bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Endoscopic treatment of periampullary duodenal duplication cyts in an 18-month-old girl
Authors: Soyer Tutku , Oğuz Berna , Akar Hayal Birgören , Boybeyi Özlem , Orhan Diclehan , Parlak Erkan
Published: April 2023

Background. Duodenal duplication cysts (DDC) are rare congenital anomalies of the gastrointestinal tract and periampullary localization with anatomical variants including biliary and pancreatic duct anomalies remains a surgical challenge. Endoscopic treatment of the periampullary DDC (PDDC) communicating with the pancreaticobiliary duct in an 18-month-old girl is presented to discuss the endoscopic treatment options in children.
Case. An 18-month-old girl with a normal prenatal ultrasound (US) was asymptomatic until complaining of abdominal pain and vomiting at 10-months of age. Abdominal US revealed a 1.8 × 2 cm cystic mass adjacent to the second part of the duodenum. The amylase and lipase levels were slightly increased while she was symptomatic. Magnetic resonance cholangiopancreaticography (MRCP) showed a thick cyst wall measuring 1.5 × 2 cm at the second part of the duodenum, consistent with DDC that was suspected to be communicating with the common bile duct. Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy confirmed a bulging cyst in the duodenum lumen. The puncture and injection of the cyst with contrast material confirmed the communication of the duplication cyst with the common bile duct. The unroofing of the cyst was performed with endoscopic cautery. The biopsy obtained from the cystic mucosa revealed normal intestinal histology. Oral feeding was initiated six hours after the endoscopy. The patient has been followed for the last 8 months uneventfully.
Conclusions. Endoscopic treatment of PDDC with various anatomical variants can be considered an alternative to surgical excision in children.
Catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome accompanied by complement regulatory gene mutation
Authors: Pul Serim , Sözeri Betül , Pehlivanoğlu Cemile , Filinte Deniz , Türkkan Özde Nisa , Sak Mehtap , Çiçek Neslihan , Güven Serçin , Bodur Ece Demirci , Gökçe İbrahim , Alpay Harika
Published: April 2023

Background. Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS), particularly the catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome (CAPS), is one of the rare causes of thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA). CAPS is the most severe form of APS, especially when accompanied by complement dysregulation, causes progressive microvascular thrombosis and failure in multiple organs. In this report, a case of CAPS with TMA accompanied by a genetic defect in the complement system is presented.
Case. A 13-year-old girl was admitted to the hospital with oliguric acute kidney injury, nephrotic range proteinuria, Coombs positive hemolysis, refractory thrombocytopenia, a low serum complement C3 level and anti-nuclear antibody (ANA) positivity. The kidney biopsy was consistent with TMA. She was first diagnosed with primary APS with clinical and pathological findings and double antibody positivity. As initial treatments, plasmapheresis (PE) was performed and eculizumab was also administered following pulsesteroid and intravenous immunoglobulin treatments. Her renal functions recovered and she was followed up with mycophenolate mofetil, hydroxychloroquine, low dose prednisolone and low molecular weight heparin treatments. The patient presented with severe chest pain, vomiting and acute deterioration of renal functions a few months after the diagnosis of TMA. A CAPS attack was considered due to radiological findings consistent with multiple organ thrombosis and intravenous cyclophosphamide (CYC) was given subsequent to PE. After pulse CYC and PE treatments, her renal functions recovered, she is still being followed for stage-3 chronic kidney disease. Complement factor H-related protein I gene deletion was detected in the genetic study.
Conclusions. The clinical course of complement mediated CAPS tends to be worse. Complement system dysregulation should be investigated in all CAPS patients, and eculizumab treatment should be kept in mind if detected.
Evaluation of risk factors, functionalities, and quality of life in patients with pediatric acute arterial ischemic stroke
Authors: Akif-Özdemir Fatih Mehmet , Öztoprak Ülkühan , Fettah Ali , Örün Utku Arman , Kılıç Mustafa , Sarıkaya Fatma Gül , Derinkuyu Betül , Yüksel Deniz
Published: April 2023

Background. This study aimed to evaluate the etiology and prognosis of patients followed up for pediatric acute arterial ischemic stroke.
Methods. The clinical characteristics and etiology of patients aged 1 month-18 years who had acute arterial ischemic stroke between January 2010 and December 2020 were retrospectively evaluated. At last follow-up, the patients` functionality (Barthel Index, Functional Independence Measure), quality of life (SF-36 questionnaire), and motor outcomes (Gross Motor Function Classification System) were recorded prospectively/crosssectionally.
Results. Forty children (25 boys) with a median current age of 112.5 months (range: 3.6-294) were included in the study. The most frequent etiology was prothrombotic disorders, and the most important factor associated with long-term mortality was valvular heart disease. Of the 27 (67.5%) surviving patients, 29.6% had positive motor outcomes and 29.6% were independent according to the Barthel Index. In terms of quality of life, SF-36 scores were highest in the pain scale and lowest in emotional role difficulty.
Conclusions. Determining the etiology and evaluating prognosis are important to plan effective treatment and rehabilitation for pediatric acute arterial ischemic stroke.
Food and nutrition literacy: a predictor for diet quality and nutrient density among late adolescents
Authors: Ashoori Marziyeh , Soltani Sepideh , T-Clark Cain C , Eini-Zinab Hassan , Shakibazadeh Elham , Doustmohamadian Azam , Abdar-Esfahani Behnaz , Mazandaranian Mohammad , Omidvar Nasrin
Published: April 2023

