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Teaching Citizenship and Values on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Authors: Rippberger Susan , Staudt Kathleen
Published: January 2024

In the United States and Mexico, public schooling, as a government institution, has attempted to reinforce cultural and national values explicitly through civics lessons and implicitly through attitudes and classroom management. This study shows how schools on each side of the U.S.-Mexico border attempt to teach distinct national and cultural norms. Based on fieldwork in Ciudad Juárez and El Paso schools, our research illustrates the blending and separation of cultural values in alarge metropolitan border area. It looks at overt civic rituals in schools, such as the flag salute, and at more tacit normative training associated with classroom organization and management strategies. We link teaching practices to cultural concepts of time, personal interaction, and nationality. Thedevelopment of themes regarding human relationships and time, sociability and individualism, and nationalism and hegemony opens up some commonly held assumptions of U.S. and Mexican cultures for a more critical view.
¿Cuántos fueron? La repatriación de mexicanos en los Estados Unidos durante la Gran Depresión
Authors: Alanis Enciso Fernando Saúl
Published: January 2024

Este ensayo hace un análisis cuantitativo de la repatriación de Mexicanos en los Estados Unidos durante el momento más crítico de la Depresión económica (1930–34). Examina la cantidad de repatriaciones y el comportamiento de éstas durante ese período. Este trabajo es relevante porque pone en tela de duda la hipótesis, que algunos autores han sostenido y que ha sido ampliamente difundida en algunos medios estadounidenses, acerca de que las repatriaciones llegaron a un millón durante la década de los treinta del siglo XX.
Anomalous Representations of Reality in Luis Valdez’s The Shrunken Head of Pancho Villa and The Mummified Deer
Authors: Saborío Linda
Published: January 2024

Luis Valdez creates anomalous realities in two of his plays, The Shrunken Head of Pancho Villa and The Mummified Deer, in order to defy dominant expressions of reality as well as classifications of “Chicano” and “Mexican.” The anomalous realities, represented primarily by a bodiless head in the first play and an eighty-four-year-old Yaqui woman with a sixty-year-old fetus in her womb in the second play, alter audience members’ expectations and their identification with the characters. This alteration allows spectators to question their own classification and the ability to define it. Valdez’s performances of anomalous realities allow for an alternate space of expression where classifications can be challenged in terms not contaminated by dominant ideologies. The anomalous realities in these two plays present a departure from dominant modes of expression, a departure that resists an identity of closure and oversimplification that has been imposed on Chicana/os by a primarily Anglo American discourse. These two plays provide an alternate space for legitimizing and authorizing aspects of Chicana/o identities that Anglo American society marginalizes and/or occludes.
Ojo de la Diosa
Authors: Kuusinen Asta
Published: January 2024

The essay interprets Delilah Montoya’s artworks in the context of so-called feminist theology, drawing from its ideas about desire, natality, and self-divination. After discussing the theme of desire and the quest for women’s religious agency in some of Montoya’s earlier works, the essay focuses on the photo-installation La Guadalupana, elucidating the artist’s technique in reorganizing the parameters of the “proto-subject” of Chicano cultural nationalism. One of the reified embodiments of this subject allegedly is el pinto, the Mexican American male convict or ex-convict. Elaborating upon Montoya’s working methods and her motivation to extract the pinto image from the prison confines and spirit his body into the museum, the essay finally argues that the installation engages in a bi-gendering performance that ritualizes the male body as the site of suffering. At the same time, the vernacular religious aesthetics of the work situate the artist herself as the “Eye” of a Mexican American community—that is, as an embodied subject whose religious authority dismantles the myth that only the male body can act as the writer and reader of culture.
Mediated Debate, Historical Framing, and Public Art
Authors: Pérez Frank G. , Ortega Carlos F.
Published: January 2024

In 1988, the El Paso, Texas, city council accepted a proposal to build twelve statues of historically important individuals as part of a downtown revitalization initiative. Juan de Oñate was selected as the centerpiece statue of the XII Travelers Memorial of the Southwest. The decision to honor the Spanish colonizer triggered a local controversy about the nature and function of public art in shaping community identity. Nonetheless, in hopes of boosting tourism, city leaders funded construction of the statue and it was installed in 2006. Using the concepts of hegemony and fantasy heritage to analyze the debate, we argue that the Oñate statue promotes the Hispanic framing of the city’s history at the expense of its Mexican past and continues the historic exclusion of Chicanos from public space.
Tonanlupanisma
Authors: Lara Irene
Published: January 2024

This essay draws on Chicana/o cultural studies and art history to interpret the way three artworks by Chicana artists address the relationship between spirit and flesh through the indigenous inflected iconography of la Virgen de Guadalupe. Recognizing the significance of the transcultural link between Tonantzin (the Nahua mother “goddess”) and Guadalupe, I introduce the concept of Tonanlupanisma as a prism through which to understand cultural productions that engage the contested histories and iconographies of Tonantzin-Guadalupe from a decolonial feminist perspective. Countering the subjugation of Tonantzin in dominant Guadalupana visual culture and discourse in general, Tonanlupanisma critically privileges Mesoamerican indigenous worldviews that render a more complex and humanized image of the mother goddess and woman and thus challenge the spiritual/sexual dichotomies of Christian-influenced Western thought. Integrating scholarly research and personal narrative, the essay reinterprets two well-known artworks through a Tonanlupanista lens, Yolanda López’s Margaret F. Stewart: Our Lady of Guadalupe (1978) and Ester Hernández’s La Ofrenda II (1990), and offers the first published interpretation of Isis Rodriguez’s Virgen II (1990).
Identity Theft
Authors: Domino Rudolph Jennifer
Published: January 2024

