bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
The Private College Public Relations Management: A Case Study
Authors: Soim Soim , Haryanti Nik , Nurohmah Nilam
Published: January 2023

This article aims to analyze public relations strategies in improving the quality of education, public relations strategies in improving the image of education, and information management carried out by a private university in East Java. A qualitative descriptive approach is carried out with a case study at IAI Pangeran Diponegoro Nganjuk. Research data was obtained through interviews, observation, and documentation. The results found that public relations at the university did not have a specific organizational structure, but everyone acted as public relations and carried out the function of public relations; the programs those public relations have launched must be implemented to improve the quality of education that refers to the standard process and educational outcomes. The public relations strategy is determined to improve the image through regular program procurement, collaboration with the government, mass media, figures who have mass, other institutions, providing scholarships, and community service. It uses a vertical, horizontal, and diagonal communication system to communicate with the internal public, while the external public uses a two-way communication system.
Evaluation of the Adiwiyata Program at Junior High School 23 Palembang
Authors: Sangia Rohib Andrianto , Andrias Andrias , Efendi Efendi , Alfiyanto Afif , Pramana Ida Bagus Benny Surya Adi
Published: January 2023

This study aimed to analyze the evaluation of the Adiwiyata program at State Junior High School 23 Palembang. This type of research is field research carried out in the scene or the place where the symptoms being investigated occur. This research approach uses a qualitative approach. Data collection techniques using observation, interviews, and documentation. The data analysis technique used is data analysis technique according to Miles and Huberman, namely data reduction, data presentation, and verification. Evaluation of the Adiwiyata program at State Junior High School 23 Palembang focused on using the CIPP (Context, Input, Process, Product) evaluation. Supporting factors for the Adiwiyata program at 23 Palembang Junior High School, namely 1) a large schoolyard for planting and gardening; 2) the presence of ornamental plants; 3) availability of water channels; 4) availability of waste bank; 5) greenhouse; 6) the presence of a clean water tank; 7) schoolyard using paving blocks; 8) budget funds from the government for the Adiwiyata program; and 9) school residents work together. The factor that hinders the implementation of the Adiwiyata program at SMPN 23 Palembang is the COVID-19 pandemic, where students cannot participate in the Adiwiyata program activities at their schools. In addition, students lack awareness of the environment, so teachers must provide education and socialization to them about Adiwiyata to create healthy schools that care about the environment.
Capacity Building in an Effort of Improving Blended Learning-Based Teacher' Competence during Covid-19 Pandemic
Authors: Nurwakhidah Ana , Suganda Asep Dadan
Published: January 2023

The purpose of this study is to find out the effectiveness of implementing capacity building for teachers during the COVID-19 pandemic on the basis of blended learning. This study used a descriptive qualitative approach. Data collection was obtained from informants and the behavior of people who were observed, interviewed, and documented as the primary data sources and the rest was secondary data from available document. The choice of this learning model is one of the decisions taken by considering situations and conditions that meet the learning model. However, since the teachers' competency in implementing blended learning were various in level, it is necessary to provide assistance in implementing blended learning through capacity building. Capacity building is a strategy to increase the effectiveness, responsiveness and efficiency of teachers’ performance in the context of blended learning. As lecturers have the obligation of the Tri Dharma of Higher Education, one of which is community service, lecturers can participate in mentoring blended learning through capacity building. The result of this study is that teachers already have online classes and can manage online classes and take care of classes using blended learning.
The Suitability of Faculty Performance to Student Graduate Profiles: A Tracing Study of IIM Surakarta Students
Authors: Khasanah Uswatun
Published: January 2023

This study aims to determine the suitability of the work fields of IIM Surakarta graduates in improving the quality and relevance of the higher education curriculum. This quantitative descriptive research uses a survey approach. In general, the implementation of this tracer study includes three steps: 1) development of concepts and instruments; 2) data collection; 3) data analysis and reporting. This research was conducted at the Faculty of Tarbiyah IIM Surakarta. Respondents and samples consisted of 25 graduates drawn from a total population of 110 graduates. The primary data in this study were all respondents who were taken randomly (random sampling). As for secondary data, researchers took scientific research sources in books, journals, proceedings, and others. Data were obtained by making an online questionnaire, and the results of data collection were then analyzed. At the same time, the study results revealed that the alumni's assessment of the performance of the Tarbiyah Faculty IIM Surakarta was from 25 respondents and consisted of nine indicators, 67% very good, 25% good, and 7% adequate. Absorption data revealed that 100% of alumni have worked and are spread across various fields for 60% of teachers, 16% of lecturers, 8% of company employees, 4% of civil servants, and 12% of the private sector. Alumni satisfaction data also show very good numbers. Furthermore, the relevance of the curriculum at the Tarbiyah Faculty includes 1) Alumni assessment of the suitability of lecture material with the work they are engaged in, showing 79% of alumni assessing the suitability of course material and work > 86%. A total of 17% stated that the suitability was 76%-85%, while 4% stated that the suitability was less than 50%. 2) Most alumni need information technology and English language skills in the workplace. 3) Get input and suggestions from alumni. The tracer study results for IIM Surakarta graduates shows a good category. The types of work are diverse but are dominated by education. The relevance of the Tarbiyah Faculty IIM curriculum is quite good, especially in terms of technical ability, confidence, and theoretical knowledge.
Developing ESP E-Module Course Design Based on Canva for Law Students
Authors: Septiyani Rini Dwi , Aslami Iron Fajrul , Surani Dewi
Published: January 2023

