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MAKNA NILAI KESENIAN DALAM BUKU PERKEMBANGAN LUDRUK DI JAWA TIMUR KAJIAN ANALISIS WACANA KARYA SUNARYO, DKK
Authors: Prativi Martina
Published: February 2024

Kehadiran ludruk merupakan suatu pencerahan bagi masyarakat yang merindukan suatu perubahan ke arah yang lebih baik secara pranata sosial namun dalam kemasan entertainment yang mampu menyentuh segenap lapisan masyarakat. Ludruk merupakan kesenian rakyat kecil yang mencerminkan segala pandangan dan pola fikir masyarakat lapisan bawah. Oleh karena itu, cerita-cerita ludruk umumnya mengangkat masalah kehidupan orang kecil sehari-hari (fragmen kehidupan) dengan penggunaan bahasa yang lebih egaliter karena rakyat kecil cenderung transparan dan apa adanya. Ludruk sebagai alat pertahanan budaya masyarakat Jawa Timur memiliki nilai-nilai kearifan lokal. pengertian keindahan dianggap sebagai salah satu jenis nilai seperti halnya nilai moral, nilai ekonomis, dan nilai-nilai yang lain. Nilai yang berhubungan dengan segala sesuatu yang tercakup dalam pengertian keindahan disebut nilai estetis. Bertahannya nilai yang terkandung dalam seni ludruk merupakan hal yang paling penting, sebab dalam perjalanan panjangnya ludruk telah melalui berbagai perubahan alam yang menuntut ludruk untuk bisa menyesuaikan diri agar tetap eksis ditengah masyarakat. Ludruk sebagai hasil dari kreatifitas rakyat kecil yang digunakan untuk sarana instropeksi bersama dalam arti skala sosial mampu menggabungkan nilai-nilai kehidupan di masyarakat.
O gigante vulnerável: um estudo panorâmico dos migrantes climáticos indianos entre 2014 e 2021
Authors: SOUZA LARISSA LIMA BEZERRA DE
Published: February 2024

A República da Índia é um dos mais relevantes Estados emergentes do Sistema Internacional no século XXI. Contudo, apesar de seu acelerado desenvolvimento econômico, o seu desenvolvimento humano não acompanha tal crescimento. Mesmo sendo o quinto país com maior Produto Interno Bruto (PIB), milhões de pessoas que ali habitam encontram-se em situação de pobreza e extrema pobreza. Além disso, é um dos países mais vulneráveis às mudanças climáticas, fator que tem desencadeado grandes fluxos migratórios em todo o mundo. Cerca de 51 milhões de pessoas deslocam-se anualmente devido a eventos climáticos, sendo 3,6 milhões desses indivíduos originários da Índia. Diante disso, este estudo tem por objetivo traçar um panorama explicativo a respeito da migração ambiental na Índia, no governo de Nerendra Modi, entre 2014 e 2021, focando nos principais eventos climáticos extremos do país e nos seus efeitos para o deslocamento humano. A pergunta basilar é: como os eventos climáticos extremos interferem sobre a população de um dos mais relevantes países do mundo? A hipótese é que, apesar do crescimento econômico, a vulnerabilidade climática da Índia gera fluxos migratórios ambientais permanentes ou temporários, com frequência cada vez maior, principalmente da população mais pobre. O método de abordagem da pesquisa é o dedutivo de caráter explicativo e qualitativo, utilizando-se de fontes primárias e secundárias, especificamente de estudos bibliográficos e dados governamentais e de centros de pesquisa, como o Centro de Pesquisas de Epidemiologia em Desastres ou Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) e o Centro de Monitoramento de Deslocamento Interno ou Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC). Palavras-chave: Índia; mudanças climáticas; migração climática.
15th Annual Rocky Mountain Spectroscopy Conference
Authors:   Rocky Mountain Conference
Published: February 2024

Program and abstracts from the 15th annual meeting of the Rocky Mountain Spectroscopy Conference, sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Section of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy. Held in Denver, Colorado, August 20-21, 1973.
Revista da SBPH se renova e traz uma série de melhorias editoriais
Authors: Vinícius Rezende Fagundes Netto Marcus
Published: February 2024

É com muita satisfação que a equipe editorial da Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Psicologia Hospitalar (Revista da SBPH) vem por meio deste editorial anunciar mudanças substanciais em nosso periódico.
An adaptive extended finite element based crack propagation analysis method
Authors: XIE Guizhong , ZHAO Chongmao , LI Hao , LIU Jun , ZHONG Yudong , DU Wenliao , LV Jiahe , WU Chao
Published: February 2024

