bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
review of the clinical management of current organophosphate poisoning treatments in humans
Authors: Kumar Kumpati Rajesh , Sinha Sukesh Narayan
Published: September 2022

Although they have several uses, organophosphates (OPs) are mostly employed in agriculture as insecticides. Every year, OPs are too accountable for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of individuals. Acute toxicity is caused by overstimulating the central and autonomic nervous systems with nicotinic and muscarinic receptors, as well as the neuromuscular junction, as a result of acetylcholinesterase (AChE) enzyme suppression. Based on the poisoning history, the odor of pesticides, the distinctive clinical symptoms, and decreased cholinesterase activity are used to make the diagnosis of OP poisoning. The keys to successful outcomes are appropriate supportive care, decontamination, intensive anti-muscarinic therapy, early seizure management, and the administration of antidotal oxime medication.
Inheritance, fusion, development thoughts of Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism and Vietnam culture tradition in the educational ideas of the Ly – Tran period
Authors: Dung Nguyen Phan Thi Thuy
Published: September 2022

Stemming from the history of Vietnam in the 11th-13th centuries - the characteristics and requirements of society, that is, the provisions of building a country and an independent, unified and strong Dai Viet; it is a requirement to unite the forces of the whole country against the brutal invasion of the Nguyen Mong invaders; On the basis of the spirit of humanistic values, with the inheritance, fusion, and development of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism, the thoughts of the Ly- Tran period have been formed and developed. The article focuses on the inheritance, fusion, and development of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism, and Vietnamese traditional ideology and culture in the educational thought of Ly- Tran period, which is reflected in the following aspects: research content, practice, and examinations in this period, as well as the ideas of the king and the Zen master - typical examples of moral education in this period.
Espectro clínico del síndrome de Fahr: reporte de dos casos
Authors: Pinzon Tovar Alejandro , Mendez Harold , Jimenez-Salazar Silvana , Oviedo Cali Marly , Buitrago-Toro Kenny
Published: September 2022

Introducción: las calcificaciones de los ganglios basales poseen un amplio espectro de presentación clínica. La etiología primaria asociada a manifestaciones neuro-psiquiátricas recibe el nombre de enfermedad de Fahr (EF), mientras que cuando son secundarias a distintos desórdenes metabólicos, infecciones, enfermedades autoinmunes o intoxicaciones se denomina síndrome de Fahr (SF).
Objetivo: presentar el abordaje diagnóstico y diferentes presentaciones clínicas del SF y EF.
Presentación de los casos: presentamos dos casos clínicos como parte de la ilustración del proceso diagnóstico. Una paciente de 38 años con epilepsia y déficit cognitivo a la cual se le documenta un SF secundario a hipoparatiroidismo y el caso de una paciente de 28 años sin antecedentes relevantes, paciente a la que, después de descartarle múltiples causas, se le considera un diagnóstico probable de EF.
Discusión y conclusión: en el enfoque diagnóstico de las calcificaciones de los ganglios basales se deben estudiar inicialmente etiologías secundarias, en caso de descartarlas se debe indagar una etiología primaria.
Historia de la Asociación Colombiana de Endocrinología, Diabetes y Metabolismo
Authors: Páez Amanda , Tovar Henry
Published: September 2022

Introducción: fundada en 1950, la Asociación Colombiana de Endocrinología, Diabetes y Metabolismo (ace) cumple 72 años y se posiciona como una de las asociaciones científicas más sólidas y exitosas de Colombia, la cual basa su actuar en el desarrollo de tres pilares estratégicos: liderazgo académico, empoderamiento de comunidades de pacientes y participación en decisiones de políticas públicas que involucren a la especialidad.
Contenidos: en este artículo se describe, de forma cronológica, todo el quehacer de la ace a lo largo de sus 72 años de funcionamiento, destacando sus modificaciones nominales y estatutarias, el desarrollo de sus eventos académicos ininterrumpidos, congresos, cursos nacionales e internacionales, simposios, seminarios y, recientemente, todas las estrategias digitales de difusión en educación médica, la creación de la revista Colombiana de Endocrinología, Diabetes y Metabolismo, la conformación de sus capítulos y el apoyo de sus miembros al desarrollo de los diferentes programas académicos de formación en la especialidad.
Conclusiones: la ace ha sido reconocida en la comunidad médica como una de las asociaciones con mejores logros y ha entrado en la modernidad fortaleciéndose en la modalidad virtual, con el objetivo de beneficiar al máximo a la comunidad de profesionales de la salud y especialmente a los pacientes.
Improving Quality of Tahfidz Islamic Boarding Schools through Agrosocial-Based Education Financing Management Practices
Authors: Kholifah Siti , Sutra Dewi Kumala , Nasution Riduan , Rifai Rifai , Murtafi’ah Nurul Hidayati
Published: September 2022

