bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Síndrome dos ovários policísticos: impacto na qualidade de vida e saúde da mulher
Authors: Morais Camilly da Silva , Vidal Juliana Cavalcanti Cintra , Freitas Francisca Marta Nascimento de Oliveira , Lobo Rosimar Honorato
Published: November 2024

O objetivo desta pesquisa foi examinar as características relacionadas à síndrome dos ovários policísticos e os impactos na qualidade de vida e saúde da mulher, bem como os princípios que norteiam a síndrome, consoante as formas de tratamento. Estudo feito através das revisões literárias, como artigos e revistas científicas atualizados, para elucidar sobre os riscos a esse público, como o combate a infertilidade, hirsutismo, ansiedade e depressão, em consequência da SOP. Evidência dessa forma, a importância da atividade física regular, em uma dieta baseada em baixo carboidrato, além do controle de ingestão do açúcar, para tratamento desses distúrbios metabólicos. Ademais, correlaciona ainda o uso de anticoncepcionais como uma possível forma de tratamento alternativo, bem como o uso de chás, regulação da vitamina D, diuréticos e acupuntura e elenca a relevância do acompanhamento profissional adequado e multidisciplinar, para melhor combate e escolha do tratamento da síndrome e suas consequências, como um todo na saúde da mulher e o impactos psicológicos fisiopatológicos na vida das pacientes.
Contribuição da área de enfermagem junto a portadores de esquizofrenia
Authors: Silva Carla Cristina dos Santos , Penacci Fernanda Augusta
Published: November 2024

Introdução: O cuidado de enfermagem prestado aos portadores de esquizofrenia é crucial para promover a qualidade de vida e o bem-estar destes pacientes exigindo uma abordagem empática e especializada para atender às suas necessidades complexas de saúde mental. Objetivo: Identificar a contribuição da área de enfermagem junto a portadores de esquizofrenia. Método: Realizou-se uma revisão integrativa da literatura, que adotou como metodologia o protocolo PRISMA. Utilizando a estratégia PICo, a busca foi feita nas bases da Literatura Latino-Americana e do Caribe em Ciências da Saúde (LILACS), biblioteca digital Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) e Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde (BVS) com critérios de inclusão de artigos em português publicados entre 2020 e 2024, sendo artigos completos em língua portuguesa e que abordassem a pergunta norteadora. Resultados e Discussão: Resultaram seis artigos completos em língua portuguesa. A atuação do enfermeiro junto a portadores de esquizofrenia envolve desde a administração de medicamentos até a implementação de terapias psicossociais, com foco na promoção da adesão ao tratamento e na melhoria da qualidade de vida dos pacientes. Conclusão: O cuidado de enfermagem desempenha um papel fundamental no manejo da esquizofrenia, contribuindo para a estabilidade clínica e emocional dos pacientes. É essencial que os enfermeiros estejam capacitados e atualizados para fornecer suporte holístico e contínuo a essa população.
Principais intervenções para a melhoria da qualidade de vida de pessoas com autismo: revisão sistemática da literatura
Authors: Sousa Kaline Oliveira de , Silva Maria Fernanda Bandeira da , Sousa Signey Everton Edival de , Queiroz Luã Alves de , Rocha Carlos Augusto da , Venceslau Bárbara Aguiar , Campos Davi Resende
Published: November 2024

O Transtorno do Espectro Autista (TEA) é uma condição neurodesenvolvimental que impacta na percepção e na interação social, com sinais que geralmente aparecem antes dos três anos e incluem dificuldades de comunicação, desafios nas interações sociais, interesses restritos e comportamentos repetitivos. O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar e descrever as principais intervenções para a melhoria da qualidade de vida de indivíduos com TEA. A metodologia trata-se de uma revisão sistemática, na qual foi realizada uma busca em bases de dados PUBMED, MEDLINE, LILACS e BDENF, concentrando-se em publicações entre 2020 e 2024, utilizando os termos “Qualidade de Vida”, “Saúde Pública”, “Transtorno Autístico” e “Transtornos do Neurodesenvolvimento”. Os critérios de inclusão abrangem artigos revisados por pares que discutem intervenções específicas. Após a coleta, foi feita uma avaliação da relevância e qualidade metodológica dos estudos, com apresentação clara dos resultados. Evidenciou-se que a melhoria da qualidade de vida de pessoas com autismo requer uma abordagem multidisciplinar e personalizada, com intervenções adaptadas às necessidades individuais. As principais intervenções incluem o uso das tecnologias cuidativo-educaconais, sobretudo quando emprega a ludoterapia; terapia comportamental, especialmente a Análise Comportamental Aplicada (ABA); terapia ocupacional; terapia comportamental; fonoaudiologia; práticas de autocuidado e bem-estar; atividades sociais e comunitárias; apoio psicológico e familiar. As análises revelam a complexidade das abordagens, mostrando que a combinação de métodos terapêuticos pode promover significativamente a autonomia, habilidades sociais e bem-estar emocional das pessoas com TEA.
A tempestividade recursal sob a perspectiva da primazia da decisão de mérito
Authors: Sento-Sé Jairo Ramos Coelho Lins de Albuquerque
Published: November 2024

