bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Status of Implementation of the Substantive Phase in the NICHD Investigative Interview Protocol for Alleged Child Sexual Abuse: Comparison of Interview transcripts Between Police Officers and Interview Experts
Authors:   Crisis and Emergency Management: Theory and Praxis, Kim Tae Kyoung
Published: November 2023

TThe aim of this study was to investigate whether the substantive interview phase of the NICHD investigative interview protocol was properly implemented in the forensic interview of alleged child sexual abuse. To this end, 30 transcript of children aged 5 to 15 years who were independently interviewed by police officer and the interview expert were analyzed. As a result, the difference between the groups in the amount of questions and details was not significant. The police group used direct questions, option-posing, and suggestive questions significantly more than the expert group. The children reported significantly more information through suggestive questions in police officer interview, but significantly more information through invitations in expert interview. The expert group mainly used invitations in the beginning, gradually increasing the amount of direct questions, but still frequently used invitations and facilitation until the end. In contrast, the police group frequently used direct questions from the beginning, gradually increasing the amount, and rarely used invitations and facilitation toward the end.
Effect of Borax-Boric Acid Treatment on Fire Resistance, Thermal Stability, Acoustic, and Mechanical Properties of Mycelium Bio Composites
Authors: Anto Tom , Rajendran Rejeesh Charuvila , Muraleedharan Praveen Kosappallyillom , Jayamani Elammaran
Published: November 2023

Mycelium biocomposite materials have been established as a sustainable alternative to polystyrene in single use applications like packaging. However only little investigations are done on improving their resistance to fire and heat, which can find use in newer applications. This paper focuses on the development and characterization of a mycelium-based sawdust-coir pith biocomposite material treated with a combination of fire-retardant compounds (borax and boric acid). The outcomes of fire resistance tests, such as flammability, flame penetration and rate of burning demonstrated a significant improvement in values with respect to untreated samples. However, samples having 30% boron compounds by weight in it exhibited the best fire resistance properties. The thermal analysis of treated samples indicated that the presence of fire-retardant chemicals has not significantly affected their thermal stability. The glass transition temperature (Tg) of treated mycelium composite material was found to be 212.75 °C against a value of 207.78 °C for untreated samples. The fire retardant treated mycelium composite samples having 30% boron by weight in it, exhibited an average sound absorption coefficient of 0.38 compared with a sound absorption coefficient of 0.29 for polyurethane foam. The prepared mycelium biocomposite has a self-extinguishing nature and exceptional fire resistance capabilities with an LOI value of 50%. The mechanical testing revealed that the presence of fire-retardant chemicals has significantly improved the flexural properties. However, only a marginal increase was visible in the compression strength of mycelium biocomposites.
Atherogenic Index of Plasma in the Three Trimesters of Pregnancy
Authors: Hamadameen Bana K. , Hamad Sara S.
Published: November 2023

This study investigates the change that occurs for atherogenic index of plasma (AIP) which is a very good marker for the evaluation of the risk of atherogenicity and cardiometabolic health. This study indicates the logarithm of the triglyceride and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (log [TG/HDL-c]). The parameters of triglycerides (TG) and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-c) are estimated and compared with the control cases. The AIP is calculated for each case during pregnancy in first, second, and third trimesters separately and each is compared with control cases. The study population comprised (80) women aged between (20–40) years distributed to (20) healthy non-pregnant women, (20) in the first trimester, (20) in the second trimester, and (20) in the third trimester in Koya health centers. The results of this study showed a significant increase in the TG level in both the second and third trimesters of pregnancy compared to the control cases. Whereas, in the first trimester of pregnancy, it can be assumed that there is a non-significant decrease of TG level rather than control cases. As well as the serum levels of HDL for all three trimesters of pregnancy displayed non-significant changes when compared to non-pregnant cases. These data illustrate that the AIP levels during both the second and third trimesters of pregnancy are significantly higher, as compared to control cases, whereas the AIP levels in the first trimester are non-significantly elevated, as

compared with control cases
Analisis Manajemen Risiko Keselamatan Kerja Terhadap Ketenagakerjaan Di Unit Layanan Pusat Listrik Tenaga Diesel Sungai Raya Kalimantan Barat
Authors: Putri Hana Muslimah Eka , Irsan Robby , Pramadita Suci
Published: November 2023

