bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Meteorizações: Agropoesia de Libertação de Amílcar Cabral
Authors: César Filipa
Published: January 2024

Este artigo faz uma leitura da pouco estudada ciência do solo de Amílcar Cabral como indissociável do seu projeto de luta de libertaçã o contra o colonialismo português na Guiné-Bissau e em Cabo Verde. O seu trabalho como agrónomo foi fundamental para a sua argumentaçã o teórica que denunciou as injustiças perpetradas em terras colonizadas e para obter conhecimento materialista e situado sobre as condiçõ es de vida das pessoas sob o jugo colonial. Cabral tirou partido da sua posiçã o como agrónomo ao serviço do governo colonial de forma subversiva para promover a luta anticolonial. Defendo que os resultados do trabalho agronómico de Cabral – a sua atençã o ao solo e aos inerentes processos e transformaçõ es – não apenas informaram a organizaçã o da luta de libertaçã o, mas foram determinantes para o processo de descolonizaçã o, que incluía o cinema militante e a disseminaçã o do crioulo como formas de propagaçã o do projeto de recuperaçã o e re- construçã o nacional da pós-colónia.
Ecossistemas estéticos: reimaginar o alimento
Authors: Nolasco Ana , Schofield Cardoso César
Published: January 2024

A partir do caso de estudo de Cabo Verde, propomos uma reflexão sobre o entrecruzamento das políticas alimentares e o seu padrão corporativo com a mentalidade extrativista dos recursos naturais e humanos – cuja massificação ao nível planetário teve início no colonialismo acoplado à revolução tecnocientífica europeia. Tendo sido considerado o 7º país do mundo mais vulnerável às alterações climáticas, Cabo Verde constitui, de facto, um caso particularmente interessante para refletir sobre a perpetuação das lógicas coloniais e os imaginários sociais. Urge, assim, encontrar novos imaginários ligados ao mar que contribuam para modos de produção e padrões alimentares sustentáveis ao nível social e ambiental de modo a contrariar a mentalidade extrativista capitalista e a criar um espaço para a reinvenção de futuros alternativos.
Paisagem, um ensaio entre horizontes
Authors: Reyes Paulo
Published: January 2024

Este artigo parte da noção de Antropoceno para pensar o que significa “projetar a paisagem”. Mesmo entendendo que a categoria paisagem tem sentido polissêmico, transversal e multidimensional, o recorte interpretativo neste texto se dá na interface Filosofia e Arquitetura. A intenção é pensar o projeto da paisagem a partir da categoria horizonte em um sentido duplo: o espacial, dado pelo olhar na ação perceptiva, portanto, estética; e o temporal, dado pelos sentidos existenciais, constituindo um ser no mundo, portanto, ético. A aposta aqui é pensar a paisagem a partir de um processo dialético e paradoxal que ao sentido de projeto possamos incluir o seu contrário, o não-projeto.
(Re)vendo a construção da Paisagem na Arqueologia: Antropoceno e Visualidade Maquínica
Authors: Agosto Frederico , Teuchmann Philipp
Published: January 2024

Desde a sua concepção inicial, a ideia de Antropoceno assinalou a irreversível marca do humano na Terra. A iminente falência da natureza tornou o pensar da paisagem num exercício autorreflexivo sobre o ethos da Humanidade na Terra. Nesta senda, o Antropoceno, por ser (também) sintoma da técnica planetária, tem como um dos seus subprodutos as tecnologias da visualidade maquínica. A Arqueologia, enquanto prática e um pensar da Terra e do Humano, vê-se impregnada de uma inescapável condição antropocénica. Advogaremos que nesta relação entre a Arqueologia e a visualidade maquínica uma nova ideia de paisagem emerge, onde se demonstrará, novamente, a pervasividade do Antropoceno em todas as esferas do Humano.
Ruína histórica e ruína metafísica
Authors: Serrão Adriana Veríssimo
Published: January 2024

O artigo apresenta um confronto entre diferentes perspectivas da ruína arquitectónica. Uma, dominante na história das ideias, insere as ruínas na dimensão do tempo, seja como sinais da brevidade da vida humana, seja como símbolos de uma Idade de Ouro em que o tempo se fixou como eternidade. Uma diferente leitura deve-se ao filósofo Georg Simmel, no ensaio “Die Ruine”, de 1911. Enquanto obra humana, um edifício ergue-se quando a consciência e vontade dominaram os materiais naturais. Quando se desfaz, e acaba por tombar, dá-se uma inversão dos papéis: são as potências naturais que desempenham o papel de agente activo, acabando por fundir as ruínas na paisagem envolvente.
Ruínas de um Teatro na Cidade em Mutação
Authors: Fernandes Lídia , Luiz Cordeiro Sílvio , Michael Hennrich Dirk
Published: January 2024

No dia 12 de Outubro de 2022, a arqueóloga Lídia Fernandes, coordenadora do Museu de Lisboa -Teatro Romano foi entrevistada, em conversabem-humorada nas ruínas do monumental teatroque compunha a paisagem da antiga cidade deFelicitas Iulia Olisipo, hoje um sítio arqueológicoda maior revelância na arqueologia em Portugal
Cenas do Antropoceno
Authors: De Sousa Santos Boaventura
Published: January 2024