Este ensaio partiu da premissa de que o princípio da primazia da decisão de mérito é plenamente aplicável ao processo do trabalho, o que pode gerar diversas consequências práticas, inclusive mudanças na jurisprudência trabalhista. Assim, o artigo analisou algumas situações práticas a partir desta aplicação, quais sejam: 1) a hipótese do recurso prematuro; 2) a situação em que existe feriado local e/ou feriado forense e a comprovação da tempestividade do recurso; 3) a hipótese de divergência entre intimação no Diário Eletrônico da Justiça do Trabalho (DEJT) e no Processo Judicial Eletrônico (PJE) para efeitos de contagem de prazo processual; 4) a hipótese em que houve erro de contagem de prazo pelo sistema oficial do PJE; e, por fim, 5) a situação em que houve desistência de embargos de declaração e interrupção do prazo processual. O artigo propôs soluções a partir da aplicação do princípio da primazia da decisão de mérito no processo do trabalho, no que toca à tempestividade dos recursos. Por fim, este artigo apresenta a intempestividade como vício insanável e, portanto, um limite dogmático ao princípio da primazia da decisão de mérito. A metodologia utilizada foi a pesquisa bibliográfica, coletando de dados a partir de artigos e livros científicos, bem como análise da jurisprudência dos Tribunais trabalhistas.
Ritmos circadianos e obesidade: como padrões irregulares de alimentação afetam o metabolismo
Authors: Burille Bernardo Coradi , Costa Kétina dos Santos , Marchetti Leonardo Gauginski , Ribeiro Steve Biko Menezes Hora Alves , Leal Neto Hugo de Sousa , Soares Matheus Maia , Oliveira Maitê Rocha , Corrêa Carlos Victor Bessa , Paulino Ana Maria Miyawaki , Silva Moisés Costa
Published: November 2024

Os ritmos circadianos, mecanismos biológicos que regulam o ciclo de 24 horas das atividades fisiológicas, têm sido amplamente investigados por sua relação com diversos aspectos da saúde humana. Recentemente, sua conexão com a obesidade e o metabolismo ganhou destaque, especialmente no contexto de padrões irregulares de alimentação. Este artigo revisa de forma abrangente a inter-relação entre os ritmos circadianos e a obesidade, com ênfase nos efeitos adversos de padrões alimentares irregulares sobre o metabolismo energético. Os ritmos circadianos, mecanismos biológicos que sincronizam processos fisiológicos com o ciclo de 24 horas, desempenham um papel crucial na regulação do metabolismo da glicose, lipídios e na secreção hormonal. Quando há um desalinhamento entre o relógio biológico e os comportamentos de alimentação, como a ingestão de alimentos em horários irregulares ou noturnos, ocorre uma desregulação metabólica caracterizada pela resistência à insulina, aumento no armazenamento de gordura e maior risco de obesidade e distúrbios metabólicos associados. A crononutrição, uma abordagem emergente que propõe a sincronização das refeições com os ritmos circadianos, mostra-se uma estratégia promissora para melhorar a saúde metabólica. Estudos indicam que o consumo de alimentos no início do dia, alinhado ao ciclo biológico, otimiza a termogênese induzida pela dieta, melhora a sensibilidade à insulina e reduz o acúmulo de gordura corporal. Além disso, o impacto dos ritmos circadianos na regulação da microbiota intestinal e nas vias metabólicas, como a adenosina monofosfato quinase (AMPK) e a via mTOR, reforça a complexidade do controle circadiano sobre o metabolismo. A crononutrição é uma nova estratégia que sugere alinhar os horários das refeições com os ritmos naturais do corpo, comendo mais no início do dia. Isso ajuda a melhorar o metabolismo, controlar o peso e até otimizar a digestão. Ajustar a rotina de alimentação e sono pode, assim, ser uma forma eficaz de melhorar a saúde a longo prazo e prevenir a obesidade.
Artworks from Count Zamoyski's residence in Vöttau Castle in the collection of the National Museum named after King Jan III in Lviv
Authors: Poberezhnyi Myroslav
Published: November 2024

This article is devoted to the identification of several artefacts from the collection owned by Count Jan Stanisław Zamoyski held at Vöttau Castle in Moravia (today Bítov Castle in the Czech Republic), which were auctioned at the Dorotheum in Vienna in 1912. Valuable specimens of horse harness and outstanding portrait paintings were purchased at this auction for the former King John III National Museum in Lvov (Polish: Lwów, today: Lviv) by the city’s deputy mayor Tadeusz Rutowski. Another portrait from Count Zamoyskis collection was purchased by the museum from the Lvov antiquarian Mendel Schulberg. Information on the provenance of most of these objects remained unknown for a long time due to inaccuracies in museum documentation, changes in the attribution of some objects, and the subsequent dispersal of this group of exhibits among various Ukrainian museums. The research identified and established the current location of the ceremonial saddle, which is traditionally associated with the Turkish siege of Vienna in 1683, and a number of portraits dating from the seventeenth and the eighteenth century and depicting Princess Theresa Kunegunda Sobieska, the Elector of Saxony Frederick Christian, Queen Marie Leszczyńska and a mysterious portrait of a Cossack Hetman.
The Pulawian sabres of John III
Authors: Chramiec Mateusz
Published: November 2024

