bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Sexual Violence against Indigenous Women: Policies, Human Rights and the Myth of Development
Authors: Cervantes-Altamirano Eren
Published: November 2021

This paper addresses issues regarding the definition of sexual violence in the context of Canada’s development discourse in the Third World vis-à-vis the domestic experiences of Indigenous women. Despite the fact that sexual violence is often defined as rape or unwanted sexual contact, the author argues that Indigenous female victims of sexual violence are strongly influenced by other systems of oppression. Systems like the coloniality of power, a term coined by Anibal Quijano, the coloniality of gender, a term best explored in the works of Maria Lugones, capitalism, heteropatriarchy and racism, among others, should be considered when discussing women of colour’s experiences of sexual violence. Hence, the notion of sexual violence purely as rape further marginalizes women of colour, including Indigenous women. Through the notion of intersectionality (Crenshaw 1991), this article aims to produce change towards redefining sexual violence in a way that better reflects the experiences of women of colour, while challenging systemic oppression. KEYWORDS: Sexual violence, Indigenous women, Development, Policy, Intersectionality, Coloniality
Reflections on Immediatism and Aesthetics
Authors: Cirone Victor
Published: November 2021

This paper considers the aesthetic and political implications of Hakim Bey’s (also known as Peter Lamborn Wilson) Immediatist project. The paper begins with a discussion of the cosmogonic notions of Chaos and nothing that Bey adopts in his work and explores the ways in which these notions are foundational to his concept of Ontological Anarchy. It is then explained how, through indiscriminately drawing on a variety of mystical and magical traditions (from those of Pagan Greece and Ancient India to the contemporary Western Occult world) Immediatism aims to establish an experiential foundation for the reality of interdependent non-dual wholeness. In order to advance Bey’s critique of ‘the sleep of Order’, pathological (calculative) reason, and Western technological development, his work is brought into dialogue with that of schizoanalyst and philosopher Felix Guattari. The final part of this paper discusses the implications of Bey’s Immediatist project for contemporary artistic practice, with special emphasis placed on musical forms and the possibility of reviving Occidental sacred musical traditions. KEYWORDS: Hakim Bey, Peter Lamborn Wilson, Felix Guattari, Chaos, Nothing, Ontological Anarchy
Colorblindness in the Public Consciousness
Authors: Giles Matthew
Published: November 2021

This paper explores the relationship between the public narrative created by dominant socio-ethnic groups and the people being represented in that discourse through the frame of racial colorblindness. Colorblind ideology pervades American public discourse and negatively affects social perception of race in conflict situations. Although some well-intentioned aspects of colorblind policy allow for racial diversity, colorblind ideology is insufficient to protect the rights of minorities and underprivileged groups. An analysis of the philosophy behind racial colorblindness illustrates how groups reinforce privilege and recognizes the reasons why the ideal of racial colorblindness persists despite flaws and inaccuracies. Three individual statements from key figures in Ferguson demonstrate this racial colorblindness, and at times even specifically mention colorblind ideology. This paper unpacks the cultural understanding of racial colorblindness, recognizes the perceptions and perspectives of the speakers, and demonstrates the problems that emerge when the myth of racial colorblindness is left unchecked.KEYWORDS: racial colorblindness, narrative identity, intergroup communication, Ferguson
Super-Material Culture: Thinking Through a New Discourse of Ruins
Authors: Kushinski Alysse
Published: November 2021

The discourse on ruins, like ruins themselves, is fragmented and dispersed. Representing both decay and what remains, the ruins’ relationship to temporality is complicated—they can be construed as means for both looking back, as well as looking towards the future. The recent resurgence of literature and theory on the subject matter is consolidating existing work and defining new lines of inquiry. This article investigates the current discourse on ruins through three recent texts. Significant to them all is the dialectical nature of the ruin as both the absence of, and endurance of, material form. All three texts consider ruins through the lens of the built environment and problematize classic conceptions of ruination in consideration of the contemporary moment. Looking at ruination through architecture theory provides a contrast to the romantic accounts of ruins that originally defined the discourse. Through these texts we can see certain limitations of the discourse of ruins, but also visible are nuanced approaches that redefine the ruin as more than just a site or object, but also a set of processes that reflect our relationships to material culture and the built environment. To this I assert a necessity to reconfigure the way we de ne ruins in light of the contemporary moment. The discourse of ruins, while still speaking through earlier tropes of a fragmented ruin studies, is no longer just a survey of the subject of the ruin—it is becoming a mode through which we evaluate the changing nature of our relationship to material culture. KEYWORDS: Ruins, Ruination, Architecture, Super-materiality, Waste
Are Podcasts the New Radio? Thresholds in the Macro-Environment
Authors: Overbeek Josh
Published: November 2021

