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The Self-Leadership and Empathy of Health College Students Effects on Major Satisfaction
Authors: Lee Yon-Sil ,   The K Association of Education Research
Published: July 2024

The purpose of this study is to identify the degree of self-leadership, empathyability, and major satisfaction of college students, and to identify the relationship andinfluencing factors between variables. The subjects of this study were 368 college students inthe metropolitan area, and for data analysis, frequency analysis and descriptive statisticsanalysis were conducted with the IBM SPSS 25.0 program, and multiple regression analysiswas conducted. As a result of this study, self-leadership, empathy ability, and majorsatisfaction differed according to gender, age, and grade, and self-leadership, empathy ability, and major satisfaction had a positive correlation. In addition, as a result of examining theinfluence of college students' self-leadership and empathy ability on major satisfaction byconducting multiple regression analysis, it was found that empathy and self-leadership had asignificant effect on major satisfaction. Through the results of this study, in order to increasethe satisfaction of college students in their major, it is necessary to develop and applyprograms that can improve self-leadership and empathy.
The Relationship between Types of Educational Achievement and College Life Adaption of Multicultural Youth
Authors: Lee Hyoung-Ha , Kim Hun-Hee , Kim Jeong-O , Kwon Choong-Hoon ,   The K Association of Education Research
Published: July 2024

The purpose of this study is to classify the types of educational achievement ofmulticultural youth and analyze the influence of predictive variables using data from the 9th and 10th years (2019) of the first panel (2011-2020) of the Multicultural Adolescents PanelStudy, and to investigate how the types of educational achievement affect college lifeadaptation. As a result of the analysis, first, the types of educational achievement ofmulticultural youth were classified into ‘underachievement group’, ‘education achievementgeneral group’, ‘excellent education achievement group’, and ‘education achievement bestgroup’. Second, multicultural youth have high support for their parents in the order of thebest educational achievement group > excellent group > average group > poor group, andhave good companionship and teacher relationship. Third, compared with the underachievinggroup as the reference group, the higher the desired level of education of multicultural youth,the higher the support of their parents, the better the relationship between friends andteachers, and the higher the father's educational background, the higher the probability ofbelonging to the ordinary group, the superior group, and the best group. Fourth, the higher thesupport of parents, the better the companionship and teacher relationship, the higher theadaptation of multicultural youth to college life
Effect of Lignocaine on Postoperative Serum Lactate Dehydrogenase and Lactate Levels in Patients Undergoing Bowel Surgery
Authors: Faiza Irem Abrar  , Adnan Riaz  , Syeda Zainab Ali Nadeem  , Amna Ihsan  , Sabeen Khalid,  , Roomana Anwar
Published: July 2024

Objective: To evaluate effect of intraoperative lignocaine on postoperative serum LDH and lactate levels and to compare with placebo in patients undergoing bowel surgery.
Methodology: This randomized controlled trial was conducted at the Department of Biochemistry, Islam Medical, Sialkot, Pakistan from August 2023 to January 2024. Serum LDH and lactate levels were measured preoperatively on automatic biochemical analyzer (produced by Beckman Coulter, GRM, 2166) was used to analyze, before extubation, and at 6 and 24 hours postoperatively, between patients who received intraoperative lignocaine versus those who received saline during bowel surgery under general anesthesia.
Results: The study involved two groups: Group lignocaine (n = 20) where patients received 2% lignocaine at the rate of 1.5 mg/kg intravenous followed by maintenance infusion at the same rate until the end of surgery, and Group normal saline (n = 20) where patients received normal saline at the rate 1.5 mg/kg IV followed by infusion at the same rate until the end of surgery The average serum lactate postoperative, before extubation, 6 hours and 24 hours of lignocaine group was 2.68±0.32 mmol/l, 1.26±0.22 mmol/l, 1.09±0.28 mmol/l, and 1.15±0.13 mmol/l, respectively (p<0.001). Whereas the average serum lactates at postoperative, before extubation, 6 hours and 24 hours of normal saline group was 2.86±0.37 mmol/l, 2.64±0.65 mmol/l, 2.15±0.31 mmol/l, and 1.65±0.38 mmol/l, respectively (p<0.001).
Conclusion: Patients undergoing bowel surgery who received intraoperative IV lignocaine exhibited lower postoperative serum LDH and lactate levels compared to those who received normal saline. It was also concluded that indirectly intravenous lignocaine also improves postoperative outcomes by reducing pain and hospital stay.
Factors influencing delivery in women with multiple fetus pregnancy
Authors: Ostatníková Michaela ,   2st Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Faculty of Medicine, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovak Republic, Gajdošová Martina , Kallová Veronika , Mandžáková Miroslava , Matušíková Zuzana , Serátor Veronika , Pšenková Petra , Papcun Peter , Záhumenský Jozef
Published: July 2024

Summary: Objective: This paper aims to analyze the factors that can influence the method of childbirth in women with multiple pregnancies. Materials and methods: Retrospective analysis of selected parameters in women with multiple pregnancies who gave birth at the 2nd Clinic of Gynecology and Obstetrics of the Faculty of Medicine (FM), Comenius University (CU) and University Hospital (UH) Bratislava in the years 2010–2022. Results: Between 2010 and 2022, at the 2nd Clinic of Gynecology and Obstetrics of the FM CU and UH in Bratislava, 1.13% of births were multiple pregnancies. After statistical data processing, primiparity appeared statistically significant as a risk of acute caesarean section (C-section); multiparous women had a higher probability to give birth vaginally. Since 2017, the clinic has had a decreasing trend in the number of caesarean sections. Women with an acute caesarean section, in turn had on average a lower pH of both fetuses compared to vaginal delivery. However, the incidence of asphyxia in fetuses was not statistically significantly different. We found no risk factor increasing the likelihood of acute caesarean section for fetus B in twins. Conclusion: Multiple pregnancy has a higher morbidity not only for the woman but also for the fetuses. The incidence of multiple pregnancies is influenced by assisted reproduction. Delivery method depends on various factors such as chorionicity, fetal presentation, and history of a previous caesarean section. Key words: twin pregnancy – in vitro fertilization – vaginal delivery – caesarean section – newborn condition
Trabajos del crítico y criticado. Los modernismos de Julio Ruelas y Gerardo Murillo
Authors: Barquera Guzmán Rebeca Julieta
Published: July 2024

