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That Long Distance Feeling: Perverts, Politics and Prozac
Authors: Pizanias Caterina
Published: June 2023

On November 8, 1997, Kiss & Tell – the lesbian collaborative trio of Susan Stewart, Lizard Jones and Persimmon Blackbridge, with music by Emily Faryna – performed That Long Distance Feeling to a packed house at Vancouver’s Roundhouse Community Centre. The stage was sparsely furnished – just a bed, some chairs, a ladder. Throughout the performance, slide and video images were projected of ripe fruit, lush vegetables, bright flowers, graffiti, carnival scenes, women swimming and loving, accompanied by sounds of the ocean, rain and street sounds. The projected images were “performed” by resonating another narrative – a longing to connect to a wider world – against the “live” narrative spoken in the multiple and at times fragmented voices of lover, mother, activist, patient, artist. Kiss & Tell’s combined use of performance, video, and photography allows them to best reveal the systems of signification within which sex, gender, race and wellness/illness are performed.
An Audience of Trees: R. Murray Schafer’s The Princess of the Stars
Authors: Adams Stephen
Published: June 2023

The blur between sleeping and waking, early, early morning. Mist rising from the lake. But it is real mist, not from a smoke machine, and a real lake. It is really five o’clock in the morning, and, having been bussed over a rugged logging road for forty minutes, I am seated on a rude plank bench, haunch to haunch with strangers, my feet almost touching the water – since I’m in the front row – the rest of the two hundred or so audience seated improbably behind me.
The Way to Inexpressible Island
Authors: Young David
Published: June 2023

This article is excerpted from David Young’s talk to a Creative Arts Seminar, “Document and Fiction,” at Glendon College in January 1997, when Inexpressible Island was still in process. The seminar was hosted by Michael Ondaatje. Later in 1997, Inexpressible Island had both workshop and full productions by Necessary Angel Theatre Company, directed by Richard Rose. The play was remounted at Canadian Stage in October 1998. It is slated for production in Chemnitz, Germany, and has recently been translated into French by André Ricard. The editors wish to acknowledge the assistance of Cynthia Sartor and of Glendon College in transcribing the seminar tapes.
Kicked
Authors: Healey Michael
Published: June 2023

Kicked was first produced at the Theatre Centre’s Free-4-All Festival in January 1993. Special thanks to the Theatre Centre for its continued support of this show. It was subsequently produced by The Hugh Bris Co. at the Toronto Fringe Festival in July 1996, stage managed by Laura Astwood; at Tarragon Theatre Extra Space by The Hugh Bris Co., 16 to 28 September 1997, with lighting designed by Bonnie Beecher; at the Artrage Festival in Perth, Australia, 8 to 19 October 1997; at the Uno Festival, Victoria, B.C., 26 to 29 March 1998; at the Blyth Festival in August of 1998; in London, Ontario, at the Grand Theatre in October 1998; and in Ottawa at the Great Canadian Theatre Company in March 1999. A television version was created by Sleeping Giant Productions and shown on Bravo! as part of its Spoken Art Series. Brian Quirt was director and dramaturg for all productions.
Don Carlos, by Friedrich Schiller; The Misanthrope
Authors: Molière  , Lane Harry
Published: June 2023

The arrival in 1998 of Toronto’s new theatre company Soulpepper was cause for rejoicing if only because of its wonderfully clear, articulate and passionately committed production of Schiller’s Don Carlos. As many reviewers noted, the company made Schiller’s 200-year-old drama feel like a very contemporary play. This contemporary feeling evidently owed much to Robert David MacDonald’s remarkably lucid translation, made in 1995 for the Glasgow Citizens Theatre, but also apparently resulted from rehearsal processes in which clarity of thinking and articulation of ideas were paramount. Don Carlos was staged in the round at the Du Maurier Theatre at Harbourfront Centre, in repertory with Molière’s The Misanthrope, for six weeks in July and August. Both were directed by Robin Phillips, who reportedly worked fifteen-hour days (perhaps nothing new for Robin Phillips) in order to direct both productions while also running the company’s nine-week workshop for young actors. While Soulpepper’s Misanthrope was considerably less ambitious and less distinguished, largely because of a translation that fitted poorly with the production, it signalled the company’s potential for important future work in comedy. Above all, Soulpepper’s inaugural success more than justified the attempt by a group of actors, led by Diana Leblanc, Diego Matamoros, Nancy Palk and Albert Schultz, to hire a guest director, designers, actors and technicians to present a season of “classics” in downtown Toronto, within two hours’ drive of the Shaw and Stratford Festivals. The company raised two-thirds of its $550,000 budget from public and private donations, many of them from the theatre community, and the rest from box-office revenues and finished the season far enough into the black to guarantee its continued activity in 1999–2000.
The Process Issue
Authors: Shand Skip , Knowles Ric
Published: June 2023

Since when has process not been an issue? In 1982, Alan Filewod published in CTR 34 an article on collective creation subtitled “Process, Politics, and Poetics.” In it he looked at the political motivations and consequences of processual choices in the theatre, noting that collective creation, in most cultures, was necessarily a political rather than an exclusively aesthetic or practical choice. At a time when process was the issue, and the medium was the message, Filewod invaluably focused our attention on the fact that theatrical process is never neutral, never without material causes or consequences.
Blackface: Thoughts on Racial Masquerade
Authors: Breon Robin
Published: June 2023

