bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Evaluación de procesos formativos AgroSENA dirigidos a extensionistas agropecuarios de Norte de Santander
Authors: Orjuela Perilla Fernando , Montañez Acevedo Gladys
Published: June 2024

La extensión agropecuaria es la base de los procesos de acompañamiento a los productores agropecuarios del país, y por ello, quienes prestan este servicio deben estar capacitados en los programas de formación definidos por el Servicio Nacional de Aprendizaje a través del Subsistema Nacional de Formación y Capacitación, en cumplimiento de la Ley 1876 del Sistema Nacional de Innovación Agropecuaria. En base a esto, la investigación tuvo como finalidad evaluar el impacto que tuvieron los tres cursos impartidos a través de la Estrategia AgroSENA a 100 extensionistas, procedentes de 23 municipios de Norte de Santander, Colombia. El proyecto se desarrolló bajo el modelo de Investigación Pre-experimental, en la cual se administra un estímulo a un grupo y después se aplica una medición, que permite observar su efecto en una o más variables, bajo un muestreo no probabilístico intencional dirigido.  Para evaluar la pertinencia de la capacitación se compararon los puntajes de respuestas obtenidos en dos momentos: Uno antes del estímulo y otro después del mismo. La prueba estadística utilizada fue la t-student a través del software SPSS versión 25. Los resultados arrojaron diferencias significativas con un (p-valor<5%) en relación a los promedios de los puntajes obtenidos en la prueba inicial vs la prueba final, para cada uno de los tres cursos, esta última con mayores puntajes, indicando que los procesos formativos tuvieron un efecto en la apropiación del conocimiento por parte de los aprendices extensionistas.
Técnicas de slam con filtros probabilísticos: caracterización y resultados en robots móviles
Authors: Pineda-Torres Franklin
Published: June 2024

El desafío de la localización y mapeo SLAM (Simultaneous Localization And Mapping) en robots móviles consiste en descubrir si es posible navegar a través de un entorno desconocido y construir de manera incremental un mapa consistente del mismo, mientras que determina al mismo tiempo su posición dentro del mapa. La solución teórico-conceptual ha sido desarrollado por el SLAM especialmente con filtros de localización, tales como: el filtro de Kalman, el filtro de información, el filtro gráfico y el filtro de partículas entre otros. El estudio realizado al variar marcas establecidas en las trayectorias y analizar estos filtros desde el punto de vista probabilístico que se encuentran incorporados en dos prototipos de robots móviles que poseen sensores de ultrasonido y láser, muestra resultados de errores en odometría y tiempos necesarios que cada filtro SLAM tiene en promedio por iteración para la construcción del mapa bidimensional. Palabras clave: Filtro de Kalman, localización, robot móvil, sensor, SLAM.
Interbolsa y Grant Thornton errores metodológicos en la revisoría fiscal
Authors: Ceballos-Leyva Nubiola
Published: June 2024

Uno de los aspectos más relevantes en el caso Interbolsa ha sido sin duda alguna el relacionado con la función que desempeño la revisoría fiscal, se ha determinado que las fallas detectadas tuvieron origen en la negligencia y la omisión, puntualmente en los indicadores de liquidez, falta de control en la adjudicación de préstamos particulares; los cuales no estaban estipulados dentro del objeto social del Grupo Interbolsa y sin las garantías y requisitos estipulados por la empresa, debido a lo anterior el tribunal disciplinario de la Junta Central de Contadores (JCC), entidad adscrita al Ministerio de Comercio, Industria y Turismo, ordenó cancelar el registro profesional de Grant Thornton Fast & ABS Auditores, firma que ejercía la revisoría fiscal en el grupo bursátil. Se presenta este caso como materia de análisis debido a los errores metodológicos, la responsabilidad ética y profesional de los revisores fiscales no solo ante sus clientes, sino también ante el estado y demás sociedad.Palabras clave: Ética, fraude, Interbolsa, revisoría fiscal.
La fabricación del papel de cáñamo: eco alternativa sostenible en zonas de alta vulnerabilidad
Authors: Arencibia-Pardo Francisco Raúl , Peña-Rodríguez Belisario , Goyeneche-Rosas José Fabián
Published: June 2024

El presente trabajo de investigación defiende la sustitución del papel convencional por el papel a base de pulpa de Cannabis Sativa. En él se presentan las principales características del cáñamo que la alejan de los cultivos sicoactivos. Se buscan alternativas ecoingenieras ante varios factores que en estos momentos deforestan el suelo colombiano, la detección y detención del consumo de agua en la fabricación del papel convencional, así como causas de desempleo acrecentado en el Norte de Santander.
Perfil del Contador Público basado en las variables demográficas, capacitación, formación y su relación con la toma de decisiones éticas
Authors: Casadigo-Duque Yair Rolando , Rico-Rojas Carlos Fabián
Published: June 2024

