bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
MACHINABILITY STUDY ON AL- 10% TIC COMPOSITES AND OPTIMUM SETTING OF DRILLING PARAMETERS IN ELECTROCHEMICAL MICRO MACHINING USING GREY RELATIONAL ANALYSIS
Authors: DHARMALINGAM S. , MARIMUTHU P. , RAJA K.
Published: July 2021

This paper investigates the influence of the process parameters like machining voltage, electrolyte concentration, frequency on the over cut and Material Removal Rate (MRR) on drilling of Al- 10% TiC Metal Matrix composites using Electrochemical Micro Machining (EMM) through taguchi methodology and grey relational analysis. Based on the analysis, optimum levels of parameters were determined and the same to validate through the confirmation test. Experimental results are in close agreement with the developed model. The confirmation results reveal that, there is considerable improvement in Material Removal Rate, Overcut. Grey relational grade are improved by 89.5 %, 57.9% and 95.16 % respectively. It is observed that the machining performance can be effectively improved with respect to initial parametric setting.
EFFECTS OF HEAT SOURCE, CHEMICAL REACTION, THERMAL DIFFUSION AND MAGNETIC FIELD ON DEMIXING OF A BINARY FLUID MIXTURE FLOWING OVER A STRETCHED SURFACE
Authors: SHARMA B. R. , NATH K.
Published: July 2021

Effects of viscous dissipation, heat source, thermal diffusion and chemical reaction on demixing of a binary mixture of incompressible viscous electrically conducting fluids in two dimensional magnetohydrodynamic boundary layer flow on a vertical stretching surface are investigated. The momentum, energy and concentration equations are reduced to non-linear coupled ordinary differential equations by similarity transformations and are solved numerically by using MATLAB’s built in solver bvp4c. These numerical results are exhibited graphically from which it has been found that the effects of various parameters are to separate the components of the binary mixture by collecting the lighter and rarer component near the plate and throwing the heavier one away from it.
ANALYSIS OF CHITOSAN/POLYVINYLPYRROLIDONE (STRUCTURE, FTIR, ELECTROSTATIC POTENTIAL, HOMO/LUMO ORBITALS) USING COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY
Authors: RANGEL-VÁZQUEZ N. A. , RODRÍGUEZ-FÉLIX F.
Published: July 2021

Chitosan and PVP oligomers were analyzed by means of the HyperChem software 8.0v to determine the theoretical structure. Quantum chemical calculation of geometrical structure and energies were studied using PM3 and AM1 methods in where the Gibbs free energy was calculated with a value of -9028 and -5796 Kcal/mol, respectively; these values showed that the reaction was carried out. Quantum chemical calculations are applied to study the (CT) complexes in order to obtain information on structures and other molecular properties like specific interaction of donor and acceptor. The interaction energy contribution comes from the effects of donor– acceptor interactions and π−π interactions. The HOMO and LUMO were simulated by determinate the transition state and energy band gap. Vibrational analysis shows that the band in 3185 cm-1 and shifting of band to lower wave number clearly indicates strong intermolecular interactions between chitosan and PVP. When the PVP oligomers is blended with chitosan, this absorption signal, which is assigned to the stretching vibration of a C=O group in the pyrrolidone ring, tends to shift to a position of somewhat lower frequency.
ROTATION OF A POROUS APPROXIMATE SPHERE IN AN APPROXIMATE SPHERICAL CONTAINER
Authors: SRINIVASACHARYA D. , KRISHNA PRASAD M.
Published: July 2021

The problem of steady rotation of a porous approximate sphere located at the center of an approximate spherical container has been investigated. The Brinkman’s model for the flow inside the porous approximate sphere and the Stokes equation for the flow in an approximate spherical container were used to study the motion. The torque experienced by the porous approximate spherical particle in the presence of cavity is obtained and wall correction factor is calculated. The special cases of rotation of a porous sphere and a solid sphere in a spherical container are obtained from the present analysis.
CATALYTIC DEGRADATION OF ETHYL ACETATE OVER V2O5 SUPPORTED MOLECULAR SIEVES
Authors: AGRAWAL A. , CHANDRA SHEKAR S. , TOMAR R. , GUJARATHI S.
Published: July 2021

Series of V2O5 molecular sieves catalysts with varying vanadium content are prepared by impregnation method. The catalyst composition is determined by AAS, SEM, TPR, XRD and BET Surface area techniques. Ethyl acetate decomposition studies are conducted over V/mol sev catalyst with varying vanadium content in presence of air and ozone in a temperature range of 120 to 180°C. The results reveal that in presence of air the oxidation activity is marginal and the principal oxidation product is ethanol. Whereas in presence of ozone, the oxidation activity is increased significantly, and the primary products are only carbon oxides and the trace amount of partial decomposed products (<10%) are observed. In presence of ozone 82% decomposition activity is observed at 160ºC and all the partial decomposed products are rapidly converting into carbon oxides which are ascribed to the synergetic effect of strong oxidizing nature of ozone and the Vanadia catalysts.
INVESTIGATION OF CYTOTOXIC ACTIVITY OF HYDROALCOHOLIC EXTRACT OF MEDICINAL PLANTS USING ARTEMIA SALINA (BRINE SHRIMP TEST)
Authors: MAHBOOB A. , GHAZALA S. , AKRAM M. , ALI S. M.
Published: July 2021

