bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
PENERAPAN MODEL PROBLEM BASED LEARNING UNTUK MENINGKATAN PEMAHAMAN KONSEP, AKTIVITAS, KINERJA DAN HASIL BELAJAR SISWA SMA
Authors: Nurmuflihatin Mrs.
Published: May 2021

Penelitian tindakan kelas ini bertujuan untuk meningkatkan pemahaman konsep, aktivitas siswa, dan kinerja siswa pada materi fluida dinamis dengan digunakannya model pembelajaran berbasis masalah (problem based learning). Pembelajaran berbasis masalah ini menerapkan penelitian tindakan (ation researh) tiga putaran. Dalam satu putaran terdiri dari empat tahap yaitu rancangan,kegiatan dan pengamatan,refleksi serta refisi. Sasaran penelitian ini adalah siswa/siswi kelas xi-ipa1 SMAN I Sekaran Lamongan.Pendekatan yang digunakan adalah kuantitatif . Data yang diperoleh dari hasil lembar evaluasi siswa,lembar observasi guru dan siswa,lembar kinerja siswa dalam proses belajar mengajar.Kesimpulan yang didapat dari hasil penelitian tindakan kelas yang telah dilakukan yaitu penerapan model Problem Based Learning dapat meningkatkan pehaman konsep ,aktivitas, kinerja hasil belajar siswa pokok bahasan fluida dinamis. Hal ini dibuktikan dengan peningkatan skor rata-rata nilai siswa serta meningkatnyaa Kriteria Ketuntasan Minimal (KKM). Peningkatan nilai rata-rata hasil belajar dilihat dari ulangan tiap siklus,nilai rata-rata sebelum adanya tindakan yaitu 59,80 kemudian setelah dilakukan tindakan pada siklus 1 nilai rata-ratanya berubah menjadi 71,03 selanjutnya hasil ulangan pada siklus II berubah 78,28 dan rerata hasil akhir siklus III menjadi 83,9. Prosentase mengalami peningkatan dalam hal ketercapaian ketuntasan minimal dari 40,6 % pada keadaan awal, kemudian berubah 62,1 % pada akhir siklus I dan pada siklus II akhir menjadi 82,8 % dan pada siklus III akhir menjadi 89,7 %. Aktivitas hasil belajar siswa dari penelitian tindakan kelas juga mengalami peningkatan. 5 aspek aktivitas siswa yang diamati yaitu pasif, mendengarkan penjelasan, mencatat,mengajukan pertanyaan dan melakukan diskusi .Keadaan mula-mula sebelum adanya tindakan sebesar 49,4 % dan berubah menjadi 63,5 % pada kondisi siklus I .Selanjutnya setelah dilakukan tindakan siklus II dan III aktivitas belajar siswa menjadi 68,6 % dan 71,0 % .Kinerja siswa selama praktikum juga mengalami peningkatan,pada kondisi awal diperoleh hasil 30,3 %,pada siklus 1 mencapai 45,1 %,siklus II mencapai 63,7 % dan siklus III menapai 79,4 %. Penggunaan metode pembelajaran problem based learning sebaiknya diterapkan dan dikembangkan lagi pada materi yang lebih luas, hal ini menyebabkan peningkatan prestasi hasil belajar siswa untuk mata pelajaran fisika.
Public Management: A New Public Service Oriented Concept of Public Service
Authors: Benson Linh , Thanh Huay Thúy , Thao Bảo Nga
Published: May 2021

This article discusses the application of the new public service concept in serving the public. This is based on the Public Administration Problem in its development which has gone through several stages. As one of the countries in the world, of course, it is part of the global administration system, which always develops in accordance with the development of contradictions and mutual relations between nations in the world. So that the implementation of the new public service can have an impact on the implementation of the New Public Service with an awareness of the real role of the state. It is no longer authoritarian or still chooses who has the right to receive services from the State. In the current context, the practice of Public Administration has led to the principles of the New Public Service paradigm.
Analysis of Sales Predictions from the Point of View of the Increase in Daily Newspaper Sales
Authors: Rahman Rahis , Faheem Mehmood , Peerzada Zeda
Published: May 2021

This study aims at Analysis of Sales Predictions from the Point of View of the Increase in Daily Newspaper Sales. The methods of this research is gather evidence through a variety of approaches, including library analysis and field research. This paper makes use of both qualitative and quantitative evidence. Primary data sources, namely data collected from respondents or direct interviews with business executives, specifically about marketing strategies, especially those relating to promotion. Secondary evidence.  Promotional operations are carried out optimally, which is facilitated by sufficient costs, especially in potential areas. Apart from repeat buyers, the organization offers its goods in store, which enables the company to monitor its output figures accurately and seamlessly.
FORMAÇÃO CONTINUADA PARA PROFESSORES IMIGRANTES DIGITAIS -DESENVOLVENDO UMA NOVA LINGUAGEM DIDÁTICA PARA A INSERÇÃO DAS TECNOLOGIAS EDUCACIONAIS NA SALA DE AULA
Authors: Pereira Diogo Bonioli
Published: May 2021

