bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Les sciences sociales s’invitent au procès France Télécom
Authors: Beaudouin Valérie
Published: February 2024

Au cours du procès France Télécom en première instance, qui s’est tenu en 2019, des chercheurs en sciences sociales sont venus témoigner à la barre, des travaux universitaires ont été cités. Devant le tribunal, des débats qui animent la recherche en sociologie se sont rejoués : les parties civiles et la défense ont chacun mobilisé les théories les mieux adaptées à leur stratégie. Tandis que les premiers insistaient sur le lien entre les conditions de travail et le suicide, les autres mettaient l’accent sur les effets de contagion et d’imitation (« effet Werther »). Par-delà ce conflit d’interprétation, les sciences sociales ont contribué lors du procès à faire entendre la dimension vindicative et collective de ces suicides et à déplacer l’attention vers la souffrance au travail, le suicide n’étant que le signe d’un malaise beaucoup plus global. Cette analyse qui s’appuie sur le live-tweet intégral du procès et sur les chroniques judiciaires montre comment dans ce procès le témoignage des experts invités par les parties civiles a contribué à renforcer l’accusation et le dossier d’instruction portant sur le harcèlement moral institutionnel.
Level of empathy in nursing professionals working in a hospital institution in Callao
Authors: Asencios-Trujillo Lucia , Asencios-Trujillo Lida , La Rosa-Longobardi Carlos , Gallegos-Espinoza Djamila , Piñas-Rivera Livia
Published: February 2024

Empathy in nursing professionals is one of the skills to show sensitivity, understanding and support to patients, therefore, the objective of the research is to determine the level of empathy in nursing professionals working in a hospital institution in Callao. It is a quantitative, descriptive, cross-sectional and non-experimental study, with a population of 105 nurses who completed a questionnaire of sociodemographic data and Jefferson's empathy scale. In their results, 2.9% (n=3) of the nurses have high empathy, 81% (n=81) medium empathy and 16.2% (n=17) low empathy. In conclusion, empathy is very important for nursing care, since being so committed to patient care, empathy can be improved according to the needs presented by the patient.
Influencing factors and student desertion at a private university in northern Lima
Authors: Villanueva Amaro Nicole Noemi , Rios Rios Segundo Waldemar , Meneses Claudio Brian Andree
Published: February 2024

The objective of this research study was to show the influential factors that determine student desertion in a private university in northern Lima. The methodology used is descriptive in scope with a quantitative approach, with a non-experimental cross-sectional design. The population is made up of students belonging to the Business Administration career who dropped out in the period 2019 and 2020. The sample was obtained probabilistically resulting in 134 students, to then collect data concerning the behavior of the research variables with respect to the elements of the socioeconomic, sociological and institutional factors that influence academic retention; also the Likert evaluation scale consisting of 20 questions was used. In addition, the results were analyzed in an orderly manner based on the information obtained for the statistical development of graphs and tables; and thus corroborate the objectives and the hypothesis raised in the research. The reliability valuation obtained according to the statistical use of Cronbach's alpha was 0,716, which means that the instrument has an acceptable reliability valuation
Availability of retracted Covid-19 papers on Internet research-sharing platforms
Authors: MVR Almeida Renan , Fontes-Pereira Aldo José
Published: February 2024

Introduction: this paper investigated the availability of retracted/with Expression of Concern Covid-19 papers on research-sharing platforms.
Methods: from the “Retraction Watch” (RW) list of Covid-19 retracted/with Expressions of Concern (EoC) papers, all articles pertaining to Covid-19 treatment were selected. After their identification, paper titles and authors were searched on the platforms: Research Gate and Academia (Academia.com). In case a retracted or EoC paper was identified as available, the presence of a warning note was ascertained (either as an attached note or as a direct warning on the paper). The citations that these papers received were then identified on the Google Scholar platform, and classified as prior to retraction date/posterior to retraction date.
Results: at first, a total of 44 papers were selected from the RW list. Out of these, 18 full papers could be obtained in the analyzed platforms (15 retractions, 3 EoCs). Fourteen of the identified papers concerned dubious, ineffective or “alternative” treatments. The most common countries of origin were India and Egypt. The median number of Google Scholar post-retraction citations was 29,5 and the mean 42,9 (range: 0 - 128).
Conclusion: research-sharing platforms should implement mechanisms to prevent non reliable research to be made available in them
Estrategia didáctica para la formación de habilidades en ensayos clínicos de residentes de Estomatología
Authors: Peña-Méndez Aliana , Ivonnet-Gutiérrez Ennis , Mendoza-Hernández Ivis , Díaz-González Yahima , Crispin-Castellanos Douglas
Published: February 2024