The image of the entertainer in blackface is one that is central to the iconography of North American popular culture. From the early days of nineteenth-century minstrel shows, through vaudeville and burlesque to countless films featuring Al Jolson, Eddie Cantor, Bing Crosby and numerous others, the imitations and parodies of blackface are a permanent fixture on our cultural landscape. Stage presentation was, of course, the origin of blackface, and curiously, it is the stage to which it has recently returned – or not returned as the case may be. Over the past few years, the creators of several productions playing in Toronto have had to choose whether “to do” or “not to do” blackface. Their answers have been as different as black and white.
The Critic that Roared: Gaetan Charlebois Talks Back
Authors: Hays Matthew
Published: June 2023

For eight years, Gaetan Charlebois has gained a reputation in Montreal’s theatre community as one of the most flamboyant and caustic critics in the city. His reviews generally fall into one of two categories: the rave or the slam.
Work and Play: Why Walls Matter
Authors: Mckinnie Michael
Published: June 2023

Usually when I take my seat for a performance I am handed a program by an usher. Before the show begins I scan the list of names and note how each person contributed to what I’m about to see. Sometimes I know the names and sometimes I don’t, but there is a fairly consistent set of occupations listed: technicians, actors, directors, production assistants, stage managers, designers and so on. Even if the people who produce the event are unfamiliar, their jobs usually aren’t. Programs are useful because they are a record and reminder that people have worked together to create what I am about to see. Programs document the labour process that made taking my seat possible. A central condition of theatre is performance labour, and the program provides an account of how that labour has been organized into a productive theatrical economy.
Running: To Their Hearts as Their Own
Authors: Heather Jane
Published: June 2023

In December 1994 I was commissioned by two locals of cupe1 to write and direct a play about privatization and its effect on their membership and on public services. Ralph Klein had been in power in Alberta for just over a year. Privatization of health care, schools, social services and all public services was very high on the agenda, but first the public sector had to be dismantled to “prove” it was inefficient. Five per cent wage cut to all government workers, thousands laid off, people on welfare given one-way tickets to bc, cuts to seniors, kindergarten funding cut in half, tuition hikes – the list seemed endless. There was a debt, you see, and a deficit, and it was the fault of those lazy uncompetitive unionized public service workers. Before Linda Mcquaig and Kevin Taft blew that piece of nonsense out of the water, everybody but me and six of my friends seemed to buy it. Oh, there was resistance. Protests, marches, newspaper articles, letters to the editor. A weak Liberal opposition did some whining, and the ndp (with its two seats in the Leg) screamed its puny head off. But everybody’s job was under threat, and it’s hard to think about your neighbour’s problems when you’re running in a blind panic from an earthquake that just hit her house. It was a foul, brutal time for anyone with a modicum of social conscience. The call from the union was the lone bright spot in a series of dark days.
Running: Our Lives & Struggles on Stage
Authors: Plawiuk Eugene
Published: June 2023

“The theory of naturalism, in fiction and drama, is then a conscious presentation of human character and action within a natural and social environment. It is a specific culmination of a long tendency of bourgeois theory and practice. It only ceases to be bourgeois (and then, strictly, ceases to be naturalism) when, as in Marxist theory, action is seen not only within the environment but as itself, within certain limits and pressures, producing an environment.”
Jerzy Grotowski 1933-1999
Authors: Feldman Peter
Published: June 2023

Jerzy Grotowski died on 14 January 1999. His influence, better to say his impact, upon experimental theatre practitioners is inestimable. When he first became known in the mid-1960s it was as the director of the Polish Theatre Laboratory, which already had gone through a few developmental phases (as had he). Those were the days when exceptional young directors were taken up as gurus, and Grotowski rose to the occasion, although he was careful to say, “I am not a one-man band.” He was more than a guru; his reception – outside Poland, anyhow – was messianic. His company, which I once described as seeming like a chamber music group in rippling Polish, had by then already achieved an astounding vocal and physical expressiveness. In their productions they stunned us with their originality, their intensity, their commitment, their austerity, the thoroughness of the actors’ work, the degree to which they seemed to have (at last!) found a technique to embody the Artaudian theatre some of us dreamed of realizing.
Elsie Park Gowan 1905-1999
Authors: Day Moira
Published: June 2023

In her wry autobiographical short story, “The Freedom of Mrs. Radway,” Elsie Park Gowan has her protagonist make the foolhardy assertion that modern living has set woman free to be fully alive as mother, mistress and muse. Predictably, Mrs. Radway pays for her hubris by being smitten by a plague of domestic crises that undermine first her well-organized schedules and then her neatly organized mind. In the final paragraph, she is settling down to a contented life of madness as the heroine in her final unfinished short story.
Corker
Authors: Lill Wendy , Hall Michael
Published: June 2023

Leonard: We give to the Sally Ann. We give to Christmas Daddies. United Appeal. I play basketball once a year for Big Brothers. I flip the odd buck to the guy panhandling out in front of the office. I am not a bad person. (43)

