bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Key predictors of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in Malaysia: An integrated framework
Authors: Ng Jason Wei Jian , Vaithilingam Santha , Nair Mahendhiran , Hwang Li-Ann , Musa Kamarul Imran
Published: May 2022

Background

As the vaccination drive against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Malaysia progresses rapidly, the main challenge will gradually shift from procuring and distributing vaccines to ensuring the broadest possible acceptance among all population segments. Therefore, this study used the integrated framework of the health belief model (HBM) and the theory of reasoned action (TRA) to investigate the predictors of intention to receive COVID-19 vaccines in Malaysia.

Methodology

A market research company in Malaysia was engaged to collect data during June 11–20, 2021 using self-administered questionnaires via its online panel, ensuring a nationwide random sample of 804 respondents. A logistic regression was subsequently estimated to determine the significant predictors of vaccination intention.

Results

The predictors that significantly affect COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in Malaysia are age, susceptibility, religious beliefs, attitude, subjective norms, and trust in the vaccine. In particular, those who are more inclined to get vaccinated are older individuals, have a higher perceived risk of infection and social pressure to get vaccinated, have a positive attitude, and have high levels of trust in the vaccine. Individuals’ who perceive that their religious beliefs are against vaccination are more likely to exhibit uncertainty toward it.

Conclusion

This study showed that although a large proportion of respondents indicated that they were willing to be vaccinated against COVID-19, there are concerns about religious barriers and trust in the vaccine that the relevant stakeholders should address. Campaigns should also focus on shaping the nation’s attitude toward COVID-19 vaccines, in parallel with encouraging people to use their social influence in helping those in their close circle who are unsure of vaccination to cross the line. These measures will prove to be pertinent as the nation begins to administer booster vaccines to tackle the waning effects of COVID-19 vaccines.
VlsE, the nexus for antigenic variation of the Lyme disease spirochete, also mediates early bacterial attachment to the host microvasculature under shear force
Authors: Tan Xi , Lin Yi-Pin , Pereira Michael J. , Castellanos Mildred , Hahn Beth L. , Anderson Phillip , Coburn Jenifer , Leong John M. , Chaconas George
Published: May 2022

Hematogenous dissemination is a critical step in the evolution of local infection to systemic disease. The Lyme disease (LD) spirochete, which efficiently disseminates to multiple tissues, has provided a model for this process, in particular for the key early event of pathogen adhesion to the host vasculature. This occurs under shear force mediated by interactions between bacterial adhesins and mammalian cell-surface proteins or extracellular matrix (ECM). Using real-time intravital imaging of the Lyme spirochete in living mice, we previously identified BBK32 as the first LD spirochetal adhesin demonstrated to mediate early vascular adhesion in a living mouse; however, deletion of bbk32 resulted in loss of only about half of the early interactions, suggesting the existence of at least one other adhesin (adhesin-X) that promotes early vascular interactions. VlsE, a surface lipoprotein, was identified long ago by its capacity to undergo rapid antigenic variation, is upregulated in the mammalian host and required for persistent infection in immunocompetent mice. In immunodeficient mice, VlsE shares functional overlap with OspC, a multi-functional protein that displays dermatan sulfate-binding activity and is required for joint invasion and colonization. In this research, using biochemical and genetic approaches as well as intravital imaging, we have identified VlsE as adhesin-X; it is a dermatan sulfate (DS) adhesin that efficiently promotes transient adhesion to the microvasculature under shear force via its DS binding pocket. Intravenous inoculation of mice with a low-passage infectious B. burgdorferi strain lacking both bbk32 and vlsE almost completely eliminated transient microvascular interactions. Comparative analysis of binding parameters of VlsE, BBK32 and OspC provides a possible explanation why these three DS adhesins display different functionality in terms of their ability to promote early microvascular interactions.
Transplanted neuroectodermal and induced pluripotent stem cells
improve the outcome of spinal cord contusion injury
Authors: Bellák Tamás
Published: May 2022

