bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
No differences in FBN1 genotype between men with and without abdominal aortic aneurysm
Authors: Åström Malm Ida , De Basso Rachel , Blomstrand Peter
Published: January 2023

Background

Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is an aortic enlargement in which the transverse diameter reaches at least 30 mm. Certain risk factors, such as age, male gender, and smoking, are well known; however, less is known about the genetic factors involved. Fibrillin-1 (FBN1) is a protein that coordinates the deposition of elastin fibres in the extracellular matrix and is therefore likely to affect the elastic properties in the aortic wall. Previously studies have found associations between the FBN1-2/3 genotype and arterial stiffness, but how different FBN1 genotypes, AAA, and arterial stiffness are related has been less frequently investigated.

Aim

This study aimed to investigate whether there is a difference in FBN1 genotype between men with and without AAA. A further aim was to study whether the FBN1 genotype affects arterial wall stiffness differently in men with and without AAA.

Methods

Pulse wave velocity and FBN1 genotyping were performed in 229 men (159 with AAA, 70 without AAA). Participants were recruited from ultrasound AAA surveillance programs or ongoing ultrasound screening programs from 2011 to 2016.

Results

The distribution of the FBN1 genotype in the AAA and control groups were as follows: FBN1-2/2: 62% vs. 64%; FBN1-2/3: 8% vs. 14%; and FBN1-2/4: 30% vs. 21%, respectively. Men with AAA and FBN1-2/2 had increased central pulse wave velocity (p < 0.005) compared to the control group (those without AAA) with the FBN1-2/2 genotype.

Conclusion

No differences were found with respect to FBN1 genotypes between men with and without AAA. The development of AAA in men does not appear to be linked to a specific FBN1 genotype. Nevertheless, men with FBN1-2/2 and AAA have increased central arterial stiffness compared to men with the same FBN1 genotype but without AAA.
Workload and workflow implications associated with the use of electronic clinical decision support tools used by health professionals in general practice: a scoping review
Authors: Fletcher Emily , Burns Alex , Wiering Bianca , Lavu Deepthi , Shephard Elizabeth , Hamilton Willie , Campbell John L. , Abel Gary
Published: January 2023

Background

Electronic clinical decision support tools (eCDS) are increasingly available to assist General Practitioners (GP) with the diagnosis and management of a range of health conditions. It is unclear whether the use of eCDS tools has an impact on GP workload. This scoping review aimed to identify the available evidence on the use of eCDS tools by health professionals in general practice in relation to their impact on workload and workflow.

Methods

A scoping review was carried out using the Arksey and O’Malley methodological framework. The search strategy was developed iteratively, with three main aspects: general practice/primary care contexts, risk assessment/decision support tools, and workload-related factors. Three databases were searched in 2019, and updated in 2021, covering articles published since 2009: Medline (Ovid), HMIC (Ovid) and Web of Science (TR). Double screening was completed by two reviewers, and data extracted from included articles were analysed.

Results

The search resulted in 5,594 references, leading to 95 full articles, referring to 87 studies, after screening. Of these, 36 studies were based in the USA, 21 in the UK and 11 in Australia. A further 18 originated from Canada or Europe, with the remaining studies conducted in New Zealand, South Africa and Malaysia. Studies examined the use of eCDS tools and reported some findings related to their impact on workload, including on consultation duration. Most studies were qualitative and exploratory in nature, reporting health professionals’ subjective perceptions of consultation duration as opposed to objectively-measured time spent using tools or consultation durations. Other workload-related findings included impacts on cognitive workload, “workflow” and dialogue with patients, and clinicians’ experience of “alert fatigue”.

Conclusions

The published literature on the impact of eCDS tools in general practice showed that limited efforts have focused on investigating the impact of such tools on workload and workflow. To gain an understanding of this area, further research, including quantitative measurement of consultation durations, would be useful to inform the future design and implementation of eCDS tools.
Salicylic acid functionalized zein for improving plant stress resistance and as a nanopesticide carrier with enhanced anti-photolysis ability
Authors: Yan Haozhao , Hao Li , Chen Huayao , Zhou Xinhua , Ji Hongbing , Zhou Hongjun
Published: January 2023

Background

There is a serious global problem of salinization of arable land, causing large reduction in world food production. Use of plant hormones is an effective way to reduce damage caused to crops and salt stress.

Results

In this study, PEI-EDA was modified with AM-zein and grafted with plant hormone SA (AM-zein-SA) and used as a nano-pesticide carrier to load emamectin benzoate (EB). The use of AM-zein-SA as a nano-pesticide carrier could reduce the damage caused by salt stress to crops. The structure of AM-zein-SA was characterized by FTIR, UV, fluorescence, Raman, and 1H NMR spectroscopic techniques. AM-zein-SA could effectively improve the resistance of EB to ultraviolet radiations, resistance of cucumber to salt stress, and the absorption of EB by plants. The experimental results showed that AM-zein-SA could effectively improve the anti-UV property of EB by 0.88 fold. When treated with 120 mmol NaCl, the germination rate of cucumber seeds under salt stress increased by 0.93 fold in presence of 6.25 mg/L carrier concentration. The POD and SOD activities increased by 0.50 and 1.21 fold, whereas the content of MDA decreased by 0.23 fold. In conclusion, AM-zein-SA nano-pesticide carrier could be used to improve the salt resistance of crops and the adhesion of pesticides to leaves.