The easily appeased social conscience of the wealthy and powerful is the target of Wendy Lill’s latest dramatic rebuke, Corker, a play in which the Nova Scotian (and Canadian) political climate, with its cutbacks and outcasts, is played out within the microcosm of the McPhee family and their encounter with a developmentally challenged man.
Influence of the type of the nervous system on the velocity of punching by kickboxers
Authors: Volodchenko O. , Rykhal V. , Okopnyy A. , Volodchenko Yu.
Published: June 2023

The purpose of the article was to study the influence of the type of nervous system on the speed of hitting against the background of fatigue. The study was conducted on the basis of the Kharkiv State Academy of Physical Culture. A total of 33 kickboxing athletes took part in the study, 15 of whom have the first sports category, 17 have second. The type of the nervous system was determined by two tests - the Schulte tables and the tapping test. Punching speed testing was determined by performing 20 consecutive punches without rest. According to the efficiency of working on the Schulte tables, control group I has a tendency to increase the result from table to table, which characterizes the subjects as having a weak nervous system. The graph of control group II reaches a peak on the second table, and then gradually decreases. Thus, control group II can be characterized as athletes with a strong type of nervous system.

The obtained data on the type of nervous system in the groups of subjects are confirmed by means of a tapping test (. Thus, KGI has a downward graph starting with 5.3 hand movements per second during the first five seconds with a gradual decrease until the thirtieth second. KGII has a curved graph of the results of the tapping test with a peak at 10-15 seconds. During the first five seconds, the group average was 4.7 hand movements per second, rising to 5.5 and holding at that level, then decreasing to 4.4 movements per second. According to the results of the study, it was found that athletes with a strong type of nervous system can maintain the speed of hitting for a longer time.
Physical development of students depending on the predominance of autonomic nervous system type
Authors: Davybida N. , Dovgan O. , Kondratyuk V.
Published: June 2023

All cells and tissues of the human body maintain a connection with each other, and their activities are clearly coordinated. It is difficult to imagine how all the systems of the human body function in an extremely harmonious manner. Even when a person is at rest, the heart pumps blood, directing it throughout the body, the kidneys remove waste products from the body, and gas exchange takes place in the lungs, muscles help maintain a certain position, hold a book, while the brain " busy" reading. And although it is considered that when reading, a person rests, our body is physiologically active. The activity of all body systems becomes much higher when it actively moves. With increasing physical activity, the physiological activity of muscles increases. Active muscles need more nutrients, more oxygen, a higher rate of metabolic processes and more efficient elimination of decay products.

In the presented literature data on the effect of physical exertion on the cardiovascular system and physical development, there are no data on the effect of physical exercises of various directions on the physical condition and cardiohemodynamics of young people studying at universities. In order to solve the problems of the impact of physical exercises on the body of students of higher education, it is necessary to provide a comprehensive study of the morpho-functional state of the cardiovascular system, physical development and working capacity of the students' body during physical exertion of various directions.
The means and methods of improving the level of motor applicants of the higher education
Authors: Kononenko Nelli , Bilous Nataliia
Published: June 2023

Studying in the higher education institutions is characterised by intellectual stress and a decrease in the level of the physical activity in the applicants. Physical activity contributes to health promotion, improvement of the functional state of the cardiovascular, respiratory, digestive, and nervous systems; raising the level of the physical fitness and performance, and ensuring the diverse and the harmonious development of the student youth.

The lack of the physical activity has a negative impact on health, physical development, the physical fitness and the performance in the applicants of the higher education.

The purpose of the study: to provide means and methods for increasing the amount of the physical activity in the applicants of the higher education and to reveal their effectiveness.

Results of the study. The means and methods of increasing the level of motor activity in the applicants of the higher education in the conditions of distance education are proposed and their effectiveness is revealed.

Conclusions. Aerobics, athletics, badminton, table tennis, tennis, and rhythmic gymnastics are among the most effective means of increasing the level of physical activity in distance learning in the applicants of the higher education institutions. The systematic training in these types of the physical activity helps to improve health; improve the functional state of the systems and the analysers, joint mobility and spinal flexibility; improve physical development; increase the level of physical fitness and performance; create favourable conditions for the central nervous system; normalise nervous processes and blood pressure; and adapt to environmental stressors in students.
Current issues of specialized education in the field of sports
Authors: Prykhodko I.V. , Olkhovyi O.M.
Published: June 2023