In this paper, a method of crack propagation analysis based on adaptive extension finite element is proposed. This method combines adaptive mesh reconstruction technology with extended finite element method (XFEM). Firstly, the model of engineering structure is discretized with the help of mesh generation software, and the initial mesh is divided. Secondly, Construction of XFEM model, and the tip of crack strengthening function is introduced to describe the physical field properties of the crack tip. The integral equation is solved to obtain the crack tip parameters. Then, the adaptive mesh reconstruction technology is built to refine the mesh of crack tip area through the error estimation of crack tip. Finally, the SIFs at the crack tip were calculated using the interaction integral, and the path direction of crack growth was determined using the maximum circumferential tensile stress criterion. Thus, the propagation path can be well traced.
Effect of Vibration Direction on Vibration-Assisted Fixed Abrasive Polishing
Authors: NIU Ruikun , WU Zhongming , WANG Huantao , SUN Li
Published: February 2024

In order to study the effect of vibration direction on vibration-assisted fixed abrasive polishing and explore the influence rule of vibration direction on material removal rate and workpiece surface quality, a single abrasive particle vibration-assisted fixed abrasive polishing model was established to study the effect of axial and radial vibration on workpiece profile depth, surface morphology, etc. And the experiments of vibration-assisted fixed abrasive polishing in different vibration directions were carried out. The results show that axial vibration auxiliary polishing can greatly advance the processing efficiency, and improve the workpiece material removal rate by 27.6%; radial vibration auxiliary polishing can achieve better surface quality, and reduces the surface roughness by 59.8%.
The Whole Child
Authors: Carey Seamus
Published: February 2024

The Whole Child is a beautifully written book combining classic philosophical themes like wonder and happiness with modern parenting virtues like courage, compassion, integrity, and discipline. Seamus Carey uses anecdotes from his own experience as a parent, some amusing and some poignant, to illustrate philosophical concepts. The result is a rare work, as valuable to the serious student of philosophy as it is to Carey's fellow parents. Carey argues that parents need to rediscover the sense of wonder—the ontological depth—with which children experience life, and offers suggestions for how this recovery might take place. In so doing, Carey uncovers standards and ideas for raising children that reach beyond those typically considered by the modern family.
Embattled Glory
Authors: Diamant Neil J.
Published: February 2024

This groundbreaking book examines the treatment of veterans of the People's Liberation Army and military families as an illuminating window into Chinese patriotism, citizenship, and legitimacy. Using a wealth of recently declassified archival documents and employing a wide comparative perspective, Neil J. Diamant presents the first large-scale study of these groups in comparison to similar populations in other parts of Asia and in the West. He offers an unprecedented look at the "everyday interactions" among veterans, military families, state officials, and ordinary citizens as they attempted to secure urban residence, jobs, spouses, medical care, and respect.

Often celebrated by the government for their glorious and patriotic service, veterans and military families were the beneficiaries of many policies, such as affirmative action in hiring and access to political power. But, the author asks, if veteran and military families were heroic, why did many of them compare their situation to "donkeys slaughtered after grinding the wheat" and "tossed-away dirty socks?" And what explains the thousands of suicides among veterans, rampant discrimination, and ongoing protests against the government? By comparing veterans in China to their counterparts in the United States, the Soviet Union, Israel, and elsewhere, this book provides important answers to the larger question of what circumstances lead to better or worse treatment of veterans, and what this treatment tells us about patriotism, legitimacy, and respect for military service.
No Family History
Authors: McCormick Sabrina
Published: February 2024

No Family History presents compelling evidence of environmental links to breast cancer, ranging from everyday cosmetics to industrial waste. Sabrina McCormick weaves the story of one survivor with no family history into a powerful exploration of the big business of breast cancer. As drugs, pink products, and corporate sponsorships generate enormous revenue to find a cure, a growing number of experts argue that we should instead increase focus on prevention—reducing environmental exposures that have contributed to the sharp increase of breast cancer rates. But the dollars continue to pour into the search for a cure, and the companies that profit, including some pharmaceutical and cosmetics companies, may in fact contribute to the environmental causes of breast cancer. No Family History shows how profits drive our public focus on the cure rather than prevention, and suggests new ways to reduce breast cancer rates in the future.
More Than Title IX
Authors: Hanson Katherine , Guilfoy Vivian , Pillai Sarita
Published: February 2024

Women in America have come a long way in the last hundred years, from lacking the right to vote to holding some of the highest profile positions in the country. But this change has not come without struggle. More Than Title IX highlights the impact of one of the most powerful instruments of change—education. The book takes readers behind the scenes of some of the most influential moments for gender equity in education and tells the dramatic stories of the women and men who made these changes possible. The narrative blends historical analysis with dynamic interview excerpts with people whose actions made a difference in both educational equity and in the country as a whole. By showing how hard-won changes in education have improved life for women and men in America over the past century, the authors remind readers not to take freedoms for granted.
Inventorying Cultural Heritage Collections
Authors: Vanderwarf Sandra , Romanowski Bethany
Published: February 2024

This two-part text opens with an argument few collections practitioners would contest: Regular inventories are central to meaningful, sustainable, and ethical collections preservation and access. But Vanderwarf and Romanowski argue that in practice—some 25 years working with diverse collections between them—inventories are uncommon: instead of functioning as a commonplace feature of collections care, they tend to be evoked as a last resort when a museum has lost control of its collection.