Released by Mattel in 2005, American Girl doll Marisol Luna quickly provoked controversy. The doll’s accompanying narrative depicts her Chicago neighborhood of Pilsen as “dangerous” and recounts her family’s move to the suburbs. Pilsen, located just south and west of downtown Chicago, has a long history as a Mexican (im)migrant port of entry. Many Latinos, particularly in Pilsen, perceive the doll and her narrative as a misrepresentation of their community that obscures the economic reality of gentrification and the displacement of poor residents of color. The resulting protest against the doll both exemplifies the contested nature of ownership of space and serves as a lens through which to examine the potential benefits and limitations of latinidad, or unity among Latinos, in Chicago and elsewhere. Marisol Luna functions as a cultural text on which Latinos, as individuals and as a group, can articulate contestatory ethnic identities and negotiate their place and relationship with each other and with the city at large.
Chronic Illness and Transformation in Gloria Anzaldúa’s “Puddles”
Authors: Hey-Colón Rebeca L.
Published: January 2024

“Puddles” is one of Gloria Anzaldúa’s lesser-known works. Published in 1992, this short story speaks to Anzaldúa’s acute awareness of the impact the HIV/AIDS pandemic on the queer Chicanx community, as well as to her evolving understanding of illness given the multiple health challenges she faced throughout her life. “Puddles” also refl ects how key Anzaldúan concepts, such as la facultad and conocimiento, are informed by Anzaldúa’s complex understanding of illness on both a personal and a societal level. In this essay, I contribute to Anzaldúan scholarship not only by thoroughly discussing “Puddles” but also by incorporating material included in her archive, the Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa Papers. The Papers reveal that Anzaldúa often continued to revise a text far beyond its publication date. I thus place the published version of “Puddles” in dialogue with four of its archival renditions in order to extend the concept of chronicity beyond the experience of illness in Anzaldúa’s life and into her always ongoing writing practice. As a story published and continually revised during a period when HIV/ AIDS was transformed from a terminal condition into a chronic one, “Puddles” and its multiple revisions allow us to combine a discussion of HIV/AIDS and of Anzaldúa’s personal relationship to illness with a critical look at her own chronic writing and revision process.
Latino? Chicano? Guatemalan American? Queer Visual Artist?
Authors: Esparza Araceli
Published: January 2024

In this essay, I examine how scholars and art critics have categorized Guatemalan American visual artist Alex Donis and how he has self-identifi ed. I argue that the roles in which Donis has been cast underscore the ways US Central Americans are made invisible within discussions of Latina/o/x and LGBTQ+ art. I critically analyze two of his works, the silkscreen Rio, por no llorar (1988) and the painting Guatemala vs USA (Carlos (El Pescadito) Ruiz & Carlos Bocanegra) (2014), tracing a Guatemalan and Central American presence in Donis’s visual art that is often overlooked in favor of a Chicanocentric framing in conversations about his work. While recognizing the infl uence that Chicana/o/x art and culture have had on Donis, I locate Donis and his visual art as a critical entry point into how US Central Americans have been rendered invisible within both dominant US and Latina/o/x imaginaries of Latinidad and imaginaries of queerness. Establishing a more complex understanding of Donis and his body of work, I discuss his oeuvre through a relational, intersectional, and transnational lens that allows for a multilayered understanding of his positionality within the frameworks of Latina/o/x ethnoracial identity formation, Chicana/o/x cultural production, and US Central American cultural and historical specifi city.
Anzaldúan Autohisteoría
Authors: Danielson Marivel T.
Published: January 2024

I propose an analytical approach to making queer Chicana home in the interstices of Gloria E. Anzaldúa’s fiction, story, theory, and autohistoria. Grounded in women of color feminisms, the first half of this essay explores the textual spaces between literary and theoretical creation through a mapping of Anzaldúa’s autohistoria-teoría, or autohisteoría, a theorizing third space defined by its challenge to rigid categorizations of scholarly and creative or literary production. In the second half of this essay I offer an engagement of autohisteoría in two works by Anzaldúa. By placing her concept of autohisteoría in conversation with her short stories “Swallowing Firefl ies” and “La historia de una marimacho,” I argue that Anzaldúa’s work at the intersections of story and theory offers a powerful mode of centering queer Chicana desire through the critical lenses of actualizing gaze, dialogic exchange, and rewriting impossibilities. Anzaldúa’s notion of autohisteoría, positioned within a borderlands space of creative production, has the potential to create more inclusive modes of intellectual production and reception for writers and readers of color and queer communities who have struggled to find spaces of affirmation and recognition, in academia and beyond.
A Foucauldian Analysis of Gang Injunctions
Authors: Caporale Juvenal
Published: January 2024

Gang injunctions emerged during the 1980s with the expansion of prisons, targeting alleged street gang members and their spaces of association. This essay examines gang injunctions, or street gang restraining orders, in Southern California through a Foucauldian framework. Applying a critical analysis of court documents found at law enforcement agencies and district or city attorney offices, I offer a broad insight into gang injunctions , focusing on the county of San Diego. I argue that gang injunctions are significant: although these injunctions are neutral prima facie or on the face of race and ethnicity, they structurally embody ongoing legacies of criminalizing people of color through mechanisms associated with the prison industrial complex and mass incarceration. Gang injunctions embody the surveillance and disciplinary practices of the panopticon created by power and knowledge within civil society and illustrate biopolitical policies implemented by the state that exclusively target purported alleged street gang members in their communities. As gang injunctions systematically criminalize Latina/o street gangs and their communities, they have detrimental effects on all members as their enforcers are motivated by politics and overactive control over specific geographies. This study proposes that gang injunctions create a direct pipeline from civil society to prison.
Translations Banned and Smuggled
Authors: Washbourne Kelly
Published: January 2024