La función social del profesional de la Contaduría Pública es el cumplimiento de la responsabilidad que la ley le ha conferido: dar fe pública, por ello la investigación está orientada a analizar las variables que intervienen en el ejercicio de la profesión en la ciudad de San José de Cúcuta y su relación con la toma de decisiones éticas desde el marco normativo establecido en el país para la construcción del perfil de dicho profesional. La metodología, se enmarcó en una investigación con enfoque cuantitativo, utilizando como técnica de recolección el cuestionario en una muestra de Contadores Públicos de la ciudad de Cúcuta y como variables del estudio demográficas, capacitación continua y formación académica. Los resultados muestran que en las variables demográficas, la experiencia profesional puede indicir, en las conductas éticas, en la varible capacitación continua y formación académica , no se evidencia dicha relación. Se concluye que de acuerdo al análisis realizado la ética es una posición personal que está fuertemente influida por la razón y una conciencia moral
Caracterización de universitarios que consumen licor en Medellín, Colombia
Authors: Restrepo-Betancur Fernando , Deossa-Restrepo Gloria Cecilia
Published: June 2024

El consumo excesivo de alcohol es un problema de salud pública que afecta, tanto al individuo, como a su núcleo familiar, provocando además un detrimento de la persona en lo relacionado con los aspectos físico, psicológico y emocional, entre otros. El objetivo de la presente investigación fue caracterizar a los estudiantes universitarios de la ciudad de Medellín, Colombia, con respecto al consumo de alcohol. Se aplicó una encuesta a 1200 individuos, con edades entre 18 y 25 años.  Para el procesamiento de la información, se empleó la técnica de análisis factorial exploratorio, encontrando diferencia significativa entre sexos (p<0,05), en la forma como perciben el consumo de licor. Como conclusión, se destaca que el consumo de bebidas alcohólicas afecta más al sexo masculino, en lo relacionado con el rendimiento académico.
Modelo multiestadio en emociones en personal de la salud
Authors: Vergel-Ortega Mawency , Gallardo-Pérez Henry de Jesús , Dávila-Carrillo Cesar Augusto
Published: June 2024

Introducción: La investigación sigue un enfoque cuantitativo de análisis multiestadio en los profesionales dentro de cada institución (estadio 1) y entre varias (estadio 2). Objetivo: identificar emociones en personal de salud en Norte de Santander-Colombia. Materiales y métodos: estudio explicativo, correlacional, cuasi experimental. La muestra estuvo conformada por 120 profesionales de salud, aplicándoles un instrumento estructurado de 10 preguntas en escala nominal para medir variables personales, emociones, y, escala Likert de 20 preguntas a fin de analizar competencias. Resultados: Los profesionales en salud de la misma institución poseen igual estadio de competencia y manejo de emociones en comparación a quienes son de otra institución de salud; se incorporaron variables predictoras de los estadios: institución de salud, profesional de salud y su relación. Conclusión: se estima un modelo multiestadio de emociones que describe alta correlación entre acciones para evitar, retardar o atenuar una enfermedad, obtener recuperación funcional, físico y mental de un individuo en la promoción de una participación activa y efectiva en su comunidad y estrategia institucional, con la gestión de emociones de los profesionales de salud.
TUBERCULOUS SPONDYLITIS IN A 20 YEARS-OLD MAN WITH PULMONARY LESIONS: A CASE REPORT
Authors: Firdausi Nuzulah Selly , Andy Wijaya Rike , Arif Kadarman Jan
Published: June 2024

Introduction: Tuberculosis caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Acid-Fast Bacilli/AFB) the disease infects the lungs (pulmonary tuberculosis), but it can also infect other organs (extrapulmonary tuberculosis). Tuberculous spondylitis or Pott's disease is an infection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the vertebrae (extrapulmonary tuberculosis). The early diagnosis of tuberculous spondylitis is difficult and often confused with spinal neoplasms or other pyogenic spondylitis. Case presentation: Our patient admitted to Dr. Ramelan Navy Hospital Surabaya with the chief complaint of bump in the lower right back since 4 months before entering the hospital, the bump felt painful (and a Wong- Baker pain scale of 4) when coughing and when touched, lump palpable with a soft consistency and 12 cm in diameter. Patient can move their legs freely and there are no limitations on the patient's range of motion. Defecate and urinate within normal limits. This patient has demonstrated a stable deformity with severe kyphosis with a 27 sagittal angulation without any neurological deficits.Conclusions: This report highlights to clinicians the value of a high index of suspicion and careful history taking in tuberculous spondylitis; and how a combination of nonspecific findings helped reach an early diagnosis. Because the clinical manifestations of TB spondylitis differ, various methods, including thoracolumbosacral X-ray and MRI with contrast, are required to confirm the disease. As a result, an interdisciplinary collaborative team is required to achieve optimal patient outcomes and to prevent long-term sequalae
The Identification Standard of “Serious Circumstances” in the Crime of Infringing Human Genetic Resources
Authors: Gong Xuan
Published: June 2024

As a condition for the crime of infringing human genetic resources, the “serious circumstances” are relatively vague in terms of concrete connotation and judgment criteria. In order to ensure the accuracy of judicial determination, it needs to be interpreted by legal hermeneutics. The “serious circumstances” in the crime of infringing human genetic resources should be located as “objective exceeding elements” in the criminal constitution system. The legal interests of the crime of infringing human genetic resources are “public health” and “security and administration order of public health”, and the bottom criterion of infringement of it is abstract danger. Based on this, “serious circumstances” should refer to the danger of illegal utilization of human genetic resources, and be specifically identified from both subjective and objective aspects.
A Comparison between the Western Understanding of Logos and the Asian Understanding of Dao
Authors: Wang Shu
Published: June 2024