Introducción: la Atención Primaria de Salud es el primer punto de contacto que los especialistas de las ciencias estomatológicas proporcionan a la población. Objetivo: elaborar una estrategia didáctica para la formación de habilidades en ensayos clínicos para los residentes de estomatología.Método: estudio descriptivo, de corte transversal en la Isla de Juventud, 2022-2023. Se utilizó el muestreo no probabilístico intencional quedando constituida la muestra por 39 residentes, 20 profesores del comité académico, 17 coordinadores provinciales y 7 profesores de metodología de la investigación.Resultados: se aplicó una encuesta para explorar los conocimientos sobre el tema y se constató que el 89,7% tenían un nivel bajo. Las principales dificultades identificadas estuvieron en las preguntas relacionadas con conocimientos sobre la carpeta del investigador y los elementos necesarios para iniciar un ensayo clínico, con porcentajes de 7,7% 12,8%, respectivamente. La estrategia propuesta se sometió a criterio de expertos, predominando las puntuaciones: muy adecuada y moderadamente adecuada, con valores de 64,8% y 25,6%, respectivamente, lo que representó el 90,3% para los criterios evaluados. La estrategia quedó conformada por cuatro etapas y acciones estructuradas de manera coherente para su aplicación, que pueden ser enriquecidas a partir de la reflexión docente y la práctica del comité académico de cada especialidad.Conclusiones: el diagnóstico de la situación actual de la formación de los especialistas de Estomatología sobre la temática de ensayos clínicos, reveló potencialidades y carencias en la concepción, el proceso y el nivel actual de su desarrollo.
Educational program on oral health “Healthy smile”: knowledge and role of legal responsibilities and educators
Authors: Montano-Silva Rosa María , Abraham-Millán Yoneisy , Peña-Méndez Aliana , Pérez-Cruz Yuliet , Navarro-González Ernestina , Ricardo-Díaz Luis Enrique
Published: February 2024

Introduction: to achieve the health of infants and increase their quality of life, the health of legal guardians and educators is of particular importance; their beliefs and behaviors; and the ability, knowledge and will to acquire and provide the infant with healthy ways and styles of life. Objective: determine the effectiveness of the “Healthy Smile” Program in terms of knowledge about oral health of legal representatives and educators, as well as the role of educators of preschool infants. Methods: a quasi-experimental before-after research was carried out where the sample was 86 legal guardians and 9 preschool educators from the “La Demajagua-Atanagildo Cajigal” towns in the period 2021-2023. Results: the pre-university level of instruction predominated (68; 71,579 %) and a regular level of knowledge (73; 76,842 %) before the implementation of the program; the same being modified to good (77; 81,053 %) with a tendency to fair (18; 18,947 %). The educators significantly increased (8; 88,88 %) the reasons for preventing diseases related to the stomatognathic apparatus to maintain good oral hygiene; the results of the student T test showed statistically significant differences in knowledge of caries (X1=3,22; X2=3,80) and about children's oral health (X1=1,55; X2=3,44). Conclusions: the “Healthy Smile” program was effective in positively modifying the level of knowledge about oral health of legal representatives and educators, as well as in the role assumed by them with respect to the health of the infants in their care
Introducing semantic loadings in factor analysis: Bridging network psychometrics and cognitive networks for understanding depression, anxiety and stress
Authors: Stanghellini Filippo , Perinelli Enrico , Lombardi Luigi , Stella Massimo
Published: February 2024

A psychometric scale reports experiences in terms of items/sentences rated by individuals. We investigate whether psychometric item ratings reflect semantic/syntactic associations between concepts in items. To this aim, we introduce semantic loadings as a semantic counterpart of psychometric factors, i.e. clusters of items obtained by correlations between item ratings. Semantic loadings quantify how clusters of semantically related concepts, as expressed in the texts of items, are allocated across psychometric factors as identified by ratings. As a case study, we focus on 39775 individual responses to the Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS) with 42 items on a 4-point Likert scale. To identify communities of semantically related concepts, we exploit the cognitive network framework of Textual Forma Mentis Networks (TFMNs), which reconstruct semantic/syntactic links encoded in the texts of items (e.g. "feel" and "sad" in the item "I usually feel sad"). To identify factors we compare eigenvector-based exploratory analysis with Graph Exploratory Analysis (EGA), which can both cluster items (and their texts) according to user ratings. We find that EGA is better at reconstructing the psychological organisation of DASS along the dimensions of anxiety, stress and depression. Following dual coding theory and the Deep Lexical Hypothesis, we posit that the act of reading items activates interconnected concepts and this influences user ratings and their expressed psychological constructs. Our results show a quantitative match: TFMN-based semantic loadings can identify specific aspects of emotional dysregulation, emotional exhaustion, physical distress and tension states of EGA-based psychometric factors, in non-random ways (up to p < 0.001). We discuss our results in view of relevant mental distress literature, psychometric scale designing and links with episodic and semantic memories.
Strategi Peningkatan Kinerja Guru Dalam Meningkatkan Kepuasan Kerja Guru di SD Islam As Sakinah Pamulang
Authors: Hidayatullah Arief , Farizal MS  , Susanto
Published: February 2024

