bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Federated-Based Deep Reinforcement Learning (Fed-DRL) for Energy Management in a Distributive Wireless Network
Authors: Agbesi Victor Kwaku , Kuadey Noble Arden , Agbesi Collinson Colin M. , Maale Gerald Tietaa
Published: June 2023

Studies on developing future generation wireless systems are expected to support increased infrastructure development and device subscriptions with densely deployed base stations (BSs). Economically, decreasing BS energy consumption levels and achieving "greenness" remain key factors for the giant industry. Some research works have proposed deep reinforcement techniques to solve energy management (EM) issues in cellular networks. However, these techniques are inefficient in a distributive network environment and expose the devices to privacy issues. Federated learning (FL) is proven to enforce device privacy and train models distributively. Thus, this work proposes an autonomous switching mode framework for BSs based on federated-deep reinforcement learning (Fed-DRL) to address the aforementioned challenges encountered by prior studies. Specifically, we deploy multiple DRL agents to influence the decision of the BS for EM. On the other hand, to make DRL-based decisions feasible and satisfy device quality-of-service, we train the DRL agents distributively by employing the FL concept. The results show the effectiveness of our proposed framework under distributed network scenarios compared with other benchmark algorithms.
 
Received: 25 April 2023 | Revised: 14 June 2023 | Accepted: 19 June 2023
 
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest to this work.
 
Data Availability Statement
Data available on request from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.
Correlación entre Leptina, indicadores antropométricos y parámetros metabólicos en paciente de 5-15 años con sobrepeso-obesidad
Authors: Bolívar Enríquez Karina , Armaza Ada Ximena , Mamani Ortiz Yercin , Romero Olañeta Janneth
Published: June 2023

Introducción: la obesidad es un estado patológico caracterizado por una acumulación excesiva de tejido adiposo, la misma secreta adipocinas entre las cuales se encuentra la Leptina que está implicada en importantes funciones metabólicas como el control del apetito y peso corporal. Objetivos: se realizo este estudio de la correlación entre la concentración de Leptina sérica con indicadores antropométricos y parámetros bioquímicos en pacientes entre 5 a 15 años de edad, con sobrepeso u obesidad. Métodos: se efectuó el estudio observacional descriptivo de corte transversal, con 148 pacientes entre 5 y 15 años de edad, se realizaron exámenes bioquímicos para evaluar la concentración de Leptina, Glucosa, Insulina, perfil lipídico e indicadores antropométricos. IMC, %GC y RCE. Resultados: Se determinó correlaciones positivas entre las concentraciones de Leptina sérica con el IMC (75,4; p< 0,000), el (% GC) Porcentaje de grasa corporal (70,7: p< 0,000) y el (RCE) Razón Cintura estatura (75,4; p< 0,000), encontramos que no existe correlación entre la concentración de Leptina y Colesterol Total, por otra parte encontramos correlación negativa inversa con la concentración de Colesterol HDL en el sexo masculino, mientras que los Triglicéridos presentaron una correlación estadísticamente significativa. Por otra parte, no encontramos correlación significativa entre la determinación de la Leptina y la glicemia, por el contrario,la insulina presento una correlación alta estadísticamente significativa (p<0,000).Conclusiones: este estudio muestra la existencia de correlación estadísticamente significativa entre la Leptina sérica con indicadores antropométricos y parámetros bioquímicos en pacientes entre 5 a 15 años de edad, que tienen sobrepeso u obesidad.
¿Bicarbonato de sodio en terapia intensiva es útil o no?
Authors: Ortega Martinez Rommer Alex , Gutiérrez García Elizabeth , Sutty Mamani Lucero Yasmin
Published: June 2023

La acidosis metabólica se ha convertido en un problema muy serio, tanto en las áreas críticas, como de medicina interna y emergencias, sobre todo por la innumerable cantidad de patologías que la presentan; que ha encaminado a muchos profesionales a usar el bicarbonato de Na (NaHCO3-), que definitivamente tiene un efecto en el ascenso del pH y el HCO3-, asociado a un sosiego inverosímil del profesional médico y probablemente a un escaso beneficio por parte de los pacientes; este estudio trata de explicar en forma concisa a la etiología de la acidosis metabólica y la real indicación de esta droga, que hasta el momento podría tener más perjuicios que beneficios.
Neuromielitis óptica y lupus eritematoso sistémico: caso clínico
Authors: Pozo Almanza Yasmani , Mérida Nina Mabel Cristina , Lopez Ovando Nicol
Published: June 2023

La neuromielitis óptica (NMO) es una enfermedad desmielinizante del sistema Nervioso Central, con morbilidad, mortalidad alta, con respuesta favorable al tratamiento inmunosupresor y asociación infrecuente a enfermedades inmunológicas como Lupus Eritematoso Sistémico. Se reporta caso de un adolescente con diagnóstico de Neuromielitis óptica que presento durante su evolución Lupus Eritematoso Sistémico. Su evolución fue adecuada por la respuesta favorable a terapia inmunosupresora.
Ebu Said Bahadır Han Döneminde (1317-1335) İlhanlı Devleti'ni Sarsan Bir İç İsyan: Moğol Emirlerinin İsyanı (1319)
Authors: ÖZEN Firdevs
Published: June 2023