Medicinal plants have been screened for their biological activity using Brine Shrimp (Artemia salina leach). Brine shrimp lethality test was used to investigate the cytotoxic activity of plant extracts. After 24 hour of treatment, the larvicidal activity was assessed on the base of percentage of larval mortality. The bioactivity of hydroalcoholic extracts of different parts of medicinal plants, at different concentrations (1-5000 µg/mL), was evaluated with the shrimp lethality assay. Lethality concentration (LC50) was obtained using probit analysis. Out of the 17 plants tested, Veratrum album Bernh, Capsicum annuum L, Atropa belladonna L, Toxicodendron pubescens Mill and Berberis vulgaris L exhibited potent brine shrimp lethality with LC50 of 400, 420, 430, 610 and 612 µg/mL, respectively.
REDUCED ORDER EXTENDED STATE OBSERVER WITHOUT OUTPUT DERIVATIVE IN ADRC
Authors: TEPPA-GARRAN P. , GARCIA G.
Published: July 2021

As an observer based method; the ESO in ADRC introduces more phase lag when the observer order becomes higher. The key detriment of phase lag is the reduction of loop stability. A way to decrease the phase lag is to employ a RESO. Nevertheless, the underlying disadvantage of this approach is that RESO computation depends on output derivative. To overcome this problem, the derivative of the output is usually approximated from the difference of two neighbouring output sample values. However, this approach is not convenient for two raisons. First, the use of simple differences to derive the output is another source of phase lag. Second, observers are particularly sensitive to noise and derivative gains amplify noise increasing the sensitivity of the RESO. In this work, it is employed a method to obtain a RESO that does not depend on the output derivative. It is also developed the reduced order version of the GESO.
SET-POINT IDENTIFICATION OF AN OZONE WATER TREATMENT PROCESS
Authors: NEMMICH S. , TILMATINE A. , HAMMADI N.
Published: July 2021

The efficiency of an ozone water treatment process depends on a multitude of factors, including both the command factors and the environmental conditions. The aim of the present work is to analyze the application of the response surface experimental design techniques that make use of quadratic functions for modeling the ozone water treatment process. Due to the importance of the robustness of such treatment process, the aim of this paper is to validate an experimental procedure for optimizing the treatment efficiency and for determining the set point. The experiments were carried out on a laboratory experimental bench using Venturi injection system, where three controllable factors were analyzed: the high voltage level, the oxygen flow rate and the water flow rate. Three “one-factor-at-a-time” experiments followed by a center-faces composite design were performed. Once the variation limits of the input variables are determined, a mathematical model was proposed which served to analyze the influence of the factors and their interactions. At the end, an optimal set point was identified.
AUTOMATING THE ESTIMATION OF UNOBSERVED DATA FROM WEATHER STATIONS IN ARGENTINA
Authors: MAGGIORI E. , GERVASONI L. , ANTÚNEZ M. , THOMAS A.
Published: July 2021

In Argentina, the National Meteorological Service elaborates daily reports of atmospheric data captured at weather stations throughout the country. The Ministry of Agriculture uses that data to do risk analysis, a task in which it is preferred to estimate unobserved or corrupted values, rather than just ignore them. The selection and application of interpolation methods used to be done manually. In this work we present the decisions made to fully automate the process. Under the assumption that no interpolation method is universal, our method automatically selects the most appropriate technique in each case. The application of the methods is also done without the need of human intervention or parameter tuning. The proposed solution was tested using data acquired within a four-year period. The error rates computed were tagged as highly satisfactory by the meteorologists. Moreover, the idea of selecting the best method each time outperforms the search for a universal method for each indicator, validating our approach.
AN OVERVIEW OF INDUSTRIAL WASTES AS FUEL AND MINERALIZER IN THE CEMENT INDUSTRY
Authors: RENO M.L. G. , SILVA R. J. , MELO M.L. N.M. , BOAS S.B. V.
Published: July 2021

The cement industry worldwide is facing growing challenges in conserving material and energy resources. According to the International Energy Agency, the main levers for cement producers are the increase in energy efficiency and the use of alternative materials. This work shows the application of industrial wastes in cement industry as fuel and mineralizer that are found out in many studies of literature. The works showed that the waste fuels are viable but it is necessary to take to account that the burning behavior of most waste fuels differs significantly from the behavior of fossil fuels due to higher particle sizes, material densities and transport characteristics. On the other hand the mineralizer decreases of burning temperature of Portland clinker without altering the clinker quality.
VISCO-ELASTIC EFFECTS ON FREE CONVECTIVE MHD HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER FLOW PAST A SEMI-INFINITE VERTICAL MOVING PLATE WITH TIME DEPENDENT SUCTION IN PRESENCE OF RADIATION AND CHEMICAL REACTION
Authors: DAS U. J.
Published: July 2021

An analysis of the free convective MHD heat and mass transfer flow of an incompressible, chemically reacting, radiating, visco-elastic fluid past a semi-infinite vertical permeable moving plate in the presence of a uniform transverse magnetic field with time dependent suction has been considered. The governing non-linear partial differential equations are non-dimensionalized and are solved by using perturbation technique. Analytical solutions for velocity, temperature and concentration field have been derived. The expressions for velocity field, temperature field, skin friction, heat flux in terms of Nusselt number, and mass flux in terms of Sherwood number are obtained. The effects of the visco-elastic parameter on velocity profiles and shear stress with the combination of the other flow parameters are discussed graphically.
BACTERIA-MEDIATED DEGRADATION OF PETROLEUM HYDROCARBON CONTAMINANTS: AN OVERVIEW
Authors: UZAIR B. , MUNIR M. , TASSADAQ S. , KHAN S. , KHAN B. A.
Published: July 2021

