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Juventud y vejez como elementos condicionantes de la argumentación: el caso de don Enrique y doña Blanca en el Espejo de ilustres y perfectas señoras
Authors: Montalvo Mareca Sergio
Published: March 2024

Este artículo analiza la importancia de la edad en la caracterización de las dos figuras que intervienen en el Espejo de ilustres y perfectas señoras de José Rojo, obra dialógica de finales del siglo xvii. Durante las diferentes conversaciones que la integran, los interlocutores se enfrentarán a varios desacuerdos; así deberán servirse de la argumentación, propia de este género, para defender sus puntos de vista. Doña Blanca, además del descrédito preestablecido hacia su sexo, sufrirá la desventaja de su temprana edad frente a la experiencia de su padre, don Enrique. A pesar de que la protagonista se desenvolverá en la diatriba con brillantez, él deshará sus razones sirviéndose del componente experiencial. De esta forma, desarmará su argumentación y logrará imponer su voluntad en los debates sobre la descendencia y las segundas bodas, realidades a las que la joven se opone firmemente al comienzo.
Creative programming in architecture: a computational thinking approach
Authors: Domínguez-Gómez Patricia , Celis Flavio
Published: March 2024

The creative programming language Processing can be used as a generative architectural design tool, which allows the designer to write design instructions (algorithms) and compute them, obtaining graphical outputs of great interest. This contribution addresses the inclusion of this language in the architecture curriculum, within the context of digital culture and alternative approaches to how digital tools are used and learned. It studies the different processes related to Computational Thinking that are triggered in the prototyping of computer applications and that lead to creativity. The similarity between architectural design and programming is analysed, both in problem solving (abstraction, decomposition, iterative revisions -debugging-, etc.) and in the use of mechanisms of a digital nature (loops, randomness, etc.). The results of the design and testing of a pilot course are shown, in which the way of teaching, learning and using this programming language is based on the graphical representation of problems through sketches.
Implementing psychiatric drug withdrawal practices: challenges with individuals with multiple comorbid behavioral and health problems
Authors: Maviglia Marcello , Cooeyate Norman J
Published: March 2024

Treating dually diagnosed individuals with psychiatric medications is very complex as they present often with physical comorbidities and social challenges. Although the need to explore titration and withdrawal from psychiatric medications continues to be raised by consumers, professionals, researchers, and advocacy groups, such a possibility is rarely addressed in clinical practice, since it is extremely challenging and necessitates a nuanced understanding of the interplay of multiple factors (psychological, physical, social). In the article, the authors address the difficulties related to prescribing psychiatric medications and explore the possibility of withdrawal strategies, particularly for dually diagnosed clients. In this frame, they illustrate the development of a withdrawal in a clinic in the southwestern region of the US, which could potentially be considered a beginning of a model to be developed further. Also, the authors are trying to raise awareness regarding the perils of prescribing for dually diagnosed patients, without clear therapeutic objectives and goals, and the possibility of offering withdrawal paths to those individuals who could benefit from it. Moreover, they highlight the importance of peer support- recovery-based interventions, and cultural sensitivity as essential aspects of psychiatric drug prescribing practices
Heavy metal biomonitoring study using transplanted lichen, Pseudevernia furfuracea (L.) Zopf, in Kirikkale, Turkey
Authors: Yıldız Atila , Işık Volkan , Aydın Sevda Sümer
Published: March 2024

Pollutants in the air and heavy metals are regarded as significant contributors to environmental problems. These environmental issues have a wide range of consequences for living organisms. Heavy metals and contaminants have the potential to alter the makeup and flexibility of cellular frameworks, preventing plant and lichen species from absorbing water and nutrients. Lichen thalli can absorb heavy metals through their cell walls. Lichens are more susceptible to environmental stress than other vascular and non-vascular plants. The goal of this research was to find out the levels of air pollution in Kırıkkale and to generate a city air pollution image using Pseudevernia furfuracea (L.) Zopf as bioindicator organisms. In November 2002, lichen specimens were taken from an uncontaminated area in the Yapraklı Mountains in Çankırı city and transplanted to 11 various locations in Kırıkkale. Lichen samples were collected twice after 3 and 6 months of exposure. Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICP) spectrometry was used to measure the heavy metals, Cu, Cd, Mn, Ni, Pb, and Zn contents. The chlorophyll a and b concentrations were measured and also the chlorophyll a+b, a/b, and b/a ratios were calculated as well. According to the findings of P. furfuracea heavy metal analyses, contents of heavy metals were found to be in first period in range of 0.23–0.45 μg g−1, 0,013–0,020 μg g−1, 1,83–2,61 μg g−1, 0,21–0,59 μg g−1,0.37–0,80 μg g−1, and 0,17–2,10 μg g−1, in second period in range of 0,31-0,77 μg g−1,0,014-0,026 μg g−1 ,1,97-3,06 μg g−1 ,0,24-0,63 μg g−1 , 0,45-1,25 μg g−1 and 0,23-6,74 μg g−1 for Cu, Cd, Mn, Ni, Pb, and Zn. Among the reasons for the high values, traffic, autumn-winter heating activities and industrial activities can be mentioned. At 4th and 8th stations with heavy metal accumulation, chlorophyll degradation (0,22 and 0,18 ugr/ml) had started to be observed. These findings showed that P. furfuracea have a high potential for biomonitoring heavy metals in air pollution researches.
Pre-hospital ultrasonography screening for biliary disease in remote settings
Authors: Miravent Sérgio , Jimenez Cármen , Lobo Manuel , Figueiredo Teresa , de Almeida Rui Pedro P.
Published: March 2024

