bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
The Earth is Closing on Us
Authors: Guttman Freda
Published: July 2022

This work is one of a suite of works-in-progress which fuse archival images of the Nakba with the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish, the great Palestinian poet who died last year. The Nakba of 1948, (‘catastrophe’ in Arabic), created three quarters of a million Palestinians refugees who fled to Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The haunting, iconic photographic images of the Nakba evoke the suffering — imprinted forever are the forlorn lines of forsaken people disappearing over the horizon into the unknown, at the beginning of their long journey into dispossession and statelessness. Mahmoud Darwish himself shared that journey, having experienced ethnic cleansing, imprisonment, statelessness and exile.
The UN defines a Palestine refugee as a person whose normal place of residence was Palestine during the period 1 June 1946 to 15 May 1948 and who lost both home and means of livelihood as a result of the 1948 conflict which saw the creation of the state of Israel. There were massacres in some villages and panic; most were forced to leave, some with the false promises of return. Driven by fear, they fled with what they could carry and with the keys to their homes. Over 500 villages were destroyed. In 1967 this process was repeated on a smaller scale, making some Palestinians refugees twice. The Iraq war has yet again created a new group of Palestinian refugees. Faced with violence, forced to flee their homes because they had been supported by Saddam Hussein, they live in tents in Iraq at its border with Syria.
Between sixty and seventy percent of the population of Gaza, the most densely populated place in the world, is comprised of internal refugees from cities and towns in the surrounding areas. The city of Nablus in the West Bank is host to Balata, the largest refugee camp in the West Bank. Every Palestinian city has its camps including Jerusalem.
Ask a child, a third generation refugee in a camp in Lebanon or elsewhere where he or she is from and the response will be the name of a village or a city in Israel, the West Bank or Gaza, one that that they have never seen, one that no longer exists but is nevertheless home, where they belong, where they will return to. They will show you the keys.
Local Stagings, Global Productions: The Theatricality of Food Rituals in Landless Movement
Authors: Fabricant Nicole
Published: July 2022

While most scholarly work in the 1990s focused on the use of ethnic identity and indigeneity as a critical tool for movement building in Latin America, this article turns toward new performative strategies in the 2000s. Through food performances—from showing and boasting about small-scale production to collective practices of cooking and feeding activists from a common pot—MST-Bolivia teaches campesinos about the importance of reclaiming land, territory, and food systems for indigenous peoples. The discourse of food sovereignty respatializes agriculture from global and corporate arenas to the local, as MST activists demand that food should be first and foremost a right and secondarily an item of trade. Yet there is no purity to their politics: daily contradictions exist between public declarations of sovereignty and collectivity and individualistic needs and desires. Despite such tensions, MST transports food traditions from regional to international arenas where they reassemble highly flexible organizational strategies capable of providing food for thousands of activists.
Chanting Tahreer and Compassion: People as Poetry
Authors: El Alaoui Khadija
Published: July 2022

The contention of this essay is that the current Arab revolutions of the so-called Arab Spring must be seen in the context of broader resistance in the colonized Muslim world to global political modernity. This essay focuses especially on the constitutive role that poetry plays in resistance to colonialism and violence. After situating this general phenomenon of poetic resistance in a global context with reference to Abdelrahman Munif, Mahmoud Darwish and Langston Hughes, I examine the deep constitutive role of poetry in the revolutions of Tunisia and Egypt in 2010-11. I illuminate the beauty and meaningfulness of the poetry in the quotidian experience of those peoples making revolutions. Poetry runs through the lives, the feelings, and, importantly, the politics of their world, a world that includes pride in Arab values and solidarity against the ongoing violence and injustices of authoritarianism and occupation. My dwelling and meditation on poetry helps elaborate a vision of the new Arab revolts.
áanzho ha’shi ‘dał’k’ida’, ‘áá’áná’, ‘doo maanaashni’: Welcoming ‘long ago’, ‘way back’ and ‘remember’—as an Ndé decolonization and land recovery process
Authors: Tamez Margo
Published: July 2022

Memory, re-membering, oral history and critical recovery are pillars of a Ndéi decolonization and self-determination process in indigenous peoples’ rancherías along the Lower Rio Grande River and Texas-Mexico border. The goals of this process are to dismantle the U.S. border wall bifurcating the customary lands of indigenous peoples; to reclaim dispossessed lands; and to revitalize Ndé ways of life in autonomy and self-governance. In the Ndé language, we can communicate in this way about a recovery process, Dáanzho ha’shi ‘dał’k’ida’ áá’áná ‘doo maanaashni’—‘long ago, way back’ and gain knowledge, insights and tools from our foremothers’ and forefathers’ struggles and resistance strategies. In October 2009, when the U.S. violently coerced and forced vulnerable peoples off the community lands along the Texas-Mexico border, and obstructed international covenants, treaties, and human rights laws, the discursive legal fiction of ‘terrorism’ was deployed to launch a massive land grab. At this stage, however, indigenous peoples along the Lower Rio Grande River were already involved in an ongoing process of restoring and implementing Ndé law and governance systems based upon women’s traditional knowledge and historical experiences in land defense.
Wasauksing Women Sharing Strength
Authors: Tabobondung Rebeka
Published: July 2022

