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My Future Looks Rosy, but Not Very Big! (1957–1960)
Authors: Allen Paul V.
Published: January 2024

Chapter 7 details some of the defining elements of King Aroo, its transition from national syndication to just one newspaper, and how this caused Jack to adjust to a new financial reality. The chapter first looks at King Aroo’s visual presentation, its use of allusions, and its tendency toward metafiction. It then details the strip’s move from the McClure Newspaper Syndicate to exclusive publication in the San Francisco Chronicle, and how the reduced income lead Jack to take a job Ferguson Map Company in San Antonio.
No Great Genius (1980–1983)
Authors: Allen Paul V.
Published: January 2024

This chapter explores some of Jack’s more unusual projects and illuminates the ways he used his stories to explore his insecurities about his lack of education, critical acceptance, and self-confidence. The unusual projects discussed include a set of educational slides (How Did They Get From Here to There in George Washington’s Time), a book of mobiles (The Animobile Book), sticker books, and a drawing book. Jack’s exploration of his insecurities is illustrated by books such as Round Robin, The Christmas Pinata, and The Caterpillar and the Polliwog.
Just Only Jack (1984–1985)
Authors: Allen Paul V.
Published: January 2024

Chapter 14 discusses Jack Kent’s last years, looking at his religious beliefs, his friendship with author and poet Naomi Shihab Nye, and his final published works. It details how Nye encouraged Jack to promote himself and his work more vigorously, resulting in an award from the Texas Institute of Letters for The Once-Upon-a-Time Dragon. The chapter also shows how Jack explored new thematic territory with his books Jim Jimmy James and Joey. Finally, it tells the story of Jack’s final days in a battle against leukemia before his death in 1985.
Ever After (1986 and Beyond)
Authors: Allen Paul V.
Published: January 2024

This chapter looks at Jack’s legacy in comic strips and children’s books. It details some of the unpublished projects that ended up at the Kerlan Collection at the University of Minnesota. It also looks at the predictive and influential impact of Jack’s work in children’s books, comic strips, and television, and discusses King Aroo’s revival in the early 2010s via reprints by the Library of American Comics. Finally, the chapter tells about the lives of June Kent and Jack Kent Jr. following Jack’s death.
Introduction
Authors: Zimmerman Tegan
Published: January 2024

This Introduction formulates the postcolonial-psychoanalytic feminist theory of matria, an imagined maternal space and time, through reading fictions of history written by and about Caribbean women. It reconceptualizes matria as an imagined maternal space and time that (re)unites Caribbean mothers with daughters. The tripartite introduction opens with the section, “Matri(a)lineage,” which revisits Sigmund Freud’s theory of mothers and daughters in the Oedipal complex and traces matria’s feminist psychoanalytic and (post)colonial feminist literary roots. The following section, “Mother-(Is)lands: Daughters Fictionalize the Past,” explicates matria, as a Caribbean maternal space and time, in relation to historical fiction and history. Lastly, “Volcanic Daughters: Matria Redux,” provides an overview of the book’s structure and the pre- and post-millennium novels selected for close-reading.
Maternal Conflicts, Coolitude, and Colonialism in Jan Lowe Shinebourne’s The Last English Plantation
Authors: Zimmerman Tegan
Published: January 2024

Chapter three presents Jan Lowe Shinebourne’s The Last English Plantation as depicting a critical juncture in the Indo-Chinese protagonist’s life: June struggles to forge her own identity whilst Guyana seeks its independence from Britain in the 1950s. Analyzing the novel’s material and maternal conflicts this chapter argues that the Indo-Chinese girl’s struggle against her mother and Guyana’s growing demand for independence from Britain correlates to June’s increasingly postcolonial feminist attitude of coolitude. Inspired by a grandmother figure, June begins to learn her family’s history as well as Hindu traditions and stories. June thus reappropriates the derogatory term coolie as a means to honor her Indo-Chinese maternal past, and she envisions matria in anticolonial, antipatriarchal terms for herself and her nation.
Politicized Mothers
Authors: Zimmerman Tegan
Published: January 2024

This Introduction focuses on public disruption and violence to demonstrate how a political cause, the greater good, a future feminist matria, motivates many of the women in these narratives to endanger their lives. Exploring the intersection of the familial and the national, the personal and the public, the exile and the refugee, these works are set mid-twentieth century during the time of dictatorships, national independence, and communist revolution. By focalizing wars, violence, and women, the novels offer a unique postcolonial feminist perspective on a subject typically told by men about men. The result is that Edwidge Danticat’s The Farming of Bones and Andrea O’Reilly Herrera’s The Pearl of the Antilles conceive matria as an anti-nationalistic maternal space that brings mothers and daughters together and thus provides a means to heal from the traumas of the past.
“Mother of the Rivers”: Maternal Tropes in Edwidge Danticat’s The Farming of Bones
Authors: Zimmerman Tegan
Published: January 2024

Chapter five offers a close reading of Edwidge Danticat’s pre-millennium Haitian novel The Farming of Bones (1998). The novel relays a Haitian woman fleeing the Dominican Republic during the infamous Parsley Massacre of Rafael Leónidas Trujillo’s regime. The chapter proposes that the main protagonist, Amabelle, after being militarily forced to return to her mother country, Haiti, becomes an allegory for the Massacre River, which flows between the two nations of Hispaniola. Rejecting patriarchal, anti-black nationalism, Amabelle considers the Massacre River, which flows between Haiti and the Dominican Republic, the appropriate maternal site for her rebirth. A postcolonial feminist approach to psychoanalytical terms like uncanny, trauma, and taboo are thus paramount to the novel’s depiction of matria.
Ancestral Mothers
Authors: Zimmerman Tegan
Published: January 2024

