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Automatic Blood Glucose Regulator
Authors: P.Deepthi  , R.Yoganapriya  , M.Dhinakaran
Published: January 2023

Diabetes is the most common metabolic disease in the world in which Blood Glucose levels in the human body remain high for a prolonged period that will lead to death when there is no proper health care. For diabetic patients Blood Glucose levels must be regulated properly in order to manage their health properly. To check Blood Glucose levels diabetic patients perform a capillary test at least three times per day. This Blood Glucose monitoring technique is an invasive procedure, where the blood samples are collected through finger prick this makes the process painful with the risk of infection. To overcome this, an Automatic Blood Glucose Regulator is developed for the critical Diabetic patients. In this automatic regulator the Blood Glucose levels are continuously monitored with non invasive risk free procedure and in case of high Blood Glucose level the insulin will be automatically injected into the patient body by using insulin injector. In addition, a SMS message about a patient. Blood Glucose level will also be sent to the corresponding caretaker and the same will be stored in the cloud for future reference.
IoT Based Covid Patient Health Monitoring System
Authors: R.Yoganapriya  , P.Deepthi  , M.Dhinakaran
Published: January 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic situation has made timely Health monitoring a major concern for saving a life. The busy routine life is a major challenge for doctors to regularly monitor the Health of a COVID Patient. To overcome this problem faced by the family members and doctors in this pandemic situation, we have designed a smart Health monitoring system using IoT (Internet of Things). This system immediately checks and alerts about the critical situations faced by the COVID Patients. This system uses NODEMCU ESP8266 controller, for continuous tracking of the Patient’s Blood Oxygen saturation (SpO 2 ) level. Additionally, Patient Health parameters such as Body Temperature, Heart rate (BPM), as well as Room Temperature and Humidity can also be measured. The Patient Health data are collected and stored in an IoT platform (BLYNK). These Patient Health parameters can be monitored from anywhere by any devices such as Smartphones, Laptop, PC, Smart TV’s etc… that supports browsing capabilities. If the levels of Blood Oxygen Saturation (SpO 2 ) gets lower, it sends a warning immediately to the family members, doctors and to the nearest hospital through mail, phone call and SMS (Short Message Service). By Checking the data obtained from the system, necessary actions could be taken before the problem becomes severe. Thus, the Patient’s life can be saved in time by using this proposed system.
Науково-дослідний інститут проблем військової медицини Української військово-медичної академії – основа військово-медичної науки
Authors: Ivanko О. М. , Zhakhovsky V. O. , Livinskyi V. G.
Published: January 2023

Мета. Дослідження історичних аспектів формування та розвитку військово-медичної науки в Україні, ролі та значення Науково-дослідного інституту проблем військової медицини (НДІ ПВМ) Української військово-медичної академії для комплексного вирішення проблем медичного забезпечення Збройних Сил (ЗС) України та його здобутків.

Матеріали та методи. Використано законодавчі, нормативно-правові акти та керівні документи з питань розбудови ЗС України, наукові статті та інші публікації щодо розвитку військово-медичної науки і медичного забезпечення військ. Об’єкт дослідження – військово-медична наука в системі Міністерства оборони України. Предмет дослідження – історія формування, розвитку та результати діяльності НДІ ПВМ. Методи дослідження: історичний, бібліографічний, узагальнення.

Результати. Досліджено історичні аспекти формування та розвитку військово-медичної науки в Україні, роль та значення НДІ ПВМ для комплексного вирішення проблем медичного забезпечення ЗС України. Проаналізовано напрацювання та здобутки НДІ ПВМ, які стали науковим підґрунтям та основою формування і розвитку системи медичного забезпечення ЗС України та інших складових сил оборони.

Висновки. Наука є найважливішим чинником технічного і соціального прогресу суспільства, зокрема щодо пошуку раціональних шляхів військового будівництва держави, у тому числі розвитку військової медицини. Створення НДІ ПВМ слугувало науковому вирішенню критично важливих проблем у військово-медичній сфері, науковому та науково-методичному супроводженню розбудови та функціонування системи медичного забезпечення ЗС України та інших складових сил оборони.
Sentir o disentir (he ahí el dilema)
Authors: Palacios Alberto
Published: January 2023

Interesado en la respuesta terapéutica que suelo predecir en mis enfermos crónicos, traigo a la palestra un fenómeno que de suyo es enigmático: el efecto placebo.
O líquen sobre a lápide
Authors: Neubarth Fernando
Published: January 2023

É preciso alertar, orientar e desmistificar sobre uma condição muito comum e que acomete a pele, mas que também pode afetar as articulações, causar dor e sofrimento. Eis uma breve crônica de um estigma através dos séculos.
Classification of Banana Ripeness Based on Color and Texture Characteristics
Authors: Kahfi Ahmad Hafidzul , Hasan Muhamad , Hasanah Riyan Latifahul
Published: January 2023