This research aims to design and develop an e-module based on the Canva application, and to measure the validity of e-modules for legal English courses. This research uses Research and Development (R&D) research with the ADDIE model with five stages: first is analyzing problems, potentials, and needs. The second is designing to determine a Canva Digital application used, the design/theme of the e-module, and the format. The third stage is developing the design that has been previously designed by being developed through the Canva Digital application. In addition, at this stage, a validation test is carried out for the validators, namely material experts, linguists, and media experts to determine the feasibility of the E Module that has been designed and developed. The fourth stage is Implementation. In this stage, a practicality test and effectiveness test are carried out on law students of Bina Bangsa University. The final stage is evaluation, at this evaluation stage, is the stage of implementing digital Canva-based E-Module improvements that have been given input by material experts, linguists, and media experts. Quantitative and qualitative data were employed to collect the information. The finding reveals the average score for eligibility assessment results is 91,79 %, the average score for practicality assessment results is 91,86 %, and the average score for effectiveness is  84,66. In conclusion, the eligibility assessment is classified as "Very Eligible," the practicality  assessment derived from the lecture and student practicality questionnaires is classified as "Very Practical," and the effectiveness assessment derived from the evaluation activities is classified as "Very Effective." E-module teaching materials can be utilized by lecturers as an alternate method of transmitting information on the ESP to law students, allowing lecturers to provide information in a manner that captures students' attention. The e-module was still developed utilizing an online connection, which presented a challenge for students who did not have consistent access to the internet. For the upcoming research, it is strongly suggested that an electronic module be developed that can be accessed either online or off.
Implementation of Independent Learning-Independent Campus at the Department Level of Islamic Religious Higher Education
Authors: Khaeroni Khaeroni , Sabri Sabri
Published: January 2023

This study describes the implementation of an independent learning-free campus and the obstacles encountered in implementing an independent learning-free campus at the department level. The research approach used is qualitative. Data collection techniques include observation, interviews, and documentation. The data obtained from the research results were processed using qualitative descriptive data analysis. Implementing an independent learning-free campus at the department level begins with redesigning the curriculum and following the basic principles of an independent learning-independent campus. However, there are obstacles to implementing the independent study-free campus policy at the department level. First, the understanding of independent learning-an independent campus among lecturers and staff still needs to be cohesive and comprehensive. Second, the department needs to readjust the curriculum involving multiple stakeholders. Third, the availability of human resources. Fourth, the need for apprentice and entrepreneurial partners. Fifth, there is no particular unit that handles independent learning-independence campuses. Sixth, the learning process is less interactive. Lastly, socialization still needs to be carried out massively, especially in departments. Recommendations for these findings can be used as a basis for policymakers in implementing an independent learning-free campus.
Strength and Elasticity Properties of Denim Fabrics Produced from Core Spun Yarns
Authors: BALCI KILIÇ Gonca
Published: January 2023

In parallel to the development of new fiber and yarn technologies, different fibers and yarns have been used in denim fabric production and breaking the market dominance of 100% cotton yarn in the denim market. In recent years, the use of elastane fibers for denim fabric production has rapidly increased thanks to their movement comfort. This study examines the strength and elasticity properties of denim fabrics containing core yarns. For this purpose, different weft yarns were used in the production of denim fabrics. While 100% cotton ring yarn was used as warp for all fabrics, cotton ring, cotton OE-rotor, cotton / PBT-elastane dual-core, cotton / elastane core and cotton-PET / elastane core yarns were used as weft. Within the scope of the study, tensile strength, tearing strength and bursting strength tests were carried out on denim fabrics. In addition, denim fabrics contain core spun yarns were tested for elasticity in the weft direction, which is the direction of core yarns used. When the results were examined, it was seen that tensile strength and breaking elongation are higher for the fabrics containing core yarn in general. Fabrics produced with dual-core yarns have the highest tearing strength values. In addition, the bursting strength values of fabrics containing core yarn are higher than fabrics without core yarn. It was seen that the elasticity values of denim fabrics produced using core yarn are generally above 50%. However, the highest growth values were seen in the fabrics with the highest elasticity.
Future tense and narrativity
Authors: Nau Nicole , Spraunienė Birutė
Published: January 2023

This paper investigates the use of future tense in Latvian and Lithuanian in narratives that are located in the past. The data come from corpora of the contemporary languages as well as from folktales documented at the end of the th century. While the future is rarely used to tell a story, it does appear in certainfunctions in clauses that meet all or a part of the criteria for narrative clauses. We distinguish three groups of uses, with increasing degrees of narrativity: (a) imagined and evoked scenarios, including evoking habitual actions in the past; (b) a cluster of meanings around intention, imminence, and inception; (c) functions of text organization and grounding. Purely textual functions are only found in the folktales. Furthermore, switches to future tense in Baltic folktales show similar characteristics as switches from past to present tense in Romance languages.
Hijos del volcán.
Authors:   Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, Navarro Fuentes Carlos Alberto
Published: January 2023

