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The Talisman, The Book of Saladin, and Reluctant Orientalism
Authors: Arpa Halil İbrahim
Published: March 2023

The renowned writer of historical novels Walter Scott’s representations of historical figures reach beyond his country of birth. As a man of literature, he imagines the beyond. The Talisman is a product of such excess, but it is not the first in Europe depicting the leader of the Ayyubids Saladin who conquered Jerusalem and settled within the consciousness of the West as a result. Far before romantic orientalism during the nineteenth century, Renaissance was already interested in oriental exoticism. Saladin appeared in Dante’s Inferno, Boccaccio’s Decameron, and Voltaire’s Zaire in varying but positive forms. Scott continued this tradition and created a fictional Saladin who ‘was’ an oriental despot with European virtues. Even though Tariq Ali penned The Book of Saladin one hundred and seventy-three years later, Saladin has always remained a popular fictional figure. He alternates the modernist and orientalist narrations of the East with postcolonial and postmodernist literary techniques, but he falls into the same modernist trap Scott had fallen into while creating an unusual Eastern character for European readers. Their common reluctant orientalism links these two narrations of Saladin inextricably as Eurocentrism haunts their non-Eurocentric depictions ironically. By using reluctant orientalism as a term for the first time and comparing Scott and Ali contrary to the accustomed analyses, this study does more than filling a positivist lacuna. It delays the Absolute meanings of Scott and Ali.
Mythology in Children s Literature: A Narrative Study on Roopa Pai s Gita
Authors: T Rajalakshmi
Published: March 2023

The function of conveying a culture’s myth to its younger generation is a very delicate process. Myth is a mixture of fact and fantasy and it is the duty of an adult reteller to convey the right ideas in a right manner to the children. Creating mythological retellings for children involves a multi-levelled process: filtering the myth to make it child-appropriate, structuring it in an attractive format and delivering a content relatable for the kids. Roopa Pai, an Indian writer for children, came out with a book titled Gita: For Children (2015), which retells the Bhagvad Gita of the Mahabharata. The Bhagvad Gita, being a book of complex philosophies, is difficult enough to be explained to adults. Hence, it takes a deeper understanding of the source text and also the psyche of children to come out with a work like that. The objective of this paper is to analyse the narrative technique that Pai has followed in Gita: For Children in order to break down a culture’s mythology into a digestible form for the younger generation. The methodology for the study would be a narrative analysis of the primary text. It was identified from the study that Pai constructs a three-layered structure in the text: a) a background insight into the story, where she describes the context and adds additional information on elements seen in the story b) the narration of the story c) explaining the facts of the story with examples relatable for the children. This third structure involves a concept called Applied Mythology. It explains how myth is applicable in the contemporary world. It is also observed that there are three parallel conversations throughout the text: a) the one between Krishna and Arjuna b) the one between Sanjaya and Dritarashtra and c) the one between Pai and her readers. In this third category, Pai uses the technique called ‘breaking the fourth wall’. Here, Pai comes out of her veil as a distant narrator and directly talks to her target audience, the children. While most authors claim it is more difficult to write for children than for adults, this study shall help understand the different narrative strategies that Pai employs in the text to simplify complex philosophies of life for children.
Sexual Euphemistic Expressions of The Holy Quran: A Sociolinguistic Approach
Authors: Muzakki Akhmad
Published: March 2023

Language reflects the environment and culture, and it also represents a dialectic expression between the author and the social condition. The language of the Quran undergoes a dialectic process along with various factors around, by socio-historical (asbāb al-nuzūl) and situational (asbāb al-dhurūf) context. This study aimed to discover the contextual and situational background, referring to the diction, language style, or euphemism of the Quran regarding the relationship of husband and wife. It employed sociolinguistic approach as language was a prominent medium for cultural heritage discovery and apprehension. It found that the Quran exercised the use of adjective, verb, and verb phrase to demonstrate expressive and referential function, and to avoid taboo words. It also pointed out that Arabic society in the pre-Islamic era geographically and culturally lived within an unconducive environment. They enjoyed nomadic lifestyle, unwilling to be bounded by rules. Therefore, the Quran used subtle dictions when it came to the topic of spouse relationship. the Quran employed 18 types of diction in 8 surahs, mainly discussing about: 1) disobeying commands, 2) telling the story of the Muslims’ habits in the past, 3) giving suggestion after enforcing prohibition, and 4) providing explanation about women in nature. The subtle diction was intended to avoid any filthy imagination and lust among the Arabs back then.
Exercício filosófico sobre a obra “O Império do Efêmero”, de Gilles Lipovetsky
Authors: Nascimento Suzie  do Nascimento Ferreira do
Published: March 2023

Poucos pensadores têm se dedicado à reflexão sobre o fenômeno moda. O presente texto se propõe a exemplificar a possibilidade do exercício filosófico também nesse âmbito, testificando, assim, sua relevância. Reproduzindo, inicialmente, os apelos já registrados por esses poucos pensadores reconhecidos, levando a uma reflexão mais séria sobre o que seria esse tão peculiar fenômeno, o exercício propriamente dito se dará sobre a obra “O Império do Efêmero”, de Gilles Lipovetsky, no intuito de demonstrar em que medida uma reflexão filosófica mais aprofundada poderia enriquecer o que ali já se encontra enunciado. Ao final, serão propostas algumas questões pertinentes ao mundo acadêmico da moda no Brasil, cujas respostas, aparentemente, ainda não foram suficientemente discutidas.
Muito além da superfície
Authors: Perito Renata Zandomenico , Rech Sandra Regina
Published: March 2023