The comparative study of Logos in the West and Dao in China has never stopped in academic circles. In a sense, Heraclitus' Logos and Laozi's Dao, which came into being in the same axial era, can be regarded as the starting point of Chinese and western philosophy respectively. They are similar in meaning, both of which are constant and contain Dialectic, But whether viewed from the perspective of ontology or epistemology, the differences between them are extremely obvious. This paper intends to make a comparison between Dao and Logos from the different aspects of Chinese and Western ontology, and point out the differences between them from the purpose and way of cognition, as well as the value orientation and development path in the process of cognition. Clarifying this problem will not only help us to deepen our understanding of Logos and Dao, but also help the academic community to deeply explore why the starting points of Chinese and Western philosophy are very similar but have completely different cultural paths.
Analisis Implementasi Manajemen Mutu dalam Pendidikan Islam, Studi Kasus di Sekolah SMP Islamic Centre Kota Tangerang
Authors: Isnaeni Nida Nadirah , Hakim Lukmanul
Published: June 2024

ABSTRACTQuality management is the art of managing human resources and other resources to achieve goals effectively and efficiently, focusing on customer satisfaction with products or services. To assess the quality of education in Junior High Schools (SMP), it is essential to consider educational implementation, including learning tools, Competency Standards and Basic Competencies (SK-KD), learning management, and the use and development of learning media. The quality of an educational institution depends on its ability to manage components such as educators, educational staff, students, facilities, and finances. This study examines the Implementation of Quality Management in Islamic Education, Strategies to Improve the Quality of Islamic Education, and Supporting and Inhibiting Factors at SMP Islamic Centre Kota Tangerang. This research employs a qualitative approach with descriptive methods. The research results indicate that the implementation of education quality includes: (1) maintaining public trust, (2) consistently providing the best service, (3) high-quality learning, and (4) enhancing school management. Quality management strategies include vision and mission, human resources, learning environment facilities, and evaluation. Supporting factors are the school's ability to provide the best service, while inhibiting factors include time constraints, financial limitations, and difficulties in uniting the abilities and preferences of each educator.ABSTRAKManajemen mutu adalah seni mengelola sumber daya manusia dan lainnya untuk mencapai tujuan secara efektif dan efisien, dengan fokus pada kepuasan pelanggan terhadap produk atau jasa. Untuk menilai mutu pendidikan di Sekolah Menengah Pertama (SMP), penting memperhatikan perangkat pembelajaran, Standar Kompetensi dan Kompetensi Dasar (SK-KD), pengelolaan pembelajaran, serta penggunaan dan pengembangan media pembelajaran. Mutu lembaga pendidikan bergantung pada kemampuan mengelola komponen-komponennya, seperti pendidik, tenaga kependidikan, siswa, sarana prasarana, dan keuangan. Penelitian ini mengkaji Implementasi Mutu Manajemen Pendidikan Islam, Strategi Meningkatkan Mutu Pendidikan Islam, serta Faktor Pendukung dan Penghambatnya di SMP Islamic Centre Kota Tangerang. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif dengan metode deskriptif. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa implementasi mutu pendidikan mencakup: (1) menjaga kepercayaan masyarakat, (2) konsisten memberikan pelayanan terbaik, (3) pembelajaran berkualitas, dan (4) peningkatan manajemen sekolah. Strategi manajemen mutu meliputi visi misi, SDM pendidik, fasilitas lingkungan belajar, dan evaluasi. Faktor pendukung adalah kemampuan sekolah memberikan pelayanan terbaik, sementara faktor penghambat adalah keterbatasan waktu, finansial, serta kesulitan menyatukan kemampuan dan kesukaan setiap pendidik.
Yoğun Bakım Hemşirelerinde Basınç Yaralanması Bilgi Düzeyi ve Eğitimin Etkinliğinin E-öğrenme ile Değerlendirilmesi
Authors: Küçükakarsu Nagihan , Yılmaz Güven Durdane , Ersözlü Emine
Published: June 2024

Özet
Amaç: Bu çalışma yoğun bakım hemşirelerinde basınç yaralanması bilgi düzeyi ve eğitimin etkinliğinin e-öğrenme ile değerlendirilmesi amacıyla yarı deneysel olarak yapıldı.
Yöntem: Çalışma bir eğitim ve araştırma hastanesinin yoğun bakım ünitelerinde çalışan 72 hemşire ile yapıldı. Hemşirelerden sosyodemografik özelliklerini içeren soru formu ve bilgi düzeyi formunu doldurmaları istendi. Online düzenlenen yara bakımı eğitimi sonrasında hemşirelerden bilgi düzeyi formunu tekrar doldurmaları istendi.
Bulgular: Yoğun bakım hemşirelerinin basınç yaralanmalarını risk faktörleri, tanımlama, önleme ve tedavi etmeye yönelik kırk sorudan oluşan önermeden aldıkları toplam puan ön testte 31,15±2,7 iken son testte 35,79±2,0 olarak saptandı. Hemşirelerin basınç yarasını önlemeye yönelik bilgi düzeyini belirlemek üzere yapılan değerlendirmeler arasında istatistiksel olarak anlamlı fark saptandı (p
The Yoruba Rythmic Deities: A Brief Analysis of Chucho Valdés’s Use Of Yoruba Rhythms related to My Own Performance Practice
Authors: Zaldivar Rafael
Published: June 2024

