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The Poetics of Space in Enchi Fumiko’s The Waiting Years / 円地文子『女坂』における空間の詩学
Authors: Manfredi Adam
Published: March 2024

Abstract: This article examines how Enchi Fumiko, in her novel The Waiting Years ( Onnazaka 1957), uses verbs of motion, such as kuru (to come) and iku (to go), to carefully shift the novel’s focalization, allowing readers to grasp the subtle nuances of relationships within the Shirakawa household as characters move through the Shirakawa residence. This construction of the physical and social space of the home allows Enchi to explore the constraints women faced within the patriarchal ie seido (family system) that largely governed gender roles in prewar Japanese society. It argues that while Japanese third-person fiction (with its flexible use of tense, deixis, and person) tends to be told from the here and now of a story, English third-person fiction (told in the past tense) has greater difficulty entering a story’s here and now. As a result of these linguistic constraints, this layer of social critique is not always replicated in John Bester’s English translation (1971).
The Pain of Residential Schools in Canada: An Analysis of Silence and Narrative
Authors: Paul Wade
Published: March 2024

Abstract: In operation for over a century, the Indian Residential School system is a painful part of Canadian history. Through the theoretical approaches to pain envisioned by Elaine Scarry, Javier Moscoso, and Ilit Ferber, this article examines how the pain of residential school experiences manifests as silence among residential school survivors. Through a close analysis of narratives that break free from that silence, it becomes apparent that narrative offers one path to national reconciliation. While arguing in favor of narrative as a path towards national reconciliation, this article cautions readers against reducing residential school narratives to a form of trauma spectatorship.
Strange and Tender Fracture: Flash Illness Writing, Chronic Pain, and Alternatives to "Resilience"
Authors: Wasson Sara
Published: March 2024

Abstract: How might flash writing be useful in communicating chronic pain? This question drove the UKRI AHRC-funded project Translating Chronic Pain at Lancaster University (2017–2019), which focused on the potential of fragmentary, episode-driven forms. This article examines how the ultra-short form and navigation architectures of the Translating Pain online anthology facilitate a polyphony of responses to pain that neither deny the validity of distress nor make recovery a solitary, individual act. The anthology's polyphony of voices encompasses a broad register of affects and, at times, offers a commitment to the inconclusive—to ambivalent and unfinished experiences of pain, without moving too quickly to culturally sanctioned closures of optimism or individual overcoming.
Vehement Experiences: The Inscription and Description of Delusion in Nineteenth-century French Asylums
Authors: Moscoso Javier
Published: March 2024

Abstract: This essay explores the differences in the narrative forms of mental illness, depending on whether the sources consulted come from published medical histories or archival material. Based on the study of dozens of clinical cases contained in, above all, the institutions of Charenton and Bicêtre, from the late eighteenth century to the 1850s, I argue that the distinctive feature of the clinical case was vehemence rather than delirium. My methodological approach is based on the conceptualization of the forms of experience proposed by the philosopher of history Reinhart Koselleck.
Edibles into Scribbles: Writing Asia through Food in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando: A Biography
Authors: Cho Janet Eunjin
Published: March 2024

Abstract: This essay traces Virginia Woolf’s metaphoric and structural employment of Asian or Asiatic food in portraying race in and beyond the third chapter of Woolf’s mock-biography, Orlando . The relationship between food and feminist aesthetics in Woolf scholarship has mainly been discussed based on their prescribed meanings within Western cultural and political contexts. This essay challenges the dominant reading by analyzing how Woolf’s construction of white feminist authorship in the novel owes much to her Orientalist rendering of Asian or Asiatic food as a racial trope that heightens the visual exotica and racial arbitrariness of non-Western bodies.
Realism and Interface: Reading Ruth Ozeki Apocalyptically
Authors: Ram Bren
Published: March 2024

Abstract: In its narrowness and adherence to temporal bounds, the form of the novel often struggles to represent the climate crisis accurately. I propose a technique of reading novels through the apocalyptic as an alternative to accuracy, realism, and verifiability. Ruth Ozeki’s novel A Tale for the Time Being shows what we gain from this technique, inviting questions about the role of fiction in representing disaster and the unique temporal warping that climate change engenders. I use media theory and ecocriticism as lenses through which to study metafiction, establishing a theory of realism/realistic-ness as a form of interface or relation.
A Q&A with Denise Ferreira da Silva
Authors: Silva Denise Ferreira da
Published: March 2024

Abstract: The following exchange took place during the Question and Answer period following Denise Ferreira da Silva’s (DFdS) talk, “Negative Accumulation, or That Which Happens without Time.” The talk was given digitally on 25 January 2022 as part of Relative Time/Little Time , a speaker series designed collaboratively by Dutch artist duo Bik Van der Pol and Mosaic . The Question and Answer session was moderated by Mosaic Editor Shepherd Steiner (SS).
Drone Form and Techno-Futurities
Authors: Ganguly Debjani
Published: March 2024

Abstract: What does it mean for humanity to inhabit a techno-planetary system in which it is not central? This essay will address a facet of this question by exploring the aesthetics of drone warfare. The drone features in my reading as a metonym for a techno-human continuum in which the human as an autonomous subject with interiority and capacity for ethical action appears as eminently dispensable. Aesthetic forms not only are informed by but also shape a mode of perception by means of which we apprehend the world. What happens to such apprehension when both the mode of perception and subjecthood defy human-centered assumptions about aesthetic form? How does one novelize the scalar complexity of distributed vision beyond the human? When decisions about life and death are ceded to a machinic vision, do questions of moral agency and responsibility recede into a posthuman realm or do they gain even more urgency? The essay pivots around questions such as these.
Measuring Mimesis
Authors: Bulson Eric
Published: March 2024

