bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Identifikasi Waste Pada Proses Produksi Pupuk dengan Pendekatan Lean Manufacturing
Authors: Manurung Jepri Pernando , Hasibuan Abdurrozzaq , AK Wirda Novarika
Published: May 2023

Lean manufacturing adalah sebuah metodologi manufaktur untuk melakukan tindakan perbaikan secara terus-menerus dengan tujuan mengurangi pemborosan (waste) dan proses yang tidak memberikan nilai tambah (non value added activity) di dalam pabrik untuk meningkatkan produktivitas. Langkah awal yang dilakukan dalam peningkatan produktivitas adalah dengan mengidentifikasi waste yang ada. CV Tabita Jaya Medan merupakan suatu perusahaan manufaktur pembuatan pupuk kimia. Perusahaan ini memproduksi pupuk dengan jenis S-Vit Tabur GB, S-Vit Instant, S-Vit Fungsi Ganda, S-Vit Cair dari proses produksinya sendiri masih ada pemborosan berupa waktu tunggu atau waitting time yang selalu lama terjadi pada lantai produksi yang dalam hal ini mengidentifikasikan bahwa terdapat waste yang terjadi pada sistem produksi di CV Tabita Jaya Medan. Proses produksi yang mengalami waktu tunggu terjadi karena berbagai faktor. Pada CV Tabita Jaya Medan ini waktu tunggu terjadi disebabkan oleh para karyawan terlalu banyak mengobrol sesama karyawan. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah menganalisis jenis pemborosan yang terjadi pada proses produksi pupuk S-Vit Tabur GB, di CV Tabita Jaya Medan, menghitung dan menganalisis waktu total dari aktivitas nilai tambahan dan tidak memberikan nilai tambah, diperlukan tetapi tidak ada nilai tambah. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode observasi dan wawancara, hasil penelitian dapat disimpulkan bahwa waktu tunggu (Lead time) pada setiap proses pencampuran, pencampuran, sebesar 4563,2 detik waktu yang dibutuhkan pada proses penimbangan, 4395,6 detik waktu yang dibutuhkan untuk proses packing, 918 detik. Dengan demikian total waktu lead Time untuk membuat pupuk S-Vit Tabur GB sebanyak 9876,8 detik atau 2,74 jam. Aktivitas nilai tambah (Value added activity) memiliki nilai waktu 5686,8 detik, tidak memberikan nilai tambah (non-value added activity) memiliki waktu sebesar 1255,20 detik dan diperlukan nilai tambah tetapi tidak ada nilai tambah (necessary but non-value added activity) memiliki waktu sebanyak 2934,8 detik. Dalam pelaksanaan pengamatan dilapangan didapat salah satu yang menjadi penyebab terjadinya waktu tunggu yaitu sesama karyawan terlalu banyak mengobrol.
Rancangan UI/UX Aplikasi Analytics pada Toko Online Wao Sneakers Menggunakan Figma Berbasis Mobile
Authors: Sari Indah Purnama , Ramadhani Fanny , Satria Andy , Apdilah Dicky , Basri Mhd
Published: May 2023

Media sosial Instagram digunakan wao.sneakers sebagai media untuk memasarkan produk dan bertujuan untuk memudahkan konsumen atau calon pembeli dalam mencari informasi tentang produk yang akan dibeli dan juga bertujuan untuk memudahkan transaksi. Posting produk dan jumlah pengikut, merupakan salah satu indikator yang dapat mempengaruhi kepercayaan dan minat beli suatu konsumen. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk merancang sebuah desain yang menarik, mudah digunakan dan UI/UX modern untuk aplikasi analitik untuk wao.sneakers. Sehingga   bisa meningkat engagement yang berdampak pada peningkatan kepercayaan dan minat beli konsumen. Data yang dibutuhkan dalam merancang desain UI/UX diperoleh dengan melakukan wawancara langsung dengan pemiliknya yaitu Chathrine. Dalam mendesain UI/UX ini, Software editing yang digunakan adalah Figma. Dengan adanya penelitian ini diharapkan dapat memudahkan wao.sneakers dalam mendesain aplikasi analitik berbasis mobile.
Ações Qualificadoras do Ensino - AQE e os Programas de Assistência Estudantil - PAE com vista à permanência dos estudantes da UNEMAT
Authors: Neves Suzely Paesano , Gentil Heloisa Salles
Published: May 2023

Este estudo tem como objetivo fazer um levantamento sobre bolsas e auxílios ofertados nos Programas de Assistência Estudantil - PAE e de Ações Qualificadoras do Ensino - AQE praticados na UNEMAT tendo em vista a importância delas para a permanência estudantil. Trata-se de uma pesquisa bibliográfica com abordagem quanti-qualitativa e análise documental (leis, decretos, resolução, portarias, etc.). Obtivemos como resultado a existência de quinze Ações Qualificadoras do Ensino - AQE e um Programa de Assistência Estudantil – PAE. Das AQE somente nove estão vigentes, sendo concedidas no ano de 2017 2.627 bolsas estudantis, com exceção das bolsas do Programa Institucional de Residência Pedagógica - RP/CAPES que não teve o quantitativo informado. No PAE/UNEMAT estão vigentes somente os auxílios, sendo ofertados no ano em questão 1.160 auxílios estudantis. Conclui-se que as bolsas e os auxílios concedidos pela UNEMAT totalizam 3.781 benefícios que de alguma maneira contribuem com os estudantes para que possam concluir o curso escolhido, colaborando assim com a permanência dos estudantes nos cursos de graduação da IES.
Uso de jogo de tabuleiro para abordagem da educação ambiental em uma instituição de acolhimento infantil
Authors: Silva Wallace Santana da , Firmo Ana Cecilia Cardoso , Duarte Natália Mutti Peixoto , Fonseca Laerte Silva da , Romão Estaner Claro
Published: May 2023

