bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Congenital talipes equino-varus
Authors: Creswell Joan E.
Published: February 2020

No abstract available.
Jubilee Congress July: Physiotherapy - Today's challenge
Authors: Office Editorial
Published: February 2020

No abstract available.
The prone board and it’s use in the treatment of cerebral palsy
Authors: Van der Velde M.
Published: February 2020

No abstract available.
Book Reviews
Authors: Office Editorial
Published: February 2020

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Inculturation of the Jesus Tradition
Authors: Snyder Graydon F
Published: February 2020

To understand the cult of the Virgin Mary is to understand the Christian relgion. The Virgin Mary is a ubiquitous but enigmatic presence in Christian history and culture. The tradition about Mary forms a vast and multi-layered aspect of Western history, culture and spirituality. It is not just in the Catholic tradition that Mary has become a particular focus of study and interest. Mary has also become a crucial interest for Christians outside this tradition (Protestant, Anglican) as a path to ecumenical understanding.

This book is intended as a reference book for the student or scholar seeking knowledge of the history and contemporary practice of the cult of the Virgin Mary. It provides new essays which give overviews of particular areas of study - both historical and thematic - together with texts from primary sources and important scholarly articles, some of which appear in English for the first time.

The volume is designed to be suitable for use as a course book at undergraduate and Masters levels. The result is astonishing and will open up whole new avenues for theological and spiritual enquiry. Mary: The Complete Resource will be essential for anyone who has a strong theological or devotional interest in Mary. But it will open the eyes of those who do not.
Research Methods for Early Childhood Education
Authors: Flewitt Rosie , Ang Lynn
Published: February 2020

Research Methods for Early Childhood Education takes an international perspective on research design, and illustrates how research methods are inextricably linked to cultural and theoretical understandings of early childhood, young children’s competences and the purposes of education.

The book offers a critical and reflective approach to established and innovative research methods in early childhood education, making links between diverse methodologies, methods and theory, with illustrative examples of research in practice. Each chapter addresses a specific methodological approach, linking the methodology to early childhood education with vignettes as examples of research practice in the global north, south, east and west, offering practical examples and critical thinking around new theoretical understandings of early childhood across geographical and cultural contexts.

The book critically examines:

- the role of the researcher

- conceptualisations of how research is undertaken;

- the often sensitive nature of conducting research with young children;

- how early childhood education is understood;

- how young children can be included as active research participants.

Throughout, the book emphasises ethical and methodological issues that arise from undertaking research in mono-cultural and cross-cultural contexts. Annotated further reading lists provide a selection of seminal and recent studies that have adopted each methodological approach
The Literature of Food
Authors: Humble Nicola
Published: February 2020

Why are so many literary texts preoccupied with food? The Literature of Food explores this question by looking at the continually shifting relationship between two sorts of foods: the real and the imagined. Focusing particularly on Britain and North America from the early 19th century to the present, it covers a wide range of issues including the politics of food, food as performance, and its intersections with gender, class, fear and disgust.

Combining the insights of food studies and literary analysis, Nicola Humble considers the multifarious ways in which food both works and plays within texts, and the variety of functions—ideological, mimetic, symbolic, structural, affective—which it serves.

Carefully designed and structured for use on the growing number of literature of food courses, it examines the food of modernism, post-modernism, the realist novel and children's literature, and asks what happens when we treat cook books as literary texts.

From food memoirs to the changing role of the servant, experimental cook books to the cannibalistic fears in infant picture books, The Literature of Food demonstrates that food is always richer and stranger than we think.
Food Studies
Authors: Zhen Willa
Published: February 2020

Traditional food studies textbooks tend to emphasize theoretical concepts and text-based approaches. Yet food is sensory, tactile, and experiential. Food Studies: A Hands-on Guide is the first book to provide a practical introduction to food studies. Offering a unique, innovative approach to learning and teaching, Willa Zhen presents creative hands-on activities that can easily be done in a traditional classroom – without the need for a student kitchen. Major theories and key concepts in food studies are covered in an engaging, tangible way, alongside topics such as food production, consumption, technology, identity and culture, and globalization.

A fantastic resource for supporting student engagement and learning, the book features:
practical activities, such as grinding grains to learn about the importance of food technology; working with restaurant menus to understand changes in food trends, tastes, and ingredients; writing food poetry; and many morepedagogical features such as learning objectives, discussion questions, suggested readings, and a glossarya companion website offering lesson plans, worksheets, and links to additional resources.