Conclusion

AM-zein-SA, without undergoing any changes in its insecticidal activity, could simultaneously improve the salt stress resistance and salt stress germination rate of cucumber, reduce growth inhibition due to stress under high-concentration salt, and had a good effect on crops. In addition, EB@AM-zein-SA obviously improved the upward transmission rate of EB, as compared with EB. In this study, SA was grafted onto zein-based nano-pesticide carrier, which provided a green strategy to control plant diseases, insects, and pests while reducing salt stress on crops in saline-alkali soil.

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Biochemical characteristics and potential application of a thermostable starch branching enzyme from Bacillus licheniformis
Authors: Yang Ting , Hu Qianyu , Liu Yu , Xu Rui , Wang Dongrui , Chang Zhongyi , Jin Mingfei , Huang Jing
Published: January 2023

Slowly digestible starch (SDS) has attracted increasing attention for its function of preventing metabolic diseases. Based on transglycosylation, starch branching enzymes (1,4-α-glucan branching enzymes, GBEs, EC 2.4.1.18) can be used to regulate the digestibility of starch. In this study, a GBE gene from Bacillus licheniformis (bl-GBE) was cloned, expressed, purified, and characterized. Sequence analysis and structural modeling showed that bl-GBE belong to the glycoside hydrolase 13 (GH13) family, with which its active site residues were conserved. The bl-GBE was highly active at 80 °C and a pH range of 7.5–9.0, and retained 90% of enzyme activity at 70 °C for 16 h. bl-GBE also showed high substrate specificity (80.88 U/mg) on potato starch. The stability and the changes of the secondary structure of bl-GBE at different temperature were determined by circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy. The CD data showed a loss of 20% of the enzyme activity at high temperatures (80 °C), due to the decreased content of the α -helix in the secondary structure. Furthermore, potato starch treated with bl-GBE (300 U/g starch) showed remarkable increase in stability, solubility, and significant reduction viscosity. Meanwhile, the slowly digestible starch content of bl-GBE modified potato starch increased by 53.03% compared with native potato starch. Our results demonstrated the potential applications of thermophilic bl-GBE in food industries.
The association of dietary and lifestyle indices for hyperinsulinemia with odds of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in Iranian adults: a case–control study
Authors: Momeni Aref , Haghshenas Rouhollah , Jahromi Soodeh Razeghi
Published: January 2023

Background

Evidence on the association of insulinemic effects of dietary pattern and other lifestyle factors with the odds of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) are limited. In the current study, we aimed to examine the association of the empirical dietary index for hyperinsulinemia (EDIH) and empirical lifestyle index for hyperinsulinemia (ELIH) index with the NAFLD odds in the adult population.

Methods

In the current case–control study, 120 cases of NAFLD and 240 controls aged 20–60 years were included. The ultrasonography test was used to determine NAFLD. We used a validated food frequency questionnaire to collect dietary data of individuals and determine the scores of EDIH. Also, we determined the ELIH score based on diet, body mass index, and physical activity. The odds ratio (OR) of NAFLD was calculated using logistic regression test across EDIH and ELIH tertiles.

Results

The mean ± SD age of subjects (53% men) were 41.8 ± 7.5 years. In the age and sex-adjusted model, there is a significant association between a higher ELIH score and higher odds of NAFLD (OR = 2.74;95%CI:1.51–4.96,Ptrend = 0.001). Also, based on the multivariable-adjusted model, after controlling for age and sex, smoking, SES, and dietary intake of energy a remarkable positive association was observed between the higher score of ELIH and the odds of NAFLD (OR = 2.70; 95%CI:1.46–5.01,Ptrend = 0.002). However, there is no significant relationship between the higher score of EDIH and NAFLD odds.

Conclusions

Our results showed that the high insulinemic potential of lifestyle, determined by the ELIH score, can be related to an increased NAFLD odds. However, no significant association was found between higher EDIH score and odds of NAFLD.
« Les cocotiers absents de la superbe Afrique »
Authors: Suter Patrick
Published: January 2023

L’ajout des «Tableaux parisiens» dans l’édition de 1861 des Fleurs du Mal peut être compris comme une réponse de Baudelaire à ses accusateurs lors du procès dont il a été victime à l’occasion de la première publication des Fleurs du Mal. La notion de «fleurs du mal» s’en trouve changée et concerne désormais aussi le monde bourgeois, capitaliste et colonialiste qui a mis en scène ce procès, tandis que la Ville Lumière, Paris, apparaît pleine de boue. Ce mouvement de retournement contre ses accusateurs sera plus tard repris par Aimé Césaire dans le Cahier du retour au pays natal, qui, en abordant lui aussi la boue qui a envahi les Antilles colonisées, remet en question l’hypocrise que dénonçait Baudelaire dans le premier poème des Fleurs du Mal.
La révision du procès des Fleurs du Mal
Authors: Bologne Jean Claude
Published: January 2023