Wasauksing Women Sharing Strength explores the subject of Aboriginal birth knowledge from Wasauksing First Nation in Ontario. The intent is to document and generate positive representations of traditional birth knowledge in response to processes of colonization, which in the past have worked to silence them. Three Wasauksing mothers share their understandings of traditional birth knowledge and where the origins of their knowledges lie. A short video documentary accompanies the article. The author approaches the work from her own personal standpoint: that of a Native woman from Wasauksing First Nation seeking information about her identity as a new mother.
Demand Player Sovereignty
Authors: Solo Liz
Published: July 2022

Demand Player Sovereignty or DPS is a civil disobedience movement originated by the Third Faction collective. The goal of DPS is to subvert the deliberate factional conflict within Azeroth while drawing parallels to synthetic manufactured conflicts taking place in the world at large. DPS host quests and interventions both in the real world and the World of Warcraft. See http://www.thirdfaction.org/ www.lizsolo.com Machinima by Liz Solo. Text by Thomas Asmuth with the Third Faction. Created with and for the Third Faction. Originally screened at ISEA Istanbul 2011.
Fat Politics Photography: The Stareable Body and “Openings” for Social Justice
Authors: Hladki Janice
Published: July 2022

In complicating understandings of art’s effects, critical theorists mobilize the notion of “openings” to surface simultaneously the unpredictability and indeterminacy of ethical engagement as well as its possibility. I explore the potential of these ideas and consider their application through Haley Morris-Cafiero’s photography on fatness and disability in her Wait Watchers series. Through problematizing surveillance and staring relations, between the observed Fat woman and her watchers, and interrogating the constitution of the monstrous other, the photography unsettles regimes of normalization in relation to fatness and disability. The images invite recognition for embodied difference as they register the complexity and difficulty of social justice “openings” for anomalous embodiment.
Lessons in Failing Well: Building Hyper-Migration—a postcolonial, digital, feminist game with refugee youth in Toronto
Authors: Gardner Paula M.
Published: July 2022

“Hyper-Migration” is an experimental collaborative project with refugee youth in Toronto that investigates how storytelling might be employed in a digital platform to meet the needs of this community, addressing issues such as displacement, social marginalisation and a lack of access to educational and job opportunities. This paper reviews our process of elaborating, vetting and instituting a method combining praxis and participatory-action research, informed by feminist, postcolonial, trauma and refugee studies. In an experimental art-based approach that aspires to design failure (Halberstam), the project shifts in strategy and objective as the refugee youth iteratively test and redesign a social action game. This paper explores this process and how critical theory and in-situ game play worked as techniques, driving a focus on local problems and needs, ultimately establishing analogue practices that took on affordances normally ascribed to the digital. As well, the project demonstrates the deep critical abilities of refugee youth to drive critical game design addressing their concerns, and to target key structural, policy and social issues affecting refugee communities that require social change.
Desierto (Desert)
Authors: Galindo Regina José
Published: July 2022

Desierto, a performance piece, took place July 7th, 2015 in the Gallery Gabriela Mistral in Santiago de Chile.

Desierto, Desert, was created for the Chilean context: it speaks of forms of oppression, abuse, racism and colonialism that hide behind the successful industry of pine that has invaded the Mapuche indigenous territory in that country, generating increased damage to the ecosystem. The work is not only about one site, however. In the artist’s words, "[t]he problem of land and indigenous peoples that have been violated and pillaged by wealthy families and the State is not a stranger to Guatemala context…during the war in my country, the scorched-earth strategy was a constant. Thousands of indigenous Maya were kept in their communities, were murdered and their lands expropriated. Many of these lands passed into the hands of the State, oligarchs, or foreigners. Many of these lands are currently exploited through mining, hydroelectric industries or areas of monoculture. In Guatemala there are no pine-forests, but there is another way to annihilate the Earth. In Guatemala, the African Palm has caused havoc. Recently the factory Xerxes (that produces Palm oil Olmec brand) contaminated the rivers’ waters and thousands of fish and other species have died in an ecocide without precedent".

Speaking to this violence, in this work, the artist remains naked, buried in the sand dunes of sawdust created inside the Gallery. Sawdust refers to waste resulting after the over exploitation of the land and the ongoing desertification of large tracts of land, both in Guatemala with the cultivation of African Palm, as in Chile with the large scale cultivation of pine and eucalyptus. The desert is no longer the North but the South.

Commissioned and produced for the Gabriela Mistral Gallery, Santiago de ChileCurated by Soledad Novoa DonosoPhotos by Rodrigo MaulenVideo by Andrés Lima, Sebastián Pando
饺子 (dumpling)
Authors: Tsui Elizabeth
Published: July 2022

Offering a glimpse into the Chinese-diasporic experience, I create mundane artworks that elicit the sensation of reliving small joys from my life. In 饺子, or dumpling, in English, a still life drawing of a home-made Chinese pork dumpling is captioned with the word “dumpies!”. The image references a time when my siblings and I were trying to remember what the food is called in Mandarin (none of us are remotely good at the language) and, when that failed, we settled on calling them dumpies instead. The vast negative space of the drawing resonates with the simple design of the subject, gesturing to the sort of echo chamber that can happen when one is comfortable and used to being around folx with similar life experiences and worldviews. The memory of making dumplings in the kitchen with family is rather unremarkable as it was common in my community growing up. But as I embarked on my academic journey, I learned that the experience was alien to many of my peers and mentors – that sitting around a table preparing food with family wasn’t a universal practice. It was a small but disorienting realization. From this, it can be observed that language and food play integral roles as methods of retaining and preserving everyday culture among displaced communities.
Who Holds the Knife
Authors: Perera Naiomi M.
Published: July 2022

