bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Prolonged development of long-term potentiation at lateral entorhinal cortex synapses onto adult-born neurons
Authors: Vyleta Nicholas P. , Snyder Jason S.
Published: June 2021

Critical period plasticity at adult-born neuron synapses is widely believed to contribute to the learning and memory functions of the hippocampus. Experience regulates circuit integration and for a transient interval, until cells are ~6 weeks old, new neurons display enhanced long-term potentiation (LTP) at afferent and efferent synapses. Since neurogenesis declines substantially with age, this raises questions about the extent of lasting plasticity offered by adult-born neurons. Notably, however, the hippocampus receives sensory information from two major cortical pathways. Broadly speaking, the medial entorhinal cortex conveys spatial information to the hippocampus via the medial perforant path (MPP), and the lateral entorhinal cortex, via the lateral perforant path (LPP), codes for the cues and items that make experiences unique. While enhanced critical period plasticity at MPP synapses is relatively well characterized, no studies have examined long-term plasticity at LPP synapses onto adult-born neurons, even though the lateral entorhinal cortex is uniquely vulnerable to aging and Alzheimer’s pathology. We therefore investigated LTP at LPP inputs both within (4–6 weeks) and beyond (8+ weeks) the traditional critical period. At immature stages, adult-born neurons did not undergo significant LTP at LPP synapses, and often displayed long-term depression after theta burst stimulation. However, over the course of 3–4 months, adult-born neurons displayed increasingly greater amounts of LTP. Analyses of short-term plasticity point towards a presynaptic mechanism, where transmitter release probability declines as cells mature, providing a greater dynamic range for strengthening synapses. Collectively, our findings identify a novel form of new neuron plasticity that develops over an extended interval, and may therefore be relevant for maintaining cognitive function in aging.
Therapeutic candidates for keloid scars identified by qualitative review of scratch assay research for wound healing
Authors: Alishahedani Mohammadali E. , Yadav Manoj , McCann Katelyn J. , Gough Portia , Castillo Carlos R. , Matriz Jobel , Myles Ian A.
Published: June 2021

The scratch assay is anin vitrotechnique used to analyze cell migration, proliferation, and cell-to-cell interaction. In the assay, cells are grown to confluence and then ‘scratched’ with a sterile instrument. For the cells in the leading edge, the resulting polarity induces migration and proliferation in attempt to ‘heal’ the modeled wound. Keloid scars are known to have an accelerated wound closure phenotype in the scratch assay, representing an overactivation of wound healing. We performed a qualitative review of the recent literature searching for inhibitors of scratch assay activity that were already available in topical formulations under the hypothesis that such compounds may offer therapeutic potential in keloid treatment. Although several shortcomings in the scratch assay literature were identified, caffeine and allicin successfully inhibited the scratch assay closure and inflammatory abnormalities in the commercially available keloid fibroblast cell line. Caffeine and allicin also impacted ATP production in keloid cells, most notably with inhibition of non-mitochondrial oxygen consumption. The traditional Chinese medicine, shikonin, was also successful in inhibiting scratch closure but displayed less dramatic impacts on metabolism. Together, our results partially summarize the strengths and limitations of current scratch assay literature and suggest clinical assessment of the therapeutic potential for these identified compounds against keloid scars may be warranted.
The heart of the matter: Arts-based reflections, writings and responses during COVID-19
Authors: Marcow Speiser Vivien , Speiser Phillip
Published: June 2021

This article will explore themes that emerged from writings and interviews with creative arts therapy colleagues from around the world during the COVID-19 pandemic. We conducted this research from March through October 2020. During this time, everything we thought we knew about our world shifted. People are living in a ‘liminal’ in-between threshold space from pre-pandemic times to the space of the moment, in between what was and will be. Issues we are living through are immediate and also existential as we negotiate local, national and global collective anxiety, trauma and survival. Artists are familiar with navigating and working in this type of liminal space. The creative process involves learning to stay with unknowns and ambiguity as part of the act of creation. This article shares thoughts and reflections with regard to being of service to others in this time of worldwide crisis.
The Politics of Curatorial Themes: Immortality from Conception to Display in the 5th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art
Authors: Philimonos Anastasia , Kompatsiaris Panos
Published: June 2021

Using the fifth edition of the Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art: Immortality (Yekaterinburg, 2019) as a case study, this article examines the inconsistencies across a curatorial theme, its development in discourse, and its materialization in the exhibition. The article posits that these inconsistencies stem from fraught relationships between the global and the local developed by the curatorial framing of the exhibition’s principal theme – immortality and its relations with Russian cosmism. Through exploring the politics of biennial themes, the article puts pressure on the idea of the curator as the indisputable author and highlights the complex politics involved in curatorial practice, such as the contradictions that can occur between the conceptualizing of a theme and its materialization in an exhibition.
and suddenly it all blossoms
Authors: Michelson Aleksandr
Published: June 2021

Review of: and suddenly it all blossoms

Curated by Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel, 2nd Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art, 20 August–13 September 2020
New York New Wave: The Legacy of Feminist Art in Emerging Practice, Kathy Battista
Authors: Kraus Nina Marlene
Published: June 2021

