bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Mapping the empty space: Spatial experience and relationship in drama therapy practice
Authors: Buckley Meaghen
Published: October 2023

This clinical commentary takes up Peter Brook’s (1968) notion of the empty space as the precondition for theatre, exploring the distinct nature of the empty spaces of digital and in-person drama therapy practice in the context of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Spatial experience in drama therapy is explored through considerations of relationship, body memory and the effects of digital therapy on clinical practice. The commentary describes a sense of dislocation in experience, memory and relationship when bodies are not together in space, proposing a series of strategies to acknowledge and mitigate these effects.
Chasing the sun: Discovering Chinese therapists’, students’ and educators’ proficiency in the use of dramatic reality
Authors: Breithaupt Stephen , Yang Ping Y.
Published: October 2023

In this clinical commentary, we present insights about introducing drama therapy in China. We highlight how challenging our own cultural assumptions regarding Chinese nationals, namely that they may feel restricted when entering dramatic reality, enabled the possibility of rich, detailed and ludic responses. Relying on our joint knowledge of drama therapy and a Chinese cultural context, with one from the United States and the other born in China, we designed a lecture and drama therapy process for Chinese nationals at a family communication conference in Beijing. We discovered diverse theatrical expression in our encounter with Chinese educators, therapists and students resulting largely from careful cultural preparation and an openness to experience.
Meeting the Moment: Socially Engaged Performance, 1965–2020, by Those Who Lived It, Jan Cohen-Cruz and Rad Pereira (2022)
Authors: Salgado Mauricio Tafur
Published: October 2023

Review of: Meeting the Moment: Socially Engaged Performance, 1965–2020, by Those who Lived it, Jan Cohen-Cruz and Rad Pereira (2022)

New York: New Village Press, 274 pp.,

ISBN 978-1-61332-154-6, p/bk, $26.95
Intercultural Dramatherapy: Imagination and Action at the Intersections of Difference, Ditty Dokter and Nisha Sajnani (2023)
Authors: Luckwaldt Robin , Bleuer Jessica
Published: October 2023

Review of: Intercultural Dramatherapy: Imagination and Action at the Intersections of Difference, Ditty Dokter and Nisha Sajnani (2023)

New York: Routledge, 288 pp.,

ISBN 978-1-138363-347-2, h/bk, $160.00

ISBN 978-1-13836-348-9, p/bk, $39.95

ISBN 978-0-42943-159-3, e-book, $35.95
Healthcare Data Collection Using Internet of Things and Blockchain Based Decentralized Data Storage
Authors: Sumathi M. , Raja S. P. , Vijayaraj N. , Rajkamal M.
Published: October 2023

With the increase in usage of Internet of Things devices (IoT), IoT is used in different sectors such as manufacturing, electric vehicles, home automation and healthcare. The IoT devices collected large volumes of data on different parameters at regular intervals. Storing a massive amount volume of IoT data securely is a complicated task. Presently, the majority of IoT devices use cloud storage to store the data, however, cloud servers require large storage and high computation. Due to third party cloud service provider (CSP) interaction, the management of IoT data security fully depends on the CSP. To manage these problems, a decentralized blockchain based secure storage is proposed in this work. In the proposed scheme, instead of CSP storage location, the patient health information is stored in the blockchain technique and the blockchain miners verify the transactions with the help of Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC). The miner verification process dynamically avoids adversary access. Similarly, the certificateless access is used in the proposed system to avoid certificate based issues. The blocks in the blockchain is going to be stored patient details in a decentralized storage location to avoid unauthorized access and ensure the authenticity of data. The use of blockchain eliminates the need for third party public auditing process through immutable storage. This work illustrates secure communication and immutable data storage without the intervention of CSP. The communication overhead reduced by nearly 10 to 40% and authentication improved by 10 to 20% while confidentiality increased by 5% in comparison to existing techniques. Through this technique, data confidentiality, integrity and availability is ensured.
#4469 Development of nanoencapsulated cancer-specific contrast agent for magnetic resonance imaging
Authors: Slaton Joel W , Hammer Bruce E , Metzger Greg J , Unger Gretchen
Published: October 2023

Current magnetic resonance (MR) contrast agents utilize vascular spaces to visualize and enhance neoplasms. The nanocapsule (sub-50 nanometer capsule) is a novel delivery technology capable of intracellular delivery of large cargos in a tissue- and cell-specific manner. These nanocapsules derive their specificity from a coating of ligands that have the potential to specifically target tumors. We are developing nanoencapsulated MR agents that can be delivered intracellularly to enhance MR imaging of localized and metastatic cancer. We prepared tenfibgen-coated ferrous oxide (FeO) nanoparticles and compared them to tenfibgen-coated ferrous oxide fluid by i) morphology (atomic force microscopy., ii) surface charge (zeta potential by dynamic light scattering) iii) incorporation (colorometric assay, ICP-AES), iv) cellular proliferation by thymidine incorporation and v) cellular uptake by iron histology. We found that although incorporation is low, nanocapsule targeting is effective enough to provide sufficient cellular accumulation for histology as well as functional imaging. We also showed 1000-fold improvement in 3D cell uptake studies with retargeted iron nanoparticles conducted on matrix-coated tissue engineering scaffold to reconstitute lipid rafts and caveolae required for cellular uptake. Mice bearing PC-3 xenograft tumors were treated with nanoencapsulated siRNA labeled with I-128 and measured acitivity via nuclear activation analysis. Tumor and injection site were primary sites of s50 tenfibgen siRNA-bearing capsule accumulation at 2 hours postinjection timepoint. Capsules also accumulated significantly in enlarged lymph nodes in the metastatic PC-3 model. No accumulation occurred in the organs of the reticular endothelial system. We then assessed the ability of MR to identify a signal change in mice bearing orthotopic PC-3 xenografts. The mice were treated with the nanoencapsulated FeO, 100 ng dose of FeO tenfibgen nanocapsules or a dose of about 3 ug/kg. The mice were then sacrificed and imaged. A decrease signal on T1 weighted MRI in contrasted tumor was detected suggesting FeO uptake. Perls+DAB staining demonstrated Fe staining in microvessels and tumor cells. This intratumoral distribution was consistent with reporter gene expression studies conducted utilizing the tenfibgen capsule. In conclusion, we have developed a nanoencapsulate FeO agent that is taken up intracellularly in tumors and can produce a detectable MR signal change. Future work will focus on encapsulating Ferric Dextran as well as candidate agents that can produce a positive signal change on MRI.
Genomic analysis points to fibrosis and changes in fat metabolism in oral cancer progression
Authors: Unger Gretchen , Wuetz Beverly R , Pruett Charles L , Watkins Matthew J , Gaffney Patrick M , Ondrey Frank G.
Published: October 2023