As Tecnologias da Informação e da Comunicação (TIC’s) já são parte integrante do cotidiano da sociedade contemporânea e a popularização da internet as tornou necessárias na medida em que faz surgir diferentes formas de comunicação, relacionamentos e construção do conhecimento, em uma linguagem nova e exclusiva. Em contrapartida a Escola, pouco tem acompanhado este processo e insiste em oferecer uma didática conservadora e conteudista. Este conflito cultural, segundo pesquisas, forma a principal razão da evasão escolar. Para promover uma nova linguagem didática que transforme as TIC’s em Tecnologias Educacionais que possa favorecer o processo de ensino-aprendizagem é que voltamos nosso olhar para o professor, que em sua maioria são imigrantes digitais e que precisam tanto ser iniciados na formação básica para o uso das TIC’s, bem como serem nutridos de conhecimento pedagógico e cultural que sejam suficientes para diminuir o espaço existente entre sua formação inicial e a realidade da cultura digital que se impõem na sala de aula. Este trabalho propõe um plano de Formação Continuada para Professores Imigrantes Digitais, maior parte dos regentes, a fim de produzirem um novo posicionamento didático que favoreça melhores resultados em aprendizagem e possam dar conta das demandas modernas do aluno, da sociedade, do mundo globalizado, assim como das profissões, doenças e questões que ainda surgirão mediante este crescimento vertiginoso do conhecimento e das TIC’s.
Socio-Economic Characteristics of Gram Panchayat Members at Hanumanganj Block of Ballia District of Uttar Pradesh
Authors: Singh Anurag Shankar , Mazhar Syed H.
Published: May 2021

Introduction of Panchayat Raj was hailed as one of the most important political innovations in Independent India. It was also considered as a revolutionary step. Panchayat Raj is a system of local self-government wherein the people take upon themselves the responsibility for development. The Gram Panchayat has occupied an important place in taking people’s political, economic, social, patriotic aspirations and emotions to the government in order to build a strongest nation ever. The study was based on both Primary and Secondary data. Descriptive research design has been used in the present study. The study revealed that majority of respondents were middle age people, having education up to junior high school and mostly dependent on farming for their income. A large sum of the respondents had very high annual income while few of the respondents had low annual income. It is concluded that the majority of the respondents belonged to the middle socio-economic status. Social participation of Gram Panchayat members were significant in Gram Panchayat activities. Majority of respondents daily use newspaper as a means of mass media exposure.
THE EFFECT OF DIVERSIFICATION LEVEL, NUMBER OF SEGMENTS, AND INDUSTRY SECTOR TYPE ON COMPANY PERFORMANCE
Authors: Hokyani Felicia , Arfianti Rizka Indri
Published: May 2021

The high competition in the business world with many competitors has forced the company to develop its business, one of them by diversification. This study aims to investigate the influence of diversification level, the number of segments, and type of industrial sector on firm performance measured by the excess value. The theory underlying this research is agency theory, which describes the relationship between the company owners with the company management. The number samples of this study are 333 companies from the miscellaneous industry sector, consumer goods sector, and basic industry and chemicals sector listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange throughout 2017 – 2018. The results showed that data can be pooled for 3 years, all classic assumption tests are fulfilled, and partial regression coefficient test found that variable diversification level and the variable number of segments > 0.05, then H01 and H02 rejected, while the type of miscellaneous industry sector and type of consumer goods sector <0.05, then H03 and H04  received. The conclusion showed that variable diversification level and number of segments has not sufficient evidence of a negative effect on excess value, while the type of miscellaneous industry sector and type of consumer goods sector sufficient evidence of a negative effect on excess value.
Metabolic Syndrome with Oppositional Defiant Disorder in an 11 Year Old Girl
Authors: Dias Edwin
Published: May 2021

Metabolic Syndrome in adolescent in India is of recent origin due to the better socioeconomic conditions and the growing obesity epidemic. An 11 year old female child presented with features of Metabolic Syndrome and Oppositional Defiant Disorder. Child was treated with antihypertensive medication and put on dietary and exercise regimen. Child was given counselling for the Oppositional Defiant Disorder after being evaluated by Psychiatrist.
Ketojenik Diyet ve Kanser
Authors: YILMAZ Hatice Kübra , ÖZER Rabia Müge
Published: May 2021

Kanser, günümüz dünyasında en sık karşılaşılan bir sağlık sorunudur. Kanser, hücre veya hücre topluluğunun çeşitli çevresel veya genetik etmenlerle anormal bir şekilde çoğalması durumunda oluşan bir hastalıktır. Özellikle gelişen dünyada kanser sorunları gün geçtikçe artmaktadır. Önemli ve ciddi bir halk sağlığı sorunu olan kanserin tam ve kesin bir tedavisi yoktur. Kanser, kemoterapi, radyoterapi, cerrahi operasyonlar gibi birçok tedavi yöntemiyle kontrol altında tutulmaya çalışılmaktadır. Son zamanlarda bu tıbbi tedavilerin yanında tıbbi beslenme tedavileri de ön plana çıkmakta ve birçok çalışma bulunmaktadır. Bunlardan biri ise 1920’lerden beri epilepsi hastalarının tedavisinde kullanılan ketojenik diyettir. Ketojenik diyet tedavisinin kanserli hastalarda tümör büyümesini kontrol altına alan bir antikanser öge olacağı çalışmalarda sunulmuştur. Ketojenik diyet tedavisinde tek bir kanser türüne özgü olarak değil birçok kanser türünde başarılı sonuçlar elde edilmiştir.
SAY STEAM YES: WHY IT IS NECESSARY TO DEVELOP AND IMPROVE SCIENCE EDUCATION
Authors: Šlekienė Violeta
Published: May 2021