O presente trabalho aborda o tema Educação Ambiental em uma casa de acolhimento institucional no interior do Rio de Janeiro, visto que, a instituição aponta índices de desperdício de alimentos e não segregação do lixo produzido. Com isso, tem-se como objetivo incentivar a aprendizagem a respeito da educação ambiental utilizando um jogo de tabuleiro. O desenvolvimento da estratégia foi realizada com crianças e adolescentes acolhidos, com idades entre 10 e 15 anos, no decorrer de duas semanas. Houve a necessidade da participação do educador responsável para auxiliar os internos no preenchimento de uma folha de verificação sobre desperdício de alimentos e auxiliá-los no preparo de receitas que induzissem o aproveitamento dos alimentos. O jogo contém 18 casas e cada uma há um comando com uma expectativa de construção e solidificação de conceitos. Tais comandos foram apresentados por meio de cartões, nos quais tratam importantes contextos, como: verificação de desperdícios de alimentos, estímulos no preparo de receitas, alimentação saudável, diferença entre reutilização e reciclagem, coleta seletiva e outros. Como resultados, houve uma desmotivação na fase inicial da aplicação do jogo, seguido de uma empolgação após o seu início e uma efetiva participação nas atividades com indícios de mudança de comportamento. Conclui-se que a estratégia do jogo favoreceu o conhecimento sobre Educação Ambiental e a importância da preservação do meio ambiente, e também possibilitou o desenvolvimento de habilidades pessoais.
Consideraciones a la imputación múltiple. Un caso de estudio con datos panel
Authors: Del Callejo Canal Diana , Canal-Martínez Margarita Edith , Vernazza Elena , Urruticoechea Alar , Álvarez-Vaz Ramón
Published: May 2023

Los datos faltantes son todo un reto en los análisis estadísticos. La imputación, entendida como el proceso de reemplazar los datos faltantes con un valor estimado, es un problema regular en los proyectos de investigación. Existen muchos modelos y subrutinas de diversos
software destinadas para este proceso, sin embargo, la selección del modelo de imputación adecuado al tipo de datos disponibles es trascendental para la fiabilidad del resultado. En este estudio se trabaja con una tabla de datos cruzada que involucran series de tiempo (datos panel) con un 24% de datos faltantes. Con el objetivo de imputar estos datos, se utilizó un modelo de imputación múltiple y se agregaron algunas restricciones al sistema. El principal aporte de este ejercicio es mostrar que un buen proceso de imputación requiere del diagnóstico del problema, de la configuración del modelo de imputación y, finalmente, de la verificación de la calidad de los datos imputados.
THE INFLUENCE OF MATERIAL CONTENTS ON CHARACTERISTICS OF COPPER (II) OXIDE AND SILICON-BASED TIME-DELAY COMPOSITIONS
Authors:   Le Quy Don Technical University, Dam Quang Sang
Published: May 2023

This paper presents several research results about the influence of percentage of raw materials on important characteristics of the delay mixture based on copper oxide and silicon such as heat of combustion, specific volume of gaseous products, combustion temperature. Analysing computed results and experimental data show that this delay pyrotechnic has high combustion heat and temperature of combustion wavefront, “gasless”, safety with thermal impulse. Its burning rate is 9.6 mm/s at 2.2 g/cm3 of density.
INVESTIGATING MATERIALS CHARACTERISTICS AND JUDGING HEAT TREATMENT TECHNOLOGY OF THE TRUONG SA ALUMINUM SAMPLE
Authors:   Le Quy Don Technical University, Nguyen Dinh Chien
Published: May 2023

Based on the investigating and comparison of characteristics of chemical composition, microstructure, hardness and corrosion properties of the Truong Sa aluminum sample (the Truong Sa aluminum was aircraft landing mat in the Truong Sa Islands) and equivalent aluminum sample supplied by Z127 factory, we proposed the technological scheme for heat treatment the factory aluminum sample. These are: extruding alluminum AA6061, recrystalization anealing, quenching from 520°C and aging at 165°C for 9 hours.
STUDY ON THE INFLUENCE OF THE POSITION, THICKNESS OF THE WAVE-SHAPER ON THE VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION ALONG JET USING THE ANSYS AUTODYN 2D SOFTWARE
Authors:   Le Quy Don Technical University, Pham Huu Nguyen
Published: May 2023