Head and neck cancer long term survival has only experienced marginal gains over the past 3 decades. Further, there is inadequate understanding of the biology of carcinogenesis and recurrence, as well as its relation to the microenvironment. Deeper understanding of these areas would provide improved molecular target identification. In pursuit of this goal, a small clinical trial collected lesion and adjacent normal-appearing mucosa for subsequent RNA-seq analysis. Patients were grouped by post-surgical pathology as either precancer (hyperplasia - severe dysplasia) or cancer (carcinoma in situ - early stage invasive cancer). Following identification of differentially expressed (DE) genes, DE genesets were submitted for Ingenuity Pathway Analysis (IPA). Hierarchical clustering illustrates distinct separation between lesion and perilesional normal mucosa of the top 100 DE genes. Among the top 25 dysregulated pathways, 50% were associated with creation of fibrotic tumor microenvironment (TME), 20% were related to changes in immune populations inhabiting the TME and 10% devoted to metabolism changes. Subgroup analysis, (precancer vs. cancer), revealed dysregulation of metabolism (~50%) predominating in precancer. Metabolism remained an important dysregulation at 30% of the top 25 pathways in cancer. Protein network analysis, (Metascape on-line tool), confirmed IPA results, illustrating an extensive, previously undescribed, interconnectedness of fibrosis with shifts in fatty acid metabolism from oxidative to gluconeogenesis, providing a foundation for choosing targets amenable to cancer prevention. Several notable pathways are likely contributed to by inflammatory and other cells in the milieu, not precancer cells themselves. So, we dove deeper, using EpIC (Epitope Immunogenicity Characterization) algorithm to assess relative percentages of non-tumor cells based on 20-count gene signatures. Gene expression favored a profile of significantly increasing cancer-associated fibroblasts, decreasing CD-8 killer T cells, and increasing vascular endothelial cells during progression, with macrophage content slightly increasing in cancer specimens. These findings suggest interaction between immunoinflammatory milieu and precancerous cells promoting malignancy. Several high yield target pathways are related to published mechanisms of action for drugs of high interest to our cancer prevention program (pioglitazone/metformin). Further, we confirmed protein network analysis in an additional oral carcinoma dataset from Conway et. al, (Oncotarget 2015; doi:
10.18632/oncotarget.5529). Abstract 2590
Tenfibgen nanoencapsulated RNAi feCK2 inhibits protein kinase CK2 and induces apoptosis in feline oral squamous cell carcinoma
Authors: Ondrey FG , Unger Gretchen , Cannon CM , Trembley JH , Kren BT , Modiano JF , Ahmed K
Published: October 2023

In an initial safety evaluation in domestic cats suffering from oral squamous cell carcinomas (FOSCC), nine cat subjects were treated IV with 5-6 doses given twice weekly of s50 RNAi feCK2 at either 2 or 20 ug/kg (Cannon et. al., Hu Gene Ther Clin Devel 28(2):80-6, 2017). Treatment was generally well tolerated. In one case, a clear drug-related Grade 3 side effect was rapid tumor death (tumor lysis) resulting in an open wound. This issue has been addressed successfully in separate mice studies with longer, lower-dose SQ regimens. Protein kinase CK2, as a promising target in oncology, plays vital roles in cell growth, proliferation, and suppression of apoptosis (Ahmed et al., Trends Cell Biol 12: 226-30, 2002). Anti-feCK2aa’ is a tumor-targeted 20 nm crystalline capsule bearing single-stranded RNAi oligos against both CK2 catalytic kinase subunits with a ligand-coated shell derived from Tenascin-C (tenfibgen). Tenascin-C is upregulated in multiple solid tumors and is present in tumors throughout their lifecycle. The capsule’s ultrasmall size enables efficient raft-mediated delivery of oligos to the perinuclear space of the target cell, and the ability to reach metastases without reliance on EPR (Unger et. al, Mol Cancer Ther 13:2018-29, 2014). Initial mechanistic work focused on changes in clinically scored IHC of the CK2a subunit in study tumors. In an effort to develop a future working hypothesis, remaining paraffin-embedded tissues were retrospectively examined for both kinase subunits of CK2 as a mixture (CK2aa’), cleaved PARP (CP, apoptosis marker) and Ago2 (critical enzyme required for RNAi drug activity). Previous work in murine models showed variation of Ago2 levels in primary human and xenograft tumors. Further, model xenograft and syngeneic tumors responded with increased Ago2 levels and drug activity upon 10 mg/ml IV priming followed by low-dose SQ treatment (Cancer Res 2016;76(14 Suppl):3746). Using confocal fluorescence microscopy, we observed that decreased post-treatment CK2aa’ and increased CP corresponded positively with clinical tumor responses while non-responders showed an inverse relationship. Ago2 was evaluated in a responding subject with increased Ago2 in post-treatment samples. These observations suggest a possible future path for feline patient therapy using Ago2 stratification, potential IV priming and more convenient, longer-term SQ dosing administered by feline caregivers. Funding: University of Minnesota Clinical and Translational Sciences Award (1UL1 RR033183-01), NIH SBIR Contract HHSN26120 1300030C, V.A. merit review research funds (BX00173 and BX003282) and NCI Award CA150182.
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Authors: Tătar Marius Alexandru
Published: October 2023

