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Intergenerational Community Visions in Appalachian Ohio
Authors: Terman Anna Rachel , Kostansek Joy , Rife Franchesca
Published: February 2022

In this research note, we present analysis of initial qualitative data collection from a larger community-engaged research project we are conducting about intergenerational community visions in Appalachian Ohio. Many people working in community action efforts in southeast Ohio today had their start during the War on Poverty programs in the 1960s. These community leaders are now at retirement age and, along with the context of an aging population in many small Appalachian Ohio communities, are confronting challenges to leadership succession. At the same time, younger generations across the region are becoming more active in their communities, but it is unclear the extent to which the two generations, younger and older, are working together. Through analysis of three focus groups with intergenerational community leaders in Appalachian Ohio, we find five common themes that participants discussed as important for community-building as well as some evidence of tension between generations. Based on these findings, we make two practical recommendations for community leaders and groups interested in developing intergenerational collaboration, and we contribute to the academic literature on intergenerational community-building in rural Appalachia.
Food Insecurity Risk among First-Generation College Students at an Appalachian University
Authors: Olfert Melissa D. , Hagedorn Rebecca L. , Walker Ayron E.
Published: February 2022

Little is known about food insecurity rates among first-generation college students in Appalachia. This study examines food insecurity and associated risk factors among first- and continuing-generation college students attending an Appalachian university in the Fall of 2019. Students completed an online Qualtrics survey that measured food security status using the 2012 US Department of Agriculture ten-item Adult Food Security Survey Module. Multivariate logistic regression models explored factors that influence food insecurity among first-generation students. Of respondents (n = 2,653), 723 were first-generation and 1,930 were continuing-generation. Food insecurity prevalence among first-generation students was 15.7 percent higher than among continuing-generation students. Black first-generation college students were 296 percent more likely to be food insecure compared to white students. First-generation students were more at risk if they experienced childhood food insecurity but were lower risk if they were aware of campus food resources. As first-generation college students experience food insecurity, resources are needed to help transition them into campus life. Screening for childhood food insecurity among incoming college students could help to distribute resources to students in need. Promotion of campus food resources may make students aware of available protection against campus food insecurity.
Attachment, Pride, and Respect: Exploration of a Multidimensional Tool to Measure Appalachian Identity
Authors: Foster Kelly N. , Tanny Oceane , Freeland Catherine , Metcalf Haley
Published: February 2022

Most scholars have refuted the notion that a region as diverse as Appalachia can have one unifying identity. Despite the challenges to measuring Appalachian identity, we maintain that this work is critical to understanding the influence that identity has on both the individual and the community. This study uses data from a 2016 study of women in Central, South Central, and Southern Appalachia. In this research, we examine the modification of the Multidimensional Inventory of Black Identity (MIBI) for use among Appalachian populations as a more complete measure of identity, finding that the overall seventeen-item Appalachian identity scale is highly reliable with a Cronbach’s alpha of .879. All three subscales—centrality, public regard, and private regard—had highly reliable Cronbach’s alpha scores. Much like the original MIBI, this modified scale appears to be a reliable measure of Appalachian identity. In addition, the subscales allow nuance in analysis that is not available by utilizing only one variable. We put this work forward in hopes that other researchers will be able to integrate it into their research and open new avenues of understanding with regard to the impact that identifying as an Appalachian may have on one’s health, wellness, and quality of life.
POP! Goes My Heart: The Sound of Specific and General Love in Romantic Comedies and Dramas
Authors: Dosser Max
Published: February 2022

This article argues the original compositions in the romantic comedy Music and Lyrics (2007) and the romantic drama A Star is Born (2018) illustrate the differing depictions of love in the two films—one rooted in the specificity of the on-screen relationship and the other more general and rooted in the emotion of the relationship—which reflect a distinctive positioning within their respective genres.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.1

—Orson Welles
Film Music Bibliography 2020
Authors: Kulezic-Wilson Danijela , Kosovsky Bob
Published: February 2022

In memory of Danijela Kulezic-Wilson—our beloved colleague, scholar, MaMI journal author and conference presenter.
Martha, Anna, Antoni, and Pierogi: Food Autobiographies and Mainstreaming of Polish American Identity
Authors: Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann Anna D.
Published: February 2022

Martha Stewart, Anna Thomas, and Antoni Porowski are authors of popular cookbooks, which include elements of their food autobiographies. These personal aspects of their cookbooks highlight their Polish American upbringing and connections to the cuisine and culture of Poland and Polonia. Although they situate their identities within different contexts, all three cookbook authors succeeded in mainstreaming Polish food through building an acceptable image of a Polish American family.
There Is a Polish-Jewish History beyond the Holocaust
Authors: Stola Dariusz
Published: February 2022

