bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Subsistence strategy mediates ecological drivers of human violence
Authors: McCool Weston C. , Vernon Kenneth B. , Yaworsky Peter M. , Codding Brian F.
Published: May 2022

Inter-personal violence (whether intra- or inter-group) is a pervasive yet highly variable human behavior. Evolutionary anthropologists suggest that the abundance and distribution of resources play an important role in influencing differences in rates of violence, with implications for how resource conditions structure adaptive payoffs. Here, we assess whether differences in large-scale ecological conditions explain variability in levels of inter-personal human violence. Model results reveal a significant relationship between resource conditions and violence that is mediated by subsistence economy. Specifically, we find that interpersonal violence is highest: (1) among foragers and mixed forager/farmers (horticulturalists) in productive, homogeneous environments, and (2) among agriculturalists in unproductive, heterogeneous environments. We argue that the trend reversal between foragers and agriculturalists represents differing competitive pathways to enhanced reproductive success. These alternative pathways may be driven by features of subsistence (i.e., surplus, storage, mobility, privatization), in which foragers use violence to directly acquire fitness-linked social payoffs (i.e., status, mating opportunities, alliances), and agriculturalists use violence to acquire material resources that can be transformed into social payoffs. We suggest that as societies transition from immediate return economies (e.g., foragers) to delayed return economies (e.g., agriculturalists) material resources become an increasingly important adaptive payoff for inter-personal, especially inter-group, violence.
Neospora caninum infection in aborting bovines and lost fetuses: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Authors: Nayeri Tooran , Moosazadeh Mahmood , Sarvi Shahabeddin , Daryani Ahmad
Published: May 2022

Background

Neospora caninum(N.caninum) is known to be a major cause of reproductive failure in cattle herds around the world. Therefore, the current comprehensive study was performed to estimate the global prevalence ofN.caninuminfection in bovines that had an abortion and aborted fetuses.

Methods

In this study, PubMed, ScienceDirect, Web of Science, Scopus, and ProQuest databases were systematically searched for relevant studies up until November 4, 2021. Pooled prevalence and corresponding 95% confidence intervals (CI) were estimated using a random effect model. Other analyzes performed on the data of this study include sensitivity analysis, publication bias test, and quality assessment.

Results

The final analyses included 71 studies conducted on 2965 abortive cattle and 4805 aborted fetuses. The overall prevalence rates ofN.caninuminfection in bovines that had an abortion were 47% and 1% using serological and molecular methods. Furthermore, overall prevalence rates ofN.caninuminfection in bovine aborted fetuses globally were 35% (95% CI: 8%–62%) and 43% (95% CI: 35%–52%) using serological and molecular methods.

Conclusions

The results of this study showed the high prevalence ofN.caninuminfection in bovines that had an abortion and aborted fetuses. It is hoped that the results of this study will help prevent abortion in bovines around the world and encourage further studies to determine the impact of this parasite on the occurrence of abortion that may help reduce the economic damage caused by abortion worldwide.
Epigenetic consequences of in utero exposure to rosuvastatin include
altered histone methylation patterns in newborn rat brains
Authors: Dulka Karolina
Published: May 2022

A rosuvastatin (RST) a vér magas koleszterin szintjének kezelésére
szolgáló, széles körben alkalmazott lipidcsökkentő szer. Az embrióra
gyakorolt potenciálisan káros, de nem teljesen ismert és dokumentált hatásuk
miatt a statinok alkalmazása a terhesség alatt jelenleg nem javasolt.
Munkánk célja az volt, hogy megvizsgáljuk, vajon a vemhes patkányok RST
kezelése kivált-e molekuláris epigenetikai eseményeket, például
hisztonmetilációt, újszülött utódaik agyában. Ezért a születés utáni első
napon az abszolút kontroll, a vivőanyaggal kezelt kontroll és a vivőanyagban
lévő RST-nal kezelt újszülött patkányok agyát eltávolítottuk, majd western
blot analízissel, illetve szövettani vizsgálatokkal elemeztük.
Bebizonyítottuk, hogy a RST epigenetikai változásokat idéz elő az újszülött
patkány agyában, ha az anyákat naponta RST-nal kezeltük a vemhesség 11.
napjától. Az újszülött agyban sejtspecifikus markerek elemzésével
kimutattuk, hogy a prenatális RST kezelés nem befolyásolja az idegszövet
fénymikroszkópos citoarchitektúráját és a sejttípus-arányokat.
Megállapítottuk, hogy a prenatális RST kezelés a H2AK118me1, H2BK5me1, H3,
H3K9me3, H3K27me3, H3K36me2, H4, H4K20me2 és H4K20me3 szinteket általánosan,
de nem szignifikánsan növeli meg a kontrollhoz viszonyítva. Jelentős
emelkedést észleltünk viszont a H3K4me1 és H3K4me3 szintekben (a kontroll
134,3%±19,2%-a és 127,8%±8,5%-a), amelyekről ismert, hogy a transzkripció
aktiválásában játszanak szerepet. A sejttípusra specifikus markerek és a
metilációs jelek fluoreszcens/konfokális immunhisztokémiai vizsgálatával
kimutattuk, hogy a H3K4me1 és H3K4me3 szintek növekedése döntően az
idegsejtek magjában van jelen. Arra következtetünk, hogy a prenatális RST
kezelés epigenetikai változásokat idéz elő, amelyek befolyásolhatják az
idegsejtek differenciálódását és fejlődését, és ezeket a lehetőségeket a
humán RST terápia esetén figyelembe kell venni.
‘‘Obesity associated with depression, environmental factors, and stress related eatings’’
Authors: Zahra Arbab , Moazzama Syeda , Jamal Zeinab , Saleem Ayesha , Asghar Maham
Published: May 2022

