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Regional Education Organizations in the Arab World: A Case Study of the Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALECSO)
Authors: Sabry Cherine
Published: September 2023

Abstract: While there are innumerable studies about global international organizations (IOs) in education, the role of regional organizations seems overshadowed by more powerful actors in the field, the United Nations Education, Science and Culture Organization (UNESCO), the World Bank, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Although they are important in their regions, little is known about them and their interactions with global IOs. This research reveals new insight regarding the role that regional organizations play in the design of education policy in the Arab world, including all 22 Arab-speaking states of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), a region that is defined by a common language, culture and religion, and how these policies are shaped by the interaction between regional and global IOs. Using a postcolonial framework, a qualitative case study was conducted of a regional IO focusing on the Arab world and an important actor in education policy: the Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALECSO). The analysis reveals how the ALECSO is unmoored between two trends that pull it in different directions: its spoken aim to counter Western hegemony in the region, and the dominance of certain IOs that necessarily define other organizations’ work.
Children’s Digital Games in Early Childhood Settings: How Developmentally Appropriate Are They?
Authors: Ihmeideh Fathi
Published: September 2023

Abstract: Children are growing up in a media-rich digital environment where they are immersed in new technologies in unprecedented ways. Digital games are one of these technologies, and young children play a wide range of digital games. Research studies suggest that digital games support children’s learning and development. The paper aims to assess digital games used by children aged 5 to 8 in Jordan in terms of their appropriateness for children. A random sample of 35 digital games used by K–3 Jordanian children was selected to explore to what extent these digital games are developmentally appropriate for children. The researcher developed a developmental scale that consisted of 12 criteria. The results indicated that digital games used by children showed a moderate level of appropriateness. Moreover, the results revealed domains related to “clear instruction,” “social interaction,” and “technical design” to be the most appropriate, while domains related to “nonviolence,” “real-work model,” and “age appropriateness” were found to be the least developmentally appropriate. Furthermore, there were significant differences in the appropriateness of children’s digital games across age groups. These findings are discussed, and implications are set accordingly.
Chinese Tales of Epidemics: In Search of Hope amid Despair
Authors: Zhang Juwen
Published: September 2023

Abstract: Tales ( gushi in Chinese, including all narrative genres) are like living fossils—preserving not only historical events in general, but also behaviors and beliefs in specific places and in specific cultural groups. Therefore, Chinese tales of epidemics reveal fundamental beliefs in and life-views toward not only epidemics, but also the meaning of living a life. The three parts in this paper are intended to tell a long story: first providing some basic terms and concepts related to epidemics; second presenting, for the first time in English, seven tales spanning a two-millennia history up to the present day which show the struggles between the human and the god/ghost/ wu -shaman of epidemics; and, finally, offering some reflections upon the realities we are facing in the current COVID-19 pandemic.
Navigating Consent: On Women’s Sexual Agency in the Premodern Islamic West
Authors: Admiral Rosemary
Published: September 2023

Abstract: Recent debates have commented on Islamic law’s lack of an explicit concept of consent to sexual relations within a marriage. The current research explores the complex dynamics of consent within marriage by mapping the modern category of consent onto the premodern context, while at the same time considering the ways in which the utilization of this category obscures aspects of women’s agency and the power dynamics of sexual relationships. Through analysis of legal sources (fatwas) that document marital disputes in premodern North Africa and al-Andalus, this article argues that instances of women refusing sex scattered throughout the sources add nuance to narratives of consent to consider women as sexual agents and active partners in negotiating practices recognizable in modern discussions of consent within marriage.
Precarious Lives: Near-Death and Survival in Coetzee's Fiction
Authors: Wiegandt Kai
Published: September 2023

Abstract: Featuring numerous moments of close survival, J.M. Coetzee's novels display a double concern with precarity—the economic, social and political uncertainties suffered by disenfranchised and marginalized characters—and with the precariousness of life, i.e. the vulnerability and fragility of the body. The significance of the moments of close survival consists in the tension between the religious sense of the precarious as that which is undeservedly given and can be revoked at any time, and the purely man-made, political nature of precarity. Barely surviving, the privileged survivors of Coetzee's fictions are reminded that they owe not only their life to luck but also their privilege of being shielded from most threats to life.
Corporeal Suffering: Performing Resistance and Resilience in Slow Man
Authors: Wilson Janet M.
Published: September 2023