Bài báo nghiên cứu ảnh hưởng của vị trí, bề dày tấm chắn sóng đến quy luật thay đổi vận tốc dòng xuyên bộ phận lõm có phễu lót sử dụng trong đạn B41-M trên phần mềm ANSYS Autodyn 2D. Kết quả cho thấy, ảnh hưởng của tấm chắn sóng đến quy luật thay đổi vận tốc dòng xuyên là đáng kể khi bề dày tấm chắn sóng lớn hơn 2,0 cm và tấm chắn sóng có vị trí sát đỉnh phễu. Kết quả nghiên cứu là cơ sở cho việc đánh giá ảnh hưởng của tấm chắn sóng đến quá trình hình thành dòng xuyên và việc sử dụng phương án tấm chắn sóng hợp lý trong kết cấu của bộ phận lõm.
THE DYNAMIC OF WORKING EQUIPMENT OF THE REMOTELY CONTROLLED BOMB DISPOSAL MACHINE DURING CLAMPING AND LIFTING BOMB PROCESS
Authors:   Le Quy Don Technical University, Tran Duc Thang
Published: May 2023

This paper presents the dynamical working equipment model of the remotely controlled bombs disposal machine improved from the Komatsu PC200-6 hydraulic excavator; establishes the system of differential equations of motion of the system based on Lagrange 2 equation and Denavit-Hartenberg transformation; and presents calculations of dynamic of working equipment of this machine during clamping and lifting bomb process to find the rule of motion of the links as input for designing remote control modules and determining the reasonable structural and working parameters of working equipment.
STUDY ON THE SYNTHESIS OF β-NITROAMINES VIA AZA-HENRY REACTION
Authors:   Le Quy Don Technical University, Bui Anh Thuc
Published: May 2023

Aza-Henry is one of effective and fundamental carbon-carbon bond-forming reactions in organic chemistry. This reaction is also a useful method for preparation of versatile compounds containing nitrogen atom as well as for the synthesis of many bioactive molecules. The objective of this paper was to investigate the synthesis of β-nitroamines in mild conditions using inexpensive NaHCO3 as a catalyst. This process was efficient and compatible with a wide range of imines to afford a direct access to β-nitroamine compounds in very good yields up to 89% and high selectivities.
DYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF THE LAMINATED COMPOSITE PLATE RESTING ON TWO-PARAMETER ELASTIC FOUNDATION SUBJECTED TO MOVING MASS USING FINITE ELEMENT METHOD
Authors:   Le Quy Don Technical University, Doan Trac Luat
Published: May 2023

This paper presents a model and an algorithm for solving the dynamic problem of the laminated composite plate resting on two-parameter elastic foundation subjected to moving mass. By using the finite element method and the homogenization theory for the laminated composite plate, the motion equations of composite plates resting on two-parameter elastic foundation subjected to moving mass are established, in which the elastic deformation foundation was modeled as a Pasternak’s elastic foundation. Through the proposed theory and the computed program in MATLAB environment, the numerical results are verified by comparing with other exact publications, and influences of geometrical and material properties such as the fiber angles of the structure, modulus ratio E1/E2 and the elastic foundation stiffnesses c1 and c2, etc., on the dynamic behaviours of the structure are investigated.
Insecticidal Potentials of Capsicum chinense (Jacq) and Garcinia kola (Heckel) Extracts on Callosobruchus maculatus (Cowpea Weevil) Infestation
Authors: Oyedeji Ayodele , Oku Ikpebivie , Akanwa Eberechi Franklin , Digia Linda Imomotimi
Published: May 2023

The use of synthetic organic pesticides has resulted in significant environmental pollution that threatens human health and kills unintended organisms, leading to their eventual restriction and a demand for better alternatives. In this study, the insecticidal potentials of ethanolic extracts of Capsicum chinense and Garcinia kola against Callosobruchus maculatus infestation on cowpea were assessed. From the results, it can be concluded that exposure time and extract concentration increased mortality. The data obtained demonstrated a significant change (p<0.05) in 2 g at 24 hours and 48 hours following exposure. The concentration and time-dependent mortality of C. maculatus in C. chinense extract increased. Mortality was observed 100 % at 4 hours in 2-8 g of the extract when compared to the control. Values ranged from 3.600.55 to 10.000.00 for the effect of the C. chinense extract at 2 g, and there was no discernible difference (p>0.05). The results were considerably different (p<0.05) at 4 g and 6 g compared to the control. The toxicity rate of the plant extracts on the test organism was also seen to increase from day 1 to day 3. The insects moved jerkily and quickly and tended to try to get out of the Petri dishes. The plants' strong insecticidal and repellent properties suggest that they are useful for managing and controlling the cowpea weevil and can be used as an alternative to commercially available harmful insecticides.
Efectividad de la terapia bipolar androgénica en el tratamiento de pacientes con cáncer de próstata resistente a la castración progresados a quimioterapia
Authors: Zarbá Martín , Ángel Martín , Losco Federico , Enrico Diego , Waisberg Federico , Rodríguez Andrés , Zarbá Juan José , Pupilli Juan , Chacón Matías , Sade Juan Pablo
Published: May 2023