Review of: New York New Wave: The Legacy of Feminist Art in Emerging Practice, Kathy Battista

London: I.B. Tauris (2019), 200 pp., p/bk, ISBN: 978-1-84885-894-7, US $22.95
X-ray Architecture, Beatriz Colomina
Authors: Whiteway Kate
Published: June 2021

Review of: X-ray Architecture, Beatriz Colomina

Zurich: Lars Müller Publishers (2019), 200 pp., h/bk, ISBN: 978-3-03778-443-3, 35€
Making enemies: A theoretical approach to antagonism and emotion in the contemporary American action film
Authors: Soberon Lennart
Published: June 2021

Conflict and adversity form an essential component of many American action films. Not only are these spectacular blockbuster films often grafted on forms of contemporary geopolitical warfare, moreover, the violent deaths of the film’s villains arguably form one of the genre’s key pleasures. Utilizing Laclau and Mouffe’s concept of antagonism, this article deconstructs how within the action film, discursive articulations of enemyhood attempt to structure heroic violence as just and the lives of villains as ungrievable. The action films Lone Survivor (2015) and London Has Fallen (2017) will operate as case studies in elucidating how antagonistic frontiers between the hero self and the enemy other are cinematically drawn and strengthened.
Unmasking the Mah Meri mask: A digitization journey for AR and VR
Authors: Santano Delas , Esmaeili Human , Thwaites Harold , Amar Shamsul
Published: June 2021

The Mah Meri is an indigenous tribe in Malaysia, specifically located in the central region of the peninsular. As part of an ongoing research project to digitize their way of life, this article focuses on the aspects of documenting their wooden masks and statues that are carved by hand. They use these masks and statues in their animistic rituals, and each of these artefacts represents a folklore story in the Mah Meri culture and heritage. For a long time, these masks and statues have become a source of income for the Mah Meri carvers, as they get requests from collectors and enthusiasts. However, these days the craft not only faces the issue of dwindling number of carvers, but also the source of wood they use for carving the masks and statues. Thus, as part of the research in digitizing the masks and statues, we also collected the folklore stories of each artefact. Additionally, we used photogrammetry techniques to digitize the masks and statues formation process. The main idea is to create an experience that not only preserves and represents the art of the Mah Meri people, but also enables the users to interact with the carving process of the exact mask or statute. This is highly unlikely in the real world in an immersive form. In this project, we refer to this as ‘Digitization of States’, i.e. three-dimensional (3D) capturing of specific stages of the carving process before they are gone. The 3D-captured materials, combined with other forms of audio-visual data are used in creation of procedural and informative AR/VR experiences. To achieve this, a cross collaboration between the carvers and the researchers took place. More information about the entire process is provided in the article.
Translating performative mediated art into virtual reality: A case study
Authors: Sansom Matthew , See Zi Siang
Published: June 2021

Park benches are distinctive public spaces that invite a temporary pause for thought and time out from everyday activities and worldly preoccupations. Park Bench Sojourn is a multimodal arts project that explores the uniqueness and universality of these spaces and the kinds of experiences they foster. It asks what it means to be human; surrounded, as we are, by computer technologies and digital media, living lives that are perpetually ‘connected’ and dispersed through the cloud. It reflects on how our technologically determined lives and lifestyles conspire against us to find opportunities to stop, reflect and be witnesses to lived experience. It is a conceptually playful creative work that shares concerns for health and well-being arising from the contemporary mindfulness movement and the traditional practices and worldviews upon which mindfulness draws. The project is based around a range of experiential sojourns, which require participants to find a bench to sit on and then take a sojourn, or a number of sojourns from the project’s website, which may include audio, video, spoken word, or just listening. Other iterations of the project have included a multimedia gallery installation juxtaposing content from a variety of sojourns. Regardless of the format, context or specific content, the project explores ways in which we ‘perform’ ourselves and mediate experience via digital technologies. In this article, we describe the process of translating this mediated and performative artwork into a VR prototype and directions for future work.
Arquitetura da Comissão de Socorro aos Presos Políticos
Authors: Silva Edgar Freitas Gomes
Published: June 2021

A ampliação da denúncia das prisões políticas em Portugal, durante o regime de Salazar e de Caetano, através dos contributos da Comissão Nacional de Socorro aos Presos Políticos (CNSPP), transformou-se num problema nacional e internacional. Formou-se uma crescente consciência coletiva e uma cultura da luta pelos direitos humanos, contra as sequelas dos silêncios declarados pelo regime. Este texto considera a história daquele movimento social, que se cruzou com a batalha pela democracia em Portugal, cujo desempenho foi decisivo para a transformação social e política do País.
Authoritarianism and making of counterdiscourse in colonial Goa
Authors: Rao Nagendra
Published: June 2021

