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Peter the Great in the Memoirs of Marquis de Dangeau and Duc de Saint-Simon
Authors:   Moscow Pedagogical State University (Moscow, Russian Federation), Trykov Valery P.
Published: September 2021

The article for the first time compares the image of Peter the Great in the memoirs of two contemporary French writers Philippe de Courcillon, Marquis de Dangeau (1638‒1720), and Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon (1675–1755). Both Saint- Simon’s continuity in relation to Dangeau’s memoirs and the methods and techniques of their original literary processing are shown. The influence of the writers’ world outlooks and their political views on their interpretations of the figure of Peter the Great is revealed. For Dangeau, Peter the Great was a “curious case”, while for Saint-Simon he was the model of an enlightened monarch, a reigning ascetic striving for knowledge and transformation of his state. In this capacity, Peter the Great is opposed to the depraved and pleasure-seeking French court of the era of the Regency. It has been proved that Saint-Simon stood at the origins of “Peter’s myth” in France. The differences in the poetics of the memoirs of Dangeau and Saint-Simon have been revealed. Dangeau’s laconic and fact-based style emphasizes the mastery of the psychological portrait and the breadth of generalizations of the moralist and thinker Saint-Simon.
Participatory Design of New School Learning Environments
Authors: Ostroverkh Oksana , Tikhomirova Anna
Published: September 2021

This article looks into the legal and psychological aspects of child and youth participation in discussions and decision making on issues relating to their lives and gives an overview of the current trends in participatory development. Participatory design is interpreted within this study as activities that result in participatory action of children in the educational process. Participatory action is characterized in its intentional component and its persistence (reflected in searching for ways of bringing the intention to life) by initiative, consciousness, autonomy and responsibility. Participatory design is regarded as a tool for creating conditions to develop adolescents’ subject position. A new method of engaging children in participatory design of learning environments is offered and implemented in the study. The article describes successively the steps of method implementation and its testing within the framework of Pedagogical Design Studio’s activities.
G20 in the Second Decade of the 21st Century.Steering the World Towards Inclusive Growthand Sustainable Development
Authors:   Presidential Administration of Russia, Lukash Svetlana
Published: September 2021

In 2020, the world community, states and citizens faced the serious global challenge. The COVID-19 pandemic jeopardized the implementation of the goals of sustainable development and inclusive growth, and has become a major challenge for the international cooperation and the action of global institutions. Being the main platform for cooperation among the world's leading economies, the G20 is often criticized for its inability to effectively withstand crises. However, as shown in this article, the G20 managed to quickly implement a coordinated set of large-scale measures to overcome the pandemic and its consequences and become a coordinator of anti-crisis actions. The author concludes that the unique characteristics of the G20 will allow it to remain the flagship of international efforts to ensure strong, sustainable, balanced and inclusive growth of the world economy, and suggests a number of priorities for the implementation of which the G20 agenda should be aimed at in the near future.
G20 Contributions to Global Economic Governance in the Post–Covid-19 Digital World
Authors:   Center for Strategic and International Studies, Fried Jonathan
Published: September 2021

The article investigates the future role of the G20 in a post-pandemic digital world. The transformation of the world order and global governance is interconnected with three main trends: fragmentation, digitalization and socialization. The author underlines that these trends pose challenges for states both at the national and global levels. To effectively solve the accumulated problems, the joint work of international institutions and non-state actors is required.
The BRICS Agenda on the Internet Governance
Authors:   Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Ignatov Aleksandr
Published: September 2021

The key features of the modern Internet governance system are its decentralized structure, inhomogeneous internal “geography,” and the diverse nature of its decision-making actors. These factors determine the complexity of the decision-making process on Internet governance-related issues. Under these conditions, the BRICS group of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa is viewed as a suitable platform to establish a common ground and align the interests of the participating countries on five key spheres of Internet governance: infrastructure development, legal matters, economic issues, development, and social and cultural perspectives. The goal of this article is to study BRICS’ approach to Internet governance. The study presents an analysis of the BRICS countries’ priorities regarding Internet governance and incorporates a panel data on BRICS’ commitments and decisions regarding the issue. Several conclusions on the BRICS approach to Internet governance were drawn: the most prominent sphere for BRICS cooperation is digital infrastructure development; considerable discrepancies exist among the BRICS states regarding managing Internet content that contribute to a lack of concrete decisions on social and cultural aspects of Internet governance; there is a step-by-step convergence of the BRICS counterterrorism and counter-extremism agenda with a broader issue of cybersecurity. The author assumes that the infrastructure component dominates the BRICS Internet governance discussion due to China’s influence, which gives it the potential to be one of the key players and agenda-setters within BRICS, along with Russia. Steady incorporation of the counterterrorism and counter-extremism agenda into the cybersecurity discussion is strongly supported by Russia, in keeping with its declared national priorities regarding Internet governance. In the author’s opinion, it would be problematic for BRICS to reach a collective decision regarding Internet content governance given the conflict of interests among the participating countries revealed by this analysis.
BAHAEDDİN ÖZKİŞİ’NİN SOKAKTA ROMANINDA MEKÂN-İNSAN İLİŞKİSİ
Authors: ÇOPUR Gürhan
Published: September 2021