The collection of national memorabilia of Princess Izabela Czartoryska née Flemming played a momentous role in the formation of Polish collecting in the sentimental-romantic trend. However, the surviving Puławy collection, which is one of the pillars of the collection of the Czartoryski Princes Museum in Cracow, are still insufficiently known. The collection was housed in Puławy for less than thirty years, only to disperse a few decades later and be reunited in Cracow within a process that had been underway since the early 1870s. In this period, especially during the seemingly tranquil years of la belle époque and later in the inter-war years, the Czartoryski collections were studied in new research perspectives and treated with an increasing caution and reserved criticism. An interesting element of this group is the set of arms that used to belong to King John III, whose memory was particularly revered in Puławy. The local tradition attributed as many as six sabres to him. Have these artefacts survived to the present day and can we truly associate them with the monarch? The present paper attempts to answer these questions.
Eastern arcade wall-hangings from the collection of the National Museum in Kielce
Authors: Śniegulska-Gomuła Magdalena
Published: November 2024

The collection of the National Museum in Kielce includes a pair of silk arcade wall-hangings, the origin of which should be linked with silk workshops in the Ottoman Empire. These fabrics have parallel artefacts in the Polishmuseum and church collections, and the vast majority of them are traditionally regarded as trophies from the relief of Vienna, which, however, is not confirmed in the sources. In the literature to date they have been referred to originating from Persia, Turkey and even Cairo, and dated to the seventeenth century. The high quality of the Kielce fabrics and their unique, eclectic style, in which Oriental details coexist with European ones, allow us to attribute their authorship to Greek silk workshops located, among others, on the island of Chios. Eastern fabrics entered the Commonwealth of Poland and Lithuania which had been under the influence of Middle Eastern culture since the fifteenth century, especially strongly in the seventeenth century in huge quantities, not only as war spoils or diplomatic gifts, but above all as an object of well-organised trade in which energetic Armenian merchants played a major role.
The Whole is Greater than the Sum of its Parts
Authors: Krewet Michael , Tonne Danah , Götzelmann Germaine , Hegel Philipp , Söring Sibylle
Published: November 2024

This paper aims at presenting the surplus value of collaboration between philologists and data scientists in the research on medieval digitized manuscripts. Both the great potential and the challenges of such a collaboration will be addressed. The following case study originates from research which is conducted in the Collaborative Research Center “Episteme in Motion. Transfer from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period” which is located at the Freie Universit¨at Berlin and funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). One of the goals of this collaboration is to advance research questions in which the data basis is complex or too complex for traditional research methods. The case study presented in this paper will deal with the knowledge transfer and text transmission in manuscripts of Aristotle’s ancient Greek treatises on logic, the so-called Organon, and will focus on the manuscripts of his work de interpretatione (On Interpretation) and on commentaries and explanations which are found as paratexts in the manuscripts.
Integrating TEI/XML Text with Semantic Lexicographic Data
Authors: Wills Tarrin , Johannsson Ellert Thor , Battista Simonetta
Published: November 2024

Traditional excerption-based historical dictionaries often provide a very detailed semantic analysis of a high proportion of words in the corpora they cover. The Dictionary of Old Norse Prose will have analyzed and defined around 7% of all words in a 11 million word corpus, for example. Linking the semantic analysis of excerpted citations to new digital texts of the works in the corpus offers the potential to give much more detailed context for the citations in the dictionary and at the same time contextual semantic information (definitions) for a high proportion of specific words in the corpus. The task is nontrivial as it involves linking separately-formed datasets consisting of tens of thousands of tokens. This paper describes a process by which a very high proportion of citations in the dictionary are linked to individual words in new digital editions, using sorting and lexical information. The result is that users of the dictionary can view the citations in their full textual context, and readers of the text can access definitions specific to individual words in the text.
Hillforts – built by collective action or coercive leadership?
Authors: Ødegaard Marie , Teigen Arild L.
Published: November 2024

This article was first published in  "Vol. 88 (2024)" of Norsk Arkeologisk Årbok in 2024. In 2025 it was re-published in the second issue of Viking Special Volumes.
In this article, we will examine the socio-economic and military landscape of the Early Iron Age (AD 1–600) in the historical county of Vingulmark, which consisted of the area from Eiker in the west to Bohuslän in the east. Our starting point is hillforts, which are usually interpreted as places of refuge for people in rural areas in times of unrest. In Norway, around 450 hillforts are known, mainly dated to the period AD 200–550. Vingulmark contains 109 of them, thus almost a quarter of the known hillforts. We discuss why there are so many hillforts in Vingulsmark, and the relation between hillforts and central farms / places in Vingulmark. Are the hillforts the result of community solutions in farming communities or was the construction of the hillforts controlled by elites from one or more centres, under threats of coercion? We will assess the hillforts in relation to socio-economic relations, settlement expansion, central farms and central places in a landscape perspective with the application of anarchist theories and collective action theory.
Keywords: hillforts, conflict, socio-economic and military organization, communities, leadership
O USO DE MODELOS E TÉCNICAS DE UX NA CRIAÇÃO DE DASHBOARDS DE BI: UMA REVISÃO SISTEMÁTICA DA LITERATURA
Authors: Santoro Fernando de Oliveira , Spiegel Thaís , Da Silva Júnior Dércio Santiago
Published: November 2024

