bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
O município protagonista: breve análise da execução da política urbana à luz do artigo 182 da Constituição
Authors: Oliveira Leandro
Published: June 2022

In a globalized world, with Brazilian society naturally increasingly integrated with that of other countries, popular tolerance for problems such as corruption and poor provision of public services decreases and there is an awakening of demands for improvements. The people's demands are directed towards, in addition to the sensitive areas of health, education and probity, to urban infrastructure interventions directly linked to urban planning, precisely because cities are home to the overwhelming majority of the population. In this context, achieving federative autonomy by the 1988 constitution, also influenced by the spontaneous social phenomenon of urbanization, the municipality leaves its once timid role in the realization of fundamental rights to receive, by express option of the constituent, the task of executing urban policy defined in its master plan, ensuring the sustainable management of cities as a prominent diffuse right. Thus, the importance of urban planning rights is expanded, contributing to this protagonism, mainly through what is called “Active or Operational Urbanism”, which, far from being limited to the control of the exercise by the individual of the right to property and to build, is preordained to transform the artificial environment built by man through urbanization actions, benefiting and re-benefiting the habitable spaces with the scope of giving citizens a functional, sustainable and balanced city, meeting the most acute and modern popular desires. The peculiarities of the execution of urban policy to which the 3 levels of the federation under municipal leadership compete, are also analyzed in light of the specific attributions of the local entity for planning and controlling the use, subdivision and occupation of land and execution of the urban policy, inspired by cooperative federalism, by the clause of local interest and the principle of federative subsidiarity, which translate into an indisputable municipalization of actions (articles 23, single paragraph, 30, I and VIII and 182 of the Constitution).
Engaging students in quantitative methods: real questions, real data
Authors:   University of Manchester, Brown Mark
Published: June 2022

This paper sets out an approach to teaching ‘statistical literacy’ to social science students that is built around the need to first engage them with questions and data applications that excite them. It highlights the increasing range of accessible real world data which allow the teaching of statistics to be contextualized with data and questions that are topical, relevant and matched to the subject interests of the students being taught. The paper illustrates this approach with the example of a compulsory methods class taught by the author to Sociology undergraduates. The course is designed in a way that statistical concepts and techniques are encountered in-context and as part of a coherent research process in which the students are active participants – ‘statistics’ become the means to an end rather than an end in themselves. The approach has seen a transformation in student satisfaction scores and a new interest in developing data skills in final year options.
Understanding basic demographic trends: connecting table reading, task design, and context
Authors:   University of Haifa, Gal Iddo , Trostianitser Anna ,   University of Haifa
Published: June 2022

The paper aims to inform the conceptualization of teaching/learning goals and instructional design related to understanding multivariate statistics that describe trends in society. The paper presents a conceptual analysis leading to identification of a gap in current analyses and instructional sequences focused on interpretation of information in tables [and graphs]. The paper advocates for the need to develop students' ability to reflect about the factors that cause or are related to observed trends, and about their societal implications, and highlights the need to develop task design principles that can promote such understanding. We then present an empirical demonstration of a possible class sequence, and results from an exploratory class activity with 43 students whose responses were content-analysed. Based on these results and the prior analysis, we reflect on benefits in terms of increased motivation and relevance of statistics instruction, and call for the use of task design principles that directly connect data, statistics, and class activities to the actual societal context in which students have to operate as adults, in order to enhance students' statistical literacy and understanding of statistics about society.
“Statistica enigmistica”: An ISTAT puzzle magazine to introduce non-specialists to statistics through a ludic approach
Authors:   Regional Office for Tuscany, Da Valle Silvia , Osti Susi ,   Regional Office for Veneto
Published: June 2022

Spreading the culture of data as a means of understanding and evaluating reality, and of making informed decisions, is one of the missions of Istat, the Italian National Institute of Statistics. Istat promotes statistical literacy also for non-professional audiences. Therefore, researchers’ efforts are aimed at finding appealing proposals to emphasize the importance of having statistical skills in every-day life. Recently, Istat created “Statistica enigmistica”: a puzzle magazine designed to play with concepts, definitions and data, and to encourage the use of the cognitive tools of Statistics when observing and comprehending society. The games have been designed to involve a wide audience, ranging from children to adults. The topics have been selected to offer an overview of the main statistical data regarding Italian society, and to give useful references for further insights.
Using well-being measures to promote statistical literacy
Authors:   Italian National Institute of Statistics, De Candia Giulia , Bianchino Antonella ,   Italian National Institute of Statistics, Taralli Stefania ,   Italian National Institute of Statistics
Published: June 2022

This paper describes and discusses an activity proposed to secondary school students to experience the process of measuring well-being of society. The suggestion is part of a series of initiatives conducted by the Italian National Institute of Statistics (Istat) to promote statistical literacy among young people. Students are required to reflect about well-being concepts, to operationalize well- being dimensions, to analyse and interpret well-being data, and to verbalise their statistical analysis. Data sets come from the Istat’s “Report on equitable and sustainable well-being” (BES) and contains over one hundred indicators concerning the fundamental dimensions of well-being and progress in Italy and its territories. Retracing the path to define and measure well-being, students become familiar with these issues and using real data they anchor the learning process to everyday life.
Empowering citizens against the typical misuse of data concerning risks
Authors:   Ludwigsburg University of Education, Martignon Laura
Published: June 2022