Le 31 mai 1949, à la requête de la Société des Gens de Lettres, la chambre criminelle de la Cour de Cassation annule la condamnation pour outrage aux bonnes mœurs portée en 1857 contre Les Fleurs du Mal, devant une opinion publique acquise d’avance à la réhabilitation. Maître Falco1, conseiller rapporteur, le reconnaît lui-même : « En plaidant aujourd’hui pour les Fleurs du Mal, on a l’impression de plaider pour un livre de la Bibliothèque rose, qui serait couronné par un prix de vertu. Rien ne subsiste pour démontrer un outrage aux bonnes mœurs2. » On a du mal à croire que ce jugement soit intervenu après vingt-cinq ans de tergiversations et de polémiques sur un sujet qui faisait l’unanimité. Je résumerai brièvement les grandes phases de la discussion avant de me concentrer sur la dernière controverse, qui a divisé le monde des lettres en 1946, à l’occasion du vote de la loi autorisant la révision.
À qui s’adresse la mise en accusation de Baudelaire ?
Authors: Milon Alain
Published: January 2023

Baudelaire en accusation : au premier abord, cette formule semble porter sur la manière dont Baudelaire a été censuré ainsi que sur les conséquences d’une telle censure sur son activité d’écrivain. Baudelaire en accusation voudrait dire ici : Baudelaire mis en accusation par la censure pour atteinte aux bonnes mœurs. Dans ce contexte, et au regard de l’histoire littéraire du dix-neuvième siècle, Baudelaire comme d’autres, Flaubert ou les Frères Goncourt par exemple, serait un écrivain à scandale méritant, pour les gardiens de cet ordre moral, une mise en accusation. Cette lecture reste toutefois naïve car elle sous-estime l’ambiguïté de la formule. En effet, « Baudelaire en accusation » cela ne veut pas dire « Baudelaire mis en accusation ». En disant « Baudelaire en accusation », en reste-t-on à l’idée d’un Baudelaire accusé de porter atteinte aux bonnes mœurs, ou d’un Baudelaire en situation de porter une accusation contre la pesanteur de l’ordre social et le conformisme intellectuel des critiques littéraires qui jugent son œuvre ? On peut aussi se demander si ce n’est pas l’œuvre de Baudelaire qui accuse métaphoriquement l’écrivain d’un échec, le fameux échec baudelairien commenté par Sartre et Blanchot.
Emma Bovary Re-Imagined
Authors: Smirnova Larysa
Published: January 2023

What to make of Emma Bovary’s dreaming constitutes a fundamental problem in the study of Flaubert’s novel. The dominant reading of Emma’s dream life adopts a critical stance toward her unwillingness, or incapacity, to accept her everyday reality. Showing how Flaubert’s text challenges our understanding of Emma as a sterile dreamer, this essay seeks to reevaluate her faculty of imagination as a powerful creative force. The argument is developed in two parts. Since no assessment of Emma’s relation to “unreality” can legitimately bypass a careful analysis of her reveries, the first part of this essay offers a detailed reading of the escape from reality that Emma fantasizes in chapter 12 of part 2 of the novel. Emma’s quixotic vision of a flight away from her husband is contrasted here with Charles Bovary’s realistic dream about their future together as a family. While Emma’s reverie seems at first glance only to throw into relief the magnanimity of Charles’s responsible but mimetically limited dreaming, a closer look at this passage reveals a textual complexity requiring further investigation into the mechanisms and implications of Emma’s dream production. This investigation is undertaken in the second part of the essay. Here, the findings that emerge from the analysis of the protagonist’s reverie will be tested against several prominent interpretations of Emma’s dreaming (by Albert Thibaudet, Gérard Genette, and Jonathan Culler). Noting their sympathetic but cautious evaluations of the enigma posed by Emma’s imagination, this essay concludes by suggesting a more radical affirmation of Emma’s force of imagination.
Wealth and Divorce
Authors: Killewald Alexandra , Lee Angela , England Paula
Published: January 2023

In the United States, wealthier couples have lower divorce risk. Wealth may stabilize marriage through its material value, especially by easing financial stress, or by providing symbolic resources, especially signaling that couples meet normative financial standards for marriage. We first show that the negative association between wealth and divorce holds net of a rich set of controls. All else being equal, having $40,000 in wealth rather than $0 is associated with as big a decline in average predicted divorce risk as having no nonmarital births versus at least one. Second, we show that the negative association between wealth and divorce risk is steepest at low positive wealth levels. Net of covariates, having $40,000 in wealth rather than $0 is associated with as big a decline in average predicted divorce risk as having $400,000 rather than $40,000. Third, we consider evidence for the symbolic perspective, which emphasizes the stabilizing role of owning visible physical assets, and the material perspective, which suggests unsecured debt heightens divorce risk. Consistent with the symbolic perspective, we find that with net worth held constant, ownership of homes and vehicles is negatively associated with divorce risk. However, more research is needed to fully adjudicate between the symbolic and material perspectives.
The Traversal of the Fantasy as an Opening to Humanity
Authors: McNulty Tracy
Published: January 2023