A gerincvelő kontúziós sérülése a szürke- és fehérállomány
nagymértékű károsodását okozza, mely jelentős szenzoros és motoros
funkciókieséssel társul. Kísérleteinkben arra a kérdésre kerestünk választ,
hogy neuroektodermális, illetve indukált pluripotens őssejtek beültetésével
előidézhető-e morfológiai és funkcionális javulás. A kontúziós sérülés
kiváltását követően neuroektodermális vagy pluripotens őssejteket
(NE-GFP-4C, SB5 sejtvonalak) ültettünk be intraspinálisan (3x105 sejt),
illetve intravénásan (1x106 sejt) nőstény patkányokba (Sprague-Dawley,
Fischer 344). A kontroll állatok esetében tenyésztőmédiumot injektáltunk be.
A túlélési idő során rendszeres időközönként funkcionális teszteket (BBB,
CatWalk, videó-alapú mozgás analízis), majd azt követően kiterjedt
morfológiai elemzést végeztünk. Mindezek mellett retrográd jelöléssel
megvizsgáltuk a sérült pályarendszerek regenerációjának és megkímélésének
mértékét. Eredményeink szerint a kontroll állatokhoz képest gyorsabb és
szignifikánsan nagyobb mértékű funkcionális javulást tapasztaltunk az
őssejtekkel kezelt csoportokban. Morfológiai eredményeink megerősítették a
funkcionális felépülés mutatóit. A kontúziós üreg szignifikánsan kisebb, a
megmaradt szövetállomány pedig nagyobb volt az őssejttel kezelt állatokban,
mint a kontrollokban. Vizsgálataink szerint az őssejtkezelés csökkentette az
axonnövekedést gátló molekulák (GFAP, kondrotin-szulfát proteoglikánok)
kifejeződését, valamint az asztrocita/mikroglia reakció mértékét. Retrográd
jelölési eredményeink szerint szignifikánsan több jelölt sejtet találtunk a
kiválasztott gerincvelői szegmentumokban, az agytörzsben és az agykéregben a
kontroll állatokhoz viszonyítva. Mindezen folyamatok mögött a beültetett
sejtek által termelt bioaktív anyagok (NE-GFP-4C sejtek: GDNF, MIP-1 alpha,
IL-6, IL-10; SB5 sejtek: GDNF, IL-10, MIP-1 alpha) kifejeződése állhatott.
Az NE-GFP-4C őssejtek neuronális, valamint gliális irányba differenciálódtak
és kis számban beépültek a gazdaszövetbe. Ezzel ellentétben az SB5 őssejtek
neuronális differenciációját és gyors eliminációját írtuk le. Eredményeink
arra engednek következtetni, hogy a beültetett őssejtek által termelt
citokinek és neurotrofikus faktor kedvező mikrokörnyezetet teremt, mely
csökkenti a szekunder szövetkárosodás mértékét és elősegíti a sérült axonok
megmentését/regenerácóját, így segítve a funkcionális helyreállást.
Leading Therapy Consequences to Leukemia
Authors: Ataya Mohi Eddin , Ahmed Bissan
Published: May 2022

Second cancer risk following radiotherapy and chemotherapy is an increasingly important topic in clinical oncology with an impact on treatment decision making and patient management. And leukemia has one of the highest incidences. Much of the evidence that underlies our understanding of second cancer risks and our risk estimates are derived from large epidemiologic studies that we will talk about it and predictive models of earlier decades with large uncertainties. We will focus in our review on the mechanisms that lead to Therapy Related Leukemia and introduce the best strategies of cancer therapies to reduce the risk of second cancer such as Metronomic chemotherapy, hopefully, be used in cancer hospitals, our focus on this highly important issue had started after detection of a case for a cancer patient who was diagnosed with leukemia after a highly intensive regimen for breast cancer treatment which included high doses of chemotherapy and radiotherapy, therefore we aim to highlight the most updated safe administration of cancer treatments in this review to reduce such cases by oncologists worldwide.
Death of Globalization during COVID- 19 Era
Authors: Kanwal Maria
Published: May 2022

COVID-19 plague has accompanied in novel environment of ambiguity which is powering isolationism and playing within nationalist descriptions. Pandemic is threatening Globalization as government disorganize to diminish their weakness to virus by restricting movement of people and global trade. Closure of borders and by taking severe measures against migration results into disturbances in international supply chain along with disadvantageous impacts upon employment. Vital and courageous policy procedures are desired not only for saving the lives of people but also to safeguard the world from economic destructions and also for sustaining the economic development and financial steadiness. This pandemic is not only the health crisis rather it is considered as social, health and economic crisis. COVID-19 which is categorized as pandemic by World Health Organization (WHO) is harming the world at its central. Worldwide economy has been decreased up to 1 % during 2020 because of coronavirus. United Nation stated that worldwide economy will be further goes in decline if limitations upon economic events are prolonged. There is a devastating decline in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) because of COVID-19. Multinational Enterprises (MNEs), investments and local businesses have been dangerously damaged with profound economic and social consequences. COVID-19 is considered as a threat to economy as well as to public health. COVID-19 which first occurred in Wuhan city and it affects 131,020,967 people all over the world till 5 April 2021 as reported by World Health Organization (WHO). According to novel reports COVID-19 confirmed cases till May 12, 2022 are 516,922,683 as reported by the World Health Organization. Among these 6,259,945 people losses their lives due to this pandemic. The continuing outspread of coronavirus has developed as major threat to financial markets and global economy.
IOT BASED INDUSTRIAL PARAMETERS MONITORING AND CONTROLLING SYSTEMS
Authors: Ghodvaidya Atharva , Biswas Hritik , Kadu Utkarsh , Gughe Madan
Published: May 2022

Safety is very paramount in any industry, especially with manufacturing, forging industries and many others .Therefore we intend to aid these problems in industries by developing a safety parameters monitoring and controlling system, and making it more capable and user friendly by inclusion of IoT. We believe that a system should be well automated so that a new user or a new employee who has no prior experience in controlling a unit should be able to get acquainted very easily. With the help of IoT, administrators will come to know the live status of a unit on which a parameters monitoring and controlling system is installed, it can be done via mails, or if a person is present there they can observe themselves. For example we can set temperature to a certain limit and if temperature exceeds beyond the set limit , the fans or other cooling system will start automatically. This system will also have gas sensors, flame sensors as well as radiation sensors. We are using Arduino UNO ATmega 328 as a controller for this system. Lastly the administrator will have records or logs of the parameters fluctuation and other activities at a particular time so it will be ready for reference in future and this will help the administrator to take security measures.
Willingness to Recycle in Correlation to Age
Authors: Tootsov Kristjan
Published: May 2022