This study presents a systematic review of the literature focused on the integration of User Experience (UX) techniques in the design of dashboards for Business Intelligence (BI). In a context of increasing volume and accessibility of data, dashboards emerge as essential tools to transform raw data into visual and actionable information, facilitating organizational decision-making. Through UX practices, it is possible to optimize the interaction and understanding of these interfaces, ensuring an intuitive and efficient experience for users.
The search was conducted in the Web of Science and Scopus databases. The initial search resulted in 607 articles, later reduced to 10 studies after a careful analysis of relevance and adherence to the central theme. The methodology involved a bibliometric analysis and categorization of the selected studies, with the aim of identifying the most used UX practices, gaps in the literature, and directions for future research.
The results indicate that the application of UX techniques in BI dashboards increases their usability and effectiveness, promoting a better interaction experience with the interface. A diversity of approaches was observed, including, among others, the use of continuous feedback, user-centered design, and aesthetic-functional design principles. However, the review revealed limitations in the studies analyzed, especially with regard to the specificity of the types of dashboards and the detailed characterization of the target audiences, which may hinder the replicability and practical application of the proposed models.
This article contributes to the field of BI dashboard design by highlighting UX best practices, suggesting a path for developing methodologies that balance aesthetics, functionality, and usability. The relevance of the findings is evident to BI and UX practitioners and researchers, offering a foundation for advancing academic and practical understanding in creating more intuitive and effective dashboards.
Prevention dental hygiene program in oncology patients
Authors: Pardo A. , Zangani A. , Messina E. , Colapinto G. , Zambotti T. , Beccherle M. , Menini E. , Signoriello A. , Faccioni P. , Caroprese M. , Albanese M. , Lombardo G. , Zerman N.
Published: November 2024

This study aimed to assess the impact of on oral health in oncological patients. A Prevention Dental Hygiene Project was conducted in the Day-Hospital Oncology Unit. Fourteen patients who satisfied the inclusion criteria at their first visit were enrolled voluntarily. Their oral health conditions were evaluated using the Bleeding on probing (BoP), Visible Plaque Index (VPI) at the initial stage (T0), one month (T1), and two months after (T2) The results showed an improvement in inflammatory and plaque indices in patients who attended all visits and followed the instructions provided. In conclusion, the dental project implemented on frail patients highlights the significance of preventive measures and the value of multidisciplinary collaboration in the field of medicine.
Comparison of different flap designs in soft tissues periodontal healing after lower third molars extraction: a descriptive review
Authors: Signoriello A. , Gualtieri M. , Pardo A. , Beccherle M. , Viviani M. , Tomizioli N. , Zambotti T. , Ugolini A. , Colapinto G. , Caroprese M. , Montagna P. , Faccioni P. , Lombardo G. , Albanese M.
Published: November 2024

The purpose of this descriptive review was to assess post-operative periodontal outcomes of adjacent molar sites after the extraction of lower third molars, comparing different surgical techniques. The electronic search strategy was conducted on different databases (PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science) fitting the following selection criteria: clinical human studies (RCTs, retrospective and prospective); studies comparing different flap designs (e.g., envelope, triangular, and trapezoidal flaps) for surgical extraction of lower 3rd molars; studies assessing clinical outcomes of periodontal healing at adjacent molar sites. Studies included had to present a minimum follow-up of 1 month and at least variations of probing pocket depth (PPD) at 2nd molar site between baseline and follow-up. The search strategy considered a total of 148 records: based on the predetermined eligibility criteria, 24 articles were read, and 9 were finally identified. Regarding the primary outcome considered (PPD at 2nd molar site), no significant differences in its reduction between baseline and follow-up were found comparing different flaps designs. However, the greatest clinical attachment loss (CAL) was generally reported using a trapezoidal flap. Considering the heterogeneity of studies included, after 1 to 6 months of follow-up, no substantial evidence can be assumed for or against the use of a particular flap design for the extraction of lower third molars.
Implementación de programas de educación inclusiva en el desarrollo social y académico de estudiantes con trastorno del espectro autista
Authors: Apolo Castillo Josselyn Esthefania , Gavilánez Cayambe Leidy Vanessa , Inagán Carvajal Francisco Javier , Jácome Lucero Harold Anderson , Medina Campoverde José Jackson
Published: November 2024