Background. Evidence regarding an individual`s food and nutrition literacy (FNL), and its impact on dietary behaviours, could guide the development of more effective interventions. This study sought to examine the association between FNL and its components with diet quality and nutrient density among Iranian senior highschool students.
Methods. In this cross-sectional study, 755 senior high school students were recruited from high schools in Tehran, Iran. FNL was assessed using the Food and Nutrition Literacy Assessment Tool (FNLAT), a selfadministered questionnaire which has been locally designed and validated. Dietary assessment was performed by obtaining two 24-hour dietary recalls. Healthy Eating Index-2010 (HEI-2010) and nutrient-rich food index 9.3 (NRF9.3) were calculated to evaluate diet quality. Socioeconomic status, anthropometric measures, and the health status of participants were also assessed.
Results. Higher FNL score was significantly correlated with higher HEI-2010 (β = 0.167, p < 0.001) and NRF9.3 (β = 0.145, p < 0.001) scores. Subgroup analysis indicated that these associations were significant only among males, but not females. Regarding components of FNL, skill dimension of FNL was a stronger predictor for HEI- 2010 (β = 0.174, p < 0.001) and NRF9.3 (β = 0.153, p < 0.001) than knowledge (β = 0.083, p = 0.054 for HEI-2010 and β = 0.107, p = 0.01 for NRF9.3).
Conclusions. FNL may be a significant predictor of diet quality and nutrient density among late adolescents. To improve the effectiveness of food and nutrition education, emphasis must be placed on skill development.
The expectant management of a rare neonatal disease: transient neonatal myasthenia gravis
Authors: Masra Farin , Ishak Shareena , Cheah Fook-Choe
Published: April 2023

Background. Transient neonatal myasthenia gravis (TNMG) is an acquired disease which occurs in 10 to 20% of infants born to a mother with myasthenia gravis. Even though it is a self-limiting disorder, it may potentially be life-threatening if prompt diagnosis is not made, and expedient supportive respiratory management is not initiated when required.
Case. Here we describe three infants with TNMG. Two of them developed symptoms of TNMG within 24 hours of life, but one developed symptoms at 43 hours of life. One of the patients had an atypical form of TNMG with contracture and hypotonia. The other two infants survived a typical form of TNMG with hypotonia and poor sucking. All cases resolved spontaneously by one to two weeks of life with conservative management.
Conclusions. Infants born to mothers with myasthenia gravis need to be monitored closely for symptoms of TNMG for the first 48 to 72 hours of life. However, the majority of infants with TNMG traverse a benign course and resolve spontaneously with expectant care.
Attitudes of parents with children aged 12-18 to COVID-19 vaccines for themselves and their children
Authors: Şahin Aslıhan , Elmalı Ferhan , Öncel Eda Karadağ , Kanık Ali , İnce Gülberat , Maden Aslıhan Arslan , Taşar Selin , Tüz Ayşegül Elvan , Üstündağ Gülnihan , Keleş Yıldız Ekemen , Aşcı Bahri , Aksay Ahu Kara , Yılmaz Dilek
Published: April 2023

Background. The incidence of vaccine hesitancy is increasing in many countries. This study aims to determine parents` attitudes and related factors regarding COVID-19 vaccine acceptance for themselves and their children aged 12-18.
Methods. A cross-sectional survey was conducted on parents between 16th November and 31st December 2021, after COVID-19 vaccines were initiated for children in Türkiye. In the survey, the sociodemographic characteristics of the parents, whether they and their children were vaccinated against COVID-19, and if not, the reasons for this were asked. Multivariate binary logistic regression analysis was used to evaluate the factors affecting parents` refusal to vaccinate their children for COVID-19.
Results. Three hundred and ninety-six mothers and fathers were included in the final analysis. Overall, 41.7% of parents reported vaccine refusal for their children. COVID-19 vaccine refusal was higher in mothers younger than 35 (β = 6.5, p = 0.002, 95% CI: 2.0-23.1), children aged 15 and younger (β = 2.3, p = 0.001, 95% CI: 1.4-3.7). Concerns about the side effects of the COVID-19 vaccine (29.7%) and their children not wanting to be vaccinated (29.0%) were the most common causes of COVID-19 vaccine refusal.
Conclusions. In the present study, the rate of children not vaccinated due to COVID-19 vaccine refusal was relatively high. Parents` concerns about vaccine side effects, as well as their children`s unwillingness to be vaccinated, suggest that both parents and adolescents should be informed about the importance of COVID-19 vaccines.
Efek Konsumsi Kopi terhadap Kadar MDA (Malondialdehid) Tikus Terpapar Asap Rokok
Authors: Febrina Lizma , Aryanti Aryanti , Rusli Rolan , Rijai Laode
Published: April 2023

