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STARTUP DEVELOPMENT IN UKRAINE: THEORETICAL ASPECTS, TRENDS, OPPORTUNITIES
Authors:   Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University, Sak Tetyana , Shostak Ludmila ,   Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University, Vozniuk Julia ,   Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University
Published: May 2022

The article examines the theoretical aspects of the functioning of startups: the essence, content, and differences of startups from traditional entrepreneurship. A startup is a modern form of starting an innovative business that has a high potential for development and is designed for rapid growth and scalability. The main criteria that determine the credibility of startups and form their rating are identified: efficiency; financing; market size; talent; experience; knowledge; connectivity. Ukraine's international ranking for the development of startups, as well as trends in the country's leading cities are analyzed. According to the international rating StartupBlink, Ukraine in 2021 ranked 34th among 100 countries. Over the past 20 years, the development of startups in the IT industry has gained momentum. However, there are many promising areas in the country, in addition to IT, which may develop in the future and help bring Ukraine to high ratings. An assessment of investment attraction and cost formation of startups in Ukraine was conducted. The risks and problems faced by Ukrainian startups have been identified. The tendencies and strategic prospects of further development of startups are outlined, among which: activity in the field of information technologies; the growing number of startups with mobile applications, computer programs, and games; stimulating innovation and development of startups in the processing industry, financial and insurance activities, telecommunications. Ukraine has great potential and opportunities for the development of startups in the future, but their further implementation is possible only with effective state intervention. The problem for Ukraine is the insufficient level of support for startups from the state, the low investment climate in the country, as well as the ambiguous regulatory framework. The directions of state support for the development of startups and venture investment in Ukraine are substantiated: orientation on the development of entrepreneurial culture; enabling startups to participate in international programs; guarantee of protection of the rights of startups, intellectual property; increase in investments by the state for further development of startups in the country.
Analysis of structure and function of an agroecological beacon: The case of the Agroecological Educational Center Los Álamos
Authors: Ríos y Valles-Boyselle Fernando , Regalado López José , Méndez-Espinoza José A. , Ramírez-Juárez Javier , Pérez-Ramírez Nicolás , Ocampo-Fletes Ignacio
Published: May 2022

Objective: To determine whether the Agroecological Educational Center Los Álamos (Centro Educativo Agroecológico Los Álamos, CEA), located in the state of Tlaxcala, Mexico, fulfills the elements of structure and function to be identified as an agroecological beacon.
Design/Methodology/Approach: A mixed approach was used (quantitative and qualitative). A study case of the CEA was constructed to understand both the context and the structural and functional characteristics that currently configure it. First, an exhaustive review of secondary information related to the structure and functioning of agroecological beacons in other regions or countries was made. In a second stage, a comparative analysis of the structural and functional characteristics of agroecological beacons was conducted with the data generated in the study case. In the third stage, factors were analyzed that make possible or limit the CEA to develop as an agroecological beacon.
Results: The CEA performs and fulfills with participant youth the function of agroecological beacon, since it is an efficient tool for education, training, knowledge exchange and promotion of agroecology. This favors its dissemination and scaling in the peasant communities where the young people who participate in the CEA are from.
Study Limitations/Implications: The results are only applicable to the study case due to the limitations present in this methodology in terms of its results not allowing to elaborate general explanations.
Findings/Conclusions: The CEA complies with sufficient elements to catalog it as a sectorial agroecological beacon, which is contributing a methodological and strategic light to respond to the challenge of inter-generational transmission of understanding, knowledge and agroecological projects in the peasant indigenous youth sphere
Nutritional composition of Rhynchophorus palmarum L. 1758 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) larvae in palm trees of the Mezquital Valley, Hidalgo, Mexico
Authors: Rodríguez-Ortega Leodan T. , Rodriguez Ortega Alejandro , Hernández-Guzmán Filogonio J. , Callejas-Hernández Judith , González-Cerón Fernando , Noguez-Estrada Juan
Published: May 2022