This is the perfect introduction for students of food studies, anthropology of food, food geography, food hospitality, sociology of food, food history, and gastronomy.
'Bajo los techos de París' (René Clair, 1930): la irrupción del sonido en la representación del espacio urbano parisino
Authors: Navarro Herrera Alba
Published: February 2020

René Clair emprende la filmación de su primera película no muda, Bajo los techos de París (Sous les toits de Paris, 1930), en pleno fenómeno de implantación de la tecnología sonora en el cine. El relato presentado por el cineasta muestra, a través de distintos lugares típicamente parisinos, cómo se desarrollan las relaciones humanas en un barrio popular. Este artículo aborda el estudio de los diferentes escenarios recreados en los sets de rodaje de Épinay y de las ingeniosas soluciones sonoras llevadas a cabo por el director en un periodo decisivo para la evolución del arte cinematográfico.
The Image of the Western Neighbor: The History of Poland in Tenth–Seventeenth Centuries in Russian History Textbooks
Authors: Khodnev Aleksandr
Published: February 2020

Marc Ferro stressed that the images from school history might become fixed in memory for the whole life. The history of Poland has a vital place in Russian school textbooks. Russia and Poland have been long-standing neighbors and their relations were not simple in the past. Poland was an important transmission channel of information and experience from Europe to Russia. The Poles played an important role in the construction of Russian identity as one of the key Others. However, the Poles were not considered in Russia as one hundred per cent representatives of the West, but rather as close western neighbors. The history of Poland is regarded as a process associated with the formation of the Russian state. The history of Poland in the sixteenth-seventeenth centuries appears in the textbooks only relating to foreign policy events which involved Russia. Some narratives of the textbooks emphasize that the development of the peoples of Eastern Europe led to a rivalry of Western and Eastern Christianity. The textbooks clearly have a bias towards the history of nations of Western Europe.
What History do Young Ukrainians Need Today? Reinterpretation of the Image of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in Contemporary Ukrainian Historiography and History Education
Authors: Verbytska Polina
Published: February 2020

The article aims at outlining the problems of reinterpretation of the image of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in contemporary Ukrainian historiography and history education within the broader context of the discussion on what history the young Ukrainians need today. The study is based on the historiography and contemporary history textbook analyses confronted with the results of the survey held among students and teachers from secondary schools of different regions of Ukraine.
The Effect of Computer-Assisted Educational Games on Teaching Grammar
Authors: Kayan Adil , Aydın İbrahim Seçkin
Published: February 2020

Discussions on how grammar should be taught have continued for decades. Previous studies have reported that today’s students called as Generation Z have shown negative attitudes toward grammar teaching with traditional methods and techniques, and that their academic achievements have failed to meet expectations. Not using methods and techniques that are consistent with the adopted philosophy of education hinders the success of this process. The study investigated the impact of computer-assisted instruction and correspondingly computer-assisted educational games on grammar academic achievement and attitudes toward grammar and Turkish course of students. In this study, a quasi-experimental design based on a quantitative study with a pretest-posttest nonequivalent group was applied. Participants of the study consisted of two classes of 6th grade students studying at a middle school. Computer-assisted educational games were designed and practiced in the experimental group within a 12-week period. For the control group, activities in the curriculum were followed during lessons. Results showed that grammar academic achievement of students between the experimental group in which computer-assisted educational games were practiced and the control group in which the existing curriculum was followed showed a significant difference in attitudes toward Turkish course and grammar on the behalf of the experimental group. Findings demonstrated that this kind of practice in teaching grammar made a significant difference on achievement and attitude of students. In addition, there was a positive, moderate and statistically significant relationship between attitudes toward grammar and Turkish course. Attitudes toward grammar of students determine attitudes toward Turkish course of students.
Blackness, Colorism, and Epidermalization of Inferiority in Zora Neale Hurston’s Color Struck: A Fanonian Reading of the Play
Authors: Mirmasoomi Mahshid , Nowrouzi Roshnavand Farshid
Published: February 2020

Ever since the first encounter between Columbus and Native Americans, the West has
embarked on a subtle process of “Otherizing” non-whites as a means to maintain its
hegemonic power over the subalternized groups. This strategy was also employed by the dominant whites in the United States, where a stereotypical representation of black slaves served as a justification for the institution of slavery. Through depicting blacks as irrational, lascivious, and eternally damned with a deviant pigmentation, the racist representational strategy turned into a useful instrument to subjugate African slaves. Under such circumstances, blacks, merely due to their different skin color, were barred from having any major contribution to the sociopolitical or cultural spheres. Frantz Fanon was one of the critics concerned with the psychological effects of racism on the colonized subject. He believed racis m would eventually cause an inferiority complex in black-skinned subjects who found themselves unable to effect any alteration in the discriminatory status quo; in other words, the white dominators would gradually compel blacks to internalize the negative stereotypes of their skin color which portrayed blackness as the symbol of vice and depravity. According to Fanon, this would finally bring about blacks‟ self-hatred and their efforts to behave like powerful whites, a process which he called epidermalization of inferiority. The process of epidermalization is conspicuous in African American community, where the degrees of blackness or whiteness have become the index of assigning or denying privileges, a hierarchical system which is called colorism. As a case study, Zora Neale Hurston‟s play Color Struck (1925) is analyzed in this paper to demonstrate the entrenched presence of coloris m and epidermalization of inferiority in African American community, all of which attest to the preponderance of white ideological force and the coercion of blacks into the internalization of stereotypes as a means of survival.
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and its influence on the State-Building Process in Azerbaijan
Authors: Suleymanli Savalan
Published: February 2020