Risks have to be evaluated on the basis of information that media, advertisements and brochures pro- vide. These are often incomplete, reporting, for instance, only relative risks instead of both relative and absolute risks. While it is important for the informed citizen to be trained in the evaluation of scales and diagrams on risk-related topics it is also relevant that she acquires basic competencies for the understanding of risk; this requires, as is the claim of this paper, minimal effort. Results will be presented that demonstrate current deficits in the understanding of risk which are the consequence of misinformation or of bad representation formats and can be eliminated by a good yet elementary training in the understanding of basic risk-related concepts.
Deriving heuristics from political speeches for understanding statistics about society
Authors:   University of Durham, Ridgway Jim , Arnold Phoebe ,   Full Fact, Moy Will ,   Full Fact, Ridgway Rosie ,   University of Durham
Published: June 2022

Many governments adopt the mantra of ‘evidence informed policy’ and use ‘evidence’ to justify political decisions. Active citizenship requires an understanding of appropriate and inappropriate uses of statistics about society. A number of groups are dedicated to checking the claims made by politicians, and produce commentaries based on careful analyses of data sources and interpretations. Here, we use the commentaries of one such group (Full Fact) as a source of insight into some misleading statements made by politicians. These lead directly to heuristics that can be employed when faced with evidence claims. Further, the examples provide a basis for a framework for conceptualizing ‘statistical literacy’ in a data rich world.
International data science in schools project
Authors:   Teaching Statistics Trust, Sheldon Neil
Published: June 2022

This paper explains the background to the International Data Science in Schools Project, the development of the curriculum frameworks, the conceptual approach envisaged, the use to which the frameworks can be put, and the possible ways forward for the project. The paper also discusses, principally in a UK context: the challenges of implementation, appropriate methods of teaching, learning and assessment, resource implications, and the curricular relationship between data science and statistics. Finally, the paper takes a broader view, arguing for a ‘data across the curriculum’ approach, and distinguishing levels of competence by means of the terms data literacy, data skills and data science.
Data science education in secondary school: how to develop statistical reasoning when exploring data using CODAP
Authors:   University of Paderborn, Budde Lea , Frischemeier Daniel ,   University of Paderborn, Biehler Rolf ,   University of Paderborn, Fleischer Yannik ,   University of Paderborn, Gerstenberger Dietrich ,   University of Paderborn, Podworny Susanne ,   University of Paderborn, Schulte Carsten ,   University of Paderborn
Published: June 2022

Data Science has become an emerging field at the intersection of statistics, computer science and application fields and this discipline requires “new skills” to be enabled to explore for example large and messy datasets, so-called Big Data. Because of this emerging relevance we started an interdisciplinary project between statistics and computer science education, which is initiated by Deutsche Telekom Stiftung, with the aim to concretize Data Science and its implications for schools. We offer an innovative and interdisciplinary approach on how to implement Data Science in secondary school under the consideration of the need of “new skills in statistics education”. In this paper we will report on an introduction into Data Science at secondary school with the focus on exploring multivariate data with CODAP.
New Zealand teachers’ perceptions when hearing waiting-time distributions
Authors:   The University of Auckland, Renelle Amy , Budgett Stephanie ,   The University of Auckland, Jones Rhys ,   The University of Auckland
Published: June 2022

The use of sounds to explore statistical concepts is a novel approach, not yet fully explored. The purpose of this paper is to consider the feasibility of using sounds to represent waiting-time distributions. As a potentially advantageous element of a prototype statistical learning tool, we endeavour to determine if relating sounds to distributions is valuable. Extending on pilot study findings, preliminary data collected from an online anonymous questionnaire sent to New Zealand secondary school teachers is presented. Results show that the majority of teachers who responded to the questionnaire selected the correct distribution. This suggests that the use of sounds to represent waiting-time distributions may be a beneficial component of the statistical learning tool that challenges participants to apply their understanding of distributions in new ways. This might grow to be a new skill in a changing world, as a previously unexplored use of technology and the auditory capabilities it provides.
Data scientists’ epistemic thinking for creating and interpreting visualizations and the impact for students’ data visualization literacy
Authors:   University of Florida, Bolch Charlotte
Published: June 2022

Data visualizations have become an essential way to present information that facilitates communication of large datasets. The complex thinking processes (epistemic thinking) that data scientists engage in along the data visualization literacy continuum has not been fully explored. The common skills and strategies for interpreting and creating visualizations was investigated among of 16 researchers in Data Science using three rounds of Delphi panels. Skills and strategies were identified qualitatively using thematic analysis after Delphi panel 1 and then brought back to the researchers in Delphi panel 2 for them to rate the level of importance they attribute to those skills/strategies. Consensus was determined using a cutoff for the interquartile range for each skill/strategy and overall group ratings presented to researchers in Delphi panel 3 for them to adjust their ratings. Implications of the study regarding the thought processes of data visualization to inform curriculum development are provided.
“Esto no es Oz”. Orange Is the New Black y la complex TV femenina
Authors: Naranjo Adrià
Published: June 2022