The article is devoted to the topical issue of defining the essence of specialized education in the field of sports. The general trend of the development of the senior school is its focus on specialized training, orientation on wide differentiation, variability, multi-specialty, integration of general and pre-professional education. Specialized education is one of the key areas of modernization and improvement of the education system of our country. The model of specialized education in the conditions of specialized sports school can have different forms of organization. According to its structure and tasks, it is based on a certain profile, which involves accentuated study of a cycle of related subjects: basic, specialized and elective courses. Regarding to physical education, the basic general education subject is physical culture. Physical culture as a component of general culture lays the foundations for the preservation of health and the development of all its components, uses a comprehensive approach to the formation of mental and physical abilities and skills, improves physical and psychological training for active life, forms priorities for health-oriented physical lifestyle and provides a general cultural personality development. In the conditions of the specialized school of sports profile, it is possible to implement the tasks of specialized education according to kinds of sports in-depth study. In-depth study of sports is carried out either according to special programs and textbooks developed for a specialized subject, or according to the modular principle. In general, specialized education in the conditions of a specialized sports school should be aimed at general personality development, physical and psychological training of pupils, acquisition of general educational profile and initial pre-professional training in the field of physical education.
Features of the scientific-methodical provision of physical training of athletes in combat sports
Authors: Roztorhui Mariia , Volodchenko Oleksandr , Tovstonoh Oleksandr , Chykalina Yuliia , Detko Andrii
Published: June 2023

On the basis of the analysis of the available scientific knowledge, it was found that the physical training of athletes in martial arts is a complex multi-component process that requires a comprehensive scientific justification, and the system of scientific and methodological support of martial artists is based on research of the last century, which negatively affects the effectiveness of competitive activities and the training of athletes in sports martial arts. It has been established that the conceptual provisions of the system of scientific and methodological support for the physical training of athletes in martial arts need improvement based on taking into account the requirements for the physical fitness of martial artists, which puts forward the modern level of effectiveness of competitive activities in martial arts. The postulates of the system of scientific and methodical support for the physical training of sportsmen in martial arts, which for many years allowed Ukrainian athletes to occupy leading positions, today require scientifically based modernization, which requires a consistent solution of the following tasks: to identify the problem area and the main directions of the scientific and methodical support of physical training athletes in martial arts; to determine the essence and place of physical training of athletes in the system of multi-year improvement in martial arts; to reveal the significance of indicators of physical fitness of athletes in achieving a sports result in sports martial arts at various stages of long-term training; substantiate the concept of physical training of athletes in the system of multi-year improvement in martial arts; to develop implementing provisions of the concept of physical training of athletes in martial arts in the form of kickboxing physical training programs at various stages of multi-year training; to experimentally check the effectiveness of implementation provisions of the concept of physical training of athletes in martial arts; to develop a set of measures to improve the organizational, regulatory and methodical foundations of physical training of sportsmen in martial arts.
PROGRAM OF PHYSICAL REHABILITATION FOR SCIENCE
Authors: Sirman Elena , Borovets Oksana
Published: June 2023

Diseases of the nervous system are characterized, the manifestation of which is a violation of movements, balance and body position, which occurs as a result of malformations of the brain or damage to its parts that control muscle tone and motor activity, many also develop accompanying pathological conditions: seizures, hearing problems , vision, pronunciation, mental retardation, etc., which is one of the most frequent causes of disability in childhoodModern literary sources with empirical findings of scientists in the practice of rehabilitation of children with cerebral palsy were considered, the main means of treatment with modern approaches in the physical rehabilitation of these pathologies in world practice were determined. The program of physical rehabilitation, which allows the most economical and rational approach to solving the problem of rehabilitation of patients with cerebral palsy, is highlighted. The program has a pronounced positive effect on the clinical course of the disease, its effectiveness depends on the sequence of actions that must be performed to restore motor functions using means and methods and principles of physical therapy. Means of physical therapy improve the appearance and coordination of movements, strengthen the central nervous system, respiratory, cardiovascular function (CSS), increase the strength and endurance of muscles, normalize muscle tone, stimulate muscle functions, reduce trophic disorders, strengthen weakened muscles tongues. Thanks to the means of physical therapy, the general motor activity of the child has expanded, speed-strength qualities, flexibility, and anthropometric data have developed, which is the most important component in the correction of cerebral palsy.
Formation of Theoretical knowledge of Future Officers on the organization of Forms of Physical training in the Distance Learning System
Authors: Shemchuk Vadym , Miroshnychenko Serhii , Bykovska Alona , Grom Tetiana , Nekrasov Andri , Kapliuk Dmytro
Published: June 2023

According to the results of the monitoring of specialized Internet resources (analysis of Scientific and methodological and reference literature), the members of the Scientific Research Group established that, that an insufficient number of Scientific works are devoted to the urgent issue of the formation of Theoretical knowledge on the organization of Forms of Physical training by Future Officers of institutions of the Security and Defense Sector of Ukraine in the System of Distance education. This emphasizes the relevance and practical component of the chosen research direction.

The main goal of the study is the development and testing of a Pedagogical Model for the Formation of Theoretical knowledge of Future Officers of the Institutions of the Security and Defense Sector of Ukraine on the organization of Forms of Physical training in the Distance Learning System. Research methods: axiomatic, idealization, historical and logical, descent from concrete, mathematical and statistical formalization (criterion χ2).