This paper considers the podcast and the current status of its disruptive relationship to traditional forms of audio entertainment. The tremendous growth of podcast adoption has yet to develop into substantial growth in revenues as the billion dollar profits of linear radio broadcasters continue to grossly dwarf the monetization structures of even the most frequently downloaded podcasts. While the self-organization and immaterial labour driving the podcast moment could be described as a challenge to the capacities of capital, this paper follows political economist Vincent Mosco’s lead of moving beyond discontinuities between old and new communication technologies to evenly attend to their continuities as well. I argue that while the unpaid labour collected into most podcasts seems to locate these cultural products outside of capitalist relations, the uniquely intimate affect podcasts generate represents a continuity between digital and linear audio media as it is captured by capital in the form of both targeted- and influencer-marketing from merchants and brand building social strategies of established broadcasters. Tracing continuities and discontinuities between podcasts and radio, this paper concludes that podcasts should not be considered an over-the-top disrupter to terrestrial radio. It is too soon to predict the degree to which they will enter this role in the future. KEYWORDS: podcast; communication technology; radio; disruption; immaterial labour
Dis-located Bodies: Dao and Deep Reality in Embodied Experience
Authors: Wong Angie
Published: November 2021

This paper addresses the problems of the totality of Euro-American rationalist thinking that often dis-locates embodied thought and being through a consensus of scientific management and amusement. The culture of consensus perpetuates non- thinking being through the eradication of individuality in a totality. The realization of this tranquilized familiarity is a product of deep reality: the reflection of cultural practices, norms, and epistemologies that existentially affect one’s life revealed through the investigation of those very practices, norms, and epistemologies that underlie most cultural assumptions. Access to deep reality reveals the phenomenology of apathy. Examining the consensus of being that rationalist thought dictates and learning from other forms of knowledge such as Daoist philosophy alongside Euro-American thought offers a way of being on the periphery of rationalist thought that resists subsumption. Deep reality takes into consideration that other modes of thinking and being harmonize the mind/body dis-location: it is a way of thinking that attempts to expand beyond the Eurocentric philosophical tradition. Revealing from the periphery that commonality is more present than absent, dis-location forms the realization that the mastery of rationalist thought is alienated from itself, demonstrating that it is one mode of thinking among many that is in constant transformation. KEYWORDS: deep reality, rationalist thought, philosophical Daoism, dis-location, embodiment, apathy
Conditions for a Digital Metaphysic
Authors: Young DD
Published: November 2021

Through an interpretation of Plato and Aristotle, I argue that the founding values of traditional metaphysics were made possible by speci c conditions of language and metaphor. Using the premises drawn from these Greek philosophers, I evaluate the ways digital media do and do not diverge from those conditions. In order to comprehend the novelty of digital media theoretically, we must first understand which features of ‘thought’ are conserved between different media systems. My position contrasts particularly with that of N. Katherine Hayles who, in My Mother was a Computer (2005), asserts that the novelty of digital media renders the conceptual resources of ‘traditional media’ inadequate to theorize it. Most of Hayles’s analysis and comparison is devoted to the properties of digital code and the interaction between code and hardware. I argue, by employing a semiotic division of language between syntagmatic and associative axes, that programming languages lack the semantic indeterminacy required to constitute a new worldview, as Hayles proposes. Finally, I argue that Hayles’s argument fails to articulate specifically how epiphenomena come to affect thinking. While there are differences between print and digital text, instead of looking to epiphenomenal causation, I propose a line of inquiry that would compare their histories as systems. Far from casting off traditional metaphysics, digital technology may actually better approximate some of their goals, for it enables a more thorough self-erasure of its own material which never comes into a phenomenal purview. KEYWORDS: Media eory, Digital Humanities, Metaphysics, Visual Culture
Notes on Contributors
Authors: Journal Topia
Published: November 2021

Notes on Contributors
Anecdotally Queer: The Then and There of My Prairie Home
Authors: Petrychyn Jonathan
Published: November 2021

This paper considers two contested spatial and temporal thresholds in relation to queer and trans life: the threshold between urban and rural, and the threshold between past and future. Through a discursive analysis of Chelsea McMullan’s 2013 documentary on trans singer-songwriter Rae Spoon My Prairie Home, I explore the queer possibilities situated between these thresholds and provide an opportunity to rethink our assumptions about queer and trans identities in rural spaces. Drawing together recent queer theory that reconceptualizes queerness as undecidability, Meghan Morris’s theory of anecdotal identity and Michel de Certeau’s philosophy of spatial stories, I argue that My Prairie Home offers us an anecdotal vision of queer rural life. The rural becomes queer and thus becomes an undecidable space that we cross on our way home. Contrary to the common perception that the urban is the only spatial configuration in which queers can flourish, I rescue the rural as a necessary approach to thinking queer life. KEYWORDS: space and time; rural; anecdote; queer; transgender; futures
The Soundscape of Becoming Place: Rhythms and Voices of Village des Tanneries
Authors: Toso Tricia
Published: November 2021

Place can be understood as not a fixed geographical location, but as an event that emerges in the encounter between continually transforming materialand human elements, social relations and practices; that place is composed of strands of human experience, memory, histories and stories in a particular material setting. This article draws on Amin and Thrift’s “ontology of encounter” and Lefebvre’s method of rhythmanalysis to explore the complex interactions of geography, social practices and city environment. An “auditory turn” offers ways of thinking about the mobilities, encounters and narratives of an urban neighbourhood that combine and merge to give rise to a soundscape. A turn toward the sensory and auditory offers new paths for analysis in urban geography, mobilities and infrastructure studies.
“Everybody has their own Dream”: Nail houses and Resistance to the Landscape of Globalization in Contemporary China
Authors: Szwedska Thomas
Published: November 2021

