bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Engagement with life and psychological well-being in late adulthood: Findings from community-based programs in Portugal
Authors: Bastos Alice , Monteiro Joana , Barbosa Raquel , Pimentel Helena , Silva Sofia , Faria Carla
Published: May 2023

Objectives

Human aging is a multidirectional, multidimensional, and multicausal process that reflects biological, psychological, and sociocultural influences, which act in distinct combinations throughout the life-span. Proactivity towards avoiding the usual aging process is needed. This study analyses the long-term effects of participation in Community-Based Programs on psychological well-being.

Method

A sample of 150 community-dwelling participants enrolled in Community-Based Programs, aged 55 to 84 years and living in three Portuguese localities were matched by age (55–64, 65–74, 75–84 years), gender, and locality with a comparison group of non-participants. We administered a multidimensional gerontological protocol which included socio-demographic information, measures of health/disease, functional ability, social network, cognitive performance and psychological well-being. Hierarchical regression models were used to test the effects of Community-Based Programs on psychological well-being adjusting for remaining variables.

Results

Overall, psychological well-being is positively associated with household income and satisfaction with health. Nevertheless, in participants, psychological well-being builds predominantly upon social network and is not associated with a moderate inability or cognitive deficits, contrasting with psychological well-being in non-participants. After adjusting for background variables, psychological well-being was positively associated with health satisfaction and social network and negatively related to moderate inability. Further, a significant interaction of participation in Community-Based Programs with age, points out higher levels of psychological well-being in participants contrasting with a downward trend in non-participants. After stratification by age, psychological well-being increases with time attending Community-Based Programs in the oldest (75–84 years) contrasting with the remainder.

Conclusions

Participation in Community-Based Programs may improve the negative effects of the aging process on psychological well-being. This positive effect as age increases may be linked to a reinforcement of social network, valued more by participants in Community-Based Programs. Furthermore, the programs may act as a healing/maintenance strategy in persons with moderate inability and/or cognitive deficits.
Introducing an rbcL and a trnL reference library to aid in the metabarcoding analysis of foraged plants from two semi-arid eastern South African savanna bioregions
Authors: Botha Danielle , du Plessis Mornè , Siebert Frances , Barnard Sandra
Published: May 2023

Success of a metabarcoding study is determined by the extent of taxonomic coverage and the quality of records available in the DNA barcode reference database used. This study aimed to create anrbcL and atrnL (UAA) DNA barcode sequence reference database of plant species that are potential herbivore foraging targets and commonly found in semi-arid savannas of eastern South Africa. An area-specific species list of 765 species was compiled according to plant collection records available and areas comparable to an eastern semi-arid South African savanna. Thereafter,rbcL andtrnL sequences of species from this list were mined from GenBank and BOLD sequence databases according to specific quality criteria to ensure accurate taxonomic coverage and resolution. These were supplemented with sequences of 24 species sequenced for this study. A phylogenetic approach, employing Neighbor-Joining, was used to verify the topology of the reference libraries to known angiosperm phylogeny. The taxonomic reliability of these reference libraries was evaluated by testing for the presence of a barcode gap, identifying a data-appropriate identification threshold, and determining the identification accuracy of reference sequences via primary distance-based criteria. The finalrbcL reference dataset consisted of 1238 sequences representing 318 genera and 562 species. The finaltrnL dataset consisted of 921 sequences representing 270 genera and 461 species. Barcode gaps were found for 76% of the taxa in therbcL barcode reference dataset and 68% of the taxa in thetrnL barcode reference dataset. The identification success rate, calculated with thek-nn criterion was 85.86% for therbcL dataset and 73.72% for thetrnL dataset. The datasets forrbcL andtrnL combined during this study are not presented as complete DNA reference libraries, but rather as two datasets that should be used in unison to identify plants present in the semi-arid eastern savannas of South Africa.
Whose body is it anyway? Disguising a disabled self
Authors: Cornell Nica
Published: May 2023

This article traces a year in which I moved from Cape Town, South Africa to the University of Oxford, England for my master’s in African studies. It presents a series of vignettes to explore the interplay of disability, dress and disguise during that time as trauma, alienation and my history of mental illness triggered a health crisis. The physical realities of living in my new body fundamentally changed not only how I dressed it, but my relationship with dress itself. Dressing became an obstacle to being able to be in the external world, a performance of invisibility to dissolve the selves that rendered me so abnormal, both politically and medically, and a touchstone of a prior and better existence.
Frans Hals: The Male Portrait, Lelia Packer and Ashok Roy (2021)
Authors: Bench Paul
Published: May 2023

Review of: Frans Hals: The Male Portrait, Lelia Packer and Ashok Roy (2021)

London: Philip Wilson Publishers and Bloomsbury, 130 pp.,

ISBN 978-1-78130-110-4, p/bk, £20
El amparo de los derechos en el Estado constitucional de Derecho. Notas desde una teoría argumentativa del Derecho
Authors: Cevallos C. Danny José
Published: May 2023