Part I offers a flexible project management framework that illustrates strategies for reining in control of collections now. From identifying objectives that best serve the collection in question to securing stakeholder support and planning time and resources, Part I eliminates some guesswork around what may be an unprecedented and intensive project. To maintain the benefits of a project-style inventory, the authors then encourage practitioners to embrace inventory as an ongoing, evolving collections care function that reflects changing professional values and expectations from the communities museums serve. By centering computerized databases, barcoding, and digital collections, the authors further acknowledge these technologies as permanent, evolving features of collections and inventory practice that merit increased resourcing.

Part II gives voice to practitioners around the world through case studies that affirm the vital role of inventories in regaining control of collections. Some of these inventories occurred during the course of everyday work, while others were responses to natural disasters and armed conflict. Still others may be seen as expressions of social justice. As much as the authors offer a guide to performing inventories, thereby filling a longstanding gap in the literature, they invite cultural heritage institutions to rethink how the stories held in collections can be better told and preserved through enhanced inventory practice.

The book will benefit seasoned museum collections practitioners as well as those who lack access to formal museology education and training. The book targets stewards of cultural heritage and material culture collections with varying resources
Sigmund Freud
Authors: Ross Alistair
Published: February 2024

Sigmund Freud’s name is known throughout the world. He opened up the world of the unconscious, so people can understand themselves so much better than before. His unique ideas are discussed in academic circles. His psychoanalytic techniques influenced mental health, counselling, psychotherapy and psychiatry. His words form part of everyday language. Lying on a couch and having dreams interpreted by an analyst is an iconic picture of modern life and popular culture.

Sigmund Freud: A Reference Guide to Her Life and Work captures his eventful life, his works, and his legacy. The volume features a chronology, an introduction, a comprehensive bibliography, and the dictionary section lists entries on Freud, his family, friends (and foes), colleagues, and the evolution of psychoanalysis.
The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia
Authors: Pender Rick
Published: February 2024

Praise from Jesse Green, New York Times Chief Theater Critic, Arts, in the 2023 Holiday Gift Guide: “From A (the director George Abbott) to Y ('You Could Drive a Person Crazy'), The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia, by Rick Pender, offers an astonishingly comprehensive look, in more than 130 entries, at the late master’s colleagues, songs, shows and methods."

The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia is a wonderfully detailed and comprehensive reference devoted to musical theater’s most prolific and admired composer and lyricist. Entries cover Sondheim’s numerous collaborators, from composers and directors to designers and orchestras; key songs, such as his Academy Award winner “Sooner or Later” (Dick Tracy); and major works, including Assassins, Company, Follies, Sweeney Todd, and West Side Story. The encyclopedia also profiles the actors who originated roles and sang Sondheim’s songs for the first time, including Ethel Merman, Angela Lansbury, Mandy Patinkin, and Bernadette Peters.

Featuring a detailed biographical entry for Sondheim, a chronology of his career, a listing of his many awards, and discussions of his opinions on movies, opera, and more, this wide-ranging resource will attract musical theater enthusiasts again and again.
Historical Dictionary of Modern Coups d’état
Authors: Chin John J. , Wright Joseph , Carter David B.
Published: February 2024

“For readers interested in international relations, politics, and global issues.” -Library Journal, Starred Review

The Historical Dictionary of Modern Coups d’état surveys the history of coups d’état in the post-World War II period. The term “modern” in the title therefore demarcates the period since January 1946. This book documents over 582 coup attempts that have occurred in 108 different countries worldwide over a period of 75 years.

Historical Dictionary of Modern Coups d'état contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 1,400 cross-referenced dictionary entries. This book is an excellent resource for students, and researchers.
City on the Line
Authors: Kleine Andrew
Published: February 2024

In City on the Line, former Baltimore budget director Andrew Kleine asks why the way government does its most important job – deciding how to spend taxpayer dollars – hasn’t changed in hundreds of years. Parts memoir, manifesto, and manual, this book tells the story of Baltimore’s radical departure from traditional line item budgeting to a focus on outcomes like better schools, safer streets, and stronger neighborhoods—during one of the most tumultuous decades in the city’s history. Elected officials, executives, and citizens alike will be equipped to transform budgets in their city, state, or any other mission-driven organization.
Historical Dictionary of Kierkegaard's Philosophy
Authors: Barnett Christopher B.
Published: February 2024

Historical Dictionary of Kierkegaard's Philosophy, Second Edition chronicles the life and thoughts of the great Danish thinker Søren Kierkegaard (1813-55). What makes this volume essential is its extensive scope: it provides a glossary of concepts, persons, and places related to Kierkegaard’s authorship, from “Absolute” to “Hans Christian Ørsted.” This is done through a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 200 cross-referenced entries oncepts, persons, and places related to the life and work of Søren Kierkegaard. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about this subject.
Historical Dictionary of the United States
Authors: Panton Kenneth J.
Published: February 2024

