bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
An infinite dimensional version of the Kronecker index and its relation with the Leray–Schauder degree
Authors: Benevieri Pierluigi , Calamai Alessandro , Pera Maria Patrizia
Published: March 2024

Let

\mathfrak{f}

be a compact vector field of class

C^{1}

on a real Hilbert space

\mathbb{H}

. Denote by

\mathbb{B}

the open unit ball of

\mathbb{H}

and by

\mathbb{S}= \partial\mathbb{B}

the unit sphere. Given a point

q \notin \mathfrak{f}(\mathbb{S})

, consider the self-map of

\mathbb{S}

defined by

\mathfrak{f}_{q}^{\partial}(p)= \frac{\mathfrak{f}(p)-q}{\|\mathfrak{f}(p)-q\|}, \quad p \in \mathbb{S}.

If

\mathbb{H}

is finite dimensional, then

\mathbb{S}

is an orientable, connected, compact differentiable manifold. Therefore, the Brouwer degree,

\deg_{\mathrm{Br}}(\mathfrak{f}_{q}^{\partial})

is well defined, no matter what orientation of

\mathbb{S}

is chosen, assuming it is the same for

\mathbb{S}

as domain and codomain of

\mathfrak{f}_{q}^{\partial}

. This degree may be considered as a modern reformulation of the Kronecker index of the map

\mathfrak{f}_{q}^{\partial}

. Let

\deg_{\mathrm{Br}}(\mathfrak{f},\mathbb{B},q)

denote the Brouwer degree of

\mathfrak{f}

on

\mathbb{B}

with target

q

. It is known that one has the equality

\deg_{\mathrm{Br}}(\mathfrak{f},\mathbb{B},q) = \deg_{\mathrm{Br}}(\mathfrak{f}_{q}^{\partial}).

Our purpose is an extension of this formula to the infinite dimensional context. Namely, we will prove that

\deg_{\mathrm{LS}}(\mathfrak{f},\mathbb{B},q) = \deg_{\mathrm{bf}}(\mathfrak{f}_{q}^{\partial}),

where

\deg_{\mathrm{LS}}(\cdot)

denotes the Leray–Schauder degree and

\deg_{\mathrm{bf}}(\cdot)

is the degree earlier introduced by M. Furi and the first author, which extends, to the infinite dimensional case, the Brouwer degree and the Kronecker index. In other words, here, we extend to the Leray–Schauder degree the boundary dependence property which holds for the Brouwer degree in the finite dimensional context.
Long non-coding RNA GATA6-AS1 is mediated by N6-methyladenosine methylation and inhibits the proliferation and metastasis of gastric cancer
Authors: Shen Jun-Jie , Li Min-Chang , Tian Shao-Qi , Chen Wen-Ming
Published: March 2024

BACKGROUND

Through experimental research on the biological function of GATA6-AS1, it was confirmed that GATA6-AS1 can inhibit the proliferation, invasion, and migration of gastric cancer cells, suggesting that GATA6-AS1 plays a role as an anti-oncogene in the occurrence and development of gastric cancer. Further experiments confirmed that the overexpression of fat mass and obesity-associated protein (FTO) inhibited the expression of GATA6-AS1, thereby promoting the occurrence and development of gastric cancer.

AIM

To investigate the effects of GATA6-AS1 on the proliferation, invasion and migration of gastric cancer cells and its mechanism of action.

METHODS

We used bioinformatics methods to analyze the Cancer Genome Atlas (https://portal.gdc.cancer.gov/ . The Cancer Genome Atlas) and download expression data for GATA6-AS1 in gastric cancer tissue and normal tissue. We also constructed a GATA6-AS1 lentivirus overexpression vector which was transfected into gastric cancer cells to investigate its effects on proliferation, migration and invasion, and thereby clarify the expression of GATA6-AS1 in gastric cancer and its biological role in the genesis and development of gastric cancer. Next, we used a database (http://starbase.sysu.edu.cn/starbase2/ ) to analysis GATA6-AS1 whether by m6A methylation modify regulation and predict the methyltransferases that may methylate GATA6-AS1. Furthermore, RNA immunoprecipitation experiments confirmed that GATA6-AS1 was able to bind to the m6A methylation modification enzyme. These data allowed us to clarify the ability of m6A methylase to influence the action of GATA6-AS1 and its role in the occurrence and development of gastric cancer.

RESULTS

Low expression levels of GATA6-AS1 were detected in gastric cancer. We also determined the effects of GATA6-AS1 overexpression on the biological function of gastric cancer cells. GATA6-AS1 had strong binding ability with the m6A demethylase FTO, which was expressed at high levels in gastric cancer and negatively correlated with the expression of GATA6-AS1. Following transfection with siRNA to knock down the expression of FTO, the expression levels of GATA6-AS1 were up-regulated. Finally, the proliferation, migration and invasion of gastric cancer cells were all inhibited following the knockdown of FTO expression.