Abstract: Slow Man (2005), a novel about migration, dislocation, and belonging, marks Coetzee's withdrawal from the socio-political landscapes of South Africa coinciding with his move to Australia, and his preoccupation in writing fiction with the conflicting demands of representation, auto/biography, and realism. The leg amputation and home nursing of the protagonist, Paul Rayment, following an accident, introduce a discourse on the various meanings of care and the ethics of caring that also acknowledges Rayment's corporeal enfeeblement, aging, and mortality. An intersecting meta-commentary generated by Rayment's dialogue with the metafictional character Elizabeth Costello complicates Coetzee's "compromised resilient narrative" of Rayment's hesitant trajectory of resistance, adaptation, and renewal. The focus on the migrant's place in the life of the nation, represented by Rayment's French origins and his recently arrived Slovakian carer, Marijanna Jokić and her family, represents a new departure for Coetzee.
"For the Sake of Harmony": Beckett's Enactment of the Violence of Abstraction in The Lost Ones
Authors: Ionica Cristina
Published: September 2023

Abstract: Beckett's The Lost Ones —an angrier, more action-oriented text than is generally acknowledged—enacts socio-politically functional notions of "social cohesion" predicated on economic, racial, gender, and sexual considerations in ways apt to expose not just their harmful nature but also their aggregate functioning—their interconnected machinic articulation, which allows them to act concertedly, with crushing power, but also exposes them to generalized sabotage. The narrative voice feigns objectivity and detachment while proffering support for practices evocative of real-life economic instrumentalizations of the human body, racially justified forms of mistreatment, and gender-based discrimination and violence. The text's long-winded explanations, conspicuously rich in self-satisfied, pedantic-to-malicious caveats, understatements, and repetitions, ultimately emanate strictly unreliability, voyeurism, and cruelty. The Lost Ones thus provides not a meditative critique but an angry diagrammatic enactment (a term borrowed from Deleuze and Guattari) of the violence of abstraction.
"Our Cruel Polish Brothers": Moroccan Jews between Casablanca and Wadi Salib, 1956–59
Authors: Hazkani Shay
Published: September 2023

Abstract: This article reconsiders three years in the lives of Jews in Morocco and their families who chose to immigrate to Israel. Relying on private correspondence between Moroccan Jews in Israel and in Morocco that was secretly intercepted by the Israeli intelligence apparatus, I argue that Moroccan Jews in Israel underwent a major process of radicalization between Moroccan independence in 1956 and the Moroccan uprising in Israel in 1959, known as the Wadi Salib revolt. In the Moroccan-Israeli case, Moroccan Jews introduced race into the Israeli discourse, and sought to leverage this discourse for a redistribution of resources, primarily among Jews. This radicalization initially developed against the backdrop of the Moroccan struggle for independence against French colonialism; however, other anticolonial and antiracist struggles of the 1950s were also influential. Thus, the prevailing assessment of the Wadi Salib revolt solely as "an Israeli event" diminishes the longer trajectories of Moroccan radicalization.
Between the Border of Despair and the "Circle of Tears": Musrara on the Margins of Jewish-Arab Existence in Jerusalem
Authors: Naor Moshe , Jacobson Abigail
Published: September 2023

Abstract: This article focuses on Jerusalem's Musrara—a neighborhood trapped between borders—between 1948 and 1967. Barbed wire running along the eastern side of the neighborhood divided the city of Jerusalem between 1948 and 1967. Musrara's western border separated it from West Jerusalem, thus enhancing the division between its residents—new immigrants of Middle Eastern descent—and the mainly Ashkenazi population of the western part of Jerusalem. Our analysis of a neighborhood on the margins of Jewish and Arab existence in post-1948 Jerusalem considers the perspectives of immigrants and refugees living on a double border that separated the Eastern-Arab part of the city from its Western-Jewish part, or between "old Jerusalem" and "new Jerusalem." The border also signified the boundary between "first Israel" and "second Israel," or the Jewish frontier and neighborhoods in the city center.
Jews, Law, and the Modern State: Legal Nationalization in Colonial North Africa
Authors: Marglin Jessica M.
Published: September 2023

Abstract: This article explores the transformation of Jewish law in the French colonial Maghrib (late nineteenth century to mid-twentieth century). Drawing primarily on Jewish newspapers in French and Judeo-Arabic and responsa in Hebrew, it explores how the perception and practice of Jewish law shifted in Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. First, westernizing Jews came to think about Jewish law through the lens of French law. The status of women under Jewish law became a particular concern for many self-styled modernizers, though of course questions about women's rights were never absent from rabbinically oriented discourse. Second, Jewish law was nationalized—that is, authorities made efforts to both standardize and modernize Jewish law in a national mode, creating a Moroccan Jewish law, a Tunisian Jewish law, etc. Third, the elevation of Jewish law to a national, state-sanctioned jurisdiction imposed on all Jews—regardless of whether they believed or even whether they had converted out of Judaism—posed thorny legal problems. The legal history of Jews in twentieth-century North Africa offers an opportunity to rethink both the engagement of Jewish law with the state and the emergence of new ways of understanding Judaism and Jewish identity in the modern Middle East.
"It Was our Home and Sadly We Will Never Return": Nostalgia and the Circulation of Images in Lebanese Jewish Virtual Communities
Authors: Oringer Molly Theodora
Published: September 2023