Responding to the provocative question whether there is Polish history beyond the Holocaust, this article gives several reasons for an affirmative answer. First, if there is a history of Polish Jews beyond the Holocaust, and there is a lot, there is at least as much of a general history of Poland, of which the history of Polish Jews makes an integral part. Second, the history of the Holocaust, at least a good such history, requires the pre-Holocaust history of Jews and of their non-Jewish neighbors: we cannot understand their wartime choices without their prior experiences. Third, by the sheer numbers of Jews who had lived and were killed in Poland, often in sight of their non-Jewish neighbors, the Holocaust is part of the history of Poland more than of other countries. This observation aims not only to strengthen the second argument above, but to point at various consequences of the centuries-long geographic concentration of Jews in Poland and of its abrupt and horrible end.
Whose Holocaust? Whose Poland?
Authors: Blobaum Robert
Published: February 2022

This essay argues that for better or worse the Holocaust has defined the postwar Polish historical narrative in many ways: in its silences, in its revelations as well in its distortions. Silences about the Holocaust characterized most of the communist era, with significant exceptions at both its beginning and end. Following an initial preoccupation with the criminal behavior of the Soviet and communist regimes in the 1990s, the Holocaust reemerged to the point of overwhelming both public discussion and the attention of scholars. The symbolic moment was the 2000 publication of Jan Tomasz Gross’s Sąsiedzi (Neighbors). This period was also marked by greater scholarly interest in Polish-Jewish relations, which nonetheless lacked the resonance sparked by discussions of the Jedwabne massacre. While that scholarship continued, backlash to the revelations of early years of the new millennium, already present at the time, began to shape the “historical policy” of the first Law and Justice (PiS)-led government (2005–2007) and has become more prominent in its second iteration since 2015. The construction of a counter-narrative to that of Polish complicity is based not so much on “denial” as traditionally defined, but on redirection toward the twin themes of Polish resistance and rescue. The planned museum of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising is just the most recent but hardly the only example, which in turn has sparked new controversies.
Polish Politics before and after the Holocaust: The Impact of Antisemitism on Political Cleavages
Authors: Marzec Wiktor
Published: February 2022

This essay offers an overview of antisemitic entanglements of the Polish public sphere. It presents three dense vignettes, each of them illustrating a conjuncture that retraced the lines of political antagonism within the Polish public sphere: antisemitic discourses of the intelligentsia, used to push out new claimants from the public sphere during the 1905 Revolution; antisemitic undertones of the parliamentary debate on minority protection in 1919; and the first postwar working-class strike targeting the socialist government after the Kielce pogrom in 1946. Looking at those junctures and their aftermaths, the essay argues that instead of explaining too much through the “black box” of “Polish antisemitism,” we would do a better job if we disentangled this compound notion and analyze it as a set of complementary phenomena, each of them functional for various political cleavages.
Polish History in the Wake of the Holocaust
Authors: Holc Janine
Published: February 2022

This essay responds to the question, “Is there a history of Poland beyond the Holocaust?” It introduces an approach developed by historian Christina Sharpe and argues that this approach may contribute to a reframing of historical work on Poland. Specifically, Sharpe’s metaphor of “in the wake” is helpful in identifying how violence operates inside historical narrative, generates effects beyond that narrative, and creates openings for challenging dominant historical frameworks. Movement in this direction has already become evident in some recent scholarship on Poland and the Jewish experience in the World War II and prewar periods. This essay presents Sharpe’s approach, discusses its application to Poland, and points to work that promises hope in moving beyond entrenched political positions on Polish-Jewish relations.
Neighbors and Ghosts
Authors: Müller Anna
Published: February 2022

This essay argues for the centrality of Polish-Jewish relations for Polish history. I look at a handful of texts (including history and literature) that show the continued nature of autobiographical elements in the exploration of the Polish and Jewish past and the violence that defined it. The conversations about a difficult past play a crucial role not only in the process of understanding the impact/importance of the past for the present, but they also loom large over any interracial, interethnic, or interreligious dialogues. Finally, continued reflection on the Holocaust and the violence that accompanied it (experienced, witnessed, and instigated) provides an opportunity not only for national soul-searching, but ultimately also for understanding the various factors that condition us as Poles.
Between Communism, Zionism, and Statehood: Władysław Broniewski in Palestine
Authors: Kossewska Elżbieta
Published: February 2022

This article focuses on Władysław Broniewski’s political activities in Palestine during his stay there from February 1943 to November 1945. His personal history is presented against a backdrop of the political and intellectual life of Polish refugees in the Middle East. Broniewski, a revolutionary and avant-garde poet who belonged to the left-wing world, is depicted against the backdrop of events and tensions occurring at that time in Zionist communities, as well as in the centers of Polish power—both the communist government in Warsaw and the Polish government-in-exile in London—and the dispute between them concerning the future of Poland. The article presents Broniewski’s friendships and acquaintances during his stay in Palestine. Extensive epistolary material as well as other archival and press sources were used. The article also explores the subject matter of Broniewski’s literary output. The poems he wrote in Palestine are some of his most interesting works, exemplifying the most expressive poetry in the canon of literature written by refugees.
Bring Fake News into the World: A Lesson Study Based on the Principles of Authentic Art Education
Authors: Heijnen Emiel , Braam Huub , van Tongeren Claartje
Published: February 2022