Neste texto faço uma apresentação breve das epistemologias do sul, entendendo por sul o sul epistémico e não o sul geográfico. Mostro que num período histórico tão complexo e ameaçador como aquele em que vivemos não é possível confiar num só sistema de conhecimentos para fazer frente aos desafios que nos confrontam. A ciência é um conhecimento válido mas não é o único conhecimento válido. Os seus limites são hoje mais evidentes que nunca à medida que as perversões da modernidade ocidental (fascismos, fundamentalismos, colapso ecológico, guerra permanente) nos batam à porta com cada vez mais violência.
Molecular, micromorphological and anatomical study of rangeland species of
Atriplex
(Chenopodiaceae) in Iran
Authors: Tahmasebi Abolfazl
Published: January 2024

Atriplex, as the largest genus of the Chenopodiaceae, is well known for its taxonomic complexity resulting from overlapping morphological characters. This halophytic perennial is distributed in salty and dry soils of Eurasia, America and Australia. Atriplex is one of the most widely cultivated rangeland species in Iran, which improves and revitalizes the rangelands. These unique characteristics of Atriplex make it a valuable plant. The present study is the first micromorphological investigation of this genus in Iran. In this study, the molecular evidence, micromorphological and anatomical structure of four species of Atriplex have been considered to evaluate their relationships. The basic shape of the pollen grains in most taxa is subprolate, however prolate and spheroidal pollen grains were recorded for A. lentiformis and A. canescens. One type of trichome (glandular) is described. Here, among the glandular trichomes, density and size of trichomes are considered as valuable characteristics. Micromorphology of epidermis illustrated three types of epidermal cells including puzzle-shaped, polygonal and irregular. Stem cross sections showed rounded shape, but the margins are diff erent between four species. Using nuclear and plastid markers (nrDNA ITS and rpl32-trnL(UAG)), we reconstructed phylogenetic relationships within four species of Atriplex. This data set was analyzed by phylogenetic methods including Bayesian inference, maximum likelihood and maximum parsimony. In phylogenetic analyses, all members of four species formed a well-supported clade (PP = 1; ML/BS = 100/100), divided into three major subclades (I, II and III). The results of the present study showed the usefulness of micromorphological, anatomical and molecular characteristics in taxon delimitation at specific levels.
Ammonia ambiance induces SIRT5 regulated expression of EGF-AKT-mTOR axis in Asian stinging catfish
Heteropneustes fossilis
(Bloch) 1974
Authors: Chowdhury Sabarna , Saikia Surjya K
Published: January 2024

The present study was aimed to understand whether ammonia exposure induces oxidative stress in Heteropneustes fossilis and what is the fate of the excess ammonia in the skeletal muscle of the fish. The experiments were performed in two different sets as control and treated (repeated three times with fresh specimens) of aquaria with 25 mM of ammonium chloride treatment and the tissues were collected in different time intervals (24 h, 72 h and 7 days). The collected tissues were studied to understand the change of SIRT5 levels in liver and skeletal muscle tissues. The results that were obtained from investigation of MDA (malondialdehyde) and superoxide dismutase (SOD) revealed that the fish undergoes extensive oxidative stress when exposed to ammonia ambiance. Further, after 7 days of ammonia exposure increase in the levels of glutamate and glutamine revealed the fate of excess ammonia in the skeletal muscle of the fish. Moreover, the levels of cell proliferator proteins like EGF, AKT and mTOR were also analysed and found an increase in their expression with a time dependent manner. It indicates that the excess ammonia could be utilised in synthesising protein and triggering cell growth and proliferation even under such harsh condition of ambient ammonia.
How might a City Hub at Stuttgart Central Station reduce Emissions and improve the Pre-last Mile Delivery by Rail Freight?
Authors: Wondratschek Florian , Gangadharan Vaisakh , Wilson Niva
Published: January 2024

This article deals with the development of a City Hub in Stuttgart, one of the most problematic air-polluted cities in Germany. The research question is how a hub located at the central station could reduce emissions and improve the shift to rail freight - the so-called pre-last mile in the delivery process. A chapter about sustainable local freight transport describes a city hub and explains ecologically why last mile solutions like cargo bikes should be considered. After a brief explanation why rail freight trains are needed again, the Stuttgart model is presented in concrete terms, in which the historical construction conditions and the history of rail freight transport in the Stuttgart city center are discussed, which also relate to the Stuttgart 21 framework plan. A context and content analysis is then carried out by interviewing various experts of the logistic and planner area. The output of this work should be to what extent rail freight transport in Stuttgart is seen as an opportunity, whether the respective areas such as trade, logistics industry or railway companies see the need for a modal shift and which concrete measures could be realized. On this basis, the framework conditions for a city hub should be made clearly recognizable and the role of the penultimate mile should be highlighted much more clearly in order to ultimately improve the logistics issue in Stuttgart in the basic idea of sustainable mobility.
Effect of Repeated Dose Administration of Ethanolic Extract of Bosweillia dalzielii Stem Bark on Haematological Parameters of Normoglycaemic and Alloxan Induced Hyperglycaemic Albino Rats
Authors: Etteh Ubong
Published: January 2024

