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As tecnologias socioterritoriais mundializadas da agroecologia: dos lotes de reforma agrária do Brasil as propriedades familiares em Portugal
Authors: Freitas de Almeida Fernando
Published: December 2024

O artigo apresenta os principais resultados do estágio de doutoramento na Universidade de Lisboa, apresentando um estudo comparado das tecnologias socioterritoriais da agroecologia identificadas em campo, expondo as distinções e aproximações dos territórios da agroecologia no Brasil e em Portugal. Para tanto, a teoria dos movimentos socioterritoriais tornou-se seminal, ao fornecer elementos para investigação dos territórios camponeses, desde a organização dos lotes de assentamentos da reforma agrária organizados pelo Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST) até territórios de resistência camponesa em Portugal. Como resultado principal, pode-se observar tecnologias socioterritoriais da agroecologia em ambos os territórios, tais como: a Comunidade que Sustenta a Agricultura (CSA), agrofloresta, plantio consorciado e educação popular, o que nos permite refletir sobre a mundialização dessas resistências e uma disputa de modelos de desenvolvimento.
Trajetórias por dignidade: um estudo de caso das lutas por terra e reforma agrária no sul do Brasil
Authors: Mezzonato MACHADO Dayana Cristina , Marconatto Marques Pâmela
Published: December 2024

O presente trabalho buscou compreender as relações entre a luta pela terra, pela reforma agrária e a produção de vida digna no campo. Por meio de um estudo de caso, a pesquisa analisou a trajetória de vida da família de Seu José e Dona Emília, agricultores do Assentamento Filhos de Sepé, município de Viamão, Rio Grande do Sul (RS). A trajetória da família indica que a exclusão do processo de modernização agrícola, em meados da década de 1980, criou as condições para o ingressou na luta pela terra junto ao Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST) como possibilidade de construção de futuro e vidas dignas. Seus relatos apontam que as lutas coletivas resultaram em conquistas comuns de terra e políticas públicas para a reforma agrária, possibilitando autonomia na produção farta de alimentos saudáveis para o autoconsumo, bem como a inserção em atividades cooperadas, com acesso a mercados de alimentos orgânicos. As lutas forjaram, ainda, sociabilidades sustentadas por fortes laços de uma vida em comunidade e, ao mesmo tempo, permitiram acesso a educação e trabalho para os filhos e netos.
A construção da soberania alimentar por movimentos socioterritoriais: uma análise do assentamento Emiliano Zapata no município de Ponta Grossa-PR
Authors: Supanik Junior Luis Fernando , Da Fonseca Rosas Celbo Antonio
Published: December 2024

Neste trabalho, investigamos a interconexão entre movimentos socioterritoriais e a soberania alimentar, centrando nosso estudo no assentamento Emiliano Zapata, situado no município de Ponta Grossa-PR, e vinculado ao Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST). Abordamos como o MST, através da prática da Agroecologia, contribui para a soberania alimentar em sua busca por reforma agrária e melhores condições de vida no campo. O MST adota a agroecologia como um meio de resistência às práticas do agronegócio prejudiciais ao meio ambiente, promovendo um modelo de produção sustentável e socialmente justo. Este estudo baseia-se em uma pesquisa de campo, incluindo a aplicação de questionários aos produtores do assentamento Emiliano Zapata. Nossos resultados destacam a importância da agroecologia na promoção da soberania alimentar, respeitando as tradições e culturas locais e aproximando os produtores dos consumidores. Além disso, discutimos a necessidade de políticas públicas de apoio à agroecologia e o aperfeiçoamento das políticas existentes.
Reforma agrária e titulação de terras: desafios legais, políticos e sociais
Authors: Didonet de Moraes Murilo , Caetano da Silva Amanda
Published: December 2024

A política pública de concessão de títulos de propriedade de terras é essencial para entender os assentamentos, pois a sua aplicação de modo inadequado pode atuar na transformação de lotes redistribuídos em propriedades privadas. Este trabalho tem por objetivo analisar o processo de formação, desenvolvimento e desafios enfrentados pelos agricultores familiares dos assentamentos Douradinho e Engenho da Serra, localizados em Ituiutaba/MG. Trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa em que o conjunto de dados foi coletado mediante visitas em instituições públicas da cidade e a realização de duas entrevistas semiestruturadas com agricultores familiares residentes nos assentamentos desde a sua criação. Os resultados indicaram que o assentamento Douradinho enfrentou dificuldades na divisão dos lotes, assistência técnica e na falta de apoio financeiro para realizar o georreferenciamento e acesso ao título definitivo. Já o assentamento Engenho da Serra mostrou a necessidade do processo de seleção dos beneficiários e a importância da diversificação econômica e interação social para a sua viabilidade. Nota-se, portanto, que a fragilidade econômica e a insegurança jurídica enfrentada pelos assentados sinalizam a necessidade de apoio institucional e financeiro para que estes territórios cumpram com sua função de produzir alimentos e garantir qualidade de vida aos seus integrantes.
El Espacio Cartesiano: Método y Geometría de Coordenadas. Una Nueva Época de la Concepción Espacial
Authors: Velázquez Zaragoza Soledad Alejandra
Published: December 2024