The article deals with the impact of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict on the state-building
process of Azerbaijan and its influence on the security of the country and the whole region. It identifies that this conflict was the major obstacle in ensuring smooth functioning of state authorities in the initial period of the independence of Azerbaijan. It is mentioned that, nowadays, the state-building process are successfully carried out in Azerbaijan. However, deadlock in the solution of the conflict are the major source of threat and instability not only for Azerbaijan but also for the whole region. From this point of view, unless the solution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, it seems that this problem will keep its negative impact on the smooth state-building process in Azerbaijan.
Postgraduate Students’ Learning Styles in Electronic and Presence Training in Shiraz University of Medical Sciences
Authors: Shokrpoor Nasrin , Rezaee Rita , Nikseresht Shekoofeh
Published: February 2020

In learning, as a complex process, there is an interaction among the student’s motivation,
teacher, learning material and several other factors. Today, the traditional classroom
teaching is replaced with virtual environments where different issues about learning should be considered. The role of personal learning style is very important for learning process and outcome. This study aims at determining the students’ predominant learning style in elearning training and presence training. 80 postgraduate students studying at Shiraz University of Medicine Sciences were divided into two equal groups and trained in two distinct methods, presence training and e-learning. They filled a questionnaire based on Kolb's learning style. Most of the students in the e-learning group had converger learning style. Therefore, lecturers should use various teaching methods at universities to provide a learning opportunity for students to experience them.
The “Permission/Possibility/Ability” Modals in Malaysian English Textbooks: A Corpus-Based Analysis
Authors: Khojasteh Laleh , Shokrpour Nasrin
Published: February 2020

Malaysian learners are observed to be error-prone in terms of semantic functions of modal auxiliary verbs in English. ESL Malaysian learners’ challenges in terms of using modal auxiliary verbs suggest that there might be some inadequacies in the syllabus, which could have led to the problems encountered by these students. Thus, the semantic functions of four modal auxiliary verbs, can, could, may and might, used by and introduced to Malaysian learners in Forms 1–5 textbook corpus were the focus of this study. Apparently, the findings show that these textbooks offer a relatively one-sided picture, overemphasizing the minor semantic functions and overlooking the frequent functions used in the presentday English. It is also argued that although there are invaluable insights available in terms of modal auxiliary verb forms and their semantic functions in major corpus-based studies, this real-life language has not been well presented in Malaysian English language textbooks. The findings of this study contribute to the improvement of the pedagogical practices in the teaching of the modal system, and emphasize that the semantic functions of each core modal in the teaching materials should be given adequate importance.
Impact of Citizens' Economic Status on Policy Formulation and Implementation
Authors: Moitui Joash Ntenga
Published: February 2020

There are many factors that are considered in public policy implementation. This paper
seeks to explore the economic abilities of citizens influence on the formulation and
implementation of public policy. Behavioural economics has been used to explore
individuals behavioural antecedents especially in decision making. The paper explores this
concept coupled with how economic ability and behavior of citizens, particularly the
middle class can play in enlightening policymakers. The general purpose of the paper will
be to find out how these factors influence the making and execution of policy. It uses
Thomas Humphrey Marshall social concept to argument, critique and analyze how
policymakers react to the nature of the society.
The Effect of Peer-feedback on EFL Medical Students’ Writing Performance
Authors: Afrasiabi Maedeh , Khojasteh Laleh
Published: February 2020

The current article investigates the effect of peer-feedback on writing performance of the
Medical Students of Shiraz University. This research is experimental and fifty nine students
both male and female participated in this study. The population included the medical
students of Shiraz University.The researcher utilized convenient sampling to choose the
participants. They were also divided to two groups. The treatment group which consist of
30 students and the control group which were 29 students. The researcher used writing
composition in order to gather the data required for the writing performance and
questionnaire based on the Likerd scale for the writing self-efficacy. The data gathered in a
Pretest-Treatment-Posttest Design. The results indicate that there is a positive relationship
betweenpeer-feedback and the improvement of the writing performance.
Iranian EFL Teachers’ Challenges with the New ELT Program after the Reform: From Dream to Reality
Authors: Safari Parvin , Sahragard Rahman
Published: February 2020