Boswelia dalzielii (family Burseraceae) is the West African species of the frankincense producing genres. Its ethnomedicinal applications include the treatment of emesis, heart diseases, leprosy and diabetes mellitus. Ethanolic extract of the plant was investigated for their anti-hyperglycaemic properties and their effect on haematological parameters of normglycemic and alloxan-induced hyperglycaemic albino rats. The study showed a statistically significant P<0.05) reduction of blood glucose concentration in the diabetic experimental animals proceeding from day 2 through day 7 of extract administration and in the normoglycemic (non-diabetic) rats starting from day 5 through day 7. Assessment of the ethanolic extract of the plant on haematological parameters showed significant (p<0.05) reduction in circulating RBC, Hb, MCH and MCHC but an increase in MCV of the hyperglycaemic rats. Total white blood cell (WBC) count and monocyte (MONO) decreased significantly (p<0.05) while lymphocyte increased significantly |p<0.05) astreatment progressed. The result of the present study suggests that ethanolic extract of B . dalzielii possess antihyperglycaemic properties. However, while the plant may be useful for the treatment of diabetes mellitus, it has been shown to educe the number of circulating red blood cells, haemoglobin and white blood cells in diabetic animals.
Context Specific Complementary Feeding Recommendations for Children in Pakistan Based on Secondary Analysis of National Complementary Feeding Assessment and Pakistan Demographic Health Survey 2018
Authors: Saba Shuja Saba Shuja , Khan Wisal , Mahmood Hana , Sheraz Syed Yahya , Ategbo Eric Alain
Published: January 2024

Background
In Low Middle-Income Countries (LIMCs), malnutrition, especially undernutrition is one of the leading causes of childhood mortality and morbidity. Poor complementary feeding practices are among the most notable contributors to poor nutritional indicators in children under five. This article provides an output of secondary data analysis of the Cost of Diet (CoD) and Optifood component of National Complementary Feeding Assessment conducted by UNICEF Pakistan along with Pakistan Demographic Health Survey (PDHS) 2018.

Methods
For correlation of Optifood data and CoD data with PDHS data of CF, GraphPad software, MS Excel was used along with manual quantifications. The analysis of DHS-2018 data was conducted using STATA software. Univariate analysis included comparison of categorical variables i.e. various individual, household and community level parameters with that of outcome variables of minimum dietary diversity (MDD), minimum meal frequency (MMF) and minimum dietary diversity (MAD) using chi-square test.

Findings
The overall rate of MMF was 56.6% among children of 6-23 months of age with MDD in 18.6% and MAD in 13.8% of children. Percentage of annual cost spent on nutritious diet for MDD, MMF and MAD varies from 27.86% to 43.08% across all the provinces. Children aged 6–8 months and 9–11 months often consumed infant milk and cereals, while children aged 12–23 months often consumed eggs and grain products. Consumption of dairy products was highest in Punjab, Sindh, AJK, and Islamabad, that of grains roots and tubers was highest in KPK, FATA and GB.

Conclusion
Considering CF practices in Pakistan are inadequate as indicated by poor MDD, MMF, and MAD, therefore it is imperative that a holistic approach using both communication and non-communication based interventions is to be employed through active stakeholder engagement.
Functional properties of Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) and Pumpkin seed flours and protein isolate
Authors: Khalid Ikhlas Ibrahim
Published: January 2024

The current study was intended to evaluate the chemical composition, functional properties, of some cucurbits seed. watermelon (Citrullus lanatus), and Pumpkin (Cucurbita maxima), were studied. Proximate analysis gave 17.09% -17.07% protein, 35.55%-39.0% fat,6.00% - 5.5% total ash, 24.9%-2.6% crude fibre, and 10.60% - 28.83% carbohydrate, for Pumpkin and Watermelon seed flour respectively. The seeds are rich in protein, crude fat, and crude fiber. nutritional value in the seed can be recommended on daily allowance, maintenance of good nutritional status and good health. The functional properties of the seed revealed that water and oil absorption capacities for the seed were 3.20 - 5.60 (Ml/g) and 3.93 -3.50 (Ml/g) for Watermelon and Pumpkin seed flour respectively. Foam capacity and bulk density for the seed were 9.67 % -19.0 % and 0.77 (g/ml) -1.5(g/ml). for Pumpkin and Watermelon seed flour respectively. Water and fat absorption capacities, and foam capacity were fairly good in all seeds. However, Pumpkin seed flour gave good functional properties compare to watermelon seed flour. The oil of watermelon and Pumpkin are acceptable according to its chemical properties. The seeds contained high amounts of K, Mg, Na, P and Ca. The obtained results revealed that the seeds presented an alternative source of vegetable oil. Seeds could be added to food systems such as bakery products.
The trajectory of immunoglobulins immune response against the different amounts of xenobiotics matches the trajectory of biological changes associated with ageing: A systematic review
Authors: Belay Yilkal Tariku
Published: January 2024

Background
Ageing is a life process in which progressive molecular, cellular, physiological and anatomical changes manifesting in humans and animals including other organisms lead to the decline of biological functions. Immunoglobulins (Igs) are glycoprotein molecules produced by white blood cells mainly B lymphocytes following signal transduction as a result of their interaction with pathogenic microbes or poisonous substances introduced into the body systems. They elicit responses against the side effects of pathogens and poisons in which their response efficiency usually declines as we are ageing.