Abstract

Objective:

Recently in Pakistan obesity is a health problem. The relationship between depression, stress, social factors, emotional eating, and obesity is investigated in this study. Much research has been done on obesity and its associated factors like depression, stress level also the concerning problems caused by the obesity. The aim of this survey was to investigate that how depression, social factors, and stress-related eating are associated to obesity and overweight.

Methods:

A cross-sectional survey was conducted and distributed among different cities of Pakistan. Data was collected through questionnaire conducted online through Google Forms and distributed in different WhatsApp groups. Our research was conducted on both gender (male and female) and age of the participants ranged from 15 years and above within the region of Pakistan. SPSS.21 used for statistical purposes and the graphical data obtained.

Results:

A total of 134 responses were obtained, out of which 39.5% were obese. Various variables were taken as 47.3% respondents suffered from depression, 24.8% had the family history of obesity, 20% those who skipped their meal they lose their weight.

Conclusion:

Obesity is a multifactorial disease that caused by a combination of biological, genetic, social, environmental, and behavioral determinants.
A Review on Larvicidal Activity of Silver Nanoparticles Derived From
Ficus spp. Against
Aedes aegypti
Authors: Asi Aubrey Angelica , Bagnes Kristine Joyce , Carbonel Jaquelyn , Cayetano Mary Angelene , Chua Oswald Justin , Cruz Christian James , Mariano Aeron Terrence , Dyan Khriztel Yanuaria , Ganeb Maribel
Published: May 2022

Insecticidal resistance among mosquitoes has become prevalent due to the continuous use of insecticides to control dengue vectors. This became the catalyst for researchers to come up with an alternative that is mainly organic and biologically synthesized from plants. Silver nanoparticles are widely known as one of the effective alternative larvicides since it has the silver's bactericidal capabilities, the larvicidal activity of the chosen plant, and excellent effectiveness due to its small particle size which measures around 1 nanometer to 100 nanometers, as well as the excellent surface area to volume ratio. Different plant parts such as leaves and fruits from some
Ficus spp. are widely used and studied in deriving silver nanoparticles to test their larvicidal activities against dengue vectors. Researchers discovered that this is due to the plant extracts from most
Ficus spp. which contain phytochemical components that are known for having a huge role in ferric reduction and radical scavenging actions. Most researchers used advanced analytical methods to explore the characteristics of the derived silver nanoparticles and used WHO protocol in testing the effectiveness in combating dengue vectors. This review will discuss the possibility that silver nanoparticles derived from an indigenous plants, which are
Ficus species, can be a feasible alternative to combat dengue outbreaks.
Insights: Climate change collaboration
Authors: Potter Ross , Halevi Gali
Published: May 2022

In this paper we use uniquely structured and curated Web of Science™ data to examine the topics of climate change research within the scientific literature over the last 20 years.
The South Carolina Military Academy During The Civil War
Authors: Anderson Christian K.
Published: May 2022

The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina (founded 1842), was modeled on West Point and created to form citizen-soldiers prepared to serve South Carolina. Citadel cadets were involved in various aspects of the Civil War. Cadets fired shots on the Star of the West, an American steamer headed to Fort Sumter, on January 9, 1861, preventing it from resupplying Union troops. Though the Citadel never closed during the war, many cadets enlisted in the war effort. While the war raged, Citadel cadet duties included providing basic training to conscripted soldiers and recruits (cadets were not exempt from conscription themselves), not just in Charleston but in the field as well; guarding and transferring prisoners; and other duties. While classes continued, the war effort took precedence over academics. In February 1865, Union troops occupied Charleston and were garrisoned in The Citadel until 1879.
A “Master-Work”— The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
Authors: McFarlane Brian
Published: May 2022

Praised by critic Pauline Kael as a master-work, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith was adapted from Thomas Keneally’s novel. It deals with an Aboriginal youth who declares ‘war’ on Australian racism. He is coming of age at the time when the country itself was declaring its independence. The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith was a film of harsh realism, much praised by critics but less popular with the public. It occupies an important and uncharacteristic place in the local film revival.
Where Misfits Fit
Authors: Kersen Thomas Michael
Published: May 2022