İlhanlı Devleti tahtına çocuk yaşta çıkan Ebû Saˊîd’in ilk yıllarında yönetimle ilgili tüm işler Emîrü’l-ümerâ Çoban’ın yetkisindeydi. Bu durum zamanla kıdemli Moğol emîrlerini rahatsız etmeye başladı. Liderliğini Emîr Kurmuşı ve Emîr İrincin’in yaptığı muhalif emîrler, Emîr Çoban’ı ortadan kaldırma görünüşü altında İlhanlı Devleti’ni ele geçirmek için isyan ettiler (1319). İsyanın şekil değiştirip devleti hedef alması karşısında Ebû Saˊîd, Çoban ile birlik olma yolunu seçti. Moğol emîrleri ile İlhanlı ordusu arasında yapılan savaşta emîrler yenilgiye uğratıldı. Emîr Çoban, isyandan daha da güçlenerek çıktı ve devlette tek otorite haline geldi. Ölümüne kadar Moğol askerî aristokrasisini kontrol altında tutarak devlet için tehdit oluşturmasına engel oldu.

Çalışmamızda, İlhanlı Devleti’nin son döneminin en önemli iç karışıklıklarından biri olan Moğol emîrlerinin isyanı ele alınmıştır. İsyanın gelişim süreci ve muhaliflerin yenilgiye uğratılmaları dönemin kaynakları ve araştırma eserlerden yararlanılarak incelenmiştir.
An Early Entrepreneur's Resource Dependence Perspective Sungkyunkwan University Campus Town business support experience and resource acquisition strategy
Authors:   The Korean Career·Entrepreneurship & Business Association, Lee Hyunjung , Na Dongjin , Min Yoonkyung
Published: June 2023

This study focuses on the Seoul Campus Town project, which utilizes the university's education and research-based resources to create a win-win situation between the university, the local community, and the youth. The study discusses the experiences of the support system needed by early-stage entrepreneurs from the resource dependence theory perspective. The Campus Town project participants, who were early-stage entrepreneurs, underwent face-to-face and non-face-to-face in-depth interviews as a qualitative study. The study results showed that, first, regarding the perception of Sungkyunkwan University's Campus Town business, early entrepreneurs perceived that it is easy to enter with a low threshold and that it is highly accessible because it is based at a university. In addition, regarding the experience of utilizing support, early entrepreneurs strongly perceived that they needed to secure a startup space to challenge startups, and they needed to obtain business funds to realize their startup items. Therefore, they agreed to secure various resources for the company's sustainability. Second, as a strategy for securing resources, the study sought to strengthen their resource dependence by participating in other startup support projects, strengthen their organizational capabilities to withstand similar companies, scale up for sustainability, and attract investment for the exit. We examined the perceptions and experiences of early-stage entrepreneurs regarding startup support programs, suggested resources that should be prioritized, and concluded these results. In addition, it was found that early-stage entrepreneurs are seeking various strategies to secure resources through dependence and independence for sustainable management. Finally, this study analyzed resource cooperation between universities and localities for entrepreneurship through case studies, discussed participants' perceptions and experiences, and made practical and qualitative recommendations for public-private partnership entrepreneurship programs.
A study on the diversification of technological capabilities of digital platform companies
Authors:   The Korean Career·Entrepreneurship & Business Association, Choi Byungchul , Kim Seungbeom , Kang Hee Jay , Soh Seung Bum
Published: June 2023

In the era of digital transformation, digital platform companies that started as start-ups or in-house ventures have a huge influence in various fields of our economy and life today. Their rapid growth is due not only to exogenous factors such as the development of IT technology and infrastructure, but also to the combination of their active technological innovation and diversification strategy. However, research on patent development trends of Korea's representative digital platform companies has received relatively little attention. In particular, since the 2010s, when digital transformation began in earnest, their patent trends are very important in that they show the direction and strategy of exploratory activities, but the reality is that there is still a lack of research from an integrated perspective on these areas. Therefore, this study aims to broaden the understanding of the patent strategy of digital platform companies by analyzing the patent development trends of Naver, LINE, Baemin, Kakao, Coupang, and Toss, which are representative digital platform companies in Korea. To achieve this, this study conducted text-based analysis of the patent data filed by each company. Specifically, Word Cloud analysis and Text Similarity analysis were performed to identify the key technological directions pursued by each company and analyze any similarities in their technological strategies. As a result, in the case of companies that had not yet implemented diversification, the direction of new diversification strategies could be examined through keyword analysis of filed patents. Matured companies with diversification showed a high level of similarity in patent information compared to other companies. As a result of analyzing patent information filed after 2015 compared to the entire period, it was confirmed that all companies have increased mutual similarity, suggesting that in the future, an intersection will be formed in the businesses pursued by all companies, and competition may intensify. It was confirmed that the establishment of a new strategy was required.
Localized Corrosion of High-Grade Stainless Steels: Grade Selection in Chlorinated Seawater
Authors: Larché Nicolas , Leballeur Charles , Le Manchet Sandra , He Wenle
Published: June 2023