Kinerja guru adalah suatu kondisi yang menunjukkan kemampuan guru dalam menjalankan tugas dan tanggungjawabnya di sekolah selama melakukan aktivitas pembelajaran dan dapat memberikan dorongan serta pengaruh kepada peserta didik agar tujuan pembelajaran dapat tercapai dan berjalan dengan baik Kinerja guru dapat dipengaruhi oleh berbagai faktor. Adakalanya faktor tersebut bisa berasal dari diri sendiri berupa masih rendahnya motivasi kerja, pengetahuan, dan wawasan. Tujuan penelitian ini untuk menganalisis Strategi Peningkatan Kinerja Guru Dalam Meningkatkan Kepuasan Kerja Guru Di SD Islam As Sakinah Pamulang Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif dengan pendekatan deskripsi. Metode pengumpulan data menggunakan teknik wawanca, dokumentasi, dan observasi. Analisi data menggunakan reduksi data, penyajian data, dan penarikan kesimpulan. Hasil dari penelitian ini bahwa strategi tersebut berdampak kepuasan kerja pada pendidik di SD Islam As Sakinah Pamulang yaitu memotivasi bagaimana pendidik mengajar, bagaimana menguasai materi, metode, dan kerja sama yang baik sesama pendidik hal itu yang benar benar menunjang bagi guru untuk mencapai kapuasan kinerjanya. Adapun dari ekternal yang mempengaruhi kepuasan kerja guru di SD Islam As Sakinah Pamulang yaitu kerjasama yang baik, saling mengisi satu sama lain dan hubungan sosial yang baik antara kepala sekolah, pendidik dan wali murid.
INCLUSÃO DE CRIANÇAS COM DEFICIÊNCIA E DIREITOS HUMANOS
Authors: Spengle Bárbara , Souza Katarine , Machado Juliana
Published: February 2024

O presente trabalho tem como objetivo investigar as percepções de professores da primeira etapa da Educação Básica sobre a inclusão de crianças com deficiência. Além disso, relaciona essa questão com a garantia dos Direitos Humanos da criança com deficiência. Para isso, parte de uma abordagem qualitativa e utiliza como instrumento de coleta de dados um questionário composto por questões semiestruturadas, aplicado a sete professores no formato online. Os dados foram analisados a partir da análise textual qualitativa e apresentam como resultado que as professoras que participaram da pesquisa compreendem a Educação Inclusiva na Educação Infantil como um direito das crianças com deficiência. Ao mesmo tempo, essas profissionais indicam desafios para a efetivação da inclusão escolar. Dentre os desafios identificados, destacamos a formação de professores e compreendemos que a presença da temática da inclusão ao longo da formação docente é fundamental para o desenvolvimento profissional de professores que atuam em contextos educacionais inclusivos, de modo a contribuir para a superação de barreiras atitudinais, combate ao capacitismo e garantia de Direitos Humanos.
CRISE ESTRUTURAL DO CAPITAL, FORMAÇÃO DOCENTE E PANDEMIA COVID-19
Authors: Da Silva Daniela , Da Silva Sirneto , Rabelo Josefa
Published: February 2024

A crise estrutural do capital que se arrasta desde a década de 1970 escancarou, com a pandemia da Covid-19, o fosso das desigualdades que marca a história da luta de classes, velada pelo modo de produção capitalista. O Estado colocou-se, mais uma vez, ao lado dos capitalistas, destruindo direitos trabalhistas e precarizando as condições de trabalho. Os organismos multilaterais, defensores da educação como redentora das mazelas sociais e econômicas, recomendaram, sob a tutela do Estado, a continuidade das aulas mediadas pelas tecnologias e recursos digitais. Este artigo objetiva analisar criticamente a oferta do ensino superior em caráter emergencial e formato virtual, no contexto da pandemia da Covid-19, mediante as atividades desenvolvidas pelo curso de Pedagogia da Faculdade de Educação (FACED), Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC). Apoia-se em pesquisa teórico-bibliográfica e documental, fundamentada no onto-marxismo. Constata-se, que a FACED optou por um programa de ensino emergencial não-presencial composto por atividades de formação ampla, integral, para além do chamado ensino remoto, com ações voltadas para o apoio pedagógico, psicológico, socioeconômico e artístico-cultural. Conclui-se que o capital se apropria de todas as circunstâncias para sua reprodução e ampliação, reforçando a negação de uma formação humana que atenda às reais necessidades do ser social.
O ENSINO DE DIREITOS HUMANOS E A FORMAÇÃO OMNILATERAL NO ENSINO MÉDIO INTEGRADO
Authors: Neves Juliane Laguna das , Scherer Renata Porscher
Published: February 2024

O presente artigo propõe apresentar uma análise da literatura acadêmica brasileira entre os anos de 2019 a 2023 sobre o ensino dos Direitos Humanos e a formação omnilateral na educação profissional e tecnológica. Para este artigo foram analisadas 6 pesquisas, sendo duas teses e quatro dissertações. As pesquisas se destacaram por conterem em seu recorte o Ensino médio integrado e o ensino de Direitos Humanos objetivando a construção de uma sociedade mais digna, ambas destacam a importância do ensino em direitos Humanos para uma formação humana e cidadã. É possível evidenciar com as pesquisas selecionadas que o tema dos Direitos Humanos no ensino médio integrado está baseado na perspectiva de que são fundamentais para garantir que todos os indivíduos tenham acesso a uma educação de qualidade, inclusiva, equitativa e que promova o pleno desenvolvimento de suas capacidades possibilitando aos sujeitos que se posicionem questionando os processos de produção e de distribuição de riqueza, edificando, assim, uma sociedade mais justa, em que todos tenham assegurados o seu direito a uma subsistência digna.
Sinergia entre estratégia de resiliência de Salvador e IPTU Verde: oportunidades para aumento da eficácia e parceria com o mercado imobiliário
Authors: SILVA ANGELA MÁRCIA ANDRADE , PRADO ANGÉLICA FABÍOLA RODRIGUES , ANDRADE JOSÉ CÉLIO SILVEIRA
Published: February 2024