All regions and places are unique in their own way, but the Ozarks have an enduring place in American culture. Studying the Ozarks offers the ability to explore American life through the lens of one of the last remaining cultural frontiers in American society. Perhaps because the Ozarks were relatively isolated from mainstream American society, or were at least relegated to the margins of it, their identity and culture are liminal and oftentimes counter to mainstream culture. Whatever the case, looking at the Ozarks offers insights into changing ideas about what it means to be an American and, more specifically, a special type of southerner.
Thomas Michael Kersen explores the people who made a home in the Ozarks and the ways they contributed to American popular culture. He argues the area attracts and even nurtures people and groups on the margins of the mainstream. These include UFO enthusiasts, cults, musical troupes, and back-to-the-land groups. Kersen examines how the Ozarks became a haven for creative, innovative, even nutty people to express themselves—a place where community could be reimagined in a variety of ways. Chapters examine real and imagined identity and highlight how the area has contributed to popular culture through analysis of the Eureka Springs energy vortex, fictional characters like Li’l Abner, cultic activity, environmentally minded communes, and the development of rockabilly music and near-communal rock bands such as Black Oak Arkansas.
Eureka Springs, Where Misfits Fit
Authors: Kersen Thomas Michael
Published: May 2022

Eureka Springs is a unique space in the Ozarks, a free or safe place, where people from all walks of life can do business, socialize, and even set roots. The town is quirky and takes sometimes liminal states. Homogeneity of the region counterweighs the region and leads to friction in the town as they grapple with diversity, including LGBT communities.
Close Encounters of the Ozark Kind
Authors: Kersen Thomas Michael
Published: May 2022

The Ozarks, especially the Arkansas Ozarks, have a long history of paranormal belief. More UFOs are reported in the Ozarks than any other region of the state. It is also home of the Ozark Mountain UFO conference that once invited Erick von Daniken, author of Chariots of the Gods to speak. In Missouri, during the 1950s–1960s, Buck Nelson held his spaceship conference where he related tales about overall-clad Venusians and their humongous dog “Bo.”
The Group
Authors: Kersen Thomas Michael
Published: May 2022

The Group, an intentional community began as the Dan Blocker Singers. They were led Dixon Bowles who directed much of their day-to-day lives as well. The singers gained the attention of Dan Blocker, Hoss from Bonanza, who allowed them to use his name. They moved to Hollywood from Odessa, Texas and eventually made three appearances on the Milton Berle Show. Later, the singers became The Group when they migrated to the Arkansas Ozarks and eventually Greers Ferry where they tried to live communally under the continued leadership of Bowles.
Back-to-Landers in the Arkansas Ozarks
Authors: Kersen Thomas Michael
Published: May 2022

This chapter briefly describes several Arkansas communes and the back-to-the land movement, especially in the Boston mountains of the Arkansas Ozarks. Three families are discussed with focus on the role of alternative education of children. Another facet explored is how children of the movement were shaped and influenced.
Laughing Out Loud
Authors: Champion Jared N. , Kunze Peter C.
Published: May 2022

This chapter by Jared N. Champion and Peter C. Kunze compares understandings of the stand-up comedian as a public, social, and cultural figure alongside theorizations of the public intellectual. Stand-up comedians do not only translate the ideas of traditional intellectuals; they often contribute to and comment upon such insights. Consequently, they stand as public intellectuals in their own right, and they often present themselves as such in the public arena—on stage, in writing, on television. Examining stand-up comedians as public intellectuals reframes stand-up comedy as a performance practice with political consequences.
Smartphone Sociology
Authors: Tyagi Ila
Published: May 2022

In his stand-up and elsewhere, Aziz Ansari maps the topography of what he calls “phone world.” Phone world is all-consuming. In this essay, contributor Ila Tyagi argues that its omnipresence makes understanding it better vital, and that Ansari helps audiences think through just what it means to live within it. Tyagi unfolds this argument over three sections, in which the contributor examines Ansari’s attentiveness to writing text messages, a medium in which speed and brevity are key, and tone often difficult to glean as a result; his interest in how communicating via text message is affecting social etiquette; and finally, his investigation of the emotional toll that inhabiting a world whose social etiquette is in flux takes on us. The torsion between public culture and private intimacy is an abiding preoccupation for him, traceable across his entire oeuvre.
“Killer Closer”
Authors: Clark Thomas
Published: May 2022

This chapter by Thomas Clark explores Doug Stanhope as a white libertarian stand-up challenging foundational beliefs about society, morality, and human behaviour with his own unequivocally harsh reality in contrast both to charged humor models as well as queering stand-up strategies that suspend stable referential categories. It provides an overview of his political positions, his diverse uses of media, the ambivalences of his performative persona and ideology, and his commercial success. Select passages of his stand-up material are subject to a close reading. As embodied by Stanhope, whose material is more frequently explicitly political and even policy-oriented, this comic approach does not conform to Krefting’s model of “charged humor.” Exploring the juggling act of wanting to impart hilarity, horror, and a genuinely cathartic message about existence, Stanhope acknowledges the limits of his critical practice as a foundational indictment and the failure in the act of performatively succeeding.
A Transatlantic History of Haitian Vodou
Authors: Hebblethwaite Benjamin
Published: May 2022