This essay examines the stakes of the traversal of the fantasy in the unfolding of an analysis, arguing that the aim of a psychoanalysis is to liberate the unconscious quest that traverses the analysand by giving expression to what has been censored in his or her body. Paradoxically, however, it claims that this censored quest is not only unique to the individual analysand but something that articulates that subject to humanity as a whole. While Freud consistently underscores the fundamental solitude of the human being with respect to the free drive and the fantasies to which it gives rise, the under-examined corollary of this position is that human reality is fundamentally transindividual, traversed by a quest that impacts each and every human being but that belongs to no one in particular. The second section explores this transindividual dimension through a clinical case of hysteria; the third turns to the procedure of the Pass that for Lacan guarantees the production of the analyst, arguing that this procedure is essential precisely because it confirms the opening to the human that is the logical conclusion of an analytic cure.
The Butterfly Affect
Authors: Barrios Barclay
Published: January 2023

Higher education faces dramatic transformations in demographics, politics, culture, labor, and technology—all of which are compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic. Chaos theory offers perspectives for weathering these changes, though ultimately, as the future remains unpredictable, the best instructors can offer is doing their best in their jobs.
“I Could Never Say That Out Loud”
Authors: Zito Angela J.
Published: January 2023

This article introduces a grounded theory of assessment in literary studies. Analysis of instructor interviews elucidates the cultural and dispositional influences that shape some instructors’ conscious decision not to teach or assess affective learning outcomes like empathy. The author urges literature instructors to engage critical inquiry of disciplinary assessment practices.
Settling
Authors: Farney Owen
Published: January 2023

An English major chronicles a “day in the life” of a college student during the 2020–21 school year—the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. The narrative begins with stress-related dreams, continues with daily activities (walking through seemingly deserted halls and attending Hyflex classes, facilitating remote writing center sessions and leading campus meetings), and ends with the author settling down for the night, settling being an ironic and apt term to describe the author's sense of his academic year.
Cognitive Mapping and Thirdspace in Spatial Literary Pedagogy
Authors: Barattin Anna
Published: January 2023

This piece is a reflection on spatiality as critical approach in the classroom. The article focuses on a seminar taught during spring 2019, in which cognitive mapping and thirdspace were used as tools to analyze twentieth-century American literature. Through the elaboration of thirdspace provided by Edward Soja in his seminal work Thirdspace: Journeys through Los Angeles and Other Real and Imagined Places and Fredric Jameson's definition of cognitive mapping found in Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, this study offers examples of how literary cartography can be used as a tool in the classroom to reflect on the social and historical conditions that informed specific literary narratives.
Introduction
Authors: Rojas Carlos
Published: January 2023

Opening with a discussion of Singaporean artist Charles Lim Yi Yong's multiyear art project SEASTATE (2005–), this introduction uses Singapore's recent land reclamation efforts to reflect on more general processes of world building in Sinophone Southeast Asia. More specifically, the essay considers how multiple waves of migration from China to Southeast Asia have resulted in a wide array of Chinese communities throughout the region, and how modern literature may be used as a prism through which to examine some of the sociocultural formations that have been generated by these waves of migration from China throughout Southeast Asia. The essay considers how literature reflects the region's diverse array of Sinitic communities, or “worlds,” and how literary production may be viewed as a process of world making in its own right. Although this special issue covers considerable territory (both literally and metaphorically), our objective is not to offer a comprehensive survey of all modern literary production from the entire region. Instead, we seek to showcase a set of novel approaches that may be used to examine the region's eclectic body of literary production, including approaches grounded in concepts of mesology, postloyalism, inter-imperiality, oceanic epistemologies, off-center articulations, and the condition of being “semi-wild.”
Of Wind, Soil, and Water
Authors: Wang David Der-wei
Published: January 2023

This essay seeks to reconsider the current paradigm of Sinophone studies, which is largely based on theories from postcolonialism to empire critique. While Sinophone studies derives its critical thrust from confronting China as a hegemonic force, some approaches have taken a path verging on Sinophobia, the reverse of Sinocentrism. Implied in the argument is a dualistic mapping of geopolitics such as assimilation versus diaspora, resistance versus hegemony, theory versus history, and Sinophone relationality versus China.
Fluid Horizons
Authors: Volland Nicolai
Published: January 2023

This article revisits Sinophone literature from the archipelagic region of the western Pacific to understand how thinking with and through the ocean shapes patterns of place-making and identity formation. Scrutinizing stories by Syaman Rapongan and Ng Kim Chew, the article shows how the ocean figures on several distinct registers: as the locale where these works unfold, as the object toward which their characters' yearnings and reflections are directed, and as a condition of being. Alternatively, the ocean can be read in the metaphorical and allegorical sense, as a device that allows their authors to critique (neo)colonial violence, the irruption of modernity, and especially the rigors of land-based and supposedly stable epistemologies. Against these, Rapongan and Ng posit what I call oceanic epistemologies, that is, systems and methods of knowledge drawn from and intertwined with the ocean as a condition of being on a terraqueous globe. The oceanic epistemologies in Sinophone literatures from littoral East and Southeast Asia allow us to rethink fundamental questions of being, identity, and history. They build upon, but methodologically move beyond, the critical apparatus offered by Sinophone literature.
Chinese-Language Memories under the Conflagration of War
Authors: Chia-Cian Ko , Pingyu Sun
Published: January 2023