Este artigo revela como o homem transforma-se em ser social, a partir da apropriação dos símbolos da aparência, e porque esta pode servir de ferramenta para a análise da sociedade como um todo, assim como as transformações sociais são importantes para analisar as manifestações da aparência. A partir de observações sobre o vestuário do romance Orlando, de Virginia Woolf, é desenvolvida a relação entre a aparênci a e a comunicação, explicada desde seu princípio, evidenciada pela literatura e por estudos sociológicos e antropológicos. O mito da pura funcionalidade do traje é quebrado para tornar evidente o valor dos códigos do vestir na vida social e na construção do indivíduo, bem como seu papel dentro da cultura.
Corpos monumentos: fetichismos visuais em moda nas metrópoles
Authors: Sasaki Silvia
Published: March 2023

A partir de um produto básico e sua publicidade em outdoors - neste trabalho, a marca de cuecas Mash - o conceito de fetiche e erotismo vai muito além do objeto em si. Urbanos e contemporâneos, estas propagandas se comportam de modo diferenciado na instituição de representações, principalmente, devido ao agigantamento da imagem. Logo, abre-se uma lacuna entre a imagem e seus receptores, construindo percepções nada ingênuas entre o olhar, a coisa olhada e o desejo. Vestir-se, portanto, torna-se muito mais que um simples ato, já que olhar, desejo e satisfação se imbricam constantemente nas relações do indivíduo. Assim, os corpos fetichizados pela publicidade também são aqueles que, ressignificados pelas roupas, se relacionam constantemente nos espaços transitórios das cidades, que seguem sob a dualidade ora de desejo, ora de repulsa, mas nunca em total neutralidade, mesmo que despidos.
Belle Époque: o corpo feminino ditado pela moda e o não corpo retratado por Gustav Klimt em suas obras
Authors: Silva Úrsula de Carvalho
Published: March 2023

Este artigo teórico propõe uma discussão sobre a relação de Gustav Klimt com a moda e a vanguarda de seu período, através da contextualização história da Belle Époque e suas características sócio-culturais, a visão de corpo e sua construção no fim do século XIX. Chegouse à conclusão de que o artista provocou, criou e contribuiu para a transformação através de sua obra.
O estilista e a indústria da moda
Authors: Keller Paulo Fernandes
Published: March 2023

O artigo analisa a ocupação estilista de moda (fashion designer) na sociedade contemporânea enquanto uma forma de trabalho imaterial, cognitiva e criativa inserida na indústria da moda. O artigo é fruto de pesquisa bibliográfica e documental. Ele utiliza de forma articulada as ferramentas analíticas da sociologia do trabalho, da sociologia da moda e da sociologia econômica especializada na análise de redes. O artigo conclui que o trabalho do estilista de moda constitui uma atividade produtiva de caráter imaterial, cognitivo e criativo que demanda habilidades múltiplas.
Breve histórico da beleza masculina
Authors: Filho Aurivar Fernandes
Published: March 2023

O presente artigo pretende historicizar a beleza masculina através dos tempos, desde a masculinidade no Egito antigo, até o homem metrossexual de hoje. Como método de investigação utilizou-se a pesquisa qualitativa, bibliográfica; fazendo uso de artigos e livros de diversas áreas que tratam da beleza (filosofia, história da arte e geral, moda, educação física, etc.). Com isso, buscou-se nos períodos históricos pesquisados, definir a beleza masculina e as características desta, averiguando a existência de diferenças e/ou semelhanças em cada um deles. Percebeu-se assim, semelhanças em cada período no que tange à belezaquanto às formas, uso de roupas como forma de reforçá-la, simetria, estética, valorização da juventude e, quanto à forma física, semelhança entre os homens egípcios antigos e o metrossexual da atualidade. Por fim, notou-se uma preocupação masculina com a beleza em todos os períodos pesquisados com suas particularidades, sendo essa preocupação não exclusiva do universo feminino.
Questões da moda, questões das “linguagens” visuais: Intertextualidades possíveis
Authors: Ramalho e Oliveira Sandra Regina
Published: March 2023

Este artigo apresenta algumas idéias acerca das relações que podem ser estabelecidas entre distintas “linguagens”, visando ampliar tanto as possibilidades de leitura de obras quanto da estética do cotidiano, bem como provocando reflexões sobre o processo de criação. A mostra Skin + bonés: parallel practices in fashion and architecture, apresentada no Museum of Contemporary Art de Los Angeles (2006-2007) é tomada como referência para se pensar sobre aspectos intersemióticos e intertextuais entre “linguagens” distintas de um mesmo sistema, o visual.
Design Sustentável e o Desenvolvimento de Produtos com Identidade Territorial
Authors: Mesacasa Andréia
Published: March 2023