Orange Is the New Black (Netflix, 2013-2019) fue una de las primeras series que, estando escrita y protagonizada por mujeres, apeló a un público amplio y sin distinciones de género. En un formato tan predominantemente masculino como el drama serializado de la TVIII, esta obra supuso un cambio de paradigma para la televisión de calidad y la complejidad narrativa. Esta investigación estudia las características narrativas de la serie, atendiendo a las tramas y los personajes de su primera temporada. Las discrepancias entre Orange Is the New Black y las normas del drama serializado afectan al número de hilos vinculados al poder protagonizados por mujeres y la manera en la que estas tramas se desarrollan. El aumento de mujeres en el equipo de guion coincide con los cambios en la narrativa y en la representación de colectivos históricamente olvidados.
La música que des-cubre el silencio. Desafíos para la educación musical de personas sordas: hacia un horizonte decolonial
Authors: Otero Caicedo Liliana Elízabeth
Published: June 2022

La música ha sido hegemónicamente entendida como un fenómeno acústico íntimamente relacionado con los componentes estructurales del sistema auditivo y sin los cuales es impensable que se pueda percibir. Dado esto, el contemplar la posibilidad de que las personas sordas puedan experimentar y construir significados alrededor de este arte sonoro resulta paradójico, pues si la música es el sonido que se escucha con el oído, quien no pueda escucharlo, no puede entender lo que la música es. De ahí que, se ha naturalizado la “limitación” de las personas sordas para escuchar que, desde la educación musical, son pocos los interrogantes planteados para defender la música como un derecho humano fundamental. Más aún, los fundamentalismos binarios de deficiencia/capacidad, normal/anormal oyente/sordo, constituyen un horizonte colonial que somete al poder imperante a las personas sordas, anulando su ser-sonoro bajo los presupuestos dominantes de la ideología de la normalidad que permean la educación musical. Desde las pedagogías decoloniales, se busca fundamentar la educación musical como una práctica estética-política-pedagógica que provoque cuestionamientos y fracturas en la concepciones hegemónicas de la música, posibilitando una descolonización del sonido, es decir, el reconocimiento del capital musical que tiene la comunidad sorda y valorar la diferencia auditiva como la oportunidad de descubrir otros mundo musicales desde la percepción, expresión, interpretación y disfrute particulares de la experiencia sonora, que legitimen las posibles destrezas, las experiencias interculturales y los interese en el campo musical de quienes habitan el silencio. Se trata entonces, de proponer una praxis político-pedagógica desde la educación musical que ofrezca posibilidades para la valoración social de las diferencias en un camino que se orienta hacia la justicia, la dignidad, la libertad y la humanización.
Danza que vibra en una comunidad inclusiva
Authors: Brugarolas Alarcón Maria Luisa
Published: June 2022

La danza en entornos inclusivos se mueve en los terrenos del cuerpo, arte, e identidad, tomando el movimiento corpóreo y la imagen que este genera como herramienta de partida para construir discurso. Danza y comunidad inclusiva es una apuesta vibrante que se lleva gestando desde mediados del siglo XX, aunque su proyección suena fuerte en este.

Partiendo de la necesidad de articular espacios para que lo diverso conviva, se reflexionará sobre el giro de las artes hacia la comunidad, y cómo parte de la danza se abre a nuevos territorios buscando micro-utopías.

Daremos una visión sobre las transgresiones que provoca el movimiento Disability Culture, espacio comunitario y artístico donde la mirada sobre el cuerpo dis-capaz que excede la normatividad es convertida en imágenes productivas que transforman nuestras relaciones. Ligado a ello, ahondaremos en el concepto de performatividad, clave para entender esa búsqueda que transita entre las tensiones creadas dentro la cultura normativa y los nuevos imaginarios hacia donde nos propulsa el discurso de los artistas con diversidad funcional, dentro de un arte que se quiere vivo y mutable.

Por último, nos adentraremos en la construcción de la comunidad espontánea que se genera en el espacio público de forma inesperada, en colisión con los hábitos del cuerpo práctico impuestos a la calle y su arquitectura, muchas veces oculta por nuestras rutinas. Para ello analizaremos algunos de los proyectos en danza inclusiva de Ruedapies, centrándonos en las intervenciones públicas site-specific.