Chlorination is widely used in seawater systems to avoid fouling and associated microbial-induced corrosion. Free chlorine is a strong oxidizing agent that prevents biofilm formation on immersed surfaces when used above a certain content. However, the presence of residual chlorine associated with the relatively high chloride content in seawater significantly increases the risk of localized corrosion for most stainless steels. In the present study, a module initially developed to quantify the formation of electroactive biofilms on stainless steels has been used to assess the corrosiveness of chlorinated seawater. Both the electrochemical potential and the cathodic current were measured on super-duplex stainless steel as a function of residual chlorine levels and seawater temperatures. In parallel, long-term localized corrosion tests have been performed in simulated environments to assess the environmental limits for the safe use of high-grade stainless steels in chlorinated seawater. It includes crevice corrosion exposure tests using adapted ISO 18070:2015 crevice formers and internal tube pitting corrosion exposure tests in model tube heat exchangers simulating heat flux from 35°C to 170°C. The synergetic effect of residual chlorine content and temperature on the risk of localized corrosion has been quantified. Corrosion resistance properties are correlated to the electrochemical monitoring data, and the environmental limits of selected base materials stainless steels have been established for duplex stainless steel UNS S32205, super-duplex stainless steel UNS S32750, hyper-duplex stainless steels UNS S32707 and UNS S33207, and the high-grade austenitic stainless steel UNS S31266.
Forgotten Encounters: The Legacy of Sculptresses and Female Muses
Authors: Engel Laura
Published: June 2023

Sculpture as a medium is inherently connected to legacy making. In producing three- dimensional monuments designed to withstand the test of time, women artists provided evidence of the lasting quality and permanence of their creative acts. This article examines the actress, sculptress and novelist Anne Damer’s sculpture of the famous actress turned Countess Eliza Farren (c. 1788), paying particular attention to the relationship between sculpture as a static art form that captures tactile embodied presence and the ephemerality of performance. Farren’s involvement in Damer’s staging of the private theatricals at Richmond House (Farren directed and Damer starred) suggests that their collaborative relationship engendered aesthetic acts across media – performances that are now lost but remain in traces across a variety of material.

Similarly, in the mid nineteenth century the American artist Harriet Hosmer’s spectacular sculptures of female figures were inspired in part by her intimate relationship with the famous actress Charlotte Cushman. Cushman’s dynamic performances of Lady Macbeth parallel Hosmer’s powerful controversial sculpture of Zenobia as a warrior Queen (1859). Looking ahead to the early twentieth century, I propose that Malvina Hoffman’s uncanny portrait busts of the ballet dancer Anna Pavlova (particularly her “Head of Pavlova” made of wax, 1924), similarly recreate a unique dynamic between the female artist and the intangible performances of her female muse. Drawing connections between Damer, Hosmer, and Hoffman, across time and media, allows us to re-imagine the relationship between artistic forms, materials, and aesthetic practices. Women’s artistic and theatrical legacies, I suggest, are not found only in tangible sources, but also by recuperating networks, connections, and collaborations through interdisciplinary practices. In doing so we create new legacies that chart the extraordinary accomplishments of women of the past.
“Before I am Quite Forgot": Women’s Critical Literary Biography and the Future
Authors: Carlile Susan
Published: June 2023

“‘Before I am Quite Forgot’: Women’s Critical Literary Biography and the Future” extends the conversation about literary “worth” in the twenty-first century as it still judges and ignores women authors of the past. Specifically, this essay explores the role of women’s literary historical biography as a primary marker of worth and as a means of shaping legacy. I also discuss my (perhaps more non-traditional) experience—both my personal circumstances and particular material conditions—writing the critical biography Charlotte Lennox: An Independent Mind. Without a substantial biography that shows the scope of Lennox’s mind, her significant corpus, and her interventions in literary history and current events through publishing, this talented and popular author would not have had the opportunity to be fully taken seriously. This essay is designed to encourage potential biographers who study remarkable women authors of past centuries around the world. It also asserts the value of the #MeToo movement and social media for more robust legacy making.
Black Lives, White Witnesses: An Argument for a Presentist Approach to Teaching Aphra Behn's Oroonoko
Authors: Smith Sharon
Published: June 2023

This essay outlines a presentist approach to teaching Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko (1688), in which a white woman witnesses a Black man’s brutal execution at the hands of enslavers. This approach explores the capacity of Behn’s novel—a colonialist narrative scholars frequently identify as troubling or frustrating—to generate discussions about “white witnessing,” particularly white people’s consumption of images of Black people in peril. This includes recent videos of Black people killed by police or white citizen vigilantes. Many Black individuals identify these videos as traumatizing, frequently noting how they have failed to spur structural reform. Of central concern in the classroom discussion described in the essay is the sympathy white witnesses experience in response to images of racist violence, a feeling that can bring reassurance—even pleasure—to the white witness but that in and of itself does little, if anything, to address the systemic causes of such violence and may actually serve to sustain them. In addition to considering how instructors can draw upon this novel from the past to generate discussions about critical issues of the present, the essay describes how they might place Oroonoko in conversation with texts from diverse periods, places, and genres in order to expose the limitations of and fill the gaps in Behn’s narrative.
Why Austen, not Burney? Tracing the Mechanisms of Reputation and Legacy
Authors: Francus Marilyn
Published: June 2023