Bahaeddin Özkişi’nin Sokakta adlı romanında, bir sokağın ve sokak sakinlerinin yaşadığı kültürel dönüşüm ve çatışmalar mekân-insan etkileşimi aracılığıyla anlatılır. Cumhuriyetin ilk yıllarına denk gelen vaka zamanında yenilik hareketlerinin sokağa yansıması ve eski-yeni çatışması öne çıkar. Toplumun Tanzimat fermanından bu yana yaşadığı/şahit olduğu çağdaşlaşma hareketlerine, maneviyatı zedelemesi sebebiyle mesafeli duranlar ile yenilikleri yaşamsal bir zaruret sayan kahramanlar arasındaki çatışma romanın odağındadır. Bir komiser olan ve mahallede doğmuş başkişi merkezinde gelişen vaka otuz yıllık bir zaman dilimini kapsar. Dramatik aksiyonun ilerleyişi ve başkişinin serüveni merkezinde polisiye roman özelliklerini taşıyan eser, başkişinin bir cinayet soruşturması sebebiyle eski sokağına dönmesi sonrasında gelişen olaylarla sürer. Toplumsal değerleri ve yozlaşmayı mekân ve insan üzerinden güçlü metaforlarla aktaran romanda mekân-insan etkileşimin diyalektik boyutu göze çarpar. Romanda öne çıkan kahramanların hemen hepsi bir mekânın kuşatıcılığında karakter geliştirir ve kimlik mekânlarıyla var olurlar. İsimleri verilmeyen kahramanlar adeta içerisinde/üzerinde bulundukları mekânın bir parçası, ontolojik anlamda aynasıdırlar. Bu da romanın simgesel düzlemini zenginleştiren bir unsur olarak göze çarpar. Eserin dramatik aksiyonunu var eden çatışmaları besleyen bu unsurlar, cumhuriyetin ilk yıllarında devrimleri ve yenilik hareketlerinin toplumsal yaşamdaki izdüşümünü bir sokak üzerinden aktarır.
Bu çalışmada Sokakta romanı mekân-insan ilişkisi bağlamında incelenecek; mekânın başkişi, şüpheli olarak görülen arkadaş ve Küçük Bey üzerindeki izdüşümlerinin tahlili yapılacaktır.
A Comparative Evaluation on the effect of Zinc-Probiotic combination versus Zinc alone therapy in children (3month-5year) with acute watery diarrhea attending the outpatient clinic of Sub-District hospital, Uttarakhand
Authors:   Pediatrician, District Hospital, Bageshwar, Uttarakhand, India https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2834-2366, Nikhurpa Dr. Mamta , Agnihotri Dr. Renu ,   Pediatrician, Female Hospital, Haldwani, Uttarakhand, India
Published: September 2021

Background: Diarrhea is the major cause of morbidity and mortality among children worldwide.Various studies were done on the role of zinc therapy and probiotic therapy in reducing the durationand severity of acute watery diarrhea. This study aimed to compare the effect of Zinc –probioticcombination versus Zinc only therapy in acute watery diarrhea in pediatric patients. Material andMethods: This was an open, randomized control trial in the pediatric outpatient department of Sub-District Female Hospital, Haldwani (Uttarakhand), from June 2020 till August 2020 for three months.Total 104 children aged six months to 5 years with acute diarrhea who met the inclusion criteriawere enrolled and divided into 52 patients each. 1stGroup A (n=52) received Zinc-Probioticscombination therapy, and 2ndGroup B (n=52) received Zinc only. Measurement of disease severitywas based on the frequency of diarrhea (times/day) and duration of diarrhea (hours) after initialdrug consumption. The resolution was assessed in mean remission time (time required to form solidstool from watery stool).Result: Among the study population in group A, 62% were male, 38%were female, and in group B, 65% were male & 35% were female. Male predominance was observedin both groups. The mean frequency of diarrhea before treatment in Group A was 7.46 ± 4.1times/day as compared to 6.69 ± 3.6 times/day in Group B. Mean duration of diarrhea in Group Awas 53.5 ± 30.5 hours as compared to 57.6 ± 34.3 hours in Group B. Conclusion: Combinationtherapy was more effective than Zinc only therapy in early remission and resolution of acute waterydiarrhea in children.
Industrial Infrastructure: Translocal Planning for Global Production in Ethiopia and Argentina
Authors: Beyer Elke , Elsner Lucas-Andrés , Hagemann Anke , Misselwitz Philipp
Published: September 2021