Blanket bans against “foreign” ideas often find their battleground at the level of school curricula. The case of HB 2281 in Tucson, Arizona, in 2010 is one such example, as it sought to legally prevent “ethnic solidarity” and “resentment,” in the process outlawing from the classroom an array of texts—English, Spanish, Mayan, translanguaged, originals, and translations. Authors and activists, defining themselves as “translators” and smugglers (librotraficantes), rose to a counterhegemonic defense of a multicultural ethos. Their stand against the Tucson ban was and is intended to build cultural and cross-cultural unity, border-crossing unity, and “rehumanization,” not the alleged self-marginalizing. The contribution of this study in part is to provide a textual defense, as the resisted works themselves have not been examined for answers as to why these cultural voices were suppressed. Many of the texts thematically are in fact searches for identity amid the tensions. The article also underscores the articulations between multilinguality, translation, and this identitarian right. Finally, it shows how the panethnic, inclusive gesture behind concepts adopted in the Mexican American studies program, such as In Lak’ech, itself a translation of Maya consciousness, demonstrates language’s role in building a plural curricular canon, defending it from othering, while exercising the right of critique.
Holy Communion and Holy Relics
Authors: Di Blasi Marcela A.
Published: January 2024

In this essay, I show how Gloria Anzaldúa transforms the Roman Catholic concepts of Holy Communion and the veneration of relics as part of the Chicana lesbian aesthetic that characterizes her decolonial project. Reading two poems from her watershed 1987 book Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, (hereafter Borderlands) “The Cannibal’s Canción” and “Holy Relics,” along with an extended metaphorical conceit about corn within the book’s final prose chapter, “La conciencia de la mestiza/ Towards a New Consciousness,” I show how Anzaldúa critiques the colonial logic of gendered exploitation by repurposing Roman Catholic concepts into stylistic devices that imagine a queer Chicana erotic of mutual consumption. Specifically, this paper considers the way Anzaldúa engages with Catholic rituals that rely on dismemberment, redistribution, and consumption of human bodies for worship and veneration to reexamine Anzaldúa’s transformation of Catholicism through her poetics. By incorporating some context about how she understands the moon goddess, Coyolxauhqui, I show how Anzaldúa understands dismemberment and reconstitution as a healing, reparative project, and I then connect this notion of dismemberment with the Catholic rituals of Holy Communion and veneration of relics to suggest that Anzaldúa was able to find continuity within as well as more obvious points of departure from Catholic ritual.
Antibacteria Activity Peel and Seed Extracts of Rambutan (Nephelium lappaceum L.) Against MDR Bacteria Causing Urinary Tract Infections
Authors: Mukaromah Ana Hidayati , Cahyaningrum Dea Galuh , Putri Desty Ratna , Jannah Erni M , Rinaldi Muhamad Rizqi , Wardoyo Fandhi Adi , Ariyadi Tulus , Hikmah Annisa Nurul , Darmawati Sri
Published: January 2024

Multidrug-resistant (MDR) - Escherichia coli (E. coli) and Klebsiella pneumoniae (K. pneumoniae) are the main causes and have become serious problems in urinary tract infections, so antibacterial agents derived from biological materials are needed. ESBL-E. coli and ESBL-K. pneumoniae bacteria are resistant to extracts from rambutan peels and seeds, but there is no knowledge of the use of different solvents, such as n-hexane, chloroform, or ethanol. The objective of this research was to assess the antibacterial activity of rambutan peels and seed extracts (n-hexane, chloroform, and ethanol) against MDR bacteria that cause urinary tract infections (UTI). The Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC) and Minimum Bactericidal Concentration (MBC) values for antibacterial activity were calculated using agar well diffusion and dilution procedures. The results demonstrated that the ethanol extract of rambutan peels had inhibitory zones against MDR K. pneumoniae and E. coli that varied from 9.00 to 14.13 mm. 15.625 mg/mL For MDR E. coli and 3.90 mg/mL for MDR K. pneumoniae, respectively, the MIC value was determined. The MBC value was 62.50 mg/mL for MDR K. pneumoniae and 31.25 mg/mL for MDR E. coli. Conclusion: Of the six rambutan peel and seed extracts, the ethanol extract has greater potential as an antibacterial agent. It is advised that more in-vivo studies be done to understand how the antibacterial activity operates.The benefits of research for the science are providing alternative solutions to antibiotic resistance, to further advancing the field of antimicrobial research, and reducing the risk of bacterial infections.
The application of Rigidoporus sp J12 and Stenotrophomonas maltophilia BM in the degradation of batik waste
Authors: Subowo Yohanes , Suliasih Suliasih , Widawati Sri
Published: January 2024