Este trabalho objetiva analisar a sinergia entre a Estratégia de Resiliência de Salvador e o IPTU (Imposto Predial e Territorial Urbano) Verde, buscando identificar oportunidades para o aumento da eficácia desses dois instrumentos e as possibilidades de parceria com o mercado imobiliário, contribuindo assim para o incremento do uso do IPTU Verde e da resiliência urbana. Para tanto, foi realizada pesquisa documental e bibliográfica sobre resiliência urbana e IPTU Verde, bem como análise de conteúdo dos documentos Salvador Resiliente e IPTU Verde. Posteriormente foi construída uma base de dados no software Excel, contendo todas as ações da Estratégia de Resiliência de Salvador, vinculando-as aos requisitos do IPTU Verde. Como resultados identificaram-se oportunidades para potencializar, mutuamente, a eficácia dessas duas políticas públicas no enfrentamento dos choques e estresses urbanos de Salvador, assim como na redução das emissões de Gases do Efeito Estufa (GEE). Verificou- -se ainda a possibilidade, em paralelo, de incremento do uso do IPTU Verde por meio de parcerias com o mercado imobiliário. Tudo isso se torna cada vez mais necessário diante da emergência climática e do compromisso da cidade com a política de carbono zero até 2049. Palavras-chave: resiliência urbana; incentivo fiscal; IPTU Verde; mercado imobiliário; Salvador-Bahia.
Constructing Chronicity and Clouding Kairos
Authors: Defossez Ellen
Published: February 2024

Extending Sarah Singer and Jordynn Jack’s (2020) definition of illness chronicity as a complex rhetorical process of identification, this essay suggests that the development of specific temporal vocabularies (ways of defining and describing time) is an important part of this process, one that precedes and enables identification. Drawing from underemphasized temporal themes in Kenneth Burke’s work, this essay analyzes a collection of public descriptions of chronic depression to identify implicit patterns of temporal vocabulary development and to consider how these patterns relate to identification. The analysis shows that descriptions of chronic depression consistently utilize what Burke termed “directional” strategies of definition, which center permanence as the essence of the illness experience, obscuring recognition of change. While this definitional strategy enables two potentially ameliorative disidentifications, it comes at the expense of precluding kairos, which requires a dialectically-intact temporal vocabulary featuring terms of both permanence and change.
Portable Referee System for Volleyball Game Based on Pressure Monitoring and Self-Powering Communication
Authors: WU Jun , FAN Zile
Published: February 2024

Sports refereeing has traditionally relied on human judgement, which can be prone to errors. However, the development of automatic referee systems has the potential to address this issue, improve training, and promote sports in the future. In this study, we present a novel and portable referee system specifically designed for volleyball games, which utilizes piezoelectric sensors to detect pressure and simultaneously harvest energy for powering the system. The system consists of two parts: a wearable glove and a device mounted on the volleyball. The glove part has five sensors fixed on the fingertips and the volleyball has eight sensors evenly distributed on its surface. The collected contact data from the sensors is wirelessly transmitted to a personal computer. Our experimental results demonstrate that the system can accurately capture a three-second contact and detect foul actions in a volleyball game. These findings highlight the potential of the system for sports and other monitoring applications.
Sweet and Sour
Authors: Simon Scott
Published: February 2024

Sweet and Sour explores the experiences of women entrepreneurs amidst the contradictions of a freewheeling commercial culture set within the patriarchal constraints of contemporary Taiwan. To what extent are Taiwanese women empowered by entrepreneurship? What challenges do they face as women in their families and in the marketplace? How do they construct physical and social space for themselves in a traditionally male-dominated society? Most important, how do they perceive their businesses, their families, and their personal identities both as women and as business owners?

Focusing on the voices and perspectives of the women themselves, Scott Simon draws from life-narratives of women from various ages, ethnic groups, social classes, and occupations to provide a diverse set of rarely heard native voices speaking out on gender and entrepreneurship in Taiwan.
Vietnam If Kennedy Had Lived
Authors: Blight James G. , Lang janet M. , Welch David A.
Published: February 2024

The Virtual JFK DVD is now available! For more information on the film companion to the book, visit http://www.virtualjfk.com/

It Matters Who Is President—Then and Now

At the heart of this provocative book lies the fundamental question: Does it matter who is president on issues of war and peace? The Vietnam War was one of the most catastrophic and bloody in living memory, and its lessons take on resonance in light of America's current devastating involvement in Iraq. Tackling head-on the most controversial and debated "what if" in U.S. foreign policy, this unique work explores what President John F. Kennedy would have done in Vietnam if he had not been assassinated in 1963. Drawing on a wealth of recently declassified documents, frank oral testimony of White House officials from both the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, and the analysis of top historians, this book presents compelling evidence that JFK was ready to end U.S. involvement well before the conflict escalated. With vivid immediacy, readers will feel they are in the president's war room as the debates raged that forever changed the course of American history—and continue to affect us profoundly today as the shadows of Vietnam stretch into Iraq.
Through the Storm, Through the Night
Authors: Harvey Paul
Published: February 2024