Introducción: La terapia bipolar androgénica (BAT) es una estrategia para pacientes con cáncer de próstata resistente a la castración metastásico (CPRCm). Estudios previos demostraron actividad clínica, así como también el potencial efecto de re- sensibilizar las células de cáncer de próstata a un agente hormonal utilizado previamente. Ninguno evaluó BAT luego de quimioterapia. Materiales y métodos: Estudio de cohorte multicéntrico retrospectivo de pacientes con CPRCm que recibieron BAT luego de quimioterapia en tres centros de Argentina. BAT consiste en inyecciones intramusculares mensuales de cipionato de testosterona asociado a agonistas o antagonistas de LHRH. Resultados: Fueron incluidos 12 pacientes con CPRCm asintomáticos y progresados a quimioterapia. La mediana de líneas previas fue 3, 100% realizó tratamiento con nuevos agentes hormonales y quimioterapia previamente. La SLP fue 110 días (IC95%: 70 - NA). La PSA50 fue 33.3% y la tasa de respuesta objetiva fue 16.6%. De los 9 pacientes que progresaron a BAT, 8 (88.8%) recibieron otro tratamiento, 5 (62.5%) fueron reexpuestos a un NAH. La tasa de respuesta fue 40% (n=2), de los cuales 1 realizó abiraterona y 1 enzalutamida. La mediana de SLP2, calculada desde el inicio de BAT hasta la progresión a una línea subsiguiente, fue 202 días (95%CI: 114 - NA). Los efectos adversos reportados fueron incremento del dolor en 3 pacientes (25%) y edema en miembros inferiores en 1 paciente (8.3%). Conclusiones: BAT demostró actividad clínica en este escenario. Nuestros datos apoyan que BAT puede tener un rol de resensibilización a la terapia hormonal. Se necesitan más estudios para confirmar estos hallazgos.
Association between Exposure to Media and Body Weight Concern among Female Students at Private University in Selangor, Malaysia.
Authors: Hasan Tiba Nezar , binti Mohd Fisal Lubna Haida , Ghazi Hasanain Faisal
Published: May 2023

These days, media has become a huge part of everyday life. Unrealistic thin body weight and body shape portrayed by media has led to body weight concern especially among females. The aim of this study is to investigate the associations between media exposure and body weight concern among female university students in Management and Science University. A cross-sectional study was conducted among 363 female students aged 17 to 26 years from the Management and Science University. A self-administered questionnaire was used to assess on socio-demographic information, media usage, body shape concern, body appreciation scale, and the sociocultural attitudes toward appearance. The highest number of media usage were among students between 17 to 20 years old, 31.7% overweight students had high body shape concern, 40.8% student had high sociocultural attitudes towards appearance and 44.6% normal weight student perceived high body appreciation scale. In the association between media usage and body weight concern, a significant association was found on body shape concern (p=0.01), body appreciation scale (p=0.001) and sociocultural attitudes toward appearance (p=0.001). In socio-demographic and body weight concern, the result also indicated a significant association between BMI (p=0.001), monthly income (p=0.013) and education (p=0.001) with body shape concern, body appreciation scale and sociocultural attitudes towards appearance. As a conclusion, 52% in the present study showed that exposure to media have association with body weight concern among female university students.
Factors Affecting Uncooperative Behaviors and the Challenges when Handling Paediatric Patients: Framework for Optometry Practice
Authors: Nadirah Sharifah , Awg Isa Mohd Zaki
Published: May 2023

Poor vision accounts for nearly half of all childhood disability in Malaysia and most other developing countries. Overall, vision impairment (VI) among children is estimated 4% of the world's impaired vision. VI refers to visual acuity (VA) less than 6/120). One-third of the vision impairment and blindness globally are recognised to vision problems from childhood. Visual Impairment (VI) prevalence among Malaysian children is still lacking, but it is predicted to increase in years to come. This study aimed to explore the association of uncooperative behaviour during an eye examination with prevailing VI in Malaysia. A modified Frankl scale method was used to evaluate the uncooperative behaviour in pediatric patients during eye examinations. This article highlights a framework of various factors leading to a child’s uncooperative behaviours, classifications of child behavior and the challenges faced when handling pediatric patients during an eye examination in optometry practice.
Comrade Object
Authors: Kaletzky Marianne
Published: May 2023

“Comrade Object” puts the “Circe” episode of Ulysses in conversation with animated film of the 1910s and 1920s. Like “Circe,” which invests long-familiar, seemingly inert objects with movement and voice, early animated films gave viewers access to visual landscapes of unprecedented plasticity, in which apparently static backgrounds sprang into vibrant life. In examining correspondences between “Circe” and animation, the essay’s primary aim is not to offer a theory of influence. Rather, I explore how critical work on animated film, particularly the theories of Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein, might allow us to approach the politics of “Circe” in new ways. Rather than reading the animated objects of “Circe” primarily as exemplifications of commodity culture or realizations of individual fantasy divorced from a broader social world, I argue that the episode’s plasticity reopens possibilities for political action foreclosed in much of the rest of the novel. By setting in motion backgrounds elsewhere represented as static, “Circe” reveals naturalized conditions as contingent and constructed—and reanimates apparently stagnant efforts to imagine the present otherwise.
Physical Reminders of Empowerment
Authors: Downs Benjamin J. , Pfleegor Adam G.
Published: May 2023