The purpose of this study was to describe the implementation of a Agro-Social-based education financing management program. In this research, the writer used a descriptive qualitative. The subjects in this study were the head of the cottage/manager, teachers, and administrative staff at Pondok Tahfidz Nurul Jannah, Jimmy Hantu village, Bogor. Observation, interview and documentation were used in collecting the data. Data analysis techniques are data collection, data reduction, data presentation and conclusions. This research used a validity test using the triangulation technique, which was carried out by comparing information from various sources in the study. This study's results indicate that this education's financing is based on a Agro-Social at Pondok Pesantren Tahfidz Nurul Jannah Jimmy Hantu Bogor. Financing management is carried out based on 3 methods: planning submitted to the Foundation, application at the Tahfidz Nurul Jannah Institution, supervision and reporting to the Jimmy Hantu Foundation.
Effective Management of Education Financing at Tahfidz Darul Hadith Palembang School Houses
Authors: Syafril Yan , Saputra Idil , Pranata Yuda , Hambali Hambali
Published: September 2022

This study aims to determine financing management, the existing inhibiting factors and the efforts made by Rumah Tahfidz Darul Hadits Palembang to overcome existing obstacles. This type of research is a descriptive qualitative research type with a literature study. This research was conducted at the Darul Hadith Tahfidz House in Palembang. The research subjects consisted of school principals, staff and education staff. This data collection technique was obtained from the results of observations and a summary of field notes. The analytical techniques used in this study are (1) data collection, (2) data reduction, (3) data presentation, (4) conclusion. From the results of the study, it was found that the formulation of the preparation of school financing, in this case the RAPBS, was carried out through an analysis of school operational needs, both related to the implementation of the teaching and learning process and other supports. b) The school's vision guides the preparation of the RAPBS, mission, goals and strategies, namely the principal, teachers (educators) and education staff. c) The financing of education in schools is sought by utilizing funds from local governments, foundations and the community. d) Strategies taken by schools to raise funding from the community through parents and businesses. e) The evaluation is carried out by the school regularly, every semester and academic year. f) All school personnel must provide comments and input on every program implementation and use of the school budget. g) Forms of accountability for the use of the budget carried out by the school include compiling the program's final report, which is given to all school members and their stakeholders. h) Report on the use of financing that is oriented towards accountability and transparency.
A pandemia e a educação infantil: desafios, saúde mental de educadores e caminhos percorridos
Authors: Silva Alleanderson Brito da , Monte Washington Sales do
Published: September 2022

O objetivo central deste artigo é apresentar uma reflexão sobre os desafios para a educação infantil brasileira, fazendo uma relação entre a importância do afeto, do olhar e das interações sociais para o desenvolvimento educacional das crianças e o ensino remoto emergencial - ERE, adotado devido à pandemia da Covid-19. Neste trabalho foi utilizada como estratégia metodológica a revisão integrativa de literatura, com a finalidade de obter os dados que fundamentaram a construção desta escrita. Como resultado alcançado, destaca-se a apresentação de um panorama geral sobre os desafios psicológicos provocados pela pandemia da Covid-19 e a sua relação com a educação infantil brasileira; discussão sobre a negação das interações sociais presenciais; os problemas ocasionados por isso à saúde mental dos educadores; bem como a demonstração de alguns caminhos percorridos por professores, os quais apontaram suas experiências e possibilidades.
A Singular Rapture
Authors: Cavalletti Andrea
Published: September 2022

The dizzying atmosphere in which death and life are confused envelops both Hitchcock’s movie and its literary sources (the novels of Boileau-Narcejac and Georges Rodenbach). The vertiginous relationship between subjectivity, death, and the mask is at the center of this chapter. Meanwhile, a further approximation to the definition of technique is reached.
Introduction: Totality Inside Out
Authors: Floyd Kevin , Bellamy Brent Ryan , Brouillette Sarah , Chandra Sarika , Chen Chris , Phillis Jen Hedler
Published: September 2022

The introduction situates the collection in the Marxian tradition, framing totality thinking as an aspiration that calls on theorists to understand the social whole as it is assembled by capitalism. This means doing away with the false division between socioeconomic critique and what is known as identity politics, instead understanding political economy and subject formation, economics and identity, accumulation and climate catastrophe as co-constituting phenomena. Grounded equally in the work of György Lukács and the members of the Combahee River Collective, the introduction argues that politics focused on point-of-production anticapitalism and those centered on races, genders, and sexualities that have long been excluded, exploited, and expropriated are not opposed. Rather, the former often lapse into identity politics while the latter strive toward totality. The wager of the introduction and, indeed, the collection as a whole is that we must understand both if we are serious about creating a world in which all can thrive.
Tripartheid: How Global White Supremacy Triumphs through Neoliberalism
Authors: Scarritt Arthur
Published: September 2022

In a provocative essay, Arthur Scarritt offers a new perspective on the historical dialectic between racialization and the development of capitalism. Moving between the United States and Peru and synthesizing the history of colonization, industrialization, and neoliberalization in each nation, he argues that white supremacy is a global phenomenon enacted by rentiers in order to maintain their class status. This essay enlarges the scope of traditional Marxist theories of racialization, which tend to understand it in terms of economic exploitation only. Instead, Scarritt argues that these elites have created and maintained, despite a brief period of pushback in the mid-twentieth century, an irrational system driven not by economic motives but by a desire to keep the ruling class in power. Crucially, the maintenance of this system depends on a shifting balance of inclusion and exclusion that pits identity groups against each other to claim the crumbs that fall from the elites’ overflowing tables.
Rök and Ynglingatal
Authors: Heslop Kate
Published: September 2022