La implementación de programas de inclusión como tendencia en el desarrollo social y académico de estudiantes TEA parte como base para el mejoramiento de vínculos de toda la comunidad educativa, siendo parte importante para abrir puertas así el desarrollo de una sociedad más consciente y amigable. Sin embargo, en la práctica educativa en una Unidad Educativa del Cantón Machala, Provincia El Oro, no se evidencia la implementación de programas de inclusión para estudiantes TEA. El objetivo de esta investigación es concientizar a la comunidad educativa sobre la importancia de implementar programas de desarrollo social y académico de estudiantes con trastorno de Espectro Autista. Materiales y Métodos: el enfoque de la investigación es cuali-cuantitativo, el tipo de investigación descriptivo. La población y muestra identificada es de: 20 docentes: 60 estudiantes, el tamaño muestra es de:  4 docentes del Área Matemática y a 30 estudiantes; la técnica que se empleó es la encuesta. El nivel de consistencia interna de la encuesta es de 0.83, correspondiente a 6 ítems, que obtiene un criterio de confiabilidad excelente. Conclusiones: Esta investigación conlleva a determinar que sobre la dimensión: Motivar la implementación de programas de inclusión, establece que los docentes no  emplean estrategias para la implementación de programas de inclusión de estudiantes Tea, sean las autoridades los principales actores de esta iniciativa, en aulas falta por desarrollar actividades que promuevan la inclusión, se evidencia una prevalencia de desacuerdo; a pesar de que la implementación de estos programas mejoran los vínculos con toda la comunidad educativa.
Importancia de la gestión del turismo como fuente fundamental para el desarrollo económico local en la Parroquia Los Encuentros, Cantón Yantzaza
Authors: Aranda Torres Viviana Ivette
Published: November 2024

En el presente artículo se muestra que la correcta aplicación de un modelo de gestión como un elemento central para el fomento del turismo local en la región, con el objetivo de impulsar el crecimiento económico y mejorar la calidad de vida de sus habitantes. Se propone un enfoque de turismo sostenible que busca equilibrar los beneficios. La metodología adoptada se estructura en tres fases: 1) Diagnóstico situacional del territorio. 2) Formulación de estrategias para el desarrollo turístico local, y 3) Elaboración de un plan estratégico que define los procesos de planificación y permita identificar las competencias y funciones de los actores involucrados. Finalmente, los hallazgos de la presente investigación indican que las acciones implementadas por las autoridades en la zona de estudio no han sido suficientes para dinamizar la economía del sector a través de la actividad turística. Por lo tanto, se considera viable la implementación de un modelo de gestión a través de una adecuada planificación, promoción, capacitación, así como la conservación y protección de los recursos y atractivos turísticos de la Parroquia Los Encuentros, Cantón Yantzaza.
Las inversiones del GAD Municipal y el impacto en el desarrollo comunitario del cantón El Empalme, periodo 2020-2022
Authors: Intriago Vélez Roger Arie
Published: November 2024

Esta investigación se realizó para identificar cómo las inversiones públicas realizadas por la administración del Gobierno Autónomo Descentralizado Municipal del Cantón El Empalme han influido en el desarrollo y crecimiento de la comunidad. Es importante tener presente que estas inversiones se pueden hacer a través de programas que busquen mejorar la calidad de vida de los residentes y promover el progreso económico y social de la colectividad. Además, se pueden ejecutar proyectos de inclusión para que toda la población en general sea partícipe de dichos proyectos, acogiendo a las personas con discapacidad y de bajos recursos para que accedan al gozo de una vida digna. El objetivo de esta investigación se centró en identificar cómo las inversiones realizadas por el GAD han incidido en el desarrollo comunitario del cantón El Empalme. La metodología implementada se basó a través de un enfoque cuantitativo y cualitativo, partiendo desde el análisis de los datos de las inversiones que se obtuvieron de fuentes secundarias, al mismo tiempo se realizó una encuesta a 382 ciudadanos del cantón y una entrevista al director de desarrollo comunitario y gestión social, con el objetivo de tener información más relevante acerca del objeto de este estudio, lo que contribuyó a conocer el impacto de las inversiones en el desarrollo comunitario por parte del GAD. Se concluye que las inversiones desarrolladas por el GAD han beneficiado y favorecido el desarrollo comunitario del cantón El Empalme.
From Awareness to Commitment in Public Health Campaigns
Authors: Hill Myleea D. , Thompson-Hayes Marceline
Published: November 2024

Attempts to raise awareness on a multitude of health issues may actually be counter-productive and even dangerous to solving contemporary health problems. From Awareness to Commitment in Public Health Campaigns: The Awareness Myth discusses several myths of the benefits of raising awareness. Myleea Hill and Marceline Thompson-Hayes argue that using awareness as an end-point in public health campaigns is misguided and does more harm than good. They offer a model of the current awareness culture that simply leads to an ever-increasing cycle of awareness without behavioral change or sustained participation and support for causes. Then, they demonstrates how three factors (recognition involvement, knowledge-seeking and education, and participation) intersect to create commitment to solving and alleviating health problems through various methods of communication (social media, mass communication, and interpersonal communication).
The Motif of Hope in African American Preaching During Slavery and the Post-Civil War Era
Authors: Croft Wayne E.
Published: November 2024