O presente artigo discute a inserção do design sustentável no desenvolvimento de produtos com identidade territorial. Os produtos com identidade territorial carregam em si conjuntos de elementos materiais e imateriais, além de integrarem uma nova abordagem da função do designer dentro do contexto de valorização das características específicas de um determinado território. Nesta perspectiva, destaca-se o aspecto relacional do território, onde o mesmo é circunscrito pelas relações sociais efetuadas pelos indivíduos/atores de uma sociedade. Neste sentido, o design representa um catalisador da inovação e da criação de uma imagem positiva ligada ao território, a seus produtos e serviços, sendo resultado de uma rede que envolve recursos da biodiversidade, modos tradicionais de produção, costumes e também hábitos de consumo. Aliada a estes fatos localiza-se a estratégia da cadeia de valor, fundamentada na promoção e desenvolvimento de soluções sustentáveis, e que pode atuar na configuração de um design sistêmico integrado ao território.
Páginas da moda em revistas: Alceu Penna e a revista O Cruzeiro (1950-1964)
Authors: Campos Daniela Queiroz
Published: March 2023

O presente artigo pretende tecer considerações acerca de um notável colaborador daquela que foi a grande revista brasileira de outrora. Pretende, em especial, tecer suas tramas narrativas sob as páginas interpenetradas pela moda. A revista O Cruzeiro, que circulou de 1928 a 1975, sempre apresentava ao leitor páginas que abordavam as tendências de moda. Dentre estas páginas muitas, durante considerável tempo, foram assinadas por um reconhecido ilustrador mineiro: Alceu de Paula Penna. Alceu Penna escreveu e muitas vezes ilustrou a secção de Figurinos da renomada revista. Além de tal secção, também, era o responsável por uma das colunas mais famosa do periódico: a coluna Garotas do Alceu. Naquelas páginas mesclavam-se tendências de moda das Maison francesas, condutas de comportamento das atrizes do cinema, padrões de beleza, normas de civilidade, cotidiano. Era a moda transposta em páginas de revistas.
Tendências, marcas e consumo de moda: a eterna recriação de si
Authors: Campos Amanda Queiroz , De Sousa Richard Perassi Luiz
Published: March 2023

Além dos atributos identificáveis nos símbolos gráficos, a criação e a gestão de uma marca requerem o desenvolvimento de afetos e ideias positivas, nos diversos pontos de contato entre o público consumidor e as expressões relacionadas à marca. A gestão de marca baseada na inovação em empresas que se identificam por seu caráter ousado possibilita seu bom posicionamento no mercado, devido a estratégias arguciosas de gestão de marca e de criação do novo. A pesquisa de tendências que enfoca as transformações consiste em mapear, descobrir e conhecer o coletivo e, a partir disso, traçar planos de ação e inovação para o futuro. No mundo comercial da moda essa antecipação é proposta em cores, formas e texturas, entre outras qualidades perceptíveis, que distinguem a inovação. A continuidade da marca de moda também depende dessa antecipação percebida em seus produtos de utilização e de comunicação.
A moda francesa e as roupas íntimas: seu papel libertador feminino
Authors: Pagnan Andreia Salvan
Published: March 2023

A indumentária feminina usada na corte Francesa em meados do século XVII possuía uma riqueza de cores, texturas e padrões que passam a partir dessa época a determinar as regras no mundo da moda mundialmente. Tais influências deixaram como herança o estabelecimento da moda como forma de mudança e de conquista do homem na sociedade. As influências barrocas eram vistas nas artes, na literatura, e também numa moda rebuscada com rendas, fitas e bordados. A moda íntima feminina usada naquela época retrata o papel secundário da mulher na sociedade, reprimida pelo espartilho. Uma analise evolutiva da moda íntima desde a corte francesa do rei Luis XIV aborda o seu papel libertador da supressão feminina.
A representação gráfica do desenho no Design de Moda
Authors: Puls Lourdes Maria
Published: March 2023

Os diferentes tipos de desenho de moda utilizados para a indústria de vestuário, mesmo que intrinsecamente interligados e interrelacionados, por possuírem elementos de ligação entre si, ainda geram confusões no ensino e aprendizagem do desenho de moda para ideação projetual. Por possuir características específicas, o desenho vai mudando em função da etapa em que ele é utilizado pelo designer na trajetória do processo de ideação projetual.
O Desenho Técnico aplicado ao conteúdo da disciplina de Design de Joias e Bijuterias Liliane
Authors: Mancebo Liliane de Araujo
Published: March 2023

O objetivo deste artigo é apresentar como as Normas Técnicas ABNT são aplicadas ao projeto de produtos na disciplina de Design de Joias e Bijuterias no Curso de Moda da Universidade Feevale, e ressaltar o quanto a representação gráfica e a especificação técnica dos projetos de produtos de joalheria e afins são de extrema importância para a comunicação correta de uma ideia criativa. Ao longo do texto é feita uma reflexão sobre o registro das ideias iniciais, das experimentações de composição, de formas, cores e materiais, que se segue ao estudo volumétrico e de projeções ortogonais. As diversas peças de adorno para o corpo devem ser entendidas em todas as suas particularidades, sejam estas de caráter formal, técnico e de usabilidade. Para este fim, os aportes teóricos e a bibliografia empregada neste artigo são os específicos para este estudo. A metodologia segue um procedimento prático aplicado em sala de aula. As considerações finais reforçam a importância dos processos de projetos no dia a dia de uma atividade criativa dirigida à fabricação em larga escala industrial.
A interdisciplinaridade no ensino do desenho de moda
Authors: Buck Elga Lilian , Romanato Daniella
Published: March 2023