CONCLUSION

During the occurrence and development of gastric cancer, the overexpression of FTO may inhibit the expression of GATA6-AS1, thus promoting the proliferation and metastasis of gastric cancer.
Unraveling the enigma: A comprehensive review of solid pseudopapillary tumor of the pancreas
Authors: Xu Ye-Cheng , Fu De-Liang , Yang Feng
Published: March 2024

Solid pseudopapillary tumor of the pancreas (SPTP) is a rare neoplasm predominantly observed in young females. Pathologically, CTNNB1 mutations, β-catenin nuclear accumulation, and subsequent Wnt-signaling pathway activation are the leading molecular features. Accurate preoperative diagnosis often relies on imaging techniques and endoscopic biopsies. Surgical resection remains the mainstay treatment. Risk models, such as the Fudan Prognostic Index, show promise as predictive tools for assessing the prognosis of SPTP. Establishing three types of metachronous liver metastasis can be beneficial in tailoring individualized treatment and follow-up strategies. Despite advancements, challenges persist in understanding its etiology, establishing standardized treatments for unresectable or metastatic diseases, and developing a widely recognized grading system. This comprehensive review aims to elucidate the enigma by consolidating current knowledge on the epidemiology, clinical presentation, pathology, molecular characteristics, diagnostic methods, treatment options, and prognostic factors.
Adolescents’ Perspective Regarding a Community-Wide Mass Drug Administration Program for Soil-Transmitted Helminths in India
Authors: Aruldas Kumudha , Johnson Jabaselvi , Saxena Malvika , Titus Angelin , Roll Amy , Ramesh Rohan Michael , Walson Judd L. , Means Arianna Rubin , Ajjampur Sitara Swarna Rao
Published: March 2024

This study was undertaken to understand the perspective of adolescents in endemic communities of India regarding soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections and community-wide mass drug administration (cMDA). A multicountry community-based cluster-randomized trial, the Deworm3 trial, tested the feasibility of interrupting STH transmission with cMDA, where all individuals aged 1–99 are treated empirically with albendazole. Using a guideline based on the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research, eight focus group discussions were conducted among 57 adolescents from the trial site in India and analyzed on ATLAS.ti 8.0 software using an a priori thematic codebook. Adolescents believed that adults could be a source of STH infection because they were not routinely dewormed like the children through the national deworming program. Perceived benefits of cMDA for all were better health and increased work efficiency. Perceived barriers to adults’ participation in cMDA was their mistrust about the program, fear of side effects, perceived low risk of infection, and absence during drug distribution. To encourage adult participation in cMDAs, adolescents suggested community outreach activities, engaging village influencers and health workers, and tailoring drug distribution to when adults would be available. Adolescents were confident in their ability to be change agents within their households for treatment compliance. Adolescents provided insights into potential barriers and solutions to improve adult participation in cMDA, identified best practices of cMDA delivery, and suggested that they have unique roles as change agents to increase their household participation in cMDA.
A New Attempt at Social Innovation Curriculum : The Design and Operation of ‘Urban Innovation Project (Capstone Design)’ by a PrivatePublic-Academic Partnership
Authors: Yoon Sujin
Published: March 2024

The purpose of this study is to examine the design and operation of the private-public-academic partnership Social Innovation Liberal Arts Curriculum. This initiative involves collaboration between universities, local governments, companies, and NGOs local governments, companies, NGOs, and universities to address community problems and create positive change. The ‘Urban Innovation Project (Capstone Design)’ class was developed to operate the Urban Innovation School, which is a collaborative urban regeneration project involving Seoul Women's University, Habitat for Korea, and POSCO E&C (formerly known as POSCO Engineering & Construction). The project, initiated in 2020, aims to foster private-public-academic partnership and resident participation. While maintaining the purpose and benefits of the current university alliance program, the course was developed as a three-credit liberal arts curriculum. It utilized the inter-university credit exchange method to offer a structured curriculum on a semester-by-semester basis. The aim was to enhance students' engagement in the project, elevate their performance, and acknowledge their participation efforts by granting credits. The main content is based on the implementation of the project by a team organized by topic. It consists of online lectures, on-site activities for 3 days and 2 nights, expert advice, resident participation activities, and a final output presentation. In the 2023 academic year, a total of 49 students from 8 universities participated in the first semester of the program. In order to enhance the educational and social impact of the program, it is necessary to expand the number of universities that offer and operate classes in the future. Additionally, the project topics should be expanded from solely focusing on urban regeneration to encompassing urban issues as a whole. The ‘Urban Innovation Project (Capstone Design)’ class, which is based on private-public-academic partnership and credit exchange between universities, will be able to propose useful and meaningful implications for the social innovation curriculum. This curriculum aims to solve problems and create a positive impact through the connection and collaboration of various actors and sectors.
How Can Generative AI (GenAI) Enhance or Hinder Qualitative Studies? A Critical Appraisal from South Asia, Nepal
Authors: Dahal Niroj
Published: March 2024