Pobo Tzu' - Noche blanca (México, 2021). Dirección: Tania Ximena, Yollotl Gómez Alvarado. Producción: Mónica Moreno, Julia Cherrier, Julio Chavezmontes. Guión: Tania Ximena, Yollotl Gómez Alvarado. Fotografía: Yollotl Gómez Alvarado. Sonido: Carlos Edelmiro, Javier Umpierrez. Diseño de Producción: Tania Ximena. Edición: Liora Spilk, Yibran Assuad. Compañía Productora: Piano Producciones, Calouma Films, Simplemente. Género: Documental. Poemas: Trinidad Díaz Arias.
Ciudades americanas y europeas transformadas por una visión literaria.
Authors:   Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara, Rodríguez Jiménez Antonio
Published: January 2023

La memoria de los poetas contiene una visión más lírica que histórica sobre las ciudades y esto permitirá sostener diferentes miradas sobre lugares emblemáticos del mundo en un entorno evolutivo: desde su esplendor hasta su destrucción, descubrimiento de sus restos y recuperación. El objetivo de este trabajo de investigación es observar la metamorfosis a la que someten los poetas con sus miradas el entorno urbano y lo transforman. Cada contemplación poética añadió un nuevo valor diferente incluso a las mismas urbes. La visión del pasado y la del presente son tan diferentes no por las transformaciones urbanas a las que se sometieron sino por la manera que las veían los creadores. Hasta el punto de que una urbe emblemática, que estuvo inmersa en su ruina permanente durante siglos, también se transformó gracias a esa mirada mágica y deslumbrante, que culminó en una reflexión de creadores contemporáneos, que, entre unos y otros, ofrecen ciudades diferentes, según el estado de ánimo de cada mirada creativa. Entre otras, se aborda Medina Azahara, ciudad palatina del siglo X, erigida durante el califato de Abderramán III, en pleno esplendor de los Omeyas. También se afrontan las visiones líricas de ciudades como Córdoba, París, Roma, Florencia, Venecia, Praga, Nueva York, Madrid, Granada, Lisboa, La Habana, o México, entre otras. En definitiva, se muestra cómo a través de esas miradas privilegiadas, que resplandecen el pasado, se pueden conservar en el presente y dinamizarlas para el imaginario futuro.
Entre Mallarmé y Octavio Paz: un acercamiento a poético.
Authors:   Universidad Iberoamericana, Pérez Pérez Joselyn
Published: January 2023

El presente artículo tiene como propósito señalar afinidades poéticas entre Octavio Paz y Mallarmé; esto para consolidar una propuesta poética entendida como sacra. Para ello, el trabajo indagatorio busca explicar cómo dialoga el poeta mexicano con Mallarme y sus impresiones. En este sentido, el presente estudio analiza las exploraciones que hizo Paz con el poema Un coup de désy los alcances de este análisis poético, mismos que le ayudaron a consolidar uno de los ensayos más importante del poeta que será El arco y la lira. El trabajo explora las resonancias que tuvo la poética de Mallarmé frente a Octavio Paz, misma que permite percibir la poesía como un acto místico cuyo eje será la construcción un espacio para al lenguaje poético a través del silencio.
La construcción del dialogismo y la otredad en un texto religioso protestante: La Lanza de San Baltazar, análisis de algunos ejemplos.
Authors:   Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Sima Lozano Eyder Gabriel
Published: January 2023

El objetivo del presente estudio es analizarla construcción del dialogismo y la representación del otro en La Lanza de San Baltazar, primer periódico protestante de la ciudad de Guadalajara, editado a finales del siglo XIX. Se sigue la teoría del dialogismo enunciada por Bajtin, con una metodología de análisis documental y de contenido, enfocada en algunos fragmentos, ejemplos y el encabezado del periódico. La polifonía de voces dialógicas del discurso en conflicto y tensión social incorpora las del adversario, junto alas doctrinas aliadas del emisor protestante. Así, el dialogismo ampliamente abierto que se trabaja en el texto muestra las condiciones históricas y religiosas entre católicos y protestantes, consecuencia del arribo de las misiones de la nueva fe en el escenario.
La dramaturgia del poder en Diario de la guerra del cerdo.
Authors:   Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Quintana Roo, Reyes Velázquez Amparo
Published: January 2023

Diario de la guerra del cerdo es una novela de contrastes. El sueño y la realidad; lo viejo y lo joven; la vida y la muerte; el amor y el odio...confabulan en la caótica turbulencia de una más de las infames dictaduras que ha vivido Argentina. La novela Diario de la guerra del cerdo es el marco narrativo que exhibe la dramaturgia del poder farrellista, bajo el binomio: orden y desorden. Lo salvaje hiperbólico, encarnado en la juventud, es el drama político del fenómeno totalitario argentino.
Andrés Pérez, Maderista.Texto porfiriano.
Authors:   Universidad Christopher Newport, Anzzolin Kevin
Published: January 2023