Yoruba rhythms have been an endless source of inspiration to musicians around the world since their African birth.[1] As the Yoruba religion has played a major role in shaping Cuban culture since the massive arrival of West African slaves on the island in the nineteenth century, a multitude of Cuban instrumentalists and composers have shown undeniable Yoruba influences.[2] Chucho Valdés is one of the most famous figures to illustrate this phenomenon.[3] For more than five decades, he has performed, improvised, arranged, composed, mixed, mastered and edited music that not only uses Yoruba rhythms but also strongly celebrates the general Afro-Cuban legacy.[4] Valdés is a pioneer and model to most Cuban musicians, including myself, because he has developed a unique and personal style through the hybridization of two powerful and distinct musical genres: jazz and Afro-Cuban music.[5] I have been greatly influenced by this pianist since I started learning music, and I believe I have been following his path in my recent quest for hybrid creative music. In this essay, I will discuss the personality of the Yoruba deities in relationship with their rhythms. Then, I will do a brief analysis of Chucho Valdés’ performance practice and use of Yoruba rhythms. Finally, I will tend to in related Chucho’s approach to my own approach. I will attempt to define and analyze both ways of approaching piano performance, improvisation, and composition and will illustrate the main differences. I will then explain why I have chosen this musical direction and sketch out my personal path within the broader perspective of contemporary jazz performance practice.
 
[1] Acosta, Leonardo. Cubano Be, Cubano Bop: One Hundred Years of Jazz in Cuba. Washington: Smithsonian Books, 2003, p. 59.
[2] Ortiz, Fernando. Los Negros Brujos. Miami, Florida: Ediciones Universales,1973. p-12.
[3] Acosta, Smithsonian Books: 2003, p. 212.
[4] Chucho Valdés’s Website.“Biography.” Accessed on November 9, 2015. http://www.valdeschucho.com/index.html#about.
[5] Acosta, Smithsonian Books: 2003, p. 212.
Unmasking the hidden aftermath: postintensive care unit sequelae, discharge preparedness, and long-term follow-up
Authors: Teixeira Cassiano , Rosa Regis Goulart
Published: June 2024

ABSTRACT A significant portion of individuals who have experienced critical illness encounter new or exacerbated impairments in their physical, cognitive, or mental health, commonly referred to as postintensive care syndrome. Moreover, those who survive critical illness often face an increased risk of adverse consequences, including infections, major cardiovascular events, readmissions, and elevated mortality rates, during the months following hospitalization. These findings emphasize the critical necessity for effective prevention and management of long-term health deterioration in the critical care environment. Although conclusive evidence from well-designed randomized clinical trials is somewhat limited, potential interventions include strategies such as limiting sedation, early mobilization, maintaining family presence during the intensive care unit stay, implementing multicomponent transition programs (from intensive care unit to ward and from hospital to home), and offering specialized posthospital discharge follow-up. This review seeks to provide a concise summary of recent medical literature concerning long-term outcomes following critical illness and highlight potential approaches for preventing and addressing health decline in critical care survivors.
Diabetes-associated factors in hospitalized COVID-19 patients with concomitant type 2 diabetes mellitus: focus on mean in-hospital glycemic values
Authors: Belkina D. V. , Nekrasova T. A. , Strongin L. G. , Durygina E. M. , Rodina M. Yu.
Published: June 2024

Aim of the study: to evaluate the significance of mean glycemic values during hospitalization as a potentially important diabetes-associated risk factor of unfavorable outcomes in inpatients with COVID-19 and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM).

Materials and methods. 139 patients with COVID-19 were observed in the hospital, 42 of them had concomitant type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2). In patients with COVID-19 and type 2 diabetes, the relationship between mean glycemic values during hospitalization and adverse outcomes (death and/or transfer of the patient to the intensive care unit (ICU)) was assessed. The average number of tests to assess glycemia in the hospital was 38.4 ± 15.68 per patient.

Results and discussion. According to correlation analysis data, an increase in mean in-hospital glycemia correlated with the severity of lung damage by computed tomography (R = 0.54, p = 0.002), the need for respiratory support by SMRT-CO score (R = 0.29, p = 0.070) and hypercoagulation by the international normalized ratio (R= –0.42, p=0.008). According to regression analysis, predictors of unfavorable outcomes included mean in-hospital glycemia (OR 1.4 [0.93; 2.12], p=0.073) and the percentage of tests with hypoglycemia in the hospital (OR 2.09 [0.89; 5 .40], p=0.016) as well as a history of diabetes (OR 5.5 [0.95, 31.60], p=0.029).

Conclusion. Impaired glycemic control during the whole hospitalization period negatively affects disease severity and the risk of adverse outcomes in patients with COVID-19 and type 2 diabetes.
De-intensification as a new trend in the treatment of type 2
Authors: Yanovskaya E. A. , Yanovskaya M. E. , Kaletnik E. I.
Published: June 2024

Currently, a trend towards deintensification of sugar-lowering therapy has emerged in the domestic and international clinical practice of type 2 diabetes mellitus management. And while recently reducing the intensity of antidiabetic therapy was considered primarily for elderly patients in terms of reducing the risk of hypoglycemia, it is now recognized that many other patients could benefit especially by conversion from intensive insulin therapy regimens to simpler regimens (e. g., fixed combinations of GLP-1 RA and BI). Regimen simplification and reduced number of injections have been shown to improve adherence to therapy without compromising the quality of glycemic control.
Cardio-reno-Metabolic health: discussing the recommendations of the American Heart Association
Authors: Izmailova M. Y. , Demidova T. Yu. , Valentovich V. V.
Published: June 2024