STEAM activities, STEAM formal and non-formal education, STEAM programs, STEAM schools, STEAM field, STEAM open access centers and others are often used terms in the society and in the education society in particular. STEAM education is an interdisciplinary approach to learning where rigorous academic concepts are coupled with real world lessons as students apply science, technology, engineering, and mathematics in contexts that make connections between school, community, work, and the global enterprise enabling the development of STEAM literacy and with it the ability to compete in the new economy. STEAM education emphasizes art and technical creativity as interdisciplinary access, combining it with a rational combination with the peculiarities of individual subjects. Most countries declare STEAM education as a priority of their national education system. All countries link STEAM education reform with primary and secondary schools. Taking into account today's trends and future insights, education and training play a very important role. After all, it is important that Lithuania took a challenge - by 2025 teacher is a prestigious profession. The country lacks a new generation of teachers, teachers with a different approach to teaching and learning. In the near future there should be new specialties that will expand and change the field of the teacher's work, adapting it to contemporary realities. In the future, education will become more personalized; students will be offered personalized training programs. Much attention will be paid to increasing the efficiency of mental activity: there will be programs for improving memory, reading speed, increasing concentration, etc. Integrated access to STEAM subjects creates the conditions for the formation of such a human thinking, that allows a complex understanding of the world, making responsible decisions, and foreseeing further paths. Everyone agrees that integrated access brings benefits to all stakeholders.
Keywords: interdisciplinary approach, STEAM education, STEAM literacy.
THE IMPORTANCE OF EXCLUSIVE GEOLOGICAL EXHIBITS FOR UNCONVENTIONAL NATURAL SCIENCE EDUCATION
Authors: Rudnickaitė Eugenija
Published: May 2021

Vilnius University Geology museum resources are perfectly fit for: education, geoscientific knowledge propagation, informal natural science education (Rudnickaitė, 2007; 2012; ect.).
An idea to popularize and spread natural science, had been realized by a three month display of an unique exhibit.
Thanks to JSC „PALEO GROUP“ (director Michail Ivanov) Anjou mammoth „Gosha“ becomes a hero of this exibition.
Woolly mammoth Mammuthus primigenius
Skeleton length-5 m, height-3.1 m, weight 595 kg.
Tusks length-4 m, weight of each -65 kg, diameter -16 cm
Expedition of Yuzefovich V. F. and Yuri Chumakin in August 2003 had discovered the skeleton of a mammoth in the exposed by a landslide coastal slope of the river Dragotsennaya in the estuarine portion of it, the arrow of Anjou (Kotelniy island, SAKHA Republic), at the confluence of the river into the sea. Of all known finds of mammoth skeletons, this finding can be considered the most Northern location.
In fresh coastal sediments, with a capacity of 30-40 m, at a depth of 6 m from the surface, edges of the left side of the chest, the humerus and most of the left tusk were exposed in frozen rocks. During the field season the excavation of thawed soil managed to extract the bones of the skeleton of the mammoth and its tusks. The completeness of the skeleton is 80%.
Major long bones of the extremities indicate individual is tall, not less than 4-4,5 m at the withers.
The ribs of the mammoth skeleton are perfectly preserved. On the right side of the skeleton, on the last rib there is clearly visible pathological formation of bone callus in areas of fracture. Consequently, it can also confirm that a large male mother had repeatedly participated in tournament battles with rivals.
Morphology of teeth crowns is typical for woolly mammoth Mammuthus primigenius.
Such a unique geologic (peleontologic) find beeing the first of its kind on display in Lithuania, aquired a lot of attention from the media and in social networks.
Purpose of the exhibition to attract as many visitors, to popularize geology and other natural sciences was achieved.
Acknowlegment: Many thanks go to JSC „PALEO GROUP“ and its Director Michail Ivanov.
Keywords: Museum of geology, Vilnius university, mammoth skeleton, unconventional natural science education.
Informação incorreta, desinformação e má informação: Esclarecendo definições e exemplos em tempos de desinfodemia
Authors: Santos-d'Amorim Karen , Fernandes de Oliveira Miranda Májory
Published: May 2021

Objetivo: Descreve e analisa as incidências teórico-práticas da informação incorreta (misinformation), desinformação (disinformation) e má informação (malinformation), incluindo, mas não se limitando ao arcabouço da Ciência da Informação. Além disso, objetiva delinear uma compreensão desses três conceitos a partir de 16 arranjos interligados de acordo com sua intencionalidade.
Método: Para construir discursos e descrição do fenômeno da desinformação e suas derivações, aplicamos a hermenêutica, a retórica e os princípios fenomenológicos da intencionalidade como métodos de trabalho.
Resultados: Como resultados, apresentamos 14 incidências teóricas com o objetivo de esclarecer esses três conceitos, além de delinear e caracterizar, de acordo com a intencionalidade, 16 arranjos de desinformação associados a esses três conceitos, sendo eles: viés de confirmação, propaganda, artigos retratados, teorias da conspiração, representação enganosa em mapas, quadros e gráficos, notícias falsas, caça-cliques, trote, sátira ou paródia, website impostor, revisões falsas, phishing, filtros-bolha e câmaras de eco.
Conclusões: Destaca-se a complexidade que permeia os vários campos da conjuntura atual relacionada à dificuldade de um consenso sobre a definição semântica dos conceitos de informação, desinformação e suas desambiguações, uma vez que estes conceitos também possuem inúmeras propriedades
Piazza Navona e Outros Cantos: Haroldo de Campos e a Transbrasilizzazione Inédita de Lucio Mariani
Authors: Regina Silvia La
Published: May 2021