Banana is one of the most consumed fruits globally and is a rich source of vitamins, minerals and carbohydrates. With the many benefits that bananas have, many farmers cultivate this fruit. The problem that occurs when the harvest is produced on a large scale is the process of selecting bananas that are still unripe or ripe. Usually farmers carry out the selection process manually by visually identifying ripeness based on the color of the fruit skin. However, direct observation has several drawbacks such as subjectivity, takes a long time and is inaccurate. For this reason, we need a system that can help determine the maturity level of bananas automatically through a series of banana image processing processes. One way that can be used to determine the maturity level of bananas is by looking at the color and texture of the bananas. This study aims to classify the maturity level of bananas based on the color and texture characteristics of the banana image using the Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix and K-Nearest Neighbor methods for the classification process. Based on the results of the research analysis that has been carried out, using the parameter k which has a value of 3 obtains very high accuracy.
Decision Support System for Sentiment Analysis of Youtube Comments on Government Policies
Authors: Udayana I Putu Agus Eka Darma , Indrawan I Gusti Agung , Putra I Putu Dwi Guna Ambara
Published: January 2023

Sentiment analysis is the process of classifying a text dataset as positive, negative or neutral. Youtube is one of the popular media used to provide responses to a problem. In the Jokowi era, infrastructure development was carried out massively and evenly, one of which was in Bali Province, namely the construction of the Mengwi-Gilimanuk Toll Road. The construction of the Mengwi-Gilimanuk Toll Road consumed a lot of people's agricultural land, which resulted in various pro and con responses from the community. From these problems, sentiment analysis is carried out to get community reviews related to the object being analyzed by utilizing algorithms to be able to classify opinions, in the construction of this system the naïve bayes algorithm is used with testing methods namely accuracy, precision, and recall. From the sentiment analysis conducted by utilizing 18 video links on YouTube with 701 comments, it produces positive sentiment as much as 50.64%, negative sentiment as much as 7.70% and neutral sentiment as much as 39.23%.
Research on the Construction of Curriculum System for Economics and Management Majors in Applied Undergraduate Universities under the Background of “1+X
Authors:   Xi'an Jiaotong University City College, China, Zhao Jing , Liu Xuan ,   Xi'an Jiaotong University City College, China
Published: January 2023

As the process of popularising higher education accelerates, the number of college graduates grows year after year, and society sets greater standards for graduates' employment. At the moment, the scope of China's applied undergraduate colleges and universities is considerable, but the difficulty of graduates' employment and the low employment rate are the difficulties that impede their development. As a result of this phenomena, national applied undergraduate colleges and universities are actively looking for ways to increase the quality of talent training. This paper examines the necessity of developing a curriculum system for applied undergraduate economics and management majors, then examines the teaching objectives and requirements of applied undergraduate majors, and, on that basis, employs various teaching modes to improve and optimise the curriculum system of applied undergraduate finance and economics majors by combining the relevant concepts of "1+X."
A Study on Teaching Reform of "Foundation" Classes in Teacher Training Colleges and Universities under the Perspective of Establishing Virtue and Raising People
Authors:   Jiangsu Second Normal University ,, Zhang Dan , Hua Xing ,   Jiangsu Second Normal University ,
Published: January 2023

The "foundation" course is an important course for teacher training colleges and universities to cultivate students' overall development and improve their comprehensive quality. In view of the problems of teaching "foundation" courses in teacher training colleges and universities, we analyze the problem of how to infiltrate students' moral education in the process of ideological and political education. It is proposed that moral education should be infiltrated from three aspects: ideology, morality and psychology; moral education elective courses should be offered to cultivate students' comprehensive quality; and teachers' professional ethics education and career planning should be strengthened. Through the reform of teaching methods and teaching means of "basic" courses in teacher training colleges and universities, we can further improve the effectiveness of Civic Education, so that Civic Education can become the foundation of moral education and cultivate socialist builders and successors with comprehensive development of moral, intellectual, physical and aesthetic development.
Modeling the influence of startup ecosystem components: Entrepreneurial aspect
Authors: Dymchenko Olena , Smachylo Valentyna , Rudachenko Olha , Palant Oleksii , Kyselhof Yevhenii
Published: January 2023