There is no doubt concerning the interdependence of educational progress with human
development, socio-economic growth, greater opportunities, welfare, and political stability. Hence,for further development and growth of education,transformations and reforms in curriculum are required to reflect the latest changes in theories and praxis of the modern world (Fterniati, 2006). In Iran, due to the inadequacy of the preceding ELT education policies in developing students’ communicative skills and capabilities, a reform occurred in the ELT program as new communicative based textbooks entitled as “English for School Series” and CLT pedagogywere introduced into the context of public schools. However, implementation of the innovative curriculum was associated with different feedback from English teachers. This qualitative study is, indeed, an attempt to explore concerns, problems, and constraints that EFL teachers experienced through the revolutionary reform of the ELT education. Thus, based on stratified purposive sampling, the researchers selected 35male and female teachers of English at grades one and two of junior high schools from both urban and rural regions of Tehran, Shiraz, and Yazd, Iran.The researchers usedtranscription and codification of data gathered through semi-structured interview to find the emergent themes concerning teachers’ challenges and problems in Iran. The findings also indicated that if the new English language reform and policy turn out to be successful at the national level, the government is necessarily required to take actions towards elimination of the potential impediments which block the materialization of the new curriculum.
Othello, “Dull Moor” of Cyprus: Reading Racial Trauma and War Trauma
Authors: Ramazani Abolfazl , Fazlzadeh Naghmeh
Published: February 2020

In 1980, American Psychiatrists Association announced that trauma is a mental disorder
under the term of PTSD. By that time, trauma became a popular field of study for the
literary scholars specially literary critics such as Cathy Caruth, as it offered new insights
into traditional literary criticism. The increase of psychological and physical violence all
over the world, in the last twenty years has made trauma and witness inevitable realities of life. The evident role of “testimony” and “talking cure” had already been demonstrated by scholars such as Sigmund Freud; but then it has become clear that literature can reflect and even cure the unspeakable pains of trauma victims. This article is an attempt to show that Shakespeare‟s Othello is affected by different sorts of unresolved traumas such as racial and war traumas. The writers of this paper have tried to show that the unresolved traumas of a tragic hero can cause tragic ends and affect other characters in the play. The findings of this article might bring about a change in the way we discover and treat the trauma victims. The main conclusion which can be drawn from this research is that not being appropriately heard and diagnosed, Othello, a representative of real racial trauma victims, is bewildered in the clash of knowing and not knowing, between the knowledge of a past event and the inability to understand its frequent reenactments; and this leads to his tragic end.
Revisiting Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka through Media and Literature
Authors: Arul Archana , Krishnaswami Sridhar
Published: February 2020

The brutal twenty six year old ethnic strife in Sri Lanka came to a painful end in May 2009.
Five years down the line questions are still being raised on what precisely it was that tore
apart the Island Nation—a crisis of identity, lack of assimilation of the so-called migrants,
majoritarianism or simply a nation so engrossed in cultural supremacy that it could not care for its minorities? Worse of all, the political leadership in Sri Lanka seems to be in a denial concerning what took place towards the end of the conflict, hence making it appear as one of the classic debates between ‗terrorists‘ and ‗freedom fighters‘. This paper will make the case that media exposure on the issue of genuine national reconciliation of NGOs and disasporic literature has only toughened the stance of the powers-that-be in that Island Nation making genuine national reconciliation a distant dream.
Industry drug development portfolio forecasting: productivity, risk, innovation, sustainability
Authors: Shnaydman Vladimir
Published: February 2020

Multiple factors may affect industry performance, risk, innovation and sustainability in coming years such as long-term economic trends, patents expiration, demographic shifts, and regulatory issues.

 

Currently available industry-wide prediction frameworks have limited capabilities. They are based on: (1) analysts’ consensus; (2) extrapolation of current trends; (3) financial performance of big pharma only; (4) empirical formulas, etc. Therefore, the need of robust forecasting methodology based on simulation modeling and covering the entire industry portfolio predictions could not be underestimated.

 

The simulation model utilizes available data about each drug/indication in the industry R&D pipeline, and transforms it using predictive simulation algorithms into a set of metrics characterizing future industry performance. 

 

Industry-wide portfolio simulation model was developed to address short- and long-term portfolio productivity forecasting challenges. The model is drug–centric, it simulates drug development workflow process. The model also incorporates multiple business rules related to drugs interdependence.

 

The model predicted 2016 drop in NME approvals based on 2014 data. Other modeling experiments include analysis of industry sustainability and innovation strategy, impact of approval rates and likelihood on the variations of clinical trials cycle time, probabilities of success, and FDA approval cycle time.
The importance of heterogeneity in large-scale replications
Authors: Goldberg Matthew H. , van der Linden Sander
Published: February 2020

In a large-scale replication effort, Klein et al. (2018, https://doi.org/10.1177/2515245918810225) investigate the variation in replicability and effect size across many different samples and settings. The authors concluded that, for any given effect being studied, heterogeneity across samples and settings does not explain failures to replicate. In the current commentary, we argue that the heterogeneity observed indeed has implications for replication failures, as well as for statistical power and theory development. We argue that psychological scientific research questions should be contextualized—considering how historical, political, or cultural circumstances might affect study results. We discuss how a perspectivist approach to psychological science is a fruitful way for designing research that aims to explain effect size heterogeneity.
The Horror of the Real: Filmic Form, The Century, and Fritz Lang's M
Authors: Gavaris Peter
Published: February 2020