La obra del escritor Mariano Azuela se ha considerado una piedra de toque para apreciar la Narrativa de la Revolución Mexicana. Aquí, me propongo abordar un estudio de Azuela que destaque mejor la visión ambigua del autor –sobre todo, cómo su cuento Andrés Pérez, maderista--nos remiten a unos de los temas más destacados del porfiriato: el periodismo y el saber científico. Al enfocarnos solamente en cómo el cuento de Azuela describe la lucha armada, corremos el riesgo de ignorar el contexto histórico en el que apreció la obra de Azuela y pasar por alto su complejidad.
Guadalajara, un rostro desdibujado.
Authors:   Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Morán Gómez Andrea Leticia , Morales Alcántara Anuar Alejandro ,   Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Floresmerino Velasco Alejandra ,   Universidad de Guadalajara, Salinas Rodríguez Salvador Alejandro Nimzaj ,   Universidad de Guadalajara, Ortega-Villaseñor Humberto ,   Departamento de Estudios Literarios / Universidad de Guadalajara
Published: January 2023

En este análisis se abordan dos dificultades persistentes de la ciudad de Guadalajara, Jalisco, México derivadas de la pérdida del patrimonio arquitectónico de su centro histórico y la reproducción centenaria de patrones de exclusión social por vivir al oriente o al poniente de esa urbe. Para ello, con un enfoque interdisciplinario se examinan a fondo las causas y consecuencias de estos dos ámbitos de dilemas complejos y arraigados. Se estima necesario formular una propuesta de solución que involucre el diseño y operación de una página web basada en mapas y señalizaciones, que pueda ser codificada y consultada fácilmente por jóvenes entre 15 y 30 años. Se busca reconstruir la fisonomía física de calles y edificaciones extintas para ese segmento de la población y hacer parodia de los comportamientos típicos, imaginario e idiosincrasia de los moradores que viven en uno u otro lado de la ciudad.
Un viajero en tierras salvajes: La resignificación de la raza y la otredad en el filme Get out de Jordan Peele.
Authors:   Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Acuña Karina Monserrat , Ponce Díaz Romano ,   Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Ávila González Iván ,   Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo
Published: January 2023

A partir de la postura transdisciplinar de los Estudios Visuales y los Estudios Decoloniales, se presenta un análisis intratextual del discurso ideológico del filme Get Out (2017) de Jordan Peele. Por medio de una lectura enfocada en el intentio operis de la obra, la cual recurre a los modelos de análisis narrativo de Zavala (2014), Žižek (2009) y Yepez (2020), se propone que la obra de Peele se apropia de las convenciones genéricas del cine de terror occidental, para emitir una alegoresis donde se realiza una inversión de la representación de la otredad (Quijano, 2014; Smith, 2017). A lo largo de este texto, se argumenta que —dentro del filme— la blanquitud (Echeverría, 2010; Frankenberg, 1993; Morrison, 1992) y los valores de la sociedad liberal americana son las fuentes del terror y amenaza para el protagonista afroamericano. Tal resignificación de la otredad se contrapone a la estructura canónica de la cinematografía homogénica, donde la trama presenta a los personajes principales internándose al mundo amenazante de las poblaciones racializadas. Tal estructura tiene como representante a la película Holocausto Caníbal (Deodato, 1980) y antecedentes literarios como Corazón de las tinieblas de Conrad (2013). En ese sentido, es posible afirmar que históricamente el cine de terror ha producido representaciones culturales donde las personas racializadas se muestran como cuerpos peligrosos y abyectos (Montes, 2017). La propuesta estética de Peele, que marca una distancia con los discursos hegemónicos, sólo es posible explicarse desde la coyuntura histórica y las tensiones raciales que actualmente ocurren en Estados Unidos y que tienen una trayectoria histórica en los movimientos sociales en torno a los procesos de racialización en dicho país.
Ocio, trabajo y sentido de la vida bajo el neoliberalismo.
Authors:   Escuela de Humanidades y Educación / Tecnológico de Monterrey, Godínez-Burgos Emmanuel
Published: January 2023

Este artículo discute de forma crítica la visión neoliberal del trabajo como pasión y su papel en la pregunta por el sentido de la vida. Expongo dos alternativas a este enfoque. La primera, que juzgo insuficiente, se basa en una perspectiva hedonista del ocio. La segunda se centra en lo que llamo “ocio significativo”, el cual se caracteriza por actividades autotélicas, con una estructura autopropagadora y que se guían por el principio aristotélico. Este tipo de ocio ofrece una alternativa de sentido que se aleja de la productividad neoliberal y del individualismo consumista.
INTRINSIC MOTIVATION AND CREATIVITY: THE ROLE OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY AND KNOWLEDGE INTEGRATION ABILITY IN FACILITATING CREATIVITY
Authors: Adeel Ahmad , Batool Samreen , Madni Zain-ul-Abdeen
Published: January 2023

