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Osmosonication parameters affect Salmonella Typhimurium and Lactobacillus rhamnosus reductions in solutions and fruit juices
Authors: Bermúdez-Serrano Ileana Maricruz , Wong Eric , Vaillant Fabrice
Published: December 2024

Introduction. Sonication followed by storage in high osmotic pressure, referred to as osmosonication, can significantly reduce microbial loads in food products. Understanding the parameters that influence these reductions is essential. Objective. To evaluate the effect of osmosonication parameters on the reduction of Salmonella Typhimurium and Lactobacillus rhamnosus in model solutions and fruit juices. Materials and methods. This study was conducted at the Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica between January and December 2012. Completely randomized experiments were designed for both model solutions and fruit juices, with data analyzed using ANOVA. The parameters evaluated included amplitude (20, 25, 30, 35, and 40 %), sonication time (10, 20, and 30 minutes), percentage of pulsations time (90, 50, 10, and 0), pectin content (0, 0.5, and 1,0 %), and cellulose content (0, 0.15, and 0.30 %), pH (2.5; 3.5; 4.5; 5.5, and 6.5) or natural juice pulp content. Results. L. rhamnosus demonstrated greater resistant to osmosonication treatments compared to S. Typhimurium. Microbial reductions increased with higher sonication times and amplitudes. The percentage of pulsations time did not significantly influence bacterial reductions. Lower pH values resulted in reduced bacterial resistance to osmosonication. Neither pectin nor cellulose content significantly affected the resistance of either microorganism to osmosonication. Similar treatments applied to fruit juices (blackberry, pineapple, apple, and coconut water) showed that microbial reductions for both bacteria were influenced by the type of juice, likely due to varying pH levels. These effects was also bacteria-dependent. Pulp content affected bacterial resistance to osmosonication, with the impact varying by bacterial species. Conclusions. Osmosonication parameters such as amplitude, time, pH, and the pulp content influence the reduction of Salmonella Typhimurium and Lactobacillus rhamnosus in model solutions and fruit juices.
Variations of Voros–Li Coefficients on Function Fields
Authors: Khmiri Jawher
Published: December 2024

In this paper, we define the discretized Voros–Li coefficients associated to the zeta function on function fields of genus 𝑔 over a finite fields 𝔽𝑞. Furthermore, we give a finite sum representation, an integral formula and an asymptotic formula for these coefficients.
Anticompetitive Consequences of Exclusivity Clauses Contained in Shopping Centres’ Lease Agreements
Authors: Marumoagae Motseotsile Clement
Published: December 2024

This article discusses the impact of commercial lease agreements concluded in shopping centres that contain exclusivity clauses on competition. It assesses whether these clauses restrict equitable retailer participation in shopping centres, thereby denying consumers competitive prices and product choices. It also demonstrates that the South African Competition Commission has classified lease agreements' exclusivity clauses as problematic and persuaded the major grocery retailers to phase them out. While this is a positive step, this article argues that there should be some regulatory framework that can ensure that none of these retailers continue to restrict competition in shopping centres by enforcing exclusivity clauses. The Commission should play a prominent role in ensuring that the terms of the consent orders signed by some of these retailers are respected to ensure that competition is promoted in shopping centres in South Africa.
Ascertaining the Impact of Skill-Based, Intensive Training on the Cardiovascular and Muscular Performance of Male Hockey Players
Authors: Kv Sooryajith , Kumar M. Senthil
Published: December 2024

Objectives. The study aimed to investigate the impact of skill-based maximal-intensity interval training on cardiovascular and muscular performance variables in male hockey players.
Materials and methods. For this study, a group of 24 male hockey players were carefully selected. The participants were divided into two groups: SBT (n = 12) and CG (n = 12). A 12-week programme was carried out, comprising skill-specific, high-intensity interval training sessions that took place three times per week. Data was gathered prior to and following the study. The variables selected for evaluating consisted of a 20-meter, 30-meter, and 50-meter sprint, along with agility, speed endurance, and cardiovascular endurance. Pre and post data were subjected to statistical analyses.
Results. The findings of statistical analyses indicate a significant positive impact due to performing the 12-week skill-based intensive training. The SBT group consistently demonstrated superior performance compared to the CG group. This was evident through their significantly faster completion times in distances of 20 m, 30 m, and 50 m, as well as their agility tasks. Additionally, the SBT group achieved higher scores in endurance measures. The effect sizes observed in the study were quite significant, indicating substantial differences between the groups. Furthermore, it is noteworthy that the CG group did not exhibit any marked changes from the pre-test to the post-test in any measure.
Conclusions. After a period of 12 weeks, it has been observed that skill-based maximal-intensity interval training leads to significant improvements in both anaerobic and aerobic performance. This training is essential for athletes as they prepare for the end of the season. According to the study, it is recommended that hockey and other coaches focus their efforts on skill-based maximal-intensity interval training. While this study did not specifically assess technical abilities, it found that this training technique significantly enhanced physical performance. This research and training could prove advantageous for athletes and coaches who prioritise honing their skills.
Нестандартное потребление
Authors: Радаев Вадим
Published: December 2024