Urban typologies can be physical (infrastructure and ecosystems), social (cultural, economic, political) and spatial (planning, telecoupling, urbanization dynamics). For a successful transition of (existing) urban areas towards climate resilience, it is essential that macro-level policies and conceptual approaches find their way to every street and neighbourhood through urban retrofit projects with an understanding of urban typologies. Urban mobility significantly contributes to global carbon dioxide emissions. Given the rapid expansion and growth in urban areas, cities thus require innovative policies to ensure efficient and sustainable mobility. Urban typologies can serve as a vehicle for understanding the dynamics of cities, which exhibit high variability in form, economic output, and mobility behaviour, among others. Yet, typologies relevant to sustainable urban mobility analyses are few, outdated and not large enough in scope. In this paper, Ipresent a 9 cities typology space.
Exploring Achievement Behaviors in Non-Major Statistics Course: An Expectancy-Value Perspective and Thoughts for Practice
Authors: Smith Tamarah , Dai Ting
Published: October 2023

Statistics education is increasingly important to our society with enrolment increases of 16% in introductory statistics courses and 85% in upper-level statistics courses. Research has demonstrated many factors related to students’ behaviors and outcomes in statistics courses such as past achievement, attitudes, and effort. We sought to model these factors together to better understand how introductory statistics students’ attitudes were related to students' achievement behaviors and what student characteristics mediated such relationships. Structural equation modeling with data from N=301 students in an introductory statistics course for psychology majors revealed that majors with higher GPAs had more interest, enjoyment as well as utility value for statistics, and these variables were in turn related to expectations for success or achievement behaviors.  Females had lower interest in statistics, and this was related to lower expectations of success. The findings highlight the need to increase interest and enjoyment and utility value for non-majors studying statistics. Recommendations for how to adapt the statistics classroom to that end are discussed.
O uso da piezoeletricidade na correção do sorriso gengival - relato de caso clínico
Authors: Gomes Camila Sampaio Barbosa , Carvalho Rachel de Andrade Bachá , Bezerra Vanessa Fonsêca Caldas , Araújo Francimar Rodrigues de
Published: October 2023

O presente relato de caso tem como objetivo descrever um tipo específico de cirurgia periodontal, utilizando a piezoeletricidade na correção do sorriso gengival na arcada superior da região anterior para fins estéticos. Após anamnese e exame clínico, foi proposta intervenção cirúrgica com técnica de aumento de coroa clínica com o uso de ultrassom piezoelétrico que tem o potencial de remover o tecido ósseo sem causar danos à superfície radicular e aos tecidos moles e reduzir o desconforto pós-operatório . Pode-se concluir que o uso do aparelho ultrassônico piezoelétrico para aumento de coroa clínica mostrou-se indicado para procedimentos cirúrgicos com mínimo trauma aos tecidos moles. Tem vantagem no corte seletivo e preciso apenas no osso, cirurgias limpas sangramento mínimo e eficiência na potência do aparelho.
Recessões gengivais em indivíduos submetidos a tratamento ortodôntico: estudo transversal
Authors: Barbosa Fladia Taciana de Sousa , Nascimento João Victor Menezes do , Forte Luceana Barreira , Vanderlei Ana Claudia de Queiroz , Fiamengui Filho Jorge Francisco , Santos Pedro César Fernandes dos , Lima Danilo Lopes Ferreira
Published: October 2023

INTRODUÇÃO: Diversos fatores etiológicos são atribuídos à presença de recessão gengival, como hábitos de higiene bucal, má posição dentária, inserção de bridas e freios, deiscências ósseas, doença periodontal, biótipo periodontal, fatores iatrogênicos e ortodônticos. OBJETIVO: O objetivo desse estudo foi investigar a presença de recessões gengivais em indivíduos submetidos a tratamento ortodôntico. MÉTODOS: A amostra contou com 160 indivíduos de ambos os sexos; o grupo teste, formado por pacientes submetidos a tratamento ortodôntico com aparelho fixo, teve 85 participantes; enquanto o grupo controle, com indivíduos que nunca realizaram tratamento ortodôntico, foi formado por 75 participantes. Usando uma sonda UNC-15 da marca Hartzel, foram coletados dados sobre a recessão gengival, da junção amelocementária até à margem gengival. O biótipo periodontal foi definido como espesso ou fino, segundo a classificação de De Rouck et al. Também foram investigados o tempo para a realização do tratamento ortodôntico; tipo de técnica utilizada; presença de hábitos parafuncionais; tipo de cerdas da escova dental; e posição de freios e bridas superiores e inferiores. RESULTADOS: Ao se comparar a recessão gengival nos pacientes submetidos a tratamento ortodôntico e naqueles sem tratamento, verificou- se significância para a média geral de recessão (p=0,003), a média entre os dentes posteriores (p=0,046), dentes anteriores (p=0,004), dentes superiores (p=0,03) e dentes inferiores (p=0,047). CONCLUSÃO: Apesar de ter sido observada significância para a recessão gengival nos indivíduos que realizaram tratamento ortodôntico, não se pode afirmar que ele foi a sua causa primária.
Reading and writing in n-dimensional face space
Authors: Forzano Silvia Barbotto
Published: October 2023