During the 200th anniversary of Austen’s death in 2017, the narrative of Austen’s rise to fame and her ongoing celebrity circulated throughout modern culture. But how did this happen? When Austen died in 1817, it was not obvious that Austen would become the archetypal British woman writer. Frances Burney was far more famous in her lifetime than Austen was in hers, and Burney’s novels (particularly Evelina and Cecilia) achieved as much, if not more, critical acclaim than Austen’s works. By comparing the afterlives of Jane Austen and Frances Burney, the factors that shape legacy come into focus—and scholars can use some of these factors to shape the legacy of British women writers today.
Chawton House and its Library: Legacies and Futures
Authors: Simpson Kim
Published: June 2023

In a review of Women’s Writing, 1660-1830: Feminisms and Futures, Paula Backscheider draws attention to “the miracle that is Chawton House, whose conferences nurtured these essays” in the collection. This essay will examine the legacy of this unique institution and explore the futures for the organization both as heritage site and as home to a substantial collection of women’s writing of the long eighteenth century. The community encouraged and nurtured by Chawton House since it opened to the public in 2003, as is so often the case with all things related to Jane Austen, complicates divisions between the academic and the popular, bringing together people of different backgrounds from all over the world. For diverse audiences, Chawton House—the Visiting Fellowship program, the reading group, the reading rooms, the collections, and, increasingly, the gardens and parkland—have provided the time, space, and material to explore, share, and delight in women’s contributions. This essay will celebrate work already done to maintain and shape the legacy of Jane Austen, her contemporaries, and her predecessors—the legacy of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literary world. It considers some of the challenges faced by heritage organizations like Chawton House in recovering and representing the work of early British women writers and shaping their legacy, exploring the ways in which issues of canonicity, value and reputation play out in both academic research and public engagement. It outlines some of the strategies used by Chawton House over the last two decades to meet these challenges, including public programming that introduces women writers little-known outside academic circles, but that also asks audiences to consider the conditions that rendered them obscure in the first place. It goes on to consider the ways in which the current moment – both the culture wars and the pandemic—has revitalized these questions of legacy by demanding new perspectives and providing new audiences for heritage organizations.
Review of Sapphic Crossings, by Ula Lukszo Klein
Authors: Kocher Ziona K
Published: June 2023

A review of Ula Lukszo Klein’s Sapphic Crossings: Cross-Dressing Women in Eighteenth-Century British Literature, by Ziona Kocher.
Review of Figurations of the Feminine, by Siobhán McIlvanney
Authors: Moutray Tonya J
Published: June 2023

A review of Siobhán McIlvanney's Figurations of the Feminine, by Tonya J. Moutray
The Black Wanderer: Reading the Black Diaspora, Resistance, and Becoming in The History of Mary Prince in the Classroom
Authors: Carr Nicole
Published: June 2023

This paper examines The History of Mary Prince as a pedagogical tool for exploring complexities within the Black Diaspora. As Paul Gilroy’s articulations of the Black Atlantic inform my approach, Prince’s circuitous journey through the West Indies and England situates her process of becoming as one mired in longing and loss. Encouraging students to consider Prince as a wandering soul in search of not only freedom, but also solid familiar connections lays the foundation for merging her narrative with other enslaved Black people traversing countries and regions on ships against their will. Ample research material available on the survivors of the 1858 illegal ship enslaving Africans “Wanderer'' offer an opportunity to consider the constructions of Black Atlantic identities in which formerly enslaved Black people forge connections with each other while longing for a return to Africa. Additionally, Tessa Mars’ and Yinka Shonibare’s art forms a bridge for conceptualizing Black diasporic identities. Because the Caribbean is often perceived as a perpetual space of fantasy and play, The History of Mary Prince also challenges misconceptions of slavery as an institution peculiar to the United States. Of her brutal slaveholder sending her to another island, Prince expresses competing emotions, “At length he put me on board the sloop, and to my great joy he sent me away to Turk’s Island. I was not permitted to see my mother or father, or poor sisters and brothers, to say goodbye, though going away to a strange land, and might never see them again.” Encouraging students to consider Prince as a wandering soul in search of not only freedom but also solid familiar connections lays the groundwork for merging Prince’s narrative with other enslaved Black people traversing countries and regions on ships against their will. Ample research material available on the survivors of the 1858 illegal ship enslaving Africans “Wanderer” serves as my teaching tool for considering the constructions of Black Atlantic identities in which formerly enslaved Black people forge connections with each other while longing for a return to Africa. One of these survivors, Cilucängy, expressed in a letter his desire to return to his homeland: “I am bound for my old home if God be with me.” My essay also draws on student reactions to Yinka Shonibare’s art piece entitled “Wanderer.” Shonibare’s artwork forms the bridge for conceptualizing the more complex definitions of the Black Atlantic, Black Diaspora, and transnational identities.
Subversive Cartography: Teaching Mary Prince and Saidiya Hartman
Authors: Hinojosa Carolina
Published: June 2023