Current development and re-development of industrial areas cannot be adequately understood without taking into account the organisational structures and logistics of commodity production on a planetary scale. Global production networks contribute not only to the reconfiguration of urban spatial and economic structures in many places, but they also give rise to novel transnational actor constellations, thus reconfiguring planning processes. This article explores such constellations and their urban outcomes by investigating two current cases of industrial development linked with multilateral transport-infrastructure provisioning in Ethiopia and Argentina. In both cases, international partners are involved, in particular with stakeholders based in China playing significant roles. In Mekelle, Ethiopia, we focus on the establishment of a commodity hub through the implementation of new industry parks for global garment production and road and rail connections to international seaports. In the Rosario metropolitan area in Argentina, major cargo rail and port facilities are under development to expand the country’s most important ports for soybean export. By mapping the physical architectures of the industrial and infrastructure complexes and their urban contexts and tracing the translocal actor constellations involved in infrastructure provisioning and operation, we analyse the spatial impacts of the projects as well as the related implications for planning governance. The article contributes to emergent scholarship and theorisations of urban infrastructure and global production networks, as well as policy mobility and the transnational constitution of planning knowledge and practices.
SOME ATTEMPTS TO DIAGNOSE POST-TRAUMATIC DEVIATIONS OF PARTICIPANTS OF COMBAT ACTIVITIES IN THE EARLY STAGES OF THEIR OCCURRENCE
Authors: Mas N. , Floreskul O.
Published: September 2021

The war in the East of Ukraine has taken the interest to the issues of post-traumatic disorders to a significantly high level. Due to the activity of the domestic scientists among the instruments of the psychologists-officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine there's a high variability of methods to define and identify the post traumatic disorders and deviations. They are represented both in the form of brief surveys for prior screening of the features of the post-traumatic stress disorder, states of emergency and depression and as well as in the form of the multifactor surveys to point out the severe reaction on stress, post-traumatic stress disorder, disorders in terms of adaptation, as well as other disorders under post-traumatic deviations. However, it is to be mentioned, that they are designed to identify the disorder that already obtained a nozological form. A number of surveys have shown that one of the main predictors of the post-traumatic stress disorder is a severe reaction to stress. Accordingly to the abovementioned, the development of a permanent and chronicle disorder could be prevented by identifying the post-traumatic disorders at the early stage of their appearance, previously to the development of the nozological disorder and a timely provision of the psycho-therapeutical assistance. The article presents the results of the development of the individual semi-structured aimed interview and the assessment of its effectiveness as the method for diagnosis of post-traumatic disorders. The comparative analyses of the results of surveys with the results of the conducted interviews has manifested that the individual aimed semi-structured interview carries out the functions of diagnosis and could have a number of advantages compared with surveys.
Low-intensity low-frequency magnetotherapy in the early postoperative period in patients with breast cancer
Authors: Evstigneeva Inna S. , Gerasimenko Marina Yu.
Published: September 2021

Background. Rehabilitation of patients after radical treatment of breast cancer is especially relevant due to the fact that successes in diagnostics and treatment of this disease in recent years have led to an increase in the life expectancy of female patients. Aim. to compare the efficiency of various methods of low-frequency low-intensity magnetotherapy in patients operated on for breast cancer, in the early terms (24 days) after surgery. Methods. Objective and instrumental examination was performed in 78 patients after radical surgical treatment of breast cancer in the early stages (24 days) after surgery. All patients received a course of low-frequency low-intensity magnetotherapy. Results. When applying the extended technique (the effect on the segmental-reflex region and upper limb from the side of the surgery), patients noted an improvement in the quality of life, a decrease in swelling of the upper limb, and a decrease in pain syndrome. A decrease in the number of postoperative complications and the duration of lymphorrhea was noted. Conclusion. Thus, the use of various methods of low-frequency low-intensity magnetotherapy is advisable to use in the early terms (24 days) after surgical treatment, however, the use of the advanced technique provides high function capabilities and enables to get a more pronounced and lasting clinical result.
Pharmacopuncture in common pathological conditions. Part 2
Authors: Agasarov L. G. , Gerasimenko M. Y. , Konchugova T. V. , Maryanovsky A. A. , Dobryshev V. A. , Vasilyeva E. S. , Safiullina G. I. , Tardov M. V. , Tyan V. N. , Boldin A. V. , Bokova I. A. , Dashina T. A. , Chigarev A. A.
Published: September 2021

In the previous issue (2018, No.4) of the journal, the first part of the clinical recommendations was published, which outlined general provisions on the structure and content of the document. The second part provides an algorithm for the use of pharmacopuncture for various categories of patients with different pathological conditions associated with dorsopathies.
K. Wасhhоldor. Willkürliche Haltunng und Bewegung insbesondere im Lichte elektrophysiologischer Untersuchungen. с 55 рис. в тексте. стр. 218. München, J. E. Bergmann. ц. M. 18.1928 год
Authors: Breitman M. Ya.
Published: September 2021