Objective
Thus, the similarities between Igs’ immune response against the different amounts of xenobiotics and the biological changes associated with ageing have been systematically assessed using the reports of different study results on humans and animals.

Methods
First, a literature search was carried out in google, PubMed and google scholar using planned search terms related to the title of this study. Review and original articles were retrieved, downloaded and saved on a computer. And then the effects of different factors i.e. xenobiotics, age, sex and lifestyle-based practices on the levels of serum Igs (IgG, IgA and IgM) in animals and humans have been studied using a systematic review of different literature sources. Finally, the relationship between the findings of various studies has been assessed and judgment on the possible cause of ageing has been made.

Results
The findings of different research have demonstrated that the signaling efficiency of immunoglobulin M (IgM) has been limited by the amount of test compounds administered to study Balb c mice in the oral route. The response efficiency of IgM immune response against the lower doses of test compounds were high compared to the higher doses of test compounds which was low. The results of different other studies also demonstrated that the decline of serum IgM levels was associated with ageing. The relationship between alcohol consumption and the concentration of serum Igs was also described in the report of different studies. These studies have shown that there was lower level of IgG in the blood serum of alcohol consumers compared to non-consumers. The study has also demonstrated a lower level of serum IgM with higher alcohol consumption and higher serum concentration with moderate beer consumption.

Conclusion
The trajectory of Igs’ immune response against different amounts of xenobiotics was highly associated with the trajectory of biological changes during ageing. These research findings might be the possible evidence to conclude that ageing is caused by the foodstuffs and non-foodstuffs we usually consume, the lifestyles we usually experience and the way of life we usually live in the environment which gradually defiling the natural processes of the body.
Tai-Chi Exercise Training And Its Promising Therapeutic Impacts Among Older Community Dwelling Adults With Painful Knee Osteoarthritis
Authors: Marks Ray
Published: January 2024

Knee joint osteoarthritis, a chronic condition resulting in considerable disability, particularly in later life, not only impacts life quality significantly and severely, but is also strongly associated with the persistence of intractable pain, depression, helplessness, and a high falls injury risk. This narrative overview synthesizes the knowledge base regarding painful knee osteoarthritis and what is known about Tai Chi exercise participation in the context of reducing knee joint disability and its associated risk of one or more injurious falls, as well as pain and depression. To this end, all relevant articles published in the English language on the topic were sought. While most reports rely on Eastern observations, rather than Western medicine studies, collectively, these data reveal that Tai Chi practiced widely in Asia for many centuries may have an enormous positive impact on reducing distress and increasing function and autonomy among older adults living in the community and diagnosed as having knee osteoarthritis. They specifically suggest the increasing numbers of older adults diagnosed as having knee osteoarthritis can safely practice selected Tai Chi exercises with the expectation that consistent applications will enhance mobility, reduce pain and depression, plus instability and possible injurious falls, while reducing fatigue, even if surgery is forthcoming.
Hybrid Limited Shoulder Surgical Management (HLSSM) Sayed Issa's Hybrid Shoulder Arthroscopic-Open Surgical Management
Authors: Abdulhamid Sayed Issa
Published: January 2024

Introduction
The idea of HLSSM2 is to get the least easy surgical intervention, as arthroscopic surgery begins with examining the shoulder joint, and the location and size of the lesion are determined, then open over the lesion with an open surgical approach that is very limited for surgical repair; not using arthroscopic instruments but conventional surgical instruments in the second step. Figure 1

Methods
Clinical experience with this technique consists of 44 cases over a period of thirty-one months, this study was from September 2020 to May 2023. All cases were done as outpatients and under general anesthesia.

Results
The mean duration of the operation was 35 minutes, and the minimum duration was 25 minutes. There was no major nerve or vascular injury in all cases. This technique is simple, safe, and good cosmetically satisfactory for all patients after full recovery about three months after the procedure, and it is cost-effective. One 43-year-old female patient suffered pain and stiffness during the first six months after surgery and was not very satisfied, she did not stop visiting us till now, she was not happy because of shoulder pain and tenderness.

Conclusion
It can be used by experienced hand surgeons in shoulder arthroscopy and in Mini Lateral Shoulder Approach (MLSA)3, especially in countries where shoulder arthroscopic release and repair with suture anchors are expensive4 or not available. This technique is not very simple but is available, safe, cosmetically satisfactory, and cost-effective.
Covid-19 Pandemic and Persons with Disabilities: Impacts and Risk Factors, Lessons for Future Interventions
Authors: Muhammed Yahya
Published: January 2024

Background
The pandemic has disrupted the lives of many globally including persons with disabilities. These disruptions are universal. However, the vulnerable communities are more affected.

Purpose
The study examines impacts on persons with disabilities to share knowledge and inform interventions that ensure persons with disabilities are supported.

Methodology
The study is a systematic literature review using different search engines to search for scholarly articles all over the globe.

Results
Persons with disabilities have been negatively impacted in numerous ways: lack of access to healthcare services, inadequate rehabilitation services, increased human rights violation, stigmatization and discrimination, increased risk of dying, being subjected to violence, losing financial income, lack of access to education and treatment, increased in neglect and traumatization, poverty, lack of access to food, decreased in community support; and worse of all, in comparison with the overall population, the death of persons with disabilities during the Covid-19 is higher. These impacts were precipitated by inaccessible built environment and sense of touching, lack of disability sensitive policies, increased prevalence of risk factors, difficulties in adhering to WHO recommendations, pervasiveness of underlying health conditions, lack of disability-friendly information and inclusive intervention, national budget cuts; and poorly funded institutions.