This chapter utilizes Hartman’s methodology of retrieval to create a map1 in StoryMap JS2 (“the map” or “this map”) that analyzes multiple geographic spaces in The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave Narrative and Saidiya Hartman’s Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route. The map is an archive or a witness to some of the geographical spaces Mary Prince lived (and was sold) as an enslaved woman seeking freedom and the places in which Saidiya Hartman has conducted research or visited in Ghana as a “free” woman. Layering the past over present creates a subversive cartography, one that subverts and unsettles the monolithic geographical narrative of the transatlantic slave trade. Twenty-two locations are mapped that merge past, present, and future as one narrative and not a compartmentalized narrative contained by borders or timelines because “At stake is not recognizing antiblackness as a total climate” (Sharpe 21). This map will elicit questions of responsibility on how to unsettle colonial narratives about Black and African American women. This map interrogates geographical spaces of the formerly enslaved as already and always in existence beyond hegemonic structures that contribute to a capitalist economy.
Mary Prince’s Undisciplining Lessons: Counter-Narrative and Testimonio in The History
Authors: Sinanan Kerry
Published: June 2023

This essay discusses teaching The History of Mary Prince at a Hispanic Serving Institution via Ethnic Studies praxis. It develops Nicole Aljoe’s definition of Prince’s narrative as counter-story and testimonio and explores the undisciplining effects of reading Prince’s history as relevant to the lives of Borderlands students. To understand the multiple meanings of “undisciplining’ this essay draws on the theory of Sylvia Wynter and shows how Prince’s testimonio offers an alternative to Western epistemologies via communal resistance and resurgence. Several pedagogic tools are explored for teaching Prince in this way.
Along and Against the Grain: Close reading The History of Mary Prince
Authors: Huang Kristina
Published: June 2023

Due to the highly mediated conditions of its production, The History of Mary Prince presents a challenge to New Critical methods of reading that are frequently taught in undergraduate literature classrooms. Without questioning the British abolitionists’ textual representation of Prince’s experiences, readers unfamiliar with the historical conditions for slave narratives may attribute the publication’s sentimentalism and representations of violence as direct expressions of Prince. This essay mobilizes close reading towards contrary ends: I throw the editor’s (Thomas Pringle’s) paratextual material, particularly the Preface, under scrutiny by close reading its insistence on transparency and symmetry between the first-person narrative and Prince as the narrative's univocal source. Using the Preface as an apparatus for close reading The History, I emphasize the dissonance between, on the one hand, the British abolitionists’ textual representation of freedom and, on the other, Prince’s speech as a practice of freedom. Drawing on the methods developed by Marisa Fuentes and Ann Laura Stoler, I offer historical and geographical contexts that can be layered onto close readings exercises for The History – particularly around repeated tropes of salt and allusions to sugar – that destabilize Thomas Pringle’s, and by extension the London Antislavery Society’s, representation of Prince’s public image. I argue how the paratextual materials of The History can help instructors foreground the contradictions and asymmetries of power embedded in subaltern representations.
Reviewing the Situation
Authors: Snelson John
Published: June 2023

The British musical in its formative years has appeared in strikingly different guises: from the lasting hits of Oliver!, and Me and My Girl, to the successes of The Dancing Years, Bless the Bride and Expresso Bongo.

This authoritative study traces what made these shows successes in the West End and how their qualities define a uniquely British interpretation of the genre. Cultural, sociological and political influences entwine with close reading of the dramatic and musical elements of this repertory to reveal a fascinating web of connections and contrasts between the times, the shows and the people who made them.

Through detailed case studies, such as of The Boy Friend and Bitter Sweet, the rich individuality of each West End work is spotlighted, posing vital questions and intriguing answers as to what a British musical can be. Interdisciplinary in nature, this study brings together all the core materials to discover this period in the story of the British musical. Reviewing the Situation is insightful and lively, an invaluable resource for students and scholars of musical theatre and all those theatregoers drawn to the power of these classic British shows.
Performing the Queer Past
Authors: Walsh Fintan
Published: June 2023

Why do contemporary queer theatre and performance appear to be possessed by the past? What aesthetic practices and dramaturgical devices reveal the occupation of the present by painful history? How might the experience of theatre and performance dispossess the present of its most arduous burdens?