Ma’Khia Bryant was killed by a police officer on April 20, 2021, at the age of 16. Ma’Khia held a knife, as the officer pointed his gun and fired four shots. Police officers across the globe have taken the lives of many since, and if the current “justice” system is not transformed, they will continue to take many more. Through the following poem, I ask the reader to reflect on the violence and collective suffering that is perpetrated through state power and policing. I ask them to look upon the world through the lens of Foucault’s biopolitics and Mbembe’s necropolitics, to recognize the insignificance of Ma’Khia’s knife within a social order that marks us all as either deserving of life or deserving of death. By including the voice of white supremacist carcerality within my account, I encourage readers to consider how they hold this knife; that is, how they help to fix this violent, punitive system in place. Most importantly, by inviting readers to participate in the healing of collective wounds, I offer an abolitionist call to action. Content warning: this poem contains discussion of state violence, police brutality, and blood.
Editor's Introduction
Authors: Da Costa Jade Crimson Rose , Anane-Bediakoh Beatrice , Tanotra Ritika
Published: July 2022

Our third issue, Reverting the Gaze: Resisting Humanism and Hegemony in the West, combines art and academic critique to resist, revert, and refuse western humanism, covering issues from disability justice and state violence to neoliberalism and healthcare. At its core, western humanism is the mythical norm that many of us must live and die by – it is the systematic abjection, erasure, and exploitation of some forms of life in service of others; it is the pervasive idea that who “counts” are those in closest proximity to, and for the rare few, occupation of, all the imperial traits that states like Canada have rendered into conditions for life: whiteness, wealth, Christianness, ability, western-ness, masculinity, coloniality, cisness, heterosexuality, sanity, thinness; power.
Aging Flower
Authors: Khurana Muskaan
Published: July 2022

Drawing on my lived experiences with caregiving for my aging grandma, the following short story explores what day-to-day life looks and feels like for youth in caregiving roles. Evoking bitter-sweet emotions, my words familiarize readers with the reality many young caregivers face. Stereotypical ideologies regarding caregiving for elders primarily focus on the physical aspects of providing care, and while I engage these aspects, such as managing my grandma’s medication, I also emphasize the emotional burden that both aging elders and young caregivers face, highlighting the importance of establishing a healthy routine in which both parties have their needs met. Further, I not only examine the hardships of being a young caregiver, but the positivity and joy I try to find from my responsibilities. I subtly bring attention to small details when describing the relationship between my grandmother and me. The simplicity and sweetness in our bond, fills my life with wholeness in a way that makes caregiving meaningful. Even though caregiving as a young adult brings with it many challenges, especially when managing the twists and turns of life, I have found there is always light within the darkness, beauty within the aging flower.
Unmasking Intimacies of Death and Dying
Authors: Sabada Shayla
Published: July 2022

This article was written during the early days of quarantine (circa Spring 2020) as a direct response to the concerns I and other disability justice advocates, and I began to feel around the treatment of disabled people amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Chief among these concerns was the killing and letting die of disabled folx, as well as other "expendable" persons, such as frontline workers. Grounded in a radical approach to disability justice, below I analyze the constructions of death, dying, and personhood during the start of the global pandemic through the lens of “bare life” and the “state of exception". Drawing on these concepts, I examine the Canadian state’s response to sickness as an invocation of catastrophe politics, something, which I argue, has led to an irrevocable change in how the deaths of marginalized populations, especially disabled folx, may be justified as inevitable, despite being completely preventable. These attitudes, which allow us to accept death for some and not for others, are another form of normalizing the culling down of life through state-sanctioned control. I thus conclude that COVID-19 has proven to be a state exercise in violence against “expendable” populations.
Re-Presenting the Gender-Queer Figure
Authors: Finlay Toby Anne
Published: July 2022

A Third Gender: Beautiful Youths in Japanese Prints was an exhibition curated by Asato Ikeda for the Royal Ontario Museum which included many prints and artifacts depicting the wakashu in Edo Japan. The wakashu, male youth who were distinguished from both adult men and women to be represented as “a third gender”, were depicted by the exhibition in conformity with contemporary queer aesthetics and trans identities. This paper explores the curatorial practices involved in the representation of the wakashu as a third gender or gender-queer figure, elucidating the many (re)appropriations involved in the production of a postcolonial queer visual imaginary. I begin by walking through Ikeda’s A Third Gender exhibition, and recounting the representational practices therein, to examine the construction of the wakashu as an essentially gendered figure and exhume the historical and cultural characteristics that are elided by this re-presentation. I then explore the incommensurability of the wakashu with contemporary queer and trans representational practices as a fundamentally queer failure, which may precipitate other affective relations with this figure that transcend our spatial and temporal differences. Finally, I question how these inappropriate/d re-presentations might produce an affective rupture within the queer visual imaginary that invites us to interrogate the postcolonial and transnational structuring of sexuality and gender.
A World Within a Block
Authors: Formanowicz Dominik
Published: July 2022