This short prelude to Part 1 introduces the Rök runestone, describing its material form, location, and inscription. It outlines the metrical and formal characteristics of the kviðuháttr meter and describes the corpus of poetry in kviðuháttr, with particular emphasis on Þjóðólfr ór Hvini’s Ynglingatal. It shows the utility of theories of cultural and social memory in approaching these works and investigates the role of sites such as graves and ruins in commemorative practices.
Techno-Magism, Coleridge’s Mariner , and the Sentence Image
Authors: Wang Orrin N. C.
Published: September 2022

One way to understand techno-magism, a term intimately connected to Romanticism, is as a technology that acknowledges the perceptual and existential bar between what works and how it works. This becomes a particularly intense matter for the question of cause and effect, or more radically, how something might come out of nothing. One approach to this question would be to think it through the dialectic, something Jacques Rancière’s idea of the sentence image speaks to when confronted with the artistic problem of montage. However, a reading the gloss of Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner as an app suggests a more catachrestic techno-magism of meaning and action, which now cannot be realized as the consequence of the dialectical interplay between cause and effect. Of the same philosophical genealogies underwriting ideas of film montage, the poetic montage in Coleridge’s speaks to a more volatile notion of something coming from nothing, where the nothing of environmental precariousness—the Mariner’s ocean—is not so simply subsumed into the positivity of meaning or identity.
Fairies, Allegory, and the Spiritualists
Authors: Katz Wendy Jean
Published: September 2022

Walcutt and fellow Sketch Club members like Jacob Dallas produced “fantastic” art, illustrations of supernatural or magical themes, whether elaborate allegories with demons and angels or fairies and nature spirits. Behind these lay a transcendentalist or idealist belief in the spirit, both the human spirit, which transcended matter, and the “spirit of the age.” For humanitarian and Protestant reformers like Parke Godwin, John Cole Hagen, Martin Tupper, and Carlos D. Stuart, that spirit was progress, the improvement of the human condition. Though most of the spiritualists, utopian socialists, musicians, and poets in Walcutt’s circle were liberals and internationalists, who disliked all fanaticism, they did share with nativists a belief in ethnic or cultural essentialism that helped define a national folk culture.
Introduction
Authors: Prior David
Published: September 2022

This introduction addresses the scholarship on two subjects that historians rarely treat together: America’s Reconstruction and the rise of U.S. geopolitical power. It identifies reasons why historians should explore their connections between these subjects, and in particular how the twin pivots of Union victory in the U.S. Civil War and abolition shaped American overseas power at century’s end. The latter includes both the creation of a formal overseas empire through the occupation of Spanish colonies and the United States’ growth as a regional hegemon. The introduction points to emerging linkages in the historiography, including through diplomatic history’s engagement with social and cultural history, Reconstruction scholarship’s turn toward transnational history, and the rise of new historical syntheses. It also examines W. E. B. Du Bois’s 1935 volume, Black Reconstruction in America, as a missed opportunity for historians to explore the connections between Reconstruction and empire.
The Last Filibuster
Authors: Fleche Andre M.
Published: September 2022

This chapter examines transnational connections between the Ten Years’ War in Cuba, the American Civil War, and the politics of Reconstruction in the United States. It considers such topics as the abolition of slavery, the transition to free labor, race relations, and insurgent military strategy in both Cuba and the United States. It pays special attention to the participation in the Cuban insurrection of former-Confederate general Thomas Jordan and the ex-Union officer and diplomat Federico Fernández Cavada. Both men rose to hold the position of general-in-chief of Cuba’s insurgent armies, but the two Americans held very different views on emancipation, the arming of non-white soldiers, the employment of guerrilla tactics, the treatment of loyalist property, and the future of American empire.
Domestic Stability and Imperial Continuities
Authors: French Gregg
Published: September 2022

This chapter explores how influential figures in the United States conceptualized race and empire during the Reconstruction Era. This is done through an examination of the debates surrounding President Ulysses S. Grant’s attempts to annex the Dominican Republic and the administration’s stance on the Ten Years’ War in Cuba. More specifically, the work asserts that Grant’s Secretary of State, Hamilton Fish, drew on his personal relationships with the Spanish community, as well as the pre-existing bonds that existed between the United States and Spain, as he attempted to maintain domestic stability at home and imperial continuities abroad. By taking this approach, the chapter challenges the prevalence of the Black Legend narrative and intertwines beliefs surrounding Reconstruction and race with American expansion into the Caribbean Basin.
“Their very sectionalism makes them cultivate that wider and broader patriotism”
Authors: Brettle Adrian
Published: September 2022