Paul Harvey illustrates how black Christian traditions provided theological, institutional, and personal strategies for cultural survival during bondage and into an era of partial freedom. At the same time, he covers the ongoing tug-of-war between themes of "respectability" versus practices derived from an African heritage; the adoption of Christianity by the majority; and the critique of the adoption of the "white man's religion" from the eighteenth century to the present. The book also covers internal cultural, gendered, and class divisions in churches that attracted congregants of widely disparate educational levels, incomes, and worship styles.

Through the Storm, Through the Night provides a lively overview of the history of African American religion, beginning with the birth of African Christianity amidst the Transatlantic slave trade, and tracing the story through its growth in America. Paul Harvey successfully uses the history of African American religion to portray the complexity and humanity of the African American experience.
Islam on the Street
Authors: al-Musawi Muhsin
Published: February 2024

Islam on the Street deals with the popular side of Islam, as described not only in tracts and manuals written by Sufi shaykhs and Islamist thinkers from among the more militant groups in Islam, but also in writings by other, more secular thinkers who have also influenced public opinion. A scholar of Arabic literature, Muhsin al-Musawi explains the growing rift that has occurred between the secular intellectual—the forerunner of Arab and Islamic modernity since the late nineteenth century—and the upsurge of Islamic fervor in the street, at the grassroots level, and what these secular intellectuals can do to reconnect with the masses.

Using some of the most important Arabic and Islamic poetry, prose, and fiction to come out of the twentieth century, Al-Musawi provides context for the complex images of Arab and Islamic culture given by the various social, religious, and political groups, providing the motivations. Readers interested in the influence of religion and secularism within modern Islamic Arabic literature will find that the author addresses the presence of Islam and Sufism in ways that secular commentators have been incapable of doing.
Nominating the President
Authors: Citrin Jack , Karol David
Published: February 2024

The 2008 presidential nominations were unprecedented in many ways. Marking another step in the democratization of the selection process and a surprising loss of control by party elites, the contests in both parties were unusually competitive and the outcomes belied the predictions of experts. This book offers a fresh look at the role of parties, the constraints of campaign finance, the status of front-runners, and the significance of rules, race, and gender in the post-reform era. In this volume, leading scholars assess the state of the process with original research about money, scheduling, superdelegates, and the role of race and gender in voting. Original analyses show how changes in campaign finance and the scheduling of primaries and caucuses helped determined the outcomes in both parties. Race, once thought of as a handicap, proved an asset for the Obama campaign. 2008 marked another milestone in the democratization of the nominations process with expanded participation by rank and file voters in donating money, voting, and using the Internet. This timely book provides a glimpse into the future of party nominations and elections.
Epic Fails
Authors: Murguía Salvador Jiménez
Published: February 2024

Many of the most successful innovations—from the light bulb to the Internet—have often resulted from ingenuity, ambition, and dedication. Such achievements have changed lives for the better. Yet for every new development that the public embraces, there is a dark side of progress: cultural byproducts that litter the road to obscurity. Just because something is a failure, however, doesn’t necessarily mean that it shouldn’t matter.

In Epic Fails: The Edsel, the Mullet, and Other Icons of Unpopular Culture, Salvador Jiménez Murguía examines some of the most iconic missteps of the past several decades. In order to shed light on the inherent, often comic strain in American life between fame and infamy, the author surveys some of the best—or rather, worst—of what man has to offer. From fashion flops like the mullet and Zubaz pants to marketing mistakes like Bud Dry, New Coke, and Crystal Pepsi, this text captures the unintentionally entertaining milieu of failure. Placing these gaffes in cultural context, Murguía considers how each of these products crashed and burned, while trying to arrive at an answer to the ultimate question: “What were they thinking?”

Whether these attempts were doomed from the start, failed because of consumer indifference, or were simply the victims of poor timing, this book returns them, however briefly, to the spotlight. A fascinating look at man-made disasters, Epic Fails isan entertaining treatise about the forgotten—and infamous—endeavors of American creativity, or lack thereof.
Thinking Race
Authors: Goldsby Richard A. , Bateson Mary Catherine
Published: February 2024

Thinking Race clarifies the relationship between biology and race, showing how racism can result from a misguided blending of biology with social construction. Using arresting examples, Richard Goldsby and Mary Catherine Bateson aim to help readers accept the reality of human difference while understanding human unity. Controversial issues of race and IQ, race and athletic ability, and perceptions of race and beauty are examined, as are those of affirmative action and reparations for slavery. The authors also explore how income inequality, healthcare disparities, unequal access to education, an unfair justice system, and mass incarceration all call for constructive social policies that remodel American society in ways that will build a better, more resilient, and happier society. The goal is a society in which equal civil rights are clearly derived from the recognition of equal human rights, and equal opportunity provides the pathway to equitable results.
Gilmore Girls
Authors: Stache Lara C. , Davidson Rachel
Published: February 2024

No longer just a cult classic, Gilmore Girls is a cultural staple for TV fans.

