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Libraries post Covid 19 pandemic: Considerations from Mexico
Authors: Jaramillo María Guadalupe Venteño , Valencia Jorge
Published: July 2022

The objective of this paper is to show a general description of the first actions that librarians carried out in Mexico in the face of the Covid 19 pandemic, both to respond to the user in their demands for information, and to carry out their professional and leisure activities. The actions undertaken by librarians of academic libraries in the context of the pandemic are presented. Libraries in Mexico are one of the main sources of access to documentary information. In general, all types of libraries had to suspend their services during the pandemic and initiate protocols to restart functions. In this paper we have specifically addressed the contingency measures implemented in university libraries. Academic libraries had to adapt quickly to continue offering documentary and information services and with this, continue to carry out their functions in the development of professional training activities, technological developments, research, administration, and extension of culture. Both university libraries and users (students, professors, researchers, and administrative staff) had to adapt to the contingency since in most cases protocols were established both for prevention to avoid contagion and for user care.

This document is the result of the research carried out based on the information answered by 40 libraries studied, to whom an instrument was applied. The literature on current topics was consulted in various databases and information from the websites of the libraries themselves. Information was also collected from approximately 20 academic events organized by library associations and other information professionals, such as the AMBAC (Civil Association of Librarians), the Library College of Mexico and the IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions).
Appropriate Frameworks for Understanding Educational Change and Culture to Use in Socio-Technological Innovation Studies in the Field of Information Management in Sri Lanka: A review of literature
Authors: Suraweera Namali
Published: July 2022

Information is considered a fundamental resource for improving the quality of governance and promoting socio-economic development in developing countries. In Sri Lanka, under the government’s vision of higher education, Information Management (IM) education is seen as important for fostering the development of a high quality market-oriented and knowledge-based society. However, a number of barriers currently restrict access to IM education by Sri Lankan information workers: the provision of education is limited to face-to-face teaching at three institutions in the Colombo (capital city) area, and the country’s physical infrastructure makes it difficult for full-time workers to attend classes without missing substantial work time. This results in IM employer reluctance to support education. Hence there is a growing need to provide equity of access to IM education. In response to World Bank reports (2007, 2009) the Quality Assurance and Accreditation Council (QAAC) of Sri Lanka aims to foster transformative change in IM education with the goal of increasing equality of access to IM education through the use of e-learning. A number of early attempts to implement e-learning in Sri Lanka have already failed (Anderson, 2008). There is no rigorous research that investigates what factors have an impact on the introduction and use of e-learning in tertiary-level IM education in the Sri Lankan context and what the barriers or enablers to doing so might be. Understanding of the cultural context is known to be critical for the success of e-learning.
Major research project has been carried out to fill these gaps in the literature. It was guided by two research questions: (i) what are the contextual factors that affect the introduction and use of e-learning in tertiary-level IM education in Sri Lanka? and (ii) how do these factors affect the introduction and use of e-learning? An interpretive case study research was conducted. Thirty semi-structured interviews were conducted with information management education providers, existing e-learning providers and relevant stakeholders, and three focus group discussions were conducted with information workers and academics. Relevant documents were also analyzed.
This paper presents how appropriate frameworks have been selected for understanding said educational change and culture to use in socio-technological innovation studies in the Field of Information Management in Sri Lanka by reviewing extensive literature. Accordingly, Fullan’s (1991) educational change theory and Hofstede, Hofstede, and Minkov’s (2010) cultural dimensions provided a basis for a conceptual model to guide the process of data collection and analysis in this study to gain an understanding of factors affecting the introduction and use of e-learning in tertiary-level IM education in Sri Lanka.
Challenges and Activities of Professional Librarians’ Associations, Particularly for Association of Hungarian Librarians before and during COVID aera
Authors: Hajdu Barat Ágnes
Published: July 2022

This paper studies the influence of the international and national trends, changings, and challenges to professional librarians’ associations. It summarizes basic endeavours of management and summarizing permanent updated visions of Association of Hungarian Librarians (AHL). I try to collect different aspects from the specific and general viewpoints.

In this study we would like to introduce some national and international initiatives, including possibilities for mutual cooperation. We will introduce the vision of AHL, focus on up-to-date knowledge and adequate competencies before and during COVID aera.
Librarians and Information professional activities in Nepal during COVID - 19 Pandemic
Authors: Vaidya Bina
Published: July 2022

This article deals with librarians and information professionals including retired librarians, working librarians and all in the field of libraries during the COVID- 19 pandemic 2020 along with the brief history on professional librarians' development in Nepal. It also highlights the adopted online platform of a series of webinars dealing with current important and useful information relevant to library and information science organized by Tribhuvan University, Central Department of Library and Information Science (CDLIS). Further, the article provides a picture of the sudden changes brought by the unexpected outbreak of COVID - 19 pandemic in the library management, services and organization.
Dewey Decimal Classification development during the COVID-19 pandemic
Authors: Kyrios Alex
Published: July 2022

