bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Predictive Ability of the Three-Time Stand and Walk Test to Determine Frailty and its Associations with Fear of Falling and Cognitive Function in Community-Dwelling Older Adults
Authors: Kumfu Sirintip , Poncumhak Puttipong
Published: December 2022

Background: The three-time stand and walk test (TTSW) is a complex functional task used to determine muscle strength, balance, and fall risk in older individuals. This study hypothesized that TTSW is an appropriate tool for detecting frailty related to falls and the cognition of community-dwelling older adults. The study objectives were to assess the ability of the TTSW to determine frailty by exploring the optimal cut-off score, and to investigate the correlations between TTSW outcomes with falls and cognitive function in 118 community-dwelling older adults. Methods: The demographic data of eligible participants were assessed, and the participants were diagnosed with frailty based on the frailty phenotype. The participants then completed the Frail Non-Disabled (FiND) questionnaire, TTSW, Falls Efficacy Scale-International (FES-I), and Mini-Mental State Examination Thai version (MMSE-Thai 2002). Results: The results demonstrated that the TTSW outcomes were significantly correlated with FiND, FES-I, and MMSE-Thai 2002 (rho=0.705 and r=0.482 and =-0.510, respectively; p<0.001). Moreover, a TTSW time of 18 s or longer had a good ability to indicate frailty in older individuals (sensitivity=88.41%, specificity=83.67%, area under the receiver operating characteristic curve [AUC]=0.926). Conclusions: Implementing this tool in a community setting may be useful for the initial screening, monitoring, and referral of data by healthcare professionals. A cut-off TTSW time of 18 seconds or longer was the optimal criterion to indicate frailty in community-dwelling older people.
Typhoid Fever in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: A Systematic Review, 1990–2021
Authors: Appiah Grace D. , Le Phong , Prentice-Mott Graeme , Bias Megan , Pratt Caroline , Matar Ghassan M. , Pindyck Talia , Fayad Antoine Abou , Kim Sunkyung , Mintz Eric D.
Published: December 2022

The occurrence and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) of typhoid fever in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) are poorly characterized. Robust surveillance data are needed to inform strategies for typhoid control and prevention in the region. We conducted a systematic review of typhoid fever occurrence, complications, and AMR patterns in EMR countries. We identified 70 studies published from 1990 to 2021, including a total of 44,541 cases with blood culture confirmed typhoid fever in 12 EMR countries, with 48 (69%) studies and 42,008 cases from Pakistan. Among 56 studies with AMR data, fluroquinolone (68% of 13,013 tested isolates), and multidrug resistance (40% of 15,765 tested isolates) were common. Forty (57%) of the 56 studies were from Pakistan, and all reports of extensively drug resistant Salmonella Typhi (48% of 9,578 tested isolates) were from studies in Pakistan. Our findings support the need for continued efforts to strengthen surveillance and laboratory capacity for blood-culture detection of typhoid fever in the region, including data from an ongoing collaboration among CDC, the American University of Beirut, and the WHO EMR office.
Faith based violence juxtaposing Christianity with Islam: the way forward
Authors: Mgbemena Stanley C. , Orakwe Maduabuchi , Chibunkem Felix-Joe
Published: December 2022

Irrational killings and prejudice for and against one religion and another has been ravaging Nigeria. The risks associated with the re-occurring violence and terrorism in Nigeria remains of concern. When such incidents are juxtaposed with the state of affairs in Nigeria and the rise of religiosity in Nigeria, it becomes glaring that faith based violence is a time bomb which explodes at any little opportunity. It is however established that those that execute these violence actually do grave harm to the reputation. The dangers are undesirable and despicable. But this requires an urgent call to action towards eradicating faith based violence as a result of psychological complex. To live beyond this menace, there is need to intensify vocal denouncement of terrorism by non-Islamic and Islamic leaders, a guarantee of good governance, proper and modest hermeneutics of the scripture, intra and inter-faith dialogue and tolerance as way forward to this plague called faith based violence.
Philosophy, self-determination, peace and intercultural co-existence in Nigeria: an Igwebuike perspective
Authors: Kanu Ikechukwu Anthony
Published: December 2022

This paper has studied the issue of agitations for self-determination in Nigeria from an African philosophical point of view. It studied these agitations in the light of the amalgamation treaty of 1914, the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and most importantly, extant international laws. The beauty of this piece is that it focused on major issues which constitute the basis for the agitations for self-determination in Nigeria namely religious marginalization, ethnic marginalization, economic marginalization and political marginalization. The burden of this piece is the issue of the problem of co-existence in Nigeria. This paper articulated its position based on Igwebuike philosophy as a theoretical framework, which emphasizes dialogue, justice and inclusive leadership as indispensable pathways to integration and national unity. For the purpose of this study, the historical and analytical methods of inquiry were patronized given that historical events were studied and the outcome of such events analysed. It submits that, rather than using force to quell the agitation for self-determination, the path of justice, dialogue and inclusive leadership should be explored as most cases of cessation are responses to the absence of these state ideals.
A theory of Automated Market Makers in DeFi
Authors: Bartoletti Massimo , Chiang James Hsin-yu , Lluch-Lafuente Alberto
Published: December 2022

Automated market makers (AMMs) are one of the most prominent decentralized
finance (DeFi) applications. AMMs allow users to trade different types of
crypto-tokens, without the need to find a counter-party. There are several
implementations and models for AMMs, featuring a variety of sophisticated
economic mechanisms. We present a theory of AMMs. The core of our theory is an
abstract operational model of the interactions between users and AMMs, which
can be concretised by instantiating the economic mechanisms. We exploit our
theory to formally prove a set of fundamental properties of AMMs,
characterizing both structural and economic aspects. We do this by abstracting
from the actual economic mechanisms used in implementations, and identifying
sufficient conditions which ensure the relevant properties. Notably, we devise
a general solution to the arbitrage problem, the main game-theoretic foundation
behind the economic mechanisms of AMMs.
İZMİR YÖRESİNDEKİ OSMANLI DÖNEMİ MEZAR TAŞI KİTABELERİNDE MESLEK GRUPLARI
Authors: EBİRİ Gülsün
Published: December 2022