Caribbean women writers’ re-imagination and re-invention of History is the focus of this section. The Caribbean women’s historical fictions discussed all take place in the recent past, indeed coinciding with the authors’ lifetimes and challenging the limits of the historical novel genre. This section argues that these novels use myth and the distant past to confirm a direct impact on female protagonists in the present. African-derived familial-community narratives like songs and stories are reinvented in these works. Likewise references to spirituality including non-western and African-derived religions play considerable roles. A rich, subversive oral tradition rejoins heroines, who feeling homesick, nostalgic, or disconnected whilst living outside the Caribbean, with their maternal heritage. This rejoining entails a return to the mother’s Caribbean roots as shown in the two close readings: Paule Marshall’s Praisesong for the Widow and Marie-Elena’s Unburnable.
The Return of Daughterly Reincar(nation) and Rituals in Paule Marshall’s Praisesong for the Widow
Authors: Zimmerman Tegan
Published: January 2024

This chapter concentrates on Paule Marshall’s Praisesong for the Widow (1983) set in Grenada and Carriacou. Marshall’s Praisesong for the Widow deftly takes on the maternal past when her protagonist, Avey, after much denial and repudiation, realizes that to be spiritually whole she must re-learn and reconnect with her Afra-Caribbean ancestry. Maternal figures guide Avey on her spiritual journey until she willingly reconnects with her maternal history and becomes a repository of cultural memory for her grandchildren in Tatem, South Carolina. The importance of ritual as outlined in psychoanalysis is studied from a postcolonial feminist perspective and the chapter argues that matria is realized through knowing and understanding the spiritual dimension of one’s ancestral past.
Cartography, Hystérie , and Matrilineage in Marie-Elena John’s Unburnable
Authors: Zimmerman Tegan
Published: January 2024

Chapter eight offers a close reading of a post-millennial text in which the heroine Lillian cannot restore her maternal genealogy: Marie-Elena John’s Unburnable (2006), set in Dominica. John’s text sees Lillian attempt to piece together the lives of her foremothers and to exonerate them of their alleged crimes and transgressions. In solidarity with the women in her family, Lillian becomes the fierce mythic figure of the soucouyant and dies by suicide. In bringing three women’s tragic fates together, the novel’s matria challenges the racist and sexist discursive practices from which women have little means of escaping. Unburnable thus reveals what Freud calls hysteria, which this chapter re-interprets as hystérie, that is history as erupting through/as female madness and suicide.
การเปรียบเทียบปัจจัยที่มีผลต่อความสำเร็จของห่วงโซ่อุปทานของอุตสาหกรรมเครื่องใช้ไฟฟ้าและอิเล็กทรอนิกส์ในประเทศไทย
Authors:   นักวิชาการศึกษา สำนักงานคณบดี คณะเทคโนโลยีและการจัดการอุตสาหกรรม มหาวิทยาลัยเทคโนโลยีพระจอมเกล้าพระนครเหนือ, คงสง ธนัชชา , พิเชฐศิรประภา พิพรรธน์ ,   อาจารย์ประจำสาขาวิชาการจัดการทรัพยากรมนุษย์ คณะวิทยาการจัดการ มหาวิทยาลัยราชภัฏราชนครินทร์
Published: January 2024

การวิจัยนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อเปรียบทียบข้อมูลทั่วไปตามขนาดบริษัทกับความสำเร็จในห่วงโซ่อุปทานของอุตสาหกรรมเครื่องใช้ไฟฟ้าและอิเล็กทรอนิกส์ในประเทศไทย โดยเป็นการวิจัยเชิงปริมาณใช้แบบสอบถามเป็นเครื่องมือในการวิจัย จัดเก็บข้อมูลทางไปรษณีย์ ซึ่งประชากรเป็นบุคลากรระดับบริหารของบริษัทในอุตสาหกรรมเครื่องใช้ไฟฟ้าและอิเล็กทรอนิกส์ในประเทศไทย จำนวน 2,410 บริษัท จัดเก็บข้อมูลจากกลุ่มตัวอย่าง จำนวน 320 ตัวอย่าง วิเคราะห์ข้อมูลโดยใช้ค่าความถี่ (Frequency) และร้อยละ (Percentage) เพื่อเปรียบเทียบความสำเร็จของห่วงโซ่อุปทานของอุตสาหกรรมเครื่องใช้ไฟฟ้าและอิเล็กทรอนิกส์ในประเทศไทย ด้วยวิธีวิเคราะห์ความแปรปรวนทางเดียว (One-Way ANOVA) หากพบความแตกต่างเกิดขึ้นจะทำการเปรียบเทียบเชิงซ้อนด้วยวิธี Scheffe's ด้วยโปรแกรมคอมพิวเตอร์ ผลการวิจัยพบว่า ขนาดของบริษัทที่แตกต่างกันไม่ส่งผลต่อความสำเร็จของห่วงโซ่อุปทานในอุตสาหกรรมเครื่องใช้ไฟฟ้าและอิเล็กทรอนิกส์ในประเทศไทย
ปัจจัยที่มีผลต่อการตัดสินใจเลือกศึกษาต่อระดับบัณฑิตศึกษา กรณีศึกษามหาวิทยาลัยเทคโนโลยีพระจอมเกล้าพระนครเหนือ
Authors:   นักวิชาการศึกษา บัณฑิตวิทยาลัย มหาวิทยาลัยเทคโนโลยีพระจอมเกล้าพระนครเหนือ, อาวุธกรรมปรีชา เปรมวดี
Published: January 2024