This article provides an overview of the revision process for the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC), with an emphasis on the user advisory group Editorial Policy Committee (EPC), and recent efforts to prioritize community-driven changes. It details how these processes have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, including innovations, challenges, and lessons for the future. It also includes three example cases of revisions that happened mostly or entirely during pandemic-era remote work.
Twenty years of Research4Life: Learnings from the past and a look to the future for a more equitable research landscape
Authors: Francescon Domiziana
Published: July 2022

No abstract available.
Leaders’ Conversations: National Libraries in the Post-COVID-19 World
Authors: Soh Lin Li , Laue Michelle , Lim Benita , Saleem Mohamed
Published: July 2022

The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) Regional Office for Asia and Oceania and the National Library Board, Singapore jointly organized the inaugural Leaders’ Conversations in 2020. The first series of the Leaders’ Conversations focused on the future of the libraries in the Post-COVID-19 world and was held with the leaders of the various libraries. This report features enlightening insights from the library leaders from the national libraries, which are very much crucial for the operations of national libraries in today’s uncertain environment.
Role of IGF and APrIGF in reference to Libraries in Nepal
Authors: Roberts Winston
Published: July 2022

No abstract available.
The ISBN System (and Why Every Library Professional Should Know About It)
Authors: Woods Nick
Published: July 2022

No abstract available.
Characterization of Essential Oil, Estimation of Phenolic and Flavonod Content and Biological Activities of Ephedra pachyclada BOISS
Authors: Khanal Lekha Nath , Sharma Khaga Raj , Pokharel Yuba Raj , Kalauni Surya Kant
Published: July 2022

The northern areas of Nepal are rich in biodiversity and contain a large number of medicinal plant species including the Genus Ephedra of evergreen gymnosperm, belonging to the family Ephedraceae. The plants have been used by the peoples of the Himalayan region for the treatment of asthma, blood pressure, and gastritis for many years. This study was aimed for the evaluation of phytochemical, antioxidant, and antimicrobial activities of methanol, ethyl acetate, dichloromethane, and n-hexane extracts, and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GCMS) profiling of the essential oil of the aerial parts of Ephedra pachyclada Boiss from Mustang district of Nepal. Antioxidant activity was evaluated by 2,2-dipheny-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) free radical scavenging assay and antimicrobial activity by the agar well diffusion method. Total phenolics and total flavonoid content were determined by Folin-Ciocalteu and aluminum chloride colorimetric method, respectively. The methanol extract contained the highest total phenolic content of 54.42 ± 1.40 mg GAE/g followed by the ethyl acetate (46.84 ± 0.62 mg GAE/g), DCM extract (19.58 ± 0.24 mg GAE/g), and the lowest TPC was shown for n-hexane extract (5.21 ± 1.40 mg GAE/g) of the dry weight. The methanol extract showed the maximum TFC of 33.28 ± 0.48 mg QE/g, followed by ethyl acetate extract (31.73 ± 0.52 mg QE/g), DCM extract (31.64 ± 0.56 mg QE/g), and the least value was obtained for the n-hexane extract (21.44 ± 2.91 mg QE/g). The methanol extract showed the highest antioxidant activity with a half-maximal inhibitory concentration (IC50) of 37.81 ± 2.24 μg/mL. The methanol extract showed potent activity against Escherichia coli (ATCC 25922), and Staphylococcus aureus (ATCC 25923) with zones of inhibition of 13 mm and 12 mm respectively. Ethyl acetate extract showed a slight potency against Staphylococcus aureus (ATCC 25923) with a zone of inhibition of 9 mm. The essential oil contained diisooctyl phthalate (46.90%), dodecane, 2,6,11-trimethyl-(16.35%), dodecane, 4,6-dimethyl- (11.59%), tetrapentacontane (11.56%), and myrtenol (4.37) as the major compounds. The plant exhibited significant antioxidant and antimicrobial activities which could be used as the source to isolate the active natural antioxidant and antimicrobial agent as the drug candidate in the future drug discovery process.
The Law of the Iterated Logarithm
Authors: Ghimire Santosh , Thapa Hari
Published: July 2022

The article begins first with the history and the development of the law of the iterated logarithm, abbreviated LIL. We then discuss the LIL in the context of independent random variables, dyadic martingales, lacunary trigonometric series, and harmonic functions. Finally, we derive a LIL for a sequence of dyadic martingales.
Mass Transfer Effects on Mixed Convective MHD Flow of Second Grade Fluid Past a Vertical Infinite Plate with Viscous Dissipation and Joule Heating
Authors: Swain Bharat Keshari , Barik Rabi Narayan
Published: July 2022