The book is devoted to the study of voluntary posture and movement, especially from the point of view of electro-physiological research. In the introduction, the author gives a definition of voluntary movement and methods of study, consisting in recording the flow of movement, establishing the forces that cause movement, and establishing the uniformity of innervation.
Wiechert-Herglotz inversion as integration on a closed contour
Authors: McMechan George A.
Published: September 2021

abstract

Wiechert-Herglotz integration around the boundary of the p-δ area representing the τ contribution of a ray segment gives the corresponding depth increment. Thus, Wiechert-Herglotz inversion can be performed with reference depths other than the surface of the Earth and with nonsurface as well as surface focus p-Δ curves providing that a depth can be assigned to any point on the path of integration.
Long non-coding RNAs in Aging
Authors:   , Alruwaili Thuraya , Somarowthu Srinivas
Published: September 2021

LncRNAs are an important class of non-coding RNAs that play important regulatory functions, including DNA repair, regulation of gene expression, and as prospective biomarkers for several disorders, including cancer, neuropsychiatric, and cardiac disorders and aging. They interact with various biomolecules to carry out these numerous functions. Aging is an irreversible process that involves the deterioration of normal body functions caused due to several molecular changes. The various contributing factors to aging include reduced telomere functions, DNA damage, epigenetic changes, dysfunction of mitochondria, changes in chromosome structure, and depletion of stem cell pool. As lncRNAs have been associated with the regulation of several biological processes, they have been a subject of interest. This review focuses on the role of lncRNAs in cellular aging.
La vulnerabilità come “ritorno del rimosso” e la nuova domanda di senso durante la pandemia da Covid-19
Authors: Russo Maria Teresa
Published: September 2021

The great leap forward of medicine in the twentieth century contributed to the myth of the repression of vulnerability accompanied by the illusion of individual control and self-determination. However, epidemics, like major natural disasters, have continued to act as elements capable of upsetting scientific optimism. The Covid-19 pandemic, with its uncertain causes and unpredictable effects, has led to authentic demythologisation and caused a “return of the repressed”: a feeling of vulnerability along with dramatic awareness of our mortality. This phenomenon has been accompanied by a re-emerging demand for meaning, which has led to a more direct confrontation with the drama of suffering and the need for a personal relationship with the sacred, finally rediscovering the public dimension of prayer. Firstly, the article outlines in its essential features the ambiguity of the pre-pandemic cultural horizon. Secondly, it analyses the characteristics of the rise of a new sensibility, by referring also to the notion of prayer as a “political issue” coined by Jean Daniélou.
What is it to Lose Trust? Covid-19 Pandemic, Extended Minds and Shared Feelings
Authors: Lopes Marcelo Vieira
Published: September 2021

Since the emergence of the Covid-19 outbreak, the world has faced profound changes, with different levels of impact on human experience. Besides immediate health, economic, and political issues, psychological and existential impacts have also emerged. It is no exaggeration to say that even our taken-for-granted, embodied being in the world has profoundly changed, with collectively felt impacts. In this paper, I argue for a general description of the Covid-19 experience. I suggest that loss of trust emerges as a pervasive dimension of these strange times, de-structuring the whole web of human relations since then. As an essentially affective category, trust can be described at the most basic level as a pre-intentional bodily orientation towards ourselves, others, and the world in general. A critical point is that loss of trust cannot be described as an internal and individual emotion, but rather, as an essentially relational and socially extended affective phenomenon. Another critical point is that, due to social distancing measures, loss of trust has to be understood mostly as a technologically scaffolded form of emotional sharing. I end by calling attention to the potential and present mental health impacts of losing trust.
Life Uprooted. Social and Moral Challenges of Woe
Authors: Bueno Gómez Noelia
Published: September 2021

Entering into dialogue with Simone Weil, this article contributes to the identification of woe as a social and psychological phenomenon that should not remain hidden and minimized anymore. Affliction is described as a kind of extreme suffering that causes a partial or total loss of self-appropriation (the possibility of inhabiting the own self and the world), self-blame and self-shame. Moreover, it is accompanied by social degradation, marginalization, guilt and shame, such that institutions and even social theories can feed its perverse inertia. Woe has such overwhelming destructive power that any socio-political order that causes it should be completely reformed. Because of its opacity, it poses a considerable moral challenge too, one that I propose to tackle by exploring the possibilities of compassion, care and attention as resources for moral agents. Finally, only by restoring the conditions for a re-rooting in life and in the world is it possible to re-appropriate one’s self lost in malheur.
Honoring Our Ancestors
Authors: McCleary Jennifer , Simard Estelle
Published: September 2021

The US social work profession has historically claimed primarily middle-class white women as the "founders" of the profession, including Jane Addams and Mary Richmond. Scholarship of the history of the profession has focused almost entirely on settlement houses, anti-poverty advocacy, and charity in the late 1800s in the northeastern United States as the groundwork of current social work practice. Courses in social work history socialize students into this historical framing of the profession and perpetuate a white supremacist narrative of white women as the primary doers of social justice work that colonizes the bodies and knowledge of Indigenous people and their helping systems. Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) in the US have always had indigenous systems of social care. Yet, the social justice work of BIPOC, and especially Indigenous people in the US, is left out of the dominant narrative of the history of social work practice for several reasons including racism, colonialism, and white supremacy. In this paper the authors contribute to the critique of the role of white supremacy as a colonizing process in social work history narratives and discuss frameworks for decolonizing social work pedagogy through a reconciliatory practice that aims to dismantle white supremacy.
Stories We Tell
Authors: Bryant Danté , Kolivoski Karen M.
Published: September 2021