Este trabajo revisa la institución del amparo dentro del Estado constitucional de Derecho, en la cultura jurídica del civil law. Se defiende la tesis de que la institución procesal del amparo no es teóricamente necesaria –en sentido lógico– para la existencia del Estado constitucional; las razones para justificar su implementación son entonces de tipo práctico. Se argumenta también que, con base en el constitucionalismo jurídico y tomándose en serio el proceso de constitucionalización de los ordenamientos, es posible estipular una concepción general del amparo e inferir un modelo óptimo, ajustado a las propiedades del Estado constitucional, que armoniza lo relevante de los actuales modelos europeo y latinoamericano y diluye sus problemas. Este modelo óptimo es el que deben tener presente quienes decidan implementar o mantener (con ajustes) la institución procesal del amparo.
Manuel Atienza, el activismo judicial y el consejo de Circe
Authors: Gama Leopoldo
Published: May 2023

En este texto se aborda la caracterización del activismo judicial en la teoría de la argumentación jurídica de Manuel Atienza. En primer lugar, se enmarca el activismo judicial en la concepción postpositivista del Derecho desarrollada por Atienza y se vincula su postura teórica con el modelo de democracia constitucional. A continuación, se caracteriza al activismo judicial por oposición al formalismo y se les considera como dos extremos o desviaciones institucionales en la interpretación del Derecho que deben ser evitadas por la judicatura, como el Escila y Caribidis en el texto de Homero. Posteriormente, se señala que la virtud judicial, la actitud interpretativa ideal de los jueces en los casos difíciles, se encuentra a medio camino entre el formalismo y el activismo judicial. No obstante, en la resolución de casos difíciles es preferible en ocasiones optar por un formalismo, pero más bien de tipo reflexivo, que atienda a las razones subyacentes a las normas en lugar por salidas activistas. Esto equivale a escuchar el consejo de Cirse que recomendaba acercarse a Escila (formalismo) y alejarse lo más posible de Caribdis (activismo).
El barón y el tábano. Sobre los límites del argumento trascendental y el objetivismo moral
Authors: González Lagier Daniel
Published: May 2023

El texto trata, en primer lugar, de la estructura y los requisitos para la validez de los argumentos trascendentales, con especial atención a su fuerza frente a los diversos tipos de escepticismo. A continuación se ocupa de la transformación de estos argumentos en argumentos pragmáticos-trascendentales, propuesta por Apel para su intento de fundamentación de la ética. Por último, se analiza el argumento trascendental propuesto por Manuel Atienza para la justificación de la tesis de la objetividad de la moral.
Diez patologías formalistas en la cultura jurídica mexicana. Tras los pasos de M. Atienza
Authors: Lara Chagoyán Roberto
Published: May 2023

En este trabajo se aborda el problema del formalismo jurídico, a partir de tres nociones teóricas: como racionalidad formal, como concepción del Derecho y como comportamiento ritualista de los operadores jurídicos, que aparecen en la obra de M. Atienza. A partir de la experiencia jurídica mexicana, se exponen diez patologías formalistas que surgen de la combinación del activismo judicial con algunas de las nociones de formalismo propuestas por el autor.
El Razonamiento práctico y el rol del abogado en la sociedad. Algunas reflexiones a partir de las contribuciones de Manuel Atienza
Authors: Roca Pérez Victoria
Published: May 2023

La profesión de abogado es una de las profesiones socialmente peor consideradas. Sin embargo, los ciudadanos en general, cuando precisan de los servicios de uno de ellos, asumen que el principio que ha de regir su desempeño ha de ser el de lealtad al cliente, considerando al Derecho un instrumento para hacer valer sus intereses. El «abogado-villano» pasa a ser entonces aplaudido cuando se desempeña ante los tribunales como «nuestro complice». Esta concepción acrítica del rol del abogado es igualmente asumida por los propios profesionales juristas. En este trabajo, tras hacer un recorrido reflexivo sobre la praxis jurídica a partir de las contribuciones que Manuel Atienza ha hecho vindicando el papel del Derecho (del paradigma constitucional) para la transformación social, se problematiza la convención sobre el rol del abogado, se reformula el ideal y, a partir de todo ello, se extrae como corolario el modelo de enseñanza profesional del Derecho que se exige para sentar institucionalmente las bases de un ejercicio de la profesión que reinyecte a la práxis jurídica la orientación y vigor que necesita para corregir las dinámicas estructurales discriminatorias que se apartan de los ideales de no opresión y de no dominación del constitucionalismo.
Pinpointing The Structural Dynamics of Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor -1 upon binding to Heparin using Hydrogen/Deuterium Exchange Mass Spectrometry
Authors: ElSabaawy Marwa , Anacleto Joseph , Wilson Derek
Published: May 2023

The native conformation of plasminogen activator inhibitor (PAI-1) is an active metastable structure that transforms spontaneously to an inactive latent form within 1-2 hrs under physiological conditions. PAI-1 is a key player to regulate the activation of fibrinolysis, with broad influence effects on inflammation, hemostasis, tissue remodeling, and wound healing
1.

The binding of endogenous cofactor vitronectin to PAI-1 causes delaying in the transition to the latent state and significantly boosts the protein's thermal stability
2. This binding helps to extend PAI-1 half-life and delay its latency transition thus controlling the stability of the active form. Previous studies have suggested that low molecular weight heparin alters the levels of circulating PAI-1 and enhances endogenous fibrinolysis
3. However, the intrinsic dynamics of this binding are not completely understood.