Screening ultrasound, including Point of Care Ultrasonography (POCUS), is widely utilized for rapid clinical guidance in diverse healthcare settings. In this case report, a 34-year-old male with recurrent biliary colic symptoms underwent a Basic Emergency Service ultrasound, revealing a 13 mm gallbladder calculus and signs of inflammation, and was promptly referred to the hospital for further evaluation and treatment. Medical specialist confirmation at the hospital underscored the significance of early detection through POCUS. Despite inconclusive laboratory results, the detailed ultrasound assessment provided a comprehensive understanding, emphasizing the tool's value in averting complications. Thus, screening ultrasound played a pivotal role in justifying the hospital referral, showcasing its vital role in healthcare, especially in resource-limited settings. The judicious use of POCUS can lead to superior outcomes, avoiding unnecessary referrals for non-emergent cases.
An Ode to the Humble [?Healthy] Pizza Pie
Authors: Starin Dawn
Published: March 2024

A short rhapsody on pizza.
Temporary Hearing Threshold Shift in California Sea Lions (Zalophus californianus) Due to a Noise Band Centered at 32 kHz
Authors: Kastelein Ronald A. , Helder-Hoek Lean , Van Acoleyen Laura , Defillet Linde N. , Terhune John M.
Published: March 2024

To determine their frequency-dependent susceptibility to noise-induced temporary hearing threshold shift (TTS), two California sea lions (Zalophus californianus) were exposed for 60 min to a continuous one-sixth-octave noise band (NB) centered at 32 kHz as the fatiguing sound, at sound pressure levels of 132 to 156 dB re 1 µPa (sound exposure levels [SELs] of 168 to 192 dB re 1 µPa2s). Using a psychoacoustic technique, TTSs were quantified at the center frequency of the fatiguing sound and at half an octave and one octave above the center frequency (at 32, 44.8, and 63 kHz). When significant TTS occurred, higher SELs resulted in greater TTSs. TTSs and hearing recovery patterns were similar in both sea lions. The mean onset of TTS1-4 min (defined as 6 dB TTS) in sea lion F01 is estimated to occur after exposure to an SEL of 179 dB re 1 µPa2s (at hearing test frequency 44.8 kHz). After exposure to an SEL of 180 dB re 1 µPa2s, a mean TTS1-4 min of 6.7 dB was measured at hearing test frequency 44.8 kHz. In California sea lions, TTS onset levels are not as closely related (especially at the lower and higher frequencies) to the unmasked hearing thresholds (audiograms) as was previously assumed.
Fish Feeding and Rapid Foraging Behavior Switching by Gray Whales (Eschrichtius robustus) in California
Authors: Webber Marc A. , Keener William , Markowitz Tim M. , Chamberlin David , Allen Darrin , Lane Rebekah S. , Slaathaug Josephine M. , Rodriguez Pilar N. , George Kathi , O’Hern Julia E.
Published: March 2024

Gray whales (Eschrichtius robustus) evolved to suction feed on benthic invertebrates and typically do not consume adult fish. Yet, these whales are flexible foragers, occasionally skim feeding on planktonic invertebrates and rarely lunge feeding on fish, the latter according to anecdotal accounts. We documented the unusual phenomenon of multiple gray whales predating dense schools of anchovy over a sustained period (22 days) in June 2022 at Pacifica, California, in the Gulf of the Farallones. Analysis of 11,265 photos and 11 video clips (totaling 4 min 16 s) for behavior and whale identification resulted in a total of 165 foraging events by six identified gray whales. Attribution of foraging behavior to the most active individuals was achieved by matching left pectoral fins, visible during lateralized feeding behavior. Whales rolled onto their right sides in 96% of near-surface side-swimming bouts. Another behavior, first photographed here, was dynamic surface lunge feeding by one gray whale. Five gray whales interspersed fish feeding with benthic suction feeding evidenced by sediment streaming: prey type switching was executed rapidly, in less than 1 minute in several instances, the shortest intervals reported for a baleen whale. Similar results were obtained for foraging behavior switching (continuous side-swimming or intermittent lunging) in pursuit of fish. Four photo-identified Pacifica whales were sighted in San Francisco Bay/Gulf of the Farallones, one of which was also matched to the Pacific Coast Feeding Group. Such local and regional connections warrant efforts to determine whether gray whales use this area as a migratory stopover site or for summer foraging, or both. Our observations confirm gray whale behavioral plasticity and opportunistic exploitation of food resources in mid-latitudes, which may enhance their resilience to climate change.
Una innovación trunca: la orientación educacional en el cambio de paradigmas educacionales en Chile (c.1965-c.1973)
Authors: Toro-Blanco Pablo
Published: March 2024

Resumen La orientación educacional se instaló en la enseñanza secundaria chilena, a través de un recorrido no exento de dificultades, gracias a la preocupación por la adecuada elección vocacional y la formación integral de la personalidad de las y los estudiantes. En este artículo se analiza, a la luz de documentación oficial, pedagógica y entrevistas, el devenir de este campo en el marco de las agudas transformaciones experimentadas por la educación chilena, en un período que oscila entre paradigmas desarrollistas y socialistas, relevando sus dificultades para constituirse en una innovación educacional con impacto efectivo en el sistema.
CIRCULARITY AS A DYNAMIC CAPABILITY: A REVIEW AND FUTURE AGENDA FOR A CIRCULAR TRANSITION
Authors: Leitão Fabricio Oliveira , Paiva Ely Laureano , Guarnieri Patricia , Monteiro Larissa Costa
Published: March 2024