Objective: To determinate the nutritional composition of larvae of the Rhynchophorus palmarum L. 1758 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) beetle in palm trees of the Mezquital Valley, Hidalgo, Mexico.
Design/Methodology/Approach: In January 2020, 250g of South American Palm Weevil (Rhynchophorus palmarum) larvae were collected from damaged Canary Island date palms (Phoenix canariensis). The larvae were gathered at the Universidad Politécnica de Francisco I. Madero, located in Tepatepec, Hidalgo, Mexico. They were placed in a plastic jar and later in a freezer for conservation and transportation to the Departamento de Nutrición Animal y Bioquímica, Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, where their nutritional composition was evaluated by proximate chemical analysis.
Results: In their proximate composition, the larvae of R. palmarum presented a protein concentration of 25.52% (dry basis) and of 9.04% (wet basis), ether extract of 19.77%, dry matter of 35.74%, humidity of 64.26%, ashes of 0.70%, crude fiber of 1.64%, nitrogen-free extract of 4.58%, calcium of 0.20%, and phosphorus of 0.31%.
Study Limitations/Implications: No previous research about the use of this insect as human food in Mexico was found.
Findings/Conclusions: We conclude that these larvae can be exploited for human and livestock food (as a protein and energy supplement) and even to enrich and prepare conventional foods for society.
Lung lever after COVID-19: clinical-X-ray, surgical and morphological characteristics
Authors: Feshchenko Yu.I. , Opanasenko М.S. , Liskina I.V. , Bilokon S.M. , Tereshkovych O.V. , Konik B.М. , Levanda L.I. , Zagaba L.M. , Shamray M.Yu. , Kalenychenko M.I. , Lysenko V.I. , Shalagay S.М.
Published: May 2022

MATERIALS AND METHODS. Preliminary clinical and morphological analysis of a group of patients with various post-COVID complications and with surgical treatment was performed. For the period 2020-2021 in the clinic of thoracic surgery of the SI “National institute of phthisiology and pulmonology named after F.G. Yanovsky of the NAMS of Ukraine” 12 patients were treated who had coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in anamnesis and underwent surgery for COVID-19 complications.

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION. Data on the type of surgery, X-ray conclusion and preliminary clinical diagnoses of patients with post-COVID pulmonary complications are presented. At the time of surgical treatment, according to clinical data, 4 (22.2 %) patients were diagnosed with lung abscess, 4 (22.2 %) patients had a disseminated process in the lungs of unclear origin, 2 (11.0 %) – a solitary formation of the lung, one (5.5 %, respectively) observation – spontaneous pneumothorax and suspected tumor of the lung. The results of the histopathological conclusion on the operative material and the final clinical diagnosis in the group of patients with atypical lung lesions after COVID-19 are presented. The results of histopathological examination showed that after 3 months and more after recovery from COVID-19 in some patients there are persistent pathological changes in lung tissue of various characters, and quantitatively among them prevail cases of various pathologies associated with damage to the vascular bed of the lungs.

CONCLUSIONS. In most cases of pulmonary complications after suffering COVID-19, preliminary clinical diagnoses did not fully correspond to the identified pathological process. Morphological examination of the operative material of patients with a history of COVID-19 and postcocious complications associated with the lungs, found that vascular pulmonary pathology predominates: persistent microvasculitis of small blood vessels, pulmonary infarction, metacarpal metaplasia, secondary vascular malformation.
Transportation and well-being: exploring post-secondary students' commute satisfaction and its relationship to campus participation and success
Authors: Taylor Ryan
Published: May 2022

This Major Research Paper examines the influence of commute satisfaction on campus participation and perceived academic success of post-secondary students as indicators of their well-being. Travel and attitudinal data was analyzed for 1,931 students from Ryerson University in Toronto, Ontario to determine if students perceive their commute to be a barrier to their campus participation and academic success, and if this perception changes with commute satisfaction. A large number of students reported their commute was a barrier to their campus participation and academic success, and binomial logistic regressions revealed a significant positive association between commute satisfaction and these well-being indicators. Travel mode, travel attitudes, student type, and age were found to be statistically significant correlates of commute satisfaction. These findings suggest post-secondary administrators and urban planners can improve student well-being by implementing policies to increase commute satisfaction.  Key words: travel satisfaction; subjective well-being; travel mode; post-secondary students; commute
Integration or annexation? Post-industrial waterfront redevelopment in the global north
Authors: Overholt Emily
Published: May 2022

A morphological analysis of post-industrial waterfronts is presented using three Scandinavian case studies to better-understand the impact of process on urban design. A literature review highlights research that has been conducted on waterfronts in relation to gentrification, ecological modernization, bureaucratic fragmentation and heritage policies. Next, building age, street integration, plots, land use and public-private composition are mapped to reveal synergies that exist between these elements. Findings reveal that whilst gentrification and sanitization are present to some degree in all of the projects examined, the ways in which these processes manifest are varied according to the bureaucracies and processes underlying development.
A new funding frontier evaluating the new community benefits charge legislation in Ontario
Authors: Opassinis Vanessa
Published: May 2022

Community Benefits Charges represent a new era of municipal finance and community benefit funding in Ontario, replacing a fraught and controversial use of Section 37 (density bonusing) and Section 42 (parkland dedication) of the Planning Act. This report undertook a critical policy analysis to identify early issues and how the legislation and regulations may be reformed to ensure it’s implementation is equitable, efficient and effective, and meets objectives of the province, municipalities and development community. Through an extensive literature review, stakeholder and policy analysis this report identified three key issues, including, stakeholder confusion due to a lack of transparency on the process to develop the charge, financial uncertainty for municipal and private sector projects due to projecting land values in the calculation of the charge and uneven impact on different municipalities and development types. This report recommends the removal of the land value basis, allowing greater variations in implementation and rigid strategy analysis to allow the CBC to better meet the intent of the Province and satisfy identified concerns of all stakeholders.