The evolution of the United States from a late-18th century coalition of rebel British colonies to a 21st century global superpower was shaped by several forces. As the nation expanded its boundaries after the Treaty of Paris confirmed independence from Great Britain in 1783, it acquired a rich variety of resources – coal, fertile soils, forests, iron ore, oil, precious metals, space, and varied climates as well as extensive tracts of territory. Technological innovations, such as the cotton gin and steam power, enabled entrepreneurs to exploit those resources and create wealth. Federal and state legislators provided environments in which the economy could flourish, and military strategists kept the country safe from external attack. Diplomats negotiated commercial agreements with foreign governments and cultivated multinational alliances that strengthened freedoms. Through its focus on the people and places that shaped the country’s economic and political development and its detailed accounts of the processes that enabled the U.S. to expand across the continent

Historical Dictionary of the United States contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 400 cross-referenced entries on important personalities as well as aspects of the country’s politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the United States.
Museum Metamorphosis
Authors: wheadon nico
Published: February 2024

In Museum Metamorphosis, over forty cultural innovators and changemakers in contemporary art share strategies for building sociocultural relevancy and responsiveness in museums. Representing diverse perspectives from across the entire arts and culture ecosystem, the book offers tools to reshape museums into collaborative platforms for collective impact and social change.

Part One features seven roundtables in which practitioners discuss best practices for dismantling barriers to entry and building reciprocal, sustained engagement with diverse constituencies. Part Two documents four case studies in structured collaboration, prompting museums to invest in both hyperlocal relationships and cross-sector partnerships. And Part Three features four interviews with thought leaders who discuss how to shift equity from a measure of compliance to a vital daily practice of organizational accountability and sustainability.

Compiled during a moment of heightened social action, cultural transformation, and institutional critique, Museum Metamorphosis considers and responds to the following prompts: how will museums learn to embrace real-time change and adapt to meet the evolving needs of a rapidly shifting sociopolitical landscape? How can this metamorphosis open new pathways for engagement and encourage museums to meet more audiences where they are? And, how might reconstituting the essential DNA of the museum recalibrate the power dynamics between communities and institutions, producing a sustainable model for engaged cultural citizenship?

In addressing these questions,Museum Metamorphosislooks to innovation transpiring beyond the museum echo chamber and lays bare both the opportunities and challenges of adopting new ways of working. It dares readers to identify their respective position within the social change ecosystem, and empowers them with tools to reorient their work towards cultural equity and social justice.
Across Black Spaces
Authors: Yancy George
Published: February 2024

Across Black Spaces gathers and builds on a diverse array of essays and interviews by American philosopher and leading public intellectual George Yancy. Within this multidisciplinary framework are works from The New York Times, The Guardian, and other major media outletswhich have drawn international acclaim for their spotlight on vicious racial tensions in American academia and society at large.

With this collection of revised and updated works, Yancy engages a vast scope of social, political, historical, linguistic, and philosophical themes that together illustrate what it means to be Black in America. Four sections of the book engage, first, moral outrage at contemporary ethical crises; second, the search for identity and value of vulnerability; third, the history and present values of Black and Africana philosophy; and fourth, the essential role of African American language in understanding Black lived experience.

Representing twenty years of persistent inquiry and advocacy, Across Black Spaces celebrates Yancy’s undeniable importance in American intellectual progress and essential social change.
The Thinker's Guide to Ethical Reasoning
Authors: Paul Richard , Elder Linda
Published: February 2024

In The Thinker’s Guide to Ethical Reasoning, Richard Paul and Linda Elder present the vital role of ethics in the creation and ultimate success of cooperative societies. Independent of religious or cultural norms, ethical concepts promote sustainable advancement and offer a framework by which all people can not only coexist but prosper.

Exploring the nature of ethical reasoning, the guide reveals the most common ways ethical reasoning becomes flawed and teaches readers how to avoid these flaws. It lays out the function of ethics and its main impediments, the social counterfeits of ethics, the elements of ethical reasoning, important ethical abilities and traits, a vocabulary of ethics, and intellectual standards essential to assessing ethical reasoning.

As part of the Thinker’s Guide Library, this book advances the mission of the Foundation for Critical Thinking to promote fairminded critical societies through cultivating essential intellectual abilities and virtues across every field of study across world.
How to Read a Paragraph
Authors: Paul Richard , Elder Linda
Published: February 2024

How to Read a Paragraph introduces the importance of purposeful skilled reading and lays out methods by which to develop close reading skills using the tools of critical thinking. Developing these skills enables students to read for deep understanding, to properly analyze and assess what they read, and to reason within the logic of an author. As readers engage with the thinking of authors and uncover their assumptions and motivations, they glean the most useful information from their written work.