การวิจัยครั้งนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์ 1. เพื่อศึกษาปัจจัยที่มีผลต่อการตัดสินใจเลือกศึกษาต่อระดับบัณฑิตศึกษา กรณีศึกษามหาวิทยาลัยเทคโนโลยีพระจอมเกล้าพระนครเหนือ 2. เพื่อเปรียบเทียบปัจจัยที่มีผลต่อการตัดสินใจเลือกศึกษาต่อระดับบัณฑิตศึกษา กรณีศึกษามหาวิทยาลัยเทคโนโลยีพระจอมเกล้าพระนครเหนือ ประชากร ได้แก่ นักศึกษาระดับปริญญาตรี ชั้นปีที่ 4 คณะวิศวกรรมศาสตร์ และคณะวิทยาศาสตร์ประยุกต์ มหาวิทยาลัยเทคโนโลยีพระจอมเกล้าพระนครเหนือ จำนวน 653 คน และนักศึกษาชั้นปีที่ 4 คณะวิศวกรรมศาสตร์ และคณะวิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี มหาวิทยาลัยเทคโนโลยีราชมงคลพระนคร จำนวน 261 คน สถิติที่ใช้ในการวิเคราะห์ ได้แก่ ค่าเฉลี่ย ความถี่ ร้อยละ และส่วนเบี่ยงเบนมาตรฐาน และใช้สถิติ t-test และ One-way ANOVA ในการทดสอบสมมติฐาน ผลการวิจัยพบว่า ปัจจัยที่มีผลต่อการตัดสินใจเลือกศึกษาต่อระดับบัณฑิตศึกษา กรณีศึกษามหาวิทยาลัยเทคโนโลยีพระจอมเกล้าพระนครเหนือมี 4 ด้าน ได้แก่ ด้านคุณลักษณะของสถานศึกษา ด้านหลักสูตรการศึกษา ด้านการประกอบอาชีพ ด้านเศรษฐกิจและสังคม ซึ่งมีระดับความคิดเห็นอยู่ในระดับมากทั้ง 4 ด้าน ผลการทดสอบสมมติฐาน พบว่า สถาบันการศึกษาที่แตกต่างกันมีค่าเฉลี่ยด้านคุณลักษณะของสถานศึกษาและด้านเศรษฐกิจและสังคมแตกต่างกันอย่างมีนัยสำคัญทางสถิติที่ระดับ .05
ความคิดเห็นต่อคุณลักษณะของผู้เรียนด้านการออกแบบสารสนเทศเพื่อสร้างสรรค์สื่อดิจิทัล
Authors:   คณะมนุษยศาสตร์และสังคมศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยสวนดุสิต, ปั้นตระกูล สายสุดา , ตำนานจิตร บุญญลักษม์ ,   คณะมนุษยศาสตร์และสังคมศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยสวนดุสิต, พิจิตรกำเนิด บรรพต ,   คณะมนุษยศาสตร์และสังคมศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยสวนดุสิต, เชียงเชาว์ไว สิริมา ,   คณะมนุษยศาสตร์และสังคมศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยสวนดุสิต, ประสิทธิ์วิเศษ กฤษณพร ,   คณะวิทยาการจัดการ มหาวิทยาลัยสวนดุสิต
Published: January 2024

การวิจัยครั้งนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อศึกษาความคิดเห็นต่อคุณลักษณะของผู้เรียนด้านการออกแบบสารสนเทศ เพื่อสร้างสรรค์สื่อดิจิทัล กลุ่มตัวอย่าง 268 คน จาก 4 กลุ่ม คือ 1) ผู้ประกอบการ/ ผู้ใช้งานบัณฑิต 2) ศิษย์เก่า (สาขานิเทศศาสตร์ ภาษาไทยและบรรณารักษศาสตร์และสารสนเทศศาสตร์) 3) นักเรียนที่สนใจ ศึกษาเกี่ยวกับสารสนเทศ และ 4) ผู้สนใจพัฒนาตนเองด้านการออกแบบสารสนเทศ เครื่องมือที่ใช้ในการ วิจัยคือ แบบสอบถาม สถิติที่ใช้วิเคราะห์ข้อมูลคือ ร้อยละ ค่าเฉลี่ยและส่วนเบี่ยงเบนมาตรฐาน ผลการวิจัยพบว่าความคิดเห็นต่อคุณลักษณะของผู้เรียนด้านการออกแบบสารสนเทศเพื่อสร้างสรรค์สื่อดิจิทัลในภาพรวมอยู่ในระดับมาก เมื่อพิจารณาเป็นรายข้อ พบว่า 1) ผู้เรียนควรมีคุณลักษณะด้านความรับผิดชอบ ความตรงต่อเวลา ซื่อสัตย์ กระตือรือร้นสนใจใฝ่รู้ข่าวสารและเทคโนโลยีสมัยใหม่ มีค่าเฉลี่ย อยู่ในระดับมาก รองลงมาคือ 2) ความสามารถในการติดต่อประสานงานกับหน่วยงานต่างๆ การแก้ไขปัญหาเฉพาะหน้าและการทำงานเป็นทีม และ 3) มีความสามารถในการสร้างสรรค์ข้อมูลสารสนเทศและสื่อดิจิทัลที่แปลกใหม่โดยใช้ภาษาและวิธีการสื่อสารที่เหมาะสมกับสถานการณ์
The ichthyofauna of the upper Neretva River
Authors: Neuburg Jakob , Friedrich Thomas , Haring Elisabeth , Höfler Sarah , Maric Ana , Marić Saša , Popp Stephanie , Simonović Predrag , Snoj Aleš , Sušnik Bajec Simona , Vitecek Simon , Wanka Alexandra , Weiss Steven , Pinter Kurt
Published: January 2024

Fish were sampled at nine locations of the upper Neretva River, upstream of Glavatičevo. Evidence of the endangered softmouth trout (Salmo obtusirostris) was obtained as well as the presence of other native and non-native salmonids. Genetic analysis suggests that the native brown trout (Salmo trutta) in the upper Neretva is homogeneous with no significant introgression by introduced Atlantic-lineage brown trout and quantitative catch data show that their populations are healthy with densities above 1,000 ind/ha. However, the relatively low biomass estimates may be the result of overharvesting. A new haplotype of the mitochondrial control region of the bullhead (Cottus gobio) was detected and confirmation of native S. trutta, Barbatula barbatula, Phoxinus sp., and C. gobio in the upper reaches, underlining the importance of this river stretch. The planned expansion of hydropower plants in the upper Neretva and its tributaries will have a significant negative impact on the largely untouched ichthyofauna, as is clearly demonstrated by the conditions found in the middle course of the river, which has been dedicated to hydropower production.
Aquatic insects (Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera, Trichoptera and Diptera: Tipuloidea) from the upper Neretva in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Authors: Graf Wolfram , Bauernfeind Ernst , Ivković Marija , Kolcsár Levente-Péter
Published: January 2024