ABSTRACT Circular economy practices are increasingly aligning with the strategies of organizations operating in innovative and dynamic environments and can be considered a new capability to be explored. This study aims to systematize knowledge about dynamic capability and the circular economy. The results reveal that an organization’s ability to transition from a linear to a circular model is directly related to its capacity to develop dynamic capabilities, facilitating the integration of circular practices into its strategies and enhancing performance.
Homens autores de homicídios femininos e feminicídios: análise de casos entre 2018 e 2019 na cidade de Campinas, São Paulo, Brasil
Authors: Caicedo-Roa Monica , Cordeiro Ricardo Carlos
Published: March 2024

Resumo A violência contra as mulheres em entornos domésticos e familiares tem raízes na desigualdade existente entre os gêneros. Estudos sobre autores de violência letal são necessários para uma compreensão ampliada do fenômeno. O objetivo do estudo é caracterizar os crimes dessa natureza e seus autores, mediante autópsias verbais realizadas com conhecidos e familiares de mulheres vítimas de homicídio na cidade de Campinas. No total, foram estudados 38 casos de homicídio feminino, dos quais 63,2% correspondem a feminicídios. A maioria dos responsáveis pelos crimes eram conhecidos (parceiros, cônjuges e namorados) nos casos de feminicídio, e desconhecidos (sujeitos cuja identidade foi ignorada) nos casos de homicídio feminino. As mortes ocorreram majoritariamente em entornos domésticos, sendo ocasionadas mediante o uso expressivo de violência e o emprego de objetos cortantes/perfurantes e armas de fogo. A fuga foi a conduta mais frequente depois da perpetração dos assassinatos. Os casos foram discutidos articulando intervenções voltadas para grupos reflexivos de masculinidade, centros de educação e reabilitação ou programas de recuperação, problematizando as dificuldades e ganhos no marco da Lei Maria da Penha.
“Eu não sei como eu tenho força pra vir na escola”: manifestações e implicações do bullying entre adolescentes escolares
Authors: Ferreira Diego Raone , Oliveira Junior Isaias Batista de , Higarashi Ieda Harumi
Published: March 2024

Resumo Este artigo tem como objetivo compreender, pelo uso do Photovoice, as representações de bullying presentes entre adolescentes escolares do ensino médio. Trata-se de um estudo qualitativo, realizado com 54 adolescentes da rede pública de ensino do estado do Paraná, organizados em seis grupos focais. Os dados foram coletados mediante a técnica participativa Photovoice e submetidos à análise de conteúdo proposta por Bardin. Da análise dos dados emergiram três categorias: “Bullying estético, homofóbico e de gênero: estratégias subversivas”, “Os efeitos danosos do bullying” e “O diálogo interdisciplinar como estratégia de prevenção e combate ao bullying”. Com os resultados, foi possível evidenciar que a prática do bullying acontece a partir das dissonâncias entre agressores e vítimas, com insultos à condição de conformação corporal, orientação sexual, identidade de gênero, entre outros. Por essa razão, é preciso viabilizar ações articuladas entre educação e saúde para o diálogo e escuta a respeito do bullying na comunidade escolar, com vistas a seu enfrentamento, prevenção e proteção, almejando, sobretudo, o respeito e valorização das diferenças.
Mix design of eco-efficient high-strength mortars optimized by the compressible packing model
Authors: Soto Nicolle Talyta Arriagada , Macioski Gustavo , Hoppe Filho Juarez , Klein Nayara Soares
Published: March 2024

Abstract The production of eco-efficient cement-based materials is essential to reduce CO2 emissions from the construction industry. A substantial reduction in global CO2 emissions can be achieved by using clinker in mortar and concrete more efficiently and using low-CO2 minerals as partial replacements for Portland cement. However, the proportioning of eco-efficient composites is complex and the reduction in clinker content may affect its properties. This paper aims to optimize the mix design of high-strength mortars containing supplementary cementitious materials (limestone filler, fly ash, metakaolin, silica fume). The compressible packing model associated with a simplex mixture design were used together with chemical parameters, to limit the amount of active SCMs for the model iterations. The results show a significant decrease in the environmental impact of the mortars, which presented compressive strengths between 76 and 118 MPa at 91 days and binder indexes between 10 and 15 kg/m3/MPa. The reactivity of the SCMs (based on the modified Chapelle test) were successfully used to establish the Portland cement substitution (up to 13%), preventing the presence of unreacted SCMs and optimizing the use of limestone filler and sand, which have a lower environmental impact. The high-performance blends reached 8.73 kg CO2e/MPa, up to a 30% reduction in CO2e emissions compared to the mortar with only Portland cement.
Medicinal Value, Genetic Diversity, and Genetic Relationship Analysis of Auricularia cornea (Agaricomycetes) Based on ITS, ISSR, and SRAP Markers
Authors: Du Ping , He Hong-Yan , Wu Ni-Ya , Cao Tianxu , Cui Bao-Kai
Published: March 2024