An investigation into whether high school students are likely to recycle or not, based upon their age. A number of circumstances were provided to students, and their responses to a survey created a likelihood of whether or not they were willing to recycle in general, everyday circumstances. Overall, it was found that most students who were older were much more likely to recycle in general circumstances than those who are younger.
Voluntary organizations supporting patients with cancer: A qualitative exploratory study into their experiences
Authors: B Van Langen , M Harris , R Nafzger , GJ Dinant
Published: May 2022

Purpose: Both the incidence of cancer and cancer survival rates are increasing. Cancer patients can experience distress and have higher needs for psychosocial care. While voluntary organizations can support cancer patients’ needs, many patients have little awareness of them. We aimed to explore the experiences of cancer voluntary organizations in one region of the Netherlands, how familiar they are with each other’s efforts, and how eager they are to collaborate with each other. Methods: Thematic analysis of three one-to-one semi-structured interviews and two focus group discussions (FGDs) with members of seven cancer voluntary organizations. Results: The main themes identified were: (1) objectives of the participating cancer voluntary organizations, (2) patients’ and healthcare professionals’ familiarity with the existence of the voluntary organizations and their reach, (3) challenges recruiting volunteers, (4) messages to healthcare providers, and (5) eagerness to collaborate. Participants shared many tips and ideas during the FGDs, and demonstrated a wish to collaborate. Conclusions: The prime objective of cancer voluntary organizations is to decrease the impact of cancer on the personal life of patients and their loved ones. However, awareness of what they can offer is poor amongst both patients and their clinicians. Participants became keen to collaborate, which may result in both the sharing of ideas and expertise, and an increased use of these cancer support services.
Introduction
Authors: Jackson Alicia K.
Published: May 2022

The most popular understanding of Reconstruction in Georgia is shaped by antiquated and faulty views of Black leadership, despite more recent scholarship to the contrary. The personal story of Isaac H. Anderson, a Colored Methodist Church founder and leader, challenges this dominant narrative still present in much of Georgia’s libraries and also questions why the largely discredited view of Georgia’s Reconstruction still remains today.
1868
Authors: Jackson Alicia K.
Published: May 2022

The election of 1868 highlighted the efforts of Black Georgians to serve in the state’s legislature. Meeting strong resistance, a modest number of Blacks won seats in the Georgia legislature, but resistance to their political power grew as all Black members elected to the Georgia legislature were removed from office by the spring of that year. A wave of violence followed their ouster including most notably, the Camilla Massacre, and many Black Georgians were barred from voting in the Presidential election of 1868. The federal government eventually instituted Reconstruction in Georgia for a third and final time. Isaac H. Anderson focused on his ministerial career while his father and former master, William Jackson Anderson won a seat in the Georgia Senate representing Fort Valley and Houston County in their home district.
William Jackson Anderson
Authors: Jackson Alicia K.
Published: May 2022

William Jackson Anderson develops from the son of very modest parents into one of the wealthiest men in Houston County. After his family’s move from South Carolina into newly acquired Creek territory in Central Georgia, William Jackson travels from Indian Springs to New Alabama and works as a clerk among the Creek Nation at the age of fourteen. After surviving the often violent Alabama frontier, he eventually settles in Macon and survives the Panic of 1837 and the depression that ensues. Penniless, William Jackson travels to Fort Valley and becomes a member of the influential Old Pond Church, which will later be known as the Fort Valley Methodist Church, where James Abington Everett, one of the richest men in Georgia, resides. Here he marries Rebecca Caroline Hollinshead whose wealth furthers his ability to become a successful merchant, and with the support of Everett and other town fathers, he re-makes himself into a merchant, banker, and slave trader as Fort Valley becomes a major producer of cotton and a growing slave community.
Georgia
Authors: Jackson Alicia K.
Published: May 2022

Conditions of formerly enslaved Georgians worsen after Emancipation, and many turn to the Freedmen’s Bureau in Georgia. White Georgians, hoping to harness black labor, institute oppressive economic measures and restrictive labor laws and practices. Within this environment, Isaac Anderson establishes a school, plans a return to politics, and begins to organize what will become the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church.
The Colored Methodist Episcopal Church
Authors: Jackson Alicia K.
Published: May 2022

The Colored Methodist Church comes into its own, and Isaac Anderson marries his second wife, Lula, who embodies the new black woman. Born during the last days of slavery, she models the growing push of black women to have greater recognition within the denomination and more educational opportunities. Anderson gains greater notoriety for his managerial skills and is named Book Editor following William Jackson Anderson’s death. Public tension which nearly divides the denomination emerges between Anderson and Bishop Lucius Holsey. Anderson leaves Mississippi not long after the adoption of the 1890 Constitution as conditions for Black Mississippians worsen. After leaving the state, he makes his home in Jackson, Tennessee, and serves as vice-president of Lane College where he becomes a successful merchant and businessman like his father and former master.
Epilogue
Authors: Jackson Alicia K.
Published: May 2022

The epilogue ties together the relevancy of the book and how it connects with the resurgence of racial violence, mass incarceration, and the death of unarmed black people. The epilogue answers why much of Isaac Anderson’s history and that of other Black leaders has been lost and why it is essential to recover their stories.
At Home and Abroad
Authors: McFarlane Brian
Published: May 2022