The Motif of Hope in African American Preaching during Slavery and the Post-Civil War Era: There's a Bright Side Somewhere explores the use of the motif of hope within African American preaching during slavery (1803–1865) and the post-Civil War era (1865–1896). It discusses the presentation of the motif of hope in African American preaching from an historical perspective and how this motif changed while in some instances remained the same with the changing of its historical context. Furthermore, this discussion illuminates a reality that hope has been a theme of importance throughout the history of African American preaching.
Understanding Adolescent Immigrants
Authors: Stewart Mary Amanda
Published: November 2024

As the immigrant population grows in countries such as the United States, so does the number of newcomer immigrant students in middle and high schools. Many scholars have noted that the education immigrant adolescents receive has a great bearing on the future of the nation. Understanding Adolescent Immigrants: Moving toward an Extraordinary Discourse for Extraordinary Youth highlights the voices of these young people by sharing the stories of seven newcomer youths aged 13 to 20 years in U.S. high schools. By learning their histories, present situations, and dreams for the future, we can understand both these students’ unique contribution to their new country and their schools’ roles in helping them achieve success.
HIV on TV
Authors: Johnson Malynnda A.
Published: November 2024

In the 80’s and 90’s it was Designing Women and The Real World, today it’s Grey’s

Anatomy and How to Get Away with Murder. 35 years since HIV hit prime time it

remains a hot topic for TV producers to include in storylines. While the motivation

behind creating an HIV narrative is sometimes the disseminate facts about HIV and STIs, far

more often it is the sexy ratings a show can receive by including a “taboo” or controversial topic. As a result, while some education is provided to audiences, far more shows are found only perpetuating misinformation and stereotypes. As a result viewers, young populations especially,

continue to believe they are not at risk.

HIV on TV: Popular Culture’s Epidemic offers a discussion of how HIV has

permeated popular culture. News broadcasts, movies, television shows, even music

lyrics have imbedded messages about HIV. Examining over 35-years of the

HIV evolution on television this book offers a critical lens for examining how medial topics, specifically HIV, are covered in the media. Cutting across three common genres (news, drama, and comedy), characterizations, contexts, and themes are critically analyzed to uncover what each genre has contributed to audience’s understanding of risk, and what it is like to live with HIV. In total, the book offers three perspectives of the lessons presented about HIV. First, is the view from the screen; asking what the characters themselves say to the viewer. Second the book shares results from interviews with viewers themselves who have recalled seeing the shows mentioned. Finally, the book offers thoughts and reflections from writers, producers, and actors involved in the narratives. Providing the greatest insight, an interview with Daniel Franzese (Mean Girls, Road to Recovery, Looking) offers his experience in playing multiple roles as someone living with HIV and a challenge to media writers to be cautious in how they choose to write HIV into a storyline.
Metaphor from the Ground Up
Authors: Strack Daniel C.
Published: November 2024

Metaphor from the Ground Up introduces Conceptual Filtering Theory, a theory of mental processing that describes figurative language communication in terms of conceptual domain projection and contextual disambiguation. In an attempt to match theoretical observations from cognitive semantics and pragmatics with related knowledge about mental processes from cognitive neuroscience, CFT first examines the distributed nature of conceptualization and then uses this background information to explain metonymic “binding” and metaphoric “mapping.” Once the perceptual origins of metonymy and metaphor have been demonstrated, CFT offers a detailed account of how salient aspects of conceptualization differentially combine to achieve predictable inferencing results in linguistic communication. In addition, CFT characterizes the role of contextual effects in pruning salient inferencing options and demonstrates how situational frames can be manipulated to guide semantic outcomes. The book as a whole will assert that figurative language processing cannot be characterized in terms of a generically constituted base system that receives inputs and spits out predictable results according to logical probability in a situational vacuum. Rather, it is a dynamic, context-sensitive process that continually reweights the underlying system so as to rapidly select situation-relevant lines of inferencing from among a variety of salient inferencing options.
National Basketball Association Franchises
Authors: Jozsa Frank P.
Published: November 2024

This book examines the development and organization of the NBA and its clubs, how each club has performed in seasons and postseasons, and to what extent each has prospered and succeeded as a business enterprise despite competition for market share from other types of entertainment. Each chapter contains two core themes—Team Performance and Franchise Business. The former highlights how teams won division and conference titles and NBA championships while the latter analyzes and compares financial data including revenue, gate receipts, and operating income. The book also explores such things as when each franchise organized and why it joined the NBA, a brief profile of its current majority owner or ownership group, records of teams’ special coaches and players, attendances at home games, and how their arenas rank as venues for fans. This book explains why particular teams located in very large, large, midsized, or small markets win more games and titles than others and when and how frequently this occurs. In addition, it provides ways to individually—and by division or conference—compare basketball franchises from a financial perspective.
From Factory Girls to K-Pop Idol Girls
Authors: Kim Gooyong
Published: November 2024