By using the concepts such as power, discourse, and «reverse» (counter) discourse, this paper contextualises colonial discourse and nationalist counterdiscourse through a critique of the concepts – Goa Dourada and Goa Indica. A comparison of the Goan colonial scenario with Africa demonstrates similarities between the two regions. Further, the Goan scene is juxtaposed with other parts of India. It enables us to rationalize the affinity of the nationalist of Goa with Indian nationalism. The complex processes, individuals, groups involved in the making of the counterdiscourse are delineated. The final part of the article analyses the emergence of discourse that countered the counterdiscourse, thus showing that a discourse is bound to be challenged by a counterdiscourse.
Trabalho de memória sobre temas sensíveis e a escrita da história: retratos elaborados por testemunhos da ditadura civil-militar brasileira
Authors: Cardoso de Vargas Mariluci
Published: June 2021

Este artigo examina algumas publicações de Márcio Moreira Alves, desde «Torturas e torturados» (1966) até sua entrevista publicada em «Memórias do exílio» (1976). O objetivo principal do artigo consiste em identificar o papel dos testemunhos históricos em um momento de cerceamento das liberdades na história recente do país.
Feminidades Albergadas
Authors: Peláez Rodríguez Diana Carolina
Published: June 2021

El albergue para mujeres y niños migrantes Madre Assunta en la ciudad de Tijuana surge hace veinte años como un espacio que acoge a mujeres migrantes que se encuentran en situación de vulnerabilidad en la ciudad por no tener familiares, ni amigos, ni conocidos y desean cruzar a los Estados Unidos para mejorar sus condiciones de vida. La estadía en el albergue para estas mujeres no se reduce solamente a tener un lugar para descansar cuando llegan a la ciudad; en el albergue estas mujeres encuentran un lugar seguro y de tranquilidad, un lugar donde respirar, pensar, llorar, hablar y relajarse antes de continuar su camino. Desde septiembre de 2012 a diciembre de 2013 tuve la oportunidad de visitar periódicamente el albergue, dirigir un taller literario con las mujeres y realizar más de cuarenta entrevistas, varias a profundidad, durante ese tiempo.
The Relationship Between Emotional Intelligence, Relationship Satisfaction And Anger
Authors: Pritamani Ankita
Published: June 2021

The relationship between emotional intelligence, relationship satisfaction and anger was examined among couples who were in a relationship. There were 150 participants (Males = 34; Females = 116) between the ages of 25 and 60. All the participants completed The Assessing Emotions Scale, The Relationship Satisfaction Scale and The Anger Discomfort Scale. To calculate the correlation between the variables, Spearman’s rho was deployed. The results indicated a positive correlation between emotional intelligence and relationship satisfaction and a negative correlation between emotional intelligence and anger and relationship satisfaction and anger. Correlations between the four aspects of emotional intelligence with relationship satisfaction were also drawn; and once again the results showed a positive correlation between the variables.
Determining the Magnitude of Wind Loads on Structures in Kenya according to the Eurocodes
Authors: Munyua Muthomi
Published: June 2021

This paper provides guidance on the use of existing wind data in Kenya with the Eurocodes despite the absence of the local national annexes. The determination of wind loads in the structural design of buildings according to the Eurocode Standard KS EN 1991-1-4:2005 in Kenya is challenging because of the lack of the Kenya National Annex. The design code commonly used in Kenya is CP3-Chapter V-2:1972 that uses the three-second gust duration. This gust duration results in higher magnitudes of wind loads that end up making the structures unnecessarily robust and uneconomical. Using the Eurocodes has the promise of achieving more economical designs because it uses the 10-minute gust duration. The 10-minute gust duration results in typically lower magnitudes of wind loads than the three-second gust duration for the same wind speed. Kenya adopted the Eurocodes in September 2012 but has not yet developed its national annexes opting instead to use the UK National Annexes. The UK National Annexes are applicable to Kenya in some scenarios but not in others such as wind loading. The lack of the Kenya National Annexes has led to difficulties in the adoption of the Eurocodes. This paper outlines a procedure in which the existing wind data given in three-second gusts could be converted to 10-minute wind speeds. Once converted, the method described in the UK National Annex could then be followed selectively to determine the wind load on a structure. Lastly, the paper recommends that wind data collected from 1977 to 2021 by the Kenya Meteorological Department be incorporated to the development of the wind map for the Kenya National Annex to KS EN 1991-1-4:2005
Responding to access and beyond in Fee-free policies: Comparative Review of Progressive Free Senior High and Free Senior High School policies in Ghana
Authors: Asante Gabriel , Agbee David
Published: June 2021

The study compares two fee-free policies at the upper secondary level in Ghana on how they responded to access and the policymaking processes in education. Secondary sources of data were used, while Haddad and Demsky’s framework of education policymaking served as the theoretical basis for textual data analysis. The results show that Free Senior High School policy responded to the program output of an increase in access, unlike Progressive Free Senior High policy. However, the inconsistent release of funding and limited stakeholder consultation are common features of the policies. It is further observed that the desirability of access is over prioritised in the current Free Senior High School policy, leaving gaps in educational facilities and resources during policy decision. To address these challenges, sources of funding must be re-assessed for possible policy redesign that invites consumers of the policy who opt for boarding status to absorb a proportion of boarding fees.
Including the excluded in Open and Distance Learning in Namibia: Policy transformation to maximise the inclusion of students with visual impairments
Authors: Green Isobel , Sheyapo Mirjam
Published: June 2021