Wild resources of Auricularia cornea (A. polytricha) are abundant in China, and genetic diversity and genetic relationships analysis of A. cornea can provide basis for germplasm resource utilization and innovation and molecular marker-assisted breeding. In this study, 22 Auricularia strains collected were identified as A. cornea based on ITS sequence analysis, and its genetic diversity was examined by ISSR and SRAP markers. The results showed that a total of 415 bands were amplified by 11 selected ISSR primers, with an average amplification of 37.73 bands per primer, and the mean values of Ne, I, and H were 1.302, 0.368, and 0.219, respectively. A total of 450 bands were amplified by 10 SRAP primers, with an average of 45 bands per primer, and the average of Ne, I, and H were 1.263, 0.302, and 0.183, respectively. The unweighted pair-group method with arithmetic means analysis based on ISSR-SRAP marker data revealed that the genetic similarity coefficient between the tested strains was 0.73-0.97, and the strains could be divided into five groups at 0.742, which had a certain correlation with regional distribution. The results of PCOA and population structure analysis based on ISSR-SRAP data also produced similar results. These results demonstrate the genetic diversity and distinctness among wild A. cornea and provide a theoretical reference for the classification, breeding, germplasm innovation, utilization, and variety protection of A. cornea resources.
Prostat Kanserinde Multiparametrik Prostat Manyetik Rezonans Görüntüleme ve Patoloji Parametrelerinin İlişkisi
Authors: GERCEK Osman , ŞENKOL Melih , YAZAR Veli Mert , TOPAL Kutay
Published: March 2024

Amaç: Günümüzde hem Amerika Üroloji Birliği hem de Avrupa Üroloji Birliğinin yayınladığı yönergelerde, PSA yüksekliği olan veya anormal DRM bulgusu olan hastaların öncelikle MpMR ile değerlendirilmesi önerilmektedir. Bu çalışmamızda MpMR’de (Multiparametrik Prostat Manyetik Rezonans Görüntüleme) ölçülen tümör volümü ve PIRADS (Prostate Imaging Reporting and Data System) skorunun, biyopsi ve radikal prostatektomi materyalindeki tümör volümü ve tümör derecesi ile ilişkisini araştırmayı amaçladık.

Gereç ve Yöntem: Çalışmamıza MpMR görüntüleme yöntemi yapılan ve TRUS-Bx (Transrektal Ultrasonografi-Prostat Biyopsisi) ile prostat kanseri teşhisi konulan 66 hasta dahil edildi. Bu hastalardan cerrahiye uygun olan 25’ine suprapubik radikal prostatektomi operasyonu gerçekleştirildi. MpMR’de ölçülen tümör hacmi ile radikal prostatektomi patoloji spesmeninde ölçülen tümör hacminin korelasyonu, PIRADS skorundaki artışın yüksek Gleason dereceleri ile ilişkisi ve diğer parametrelerin korelasyonu incelendi.

Bulgular: MpMR tümör hacmi ile patolojik tümör hacmi arasında mükemmel düzeyde pozitif bir korelasyon saptandı ve istatistiksel olarak anlamlıydı (r=0,914, p
Diyabetik Retinopatili Hastalarda Serum D Vitamini Düzeyinin Değerlendirilmesi
Authors: ÖZER Ömer , GÜÇLÜ Emin Serbülent , BAYSAL Zeki
Published: March 2024

Amaç: Bu araştırmanın amacı diyabetik retinopatisi (DR) olan ve olmayan diyabetik hastaların serum D vitamini düzeylerini değerlendirmektir.

Hastalar ve Yöntem: Bu kesitsel çalışmaya diyabetik retinopati geliştiren elli hasta ve diyabetik retinopatisi olmayan kırk sekiz diyabetes mellituslu hasta dahil edildi. Oftalmolojik muayeneye ile diabetes mellituslu hastalar proliferatif olmayan retinopati (NPDR) ve proliferatif retinopati (PDR) olarak kategorize edildi. Hastalara açlık kan şekeri (AKŞ), hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c), 25-hidroksi D vitamini (25-OH D), kreatinin, üre, kalsiyum, fosfor, idrarda protein testi yapıldı. D vitamini eksikliği, serum 25-OH D düzeyi < 20 ng/mL olarak tanımlandı.

Bulgular: Diyabetik hastaların tümünde yetersiz D vitamini olduğu saptandı (serum 25-OH D düzeyi = 20-30 ng/mL). DR'li hastalarda ortalama serum 25-OH D konsantrasyonu, DR'si olmayanlara göre daha düşüktür (sırasıyla 23,47 ± 7,20 ng/mL ve 30,16 ± 7,00 ng/mL, p
Diyabetik Retinopati Evresi ile Tiyol/Disülfid Homeostazı Arasındaki İlişki
Authors: COŞKUN Mehmet , HASKUL İsmail , NEŞELİOĞLU Salim , EREL Özcan
Published: March 2024

Amaç: Bu çalışmada tip 2 diyabetli hastalarda retinopati evresi ile tiyol/disülfid homeostazı arasındaki ilişki araştırıldı.

Gereç ve Yöntemler: Grup 1, retinopatisi olmayan 100 diyabetik hasta; Grup 2, proliferatif olmayan diyabetik retinopatisi (NPDR) olan 115 hasta; ve Grup 3, proliferatif diyabetik retinopatisi (PDR) olan 72 hasta. Hastaların disülfit, doğal tiyol seviyeleri (NTLs) ve toplam tiyol seviyeleri (TTLs), disülfit/NT oranı (indeks 1), disülfit/TT oranı (indeks 2) ve NT/TT oranı (indeks 3) değerlendirildi. Hastalarda kardiyovasküler veya serebrovasküler hastalıklar, inflamatuar hastalıklar veya malignite tanısı varsa, lipid düşürücü ajanlar, vitaminler veya herhangi bir antioksidan dahil olmak üzere herhangi bir ilaç kullanıyorlarsa veya alkol alımı veya sigara içme öyküsü varsa hastalar çalışma dışı bırakıldı.