In light of a swathe of legislation and initiatives that suggest the darkest days for LGBTQ+ people are over, Fintan Walsh turns our attention to artists who invoke history’s enduring hurts. The book draws on an eclectic range of examples that includes work by Artangel, Cassils, David Hoyle, Dickie Beau, Franko B, Jeremy O. Harris, Karen Finley, les ballets C de la B, McDermott & McGough, Milo Rau, Rachel Mars, Split Britches and Travis Alabanza. Through these, it traces how the past is summoned and interrogated via strategies of channelling and haunting, working through and working out, recollection and replay, reproduction and transformation, occupation and commemoration, intermedial recontextualization and dissemination. Walsh explores how this theatre and performance compels us to confront how the past weighs down a wishfully buoyant present, while calling on those of us who feel its force to share and lighten the load.
Roman Ingarden’s Aesthetics and Ontology
Authors: Sosnowski Leszek , Michna Natalia Anna
Published: June 2023

This volume explores the work of Polish phenomenologist Roman Ingarden (1893-1970) with respect to his ontology, epistemology and aesthetics. An outstanding student of Edmund Husserl, it offers a unique tribute to one of the most important figures in contemporary philosophy.

Leszek Sosnowski and Natalia Anna Michna introduce a team of renowned scholars to present new and timely readings of Ingarden’s thought, placing his philosophy in a broader historical and cultural context. In doing so, they offer a cutting edge reflection on the relevance, refinement and depth of Ingarden’s theory. Chapters are not only retrospective, but also set out the present and future development of philosophy inspired by his works.

Reinvigorating the debate about Ingarden’s phenomenological legacy and its relevance for contemporary thought, this collection of essays guides us through his place in the history of philosophy and presents new perspectives on selected aspects of his theory.
Architecture Constructed
Authors: Jarzombek Mark
Published: June 2023

Architecture Constructed explores the central, open secret of architecture: the long-suppressed conflict between arche and teckton—between those who design, and those who build. This unresolved tension has a centuries-old history in the discipline, persisting through Classical and Renaissance times to the present day, and yet it has rarely been addressed through a historical and theoretical lens.

In this book, acclaimed architectural theorist Mark Jarzombek examines this tension head-on, and uses it to rethink the nature of the history of architecture. He reveals architecture to be a troubled, interconnected realm, incomplete and unstable, where labor, craft, and occupation are the ‘invisible’ complements to the work of the architect.

Erudite, entertaining, and full of surprising and thought-provoking juxtapositions and challenges, Architecture Constructed is packed with novel insights into the internal conflicts and paradoxes of architecture, and is rich with examples from modern and contemporary practice—including Mies, Koolhaas, Potrc, Hadid, Bawa, Diller + Scofidio—which demonstrate how contemporary architecture inhabits the very same tensions that have riven the discipline since the days of Alberti.

This provocative book will stimulate conversations among students, researchers, and designers, as it pushes the boundaries on how we define the professional discipline of architecture and overturns entrenched assumptions about the nature of architectural history and theory.

This book uses the distinction that Leon Battista Alberti made between the architect and the carpenter as leverage to rethink the nature of architecture’s history. The book starts from the premise that the two are not distinct trajectories, but part of a troubled, interconnected realm that still today allows for a variety of creative possibilities. The book does not try to defend one side or the other, but seeks to bring to life the grammatological tensions between the two in order to link them with issues about theory-and-practice, mind-and-matter, and architecture-and-engineering, among other similar such dualities. The book investigates the work of Borromini, Koolhaas, Piranesi, Diller + Scofidio, Potrč, Bawa, Hadid, as well as artists such Mary Miss, Pierre Huyghe, and Jean-Max Albert among others.
The Social Aesthetics of Human Environments
Authors: Berleant Arnold
Published: June 2023

Across these essays Arnold Berleant demonstrates how aesthetic values and theory can be used to reappraise our social practices. He tackles issues within the built environment, everyday life, and politics, breaking down the dichotomy between the natural and the human. His work represents a fresh approach to traditional philosophical questions in not only ethics, but in metaphysics, truth, meaning, psychology, phenomenology, and social and moral philosophy.

Topics covered include the cultural aesthetics of environment, ecological aesthetics, the aesthetics of terrorism, and the subversion of beauty. The corruption of taste by the forces of commercial interests as well as how aesthetics can advance our understanding of violence are also considered. Berleant’s exploration is supported by his analysis of 19th-century art to the present day, starting with impressionism through to postmodernism and contemporary artistic interventions.

By critically examining the field in this way and casting new light on social understanding and practice, this collection makes a substantive contribution in identifying and clarifying central human issues, guided by an understanding of aesthetic engagement as a powerful tool for social critique.
Dance Music
Authors: Gadir Tami
Published: June 2023

For some people, at some times, in some places, on some drugs, dance music can be a gateway to transformative, even transcendent experiences. With the help of skilled DJs, dancers can reach euphoric states, discard their egos, and feel social barriers dissolve. Dance floors can be sites of openness, subversion, and even small-scale acts of political resistance. At a minimum, dance music lightens the burdens of contemporary life. At its best, dance music offers glimpses of better worlds.

Yet even where dance music communities are built on principles of resistance and liberation, they nevertheless share the grittier realities of the rest of the world.