We have used hydrogen/deuterium exchange mass spectrometry to elucidate the structural dynamics of PAI-1 and heparin binding. Heparin binding to PAI-1 induces significant attenuation of deuterium uptake in PAI-1. The strongest protection against isotopic exchange is observed in the lower half of PAI-1. Peptides covering the heparin binding interface are shielded from the solvent and show a slow exchange rate. In addition, we observed a moderate effect on the peptides remote from the heparin binding site. These peptides are topographically connected in a circle-like shape around the vertical axis of the protein structure.

Our findings reveal that heparin may contribute to the localization of PAI-1 at specific sites, hence involved in the regulation of plasminogen activation and its functional stability.
Management of Perianal Crohn's Disease
Authors: Parian Alyssa M. , Obi Megan , Fleshner Phillip , Schwartz David A.
Published: May 2023

Perianal Crohn's disease affects 25%–35% of patients with Crohn's disease and has proven to be one of the most difficult complications of the disease to treat. Patients with perianal Crohn's disease have lower health-related quality of life scores typically related to pain and fecal incontinence. In addition, patients with perianal Crohn's disease have higher rates of hospitalizations, surgeries, and overall healthcare costs. A multidisciplinary approach is necessary for the successful management of Crohn's disease with perianal fistula. Medical management is required to treat the underlying immune dysregulation to heal the luminal inflammation and the inflammation within the fistula tracts. Current options for medical therapy include biologics, dual therapy with thiopurines, therapeutic drug monitoring, and a close follow-up. Surgical management is critical to drain abscesses before immunosuppressive therapy and place setons when appropriate. Once the patient's inflammatory burden is well managed, definitive surgical therapies including fistulotomies, advancement flaps, and ligation of intersphincteric fistula tract procedures can be considered. Most recently, the use of stem cell therapy in the treatment of perianal fistula has given new hope to the cure of perianal fistula in Crohn's disease. This review will outline the most current data in the medical and surgical management of perianal Crohn's disease.
Impact of Submucosal Saline Injection During Cold Snare Polypectomy for Colorectal Polyps Sized 3–9 mm: A Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial
Authors: Mou Yi , Ye Liansong , Qin Xiaobo , Feng Rui , Zhang Lifan , Hu Qin , Cao Tingting , Zhou Xinyue , Wen Wu , Zhang Chuanming , Chen Zonghua , Liu Yi , Yang Zhimin , Huo Tao , Pan Fang , Li Xuelian , Hu Bing
Published: May 2023

INTRODUCTION:

The role of submucosal injection during cold snare polypectomy (CSP) remains uncertain. In this study, we investigated the impact of submucosal saline injection during CSP for colorectal polyps sized 3–9 mm.

METHODS:

This was a multicenter randomized controlled trial conducted in 6 Chinese centers between July and September 2020 (ChiCTR2000034423). Patients with nonpedunculated colorectal polyps sized 3–9 mm were randomized in a 1:1 ratio to either CSP with submucosal injection (SI-CSP) or conventional CSP (C-CSP). The primary outcome was the incomplete resection rate (IRR). Secondary outcomes included procedure time, intraprocedural bleeding, delayed bleeding, and perforation.

RESULTS:

One hundred fifty patients with 234 polyps in the SI-CSP group and 150 patients with 216 polyps in the C-CSP group were included in the analysis. The IRR was not decreased in the SI-CSP group compared with that in the C-CSP group (1.7% vs 1.4%, P = 1.000). The median procedure time in the SI-CSP group was significantly longer than that in the C-CSP group (108 seconds vs 48 seconds, P < 0.001). The incidences of intraprocedural bleeding and delayed bleeding were not significantly different between the 2 groups (P = 0.531 and P = 0.250, respectively). There was no perforation in either group.

DISCUSSION:

Submucosal saline injection during CSP for colorectal polyps sized 3–9 mm did not decrease the IRR or reduce adverse events but prolonged the procedure time.
Gastrointestinal Bleeding Because of Hepatic Arteriobiliary Fistula
Authors: Chaudhry Hunza , Ichkhanian Yervant , Salvador Shakirat O. , Yang Juliana
Published: May 2023

Hepatic artery aneurysms are a rare phenomenon, representing 20% of visceral aneurysms. Hepatic artery aneurysm can rarely cause fistulization with the bile duct, also known as common hepatic artery-bile duct fistula. In acute settings, patients present with abdominal pain, jaundice, and gastrointestinal bleeding. Radiographic findings confirm the diagnosis. Given the rarity of this condition, there are no optimal treatment guidelines; therefore, treatment is multidisciplinary and involves definitive surgical and endoscopic management. We present a case of a common hepatic artery-bile duct fistula presenting as gastrointestinal hemorrhage.
Margin and Center
Authors: Kozma Alicia
Published: May 2023