Her nefsin mutlak karşılaşacağı son olan ölüm, insanoğlu üzerinde derin etkiler bırakmıştır. İslam inancında “ Her nefis ölümü tadacaktır. Sonra bize döndürüleceksiniz” ayetiyle belirtilen ölüm, bir geçiş olarak görülmektedir. Ölümü, terhis-i dünya ve asıl olana dönüş olarak gören Müslümanlar, İslam sanatında ölüm algısının somut bir yansıması olan mezar taşlarını yapmışlardır. Fâni dünyada bırakılan son iz olarak görülen mezar taşları, dönemin kültürel ve sosyal hayatına dair mesajlar içeren önemli eserlerdir. Küçük Menderes Havzası’ndaki İzmir yöresinde tarihe ışık tutacak önemli kaynaklar arasında Osmanlı mezar taşları da bulunmaktadır. Bu mezar taşları, sanatsal boyutunun yanında sosyal ve idari tarihi, edebiyat ve dil kullanımı, bölge demografisi, aile yapısı ve dönem hastalıkları hakkında da önemli bilgiler sunmaktadır. Ayrıca mezar taşı kitabelerinde tespit edilen bilgiler arasında meslekler de yer almaktadır. İncelenen İzmir yöresindeki Osmanlı dönemi mezar taşlarında Değirmenci, Demirci, Deveci, Emlakçı, Emlak Kâtibi, Hafız, Hatip, Hazinedar, İmam, Kasap, Kaymakam, Müderris, Naip, Semerci, Hattat, Nalband, Telgraf Müdürü, Bıçakçı, Eskici, Süvari, Çavuş, Gazancı, Keçeci, Mutaf vb. meslek grupları ile toplumda belli bir statüye sahip kişiler bulunmaktadır. Bu bildiri kapsamında İzmir yöresindeki Osmanlı dönemi mezar taşlarında meslekleri ifade eden kitabeler incelenerek, dönemin sosyal ve idari ortamında meslek grupları hakkında ilgili sonuçlara ulaşmak amaçlanmaktadır.
ÜNİVERSİTE GİRİŞ SINAVLARINDA UYGULANAN BARAJ PUANLARININ KALDIRILMASININ ÖĞRENCİ TERCİH MOTİVASYONUNA ETKİSİ
Authors: GÜLSAR Zafer
Published: December 2022

Ülkemizde gelecek sunan iyi ve popüler bir üniversiteye yerleşmek isteyen öğrenciler ÖSYM (Ölçme Seçme Yerleştirme Merkezi) tarafından uygulanan çift aşamalı üniversite hazırlık sınavlarına girmek zorundadır. ÖSYM mevzuatlarına göre bir öğrencinin üniversitelere yerleşebilmek için sadece sınavlara girmesi ve bunun karşılığında belirli bir puan alması yeterli değildir. Öğrencilerin ayrıca belirlenen baraj puanlarını da geçmeleri gerekmektedir. Önceki dönemlerde birinci aşamada uygulanan 160, ikinci aşamada uygulanan 180 puan barajları öğrencilerin tercih motivasyonlarına olumsuz olarak yansımaktaydı. Bu durum öğrencilerin açıkta kalmalarının yanında yüksek öğretim programlarının da boş kalmasına sebep olmaktaydı. Yapılan çalışmalar ile birinci ve ikinci aşamada uygulanan baraj puanları ortadan kaldırılarak öğrencilerin tercih motivasyonlarının artırılması planlanmaktadır. Böylece açılan üniversite kontenjanlarının tamamının doldurulması, öğrencilerin açıkta kalmalarının önüne geçilmesi amaçlanmaktadır. Bu çalışmanın amacı nicel veriler elde ederek öğrencilerin üniversitelere girişte baraj puanlarının kaldırılmasının öğrenci tercih motivasyonuna hangi yönde etki ettiğini açığa çıkarmaktır. Çalışma Nisan 2022’de Çankırı’da öğrenimlerini sürdüren ve üniversite sınavlarına hazırlanan öğrenci grupları ile yürütülmüştür. Nicel araştırmalar bu çalışmanın yöntemini oluşturmuştur. Katılımcı 209 öğrenciye 24 soruluk anket uygulanarak üniversite sınavlarında baraj puanlarının kaldırılmasının üniversite tercih motivasyonuna nasıl yansıyacağı araştırılmıştır. Toplanan verilerin değerlendirilmesinde SPSS 22.0 istatiksel analiz programından yararlanılmıştır. Anketi oluşturan sorular değerlendirmeye uygun görülüp farklı boyutlara ayrılarak incelemeye tabii tutulmuştur. Baraj puanlarının kaldırılmasının yanında tıp, diş, hukuk mimarlık-mühendislik ve eğitim bilimleri alanlarında da baraj sıralamalarının kaldırılmasının tercih motivasyonu üzerine etki edeceği anket verilerinin çözümlenmesi ile anlaşılmıştır. Öğrencilerin tercih motivasyonuna etki eden parametrelerin daha iyi analiz edilerek tercih motivasyonlarının artırılmasının hedeflerine ulaşmalarında daha da etkili olacağı düşünülmektedir. Sonuç olarak baraj puanlarının kaldırılmasının isabetli olduğunu ortaya koymaktadır. Savunulan fikrin geçerliliği; üniversite sınavlarında uygulanan baraj puanlarının kaldırılmasının tercih motivasyonu sağlayarak üniversitelere yerleşme oranını artırdığını göstermektedir.
ROMANTİK İLİŞKİSİ BULUNAN BİREYLERİN FACEBOOK KISKANÇLIĞI VE GÜVEN ALGISI ÜZERİNE BİR DERLEME
Authors: GÜNER Türkan , KARAAZİZ Meryem
Published: December 2022