En una nota periodística de 1906 los redactores de la Revista Moderna de México proponían clasificar a los críticos de arte en “el del encomiástico elogio y el de la diatriba”, quienes, desde un lugar privilegiado, “disciernen las apoteosis o decretan las gemonías” como un “gesto pontificial” en “las llamadas hojas de información”.[1] Les interesaba hacer evidente el poder de aquellos guías de la opinión pública, poder que se establece a partir de las publicaciones periódicas. El objetivo del presente artículo es analizar tal posicionamiento ante la crítica de arte, a partir de la disputa artística que la detonó y la circulación de ésta en varias publicaciones periódicas del México porfiriano. Desde el estudio de un evento paradigmático, como es el de una exposición, se podrá poner en página la discusión sobre las definiciones posibles de la crítica de arte, un planteamiento teórico desde su condición iconotextual y su potencia textual para configurar la narrativa historiográfica del modernismo mexicano.
 
[1] “Crónica de la exposición. Críticos y pintores”.
Exploring the Use of Iron Ore Tailings in Concrete by Partial Replacement of Fine Aggregates
Authors: Madhuri Bore  , Kishor Dhawade  , Yash Dhamale  , Mahima Kumari
Published: July 2024

Concrete is the most durable, resilient, available and affordable material in the built environment. The manufacture of large quantities of iron ore has created difficulties for the environment and disposal. The utilization of IOT as fine aggregate in building material production is relatively feasible. Experiments were conducted to determine the suitability of iron ore tailings as replacement of fine aggregates for concrete. The iron ore waste was collected from Gua Iron Mines, Singhbum. Mix Design was carried out for concrete of grade M35 using standard practice for selecting proportions for normal weight. Iron ore waste replaced with fine aggregates in mixes by 30% and 35% respectively. The materials used for M35 grade of concrete is coarse aggregate 10-20mm, fine aggregate is of Zone 2, cement of 53 grade. Tests were performed on materials, for cement and fine Aggregate Fineness test, Specific Gravity were performed. Water absorption test, specific gravity, Impact value these were performed for Coarse aggregate. It was observed that compression values of concrete for 30% for 3 days its 13.703 Mpa, For 7 days its 16.503 Mpa, and for 28 it was 28.033 Mpa
LifeSaver: A VaDE-Based Intelligent Ambulance Positioning System for Optimal Emergency Response and Alert System
Authors: Ranjith Jayakumar S  , Dr. Lipsa Nayak
Published: July 2024

Every day, the number of traffic accidents rises as the automobile population increases. According to a survey by the World Health Organization (WHO), 1.3 million people die and 50 million are wounded annually around the globe. Most people die because they don’t get medical help at the scene of an accident or because it takes too long for rescuers to get there. The time after an accident can be optimally used to make a difference between a life saved and life lost, if recovery actions are able to take place in time. However, routing problems and traffic congestion is one of the major factors hampering speedy assistance
Applications and technology for the dissemination of heritage: the app of the historic cemetery of San Miguel de Málaga
Authors: Rodríguez Marín Francisco José
Published: July 2024

The historic cemetery of San Miguel, in addition to being a funerary space, constitutes a monumental complex that combines numerous and diverse heritage values. After its closure and after a period of abandonment, it is being recovered and rehabilitated in successive phases and currently constitutes a cultural and tourist resource, the scene, in turn, of numerous cultural activities. Among other initiatives, the management company, PARCEMASA, sponsored the creation of a mobile app containing routes, short articles, augmented reality and 3D recreation clips as a formula for transmitting the content. This work analyses the situation in which it was created, its objectives and the different degrees of achievement of its objectives.
Malebranche’s approach to God’s existence
Authors: Moya Bedoya Juan Diego M.
Published: July 2024

In this paper, the author reproduces one of Nicolas Malebranche’s arguments for God’s existence. The text offers (I) a logical formalization of the argument, (II) a formal proof of validity of the argument and, finally, some philosophical reflections concerning not only (III.I) the soundness of the argument, but (III.II) the intellectual benefits that a logical formalization offers to a philosophical historian of philosophy.
Aristotle’s Sea Battle, Excluded Middle and Bivalence
Authors: Massolo Alba
Published: July 2024

In this paper, I present a formal reconstruction of the classical argument for fatalism set forth by Aristotle in On Interpretation 9. From there, I expose two different formal solutions for avoiding the unwanted conclusion based on the traditional interpretation of Aristotle’s rejection of the Principle of Bivalence: On the one hand, Łukasiewicz's three-valued logic and, on the other hand, supervaluation semantics. I also address some criticisms made against these two proposals. To finish, I remark on some alternative interpretations of Aristotle’s intentions maintaining that the Stagirite philosopher rejected fatalism without abandoning the Principle of Bivalence.
The argument from undecidable dissension
Authors: Sánchez López Hugo Enrique
Published: July 2024