Bulgular: Gruplar arasında yaş ve cinsiyet açısından anlamlı bir fark yoktu (sırasıyla p=0.098 ve p=0.16). Gruplar arasında disülfit düzeyleri açısından anlamlı bir fark gözlenmedi (p=0.22). NTL'ler ve TTL'ler Grup 1'de en düşük, Grup 3'te en yüksekti. NTL'ler ve TTL'lerde tüm gruplar arasında anlamlı farklılıklar bulundu (NTL'ler için sırasıyla p=0.01, p=0.001 ve p=0.001; TTL'ler için sırasıyla p=0.008, p=0.001 ve p=0.006). İndeks 1, 2 ve 3 değerleri Grup 1 ve 2 arasında anlamlı farklılık göstermezken (sırasıyla p=0.83, p=0.43 ve p=0.43), Grup 1 ve 3 ile Grup 2 ve 3 arasında anlamlı farklılıklar gözlenmiştir (her 3 indeks için de p=0.001)

Sonuç: Gruplar arasında disülfit düzeyleri açısından fark bulunmazken, retinopati evresi arttıkça NTL ve TTL daha düşük bulundu.
Ripple, rustle, shimmer and shake: the cinematic rapture of grass
Authors: Rutherford Anne
Published: March 2024

This video explores the pervasive cinematic fascination with grass as a key to understanding material cinematic experience. It rethinks cinephilia as the antithesis of peripheral detail. Through a sequential montage, suggestive prompts and duration, the video aims to draw viewers progressively into a sensory-affective, embodied experience of ‘fibrous eyes’.
Insect Inside
Authors: Brophy Gregory
Published: March 2024

This video draws on the bug-ridden corpus of David Cronenberg to ponder on the visceral description in the text on which it is based. Horror is everywhere in this collection of video essays; it seems the call to break from a detached analytical approach to film drives many of us back into the maw of a genre from which we can’t distance ourselves. Horror’s perplexing appeal, for me, lies less in fear than in disgust, in the abject spectacles that trigger my body’s senseless revolt, its futile attempts—with a flinch, a wince, a clench of the stomach—to push the image inside back out of my frame.
Colors of Palestine
Authors: Ó Murchú Niall , Snyder Kevin , Miller Mark J
Published: March 2024

This essay compares the flag color device in contemporary Palestinian movies, particularly three films by Hany Abu-Assad, Annemarie Jacir, and Mai Masri. It examines nationalist, artistic, and compositional motivations for embedded flag colors in comparison with other Palestinian and global films. Compared to others, the three directors innovate by patterning their film narratives with flag colors.
The Idea of a Series: Energy Vectors in Montage
Authors: Martin Adrian , López Cristina Álvarez
Published: March 2024

‘The Idea of a Series’, through sequences of serial montage in films by Ulrike Ottinger, Leos Carax, Marcel Hanoun and Carmelo Bene, revisits the fundamental issue explored by Sergei Eisenstein in his key works expounding his theory on montage: the tension between the sequential nature of film viewing and the possibility offered by the juxtaposition of images to articulate concepts.
The Blackout Period
Authors: Pisters Patricia , Magor Ian
Published: March 2024

A reflection on EU referendum day with a focus on what images and sounds were finding their way into the (un)consciousness of the British voting public.
Clem
Authors: Brown William
Published: March 2024

This essay-film explores my relationship with my cat, Clem, suggesting that the body and thought meet their limits as my human experience of the world comes into contact with something both extremely familiar, but at the same time also alien. In this way, I hope to explore the human-cat relationship, which also helps us to think about the human-cinema and the human-human relationship.
The Coffee Set
Authors: Zecchi Barbara
Published: March 2024

This video essay focuses on the representation of a black and white coffee set in four sequences of Que horas ela volta (Anna Muylaert, 2015). While throughout the film the mismatched colors seem to celebrate the possibility of class mobility and interracial relations, the unexpected final rearrangement—white cups with white saucers and black cups with black saucers—alludes to the persistence of the status quo in Brazil despite the individual success of the two protagonists.
Down a Dark Spiral
Authors: Binotto Johannes
Published: March 2024

This video is an attempt to put the viewers in a sweet and dangerous musical hypnosis, at the same time as it is asking them to constantly move elsewhere – moving through the deep listening experiments of Pauline Oliveros (whom I quote at the beginning), moving through a song that I myself cannot let go of for reasons too numerous to explain here (some of it I mention in the written epilogue), and moving through those films that keep haunting me because of their listening scenes.
Observe-Engage-Adapt: Hulot's Method in Playtime
Authors: Stillar Glenn
Published: March 2024

This video essay attempts to bring the “blurred man” into focus by showing how Tati's Hulot explores, interacts with, and interprets his world with a recognizable habitus – an objective, durable and replicable disposition that repeatedly enables him to come to terms with the physical and social obstacles, contradictions, and antinomies he encounters in Playtime.
Suffering In Rhythm: The ‘Haunting Melody’ in Film Noir
Authors: Killeen Padraic
Published: March 2024

‘Suffering In Rhythm’ examines the recurrence of the trope of the ‘haunting melody’ in film noir. It is conceived as a poetic and instructional project that tracks the development of the trope and meditates upon on the range of meanings that it can be invested with.
Honolulu Mon Amour
Authors: Warr Nick
Published: March 2024

This video juxtaposes Magnum P.I. with the work of Marguerite Duras - not as cultural adversaries (as Anderson suggests) - but to act as a prism through which to refract the distinctive temporality that Newcomb and Anderson attribute to the 1980’s CBS TV show.
Volumetric Cinema
Authors: Ferguson Kevin L.
Published: March 2024

“Volumetric Cinema” demonstrates the possibilities for “looking at film sideways,” taking the film scene as an object not just of two spatial dimensions rushing past in time, but as a spatiotemporal cube that can be manipulated, offering new methods of investigation into our understanding of moving image techniques such as editing, camera movement, and blocking.
Cruising Différance in 3 Scenes
Authors: Francis Marc
Published: March 2024