Although there is a growing body of literature denoting social work’s efforts to engage many of the internal racial challenges it faces, there remains a paucity of research exploring the impacts of normative-whiteness and White supremacy within the profession. In an effort to address this gap in the literature, this investigation uses quantitative survey responses from 167 non-racially specific, currently active, social work faculty and administrators, and 12 qualitative interviews with African American, currently active, social work faculty and administrators to gain a more lucid understanding of how they view the roles and impacts of whiteness and White supremacy within Social Work. Thematic findings from this investigation include narratological-deception, epistemological-omission, and a divided-profession. Implications for social work suggest the need to equitably incorporate the contributions of racially underrepresented populations, while critically engaging and responding to the “why,” “how,” and “impacts” of their historical omission.
Next Wave of Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome Survivors
Authors: Rodgers Selena T.
Published: September 2021

This study seeks to deepen our understanding of the survival adaptive behaviors, particularly features of Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome (PTSS), identified by Black women professionals who exist at the margins in academia and society. To date, exploration of posttraumatic growth has not been researched concomitantly with PTSS. By examining these variables collectively, this study’s model provides an original contribution to a growing but insufficient literature on Black women professionals who endure institutional racism. Using the Listening Guide, this study presents data from seven (7) Black women professionals in higher education. The study finds interviewees adopt Angry Black Women and Strong Black Woman schema, and PTSS features as a survival strategy stemming from gender discrimination rooted in proximity to Whiteness and habitual attacks on their professional acumen. Congruently, learnings revealed (1) Identity and Positionality, (2) Generational [In]visibility, (3), Professional Rage Located, and (4) Voices of PPTTG—Prayers, People, Trials, Tribulations and God. Dismantling White Supremacy must center Black women's survival herstories and healing at the intersection of anti-Black racism and hidden systematic policies. Practice models that nuance PTSS trauma-informed assessments, the addition of PTSS to the DSM, and widely accepted African-centered paradigms are essential for this wave of race work
Social Work Educators as White Allies?
Authors: Massey Michael , Johnson Kynai
Published: September 2021

White educators represent the majority of social work faculty. Current research suggests that many White social work educators are not prepared to address racism in classroom discussions and model antiracist behavior. An integrative literature review was conducted by the co-authors—a White man and Black woman, both social work educators—to examine how recent literature characterizes the “White ally” educator and explore concepts designed to prepare White faculty for purposive action to dismantle White Supremacy. Integrative review is a methodology used to summarize empirical/theoretical literature to provide a comprehensive understanding of a phenomenon. Twenty-two articles met inclusion criteria for this review. The analysis involved two steps: First, a synthesis and integrative model of the literature on educators as White allies. Second, an application of the critical race theory concepts interest convergence and anti-essentialism. The integrative model of the White ally educator suggests a White identity process; necessitating critical self-reflection and multi-level, antiracist action. Critical examination of the literature troubles the concept of “White ally,” pointing to the potential re-centering of Whiteness. Further research is needed to help social work educators recognize racism in their work and prepare future social workers to engage in antiracist social work practice.
Kneading, Needing, and Eating Black Bodies
Authors: Snowden Fabienne , Tolliver Willie , McPherson Amanda
Published: September 2021

Social workers have been on the frontlines alongside marginalized communities since the profession’s emergence. This stance continues with supporting the Black Lives Matter Movement and centering the structural inequities that the COVID-19 pandemic highlights. A narrative that centers the history of social work’s concern for Black citizenship in the profession’s formation is neglected in the literature. This historical review traces the genesis of the profession’s work to expand access to the entitlements of citizenship among Black communities. Thematic analysis of secondary sources is used to investigate the formation of the profession and its work to ensure access to resources among Blacks communities. Study findings identify that the profession emerged from the bonds between the Abolitionist Movement and the Women’s Suffrage Movement, then moved away from working with Black people during the Settlement Movement and did not return to addressing the needs of these communities until the 1960s during the Civil Rights Movement. Black social workers answered the call to support Black and non-Black communities in the absence of the profession’s national organization’s presence. Social work needs, kneads, and eats Black bodies by being in complicity with systems of oppression. The history of social work and its concern and lack of concern for Black citizenship is a pedagogical innovation that addresses the historical amnesia that White domination fosters. The findings of this analysis call social workers to task to disrupt White dominant epistemologies of ignorance by incorporating this historical context into their social work pedagogy.
A case of acute limb ischemia
Authors: Rai Kshiti , Kumar K. G. Sajeeth , Ekkalayil Danish , K. Anoop Chanthu K.
Published: September 2021