Bu makalede psikoloji literatüründe yer alan Facebook kıskançlığı ve romantik ilişkilerde güven duygularına ilişkin tanımlamalar ve Facebook kıskançlığının romantik ilişkilerdeki güven sorunları üzerindeki rolü ele alınmıştır. Daha sonra romantik ilişkilerde Facebook kıskançlığı ve güven algısı arasındaki ilişkiye dair görgül araştırmalar sunulmuştur. Facebook kullanımının birey üzerindeki olumlu ve olumsuz etkileri son zamanlarda araştırmacılar tarafından da sıkça ele alınmaktadır. Ancak Facebook kullanımının yaygınlaşmasıyla hayatımıza giren Facebook kıskançlığı terimini ve Facebook kıskançlığının romantik ilişkilerde güven kavramı ile olan ilişkisine değinen çok az çalışmaya rastlanmaktadır. Günümüzde Facebook kıskançlığının romantik ilişkiler üzerindeki olumsuz etkileri yadsınamayacak boyuta ulaşmıştır. Literatür incelendiğinde romantik ilişkilerde yaşanan sorunlar ve stres genel olarak ekonomik sıkıntılar üzerinden değerlendirilmiştir. Ancak günümüzde ilişki denklemlerinin değişmesi, Facebook’un aktif bir şekilde kullanılması ilişkideki stres ve problemlerin nedenlerini ve içeriklerini de değiştirmiştir. Araştırmalar Türkiye’de de çok yaygın bir şekilde kullanılan Facebook’un; kullanıcılarına sunduğu istediğini paylaşabilme, bağlantı kurmak istenilen kişiye kolay bir şekilde ulaşabilme gibi özellikleri nedeniyle çiftlerin yeni biri ile ya da eski sevgilisi ile tekrar bağlantı kurma riski yaratmasının eşler arasında kıskançlığa ve bunun sonucunda güven problemlerine, aldatmalara ve hatta ayrılıklara neden olduğunu ortaya koymuştur.
TÜRKİYE’DE İŞSİZLİK HİSTERİSİ: DOĞRUSAL OLMAYAN BİRİM KÖK TESTİNDEN KANITLAR
Authors: BELLİLER İbrahim Sezer , DEMİRALP Ahmet
Published: December 2022

Bu çalışmada Türkiye Cumhuriyeti’nin kurulduğu yıldan günümüze işsizlik oranları ele alınarak işsizlik histerisi hipotezi ekonometrik yöntemlerle incelenmiştir. Cumhuriyet tarihinde birçok yerel ve küresel ölçekte ekonomik krizle karşılaşılmıştır. 1929 yılında Amerika Birleşik Devletleri’nde meydana gelen “Büyük Buhran” ile başlayan ekonomik kriz silsilesi İkinci Dünya Savaşı, 1974 petrol krizi, 2008 mortgage krizi olmak üzere Türkiye Cumhuriyet tarihinin karşılaştığı en büyük küresel ekonomik krizleri olarak kabul edilmektedir. 1982 ve 2001 bankacılık krizi ve Nisan 1994 krizi gibi yerel krizler de Türkiye’nin karşılaştığı ve işsizliği etkileyen ekonomik zorluklar arasında gösterilebilir. Kriz yıllarında meydana gelen ekonomik konjonktürlerde işsizlik genel olarak olağan dışı bir seviyede artma eğilimine girmektedir. Böyle ekonomik türbülans durumlarında artan işsizlik oranlarının geçici mi yoksa kalıcı mı olduğunun belirlenmesi ekonomik karar verme birimlerini, politika yapıcılarını ve daha birçok unsuru ilgilendiren önemli bir unsur olmaktadır. Bu çerçevede incelenen işsizlik histerisi hipotezinin Türkiye için geçerliliğinin güncel ekonometrik teknikler ile sorgulanması, çalışmanın yapılması için temel motivasyonu oluşturmaktadır. 1923-2021 yıllarını kapsayan 99 yıllık işsizlik verileri ile gerçekleştirilen analiz literatürde en kapsayıcı veri ile yapılan çalışma olma özelliğini taşımaktadır. İşsizlik hipotezinin geçerliliğin sınanması için öncelikle serinin doğrusallığı sınanmıştır. Harvey ve Leyborne (2007), Harvey vd. (2008) doğrusallık testleri kullanılmıştır. Uygulanan her iki doğrusallık testi, serinin doğrusal olduğunu ifade eden temel hipotezi güçlü bir şekilde reddetmiştir. İşsizlik serisinin doğrusal olmadığının bulunmasıyla birlikte doğrusal dışılığı dikkate alan Hepsağ (2021) birim kök testi kullanılmıştır. Uygulanan Hepsağ (2021) doğrusal olmayan birim kök testi sonucunda işsizlik hipotezinin Türkiye için geçerli olmadığına, doğal oran hipotezinin geçerli olduğu sonucuna ulaşılmıştır.
MUHASEBE/FİNANSAL RAPORLAMA STANDARTLARINA GÖRE ANTEPFISTIĞI ÜRETİM BAHÇESİNİN TESİS EDİLMESİ VE FAALİYETLERİN MUHASEBELEŞTİRİLMESİ ÜZERİNE BİR UYGULAMA
Authors: MORTAŞ Mustafa , DENK Ozan
Published: December 2022