Abstract: By focusing on photographs pertaining to Beirut's historic Jewish neighborhood and central synagogue, I address in this article the mobilization of collective nostalgia on three Lebanese Jewish Facebook groups that provide a realm for debating, challenging, and reconstructing concepts of belonging while remembering a shared homeland from the diaspora. Furthermore, I explore how the nostalgic circulation and sharing of family photographs and anonymous snapshots of the community's pre-Civil War life privileges a particular perspective on how life once was, and by excluding other realities from both the photographic frame and historical narrative, creates a community history through which to imagine the future.
Jewish and Muslim Women in France: Religious Gender Justice and Its Discontents
Authors: Anteby-Yemini Lisa
Published: September 2023

Abstract: Jewish and Muslim women seeking to claim certain rights in the religious realm in France today, such as access to religious study, ritual space and public religious roles, are confronted with obstacles to gender justice both in Orthodox Judaism and in mainstream Islam. In this article, I begin by taking a brief look at strategies used by women in other countries to curtail male monopolies while remaining inside Orthodox Judaism and mainstream Islam: creating all-female spaces, partnering with men and advancing from within hegemonic institutions. These have produced new religious functions for women, including women imams and female Orthodox rabbis, Jewish and Muslim female spiritual guides ( maharat, murshidat ), women experts and counselors in Islamic and Jewish law ( alimat, yo‘atzot halakhah ), Jewish legal advocates ( to‘anot rabbaniyot ) and female judges ( qadiya ) in shari‘a courts. I then survey the situation in France, where few such innovations have taken hold. I conclude by suggesting some explanations for their absence (in Orthodox Judaism) or their very slow evolution (in Islam) in the French context.
“Om”: Singing Vedic Philosophy for Music Education
Authors: Gopinathan Aditi , Tan Leonard
Published: September 2023

Abstract: Extending a nascent line of Asian philosophical research in music education, we mine Indian philosophies of music and education. Three key questions guide our project: What are Vedic philosophies of music? What are Vedic philosophies of education? Taken together, what insights can we draw for contemporary music education writ large? To address our questions, we analyze key passages from the Upanishads and synthesize ideas from these texts. A quartet of inter-related ideas emerge from our analysis: the guru , the shishya, vidya , and moksha . In brief, the guru (teacher) is revered as one would god, for it is the teacher who leads the shishya (student) toward vidya (knowledge) and through that toward moksha (liberation of the soul), which can also be attained via making music, such as the singing of Om (the absolute sound). In addition to proffering insights for contemporary music education, particularly in terms of how the ancient Vedic guru-shishya parampara adds nuance to contemporary discussions on the master-apprentice model of music education, we imagine how music education philosophy might look like if it were to be sung.
Music Matters: A Philosophy of Music Education by David Elliott and Marissa Silverman (review)
Authors: Cardoso Renato
Published: September 2023

Abstract: In this article, I present a five-part critique of the main aspects of the second edition of Music Matters by David Elliott and Marissa Silverman. This edition further develops their praxial philosophy, comprising topics on the nature and value of music education from a normative perspective, which in turn is developed to suit all musical education contexts. My analysis is organized in five main arguments concerning, first, an absence of historicity; second, the adoption of universalist premises; third, the inconsistency between the concepts of personhood and musical value; fourth, the adoption of a normative philosophy; and fifth, the relation between synthesis and content in the chapters. I argue that the book is constructed from a universalistic perspective and that its premises have epistemological inconsistencies. I offer a critical analysis of this extensive work for the purpose of engaging in a dialogue about themes which are relevant to the further development of philosophical thought in music education.
On the Politics of Parallelism: Biblical Allusions in Spenser’s The Faerie Queene
Authors: Magarik Raphael
Published: September 2023

Abstract: Modern scholarship tends to investigate biblical poetry in an exhaustive, disciplined fashion and thus defines parallelism in an apolitical way. Returning to the premodern period, more partial conceptions of parallelism can newly open the question of the form’s politics. I argue that Spenser shapes the episode of the Egalitarian Giant in The Faerie Queene around his conception of biblical parallelism, which involves a recourse to literary balance to transcend political tensions within scripture. In The Faerie Queene , we see an early employment of a literary approach to Scripture to contain political conflict; Spenser’s conception of parallelism testifies both to biblical poetry’s fractious, radical possibilities to disrupt the social order and to the emergence of a more detached, disciplined, and aestheticized approach to that poetry.
Goethe’s Song of Songs : Reorientation, World Literature
Authors: Shahar Galili
Published: September 2023