Creativity is a psychological phenomenon mainly affected by the motivation of employees. Nonetheless conflicting results can be found in the literature for the link between intrinsic motivationcreativity relationship. The purpose of this research is to reinvestigate this inconsistent relationship. We took a technological perspective to determine whether technology had an answer to this question. We conducted a laboratory experiment with 119 newly hired bankers of the same batch in four different training sessions to generate creative ideas to solve business problems. Here, intrinsic motivation and digital-technology-use were both manipulated, independently. For field study, data was collected from 467 employees and their respective 41 supervisors working at a software house in Pakistan. Using lab and field data in two studies, we analysed data with Mplus for random coefficient models. We also performed a satorra-bentlerdifference test, using the log-likelihood method with scaling correction factor. Drawing on the motivation-opportunity-ability framework for intrinsic motivation-creativity relationship, we found that knowledge integration ability enhances the potential of employees to generate creative ideas. Based on a lab experiment and a field study, we found that creativity is contingent upon the technological opportunity provided to employees directly and indirectly by affecting their ability to integrate knowledge. Our research suggests that providing employees with relevant technological tools and ensuring utilisation of these technologies will fuel higher levels of employee creativity. Technological initiatives will help struggling economies to boost their creative potential. This research has made a significant contribution by bringing together creativity and digital technology literature.
HEAVY WORK INVESTMENT AND ITS PREMISES
Authors: Kaygin, Erdogan , Kavak Onur , Topcuoglu Ethem
Published: January 2023

There exist some concepts such as workaholism, career satisfaction, work-life balance, work commitment and financial needs, which cause workers to put in more effort at the workplace and subsequently, an increase in their working hours. The main reason why these concepts are called premises is related to the fact that they are defined as factors leading heavy work investment (HWI) in the literature. Overworking has been a concept which could be measured only through time during work until recently, however, it is currently regarded as a concept which covers much more than heavy work as a result of HWI. The present study contributes to the literature by determining the interaction of HWI with its premises. In order to determine whether HWI is formed with effort or via time dimensions and which premises have been effective in its formation, 372 people working in Kars were surveyed on HWI and its premises. The data collected were analysed through Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) and Analysis of Moment Structures (AMOS). Due to the limited number of studies on HWI in the literature, the effect of premises on HWI was investigated by developing more than one model. In fact, HWI-Time Commitment (TC) had a negative mediation effect between career satisfaction and premises while HWI-Work Intensity (WI) did not have any effect.
N-linked glycosylation of N48 is required for equilibrative nucleoside transporter 1 (ENT1) function
Authors: Bicket Alex , Coe Imogen
Published: January 2023

Human equilibrative nucleoside transporter 1 (hENT1) transports nucleosides and nucleoside analogue drugs across cellular membranes and is necessary for the uptake of many anti-cancer, anti-parasitic and anti-viral drugs. Previous work, and in silico prediction, suggest that hENT1 is glycosylated at Asn48 in the first extracellular loop of the protein and that glycosylation plays a role in correct localization and function of hENT1. Site-directed mutagenesis of wild-type (wt) hENT1 removed potential glycosylation sites. Constructs (wt 3xFLAG-hENT1, N48Q-3xFLAG-hENT1 or N288Q-3xFLAG-hENT2) were transiently transfected into HEK293 cells and cell lysates were treated with or without peptide-N-glycosidase F (PNGase-F), followed by immunoblotting analysis. Substitution of N48 prevents hENT1 glycosylation, confirming a single N-linked glycosylation site. N48Q-hENT1 protein is found at the plasma membrane in HEK293 cells but at lower levels compared with wt hENT1 based on S-(4-nitrobenzyl)-6-thioinosine (NBTI) binding analysis (wt 3xFLAG-ENT1 B-max, 41.5+/-2.9 pmol/mg protein; N48Q-3xFLAG-ENT1 B-max, 13.5+/-0.45 pmol/mg protein) and immunofluorescence microscopy. Although present at the membrane, chloroadenosine transport assays suggest that N48Q-hENT1 is non-functional (wt 3xFLAG-ENT1, 170.80+/-44.01 pmol/mg protein; N48Q-3xFLAG-ENT1, 57.91+/-17.06 pmol/mg protein; mock-transfected 74.31+/-19.65 pmol/mg protein). Co-immunoprecipitation analyses suggest that N48Q ENT1 is unable to interact with self or with wt hENT1. Based on these data we propose that glycosylation at N48 is critical for the localization, function and oligomerization of hENT1. 
So, you want to host an inclusive and accessible conference?
Authors: Barrows Ana Sofia , A. Sukhai Mahadeo , Coe Imogen
Published: January 2023

[p.1]: "In 2017 at the Gender Summit in Montreal, Québec, Chief Science Advisor of Canada, Dr. Mona Nemer, stated the importance of promoting diversity in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). She emphasized that “increasing the number and impact of women and other members of underrepresented groups in STEM requires the concerted efforts of our entire society—including governments, scientific organizations, research granting agencies, and educational institutions” (Nemer 2017). The following year, the Tri-Council (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council) created an Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Action Plan, with one of its key objectives being the development of initiatives to foster inclusive participation in the research system (Canada Research Coordinating Committee 2018). The aim of these initiatives is to increase participation of the four designated groups—women, persons with disabilities, members of visible minorities or racialized groups, and Indigenous Peoples—and members of the LGBTQ2+ communities as mandated by the Tri-Council (Government of Canada 2019)."
An ultrafast enzyme-free acoustic technique for detaching adhered cells in microchannels
Authors: Salari Alinaghi , Appak-Baskoy Sila , Coe Imogen , Tsai Scott , Kolios Michael
Published: January 2023