Книга отвечает на вопрос, почему нередко мы покупаем ненужные нам самим товары и услуги и не всегда следуем собственной экономической выгоде. Представлен сравнительный анализ пяти форм нестандартного потребления — панического, импульсивного, компульсивного, статусного и этичного. Показываются уровень их распространения, характерные черты, основные факторы возникновения и финансовые последствия для потребителей в современной России. Для этого используются данные репрезентативного опроса взрослого российского населения (6000 чел.).
Издание адресовано социологам, экономистам, маркетологам, а также широкому кругу читателей.
Тайная жизнь деревьев. Что они чувствуют, как они общаются — открытие сокровенного мира
Authors: Вольлебен Петер
Published: December 2024

Лес — привычное и обыденное чудо. Поставщик древесины и кислорода, местообитание множества живых организмов, родина сказок и легенд, он кажется таким знакомым и понятным. Однако много ли нам известно о самих деревьях, об их чувствах и взаимоотношениях? Как они общаются между собой и можно ли освоить их язык? Чем отличаются городские деревья от своих лесных родственников? Существует ли связь между деревьями разных поколений? На все эти вопросы просто и доступно отвечает лесник из Западной Германии Петер Вольлебен — специалист с многолетним стажем и автор множества популярных книг о природе.
Книга адресована биологам, экологам и всем тем, кто любит природу.
Unlocking Modern VLSI Placement with Cutting-Edge GPU Acceleration Integrated with Deep Learning Tool Kit
Authors:   Research Scholar, PG department of Computer Science and Application, Vani Vihar, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India, Dash Akshaya Kumar , Adhikari Nibedita
Published: December 2024

Objectives: In VLSI, cell placement is critical in determining the overall performance, area, runtime efficiency, and power consumption of integrated circuits. The objective of this work is to find the best possible locations for the cells to meet the mentioned constraints. Methods: The proposed method utilizes a deep reinforcement learning strategy with heuristics to address the complexities of modern VLSI design challenges. A multi-objective deep reinforcement learning approach fused with GPU acceleration is explored to optimize placement metrics like wirelength, congestion, and runtime to gain a globally optimal placement solution. The suggested method dynamically selects appropriate parameters, a process known as Parameter Tuning, to produce high-quality placement solutions. The strategy's potency is demonstrated using open-source benchmarks sourced from storage, with BlackParrot and MemPool. Findings: The trial outcomes of the strategy on benchmark data show considerable improvements in placement quality. It reduces wire length by up to 4% and congestion by about 10%. Moreover, it is highly scalable and reliable in providing global placement solutions. The reduced aspect ratio indicates lower chip area utilization and reduced power consumption. Novelty: The integration of GPU acceleration and deep learning methodology as a strategy for VLSI global placement has not been reported in prior placement work; however, similar approaches are available for legalization and detailed placement.

Keywords: Placement, VLSI, Deep Learning, GPU Acceleration, Parameter Tuning
Homoclinic Orbit of Kerr Black Holes
Authors:   Research Scholar, Department of Physics, Patna University, Patna, 800005, Bihar, India, Sammy Kumari , Singh Sumita
Published: December 2024

Objective: This study investigates the effective potential and homoclinic orbit near the Kerr metric system of black holes. It also examines the graphical relationship between effective potential and radial momentum with distance from black holes. Methods: The motion of a test particle near the Kerr metric has been analyzed using the Euler Lagrangian and action-angle variable methods. The graphical analysis in this study was performed with Mathematica software. Findings: An expression for effective potential and radial momentum has been evaluated. It has been shown that homoclinic orbits exist near the Kerr metric. This study presents a graphical analysis of the effective potential of test particles in Kerr metric black holes with different polar angle and spin. Homoclinic orbits are visually represented in this paper with the help of graphical analysis. Novelty: A physical interpretation of the effective potential and geodesic motion near Kerr metric black holes has been obtained. These results provide a valuable tool for detecting chaos in the Kerr metric of black holes. In this paper, we have shown the changes in the motion of a particle when it comes near the horizon of Kerr black holes. Indicators of chaos can give an insight into understanding the black hole phenomena. Graphical analysis offers a visual understanding of the motion of test particles near the Kerr metric geometry of Black holes.

Keywords: Black holes, Kerr Metric, Melnikov method, Chaos, Effective Potential, Homoclinic Orbit
Tendências de custos com insumos na produção de cana-de-açúcar: uma abordagem através da Simulação de Monte Carlo
Authors: Amorim Fernando Rodrigues , Silva Saulo André , Izeppe Fábio Roberto
Published: December 2024

O Brasil é um dos principais players na produção de cana-de-açúcar, sendo o estado de São Paulo o maior produtor brasileiro. No entanto, os custos de produção dos insumos (fertilizantes, corretivo, inseticida, fungicida e herbicida) são alguns dos fatores que mais influenciam no custo total de produção.  Há, na literatura, uma extensa quantidade de estudos focados nos custos de produção da cana-de-açúcar. No entanto, há uma lacuna em mostrar o impacto dos custos e sua tendência para o futuro próximo. Este trabalho foi realizado com o objetivo de analisar a tendência dos insumos citados. Foram realizadas projeções dos cenários para um período de 12 meses. Esses valores foram coletados mensalmente, por meio de entrevistas diretas, com cerca de 50 empresas especializadas. O método utilizado foi quantitativo, sendo realizado por meio de Simulação de Monte Carlo (SMC). Modelos matemáticos baseados em séries temporais foram utilizados como forma de fazer a previsão: Double Moving Average, (MMD); Tendência Amortecida Não Sazonal, (TANS); Suavização Exponencial Simples, (SES); Suavização Exponencial Dupla (SED) e ARIMA. Os resultados mostraram que os inseticidas Thiamethoxam e Limestone estão em tendência de alta.  As demais entradas, indicaram o contrário. No entanto, a previsão é alta para o custo total neste período, sendo que os custos com fertilizantes formulados representam 82% do custo total/tonelada de cana-de-açúcar a $0,55, segundo levantamento de 76 % de nível de probabilidade realizado através da análise de frequência cumulativa SMC.
Níveis de estresse em agricultores familiares: um estudo no município de Araçatuba-SP
Authors: Pereira Fernanda Cristina , Gabriel Filho Luís Roberto Almeida , Baptista Renato Dias
Published: December 2024