Thromboembolism is a well-recognized complication of hematological malignancy. The incidence of symptomatic thrombosis at diagnosis is relatively low in AML (acute myeloid leukemia) patients, though its incidence increases on treatment with anthracyclines. We reported a case of 69 year old female with T2DM who presented with DVT and later on acute limb ischemia of the same lower limb. On hematological evaluation, she had leukocytosis and thrombocytopenia. Further evaluation revealed AML. Thromboembolism as a rare presentation of AML in adults with leukemic hyperleukocytosis has seldom been reported. In the absence of clear guidelines, early diagnosis and management are desirable.
Retrospective analysis of factors associated with emergency colostomy: an institutional experience
Authors: Teklewold Berhanetsehay , Meskel Ermias G.
Published: September 2021

Background: Colostomy is one of the commonest lifesaving procedures done worldwide with an intention of either decompression of an obstructed colon or diversion of stool. This study tries to assess the pattern of emergency colostomy and factors associated with its complication in adult patients at St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Methods: Retrospective reviews of charts were done of all adult patients who underwent colostomy procedure from December 1, 2016 to May 30, 2019.  

Results: There were 149 adult patients that underwent colostomy procedure in the study period and the majorities were male (83.2%). Majority of the procedures were done for indication of LBO secondary gangrenous sigmoid volvulus (49%). The most common comorbidity identified were renal disease (5%) and diabetes mellitus (3%). All patients who presented with gangrenous sigmoid volvulus underwent end colostomy procedure and 16.8% of them died. Generally, 69 patients among 149 (46.3%) developed certain type of complication. Presence of complication was significantly associated with increased chance of death by eight times than those who had no complication after the procedure. End colostomy was significantly associated with development of complication when compared to loop colostomy. Among the study participants 87.9% of them were discharged improved. The main cause of death was multi organ failure secondary to septic shock, which accounted to 52.9% of all deaths.

Conclusions: Gangrenous sigmoid volvulus, colorectal cancer and trauma were leading indications for colostomy. Presence of complication and type of colostomy were factors significantly associated with outcome.
True umbilical cord knots are not always knotty: a case report
Authors: Ubom Akaninyene Eseme , Ajiboye Akinyosoye D. , Fehintola Akintunde O. , Fadare Oluwatoyin Oyenike , Ayegbusi Ekundayo O. , Bakare Olamiposi Isaac , Obinegbo Chukwuka Ndubuisi
Published: September 2021

A true umbilical cord knot (TUCK) is a rare event, complicating 0.3-1.3% of all pregnancies. Prenatal diagnosis is not usual, as it is mostly discovered at delivery, when the knot is identified. True cord knots are mostly asymptomatic, but can be associated with adverse perinatal outcomes such as birth asphyxia and foetal demise, owing to compression of the umbilical vessels within the knot. This compression, however, is largely dependent on how tightly the knot is formed. We report a 30-year-old booked gravida 2, para 1, with a living child, who had spontaneous vaginal delivery of a healthy male baby at term, with incidental finding of a single loose TUCK at delivery. The umbilical cord was 81 cm long. The baby weighed 3600 g at birth, with 1- and 5-minutes Apgar scores of 9 and 10 respectively, and no adverse perinatal occurrence.
Information System Framework for Training Teachers on Computational Thinking
Authors: Ling-Ling Ung , Labadin Jane , Suraya Mohamad Fitri
Published: September 2021

The call for a holistic integration of computational thinking (CT) skills across all subjects in the newly revised Malaysian curriculum of 2017 has brought to attention an urgent need to prepare teachers with the new syllabus, teaching and learning (TL) tools, and techniques, to promote effective computational thinking knowledge dissemination in their daily classroom practices. However, a preliminary investigation revealed that many teachers were still unaware of the changes within the new curriculum. There was an apparent lack of understanding of computational thinking skills in general. The study intends to propose a conceptual framework to develop knowledge about computational thinking skills among Malaysian teachers, to enhance their pedagogical repertoire to include elements of computational thinking into their teaching content. The study employs mixed-method research to capture data and construct interventions. The Information Systems Design Theory (ISDT) is used to design an effective information system (IS) and set a plan for developing the conceptual framework.The proposed framework comprises five elements, which could serve as a guide for future planning in setting up CT training for Malaysian teachers and other related professional development programmes.
Judicialization of Economic and Monetary Union: between a rock and a soft place?
Authors: Albuquerque Matos Nuno
Published: September 2021

The European Central Bank has been active since the sovereign debt crisis that struck European Union Member States by putting in place several asset-purchasing programmes such as Outright Monetary Transactions and Public Sector Purchase Programme. As much as these decisions have proven the pivotal importance of this institution within the monetary union, they have also spurred controversy on potentially having exceeded the competences attributed to the Union. The german federal constitutional court heard challenges to both and requested the Court of Justice to decide on their validity within the framework of a preliminary ruling. The decision of the former court to declare the Public Sector Purchase Programme ultra vires —in this way countering the preliminary ruling decision— as well as its argumentation could produce many institutional consequences to both the European Central Bank and Court of Justice of the European Union. Finally, it has shown the limits of European Union integration and will inevitably propel discussions on which way to go in the future: it is time for this discussion to come out from courtrooms into the public sphere.