Coffee is the most commonly consumed beverage beside water. In addition to its benefits as a beverage that reduces drowsiness, coffee reportedly possesses a variety of biological activities, including antioxidant activity, antibacterial activity, and antidiabetic activity. To the best of our knowledge, no scientific studies have been published on the ability of coffee to reduce the increase in MDA levels in experimental animals exposed to cigarette smoke. The purpose of this research was to determine the possibility that coffee can indeed reduce MDA levels in animals exposed to cigarette smoke. The coffee used in this study was instant robusta coffee, which had the highest DPPH radical scavenging activity. MDA levels were determined using the TBARS method. Results indicated that coffee could decrease MDA levels by 11.84 percent. This data indicates that coffee can mitigate the negative effects of cigarette smoke exposure.
Book Review Sanneke Huisman, Marga van Mechelen (ed.), Mind Design, Niels Schrader, Martijn de Heer (graphic designers), A Critical History of Media Art in the Netherlands. Platforms, Policies, Technologies, Jap Sam Books, 2019, 367 pp., ISBN: 978-94-9285
Authors: Lurk Tabea
Published: April 2023

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Wilding Consciousness: Towards a speculatively Tentacular Thinking-With
Authors: Goodman Andrew
Published: April 2023

For Donna Haraway, a tentacular life is relational and sticky, a moving-creating-living-with that is at heart sympoietic and entangled. Wilding, as a speculative pragmatic and tentacular practice, involves thinking about the world in ecological terms – that is, neither a world of objects or one of fixed and separated subjects with a distanced perspective of the world. Instead, wilding involves a tactic of embracing an entangled and multi-storied approach to thinking. In this article the question of the possibility of ecological rather than individualized consciousness is speculated upon through the tentacular. Drawing on William James’ impersonal conception of consciousness and contemporary biology’s insights into the relationality of life and thinking, this paper asks: what would a sympoietic concept of consciousness mean? How would this shift the valuing of intelligences towards activism and allow us to learn from those, human and nonhuman, traditionally denied intellectual value?
 
Article received: April 28, 2020; Article accepted: May 30, 2020; Published online: October 15, 2020; Original scholarly paper
Digital Marketing and Children’s Rights: Trick or Treat?
Authors: Krstić Nataša , Čigoja Piper Danica
Published: April 2023

Marketing in the digital age is driven by software and algorithms, and is characterized by sociability, networking and personalization, which make children profitable targets for the advertising industry. Relying on a survey on UNICEF's U-Report platform registering children and youth, we wanted to examine whether young internet users in Serbia are aware that their personal data are revealed for advertising purposes and if they understand the digital marketing techniques that they are exposed to. Given that more than half of the survey respondents opened their accounts on social media before the age limit, that most of them share their personal information online and are largely indifferent to cookies on the websites they visit, it does not come as a surprise that young internet users in Serbia become an active target of advertising, which is often unwanted or inappropriate for their age. Bearing in mind the multidisciplinary nature of the topic, the recommendations for a variety of stakeholders, from publishers to creative industries and parents are given in the concluding remarks.
 
Article received: April 30, 2020; Article accepted: May 30, 2020; Published online: October 15, 2020; Original scholarly paper
Encounter with Shadow and Its Manifestations in Fairy Tales and Literature
Authors: Sladojević  Matić Jelena
Published: April 2023

Shadow is one of the basic concepts of analytical psychology, a structure with its archetypal basis, related to the contents separated from the conscious part of personality. Most often those are instinctive and inferior contents of sexual and aggressive nature, but also talents and potentials that are removed from the field of consciousness. We can talk about personal and archetypal Shadow that is manifested through different social phenomena of projecting negative and inferior content on marginal groups. Shadow as a universal and omnipresent structure can be recognized in myths, fairy tales and literature. Its presence in cultural heritage offers possibility for therapeutical work to clarify to our clients both its contents and the levels of integration, using amplification. In this paper, I will illustrate some of the manifestations of archetypal and personal Shadow.
 
Article received: April 28, 2020; Article accepted: June 6, 2020; Published online: October 15, 2020; Original scholarly paper
The Afterlives of Jātaka Deer’s Compassion – In memory of our dog Baibai
Authors: Y. Y. Hung Ruth
Published: April 2023

This essay evaluates how exhibitions of prehistoric sites and cave art engage a worldwide public to address the issue of animal compassion, consciousness, and pain. The essay also analyzes the significance of representing archaeological discoveries in the global context of human-caused endangerment and the mass extinction of animals, flora, and fauna, including the eventual prospect of the mass extinction of homo sapiens proper. Today, in the midst of what some scientists call a sixth mass extinction event, the daily loss of species has produced desperate efforts to conserve habitats and preserve relics of extinct animals for a posterity increasingly defined by the scarcity of creation, with the acceleration of the representation of absence the only sustainable growth. Originally found in the Jātaka tradition, the story of Jātaka Deer crystallized Buddhist compassion. However, through decades of national preservation and propagandistic utilization, it met the fate of destruction in the process. For whatever poiesis of earth ethics Jātaka Deer had intended to convey, it remains an aesthetic ruin in the twenty-first century. With the help of holographic virtual-reality and augmented-reality technology, the latest form is a 3D replica with worldwide currency. Such a rendering reeks of our human species’ self-congratulatory sense of optimism and triumphalism about its civilization despite the coming mass extinction.
 