TMS 41 Tarımsal Faaliyet Standardı, tarımsal alanda faaliyet gösteren firmaların, tarımsal varlıkları, hasat döneminde ve ya hasat edilmiş ürünlere ve de belli özellikteki devlet teşvikleri ile ilgili olarak muhasebe işlemleri ile raporlama ilkelerini belirlemektedir. Böylelikle, TMS 41’in uygulanması ile tarımsal alanda faaliyetlerini sürdüren firmaların işlemleri için uluslararası alanda ortak bir finansal raporlama dili oluşturmayı sağlamaktır. Diğer taraftan TMS 16 Maddi Duran Varlıklar Standardı, tarımsal ürünlerin üretimi veya temini için kullanılması ve bir dönemden fazla ürün vermesinin beklenmesi durumunda taşıyıcı bitki özelliği olarak değerlendirmektedir. Bu kapsamda çalışmada, antepfıstığı üretim tesisinin kurulması, TMS 41 ile TMS 16 Standartlarına uygun şekilde muhasebeleştirilme ve raporlama işlemlerinin uygulanması süreci ele alınmıştır. Çalışmada, antepfıstığı üretim bahçesi kurmayı planlayan bir firmanın, antepfıstığı bahçesi yapımına uygun olan ve atıl halde bulunan arazisinin antepfıstığı bahçesi tesis etmeye yönelik faaliyetleri ile söz konusu bahçenin kurulumunun yanı sıra kurulum sonrası ortaya çıkabilecek faaliyetler konu edilmiştir. Bu bağlamda, sürecin başından itibaren ortaya çıkan faaliyetlerin standartlara uygun şekilde muhasebeleştirme süreci çalışmanın konusunu oluşturmaktadır. Çalışmada yapılan örnek muhasebe kayıtları, TMS’ye uygun olarak muhasebeleştirilirken, KGK tarafından 13.12.2018 tarihinde yayımlanan “Finansal Raporlama Standartlarına Uygun Hesap Planı Taslağı”nda yer alan hesaplar kullanılmıştır. Ayrıca çalışmada, tesis edilecek bahçenin kurulumu sırasında devlet teşvikinden faydalanıldığı varsayılmıştır. Daha sonra boş arazinin antepfıstığı bahçesi yatırımına dönüştürülmesi ve antepfıstığı fidanlarının satın alınması işlemlerinin muhasebeleştirilme işlemleri yapılmıştır. . Bahçenin tesis edilmesinden sonra, yetişmekte olan fidanların bakımı ile bakım sonrası ve sonraki dönemlerde yapılan diğer işlemlerinin muhasebeleştirilmesi süreci ele alınmıştır.
Effects of the social media interference factor on memory consolidation in adolescents
Authors: Petrash EA , Nikishina VB , Razuvaeva TN , Sokolyskaya MV , Kuznetsova AA , Zapesotskaya IV
Published: December 2022

The relevance of this study is due to the need to answer the question of how the factors of digital medium affect the development of mental functions in the younder generation. The study was aimed to assess the effects of the social media interference factor on memory (auditory-speech and visual-figurative) consolidation in adolescents. The sample was 130 adolescents aged 11–17. The groups were formed based on the age stages (11–12, 13–14, 15–17 years). The study involved the use of the method for the diagnosis of the short-term auditory-speech and visual-figurative memory span. Viewing video content and reading the fragment of the fiction book were used as interference. A significant decrease in the short-term auditory-speech and visual-figurative memory span was observed in adolescents. The short-term memory span is reduced in the context of social media interference (prolonged continuous viewing the heterogenous visual-acoustic and visualspeech content). The high risk of the long-term memory loss due to the impact of the social media interference factor on memory consolidation in adolescents is empirically proven. The more the duration of the maximum continuous video stream and the total time the adolescents spend on Internet (including social media), the larger is the loss of information.
Village Government Communication Strategy toward Freedom Cigarette Smoke in Bone-Bone, Enrekang District (Study of Rural Management Sociology Analysis)
Authors:   Lecturer of the Faculty of Da'wah and Communication at UIN Alauddin Makassar, Syam’un Syam’un , AB Syamsuddin ,   Lecturer of the Faculty of Da'wah and Communication at UIN Alauddin Makassar
Published: December 2022

Discussion of village government strategies and supporters so that the community is smoke-free in the sociology of rural management with the aim that every citizen understands the importance of smoke-free implementation. This research is qualitative in nature by using a scientific sociological approach, to analyze the informants are determined through observation, interviews, and documentation, while the research instrument itself because it has social sensitivity, the data collected is primary and secondary with data analysis with data reduction stages, presentation data, and drawing conclusions. The results of the study show that the communication strategy carried out by the village government so that the community is smoke free is in the following ways: a). Organizational Communication Strategy; about smoke-free, b) Group communication (interaction between groups); revolves around certain topics of common interest, c) Interpersonal Communication (Interpersonal); Strategies for receiving development messages or smoke-free outreach. While supporters of smoke-free society are the crowds of congregations in the mosque, the cohesiveness of institutions or organizations in the village, and. There is awareness of the residents themselves; about smoking-free socialization
Contribution to the knowledge of the Chalcididae, Leucospidae and Perilampidae fauna from Bingöl and Diyarbakır provinces of Turkey (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea)
Authors: Kaplan Emin , Yildirim Erol
Published: December 2022

This study is based upon material collected in Turkey (Diyarbakır and Bingöl provinces) between 2017 and 2020. In total, nine species belonging to four genera from three subfamilies in Chalcididae, one species belonging to one genus from Leucospidae and one species belonging to one genus from Perilampidae were listed. Among them, Conura libanotica (Schmiedeknecht, 1909) from the family Chalcididae was recorded, which is a first report for the Turkish fauna. Additionally, the male genitalia of six species of Chalcididae and Leucospidae families are illustrated for the first time.
Nurses' Existential Spirituality, Nursing Oncological Patients
Authors: Petravičienė Zita , Bartašiūnienė Vida , Paplauskas Henrikas
Published: December 2022

The phenomenon of nurses' spirituality is relevant in the holistic nursing of oncological patients, providing spiritual care. Its basis is the phenomenon of spirituality, i. e. the aspect of spirituality is felt, experienced. The nurse, providing spiritual care, shall know and reflect the phenomenon of spirituality herself/himself, in her/his own life.