It is evident that there is an increase in the enrolment of students with disability in Higher Education, particularly Students with Visual Impairments (SVI). However, it is also sad to note that, this group of students remain excluded and thus are less visible in Open and Distance Learning (ODL). The current pandemic (COVID-19) has put to test, the preparedness and pro-activeness of most higher education institutions to include students with disabilities in different modes of teaching and learning.
This paper observed, reviewed, and analysed various legislatives to determine the preparedness of different ODL Centres of selected HEIs in Namibia. Amongst others, some national and institutional legislatives revealed lack of obliging guidelines to compel HEIs to commit to the inclusion of students with disabilities particularly the SVI. The paper concludes that there is lack of policy guidelines in HEIs toward inclusive education and consequently most institutions remain reluctant to prepare and be proactive to include SVI in the ODL programme. The paper calls for policy transformation at national, ministerial, and institutional, to move toward inclusive education through all modes of learning.
Football analytics for better betting: Pitch partitioning, possession sequences, expected goal model and player evaluation on Dawson model
Authors: Kollár Aladár
Published: June 2021

One of the most significant developments in the sports world over the last two decades has been the use of mathematical methods in conjunction with the massive amounts of data now available to analyze performances, identify trends and patterns, and forecast results. Football analytics has advanced significantly in recent years and continues to evolve as it becomes a more recognized and integral part of the game. Football analytics is also used to forecast game outcomes, allowing bettors to make educated guesses. This article describes mathematical concepts related to football analytics that enable a better betting strategies. We explain how the pitch is partitioned into different zones and we define possession sequences. Furthermore, we explain what an expected goals model is and which expected goals model we use in this research. Furthermore, we define two general characteristics of a player evaluation method, each corresponding to one of the equations of the Dawson model. Based on these characteristics, we describe the developments of several general approaches for evaluating players in the context of the Dawson model.
A Techno-economic Evaluation of Adding Silica Nanoparticles to Enhance the Demulsification Process in a Crude Oil Central Processing Facility
Authors: Hassan Shireen , Abdalla Babiker , Mustafa Mustafa
Published: June 2021

In this study, a techno-economic evaluation of the use of silica nanoparticles to enhance the demulsification process, in crude oil, has been investigated. A software model has been developed in MS Excel of the central processing facility (CPF). A sensitivity analysis of key parameters on production cost and Net Present Value (NPV) has been carried out for different flowsheet selection options. Comparison of flowsheets on an equal plant capacity basis results in a 19% reduction in the production cost whereas comparison on a fixed annual crude oil processing basis results in a reduction in production cost of only 3.7%.
Meteorological Pursuit a case study of Hafiz Hayat Campus, University of Gujrat, Pakistan
Authors: Maalik Umeed
Published: June 2021

Being an important phenomenon “Weather Observation” or “Meteorology” is not only interesting for Meteorologists but also for environmentalists and geologists as well. So for this an internship program was held at University of Gujrat Hafiz Hayat Campus, in a newly maintained Met Office, where appointed Official Weather Observers supervised this work. So in this way this is a wonderful chance to become a part of Starting Weather observation at UOG, being the students of Environmental Sciences. A group of students worked as internees.
Contemporary Trends in Hospitalizations for Comorbid Chronic Liver Disease and Substance Use Disorders
Authors: Desai Archita P. , Greene Marion , Nephew Lauren D. , Orman Eric S. , Ghabril Marwan , Chalasani Naga , Menachemi Nir
Published: June 2021

INTRODUCTION:

Chronic liver diseases (CLDs) and substance use disorders (SUDs) are increasingly prevalent and often coexist. Contemporary studies describing the characteristics and hospitalization trends of those with comorbid CLD-SUD are lacking. We aimed to characterize a population-based cohort with comorbid CLD-SUD and describe trends in these hospitalizations over time by individual-level characteristics.

METHODS:

We performed a cross-sectional analysis of the National Inpatient Sample from 2005 through 2017. Diagnosis codes were used to identify adult hospitalizations with CLD, SUD, or both. Bivariate and multivariate analyses were used to make comparisons between diagnosis categories. Unadjusted and age-adjusted trends in these hospitalizations were described over time.

RESULTS:

Of 401,867,749 adult hospital discharges, 3.2% had CLD-only and 1.7% had comorbid CLD-SUD. Compared with CLD-only, comorbid CLD-SUD hospitalizations resulted in higher inpatient mortality (3.1% vs 2.4%, P < 0.001) and were associated with younger age, male sex, Native American race, and urban and Western US location. Over time, comorbid hospitalizations grew 34%, and the demographics shifted with larger increases in hospitalization rates seen in younger individuals, women, Native Americans, and those publicly insured. In comorbid hospitalizations, alcoholic SUD and CLD decreased, but drug SUDs and nonalcoholic fatty liver diseases are fast-growing contributors.

