bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
La prisión preventiva en el sistema penal acusatorio
Authors: Fernández de Cevallos y Torres José
Published: March 2023

Por medio de los omnipresentes juzgadores de nuestro tiempo —los medios de comunicación— gobernantes y autoridades, miembros de la sociedad civil y académicos han criticado al sistema penal acusatorio, con el débil argumento de que es un sistema “muy garantista” para el imputado. En este artículo José Fernández de Cevallos y Torres se pregunta qué tan cierto es lo que se dice en tono al nuevo sistema. Para ello se sirve del análisis de la medida cautelar de prisión preventiva, con el objeto de analizar si la regulación de la misma es adecuada o si, por el contrario, es necesaria su reforma.
Muertes anunciadas
Authors: Vázquez Martínez Alejandro Ernesto
Published: March 2023

¿Qué correspondencia hay entre la racionalidad bélica, la violencia institucional y los crímenes de Estado? ¿Cómo afectan los sistemas penales el derecho humano a la vida? ¿Cómo se produce la invisibilización hermenéutica y qué implicaciones tiene? Por medio de la obra de diversos autores se abordan estas y otras cuestiones relacionadas con las muertes violentas  producidas por agencias del Estado. Asimismo, se realiza un análisis criminológico sobre las prácticas y representaciones sociales que grupos de la sociedad civil conciben como respuesta al ejercicio de la racionalidad bélica, particularmente a través de las concepciones del cuerpo, la memoria social y la intersubjetividad.
El proceso penal acusatorio como una autopista
Authors: Bardales Lazcano Erika
Published: March 2023

Con la reforma al sistema de justicia penal en México, la justicia se diversifica en resoluciones tradicionales (juicios orales), resoluciones alternas (posibilidades de solución diferente al juicio oral); y soluciones restaurativas (enfocadas a la restauración de la relación social), todas como posibilidades de solucionar controversias de manera autocompositiva. Al tiempo que la descongestión le permite al Estado enfocar sus recursos en aquellos casos que pongan en riesgo el estado de derecho y ameriten una investigación profunda y delicada. Estas posibilidades de descongestión permiten que solo el 10% de las causas denunciadas en materia penal lleguen a un juicio oral
Cómo evitar la impunidad en la tortura
Authors: Medina Mora Eduardo
Published: March 2023

El presente artículo es un análisis referente a los mecanismos jurídicos existentes en el caso de actos de tortura durante el proceso penal ya sea a través del juicio de amparo directo o indirecto. El objetivo es determinar cuál es el momento procesal específico para valorar la existencia de tortura, así como su impacto sobre el material probatorio, con el fin de evitar violaciones a los derechos humanos y lograr una eficaz administración de justicia durante dicho proceso.
Discurso de homenaje a los 75 años de los servicios periciales de la Procuraduría General de la República
Authors: Moreno González L. Rafael
Published: March 2023

El presente texto es el discurso llevado a cabo por el Dr. Rafael Moreno González durante el homenaje de los 75 años de servicios periciales en México. En él se advierte el nacimiento de la criminalística, sus avances, retos y tareas todavía pendientes.
Los delitos electorales
Authors: Fromow Rangel María de los Ángeles
Published: March 2023

A raíz de la referida reforma político-electoral del 10 de febrero de 2014, diversos senadores presentaron tres proyectos jurídicos distintos que tuvieron por objetivo establecer las conductas delictivas en materia electoral. Es por ello que el presente artículo realiza un análisis del proceso legislativo y la toma de decisiones que concluyó con la publicación de la Ley General de Delitos Electorales. También se realiza un análisis de las conductas que quedan tipificadas y cómo es que estas se configuraron.
La aplicación de la evaluación poligráfica al servicio profesional de carrera
Authors: Ruiz Guarneros Aura Izel
Published: March 2023

En este artículo se abordan las características generales del proceso de evaluación de control de confianza que se realiza a los integrantes de las instituciones para la selección, ingreso y permanencia del personal que conforman las diferentes unidades y agrupamientos del sector gubernamental; dicho proceso comprende cinco evaluaciones (entorno social, psicológico, médico, toxicológico), sin embargo para fines del presente ensayo únicamente se abordará la evaluación poligráfica, así como su aplicación y funcionamiento en el centro de evaluación y control de confianza de la Procuraduría General de la República (PGR), aplicado en este caso a la triada investigadora que interviene en el Sistema Penal Acusatorio.
Marihuana y la jurisprudencia mexicana
Authors: Melgar Adalid Mario
Published: March 2023

A lo largo de 2014 y 2015, el Ejecutivo Federal por una parte y el Senado de la República por otra, realizaron intensos foros de debate con el objetivo de discutir la legalización de la marihuana con fines medicinales, lo cual derivó en la presentación y aprobación de reformas a la Ley General de Salud y al Código Penal Federal con el objetivo de despenalizar el uso del Cannabis sativa cuando se trata de salud pública. Si bien la discusión debió haber concluido con las reformas referidas, un nuevo debate ha iniciado: ¿Debe permitirse el uso de la marihuana para fines lúdicos o recreativos? Mario Melgar Adalid busca dar un panorama general a esta respuesta desde los criterios jurídicos que la Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación ha presentado en este respecto.
Marihuana. El punto de quiebre entre la salud pública y la decisión pública
Authors: González Bojórquez Agustín
Published: March 2023