Qualitative researchers can benefit from using generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), such as different versions of ChatGPT—GPT-3.5 or GPT-4, Google Bard—now renamed as a Gemini, and Bing Chat—now renamed as a Copilot, in their studies. The scientific community has used artificial intelligence (AI) tools in various ways. However, using GenAI has generated concerns regarding potential research unreliability, bias, and unethical outcomes in GenAI-generated research results. Considering these concerns, the purpose of this commentary is to review the current use of GenAI in qualitative research, including its strengths, limitations, and ethical dilemmas from the perspective of critical appraisal from South Asia, Nepal. I explore the controversy surrounding the proper acknowledgment of GenAI or AI use in qualitative studies and how GenAI can support or challenge qualitative studies. First, I discuss what qualitative researchers need to know about GenAI in their research. Second, I examine how GenAI can be a valuable tool in qualitative research as a co-author, a conversational platform, and a research assistant for enhancing and hindering qualitative studies. Third, I address the ethical issues of using GenAI in qualitative studies. Fourth, I share my perspectives on the future of GenAI in qualitative research. I would like to recognize and record the utilization of GenAI and/or AI alongside my cognitive and evaluative abilities in constructing this critical appraisal. I offer ethical guidance on when and how to appropriately recognize the use of GenAI in qualitative studies. Finally, I offer some remarks on the implications of using GenAI in qualitative studies
Error Analysis on Students’ Descriptive Writing
Authors: Hidayati Nur , Nappu Syamsiarna , Akib Erwin
Published: March 2024

Nur Hidayati, 2023. Error Analysis on Students’ Descriptive Writing at Madrasah Aliyah PMU Sanrobone Takalar Regency. Guided by Syamsiarna Nappu and Erwin Akib. This research focused on students’ errors in writing descriptive text. This study aimed to know the types of error were made by eleventh-grade students at Madrasah Aliyah PMU Sanrobone Takalar Regency academic year 2023/2024 in writing descriptive text and to find out the most students’ dominant error in writing descriptive text. This research was conducted using descriptive quantitative study with case study design as quantitative data used. The population of this research is 18 students. Then the data of the research were collected by using test about writing descriptive text. Based on the data analysis result, students made four types of errors based on surface strategy taxonomy. Those were omission, addition, mis-formation, mis-ordering. Students’ highest error frequency is mis-formation error with 219 total number of errors or (36%) total of errors. Omission error with 112 or (19%) total of errors, addition error with 190 or (32%) total of errors. The lowest frequency of error made by the students is mis-ordering error with 80 or (13%) total of errors.
Compensation Fund in Foundations: Indonesia’s Foundation Laws and Auditor Perspectives
Authors:   Institut Agama Islam Tazkia, Kautsar Mohammad Yudithama Al , Agung Wahyu Dwi ,   Institut Agama Islam Tazkia, Possumah Bayu Taufiq ,   Institut Agama Islam Tazkia
Published: March 2024

Foundations play a pivotal role in advancing social causes and managing donations for the betterment of society. In Indonesia, foundation faces significant challenges that undermine their integrity and accountability. This study delves into the multifaceted issues surrounding foundation management and legal compliance in Indonesia. One thing that needs to be noted in the management of Foundations is the strict prohibition in the Foundation Law that Founders and Foundation Organs are prohibited from receiving salaries, wages, or honorariums (compensation fund), and this prohibition is even threatened with criminal penalties. In their activities, Foundations that receive donations or certain asset amounts are required to have their financial statements audited, and some Foundations have done so. There are differences in assessing the violation from the perspective of enforcing the Foundation Law and from the perspective of auditors. To address these pressing issues, this study adopts a qualitative research approach with content analysis techniques. By systematically analyzing textual data sourced from legal documents, financial reports, and relevant literature, the study aims to shed light on the challenges faced by foundations in Indonesia and identify strategies for enhancing transparency, accountability, and effectiveness within the sector
Marketing Strategy on MSMEs in Effort Maintaining Sales in Central Covid-19 Guidelines (Case Study RM Pondok Salero Grogol)
Authors:   Universitas Islam Jakarta, Sutisna Eka , Rini Intan Puspita ,   Universitas Islam Jakarta, Kaldun Fais ,   Universitas Islam Jakarta, Faisal Gelar ,   Universitas Islam Jakarta
Published: March 2024

The aim of this study is to analyze the marketing strategy carried out by RM Pondok Salero in increasing or maintaining sales in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic and to analyze the obstacle factors and marketing strategy solutions carried out by RM Pondok Salero in an effort to maintain sales amid the Covid-19 pandemic. The research method uses a qualitative approach. The analytical tool used in this study is analysis I FE & E FE and IE matrix analysis . Based on the results obtained by the IFE and EFE matrix analysis, the total IFE weight score is 3.4 9 and EFE of 3.2 2 put RM Pondok Salero is in quadrant I ( a growing and developing strategy ). Results p research an show off that s trategi done by RM Pondok Salero with b auran marketing ( Marketing Mix ) 7 P ( Product, Promotion, Price, Place , People, Process, Physical Evidence ). Strategy product in the form of innovation cheap rice package, strategy promotion every food purchase will get free iced tea, strategy price will get a discounted price in the form casback 30% through the Shopeepay and OVO applications, strategy place in the form of flexibility in product delivery, strategy people by bringing in the original cook of the prairie, strategy process in the form of employee readiness in processing consumer orders, strategy Physical Evidence in the form of the location and layout of the room and the cleanliness of the restaurant which is maintained by RM Pondok Salero. Constraints faced by RM Pondok Salero in finance and raw materials but RM Pondok Salero can still find solutions and alternatives, namely by managing finance and use raw materials efficiently. Then the RM Pondok Salero solution in dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic with product innovation, following technological developments, maximize social media and maximize services between or delivery
Effects Of Mat Pilates On Range Of Motion, Balance, Flexibility And Functional Mobility In People With Parkinson’s
Authors: Walkowski Ane Luyze Izidoro Walkowski , Moratelli Jéssica Amaro Moratelli , Meliani Audrey Alcantara Garcia Meliani , Garcia Lima Alicia Garcia Lima , Guimarães Adriana Coutinho de Azevedo Guimarães
Published: March 2024