The five modes of suspension of judgment outlined by Sextus Empiricus (HP XV 164-188) coordinate a complex argumentative strategy to prompt the general suspension of judgment. But modes (τρόπος) are general argument forms that can be deployed individually against the dogmatist, who is willing to accept that a certain answer to a question establishes how things really are. In this case, the aim of the modes is not the general suspension of judgment but the continuation of the investigation. I present a deductive version of the mode of undecidable dissension that pinpoints some principles and assumptions the skeptics requires to run their arguments.
Dyslexia and the perks of being bilingual: a study on the neurobiology of reading with the use of fMRI.
Authors: Fay de Azevedo Aline , Bianchini Esper Nathália , Wetters Portuguez Mirna , Davi Cortina Silva Asafe , Buchweitz Augusto
Published: July 2024

The objective of the present study was to investigate reading performance and brain activation associated with reading for bilingual and monolingual dyslexics (DDB-DDM), and typical bilinguals as Controls (C). The behavioral results showed that DDB outperformed DDM in all reading components in Portuguese. In the tasks applied in English, there was no significant difference in the performance of DDB compared to C. The results of the brain imaging for the task in Portuguese showed C presented significant activation of the left occipitotemporal and left inferior frontal gyrus while reading words. DDB and DDM, in turn, showed deactivation of left temporoparietal region and no significant activation in the left occipitotemporal region or left inferior frontal gyrus. For the FAST LOC task, DDB showed hypoactivity in the Visual Word Form Area (VWFA) during word reading, both in English and Portuguese. The findings provide evidence for a possible positive impact of bilingualism on the reading performance of dyslexics.
Catholic Survival in the Dutch Republic
Authors: Yasuhira Genji
Published: July 2024

Even in adversity, Catholics exercised considerable agency in post-Reformation Utrecht. Through the political practices of repression and toleration, Utrecht’s magistrates, under constant pressure from the Reformed Church, attempted to exclude Catholics from the urban public sphere. However, by mobilizing their social status and networks, Catholic Utrechters created room to live as pious Catholics and honourable citizens, claiming more rights in the public sphere through their spatial practices and in discourses of self-representation. This book explores how Catholic priests and laypeople cooperated and managed to survive the Reformed regime by participating in a communal process of delimiting the public, continuing to rely on the medieval legacy and adapting to early modern religious diversity. Deploying their own understandings of publicness, Catholic Utrechters not only enabled their survival in the city and the Catholic revival in the Dutch Republic but also contributed to shaping a multi-religious society in the Northern Netherlands.
Children’s Digital Experiences in Indian Slums
Authors: Bhatia Kiran V.
Published: July 2024

This book departs from the universalising and rescue narratives of poor children and technologies. It offers complex stories on how children’s social identities (gender, caste, and religion), cultural norms, and personal aspirations influence their digital experiences. How do children challenge, circumvent, or reinforce the dominant sociocultural norms in their engagements with digital technologies? What can we learn about digital technologies and poor children’s jugaad and aspirations in the urban sprawls of India? This book explores these questions ethnographically by focusing on how children in three urban slums in India access technologies, inhabit online spaces, and personalise their digital experiences, networks, and identity articulations based on their values and aspirations. It utilises insights from studies on jugaad, expression, and sociality to argue that poor children’s material realities, community relations, and aspirations for leisure, class mobility, and belongingness profoundly shape their engagements with digital technologies.
A Discursive Site of Memory for Industry
Authors: Guerin Frances
Published: July 2024

In the 1990s, the coal and steel mine complex at Meiderich, Duisburg in Germany’s Ruhr Valley was regenerated into an ecologically sustainable Landscape Park. In this chapter, I argue that the Landscape Park offers a study in the potential role of art for the creation of an integrative, inclusive social experience of the past for those who were oppressed by that same past, are dislocated in the present, and are otherwise erased from future visions of the region. Through artworks made from the materials of industry, the site creates continuity and dialogue between aesthetics and industry, work, and creativity, as well as the past and present. It also invites sociological integration across generations, between former workers and their families, visitors to and from the region.
Mère Angélique Arnauld and the Paradoxes of Women’s Enclosure
Authors: Duquette Natasha
Published: July 2024

Inspired by the sixteenth-century example of the Spanish St. Teresa of Ávila, Mère Marie-Angélique Arnauld fought for the right to live as an enclosed nun in seventeenth-century France. As a result of the communal autonomy of her enclosed community, a vibrant spiritual and intellectual shared life flourished at Port Royal. The reverent atmosphere of silent study nurtured scholarly pursuits and was later recognized as forwarding women’s education. Seeking to implement a return to a Cistercian interpretation of the Rule of St. Benedict, Mère Marie-Angélique paradoxically created an environment for innovative thought that would shape philosophy in seventeenth-century France and beyond.
Communication Research into the Digital Society
Authors: Araujo Theo , Neijens Peter
Published: July 2024

Media and communication have become ubiquitous in today’s societies and affect all aspects of life. On an individual level, they impact how we learn about the world, how we entertain ourselves, and how we interact with others. On an organisational level, the interactions between media and organisations, such as political parties, NGOs, businesses and brands, shape organisations’ reputation, legitimacy, trust and (financial) performance, as well as individuals’ consumer, political, social and health behaviours. At the societal level, media and communication are crucial for shaping public opinion on current issues such as climate change, sustainability, diversity, and well-being. Media challenges are widespread and include mis- and disinformation, the negative impact of algorithms on our information diets, challenges to our privacy, cyberbullying, media addiction, and unwanted persuasion, among many others. All this makes the study of media and communication crucial.