Manajemen Kesehatan dan Keselamatan Kerja (K3) merupakan sistem yang perlu diperhatikan untuk menjaga efisiensi perusahaan dalam mengurangi kerugian pada hal produktivitas dan keselamatan tenaga kerja. Unit Layanan Pusat Listrik Tenaga Diesel atau ULPLTD merupakan perusahaan bidang kelistrikan sehingga lingkungan perusahaan memerlukan penerapan sistem manajemen K3 agar dapat menunjang produktivitas perusahaan dan mengurangi kecelakaan kerja. Tujuan Penelitian ini untuk mengetahui nilai pengukuran parameter penerangan, iklim kerja dan kebisingan yang akan dibandingkan dengan Permenaker No 05 Tahun 2018. Tujuan selanjutnya penelitian ini untuk mengetahui penilaian tingkatan risiko bahaya dilihat dari unsur konsekuensi dan kemungkinan pada tenaga kerja. Metode untuk mengidentifikasi tingkatan risiko bahaya menggunakan semi-kuantitatif yang memberikan peringkat dari suatu variabel potensi bahaya didasarkan pada keputusan subjektif. Lokasi penelitian berada di ULPLTD Sungai Raya Kabupaten Kuburaya Kalimantan Barat. Hasil dari pengukuran parameter penerangan metode setempat yang tidak memenuhi baku mutu berada pada panel 1 di ruangan sentral mesin yaitu 14,6 lux, sedangkan untuk metode umum ruangan yang tidak memenuhi parameter penerangan berada diruangan thermal oil yaitu 89 lux. Ruangan yang memiliki suhu tertinggi berada di ruangan thermal oil yaitu 28,83 ºC sedangkan ruangan yang memiliki kelembaban tertinggi berada di ruangan sentral mesin yaitu 63,5%. Untuk parameter kebisingan, nilai tertinggi berada dititik sentral mesin sebesar 115,7 dB. Hasil analisis manajemen keselamatan kerja, didapatkan sebanyak 42 variabel risiko yang teridentifikasi bahaya. Dari 42 variabel risiko yang teridentifikasi terdapat 37 variabel dengan tingkatan acceptable yaitu variabel yang masih dapat diterima atau aman menurut tenaga kerja dan 5 variabel dengan tingkatan priority 3 yaitu variabel yang berkemungkinan dapat terjadi menurut tenaga kerja. Parameter yang memiliki tingkatan risiko bahaya terbanyak yaitu parameter kebisingan karena dari 11 variabel terdapat 2 variabel risiko dengan tingkatan priority 3.
Modal Sosial Suku Poombawo dalam Konservasi Habitat Burung Cenderawasih (Paradisaea minor jobiensis Roschild) di Distrik Poom Kabupaten Kepulauan Yapen Provinsi Papua
Authors: Awairaro Merius , Maturbongs Rudi A. , Widodo Aluisius P. E. , Fatem Sepus M. , Boseren Melanesia B. , Nebore Idola Dian
Published: November 2023

This research aims to examine social capital in efforts to structur and conservation of Cenderawasih bird habitat in the Poombawo tribe in Poom District, Yapen Islands Regency, Papua Province.  The study was conducted in Poom District of Yapen Islands District of Papua Province in October-November 2020. The selection of research sites is done purposively (intentionally). Primary data obtained from in-depth interviews refers to the Social Capital Assessment Tool (SCAT) (Elizabeth & Krishna, 1999) questions that were modified according to the focus of the study. Social capital variables consist of beliefs, social norma, social networks, and supportive variables i.e. the network structure of society, and the potential for conflict. Statistical data analysis consists of Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA), Regression and correlation test. habitat conservation strategy of Cenderawasih bird uses SWOT analysis. Confirmatory Factor Analysis obtained Chi-square value = 1,546 ; df = 1 with significance of 0.214 ≥ 0.05 with norm factor values (0.947), trust (0.947), social networks (0.194), community network structures (0.416) and potential conflicts (0.284). The Social Trust Capital Regression Test has a significant effect on Social Norma and Potential Conflicts (p-value < 0.05). Furthermore, statistically Social Capital – Social norma have a significant effect on all social capital, Community Social Networks, Trust, and Potential Conflict (p-value < 0.05). Correlation tests using Spearman correlation analysis obtained relationships between beliefs, norms and community network structures whereas there was no relationship between social networks and potential conflicts. Strategies based on SWOT analysis, obtained coordinates Y = 7.4 and X = 6.64 where this coordinate is in quadrant I is an aggressive strategy.Keywords: social capital, conservation, ecotourism, cenderawasih, paradisaea,  papua
Analisis Penyebaran Pb Dan Fe Pada Air Permukaan Dengan Metode Interpolasi SIG Di TPA Kota Pontianak
Authors: Imaduddin Ahmad , Jati Dian Rahayu , Sulastri Aini
Published: November 2023

TPA Batu Layang Kota Pontianak merupakan Tempat Pemrosesan Akhir sampah di Kota Pontianak, yang masih menerapkan sistem pengelolaan open dumping. TPA dengan sistem open dumping berpotensi menimbulkan air lindi dan pencemar lainnya dengan jumlah yang besar ke lingkungan sekitarnya, termasuk lingkungan parit tempat keluarnya outlet saluran IPAL TPA Kota Pontianak. Parit tersebut, yang bertempat di Gang Badai RT 01/RW 19 Kecamatan Pontianak Utara masih dipakai oleh warga setempat sebagai sarana rekreasi dan tempat mencuci. Untuk itu dilakukan penelitian mengenai Penyebaran Pb dan Fe Pada Air Permukaan Dengan Metode Interpolasi Ordinary Kriging SIG di TPA Kota Pontianak dengan tujuan menganalisis penyebaran lindi berdasarkan baku mutu Pb dan Fe pada air permukaan dengan menggunakan Metode Interpolasi SIG. Pengambilan sampel dilakukan di 8 titik sampel yang ditentukan yang berada di parit Gang Badai dengan jarak maksimum sejauh 329 meter dari IPAL TPA Kota Pontianak. Hasilnya ditemukan kandungan Fe tertinggi sebanyak 11,25 mg/l Adapun kandungan Pb di semua titik memenuhi standar baku mutu PermenLHK No. 5 Tahun 2014 Lampiran XLVII. Kandungan pH melebihi baku mutu di 6 titik, dengan kandungan tertinggi 7,59 dan kandungan terendah 5,44. Tempat yang tidak memenuhi standar baku mutu tersebut berjarak 60 meter dari IPAL sampai titik terakhir pengambilan sampel. Ini menunjukkan kandungan logam berat Pb dan Fe tidak mencapai perumahan warga RT 01/RW 19, namun air yang berada di dekat perumahan warga mempunyai pH yang dibawah baku mutu.
Pencegahan dan Penanggulangan Kebakaran Lahan Gambut dan Hutan
Authors: Qamariyanti Yulia , Usman Rachmadi , Rahmawati Diana
Published: November 2023