This study is a two-arm randomized controlled trial that analyzed the effects of Mat Pilates on range of motion, balance, flexibility and functional mobility in people with Parkinson’s. 23 individuals were randomized in Mat Pilates group and control group, pre and post-intervention data collection were made evaluating shoulder amplitude (Absolute Axis 360); balance (Mini-BESTest); flexibility (Sit and reach test); and functional mobility (TUG). The results showed significant intragroup differences in Mat Pilates group on balance (p<0.001), functional mobility (p=0.011), range of motion of the right shoulder in abduction (p=0.002) and left shoulder in abduction (p=0.006), although, in flexibility there were no significant differences. There were no intergroup differences and the intragroup presented worsening results in right shoulder flexion (p=0.008). A Mat Pilates protocol can be a complementary treatment to improve balance, functional mobility and shoulder range of motion in abduction in people with Parkinson’s disease.
Keywords: Physical exercise; Rehabilitation; Neurodegenerative diseases; Pilates.
An IoT Based Accident Detection and Rescue System
Authors: V. Veera Anusuy  , B. Jasmith  , P. Sugasini  , M. Jeeva Dharshini
Published: March 2024

The main factor causing car accidents is speed. Many lives could have been saved if emergency services had been able to gather information about the tragedy and reach in time. The main project's objective is to develop an accident detection system that makes use of several different parts to alert the rescue crew about an accident. An efficient automated collision detection system that instantly alerts emergency services to the accident site is crucial for protecting valuable human life. The recommended approach deals with accident detection and notification. After reading it, it sends the affected vehicle's exact latitude and longitude to the nearest emergency response provider. The project's goal is to locate incidents and alert the rescue team as soon as possible.
Loss-of-Life Analyses Based on Modified Arrhenius and Relative Aging Rate for Non-Thermally Upgraded Paper in Oil-Immersed Transformer
Authors: Saleh Najiyah , Azis Norhafiz , Jasni Jasronita , Ab Kadir Mohd Zainal Abidin , Talib Mohd Aizam
Published: March 2024

This study evaluates the Loss-of-Life (LOL) based on the modified relative aging rate of an Oil Natural Air Natural (ONAN) transformer with voltage and power ratings of 132/33 kV and 60 MVA. The study’s methodology included the determination of the Hotspot Temperature (HST) based on the differential equation in IEC 60076-7. The loading and ambient temperature profiles for HST determination are forecasted based on the Seasonal Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (SARIMA). Next, a new relative aging rate was developed based on the Arrhenius equation, considering the pre-exponential factors governed by oxygen, moisture in paper, and acids at different content levels. The LOL was computed based on the new relative aging rate. The study’s main aim is to examine the impact of pre-exponential factors on the LOL based on modified Arrhenius and relative aging rate. The results indicate that the LOLs for different conditions increase as the oxygen, moisture, low molecular weight acid (LMA), and high molecular weight acid (HMA) increase. The LOLs are 46 days, 1,354 days, and 2,662 days in the presence of 12,000 ppm, 21,000 ppm, and 30,000 ppm of oxygen. In 1%, 3%, and 5% moisture, the LOLs are 477 days, 2,799 days, and 7,315 days. At 1% moisture, the LOL is 1,418 days for LMA, while for HMA, it is 122 days. The LMA has the highest impact on the LOL compared to other aging acceleration factors.
Strategic triangle ‘Russia — India — China’: Structure and problems of interaction
Authors: Zhu Xu
Published: March 2024

A contemporary world order is based on an increasingly complex system of interstate relations, which implies the need to thoroughly consider the international context, even when analyzing bilateral interactions. From this point of view, the concept of a ‘strategic triangle’, developed during the Cold War and applied primarily to analyze the dynamics of relationships between the USSR, the USA and the PRC, appears to have significant epistemological potential. In current conditions, it is of particular interest to use this concept to study the logic of relations in the ‘Russia–India–China’ (RIC) triangle. This research pursues two interrelated goals. On the one hand, it is aimed at identifying specific features of this new ‘strategic triangle’, its inner structure and logic of interactions between its participants. On the other hand, it assesses the applicability of the theoretical models developed during the Cold War to the relations within the framework of the RIC strategic triangle. The author examines the history, general dynamics and contemporary features of interaction within each pair of bilateral relations in this ‘triangle’. The research has confirmed the hypothesis that the relations between Russia, India, and China, indeed, form a specific subsystem of international relations, which can be described as a ‘strategic triangle’. At the same time, unlike the Sino-American-Soviet ‘strategic triangle’, it is the logic of cooperation, rather than rivalry, which generally prevails within the framework of the RIC.