In recent years, the importance of the concept of cardio-reno-metabolic health (CRMH) has been increasingly emphasized, reflecting the close pathogenetic and clinical relationship of cardiovascular diseases (CVD), renal dysfunction and metabolic health in general. CVD, kidney disease and type 2 diabetes mellitus (type 2 diabetes) are the key causes of high disability and mortality worldwide, and therefore cause a heavy economic burden on the health systems of all countries. Understanding the basic principles of identifying and correcting common risk factors makes it possible to identify the main strategies aimed at improving the quality and life expectancy of patients. In 2023, the American Heart Association presented updated recommendations on cardiovascular, renal and metabolic health, which describes approaches to the definition, principles of staging, prevention strategies, as well as algorithms for the treatment of cardio-reno-metabolic syndrome (CRMS). This review presents the key provisions on the management of CRMS proposed in these clinical recommendations.
Amiodarone-induced thyrotoxicosis type 2: the role of differential diagnosis in patient management
Authors: Titova V. V. , Deeva T. M. , Muslimova Kh. M.
Published: June 2024

The antiarrhythmic drug amiodarone can affect the function of the thyroid gland, contributing to the development of thyrotoxicosis or hypothyroidism. The development of thyrotoxicosis exacerbates the cardiovascular pathology present in patients: it leads to the progression of left ventricular dysfunction, recurrence of rhythm disturbances, increasing the risk of adverse outcomes. Timely diagnosis of thyrotoxicosis in the treatment of amiodarone is of fundamental importance in choosing the right therapeutic tactics, which is determined by the type of amiodarone-induced thyrotoxicosis (AmIT), the state of the cardiovascular system, and the risk of recurrent arrhythmias. In type 1 AMIT, the main method of controlling the relief of thyrotoxicosis is thyroostatic therapy with the possibility of subsequent radical treatment (radioiodine therapy, thyroidectomy). Type 2 AmIT is a self-limiting process, however, for the treatment of patients with moderate to severe amiodarone-induced thyrotoxicosis type 2, glucocorticoids are the first-line drugs. With a mixed version of AmIT, a combination of antithyroid drugs and glucocorticoids is recommended. This review presents a clinical case of a patient with type 2 AmIT who was treated with thyrostatic drugs for a long time without achieving an effect.
Internal Consistency and Application of a Mentee Survey to Assess Mentor Competencies in an Academic Medical Center across Demographic Groups
Authors: Hall Gentzon , Corsino Leonor , Mack Michelle , Hall Rasheeda , Sloane Richard , Sullivan Beth , Hough Holly , Thomas Kevin , Colon-Emeric Cathleen
Published: June 2024

The National Academies of Science stresses the importance of research mentoring. We assessed the internal consistency and application of a novel 33 item mentor evaluation survey and explored differences across subgroups. The survey was administered annually to mentees. The response rate was 17.8% for a sample of 710 respondents. The survey exhibited strong internal validity with Cronbach Alpha > 0.89 for each subscale. Overall scores across the three domains were high. Basic Science trainees scored their mentor significantly lower than those in Translational or Clinical Science across domains (0.11-0.25 points). Underrepresented Racial Ethnic Groups (UREG) trainee scores were significantly lower in academic guidance and personal communication. Women had lower scores in 4 out of 5 domains. The survey is a modified instrument to assess mentee experience, although further validation against mentee outcomes is needed.
DAOs A blockchain-based application not intervening, but strengthening the agility of contemporary arts
Authors: Hilsberg Victoria
Published: June 2024

SHORT PAPER. This paper discusses the blockchain-based application DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) as a relevant new mechanism of artistic practice in the contemporary arts. It not only confronts the complexity of the modern society through its comprehensive application potential. It also channels segments of the contemporary art discourse such as political qualities, participatory art and cybernetic forces through active use cases. DAOs enable the interconnection of culture, technology and ecology. Using the most recent publications regarding blockchain technology as well as in-depth research on current artistic movements, it is possible to observe a complex manifestation of the matter within the contemporary arts during the concept's comparatively brief existence since its technical implementation around 2016.
Metabolism and Art
Authors: Rogers Hannah , Bencard Adam
Published: June 2024

SHORT PAPER. Metabolic arts should be added to the emerging interdiscipline of metabolic humanities and this paper will discuss ways of defining metabolism that might be productive in helping to produce tools and touchstones for metabolic readings of contemporary art before presenting examples of artworks which might be interestingly illuminated by light of this sign, taking time to relish the process of these materially oriented internal analysis coupled with how the work might be considered in terms of its broader implications for the concept of metabolism.
Proteus 3.0 - Interacting with the cloud
Authors: Smigielska Maria , CompMonks
Published: June 2024

SHORT PAPER. This paper presents the Proteus 3.0 project as an interactive and generative video installation, which tries to remain in conversation with its audience and learns from its engagement to produce new and potentially meaningful sequences of images. This particular version of a series is focused on digitized material as ferrofluid and its digital surrogate generated with a reaction-diffusion algorithm, projected onto a room-scale oval oculus allowing for a collective/immersive interaction. By employing state-of-the-art custom reinforcement learning models coupled with human intelligence in a symbiotic fashion, it aims to make the interaction more meaningful by understanding better human behaviour during an interaction. Additionally, it intends to maintain the interaction as conversations, rather than playful attractions.
Nga manawataki o te koiora: biological rhythms, posthuman design and decolonial thought
Authors: Wright Rewa , Howden Simon
Published: June 2024