It is not surprising that film became the dominant art form of the twentieth century. The promise of a medium that could capture life in motion proved exciting, though soon after its conception, debates cropped up pitting the merits of realism against those of expressionism. Should a medium predicated on recording life adopt expressionistic sensibilities? Writing on the burgeoning cinema, Walter Benjamin seemed to imply that film carried with it a distinctly political responsibility to show life as it really is. In attempting to rethink this argument, I argue for the political potential of an expressionistic cinema, as understood by considering the theoretical underpinnings of Alain Badiou’s The Century (2008) when read in relation to Fritz Lang’s M (1931)—a film that embodies Badiou’s musings on the twentieth century’s aesthetic ideals and violent tendencies. Badiou writes that “the torment of contemporary art” is that it is situated at a crossroads between “romantic pathos, on the one hand, and a nihilistic iconoclasm” on the other: a knowing admission that the Real can never be truly represented, and an oppositional desire to convey it anyways. M knowingly exposes these aesthetic contradictions at the heart of the filmic medium by leaning into its own artificiality, and, in doing so, it prophetically exposes the thinking behind a growingly fascist German state in the 1930s. By the end of my paper, I arrive at the conclusion that the violence found in both twentieth century aesthetics and politics came about as the result of a similarly idealistic principle.
EFECTIVENESS OF ANCHORS FOR STRUCTURAL RETROFITTING WITH COMPOSITE MATERIALS OF POLYMERIC AND CEMENTITIOUS MATRICES
Authors: VILLANUEVA LLAURADO PAULA , CORTEZ FLORES ADRIANA , FERNANDEZ GOMEZ JAIME
Published: February 2020

Structural retrofitting of RC and masonry members with composite materials has achieved great popularity in recent years. Among these systems, a distinction can be made between composite materials with polymeric (FRP) and cementitious (FRCM) matrices; the former are more broadly employed, although the latter are generally acknowledged in the field of historic constructions, especially in brick masonry. Premature debonding has been pointed out as a critical failure mode in FRP systems, leading to the development of a range of anchorage techniques to delay or prevent debonding. FRCM, suffers from a different problem, which is its weak interaction fibers-matrix; for that reason, anchorage techniques originally conceived for FRP have been investigated with the aim of enhancing the performance of fibers-mortar interface in FRCM reinforcements. This paper collects main research papers for FRP and FRCM systems, and discusses the role of anchors depending on the matrix of the reinforcement.

Keywords Structural retrofitting, FRP, FRCM, Anchorage techniques, failure mode
Migrations in the Mediterranean Between Protection of Human Rights and Border Control. An Italian Perspective
Authors: Cataldi Giuseppe
Published: February 2020

Migration through the Mediterranean has to be considered nowadays no more as an emergency. The first urgency is always to save lives at sea, and the Italian Mare Nostrum Operation has been a good example, not followed by EU choices. At the moment border surveillance and the fight against trafficking and smuggling of migrants seem to be the priorities in EU policy and action. The EU Dublin System is now facing a huge crisis and the new models, in particular the Statement agreed with Turkey, do not convince from a legal point of view, mainly because refugees deserve a special attention, based on the non-refoulement principle. The time has come to exit the logic of emergency and formulate a lasting policy to manage migrations, implementing Lisbon Treaty and CFR principles based on solidarity and respect of human rights, as well as on true cooperation among States.
Walter Murch et l’Open Media Framework (OMF) : penser l’interopérabilité pour une ambiguïté fructueuse
Authors: Gervais Simon
Published: February 2020

Walter Murch est l’un des rares monteurs de cinéma américain qui pratique le montage image et le montage sonore. Parce que sa pensée du montage fait chevaucher les continuums visuel et sonore, le rapport de Walter Murch au montage s’apparente à l’interopérabilité. Cet article explore d’abord la notion d’interopérabilité dans le contexte du cinéma en observant le format de fichier Open Media Framework Interchange (OMF). Conçue dans les années 1990, cette innovation est un protocole technique qui ouvre des canaux de communication entre les logiciels de montage image et sonore. Cet article soulève ensuite les conséquences des conceptions pratiques et philosophiques de l’OMF sur les pratiques, au quotidien, du montage image et sonore, pour les faire résonner avec la « pensée-montage » de Murch. Plus que tout, il cherche à décrire les réels enjeux d’une pratique interopérable du montage.
Real Time Zidane
Authors: Marchessault Janine
Published: February 2020