The batik industry in Indonesia produces batik waste which pollutes the environment. This waste can be degraded using laccase-producing microorganisms. The microorganisms used in the research were the fungus Rigidoporus sp J12 and the bacteria Stenotrophomonas maltophilia BM. This research aims to determine the ability of Rigidoporus sp J12 and Stenotrophomonas maltophilia BM and their consortium in producing laccase, observing their ability to degrade Poly R-478 which is an indicator of phenoloxidase activity and batik waste. Microorganisms are grown in growth media and then placed in media containing Poly R-478 or batik waste. Inducers are added to increase laccase activity. The inducers used were 15 g/L sucrose, 200 µM CuSO4 and 40 mM veratryl alcohol. The results showed that Rigidoporus sp J12 and Stenotrophomonas maltophilia BM produced laccase in PDB and NA media. The highest laccase activity was found in the enzyme produced by Rigidoporus sp J12 in PDB media at a temperature of 40°C, media pH 6.0 and the addition of sucrose. Rigidoporus sp J12 degraded batik waste by 39.38% and increased by 2.12 times after adding sucrose and incubation for 15 days. These bacteria and fungi can be used to degrade batik waste in order to prevent environmental pollution. Using the fungus Rigidoporus sp J12 purely is more profitable than using it with S. maltophilia BM bacteria.
The Growth of Tagetes patula Linn. and Its Ability to Reduce Cr(VI) with the Addition of Microbacterium sp. SpR3
Authors: Novellasari Firdiana , Meitiniarti V. Irene , Seleiman Mahmoud F. , Kasmiyati Sri
Published: January 2024

Cr(VI) is a heavy metal that has the potential to become a soil pollutant and has an impact on organisms. The contamination caused by Cr(VI) could be alternatively treated with bioremediation techniques. The current study aimed to determine the most potential combination of Tagetes patula Linn. and Microbacterium sp. strain SpR3 for remediation of soil Cr(VI) contamination based on growth of T. patula. The application of SpR3 applied at the 1st day (T0) and 20th day (T20) with 10 g (M10), 30 g (M30), 50 g (M50) of bacterial inoculum to T. patula grown under Cr(VI; 100 mg/L). The results showed that T0M50 treatment resulted in the highest values of growth traits of T. patula grown under Cr(VI) metal stress. The highest BC value (0.36) was obtained from plants treated with T2M10 and T2M50, while the highest TF value (0.08) obtained from plants treated with T0M50. BC value 1 means that the combination of T. patula and SpR3 bacteria for heavy metal Cr(VI) can be classified as an excluder and the TF value 1 means that the combination can act as a phytostabilization in handling Cr(VI) contamination. In conclusion, the application of SpR3 using T0M50 can enhance the growth of Tagetes patula Linn. grown under Cr(VI) stress condition. The outcome of the study are expected to advancement in the application of rhizobacterial and plant combined system in the bioremediation of soil Cr(VI) contaminated.
Evaluating the Potential of Fermented Leguminous Plant Leaves as a Fertilizer for Rice (Oryza Sativa) Production
Authors: Ibañez Jr. Roger Y. , Velza Jacob Frederick P. , Pelayo Jr. Cristito C.
Published: January 2024

Synthetic fertilizers improved rice yield, but they were expensive and reduced soil health. Fermented leguminous plant leaves (FLPL) were natural fertilizers that had a lot of nutrients that plants needed to grow and develop because they were locally available and economical to farmers. This study investigated the effects of fermented leguminous plant leaves as fertilizer for rice. The four treatments were arranged in a Randomized Complete Block Design and replicated three times. Plant height, tillers, grain weight, and economic returns were collected and analyzed using Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). The results showed that the control group that received synthetic fertilizers had significantly (P0.05) taller rice plants compared to the treatment groups. However, among the fermented leguminous leaves, rice plants that received Madre de cacao showed the highest plant height due to its high phosphorus content. The study also found no significant differences (P0.05) in the number of tillers between the treatments, indicating that fermented leguminous leaves can provide the necessary nutrients for crop growth. It was concluded that fermented leguminous leaves can be used as fertilizer to promote eco-friendly rice farming practices. Madre de cacao leaves were recommended as organic fertilizer for rice for at least three months to enhance plant height and overall plant growth. The potential of FLPL, especially from madre de cacao, as an economical alternative to synthetic fertilizers is a breakthrough in rice production. The results demonstrated the potential benefits of using Madre de Cacao leaves as fertilizer to promote eco-friendly rice farming.
The Improvement of Lipid Profiles and Glucose Resistance of Hypercholesterolemic Rats using Tempeh Flour Based-Yoghurt Complemented with Red Pitaya Peel Extract
Authors: Nugraheni Kartika , Putriningtyas Natalia Desy , Fernando G. S.N. , Bintari Siti Harnina
Published: January 2024

Tempeh flour is potentially a substitute material in making yoghurt that provides bioactive for improving cardiovascular health. It is also suitably combined with antioxidant sources, such as red pitaya peel extract, which is well known for inhibiting metabolic inflammation. This study aims to analyze the effectiveness of tempeh flour-based yoghurt complemented with red pitaya peel extract in improving lipid profiles and glucose tolerance in hypercholesterolemic rats. A total of 36 male Wistar rats were used and divided into six different groups: regular diet (ND) and five high-fat-diet rat groups treated with no supplementation (HFD); diary-based yoghurt with lactic acid bacteria (YBAL); commercial yoghurt (YB); tempeh flour based-yoghurt with lactic acid bacteria (SY); and tempeh flour based yoghurt complemented with red pitaya peel extract (SDS). The supplementation of each treatment group was given a dose of 3.6 ml/ KgBW/ day as a single dose for 28 days. The blood sample was collected from sinus orbitalis and then used for lipid profile, glucose, liver enzyme analysis, and statistical analysis using ANOVA. The result shows that glucose levels increased significantly in all groups, except HFD groups, and there is no significant difference between normal and yoghurt treatment groups. However, yoghurt and red pitaya peel extract supplementation significantly decrease LDL-C and increase HDL-C levels while improving liver condition during hypercholesterolemia. In conclusion, tempeh flour-based yoghurt complemented with red pitaya peel extract can improve lipid profile and liver health in hypercholesterolemia rats. Therefore, further research on metabolism pathways is needed to develop potential nutraceutical products for people with hypercholesterolemia.
Population Assessment of Sulawesi’s Endangered Snoring Rails (Aramidopsis plateni Blasius) in Gandang Dewata National Park
Authors: Putera Alexander Kurniawan Sariyanto , Nasir Yusrianto , Rusmidin Rusmidin , Nuruliawati Nuruliawati , Berryman Alex J.
Published: January 2024