Bring Fake News into the World is an evaluative research study that explored how principles of authentic art education can be implemented in Dutch elementary schools. Central to the evaluation were the pupils’ responses elicited in the first lesson of a lesson series about fake news and socially engaged art, designed by generalist teachers according to the method of lesson study. The lesson series was executed in 15 Dutch schools and evaluated through observations, observer questionnaires, worksheets, and learner reports. Through both statistic and qualitative analysis, the study sheds light on how state-of-the-art content matter can be applied in elementary schools and how pupils are encouraged to develop cross-curricular skills in art class. The empirical data underline how generalist teachers can design and implement art education that addresses topical societal issues, makes meaningful connections with contemporary art and popular culture, and appeals to 21st-century skills, including critical thinking and creativity.
Making the Monster House: Process, Assemblage, and the Study of Children’s Drawing Practices
Authors: Sackett Hannah
Published: February 2022

Recent approaches to children’s art and drawing influenced by the writings of Deleuze and Guattari and new materialist scholars (for example, Karen Barad, Jane Bennett Rick Dolphijn and Iris van der Tuin) explore themes such as process, duration, matter, assemblage, and becoming. They allow for a shift away from linguistic and symbolic interpretations, and offer an opportunity to focus on making rather than meaning in children’s drawing practices. In this paper, I will discuss a selection of research by Linda Knight, Christina MacRae, Christopher M. Schulte, and Christine Marmé Thompson, which focuses on assemblage and process, before presenting a case study from my own research. This case study documents and discusses a drawing made during the course of a lunchtime comic club with children aged 7 and 8. My aim in writing this paper is to examine the ways in which research written from these perspectives opens up new understandings of children’s drawing practices.
Influences of a Classroom Setting on Students’ Artistic Processes
Authors: Hilsdorf Ursula , Gates Leslie
Published: February 2022

This study uses Mace and Ward’s model of the artistic process as a theoretical framework to examine the art-making processes of students enrolled in an Advanced Placement (AP) art class in a public high school. Previous scholarship about the artistic process is grounded in the experience of professional artists and has not sufficiently attended to whether and how the artistic process of students in K–12 classroom contexts mirrors the work of artists outside school contexts. Data from classroom observations and interviews of AP art students suggests students’ processes were closely aligned to Mace and Ward’s descriptive model of the art-making process. The data also suggest that two major factors influenced students’ artistic process in school contexts: the influence of the teacher and working in a shared classroom space.
Pinole, un alimento energético tradicional mexicano con valor nutrimental
Authors: Sánchez Madrigal Miguel Ángel , Quintero-Ramos Dr. Armando , Tobías Espinoza Dra. Jazmín L. , Meléndez Pizarro Dra. Carmen O.
Published: February 2022

El pinole es un alimento de origen prehispánico que se obtiene principalmente a partir del tostado de los granos enteros de maíz y su posterior molienda. Este polvo de maíz tostado puede ser adicionado con diferentes ingredientes que le confieren distintas características de sabor y aroma, así como propiedades nutricionales, fisicoquímicas, entre otras. El pinole, el cual se consume comúnmente como bebida ya sea en frío o caliente como atole, formó parte importante del desarrollo de diferentes culturas mesoamericana. Hoy en día es conocido como un alimento tradicional mexicano que se ha adaptado a las diferentes necesidades y costumbres de diferentes regiones de México. El consumo de este producto ha ido disminuyendo por su relación con la temporalidad y alto contenido energético, sin embargo, es importante resaltar que estos productos presentan contenidos importantes de fibra dietética y diferentes compuestos bioactivos. Sin considerar, que la adición de nuevos ingredientes altos en proteínas o antioxidantes en la reformulación de este producto, generan alternativas novedosas y atractivas de consumo para la población. El presente reporte tiene como objetivo brindar información del pinole, desde sus orígenes, manera de preparación e ingredientes, características y sus diferentes propiedades, y los efectos del procesamiento para su obtención (tostado del maíz), que son importantes para conocer más sobre este alimento tradicional mexicano.
A New Eclogavena (Gastropoda: Cypraeidae) from the Northern Sulu Sea, Philippines
Authors: Petuch Edward , Myers Robert
Published: February 2022

A new cypraeid cowrie shell of the genus Eclogavena Iredale, 1930 is described from the northern Sulu Sea, southern Philippine Islands. The new taxon, Eclogavena dayritiana mondejarorum Petuch and Myers, new subspecies, is described as a subspecies of the widespread Sulu Sea E. dayritiana (Cate, 1963) and differs in being a more inflated and lighter-colored, pale blue and white shell. The new subspecies is also compared to the closely-related E. dani (Beals, 2002) from deep water off Palawan Island, Sulu Sea, but differs in being a less pyriform, less inflated, and much lighter colored shell. The three Sulu Sea Eclogavena species differ greatly in their ecological and bathymetric preferences: E. dayritiana lives under coral rubble in intertidal depths, and is often exposed at low tide; E. dani prefers coral rubble areas in 25-150 m depths; and E. dayritiana mondejarorum lives only inside giant sponges, growing on steep reef walls, in 30 m depth. The three closely-related taxa appear to represent a localized species radiation of Eclogavena cowries that is confined to the Sulu Sea.
The Culture of a “Four Species” Haliotis Hybrid in a Marine Shellfish Hatchery
Authors: Owen Buzz
Published: February 2022