One of the major environmental problems is hydrocarbon pollution. Hydrocarbons are mostly the result of petroleum based activities. Anthropogenic activities, natural seepage and accidental spills are of particular interest in the environmental quality. The health effects of these chemicals are widely known. In the hour of alarming pollution by these hydrocarbons, a newer, cheaper, and safer technology is needed for cleanup, moving beyond the conventional mechanical and chemical methods, which are not only expensive but ineffective also. Bioremediation is a promising technology, functioning on complete mineralization of contaminants by the diverse metabolic processes owned by microorganisms. Many indigenous and genetically modified bacteria are capable of crude oil degradation. This paper presents an updated overview of petroleum hydrocarbon degradation by bacteria.
DEVELOPMENT OF A FAST AND LOW COST METHOD FOR ACETONE-BUTANOL-ETHANOL QUANTIFICATION IN INDUSTRIAL FERMENTATIONS
Authors: VISIOLI L. J. , ALVES E. A. , TRINDADE A.C. M. , KUHN R. C. , MAZUTTI M. A.
Published: July 2021

In this work, a method based on mixture density was developed to determine the concentration of acetone-butanol-ethanol solvents (ABE) instead of conventional methods based on gaschromatography. For this purpose, synthetic solutions diluted in distilled water with different concentrations of ABE solvents were used to develop the method. In a second step, different concentrations of ABE solvents were diluted in sweet sorghum juice at different sugar concentration to simulate the real process conditions. The results demonstrated a linear relation between density and ABE concentration in water. For real fermentation media, it was necessary to take into account the concentration of sugar, where the method presented satisfactory results for synthetic and industrial fermentation media. The main contribution of this work was to determine the ABE concentration in a simple, fast and low cost way.
Pengaruh Latihan Gerak Sendi Aktif dengan Kemampuan Mobilitas Fisik pada Pasien Stroke Non Hemoragik di RSUD Deli Serdang
Authors: Ginting Samuel , Saputra Chaidir , Chairani Chairani
Published: July 2021

Background: Stroke is a neurological disease that ranks third as the cause of death in Indonesia after cancer and heart disease. Stroke in Indonesia is increasing due to changes in modernization lifestyle. The general purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between active joint motion exercises and physical mobility abilities in non-haemorrhagic stroke patients at the Deli Serdang Lubuk Pakam General Hospital.Methods: This type of research is descriptive analytic using a one group pre and post test design approach with a quasi-experimental design. The research location is RSUD Deli Serdang Lubuk Pakam, carried out in early February 2012. The research population was 28 people and a sample of 9 people with the sampling technique using the accidental sampling method. Data were analyzed using t test (paired sample T-test).Results: The results showed that the patient's mobility ability before being treated (pretest) with a value of 0 is 8 people (88.9%), and a value of 1 is 1 person (11.1%). The patient's mobility ability after being treated (posttest) with a value of 0 is 4 people (44.4%), and a value of 1 is 5 people (55.6%). There was an increase in the ability of physical mobility by 1.8. Active joint motion exercises affect the mobility ability of non-haemorrhagic stroke patients at Deli Serdang Hospital, Lubuk Pakam in 2012. With p value = 0.001 (α = 0.05).Conclusion: 3. There is a relationship between active joint motion exercises and mobility abilities in non-hemorrhagic stroke patients at the Deli Serdang Regional General Hospital Lubuk Pakam in 2012 with p value = 0.001 (α = 0.05).
Матеріальні ресурси ЗВО як об’єкт державного управління забезпеченням якості вищої освіти
Authors: С.А. Мороз
Published: July 2021

У статті з’ясоване місце та роль матеріальних ресурсів ЗВО, як об’єкта державного управління забезпеченням якості вищої освіти, а також сформульовані загальнотеоретичні підходи до оцінювання рівня розвитку матеріальних ресурсів, які впливають на рівень якості освітніх послуг. Стаття містить висновки щодо удосконалення
якості надання освітніх послуг закладами вищої освіти за рахунок покращення освітнього
середовища та матеріальних ресурсів ЗВО, а також напрямів удосконалення змісту та
практики використання механізмів державного управління якістю вищої освіти.
Основні чинники впливу цифровізації економіки на соціально-економічні системи
Authors: В.Д. Тогобицька
Published: July 2021

У статті розглядаються основні напрямки державного регулювання соціально-економічних систем, кадровий та інтелектуальний потенціал цифорвізації,
економічні та галузеві аспекти цифровізації регіонів. Даються рекомендації з розвитку соціально-економічних систем в умовах цифровізації економіки.
Особливості тайм-менеджменту державних службовців в інформаційному середовищі
Authors: С.М. Луценко , Л.П. Івашина
Published: July 2021

У статті обґрунтовується актуальність підвищення ефективності управлінської діяльності державного службовця при ефективній організації робочого часу, розкривається необхідність впровадження у ній технологій таймменеджменту. Розглядаються погляди щодо застосування технологій таймменеджменту державного службовця, визначаються прості прийоми, які допомагають підвищити продуктивне використання часу державного службовця в
інформаційному середовищі.
Механізми зарубіжного досвіду державної політики протидії корупції
Authors: В.Д. Астахов
Published: July 2021

У статті розглянуто новий науковий підхід до визначення сутності механізму державної політики протидії корупції. На основі аналізу міжнародного індексу «TransparencyInternational» розглянуто взаємозалежність можливого, приблизного укорінення корупції в Україні та можливого, приблизного укорінення корупції як країн що сприймаються найменш корумпованими, такі тих країн, що
сприймаються най корумпованими.
Виявлено закономірність між найменш корупційнимита найбільш корупційними країнами, що в більшості випадків, можливо, відповідає дійсності. Але на
прикладі деяких країн, у тому числі і України виявлено невідповідність виявленої
закономірності що засвідчує відсутність чіткого поняття «корупція». Проаналізовано неможливість встановлення рівня ураження корупції у Світі. При цьому
показано не точність самого поняття «корупція» та не відповідність дійсності.
Встановлено, що в основі механізму боротьби з корупцією має бути зовсім
інший підхід. Цей підхід повинен враховувати обов’язково психологічні складові.
Розгляд запропонованого поняття «корупція» до якого застосовано додаткові
поняття точніше розкриває сутність терміну «корупція», встановлює закономірність її виникнення що дає змогу використовувати його у повсякденній діяльності охоплюючи всі сфери життя в яких можливе утворення корупційних угод,та
виявлено взаємозалежність психологічної поведінки людей яка закладена на інстинктивному рівні, яка є одним із чинників вчинення корупційних угод
Сучасний стан та ефективність системи публічного управління та адміністрування у сфері цивільного захисту на регіональному рівні
Authors: В.С. Кропивницький
Published: July 2021