Abstract: The engagement of the German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) with biblical Hebrew poetry already during the early stages of his career in the 1770s and later during the Divan period (1814–27) was associated with his study of Oriental literatures. Under the influence of his mentor and friend, Johann Gottfried Herder, Goethe devoted himself to studying and translating Hebrew and Arabic sources (mostly from the Latin), among them the Song of Songs, alongside chapters from the Qurʿan. In his late work his reflections on the Hebrew biblical poem were associated with his interpretation of Persian classical poetry, first and foremost the ghazals, the love poems by Hâfiz, while composing his work Der westöstlicher Divan . This article offers a comparative study of Goethe’s translation and interpretation of Song of Songs, discussing its major motives, the dialectic of profane love and the sacred, confusion and disorientation, drunkenness, erotic desire, and gender ambiguities. It refers to Goethe’s translation of the Hebrew poem also in conjunction with a critical, decolonial review of Weltliteratur (world literature). Goethe’s Song of Songs serves us as a map of literary interactions, in which the German, the Hebrew and the Persian are brought into conversation.
Alicia Suskin Ostriker’s Feminist Poetics: Reading Biblical Poetry as Countertheology
Authors: Burt Sean
Published: September 2023

Abstract: Alicia Suskin Ostriker is the author of a wide range of literary and critical works, including several books of poetry and criticism of English-language poetry. This article argues that Ostriker’s work as a poet and literary scholar informs her engagement with biblical literature, particularly biblical poetry. In her formative work on twentieth-century English-language women’s poetry, she articulates how women’s poetry voices embodied identities and creates spaces of intimacy that can break down ideologically constructed barriers. Her creative, poetic biblical criticism mutually informs her interest in the ability of women’s poetry to transform and revise male-dominated mythologies. For Ostriker, the poetry of the Bible provides a resource located within Jewish tradition that can transform it from the inside. As a reader and creative inheritor of the literary heritage of the Bible who is carefully attuned to its literary power, Ostriker’s work reading and revisioning the Bible creates a feminist countertheology grounded in the aesthetic, material possibilities of poetic language.
Tuning into the Polyphony: The Emergence of LGBTQ+ Writing in Africa
Authors: Dunton Chris
Published: September 2023

ABSTRACT: This paper takes as its starting-point observations made by Lindsey Green-Simms in her paper “The Emergent Queer.” Following an exploration of the term “emergent,” the paper addresses the fact that, as homophobic legislation has become entrenched in the majority of African countries, more and more LGBTQ+-themed writing is emerging from or on the continent. There follows some documentation on the experience of LGBTQ+ writers such as Jude Dibia and Logan February and on the advantages to these writers of expatriation. Turning to the literature itself, coverage of the creative corpus is not comprehensive. The author has not, for example, had a chance to consider the 2013 volume Queer Africa: New and Collected Fiction , edited by Karen Martin and Makhosozana Xaba. But the central task of the paper is not to account for the relevant creative writing, but to focus on the body of critical work that addresses this and on texts that explore the historical and sociological context in which the creative corpus has been produced.
Eating Bodies: Edwidge Danticat’s The Farming of Bones
Authors: Githire Njeri
Published: September 2023

ABSTRACT: This essay exposes the imagery of cannibalism as a critique of unfettered consumption and greed at the root of the exploitative structures in The Farming of Bones (1998). The essay contends that the symbolic tapestry of Edwidge Danticat’s second novel is woven around metaphors of consumption and excretion. In a bid to unpack the inner workings of a plantation system that reduced human beings to commodities, I tease out the novel’s layered reflection on these metaphors and their meaning. I demonstrate that the purported menace posed by Haitian immigrants in the Dominican Republic is but a deflection of the violence exerted on working bodies on a constant basis. A scheme that serves to mask the assault and plunder that are commonplace, the ascription of malevolent intent onto the immigrants strips them of their humanity and justifies their expulsion from the national territory. I further expose the strategies used by the exploited to counter the consuming carnage and restore dignity.
Mercer Cook: A Life in Motion
Authors: Masse Guirdex
Published: September 2023