The hatchery culture of a previously unknown hybrid abalone combining the parentage of four species of Haliotis is described. The parent specimens, both hybrids themselves, were a female H. rufescens Swainson, 1822 × H. sorenseni Bartsch, 1940, and a male H. corrugata Wood, 1828 x H. walallensis Stearns, 1899. Details of the technique used to accomplish this, and the problems encountered during the relatively difficult culture of this multi-species hybrid, are discussed. Shell specimens of this exceptional cross are described and illustrated with high-resolution color photography, and the pigmentation and morphology of the soft body parts are described. Some possible reasons why such an unusual hybrid would not likely be found in natural populations are advanced.
Biodiversity in La Reserva de la Biósfera Bahía de los Ángeles y Canales de Ballenas y Salsipuedes: Naming of a New Genus, Range Extensions and New Records, and Species List of Heterobranchia (Mollusca: Gastropoda), with Comments on Biodiversity Conservation within Marine Reserves
Authors: Bertsch Hans
Published: February 2022

Biosphere reserves are significant means for the conservation of habitats and biodiversity, but require detailed knowledge of their fauna and flora to develop effective management plans. This study reports the known occurrence of 117 species of heterobranch mollusks (including 8 unnamed species) within La Reserva de la Biósfera Bahía de los Ángeles y Canales de Ballenas y Salsipuedes. The new genus Trivettea Bertsch is named. Range extensions and/or first records to and within Bahía de los Ángeles are given for 23 species. Triopha catalinae, Jorunna osae, Jorunna tempisquensis, Tritonia sp., Eubranchus madapamensis, Facelina sp. and Cuthona hamanni are reported for the first time from the Gulf of California.
Modern Group Portraits in New York Exile: Community and Belonging in the Work of Arthur Kaufmann and Hermann Landshoff
Authors: Dogramaci Burcu
Published: February 2022

In the period 1933–1945 the group portrait was an important genre of art in exile, which has so far received little attention in research.[1] Individual works, such as Max Beckmann’s group portrait Les Artistes mit Gemüse, painted in 1943 in exile in Amsterdam,[2] were indeed in the focus. Until now, however, there has been no systematic investigation of group portraits in artistic exile during the Nazi era. The following observations are intended as a starting point for further investigations, and concentrate on the exile in New York and the work of the emigrated painter Arthur Kaufmann and photographer Hermann Landshoff in the late 1930s and 1940s, who devoted themselves to the genre of group portraits.
“My old Mother” – Therese Graf in New York: Exile, the Transatlantic Itinerary of a Photographic Portrait, and Strong History “from below”
Authors: Troelenberg Eva-Maria
Published: February 2022

Among the holdings of the Monacensia Literaturarchiv in Munich is a framed black-and-white photographic portrait, a close-up of an old woman in three-quarter profile (fig. 1). Probably taken during the 1920s or early ’30s, this photograph shows Therese Graf, née Heimrath, born as a peasant’s daughter in a small Bavarian village near lake Starnberg in 1857, and deceased in that same village in 1934. Of her eleven children, four migrated to the United States—three of them did so while she was still alive, for economic reasons shortly before or after the First World War, and they were to become mineworkers or bakers in the new world.
A New Woman’s Exile in Buenos Aires: Grete Stern’s Photomontages between Feminism and Popular Culture
Authors: Wieder Christina
Published: February 2022

The focus of this article will rely on the work of the photographer Grete Stern, who had to flee Germany in 1933 due to her Jewish background, and later emigrated to Argentina. Special attention will be given to her photomontage series Sueños (Dreams) for the women’s magazine Idilio, which the artist produced between 1948 and 1951, and which played an essential role in the modernization of Argentinean photography. Moreover, today these photomontages are known for having had a fundamental influence on the dissemination of psychoanalysis in Argentina, as well as on feminist art in general. As these photomontages were published together with the psychoanalytic column “El psicoanálisis te ayudará” and negotiated different aspects of psychoanalytic theory, they were often interpreted within the tradition of surrealist photography.[1] In this article, however, I would like to propose an alternative, perhaps complementary reading of these images and embed Stern’s Dreams in a broader context—the context of her experience as an exile in Argentina, the context of the magazine, and the context of Peronist visual culture. As I will argue, this allows these photomontages to be read as multilayered aesthetic, political, and feminist interventions in a time when more and more restrictions dominated artistic practices in Argentina. In the following, I will provide an insight into Stern’s formation and work in Germany, and the ideas of femininity that influenced her art before and after emigration. After that, I will discuss the politically enforced changes in the field of Argentinean visual culture. And finally, I will analyze Stern’s photomontages in the context of the magazine and their impact beyond, on the modernization of photography in Argentina.
“École de Paris” In and Out of Paris (1928–1930): A Transregional Perspective on the Exhibitions of the “School of Paris” in Venice, Cambridge, Recife, São Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro
Authors: Ruckdeschel Annabel
Published: February 2022