La concepción cartesiana del espacio representa la apertura de una nueva época, revolucionaria, en la concepción espacial de su tiempo, en vista del significado e impacto de la geometría de coordenadas de Descartes. La articulación de la aritmética y la geometría, resultado de la innovadora concepción del método —de las Regulæ ad Directionem Ingenii (1628)— conduce a entender el conocimiento como resultado de las relaciones entre los componentes de un sistema y la expresión de éstas en términos de funciones matemáticas. El enfoque aquí propuesto para el estudio del espacio cartesiano —como sistemático o unitario— es una ruta de análisis que difiere, pero complementa, las perspectivas ontológica, física y teológica que habitualmente se han recorrido para el estudio del espacio en este filósofo y de este modo cubre un importante hueco. Este enfoque ubica las consecuencias epistemológicas fundamentales que se extraen de la concepción metódica cartesiana.
Descartes y el lenguaje de la revolución científica: matemáticas e ideas claras y distintas
Authors: García Rodríguez Sergio
Published: December 2024

La revolución científica de los siglos XVI y XVII supuso una ruptura respecto a la ciencia aristotélica y a la magia renacentista que requirió de múltiples transformaciones tanto a nivel material como filosófico. De entre ellas cabe destacar los cambios sustanciales que fueron necesarios respecto al lenguaje técnico que debía explicar los fenómenos naturales. Ciertamente, la ciencia moderna tuvo que liberarse de los conceptos heredados de las tradiciones escolástica y hermética en tanto que estos eran incapaces de cuantificar de modo útil los fenómenos, por lo que no representaban sino un lastre para la revolución científica en ciernes. En consecuencia, el nacimiento de la nueva ciencia requirió de un nuevo lenguaje de tipo matemático en el que los conceptos debían ser definidos de forma precisa y refirieran realidades perfectamente cognoscibles y explicables sin necesidad de apelar a dimensiones ocultas. El presente artículo analiza la crítica cartesiana al lenguaje escolástico y al lenguaje hermético así como los elementos fundamentales que, de acuerdo a la consideración cartesiana, debían caracterizar a un auténtico lenguaje científico para que fuera posible construir una nueva ciencia.
Escepticismo y teología natural en Comenius y Descartes. Una perspectiva comparativa
Authors: Jaume Andrés L.
Published: December 2024

El presente artículo aborda el problema del escepticismo en Comenius y Descartes en sus relaciones con la teología natural. Ambos autores emplean la teología natural como modo de deshacerse de la amenaza escéptica. Si bien, el uso que hacen de la misma es muy distinto, llegándose a plantear dos concepciones de la filosofía muy diferentes. Comenius supedita la filosofía al mensaje revelado, mientras que Descartes independiza la filosofía respecto de la teología revelada. Pese a las coincidencias en la necesidad de reformar el saber, hacer frente a la amenaza escéptica y emplear la teología natural en su lucha, son dos propuestas filosóficas coetaneas claramente diferentes.
Pengaruh Promosi Dan Electronic Word Of Mouth (E-Wom) Terhadap Keputusan Berkunjung Di Wisata Kampung Lali Gadget Kecamatan Wonoayu Sidoarjo
Authors: Putri Pradina Amanda , Herwati Andry , Listyawati Liling
Published: December 2024

Riset ini berupaya menggali lebih dalam tentang pengaruh Promosi dan Electronic Word of Mouth (e-WOM) terhadap Keputusan Berkunjung ke destinasi wisata, Kampung Lali Gadget di Kecamatan Wonoayu, Sidoarjo, baik secara bersamaan maupun masing-masing, serta mengidentifikasi variabel yang paling dominan dalam memengaruhi keputusan tersebut. Studi ini mengadopsi pendekatan kuantitatif dengan analisis regresi linier berganda. Populasi sasaran mencakup para wisatawan Kampung Lali Gadget, meskipun jumlah tepatnya belum diketahui. Target utama riset adalah para pengunjung yang telah mengunjungi Kampung Lali Gadget dalam rentang tiga bulan terakhir (Juli-September 2024), pernah menyaksikan promosi terkait, serta terlibat dalam berbagi ulasan, rekomendasi, atau opini di media sosial atau platform ulasan lainnya tentang destinasi ini. Kemudian teknik khusus yang ditetapkan untuk menetapkan sampel dalam riset ini merujuk ke pendekatan probability sampling dengan jenis spesifiknya yakni cluster random sampling, hal tersebut dikarenakan kuantitas dari ketetapan populasi belum diketahui sehingga ukuran atas sampelnya dikalkulasikan melibatkan rumus cochrane. Berlandaskan kalkulasi tersebut diperoleh sampel yakni 96 responden. Data kemudian dilakukan skema penganalisisan secara mendalam melalui pengujian instrumen, pengujian asumsi klasik, sekaligus regresi linier secara berganda. Temuan dalam studi ini menegaskan bahwasanya promosi dan e-WOM memiliki pengaruh secara positif yang signifikan dalam perspektif simultan atas keputusan berkunjung. Sedangkan dari perspektif parsial promosi memiliki pengaruh yang sifatnya positif dan signifikan terkait keputusan berkunjung sedangkan e-WOM tidak mendatangkan derajat signifikan tapi ada pengaruh secara positif dalam studi ini. Promosi muncul sebagai variabel yang paling dominan memengaruhi Keputusan Berkunjung ke Kampung Lali Gadget di Kecamatan Wonoayu, Sidoarjo.
Kata Kunci : Promosi, Electronic Word Of Mouth (e-WOM), Keputusan Berkunjung
Travail de mémoire et dimension éthique dans l’œuvre de Véronique Tadjo
Authors:   Universidad Autónoma de Madrid   (España), Mata Barreiro Carmen
Published: December 2024