Within the upper Neretva catchment in Bosnia several hydropower plants are projected. Between 28.6. and 1.7.2022 a baseline survey was initiated to screen the area regarding the diversity of aquatic insects and its linked conservation value. In total, 59 Trichoptera species, ten Plecoptera species, 19 Ephemeroptera and 16 Diptera (Tipuloidea) species were collected, of which Baeoura sp. is new to science. 35 species are endemics of the Balkans, most species are rheobiontic and need high water current. The most abundant taxa are species of the trichopteran genus Agapetus (A. slavorum and A. ochripes) – surface grazers sensitive to water fluctuations and therefore vulnerable to hydropower-induced water level changes. With estimated 40,000 attracted specimens per night, light traps were extraordinarily successful. The extremely high diversity, as well as the enormous abundance of aquatic insects, underline the importance of the upper Neretva as an unimpacted riverine system embedded in dense natural and near-natural forest.
Contribution to the knowledge of water beetles sensu lato (Coleoptera) from the upper course of the Neretva River in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Authors: Brojer Michaela
Published: January 2024

Altogether, 57 species of water beetles sensu lato (Coleoptera) belonging to 11 families (Dytiscidae, Dryopidae, Elmidae, Georissidae, Gyrinidae, Hydraenidae, Helophoridae, Heteroceridae, Hydrophilidae, Limnichidae and Scirtidae) are presented based on a survey carried out in the upper section of the Neretva River. The Georissidae with two species, Georissus costatus Castelnau, 1840 and G. cf. laesicollis Germar, 1832, are reported for the first time from Bosnia and Herzegovina with certainty. Additional new records comprise Hydraena vedrasi Orchymont, 1931, Limnebius paganettii Ganglbauer, 1904, Cercyon ustulatus Preyssler, 1790, Dryops lutulentus (Erichson, 1847) and Limnichus incanus Kiesenwetter, 1851. The most speciose family collected were Hydraenidae with 18 species, seven endemic to the Balkans.
Neretva Science Week 2022 – shedding light on the biodiversity of the upper Neretva River valley, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Authors: Singer Gabriel , Eichelmann Ulrich , Knook Vera , Weiss Steven , Topić Vladimir , Ivanić Jelena , Borko Špela , Zagmajster Maja
Published: January 2024

Many rivers in the Balkans are at risk due to numerous planned hydropower plants. The Save the Blue Heart of Europe campaign and the Scientists for Balkan Rivers network are important initiatives trying to promote the protection of the region’s intact rivers. In summer 2022, a Science Week was organised in the upper Neretva River valley. From 26.6. to 5.7.2022, a diverse team of in total nearly 60 scientists and students from seven countries were involved in fieldwork on about a dozen common field sites distributed along the upper Neretva River. The 13 contributions published in this special issue draw an impressive picture of high biodiversity in this understudied area. Altogether, more than 1000 species of animals and plants were documented, numerous of them protected, underscoring the extremely high conservation value of the various ecosystems in the upper Neretva river valley.
Study of subterranean biodiversity of the upper Neretva River catchment in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Authors: Zagmajster Maja , Premate Ester , Borko Špela , Rexhepi Behare , Milanović Vojo , Brancelj Anton , Brojer Michaela , Douady Christophe , Grego Josef , Jovanović Milica , Malard Florian , Mori Nataša , Pešić Vladimir
Published: January 2024

The Dinarides in the Western Balkans host a globally exceptional subterranean biodiversity, but still areas remain with little or no data on subterranean species. In this work, we present the study of subterranean fauna in the upper Neretva River catchment (Eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina), which included the first systematic exploration of the interstitial habitats in the country. During the five-day »Neretva Science Week« in the summer of 2022, we sampled six gravel bars, six springs and one cave. We gathered 268 records (taxon-locality-date) of 116 taxa, with 35 records referring to 27 terrestrial taxa. Nine terrestrial taxa were sampled in a cave, while 19 were found in aquatic samples, mostly from springs. 27 taxa were identified as obligate subterranean (troglobiotic) species, one terrestrial beetle from the cave, and 26 aquatic species, belonging to water mites, snails, and crustaceans. Eight of the aquatic troglobionts present the potential for new species to science. Of the latter, four species were distinguished based on morphology: two species of snails from the families Hydrobiidae and Moitessieriidae, one representative of Ostracoda and one Copepoda. Individuals of the aquatic troglobiotic isopods and amphipods were analysed molecularly, and based on molecular differences, two new species within the genus Proasellus and two within the genus Niphargus were proposed. Further work on all these taxa is needed for the formal descriptions of the new species to science. Despite the short study period, we have shown that the area is rich in endemic groundwater fauna. The hydroelectric power plant constructions planned in the region threaten groundwater communities by altering subterranean habitats and their connectivity. Further studies are needed to properly highlight the great diversity of the subterranean habitats of the Neretva River catchment and its wider region, and to include this knowledge in conservation strategies.
Embedded concepts: Comparative analysis of the meaning of education policies
Authors: Dunajeva Jekatyerina , Siarova Hanna
Published: January 2024

The study demonstrates that the definition and meaning of education, and by extension of educational inequality, are embedded in countries’ historical, political and social environments, while also responding to exogenous changes and international trends. We comparatively discuss the experience of 4 countries (Norway, Finland, Lithuania and Hungary) in order to unpack the historical underpinnings of the way education is framed in policy documents. Building on that, we review the effects of neoliberal ideas with their universalist dogma that have affected policy making in all cases, and assess to what extent the meaning of education was decoupled from its historical framework. Our findings are relevant for understanding not only the process of policy change, but in particular how the meaning of concepts within educational policy change over time. We suggest that embedded concepts carry meaning that has evolved over time and became strongly entangled with the country’s history and culture, while prevailing ideologies (neoliberalism and in the case of Hungary that of neoconservatism) also generate considerable effects on education policies.
“It was about making a new kind of slave”: corporeal sufferings of Afro-American woman in Megan Giddings’ Lakewood
Authors: Balasubramanian Adhitya , Balasubramanian Padmanabhan
Published: January 2024