The wartime experience of pursuing ambitious plans for the Confederacy left its imprint on its surviving politicians in Virginia during Reconstruction. Continuity made sense to these individuals as Confederate planners, diplomats, and negotiators with the Union had often assumed that their schemes of commercial and territorial expansion, construction of internal improvements, and reductions in tariffs toward a future of Free Trade required the acquiescence, even the support, of the United States. Then emancipation and the process of Reconstruction left former Confederates eager to reassume, once more in the Democratic Party, the position of leadership they had earlier held in the state, pushing aside Whiggish and unionist intermediaries. Meanwhile frustration with federal government policy grew with what Virginian Democrats construed to be a weak foreign policy with its apparent inattention both toward southward territorial growth and pursuit of access to markets abroad. They blamed postwar economic hardships in the state on Republican Party policies, specifically protectionist economics and the support of various interstate commercial projects and internal improvements, which they believed by-passed the South. By the 1870s, hard times across the nation and electoral success suggested to Virginian Democrats that the chance to implement their Confederate plans had finally arrived.
Interrogating the Death Drive
Authors: Trumbull Robert
Published: September 2022

Chapter 2 examines how the logic of life as an economy of death elaborated in Derrida’s early work is fleshed out in his subsequent dealings with Freud in the ten or so years following 1967–68, most notably in the extended treatment of Freud in “To Speculate—On ‘Freud’” (in The Post Card). It includes a detailed study of Derrida’s treatment of Freud’s theory of the life and death drives offered in Beyond the Pleasure Principle. In order to elucidate “To Speculate,” the chapter situates its core arguments, initially sketched in the final four sessions of Derrida’s 1975–76 Seminar on La vie la mort, within the overall context of the seminar and in relation to its main concerns, particularly its discussion of Nietzsche and Heidegger. Ultimately, the chapter demonstrates how Derrida rearticulates the notion of the death drive via a thinking of “stricture” or binding, a move that proves crucial to the deconstructive thought of life death, and in turn survival, understood as a radical thinking of finitude and mortality.
Filipinx American Critique: An Introduction
Authors: Bonus Rick , Tiongson Antonio T.
Published: September 2022

What is Filipinx American studies? What does it mean to think, write, speak about, and act upon it? How is it configured? What are its critical interventions? Fundamentally, what does it aim to transform? The thirty-four essays in this volume collectively engage these questions from the purviews of each of our contributors’ particular disciplines, subjects of interest, and relevant experiences to perform a kind of accounting or a mode of chronicling a field of inquiry—an interdiscipline—that they participate in. Taken as a whole, this anthology is an aggregate expression of what we conceive Filipinx American studies is about, a kind of intellectual tapestry that defines the field’s collective engagement with its histories, contemporary realities, and futures—a reckoning, a reclamation, and a transformation. So, through such a set of engagements, we collectively propose that while Filipinx American studies is indeed a product of a historical struggle to mark as well as circumscribe its subjects’ relationships to their colonial and imperial past, it is also a continuing project to align its intellectual knowledge production with the pursuit of social transformation within and beyond its boundaries.
Filipinx Labor and the Contradictions of US Empire
Authors: Diaz Josen Masangkay
Published: September 2022

Beginning with key points taken from Carlos Bulosan’s America is in the Heart, this essay argues that even though it has already been claimed that the study of labor within Filipinx American studies cannot be fully accounted for without its complex linkages with empire, it has been equally imperative in the field to study labor from the particular lenses of intertwined geopolitical economies, overlapping boundaries of national space, and alternative forms of social belonging.
Filipinx American College Student Identities: A Critique of Models
Authors: Deleon Reuben B.
Published: September 2022

Peering into the lives of Filipinx American college students to counter argue the erroneous imagination of identities as something that is simplistically developed through stages, this chapter proposes an alternative way to regard identities as something that is much more fluid and collectively experienced. This essay’s intervention in education is fundamentally attuned with the pursuit of self-determination, broadly and justly defined.
Considerations from the US-Occupied Pacific
Authors: Compoc Kim
Published: September 2022

This essay looks into the interstices of Filipinx experience in Hawai‘i to calculate how struggles against US imperial domination in the Pacific and Asia expose the limits of civil rights discourses of multicultural democracy that have usually guided mainland justice movements. It clarifies how such differences matter critically in articulating visions of justice that affirm rather than extinguish struggles for indigenous self-determination.
Hypervisible (In)visibility: Black Amerasians
Authors: Allen Angelica J.
Published: September 2022

Based on ethnographic research among Black Amerasians, this essay examines how the experiences of black Amerasians are obscured in normative accounts of Filipinx American history and culture. It contrasts the invisibility of black Amerasians in discourses pertaining to the Filipinx American experience with their hypervisibility in the Philippines, which speaks to the vexed status of blackness in Filipinx American studies and the need for sustained and critical dialogues between Filipinx American studies and black studies.
Repertoires on Other Stages
Authors: Gonzalves Theodore S.
Published: September 2022

This essay calls for an expansive understanding of repertoire, one that does not confine it to the realm of the performing arts. It extends the usual understanding of repertoire to encompass scholarship, what is termed here as “scholarly repertoires,” that gesture toward relational thinking and comparative analyses.
Aye Nako! The Frustrations of Filipinx American Illegibility
Authors: Bock Alana J.
Published: September 2022

