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Grettir in Sheffield: Rewriting Icelandic saga as a contemporary novel
Authors: Williams Tony
Published: May 2021

My novel NUTCASE (2017) rewrites the medieval Icelandic Saga of Grettir the Strong as the story of Aidan, a young man growing up in Sheffield in the UK in the 1990s and early 2000s. It is also an attempt to reproduce the style and structure of an Íslendingasaga [saga of Icelanders] in a contemporary novel. This article sets out the project’s rationale, surveys other relevant novel engagements with saga, and articulates my research process with particular focus on violence, style and voice, the monstrous, and gender. The project represents the first attempt by a novelist writing in English to adopt wholesale the style and structure of the family sagas, and the first English rewriting of a specific saga into a contemporary setting. This article provides a reflective account of that rewriting process, and in doing so it provides a model for other writers to learn from the forms and techniques of other medieval literatures. It argues that treating medieval texts not merely as sources to be plundered for content but as practical paradigms we can learn from enables our contemporary practice to be expanded and reinvigorated by the writing practices of the past.
Becoming-game: an assemblage of perspectives on challenges for early career academics in neoliberal times
Authors: Di Niro Corinna , Walker Amelia , Nilsson Alice , Clarkson Rebekah , Gou Yuwei , Spasovska Elena , Levy Nadine , Cannell Chloe
Published: May 2021

Our script Becoming-game is an assemblage in the spirit of Deleuze and Guattari’s (1987) concept of the assemblage as a contingent formation of elements that could equally be separate, differently formed and/or combined with other things altogether. It comprises fragments of our distinct creative writings around the theme of games from a collaborative creative writing research project in which we – eight academics from differing backgrounds, all bearing broadly feminist and/or queer outlooks – came together to share and compare our experiences and perspectives with the aim of realising strategies we can engage to resist inequality in and beyond academia today. Performing our assemblage enriched our appreciation of the multiple themes running in and across our writings – and thus of the complex games played in and through neoliberal academia. Theatre researcher and practitioner Di Niro directed our collective in translating the creative piece to a theatrical medium. We performed Becoming-game at the JM Coetze Centre’s ‘Scholarship is the New Conservative’ Symposium on 6 September 2019. Overall, this collaborative work speaks to games of power and privilege, especially although not only those of gender and late capitalist modes of production.
Creative writing as nourishment: The political philosophy of Corine Pelluchon applied to our field
Authors: van Loon Julienne
Published: May 2021

What if we thought of the creative writing discipline as part of a sustainable and sustaining urban or cosmo-political ecology that includes but is not limited to the university sector and the book industry? And what if we thought of creative writing practice and its resultant contribution (to knowledge, to arts practice, to the public good) as a means for sustaining an ethics of life? In this article, I draw on the work of political philosopher Corine Pelluchon, and in particular her recent work Nourishment: A Philosophy of the Political Body (2019), and apply her thinking to the kind of practice I (we) do on a daily basis. On the basis of a phenomenology of food and nourishment, Pelluchon’s thinking shows us how freedom depends on the “love of life” and on sharing what nourishes others. She applies her thinking to political systems, reimagining them such that their core aim comes to sustain an ethics of life that is relevant to multiple lifeforms and that takes into account past, present and future generations. Her project is underpinned by her affirmative ethics, her insistence on “love of life” as a crucial consideration. Inspired by her applied philosophy, I wonder about the shifts in thinking that may arise if we consider the creative writing discipline through the lens of her phenomenology of nourishment. Pelluchon argues that “we are bound to others through our relationship to nourishment” and that relationship is “above all a relation of enjoyment” (p. 11). What if we consider creative writers as integral to fashioning and maintaining “the milieu from which we live today” (p. 13). On whom (or what), then, does the creative writer interdepend for nourishment, and how might a foregrounding of such interdependence shape and reshape an ethics of creative writing practice?
Productive discomfort: negotiating totality in collaborative digital narrative practice
Authors: Wright-Brough Freya
Published: May 2021

Working as a collaborative writing team, there are many different power structures at play influencing what stories can be told and how they are told. Creative practitioners must negotiate these power structures if they are to work productively as collaborators. Looking at the collaborative process through a Levinasian lens provides new insights into the complex nature of how power structures affect the narratives produced by collaborative teams and how creative practitioners can work towards more ethical and productive collaboration.