Adherent cultured cells are widely used biological tools for a variety of biochemical and biotechnology applications, including drug screening and gene expression analysis. One critical step in culturing adherent cells is the dissociation of cell monolayers into single-cell suspensions. Different enzymatic and non-enzymatic methods have been proposed for this purpose. Trypsinization, the most common enzymatic method for dislodging adhered cells, can be detrimental to cells, as it can damage cell membranes and ultimately cause cell death. Additionally, all available techniques require a prolonged treatment duration, typically on the order of minutes (5-10 min). Dissociation of cells becomes even more challenging in microfluidic devices, where, due to the nature of low Reynolds number flow and reduced mixing efficiency, multiple washing steps and prolonged trypsinization may be necessary to treat all cells. Here, we report a novel acoustofluidic method for the detachment of cells adhered onto a microchannel surface without exposing the cells to any enzymatic or non-enzymatic chemicals. This method enables a rapid (i.e., on the order of seconds), cost-effective, and easy-to-operate cell detachment strategy, yielding a detachment efficiency of similar to 99% and cellular viability similar to that of the conventional trypsinization method. Also, as opposed to biochemical-based techniques (e.g., enzymatic), in our approach, cells are exposed to the dissociating agent (i.e., substrate-mediated acoustic excitation and microstreaming flow) only for as long as they remain attached to the substrate. After dissociation, the effect of acoustic excitation is reduced to microstreaming flow, therefore, minimizing unwanted effects of the dissociating agent on the cell phenotype. Additionally, our results suggest that cell excitation at acoustic powers lower than that required for complete cell detachment can potentially be employed for probing the adhesion strength of cell-substrate attachment. This novel approach can, therefore, be used for a wide range of lab-on-a-chip applications.
Surface-attached sulfonamide containing quaternary ammonium antimicrobials for textiles and plastics
Authors: Caschera Alexander , Mistry Kamlesh B. , Bedard Joseph , Ronan Evan , Ahmed Syed Moiz , Khan Aman U. , Lough Alan J , Wolfaardt Gideon , Foucher Daniel
Published: January 2023

With the risks associated with healthcare-associated infections and the rise of antibiotic resistant microorganisms, there is an important need to control the proliferation of these factors in hospitals, retirement homes and other institutions. This work explores the development and application of a novel class of sulfonamide-based quaternary ammonium antimicrobial coatings, anchored to commercially and clinically relevant material surfaces. Synthesized in high yields (60–97%), benzophenone-anchored antimicrobials were spray-coated and UV grafted onto plastic surfaces, while silane-anchored variants were adhered to select textiles via dip-coating. Surface modified samples were characterised by advancing contact angle, anionic dye staining, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and atomic force microscopy. After verifying coating quality through the above characterization methods, microbiological testing was performed on batch samples in conditions that simulate the natural inoculation of surfaces and objects (solid/air) and water containers (solid/liquid). Using the previously established Large Drop Inoculum (LDI) protocol at solid/air interfaces, all treated samples showed a full reduction (105–107 CFU) of viable Arthrobacter sp., S. aureus, and E. coli after 3 h of contact time. Additional testing of the walls of plastic LDPE vials treated with a UV-cured sulfonamide antimicrobial at a solid/liquid interface using the newly developed Large Reservoir Inoculum (LRI) protocol under static conditions revealed a complete kill (>106 reduction) of Gram-positive Arthrobacter sp., and a partial kill (>104 reduction) of Gram-negative E. coli within 24–48 h of contact.
An international internship on social development led by Canadian nursing students: Empowering learning
Authors: Metersky Kateryna , Zanchetta Margareth , Schwind Jasna , IV Franklin F. Gorospe , Santiago Lira
Published: January 2023

Background

A Canadian nursing student-led knowledge dissemination project on health promotion for social development was implemented with local professionals and communities in Brazil.

Objectives

(a) to identify how student-interns contrasted Canadian and Brazilian cultural and social realities within a primary healthcare context from a social development perspective; (b) to examine how philosophical underpinnings, including social critical theory and notions of social justice, guided student-interns in acknowledging inequalities in primary healthcare in Brazil; and (c) to participate in the debate on the contribution of Canadian nursing students to the global movement for social development.

Design and Setting

A qualitative appraisal of short-term outcomes of an international internship in the cities of Birigui & Araçatuba (São Paulo-Brazil).

Participants

Four Canadian fourth-year undergraduate nursing students enrolled in a metropolitan university program.

Methods

Recruitment was through an email invitation to the student-interns, who accepted, and signed informed consent forms. Their participation was unpaid and voluntary. One-time individual interviews were conducted at the end of their internships. Transcriptions of the audio-recorded interviews were coded using the qualitative software program ATLAS ti 6.0. The findings were analyzed using thematic analysis.