This manuscript begins with a brief introduction that establishes the theoretical background, followed by a tripartite unfolding that explains the following contents: 1) the path from point zero as a plurimorphic space of semiotic tranquility; 2) the historical trajectory of physiognomy and pathognomy suggestions; and 3) new biometric readings and the digital face. We postulate the neutral state of the face and see a possible manifestation of it in the tranquility illustration and theorization by Le Brun. Together with the passive face recounted by Magli, these are some of the static aspects of that space called the face, full of signs that write and compose it and allow its physiognomic reading. Degree zero, the pre-signal null point from which interpretation originates, determines the semiotic potential of the face, and the expressions of the emotions become the key to pathognomy studies, in their historical-cultural variants. We will then see how, in today’s highly technological and mediatized society, there are new biometric manifestations linked to the digital face. From the Bertillonage of the early 1900s, we conclude with a work of contemporary art that critically revisits the same approach.
Embodying genre: from Galton’s generic faces to Peirce’s embodied ideas
Authors: Ponzio Julia
Published: October 2023

In the late 1870s, Galton implements and describes the technique of “composite photography.” This technique consists in overlapping several images of faces on the same photographic plate to obtain what Galton calls a “generic face.” The idea of composite photography appears in some of the crucial junctures of Peirce’s semiotic theory. Peirce uses the composite photograph as the image of the percept to explain how the “general” is a schema through which we organize the perceived. The paper shows how Peirce’s use of the metaphor of composite photography is linked to the question of the “embodiment” of the general.
Face in the mirror, what do you see? Catoptric autoexperimentation and the physiognomic gaze
Authors: Schiller Devon
Published: October 2023

To critically explicate the visual epistemology for catoptric autoexperimentation in the contemporary science of facial behavior, by way of its historical progenitors, I draw upon the pragmatic semiotics of the catoptric phenomenon. This problematization of catoptrics is fundamentally about two different but related concepts: the semiotic threshold and the iconicity debate. Based on primary sources both Western and Eastern, I trace a transcultural history of scientific ideas about performing catoptric auto-experimentation through privileged case studies from physiognomic literary corpora. I probe the ways in which self-recognition has long been pragmatically necessitated as well as processually normative in the study of the face, the research and development of optical technologies has in turn led to paradigm shifts in physiognomic thought, and the procatoptric staging behind the catoptric prosthesis conditions its visual epistemology. I propose that the catoptric prosthesis is not pre- but post-semiotic. That is, the mirror only becomes a mirror when part of a semiotic process and sign relation. The extreme of iconicity that is perceptually afforded by the catoptric prosthesis, far from disqualifying it from the status of a sign, is exactly what distinguishes its role and importance for this semiosis of the face.
Effect of polyurethane matrix and steel fiber in combination with glass fiber or basalt fiber on the properties of hybrid composite laminates
Authors: Fayzulla Bayan Jabbar , Eroglu Mehmet , Erkliğ Ahmet
Published: October 2023

Polyurethane is a versatile polymer with a high degree of toughness and ductility used in a wide variety of applications. In this study, two-part thermoset polyurethane was used as a matrix material to prepare hybrid and non-hybrid composites. Hybrid laminates were prepared by combining either glass fiber or basalt fibers with steel fibers. The mechanical properties of prepared composite specimens were characterized and scanning electron microscope (SEM) observation was performed around the fracture region of the tested specimens. The results revealed a significant increment in tensile strength, and flexural strength in BS1-PU (8 layers of basalt-1 layer of steel) hybrid laminate by 357.74 % and 64.59 %, respectively, compared to steel fibers reinforced polyurethane composites. Furthermore, GS4-PU hybrid composite (5 layers of glass-4 layers of steel) achieved an improvement in tensile strain by 12.07 %, flexural strain by 25.32 %, and absorbed energy by 18.21 %, compared to glass fibers reinforced polyurethane composite. Moreover, the SEM observations revealed that the replacement of some basalt and glass layers with steel layers leads to a positive hybridization effect of the overall produced hybrid composites.
Ein Fall von Geschmacksverlust
Authors: Brenner Andreas
Published: October 2023

Dass die ökonomisch reichen Gesellschaften im materiellen Überfluss leben, ist ebenso unbestritten wie das Urteil, dass ein solcher Überfluss sowohl unter Gerechtigkeitsgesichtspunkten nicht zu rechtfertigen ist als auch unter energetischen Gesichtspunkten nicht auf Dauer zu stellen ist. Im Unterschied zu diesen gleichsam banalen Einsichten geht der vorliegende Essay der Frage nach, welchen Einfluss der Überfluss auf die Menschen, die im Überfluss leben, hat. Bereits Edmund Burke hat dazu wichtige Erkenntnisse vorgelegt, die in der Gegenwart von Roger Scruton zu einer Geschmackstheorie ausgearbeitet wurden, mit welcher der Überfluss in seiner ganzen Dramatik gefasst werden kann.
Überflusswesen
Authors: Pazzini Karl-Josef
Published: October 2023