Como principal conclusión aportamos que el arte donde participan las personas con diversidad funcional u otros colectivos estigmatizados, permite devolver la realidad a la escena, traspasando la economía de la mirada y ampliando la visión sobre la persona, posibilitando nuevas formas de relación, generando así espacio de diálogo. En este sentido establecemos conexiones entre el lenguaje de algunos artistas comunitarios con los artistas del movimiento Disability Culture, ya que generan transgresión, y mueven categorías
Arte y salud mental Exposición de Cristina Pérez Abril
Authors: Hernández Merino Ana Maria , Montero-Ríos Maria
Published: June 2022

El arte como un refugio constructivo, creativo y renovador durante casi 20 años en la soledad de la sonoridad de la vida, de la artista outisider Cristina Pérez Abril.
Imaginando un entorno para la vida: las niñas, niños y jóvenes territorializan la sustentabilidad
Authors: Sánchez Guevara Alejandro
Published: June 2022

El trabajo que se realiza en este artículo es un ejercicio que pretende indagar por los imaginarios de un grupo de niñas, niños y adolescentes en aras construir con ellas(os) una noción de sustentabilidad para su territorio. La investigación se realiza en el marco de una iniciativa socio-comunitaria que promueve procesos de lecto-escritura en un asentamiento de desarrollo incompleto denominado como la Colonia Nariñense. Para lograr el objetivo, se aplican tres técnicas de investigación que se complementan entre si y además se opta por construir un marco teórico anclado al constructivismo social, una noción de crítica de las infancias y del lugar que éstas ocupan en el desarrollo sostenible. Finalmente, la investigación concluye que para estos NNA, la sustentabilidad se entiende vinculada a la transformación de las dinámicas sociales y del espacio en que habitan, así como plantean una visión no fragmentada entre lo urbano-rural y lo humano-natural.
Lexical Acquisition during Dialogues through Implicit Confirmation
Authors: Komatani Kazunori , Ono Kohei , Takeda Ryu , Nichols Eric , Nakano Mikio
Published: June 2022

We have been addressing the problem of acquiring attributes of unknown terms through dialogues and previously proposed an approach using the implicit confirmation process. It is crucial for dialogue systems to ask questions that do not diminish the user’s willingness to talk. In this paper, we conducted a user study to investigate user impression for several question types, including explicit and implicit, to acquire lexical knowledge. We clarified the order among the types and found that repeating the same question type annoys the user and degrades user impression even when the content of the questions is correct. We also propose a method for determining whether an estimated attribute is correct, which is included in an implicit question. The method exploits multiple-user responses to implicit questions about the attribute of the same unknown term. Experimental results revealed that the proposed method exhibited a higher precision rate for determining the correctly estimated attributes than when only single-user responses were considered.
Transcultural Narrative in Khalid Hosseini’s and the Mountains Echoed: A New Historicist Analysis
Authors: Ali Hina , Hayat Mazhar , Danish Malik Haqnawaz , Azher Doshab
Published: June 2022

Hosseini in his third novel And the Mountain Echoed endeavors to portray the social, political, and historical background of different cultures and highlights the core issues running parallel within the situation of Afghanistan, entangled in challenges of political instabilities, social unrest, insecurities due to foreign invasion, the rise of Taliban and the status of Afghanistan after 9/11. By keeping tabs on Afghan culture, this research has explored Hosseini’s paralleled narratives of other cultures such as Paris, America, and Greece. To generate a power discourse, these narrations construct an identity and authoritative stance by invoking the influential backgrounds and histories that cause these different ethnicities to revolve all around the world, a global movement towards the reevaluation of the old notions and concepts about the fixity of boundaries of nation-states. By observing the cultural taboos in different countries, Hosseini points out the distressing factors that weaken a culture by referring to the Afghan wars and a certain political agenda in counter countries. By highlighting these cultural taboos, different nations uphold a discourse of power against rival cultures. Through counter-cultural practices, cultural values and taboos are set forth to evaluate the nature and function of different cultures presented in the novel. His indecisive affinity with his own native place shows his monomaniacal focus on a transcultural outlook. This research combines the technique of textual analysis with a qualitative mode of study. Hosseini’s ambivalent approach towards divergent cultural narratives inclines towards advanced and innovative aspects of the new historicist theory by Greenblatt. His radical ideas about culture and history have been utilized in the present study to analyze the text. His idea of anecdote in new historicism exists between de-nationalization and re-nationalization, between de-territorialization and re-territorialization authenticates his view of culture as being a gigantic text which embraces small events that skirmish with each other in a way that exemplifies a text on the basis of which the author constructs a melodrama to back up non-fiction elements within fictional taste. To support the power factor in cultural analysis, Foucault’s notions about the power structure are employed within Greenblatt’s two-sided cultural concept. The complicated nature of culture has been traced by the analysis of historical incidents and dialogue by different characters having contradictory and complex nature as per the complicated procedure of cultural phenomenon.
Diversity of hemiptera of the infraorder Cimicomorpha I of the Barsakelmes State National Reserve
Authors:   KN MES RK ", Esenbekova P. ,   Institute of Zoology", Berdenkulova A. ,   Institute of Natural Sciences, Korkyt Ata Kyzylorda University, Baynazarov Sh. ,   Institute of Natural Sciences, Korkyt Ata Kyzylorda University, Nagashybayeva P. ,   Institute of Natural Science, Kyzylorda University named after KorkytAta, Kyzylorda
Published: June 2022