Neste trabalho apresenta-se a correspondência inédita entre Haroldo de Campos e o poeta e tradutor italiano Lucio Mariani, além de seis densos e rebuscados poemas de Mariani traduzidos por Haroldo em traduções também inéditas e em várias versões, acompanhadas pelas observações de Mariani. Discute-se rapidamente a questão da tradução de textos poéticos, assim como a teoria haroldiana da tradução, além de traçar um paralelo entre o pequeno acervo de cartas entre Haroldo e Mariani e o grande e precioso acervo de correspondências trocadas ao longo dos anos por Guimarães Rosa e seus tradutores, a exemplificar como estas correspondências desempenhem um papel importante para o estudo da criação do autor, por um lado, e da criação do tradutor, pelo outro, dando evidentemente às traduções o estatuto de outros originais. Na transcriação destes seis poemas, constata-se a diversidade dos conceitos de tradução de Haroldo e de Mariani, que, talvez por se tratar de textos de autoria dele, demonstra-se muito mais fiel à letra dos poemas.
Ser “Cam Girl” na Contemporaneidade: Reflexões sobre Ócio Digital em Serviços Interpessoais no Ciberespaço
Authors: Teixeira de Oliveira Gláucia Rebeca , Gondim Márcio Silva
Published: May 2021

Este trabalho é uma resenha do filme “Cam” (Goldhaber, 2018), cuja narrativa pode ser compreendida à luz dos mecanismos subjetivos e tecnológicos atuantes sobre as pessoas no ciberespaço. Nesse filme, a protagonista é a jovem Alice, que trabalha com serviços tecnológicos virtuais, exibindo-se sensualmente por meio de webcam (exercendo o trabalho intitulado de cam girl – “garota da câmera”). No filme, outra misteriosa jovem, idêntica à protagonista Alice, apropria-se do ambiente virtual de trabalho dela, de modo que a personagem se percebe perdendo o controle sobre os limites que estabeleceu em relação à identidade on-line criada. O aporte teórico para a análise vem dos conceitos de ócio, mais especificamente do ócio digital.
Teoria Laclauniana e Psicanálise: Articulações Teóricas no Interior de um Campo Dialógico
Authors: Barros da Silva Deivson Filipe , Costa Frederico Alves
Published: May 2021

O objetivo do artigo é discutir posições referentes à articulação entre o pensamento de Ernesto Laclau e a psicanálise presentes na literatura científica. Metodologicamente, realizamos uma revisão bibliográfica e, a partir da leitura do material selecionado e da discussão desenvolvida, compreendemos que há três posições quanto à articulação entre a teoria laclauniana e a psicanálise: a) o uso de conceitos psicanalíticos como homólogos e/ou sinônimos de conceitos laclaunianos; b) a compreensão de que haveria usos insatisfatórios da psicanálise por parte do Laclau; c) o reconhecimento da influência da psicanálise na teoria laclauniana articulada a outras influências teóricas, mas sem a realização de delimitações precisas sobre como ocorrem essas articulações. Compreendemos que essas posições são problemáticas e destacamos ser importante compreender a articulação entre a teoria laclauniana e a psicanálise a partir da consideração do campo dialógico que fundamenta o pensamento de Laclau.
A Norma do Falo e a Abjeção da Mulher na Psicanálise
Authors: Martins Paula Gruman
Published: May 2021

Neste artigo, a autora analisa o lugar que “a mulher”, formação discursiva e essencializada, ocupa em alguns extratos das obras de Freud e Lacan. A partir do modelo do sexo único, tal como concebido por Thomas Laqueur, ensaia-se demonstrar que, em muitos momentos, a psicanálise operou em um paradigma de um só sexo, apesar da aparente centralidade do conceito de diferença sexual em suas teorias. Fundamentando-se em textos centrais de Freud e Lacan, notadamente aqueles que versam sobre uma suposta diferença sexual, a autora conclui existir uma norma do falo em suas teorias. Propõe-se que a importância conferida ao elemento fálico impede a psicanálise de pensar outras formas de subjetivação, em que o falo (anatômico ou simbólico) não seja tão central. Considerando tal norma do falo, as contribuições de Julia Kristeva e Judith Butler sobre a abjeção são utilizadas para pensar a fabricação do gênero feminino enquanto abjeto na teoria psicanalítica. Entende-se que uma leitura acrítica de Freud e Lacan produz e reforça uma divisão entre sujeitos e abjetos sob a norma fálica. Sustenta-se que uma subjetivação pensada pela falta do falo mantém “a mulher” em um lugar de inexistência e, mesmo, de abjeção.
Right ventricular dysfunction and pulmonary hypertension in COVID-19: a meta-analysis of prevalence and its association with clinical outcome
Authors: Oktaviono Yudi , Mulia Eka , Luke Kevin , Nugraha David , Maghfirah Irma , Subagjo Agus
Published: May 2021

Introduction

Rapid spread of COVID-19 has caused detrimental effect globally. Involvement of ACE2 receptor has identified COVID-19 as a multi-organ disease. Preliminary studies have provided evidence that cardiac involvement, including right ventricular dysfunction (RVD) and pulmonary hypertension (PH) were found in COVID-19 cases, even in the non-advanced stage. This meta-analysis aims to analyze the prevalence of RVD and PH, and its association with COVID-19 clinical outcome.