Gefragt wird, ob die Erzählung vom „Mängelwesen“ bei Gehlen und in der Psychoanalyse eine Inversion ist, wie sie Freud beim Deuten von Träumen entdeckt: Nicht geredet werden kann von einem Füllewesen. Mängelwesen ist Reflex eines unbegriffenen Erschreckens über die Realabstraktion des Menschen zum Individuum im Kapitalismus. Dieses Wesen ist nicht von der Ordnung der Biologie. Es mangelt nicht an Reißzähnen oder Fell, sondern an gelebter Kollektivität, einem sozialen Band, an der Realisierung einer nicht nur in der psychoanalytischen Kur vorkommenden Übertragung. Die Realabstraktion zum Einzelwesen wird immer wieder aufgehoben, so entdeckt Freud, in der Übertragung. Dem anthropologischen Mängelwesen wird spielerisch ein Überflusswesen gegenübergestellt. Die Paradoxie von gleichzeitigem Mangel und Überfluss ist ein Tribut an das Auftauchen des Realen bei der Bestimmung des Individuellen und Kollektiven der Menschheit im Einzelnen.
Hyperbolik der Erfahrung
Authors: Stöhr Robert
Published: October 2023

Von einer phänomenologischen Position her lässt sich der Überfluss als das „Hyperbolische“ erfassen. Gemeint ist damit ein generelles „Überfließen“ der Erfahrung: Jemand erfährt etwas stets mehr oder weniger als das, was es ist. Das Hyperbolische wird vor dem Hintergrund einer responsiven Phänomenologie spezifiziert und dabei entlang des Begriffs der Erwartung veranschaulicht: In Erwartungen wird etwas vorweggenommen, das der Erwartung zuvorkommt. Diese diastatische Verschränkung gilt es zu klären. In diesem Zusammenhang wird die Bedeutung des Hyperbolischen für die anthropologische Forschung angerissen und skizziert, inwiefern der Mensch als Überflusswesen verstanden werden kann. Unter Verweis auf das hyperbolische Moment der Erwartung wird abschließend die „performative Theorie der Behinderung“ von Jan Weisser kritisch durchgesehen.

Aber evident ist doch, daß erst die Wahrnehmung entscheidet, und daß das Neue aller Erwartung ins Gesicht schlagen kann.

(Husserl 1966b, S. 211)
Wie bezeichne ich den Ehepartner?
Authors: Ackermann Peter
Published: October 2023

Überfluss und Mangel können eng miteinander verknüpft sein. Hier soll dies an einem sprachlichen Dilemma aufgezeigt werden, nämlich an der – für Sprecher europäischer Sprachen vielleicht verblüffenden – Tatsache, dass es in der japanischen Sprache keine einfache Bezeichnungsweise für den Ehepartner gibt. Dabei ist eine ganze Fülle von Bezeichnungen im Umlauf, womit ein Überfluss besteht bei gleichzeitigem Mangel an einem Begriff, der alle wirklich befriedigt und insbesondere keine Abhängigkeit und Hierarchie herausstreicht. Dem Erfindergeist einzelner Sprecher des Japanischen sind kaum Grenzen gesetzt, um diesem Überfluss ein Ende zu setzen und eine „flache“, d.h. keine durch eine Hierarchie bestimmte Ausdrucksweise zu etablieren, und doch befriedigt keine Lösung. Die Thematik wirft einen interessanten Blick auf das Selbstverständnis des Individuums in Japan in Bezug zum sozialen Umfeld und zum Ehepartner im Besonderen.
Installing Democracy
Authors: Bivona Kristal
Published: October 2023

Transitional justice is a framework for dealing with past atrocities that are on such a large scale and so horrific that the usual institutions and justice system are unable to adequately address them. Countries in Latin America that transitioned from dictatorship to democracy in the 1980s pursued transitional justice when deciding how to meet the demands of victims and what to do with perpetrators. The interdisciplinary field of transitional justice studies is robust within the social sciences and law. Yet artistic production engages in dialogues with the official and unofficial stories of the dictatorships and their legacies and also contributes to understanding transitions to democracy. This essay examines how visual art in Uruguay engages with transitional justice and memory of the dictatorship (1973–85), taking as a case study the installation Artista de mierda (Artist of Shit, 2019) by Fernando Barrios (b. 1968). Nearly four decades after Uruguay began its democratic transition, the struggle over which narratives would dominate the collective memory of state terror and what society should do about the open wounds of the dictatorship continues to be negotiated. Beyond merely reflecting common discourses about the dictatorship and democracy, Artista de mierda engages with the memory of state violence and reveals how Uruguay’s incomplete transition to democracy and its embrace of neoliberalism exacerbate inequality and create conditions for certain political figures and artists to rise to prominence within their respective fields.
Reinterpreting Mesoamerican Codices in México a través de los siglos
Authors: Zeltsman Corinna
Published: October 2023