The present article investigates the incapacitating bodily experiences of an unconsented African American research subject Lena Johnson in a Lakewood healthcare project by closely reading Megan Giddings’ novel Lakewood (2020). By Portraying the impact of various medical experiments that incarnate pernicious effects on Lena’s body, the deft fiction reminds the readers how the healthcare institutions in the US have been replete with the stereotypical racial beliefs. Afro-American literature while addressing the irrefutable presence of racial culture in the American society, has further emerged to portray the complex narrative experiences of black women in healthcare institutions. In this context, by drawing the theoretical postulates of Elizabeth Grosz and other theoreticians of varying importance, the article seeks to incorporate facets of corporeal feminism (ethical, ontological, and metaphorical dimensions) as its conceptual framework to examine the bodily intricacies and experiential agonies of Afro-American women in healthcare institutions.
De l’« êta négligé » au « pi tiré vers le bas » : problèmes d’identification et de dénomination des signes musicaux d’après le P. Mich. inv. 1205
Authors: Capron Laurent
Published: January 2024

P.Mich. inv. 1205 is a small papyrus fragment containing the remains of an instrumental music score. Relying on a paleographic and musical analysis to reinterpret the reading of the most frequent sign, the article substantially modifies the melodic structure, and raises the question of the link between the establishment of intrumental semiography and its nomenclature, leading to a better understanding of tables of musical signs in the treatises copied during the medieval period.
Through the Narrow Gate of Heaven: Christian Fragments from the Bodleian Library
Authors: Panegyres Konstantine
Published: January 2024

This paper presents editions of two small fragments of Christian papyri from the collection of the Bodleian Library, Oxford: Bodl. MS. Gr. th. g. 5 (P) and Bodl. MS. Gr. th. f. 16 (P). The first fragment deals with the two gates of heaven, the second with the subject of death.
Spun and Fleeced? Spinning, the Wool Tax, and Gendered Labour in the Ptolemaic Textile Industry
Authors: Dogaer Nico
Published: January 2024

This article proposes a new interpretation of the Ptolemaic wool tax, one of the best documented capitation taxes. The integration of Greek and Demotic sources makes clear that the women liable to this tax were involved in part-time spinning. This reinterpretation considerably enlarges our dataset for spinning, a crucial yet underrepresented stage in the manufacture of textiles. The article discusses the available evidence for spinning, the nature of the wool tax, and the implications for the organisation of the Ptolemaic textile industry and the role women played in it.
An Order of Payment from the Apa Apollo Monastery at Bawit
Authors: Wyman David
Published: January 2024

Edition of an eighth century order of payment from the Apa Apollo monastery at Bawit. The document is located at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (Louisville, Kentucky) and was donated to the seminary by Jerome M. Eisenberg in 1961.
Effect of calcium phosphate/bovine serum albumin coated Al2O3–Ti biocomposites on osteoblast response
Authors: Sameni Hamid Reza , Arab Samaneh , Doostmohammadi Nesa , Bahraminasab Marjan
Published: January 2024

Objectives

The biological performance of aluminum oxide-titanium (Al2O3-Ti) composites requires special attention to achieve improved osteoblastic differentiation, and subsequent osseointegration/strong anchorage with the surrounding bone. Therefore, the aim of this study was to improve them by providing calcium phosphate (Ca-P)/bovine serum albumin (BSA) coating on their surfaces.

Methods

Ca-P/BSA coatings were prepared on the surfaces of 75vol.%Ti composites (75Ti-BSA) and pure Ti (100Ti-BSA as a control). The surface characteristics, phase analysis, micro-hardness, BSA release profile and biological responses including cytotoxicity, cell viability, differentiation, mineralization, and cell adhesion were evaluated.

Results

The results showed that lower cytotoxicity% and higher mitochondrial activity or viability % were associated with the samples with Ca-P/BSA coatings (particularly 75Ti-BSA having 21.3% cytotoxicity, 111.4% and 288.6% viability at day 1 and 7, respectively). Furthermore, the Ca-P/BSA coating could highly enhance the differentiation of pre-osteoblast cells into osteoblasts in 75Ti-BSA group (ALP concentration of 4.8 ng/ml). However, its influence on cell differentiation in 100Ti-BSA group was negligible. Similar results were also obtained from mineralization assay. The results on cell adhesion revealed that the Ca-P/BSA coated samples differently interacted with MC3T3-E1 cells; enlarged flat cells on 75Ti-BSA vs more spindle-shaped cells on 100Ti-BSA.

Conclusions

Ca-P/BSA coated Al2O3-Ti provided promising biological performance, superior to that of uncoated composites. Therefore, they have the potential to improve implant osseointegration.
The morphosyntactic alternation between exterior locative case affixes and postpositions in Estonian
Authors: Klavan Jane
Published: January 2024

This paper investigates three morphosyntactic alternations in Estonian – those between the exterior locative cases allative, adessive, and ablative and the corresponding postpositions peale ‘onto’, peal ‘on’, and pealt ‘off’. It is assumed that the influence of different predictors on speakers’ choices will be relatively stable in terms of the direction of those predictors, but the strength of these will vary. For each alternation, a random sample of the two outcomes (case vs. postposition) from the Estonian National Corpus is used, resulting in a total of 3,000 data points. Using properties of the landmark phrase as independent variables in mixed-effects logistic regression models, the choice of postpositions over case-marked realizations is predicted. The models fitted to the data confirm that the direction of the eight predictors investigated is the same across the alternations, with freqRatio, lemma, and mobility making the most significant contribution to the fit of all three models. The study further shows that the two alternating pairs that have a higher global frequency in Estonian (allative ∼ peale and adessive ∼ peal) behave in a similar way with respect to the predictors under study; the third, less frequent alternation (ablative ∼ pealt), differs from the other two in terms of the number and type of predictors that make a significant contribution to the model fit.
Multi-pass friction hardening treatment of Ti6Al4V alloy toward improved tribological properties
Authors: Shafaghatian Atiyeh , Taghiabadi Reza , Ahmadi Reza , Shahriyari Fatemeh , Emami Mohammad
Published: January 2024