However, the RIC ‘triangle’ can also be described as an inherently inconsistent system. While China and Russia maintain close strategic cooperation in almost all areas, in the case of India and Russia, economic cooperation does not match the achieved level of political contacts, and Sino-Indian relations, despite the generally positive dynamics during the recent years, remain at a low level. All this points to the need  to develop a new theoretical and methodological framework for analyzing trilateral relations between Russia, India and China as a special subsystem of the contemporary world politics, one that will be free from Cold War stereotypes.
Textbooks on the international relations theory: What they talk about, what they keep silent about, and what to do about it
Authors: Yudin N. V.
Published: March 2024

Theory represents the highest form of scientific knowledge in any discipline, a sort of certificate of maturity of the latter, and, at the same time, the key to its systematic teaching and understanding. From this point of view, international studies show a somewhat paradoxical picture. On the one hand, at the moment there is no shortage of either theoretical studies of international political issues or textbooks on the theory of international relations. On the other hand, their common leitmotif remains the idea that international studies either have not yet acquired a full-f ledged theory, or, due to their inherent complexity, dynamism and inconsistency are not subject to systematic generalization in principle. As a result, teaching of the IR theory turns out to be equally inconvenient for the lecturers, if they want to not just bombard students with terms and personalities, but teach them to effectively use different concepts and approaches, and for students. The author argues that these difficulties stem not only from the objective complexity of international processes and problems, but also from the subjective theoretical, methodological and philosophical specifics of the textbooks on the IR theory. To substantiate this claim this paper examines a selection of modern Russian and foreign textbooks on IR theory. The first section summarizes their key advantages, which include, first of all, the fact that they all successfully perform an educational function, introducing the reader to the key approaches, schools and theories that form the ‘body’ of modern IR theory. In this regard, one can easily find both textbooks specially designed for an unprepared audience which provide an introduction to the discipline, and publications containing an in-depth analysis of the driving forces and internal logic of the IR theory development. At the same time, as shown in the second section, all modern textbooks on IR theory share a number of common short-comings, which can be divided into methodological and philosophical ones. The former include not sufficiently substantiated logic of presentation, the lack of clear criteria for structuring the material and explicitly formulated principles for selecting approaches to be considered. The latter imply reliance on extremely shaky philosophical assumptions, which, consciously or not, reproduce post-modernist views on the problems of ontology and epistemology of international relations and international studies. And it is in a critical revision of these basic philosophical principles where, according to the author, lies the key to addressing the problems in both teaching the IR theory and formulating the theory of international relations in the strict sense.
Modeling Direct Current Interference on Pipelines with Zero Potential at Infinity Through Electric Field Decomposition
Authors: Dong Liang , Shen Yan , Gan Tiansiyu
Published: March 2024

Oil and gas pipelines are susceptible to direct current interference from nearby third-party cathodic protection or direct current transmission systems. This paper proposes a new method for analyzing direct current interference and its mitigation measures. The proposed method is based on the boundary element method of analyzing cathodic protection systems and direct current interference. Infinity is used as the zero-potential point instead of the pipeline itself. The soil potential near the structure is divided into the cathode electric field, the anode electric field, and the electric field generated by direct current interference. The proposed method was validated to be effective for modeling these electric fields. The results indicate that interference shifts the pipeline’s body potential positively or negatively compared to its normal cathode state. The interference was categorized based on whether it was generated by the anode or cathode electric field, and mitigation measures were designed for each type of interference through electric field cancellation.
The Player’s Power to Change the Game
Authors: Schleiner Anne-Marie
Published: March 2024

In recent decades, what could be considered a gamification of the world has occurred, as the ties between games and activism, games and war, and games and the city grow ever stronger. In this book, Anne-Marie Schleiner explores a concept she calls 'ludic mutation', a transformative process in which the player, who is expected to engage in the preprogramed interactions of the game and accept its imposed subjective constraints, seizes back some of the power otherwise lost to the game itself. Crucially, this power grab is also relevant beyond the game because players then see the external world as material to be reconfigured, an approach with important ramifications for everything from social activism to contemporary warfare.
Modern Ghost Melodramas What Lies Beneath
Authors: Walker Michael
Published: March 2024

The popular and critical successes of films like The Sixth Sense and The Ring and its sequels in the late 1990s led to an impressive international explosion of scary films dealing with ghosts. This book takes a close look at a number of those films from different countries, including the United States, Japan, South Korea, Spain, and Great Britain. Making a crucial distinction between these atmospheric films and conventional horror, Michael Walker argues that they are most productively seen as ghost melodramas, which opens them up to a powerful range of analytic tools from the study of melodrama, including, crucially, psychoanalysis.
Visions of Vienna
Authors: Seibel Alexandra
Published: March 2024