"Cruising Différance in 3 Scenes" compiles three sequences from William Friedkin’s highly contested 1980 film Cruising. By employing several critical readings throughout the decades since the film’s release, this video essay captures the debate around its representation of violence and queerness, as well as its subsequent reclamation.
Being Luke Skywalker: Transmedia Play and the Adaptation of the Trench Run
Authors: Morton Drew
Published: March 2024

The goal of this video is to further elaborate on the expansion of definitions of transmedia to include the experiential - play by analyzing the prevalence of the Trench Run sequence in Star Wars video games throughout the past forty years.
The End ...Or Is It?
Authors: Korsgaard Mathias Bonde
Published: March 2024

Previous studies of film paratexts have mostly explored title sequences and trailers, but not end credits or other ending paratexts. The audiovisual essay “The End …or Is It?” tries to redress this lack of attention to ending paratexts, asking where, when and how a film actually ends.
Remixing Rose Hobart
Authors: Long Derek
Published: March 2024

This essay employs a number of videographic approaches in order to unearth latent meanings within Joseph Cornell’s collage film Rose Hobart. Digital video allows us to attend to Cornell’s aesthetic at the level of the frame, opening up new readings for the avant-garde masterpiece.
Angstlust
Authors: O'Leary Alan
Published: March 2024

My approach to Oswald Iten’s text was to perform acts of ambivalent homage—the cruelty of Michael Haneke is paired in my film with the capaciousness of Chris Marker—as a form of memory work embedded in a domestic present. I tried to allow a dream logic of condensation, doubling and displacement to guide the shaping of the whole, which was whittled down from a much longer adaptation of Oswald’s rich account. My narrator is embedded in his own memories.
Some People Like Hearing Sad Things
Authors: Morse Nicole
Published: March 2024

Beyond merely representing a late-in-life trans woman, the television show Transparent raises other issues around representational conventions in media about trans, intersex, and gender non-conforming people. Through a multi-screen analysis of a scene from the pilot, this video essay explores how the show both replicates and intervenes in these conventions.
Landscape in Paradigms: Ford’s Monument Valley
Authors: Wilson Booth
Published: March 2024

This video reorganizes images from John Ford's films made in Monument Valley based on the particular geological landmarks there. A journey through the area using Google Earth conveys its cinematic possibilities, Ford's visual approach to employing them, and the abundant thematic connections among the films.
The Follow Shot
Authors: Schonig Jordan
Published: March 2024

This video essay explores some aesthetic and ethical implications of the “follow shot,” a tracking shot that follows a human subject on foot from behind, as it is conspicuously employed in two films that depict human atrocities, Alan Clarke’s Elephant (1989) and Gus Van Sant’s Elephant (2003).
La Cupola: Revisiting L'Avventura through 'building' and 'dwelling'
Authors: Spence Peter
Published: March 2024

This essay aims to re-consider Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1960 film L’Avventura in the light of new learning about his creative practice and methodology as recounted by the architect of his Sardinian holiday villa, Dante Bini. In addition the essay draws on the ideas of architectural theorist Christian Norberg-Schulz.
Against the Real
Authors: López Christina Álvarez , Martin Adrian
Published: March 2024

A videographic response to Sarah O'Brien's "Nous revenons à nos moutons: Regarding Animals in Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep."
Echoes Beyond Time
Authors: Killeen Padraic
Published: March 2024

"Echoes beyond Time, Anguish or Caress" is a poetic meditation on cinema, iconography, and intertextuality. Employing a ‘mash-up’ aesthetic, the video essay addresses the striking migration of images and gestures between three films: Orphée (Jean Cocteau, 1949), Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965), and 2046 (Wong Kar-Wai, 2004). It is guided by a number of specific themes and concepts, chief among them being Aby Warburg’s principle of the pathos formula.
Pan Scan Venkman
Authors: Donnelly Cormac
Published: March 2024

This visual essay considers the presence (or absence) of Dr Peter Venkman from a key scene in the film Ghostbusters. By comparing the full screen VHS release of the film with existing widescreen versions the acousmatic delivery of dialogue is highlighted as a factor in misinterpreting the scene in question.
WTF IS THAT? The Pre- and Post-Cinematic Tendencies of Paranormal Activity
Authors: de Fren Allison , Cantrell Brian
Published: March 2024

This video essay underscores many of the points made by Steven Shaviro in “The Glitch Dimension: Paranormal Activity and the Technologies of Vision,” building off his observation that each film operates as a media allegory, “presenting its own construction as an exemplary instance of the ways that new electronic and digital media pervade, participate in, and largely produce our social world in general.”
Buñuel in Mexico: The Logic of Delirium
Authors: López Cristina Álvarez
Published: March 2024

A reflection on Luis Bunuel's 'logic of delirium' in his Mexican period.
Syrian Bodies, Sonic Ruptures
Authors: Silverstein Shayna
Published: March 2024

My audiography of the Syrian migrant crisis aims to disrupt expulsionary discourses in the West, particularly those that project Syrian bodies as undesirable. As Europe and the United States continue to contest the arrival of ‘others’ in spaces themselves contingent on the presence of out-of-place bodies, my audiographic work seeks to reorient our sensory relationship to the undesirable bodies that traverse and inhabit these spaces. The work is composed of three continuous movements: Revolution (Syria), Migration (transport hubs and routes), and Resettlement (Chicago). Together, these movements juxtapose field recordings of protests worldwide and public spaces crossed by migrants with sound media accessed by Syrian migrants via mobile phones. At once audio documentary and sound composition, my work makes audible the spatialized and embodied sensibilities of Syrian displacement in a work that critiques the resurgence of anti-immigrant sentiment and politics in the West.
Special Effectivities
Authors: Jones Ian Bryce
Published: March 2024