As a Result of the Empirical research, the members of the Research Group developed and tested a Pedagogical Model for the formation of Theoretical knowledge of Future Officers of the Institutions of the Security and Defense Sector of Ukraine on the organization of Forms of Physical training in the Distance Learning System. The Pedagogical Model proposed by us consists of the following Blocks: target, subjective, content-functional, organizational-methodical and result-evaluative (with appropriate educational, methodological and technical content).
The Impact and Sliding Wear Performance of Thermal Spray HVAF Thick Carbide Coatings on Steel Substrates
Authors: Waudby R , Suhonen T. , Varis T. , Holmberg K.
Published: June 2023

This study assesses the sliding wear and impact behavior of thick carbide coatings deposited on hot-rolled steel by high-velocity airfuel (HVAF) spraying. Coating samples are evaluated based on scratch, ball-on-disc sliding, normal impact, and compound sliding impact tests and efforts are made to rank materials according to tribological criteria including coating failure mode, friction response, and wear. The approach is intended to provide insights for product designers specifying thermal spray coatings for steel components and structures from a wear performance perspective.
Neprofitne
organizacije i turizam
Authors: Dadić Fruk Lorena , Maškarin Ribarić Helga , Đurkin Badurina Jelena
Published: June 2023

Stavovi dionika o turizmu često su u fokusu promatranja i praktičara i istraživača. No, dok su stavovi nekih dionika istraženi i izučavani s najrazličitijih aspekata, neki su dionici, sasvim neopravdano, još uvijek izvan fokusa mainstream istraživanja. Jedna od skupina tih dionika jesu i neprofitne organizacije kao ključni akteri civilnog društva. Ovim se istraživanjem u fokus stavljaju neprofitne organizacije (NPO-ovi) kao jedan od dionika turizma te se ispituju stavovi članova (preciznije: predstavnika uprave) NPO-ova o učincima turizma diferencirajući pritom NPO-ove s obzirom na grad, tj. regiju njihova djelovanja: kontinent ili priobalje. Dodatno i po istom kriteriju diferencijacije ovim se istraživanjem stavovi o učincima turizma dovode u vezu s visinom godišnjih prihoda udruge i ocjenom vlastite financijske pozicije. U tu svrhu provedeno je online anketno istraživanje na uzorku članova skupština udruga koje djeluju u najrazvijenijim priobalnim i kontinentalnim turističkim destinacijama Hrvatske. Rezultati ukazuju na signifikantne razlike u stavovima o kulturnim i ekonomskim učincima turizma, ali ne i u stavovima o ekološkim učincima turizma udruga koje djeluju u primorskim i kontinentalnim turističkim destinacijama.
Impact of the main
workplace components on employee satisfaction and performance in the context of
digitalization
Authors: Čizmić Elvir , Rahimić Zijada , Šestić Munira
Published: June 2023

In the time of digitalization within the framework of the fourth technological revolution, it is necessary to return the human being to the first place in the science of management. Men and women as the performers of activities should be on the pedestal of all modern processes that take place in society and business, to avoid the problem in which the society was “trapped“, during the previous industrial revolutions. The application of information technology in general and artificial intelligence in particular affects the design and content of the main components of job design, which inevitably leads to a reflection on the satisfaction and performance of employees at the workplace. The paper aims to explore the impact of specific workplace components on employee satisfaction and performance, further recognizing which components contribute the most in the context of digitalization and 4IR. From Hackman and Oldham’s job design theory and Mintzberg’s organizational structure framework, we propose and test a research framework that investigated the impact of technical system, work assignment and worker features on employee satisfaction and performance in a contemporary context. The research was conducted in Bosnia and Herzegovina on a random sample of 125 respondents from public and private sector organizations, different industries and companies’ sizes. The analysis was realized through hierarchical multiple linear regression model and the key findings revealed that the task and knowledge characteristics of artificial intelligence-enabled jobs are vitally important for inducing innovative work behaviour among employees.
The profile of Nicaragua’s economic elite. The limits of political influence during the presidency of D. Ortega
Authors: Rykhtik Mikhail
Published: June 2023

The article studies the dynamics of Nicaragua’s economic elite which helps to define it and assess its ability to influence political process of the country. The analysis of the evolution of Nicaraguan big business reveals its high adaptability to ever-changing social conditions. As a result, the reaction of economic elite to the Sandinista revolution demonstrates its strategy and tactics concerning restructuring of the assets. The authors pay special attention to the Supreme Council of Private Enterprise (Consejo Superior de la Empresa Privada, COSEP) which serves as a main representative of collective interests of the Nicaraguan capital. The article examines the relationship between the left-wing radical partisan Sandinista National Liberation Front (Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional, FSLN) and national elite as well. It has transformed from hostile confrontation at the end of 20th century to a tactical alliance in the 2010s. The article concludes with an analysis of existing tensions between Sandinistas and big business as well as the prospects for the transition of power in Nicaragua.
Comprehending Tarkovsky: the philosophy of creativity of Carlos Reigadas
Authors: Rostotskaya Lidia
Published: June 2023

The subject of the article was to identify some similarities between the creative concepts of two filmmakers: our great compatriot Andrey Tarkovsky and contemporary director Carlos Reygadas. Their comparison, as well as the culturological analysis of Reygadas’ films, allows us to conclude that there is a conceptual closeness that largely determines the philosophy of the work of both masters, based not on the principle of recreating reality, but on the desire to create their own artistic word.
Assessing the Significance of Electricity Supply, Inflation and Fuel Price on Food and Beverage Production and Sales in the Manufacturing Sector
Authors: Habanabakize Thomas , Dickason-Koekemoer Zandri
Published: June 2023