Article received: April 23, 2021; Article accepted: June 21, 2021; Published online: September 15, 2021. Original scholarly paper
Reframing Art with Nature: Flowers, People, and Art in Bloom
Authors: Dufresne Kelsey Virginia
Published: April 2023

In extending Bernard Stiegler’s conceptualizations of life as the economy of death and Alexander Marshack’s historical tracings of early-human artifacts in relation to flowers, I strive to situate and read flowers as media that they carry an embedded history and infrastructure that reflects and challenges the anthropocentrism that has cultivated, commodified, and curated blooms throughout time. In looking to theorists such as Donna Haraway and Jane Bennett, I study a specific event in which flowers are presented to the public as art: the North Carolina Museum of Art’s Art in Bloom. Art in Bloom offers and sustains a complex media ecology, where paintings and sculptures readily and more permanently adorn the gallery spaces, living blooms are used as accompanying pieces of floral art for four days a year, text embeds all signifying information through the museum, money gains admittance to the space, and visitors experience the collective forces of mediation – and contribute to it by documenting their experience through personal digital photography. Such a study of flowers as both media and art must simultaneously recognize the humanist structures blooms are cultivated and commodified within, emphasizing Art in Bloom as a prime instance in which the tensions surrounding nature, gender, art, and media collide – and where traditional perceptions and understandings of what constitutes art is deconstructed and reverted for the human-oriented benefit and economic gains.
 
Article received: April 20, 2021; Article accepted: June 21, 2021; Published online: September 15, 2021; Original scholarly paper
A Rhetoric of Preservation: Artistic Interventions in a Damaged World
Authors: M. Salvo James , B. Ulmer Jasmine
Published: April 2023

Rereading Walter Benjamin’s often overlooked theme of preservation in his work, we offer an interpretation of an art installation that appeared in the winter of 2018 in The Heidelberg Project in Detroit, Michigan, USA. By interpreting this installation and Benjamin’s insights on preservation, we make recommendations on how to make readable rhetoric that might be used to positively shape digitally disseminated climate change activist media. We examine three types of preservation: 1. preservation that makes inaccessible, 2. dialectical preservation, and 3. the preservation of the collected. In so doing, we show how performative acts of publicly available art might directly respond to the environmental crisis and how the legibility of that art might offer hope for survival in the age of climate change.
 
Article received: April 21, 2021; Article accepted: June 21, 2021; Published online: September 15, 2021. Original scholarly paper
MetaGarden: Technology and Nature in the Works of Tanja Vujinović
Authors: Guga Jelena
Published: April 2023

In recent decades we have witnessed technological and scientific progress and breakthroughs at an unprecedented rate. We, as humankind, have become technologically advanced, globally connected, informed, all of which reflect traditional ideas of the steady progress of civilization. But at the same time, we face many challenges brought about by climate change, air pollution, water shortage, extinction of species, and other natural disasters. Through an overview of the concept of the Anthropocene from the perspective of philosophy and critical theory, I will discuss alternative approaches to addressing the ecological crisis. Although the key actors in these endeavors are usually scientists, governments, and multinational corporations, I will examine the ways arts and culture significantly contribute to the projects of crisis mitigation. Finally, I turn to MetaGarden, a series of works created by media artist Tanja Vujinović, which epitomize the visions of a more sustainable future(s).
 
Article received: April 21, 2021; Article accepted: June 21, 2021; Published online: September 15, 2021; Original scholarly paper
Gerd Bornheim and Brazilian Contemporary Aesthetics
Authors: Paz Gaspar
Published: April 2023

This essay weaves some comments regarding the performance and contributions of the philosopher Gerd Bornheim (1929–2002) for the starting, expansion and consolidation of aesthetic-philosophical studies in Brazil. It is noteworthy that today, 19 years after his death, the topicality of his statements helps us to understand – through the way he described political, artistic and historical-cultural scenarios – “the contemporary Brazilian tragedy”, an agonizing and catastrophic imbroglio that we are experiencing in the country in face of an unprecedented political-health crisis. For Bornheim, it is not sufficient to understand the reality that surrounds us, it is necessary to actively participate in building new directions and perspectives of emancipation. In this sense, thinking about the impact and implications of his legacy is to cover the meanings that mark the transdisciplinary insertion of his work. Article received: April 20, 2021; Article accepted: June 23, 2021; Published online: October 15, 2021; Original scholarly paper How to cite this article: Paz, Gaspar. "Gerd Bornheim and Brazilian Contemporary Aesthetics." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 26 (October 2021): 11-20. doi: 10.25038/am.v0i26.465
Ten (Anti-) Theses for a Brazilian Popular Musical Aesthetic
Authors: Burnett Henry
Published: April 2023