This study examines the process of producing the digital narrative, We See Each Other, as part of a collaborative writing team from my perspective as one of the creative practitioners. Interview and field note data is drawn upon to analyse the ways in which Levinas’s notions of totality and infinity played out in the creative process revealing that productive collaborative relationships are formed when collaborators experience transcendent encounters with one another. Analysis of the creative process also reveals the often-blurred line between totality and infinity, making working toward these transcendent encounters challenging. Working towards ethical collaboration therefore involves learning to work alongside totality, a process conceptualised in this paper as ‘productive discomfort’.
My objects of affection
Authors: Coles Katherine
Published: May 2021

‘My objects of affection’ is the closing essay in a book called The Stranger I Become: On Walking, Looking, and Writing (forthcoming May 25, 2021, Turtle Point Press). This essay blends personal experience, encounters with ‘others’ (in this case not only people but also objects), observations about perception, and both technical and personalised readings of poems that live inside and influence me. In doing so, it serves the goal of gaining both scholarly and personal insight into how, through the deployment of objects, poems come into the world, operate, and inhabit the life of a reader. Together, the essays consider how a mind submerged in poetry and alive in a world of objects, and the slippery language in which objects are invoked, synthesises varieties of experience, including scholarly experience, into producing poetry and thinking deeply about how it works. In particular, the essay examines the ways in which objects, which exist independently in the world but also as sites of meaning and connection in our relationships with the world, can therefore be deployed in poetry both as touchstones and as sites of instability.

What most sets this work apart from ‘braided’ texts is its attempt to eradicate distinctions among elements other essays treat separately, including the objects it references via images, nouns, and pronouns, placing materials together in a conversation that blurs rather than establishes hierarchies and distinctions. Under the category of ‘objects,’ I include the human body and its constituent parts, so confusing distinctions between body and person and among persons, including writer and reader. Thus, the research and artistic claims are identical: that, in an integrated life, assigning personal and poetic meaning to objects, being among others, considering death, and composing or encountering a poem in a way that leads to deep understanding, don’t have to be separate endeavours. In this, the essay participates in my larger project of showing through enacting, how poems, operating as poems, illuminate and are illuminated by an individual life.
the blue case
Authors: Hall Pyke Sue
Published: May 2021

This work is a case of a worlding with every wording, where material textuality creates a poetic space for thick description that helps me see the world as textual material. A thing, the blue case, with a bare handle on itself, offers relations that write me as and to and with my family, creating ‘the blue case’ as another thing for us to handle. The actual and virtual matter forms and reforms in these relations.

As these relations unfold and refold, the blue case and ‘the blue case’ condense and expand, holding more and less than I expect. Those dull abstractions, the object and the objective, are not to be found here. Rather, I write towards ‘subatomic, atomic and molecular forces’ that are subjects in relation (Goodman 2018: 11). Words, too, the call and response of language, are part of this relational material play. The work is carried by this force, where language is ‘etymologically calling forth what the tongue does’ (Campbell 2020: 4). My tongue is untied and then, redrafted, tied again, as the blue case and ‘the blue case’ become differently attended and expressed.
TEXT Poetry April 2021
Authors: Hecq Dominique , Maller Gershon , Oakman BN , Pearce Sarah , Sellers Nicole Rain , Smith Ian C
Published: May 2021

New poetry exploring creativity, or the nature and process of writing, or teaching writing.

Dominique Hecq, Excerpts from Masks: Letters to Orpheus

Gershon Maller, Chiasma of being

BN Oakman, divination

Sarah Pearce, For J, Who Is No Longer My Friend

Nicole Rain Sellers, Found in the Goldmines

Ian C Smith, 2 poems
Introduction
Authors: Sarangi Jaydeep , Walker Amelia
Published: May 2021

The articles in this special issue do not involve translation in the conventional sense of re-creating a text from one language for readers who come to it via another. All of them, however, involve acts of collaborative poetic inquiry across literal and metaphoric distances of culture, location, language, lived experience, and more. Poetic inquiry describes the multiple and diverse range of research methodologies that in some way engage ‘the power of poetry to invite us as writers and readers into a very different, direct, and distinct way of being in and understanding the world and ourselves within it’ (Prendergast 2015: 683). In line with broader arguments such as that of Jen Webb for words as ‘good for thinking’ – or in other words generating knowledges, including but exceeding research knowledges (2010) – poetic inquiry valuably enables modes of thought and ways of knowing that differ from and complement those typically accessible through prose and other more commonly-practised modes of research writing. By Monica Prendergast’s account, this is particularly pertinent for research projects focused on ‘equity, human rights, and justice worldwide’, for ‘poetic inquiry invites us to engage as active witnesses within our research sites, as witnesses standing beside participants in their search for justice, recognition, healing, a better life’ (2015: 683).
There’s no place like home: from cultural plurality to convergence in remote heartbeats
Authors: Mitra Zinia , Musera Pablo
Published: May 2021

The title refers to the quadruple sequences of poems, linking the importance of cuisine and childhood memories to our shared ideas of home and cultural identity. We write as two poets based in Australia and India. This poetic exchange program explores cultural milieu that incorporate rituals and cuisine which are intrinsic part of culture along with the childhood landscapes, landscapes that exist as mindscapes now and craft a major part of our psyche.
Words that swim between us
Authors: Webster Mags , Ray Sharmila
Published: May 2021