O trabalho do agricultor familiar tem sido considerado uma atividade com alto potencial de desencadear estresse devido à multiplicidade de papéis interligando vida profissional e familiar, execução em condições ambientais adversas e diversos fatores imprevisíveis. O estresse é um conceito interdisciplinar e entendido como um processo avaliativo que desencadeia respostas psicofisiológicas que visam a adaptação de uma pessoa às situações percebidas como estressoras e que pode desencadear diversas doenças físicas e/ou psicológicas. Diante deste contexto, o presente artigo objetivou identificar os níveis de estresse e a prevalência de sintomas físicos e ou psicológicos em agricultores familiares do município de Araçatuba-SP. Trata-se de uma pesquisa transversal, de natureza aplicada, objetivo exploratório descritivo e pesquisa de levantamento. Utilizou-se os seguintes instrumentos para coleta de dados: Inventário de Sintomas de Stress para Adultos de Lipp (ISSL) e questionário sociodemográfico. Os resultados revelaram que a maioria da amostra apresentou níveis de estresse leve e moderado.
Desenvolvimento de tagetes em resposta ao excesso de cobre em diferentes pH no solo
Authors: Lacerda Leandra de Carvalho , Swarowsky Alexandre , Menegaes Janine Farias , Backes Fernanda Alice Antonello Londero , Salazar Rodrigo Fernando dos Santos
Published: December 2024

As áreas agrícolas vêm sendo constantemente contaminadas pelo excesso de aplicações de produtos agrícolas, entre eles o cobre (Cu), nas áreas vitivinícolas. Assim, buscando uma agricultura de baixo impacto ambiental, o objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar o desenvolvimento vegetativo de tagetes (Tagetes patula L.) em resposta ao excesso de Cu em diferentes pH no solo. O experimento ocorreu na casa de vegetação utilizando delineamento inteiramente casualizado, com fatorial 5x2 (doses adicionadas de Cu no solo: 0 (sem adição: testemunha), 250, 500, 750 e 1.000 mg kg-1 de Cu e correções de pH no solo: 5,5 e 6,0 de acordo com o laudo da análise do solo), com cinco repetições. Avaliaram-se parâmetros fitotécnicos conteúdos de nutrientes na massa seca, fatores fitorremediativos e taxa de extração de Cu na planta. Verificou-se que as plantas de tagetes apresentaram bom crescimento e desenvolvimento vegetativo em ambos os pH no solo, todavia, o incremento de Cu no solo afetou negativamente a altura de planta. Não houve indícios de fitotoxidez das plantas, assim concluiu-se que as plantas de tagetes são tolerantes em áreas contendo altas concentrações de Cu no solo, sem alterar suas características ornamentais.
President's Report 2024: From Resolutions to Solutions: A Year of Transformation Under IDBImpact+
Authors:   Inter-American Development Bank
Published: December 2024

Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) President's Report 2024. President Goldfajn reviews the achievements of the IDB Bank and looks ahead to 2025.
Construyendo un entorno positivo para los cuidados paliativos en Colombia: Plan Nacional de cuidados Paliativos 2022-2026
Authors: Sánchez-Cárdenas Miguel Antonio , León Delgado Marta Ximena , Cañon Piñeros Angela María , Rodríguez-Campos Luisa Fernanda , Vargas-Escobar Lina María
Published: December 2024

Los sistemas de salud no se pueden construir sin integrar sus distintos niveles y organizaciones, es por esto que este plan de acción busca un “entorno positivo para el desarrollo de los cuida dos paliativos en Colombia”, realizando un análisis multisectorial y multidimensional de las oportunidades para promover la actividad de cuidados paliativos en las diferentes regiones del país. Este plan de acción es una iniciativa de la sociedad civil, liderada desde el Observatorio Colombiano de Cuidados Paliativos, para lo cual se integran múltiples representantes de los grupos de interés de cuidados paliativos: pacientes, los profesionales de la salud, los aseguradores en salud, los centros de atención en salud, las universidades, los representantes de los fondos rotatorios de estupefacientes, las sociedades científicas, autoridades de salud nacionales y regionales, medios de comunicación, entre otros. Con un fuerte enfoque regional, se buscó identificar acciones que mejoren el acceso a servicios de cuidados paliativos a la población que los necesita, esperando para el año 2026, incrementar la cobertura, especialmente en las zonas donde hoy no existen recursos para ofrecer atención paliativa en la enfermedad avanzada.
Finding Romance under Constraint: Three Late Plays Authors
Authors: Dailey Alice
Published: December 2024