Defining the basis for the development of a country’s start-up ecosystems as the basis for activating entrepreneurship is an urgent task of restoring the country’s economy. The purpose of this study is to identify ways to improve the country’s start-up ecosystem based on the construction of economic and mathematical models for activating business activities. The research methodology is based on statistical research methods, namely dynamics analysis; to assess the strength of the influence of each component of the start-up ecosystem on the change in position in the rating, regression correlation analysis was chosen, which allows identifying the strength of the influence of factors on the final indicator. The components of the start-up ecosystem were investigated, which means an interactive and interdependent set of institutions whose activities create an environment for the qualitative and quantitative growth of start-ups as subjects of innovative entrepreneurship development. The use of statistical analysis methods for the data of the countries, which were grouped into 5 clusters, allowed determining the absolute changes in the values of the Global Start-up Ecosystem Index rating indicators from Start-up Blink: rating change, quantitative component, qualitative component, business environment, general summary. Based on regression-correlation analysis, economicmathematical models were built, which describe the influence of the components of the country’s ecosystem on the change in the rating positions in the section of four clusters, demonstrating: a strong connection between the factors and the result (Clusters 2, 4). Weak connection for the countries of Clusters 3, 5, which indicates the dependence of the development of start-up ecosystems on other factors that are not considered in their description and which affect the development of start-ups and entrepreneurship in the countries of Clusters 3, 5. The practical value of this paper is that the results of the study can serve as the basis for the local and state authorities to form strategies to develop start-up ecosystems at the national and regional level
Assessing Adherence to Clinical Practice Guidelines Among Primary Care Physicians in Bahrain: A Cross-sectional Study
Authors: Al Sada Dhabya , Husain Yusra Irshad , Al Misbah Zainab
Published: January 2023

Objectives: To assess the adherence to clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) and explore the barriers to their implementation among primary care physicians (PCPs) in Bahrain. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted using an online survey among physicians working in 20 randomly selected public sector primary health centers in Bahrain. Private-sector physicians and family medicine residents were excluded. Outcome measures were assessing the extent of adherence to CPGs, describing the results in association with work roles, gender, level of formal training, and years of working experience, and investigating the barriers to adhering to CPGs. Results: The subjects were 149 PCPs (consultants, specialists, and general practitioners) working in government primary health centers. The vast majority (98.0%) reported that they implemented CPGs in their daily practice. The most commonly cited reason (79.2%) for implementation was that the CPGs were evidence-based. The most implemented guidelines pertained to diabetes (91.3%), hypertension (81.2%), and hyperlipidemia (69.8%). The least implemented ones were screening of women (38.9%) and postnatal care (45.6%). The level of formal medical training was associated with the implementation of CPGs on preventive care, antenatal and postnatal care, and children and women screening (p < 0.05). Hypertension and bronchial asthma guidelines were implemented more by male physicians (p< 0.05) while female physicians were more adherent to CPGs on antenatal and postnatal care, and women and child screening (p < 0.05). The main barrier reported by the physicians was that they wished to know more about CPGs before applying them (mean ± SD = 3.8 ± 0.9). The perception that managers or directors are non-cooperative towards the application of CPGs was associated with years of experience (p =0.008) and the position of the physician (p =0.028). General practitioners were more likely to consider non-cooperation from patients as a barrier (p =0.025). Conclusions: Most PCPs in Bahrain are adherent to CPGs in their daily practice and encounter minimal barriers. Identifying and resolving barriers can help develop unified and standardized guidelines that promote better consistency in patient management, minimize medical errors, and conserve resources.
Purifying the Consciousness in Hebrews
Authors: Bloor Joshua D. A.
Published: January 2023

Joshua D. A. Bloor argues that the purification of the consciousness of sin, via Jesus’ perpetual heavenly blood offering, is a vital motif for understanding Hebrews’ sacrificial argumentation, and vice-versa. Jesus’ ‘objective’ earthly achievements are many, yet only his ‘subjective’ heavenly blood offering purges the heavenly tabernacle and subsequently the consciousness of sin. Bloor views the Levitical cult as having a positive role in Hebrews, with Levitical ‘guilt’ foreshadowing and informing Hebrews’ notion of the ‘consciousness of sin’. Levitical sacrifices could purge the consciousness, but only Jesus’ heavenly blood can offer complete perpetual purgation. This blood is a qualitative type of purgation which continually speaks in heaven, offering eternal assurance for the recipients regarding their consciousness of sin.

Bloor begins with the ‘defiled consciousness’ and situates the world of Hebrews within cultic defilement, enabling the consciousness of sin and its cosmic implications to be properly understood. From here, the solution to a defiled consciousness is explored by examining Hebrews’ cultic argumentation. Bloor highlights the distinctive purposes inherent in both Jesus’ earthly and heavenly achievements, with the latter concerned particularly with Yom Kippur imagery and the purgation of the consciousness. Bloor concludes by differentiating between Jesus’ session, present heavenly activity and perpetual heavenly blood offering. Throughout this volume, Bloor engages, critiques and advances current discourse concerning the nature and timing of Jesus’ offering in Hebrews.
Repeat Printed Pattern for Interiors
Authors: Farley Kate
Published: January 2023

Repeating patterns can soothe or energize us, bringing joy and harmony to everyday life. Repeat Printed Pattern for Interiors explores the power repeat patterns hold over us and what goes into creating original, effective printed designs. Beginning with the history of patterns in interior design, Kate Farley uncovers lessons from the work of Owen Jones, William Morris, Collier Campbell and Josef Frank.