У статті визначено рівень захисту населення, територій, навколишнього
природного середовища від надзвичайних ситуацій на регіональному рівні.
Здійснено оцінку ефективності системи публічного управління та адміністрування у сфері цивільного захисту. Розглянуто основні напрямки підвищення ефективності системи публічного управління та адміністрування у сфері цивільного захисту на регіональному рівні в сучасних умовах.
A Single Case Study of Dermatomyositis and Management in Ayurveda
Authors: Ghosh D. , Ghosh R.
Published: July 2021

Background: Dermatomyositis is an idiopathic myopathy involving progressive muscle weakness with skin manifestation. Diagnosis is based upon progressive muscle weakness, skin rashes, increased liver enzymes, high ASO titer. The incidence of dermatomyositis is rare. In this case study, we report a case of classical dermatomyositis without incidence of malignancy.
Case Presentation: A 28-year female patient visited the outdoor at Viswanath Ayurved Mahavidyalaya & Hospital, Kolkata with a fever for two months with scattered rashes all over the body with pain & swellings and with gradual weight loss.
Conclusion: This case is shifted from allopathy to Ayurveda as in allopathy she did not get any relief. First, this case was treated on the outdoor treatment of ayurvedic hospital then She was shifted to an indoor ward and was under Ayurvedic treatment for about a month. The patient was recovered from her illness and symptoms after the completion of the treatment.

Keywords: Dermatomyositis, Ayurveda, Liver enzymes, skin rashes, Uttana vatrakta.
Effect of Supervision, Discipline and Satisfaction on Employee Performance at the Dinas Pekerjaan Umum Kota Medan
Authors: Harahap Edo Ferdian , Nazmi Hendra , Monika Shela
Published: July 2021

Researchers took the object at the Dinas Pekerjaan Umum Kota Medan, the reason for choosing the object was due to a decrease in employee performance at the Dinas Pekerjaan Umum Kota Medan. Employee supervision occurs because discipline in terms of punctuality is still not optimal because employees still often arrive late and the lack of attention from the Dinas Pekerjaan Umum Kota Medan which results in a sense of dissatisfaction for employees. The research method used by the researcher is a quantitative approach, the type of research is descriptive quantitative and the nature of the research is descriptive explanatory. The population of this study were all employees who worked at the Dinas Pekerjaan Umum Kota Medan, amounting to 123 people. The sampling technique used a saturated sample in which 123 employees were from the Dinas Pekerjaan Umum Kota Medan. The method of data collection was done by questionnaires, and interviews. The analytical method used is multiple linear regression, the coefficient of determination testing simultaneously and partially. The results showed that supervision, discipline and satisfaction simultaneously or partially have a positive and significant effect on employee performance, where the coefficient of determination is 33.7%.

Keywords: Supervision, Discipline, Satisfaction, Employee Performance.
Chemical Composition of Milk Obtained from Holstein Friesian Cows during First and Second Lactation
Authors: Dimitrovska Gordana
Published: July 2021

In this study milk samples from Holstein Friesian cows were collected and analyzed during the first and second lactation period in a period of six months. The following parameters have been examined: protein content, fat content, lactose, and dry matter in milk. The average values of the content of milk protein, fat, lactose and dry matter in the milk of first lactation were as following: 3,14%, 3,25%, 4,46 %, 11,48% and in the milk of second lactation are: 3,21%, 3,29%, 4,39% and 11,68%.%. Milk from cows in the second lactation had a higher concentration of protein, more fat and dry matter than cow's milk from the first lactation.

Keywords: quality, chemical composition, milk, lactation, breeds.
Analysis of Education and Family Support Factor on Compliance with Taking Anti Tuberculosis Drugs (OAT) in Pulmonary Tuberculosis (TB) Patients in Tebing Tinggi City
Authors: Tarigan Evi Novalita , Lubis Rahayu , Mutiara Erna
Published: July 2021

Indonesia ranks second in the world as a country that has the number of tuberculosis sufferers after India. Although directly observed short-course treatment (DOTS) recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) has proven to be very effective in the treatment of tuberculosis, patient compliance with anti tuberculosis drugs (OAT) is a major obstacle in controlling tuberculosis. The purpose of this study was to analyze of education and family support factors in compliance with taking anti tuberculosis drugs (OAT) in Pulmonary Tuberculosis (TB) Patients in Tebing Tinggi City. The population in this study were all tuberculosis patients in Tebing Tinggi City from January to December 2020. A sample of 78 people was obtained using purposive sampling technique. This study uses multivariate analysis with multiple poisson regression test. The results of multivariate analysis with multiple poisson regression (p<0.05) showed that education (p=0.043; PR=1.539, 95%CI 1.013-2.338) was associated with compliance with taking OAT in Tebing Tinggi City. Family support (p=0.008; PR=1.737, 95%CI 1.158-2.604) was associated with compliance with taking OAT in Tebing Tinggi City. It is hoped that TB patients can increase their knowledge by attending counseling, counseling and home visits, following the rules of taking OAT and immediately consulting with officers if they experience side effects of OAT. It is expected that families can provide motivation, seek information, accompany taking OAT, provide transportation for control to the community health center (Puskesmas), facilitate patients with an android-based OAT drinking calendar application.