Multi-pass surface friction hardening was employed to modify the microstructure and enhance the tribology characteristics of the Ti6Al4V alloy. The process was performed by reciprocated sliding a flat-head WC-Co cylindrical pin tool on the alloy surface under different applied loads of 350, 700, 1050, and 1400 N. The sliding was conducted at different speeds of 45, 90, 180, 360, 720, and 900 mm min−1 for 30, 60, 90, 120, and 150 passes, respectively. Based on the hardness test and microstructural characterization results, the applied load of 1050 N, the sliding speed of 900 mm min−1, and the pass number of 60 (900-60 sample) were chosen as the optimum economic process parameters for the subsequent experiments. Performing surface friction hardening under the optimized conditions increased the surface hardness of the annealed sample from 350 HV1 to 564 HV1 showing an increase of about 60 %. Surface friction hardening was also found to substantially improve the tribology characteristics of the Ti6Al4V alloy. According to the obtained results, under the applied loads of 1 and 6 N, the wear rate and the average friction coefficient of the 900-60 sample were lower than those of the annealed one by 58 and 83 %, and 33 and 50 %, respectively.
The Classical Doctrine of the Eternal Processions and Creation ex nihilo
Authors: Hollingsworth Andrew
Published: January 2024

I argue that the classical doctrine of the eternal processions (CDEP) is inconsistent with the doctrine of creation ex nihilo (DCEN). More specifically, I argue that the metaphysical entailments of each doctrine are inconsistent with one another. According to the CDEP, God must be atemporal and immutable to avoid entailing some sort of ontological subordination obtaining between the Son and Spirit to the Father. On classical understandings of immutability, and thus atemporality, God experiences no change whatsoever, be that change intrinsic or extrinsic. According to the DCEN, there is a state of affairs in which God exists without the universe, and there exists a state of affairs in which God exists with the universe, entailing – at minimum that God extrinsically changes. As a result, the CDEP and the DCEN are inconsistent with one another and cannot both be affirmed within the same coherent theological system. One of the two, or both, should be rejected.
Glioblastoma with PRMT5 gene upregulation is a key target for tumor cell regression
Authors: Kurdi Maher , Fadul Motaz M. , Addas Bassam , Faizo Eyad , Bamaga Ahmed K. , Alsinani Taghreed , Katib Yousef , Alkhotani Alaa , Fathaddin Amany A. , Turkistani Alaa N. , Najjar Ahmed A. , Baeesa Saleh , Toonsi Fadi A. , Almansouri Majid , Alkhayyat Shadi
Published: January 2024

Objectives

Protein Arginine Methyltransferase 5 (PRMT5) is an enzyme that regulates gene expression and protein function through arginine methylation. Its association with isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH) mutation in Grade-4 astrocytoma was rarely investigated. Our aim was to aim to explore the association between IDH mutation and PRMT5 and its effect on tumor recurrence.

Methods

A retrospective cohort of 34 patients with Grade 4 astrocytoma has been tested for PRMT5 expression using protein and gene expression arrays. The impact of IDH-mutation and PRMT5 expression on tumor recurrence was explored.

Results

IDH-wildtype was detected in 13 tumors. PRMT5 protein was highly expressed in 30 tumors and the expression was low in four tumors. PRMT5 gene expression was upregulated in 33 tumors and downregulated in a single tumor case. Tumors with different PRMT5 gene expressions and IDH mutation were found to have a significant statistical difference in recurrence-free interval (RFI) (p-value<0.001). IDH-wildtype glioblastoma with upregulated PRMT5 gene or protein expression showed earlier tumor recurrence compared to IDH-mutant Grade 4 astrocytoma with upregulated PRMT5 expression.

Conclusions

The association between IDH mutation and PRMT5 in IDH-mutant Grade 4 astrocytoma or IDH-wildtype glioblastoma is indirectly bidirectional. PRMT5 upregulation in glioblastoma can lead to increased cell proliferation and tumor regrowth.
Definition of the pnictogen bond (IUPAC Recommendations 2023)
Authors: Resnati Giuseppe , Bryce David L. , Desiraju Gautam R. , Frontera Antonio , Krossing Ingo , Legon Anthony C. , Metrangolo Pierangelo , Nicotra Francesco , Rissanen Kari , Scheiner Steve , Terraneo Giancarlo
Published: January 2024

This recommendation proposes a definition for the term “pnictogen bond”; the term pnictogen bond designates a subset of the attractive interactions between an electrophilic region on a pnictogen atom in a molecular entity and a nucleophilic region in another, or the same, molecular entity.
Theorizing impoliteness: a Levinasian perspective
Authors: Xie Chaoqun , Fan Weina
Published: January 2024

Despite the fact that impoliteness research has spanned over three decades, it has been conceptualized persistently in terms of politeness as its binary opposite. In this paper, we endeavor to provide a theoretical framework for studying impoliteness as significant communicative practice. We aim to introduce Levinas’ face as an alternative to Goffman’s face and identify impoliteness with Levinas’ face for the reason that Levinas’ face, featuring absolute difference, can only be expressed through the discourse of resistance which manifests in various phenomena commonly categorized as impoliteness. We also argue that impoliteness is essentially the discourse of the authentic Self whose uncompromising difference, though potentially resulting in conflictive phenomena, facilitates understanding between individuals, not as actors, but as unique beings with their individualities and differences. We further contend that impoliteness is ethical in that the discourse of resistance does not aim for power but calls for respect for individual difference as well as responsibility for the Other in an effort to seek equality in human relations which are fundamentally power-laden and unequal. We also provide a case study to apply our theoretical construction of impoliteness to a literary classic, namely, Herman Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener” to illustrate our main points.
Origins of money: a Motivation & Sedimentation Model (MSM) analysis
Authors: Oakley Todd , Zlatev Jordan
Published: January 2024