The aim of the research is to reveal the existential spirituality of nurses, taking care of oncological patients.

The research issue (problem) includes the following main questions: How do nurses, taking care of oncological patients, reflect spirituality in their own practical activities? How do nurses reflect on the nurse‘s and the patient‘s spiritual relationship, providing care for oncological patients?

A qualitative research was conducted at National Cancer Institute, Unit X, using an interview method.

The existential spirituality of nurses is revealed, performing their favourite work, in which they do realize themselves and have the opportunity to improve themselves, to communicate with patients, and create an empathetic relationship with them.

The internal strength for nurses is provided by knowledge, experience at work, character-hardening and positive real-life experiences, thoughts about the transience of life, the desire to give hope and kindness to the patient. Nurses' personal experiences of crises and losses lead to empathy and compassion for their patients. Nurses reveal the nobility of patients by looking at each patient as a full-fledged person with the hope of recovery; and own nobility through professionalism, creating an empathetic relation with patients.
Infláció a Kínai Népköztársaságban nemzetközi összehasonlítással II.
Authors: Petz Dávid
Published: December 2022

Az elemzés első része megvizsgálta a kínai statisztikai hivatal által alkalmazott módszertant, fogyasztói kosarat és annak súlyozását, majd azt összevetette a magyar, a német és az amerikai fogyasztói kosárral. Ezt követően három évre visszamenőleg bemutatta Kína és a három nyugati ország inflációs trendjeit, és ismertette, hogy a Kínai Népköztársaságban mi alapján különül el a városi és a vidéki infláció. Az elemzés második része kifejezetten Kína inflációs adataira fókuszál, és azt fogyasztói főcsoportok alapján történő bontásban is megvizsgálja. Ennek során megállapítja, hogy melyek azok a főcsoportok, illetve egyéb tényezők, amelyek a kínai inflációt növelik vagy éppen csökkentik. Az elemzés végül bemutatja a kínai infláció globális implikációit, és körbejárja azt a kérdést, hogy a Kínai Népköztársaság mitől ellenállóbb a globális inflációval szemben, és arra milyen hatást gyakorol.
A Blake Riddle: The Diagonal Pencil Inscription in An Island in the Moon
Authors: Castanedo Fernando
Published: December 2022

The text pages of William Blake’s manuscript An Island in the Moon end with a conspicuous diagonal pencil inscription: “a leaf is evidently missing before this one.” Although the line has been consistently regarded as a non-authorial annotation to Blake’s early satire, its influence has been decisive for interpreting the break in logic between folios 8 verso and 9 recto of the holograph. Editors have given credit to—and paraphrased—the inscription, and commentators have tacitly relied on its authority to support their readings of the work. However, the first explicit reference to the annotation dates from 2010, and it seems that thus far no inquiries have been made as to its origins. While I was working on a critical edition and translation into Spanish of An Island, the style and content of the diagonal inscription caught my attention, and several questions arose. Who might have written it, and why anonymously? Whose authoritative voice could produce such a unanimously accepted annotation? Why had the unknown hand pronounced itself about this lacuna so confidently? Was it not somewhat bold, even for nineteenth-century standards, to qualify the absence of a leaf with “evidently”? When might this annotation have been produced? Does the handwriting bear absolutely no resemblance to Blake’s? Why did Blake leave folios 10 to 15 unused? To raise suspicions further, why do the stains on folio 9 recto seem to be mirroring quite precisely the lines on folio 8 verso and, moreover, on 8 recto? And, more generally, could the satirist who had named himself Quid the Cynic in An Island be playing a prank on his readers here, as he had done before in the text? These and other questions seemed to find reasonable answers when I considered the possibility that the line might have been written by Blake himself.
Allen Ginsberg, The Complete Songs of Innocence and Experience
Authors: Walker Luke
Published: December 2022

There are several reasons why this 2017 album release represents a significant moment for anyone interested in the role played by William Blake in shaping the counterculture of the sixties (and the role of that counterculture in shaping academic and popular understandings of Blake). The most basic is that the original 1970 album, Songs of Innocence and Experience [sic] by William Blake, Tuned by Allen Ginsberg, has never previously been made available as a CD or digital download. However, it is a credit to Pat Thomas, who produced this expanded reissue for Omnivore Recordings, that there are other, more important, reasons to celebrate. The double-CD Complete Songs of Innocence and Experience is not just a rerelease of the album in a new format with a few alternative takes added as filler; rather, at over twice the length, it aims for the first time to fulfill Ginsberg’s original intentions for his extensive Blake recording project, to which he devoted much of his creative energy between 1968 and 1971.
Network Theory and Ecology in Blake’s Jerusalem
Authors: Hagan Jade
Published: December 2022

