas. O objetivo foi investigar não apenas a viabilidade econômica, mas também a eficiência no controle de pragas e a sustentabilidade ambiental dessa abordagem. Durante o experimento, vários pontos positivos foram destacados. A utilização do PVC como material estrutural mostrou-se vantajosa devido ao seu baixo custo e facilidade de manuseio, permitindo a integração de materiais reciclados, como copos descartáveis, promovendo práticas sustentáveis. A eficiência no controle orgânico de pragas foi notável, resultando em economia pela produção caseira de hortaliças e rendimento satisfatório das plantas. A abordagem integrada e sustentável na preparação do solo, escolha de sementes e irrigação adequada também contribuiu para o sucesso. A análise de custos revelou uma redução significativa na produção de alimentos, impactando positivamente a sustentabilidade e incentivando práticas que são econômica e ecologicamente viáveis.
Políticas públicas de combate ao feminicídio: tipificação na América Latina e na nova legislação brasileira
Authors: Sousa Gaspar Alexandre Machado de , Machado Nadine Mureebe
Published: February 2025

O presente trabalho trata das políticas públicas legislativas de combate ao feminicídio na América Latina, com destaque para o caso brasileiro, comparando-se a Lei n. 13.104/2015, que introduziu o feminicídio como qualificadora do homicídio, com a Lei n. 14.994/2024, que trouxe mudanças significativas ao tratá-lo como crime autônomo. Além disso, o estudo adota também uma abordagem comparativa com outros países da América Latina, analisando as diferentes formas de tipificação do feminicídio e como esses países têm respondido à violência de gênero. A partir dessa comparação, o artigo busca identificar lições que possam aprimorar a resposta jurídica no Brasil. Conclui-se que, apesar dos avanços legislativos, a eficácia da nova lei depende de uma implementação cuidadosa, porquanto a simples autonomização do crime não é suficiente para reduzir os índices de feminicídio. É necessário implementar uma resposta mais ampla e coordenada, que envolva tanto o sistema de justiça criminal quanto políticas públicas de proteção e conscientização. A metodologia aplicada envolveu uma pesquisa bibliográfica e documental, além de um estudo comparativo com legislações de países como México, Argentina, Chile e Colômbia, que adotaram diferentes abordagens na criminalização do feminicídio.
Criminalization of errors and deviations from procedure in post-accident inquiries
Authors: Grignon Aurélia , Gombault Nicolas , Malinge Yannick , Chevet Pierre-Franck
Published: February 2025

In post-accident investigations, the judicial authority must assess the degree of culpability (in criminal trials) or liability (in civil trials) associated with the actions or decisions of professionals that are causally linked to damages. These actions or decisions may pertain to different phases of the lifecycle of high-risk systems: their operation, maintenance, design, manufacturing, safety audits by accredited third parties, and inspections by a safety authority.

This analysis often relies on the opinions of court-appointed experts, who evaluate the level of compliance of actions or decisions with prescribed standards (laws and regulations, operating procedures, and professional best practices, which are more or less documented depending on the sector). Generally, the judiciary tends to view culpability as greater when the deviation from the prescribed standards is more significant, treating the standards as an algorithm to be followed strictly rather than as a source of guidance, which professionals may follow to a greater or lesser extent depending on local circumstances.

This document, a transcript of discussions from an online workshop organized (in French) by FonCSI in September 2024, examines the extent to which the judicial system can move away from the principle of “deviation → culpability”, a principle that is largely incompatible with the way in which professionals work in a number of industry sectors. It also explores the implications of the criminalization of deviations and errors for frontline workers (notably, the defensive reactions it provokes, such as defensive medical practices), as well as the consequences for businesses and authorities, including regulatory and procedural inflation.
Leveraging free-text diagnoses to identify patients with diabetes mellitus, obesity or dyslipidaemia – a cross-sectional study in a large Swiss primary care database
Authors: Balaj Donika , Burgstaller Jakob M. , Wallnöfer Audrey , Weiss Katja , Senn Oliver , Rosemann Thomas , Grischott Thomas , Markun Stefan , And the FIRE research group
Published: February 2025