A Transatlantic History of Haitian Vodou focuses on the influence of the kingdoms of Dahomey, Allada, and Hueda in the emergence of central rites in Haitian Vodou. Connecting four centuries of political, social, and religious history with fieldwork and language documentation, this book analyzes Haitian Vodou’s African origins, transmission to Saint-Domingue, and promulgation through song in contemporary Haiti.
The African chapters focus on history, economics and culture in Dahomey, Allada, and Hueda while scrutinizing the role of Europeans in fomenting tensions. The political, military, and slave trading histories of the kingdoms in the Bight of Benin reveal the circumstances of enslavement, including the geographies, ethnicities, languages, and cultures of enslavers and enslaved. The study of the spirits, rituals, and music of the region’s religions sheds light on important sources for Haitian Vodou. Having royal, public, and private expressions, Vodun spirit-based traditions served as cultural systems that supported or contested power and enslavement. At once suppliers and victims of the European slave trade, Aja, Fon, and Yoruba people deeply shaped the emergence of Haiti’s creolized culture.
The Haitian chapters focus on Vodou’s Rada Rite (from Allada) and Gede Rite (from Abomey) through the songs of Rasin Figuier’s Vodou Lakay and Rasin Bwa Kayiman’s Guede, rasin compact discs released on Jean Altidor’s Miami label, “Mass Kompa Records.” All the Vodou songs on the discs are analyzed with a method dubbed “Vodou hermeneutics” that harnesses history, religious studies, linguistics, literary criticism, and ethnomusicology in order to advance a scholarly approach to Vodou songs.
Marching to Racial Progress: Civilizing Filipinos at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair
Authors: Talusan Mary
Published: May 2022

In the early 20th century, music was explicitly tied to a culture’s level of civilization—the closer to European music, the more civilized the culture that produced it. The Philippine Constabulary Band, one of the most popular military bands at the St. Louis Worlds’ Fair of 1904, was juxtaposed next to the tribal people of the Philippines as visual and audible proof of the U.S.’ successful project of civilizing Filipinos. The band’s conductor, Lt. Loving, could not be explained by this simple narrative and his identity as a Black American officer was nearly absent from most newspaper reports. The band played “Stars and Stripes Forever” more than any other band to highlight the achievement of U.S. rule in the Philippines. An imperial way of hearing the band’s music-making allowed Americans to take credit for Filipinos’ tutelage and achievement while forgetting the violence and death of colonial rule. This chapter provides a rare glimpse into the ways that music could bridge differences between individuals, frequently breaching social norms and racial restrictions in some instances not reported by newspapers.
Hearing with an Imperial Ear: Racializing the PC Band on their Tour of America in 1909
Authors: Talusan Mary
Published: May 2022

In 1909, President-elect Taft summoned the Philippine Constabulary Band back to the United States at great expense to perform at his presidential inauguration, breaking racial decorum to emphasize his triumph in the Philippines. Afterward, they embarked on a concert tour that was attended by thousands in major concert halls before heading to the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. Newspapers positively reviewed the Band’s musical performances while describing them in an orientalist fashion as abnormal and peculiar, for example, sensationalizing their “tribal” diversity while accentuating their uniformity in appearance. Often missing from these accounts was identification of Loving’s racial identity, an omission of the success of an African American in a leadership position. Americans’ paternalist racism towards Filipinos did not extend to African Americans, and Loving was barred from entering the White House. Black elites of Washington, DC praised Loving as a success of racial uplift. This chapter gives insight into a collaboration between Filipinos and Black Americans outside of the Philippines.
What the Children Said
Authors: Soileau Jeanne Pitre
Published: May 2022

Jeanne Pitre Soileau vividly presents children’s voices in What the Children Said: Child Lore of South Louisiana. Including over six hundred handclaps, chants, jokes, jump-rope rhymes, cheers, taunts, and teases, this book takes the reader through a fifty-year history of child speech as it has influenced children’s lives. What the Children Said affirms that children's play in south Louisiana is acquired along a network of summer camps, schoolyards, church gatherings, and sleepovers with friends. When children travel, they obtain new games and rhymes and bring them home. The volume also reveals, in the words of the children themselves, how young people deal with racism and sexism. The children argue and outshout one another, policing their own conversations, stating their own prejudices, and vying with one another for dominion. The first transcript in the book tracks a conversation among three related boys and shows that racism is part of the family interchange. Among second-grade boys and girls at a Catholic school, another transcript presents numerous examples in which boys use insults to dominate a conversation with girls, and girls use giggles and sly comebacks to counter this aggression. Though collected in the areas of New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and Lafayette, Louisiana, this volume shows how south Louisiana child lore is connected to other English-speaking places: England, Scotland, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand, as well as the rest of the United States.
Teases
Authors: Soileau Jeanne Pitre
Published: May 2022

This chapter is very short because it seems that the children interviewed could not recall many teases and taunts. The author remembered many more. The quote by C. W. Sullivan III succinctly stated that teases and taunts are used by children to “enforce conformity.”
Fiddle Tunes from Mississippi
Authors: Bolick Harry , Russell Tony
Published: May 2022