The article presents the results of research conducted by the authors on the territory of the Barsakelmessky State Nature Reserve in 2020-2021. The research works are devoted to the fauna, biology and ecology of the semiptera of the infra-order Cimicomorpha on the territory of the reserve. As a result of the research, 22 species from 4 families belonging to the infraorder Cimicomorpha I were identified. Of these, there are 6 species from the Tingidae family, 5 species from the Nabidae family, 4 species from the Anthocoridae family, and 7 species from the Reduviidae family.The hemiptera of the infraorder Cimicomorpha I, depending on the habitat, are divided into eurytope, epigeobiont, herpetobiont, herpeto-hortobiont, hortobiont, tamno-hortobiont, dendrobiont.Hemiptera in the study area are divided into xerophiles (9 species), meso-xerophiles (4 species) mesophiles (9 species) according to ecological features. According to food relations, predators (16 species) and herbivorous species (6 species) are distinguished among these bedbugs. Seasonal development of hemiptera is heterodynamic. According to the number of generations per year, the hemiptera of the studied territory can be divided into several groups: 1) monovoltine (9 species), 2) bivoltine (5 species), 3) having 2-3 generations per year (6 species), the number of development of 2 species is unknown. Hemiptera of the infraorder Cimicomorpha I overwinter at different stages of development. 18 species hibernate in the imago stage, 2 species in the egg stage, 2 species in the larval stage. The hemiptera of the infraorder Cimicomorpha I of the Barsakelmes State Nature Reserve is divided into 14 zoogeographic distribution zones.
Formation of students ' research competencies in biology lessons
Authors:   Korkyt Ata Kyzylorda University, Zhakypova T. , Baydalinova B. , Baymurzina B. ,   Pavlodar Pedagogical University, Kenzhebayeva B. ,   Korkyt Ata Kyzylorda University, Shamshatova Zh. ,   Korkyt Ata Kyzylorda University
Published: June 2022

This paper highlights the problem faced by many teachers, i.e. formation of students' research competence in biology class.Children from early childhood are interested in the world, they want to know, study and learn about the world around them, but over time this interest begins to decline when children enter adolescence.The subject of general biology is based on research work.During the research work, students' attitude to knowledge is formed, knowledge is considered not as an assessment, but as the information they need and as a decisive means to the problem that has arisen in front of them. This forces them to move forward to gain knowledge and increase their activity. The most important criterion for organizing research work is the student's interest and motivation.Through research, the potential abilities of the student are revealed, developed, and the property of curiosity is formed.
Prevalence of Awareness of Physiotherapy Amongst Health Care Professionals in Surat City
Authors: Shah Dhairav Alkesh , Mahyavanshi Hitanksha Champak
Published: June 2022

Background: Physical therapist plays an important role in health care in reducing hospital stay, rehabilitation for better quality of life and quicker recovery. That is why it is important for the health care professionals to be aware about the importance of a role of physical therapist in maintaining functional ability of an individual and approaches and principles.
Methods: A sample of 151 subjects were randomly taken and every subject was given a validated questionnaire which was taken as an interview. Physiotherapist, interns, Lab technicians, Unwilling participants were excluded. Further analysis was done after the response was gathered.
Result: There is 100% awareness of the existence of the field of physiotherapy among health care professionals in Surat city, but not of individual specialties like burns management, prescribing orthosis and community management.
Conclusion: The study revealed that there is full awareness about physiotherapy among health care professionals in Surat city. Most of the subjects believed that patients should visit a physiotherapy center only on the reference of a doctor. Community based rehabilitation is least known among subjects while neuro and ortho rehabilitation is known popularly.

Key words: Physiotherapist, awareness, health care professionals, subjects. .
Effect of Chronic Shoulder Pain on Scapular Muscle Endurance in Construction Workers - A Cross Sectional Study
Authors: Kaur Saini Ramandeep , Ahir Devika
Published: June 2022

Background: Construction workers have excessive and repetitive overhead arm movements which places high demands on shoulder muscle strength and endurance. It is important to have good scapular muscle endurance in construction workers to prevent work related musculoskeletal disorders. Studies have shown that pain has negative impact on muscle strength i.e., muscle strength reduces in chronic pain. However, the effect of pain on muscle endurance is not been studied so this study explores the effect of chronic shoulder pain on the scapular muscle endurance.
Aim: To study the effect on scapular muscle endurance in construction workers with chronic shoulder pain.
Methodology: 50 construction workers were included where 25 subjects with chronic shoulder pain (group 1) and 25 without shoulder pain (group 2) were recruited fulfilling the inclusion criteria. Written consent was obtained from each subject. Each participant was interviewed Nordic musculoskeletal questionnaire for non-specific chronic shoulder pain and pain intensity was recorded using Visual analog scale. Both the group subjects were tested for scapular muscle endurance using scapular endurance test; two trails of the test were performed.
Results: The scapular muscle endurance was significantly lower in Group 1 with chronic shoulder pain than in Group 2 without pain (p < 0.05).
Conclusion: Our study assessed the effect of scapular muscle endurance in construction workers with chronic shoulder pain, and our results suggest that the scapular muscle endurance was significantly lower in group having shoulder pain.