There are also interviews with some of the best contemporary pattern designers working today: Angie Lewin, Deborah Bowness, Eley Kishimoto, Emma J. Shipley, Galbraith & Paul, Neisha Crosland, Orla Kiely OBE, Sarah Campbell and Timorous Beasties. Each interview covers the designer’s practice and ethos and includes a deconstruction of one design, with discussion of initial sketches, details of design development, manufacturing insights and images of final products.

Covering hand-drawn techniques through to digital manipulation, you’ll also be guided through the implications of visual language, colour statements, manufacturing considerations and commercial interior contexts to prepare you to jump in and start creating your own unique patterns.
The Musical Theatre Composer as Dramatist
Authors: Warner Rebecca Applin
Published: January 2023

Dramaturgy is at the heart of any musical theatre score, proving that song and music combined can collectively act as drama. The Musical Theatre Composer as Dramatist: A Handbook for Collaboration offers techniques for approaching a musical with the drama at the centre of the music.

Written by a working composer of British musical theatre, this original and highly practical book is intended for composers, students of musical theatre and performing arts and their collaborators. Through detailed case studies, conceptual frameworks and frank analysis, this book encourages the collaboration between the languages of music and drama. It offers a shared language for talking about music in the creation of musical theatre, as well as practical exercises for both composers and their collaborators and ways of analysing existing musical theatre scores for those who are versed in musical terminology, and those who are not.

Speaking directly to the contemporary artist, working examples are drawn from a wide range of musicals throughout Part One, before a full case study analysis of Everybody's Talking About Jamie brings all the ideas together in Part Two. Part Three offers a range of practical exercises for anyone creating new musicals, particularly composers and their collaborators.
Wholesale Couture
Authors: Tregenza Liz
Published: January 2023

The first book to consider the subject, Wholesale Couture: London and Beyond, 1930-70 seeks to revise the notion that wholesale couturiers were simply copyists and demonstrate the complexities of their design processes and business strategies. This term has fallen out of usage; however, it was used to describe the pinnacle of the British ready-to-wear fashion industry between the 1930s and 1960s. Companies within this sector have typically been recognised as creators of high-quality copies of French haute couture, using ready-to-wear techniques.

Liz Tregenza traces wholesale couture garments from concept to usage, considering design, manufacture, branding, promotion, retail and export. She looks beyond the garments produced and investigates the people behind these firms, consequently demonstrating the significant role that largely Jewish immigrants played in the development and success of this industry. The book also considers the wider social and economic factors that affected manufacturers and consumers; the effect of austerity, rationing and the Utility scheme, and the pressing need for wholesale couturiers to export their products internationally. It demonstrates that 1946 was a critical year for re-building and re-imagining the London fashion industry and that wholesale couturiers were at the centre of these developments. Furthermore, it reveals the impact of changing consumer purchasing power, including the burgeoning youth market, for fashion manufacturers.

Offering a new perspective on British fashion history, Wholesale Couture demonstrates that these couturiers were vital in cementing London’s status as a ready-to-wear fashion centre.
US History in 15 Foods
Authors: Zeide Anna
Published: January 2023

From whiskey in the American Revolution to Spam in WWII, food reveals a great deal about the society in which it exists. Selecting 15 foods that represent key moments in the history of the United States, this book takes readers from before European colonization to the present, narrating major turning points along the way, with food as a guide.

US History in 15 Foods takes everyday items like wheat bread, peanuts, and chicken nuggets, and shows the part they played in the making of America. What did the British colonists think about the corn they observed Indigenous people growing? How are oranges connected to Roosevelt's New Deal? And what can green bean casserole tell us about gender roles in the mid-20th century? Weaving food into colonialism, globalization, racism, economic depression, environmental change and more, Anna Zeide shows how America has evolved through the food it eats.
Directing Your Heart Out
Authors: Dugdale Tom
Published: January 2023

A ground-floor guide to the practice and philosophy of directing that is open to all, including newcomers to the field.

Through a series of concise and engaging essays, Directing Your Heart Out will inspire the next generation of theatre directors by encouraging them to approach the craft through instinct, compassion and the uninhibited expression of their own voice and vision.