This book pairs with How to Write a Paragraph to offer an in-depth introduction to effective reading and writing skills. Activities in the book help sharpen reading comprehension skills for an elevated level of self-understanding, fulfillment, and depth of vision.

As part of the Thinker’s Guide Library, this book advances the mission of the Foundation for Critical Thinking to promote fairminded critical societies through cultivating essential intellectual abilities and virtues within every field of study across world.
Secrets from the Black Vault
Authors: Greenewald, Jr. John
Published: February 2024

What happens when the history books are wrong? The United States Government wants you to not question the narrative that, in some cases, has been written by them for more than a century. But sometimes, real facts emerge from declassified documents that challenge what you thought you knew.

This book dissects some of the most amazing declassified documents that have changed the history of the world and our perception of it. With each turn of the page, Secrets from The Black Vault reveals declassified programs and formerly top secret illustrations that detail an Air Force’s secret plan to build a Mach 4 flying saucer; the Department of Defense’s plan to detonate a nuclear bomb on the surface of the moon; the use of psychic spies within the CIA; how an unidentified object almost sparked World War III; and much more. Declassified documents within The Black Vault play a crucial role in understanding the inner workings of America’s top secret agendas.
Exploring American Healthcare through 50 Historic Treasures
Authors: Kehoe Tegan
Published: February 2024

Healthcare history is more than leeches and drilling holes in skulls. It is stories of scientific failures and triumphs.

Exploring American Healthcare through 50 Historic Treasures presents a visual and narrative history of health and medicine in the United States, tracing paradigm shifts such as the introduction of anesthesia, the adoption of germ theory, and advances in public health. In this book, museum artifacts are windows into both famous and ordinary people’s experiences with healthcare throughout American history, from patent medicines and faith healing to laboratory science.

With 50 vignette-like chapters and 50 color photographs, Exploring American Healthcare through 50 Historic Treasures showcases little-known objects that illustrate the complexities of our relationship with health, such as a bottle from the short period when the Schlitz beer company sold lager that was supposed to be high in vitamin D during the first vitamin craze. It also highlights famous moments in medicine, such as the discovery of penicillin, as illustrated by a mold-culturing pan. Each artifact tells some piece of the story of how its creators or users approached fundamental questions in health. Some of these questions are, “What causes sickness, and what causes health?” and “How much can everyone master the principles of health, and how much do laypeople need to rely on outside authorities?”

Exploring American Healthcare through 50 Historic Treasures describes the days when surgeons worked on patients without anesthesia and wiped their scalpels on their coats, and the day that EMTs raced to provide help when the Twin Towers were attacked in 2001. The book discusses social and cultural influences that have shaped healthcare, providing insight relevant to today’s problems and colorful anecdotes along the way.
Academic Librarianship
Authors: Simons Marcy
Published: February 2024

Academic Librarianship: Anchoring the Profession in Contribution, Scholarship, and Service is needed now as a response to how much has changed in academic librarianship as a profession (from the smallest academic libraries to large research libraries).

Much has been written recently about the status of the profession of librarianship, i.e. whether or not it should still be considered a “profession,” are the same credentials still required/enough, should things change dramatically in SLIS programs in response to the new normal, and what is the impact of hiring PhD’s in disciplines outside of librarianship.

Major topics covered include:

State of the profession of librarianship today

Status of librarians

Tenure or not

Move away from faculty status in some (more) academic libraries

Contributions to the profession -- scholarship

What is produced

How are librarians conducting research

Where is it taking place -- who is producing scholarship

Why

Trends

Contribution to the profession -- service and professional associations

LIS Education

Tomorrow -- what are the implications for the future of our profession

Author Marcy Simons explores the history, current status, and future of the profession of academic librarianship. She clearly demonstrates the need for a shared understanding of how we will work together in order to continue our transformation.
Saving Species on Private Lands
Authors: Baier Lowell E.
Published: February 2024

Winner, Independent Press Award - Conservation/Green, 2021

The only hope for successful conservation of America’s threatened, endangered, and at-risk wildlife is through voluntary, cooperative partnerships that focus on private land, where over 75% of at-risk species can be found. Private landowners form the bedrock of these partnerships, and they have a long history of rising to meet the challenge of conservation. But they can’t do it alone.

This book is a guide for private landowners who want to conserve wildlife. Whether engaged in farming, ranching, forestry, mining, energy development, or another business, private working lands all have value as wildlife habitat, with the proper management and financial support. This book provides landowners and their partners with a roadmap to achieve conservation compatible with their financial and personal goals.