An attempt is made to study an unsteady, two-dimensional, laminar, mixed convective Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flow of an incompressible visco-elastic fluid (Waltersfluid model) past an infinite vertical plate. The reduced governing equations are solved analytically using two-term harmonic and non-harmonic functions. The effects of different pertinent parameters are discussed with the help of graphs and tables. The novelty of the present study is to account for the effects of viscous and joules dissipative heat and a linear first-order chemical reaction of diffusive species and mixed convective flow phenomena on an infinite vertical plate subjected to time-dependent suction velocity and a transverse magnetic field acting at a distance. The important findings reported herein are: increasing values of chemical reaction parameter cause low velocity and concentration, a decline in concentration profile is seen for the higher values of Schmidt number, Prandtl number contributes to more active convection. The application of the present study may be seen in combustion systems, nuclear reactors, and chemical processes. Before concluding the considered problem, our results are validated with previous results and are found to be in good agreement.
Preprocessing of Nepali News Corpus for Downstream Tasks
Authors: Awale Sushil , Prasai Suraj , Rijal Birodh , Basnet Santa B.
Published: July 2022

Text collected from online resources introduce a lot of errors which results in incorrect learning outcomes in automatic language learning tasks. In this paper, we discuss a Nepali text preprocessing pipeline to generate clean corpus. This pipeline is tested using a language model to observe impact of each steps in learning task. The relevancy of this work lies in systematizing the procedure in the development of standard Nepali corpus.
Acoustic Analysis of the Baram Phonemes
Authors: Chalise Krishna Prasad
Published: July 2022

Baram is a critically endangered Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Gorkha District of central Nepal. This work carries out a preliminary acoustic study of the language. Baram plosives are acoustically characterized by VOT, the fricatives by the peak value and the affricates by the rise time and friction duration. Similarly, the nasals, lateral, trill and glides are characterized by formant structure. Similarly, the distribution of the F1 and F2 reveals the height of the tongue and frontness/backness of the vowels. The height of the vowels is also depicted by their intrinsic F0 as it increases as the height of the vowel increases. Baram has five diphthongs which are close diphthongs and the second target is always [i].
Finite Verb Forms in Nubri With a Focus on Conjunct-Disjunct Distinction
Authors: Dhakal Dubi Nanda
Published: July 2022

This paper is a preliminary report on the finite verb forms in Nubri. Nubri reveals the verb agreement pattern known as 'conjunct-disjunct (C-D) like some Tibetan varieties, such as Kyirong Tibetan, Gyalsumdo among others. Nubri shows fairly consistent pattern of the verbs in the past tense marked with -hin, and –soŋ for conjunct and disjunct respectively. However, this is not consistent in the non-past tense.
F0 Perturbation of Stops in Nepali and Meitei
Authors: Singh Neelam
Published: July 2022

The present article accounts for the fundamental frequency (F0) perturbation of stop-types in Nepali spoken in the Maram region of Manipur, India. Experiments were performed on the speech of the native speakers of Nepali in order to investigate if the F0 perturbation following the stop-types would be affected due to contact with a tonal language, Meitei.
Structure of Middle Maithili
Authors: Yadav Ramawatar
Published: July 2022

(As Gleaned from the Hand–Copied Newari Manuscripts of Maithili Plays and Songs Composed by Malla Rulers of the Medieval Nepālamaṇḍala and Archived in the Nepāla Rāṣṭrīya Abhilekhālaya in Kathmandu)
The keynote speech discusses Newari's orthographic peculiarities that deftly represent the Middle Maithili sound system, and describes the linguistic structure of Middle Maithili as enshrined in the numerous manuscripts published, to date, in Nepal, India, Germany, and Japan. The presentation is a culmination of my earnest endeavors to incessantly and assiduously seek to retrieve and create and assimilate and disseminate indigenous knowledge coded in the precious Newari manuscripts of the Maithili language archived in the National Archives of Nepal.
Amniotic Membrane Transplantation at the Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospital Brno
Authors: Zemanová Markéta , Pacasová Rita , Šusťáčková Jana , Vlková Eva
Published: July 2022

Background: The aim of the work is a discussion of amniotic membrane transplantation at the Eye Clinic of the University Hospital Brno and a retrospective evaluation of a group of patients for the period 2014–2019 who were treated for various indications.

Methods: Retrospective evaluation of the number and effectiveness of individual types of amniotic membrane in a group of patients after amniotic membrane transplantation (AMT) for various indications. A total of 134 patients were included in the study group, of which 68 were men and 66 were women. The median age was 70 years. The total number of amniotic membrane transplants performed during the selected six years was 139, with half the distribution using frozen (69 eyes) and lyophilized amniotic membrane (70 eyes). The AMT technique was chosen based on the initial finding and diagnosis. The type of amniotic membrane used (lyophilized vs. frozen) depended on the urgency of the procedure.

Results: The number of amniotic membrane transplantations was evaluated in a group of 134 patients (139 eyes) and their effectiveness in individual diagnoses was demonstrated. During the follow-up period, more transplantations of amniotic membranes were performed during hospitalization than in the outpatient department, both types of membranes (frozen and lyophilized). Amniotic membrane transplantation during hospitalization was performed in 89 eyes, in the outpatient mode in 50 eyes. Indications for amniotic membrane transplantation included microperforation and corneal perforation (30 eyes), non-healing corneal defects (21 eyes), descemetocele (19 eyes), neurotrophic defects (16 eyes), ablation of pterygium (12 eyes) and corneal lysis (11 eyes). eyes). Other conditions (conjunctival lesions, fornix reconstruction, burns, peripheral ulcerative keratitis, ocular cicatricial pemphigoid and keratectomy) were represented in smaller numbers. Despite the very diverse group of indications and the advanced age of the patients, a very good efficacy of the performed amniotic membrane transplantations was found. Some patients died during the follow-up period, so the limitation of work is short and unequal follow-up period.