This study focuses on assessing the critically endangered mandar dengkur, or snoring rails (Aramidopsis plateni Blasius 1886), within Indonesia's Gandang Dewata National Park. Despite its importance in regional biodiversity, the species remains poorly documented. The primary objectives of this research are to investigate the population and ecological role of the mandar dengkur in Gandang Dewata National Park. It aims to understand their population status, the factors influencing their survival, and the level of global threats facing this species. Field surveys from July to August 2023 employed point counts and interviews with local residents, revealing a population of 20 snoring rails. Tondok Bakaru was identified as the primary subpopulation, with the highest count and probability of occurrence. Tondok Bakaru, characterized by remote and isolated areas, plays a crucial role in snoring rails' survival, mirrored by discoveries of other sensitive species like the Anoa. Environmental variables analysis through Generalized Linear Modeling (GLM) identified the nearest food source and settlement as significant factors influencing snoring rail populations, aligning with their elusive nature. The selected GLM model highlighted the impact of average NDVI, distance to the nearest food source, and distance to the nearest settlement on snoring rail density, guiding conservation efforts. This study underscores the urgency of upgrade the snoring rails' conservation status to Endangered (EN) and implementing global conservation measures by improving data collection with technology.
Tea Fungus Beverages from Torch Ginger (Etlingera elatior): Total microbial, Physicochemical, and Antioxidant Activity
Authors: Fitrianto Nur , Husen Fajar , Samiyarsih Siti , Ratnaningtyas Nuniek Ina , Palindung Lusia Seti , Azizah Enur
Published: January 2024

Functional beverages are needed to maintain health and fitness as a part of the instant lifestyle and degenerative diseases. The scientific findings on torch ginger (Etlingera elatior) flower (TGF) as a tea fungus beverage (Kombucha) are still limited. This research evaluated total microbes, physicochemical properties, and antioxidant activity 7 and 14 days after fermentation (daf) of TGF kombuchas. In addition, TGF in variant 0% (TGF0), 5% (TGF5), 10% (TGF10), and 15% (TGF15) are fermented with 3% of SCOBY, 20% culture, 1% green tea, and 10% sucrose. The antioxidant activities of TGF kombuchas were evaluated by 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) and 2,2′-Azino-bis 3-Ethylbenzothiazoline-6-Sulfonic Acid (ABTS) assay—the phenolic and flavonoid content using Folin-Ciocalteu method-gallic acid equivalent, and quercetin acid equivalent, respectively. The result showed that the fermentation time (p0.05) was affected by the properties of TGF kombuchas. Total microbes, physicochemical properties (pH, acidity, cellulose pellicle weight, phenolic, flavonoid content), and antioxidant activity were higher in 14 than in 7 days. Total soluble solid and total yeast count showed lower values in 14 days. The increase in total bacteria count, TGF15%, led to the highest increasing density from 8.08 ± 0.02Log CFU/mL on seven daf to 13.34 ± 0.04Log CFU/mL on 14 daf. The TGF 10% and 15% kombuchas in 14 dafs showed abundance in phenolic and flavonoid content, 121.45±1.07mg GAE/mL and 1.70±0.04 mg QAE/mL, respectively. During 14 daf and TGF 10%, the Kombucha of torch ginger flower demonstrated high antioxidant activity at 85.92±0.07% DDPH and 63.05±0.97ABTS. It is expected to aid future research into developing functional kombucha beverages.
Real-world clinical profile, RET mutation testing, treatments and patient-related outcomes for medullary thyroid cancer in Europe
Authors: Segall Grace , Singh Ravinder , Jen Min-Hua , Sanderson Isaac , Rider Alex , Lewis Katie , Kiiskinen Urpo
Published: January 2024

Objective

This study aimed to describe real-world patient and physician characteristics, rearranged during transfection (RET) mutation testing and results, treatment patterns and patient-reported outcomes (PROs) in advanced or metastatic medullary thyroid cancer (aMTC) across five populous European countries.

Methods

Cross-sectional physician and patient surveys were used to collect quantitative and qualitative data in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK from July to December 2020, prior to the introduction of selective RET inhibitors in Europe. Physicians completed patient record forms and a survey about their specialty and practice site. Patients were asked to provide PRO data using four validated instruments, including the EuroQol 5 Dimension (EQ-5D) questionnaire.

Results

The physician-reported sample included 275 patients with aMTC, including 79 patients with RET mutation-positive disease; median age was 60 and 56 years, respectively. Overall, 75% were tested for RET mutation (35% germline only, 21% somatic only and 44% both). Common physician-cited barriers to RET mutation testing included high cost, difficulty accessing the latest tests and time delay for results. First-line systemic therapy (most commonly vandetanib or cabozantinib) was prescribed for 69% of patients overall and 82% of the RET mutation-positive subgroup. Second-line therapy was prescribed for 12% of patients who received first-line therapy; most patients remained on first-line therapy at data capture. PROs revealed a substantial disease/treatment burden.