DISCUSSION:

In this comprehensive analysis of US hospitalizations, comorbid CLD-SUD hospitalizations are increasing over time and lead to higher inpatient mortality than CLD alone. We further characterize the changing demographics of these hospitalizations, providing a contemporary yet inclusive look at comorbid CLD-SUD hospitalizations. These data can guide interventions needed to improve the poor outcomes suffered by this growing population.
One-Eyed Archive
Authors: Krabbe Meyer Mette Kia , Odumosu Temi
Published: June 2021

During 2016, the Royal Danish Library digitized more than 200.000 pages from the library’s, collections all of which related to the former colonies in the Caribbean. This included books and other printed matter, but also sheet music, manuscripts, personal documents, photographs and drawings. Images were published in Digital Collections, the library’s platform for digitized materials, and were accompanied by limited metadata, thereby posing challenges in terms of accessibility and important historical contextualisation. This essay therefore reflects on the gaps and the silences that haunt indexing and descriptive practices in the migration online. Mette Kia Krabbe Meyer is Senior Research Fellow at the Royal Danish Library and has been project-managing the digitisation. Temi Odumosu is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at Malmö University and has worked intensively with the collection as user and collaborator in the project What Lies Unspoken. As the Library embarks on initiatives to address the limited metadata associated with its digital collections, the authors come together to unfold key questions about approaches and process. They describe the characteristics of Digital Collections and the metadata currently provided, and ask what is left out and why; thereby engaging cultural biases that uneasily mirror the colonial project. The authors also explore how more inclusive user involvement, particularly in the United States Virgin Islands (USVI), could shift language and epistemology. The leading inquiry question is: In the one-eyed colonial archive, what is it possible for metadata to do?
Pioneers and Feminisms
Authors: Pierce Rachel
Published: June 2021

Feminist historiography is rife with debates about the nature and boundaries of women’s movements. Arguments over who to call an activist or a feminist sit at the heart of these definitional debates, which provide the groundwork for how scholars understand contemporary feminisms. Given the heated nature of ongoing disputes over the complicated identity politics of feminism and its archives, it is surprising that scholars have afforded so little attention to the technical infrastructure that defines and provides access to digitized primary source material, which is increasingly the foundation for contemporary historical research. Metadata plays an outsized role in these definitions, especially for photographic material that cannot be made word-searchable but is favored by digitizers because of its popularity. This article uses qualitative content analysis to examine how two digital archives define the Swedish suffrage movement - a historically contested concept, here understood through the theory of Susan Leigh Star as a “boundary object” subject to “interpretive flexibility”. The study uses keywords attached to photographic material from the the National Resource Library for Gender Studies (KvinnSam) and metadata within the related Swedish Women’s Biographical Lexicon platform for women’s biographies. The findings indicate that the hierarchies of archival organization do not disappear with individual document digitization and description. Instead, the silences built into physical archives are redefined in digital collections, obscuring the tensions between individual and movement feminisms, as well as the contested nature of movement boundaries.
Designing Digital Diagnostics
Authors: Friedrich Kathrin
Published: June 2021

Since the 1990s Western clinical radiology has been confronted with a fundamental media-induced change - the so-called analogue-digital migration. Film-based diagnostics and archiving of radiological images are transformed into digital interfaces and infrastructures. Networked software applications, namely picture archiving and communication systems (PACS), provide a new basis for processing and displaying image data. The design and implementation of PACS and their (user) interfaces challenged, amongst others, the search for data standards for digital diagnostics. The data format DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communication) was developed to provide the technological basis for encoding image data. Simultaneously, DICOM determines how patients’ bodies are rendered machine-readable and how radiologists are able to gain software-based insights. A main function of DICOM metadata is encoding and continuously actualising patient identification for technological and human actors. A misidentification of image data and specific patient could lead to fatal errors in the furthe+r treatment process. Accordingly, metadata themselves meander between being invisible to the human user and being essential and hence necessarily visible information for diagnostics. Shifting between normativity and fluidity, DICOM metadata enables new practices of radiological diagnostics, which literally bear vital consequences for patients and, on another level, for the profession of radiology. The paper analyses inherent politics and tensions of metadata from a media theoretical point of view by employing the case of the DICOM standard. Based on subject-specific discourses, data models as well as an in-depth examination of exemplary DICOM metadata it shows how (meta)data politics redefine diagnostic infrastructures and routines as well as gain impact on epistemic and aesthetic practices at the turn of the analogue-digital migration.
Paternidade em tempos pandêmicos no discurso jornalístico
Authors: Navarro Pedro , Lívero Íngrid , Chagas Mônica
Published: June 2021