La planta marihuana cuenta con más de 500 sustancias denominadas cannabinoides, de las cuales se ha estudiado el THC o tetrahidrocannabinol, por ser considerado el principio activo que a nivel físico tiene cierta afinidad con compuestos producidos por nuestro propio cerebro. Por tal afinidad, el consumo de esta sustancia genera una neurotransmisión inversa y difusa en áreas importantes del cerebro humano que propician una cascada en nuestro circuito de recompensa, la cual, estimula la producción de respuestas en un amplio espectro de percepción que van desde lo beneplácito, hasta lo aterrador, dependiendo de la dosis administrada y la calidad del producto que se utiliza. Se trata de una sustancia que altera el cerebro pero su consumo constituye ¿un problema de salud pública o una decisión de política pública o criminal? El presente artículo pretende responder a esta pregunta desde el punto de vista médico y atendiendo a los efectos que la sustancia genera en el cerebro.
Efectos criminológicos derivados del consumo del cannabis
Authors: Olvera Lezama Blanca Ivonne
Published: March 2023

La presente reflexión sobre el cannabis y las consecuencias reflejadas en la conducta del consumidor, se realiza desde el punto de vista de la criminología, atendiendo a sus antecedentes históricos en la cultura mexicana, y a la normatividad vigente respecto al exceso en el consumo del cannabis, así como la controversia que existe en la actualidad sobre la legalización de su consumo, señalando que no es un tema nuevo sino que tiene su origen en 1939 cuando el presidente Lázaro Cárdenas, en un ejercicio soberano, legalizó el uso de drogas en México para evitar arrojar a los adictos a las manos de los narcotraficantes.
Rumbo a la legalización de la marihuana
Authors: Richter Ulrich
Published: March 2023

La legalización de la marihuana es un tema polémico que no ha querido discutirse en el ámbito legislativo. Ello a pesar de que recientemente se han ganado diversos amparos en favor del consumo del Cannabis sativa para fines recreativos. En este artículo, el autor, como promotor de uno de los amparos en favor del uso de la marihuana recreativa, expone los principales argumentos que permiten el consumo del referido estupefaciente.
Agricultural Insurance in the Philippines: Innovative Product Development and Scale-Up Amid Climate Risks and Other Hazards
Authors:   Philippine Crop Insurance Corporation, Cajucom Norman
Published: March 2023

The Philippines, an archipelago situated in the Pacific Ring of Fire and the typhoon belt, is highly vulnerable to natural disasters. The continued global warming experienced in the country in the past years shows a trend of climate changes that have caused casualties and losses in agriculture and properties. One of the solutions to address the negative effects of climate change is agricultural insurance. The Philippine Crop Insurance Corporation (PCIC) is a government institution that has served as the country’s sole provider of traditional crop insurance since 1981. However, because of PCIC’s limited resources, the private sector’s participation in the agricultural insurance business is necessary to increase the number of farmers, fisherfolk, and other stakeholders protected with insurance. The issuance of rules and regulations for private agricultural insurance operations and the formation of a Public-Private Partnership composed of the PCIC and private insurance companies are vital strategies to scale-up agricultural insurance business in the country. Further, to improve the agricultural insurance program, innovative/index-based agricultural insurance products, such as Weather Index-Based Insurance (WIBI) and Area-Based Yield Index Insurance (ARBY), have been developed and piloted with funding from donor agencies. New products such as the Yield Insurance Products for High-Value Crops (a hybrid of traditional, ARBY, and WIBI schemes), initially for coconut, coffee, and cacao crops could enable the PCIC and private insurers to provide insurance services at lesser loss adjustment cost and with a faster settlement of claims. Challenges to a successful and sustainable implementation of the new products need to be met, namely the (1) development of the required data infrastructure; (2) acquisition of advanced weather equipment and technologies for crop modeling and experimentation; and (3) collaboration with government research institutions and state colleges and universities to undertake science-based modeling and experimentation for the development of various weather indices/parametric for crops, fisheries/aquaculture, and livestock. Further measures to strengthen the existing agricultural insurance program include (1) integrating plans for agricultural insurance in the development and implementation plans of all concerned government institutions involved in agriculture, fisheries, and forestry sectors and (2) organizing small farmers and fisherfolk to undertake collective farming and business activities as they cannot cope with rapid changes in climate on their own that affect their livelihood.
1 - Academic (Im)mobility: Ecology of Ethnographic Research and Knowledge Production on Africans in China
Authors: Adebayo Kudus Oluwatoyin
Published: March 2023

Since the emergence of China in the geopolitical and economic spaces of Africa, academics have followed Chinese and African people moving in both directions and conducted on-the-ground, cross-border ethnographies. However, academics are not equally mobile. This autoethnography analyses the intersections of ethnography, mobility and knowledge production on ‘Africans in China’ through a critical exploration of the contextual issues shaping the unequal participation of Africa-based researchers in the study of Africa(ns) in a non- African setting. Based on my experiences before, during and after migration to Guangzhou city, I demonstrate that ‘being there,’ fetishised as ideal-type anthropology, conceals privilege and racial and power dynamics that constrain the practice of cross-border ethnography in the global South.
5 - Skills or Credentials? Comparing the Perspectives of Degree- and Non-degree-holding Ghanaian Graduates on the Value of Higher Education
Authors: Anyidoho Nana Akua
Published: March 2023