Conclusion: The success of the procedure depends not only on the correct timing, indication and technique of transplantation, but also on patient compliance and well-functioning cooperation of regional ophthalmologists.
Corneal Neurotisation In Patient With Severe Neurotrophic Keratopathy. Case Report
Authors: Rusňák Štěpán , Hecová Lenka , Štěpánek David , Sobotová Markéta
Published: July 2022

Purpose: Neurotrophic keratopathy (NK) is a degenerative corneal disease caused by damage to the trigeminal innervation due to a decrease in corneal sensitivity or complete anaesthesia. Impaired corneal innervation leads to morphological and metabolic disorders of the epithelium. In addition, it also leads to the development of recurrent or persistent epithelial defects in corneal ulcers, which may progress to stromal lysis and corneal perforation. One possible solution for severe NK is reinnervation of the anaesthetic cornea (corneal neurotization) using the supraorbital nerve and an autologous sensory nerve graft (indirect neurotization).
This article presents the results of corneal neurotization in a young male patient with persistent epithelial defects and corneal ulcers due to corneal denervation.

Results: A 22-year-old man with a history of neurosurgery for astrocytoma of the cerebellum and trunk on the right side at the age of 2 years, was observed for postoperative paresis of the right facial nerve with lagophthalmos in his childhood. The presence of asymptomatic dysfunction of the right trigeminal nerve was also noted. At the age of 22 years, after right eyeball contusion, the vision of the right eye decreased and a persistent epithelial defect developed, followed by corneal ulceration. Due to the exhaustion of therapeutic options in a young patient with corneal anaesthesia, the cornea was reinnervated via the contralateral supraorbital nerve using an autologous sural nerve graft. Five months after the surgery, the sensitivity of the cornea of the right eye began to recover. After amniotic membrane transplantation, the extensive epithelial defect healed, and the opaque corneal stroma gradually cleared up.

Conclusion: The reinnervation of the anaesthetic cornea (corneal neurotization) using the supraorbital nerve and the autologous sensory nerve graft represents a new solution for severe NK treatment. The severe corneal condition in our patient healed after the surgery.
Scotomas In The Visual Field As The First Sign Of Intracranial Expansion. Case Report
Authors: Horkovičová Kristína , Krásnik Vladimír , Liška Milan
Published: July 2022

The most common cause of visual field loss in ophthalmology is glaucoma. Other causes of visual field damage include local damage to the eye itself in intrabulbar or retrobulbar neuritis or injuries. However, they can also be caused by general diseases, e.g. in endocrine orbitopathy, toxic and nutritional neuropathy, or in diseases that are localized intracranially. Each of these findings in itself suggests the nature of the lesion, its intracranial location, lateral occurrence, as well as in which part of the visual pathway the lesion is located. The use of perimeter has therefore become the primary examination method, which is available, is not demanding and will quickly allow a diagnosis to be made. When found on a perimetric examination, it is necessary to indicate targeted imaging examinations, such as computed tomography or magnetic resonance imaging. The article describes a patient who was primarily examined at the Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Comenius University and the University hospital of Bratislava. The patient reported visual field outages, and after subsequent computed tomography, she was interdisciplinary managed and surgery was done on at the Neurosurgical Department. After the operation, there was a significant improvement without a pathological finding on the perimeter.
Our Experience with Active Sentry and Centurion Ozil Handpieces
Authors: Jirásková Naďa , Stěpanov Alexandr
Published: July 2022

Aim: To compare parameters of phacoemulsification using handpiece Active Sentry and Centurion Ozil.

Methods: We have evaluated results of 200 eyes of 129 patients that were operated for cataract at the Department of Ophthalmology. All surgeries were performed by one surgeon (NJ). In 100 eyes handpiece Active Sentry was used and in 100 eyes handpiece Centurion Ozil was used. The intraocular pressure during surgery (IOP), cumulative dissipated energy (CDE), ultrasound time (U/S time) and estimated consumption of balanced salt solution (BSS) were evaluated.

Results: Using handpiece Ozil Centurion the IOP was 65 mmHg, use handpiece Active Sentry enabled decrease safely peroperative IOP to 46 mm Hg withouth increase of fluctuation or declension of stability of the anterior chamber. The mean CDE a U/S time were significantly statistically decreased using Active Sentry versus Centurion Ozil handpieces. Difference in estimated consumption of balanced salt solution was not statistically significant.