Mesoamerican books inhabit multiple visual and bibliographical spaces that defy simple descriptions and straightforward categorization. Historical annals, divinatory calendars, speeches, poems, and songs informed the history, culture, and ritual life of pre- and post-contact societies. Since the sixteenth century, reproduction of Mesoamerican books has played a role in shaping ideas about race, ethnicity, and culture, as well as effects of settler colonialism in the Americas. Efforts to replicate Mesoamerican books for new audiences, however, have not always followed the same principle. Narratives of exploration, empire, and state formation have often appropriated the Mesoamerican book to fulfill political or religious agendas that have decontextualized the original use of pictorial and alphabetic manuscripts. The themes explored in this Dialogues propose new ways to think about analytical frameworks used to make sense of the content of Mesoamerican books in the eighteenth through twenty-first centuries. Who possessed the intellectual credentials to write about and copy pictorial records? What aspects of Mesoamerican books have made the replication process so complex and contested? How have naming, cataloging, and preservation of manuscripts and their fragments shaped our understanding of ideas of authenticity, originality, authorship, and knowledge? How can digital technologies reshape our experience with pictorial records? Contributors engage with these questions not only to historicize violence and displacement associated with Indigenous books after European contact but to highlight the way the publication of facsimiles helped and continues to help establish intellectual credentials, center historical narratives and popular ideas about culture, and generate funding for individuals and institutions.
THE EFFECT OF CHITOSAN ON THE PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF DERMATOLOGICAL PREPARATIONS CONTAINING HUMULUS LUPULUS L. EXTRACT BASED ON CELUGEL
Authors: Grimling Bożena
Published: October 2023

This study evaluated hydrogels containing Celugel, 3% hop cone extract obtained from Humulus lupulus L. using supercritical carbon dioxide extraction substrate, and 1% and 2% chitosan for dermatological application to treat inflammatory skin conditions. The presence of chitosan significantly affected the rheological properties of the formulations, including their dynamic viscosity, hardness, consistency, cohesiveness, and blurring time. The formulations containing 2% chitosan showed the best application possibilities. The formulations were evaluated for dissolution of cohumulone, which is an analogue of humulone contained in hop cone extract. The concentration of chitosan in the formulations had a significant effect on the dissolution testing parameters of the active ingredient: as the chitosan concentration increased, the desired effect of prolonged release time of the active ingredient was achieved while maintaining the membrane-forming properties of Celugel.
CHITOSAN AND META-TOPOLIN SUPPLEMENTATION OF THE MULTIPLICATION MEDIA OF VITIS VINIFERA L.
Authors: Krupa-Małkiewicz Marcelina , Ochmian Ireneusz
Published: October 2023

We investigated the efficiency of chitosan (CH) and meta-topolin (mT) on in vitro growth and adaptation to greenhouse conditions of Vitis vinifera cv. Johanniter and cv. Hibernal. After the initiation stage, we transferred explants to Woody Plant Media (WPM) with chitosan (molecular weight 3.33 kDa) at a concentration of 10, 20, and 40 ppm or to WPM with mT at a concentration of 0.5, 1.0, and 2.0 mg l–1. WPM without CH or mT served as a control. Among the tested combinations, WPM with 10 ppm of CH led to the maximum mean root length (12.18 cm and 12.65 cm for the Hibernal and Johanniter cultivars, respectively) and the number of new leaves (5.9 and 8.15 for the Hibernal and Johanniter cultivars, respectively). As the CH concentration in the medium increased, the length of shoots and roots decreased. We found the highest percentage of acclimatised plants on WPM (cv. Hibernal) and WPM with 40 ppm of CH (cv. Johanniter). The addition of mT had a negative effect on the morphological traits we measured, regardless of the concentration. Leaves of explants from WPM with mT were yellower and redder compared with the control. None of the explants obtained on this medium produced roots.
THE EFFECT OF A COMPOSITE CHITOSAN-SILVER(I) ION COATING ON THE CORROSION RESISTANCE OF THE COBALT-CHROMIUM-MOLYBDENUM ALLOY IN SALINE SOLUTION
Authors: Łosiewicz Bożena , Osak Patrycja , Kubisztal Julian
Published: October 2023

We determined the in vitro corrosion resistance of the composite chitosan-silver(I) [Ag(I)] ion coating on the cobalt-chromium-molybdenum (CoCrMo) dental alloy in a 0.9% sodium chloride (NaCl) solution at 37°C. We obtained the novel composite chitosan–Ag(I) ion coating by electrophoretic deposition at 20 V for 30 s at room temperature in a 2% (v/v) aqueous solution of acetic acid with 1 g dm–3 chitosan and 10 g dm–3 silver nitrate. We evaluated the chemical composition with energy dispersive spectroscopy and Fouriertransform infrared spectroscopy. We investigated surface topography and electronic properties with a scanning Kelvin probe. We determined the mechanism and kinetics of the electrochemical corrosion of the obtained coatings by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy. The Ag content in the composite chitosan–Ag(I) ion coating was 1.9 ± 1 wt.%. The cataphoretic co-deposition of chitosan and Ag(I) ions in an aqueous solution can be used to modify the CoCrMo alloy surface to obtain new coatings with antibacterial properties.
THE EFFECT OF A COMPOSITE CHITOSAN/COPPER(II) ION COATING ON THE CORROSION RESISTANCE OF GRADE 4 TITANIUM IN SALINE: PRELIMINARY RESULTS
Authors: Łosiewicz Bożena , Osak Patrycja , Kubisztal Julian
Published: October 2023