While television editing was developed on the basis of switching between cameras, video editing was from the start difficult and cumbersome, and as such editing was often limited to linear blocky assemblage as opposed to cinematic montage and continuity editing. But what video did offer (contra film’s re-presentation) and what early video art deconstructed was the illusion of immediacy,durée, transmission and “real time.” This article will consider the construction of “real time” (an expression that comes from informatics, meaning time mediated through technology) in the single channel version ofZidane: A 21stCentury Portraitby Douglas Gordon and Phillip Parreno. In many ways, this work can be seen as a manifestation or culmination of early video art’s critique of simultaneity, which Gordon and Parreno merge with television’s real time ideologies.Zidanewas shot with seventeen different cameras fixed on one player. These real time views were mixed by the artists like a piece of music and a performance to create a twenty-first-century portrait of mediation.
Un essai d’éthique et de pratique politique : San Michele aveva un gallo de Paolo et Vittorio Taviani
Authors: Marini Alessandro
Published: February 2020

Cet article s’intéresse au film San Michele aveva un gallo de Paolo et Vittorio Taviani (1972), une adaptation du récit Le divin et l’humain de Tolstoï (1906). On retrouve au centre de la réflexion des deux oeuvres un discours sur la transformation possible de la société dans laquelle elles se situent. Dans le film, l’histoire de Giulio Manieri, un anarchiste internationaliste du xixe siècle, fait allusion de façon allégorique au climat contemporain – les luttes populaires de la fin des années 1960 – et exprime le processus de marginalisation des instances révolutionnaires qui le caractérisèrent. Le parcours tragique de Giulio – révolution, emprisonnement et suicide – représente ainsi une sorte d’épitaphe sur la fin des espoirs de transformation de la société italienne suscités par la Résistance et désormais définitivement perdus. Cet article a pour but de mettre en évidence la façon dont le scénario, la construction de l’espace scénique et les références extratextuelles contribuent à donner forme à un apologue sociopolitique dépourvu d’illusions.
Analysis of Level and Extent of Anthropogenic Activities in and Around Protected Areas (PAs): Case of Baturiya Wetlands, Jigawa State Nigeria
Authors: Hadejia Hadiza Z. , Gambo Jibrin , Zakari Binta , Yusuf Yusuf A. , Muhammad Ibrahim L.
Published: February 2020

Wetlands are transitional points of habitats that are normally situated between a water body, vegetation cover and dry land. Human activities and climate change influence, the net loss of natural features in global wetlands. However, in the earlier 1990s, people began to understand the benefit of wetlands. The main objective of this study was to evaluate the level of anthropogenic activity in and around Baturiya wetlands and also to provide information on the extent of exploitation on Baturiya wetland. A questionnaire was designed and administered according to the objectives of the study. The result shows that a majority of the anthropogenic activity was conducted by men within the age range of 21-50 years. About 92.5% of the respondents are aware of the effect of the serial disturbances on vegetation resources. The exploitation was mainly for the massive use of energy, income generation, medicinal use and constructional materials. There is a strong need from the management and stakeholders to formulate a deliberate strategy for the provision of an alternative source of energy, health facilities, and a systematic awareness through training to the local communities around the Protected Areas (PAs) on wetland values, sustainable use of wetland resources and conservation strategies.
Neck Circumference as a Screening Tool for Overweight and Obesity in Children
Authors: Nimawat Amit Kumar , Gupta Virendra Kumar , Natani Bhagwan Sahai , Verma Chaman Ram
Published: February 2020

Introduction: Obesity is an emerging epidemic worldwide causing serious public health concern. The upper part of the body as Neck circumference (NC) can be used as a simple and time saving screening tool to evaluate it.

Materials and Methods: From January 2018 to June 2019, this school-based prospective observational study was conducted in schools of rural and urban areas near Jaipur taking 1000 children between age group of 6 to14 years. Children with conditions likely to interfere with neck circumference measurement were excluded. All anthropometric measurements were taken with standard techniques, and children were divided as normal, overweight or obese.

Results: Out of 1000 subjects, 364 males and 428 females were normal weight, 44 males and 68 females were overweight and 41 males and 19 females were found obese.

Intra group comparison of neck circumference in male & females showed significant correlation between normal, overweight & obese children. There was a good positive correlation between BMI and NC for all children.

Conclusion: Neck circumference can be used with great reliability to screen overweight and obesity in children.
Study of RL-Connectedness and RL-Compactness
Authors: Wijerathne J. M. U. D. , Elango P.
Published: February 2020

In this paper, we introduce a new kind of locally closed sets called regular locally closed sets (brie y RL-closed sets) in a topological space which are weaker than the locally closed sets. Regular locally continuous maps and regular locally irresolute maps are also introduced and studied some of their properties. Finally, we introduce the concept of regular locally connectedness and regular locally compactness on a topological space using the RL-closed sets.
CAMPUS’ INFORMAL LEARNING SPACES FOR READING ACTIVITIES AND THEIR RELATION TO UNDERGRADUATES’ RESPONSES
Authors: Tampubolon Angela Christysonia , Kusuma Hanson E
Published: February 2020