Conclusion: Our results proved that using handpiece Active Sentry enabled statistically significantly decrease IOP during phacoemulsification and eliminated post-occlusion surge. This brings several advantages: more painless surgery for patients and more user-friendly procedure for surgeon especially in challenging cases (intraoperative floppy iris syndrome or severe myopia).
Introduction to Environment and Loss
Authors: Baginski Ana , Malcolm Chris , Trapp Erin
Published: July 2022

In this introduction, the authors lay out the problem of an environmental consciousness that is grounded in a logic of recuperability, one that foregrounds the environment as an “object” external to human experience. The introduction shows how discourses of grief, mourning, and disaster are anthropocentric in the sense that they find and perceive the conflicts that go under the name “climate crisis” as always first in the external environment. In a counterintuitive way, this holding outside of human experience names destruction in the external environment as relatable only to the extent that it bears the imprint of human activity. On this model, attempts to show the intensification of loss continually misrecognize the work that the environment does to provide structures of continuity and the thought of the unconscious or inaccessible. Without this, climate breakdown is figured within an economy of “overrepresentation,” where no one can be outside it. The effect is to prioritize a racialized libidinal economy that projects proximity to crisis as always elsewhere and which then seeks “natural” figures for annihilation that testify to imminent extinction. The nonhuman, as paradoxically outside, but nevertheless within, the scope of regulation, is therefore always subtended by a racializing logic of availability. Instead, the authors seek to move environmental thinking to a different epistemological frame where what is withdrawn from view, recuperation, and speculation provides the basis for a reorientation to what is otherwise thought of as “past saving.”
A Seafloor for the Disaster
Authors: Farbman Herschel
Published: July 2022

Across discourses and genres, stories of climate change often follow a race-against-time plot, as if confronting environmental disaster meant accepting the terms of the disaster film genre. The objective of this article is to elucidate some of the anxieties these terms manage, in particular, anxiety provoked, paradoxically, by the stability of the earth even in the worst-case scenarios—even, for example, in the case of the total uninhabitability of the earth for human beings. Within the framework of the race-against-time plot, the earth cannot appear as simultaneously stable and uninhabitable; uninhabitability can appear only as a breakdown of stability. Through readings of Sylvia Wynter, Jules Michelet, Jules Verne, and Lars von Trier, who takes the disaster film genre to its limit in Melancholia, this article elaborates an alternative to this splitting, starting from the seafloor, whose primal uninhabitability for human beings is unaffected by the wells that now puncture it and the cables that now cross it. Of course, there is a difference between the disastrous uninhabitability caused by capitalist production and the uninhabitability that precedes it primordially, but the latter is part and parcel of the stability that holds even in the worst-case scenarios. That this limit cannot be destroyed does not mean that there is any limit to how far the desire to destroy it can go. Rather, it helps account for the inextinguishability of the destructive desire, the acknowledgment of which, a condition for change, cannot happen within the terms of the race-against-time plot.
Receding Margins: Black Rice and the Rhythms of Tidal Transfer
Authors: François Anne-Lise
Published: July 2022

Plants and their cultivators play a privileged, if ambiguous, role in the recreation, maintenance, and transmission of cultural practices that settler colonialism believes to have definitively erased for having violently interrupted. Raising the question of what does and does not carry over in the transfer of roots and transport of seeds, survivance through the continued flourishing and tending of certain plants brings into focus what this special issue’s call for papers identifies as the dialectic of priority and incompletion defining a destruction that both precedes contemporary environmental calamity and escapes conclusion, remaining as unfinished, as unachieved, as it is still ongoing. In the words of the call, the articles collected here proceed from “a dual impulse: both to say there are things that have been destroyed which have yet to be perceived, and, there are things which have not been destroyed, which subsist without the need for critical recovery.” Numerous times when trying to write this essay, I have been stopped in equal measure by awe and grief: awe at the beauty of the cosmic rhythms of rise and fall, flood and recession, in relation to which human societies have learned to move and live, bringing these rhythms into relief through scalar mimesis and selective accentuation; grief at settler colonialism’s violent disruption of this mutual patterning.
Abolish Species: Notes toward an “Unfenced Is,” Part I
Authors: Ty M.
Published: July 2022

Despite its provenance in racial paradigms of colonial research, the notion of species has proved to be remarkably resilient and adaptable to post-racial frameworks of thought. Species has survived both the death of the subject and the cancellation of man. In their ascendance over nineteenth-century evolutionary theories of life, white environmentalisms have re-legitimated this keystone of biological racism by deploying species as if it were an ideologically agnostic articulation of a meaningful grouping. This article unsettles the common portrayal of species as a culturally unmarked and racially neutral concept, whose function is to denominate what remains of the planet. Working against the orthodox definition of species as the “basic unit of biodiversity,” I apprehend species as a form of onto-epistemic incarceration that has been imposed, globally, as the dominant mode of biological understanding and, subsequently, as the prevailing structure of representation used to account for environmental loss and abundance. In excess of its taxonomic function, species serves as an instrument that, practically and ideationally, converts flesh into potential wealth. This investigation begins by checking the conventional presumption that captivity is incidental to species and examines how, on the contrary, species is productive of capture, whose economic and epistemic dimensions are mutually enriching. This critical reappraisal then moves toward an argument for the abolition of species, made on the basis of four overlapping grounds. First, the institution of species enforces mono-lingualism and consolidates white entitlement to bestow a universal name on everything living. Second, species normalizes extractive incarceration as a means of accumulating value. Third, species secures Euro-American hegemony over the way difference is “objectively” defined—restrictively, in terms of heteronormative logics of reproduction that, in turn, lend coherence to projects of racialization. Fourth, the notion of species enforces a normative paradigm for processing environmental loss that blocks perception of the colonial violence that it reproduces.
Cinematic Genre and Viewer Engagement in Hitchcock’sPsycho
Authors: Conant James
Published: July 2022