St. James Town in Tkaronto (Toronto) was one of the biggest housing investments in so-called Canada in the 1960s. Each of the modernist high-rise buildings was named after a Canadian city, suggesting a vision of unity and coherence indicative of the country’s national imaginary, while also reflecting the nation-building aspirations of the settler-colonial state. In this article, the historical development of St. James Town is analyzed using Henri Lefebvre’s concept of production of space to depict how this site of nation-building and capitalism has been negotiated through an influx of im/migrant communities. Specifically, the term "cornerism" is used to convey the process by which St. James Town residents utilize spaces of interaction to facilitate exchange and foster information flows, thereby linking everyday life experiences with the formulation of a collective identity – as symbolized by the neighborhood’s motto: “A World Within a Block”. Two key points of discussion are considered. First, how the neoliberalized practices of urban development over the last few decades, namely the dominance of condo-towers in downtown Tkaronto, imperil “cornerism” as a practice of resistance by im/migrant residents in St. James Town; and second, the possible negative consequences of a large condominium investment planned in the central point of St. James Town on the socio-economic flows and rhythms of the neighborhood.
CẢI THIỆN NĂNG LỰC VIẾT BÀI LUẬN TIẾNG ANH CỦA SINH VIÊN THÔNG QUA HƯỚNG TIẾP CẬN DỰA TRÊN TIẾN TRÌNH
Authors: Nguyễn Ngân Hà
Published: July 2022

Trong quá trình học kỹ năng viết luận ở đại học, sinh viên thường gặp nhiều khó khăn liên quan tới tâm lý, nhận thức và ngôn ngữ. Để giải quyết tình trạng này và cải thiện kĩ năng viết bài luận tiếng Anh của sinh viên, tác giả đã thực hiện một nghiên cứu hành động, trong đó áp dụng hướng tiếp cận dựa trên tiến trình để thiết kế các hoạt động dạy và học kĩ năng viết luận. Nghiên cứu này được thực hiện trong vòng 15 tuần với 25 sinh viên trong cùng một lớp của một trường đại học chuyên về giảng dạy và nghiên cứu ngoại ngữ. Để đánh giá hiệu quả của hướng tiếp cận dựa trên tiến trình, tác giả đã so sánh kết quả của hai bài kiểm tra đầu vào và đầu ra của sinh viên, diễn ra trước và sau hoạt động can thiệp của nghiên cứu này. Cuối kỳ học, tác giả cũng thu thập ý kiến của sinh viên đối với các hoạt động dạy và học dựa trên hướng tiếp cận dựa trên tiến trình thông qua một bản khảo sát. Kết quả cho thấy chất lượng bài viết của sinh viên đã được cải thiện, cả ở bốn tiêu chí: mức độ hoàn thành bài, bố cục, từ vựng, ngữ pháp. Đa phần sinh viên cũng khẳng định sự yêu thích của mình đối với hướng tiếp cận này và chỉ ra nhiều ưu điểm. Tuy nhiên, sinh viên cũng đề xuất một số gợi ý để khắc phục các nhược điểm của hướng tiếp cận dựa trên tiến trình.
KHẢO SÁT HOẠT ĐỘNG THỰC TẬP CỦA SINH VIÊN KHOA PHÁP - TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC NGOẠI NGỮ - ĐẠI HỌC QUỐC GIA HÀ NỘI TRONG LĨNH VỰC DU LỊCH
Authors: Đặng Thị Thanh Thủy , Hoàng Thị Bích , Nguyễn Anh Tú , Nguyễn Thùy Linh
Published: July 2022

Thực tập là học phần không thể thiếu trong tất cả các chương trình đào tạo và cũng là giai đoạn giúp người học tiếp cận môi trường lao động thực tế. Chúng tôi đã thực hiện khảo sát hoạt động thực tập của sinh viên Khoa Pháp trong lĩnh vực du lịch trong các năm gần đây nhằm đánh giá và đề xuất một số giải pháp nâng cao hiệu quả hoạt động này. Trước tiên, chúng tôi đã tiến hành phân tích hồ sơ thực tập của sinh viên Khoa Pháp 5 khóa QH2012, QH2013, QH2014, QH2015, QH2016 tốt nghiệp lần lượt vào các năm 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020. Tiếp đó, chúng tôi đã tiến hành khảo sát hoạt động thực tập của sinh viên của 5 khóa QH2016, QH2017, QH2018, QH2019, QH2020 (trong đó QH2017 là sinh viên năm thứ 4 và QH2020 là sinh viên năm thứ nhất). Ngoài ra, chúng tôi cũng thực hiện khảo sát ý kiến đánh giá của 18 nhà tuyển dụng đại diện 18 doanh nghiệp đã tiếp nhận sinh viên Khoa Pháp đến thực tập. Kết quả nghiên cứu giúp chúng tôi có những nhận định khách quan về hoạt động thực tập của sinh viên. Từ đó, giúp chúng tôi đưa ra các đề xuất cải tiến hoạt động thực tập của sinh viên Khoa Pháp lựa chọn ngành nghề du lịch, giúp họ xác định tốt mục đích của thực tập, tạo thuận lợi cho việc thâm nhập thị trường lao động của họ sau khi tốt nghiệp.
TRANSITIVITY ANALYSIS OF THE VIETNAMESE ECONOMIC CONTRACTS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR
Authors: Thi Nhat Linh Nguyen
Published: July 2022