This book introduces the art and language of land management planning as well as regulatory compliance with laws such as the Endangered Species Act of 1973. It categorizes and explains the tools used by wildlife professionals to implement conservation on private lands. Moreover it documents the multitude of federal, state, local, and private opportunities for landowners to find financial and technical assistance in managing wildlife, from working with a local NGO to accessing the $6 billion per year available through the federal Farm Bill.
Polybios
Authors: Dreyer Boris
Published: February 2024

Without Polybios, no account of the history of the Mediterranean world from the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC would be possible at this level. Almost the entire historiographical tradition – as far as it is reliable – somehow goes back to Polybios. It is impossible to avoid dealing with this author, who lived through many of the events he writes about between 200 and 122 BC. In addition, the politician and historian also provides an insight into his "workshop" allowing for a differentiated study of his historiographical principles. He constantly problematises the historical value of the sources. Independent documents confirm his account. Hence, it is not surprising that Polybios' work has a great impact. To this day, it can be considered a textbook for political actors and interested parties.
The Angiosome Concept and Endovascular Techniques for Limb Salvage
Authors: da Cruz Renó Leonardo , Araújo Cortines Laxe Renó Angélica
Published: February 2024

The aim of this chapter is to provide an overview of patients with arteriopathy, especially in the infrapatellar segment, which is the most affected in diabetic patients. In this sense, we always try to analyze the degree of disease of the patient and, if limb salvage intervention is necessary, to evaluate the new technologies that promote higher rates of technical success with less tissue aggression. In addition to the TASK classification, which provides an idea of the degree of obstruction and thus facilitates therapeutic decision-making, the use of various classifications has been demonstrated, which aims to promote better communication between physicians about the state of ischemia and the degree of injury. The different techniques used were presented, thanks to the development of new materials, with more and more possibilities for saving limbs.
Strengthening Substandard Road Materials with Nanoemulsion-Based Stabilisation: An Experimental Study
Authors: S. Okem Eche , N. Chilukwa Nathan , M.H. Mostafa Mohamed
Published: February 2024

This study considered using nanotechnology-based products to stabilise and enhance the properties of a substandard quality road construction material. Two stabilisers, herein referenced as Nano-A and Nano-B, were utilised to stabilise a G6 gravel material with a California bearing ratio (CBR) of 25% and a Plasticity Index (PI) of 4%. X-ray diffraction (XRD) tests showed that the material contained 58% Quartz with 36.5% clay minerals in the fraction passing the 0.075 mm sieve. The impact of the stabilisers on the material was evaluated through CBR, unconfined compressive strength (UCS), and indirect tensile strength (ITS) tests. The results revealed that both stabilisers significantly improved the bearing strength of the material by as much as 53 and 92% for Nano-A and Nano-B, respectively. Significant improvements were also noted in UCS and ITS results. The study also revealed that both rapid and 28-day curing conditions result in similar strength effects in the samples. Nano-B also showed great potential for improving the material’s hydrophobic properties as measured by the resistance to water damage. The research findings indicate an enhanced load-bearing capacity of the stabilised material, ensuring long-lasting pavement infrastructure. These enhancements demonstrate the effectiveness of Nano-A and Nano-B in improving the properties of substandard road construction materials. Tests on more substandard materials are recommended.
Understanding and Managing Obesity: A Multidisciplinary Approach
Authors: Alkhatry Maryam
Published: February 2024

Obesity emerges as a critical public health threat, with numerous nations witnessing a staggering surge in prevalence over recent decades. This escalating health crisis increases the risk of diseases, including type 2 diabetes mellitus, fatty liver disease, hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, dementia, osteoarthritis, and various cancers, contributing to morbidity and mortality. The consequences of obesity extend beyond health, including unemployment, social disparities, and impaired quality of life. The ineffectiveness of conventional methods to control obesity highlights the need for a new approach to public policy that shifts away from an emphasis on individual behavior change toward strategies that address environmental factors. The role of a multidisciplinary team, including nurses, dietitians, and psychologists, to support patients through their weight loss journey should not be neglected. Multidisciplinary management of obesity has been recognized as an effective means to improve weight loss and associated health outcomes.
Strategi Customer Service Excellence Pada Customer Service B21 Digital Printing Gresik
Authors: Khoiriyah Saadatul , Rini Hesty Prima
Published: February 2024

In today's competitive era of globalization, customer satisfaction is the key to the success and sustainability of a company. This journal discusses the Customer Service Excellence strategy implemented by B21 Digital Printing, a digital printing industrial company in Indonesia. In this era of digitalization, companies are faced with demands to not only survive, but also innovate in every aspect of operations, especially in understanding and meeting customer needs, carrying out effective communication, and providing good service and handling complaints. Through qualitative research methods, using a qualitative descriptive approach. The research results show that B21 Digital Printing has succeeded in achieving integrated Customer Service Excellence by utilizing technology, by creating software applications, namely the WA CS (WhatsApp Customer Service) and BIMA (Business Integrated Management Apps) applications. The WA CS application provides organization and efficiency in customer service with Chatbots and Artificial Intelligence features for fast response. Meanwhile, the BIMA application makes business operations easier, from ordering to company financial management. With this technological innovation, B21 Digital Printing has succeeded in overcoming several common problems faced in the digital printing industry. In this way, B21 Digital Printing has succeeded in increasing competitiveness, customer loyalty and maintaining customer trust in the company.
Análisis de la producción y exportación de fresa mexicana: 1988-2020.
Authors: Tapia Garcia Thalia Ximena , Hernández Pérez Jonathan , Castellanos Suarez José Alfredo
Published: February 2024