As a Chinese-medium educational institution, Chung Ling High School (CLHS) in Penang enjoyed an illustrious reputation in the Malayan era. During the fall of Penang in World War II, the deaths of eight teachers and forty-six students from CLHS marked a painful episode in the history of Penang's intellectual community, manifested in their sense of trauma and reflections on the crisis of Chinese education. After CLHS was reopened during the postwar period, the school set up a committee to commemorate the sacrifices of its teachers and students through memorial services, erection of a monument, and publication of tribute books. Applying the theories of French historian Pierre Nora, this article discusses how the ensuing les lieux de mémoire (sites of memory) formed through the sacrifices of CLHS teachers and students, inscribing the plight of literary lineage and cultural severance, which in turn takes on the role of reviving and perpetuating the ethnic Chinese spirit. In this sense, the sacrifices of the CLHS teachers and students as “sites of memory” have become a part of the ethnic community's collective memory. When we examine how war memory texts are constructed, the CLHS tragedy embeds the connections between Chinese education and the ethnic sentiments of the Chinese community during the Japanese occupation.
Counter-discourse
Authors: Khor Boon Eng
Published: January 2023

Since independence, the ethnic Chinese community in Malaysia has lamented its marginalization by the Malay-Bumiputra elite, a theme that is often reflected in writings by ethnically Chinese Malaysian authors. This article, however, examines how ethnic Chinese authors depict other ethnic minorities, focusing on four approaches to forging counter-discourses used in the literary representation of minorities: binary opposition, rhetorical questions, paradoxical statements, and bystander narration. The discussion of each narrative strategy is supported by examples from works by writers from different eras, regions, genders, and generations. These modes of counter-discourse foreground minority voices and create a meaningful dialogue between the Sinophone community and other ethnic groups. Through these counter-discursive explorations, Mahua authors portray the Chinese in Malaysia in relation to other ethnic minorities. In some cases, we can also observe how Mahua authors employ this counter-discourse structure as a form of resistance against hegemonic state power.
Becoming Semi-wild
Authors: Rojas Carlos
Published: January 2023

This article borrows Juno Salazar Parreñas's concept of the “semi-wild” as an entry point into an analysis of Malaysian Chinese author Zhang Guixing's novels Elephant Herd (1998) and Monkey Cup (2000). Set in Sarawak, both works feature a relatively simple plotline interwoven with an intricate web of flashbacks. More specifically, each work's primary plotline features an ethnically Chinese protagonist searching for a relative who has disappeared into the rainforest, while also becoming romantically interested in a young Indigenous woman whom he meets during his quest. In each case, a fascination with the relationship between humans and Sarawak's various “semi-wild” flora and fauna is paralleled by an attention to the relationship between the region's ethnic Chinese and its various Indigenous peoples—and particularly two subgroups of Sarawak's Dayak ethnicity, the “Sea Dayaks” (also known as the Iban) and the “Land Dayaks” (who are often simply called “Dayaks”). Each work uses a set of quasi-anthropomorphized plants and animals (including silk-cotton trees, Nepenthes pitcher plants, elephants, crocodiles, rhinoceroses, and orangutans) to reflect on humans' relationship to the local ecosystem, while simultaneously using Indigenous peoples to reflect on the way in which overlapping colonial legacies have shaped the region's sociopolitical structures.
The ‘Kalamata 1821: Roads of Freedom’
Authors: Zacharias Nikolaos , Panagiotidis Vayia , Valantou Vasiliki , Rigas Georgios
Published: January 2023

The purpose of this paper is to offer an overview of the Cultural Heritage Enhancement project “Kalamata 1821: Roads of Freedom” after its completion. “Kalamata 1821: Roads of Freedom” has been a co-financed by Greece and the European Union project which was placed under the wider scheme “Research, Creation and Innovation” NSRF (ESPA) 2014-2020. The pro-ject was implemented during the 2018-2021 period, i.e. by taking advantage of the celebration of the landmark of two centuries (1821-2021) since the uprising which led to the establishment of the Greek State. It was executed via a tripartite research association which consisted of the University of the Peloponnese, which assumed the role of the coordinator, the Community Enterprise of the Municipal-ity of Kalamata (ΦΑΡΙΣ) and the film production company View Master Films. The project’s aim has been to augment the footprint of Kalamata’s unique mod-ern heritage and make it known and accessible to wider and diversified audiences.The paper outlines the historical background and the conjuncture that inspired the project and thereafter traces the course of its deliverables, namely the produc-tion of the feature-length film “Wind of Freedom 1821”, the “Kalamata 1821 Digital Museum”, and the “Kalamata 1821” brand. It discusses how the pandemic affected the filming of the movie but despite the imposed delay it was fulfilled and screened in Kalamata’s Dance Hall in July 2021. It shows how the “Kalamata 1821 Digital Museum” set an example for raising the awareness of a city’s herit-age via the employment of new technologies. It presents how the “Kalamata 1821” brand attempts to set in motion the various cultural currents of the city in order to blend the historical tradition with the contemporary creativity. Addition-ally, it showcases the most successful aspect of the “Kalamata 1821” brand, i.e. the “Flavours of ‘21” and it discusses the digital applications that were developed but eventually were not used due to the ramification of the pandemic-related re-strictions.
The project “Preserve” and the related policy of the Hellenic Ministry of Environment and Energy for the protection of tangible Cultural Heritage
Authors: Siountri Konstantina , Vassi Avgi , Papadaki Kalliοpi , Poulou Maria , Bakoyannis Efthymios
Published: January 2023