This book provides a broad overview of the ways in which people create, use, and experience their media environment, and the role of media and communication for individuals, organisations, and society. The chapters in the book were written by researchers from the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR) on the occasion of its 25th anniversary. ASCoR is today the largest research institute of its kind in Europe and has developed over the past 25 years into one of the best communications research institutes in the world.
Contested Issues and Organisations : Media Debates about Sustainability and Diversity
Authors: Wonneberger Anke , Kroon Anne , van den Heijkant Linda , van Eck Christel , Jonkman Jeroen
Published: July 2024

Sustainability and diversity are two contested issues in contemporary societies that are often linked to organisations. This chapter outlines research by ASCoR’s Corporate Communication group that assesses the causes, content, and consequences of media debates on sustainability and diversity. Organisations engage in these issue arenas in various roles: as employers having responsibilities toward internal stakeholders, as corporations seeking to respond to societal expectations to garner legitimacy, or as advocacy organisations entering public discourses with the aim of accelerating social change. Drawing on diverse methodological approaches with an emphasis on content-analytic techniques, the group’s research contributes to communication theory and research on agenda setting, framing, climate change communication, and stereotype communication with relevant implications for communication practice.
Comfortable Everyday Life at the Swedish Eighteenth-Century Näs Manor
Authors: Brown Carolina
Published: July 2024

During the eighteenth century, comfortable everyday life becomes a new ideal. The good life was no longer about grand representation or the manifestation of material opulence. The new luxury was instead the comfortably arranged life at home. This book is about the traces of this change, its approach and consequences and its anchoring in the material and social life of the Swedish manor. The comfort revolution of the eighteenth century was clearly associated with both new types of furniture and new ways of furnishing. An important aspect of the development of comfort was the new mobility and flexibility in form and function that the home and its interior now showed. Through the home of the Wadenstierna family on the country estate of Näs, north of Stockholm, the comfortable everyday life is set by their various tables – at writing desks, sewing tables, dressing tables, coffee tables and games tables.
The Go-Between’s Picturesque
Authors: Broughton Mark
Published: July 2024

The prominence of the country estate as a setting in British cinema suggests that it would be fruitful to consider the aesthetic history of the landscape garden on screen, yet this is still an under-researched area. This chapter is concerned with location and setting in The Go-Between, tracing the genesis of its screen landscapes, from L.P. Hartley’s novel and contemporaneous debates about stately homes, through Joseph Losey’s development of a new approach to filming the country estate, to the production of the film itself and the use of Melton Constable Hall, Norfolk as a location. It explores how the film can be situated in relation to modes of practice in landscape culture and approaches to landscape historiography, and argues that The Go-Between both echoed emergent forms of landscape history and paved the way for other country-estate films and television programs.
Technics
Authors: Baer Nicholas , Oever Annie
Published: July 2024

Featuring 28 leading international media scholars, Technics rethinks technology for the contemporary digital era, with cutting-edge theoretical, historiographical, and methodological interventions. The volume’s contributors explore the ideas of Walter Benjamin, Ursula Le Guin, Bernhard Siegert, Gilbert Simondon, and Sylvia Wynter in conjunction with urgent questions concerning algorithmic media, digital infrastructures, generative AI, and geoengineering. An expansive collection of writings on media technologies in the digital age, Technics is an essential resource for students and scholars of film and media studies, digital humanities, science and technology studies, and the philosophy of technology.
The Translation of Court Culture from the Burgundian Court to the Kingdom of Castile: The Sovereign’s Privacy and Relationship with Court Artists
Authors: Neighbors Dustin M. , Woodacre Elena
Published: July 2024

This chapter offers two contrasting, yet nevertheless complementary, case studies to demonstrate the vital connection between personal relationships and political privacy that not only blurred the boundaries between the public and private spheres, but also enabled individuals to move between the spheres, to informally exert control, to influence politics, and to negotiate the limits of power. Dustin M. Neighbors examines how degrees of privacy emerged from the hunt arranged for Maximilian’s visit to the Dresden court of August of Saxony in 1564; this hunt created an important opportunity for political privacy in which the two men could deepen their connection and reinforce their political bonds. In contrast, Elena Woodacre focuses on a plethora of interpersonal relationships in the household and private sphere of Joan of Navarre, queen of England during the early fifteenth century; these relationships prompted intense suspicion of foreigners, who might be able to use their access to the queen to gain political influence at court.
The Problem of Piracy in the Early Modern World
Authors: Coakley John , Kwan Nathan , Wilson David
Published: July 2024

In the early modern period, both legal and illegal maritime predation was a common occurrence, but the expansion of European maritime empires exacerbated existing and created new problems of piracy across the globe. This collection of original case studies addresses these early modern problems in three sections: first, states’ attempts to exercise jurisdiction over seafarers and their actions; second, the multiple predatory marine practices considered ‘piracy’; and finally, the many representations made about piracy by states or the seafarers themselves. Across nine chapters covering regions including southeast Asia, the Atlantic archipelago, the North African states, and the Caribbean Sea, the complexities of defining and criminalizing maritime predation is explored, raising questions surrounding subjecthood, interpolity law, and the impacts of colonization on the legal and social construction of ocean, port, and coastal spaces. Seeking the meanings and motivations behind piracy, this book reveals that while European states attempted to fashion piracy into a global and homogenous phenomenon, it was largely a local and often idiosyncratic issue.
Boston, Logwood, and the Rise and Decline of the Pirates, 1713 to 1728
Authors: Pitt Steven J.
Published: July 2024

After the end of Queen Anne’s War (1702–1713), the economic fate of Atlantic seafarers and colonial Boston hinged on an unlikely commodity—logwood. This dyewood from the Spanish-claimed Yucatan Peninsula provided a haven from depressed wages and unemployment for seafarers and bankruptcy for Boston merchants. The growing British presence in the Bay of Campeche angered Spanish authorities who considered them pirates. In late 1716, the Spanish attacked, permanently ending that branch of the logwood trade. This act unleashed a decade of piracy, as the hundreds of seafarers and loggers engaged in the trade sought new avenues to riches. Reprieve from this onslaught only came when highly motivated Bostonians re-established the logwood trade in the Bay of Honduras in the mid-1720s.
Isabel Barreto, Navigator of the South Seas and Governor of the Isles of Salomon
Authors: Camino Mercedes
Published: July 2024