Abstract: This essay provides a computational close reading of Erich Auerbach’s Mimesis . In particular, it examines how measurements of its basic building blocks—the chapters, quotations, and pages—can inform our understanding of how Auerbach came to terms with the representation, and distribution, of three thousand years of literary history in a single literary-critical work. By taking the measurements of Mimesis , we are in a better position to assess not only how it functions as a work of literary criticism, but also how it challenges us to imagine the way literary works exist in and over time.
White Things: Form, Formalization, and the Use of Prosody
Authors: Glaser Ben
Published: March 2024

Abstract: The limited prosodic literacy of revamped formalisms perpetuates the whiteness of lyric reading. By prizing ironic distance and elevating the critic as form’s discoverer, the concept of poetic form reinscribes racialized value judgments even where critics hope to valorize nonwhite poetic strategies. Formalism should instead attend to the history that gave poets their sense of form. Nonwhite poets mark how this process of formalization, through which forms become abstracted and bear value, consistently entails racialization. They prompt us, I argue, not to form but to prosodic details whose contingency and phenomenological complexity suspend codes of formalist reading.
Naming Argentina: The Subject of Torture and the Ethics of Psychoanalysis
Authors: Greenspan Rachel
Published: March 2024

Abstract: The concurrent diffusion of Lacanian psychoanalysis in Argentina and the state’s deployment of torture and disappearance during the most recent military dictatorship have led many critics to interpret the turn to Lacan as a cerebral substitute for political protest after the coup d’état. This essay examines how the ruling junta’s specific forms of violence provoked a crisis in the relationship between psychoanalysis and humanism, erupting in the literary field through the figure of the desaparecida . In tension with human rights discourses prevailing in the 1980s, Luisa Valenzuela’s experimental fiction explores the subject’s fragmentation under conditions of state terror and the ethical ambivalence of humanitarian efforts to repair the ego in the wake of torture.
The Voting Rights Act beyond the Headlines
Authors: Crosby Emilye , Richardson Judy
Published: March 2024

Abstract: This article introduces readers to the ongoing African American struggle for full voting rights from Reconstruction to the present. It explains some of the significant ways white supremacists (mis)used the legal and political system, along with violence and economic terrorism, to suppress the Black vote. The essay gives particular attention to the collective work of African Americans to secure voting rights during the modern Civil Rights Movement, with a focus on the organizing work of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), mentored by Ella Baker. While many people give well-known leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and President Lyndon Johnson credit for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, SNCC workers immersed themselves in communities for bottom-up organizing to demand the vote and make it impossible for the country to continue to ignore the violent suppression of Black rights. The article concludes with contemporary voting rights challenges.
"White supremacy in North Carolina rests in woman's hands": Dr. Delia Dixon-Carroll and the Power of White Women Voters
Authors: Robbins Angela Page
Published: March 2024

Abstract: Following ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, Dr. Delia Dixon-Carroll (1872–1934) delivered dozens of speeches across North Carolina ahead of the general election in fall 1920, appealing to white women to register and vote for Democratic candidates. A suffragist, clubwoman, and Raleigh's first woman physician, she embodied the new woman of the early twentieth century while also extolling the traditions represented by the Democratic party, notably the white supremacy campaign of 1898 and Charles Aycock's administration. Stumping alongside the state's most powerful Democrats, she assured those who had opposed suffrage that white women would use their newfound political power to preserve the status quo, telling crowds that "when it comes to a question of white supremacy, the women of North Carolina will be there." A stalwart partisan and spokesperson who was recognized by her contemporaries as a party leader, Dixon-Carroll campaigned for Democrats for the rest of her life.
The South's Democracy Struggle Reaches New Urgency
Authors: Barber Benjamin
Published: March 2024

Abstract: This article examines the history and impact of the Voting Rights Act 1965 and the South's current political landscape more than a decade after the devastating 2013 Shelby v. Holder Supreme Court decision, which eviscerated the landmark civil rights legislation. The VRA has been under constant attack in recent years, with efforts to reduce its effectiveness. These attempts have led to the implementation of suppressive voting laws and restrictive election policies by Southern lawmakers. The region has become more racially diverse, but these measures dilute the influence of a diverse electorate. With the 2024 election quickly approaching, debates on voting and elections are at an all-time high across the country. In response to systematic efforts to undermine democracy, grassroots activists have come together to fight these measures and offer new proposals to fully restore the VRA and build a more inclusive and sustainable democracy across the South.
Direct observation of the transition from spin waves to the magnon Bose condensate
Authors: Knyazev G. A. , Kuzmichev A. N. , Petrov P. E. , Savochkin I. V. , Vetoshko P. M. , Belotelov V. I. , Bunkov Yu. M.
Published: March 2024