In 2015 University Press of Mississippi published Mississippi Fiddle Tunes and Songs from the 1930s by Harry Bolick and Stephen T. Austin to critical acclaim and commercial success. Roughly half of Mississippi’s rich, old-time fiddle tradition was documented in that volume and Harry Bolick has spent the intervening years working on this book, its sequel.
Beginning with Tony Russell’s original mid-1970s fieldwork as a reference, and later working with Russell, Bolick located and transcribed all of the Mississippi 78 rpm string band recordings. Some of the recording artists like the Leake County Revelers, Hoyt Ming and His Pep Steppers, and Narmour & Smith had been well known in the state. Others, like the Collier Trio, were obscure. This collecting work was followed by many field trips to Mississippi searching for and locating the children and grandchildren of the musicians. Previously unheard recordings and stories, unseen photographs and discoveries of nearly unknown local fiddlers, such as Jabe Dillon, John Gatwood, Claude Kennedy, and Homer Grice, followed. The results are now available in this second, companion volume, Fiddle Tunes from Mississippi: Commercial and Informal Recordings, 1920–2018.
Two hundred and seventy musical examples supplement the biographies and photographs of the thirty-five artists documented here. Music comes from commercial recordings and small pressings of 78 rpm, 45 rpm, and LP records; collectors’ field recordings; and the musicians’ own home tape and disc recordings. Taken together, these two volumes represent a delightfully comprehensive survey of Mississippi’s fiddle tunes.
Doc Bailey (1893–1993)
Authors: Bolick Harry , Russell Tony , Moore T. DeWayne , Cauthen Joyce A. , Evans David
Published: May 2022

As a successful dealer in phonograph records, Doc Bailey was well placed to recommend local artists to record companies. Looking back on his wheeling and dealing, he recalled putting twenty-one men on record. Narmour & Smith, the Ray Brothers, the Mississippi ’Possum Hunters, Clardy & Clements, the Milner-Curtis group, and the Central Mississippi Quartet account for seventeen of these musicians.
About the Music
Authors: Bolick Harry , Russell Tony , Moore T. DeWayne , Cauthen Joyce A. , Evans David
Published: May 2022

Actual recordings for most of the transcriptions in this book can and should be heard before attempting to learn one of these tunes from notation. There is much that notation is poor at conveying. Subtle shadings of pitch and timing easily apprehended by ear can be quite dense on the written page. Footnotes for each tune contain comments about the performer or performance notated, information about the recording, and a short list of comparable recordings. The list is included to give a sense of history and place to the tune but, more importantly, to reference common melodic phrases.
Enos Canoy and the Canoy Wildcats
Authors: Bolick Harry , Russell Tony , Moore T. DeWayne , Cauthen Joyce A. , Evans David
Published: May 2022

The Canoy Wildcats were a Simpson County, Mississippi, family string band led by Enos Washington Canoy (03/08/1909–05/08/1970), with his children,Durwood and Herbert, and his cousin Tim and his children “Mellie” Jean and Sadie. Other musicians that participated in the band from time to time were guitarists: James FerrelAmason, Billy Ray Reynolds, Curtis Mangum, and a Mr. Weathersby. The band was active in the 1940s and 1950s, playing as far away as Jackson for a Mason’s Lodge dance and a weekly radio show on WSJC. Sometime in the late 1940s, they were the first band to appear on Magee radio station WSKC, where they had a radio show every Saturday. They played for local square dances with a caller. Often dancers would jitterbug to old-time fiddle tunes. The band would travel a little for appearances but came home every night.
Freeny’S Barn Dance Band and the Freeny Harmonizers
Authors: Bolick Harry , Russell Tony , Moore T. DeWayne , Cauthen Joyce A. , Evans David
Published: May 2022

Freeny’s Barn Dance Band first put down roots around 1913, when William Leslie Freeny (1898–1957), fiddler, and A. F. “Fonzo” Cannon (1900–67), guitarist, began to work together at square dances. Leslie Freeny was from Freeny community, some five miles southeast of Carthage in Leake County, as was his cousin Charles Hendrix Freeny (1907–75), who soon joined them to play tenor fiddle parts. Fonzo Cannon was born in the small community of Edinburg, northeast of Carthage. They continued to play at functions round Leake County, and in the mid-1920s were occasionally joined by Hendrix’s young cousin, banjo-player Samuel Carlton Freeny (1912–87). The band recorded for Okeh in 1930, and an associated group, the Freeny Harmonizers, for Vocalion in 1935.
John Studivan Gatwood
Authors: Bolick Harry , Russell Tony , Moore T. DeWayne , Cauthen Joyce A. , Evans David , Bolick Harry , Russell Tony , Moore T. DeWayne , Cauthen Joyce A. , Evans David , Bolick Harry , Russell Tony , Moore T. DeWayne , Cauthen Joyce A. , Evans David
Published: May 2022

As the winner of a local Mississippi fiddle contest, John Gatwood (6/23/1903–3/17/1964) was asked to record by Columbia Records. On December 15, 1928, at a hotel in New Orleans, LA, Gatwood recorded four fiddle tunes: “Crawford March” and “Engineer Frank Hawk” with the Rainey Old Time Band, “Shear The Sheep Bobbie” and “Third Party” with the Gatwood Square Dance Band.
Senator George Cecil Mcleod
Authors: Bolick Harry , Russell Tony , Moore T. DeWayne , Cauthen Joyce A. , Evans David , Bolick Harry , Russell Tony , Moore T. DeWayne , Cauthen Joyce A. , Evans David
Published: May 2022