Results

Student-interns' learning unfolded from making associations among concepts, new ideas, and their previous experiences, leading to a personal transformation through which they established new conceptual and personal connections. The two main themes revealed by the thematic analysis were dichotomizing realities, that is, acknowledging the existence of “two sides of each situation,” and discovering an unexpected reciprocity between global and urban health. Furthermore, the student-interns achieved personal and professional empowerment.

Conclusions

The knowledge gained from the international experience helped the student-interns learn how to collaborate with Brazilian society's sectors to improve the social conditions of a “marginalized population”. Student-interns became aware of their inner power to promote change by making invisible inequity visible in their own terms.
Nursing students’ international placement experience: an arts-informed Narrative Inquiry
Authors: Schwind Jasna , Zanchetta Margareth , Metersky Kateryna , IV Franklin F. Gorospe
Published: January 2023

  

Research shows that high cultural competence is most often acquired through both the theoretical education and the practical experiences within the international contexts. The purpose of this project evaluation was to learn from four undergraduate nursing students, who spent three-months in a Brazilian community, how they experienced their international placement. Students’ emotive responses to their international placement were elicited using the creative Narrative Reflective Process, which is informed by the Narrative Inquiry qualitative framework. This process included stories, memory box, metaphor and drawing, and creative writing. The generated creative data were reflected upon by the participants and key narrative threads teased out. The overarching findings speak to the transcultural exchange that took place: students went to teach the local population of Brazil about the social determinants of health from the Canadian perspective, while in turn learning life lessons from their hosts that enriched their personal and professional ways of being.
Patient roles in primary care interprofessional teams: a constructivist grounded theory of patient and health care provider perspectives
Authors: Metersky Kateryna
Published: January 2023

Health care providers are increasingly asked to work in interprofessional teams to enhance the care provided to and health outcomes of their patients. However, there is little evidence on how to include patients in meaningful roles on these teams to support their health monitoring and management. The purpose of this study was to gain insight into roles that patients can assume within their health care teams and to understand the conditions and processes required for patient roles to be enacted. Ten patients and 10 health care providers from two Family Health Teams in Southwestern Ontario, Canada, participated in individual interviews to learn about their perspectives on patient roles in teams. Data collection and analysis strategies generated theoretical concepts, and member-checking interviews provided final feedback on the framework. This study resulted in a comprehensive framework of two roles and the conditions and processes required for patient-health care provider interactions within primary care interprofessional teams. Further researchers could use this framework to build knowledge of patient roles in interprofessional teams across varying health care settings and patient populations.
Patient roles within interprofessional teams: A scoping review
Authors: Metersky Kateryna , Orchard Carole , Adams Tracey , Hurlock-Chorostecki Christina
Published: January 2023

Background

There is a lack of understanding of the ways in which patients can participate in their interprofessional teams (IPTs). Healthcare providers (HCPs) require further clarity on how patients can participate in such teams.

Purpose

This scoping review addressed the following question: “What is known about patient participation in IPTs and the roles patients can enact in these teams from HCPs' and patients’ perspectives?”

Method

(Arksey and O’Malley, 2005)1 scoping review method was used. Electronic databases, reference lists and government and health organization documents were accessed, yielding 59 resources between 1991 and 2021 for the review.

Discussion

An evolutionary overview of patient participation in teams was provided. While literature on patient roles is available, it lacks description on the processes and conditions required for the successful integration of patients in IPTs.

Conclusion

If patients are to become care participants and members of their IPTs, the need for a theoretical understanding of what could comprise patient roles is needed. This scoping review informed a Constructivist Grounded Theory study published elsewhere (Metersky et al., 2021).
Reflective practice in nursing: A concept analysis
Authors: Metersky Kateryna , Patel Kiran M.
Published: January 2023

Purpose

This paper aims to clarify the concept of reflective practice in nursing by using Rodgers' evolutionary method of concept analysis.

Data sources

Literature and references on the concept of reflective practice were obtained from two databases: Scopus and Nursing and Allied health database. Peer-reviewed articles published in English language between 2011-2021 that included the terms ‘reflection’ and/or ‘reflective practice’ in the title were selected. Seminal pieces of work were also considered in this analysis. A total of 23 works were included. Most of the selected works addressed the concept of reflective practice in nursing education or nursing practice.

Data synthesis

The data analysis integrated the stages identified in Rodgers' method of concept analysis to analyze the concept of reflective practice. Analysis of selected works provided an understanding of common surrogates, antecedents, attributes, and consequences of the concept of reflective practice.

Conclusions

Reflective practice is a cognitive skill that demands conscious effort to look at a situation with an awareness of own beliefs, values, and practice enabling nurses to learn from experiences, incorporate that learning in improving patient care outcomes. It also leads to knowledge development in nursing. Considering the current circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic, this paper identifies the need for nurses to go beyond reflection-on-action and also include reflection-in-action and reflection-for-action as part of their practice.