This chapter provides a historical and theoretical construction of second wave exploitation film. It simultaneously advances the call for temporal fluidity in historical configurations while advocating for scholastically untapped spaces like second wave exploitation as fertile ground for uncovering women's cinematic labor. Following a review of the extent configuration of the Classical Exploitation period, the bulk of the chapter makes the case for understanding the period of 1960-1980 as a discrete period in the exploitation style, as well as a critical progenitor of the shape of the contemporary film industry in the United States.
A Centennial Celebration of The Brownies' Book
Authors: Bishop Rudine Sims
Published: May 2023

The Brownies’ Book (January 1920–December 2021) occupies a special place in the history of American children’s literature. Informally the children’s counterpart to the NAACP’s Crisis, it was one of the first youth magazines created primarily for Black readers. Its editors, Jessie Fauset and W.E.B. DuBois, articulated important objectives, including—“To make them familiar with the history and achievements of the Negro race” and “To make colored children realize that being ‘colored’ is a beautiful, normal thing”—ideas still important to many contemporary African American creators of children’s literature. The magazine was foundational and forward-looking. It included fiction, art, current events, biographies, letters to the editors, photos of young readers, and more. This centennial celebration is beautifully enhanced by the inclusion of facsimiles of two complete issues.
The Brownies’ Book is a powerful example of how a single moment in literary history can resonate powerfully for generations afterward. And it is a reminder that magazines are an important genre within the larger world of children’s literature. It is just as relevant today as it was one hundred years ago in ways simultaneously complicated, problematic, and wonderful. The essays presented in The Brownies’ Book: A Centennial Celebration get to the heart of The Brownies’ Book “project” from various approaches and disciplines, useful and illuminating, making it completely clear why the magazine remains worthy of attention well into the twenty-first century. This volume is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the heart, the history, and the future of African American children’s literature.
XX, XY, and XXY
Authors: Miyajima Keiko
Published: May 2023

Beginning in the 1970s, in her Japanese science-fiction manga Hagio Moto innovates a gender-fluid world within which readers may imagine gender and sexuality unconstrained by norms that were elsewhere persistent in Japan since the Meiji period. In her comics’ futuristic arena of possibility, Hagio associates trans-ness, gender fluidity, and androgyny with liberation and the transcendence of restrictive categories and social forms and hierarchies that sustain them. Sexuality, normative pregnancy, coital roles, monogamy, polyamory, cognitive perception, and anatomical specificity and differentiation are all subjects of metamorphosis or expansion with implications even for the stability of national or cultural boundaries. Hagio’s characters discover a queer state of betweenness with a radically transformative potential.
Names of Water, or the Idea of Order at Mare à Clay
Authors: Lirette Emma Christopher
Published: May 2023

Working from the exploration of naming in the previous chapter, this chapter examines the network of ponds, ditches, and canals throughout Terrebonne Parish, most of which are commonly named after previous inhabitants. She compares the memories and names of residents of the region to past and current geological surveys.
Oil and Water
Authors: Lirette Emma Christopher
Published: May 2023

The author explores the given and take between shrimpers and the oil industry. Lirette notes how shrimpers and fishers often speak poorly of the oil industry’s negligence and negative impact on the environment while acknowledging the industry is essential to their livelihood. Many shrimpers rigging as a source of income when shrimping fails to bring in enough profits or stability.
Reproducing Domination
Authors: Burden-Stelly Charisse , Kamugisha Aaron
Published: May 2023

Reproducing Domination: On the Caribbean Postcolonial State collects key essays on the Caribbean by Percy Hintzen, the foremost political sociologist in Anglophone-Caribbean studies. For the past 30 years, Percy Hintzen has been one of the most articulate and discerning critics of the post-colonial state in Caribbean scholarship, making seminal contributions to the study of Caribbean politics, sociology, political economy, and diaspora studies. His work on the post-colonial elites in the region, first given full articulation in his first book The Costs of Regime Survival: Racial Mobilization, Elite Domination, and Control of the State in Guyana and Trinidad (1981), is unparalleled, and is the most important guide for persons concerned with tracing the consolidation of power in a new elite in the Anglophone Caribbean following flag independence in the 1960s. Reproducing Domination: On the Caribbean Postcolonial State seeks to collect some of Hintzen’s most important Caribbean essays over a twenty year period, from 1995 to the present. These works have broadened and deepened his earlier work on the post-colonial elites in The Costs of Regime Survival to encompass the entire Anglophone Caribbean; interrogated the formation and consolidation of the postcolonial Caribbean state; and theorized the role of race and ethnicity in Caribbean politics. Given the recent global resurgence of interest in elite ownership patterns and their relationship to power and governance, Hintzen’s work assumes even more resonance beyond the shores of the Caribbean.
Williamson and the Travellers
Authors: Niles John D.
Published: May 2023

The Introduction to the book sets Duncan Williamson’s life into its social and historical context. Williamson is introduced not just as one of Scotland’s travelling people, but also as an active participant in the Folksong Revival of the late twentieth century and the Storytelling Revival of more recent years. He is thus one of a number of Travellers, including such other well-known figures as Jeannie Robertson, Belle Stewart and her family, Betsy Whyte, and Stanley Robertson, who came to be known and admired as keepers of an important part of Scotland’s intangible cultural heritage. The book is based on field recordings, made by Niles in the 1980s, that are transcribed here with scrupulous fidelity to Williamson’s spoken words and in a manner that reflects the give-and-take of lively social interactions. The book’s chapter-by-chapter substance consists largely of personal reminiscences by Williamson that have not been published before.
Making a Living
Authors: Niles John D.
Published: May 2023