During the first decades of the twentieth century, the Paris quarter of Montparnasse became a focal point for an internationalized art field, and artists’ transnational mobility and migration laid the basis for the city’s image as cosmopolitan hub. Art critics and curators of the interwar period soon used the term École de Paris (“School of Paris”) for artists who immigrated to the French capital, and more rarely for French artists who attracted these foreigners with their art and academies, thus underscoring Paris’s status as a center of modern art. In the recent past, numerous studies on the School of Paris have focused on the role of foreign artists within the Parisian art scene and its dynamics of inclusion and exclusion.[1] The present article, however, examines how the label was shaped within transregional dynamics. It focuses on artists and critics that were both active within Paris and curated exhibitions of the School of Paris elsewhere. Thus, they transformed and relocated the label and the implied image of Paris as a center of modern art and a site of migrant artists.During the first decades of the twentieth century, the Paris quarter of Montparnasse became a focal point for an internationalized art field, and artists’ transnational mobility and migration laid the basis for the city’s image as cosmopolitan hub. Art critics and curators of the interwar period soon used the term École de Paris (“School of Paris”) for artists who immigrated to the French capital, and more rarely for French artists who attracted these foreigners with their art and academies, thus underscoring Paris’s status as a center of modern art. In the recent past, numerous studies on the School of Paris have focused on the role of foreign artists within the Parisian art scene and its dynamics of inclusion and exclusion.[1] The present article, however, examines how the label was shaped within transregional dynamics. It focuses on artists and critics that were both active within Paris and curated exhibitions of the School of Paris elsewhere. Thus, they transformed and relocated the label and the implied image of Paris as a center of modern art and a site of migrant artists.
Cubism in Iran: Jalil Ziapour and the Fighting Rooster Association
Authors: Nahidi Katrin
Published: February 2022

In 1948 the Iranian painter Jalil Ziapour (1920–1999), together with his artistic colleagues, the writer Gholam Hossein Gharib (1923–2003), playwright Hassan Shirvani (birth/death date unknown), and composer Morteza Hannaneh (1922–1989), founded the Fighting Rooster Association (Anjoman-e Ḵorūs-e Jangī) to promote the new emerging modernist arts in Iran. Jalil Ziapour and the Fighting Rooster Association were the leading representatives of cubism in Iran, which arose as a movement in the 1940s and offered Iranian artists like Ziapour a suitable vocabulary to elaborate an artistic subjectivity based on Iranian heritage. At the same time, it also helped to promote the Fighting Rooster Association’s aims to foster democratic hopes for the Iranian nation. This article focuses on Ziapour’s works and texts in light of Orphic cubist theory and highlights the beginnings of modernist art in Iran, the global entanglements of modernism, and the search for an Iranian art beyond orientalist painting traditions and exotic depictions of being the “other.”
Art and Artists Crossing Borders: Untold Stories of the First Iraqi Art Exhibition in the USSR
Authors: Nefedova Olga
Published: February 2022

During recent decades, interest in different facets of contemporary Arab art has significantly increased. Although recent developments have played a key role in bringing Arab art into wider focus, gaps remain in scholarly discussions, such as the subject of Arab art and artists in the Soviet Union—a cultural transfer and migration of ideas across time and space. This article discusses the first Iraqi modern art exhibition in the USSR, in 1959. It was organized and carried out within the framework of the 1959 bilateral agreement signed between Iraq and the Soviet Union promoting mutual understanding and cultural exchange. More than 200 artworks were exhibited in Moscow, Baku, and Odessa for nearly three months. The exhibition’s paintings, graphics, and sculptures represented both figurative and abstract art schools. Unintentionally, the show triggered heated debates: cross-regional conversations erupted not only in the official media but also on the pages of the guest books of its venues, Moscow’s State Museum of Oriental Art and the Azerbaijan National Museum of Art in Baku. By looking at the debates around the exhibition content, this article seeks to shed light on how such an exhibition was made possible and how it was perceived in the USSR in the context of the inculcated ideology of socialist realism. What was the purpose of this exhibition and who were the cultural agents behind its organization? What was the role of official cultural players in the USSR in selecting the works and promoting the exhibition? How was the Iraqi exhibition received by the Soviet public? What was the reaction of the official press? How did the ideology of socialist realism affect people’s perception of Iraqi modern art?
Forecast Share Price Using Technical analysis Tool
Authors: GOKUL U D
Published: February 2022

In recent years many of us have been interesting in investing in the share market. This study focuses on the prediction of share price using a technical analysis tool (candlestick chart). In this study we use 30 companies' one-year data of share prices, top companies of the individual sector in NSE (National Stock Exchange) to forecast the share prices. The sample charts are taken from moneycontrol.com. In this study, we predict the share price using the previous price changes in the share market. Compare them with an actual price, find how many decisions are correct, how many decisions are wrong.
Management Of Aspergillus Leaf Spot Diseases on Terminalia Catappa In Sokoto, Nigeria
Authors: Nasir Muhammad Nasir
Published: February 2022