BACKGROUND: Electronic medical records (EMRs) in general practice provide various methods for identifying patients with specific diagnoses. While several studies have focused on case identification via structured EMR components, diagnoses in general practice are frequently documented as unstructured free-text entries, making their use for research challenging. Furthermore, diagnoses may remain undocumented even when evidence of the underlying disease exists within structured EMR data.
OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to quantify the extent to which free-text diagnoses contribute to identifying additional cases of diabetes mellitus, obesity and dyslipidaemia (target diseases) and assess the cases missed when relying exclusively on free-text entries.
METHODS: This cross-sectional study utilised EMR data from all consultations up to 2019 for 6,000 patients across 10 general practices in Switzerland. Diagnoses documented in a free-text entry field for diagnoses were manually coded for target diseases. Cases were defined as patients with a corresponding coded free-text diagnosis or meeting predefined criteria in structured EMR components (medication data or clinical and laboratory parameters). For each target disease, prevalence was calculated along with the proportion of cases identified exclusively via free-text diagnoses and the proportion missed when using free-text diagnoses alone.
RESULTS: The prevalence estimates for diabetes mellitus, obesity and dyslipidaemia were 8.8%, 16.2% and 38.9%, respectively. Few cases relied exclusively on free-text diagnoses for identification, but a substantial proportion of cases were missed when relying solely on free-text diagnoses, particularly for obesity (19.5% exclusively identified; 50.7% missed) and dyslipidaemia (8.7% exclusively identified; 53.3% missed).
CONCLUSION: Free-text diagnoses were of limited utility for case identification of diabetes mellitus, obesity or dyslipidaemia, suggesting that manual coding of free-text diagnoses may not always be justified. Relying solely on free-text diagnoses for case identification is not recommended, as substantial proportions of cases may remain undetected, leading to biased prevalence estimates.
Establishing educational entry to practice requirements for advanced practice nursing in Switzerland: current debate and nursing perspective
Authors: Gaylord Jessica , Ribaut Janette , Gentizon Jenny , Colomer-Lahiguera Sara , Robatto Laurence , Mabire Cédric , Zúñiga Franziska , Eicher Manuela
Published: February 2025

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Boicote ao dinheiro:
Authors: Gonçalves Douglas Felipe
Published: February 2025

Este artigo é uma discussão teórica que, com bases na perspectiva da significação econômica tecida pelo filósofo lituano-francês Emmanuel Lévinas [1906-1995] na obra Humanismo do outro homem, alterca com os sentidos econômicos capitalistas de natureza selvagem. Tem por objetivo demarcar o antagonismo entre a existência humana e a economia funesta, depreciativa e excludente. Através da ética como filosofia primeira, intenta-se demarcar, com base na filosofia levinasiana, a desaprovação do modelo econômico de financeirização e acumulação de capital globalmente vigente. Através da ética – enquanto modos de ser dos homens discutidos através da filosofia – identifica uma possível marcação de um princípio balizador a guiar as referências e ações das novas perspectivas econômicas e metamorfosear os organismos econômicos existentes. O boicote ao dinheiro não é um ativismo cego apagador da moeda, é, em si, uma enunciação que espera alterar o protagonismo do valor frente a necessária soberania da experiência existencial das formas de vida. É a partir do princípio ético que julgamos depreender o sentido humano e mais que aquistar, transformar a economia que mata em economias pelo bem viver.
Indivíduo e sociedade em Adam Smith:
Authors: Guedes Édil
Published: February 2025

Este artigo pretende examinar a concepção smithiana do agente social humano, notadamente em sua condição de indivíduo, e considerando-se a sua atuação na dimensão econômica de sua vida cotidiana. Esperamos mostrar que sua visão em relação à agência econômica é muito mais rica e nuançada do que muitas vezes se apresenta. Sustentaremos também que ela tem muito a contribuir com nossos esforços de compreender os fundamentos do comportamento humano em relação às questões econômicas, assim como o papel e a significação que essas questões podem assumir no conjunto da vida social humana. Alguns desses aspectos se veem particularmente destacados: a relação entre indivíduo na dimensão técnico-material da vida econômica, a relação entre os indivíduos na dimensão social da vida econômica e a relação entre as motivações econômicas e supraeconômicas na vida e no agir dos indivíduos. Diante disso, estabelecem-se os objetivos mais específicos deste artigo: 1) compreender que a ênfase smithiana na agência individual não significa a desconsideração da condição moral e política do sujeito humano, bem como de sua vinculação originária à comunidade universal da natureza, para usarmos a expressão do pensador escocês; 2) examinar como a Ciência Econômica moderna por vezes reduziu o indivíduo a uma espécie de entidade genérica, recebedora de estímulos externos e respondente a esses estímulos de acordo com propósitos muito restritivos, como o de maximizar o seu interesse ou a sua utilidade.
The Cultural Revolution and Overacting
Authors: Wang Tuo
Published: February 2025