ABSTRACT: This article traces the intellectual trajectory and trans-national engagements of a key African American scholar and diplomat: Dr. Will Mercer Cook (1903–1987). From the 1930s to the 1960s, Mercer Cook was the foremost American authority on Black Francophone life and culture. His decades-long research, travels, and personal relationships with notable Black Francophone writers, politicians, and intellectuals, by the 1960s rendered him an ideal candidate for diplomacy posts in recently independent African nation states (The Gambia and Niger). Although not much work has alluded to his significance in the field of African diaspora studies, Cook was a central figure that connected an American public, and American educational and cultural institutions, to the Black Francophone world. This profile will highlight the significance of his work in the context of African American transnational engagements in the first half of the twentieth century.
Tom’s Afterlife as Geological Agent: Under the Surface of English Watercourses in Charles Kingsley’s The Water-Babies
Authors: Graber Darin
Published: September 2023

Abstract: While Charles Kingsley’s The Water-Babies (1862–63) has perhaps rightly been called “over-determined,” examining it alongside his Town Geology (1873) reveals an unresolved, still-pertinent tension in Kingsley’s thinking, which emphasizes humans’ moral responsibility for creating socially and environmentally recuperative systems on one hand, while it elevates divinely ordained nature’s ability to recuperate immoral waste in human behavior on the other. Moving chronologically from The Water-Babies to Town Geology , with a view to Kingsley’s “Human Soot” sermon, leads us to ask two questions: firstly, what remains of The Water-Babies ’ progressive challenges to readers, and secondly, whether agency and responsibility have been taken from human actors and made the purview of the powers God has granted to rivers, watersheds, and other geological features. Taken together, the works present a conceptual and practical bind that persists in present-day intersections of religious belief and environmental stewardship, if not also economics.
Inventing Feminist Victorianist Criticism
Authors: Schaffer Talia
Published: September 2023

Abstract: In “Inventing Feminist Victorianist Criticism,” I read Women Novelists of Queen Victoria’s Reign (1897) as a text that instantiates key elements of modern feminist criticism, including emphasis on generational historical change, attention to noncanonical genres, and anxiety about literary value. However, WNQVR also highlights other possibilities: unconventional writers, disruptive chronologies, and alternative geographical configurations. In the end, I argue that WNQVR is meaningful not because of its subjects but because of its form; not because it initiated a canon of women’s writing but rather because it began to lay out the way future critics would argue over that canon. If feminist criticism begins here, it begins in productive dissension.
Mornington Crescent: A Miniature Portrait
Authors: Bourrier Karen , Brosz John , Jacobson Dan
Published: September 2023

Abstract: In this paper, we argue that propinquity–physical proximity leading to frequent interaction with publishers, artists, and each other–aided the careers of both the subjects and the essayists represented in Women Novelists of Queen Victoria’s Reign (1897). Focusing on Mornington Crescent in the 1850s, we draw on new modes of digital mapping that allow us to reconstruct the influence of propinquity on popular women writers, opening up new understandings of the literary networks that made their careers possible. We reanimate the personal and geographic connections amongst the subjects and authors in WNQVR , to demonstrate the reverberations of propinquity and early-career literary connections throughout the long careers of women writers who first flourished in the mid-nineteenth century.
Sanctified Sinophobia, Christian Nationalism, and M. P. Shiel’s The Yellow Danger
Authors: Kwong Lucas
Published: September 2023

Abstract: This article examines the bestselling 1898 novel The Yellow Danger , a so-called Chinese invasion fantasy that inspired Sax Rohmer’s infamous Fu Manchu series. Where analysis of The Yellow Danger has tended to underplay its religious dimension, I argue that its depiction of the Yellow Peril constitutes a prototype of what I call “sanctified Sinophobia,” religiously motivated hostility toward China that now fuels contemporary Christian nationalism. Both as a characterological emblem of racial personality and as an eschatological force of nature, the Yellow Terror represents an ineffable Satanic malevolence, defying European Christians’ existing categories of evil. Tracing these two variants of sanctified Sinophobia in Shiel’s novel, I then examine how the text’s logics of ethnoreligious purity continue to structure the prayers, benedictions, and oracles of so-called China Virus discourse.
Desarrollo Bio-Psico-Social y factores de riesgo en niños trabajadores de la calle en Asunción
Authors: Meza de Ibarrola María Angélica Edith , Ruiz Díaz Morales Daniela
Published: September 2023