In 1595, Isabel Barreto (1567–1612), married to the explorer, Álvaro de Mendaña, sailed from Peru to settle the Solomon Islands, which had been discovered by Mendaña in 1568. After his death, Barreto inherited his property and titles, including that of adelantada (governor) of the islands. As captain of the fleet’s flagship, the San Jerónimo, she led a decimated crew and settlers to the Philippines, and she became the admiral of the expedition at the same time she became the only woman ever to lead an early modern fleet. Remarried, she left for Mexico and later went to Peru, disappearing from the historical record until she signed her last will and testament in Castrovirreyna, Peru, in 1612. Based on her testament, this chapter rectifies Barreto’s history which, until now, had mainly been reconstructed from an untrustworthy nineteenth-century source that condemned Barreto’s command and personality.
A Cosmopolitan Ambassadress on the Road: Anna Colonna, Marquise of Los Balbases
Authors: Álvarez Andrea Bergaz
Published: July 2024

Born in Chiusa, Italy, Anna Colonna, marquise of Los Balbases (1631–1686), married Pablo Spinola Doria, marquis of Los Balbases, and joined him on his political and diplomatic destinations across Europe, in the role of a true ambassadress. She was a crucial component to the success of her husband’s itinerant career from Milan to Paris. This chapter investigates Colonna’s travels with the marquis and her contribution to the diplomatic work and self-promotion strategies deployed by him as they moved to and from numerous European courts. Although little known in diplomatic history, Anna Colonna was an important transcultural and political agent who instrumentalized her aristocratic upbringing and adapted herself to the difficult circumstances of each of her moves to support her family name.
Meanings of Health in Early Modern Sweden
Authors: Forss Charlotta , Eyice Mari
Published: July 2024

This introduction outlines a conceptual framework for analysing the historically situated nature of ‘health.’ While previous historical research has elucidated conceptions of illness as changeable over time, it is our contention that the meaning of health is often taken for granted. We examine the semantic field of ‘health’ (Swe. hälsa) and associated terms as they were used in early modern Sweden, showing health as a multifaceted concept with connotations to bodily and mental well-being, prosperity, politics, and religion alike. The individual chapters of the volume are situated in the broader account of early modern medicine, which highlights how a focus on a contextual understanding of health can inform the history of medicine and the broader account of early modern history.
Epilogue: Epistemologies of Body and Soul: Considering the Early Modern and (Late) Modern History of Health
Authors: Tolvhed Helena
Published: July 2024

The chapters of this volume demonstrate the protracted coexistence in the early modern era of a wide variety of medical knowledge regimes and practices for interpreting health and combating illness. In contrast, the modern medical paradigm, which consolidated its hegemonic authority in the first half of the twentieth century, understood health as primarily a concern of medical science and of the public sphere. However, the latter decades of the twentieth century saw a reemergence of alternative epistemologies and the growth of a multifaceted health market. The epilogue discusses comparisons, analogies, and contrasts between this era of ‘late modernity’ and the early modern era. Three main topics are discussed: the return of holistic new spirituality; the ideology of ‘healthism’ and the marketisation of health; and the emergence of fitness culture.
Muddying the Waters: Thinking Thinking in Watery Context with Hamlet
Authors: Rose McKenna
Published: July 2024

Throughout Hamlet, watery figures act as metaphors for human cognition. Images of the sea and wind help audiences to think about how thinking works, or how thinking is failing to work correctly. While we can describe, categorize, and name metaphors through which we figure human thinking, cognitive critics point out that we cannot think thought itself because thought is only available to be thought through metaphors that are prelinguistic, embodied, and determined by what Mary Thomas Crane calls “prototypical categories” (16). Since the unconscious processes that create prototypical categories are contextual, setting Hamlet within our immediate present offers insight into our perilous ecological moment. By emphasizing cognitive criticism’s insight into the production of meaning, this chapter examines how the current state of the world’s waterways redounds onto Hamlet’s watery metaphors.
Tears, Rain, and Shame : King Lear, Masculine Vulnerability, and Environmental Crisis
Authors: Hamilton Jennifer
Published: July 2024

Deepening the argument of This Contentious Storm (2017), the chapter revisits representation of water in relation to the king’s emotions in King Lear. Specifically, I explore the king’s refusal to cry and his openness to the rain in relation to his intention to “Unburdened crawl toward death” (1.1.40). The play thus becomes a feminist fable about the difficulty of exposing one’s self as vulnerable in a masculinist culture that prizes pride and strength. The affective struggle of inhabiting one’s own mortal vulnerability—the fear or shame one may feel in the face of it—complements and complicates ideas in environmental humanities that underline the importance of openness to earthy mortality and vulnerability, on
Taiwanese-Language Cinema as Cold War Industry and Culture: Compliance without Commitment
Authors: Berry Chris
Published: July 2024

The Taiwanese-language films (taiyupian) of the 1950s to the 1970s have excited renewed interest, often focused on the differences between the local Taiwanese-speaking islanders and the Mandarin-favoring forces that took over from the Japanese in 1945. This chapter asks how we understand taiyupian as a Cold War cinema. First, it considers the impact of the Cold War on the production, distribution, and exhibition of taiyupian when the natural market was divided by the Bamboo Curtain. Second, how can we consider the films themselves as shaped by and contributing to the culture of the Cold War? Finally, in East Asia, the Cold War is not over. So, how does the revival of interest in taiyupian participate in the ongoing Cold War?
Landscape, Identity, and War: The Poetic Revolutionary Cinema of North Vietnam
Authors: Yip Man-Fung
Published: July 2024