Area gambut di Indonesia mencakup luas + 22 Juta Hektar dan tersebar utamanya di Pulau Sumatera, Pulau Kalimantan dan Pulau Papua. Salah satu yang terjadi pada lahan gambut pada saat musim kemarau adalah mudah terbakar, karena lahan gambut menjadi kering dan sangat rentan munculnya titik api (hotspot). Lahan gambut yang kering akan mudah terbakar dan menyebar secara luas apalagi tingkat kekencangan angin yang tinggi. Kebakaran yang terjadi akan banyak mengakibatkan kerugian bagi kelestarian ekosistem lingkungan hidup, lahan dan rumah milik warga masyarakat. Tujuan penelitian adalah: untuk mengkaji tentang penyebab dan dampak terjadinya kebakaran lahan gambut dan hutan di provinsi Kalimantan Selatan; dan untuk mengkaji upaya pemerintah untuk melakukan pencegahan dan penanggulan kebakaran lahan gambut dan hutan di provinsi Kalimantan Selatan;  Hasil Penelitian adalah: 1. Penyebab terjadinya kebakaran lahan gambut dan hutan di provinsi Kalimantan Selatan adalah: masyarakat membuka lahan pertanian atau perkebunan; sistem pengelolaan hutan yang tidak memberikan manfaat ekonomi yang memicu masyarakat bertindak anarkis; pembalakan liar atau illegal logging menghasilkan lahan-lahan kritis; kebutuhan akan Hijauan Makanan Ternak (HMT);  perambahan hutan (perambah hutan); ketidaksengajaan dari pelaku (menyalakan rokok dan membuang puntung rokok dalam kawasan hutan); g. Belum maksimal penegakan hukum dan kepedulian para pihak. Sedangkan dampaknya adalah: kabut asap sulit dihilangkan dan diperkirakan akan abadi hingga tibanya musim hujan dan dampaknya mengganggu seluruh sektor; kabut asap pekat mengganggu aktivitas masyarakat; kabut asap mengganggu aktivitas penerbangan di bandara; kualitas udara tidak sehat/ berbahaya. 2. Upaya pemerintah untuk melakukan pencegahan dan penanggulangan kebakaran lahan gambut dan hutan adalah dengan membuat kebijakan perangkat peraturan perundangundangan yang dibuat dari aturan yang bersifat nasional sampai ke tingkat pemerintahan dibawahnya. Karena penyelenggaraan penanggulangan bencana merupakan tanggung jawab Pemerintah dan Pemerintah Daerah, yang dilaksanakan secara terencana, terpadu, terkoordinasi dan menyeluruh pada 3 (tiga) tahapan: a. Pra-Bencana; b. Saat Tanggap Darurat; c. Pasca Bencana.
Analisis Daur Hidup Produksi Beton Fly Ash sebagai Upaya Mengurangi Dampak Emisi CO2
Authors: Muttaqien Ahzab , Martono Dwi Nowo , Gusdini Ninin
Published: November 2023

Penggunaan batubara untuk produksi energi listrik menimbulkan berbagai dampak lingkungan seperti deforestasi hutan untuk pembukaan lahan tambang batubara dan pencemaran udara dari limbah fly ash. Jumlah timbulan limbah fly ash harus dikendalikan. Limbah fly ash dapat menjadi barang yang bernilai ekonomis yaitu sebagai bahan pengganti sebagian semen dalam campuran beton. Penggunaan fly ash yang berperan dalam menggantikan sebagian portland semen pada beton dapat mengurangi dampak emisi CO2 karena pembuatan semen portland yang dapat menghasilkan emisi CO2 sebesar 6-8% dari total emisi CO2 antropogenik. Beton cair yang menggunakan fly ash dalam campurannya dapat menghasilkan produksi beton yang lebih berkelanjutan. Dampak lingkungan dari penggunaan fly ash pada produksi beton cair dapat dianalisis dengan penilaian siklus hidup. Kajian pada artikel ini membandingkan dua skenario simulasi yaitu simulasi pada beton menggunakan 0% fly ash dan 25% fly ash. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengkaji dampak emisi CO2 pada produksi beton fly ash. Penelitian ini berkontribusi untuk membuktikan penelitian-penelitian sebelumnya bahwa penggunaan fly ash dapat meminimalisir emisi CO2 dan mendukung peningkatan pemanfaatan limbah fly ash khususnya di bidang konstruksi.  Unit Fungsional pada penelitian ini adalah menganalisis dampak lingkungan yang menyumbang emisi gas CO2 dalam proses produksi 1 m3 beton. System boundary pada penelitian ini adalah cradle-to-gate yang meliputi proses incoming material dan proses produksi beton, yang digunakan untuk menentukan dampak lingkungan dari daur hidup produksinya. Pengolahan data untuk evaluasi dampak lingkungan pada penelitian ini menggunakan software SimaPro 9.3.0.3 dengan database ecoinvent 3.0. Studi menunjukkan bahwa berbagai beton menggunakan 25% fly ash memiliki dampak emisi GWP lebih kecil pada lingkungan, yaitu 298 KgCO2, lebih kecil dibandingkan beton non fly ash yang menghasilkan emisi GWP 347 KgCO2.
Primary and lower secondary students’ learning agency and social support
Authors: Soini Tiina , Pietarinen Janne , Ulmanen Sanna , Anttila Henrika , Pyhältö Kirsi
Published: November 2023