La investigación tiene un diseño no experimental y descriptivo de corte transversal, y enfoque cuantitativo. El Objetivo General es: Analizar los efectos que tienen los factores de riesgo sobre el desarrollo bio-psico-social de los niños trabajadores de la calle en la ciudad de Asunción, durante el año 2013. La población trabajadora infantil en la ciudad de Asunción, durante el año 2011, según datos de la Secretaría de la Niñez y de la Adolescencia, creada por Ley 1680/01; se estimaba en aproximadamente 6.000 niños de ambos sexos. La muestra trabajada corresponde a 200 niños-as clasificados en 20 focos de aglomeración. Se concluye que los riesgos a los que están expuestos-as dañan el desarrollo bio-psico-social de niños-as trabajadores-as de la Calle en la Ciudad de Asunción.
Formación de docentes reflexivos para el arte educativo
Authors: Benítez González Myrian Celeste
Published: September 2023

El presente artículo indaga las condiciones necesarias para la formación de docentes reflexivos para el arte educativo, dado que dicha praxis contribuye a la humanización de la enseñanza. La formación de educadores reflexivos es un proceso individual y colectivo, que comienza en la formación inicial y se prolonga durante toda la tarea profesional. El acto reflexivo es un desafío permanente para los docentes, los ayuda a contextualizar el proceso enseñanza aprendizaje, vinculándolo con los factores socioculturales, religiosos y políticos que lo determinan.
Implementación de técnicas de lógica difusa para el control Antispam en empresas con servidores de correo
Authors: Riego Andrea
Published: September 2023

El propósito de esta investigación fue presentar la implementación de un software para demostrar el funcionamiento de la técnica de la lógica difusa aplicada como control antispam para analizar los mensajes de correo electrónico de manera a disminuir el falso positivo y así evitar perder información importante para el usuario y encontrar recomendación alternativa, a fin de realizar actividades en un ambiente confiable en una organización. Se recolectaron los datos necesarios por medio de encuestas realizadas por Kaspersky Lab. Con los datos de dichas encuestas se determinó que la rápida evolución de las técnicas de los spammers, pone en peligro la información transmitida por los medios de comunicación y transmisión de información como es el servicio de correo electrónico que va en aumento debido a su facilidad de uso y eficiencia, desafortunadamente, por éstas características es utilizado para enviar correos masivos no solicitados (SPAM).
Riesgos en la disipación de calor en Datacenters
Authors: Monges Olmedo Mario Roberto
Published: September 2023

El gran demanda por servicios disponibles gracias a la virtualización, exigen mayor poder de cómputo en los datacenters. El remplazo de servidores convencionales por servidores de alta densidad demanda un mayor consumo de energía eléctrica y genera mayor disipación de calor. El tratamiento inadecuado del calor es un riesgo para la operatividad de los Datacenters.
La cultura investigadora en la formación del investigador
Authors: Jiménez Chaves Viviana Elizabeth
Published: September 2023

La cultura investigadora constituye un tema trascendental para la formación del investigador. La misma lo ubica en el contexto actual en el cual desarrollara sus investigaciones lo cual requiere de la interacción grupal de los distintos estamentos de la comunidad académica, la búsqueda de estrategias para la promoción y desarrollo de la investigación, así como del trabajo interdisciplinario y transdisciplinario de todos los miembros de la comunidad educativa.
Solución Tecnológica para la Fabricación de Productos Fotosensibles en la Industria Farmacéutica
Authors: Cáceres Massare María Laura , Zarina Rivero Solange
Published: September 2023

La industria farmacéutica emplea diferentes tipos de materias primas para la fabricación de medicamentos. Las cuales deben tener una conservación adecuada, para que no pierdan sus propiedades físico-químicas y farmacológicas, sobre todo aquellas que necesitan condiciones especiales de manejo. Las materias primas fotosensibles son un grupo de fármacos que por sus características necesitan conservarse protegidas de la luz UV o Luz blanca (visible).Existen escasos estudios publicados sobre estabilidad de materias primas fotosensibles. Muchos medicamentos vienen preparados por la industria en ampollas de cristal topacio para protegerlos de la luz. Es importante que no se exponga a la luz UV o la Luz blanca (visible) desde su fabricación hasta su utilización. Actualmente para la manipulación de las materias primas fotosensibles se utilizan filtros inactínicos. En el presente estudio de investigación se busca encontrar una alternativa de estos filtros. El conocimiento sobre la estabilidad de los medicamentos evitará riesgos para el paciente. También evitará la degradación del medicamento o pérdida económica importante para la Industria Farmacéutica por mala conservación o manejo inadecuado de las materias primas. Este trabajo se basa en la necesidad de implementar nueva tecnología al momento de manipular materias primas fotosensibles, con el objetivo de encontrar una Solución Tecnológica robusta al proceso de fabricación.
Conceptualización, Desarrollo y Evaluación de un Proyecto de Inversión para la Apertura de un CAU de La Universidad Americana
Authors: Romero Iglesias Martha Andrea
Published: September 2023