Keywords: Education, Family Support, Compliance with Taking Anti Tuberculosis Drugs (OAT).
“That’s when he comes rushing into her life.” Swedish Literary Depictions of Human-Animal Sexual Contact at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
Authors: Lönngren Ann-Sofie
Published: July 2021

This essay discusses three literary narratives written by Swedish authors Elsie Johansson (1984), Gabriella Håkansson (2003) and Lars Jakobson (2004), which all depict human-animal sexual contact. The analysis shows that two of these representations are written in the intersection of a bestiality paradigm and a pet paradigm, thus depicting sexual contact between human and animal as ultimately lethal, although instigated by love. The third narrative sketches another world in which human-animal sexual and romantic relationships are part of everyday life; ultimately, however, this comes across as an unsatisfying solution for both parties. The outcome of the investigation is the proposal that, during the course of the twentieth century, a rural, communicative, male sodomy paradigm seems to have given way to one of urban, silent, female sexuality.
Parrot Poll
Authors: Borgards Roland
Published: July 2021

The paper focuses on the famous scene in which Poll the parrot talks to Robinson Crusoe. It gives a close reading, revealing the ambivalence of violence and care in the relation between Robinson and Poll. It expands this ambivalence to a postcolonial approach, and it investigates — with and beyond Derrida — the poetological implications of the parrot's faculty of mimesis.
From the Dawn Chorus to the Canary Choir
Authors: Petri Olga , Howell Philip
Published: July 2021

Birdsong is familiar but enigmatic: to some nothing but mechanical “instinct,” but so excessively exuberant that enthusiasts have linked the songs of birds to the development of the aesthetic sense. Where medieval scholars once saw the origins of music in the imitation of nature, by the Enlightenment birdsong was banished in the anthropocentric definition of art. In contrast to the philosophers, this paper focusses on human intervention in birdsong, focusing on the song of the domestic canary. The canary’s “contrived” song can be understood as a partnership between humans and birds, mediated by technology. Drawing on the European history of canary keeping, in Germany and Russia in particular, we turn first to the training of songbirds. Subsequently, we consider canaries as signature nonhuman performers, in spaces ranging from the home to the stage. Finally, we consider the role of technology, specifically recording and amplification, in making the canary’s song audible to audiences at a distance. The salutary hybridization of animal–human-machine contests the longstanding condescension of philosophers towards mechanical artifice and any contamination of the free beauties of nature.
Patricia Cox Miller, In the Eye of the Animal: Zoological Imagination in Ancient Christianity
Authors: Beverly Jared
Published: July 2021

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Frank Rosell, Secrets of the Snout: The Dog’s Incredible Nose
Authors: Gordon Joan
Published: July 2021

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Toward Interspecies Thinking as a Collaborative Concept
Authors: Fix Adam J. , Burnam Hugh , Gutteriez Ray
Published: July 2021

Despite the recent surge in academic activity around traditional ecological knowledge (TEK), there is still relatively little work on the intersection of TEK and Animal Studies. This paper represents an exploratory attempt at reconciling the two fields using interspecies thinking as an analytic paradigm. We argue that both TEK and Animal Studies challenge the imposition of anthropocentric narratives as truth, thereby asking us to reconsider the basic assumptions and narratives about human uniqueness that we construct and affirm in our daily lives. We propose a move toward interspecies thinking as a collaborative concept, which begins from Indigenous cosmological foundations, provides the basis for intercultural collaboration, and from this position chooses to focus most intensively on the narratives and practices that comprise the human/nonhuman animal divide. We discuss the importance of autoethnography as a method for navigating this terrain and offer three autoethnographic accounts that function as both an exploration of the topic from unique perspectives and an invitation to other Indigenous and non-Indigenous people to engage in a critical dialogue situated at this intersection.
Breed: Introduction
Authors: Guest Kristen , Mattfeld Monica
Published: July 2021

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If Not for Her Spots
Authors: Bolender Karin
Published: July 2021

This essay explores an interdisciplinary art practice of un/naming rooted in the complex fascination of one human artist with a special breed of domestic beast of burden, known as the American Spotted Ass. Through almost two decades of creative adventures — and, more importantly, daily care and intimate becomings with one gentle, wise tri-colored donkey and her herd of kin — this practice has explored fertile cracks found within hidden histories and colorful promises of this peculiarly “American” ass breed. For all the critical questions and biopolitical frissons that append to the act of splattering spots onto the hides of unassuming Equus asinus, I reckon here with a certain complicity, with knotty shames and passions borne in the privileges of breeding domestic species to suit cultural and personal tastes. After all, it was those troublesome spots that brought me to meet her in the first place, and so to live long and happily with a beloved barnyard companion, one special so-called spotted ass respectfully (un)named Aliass.
Attending the Giraffe
Authors: Berland Jody
Published: July 2021

In this article I compare the story of the first contact tribute giraffe sent from Bengal to China in 1414 with the story of April, the famously web-cam pregnant giraffe of 2017.  Both giraffes were transported by new technologies that brought together geographically dispersed people through a notable event. Both giraffes had to be conveyed from natural habitats into confinement, from distance into quasi-intimacy with European and global observers, from matriarchal family structure into an individual with a face that could at least hypothetically look back at its human viewer.  The space between these two events has been marked by the emergence of a capitalist world order together with growing public anxiety about environmental risk. This shared precarity, commonly named the Anthropocene, is widely conceptualized as the result of human domination of and estrangement from nature.  But the history of the giraffe reminds us that some people were estranged from nature, while others were defined by and exploited precisely because of their proximity to its resources. Each step of being made visible has relied on something else being made invisible.  