Making initiatives and having ownership over one’s learning is a key for applying and creating knowledge, acquiring new abilities, actively steering one’s life and the engaging in change in society. Understanding the preconditions for such learning should be in the core of designing learning environments and the primary interest of frontline learning research. This study focuses on exploring students’ sense of their learning agency in studying and the role of teacher and peer support in cultivating it. We examined how primary (grades 1-6) and lower secondary school students (grades 7-9) perceive their learning agency (LA), its relationship with the experienced teacher and peer support in studying. Also, differences between the girls and boys, and schools located in low and high SES neighborhoods was examined. We assessed the structure and level of learning agency by using a new measurement and explorative structural equation modeling (ESEM). Results show that learning agency consists of interdependent elements of motivation to learn, self-efficacy beliefs about learning and strategies for learning in meaning making, problem solving and scaffolding in studying. The experienced learning agency was related to social support experienced in several ways. Also differences in learning agency and social support in terms of grade level, gender and SES were detected. Results indicate that meaning making especially calls for intentional support from teachers in lower secondary grades and that girls and boys have partly different support needs in terms of cultivating strong sense of learning agency.
Minimizers of 3D anisotropic interaction energies
Authors: Carrillo José Antonio , Shu Ruiwen
Published: November 2023

We study a large family of axisymmetric Riesz-type singular interaction potentials with anisotropy in three dimensions.
We generalize some of the results of the recent work [J. A. Carrillo and R. Shu, Global minimizers of a large class of anisotropic attractive-repulsive interaction energies in 2D, Comm. Pure Appl. Math. (2023), 10.1002/cpa.22162] in two dimensions to the present setting.
For potentials with linear interpolation convexity, their associated global energy minimizers are given by explicit formulas whose supports are ellipsoids.
We show that, for less singular anisotropic Riesz potentials, the global minimizer may collapse into one or two-dimensional concentrated measures which minimize restricted isotropic Riesz interaction energies.
Some partial aspects of these questions are also tackled in the intermediate range of singularities in which one-dimensional vertical collapse is not allowed.
Collapse to lower-dimensional structures is proved at the critical value of the convexity but not necessarily to vertically or horizontally concentrated measures, leading to interesting open problems.
A study of end-of-life care communication and decision-making in China by exploring filial piety and medical information concealment
Authors: Jeon Elaine Dabin , Jing Jun
Published: November 2023

Objectives

This paper examines end-of-life care communication and decision-making in mainland China by exploring their connection with filial piety and the concealment of medical information from patients by their families.

Methods

A textual analysis was performed by utilizing descriptive information from 349 semi-structured interviews with family and professional caregivers between 2021 and 2023 in 15 Chinese provinces. In addition to a word search for filial piety and the concealment of medical information from patients by their families, this study features seven personal accounts.

Results

Of all the interviews, 26.9 % (303 mentions) and 11.7 % (86 mentions) contain statements about filial piety and the concealment of medical information, respectively. The interviews suggest that the autonomy of elderly patients is suspended when disclosure of medical information and decisions for end-of-life care are controlled by family members – in particular, adult children out of a strong sense of filial piety.

Conclusions

The authors recommend advance care planning (ACP) as a structured approach to discussing the patient’s care preferences near the end of life. In China, relational autonomy is a key to such approach, with culturally sensitive dialogues toward building a consensus among patients, relatives, and medical staff. Only then could end-of-life care place individual agency on par with family responsibility motivated by filial piety. China can look to other Asian countries and territories for family-centered ACP experiences in embracing the inseparable role of family in end-of-life care decisions to guide its implementation of the recent Shenzhen legislation and more patient-oriented practices going forward.
Forschungsdatenmanagement als Service an Universitätsbibliotheken
Authors: Söring Sibylle , Steinke Britta
Published: November 2023

Für die Ausgestaltung des Handlungsfelds Forschungsdatenmanagement an deutschen Universitäten bieten sich verschiedene Governance-Modelle und Serviceportfolios an. Universitätsbibliotheken als grundständigen, dauerhaften Service- bzw. Infrastruktureinrichtungen kommt dabei neben Rechenzentren und anderen forschungsunterstützenden Einrichtungen heute vielfach eine zentrale Rolle zu. Sie bewegen sich dabei im Spannungsfeld lokaler, regionaler und nationaler Initiativen und Anforderungen. Der Beitrag nimmt verschiedene Modelle und Herausforderungen in den Blick.
Effects of Social Responsibility Practices on the Brand Image, Brand Awareness, and Brand Loyalty of Sponsor Businesses: A Study on Sports Clubs
Authors: Kurtulan Ali , Begeç Suat
Published: November 2023