Material and methods

A systematic data search was conducted through PubMed, MedRxiv, ProQuest, Science Direct, and Scopus databases using constructed keywords based on MeSH terms. Any outcomes regarding mortality, severity, ICU admission, and mechanical ventilation usage were analyzed using Revman v.5.4 and Stata v.16.

Results

A total of 16 eligible studies (1,728 patients) were included. Pooled prevalence of RVD in COVID-19 was 19% (95%CI: 13%−25%), and PH was 22% (95% CI: 14%-31%). RVD was associated with increased mortality (OR=2.98 [95%CI: 1.50-5.89], p=0.002), severity (OR= 3.61 [95%CI: 2.05−6.35], p<0.001), ICU admission (OR= 1.70 [95%CI: 1.12−2.56], p=0.01), and mechanical ventilation (MV) usage (OR= 1.60 [95%CI: 1.14−2.25], p=0.007). PH was also associated with increased mortality (OR=5.42 [95%CI: 2.66-11.06], p<0.001), severity (OR=5.74 [95%CI: 2.28-14.49], p<0.001), and ICU admission (OR: 12.83 [95% CI: 3.55-46.41], p<0.001).

Conclusions

RVD and PH were prevalent in COVID-19 and associated with mortality, severity, ICU admission, and MV usage in COVID-19 patients. Bedside echocardiography examination could be considered as a novel risk stratification tool in COVID-19.
Futurist Cinema
Authors: Catanese Rossella , Lista Giovanni , Bertetto Paolo , Valente Valentina , Schrader Sabine , Strauven Wanda , Uffreduzzi Elisa , Saccoccio Antonio , Carpi Giancarlo , Lotti Denis , Catanese Rossella , Re Lucia , Castrillo Carolina Fernández , Veneziano Francesca , Maramai Fernando , Seregni Marcello
Published: May 2021

Futurism and early cinema shared a fascination with dynamic movement and speed, presenting both as harbingers of an emerging new way of life and new aesthetic criteria. And the Futurists quickly latched on to cinema as a device with great potential to manipulate our perceptions in order to create a new world. In the edited collection Futurist Cinema, Rossella Catanese explores that conjunction, bringing in avant-garde artists and their manifestos to show how painters and other artists turned to cinema as a model for overcoming the inherently static nature of painting in order to rethink it for a new era.
Animal Rights Activism
Authors: Jacobsson Kerstin , Lindblom Jonas
Published: May 2021

We're in an era of ever increasing attention to animal rights, and activism around the issue is growing more widespread and prominent. In this volume, Jonas Lindblom and Kerstin Jacobsson use the animal rights movement in Sweden to offer the first analysis of social movements through the lens of Emile Durkheim's sociology of morality. By positing social movements as essentially a moral phenomenon-and morality itself as a social fact-the book complements more structural, cultural, or strategic action-based approaches, even as it also demonstrates the continuing value of classical sociological approaches to understanding contemporary society.
Sacred Channels
Authors: Hörl Erich ,   Diaphanes AG
Published: May 2021

Erich Hörl's Sacred Channels is an original take on the history of communication theory and the cultural imaginary of communication understood through the notions of the sacred and the primitive. Hörl offers insight into the shared ground of anthropology and media theory in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and presents an archeology of the philosophy of technology that underpins contemporary culture. This singular and unique project focuses on the ethnological disciplines and their phantasmatic imaginations of a prealphabetical realm of the sacred and the primitive but reads them in the context of media cultural questions as epistemic unconscious and as projections of the emerging postalphabetical condition. Drawing inspiration from work by the likes of Friedrich Kittler, Hörl's understanding of cybernetics in the post-World War II interdisciplinary field informs a rich analysis that is of interest to media scholars and to anyone seeking to understand the historical and theoretical underpinnings of the humanities in the age of technical media.
The Player's Power to Change the Game
Authors: Schleiner Anne-Marie
Published: May 2021

In recent decades, what could be considered a gamification of the world has occurred, as the ties between games and activism, games and war, and games and the city grow ever stronger. In this book, Anne-Marie Schleiner explores a concept she calls 'ludic mutation', a transformative process in which the player, who is expected to engage in the preprogramed interactions of the game and accept its imposed subjective constraints, seizes back some of the power otherwise lost to the game itself. Crucially, this power grab is also relevant beyond the game because players then see the external world as material to be reconfigured, an approach with important ramifications for everything from social activism to contemporary warfare.
Film Production and Consumption in Contemporary Taiwan
Authors: Mon Ya-Feng
Published: May 2021

This book uses the potent case study of contemporary Taiwanese queer romance films to address the question of how capitalism in Taiwan has privileged the film industry at the expense of the audience's freedom to choose and respond to culture on its own terms. Interweaving in-depth interviews with filmmakers, producers, marketers, and spectators, Ya-Fong Mon takes a biopolitical approach to the question, showing how the industry uses investments in techno-science, ancillary marketing, and media convergence to seduce and control the sensory experience of the audience-yet that control only extends so far: volatility remains a key component of the film-going experience.
Islamic Studies in the Twenty-first Century
Authors: Buskens Léon , Sandwijk Annemarie , Berkey Jonathan , Holmes Katz Marion , Lange Christian , Khalid Masud Muhammad , Messick Brinkley , Reinhard A. , Schulz Dorothea , Tayob Abdulkader , Vikor Knut , Werbner Pnina
Published: May 2021