Poet Paul Celan speaks of a poem as ‘a message in a bottle’ washing up on ‘heartland’ (2001: 396). This idea is indeed a poignant one for our times, and for the estrangement as well as strangeness being experienced (at the time of writing) as a result of ‘lockdown’, ‘self-isolation’, and ‘social distancing’. But how can it shape the development of poetries between India and Australia? Celan’s notion has a timelessness and universality, based as it is on an intensely dialogical poetics. As this paper attempts to show, the nuances of this poetics become increasingly pertinent to this exchange between Kolkata-based academic Sharmila Ray, and myself, Perth-based poet Mags Webster. It has been, for me, an exercise in seeking poetic and ontological common ground. I discuss how, prompted by Ray’s epistolatory approach to her home city of Kolkata, I came to interrogate more deeply, in my responses and through my thinking, notions around not only the ‘to whom’ of the poem, but also, and perhaps more importantly for this particular project, the ‘about whom’.
Between Odisha and the ACT: poetry, community, connectedness
Authors: Webb Jen , Padhi Bidhu
Published: May 2021

During 2019, prompted by the editors of this Special Issue, Bibhu Padhi and I began talking to each other via email, exchanging poems, and also exchanging snippets of our lives, our interests, and our thinking. A question posed by the project organisers was: What did involvement in the project help you understand about similarities and differences between India and Australia?, which led me to reflect on the twentieth-century notions of world poetry, and cross-cultural communication. Despite my anxieties about the widely recognised risks of such communication, the exchanges between us suggest that the shared experience of wrestling with image, concept, and language that is a feature of the writing of poetry provides a fulcrum for poets: a possibly contingent and consistently productive common ground.
Witnessing places of meaning through poetic call and response
Authors: Black Ali , Sahu Nandini
Published: May 2021

This paper presents part of a poetic ‘call and response’ exchange between two poets who have never met. It shares the contemplative witnessing and ‘responding’ of an Australian poet to the poetic ‘calls’ of an Indian poet. Whilst the focus for the project was exploring the physical geography of place, the style of the Indian poet’s calling poems – and indeed the Australian poet’s responding poems – were entangled with ideas encompassing much more than geography. Dreams, desires, despair, loss, and hope wove around, and in ‘place’ of, geographical descriptions. The inquiry process was imperfect, and traversing time differences, language, culture, ways of understanding, and technology to share lived lives was no easy task. Yet, aesthetic methods invited socially and ethically engaged scholarship and contemplation. This paper offers glimpses of how two women poets produced poetic data to explore and witness lives and see and be moved by the other.
TEXT Poetry and Prose April 2019
Authors: Edmonds Phillip , Kerrison Dean , Loveday Timothy , Presto Susan , Wakelin Oliver
Published: May 2021

New creative works exploring creativity, the nature and process of writing, the teaching of writing, or the writer’s life.

Phillip Edmonds, Down the Mountain

Timothy Loveday, Sunlight

Susan Presto, The poethical wager

Oliver Wakelin, Island

Dean Kerrison, Boots and Beats: Musical Time-travel through Car Boots
Learning to write by writing to learn: How writing centres and creativity can transform academic writing instruction
Authors: Thomas Susan
Published: May 2021

While national agendas and individual university mission statements seek to make Australian higher education more inclusive for an increasingly diverse student population, the contribution that writing centres can make to achieving these goals has been overlooked. This article outlines the rationale, development, and growth of the Writing Hub at the University of Sydney to advocate for writing centre/writing across the curriculum (WAC) collaborations as the future of writing instruction in Australia. By reimagining academic writing instruction as creative, collaborative practice, Australian higher education can move beyond the antiquated deficit remediation model.
In conversation: Capturing reflection between poetry and filmmaking practice
Authors: Williams Tony , Fentiman Alan
Published: May 2021

This article discusses the use of a filmed conversation as a medium of reflection on creative practice, in particular the practice of making filmpoems. We consider in what sense the filmed conversation might be a rigorous and productive mode of reflection, and describe the process of producing the film, as well as analysing the mode’s effectiveness as a way of reflecting on practice. This analysis is presented as a case study of a non-conventional medium of reflection and of its relation to the more conventional scholarly article. We argue that the reflection recorded in the film is distorted by production and editorial processes, but that nevertheless it provides a useful and distinctive form of reflection to augment conventional accounts. By exploring how reflection on practice is shaped by the medium of publication, this article contributes to advancing the discipline of creative writing and making its reflective element more productive.
Introduction
Authors: Hunn Deborah , Murphy Ffion , Noske Catherine , Surma Anne
Published: May 2021

In negotiating the positionality of peripheral visions (in answering the question, peripheral in relation to what?),those of us who work with words must remain critically alert to the potential domestication of the peri-feral;to, that is, the periphery’s inextricable interrelation to that rapidly evolving, rabidly de-radicalising, yet deceptively hegemonic centre against which itsets its visions.

This special issue of TEXT seeks to investigate peripheral visions of past, present and future;of figures and forms, fractures and erasures. Inspired by the AAWP’s 2018 annual conference held in Perth, Western Australia, we invited writers and scholars to think deeply and broadly about the purpose and potential of writing of all kinds. Authors were encouraged to tackle, for example, unconventional wisdom, unsettled perspectives,lapsed borders—that which is beyond and outside the accepted or obvious. By this means, we hoped that various worlds, ideas, fictions and verities would emerge, compete, coalesce, fragment and challenge.