Key Words: community benefits, density bonusing, development charges, land value capture,

parkland dedication, municipal finance, affordability
Spatial Interaction and Hybrid Spaces
Authors: Sharifi Meraj
Published: May 2022

The notion of spaces constantly is growing with the advancement of technology. The spatial interactions using digital media provide new possibilities to bridge between physical and digital spaces. Location is not all about longitude and latitude, but all the added digital layers may change the idea of positioning. Over the last decades, studying space faced many conceptual perceptions. The approach of having/imagining the different worlds and spaces, such as cyberspace and physical space, has been mostly formed by distinguishing them. Adriana de Souza e Silva (2006) drew a chronology for these imaginary spaces from cyberspace to virtual and hybrid space. Hybridizing of space with the advancement of nomadic technology like mobiles become more popular and indicates how the interfaces are transparent in our everyday life. So, hybridity occurs when the interconnection of the spaces is reachable for the people who can interact with, through the devices, wearables, headsets, etc. In this respect, the physical space needed to be filled with data, as Manovich (2006, p.226) defined this as augmentation of the space through “overlay[ing] physical space with layers of data.”
The question of reality may not be valid anymore since both are affecting each other. And, it is time to think about the interlinked worlds and their effects rather than separating and labelling them as real and unreal. Technology can play a crucial role in changing our interaction with space.
The paper will investigate the concept of hybrid spaces in relation to the production of dis-locative space. The dislocation environment reveals the interconnected spaces and their realities through new ways of interactions and narratives. The realities are created under the influence of each other. The paper will use the art project Shadows from Another Place as a case study. It will explore the idea of dis-location through spatial interaction and digital technology. The paper will profit from the theories including Production of Space by Henry Lefebvre, Supermodernity and Non-places by Marc Augé, and Relational Spaces by Scott McQuire.
Paula Levine is a scholar and media artist who experiments with maps, geolocation data, and the dynamic of spaces. Shadows from Another Place is a web-based project using transposed maps, including three artworks San Francisco <-> Baghdad, The Wall, and TheWall-TheWorld. In this series, she tries to challenge the reality of geographical distances by hybridization of the spaces. Shadows from Another Place is a series of artwork that examines the discussion around dis-locative space, and spatial interaction using digital technology. The paper investigates three questions of locations and dislocation, real and unreal, and intervening in the physical space by the virtual world and vice versa. Question of Location ‘where am I’? What is un/real? How virtual world affects the physical world and vice versa?
Listening to Passengers, Listening to Stories
Authors: Simsek Cansu Nur , Andic Atanur
Published: May 2022

In metropolitan life, public transportation is essential to the everyday commute of people. Although they manifest important aspects of our culture, they also sometimes present issues of conflict by the violation of personal space, privacy, and other harmful and abusive behavior. This workshop aims to increase awareness of these conflicts and abusive behaviors in public transportation especially from the eyes of the victims. Transportation creates an impact on our daily roles, public persona, and social identity. This project aims to expose these issues by the contemporary critique of the cultural norms shaped by compulsory encounters happening in urban transportation. The project traces the ways that the participants, as passengers, would survive in such an oppressive cultural context. In doing so, we aim to ask the questions of how can one body turn invisible in such a physically limiting and politically controlling, gaze-centered space?
In this workshop, participants are given a story that takes place in public transportation with the circumstance of being in a threatening zone. While they are being told of how the story begins, it is up to them to decide how such conflict is, or can be, resolved given their imagined narrative construction. In this dialogical exchange of stories, participants are also welcomed to tell their personal stories regarding a trip in public transportation. After the participants share their stories, they are motivated to produce tactics and strategies to cope with what they have encountered in their experiences. The participants will practice listening to each other’s stories that stayed hidden or ignored by the public.
Understanding First Person Media with India’s ElseVR Platform
Authors: Raisinghani Deenaz
Published: May 2022