The massification of higher education, fuelled in part by demand from young people and their families, has coincided with more competition in the graduate labour market. This article seeks insight into the interpretative framework through which graduates view the relationship between higher education and the labour market. Specifically, given evidence of diminishing employment opportunities for graduates, the study examines the relative strengths of human capital theory and credentialism in explaining the value that young people continue to place on higher education. Using survey data from a sample of 2,036 Ghanaian higher education graduates, the article investigates the relative value students accord to skills and credentials through analysis of two self-report measures: satisfaction with their higher education experience, and, second, labour market expectations in respect of employment and income. Overall, non-degree holders self-assessed as having more skills training. Nonetheless, degree-holders generally were more satisfied with their educational achievements and had higher labour market expectations than those without degrees. These findings imply that young people value higher education less in terms of the skills they acquire and more in regards to the face-value of the qualifications they obtain, indicating a credentialist perspective that is in marked contrast to the human capital approach which undergirds policymaking on higher education in Ghana and much of the African continent.
3 - Middle-level Academics as Institutional Managers: A Study on Leadership and Organisational Change at a Ugandan University
Authors: Mwangu Alex Ronald
Published: March 2023

This study examines how academic middle managers, specifically department chairs at a Ugandan university, conceptualise their leadership roles, identify the necessary skills for effective leadership of the department and reflect upon and grow from their practice and past experience in department leadership. The study was carried out at a university that is transitioning from a community- owned to a state-run institution. Data was collected from eighteen department chairs who were purposively sampled from five faculties, one institute and one school, and from four senior managers of the university, using semi-structured interviews. The data was analysed using latent thematic analysis. The findings revealed that department chairs considered their major roles to be: ensuring high academic standards, creating academic programmes, contributing to the financial soundness of the university through developing marketable programmes, ensuring accountability, etc. Nonetheless, they struggled in their new leadership roles due to limited capacity-building and mentoring initiatives for leadership. This put extra strain on the departmental chairs and affected their ability to meet the expectations of the appointing authority.
4 - Leadership Philosophy and Interventions to Support Middle-level Units within Large Academic Institutions: Experiences at the Makerere Peace and Conflict Studies Centre
Authors: Nkabala Helen Nambalirwa , Kanakulya Dickson
Published: March 2023

This article discusses practical lessons on how leadership intervention philosophy can be used to design and ensure that an academic unit within a big institution realises its mandate. The interventions took place at the Peace and Conflict Studies Centre (MPCSC) at Makerere University between 2015 and 2019. The undertaking was guided by systemic leadership intervention philosophy and transformational leadership. The methods used in the intervention included: leadership interventions, secondary data analysis, narrative analysis and autoethnography. The article uses a combination of analytical and auto-biographical reporting styles. Major findings include the following: there is a leadership skilling gap between high-level and mid-level managers in large university units; in large academic institutions, mid-level managers must combine traits and process leadership approaches in order realise progress. Key observations: student enrolment drives achieved a slight improvement in numbers (from 14 % in 2015/2016 to 42 % in 2018/2019); a minor improvement in workstations led to a more than 100 per cent increment in usage by staff and students; the Centre noticed a 63 per cent completion rate of specialised skills training by staff; on average, interdisciplinary research teams perform better than single discipline teams, but the former required extra effort to keep together; the interventions led to a 70 per cent increase in community outreach through avenues such as projects, experiential learning sessions, consultancies, etc.
6 - Les imaginaires populaires de la femme âgée face aux accusations de sorcellerie en République centrafricaine : une perspective genrée
Authors: Kevis Kossi Narcisse Landry
Published: March 2023

Depuis son irruption dans le vocabulaire des sciences sociales, le genre ne cesse de susciter réflexions, publications, colloques, etc. de la part des chercheurs et notamment ceux de l’université de Bangui. De fait, dans les systèmes de représentation sociale de la plupart des ethnies centrafricaines, le rapport entre l’homme et la femme est fortement influencé par des pesanteurs socioculturelles, ancrées dans le patriarcalisme. Ainsi, la femme est devenue l’objet d’une « construction sociale genrée » et subit les conséquences qui en découlent. Les femmes âgées et stériles, subissent des violences dues à des accusations de sorcellerie. Ces imaginaires et stéréotypes constituent une entorse à l’idéologie féministe, telle que défendue et véhiculée par les sciences sociales. Or, par le passé, les femmes âgées faisaient l’objet de vénération, de respect en raison des pouvoirs qu’elles détiennent, contrairement à celles, maltraitées, de l’Occident. Fondé sur une approche ethnographique et une analyse qualitative, cet article vise à questionner les dangers que représentent les perceptions liées à la femme âgée. Il s’agira, en effet, de faire ressortir les représentations contenues dans le subconscient de la population liées aux femmes âgées en Centrafrique à l’ère de la « modernité ». L’étude est fondée sur l’observation directe du milieu. Outre l’observation, les interviews semi- directives et libres avec des femmes âgées et des personnes-ressources ont permis de collecter les données empiriques.
Producing Anthropological Knowledge in and of Southern Africa: A Case Study of the Anthropology Southern Africa Journal
Authors: Morreira Shannon
Published: March 2023