The economic contract is a typical type of discourse that depends on the agreement between parties. This paper adopted the theoretical framework of Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) to carry out a transitivity analysis of the ideational function in the Vietnamese economic contract in order to explore the features of this genre, a type of legal discourse. In the economic contract, there are six processes, among which the material process and existential process are dominantly used while the relational process, mental process, behavioral process, and verbal process, each just accounts for the small percentage. These processes are employed in order to express the parties’ experience through legislation of rights, duties, obligation, remedies that they reach during the negotiation. The dominance of such specific processes reflects some features of legal discourse such as conciseness, clearness, exactness.
THE CONSTRUCTION AND PERFORMANCE OF YOUTH IDENTITY THROUGH RAP: A CASE OF RAP VIET
Authors: Thi Ngoc Mai Nguyen , Thi Phuong Quynh Vu
Published: July 2022

This research is placed within a critical discourse analysis perspective that assumes an entangled relationship between discourse and its underlying social meanings. In recent times, rap has gained a stable position in mainstream media, and along with it comes the appearance of vibrant youth subculture onto the screen. Rap music makes it possible for people to tell their stories and others’, as well as take on a persona or an alter ego (Sciullo, 2019). Employing Fairclough’s framework (1989), together with Kress and van Leeuwen’s framework (2006), we study the discourse of Vietnamese rap through its linguistic and visual elements. The study is an attempt to answer the following question: how has rap music contributed to identity construction and performance among Vietnamese youth? The study suggests that Vietnamese youth have constructed and performed their identity as patriots, individuals with dreams and aspirations, and children of their parents. These themes are closely connected and reflect the youth’s compliance with the social expectation of mainstream rap.
Situation and some Factors Related to Injury of Children Under 5 Years Old in 3 Communes of Hoai Duc District, Hanoi City in 2020
Authors: Thi Kim Dung Nguyen , Van Thang Chu
Published: July 2022

Research objective: describe the current situation and some factors related to injury accidents of children under 5 years old in 3 communes of Hoai Duc district, Hanoi city 2020. Objects and research methods: A cross-sectional descriptive study on 901 families with children under 5 years old in 3 communes of Hoai Duc district, Hanoi city in 2020. Research results: About the situation: The rate of accidents and injuries is 14.77%. Most of the injuries in 2-year-olds accounted for 40.53%. The leading causes are: Fall/fall (41.05%); sharp objects (14.74%) and burns (12.63%). The most common time for children to have accidents and injuries is from 6 am to 12 am (45.79%) and 12 to 18 pm (34.74%). Accidents and injuries are unintentionally caused by children themselves, accounting for 62.11%. 97.4% of children received first aid within 30 minutes of the accident. Regarding the relationship: Male caregivers are 1.46 times more likely to cause injury to children than female caregivers. Caregivers of children who have completed university/college/secondary education are 8.85 times less likely to cause their children to suffer from an accident than people who do not attend school (OR: 8.85, 95%CI: 1.92) – 40.88). Male children have 1.47 times higher risk of having a stroke than girls (OR: 1.47, 95% CI: 1.08 – 2.00), the relationship is statistically significant with p < 0.05. Conclusion: The rate of accidents and injuries is still quite high at 14.77%, most of the children have self-inflicted injuries at a time when there are few caregivers at home. Education level, caregiver's gender, and child's gender are related to the risk of injury.
Imaging Characteristics and Value of Multislice Computed Tomography in the Diagnosis of Acute Appendicitis
Authors: Ngoc Doan Van , My Hanh Le , Quang Huy Pham , Hai Nam Phung
Published: July 2022

Objectives: This study was done to describe the imaging characteristics of acute appendicitis on multislice computed tomography (MSCT) and the value of MSCT scan in the diagnosis of acute appendicitis. Methods: The study used retrospective and cross-sectional methods to analyze the results of 117 patients who were taken photos of CT at E Hospital from February 2021 to November 2021. Results: The most common age was over 50 years old, and the average age was 40.1±20.8. The ratio of male/female was 1/1.25. Locations of appendix: right iliac fossa 69.2%, posterior cecum 16.2%, pelvis 12%, subhepatic 0.9%, 1.7% in other places in the abdomen. The diameter of appendicitis was 10.48±2.5mm (the min was 5mm, the max was 18mm). The increase of diameter over 7mm accounted for 95.7%, appendiceal wall thickness ≥ 3mm had 83.8% of patients, and fat infiltration was seen in 88% of cases studied. Other signs: fecal stones 35%, fluid around appendix 7.7%, Douglas fluid 3.4%, right iliac fossa fluid 3.4%, mesenteric lymphadenopathy 25.7%. The rate of appendix rupture diagnosed by CT accounted was 4.3%. The sensitivity, accuracy, and positive diagnostic value of multislice CT in the diagnosis of acute appendicitis were 97.4%, 96.6%, and 99.1%, respectively. Conclusion: Multislice CT has a high value in the diagnosis of acute appendicitis.
A Survey of Antibiotic Usage Characteristics in Treatment of Acute Exacerbation of COPD Patients in National Hospital 74
Authors: Bach Tran Xuan , Trung Tran Thanh , Son Nhat Bui , Luyen Le Thi
Published: July 2022