Este artigo pretende discutir a importância da interdisciplinaridade nos cursos superiores de design de moda, trazendo como exemplo desta prática a atividade conjunta nas disciplinas de desenho de moda e computação aplicada à moda a fim de alcançar melhores resultados na construção da ilustração, seja ela manual ou digital.
A modelagem através dos séculos e o início da Moda
Authors: Da Palma Ana Cláudia
Published: March 2023

O presente artigo busca realizar uma contextualização histórica de natureza bibliográfica que procura apresentar as transformações da modelagem na roupa, na alta costura e prêt-à-porter, no decorrer da história da moda.
A importância da inovação no mercado de artigos de luxo brasileiro
Authors: Levinton Sabrina Giselle
Published: March 2023

No mundo globalizado, o mercado de bens de luxo tornou-se relevante na economia de todas as nações capitalistas, já que, cada vez mais, o consumo desses produtos ocupa espaço na sociedade contemporânea, sobretudo entre os consumidores de alta renda. Assim, este artigo tem por objetivo principal compreender o papel das estratégias de inovação dentro do segmento de luxo brasileiro, destacando sua contribuição para a maximização do desempenho do setor. Para tanto, a metodologia adotada consistiu de revisão da literatura, seguindo pesquisas em livros e também em artigos disponíveis em sites da internet sobre o tema em questão com o intuito de provocar uma reflexão sobre a importância das estratégias de inovação no mercado de luxo. Conclui-se que a valorização de estratégias de inovação, através de quaisquer das formas nas quais se manifesta, é fundamental para que o empresário brasileiro maximize seu desempenho e ocupe posição de liderança no mercado. Acredita-se que as inovações no mercado de luxo através do aumento de portfólio, ou seja, número e variedade de marcas e, particularmente através da diferenciação de segmentos e estilo, dando atenção especial ao design do produto, podem gerar bons resultados e garantir a sobrevivência do setor, mantendo-o em uma posição de destaque junto às empresas líderes no segmento de bens de luxo.
Regulation of solar cell performance by cadmium sulfide/copper-based thin film heterojunction annealing under different atmospheres
Authors: Liu Hui-Zhen , Liu Bei , Dong Jia-Bin , Li Jian-Peng , Cao Zi-Xiu , Liu Yue , Meng Ru-Tao , Zhang Yi ,   Solar Energy Conversion Center, Institute of Optoelectronic Thin Film Devices and Technology, NanKai University, Tianjin 300350, China,   Tianjin Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Thin Film Devices and Technologies, Tianjin 300350, China,   Engineering Research Center of the Ministry of Education for Thin Film Optoelectronics Technology, Tianjin 300350, China
Published: March 2023

Efficient copper based thin film solar cells usually use inorganic n-type semiconductor material CdS as the buffer layer. Therefore, the interface quality and energy band matching between the buffer layer and the absorption layer are crucial to the collection and utilization of carriers. Heat treatment can promote the mutual diffusion of interface elements, the migration of ions in the material, and the change of defect state, and the appropriate temperature will change the Cu-Zn ordering degree in the absorption layer, so as to improve the efficiency of the solar cells. Based on the optimization of CdS basic process, the strategy of annealing CdS/copper-based thin film heterojunction in sulfur atmosphere further improves the quality of CdS thin film, and is applied to copper-based solar cells to regulate the p-n heterojunction energy band gap matching of copper-based thin film cells. The results show that the annealing of CdS thin film in sulfur-containing inert atmosphere can effectively improve the crystal quality of CdS thin film and inhibit the non-radiative recombination loss caused by defect trapping at the interface of CZTS/CdS heterojunction, and the open-circuit voltage of the device can significantly increase to 718 mV. In addition, annealing CZTS/CdS heterojunction in S/Ar atmosphere can effectively improve the p-n heterojunction energy band gap matching, which not only improves the electron transmission, but also reduces the carrier recombination, thus improving the Voc and FF of the device. Besides, the oxygen element in CdS film can be replaced by sulfur element in sulfur atmosphere to improve the quality of CdS film, and thus enhancing the short-wave absorption of solar cell device. Therefore, in terms of device efficiency, the efficiency of CZTS solar cell based on sputtering method increases from 3.47% to 5.68%, which is about twice that of non-annealing treatment. Its device structure is Glass/Mo/CZTS/CdS/i-ZnO/Al:ZnO/Ni/Al, providing a reliable process window for copper based thin film solar cell devices to achieve high open-circuit voltage. Meanwhile, this study strongly demonstrates the importance of annealing atmosphere selection for CdS quality and energy band matching of CZTS/CdS heterojunction. In addition to interface interdiffusion, the composition and crystallinity of thin film material are controlled.
The New Designer
Authors: Lima Manuel
Published: March 2023

How to develop an ethical design practice and build a better world.

The choices made by designers have a significant effect on the world. Yet so much of the discourse on design focuses on aesthetics rather than ethics. In The New Designer, acclaimed author Manuel Lima aims to change this by challenging common myths and preconceptions about what comprises good design. He argues that designers must take responsibility for the personal, societal, cultural, and environmental impact of their work, rather than simply following a standard template.