In recent decades, traditional methods of philology and intellectual history, applied to the study of Islam and Muslim societies, have been met with considerable criticism from rising generations of scholars who have turned to the social sciences, most notably anthropology and social history, for guidance. This change has been accompanied by the rise of new fields, studying, for example, Islam in Europe and Africa, and new topics, such as the role of gender. This collection surveys these transformations and others, taking stock of the field and showing new paths forward.
The Christianization of Western Baetica
Authors: Sanchez Velasco Jeronimo
Published: May 2021

The province of Baetica, in present-day Spain, was one of the most important areas in the Roman Empire in terms of politics, economics, and culture. And in the late medieval period, it was the centre of a rich and powerful state, the Umayyad Caliphate. But the historical sources on the intervening years are limited, and we lack an accurate understanding of the evolution of the region. In recent years, however, archaeological research has begun to fill the gaps, and this book-built on more than a decade of fieldwork-provides an unprecedented overview of urban and rural development in the period.
Nazism and Neo-Nazism in Film and Media
Authors: Lee Jason
Published: May 2021

This timely book takes an original transnational approach to the theme of Nazism and neo-Nazism in film, media, and popular culture, with examples drawn from mainland Europe, the UK, North and Latin America, Asia, and beyond. This approach fits with the established dominance of global multimedia formats, and will be useful for students, scholars, and researchers in all forms of film and media. Along with the essential need to examine current trends in Nazism and neo-Nazism in contemporary media globally, what makes this book even more necessary is that it engages with debates that go to the very heart of our understanding of knowledge: history, memory, meaning, and truth.
Anglo-Saxon Literary Landscapes
Authors: Estes Heide
Published: May 2021

Literary scholars have traditionally understood landscapes, whether natural or manmade, as metaphors for humanity instead of concrete settings for people's actions. This book accepts the natural world as such by investigating how Anglo-Saxons interacted with and conceived of their lived environments. Examining Old English poems, such as Beowulf and Judith, as well as descriptions of natural events from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and other documentary texts, Heide Estes shows that Anglo-Saxon ideologies which view nature as diametrically opposed to humans, and the natural world as designed for human use, have become deeply embedded in our cultural heritage, language, and more.
Cinema's Baroque Flesh
Authors: Walton Saige
Published: May 2021

In Cinema's Baroque Flesh, Saige Walton draws on the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty to argue for a distinct aesthetic category of film and a unique cinema of the senses: baroque cinema. Combining media archaeological work with art history, phenomenology, and film studies, the book offers close analyses of a range of historic baroque artworks and films, including Caché, Strange Days, the films of Buster Keaton, and many more. Walton pursues previously unexplored connections between film, the baroque, and the body, opening up new avenues of embodied film theory that can make room for structure, signification, and thought, as well as the aesthetics of sensation.
Understanding Culture
Authors: Hellemans Babette , Marini Gioia
Published: May 2021

This pioneering textbook explores the theoretical background of cultural variety, both in past and present. How is it possible to study 'culture' when the topic covers the arts, literature, movies, history, sociology, anthropology and gender studies? 'Understanding Culture' examines the evolution of a concept with varying meanings depending on changing norms. Offering a long-duration analysis of the relationship between culture and nature, this book looks at the origins of studying culture from an international perspective.

Using examples from the several scholarly traditions in the practice of studying culture, the book is a key introduction to the area. It identifies the history of interpreting culture as a meeting point between the long-standing historical investigation of 'humanism' and 'postmodernism' and is a comprehensive resource for those who wish to further their engagement with culture as both a historical and contemporary phenomenon.
The Displacement of Borders among Russian Koreans in Northeast Asia
Authors: Park Hyun-Gwi , Schendel Willem , Harris Tina
Published: May 2021

Since the nineteenth century, ethnic Koreans have represented a small yet significant portion of the population of the Russian Far East, but until now, the phenomenon has been largely understudied. Based on extensive historical and ethnographic research, this is the first book in English to chart the contemporary social life of Koreans in the complex borderland region. Dispelling the commonly held notion that Koreans were completely removed from the region during the country's attempt to 'cleanse' its borders in 1937, Hyun Gwi Park reveals timely new insights into the historical and current experiences of Koreans living along the Eurasian frontier.
An Experts' Guide to International Protocol
Authors: Monod de Froideville Gilbert , Verheul Mark
Published: May 2021

Although modern life grows increasingly casual, in many sectors, protocol still reigns supreme. An Expert's Guide to International Protocol offers an overview of its associated practices, including those found within the context of diplomatic relations and the business world. Focusing on a wide range of countries and cultures, the book covers topics like seating arrangements, the history and use of flags, ceremonies, invitations and dress codes, and gifts and decorations. Throughout, influential diplomatic, business, cultural, and sports figures share their own experiences with protocols around the world.
Migrant Penalties in Educational Achievement
Authors: Borgna Camilla
Published: May 2021

The integration of second-generation immigrants has proved to be a major challenge for Europe in recent years. Though these people are born in their host nations, they often experience worse social and economic outcomes than other citizens. This volume focuses on one particular, important challenge: the less successful educational outcomes of second-generation migrants. Looking at data from seventeen European nations, Camilla Borgna shows that migrant penalties in educational achievement exist in each one-but that, unexpectedly, the penalties tend to be greater in countries in which socio-economic inequalities in education are generally more modest, a finding that should prompt reconsideration of a number of policy approaches.
Order, Materiality, and Urban Space in the Early Modern Kingdom of Sweden
Authors: Laitinen Riitta
Published: May 2021