During a period of elevated consciousness, when countless voices vie for attention, we believe there is a need for vibrant and rigorous scrutiny of writing’s potential to interrupt, corrupt and disrupt, as well as to rouse, revivify and heal—in other words, for writing that explores and encourages various forms of peripheral vision.
Relational ethics: Writing about birds; writing about humans
Authors: Lobb Joshua
Published: May 2021

Philip Armstrong points out that scholars in Animal Studies are ’interested in attending

not just to what animals mean to humans, but what they mean to themselves; that is, to

the ways in which animals might have significances, intentions and effects quite

beyond the designs of human beings’ (2008: 2). This essay asks: what are the ethics of

representing birds in fiction? It promotes the model offered by Linda Alcoff in ’The

Problem of Speaking for Others’ (1992). Alcoff offers a set of ‘interrogatory practices’

for writers, including an analysis of our speaking position to expose any implicit

discourses of domination at work, and, most importantly, a consideration for the effects

of ‘speaking for’ on actual animals. Using Alcoff’s interrogatory practices as a

framework, I examine the ways writers have allowed for ‘ethical relationships’ between

humans and birds in fictional spaces. I investigate the function of birds as metaphor in

three Australian novels: Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book (2013), Evie Wyld’s All the

Birds, Singing (2013) and Catherine McKinnon’s Storyland (2017). In each of these,

birds serve a symbolic function but are also given space to allow for their own

experiences, voices, and knowledges. I will also reflect on the attempts I have made in

my own novel, The Flight of Birds (2019), to grapple with the discourses of power at

work and the impact of that power on the lives of real birds.
The Other Writing Group: an embodied workshop Abstract:
Authors: McKenzie Vahri
Published: May 2021

New insights and approaches to creative activity grounded in embodiment have the

potential to enhance creative writing practices by focusing on the embodied dimensions

of writing, such as undertaking whole organism warm-ups, and attending to the material

set-up of a workshop. This article presents findings from a pilot research project called

The Other Writing Group that offered a structure for writers to explore embodied

strategies in a community of peers. The structure employed by the group owes its

origins to dance researcher Nancy Stark Smith’s Underscore, a collaborative creative

model for practising and researching improvisation. It is argued that embodied and

social approaches to writing, more usually associated with performing arts, can critique

notions of the writer as virtuoso and innovator, and instead present repetition and habit

as significant in a fuller account of productive practice. Feedback and reflections from

participants in the group suggest that approaches to practice which emphasise social

and embodied dimensions can enhance individual creative writing practice.
Investigating candidates’ research experience beyond the thesis: the peripheral world of the doctorate
Authors: Craig Batty, Elizabeth Ellison Donna Lee Brien, Alison Owens,
Published: May 2021

This article focuses on both the process and the results of a recently completed research

project that concentrated on what are commonly seen as peripheral aspects of the

doctorate; that is, aspects of candidature that lie beyond, and outside of, the core work

of what is widely understood to be research training. The project saw 18 candidates

from the creative arts and humanities – and creative writing in particular – gather to

reflect upon their learning journeys, and then analyse and theorise the ‘human’

dimensions of undertaking a doctorate. These often peripheral aspects were revealed to

have a major influence on undertaking a research degree, as well as affecting

candidates’ progress and satisfaction with their studies, and career potential beyond the

research degree. This article first outlines how candidates were able to develop a

language with which to identify some of the major human dimensions – the lived

experience – of undertaking a doctorate that emerged from the project. It then explores

how candidates were able to articulate their own growth in the form of producing an

edited collection of essays in order that others might benefit from this reflective

learning.
Anyhere, out where: fantasy, psychosis, and writing worlds
Authors: Baker Daniel
Published: May 2021

Ursula Le Guin claimed that fantasy ’is a different approach to reality, an alternative

technique for apprehending and coping with existence’ (1979: 84). In 2015, I began

work on a fantasy novel, A life in streets, and discovered that to write fantasy is to

simultaneously exist in this world, that world, and the world of the keyboard.

Consequently, the need to see and keep seeing an alternative vision of my past, present,

and future realities is not without its illuminations, not without its spectres.

Anchored by the work of Kathryn Hume, Rosemary Jackson, and Slavoj Žižek, this

paper argues that Jackson’s paradigmatic positioning of marvellous or secondary-world

fantasy as inherently non-subversive misses the mark. Moreover, her valorisation of the

transgressive energies manifested by the literary fantastic seriously undervalues the

transformative potential inherent to the construction of impossible, secondary worlds

which, it could be said mimic something of a literary psychotic break: the articulation

of an alternative reality involving a rejection of current forms of social authority and

their subsequent reimagining in different developmental pathways.