Blake’s respect for the interconnected yet sovereign identity of each and every thing resonates with recent scholarship that attempts to rethink our notions about materialism and agency. In particular, it accords with the cross-disciplinary turn to theories of the network, a form embraced in recent years for its capacity to expose otherwise hidden connections and patterns. The network form has proven especially useful to ecological theory and criticism as a nonbinary and nonanthropocentric model of description. Its advocates argue that it avoids the totalizing tendency of categorical labels like “nature” and “culture,” and that it shifts attention to the agency of individual entities, both human and nonhuman. In what follows, I examine Blake’s representation of the network of correspondences, noting along the way its similarities to and differences from ecological criticism and recent theories of the network, especially Latour’s ANT and Alexander Galloway and Eugene Thacker’s network theory. I focus on these two theories in particular because they exemplify a celebratory and a critical view of networks, respectively. I argue that Blake, like his present-day counterparts, sees in the network a way of expressing ecological interconnection that is nonbinary, nonlinear, and radically inclusive, but that this same “flat” ontology enables and even contributes to the desire for mastery and the possibility of tyranny. In drawing out such threads, I aim to demonstrate, first, that the figure of the network provides a novel way to read Blake as an ecological poet; secondly, that Blake’s specifically ambivalent ecological vision provides useful insights into the pitfalls and assumptions of current network theories; and thirdly, that networks have a premodern dimension that prefigures applications of the network we are familiar with today.
William Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Scholarship in 2019
Authors: Ripley Wayne C.
Published: December 2022

2019 was a very active year in Blake studies. In popular discussions, at least, it was dominated by the Tate Britain exhibition, William Blake, curated by Martin Myrone and Amy Concannon. The retrospective boasted over 300 works, making it by far the largest Blake exhibition of the twenty-first century. Its catalogue, which was named one of the twenty-six most beautiful art books of 2019 by the New York Times, articulates the exhibition’s “determinedly historicist and materialist” approach and includes an afterword by Alan Moore, reflecting on Blakean places and his graphic novel From Hell.
Sendak and Blake Illustrating “Songs of Innocence” with an Essay by Prof. Robert N. Essick
Authors: Crosby Mark
Published: December 2022

Maurice Sendak studied Blake’s art and poetry, and collected drawings, watercolors, illuminated books, and prints. In interviews, he frequently professed his adoration of Blake, stating in 2001, “I love Blake; I have all my life.” The experimental synthesis of the verbal and visual in much of Sendak’s work is self-consciously Blakean, a deliberate evocation of the composite art of the illuminated books that is perhaps seen most forcefully in his final work, My Brother’s Book, completed before Sendak’s death in May 2012 but published posthumously. In a much earlier work, a 1967 Christmas keepsake published by Bodley Head, we find Sendak engaging directly with the man whom he described in a 1970 interview as “my teacher in all things.”
“If you want to learn the secrets, close your eyes”: Bruce Dickinson’s “Gates of Urizen” as Contrary Version of The [First] Book of Urizen
Authors: Hagen Katharina
Published: December 2022

Urizen, the protagonist of William Blake’s The [First] Book of Urizen (1794), is a dark character who represents tyranny, suppression, and reason. While Urizen retells events in the form of a book, depicting an unchangeable past, Bruce Dickinson’s song “Gates of Urizen” (The Chemical Wedding, 1998) concentrates on enlightenment and the escape from Urizenic restrictions. Both focus on contrasts—​imagination and reason, open space and enclosure, mind and body, mobility and fixture, success and failure. Whereas the separation of contraries Los and Urizen leads to misery and chaos in Urizen, it produces positive results in “Gates”: Dickinson’s adaptation changes the outcome of Urizen and turns the plot into practical advice on how to pass the gates of Urizen. By comparing metaphors of imprisonment and freedom in both texts, such as impaired vision and prophetic sight or the contrast between being earthbound and airborne, I shed light on how “Gates” turns a dystopic mythology into a philosophy of life.
Blake and Music, 2020
Authors: Whittaker Jason
Published: December 2022

While 2019 had been an incredibly productive year for settings of Blake to music and original pieces inspired by his poetry, my initial assumption was that, with all the difficulties caused by COVID, 2020 would be a much leaner year musically. Somewhat surprisingly, the past twelve months were incredibly rich in terms of musical adaptations, not only in the number of new releases, which surpassed 2019, but also because several took the form of whole albums dedicated to Blake’s work. It is clear that some releases—​those requiring full orchestras, for example—​were the products of months of preparation prior to the pandemic, and thus it may be that 2021 is the point at which we see an interruption in the flow of new recordings. In other instances, it is evident that artists used the time during lockdown to make recordings that were released via streaming, and the trend toward this means of distribution was only accelerated during 2020.
William Blake and His Circle: A Checklist of Scholarship in 2020
Authors: Ripley Wayne C.
Published: December 2022

This year, Vera Serdechnaia, who has collected and compiled sources in Russian and other Cyrillic languages, has kindly agreed to join the checklist team. As is evident below, there is much work being done on Blake in languages other than English, so I thank all my collaborators in helping make the annual checklist as comprehensive as possible. As always, the annotations to entries from their respective areas are theirs. If any reader is interested in covering scholarship in languages not detailed above, please contact me. While it may be a lagging indicator, Blake scholarship continued at a steady clip in 2020, despite the global pandemic. Exhibitions were, of course, the major exception, as discussed in this issue by Luisa Calè. William Blake at Tate Britain had the good fortune to wrap up just under the wire in February 2020, and I have recorded a substantial number of new reviews and notices to complement the hundred that appeared in 2019. (As was my practice last year, I have cross-listed only those reviews by established Blake scholars.)
Wayne C. Ripley and Justin Van Kleeck, eds., Editing and Reading Blake
Authors: Hilton Nelson
Published: December 2022