Our corporeality and immersion in the material world make us inherently spatial beings, and the fact that we all share everyday experiences in the global physical environment means that community is also spatial by nature. This book explores the relationship between the seventeenth-century townspeople of Turku, Sweden, and their urban surroundings. Riitta Laitinen offers a novel account of civil and social order in this early modern town, highlighting the central importance of materiality and spatiality and breaking down the dichotomy of public versus private life that has dominated traditional studies of the time period.
A Dutch Republican Baroque
Authors: Korsten Frans-Willem
Published: May 2021

In the Dutch Republic, in its Baroque forms of art, two aesthetic formal modes, theatre and drama, were dynamically related to two political concepts, event and moment. The Dutch version of the Baroque is characterised by a fascination with this world regarded as one possibility out of a plurality of potential worlds. It is this fascination that explains the coincidence in the Dutch Republic, strange at first sight, of Baroque exuberance, irregularity, paradox, and vertigo with scientific rigor, regularity, mathematical logic, and rational distance. In giving a new historical perspective on the Baroque as a specifically Dutch republican one, this study also offers a new and systematic approach towards the interactions among the notions of theatricality, dramatisation, moment, and event: concepts that are currently at the centre of philosophical and political debates but the modern articulation of which can best be considered in the explorations of history and world in the Dutch Republic.
Anticipating Sin in Medieval Society
Authors: Abraham Erin Vanessia
Published: May 2021

Composed between the sixth and ninth centuries, penitentials were little books of penance that address a wide range of human fallibility. But they are far more than mere registers of sin and penance: rather, by revealing the multiple contexts in which their authors anticipated various sins, they reveal much about the ways those authors and, presumably, their audiences understood a variety of social phenomena. Offering new, more accurate translations of the penitentials than what has previously been available, this book delves into the potentialities addressed in these manuals for clues about less tangible aspects of early medieval history, including the innocence and vulnerability of young children and the relationship between speech and culpability; the links between puberty, autonomy, and moral accountability; early medieval efforts to regulate sexual relationships; and much more.
Women, Art and Observant Franciscan Piety
Authors: Arthur Kathleen Giles
Published: May 2021

Caterina Vigri (later Saint Catherine of Bologna) was a mystic, writer, teacher and nun-artist. Her first home, Corpus Domini, Ferrara, was a house of semi-religious women that became a Poor Clare convent and model of Franciscan Observant piety. Vigri's intensely spiritual decoration of her breviary, as well as convent altarpieces that formed a visual program of adoration for the Body of Christ, exemplify the Franciscan Observant visual culture. After Vigri's departure, it was transformed by d'Este women patrons, including Isabella da Aragona, Isabella d'Este and Lucrezia Borgia. While still preserving Observant ideals, it became a more elite noblewomen's retreat.

Grounded in archival research and extant paintings, drawings, prints and art objects from Corpus Domini, this volume explores the art, visual culture, and social history of an early modern Franciscan women's community.
Religion and Nationalism in Chinese Societies
Authors: Kuo Cheng-tian
Published: May 2021

This book explores the interaction between religion and nationalism in the Chinese societies of mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Cheng-tian Kuo analyses the dominant religions, including Chinese Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhism, Daoism, Christianity, Islam, and folk religions, but he also goes beyond that, showing how in recent decades the Chinese state has tightened its control over religion to an unprecedented degree. Indeed, it could almost be said to have constructed a wholly new religion, Chinese Patriotism. The same period, however, has seen the growth of democratic civil religions, which could challenge the state.
Picturing Commerce in and from the East Asian Maritime Circuits, 1550-1800
Authors: Bentley Tamara H. , Glahn Richard , Chin James K. , Nishida Hiroko , Pierce Donna , Schotten-Hammer Angela , Sargent Bill , Levine Victoria , Pierson Stacey
Published: May 2021

Combining strikingly new scholarship by art historians, historians, and ethnomusicologists, this interdisciplinary volume illuminates trade ties within East Asia, and from East Asia outwards, in the years 1550 to 1800. While not encyclopedic, the selected topics greatly advance our sense of this trade picture. Throughout the book, multi-part trade structures are excavated; the presence of European powers within the Asian trade nexus features as part of this narrative. Visual goods are highlighted, including lacquerwares, paintings, prints, musical instruments, textiles, ivory sculptures, unfired ceramic portrait figurines, and Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Southeast Asian ceramic vessels. These essays underscore the significance of Asian industries producing multiples, and the rhetorical charge of these goods, shifting in meaning as they move. Everyday commodities are treated as well; for example, the trans-Pacific trade in contraband mercury, used in silver refinement, is spelled out in detail. Building reverberations between merchant networks, trade goods, and the look of the objects themselves, this richly-illustrated book brings to light the Asian trade engine powering the early modern visual cultures of East and Southeast Asia, the American colonies, and Europe.
Antipodean Early Modern
Authors: Dunlop Anne , Melzer Libby , Manion Margaret M. , Shaw Elaine , Muir Bernard J. , Maddocks Hilary , Tokumitsu Miya , Reid Callum , Betka Ursula , Silver Larry , Zika Charles
Published: May 2021

A Prayer Book owned by the Rothschilds, an Italian bronze casket by Antico, a lavishly illustrated Carnival chronicle from sixteenth-century Germany, an altarpiece by Pieter Brueghel the Younger - much of the artwork in this book, held by Australian collections, is essentially unknown beyond the continent. The authors of these essays showcase these extraordinary objects to their full potential, revealing a wide range of contemporary art and historical research. This collection of essays will surprise even specialists.
Godefridus Schalcken
Authors: Franits Wayne
Published: May 2021