The transformation of the Chinese landscape is embodied by the figure of new, hyper-modern cityscapes. With the influx of hundreds of millions of people from rural to urban areas, China’s economic reform process is dominated by the production of space designed to instill a new ideal of modern economic subjects for Chinese identity. However, China’s modernization is complicated by the emergence of a recent urban phenomena: dingzihu, or nail-houses. Nail- houses are points of resistance where individuals refuse to abandon their homes when traditional urban districts are demolished for urban renewal. By examining personal testimonies of nail-house inhabitants and visual representations of traditional urban communities in contemporary Chinese cinema, it will be argued that nail-house protests’ resistance to the disappearance of traditional urban-community culture is a symptom of the logic of globalization. To this end, Frederic Jameson shall be invoked to argue that globalization forces the creation of local national worlds that are antagonistic to all others, including those within their own space. Drawing on Hannah Arendt, insofar as the collapse of the public and private sphere for the sake of economic interest in China can be understood as reducing the difference of personal identity to create national homogeneity, nail-house protests reveal a common condition of exile endemic to the process of global modernity as a whole.
Patient Advocacy, Drug Promotion, and the Feminist Paradox: An Analysis of the Canadian Pain Coalition
Authors: Holloway Kelly , Haw Jennie
Published: November 2021

Healthcare has changed significantly over the past few decades with the emergence of neoliberalism as a dominant ideology informing policy. This paper examines the Canadian Pain Coalition’s (CPC) conceptualization of chronic pain and its treatment in the context of neoliberalism. Through content analysis of the CPC’s online materials, we show how the advocacy group constructs pain as an individual’s responsibility and a physical disease that can be managed primarily with pharmaceutical medication.  Drawing on insights from the social determinants of health and feminist literatures, we suggest that the CPC’s construction of pain as a physical disease, an individual responsibility, and its emphasis on pharmaceutical treatment is inadequate in addressing the complex social, economic, and physical needs of people living with chronic pain.  Taking up Susan Markens’ concept of the “feminist paradox,” we suggest that there is a necessary tension in the construction of pain as disease.  On the one hand, it is constructed in terms of providing access to treatments, while on the other, it potentially medicalizes people living with chronic pain.  Finally, we discuss how the CPC does not adequately address the side of the tension concerning medicalization, given the strong association between the CPC and the pharmaceutical companies.
Reproductive Inequality in Canada
Authors: Rinaldi Jen
Published: November 2021

This article will examine the implications of taking an autonomy approach to reproductive health policy and practice, and the value of shifting to an equality approach.  In legal terms, the acknowledgement that reproductive control is often a s. 15 equality matter, not simply a s. 7 concern, could lead to drastically different health care services.  The author will begin by explaining R. v. Morgentaler (1988), the case which set the precedent that reproductive health is a s. 7 concern—that is, an autonomy matter.  The author will identify some current conditions in the context of reproductive health in order to illustrate the shortcomings to s. 7.  Specifically, she will demonstrate the importance that government take positive action rather than uphold a position of non-interference.  The subsequent section will make a case for redressing present conditions via the invocation of s. 15 equality rights.  The author will conclude with an evaluation of s. 15, considering the objection that not even this section can guarantee positive action.
Payment where Payment is Due: Canada’s Federal Transfer System and a Needs-Based Solution to Health Transfer Spending
Authors: Aiken Megan
Published: November 2021

Since the 1950s, federal transfers have been moulded and remoulded under practically every Prime Minister. The current iteration of transfers, specifically the 2014 implementation of equal-per-capita funding through the Canada Health Transfer, poses major problems to regional disparities, and arguably favours provinces that have high growth; this leaves poorer provinces, like the Maritimes, to make major cuts to provincial budgets in order to maintain the standards set out in the Canada Health Act. This paper explores the history of transfers, why transfers are necessary for Canadians, as well as the criticisms of the current system. Following this, it is recommended that a needs-based model for determining health transfers be adopted; specifically, the model developed by Marchildon and Mou that accounts for an aging population as well as one that is geographically dispersed. This paper provides a more contemporary analysis on federal transfers as they relate to the health care system. Additionally, it focuses somewhat on the issues New Brunswick is facing currently as, among other things, a result of inadequate funding from the federal government.
Beyond “PTSD”: How stories and artworks that “make strange” can serve as signposts on new maps toward the communalization of military trauma
Authors: SPRING LAUREN
Published: November 2021

The psychiatric system, in large part due to its reliance on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), has a tendency to pathologize ordinary human reactions to difficult life events, and to individualize treatments for “mental illness.” This article builds on existing literature that is critical of psychiatry and proposes that art and stories that ‘make strange’ and elude easy interpretation may serve as a powerful counterpoint or complement to the ‘standard way of doing things’ when it comes to mental health care. Using military trauma as an example, this article highlights the inadequacies of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) as a diagnostic category; and, drawing from critical literature in the field and the author’s own experiences working with groups of traumatized veterans, it illustrates how and why ancient mythology and modern art especially may serve as useful tools for those who are having problems with living. The ‘disorienting dilemmas’ and consciousness-raising discussions such works evoke have the potential to touch on vital, nuanced, and philosophical aspects of trauma and suffering that are too often overlooked by the psychiatric profession.Keywords: military trauma; mental health; modern art; theatre; ancient mythology; transformative learning; museums; PTSD.
Incorporating a Life-Course Perspective in the Development of Research and Public Policy Impacting Older Refugees
Authors: Sathiyamoorthy Thrmiga
Published: November 2021