This article points out some elements that can help to understand the difficulty of analyzing popular music in Brazil with the forms of analysis commonly used by classical aesthetics and philosophy of music. In addition, it indicates some possible paths for the development of a critique of national musical material. To this end, this article retrieves some fundamental questions about the history of popular music in Brazil: its triple origin (African, European and Amerindian), the influence of capitalism in the first decades of the twentieth century, the concept of ‘popular’, its connection with early lyric poetry and its multiple forms of expression.
Article received: April 20, 2021; Article accepted: June 23, 2021; Published online: October 15, 2021; Review paper
How to cite this article: Burnett, Henry. "Ten (Anti-) Theses for a Brazilian Popular Musical Aesthetic." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 26 (October 2021): 53-61. doi: 10.25038/am.v0i26.469
Book Review: Friedrich Kittler, Optički mediji. Berlinska predavanja 1999, godine [Optical Media: Berlin Lectures 1999], translation: Aleksandra Kostić, Belgrade: Faculty of Media and Communication, Singidunum University, 2018, ISBN 978-86-81042-00-7
Authors: Šuvaković Miško
Published: April 2023

How to cite this article: Šuvaković, Miško. "Book Review: Friedrich Kittler, Optički mediji. Berlinska predavanja 1999, godine [Optical Media: Berlin Lectures 1999], translation: Aleksandra Kostić, Belgrade: Faculty of Media and Communication, Singidunum University, 2018, ISBN 978-86-81042-00-7." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 26 (October 2021): 153-155. doi: 10.25038/am.v0i26.478
The Impact of Social Changes on the Methodological Development of Transdisciplinary Body Studies
Authors: Milanović Aleksa
Published: April 2023

This paper deals with the methodological development of research work in the domain of body studies. Since the 1980s there has been a significant change in study approach to the phenomenon of the body in several scholarly disciplines, but it is even more important that since then, this topic has been approached from the standpoint of interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity. As a result, body studies have emerged as a new transdisciplinary field of study. This paper aims to point out the key social changes that have contributed to a greater interest in body studies, which led to the development of an encompassing transdisciplinary methodological approach to body issues.   Article received: December 31, 2021; Article accepted: February 1, 2022; Published online: April 15, 2022; Original scholarly article
The Transdisciplinary Encounter of Narratology and Visual Art in MMORPGs
Authors: Tavčar Marija , Mitrović Biljana
Published: April 2023

The aim of this paper is to present and analyze visual elements of MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-playing Game) storyworlds as important aspects of both world-building and the immersion capacity of virtual worlds. MMORPGs are characterized by multi-user environments called ‘open worlds’, in which maps and geography of space play an important role. Geography and maps that represent these geographical forms in the game play a significant role in creating the worldness of virtual space and the narratives located in them. The same goes for the features of architecture, natural or outer space expanses. Visual elements contribute to the narrative in numerous ways, which is analyzed in detail using a transdisciplinary approach – the narratological apparatus and especially the shift towards postclassical narratology. Another, but not less important visual aspect that will be presented in the paper is the importance of character appearance, as well as clothing (armors) and equipment in the context of building character identity for themself (the player) and the way they present themselves to other players. All of these aspects indicate that visual space (geographical and architectural) as well as visual characteristics of the characters have an important role in storytelling, supporting the transmedial praxis of contemporary narrative forms.
 
Article received: December 23, 2021; Article accepted: February 1, 2022; Published online: April 15, 2022; Original scholarly article
Transdisciplinary Readings of Victor Burgin’s “The End of Art Theory" Essay
Authors: Bosnić Maja , Novakova Kumjana , Raketić Nataša , Sakić Ibro
Published: April 2023

This paper presents four different readings of Victor Burgin’s essay “The End of Art Theory”, between colleagues who work in the environments of four different disciplines, that feasibly influenced and led formations of their interpretations. Hence, these four readings present one part of the multiple transdisciplinary potentials of Burgin’s theoretical research. Their explications revolve around influences of media on art evaluation, constraints of institutional discourse, feminist features of the theory, problematics of binary divisions, as well as foundations of the new institutionalism. At the end of this paper, it becomes clear that the richness of Burgin’s theory relates to multiple segments of cultural studies, social studies, art history, and media, and is easily transferable and interconnectable between them. Furthermore, the transdisciplinary nature of “The End of Art Theory” text testifies to its unquestionable value and fruitful source for future rereadings.
 
Article received: December 23, 2021; Article accepted: February 1, 2022; Published online: April 15, 2022; Review article
Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover: Aenne Biermann’s 60 Photos
Authors: Stoll Mareike
Published: April 2023

“A child’s hands” was chosen as the cover image for a monograph by photographer Aenne Biermann (1898–1933), published in Weimar Germany (1930) as part of a small series of paperback publications edited by Franz Roh and Jan Tschichold. Volume 1 of the same series, also published in 1930, was dedicated to photography by László Moholy-Nagy, who in a different context had advocated for photographic literacy. Even though Biermann was published amongst the forerunners of the New Vision, as evidenced by her photobook 60 Photos, she had been forgotten for a long time. By calling attention to her photographic oeuvre, my essay poses questions about the mechanisms of writing photobook history (and which books are omitted from it). In the discourse surrounding the photobook, the child’s hand as depicted on the cover is viewed as a symbol of the activity that the photobook unleashes, both as a tangible object and as a thinking device. Biermann’s photo-constellations oscillate between training manual and atlas for seeing, between perception primer and picture book; they offer a surprisingly humorous complexity, taking full advantage of the photobook as a medium of artistic expression.