This article conducts an archival examination of the Anthropology Southern Africa journal (formerly the South African Journal of Ethnology/Suid- Afrikaanse Tydskrif vir Etnologie), in keeping with Allen and Jobson’s (2016) call for anthropology to examine its own archives, as spaces of knowledge production which act as indexes of power. The article moves through three eras of the journal, between 1978 and 2020, showing how it evolved from being the home of volkekunde anthropology under apartheid, to a space for the production of anthropological knowledge by both established and nascent voices from the global South. Turning attention to the demographic minutiae of praxis within journals enables the start of a conversation about who was making anthropological know edge at different moments in history, and what sort of knowledge was made.
8 - Information and Communication Technologies in Higher Education in Africa: Initiatives and Challenges
Authors: Lishan Adam
Published: March 2023

African higher education institutions are at a stage where they are striving to im- prove their information and communication technologies (ICTs) infrastructure, con- tent, and skills; making resources available to meet the growing needs of students and faculty; and responding to the pressure for effectiveness. They are also con- fronted with a dilemma of turning ongoing ICTs initiatives into opportunities and understanding what ICTs mean to the transformation of higher education in general and to research, teaching, and learning in particular. This paper examines the in- creasing role of ICTs in African higher education, ongoing initiatives, progresses made, and the dilemmas and challenges.
The Public Dimensions of the University in Africa
Authors: Ebrima Sall
Published: March 2023

This paper’s principal purpose is to explore the range of ways in which African universities act as public institutions—i.e., how both are shaped by and influ- ence the social, political, and economic contexts in which they are situated. In particular, we consider the multiple dimensions, often resulting in tensions in contexts of poverty and instability, of the African university as an actor in politics, civil society, and the public sphere AND as a key institution in the expectations and the strategies of a range of actors, groups, and constituencies.
Feminist Postproverbial as a Panacea for Decolonising African Feminist Scholarship
Authors: Oyeleye Olayinka Adebimpe
Published: March 2023

Part of the weakness of feminist scholarship in Africa is its inability to turn knowledge generated in universities (episteme) into popular opinion (doxa), thereby creating a dislocation between academic epistemic space and mainstream society. This article addresses how a decolonised feminist scholarship can ground equality by reconstructing doxa from traditional knowledge, as found in proverbs. In accordance with the AU Agenda 2063, it aims to shatter the economic, social and political glass ceiling that has restricted women’s progress by undercutting the imperialist language of patriarchy. It purposes to do this using a medium it calls feminist postproverbials.
4 - Social Value of Research and Technical Skills: Does It Justify Investment in Higher Education for Development?
Authors: T. Paul Schultz
Published: March 2023

Evidence assembled from household surveys collected from 1985 and 1998 from Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, and South Africa indicates that higher wages compensate individuals in these African countries for enrolling in school. It is commonly believed that wage returns to schooling are highest at the primary levels and decrease thereafter at higher school levels, but the data from Africa summarized here indicate the opposite, with private wage returns being high- est at the secondary and higher education levels. There appear to be sufficient financial incentives today to motivate students to enroll in higher education, and any public subsidies should be allocated only to those students who come from poor families and whose parents are relatively least educated, relative to their generation. If students in higher education in Africa from upper-income families paid tuitions which were equal to half the public subsidies for their schooling, these revenues would finance fellowships for disadvantaged stu- dents and also provide the resources and incentives to expand higher education into those fields where trained manpower is scarcest today in Africa. They would thus create the conditions for greater self-governance of higher educa- tion while fostering a responsible separation from political power.
5 - Should There Be a General Subsidy for Higher Education in Developing Countries?
Authors: David E. Bloom  , Jaypee Sevilla
Published: March 2023

The view that developing countries ought to offer general subsidies for higher education has many supporters. We use traditional economic logic to specify the conditions under which such an investment policy would promote a so- cially efficient allocation of resources. We identify three necessary conditions. First, the net social benefit from the investment must be positive. Second, pri- vate actors must have insufficient ability or incentive to undertake the socially optimal level of investment. Finally, the investment must generate more net social benefits than competing uses of public funds. We reason that the first condition is likely to be satisfied, the second might not, and third is even more questionable. Without empirical evidence to the contrary, we therefore reason that there is no clear-cut efficiency reason for a general subsidy for higher education in developing countries.
1 - The Brain Drain in Africa: An Emerging Challenge to Health Professionals’ Education
Authors: Delanyo Dovlo
Published: March 2023