Dance Music makes the case that dance music is ordinary and that something exceeding the social and spatiotemporal bounds of the dance floor is required for the transformative promise of dance music to be realized.
Honey Steel’s Gold
Authors: Encarnação John
Published: June 2023

Ed Kuepper’s history as a rock pioneer with The Saints and Laughing Clowns means that his albums of the early 1990s represent a remapping of the singer-songwriter concept. His classic Honey Steel’s Gold shares a looseness with blues and folk recordings of the 1940s and 1950s, capturing performances that take detours, stretch and contract, wax and wane, such as the album’s hit “The Way I Made You Feel." Honey Steel’s Gold is a landscape to be immersed in, to get lost in. It provides a space not where questions are answered but where we might stop and get a drink; an environment that provides solace, but not platitudes; where we can share a wry smile about the downsides of the human condition rather than attempt the illusion of blocking them out completely.

This study incorporates a consideration of Kuepper’s iconoclastic career, at odds with the music industry and the grunge era into which the album was released. Beyond the apparent facts, though, there is interpretation, speculation, and attempts to meet Honey Steel’s Gold on its own terms in some imaginary place.
The Science Fiction Film in Contemporary Hollywood
Authors: Stefanopoulou Evdokia
Published: June 2023

The Science Fiction Film in Contemporary Hollywood focuses on the American science fiction (SF) film during the period 2001-2020, in order to provide a theoretical mapping of the genre in the context of Conglomerate Hollywood. Using a social semiotics approach in a systematic corpus of films, the book argues that the SF film can be delineated by two semiotic squares —the first one centering on the genre’s more-than-human ontologies (SF bodies), and the second one focusing on its imaginative worlds (SF worlds). Based on this theoretical framework, the book examines the genre in six cycles, which are placed in their historical context, and are analyzed in relation to cultural discourses, such as technological embodiment, race, animal-human relations, environmentalism, global capitalism, and the techno-scientific Empire. By considering these cycles —which include superhero films, creature films, space operas, among others—as expressions of the genre’s basic oppositions, the book facilitates the comparison and juxtaposition of films that have rarely been discussed in tandem, offering a new perspective on the multiple articulations of the SF film in the new millennium.
The Go-Go’s Beauty and the Beat
Authors: Whittington-Hill Lisa
Published: June 2023

The Go-Go’s debut album Beauty and the Beat was released on July 8, 1981. The album spent six weeks in the number one spot on the Billboard charts, produced two hit singles and sold more than two million copies making it one of the most successful debut albums of all time. Beauty and the Beat made the Go-Go’s the first, and to date only, female band to have a number one album who not only wrote their own songs, but also played their own instruments.

Beauty and the Beat is a ground-breaking album, but the Go-Go’s are often overlooked when we talk about influential female musicians. The Go-Go’s were a feminist band and Beauty and the Beat a call to arms that inspired generations of women. The band embraced the DIY spirit of Riot Grrrl before there was a Bikini Kill or a Bratmobile. Girls making music on their own terms didn’t start with Courtney Love or Beyoncé or Billie Eilish, it started with the Go-Go’s. It started with Beauty and the Beat.

While they may have controlled their music, the Go-Go’s couldn’t control the misogyny of the music industry, media and fans. The sexist and tired stereotypes the Go-Go’s experienced 40 years ago still exist today. The legacy of Beauty and the Beat is both a celebration of how the record inspired countless girls to make art and music on their own terms, but also a painful reminder of how little has changed in how female musicians are marketed, manipulated, and discarded.
The Deer Hunter
Authors: Prager Brad
Published: June 2023

Michael Cimino’s The Deer Hunter was met with both critical and commercial success upon its release in 1978. However, it was also highly controversial and came to be seen as a powerful statement on the human cost of America's longest war and as a colonialist glorification of anti-Asian violence.

Brad Prager's study of the film considers its significance as a war movie and contextualizes its critical reception. Drawing on an archive of contemporaneous materials, as well as an in-depth analysis of the film’s lighting, mise-en-scène, multiple cameras and shifting depths of field, Prager examines how the film simultaneously presents itself as a work of cinematic realism, while problematically blurring the lines between fact and fiction. While Cimino felt he had no responsibility to historical truth, depicting a highly stylized version of his own fantasies about the Vietnam War, Prager argues that The Deer Hunter’s formal elements were used to bolster his troubling depictions of war and race.

Finally, comparing the film with later depictions of US-led intervention such as Albert and Allen Hughes’s Dead Presidents (1995) and Spike Lee’s Da Five Bloods (2020), Prager illuminates The Deer Hunter’s major presumptions, blind spots and omissions, while also presenting a case for its classic status.
Hideo Kojima
Authors: Hartzheim Bryan Hikari
Published: June 2023

An exploration of the influential work of Hideo Kojima, creator of cinematic titles such as the blockbuster Metal Gear Solid franchise, which has moved over 50 million units globally, as well as Snatcher, Policenauts, and Death Stranding.

As the architect of the Metal Gear Solid franchise, Kojima is synonymous with the “stealth game” genre, where tension and excitement is created from players avoiding enemies rather than confronting them. Through the franchise, Kojima also helped to bridge the gap between games and other forms of media, arguing that games could be deep experiences that unearthed complex emotions from players on the same level as films or novels.