The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, which took place in China between 1966 and 1976, was a major political and social tragedy in Chinese history. As part of an effort to understand how the state enforced control amid seeming chaos, this book looks at the ubiquitous revolutionary presentations and performances of power, such as political rituals, revolutionary rhetoric, and public gatherings, in people’s everyday lives during the Cultural Revolution as performances that contributed to the control of the Chinese people. In particular, this book discusses how the promotion of revolutionary models in real life contributed to people’s eagerness to perform the role of the ideal revolutionary, and how the possibility of complete revolutionary transformation, promoted by the state media, and the hard fact that no one was able to completely become a Maoist subject, who would be completely selfless and think and speak only Maoist teaching, subjected people to a state of becoming but never fully having become. The fear of failing in the Maoist transformation constituted the inner mechanism that propelled ordinary people’s radical revolutionary behavior.

In addition, this book examines the audience’s reaction to Jiang Qing’s court performance in the trial of the Gang of Four as an anarchic liberation from the revolutionary performance of the Cultural Revolution. Utilizing methodologies of cultural anthropology, linguistics, acting theory, and literary criticism, this book reveals how people’s performances of their everyday life functioned as mechanisms of social control.
Reading the Art in Caldecott Award Books
Authors: Hammond Heidi K. , Nordstrom Gail D.
Published: February 2025

Reading the Art in Caldecott Award Books is a practical and easy-to-use reference handbook explaining what makes the art in Caldecott Medal and Honor books distinguished. It is a useful manual for librarians, teachers, and others who want to better understand picture book illustration. This book includes many useful components:

Short entries about fifty-six books

Information on styles and media

Artistic analysis of the illustrations

Appendixes on selected sources for further reading, Randolph Caldecott Medal terms and criteria, bibliography of entries, and a list of Caldecott winners

Glossary of art terms

Indexes of author-illustrator-title, media, and style

This book, used as a handbook in conjunction with Caldecott Award books, provides readers with ready-to-use information they can share with children and others, while helping to build confidence in one’s ability to talk about art in all picture books.
The Challenge for School Leaders
Authors: Warwick Ronald
Published: February 2025

The Challenge for School Leaders identifies essential systems and their elements that enhance the school leader’s knowledge and skill to continually improve the academic program through a faculty collaborative process. The critical systems addressed are system elements, communication, curriculum, instruction, assessment, and collaborative decision making to determine causes of nonproductive systems and solutions to remove and solve these issues.

The text includes a pre- and post-school assessment survey process that involves the faculty and administrators in evaluating their school, and identifying critical areas that need improvement. This survey has been statistically affirmed for high reliability and validity with respect to academic system behaviors correlated with high academic student performance.

The continual improvement philosophy is the foundation of this text and collaboration is the method by which this concept is achieved. The value of each person is critical, and everyone is needed to improve the academic systems to serve the needs of the students and the faculty. The communication linkage system as well as curriculum-instruction-assessment integration is addressed and is essential to the improvement process. The analysis and improvement of the instructional process is the key to enhancing student academic performance. The concepts and practical suggestions along with the knowledge and skills to build an effective academic system for students is the aim of this study.
From Project-Based Learning to Artistic Thinking
Authors: Werberger Raleigh
Published: February 2025

This book follows the course of a year-long experiment in which the students were tasked with recreating a McDonald’s Happy Meal by making all the components - from food to packaging - by hand from local ingredients. It was meant to test a hypothesis that a very well-designed project in the arts can teach high school students academic skills and habits of mind while increasing motivation, emotional intelligence, creativity and holistic thinking skills.