This article focuses on the writing of Véronique Tadjo and especially on her novels L’ombre d’Imana. Voyages jusqu’au bout du Rwanda and En compagnie des hommes, which offers a literary representation of two important crises in Africa, the Rwandan Genocide and the Ebola’s epidemic, and calls for the solidarity and the consciousness of our responsibility toward the future of the planet. By a transdisciplinary approach, we study the work of memory, the ethics and the «Planetary Consciousness» (Mbembe, 2023).
Étude des cadres sémantiques dans la couverture des Gilets jaunes en Espagne: perspectives médiatiques
Authors:   Université de Nice – Côte d’Azu (Francia), Rodríguez Peláez Estéfano , Sánchez Cárdenas Beatriz ,   Universidad de Granada (España)
Published: December 2024

This article analyses the semantic frames activated in the media coverage of two Spanish newspapers with different ideologies, La Razón and El País. e aim of this study is to explore how these different media outlets present events related to the Yellow vest protests during the first two years of the movement. To do so, we subject press articles to the analysis of two semantic typologies: conceptual categories and semantic roles. roughout this research, qualitative analysis methods are used to dissect the language and lexical choices employed by each media outlet using textual analysis tools such as ATLAS.ti and Sketch Engine. e results indicate that the semantic frames most frequently activated in both newspapers are related to protests, arrests, and violent activities. However, despite having different ideologies, the activated semantic frames do not vary significantly between the two newspapers. is opens the door to new research questions
Génesis y disputas en torno a Mémoires de ma vie de Mathilde Mauté
Authors:   Universidad del Salvador (Argentina), Sollitto Inés Andrea
Published: December 2024

Mathilde Mauté concluded the writing of Mémoires de ma vie three years before her death and never saw her work published. As the ex-wife of the poet Paul Verlaine, she suffered the publishing difficulties expected for a woman of the 19th century. In this article, we will offer some theoretical approaches to this scarcely studied work while placing it in the context of its production and publication. Mauté’s memoirs are positioned in a dissident space with respect to the social order of the time. With this clearly autobiographical and vindicatory text, the author constructed her identity from the discourses that tried to defame her. Therefore, the discursive narrative elaborates a subjectivity that Mauté intends to bequeath to posterity.
Editors' Introduction
Authors: Carley Robert F. , Laine Eero , Pak Yumi , SAJ  , Spurgas Alyson K. , Sula Chris Alen
Published: December 2024

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Young People’s Self-Making in Neoliberal Capitalism
Authors: Butler Stephen M. , Coward Nathaniel
Published: December 2024

This paper charts the development of young people’s self-making in neoliberal capitalism, specifying relationships between their self-making and susceptibility to mental health difficulties as they make their way in neoliberal market society. While neoliberal capitalism provides young people with opportunities to pursue and experiment with diverse identities and ways of being in the world, it also structures their self-making opportunities, by which charting selfhood becomes fertile ground for internalizing mental health problems. Our paper argues that the cultural imperative on young people to attain social status and success in the competitive and achievement-oriented forms of life that inhabit neoliberal capitalism demands that they curate and commodify highly desirable forms of selfhood that can never quite be realized. Endlessly failing to satisfy the conditions of selfhood in neoliberal capitalism, exhausted by the injunction to be more than they have already achieved, young people are socialized into increasingly complex and pressurized neoliberal capitalist cultures which challenge their ability to fulfill both their extrinsic desires for status and identity enhancement and their intrinsic needs for relatedness, belongingness, and self-worth. To conclude our paper, we summarize our main arguments and make some recommendations for promoting a more beneficial relationship between young people and the culture of neoliberal capitalism.
How Vital is Nature?
Authors: Dale Gareth
Published: December 2024

This paper brings into conversation two ontologies that depart from the anthropocentric norm: new materialism, represented here by the US vitalist philosopher Jane Bennett, and the animated cosmology common among Indigenous peoples, as an example of which I take Braiding Sweetgrass by the Potawatomi bryologist Robin Wall Kimmerer. I provide exegeses of both philosophies, with respect in particular to the notion of “animation,” noting that the animated sphere is much more extensive for Bennett than for Kimmerer. I then track Bennett’s shift away from environmental ethics. Finally, I relate differences in philosophy to differences with regard to race and racism, with a detailed discussion of Bennett’s tribute to Walt Whitman, and the genocidal elements within his democratic politics.
Conscious Delirium of a Traveling Body
Authors: Fatehi Tara
Published: December 2024