Research on the diseased leaves of Terminalia catappa (tropical almond) was conducted in Usmanu Danfodiyo University Permanent site, Wammako local government, Sokoto. The locations where the diseased leaves were collected, purposively selected because of the abundance of the tree species in those locations. The objective was to identify fungal foliar diseases associated with Terminalia catappa and then develop control measures of the pathogen. Diseased leaves were collected and taken to the department of biological sciences, Mycology laboratory, Botany unit, Usmanu Danfodiyo University for identification. Aspergillus niger, Aspergillus ustus and, Aspergillus flavus were the fungal pathogens identified and suspected to be the cause of the foliar diseases on the tree species. Suncozeb, a broad-spectrum fungicide was obtained for the management of these diseases. The chemical was applied at different concentration rates (50%, 100% and, 150%) and the zones of inhibitions were observed and measured. It was observed that the higher the concentration the higher the zones of inhibition; this was the case for all the organisms identified. Past research showed that high temperature makes this species prone to soil-borne pathogens and this is the case with the study area of this research. As part of the recommendation, since it was observed that 150% of Suncozeb clearly inhibited the growth of the pathogen to a certain level, a higher concentration of this same chemical will increase the inhibition zone and possibly bring a complete stoppage of the pathogen spread.
Effect of Intestinal Microbiota on Brain Activity: ANN Analysis of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Authors: Bouharati
Published: February 2022

Modern biotope genomics has been able to determine the characteristics of each individual. The intestinal microbiota has a direct effect on the brain and behavioral activity of the individual. Any change in it modifies the mechanisms of emotional signaling, behavioral and visceral nociceptive reflexes. The resulting signaling mechanisms of the gut microbiota and probiotics including variations in microbiota production influence brain activity. Studies on rodents with reported vagal signaling in response to intestinal and probiotic pathogens. Diet, genetic factors, environmental factors may play a role in these alterations. The result is that is proven by functional brain imaging. The resulting effect of this interaction can be recorded in specific areas in the brain using functional magnetic resonance imaging. Depending on different biotopes in different people, levels of stress or relaxation are recorded. The analysis of these variations allows having an idea of the effect carried by each alteration in biotope and drugs administered to soothe stress for example. However, these effects are far from accurate. Human physiology is much more complex to draw hasty conclusions. If the effect is much more pronounced in women is that they are more emotional, sex is a factor to consider. In this study, we propose an intelligent system for analyzing these variables. The analysis of the MRI image is very complex due to it is a question of defining the exact contours of the activated brain zones. Given the complexity of the system, an artificial neural network analysis with deep learning is proposed. The constructed system is supervised learning. Input variables are (Biotope classification, genetic factor, diet factor, sex) and an output variable that expresses the degree of effect on activation of brain areas in relation to the centers of emotions recorded in functional fMRI. The established algorithm randomly introduces values ​​to the input factors of the system to read predict the emotional effect on the individual.
Influence of Meditation on the Wellbeing of People During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Authors: MadhavaChandran
Published: February 2022

Stress induced in people by the COVID-19 pandemic can have adverse impact on their wellbeing. Since meditation may improve the mental wellbeing of people during the pandemic, this was analysed in the study. Data was collected from 60 people practicing meditation (Experimental group) and 60 people from the Control (non-meditation) group on-line using a questionnaire containing the European Social Survey Wellbeing Tool and analysed through Wilcoxon rank sum test with continuity correction, and the measure of consensus based on the Shannon entropy. Compared to the control group, more respondents in the experimental group are giving favourable responses for the positive and negative wellbeing parameters. There exists statistically significant difference between the two groups with respect to the score of all the wellbeing items and the total wellbeing score. The results indicate the usefulness of practicing relaxation techniques like meditation for improving wellbeing and reducing psychological problems, which could affect people on account of the pandemic.
Evaluation of Information and Public Awareness Programme of MNRE in India
Authors: Panda Pradeep
Published: February 2022

The Information & Public Awareness (I&PA) Programme of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has been existing since the inception of the Ministry in 1992. The programme is being implemented as a central sector scheme with full funding from the central budget. The Ministry uses variety of media like electronic, print and outdoor publicity through exhibitions, bus panels, hoardings, kiosks, paintings and other outdoor media activities for popularization of new and renewable energy systems and devices throughout the country. The Ministry participates in different Districts, States and National level exhibitions mainly through State Nodal Agencies (SNAs). With the analytical frame of reference, the study has taken into account mixed approaches to suitably take the feedback of stakeholders. In the study, the purpose was to analyze the progress of programme at all India level. Accordingly, data and information were collected through survey method and participatory discussion with target groups i.e. rural women, farmers (solar pumps), rooftop solar users, other sources of renewables, etc. There were several meetings with renewable energy beneficiaries/potential users and agencies created at State/district level to implement ministry’s scheme. Both quantitative and qualitative information have been garnered. The evaluation study attempts to assess the impact of I&PA and to identify specific bottlenecks in implementation and optimum levels of support needed for effective implementation. It is found that the implementation of I&PA Programme is meeting the desired objectives. Awareness about the scheme is found among the state governments and public in the field. Thus, the scheme has largely been effective in the promotion of renewable energy, in its overarching objectives.
A study on significance of Employees-Employer relations and its effects on organizational development with special reference to steel Industrial units in Trichy
Authors: Pillai Mala
Published: February 2022