As he covers fields ranging from graphic design to industrial design to user-experience design, Lima identifies the major steps that designers must take to be a force for good in the world. Rather than sticking to outmoded ideas about perfectionism and individual genius, designers must work together to tackle some of the most challenging questions of the twenty-first century. How do you make room for humanity, with all its wondrous variations, in a society increasingly driven by metrics, algorithms, and profit? How can ecologically responsible designers consider a product's entire life cycle and look well into the future? And how can designers better respond to a community's local needs while taking advantage of global networks?

Blending approaches derived from ethics, psychology, economics, and ecology, The New Designer is a vital, field-changing treatise that will appeal to any reader who seeks to understand design's massive influence on the contemporary world.
Managing Meaning in Ukraine
Authors: Bolin Göran , Ståhlberg Per
Published: March 2023

An in-depth look at Ukraine's attempts to shape how it is perceived by the rest of the world.

During times of crisis, competing narratives are often advanced to define what is happening, and the stakes of information management by nations are high. In this timely book, Göran Bolin and Per Ståhlberg examine the fraught intersection of state politics, corporate business, and civil activism to understand the dynamics and importance of meaning management in Ukraine. Drawing on fieldwork inside the country, the authors discuss the forms, agents, and platforms within the complex political and communicative situation and how each articulated and acted upon perceptions of the propaganda threat.

Bolin and Ståhlberg focus their analysis on the period between 2013 and 2022, when political tensions, commercial dynamics, and new communication technologies bred novel forms of information management. As they show, entities from governments and governmental administration to commercial actors, entrepreneurs, and activists formed new alliances in order to claim a stake in information policy. Bolin and Ståhlberg also explore how the various agents engaged in information management and strove to manage meaning in communication practice; the communicative tools they took advantage of; and the subsequent consequences for narrative constructions.
More than a Glitch
Authors: Broussard Meredith
Published: March 2023

When technology reinforces inequality, it's not just a glitch—it's a signal that we need to redesign our systems to create a more equitable world.

The word “glitch” implies an incidental error, as easy to patch up as it is to identify. But what if racism, sexism, and ableism aren't just bugs in mostly functional machinery—what if they're coded into the system itself? In the vein of heavy hitters such as Safiya Umoja Noble, Cathy O'Neil, and Ruha Benjamin, Meredith Broussard demonstrates in More Than a Glitch how neutrality in tech is a myth and why algorithms need to be held accountable.

Broussard, a data scientist and one of the few Black female researchers in artificial intelligence, masterfully synthesizes concepts from computer science and sociology. She explores a range of examples: from facial recognition technology trained only to recognize lighter skin tones, to mortgage-approval algorithms that encourage discriminatory lending, to the dangerous feedback loops that arise when medical diagnostic algorithms are trained on insufficiently diverse data. Even when such technologies are designed with good intentions, Broussard shows, fallible humans develop programs that can result in devastating consequences.

Broussard argues that the solution isn't to make omnipresent tech more inclusive, but to root out the algorithms that target certain demographics as “other” to begin with. With sweeping implications for fields ranging from jurisprudence to medicine, the ground-breaking insights of More Than a Glitch are essential reading for anyone invested in building a more equitable future.
Fertility Technology
Authors: Drucker Donna J.
Published: March 2023

A concise overview of fertility technology—its history, practical applications, and ethical and social implications around the world.

In the late 1850s, a physician in New York City used a syringe and glass tube to inject half a drop of sperm into a woman's uterus, marking the first recorded instance of artificial insemination. From that day forward, doctors and scientists have turned to technology in ever more innovative ways to facilitate conception. Fertility Technology surveys this history in all its medical, practical, and ethical complexity, and offers a look at state-of-the-art fertility technology in various social and political contexts around the world.

Donna J. Drucker's concise and eminently readable account introduces the five principal types of fertility technologies used in human reproduction—artificial insemination; ovulation timing; sperm, egg, and embryo freezing; in vitro fertilization; and IVF in uterine transplants—discussing the development, manufacture, dispersion, and use of each. Geographically, it focuses on countries where innovations have emerged and countries where these technologies most profoundly affect individuals and population policies. Drucker's wide-ranging perspective reveals how these technologies, used for birth control as well as conception in many cases, have been critical in shaping the moral, practical, and political meaning of human life, kinship, and family in different nations and cultures since the mid-nineteenth century.
Architectures of Spatial Justice
Authors: Cuff Dana
Published: March 2023

A field-defining work that demonstrates how architects are breaking with professional conventions to advance spatial justice and design more equitable buildings and cities.

As state violence, the pandemic, and environmental collapse have exposed systemic inequities, architects and urbanists have been pushed to confront how their actions contribute to racism and climate crisis—and how they can effect change. Establishing an ethics of spatial justice to lead architecture forward, Dana Cuff shows why the discipline requires critical examination—in relation to not only buildings and the capital required to realize them but privilege, power, aesthetics, and sociality. That is, it requires a reevaluation of architecture's fundamental tenets.

Organized around projects and topics, Architectures of Spatial Justice is a compelling blend of theory, history, and applied practice that focuses on two foundational conditions of architecture: its relation to the public and its dependence on capital. The book draws on studies of architectural projects from around the world, with instructive case studies from Chile, Mexico, Japan, and the United States that focus in particular on urban centers, where architecture is most directly engaged with social justice issues.