ElseVR, the non-fiction offshoot of Memesys Cultural Lab, based in Mumbai India is one of the pioneering filmmaking labs working with mixed reality in India. It has been releasing 360 video documentaries as a VR app based quarterly magazine that demands spectatorship as well as engagement by way of the subjects it chooses to talk about. In a country where severe inequities of access are present, with digital and smartphone penetration being reasonably fragmented across the country, the feasibility and acceptance of such technology on a larger level remains to be seen. What is interesting however, are the intersections between civic engagement and technology in ElseVR’s documentaries. The documentaries are not only narrative in nature, but also employ and encourage the spectator to imagine different positions while viewing them. Using the concepts proposed by Nash (2022), in making sense of first-person experience in VR documentary, the researcher employs the position of a tourist, encounter, and witness (2022:108) while viewing three documentaries using ElseVR’s technology as a medium. The three films are Nishtha Jain’s Submerged (2016); Faiza Khan’s When Land Is Lost, Do We Eat Coal (2016) and Naomi Shah and Pourush Turel’s Caste is Not a Rumour (2017). Each position leads to an understanding of the experience of what it is like to enter a space that is not one’s own. Along with the researcher’s own interpretation, and an analysis of the supporting material on the documentaries (such as publications by humanitarian organizations on the topic of the documentaries), news media reports highlighting the issues, and online community conversation received from viewers on Else VR’s Facebook and Youtube channels was conducted to make sense of the overall engagement with the documentaries besides a first-person experience. Considerations of interest and inquisitiveness towards the content, and the affordances offered by the VR environment gave way to a multi-sensory experience where the positions of tourist, encounter and witness overlapped with no conscious intent. Going back and forth with the virtual community conversation around the films and the researcher’s experience of immersion with the documentaries, it was a heightened awareness of VR technology’s role in documentary filmmaking in non-Western environments. Avoiding a technologically determinist gaze, it was the larger purpose of VR journalism that stood out to bring to light stories that deserve more civic engagement.
Signs of Life
Authors: Batcho James
Published: May 2022

This essay advances an audible semiotics (hearing and listening) by challenging James Williams’ concept of signs in his book A Process Philosophy of Signs (2016). In it, Williams proposes that a sign exists due to, and as, its own intensive life. That is, he decouples consciousness from the semiotic relation in order to advance a materialist ontology. Through this thesis, Williams aims to move semiotic relations outside the limits of visual and linguistic thinking. In doing so, however, he has conflated two distinct activities—life and signs. This positions the sign on material grounds and thereby strips away the creative and interpretive element of ambiguity, which is vital to any theory of signs.
This essay shares Williams’ interest in loosening semiotics from its adherence to language and visual thinking. But it challenges his arguments by addressing the topic from an audible rather than material standpoint. Without experience and interpretation—human, animal, plant or otherwise—a sound is only a sound, a process of life, and not a sign. An audible semiotics retains the sensory to seek out other avenues of discovery and thought beyond language and vision. In audibility, a sign returns to its relational element of sensation—its processes of gathering and interpretation. A process philosophy of audible signs thereby affirms two propositions: (1) that “life” and “sign” are not the same; and (2) that the value of semiotics is not a concern over what is, but about how any form of life responds to and interprets a situation.
More than review or criticism, the essay advances a positive theory of audible signs. To this end, it narratively deconstructs a “scene” that Williams offers in his own account: a deer’s footsteps on a snowy hillside. By critiquing these accounts cinematically and narratively, we can see how an audible semiotics reinvigorates the vital necessity of ambiguity in hearing and listening, which also points toward the possibilities of audible design in filmmaking. The methodology is discursive and analytical but non-dialectical. That is, situating audibility in a narrative framework offers an other way into the value of signs and semiotic studies across a wide range of disciplines. The central thesis argued, contra Williams, is that signs are not reducible to “life” (and vice-versa), and that only an audible regard for signs can reveal this fact.
To situate its arguments, this essay incorporates key aspects of semiotics, psychology, and epistemology. Thinkers engaged, other than Williams, include William James, Wittgenstein, Saussure, Peirce, Barthes and Deleuze. Philosophical in approach, this essay will have resonance as a starting point for considering the possibilities of creative hearing and listening in audiovisual arts and epistemology.
Listening to Radiation
Authors: Trichilo Josh
Published: May 2022