Acknowledgments: This paper is based in part on arguments first developed in my PhD dissertation Schools for Seeing: German Photobooks between 1924 and 1937 as Perception Primers and Sites of Knowledge (Princeton University, 2015), as well as my ABC der Photographie. Photobücher der Weimarer Republik als Schulen des Sehens [ABC of Photography. Photobooks of the Weimar Republic as Schools for Seeing] (Cologne: Walther König, 2018). Thanks to Vreni Hockenjos for the invitation to present at FotoWien in March 2022, where I took part in a panel entitled “Beyond the Margins: on Photobooks by Women”. Her research and thoughts on photobooks are invaluable. Thanks also to Michael Jennings, Sigrid Weigel, Devin Fore, Eduardo Cadava, and Barbara N. Nagel for supporting earlier thoughts on this topic in my dissertation, and to Catherine Abou-Nemeh for reading a draft version of this paper. I am grateful to Annette Kicken and the late Rudolf Kicken, as well as Petra Helck, Anna Kröger and Ina Schmidt-Runke of Gallery Kicken Berlin for introducing me to Aenne Biermann’s photographs already in 2006. The author acknowledges the support of the Cluster of Excellence “Matters of Activity. Image Space Material” funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany’s Excellence Strategy – EXC 2025 – 390648296.

Article received: April 15, 2022; Article accepted: June 21, 2022; Published online: September 15, 2022; Original scholarly paper
Pedagogical Potential of Dolf Schnebli’s Photobook. Learning From a Slow Journey and Its Media
Authors: Pennati Lucia
Published: April 2023

This article aims to investigate the role of the photobook in architectural education and production through the case study of the publication One Year from Venice to India by the Land Route. 1956: Photosketches of a Slow Journey (2009). This engages with the formative travel overland from Venice to India (and back) undertaken in 1956 by the young Swiss architect Dolf Schnebli and his wife Clarissa Hall. The slow journey influenced the architect’s life, both in a general attitude as well as in his architectural practice. Among the different media used to collect memories from the journey – hand sketches, text, letters, photographs, objects – only black and white pictures shot by Dolf Schnebli’s Leica were included in the photobook. The architect referred to these images as photosketches, standing at the crossroads between a traditional hand-sketch and a photograph. In this essay the translation of the private memories collected in different sketchbooks into a published biographical photobook will be examined as a representation on the formative journey and as an educational tool itself.

 

Article received: April 12, 2022; Article accepted: June 21, 2022; Published online: September 15, 2022; Original scholarly paper
Artificial Aesthetics and Aesthetic Machine Attention
Authors: Okulov Jaana
Published: April 2023

The aesthetics of artificial intelligence is often viewed in relation to the qualities of their generated expressions. However, aesthetics could have a broader role in developing machine perception. One of the main areas of expertise in aesthetics is the understanding of feature-based information, which involves how the aesthetics of sensory features can cause affective changes in the perceiver, and the other way around – how affective states can give rise to certain kinds of aesthetic features. This two-way link between aesthetic features and affects is not yet well-established in the interdisciplinary discussion; however, according to perceptual psychology, it fundamentally constructs the human experience.
Machine attention is an emerging technique in machine learning that is most often used in tasks like object detection, visual question answering, and language translation. Modern use of technology most often focuses on creating object-based attention through linguistic categories, although the models could also be utilized for nonverbal attention. This paper proposes the following perceptual conditions for aesthetic machine attention: 1) acknowledging that something appears (aesthetic detection); 2) suspension of judgment (aesthetic recognition); and 3) making the incident explicit with expression (aesthetic identification and amplification). These aspects are developed through an interdisciplinary reflection of literature from the fields of aesthetics, perceptual psychology, and machine learning. The paper does not aim to give a general account of aesthetic perception but to expand the interdisciplinary theory of aesthetics and specify the role of aesthetics among other disciplines at the heart of the technological development of the human future.
 