Acute exacerbation of COPD (AECOPD) represents a pivotal point in the progression of COPD, which is a major cause of physician visits, hospitalization, and death in COPD patients. Bacterial respiratory infections have long been considered the main cause of exacerbations. This study was conducted with the aim of surveying the antibiotic usage characteristics in AECOPD of hospitalized patients at National Hospital 74. Data were collected from 265 patients hospitalized from January 1st, 2021 to March 31st, 2021. Most of the patients in the study were male (82.3%) and had comorbidities (74.7%). The most isolated bacteria were Haemophilus influenzae, Moraxella catarrhalis, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The majority of patients did not change their antibiotic regimen during treatment (61.5%). Alternative regimens in patients having regimen changes tended to be more focused on Pseudomonas aeruginosa than the first regimens. In the antibiotic-containing regimens tested antibiograms of 38 patients with isolated bacteria, most of the regimens had at least 1 antibiotic sensitive to the isolated bacteria (38.5%). The results of this study provide reliable information for making recommendations to contribute to improving the effectiveness of antibiotic usage in the AECOPD treatment at National Hospital 74, reducing the medical burden for patients and society.
Removing Legal Hurdles in Registration of Contracts for the Transfer of Patent Rights to Foster Innovation
Authors: Nguyen Phan Quoc
Published: July 2022

Business environment improvement in support for the development of enterprises (such as innovative startups particularly) has attracted attention in Vietnam. Patent is a tool, important asset which is crucial for the success of innovative startups. However, one of the big hurdles for the commercialization of intellectual assets  for enterprises in Vietnam is the administrative procedure for the registration of patent licensing/assignment agreements. The paper analyses difficulties and hurdles for business environment as a result of the required legally registration for patent licensing/assignment agreements, then recommend the solutions for relieve this hurdle.
Anti-corruption in Singapore and Experiences for Other Countries
Authors: Dung Nguyen Dang , Giao Vu Cong
Published: July 2022

In recent years, Singapore has been considered as a rare phenomenon that represents the success of the fight against corruption and the development of the nation in Asia. The article analyzes the characteristics,  achievements and limitations of anti-corruption activities in Singapore, and thereby suggests  experiences for other countries.

Keywords: Singapore; anti-corruption in Singapore; experience in anti-corruption.
Compensation for Damage Caused by Nuclear Energy from of Comparative Law Perspectives and Recommendations for Vietnam
Authors: Cham Nguyen Thi Phuong
Published: July 2022

The peaceful use of nuclear energy plays an important role in the development of manufacturing industry and becomes an indispensable need. However, along with the development of science and technology, there are always potential risks of accidents. Therefore, the legal mechanism in the event of an accident resulting in damage is always set as an indispensable premise before putting nuclear energy into application. By reviewing compensation for damage caused by nuclear energy from a comparative legal perspective, this article analyses the legal structure, basic principles and the mechanism of Vietnamese compensation law damage caused by nuclear energy.
Legislation on Recall of Members of Parliament in The United Kingdom and Experiences for Vietnam
Authors: Giang Vu Hai
Published: July 2022

Abstract: Recall of National Assembly deputies is an effective way to strengthen the relationship between National Assembly deputies and voters, ensuring that deputies identify themselves with and are accountable to the people who are represented by them; thereby helps promoting the trust of the people to the elected deputies as well as developing representative democracy. A study on the procedure of recall of members of the parliaments in the world will suggest some experiences for a similar procedure in Vietnam. For this purpose, this article presents an overview of the procedure of recall of elected representatives in parliaments around the world, and focuses on considering the Recall of MPs Act 2015 of the United Kingdom. Then, the article offers some experiences for the procedure of recall National Assembly representatives in Vietnam.

Keywords: Recall of representatives, National Assembly, recall of MPs, UK Parliament.
Legal Regulation of Cross-border Surrogacy: A Comparison Based on China, Vietnam, and Russia
Authors: Yiang Zhu
Published: July 2022

In the era of advanced medical technology and frequent international exchanges, reproductive tourism is on the rise, the problems it poses have attracted the attention of countries. Taking China, Vietnam, and Russia as research samples, the article points out the differences laws on surrogacy create opportunities for intending parents to circumvent domestic law. The recognition of parental rights of prospective parents, according to the best interests of children, makes it even less worrying. From the perspective of fundamental rights, the article argues that surrogacy is the only means of realizing reproduction for people suffering from uterine diseases. 'External tolerance' will intensify the conflicts between the rich and the poor and lead to high costs of unidentified evidence collection. That is why prior supervision is necessary. The author proposes that legislation should explicitly allow limited surrogacy and regulate the conditions and parenthood so that it can apply under control. At the international level, China, Vietnam, and Russia face the common problem of surrogate children's rights. Based on the accumulation of multilateral or bilateral treaties, they should actively participate in and promote the process of global conventions based on common concerns while paying attention to the progress of HCCH
Analysis of Data Exit Security Review under the Background of Digital Trade: with Comments on the Chinese Measures for Data Exit Security Assessment (Draft for comments)
Authors: Liying Zhang , Jiabao Duan
Published: July 2022