The question of political economy in the arts offers a way into a creative-critical reflection on the challenges associated with navigating identity labels and living a freelance artist’s life pressured to conform to institutional expectations particularly within the UK's art scene. This piece is a personal account of a body resisting becoming a symbol, of staying conscious of our socio-political landscape and the ongoing Israeli settler-colonialism. I draw on examples from three of my artworks: the collaborative project From the Lips to the Moon, ongoing nights of longform improvised music and poetry in London; In Observance, a performative research and intervention at the United Nations in Geneva, involving archival documents related to Palestine; and Mishandled Archive, which involves dispersing family photographs and documents in public places, accompanied by daily dances. Through these works, this essay asks: How can historical evidence of imperialism and settler-colonialism be absorbed or resisted within the body? How can we transform loss into movement and togetherness? How late is too late as mounds of rubble and bodies multiply?
Review of Biopolitics, Geopolitics, Life: Settler States and Indigenous Presence edited by Rene Dietrich and Kerstin Knopf (Duke University Press)
Authors: Kuragano Leah
Published: December 2024

Questions of violence, governance, life, and land have long animated critique within settler colonial studies and Indigenous studies. Biopolitics, Geopolitics, Life interrogates these lines of inquiry by centering Indigenous politics and onto-epistemologies from a variety of disciplines and across a range of settler colonial contexts to address the enmeshments of bio- and geopolitical logics and practices.
Review of Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance by Moya Bailey (New York University Press)
Authors: Wang Yiming
Published: December 2024

Misogynoir Transformed is a pioneering work by Moya Bailey that offers a groundbreaking analysis of misogynoir and the transformative strategies for social change in contemporary digital society. Through careful analysis of media representations, web series, and social media platforms, Bailey reveals how Black women and Black nonbinary, agender, and gender-variant folks encounter and resist damaging narratives. Bailey also introduces the conceptual framework of digital alchemy to conceptualize the praxis that Black women employ to transform harmful everyday media into valuable social justice media, which functions to reduce the negative effects of misogynoir and create their own safe and inclusive community. This transformative activity highlights the dual effects of visibility—it is empowering but also precarious. Bailey’s work is evidence of how digital platforms have the positive power to reduce misogynoir and reshape the discourse on gender diversity and social justice.
Review of The Life Worth Living: Disability, Pain, and Morality by Joel Michael Reynolds (University of Minnesota Press)
Authors: Dzbinski Kora
Published: December 2024

Joel Micheal Reynolds’s The Life Worth Living: Disability, Pain, and Morality unpacks the exclusion and demonization of disability within Western philosophy and bioethics. Through the lens of morality and phenomenology, Reynolds demonstrates a fundamental misrepresentation of disability that conflates disabled life with pain, suffering, and death. Through a careful dismantling of this “ableist conflation,” Reynolds points his readers toward an anti-ableist future that reconsiders disability, pain, and systems of care as a whole.
The Incubator and the Interregnum
Authors: Earnshaw Sarah
Published: December 2024

Labor landscapes of post-Fordism are commonly characterized by fragmentation, fracture, and atomization, with platformization as the latest abstraction of a workplace that is everywhere and nowhere. The period following the 2008 financial crash has been posed as an interregnum where the exposed contradictions of neoliberalism have not yet ousted this order, while multiple actors jostle to grasp the reins. In this paper, I propose a focus on the cultural practices of place-making in theorizing contemporary class struggle with reference to two groups of digital laborers: tech workers and online sex workers. Taking the incubator—a place of pooled resources for companies in-the-making—as a jumping off point, I consider the interrelations, differentials, and potentials for class (re)composition when the distinction of work from life is as blurred as it is distinguishing. From an autonomist perspective and looking to collectives such as the Tech Workers Coalition and Hacking//Hustling, I unpick the “common sense” of a placeless platformed capital to explore the multiplicity of the “workplace,” what counts as “work,” and which places enable the imagination of otherwise. As visions of the “future of work” abound I ask, how can research under the umbrella of cultural studies support and co-create points of intervention—places of aggregation—in the interregnum?
Cannaboom: Race and Labor in California Cannabis Cultures
Authors: Marez Curtis
Published: December 2024

Encouraged by state requirements for prepackaging, Black and Latinx producers and distributors of legal cannabis in California have developed novel, symbolically and socially significant forms of marketing. Black and Latinx cannabis industries have developed their own “commodity aesthetics,” using product packaging, live events, and social media to entice buyers with a combination of beautiful sights, smells, textures, signs, and symbols that represent the contradictions of working-class Black and Latinx life in contemporary California. Black and Latinx cannabis popular cultures combine images of freedom and transcendence with depictions of the low wage jobs that many Black and Latinx people work. This is because, rather than an impediment to work, cannabis consumption is a kind of support for or accessory to labor. Many consumers use cannabis to dull the tedium and pain of labor and to sustain them throughout the workday. This essay provides a critical overview of Black and Latinx cannabis marketing in California, and its targeting of working-class consumers of color. While I discuss several examples, my central case study is the successful Black and Latinx cannabis distributor Teds Budz. I draw on interviews, ethnographies of live cannabis events, and visual studies of cannabis packages and social media, arguing that seemingly “escapist” qualities in cannabis culture critically foreground the material limits of the world from which Black and Latinx workers are trying to escape. Cannabis commodity aesthetics, I conclude, promise people of color an exit from the drudgery of work that can also tighten their ties to low wage jobs.
Press Freedoms Under Pressure: Clinical Perspectives on the State of Press Freedoms in Texas in 2024
Authors: Stefensen Peter B. , Leatherbury Thomas S.
Published: December 2024