“Special Effectivities” is a phenomenological investigation of the gaming experience; it shows in an embodied way, via the very repetition of trial, error, and (hopefully) eventual success at the heart of videogame play, how we come to understand, utilize and, finally, absorb the mechanics of an interactive cultural form.
Who’s the Monster Now
Authors: Hofmann Maria
Published: March 2024

This video ponders on the religious aspects of Gregory Brophy’s text and the Christofascism pervading the US in light of the recent overturning of Roe v. Wade. Drawing on Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel The Handmaid's Tale and its TV adaptation, as well as the films Homesick (2015) by Jakob Erwa and Black Swan (2010) by Darren Aronofsky, I delve into the respective female protagonists' mental deterioration and argue that it is the product of their experience of the patriarchy.
A Cinema of Bodily Sense
Authors: Cook Adam
Published: March 2024

This video essay seeks to explore and reveal the ways in which the films of Tsai Ming-liang foreground and formally emphasize the bodily sense and subjective temporalities of his characters, creating a methodology of viewing that invites the viewer to engage by way of a state of heightened embodiment.
The Age of Longing
Authors: Dekel Lia
Published: March 2024

A videographic response to Oswald Iten's “The Age of Emptiness”
TV Dictionary - Fleabag #2
Authors: Abramovich Sharon
Published: March 2024

A TV Dictionary entry on Fleabag.
TV Dictionary - Hannibal
Authors: Spisakova Karin
Published: March 2024

A TV Dictionary entry on Hannibal.
chaste/unchaste
Authors: Tafakory Maryam
Published: March 2024

In Iranian cinema, women are neither censored nor misrepresented; they do not exist. This video essay challenges such a narrative, offering a feminist reading against patriarchal norms
Quantifying Treasury Cash-Futures Basis Trades
Authors: Glicoes Jonathan , Iorio Benjamin , Monin Phillip , Petrasek Lubomir
Published: March 2024

The Treasury cash-futures basis trade exploits the difference in prices between a Treasury security and a related Treasury futures contract – the so-called cash-futures basis – by purchasing the asset that is relatively undervalued and selling the other in a bet that the prices will converge. Basis traders support Treasury market functioning by keeping the prices of Treasury futures near their fair value relative to Treasury securities and by serving as an important source of demand for Treasury securities, including during the 2017-2019 period of quantitative tightening when basis traders absorbed much of the increased Treasury supply.
Effect of ploidy on growth, fillet composition and colour of large rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) in the Black Sea
Authors: Öztürk Dilara Kaya
Published: March 2024

The purpose of this study was to determine the growth performance and fillet quality parameters of large rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) and of different ploidy (diploid-DTS and triploid- TTS) cultured in the Black Sea. This study was carried out in a commercial fish farm in Sinop, Black Sea of Turkey. Triploid groups had a higher weight and a better feed conversion rate than the DTS at the end of the 150-day study. Crude protein and crude fat ratios were respectively higher in the DTS and TTS groups; while ploidy affected the biochemical and fatty acid compositions of the large rainbow trout, it had no effect on the amino acid compositions. The colour of fillets was affected by the crude fat ratio of the fillet. This study indicated that large rainbow trout produced in the Black Sea, regardless of its ploidy, were of high quality, nutritious and healthy for human consumption. Furthermore, it demonstrated yet again that large rainbow trout is of sufficient quality to compete with other salmonid species in the national or international markets.
Activities of fisheries co-operative societies in India to boost up and optimise the resources and economy of farmers: a review
Authors: Sanyal Tanmay , Saha Aloke , Mukherjee Pronoy
Published: March 2024

Fisheries within India have significant financial, nutritional and socio-economic development prospects. The country has a diversified natural fishery resource. Fishermen have continuously undertaken fisheries activity throughout the country over decades and fisheries co-operatives have now been developed for cumulative production and effective regulation of fishery activities. It was observed that there have been many inconsistencies, mostly in the management of fisheries co-operatives; a few were effectively handled under active supervision and government backing, whereas many co-operatives are facing various problems for their existence. Effective administration of fisherman's co-operatives is critical for increasing fishing productivity and the socio-economic growth of fishermen. Co-operatives can help fishermen develop their skills and gather information about technology, marketing, and management. Co-operatives can improve productivity, processing, storing and transportation capabilities while also meeting financial demands. As a result, co-operative organisations may contend with multinational corporations by integrating competent management abilities with co-operative power. To do this, a nationwide research project focusing on different elements of fisheries co-operatives is recommended. The need for appropriate policy implications for such sustainable management of fisheries co-operatives in accordance with current technical advancements in the sector of aquaculture, environmental degradation and global warming has been highlighted.
Havacılık Sektörünün Ekonomik Performansa Etkisi
Authors: Özsolak Baki , Öztürk Serdar
Published: March 2024