Significantly, such a revision of the genre, forces both reader and writer into an

apprehensive position. That is, it requires that traditionally dismissive attitudes attached

to criticism related to fantasy – escapism and regression, for example – be

fundamentally re-examined.
Genre and gender: reading domestic noir through the lens of feminist criminology
Authors: Vann Meg
Published: May 2021

The contemporary crime fiction trend of domestic noir evinces literary themes and

features that align with biases and advancements in criminological research, most

specifically in feminist understandings of women and violence. Using the methodology

of criminologist Drew Humphries as a conceptual framework, I analyse Liane

Moriarty’s Big Little Lies (2014) to explore how key concepts in feminist criminology

addressing domestic violence, including Critical Feminist Theory and Social Learning

Theory, are useful in a textual analysis. I then demonstrate how this understanding of

the production and subversion of generic features in domestic noir can be useful to

inform creative work, with reference to my thriller novella Girl Crazy (2019).
Peripheral hearing: ‘collaborative audio literature’ and the uncanny
Authors: McCooey David
Published: May 2021

This (self-exegetical) essay concerns ‘collaborative audio literature’, a form of

asynchronous collaborative practice that brings together music, sound design, and

literary texts. As a form of literary audio ‘content’, such a genre is peripheral to the

mainstream audio literary genres of audio books and podcasts. Collaborative audio

literature exists at the periphery of performance, literature, sound design, and music, as

an experimental, interdisciplinary form.

After a discussion of the relationship between music and sounded poetry, this essay

discusses ‘Three Sisters’ (from my album The Double, 2017), an audio work based in

part on Maria Takolander’s short story of that name (2013). In ‘Three Sisters’, I

undertake an innovative form of adaptation that employs sampling and text-to-speech

synthesis to place the newly produced text in a complex sonic field of music and sound

design. The ‘un-performability’ of this piece (and others from The Double) is central

to the work’s aesthetic, in which literature and music occupy virtual, peripheral spaces.

The use of voices (synthetic and real) at the threshold of hearing also produces an

aesthetic of ambiguity with regard to the usual predominance of words. ‘Three Sisters’,

then, works with ambiguous, threshold spaces that test the limits of perception,

authorship, genre, and the categories of literature and music themselves. The essay

analyses my creative practice via the trope of the periphery-as-uncanny, a virtual space

that evokes the disquieting interplay between the familiar and the unfamiliar.
Integrated Reporting & Sustainability: A Note on Perceptions of the Accounting Profession
Authors:   University of South Australia, Tilt Carol A. , Xydias-Lobo Maria ,   Flinders University, Reynolds Giao ,   Torrens University Australia
Published: May 2021

This study provides a preliminary investigation of perceptions of Integrated Reporting (IR) in Australia, as a developed country and leader in this area, and Hong Kong as an Asian country with an advanced capital market. The study compares the perceptions of IR readiness and acceptance in Australia and in Hong Kong through interviewing accounting professional associations and firms regarding their awareness of, and attitudes towards, IR. In particular, this study considers the perceptions of interviewees about the relationship between IR and Sustainability Reporting. Findings of the study suggest that the profession is taking a narrow, and explicitly financial, interpretation of the IIRC framework and does not consider it to be a replacement for other types of reporting.
Some biological features and green mass quality of Inula helenium L.
Authors:   ", Gutu Ana ,   Alexandru Ciubotaru",   National Botanical Garden (Institute), Tentiuc Cristina ,   "Alexandru Ciubotaru" National Botanical Garden (Institute), Covalciuc Dragos ,   "Alexandru Ciubotaru" National Botanical Garden (Institute), Titei Victor ,   "Alexandru Ciubotaru" National Botanical Garden (Institute), Cozari Sergiu ,   "Alexandru Ciubotaru" National Botanical Garden (Institute)
Published: May 2021

We have studied some biological features, the particle size distribution in chopped mass, and the biochemical composition and have estimated the biomethane potential of aerial biomass of the ‘Ileana’ cultivar of Inula helenium in the second growing season.
Particularitățile creșterii, dezvoltării și cultivării plantelor de Prinsepia uniflora Batal. în condițiile Republicii Moldova
Authors:   ", Onica Elisaveta ,   Alexandru Ciubotaru",   National Botanical Garden (Institute), Rosca Ion ,   "Alexandru Ciubotaru" National Botanical Garden (Institute), Cutcovschii-Muştuc Alina ,   "Alexandru Ciubotaru" National Botanical Garden (Institute)
Published: May 2021

The peculiarities of the growth, development and cultivation of Cherry Prinsepia under the conditions of the Republic of Moldova are presented in this article.
Colecţia de plante din Familia Arecaceae Sch.-Bip. a Grădinii Botanice Naţionale (Institut) „Alexandru Ciubotaru”
Authors:   ", Timbali Valentina ,   Alexandru Ciubotaru",   National Botanical Garden (Institute), Gusanova Victoria ,   "Alexandru Ciubotaru" National Botanical Garden (Institute)
Published: May 2021

During about 50 years, at the “Al. Ciubotaru” NBGI, the collection of plants of the Arecaceae family has been created and enriched; it currently includes 34 taxa, in 18 genera. Eleven taxa are able to reach the generative stage (flowering), and seven are able to produce fruits with seeds. The palm trees from the collection are propagated by seeds. Palm trees grow apically.
有效汇率波动的推手与国际收支平衡的验证
Authors: 杨 国梁 , 张 悦 , 江 雅轩 , 庄 斯淇
Published: May 2021