Received:  11 November 2020Accepted: 26 May 2021
Performance of Litopenaeus vannamei at different levels of daily protein intake and carbohydrate/protein ratios in low fishmeal content feeds
Authors: Magallón Barajas Francisco Javier , Rubalcava Márquez Juan Carlos , Martínez Antonio Eliza , Goytortúa Bores Ernesto , Álvarez Ruíz Píndaro , Mejía Ruíz Humberto , Casillas Hernández Ramón
Published: September 2021

ABSTRACT

The increase in aquaculture production needs optimization of protein in feeds, which should aim to reduce production costs and environmental impact. The aim of this study was to determine the daily protein intake (DPI)  mathematical functions related to body weight, to evaluate diets with low inclusion of fishmeal that present the best performance in terms of protein efficiency and nitrogen retention. Two experiments were carried out, Juveniles of L. vannamei. First trial; feed with commercial diet at four DPI levels (80, 100, 120 and 140 %). In second trial, five diets with different CHO:Protein (2.1, 1.5, 1.1, 0.8 and 0.6) levels were evaluated, according to 120 % DPI level. DPI = 43.174 BW-0.684 was the best mathematical function found to represent the aquaculture feeding practices. A significant effect on weight gain, specific growth rate, feed conversion rate, protein efficiency and nitrogen retention were found due to DPI levels and CBH:P ratios, without any effect on survival. Growth parameters and feed conversion rates increase in both cases, protein efficiency and nitrogen retention diminish with DPI levels using similar protein level and CBH:P ratio but increases with CBH:P ratios at same DPI level using low fishmeal content in feeds.
Layanan Bimbingan dan Konseling Berbasis Cyber untuk Meningkatkan Keterampilan Berpikir Kritis Siswa
Authors:   Universitas Pendidikan Mandalika, Gunawan I Made Sonny , Bulantika Siti Zahra ,   UIN Raden Intan Lampung, Sari Permata ,   UIN Raden Intan Lampung
Published: September 2021

Keputusan pemerintah yang memindahkan proses pembelajaraan dari sekolah menjadi di rumah membuat banyak guru dan konselor sekolah mengalami kelimpungan. Meninjau dari proses pembelajaran yang dilakukan di sekolah dengan adanya pendampingan oleh guru, masih ditemui banyaknya siswa yang pasif dan tidak mampu untuk berpikir kritis apa lagi dalam suasana saat ini yang harus belajar sendiri dirumah tanpa pendampingan yang hanya bertumpu pada tugas-tugas mandiri. Permasalahan ini menggambarkan bahwa peran guru sangat sentral di dalam membantu siswa untuk mampu mengembangkan kemampuan berpikir kritisnya di dalam menyelesaikan suatu permasalahan. Khususnya untuk guru bimbingan konseling atau konselor sekolah memiliki peran penting untuk dapat memfasilitasi siswa dalam mengembangkan potensi yang dimiliki sesuai keadaan pandemic saat ini adalah dengan memanfaatkan kemajuan teknologi.
Aspectos iconográficos infernais em incunábulos da Divina Comédia
Authors:   Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Vermeersch Paula Ferreira
Published: September 2021

Esse artigo pretende ser uma introdução a uma pesquisa, a partir dos incunábulos da Divina Comédia do acervo da Biblioteca Newberry, de Chicago, EUA, às iconografias renascentistas do poema de Dante. O objetivo é delinear um estudo introdutório e comparativo a alguns aspectos iconográficos do Inferno, nas três primeiras edições ilustradas do poema.
Reflecting back
Authors: Strathern Marilyn
Published: September 2021

This invitation presents an opportunity to bring together older and newer strands of work on relations. The first fell back on an analytical notion of aesthetics to convey certain kinds of persuasive appearances: Melanesian ethnography emphasized how much it mattered that relations took an appropriate form (recognizing the support of ancestors for example). The second is a recent critique of relations as an explicit Euro-American concept in one of its vernacular contexts, namely English usage.  Here, the kinds of Amerindianist interests engaged by the special issue of this journal – and as gleaned from certain translations into English – lead me to locate an aesthetic effect in the penumbra of connotations and associations that endow relations (English-speaking) with an aura or mood.  What anthropologists ordinarily dismiss when they construct their analytical vocabularies becomes interesting.
As máscaras da memória
Authors: Taylor Anne-Christine
Published: September 2021