Bose-Einstein condensation occurs at an appropriate density of bosonic particles, depending on their mass and temperature. The transition from the semiclassical paradigm of spin waves to the magnon Bose-Einstein condensed state (mBEC) was obtained experimentally with increasing magnon density. We used the Faraday rotation effect to study the spatial distribution of the magnon density and phase far from their excitation region. A coherent magnetization precession was observed throughout the sample, which indicates the formation of a magnon BEC. It is shown that this result under experimental conditions goes beyond the applicability of the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert semiclassical theory.
Autonomic end-to-end quality-of-service assurance over QKD-secured optical networks
Authors: Zhu Qingcheng , Yu Xiaosong , Wang Zihao , Zhao Yongli , Nag Avishek , Wang Shuang , Chen Wei , Zhang Jie
Published: March 2024

Quantum key distribution (QKD) provides future-proof security for data communications over optical networks. Currently, sophisticated QKD systems are developed and the scale of QKD-secured optical networks (QKD-ONs) becomes larger. Given the complex network conditions and dynamic end-to-end security services in QKD-ONs, autonomic management and control becomes a promising paradigm to support end-to-end quality-of-service (QoS) assurance in an efficient and stable way without requiring human intervention. Hence, to enable and utilize the autonomic functionalities over QKD-ONs for realizing the end-to-end QoS assurance becomes a challenge. This work enhances the software defined networking (SDN) technique to tackle this challenge because SDN can add programmability and flexibility for QKD-ON’s management and control. A new architecture of SDN-based QKD-ONs supporting autonomic end-to-end QoS assurance is designed, where a knowledge engine with autonomic control loops is developed in the SDN controller. We present the autonomic end-to-end QoS assurance procedure, and the cross-layer collaborative QoS assurance (CLC-QA) strategy for implementing the autonomic functionalities in the network level over QKD-ONs. We also establish an experimental testbed of SDN-based QKD-ONs supporting autonomic end-to-end QoS assurance, and perform the numerical simulation to verify our proposed approaches. Experimental results demonstrate that our presented approaches can achieve the millisecond-level overall latency of 337 ms and 618 ms, during the first and second autonomic adjustment without human intervention in case of the autonomic QoS protection. Moreover, the CLC-QA strategy is evaluated under different traffic loads by being compared with the baseline strategy without cross-layer collaboration. It can improve 22.5% protection success ratio and save 5.7% average key consumption.
Cost-effective fabrication of a high-conductivity copper electrode for heterojunction solar cells via laser-induced selective metallization
Authors: Li Zhaoyan , Xie Xiaozhu , Luo Yuhang , Huang Yajun , Yang Jiageng , Qing Huaibin , Zhou Tao
Published: March 2024

Replacing expensive silver with inexpensive copper for the metallization of silicon wafer solar cells can lead to significant reductions in material costs associated with cell production, but the susceptibility of the Cu material to oxidation remains a challenging issue to solve. In this study, we investigate copper metallization of Indium Tin Oxide surfaces to define copper grid electrodes for heterojunction cells. We propose a novel laser-induced selective metallization (LISM) method to fabricate large-scale copper electrodes for heterojunction solar cells at low cost. This study includes a comprehensive evaluation of the morphological characteristics and electrical properties of the electrodes. The effects of laser parameters on the morphology, composition, size, and conductivity of copper electrodes are investigated. The goal of establishing the process window is to obtain the optimal laser parameters for manufacturing highly conductive copper electrodes. These optimized parameters will then be employed to fabricate high-performance electrodes for solar cells. Furthermore, a detailed analysis of the mechanism underlying laser selective metallization is provided. The resulting Cu electrodes exhibit high conductivity and low resistivity of 1.98 × 10−5Ω.cm, demonstrating the potential of this method for efficient and cost-effective solar electrode production.
Collision dynamics between soliton molecules and a single soliton: exploding soliton pair and periodic soliton explosions
Authors: Liu Runmin , Zou Defeng , Song Youjian , Hu Minglie
Published: March 2024

Inherent periodic collisions in dual-wavelength mode-locked fiber lasers (MLFLs) stimulate various intra-cavity collision dynamic phenomena. Analogous to the collision of matter particles, collisions between optical soliton molecules (SMs) and single solitons (SSs) have been observed by the real-time spectral measurements. It is demonstrated that the energy accumulation after the collision caused by internal motion within bound pulses leads to soliton pair (SP) explosions, while the periodic soliton explosions with another cavity parameter setting are almost unaffected by the collision. Additionally, the collision between a SP and a SS is reproduced through numerical simulations, and the collision-induced double Hopf-type bifurcation of SP is predicted. These findings provide novel insights, to the best of our knowledge, for further understanding the complex collision dynamics in dual-wavelength MLFLs and will help in the design of high-performance dual-comb sources.
Effects of the abacus-based mental calculation training application “SoroTouch” on cognitive functions: A randomized controlled trial
Authors: Takaoka Tetsuya , Hashimoto Keiji , Aoki Sayaka , Inoue Eisuke , Kawate Nobuyuki
Published: March 2024