Williamson tells how he made a living while in his teens and in later years. He recounts how he cut willows to make baskets to sell from door to door; how he worked for a while for a stone-mason in Argyll; how he first visited Blairgowrie, Perthshire, during the berry-picking season; how he travelled by foot to the North East of Scotland, picking up work here and there; how he mended china plates while squatting in a derelict house in Dundee; how he worked in Kirriemuir, Angus, while staying at a bothy, or farm cottage; how he lifted potatoes at Crieff, where he learned many songs at the campfires; and how he dealt in scrap metal in Fife. He also tells how he was harassed when on the road with his first wife and their children. The chapter includes three of his songs and many colorful anecdotes.
Food and Health, Drink and Conviviality
Authors: Niles John D.
Published: May 2023

Williamson gives an account of what foods his family ate when he was a child, what foods they avoided, and how they obtained their food from day to day. Duncan’s mother cooked their meals, and each day she walked about the villages trading small items for food. Nothing was kept for tomorrow. Since food supplies were limited, the children sometimes struck out on their own, living chiefly on shellfish. One food that the Williamsons enjoyed was braxy, or salted mutton from a dead sheep. Two foods that were taboo were mushrooms and veal. The Williamsons rarely sought out medical help for sickness or injuries; rather, they relied on self-help measures and home cures, some of which he enumerates. The chapter concludes with two drinking songs and with Duncan’s own convivial song “When the Yellow Is on the Broom,” which he wrote for his close friend Betsy Whyte.
Music and the Flow of Life
Authors: Niles John D.
Published: May 2023

Some songs sung by the Scottish Travellers of Williamson’s day were unique to that group. Duncan sings two such songs that were women’s favorites. Other songs sung by Williamson and other Travellers were widely known; an example is “The Factory Girl,” a favorite of the broadside press. Duncan tells about communal song composition among the Travellers and sings a song in cant, “Big Jimmy Drummond,” about a Traveller who was arrested for stealing hens. He also sings two songs of his own composition, one of which, a satirical song called “The Nicknames,” features code names for Traveller “breeds,” or family groups. Some songs that he learned when young were half told and half sung, like medieval cantefables. Instrumental music too was prized, especially the music of the pipes. Moreover, Duncan learned to imitate bird calls — the origins of our music? — by listening to birds singing in the woods.
Webspinner
Authors: Niles John D.
Published: May 2023

Duncan Williamson was not just a remarkable representative of Homo narrans, the hominid that tells stories. He was also a unique individual endowed with acute intelligence, high spirits, and exceptional resiliency. Moreover, he led his life in accord with a well-defined worldview, one that prioritized self-reliance, sociability, respect for nature and wildlife, and special consideration for children, the elderly, and the needy. This chapter gives a brief account of how the present book was made while at the same time commemorating the author’s friendship with Williamson over a number of years. The chapter casts a retrospective eye on the Scottish cultural geography that Williamson’s tales call to mind, for to some extent at least, Williamson’s voice was the voice of all Scotland. Featured toward the end of the chapter is a recitation, “Webspinner,” that is emblematic of Duncan’s identity as a master of the art of oral narrative.
Wasn't That a Mighty Day
Authors: Monge Luigi , Evans David
Published: May 2023

Using printed and recorded sources, Wasn’t That a Mighty Day: African American Blues and Gospel Songs on Disaster takes a comprehensive look at—and shows the historical and cultural importance of—African American sacred and secular songs about natural disasters (hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, droughts, earthquakes, etc.), accidental disasters (sinkings, fires, train wrecks, explosions, air disasters, etc.), the Boll Weevil infestation, epidemics and diseases (the jake leg, the 1918–1920 flu, etc.). The complete lyrics of several disaster songs about events occurred between 1879 and 1955 have been transcribed. Thirty unreleased black disaster songs held at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. are analyzed and/or transcribed for the first time, and new information about their pertinence to disasters has been unearthed. Most of the analyzed material is derived from African American singers and informants. Some printed sources and recordings by white singers dealing with disasters that black performers also sang about are scrutinized for comparative purposes. All the lyrics are accompanied by textual analysis, including a comparison of song lyrics to historical facts, enabling answers to such questions as: a) how deeply and directly the catastrophes affected the black communities; b) how African Americans in general, and blues and gospel singers in particular, faced and reacted to such events; c) whether these collective tragedies prompted different reactions among white people and, if so, why; d) how the role of memory in recounting and commenting on historical and cultural facts shaped African American society in the period under consideration.
To the Ramparts of Infinity
Authors: Elliott Jr. Jack D.
Published: May 2023