The study was carried out to establish the effect of employee relations on organization development. The findings of the study indicated that to a great extent Trichy Steel Roll mills organization practices employee relations. This study shows that Some Components of employee relations in this organization were identified. Finally, the researcher found out that employee relations strategies improve organizational development. Employees are ever ready to make an extra effort if they are satisfied with strategic decisions of their organizations. Employees give importance to employers for their communication procedures that affect their efficiency and motivation level. Employee relations create competitive advantage over competitors. Significance of Employee relations was also discussed in this paper. 100 samples were selected at three categories from sample industry for the study.
Pengaruh Disiplin Kerja Terhadap Kinerja Pegawai Kantor Pelayanan Pajak
Authors: Dirgantara Heri , Parlindungan Sinaga Anton , Suprasa Indra
Published: February 2022

Disiplin kerja menjadi kesadaran dan kesediaan seseorang mentaati semua peraturan organisasi dan norma-norma sosial yang berlaku. Adapun masalah penelitian yaitu pengaruh disiplin kerja terhadap kinerja pegawai kantor pelayanan pajak pratama medan barat. Adapun tujuan dari penelitian ini yaitu untuk mengetahui pengaruh disiplin kerja terhadap kinerja pegawai kantorpelayanan pajak pratama medan barat. Metode pengumpulan data yang digunakanadalah dengan pendekatan survey melalui observasi, wawancara, pembagian kuesioner dan studi dokumentasi. Metode analisis data yang digunakan adalah analisis regresi linier berganda. Populasi penelitian ini semuapegawai Kantor Pelayanan Pajak Pratama Medan Barat yang berjumlah 104 orang. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukan bahwa variabel disiplin kerja memiliki nilai p-value (pada kolom Sig.) 0,008 < 0,05 artinya signifikan, sedangkan t hitung 2,791 > dari t tabel 2,012 artinya signifikan. Hal ini berarti bahwa disiplin kerja berpengaruh terhadap kinerja pegawai.
Pengaruh Kecerdasan Emosional Terhadap Kinerja Pegawai Di Kantor Pelayanan Pajak
Authors: Junaidi  , Azwar Muhammad , Lubis Nurmaysaroh
Published: February 2022

Birokrasi menjadi instrumen penting dalam masyarakat yangkehadirannya tak mungkin terelakkan dengan konsekuensi logis untukmensejahterakan rakyatnya. Berkenaan dengan upaya pelayanan danmewujudkan kesejahteraan rakyat, birokrasi publik memberikan andil yangrelatif besar. Melalui kecerdasan emosianal, maka kesadaran diri yangmemandu seseorang mengakui dan menghargai perasaan diri sendiri dan oranglain, serta menerapkan dengan efektif dalam perilaku. Adapun masalahpenelitian yaitu pengaruh kecerdasan emosional terhadap kinerja pegawai padakantor pelayanan pajak madya medan. Metode pengumpulan data yangdigunakan dalam penelitian ini dengan pendekatan survey melalui observasi,wawancara, pembagian kuesioner dan studi dokumentasi. Metode analisis datayang digunakan adalahanalisis regresi linier berganda. Populasi penelitian iniadalah seluruh pegawai Kantor Pelayanan Pajak Madya Medan yang berjumlah126 orang. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukan bahwa Variabel kecerdasanemosional memiliki nilai p-value (pada kolom Sig.) 0,004 < 0,05 artinyasignifikan, sedangkan t hitung 2,989 > dari t tabel 2,008 artinya tidak signifikan.Hal ini berarti bahwa kecerdasan emosional berpengaruh signifikan terhadapkinerja pegawai
Role of environmental health officer in the containment of COVID19: A Nigerian perspective
Authors:   Department of Environmental Health, New Gate College of Health Technology, Minna Niger State, Nigeria, Hassan Abdulkarim Jamil , Mercy Enemali Ugbede ,   Department of Public Health National University of Nigeria, M Chandran ,   Department of Zoology, Thiruvalluvar University, Serkadu, Vellore, India, A Amsath ,   Department of Zoology, Khadir Mohideen College, Adirampattinam, Tamil Nadu, India, S Sethilmurugan ,   Department of Zoology, Annamalai University, Tamilnadu, India
Published: February 2022

Environmental Health Officer play a critical role in the containment of COVID19 in view of Outbreak of COVID 19 in Nigeria, Environmental Health Officer has numerous role to play ranging of health education, management of medical generated from treatment COVID Patient, disinfection and decontamination of environment, ensuring health worker in the frontline of management of COVID patient follows safety protocol in the course of discharging their duty and also help in investigation of people who are exposure to the disease through contact tracing,. Environmental health Officers ensure environmental sanitation is being practiced so as to strengthen environmental hygiene in an effort to contain the spread of COVID 19. This study adopted a qualitative approach, primary and secondary data were used for the purpose of data collection for the study
Survey on prevalence of common diseases in pigeon (Columba livia domestica) in Tuticorin district, Tamil Nadu, India
Authors:   P.G. Department of Zoology, St. John's College, Affiliated to Manonmaniam Sundaranar University,Tirunelveli, 627002, Tamil Nadu, India, Rose Rani, P Beulah , Rajakumari Sheeba ,   P.G. Department of Zoology, St. John's College, Affiliated to Manonmaniam Sundaranar University,Tirunelveli, 627002, Tamil Nadu, India
Published: February 2022