Airing from 2000–2007, Gilmore Girls focused on the relationship between thirty-something single mom Lorelai and her teenage daughter, Rory. While exploring themes of family, romantic love, friendship, and life’s choices, this quirky show featured fast-paced dialogue, funny quips, and a steady stream of pop-culture references. Created by Amy Sherman-Palladino (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel), Gilmore Girls served as a launching pad for the careers of its stars—including Lauren Graham, Melissa McCarthy, Alexis Bledel, Jared Padalecki, and Milo Ventimiglia. The series’ popularity was so enduring that ten years after its initial run, a revival season was released on Netflix.

In Gilmore Girls: A Cultural History, Lara C. Stache and Rachel Davidson offer an engaging analysis of the popular series. The authors examine how the show serves as a representation of American culture and politics, reflects complexity within multiple mother-daughter dynamics, and employed literature, movies, and music to drive the dialogue and plot. They also explore how the choices made in the series reflect social values of the time, reinforce and challenge traditional ideas of gender and feminism, and unpack the cultural significance of this endearing series.

As both a mirror and a construction of contemporary American culture, the series achieved critical accolades and became a cult classic, at once both unassuming and dynamic. This book offers new ways for fans to appreciate the appeal and value of this binge-worthy favorite as part of the larger culture in which it exists. Gilmore Girls: A Cultural History will be of interest to fans of the show as well as to scholars and students of television, media, and American popular culture.
Harriet Tubman
Authors: Larson Kate Clifford
Published: February 2024

A Library Journal Best Reference Book of 2022

Harriet Ross Tubman, born enslaved in Maryland emerged from the most oppressive of conditions to lead others to freedom along the Underground Railroad and then continue her fight against slavery on the battlefields of the Civil War. During the last fifty years of her life in New York she campaigned for voting and civil rights, became an entrepreneur, a philanthropist, community organizer and leader.

Harriet Tubman: A Reference Guide to Her Life and Works captures her life, her works, and legacy. It features a chronology, an introduction offers a brief account of her life, a dictionary section lists entries on people, places, and events central to Tubman’s life as an enslaved person, liberator, abolitionist, soldier, spy, wife, mother, and public figure, and includes the most recent research findings and the latest efforts to memorialize her.
Martin Luther King
Authors: Harvey Paul
Published: February 2024

"[Sh]ould take a prominent place on the shelf of literature about the man who changed 20th century America." Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

In this new biography, distinguished historian Paul Harvey examines Martin Luther King’s life through his complex, emerging religious lives. Harvey introduces many readers, perhaps for the first or only time, to the King of diverse religious and intellectual influences, of an increasingly radical cast of thought, and of a mélange of intellectual influences that he aligned in becoming the spokesperson for the most important social movement of twentieth-century American history. Not only does Harvey chronicle King’s metamorphosis and its impact on American and African American life, but he seeks to explain his “afterlives”—how in American culture King became transformed into a mainstream civil saint, shorn of his radical religious critique of how power functioned in America. Harvey’s concise biography will allow readers to see King anew in the context of his time and today.
The Simpsons
Authors: Fink Moritz
Published: February 2024

From its crudely drawn vignettes on The Tracey Ullman Show to its nearly 700 episodes, The Simpsons has evolved from an alternative programming experiment to a worldwide cultural phenomenon. At 30 seasons and counting, The Simpsons boasts the distinction as the longest-running fictional primetime series in the history of American television. Broadcast around the globe, the show’s viewers relate to a plethora of iconic characters—from Homer, Marge, Lisa, Maggie, and Bart to Kwik-E-Mart proprietor Apu, bar owner Moe, school principal Seymour Skinner, and conniving businessman Montgomery Burns, among many others.

In The Simpsons: A Cultural History, Moritz Fink explores the show’s roots, profiles its most popular characters, and examines the impact the series has had—not only its shaping of American culture but its pivotal role in the renaissance of television animation. Fink traces the show’s comic forerunners—dating back to early twentieth century comic strips as well as subversive publications like Mad magazine—and examines how the show, in turn, generated a new wave of animation that changed the television landscape.

Drawing on memorable scenes and providing useful background details, this book combines cultural analysis with intriguing trivia. In addition to an appreciation of the show’s landmark episodes, The Simpsons: A Cultural History offers an entertaining discussion of the series that will appeal to both casual fans and devoted aficionados of this groundbreaking program.
Vincent Persichetti
Authors: Olmstead Andrea
Published: February 2024

Winner of the 2019 ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for Outstanding Musical Biography

Vincent Persichetti: Grazioso, Grit, and Gold is the first critical biography of this esteemed American composer, bringing together thorough scholarship by Andrea Olmstead and contributions by prominent performers. Olmstead weaves a captivating narrative of the composer from his early life and musical training, starting with his early career in Philadelphia during the 1920s and ’30s and through his teaching at Juilliard and death in 1987. The book sheds light on Persichetti’s personal and professional life, the multiple forces that shaped his musical development, and his far-reaching influence on the modern American composition scene.