Vienna, with its stunning architecture and unforgettable streetscape, has long provided a backdrop for filmmakers. Visions of Vienna offers a close look at how directors such as Erich von Stroheim, Ernst Lubitsch, and Max Ophüls made use of the city, and how the nostalgic glorification of the Habsburg era can be seen as directly tied to crucial issues of modernity. Films set in Vienna, Alexandra Seibel shows, persistently articulate the experience of displacement due to emigration, changing gender relations and anti-feminism, class distinction, and anti-Semitism, themes that run counter to the ongoing mystification of Vienna as the incarnation of "waltz dreams" and schmaltz.
American Folk Music as Tactical Media
Authors: Adam Svec Henry
Published: March 2024

American folk music has long presented a problematic conception of authenticity, but the reality of the folk scene, and its relationship to media, is far more complicated. This book draws on the fields of media archaeology, performance studies, and sound studies to explore the various modes of communication that can be uncovered from the long American folk revival. From Alan Lomax's cybernetic visions to Bob Dylan's noisy writing machines, this book retrieves a subterranean discourse on the concept of media that might help us to reimagine the potential of the networks in which we work, play, and sing.
Guerrilla Networks
Authors: Goddard Michael
Published: March 2024

A monograph based on my research into radical media ecologies in the 1970s in film, video, radio, television and music. The radical youth movements of the 1960s and '70s gave rise to both militant political groups ranging from urban guerrilla groups to autonomist counterculture, as well as radical media, including radio, music, film, video, and television. This book is concerned with both of those tendencies considered as bifurcations of radical media ecologies in the 1970s. While some of the forms of media creativity and invention mapped here, such as militant film and video, pirate radio and guerrilla television, fit within conventional definitions of media, others, such as urban guerrilla groups and autonomous movements, do not. Nevertheless what was at stake in all these ventures was the use of available means of expression in order to produce transformative effects, and they were all in different ways responding to ideas and practices of guerrilla struggle and specifically of guerrilla media. This book examines these radical media ecologies as guerrilla networks, emphasising the proximity and inseparability of radical media and political practices.
The Colour Fantastic
Authors: Fossati Giovanna , Jackson Victoria , Lameris Bregt , Rongen-Kaynakçi Elif , Street Sarah , Yumibe Joshua
Published: March 2024

Sparked by a groundbreaking Amsterdam workshop titled "Disorderly Order: Colours in Silent Film," scholarly and archival interest in colour as a crucial aspect of film form, technology and aesthetics has enjoyed a resurgence in the past twenty years. In the spirit of the workshop, this anthology brings together international experts to explore a diverse range of themes that they hope will inspire the next twenty years of research on colour in silent film. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the book explores archival restoration, colour film technology, colour theory, and experimental film alongside beautifully saturated images of silent cinema.
Productive Fandom
Authors: Lamerichs Nicolle
Published: March 2024

To dismantle negative stereotypes of fans, this book offers a media ethnography of the digital culture, conventions, and urban spaces associated with fandoms, arguing that fandom is an area of productive, creative, and subversive value. By examining the fandoms of Sherlock, Glee, Firefly, and other popular television-based franchises, the author appeals to fans and scholars alike in her empirically grounded methodology and insightful analysis of production hierarchies, gender, sexuality, play, and affect.
The Building as Screen
Authors: Colangelo Dave
Published: March 2024

The Building as Screen: A History, Theory, and Practice of Massive Media describes, historicizes, theorizes, and creatively deploys massive media -- a set of techno-social assemblages and practices that include large outdoor projections, programmable architectural façades, and urban screens -- in order to better understand their critical and creative potential. Massive media is named as such not only because of the size and subsequent visibility of this phenomenon but also for its characteristic networks and interactive screen and cinema-like qualities. Examples include the programmable lighting of the Empire State Building and the interactive projections of Montreal’s Quartier des spectacles, as well as a number of works created by the author himself. This book argues that massive media enables and necessitates the development of new practices of expanded cinema, public data visualization, and installation art and curation that blend the logics of urban space, monumentality, and the public sphere with the aesthetics and affordances of digital information and the moving image.
LGBTQ Film Festivals
Authors: Damiens Antoine
Published: March 2024

While scholars have theorized major film festivals, they have ignored smaller, ephemeral, events. In taking seriously minor European and North-American LGBTQ festivals which often only exist as traces within archival collections, this book revisits festival studies' methodological and theoretical apparatuses. As the first 'critique' of festival studies from within, LGBTQ Film Festivals argues that both festivals and queer film cultures are by definition ephemeral. The book is organized around two concepts: First, 'critical festival studies' examines the political project and disciplinary assumptions that structure festival research. Second, 'the festival as a method' pays attention to festivals' role as producers of knowledge: it argues that festivals are not mere objects of research but also actors already shaping academic, industrial, and popular cinematic knowledge. Drawing on the author's experience on the festival circuit, this book pays homage to the labour of queer organizers, critics, and scholars and opens up new avenues for festival research.
Disaster Cinema in Historical Perspective
Authors: Mathias Nikita
Published: March 2024