This study investigated the effect of a home-based computerized cognitive training program that utilizes a digital application for training abacus-based mental calculations, “SoroTouch,” on the cognitive functions of healthy middle-aged and older people using a randomized controlled trial. The participants were 20 adults (aged 42–79 years) who were involved in community-based activities for dementia prevention held by a certain organization. The participants were assigned randomly to the intervention (SoroTouch) group or control group. The SoroTouch group received home-based cognitive training with SoroTouch, being asked to use the software every day for 6 months, while the control group did not receive any intervention. To investigate the effect of SoroTouch, CogEvo, a cognitive functions test battery utilizing a tablet device, was administered to all participants once per month during the 6-month intervention period. In addition, before and after the intervention, all participants were asked to take the CogEvo and the Japanese version of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA-J). The analyses showed that the SoroTouch group did not improve total scores of the CogEvo and MoCA-J, but large group differences were observed in the two tasks of the CogEvo as follows: ‘Follow the order’ (modified Trail Making Test) at 2 months after the beginning of the intervention (group differences; 39.4, 95% confidence interval; 7.6–71.2) and ‘Route 99’ at 6 months (group differences; 39.6, 95% confidence interval; 4.9–74.4). These results provide evidence that a home-based computerized cognitive training program SoroTouch has the potential to improve working memory, attention and planning in healthy middle-aged and older adults.
‘I saw his wings’: Adaptation, fidelity and the question of angels in Walter Salles’s On the Road (2012)
Authors: Mackenzie James Alexander
Published: March 2024

Fidelity is a controversial topic within adaptation studies, but one which continues to underscore analysis of film texts adapted from literature. The complex issues fidelity raises are again highlighted by the 2012 adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s 1957 novel On the Road by director Walter Salles. The film was praised by many for its authentic rendering of Kerouac’s novel. Others critiqued the adaptation, but still employed the framework of fidelity as the criterion by which the film was assessed. In this article, it is argued that Salles’s adaptation omitted elements that feature prominently within Kerouac’s text, namely the representation of the two central characters as angels. In advancing this argument, the intention is not to censure the film adaptation, but instead to highlight how the issue of the angel trope illustrates the imprecise nature of the concept of fidelity. The fact that Salles’s film was able to omit Kerouac’s angels and still be considered faithful to the source material indicates that frameworks of fidelity can be incomplete and open to interpretation. Yet at the same time, we cannot conduct such a discussion without employing fidelity as a framework. Thus, the concept remains useful when analysing adaptations from literature to film.
On continuity in comic book film adaptations and beyond
Authors: Miszuk Paweł
Published: March 2024

In 2019 Anthony and Joe Russo’s Avengers: Endgame became the highest grossing film of all time, solidifying the status of superhero comic book films as Hollywood’s leading genre. This article attributes part of the blockbuster’s success to its status as an adaptation. It discusses the economic gains of the transmedia storytelling format employed by superhero comic book filmmakers and the importance of continuity, cinematic universes, multiverses and corporate synergy in this genre of movies and beyond. Although these concepts all precede the inception of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, their current popularity could be attributed to that endeavour. The view that transmedia storytelling and adaptation are at odds is challenged. It is argued that the organization of superhero comic book storytelling into universes has become an adaptation norm and that a similar trend could be observed over the past few years in Hollywood cinema.
Shakespeare’s Histories on Screen: Adaptation, Race and Intersectionality, Jennie M. Votava (2023)
Authors: Mullini Roberta
Published: March 2024

Review of: Shakespeare’s Histories on Screen: Adaptation, Race and Intersectionality, Jennie M. Votava (2023)

London, New York, Oxford, New Delhi and Sydney: Bloomsbury and The Arden Shakespeare, 260 pp.,

ISBN 978-1-35032-664-4, h/bk, £80.00

ISBN 978-1-35032-665-1, ebook, £72
On the three-dimensional atomic scale characterisation towards understanding the sequence of nano-scale B2 phase evolution in Ni-alloyed Fe-Mn-Al-C low-density steel
Authors: Saha Mainak , Sadhasivam M. , Ponnuchamy M.B. , Pradeep K.G.
Published: March 2024

The enhanced mechanical properties of Al-alloyed Fe-Mn-C based multi-component steels are primarily derived from the different phases present in them in addition to their size, distribution, morphology, volume fraction and stability. Here we report on the thermal stability and the associated phase evolution sequence especially that of nanoscale precipitates in a hot-rolled 5Ni-alloyed Fe-16Mn-9Al-0.9C (wt.%) low-density steel. Systematic heat treatment studies were performed in the temperature range of 600-1200 °C. Bulk phase analysis using X-ray diffraction indicates the presence of three phases, namely FCC structured γ, L12’ structured κ and BCC phases in as-rolled condition which is in good agreement with the thermodynamic phase stability estimates. Combined microscopic analysis involving three-dimensional atom probe tomography reveals the presence of nano-scale κ and B2 precipitates, highly localized within the majority γ and banded BCC phase regions respectively. This presentation, therefore will focus on the temporal evolution of B2 nanoprecipitates and their localisation within the banded BCC phase regions along with their stability as a function of varied thermal treatments.
In

ternet of Things (IoT) relies on Wireless Technology for its major Functionalities
Authors: Oluyede Michael Sanya , Mart Joseph , Akinbusola Olusola , Olatuja Gabriel
Published: March 2024

Abstract: A decade ago the concept of the Internet of Things (IoT) was coined and used to integrate such approaches into a common framework. Technology has been constantly evolving and so has the concept of the Internet of Things, incorporating new terminology appropriate to technological advances and different application domains. This article presents the changes that the IoT has undertaken since its conception and research on how wireless technological advances have shaped it and fostered the arising of derived names suitable to specific domains.