Key words: Construction Workers, Work Related Musculoskeletal Disorder, Chronic Shoulder Pain, Scapular Muscle Endurance .
A Study to Assess the Knowledge of COVID-19 and Acceptance of COVID-19 Vaccine among Adults
Authors: Kunwar Survashi , Kumar Rajesh , Phukon Giti Mollika
Published: June 2022

Objective: The objective of this study to assess the knowledge of COVID-19 and acceptance of COVID-19 vaccine among adults in Delhi NCR.
Methodology: A cross sectional descriptive study was conducted to assess the knowledge and the acceptance of COVID-19 vaccine among adults in Delhi NCR using a validated, self-administered electronic questionnaire that was distributed through emails (Gmail) and online social networking platforms such as WhatsApp, LinkedIn, Telegram. The participants of the study were informed about the objective of the study through the questionnaire itself and their participation in the study was considered as the consent.
Result: 88.2% of participants were willing to take the vaccination despite their uncertainty about its success only 5.2% were not willing to take the vaccination and 6.6% were not sure whether they should or not take the vaccination. Although the acceptance of vaccination is high moreover, transparent communication about vaccine effectiveness and safety will contribute to increasing public trust in COVID-19 vaccination programs.

Key words: COVID-19, acceptance of COVID-19 vaccine, COVID-19 vaccination programs, Delhi NCR .
Assessment of Food Taboo Practices among Pregnant Women in The Rural Communities of Ebonyi State, Nigeria
Authors: Godwin Awo Chinedu , Chinedu Charles Onyenekwe , Uzoamaka Chinedu Adeline
Published: June 2022

Background: Food taboo practice is a menace that have affected pregnant women greatly as well as the outcome of their pregnancies. Food taboo is the avoidance of essential food nutrients by women in the rural areas mostly during pregnancy. Most of the pregnant women in the rural communities of Ebonyi state, Nigeria indulges in one or more food restrictions without any considerations of its effects on their pregnancies. Thus, this study assessed food taboo practices among pregnant women in the rural communities of Ebonyi state, Nigeria, using descriptive cross-sectional survey with Three hundred and sixty-four (364) respondents as the sample size.
Aim and Objectives: To assess and document the food taboo practices among pregnant women in rural communities of Ebonyi State, Nigeria and ascertain the reasons for the Food taboos practiced by pregnant women in some rural communities of Ebonyi State.
Results: Result of the analysis showed that all the respondents in the study area engage in one form of food taboo or the order, avoiding foods like grass cutters, squirrels, Cakes and pastries among others and reported religion, culture, superstitious believe as their reasons.
Conclusions: Food taboo in the rural communities of Ebonyi state, Nigeria is basically related to traditional/cultural beliefs, ignorant, lack of nutrition education and superstitious belief. The study therefore recommends among other things that there should be an increased collaboration between the health care providers and the communities to enhance compliance with the practices of adequate food intake in the families especially among the pregnant mothers.

Key words: Food, Taboo, Pregnant women, Rural communities, Intrauterine growth retardation, prematurity, pregnancy outcome.
Characteristics of Ischemic Stroke Patients Performed by DSA Actions at Chasbullah Abdul Madjid Bekasi Regional General Hospital
Authors: Yudo Utom Tranggono , Mercy Lumban Tobing Noer Hasianni , M. O. Natasha Margaretha
Published: June 2022

Stroke has become the second leading cause of death and the third leading disability globally caused by several factors, such as hypertension, diabetes Mellitus, atrial fibrillation, and cholesterol. DSA (Digital Subtraction Angiography) has been the gold standard for diagnosing abnormalities in cerebrovascular, such as aneurysms and malformation artery and vena. Cerebral DSA is a safe procedure and has the advantage that intervention procedures such as stent insertion or thrombectomy can be performed immediately after angiography. This research is intended to find the characteristic of a stroke patient treated with Digital Subtraction Angiography. The design used in the study is retrospective with a medical record of a stroke ischemic patient who was treated with Digital Subtraction Angiography at RSUD CAM Bekasi from August 2020 - to June 2021. The sampling technique of this study was taken using total sampling techniques; namely, the entire population that the researcher had determined was a research sample. Forty-nine patients are used as the research sample according to the inclusive criteria. As a result, it has been found that the demographic in which Digital Subtraction Angiography has been utilized is 41-59 years old (61.2%), of which 65.3% of them are male patients. Based on their education, most of them come from strata 1, sitting at 61.2%, and their occupation is commercial workers, sitting at 26.5%. Risk factors that come with Digital Subtraction Angiography are hypertension (91.8%) and vertigo symptoms (55.1%). For motoric patients, 12.3% have seen improvements. Meanwhile, according to the National Institute of Health Stroke Scale, 46.9% have seen improvements. Digital Subtraction Angiography results show that 53.1% of ischemic stroke patients have improved.