Potential of informal learning spaces (ILS) in promoting reading activities are one of a theme of space that can be explored in higher education. This explanatory study was aimed at identifying ILS at selected university which preferred by students as reading space and their relation to students’ responses. Students tend to choose library ILS but non-library ILS also have potential in supporting the responses to be achieved. Students were found to have better comprehension, a good mood, and to read longer in library ILS. Meanwhile, students found it easier to pay attention and felt an increased desire to engage in discussions in non-library ILS, and tended to visit these more often. At this case study, library ILS tends to be used for individual activities, while non-library ILS are used for collaborative or group activities. Adapting function and type of space between ILS categories can be part of efforts to create learning engagement and to support both individual and collaborative work.
PUMICE LAYER: A SOLUTION TO DIMINISH THERMAL ON HORIZONTAL LEFTOVER PLACE IN ROOFTOP
Authors: Mintorogo Danny Santoso , Widigdo Wanda , Juniwati Anik
Published: February 2020

There are many ways to solve thermal on buildings, such as the installation of horizontal and vertical sun-shading devices on four-direction facades. However, rooftops are often ignored. In low-rise to high-rise buildings’ rooftop, there are leftover places exposed to solar heat radiation all day. Some rooftop places are equipped with polymer thermal roof insulation, and some are even without outer thermal insulation. The research aims to find a solution to diminish the horizontal thermal radiation by using eco-friendly material, pumice, as an outer thermal insulation. Exploiting method was used on one roof model as a conventional rooftop (without outer insulation), and another as a modified rooftop model covered with pumice. Couple HOBO data logger U12-012 temperature sensors were used to measure rooftop surface temperatures and room model temperatures. Results show that the thermal radiation were blocked efficiently: 26oC on pumice covered rooftop. It saved 8.4oC room temperature.
Editorial
Authors: O'Connor John , Woodard Wiremu
Published: February 2020

Korihi te manu The bird singsTākiri mai i te ata The morning has dawnedKaao, ka ao, ka awatea The day has brokenTihei Mauri Ora! Behold, there is life!
Tūhono Māori: Promoting Secure Attachments for Indigenous Māori Children. A Conceptual Paper
Authors: Mikahere-Hall Alayne
Published: February 2020

Tūhono Māori is a Kaupapa Māori research project that seeks to contribute to the healing and success of vulnerable Māori children and their families. This paper is the first of two papers presented in this issue related to the Tūhono Māori research project. The Tūhono Māori study investigates traditional and contemporary notions of secure whānau attachment that promote tamariki security and wellbeing. Tūhono Māori has a broad aim to enable improved child welfare, practitioner, agency, and whānau (family), hapū (extended family), and iwi (collective kin group) responses to the needs of indigenous Māori children and their whānau. This paper presents an overview of the prevailing context, intersecting spaces and conceptual ideas inherent within systems in New Zealand, and the impact these have had on Māori security. The paper argues for alternative systems within the New Zealandcontext to enable conditions which facilitate emotional security for Māori children andtheir whanau.
Tūhono Māori: A Research Study of Attachment from an Indigenous Māori Perspective
Authors: Mikahere-Hall Alayne
Published: February 2020

Tūhono Māori is a qualitative research project that engages with Indigenous Kaupapa Māori methodology and methods. The purpose is to investigate a uniquely Māori approach for understanding the nature in which healthy whānau (family) relationships are fostered within a Māori social system. The research seeks to advance what we understand about healthy attachments through an Indigenous Māori lens, exploring traditional and contemporary notions of attachment in which healthy emotional bonds are fostered and secure whānau attachments promoted. The aim of this research is to develop Māori theory that will shape trauma-informed interventions for Māori children and their whānau. The study is intended to address a knowledge gap in which tūhono (attach/bond) and related concepts such as tūhonotanga (attachment/connectedness) are proposed as a contemporary Māori notion of attachment. This paper discusses the methodology and methods employed in the Tūhono Māori research project.
Treatment with OUD agonists lowers risk of OD death by 80% compared to psychosocial treatment
Authors: Knopf Alison
Published: February 2020

Patients treated with methadone or buprenorphine have an 80% lower risk of dying from overdose compared to patients in treatment without medications, according to a study published online Feb. 25 in Addiction.
Advanced Manufacturing of Patient‐Specific Occluders for the Left Atrial Appendage with Minimally Invasive Delivery
Authors: Alaie Seyedhamidreza , Robinson Sanlin S. , Amiri Moghadam Amir Ali , Augé Jordyn , Caprio Alexandre , Kolli Kranthi , Al'Aref Subhi J. , Min James K. , Mosadegh Bobak , Dunham Simon
Published: February 2020