Major League Baseball stadia are unique sporting structures because much of their cultural significance is attributed to the notable contests and individual accomplishments hosted within. However, the popular significance of the stadia, and the contests and accomplishments that occurred within their walls, is typically determined by cultural elites. Disappointingly, African Americans and other minority groups see the accomplishments of non-white heroes minimized in favor of white-centric narratives that reinforce the values of that group. This chapter connects Major League stadia to the broader discussion of tangible immovable sport heritage before profiling the exploitative relationship that existed between middle-class white team and facility owners and Negro League players and organizations. Ultimately, an argument is presented, utilizing the concepts of dissonant heritage and authorized heritage discourse, to call for Major League stadia to more overtly recognize the heritage created by Negro League players.
American Baseball Museums and the Politics of Meta-Narrative
Authors: Gordon Kiernan O.
Published: May 2023

Baseball museums in the United States have become integrated with larger redevelopment projects and sport venues for those cities and communities that aspire to increase tourism in recent years. Thus, the baseball museum has become a tool to position urban space as a sport tourism destination. In this chapter, the sociological construct of “frame analysis” is adapted to examine American baseball museums in an attempt to understand the universality inherent to their political meta-narrative. Applying frame analysis to three examples of these museums—The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, The Louisville Slugger Museum and Factory, and The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum—yields meta-narratives that can be categorized relative to a museum’s intent to either stake a claim or make a claim relative to baseball heritage. The ways in which these museums engage in place-framing, as well as the challenges and tensions that may arise therefrom, are discussed
Exploring the Heritage of Baseball in South Korea
Authors: Choi Jungah
Published: May 2023

This chapter covers various topics related to baseball heritage in South Korea, ranging from history, culture, baseball heroes and their achievement, and stadium and museum. Given that Korean baseball was influenced by American and Japanese baseball, this chapter introduces the history of Korean baseball under the influence of American and Japanese baseball. Also, this chapter explains the unique culture (home-based system, cheers and chants, rivalry, etc.) and background (autocracy, post-colonial, the achievement in the international events, etc.) of Korean baseball, which makes the Korean baseball league more popular as of now. Lastly, this chapter demonstrates how the concept of a baseball stadium in Korea is gradually changing and the prospective challenge of Korean baseball regarding the Korean baseball museum for increasing the value of baseball heritage in South Korea.
“Our Very Own ‘Field of Dreams’ in England’s Green and Pleasant Land”
Authors: Lashua Brett
Published: May 2023

Despite some recent attention to the origins of baseball, its early formations and attempts to popularize the pastime in the United Kingdom have been largely forgotten or ignored. Making a case for British baseball heritage, Brett Lashua touches four bases: first, it considers the 2013 opening of the Farnham Park baseball facility, supposedly the “first” purpose-built facility in the UK. Second, Lashua offers a potted history of baseball in Britain, particularly noting the baseball tours of Britain, 1874–1939. Third, the author shares ethnographic observations from his experiences playing baseball (as an expat American) to illustrate how the game operates “over here” in Britain. Finally, the chapter comes home, linking British baseball to questions of cultural history and heritage through popular media and popular memory. Throughout, Lashua argues the longer arc of the game in Britain is virtually unknown outside of a small cadre of baseball clubs, fans and scholars.
Exploring Ancient Pastoralism in Africa through Stable Isotope Analysis
Authors: Janzen Anneke
Published: May 2023

Pastoralism has a long history in Africa, first developing in the northeast about 8,000 years ago and expanding across the continent over the next several millennia. Today, pastoralism takes many forms, ranging from specialized camel herding in extremely arid regions to mixed farming economies with cattle, sheep, and goat. Keeping livestock allows for a great deal of flexibility—herders can adjust mobility, herd management strategies, and herd demographics to adapt to social and ecological changes. Given the malleable nature of pastoral management and its long history throughout the Holocene in Africa, isotopic studies—facilitated by the tremendous geological and ecological variation across the continent—offer numerous opportunities to explore past herding practices. This chapter reviews how isotopic studies have helped us understand the ecologies in which pastoralism took hold, the mobility strategies of the earliest herders, adaptations to seasonality, and the nature of herding economies associated with major population centers.
Human Rights on the Homefront
Authors: Gallagher Julie A.
Published: May 2023

Born in 1912, eight years before women secured the right to vote, Dorothy Height spent the better part of a century fighting for civil, political, economic, cultural, and social rights—human rights—for all women and for African Americans. She was one of only two Black women to serve on President Kennedy’s President’s Commission on the Status of Women (PCSW) and chaired the Commission’s special consultation to discuss “Problems of Negro Women.” This article argues that Height was the unrecognized bridge between the 1963 PCSW special consultation and the 1977 National Women’s Conference minority women caucus meetings. In both cases, she oversaw the collection of vital data on African American women’s lived experiences in work, education, politics, and home life, and she helped shape them into meaningful policy statements. These included the Problems of Negro Women which was presented at the PCSW and the “Black Women’s Action Plan: A Working Document for Review and Ratification,” and Plank 17 on Minority Women which was adopted in Houston. Height should rightfully be recognized for her instrumental role for all women’s rights in the latter half of the twentieth century.
“Each One Teach One”
Authors: Amaral Lindsay
Published: May 2023

This chapter presents a biographical sketch of Dr. Jeffalyn Johnson, a teacher, entrepreneur, and community organizer. It chronicles her life, education, and many careers where she advanced gender and racial equality by arguing for the importance of education and community support. With Johnson’s activism and policy work as a guiding foundation, this chapter argues that the fight for social equality is steeped in gender and racial representation in schools and the workplace. Johnson grounded her ideology in the mantra, “each one, teach one,” and as one of nineteen African Americans women on the National Commission on the Observance of International Women’s Year, she provided a unique expertise and thoughtfulness to furthering the rights of women of color in America.
Beyond Combahee
Authors: Dechantal Julie
Published: May 2023