A health crisis is facing sub-Saharan Africa. The population has increased mark- edly. In recent decades, communicable diseases and ‘new’ noncommunicable dis- ease epidemics have intensified. HIV/AIDS is perhaps the biggest health chal- lenge. However, the supply of health workers remains low and has been worsened by their migration to developed countries. This paper reviews health professionals’ ‘brain drain’ using data from Ghana and other African countries, with proxy data supplying some information on which direct data do not exist. Not only is retention of health professionals a serious challenge, but training output has also remained limited. There are few studies of how stakeholders, including institutions of ter- tiary education, can moderate the effects of brain drain. Sub-Saharan Africa cannot compete economically with industrialised countries in the same health labour mar- ket. This paper discusses ways in which educational systems and the health sector can collaborate to mitigate the effects of health professionals’ migration and to sustain health services including (a) new modes of selecting candidates for the professions, (b) establishing new and relevant curricula, (c) profiling new cadres that are better retained, and (d) co-ordinating with the health sector on bonding and community service schemes to facilitate retention.
3 - Income-Generating Activities in Higher Education: The Case of Kigali Institute of Science, Technology and Management (KIST)
Authors: Albert Butare
Published: March 2023

The Kigali Institute of Science, Technology and Management (KIST), Rwanda’s first higher education institution of technology, has taken the lead in entrepreneur- ial activities. In 2002 KIST generated 35 per cent of its budget from its various entrepreneurial activities. By 2008, this figure is projected to surpass 50 per cent. From its inception, it has combined conventional teaching with technology trans- fer initiatives. Particularly successful have been projects involving renewable en- ergies, waste-water management and food-processing. Products developed have included, for example, low-cost hand- and foot-powered water pumps, rainwater- harvesting systems, a crop dryer that uses either sunshine or biomass (such as rice husks, sawdust or firewood), etc. Using feedback from its community develop- ment officers, many of whom are women, KIST has modified simple machines to make them easier for women, trained rural women’s groups in business practices, and trains all of its students in basic business skills. KIST’s Information and Com- munication Technology Centre has become the country’s second biggest Internet service provider, as well as a major supplier of software and computer training. Another income source is providing paid part-time studies for working adults.
New Frontiers of Exclusion: Private Higher Education and Women's Opportunities in Kenya
Authors: Ibrahim Ogachi Oanda
Published: March 2023

fhe semi-privatisation of public universities and the growth ofprivate universities have been two important developments affecting higher education iri Kenya in the last decade. The trend towards the privatisation ofuniversity education has been in tune with global neo-liberal policies that Kenya embraced from 1986. The policies were promoted for their potential to broaden opportunities for previously excluded groups. In higher education, private universities and programmes claim to offer more opportunities for women and a higher transition from college to employment. A close analysis however reveals that these claims are of limited validity. Rather than expanding opportunities for women, private universities in Kenya tend to cre­ ate new subtle arenas for exclusion. This article analyses the ways in which the logic and practical working of private universities accentuate women's marginalisation in terms of access policies, academic cultures and disciplinary orientations.
PENGELOLAAN PROSES PRODUKSI DAN PENGENDALIAN MUTU WIRING HARNESS DALAM PANDANGAN SYARIAH
Authors: Walansari Alan , Juhadi Juhadi , Muslim Syahreza
Published: March 2023

PT Piranti adalah sebuah perusahaan yang bergerak dibidang manufaktur dalam bidang elektrik tepatnya memproduksi wiring harness untuk kendaraan bermotor. PT. Piranti memproduksi produk wiring harness yang dimana membutuhkan material seperti wire, connector, Tape, Rubber Seal, dan material pendukung yaitu ripet. Adapun tujuan penelitian yang dilakukan adalah untuk mengetahui implementasi logika fuzzy mamdani untuk penentuan jumlah  produksi wiring harness berdasarkan data jumlah ketersediaan yang pernah terjadi dan mengembangkan sistem dengan pemanfaatan logika fuzzy mamdani yang mampu menentukan jumlah produksi wiring harness berdasarkan data jumlah ketersediaan yang pernah terjadi pada PT piranti. Metode iyang idigunakan ipada ipenelitian iini iadalah ianalisis deskriptif ikualitatif, sedangkan iteknik ipengumpulan idata idilakukan imelalui iwawancara, idan iobservasi. Dari hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa logika fuzzy yaitu metode tsukamoto, mamdani, dan sugeno membantu dalam menentukan perencanaan jumlah produksi wiring harness. Serta guna untuk membantu penentuan jumlah produksi pada customer yang belum mampu menentukan jumlah order wiring harness pada bulan depannya yag berada pada PT. Piranti.
Politics of Representation
Authors: Hussain Zakir , Mishra Binod
Published: March 2023

This article takes a feminist viewpoint to highlight the lives and religious identities of Muslim women who are victims of pervasive negative perceptions of imperialist discourses and restrictive cultural practices of native males. We intend to investigate the practicability of empowerment conferred by feminism in redefining their subjectivity as represented in Tariq Ali’s Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree (1991) and The Book of Saladin (1998). Drawing on the concepts of postcolonial theorists such as; Edward Said, Chandra Mohanty, Fatima Mernissi and Riffat Hassan, we interpret the female characters as reflective of the women’s struggles to renegotiate their identity. The novels under scrutiny address the difficulties of depicting Muslim women in a cultural setting dominated by images of religious fanaticism, violence, and female subordination. Ali articulates a particular ideology regarding the construction of Muslim women’s socio-religious identity(ies) that serve the interests of Muslim clergy and patriarchy. We suggest that these representations are a powerful resource Muslim Women can draw upon in constructing their identities. Finally, it is argued that a disruption of the stereotypes of Muslim women signals the potential for the compatibility of Muslim women’s distinct identities.
“A Pilgrim with Swelling Visions”
Authors: Umezurike Uchechukwu
Published: March 2023