Conclusion

Patients with aMTC report a substantial disease/treatment burden. Outcomes could be improved by identifying patients eligible for treatment with selective RET inhibitors through more optimal RET mutation testing.
Mujeres viajeras en las literaturas africanas angloparlantes: propulsoras y narradoras del cambio
Authors: Vivanco Federico
Published: January 2024

Las invisibilizadas plumas de las autoras negroafricanas poscoloniales han sido testigo del cambio que se ha producido en las mujeres en el ámbito privado, público y en el desarrollo de los nuevos estados o “naciones” africanas. Los viajes que emprendieron las mujeres del campo a la ciudad y las vicisitudes en su introducción en la vida urbana han marcado a la primera generación de autoras de los años sesenta del siglo pasado. Algunas de sus herederas literarias de la segunda y tercera generación se convirtieron en las embajadoras de una literatura escrita en la diáspora y en el exilio. Independientemente de su situación geográfica, sus desplazamientos ? rurales o nacionales ? han hecho que adquiriesen su propia agencia y poder así desafiar la institución del matrimonio, maternidad, su participación anónima en los conflictos armados, el ostracismo, la estigmatización, entre otras adversidades.
África como asunto de la poesía española del siglo XXI
Authors: Morales Barba Rafael
Published: January 2024

La poesía española del siglo XX y XXI que escribe sobre el África Subsahariana es poco frecuente. Tampoco hay apenas literatura escrita en español por guineanos ecuatoriales. Los dos casos que presentamos, Gonzalo Sánchez-Terán y Guillermo López Gallego, son excepcionales. A través de sus versos testimoniales asistimos a la guerra en Liberia, Guinea Conakry, Sierra Leona o Costa de Marfil. La extrema violencia contra hombres, mujeres y niños, por culpa de los intereses económicos de los países desarrollados, nos sitúan ante un mundo apocalíptico al que permanecemos ajenos.
El acto de nombrar y la condición de la mujer africana en “Perpétue”, “Who fears death?” y “Americanah”
Authors: Ambadiang Theophile
Published: January 2024

El artículo tiene como objetivo estudiar la condición de la mujer africana tal como ha evolucionado desde el período colonial sobre la base de tres novelas: Americanah, Perpétue, y Who fears death? Sugerimos que existe una correlación entre la forma en que los autores representan la subjetividad de los protagonistas de sus novelas, de acuerdo con la complejidad de sus identidades, y la forma en que estos últimos reciben sus nombres, así como los nombres que reciben. Desde este punto de vista, el acto de dar un nombre parece ser uno de los recursos más eficientes que utilizan los autores para dar peso simbólico y credibilidad a la caracterización de los protagonistas de sus novelas.
«Aquí no se le paga a usted por hacer versos»: la emergencia de lo social en los cuentos previos al exilio de Luisa Carnés
Authors: Hellín Nistal Lucía
Published: January 2024

En este trabajo nos detendremos en los veintisiete cuentos para adultos previos a la guerra civil y al exilio de Luisa Carnés para atender a la época de construcción de su escritura e indagar en la forma en la que emerge lo social como fruto de los debates y contradicciones de la época en estos primeros cuentos, menos estudiados que otras partes de su producción literaria. Para ello partiremos de una reflexión sobre los elementos centrales del contexto sociopolítico y literario, así como de la inserción de Carnés y su obra en los mismos, para, desde esta radical historicidad que proponía Juan Carlos Rodríguez, pasar al análisis de los veintisiete cuentos. Así, veremos cómo los mecanismos literarios y temas recogidos señalan lo injusto de una sociedad que no permite a los que menos tienen si quiera disfrutar de lo bello, abriendo el campo de lo decible.
«Mujeres en su puesto». Discursos en torno a la retaguardia republicana en la obra periodística y narrativa de Luisa Carnés
Authors: Somolinos Cristina
Published: January 2024

El papel que jugaron las mujeres en la retaguardia republicana constituyó una preocupación central para Luisa Carnés, lo que se refleja en su escritura periodística durante el periodo bélico, en sus memorias De Barcelona a la Bretaña francesa, así como en algunos de los cuentos que la autora escribió en su exilio mexicano. En este trabajo, analizaremos los discursos contenidos en la producción escrita de Carnés en torno a la aportación a las mujeres al desarrollo de la contienda desde las actividades de retaguardia, especialmente por lo que respecta a la incorporación al trabajo en fábricas y talleres y al desarrollo de tareas de tipo asistencial y de resistencia cívica. En el cruce de estos discursos y experiencias, es posible valorar su contribución y hasta qué punto esta supuso una modernización en las relaciones de género.
Los huertos escolares en los centros de la Comunidad de Madrid y su relación con la educación alimentaria. Fortalezas y barreras para su implementación.
Authors: Márquez Herranz Inés , Bermejo San Frutos Ángela , Gálvez Esteban Rosa , Mora-Urda Ana Isabel
Published: January 2024

En las últimas décadas, se ha promovido el uso de los huertos escolares (HE) como recurso didáctico en diversas instituciones educativas, impulsando así, la adquisición de conocimientos de una manera más práctica pudiendo posibilitar la sensibilización de la adquisición de hábitos saludables y el cuidado del medio ambiente. Por ello, el presente trabajo tiene como objetivo conocer los posibles beneficios que tiene un HE en los centros educativos de la Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid y la relación que tiene con la Educación Alimentaria en los centros. Para ello, se han recogido un cuestionario a 49 docentes que imparten clase en la etapa de Educación Infantil o Primaria. Los resultados muestran que el HE es uno de los mejores recursos educativos en el centro, y su uso conlleva más interés y mayor motivación por aprender contenidos relacionados con el mismo. A su vez, se relaciona con mejoraras en la Educación Alimentaria, aprendizaje y cuidado del medio ambiente. No obstante, es necesaria una formación suficiente para conseguir una adecuada apropiación de aprendizajes.
O impacto da herança da rainha de Espanha D. Maria Bárbara de Bragança (1711-1758) nas joias da casa real portuguesa.
Authors: Rumsey Teixeira João Júlio
Published: January 2024