The manufacturing sector occupies a critical position in the South African economy. However, in recent decades, this sector has experienced significant changes due to the country’s economic fluctuations. The sector’s challenges include electricity distribution, growing inflation rate and commodities price instability. This study assessed the effects of electricity supply, inflation and fuel prices on food and beverage production and sales in the manufacturing sector. To this end, it applied different econometric approaches — the Johansen test for cointegration, vector error correction model (VECM) and Granger causality test — on monthly time series data ranging from January 2002 to December 2019. The study’s findings suggest the existence of a joint long-run relationship between electricity distribution, inflation rate, fuel price, production and sales of both food and beverages within the manufacturing sector. The result also indicated that both electricity supply and inflation highly impact food and beverage sales production compared to the effect of petrol price. Furthermore, Granger causality results have shown that inflation rate can predict short-term production and sales of food and beverages in the manufacturing sector. Given the aforementioned findings, the study suggested a reduction in petrol prices and the introduction of new policies to control the inflation rate. Additionally, besides the government support for electricity production in Eskom, more effort and resources (financial) should be allocated to generate and improve other sources of energy such as solar, wind, gas and biogas.
Presentación
Authors: Díaz Cabrera Liliana isabel
Published: June 2023

Con la quinta edición digital de la Revista Biumar se comparte con la comunidad universitaria y el público interesado, el resultado de un proceso disciplinado, creativo, organizado y comprometido de los diferentes autores quienes, a través de sus escritos, plasman en cada texto su experiencia, saber, conocimiento e, impregnan su propio sello, de tal manera que permiten a sus lectores interesarse y sumergirse en el maravilloso mundo de la lectura, la escritura y la reflexión.
Patología silenciosa
Authors: Omar Alfonso Narváez-Obando
Published: June 2023

Atrás de un escritorio, un profesional tratando de dar una respuesta sensata a la cruda realidad que enfrentan personas que caen en este túnel sin salida, jóvenes que toman una decisión apresurada sin medir los efectos, causas y consecuencias de este acto lamentable del suicidio. Son emociones encontradas, con sentimientos de impotencia, con desasosiego, falta de control sobre la situación; otras que despiertan en llanto al escuchar testimonios, historias que lamentan una pérdida y todas las sensaciones de desesperanza al escuchar día a día que alguien, ya no está compartiendo con nosotros.¿Alguna vez pensó que un familiar, un amigo o un conocido suyo podría estar en riesgo de suicidio? Si no lo pensó, es lo normal; casi nadie lo hace. Tal vez usted no sepa que, a nivel mundial, son muchas las personas que mueren por suicidio cada año; y que éste, es la segunda causa principal de muerte en la población entre los 15 y los 29 años de edad. Tal vez usted cree que solo se suicidan personas muy enfermas o en situaciones límite muy evidentes; que si alguno de sus seres queridos o las personas que usted conoce estuvieran en riesgo de suicidio, lo ‘notaría’. Pero la realidad es que, cuando una persona muere a causa de suicidio, sus familiares, amigos y conocidos, en general, se muestran sorprendidos; no pueden creer que haya hecho ‘algo así’. Luego, mirando en retrospectiva, tal vez puedan identificar algunas señales que, en su momento, no supieron reconocer, y quizás, hasta un pedido de ayuda al que no supieron responder. También esto es normal. No nos enseñaron como hacerlo. Éste es el sentido de esta nota: aprender a reconocer las señales de la conducta suicida y a brindar ayuda antes de que sea demasiado tarde; aprender a escucharnos y a cuidarnos entre nosotros, para que nuestra familia, nuestros grupos sociales y la sociedad, sean todos, lugares más seguros.
Emprender para crecer
Authors: Ordoñes Lagos Yurleini
Published: June 2023

El tema a tratar consta de bastante relevancia, tanto en la actualidad como desde tiempos remotos. El emprendimiento es un fenómeno que es la base de supervivencia de las sociedades. En tal sentido, motivar e incentivar para mantener y sembrar esa semilla de espíritu emprendedor en las personas debe ser un objetivo de primera línea en los diferentes países y, más aún, en los países en vía de desarrollo como Colombia.
El ingeniero de sistemas en el emprendimiento
Authors: Coral Guerrón Daniela Sofía , Santacruz Rojas Anyeli Stefania , Erazo Huertas Juan Pablo
Published: June 2023

A diario, el emprendimiento es visto como un método para generar ganancias económicas, sin embargo, se deja de lado el verdadero significado de esta capacidad. Si bien, el emprendimiento sí consiste en la generación de ganancias, pero no solo económicas, sencillamente se puede enfocarlo hacia cualquier meta u objetivo que tenga una persona.
¿Cómo contribuye el emprendimiento al desarrollo profesional de un ingeniero de sistemas?: Un enfoque a la visión empresarial e innovación
Authors: Rizo Zamora Andrés Esteban , Caicedo Burbano Jeisson Fernando
Published: June 2023