This essay considers stage productions of The Winter's Tale, Cymbeline, and The Tempest mounted in Fall 2008 by three diverse professional theater companies. Each production introduced practical constraints that challenge the terms by which we conventionally define Shakespearean romance. By either reducing the number of actors, diminishing the spectacular elements of the play, or both, these companies stripped away the usual features of romance to expose the tension between erotic deferral and fulfillment that animates the form.
Callie Kimball's The Rape of Lucrece (2007)
Authors: Courtney Krystyna Kujawinska
Published: December 2024

Though from their inception Shakespeare's works have been re-written, re-structured, and re-created in countless adaptations and appropriations, The Rape of Lucrece has rarely been recently included in this practice. After a brief survey of reasons why The Rape of Lucrece is generally excluded from contemporary critical discourse and has rarely been treated as an inspiration for interpreting one's own national history and literature, the main part of the essay presents Callie Kimball's creative response to Shakespeare's poem. The dramaturgical adaptation of this young American playwright, theater director, and actor was staged by the Washington Shakespeare Company, Washington, D.C., as a part of the 2007 annual Shakespeare Festival. Though this first ever woman's rendition of the poem was not of a feminist character, Kimball's appropriation attempted to establish Lucrece in the context of her time and world, while making her choices not just understandable, but inevitable to a modern audience. Both the text and the production suggest women's growing immunity to men's attempts to subject and objectify them in literary texts, culture, politics, and daily life.
The Question: Hamlet's Life After Life
Authors: Robson Mark
Published: December 2024

What exactly does it mean to say that Hamlet has an afterlife? Taking seriously the notion of "life" embedded in the idea of a literary afterlife, this essay pursues the living-on or, in Derrida's terms, sur-vival of Hamlet through two of its many literary incarnations: Dante Gabriel Rossetti's poem The Question (1882) and Tom Stoppard's play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1966). These texts are forms of "translation" — that is, they simultaneously ensure the survival of the source text and confirm the need for it to be carried over from one space to another. The resulting afterlives are thus best understood as uncanny; they are recognizably versions of a seemingly pre-existing text, and yet there is something unfamiliar, or even more peculiarly, strangely familiar about them.
The Reel Shakespeare: Alternative Cinema and Theory, edited by Lisa S. Starks and Courtney Lehmann
Authors: Bolding Lisa
Published: December 2024

Lisa S. Starks and Courtney Lehmann, eds. The Reel Shakespeare: Alternative Cinema and Theory. Madison and Teaneck, NJ: Farleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses, 2002. 298 pp. ISBN-10: 1611472326; ISBN-13: 978-1611472325. $49.50 (cloth).
Crossing the Line: Liminality and Lies in Sleep No More
Authors: Oxblood J. D.
Published: December 2024

Focusing on the author's experience in "the hut" during a New York performance of Sleep No More, this essay discusses the way in which boundaries are crossed, not only those distinguishing Georg Büchner's Woyzeck from Shakespeare's Macbeth and the Tom Waits version of "The Children's Story," but also those separating performer and audience.
Tracking the Scottish Play: The Sounds of Sleep No More Authors
Authors: Ricci Glenn
Published: December 2024

Music is crucial to the experience of Sleep No More. The production features popular gongs from the 1930s and early 1940s; film soundtracks from the 1950s and 1960s; and a few contemporary works. Providing more than simply background sound, this music engages viewers actively in interpretive exercises with no decisive solution. SNM's music helps to create both atmosphere and an elusive subtext to its many-layered dreamscape.
The (Dis)possession of Lear's Two Bodies: Madness, Demystification, and Domestic Space in Peter Brook's King Lear
Authors: Teller Joseph R.
Published: December 2024

Criticism of Peter Brook's King Lear (1971) emphasizes the film's relationship to the theories of Jan Kott and Antonin Artaud, a tendency that has led many to interpret the film as merely a bleak and narrow redaction of Shakespeare's play. This essay offers an alternative reading of the film rooted in both early modern theories of kingship and contemporary theories of embodiment in order to approach the film's nihilistic idiom from a different valence. In arguing that both playtext and filmtext explore tensions between the political and natural bodies of the king, I claim that the film dramatizes Lear's recognition that kingship is a metonymy imposed upon the enfleshed human subject, a subject which is dependent for existence upon the generative powers of femininity. Once Lear recognizes his dependence on and possession by female domestic authority, he attempts to escape the demystified, shameful flesh that constitutes his "unaccommodated" subjectivity, and ultimately achieves this escape through the cinematic techniques of fragmentation that characterize Brook's filmic language. Thus, we should value Brook's film not only because of its reevaluation of Goneril and Regan, but also because it utilizes incipient postmodern theories of art and the subject of its late 1960s milieu in order to realize crucial historical and cultural discourses already existing in Shakespeare's playtext.
The Murder of a Tale
Authors: Rader Pamela J.
Published: December 2024

A review of one spectator's experiences in the role of a silenced voyeur and an explorer of intricate installations, this essay reads Sleep No More as a "literary lite" phenomenon.
Rachel and Juliet
Authors: Johnson Sarah
Published: December 2024