Few other social technologies and institutions are more consequential to human societies than money. Yet money remains a deeply perplexing phenomenon. On the one hand, it is a pan-human system of valuation, but on the other, it is conventional and variable in its uses. While it is controversial if money instantiates a fully-fledged sign system, it is rife with semiotic capacities. To present an illuminating analysis of money is thus a test case for the Motivation & Sedimentation Model (MSM) of meaning making, with roots in the phenomenology of Husserl and Merleau-Ponty. Using MSM, we analyze two origin accounts of money: the commodity money account evidenced in archaic and classical Greek coinage, and the credit money account exemplified by early findings in Mesopotamia. Both accounts focus on the interactions between the three levels of MSM: the pre-signitive Embodied, the cultural Sedimented, and the interactional Situated levels of meaning and propose different series of “loops” to account for the genesis of money. Despite key differences in the two origins, both imply semiotic processes operating according to motivated, and hence non-arbitrary, conventions developing within institutional formations that ultimately influenc present-day concepts of money.
Quantum-mechanical treatment of two particles in a potential box
Authors: Mann Gottfried
Published: January 2024

In classical physics, there is a basic principle, namely “A particle cannot be located at the position of another one on the same time.” Which consequences can be derived if this principle is transferred into quantum physics? For doing that, two distinguishable particles are considered to be trapped in a potential box by means of the Schrödinger equation. In result, the particles can necessarily be located only at discrete positions.
ULTRASON DESTEKLİ DONDURMA VE ÇÖZÜNDÜRME İŞLEMİNİN DANA NUAR ETİNİN KALİTE ÖZELLİKLERİ ÜZERİNE ETKİSİ
Authors: YÜKSEL SARIOĞLU Hira , KÖPRÜALAN Özgün , DİRİM Safiye Nur , ERTEKİN Figen
Published: January 2024

Bu makalede, farklı genliklerde (%40, %70, %100) ultrason destekli daldırarak dondurma/çözündürme ve buzdolabında dondurma/çözündürme yöntemlerinin kuşbaşı dana nuar etinin kalite özellikleri üzerine etkileri incelenmiştir. Analizler, dondurma işlemi sırasında ultrason uygulanan örnekler için buzdolabında çözünmüş örneklerde ve buzdolabının dondurucu bölmesinde dondurulup çözündürme sırasında ultrason uygulanmış örneklerde gerçekleştirilmiştir. En yüksek ağırlık kaybı (%3.60-8.60), %100 genlikte ultrason uygulanan örneklerde görülmüştür. Çözündürme işleminde ultrason uygulanan örneklerde diğerlerine kıyasla daha düşük pişme kaybı (%34.80-38.97) değerlerine ulaşılmıştır. TBARS değerlerinde (0.16-1.05 mg malonaldehit/kg ürün), ultrason uygulamasıyla birlikte artış görülmüştür. Ultrason uygulanan örneklerin toplam renk değişimi değerleri (6.60-15.80), en az renk değişimine %40 genlikte ultrason uygulaması ile ulaşıldığını göstermiştir. Dokusal özellikler incelendiğinde, ultrason genliği arttıkça sertlik (433.81-1455.26 N) ve çiğnenebilirlik (140.42-558.92 N) değerlerinin azaldığı görülmüştür. Sonuç olarak, dondurma ve çözündürme işlemini hızlandırmak ve gıdaların kalitesini korumak amacıyla uygulanan ultrason işleminin, gıdaların kalite özellikleri üzerine önemli etkilerinin olduğu ancak %100 genlikte uygulamanın kalite özellikleri üzerinde önemli bir avantaj sağlamadığı görülmüştür.
La movilidad del paisaje mexicano decimonónico
Authors: Garrigan Shelley E.
Published: January 2024

Nineteenth-century Mexico offers a confluence of factors that have received critical attention: visuality, public display, order, progress, consumer culture, political consolidation, and modernization. During this period, the proliferation of landscape references by institutions such as the Academy of San Carlos and the National Institute of Geography and Statistics in the form of paintings, postcards, maps, and statistics links the fields of aesthetics and science, which, in their emerging stages and shared role as agents in the creation of a modern Mexican culture, served as instruments for measuring progress at the national level and status at the international level. While the great master of Mexican landscape painting, José María Velasco, has been recognized in several studies for his creation of a visual language for Mexican landscape heritage that registers the increasing speeds associated with modernization, his works also obscure a darker reality: the privatization of Mexican land under the Porfiriato. In this article, I first explore the conceptual frameworks through which the interfaces between land and landscape can be understood as parallel representations. Next, I consider the development of a Mexican landscape aesthetic and its implications for the creation of a class of consumer-citizens who are apparently at odds with the surrenderist land policies of the Porfiriato. Finally, I explore the connection between Velasco’s works and correspondences during the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition (1876) and the World’s Columbian Exposition (1893) and the incorporation of the Mexican landscape into the surrenderist politics of national land that marked Mexico’s entry into the modern era.
Investigation of the aerodynamic effects of bio-inspired modifications on airfoil at low Reynolds number
Authors: Demir Hacımurat , Kaya Batuhan
Published: January 2024

A numerical study was performed to investigate flow behaviors around bio-inspired modified airfoils compared with NACA 4412 airfoil at Re=5.8x104 by solving the two-dimensional, RANS equations with k-ω STT turbulence model. The obtained results reveal a rather abrupt decrease of lift at stall for the NACA 4412 airfoil in contrast to the mild stall depicted by the top-modified airfoil. As compared to the experimental results of the profiled airfoil in the literature, the characteristic behavior of the variation in the lift coefficient shows resemblance. It is seen that from the velocity distribution results, fluid flowed smoothly along the streamlined nose of NACA 4412 airfoil until α=4⁰ and streamlines adhered well for both airfoils at low angles (0⁰, 2⁰). Smaller circulation bubbles were noticed to settle in the canyons of the corrugated cross-section of the top-modified airfoil. In the wake region of the modified airfoil, there is no obvious large flow separation or circulation region at low angles of attack. However, the blue regions of the dimensionless velocity over the NACA 4412 airfoil and bottom-modified airfoil were narrower than over the top-modified airfoil. The recirculation zone over the airfoil started to enlarge, and the rolling up of the trailing-edge vortex appeared. After α=12⁰, the adverse pressure gradient on the suction side of the airfoils became more intense. In the wake zones, it was seen that the circulation regions grew remarkably and became largest as the angle of attack rose to α=16⁰, which pointed out increased drag forces of airfoils.
Exploring Micro Aerial Vehicle Mechanism and Controller Design Using Webots Simulation
Authors: Pebrianti Dwi , Suhaimi Muhammad Syafiq , Bayuaji Luhur , Hossain Md. Jobaher
Published: January 2024

