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The reliability/ validity of cognitive/emotional approaches to the evaluation of musical performance: Implications for competition juries
Authors: Parncutt Richard
Published: April 2023

Procedures to evaluate the quality of musical performance, like psychological tests generally, vary in reliability and validity. How can both be optimised? The subjective world of jurors comprises input (sensations) and output (thoughts and emotions). Cognitive approaches to performance evaluation, in which different aspects are analytically considered and the results combined, are more reliable than emotional approaches, which are ultimately based on holistic ‘gut reactions’. However, emotional approaches may be more valid. Both depend on the serial order in which performances are presented to evaluators, suggesting a need for independent, computer-controlled procedures in which jurors evaluate performances in different random orders. Jurors can be influenced by performers’ appearance and movements, as well as knowledge about past performances, whether or not they believe they should be; additional blind evaluations (sound only) could help. Evaluations may depend primarily on specific features such as right-hand melodic phrasing in romantic piano music. It would be interesting to systematically track the emotional state of jurors during a competition in order to better understand the interaction between their thoughts and emotions. In general, traditional approaches to performance evaluation might be supplemented (not replaced) by psychologically inspired, computer-based procedures. A ‘superjury’ could compare evaluations from different methods or ‘subjuries’.
Musical lives: Portraits of composers in biographical novels
Authors: Stępień-Kutera Kamila
Published: April 2023

The biographical novel, currently so popular among readers and authors alike, only recently acquired its status as an emerging literary genre: the process of its separation from the historical novel as more broadly conceived can be dated to the second half of the twentieth century. It is also worth remembering that the biography itself, as one of the types of scholarly text belonging to the field of history, only became the subject of more serious theoretical considerations during the first decades of the twentieth century. The biographical novel, combining – in various ways – historical reality with the author’s creativity, affords a unique opportunity to get inside the lives of its protagonists. Relatively few of the most outstanding works in the genre are devoted to composers, but a number of them open up fascinating vistas for study. In my reading of Thomas Mann’s Doctor Faustus, Julian Barnes’s The Noise of Time, Josef Škvorecký’s Scherzo capriccioso. Veselý sen o Dvořákovi and Jean Echenoz’s Ravel, I endeavour to show how the authors build a credible image of their characters. The present study forms an anacrusis to further reflection.
Coiled Colonialities: Pianos and Place Signification in Shanghai’s Treaty Port History
Authors: Liao Yvonne
Published: April 2023

Pianos find resonance in Shanghai’s treaty port history through their constant and changing inflections of coloniality, here understood as a deep-rooted historical condition replaying itself in strange, latent ways. Accordingly, this article explores the piano’s role as subject, enmeshed as it is within the treaty port as a peculiar plural setting, within the treaty port’s workings of music, power and place, and within the treaty port’s multiple entanglements with coloniality – in situ and over time. The piano, in a sense, lives vicariously through its allusions to colonialism’s hangover codes and structures. In turn, I conceptualise and investigate the piano (as) subject by cross-examining colonialities in and across French Shanghai of the 1930s and Chinese Nationalist Shanghai of the 1940s. Significantly, this discussion extends through temporal significations of place, revealing inner paradoxes of enclosure and experience, for one thing, and their regulatory manifestations across Shanghai’s treaty[1]port and post-treaty-port years, for another. Indeed, Shanghai’s French Concession in the 1930s, along with its incorporation back into the city’s Chinese Nationalist municipality from the mid to the late 1940s, are especially pertinent moments of inquiry, for these identified areas expose an underlying process of continuity-in[1]change, amid and despite the post-war resumption of sovereignty. Further such particularities help to eschew the rigidity of a foreign/indigenous dichotomy. Through observations of social order and ordering, as derived from the piano subject and its place signification, I explore the coiled workings of coloniality in Shanghai’s treaty port history, as well as interlocked meanings of power and perplexity, territory and ambience across licensed and taxable venues in the French Concession and the Chinese Nationalist municipality. Finally, from the treaty port setting, wider reflections follow on what I term ‘colonialities without recourse’, by which colonialities in the plural beget non-conclusive colonialities – in themselves awkward, yet telling, narratives of musical lives.
Akademicka glosa na stulecie śmierci Władysława Żeleńskiego
Authors: Woźna-Stankiewicz Małgorzata
Published: April 2023

Przypomnienie ceremoniału pogrzebowego zmarłego w styczniu 1921 roku w Krakowie Władysława Żeleńskiego, treść oracji m.in. Zdzisława Jachimeckiego i propozycja przyszłego pochówku kompozytora w Krypcie Zasłużonych na Skałce stały się powodem głębszego namysłu nad jego związkami z Uniwersytetem Jagiellońskim. W artykule zrekonstruowano całkowicie zapomnianą historię nieudanych starań Władysława Żeleńskiego w 1899 i na początku 1900 roku o stanowisko profesora historii i teorii muzyki w tej uczelni. Na Uniwersytecie Jagiellońskim dopiero w 1911 roku otwarto pierwsze seminarium muzykologiczne. Czynności ze strony Wydziału Filozoficznego UJ i starania samego Władysława Żeleńskiego zostały opisane w kontekście ówczesnych uwarunkowań formalno-instytucjonalnych, osobowych i merytoryczno-naukowych. Przedstawiono liczne relacje między Towarzystwem Muzycznym w Krakowie, tutejszym Konserwatorium Muzycznym i uniwersytetem. Podjęto kwestię okolicznościowych kantat Żeleńskiego związanych z najstarszą polską uczelnią, zwłaszcza jej zamówienia złożonego kompozytorowi w 1898 roku na oratorium z okazji jubileuszu czterechsetnej rocznicy odnowienia uniwersytetu w 1900 roku.
Tam naprawdę oddycha się powietrzem polskim… – Riond-Bosson na łamach polskiej prasy i w świadectwach osobistych
Authors: Szombara Justyna
Published: April 2023