Emerging from more than two decades of the author's own project-based research, Architectures of Spatial Justice examines ethically driven practices that break with professional conventions to correct long-standing inequities in the built environment, uncovering architecture's limits—and its potential.
Waiting to Inhale
Authors: Owusu-Bempah Akwasi , Rehmatullah Tahira
Published: March 2023

The roots of a racial reckoning through the lens of cannabis.

From the start, the War on Drugs targeted Black, Brown, and Indigenous Americans already disadvantaged by a system stacked against them. Even now, as white Americans who largely escaped the fire capitalize on the legalization movement and a booming cannabis industry, their less fortunate peers continue to suffer the consequences of the systemic racism in policing and failed drug policy that fueled the original crisis. In Waiting to Inhale, Akwasi Owusu-Bempah and Tahira Rehmatullah issue a powerful call for a racial reckoning and provide a roadmap to redress this deep and abiding injustice.

Waiting to Inhale illuminates the stories of those on the front lines of the War on Drugs—the individuals and communities disproportionately harmed, sometimes seemingly beyond repair; the official and social forces ranged against them; and the victims, legal and political activists, and cannabis entrepreneurs who are fighting back. As attitudes toward cannabis are shifting, now is the opportune time, Owusu-Bempah and Rehmatullah submit, to expunge cannabis convictions and make a place in the burgeoning legal cannabis market for Black and other underrepresented groups who have borne the brunt of harsh cannabis laws.

A powerful indictment of one of the worst social and political failures in the nation's history, Waiting to Inhale offers an equally powerful vision of the possibility of redemption. Communities can be rebuilt, and racist policies must be overturned in order to give way to a new era of justice.
The Language of the Face
Authors: Gonzalez-Crussi Frank
Published: March 2023

A broad and riveting cultural history of physiognomy, exploring how the desire to divine deeper meaning from our looks has compelled humans for millennia.

How do you read a face? For thousands of years, artists, philosophers, and scientists have explored the question of what our outer appearance might reveal about our inner selves. In The Language of the Face, a marvelously comprehensive exploration of the pseudoscience of physiognomy, Frank Gonzalez-Crussi considers over a millennium's worth of primary sources to paint a splendid portrait of the face's cultural symbology.

Gonzalez-Crussi, an acclaimed pathologist and writer, transcends disciplines with a singular balance of depth and levity. Blending literary analysis of both ancient and modern texts with the insights of medical anthropology, his narrative ranges from an investigation into “nasal semiotics”—a subject whose legacy persists most destructively in myths of racial typology—to equally astute analyses of the thrills of the erotic kiss, the diagnostic art of astrology, and the enlightening qualities of supposed ugliness. While our appearances may ultimately be no more than surface-level signifiers of identity, Gonzalez-Crussi's work is anything but superficial in its treatment of the consummately human urge to find profound meaning amidst seemingly arbitrary attributes. As rigorously researched as it is wildly entertaining, The Language of the Face is a vibrant contribution to both the emerging field of medical humanities and the popular understanding of aesthetics and physiology at large.
Mind in Nature
Authors: Johnson Mark L. , Schulkin Jay
Published: March 2023

A dialogue between contemporary neuroscience and John Dewey's seminal philosophical work Experience and Nature, exploring how the bodily roots of human meaning, selfhood, and values provide wisdom for living.

The intersection of cognitive science and pragmatist philosophy reveals the bodily basis of human meaning, thought, selfhood, and values. John Dewey's revolutionary account of pragmatist philosophy Experience and Nature (1925) explores humans as complex social animals, developing through ongoing engagement with their physical, interpersonal, and cultural environments. Drawing on recent research in biology and neuroscience that supports, extends, and, on occasion, reformulates some of Dewey's seminal insights, embodied cognition expert Mark L. Johnson and behavioral neuroscientist Jay Schulkin develop the most expansive intertwining of Dewey's philosophy with biology and neuroscience to date.

The result is a positive, life-affirming understanding of how our evolutionary and individual development shapes who we are, what we can know, where our deepest values come from, and how we can cultivate wisdom for a meaningful and intelligent life.
Nurses’ Intentions for COVID-19 Vaccination in South Korea in 2022
Authors: Song Byung Yun , Choi Sun Hee , Kim Dong Yeon
Published: March 2023

Purpose: This study was to identify nurses’ intentions for COVID-19 vaccination in 2022.Methods: A questionnaire survey was conducted among 222 nurses in Korea. The collected data were analyzed using the independent t-test, one-way analysis of variance, the Wilcoxon rank sum test, Pearson’s correlation coefficients, and multiple regression analysis.Results: The score for intention to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in 2022 was 2.70 points on a 5-point scale, significantly lower than in 2020 (3.02 points on a 5-point scale). The average score for knowledge related to COVID-19 was 7.22 out of 10 points. Positive correlations were found between the intention for COVID-19 vaccination in 2022 and preventive health behavior, as well as between nurses’ intentions for COVID-19 vaccination in 2022 and 2020. The factors affecting nurses’ intentions for COVID-19 vaccination in 2022 were preventive health behavior (β=.11, p=.045) and nurses’ intentions for COVID-19 vaccination in 2020 (β=.65, p<.001). This model showed a significant explanatory power of approximately 45% (F=36.88, p<.001) for the COVID-19 vaccination intention in 2022.Conclusion: This result points to the importance of managing nurses’ preventive health behaviors to promote COVID-19 vaccination uptake. Nurses’ vaccination intentions are an important issue for the safety of both nurses and patients. A safe vaccination environment and national policy should be prepared to reduce nurses' hesitations about COVID-19 vaccination.
Mediating Effects of Job Satisfaction between Nurses’ Perceptions of Patient Safety Culture and Their Safety Nursing Activities
Authors: Han I Jung , Han Young Ran
Published: March 2023