This essay is centered on an investigation of Filipinx bodies, advancing the notion of illegibility to account for Filipinx bodies and performances rendered unknowable within frameworks of (in)visibility and recognition. It closely examines the performance of a punk band fronted by a Filipinx, black, and trans artist in order to demonstrate the ways that Filipinx performativity exceeds Filipinx American studies and registers with other fields such as Black studies.
Who Cares? Ability and the Elderly Question in Filipinx American Studies
Authors: Nadurata Edward
Published: September 2022

This essay focuses on a particular body—the figure of the elderly Filipinx migrant—in order to expose the valorization of able-bodied subjects in Filipinx American studies. It makes a compelling case for the need to crip Filipinx American studies, troubling considerations of labor that do not engage with (dis)ability and age because of the way these considerations leave in place ableist and normative assumptions that have historically structured the field.
Identity, Family, and Cultural Heritage
Authors: Arapoglou Eleftheria
Published: September 2022

Annie Liontas’s Let Me Explain You and Paola Corso’s Catina’s Haircut: A Novel in Stories share a dialogic narrative model of identity constitution: Let Me Explain You employs narrative polymorphy in the form of narrative voices that speak of themselves both in first- and third-person, while Catina’s Haircut morphs into a novel out of eight (self-contained yet interdependent) stories. The narrative polymorphy of the two novels evidences a dynamic and relational sense of selfhood that is performed in and through their multilayered narrative structure. This bears witness to complex family patterns and practices of relating to collective memory and cultural heritage in the Greek American and Italian American communities. Let Me Explain You and Catina’s Haircut shed light on the forces of family history and cultural identity as they operate on the ethnic characters’ identity formation across Greek American and Italian American families.
American(ish) Rebels
Authors: Markodimitrakis Michail C.
Published: September 2022

In this chapter, I discuss My Big Fat Greek Wedding and Moonstruck as examples of contemporary films that foreground complexities of identity experienced by immigrants and ethnic Americans as they strive to find their place in American society. The comparison of the two films allows for a close reading of ethnic Americans’ expectations to participate fully in modern-day American society, and the resulting departure from ethnic cultures and practices. While some of the practices are often viewed as antiquated, the main characters’ crises echo internal conflicts of many ethnic communities as they witnessed a transformation of model citizenship and the creation of new paths toward the American Dream. A careful analysis of two films from different eras can reveal how changes in American society in the 20th and early 21st century were expressed externally, as seen through the characters’ persistent attempts to accumulate financial and social capital.
Concrete Translation
Authors: Teo Tze-Yin
Published: September 2022

Born in 1951 in Korea and migrating to the U.S. at the age of 13, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha was an avant-garde Berkeley-educated transmedial performance artist who left behind a small corpus after her death in 1982. Critics have read her epic Dictée (1982) as a rebuke to any possibility of translational equivalence, most often citing its scene of colonial pedagogy in the titular French dictation exercise requiring translation from French to English. Because translation is typically understood in a linguistic and hermeneutic register, critics have not connected Cha’s critiques of translation to her visual artwork outside of Dictée. However, Cha’s earliest meditations on translation were intended for a visual medium, providing striking counterpoints to Dictée. The chapter argues that Cha extended the principles of concrete poetry toward an anti-cognitive and embodied theory of translation. It focuses on Cha’s earlier work, most notably an unfinished documentary film about Korea titled White Dust from Mongolia, and short poems from Temps Mort. The final section returns to Dictée to consider a pseudo-ideographic translation in which visual arrangements quietly but actively restrict the recognition of meaning and reading for translation.
Conclusion
Authors: Teo Tze-Yin
Published: September 2022

The conclusion generalizes the argument for a poetic equivalence made throughout the book, positioning the broader argument within existing theoretical debates in translation studies and comparative literature, and with an especial focus on postcolonial critiques of equivalence and the recent turn to untranslatability. It is also especially attentive to the deconstructive genealogy of recent translation theory, arguing for displacing its convention of radical alterity for a no less radical equivalence. The conclusion also undertakes a meta-cognitive reflection for the theoretical methods and domains that produced the book itself, recasting the argument as an open two-fold heuristic: (i) contesting the place of equivalence in exchange-value, and (ii) grounding equivalence in the historically active aporia of untranslatability.
Vertex-Distinguishing Edge Colorings Of Some Complete Multipartite Graphs
Authors: Petrosyan Petros , Petrosyan Tigran
Published: September 2022

In graph theory, an edge coloring of a graph is a coloring of the edges, meaning
an assignment of colors to edges. Edge coloring can be described as function
, where is the set of graph edges and is the set of natural numbers. Graph
coloring has been studied as an algorithmic problem since the early 1970s. The main
objective is to minimize the number of colors while coloring a graph. The smallest number
of colors required to color a graph with specified conditions is called chromatic number
of that graph and is denoted by . By a result of Holyer [1], the determination of the
chromatic index is an hard optimization problem. The NP-hardness give rise to the
necessity of using heuristic algorithms. In particular, we are interested in upper bounds for
the chromatic index that can be efficiently realized by a coloring algorithm.
Flexible Inflation Targeting: Concepts and application in India
Authors: Goyal Ashima
Published: September 2022