Conclusion
Persons with disabilities have been negatively impacted due to many risk factors peculiar to them.
Pembuatan Animasi Game Pemasangan NGT sebagai Media Pembelajaran Praktikum KDM
Authors: Siscadarsih Indraswari , Ramadhani Devy Kurnia , Dewi Nur Indah Kusuma
Published: January 2024

The competence of a midwife has a major influence on the quality of midwifery services provided. The Midwifery education program structure contains 40% theory and 60% practice. Background: During the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a rapid and drastic change in health education. With the restrictions during the pandemic, student access to the laboratory is also hampered. Objective: This research allows the creation of new learning media based on game animation that can provide students with a real audio-visual picture of a particular midwifery care procedure. Methods: The design of this research is Research and Development (Research and Development). The development research model used is ADDIE with the stages of Analysis, Design, Development and, Production, Implementation, Evaluation. The data collection method used in this study was means of observation and questionnaires. Tests in this study were conducted to test the usability aspect. Results: This application can be used on Windows-based personal computers and Android-based mobile phones. The results of testing the usability quality of the NGT installation game application are 91.56% and get a very good predicate so that this application can be used for practical learning. Conclusion: The NGT installation game application can be used as a KDM practicum learning media.
Miskoncepce z pedologie u studentů učitelství přírodních věd
Authors: Chmelová Štěpánka
Published: January 2024

Tato studie se zabývá analýzou miskoncepcí z pedologie u budoucích učitelů přírodopisu, kteří studují na Pedagogické fakultě Jihočeské univerzity v Českých Budějovicích. Nejčastější miskoncepce byly zjišťovány pomocí 10 testových úloh s otevřenou odpovědí. Soubor respondentů tvořilo celkem 35 studentů bakalářského studia.  V rámci této studie byly zjištěny četné miskoncepce u budoucích pedagogů. Nejčastěji zjištěné miskoncepce byly tyto: půda není „živá“, půdní druh a půdní typ je jedno a to samé, půda se řadí mezi obnovitelný zdroj, rostliny si z půdy berou vše pro svůj růst a vývoj, humus jsou jen rozložené rostliny. Až 37 % respondentů se potýká s jedním nebo  dokonce s více miskoncepty z učiva pedologie. Půda, její vznik, význam a vlastnosti jsou důležité pro pochopení souvislostí mezi živou a neživou přírodou a patří mezi jedno z nejdůležitějších integrovaných přírodovědných témat. V didaktickém výzkumu je proto potřeba se zaměřit na moderní výukové strategie a snažit se odstranit tyto miskoncepce ve výuce o půdě.
Blask Mitry w Güglingen
Authors: Mrozewicz Leszek
Published: January 2024

Ines Siemers-Klenner, Archäologie des Mithraskultes. Architektur und Kultpraxis am Beispiel der Tempel von Güglingen, Kreis Heilbronn, mit einem Beitrag von Frauke Jacobi, Forschungen und Berichte zur Archäologie in Baden Württemberg, 16, Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, Wiesbaden 2020, 451 s., w tekście liczne czarnobiałe i kolorowe fotografie, rysunki i plany
Mitra rzymski wszechobecny
Authors: Mrozewicz Leszek
Published: January 2024

Antike Welt 1/2023: Mithras [Mitra]
Fake history. Sobre la manipulación del pasado en Cataluña
Authors: Kubiaczyk Filip
Published: January 2024

This article explores how the past is manipulated in the Catalan national discourse. It outlines main narrative strategies used to exclude that which is Spanish from the image of Catalonia’s past, and discusses the consequences, involving the distortion of historical consciousness among the Catalans.
Patrimoine culturel sarmate dans l’espace social du Duché de Lorraine et de Bar sous le règne du roi Stanisław Leszczyński (1737-1766), expression de l’identité culturelle polonaise
Authors: Durbas Małgorzata
Published: January 2024

The aim of the article is to discuss the Sarmatian cultural transfer into the social space of Lorraine as a manifestation of the Polish cultural identity of the king of Poland, duke of Lorraine and Bar, Stanislaus Leszczynski, a European and a citizen of the world. Leszczynski’s prolific contributions in his new homeland had its roots in the Sarmatian culture, one in which he grew up and which became ingrained in his consciousness. Through the Polish monarch and his Polish entourage, elements of Polish cultural identity—profoundly anchored in the Sarmatian background—began to permeate into the social space of the new homeland of Lorraine.
Obra total. Wpływ twórczości Cesara Manrique na krajobraz przyrodniczo-architektoniczny Lanzarote
Authors: Szulc Magdalena
Published: January 2024

This paper discusses the oeuvre of the Spanish artist Cesar Manrique, who lived and worked in Lanzarote from the 1970s until his death in 1992. His versatile art (the artist created buildings, sculptures, paintings, prints and other art forms) changed the island’s appearance and the attitude of its inhabitants towards the landscape and the fusion of nature and architecture. Manrique’s work was innovative and continues to inspire architects, sculptors and painters today. The aim of this article is to outline selected examples of the solutions proposed by Manrique and their impact on the notions of how nature can be combined with architecture.
Towards an Integrated Perspective of Teachers’ Technology Integration: A Preliminary Model and Future Research Directions
Authors: Lachner Andreas , Backfisch Iris , Franke Ulrike
Published: January 2024