The aim of the study is to estimate the prevalence of diseases in Tuticorin district and to get an insight in pigeon production, disease management and vaccination status. A sample of 50 pigeon fanciers was randomly selected from different taluks in Tuticorin district and face to face interviews were conducted among them using a standard questionnaire. Among these a total of 202 diseased pigeons was examined. According to age, they were classified into three categories squab (1-2 weeks), young (30-90 days) and adult (>90 days). Those diseases were identified by conducting the survey with a standard questionnaire among the pigeon fanciers and the study duration was from July 2016 to December 2016 and September 2t017 to November 2017. Out of 202 diseased pigeons 35.64% were raniket disease or Newcastle disease (paramyxovirus), 18.11%were canker disease, and 11.38% were one eye cold disease. In most of the lofts, the owners didn’t vaccinate their pigeons against the common diseases, even though many of them were aware of the diseases. Pigeon fancier’s education and awareness of pigeon diseases needs to be improved through veterinary public health and health promotion approach. Non pharmaceutical preventive measures such as hand washing and avoidance of eye, nose and mouth touching after handling of diseased pigeons must be improved. The present study has demonstrated that a study solely based on the questionnaire is not adequate in determining the prevalence of diseases in pigeon and also the results concluded that pigeon fanciers of Tuticorin district do not maintain the regular preventive measures or vaccination against the common diseases and to control the diseases.
Seasonal variations in the diversity of Amphibians and Reptiles in Western Terai arc landscape, India
Authors:   P.G. Department of Zoology, Maharaja Sriram Chandra Bhanj Deo University, Odisha, India, Singh Mehra Gajendra , Shrotriya Shivam ,   Wildlife Institute of India, Uttarakhand, India, Bisht Deepa ,   The Corbett Foundation, Uttarakhand, India, Bisht Sarita ,   The Corbett Foundation, Uttarakhand, India, Singh Bargali Harendra ,   The Corbett Foundation, Uttarakhand, India, Ahmad Tanveer ,   The Corbett Foundation, Uttarakhand, India, Verma Neha ,   Forest Department of Uttarakhand, India, Mohanty Nakulananda ,   P.G. Department of Zoology, Maharaja Sriram Chandra Bhanj Deo University, Odisha, India, Kumar Dutta Sushil ,   Nature, Environment and Wildlife Society, Odisha, India
Published: February 2022

Amphibian and reptiles are weather sensitive, poikilothermic group of animals, and their occurrence varies with the change in seasons. Present study was conducted in Ramnagar Forest Division of Uttarakhand state of India. Ramnagar Forest Division is the western part of Terai Arc Landscape which is an important ecoregion of the world. Sampling was done with Visual Encounter Surveys along with other methods, in all the seasons of a year. A total of 47 species of herpetofauna was recorded in the study, including 10 species of frogs, 13 species of lizards, 20 species of snakes and 4 species of testudines. The maximum number of herpetofauna species was observed during monsoon season, while the least number species were found in winters. The general pattern of herpetofauna species richness that observed in Ramnagar Forest Division was, found to be highest in monsoons, which then started decreasing in autumns and a rapid decrease was noticed in pre-winter and reached minimum in winters. In springs it started rising again and continue to rise in summers to reached maximum in monsoons
National Identity as an Ideological Construct
Authors:   Aoibh Consulting, Byrne Judith , Moiseeva Natalia ,   Moscow State University, Sharov Konstantin ,   Moscow State University
Published: February 2022

In the paper, we demonstrate that different types of communities related to the base group identification (kins, tribes, clans, peoples, ethnic groups, nationalities, nations) may be constructed as the products of ideological actions of local elites. This may well explain why in the modern times national identification undergoes the serious crisis. The principles of grouping the human beings change due to tremendously increased Earth population and ideological narratives creating these social groups, change as well. The ideological nature of national identification provides a satisfactory explanation of the shift from ideologies addressed to the national communities, to ideologies created for ‘everyday citizens.’
Social Roles and Statuses of Women in Imperial China: Confucianism as Opposition to Neoliberalism
Authors:   Koltzov Institute of Developmental Biology of Russian Academy of Sciences, Sharov Konstantin , Ng Meifeng ,   National University of Singapore, Lim Henry Chen ,   DBS Bank
Published: February 2022

The paper considers the social statuses and roles of women in Imperial China since the Zhou era. The portrait of a woman proposed by Confucian thinkers is compared with the real social situation of women in China. It is proved that despite serious and sometimes just criticising the Confucianism by modern liberal researchers, the doctrine of Confucius in most cases considered a woman as a legally emancipated creature equal to a man. Confucianism legitimised the high social statuses of widows and mothers, and gave women the right to perform a wide range of social roles outside the scope of family: from a midwife to a military general. The treatment of women in Imperial China is compared in the paper with the gender equality development in Europe.