The paper analyses issues important in adapting flexible inflation targeting (FIT) to emerging markets. This sets the context in which the evolution of FIT in India and its performance record are analysed. The dominance of supply shocks implies flexibility and fiscal-monetary coordination are necessary. Coordination can reduce the output sacrifice of disinflation, even as it aids fiscal consolidation. Communication has a major role in guiding expectations towards the inflation target. Strict implementation of inflation targeting imposed a large output sacrifice in the early years, but reversal to flexible implementation, in line with the original agreement, succeeded in keeping inflation largely within announced tolerance bands with a good growth recovery. Forecasting has improved and errors in both directions indicate the absence of bias. While there were supportive events in the initial years, such as the 2014 crash in oil prices and softening of food price inflation, the regime has also survived adverse periods of pandemic related supply-chain snarls and rising oil prices. A long period of disinflation and output sacrifice need not be necessary to anchor inflation expectations when there is complementary supply-side action. Since policy has to respond if inflation persistently exceeds the tolerance band, this also contributes to anchoring inflation expectations.
Security threats in cyberspace
Authors: Kopczewski Marian , Ciekanowski Zbigniew , Nowicka Julia , Bakalarczyk-Burakowska Katarzyna
Published: September 2022

The article is an attempt to highlight the main types of security threats in cyberspace. As literature provides a multitude of different approaches, standards, methodologies, and proposals for the classification of threats, the article focuses on threats to privacy and national ICT security.
Cyberspace is subject to increasingly sophisticated and targeted threats, while our growing reliance on cyberspace exposes our privacy to risks, giving rise to new and significant security gaps. Due to its specific characteristics, it generates serious threats to individuals as well as to national and international security. Depending on the research perspective we adopt, these threats are variable, multidimensional, and multifaceted in nature. Therefore, they require systematic analysis and response.
PENGARUH KUALITAS PELAYANAN TERHADAP KEPUASAN KONSUMEN MOTOR HONDA PADA PT. DAYA ANUGRAH MANDIRI PAREPARE
Authors: Natsir Ulfa , D’ornay Anastasia
Published: September 2022

Penelitian ini dilakukan dengan tujuan yaitu (1) Untuk mengetahui kualitas pelayanan berpengaruh secara parsial terhadap kepuasan konsumen motor Honda pada PT. Daya Anugrah Mandiri Parepare. (2). Untuk mengetahui pelayanan berpengaruh secara simultan terhadap kepuasan konsumen motor Honda pada PT. Daya Anugrah Mandiri Parepare. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa (1) Bukti fisik (X1) Hasil pengujian menunjukkan nilai t = (-0,221) dengan nilai signifikansi sebesar 0,826 > 0,05. (2). Kehandalan (X2) Hasil pengujian menunjukkan nilai t = (-0,530) dengan nilai signifikansi sebesar 0,598 > 0,05. (3). Daya Tanggap (X3) Hasil pengujian menunjukkan nilai t = 5,974 dengan nilai signifikansi sebesar 0,000 > 0,05. (4). Jaminan (X4) Hasil pengujian menunjukkan nilai t = 0,223 dengan nilai signifikansi sebesar 0,824 > 0,05. (5). Empati (X5) Hasil pengujian menunjukkan nilai t = 0,675 dengan nilai signifikansi sebesar 0,502 > 0,05. (6). bukti fisik, kehandalan, Daya Tanggap, jaminan  dan empati berpengaruh positif dan signifikan (0,000<0,05) secara simultan terhadap terhadap kepuasan konsumen. Hasil analisis nilai R Square (R2) tersebut adalah 0,594 atau sebesar 59,4 % sedangkan sisanya sebesar 41,6 % dijelaskan oleh faktor-faktor lain yang tidak dimasukkan dalam model penelitian ini.
Lifting Eyes and Awakening Hearts: Augustine and the Essential Work of Preaching to Stir and Stimulate Joy
Authors: Ku Elliot
Published: September 2022

The current pandemic period has raised the question of which vocations constitute as “essential work”. While there are many important and critical ones, the following essay argues that pastors have the unique and essential privilege of preaching to stir and stimulate Christian joy. Firstly, I propose this by examining Augustine’s matter of preaching - specifically, his theology of joy in his sermon on Psalm 95, with reference to his understanding of the bifurcation of joy and his proposed four reasons for joy. Secondly, I examine Augustine’s manner of preaching, which understood rightly, inspires preachers today to engage in the work of lifting eyes and awakening hearts through the work of preaching.
Morphological characterization of the rice genotypes at early growth stages and determination of better parent heterosis for salinity tolerance traits under NaCl stress
Authors: Ayoub Nadia
Published: September 2022