有效汇率是衡量一国货币与主要外币兑换比率和价值的综合指标，传统理论认为有效汇率主要取决于贸易或经常项目收支情况。本文通过对中国的国际收支平衡表以及国际清算银行发布的人民币名义有效汇率与实际有效汇率的观察，发现贸易规模和经常项目收支的变动并不足以解释有效汇率的短期波动；此外，在理论上属于随机统计误差的“净误差与遗漏”项具有显著的非随机特征。本文进一步地分析显示，除了国际贸易因素之外，人民币有效汇率的变化还受到国际主导货币走势（美元指数）和统计误差与遗漏项滞后效果的影响。由于统计误差、遗漏项与隐性资本流动和国际“热钱”存在密切关系，这意味着“热钱”进出可能是导致人民币有效汇率短期波动的主要因素之一。
Dactylorhiza fuchsii (Druce) Soó: analysis of biological and coenotic features and participation in the composition of plant communities in Northern Kazakhstan (on the example of the forests of the State National Natural Park «Burabay»)
Authors: Kirillov V.Yu. , Stikhareva T.N. , Rakhymzhanov A.N.
Published: May 2021

Dactylorhiza fuchsii (Druce) Soó is a terrestrial orchid belonging to the family Orchidaceae and listed in the Red Book of Kazakhstan, the Baltic region, and the most regions of Russia. D. fuchsii is an interesting object for research in many countries of the world and the study of its biological features and coenotic significance, as well as its distribution and conservation in nature is still relevant today. The article analyzes the most significant biological and coenotic features of D. fuchsii: distribution of the species; features of the structure and dynamics of coenopopulations in different regions; ontogeny; cultivation in Botanical gardens; features of reproduction, including using the method of tissue culture, etc. It reflects the main places of growth in Kazakhstan and the principles of conservation in connection with the classification of the species as rare, subject to protection at the state level. Indicators of D. fuchsii participation in plant communities have been identified on the example of forests of the State National Natural Park “Burabay” (Northern Kazakhstan).
ACADEMICALLY AT-RISK HIGH SCHOOL
Authors: Grot Brad , Abel Annette , Abel Holly
Published: May 2021

This investigation queried the phenomenological perspective of the school counselor within the high school setting. The counselors’ perspective was sought in this qualitative investigation to determine the impact of bullying on the academically at-risk population. The literature at present has neglected a population of high school students. The omitted population is the academically at-risk population. Researchers have identified many sub-populations of the “at risk” school category that traditionally included: culture, ethnicity, gender, race, religion, and sexual orientation. The academically at-risk student is another category and is inclusive of traditional “at risk” students. This population experiences (1) a grade point average below 2.0—C, (2) absenteeism more than 15 days in a 90-day semester and (3) behavioral issues that impact successful matriculation. At present, no research has been conducted about the academically at-risk high school student, and how bullying, contextually, impacts students, and how their counselors understand and perceive bullying.
CARD GAME TO IMPROVE CRITICAL THINKING
Authors: Gressick Julia , Langston Joel B.
Published: May 2021

Fostering critical thinking skills is a ubiquitous goal across disciplines and social contexts. Productive solutions to educational, content-based and social problems can emerge through well-reasoned conversation. How best to support the development of these skills has been a topic of debate. In this study, we investigated the design and effectiveness of a card-based game focused on undergraduate student understanding of common fallacies in thinking. 13 Fallacies was designed with the intention of improving students’ reasoning. In our study, we completed an iterative design phase, play testing phase and have collected data on student learning outcomes from two semesters as a result of classroom implementation. Results indicate that 13 Fallacies improved student understanding of common fallacies in thinking and promoted social reasoning for at-risk undergraduate students.
Potassium Distribution in Surface Soils of Kust Teaching, Research and Commercial Farm, Gaya, Kano State
Authors: H. Almu , N.A. Abdulkadir , A. Sani , U.K. Adamu , M.A. Aminu
Published: May 2021

A study was conducted on the distribution of potassium in the surface soil of Kano University of Science and Technology teaching, research and commercial farm, Gaya during 2018/2019 session. The contents of different forms of potassium were observed. Water soluble, exchangeable, non-exchangeable, mineral and total potassium were determined in surface soil (0–15cm) in KUST teaching, research and commercial farm, Gaya. The results showed that the average values for water soluble K, exchangeable K, non-exchangeable K, mineral K and total K were: 0.14, 0.18, 0.35, 1.36 and 3.92 Cmol/Kg soil respectively. The values for K saturation percentage (KSP) ranged between 0.12–019 and exchangeable K between 0.13–0.20 Cmol/Kg clay. There was a wide variation in the values of various forms of K and among indices associated with mineral composition in different soils. The results show that the values of K form in most of the studied soils are quite low. Consequently, the supplying power of potassium in these soils is low and the need for potassium fertilizer is recommended.
Development and Validation of Bioanalytical UV-Spectrophotometric Method for Determination of Candesartan and Development and Validation of UV-Spectrophotometric Method for Determination of Candesartan in Bulk Drug and Formulation
Authors: Agasti L. Ware , S. S. Pekamwar
Published: May 2021