Purpose: This study was conducted to identify the mediating effects of job satisfaction in the relationship between nurses’ perceptions of patient safety culture and safety nursing activities.Methods: Data for this study were collected using a structured questionnaire from 219 nurses recruited through convenience sampling among nurses at the general wards of four small and medium-sized hospitals with fewer than 300 beds. The data collection period was between September 11 and 28, 2018. Data were analyzed using multiple regression and the Sobel test in SPSS 25.0 for Windows.Results: The mean score was 3.14 out of 5 points for patient safety culture, 3.21 out of 5 points for job satisfaction, and 4.10 out of 5 points for safety nursing activities. Patient safety culture was significantly correlated with job satisfaction (r=.55, p<.001) and safety nursing activities (r=.48, p<.001). Job satisfaction was significantly correlated with safety nursing activities (r=.55, p<.001). Nurses' perceptions of patient safety culture (β=.48, p<.001) and job satisfaction (β=.42, p<.001) were identified as significant predictors of safety nursing activities. Job satisfaction had a partial mediating effect in the relationship between nurses’ perceptions of patient safety culture and safety nursing activities. These variables explained 35% of the variance in safety nursing activities.Conclusion: Improving nurses’ perceptions of patient safety culture and job satisfaction, which had a partial mediating effect, can promote safety nursing activities.
Statistical analysis of climate measurements for resilient design in social housing
Authors:   Universidad Católica de Colombia Colombia, Nieto-Barbosa V. , Cubillos-González R. ,   Facultad de Diseño, Universidad Católica de Colombia Colombia, Tibério Cardoso G. ,   Programa de Posgrado en Arquitectura y Urbanismo, Escuela Politécnica de IMED, Campus Passo Fundo/RS. Brazil, Neckel A. ,   Programa de Posgrado en Arquitectura y Urbanismo, Escuela Politécnica de IMED, Campus Passo Fundo/RS. Brazil, Novegil F. ,   Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Católica de Colombia Colombia, Cerón Vinasco I. ,   Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Católica de Colombia Colombia
Published: March 2023

Climate change is a progressive phenomenon that, although it can be mitigated, it cannot be stopped. As a consequence, the level of uncertainty is high to propose resilient design strategies to counteract its effects on people's comfort and health. Likewise, a limitation is the collection of information and access to climatic data of each place, so in the present work a cycle of temperature, relative humidity and wind speed measurements was proposed in a case study of social housing in the city of Tunja, Colombia. Thus, the objective of the article is to analyze and validate the reliability of the data collected on site. For this purpose, a descriptive statistical analysis of the information was carried out with tools such as Excel and PSPP version 1.4.1. As a result, it was found that, although the average level of reliability is acceptable, there are data below the minimum value of acceptability. It was concluded that descriptive statistics allows to know the margin of error to which the data are exposed and therefore reduce the uncertainty in the resilient design
Ensino da sustentabilidade em administração: uma análise dos PPC’s das Universidades Federais do Nordeste
Authors: De Mesquita Alisson Caio Abrantes , Holanda João Clécio de Sousa , Bento Francisca Joselânia da Silva , Moreira Dário Policarpo dos Santos , Lacerda Carlos Victor Saraiva , Silva Bruno Nogueira , Da Silva Franklyn Lopo , Valentim Maria Elizânia Chaves
Published: March 2023

As discussões sobre a sustentabilidade no planeta vêm ocorrendo de maneira acentuada e tem adquirido relevância em diferentes contextos e áreas de conhecimento. Mediante os inúmeros problemas que a sociedade enfrenta, torna-se necessário recorrer à Educação para a sustentabilidade, uma vez que esta busca a sensibilização das pessoas e formação de consciência ambiental na sociedade. O objetivo deste trabalho consiste em verificar a existência do ensino da sustentabilidade nos cursos de Administração das Universidades Federais nordestinas. Trata-se de uma pesquisa descritiva e documental, de abordagem quantitativa, que buscou analisar as estruturas curriculares de 27 cursos de administração das UFs do Nordeste. Os dados utilizados são secundários e foram analisados pela estatística descritiva. Constatou que a temática está presente no ensino da Administração, nas grades curriculares, ofertado como componente obrigatório e a partir da metade de duração do curso. Nota-se que existem ações voltadas a potencializar a difusão do pensamento sustentável.
Para além das estratégias genéricas: uma proposta de metodologia de operacionalização do posicionamento competitivo de Michael Porter
Authors: Cardoso Ákila Belém , De Barros Luís Alberto Monteiro
Published: March 2023