This book is an antidote to other books that purport to show teachers an exact formula to follow to get amazing results in the classroom. It will help to create a classroom that is more like play, with much more freedom and less scripting in order to engage students at a deeper level, and still get excellent results.

By teaching a project-based history class like an arts studio and having the students redesign an archetypal American product in a very natural, improvisational way Werberger was able to have an energizing effect on their academic learning. This book will serve as a guide for teachers to learn more about the adaptive, creative, and epistemologically fascinating concept of arts-based research.
Class Formations and Inequality Structures in Contemporary African Migration
Authors: Arthur John A.
Published: February 2025

This book examines the influences of social class and inequality structures on migration in Africa using information from Ghana. As the country achieves moderate to significant economic gains driven (in part) by the country’s diaspora communities, the desire to migrate has intensified. Migration is now synonymous with social mobility and self-improvement. It has been found that existing class and status inequalities are analytically inseparable from the social and cultural processes underpinning the motivations behind Ghanaian migration. Migrant class and socioeconomic attributes are closely intertwined, reinforcing and operating at every level of the migration decision-making to influence the motivation to migrate, the type and form of migration, the direction of the migration, its timing, and ultimately the outcomes and expectations that migrants associate with their decision to migrate.

From a historical and contemporary perspective, this book argues that power and class-based structural relationships are significant components in understanding how migratory diasporas shape and are shaped in turn by social class and inequality. The social class identities that Ghanaian immigrants manifest in the United States are often based on immigrant formulations and importation of class dynamics from the home country. These identities are then transformed in the countries of destination and replayed or relived back home, thereby creating multiple class identities that are powerful forces in inducing social changes. In essence, migrant social class attributes formed before and post-migration is significant because it holds the possibilities of transforming the social structures of migrant-sending countries. As migrants return home and seek reintegration into the body polity of the home society, conflicts emanating from changes in their class dynamics may hinder or promote sociocultural and economic development. Hence, the imperative of the central government is to understand and incorporate into national development planning the social class characteristics of its citizens who are leaving, as well as those who are returning.
African Truth Commissions and Transitional Justice
Authors: Perry John , Sayndee T. Debey
Published: February 2025

African Truth Commissions and Transitional Justice examines the functioning of truth commissions in Africa, outlining the lessons learned, the best practices, and the successes and failures of seven African truth commissions. Its introduction and conclusion then work further to place truth commissions within the growing academic field of transitional justice. The first African truth commission was convened by the despot Idi Amin for reasons unrelated to the defense of human rights, but despite this ambiguous beginning, other African truth commissions have done important work. The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission of 1996 has become the ‘gold standard’ for future truth commissions not only in Africa, but throughout the world: it unearthed much truth about the Apartheid era abuse of human rights and took vital first steps towards restorative justice in the Republic. Each truth commission is distinctive. However, although much has been written about South Africa’s truth commissions, much less is known about the other six studied in this book—and an attentive reader will notice the suggestive patterns which emerge.
Role Model and Countermodel
Authors: Schapkow Carsten
Published: February 2025

This book explores the “Golden Age” of Sephardic Jewry on the Iberian Peninsula and its perception in German Jewish culture during the era of emancipation. For Jews living in Germany, the history of Sephardic Jewry developed into a historical example with its distinctive valence and signature against the pressure to assimilate and the emergence of anti-Semitism in Germany. It provided, moreover, a forum to engage in internal dialogue amongst Jews and external dialogue with German majority society about challenging questions of religious, political, and national identity. In this respect, the perception of prominent Sephardic Jews as intercultural mediators was key to emphasizing the skills and values Jews had to offer to civilizations in the past. German Jews invoked this past significance in their case for a Jewish role in present and future societies, especially in Germany.
The Influence of Small States on Superpowers
Authors: Bernal Richard L.
Published: February 2025

The conventional wisdom is that small developing countries exert limited—if any—influence on the foreign policy of superpowers, in particular the United States. This book challenges that premise based on the experience of the small developing country of Jamaica and its relations with the United States. It raises the question: if the foreign policy of the United States can be influenced by even a small developing country, should Washington be worried?
Community Newspapers and the Japanese-American Incarceration Camps
Authors: Bishop Ronald
Published: February 2025