Technology integration is regarded as a crucial and complex endeavour to enhance students’ learning and prepare them to participate in a digital society. Although the research landscape on teachers’ technology integration is vivid and stimulating, an analytical model which synthesises different strands of research to model antecedents (i.e., teachers’ professional competences), processes and outcomes of technology integration in an integrated manner is missing. That said, previous research was often rather product-oriented and ignored potential effects on students’ learning processes and their achievement. To fill this gap, in this paper, we outline a preliminary model, the TPTI-model (teachers’ professional competence for technology integration), in which we deliberately link different research perspectives on teachers’ professional competences, professional vision and students’ learning (processes) to model technology integration during teaching. Based on the preliminary TPTI-model, we propose future research directions, which may allow to gain a better understanding of the teacher- and student-related conditions as well as processes of technology integration and their effects on students’ learning.
Weakly Kähler hyperbolic manifolds and the Green–Griffiths–Lang conjecture
Authors: Bei Francesco , Diverio Simone , Eyssidieux Philippe , Trapani Stefano
Published: January 2024

We introduce the notion of weakly Kähler hyperbolic manifold which generalizes that of Kähler hyperbolic manifold given in the early 1990s by M. Gromov, and establish its basic features. We then investigate its spectral properties and show a spectral gap result (on a suitable modification).
As applications, we prove that weakly Kähler hyperbolic manifolds are of general type and we study the geometry of their subvarieties and entire curves, verifying – among other things – various aspects of the Lang and the Green–Griffiths conjectures for this class of manifolds.
Self-presentation as an ELF user in social media: an analysis of Japanese young adults’ online language practices
Authors: Tanaka Aina
Published: January 2024

This paper delves into the identity constructions of Japanese young adults as users of English as a lingua franca on social media, with a specific focus on Instagram, a widely utilized platform among this demographic. Grounded in the premise that social media serves as a space for self-presentation, drawing from the social constructivist idea that the self is a performative act, the study centers on three Japanese young individuals with overseas experiences. It explores how they employ English as a communicative lingua franca in a transnational space while remaining highly conscious of their Japanese followers, endeavoring to portray idealized English-speaking selves. An ethnographic approach (Netnography) to the participants’ online practices involves prolonged online observations and interviews, seeking not only screen-based linguistic data but also uncovering the speakers’ voices behind the online screen. The findings illuminate that their identities as experienced English users evolves into a distinct aspiration to present themselves as competent English users. This aspiration is intricately attached to English ideologies, including native speakerism and the social status of English. The study provides valuable insights into the importance of scrutinizing the complex identity construction and language negotiation among speakers in ELF contexts, particularly within the realm of everyday online discourse. It sheds light on how young online users navigate between identities as English users and learners in the dynamic context of both global and local friendships.
Effects of co-inoculation of indole-3-acetic acid- and ammonia-producing bacteria on plant growth and nutrition, soil elements, and the relationships of soil microbiomes with soil physicochemical parameters
Authors: Pongsilp Neelawan , Nimnoi Pongrawee
Published: January 2024

To cope with the problem of the reduction in agricultural productivity, the massive usage of chemical fertilizers for boosting agricultural productivity is popular across the world. In return, it thereby declines soil quality and biodiversity. We therefore determined the potential of co-inoculation of the indole-3-acetic-acid- and ammonia-producing bacteria, Pseudomonas sp. strain NK2/7 and Bacillus sp. strain NK1/19, immobilized in agar to promote mustard greens growth and investigated the effects of co-inoculation of both strains on plant and soil elements as well as soil bacterial community structure, in comparison with a chemical fertilizer and single-strain inoculations. The knowledge on the relationships of both species with plant and soil microbiota in field conditions is limited. The results show that the co-inoculation of both strains immobilized in agar increased plant dry weight up to 62.02% and plant elements, including N (38.46%), P (28.37%), K (203.16%), Ca (10.89%), Mg (25.8%), and Na (70.3%). The co-inoculation also conferred the highest organic matter (OM) (by 429.45%) and increased soil elements including Fe (92.74%), Mn (126.88%), Cu (12.05%), and Zn (107.46%). Illumina next-generation sequencing demonstrated that the establishment of both strains affected the soil bacterial community by reducing bacterial diversity and richness. Bacterial classes Bacteroidia, alpha-Proteobacteria, Vicinamibacteria, Gemmatimonadetes, Verrucomicrobiae, Polyangia, Nitrososphaeria, and Blastocatellia were significantly decreased, whereas the amounts of gamma-Proteobacteria and Bacilli were significantly increased. Soil parameters, including pH, OM, total Fe, Mn, Cu, and Zn, were the major factors influencing the soil bacterial community structure.
Fault diagnosis using signal processing and deep learning-based image pattern recognition
Authors: Ren Zhenxing , Guo Jianfeng
Published: January 2024