In this article, we provide a study of some wireless communication standards, evaluating their main features and behaviours in terms of various metrics, including the transmission time, data coding efficiency, complexity, and power consumption. It is believed that the comparison presented in this paper would benefit application engineers in selecting an appropriate protocol.
The effectiveness of COVID-19 surveillance applications in Uganda:
Authors: Goswami Nandu , Buwule Robert Stalone , Acanit Mary , Schmid-Zalaudek, Karin , Brix Bianca
Published: March 2024

Different Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) health-based innovations such as cloud computing, web and mobile surveillance applications were used by proactive governments to fight COVID-19. Contact tracing mobile applications were used by more than 100 countries. However, the extent to which these surveillance applications have been used to track Covid-19 in Uganda is not clear. This study aimed to establish the use of COVID-19 surveillance applications in Uganda. This was a purely qualitative study. Health practitioners managing these surveillance applications were interviewed from Kampala City, Mukono and Wakiso districts of Uganda. The assessment of the COVID-19 surveillance applications underscores the relevance of health-based ICTS.

The surveillance applications provided accurate, authoritative and timely data. However, there were false alerts as result of inaccurate data supplied by the applications. The study recommends increased facilitation of the surveillance officers, continuous training of surveillance teams and integration of the applications for the management of other non-communicable diseases.
Effectiveness of Various Glycerol Concentrations as a Cryoprotectant in Frozen Semen of Pasundan Cattle
Authors: Rasad Siti Darodjah , Solihati N , Winangun K
Published: March 2024

This study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of Glycerol as a cryoprotectant with various concentrations on the quality of Pasundan cattle semen.Â  Semen was collected from seven bulls of Pasundan Cow using an artificial vagina twice a week for three months.Â  The semen sample was added with a TRIS-Egg Yolk Extender containing 20% (v/v) egg yolk and treated with the addition of Glycerol with five different concentrations (G5=5%, G6=6%, G7=7%, G8= 8%, and G9=9%) were then performed with cryopreservation. A Completely Randomized Design (CRD) was used to examine the effect of five different concentrations of Glycerol on motility, intact plasma membrane (IPM), the integrity of acrosome cap (IAC), abnormalities, and recovery rate (RR) of spermatozoa after cryopreservation (post-thawing).Â  The results of diluted Pasundan cattle semen evaluation showed that the addition of 7% Glycerol (G7) resulted in the best motility and IAC values (83.68% and 72.84%), the addition of 7% and 8% Glycerol (G7 and G8) resulted in the best IPM values (85.00% and 84.50%).Â  The addition of 6%, 7%, 8%, and 9% Glycerol (G6, G7, G8, and G9) resulted in the lowest abnormality values (1%).Â  On the post-thawing Pasundan cattle semen evaluation, the addition of 7% Glycerol (G7) resulted in the best motility, IAC, IPM, and RR values (54.49%, 38.57%, 54.29%, and 72.28%).Â  Meanwhile, adding various Glycerol concentrations did not significantly affect the abnormality value of post-thawing spermatozoa.Â  Generally, the addition of 7% Glycerol in semen extenders shows optimal results as a cryoprotectant.
Impact of Aging on Sperm Quality of Sentul Roosters
Authors: Haryuni Nining , Hartutik Hartutik , Widodo Eko , Tribudi Y A , Wahjuningsih Sri
Published: March 2024

This study was done to determine impact of aging on sperm quality of Sentul roosters. Materials used in this study were Sentul males aged 48, 58, 68 and 78 weeks, NaCl, eosin and aquades. Semen was collected by abdominal massage method. Completely randomized design (CRD) was applied in this study with 4 treatments in 5 repetitions. Statistical analysis showed that increasing age of rooster had a very significant effect (p0.01) on decreasing semen consistency, mass motility, spermatozoa concentration and increasing spermatozoa motility. Aging in Sentul roosters affected semen volume significantly (P0.05)Â  butÂ  did not significantly affect (p0.05): semen pH, live spermatozoa, and spermatozoa abnormalities. Average volume of semen produced in this study ranged from 0.54-0.88ml; semen pH 6.80-7.12; mass movement score 1.60-3.00; spermatozoa concentration 2.76-4.86 x109/ml; spermatozoa motility 66-79%; Live spermatozoa 91.75-93.10%, and spermatozoa abnormalities 1.75-2.51%. Semen from Sentul males aged 48-68 weeks had a thick consistency and cloudy white in color. At the age of 78 weeks, the consistency varies from thick, medium and liquid. The color of semen in Sentul males aged 78 weeks also varied from clear white to cream. It is concluded that aging in Sentul roosters causes reproductive disorders which are characterized by low sperm quality. The best quality spermatozoa were produced by Sentul roosters aged 58-68 weeks.
Molecular Characterization and Gene Expression Of TLR4 Gene Associated with Mastitis in Goats
Authors: Soquila S S , De Guia Arren Christian , Medina N P , Mingala C N
Published: March 2024