Alfred Hitchcock’s admirers are fond of praising his work for being cinematically innovative. This article seeks to determine wherein his achievement in this regard lies. It begins by reflecting on the ways in which his movies harbor a form of “false bottom”—one that characterizes the new form of cinematic genre that Hitchcock pioneers. It then examines some of the particular ways in which this allows for novel kinds of viewer engagement. It does so, in particular, by attending to the forms of cinematic invisibility and disclosure enabled by the shower scene in Psycho. That this scene is somehow remarkable is hardly news. Yet in priding ourselves on being struck by its cinematic virtuosity, we are apt to fail to appreciate how that impression deflects our attention from the scene’s real achievement—namely, the extent to which it enables the following five maneuvers all to be performed simultaneously in a manner permitting none of them to strike us on a first viewing: (1) the mediation of a transition from one organizing center of narrative subjectivity to another; (2) the dilation of the temporality of the scene in a manner that facilitates a registration of its significance; (3) a mode of aestheticization of the horror of the scene that opens up space for a very different form of experience of cinematic shock; (4) the artful concealment of the murderer’s identity requisite to the unfolding of its plot; and (5) the consolidation of a “false bottom” in the movie’s generic structure found throughout Hitchcock’s masterworks.
Features of mineral density of the tibia at the level of its pollination in monocondylar arthroplasty of the knee joint
Authors: Zhuk P. M. , Movchaniuk V. O. , Matsypura M. M. , Shammo A. M. , Suchorukov S. I.
Published: July 2022

Annotation. The article presents the results of measuring the bone mineral density at the level of the tibial saw cut during monocondylar arthroplasty of the knee joint using a device developed by the authors. Objective of the study – to determine the dependence of the level of bone mineral density on the thickness of the bone saw cut, the zone of its determination, the age and sex of the patients. 178 patients (147 women and 31 men) aged 50 to 79 years were examined. Mostly medial arthrosis occurred in 189, lateral – in 12 cases. In the process of carrying out monocondylar arthroplasty of the knee joint (201 joints) the mineral density of the bone tissue was determined depending on the thickness of the resection of the tibia. Slice thickness 9, 11, 13 mm. Significant discrepancies in bone mineralization of the tibia were revealed. The densest are the anterior sections of the saw cut, the least dense are the central and posterior-lateral ones. With age and thickness of the saw cut, the indicators proportionally decrease in the same relationship, and after 70 years of patients in most cases it is less than 50% of the norm. Moreover, men have higher rates of bone mineralization than women of the same age. The uneven distribution of the mineral density of the tibial bone tissue, the presence of weakly mineralized areas in the central and posterolateral sections of the saw cut, a proportional decrease in bone density in the elderly allowed us to develop a method for preventively increasing the reliability of fixation and stability of the tibial component of the endoprosthesis. This approach allowed us to review the age limits for monocondylar arthroplasty and get good long-term results.
Correlation between chemical composition of enamel and oral fluid in patients with intact teeth and cervical pathology
Authors: Zabolotna I. I. , Komlev A. A. , Zabolotnyi O. S.
Published: July 2022

Annotation. Cervical pathology of teeth is widespread and polyetiological, saliva plays an important role in its occurrence and progression. The aim of the study is to determine the chemical composition of oral fluid in patients with cervical caries, wedge-shaped defect, intact hard dental tissues; establish correlations between oral fluid and cervical enamel. In this regard 33 patients were divided depending on the condition of hard dental tissues and there were determined: Сa2+, РО43-, SO42-, Na+, К+, Al3+, Mg2+, Zn2+ – by spectrometric methods, Cl- – using a chloride-selective electrode pH-meter. The chemical composition of cervical enamel of 29 removed intact teeth and with cervical pathology was studied using a scanning electron microscope JSM-6490 LV with energy-dispersive X-ray microanalysis system INCA Penta FETx3. Molar coefficients were calculated as the ratio of the number of chemical analytes in the supernatant. Statistical analysis was performed using the computer program Statistica 8.0 (STA862D175437Q). Applied: analysis of variance (Welch test), correlation analysis (Pearson's parametric correlation method) based on the determination of the parametric Brave-Pearson coefficient (r) at p<95%. The reliability of the obtained results was evaluated by Student's t-test and by Student's test using the Z-test (Fisher's z-test) at p≤0.05. There was no significant difference in the amount of chemical elements in saliva between the groups (p>0.05) and significant differences were determined in K/Na (p=0.0258). There was correlation between chemical analyte content in the oral fluid and cervical tooth enamel: direct ‑ between Са2+ and РО43-, К+ and Cl-, К+ and Na+; inverse – between Са2+ and К+, Са2+ and Cl-, РО43- and К+, РО43- and Cl- (p<0.0001). Correlation was identified: direct – between Ca/P and Ca/Mg, Ca/P and Ca/Cl, P/Ca and K/Na, Mg/Ca and Mg/P; inverse -‑between K/Na and Ca/P, K/Na and Ca/Cl, P/Ca and Ca/Cl, P/Ca and Ca/P (p≤0.05). Obtained results allowed to use Ca/Mg ratio as an indicator of enamel mineralization. We propose to use certain differences in correlation of chemical elements of oral fluid and tooth enamel to assess the mineral state of tooth enamel and control the effectiveness of preventive measures. Based on saliva parameters and microbiological indicators of dental biofilm the search for ways of preclinical diagnosis of cervical pathology is promising.
Influence of different prevention options on cognitive dysfunction in the early and remote postoperative period in otolaryngological interventions with controlled hypotension
Authors: Bondar R. A.
Published: July 2022