Back in Australia after twenty-three years, Schepisi chose to film Patrick White’s misanthropic novel, The Eye of the Storm (2011). It involves the son and daughter of a dying woman in Sydney, returning from their European lives more to ensure their inheritances than out of filial concern. This is another Schepisi film that moves between past and present, the latter to be partly understood in terms of the former. With a fine cast and other gifted collaborators, it is a less bleak experience than White’s daunting view of humanity offers. Words and Pictures (2013), his last film to date, is an intelligent, often witty romance between two difficult educators that deserves to be better known.
Conclusion
Authors: McFarlane Brian
Published: May 2022

The conclusion seeks to bring together on-going preoccupations in Schepisi’s films and to account for their importance in his over-all career. The chapter also notes a project that has so far had a frustrating production history. The book’s chronological approach has drawn attention to his approach to adaptation, important elements in his visual and narrative tendencies, and the importance to him of many recurring collaborators. Further, it urges that Schepisi deserves to be thought of as a humanist craftsman and artist.
Mo’Nique
Authors: Mizejewski Linda
Published: May 2022

In Mo’Nique’s comedy concert I Coulda Been Your Cellmate (2007), filmed at the Ohio Reformatory for Women, the comedian emphasizes her own identification with the incarcerated women, foregrounding her history of marginalization as a woman often told she was “too black” and “too fat” to succeed. This chapter by Linda Mizejewski delineates how Mo’nique draws on two rhetorical strategies in this performance. First, she taps the tradition of the con woman or female trickster, an approach that further aligns her with criminality. Second, and central to her empathy with her audience, is Mo’Nique’s identity as a “sister citizen,” to use Melissa V. Harris-Perry’s term, a black woman who understands abjection and shame and stands up against it to claim space in the public sphere.
Scorched-Earth Comedy
Authors: Gilbert Christopher J.
Published: May 2022

To understand the bodies of evidence for a troubled U.S. war machine is to understand the bodies of those who suffer through it. Retired army staff sergeant and self-proclaimed wounded warrior turned “well done comedian,” Bobby Henline, embodies the notion that soldiers occupy literal bodies of knowledge about American militarism. More particularly, he utilizes humor as a vehicle for expressing what it is like for returning soldiers to come home from combat by situating himself as a comic body for bearing public witness to the “hidden wounds” of warfare. This chapter by Christopher J. Gilbert examines how Henline’s comicality serves to humor the shared, civic burdens of a soldier’s return to the home front.
Awkward Embrace
Authors: Kein Kathryn
Published: May 2022

This chapter by Kathryn Kein argues that Tig Notaro’s humor not only utilizes discomfort as a comedic device; it depends upon it. Through productive discomfort, Notaro forces audiences to reckon with their own discomfort around both damaged bodies as well as androgynous individuals, a dynamic most clearly evident when Notaro removed her shirt for half of her HBO special, Boyish Girl Interrupted. Notaro’s work builds an empathetic response by leveraging the audience’s pre-existing discomfort against their preconceived notions of nonnormative bodies.
Comedy from the Intersections
Authors: Scepanski Philip
Published: May 2022

Over the course of his early career and beyond, Chris Rock performed intersectionality by engaging, questioning, attacking, and sometimes reinforcing common notions of black identity with an inconsistent but frequent theme of disarticulating assumptions that understand blackness as inextricably linked to lower class economic struggle and cultural expression. This chapter by Philip Scepanski examines Chris Rock's early recorded stand-up comedy from his first album and first two HBO specials to track the development of themes that would culminate in his breakout special, 1996’s Bring the Pain. Examining Chris Rock's stand-up between 1991 and 1996 shows how he attained the status of public intellectual by critically (and sometimes less critically) discussing the intersections of race and class.
Leguizamo’s Comic Frame
Authors: Chirico Miriam M.
Published: May 2022

As a theatrical monologist, John Leguizamo uses his on-stage persona to explore Latino identity. Through his comedic impersonations, he plays both himself as an ethnic minority as well as the other characters who view him from a majority-race perspective, and through these humorous interactions, he dramatizes the process of identity formation. The autobiographical one-man shows he performs on the stage show the challenges of identity construction for an ethnic minority, while also emphasizing how self-construction depends upon boundaries of difference. In other words, by impersonating himself as well as the other, he demonstrates how his sense of self is contingent upon an erroneous majority-white gaze.  In this chapter, contributor Miriam M. Chirico show how as he constructs these humorous and poignant representational layers in performance, Leguizamo makes visible the mask he and other ethnic minorities wear, reminding audiences of the struggle for selfhood that lies behind such masks.
Larry the Cable Guy
Authors: Dewberry David R.
Published: May 2022

This chapter by David R. Dewberry argues that Larry the Cable Guy (a.k.a., Dan Whitney) serves as a public intellectual in that he engages in sociopolitical criticism, focusing on political correctness, which some believe restricts their freedom of speech. To make this argument, the chapter reviews how comedian Dan Whitney developed Larry the Cable as a character. The paper then examines Larry the Cable Guy through the lens of Zygmunt Bauman's notions of the legislator (i.e., a modern public intellectual) and the interpreter (i.e., a postmodern public intellectual) to answer two questions: why many might find it hard to see Larry as a public intellectual, and how can we better understand him as a public intellectual?  The chapter concludes with an appeal to examine intellectuals and comedians from the point of view of their communities in comedy and in other more serious communities that focus on preventative health care, a topic of importance to Dan Whitney.
The Leake County Revelers on Record
Authors: Bolick Harry , Russell Tony , Moore T. DeWayne , Cauthen Joyce A. , Evans David
Published: May 2022