Nowadays, due to economic crisis, the number of "abandoned", empty or dilapidated listed or historic buildings of Greek cities and settlements is constantly increasing. In order to protect and enhance the Greek tangible cultural heritage, it is necessary to promote actions that give motives to owners or users of historic buildings to preserve them, by providing tools and financial support in the particularly increased costs of restoration and consolidation works of their necessary continuous maintenance. The program “Preserve” introduced by the Hellenic Ministry of Environment and Energy, and more specifically the General Secretariat of Spatial Planning & Urban Environment, relates to interventions in designated as listed or monuments or buildings within historic sites and traditional settlements and historic buildings. The interventions will include facade cleaning (with gentle water jet to remove air pollutants or anti-graffiti painting for protection against vandalism), works in order to preserve the shell of the buildings so as to avoid it’s partial or total collapse, restoration of facades and restoration of the interior of the buildings. Along with the activation of the Digital Land Bank, the Building Rights Transfer, the Single Digital Map, and the Digital Building Identity etc., it will offer the owners of the listed buildings a holistic solution for the protection and enhancement of the tangible cultural heritage of Greece.
Community Archive as a Platform for Development and Preservation of Intangible Heritage—the Community Archives Project
Authors: Portughies Adi
Published: January 2023

BG archives have initiated the Community Archive Project, the objective being to create communal archives that will prepare the material for researching Israeli development towns and Bedouin communities from the bottom – up, fully digital and accessible online. Bedouin towns and development towns are home to thousands of Israelis, and their role in the historical development of the state of Israel is clear. That said, their particular stories have yet to be told, mainly due to the absence of accessible documentation. This ―silence of the archive‖, as it is called in archival studies, inhibits the development of effective research and creates the false impression that ―what you see is what you have‖. Because of the ―silence of the archives,‖ these communities have been portrayed in a similarly passive fashion in public discourse and scholarly research. Their natural growth and development, propelled by internal dynamics as organic communities with ―bottom up‖ growth, has, until now, received little attention from researchers. This project aims to address this gap and to enrich the historical record by including the archival collections of the development towns themselves. The project leans on the theoretical framework and moral motivation of the Canadian concept of Community Archive. We acknowledge that the fundamental challenge for this project is to create authentic archives that will reconstruct the silence of the archive. This paper discusses the meaning of this core challenge, the solutions we formulated and the significant impact this project is expected to have on the thriving field of Israel studies.
Digital heritage consolidation and innovation, three case studies between documentation and divulgation aims
Authors: Verdiani Giorgio , Charalambous Alexia , Ricci Ylenia
Published: January 2023

In recent years, the need to digitize and create digital twins of the ar-chitectural and artistic heritage has been confirmed and accelerated. In this con-text, the DIDA-LXR (Laboratory for eXtended Reality) of the DIDALABS sys-tem, has carried out a series of research on the use of Virtual and Augmented Reality solutions to create and support activities in digital surveying, workshops for architects, and the establishment of a common knowledge basin regarding the existing architectural heritage. In this paper, several experiences are presented, and their workflows and results are shared. The selection focuses on the virtual reconstruction of the Gothic apses in the Cathedral of Fabriano; the reconstruc-tion of the frescoes in Santa Maria dei Bianchi in Gubbio and the virtual recon-struction of the Horrea Agrippiana at the Roman Forum in Rome. Despite these four case studies being different, they all aim at creating a series of products that document the state and possible aspects of the past of significant elements of the architectural heritage. In their own way, they fix the state of knowledge and con-dition of these complex artefacts, preserving their memory and creating a valua-ble basis for any further interventions. Simultaneously, the use of today's digital tools in structures geared towards both sharing in working groups and dissemi-nation activities makes this content available for a wide variety of processing. The technologies for the visualisation of digital works are to be considered ex-cellent tools for the use and enhancement of Cultural Heritage.
New methods for the drawing of the Archaeological Forma Urbis: Bohob’s research in Catania
Authors: La Rosa Laura , Pellegrino Luigi , Pennisi Matteo
Published: January 2023