Each of the book's essays deals with a core principle of directing, such as strategies for directing text; facilitating productive discussion in rehearsals; absorbing criticism; and maintaining a positive work environment. Taken together, they serve as an effective introduction to the fundamentals of directing, or as provocative supplementary readings alongside traditional directing textbooks.

En route, it references:

> more than 20 directors and choreographers

> major contemporary ensembles such as The Wooster Group, SITI Company and Back to Back Theatre

> key terminology, such as objective, action, obstacle, realism and absurdism

> over 12 plays, including a close-reading of a scene from The Seagull

Encouraging an approach to directing that is grounded in self-empowerment and is set out accessibly, this book opens up directing to the first-time director or student from a range of backgrounds, as well as the seasoned professional, who will benefit from the many revisionary, fresh perspectives.
Steinbeck: Of Mice and Men
Authors: Handley Graham
Published: January 2023

Part of a series of literature guides designed for GCSE coursework requirements, this book contains - author details, background to the work, summaries of the text, critical commentaries, analysis of characterization, and sample questions with guideline answers.
Imperial and Soviet Russia
Authors: Christian David
Published: January 2023

This is an interpretative history of the Russian Empire and Soviet Union between 1850 and 1991. During this tumultuous period, the countries of this vast area were transformed from traditional, agrarian societies into modern industrial states. Like China, the Soviet Union underwent this transition under the banner of communism. After introductory chapters on traditional Russian history and lifeways, David Christian discusses how these transformations affected both governments and ordinary citizens, what they gained, what they endured, and why the Communist experiment ultimately failed.
An Introduction to the Social History of Medicine
Authors: Waddington Keir
Published: January 2023

A one-volume, detailed survey of the major debates and themes in the history of western medicine, from the early modern period to the present. Combining specialised knowledge with new ways of thinking about the subject, this lucidly written, illustrated text explores traditional views and questions existing orthodoxies.
Bram Stoker: Dracula
Authors: William Hughes
Published: January 2023

This comprehensive survey of the critical response to Dracula provides an overview of the trends and development of work surrounding the novel. The critics and approaches discussed range from the earliest studies to the present day, with particular emphasis on biography, psychoanalysis, postcolonialism, Irish studies and gender.
Video Production
Authors: Dawkins Steve , Wynd Ian
Published: January 2023

It’s tempting to skip over theory when you want to get on with the practice of video production. But understanding theory can actually give you the confidence to make good practical decisions and to produce higher-quality videos and films. This no-nonsense, straight-talking book helps you to grasp key theoretical ideas and shows how to use them in your filming projects.

Exploring issues and ideas that will inform and enhance your work, Video Production builds skills and understanding from the very basics. The book is split into two halves, carefully building a foundation of theoretical knowledge before steering readers through a variety of production briefs. In particular, the book:

- Clearly introduces the essentials of film, media and communication theory.

- Looks at a variety of film genres, from the drama short to magazine programmes.

- Pays close attention to the different demands of pre-production, production and post-production.

- Gives handy hints, tips and advice that show how to avoid common mistakes and pitfalls.

- Links with a companion website that offers resources such as examples of successful student projects, downloadable templates and career advice.

Written by experts in an easy-to-follow, clear and comprehensive way, this book can be read cover to cover, or dipped into at crucial moments. Video Production is the ultimate guide for all students and novice film-makers.
Acting
Authors: Zarrilli Phillip B. , Daboo Jerri , Loukes Rebecca
Published: January 2023

What is the relationship between 'body' and 'mind', 'inner' and 'outer' in any approach to acting? How have different modes of actor training shaped actors' experiences of acting and how they understand their work? Phillip B. Zarrilli, Jerri Daboo and Rebecca Loukes offer insight into such questions, analysing acting as a psychophysical phenomenon and process across cultures and disciplines, and providing in-depth accounts of culturally and historically specific approaches to acting. Individual chapters explore:

- Psychophysical acting and the legacy of Stanislavsky

- European psychophysical practices of dance and theatre

- Traditional and contemporary psychophysical approaches to performance in India and Japan

- Insights from the new sciences on the 'situated bodymind' of the actor

- Intercultural perspectives on acting.

This lively study is ideal for students and practitioners alike.
Politics in Pacific Asia
Authors: Huang X.
Published: January 2023

This lively and accessible new edition provides a uniquely broad-ranging introduction to the governance and politics of Pacific Asia.

Thematically structured around the key institutions and issues, it is genuinely comparative in its approach to the whole region. A range of representative countries (China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines) are used as key case examples throughout and each of them is subject to a detailed full-page country profile.