Empower Enterprises S.R.L. es una empresa que en alianza estratégica con la Universidad Americana habilitará un Centro de Aprendizaje Universitario, a fin de ofrecer carreras universitarias a distancia bajo la modalidad virtual.La empresa está ubicada en el Doctor Juan Eulogio Estigarribia, Departamento de Caaguazú, el cual se constituye como un importante centro industrial y económico. El mercado seleccionado está compuesto por personas que por su ajetreado estilo de vida no tienen tiempo asistir regularmente a clases en una universidad con sistema tradicional de enseñanza (modalidad presencial). Para ello se realizó un estudio de mercado a los potenciales clientes, a fin de determinar la cantidad de ventas proyectadas, así como la capacidad técnica a ser requerida para la ejecución de este proyecto.La empresa requiere para este proyecto una inversión inicial de Gs. 769.949.773. Se espera un VAN positivo de Gs. 291.716.681, una TIR positiva de 27%, en un periodo de recupero de 3,6 años y un Índice de Rentabilidad de 1,44.
Gestión de personas y la Responsabilidad Social Empresarial
Authors: Ruíz Díaz Morales Daniela
Published: September 2023

Este trabajo tuvo como Objetivo General: analizar los beneficios y el alcance del programa de Responsabilidad Social Empresarial (RSE) que llevan adelante empresas de Asunción y otras ciudades. Los Objetivos Específicos fueron: 1) Describir las prácticas de RSE que realizan las empresas encuestadas. 2) Describir que tipos de actividades desean hacer, en cuanto a RSE, las empresas que no cuentan con un programa en dicha área. 3) Identificar los factores que motivan y justifican la incorporación de prácticas de responsabilidad social en la empresa. 4) Verificar las fuentes de ingresos económicos que prevalecen en las O.N.G. encuestadas. El diseño metodológico fue no experimental, descriptivo, enfoque mixto y corte transversal. Los instrumentos de recolección de datos fueron dos cuestionarios semi-estructurado, uno para las empresas y otro para las O.N.G.
Las ciencias del sexto grado en la educación paraguaya en el contexto del tercer estudio regional comparativo y explicativo de la OREAL-UNESCO
Authors: Oxley Víctor M. , Rolón Violeta
Published: September 2023

Las Ciencias en el currículo escolar son cuidadosamente elaboradas y constantemente evaluadas en los programas oficiales. El diseño metodológico utilizado en esta investigación fue el no experimental, del tipo cuantitativo y cualitativo, se utilizó la técnica del meta análisis sobre el conjunto de variables denominados “ítems” por dominios desarrollados por OREALC-UNESCO y publicada en su informe TERCE, en ellos se operó buscando la suma total absoluta de las respuestas dadas, incluyendo la “sin respuesta”.
Funciones del área de Personas en empresas de diferentes rubros de la Ciudad de Asunción
Authors: Suarez Rodrigo , Zarate Renato , Alvarez Jemima , Fernandez Martín , Torres Alba , Pertile Sandra
Published: September 2023

La presente investigación es un estudio realizado en el área de Gestión del Talento Humano, donde se pretende investigar cuales son las funciones más frecuentes que realizan las áreas de gestión de personas en ciertas empresas de diferentes rubros, ubicadas en la ciudad de Asunción, Paraguay. La metodología de trabajo consiste en un enfoque cuantitativo de los datos, con un diseño No experimental de corte trasversal y de alcance descriptivo. La muestra está compuesta por cinco (5) empresas de la ciudad de Asunción, Paraguay, de diferentes rubros; con un muestreo No probabilístico, dirigido e intencional de tres (3) colaboradores por empresa, totalizando una muestra de quince (15) colaboradores a los cuales se le aplico un cuestionario con veinte (20) preguntas cerradas y abiertas.
Consumo de lácteos en adolescentes de 15 a 17 años del Colegio Nacional Don Jorge Gayoso de Villa Hayes, noviembre 2017
Authors: Nuñez Beatriz Elizabeth , Ruiz Vargas Sara Rebeca
Published: September 2023