The double act of foregrounding and disappearing has discursively shaped both our relations with animals and the visual aesthetics of modern culture. To borrow Marshall McLuhan’s well-known phrase, the medium is the message, and in this article, the medium is an animal.  Two giraffes, two historical eras, two distinct sociopolitical and technological situations.  Why giraffes, and what are they mediating?
Interpellation and Affect
Authors: Solomon Daniel Allen
Published: July 2021

Journalistic and environmentalist discourses casting urban monkeys as outsiders to city landscapes in India appear in concert with efforts to produce a separation between the species through mass translocation of monkeys to beyond city limits. The monkeys are rhesus macaques, and despite popular notions that they are outsiders to human worlds, they exist and sometimes even flourish in the material-symbolic environments of South Asian cities, villages, farms and pastures. Contrary to the predominant discourse on urban monkeys, rhesus at “monkey temples” like Jakhoo Mandir in Shimla demonstrate that nonhuman primates can participate in the production of shared material-semiotic environments. Monkey temples are the products of an adaptive social hybridization at the confluence of coevolutionary interrelation, human religious-ethical sentiment, and the ongoing affective labors of monkeys. The assumption of human political and spatial pre-eminence and its correlative in management practice, mass translocation, are not necessary preconditions for a world in which both humans and monkeys can flourish.
Animal Doubles of the Buddha
Authors: Ohnuma Reiko
Published: July 2021

Two centuries’ worth of work on the rich narrative traditions surrounding the life of the historical Buddha have thus far failed to pay any attention to the episodes in his live involving close interactions with animals. This article draws from premodern Indian Buddhist sources in Sanskrit and Pāli to look at two animal characters who play significant roles within the Buddha’s life-story— the horse Kanthaka and the elephant Nāḷāgiri. I argue that both animals constitute “doubles” or shadows of the Buddha — illuminating his character through identification, contrast, or parallelism with an animal “other.” More specifically, the horse Kanthaka serves as a scapegoat for the Buddha, absorbing some of the sin and blame that are due to him, yet without tainting his perfect character. The elephant Nāḷāgiri, on the other hand, serves as a billboard for the Buddha’s power and charisma, allowing these features of the Buddha’s character to be publicly displayed to the cosmos at large.
Coshaping Digital and Biological Animals
Authors: Attebery Stina
Published: July 2021

This paper considers how video games featuring animals as biological resources are simulating the types of “messy coshapings” that Donna Haraway values in companion species relationships, despite relocating these coshapings to a digital environment. The two game franchises that I am using for this argument—Pikmin and Pokémon—feature animal-like digital creatures who can be situated alongside biological animals through their imbrication in similar biopolitical structures of pet ownership, breeding and genetic manipulation, and animal training. I argue that embodied relationships of dominance and biopower become recoded in these digital spaces through a process similar to Eugene Thacker’s “biological exchanges,” where biology becomes both material and immaterial through processes like bioinformatics. In these two game worlds, biological exchanges occur through the tension between the player’s instrumentalization of animal biopower and the depiction of these creatures as affective and vulnerable. By emphasizing the vulnerability of digital animals under a system of biopower, Pikmin and Pokémon invite the player to decode her experiences managing immaterial, digital animal populations in order to rethink her relationships with embodied, biological animals.
The Ugly Animal
Authors: Snyder Emily
Published: July 2021

In this paper, I consider the importance of examining negative aesthetics for thinking about animal-human relations. Specifically, I concentrate on the ugly animal and ask: how might a focus on ugliness, disgust, and abjection help us to further understand animal-human relations in both theory and practice? I draw on the pigeon and pigeon feces to consider possible contributions from Donna Haraway and Michel Serres, for addressing my question. Ultimately I abandon Haraway’s respectful relationality, as well as Serres’s parasitic relationality, to consider what a politics of disgust might offer instead for a political and ethical approach to animal-human relations that is more practically attentive to discomfort, power, and conflict.
Deeply Ecological Deleuze and Guattari
Authors: Ives Richard
Published: July 2021

Through a critical reading of the notion of “becoming-animal” as proposed by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, it is argued in this paper that the drawing of a simple division between the wild and the tame inevitably results in a restricted concept of ethics that reiterates contemporary structures of oppression. One of the main reasons for the recent interest in Deleuze and Guattari from within critical animal studies is that their philosophy appears to give to nonhuman animals an access to a “becoming” that is equal in power and affect to those open to the human. Upon closer reading, however, it transpires that this equality is just as quickly refused. Ultimately, Deleuze and Guattari, in common with the adherents of Deep Ecology, posit an entry into becoming which effects itself upon the timelessness of the wild, termed “true Nature” by Deleuze and Guattari. As a result, the vast diversity of nonhuman animals are dissolved in a becoming-Nature which lacks both responsibility and respond-ability, thus reinforcing the subjugating superiority both of humanist exceptionalism and of Man’s emergence from a feminized Nature.
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Thoughts on Atmanirbhar Bharat in Special Reference Indo-China Dispute
Authors: Warbhuvan Sunil S.
Published: July 2021