Though much has been said about Japanese-American incarceration camps, little attention is paid to the community newspapers closest to the camps and how they constructed the identities and lives of the occupants inside. Dependent on government and military officials for information, these journalists rarely wrote about the violation of the evacuees’ civil rights. Instead, they concentrated on the economic impact the camps—and the evacuees, who would replace workers off to enlist in the military and work for defense contractors—would have on the areas they covered. Newspapers like the Cody Enterprise and Powell Tribune in Wyoming, the Lamar Daily News, and the Casa Grande Dispatch regularly published overly optimistic updates on the progress of construction, the size of the contractor payrolls, and the amount of materials used to build the camps. Ronald Bishop and his coauthors reveal how journalists positioned the incarceration camps as a potential economic boon and how evacuees were framed as another community group, there to contribute to the region’s economic well-being. Community Newspapers and the Japanese-American Incarceration Camps examines the rhetoric and journalistic approach of the local papers and how they informed the communities just outside their walls. This book will appeal to scholars of history and journalism.
Yokohama Street Life
Authors: Gill Tom
Published: February 2025

Yokohama Street Life: The Precarious Career of a Japanese Day Laborer is a one-man ethnography, tracing the career of a single Japanese day laborer called Kimitsu, from his wartime childhood in the southern island of Kyushu through a brief military career to a lifetime spent working on the docks and construction sites of Tokyo, Osaka and Yokohama. Kimitsu emerges as a unique voice from the Japanese ghetto, a self-educated philosopher whose thoughts on life in the slums, on post-war Japanese society and on more abstract intellectual concerns are conveyed in a series of conversations with British anthropologist Tom Gill, whose friendship with Kimitsu spans more than two decades. For Kimitsu, as for many of his fellow day laborers at the bottom of Japanese society, offers none of the comforting distractions of marriage, family life, or a long-term career in a settled workplace. It leads him through existential philosophy towards Buddhist mysticism as he fills the time between days of hard manual labor with visits to second-hand bookshops in search of enlightenment.

The book also portrays Kimitsu’s living environment, a Yokohama slum district called Kotobuki. Kotobuki is a ‘doya-gai’—a slum inhabited mainly by men, somewhat similar to the skid row districts that used to be common in American cities. Traditionally these men have earned a basic living by working as day laborers, but the decline in employment opportunities has forced many of them into welfare dependence or homelessness. Kimitsu’s life and thought are framed by an account of the changing way of life in Kotobuki, a place that has gradually been transformed from a casual laboring market to a large, shambolical welfare center. In Kotobuki the national Japanese issues of an aging workforce and economic decline set in much earlier than elsewhere, leading to a dramatic illustration of the challenges facing the Japanese welfare state.
Embodying Ecological Heritage in a Maya Community
Authors: Baines Kristina
Published: February 2025

Embodying Ecological Heritage in a Maya Community: Health, Happiness, and Identity provides an ethnographic account of life in a rural farming village in southern Belize, focusing on the connections between traditional ecological practices and the health and wellness of the Maya community living there. It discusses how complex histories, ecologies, and development practices are negotiated by individuals of all ages, and the community at large, detailing how they interact with their changing environments. The study has wide applicability for indigenous communities fighting for rights to manage their lands across the globe, as well as for considering how health is connected to heritage practices in communities worldwide.
The Discursive Construction of Intercultural Understanding in China
Authors: Xi Wang
Published: February 2025

This book represents an ethnographic study of an International Baccalaureate Diploma Program in a school in mainland China, serving Chinese students and staffed by teachers from a variety of origins. It offers in-depth descriptions of the way in which students, teachers, and managers interact and communicate with one another in a variety of school activities. Through the communication process, cultural experiences and understandings are negotiated constantly among school participants. The ethnographic study also has a critical intention. Going beyond description, the author discusses the extent to which networks of social relationships in the case are imbued by asymmetries in power, and how this leads to people’s inability, unwillingness, and unawareness to interact with those from different cultural backgrounds. As research findings reveal, where the construction of meaning is less equally available to each participant, prejudice and exclusiveness are more likely to be assumed, impeding individuals’ intercultural learning. The key is to empower those less privileged, giving them legitimacy to come to voice in an institutional context on the one hand, and protecting their reflections on hegemonic discourse meticulously on the other hand.