Riond-Bosson, szwajcarska posiadłość Ignacego Jana Paderewskiego, przez ponad czterdzieści lat stanowiła życiową przystań artysty i jego najbliższych, a także ważne miejsce spotkań ludzi nauki i sztuki oraz przedstawicieli polskiej i światowej elity politycznej. Odwiedzający Paderewskiego Polacy nierzadko dzielili się wrażeniami na temat samej rezydencji, atmosfery w niej panującej oraz serdecznej gościnności gospodarza. Ich relacje publikowane na łamach prasy, przekazane we wspomnieniach czy listach stanowią nie tylko źródło informacji faktograficznych, lecz także interesujący materiał do badań nad społeczną recepcją osoby i działalności Paderewskiego. Wydaje się, że odegrały one istotną rolę w wykreowaniu obrazu Riond-Bosson jako kawałeczka Polski na obczyźnie i utrwaleniu wizerunku artysty jako wielkiego polskiego patrioty. Źródło materiałowe dla niniejszego artykułu stanowi przede wszystkim prasa polska z lat 1898–1941. Informacje i wzmianki na temat szwajcarskiej siedziby Paderewskiego oraz gości artysty odnajdujemy głównie w dziennikach i periodykach o profilu konserwatywnym, narodowym i katolickim. Nie można także pominąć czasopism społeczno- -kulturalnych i muzycznych, stale zainteresowanych działalnością Paderewskiego. Wiadomości zaczerpnięte z takich tytułów, jak „Kurier Warszawski”, „Rzeczpospolita”, lwowska „Gazeta Narodowa”, „Rodzina Polska”, „Słowo Polskie”, „Kurier Litewski”, „Ziemia Lubelska”, krakowski „Czas”, „Dziennik Poznański”, ale także m.in. warszawska „Muzyka” i krakowski „Kurier Literacko-Naukowy” (dodatek do „Ilustrowanego Kuriera Codziennego”), uzupełnione zostały przez świadectwa osobiste, utrwalone na kartach wspomnień i listów.
Myśli o Paderewskim
Authors: Kenner Kevin , Stępień-Kutera Kamila
Published: April 2023

Przełomowym punktem w karierze KEVINA KENNERA był rok 1990, kiedy pianista zyskał światowe uznanie dzięki zwycięstwu w Międzynarodowym Konkursie Pianistycznym im. Fryderyka Chopina w Warszawie, nagrodzie w Międzynarodowym Konkursie im. Terence’a Judda w Londynie oraz III miejscu w Międzynarodowym Konkursie im. Piotra Czajkowskiego w Moskwie. Pochodzący z południowej Kalifornii pianista studiował początkowo pod kierunkiem Krzysztofa Brzuzy, a następnie w Polsce u Ludwika Stefańskiego. Naukę kontynuował u Leona Fleishera. Formalną edukację muzyczną zakończył w Hanowerze u Karla-Heinza Kammerlinga. Wykładał w londyńskim Royal College of Music, w 2015 r. zaś przyjął posadę profesora we Frost School of Music na Uniwersytecie w Miami. Jako solista Kevin Kenner koncertował z takimi znakomitymi orkiestrami, jak BBC Symphony, Deutsches SymphonieOrchester z Berlina, orkiestry Filharmonii Narodowej w Warszawie i Filharmonii Czeskiej, Nationaal Orkest van Belgie, Orkiestra XVIII Wieku, Symfoniczna NHK oraz San Francisco Symphony. Występował pod batutą takich mistrzów, jak sir Charles Groves, Andrew Davis, Jiři Bĕlohlávek, Jacek Kaspszyk, Stanisław Skrowaczewski. Jako kameralista występował z kwartetami smyczkowymi: Belcea, Tokio, Endellion, Vogler, Casal oraz Panocha, ponadto w duecie z wiolonczelistą Mattem Haimovitzem, a od roku 2011 także ze skrzypaczką Kyung Wha Chung. Jest częstym gościem Festiwalu Muzycznego w Pjongjangu w Korei oraz Festiwalu „Chopin i jego Europa” w Warszawie. Jego nagrania płytowe obejmują liczne albumy chopinowskie, w tym wydany przez Narodowy Instytut Fryderyka Chopina w serii „The Real Chopin” recital na fortepianie historycznym. Album Chopin Resonances znalazł się na liście 50 najlepszych nagrań chopinowskich wszech czasów magazynu „Gramophone”. W lipcu 2018 r. ukazała się zbierająca znakomite recenzje wydana przez Instytut w nowej serii „Rezonans” płyta artysty z utworami Ignacego Jana Paderewskiego.
Damy i krytycy
Authors: Stępień-Kutera Kamila
Published: April 2023

W ostatnich dekadach zyskuje na znaczeniu dorobek twórczy kompozytorek minionych stuleci – można zaryzykować twierdzenie, że autorki takie, jak Klara Schumann z domu Wieck, Fanny Hensel-Mendelssohn czy Maria Szymanowska są już rozpoznawalne przez odbiorców spoza kręgów ściśle profesjonalnych. Zważywszy jednak na to, że powszechna w XIX stuleciu domowa edukacja muzyczna panien – obowiązkowa w pewnych kręgach społecznych – pozwalała dziewczętom odkrywać swoje skłonności i mniejsze bądź większe talenty wykonawcze i twórcze, nie dziwi, że pomimo przywracania do życia choćby dziedzictwa wspomnianych trzech autorek wciąż setki kompozycji pióra kobiet – w tym dzieła najwyższej wartości – oczekują na zapewnienie im należnego miejsca w historii muzyki. Niniejszy artykuł, w którym w nader skróconej formie wskazanych jest ledwo kilka postaci kompozytorek różnej rangi (od Delphine von Schauroth, o niewielkim, będącym raczej historyczną ciekawostką dorobku, po Louise Farrenc, autorkę znakomitych symfonii), jest jedynie punktem wyjścia i wstępem do dalszych badań. Przytoczone recenzje i noty z prasy niemieckiej i francuskiej dotyczące bohaterek artykułu (dotychczas nieprzekładane na polski) ilustrują konwencje społeczne, wedle których oceniano ówczesne twórczynie, a czego reperkusje odczuwamy, choćby podświadomie, do dziś.
Muzyka zdefiniowana przez swą nieśmiertelność. Fabio Biondi o swojej pracy nad Halką Stanisława Moniuszki. Wywiad drogą korespondencyjną przeprowadziła Kamila Stępień-Kutera
Authors: Stępień-Kutera Kamila
Published: April 2023