The aim of this study is to examine the effects of social responsibility practices carried out with the cooperation of businesses and sports clubs on brand image, brand awareness, and brand loyalty, and the mediating role of the sports club’s image in this effect. The questionnaire method was used as a data collection tool for this research. The fans of sponsored sports clubs were asked questions through this form. The research population consists of supporters of four active, business-sponsored sports clubs from among the 16 teams of the Turkish Basketball Super League, operating in the food sector. The research sample was chosen using a stratified sampling method and consists of 1,865 questionnaires that were applied. The survey was collected using the face-to-face technique. The findings can assist in planning effective social responsibility projects, by offering ideas and guidance to those businesses and sports clubs trying to improve the perception of their brand image, comparing the study results with those of previous studies in this field and testing them, and suggesting research opportunities for future studies.
Gender-queere Perspektiven auf Raum-Zeit-Konstellationen in der Literatur: Virginia Woolfs Orlando
Authors: Kilian Eveline
Published: November 2023

This paper takes its cue from research on the social production of space and time in recent decades and outlines major feminist and queer perspectives emanating from this field of investigation and their productivity for cultural and literary studies (Part 1). Part 2 offers a gender-queer reading of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando. A Biography (1928) based on the concepts and ideas presented in the first section. It shows how Woolf’s experimental take on time, space and gender exposes the patriarchal and heteronormative underpinnings of Victorian biographical writing and projects a performative notion of gender that refutes the gender essentialism still prevalent in her day. The concluding part (Part 3) considers the literary text itself as a heterotopia in the sense of a counter-site that can critically reflect the norms of existing spaces and open up alternative worlds of being for the reader to inhabit.
Die ‚Normalität‘ der Provinz
Authors: Gunreben Marie
Published: November 2023

By staging the province as a place of normality and authenticity that stands in contrast to an alienated metropolitan environment, Juli Zeh’s Über Menschen (2021) perpetuates traditional narratives of the critique of modernity. In the encounter between the protagonist, a newly arrived village resident, and the local “Dorf-Nazi” Zeh develops a programmatic ‘ethics of nonetheless’ that emphasizes the possibility of interpersonal understanding beyond ideological and political differences. However, this ‘ethics of nonetheless’ is, as I want to argue in this article, based on the ignorance of migrant voices and experiences.
La lanceta del traductor: las traducciones españolas de La Arcadia de Sannazaro
Authors: Nardoni Valerio
Published: November 2023

El artículo aborda el tema de las traducciones áureas de la Arcadia de Sannazaro, que fueron cuatro: fue la primera, publicada en Toledo en 1547 —traducida por López de Ayala y Salazar, y revisada por Blasco de Garay—, la única que llegó a publicarse. Las siguientes, respectivamente traducidas por Sedeño, Urrea y el “Licenciado Viana”, se quedaron manuscritas y presentan todas una característica común, la de respetar las partes en prosa y volver a traducir las églogas según los esquemas métricos del original italiano (desaparecidos en la traslación de Salazar en favor de formas tradicionales octosilábicas). Se propone aquí una panorámica sobre la génesis del prosímetro italiano y su fortuna hispánica, así como una confrontación entre las distintas traducciones, para profundizar finalmente un punto clave de la obra original (la égloga VII, una sextina), analizando desde muy cerca el esmero de la técnica de Urrea en comparación con la primera propuesta de Salazar.
Cortado a la medida de Juan Boscán: traducción y recepción de El cortesano de Castiglione en España
Authors: Torres Corominas Eduardo
Published: November 2023

El presente artículo estudia la traducción de Il cortegiano de Castiglione a lengua castellana elaborada por Juan Boscán (Barcelona, 1534), así como su recepción en España. Erigido en verdadero emblema de la cultura renacentista, El cortesano esbozó entre los márgenes de sus cuatro libros la figura del moderno gentiluomo, modelo antropológico de largo recorrido y alcance internacional que, con metamorfosis parciales, definiría al hombre de mundo que pobló las cortes y la sociedad política del Antiguo Régimen. Partiendo de este hecho (y siempre en el marco de un fenómeno europeo), se trata aquí de explicar someramente la génesis de su traducción española, se ofrece una renovada reconstrucción de su trayectoria editorial a lo largo del siglo XVI —con especial atención a la incorporación de paratextos que condicionaron su lectura e interpretación— y se analiza la influencia del diálogo sobre la literatura española, tanto en el ámbito de la prosa de ideas (el discurso cortesano) como de la ficción.
Exploring the Line between Creation and Creator in Mabou Mines’s Glass Guignol: The Brother and Sister Play
Authors: Saddik Annette J.
Published: November 2023

During the last ten years of his life, Lee Breuer, who passed away in 2021, had been interested in framing Tennessee Williams’s canon, particularly the late plays, through the perspective of the grotesque and the Grand Guignol. Mabou Mines’s Glass Guignol: The Brother and Sister Play (2017), directed by Breuer and conceived by Breuer and Maude Mitchell, views Williams’s work alongside Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) in order to expose the grotesque truth of the messy and complex creative process. On one level, Glass Guignol is a multilayered exploration of the relationship between Williams and his sister Rose, whose story of courage in facing the mental and emotional challenges that culminated in an eventual lobotomy in 1943 was the inspiration for several of the female characters in both his canonical early plays and his less familiar later works. Developed through various workshops and staged scenes since 2011, the finalized version of Glass Guignol interweaves the story of Rose herself with Williams’s various fictional creations of women who reflect her spirit, if not necessarily her actual experiences: Laura in The Glass Menagerie (1945), Catherine in Suddenly Last Summer (1958), Clare in The Two-Character Play (revised between 1967 and 1976), and Nance in A Cavalier for Milady (c. 1976). While a symbiotic brother-sister love is at the center of The Two-Character Play, which serves as the primary framework of Breuer’s piece, it was also a common preoccupation for Romantic poets. Glass Guignol uses this relationship to delve into broader territory, asking questions about the relationship between creator and creation, and taking Frankenstein as yet another framework for the complexities and contradictions of this partnership. With its nineteenth-century asylum staging, the play foregrounds the grotesque and the Grand Guignol, both sensibilities that embrace contradiction, instability, and a lack of boundaries. Ultimately, Breuer explores how the artist sews together bits and pieces of identity, emotion, and experience in the pursuit of that seamless and perfect illusion of reality.
“They Think We’re Foul-Mouthed Sluts”: Discomfort, Bourgeois Spectatorship, and Fellow Feelings of Feminism in Patricia Cornelius’s SHIT
Authors: Busch Sarah
Published: November 2023