This diverse region is a fascinating area for study. Politics in Pacific Asia provides a framework to form a coherent understanding of the region's politics; it balances persistent patterns with the latest developments and general characteristics with the differing cultures, histories and institutions of individual countries.
Civil Engineering Quantities
Authors: Seeley Ivore H. , Murray Frics George P.
Published: January 2023

Aimed at civil engineers and quantity surveyors and students of these disciplines in the preparation of bills of quantities.
Society and Economy in Germany 1300–1600
Authors: Scott Tom
Published: January 2023

Society and Economy in Germany, 1300-1600 surveys the social and economic development of the German-speaking lands from the age of the Black Death to the eve of the Thirty Years War. It examines the political geography and social structure of the Holy Roman Empire as a constitutional polity in both church and state deeply etched by feudal-aristocratic values. The book questions the validity of a ‘late medieval agrarian crisis’, and the traditional account of the divergent social and economic development between simple landlordship in the West and a revived seigneurialism east of the Elbe. Tom Scott examines in detail patterns of regional and economic change and town-country relations, and the emergence of city-states in Germany and Switzerland. Broad coverage is given to demands for reform within the Empire, which influenced the sixteenth-century religious reformers, as well as to the many urban and rural revolts. The book concludes with reflections on Germany in the age of confessionalization and social discipline, including the rise of a witch craze. This comprehensive survey incorporates the latest research, emphasising regional analysis as the only way to comprehend Germany’s diversity.
Frankenstein
Authors: Shelly Mary
Published: January 2023

“When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?” Frankenstein or “The Modern Prometheus” is the first novel penned by Mary Shelley at the age 19 and relates to a scientist who learns how to reanimate flesh and creates a being in the likeness of man out of body parts taken from the dead man. Written as a warning against the “over-reaching” of modern man and the Industrial Revolution, the novel has given rise to many questions which can be linked to today's culture with a message that the extent to which man collects knowledge can ultimately backfire and fail to produce any good outcomes.
Church, Religion and Society in Early Modern Spain
Authors: Rawlings Helen
Published: January 2023

The early modern Spanish Church has long been associated with religious and racial intolerance, the brutality of the Inquisition, the repression of intellectual and spiritual freedom, and the fervour and fanaticism that underpinned Spanish imperialism.

However, behind Spain's identification with orthodoxy, regulation and discipline in religious life, there lay a contrasting image that modern historians have only recently begun to explore. Helen Rawlings argues convincingly that there is now sufficient evidence to point to the survival of multi-cultural influences in Spanish society, the extent of innovative trends in religious scholarship, the vitality of popular religious culture, the failure of aspects of ecclesiastical reform and the shortcomings of Spain's missionary enterprise overseas.

In this invaluable new study, Rawlings evaluates modern approaches to the history of the early modern Spanish Church and examines the results of new research carried out in the field. As well as challenging some of the findings of traditional scholarship, the author assesses and explores the strengths, weaknesses and contradictions inherent in Spain's identification with Catholicism.
Citizenship and Migration
Authors: Castles Stephen , Davidson Alastair
Published: January 2023

This book argues that basing citizenship on singular and individual membership in a nation-state is no longer adequate, since the nation-state model itself is being severely eroded. It examines issues of citizenship and difference in the Asia-Pacific region.
Growing Up Girl
Authors: Walkerdine Valerie , Lucey Helen , Melody June
Published: January 2023

This reader samples a wide range of modern theological, religious and philosophical discussion on the problem of evil, understood both in terms of the practical or spiritual problem of coping with evil, and the theological problem of explaining its presence in God’s world.
Racial Disadvantage and Ethnic Diversity in Britain
Authors: Pilkington Andrew
Published: January 2023

This book presents a wide-ranging overview of current debates and research in issues relating to race and ethnicity in contemporary British society. It focuses on the extent of racial inequality while encapsulating the character of recent theories and debates that focus on issues of ethnic diversity and culture. It adopts a primarily sociological approach, using recent studies to assess the changing profile of race and ethnicity in Britain.
The Security Dilemma
Authors: Booth Ken , Wheeler Nicholas J.
Published: January 2023

This provides the first comprehensive analysis of the concept of the 'security dilemma'. By exploring the theory and practice of the security dilemma through the prisms of fear, cooperation and trust, it considers whether the security dilemma can be mitigated or even transcended analysing a wide range of historical and contemporary cases.
Now About All These Women in the Swedish Film Industry
Authors: Wallenberg Louise , Papadopoulou Frantzeska , Koskinen Maaret , Soila Tytti
Published: January 2023

In the aftermath of the MeToo movement, during an ongoing pandemic, and in the midst of repeated demands for a 50/50 split between men and women in above-the-line positions, this book analyzes and interrogates the politics of gender focusing on the Swedish film industry, often considered to be the most "gender equal" film industry worldwide. While this gender equality (with a considerable proportion of women behind the camera) is much due to policies carried out by the state-funded Swedish Film Institute, women filmmakers in Sweden still struggle with the same problems as do women in other national film industries. These problems entail having smaller production and distribution budgets than men and working in an environment involving recurring scandals of gender discrimination and sexual harassment.