In addition to Olmstead’s biographical and analytical treatment of the composer, notable performers bring fresh insights to individual pieces. Among the contributors are C. Matthew Balensuela (solo wind Parables), Geoffrey Burleson (Concerto for Piano, Four Hands, and Piano Quintet), Mirian Conti (Poems and Frog Dance for piano), Andrew Mast (Divertimento for wind ensemble), and Larry Thomas Bell (Harmonium song cycle, Piano Concerto,and Ninth Symphony).

Scholars, performers, and all lovers of Persichetti’s music will find Olmstead’s book compelling as it enshrines Persichetti’s legacy as a composer, teacher, and pianist. Those seeking to perform, teach, or simply enjoy Persichetti’s music will find this an invaluable resource.
Desperately Seeking Asylum
Authors: Boursier Helen T.
Published: February 2024

Told through heart-wrenching testimonies, photographs, and artwork of refugees fleeing their homelands, Desperately Seeking Asylum describes firsthand accounts of the harrowing and dangerous journey immigrants are willing to endure knowing that they might not even make it onto US soil.

Desperately Seeking Asylum prioritizes the testimonies of refugee families and unaccompanied children who are seeking asylum in the United States from Central America, primarily Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras. Their desperate and heart-wrenching stories disclose why they fled their homelands, their experiences along the treacherous overland journey, and the harsh reality of how the United States treats these families and children upon arrival to the United States. It critiques US complicity to the violence they are fleeing and discloses how national leadership shapes US immigration policies and practices, including the blatant documented violations against asylum seekers at the US–Mexico border. Most notably, it offers transparency on US immigration practices at the US–Mexico border which violate existing US and international laws that are intended to protect asylum seekers, including the current official practice of blocking bridges with “turnbacks” to prevent “inadmissibles” from applying for asylum in the United States. It explains protections mandated by US law for unaccompanied children who are in US custody, and discloses violations which keep these children detained excessive lengths of time in substandard for-profit facilities which are overseen by the government and funded by taxpayers. Boursier also deconstructs the complicated asylum process, including examining the credible fear for asylum procedure, showing how technical terms and language are used to justify injustice at the border.

Desperately Seeking Asylum offers hope for a new vision with alternative options and practical actions which assist migrants through humanitarian aid on both sides of the border. The witness for compassionate and responsible response by people of conscious becomes an antidote to injustice against asylum seekers. Instead of the current administration manipulating US laws to support its ulterior motives and political agenda, Boursier asks readers to hold US elected officials accountable to the same “Rule of Law” that the United States demands of refugees. Ultimately, Boursier suggests a spectrum of options for practical ways to make the political personal through public witness and civic engagement to transform the broken immigration process for refugees who are desperately seeking asylum.
Eye-Popping, Show-Stopping Libraries
Authors: Dahlgren Anders C. , Forrest Charles
Published: February 2024

Eye-Popping Show-Stopping Libraries starts out by recounting the beginning of the relationship between the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the American Library Association (ALA) to establish the Library Building awards and traces the development of the program over the following five decades. In the next seven chapters the authors have grouped selected award-winning libraries by big themes, to explore the evolution of service innovations and design trends; most of the selected case studies include exterior and interior photographs, as well as floor plans. The final chapter offers some thoughts on what a half-century of award-winning architecture can tell us about the future of library service and library design. In the afterword the authors review the initial round of seventeen award-winning libraries from 1963, to assess how the designs have held up over time, and to describe the current disposition of the building. Three appendixes offer a chronological list of award recipients, an alphabetical list of awardees by library, and an alphabetical list by architect. The fourth and final appendix is a chronological list of jury members.

This full-color, beautifully illustrated with 141 images book presents these exemplary libraries as an exploration of the evolution of library service and design. It examines the award-winning libraries by big themes to explore how service trends and design trends have evolved. Documentation of featured library buildings (including photographs and plans) is an important element.
Deliberately Divided
Authors: Segal Nancy L.
Published: February 2024

A 2022 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title

Takes the first in-depth look at the New York City adoption agency that separated twins and triplets in the 1960s, and the controversial and disturbing study that tracked the children’s development while never telling their adoptive parents that they were raising a “singleton twin.”

In the early 1960s, the head of a prominent New York City Child Development Center and a psychiatrist from Columbia University launched a study designed to track the development of twins and triplets given up for adoption and raised by different families. The controversial and disturbing catch? None of the adoptive parents had been told that they were raising a twin—the study’s investigators insisted that the separation be kept secret. Here, Nancy Segal reveals the inside stories of the agency that separated the twins, and the collaborating psychiatrists who, along with their cadre of colleagues, observed the twins until they turned twelve. This study, far outside the mainstream of scientific twin research, was not widely known to scholars or the general public until it caught the attention of documentary filmmakers whose recent films, Three Identical Strangers and The Twinning Reaction,left viewers shocked, angered, saddened and wanting to know more.