Review of: Otiono, Nduka. DisPlace: The Poetry of Nduka Otiono, Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2001
Conversational agents: a survey on culturally informed design practices
Authors: Monteiro Mateus de Souza , Salgado Luciana Cardoso de Castro
Published: March 2023

The development and use of conversational agents grow every day. However, those systems still need to meet users' expectations. As a result, new design practices for conversational agents are emerging. One facet is the culturally informed design of those systems. Tailoring conversational agents culturally can increase engagement, trustworthiness, and acceptance. While an emerging trend, literature still needs to discuss research and application of design practices related to culture and conversational agents. The present study investigates 5398 articles involving conversational agents and culture over the last seven years. In this context, we selected 23 articles based on their approaches and objectives related to our main subject. The findings indicate that most studies in the field are mainly focused on the feasibility of cultural markers tailored to those systems. The main contribution is the identification of the main challenges, contexts and design practices in the field. These results contributed to discussions regarding conversational agents and highlighted some research gaps for future study.
Role of miRNAs in Immune Regulation And Bacterial Infections
Authors: ALI P. Shaik Syed
Published: March 2023

Micro RNAs (miRNAs) are small noncoding RNAs that regulate gene expression at the post-transcriptional level. The miRNA in the RNA-induced silencing complex acts as a guide strand and binds the target mRNA. Subsequently, the gene is silenced either by cleaving the target mRNA or repressing the translation. Since the discovery of the first miRNA three decades ago, more than 2000 human miRNAs have been discovered. It is known to regulate hundreds of genes in various physiological and pathophysiological processes, including the development and function of immunologically essential cells. miR-155 plays a vital role in the function of T helper 1, 17, and T regulatory cells. miR-24 positively regulates the function of T helper 1, 17, and T regulatory cells, whereas miR-23 and 27 have a negative regulatory effect. miR-223 regulates the differentiation of neutrophils and monocytes. The role of miRNAs in bacterial infections came to light in 2006 after discovering miR-163 as a negative regulator of defense response in Arabidopsis thaliana infected with Pseudomonas syringae. During bacterial infection in the host, aberrant expression of several miRNAs was discovered. miR-155 was found to be the most commonly dysregulated miRNA in bacterial infections such as Helicobacter pylori, Staphylococcus aureus, Listeria monocytogenes, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and Chlamydia trachomatis. Therefore, miRNAs can be utilized as a diagnostic and prognostic tool for bacterial infections. J Microbiol Infect Dis 2022; 12(4):1-7.
Influence of Anesthetics on Cardiac Index and Metabolic Outcomes in Mitral and Aortic Valve Replacement in Adults: A Randomized Clinical Study
Authors: Baiterek Bekzat Askaruly , Mustafin Alibek
Published: March 2023

Background: Cardiac index (CI) and metabolic response to surgery are important indicators of the course of the intraoperative period. Objectives: This study aimed to determine the effect of sevoflurane, isoflurane, and propofol on CI and metabolic outcomes during aortic and mitral valve replacement in adults. Methods: In this single-center prospective randomized controlled clinical study, a total of 75 patients were randomly assigned into 3 groups according to the type of anesthesia: The propofol group (n = 25), the sevoflurane group (n = 25), and the isoflurane group (n = 25). Cardiac stroke volume (SV) was determined by intraesophageal echocardiography (SV = end-diastolic volume – end-systolic volume). Cardiac output (CO) and CI were calculated according to the formulas. Oxygen consumption during surgery = CI × arteriovenous difference. Indirect calorimetry was used to determine energy expenditure during anesthesia using a spirometry device. Results: The use of anesthetics did not change CI. Cardiac index decreased from 3 to 2.9 L/min/m2 in the propofol group, increased from 3.1 to 3.2 L/min/m2 in the sevoflurane group, and decreased from 2.9 to 2.7 L/min/m2 in the isoflurane group. Compared to inhaled anesthetics, propofol significantly reduced VO2 from 179.1 to 135.7 mL/min/m2. Propofol reduced energy expenditure from 1483.7 to 1333.5 kcal. Conclusions: Volatile anesthetics, propofol has practically no effect on CI in an uncomplicated surgery. Anesthesia with propofol is associated with lower VO2 and better oxygen delivery to tissues. Energy consumption during propofol anesthesia decreases.
Provocations on the Liberal Onto-Epistemology of Fascism
Authors: Ahmed Sabeen ,   DePaul University
Published: March 2023

What follows is a series of provocations, loosely interconnected, centered on the ambiguous relationship between liberalism and fascism in our age of democratic decline. Together they seek to trouble the established binaries and analytic frameworks that would position liberalism and fascism as antithetical and suggest instead that both emerge from the same condition of possibility: imperial racialism. In doing so, they reflect on the discursive function of fascism in sustaining liberal democracy as a project of white supremacy.
PROTEGER, PESQUISAR, PRODUZIR
Authors: Almeida de Macedo Daniel
Published: March 2023