Neste artigo, são analisados enunciados da esfera jornalística, especificamente, reportagens e/ou notícias cujo referencial discursivo contempla as expressões sintagmáticas “pais na pandemia” e “pais separados na pandemia”. O estatuto de acontecimento discursivo conferido às séries enunciativas permite observar como o exercício da paternidade, em tempos pandêmicos, dispersa-se entre “instituições, leis, vitórias e derrotas políticas, reivindicações, comportamentos, revoltas e reações” (FOUCAULT, 2014, p. 175). É um acontecimento, porque passou a necessitar de comprovação do cumprimento de medidas sanitárias indicadas pelo saber científico para ser justificado. Soma-se a isso o fato de que, nessa produção discursiva, questões jurídicas são associadas à biopolítica, em razão do cuidado para com a saúde familiar e a coletiva. As análises dão visibilidade ao funcionamento do campo jurídico nas relações familiares, o qual se fundamenta no regime de verdade da ciência e em práticas de biopolítica. Concomitantemente a esse funcionamento do poder, materializa-se, também, a relação entre as práticas de liberdade e as de obediência/desobediência, teorizadas por Gros (2018), que são exploradas mediante seu entrelaçamento com o poder governamental, o qual vêm de encontro à investigação de retratos da subjetividade paterna, nos rastros do discurso jornalístico, ao se entrelaçar paternidade à pandemia.
Pandemia e a colonialidade em (dis)curso no corpo da mulher negra
Authors: Marinho Lisbôa Flávia
Published: June 2021

Este artigo propõe refletir sobre a pandemia a partir da mulher negra, especificamente do lugar da trabalhadora doméstica como representativo da colonialidade e das desigualdades sociais no Brasil. Para a reflexão é tomado o enunciado remetido à trabalhadora doméstica Mirtes Souza no especial Falas Negras, exibido na Globo em 20 de novembro de 2020 em alusão ao Dia Nacional da Consciência Negra. Pela Análise do Discurso com Foucault se encaminha a reflexão do artigo, com as lentes da interseccionalidade e da decolonialidade, para evidenciar a linha de força que vulnerabiliza esse corpo não apenas na pandemia, mas num lastro histórico em curso desde a colonização com permanentes atualizações que as permitem acontecer com efeito de naturalidade, que é o papel do Dispositivo Colonial.  O enunciado é o ponto de partida para traçar uma rede de memória com fins de revolver condicionantes históricas para o lugar dessa mulher no presente, apontando a desumanização desse corpo como resultado de um projeto colonial em curso até a atualidade.
Tracking and Assessing Undergraduate Research Campus-wide: Demographics, Academic Success, and Post-Graduation Plans
Authors: Schneider Kimberly R , Kuperman Aubrey , Watts Andre , Barulich Danae , Campbell Tyler
Published: June 2021

Evaluation must occur at the university level to understand the full impact of undergraduate research (UR). UR assessment is often only completed at the individual program level because of limited technology, time, and/or resources. At our large research institution, we have been documenting a wide variety of research experiences annually since the 2009–2010 academic year through an online portal. With our institutional research team and campus partners, we created interactive dashboards that display involvement in UR by semester and academic year. Here we compile data on students involved in UR compared to the university population as a whole. Consistent trends from this yearly data have shown that non-STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) students, transfer students, and part-time students are less involved in research. However, underrepresented and first-generation involvement tends to trend consistently with the university population, likely because of a wide variety of focused programming. Despite many interventions aimed at engaging students in their first three years, data show that researchers remain mostly seniors. Students are also tracked to graduation and beyond, providing a unique evaluation of UR. Grade point averages and graduation rates tend to be higher for student researchers. Time to degree is similar between researchers and nonresearchers. Students are tracked into graduate school as well and on average have an almost 50% increase in matriculation compared to nonresearchers. There are still gaps in this university-level knowledge, but this portal helps clarify campus-wide involvement and opportunities for enhancement, while serving as a comparison data set and a model system for other universities.
Career Readiness Driven by Sequential CUREs
Authors: Killion Patrick , Page Ian , Boytim Alexis
Published: June 2021

The University of Maryland First-Year Innovation & Research Experience (FIRE) was launched in 2014 and initially developed to provide a broad range of undergraduate students with research experience. As the program has grown and matured during six years of operation, the student outcomes targeted have evolved to include a broader range of professional development impacts, including critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and professionalism.
The Impact of Service-Oriented Undergraduate Research on an Ongoing Participatory Community Action Research Project at Homeless Shelters
Authors: Zicka Jennifer Leigh , Reeb Roger Nathan
Published: June 2021

This article provides (a) a brief description of an ongoing research project at homeless shelters, (a) an example of an undergraduate student’s independent (and unique) contributions to the Project; and (c) the student’s reflection on civic-related and professional-related development associated with the work.
Stories of Impact: The Transformative Power of Undergraduate Research
Authors: Evans Sara , Evans Jocelyn , Wilkum Kristi
Published: June 2021

We, along with being guest editors of this issue, are also active researchers in our respective disciplines and the scholarship of teaching and learning. We integrate undergraduate research (UGR) as High Impact Practice (HIP) in most of our research projects, and have personal experiences in which we see all the benefits come to life that have been outlined in the series of papers in this issue. As we read abstracts and considered the organization and content for this issue, we began to notice a pattern in some of the abstracts that aligned with our own work and discussions with colleagues, but is generally not present in a traditional scholarly article. That element is the personal narrative account of impact. We know from the extensive literature cited throughout this issue, as well as the work in this section, that providing high-quality undergraduate research projects has substantial impacts at many levels – for individual students, for cohorts, for departments, colleges, universities, and even systems. We, as scholars, see these impacts every day in our own work and the work of others. However, it is not often captured in peer-reviewed research outside of quotes to support evidence of assessment results (which of course, have their own important place in this work).
Growth Characteristics Layur Fish Lepturacanthus savala in Juata Waters, Tarakan, Indonesia
Authors: Indarjo Agus , Salim Gazali , Amir Fahrizal , Supriadi Supriadi , Soejarwo Permana Ari , Nugraeni Christine Dyta , Prakoso Lukman Yudho , Ambariyanto Ambariyanto , Firdaus Muhammad , Ransangan Julian
Published: June 2021