Before William Faulkner, there was Colonel William C. Falkner (1825–1889), the great-grandfather of the prominent and well-known Mississippi writer. The first biography of Falkner was a dissertation by the late Donald Duclos, which was completed in 1961, and while Faulkner scholars have briefly touched on the life of the Colonel due to his influence on the writer’s work and life, there have been no new biographies dedicated to Falkner until now. To the Ramparts of Infinity: Colonel W. C. Falkner and the Ripley Railroad seeks to fill this gap in scholarship and Mississippi history by providing a biography of the Colonel, sketching out the cultural landscape of Ripley, Mississippi, and alluding to Falkner’s influence on his great-grandson’s Yoknapatawpha cycle of stories.
While the primary thrust of the narrative is to provide a sound biography on Falkner, author Jack D. Elliott Jr. also seeks to identify sites in Ripley that were associated with the Colonel and his family. This is accomplished in part within the main narrative, but the sites are specifically focused on, summarized, and organized into an appendix entitled “A Field Guide to Colonel Falkner’s Ripley.” There, the sites are listed along with old and contemporary photographs of buildings. Maps of the area, plotting military action as well as the railroads, are also included, providing essential material for readers to understand the geographical background of the area in this period of Mississippi history.
Things That Go Bump in the Night
Authors: Elliott Jack D.
Published: May 2023

Falkner's arrival in Ripley was followed shortly by a vicious crime. The Adcock family, traveling by wagon, was brutally murdered not far outside of Ripley. The murderer, Andrew Jackson McCannon, was discovered not long after and brought back to Ripley by a large party of people that likely included Falkner. Falkner wrote a narrative of the murders from the perspective of McCannon, and the narrative was published in the Ripley Advertiser. This is an early example of Falkner’s writing.
The Railroad to Ripley
Authors: Elliott Jack D.
Published: May 2023

Near the end of the summer of 1869, Falkner headed efforts to build a railroad connecting New Albany and Ripley with the M&C Railroad. Once again, however, raising adequate funds proved difficult. Amid failed funding for this project—and for another that came along and met a similar fate—Falkner proved resilient and determined to see a railroad built. In 1871, the Mississippi legislature passed an act incorporating the Ripley Railroad Company for the purpose of building and operating a railroad to connect Ripley with one out of several trunk lines. This chapter details the numerous fundraising and organization efforts made by Falkner to achieve the years-long dream of a Ripley Railroad.
Nostalgia Is a Hard Pill to Swallow
Authors: Alexander Apryl
Published: May 2023

This chapter discusses how Watchmen serves a speculative fiction and Afrofuturistic narrative of historical and intergenerational trauma. Through her consumption of her grandfather’s Nostalgia, Angela Abar vicariously learns of her father’s traumatic history of racism in Tulsa, Oklahoma, followed by reliving her own childhood trauma. The chapter discusses the concepts of historical and intergenerational trauma through Angela’s experiences and describes how she and the city of Tulsa are trying to heal from that racial trauma.
Memory as Monster
Authors: Ambrose Jeff
Published: May 2023

This chapter examines the role of memory in the lives of the Losers, tracing how remembering or forgetting certain parts of their past helps or hurts them in overcoming their literal and figurative demons. Just as Pennywise assumes the form of what scares them most, the memories of the Losers twist or become lost as they leave Derry following the initial “victory” over Pennywise. It is only through the Losers Club itself, their form of group therapy and confrontation, that the Losers are able to defeat Pennywise. In remembering together and facing their traumas, they win. However, the novel ends with the remaining Losers and the townspeople forgetting all about “It.” This begs the question: why would Pennywise and the resulting horrors, their biggest possible traumas, be so easily forgotten? Are more personal traumas, the intimate ones that often happen behind closed doors, the ones that stick in our memory?
Letramento na ‘Idade Certa’ eis a questão: olhares sobre o PNAIC no contexto da educação brasileira
Authors: Firmino Janaina Karla Pereira da Silva Rodrigues , Carvalho Eloane Aparecida Rodrigues , Borges Maria Célia
Published: May 2023

O presente artigo tem como proposta analisar criticamente a alfabetização na idade certa apresentada no PNAIC [Pacto Nacional pela Alfabetização na Idade Certa]. Para tanto, a metodologia está assente na pesquisa bibliográfica com abordagem qualitativa que contribui na discussão sobre as dicotomias perante as perspectivas de letramento, inovação e PNAIC. Em síntese, apesar desse pacto ser apresentado como uma proposta de inovação que tende a propiciar uma educação de qualidade, na realidade, inferimos que certa maneira reforçou as desigualdades sociais no âmbito educativo quando sobretudo distancia os espaços-tempo do processo de alfabetizar-letrando em relação às diversas e plurais realidades brasileiras.
As desregulamentações no período Temer/Bolsonaro na modalidade EaD e bacharelado em Direito
Authors: Acipreste Sobrinho Djamiro Ferreira , Lourenço do Nascimento Emanuelle , Sousa Andréia da Silva Quintanilha
Published: May 2023