SHORT PAPER. Western science, in fields such as computational ecology, has grown to accept the truths that Indigenous culture have long known: that computational ecology accepts that ecological models are too complex to be summarised in computational form. Since this complexity evades the codification of mere indexing, how then, should we work with computational companions (code, algorithms, programs, platforms). What new ways of intra-acting can we develop alongside computational frameworks, which bring us one more step closer to sentient machines? Most importantly, how can ethical ways of thinking and doing motivate transformations in the computational space, in areas such as machine learning where extreme problems of bias are now embedded? This research does not answer these complex questions, for they are genuinely ‘wicked problems’ that reach toward wider issues of equity, sustainability, and economy. Our aim is to use creative practice to generate gestures and markings that tentatively trace a way forward. This research contributes to new modalities of human computer interaction that attempt to restore the dynamic pathways developed by Indigenous thinking, challenging artificial boundaries such as nature/culture, instead giving respect to concepts of interconnection. Examining some of the differences between Western epistemology and Indigenous thinking opens a pathway toward Indigenous Futures that are crafted in support of a decolonial ecology.
The “Bichi” Project Symbiotic Food Networks and the Alchemist Kitchen
Authors: Badani Pat
Published: June 2024

The author uses symbiosis as metaphor and tool to create food-related projects that critically examine the anthropogenically induced impact of global warming on food chains. She argues that "art-through-food" projects promote an alternative worldview informed by the utopian premise that art can facilitate reflexivity and influence behavior to prevent future massive starvation by safeguarding the future of food. Three projects reveal the workings of energy flows in ecosystems to reimagine hybrid relations with living matter and with systems that are biological, technological, social, and political. They establish sustenance networks in which symbiotic interactions between several actors form the basis for a reevaluation of our human relationships to the planet and the fungal, plant, and animal agents within it. Based on assemblages with multiplicities that cofunction via a viral logic of contagion, projects explore aspects of symbiosis in human/plant/bacterial consortiums (the Bichi project), as well as symbiotic intelligence combining computing with neural networks (@Comestiblemealplan). Informed by research linking various scientific fields with art and technology, projects explore networks of relations between entities tangled in interdependence and involving parasitism, mutualism, adaptation, and resilience. Congruent with a larger systems approach in which symbiosis is the core principle replacing an essentialist conception of individuality, hybrid works contribute research and knowledge production with the potential to assess and generate affective insights and acts in the world.
Thought Exhibition. On critical zones, cosmograms, and the impossible outside
Authors: Irrgang Daniel
Published: June 2024

The paper discusses the curatorial concept of “thought exhibition” coined by Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel and developed in collaboration with curators, artists, and researchers during four exhibitions at the ZKM Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe (Germany). Thought exhibitions transgress the distinctions between philosophy, art, and science by testing ideas in an art museum, a space of discourse, representation, and participation. They engage visitors in a spatio-aesthetic thought experiment by bringing them into a position where preconceptions derived from epistemes of European Modernity are explicated and where alternatives are suggested. The analysis focusses on the most recent exhibition, in the preparation of which the author was involved: “Critical Zones. Observatories for Earthly Politics” (May 23, 2020 – January 9, 2022) mapped the symptoms and origins of the “New Climatic Regime” (Latour) of the late Anthropocene. In this paper, Critical Zones is framed within its theoretical context (Descola, Haraway, Margulis, Whithehead, among others) and discussed as relational spatio-aesthetic approach (Dikeç). The analysis concludes with Sarah Sze’s installation “Flash Point (Timekeeper)” (2018) as one of the exhibition’s central works – a representation, or “cosmogram” (Tresch), of a common planet that may provide an alternative to the globalized world of late capitalism.
Feeling One’s Way: In Search of a Symbiotic Vocabulary of the Virtual
Authors: Kobryn Olga , Couteau Matthieu , Sagot-Duvauroux Rémi , Balcon-Fourmaux Sophie , Garnier François , Ronfard Rémi , Soulez Guillaume
Published: June 2024

This article aims to present the collective research that has been made in the framework of the research seminar "Vocabulary of the Virtual" organized by IRCAV (Institute of Research on Cinema and Audiovisual Studies), Sorbonne Nouvelle and the “Spatial Media” group, EnsadLab. The main topic is to clarify the notions that refer to the concept of the "Virtual" in order to define it through an interdisciplinary approach according to different fields of science (aesthetics, philosophy, film theory, sound theory, ergonomics, design, engineering, cognitive sciences, etc.). This article presents many different conceptual tools such as cartography, mental maps, notional diagrams with several dimensions, etc., that have been conceived over the last three years, to show how the reflection on the concept of the Virtual was first established and constructed, and how it has been developed. The notion of symbiosis seems to be defined as a structuring notion of the concept of the Virtual across the process of anchoring the levels of virtuality inside technological devices and concrete sites, as well as inside the physical body of the VR users. The user’s body serves as a catalyst for the concept of the Virtual which then becomes organic.
The Hitchcock Experience - a Spatial Montage project
Authors: Sagot-Duvauroux Rémi , Quaetaert Nils , Garnier François , Ronfard Rémi
Published: June 2024