The question of how spectators engage emotionally with what they see on stage has always been of interest to theatre scholars and performance-makers. This article offers a small-scale analysis of audience responses to Patricia Cornelius’s SHIT (2015) that was performed by Dublin theatre collective THISISPOPBABY at the Project Arts Centre in March 2022. The vulgar and aggressive protagonists confront spectators directly about what it means to barely scrape by as a déclassée woman who has to protect herself daily from male violence. Thus, the play allows for an intersectional perspective on gender and class by asking uncomfortable questions about the privilege of spectatorship. Deliberately marking them as Other, SHIT opens up a rift between its protagonists and the middle-class audience it constructs, but occasionally bridges the distance by allowing for feminist attachments between the two sides.
Contemporary Filiality and Popular Religion: An Ethnographic Study of Filiality Among Chinese University Students and their Parents
Authors: Chadwin Joseph
Published: November 2023

Whether one opts to refer to it as filial piety, filial obedience, family reverence, and family feeling, or filiality, the concept of xiào 孝 has been widely studied throughout history. However, to this day, the religious dimension of xiào is far too often ignored. This article intends to demonstrate that beyond merely having a religious dimension to it, the very concept of xiào cannot be removed from the realm of Chinese popular religion. More specifically, this article constitutes an ethnographic examination of the beliefs and practices pertaining to xiào of undergraduate university students in Beijing. These beliefs and practices will be compared and contrasted with how xiào is regarded by the parents of these students. By demonstrating that xiào essentially constitutes a religious belief that has deep meaning and importance to all the interviewees of this study, this article adds to the growing corpus of scholarship that seeks to contrast the popular view that China is a deeply irreligious country. I will also assert that there is a notable generational difference in how xiào is conceived.
Optimization and characterization of composite modified asphalt with pyrolytic carbon black and chicken feather fiber
Authors: Li Chuangmin , Li Zhuangzhuang , Gan Youwei , Deng Qinhao
Published: November 2023

Asphalt is a vital construction material for roads, and its properties can be enhanced by modification. In this study, a composite modified asphalt was developed using pyrolytic carbon black (PCB) and chicken feather fiber (CFF). Box–Behnken design of response surface methodology was employed to optimize the preparation parameters, and the optimal parameters were determined to be a PCB dosage of 15% (weight ratio), a CFF dosage of 0.3% (weight ratio), and a chicken feather (CF) shear time of 8.2 min. A Dynamic Shear Rheometer (MCR302) was used to analyze the high-temperature rheological properties of the modified asphalt samples, and the results showed that the addition of PCB and CFF enhanced the high temperature performance and anti-aging performance of the asphalt. The rheological properties at high temperature increased progressively with the increase in CFF dosage. The Bending Beam Rheometer (BBR) test was conducted to evaluate the low-temperature rheological property of PCB/CFF composite modified asphalt, which was observed to decrease with the increase in CFF dosage. The microscopic properties and the chemical group of 15% PCB + 0.3% CFF with 8.2 min CF shear time composite modified asphalt (0.3%PC-MA) were analyzed using Fourier Transform Infrared spectrometer and Fluorescence Microscopy, and the results indicated that PCB and CFF were physically blended with asphalt without undergoing a chemical reaction, and they were well compatible with and evenly distributed in asphalt. Finally, the high- and low-temperature performances, as well as water stability, of the base asphalt (BA), 15% PCB dosage modified asphalt (P-MA), and 15% PCB dosage modified asphalt with x% CFF dosage with a shear time of 8.2 min (PC-MA) were compared. The addition of CFF significantly enhanced the high-temperature and low-temperature performances, as well as water stability of P-MA mixtures. The aim of this study is to provide a laboratory test basis for the application of PCB/CFF composite modified asphalt.
Biological effects of electromagnetic fields on insects: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Authors: Thill Alain , Cammaerts Marie-Claire , Balmori Alfonso
Published: November 2023