This open access book looks behind the statistics and explores the often complex cultural, legal, and political conditions under which women have entered a male-dominated industry and discusses women’s strategies and efforts to promote change while providing evidence on how women’s presence has challenged the industry by provoking critical reactions and introducing new ways to portray women on screen. Using a wide range of different sources (e.g. archival material, laws, contracts, films, biographical materials, and interviews), the book tells the history of the rise of gender equality efforts undertaken by the Swedish Film Institute and investigates women’s possibilities to manage the rights to their work. It offers compelling portraits of pioneering women who have worked in or in relation to the industry and looks at the experiences of women currently working in the film industry.
Media and Gender Adaptation
Authors: Baker Lucy Irene
Published: January 2023

Media and Gender Adaptation: Regendering, Critical Creation and the Fans examines how fans and professionals change the gender of characters when they adapt existing work. Using research into fans, and case studies on Sherlock Holmes, Ghostbusters and Doctor Who, it illustrates the foundation of the process and ways the works engage with and critique media and gender at a political level. The default maleness of narratives in media are reworked to be inclusive of other points of view. Regendering as an adaptational technique relies on audience familiarity with existing works, however it also reveals an increasing trend in aggressive backlash against interpretations of media that include marginalised and minority communities.

Combining analysis of fanfiction, television and big budget Hollywood productions, Media and Gender Adaptation: Regendering, Critical Creation and the Fans also analyses fan responses to regendering in popular media. Through demographic surveys and interviews with fans, creators and broader audiences, a combination of playful and serious attitudes to gender are revealed to be part of how transformative fans (professional or not) adapt work. Specific fanfiction examples are analysed alongside professional works to reveal the depth and breadth of fannish play in regendered work and the constraints that professional adaptations are held to. It also reveals a schism in audiences, and those researching media, where the intersection of gender and race are sites of tension – nostalgia combining with expected representation of gender and race to create an aggressive defence of an original work that reiterates the mainstream hierarchies of gender and race.
Nuovo Canzoniere Italiano's Bella Ciao
Authors: Tomatis Jacopo
Published: January 2023

Bella ciao is the album which kick-started Italian folk revival in the mid-1960s, by Nuovo Canzoniere Italiano, a group of researchers, musicians and radical intellectuals. Based on a contested music show that debuted in 1964, Bella ciao also featured a double version of the popular song with the same title, an anti-Fascist anthem from War World II, destined to become one of the most sung political song in the world and translated in more than 40 languages. The book reconstructs the history and the reception of the Bella ciao project in 1960s Italy and, more broadly, explores the origins and the distinctive development of the Italian folk revival movement through the lens of this pivotal album.
Babes in Toyland’s Fontanelle
Authors: Chambers Selena
Published: January 2023

Babes in Toyland was one of the most influential and forgotten bands of the 1990s. Despite creating a unique brand of sisterhood that inspired fans to create Riot Grrrl and legendary bands such as 7 Year Bitch, Bikini Kill, and yes, even Hole, the Babes' story seems to only exist as footnotes to other more famous figures. The band rode the wave of the Minneapolis grunge scene crafting a unique sound composed of self-taught instrumentation and unabashed banshee raging vocals. Their stage presence was enigmatic, their lyrics vitriolic, and their Kinderwhore fashion ironic and easy to emulate. But what made them most inspiring was their ethos.

While all female, the band insisted their music wasn't a political statement but a personal expression. They would dismiss labeling their act as feminist but their actions sent a positive message of what a female space within music could look like. Now, almost 30 years after their most seminal record, Fontanelle was released, the legend of the band is being resurrected and respun to reclaim their proper space and context in the history of music and women in rock.
The Transformative Cinema of Alejandro Jodorowsky
Authors: Melnyk George
Published: January 2023

Alejandro Jodorowsky is a theatre director, writer of graphic novels and comics, novelist, poet, and an expert in the Tarot. He is also an auteur filmmaker who garnered attention with his breakthrough film El Topo in 1970. He has been called a “cult” filmmaker, whose films are surreal, hallucinatory, and provocative.

The Transformative Cinema of Alejandro Jodorowsky explores the ways in which Jodorowsky's films are transformative in a psychologically therapeutic way. It also examines his signature style, which includes the symbolic meaning of various colors in which he clothes his actors, the use of his own family members in the films, and his casting of himself in leading roles. This total involvement of himself and his family in his auteur films led to his psycho-therapeutic theories and practices: metagenealogy and psychomagic.