The accurate, precise, sensitive and economical spectrophotometric bioanalytical method was developed and validated for estimation of candesartan in plasma. The UV method was also employed for estimation of candesartan in bulk drug and in dosage form. The absorption maximum found for candesartan was 245nm. The correlation coefficient was found to be 0.999. The mean recovery for candesartan was found to be 99.92%. The developed method was validated according to ICH guidelines and values of accuracy, precision and other statistical analysis were found to be in good accordance with the prescribed values. Thus the proposed method was successfully applied for estimation of candesartan in plasma and for routine industrial work.
Development of a Single-Step Microwave-Assisted Digestion Method using Dilute Nitric Acid for Determination of Bismuth in Bismuth-containing Pharmaceuticals by Hydride Generation-Atomic Fluorescence Spectrometry
Authors: Krishnan Chandrasekaran , Krishna Mullapudi Venkata Balarama , Garg Nidhi
Published: May 2021

A single-step microwave assisted digestion (MWAD) procedure employing very dilute solutions of HNO3 was developed for the quantitative determination of bismuth in bismuth-containing pharmaceuticals by hydride generation-atomic fluorescence spectrometry (HG-AFS). Experimental parameters affecting MWAD process such as acid concentration (HNO3), digestion time and temperature were optimized to get quantitative recovery of bismuth. The studies indicated that the method is rapid (within 15 min) including cooling time and recovery > 98% was obtained using 10mL of 5% (v/v) HNO3 as digestion medium with ~0.1g of sample. The optimum microwave digestion parameters obtained were: temperature – 180oC, pressure – 25 bar and hold time - 10 min. A clear solution with negligible residue was obtained after microwave digestion. The digested sample solution was appropriately diluted with 2% (v/v) HCl for subsequent analysis by HG-AFS. The reproducibility, expressed as % RSD was lower than 2% for the allopathic medicine. Under optimal conditions, the limit of detection (LOD) for Bi was calculated to be 0.024mg/kg. The methodology was optimized using a bismuth-containing pharmaceutical – Pylobis, purchased from a local pharmacy. The optimized MWAD approach was further applied to few other bismuth-containing pharmaceutical products. The developed method has significant advantages when compared to the conventional hot-plate digestion methods reported for Bi-containing pharmaceuticals, employing large volumes of concentrated acids. These investigations revealed that the proposed MWAD method in combination with HG-AFS can be utilized for the rapid determination of Bi in pharmaceutical products on regular basis.
Isolation and Identification of Boswellic Acids by Modern Analytical Techniques
Authors: Mohd Fahim Arshiya Zulfeen , Ghouse Mohammed Shakir , Islam Syed Qumarul , Mughni Danish Mohammed Abdul , Mehmood Shaikh , Saniya Shaikh , Fatima Quraishi Inshrah
Published: May 2021

Quality by Design (QbD) is a modern, scientific approach that formalizes product design, automates manual test¬ing, and streamlines troubleshooting. It uses a system¬atic approach to ensure quality by developing a thorough understanding of the compatibility of a finished product to all of the components and processes involved in manufac¬turing that product. Olibanum also known as “Dhup”, Indian Frankincense is an oleo gum resin of Boswellia species. In India it is obtained from Boswellia serrata. Boswellia serrata (Burseraceae) The major use of Boswellia serrata in contemporary medicine is as an anti-arthritic and anti-inflammatory pharmacological agent. The anti-inflammatory properties of the gum resin are attributed to the presence of “boswellic acids” The four major pentacyclic triterpenic acids present in the acidic extract of Boswellia serrata gum resin. β-Boswellic Acid, Acetyl-β-Boswellic Acid, 11-keto-β-Boswellic Acid, Acetyl-11-keto-β-Boswellic Acid. Oleo gum resin was subjected for solubility studies in different solvents. In this 10 commonly available solvents were used for extraction including water. All of them showed same TLC pattern except water. In case of maceration no heat is employed, but the material has to be extracted multiple times with fresh solvent each time. In this method solvent requirement increases. Each time the extract was checked for presence of boswellic acids by TLC to ensure complete extraction. It took 4-5 times repeated extraction for complete extraction of Boswellic acids by maceration. Literature survey reveals that anti-inflammatory activities associated with this resin are completely restricted to presence of Boswellic acids. So focus in experimental work done is placed on isolation of acid fraction of oleo gum resin. As mentioned in the procedures above acid fraction was obtained as white precipitate. This white precipitate was separated, dried and weighed. Amount of acid fraction obtained was determined on weight basis. In the experimental work done isolation of acid fraction was carried out by procedures mentioned in section above. This is common procedure which uses treatment of resin with alkali to convert acid into its salt and then precipitating salt of acid by using mineral acid. Studies were carried out to check variations in amount of acid portion obtained when parameters were altered. Use of 2% KOH followed by dilute hydrochloric acid as mineral acid will be most suitable.
Environment safe Method development and Validation of Dolutegravir in Bulk and Tablet dosage form by UV-Visible spectroscopy
Authors: Borse Salunke Poonam A. , Barhate S.D. , Wagh Rupali S.
Published: May 2021