The vibration signal is a typical non-stationary signal, making it challenging to use traditional time-frequency analysis techniques for fault diagnosis. Therefore, this work investigates the processing of vibration signals and proposes a deep learning method based on processed signals for the fault diagnosis of ball bearings. In this work, the fault diagnosis is formulated as an image classification problem and solved with deep learning networks. The intrinsic mode functions (IMFs), converted from the vibration signals in the time domain, are then transformed into symmetrized dot pattern (SDP) images. In order to increase classification accuracy, the SDP parameters in this study are chosen by optimizing image similarity. The feasibility and accuracy of the proposed approach are examined experimentally.
The Life of the Party
Authors: Armbruster-Sandoval Ralph
Published: January 2024

This essay explores the life of Alice Greenfield McGrath, a key player in the Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee and a longtime activist whose involvement in social justice issues spanned eight decades. While best known for her role in the Sleepy Lagoon case in the 1940s, Alice fought the “good fight” for virtually her entire life, supporting the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War, joining the Communist Party in the 1930s, organizing delegations to Nicaragua in the 1980s, and defending civil liberties and constitutional rights under the “war on terror.” Controversy continues to surround the racial and gender composition of the Sleepy Lagoon defense committees and the central role of McGrath, a white Jewish woman. Following Alice’s lead, I suggest that rather than seeing these organizations as a one-person effort, it is more fruitful to see them as they were: multiracial coalitions that successfully brought about limited social change. Throughout her life as an activist, Alice McGrath never stopped believing in the importance of issue-based, rather than identity-based, coalitions as instruments of social justice.
Arraigamiento
Authors: Tumbaga Ariel Zatarain
Published: January 2024

This article discusses the discourses that guided different representations of Yaquis in twentieth-century Mexican literature to explain the continuity of these portrayals in Chicana/o literature. At the center of these discourses is a colonial Spanish-Mexican epistemology that depicts Yaquis as senselessly violent and resistant warriors: a Yaqui warrior myth. Focusing on Alfredo Véa Jr.’s La Maravilla, I explore the author’s contestation of the discourses that have informed depictions of Yaquis through his recovery of Yaqui knowledge, which he accomplishes by reappropriating historical, ethnographic, and literary texts. Véa draws on Yaqui rites, dance, and origin stories to re-create the traditional link between Yaqui culture, territory, and resistance—which I call arraigamiento. He turns indigenismo chicano into a site of conflict as he relates a Yaqui account of the Chicana/o experience and elaborates the protagonist’s Chicano-Yaqui identity. By juxtaposing a Yaqui epistemology and the pre-Columbian iconography of Chicano nationalism he exposes the limitations of the latter and changes the focus to living indigenous nations as a source for creating Chicana/o identity.
Deporting Dissidence
Authors: Flores John H.
Published: January 2024

This essay examines Mexican immigrant political and labor activism in Chicago through the life of Refugio Roman Martinez, an organizer for the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) who was deported by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). Martinez’s history suggests that Mexican immigrant CIO members tended to be proud Mexican citizens motivated to join US unions by their understanding of the Mexican Revolution and rise of Mexican President Lazaro Cardenas (1934–1940). These Mexican immigrants campaigned for labor and immigration improvements and encouraged Mexicans to enter unions to attain equity; however, they concurrently rebuffed US naturalization as a means to achieve these ends. Indeed, Mexican immigrants fought for labor rights while rejecting US citizenship and did so in part because they were conscious of US hegemony and found it too intellectually problematic to become US citizens and to appeal to the US state for justice. As the United States entered the Cold War, immigrants paid a price for joining the US labor movement while retaining their foreign citizenship. From the Southwest to the Midwest, the INS disciplined immigrant labor leaders through deportation.
A Queer Chicana/o Ethics of Representation
Authors: Bartles Jason A.
Published: January 2024

This essay places into dialogue two queer Chicana/o novels, John Rechy’s City of Night (1963) and Felicia Luna Lemus’s Trace Elements of Random Tea Parties (2003), in order to explore their common aesthetic sensibility. This sensibility is what I call rasquache camp, a stance that arises from the complex entanglement of rasquachismo’s utilitarian aspects of making do and the funky irreverence of camp, without resulting in a dialectical sublation between the two. This essay intervenes in the recent debates on the appropriateness of using rasquachismo as a tool for studying (queer) Chicana/o cultural productions. Informed by rasquache camp, I contend that these two novels develop and employ an ethics of representing marginalized queer and Chicana/o subjects who face insurmountable adversity by overturning the paradigms of morality and literary value, not from idealized, theoretical stances but by making use of imperfect, often cobbled-together solutions. As the future-oriented projects of these novels come to a close, both texts consciously fail to achieve their goals, but this failure allows the future to remain open to new and better aesthetic and ethical interventions by others.
“Exiled Doubly”
Authors: Pogar Nathan Martinez
Published: January 2024