Soil salinity is a serious problem for agricultural productivity throughout the world. The Crops grown on saline soils suffer from ions toxicities, nutritional disorders, osmotic stress, and ultimately leads to the reduced yield. Rice is an essential food crop that is consumed by more than half of the world population but rice is at risk of salt stress due to increasing salinity. Understanding the causes and related concerns of salinity on rice yield and growth will improve our ability to compensate for its adverse effects through short or long-term adaptation approaches. In the following study, two experiments were performed. The genotypes were screened at germination and seedling stages in the first experiment to select 5 NaCl responsive genotypes including 2 NaCl tolerant, 2 moderately NaCl tolerant, and 1 NaCl susceptible. These genotypes were selected based on the gain in radical length (RaL), plumule length (PlL), radical fresh weight (RaFW), plumule fresh weight (PlFW), radical dry weight (RaDW),  plumule dry weight (PlDW), at germination stage and, at seedling stage root length (RL), dry root weight (DRW), fresh root weight (FRW), shoot length (SL), fresh shoot weight (FSW) and dry shoot weight (DSW), were determined from growing seedlings. In the second experiment, the selected genotypes were hybridized with two modern cultivars following the line into tester mating design. The F1 hybrids were evaluated based on the above-mentioned salinity tolerance traits at the germination and seedling stages. The obtained data were used to determine the better parent heterosis for the salinity tolerance traits.
AN IOT BASED ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROLLED POULTRY FARM WITH CLOUD STORAGE
Authors: Mumtaz Imran
Published: September 2022

Poultry one of the leading and vibrant agricultural segment in Pakistan poultry production, with a total contribution of 31% is one of the most important part of our economy. In the latest survey, Gross investment in this sector currently exceeds Rs.700.00 billion (Pakistan Economic Survey, 2016). The current per capita supply of protein from animal sources like beef in Pakistan, The average quantities of mutton, poultry and fish are 11grams a day. The focus of the daily dietary protein supply of the animal source is extremely less then recommended at W.H.O.26-gram (World Health Organization standards). The inner ecosystem of poultry sheds are polluted by ammonia from droppings in extensive grill sheds, the enormous size of the bird flock may otherwise cause inadequate ventilation of birds, this situation a single wave of heat may be harms in this situation, in a short period, high amount of chicken will be die. The Pakistan poultry association (PPA) reported a loss of several million rupees per year from this sector due to increased production costs simply because environmental control was not proper management. The current work is focus on the best developing a system that can monitor and control the poultry farm shed. In this research, focus on low cost indigenous intelligent solution to the efficient control of the medium-sized poultry farms will be provided for this project. The middle-class poultry farm can easily implement this system.
SENSORY VARIATION ANALYSIS IN ICE CREAM MADE BY PALMYRA (BORASSUS FLABELLIFER) PULP WITH JAGGERY AND SELECTED SPICES
Authors: Jayasinghe Madhura , Ratnasingam Priyatharsini
Published: September 2022

Ice cream is a wholesome, nutritious frozen dairy product. Consumer acceptance of ice cream depends largely on its structure, textural quality, resistance to melting, nutritional composition and flavour. Incorporation of fruits and spices is one of the choices to increase consumer acceptance. The study was focused to develop a nutritional and flavour rich palmyra pulp ice cream with selected spices and jaggery. Eight sensory evaluation tests were carried out with 30 semi-trained panellist using 5 point hedonic scales. Initial sensory evaluation test results reveals pulp which is less bitter and added in overrun combination was selected for both natural and commercial pulp. Then 25% of pulp was selected for both type of pulp. By using the combination which is selected in previous sensory evaluation natural pulp ice cream and commercial pulp ice cream were developed. From that; natural pulp ice cream was preferred as best. Then for the selected ice cream, 125 ppm level of ginger and cinnamon oleoresins incorporated products were selected as best outputs. When comparing cinnamon natural pulp ice cream and ginger natural pulp ice cream, the first one was preferred because of bitterness masking property of ginger. At the end of sensory evaluations, jaggery added ginger flavoured natural palmyra ice cream was developed without adding artificial colouring and preservatives.
BIOSENSORS FOR THE ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION DETECTION AND MONITORING
Authors: Ahsan Muhammad
Published: September 2022

The discharge of dangerous contaminants like pesticides, chemicals and heavy metals into the natural ecosystem is a worldwide issue. Therefore, it is important to identify fast-moving and recyclable contaminants. Biosensors are highly sensitive devices for detecting environmental pollution. Various biosensor types have been developed to detect environmental contamination. Biosensor is the most recent breakthrough in environmental pollution detection and monitoring. Biosensors are widely used in the detection of pesticides, heavy metals, surfactants, biological oxygen demand, phenolic compounds, pharmaceutical compounds, and pathogenic organisms. This paper mainly focuses on the principle, working, characteristics, and uses of biosensors, which are constructed for the detection of pollution.
Mapping of Land Use Changes in Urban Catchments. A Case of Msimbazi Catchment in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
Authors: Mkilima Timoth
Published: September 2022

Rapid urbanization activities may put significant pressure on catchments around the globe as they are also associated with the change in land use/land cover. This study used GIS-based techniques to investigate the land use/land cover changes in the Msimbazi river catchment in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The Landsat images of the selected study years (1998, 2009, and 2018) were processed in ArcGIS software. The land use classes were grouped into five groups namely, water bodies, forests, developed high intensity, developed medium intensity, and developed low intensity. This study observed significant changes in land use/land cover in the Msimbazi catchment from 1998 to 2018, with an estimated 40.54% decrease in developed low-intensity areas, as well as a 15.95% increase in developed high-intensity areas defined with 80% to 100% impervious cover. The extent of development and impervious surface cover were observed to be increasing towards the downstream approaching the Indian Ocean coast. The results from this study reflect the reality of the catchment where downstream is characterized with more development activities than the upstream of the catchment. The results derived from this study can be useful in the planning and implementation of catchment management practices.
The Role of Aquaculture in the Problem of Exotic Species
Authors: McCallum Malcolm L.
Published: September 2022