Implications for nursing practice

This analysis identifies the need for future nursing researchers to develop reflective models or strategies that promote reflection among nurses and nursing students before, during, and after the clinical experiences.
Atypical function of a centrosomal module in WNT signalling drives contextual cancer cell motility
Authors: Luo Yi , Barrios-Rodiles Miriam , Gupta Gagan , Zhang Ying Y. , Ogunjimi Abiodun A. , Bashkurov Mikhail , Tkach Johnny M. , Underhill Ainsley Q. , Zhang Liang , Bourmoum Mohamed , Wrana Jeffrey L. , Pelletier Laurence
Published: January 2023

Centrosomes control cell motility, polarity and migration that is thought to be mediated by their microtubule-organizing capacity. Here we demonstrate that WNT signalling drives a distinct form of non-directional cell motility that requires a key centrosome module, but not microtubules or centrosomes. Upon exosome mobilization of PCP-proteins, we show that DVL2 orchestrates recruitment of a CEP192-PLK4/AURKB complex to the cell cortex where PLK4/AURKB act redundantly to drive protrusive activity and cell motility. This is mediated by coordination of formin-dependent actin remodelling through displacement of cortically localized DAAM1 for DAAM2. Furthermore, abnormal expression of PLK4, AURKB and DAAM1 is associated with poor outcomes in breast and bladder cancers. Thus, a centrosomal module plays an atypical function in WNT signalling and actin nucleation that is critical for cancer cell motility and is associated with more aggressive cancers. These studies have broad implications in how contextual signalling controls distinct modes of cell migration. 
The Shock and Awe of the Real: Political Performance and the War on Terror
Authors: Jones Matt
Published: January 2023

The War on Terror has transformed the global political and cultural landscape of the last 20 years. How has it been represented in performance?

The Shock and Awe of the Real is a transnational study of representation of the War on Terror in theatre, live art, protests, and new media. Looking at work by artists primarily from Arab and Middle Eastern diasporas working in the US, UK, Canada, and Europe, the study examines how modes of performance in live art, documentary theatre, and participatory performance respond to and comment on the power imbalances, racial formations, and political injustices of these conflicts.

Many of these performances are characterized by a deliberate blurring of the distinctions between performance and reality. This has meant that playwrights crafted scripts from the real words of soldiers instead of writing plays; performance artists harmed their real bodies, replicating the violence of war; actors performed in public space; and media artists used new technology to connect audiences to real warzones. This embrace of the real contrasts with postmodern suspicion of hyper-reality—which characterized much political performance in the 1990s—and marks a shift in understandings of the relationship between performance and the real. These strategies allowed artists to contend with the way that war today is also a multimedia attack on the way that reality is constructed and perceived. The dissertation traces the historical antecedents of these aesthetics in postmodern criticism of prior generations of political performance and shows how these artists struggled to discover new aesthetic strategies to criticize war, anti-Islamic racism, and violence.
Citizen in Exception: Omar Khadr and the Performative Gap in the Law
Authors: Jones Matt
Published: January 2023

In May 2015, former Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr was released from the Bowden Institution in Alberta. Khadr’s return to society followed 14 years of incarceration for an act that he may not have committed, which may not have been a crime, which took place while he was technically a child, and which was judged by a military tribunal that has questionable status in Canadian law.

This article argues that Khadr’s long imprisonment was a political decision by US and Canadian authorities that required them to use performativity to suspend the law, depriving Khadr of his rights under American law, the Canadian Charter, and various protocols of international law. This use of performance to undermine law exposes a performative gap in the law: a space in the law that allows it to be moved and shaped by performative acts. Through these acts, Khadr became effectively stateless for a period in time: a citizen-in-exception. Building from Giorgio Agamben’s theory of the state of exception, this paper draws out the role played by performativity in the suspension of law by law. Importantly, the process that led to Khadr’s situation was racially charged from beginning to end. His situation is one manifestation of the way that Muslims have been “cast out” of Western law, as Sherene Razack puts it, since 9/11.

En mai 2015, Omar Khadr, un ancien détenu de Guantanamo Bay, a obtenu son congé de l’établissement de Bowden, en Alberta. Ce retour à la société survenait après 14 ans d’incarcération pour un acte que Khadr n’avait peut-être pas commis, qui n’était peut-être pas un acte criminel, qui avait eu lieu alors qu’il était techniquement encore enfant, et pour lequel il avait été jugé par un tribunal militaire dont le statut, en droit canadien, était douteux.

Dans cet article, Matt Jones soutient que la longue incarcération de Khadr était une décision politique prise par des autorités américaines et canadiennes qui contraignait ces parties à recourir à la performativité pour suspendre la loi, privant ainsi Khadr de ses droits en vertu du droit américain, de la Charte canadienne et de divers protocoles relevant du droit international. Ce recours à la performance pour saper le droit, affirme Jones, met en évidence un vide performatif : un espace qui permettrait de façonner la loi au moyen d’actes performatifs. Et en raison de ces actes, Khadr s’est retrouvé apatride pendant un certain temps, un citoyen d’exception. En partant de la théorie d’état d’exception de Giorgio Agamben, Jones s’intéresse au rôle de la performativité dans la suspension de droits en vertu de la loi. Il rappelle aussi que le processus ayant mené à la situation de Khadr était entaché de racisme du début à la fin. Son issue illustre la façon dont les musulmans ont été, pour citer Sherene Razack, « évincés » du droit occidental depuis les attentats du 11 septembre.