By the time that he recorded his instrumental LP The Fiddling Senator in 1979, McLeod (02/28/1927-09/05/2011) was playing in the bluegrass style. However, many of the tunes on that recording were well known old time tunes such as “Billy in the Lowground,” “Ragtime Annie,” and “Lost Indian.” As a child, what he heard and what inspired him to want to play were old-time fiddlers. His uncle, M. L. Griffin, was an active dance fiddler playing for family gatherings and house dances when McLeod was young.
Jimmie Porter
Authors: Bolick Harry , Russell Tony , Moore T. DeWayne , Cauthen Joyce A. , Evans David
Published: May 2022

Jimmie Porter (1906–96) from Steens, MS, played with such a rich tone that folks who heard him believed he had a better violin and a longer bow than other fiddlers. “Everywhere I’ve ever been someone wanted to come measure my bow,” remembered Porter in 1984. “They said it looked like it was six foot long. But theirs was as long as mine.”
Herb Quinn
Authors: Bolick Harry , Russell Tony , Moore T. DeWayne , Cauthen Joyce A. , Evans David
Published: May 2022

David Evans recounts his visits with Quinn and the little that is knownabout his life and music.
South to a Familiar Place
Authors: Kayser Casey
Published: May 2022

This chapter examines contemporary playwrights Beth Henley, Elizabeth Dewberry, and Sandra Deer, who set their plays in the South, satirizing it as did Hellman. To avoid the reception difficulties Hellman faced, they expand that satire into parody and comedy. Their plays are southern gothic family dramas which present the eccentric and bizarre and take on such topics as incest and violence. However, one of the hazards of placing these types of comedic representations in southern settings is that spectators may distance themselves from the play’s concerns. A subsequent danger in placing their work in a familiar southern milieu with the expected tropes and images is that audiences often miss the satire and, instead, see a reification rather than a critique of these images. Undergirding the comic frames of these plays are serious issues, and careful readings reveal the disruption of clichéd gothic tropes and traditional representations of southern white femininity.
A Black Panther for the New Millennium
Authors: McSweeney Terence
Published: May 2022

This chapter is an exploration of Wakanda in the MCU and the continuing narrative of the film. It looks at how Africa has been portrayed in Hollywood film and asks how is Wakanda different?
“It’s hard for a good man to be king”
Authors: McSweeney Terence
Published: May 2022

This chapter is an exploration of the film’s protagonist, the challenges he faces and how he overcomes them.
The Women of Black Panther
Authors: McSweeney Terence
Published: May 2022

This chapter is an exploration of the film’s female characters, comparing them to other women in the MCU and superhero genre as a whole.
Counterpublicity and Regional Nostalgia
Authors: Smith Jonathan M.
Published: May 2022

In this chapter, Jonathan M. Smith compares Stax and Sun Studios in Memphis, Tennessee, as sites of racial remembering. Sun Studios minimizes its diversity in order to highlight white excellence of Elvis and other Southern white rock legends—an “Old South” perspective that at best African Americans had the seeds of something great that became great when white culture perfected, commodified, and globalized it. Stax Studios, meanwhile, adopts a “New South” framework in which Black musicians get included alongside white stars, cooperating as a counterpublic against a Northern elites and stratified culture. Although Stax is much closer to a public memory without nostalgia, Smith’s close reading shows that even the New South memory allows white voices to appropriate and generate wealth off of Black voices, forgetting injustice in order to foreground (easy) healing and cooperation.
The Backfisch and Fantasies of Growth
Authors: Pfeiffer Julie
Published: May 2022

Girls’ fiction contributes to the education of girls who will replicate the nation in their labor and in their political beliefs. This chapter moves beyond the girl’s individual contributions to the great social household and argues that narratives of adolescent development also provide an example of powerful transformation for countries struggling with national identity. Set in the context of the American Civil War and the German wars of unification, these novels reflected, reinforced, and troubled key themes both countries explored as they attempted to move their states from “adolescence” to mature power and function. Like the political speeches of the day, Backfisch novels explore strategies for using pain as a force for maturation rather than bitterness, they acknowledge the significance of freedom and the need to regulate it, and they negotiate the issue of borders and the tension between inclusion and exclusion.
Maria W. Stewart and the Roots of Black Political Thought
Authors: Waters Kristin
Published: May 2022

In 1833 Maria W. Stewart told a gathering at the African Masonic Hall on Boston’s Beacon Hill, “African rights and liberty is a subject that ought to fire the breast of every free man of color in these United States.” She held that the founding principles of the United States must extend to all people, otherwise they are merely the hypocritical expression of an ungodly white power. This first-ever biography of a profoundly significant writer explores her early life as an indentured servant in Hartford, Connecticut. Later, she defied adversity, journeying to Boston where she met and married a wealthy commercial agent and former seaman and became a powerful force within the lively black community on Beacon Hill’s North Slope. Between 1831-1833 Stewart’s “intellectual productions” ranged across topics including true emancipation for African Americans, abolition, the hypocrisy of white Christianity, black liberation theology, and gender inequity. Along with David Walker’s Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World, (1829), her body of work constitutes a significant foundation for black radical politics.
“Laugh an’ Sing Until Tomorrow”
Authors: Waters Kristin
Published: May 2022