The present issue of Indo-China dispute is focusing different aspects like trade, military stand-offs global ambition, international policy, etc. so where do the faultslie in this relation between the two Asian giants, struggling on either side of Himalaya. India and China both are high populated and world’s ancient civilization neighboring countries connected by Buddhism. Presently huge gathering of military forces deployment is being seen at the borders of Leh on the part of China. India become cautious for protecting its sovereignty. Both started rounds of diplomatic dialogue to turn the situation in to peace by discussion. In this research paper it is studied that how Indo-China dispute can be sorted out by adopting middle path solution for welfare of both countries for peace instead of war. On this platform prime minister Narendra Modi started campaign ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’ his objective of starting Atmanirbhar Bharat campaign aimed to be that our Nation should be self-reliant with strong socio-economy to make more competent for war. Now here objective and aim are clear but remedy he has not clearly announced. So to achieve objective of making India strong nation through socio-economic development is the basic problem in this study India should think permanent solution. Buddha said ‘Atta Dip Bhava’ which means be a light means self-reliant likewise. In this study Dr. B.R. Ambedkar who was chairman of drafting committee of Indian constitution, his thoughts for permanent solution are directive, beneficial and agreeable in Indian context.
Kahoot – A Game- Based Formative Assessment Tool During the Covid-19 Movement Control Order
Authors: Binti Rosdy Siti Nor Aisha , Yunus Melor Md
Published: July 2021

The rapid development of technology has influenced the current system of education. The existence of various digital learning platforms online enables the teachers nowadays to implement them in teaching and learning as well as testing and evaluation. Kahoot is one of the digital learning platforms that mostly used by higher institutions students to assess their learning. Thus, a research conducted to investigate the usability of Kahoot as a formative assessment tool in ESL primary classroom during Covid 19 Movement Control Order period. The research employed mixed method approach whereby semi-structured interviews and survey questionnaire used as data instruments. There are 20 Year 4 pupils participated and responded to the questionnaire, while three of them and an English teacher responded to the interview. The findings show that most of the respondents coincided that the application of Kahoot enables them to learn English in a fun way, increase their English knowledge, capable to do the sharing of English knowledge to other people and increase their motivation and engagement during this pandemic period. In a classroom context, Kahoot has high potential in supporting and enhancing teaching and learning for both teacher and pupils with its outstanding features, especially during the pandemic period.
أخلاقيات نشر المضمون الخبري على مواقع التواصل الاجتماعي في أوقات الأزمات
Authors: كرم وقيع الله د. محمد فرح
Published: July 2021

تهدف الدراسة إلى الوقوف على مدى التزام الناشرين على مواقع التواصل الاجتماعي بأخلاقيات نشر مضمون أخبارهم عن هذه المواقع في أوقات الأزمات. ومثلت الأحداث التي مر بها السودان خلال الفترة من 2018م-2019م مرتكزاً لذلك . استخدمت الدراسة المنهج الوصفي كمنهج مناسب لهذه الدراسة، والاستبانة كأداة لجمع البيانات عن الحالة، ومثلت مجموعة الناشرين السودانيين على مواقع التواصل الاجتماعي مجتمعا للدراسة، وتم استخدام العينة المتاحة كعينة للتطبيق عليها. من أهم النتائج التي توصلت لها الدراسة، أن معظم أفراد العينة يستخدمون مواقع التواصل الاجتماعي، وأن أغلبهم يلتزمون بأخلاقيات نشر المضمون الخبري على تلك المواقع، وأن الأقلية منهم لا يلتزمون بتلك الأخلاقيات؛ الأمر الذي قد يؤدي إلى ورود بعض الشائعات.
معالجة البرامج السياسية في الفضائيات اللبنانية لقضية الانتخابات النيابية
Authors: العاصمي د.عاهد عايش
Published: July 2021

تهدف الدراسة إلى معرفة مدى معالجة البرامج السياسية في الفضائيات اللبنانية لقضية الانتخابات النيابية في لبنان، واستخدم الباحث منهج المسح بشقيه الوصفي والتحليلي من خلال تحليل مضمون أربع برامج سياسية في أربع قنوات فضائية لبنانية، وذلك لدورة برامجية مدتها ثلاثة أشهر من (1/1/2017) إلى (1/4/2017)، وكان عدد الحلقات خلال هذه الفترة لكل برنامج (12) حلقة، وبلغ عدد الحلقات الإجمالي للبرامج السياسية الأربعة (48) حلقة، وتم استبعاد الحلقات التي لم تطرح قضية الانتخابات النيابية، وهذه البرامج هي: (1- برنامج "كلام الناس" والذي تبثه قناة LBC، 2- برنامج "الأسبوع في ساعة" والذي تبثه قناة الجديد، 3- برنامج "بموضوعية" والذي تبثه قناة MTV ، 4- برنامج "إنتر فيوز" والذي تبثه قناة المستقبل).

ومن أهم النتائج التي توصلت إليها الدراسة:

أن نسبة طرح قضية الانتخابات النيابية في البرامج السياسية بشكل عام كقضية رئيسة جاء بنسبة (29.2%)، أما طرحها كقضية ثانوية، جاء بنسبة (25.0%)، بينما طرحها كقضية فرعية جاء بنسبة (14.5%).

ارتفاع نسبة التركيز على المحور الطائفي بشكل عام في البرامج السياسية حيث وصلت نسبته إلى (37.1%)، أما المحور السياسي جاء في المرتبة الثانية وبنسبة (31.3%)، والمحور الإنساني والحقوقي جاء في المرتبة الثالثة وبنسبة (16.0%)، بينما المحور الأمني جاء في المرتبة الرابعة والأخيرة وبنسبة (15.6%).

ارتفاع نسبة استضافة الشخصيات المؤيدة لقانون اللقاء الأرثوذكسي الخاص بالانتخابات النيابية إلى (43.6%) ، يليها الشخصيات المعارضة للقانون وكانت بنسبة (35.8%)، وجاءت الشخصيات المحايدة في المرتبة الثالثة والأخيرة وبنسبة بالمرتبة الأخيرة وبنسبة (20.5%).