How does interactive media articulate what is fundamentally beyond human sensory capacity? The paper asks this in the context of Fukushima and radiation. Interactive informational media might itself hint at the answer given they run at speeds beyond human perception while nonetheless interfacing and therefore conditioning that perception apparatus. Thus, while much has been said about radiation and “silence,” this paper refuses that discursive regime, instead analyzing radiation through what Brinkema calls “the regime of near inaudibility,” a discurso-pragmatic approach to intensive relations, rather than a commitment to “being or not being.” That is, as an object restricted from immediate knowledge, radiation nonetheless becomes embodied knowledge as its existence and effects are navigated as a social force. To that end, the paper, based on field work, analyzes the way the Fukushima Commutan Center, a state-sponsored center sharing information about radiation and recovery, utilizes interactive media to produce particular embodied knowledges of radiation. I offer two examples: first, an interactive game in which children’s bodies are projected onto a screen to stop oncoming “radiation” with “blockers” (representing radiation-resistant material) mapped to their hand; and second, a spherical theatre dome covered entirely by screens and fit with surrounding speakers in which visitors stand suspended on a bridge, turning to watch the moving multi-directional video focal point. In each case, the media intend to communicate “radiation information”—the former case, “radiation protection is possible,” and the latter, “Fukushima has recovered despite radiation.” And yet, there is also, as Cecchetto puts it, an incommunicative aspect of these medias, an aesthetic, a structuring of the sensible that subtends the informational intent. This structuring, it is argued, encounters a context in visitors/users that has the potential to provoke a vaguely felt stress, anxiety, even trauma. This context irrupts in painful and fearful sensations in the otherwise celebratory media. What appears affirmative interactive media, then, manifest as a form of control conditioning the embodiment of radiation that serves the capital-nation-state. In other words, the social contract to live among radiation functions through an affective aporia where citizens are hailed to feel comfortable in that which makes them uncomfortable: the knowledge of radiation.
Rather than strictly an analysis of the content of the game or dome video, the paper forwards listening to ask how formal relations in the techno-movements constitute the paradoxical (non)lived reality of radiation. How is listening, then, not a form of attention, but a form of attunement in which a resonant logic is taken up between intra-acting subject/object? This demands another question: is attunement not then also implicated in capitalism’s interactive techno-logics. Listening must be attuned to its own reality as an attunement machine for the hope of investing in the world otherwise.
Epistemics of the Body
Authors: Mundhenke Florian
Published: May 2022

This presentation is about the relationship between the factors of space, story and body in non-fictional VR projects with the user as a first-person protagonist. What used to be called immersive journalism, i.e., the attempt to offer the user physical experiences of factual journalism, has now become much more film-oriented in the last years. Most projects, therefore, tell stories that have a relation to reality and allow the protagonists to enter real-life narratives.
The paper starts by focusing on the state of the art of research from the direction of media and information science. Mel Slater has been investigating VR projects with others since 2005, naming factors such as place illusion or plausibility illusion; in later writings, he expanded this to include the body-oriented sense of embodiment (SoE) (Slater et al. 2009, 2010a, 2010b, 2012).
These methodological explanations are supplemented by the immersion effect of the story itself. Domenic Arsénault pointed out there are three levels of narrative immersion in VR (Arsénault 2005). From this, an integrative matrix is developed. In the following, four current examples are presented that were used for the research project. The results of a small, non-representative study with 24 participants are presented afterwards. The findings include, among other things, that both the space and the story in first-person VR are related to the user's body, while the installation of a working plausibility illusion is rather insignificant. The user reads, experiences and understands the projects with the senses, perceptions and cognition of the whole body, as it seems, which makes it possible to speak of an epistemic of the body.
Aural Authenticity of Virtual Reality Documentary Made in 3D Virtual Environment
Authors: Tang Ruohan , Wei Lai
Published: May 2022

The concept of documentary is a 'notoriously slippery eel', or even the slipperiest one in the history of cinema (Kahana, 2016). Movies inside virtual reality are one of the promising talked-about areas in the VR industry. With the involvement of virtual reality in the production of documentaries, the dialectic between virtuality and authenticity makes this concept of documentary even more elusive, especially for VR documentaries made in 3D. In the viewing experience, the virtual environment is built upon computing 'true depth'. This virtual cinematic space is set up through the modelling in software (e.g. Maya and 3D Max) and then to 3D engine (e.g. Unity or Unreal). Therefore, a dialectical critique arises: Do documentary exists in VR films? When the spaces and mise-en-scène of the documentary are all artificially created through computing software, whether it can still be considered as an authentic form of documentary? How can this sub-genre of documentary continue to exist as a kind of proclaimed ‘non-fiction’ when the film is based entirely on fictional visual input? The current discussion on the realistic qualities of VR documentaries focuses on the questioning on the virtual nature of the visual environment and neglects that listening is also part of the experience in this VE. So, is it possible to understand the authenticity of the VR documentary from the perspective of auditory system?  This paper provides a perspective for understanding the auditory authenticity of non-fictional restoration of virtual environments (VE) in virtual reality (VR) documentaries. Such a perspective argues that although the VR documentaries are made with 3D modelling and computing engine, their authenticity in sound remains in line with the documentary principle. In the sound design perspective, it simultaneously creates a non-fictional soundscape to reproduce the ‘genius loci’ (spirit of place) based on the real individual perception in history. In the first part of paper, we review how the documentary film has set itself apart as a non-fictional genre based on Bill Nichols’s analysis of the boundary between traditional documentary and its counterparts in cinema. And then we place this principle on aural reality in the context of HRCS (Head-Related Coordinate System) and HRTF (Head-Related Transfer Function) to argue VR documentary as a sub-genre of the documentary film in aural technical basis. In the second part, we explore the concept of ‘soundscape’ in the sound design of VR documentaries, analysing how such a virtual sound environment establishes an authentic spirit of space in the case of Anne Frank House VR. This study only explores the auditory sound in virtual places, and does not address the discussion of artificial fictional sounds outside cinematic space (e.g. music, voice-overs, UI Panel sounds.)
Polyvocality in Interactive Documentary
Authors: Hanna Fabiola
Published: May 2022