Data exit brings new growth and opportunities for the development of digital trade in various countries, but without regulation, it may damage national security interests. Therefore, it is necessary to study the review rules of data exit, which is of great significance to maintain national security and ensure the development of digital trade. Therefore, under the legal basis provided by the Cybersecurity Law and the Data Security Law, China actively explored and formulated specific rules for data exit assessment, and published the Measures for Data Exit Security Assessment (Draft for comments) (hereinafter “the Measures”) in October 2021. The Measures is undoubtedly a beneficial attempt to protect national security and realize the orderly exit of data. It has made a significant breakthrough in relevant rules. However, there are still some rules to be improved. In terms of such rules in other territories, the United States and the European Union have adopted data exit review mechanisms with different value orientations, which have their own advantages and characteristics, can provide references for China to improve data exit security review rules.
Concluding Bilateral and Regional Agreements relating to Maritime Disputes: Possible Implications for the Compulsory Dispute Settlement Mechanisms under the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
Authors: Hao Phan Duy , Ha Tran Viet
Published: July 2022

In the midst of recent complicated developments in the East Sea (South China Sea), ASEAN member states and China have concluded a number of bilateral and regional agreements to manage disputes and promote maritime cooperation. This demonstrates efforts of the parties to enhance trust, prevent conflicts, and create a favorable environment for dispute settlement. The conclusion of bilateral and regional agreements, however, also raises concerns over possible implications for the compulsory dispute settlement mechanisms under the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) as UNCLOS contains provisions that enable bilateral and regional agreements to preclude its compulsory procedures. This paper will look into the compulsory nature of UNCLOS dispute settlements mechanisms. It will then examine the conditions for bilateral and regional agreements to preclude UNCLOS compulsory dispute settlement mechanisms. Finally, it will assess possible implications of agreements that have been concluded between ASEAN member states and China in the South China Sea for the compulsory dispute settlements under UNCLOS.
Water Pollution Control Policies and Laws in China and Suggestions for Vietnam
Authors: Anh Tuan Ho
Published: July 2022

Water is an indispensable part of our environment. China is facing a serious water pollution situation. In order to reduce water pollution, China has implemented a wide range of policies to reduce and control water pollution. Vietnam is a country with remarkable similarities with China in terms of political institutions as well as economic development. Notably, two major river systems of Vietnam, the Red River and the Mekong River both originate from China and directly affect the water environment in Vietnam. Thus, the evaluation of China's water pollution control policies will provide helpful experiences and lessons to improve Vietnam’s policies and law on water pollution control.
Law Enforcement for Guaranteeing the Rights, Interests, and Central Role of the People Under the Viewpoint of the Communist Party’s XIII Congress
Authors: Phuong Nga Le Thi
Published: July 2022

Tổ chức thi hành pháp luật là một trong những điều kiện cơ bản để đảm bảo thực hiện quyền, lợi ích và phát huy vai trò trung tâm, chủ thể của nhân dân theo quan điểm đã được xác định trong văn kiện chính trị Đại hội XIII của Đảng. Tác giả bài viết phân tích vai trò của tổ chức thi hành pháp luật, đề xuất ba trong số các giải pháp về hiệu quả tổ chức thi hành pháp luật của các cơ quan hành chính nhà nước đảm bảo quyền lợi ích và phát huy vai trò trung tâm, chủ thể của nhân dân ở Việt Nam hiện nay. Theo đó có các giải pháp: hoàn thiện pháp luật, xây dựng đạo đức công vụ và sự tham gia của người dân trong tổ chức thi hành pháp luật.
PERAN SOSIAL MEDIA DALAM PENYEBARAN MISINFORMASI TENTANG VAKSINASI COVID19
Authors: Yenmis Diego , Roem Elva Ronaning , . Rinaldi
Published: July 2022

The spread of Covid19 in Indonesia has entered a severe phase so people are asked to be extra careful when doing activities wherever they are. The Indonesian government is coordinating with the World Health Organization (WHO) to carry out vaccination efforts for all people to prevent further spread of this virus. However, it seems that the hard efforts made by the Government are not fully proportional to the enthusiasm of the news on social media lately. The rise of hoaxes circulating has created misinformation about Covid-19 so that the focus of the community is divided. This research is dialysis using a multi-layered model of risk definition in the context of the Covid19 pandemic by Krause et al. This research uses descriptive qualitative method with constructivist paradigm. Data collection techniques used are interviews, observation and documentation. While the data analysis technique used is the Miles and Huberman technique.
ANALISIS COST LOANABLE FUND, TARGET LABA DAN RISK FACTOR SEBAGAI DETERMINAN NISBAH PEMBIAYAAN BERBASIS BAGI HASIL
Authors: Puspasari Oktaviani Rita
Published: July 2022

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh Cost Loanable Fund, Target Laba dan Risk Factor sebagai Determinan Nisbah Pembiayaan BerBasis Bagi Hasil pada Bank Syariah di Indonesia. Populasi dalam penelitian ini adalah seluruh Bank Umum Syariah yang ada di Indonesia dengan jumlah sampel sebanyak 11 bank. Teknik analisis data yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah analisis regresi berganda.. Hasil pengujian menunjukkan bahwa cost Loanable Fund, target laba dan risk factor baik secara parsial maupun simultan berpengaruh sebagai determinan nisbah pembiayaan berbasis bagi hasil pada Bank Umum Syariah di Indonesia.Kata  Kunci  : Cost of loanable fund, target laba, risk factor, nisbah pembiayaan bagi hasil
PENGARUH RASIO SOLVABILITAS DAN RASIO PROFITABILITAS TERHADAP PERINGKAT SUKUK
Authors: Wirman Wirman
Published: July 2022