This chapter discusses the pivotal role that Commonwealth of Massachusetts delegate Barbara Smith played in securing both the Sexual Preference and the Minority Women planks at the 1977 National Women’s Conference in Houston. Smith’s work at the conference demonstrates the importance of intersectionality as a cornerstone of Black radical feminism in the late 1970s. Furthermore, this chapter shows how her success at the Conference bolstered her work as a lesbian activist—with the Combahee River Collective and other local groups—who organized women of color locally and internationally. It also set her on a path to revolutionize the field of feminist studies through her work as the founder and editor of the Kitchen Table Press: Women of Color Press.
Johnnie Tillmon
Authors: Lovett Laura L.
Published: May 2023

Johnnie Tillmon played a central role in the rise of a national campaign to recognize the rights of welfare recipients in the United States to receive adequate income, with dignity, justice and a guarantee of democratic participation. Under her leadership, the National Welfare Rights Organization became more inclusive in the early 1970s when they recognized the interconnection of political disenfranchisement, racial discrimination, economic and educational disempowerment as well as gendered oppression. Tillmon’s story embodies the history of the continual feminization of poverty, especially among Black women. But, more importantly, her story embodies resistance to the systems that create poverty and maintain it in communities of color whether through racial stereotype, false ideals of femininity and the family, or legislation that punishes women and children in need.
Addie Wyatt
Authors: Walker-Mcwilliams Marcia
Published: May 2023

This chapter explores the long trajectory of Addie Wyatt’s activism and leadership in the organized labor movement and women’s movement, both before and after the 1977 National Women’s Conference. Wyatt, an African American female labor leader and civil rights activist, was appointed to the National Commission on the Observance of International Women’s Year and brought to the conference decades of activism on behalf of working women and women of color. For Addie Wyatt, consciousness raising, organizing, and forming coalitions were all essential steps in building sustainable social movements and positive change. The 1977 National Women’s Conference was one such step, intended as a space for consciousness raising, deliberation and debate on the pathways to free women from discrimination and improve the experiences and outcomes of their lives. Following the conference, Wyatt continued to push for women’s rights through political and labor organizing
Barbara Jordan
Authors: Scruggs Camesha
Published: May 2023

This chapter focuses on keynote speaker Barbara Jordan, politician and Houston native. The central theme is her role in the struggle for civil rights and women's rights. Through an examination of delivered speeches leading up to the keynote address at the conference, we see Jordan's views transition to combine race and gender. As a representation of intersectionality, Jordan places emphasis on these parts of her identity as she supports and drafts legislation to reflect these views and experiences throughout her career in state and national politics.
An Everyday Anchorwoman
Authors: Tolliver Melba
Published: May 2023

This chapter is a first-person account of Melba Tolliver’s reporting on the 1977 National Women’s Conference. Tolliver was not a delegate, an activist, or a politician pushing an agenda at the National Women’s Conference in Houston. She was there as a reporter for WNBC TV News Center 4, the New York City local affiliate and flagship station of NBC. This chapter recounts Tolliver’s personal history and her rise as a television journalist
Introduction
Authors: Philipowski Katharina , Rüthemann Julia
Published: May 2023

The introduction addresses the combination of allegory and the first-person narrative form. This combination, which would prove extremely successful as a template in the following decades, seems to have appeared for the first time shortly after 1200. Not long afterward, the Roman de la Rose was the first text to combine the use of the vernacular, the first person, and allegoricity with courtly tropes. This text stands at the beginning of the impressive history of the “family of texts.” The introduction provides an overview of the main characteristics of this family and text types belonging to it: debates, dream allegories, and autobiographical texts, by integrating important results of the case studies presented in the volume.
Once Again the Authorship of the Roman de la Rose
Authors: Hult David
Published: May 2023

The elements of author and authorship in the Rose, much discussed in terms of the presumed “fact” of the work’s having two authors, Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, must consider recent theories, in particular Foucault’s theorizing about the author function as a necessary condition of the text’s coming to be. The analysis focusses on a text passage of the Rose that is highly transgressive, not only in terms of temporalities but alo in terms of the narrative voices that overlay the unfolding of the allegorical narrative as the moment when the God of Love evokes both author’s names ‒ a moment of metalepsis, and more precisely of paralepsis, formal gestures that are here discussed from the perspective of Genettian narratology. In this regard, the evolution of the narrating-I is traced as it relates to the shifting nature of the allegorical cadres through the poem’s multiplication of discourses, including the deployment of themes of deceit and concealment, which are complexly marshalled in the service of Jean’s self-authorization. The poem’s self-reflexive concerns with its authorship influenced later developments in the dit amoureux, including Machaut’s deployment of his own avatar as an author/witness in the text in the Fontaine Amoureuse.
Introduction
Authors: Davison Neil R.
Published: May 2023