O presente trabalho tem como objetivo analisar a expansão da modalidade de Educação a Distância (EaD) e o crescimento vertiginoso das matrículas do curso de Direito como expressão da desregulamentação promovida no período do governo Temer (2016-2018) e do governo de Jair Messias Bolsonaro (2019-2022). O estudo foi realizado por meiode revisão de literatura concernente à temática e análise dos documentos legais. Através da análise do quadro normativo cognitivo, conclui-se que a desregulamentação do ensino superior promovida pelas forças empresariais e conservadoras no contexto da racionalidade neoliberal gerou alterações legislativas e normativas que favorecem os conglomerados educacionais, especialmente as IES privado-mercantis.
La fuerza inclusiva de la legislación sacrificial del Levítico
Authors: Guevara Llaguno Miren Junkal
Published: May 2023

El concepto inclusión desde comienzos del siglo XXI forma parte de una visión compartida a nivel mundial. También en la Iglesia del papa Francisco, la teología de la inclusión constituye una pieza fundamental de su magisterio e inspira muchas de sus decisiones de gobierno. La inclusión dinamiza procesos por los que las sociedades incorporan de forma efectiva y sustantiva a las distintas personas y grupos en la marcha de las mismas tratando de neutralizar las desventajas propias del funcionamiento de los ámbitos políticos, sociales y económicos. El estudio de la legislación de los capítulos 1 a 7 del Levítico que se presenta en este artículo, más allá de la crítica que merece desde nuestra sensibilidad religiosa o ecológica, revela un dinamismo inclusivo que permite hablar del culto sacrificial israelita como un espacio privilegiado de integración de los miembros del conjunto de la sociedad israelita.
Direct Marketing Strategy To Increase Sales of SME Production in Budo Village, Wori District – North Minahasa Regency, North Sulawesi Province
Authors: Supit Vekky , Langi Cysca
Published: May 2023

Budo Village in Wori District, North Minahasa Regency is a one of the assisted villages of the Manado State Polytechnic which is rich in resources nature is like marine tourism. The prima donna are coconut plants and their shells made souvenirs. However, sales activities are still not productive because marketing activities only rely on the traditional way of selling directly to consumers. Therefore, the role of marketing is very important. Marketing is an economic action that is very influential on the high and low income of producers. Good production will be in vain if the price the market is low, because high production does not automatically provide high profits without being accompanied by good and efficient marketing. Pre-research results show that internally, having a workforce sufficient, adequate raw material but facilities, business capital and technology insufficient. This study aims to identify the description of Direct Marketing of coconut shell souvenirs, analyzing the promotional activities carried out, formulate Direct Marketing that already uses social media. This study method uses a qualitative descriptive method. Data collection in this research study uses primary data sources of observations and interviews as well as data sources secondary through documentation. The results to be obtained are the application of direct marketing in SMEs is good, and already using a promotional mix strategy one of which is direct marketing by using media.internet. Outcomes to be achieved Final report, Scientific publications in journals Nationally accredited, Final Project for management study program students marketing involves two sixth semester students and teaching materials. First stage of proposal making, second stage of site survey and collection data, the third stage of data processing, training groups to promote and selling using social media, presentation and improvement, the fourth stage of report submission and the fifth stage of publication.
The Study of Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) Implementation of Vehicle Rental Service Providers in Bali
Authors: Fahmadi Aat Eska , Srianto Srianto , Kurniawan Moch Aziz
Published: May 2023

This paper examines how vehicle service companies in Bali have implemented their work and operational requirements. This study aims to find out whether vehicle service providers have implemented Standard Operating Procedures for tourists in Bali. This research is a descriptive research. The sample in this study were 42 service providers spread across the island of Bali.  The data collection methods was simple random sampling while the data analysis using content analysis. According to the authors' data, only 18 (43%) of the companies that provided motor vehicle rental services had operational standards (SOP), while the other 24 (57%) either lacked them or couldn't prove they existed. 18 or more of these service providers, many of which merely verbally convey it. Other than that, there is still a gap between the work done by the 18 service providers and what is done in practice, such as when permits are issued to foreigners who lack an international license, carry a false identity, or give a permissions to Underage foreigners. There is no legal framework that regulates the SOP for vehicle rental. So that makes the existing SOP very diverse. The legal framework regarding standardization of policies, regulatory requirements for motor vehicle leasing should be regulated by one of the policy makers, in this case the government.
The influence and mechanistic action of sperm DNA fragmentation index on the outcomes of assisted reproduction technology
Authors: Zhang Hui , Zhu Fei-Yue , He Xiao-Juan , Tang Shi-Huan , Long Ting , Peng Lu , Zhang Hong-Mei , Zou Zong-Zhi , Xiong Zhu , Zhang Xian-Ping
Published: May 2023

We investigated the influence of DNA fragmentation index (DFI) on in vitro fertilization (IVF), embryo transfer (ET), and intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI). We analyzed the semen parameters of 61 cycles in infertile couples undergoing IVF-ET and ICSI and determined DFI by sperm chromatin dispersion testing. Based on DFI, the patients were differentiated into a control group (DFI < 25%, n = 35) and a test group (DFI ≥ 25%, n = 26). Flow cytometry and immunofluorescence were used to investigate the extent of sperm reactive oxygen species (ROS) and apoptosis. We also investigated the effect of DFI on pregnancy outcomes of IVF-ET/ICSI. DFI was negatively related to sperm motility and positively correlated with ROS and apoptosis (P < 0.05). Abnormally elevated DFI reduced the rate of transplantable, high-quality embryos, implantation, clinical pregnancy, delivery, and live birth after IVF-ET, and increased the chance of early abortion per transfer cycle (P < 0.05). However, there was no significant correlation between DFI and fertilization rate, cleavage rate, transplantable rate, high-quality embryo rate, implantation rate, clinical pregnancy rate, early abortion rate, delivery rate and live birth rate when assisted by ICSI (P > 0.05). Sperm DNA integrity is crucial for fertilization and the development of healthy offspring. ROS may increase the level of DFI by inducing apoptosis in sperm.
Nouns more similar to the nominative form are more frequent: a case study in Slovak
Authors: Kelih Emmerich , Mačutek Ján , Koščová Michaela , Benko Vladimír
Published: May 2023