Drawing on archives of interviews in English and Japanese with Kojima and his team, as well as academic discourses of social/political games and cinematic narrative/world-building, this book examines Kojima's progressive game design as it applies to four key areas: socially-relevant narratives, cinematic aesthetics, thematically-connected systems, and reflexive spaces.
Preventive effects of 13 different drugs on colorectal cancer: a network meta-analysis
Authors: Fu Qi , Liao Huini , Li Zhihao , Chen Xing , Zhang Xuan , Di Ji
Published: June 2023

Introduction

The aim of the study was to evaluate the preventive effect of 13 drugs on colorectal cancer (CRC) and guide the clinical application of these drugs.

Material and Methods

PubMed, Web of Science, Embase, Cochrane Library, and China National Knowledge Infrastructure were searched for randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and cohort studies. The Cochrane bias risk assessment tool and the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale quality evaluation tool were used to evaluate the quality of the included RCTs and cohort studies. The funnel plot was used to analyze publication bias. A network meta-analysis of the extracted data was conducted using Stata16.0 software.

Results

A total of 57 studies (34 RCTs and 23 cohort studies) involving 82719 participants were included. The network meta-analysis revealed that the quality of the included studies was good; the funnel plot showed no obvious publication bias. The network meta-analysis showed that the preventive effect of 13 drugs on CRC was better than that of the placebo. Allopurinol (SUCRA: 97.2%) was found to have the best effect, followed by berberine (SUCRA: 89.9%), non-aspirin NSAIDs (SUCRA: 84.5%), statins (SUCRA: 66.5%), metformin (SUCRA: 66.3%), calcium (SUCRA: 48.9%), mesalazine (SUCRA: 44.5%), ursodeoxycholic acid (SUCRA: 42.6%), vitamin D (SUCRA: 41.4%), mercaptopurine (SUCRA: 39.4%), aspirin (SUCRA: 30.4%), folic acid (SUCRA: 24.9%), and eicosapentaenoic acid (SUCRA: 16.3%).

Conclusions

The preventive effect of allopurinol on CRC was better than that of the other 13 drugs. These results can help doctors and patients understand the preventative effects of these drugs more intuitively and provide an evidence-based basis for the clinical application of these drugs.
Inclusão digital de alunos com deficiência: Educação e Tecnologia como instrumentos mediadores
Authors: Silva Allexy Luiz Ribeiro , Rocha Arlete Fragas da Silva , Lima Allex Oliveira Alencar
Published: June 2023

This article discusses the possibilities of using education and technology as mediating tools for inclusion of students with disabilities. It seeks to develop a discussion about the reality of the city of Floriano -PI regarding the topic in question. It was found that there is potential for material and human resources, but a more specific treatment aimed at using existing equipment and improving the skills of education professionalsto promote the inclusion and education of students with disabilities is needed. It comes from the assumption that the link between research, teaching and extension can contribute to developing inclusive educational practices in public schools in the city of Floriano -PI using education and technology resources (computers, software and applications) as mediating tools of digital inclusion and social development of students with disabilities and as an element to facilitate transformation of reality by overcoming remaining exclusion cases. Rocha (2011), Libâneo (1994.1999) and Papert (1994), among others, contribute to the discussion.
Postherpetik Nevralji Tanısıyla Takip Edilen Hastaların Demografik ve Klinik Özelliklerinin Değerlendirilmesi
Authors: ERDURAN Funda
Published: June 2023

Herpes zoster varisellaya neden olan varisella zoster virüsünün reaktivasyonu nedeniyle oluşmaktadır. Postherpetik nevralji (PHN) herpes zosterin en sık görülen komplikasyonudur. Çalışmamızda PHN nedeniyle takip edilen hastaların demografik ve klinik verilerinin retrospektif olarak değerlendirilmesini amaçladık. Temmuz 2021-Temmuz 2022 tarihleri arasında üçüncü basamak bir hastanenin dermatoloji kliniğine başvuran PHN tanılı tüm hastalar arşivden taranarak demografik ve klinik özellikleri kaydedilmiştir. Çalışmamızda PHN tanılı hastaların çoğunun 60 yaş üzerinde olduğunu ve önemli kısmının komorbiditesinin olduğunu gözlemledik. En sık görülen komorbid hastalık diyabetes mellitus (%21.8) iken bunu sırasıyla hipertansiyon (%18.75), maligniteler (%15.6), kalp yetmezliği (%14) ve fibromyalji (%6) takip etmekteydi. Alınan ilaçlar değerlendirildiğinde en sık alınan tedavinin brivudin (%40.6) olduğu bunu valasiklovir (%37.5), intravenöz asiklovir (%10.9) ve oral asiklovirin (%3) takip ettiği görüldü. Dermatomal tutulumu değerlendirdiğimizde torakal dermatomların en sık etkilendiği (%48.4), bunu lomber, periorbital, sakral ve servikal dermatomların takip ettiği görüldü. Çalışmamızda dikkat çekici bir husus da bazı hastaların dermatoloji kliniklerine zonadan yıllar sonra bile başvurmalarıydı. Ayrıca bu çalışmamız ile zoster aşısının risk gruplarında yaygınlaştırılmasının önemine de dikkat çekmek istemekteyiz.