The city of Tarakan, Indonesia, benefits economically from abundant marine biological resources, one of which is the layur fish, known commercially as ribbonfish. The purpose of this study was to analyze the growth character of the layur fish (Lepturacanthus savala) obtained from the juata waters of Tarakan City.  The method of this quantitative and descriptive study was to analyze the growth of layur fish Lepturacanthus savala in the Juata waters off the coast from the city of Tarakan. Body shape, length, weight, and ratio sex data were collected from sites selected by the purposive sampling method based on trawl fishing catch. Secondary data, collected from interviews of fishing personnel, included the number of catches using trawling gear and trawl fishing location. The length ranges of male from 20,4 to 54,0 cm with an average length of 37,2±16.8 cm (n = 255) and the length ranges of female from 20,5 to 68 cm with an average length of  44,25±23.75 cm (n = 275). The results showed that maximum length of male layur fish was smaller than the maximum length of female fish, which were 59.352 cm at 267 d and 72.638 cm at 315 d, respectively. The result shows a negative allometric growth pattern male and female layur fish was found to be the same and sex ratio of male to female has a ratio of 1,0: 1,8 with a percentage of males at 48.11% and females at 51.89%. The majority of male and female fish exhibited a thin body shape (51,4% of male and 52% of female).
Masculinization of Tropical Eel Anguilla bicolor McClelland in Different Population Density
Authors: Rachmawati Farida Nur , Sistina Yulia
Published: June 2021

In general, female eel dominates the results of catching eel in the river. Male fish dare rarely found in nature, therefore masculinization is necessary for obtaining in males.  The administration of 17α-methyltestosterone  to masculinize Anguilla bicolor McClelland.   It is a synthetic anabolic-androgenic steroid which has potential to endocrine disrupter that disturbed function of normal reproduction in human or animal. It urgently needed that a masculinization technique needs to study the use of an environmental factor. Population density is one of the environmental factors that influence gender determination (ESD-environmental dependent sex determination). This will result in increased cortisol secretion, which will further stimulate the synthesis of 11-KT steroids that affect male gonad differentiation. This study aims to induce masculinization in tropical eel Anguilla bicolor McClelland in different density. Three treatments and three replicates conducted the research. The treatments were one fish.48 L-1, two fish.48 L-1   and three fish.48 L-1.  Eels size was approximately similar, at 16,78 g±0,62 in weight, and 25,38 cm±0,15 in length were either culture in brackish water for eight weeks. The results showed that density population treatment significantly increased the Fin Index (P<0.05), but no sign for Eye Index, GSI, HSI, and testosterone level. The highest male population (77,8%) achieves at the highest density treatment, three fish.48 L-1 population density. It can be concluded, based on reproductive observations, population density does not affect gonad maturity/puberty, but the high population density (3 fish.48 L-1)stimulates Anguilla bicolor McClelland masculinization.
Infection Patterns of Helminth Parasites in Mackerel Tuna (Euthynnus affinis Cantor, 1849) from Banten Waters, Indonesia
Authors: Pambudi Muhammad Raihan , Sulistiono Sulistiono , Tiuria Risa , Kleinertz Sonja
Published: June 2021

The study of zoonotic parasites is of extreme importance, because they can cause diseases in humans and can negatively impact the marketability of fisheries products. The present study aims to determine the infection patterns of helminth parasites infecting mackerel tuna in Banten waters, as well as to clarify possible negative impacts to its fish host. Mackerel tunas were caught from March to July 2020 in Banten Bay and Sunda Strait and obtained from Karangantu fishing port and Muara Angke fishing port. For parasite identification, different staining methods were used (KOH, Semichon’s acetocarmine). Helminth parasites that has been found in this study belonged to the taxa of Monogenea (1), Digenea (1), Nematoda (2) and Acanthocephala (2). The helminth parasite species with the highest prevalence was Hexostoma euthynni (P: 16.7%) from Banten Bay and Neorhadinorhynchus sp. (P: 53.3%) from Sunda Strait followed by a possible zoonotic parasite Anisakis sp. with 46.7% prevalence. In this study four new locality records were established. Pathogenic impacts from the isolated parasites to the examined fish could be expected, especially for the revealed H. euthynni, which may decrease the fish’s ability to perform proper respiration, cause irritation to gills, and anemia. Preventive actions on anthropogenic activities will be required in order to keep the natural conditions in the areas of Banten Bay and Sunda Strait. Regular fish parasite monitorings will lead to the sustainable use of fisheries resources, assess possible fish health impacts, and zoogeographical distributions of zoonotic and pathogenic parasites.
Natuna Off-Shelf Current (NOC) Vertical Variability and Its Relation to ENSO in the North Natuna Sea
Authors: Hariyadi Hariyadi , Hutabarat Johannes , Sugianto Denny Nugroho , Noercholis Muhammad Faiq Marwa , Prasetyarini Niken Dwi , Pranowo Widodo S. , Kunarso Kunarso , Wetchayount Parichat , Wirasatriya Anindya
Published: June 2021