This chapter discusses the intended and unintended consequences of aquaculture of native and exotic species. Aquaculture is one form of animal production that is widely applied for commercial and conservation needs. From an aquatic perspective, the exotic organisms most widely known are game fish. For decades, state and federal aquaculture facilities produced game fish for introduction into surface waters in part to generate income from recreational fishing. These introductions created many problems for native fishes, particularly in the western watersheds where niches were largely occupied by different life stages of single organisms. Less is known about these impacts on herpetofauna. Perhaps one of the more controversial elements of herpetofauna aquaculture is the pet industry. However, the contribution of aquaculture is not all bad. Aquaculture has developed methods for the large-scale production of animals that can be adopted, adapted, and implemented when captive propagation is the last resort. Indeed, the aquaculture industry has contributed to introductions of amphibians and reptiles around the world.
Frogs and Toads (Anura)
Authors: Meshaka Walter E. , Collins Suzanne L. , Bury R. Bruce , McCallum Malcolm L.
Published: September 2022

This chapter focuses on frogs and toads. It begins with the cane toad before looking at poison dart frogs, particularly the green-and-black poison dart frog. The arrival of the cane toad to the United States was through intentional introduction to Hawaii in the 1930s with the failed expectation that these terrestrial and mostly nocturnal animals would control sugarcane beetles. The cane toad is highly adaptable around humans and can thrive in agricultural fields, golf courses, residential developments, and along canals, among other disturbed habitats. The chapter then considers rainfrogs, including the coqui, the Rio Grande chirping frog, and the Cuban flat-headed frog, also known as greenhouse frog. It also studies treefrogs, clawed frogs, and true frogs.
Observations from a Reptile Sanctuary in South-Central Pennsylvania
Authors: Rothacker Jesse
Published: September 2022

This chapter explores the trends and concerns relating to ownership of exotic reptiles from the standpoint of a rescue operation in south-central Pennsylvania, one of many such outfits in the United States that play an important role in reducing and preventing the release of non-native animals by offering to provide a refuge for them as an alternative. A big part of the work of the Forgotten Friend Reptile Sanctuary is finding new homes for unwanted amphibians and reptiles from the pet trade. Although there are hundreds of exotic herp species in the pet trade, there are fewer than a dozen species that fill up rescues. A few factors seem to be associated with certain species being discarded much more so than other species. Ultimately, the main reasons why specific reptiles are given up to the rescue are because they are inexpensive to bring home, expensive to keep, grow quickly to undesirable sizes, and they may live several times longer than other pets.
Counting Herps
Authors: Meshaka Walter E.
Published: September 2022

This chapter studies the value of standardized counts of animals and applies that approach to an urban herpetofauna dominated by exotic species. Herp surveys conducted by riding roads, walking transects or routes, or counting from a boat with a question or two in mind can provide potentially very useful information regarding how these species live and how they respond to changes in their environment. In the early 2000s, a residential development was constructed in Miramar, Florida. Most of the herp species inhabiting the development were exotic and generally numerous. The opposite applied to native species. The development was not constructed on previously intact habitat; rather, it was constructed on habitat that had been disturbed for a long time. Unlike construction of old, this residential community represented what is typical now, whereby it was constructed with exotic species already there and facing diminished native predators and competitors. The difference was apparent even in some of the exotic species.
Crocodilians (Crocodylia)
Authors: Meshaka Walter E. , Collins Suzanne L. , Bury R. Bruce , McCallum Malcolm L.
Published: September 2022

This chapter focuses on crocodilians, including alligators and caimans. The Spectacled Caiman is a medium-sized alligatorid species. Although very wary by nature, it can nonetheless be a dangerous animal under the wrong circumstances. Populations of the Spectacled Caiman in the United States were derived from the pet trade. This species is found in portions of eastern central and southern mainland Florida. In response to legal protection of the American alligator, interest soared in the Spectacled Caiman for hides and pets. The Homestead Air Reserve Base and surrounding canals and rock pits have long been secure areas for this species. To date, it has not colonized the Everglades.
Introduction
Authors: Guarino Lindsay , Jones Carlos R. A. , Oliver Wendy
Published: September 2022

The Introduction proposes that the history of jazz dance, and Black dance in general, is closely tied to the history of racism in the United States. The systematic erasure of Black contributions in dance and other art forms is symptomatic of White supremacy and a Eurocentric perspective of arts and culture. Just as colleges and universities are now discussing a path towards reparations, the dance community needs to follow suit and continue to unearth the injustices of misappropriation within the field. The chapter describes, analyzes, affirms, and celebrates the Africanist aesthetic within jazz dance.