Historically, Chicana/o mestizaje has been discursively positioned as a unifying community-based ethnoracial configuration that forges solidarity among Chicana/os through ethnonationalism or through the community’s resistance to marginalization within the nation. It has less frequently been discussed as the self-inventing practices of individuals who deploy mestizaje for purposes other than establishing community-based affiliation or consolidating Chicano nationalism or neonationalism. In his 2008 memoir, About My Life and the Kept Woman, John Rechy writes of growing up in dangerous Jim Crow Texas, where he must navigate his position as a mixed-race Chicano who passes for white when he needs to secure safe passage. Later, becoming a hustler in hyperurban spaces like Los Angeles, Rechy self-deploys his mestizaje by accentuating his brown skin and butch “straight” posture. Rechy’s shifting performances of mestizaje engender within him ambivalence and psychic conflicts that result in his feeling “exiled doubly” from the various communities through which he moves. His self-conscious performances indicate that mestizaje is critically defined not only at the level of the Chicana/o community but also by the individual as well.
Reinventing Ecopoetics
Authors: Dowdy Michael
Published: January 2024

Representations of nature in Chicano poetry have developed from nationalist claims to the land in movimiento cultural politics to ecopoetic conceptions of language, nature, and identity. This essay uses Juan Felipe Herrera’s idea of “undocuments” to theorize a turn from the collective “our house” in “El Plan Espiritual de Aztlán” to oikos, the natural “household” that is the Greek root of the word ecology. The ecological dimensions of “undocumentary” destabilize Chicano identity formations based on anthropocentric relationships to the land and reveal how documentary modes fail to incorporate undocumented persons who exist outside the “house.” By introducing Lorna Dee Cervantes’s Emplumada as an initial work of Chicano ecopoetry that is transformed in María Meléndez’s How Long She’ll Last in This World and J. Michael Martinez’s Heredities, the essay argues that their books call into question the epistemology and ontology of claims to the land. Rather than document Chicano myths, origins, and identities that assert such claims, as Cervantes does in her feminist revisions of movimiento poetics, Meléndez’s and Martinez’s collections demonstrate the expanding ecological awareness, aesthetic range, and philosophical inquiries of Chicano poetics in an era of environmental and immigration crises.
Concrete Utopias from the Central Valley to Southern California
Authors: Cucher Michael
Published: January 2024

Almost one hundred years after his death, the image of peasant revolutionary Emiliano Zapata has come to signify the insurgent heart of a rebellion that changed the course of Mexican history. This is not only because of his commitment to the poor and indigenous peoples of southern Mexico but also because of the cultural representations and political activism that have kept his legacy alive. My analysis of Zapata’s image in Chicana/o murals draws on the work of José Esteban Muñoz, who uses the term “concrete utopias” to describe collective hopes for the future that are rooted in historical experiences. Throughout California, murals featuring Zapata’s image can be read as concrete utopias because they, too, are built from the collective aspirations of historical movements for change. This essay uses visual analysis to untether Zapata from the currents of patriarchy and hypermasculinity that many associate with him. I suggest that images of Zapata—painted by men in murals from the 1960s through the 1980s—reflect the concerns of Chicanas, LGBTQ people, indigenous women, and others whose contributions were often overlooked during the heyday of cultural nationalism. The legacy of Zapata within Chicana/o murals, I argue, is not always constrained by nationalist narratives of machismo. Sometimes representations of Zapata help viewers envision sustainable, reciprocal connections between people, tierra, y libertad.
Interrogating Early New Mexican Folklore y Lo Mexicano
Authors: Vélez-Ibáñez Carlos G. , Gonzales Phillip B. (Felipe) , Plascencia Luis F. B. , Rosales Jesús
Published: January 2024

Central to this work is the premise that, as in archaeology, which seeks to resurrect material culture from anonymity into light to become analytically signified as a historical creation, so too should the work of José Agapito Olivas be revealed, discussed, and presented from the forgotten consciousness of the human record, out from the dusty bins of New Mexican archives. We treat the written achievements of Olivas as part of the broadly conceived anthropological, sociological, literary and historical record. They offer insights into the quotidian realities of populations caught in the midst of enormous cultural, economic, and political changes, raising issues of language, representation, and material well-being. Olivas takes us to the dynamics of changing identities as induced by migrations, conquest, wars, confl ict, cooperation, trade, exchange, and cultural “bumping” of similar and dissimilar populations. We emphasize the futility of perceiving identities as references of cultural purity and sameness. For us, “Lo Mexicano” is a heuristic that represents multidimensional identity and genetic exchanges over time and place, made up of fl uid and stable linguistic, cultural, social, and economic processes that emerged in the North American Southwest.
Precarity and the Practice of Chicana/o Poetry
Authors: Reimer Jennifer A.
Published: January 2024

This essay intervenes in an ongoing debate within ethnic literary studies about the tension between identity-based, or more overtly political, forms of poetry and experimental poetry that treats language as art material. I show how Javier Huerta’s “American Copia” (2012) enlists poetic form to serve the oppositional acts of documenting the undocumented. I argue that Huerta’s innovations draw on existing traditions of Chicana/o poetry infl uenced by twenty-first-century conditions of precarity, specifically undocumented status. Huerta shows how an active practice of poetic innovation responds to an active process of un/documentation through forms of accumulation and affirmation (including code-switching, interlingual word play, collage, and juxtaposition), emplotted through a nonlinear temporal structure organized around the concept of documentation. “American Copia” articulates Chicana/o poetry to undocumented status to show how the literary practice of documenting can take on the weight of public discourse while simultaneously rendering into poetry the practices of social marginalization. Ultimately, Huerta’s practice of Chicana/o poetry offers language as an active site of resistance to forms of domination.