A central defining feature of the revolutionary cinema of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV)—or North Vietnam—is its highly expressive use of nature and rural landscape. The expressive natural and pastoral imagery, which shows strong affinities to contemporaneous Vietnamese poetry, not only evokes an intense lyricism but also functions as an affective site/sight for articulating an “authentic” Vietnamese identity for political mobilization. Through close analysis of a few representative films (including The Passerine Bird [Con chim vành khuyên, 1962] and Miss Tham’s Forest [Rừng O Thắm, 1967]), this chapter seeks to illuminate the essential role of landscape, both aesthetic and ideological, in Vietnamese revolutionary cinema.
Third World, First World: Ishihara Yūjirō as a Cold War Star
Authors: Kitamura Hiroshi
Published: July 2024

This chapter examines Ishihara Yūjirō, a “national” or kokuminteki celebrity, as a Cold War star. Following his debut in 1956, the Kobe-born actor achieved instant fame by portraying a range of manly and masculine characters for Nikkatsu Studio and Ishihara Promotion, Inc. The so-called “Yūjirō films” began by presenting Japan as a developing Third World nation in the mid to late 1950s but over time boasted their rise in status by engaging the United States and Western Europe. By the early 1970s, Ishihara’s Japan was a full-fledged member of the First World. The image and persona of the iconic star did not merely address “domestic” concerns but exemplified a desire for “uplift” within the tense geopolitics of the Cold War.
Ugly Americans and Indeterminate Asians: Strategies/Symptoms of Southeast Asian Representation in Cold War US Film
Authors: Knee Adam
Published: July 2024

One facet of the US cultural Cold War strategy in cinematic soft-power terms was to be sensitive in on-screen portrayals of nations whose alignment it wanted to win over or ensure. This paper will make the case that one manifestation of this strategy is in portrayals of Southeast Asia that obfuscate clear national designations, thereby muting or obviating the issues of contention that might arise with respect to specific nations. It will further be argued that such muddling of national designation goes hand-in-hand with a figuration of American characters and/or US influence as partially problematic but also ultimately well-intentioned and potentially beneficial. The examples analyzed are Terror is a Man (1959), The Ugly American (1963), and Operation CIA (1965).
Counter-Occupying Americanism in South Korea and Taiwan: Taking Back the Spaces of US Base Culture in the Cold War Musical Number
Authors: Shih Evelyn
Published: July 2024

In the 1960s, an American form of live entertainment emerged on the local music scene in East Asia, due to both the cultural power of America and the actual presence of Americans on US military bases. Entertaining Americans became a significant industry in countries like Taiwan and South Korea, and the US presence expanded into spaces of entertainment such as bars, hotels, and dance clubs. This paper analyzes musical numbers in films from that era, discussing their representation of the entertainment space and their fashioning of cinematic attraction as a mode of vernacularizing popular music. These films not only bring the experience of American base-adjacent entertainment into mass consciousness, but also stage their own counter-occupation of these spaces with charismatic performance.
Cosmopolitan Kŏjedo: Swing Kids (2018) and Historical Memories of the Korean War
Authors: Klein Christina
Published: July 2024

Kang Hyeong-cheol’s Swing Kids (Sŭwingk’ijŭ, 2018) is a work of historical memory that emphasizes the Korean War’s multinational nature. Set within the Kŏjedo POW camp and merging the generic conventions of the musical with those of the Korean War film, it constructs an alternate history in which relations between a group of South Korean, North Korean, Chinese, and American characters play out in unexpected ways via dance. Swing Kids imagines liberation from the Cold War division system through the creation of a cosmopolitan community that transcends the boundaries of race, nation, ideology, and culture. It also offers a mythic origin story for K-pop, one of post-war Korea’s most successful exports.
The Problem of European Painting Schools in the Context of the Russian Enlightenment: Alexander Stroganoff (1733–1811) and His Catalogue (1793, 1800, 1807)
Authors: Emelianova Irina
Published: July 2024

The Catalogue raisonné des tableaux compiled by Count Alexander Stroganoff at the turn of the nineteenth century is the sole example of a printed catalogue of a private Russian painting collection. The publication of this catalogue has become a crucial event in Russian culture. Stroganoff was not only a prominent representative of the Russian Enlightenment, but also the president of the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg. His particular interest in national European painting schools coincided with the formation of art history in Russia and a time when the country was trying to form its artistic identity and to establish the Russian painting school.
Scuole Italiane or Scuola Italiana? Art Display, Historiography, Cultural Nationalism, and the Newly Founded Pinacoteca Vaticana (1817)
Authors: Racioppi Pier Paolo
Published: July 2024

The inaugural arrangement of the Pinacoteca Vaticana, instituted in 1817, after the restitution of the artworks confiscated by the French army in 1797, aimed to celebrate the ‘Italian school’. The notion of a singular scuola italiana was revealed through the choice and arrangement of specific paintings, as well as through the Pinacoteca’s catalogue and the literature of the time. This notion matured during and after the French rule of the Italian peninsula as a result of growing Italian cultural nationalism.
Claude III Audran, Arbiter of the French Arabesque
Authors: Laux Barbara
Published: July 2024