Annotation. Cognitive dysfunction complicates the course of the early postoperative period, and in the longer term worsens the quality of life of patients due to their professional, social and domestic maladaptation, so the prevention of cognitive disorders is an urgent problem of modern medicine. The aim of the study was to investigate the effect of drugs with antioxidant properties and effects on choline metabolism on the state of cognitive function of patients after otolaryngological surgery with controlled hypotension. The data of neurocognitive testing of 127 patients were analyzed, including: patients of group 1 (control, n=33) did not receive prevention of cognitive dysfunction, patients of group 2 (n=32) were prescribed ethylmethylhydroxypyridine succinate, patients of group 3 (n=30) – choline alfoscerate, patients of group 4 (n=32) – choline alfoscerate and ethylmethylhydroxypyridine succinate. The assessment of cognitive function of all patients was conducted before surgery, 7 days and 3 months after surgery using the Lurie test, the Toulouse-Pieron test, the Trial Making Test and the Stroop test. Statistical processing of the obtained data was performed in the statistical package “SPSS 20” (SPSS Inc.) using parametric and non-parametric methods of evaluation of the obtained results. The results of neurocognitive testing of otolaryngological patients who underwent surgery under general anesthesia using controlled arterial hypotension, showed that cognitive impairment, registered in the early postoperative period in 24.4% of patients, significantly decreased within 3 months after surgery and reached 11%. Perioperative use of choline alfoscerate reduces the incidence of postoperative cognitive dysfunction in the early postoperative period from 39.4% to 16.7%, while the combination of choline alfoscerate with ethylmethylhydroxypyridine succinate reduces the incidence to 12.5%. No significant effect of perioperative prophylactic medication on the frequency of cognitive dysfunction was found in the long postoperative period of otolaryngological interventions with controlled hypotension. The obtained results can serve as a justification for the subsequent purposeful determination of clinical predictors of postoperative cognitive impairment.
Study of interactions between HTRA1 gene polymorphism and retinal pigment epithelial phenotype in age-related macular degeneration
Authors: Malachkova N. V. , Mohammad Mashhour Mohammad Masa’deh
Published: July 2022

Annotation. Age-related macular degeneration is a multifactorial nosology caused by the interaction of various risk factors, but the pathogenesis remains unclear. An alternative point of application in the pathogenesis of the disease was the product of the HTRA1 gene, which is actively expressed in retinal epithelial cells and modulates their response to stimuli. That is why the aim of our study was to elucidate the effect of the rs11200638 polymorphism of the HTRA1 gene on the occurrence and development of age-related macular degeneration and to determine the intensity of this pathological effect. The study group consisted of 291 individuals, while the comparison group consisted of 105 individuals of the appropriate age. Optical coherence tomography of the macular area of the retina using the ILM-RPE parameter was used to establish the diagnosis. Real-time polymerase chain reaction was used to detect polymorphism on the BioRad CFX 96 thermocycler-amplifier. Statistical processing of the results was performed by determining Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, Kruskal-Wallace methods, logistic regression using OR and 95% CI curves and indicators of sensitivity and specificity. The study found a predominance of wild type among the comparison group, while heterozygous and mutant genotypes were almost equally distributed among patients with “dry” and “wet” forms of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). A statistically significant associative association was found between the mutant allele A and the occurrence of both atrophic (OR=7.75; 95% CI 3.87-15.49) and neovascular (OR=3.3; 95% CI 1, 89-5.91) forms of AMD (p<0.001). Subsequent analysis revealed a significant statistical relationship between variant AA and “wet” AMD (OR=21.3; 95% CI 2.57-176.8; p<0.001), as well as between heterozygous variant and “dry” (OR=7.7; 95% CI 3.8-15.46) and “wet” (OR=2.45; 95% CI 1.36-4.43) forms of the disease (p <0.01). In addition, the use of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) rs11200638 allows with a specificity of 59.2-98.4% and a sensitivity of 12.5-83.9% to diagnose AMD, depending on its form and the available genotype of the patient. Thus, our results indicate the high significance of the prognostic effect of the rs11200638 polymorphism of the HTRA1 gene on the development and progression of AMD, and the sensitivity and specificity indicators allow the use of the definition of this SNP to diagnose the disease.
Distribution of vegetative dysfunctions and depressive positions among sexually active students and students without sexual debut of National Pirogov Memorial Medical University, Vinnytsya
Authors: Kucherenko O. , Chaika H. , Dan N.
Published: July 2022