Focusing on female idols’ proliferation in the South Korean popular music (K-pop) industry since the late 1990s, Gooyong Kim critically analyzes structural conditions of possibilities in contemporary popular music from production to consumption. Kim contextualizes the success of K-pop within Korea’s development trajectories, scrutinizing how a formula of developments from the country’ rapid industrial modernization (1960s-1980s) was updated and re-applied in the K-pop industry when the state had to implement a series of neoliberal reformations mandated by the IMF. To that end, applying Michel Foucault’s discussion on governmentality, a biopolitical dimension of neoliberalism, Kim argues how the regime of free market capitalism updates and reproduces itself by 1) forming a strategic alliance of interests with the state, and 2) using popular culture to facilitate individuals’ subjectification and subjectivation processes to become neoliberal agents. As to an importance of K-pop female idols, Kim indicates a sustained utility/legacy of the nation’s century-long patriarchy in a neoliberal development agenda. Young female talents have been mobilized and deployed in the neoliberal culture industry in a similar way to how un-wed, obedient female workers were exploited and disposed on the sweatshop factory floors to sustain the state’s export-oriented, labor-intensive manufacturing industry policy during its rapid developmental stage decades ago. In this respect, Kim maintains how a post-feminist, neoliberal discourse of girl power has marketed young, female talents as effective commodities, and how K-pop female idols exert biopolitical power as an active ideological apparatus that pleasurably perpetuates and legitimates neoliberal mantras in individuals’ everyday lives. Thus, Kim reveals there is a strategic convergence between Korea’s lingering legacies of patriarchy, developmentalism, and neoliberalism. While the current K-pop literature is micro-scopic and celebratory, Kim advances the scholarship by multi-perspectival, critical approaches. With a well-balanced perspective by micro-scopic textual analyses of music videos and macro-scopic examinations of historical and political economy backgrounds, Kim’s book provides a wealth of intriguing research agendas on the phenomenon, and will be a useful reference in International/ Intercultural Communication, Political Economy of the Media, Cultural/ Media Studies, Gender/ Sexuality Studies, Asian Studies, and Korean Studies.
Tourism and Language in Vieques
Authors: Galanes Valldejuli Luis
Published: November 2024

After more than sixty years of occupation by the U.S. Navy and intensive community struggles, the Puerto Rican island of Vieques was finally returned to civilian control in 2003. But, as this book documents, the Viequenses’ struggles were far form over after the departure of the Navy. The Viequenses were left to contend with the devastating effects of sixty-two years of bombing; the environment and health of the population had been severely harmed. Yet this was a minor issue in comparison to the effects of the newly instated tourism industry on the island. Drawing from ethnographic research conducted between 2004 to 2016, Luis Galanes Valldejuli captures the larger social conflict derived from the arrival of tourists, who brought change to the island in the form of land speculation, work conflicts, racism, language barriers, and neoliberalism. A close observer of the Viequenses, Valldejuli details the deleterious effects of tourism on the voice of the Viequenses: they were no longer heard. This book is recommended for scholars of anthropology, tourism studies, linguistics, cultural geography, political science, and history.
Sexual Jihad
Authors: Rinehart Christine  Sixta
Published: November 2024

Female terrorists are a rare phenomenon. Less than ten terrorist organizations throughout the world have women members. These terrorist groups are either Marxist (atheist) or Jihadist in their ideologies. Sexual Jihad: The Role of Islam in Female Terrorism ascertains, “What is the role of Islam in female terrorism?” It explores the roles of women in eight jihadist case studies including: Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, Boko Haram, the Chechen Separatists, HAMAS, Hezbollah, ISIS, the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, and Al Qaeda. Primary sources and secondary sources are used, including research conducted on Palestinian women in Israeli prisons who have been convicted of terrorism. It is argued that are three roles for women in Jihadist terrorism: the disposable, the domestic, and the secretary. The theory posited in this book is that the roles of women in terrorist groups are similar to their cultural/religious roles in society.
Justice
Authors: Kim Young
Published: November 2024

The moral inquiry into the nature of justice is often marginalized, as contemporary discussions focus primarily on political considerations. Yet, the need to examine the moral framework of justice is fundamental. What is the point of justice, after all, if not to establish a moral framework for political interactions? The question resonates especially when recognizing that no monocultures exist over time and space. In examining Plato’s thoughts on individual and social morality (dikaiosune) and Aristotle’s focus on individual virtue (arête) and the pursuit of well-being (eudaimonia), the author proffers foundational resources for today’s discussions of justice. Moreover, he brings this nexus of thought into conversation with theories that have emerged over the centuries, such as Kant’s concept of due concern and respect, individual rights and responsibilities as in Hobbes, Locke and J.S. Mill. Thus, he engages contemporary disputes of justice including distributive vs. relational schemes, choice vs. chance considerations, group rights theories, value pluralism, the right vs. the good, as well as international and future justice. His inquiry concludes with the provision of a deontological framework set against a liberal political context, justice as right actions, for further examination of questions of justice.
Rorty, Religion, and Metaphysics
Authors: Owens John
Published: November 2024