Since the research explores the complexities and subtleties of the communication process that are bound to particular contexts, like most ethnographic studies, it aims at adding a body of experience and humanistic understanding of cultures, rather than testing theories. Although the IB Program being studied can hardly be representative of the overall development of international education in China, the detailed description of contextual issues of the case and the research procedures could facilitate the readers to vicariously experience these events, thus they can make their own decisions about the transferability of the research to their own unique situations.
From Huhugam to Hohokam
Authors: Hill J. Brett
Published: February 2025

In From Huhugam to Hohokam: Heritage and Archaeology in the American Southwest, J. Brett Hill examines the history of O’odham heritage as it was recorded at the beginning of European conquest. A parallel history of scientific exploration is then traced forward to produce intricate models of the coming and going of ancient peoples. Throughout this history, Native accounts were routinely dismissed as an inferior kind of knowledge. More recently, though, a revolutionary change has taken hold in archaeology as Native insights and premises are integrated into scientific thought. Integration was once suspected of undermining basic principles of knowledge, but J. Brett Hill contends that it provides a deeper and more accurate sense of the connection between living and ancient people. Hill combines three decades of experience in archaeology with a liberal arts perspective to produce something for readers at all levels in the fields of anthropology, Native American studies, history, museum studies, and other heritage disciplines
Setting Slavery's Limits
Authors: Bouton Christopher H.
Published: February 2025

Using slave trials from antebellum Virginia, Christopher H. Bouton offers the first in-depth examination of physical confrontations between slaves and whites. These extraordinary acts of violence brought the ordinary concerns of enslaved Virginians into focus. Enslaved men violently asserted their masculinity, sought to protect themselves and their loved ones from punishment, and carved out their own place within southern honor culture.

Enslaved women resisted sexual exploitation and their mistresses. By attacking southern efforts to control their sexuality and labor, bondswomen sought better lives for themselves and undermined white supremacy. Physical confrontations revealed the anxieties that lay at the heart of white antebellum Virginians and threatened the very foundations of the slave regime itself.

While physical confrontations could not overthrow the institution of slavery, they helped the enslaved set limits on their owners’ exploitation. They also afforded the enslaved the space necessary to create lives as free from their owners’ influence as possible. When masters and mistresses continually intruded into the lives of their slaves, they risked provoking a violent backlash. Setting Slavery’s Limits explores how slaves of all ages and backgrounds resisted their oppressors and risked everything to fight back.
PERANCANGAN MEDIA PENYEBARAN INFORMASI SERTA SEBAGAI MEDIA PENDAFTARAN SISWA BERBASIS WEB
Authors: Nurhasanah Wulan , Anas Ahmad
Published: February 2025

Sistem informasi sekolah dan Penerimaan Peserta Didik Baru (PPDB) merupakan bagian penting dalam pengelolaan lembaga pendidikan. Di PAUD Tunas Karya, sistem informasi dan PPDB dinilai kurang efektif karena masih menggunakan brosur dan pendaftaran manual, yang menyebabkan antrian panjang dan pengelolaan data yang lambat. Atas dasar masalah tersebut maka peneliti merancang sebuah sistem informasi profil sekolah dan PPDB berbasis website dengan menggunakan HTML dan MYSQL sebagai database, Dengan Metode Classic Life Cycle (Model Waterfall) atau Metode air terjun dinamakan siklus hidup klasik (classic life cycle), nama model ini sebenarnya adalah “Linear Sequintial Model” dimana hal ini menggambarkan pendekatan yang sistematis dan juga berurutan pada pengembangan perangkat lunak Hasil penelitian di PAUD Tunas Karya dapat disimpulkan bahwa dengan merancang sebuah sistem informasi profil sekolah dan PPDB berbasis website dapat membantu meningkatkan penyebarluasan informasi dan memudahkan proses PPDB sehingga lebih efisien.
工作中的信仰 : 基督教企业家及工人协会名录 = Faith at work : Directory of Associations of Christian Entrepreneurs and Workers
Authors: Stückelberger Christoph , Wang Vanessa Yuli
Published: February 2025