Listening has always been undervalued as a mode of participation both inside and outside Media Studies (Fiumara 1995, Lacey 2013, Lipari 2014). Applying definitions of listening from philosophy, feminist political theory, media studies, and documentary studies to software studies, this paper identifies problematic practices and provides redefinitions and reframes: Listening only qualifies as listening when the listening itself has an effect or changes the listener, in the moment or later.

As examples of a device of meaningful listening that might be helpful in software design, the very medium used for interactive media, the paper examines two documentary case studies: Lana Lin’s The Cancer Journals Revisited (2018) and Irene Lusztig’s Yours In Sisterhood (2018). Both filmmakers invited volunteers to read aloud on camera; in the case of Lin, the twenty-seven writers, artists, activists, health care advocates, and current and former patients she invited read Black lesbian feminist poet Audre Lorde’s classic 1980 memoir of her breast cancer experience. And in the case of Lusztig, she recruited participants in 32 different US states to read aloud and respond to a selection of letters to the editors at Ms. Magazine from the 70s covering issues of divorce, abortion, rape, discrimination, among many other feminist issues of the day. Both filmmakers also made it clear that they had invited these readings and exposed in multiple ways the mechanics of these readings. The paper argues that both reading aloud and the exposition of the request to read, as a device in the documentaries, is a form of listening and analyzes this through a framework of listening as a participatory process. The paper also identifies the paradiscourses of both projects and the relationships that the respective filmmakers hope to develop with their readers and viewers. Both projects embody a kind of participatory listening that suggests a much-needed antidote to the overlooked practice in software design that assumes listening cannot be participatory.
DE\GLOBALIZE
Authors: Fetzner Daniel
Published: May 2022

»Everywhere in the world where knowledge is suppressed - knowledge that, if it became conscious, would shock our view of the world and question ourselves - everywhere there the heart of darkness is taking place. What is missing is the courage to understand what we know and to draw the consequences from it.«
 Sven Lindqvist
The artistic research cycle DE\GLOBALIZE is a media ecological search movement for the terrestrial. After examining matters of fact in India (2014-18), matters of concern in Egypt (2016-2019) and matters of care in the Upper Rhine (2018-22), the focus turns toward matters of violence in the Congo (2022). From matter to mater, mother-earth, the garden to exploitation. From science, water and climate to migration, oppression and extermination.
The long-term research is accessible through interactive web documentation. The platform serves as a continuous media-archaeological archive for a speculative ethnography. The relational structure of the videographic essay is enabling the forensic processing of single documents in the sense of the actor-network theory.
The subject of the presentation at IFM is a field trip to the Congo planned for March 2022, which will focus on the ambivalence of violence and care in collaboration with local artists. The field trip is based on the postcolonial reflection luderitzcargo by the author from 1996, in which a freight container was transformed into a translocal cinema in Namibia.
Through the journey to Congo, a group of media artists, a psychotherapist, a theater dramaturg, a filmmaker and a philosopher intend to explore the political, technological and psycho-geographic borders. By artistic interventions with locals, we want to interfere with relational string figures as part of the new Earth Politics. They are focusing on the displaced consumption of resources which are hard-fought and guarantee prosperity in the global north. The so-called ghost acreages are repressed and justified as part of a civilizational mission. With this trip, we want to confront our self-lies with the ones of our hosts. We want to confront ourselves with the foreign, the dark and the displaced ghosts within ourselves. In the presentation at the #IFM2022 Conference, the platform DE\GLOBALIZE will be problematized itself as an example of epistemic violence for the ethnographic memory of (Western) knowledge.
We are not the missionaries but the perplexed travellers. In our search movement, we are dealing with psychoanalysis, video, performance and trance. As disoriented white men we try the reversal of Black Skin and White Mask by Franz Fanon without blackfacing. We will not only care about the sensitivity of our skin but that of our g/hosts and the one of mother earth.
Interactive Territorial Study on Urban Spaces
Authors: Odorico Stefano , Vecchi Ilaria
Published: May 2022