For their first session with Columbia, in New Orleans in April 1927, the Revelers, or their producer Frank Walker, picked a safe foursome: two breakdowns and two waltzes, with nothing particularly out of the ordinary about them. The breakdowns “Johnson Gal” and “Leather Breeches,” coupled to form their debut release, gave a good introduction to Will Gilmer’s agile fiddling and the delicate sound of the band as a whole. “Johnson Gal” was unusual in having a vocal refrain by Gilmer, perhaps the only solo he committed to record.
Hoyt and Rozelle Ming
Authors: Bolick Harry , Russell Tony , Moore T. DeWayne , Cauthen Joyce A. , Evans David , Bolick Harry , Russell Tony , Moore T. DeWayne , Cauthen Joyce A. , Evans David
Published: May 2022

In 1928 “Floyd Ming and His Pep Steppers” recorded for Victor Records. Fiddler Hoyt Ming, from Choctaw County, and his wife Rozelle recorded again in 1973 and appeared in Washington, DC at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. This essay documents their recordings, life, and music.
Sylvester S. Moran (8/21/1893—8/17/1987)
Authors: Bolick Harry , Russell Tony , Moore T. DeWayne , Cauthen Joyce A. , Evans David
Published: May 2022

What little we know of Mr. Moran comes from the notes on the 1980 Mississippi Sawyers LP recording and from his appearance at the 1974 Festival of American Folklife in Washington, DC. He was born near Gulfport, about thirty miles from New Orleans, in Kiln, MS. The youngest of nine children, he was a third-generation fiddler, starting around age twelve with some tunes from his father. He also learned tunes by going to Saturday-night socials and from fiddlers at local logging camps. “Catahoula Blues” is a tune that he first heard in a logging camp around 1917.
Convergences of Southern Identity and the Global South in the National Center for Civil and Human Rights
Authors: Walcott Carolyn
Published: May 2022

Utilizing autoethnography, a Guyanese scholar reads the National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta, Georgia as a site not of national significance primarily, but of regional significance. Contributor Carolyn Walcott does not mean to diminish the museum in such a claim; rather, it opens the museum to being of significance to regions globally, thinking about how the African diaspora and the Global South relate to the U.S. South as a colonized, developing region. In a walkthrough of the curated space, the comparison with Guyana history allows the reader to experience this better vantage point of global regionalism and its activist and trauma-healing potential.
Gender and Identity in the Short Fiction of Velma Pollard and Erna Brodber
Authors: Bryan Violet Harrington
Published: May 2022

Erna Brodber and Velma Pollard have always written short stories while also writing novels and poetry. They both began with short fiction, and their most recent books are collections of their stories, Pollard’s Woman I & II: New and
Selected Stories (2011) and Brodber’s The World Is a High Hill (2012). The stories portray Jamaican women as they struggle against a patriarchal society and search for their own identities. Based on the sisters’ own experiences as diasporic women, these personal stories are also tales of Jamaican culture and myth. The sisters’ short fiction indicates many of the main themes throughout their literary careers: migration, gender, history, and resistance. The influence of African folklore and culture and that of the sister-writers' home in Woodside, St. Mary, Jamaica is dialectic or interplay. The sisters' projections of their homeland and their writing themes and narrative strategies have influenced many educators, scholars, and writers.
Encountering Jazz Again
Authors: Tan-Tangbau Stan BH , Minh Quyền Văn
Published: May 2022

Revolutionary music continued to dominate the soundscape of socialist Vietnam throughout the 1970s. From the 1950s onwards, Vietnamese from the North were sent to Eastern European countries for vocational training and further education. Socialist Vietnam was not totally isolated from the rest of the world. Meanwhile, rock ‘n roll and other Western popular music had flourished in the South during the Second Indochina War. As the whole of Vietnam came under communist rule in 1975, a centrally planned economy and radical socialist ideology was applied from north to south. The dance halls and night clubs in Sài Gòn went silent and what little jazz that was once heard in the South completely disappeared in the public sphere
Berlin, 1987
Authors: Tan-Tangbau Stan BH , Minh Quyền Văn
Published: May 2022

After 1975, the electric combo band began to emerge in Hà Nội. Nhạc nhẹ [light music], which had largely disappeared from the official stage after 1954, gradually resurfaced in the north. Song and dance troupes began including the electric combo band playing light music in shows, giving Minh the opportunities to flourish in the music scene. Toward the second half of the 1980s, popular Vietnamese love songs returned to the music scene as the Đổi Mới reforms were introduced. But jazz was yet to be found in the official soundscape. In 1987, Minh visited East Germany and heard jazz in the city of East Berlin.
Vietnamese Jazz
Authors: Tan-Tangbau Stan BH , Minh Quyền Văn
Published: May 2022