Worldwide, insects are declining at an alarming rate. Among other causes, the use of pesticides and modern agricultural practices play a major role in this. Cumulative effects of multiple low-dose toxins and the distribution of toxicants in nature have only started to be investigated in a methodical way. Existing research indicates another factor of anthropogenic origin that could have subtle harmful effects: the increasingly frequent use of electromagnetic fields (EMF) from man-made technologies. This systematic review summarizes the results of studies investigating the toxicity of electromagnetic fields in insects. The main objective of this review is to weigh the evidence regarding detrimental effects on insects from the increasing technological infrastructure, with a particular focus on power lines and the cellular network. The next generation of mobile communication technologies, 5G, is being deployed – without having been tested in respect of potential toxic effects. With humanity’s quest for pervasiveness of technology, even modest effects of electromagnetic fields on organisms could eventually reach a saturation level that can no longer be ignored. An overview of reported effects and biological mechanisms of exposure to electromagnetic fields, which addresses new findings in cell biology, is included. Biological effects of non-thermal EMF on insects are clearly proven in the laboratory, but only partly in the field, thus the wider ecological implications are still unknown. There is a need for more field studies, but extrapolating from the laboratory, as is common practice in ecotoxicology, already warrants increasing the threat level of environmental EMF impact on insects.
Sexismo Institucional en Campañas contra la violencia Machista en Galicia: Deconstruyendo Resistencias Narrativas
Authors: Pérez-Martín Sabela , Pazos Vidal Aroa , Verde-Diego Carmen , Frieiro Paula
Published: November 2023

Introducción. Se analiza la evolución de las campañas institucionales contra la violencia machista en el Estado español en consonancia con las transformaciones sociales y las políticas públicas en materia de igualdad que se desarrollaron en este período en España. Metodología. Se procede, a través de un análisis crítico del discurso con perspectiva feminista, a examinar minuciosamente las estructuras discursivas en las que se apoyan las campañas desarrolladas por la Xunta de Galicia desde su inicio en el año 1999 hasta el año 2022, analizando el enfoque y el tratamiento que la institución utiliza en el abordaje de la violencia machista. Resultados y discusión. Visto lo anterior, se puede apreciar un incremento de las campañas institucionales a este sujeto desarrolladas en Galicia, y un proceso evolutivo en el tratamiento de la violencia machista que muestra una variabilidad temporal en su dirección, caracterizada por periodos de retroceso o involución. Conclusiones. Al final encontramos que existe una resistencia por parte de la institución en el empleo de la perspectiva de género en sus acciones al no representar la realidad de la violencia machista. La utilización de estereotipos sexistas, la cosificación de las mujeres, la justificación de los hombres agresores y la exención de responsabilidades de la sociedad, fomenta la conservación de un imaginario colectivo que culpabiliza a las mujeres de la violencia que sufren lo que se traduce en sexismo institucional y, en consecuencia, en la revictimización de dichas mujeres.
Association of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels with aggressiveness of papillary thyroid cancer
Authors: Shao Yuting , Hu Xiaole , Wang Yuxi , Shao Yi , Li Luchuan , Zeng Qingdong , Lai Hong , Sheng Lei
Published: November 2023

Objective

Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) deficiency has been known to be associated with the risk and mortality of several cancers. However, the role of 25(OH)D in papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) remains controversial. This study aimed to investigate the association between 25(OH)D and clinicopathologic features of PTC.

Methods

Patients who underwent thyroidectomy were retrospectively reviewed. Serum 25(OH)D levels were measured within a week prior to surgery. The patients were categorized into four quartiles according to season-specific 25(OH)D levels. The association between 25(OH)D levels and clinicopathologic features of PTC was analyzed.

Results

A total of 2932 patients were enrolled in the study. The 25(OH)D levels were significantly higher in patients with lymph node metastasis (LNM; P < 0.001), lateral LNM (P < 0.001), and multifocal tumors (P < 0.001). Compared to the first quartile (Q1) of 25(OH)D level, the third quartile (Q3) and the fourth quartile (Q4) showed an unadjusted OR of 1.36 (95% CI: 1.09–1.69; P = 0.006) and 1.76 (95% CI: 1.42–2.19; P < 0.001) for LNM (P for trend < 0.001), respectively. An increased risk of multifocal tumors was strongly associated with high 25(OH)D concentration (P for trend <0.001). Similar results were obtained after adjusting for confounding factors.

Conclusion

High 25(OH)D levels are associated with aggressive features of PTC, such as lymph node metastasis and multifocality.
PLK1 inhibitors as a new targeted treatment for adrenocortical carcinoma
Authors: Warmington Emily , Smith Gabrielle , Chortis Vasileios , Liang Raimunde , Lippert Juliane , Steinhauer Sonja , Landwehr Laura-Sophie , Hantel Constanze , Kiseljak-Vassiliades Katja , Wierman Margaret E , Altieri Barbara , Foster Paul A , Ronchi Cristina L
Published: November 2023

Adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) is an aggressive malignancy with limited treatment options. Polo-like kinase 1 (PLK1) is a promising drug target; PLK1 inhibitors (PLK1i) have been investigated in solid cancers and are more effective in TP53-mutated cases. We evaluated PLK1 expression in ACC samples and the efficacy of two PLK1i in ACC cell lines with different genetic backgrounds. PLK1 protein expression was investigated by immunohistochemistry in tissue samples and correlated with clinical data. The efficacy of rigosertib (RGS), targeting RAS/PI3K, CDKs and PLKs, and poloxin (Pol), specifically targeting the PLK1 polo-box domain, was tested in TP53-mutated NCI-H295R, MUC-1, and CU-ACC2 cells and in TP53 wild-type CU-ACC1. Effects on proliferation, apoptosis, and viability were determined. PLK1 immunostaining was stronger in TP53-mutated ACC samples vs wild-type (P = 0.0017). High PLK1 expression together with TP53 mutations correlated with shorter progression-free survival (P= 0.041). NCI-H295R showed a time- and dose-dependent reduction in proliferation with both PLK1i (P< 0.05at 100 nM RGS and 30 µM Pol). In MUC-1, a less pronounced decrease was observed (P< 0.05at 1000 nM RGS and 100 µM Pol). 100 nM RGS increased apoptosis in NCI-H295R (P< 0.001), with no effect on MUC-1. CU-ACC2 apoptosis was induced only at high concentrations (P < 0.05 at 3000 nM RGS and 100 µM Pol), while proliferation decreased at 1000 nM RGS and 30 µM Pol. CU-ACC1 proliferation reduced, and apoptosis increased, only at 100 µM Pol. TP53-mutated ACC cell lines demonstrated better response to PLK1i than wild-type CU-ACC1. These data suggest PLK1i may be a promising targeted treatment of a subset of ACC patients, pre-selected according to tumour genetic signature.
Manual didáctico Lectura del Territorio para la asignatura de énfasis I de territorio
Authors: Coquillat Mora Pablo
Published: November 2023