Older refugees are widely recognized as one of the most at-risk populations living with multiple intersecting barriers of political insecurity, financial insolvency, and poor health. Drawing upon secondary literature, this review essay builds upon a critique of multiculturalism to argue that the successful integration of older refugees is a two-way process. This process includes: 1) refugees making active attempts to embed themselves into Canadian society, and; 2) government facilitating conditions to help refugees integrate. The social integration of refugee elders is not a personal issue. It is a public problem that requires active government intervention via generous universal benefits.  I use the life-course theoretical perspective to undertake an analysis of public policies and existing research to identify structural determinants of older refugees’ integration.
Decolonizing Stigma and Diagnosis as Healing Work
Authors: Ramugondo Elelwani , Lepere Refiloe , Nebe Warren
Published: November 2021

In order to disrupt dominant understandings of health and well-being, and to confront systemic injustices that result in ongoing health inequities, stigma must be addressed from both within and beyond the realm of medical diagnosis. The individualistic nature of diagnosis, that is characteristic of Western medical approaches, often perpetuates stigma. The role of diagnosis in biomedicine, as well as the historicity of professions and disciplines in Westernized health-care, intersect with different hierarchies of power, identities, and knowledges through mechanisms that operate across local and global contexts. This paper argues that a decolonial approach to health research, practice and education offers an important lens through which to critically analyse these intersections of power, identities, and knowledges. Such an approach can help disrupt dominant understandings of health and well-being. To advance the argument, examples of decolonial thinking approaches and pedagogical methods from South Africa are provided.
MENUMBUHKAN KEMAMPUAN MENULIS AKADEMIK DENGAN TEKNIK IN STAGES GUIDANCE
Authors: Heryadi Dedi
Published: November 2021

ABSTRAKPenelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui keefektifan teknik pembelajaran in Stage Guidance dalam menumbuhkan kemampuan menulis akademik mahasiswa.Dalam menguji keefetifan teknikpembelajaran tersebut, dikaji dengan menggunakan metode Penelitian dan Pengembangan (Rsearch Development)pada mahasiswa semester lima di Universitas Siliwangi tahu akademik 2018/2019. Prosedur penelitian yang ditempuh melalui tahapan (1) pemmbentukan model awal/konseptual, (2) pengujan lapangan model awal, (3) revisi model awal, (4) Pengujian lapangan model hasil revisi, (5) validasi model, (6) diseminasi model baik melalui forum ilmiah seperti seminar, maupun melalui publikasi ilmiah. Melalui tahapan tersebut diketahui bahwa model pembelajaran menulis akademik berbasis in stages guidance teruji keefetifannya dalam menumbuhkan kemampuan menulis akademik para mahasiswa. Peneliti merekomendasikan kepada para dosen unuk mencoba menggunakan teknik pembelajaran ini sebagai upaya mengkaji lebih dalam tentang  keterujian  keefektifannya.  Kata Kunci  : menulis akademik, in stages guidance, mahasiswa ABSTRACTThis research aimed to determine the effectiveness of in-Stage Guidance Learning Techniques in improving students' academic writing skills. Testing of the effectiveness regarding learning technique used the Research and Development method on fifth-semester students at Siliwangi University academic year 2018/2019. The research procedure was carried out through the stages (1) formation of the initial/conceptual model, (2) field testing of the initial model, (3) revision of the initial model, (4) field testing of the revised model, (5) model validation, (6) model dissemination either through scientific forums such as seminars or through scientific publications. Throughout these stages, it would be known that the in-stage guidance-based academic writing learning model has proven its effectiveness in improving students' academic writing skills. Therefore, the researcher recommended that lecturers try to use this learning technique to examine its effectiveness in depth.Key words: academic writing; in stage guidance; students
The concept of innocence in criminal procedure
Authors: Panteleeva Elena Vyacheslavovna
Published: November 2021

The concept of “innocence” is an important category of criminal proceedings; alongside the concept of “guilt”, it is the central question resolved in the course of proceedings in criminal cases. However, this term remains poorly studied in theory and legislation. The article examines the instances, in which the concept of “innocence” is used in the text of the current criminal procedure law. Analysis of the norms of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation that establish the circumstance in proof, regulate the questions of rendering verdict by jurors and court sentence, as well as prescriptions of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, reveals a number of issues related to the normative theory of innocence. The comparative study conducted on the Articles 73, 299, 339, 302 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation allows detecting contradictions in the scope of the concepts of guilt and innocence used therein. The author distinguishes between the factual and legal understanding of innocence, as well as substantiates the need for the existence of its specific type – presuming innocence. The arguments are advanced for the possibility of declaring the defendant not guilty based on the acquittal of the jury. For enhancing legal certainty, the author offers the original concept of innocence. The conclusion is made that the issues associated with the normative theory of innocence cause difficulties in law enforcement, and their resolution may affect the accuracy of establishing circumstances in proof, as well as the final court decision.
Obesidade e COVID-19: uma revisão da fisiopatologia e exames laboratoriais
Authors: Mota Weilane Pereira , Lima Edislan da Silva , Sousa Mylene Silva de , Barbosa Raissa Freitas , Berlatto Jhonys Ribeiro Mota , Sousa Esdras Welesson Matias de , Silva Karen Vitória Lima , Dutra Vitória Estefany Carvalho , Costa Fernanda Farias , Filho Antônio Carlos Melo Lima
Published: November 2021