Ainda que a maioria dos Jívaro já não se vista de modo tradicional, muitos deles ainda insistem em pintar o rosto. O objetivo deste artigo é explicar as razões da persistência dessa prática, relacionando a pintura corporal à construção de certas formas de identidade. A autora mostra que os padrões pintados indicam uma figura relacional complexa que condensa ritualmente duas formas de relação agonística: aquela entre um homem e seu igual (i.e., outro homem jívaro adulto), e aquela entre um homem vivo e uma pessoa morta encontrada ao longo de uma busca visionária induzida por drogas. Esta configuração forma a base para o tipo de pessoalidade nitidamente individualizada e altamente confrontativa que se sustenta ser tipicamente Jívaro.
The SERL Observatory Dataset: Longitudinal Smart Meter Electricity and Gas Data, Survey, EPC and Climate Data for Over 13,000 GB Households
Authors: Webborn Ellen , Few Jessica , McKenna Eoghan , Elam Simon , Pullinger Martin , Anderson Ben , Shipworth David , Oreszczyn Tadj
Published: September 2021

The Smart Energy Research Lab (SERL) Observatory dataset described here comprises half-hourly and daily electricity and gas data, SERL survey data, Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) input data and 24 local hourly climate reanalysis variables from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) for over 13,000 households in Great Britain (GB). Participants were recruited in September 2019, September 2020 and January 2021 and their smart meter data are collected from up to one year prior to sign up. Data collection will continue until at least August 2022, and longer if funding allows. Survey data relating to the dwelling, appliances, household demographics and attitudes was collected at sign up. Data are linked at the household level and UK-based academic researchers can apply for access within a secure virtual environment for research projects in the public interest. This is a data descriptor paper describing how the data was collected, the variables available and the representativeness of the sample compared to national estimates. It is intended as a guide for researchers working with or considering using the SERL Observatory dataset, or simply looking to learn more about it.
Ecotoxicity and Associated Threat of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) to Biodiversity: A Review
Authors: Zungum Idris Umar , Imam Tijjani Sabiu
Published: September 2021

There is a sustained rise in incidence of cancer and toxicity related to chemicals exerting enormous burden to public health and biodiversity. Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) are mong such contaminants, precisely the sixteen-priority characterized by United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA). Therefore, this review is aimed at further elaboration about the 16 USEPA characterized PAHs and threat portend to public health and biodiversity. PAHs are a class of very stable organic pollutants produced most commonly, by incomplete combustion of fossil fuel and are formed when complex organic substances are exposed to heat. PAHs in great amount due to build up over time by bioaccumulation can be perilous: to human beings of all age and levels, aquatic organisms, amphibians and reptiles. The soil like the aquatic environment contains substantial quantity of PAHs since, atmospheric PAHs sediments on the soil due to dry and wet deposition, terrestrial organism are impacted if the soil is saturated with PAHs. Therefore, PAHs are a great source of trepidation for food safety, public health and biodiversity sustenance. Hence, tackling the spade of the menacing ubiquity of PAHs becomes necessary from its sources by encouragement of alternatives to petroleum fuels for machines and vehicles.
Gravitational Fields and Gravitational Waves
Authors: Yuan Tony
Published: September 2021

The relative velocity between objects with ﬁnite velocity aﬀects the reaction between them. This eﬀect is known as general Doppler eﬀect. The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) discovered gravitational waves and found their speed to be equal to the speed of light c. Gravitational waves are generated following a disturbance in the gravitational ﬁeld; they aﬀect the gravitational force on an object. Just as light waves are subject to the Doppler eﬀect, so are gravitational waves. This article explores the following research questions concerning gravitational waves: What is the spatial distribution of gravitational waves? Can the speed of a gravitational wave represent the speed of the gravitational ﬁeld (the speed of the action of the gravitational ﬁeld upon the object)? What is the speed of the gravitational ﬁeld? Do gravitational waves caused by the revolution of the Sun aﬀect planetary precession? Can we modify Newton’s gravitational equation through the inﬂuence of gravitational waves?
Evaluating GraphQL and REST API Services Performance in a Massive and Intensive Accessible Information System
Authors: Lawi Armin , Panggabean Benny L. E. , Yoshida Takaichi
Published: September 2021

Currently, most middleware application developers have two choices when designing or implementing API services: They can either stick with REST or explore the emerging GraphQL technology. Although REST is widely considered the standard method for API development, GraphQL is believed to overcome the main drawbacks of REST, especially data fetching issues. Yet, doubts remain as there are no experimental studies with convincing results to evaluate the performance of the two services. In this paper, we propose a research methodology to evaluate the performance of REST and GraphQL API services, which includes two main contributions. The first contribution is that the performance evaluation of the two services is conducted in the real operation of a massive and intensively accessible management information system. The second contribution is the fair and independent performance evaluation results obtained for both API services. The performance evaluation was studied using basic measures of QoS, including response time, throughput, CPU load, and memory usage. The results show that REST is still faster in response time and throughput, while GraphQL is very efficient in resource utilization, i.e., CPU load and memory utilization. Therefore, GraphQL is the right choice when data requirements change frequently and resource utilization is the most important consideration. REST is used when some data is frequently accessed called by multiple requests.