Lynn Redgrave's one-woman play Rachel and Juliet smudges the lines between Shakespeare's scenes and scenes of her mother's life in an affectionate tribute to Rachel Kempson. With emphasis on Juliet, her mother's favorite role, Redgrave juxtaposes and blends Shakespeare's words with Rachel's and layers performances so that at times the audience cannot be sure of whether Redgrave is speaking, or Rachel, or Juliet, or Rachel as Juliet. The effect of such layering is to interrogate the relationships among these multiple "texts": how does one "text" illuminate, or define, restrict, exert pressure on, validate, or perhaps fail, the other?
Dharma and Violence in Mumbai
Authors: Mason David
Published: December 2024

Maqbool not only reimagines Macbeth as a struggle for power within the hierarchy of organized crime in Mumbai, but it also reiterates the religious conflict of Shakespeare's own England. The film's use of dharma, a concept embodied in the insidious plotting of two corrupt, Hindu police officers, offers a colloquial counterpart to Shakespeare's sense of Fate. These policemen promote a "balance" of power between Muslim gangsters by circumscribing and insidiously directing the violence that the film's gangsters inflict on one another. By the end, the cause of the violence is obscured by the wretched assurance that maintaining a "balance" between forces assures an interminable cycle of violence.
Fractured Realities: A Receptive Review of Punchdrunk's Sleep No More
Authors: Grunfeld Sivan
Published: December 2024

Branding itself as an immersive production, Sleep No More proposes a certain blurring of the distinction between audience and performers. On the surface, permission to explore the space is key, but the disconnection from performers prevents any sense of collaboration; an alternative sense of collaboration is available if the audience are understood as performers.
Setting As You Like It: Shakespearean Appropriation for the Cable Television Market
Authors: Wifall Rachel
Published: December 2024

Continuing his trend of Shakespearean adaptation, Kenneth Branagh and his Shakespeare Film Company recently released a new interpretation of As You Like It through HBO and BBC films. Although the film was released to theaters in Italy on 1 September, 2006, it went straight to television in the United States; HBO first aired the film on 21 August, 2007. With stage and screen veterans Brian Blessed, Kevin Kline, and Alfred Molina, RSC star David Oyelewo, RADA graduate Adrian Lester, and talented newcomers Bryce Dallas Howard (daughter of director Ron Howard) and Romola Garai, Branagh's film is generally well acted; indeed, Howard was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television, and Kline won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries. Set in nineteenth-century Japan, the film is also visually gorgeous; that setting, however, is also what makes this production awkward and ultimately unsatisfying.
Music as Facing-Page Translation in Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet
Authors: Swanigan Pamela
Published: December 2024

Andrew Goodwin observes that "[o]ne absence in postmodern theorizing about music television lies in the neglect of music," and this crucial absence extends to assessments of Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet. Although film critics and scholars have almost universally cited "MTV stylings" and the teen-friendly soundtrack as central to the film's success, none of them has examined the music itself in more than a cursory fashion, raising the possibility that the highest-grossing Shakespeare film in cinematic history has been fundamentally mischaracterized. While it is true that Romeo + Juliet's flash-cut camerawork often gives it a music-video-like visual style and that Twentieth Century Fox vigorously marketed the film with the music-television demographic, the MTV references obscure Luhrmann's unusual approach to using music in adapting Shakespeare for the screen — in particular, his striking decision to have it provide "modern-day . . . equivalencies that could decode the language of Shakespeare." Using both semiological and musicological approaches, I analyze the function and effects of the music track in Romeo + Juliet and conclude that its "translational" mandate makes it behave very differently not only from the music in a video, but also from most movie sound tracks. Far from providing an entrée into or helping "dumb down" the source material for a Shakespeare-challenged audience, the fragmented sound collage of Romeo + Juliet serves as an agent of disruption, working to alienate the viewer, psychologically and physically, from the fictive world and to trigger a strenuous intellectual effort. Ironically, this purported source of the movie's commercial success enacts Eisenstein's Marxist notion of the cinematic experience as an active dialectical process.
Appropriate This
Authors: Whitney Charles
Published: December 2024

This essay maps three fundamental features of the Renaissance theater as a theater of appropriation. The first feature considers how early modern audience response can be fruitfully characterized as oriented toward appropriation, and particularly appropriation as action, as the re-situation of dramatic material to do or make something. The second involves a corollary, that a major aspect of production must have involved accommodating practices of appropriation, even though producers sometimes resisted this. Shakespeare and other playwrights seem to have worked to provide material for appropriation, so that audience appropriation came not just after production, but actually was factored into the creative process. Hamlet provides the best example of how a producer may have grasped the creative possibilities of audience appropriation. The third feature considers the theater's concern with the common good, as well as with particular goods. It places the theater's appropriative exchanges in the context of early modern economic exchange, and specifically in relation to evolving notions of the balance between private and public interests. Two of Shakespeare's uses of a key word in this regard, "commodity," suggest an ethical framework for understanding the theater of appropriation.
Site, Space, and Intimacy: Sleep No More's Immersive Intertext
Authors: Kozusko Matt
Published: December 2024

This introduction to the cluster of essays analyzing and assessing Sleep No More as theatrical experience focuses on the centrality of place to the New York production.
The Banquet as Cinematic Romance
Authors: Rpss Charles
Published: December 2024