Introduction of Albert Altman and his influence as Dublin entrepreneurial salt merchant and local politician. Backgrounds on postcolonial Joyce studies and Jewish issues in Ulysses; Hannah Arendt’s theories on imperial racism and current decolonized/post-Holocaust directions in postcolonial thought. Extant models for Leopold Bloom and Altman’s inclusion in Joyce’s composite. Altman’s career as Temperance-labour nationalist on the Dublin Corporation Council; John Joyce’s generation in Ulysses and the avenues his encounter with Altman.
Late Land Wars, Personal Wealth, Temperance, and Labor (1886–1890)
Authors: Davison Neil R.
Published: May 2023

The expansion and success of Albert L. Altman Salt Stores and Depot. Altman’s activism in William O’Brien’s Plan of Campaign. The fall of Parnell and ideological split of the Irish Parliamentary Party. Altman’s Temperance politics and support of new union movement in Ireland. Rise of socialism and James Connolly’s Irish Socialist Republican Party. Altman’s ties to Connolly and development of his Temperance-labour platform.
The Anti-Haitian Hydra
Authors: McInnis Tatiana D.
Published: May 2023

This chapter argues that literary works by Haitian Americans who live or have lived in Miami present alternate cartographies of the city that map methods of repelling, repatriating, containing, and even killing Haitians across economic and political strata. Centering the state-sanctioned disenfranchisement of Haitian Americans in Miami, and South Florida more broadly reveals the region as contested territory, characterized by cross-cultural conflicts for space (whether the airport, hospital, detention centers, or through gentrification) and other resources. Though the procedures differ, these mechanized strategies of subjugation all share the objective of rendering Haitian people unseen in a supposedly “diverse” city.
Walking Accessibility to Primary Healthcare Services: An Inequity Factor for Olders in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area (Portugal)
Authors: Marques da Costa Eduarda , Louro Ana , Marques da Costa Nuno , Dias Mariana , Barata Marcela
Published: May 2023

This chapter discusses the walking accessibility to primary healthcare by the olders in Lisbon Metropolitan Area (LMA), Portugal, and its contribution for age-friendly environments as a factor of inequity. Constrains emerged from the collation of the supply approach, represented by service catchment areas based on walking distance time, and the demand approach, through a survey. The location and density of primary health network are a major factor, as it is related to distinct land use patterns within the LMA. The settlement structure influences the potential walkability to primary healthcare. The discrepancy between the potential walking accessibility and the real options is notorious, as olders’ choices are diversified in terms of transportation modes and destinations, but mostly keeping relatively short time distances. This phenomenon is also influenced by factors such as personal preference, difficulty to walk, negative perceptions about the surroundings, and insufficient care support. This debate is already an effective concern of local authorities with spatial planning, social and health competences, insofar as solutions in terms of service flexibility and new travel solutions adapted to the specific needs of the olders are a growing reality in the LMA, promoting more age-friendly, health, and inclusive environments, and hence an equitable metropolis.
The Woman Who Dared
Authors: Drew William M.
Published: May 2023

In the early days of motion pictures—before superstars, before studio conglomerates, before even the advent of sound—there was a woman named Pearl White (1889–1938). A quintessential beauty of the time, with her perfectly tousled bob and come-hither stare, White's rise to stardom was swift; her assumption of the title of queen of American motion picture serials equally deserved.
Born the youngest of five children in a small, rural Missouri farm town, White first began performing in high school. She would eventually make the decision to cut her education short, dropping out to go on the Trousdale Stock Company. A bit player in the early years of her career, she was eventually spotted by the Powers Film Company in New York. She made her film debut in 1910 and soon set herself apart from her female colleagues with her reputation for fearless performances that often involved her own stunt work.
It was that same daring attitude that would put her on the map internationally as an actress. From flying airplanes to swimming across rapid rivers, to racing cars in serials like The Perils of Pauline (1914), White was undaunted by the demands of her onscreen career. She went on to star in popular serial classics such as The New Exploits of Elaine (1915), The Iron Claw (1916), The Fatal Ring (1917), and The Lightning Raider (1919). As active socially as she was professionally, White would also lend her audacious spirit to activism as she took part in the early feminist movement. Her bravery and mastery of her craft made her a positive role model for suffragettes who battled for women's rights in the United States.
The Woman Who Dared: The Life and Times of Pearl White, Queen of the Serials, is the first full-length biography of this pioneering star. In this study of film history and female agency, Drew delves into the cultural impact of White's work and how it evolved along a concurrent trajectory with the social upheavals of the Progressive Era.
An Unusual Presentation of Pulmonary Mucormycosis as a “Mass-like” Consolidation in an Infant with Chronic Granulomatous: A Case Report Study
Authors: Lashkarbolouk Narges , Mazandarani Mahdi , Ahani Azari Ali , Shahkar Lobat
Published: May 2023