How do we experience disaster films in cinema? And where does disaster cinema come from? The two questions are more closely related than one might initially think. For the framework of the cinematic experience of natural disasters has its roots in the mid-eighteenth century when the aesthetic category of the sublime was re-established as the primary mode for appreciating nature’s violent forces. In this book, the sublime is understood as a complex and culturally specific meeting point between philosophical thought, artistic creation, social and technical development, and popular imagination. On the one hand, the sublime provides a receptive model to uncover how cinematic disaster depictions affect our senses, bodies and minds. On the other hand, this experiential framework of disaster cinema is only one of the most recent agents within the historical trajectory of sublime disasters, which is traced in this book among a broad range of media: from landscape and history painting to a variety of pictorial devices like Eidophusikon, Panorama, Diorama, and, finally, cinema.
Towards a Political Aesthetics of Cinema
Authors: Lie Sulgi
Published: March 2024

Towards a Political Aesthetics of Cinema: The Outside of Film is a contribution to an aesthetics of cinema rooted in Marxist theory. Rather than focusing on the role that certain films, or the cinema as an institution, might play in political consciousness, the book asks a different question: how can the subject of politics in film be thought? This problem is presented in a systematic-theoretical rather than historical manner. The main aim of this book is a retrospective rehabilitation of the psycho-analytical concept of “suture,” whose political core is progressively revealed. In a second step, this rereading of “suture”-theory is mediated with the Marxist aesthetics of Fredric Jameson. From the perspective of this reconfigured aesthetics of negativity, films by Hitchcock, Antonioni, Haneke and Kubrick are analyzed as articulations of a political unconscious.
Postcolonial Hangups in Southeast Asian Cinema
Authors: Sim Gerald
Published: March 2024

Postcolonial Hangups in Southeast Asian Cinema: Poetics of Space, Sound, and Stability explores a geopolitically situated set of cultures negotiating unique relationships to colonial history. Singaporean, Malaysian, and Indonesian identities are discussed through a variety of commercial films, art cinema, and experimental work. The book discovers instances of postcoloniality that manifest stylistically through Singapore’s preoccupations with space, the importance of sound to Malay culture, and the Indonesian investment in genre.
Archive, Photography and the Language of Administration
Authors: Birkin Jane
Published: March 2024

This alternative study of archive and photography brings many types of image assemblages into view, always in relation to the regulated systems operating within the institutional milieu. The archive catalogue is presented as a critical tool for mapping image time, and the language of image description is seen as having a life, a worth and an aesthetic value of its own. Functioning at the intersection of text and image, the book combines media culture, archival techniques, and contemporary discourse on art and conceptual writing.
Women and Temporality in Literature and Cinema
Authors: Ahlawat Ila
Published: March 2024

Women and Temporality in Literature and Cinema delves into the subject of literary and cinematic women characters entrapped in temporal spaces and their peculiar communication with visibility, enclosure, space, and time in the context of sexual and temporal discord. It explores subjects such as youth, ageing, remembering, forgetting, and repeating within the larger realm of gendered temporalities that are essentially nuanced and affective experiences. Throughout, this book seeks to locate and spell out the damaging as well as the healing effects of temporality upon women’s consciousness.
Media Culture in Nomadic Communities
Authors: Hahn Allison
Published: March 2024

Media Culture in Nomadic Communities examines the ways that new technologies and ICT infrastructures have changed the communicative norms and patterns that regulate mobile and nomadic communities’ engagement in local and international deliberative decision-making. Each chapter examines a unique communicative event, such has how the Maasai of Tanzania have used online petitions to demand government action, how Mongolians in northern China have used microblogs to record and debate land tenure, and how herding communities from around the world have supported the Lakota Sioux protests at Standing Rock. Through these case studies, Hahn argues that mobile and nomadic communities are creating and utilizing new communicative networks that are radically changing local, national, and international deliberations.
The Permanence of Temporary Urbanism
Authors: Ferreri Mara
Published: March 2024

Temporary urbanism has become a distinctive feature of urban life after the 2008 global financial crisis. This book offers a critical exploration of its emergence and establishment as a seductive discourse and as an entangled field of practice encompassing architecture, visual and performative arts, urban regeneration policies and planning. Drawing on seven years of semiethnographic research, it explores the politics of temporariness from a situated analysis of neighbourhood transformation, media representations and wider political and cultural shifts in austerity London. Through a longitudinal engagement with projects and practitioners, the book tests the power of aesthetic and cultural interventions and highlights tensions between the promise of vacant space re-appropriation and its commodification. Against the normalisation of ephemerality, it presents a critique of the permanence of temporary urbanism as a glamorisation of the anticipatory politics of precarity which are transforming cities, subjectivities and imaginaries of urban action.
Neurofilmology of the Moving Image
Authors: D’Aloia Adriano
Published: March 2024