如何在工作中实施信仰？如何在商业活动中践行道德价值观？是宗教信仰者一直在寻找的答案。在基督教中，基督教企业家和工人在协会中通过会议、培训、指导、圣经研习、祷告、倡议、慈善以及出版物来相互鼓励。此名录列举53个基督教企业家协会和17个基督教工人协会，以便扩大思路，增加联谊。日内瓦爱梦成真基金会致力于加强工作中的信仰，并且积极与各协会合作。 (www.gafoundation.world)
Bridging Learning and Technology: How Digital Platforms Impact Academic Performance
Authors: Sadia Javed  , Iraj Fahad  , Einas Azhar  , Muniza Syed  , Osama Ahmed  , Farrukh Zafar
Published: February 2025

Digital learning platforms' growing presence in educational systems has transformed conventional teaching methods and provided students with learning environments that prioritize flexibility and access. The research analyzes how digital learning platforms affect student academic performance by exploring learning engagement as a mediating factor and digital literacy as a moderating factor. The study gathered data from 300 university students who used digital learning tools through a survey-based research design. The research team applied structural equation modeling (SEM) to examine the validity of the study's hypotheses. Digital learning platforms have a significant positive impact on academic performance as indicated by β = 0.495 and p = 0.000 and learning engagement partially mediates this effect with β = 0.121 and p = 0.001. The study demonstrates that students who possess advanced digital literacy skills experience more substantial benefits from digital learning tools as evidenced by the statistical relationship (β = 0.062, p = 0.044). The study demonstrates that learning outcomes can be maximized through the combination of interactive learning approaches to improve engagement alongside enhanced digital literacy programs and the reduction of digital access gaps. Educators, policymakers, and technology developers should use these findings to create digital education systems that reach all learners with engaging and effective content. Longitudinal studies and additional mediating factors need further examination alongside the impact of emerging technologies to improve digital learning experiences.
Beijing’s Cyber Identity Card Scheme: A Dual Threat to the Chinese Government and Civil Society
Authors: Wang Zhiguo , Liu Siying , Min Kwisik
Published: February 2025

This paper examines the potential risks and challenges posed by the proposed cyber identity card (CIC) scheme in China. It argues that this initiative presents a dual threat to both the Chinese government and citizens in terms of data security, privacy protection, and social stability. The centralized management of citizens' data online raises concerns about the vulnerability to cyber-attacks and the erosion of individual privacy rights. The paper also highlights the risks of further restricting citizens' freedom of expression and the potential for social unrest. It concludes by calling for a more open and democratic approach that allows for diverse voices and seeks a win-win solution for both the government and citizens.
Wind-Power Development: A Critical Analysis of Sustainable Energy System for Educational Community
Authors: Okon Bassey B. , Ukommi Ubong S. , Nkan Imo E.
Published: February 2025

This study investigates the potential of harnessing wind resource for generation of electricity in a University community to improve power supply for research purposes and technological innovations. The research method and materials include wind data mining, design and development of prototype wind-power system to harness wind resource for improved power system. Wind velocities at different times and various heights in the study area were captured using anemometer. Statistical technique was deployed during this study for critical analysis. Results show that useful electricity can be generated from wind resource within the University community. The study outcomes, further show that wind-power generation improves with increase in height of the wind turbine system. Findings indicate that on Day 1, wind velocities of 1.2m/s in the morning and 3.8m/s in the afternoon were obtained at the height of 2m. Whereas, at the height of 10m, the wind velocities of 3.0m/s in the morning and 4.0m/s in the afternoon were obtained. Natural vegetations, tall buildings and some economic trees affect smooth flow of air and reduces the wind velocity especially at the lower turbine height. Based on the findings, a wind turbine system should be sited in areas that are free from natural vegetation and encumbrances. A minimum wind turbine height of 10m is however, proposed for improved wind-power generation in the study area. In general, wind velocity, height and area of the turbine rotor blade play significant role in the power generation performance.
Sociological Sierra Leonean Biology: A Discernment of Communal Mortal Growth and Social Demeanor
Authors: Bangura Mohamed
Published: February 2025