I remember being introduced to a senior scholar at a summer Huntington Library lawn party a generation ago and his inquiring politely, “Well, what’s your angle?” Stephen Dedalus’s inner panic to “say something” flashed to Steelyard the Lawgiver’s Island in the Moon reassurance that “every person has a something” as I fumbled to come up with a dissertation abstract. Those more than thirty years past rise again in contemplating the analogous age differences between the two sets of contributors to this Romantic Circles electronic collection, which presents the efforts of four “younger Blake editors and scholars” and three “established” ones. The latter, Mary Lynn Johnson, W. H. Stevenson, and David Fuller, are doubtless familiar to subscribers of this journal for their three different “successful print editions” of “texts designed to appeal to first-time readers of Blake,” while the former, Rachel Lee, J. Alexandra McGhee, and co-editors Wayne C. Ripley and Justin Van Kleeck, “have all worked as project assistants to the Blake Archive and received their graduate training from its editors” (introduction, par. 4; Johnson, par. 2). With the concise print elders accounting for less than a third of the volume (in my printout, anyway, and not counting the errata sheet for Johnson and Grant’s second edition, for which there is no editorially supplied print option), and the organizers’ point taken that “Stevenson, Johnson, and Fuller all see their editions being used in connection with the Blake Archive” (introduction, par. 7), the juxtaposition carries the sense of staged generational baton-passing to celebrate the expanding empire of the Blake Archive.
Mickle Maher, There Is a Happiness That Morning Is (Theater Oobleck, Chicago, 2011)
Authors: Silverstein Mary
Published: December 2022

In There Is a Happiness That Morning Is, Mickle Maher has imagined a witty, amusing, and moving love story about two college professors, inspired by two of William Blake’s poems. The first poem, “Infant Joy” from Songs of Innocence, is taught by the exuberant Bernard (Colm O’Reilly). The second, “The Sick Rose” from Songs of Experience, is taught by the precise, severe Ellen (Diana Slickman). The college dean, James (Kirk Anderson), serves as the worm in this Garden of Eden. The audience serves as the students in the classroom. William Blake, eighteenth-century poet, is front, center stage. His poems, chalked with artistic flourish on a large blackboard which dominates the stage, are always in front of the student-audience. They are referred to again and again by the characters, speaking in verse. So skilled are the actors that this seems natural, while it adds texture and increases the emotions of the plot.
“an excellent saleswoman”: The Last Years of Catherine Blake
Authors: Whitehead Angus
Published: December 2022

This essay presents and explores new information concerning the life, residences, and circle of Catherine Blake in the period immediately following her departure from Linnell’s town house, c. March 1828, until her death in mid-October 1831. It revises a number of Bentley’s assertions regarding the chronology and location of her residences. The essay will also explore her relationship with Frederick Tatham, the member of the Ancients with whom she had most contact after Blake’s death, and who—rightly or wrongly—inherited the Blakes’ earthly possessions after Catherine’s demise.
Blake in the Marketplace, 2011
Authors: Essick Robert N.
Published: December 2022

Over the last two decades, scholars and collectors have been blessed with a remarkable series of discoveries of unrecorded or long-lost works by Blake. If this record has led us to expect new treasures almost every year, 2011 did not disappoint. By early February I learned that Bonhams in London would offer an unrecorded copy of Blake’s Poetical Sketches (1783) in its 22 March auction. This adds one more copy to the twenty-three previously traced and is only the third remaining in private hands. A person representing a descendant of Charles Augustus Tulk (1786-1849), the Swedenborgian friend of Blake and John Flaxman, contacted me in March about an album of drawings owned, and probably assembled, by Tulk’s daughter Louisa Susanna in the first half of the nineteenth century. Several British Blake scholars inspected the album and found in it a watercolor and a pencil drawing definitely attributable to Blake and a pen and ink drawing probably from his hand. The watercolor and pencil drawing bear sketches by Blake on their versos. The collection also includes several drawings by Flaxman. On the basis of digital images supplied by the Tulk family’s representative, I’m confident that these attributions are correct. None of these materials has been previously recorded. The disposition of this important discovery is still pending as of January 2012.
Elementary School Teacher Quality Improvement Model Based on Literacy and Technology
Authors: Defit Sarjon , Achmad Nurman , Novia Dewi Yosa , Srinovita Yulya , Zefriyenni
Published: December 2022

The Industrial Revolution 4.0 and Society 5.0 were concepts that first developed in Japan. This concept has an impact not only on Japan but also for all countries in the world. Every country is required to be able to adapt technology, including Indonesia. Technology that is growing will even affect the development of each generation. This is proven by the discovery of the baby boomers to the alpha generation as a result of the development of technology and information. Therefore, every parent and even educator must have the skills to be able to educate generation Z and alpha who are currently very exposed to technology. This is even exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic which is currently still spreading in Indonesia. The government has started to encourage Distance Learning to break the chain of virus spread. Teachers and parents are required to be able to collaborate in educating children. In fact, teachers must be able to present interesting learning models so that they are not boring for students. Therefore, various kinds of skills are needed so that teachers are able to adapt to these conditions. And of course, those who need this the most are teachers in marginal areas of Indonesia who have many limitations. The general objective of this research is to compile basic data and develop a Literacy and Technology-based Elementary School Teacher Development model in Indonesia's Marginal Region, which is named TELEPATI (TEacher LEadership Program Towards Excellent Indonesia). TELAPATI is an integrated program to improve the quality of Indonesian teachers by optimizing their leadership abilities as themselves, teachers and educators. This model is dedicated to helping improve the quality of teachers who are able to educate the Indonesian generation in today's digital era. This model integrates coaching and mentoring using the 24h-Self Controlling system.
Level of Competency and Need for Learning Strategies among ICU Nurses
Authors: Sachdeva Seema
Published: December 2022