In the present work, we successfully used electrophoretic deposition to produce a new composite chitosan-copper(II) [Cu(II]) ion coating on grade 4 titanium (Ti). We prepared the coating with an environmentally friendly in situ chemical reduction process from a 2% (v/v) aqueous acetic acid solution with 1 g dm–3 chitosan and 10 g dm–3 copper acetate at 20 V for 300 s at room temperature. We evaluated the relationship between physicochemical properties and corrosion resistance of the coatings with energy dispersive spectroscopy, Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy, a scanning Kelvin probe, and electrochemical methods. The composite coating contained 2.1 ± 0.1 wt.% of Cu, which ensures antibacterial activity. We determined the mechanism and kinetics of the electrochemical corrosion of the composite chitosan–Cu(II) ion coating on grade 4 Ti in saline solution (0.9% sodium chloride) at 37°C. The surface modification makes grade 4 Ti a more attractive material for use in dentistry.
THE EFFECTS OF APPLYING CHITOSAN OF DIFFERENT MOLECULAR WEIGHTS ON THE QUALITY OF KAMCHATKA BERRIES (LONICERA CAERULEA L.): PART 2
Authors: Ochmian Ireneusz , Krupa-Małkiewicz Marcelina
Published: October 2023

We evaluated the effects of chitosan of different molecular weights on the quality of Kamchatka berries after harvest and storage. Chitosan with lower molecular weights (from 3 to 21 kDa) positively influenced the soluble solid content after harvest. However, chitosan had no significant effect on titratable acidity after harvest. Regardless of the chitosan molecular weight, the berries contained from 7.4% to 30% more total polyphenols compared with the control (162 mg per 100 g) after harvest. After storage, the total phenolic content decreased slightly and depended on the storage conditions. The L-ascorbic acid content was the highest after harvest and storage after treatment with the highest molecular weight of chitosan (950k kDa). Chitosan 50 kDa positively influenced the firmness and puncture resistance of the berries after harvest (146% of control) and storage (135% of control).
MITIGATION EFFECTS OF WATER-SOLUBLE CHITOSAN ON BORON TOXICITY IN PEPPER PLANTS
Authors: Salachna Piotr
Published: October 2023

Excess boron in soil is often found in dry agricultural areas and is one of the factors limiting crop yields. Polysaccharide-based biostimulants can mitigate the harmful effects of environmental stresses on plants. I performed this study under controlled greenhouse conditions to understand the response of pepper plants under boron stress to treatment with water-soluble chitosan (WSC). I watered plants with 50 or 100 mg/l WSC and 1.5 mM boric acid solution. As a result of WSC application at both concentrations, plants were taller and had more leaves and greater leaf length, width, relative chlorophyll content, and fresh aboveground weight compared with the control. Plants exposed to boron stress had fewer leaves, a lower relative chlorophyll content, and leaf blade damage indicative of boron toxicity. At the same time, boron-exposed plants showed a marked increase in the leaf nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, and boron contents. Applying WSC at both concentrations modulated boron stress in plants by improving plant growth; reducing boron accumulation in leaves; and increasing the available nitrate nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium contents in the substrate.
Principles of Organization of Correctional Care for Children with Cerebral Palsy
Authors:   South Ural State Medical University, Butorin Gennady G. , Benko Larisa A. ,   South Ural State Medical University
Published: October 2023

The purpose of this work was to analyze the structure of the organization of forms, methods and ways to optimize the process of correctional care for children diagnosed with cerebral palsy. Currently, there are some problems in the organization of the process of comprehensive rehabilitation of children suffering from cerebral palsy. It manifests itself in the weak elaboration of the general methodological foundations, insufficient level of interaction between the links of the structure and the lack of general monitoring of the quality of the impacts and evaluation of the effectiveness of rehabilitation measures. It is assumed that the results will allow to determine the potential structure of the organization of correctional care for children with cerebral palsy and will help to more accurately identify problem areas in the process of socio-pedagogical and clinical-psychological support of such children. In the presented article were formulated the main approaches which help to take a new look at the system of special education and training of children with cerebral palsy. First of all, the development and implementation of a system of effective phased care will be most effective if it will be built on the basis of early diagnosis and systematic medical, pedagogical and social work with such children. In addition, it is necessary to improve the existing system of assistance to children diagnosed with cerebral palsy by creating relevant models based on the principles of an open space for interdepartmental and interdisciplinary interaction. This requires programs based on continuous study of the child and representing a single process of comprehensive rehabilitation with the function of constant monitoring
A Womanʼs Body: Situation, Space, Time: The Philosophical Aspect
Authors:   Moscow Institute of Psychoanalysis, Mordas Ekaterina S.
Published: October 2023

This article is devoted to the philosophical and psychoanalytic aspects of a womanʼs body experience. Ideas about female physicality are presented in the works of T. Moi, I. M. Young, Z. Freud, K. Horney, etc. The existence of a woman is determined by the historical, cultural, social and economic framework of her position; abstract femininity does not exist, the historical epoch and cultural diversity affect the characteristics of femininity and the experience of the female body. Women identify themselves as women with body experience, the female body is constantly changing, transforming; it is an object of pleasure and desire of another. Psychological, cultural and social factors contribute to the fact that a woman takes a passive libidinal position of subordination and inequality.
Personal Characteristics of Young People Depending on the Sign of the Zodiac
Authors:   Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University, Perevozkin Sergey B. , Perevozkina Yulia M. ,   Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University, Perevozkin Maxim S. ,   Secondary School no. 189
Published: October 2023