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk memberikan bukti empiris tentang faktor yang mempengaruhi peringkat sukuk korporasi di Indonesia. Penelitian ini mengkaji peran rasio keuangan yang meliputi: rasio profitabilitas dan rasio solvabilitas dari perusahaan. Metode penelitian ini menggunakan purposive sampling, dengan kreteria: 1) perusahaan memiliki laporan tahunan 2016-2018, 2) perusahaan pada waktu untuk menerbitkan laporan tahunan, Peringkat Sukuk perusahaan, diterbitkan dari PT.PEFINDO 2016-2018. Penelitian ini menggunakan regresi logistik ordinal (PLUM) untuk menguji hipotesis. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukan rasio solvabilitas berpengaruh signifikan terhadap peringkat sukuk sedangkan profitabilitas terbukti tidak berpengaruh signifikan terhadap peringkat sukuk. Penelitian ini menunjukkan variable independen mempengaruhi variabel dependen sebesar 36,1% dan 63,9% nya dipengaruhi oleh variabel lain. Kata kunci : Rasio Solvabilitas, Rasio Profitabiltas dan Peringkat Sukuk.
BEBAN PAJAK, PROFITABILITAS DAN PENGARUHNYA TERHADAP PRAKTIK TRANSFER PRICING
Authors: Lestari Dini Martinda , Hasanah Hasanah , Surachman Surachman
Published: July 2022

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui seberapa besar pengaruh beban pajak dan profitabilitas terhadap praktik transfer pricing . Metode penelitian ini menggunakan data sekunder yang bersifat kuantitatif. Analisis data yang digunakan pada penelitian ini yaitu analisis statistika deskriptif , uji normalitas , uji autokorelasi , uji heteroskedastisitas , uji multikolinearitas , uji regresi linear berganda, uji koefisien determinasi , uji t dan uji f dengan menggunakan SPSS Versi 23 . Pengambilan sampel ini menggunakan purposive sampling . Berdasarkan metode purposive sampling diperoleh sampel sebanyak 10 perusahaan. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa pengujian dengan uji parsial ( uji t ) menunjukkan bahwa variabel beban pajak yang diproksikan menggunakan Effective Tax Rate (ETR)  berpengaruh positif terhadap praktik transfer pricing . Variabel profitabilitas yang diproksikan menggunakan Return on Asset ( ROA ) berpengaruh negatif terhadap praktik  transfer pricing. Dalam uji ANOVA ( uji f ) beban pajak dan profitabilitas berpengaruh terhadap praktik transfer pricing .Kata Kunci : Beban Pajak ; Profitabilitas ; Transfer Pricing
PENGARUH MORALITAS INDIVIDU, EFEKTIVITAS PENGENDALIAN INTERNAL, KESESUAIAN KOMPENSASI DAN ASIMETRI INFORMASI TERHADAP KECURANGAN AKUNTANSI
Authors: Citra Amelia Siti Rachmah , Rahmawati Teti
Published: July 2022

This study aims to examine the effect of individual morality, effectiveness of internal control, suitability of compensation and information asymmetry on accounting fraud. This research was conducted using descriptive and verification methods. The population of this study were all villages in Kramatmulya District, Jalaksana District, Cigandamekar District and Cilimus District in Kuningan Regency as many as 53 villages with a total of 159 respondents. The sample used in this study were 38 villages with a total of 114 respondents using Propotional Sampling. The data collection technique used a questionnaire with data analysis tools in the form of multiple linear regression analysis. The results of this study indicate that individual morality, internal control effectiveness, compensation suitability and information asymmetry have a simultaneous effect on accounting fraud, individual morality has a significant negative effect on accounting fraud, the effectiveness of internal control has a significant negative effect on accounting fraud, compensation suitability has a significant negative effect on accounting fraud and asymmetry information has a significant positive effect on accounting fraud. Keywords: Individual Morality, Effectiveness of Internal Control, Compensation Suitability, Information Asymmetry and Accounting Fraud.
PENGARUH PROFITABILITAS, STRUKTUR AKTIVA DAN UKURAN PERUSAHAAN TERHADAP STRUKTUR MODAL
Authors: Meisyta Euis Dinda , Yusuf Ayus Ahmad , Martika Lia Dwi
Published: July 2022

The purpose of this study is to determine the factors that affect the capital structure. With the independent variables are profitability, asset structure and company size. The population in this study were manufacturing companies in the pulp and paper sub-sector for the period 2015 to 2018. The sampling technique was saturated samples where the samples of this study were 9 companies that met the sampling criteria. The method used is descriptive and verification methods with quantitative data. The data collection technique uses nonparticipating observation. The analysis technique used in this research is descriptive analysis, classical assumption test, panel data regression analysis, coefficient of determination and hypothesis testing using the Eviews Ver 9.0 application program. Hypothesis testing shows that profitability, asset structure and company size simultaneously affect the capital structure. Profitability has a positive and significant effect on capital structure. Asset structure has a positive and significant effect on capital structure. Firm size has a positive and significant effect on capital structure.  Keywords   : Profitability, Asset Structure, Company Size and Structure Capital