Quadrotor Micro Aerial Vehicle (MAV) is one of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) which very versatile with their capabilities for specific purposes. Understanding and controlling MAV is important for various applications, from surveillance and delivery services to disaster response and entertainment. In engineering education, providing a hardware platform for understanding MAV mechanism and the controller design is very challenging in terms of cost and safety issue. This paper presents a study on drone mechanisms and controller design using Webots, a versatile robot simulation environment. The primary objectives of this research were to simulate and analyze the behavior of drones in a line following task, employing PID controller as the control strategies, and to evaluate the suitability of Webots as a simulation tool for drone-related teaching and learning as well as research. In the methodology section, the setup of the Webots-based drone simulation, including the selection of a suitable drone model, sensor configurations, and the implementation of control algorithms will be explained. Line following task will be focused to analyze the drone mechanism and the controller design. Data on the drone performance will be collected through the experiment and will be analyzed rigorously. The findings reveal the effectiveness of Webots as a platform for simulating drone behavior. The advantages of using simulation tools like Webots, including cost-effectiveness, safety, and the ability to test and refine control algorithms before deployment on physical drones was proved in this study. It is shown that Webots can be leveraged to teach and train individuals in drone technology without the need for physical hardware.
Heme oxygenase 2 genetic variants alter hormonal and metabolic traits in polycystic ovary syndrome
Authors: Zhang Xinyuan , Li Suiyan , Liu Hongwei , Bai Huai , Liu Qingqing , Yang Chunyi , Fan Ping
Published: January 2024

Oxidative stress and metabolic disorders are involved in the pathogenesis of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). Heme oxygenase 2 (HMOX2) plays a critical role in preserving heme metabolism as well as in modulating glycolipid metabolism, oxidative stress, and inflammation. This study examined the correlation between HMOX2 G554A (rs1051308) and A-42G (rs2270363) genetic variants with the risk of PCOS and assessed the effects of these genotypes on clinical, hormonal, metabolic, and oxidative stress indices using a case–control design that included 1014 patients with PCOS and 806 control participants. We found that the allelic and genotypic frequencies of the HMOX2 G554A and A-42G polymorphisms were comparable between the PCOS and control groups in Chinese women (P > 0.05). Nevertheless, it was discovered that patients with the AA or AG genotype of A-42G polymorphism had notably elevated levels of estradiol (E2), follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH), luteinizing hormone (LH), LH/FSH ratio, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), total cholesterol (TC), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), apolipoprotein (apo)B, and/or apoB/apoA1 ratio than those with the GG genotypes (P < 0.05). Patients with the GG or AG genotype of G554A polymorphism had elevated serum levels of LH, FSH, E2, LH/FSH ratio, TC, HDL-C, LDL-C, apoB, and/or apoB/apoA1 ratio and lower 2-h glucose concentration compared with those with the AA genotype (P < 0.05). Our findings indicate a potential association between the genetic variants and endocrine abnormalities in the reproductive system and metabolic irregularities in glycolipid levels in patients, thus suggesting their potential role in the pathogenesis of PCOS.
El patrón de la arquitectura monumental del territorio moche del sur: el área nuclear y sus extremos
Authors: Franco Jordán Régulo G.
Published: January 2024

In all the territory occupied by the Moche (Piura-Huarmey), two areas have been differentiated: Northern Moche and Southern Moche. This differentiation was made based on the study of ceramic styles and forms. With the analysis of the monumental architecture, the thesis of the existence of two territorial areas of the Moche phenomenon is reinforced. There are notable differences between the models of the two areas. The main buildings in the northern area such, as the pyramids of Sipan and Fortaleza in Pampa Grande, have large volumes in the form of truncated prisms with terraces and/or platforms at different levels and intercommunication ramps, without the presence of a front ceremonial plaza, quite the opposite occurs in the southern area, where the main buildings are platforms with stepped facades, with lateral access ramp to the top and a front plaza. The model of the southern area is found in El Brujo and Huaca de la Luna (Chicama and Moche valleys) that are considered within the nuclear area. The Huacas de Dos Cabezas, to the north, and Huaca San Pedro and Pañamarca, to the south, are included as models of the extremes.
Mito versus realidad en el pago por servicios ecosistémicos hidrológicos: el caso de Perú
Authors: Postigo De la Motta William
Published: January 2024

El Pago por Servicios Ecosistémicos Hidrológicos – PSEH se difunde como un mecanismo de mercado en el que dos partes se ponen de acuerdo voluntariamente, una para reconocer la provisión de un servicio ecosistémico y pagar por éste, y la otra para recibir el pago comprometiéndose a conservar la provisión de dicho servicio. Se sostiene que los PSEH son efectivos en ayudar a conservar la cobertura de bosques en las cuencas altas, lo que garantizaría el servicio ecosistémico de aumentar la disponibilidad de agua y de reducir la carga de sedimentos en el agua, en las cuencas bajas. Sin embargo, en primer lugar, las evaluaciones de su aplicación en el Perú no sustentan que los beneficios ofrecidos se obtengan realmente, ya que no se ha realizado un monitoreo adecuado de los resultados. En segundo lugar, los casos de Perú evidencian que el PSEH no es un mecanismo de mercado, como se pretende sostener conceptualmente, y en la práctica requiere intenso apoyo desde el Estado. Adicionalmente, se observa que las recaudaciones no son significativas como para incentivar el cambio de conductas necesario. Por el contrario, se trata de un mecanismo cuya implementación es muy costosa y no se ha realizado una evaluación costo-beneficio para verificar que los costos incurridos se justifican realmente por los beneficios logrados.