El presente Manual Didáctico pretende complementar con base teórica y práctica los conceptos, contenidos y materiales trabajados en la asignatura de Énfasis I – Territorio, actualmente llamada Lectura del Territorio. En la actualidad, la asignatura no dispone de ningún material didáctico generado por la Universidad Santo Tomás. Los contenidos de esta asignatura son amplios y, en ocasiones, complejos, lo que implica una cierta dificultad para su asimilación por parte de los alumnos, que no disponen de manera directa más que del material mostrado en horas de aula, y este, sin duda, es precario frente a los contenidos que deben manejar y aprender. De manera que se pretende llenar este vacío con una primera aportación propia de la Universidad Santo Tomás que a la vez pueda ser texto de apoyo para otras unidades de esta misma institución. El manual pretende fijar ciertos conceptos sustantivos para la disciplina del ordenamiento territorial, evitando la tendencia observada a su dispersión o malinterpretación. Busca también ordenar y estructurar la secuencia de contenidos para optimizar el aprendizaje del alumno. Incluye, asimismo, un abultado número de ejemplos –tanto nacionales como internacionales– que amplían la perspectiva del ordenamiento territorial más allá de los fenómenos locales que pueda tener el alumno como referentes.
Evaluación de las funciones docentes en Entornos Instructivos Virtuales (EIV). Certezas, Cuestionamientos y Sinceramiento
Authors: Páez Roberto Oscar
Published: November 2023

Se intenta, con este trabajo contribuir a reflexionar sobre la evaluación de las funciones docentes “virtuales”, considerando certezas, cuestionamientos y sinceramiento para una propuesta de mejora en la calidad de las personas, los cursos, seminarios y los currícula, mediante el empleo de entornos instructivos virtuales (eiv) hacia los anunciados entornos instructivos personales (eip).Palabras clave: Entornos instructivos virtuales, función docente, mejora de la calidad, educación a distancia. It is attempted, with this work to contribute to reflect on the evaluation of “virtual” teaching functions, considering certainties, questionings and truthfulness for a proposal of improvement to the quality of the people, the courses, seminaries and curriculum, by means of the use of virtual instructive surroundings (EIV) towards the announced personal instructive surroundings (EIP).Keywords: Virtual instructive surroundings, teaching function, quality improvement, tele- education.
Formación y Profesionalización de la Docencia en el Nivel Superior en el Contexto de la Posmodernidad. Reflexiones sobre el Caso Mexicano
Authors: Rojas Moreno Ileana
Published: November 2023

En el marco de la globalización como tendencia económica mundial y a partir de la llamada “tercera revolución tecnológica”, el mundo ha sido testigo de cambios vertiginosos encaminados hacia la construcción de la llamada sociedad informatizada. En este contexto, hablar de una cultura posmoderna, la realidad virtual, el ciberespacio, las nuevas tecnologías de la información y la comunicación, obliga a revisar algunos de los argumentos que analizan desde diferentes ángulos esta visión compleja del actual panorama, particularmente sobre la formación y profesionalización de docentes de nivel superior en México ante los retos que enfrentan los procesos educativos, dada la crisis de los saberes y la emergencia de nuevos conocimientos y demandas al inicio del nuevo milenio. Con base en lo anterior, argumentamos que la condición formativa y de desempeño del profesorado no puede encasillarse solamente en aspectos técnicos sin correr el riesgo de reducir la docencia a una actividad mecánica. Así, reflexionaremos sobre esta problemática en una doble perspectiva: la posmodernidad y el marco de las políticas nacionales.Palabras clave: Modernidad, posmodernidad, formación, docencia, profesionalización. Within the framework of the globalization as world-wide economic tendency and from the called “third technological revolution”, the world has been witness of vertiginous changes towards the construction of the called computerized society. In this context, to talk about a post-modern culture, virtual reality, cyberspace, the new technologies of information and communication, it is obliged to revise some of the arguments that have being analyzing from different angles this complex vision of the present panorama, particularly on the teaching formation and professionalization of higher education teachers in Mexico in presence of the challenges that the educative processes is facing, given the crisis of knowledge and the emergency of new knowledge and demands at the beginning of the new millennium. Based on the previous, we argued that the formative condition and of teaching performance of the staff cannot be only filed in technical aspects without having the risk of reducing teaching to a mechanical activity. Thus, we will reflect on this problematic in a double perspective: the post-modernity and the frame of the national policies.Keywords: Modernity, post-modernity, formation, teaching, professionalization.