In this study characterization of Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) gene of goats; detection of polymorphisms in the nucleotides, and determination of the association of identified genotypes with the occurrence of subclinical mastitis was done using chi-square and odds ratio. Analyzing gene expression using two-sided Student's T-test was also done. Results of Study 1 revealed high similarity (99%) of TLR4 nucleotide sequence of all breeds of goats with that of C. hircus (NM_001285574.1) and sheep (Ovis aries) sequences and slightly lower similarity with cattle (Bos taurus, and Bos indicus) (96%), and water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) (95%). In Study 2, restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis revealed three genotypes with nine restriction patterns using AluI enzyme. Genotype AA has odds ratio of 0.28 and 0.08 in all breeds, and in Anglo-Nubian, respectively, with significant association (P0.05) that inferred 0.28 and 0.08 times greater probability in all breeds, and in Anglo-Nubian, respectively, for subclinical mastitis to occur than those of other genotypes. Genotype AB showed odds ratio of 3.83, 13.00 and 2.40 in all breeds, in Anglo-Nubian, and in Upgraded, respectively, with significant association (P0.05) that indicated 3.83, 13.00 and 2.40 times more likely in all breeds, in Anglo-Nubian, and in Upgraded, respectively, to suffer subclinical mastitis than those of other genotypes. Â In Study 3, genetic expression analysis showed a significant upregulation of TLR4 gene up to maximum of 3.63-fold in goats without subclinical mastitis compared to subclinically mastitic animals with only 0.65-fold which suggest a prompt role of TLR4 gene in the protection of animal against possible infection.Â
Performance and Growth Curve Prediction of Crossbred Chickens from Crossing between Local Roosters and Layer Hens
Authors: Dakhlan Akhmad , Sutrisna Rudy , Santosa Purnama Edy
Published: March 2024

Demand for crossbred chicken (Indonesian native chicken x laying hens) continues to increase. This study aimed to find the best-crossbred chicken resulting from crossing between local/native roosters and laying hens which produce the highest body weight up to eight weeks of age, and its growth prediction using the Gompertz function. Eighteen (18) native roosters (9 Bangkok roosters, 9 Pelung roosters) and 36 laying hens of strains Isa brown, Lohman brown, and Hyline brown (12 each) were used in this study to produce 360 crossbred chickens. Factorial 2x3 (two male local roosters versus three strains of laying hens) using a completely randomized design with 3 replications was applied in this study. The results showed an interaction between native roosters and layer hens on the body weight of crossbred chickens at eight weeks of age. Crossbred chicken from crossing between Pelung rooster and Isa brown layer hen was the best in body weight at eight weeks of age. This crossbred chicken would reach a mature weight of 3026.89 g with an inflection weight of 1113.53 g and an inflection age of 7.40 weeks. In conclusion, crossbred chicken from crossing between Pelung roosters and layer hens of Isa brown strain was the best crossbred with the highest body weight at eight weeks of age. This crossbred chicken could be an alternative for fulfilling the demand for local chicken in Indonesia because the slaughter age could be shortened from 8 months to 8 weeks.
Morphological Characterization of Doe Kacang Goat in the Dry Land Area
Authors: Beyleto Veronika Yuneriati , Hilmia N
Published: March 2024

This study was conducted to select a breed based on the morphological characteristics of Kacang goats in the dry land area, by assessing 31 doe Kacang goats. Semi-intensive raising system is carried out (without giving concentrate), yet water; forage (such as Gliricidia sepium leaves, Sesbania grandiflora leaves, Leucaena leucocephala leaves) and local grass are given by applying ad libitum method. Description of morphological characteristics, Pearson's correlation between body weight and body size, and body index, were analyzed using SPSS 25.0 program. The result of descriptive analysis for Â BW, BL, WH, CG, CW, CD, RW, RH, RL, HL, HW, and HH are 20.72Â±3.26 kg, 44.34Â±8.17 cm, 55.42Â±7.84 cm, 62.68Â±7.12 cm, 10.98Â±2.07 cm, 22.74Â±2.12 cm, 8.44Â±1.38 cm, 54.96Â±6.44 cm, 12.55Â±0.85 cm, 14.07Â±0.55 cm, 10.19Â±0.36 cm, dan 11.69Â±0.45 cm respectively. The value of the morphological index for WS, BI, DI, LI, PI, B, HS, FL, and CI are 0.78+0.12, 71.06Â±12.38, 0.42Â±0.06, 0.81Â±0.18, 67.55Â±11.93, 0.43Â±0.08, 11.18Â±5.78, 32.68Â±7.40, dan 72.48Â±2.82, respectively. The conclusion is that the body weight and body measurements in the dry land area are still below the quality National standards of Indonesia. The correlation coefficient of body weight with body size is in the positive range of moderate to high except, the correlation of body weight with head height which shows a negative correlation. The correlation coefficient of body weight with the morphological index is in the low positive range except for the correlation coefficient of body weight with width slope, balance, and height slope which has a negative correlation coefficient.
Polymorphism of Melanocortin-4 Receptor Gene and Its Association with Growth Traits in Bali Cattle
Authors: Kusminanto Richi Yuliavian , Hazimi Fuad Al , Ceri Vani Putri Andra , Panjono Panjono , Hartatik Tety
Published: March 2024