The objective of this study was to carry out a descriptive analysis of the variables that determine strawberry production in Mexico; to analyze the potential export markets for Mexican strawberries; and to determine the effect of strawberry exports on production using a regression model for the period 1988-2020. The results were that, if the average rural price increases 1%, suppliers will be willing to produce 118,096 tons more and if strawberry exports increase 1%, production will increase 2.9%. The COVID-19 sanitary crisis reduced Mexican strawberry production by 279,794 tons. Since export demand influences strawberry supply, it is necessary to assist small and medium-sized producers to meet export quality standards and take advantage of market opportunities in Latin America and Europe.
On the Importance of an Informed Christian Conscience
Authors: Humphreys Carolyn ,   The National Catholic Bioethics Center
Published: February 2024

The human conscience is a divine gift but one that is severely misunderstood in modern society. Often seen as an internal voice that guides us, conscience is much deeper and requires honest reflection and a receptivity to truth. In this article, Humphreys discusses both the errors many allow in their conscience development and how to better develop a trustworthy conscience.
Pengaruh Massa Weight Roller terhadap Keausan Material dan Akselerasi Motor N-Max
Authors: Ghozali Rahmatul , Putra Randi Purnama , Abadi Zainal , Arafat Andril
Published: February 2024

The Nmax motorbike roller basically consists of 6 units which function to maintain and regulate motor acceleration found in the Roller Housing in the Continuously Variable Transmission (CVT) section which allows friction and wear to occur on the roller material. Acceleration is the level of acceleration that occurs in an object at a certain time, while material wear is the mechanical property of an object to accept loads, power and energy without causing damage. This research was carried out using a Tribometer test tool and logger pro analysis software. The results obtained show that material wear increases with increasing RPM. At 500 rpm, standard roller wear ranges from 0.107% to 0.346%, while at 1400 rpm, wear increases to range from 0.323% to 0.938%. The acceleration test results show that the standard roller with a mass of 13 grams has the lowest acceleration performance, with the lowest value occurring in test II at 1.26 m/s². Meanwhile, the 9 gram roller has the highest average acceleration of 4.82 m/s².
General Well Being among Graduate and Undergraduate Students of Business Institute, Karachi: Retrospective Cross Sectional Study
Authors: Maryam Moula Bakhsh  , Faraz Ahmed Wajidi  , Tasmia Abeer Billoo  , Kamila Mariam Iftikhar  , Fauzia Imtiaz
Published: February 2024

Well-being is a significant aspect of students’ achievement (Kutsyuruba et al., 2015). Business students, expected to be more independent and responsible for their work, require drive, perseverance, and focus to successfully complete various tasks (Seijts et al., 2022). The objective of this study was to evaluate the general well-being of graduate and undergraduate students at a Business Institute in Karachi, Pakistan. A cross sectional analytical study was conducted to assess the subjective well-being of students. The targeted population of this study comprised graduate and undergraduate students present at the business institute’s health camp. The official register of participants from the registration desk was used as a sampling frame, and a random sampling technique was employed to select a sample. A self-administered structured questionnaire, including demographic variables and Six dimensions of general well-being (anxiety, depression, positive well-being, vitality, self-control, and general health), was used to collect data. Mean and SD were used for quantitative variables, while frequency and percentage were used for qualitative variables. Pearson correlation was used to assess the relationship between gender, graduate and undergraduate status, different age groups, and the six dimensions of general well-being schedule. The significant findings of the study provide insight into initiating efforts to foster positive feelings of subjective well-being among students. Furthermore, training and awareness programs are needed to be launched in universities to help students cultivate more Positive feelings of subjective well-being.
Teaching Teens “and Ourselves” to Be Mindful, Connected Readers
Authors: Collier Lorna
Published: February 2024

Authors Troy Hicks and Kristen Hawley Turner are interviewed about their new NCTE book, Connected Reading. Hicks and Turner will be presenting at the NCTE Annual Convention.
Keith Gilyard: Looking to the Past to Transform the Present
Authors: Allen Norman
Published: February 2024

Gilyard infuses his work with a profound respect for the power of language.
President’s Update: Capacity Building as a Shared NCTE Agenda
Authors: Short Kathy G.
Published: February 2024

NCTE is an organization in which hundreds of different groups and entities have contributed to more than a century of research and action to further our profession. As we near our 105th year of existence, we’re asking ourselves what more might be possible if all our different identities joined forces toward a shared agenda.
Advocacy as Capacity Building: Creating a Movement through Collaborative Inquiry
Authors: Short Kathy G.
Published: February 2024