The 1990s was a most significant decade in the story of jazz in socialist Vietnam. By 1991, Quyền Văn Minh was teaching saxophone and jazz full-time at the national conservatoire. At the tail-end of the decade, the first jazz club in socialist Vietnam, namely Minh’s Jazz Club, opened its doors. The highlight came in the middle of the decade when Minh premiered three original jazz compositions on the stage of the Hà Nội Opera House, marking the birth of Vietnamese jazz as a nuanced genre of music.
Teaching Jazz
Authors: Tan-Tangbau Stan BH , Minh Quyền Văn
Published: May 2022

Chapter 9 tells the story of Minh as a teacher of saxophone and jazz both informally as an individual and formally as a tenured member of the national conservatoire. Quyền Văn Minh began teaching saxophone at the Hà Nội National Music Conservatoire of Vietnam in 1989. From 1991 onward, jazz was formally included as part of the chính thống [proper mainstream] professional music education curriculum at the most prestigious music education institution in socialist Vietnam, culminating in the formation of a Faculty of Jazz in 2013. When Minh formally had his tenure transfered from Thăng Long Song and Dance Troupe to the conservatoire in 1991, he essentially changed vocation from being a nghệ sĩ biểu diễn [performing artist] to a nhà giáo [teacher].
“The Most Noble, Fearless, and Undaunted David Walker” 1
Authors: Waters Kristin
Published: May 2022

Freedom’s Journal, a national black-owned newspaper is distributed in Boston by David Walker, who writes a detailed account of the wretchedness of blacks caused by slavery, ignorance, Colonization, and religion. Tensions rise as Walker and Garrison oppose rampant racism locally and nationally and as their movement builds and grows. The year ends with the sudden death of James W. Stewart, followed by that of David Walker, and her pastor, the Reverend Thomas Paul.
“Cup of Sorrow” 1
Authors: Waters Kristin
Published: May 2022

James Stewart’s brief illness requires the attention of local physicians and also summons visits from some nefarious characters, white business acquaintances who have a mysterious meeting with the dying man. Nearly paralyzed with loss, Maria Stewart contemplates the meaning of this cruel abandonment.
“A Rational and Accountable Creature”
Authors: Waters Kristin
Published: May 2022

Stewart address the Afric-American Female Intelligence Society. The women in her community are among her staunchest supporters and most severe judges. The feeling is mutual.
Spinning Bridges: An Introduction
Authors: Bennett Tanya Long
Published: May 2022

In this chapter, Tanya Long Bennett offers an overview of Lillian Smith’s development as a writer and previous scholarship on her writings. The essays gathered in this collection build insightfully and provocatively on the foundation of Smith studies, expanding, in particular, the scholarship on Smith’s literary prowess and its impact. Reflecting the chronology of Smith’s publications, the book is organized to guide readers through the powerful aesthetic and thematic workings of her texts. As readers move through the chapters, they will discover a rich variety of approaches to Smith’s writings. Lillian Smith did not write primarily to sell books or impress critics. Her consistent and provocative themes indicate that she was not driven by a desire for fame or wealth. For her, the ability to exercise her artistic talents and link her imagination with ours was not an end in itself but a means to healthier humanity. The essays collected here provide new orientation points and broaden the road for readers exploring the landscapes of her writings. As these essays attest, the journey on which Smith invites us is at times steep and precarious, but that wild region, rendered through her keen poetic sensibility, is one of sublime vistas and valuable self-discovery.
Bob Dylan, Chuck Berry, and the Evolution of Poetic Song Verse
Authors: Mattison Mike , Suarez Ernest
Published: May 2022

This chapter discusses how the cultural landscape of the fifties set the stage for Dylan and other practitioners of poetic song verse in the sixties. In 1955 twenty-nine-year-old Chuck Berry embraced the persona of a rebellious teenager, an image that allowed him to sell records to adolescents and to cloak lyrics that defied mainstream values. The chapter addresses how Berry’s use of persona and his response to fifties culture influenced Dylan, and how the racially charged, politically transgressive dimensions of fifties rock ‘n’ roll helped spur Dylan and other sixties songwriters’ challenges to an array of social norms. Cultural shifts during the mid-sixties prompted Dylan to combine rock ‘n’ roll, the rural blues, and poetry, and convey authenticity through an aesthetic of disorientation, changes that opened rock to new possibilities and ignited an explosion of poetic song verse.
A New Era of Verse Composition
Authors: Mattison Mike , Suarez Ernest
Published: May 2022

This chapter discusses poetic song verse in the seventies and beyond, primarily by looking at artists—including Bruce Springsteen, Marvin Gaye, and Stevie Wonder—who did not draw on poetry as a source for their lyric practices; these artists had been exposed to Dylan and others’ work and assumed that semantically sophisticated lyrics were vital to their craft. The chapter proceeds to consider the Clash, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, and other artists to examine how punk, rap, and hip hop challenged and extended rock and poetic song verse. The chapter also discusses Bobbie Gentry, Bill Withers, Nina Simone, and Betty Davis to suggest how the struggle to take control of their careers and write the songs they wanted remains more difficult for women and people of color. The chapter closes with a discussion of Lucinda Williams’ creative practices and poetic song verse as a relatively new literary genre.
The peculiarities of the heart rate regulation in boys and girls with different body composition, motor and eating behavior
Authors: Filatova O. V. , Kutseva E. V. , Voronina I. Yu.
Published: May 2022

BACKGROUND: There are a lot of works devoted to the study of the main regularities of the heart rate (HR) control in individuals depending on the body weight. Still, there are some uncleared and even controversial issues that significantly influence the notion of this process itself. Particularly, impaired HR variability in patients with the cardiometabolic syndrome is characterized by the weakening of the impact of both parasympathetic and sympathetic branches of the autonomic nervous system. The works devoted to the heart rate variability features in young people associated with the body weight are scarce.