Annotation. Autonomic dysfunction syndrome is one of the most common disorders, which has a wide range of interpretations among specialists of different profiles. The autonomic nervous system (ANS) occupies a significant place in the development of somatic pathology. The course and manifestation of all pathological conditions is associated with autonomic dysfunction. Together with vegetative disorders, depressive disorders are also widespread among students. The aim of the study: to identify the clinical psychopathological features of somatized depressive disorders and autonomic dysfunction among sexually active students in comparison with students without a sexual debut of 4th year of study at Vinnytsya National Pirogov Memorial Medical University. A survey of 308 medical students was carried out. Obtained data were analyzed using the program “Statistica 6.1” using nonparametric methods of estimation of the obtained results. It was found that among medical students is a very high percentage of depressive disorders (96.1%) and disorders of autonomic function (69.8%). However, the manifestations of vascular dysfunction in young people are not related to their sexual activity. Mild and minimal manifestations of depressive disorders are also not associated with sexual activity. Symptoms of very severe depression are more prevalent in virgin girls than in sexually active girls and boys.
A Study on the Theory of the Human Mind and the Moral Mind in Han Wonjin: Especially Focused on the Discussion about Xingqi
Authors:   THE  TAEDONG  CENTER  FOR  EASTERN  CLASSICS, YOUN Sangsoo
Published: July 2022

This article is to examine The Theory Of The Human Mind And The Moral Mind (人心道心論) in Han Wonjin(韓元震), especially focusing on the interpretation of Xingqi(形氣) in Preface to Commentary on the Doctrine of the Mean(中庸章句序). For this purpose, I arranged the writings of Han Wonjin on the The Human Mind And The Moral Mind in chronological order, divided into three groups according to the contents, and then reviewed for the first group.
First, I reviewed Han Wonjin's Treatise on The Human Mind And The Moral Mind(人心道心說) and discussed that the most characteristic feature of his theory is the interpretation of Xingqi. Next, I revealed that his interpretation of Xingqi was the succession and development of the teachings of his teacher, Kwon Sangha(權尙夏). Finally, I looked at how Han WonJin criticized the theory of The Theory Of The Human Mind And The Moral Mind of the scholars of the past, based on his theory, especially the interpretation of Xingqi.
The Syncretic Character of Zhan Ruo-Shui's Philosophy in the Point of it's Critic by Luo Qin-Shun
Authors:   THE  TAEDONG  CENTER  FOR  EASTERN  CLASSICS, CHO Nam Ho
Published: July 2022

In one word, Luo Qin-shun criticized the philosophical syncretic attitude of Zhan Ruo-Shui as being similar to Yang Xiong and despised that Zhan Ruo-Shui was inferior to Yang Xiong. Yang Xiong made a third claim that good and evil coexist. Yang Xiong was criticized for his half-hearted attitude that none of these occasional thoughts could be determined. Luo, Qin-Shun criticized Zhan, Ruo-Shui for presenting a third eclectic plan, but rather for his own motive, he insisted on an eclectic combination of Chen, Xian-Zhang and Cheng-Zhu. In fact, Luo, Qin-Shun despised that the academic motivation of Zhan, Ruo-Shui was less pure than that of Yang Xiong. Arranging the eclectic attitude of the philosophical medicine greatly expanded my mind and insisted that Tian-li should be embodied in all things in the world. It is said that if you reach a great heart, your heart will reach the middle-right, and if you reach the middle-right, your heart will naturally activate and respond to it. He claims that he is the orthodox of Neo-Confucianism because his body certification Tian-li was approved by Chen, Xian-Zhang. Internally, he notices the body of the mind through perception, recognizes Tian-li of all things through reason, and as a result, the mind and the outside are united inside and outside. In other words, it looks like a mind study that ostensibly realizes the body of the mind, but in reality it is so similar to the scholarship of Cheng Yi and Zhu Xi.
From the Cheng-Zhu perspective, the theory of Li-Qi one combine has already had the idea of looking at in two from the word combine, and there remains the problem of excluding that is not middle-right in the theory of middle-right. Even from the logic of human anmal nature theory, we do not clearly distinguish between heaven earth nature and temperament nature. Luo, Qin-Shun points out this point. From Mind study point of view, the discussion about the whole of Chen, Xian-Zhang is also avoided by Ben ti. This point is a problem for Luo, Qin-Shun. It limits the philosophy of Zhan, Ruo-Shui in that it is not hazy from the Cheng-Zhu side and cannot show a deep inner layer difference from the psychological side.