A rainha de Espanha D. Maria Bárbara de Bragança era irmã dos reis de Portugal D. José e D. Pedro III. A partir do trono espanhol testemunhou a devastação do terramoto de Lisboa em 1755, que a terá angustiado sobre os destinos da sua família de origem. Cinco meses depois da catástrofe, lavrou o seu testamento fazendo generosíssimos legados em joias à geração mais nova da família real portuguesa e, sobretudo, ao irmão mais novo que tornou seu herdeiro universal. Desta forma, o infante D. Pedro, futuro rei D. Pedro III de Portugal, herdou um conjunto de joalharia a todos os títulos notável. Igualmente excecional é o facto de, ainda hoje, se conservarem quatro joias de grande qualidade, provenientes da herança de D. Maria Bárbara, no espólio de joalharia da antiga Coroa portuguesa, agora expostas no Museu do Tesouro Real, em Lisboa.
«Los primeros que se pintaron de trajes nuestros»: la nueva decoración de tapices del cuarto de los príncipes de Asturias en El Escorial durante el reinado de Carlos III
Authors: López Ortega Jesús , Sanz de Miguel Carlos
Published: January 2024

El propósito de este estudio es concretar la ubicación del dormitorio, el comedor y la pieza de cámara de los príncipes de Asturias en la zona palatina del Monasterio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial durante el reinado de Carlos III, identificar las pinturas y plantear una hipótesis de reconstrucción de los alzados de estas piezas donde campearon en todo su esplendor aquellos tapices ejecutados por sus modelos.
Las ocho estatuas de reyes visigodos y castellanos enviadas a Toledo desde el Palacio Real de Madrid (1787): Iconografía, fuentes literarias y fotografía histórica
Authors: De Mingo Lorente Adolfo
Published: January 2024

La literatura y la fotografía histórica son magníficos recursos para conocer el conjunto de estatuas de reyes que, procedentes del Palacio Real, hoy es posible contemplar en diversos emplazamientos de Madrid y otras ciudades españolas. Ocho de estas piezas fueron trasladadas a Toledo en 1787. Este trabajo propone realizar una lectura de las mismas a partir del programa iconográfico del padre Sarmiento, los testimonios de antiguos viajeros —desde Hans Christian Andersen a Benito Pérez Galdós— e imágenes históricas que permiten documentar su estado de conservación.
Recorrido e implicaciones de la relación maurófoba en el romancero nuevo
Authors: Eugercios Arriero José Luis
Published: January 2024

El romancero que aquí se llamará maurófobo surge como reacción interna frente a la intensidad de la moda morisca, de la que hace burla denunciando tanto sus defectos literarios como sus posibles implicaciones étnicas y religiosas. De si estas se toman más o menos en serio dependerá que valgan para explicar el rápido decaimiento de un género que fue indiscutiblemente hegemónico. Hecho un recorrido por los textos, que se dan listados al final en tabla sinóptica, todo indica que aquellas polémicas no tuvieron mayores pretensiones que el cruce de ingenios.
El Colegio Imperial de Madrid (siglos XVI-XVII)
Authors: Martínez Millán José
Published: January 2024

El Colegio Imperial de Madrid fue una institución pedagógica de los jesuitas que comenzó con el asentamiento de la corte de la Monarquía en Madrid y acabó con la expulsión de los jesuitas en 1767. Es decir, fue un proyecto de larga duración, aunque el nombre solamente se refiera a una etapa muy concreta (1609-1625). Se trataba de educar a la corte no solo intelectualmente, sino también en valores humanos y espirituales de acuerdo con los que defendía la Compañía de Jesús, que no coincidían exactamente con los que Felipe II imponía en su Monarquía tras el concilio de Trento. La pugna fue intensa y la emperatriz María intervino decisivamente para que el colegio se mantuviera de acuerdo con los principios jesuitas. Tras la muerte de Felipe II, ya en el siglo XVII, cambiaron los gobernantes y los ideales de la Monarquía no estaban en contradicción con los defendidos por la Compañía de Jesús. El triunfo de la Compañía de Jesús en la corte se mostró en la creación de los Reales Estudios en el mismo edificio donde estaba el Colegio Imperial.
El Colegio Imperial: arquitectura, ciudad y propiedad
Authors: Ortega Vidal Javier , Marín Perellón Francisco José
Published: January 2024

A partir del estado actual del conjunto monumental, se ensaya una lectura de la peculiar biografía del edificio que abarca más de cuatro siglos y medio de duración. El estudio se aborda desde una visión e interpretación específica, en la que su componente arquitectónica se complementa con la consideración simultánea de su contexto urbano; entre ambos aspectos, se reconoce especialmente la importancia del concepto de la propiedad, tanto del suelo como de las edificaciones. La primera resulta inexcusable para entender la progresiva conformación del conjunto original, mientras que la segunda afectará sobre todo a los usos y transformaciones que supondrán la progresiva degradación o distorsión del conjunto edificado.
Luto en el Colegio Imperial. Muerte del jesuita Príncipe de Fez Baldassarre de Loyola Mandes (1667)
Authors: Soto Artuñedo Wenceslao
Published: January 2024