AIM: To study the peculiarities of the heart rate variability in boys and girls with different body composition, motor and eating behavior.

MATERIALS AND METHODS: A cross-sectional, open, single-arm, non-randomized study of the HR variability in adolescents with different body fat mass (BFM) was carried out on the basis of the Center for Healthy Nutrition of Altai State University. The HR variability, nutritional status and physical activity index (PHAI) were studied in the groups of individuals with different body fat mass.

RESULTS: We examined 168 people (85 boys and 83 girls). The surveyed belonged to the adolescent age period (boys from 17 to 21 years old, girls from 16 to 20 years old). The boys and girls examined by us had a different amount of BFM %. The HR variability, nutritional status and physical activity index were studied in 44 people with the low BFM, 71 people with the average BFM, 53 people with the increased BFM. In both sexes, the group with the increased BFM features an increase in the absolute (HF, ms2 ) and relative (HF%) oscillation power of the heart rate high-frequency component. The average value of the physical activity index in the group with the reduced BFM equals 1.52 ± 0.037 in boys, and 1.44 ± 0.099 in girls. The average value of the physical activity index in the group with the average BFM is 1.44 ± 0.029 and 1.42 ± 0.095 in boys and in girls respectively. The average value of the physical activity index in the group with the increased BFM is 1.23 (Q25–75 1.20–1.70) in boys, and 1.26 ± 0.33 in girls. The representatives of the group with the increased BFM have a higher caloric value (CV) of the daily intake. In young men, a higher CV was achieved due to increased consumption of fats and carbohydrates. In the girls of the third group, a higher CV of the daily intake was gained due to proteins, fats, carbohydrates.

CONCLUSION: The results of the HR variability showed that the motor and eating behavior affect the state of the cardiac function in both boys and girls. An increase in the body fat mass in the individuals with a maximum CV of the daily intake and a minimum level of motor activity is associated with the prevalence of the parasympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system in the heart rate control.
The prevalence of obesity in the adult population of the Russian Federation (literature review)
Authors: Alferova V. I. , Mustafina S. V.
Published: May 2022

This review analyzes the prevalence of obesity among the adult population in the Russian Federation. The data of various studies, including large international projects (WHO MONICA 1985–1995, HAPIEE 2003–2005), all-Russian screenings (RLMS - HSE 1993, Federal monitoring of arterial hypertension 2003, ESSE-RF 2013 — present.), as well as selected regional studies. In some regions, the long-term dynamics of obesity has been studied. The history of studying the epidemiology of obesity in Russia has more than thirty years. According to the data obtained, the prevalence of obesity throughout the country remains high and continues to increase. Thus, among men, the prevalence increased from 10.8% in 1993 to 27.9% in 2017, among women — from 26.4% to 31.8%, respectively. In all regions where it was possible to assess long-term trends, the prevalence of obesity among adults increased (maximum — 48.5% in the Belgorod region). In the adult population, obesity is more common in women (maximum — 47.0% in the Novosibirsk region) than in men (maximum — 30.0% in Ivanovo and Voronezh regions). It is necessary to expand the number of regions in Russia in which studies of the prevalence of obesity are carried out, as well as to strengthen measures to combat overweight and obesity in all age groups throughout the country.
Editorial. Los ecosistemas como sujetos de derecho, entre la conexidad y las sentencias estructurales
Authors: Sarmiento Erazo Juan Pablo
Published: May 2022

Los ecosistemas como sujetos de derecho, entre la conexidad y las sentencias estructurales.
El papel de la Agencia Francesa de Desarrollo en la internacionalización de la ciudad de Medellín
Authors: Trejos Rosero Luis Fernando , Guzmán Cantillo Jolie
Published: May 2022

Las ciudades adquieren cada vez más protagonismo en el escenario internacional gracias a los canales que han logrado establecer con actores similares por fuera de sus fronteras, insertando sus intereses en la agenda internacional de manera efectiva. En este contexto, nuevas formas de financiamiento y cooperación han surgido, dando paso a la llamada “acción hipercolectiva” como el resultado de la diversificación de canales, actores, procesos y fuentes de cooperación internacional. Así, el presente artículo estudia el caso de Medellín en su relación con la AFD, en el marco de esta categoría conceptual, como parte fundamental de su internacionalización y como caso exitoso pionero en Colombia.
Las acciones populares para la defensa del medio ambiente en materia de fumigaciones con glifosato, constituyen litigio estratégico en materia ambiental
Authors: Cortés Caballero Daniel Sebastián
Published: May 2022