Advocacy as Capacity Building: Creating a Movement through Collaborative Inquiry
Product or Process? Perspectives on Portfolio Assessments in Community College Composition
Authors: Allen Norman
Published: February 2024

Read the full article on the Council Chronicle Highlights page.
Visual Literacy: A Tool to Support Cultural Healing
Authors: Tridgell Jill
Published: February 2024

Heighten Your Level of Awareness with These Tips from Roberta Price Gardner
Writing Hope
Authors: Sieben Nicole
Published: February 2024

“Hope is a journey with all the obstacles and all the successes andeverything in between; it is a process oriented in action, just like writing.”
Does Climate Change Have a Place in the English Classroom?
Authors: Collier Lorna
Published: February 2024

English teachers are experts at helping students examine relevant, complex, and connected stories and look for meaning and truths in and behind the words. This is the view of the authors of a new book from NCTE and Routledge, and is one of the reasons the authors believe the climate change story is one that deserves a place in the English classroom.
“Gifts” of the Archives: A Pedagogy for Undergraduate Research
Authors: Hayden Wendy
Published: February 2024

This essay details the pedagogical possibilities of incorporating archival research assignments in undergraduate rhetoric and composition courses. It uses Susan Wells’s concept of the “gifts” of the archives to explore a pedagogy for undergraduate research that emphasizes uncertainty and exploration—a pedagogy that has applications beyond undergraduate archival research projects.
Writing about Writing and the Multimajor Professional Writing Course
Authors: Read Sarah , Michaud Michael J.
Published: February 2024

This article connects the pedagogy of the multimajor professional writing (MMPW) course with two important contemporary discussions in composition studies: the pedagogy called writing about writing (WAW) and the conversation about the transferability of rhetorical knowledge from school to work. We argue that the capaciousness of the WAW approach accommodates the best of genre-based and client-based pedagogies for the MMPW course and provides a framework for expanding the course beyond skill-based outcomes to include preparing students to be learning transformers. The article includes two iterations of what a writing about writing–professional writing (WAW-PW) course can look like.
Queer Literacies Survival Guide
Authors: Waite Stacey
Published: February 2024

A literacy narrative.
2015 CCCC Chair’s Address: Ain’t No Walls behind the Sky, Baby! Funk, Flight, Freedom
Authors: Banks Adam
Published: February 2024

This is a written version of the address that Adam Banks gave at the CCCC Convention in Tampa, Florida, on Thursday, March 19, 2015.
Review Essay: Cross-Disciplinary Approaches to Style
Authors: Bacon Nora
Published: February 2024

Reviewed are: Stylish Academic Writing Helen Sword The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century Steven Pinker
Rethinking Regulation in the Age of the Literacy Machine
Authors: Soliday Mary , Seibal Trainor Jennifer
Published: February 2024

Drawing from a large qualitative study, we examine how students experience writing in college, focusing on the conditions that allow students to develop their authorship and those that encourage students to experience writing as a process of following rules and regulations. We situate students’ perceptions, and the assignments and practices that led to them, within what anthropologists call “audit culture”—accounting practices and their technologies, which have migrated across institutions, including higher education. We suggest our field’s institutional status and pedagogical complexities make us especially susceptible to audit culture, and we argue that students’ experiences in our writing classrooms, where they face an ever-increasing bureaucratization of literacy, is an urgent area of research. We ask readers to consider the extent to which audit culture encourages teachers to create closed systems that privilege outcomes rather than consequences with an end-inview. We conclude by calling for an artisanal identity for both teachers and students.
What Writers Do: Behaviors, Behaviorism, and Writing Studies
Authors: Gallagher Chris W.
Published: February 2024

This article offers a fuller account than we currently have of the complex, uneasy relationship between behaviorism and writing studies in order both to complicate our disciplinary historiography and to encourage writing scholars, teachers, and program administrators to articulate productive and unproductive understandings of writing behaviors.
Mobile Bodies: Triggering Bodily Uptake through Movement
Authors: LeMesurier Jennifer Lin
Published: February 2024

This article explores bodily movement practices as a foundational component of rhetorical awareness. Through ethnographic study of dance pedagogy, the author demonstrates how genre uptake is enabled by bodily experience; learned ways of moving produce inclinations toward certain rhetorical pathways over others.Enabling students to uptake new genres means teaching them to be aware of the intersection of bodily and intellectual resources.
Veterans in the Writing Classroom: Three Programmatic Approaches to Facilitate the Transition from the Military to Higher Education
Authors: Hart D. Alexis , Thompson Roger
Published: February 2024

Drawing upon a two-year study of student-veterans in college writing classrooms, this article analyzes three types of courses developed in an effort to respond to increased military-affiliated student enrollments: veterans-only, veteran-focused, and veteran-friendly. The article concludes with recommendations for an asset-based approach to professional development for writing faculty