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Dziedzictwo moniuszkowskie w zbiorach Warszawskiego Towarzystwa Muzycznego
Authors: Wąsowski Marcin
Published: April 2023

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Fanny Hensel: A Research and Information Guide Laura T.K. Stokes (Routledge)
Authors: Stępień-Kutera Kamila
Published: April 2023

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„Obcy na własnej krainy swej łonie”1? Paria na tle twórczości operowej Stanisława Moniuszki. Szkic
Authors: Szymocha Dominika
Published: April 2023

Paria Stanisława Moniuszki postrzegana jest współcześnie poprzez pryzmat tego, co zostało o niej napisane w końcu XIX i początkach XX wieku. A opinie formułowane wówczas o tej operze nie były pozytywne. Starano się wykazać, że dzieło nie ma nic wspólnego z pozostałymi operami stworzonymi dla sceny warszawskiej przez Moniuszkę. O jego odrębności i nieadekwatności świadczyć miało dobitnie libretto oparte na obcym, niepolskim temacie, które sprowadziło myśl muzyczną kompozytora na manowce. Proponowana praca podejmuje próbę skonfrontowania tego, co można na podstawie jeszcze nie do końca zbadanych źródeł do Parii powiedzieć o operze, z tym, co można wyczytać z nie zawsze kompletnych źródeł dzieł skomponowanych dla Opery w Warszawie: Halki (w wersji 4-aktowej), Flisa, Verbum nobile, Hrabiny, Strasznego dworu. Jak wynika z przeprowadzonych analiz, już na wstępnym etapie badań można stwierdzić, że omawiana opera ma o wiele więcej wspólnych cech z pozostałymi dziełami, niż do tej pory sądzono. Odnosi się to zarówno do warstwy literackiej, a szczególnie typu wybranej tematyki, jak i do opracowania muzycznego.
Znaczenie instrumentalnej twórczości Ignacego Feliksa Dobrzyńskiego dla budowania stylu narodowego w muzyce polskiej XIX wieku
Authors: Chwiłek Agnieszka
Published: April 2023

Skromną ilościowo literaturę przedmiotu poświęconą twórczości Ignacego Feliksa Dobrzyńskiego tworzą przede wszystkim nieliczne artykuły dotyczące tematyki operowej i wzmianki o twórczości kompozytora w opracowaniach monograficznych historii muzyki polskiej XIX wieku. Również artykuły Macieja Negreya poświęcone II Symfonii c-moll i monografia Williama Smialka nie wyczerpują problematyki muzyki instrumentalnej tego kompozytora. Rozmiary i wartość artystyczna tej części spuścizny twórczej, jej różnorodność gatunkowa, a także przesycenie jej wątkami narodowymi to powody, dla których należy uznać Dobrzyńskiego za najwybitniejszego polskiego kompozytora I połowy XIX wieku tworzącego w kraju. W artykule zwracam uwagę na grupę najważniejszych jego dzieł instrumentalnych (realizowanych w formie cyklu sonatowego) i dwa sposoby tworzenia muzyki w duchu narodowym, które w tych kompozycjach wykorzystywał. Punkt wyjścia do rozważań stanowią wybrane teksty teoretyczne i historyczne Kazimierza Brodzińskiego postulujące konieczność budowania sztuki narodowej.
Polskie tańce narodowe jako kanon kulturowy – wyznaczniki, geneza, przemiany
Authors: Nowak Tomasz
Published: April 2023

Tekst podejmuje zagadnienie polskich tańców narodowych jako kanonu kultury z uwzględnieniem jego wyznaczników, genezy, kluczowych momentów i kierunków jego przemian. Problematyka tańców narodowych obecna w Europie od ponad trzech stuleci stanowi przedmiot rozważań polskich badaczy historii i propedeutyki tańca od początku XIX wieku, a muzykologów – od końca tamtego stulecia. Już Stanisław Głowacki umieścił taniec w kontekście kanonu kultury, a Mieczysław Tomaszewski zaliczył go do mediów, poprzez które wyrażać się może narodowość. Na potrzeby niniejszego artykułu zastosowano wypracowaną przez Andrzeja Szpocińskiego koncepcję kanonu kulturowego, rozumianego jako podlegająca aktualizacji część tradycji, stanowiącej nośnik treści pozatanecznych i obowiązującej wszystkich członków wspólnoty.W tekście omówiono przede wszystkim proces kształtowania się kanonu kulturowego oraz pierwszych gatunków tańców narodowych (polonez, mazur i kozak). Następnie zwrócono uwagę na przemianę z przełomu XVIII i XIX w., w której wyniku wyeliminowany został z kanonu kozak, a zastąpił go krakowiak. W dalszej części omówiono włączenie do kanonu kujawiaka i oberka oraz nieudane próby wypromowania w ramach kanonu tańca góralskiego. Wskazano przy tym znaczenie funkcji tańców narodowych, których zmiany wywoływały z reguły także modyfikacje kanonu (znaczenie wykonywania poloneza w epoce absolutyzmów, tańców narodowych w epoce preromantyzmu i romantyzmu, przemiany gatunków tanecznych na początku XX wieku oraz przeniesienie tańców narodowych do dziedziny edukacji i do prezentacji scenicznych). Pomocniczo wykorzystano terminy: stereotyp, mit, fantazmat.
Lidia Grychtołówna i Wanda Szlezyngier-Chmielowska: o źródłach mistrzostwa wykonawczego i pedagogicznego
Authors: Antonczyk Wiktoria
Published: April 2023