Amid existential challenges to the press as an institution, public accountability journalists in Texas are navigating their own set of difficulties. For those who report on state and local entities, journalists are encountering increasingly constrained avenues for obtaining public information, a greater tendency for government bodies to prioritize image control over transparency, a higher likelihood of retaliation from public officials for performing important accountability work, and a judiciary that seems to respect the press less and less. By surveying journalists, and members of press and legal organizations who support accountability journalism, we use their accounts to evaluate these trends, to attempt to memorialize these challenges, and to assess what they mean for the state of press freedoms in Texas in 2024. We conclude that the current state of press freedoms in Texas, and the relationship between the press and the institutions they report on, can charitably be described as strained. From a clinical perspective, this gives us a benchmark to evaluate our progress moving forward, as we enter the First Amendment Clinic’s fifth year of operation and reflect on the first seventy-five years of the SMU Clinical Programs.
Integrating Human Factors in the Healthcare System: Embracing Aviation Methodologies and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Enhance Provider Performance and Patient Safety
Authors: Braverman Ariel
Published: December 2024

Human factors science, which incorporates psychology, engineering, design, and statistics, aims to improve safety and efficiency in healthcare by optimizing the interaction between providers and their systems. This approach is critical in complex medical environments where errors often result from systemic issues rather than individual negligence. Historically rooted in aviation, human factors principles have significantly enhanced safety and performance, offering valuable insights for healthcare. Human factors specialists aim to reduce errors and improve patient outcomes by addressing poorly designed interfaces, inefficient workflows, and inadequate communication systems. The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into healthcare can further enhance these efforts by predicting patient risks, optimizing treatment plans, and automating routine tasks. AI, designed with human factors in mind, can augment healthcare providers’ capabilities, ensuring safety and efficiency. The future of healthcare lies in the seamless integration of human factors and AI, fostering a system that enhances provider performance and patient safety. Learning from aviation’s success in minimizing human error through human factors engineering, healthcare can achieve similar safety standards, ensuring a technologically advanced, safe, and human-centered healthcare system.
Assessment of cardiovascular risks, predisposing factors, and awareness of hypertension risk factors among civil servants in Nigeria
Authors: Eshiet Unyime Israel , Orebiyi Ekaette Paul , Umoh Idongesit Odudu , Etukudo Bella , Anwana Eno Edem , Gabriel Udeme , Nzedibe Okechi Eberechukwu
Published: December 2024

Objectives:

The development of hypertension is influenced by a range of factors including diet, obesity, physical activity, family history, and alcohol/tobacco use. This study was aimed at evaluating cardiovascular risks, predisposing risk factors for hypertension, as well as assessing awareness of hypertension and its associated risk factors among civil servants in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria.

Materials and Methods:

A cross-sectional survey carried out among civil servants working with the Akwa Ibom State Government at the State secretariat in Uyo, Nigeria. A convenient sampling technique was used in recruiting participants for the survey. Recruited participants were interviewed using a suitably designed, pre-tested data collection instrument. The interview was targeted at identifying predisposing risk factors for hypertension among the participants as well as assessing the respondents’ awareness of hypertension and its associated risk factors. Furthermore, the recruited participants were subjected to a cardiovascular risk assessment screening, namely, blood pressure check, pulse rate check, and body mass index determination. Descriptive statistics was used to summarize data, while Pearson’s Chi-square test (χ2) was used to assess the association between variables with statistical significance set at P < 0.05.

Results:

Two hundred and twenty-nine civil servants participated in this study. About 61.6% (141) of the study participants were female, while 129 (56.3%) of the participants had a positive family history of hypertension. About 41.0% (94) of the participants had blood pressure readings in the hypertensive range, with 48 (21.0%) of them being obese. The mean knowledge score of the risk factors for hypertension among the study participants was 5.61 (Standard deviation = ±3.309; Minimum = 0; Maximum = 10), with 36.2% (83) of the participants having a poor level of knowledge (score <5). There was no statistically significant relationship (P > 0.05) between participants’ knowledge of hypertension risk factors and their sociodemographic variables, family history of hypertension, and lifestyle.

Conclusion:

A significant proportion of the participants had a high risk for cardiovascular disorders. The prevalence of predisposing factors for hypertension among the civil servants was high. Knowledge of the risk factors for hypertension was less than optimal. There is a need for enhanced public health enlightenment campaigns on hypertension and its associated cardiovascular risks among this population.
Penetrating orbital trauma: Comprehensive review and meta-analysis of bullet injuries
Authors: Sulaiman Injam Ibrahim , Al-Wassiti Ahmed Shakir Ali , Bani Saad Mohammed , Mutar Mohammed Tareq , Abdalridha Rokaya H. , Al-Badri Sajjad G. , Elboraay Toka , Ismail Mustafa
Published: December 2024

Background:

Orbital bullet injuries resulting from high-velocity trauma pose significant clinical challenges due to the potential for severe ocular and systemic complications. This meta-analysis consolidates the existing body of knowledge on direct orbital bullet injuries with respect to clinical outcomes, management strategies, and long-term effects.