Maria witnesses the festivities surrounding the election of a “Black Governor.” In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries African American festivals such as Pinkster and Election Day were supported and even promoted by white overseers.
“To Ameliorate Our Miserable Condition”
Authors: Waters Kristin
Published: May 2022

Maria Stewart becomes immersed in a community that fosters powerful black leaders and institutions: Thomas Paul, David Walker, John Telemachus Hilton, the Prince Hall Masons, the African Baptist Society, the Massachusetts General Colored Persons Association, the purveyors of Freedom’s Journal, and more. Transformed by personal, financial, religious, and intellectual support, she takes up community activism.
“The Intricate Weavings of Unnumbered Threads”: Personal and Societal Trauma in Lillian Smith’s Killers of the Dream
Authors: Cummins Emily Pierce
Published: May 2022

In this chapter, Emily Pierce Cummins employs trauma theory as a framework for understanding the content, form, and effects of Killers of the Dream, elaborating on the literary strategies at work in the autobiographical tome. Cummins argues that Killers itself (its writing as well as its reading) serves as a mechanism for processing Southern social trauma, both personal and communal. The chapter investigates Smith’s powerful use of the thread/fabric and ghost metaphors to develop the reader’s understanding of Southern trauma. Smith, an upper-class white Southerner, was viewed by many as a traitor for her civil rights writing and activism, yet through the use of these metaphors, she effectively guides readers through the complicated factors of Southern identity and argues convincingly that healing requires processing historical and societal trauma, a process as important for whites as for blacks.
Reading One Hour in the Time of #MeToo
Authors: Crawford Cameron Williams
Published: May 2022

In this chapter, Cameron Williams Crawford looks closely at the stories of One Hour’s characters, arguing that Smith’s investigation of culture through first-person narrator generates a provocative tension between critique of “mob mentality” and that of southern misogyny. One Hour wrestles with the treatment of women and sexuality in the mid-twentieth-century. According to Crawford, in the novel’s thorough portrayal of repressed, white supremacist southern society, Smith provides a glimpse into the plight of women whose society does not value their voices. While acknowledging that Smith seems not to have intended a critique of male dominance in One Hour, this study asserts that, nonetheless, the problems inherent in that dominance rise to the surface of the novel’s keenly rendered painting of society. Crawford holds that in the #MeToo era, One Hour has the power to disrupt deep-rooted systems perpetuating sexual violence.
Introduction
Authors: Mattison Mike , Suarez Ernest
Published: May 2022

The chapter introduces poetic song verse as a literary genre and distinguishes it from poetry and other forms of song. The distinction rests on the symbiotic relationship that most often occurs when potent lyrics and sonics are developed together. The chapter defines “sonics” as every aural dimension of song, including voice, instrumentation, arrangement, and production. In poetic song verse sonics combine with verbal techniques often associated with poetry—imagery, line breaks, wordplay, point-of-view, character, story, tone, and other qualities—to create a semantically and emotionally textured dynamic. The chapter closes with analyses of songs by the Beatles, Chuck Berry, Bob Dylan, and Bruce Springsteen to provide detailed examinations of how song’s various elements conspire to enhance lyrical content. These analyses serve as models that suggest the best ways to assess and communicate poetic song verse’s aesthetic, intellectual, and emotional power.
The Origins of Poetic Song Verse
Authors: Mattison Mike , Suarez Ernest
Published: May 2022

This chapter considers how verse practices associated with blues-based poetry and music during the first half of the twentieth century helped set the stage for understanding the larger synergy between poetry and rock. The blues’ and the new American poetry of the 1950s and 1960s shared a sense of (sometimes jolting) authenticity that appealed to Bob Dylan and other young songwriters. The chapter discusses how several basic elements in blues music and contemporary poetry combined to make the blues an effective mechanism for poetic expression. Poetry’s turn towards more accessible language and the blues’ origins in the sound of the human voice—as well as each genre’s emphasis on the confessional, the local, and the fantastic—helped rock absorb poetic language and techniques and provided a catalyst for Dylan and others to change rock into a more lyrically and sonically sophisticated art form.
The Fantastic
Authors: Mattison Mike , Suarez Ernest
Published: May 2022

This chapter examines how in the sixties the fantastic was used—with varying degrees of success—to invigorate language and sound in poetic song verse. The chapter discusses how surrealism primarily entered American poetry through the work of French and Spanish language artists, including Arthur Rimbaud, Cesar Vallejo, and Fredrico Garcia Lorca, and how surrealistic imagery came to the blues through African and Western mysticism. Both manifestations of the fantastic melded in rock during the mid-to-late 60s and played a vital role in the development of poetic song verse. Drawing on Lewis Hyde’s conception of “the trickster,” the chapter examines how Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Jimi Hendrix, the Who, the Grateful Dead, and others cunningly reanimated our cultural narrative against a backdrop of sixties culture.
Evaluation of indicators of carbohydrate and lipid metabolism in rats depending on the type of high-calorie diet
Authors: Gileva O. G. , Butolin E. G. , Tereshchenko M. V. , Ivanov V. G.
Published: May 2022

BACKGROUND: Recently, there has been an increase in the number of cardiovascular diseases and mortality rates among the population. This may be due to a violation of metabolic processes in the body, in particular lipid and carbohydrate metabolism, caused by an unbalanced high-calorie diet.