Key words: Stroke Ischemic, Digital Subtraction Angiography.
Effectiveness of Fartlek Training on Maximum Oxygen Consumption and Resting Heart Rate in Young Obese Males: An Experimental Study
Authors: Nadimikeri Krupakirtana , Joshi Aakanksha
Published: June 2022

Introduction: Obesity may be defined as abnormal growth of adipose tissue due to an enlargement of fat cell size, increase in fat cell number or combination of both. It is often expressed in terms of BMI. Fartlek connotes speed play, which is a training method that combines continuous training with interval training. Fartlek training has shown to increase or maintain VO2 max and decrease RHR in athletes hence this study is conducted to see its effectiveness in obese population.
Aim: The aim of the study is to evaluate the effect of Fartlek training on maximum oxygen consumption and on resting heart rate.
Method: The study includes 47 males of class 1 Obesity between the age group of 18 to 25 years. The pre-test was conducted for all the subjects on day 1, immediately after the pre-test, Fartlek training was given for 4 days per week for 4 weeks. Posttest was conducted on next day of end of intervention. Data analysis was done using paired t test.
Outcome measures: Maximum Oxygen Consumption -Queens college step up test, Resting Heart Rate-Azumio instant heart rate monitor.
Result: Result showed that fartlek training was effective both clinically as well as statistically.
Conclusion: The study concluded that there was significant effect of fartlek training on maximum oxygen consumption (p value-0.00) and resting heart rate in young obese males (p value 0.00).

Key words: Fartlek training, Obesity, Maximum oxygen consumption, resting heart rate, Queens college step up test, Azumio instant heart rate monitor.
Effect of Different Positions of Body in Measuring Grip Strength in Tennis Elbow
Authors: K. Singal Sandhya , Shukla Yagna
Published: June 2022

Grip strength is taken as an important measure to find effect as well as affection in tennis elbow. Measuring pain free grip strength is (PFGS) an important outcome measure for Tennis Elbow (TE). The different positions of elbow give change in the value of PFGS. This study aims to examine effects of two different position of body on PFGS in tennis elbow patients.
Aims: To find out better position for measuring PFGS in tennis elbow.
Methods and Material: A cross sectional study done in the Physiotherapy department. Unilateral chronic tennis elbow patients were included in the study according to inclusion and exclusion criterias after getting written informed consent. Jammer hand held dynamometer was used to measure the PFGS. PFGS was measured in sitting position with elbow flexion 90° and supine lying position with elbow extension. Average of three trials was taken with rest of 1 minute in between.
Results: On comparing both positions there is significant difference (p<0.05) found in PFGS measurements in male and female at 95% confidence limit. There is significant increased PFGS noted in sitting position with elbow flexion 90° than with supine lying position with elbow extension.
Conclusions: There is higher comparable PFGS (6.6%) noted in sitting with elbow flexion 90° position than with supine lying with elbow extension position. So it is better to measure PFGS in sitting with elbow 90° flexion position.

Key words: Pain free grip strength, supine lying, chair sitting, grip strength measurement, dynamometer.
Contemporary Malaysian Horror: Relational Politics of Animism and James Lee’s Histeria
Authors: Konior Bogna
Published: June 2022

According to Malaysia’s former Prime Minister, Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad, local horror cinema is counterproductive to building a progressive society. While the genre is now at the peak of its popularity, it was banned throughout the 1990s and accused of tainting modernity with ‘backwards’ ways of thinking. Modernity’s progress through erasure has already been conceptualized as a repression of various cultural contexts, religious practices, and pre-colonial epistemologies, yet its ontological implications are rarely investigated. Nonmodern ontologies, such as animism, are aesthetically, narratively, and theoretically embedded in a number of contemporary horrors, especially those created by independent or art-house directors, who see in the genre the possibility of discussing the ontological taboos of modernity, such as the personhood of the nonhuman. In contrast to an ethnographic approach to animism, I here read it as a method of disruption: a negation of the idea that cinema is the quintessential modern medium. Animism, as a practice of relational personhood (Bird-David, 1999) renegotiates ontological boundaries modernity claimed to have set in stone: between self and other, nature and culture, humans and nonhumans, belief and practice, religion and play. By taking animism as a theoretical framework rather than a cultural trace, I highlight various points of intersection between James Lee’s gory slasher horror Histeria (2008) and this nonmodern ontology, positing it as a template for animistic slasher horror, where humans and nonhumans connect and disconnect on the axis of personhood, and the transition from relationality to individuality is depicted as a threat.
PRIVATE SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANIES, GOVERNMENTS AND GLOBAL POPULATION: CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS REGULATIONS
Authors:   Department of Law, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan, Din Malik Zia ud , Gillani Awais H. ,   Department of Media Studies, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan, Pirzada Gulala ,   Department of Media Studies, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan
Published: June 2022