Objetivo: Descrever a fisiopatologia da obesidade e evidenciar a importância dos principais exames laboratoriais na avaliação de pacientes obesos com COVID-19. Revisão bibliográfica: A infecção causada pelo SARS-CoV-2 traz consigo um grande espectro de sintomas nos pacientes, variando de assintomáticos, sintomas inespecíficos e/ou até o óbito. Dentre as principais complicações associadas aos óbitos por COVID-19 estão a esteatose hepática, diabetes mellitus, cardiopatia e doença renal, que na maioria das vezes, estão ligadas à obesidade. Os testes laboratoriais são realizados através da dosagem de enzimas específicas para cada patologia, como exemplo a aspartato aminotransferase (AST), lactato desidroganease, troponina e creatinina quinase cardíaca para de avaliação de cardiopatia, e hemoglobina glicada e o teste de Tolerância a Glicose para níveis de glicemia. Por sua vez, podem ainda ser avaliados a função hepática por meio da Gama-Glutamil Transferase e lesão do órgão pela AST e a alanina aminotransferase. Dosagens de ureia, creatinina, avaliação da taxa de filtração glomerular e os elementos do sedimento da urina podem ainda ser solicitados para avaliação renal. Considerações finais: Os exames laboratoriais devem ser interpretados com cuidado, bem como o paciente deve ser acompanhado por uma equipe multidisciplinar, a fim de que tenha um melhor prognóstico.
Atypical sonographic presentation of diabetic mastopathy: A case report and literature review
Authors: Wood Erika , Propeck Pamela
Published: November 2021

Diabetic fibrous mastopathy (DFM) is a relatively rare condition that most often occurs in insulin-dependent diabetics with a characteristic hypoechoic appearance on ultrasound (US). DFM frequently poses a diagnostic challenge in radiology due to malignant imaging similarities, and core needle biopsy is often required. If DFM is in the differential, fine-needle aspiration should not be considered as it will likely be non-diagnostic due to insufficient sampling and excisional biopsy should be avoided as it may worsen the disease process. Therefore, high clinical suspicion of DFM is important for diagnostic intervention consideration. We report the case of a 57-year-old who presented with a firm breast lump which on mammography was seen as a new 5.8 by 5.3 cm global asymmetry. US was performed and a diffuse area of increased echogenicity without posterior shadowing was identified. Given the appearance and patient history, DFM was considered unlikely. However, core needle biopsy revealed diabetic lymphocytic mastopathy consistent with DFM. Even though DFM is uncommon and has been reported to have a specific US appearance, it should be included in the differential for a palpable breast lump in any diabetic patient regardless of glucose control or atypical imaging findings.
COVID-19 and acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) and ventricular thrombus in a young ethiopian man without known cardiac risk factors: A case report
Authors: Huluka Dawit Kebede , Birhan Yidnekachew Asrat , Sikamo Adane Petros , Getachew Nebiyu , Meshesha Amha , Sherman Charles B.
Published: November 2021

Patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) can present with pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome but rarely with acute myocardial infarction, especially in the absence of known cardiovascular disease risk factors. We present the case of a previously healthy young Ethiopian man with COVID-19 and no known cardiovascular risk factors who was diagnosed with acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction and left ventricular thrombus.
High Accuracy Semi-Empirical Quantum Models Based on a Reduced Training Set
Authors: Pham Cong Huy , Lindsey Rebecca , Fried Laurence , Goldman Nir
Published: November 2021

There exists a great need for computationally efficient quantum simulation approaches that can achieve an accuracy similar to high-level theories while exhibiting a wide degree of transferability. In this regard, we have leveraged a machine-learned force field based on Chebyshev polynomials to determine Density Functional Tight Binding (DFTB) models for organic materials. The benefit of our approach is two-fold: (1) many-body interactions can be corrected for in a systematic and rapidly tunable process, and (2) high-level quantum accuracy for a broad range of compounds can be achieved with ∼0.3% of data required for one advanced deep learning potential (ANI- 1x). In addition, the total number of data points in our training set is less than one half of that used for a recent DFTB-neural network model (trained on a separate dataset). Validation tests of our DFTB model against energy and vibrational data for gas-phase molecules for additional quantum datasets shows strong agreement with reference data from either hybrid density-functional theory, coupled-cluster calculations, or experiments. Preliminary testing on graphite and diamond successfully reproduce condensed phase structures. The models developed in this work, in principle, can retain most of the accuracy of quantum-based methods at any level of theory with relatively small training sets. Our efforts can thus allow for high throughput physical and chemical predictions with up to coupled-cluster accuracy for materials that are computationally intractable with standard approaches.
Microwave Accelerated Methanolysis of Poly(ethylene terephthalate)
Authors: Monnery Bryn
Published: November 2021

Poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) is an important commodity polymer that has the potential to be 100% recycled, but this is currently not economically viable as the costs of recovering the starting materials are greater than virgin materials. As well as PET, there are a number of other interesting poly(terephthalate)s which have higher economic value. However, for many of these, virgin material is necessary to avoid contamination with ET units. This can be avoided by chemically deconstructing the PET to simple terephthalates. In this work, we show that dimethyl terephthalate (DMT) can be easily obtained from PET, in high purity (> 99.5% for the crude) with a relatively low energy use (ca. 0.3 Mj.g-1), by using a microwave reactor. In a microwave reactor the methanolysis proceeds an order of magnitude faster than in a conventional reactor. This is apparently due to cavitation caused by hot-spots, which break up the PET, increasing the active surface, and an increased population of PET particles above the Ea in the hot zones.
1,2,3-Tri(9-anthryl)benzene. Photophysical Properties and Solid State Intermolecular Interactions of Radially Arranged, Congested Aromatic π-Planes
Authors: Nishiuchi Tomohiko , Sotome Hikaru , Shimizu Kazuto , Miyasaka Hiroshi , Kubo Takashi
Published: November 2021

We report the Negishi coupling based synthesis of 1,2,3-tri(9-anthryl)benzene derivatives, containing three radially arranged anthracenes in a π-cluster. In the crystalline state of the unsubstituted derivative, intermolecular π-π and CH-π interactions between the anthracene units drive the formation of a two-dimensional packing structure. Owing to though-space π-conjugation between anthracene units, the substances have unique electronic properties. The excited state dynamic behavior occurring between the three radially arranged anthracene moieties, such as exciton localization/delocalization, was elucidated by means of transient absorption measurements and quantum chemical calculations. Interestingly, even though the three anthracenes are closely oriented with a ca. 3.0 Å distances between their C-9 positions, exciton localization on two anthracene units is energetically favorable because of the flexible nature of the radially arranged aromatic rings.
Highly Functional Group Tolerant, (E)-Selective Transfer Semihydrogenation of Alkynes Catalysed by Iridium Complex Bearing Unsymmetrical Ferrocene-Based Phosphine Ligand
Authors: Kusy Rafał , Lindner Marcin , Wagner Jakub , Grela Karol
Published: November 2021

Herein, we present (E)-selective transfer semihydrogenation of alkynes based on in situ generated iridium complex from [Ir(COD)Cl]2 and unsymmetrical ferrocene-based phosphine ligand in the presence of formic acid as a hydrogen donor. The catalytic system is distinguished by unprecedented chemoselectivity and exceptional stereoselectivity substantiated by the broad scope of test-ed substrates, including natural products derivatives. The uniform reaction conditions may be applied to various alkynes, owing to a lack of over-reduction. The intriguing difference in catalytic activity between unsymmetrical and symmetrical ferrocene-based ligands was attributed to diver-gent coordination and steric hindrance. The presented methodology constitutes a solution to the common limitations of the published catalytic systems.
Oxidative [3+2]-annulation of nitroalkenes and azolium ylides in the presence of Cu(II): efficient synthesis of [5,5]-annulated N-fused heterocycles
Authors: Motornov Vladimir A. , Tabolin Andrey A. , Ioffe Sema L.
Published: November 2021

A facile synthesis of [5,5]-annulated N-fused heterocycles – pyrrolo[2,1-b]thiazoles and pyrrolo[1,2-b]indazoles via Cu(II)-mediated oxidative [3+2]-annulation between nitroalkenes and azolium ylides was developed. The reaction proceeds in mild conditions with copper (II) trifluoroacetate/2,6-lutidine system as a promoter. The method is applicable to a broad range of nitroalkenes and azolium salts, providing target N-fused heterocycles in moderate to good yields. In the case of α-fluoronitroalkenes unique fluorinated derivatives were accessed via this methodology.
An Extended Gate Field Effect Transistor (EGFET) pH Microsensor
Authors: Avcı İpek , Oğuz Merve , Şen Mustafa
Published: November 2021

Here, an extended – gate field effect transistor (EGFET) pH microsensor was developed for use in fast and sensitive pH measurement applications. The system consisted of two components; a pH sensitive modified gold electrode and a simple and cheap metal oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET). Polypyrrole, a semiconductor and pH responsive polymer, was formed by electropolymerization of pyrrole monomer at the surface of the gold electrode in galvostanic mode. Then, measurements were made in PBS at different pH values using the pH sensitive electrode. In this context, the pH sensitivity of polypyrrole with respect to electropolymerization and incubation time were studied. According to the results, the EGFET pH microsensor formed by 4-min pyrrole electropolymerization showed at pH 6-12 the highest pH sensitivity with 67 mV/pH
UM ENCONTRO DE DUAS ALMAS
Authors: Dos Santos Aryane Raysa Araújo
Published: November 2021