PURPOSE: To study and compare the main indicators of carbohydrate and lipid metabolism in a fructose-fortified diet and a diet with a high fat content under experimental conditions.

MATERIALS AND METHODS: The study was carried out on outbred white rats, males, which were divided into 3 groups — a control group and two experimental ones, 15 individuals in each. The rats of the first experimental group were kept on a high-fat diet, the second experimental group was assigned a fructose-enriched diet for 35 days. The control group was on a balanced diet. We studied the changes in the parameters of carbohydrate (glucose, insulin, insulin resistance indices) and lipid (cholesterol-, high- and low-density lipoproteins, triglycerides) metabolism on the 21st, 35th and 60th days of the experiment. The results were statistically processed using the Mann-Whitney test. The study design is retrospective.

RESULTS: During the experiment, an increase in the content of glucose, insulin, and lipid metabolism parameters was observed in the experimental groups. Moreover, the content of glucose and insulin in a fructose-fortified diet increased by 18.7% (p = 0,009), 22.2% (p = 0,076), 21.5% (p = 0,009) and 50% (p = 0,009), 62.5% (p = 0,009), 106.3% (p = 0,009) over the days of the experiment, respectively. The increase in lipid metabolism was more pronounced in the experimental group, which had an increased fat content in the diet, already in the first time period of the experiment: cholesterol — by 80,8% (p = 0,009), low-density lipoproteins — by 100% (p = 0,009), triglycerides — by 120% (p = 0,009), high-density lipoproteins — by 60.9% (p = 0,009).

CONCLUSION: The experimental data obtained show changes in lipid and carbohydrate metabolism due to increased consumption of fats and fructose.
Fighting obesity as a direction of national health care development
Authors: Mokrysheva N. G.
Published: May 2022

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Fundamentos filosófico-políticos para la enseñanza de la asignatura constitución política
Authors: Angarita Cáceres Rafael Gonzalo
Published: May 2022

La propuesta de articulación de la investigación y de la extensión con la docencia titulada Fundamentos filosófico-políticos de la Constitución Política de 1991, involucra los contenidos curriculares para la asignatura de pregrado denominada Constitución Política. El estudio de estos contenidos, direcciona a la propuesta hacia dos ejes nodales: los temas y contenidos de la Constitución política y las habilidades, disposiciones y valores cívicos requeridos para realizar una vivencia efectiva de la constitución y de la democracia. En este sentido, la propuesta tiene por objeto la construcción de una alternativa pedagógica postulada desde la filosofía con un carácter crítico-social direccionada a lograr que los estudiantes de pregrado generen espacios de aprendizaje, de reflexión y de acción sobre los contenidos filosófico-políticos de las realidades social, política, cultural y económica que los acompañan y sobre las habilidades cívicas o ciudadanas requeridas para la cabal comprensión y realización de los postulados que sustentan la Constitución.
Nonlinear method of precrash vehicle velocity determination based on tensor product of Legendre polynomials - luxury class
Authors: Gosławski Łukasz , Sys Ewa , Mrowicki Adam , Krukowski Mateusz , Ma Yanlin , Kubiak Przemyslaw
Published: May 2022

Presented paper discusses a new, nonlinear approach to EES (Equivalent Energy Speed) parameter determination in frontal car collisions. This method is based on tensor product of Legendre polynomials and in this case considers Luxury car class.
Methods that are used up till now are based on a linear dependency between mass, velocity and deformation. This is of course a simplification that was necessary, due to limitation in computation power of computers when this method was introduced decades ago. The contemporary resources allowed Authors to develop a much more sophisticated method. The mathematical model was developed using data shared by National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). This database covers a large number of test cases along with various information including vehicle mass, crash velocity, chassis deformation etc.
New method proves to be more accurate than the currently used approach utilizing linear dependency of deformation force and deformation of the vehicle.
Computational Methods in Correlated Network Manipulation and Quantum Realism
Authors: Song Daegene
Published: May 2022

The realization of long-distance entanglement has been important in many quantum technologies, including quantum cryptography. In particular, a swapping protocol has been introduced for connecting multiple short networks to create a long-distance entangled pair. Building on previous work, this paper attempts to provide a numerical analysis of entanglement swapping of two 4-level states. While it is not always possible to have a weaker link between the two states (i.e., the optimal case), a substantial number of states satisfy the best scenario. Moreover, various numerical outcomes are shown to yield near-optimal results when a swapping protocol is applied. Recently, the subjective nature of physical reality has been discussed from the perspective of quantum theory. It is suggested that, similar to the energy and mass relation in relativity, an equivalence between mass and meaning in the mind may be derived. That is, the experience of mass may be different for observers with different mental knowledge.