Bu araştırmada havacılık sektörü ve ekonomik performans ilişkisi araştırılmaktadır. Çalışmada gözlem grubu G-7 ekonomileri, dönem olarak ise 1997-2020 incelenmiştir. PVAR ekonometrik metodolojisinin ve Granger nedensellik tahmininin kullanıldığı ampirik analizde iki farklı model oluşturulmuştur. Model 1 ilk grup ekonomik performans kriterleri olarak kişi başı gelir, ticaret ve istihdam değişkenlerinden oluşmaktadır. İkinci grup ekonomik performans kriterleri ile Model 2 oluşturulmuştur. Model 2’de döviz kuru, doğrudan yabancı yatırımlar ve ödemeler dengesi kullanılmıştır. Her iki modelde de hava taşımacılığı bağımlı değişken, CO2 ise kontrol değişkeni olarak yer almaktadır. Katsayı ve nedensellik tahminlerine göre Model 1 için; havacılık sektörü ve büyüme arasında iki yönlü ve istatistiki olarak anlamlı pozitif ilişki belirlenmiştir. Diğer taraftan havacılık sektörü ile ticaret ve CO2 arasında pozitif, istihdam ile negatif ilişki belirlenmiştir. Model 2 tahminlerine göre ise döviz kuru havacılık sektörünü negatif etkilemektedir. Ancak havacılık sektörü doğrudan yabancı yatırımları, ödemeler dengesini ile CO2 emisyonunu pozitif ve istatistiksel olarak anlamlı etkilemektedir. Ampirik sonuçlara göre G-7 ekonomilerinde havacılık sektörü ekonomik performans kriterleri üzerinde iyileştirici etkiye sahiptir ve büyümenin dinamikleri arasında yer almaktadır.
On the Issue of Compliance with the Legislation on Personal Data by the Employer During Video Recording and Psychophysiological Study of Workers on the Polygraph
Authors: Mashkov Sergey , Kostyuchenko Maria
Published: March 2024

The article is devoted to the issues of compliance by the employer with the legislation of the Russian Federation on the collection of personal data of an employee through technical means of control over him and his workplace, as well as the fact and limits of interference in his private life. In this case, the need for the legitimacy of ensuring the rights and obligations of the parties to labor relations and the consistency of their interests is indicated. The authors note that the workplace is under the control of the employer, who is free to choose the means of control over the employee. The article discusses such means of control as video surveillance of employees and their testing on a polygraph (lie detector). An analysis of the current labor and other legislation of the Russian Federation, which regulates these legal relations of participants in the labor process, as well as the current judicial practice, which is ambiguous, has been undertaken. It is concluded that video surveillance and video recording of the workplace, subject to a number of conditions specified in the article, do not aim to interfere with the private life of the employee, do not violate the rules on the protection of personal data, since they are aimed at ensuring the safety of employees, their control, the safety of property on the territory of the employer, fixing and proving non-fulfillment by the employee of his labor duties. The article formulates a number of requirements, the observance of which will ensure the legality of video monitoring and the inadmissibility of violating the rights and freedoms of employees. When testing an employee on a polygraph, taking into account the provisions of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation, a polygraph examiner acting in the interests of the employer should also comply with the requirements of legislation on personal data. Compliance by the employer with certain conditions for the participation of an employee in a psychophysiological study using a polygraph, including bringing to the attention of the employee the subject and purpose of the study that are of interest to the employer, makes this event voluntary and legal, and the processing of personal data in the process of its implementation – in line with current legislation in the field of personal data and labor relations.
Efektywność biokonwersji odpadów organicznych na biogaz w procesach fermentacji z wykorzystaniem owadów Hermetia illucens
Authors: Czekała Wojciech
Published: March 2024

Agricultural biogas plants use more and more often waste for energy production. Therefore, the process of anaerobic digestion taking place in biogas installations is suitable, allowing for rational use of organic waste with energy production at the same time. One of the innovative solutions for the production of biogas and afterwards energy is the use of insect larvae Hermetia illucens. The presented research analyzed the possibilities of using selected plant origin waste in the process of agricultural biogas production and in breeding of Hermetia illucens larvae for energy purposes. The scientific problem was formulated in the form of a question: will the use of organic waste in the bioconversion process with the use of Hermetia illucens insects increase the energy and economic efficiency of biogas plants (including the use of by-products), compared to the fermentation of the waste itself? In the research on biogas and methane efficiency, 18 selected organic wastes and Hermetia illucens larvae along with substrates associated with their production and processing: residue after oil extraction, oil, shredded larvae, dried larvae, and larva excrements were used. Based on the obtained data from the research, an innovative technology for the bioconversion of organic waste, including the withdrawal from the sale of food as part of the recovery process was created. In turn on the basis of biogas and methane efficiency of waste as well as larvae and their fractions, an analysis regarding energy efficiency was carried out. At the same time, considering the properties of the obtained digestate, an economic analysis for the five proposed technologies was also performed. The waste used in the research was characterized, among others wide range of fluctuations in total solids, with a volatile total solids content of over 80%, which qualifies them for use in the methane fermentation process. Equally good results were observed for Hermetia illucens and product associated with their production and processing. Based on the obtained results, it was found that the residue after oil extraction was a valuable substrate for agricultural biogas plants. The sale of the obtained oil can give a large additional benefit having an impact on the economic balance of the biogas plant operation. This study was performed in the frame of the IN OIL project: An innovative method for bioconversion of by-products from food processing industry that was financed by the National Centre for Research and Development within the Lider VII Programme No. LIDER/5/0148/L-7/15/NCBR/2016.
The Political Participation and Representation of Migrants: An Overview
Authors: Soare Sorina , Gherghina Sergiu
Published: March 2024

This thematic issue covers the participation and representation of migrants in contemporary politics. It focuses on two interconnected analytical dimensions: countries of residence and countries of origin, as arenas of political engagement and the supply and demand sides of political representation. The articles in the thematic issue advance the existing knowledge in migration studies and party politics both theoretically and empirically. They do so by proposing innovative analytical frameworks to assess the extent of participation and representation and by bringing evidence that fosters a better understanding of the intricate relationship between migration and politics.