Inspiracją dla powstania tekstu był jubileusz, który obchodziła w 2018 roku wybitna chopinistka Lidia Grychtołówna. W skład artykułu wchodzą wspomnienia pianistki oraz opis źródeł mistrzostwa wykonawczego i pedagogicznego jej mentorki – profesor Wandy Chmielowskiej, która była córką znakomitego pedagoga i pianisty, absolwenta Warszawskiego Instytutu Muzycznego, Stanisława Szlezyngiera. W polskim piśmiennictwie historia muzycznej rodziny Szlezyngierów nie była, jak dotąd, szerzej omawiana. W ramach pierwszej poszerzonej prezentacji sylwetki Stanisława Szlezyngiera przytoczone są dane o jego życiu i twórczości, zaczerpnięte z materiałów archiwalnych przechowywanych w Petersburgu, jak również nieznane dotychczas fakty o petersburskim okresie działalności Wandy Chmielowskiej. Został ponadto poruszony wątek powiązań pomiędzy publikacjami z zakresu metodyki autorstwa Chmielowskiej a pracami jej ojca, powstałymi na przełomie XIX i XX wieku. Jako prawdziwy polski patriota promował w Imperium Rosyjskim muzykę Fryderyka Chopina, udowadniając, że praca nad jego utworami powinna stanowić kulminację procesu kształcenia pianistów.
Cuantificación del impacto indirecto de ocupación de áreas durante la post construcción de la ruta departamental D628
Authors: Trigo Orsini Daniel Alberto
Published: April 2023

El análisis se realiza sobre la ruta departamental D628, de 62,03 km. de longitud, que inicia en Chalamarca (Cruce Ruta Nacional 001 Tarija – Bermejo) y finaliza en Pampa Grande implicando ocho comunidades campesinas, las cuatro primeras (Chalamarca, Orozas, Alizos del Carmen y La Hondura) ya contaban con camino de acceso y las cuatro siguientes (Acherales, San José de Garrapatas, Puesto Rueda y Pampa Grande) ubicadas dentro del área de la reserva nacional de flora y fauna de Tariquia contaron con camino de acceso mediante un proyecto de apertura de camino vecinal cuya construcción inició el 2007, logrando el acceso hasta Pampa Grande el 2013, aunque continuó posteriormente con obras de arte y ripiado hasta el 2016. Para el presente análisis consideramos como año cero el 2013. El presente análisis cuantifica en un periodo definido de tiempo, la dinámica de ocupación en base a la medición directa de las nuevas áreas ocupadas en el tiempo, específicamente en los años 2013, (año cero), 2015, 2019 y 2020 a través del tratamiento de imágenes satelitales obtenidas de estos años. Del análisis realizado podemos concluir que luego de 7 años de operación de la vía, se registra un incremento de 276,74 Ha, con un promedio de solo 39,5 Has por año, ósea, menos del 5 % anual, considerado bajo puesto que duplicar el área a este ritmo tomaría unos 20 años.
Karakteristik Sensoris Microwaveable Kemplang Palembang dengan Perbedaan Ketebalan dan Level Daya pada Proses Pematangan
Authors: Guttifera  , Selly Ratna Sari  , Filli Pratama  , Tri Wardani Widowati  , Donny Prariska
Published: April 2023

Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui tingkat kesukaan konsumen terhadap kempalang Palembang yang dimatangkan dengan menggunakan microwave oven. Penelitian ini melakukan pengujian organoleptik dengan menggunakan metode uji hedonik, terhadap aroma, rasa, dan tekstur (kerenyahan) kemplang Palembang. Pengujian dilakukan dengan menggunakan  25 panelis, dan dinilai pada skala  1 – 7. Hasil uji organoleptik dianalisis dengan statistik non parametrik menggunakan uji Friedman-connover. Faktor yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah faktor C (ketebalan kerupuk: C1 = 3mm, C2 = 4mm, C3 = 5mm) dan faktor D (level daya: D1 = automatic W, D2 = 560 W). Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa skor tertinggi tingkat kesukaan panelis terhadap aroma kemplang terdapat pada perlakuan C1D1 (ketebalan 3 mm, automatic watt) dan C1D2 (ketebalan 3 mm, 560 watt) sedangkan untuk skor tertinggi tingkat kesukaan panelis terhadap tekstur kemplang terdapat pada perlakuan C1D1 (ketebalan 3 mm, automatic watt) sedangkan untuk aroma kemplang menunjukan hasil berpengaruh tidak nyata.
Lele Dumbo (Clarias sp.) : Cara Pemasaran, Faktor Pendukung dan Penghambat
Authors: Muh. Sulaiman Dadiono
Published: April 2023

Tujuan dari study ini untuk menganalisis secara singkat tentang cara pemasaran, faktor pendukung dan faktor penghambat pada budidaya lele dumbo (Clarias sp.) yang nantinya dapat memberikan gambaran singkat terhadap pembudidaya ikan lele di Indonesia. pengumpulan data sepenuhnya dilakukan dengan study pustaka. Data sekunder dikumpulkan dengan cara mengkaji dari referensi berupa jurnal dan artikel online. Pencarian data dilakukan dengan menggunakan search engine dari Google dengan kata kunci budidaya ikan lele. Data yang didapatkan kemudian dianalisis menggunakan metode deskriptif. Dari hasil kajian didapatkan bahwa perlu adanya perhatian khusus tentang strategi pemasaran dimana harus mengikuti perkembangan zaman dengan memanfaatkan pemasaran secara digital seperti platform market place dan social media. Serta perlu diperhatikan faktor pendukungnya yaitu minat konsumen, ketersediaan benih, benih lele yang unggul, kebersihan lingkungan, dan jaringan pemasaran yang lancer dan diperhatikan faktor penghambat seperti teknik promosi yang digunakan kurang efektif dan kurangnya jaringan pemasaran yang dimiliki, produktivitas yang masih rendah, kualitas dan kuantitas benih rendah, tingginya harga pakan, kurangnya penanganan terhadap munculnya penyakit, terbatasnya informasi teknologi dan pasar, resiko menurunnya kualitas ikan dalam distribusi.
Friendship and Devotion, or Three Months in Louisiana by Camille Lebrun (trans. by E. Joe Johnson and Robin Anita White)
Authors: Zachmann Gayle
Published: April 2023