Methods:

The literature search was conducted by the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses, using databases such as PubMed and Scopus. Seventeen articles were reviewed, out of which six studies met the inclusion criteria. Extracted data included details on study design, sample size, patient demographics, projectile type, clinical presentation, imaging modalities used in establishing the diagnosis, surgical interventions performed, duration of follow-up, and the outcomes achieved. Data synthesis was done using fixed and random effects models; heterogeneity testing was assessed using the I2 statistic.

Results:

A total of 688 patients with orbital bullet injuries were analyzed. The average age years ranged from 7 to 58, with a predilection for the male gender, about 70%. These injuries caused marked visual impairment, which included optic nerve injuries, legal blindness, cornea injuries, hyphema, orbital fractures, vitreous hemorrhage, lid lacerations, cataracts, and retinal injuries. Optic nerve injuries exhibited substantial variability (I2 = 100%, H2 = 1.254 × 108). Legal blindness was common (I2 = 100%, H2 = 1.628 × 107), with high rates reported in conflict zones. Corneal injuries and hyphema were also prevalent, with significant heterogeneity observed (I2 = 100%, H2 = 8.183 × 106 for corneal injuries and I2 = 99.861%, H2 = 721.638 for hyphema). Only orbital fractures, vitreous hemorrhage, lid lacerations, cataracts, and retinal injuries showed very high heterogeneity with varying clinical presentation. Early surgical intervention and advanced imaging techniques played a very vital role in the management of these injuries and those which improved the prognosis of outcome.

Conclusion:

Orbital bullet injuries remain a great clinical challenge and are very variable in nature. This huge variability of injury patterns and outcomes enjoins that treatment must be individualized, with very early intervention, evolved imaging modalities, and thorough surgical management for the best possible improvement in the patient’s outcomes and prevention of long-term sequelae. Further studies should be done to come up with unified guidelines regarding the evaluation and treatment of such complex injuries.
Use of “enhanced contact endoscopy for pituitary surgery” in a collision sellar tumor (papillary craniopharyngioma + non-functional pituitary adenoma): Representative case illustration and two-dimensional operative video
Authors: Burgos-Sosa Erik , Julian-Mendoza Jose de Jesus , Mancilla-Mejía Francisco Javier , García-Guzmán Berenice , Ramírez-Espíndola Refugio , Curiel-Valdes Jose Jesus , Taylor-Martínez Mario A. , Dorantes-Argandar Agustín
Published: December 2024

Background:

Collision sellar tumors are rare disease entities. Less than 30 cases have been reported in the literature in the last 20 years. We present the case of one patient diagnosed with a collision sellar tumor and describe the use of Enhanced Contact Endoscopy for pituitary gland and tumoral identification not previously described in the literature.

Case Description:

The patient is a 57-year-old man who presented with visual field deficits and intense frontal headache accompanied by a slight hypothyroidism. Magnetic resonance imaging shows two different lesions in the sellar area, with a pendular effect of the pituitary stalk displaced to the side of the pituitary adenoma. The patient was operated on with an endoscopic endonasal subsellar approach, aiding with an enhanced contact endoscopy to demarcate the pituitary gland from the tumor adequately. Pathology diagnosis was compatible with pituitary adenoma (First lesion) and papillary craniopharyngioma (Second lesion). A short surgical video was added to complement the learning of the technique for enhanced contact endoscopy for a description of the microvasculature pattern.

Conclusion:

Collision sellar tumors are a rare pathology in the sellar region and could benefit from a variety of combined treatments for optimal outcomes. Enhanced contact endoscopy for pituitary surgery could be useful for distinguishing the normal pituitary gland from the tumor.
Comprehensive Landscape Analysis for Usable Real-World Wound Care Data
Authors: Vlad Lucian , Rolley Joseph , Vaezzadeh Shabnam , Gould Lisa , Fife Caroline , Driver Vickie , Kapasi Anokhi , Lantis II John , Kamani Sharmila , Pakkal Burak
Published: December 2024

Background. The Wound Care Collaborative Community (WCCC) aims to assess current usable real-world data (RWD) sources to determine which real-world databases (DBs) are suitable and usable for studying the natural history of chronic wounds. Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) do not fully reflect the complexity of patients with chronic wounds. Using RWD, establishment of a scientifically grounded “road map” for RCTs is needed to better navigate the real-world complexity of the patients with chronic wounds. The long-term objectives include identifying patients ineligible to receive evidence-based advanced treatment and diagnostic options, reducing patient suffering, and providing decision support for regulatory bodies, payers, and clinicians. Objective. To identify available and usable RWD on US chronic wound care patients, as an early step toward the WCCC’s objectives. Methods. Using B.R.I.D.G.E. TO DATA® methodology, the WCCC conducted a comprehensive RWD landscape analysis and systematically screened 34 potential sources for chronic wounds. Multiple data elements helped determine suitability and usability. Results. Four clinical US DBs have “high potential” for elucidating the natural history of chronic wounds; a fifth met the WCCC criteria but has data access restrictions. Conclusion. Identifying suitable, usable real-world DBs for research is complex. Only 1 DB was found that is fit for purpose and matches the goals to study the natural history of patients with chronic wounds.
The Effect of STEM-Based Biology Learning on Thinking Skills Student Criticism of Environmental Pollution Material
Authors: Ardini Wina , Wahidin  , Samuel Agus Triyanto
Published: December 2024