The melanocortin-4 receptor (MC4R) is a gene that controls growth traits.Â  This gene is embedded in the leptin-melanocortin pathway and regulates body weight.Â  Previous studies have successfully identified the genetic diversity of the MC4R associated with growth traits.Â  However, studies on Bali cattle are limited.Â  This study aimed to identify the SNP markers of the MC4R gene and its effect on birth body weight, weaning body weight, weaning chest girth, weaning withers height, weaning body length, yearling body weight, yearling chest girth, yearling withers height, and yearling body length in Bali cattle (n=43).Â  The MC4R genotype was identified by sequencing and aligned using BioEdit v.7.2.5.Â  The association between genotype and growth traits was analyzed using the GLM procedure and DMRT in RStudio program v.2022.02. Four SNPs were identified in the exon region: Â g.355GT, g.394CT, g.463GA, and g.682GA. Â Based on the Chi-square test, the population was fitted with HWE (p0.05).Â  Genotype-phenotype association based on SNPs showed no significant result (p0.05) where the g.682GA (AG) locus had values of WB (104.33+17.15 kg), WCG (112.83+3.66 kg), WBL (89.50+3.94 kg), YB (124.17+22.44 kg), YCG (120.50+5.50 kg), and YBL (92.83+4.31 kg) higher than the other genotypes.Â  Association based on haplotype type showed significant results (p0.05) in BB, where haplotype 2 had the highest BB (21.17+0.75 kg).Â  In conclusion, the SNP markers found in this study were polymorphic but did not affect growth traits in Bali cattle.
Comparison of Physicochemical, Microbiological, and Organoleptic Characteristics of Dali, Dangke, and Fresh Cheese from Goat Milk
Authors: Wahyuningtyas Amalina Nur , Taufik Epi , Soenarno Mochammad Sriduresta , Sulfiar Ahmat Endang Two , Atmoko Bayu Andri , Nugroho Tristianto
Published: March 2024

Indonesian people utilize goat milk to be traditionally processed into food products.Â  Goat milk processing into dairy products is expected to be an alternative way to increase the value of goat milk consumption without reducing the benefit.Â  The traditional dairy products from goat milk are Dali from North Sumatra and Dangke from South Sulawesi.Â  This study aimed to examine the physiochemical, microbiological, and organoleptic characteristics of dali with Agave angustifolia leaf extract coagulant (alo-alo leaf), dangke with papaya latex coagulant, and fresh cheese with rennet coagulant.Â  The experimental design used a randomized block design with three different levels of coagulant treatment, namely Rennet, papaya latex, and Agave angustifolia leaves as casein coagulating enzymes for dali, dangke, and fresh cheese.Â  The variance and non-parametric data test used the Kruskal-Wallis test, followed by Tukey's multiple comparison test.Â  The results showed that the values of aw, pH, and fat between dali, dangke, and fresh cheese were not different.Â  Meanwhile, there is a significant difference (P0.05) for yield value, dry matter, ash, protein, and carbohydrate.Â  The results showed that the total plate count, yeast, and mold count of fresh cheese, dali, and dangke were not significantly different.Â  The results of the hedonic test showed that fresh cheese differs significantly from others (P0.05).Â  Fresh cheese had a better organoleptic value than dangke and dali.
Molecular Characteristics and Evolutionary Relationships of Toll-Like Receptor (TLR21) of Indonesian KUB-1 Chicken
Authors: Suryohastari Raden Rara Bhintarti , Sumarsono Sony Heru , Giri-Rachman Ernawati Arifin
Published: March 2024

In vertebrates, the immune system has several Toll-like receptors (TLRs) to recognize specific pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs).Â  In aves, TLR21 is known to be a functional homolog of TLR9 in mammals.Â  This study aimed to determine the molecular characteristics of TLR21 in KUB-1 chicken, a superior breed of Indonesian local chicken, and their evolutionary relationship.Â  The TLR21 gene was obtained from the ovarian RNA extraction and synthesized into cDNA by reverse transcription.Â  We found that the cDNA sequence of the TLR21 of KUB-1 chicken has a length of 3504 bp, including a 2823 bp open reading frame (ORF), which encodes a putative protein of 940 amino acids (aa).Â  The deduced KUB-1 chicken TLR21 protein consisted of 720 aa in the extracellular domain containing 20 LRRs, 23 aa in the transmembrane region, and 141 aa of Tollâ€ILâ€1 receptor in the intracellular domain, and had a molecular weight of 107 kDa.Â  The KUB-1 chicken TLR21 had homology of about 99%, 76%, and 43% with other TLR21 from other breeds of chicken, non-chicken poultry, and fish, respectively.Â  Its molecular character was conserved throughout the evolution of TLR21 in chicken, so the KUB-1 chicken was not much different from the broiler.Â  However, there has been an evolution in duck and goose, although the function is still the same.Â  Evolutionarily, Gallus gallus_KUB-1 TLR21, which belongs to the TLR11 Family, has differentiated from fish TLR21 and formed a paraphyletic relationship with TLR21 in Anser cygnoides and Anas platyrhynchos.
Letramento estatístico segundo o GAISE e a BNCC: paridades e contrastes
Authors: Rangel Letícia , Landim Flávia Maria Pinto Ferreira , Novaes André Monteiro , Baccar Maria Helena Monteiro Mendes
Published: March 2024