تصدر برنامج "إنترفيوز" المرتبة الأولى في طرح قضية الانتخابات النيابية كقضية رئيسية، ويليه برنامج "كلام الناس" ، وجاء برنامج "بموضوعية" بالمرتبة الثالثة ، بينما جاء برنامج "الأسبوع في ساعة" بالمرتبة الرابعة والأخيرة في طرحه لقضية الانتخابات النيابية كموضوع رئيسي.
أدوات التفاعلية وانعكاسها على الخطاب الدعوي
Authors: محمداني د. خالد محمد
Published: July 2021

إن التفاعلية هي أكثر الخواص التي ذكرها الباحثون كخاصية أساسية تميّز الإعلام الجديد والنشر على الموقع الإلكتروني, لذلك جاءت أهمية الورقة لتضع قواعد علمية للاستفادة من أدوات التفاعلية في صياغة الخطاب الدعوي .

اعتمدت الورقة على المنهج الوصفي التحليلي، أما أدوات جمع البيانات فهي (الملاحظة والمتابعة الإلكترونية، الإستبانة والمقابلات). خرجت الورقة بنتائج أهمها: أن الخطاب الدعوي غير متوازن ويفتقد صفة الشمول والمواكبة ، كذلك عدم وجود تفاعل بين مقدمي المادة الدعوية وجمهور المتلقين والتواصل الشخصي في هذه المواقع يكاد يكون معدوماً. خلصت الورقة إلى توصيات أهمها:

ـــ على القائمين على أمر الدعوة مراعاة التوازن مع صفة الشمول والمواكبة في الخطاب الدعوي المقدّم في هذه المواقع.

ـــ لابد من تقديم مادة بسيطة وجاذبة لزيادة قوة الإقناع والتأثير في الخطاب الدعوي.

ـــ الاهتمام بالروابط التشعبية التي تساعد في عملية التجوال داخل وخارج المواقع خاصةً الروابط التي تنقلك إلى مواقع أخرى لزيادة التشبيك.

ــــ إحداث تفاعل بين مقدمي الخطاب الدعوي وجمهور المتلقين وذلك من خلال توفير مساحة للحوار والنقاش والدردشة والتعليق ثمّ إمكانية التواصل المباشر مع مقدمي المادة الدعوية داخل هذه المواقع.

ــــ التفاعل مع مواقع التواصل الاجتماعي لأنها تمثل الربط المباشر مابين مقدّم الخطاب الدعوي وجمهوره .
Employing social media sites in producing Television News programs
Authors: Abdalla Elkhatim Ali Dr. Hashim , Omer Ibrahim Edris Dr. Esra
Published: July 2021

The study aimed to confirm and highlight the importance of employing social media sites in news programs ,identify  social media sites technologies  and the extent of their reflection on news programs, to determine the use of social media sites and the extent to which they are used in Nashratcom program on Al-Jazeera channel.

The problem raised by this research paper is in the following question: What is the extent of employing social media sites in the production of news programs and the extent of their credibility and impact on the recipient? The researchers used the descriptive and analytical method, the content analysis tool, the observation, the interview, and the questionnaire to collect information and data related to the study, and to divide and analyze the data. The sample of the study was Purposive Sample of experts in the professional and academic field, and the study concluded with several results, the most important of which are: The episodes of the Nashratcom program are uploaded on a daily basis to the websites of Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. Sending news and events to the program via social media sites Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. Nashratcom program was able to communicate the voice of the citizen through social media sites., and the researchers recommend to verify the authenticity of news and events on social networking sites before they are broad casted and published.
Chaucer's Yeoman and Richard II's Archers of the Crown
Authors: Thompson Kenneth J.
Published: July 2021

In the critical literature there is often a tacit assumption that the Yeoman of the General Prologue is “merely” a forester and mounted archer. This essay challenges that assumption by exploring a potential source of inspiration for the character: Richard II's archers of the crown. One of these archers, Thomas Forster of Drybek, serves as an exemplar for an exploration of the socioeconomic heterogeneity of the men who comprised this elite troop.
Natur & Kultur II
Authors: Sippl Carmen
Published: July 2021

Durchatmen – Durchstarten: Mit diesen Worten verbinden wir eindeutige Bilder. Es sind Bilder des Luft-Holens, Energie-Schöpfens, Kraft-Tankens, Gestärkt-Neu-Beginnens. Diese Komposita verbinden Elemente, welche uns die Natur scheinbar passiv zur Verfügung stellt, mit aktivem Tun. Es sind aber auch Metaphern, mit denen wir Atmosphärisches assoziieren: den Moment der Stille beim Durchatmen, den energiegefüllten Spannungsmoment beim Durchstarten. Dieses Atmosphärische lässt sich nur schwer beschreiben, aber das macht auch seinen Reiz aus. Der Literaturwissenschaftler Kaspar H. Spinner hat den Versuch unternommen, Atmosphäre als ästhetischen Begriff zu fassen und mit ökologischem Denken zu verbinden. Wie kann das die Wahrnehmung der Natur-Kultur-Beziehung verändern? Eine Einladung zum Perspektivenwechsel.
Donauwelle PLUS
Authors: Urban Barbara
Published: July 2021

Der vorliegende Artikel befasst sich mit der Chance der Teilhabe und Wissenserweiterung für Lehrpersonen über die Grenzen Österreichs hinaus mittels Erfahrungen, Vernetzungen und Prozessen im Rahmen des Erasmus+-Projektes "Donauwelle PLUS". Die Darstellung gibt einen Einblick in die durchlaufenen Stationen des konzipierten Prozesses. Der Fokus wird zudem auf optionale ergänzende Arbeitsphasen zur Einbindung von Erkenntnissen in den schulischen Alltag gelegt. Die Ausführungen sollen Mut machen, das Interesse und die Neugierde wecken sowie die Qualitätssteigerung für das nationale Bildungssystem durch den „Blick über den Tellerrand“ veranschaulichen.