As micro e pequenas empresas (MPEs) brasileiras atuam em contextos peculiares e cumprem um papel importante na geração de emprego e renda, sendo as dificuldades com o planejamento um fator de mortalidade precoce. Considerando que uma posição competitiva adequada contribui para as empresas alcançarem níveis superiores de lucratividade em seus segmentos, bem como que o processo de planejamento da estratégia competitiva pressupõe a análise do posicionamento atual, considera-se relevante identificar o posicionamento competitivo corrente dessas empresas, no processo da estratégia de negócios. Para mapear o posicionamento competitivo das MPEs pesquisadas neste estudo metodológico, bibliográfico e de campo, desenvolveu-se estrutura para investigar aspectos extraídos da base teórica relativos a características do posicionamento competitivo, do desempenho competitivo e do setor de atuação. O nível de adequação das MPEs à teoria do posicionamento competitivo foi avaliado com base em dados coletados por meio de questionário estruturado, que foram tratados com a utilização de estatísticas descritivas. O problema da operacionalização do posicionamento competitivo empresarial restou superado, em razão do alcance dos objetivos da pesquisa. Para a teoria, o produto desta pesquisa metodológica adiciona um instrumento operacional inédito para auxiliar no diagnóstico e planejamento do posicionamento estratégico competitivo. Para a prática empresarial, em particular para o tipo estudado de MPEs, constitui mecanismo de análise, mapeamento e comparação da estratégia competitiva corrente das empresas, cujo diagnóstico resultante pode ser aplicado como subsídio às escolhas estratégicas futuras, com potencial para contribuir para a coerência e a consistência da estratégia competitiva dessas empresas, ao longo do tempo.
As restrições financeiras de firmas brasileiras têm relação com a governança corporativa?
Authors: Dos Santos Renato Ribeiro , Peixoto Fernanda Maciel
Published: March 2023

Sabe-se que quando uma empresa possui boas práticas de governança corporativa (GC), em geral, ela consegue obter melhor performance, maior proteção aos seus investidores e melhor gestão financeira de curto e longo prazos. Este artigo amplia a discussão sobre o papel da governança corporativa em reduzir a probabilidade de financial distress (FD) das firmas. O objetivo do estudo é investigar o impacto de mecanismos de GC sobre a probabilidade de financial distress de empresas brasileiras. A pesquisa analisa a relação entre concentração acionária, composição do conselho de administração e propriedade estatal com financial distress para firmas brasileiras no período de 2017 a 2020. O método adotado foi a regressão logística e a proxy para financial distress foi baseada na pontuação ZmScore de Zmijewski (1984). Como principais resultados, constatou-se que quando a empresa tem propriedade estatal ela tem menor probabilidade de apresentar financial distress. Percebeu-se também que os lucros retidos e a tangibilidade dos ativos são negativamente relacionados ao FD. O estudo contribui com a literatura na medida em que auxilia no monitoramento, prosperidade dos negócios e prevenção de restrições financeiras, trazendo implicações importantes para a estabilidade financeira das firmas.
Efficacy of Comforting Manoeuvres in Reducing Anxiety in Patients Undergoing Caesarean Section under Regional Anaesthesia- Randomised Control Trial
Authors: Yadav Pritam , Budhwar Deepika , Kumar Vineet , Singhal Suresh , Kumar Prashant , Saini Rahul
Published: March 2023

Introduction: Comforting manoeuvres like hand holding and calming conversation with the parturients may decrease anxiety among them by establishing a rapport and building confidence and trust to alleviate fear. Aim: Evaluation of role and effectiveness of comforting manoeuvres (hand holding and calming conversation) in relieving patient’s anxiety and subjective satisfaction undergoing caesarean section in regional anaesthesia. Materials and Methods: This was a single centre randomised control trial conducted in the Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Rohtak, Haryana, India, from February 2022 to June 2022. There were 144 parturients, in the age group 18-40 years, American Society of Anaesthesiology (ASA) II, and admitted for Caesarean section under regional anaesthesia. Patients were randomised into four groups- control group (C)- group 1, only calming conversation (CC)- group 2, only Hand Holding (HH)- group 3 and Hand Holding and Calming Conversation (CH)- group 4. Demographic details of the patient, Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) for anxiety, Blood Pressure (BP), Heart Rate (HR), Respiratory Rate (RR) and patient satisfaction score on a 1-5 Likert scale were noted preoperatively. VAS was noted preoperatively and postoperatively for all groups. Patient Satisfication Score (PSS) was noted postoperatively. The HR, Mean Arterial Pressure (MAP), and RR were noted every 5 minutes for 20 minutes, then every 10 minutes till the end of the surgery, and 30 minutes after surgery. Any anxiolytic medication used intraoperatively was documented for all groups. Results: Total of 144 participants were analysed with 36 patients in each of four groups. Mean age (years) for group 1 was 23.36, group 2 was 23.25, group 3 was 23.17, and group 4 was 23.22. Baseline VAS was similar in all the groups. Postoperative VAS differed significantly - group 1 was 3.33±0.926, group 2 was 1.53±0.845, group 3 was1.47±0.845 and group 4 was 1.11±0.708. PSS also differed significantly - for group 1 was 2.42±0.732, group 2 was 3.50±0.697, group 3 was 3.67±0.717 and group 4 was 3.92±0.692. Stabilisation of hemodynamics in terms of BP, HR and RR was significantly better in all three interventional groups as compared to the control group. Conclusion: All three manoeuvres (hand holding, calming conversation alone and in combination) were equally effective in reducing perioperative anxiety, stabilising the hemodynamics and improving patient satisfaction in parturients undergoing caesarean section under regional anaesthesia. Comforting manoeuvres are simple, easy to practice and without any financial implication.