A novel method for the rapid prototyping of personalized inflatable left atrial appendage occluders, suitable for minimally invasive delivery, is demonstrated. The method allows for the design, fabrication, and quantitative testing of implants based on an individual's computed tomography (CT) scan. The performance of a left atrial appendage occluder by characterizing its ability to anchor, prevent leaks, and not obstruct the left atrium is reported on. The design of the occluder by varying features such as size, inflation fluids, and surface patterns is optimized. The implant, and its delivery via a minimally invasive catheter, is demonstrated in a 3D‐printed left atrial model. Herein, the way for leveraging advanced manufacturing and imaging technologies for the development of personalized intracardiac implants for transcatheter delivery is described.
High‐Performance, Long‐Life, Rechargeable Li–CO2 Batteries based on a 3D Holey Graphene Cathode Implanted with Single Iron Atoms
Authors: Hu Chuangang , Gong Lele , Xiao Ying , Yuan Yifei , Bedford Nicholas M. , Xia Zhenhai , Ma Lu , Wu Tianpin , Lin Yi , Connell John W. , Shahbazian‐Yassar Reza , Lu Jun , Amine Khalil , Dai Liming
Published: February 2020

A highly efficient cathode catalyst for rechargeable Li–CO2 batteries is successfully synthesized by implanting single iron atoms into 3D porous carbon architectures, consisting of interconnected N,S‐codoped holey graphene (HG) sheets. The unique porous 3D hierarchical architecture of the catalyst with a large surface area and sufficient space within the interconnected HG framework can not only facilitate electron transport and CO2/Li+ diffusion, but also allow for a high uptake of Li2CO3 to ensure a high capacity. Consequently, the resultant rechargeable Li–CO2 batteries exhibit a low potential gap of ≈1.17 V at 100 mA g−1 and can be repeatedly charged and discharged for over 200 cycles with a cut‐off capacity of 1000 mAh g−1 at a high current density of 1 A g−1. Density functional theory calculations are performed and the observed appealing catalytic performance is correlated with the hierarchical structure of the carbon catalyst. This work provides an effective approach to the development of highly efficient cathode catalysts for metal–CO2 batteries and beyond.
Supramolecular Organic Frameworks with Controllable Shape and Aggregation‐Induced Emission for Tunable Luminescent Materials through Aqueous Host–Guest Complexation
Authors: Li Yawen , Qin Chunyan , Li Qingfang , Wang Pinpin , Miao Xiaran , Jin Huilin , Ao Wantong , Cao Liping
Published: February 2020

Here, a series of shape‐controllable and fluorescent supramolecular organic frameworks (SOFs) exhibiting aggregation‐induced emission (AIE) are reported as a new kind of tunable luminescent material, constructed hierarchically from fluorescent guests (1–5) and cucurbit[8]uril (CB[8]) through homo/hetero host–guest complexation in water. These SOFs can further form regular supramolecular cuboids via a hierarchical assembly process in the solid state. Interestingly, the emission of hetero‐SOFs systems exhibiting AIE, which are a combination of two or three SOFs with two complementary colors (i.e., yellow and blue) or three primary RGB colors (red, green, and blue) through the hetero host–guest complexation between CB[8] and two pyridinium rings of different guests, can be easily tuned by adjusting the excitation wavelength and guests ratios, thereby achieving a wide‐color tunability (≈64% sRGB area) and white‐light emission (0.31, 0.34) in the solution state. This study therefore provides insight into the fabrication of tunable luminescent materials based on SOFs with controllable shapes and AIE properties as fluorescent platforms, and may facilitate the further design and synthesis of tunable luminescent materials and other fluorescent supramolecular systems based on host–guest complexation both in the solution and solid states.
Morphological (and not anatomical or reproductive) features define early vascular plant phylogenetic relationships
Authors: Niklas Karl J. , Crepet William L.
Published: February 2020

Premise

Perhaps the most rapid period of vascular plant evolution occurred during the Silurian–Devonian time interval. Yet, few quantitative analyses have established the extent to which anatomical, morphological, or reproductive features contributed to this episode of tracheophyte diversification.

Methods

Phylogenetic analyses were performed using a newly revised matrix of 54 characters (with 158 character states) of 37 of the best‐preserved Paleozoic (predominantly Devonian) plants. Equisetum was included to determine whether it aligns with fossil sphenopsids or taxa collectively considered “ferns”. The topology of the 54‐character consensus tree was then compared to the topologies generated using only reproductive features (18 characters; 47 character states), only anatomical features (14 characters; 54 character states), only morphological features (22 characters; 57 character states), and the three pairwise combinations (e.g., anatomical and morphological characters).

Results

The new 54‐character tree topology continued to identify a trimerophyte‐euphyllophyte clade and a zosterophyllophyte‐lycophyte clade emerging from a Cooksonia‐rhyniophyte plexus. Equisetum aligned with fossil sphenopsids rather than fern‐like fossil taxa. Reproductive characters or anatomical characters analyzed in isolation resulted in nearly complete polytomy. Among the various permutations of the three categories, anatomical and morphological characters when combined provided the best restoration of the 54‐character tree topology.

Conclusions

The phylogenetic relationships among the canonical fossil taxa used in this analysis predominantly reflect morphological trends. Reproductive and anatomical features taken in isolation appear to be evolutionarily conservative characters, i.e., natural selection “sees” the external phenotype.