This paper describes an ongoing art project exploring the generalization of classical montage theory to the emerging technology of “room scale VR”. We take the emblematic “crop duster” scene in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest and invite the spectator to experience it “from the inside”. This raises interesting research issues. How to inhabit this cinematic story world? How can the traditional tools of cinematography and montage be used to direct the audience in this new kind of experience? How can the rhythm of the spectator's body be matched to the rhythm of George Tomasini’s (Hitchcock’s editor) fast pace editing? And what form can this montage take and for what aesthetic and dramaturgical effects? To answer these questions, we propose the experiment of a montage that adapts in real time to the displacements of the body and the gaze of the spectator, engaging a dialectic between narrative rhythm and bodily rhythm. We propose new algorithmic tools to transport the audience into the story as originally planned by Hitchcock while at the same time respecting the behaviors of the audience to guide the experience. In doing so, we seek to create a new form of relationship between the author of a narrative experience in virtual reality and the spectator who explores and activates the experience with his own body.
Augmenting Creative Symbiosis Using a Cyber-Physical Aesthetic
Authors: Thurow Susanne , Del Favero Dennis , Scott-Mitchell Michael , Ostwald Michael , Grehan Helena
Published: June 2024

Creative arts organizations are constituted by intricate symbiotic relationships between diverse stakeholders, including creatives, technicians, software programmers and producers. These thrive when facilitated by clear, seamless and swift communication. Cyber-physical systems can support such exchange yet require careful aesthetic design. Inspired by Manuel DeLanda’s philosophical framework, the paper introduces iModel, a new networked modelling system that facilitates operatic rehearsal design via an interactive cyber-physical spatial aesthetic. After mapping its conceptual framework, we detail iModel’s architecture and functionalities that provide a shared workspace for distributed teams. iModel is capable of assimilating diverse data formats and enabling real-time manipulation and seamless previsualization of complex interactions between all components of operatic production, including orchestration of set ensembles, video content, cast movements and lighting design, all synchronized with the musical score. The paper reflects on iModel’s real-world application in 2022 in the design and technical production departments at Opera Australia, Australia’s largest performing arts organization. We conclude with a reflection on the coalescence of philosophy, art and technology as a powerful conduit for catalyzing creative practice toward realizing new symbiotic imaginaries on and beyond the screen.
(Re)imagining human-yeasts relations via art-science collaboration
Authors: Timurgalieva Olga , Moreira Patrícia , Direito Eva
Published: June 2024

More-than-human beings are largely de-animated in Western cultures and perceived of as the backdrop for human activities. In particular, with modern modes of production and consumption, customers often have no idea how specific products have been created and which more-than-human beings have been involved in manufacturing specific consumables. As a partial response to this problematic disconnect, this text presents the art book, Yeasts as We Do Not Know Them, as a means to learn about human-yeast interactions and the ways these fungal microbes are used to manufacture different products and substances. The book, therefore, (re)imagines yeasts as omnipresent, diverse, and symbiotic. Conceiving of symbiosis as a set of interspecies relations, including mutualistic, pathogenic, and commensal ones, the project, Yeasts as We Do Not Know Them, as this article argues, maps diverse interspecies interactions and, by doing so, provides recourse for navigating material systems, thereby invoking trans-corporeal ethics.
VR CALLIGRAPHY Transposing Chinese calligraphy as choreographed movements into whole-body performances in VR
Authors: Shum P.Y.S. , Klein T.
Published: June 2024

Current research in the area of digitizing Chinese calligraphy is primarily concerned with computer graphics (CG), calligraphy ink/brush simulation, human-computer interaction (HCI), and automatic calligraphy generation. In all above research fields, calligraphy is mainly expressed and represented in two dimensions as traditional ink on paper. Even within recent contemporary calligraphic movements, there is little exploration into a true spatialization of calligraphy beyond the flat medium. This research articulates an evolution of Chinese calligraphy, from a physical two-dimensionality into a multidimensional digital form via choreographed whole-body movements using VR (virtual reality) interfaces. We present a series of experiments to test the transposition, creation, and presentation of the essential qualities of calligraphy into a VR format. The aim is, through disseminating new virtual phenomenology in calligraphy, to contribute to and extend the existing writing on the relation between calligraphy and technology as an art entering into immersive environments and interactive virtual spaces. Thus, the research interrogates the dimensionality of calligraphy to synthesize the notion of shufa (书法, the way of writing; the Chinese word for calligraphy) from the perspective of a choreographed performance within VR.
The Worlds of Entanglements: Reflection on Posthumanist Ontologies in Art&Science Projects
Authors: Zolotova Masha
Published: June 2024

A posthuman turn can be observed in many contemporary discourses. It is characterized by an endeavour to overcome the anthropocentric picture of the world, excluding from it the ‘gap’ between the world and human, a belief in human exclusivity, as well as the practice of organizing dichotomic systems. The article relates the theories developed by Braidotti, Haraway and Ferrando and the notion of posthuman subject to the artistic exploration of the work with nonhuman others, trees, and fungi in particular. By talking on the posthuman subject and its ontological state, but more precisely by following the way we are interacting with nonhumans within the practice of selected artists, Olga Kisseleva and Saša Spačal, what their connections to humans are, the movement towards rethinking the role of humans and acknowledging those by whom we are surrounded can be traced. Thus, artists do not formulate their notion of posthuman subject, but rather they demonstrate another approach and attitude towards nonhumans: to consider the latter, trees or fungi in our case, as partners, not to build hierarchies because the equality of the partners and to acknowledge their ‘knowledge’ we can learn from.
MEDIDAS PARA PERSONAS CON DISCAPACIDAD EN MATERIA DE SERVICIOS SOCIALES Y SU APLICACIÓN EN LAS ÁREAS RURALES EN CASTILLA Y LEÓN
Authors: Fernández-Costales Muñiz Javier
Published: June 2024