Dossiê Filosofia - UFPI
ELOGIO A UMA MESTRA
Authors: Sobreira Solange Alves
Published: November 2021

Dossiê - Filosofia UFPI
HOMO FABER EM HANNAH ARENDT E JONAS
Authors: Morais Alexander Almeida
Published: November 2021

O ARTIGO PROCURA FAZER UMA ANÁLISE DAS CONVERGENCIAS E DIFERENÇAS ENTRE A CONCEPÇÕES DE HOMO FABER EM ARENDT E JONAS.
AO PROFESSOR E PADRE AMADEU MATIAS BERNARDES FILHO
Authors: De Oliviera Dayvide Magalhães
Published: November 2021

DOSSIÊ
JOSÉ IRAN NOBRE DE SENA
Authors: De Oliviera Dayvide Magalhães
Published: November 2021

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MARIA DAS GRAÇAS MOITA RAPOSO PEREIRA
Authors: De Oliviera Dayvide Magalhães
Published: November 2021

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AO PROFESSOR JOSÉ IRAN: UMA SAUDAÇÃO À DOCÊNCIA
Authors: Rocha Alexandrina Paiva da
Published: November 2021

Dossiê Filosofia - UFPI.
PROGRESSO TECNOLÓGICO E A PRIMAZIA DO MAU PROGNÓSTICO NA TEORIA ÉTICA JONASIANA
Authors: Lima de Oliveira Eduardo José
Published: November 2021

O artigo parte do temerário diagnóstico que Jonas faz da visão unilateral do progresso tecnológico, o qual não leva em consideração seus efeitos negativos que podem deixar como herança, a longo prazo, terríveis e irreversíveis sequelas. Tendo em vista a velocidade que acontece esse desenvolvimento e a incapacidade moral dos seres humanos em lidar com esse novo cenário, chamaremos atenção ao rompimento feito por Jonas com o ideal de que toda tecnologia em toda e qualquer circunstância e custo é somente para o bem, e o modo que ele traz o fazer tecnológico para o campo da moralidade. Chamando atenção ao perigo eminente das apostas que são feitas nesse modo de agir, que coloca em risco a possibilidade futura de vida no planeta, no segundo movimento de nosso texto, daremos atenção ao princípio responsabilidade como ponto fulcral da ética jonasiana que visa a garantia futura da vida, seja ela humana ou não, mas que enfrenta dificuldades ao defender a primazia do mau prognóstico de seus efeitos cumulativos. Ao final, será problematizada essa inserção que ele faz, pois Hans Jonas recebe severas críticas ao recorrer ao temor como procedimento heurístico em seu tratado ético, sendo acusado de se opor aos avanços e desenvolvimentos tecnológicos, sua proposta normativa é entendida por alguns como uma aversão ao progresso tecnológico.
ALIENAÇÃO DA TÉCNICA NA FILOSOFIA DE MAYZ VALLENILLA
Authors: VILLEGAS CARLOS JAVIER LOZADA
Published: November 2021

Neste ensaio, gostaria de esclarecer, por meio da filosofia de Mayz Vallenilla, a estreita relação que existe entre técnica e alienação, como uma filosofia da técnica que se preocupa com o comportamento do homem, portanto, com sua alienação. Como resultado, este ensaio será dividido em três partes: na primeira seção, será desenvolvido um diálogo entre um historiador e um sociólogo, para construir uma breve história da técnica; na segunda seção apresentarei um diálogo sobre o conceito de alienação entre Marx e Heidegger a partir do pensamento do filósofo venezuelano Mayz Vallenilla e na última seção apresentarei a conexão entre ética e meta-técnica como alternativa atraente à alienação técnica.
A AÇÃO TOTALITÁRIA NA PERSPECTIVA DE HANNAH ARENDT
Authors: Soares Antonia De Sousa Vieira
Published: November 2021

O presente trabalho tem como objetivo analisar o fenômeno do Totalitarismo no pensamento da filósofa alemã Hannah Arendt tendo como fio condutor a obra Origem do Totalitarismo (1998). Verificaremos como a filósofa compreende o movimento totalitário e atuação do mesmo para capturar os seres humanos e destituí-los de todos os direitos usando para este fim os mais baixos artifícios, tais como os campos de concentração e o sistema propagandista ficcional. Focalizaremos especificamente no terceiro capítulo da obra supracitada, na qual a pensadora apresenta os horrores das ditaduras e do Totalitarismo revelando a face tenebrosa e cruel do homem.
A AGONÍSTICA NO JOVEM NIETZSCHE E A INTENSIDADE DA DISPUTA COMO CONDIÇÃO DE CRIAÇÃO
Authors: Silva Glaucer Ferreira
Published: November 2021