This research aims to determine the effect of STEM-based biology learning onthe critical thinking skills of class X MIPA students at SMA Negeri 4Tasikmalaya on environmental change material. The population in this studywas all 5 classes of class educate. Data collection was carried out by providing13 questions describing critical thinking skills. The data analysis techniqueused was the independent t test with the help of the SPSS version 25 forWindows application with a significance level of 5%. Based on hypothesistesting, it was found that STEM-based biology learning had a significant effectof 0.01 or a significance value of <0.05 on critical thinking skills. In theresearch results, the experimental class was superior to the control class,seen from the average score achieved in critical thinking skills. So it can beconcluded that STEM-based biology learning influences students' criticalthinking skills on environmental change material.
ВЛИЯНИЕ ПЛОДОВ КОРИАНДРА ПОСЕВНОГО И ФЕНХЕЛЯ ОБЫКНОВЕННОГО НА ПРОДУКТИВНЫЕ КАЧЕСТВА КУР-НЕСУШЕК В ПЕРИОД ПОЛОВОГО СОЗРЕВАНИЯ
Authors: Гавриков А.С. , Остренко К.С.
Published: December 2024

В настоящее время в Российской Федерации инициируется разработка технологий кормления птицы с использованием фитогенных добавок. Цель работы - изучение влияние добавки семян кориандра посевного и фенхеля обыкновенного на общее физиологическое состояние и продуктивность кур-несушек. Для проведения опыта было сформировано 3 группы кур кросса Хайсекс Браун (n=30) в возрасте 12 недель, Контрольная группа получала основной рацион без добавок. Опытные группы, начиная с 12-й недели получали стандартный рацион с добавлением обрушенных плодов кориандра посевного или фенхеля обыкновенного в количестве 1 г/сут. В группе кориандра были выше по отношению к контролю живая масса (Р<0,05) и яйценоскость (Р<0,1) в период интенсивной яйцекладки. Бракованные яйца чаще встречались в контрольной группе. По данным гематологического исследования, добавки кориандра и фенхеля не оказывают негативного влияния на состояние здоровья кур-несушек. Выявлена тенденция повышения доли желтка в составе яйца, что можно считать положительным эффектом фитогенов, поскольку в желтке имеются незаменимые жирные кислоты, витамины и другие полезные соединения. Заключили, что добавление обрушенных плодов кориандра в рацион кур-несушек оказывает положительное влияние на продуктивность и качество яиц.

Currently, the Russian Federation is initiating the development of poultry feeding technologies using phytogenic additives. The aim of the work is to study the effect of adding coriander and fennel on the general physiological state and productivity of laying hens during sexual maturity and oviposition. To conduct the experiment, 3 groups of laying hens of the Hise x Brown cross (n=30) aged 12 weeks were formed. The control group received the basic diet without additives. The experimental groups, starting from (at what age?) received a standard diet with the addition of ground coriander and fennel in the amount of 1 g / day. In the coriander group, live weight (P 0.05) and egg production (P 0.1) were higher in relation to the control during the peak of egg production. Defective eggs were more common in the control group. According to the hematological study, coriander and fennel additives do not have a negative effect on the health of laying hens. A tendency was revealed to increase the proportion of yolk in the egg, which can be considered a positive effect of phytogens, since the yolk contains essential fatty acids, vitamins and other useful compounds, and the protein only contains protein.
Некоторые аспекты международно-правового регулирования ограничений пропаганды
Authors: Бадина Д.А.
Published: December 2024

Актуальность темы статьи обусловлена тем, что ни одно современное демократически развитое государство не может существовать обособленно, в отрыве от международного сообщества, и Российская Федерация — не исключение. Россия является участником ряда международных правовых актов, которые представляют собой часть ядра источников конституционного права государства. В этой связи злободневным является вопрос, как практически на международном уровне осуществляется балансирование между правами граждан на свободное выражения мнения, ведение пропаганды, с одной стороны, и ограничением этих прав по определенным основаниям — с другой. Цель работы — исследование фундаментальных международных нормативных правовых актов, регулирующих ограничения свободы выражения мнений, проведения пропаганды, а также рассмотрение практических материалов, касающихся данной проблемы. Методологию исследования составляют индукция, анализ, сравнительно-правовой метод, синтез, а также метод сопоставительного анализа. В результате исследования проанализированы фундаментальные международные акты в области прав человека и гражданина на предмет закрепления свободы выражения мнений, пропаганды, а также установленные данными актами ограничения. Рассмотрены и сделаны выводы по сложившейся правоприменительной практике Комитета ООН по правам человека в рамках исследованных нормативных актов.