Interviews with colleagues, friends and family members of the agency’s psychiatric consultant and the study’s principal investigator, as well as a former agency administrator, research assistants, journalists, ethicists, attorneys, and—most importantly--the twins and their families who were unwitting participants in this controversial study, are riveting. Through records, letters and other documents, Segal further discloses the investigators’ attempts to engage other agencies in separating twins, their efforts to avoid media exposure, their worries over informed consent issues in the 1970s and the steps taken toward avoiding lawsuits while hoping to enjoy the fruits of publication. Segal's spellbinding stories of the twins’ separation, loss and reunion offers readers the behind-the-scenes details that, until now, have been lost to the archives of history.
THE EFFECT OF ANODE, HOT AND COLD CATHODE STRUCTURES USED IN MINIATURE X-RAY TUBES ON X-RAY OUTPUT USING MONTE CARLO SIMULATION
Authors: Barati Barat , Kaydani Masumeh , Farhadi Birgani Fariba , Zabihzadeh Mansour , Javad Tahmasebi Mohammad , Chegeni Nahid
Published: February 2024

This study aimed to investigate the use of carbon layers (cold cathode) as an alternative to tungsten metal (hot cathode) for electron production in miniature X-ray tubes in the field of electronic brachytherapy. The structural impact of these tubes on X-ray production was also analyzed. Using a Monte Carlo code, hemispherical-conical, hemispherical, and truncated-conical miniature X-ray tubes were simulated. Both cold and hot cathodes were utilized as electron sources to calculate the X-ray spectrum and dose in two directions. The results showed that the ratios of axial and transverse doses of spherical to cylindrical cold cathodes were respectively 5.4, 4.8, and 4.6, and 2.4, 2.2, and 1.9 in the hemispherical-conical, hemispherical, and truncated-conical miniature sources. In conclusion, the structure of the hemispherical-conical miniature X-ray tubes demonstrated better performance compared to the hemispherical and truncated-conical tubes. The different shapes of the cathode and anode in miniature X-ray tubes had a significant impact on the generation of output X-rays.
Psychological Recovery Camps: Intensive Integrative Group Psychotherapy
Authors: Roque López Susana
Published: February 2024

This one-week Group Psychotherapy Program is a multicomponent treatment for the resolution of traumatic memories (e.g., rape, sexual abuse, physical and emotional violence, etc.) for children and adolescents. It was designed and developed to support those children and adolescents who in general have not been able to develop the basic neural networks of feeling loved, cared for, and who often have attachment disorders. Children suffering from Adverse Child Experience (ACE), and also from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), may find their confidence in themselves and in humanity, disturbed, preventing them from pursuing their development with joy. In a recent controlled study, it was shown that this program significantly decreased symptoms related to PTSD and improved attention-related outcomes. Furthermore, the program leads to changes in deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) methylation at the genome level, and these modifications have been seen in genes whose biological processes are related to early childhood adversity-neural pathways. Data confirms the results of our previous uncontrolled studies using this multimodal program in children and adolescents with a history of sexual and physical abuse. In this chapter, we present the methodology of the program, the therapies, and techniques we use, as well as some authors who have inspired the intervention elements.
Treatment of paralytic eye motility disorders
Authors: Mravicic Ivana , Biscevic Alma , Ahmedbegović Pjano Melisa , Petrovska Ivona , Shumejko Anja , Ziga Nina
Published: February 2024

Paralytic strabismus is caused by paresis or paralysis of one or more extraocular muscles that are innervated by cranial nerve lll, IV and Vl. They are characterized by squinting angle that depends on the direction of the gaze and the fixating eye. Typically, the angle is greater in the field of affected muscle, and when the patient is fixing with the affected eye. While younger children in some cases can suppress double vision, older children and adults with acquired paralytic strabismus usually have diplopia, which they try to avoid by compensatory head posture. Some types of paralytic strabismus can be congenital but it is important to diagnose acquired paralytic strabismus that can be caused by some neurological or systemic disorders and requires further investigation. Treatment of the paralytic strabismus is challenging, and despite the multiple surgeries, results can be disappointing.
An Evaluation of Garnet – Clinopyroxene Geothermometer
Authors: Thomas Harel , Rana Haritabh
Published: February 2024

The garnet-clinopyroxene pair commonly found in upper amphibolite, granulite, and eclogite facies assemblage, as well as in garnet peridotites serves as a basic tool to estimate the equilibrium temperature for these metamorphic rocks. Several empirical and experimental calibrations for garnet-clinopyroxene thermometers have been proposed in the last four decades. Due to several calibrations for this pair, scholars often find difficulty in choosing the most optimum and valid thermometer. In the present study, eleven garnet-clinopyroxene thermometers formulated since 1972 have been evaluated to find the most valid thermometer checked on 89 sample data collated from the published global literature and processed through Gt-Cpx.Exe software. The authors used the relationship of LnKD versus the inverse of temperature and regression values. Out of the eleven geothermometer models, five models showing highest regression values with clustering of data at smaller ranges and less deviation for the collated data have been considered the best one: Raheim and Green (Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 48: 179–203, 1974); Mysen and Heier (Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 36: 73–94, 1972); Jun Lui (International Geology Review 40: 579–608, 1998); Ganguly and Saxena (Minerals Rocks 19: 1–291, 1987) and Ganguly (Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 43: 1021–1029, 1979).