Article received: May 10, 2022; Article accepted: July 15, 2022; Published online: October 15, 2022; Original scholarly paper
Study the Role of the Efflux Pump in Multidrug-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii
Authors: Nazhad Hassan Mohammed  , Sahand Kamaluldeen Arif
Published: April 2023

Thirty-one A. baumannii isolates were obtained from Shar and Burn hospitals in Sulaimani City, KRG-Iraq. Bacterial identification was confirmed by detecting both 16S rRNA and blaOXA-51 genes. The detection of carbapenem resistant isolates was carried out using Kirby- Bauer, RAPDEC Carba NP and combined disc assays. A high rate of drug resistance was observed, as 74.2% of the isolates were multidrug-resistant (MDR) and 38.7% were extensively drug-resistant (XDR), while carbapenem-resistant A. baumannii (CRAB) comprised approximately 58% of the isolates. Among CRAB isolates, carbapenemase production was detected by using the RAPDEC Carba NP and the combined disc assays in 88.8% (16/18) and 55.5% (10/18) of the isolates respectively. Phenotypic activity of efflux pump was detected among 22.5% of all isolates and 38.8% of CRAB isolates.  PCR successfully identified the adeA, adeB, adeC, adeR, and adeS genes in 83.9%, 90.3%, 58%, 80.6%, and 90.3% of the isolates, respectively.
Eight mutations in adeR and 15 mutations in adeS regulatory genes were recorded. We conclude that carbapenem resistance mechanisms in A. bumanni isolates included mutations in adeRS regulatory genes and production of carbapenemase.
Validity of the Lower Zab River Sediments for Road and Asphalt Works - Southwest of Kirkuk/Northern Iraq
Authors: Ibrahim Mustafa Hassan  , Mohammed Rashid Abood  , Lafta Salman Kadhim
Published: April 2023

In this study, a geotechnical assessment of gravel and sand deposits were conducted on both sides of the Lower Zab River in the southwest of Kirkuk Governorate/Northern Iraq. geologically the sediment related to Quaternary age and tectonically located at the  unstable zone. 5 samples were collected from the study area for the purpose of conducting various geotechnical tests on them and their validity for road works to the sub-base layer and the base layer for asphalt works.
The results of the physical tests were shown by grain size analysis of thes aggregates for the samples of the study area, and it was found that they are identical to class (A) According to the American Standard [1], and suitable for use in road works for the sub-base layer. The moisture ratio ranging between (1.95 - 4.26) %. The tests of flatness and elongation showed that the highest percentage of flat-shaped particles was (29%) and longitudinal-shaped particles (19%).
The laboratory tests results showed the durability tests such as - Los Angeles test the highest percentage of weight loss was (20.06%), and thus it is valid according to the Iraqi Standard Specification [2] for use in road works. the highest result of test the aggregate impact value of samples is 7.8%, It conforms to the requirements of specifications that must be provided for road works for a sub base layer. Accordingly it is valid for road works. It was found from Proctor test for (5) samples from the study area that the values of the maximum dry density ranged between (2.14-2.28 gm/cm3), and the values of the optimum moisture content ranged between (3.1-2.41%).
An asphalt typical mixture was designed for the base layer from the aggregate of the first station S1 as represent station consisting of coarse crushed aggregate 12%, medium crushed aggregate 22%, fine crushed aggregate 20%, river sand 40% and the proportion of filler 6%. The results of the asphalt tests for the ideal station S1 showed that the ideal percentage of asphalt from the weight of the mixture in the asphalt mixture is 4.1, which is within the limits of the specification Roads and Bridges [3]. The percentage of asphalt to the weight of the aggregate after adding the ideal percentage of asphalt showed that its value was 4.3%, As for the stability test result (Marshall), it reached 11.4 kN, and the result of the creep test (Marshall) reached 2.9 mm, and the density was 2.362
Valery Bryusov and Urban Folklore: a game with genre tradition
Authors: Kartasheva Anna Olegovna , Ustinovskaya Alena Aleksandrovna
Published: April 2023

The subject of the study is a literary game with the genre tradition of urban romance and factory (working) songs in the poetry of the poet of the Silver Age Valery Bryusov. The object of the study is Bryusov's genre palette and his creative searches in relation to the extensive development of genres of domestic and foreign literature, as well as folklore. The authors consider in detail such aspects of the topic as Bryusov's genre strategies, his playing with genre constants and the deliberate distortion of the genre "grid" of the working song with the involvement of features of another, related genre of violent urban romance. Special attention is paid to the catamnesis of Bryusov's texts: their further embodiment in music as songs, both purposeful and spontaneous.   The main conclusions of the study are observations on the stylization of folklore in the literature of the Silver Age and reflections on the genre nature of the works of one of the most significant collections of poems by Bryusov, “Urbi et orbi” (1903). A special contribution of the authors to the study of the topic is their consistent tracing in Bryusov's "songs" of the presence of references to specific realities included in the apperceptive base of the reader and the author himself. The novelty of the research lies in the appeal to the genre of urban romance and factory song in Bryusov's work and in the expansion of the evidence base of observations on the genre diversity of the work of this poet and prose writer.
Features of Network Relationships in Business Ecosystems
Authors: Suvaryan A. M. , Karapetyan A. E.
Published: April 2023

This research is devoted to the investigation of issues concerning widespread integration into business communities in order to achieve common goals. This integration is the result of society’s evolving requirements, which need a sustainable solution in the 21st century.

Organizations alone cannot create advanced solutions in modern times, so legally independent “equal” participants band together to solve common goals in order to improve the overall competitiveness of the business ecosystem.

Management theory provides a large arena for thought on the management of distinct non-hierarchical connections between partners in business ecosystems. Launching innovations are needed on shifting the paradigm of competition, reworking the principles of generating partnerships, switching to process management, and, in general, constructing organizational mechanisms in “non-organizational forms”.