Sociological and biological developments are broadly identified as considerations of communal mortal growth, wellness, and socio-economic achievements over social existence cycle, but Sierra Leoneans awareness of the fundamental routes and procedures stays restricted. To handle this sociological crack, the sociological researcher interpret  the sociobiology way as one that theorizes the sociological and biological as collectively forming, and that outlines on clones and approaches from the neuroscience and communal or sociology. By importing biology into the Sierra Leonean sociology, sociologists can enlighten tools via which psychosocial, socioeconomic, and other communal elements form mortal Sierra Leonean social growth. Immunology is a social biology, and functional initiatives can consequently recognize manners of sociological spaces that are damaging, as well as gainful, with regard social health. By accompanying behavioral psychology thoughts and sociological inquiry strategies to biology and biomedicine, the sociological researcher inspire a philosophical switch that focuses contextual and social elements as significant causations of mortal biology and social health. The sociobiology avenues also reinforces the significance of the existence social cycle, as evaluations of both sociological and biological characteristics around mortal social growth over time, and across procreations, are required to accomplish a complete comprehension of bodily and social health. The sociological researcher concludes with a concise discourse of the inquiry, which expose the worth of a sociobiology highway to know the avenues connecting social hierarchy, health, and biology over Sierra Leonean social existence and social cycle.
Evaluation of the Outcome of the Middle Turbinate Medialization (Fixation to Nasal Septum) by Various Surgical Technique
Authors: Alhaideri Ali Jameel , Al-Hassani Jaafer Mohammed Kadhim , Alkhazraji Zeena Jamal
Published: February 2025

The primary objectives and essential aspects of ESS are to facilitate the proper drainage and ventilation of the afflicted groups of paranasal sinuses. The size and location of the middle turbinate directly impact the drainage of all paranasal sinuses. 
A prospective study has been conducted in the otolaryngology department at Al-Imamain Al-kadhmain teaching hospital from September 2021 to May 2023 on 180 selected patients, divided into three groups; each contains sixty patients with the following specific surgical intervention: group I: medialization of the middle turbinate only, group II: medialization of the middle turbinate with fixation to the nasal septum, and group III: medialization of the middle turbinate with fixation to the nasal septum by trans-septal sutures. Postoperatively, follow-up was done weekly during the 1st month and every 2 weeks during the 2nd month by assessing symptom improvement and nasal endoscopic findings. The findings showed that one hundred (55.6%) patients were males and eighty (44.4%) patients were females. The patients' ages varied from 20 to 48 years (mean ± SD = (33.45 ± 8.95) years). Post-operative improvement of presenting symptoms in order of sequence from higher to lower were as follows: nasal obstructions (74%), nasal discharge (74%), facial pain (70%), smell disorders (61%), and headache (53%). 
The current study concluded that the technique of middle turbinate medialization promotes effective drainage and ventilation, allowing for long-term monitoring and post-surgical suction clearing. Although it has its limits, the suturing method of the middle turbinate (conchopexy) is an efficient technique for preventing lateralization of the middle turbinate. This method has demonstrated superior overall outcomes when compared to iatrogenic adhesion (Bolgerization).
Water-Energy Nexus: A Review of Technological Innovations for Resource Efficiency in Urban Water Systems in Malawi
Authors: Zgambo Cynthia Pachalo , Munthali Rodger Millar
Published: February 2025

The intricate and interdependent relationship between water and energy is crucial for sustainable development, especially in urban water systems. Malawi is facing challenges regarding water loss and energy use. Technological innovations such as Smart Water Systems and integrating renewable energy in the water-energy nexus must be deployed to enhance resource efficiency and address the pressing challenges of climate change, water scarcity, and energy shortages. Effective management of this relationship is critical for improving resource efficiency and ensuring the sustainability of urban water systems in Malawi. Adopting these technologies presents numerous benefits, including enhanced water supply reliability, consumer behavioral change, improved energy efficiency, and reduced operational costs. However, several policy and regulatory challenges must also be addressed. This article explores the Water-Energy Nexus in urban water systems in Malawi by reviewing the situation and challenges, emerging technologies in water management and opportunities in integrating energy sources, and existing opportunities.