The article presents a description of astrology, its historical and everyday significance. The specificity of practical methods of astrology is considered. The interaction of astrology and psychology is shown. The debatable nature of astrology as a science and its influence on personality is noted. In the practical part, a study is presented, the purpose of which is to identify personal qualities in young people, depending on the sign of the zodiac. The Big Five questionnaire and comparison using one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) were applied. The study involved students in the amount of 195 people in the age range from 18 to 32 years. Research base – Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University. Each of the subjects was assigned a specific zodiac sign based on their date of birth. As a result, significant differences were obtained in three integrative factors. In conclusion, it is concluded that some personal characteristics are still pronounced in people with a similar zodiac sign. However, in order to reliably confirm the fact of the presence of certain personality traits in respondents with the same zodiac sign, it is necessary both to increase the empirical sample and expand the diagnosed personal qualities.
Tendencias de uso de sistemas de instrumentación rotatoria en la práctica clínica de endodoncistas en diferentes asociaciones de endodoncia en Colombia
Authors: Ramos Castañeda Angie Paola , Flórez Rodríguez Leydy Viviana , Maestre Romero Scheilla Margarita , Gay Ortiz Monique Marie
Published: October 2023

Objetivo: Determinar cuáles son los sistemas de instrumentación rotatoria: más empleados por los endodoncistas adscritos a las diferentes asociaciones de endodoncia en Colombia.

Materiales y Métodos: Se realizó un estudio descriptivo de Corte Transversal que contó con la participación de 95 endodoncistas, que diligenciaron una encuesta virtual, la cual fue enviada a seis asociaciones de endodoncia de Colombia. Se tuvieron en cuenta variables sociodemográficas y de interés que permitieron determinar la frecuencia de uso, las ventajas así como desventajas de los diferentes sistemas rotatorios en la población de estudio. Teniendo en cuenta la resolución 8430 de 1993, se considera que es una investigación sin riesgo.

Resultados: La participación de los Endodoncistas agremiados fue del 25%. El sistema de rotatorio más usado fue el. sistema Wave One Gold® (Dentsply- Sirona, Ballaigues, Switzerland) con el 56,8%, seguido del sistema Hyflex® (Colténe) con un 12,6%. El sistema rotatorio que presentó mayores inconvenientes durante su uso fue el Sistema Protaper® (Dentsply - Sirona, Ballaigues, Switzerland) con un 41%. En este estudio se evidenció que el sexo que más participó fue el femenino con un 64%.

Conclusiones: El sistema rotatorio que mostró una mayor prevalencia de uso fue el Sistema Wave One Gold®, asociado a sus características en el diseño y propiedades físicas del material. Un gran número de endodoncistas tuvieron una capacitación previa al uso de los diferentes sistemas rotatorios.
Correlation Between P-Selectin Level and Platelet Aggregation in Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis Patients
Authors: Nurmin Rahmawati , Lismayanti Leni , Rostini Tiene , Indrati Agnes Rengga , Amalia Lisda
Published: October 2023

One of the causes of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) is platelet hyperactivity. Adhesion and secretion are the beginning of platelet activation, which is indicated by a change in the Platelet-selectin (P-selectin) level. The end result of platelet activation is platelet aggregation. However, it is unknown whether the beginning of platelet activation ends with platelet aggregation. This study aimed to discover the correlation between P-selectin level and platelet aggregation in CVST. This study used a cross-sectional escriptive observational correlative approach. Subjects were the CVST outpatients visiting the Neurology Department of Dr. Hasan Sadikin General Hospital, Bandung, Indonesia, from July to September 2021. A total of 49 subjects met the inclusion and exclusion criteria. This study used citrate plasma samples for platelet aggregation and serum for P-selectin assessment. Platelet aggregation were assessed using the light transmission platelet aggregation method while P-selectin was assessed using Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). Platelet aggregation median was 10.6% (range 0.2–82.4%), which reflected normoaggregation. Platelet hyperaggregation were seen in 9 samples (8.4%). Median of P-selectin was 2.4 ng/mL (range 0.1–10.1 ng/mL) which were normal. High P-selectin level was observed in 16 (32.7%) with 4/16 (25%) experiencing platelet hyperaggregation. Statistical analysis showed a weak negative correlation between P-selectin and platelet aggregation (r=-0.012; p=0.467). In conclusion, no correlation is seen between P-selectin and platelet aggregation, which may be due to the fact that platelets are influenced by many factors that are not examined in this study.
Effect of Community Education on Community Knowledge of Premature Rupture of Membranes
Authors: Aziz Muhammad Alamsyah , Syahbana Chandra Garnida , Effendi Jusuf Sulaeman , Purwara Benny Hasan , Madjid Tita Husnitawati , Susiarno Hadi
Published: October 2023

Premature rupture of membranes (PROM) is still a health problem with a reasonably high incidence among pregnant women in Indonesia. The PROM is defined as the rupture of membranes before signs of labor are observed. Better knowledge on the causes, signs, symptoms, and complications of PROM is believed to help in reducing maternal and infant mortality caused by PROM. This was a cross-sectional, analytic observational study conducted in Cipacing Village, Sumedang, West Java, Indonesia during the period of June-July 2022. . Community education was held to give better knowledge about PROM for women with an obstetric and gynecology specialist and fetomaternal consultant as the resource person. Total sampling was obtained from 62 women. Data were collection using pre-test and post-tests before and after the education session. The mean pre-test score was 6.48, while the mean post-test score was 7.96. A dependent T-test was used to determine the relationship between scores before and after the community education with a p-value of 0.0001. There was a significant increase in knowledge about PROM after the education session compared to before the session. This means community education is effective and impactful to increase the level of knowledge about PROM among women.