Resumo: A presente proposta investigativa tem como escopo pensar o elemento agonístico contido nos primeiros escritos do filósofo alemão Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), a saber: A visão dionisíaca do mundo (1870), Os cinco prefácios para cinco livros não escritos (1872) e O Nascimento da Tragédia (1872); assim como outros textos do autor que se façam necessários. O conceito de ágon como força singular que impulsiona o fazer filosófico é, na filosofia nietzschiana, um termo ímpar, pois propõe rupturas e fissuras no próprio ato de pensar, postura esta, por vezes, extremamente radical com a tradição filosófica: como a ideia de verdade tão cultuada pelos pensadores clássicos da filosofia que encontra em Nietzsche uma leitura diferente. Para tanto, o ágon será tratado como um conceito aberto exatamente por sua natureza polissêmica, eixo de fundamental importância nos escritos nietzschianos de juventude, mas que utilizaremos no sentido de disputa ligada ao embate de ideias. Seguindo esse fio interpretativo, apontaremos para o efeito trágico contido na dicotomia apolíneo/dionisíaco, tão cara ao autor.
The effect of money attitude, subjective norm, perceived behavioural control, and perceived risk on millennial’s saving intention
Authors: Asandimitra Nadia , Narsa I Made , Irwanto Andry , Ishartanto Helmi
Published: November 2021

The Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) has been widely applied in the financial sector. However, no research has investigated the moderating role of financial literacy in saving intention. This study investigates the moderating role of financial literacy in the partial influence of money attitude, subjective norms, perceived behavioural control, and perceived risk on saving intention. According to the Moderated Regression Analysis (MRA) findings, financial literacy moderated the effect of money attitude, subjective norms, and perceived behavioural control on saving intention. On the other hand, financial literacy has not mitigated the effect of perceived risk on saving intention. These findings validate TPB's application in the financial sector by incorporating moderating role of financial literacy. It is also discovered that the millennial generations who participate in this study have good financial literacy.
verde de indocianina empleado intraoperatoriamente en la cirugía laparoscópica colorrectal no es más efectivo que la valoración visual subjetiva del cirujano experimentado.
Authors: Rodríguez Ramírez José Manuel , Martín Sánchez Juan Ignacio
Published: November 2021

A pesar de una mejora continua de las técnicas quirúrgicas, la aparición de fuga anastomótica en la cirugía del cáncer colorrectal sigue siendo una complicación grave, con incidencias comunicadas que oscilan entre el 3% y el 12% según el lugar de la anastomosis, con complicaciones adicionales que pueden llevar a la muerte1. La etiología de la fuga anastomótica es multifactorial, siendo la perfusión insuficiente de los tejidos uno de los factores que puede jugar un papel esencial. Los diferentes métodos que se han propuesto para evaluar dicha perfusión son de difícil aplicación en la clínica diaria. La angiografía con VI se ha introducido recientemente en la práctica clínica para valorar la perfusión de órganos en diferentes escenarios sin que existan pruebas de su eficacia2.
Metafísica y realidad virtual. ¿Pueden ser realidades virtuales el Universo y la mente?
Authors: Liz Manuel
Published: November 2021

Las nuevas tecnologías están cambiando nuestro mundo. Y la filosofía no puede mantenerse al margen. Tampoco sus partes más especulativas. En este trabajo analizamos la noción de realidad virtual en relación a cuatro significados básicos. Lo virtual puede relacionarse con la idea de apariencia, de potencialidad, de mediación y de construcción. En conexión con esa densidad de significado, exploramos varias posibilidades de virtualidad para dos casos límite: el Universo y la mente. Y defendemos tres importantes tesis sobre la realidad virtual.
Revisionism of Vargas’ revisionism: Free will, Disagreements, Common Sense from Neo-Pyrrhonism
Authors: Reinoso Guadalupe
Published: November 2021

From an overview of philosophy, it can be said all issues are controversial. An example of this kind of never-ending controversy is the free will debate. The originality of Revisionism proposed by Vargas (2007, 2013) is to establish a position within the debate after having reviewed the terms in which it is discussed. His Revisionism focuses on reviewing how the different philosophical positions of the debate are linked to the intuitions or preconception of common sense. Vargas argues that common sense –as a preconception- has incompatibilistic elements that ought to be accepted when making a diagnosis. However, at a prescriptive level, the theory that ought to be adopted in philosophy is compatibilism. Thereby, Vargas proposes a hybrid Revisionism.By reading Wittgenstein from a neo-Pyrrhonic orientation, I propose to reconsider the role of disagreement in the philosophical debate and the approach to common sense in order to argue that it is a plural set of practices rather than a preconception. These practices determine different contexts for the use of concepts, in which both deterministic and indeterministic positions can make sense. This pluralistic view of common sense also modifies the place of philosophy and the kind of disagreement faced in the debate.
Filosofía de sentido común
Authors: Tomasini Bassols Alejandro
Published: November 2021

Reseña de: Javier Vilanova (2021). Filosofía del sentido común. Madrid: Guillermo Escolar Editor.
Juan Ramón Sepich: el hispanismo católico argentino como teoría de la cultura
Authors: Olalla Marcos
Published: November 2021

Analizamos el pensamiento del presbítero y filósofo argentino Juan Ramón Sepich (1906-1979) en su fase hispanista (1930-1955). Destacamos la especificidad de su modo de integración al pensamiento nacionalista argentino como teórico de la cultura. Caracterizamos los principales tópicos de su discurso filosófico en esta etapa, los elementos de dicho discurso que operaron en su labor de publicista de la causa franquista y los vaivenes de sus vínculos con el primer peronismo.