A walk suspended in mid-air, a fall at breakneck speed towards a fatal impact with the ground, an upside-down flip into space, the drift of an astronaut in the void… Analysing a wide range of films, this book brings to light a series of recurrent aesthetic motifs through which contemporary cinema destabilizes and then restores the spectator’s sense of equilibrium. The 'tensive motifs' of acrobatics, fall, impact, overturning, and drift reflect our fears and dreams and offer embodied forms of transcendence of the limits of our human condition along with an awareness of their insurmountable nature. Adopting the approach of 'Neurofilmology'―an interdisciplinary method that puts filmology, perceptual psychology, philosophy of mind, and cognitive neuroscience into dialogue―this book implements the paradigm of embodied cognition in a new ecological epistemology of the moving-image experience.
Understanding The Simpsons
Authors: Fink Moritz
Published: March 2024

Accolades such as the best TV show of the twentieth century or the longest-running scripted series on American prime-time television have not only elevated The Simpsons to the comedy pantheon, they have come to suggest the very dinosaur character of the program. But the label The Simpsons not just refers to a show that seems to belong to a bygone television era; it implies a rich narrative universe, including a set of iconic figures, familiar across continents and generations.

Through a transmedia-studies lens, Understanding The Simpsons traces the yellow-branded franchise's trajectory, from its original conception shaped by alternative media traditions to its astounding, long-lived impact as a cult phenomenon in popular culture. Examining the legacy of online fan forums and bootleg T-shirts from the show's heyday in the early 1990s, as well as the meaning of The Simpsons in contemporary digital culture, this book demonstrates how one of the most popular comedy series of all times has redefined the intersection between the corporate media and participatory culture – and is alive, indeed.
Early Cinema, Modernity and Visual Culture
Authors: Grgić Ana
Published: March 2024

Based on original archival research, Early Cinema, Modernity and Visual Culture: The Imaginary of the Balkans is the first study on early cinema in the region from a transnational and cross-cultural perspective. It investigates how the unique geopolitical positioning of the Balkan space and its multiculturality influenced and shaped visual culture and cinema. Countering Eurocentric modernity paradigms and reframing hierarchical relations between centres and peripheries, this book adopts an alternative methodology for interstitial spaces. By deploying the notion of the haptic, it establishes new connections between moving image artefacts and print media, early film practitioners, the socio-political context and cultural responses to the new visual medium.
Performing Brains on Screen
Authors: Vidal Fernando
Published: March 2024

Performing Brains on Screen deals with film enactments and representations of the belief that human beings are essentially their brains, a belief that embodies one of the most influential modern ways of understanding the human. Films have performed brains in two chief ways: by turning physical brains into protagonists, as in the "brain movies" of the 1950s, which show terrestrial or extra-terrestrial disembodied brains carrying out their evil intentions; or by giving brains that remain unseen inside someone’s head an explicitly major role, as in brain transplantation films or their successors since the 1980s, in which brain contents are transferred and manipulated by means of information technology. Through an analysis of filmic genres and particular movies, Performing Brains on Screen documents this neglected filmic universe, and demonstrates how the cinema has functioned as a cultural space where a core notion of the contemporary world has been rehearsed and problematized.
Korean Cinema in Global Contexts
Authors: Kim Soyoung
Published: March 2024

Offering the most comprehensive analysis of Korean cinema from its early history to the present, and including the films of Park Chan-wook, Bong Joon-ho and Kim Ki-young, Korean Cinema in Global Contexts: Postcolonial Phantom, Blockbuster and Trans-Cinema situates itself in the local, Inter-Asian, and transnational contexts by mobilizing the critical frameworks of feminism, postcolonial critique and comparative film studies. It is attentive to an enmeshment of the cinematic, aesthetics, politics and cultural history.
Peran Kurikulum Merdeka dalam Meningkatkan Mutu Pendidikan di Sekolah Dasar
Authors: Zumrotun Erna , Widyastuti Efa , Sutama Sutama , Sutopo Anam , Murtiyasa Budi
Published: March 2024

Kurikulum Merdeka menjadi salah satu program pemerintah dalam upaya pengembangan kualitas pendidikan dengan memberikan keleluasaan bagi sekolah untuk mengembangkan isi, metode, model, dan penilaian pembelajaran sesuai dengan karakteristik lingkungan lokal, budaya, dan isu-isu yang ada di sekitar, serta potensi siswa. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengkaji peran Kurikulum Merdeka terhadap peningkatan mutu pendidikan di sekolah dasar. Subjek penelitian ini yaitu SDN 8 Suwawal dimana sekolah tersebut merupakan salah satu sekolah dasar di Jepara yang telah mengimplementasikan Kurikulum Merdeka pada tahun ajaran 2022/2023. Metode penelitian yang digunakan yaitu penelitian kualitatif tipe studi kasus. Adapun desain penelitian yang digunakan yakni menggunakan teknik pengumpulan data melalui observasi, wawancara, dan dokumentasi. Diperoleh hasil penelitian bahwa implementasi Kurikulum Merdeka menghasilkan dampak positif terhadap meningkatnya mutu pendidikan di sekolah dasar, antara lain: meningkatkan motivasi belajar siswa, mengembangkan kreativitas dan keterampilan abad 21, memperkuat karakter dan nilai-nilai kebangsaan sesuai 6 dimensi pancasila, serta meningkatkan kemandirian dan profesionalisme guru.