La ingeniería ha desempeñado un papel importante en la existencia de los seres humanos desde tiempos inmemoriales. El rol que desempeña la Ingeniería de Sistemas para hacer que la vida sea cómoda para todos nunca debe subestimarse.
Emprendimiento en Trabajo Social
Authors: Aguirre Sofí Cristina , Hurtado Angulo Andrea Isabel , Yepes Iturri Alexandra
Published: June 2023

En este artículo de emprendimiento en Trabajo Social, se tomará varios aspectos importantes a la hora de emprender. Para ello, es necesario conocer diferentes términos, apropiarse de ellos y, en su momento, relacionarlos. De igual forma, se tratará de abarcar el tema de la innovación; la importancia de emprender, con el fin de generar cambios en la sociedad; las múltiples diferencias y relaciones que existen entre la innovación y la estrategia, sobre todo, la importancia y función que genera el trabajador social en los diferentes procesos de acompañamiento para la trasformación de los sujetos con quienes se encuentra inmerso en la sociedad.
Los startups se convierten en la base de la economía colombiana
Authors: Chicaíza Salazar María Fernanda , Hidalgo Cerón Alejandra , Pérez Chacón Yuliana Marcela
Published: June 2023

La creación de empresas en Colombia constituye un pilar fundamental en la economía de este país, el impacto que tienen las pequeñas y medianas empresas es tal que representan alrededor del 80 % de los empleos y más del 90 % de todas las compañías existentes en la actualidad. En los mercados emergentes, las organizaciones asumen un reto adicional, que consiste en disminuir las brechas socioeconómicas y prever, dentro de sus objetivos empresariales, la innovación social. Por tanto, las pymes se han convertido en el eje de la reactivación económica aún antes de la crisis sanitaria vivida en el año 2020, por lo que las entidades estatales han buscado alternativas que brinden estabilidad financiera y otros recursos económicos para que este tipo de negocios puedan consolidarse y sostenerse en el tiempo.
Influencia del diagrama de PERT en empresas nariñenses
Authors: Caicedo Paz Brian Arley
Published: June 2023

Se puede observar que, en Nariño, hay un claro desperdicio en la oportunidad de desarrollo que poseen las empresas del territorio, lo cual podría ser generado por la mala planificación en la optimización de tiempos en las tareas de un proyecto; así pues, se explicará los beneficios que ocasionaría el implementar el diagrama de ‘PERT’ en los proyectos de la región.
Aportes de Trabajo Social sobre emprendimiento ambiental por medio de los agroecosistemas sustentables
Authors: Molina López Luis Felipe , Rojas Harold Arturo
Published: June 2023

El reconocimiento de oportunidades dentro de los agroecosistemas sustentables es considerado un elemento esencial del emprendimiento ambiental. El Trabajo Social, al ser una profesión o disciplina de las ciencias sociales cuyo objeto es el bienestar de la población, tiene como propósito, establecer modelos de emprendimientos enfocados en reducir al máximo cualquier impacto ambiental; uno de estos modelos son los Agroecosistemas Sustentables, con los cuales se busca crear estándares de producción de alimentos, servicios ambientales, materias primas de origen agrícola, con base en la dirección agroecológica, inclinada al mejoramiento social, económico y ambiental, en el corto, mediano y largo plazo, para beneficio de la sociedad, sin deteriorar la base de los recursos naturales.
Diagnóstico del impacto socioeconómico por el efecto del COVID-19 en las micro y pequeñas empresas del sector del comercio en la ciudad de Pasto
Authors: Narváez Maura Alexandra , Vallejo López Cristhian Camilo , Zambrano Estrada Jonattan Alexis , Solarte Solarte Claudia Magali
Published: June 2023

La investigación trata sobre el análisis de afectación del COVID-19 en las micro, pequeñas y medianas empresas (MIPYMES) del sector Comercio de la ciudad de Pasto. La metodología empleada fue el paradigma positivista; el enfoque, cuantitativo; método empírico analítico; tipo de investigación descriptivo analítica. El estudio se realizó por medio de encuestas presenciales, correos y llamadas telefónicas, lo que permitió recopilar diferente información del estado económico, social y ambiental actual de las empresas, con lo cual se evidenció la realidad de cada una de ellas y, las medidas que debieron tomar para sobrevivir y mantenerse en el tiempo; no obstante, demostraron el grado de resiliencia y adaptación a los diferentes cambios, por medio de la innovación y el mercadeo digital. El principal resultado obtenido es que la coyuntura provocada por el COVID-19 en las empresas del sector comercio de Pasto mostró porcentajes relevantes sobre la afectación y el desarrollo económico, social y político de las mismas.Como conclusión, se identificó que muchas de las empresas de comercio se vieron en la obligación de cerrar sus establecimientos, algunas de forma temporal y otras, de forma definitiva.
Geschlecht, Macht, Staat
Authors: Ludwig Gundula
Published: June 2023

Ziel feministischer Staatstheorie ist es, die Vergeschlechtlichung des Staates sichtbar zu machen. Auf diese Weise soll aufgezeigt werden, wie der moderne westliche Staat dazu beiträgt, geschlechtliche Ausbeutungs-, Gewalt- und Ungleichheitsverhältnisse zu ermöglichen und zu legitimieren. Die Autorin stellt dazu frühe Ansätze feministischer Staatstheorie ebenso vor wie neuere queer-feministische und intersektionale Konzepte. Dabei werden sowohl Theoretisierungen des Verhältnisses von Staat und Geschlecht als auch zentrale Themenfelder feministischer Staatstheorie vorgestellt und diskutiert. Für die Neuauflage wurde das Werk umfassend überarbeitet.
Die Gestaltung des Führungswechsels in Sozialunternehmen
Authors: Dinger Luise
Published: June 2023