Nowadays, in the centre of Catania, the several visible archaeologies seem more irrelevant objects than ancient treasures. This is due to fact they are fenced in scattered holes without any common idea. “Bohob”, the group of architects we belong to, is conducting a research in order to address this burning problem by means of a two-pronged approach. On one hand, by the Drawing of the City, a large plan of Catania including all the archaeological ruins representing their integral role in the building of the city and in forcing the shape of the modern town; on the other hand, by the Minimum Projects, consisting of shrines on a citywide scale in which the ruins are enclosed as well as appearing as gems and not as temporary objects in the urban pattern. The core essence of the research is studying the relationship between the archae-ology and the city via an interdisciplinary method based on the brand-new digital forms of representation; starting from considering the ancient as “active part” in the construction of the town and its little fragments as gems mounted in the urban pattern.
Diverse Approaches to Negotiating and Transforming Industrial Architectural Heritage
Authors: Makris Dimitrios , Moira Maria
Published: January 2023

The Industrial buildings of the 19th and 20th century on the outskirts of Athens, Piraeus, Chalkida, Xanthi, Karditsa – architectural tokens of a violent, sweeping deindustrialization – claim a new life and a new identity. The tobacco warehouse in Xanthi, the soap and pomace oil plant in Chalkida, the old ware-houses of the railway station in Karditsa, the fertilizer plant in Drapetsona (Pi-raeus), the Votrys spirits and alcohol factory in Sepolia (Athens) – they are all being transformed and rearranged, acquiring a new form and structure, aspiring to be reintegrated into the urban reality and play a brand new active role in the socio-political scene. This paper presents, through a series of research proposals, distinct ways to ap-proach, manage and negotiate this ready-made and readily available architectural “raw material.” It showcases ways to highlight and cross-pollinate past usage and historical memory with a process of reinterpretation, reframing and revitalization of industrial ruins. Understanding architecture as a complex and open activity allows for a degree of compromise and conciliation with the locus, the memory, the material imprints, the history of a city. When the anthropocentric focus takes precedence over practicality, commerciality, the ideology of pomposity and the culture of opulence and technocratic sensationalism; when synthetic gesture al-lows the integration of tangible and intangible traces of the past to produce new spaces that show care for the collective needs and sensibilities of the citizens and address demands and visions of the community; then the architectural conception is fulfilling its primary role: to be in the core of scientific processes that modify, revitalize and transform the existing urban matter.
Documentation of Historic Buildings For Their 3D Reconstruction In A Digital Cultural Heritage Management System
Authors: Chroni Athina , Georgopoulos Andreas
Published: January 2023

Being at the crossway of trade routes, Ioannina, in northwestern Greece, has known overtime an economic and spiritual flourishment reflected in the city's urban web, which has, unfortunately, undergone major alterations. Focusing on the city's Post-Byzantine period, starting in 1430, for tracing its pluralistic physiognomy, studying the osmosis of its three cultures, Christian, Jewish and Muslim, and figuring out the related cultural palimpsest, still surviv-ing in the collective memory of the city, has been the great challenge of IASIS Postdoctoral Research Project.1 Extensive documentation of various origin, dynamic and combined interpreta-tion and processing of multiple data, cross-checking of the detected infor-mation, have formed the basic principles of IASIS project development. The specific paper forms the first part of Hagia Paraskevi Christian Byzantine Monastery-Namaz Giyah Muslim Mosque-Perifereia Hellenic State Adminis-trative Building cultural landmarks’ integrated management, i.e., the part on the landmarks’ integrated documentation in the framework of IASIS Postdoctoral Research Project. [35, 36]
Memories of the Orphanage - Prison of Aegina
Authors: Marini Myrto
Published: January 2023

In recent decades, there has been a growing worldwide interest in those events that marked the course of world history and that create divisions within a society. In Greece, the 1940s and the threefold Occupation-Resistance-Civil War are such events that give rise to intense controversy. At the same time, the methods of repression that the political dissidents of that period suffered, which were basically persecutions, displacement to distant locations (exile) and internment to maximum-security prisons have been consigned to oblivion. In Greece, dozens of islands were turned into places of exile and “disciplinary camps”, whilst many prisons were created for the state “enemies”. In their ma-jority, these sites of memory in Greece have been consigned to oblivion since there is no state support for their promotion. One of the most typical examples is the Prison of Aegina, which is also known as Kapodistrian Orphanage. The building was constructed by order of Ioannis Kapodistrias to house the orphans of the Revolution of 1821. In 1880, it was inaugurated as a prison for criminal inmates at first, while in 1920 it received the first political prisoners. The building operated as a prison for political prisoners up until 1974, during which time the Left was restored to legality in the country and hence, the persecutions ceased. In this article, we will study the term “difficult cultural heritage” together with the promotion and conversion of sites of memory to museums. The building of the Aegina Prison will be examined as a case study for its significance and his-torical importance, but also its emblematic architecture.
Promotion and protection of cultural heritage through interdisciplinary approaches: The case of Souli
Authors: Konstantinidou Elena , Pantazis George
Published: January 2023