Grammatical cases of nouns are expressed by inflectional endings in Slovak. Therefore, nouns have several word forms, with the nominative considered the basic form. In addition to the endings, in some word forms there are morphophonological changes also in stems. The differences between the basic form and inflected forms are evaluated using the Levenshtein distance. We show that word forms more similar to the basic form occur more often. The category of animacy plays a very important role in the frequency behaviour of masculine nouns. The overall idea of the present paper is to give some insights into phenomena of noun inflection and to test various factors influencing and regulating the overall complexity of expressing certain required morphological information. It seems that word frequency, but also word length plays an important role. Moreover, it is shown that also gender and animacy has to be considered to understand noun declension in Slovak properly.
Beyond sanctions and anti-sanctions: examining the impact on sustainable competition and China’s responses
Authors: Gu Tianjie , Zhao Jun
Published: May 2023

Unilateral economic sanctions are increasingly utilized as a tool for strategic competition among states. The lack of stringent regulations in international law has encouraged states to counter such sanctions by enacting domestic legislatures such as blocking and anti-sanction laws. The complex network of sanctions, blocking statutes, and anti-sanctions has rendered cross-border trade and investment activities more challenging. Sustainable development has a competitive dimension, which requires states and entities to be commercially competitive and to pursue sustainable development goals. Unfortunately, the abuse of sanctions and anti-sanctions, as prognosticated by the Hawk-Dove game theory, has promoted lawfare instead of healthy competition among states. Research has shown that the abuse of these sanctions and anti-sanctions has worsened competitive patterns among nations, leading to a decrease in their resilience ability and severely damaging sustainable development goals. In recent years, China has faced increased pressure from economic sanctions due to trade frictions with other regions, particularly the United States. This paper aims to examine China’s approach in responding to unilateral economic sanctions, supplemented by an analysis of China’s recently enacted anti-sanction and blocking laws. This paper will also further the understanding of how states should respond to and apply unilateral economic sanctions through international law based on China’s experience.
Cowanin induces apoptosis in breast cancer cells via Bcl-2 signaling pathway
Authors: Wahyuni Fatma Sri , Syafri Suryati , Permatasari Dita , Hefni Dira , Hamidi Dachriyanus , Nomiza Nur Azizah , Rezti Indri Aulia
Published: May 2023

Objectives

This study aimed to investigate the effect of cowanin the mechanism of cowanin toward cell death and BCL-2 protein (antiapoptotic) expression of T47D breast cancer.

Methods

The cell death was evaluated by double staining, namely acridine orange and propidium iodide, and then observed under a fluorescence microscope. Meanwhile, the BCL-2 protein expression was determined by western blotting with measurement of protein area and protein density.

Results

The result found T47D breast cancer cells were viable, apoptosis, and necrosis after treatment with cowanin. The average viable cells, apoptosis, and necrosis percentages were 54.13 %, 45.43 %, and 0.44 %, respectively. Statistical analysis showed cowanin could significantly induce death in T47D breast cancer cells by apoptosis (p<0.05). It was also revealed that cowanin and positive control (doxorubicin) treatment had a significantly decreased protein area and protein density (p<0.05).

Conclusions

It can be concluded that cowanin can induce death in T47D breast cancer cells by apoptosis and affect the expression of Bcl-2 protein in T47D breast cancer cells.
In Situ Experiment on Velocity Response Induced by Vibroflotation in Calcareous Sand Foundation
Authors: Ding Xuanming , Zhao Jinqiao , Ou Qiang , Hu Jian
Published: May 2023

Vibroflotation is an effective method to improve the bearing capacity and liquefaction resistance of filling calcareous sand foundation. In this paper, an in situ experiment was conducted to study the vibration attenuation in three different directions. Six vibro-compaction positions were carried out in succession with 16 velocity transducers embedded in 3 directions in a plane. The rule of velocity attenuation can be explained by power function, which is consistent with previous studies. It can be found that a significant decrease of the velocity can be observed near the vibration source. However, the velocity can still spread to a long distance. This study compared the geometric and material damping coefficients of the vibration transmission in the calcareous sand. Additionally, vibroflotation can largely raise the dense degree of calcareous sand foundation, as evidenced by the gradually slow tendency of velocity attenuation. The vibrator is under a fixed frequency of 25 Hz, which is reflected by frequency-amplitude graphs. This study extends the investigation of wave propagation in strengthening calcareous sand foundation.