Our latest interactive factual work aims to analyze the wider concept of 'walls', their materiality and role within an urban ecology. The city of Leeds and its socio-anthropological issues is our case study. Leeds is a large urban conglomerate in the North of England that for historical, socio-political and cultural reasons, embodies several aspects of English national contemporary development, such as: economic growth, constant reshaping, mono-ethnic areas, class-divide, inequality etc.
The term 'walls' is often used to define a large variety of artefacts and spaces that create, and embody some sort of boundaries. These artefacts often include fences, embankments, roads, gated communities - all structures that divide or limit spaces.
In a psychogeographical gesture, this interactive portrait of Leeds will help to reflect on the extent to which these artefacts could hamper some trajectories and facilitate others, as boundaries often become territories themselves. The main aim of this paper is to show how our interactive documentary, through the use of creative practices, could be identify as a territorial study of urban barriers that investigates the convergence of the cultural, the performative and the socio-political.
In order to visually represent the above, we are currently using Korsakow as a method of interdisciplinary research and the final output will include a variety of different media: video clips, sound recordings, photographs etc. Furthermore, the process of filming and collecting material is based on the idea of wandering around the city of Leeds and capturing the essence of the idea of ‘Dérive’ within the thematic concept of ‘walls and borders’. Built around Debord’s idea of experimental behavior (1956), Dérive is an unplanned journey through an urban landscape in which participants let themselves be drawn by the terrain and the encounters they make during the whole process.
Our main research question can be identified as: Can digital, non-linear interactive audio-visual forms be developed as a method for understanding the challenges of living within ‘urban walls and boundaries’? We believe that the originality of the project mainly resides in the mix methods research approach, which leads and guides the creative practice process.
Refugee Storytelling and Interactive Socio-Political Films
Authors: Moura Hudson
Published: May 2022

Interactive films have contributed to the viewers/users’ increasing storytelling engagement with social issues and events. With the rise of interactivity and refugee films, previous forms and storytelling methods have been changed and reformed in hybridity and as emerging immersive technologies.

While these technological developments increase the overall complexity of the storytelling’s interface, they forced many users to reexamine their understanding of what they see and experience in this mediated world. Users must have a foundational knowledge of media literacy to interact with its interface and reap the benefits meaningfully. At the same time, the machine-based advances in interactivity can be referred to as the ‘interface of knowledge.’ Which type of social engagement has been created through interactive technological storytelling? Which social engagement or subject is more appropriate or efficient for interactive narratives? Do refugee stories and discourses contribute to interactive engagement?

The popularization and celebration of immersive technologies, such as virtual reality and interactive films, requires significant financial spending power, digital literacy, and access to specific resources and technologies, which most of their subject do not have access to. Therefore, the barrier to approaching these immersive technologies is relatively high and inaccessible for the vast majority.

This research aims to analyze a series of interactive films focusing on refugees’ storytelling, politics and aesthetics to examine their socio-political engagement.  But first, what refugee stories have that appeal and make all these practitioners opt for a more engaging narrative medium? What is the refugee’s contribution or uniqueness that engages creators and viewers/users/players to adventure in their disarray? A strong connection with people whose lives are far from most of the users’ reality creating and being present within distant worlds calls the attention to the traditional cinematic narrative, which often fails to rouse the audience.

In this paper, I argue that in interactive narratives, refugee characters and stories redefine the agency and potential of traditional film storytelling while granting the ability to recreate their history/fate. Also, these stories can engender a change in the world or redone the world with a sense of justice for dependable and trustful characters. Refugees possess an allegory of fantasy and unachievable reality that comfort their users. Characters without faces or names, but with well-known and reliable stories, make the users closer to the situation (moral aspect) and responsible (political sense) for their future.
Reconstruction 360 Workshop
Authors: Newman Betsy , Hayes Patrick
Published: May 2022

Reconstruction 360 is a transmedia application produced by South Carolina ETV (SCETV), the state PBS affiliate. The project interprets the Reconstruction era for the general public, students, and educators who use a range of desktop and mobile devices. It employs an 

immersive 360° video platform, historical vignettes and short-form documentaries to examine humanities themes related to Reconstruction and deepen the public’s understanding of this crucial period of American history.

We will begin with an introduction to the project and a description of those involved in its development, including producers, funders and scholars. Subsequently, we will briefly discuss the reasoning and logic behind using the 360° platform, documentary media and composite history scenes as engagement tools to interpret a difficult and frequently misunderstood era of American history. After our introduction, we will ask the group to convene in break-out rooms to work together in small groups to explore Reconstruction 360. We will then bring everyone back for conversation.
INVESTIGATING THE PROTECTIVE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE SHIELDING PARAMETERS FOR DIAGNOSTIC X-RAY ROOMS IN SOME SELECTED HOSPITALS IN AGBOR METROPOLIS - DELTA STATE
Authors: ESEKA KENNETH , MOLUA COLLINS , Ukpene Anthony Ossai , Egheneji Anthony
Published: May 2022