In his own day, Godefridus Schalcken (1643—1706) was an internationally renowned Dutch painter, but little is known about the four years that he spent in London. Using newly discovered documents, this book provides the first comprehensive examination of Schalcken’s activities there. The author analyses Schalcken’s strategic appropriations of English styles, his attempts to exploit gaps in the art market, and his impact on tastes in London’s milieu. Five chapters survey his art during these years, concluding with a critical catalogue of all his London-period work.
Accelerators in Silicon Valley
Authors: Ester Peter ,   Kenniscentrum Business Innovation, Hogeschool Rotterdam, Jonge
Published: May 2021

Silicon Valley is the world's most successful innovation region. Apple, Google, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, WhatsApp, Uber, and Airbnb changed our way of living. Silicon Valley has built a brilliant ecosystem that supports startups. Its entrepreneurial mindset fosters risk-taking, thinking big, and sharing.

A fast growing number of accelerators in Silicon Valley help startups by bringing their product to the market, refining their business idea, developing their product, strengthening their team, designing a marketing strategy, getting first customers and traction, raising funds, and coping with the hardships of startup life.

In Accelerators in Silicon Valley Peter Ester describes how these 'schools of startup entrepreneurship' operate and empower startups. What can we learn from how Silicon Valley accelerators help startups to become successful companies? This book gives the answer. Accelerators in Silicon Valley is a book for those who share a fascination for building the new startup economy.
Political Science and Changing Politics
Authors: Vermeulen Floris , Praag Philip , Brug Wouter , Meer Tom , Hooren Franca , Eijk Cees , Schumacher Gijs , Berkhout Joost , Hanegraaff Marcel
Published: May 2021

Politics is about conflict, struggle, decision-making, power and influence. But not every conflict and not every situation in which power is exercised is widely regarded as politics. A football coach who decides to leave a player on the bench because he has given him a bit of lip, is exerting power, and there is conflict here, too. However, few people would consider this a political issue. The same applies to a mother who quarrels with her adolescent daughter about going to a house party, a schoolteacher who gives a student detention, and so on. But if we were to limit our understanding of politics to official decisions that are taken by governments, in parliaments or on municipal councils, we would fail to recognise the political meaning of trade unions, lobbyists, protest groups, corporations and other more-or-less organised groups that influence collective decision-making.
The Battle of Errozabal in Light of the Frankish Sources
Authors: Irujo Xabier
Published: May 2021

This chapter describes the military operation, marches, fights and
outcome of King Charles’ venture in August 778 with a detailed description
of the route and the location of the Carolingian army’s defeat. It
therefore provides a comprehensive description of the action in the light
of Medieval historical sources including a wide-ranging description of
the characteristics of both armies, numbers and relative position in the
battlefield, weaponry and clothing, and the strategic factors leading to
the collapse of the Carolingian army and the resultant massacre in the
Pyrenees. Based on original historical sources and a careful study of the
terrain with the help of the Rangers of the Government of Navarre and
expert archaeologists of the region, this is one of the most accurate and
detailed description of the battle ever written.
An equality narrative
Authors: Wells Tamas
Published: May 2021

This chapter examines an equality narrative of democracy that was drawn
on within some networks of activists, and which was largely a reaction
against the benevolence narrative described in the previous chapter. This
narrative has three components – the core challenge of hierarchy within
Burmese society, a vision of personal or relational equality and a strategy
of cultural reform. Proponents of this narrative saw the emphasis on
values of unity and obligation within the benevolence narrative, and the
implicit hierarchies that these values create, as deeply problematic for
the country’s democratisation.
Beyond an ‘ideal type’
Authors: Wells Tamas
Published: May 2021

This case of activists, democratic leaders and aid workers in Myanmar
– and the ways in which they communicate about democracy – reveals
lessons that can be applied more broadly to endeavours to understand
democracy promotion around the world. This chapter addresses both
the democracy-promotion literature and also the practical implications
for practitioners working on governance or democracy programs in
international donor agencies or NGOs.
Exploring the Iconic in History Museums
Authors: de Bruijn Pieter
Published: May 2021

This chapter explores how iconic events and objects manifest themselves
in museum exhibitions, providing case studies on the representation of
the World War II Blitz and the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade
in the UK. De Bruijn shows how these historical events have acquired
iconic status and how museums further contribute to their ‘iconization’
through the repetitive use of objects relating to air raid precautions
and shelters, and of images and objects that have their roots in the
abolition campaign of the eighteenth and nineteenth century. With
some exhibitions also showing attempts to confront the ‘iconization’
process, the chapter offers insight into how museums navigate the
dynamic cultural memory of specific histories, whilst preserving their
own aim and mission.
National Treasure Tea Bowls as Cultural Icons in Modern Japan
Authors: Jones Meghen
Published: May 2021

Tea bowls hold profound significance in Japan today as loci of tea ceremony
aesthetics and ideology. While tea bowls have come to be understood as
embodiments of particular Japanese national aesthetics and value systems,
their status as the most significant objects within tea rituals is a modern
phenomenon. This essay explores the cultural iconicity of the eight tea
bowls that were designated Japanese National Treasures in the 1950s and
that continue to draw much attention. Each signifies something beyond
the ordinary and encapsulates a particular aspect of Japanese national
identity. As a group, they manifest idealized aesthetics of the Japanese
tea ceremony, reinforce power structures, and inspire contemporary
potters to reproduce them.