Review of: Camille Lebrun. Friendship and Devotion, or Three Months in Louisiana. Trans. by E. Joe Johnson and Robin Anita White. University Press of Mississippi, 2021.
Interaktion von Wissenschaft und Politik in der Covid-19-Pandemie
Authors: Nietsch Hubertus H.
Published: April 2023

In the Covid 19 pandemic, quick, collectively binding decisions were required despite incomplete knowledge. Old heuristics failed. The system of scientific policy advice had to be reoriented. Hubertus Nietsch describes the conflict of goals between contingent knowledge and political decisiveness in terms of political theory with reference to Max Weber. He derives recommendations for action for future social crises from the extended analysis of the system-theoretical difference in perspective of political decision-makers and scientific advisors (experts) and their interaction. In this context, politics must be more than just the rational implementation of scientific knowledge, and it depends on a coherent risk practice.
Perspectives of Cell-Based Therapy for Degenerative Diseases of the Spine: The Reason for Choosing the Epidural Space
Authors: Correa José , Cortés Henry , Correa Lucia , López Rita
Published: April 2023

Intervertebral disc degeneration (IDD) is a chronic disease that causes significant disability and dependence and exerts a high cost on society. Concerning IDD, it is the most common cause of back pain, involving any segment of the spine. It is one of the most frequent reasons for consultation in the general population, second only to headache, affecting 80–85 % of people throughout life. Current therapeutic strategies focused on IDD are primarily conservative, including physical therapy and antiinflammatory medication. Surgical techniques intend to stabilize the spine and/or decompress the spinal or foraminal canal, searching for relieve of symptoms; however, do not address the cause of the degeneration and even accelerate the degeneration of adjacent segments. Understanding of the biology of platelet-rich plasma (PRP) and other growth factors conducted usto use of PRP as a promising biological therapeutic strategy for enhance the regenerative process, searching the healing of the intervertebral disc. With current few in vitro studies, and fewer clinical studies linking the bases of regenerative medicine (RM) in the management of degenerative disc disease, our pioneering research was to state the bases, fundamentals, results, and the new trends around the RM techniques focused on the pathology of the spinal canal, taking the advantages that offer the epidural route.
Investigating Bacterial Communities Resistant to Heavy Metal and PAHs Pollutants in the Persian Gulf and Their Ability to Remove These Compounds (a Review)
Authors: Lamoochi Razieh , Jalali Kobra
Published: April 2023

The Persian Gulf is one of the most diverse water environments in the world. There are various types of marine creatures including corals, sponges and fish in this marine environment. These pollutant sources in the Persian Gulf include oil spills from oil tanks, shipping accidents, marine transportation and oil extraction processes. Since nearly 60% of the world’s oil is transported to the Persian Gulf, oil pollution is inevitable. This has made the marine environment the most polluted sea in the world. Bioremediation can be defined as the removal of pollutants such as heavy metals and PAHs from solution by biological agents such as bacteria, fungi, microalgae and yeasts. Various species of bacteria have been isolated and reported by several researchers in the Persian Gulf, perhaps due to its high resistance to a wide range of petroleum hydrocarbons and heavy metals. Therefore, in this chapter, we decided to review the studies conducted in the field of isolating and identifying native bacteria and evaluating their ability to remove heavy metals and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the Persian Gulf.
Are There Adequate Incentives for Research and Innovation in the Plant Breeding Supply Chain?
Authors: Rajsic Predrag , Gray Richard , Weersink Alfons , Rajcan Istvan
Published: April 2023

The breeding supply chain has expanded with genomic technology to include basic research scientists and applied genomicists along with traditional plant breeders and farmers. Genomicists have focused on identifying specific DNA sequences or quantitative trait loci (QTL) that can be used as molecular markers. However, the use of molecular marker-assisted selection (MAS) by breeders in their programs requires the identified QTL to be reliably correlated with agronomically desirable traits. Replication research is critical for reducing the risk associated with the adoption of new marker-based (or QTL-based) selection strategies, but the applied scientists doing genomics research often do not have the incentives to do replication and other research required to verify the reliability of markers. The misalignment of incentives in the breeding supply chain can curtail the development of the projected advances in food production by genomics research. Using a sample of 24 genomic journals, we found more highly ranked journals tend to favor new research on identifying new QTL over replication research on previously identified QTL. Given that breeders will tend to adopt only those markers perceived to be reliable, the implicit lack of incentives for basic and applied genomic scientists to undertake replication research can impede agricultural innovation.
Embedding the Humanities into Nursing Education
Authors: Yeh Mei-Yu
Published: April 2023

Humanistic education in nursing began in the 1980s. At that time, nursing education emphasized the human being and regarded each person as a unique individual with potential. However, modern developments in medical technologies and changes in the health-care environment have led to a trend toward dehumanization of the healthcare industry. Various developments, particularly in genetics, have raised issues related to human dignity, value, and ethics. The development of a humanized care model based on both scientific principles and a humanistic ideal has become an urgent issue in today’s professional nursing education environment. A humanistic education in the nursing profession will allow nurses to develop a broader perspective, to cultivate insight, to understand and to feel the unique experience of patients, and to look at problems from multiple perspectives, especially in complex situations. The challenge of today’s nursing education is using multiple teaching strategies to improve humanistic cultivation of humanities education in the nursing profession.
EEG Control of a Robotic Wheelchair
Authors: Kumar Chaudhary Ashok , Gupta Vinay , Gaurav Kumar , Kumar Reddy Tharun , Behera Laxmidhar
Published: April 2023

The Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) technology has been widely used in clinical research; however, its adoption in consumer devices has been hindered by high costs, poor reliability and limited autonomy. In this study, we introduce a low-cost, open-source hardware-based, consumer-grade product that brings BCI technologies closer to the elderly and motor-impaired individuals. Specifically, we developed an autonomous motorized wheelchair with BCI-based input capabilities. The system employs the ROS-backend navigation stack, which integrates RTAB-MAP for mapping, localization, and visual odometry, as well as A* global and DWA local path planning algorithms for seamless indoor autonomous operations. Data acquisition is accomplished using OpenBCI 16-channel EEG sensors, while Ensemble-Subspace KNN machine learning model is utilized for intent prediction, particularly goal selection. The system offers active obstacle avoidance and mapping in all environments, while a hybrid BCI Motor Imagery based control is implemented in a known mapped environment. This prototype offers remarkable autonomy while ensuring user safety and granting unparalleled independent mobility to the motor-impaired and elderly.
State Organized Recruitment for the Russian Enterprises: Is It a Pass to a Better Life or to Slavery?
Authors: Molodikova Irina , Chupik Valentina
Published: April 2023

This chapter is devoted to the practice of organized recruitment of migrant labourers from Uzbekistan to Russia since late 2020. It examines the situation of the law as “on paper” and its operation in real life when many migrant workers fall into a situation of slavery or close to it (human trafficking). It discusses organized recruitment from a historical perspective from the USSR to modern times and provides the brief analysis of the migration policy and legislation in Russia and in Uzbekistan on the protection of migrant labourers. Based on the materials of more than 1000 appeals by Uzbek migrants to human rights organizations about violations of their rights, the chapter shows how organized recruitment really works, turning many migrants into slaves and why the organization state recruitment policy in Uzbekistan turns into the slavery for the migrant labourers from Uzbekistan.
CSF Bypass Surgery in Children with Hydrocephalus: Modern Possibilities, Prospects and Ways of Solving the Correction of Complications
Authors: Alexandrovich Samochernykh Konstantin , M. Zabrodskaya Yulia , Sergeevich Nikolaenko Mikhail , N. Gaykova Olga , V. Kim Aleksandr , Gennadievna Potemkina Elena , Pavlovich Gerasimov Aleksandr , K. Samochernykh Nikita , Aleksandrovich Petukhov Alexey , T. Nazaralieva Eleonora , Aramovich Khachatrian Wiliam
Published: April 2023

The chapter discusses modern and promising approaches to the use of CSF shunting operations in children. CSF shunting operations remain the only effective method for correcting persistent CSF circulation disorders in CSF resorption disorders with the development of intracranial hypertension and hydrocephalus. The chapter is devoted to general ideas about CSF dynamics and biomechanical properties of the craniospinal system that affect CSF dynamics, and gives a pathogenetic assessment of CSF dynamics in the development of intracranial hypertension and hydrocephalus. Aspects of genetics and genomics of anomalies in hydrocephalus are touched upon. Pathological changes in the brain around old ventricular shunts are described. The authors consider the types of CSF shunting operations for hydrocephalus in children. Possible complications of CSF shunting operations are analyzed with the algorithm for their correction and management tactics for this group of patients.
HIV-Associated Histoplasmosis
Authors: Cernat Roxana-Carmen
Published: April 2023

Impaired immunity induced by HIV is one of the main causes of disseminated histoplasmosis in endemic areas, and thus from 1987 WHO and then the CDC classified this condition as an AIDS-defining illness. Host factors associated independently with histoplasmosis are low level of CD4 (<150 cell/mm3) and CD8 count, low nadir CD4, male gender, the absence of cART, the absence of systemic antifungals, and history of herpes simplex infection. Dissemination of an exogenously new acquired infection or reinfection and reactivation of a latent infection are both described in HIV-infected patients. Also, inflammatory reconstitution disease following cART initiation is possible. Acute pulmonary infection is rare, and only in HIV-infected patients with CD4 > 200 cell/mm3. In advanced disease, the most frequent manifestation is as disseminated histoplasmosis often acute and severe, with complications such as respiratory failure, circulatory shock, and disseminated intravascular coagulation. The subacute presentation is frequent, associated with moderate involvement of the reticuloendothelial system, with great variability of clinical manifestation. Guidelines for diagnosing and managing histoplasmosis among people living with HIV have been published from WHO, IDSA, NIH, but limited data was based on randomized clinical trials.
New horizons for hydrography
Authors: Jonas Mathias
Published: April 2023

Compared to the complexity required to measure other physical quantities, the continuous monitoring globally of water levels, current directions, and velocities, as well as the measurement of underwater topography, do not appear ambitious tasks for modern technologies. The challenges lie in the sheer size of the area to be measured, which makes up about 70% of the Earth’s total surface, in its constant variability due to natural processes, the inaccessibility of the seabed, and the still inadequate mathematical modelling of global geophysical processes at the oceanic scale. Since most of the world’s population lives on, from and with the oceans, a demand-oriented provision of hydrographic information is of fundamental importance. Hydrography is called upon to serve this need for information in support of informed decision-making. Starting from the present status and the discernible trends in technical development, this article aims to provide a glimpse into the expected future development up to the end of the current decade.
Giá trị của biểu tượng Naga trong văn hóa của người Khmer Nam Bộ
Authors: Hoàng Sĩ Ngọc
Published: April 2023

Rắn - một trong những đại diện của thế giới tự nhiên đến với con người - là hình tượng mẫu gốc, được gắn với cội nguồn của sự sống và trí tưởng tượng. Đi qua những không gian, thời gian khác nhau, rắn đã trở thành rắn thiêng - biểu tượng Naga với các ý nghĩa, giá trị liên tục được bồi đắp. Ngoài việc mang những ý nghĩa biểu tượng cao quý: biểu tượng của nguồn nước, biểu tượng của cội nguồn; thì đồng thời với nó là những giá trị vĩnh hàng như giá trị lịch sử, giá trị tâm linh, giá trị giáo dục,… đồng hành, tương hỗ trong cuộc sống con người. Sự gắn kết này đã thành bản sắc - vốn văn hóa quý báu của người Khmer Nam Bộ. Biểu tượng Naga đã được “sống” trong lòng người Khmer Nam Bộ với các phong tục, nghi thức, tập quán; với các nghệ thuật tạo hình; với tôn giáo và văn học dân gian vô cùng sinh động, phong phú.
Phân tích các yếu tố ảnh hưởng đến khả năng duy trì mối liên kết giữa thương lái và nông hộ sản xuất rau tại huyện Đơn Dương, tỉnh Lâm Đồng
Authors: Trần Hoài Nam , Đỗ Minh Hoàng
Published: April 2023