Private social media corporations control speech much more stringently than any government, yet their platforms are being exploited to do serious damage to human rights. These media companies are governed mainly by themselves in top secrecy. Human rights' proponents have recommended media businesses should abide by international human rights legislation to address this. ICCPR statutes are the most well-known set of regulations for regulating speech globally. ICCPR Articles 19 and 20 might strengthen rules while allowing for more openness and supervision as a representative of billions of social media users. According to these articles, the legislation must first be construed to establish how (and if) each of its provisions act(s) suits the new aims. The law, for example, stipulates that speech may be limited to protect national security, which is one of only five legitimate justifications for speech restrictions. Governments that follow international law can make judgments based on this, but private media firms cannot because national security is not in their domain. This study analyzes and explains the main significant articles and laws related to human rights for consideration by social media corporations - ICCPR Articles 19 and 20, which cover freedom of speech – right of information to fill in some gaps. Keywords: Social media, Freedom of speech, information, media corporations, Human rights law, ICCPR, Articles 19 and 20.
ENGLISH AS AN ESTEEMED LANGUAGE IN MODERN SOCIETY
Authors:   Department of English Language & Literature,University of Okara, Quyyum Afshan
Published: June 2022

It is general phenomenon that English is one of the most influential languages, which has now become sign of esteem in our society. Beside it, English language has also become a major hurdle in ways of success of many people. The purpose of instant study was to investigate major facets, which are the key pillars to maintain English language as Prestigious Language in our society. For this purpose, a close-ended questionnaire, comprising 20 No. questions, was distributed among 30 persons, who belong to bureaucracy and technocracy i.e., civil engineering. The finding shows that there are various reasons behind this honorable status of English language in our society. In other words, it may be said that English has become one of important components of our educational system, which cannot be neglected. Accordingly, necessary measures may be taken in order to learn and teach English conveniently instead of eradicating it at this belated stage. Keywords: English language, hurdle in success, colonial effect, imperialism, acceptance at official level.
SHAH WALIULLAH AS A MACRO-SOCIOLOGIST: AN ANALYSIS
Authors:   Department: Pakistan Studies and History, National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad, Anwar Muhammad
Published: June 2022

This research paper describes the sociological contributions of Shah Waliullah. His period of life was famous for political instability, social degeneration, moral deterioration and religious decadence. An all-round decline was visible. In such a suffering state of affairs Shah Waliullah appeared as political, religious and social reformist. He focused on moderation and justice for a purpose to oust society from the quagmire of social vices. Along with this, he also adopted a rational approach rather than traditional methodology to have remedy for social pathologies. In this line, he imparted the concept of the development of society. He has used word Irtiqafat for the development of society in his scholarship Hujjaj Allah al-Baligha. This research paper discusses the social evolution of society which gets completed in four stages. Keywords: Shah Waliullah, Sociology
DOMESTIC AND FAMILIAL ISSUES LEADING TOWARDS DIABETES MELLITIUS TYPE – II IN RAWALPINDI
Authors:   Department of Anthropology, Pir Mehr Ali Shah, Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Sarwar Fareeha , Ali Shagufta Hamid ,   Department of Anthropology, Pir Mehr Ali Shah, Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Chaudhry Abid Ghafoor ,   Department of Anthropology, Pir Mehr Ali Shah, Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi
Published: June 2022

Domestic sphere or domesticity indicates the house, a place where a person can live privately with family. Family is a main unit of a house as well as fundamental institution of society. Families of different or same ethnic groups combine to form a society. Family is considered as a composition of individuals having relationship of marriage, adaption, partnership or friends. The behavior of the family members with each other imparts a great impact on a person's health. When any of the family members receive stress from the family or from any member of family then they can get chronic disease like diabetes type 2. Descriptive methodology has been used for the collection of data including methods of in-depth interview. It is concluded that behavior of family members with each other is responsible for the cure of diseases and good as well as bad health of a person. Keywords: Domestic sphere, Familial issues, Diabetes mellitus type II
NATURE & EFFECTS OF AGGLOMERATION ECONOMIES ON MANUFACTURING FIRMS IN PUNJAB
Authors:   School of Economics, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan, Rehman Mutee ul , Majeed Muhammad Tariq ,   School of Economics, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
Published: June 2022

This paper quantifies the nature and effects of agglomeration economies on manufacturing firms of Punjab, the largest province of Pakistan. Using firm level cross-section data, this research first explains the extent of agglomeration of manufacturing firms in Punjab by calculating the agglomeration indicators i.e., urbanization and localization. We used the firm’s distance from urban center as a proxy for urbanization. We used spatial autocorrelation as a measure to show the localization of firms. We constructed the translog production function to measure the effects of urbanization and localization on firms’ annual turnover. The overall impact of both agglomeration economies is positive on firms’ turnover. However, the effect of urbanization economies is more prevalent than the effects of localization economies in Punjab. At two-digit sector level, thirteen out of twenty-three sectors showed positive effect of urbanization on firm’s turnover. For localization, ten sectors showed positive on firm’s turnover. The results are consistent with the literature and the existing status of manufacturing sector of Punjab. Keywords: Agglomeration, urbanization, localization, spatial autocorrelation, manufacturing, Punjab.