Claude III Audran, Arbiter of the French Arabesque is the first substantial biographical study of Claude III Audran, a late 17th- and early 18th-century master of ornament and a proponent of cutting-edge design who took inspiration from contemporary sources. This work investigates Audran’s accomplishments and the factors that impacted the longevity and arc of his successful career, taking into consideration the contextual variables that influenced and shaped his work. Audran’s achievements bridge an important period with the eclipse of the Guild Maîtrise and the rise of the Académie royale. Audran subcontracted young artists, such as Watteau, Lancret, and Desportes, in order to circumvent restrictions on guild practice enacted by the crown. Looking at his commissions not only reveals the elite taste of his patrons, including Louis XIV, but also Audran’s ability to use elements from popular culture to animate his arabesques, which created hallmarks of rococo interior design.
The Platformisation of Consumer Culture
Authors: Caliandro Alessandro , Gandini Alessandro , Bainotti Lucia , Anselmi Guido
Published: July 2024

This book offers a unique methodological guide for social and marketing scholars interested in understanding and using digital methods to explore the processes of platformisation of consumer culture unfolding on digital media. The book introduces the reader to key digital methods concepts, strategies, and techniques through a set of ad hoc case studies focused on the most prominent digital platforms (such as Facebook, Spotify, or TripAdvisor) as well as emerging trends in digital consumer culture (such as, the consumption of nostalgia, the radicalisation of taste, or ephemeral consumption).
Langlebig und zuverlässig: Verbindungssysteme für Fluide auf der Schiene
Authors:   Michael Tramer
Published: July 2024

Im Schienenfahrzeugbau hat das ThemaSicherheit oberste Priorität. Gerade HydraulikKomponenten nehmen eine zentrale undsicherheitsrelevante Funktion ein – sei es impneumatischen Bereich oder in derBrandlöschanlage. Doch der Markt verändert sichund muss sich neuen Herausforderungen undZukunftsthemen stellen. Voss Fluid als Anbieterfür Komplettsystem-Lösungen ist hier Experteund entwickelt in enger Zusammenarbeit mitden Kunden anwendungsspezifische Lösungen.
YẾU TỐ LIÊN QUAN ĐẾN KẾT QUẢ ĐIỀU TRỊ RỐI LOẠN NUỐT Ở NGƯỜI BỆNH NHỒI MÁU NÃO BẰNG CÁC BÀI TẬP	NUỐT KẾT HỢP CHẤT LÀM ĐẶC THỨC ĂN
Authors: Nguyễn Thị Vân , Phạm Văn Minh
Published: July 2024

Mục tiêu: Tìm hiểu một số yếu tố liên quan đến kết quả điều trị rối loạn nuốt ở người bệnh nhồi máu não bằng các bài tập nuốt kết hợp chất làm đặc thức ăn. Đối tượng và phương pháp nghiên cứu: Nghiên cứu tiến cứu can thiệp so sánh trước sau được tiến hành trên 33 bệnh nhân đột quỵ não có rối loạn nuốt tại Bệnh viện Phục hồi chức năng Hà Nội. Kết quả: Bệnh nhân khi vào viện có mức độ rối loạn nuốt từ nhẹ đến trung bình, chiếm tỷ lệ 87,9%, chỉ có một lượng nhỏ bệnh nhân có mức độ rối loạn nuốt nặng với tỷ lệ 12,2%. Đánh giá sau 15 ngày can thiệp chưa cho thấy sự khác biệt giữa tuổi và kết quả điều trị (p>0,05).  Không có sự khác biệt giữa giới tính với kết quả điều trị các nhóm không có rối loạn nuốt, rối loạn nuốt mức độ nhẹ, trung bình và nặng. Có sự khác biệt về tỷ lệ tổn thương bán cầu não phải và bán cầu não trái với kết quả phục hồi rối loạn nuốt (p<0,05). Khác biệt có ý nghĩa thống kê ở cả 3 thời điểm can thiệp 1-4 tuần (p<0,001); 1-2 tháng (p=0,001) và >2 tháng (p<0,01) cho thấy việc can thiệp sớm ảnh hưởng đến kết quả điều trị sau 15 ngày.  Kết luận: Chúng tôi nhận thấy có sự khác biệt về tỷ lệ tổn thương bán cầu não phải và bán cầu não trái với kết quả phục hồi rối loạn nuốt (p<0,05). Thời gian can thiệp nuốt càng sớm khả năng hồi phục rối loạn nuốt càng cao, tỷ lệ hồi phục chức năng nuốt cao hơn ở nhóm bệnh nhân can thiệp sớm dưới 1 tháng. Chưa tìm thấy mối liên quan giữa tuổi và giới đến kết quả điều trị.
THỰC TRẠNG VÀ MỐI LIÊN QUAN GIỮA KIẾN THỨC CHĂM SÓC SỨC KHOẺ RĂNG MIỆNG VỚI BỆNH SÂU RĂNG Ở HỌC SINH 6 TUỔI TẠI HÀ NỘI
Authors: Hà Ngọc Chiều , Phouphet Kanolath
Published: July 2024

Mục tiêu: Mô tả thực trạng và mối liên quan giữa kiến thức chăm sóc sức khoẻ răng miệng với bệnh sâu răng ở học sinh 6 tuổi (lớp 1) tại Hà Nội. Đối tượng và phương pháp: Nghiên cứu mô tả cắt ngang được thực hiện trên 191 học sinh 6 tuổi (lớp 1), đang học tại Trường Tiểu học Khương Thượng - Đống Đa - Hà Nội. Kết quả: Có 94,8% số học sinh đánh giá nguyên nhân gây sâu răng là do ăn nhiều bánh kẹo, nước ngọt và 90,6% số học sinh cho rằng có thể phòng được bệnh sâu răng. Chỉ có 12,6% (24/191) số trẻ biết cách dự phòng sâu răng. Có 90,6% số học sinh biết lựa chọn đúng loại bàn chải đánh răng nhưng chỉ có 11,5% số học sinh biết phải chải đủ 3 mặt của răng; có 84,3% số học sinh lựa chọn thời gian chải răng là 2 phút và 93,7% số học sinh lựa chọn chỉ chải răng 2 lần trong ngày. Chưa tìm thấy mối liên quan giữa kiến thức chăm sóc sức khoẻ răng miệng của trẻ với bệnh sâu răng. Kết luận: Kiến thức chăm sóc sức khoẻ răng miệng của trẻ chưa tốt. Cần tiến hành nhiều nghiên cứu với cỡ mẫu lớn hơn, đa dạng hơn để đánh giá mối liên quan giữa kiến thức chăm sóc sức khoẻ răng miệng của trẻ với bệnh sâu răng.
TÌNH HÌNH SỬ DỤNG KHÁNG SINH HỢP LÝ TRONG ĐIỀU TRỊ NỘI TRÚ TẠI BỆNH VIỆN ĐA KHOA VĨNH LONG NĂM 2023
Authors: Nguyễn Thanh Truyền , Trần Kiến Vũ
Published: July 2024