Trong một nền nông nghiệp sản xuất nhỏ lẻ, manh mún để nông sản đến được thị trường thì mối liên kết giữa người sản xuất và thương lái là chiếc cầu nối không thể thiếu trong việc tiêu thụ nông sản. Khi tham gia liên kết với thương lái trong sản xuất rau, nông hộ sẽ dễ tiếp cận với thị trường qua việc thông tin từ thương lái. Nghiên cứu này đã sử dụng mô hình hồi quy Logit với phương pháp ước lượng MLE nhằm phân tích các yếu tố ảnh hưởng đến khả năng duy trì mối liên kết giữa thương lái và nông hộ sản xuất rau. Số liệu được thu thập bằng cách phỏng vấn trực tiếp 222 hộ canh tác rau tại huyện Đơn Dương, tỉnh Lâm Đồng, đây là một trong bốn địa phương có diện tích trồng rau lớn nhất tỉnh. Kết quả nghiên cứu cho thấy, xác suất nông hộ duy trì liên kết với thương lái là 75,67% và các yếu tố ảnh hưởng đến khả năng duy trì liên kết giữa thương lái và nông hộ như tuổi chủ hộ, diện tích canh tác, sự tin tưởng, sự hài lòng, giới tính, phương thức thanh toán và hợp đồng. Trong đó, biến phương thức thanh toán và sự tin tưởng có ảnh hưởng mạnh nhất đến khả năng duy trì liên kết trong sản xuất rau của nông hộ. Để nâng cao hiệu quả liên kết giữa thương lái và nông hộ trồng rau trên địa bàn thì cả hai cần phải giữ chữ tín và tuân thủ những giao kèo trong liên kết.
Một thế kỷ đọc lại Đại Việt tập chí 1918
Authors: Vĩnh Thông
Published: April 2023

Ra đời năm 1918, Đại Việt tập chí là tờ báo bằng chữ Quốc ngữ đầu tiên ở tỉnh An Giang và thứ hai ở đồng bằng sông Cửu Long. Tuy nhiên, do thời gian tồn tại ngắn ngủi với 7 số, tạp chí này gần như đã bị lãng quên trong lịch sử báo chí Việt Nam hơn một thế kỷ qua. Nghiên cứu về Đại Việt tập chí, chúng tôi nhận thấy những người thực hiện lúc bấy giờ đã rất cố gắng để góp phần vào công cuộc nâng cao dân trí cho đồng bào. Nghiên cứu này sẽ giúp người đọc có cái nhìn đầy đủ hơn và đánh giá đúng đắn hơn về Đại Việt tập chí trong dòng chảy lịch sử văn hóa dân tộc.
TOPLUMSAL HAFIZA VE FAİLİ MEÇHULLER ÜZERİNE BİR DENEME: 90’LAR TÜRKİYE’Sİ
Authors: POYRAZ AKYOL Cansel , SUGEL İbrahim Emre
Published: April 2023

Toplumsal bellek ve medya çatısı altındaki bu araştırmada 90’lı yıllarda Türkiye’de yaşanan faili meçhullerin bir hafıza mekânı / ara bellek olan medya materyalleri üzerinden eleştirel okuması yapılmıştır. Araştırmada boş gösteren ve efendi gösteren arasındaki diyalektik ilişki gözler önüne serilerek Türkiye’nin medya materyalleri üzerinden hatırlama pratiğinde iz sürülmüştür. Bu iz sürme işlemi kapsamında araştırmanın temel amacı ise, Türkiye’de yaratılan ötekilik halleri ve kimlik çatışmaları üzerinden görünür kılınan şiddet olgusunun eleştirisiyle birlikte demokratikleşmeye katkı koymak ve ana akım medyanın üstlendiği veya üstlenemediği rolü gözler önüne sermektir. Bu bağlamda araştırmada nitel desen kullanılmış, amaçlı örneklem çerçevesinde dönemin yüksek tirajlı ana akım gazetelerinde yer alan manşet haberler Lacan’ın efendi gösteren matrisiyle birlikte nitel betimsel analize tabi tutulmuştur. Araştırmada toplumsal belleğin bileşkesine ulaşabilmek ereğiyle dönemin alternatif medyası olan Limon, Leman dergilerinde yer alan amaçlı örneklem çerçevesinde belirlenmiş olan karikatürlerde Barthes’ın studium modellemesiyle semiyotik analizle irdelenmiştir. Elde edilen bulgular içerisinde ötekilik ekseninde laik/seküler/aydın - muhafazakâr/radikal islamcı ötekililiği, alevi/sol ideoloji/aydın - milliyetçi/muhafazakâr/radikal islamcı ötekililiği ve Kürt/sol ideoloji/aydın – milliyetçi/Türk/muhafazakâr ötekililikleri görülmüştür. Bu ötekilikler üzerinden ana akım medyada haberlerin servis edilişine yönelik yapılan eleştirel okuma çerçevesinde ise Türkiye’nin şiddetle olan imtihanına ilişkin olarak şiddet - linç topolojisi oluşturulmuş ve bir eleştirel okuma modeli olarak sunulmuştur.
Issues of Moral Development and Education in Gifted and Talented Youth
Authors: MUSTAFA Sevim , FANAJ Naim , MELONASHI Erika
Published: April 2023