The study focuses on the difficulties of nonlinear connection construction and maintenance in nonhierarchical organizations with multilateral interactions, stages of business ecosystem growth, and fundamental principles of business ecosystem development and creation.
What does the past teach?
Authors: Cardoso Fernando da Silva , Silva Ana Luísa Ferreira da
Published: April 2023

The narratives constructed by the Brazilian military dictatorship relied on different spaces and subjects as a way of establishing themselves. In this sense, the Brazilian hegemonic media was directly involved in the practice of military dictatorship. However, the narrative about the dictatorship is still in dispute as to the objectives that were mobilized within certain events, which still need to be problematized. Thus, this study aims to investigate the narrative mobilized by periodicals that circulated between 1964 and 1985 in the city of Arcoverde, in the countryside of Pernambuco, during the dictatorship, in order to understand how the repression relied on the symbolic power of the press for its maintenance. We turn to the critique of the epistemological characteristic of narrative about the past and time in order to consider narration as an examination of linear historical time. The results obtained indicate that the media discourse was organized in favor of the ideological control forged by the dictatorial narrative, whether through the explicit defense of the regime or by subtle agency. The reconstruction of the narrative in question can be considered, even today, a field in dispute, which interferes decisively in the construction of memory and has repercussions in the reproduction of a social imaginary that congregates empty visions about what the military dictatorship meant in Brazil and in Pernambuco. The research, in the end, highlights the need to narrate as a way of reflecting the past as an epistemic and political strategy to value a minority history.
“Eu sou Messias, mas não faço milagre”
Authors: Tanagino Pedro Ivo Dias
Published: April 2023

A eleição do atual presidente do Brasil em 2018, Jair Messias Bolsonaro, representa uma tendência internacional, vivida na última década, de ascensão de governos conservadores e autoritários de direita. Desde sua campanha à eleição presidencial, Bolsonaro e o bolsonarismo têm apresentado como base de sua performance midiática e espetacular o militarismo e a religiosidade evangélica pentecostal. Estes elementos essenciais do bolsonarismo traduzem em forma de representação social do político suas predisposições a utilização do instituto do estado de exceção, cujo consenso se constrói a partir de narrativas que articulam os mitos políticos do conspiracionismo e do salvacionismo de fundo cristão e anticomunista, que revisita a tradição de culturas políticas de direita do período da Ditadura Militar (1964-1985) com adição de novos motivos neoliberais. Este capítulo analisa, a partir desta fala, a performance e as ações do Governo Bolsonaro e do bolsonarismo durante a Pandemia do Covid-19. Nossa abordagem articula as teorias e métodos de Raoul Girardet e Ernst Cassirer à teoria dos atos de fala da escola collingwoodiana, tomando como base político-filosófica as discussões sobre as tensões entre Direitos Humanos e Estado de Exceção.
Implementation of National Leprosy Eradication Programme during COVID-19 era: A qualitative research
Authors: Bhattacharya Tridibes , Das Somenath , Sarkar Aditya Prasad , Patra Aparesh Chandra , Sarkar Debajit , Das Nilay Kanti
Published: April 2023

Introduction

The COVID-19 pandemic imposed new challenge to the implementation of the National Leprosy Eradication Programme. According to national data, after lockdown due to COVID-19, there was a 29% reduction in total leprosy cases reported in the first quarter (April-June) of 2020 in comparison to 2019.

Objectives

To explore the difficulties faced by different stakeholders of the National Leprosy Eradication Programme like policy makers, doctors, grass root level health workers as well as leprosy patients during COVID-19 pandemic with respect to programme implementation and access to leprosy care.

Materials and Methods

Qualitative research was undertaken including two focus-group-discussions held among six leprosy patients diagnosed after lockdown and nine ASHA workers as well as six in-depth interviews of doctors, leprologists, and programme managers. Ethics committee approval was sought and informed consent was obtained from all participants. All focus-group-discussions were electronically recorded and the in-depth interviews telephonically recorded, transcribed and translated from Bengali-to-English. Transcripts were separately coded by researchers and thematically analysed with the help of Visual-Anthropac software version 1.0.

Results

Solitary focus on COVID-19 control, capacity building and information, education and communication, leprosy case search & surveillance, co-infection among health workers, transportation issues were the themes explored from focus-group-discussions of health workers and ASHA workers. Similarly, the present study identified six themes from in-depth interviews of programme manager, leprologists, programme manager as diagnostic difficulty, operational issues, rehabilitation issues, capacity building & information education and communication activities and way forward.

Limitations

The research reveals the perceptions of rural population of Eastern India with high leprosy prevalence, which might not be applicable for urban areas or low prevalent districts

Conclusion

The solitary focus of the administration towards COVID and shifting the infrastructure and human resource only towards the management of COVID can lead to resurgence of the leprosy. Having an organised framework of operations, catering to the need of the front-line workers in rendering services, utilizing the digital platform and social media, and focusing on rehabilitation would be needed to overcome the crisis.