In Feng Xiaogang's version of Hamlet, The Banquet, the film's music, its slow motion duels, its beautifully photographed landscapes and horses, the weight given to Qing Nü's dreams and her songs, the heightened theme of adultery, and the odd ending suggest that the film is not a tragedy, but a romance. Romance, according to Fredric Jameson, is the genre that reveals the social or historical contradictions that produce the illusion of good and evil. In fact, Feng is following the historical shift away from the old notion of Hamlet as a play about revenge, and we can see this shift towards romance by looking at the different interpretations of Hamlet from the Renaissance to the modern era. In the filmography of Hamlet, the displacement of tragedy by romance is most obvious in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. This shift in interpretation and our understanding of the romance genre make us ask what social contradictions The Banquet tries to resolve.
Image of the Educator
Authors: Maclean Veronica Lynn
Published: December 2024

This paper tells of an early childhood educator’s search for meaning making while experiencing a crisis of the self—a deep questioning of personhood, worthiness, ability, and purpose. It represents a snapshot of a particular time in a particular life at the convergence of a master’s program in ECE, a worldwide pandemic, and a provincial research project, which culminated in personal crisis and a great unsettling of identity. It is written in first person, from the ‘I’—the author’s humancentric appraisal of a personal pedagogical intervention, a reckoning with the self—in the hope of finding something otherwise, and something more generative as an educator within early childhood education. The paper grapples with the question of how we can create the conditions for early childhood educators to “read hard, think hard and write hard”—to dig deep, and to go deeper (St. Pierre, 2019) without dismantling a sense of self or a personhood that embodies a deep desire to contribute positively to our unfinished world.
Experts in Their Own Lives: Children’s Understanding of Their Immigration Status and, Subsequently, Their Identity
Authors: Gilmore Wraychel
Published: December 2024

By examining what transpires at school for children of mixed-status immigrant families in what is spoken and what is kept silent, Figueroa demonstrates students’ depth of understanding of their own immigration status and how it shapes their self-identity. Through this collaborative longitudinal research, citizenship and self-advocacy are explored in a manner that amplifies marginalized students’ voices and expertise.
Distribution of Uranium in the Water-rock System within the Ob-Zaisan Orogen
Authors: Novikov D.А. , Dultsev F.F. , Chernykh A.V.
Published: December 2024

The distribution of uranium in the water-rock system in contrast hydrogeological conditions of granitoid massifs, contact zones and different-aged sedimentary complexes of the Ob-Zaisan orogen is considered. It was revealed that the uranium content in waters varies from 6.71・10-4 to 1162.81 μg/dm3, and γ (234U/238U) values range from 1.3 to 18.0. The maximum values of 234Ue were recorded in waters sampled within the granitoids of the Ob and Barlak complexes, which are the main sources of uranium in natural waters of the studied region. It is shown that the data on waterbearing rocks confirm these facts, namely, the average uranium concentrations vary from 2.6 g/t in sedimentary rocks to 9.6 g/t in magmatic rocks. At the same time, intrusive complexes of the Kolyvan granitoid massif are the most enriched with uranium (up to 65.1 g/t).
Results of magnetostratigraphic study of the Lower Syzran subformation (Paleocene) in the north of the Saratov Right Bank (Gremyachka and Kluchy-2 sections)
Authors:   Saratov State University, Shelepov Dmitriy A.
Published: December 2024

The results of petromagnetic and paleomagnetic studies of two sections of the Lower
Syzran subformation (Paleocene) – Gremyachka and Klyuchi-2, located in the north of the Saratov
Right Bank and represented by weakly magnetic silicites, are presented. Paleomagnetic data on
sections, despite their low quality and fragmentation, are important for magnetostratigraphy, because they confirm the presence of a reverse polarity magnetozone (analogous to chron C27r and/or C26r) in the Lower Syzran subformation
and its lateral stability.
Evaluation and Treatment of Lumbar Degenerative Disk Disease
Authors:   Faculty of Medicine, University of Benghazi, Al-Zentani Dr Seraj
Published: December 2024

Background: Lumbar disc herniations are most common at L4/5 and L5/S1 levels and this is the most
prevalent condition among manual laborers. The aim of the study was to analyze the clinical
presentation, age and sex distribution, perioperative duration and immabulazation.
Methods: This is a retrospective study, which includes 250 patients operated for lumbar disc herniations
at L4/5 and L5/S1 levels. A detailed history of presenting complaints, clinical examination and
corresponding findings on imaging were correlated. In all these patients, there was severe
symptomatology with failed conservative management, which necessitated classical open lumbar
laminectomy and discectomy.
Results: The overall success rate was 96% in our series. Postoperatively, 9.2% of patients experienced
localized low back pain, which was mild to moderate and being treated with NSAIDs and exercises.
Conclusions: In addition to removal of herniated disc, other compressing elements like hypertrophied
Ligamentum flavum, facet arthropathy and narrowed spinal canal diameter were also addressed with an
open procedure. To prevent later complications, these patients are supposed to avoid strenuous work,
lifting weights, torsion and jerky movements, faulty posture at work and rest, gait training, crouching,
sitting on the floor and haunches.
Guest Editor’s Introductory Note Regulation, Awareness, Agency: Beyond the “Risk Paradigm”
Authors: Casadei Thomas
Published: December 2024