O século XXI evidenciou o potencial da estatística para a sociedade, determinando que o letramento estatístico deve ter seu início na fase escolar. No Brasil, a Base Nacional Comum Curricular (BNCC) reflete uma mudança de perspectiva no ensino de estatística incluindo Probabilidade e Estatística como uma unidade temática de Matemática no Ensino Fundamental. Este estudo visa a contribuir para a discussão sobre a educação estatística, investigando em que medida as habilidades de Estatística e Probabilidade da BNCC para os seis primeiros anos do Ensino Fundamental têm potencial para desenvolver o letramento estatístico. Para provocar e conduzir a reflexão, desenvolvemos uma análise documental fundada na leitura combinada que relaciona as habilidades da unidade temática Probabilidade e Estatística da BNCC do primeiro ao sexto ano escolar com as habilidades características da etapa inicial do desenvolvimento do letramento estatístico segundo o Guidelines for Assessment and Instruction in Statistics Education (GAISE). Em particular, destacam-se como reflexões emergentes da análise que a BNCC tem potencial para desenvolver o letramento estatístico nos anos iniciais do Ensino Fundamental a partir da proposição de investigações e que as habilidades de probabilidade na BNCC revelam uma construção voltada para trabalhar a probabilidade como uma disciplina separada da estatística, sem estabelecer uma conexão clara entre elas.
CUSTOS SOCIAIS E O IMPACTO ECONÔMICO DA ASMA DURANTE A COVID-19 EM PACIENTES ATENDIDOS EM UMA FARMÁCIA COMUNITÁRIA DO SUL DO BRASIL
Authors: Paladini Sheyla Velasques , Hermes Maria Gabriela Borges , Alves-Zarpelon Stella Pegoraro , Frank Marcia de Azevedo , Silva Michael Ruberson Ribeiro da , Bueno Denise
Published: March 2024

Introdução: A asma é uma doença crônica com alta prevalência global, resultando em impactos econômicos e sociais substanciais para os pacientes e suas famílias. Esses impactos incluem gastos com serviços de saúde, medicamentos e perda de produtividade. Objetivo: descrever o perfil das despesas domiciliares, incluindo despesas diretas, indiretas e perda de renda de indivíduos com asma e de suas famílias de uma população circunscrita. Métodos: foi realizado um estudo transversal com aplicação do questionário de custos familiares com asma em indivíduos atendidos em uma farmácia comunitária pública no Sul do Brasil, referente ao de 2021. As despesas foram descritas por média e desvio padrão, apresentadas em reais (BRL) e dólares por paridade de poder de compra ($). Resultados: foram entrevistados 57 indivíduos com asma, dos quais 43 (75,4%) relataram ter gastos privados relacionados ao tratamento da asma, com gasto médio de $ 287,74 (R$495,19), o que correspondeu a 38% do salário mínimo em vigência. Além disso, foi identificado que 5 pessoas (8,7%) sofreram perdas em sua renda durante o ano de 2021. Foram identificadas perda de renda e despesas relacionadas à compra de medicamentos, incluindo medicamentos disponíveis pelo Sistema Único de Saúde, exames, consultas, transporte, alimentação, perda de emprego, entre outras. Conclusão: A maioria dos entrevistados tiveram gastos privados relacionados à asma, o que impacta diretamente na renda. Além dos gastos privados, houve também perda de renda em decorrência da Covid-19. Assim, verificou-se um importante impacto da asma nos custos familiares durante um período da pandemia por Covid-19.
Race-conscious professional teaching standards: Where do the states stand?
Authors: Carrier Danielle M.
Published: March 2024

Education policymakers have long sought to reduce persistent achievement disparities between students of color and White students with varying levels of success. Understanding the different needs and obstacles faced by students and families of color is important given educating all individuals for our future U.S. society is a priority. Educational policy should reflect the assumption that race matters and continues to impact educational opportunity. This paper argues that race-conscious professional teaching standards could extend the structural boundaries of teacher practice when working with racially, culturally, and linguistically diverse students. Using discourse analysis to analyze the deeper meanings of selected states’ teaching standards in different sociopolitical contexts, this paper describes the challenges and opportunities for infusing race-conscious perspectives in teaching standards. Implications for how states’ teaching policy language actively creates and builds teaching and learning environments are discussed.
Corporalidad, tecnología y deseo de salvación. Apuntes para una antropología de la vulnerabilidad
Authors: Montoya Camacho Jorge Martín , Giménez Amaya José Manuel
Published: March 2024

Los autores son miembros del grupo Ciencia, Razón y Fe (CRYF) de la Universidad de Navarra, y llevan trabajando en este grupo de forma interdisciplinar durante casi una década en temas de antropología y ética. Como dice Javier Bernácer en el prólogo de este libro, los profesores Montoya Camacho y Giménez Amaya han realizado una obra profunda, académica, y al mismo tiempo de fácil lectura. Los autores apoyándose en el filósofo anglosajón Alasdair MacIntyre señalan que «la fragilidad del ser humano es un elemento vertebral de su actuar ético». Una vez que se descubre de modo natural el sentido de la vulnerabilidad, tanto propia como ajena, el ser humano desarrolla una serie de virtudes, que, por definición, llevan a la culminación de una vida realizada: la felicidad como eudemonía. No es el camino más fácil, pero sí el más directo a una existencia llena de sentido. Santiago Collado dice en la presentación de este texto que «el recorrido de los dos autores en el ámbito filosófico es dilatado. Los dos llevan ya años investigando e impartiendo docencia en filosofía. En el CRYF he aprendido que la búsqueda de interdisciplinaridad entre personas y temas diferentes, requiere ser ejercida primero en cada una de esas personas. Esta idea, que hemos vivido de manera natural en el grupo desde su nacimiento gracias a la personalidad y el trabajo de Mariano Artigas, se materializa y concreta ahora en este escrito. Por esto aprovecho para agradecer a sus autores el trabajo realizado durante estos años en el CRYF, en el que José Manuel ha sido también director y Martín, más tarde, secretario. Les agradezco el esfuerzo que han realizado para culminar esta publicación. En ella veo la impronta que nuestro CRYF nos ha dado a todos los que de una manera u otra participamos en su actividad».