To develop an environment-safe aqueous solubility enhancement method of poorly water-soluble drugs is the need of the pharmaceutical field. Because when organic solvents were used for solubility enhancement, there are many disadvantages like carcinogenicity, environment pollutant, flammable, toxicity, and cost. The hydrotropic method has been used to enhance the aqueous solubility of poorly water-soluble drugs. Dolutegravir is slightly soluble in water. To enhance aqueous solubility various hydrotropes were used and optimized the concentration of each hydrotrope. From these hydrotropes, a mixture of 10% sodium tricitrate and 10% sodium benzoate was selected because Dolutegravir was completely soluble in a mixed hydrotropic solution. Method development and analytical validation were performed. The maximum wavelength of Dolutegravir in the hydrotropic mixture was found a 268nm, and the linearity curve in the range of 5-25µg/ml. A regression coefficient was found to be 0.999. Percent label claim, accuracy (% RSD) were found 99.58%, 0.13(80%), 0.11(100%), 0.13(120%), respectively. The LOD for Dolutegravir was determined to be 0.037μg/ mL, and LOQ was found to be 0.11μg/mL.
Artificial Pancreas: The Argentine Experience
Authors: Colmegna Patricio , Garelli Fabricio , Fushimi Emilia , Moscoso-Vázquez Marcela , Rosales Nicolás , García-Violini Demián , De Battista Hernán , Sánchez-Peña Ricardo
Published: May 2021

The objective of this work is to present a brief review on the international Artificial Pancreas project. In addition, the local project that led to the first Latin American clinical trials with an Artificial Pancreas will be described. These trials were performed in Buenos Aires during 2016 and 2017. The last trial used an algorithm developed in Argentina and defined as the ARG (Automatic Regulation of Glucose). This procedure and its in silico and clinical results will also be presented in this paper.
Awesome Chemistry from the End of the World
Authors: Doctorovich Fabio
Published: May 2021

The second number of this first volume of Science Reviews from the End of the World, is dedicated to chemistry, more specifically, charge transfer processes in transition metal complexes. While Profs. Katz and Wolcan discuss the subject focused on inorganic complexes (attached to polymers in the case of Wolcan), Profs. Murgida and Brondino et al dedicate their reviews to metalloproteins. Therefore, we could say that the areas represented in this issue are inorganic, organometallic and bioinorganic chemistry.
QUBIC: Observing the Polarized Microwave Sky over the Puna
Authors: (QUBIC) Q&U Bolometric Interferometer for Cosmology
Published: May 2021

QUBIC (Q&U Bolometric Interferometer for Cosmology) is an experiment designed to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the relic radiation from the Big- Bang. Detailed measurements of tiny temperature anisotropies in the CMB shaped our understanding of the early Universe. Accurate measurements of its polarization may reveal even earlier features, in particular the presence of gravitational waves with primordial origin. Such measurements can probe inflationary cosmological models, which postulate that quantum effects during an accelerated expansion at the earliest stages after the Big-Bang produced gravitational waves along with the density fluctuations that later seeded galaxy formation. QUBIC will join other international efforts currently pursuing this goal using a novel approach, which combines the sensitivity of bolometric detectors with the control of systematic effects provided by interferometry. After its current calibration phase is completed a technological demonstrator already constructed in European laboratories will be deployed in Alto Chorrillos, a site in the Puna near San Antonio de los Cobres, Salta, Argentina. The complete first module of the instrument is planned to be installed during 2020. We review the scientific goals of the project, the instrument design and its expected performance.
Coordination Chemistry of Nitric Oxide and Biological Signaling
Authors: Olabe José
Published: May 2021

Nitric Oxide (NO) is a key intermediate in the nitrogen redox cycles that operate in soils, water and biological fluids, affording reversible interconversions between nitrates to ammonia and vice-versa. The discovery of its biosynthesis in mammals for signaling purposes generated a research explosion on the ongoing chemistry occurring in specific cellular compartments, centered on NO reactivity toward O2, thiols, amines, and transition metals, as well as derivatives thereof. The present review deals with the coordination chemistry of NO toward selected iron and ruthenium centers. We place specific attention to the three redox states of the nitrosyl group: NO+, NO and NO–/HNO, describing changes in structure and reactivity as coordination takes place. Noteworthy are the results with the most reduced nitroxyl-species that allow establishing the changes in the measurable pKa values for the HNO-bound complexes, also revealing the abrupt decrease in reducing power and trans-releasing abilities of the protonated species over the unprotonated ones, NO–. Comparative results using non-heme and heme proteins and models prove useful for suggesting further improvements in the current research status of complex enzymatic behavior.