This book is the only English language book in print that deals with all of Jodorowsky’s films, beginning with his earliest mime film in 1957 and ending with his 2019 film on psychomagic. It also connects his work as a writer and therapist to his films, which themselves attempt to obliterate the line between fantasy and reality.
The Front Lawn's Songs from the Front Lawn
Authors: Bannister Matthew
Published: January 2023

Matthew Bannister is a musician and Postgraduate Theory Advisor at Waikato Institute of Technology, New Zealand. He has written three previous books: Eye of the Taika: New Zealand Comedy and the Films of Taika Waititi(2021), White Boys, White Noise: Masculinities and Indie Guitar Rock(2006), and Positively George Street: Sneaky Feelings and the Dunedin Sound(1999).
Abstract prediction of morphosyntactic features: Evidence from processing cataphors in Dutch
Authors: Giskes Anna , Kush Dave
Published: January 2023

When comprehenders predict a specific lexical noun in a highly constraining context, they also activate the grammatical features, such as gender, of that noun. Evidence for such lexically mediated prediction comes from ERP studies that show that comprehenders are surprised by adjectives and determiners that mismatch the features of a highly predictable noun. In this study, we investigated whether comprehenders can (i) predict an abstract noun phrase in an upcoming argument position (without pre-activating a specific lexical item) and (ii) assign morphosyntactic features to the head noun of that phrase. To do so we used the processing of Dutch cataphors as a test case. We tested whether seeing a cataphor in a preposed clause triggered a prediction of a feature-matching antecedent NP in main subject position. If comprehenders predicted a feature-matching subject, we reasoned that they should also expect an agreeing main verb, which comes before the subject because Dutch is a V2 language. A single-word prediction experiment showed that comprehenders expect a main verb matching the number of the cataphor. In a follow-up self-paced reading experiment, we found a number-mismatch effect if the V2 main verb did not agree with the cataphor. We take the results as evidence that comprehenders predicted a matching antecedent in subject position. We argue that the results are better explained as involving prediction of an abstract noun phrase marked for morphological features, rather than a specific lexical item.
Heavy metals and technogenic magnetic particles of soils of the recreational territory of the city Perm (example of the Chapayevskaya ecological trail)
Authors:   Perm State Agro-Technological University, Shchurenko Natalya , Vasilev Andrey , Gorokhova Svetlana
Published: January 2023

The work focuses on the study of soils on the territory of the Chapaevskaya ecological trail in the city of Perm (Russia). The studied soils are subject to contamination by technogenic magnetic particles and heavy metals in their composition. The forest litter of the urbanity gray humus soil formed on the eluvial-deluvial deposits is contaminated with Cd, Cu, Ni, Co, and Zn. The urbanity gray humus horizon accumulates Cu and Zn. The values of the magnetic susceptibility of the highly magnetic phase of the surface horizon are high. The maximum value of the magnetic susceptibility of the forest litter was 55.64 × 10-3 SI. The bulk content of heavy metals and Fe in the highly magnetic phase is several times higher than in the soil before magnetic separation. Keywords: POLLUTION, MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY, ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT, URBANITY GRAY HUMUS SOIL, CIS-URALS
Quantified effect of seawater biogeochemistry on the temperature dependence of sea spray aerosol fluxes
Authors: Sellegri Karine , Barthelmeß Theresa , Trueblood Jonathan , Cristi Antonia , Freney Evelyn , Rose Clémence , Barr Neill , Harvey Mike , Safi Karl , Deppeler Stacy , Thompson Karen , Dillon Wayne , Engel Anja , Law Cliff
Published: January 2023

Abstract. Future change in sea surface temperature may influence climate via various air-sea feedbacks and pathways. In this study, we investigate the influence of surface seawater biogeochemical composition on the temperature dependence of sea spray number emission fluxes. Dependence of sea spray fluxes was investigated in different water masses (i.e. subantarctic, subtropical and frontal bloom) with contrasting biogeochemical properties across a temperature range from ambient (13–18 °C) to 2 °C, using seawater circulating in a plunging jet sea spray generator. We observed sea spray total concentration to increase significantly at temperatures below 8 °C, with an average 4-fold increase at 2 °C relative to initial concentration at ambient temperatures. This temperature dependence was more pronounced for smaller size sea spray particles (i.e. nucleation and Aitken modes). Moreover, temperature dependence varied with water mass type and so biogeochemical properties. While the sea spray flux at moderate temperatures (8–11 °C) was highest in frontal bloom waters, the effect of low temperature on the sea spray flux was highest with subtropical seawaters. The temperature dependence of sea spray flux was also inversely proportional to the seawater cell abundance of the cyanobacterium Synechococcus, which facilitated parameterization of temperature dependence of sea spray emission fluxes as a function of Synechococcus for future implementation in modelling exercises.