Nursing in the context of client care includes the broader notions of professional development and competence. Nursing competence contributes to high quality care delivery, cost-effectiveness and more importantly better patient outcomes. This non-experimental design study sought to identify level of competency and need of learning strategy among ICU nurses using descriptive research approach. The subjects were taken from three hospitals termed as group 1, 2 and 3. A modified questionnaire, Competence Assessment, Planning & Evaluation Tool was used to score the nursing competencies on 10 domains related to human anatomical systems. The questionnaire was distributed to 10 nurses per hospital working in ICU, maximum score for each statement being 40 (well competent) and minimum score 10 (incompetent) in each domain. There was no statistical difference in the age group, education and experience of study subjects among all three groups except exposure to in-service educational programme (p<0.05) and different groups scored differently. Significant difference was found in mean competence score among all 3 groups for some specific domains like procedures related to central nervous system, gastrointestinal system, cardio vascular system and endocrine system. Among demographical variables, competence score had a significant association with experience and exposure to training programme.
Mothers Knowledge Regarding Danger Signs of Newborn
Authors: Bhandari Sangeeta , Vatsa Manju , Deorari AK , Kumar Gupta Sanjeev , Kumari Sharma Kamlesh
Published: December 2022

This descriptive cross-sectional study was undertaken to assess the knowledge of mothers in urban and rural areas about new born danger signs. It included 200 mothers of infants (100 from urban and 100 from rural area), from the Paediatrics OPD and Paediatrics and Maternity Wards, of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, and the Comprehensive Rural Health Services Project (CRHSP), Ballabgarh. The data was collected using self-developed and semi structured interview schedule. The mean knowledge score of mothers regarding newborn danger signs was 39.3 percent. The urban mothers had a mean score of 44.7 percent (graded as average) as compared to rural mothers whose mean knowledge score was 32.94 percent (graded as poor). The urban mothers had significantly better knowledge as compared to rural mothers regarding newborn danger signs. Majority of mothers could state at least one symptom of hyperthermia 191 (95.5%), severe jaundice 162 (81%), lethargy150 (75%), respiratory distress 127 (63.5%), and hypothermia 103 (51.5%). Majority of mothers responded that if danger signs are observed in newborns then immediate medical consultation would be necessary. In rural area majority of mothers did not identify hypothermia (64%), convulsions (85%), skin pustules (65%), respiratory distress (54%) and severe dehydration (85%) as danger sign in newborns. The study showed that mothers had inadequate knowledge regarding newborn danger signs and their management. Educational interventions for mothers are needed to make them aware of the newborn danger signs and the need to seek care by qualified health providers for treatment.
Effect of Distraction Techniques in Behaviour Responses to Pain among Toddlers Receiving Immunisation
Authors: Singh Pankaj
Published: December 2022

Pain and distress during immunisation of toddlers are reasons for non-immunisation of large number of toddlers. The present study was undertaken to assess the comparative effectiveness of distraction techniques in the process of immunisation i.e. toy and music. (The third group of study subjects was control group). It is concluded that distraction techniques are quite economical and safe in enhancing the magnitude of immunisation.
Knowledge and Attitude of Nursing Personnel regarding Patient Safety and Rights in Hospitals of Delhi
Authors: Geevarghese Feba
Published: December 2022

Nursing ethics apart, the increased awareness towards the treatment procedures being adopted and the standards of hygiene in the hospital setting necessitates proper knowledge and attitude of the personnel attending the patients. The present study, conducted in government and private hospitals of Delhi covered 200 samples (100 each from government and private), using Structured Knowledge Questionnaire. It was revealed that majority of nursing staff working in private hospitals had greater knowledge about patient safety and rights; they also had better patient-friendly attitude. It is suggested that nurses should practice with relevant guidelines in mind.
Effect of Structured Teaching Programme on Knowledge, Attitude and Practice on Prevention of Uterine and Cervical Cancer among Female In-Patients at Raja Muthiah Medical College Hospital
Authors: Prabha R Mercy Russelin
Published: December 2022

In this study, to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme (STP) on knowledge, attitude and practice on prevention of uterine and cervical cancer, 50 patients were selected by using convenience sampling technique. The pre-test was conducted using a structured interview questionnaire. STP was conducted and a booklet was given to each patient following the STP. Seven days later post-test was conducted using the same structured interview questionnaire. Most of the patients had inadequate knowledge (74%) in pre-test after STP 74 percent had adequate knowledge and 26 percent of them had moderately adequate knowledge. Regarding the attitude level 34 percent of patients had moderately unfavourable attitude and 46 percent of patients had neither unfavourable nor favourable attitude in pre-test. In post-test 8 percent patients had highly favourable attitude and 81 percent had moderately favourable attitude. The level of knowledge regarding practice on prevention of uterine and cervical cancer of patients increased upto 78 percent after STP. Paired t test was applied to compare pre-test and post-test mean and standard deviation. Knowledge, attitude and practice level of patients on prevention of uterine and cervical cancer was statistically significant (p
Effect of Structured Teaching Programme on Knowledge regarding Pulmonary Tuberculosis and its Management among Patients of Pulmonary Tuberculosis
Authors: Latha K Gnana
Published: December 2022

In view of ways to enhance knowledge of tuberculosis (TB), it was decided to undertake a study to ascertain effectiveness of structured teaching programme on 60 patients of TB with 30 each in experimental and control groups. Analysis of pre-test and post-test in both the groups revealed that structured teaching programme was quite helpful in enhancing the knowledge about TB among the patients.
Effect of Kangaroo Mother Care on Neonatal Temperature and Weight among Newborns
Authors: Santhi MD , Kokilavani
Published: December 2022

Taking into consideration multiple, long term benefits of Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC), a study was undertaken to compare the weight reduction and temperature of neonates on maternal kangarooing and professional mummification, and also correlate these with demographic variables. The sample consisted of 50 post-natal mothers with term neonates, both from experimental and comparison group. It is concluded that KMC leads to better weight gain, temperature and shorter hospital stay.