Die Übergabe an der Spitze ist von entscheidender Bedeutung für das Fortbestehen des Sozialunternehmens, aber oft mit Herausforderungen verbunden. Die Autorin erforscht in ihrer qualitativen Studie die konkrete Gestaltung des personellen Wechsels sowie dessen kurz- und langfristige Auswirkungen auf die Organisation und zeigt, in welcher Weise der Führungswechsel ein entscheidender Moment für die Unabhängigkeit und Verstetigung sozialer Innovationen ist. Die Ergebnisse sind nicht nur für Sozialunternehmen, sondern auch für etablierte Organisationen der Sozialen Arbeit relevant.
Subjektwerden unter Bedingungen von outsiderness
Authors: Hoppe Marie
Published: June 2023

Wie machen sich nationalstaatliche Ein- und Ausgrenzungsmuster in der Schule bemerkbar? Welche Erfahrungen machen Schüler*innen in ihrem Schulalltag? Wie werden sie von diesen Erfahrungen geprägt? Die Autorin untersucht Subjektivierungsprozesse in Schulbildungsbiographien junger kurdisch positionierter Frauen in der Türkei daraufhin, wie sich – vermittelt über Schule – In- und Exklusionsverhältnisse im Nationalstaat in Subjekte einschreiben. Sie zeigt die Relevanz von Aneignungs- und Widersetzungsprozessen für die Ausbildung von Selbstverständnissen angesichts natio-ethno-kultureller (Nicht-)Zugehörigkeit und schließt Gedanken zu marginalisierter Handlungsfähigkeit an.
Electromotive Drug Administration Chemotherapy with Mitomycin C Versus Bacillus Calmette-Guerin for the Treatment of Non-Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer
Authors: Melgarejo Segura María Teresa , Morales Martínez Ana , Yáñez Castillo Yaiza , Arrabal Polo Miguel Ángel , Gutiérrez Tejero Francisco , Pareja Vílchez Manuel , Arrabal Martín Miguel
Published: June 2023

BACKGROUND:

Devices that increase the penetrance of intravesical chemotherapeutics are emerging as alternatives to classical Bacillus Calmette Guérin (BCG) treatment.

OBJECTIVE:

To compare the efficacy of mitomycin C applied with the electromotive drug delivery device (MMC-EMDA) versus BCG in patients with intermediate and high-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) without carcinoma in situ (CIS).

METHODS:

Prospective non-randomized study in which 47 patients received MMC-EMDA (40 mg of MMC diluted in 50 mg of distilled water at 20 mA for 30 min. Regimen of 6 weekly and then 6 monthly instillations) and 48 patients received BCG (50 mg of OncoCITE® diluted in 50 ml of normal saline for 60 min. Regimen of 6 weekly instillations and then 3 weekly instillations at months 3, 6 and 12). The primary endpoint was the recurrence-free rate (RFR) at 24 months. Secondary endpoints were time to recurrence and progression-free rate (PFR) at 24 months follow-up.

RESULTS:

Baseline patient assessment and mean follow-up time were similar in both groups (MMC-EMDA group: 26.4 months; BCG group: 28.4 months ( p = 0.44)). The RFR at 24 months was 80.9% for the MMC-EMDA group and 77.1% for the BCG group ( p = 0.969). The mean time to recurrence was 12.5 months in the MMC-EMDA group and 14 months in the BCG group ( p = 0.681). At 24 months, PFR was 97.9% in the MMC-EMDA group and 93.8% in the BCG group ( p = 0.419).

CONCLUSIONS:

No differences were found between MMC-EMDA and BCG treatments in patients with high-risk and intermediate-risk NMIBC without CIS.
A real-time semantic segmentation method for end-to-end autonomous driving in low-light environments
Authors: Liu Yang , Yi Fulong , Ma Yuhua , Wang Yongfu
Published: June 2023

To solve the problem that the existing semantic segmentation method is challenging to balance the two indicators of reasoning speed and accuracy under low-light conditions, a lightweight real-time semantic segmentation method that can run on embedded vehicle terminals under low-light conditions, namely, LCG-BiSeNetV2 is proposed. Firstly, the Zero-DCE++ method is introduced to preprocess the low-light video frames; Secondly, by improving the module of the BiSeNetV2 method and optimizing the downsampling convolution in the encoder structure, the semantic feature extraction ability of the BiSeNetV2 method has been significantly improved; Finally, the self-made road scene semantic segmentation dataset and the CAMVID dataset were used for training and testing, the mIoU coefficient reaches 72.37% and 76.73%, and the reasoning speed reaches 148.91 Frames Per Second (FPS) and 136.75 FPS, which shows that the LCG-BiSeNetV2 method has achieved fast reasoning and precise semantic segmentation.