Este artículo pretende establecer si aun cuando no está definido en la legislación interna de Colombia el concepto de litigio estratégico, este es desarrollado por las diferentes entidades tanto administrativas o judiciales con el ejercicio de las acciones que ya están previstas en el ordenamiento, ya sean ordinarias o de carácter constitucional, como en el caso que estudiaremos más adelante las acciones populares para la protección de los derechos colectivos al medio ambiente, salubridad pública y demás que estén íntimamente relacionados con el derecho ambiental, en donde podemos evidenciar que con el ejercicio de estas acciones se ha podido llegar a un cambio de políticas públicas aun cuando el resultado del litigio no ha sido positivo para los demandantes.
El prejuicio en la mentira política. Una mirada desde la injusticia epistémica
Authors: Chamorro Muñoz Alicia Natali
Published: May 2022

El objetivo fundamental de este artículo es mostrar cómo la propuesta de la injusticia epistémica permite comprender la relación entre la mentira en política y la injusticia. Sostenemos que cuando la mentira política asume un sesgo prejuicioso basado en la identidad causa mayores daños en el mundo social compartido. Para lograr este objetivo se analiza la relación entre el mentir y agente, buscando comprender las particularidades de la mentira política frente a otras formas de mentir. Segundo, sostenemos que la mentira política sustentada en el prejuicio configura una condición ontológica de las víctimas. Finalmente, proponemos como opción dos aspectos complementarios: una terapéutica epistemológica contra el prejuicio y la configuración de la lucha de los grupos afectados por el prejuicio.
La prueba de oficio en la construcción de la verdad procesal
Authors: Pérez Restrepo Juliana , Herrera Díaz Juan Camilo
Published: May 2022

Trata la prueba de oficio como herramienta para alcanzar la verdad en el proceso judicial, salvaguardándose así la justicia material, evidenciando la prueba oficiosa hoy como un deber legal y constitucional del juez, que como director del proceso y mediante la sana crítica debe establecer en qué casos es necesario el decreto de esta prueba para remediar dudas determinantes para la decisión, dudas no resueltas por las partes a pesar de su trabajo diligente para arrimar los medios de prueba que respaldan sus afirmaciones o negaciones. El objetivo en este escrito es reflexionar acerca de la prueba de oficio como figura jurídica a través de la cual se logra en el caso concreto la protección de derechos. Primero, se describe brevemente a partir de la doctrina el concepto ´verdad procesal o judicial´; segundo, se realiza una aproximación doctrinal y jurisprudencial sobre el papel de la prueba de oficio en el proceso judicial; y por último, se describen casos resueltos en sede de revisión de tutela por la Corte Constitucional, en los que ante la omisión del decreto oficioso de la prueba resultó vulnerado el debido proceso. La metodología empleada se basó en la revisión documental y jurisprudencial.
Measurement of the friction parameters of a belt transmission under heavy load
Authors: Kubas Krzysztof
Published: May 2022

This article presents the results of measurements of a belt transmission with a poly-V belt 5PK, most often used in the industry, especially in industrial drives, agricultural machines and in the automotive industry. The main goal of the works was to obtain the dependence of the belt slip value on the measured, relatively high values of resistance torque. For this purpose, a series of measurements were made using a specialised research stand consisting of two alternating current motors and attached pulleys. It considered four cases of the value of the belt pre-tensioning force. In each of the cases, while making the measurements, the resistance of the passive pulley was increased, resulting in increasing values of belt slip. Finally, the achieved courses were approximated. The obtained results will be used to develop empirical models of friction at the belt-pulley interface. They can also be useful for belt manufacturers to make better belts, especially those subjected to higher loads.
Study Physiological Response to Adding different Levels of Maca Root Lepidium Meyenii to the Diet of Broiler Chickens exposed to Oxidative Stress
Authors: Merzah Layth Hamzah , Ali Nihad Abdul-Lateef
Published: May 2022

This experiment was conducted in the poultry field of the Department of Animal Production, College of Agriculture, Al-Qasim Green University for the period 1/10/ 2021 to 4/11/ 2021.The study aimed to know the effect of adding different levels of maca root Lepidium meyenii to the diet on some biochemical traits of the blood serum of broilers exposed to oxidative stress. In the experiment, 225 unsexed broiler chicks (Ross 308) were used, distributed randomly to 15 (cages), with 5 experimental treatments for each treatment 45 birds, and each treatment included three replicates for each replicate of 15 birds. The experimental treatments were as follows: The first treatment: the control treatment (basic diet + drinking water free of H2O2). The second treatment: a standard diet and water added to it H2O2 at a concentration of 0.5%, the third treatment: adding 1 gm of maca roots / kg of the basic diet + drinking water containing 0.5% H2O2, Fourth treatment: Add 1.5 gm of maca roots/kg of the basic diet + drinking water containing 0.5% H2O2 Fifth treatment: Add 2 gm of maca roots/kg of the basic diet + drinking water containing 0.5% H2O2. The most important results of the study can be summarized as follows: There was a significant improvement (P≤0.05) for the first, fourth and fifth treatments in total protein concentration compared to the second and third treatments, With regard to albumin concentration, the fourth treatment recorded a significantly improvement (p≤0.05) compared to the second and third treatments, and with regard to globulin concentration, the fifth treatment was significantly improvement (p≤0.05) compared to the second and third treatments. As for the concentration of liver enzymes ALT, AST, cholesterol, triglycerides, low-density lipoproteins and very low-density lipoproteins. The treatments (first, third, fourth and fifth) showed a significant decrease (p≤0.05) compared to the second treatment and a significant increase (p≤0.05) in the level of high-density lipoproteins.