Manter o crescimento da produção agropecuária e, ao mesmo tempo, reduzir os impactos sobre os recursos naturais representam, conjuntamente, um dos grandes objetivos globais na atualidade. No Brasil, o debate sobre a sustentabilidade da produção das lavouras e pastagens é especialmente importante em razão de o agronegócio ser um dos principais ativos estratégicos da nação. Contudo, a manutenção da condição de grande produtor mundial de commodities exige o aperfeiçoamento da conexão entre órgãos de proteção ambiental, centros de pesquisa agropecuária e a classe dos produtores rurais, para que em um esforço sinérgico sejam formuladas soluções às ameaças que impactam simultaneamente o meio ambiente e o agronegócio. O presente artigo, de caráter exploratório, pontua o aspecto transformador da agropecuária nacional contemporânea, discorre sobre as narrativas construídas acerca de sua relação com o meio ambiente e examina como a cooperação intersetorial na forma de um Subsistema de Inteligência poderia contribuir na produção de conhecimentos sobre riscos, vulnerabilidades e oportunidades relativos à dinâmica agroambiental brasileira.
INTELIGÊNCIA EXTERNA E DIPLOMACIA
Authors: Martins Ribeiro Ana
Published: March 2023

As conexões históricas, legais e práticas entre a Inteligência Externa e a diplomacia são amplas e profundas. Assim como a diplomacia, a atividade de Inteligência surgiu com vocação exterior, com o objetivo central de levantar dados e produzir análises estratégicas sobre países, agentes ou eventos externos, em prol do governante ou do Estado patrocinador. Embora seja assentado o entendimento de que essas atividades não se equivalem, as sobreposições entre competências, objetivos e procedimentos de ambas dificultam a identificação dos aspectos que as diferenciam e o aproveitamento eficiente dos potenciais do assessoramento estratégico de Inteligência para a inserção externa multissetorial do Brasil. Apesar da significativa produção acadêmica estrangeira sobre as interfaces e relações entre Inteligência Externa e diplomacia, o tema permanece inexplorado pela literatura brasileira. Tampouco se identifica bibliografia que trate especificamente do contexto doméstico. Nesse sentido, a presente pesquisa se propõe a elaborar diagnóstico comparado sobre a realidade brasileira, com base em levantamento bibliográfico prévio e em insumos extraídos de questionário aplicado aos atuais adidos civis de Inteligência do Brasil e aos representantes do corpo diplomático lotados nas mesmas localidades. O artigo buscou comparar as competências e práticas que caracterizam a Inteligência Externa e a diplomacia, bem como debater a natureza das relações entre as duas atividades no País, a fim de contribuir para a identificação de complementaridades.
Do processo de formação à assunção profissional
Authors: Brasileiro Ada Magaly Matias , Diogo de Castro Jorge Luiz
Published: March 2023

Este estudo tem como objetivo relacionar saberes e habilidades a serem assegurados ao futuro professor de Língua Portuguesa para que ele assuma a profissão. Para isso, foram realizadas pesquisas bibliográficas, tendo como fontes principais Tardif (2002), Perrenoud (2000), Nóvoa (2017), Kleiman (1998) e Freire (2007); pesquisa documental, com base nas diretrizes brasileiras para a formação docente; e pesquisa de campo, por meio de entrevista a estudantes em etapa final do curso de Letras de uma universidade federal brasileira. A pesquisa bibliográfica apontou para saberes vinculados a envolvimento dos alunos em situações de aprendizagem, uso de tecnologias, gestão da sala de aula, procedimentos éticos e formação continuada. O conhecimento (técnico, didático e sociointeracional), a prática e o engajamento foram destacados na pesquisa documental via análise de conteúdo. A pesquisa de campo, por meio da análise dialógica do discurso, sinalizou para medos e inseguranças dos participantes para ingressarem no trabalho. Esses resultados podem contribuir para a formação docente inicial.
The Impact of Organizational Culture on Public Service Quality in the Baubau City Regional Secretariat
Authors: Marzuki  , Lawelai Herman , Sadat Anwar , Nastia
Published: March 2023

This study aims to examine the effect of organizational culture on the quality of public services offered by the Baubau City Regional Secretariat. This study involves quantitative descriptive research, a technique used to assess the state of natural items in which the researcher is the principal instrument. The results of the SPSS test demonstrate that the sig value is known. The t value for the influence of organizational culture on the quality of public services is 4.418, which is more than 0.676. Consequently, the study's premise is accepted, indicating that organizational culture influences the quality of public services. According to the SPSS test, the R Square value is 0.394, indicating that organizational culture has a 39.4 percent influence on the quality of public services. The research findings indicate that 60.4% of variables beyond the scope of this study influence the quality of service at the Baubau City Regional Secretariat.
The Effect of Working Capital Efficiency, Liquidity and Firm Size on Profitability in The Infrastructure Sector Listed on The Indonesian Stock Exchange
Authors: Thasa Oktaputri Shafirra , Setyorini Haryati
Published: March 2023