"Μapping" a place, through systematic recording, analysis, evaluation and interpretation of its characteristics, is a necessary condition and basic tool for its protection and promotion. "Reading" a place through different scientific areas, includes perspectives and interpretations that converge and interact. These approaches highlight multiple issues for a place, contributing to its "recognition" through time as well as its promotion. The paper focuses on the contribution and importance of the interdisciplinary approaches and cooperation in cultural heritage management issues, on the occasion of a research carried out for Souli, one of Greece's most important historical sites. Emphasis is given on the issues of Geometric survey and documentation and the relation to the overall levels of recognition and interpretation of space, through the example of the historic site of Souli. The correlation of geometric to interpretive approaches, quantitative and "metric" recordings to qualitative and intangible characteristics, also the production of a "tool" that contains as much as quantitative as quality features, are basic concerns of this paper.
Non-destructive 3D reconstruction of an Hagia Sophia clone mosaic utilizing ultrasonography combined with an accurate motion planning
Authors: Amanatiadis Stamatios , Karagiannis Georgios , Mimis Evdoxios
Published: January 2023

In the current work the endoscopy and retrieval of mortar covered mosaic patterns, such as the Hagia Sophia ones, is presented. In particular, an appropriate instrumentation is developed combining ultra-sonic tomography and an accurate motion planning. The acquisition of high-response tomographic images is performed utilizing transducers in a linear array through the eﬃcient control of their phase characteristics both in transmit and receive modes. Moreover, an accurate mechanical adaptation is designed in order to move the ultrasonic probe with a con-stant velocity. Then, a sequence of tomographic images is recorded and the 3D endoscopic characteristics of the measured object are extracted via the eﬀective reconstruction of the 3D volume. This device is used on a realistic Hagia Sophia mosaic replica that is covered by a thick mor-tar layer. The evaluated results indicate a complete 3D reconstruction of the hidden mosaic in micrometric resolution, while the inner details of individual tesserae are, also, recovered.
Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS): Manhiça site description, Mozambique
Authors: Sacoor Charfudin , Vitorino Pio , Nhacolo Ariel , Munguambe Khátia , Mabunda Rita , Garrine Marcelino , Jamisse Edgar , Magaço Amílcar , Xerinda Elísio , Sitoe António , Fernandes Fabíola , Carrilho Carla , Maixenchs Maria , Chirinda Percina , Nhampossa Tacilta , Nhancale Bento , Rakislova Natalia , Bramugy Justina , Nhacolo Arsénio , Ajanovic Sara , Valente Marta , Massinga Arsénia , Varo Rosauro , Menéndez Clara , Ordi Jaume , Mandomando Inácio , Bassat Quique
Published: January 2023

The Manhiça Health Research Centre (Manhiça HDSS) was established in 1996 in Manhiça, a rural district at Maputo Province in the southern part of Mozambique with approximately 49,000 inhabited households, a total population of 209.000 individuals, and an annual estimated birth cohort of about 5000 babies. Since 2016, Manhiça HDSS is implementing the Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) program aiming to investigate causes of death (CoD) in stillbirths and children under the age of 5 years using, among other tools, the innovative post-mortem technique known as Minimally Invasive Tissue sampling (MITS). Both in-hospital and community pediatric deaths are investigated using MITS. For this, community-wide socio-demographic approaches (notification of community deaths by key informants, formative research involving several segments of the community, availability of free phone lines for notification of medical emergencies and deaths, etc.) are conducted alongside to foster community awareness, involvement and adherence as well as to compute mortality estimates and collect relevant information of health and mortality determinants. The main objective of this paper is to describe the Manhiça Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) site and the CHAMPS research environment in place including the local capacities among its reference hospital, laboratories, data center and other relevant areas involved in this ambitious surveillance and research project, whose ultimate aim is to improve child survival through public health actions derived from credible estimates and understanding of the major causes of childhood mortality in Mozambique.
Dementia palliative care education and training for healthcare professionals: A scoping review protocol
Authors: Hutch William , O' Sullivan Trish , Foley Tony
Published: January 2023

Background: Global mortality rates from dementia continue to rise.  Evidence suggests that there is limited provision of palliative care for people with dementia and this is a cause of grave concern. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has further exposed the inequalities of care for this vulnerable population. Proactive palliative care, delivered by multidisciplinary healthcare professionals (HCPs), can offer significant benefits to people with dementia.  However, little is known about the components of effective education and training for HCPs who care for people with advancing dementia at end of life.

Objective: The aim of this scoping review is to identify effective education and training interventions for HCPs, who care for people with advanced dementia approaching end of life.

Inclusion criteria: Studies that used a palliative care educational intervention for HCPs working with patients with dementia will be included. Studies that explore undergraduate or postgraduate education and training in dementia palliative care for HCPs will be included.  Study designs such as quantitative, qualitative, mixed method studies, and case studies will be included.

Methods: The Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) methodology for scoping reviews will be used for this review. The following databases will be searched: CINAHL, ERIC, Medline, SocIndex, PsycINFO. In addition, grey literature searches will be limited to the first 100 searches using Google Scholar and Open-Grey. Study selection will involve the reviewer screening titles and abstracts. Then, two independent reviewers will further assess the studies in full for those that meet the inclusion criteria. In line with the JBI framework, data will be extracted using a draft data extraction tool. This will facilitate a chronological narrative synthesis of results in line with the study’s overall aim to identify effective education and training interventions for HCPs, who care for patients with dementia, nearing end of life.