La muerte inesperada en la corte de Madrid del jesuita Baldassarre de Loyola Mandes en 1667 ofreció la posibilidad de dar a conocer al auditorio cortesano este modelo de jesuita, cautivador, exótico y ejemplar. Así lo muestran el cuidado del enfermo, el enterramiento con pompas reales, el sermón fúnebre por un jesuita, predicador real, y la perpetuación de su memoria con la obra de El Gran Príncipe de Fez, de Calderón de la Barca.
La marcha sobre Washington por el empleo y la libertad de 1963, sesenta años después
Authors: Cachón Rodríguez Lorenzo
Published: January 2024

La Marcha sobre Washington por el empleo y la libertad de 1963 fue un momento culminante del moderno movimiento por los derechos civiles en Estados Unidos. En su sexagésimo aniversario, el artículo presenta el contexto de segregación racial propio del Jim Crow en el que tuvo lugar, las figuras claves en la organización de la Marcha (que fueron A. Philip Randolph y Bayard Rustin), el desarrollo de la Marcha y sus diez objetivos formales, los conflictos internos que los organizadores tuvieron que afrontar (entre otros, el discurso original preparado por John Lewis), el contenido y trascendencia de la intervención de Lewis aquel 28 de agosto, el impacto del discurso de Martin Luther King Jr., especialmente la parte (casi) improvisada del mismo ante el Lincoln Memorial y que ha dado título a su intervención como “I have a dream”, y los altibajos en la valoración de King y su discurso en la sociedad americana. Para este último punto, el artículo recuerda la gran importancia que las imágenes gráficas tuvieron en el movimiento de los derechos civiles con algunos momentos icónicos, y el notable impacto que produjo el hecho de que la Marcha sobre Washington fuera trasmitida por las tres cadenas de televisión que existían en aquel momento en Estados Unidos. El artículo termina examinando el legado de la Marcha y la aprobación de las tres leyes de derechos civiles en los años sesenta que terminaron formalmente con el sistema de segregación racial, recordando como el supremacismo blanco respondió a estos avances con la llamada “guerra contra las drogas” puesta en marcha por el presidente Nixon en 1971, y señalando la persistencia del racismo sistémico que se manifiesta en todos los ámbitos de la vida de los afroamericanos y que muestra que la lucha por la igualdad de los negros en Estados Unidos dista mucho de haber conseguido las metas a las que aspiraban los participantes en La Marcha sobre Washington hace sesenta años.
Apontamentos acerca de políticas públicas que conformam a formação para a docência na Educação Infantil
Authors: Escandiel de Lima Graziela
Published: January 2024

O texto descreve e discute avanços e retrocessos em relação as políticas de formação e trabalho com a infância produzidos nas transições entre a perspectiva neoliberal, os governos progressistas e de esquerda, o golpe parlamentar e a ascenção da extrema direita a partir de 2016 no Brasil. Para tanto, recupera-se a crítica aos aspectos que tensionaram as reorganizações curriculares dos cursos de Pedagogia no Brasil nos anos 2000. Realiza-se o mapeamento de políticas, Documentos Oficiais e Programas de governo relacionados à Educação Infantil no período 2002-2016. Descreve-se a experiência no Programa Institucional de Bolsas de Iniciação à Docência (PIBID) na construção de elementos formativos para o trabalho com a Educação Infantil, evidenciando que programas como o PIBID precisam se tornar políticas de Estado, promovendo processos formativos que denotam nossas resistências às rupturas e retrocessos na formação de professores para o trabalho com a infância.
Discapacidad física y mental en Roma y su solución jurídica: la cura furiosi
Authors: Nacarino Moreno Sara
Published: January 2024

La discapacidad ha sido un reto para todas las sociedades, incluida la romana. Aunque es cierto que en el aspecto social se tardó mucho en avanzar, en el ámbito jurídico se alcanzó una solución en una época muy temprana: la cura furiosi. Este instrumento legal supuso un importante avance y tuvo una interesante evolución.
Algunos aspectos controvertidos del régimen fiscal de neutralidad en el canje de valores
Authors: Muñoz Lerma Enrique
Published: January 2024

La regulación e interpretación del régimen fiscal especial de neutralidad, en las operaciones de canje de valores, ha generado tradicionalmente en España un debate jurídico en torno a su compatibilidad con el Derecho de la Unión Europea. En este trabajo se analizan dos de esos aspectos controvertidos en el ámbito de la fi scalidad directa, en particular, aquellos vinculados con el ámbito subjetivo de la norma y con sus disposiciones antiabuso.
El film sobre arte argentino y su auge durante la modernidad cinematográfica. Particularidades históricas, teóricas y estéticas
Authors: Cossalter Javier
Published: January 2024

Este artículo propone un mapeo inicial de la corriente del film sobre arte en Argentina, desde sus primeras apariciones hasta su etapa de esplendor, con el objetivo de desentrañar sus singularidades en el transcurso de la modernización cultural y cinematográfica acaecida entre mediados de las décadas del cincuenta y del setenta, tanto en el terreno de la producción y la difusión, como así también en torno a los caracteres estéticos y semánticos. En primer lugar se estudian las claves históricas y teóricas de esta tendencia en Europa. En segunda y tercera instancia se exploran los antecedentes y el contexto de auge de dicha corriente en el país. Finalmente, a partir de las categorías de análisis propuestas por Guillermo G. Peydró en derredor al film sobre arte —y de otras nociones de autores abocados al estudio de los vínculos entre el cine y las artes plásticas— se procede a examinar a un amplio corpus de cortos modernos nacionales.