This study investigates the relationship between profitability and working capital efficiency, liquidity, and business size. The efficiency of working capital is assessed by the turnover of working capital. The current ratio is used to gauge liquidity. Total firm size is determined by the ln of total assets. This study employs a sample of sixty annual reports from twelve infrastructure-sector businesses listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange from 2016 to 2020. Method of multiple linear regression utilized in an analytical procedure. The findings demonstrated that working capital efficiency, liquidity, and business size had a substantial and negative impact on profitability. The test findings revealed a correlation between working capital efficiency, liquidity, and business size and profitability. The magnitude of the effect was 16,9%, while the remaining 83,1% was influenced by other factors outside this research.
The Urgence of Environmental Law Enforcement
Authors: Supriyanto Hadi
Published: March 2023

People are a component of the environment. Where human involvement with the environment has an effect on other forms of life. The environment evolves in tandem with societal transformations. Human survival is extremely dependent on the environment. In the social perspective, the environment (ecosystem) is a unit that cannot be separated. The influence of environmental pollution on human growth and survival is unfavorable. If the environment (ecology) is healthy, it will have a favorable effect on the development of human life's carrying capacity. On the other side, driven by limitless human wants, there is frequently excessive and unregulated exploitation of the environment, resulting in environmental harm and contamination. To counteract the negative effects of excessive environmental exploitation, it is essential to have a social engineering tool, namely the law, in order to establish an orderly society (law as a tool of social engineering). This study employs a normative legal approach as its methodology. This study will examine normatively applicable legal structures pertaining to the environment in Indonesia, with an emphasis on the necessity of law enforcement (law as a tool of social engineering). This study employs a normative legal approach as its methodology. This study will examine Indonesian environmental legal structures from a normative perspective, focusing on the urgency of law enforcement. Specifically, the law to establish an orderly society (law as a tool of social engineering). This study employs a normative legal approach as its methodology. This study will examine Indonesian environmental legal structures from a normative perspective, focusing on the urgency of law enforcement.
The Influence of NCT 127 Brand Ambassador on The “Click” Toothpaste Brand Image in NCTzen
Authors: Rahme Kamila Alfiana , Yudianto Serafine Angelina , Putri Eugenia Desta Riana , Nastain Muhamad
Published: March 2023

Toothpaste is one of the primary needs of the community, which means that the community needs its supply. As a dental health product, the type of toothpaste also has a significant influence, not only on dental health but also on fresh breath. Several companies with well-known toothpaste brands always try to promote their products in various ways. Through television and advertisements, like toothpaste "Click", whose sales are increasing due to cooperating with a K-pop music group from South Korea named NCT 127, a brand ambassador to support its sales and marketing. Therefore, this study aimed to determine whether and how much influence NCT 127 as brand ambassadors had on the brand image of the "Click" toothpaste product in the Nctzen fandom. The population in this study were followers of the Twitter account @nctzenbase, which has 752,000, while the research sample used the Slovin sampling technique with as many as 433 respondents. The instruments used in this study were brand ambassador and brand image questionnaires that researchers had modified. This type of research is quantitative research with a mixed-methods approach. The data obtained were then analyzed using SPSS software. The study results show that the brand ambassadors of NCT 127 influence the "Click" toothpaste brand image. The magnitude of the effect is 37,7% so that other factors as much as 63,3% are influenced by other variables not examined.
Qualitative Study of Interpersonal Communication on Inner Child Adolescent Awareness in Sematang Borang District, Palembang City, 2022
Authors: Chandra Satya Bintara  , Didik Haryadi Santoso
Published: March 2023

Communication is a basic need for humans as social beings, especially teenagers in an effort to fulfill their needs. Fulfillment of communication needs on adolescent inner child awareness by using interpersonal communication. A key question arises, namely how is interpersonal communication on adolescent inner child awareness in Sematang Borang District, Palembang City in 2022? This study uses qualitative research methods with the subject of inner child adolescents. Data analysis in the research was carried out using data collection techniques by means of observation with inner child adolescent respondents in in Sematang Borang District, Palembang City through interviews. This research is qualitative using a phenomenological approach, this approach is carried out with the aim of providing a description of the existing reality.
The Effect of News on Twitter Related to Sexual Harassment of Women on The Level of Anxiety of Female Students
Authors: Lestari Feni , Sari Nur Mala Pusphita , Abidin Zainal , Marhaeni Nafida Hetty
Published: March 2023

Twitter is one of the social media that is widely used by the public to find information. One of the news that is often highlighted on this platform is news related to sexual harassment.  The purpose of this study was to determine the influence and relationship of reports of sexual harassment spread through Twitter social media on the anxiety level of female students.   This research uses quantitative research methods with shortor explanatory methods.   The population in this study was female students of the Communication Science Study Program, Mercu Buana University Yogyakarta class of 2021 as many as 126 female students. The data collection technique used is a questionnaire on the influence of media use and a questionnaire for meeting information needs. The data obtained were analyzed using SPSS Version 20 software. The results showed   that there was no relationship or influence of sexual harassment reports spread through Twitter social media on female students' anxiety.