Introduction: Chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) is a primary hereditary immunodeficiency condition caused by a defect in the nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADP) oxidase complex. Recurrent infections and inflammatory complications with a narrow bacterial and fungal spectrum characterize CGD. Acute inflammatory and infectious complications are vexing and fatal for them. Therefore, managing CGD with prophylactic antibiotics and antifungal agents is essential. Case Presentation: We present a 23-month-old infant with a chief complaint of recent lymphadenopathy diagnosed with CGD. Two months later, she was hospitalized with uncontrolled fever and lung involvement while receiving prophylactic treatment with trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole. A mass-like consolidation was seen in her radiography evaluation. Based on the biopsy and bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) pathology report, pulmonary mucormycosis was confirmed. Two weeks after starting the standard treatment regimen with amphotericin B, the patient’s symptoms improved. She was discharged in good general condition with oral voriconazole and trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole and referred to do hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). Conclusions: Mucormycosis in CGD is not a common infection and usually infects patients with impaired cell-mediated immunity, hematological malignancies, steroid treatment, and diabetes. Patients with CGD are vulnerable when treated with a high dose of immunosuppressant medications. In our case report, the patient was infected with mucormycosis despite not receiving immunosuppressant medications and having no history of hematologic malignancies or diabetes. Our patient also had a mass-like consolidation in her radiological result, a rare feature of pulmonary mucormycosis involvement in CGD patients.
The Effects of Lead and Zinc on Asthma: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Authors: Darabi Behzad , Kalvandi Gholamreza , Najafi Reza , Tavan Hamed
Published: May 2023

Context: In recent decades, the growing number of factories and vehicles has accelerated the release of environmental contaminants such as heavy metals. These inhalable pollutants often cause respiratory diseases and can endanger human health. Some heavy metals (e.g., zinc), on the other hand, are beneficial micronutrients, playing critical roles in the body. Objectives: This systemic review and meta-analysis study aimed to examine the role of lead (Pb) and zinc (Zn) in asthma. Methods: MeSH keywords, including lead, asthma, and zinc, along with their Persian equivalents were searched in the PubMed, Google, Web of Sciences, Google Scholar, and SID databases. The articles published between 2000 and 2018 were included. For assessing heterogeneity, the Q and I2 statistics were applied. STATA version 14 was used for data analysis. The review was conducted in accordance with the preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses (PRISMA) statement. Results: The frequency of asthma was 12% (95% CI: 11 - 13%, P < 0.001). The frequencies of high blood lead levels (BLL) in controls and patients with asthma were 2% (95% CI: 0 - 2.03, P < 0.001) and 3% (95% CI: 0 - 3.04, P < 0.001), respectively. The ratios of BLL of < 5, 5 - 10, and > 10 µg/dL were found to be 8% (95% CI: 0 - 9.7, P < 0.001), 10% (95% CI: 0.8 - 11, P < 0.001), and 9% (95% CI: 0.08 - 11, P < 0.001), respectively. The forced expiratory volume (FEV) was significantly correlated with zinc level. The results from meta-regression analysis suggested an increasing trend in asthma occurrence from 2000 to 2018. Conclusions: While zinc may have been protective against asthma, lead was a risk factor for respiratory diseases and asthma. Educating children and their parents about lead poisoning may have prevented or reduced lead intoxication and asthma in children.
Report of the Association Between Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome and Severe Myocarditis
Authors: Hajiesmaeil Memar Elmira , Zeinaloo Aliakbar , Mirzaaghayan Mohammad Reza , Gorji Mojtaba , Ghamari Azin , Ghahremanloo Mahya , Aghaei-Moghadam Ehsan
Published: May 2023

Introduction: The people worldwide have been affected by severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection since its appearance in December, 2019. Kawasaki disease-like hyperinflammatory shock associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection in previously healthy children has been reported in the literature, which is now referred to as a multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C). Some aspects of MIS-C are similar to those of Kawasaki disease, toxic shock syndrome, secondary hemophagocytic syndrome, and macrophage activation syndrome. Case Presentation: This study reported an 11-year-old boy with MIS-C presented with periorbital and peripheral edema, abdominal pain, elevated liver enzymes, severe right pleural effusion, moderate ascites, and severe failure of right and left ventricles. Conclusions: Due to the increasing number of reported cases of critically ill patients afflicted with MIS-C and its life-threatening complications, it was recommended that further studies should be carried out in order to provide screening tests for myocardial dysfunction. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach was found inevitable.
A Novel NALCN Homozygote Variant in Non-related Infants with IHPRF1 Syndrome: A Report of 2 Cases
Authors: Ahmadipour Shokoufeh , Mahmoudvand Golnaz , Fakouri Arshia , Farokhi Simin , Karimi Rouzbahani Arian
Published: May 2023

Introduction: Sodium leak channel, non-selective (NALCN) is an ion channel with an important function in neuronal excitability. The activity of NALCN is essential in the balance of rhythmic behaviors. Infantile hypotonia with psychomotor retardation and characteristic facies 1 (IHPRF1), which occurs due to biallelic NALCN variants, leads to dysmorphic characteristics and global developmental delay. We hereby report 2 non-related patients with IHPRF1 syndrome. Case Presentation: The first case was a 1 - year-old girl referred to our center because of constipation and poor weight gain, and the other was a 2 - year-old girl presenting with hypotonia, constipation, and poor weight gain. Whole exome sequencing led to the detection of homozygote NALCN variants. Interestingly, in both cases, a novel variant of c.1434 + 1G>A in NACLN was identified, which, to the best of our knowledge, has not been reported as a pathogenic variant so far. Conclusions: NALCN dysfunctions lead to rare yet clinically significant disorders. Due to the potential mortality, further studies are essential for a more comprehensive understanding of these rare disorders.