During the northwest monsoon (NWM), southerly flow off the Natuna Islands appeared as the extension of the turning Vietnam coastal jet, known as Natuna off-shelf current (NOC). NOC is generated by the interaction of wind stress and the North Natuna Sea’s bottom topography. The purposes of the present study is to investigate the vertical variability of NOC and its relation to El Niňo Southern Oscillation (ENSO) using Marine Copernicus reanalysis data. The vertical variability refers to the spatial distribution of NOC pattern at the surface layer, thermocline layer, and deep/bottom layer.  in 2014 as representative of normal ENSO condition. To investigate the effect of ENSO, the spatial distribution of NOC in 2011 and 2016 were compared which represent the La Niňa and El Niňo conditions, respectively. The results show that NOC starts to generate at the southeast monsoon season to the transition I season and peaks in the northwest monsoon season. The occurrence of NOC is identified at all depth layers with the weakened NOC at the deep layer. Related to the ENSO effect, La Niňa tends to strengthen NOC while El Niňo tends to weaken NOC. These are releted with the strengthening and weakening northerly wind speed during La Niňa and El Niňo, Respectively. During La Niňa events, the NOC occurs more frequently than during El Niňo. Thus, beside affecting the magnitude of NOC, ENSO also influence the frequency occurrence of NOC.
Revisiting the Spawning Pattern of Nyale Worms (Eunicidae) Using the Metonic Cycle
Authors: Bachtiar Imam , Odani Shingo
Published: June 2021

Mass spawning dates of nyale worms (Eunicidae) have been scientifically predictable since 2019. The month of spawning is consistently following the pattern of the February full moon, while the date of spawning is consistently on the 20th of the lunar calendar. There are particular years with February only spawning, March only spawning, and split spawning in both February and March. The existing prediction of the split spawning, however, was constructed with very little available data. The present study aimed to revisit the split spawning prediction using the Metonic cycle, a 19-year lunisolar cycle. The results show that the spawning prediction very much follows the Metonic Cycle. There are minor dates on split spawning to be revised, when February full moon rises on 14th February. The revised hypothesis is that split spawning is very likely to occur when the full moon rises between the 7th to 13th of February. When February full moon appears before the 7th of February, single spawning will take place on the fifth day after the March full moon.  When February full moon befalls after the 13th of February, single spawning will occur on the fifth day after the February full moon. The revised prediction method has only 2 (two) deviances in 114 years of simulation dates. The present study is the first to suggest the link between Polychaete spawning patterns and the Metonic Cycle.
Paratexts and Translation of the Exotic
Authors: Axelsson Marcus , Næsje Ragnhild
Published: June 2021

This article investigates how the covers of two novels, Vaffelhjarte (Waffle Hearts, 2005) and Tonje Glimmerdal (Astrid the Unstoppable, 2009) by the Norwegian children’s fiction author Maria Parr, are visually and verbally translated into German, French, and English. The central question of this study is how representations of characters, theme, and geographical context are rendered in the target text paratexts. Methodologically, the study is inspired by Gunther Kress and Theo Van Leeuwen’s grammar of visual design. The results show that the target paratexts to a large extent reflect the novel, but in different ways and not necessarily by staying close to the source paratexts. Previous research on paratexts and translation shows that exotic source text elements tend to be foregrounded in translation. This is something that we also see regarding the French and the British Parr translations, but not the German. Drawing on previous research by Kathryn Batchelor and Maria Pujol-Valls, we would like to put forward the hypothesis that verbal text – that is, the narrative in the novel – and paratexts behave differently in translation. As verbal text, according to previous research, often is more adapted to the target culture when migrating from a peripheral system (Norway) to more central ones (France and Great Britain), the opposite seems to be the case for translated paratexts, where exotic source culture elements are reinforced in central systems. Concerning the German cover, where there was no foregrounding of exotic source culture elements, we raise the possibility that such foregrounding is not needed, since German readers are already familiar with Scandinavian children’s literature.
Betti numbers and pseudoeffective cones in 2-Fano varieties
Authors: Muratore Giosuè Emanuele
Published: June 2021

The 2-Fano varieties, defined by De Jong and Starr, satisfy some higher-dimensional analogous properties of Fano varieties. We consider (weak) k-Fano varieties and conjecture the polyhedrality of the cone of pseudoeffective k-cycles for those varieties, in analogy with the case k = 1. Then we calculate some Betti numbers of a large class of k-Fano varieties to prove some special case of the conjecture. In particular, the conjecture is true for all 2-Fano varieties of index at least n − 2, and we complete the classification of weak 2-Fano varieties answering Questions 39 and 41 in [2].