Over exposure to x-rays is capable of producing serious health hazards and capable of causing death due to its ionizing nature. In the determination of effective primary and secondary shielding parameters of some hospitals in Agbor, a radiation detector, Geiger Muller Counter 320 plus was used for the measurement of radiation in the selected x-ray centers chosen in other to ascertain the degree of exposure of x-ray machines at exactly 1m from the primary source. The work was carried out for a period of 12 weeks in each of the selected hospitals simultaneously. A total of 145 patients were examined in central hospital Agbor, 110 in central hospital Abavo and 125 in Nkonye hospital Agbor. The patient’s examination records containing types of examination each day, peak tube voltage, tube current and exposure time including the actual number of films used were obtained. Results obtained from the three hospitals investigated were found to be inconformity with the recommendations of National Commission on Radiological and Protection (NCRP) (70) and (116) protocols. Protective shielding parameters’ results obtained in this study were lower than the standard recommended maximum values. The study showed that the walls of the x-ray rooms of these hospitals investigated have adequate shielding parameters and as such may not require any additional primary structural shielding barriers. It is therefore concluded that the X-ray shielding facilities for diagnostic x-ray rooms in the selected hospitals in Agbor metropolis were adequate and safe radiologically for patients and staff respectively.
Timeless Treasures who Shaped Today’s Glorious Nuclear Medicine of Bangladesh: Interviews with Pioneer Professors
Authors: Ferdousi Begum Shamim Momtaz
Published: May 2022

Abstract not available
Bangladesh J. Nuclear Med. 25(1): 11-14, 2022
Abstract of 25th National Conference of Society of Nuclear Medicine, Bangladesh Vol 25(1)
Authors: Chief Editor in
Published: May 2022

Abstract not available
Bangladesh J. Nuclear Med. 25(1): 48-67, 2022
Korelasi Ekspresi ezrin dan CD44 dengan Respons Kemoterapi pada Pasien Osteosarkoma
Authors: SULISTIO CHRISTIAN BAMBANG , MUSTOKOWENI SJAHJENNY , KURNIASARI NILA
Published: May 2022

Osteosarcoma is the most common malignant bone tumor in children and young adults. The process of metastasis and recurrence involves several proteins, including ezrin, and CD44 that are shown to be involved in tumor growth,metastasis and recurrence. To analyse the corelation of ezrin and CD44 expression with chemotherapy responsse in osteosarcoma patient. Cross sectional method on paraffin block of Osteosarcoma in Anatomic Pathology Laboratory of RSUD dr Soetomo, (January 1, 2010 - December 31, 2015). There were 17 out of 26 cases of amputated osteosarcoma which are met the inclusion criteria were performed immunohistochemical staining with ezrin and CD44 antibodies. The corellation of ezrin and CD44 expression with chemotherapy responsse was analyzed using Spearman’s rho test. The coeficient correlation in this experiment p<0.05, there was no corellation of ezrin expression with chemotherapy responsse of osteosarcoma. There was no correlation of CD44 expression with chemotherapy responsse in osteosarcoma. There was no correlation of ezrin and CD44 expression with chemotherapy responsse of osteosarcoma. There was no corellation of ezrin and CD44 expression with chemotherapy responsse of osteosarcoma.ABSTRAKOsteosarkoma merupakan tumor ganas tulang, sering terjadi pada anak-anak dan dewasa muda. Proses metastasis dan rekurensi melibatkan beberapa protein, di antaranya ezrin dan CD44 yang terbukti ikut serta dalam pertumbuhan tumor, metastasis, dan rekurensi. Penelitian ini bertujuan menganalisis hubungan antara ekspresi ezrin dan CD44 dengan respons kemoterapi. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode cross sectional blok parafin osteosarkoma di Laboratorium Patologi Anatomi RSUD Dr. Soetomo (1 Januari 2010–31 Desember 2015). Sebanyak 17 kasus sesuai kriteria inklusi dari 26 kasus osteosarkoma yang telah diamputasi dilakukan seleksi serta pemeriksaan imunohistokimia dengan antibodi ezrin danCD44. Hubungan ekspresi antara ezrin dan CD44 dengan respons kemoterapi dianalisis menggunakan uji Spearman’srho. Pada penelitian ini, nilai koefisien korelasi p<0,05 sehingga tidak terdapat hubungan antara ekspresi ezrin denganrespons kemoterapi pada osteosarkoma, di mana nilai p=0,868 (p>0,05). Tidak terdapat hubungan antara ekspresi CD44 dengan respons kemoterapi pada osteosarkoma di mana nilai p = 0,740 (p> 0,05).Tidak terdapat korelasi antaraekspresi ezrin dengan CD44 dengan respons kemoterapi osteosarkoma, nilai p=0,113 (p>0,05). Tidak terdapat hubungan antara ekspresi ezrin dan CD44 dengan respons kemoterapi pada pasien osteosarkoma.