Mục tiêu: Mô tả thực trạng và tìm hiểu một số yếu tố ảnh hưởng đến quản lý, sử dụng kháng sinh hợp lý trong điều trị nội trú tại Bệnh viện Đa khoa Vĩnh Long năm 2023. Phương pháp nghiên cứu: thiết kế nghiên cứu cắt ngang, kết hợp định lượng và định tính, khảo sát 352 hồ sơ bệnh án có sử dụng KS, điều trị nội trú từ 03 ngày trở lên tại các khoa lâm sàng từ 01/2023 đến 9/2023. Kết quả: Tỷ lệ sử dụng kháng sinh hợp lý chung: 59,09%. Trong đó liều dùng của KS ban đầu hợp lý 94,03%, liều duy trì hợp lý là 91,19%. Khoảng cách liều dùng hợp lý là 66,76%. Có mối liên quan giữa tuổi (p= 0,000) và chức năng thận (p=0,032) với sử dụng kháng sinh hợp lý. Kết luận: Việc chỉ định kháng sinh trong điều trị nội trú dựa trên độ tuổi và tình trạng bệnh lý của người bệnh.
ĐÁNH GIÁ TÁC DỤNG CỦA PHƯƠNG PHÁP ĐIỆN CHÂM, XOA BÓP BẤM HUYỆT KẾT HỢP TÚI CHƯỜM THẢO DƯỢC ĐIỀU TRỊ ĐAU THẦN KINH TỌA
Authors: Trần Thái Hà , Mầu Tiến Dũng , Trần Thị Phong Lan
Published: July 2024

Mục  tiêu: 1. Đánh giá tác dụng của phương pháp điện châm, xoa bóp bấm huyệt kết hợp túi chườm thảo dược điều trị đau thần kinh tọa; 2. Theo dõi tác dụng không mong muốn của phương pháp túi chườm thảo dược. Đối tượng và phương pháp nghiên  cứu:  phương pháp tiến cứu, can thiệp lâm sàng, so sánh trước - sau điều trị; 40 người bệnh đủ tiêu chuẩn được điều trị bằng phương pháp điện châm, xoa bóp bấm huyệt kết hợp túi chườm thảo dược. Kết quả: Sau 15 ngày điều trị, mức độ đau VAS giảm từ 5.33 ± 1.05 điểm xuống 1.75 ±  1.15 điểm (p < 0.05); độ giãn cột sống thắt lưng (CSTL) từ 2.08 ± 0.71 cm  tăng lên 3.93 ± 0.54 cm (p < 0.05);khoảng cách tay – đất trung bình giảm từ 25.93 ± 6.31 cm xuống 13.08 ± 5.06 cm; thang điểm chức năng sinh hoạt hàng ngày Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) từ 49.2 ± 9.43 % giảm xuống 24.3 ± 9.89 % (p < 0.05). Kết luận: Điện châm,  xoa bóp bấm huyệt kết hợp túi chườm thảo dược có tác dụng cải thiện điểm đau VAS, độ giãn CSTL, khoảng cách tay đất và chỉ số ODI trong điều trị bệnh nhân đau TKT; Chưa ghi nhận tác dụng không mong muốn trên người bệnh nghiên cứu
ĐÁNH GIÁ PHƯƠNG PHÁP ĐỐT NHIỆT U XƠ TỬ CUNG BẰNG SÓNG RFA TẠI BỆNH VIỆN PHỤ SẢN HÀ NỘI
Authors: Dương Văn Vũ , Lê Thị Anh Đào , Nguyễn Duy Ánh
Published: July 2024

Mục tiêu: Đánh giá kết quả điều trị u xơ tử cung bằng sóng cao tần (RFA) tại Bệnh viện Phụ sản Hà Nội trong 6 tháng. Đối tượng và phương pháp: Một nghiên cứu theo dõi dọc trong vòng sáu tháng ở các bệnh nhân u xơ tử cung có triệu chứng như chảy máu tử cung bất thường, đau vùng chậu, thiếu máu và mong muốn bảo tồn khả năng sinh sản được điều trị bằng RFA. Kết quả: 18 bệnh nhân với 20 u xơ đủ tiêu chuẩn đưa vào nghiên cứu. Kích thước u xơ trung bình là 4,6 ± 1,3 cm trong đó có 77,8% bệnh nhân có tình trạng thiếu máu. Thời gian đốt nhiệt sóng cao tần là 12,2 ± 4,1 phút. Kích thước khối u giảm 43,6% sau 1 tháng, 69,6% sau 3 tháng và 83,6% sau 6 tháng. Rối loạn kinh nguyệt và khó chịu vùng chậu được cải thiện đáng kể sau 1 tháng và 3 tháng. Kết luận: RFA có hiệu quả trong giảm kích thước u xơ và cải thiện các triệu chứng lâm sàng trong thời gian nghiên cứu.