Believing that humanity would be better off if it simply dropped its traditional religious and metaphysical beliefs, Richard Rorty proposes an alternative approach, drawn from the American pragmatist tradition, where things get their significance against a background of broad human interests, and knowledge is regarded as part of the active pursuit of a better world. Rorty, Religion, and Metaphysics argues that while Rorty’s case is clearly and robustly made, it is fundamentally challenged by the phenomenon of human recognition, the relationship that arises between people when they talk to one another. John Owens demonstrates that recognition, so central to human life, cannot be accommodated within Rorty’s proposals, given that it precisely attributes a reality to others that goes beyond anything a pragmatist framework can offer. It follows that there is more to human interaction than can be explained by Rorty’s pragmatism.
Gratitude for the Wild
Authors: Van Yperen Nathaniel
Published: November 2024

Since the passage of the Wilderness Act of 1964, a hotly contested debate over the value of wilderness reveals cultural anxieties about an American society that has spurned limits. Gratitude for the Wild explores how the wild known in wilderness raises our tolerance for mystery in the recognition of our limits and in the celebration of a God-loved world that exceeds our grasping. The idea of wilderness introduces questions about the balance between utility and appreciation, and between enjoyment and restraint. Wilderness is a nexus of competing and contested accounts of responsibility. In conversation with the work of Doug Peacock, Terry Tempest Williams, James Gustafson, and Martin Luther King Jr., Nathaniel Van Yperen offers an original argument for how wilderness can evoke a vision of a good life in which creaturely limits are accepted in gratitude, even in the face of ambiguity and mystery. Through the theme of gratitude, the book refocuses attention on the role of affection and testimony in ecological ethics and Christian ethics.
A Democratic Mind
Authors: Charny Israel  W.
Published: November 2024

A Democratic Mind: Psychology and Psychiatry with Fewer Meds and More Soul focuses on how an individual lives one’s life, and on the extent of harm that an individual can inflict on oneself or others. In this book, Charny provides a new lens for treating real people rather than offering treatments that alleviate symptoms.
Christianity and the Limits of Minority Acceptance in America
Authors: Sumerau J. E. , Cragun Ryan T.
Published: November 2024

This book explores the ways Christian women in college make sense of bisexual, transgender, polyamorous, and atheist others. Specifically, it explores the ways they express tolerance for some sexual groups, such as lesbian and gay people, while maintaining condemnation of other sexual, gendered, or religious groups. In so doing, this book highlights the limits of Christian tolerance for the advancement of minority rights.
Ham Sok Hon's Ssial Cosmopolitan Vision
Authors: Lee Song-Chong
Published: November 2024

Song-Chong Lee’s Ham Sok Hon's Ssial Philosophy for a Cosmopolitan Vision offers an introduction to the philosophy of Ham Sok Hon (함석헌), an iconic figure in the intellectual and political history of modern Korea, and a discussion of the contributions of his ssial (씨알/seeds, people) philosophy to cosmopolitanism. Known as Gandhi of Han’guk, Ham (1901–1989) was at the epicenter of a series of tumultuous political events in Korea and played a pioneering role in progressive social activism, including the independence movement, promotion of nationalist education, protests against military regimes, and pietistic, religious liberalism. According to Lee, Ham developed his own syncretic, authentic philosophy of ssial and applied it to his understanding and assessment of theology, history, politics, and even international relations. His syncretism culminated at his anthropology of ssial and his expanded notion of community. Lee argues that Ham’s ssial philosophy, which reconstructed the citizen’s identity as an active agent for political progress, led him to defy the excessively parochial nationalism, romanticized patriotism, and indoctrinated religiosity with which he believed the whole society was infatuated during the mid-twentieth century--and ultimately to advocate for a cosmopolitan community.
Legislator Use of Communication Technology
Authors: West Joe
Published: November 2024

Political use of communication technology is rapidly changing the nature of politics; one need look no further than President Trump’s use of Twitter to realize the impact that communication technology is having on political processes. Communication technology has long been recognized as part of the policy feedback process, but until now, has received relatively little focus, often relegated to a line or two in a policy process theory system diagram labeled “feedback." This book takes a fresh look at the role that communication technology plays in the policy process by applying natural science control and electrical engineering concepts such as bandwidth, latency, phase crossover, and positive and negative feedback to develop the critical frequency theory of policy system stability. This theory suggests that every policymaking institution has some critical frequency of communications from the policy environment that once exceeded, causes the policymaking institution to go unstable, and it is this instability that causes the policymaking process to speed up. With the theory developed, data collected on approximately 2,000 state legislators from every state in the U.S. is analyzed using linear and nonlinear regression models to understand the statistically significant relationships between communication technology frequency of use and importance, and the demographic, political, and institutional variables that contribute to policy process stability and instability. Additionally, interviews with legislators uncover many novel and interesting examples of the use of communication technology in the policy process. For example, legislators note that lobbyists sitting in legislative chambers listening to floor debates are actually texting questions and answers to legislators as they debate; legislators participating in this process are acting as policymaking puppets for the lobbyists sitting in the gallery. This single use of a communication technology has the capability of changing the very nature of what it means to be a legislator; with lobbyists acting as surrogate legislators.