Morality is a complex, multifaceted aspect of being human. Moral development and moral education are increasingly being discussed by educators, psychologists, counselors, and parents. This paper aims to provide a literature review (books, research paper and gray literature) regarding issues of Morality Development and Education in Gifted and Talented youths. The objective was understanding of moral development in gifted youth and teaching strategies which foster the educational needs in moral issues of gifted students. There is a dearth of empirical research regarding moral development of the gifted. It is known from earlier empirical research that intelligence tends to correlate with high levels of moral reasoning and that gifted individuals tend to grapple with moral issues at an earlier age and more often with more intensity than their peers. However, the relationship between intelligence and morality is a very complex one and needs more detailed study. The results of some studies reveal that there are qualitative differences in the moral reasoning of gifted youths. Hence, high intellectual ability does not predict mature moral judgment. Research regarding teaching strategies address the traditional approach involving teachers explicitly advocating virtues, separate classes on moral and ethical behavior or educational programs for social and moral abilities enhancement in selected groups of gifted adolescents. Furthermore, research indicates that we need to be able to recognize the moral concerns of children and provide appropriate guidance and feedback, nurturing moral growth. Therefore, we should help the gifted to reach moral excellence together with excellence in specific domains. Recommendations include educational programs for social and moral abilities enhancement in selected groups of gifted youths.
The Impact of Covid-19 on Severe Mentally ill Patients in One Mental Health Center in Kosovo
Authors: FANAJ Naim , MUSTAFA Sevim , MELONASHI Erika
Published: April 2023

Immediately after the onset of the pandemic, some scholars speculated that people with serious mental illnesses would be at uniquely high risk during this period. Recent studies show that people with serious mental illness are at increased risk of being infected by Covid-19 and have higher subsequent rates of hospitalization, morbidity, and mortality.There are studies that also show that stress caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and restrictive measures can precipitate and worsen psychotic symptoms. Our aim was to understand the mental state of the mentally ill people at one Mental Health Center in Prizren, Kosovo as a result of the situation created by Covid-19. It’s a cross-sectional study. 91 patients diagnosed with severe mental illness (Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders) and 47 their primary caregivers were interviewed via phone calls or directly about their mental state. Findings showed that 15.2% of the sample didn’t use medication regularly while 27% didn’t follow the pandemic rules / restrictions. The level of self-care was not present in about 24.6 % of the sample. Also participants reported the presenceof somatic complaints (26.1%), aggression (23.2%), nervousness (21%), fear (20.3%)and suicidal thoughts (2.9%). Moreover, 13.8% of patients were not in a good moodand 12.3% did not sleep well.Our findings are in line with studies reporting that schizophrenic patients are unimpressed by Covid-19 situation. A quarter to one fifth of patients with severe mental illness showed signs of deterioration. It is difficult to conclude on the extent of their suffering and further studies are needed.Further studies should determine the level and modes of impact of Covid-19 on this vulnerable category of the population.
How pandemic has influenced the game between interest groups and politics. A theoretical Model
Authors: XHAFERAJ Anjeza
Published: April 2023

When parties and interest groups interact, they can do so in several ways which could be on an informal level, lobbying for a party candidate, or group representatives approach party leaders in the parliament to lobby them on an issue. There is a plethora of studies on the extent to which major political parties and major interests have related in the past and continue to relate or interact at the organizational level. Researchers have investigated to what extent parties and groups had formal organizational ties, cooperated in elections, or worked in concert on developing and implementing policies. Factors that for decades have determined the relationship between political parties and interest groups in liberal democracies are political system and subsystem development, political culture and political ideology, centralization of government and policymaking, nature of the party system, political party dependence on interest groups, encompassing characteristics of the interest group system, interest group development, ideology and leadership. However, the pandemic has influenced to a great extend the relationship between interest groups and politics. While Covid-19 crisis has consolidated power within governments, leaving opposition parties in a bind, on the other hand it has galvanized interest groups and businesses to mobilize. The pandemic has opened up the lobbying playing field to many new players. The paper aims to investigate to what extend the pandemic has influenced the relationship between political parties, government and interest groups and what strategies have these last ones used to get heard in a time when social distancing has reduced the opportunities for face-to-face lobbying.
Examining the Relationship between Service Remedy and Customer Satisfaction: A Study of Hainan Province Real Estate Enterprise
Authors:   Centre of Postgraduate Studies, Asia Metropolitan University (AMU), Malaysia., Qinwei Li
Published: April 2023

This research paper investigates how service remedies affect customer satisfaction and competitiveness of real estate companies in Hainan Province under the internet environment. Service failures are inevitable, and the study suggests that real estate service enterprises should implement appropriate measures and strategies to remedy these failures. The study proposes a model that links service remedies and customer satisfaction based on fairness theory. The study further divides service remedies into three categories: material, spiritual, and information remedies. The study also adds the dimension of informational justice to the basis of distribution, interaction, and procedural justice, and suggests that service failure attribution can moderate the relationship between service remedy and perceived justice. The study collected data through a professional questionnaire website, implemented surveys, and tested the model and hypotheses using factor analysis and structural equation modeling. Based on the study’s conclusions, management suggestions for real estate service enterprises in Hainan Province are proposed to enhance their competitiveness and performance in the real estate industry.
Information Model for Supervision Management in the Cooperative Education for Higher Education Institutions in Thai Supply Chain
Authors: Chansamut Artaphon
Published: April 2023

This research study was to develop and to evaluate an appropriate about information model for supervision management in the cooperative education for higher education institutions in Thai supply chain. The sample consisted of ten experts on supply chain. Data analysis was the average mean and standard deviation. The research tool was questionnaire about information model for supervision management in the Cooperative Education for higher education institutions in Thai supply chain comprises five main components, namely suppliers, manufacturer, Education customers, Consumers. The results from ten experts agreement of about information model for supervision management in the cooperative Education for higher education institutions in Thai supply chain was a high level which means that model can develop information model for supervision management in the cooperative Education for higher education institutions in Thai sustainable supply chain.