Este Forum explora cuestiones legales y filosóficas sobre el acceso de los menores a las tecnologías y los entornos digitales, centrándose en el uso evolutivo de estas herramientas, así como en los riesgos y oportunidades que presentan. Se examina cómo la datificación, la mediación y la hipermediación tecnológica están moldeando estos nuevos entornos, llevando a una “sociedad de riesgo digital”. Aunque se reconocen los riesgos, el Forum busca ir más allá del “paradigma del riesgo” al explorar las complejas interacciones entre los menores, las plataformas y los contextos digitales. Se enfatiza la importancia de la concienciación, la educación, las prácticas sociales y las dinámicas relacionales, combinadas con regulaciones, prohibiciones y sanciones en el ámbito de la ciudadanía digital.
TikTok: A Legal Perspective on the Digital Environment, Highly Accessed by Minors
Authors: Casadei Thomas
Published: December 2024

El artículo analiza TikTok desde una perspectiva holística, integrando visiones legales, filosóficas, sociológicas y psicológicas, con un enfoque en los menores. Desde el punto de vista legal, examina las medidas regulatorias y las decisiones judiciales orientadas a proteger a los menores de contenido perjudicial. Desde una perspectiva sociológica, explora el papel de los “prosumidores” en una “cultura convergente”, en la que los usuarios crean y consumen contenido, moldeando las dinámicas sociales, así como la influencia de la interactividad y la personalización.
Desde el ángulo psicológico, destaca la formación de hábitos mentales en los jóvenes y la importancia de la agencia del usuario en el contexto de los derechos digitales de los niños. Finalmente, aboga por estrategias como los pactos educativos digitales para promover el uso responsable de TikTok.
El derecho personalizado: orígenes, definición y debates actuales
Authors: Monroy Cely Daniel
Published: December 2024

El creciente desarrollo de las tecnologías del Big Data, los algoritmos y la inteligencia artificial motivó a los profesores Ariel Porat y Omri Ben-Shahar a plantear su novedosa propuesta del “derecho personalizado”. Sin embargo, en esta discusión siguen existiendo múltiples debates incluso sobre la noción o definición misma del derecho personalizado por ellos propuesta. En ese contexto, el presente artículo sostiene que el derecho personalizado no puede definirse simplemente como lo opuesto a la despersonalización del derecho, y por lo tanto sugiere que sólo es posible discutir sobre esta personalización como una cuestión de grado. Así, si bien argumenta que un mayor grado de personalización generaría efectivamente un mejor diseño de las normas jurídicas en diversas áreas del derecho, también plantea que este mayor grado de personalización debe estar sujeto a límites normativos derivados de valores relacionados con la igualdad, la libertad y la autonomía individual.
Conflict of Laws Characterization of Product Guarantee in Europe, with Special Emphasis on Hungarian Law
Authors: Máté Mohai
Published: December 2024

Este artículo investiga cómo encaja la garantía de producto en el marco normativo del Derecho internacional privado europeo. Describe la institución a través del Reglamento (CE) n.º 593/2008 (Roma I) y el Reglamento (CE) n.º 864/2007 (Roma II), así como el significado húngaro de garantía de producto. Analiza los retos que plantea el carácter de conflicto de leyes de esta obligación extracontractual.
UNDERUSED LEAN MANUFACTURING TOOLS IN THE TEXTILE INDUSTRY
Authors: Coelho Juliana , Dal Forno Ana Julia
Published: December 2024

Lean manufacturing consists of reducing waste generated in the production process and since 1950 when the Toyota Production System emerged, its concepts and tool applications go beyond production. However, there are still some practices that are not fully applied or known, especially in the Brazilian textile industry. Therefore, the objective of this article is to identify the least widespread term of lean manufacturing in the literature, define and describe benefits of the application. The methodology consisted of a systematic review of literature in databases. Preliminary results showed that the least widespread term in the textile industry is yamazumi, which can be understood as demand balancing. Future studies will correlate whether this gap may be associated with the problems of demand forecasting errors that this sector experiences in practice.
Quantification of Doppler Indices, Contrast Ultrasound Enhancement Phases and Perfusion Parameters of Splenic Parenchyma in Healthy Dogs
Authors: Singh Tarundeep , Verma Pallavi , Mohindroo Jitender , Singh Tarunbir , Kour Hansmeet
Published: December 2024

Background: The spleen can be affected by a variety of vascular problems. Affected tissue neovascularization in these conditions can be effectively analysed using imaging modalities such as Doppler and contrast enhanced ultrasonography (CEUS). Methods: Nine healthy dogs were included in this clinical study comprising two breeds of Labrador Retrievers, German Shepherds, and Beagles and one breed each of Crossbred, Pug, and Pitbulls. Pulsed-wave Doppler indices and contrast-enhanced perfusion parameters of the splenic vasculature were obtained by performing spectral Doppler sonography and CEUS using a second-generation ultrasound contrast agent (Sonovue). Result: The mean ± SE value of splenic vein’s Doppler indices were 10.94±2.04 cm/s (PSV), 6.92±1.28 cm/s (EDV), 6.44±1.57 cm/s (MV), 0.35±0.05 (RI) and 0.75±0.17 (PI), while the indices of splenic artery were 31.21±3.12 cm/s (PSV), 8.95±1.63 cm/s (EDV), 13.98±1.95 cm/s (MV), 0.71±0.04 (RI), 1.75± 0.24 (PI). Arterial and venous phases were visible on a CEUS of the splenic parenchyma. The mean ± SE value of the contrast enhanced splenic perfusion parameters (measured in seconds) were as follows: arrival time = 7.00 ± 0.33; time to initial peak = 15.05 ± 0.46; time to final peak = 28.92±1.06; decline time = 97.89±2.82; washout time = 152.22± 9.10.
Prácticas y saberes docentes en torno a procesos del enseñar y el aprender en las intersecciones entre Educación Especial y Educación Rural: Un estudio con maestras/os de apoyo a la inclusión y docentes de aula en una escuela rural
Authors: Del Valle Pereyra Cristina , Valente Gilda Mariel
Published: December 2024