The relevance of the topic of the article is due to the fact that not a single modern democratically developed state can exist in isolation, in isolation from the international community, and the Russian Federation is no exception. Russia is a party to a number of international legal acts, which are part of the core of the sources of the constitutional law of the state. In this regard, the topical issue is how practically at the international level the balancing is carried out between the rights of citizens to freely express their opinions, conduct propaganda, on the one hand, and the restriction of these rights on certain grounds, on the other. The purpose of the work is to study fundamental international normative legal acts regulating restrictions on freedom of expression, propaganda, as well as consideration of practical materials related to this problem. The research methodology consists of induction, analysis, comparative legal method, synthesis, as well as the method of comparative analysis. As a result of the study, fundamental international acts in the field of human and civil rights were analyzed in order to secure freedom of expression, propaganda, as well as the restrictions established by these acts. Considered and made conclusions on the current law enforcement practice of the UN Committee on Human Rights in the framework of the studied normative acts.
Business processes digitalization in industry: assessing scrap metal contamination
Authors: Degtyareva V. V.
Published: December 2024

Currently, ferrous metallurgy industry is experiencing growing trends in the scrap indicator, which requires a more responsible attitude and effective methods in subsequent redistribution of the production chain. Forecasts of ferrous scrap market development in the perspective up to 2030 have been given. Facts about the increasing trends of machine vision application in the industrial sector as a result of “machine vision and industry” keyword clustering based on publications in the NCBI PubMed database have been presented. The object of the study is enterprises of metallurgical industry, in particular for ferrous metal scrap harvesting. The subject of the study is the process of scrap contamination assessment. Comparison of the traditional process of scrap assessment and the digital one (based on machine vision application), which are visualized in the form of the implementation steps sequence algorithms, has been carried out. The hypothesis about more effective use of machine vision technology in the technological production process of scrap metal contamination assessment when it is accepted for further processing in comparison with the technology based on visual-expert assessment has been confirmed. The prospects for the use and commercialization of the digital service have been presented, as well as its impact on transparency and reliability of interaction among contractors. Scientific methods such as bibliometric analysis of literature devoted to the issues of applied methods and techniques for assessing the quality of unloaded scrap, comparative analysis of applied processes for assessing scrap clogging based on the presented algorithms, as well as synthesis methods that summarize the results were used.
Digital innovations of absolut factoring ltd as a guarantee of an enterprise’s competitiveness in modern conditions
Authors: Zinina O. V. , Olentsova J. A.
Published: December 2024

Innovative technologies emergence has changed the focus of new organizations development. In today’s realities, in order to take the lead in any given market, it is necessary to offer up-to-date ways of doing business and solving problems. This rule applies to both the largest and established organizations and emerging ones, whose main task is to ensure a favorable start and a significant advantage over big competitors. The study is relevant because digital innovation has not yet as well developed in the Russian domestic market in certain areas. For this reason, even the simplest innovation that accelerates any important processes will serve as a huge lever to manage the market situation. When introducing a completely new technology, large competitors will not be able to provide the same stability, speed, or reliability, despite the amount of funds available. The key objective of the research is to develop a digital innovation that can improve competitiveness and efficiency of a selected organization with a particular specificity. Its outcome can be development and an example of implementing an effective tool that will enable factoring companies to grow their business and provide SMEs with access to finance.
Blueprints for the Geometric Control of NHC-CDI Isomers
Authors: Day Craig , Grabicki Niklas , Chu Daniel , Keys Allison , Singhal Avni , Vennelakanti Vyshnavi , Kevlishvili Ilia , Gómez-Bombarelli Rafael , Kulik Heather , Johnson Jeremiah
Published: December 2024

Rational control of the 3-dimensional presentation of atoms—stereochemistry—lies at the heart of syn-thetic organic and materials chemistries. Here, we report detailed computational studies on conforma-tional isomerism in N-heterocyclic carbene–carbodiimide (NHC–CDI) zwitterionic adducts. By varying the steric and electronic parameters of the NHC and CDI components, criteria for controlling isomerization (thermo)dynamics and predicting energetically favorable conformations were identi-fied. These criteria were validated experimentally using a novel synthetic approach to NHC-CDIs, which exploits the thermodynamic equilibrium be-tween sterically unencumbered NHC dimers to ac-cess NHC-CDI adducts with low barriers to confor-mational isomerization, including the first example of an (E/E)-NHC-CDI.
Digital Catalysis Platform (DigCat): A Gateway to Big Data and AI-Powered Innovations in Catalysis
Authors: Zhang Di , Li Hao
Published: December 2024

The Digital Catalysis Platform (DigCat) is a pioneering integration of big data and AI tailored for catalysis materials research. It encompasses over 400,000 experimental performance data for electro-, thermo-, and photocatalysts, alongside more than 300,000 catalyst structures. DigCat provides dynamic data visualization, precise literature tracking, and an intelligent Q&A assistant, supported by advanced tools for on-the-cloud microkinetic modeling, machine learning force field training, and regression model development. Additionally, it features an AI-powered chatbot grounded in catalytic data and knowledge. As a pioneering digital catalysis platform and the world’s first publicly released full electrocatalysis experimental database, DigCat has made valuable contributions to advancing the field. Since its official launch in January 2024, the platform has been upgraded to Version 3.0 as of September 2024. Access DigCat at https://www.digcat.org.