La estructura de la población rural de Castilla y León, calificada por baja densidad, dispersión y agudo envejecimiento hacen que el diagnóstico de sus necesidades se convierta en vital a la hora de planificar toda una línea de actuaciones a nivel regional y local ordenadas a revertir la situación: El libro ofrece al lector un análisis detallado de los problemas y propone soluciones atentas a la diferente dimensión de los municipios y las demandas concretas de los distintos colectivos en aspectos relacionados con el catálogo de servicios sociales existentes y el requerido, la sostenibilidad y habitabilidad del entorno y las medidas destinadas a mejorar la atención sanitaria y promover la salud.
RETOS Y OPORTUNIDADES DE LA INNOVACIÓN TECNOLÓGICA PARA LA MEJORA DE LA SOSTENIBILIDAD Y HABITABILIDAD RURAL
Authors: Casares Marcos Anabelén
Published: June 2024

La estructura de la población rural de Castilla y León, calificada por baja densidad, dispersión y agudo envejecimiento hacen que el diagnóstico de sus necesidades se convierta en vital a la hora de planificar toda una línea de actuaciones a nivel regional y local ordenadas a revertir la situación: El libro ofrece al lector un análisis detallado de los problemas y propone soluciones atentas a la diferente dimensión de los municipios y las demandas concretas de los distintos colectivos en aspectos relacionados con el catálogo de servicios sociales existentes y el requerido, la sostenibilidad y habitabilidad del entorno y las medidas destinadas a mejorar la atención sanitaria y promover la salud.
EL RÉGIMEN DE LOS SERVICIOS SOCIALES Y SANITARIOS EN EL ÁMBITO RURAL EN LA COMUNIDAD DE CASTILLA Y LEÓN: LA APUESTA POR SU COORDINACIÓN. MEJORAS A EFECTUAR TRAS LA PANDEMIA
Authors: González Iglesias Miguel
Published: June 2024

La estructura de la población rural de Castilla y León, calificada por baja densidad, dispersión y agudo envejecimiento hacen que el diagnóstico de sus necesidades se convierta en vital a la hora de planificar toda una línea de actuaciones a nivel regional y local ordenadas a revertir la situación: El libro ofrece al lector un análisis detallado de los problemas y propone soluciones atentas a la diferente dimensión de los municipios y las demandas concretas de los distintos colectivos en aspectos relacionados con el catálogo de servicios sociales existentes y el requerido, la sostenibilidad y habitabilidad del entorno y las medidas destinadas a mejorar la atención sanitaria y promover la salud.
ASPECTOS JURÍDICOS DE LOS METEORITOS DESDE LA PERSPECTIVA DEL DERECHO POLACO
Authors: Węgrzak Małgorzata
Published: June 2024

El objeto del capítulo es considerar los aspectos jurídicos de los meteoritos desde la perspectiva del derecho polaco. El estatus legal de los meteoritos sigue siendo una fuente de considerable controversia jurídica. Los meteoritos no tienen una definición jurídica clara y la cuestión de su propiedad no está regulada directamente por la legislación polaca. Cabe señalar que el capítulo utiliza la metodología cualitativa apoyándose en el análisis de las fuentes legales y la literatura científica jurídica que aborda el tema que nos ocupa. La cuestión de la protección de meteoritos no está suficientemente regulada en la legislación polaca y surgen dudas principalmente en torno a la titularidad —del Tesoro Público (del Estado), del buscador o del propietario del terreno en el que se encuentra— si es posible buscar y extraer meteoritos, exportarlos fuera del país o venderlos sin permiso o licencia. Por ejemplo, es posible considerar si los fragmentos de meteoritos que han caído al terreno son: un componente del bien inmueble, una pertenencia del bien inmueble, un beneficio natural del bien inmueble, o si están legalmente conectados con el bien inmueble en el que se han encontrado y su propiedad puede adquirirse por prescripción adquisitiva o por toma de posesión de una tierra de nadie (apropiación), o si deben aplicarse aquí las normas legales relativas a los objetos encontrados. La problemática de los meteoritos puede considerarse a través del prisma de la Ley de 23 de julio de 2003 de Protección y el Cuidado de Monumentos Históricos. La cuestión de la protección jurídica de los meteoritos es uno de los retos del derecho del patrimonio cultural relacionado con la expansión de los recursos patrimoniales y la aparición de formas cuya protección debe considerarse. El aumento de las posibilidades de exploración espacial significa que la adquisición comercial de material extraterrestre será posible, sin embargo, será necesario establecer sobre qué base se puedan introducir en el comercio, incluso con fines de coleccionismo. En este capítulo, la autora analiza estas cuestiones y destaca el carácter específico de los meteoritos según la legislación polaca y los retos jurídicos relacionados con ellos. En resumen, en relación con lo anterior, las cuestiones de la definición y la propiedad de los meteoritos pueden intentar clasificarse en el marco de la normativa legal vigente o habrá que crear un nuevo régimen jurídico.