In this article we address the teaching practices and knowledge that are built and displayed in the daily interrelationships between inclusion support teachers and classroom teachers in a rural school located in the northwest of the province of Chubut, Argentina. We focus on teaching practices and knowledge linked to teaching processes that, in the particularity of rurality, take place in a multigrade classroom. In the course of our study we recognize that these teaching practices and knowledge in rural education contexts account for certain intersections between rural education and special education.
This study is carried out from an ethnographic (Rockwell, 2009) and dialectical relational approach (Achilli, 2005). The empirical material that is recovered and analyzed in this work is based on interviews conducted with inclusion support teachers, classroom teachers and management teams of the Center for Alternative and Complementary Services and rural schools. Also, records of observations of different school situations and the institutional work instances between teachers supporting inclusion and multigrade classroom teachers.
Medo de palco ou do Outro? Uma abordagem psicanalítica sobre transtornos psíquicos nas performances musicais
Authors: Cunha Marcelo
Published: December 2024

Este artigo é fruto de uma pesquisa acadêmica na qual foram entrevistados três professores e três alunos de curso de Graduação em Música. O objetivo principal consistiu em tentar compreender o que leva os sujeitos ao medo, ou ansiedade, antes e durante a performance musical, mesmo pressupondo que eles estejam devidamente preparados técnica e musicalmente. O referencial teórico teve por base a psicanálise aplicada, ou psicanálise por extensão, e, para a metodologia das entrevistas, foi usado o método clínico de orientação psicanalítica, incluindo a técnica Conversação para as entrevistas coletivas, oriunda desse método. Da psicanálise, a principal referência consistiu no conceito de Jaques Lacan sobre o “grande outro”. Concluiu-se que o medo do palco se refere menos ao local da performance e mais às pessoas ali presentes. Quanto mais os outros tinham um papel significativo na vida do músico, maior a incidência do medo, que normalmente levou ao fracasso de apresentações e a traumas para as que viriam. Mesmo os professores, que, supostamente, têm mais experiência, foram surpreendidos na maturidade da carreira com medos não esperados, devido à presença de algum músico famoso ou mesmo de um colega mais experiente na plateia.
Luksuz ili nešto drugo? Uzroci raspada feudalizma i nastanka modernog trgovinskog društva u političko-ekonomskoj teoriji Adama Smitha
Authors: Noršić Nikola
Published: December 2024

Rad analizira političko-ekonomsku teoriju Adama Smitha te preispituje uzroke raspada feudalizma i nastanka modernog trgovinskog društva u njegovoj teoriji. Interpretativno, rad se fokusira na treću knjigu Bogatstva naroda, ali istražuje i druge važne dijelove tog kapitalnog djela. U radu se najprije razmatraju osnovne odrednice škotskog pristupa istraživanju povijesti, pri čemu se posebno analizira Smithovu stadijsku teoriju povijesti. Nakon toga, rad najprije istražuje Smithovo poimanje uzroka propasti antičkih trgovačkih poredaka, a zatim se u središnjem dijelu analizira niz uzroka i posljedica koji su srušili feudalnu hijerarhiju i omogućili nastanak novog ekonomskog poretka. Glavni argument rada je da Smithovi uvidi nadilaze uobičajenu interpretaciju njegove teorije u kojoj su vanjska trgovina i luksuz ključni pokretači propasti feudalizma i razvoja trgovinskog društva. Umjesto toga, ovaj rad tvrdi da su ljudska priroda i temeljna čovjekova težnja za unapređenjem materijalnih uvjeta ono što istinski pokreće transformaciju društvenog poretka u Smithovoj teoriji. Umjesto zaključka, rad se osvrće na važnu ulogu suverena i moderne države u održanju modernog društva zasnovanog na trgovini.
Los juicios familiares pospandemia: la implementación de la tecnología como garantía del derecho de acceso a la justicia en el estado de Sinaloa, México
Authors: Lizárraga Félix Christian , Aguilar Calderón Pablo Alfonso
Published: December 2024

En la presente investigación se analizan las medidas tomadas por los tribunales familiares en Sinaloa durante y después de la pandemia, con la finalidad de determinar si estas permitieron materializar el derecho de acceso a la justicia contenido en la Carta Magna con base en un estudio sistemático del ordenamiento jurídico, con el objetivo de evidenciar la insuficiencia de las mismas, partiendo de un enfoque descriptivo que posibilite identificar que dichas medidas mantuvieron las deficiencias que ya acarreaba el sistema de impartición de justicia. A raíz de ello, se encuentra que durante la pandemia en los juicios familiares en Sinaloa se pretendió la digitalización del proceso sin conseguirlo de manera plena, dejando de lado la posibilidad de procurar una simplificación de los procesos. En conclusión, si bien es cierto que constituye un paso necesario de lo realizado, este ha quedado incompleto y debiera explorarse la vertiente que pugna no solo por digitalizar los procesos, sino por procurar su simplificación, con el propósito de facilitar el derecho de acceso a la justicia desde la vertiente que lo ha interpretado nuestro máximo tribunal.