El objetivo de este trabajo fue describir sobre el consumo de lácteos en adolescentes de 15 a 17 años que asisten al Colegio Nacional Don Jorge Gayoso de la Ciudad de Villa Hayes, Dto. Pte. Hayes, y medir el conocimiento sobre beneficios. Durante los meses de Octubre – Noviembre del año 2017 se realizaron mediciones antropométricas de peso y talla para luego calcular el IMC de los adolescentes, seguido por un instrumento de recolección de datos que es la encuesta sobre el consumo y conocimiento de los beneficios de los Lácteos a 55 alumnos (29 de sexo femenino, 26 de sexo masculino). Cabe resaltar que la adolescencia es una etapa trascendental para el desarrollo del cuerpo humano, donde ocurren cambios físicos, psicológicos y fisiológicos por lo que es fundamental una adecuada nutrición y la instauración de los hábitos alimentarios saludables. Así mismo el consumo de lácteos es muy importante para condicionar el buen proceso evolutivo del cuerpo. En el marco teórico se presentó los beneficios que aportan los lácteos para los adolescentes y la forma de evaluación nutricional. El método utilizado es no probabilístico por conveniencia. Se obtuvo como resultado que el 64% (66% F, 34% M) de los adolescentes consumen lácteos, siendo que 36% (70% M, 30% F) no consumen. Entre los productos lácteos más consumidos por día se encuentra la leche entera en un 36%, siguiente es el yogurt con un 29%. Los adolescentes no tienen una buena información sobre el beneficio de los lácteos, existe una falta de educación nutricional.
Enfoque de Seguridad Ciudadana y Derecho penal en Paraguay
Authors: Royg Acha Eduardo , Acevedo Estefanía , Barúa Belén , Gómez Jerutí , Ocampos Génesis , Rodríguez Francisco
Published: September 2023

Existen diferentes términos que hacen alusión al ámbito de la seguridad, situación que crea incertidumbre al tiempo de ajustar un vocabulario uniforme que verse sobre el tratamiento de la violencia y el delito como fenómenos limitantes de las libertades humanas. Algunos de los términos empleados son: seguridad interna, seguridad nacional, seguridad global, orden público, y seguridad ciudadana, entre otros. La Constitución Nacional del Paraguay utiliza el concepto de Seguridad Interna y no el de Seguridad Ciudadana siendo que a nivel internacional se recurre a este, como nuevo paradigma, el cual cuenta con el Derecho Penal como herramienta principal, competente desde la perspectiva represiva. El trabajo plantea como objetivos principales identificar un concepto general que suponga el abordaje de la violencia y el delito desde los enfoques preventivo y de persecución penal, y en consecuencia, analizar su vinculación con el Derecho Penal; mediante una investigación descriptiva con diseño documental, en atención que se recurre a la legislación paraguaya vigente y a la literatura; con la finalidad de caracterizar la seguridad, desde una perspectiva cualitativa. Se identifica, en efecto, el concepto de Seguridad Ciudadana; se analiza la función del Estado, en materia de seguridad, en las diferentes constituciones del Paraguay; y finalmente, se realiza un análisis en cuanto a la relación existente entre el Derecho Penal y la Seguridad Ciudadana.
ADC Histogram Test Using Triangular Stimulus Signals
Authors: Francisco André Corrêa Alegria
Published: September 2023

This paper focuses on tackling the uncertainty in ADC testing estimates using the Histogram Method with a triangular stimulus instead of a sinusoidal one as is standard practice. It introduces expressions to calculate the standard deviation of transition voltages and code bin widths.
Evaluation of the food of red-billed quelea (Quelea quelea) during cropping season in gyawana and environs, Adamawa State, Nigeria
Authors: Buba, Z.M  , Sabastian M.M  , Ussa, J
Published: September 2023

Evaluation of the food of red-billed quelea (Quelea quelea) during cropping season in Gyawana and environs, Adamawa State, Nigeria, was carried out to identify the food of Quelea quelea during the cropping season. A total of one hundred and fifty (150) male and female birds were captured in the wild; using black nylon mist nets with dimensions of 7 x 2.5m and mesh size of 16 mm. Subtotals of fifty birds were captured per month. The crop contents of the Q. quelea sampled for this research work reveals a total number of twelve taxonomically different food items. In terms of frequency and magnitude of occurrence in the food items, Dactyloctenium aegyptium appears to be the most consumed food of Red-billed Quelea with mean of 161.24+ 2.16 and 157.33+ 2.14 in male and female respectively. This was followed by Oryza barthi 63.25+ 4.26 in male and 61.23+ 1.61in female, then Oryza sativa 42.16 ±1.21in both male and female, while Digitaria iburua has the mean of 27.16+2.46 and 31.14 +0.37 in male and female respectively. Roetboellia exaltata was 36.11 ±1.23 in male and 37.13 ±4.33 in female. Soghum bicolor with mean value of 28.08 ±1.43 in male and 26.13 ±2.21 in female. Setaria pallidofusca was 26.08 ±3.22 in male and 24.06 ±3.3 in female; Echinochloa colonum has 18.741+1.47 and15.43+1.27 mean in male and female respectively. Brachiaria mutica has 09.21 +0.27 and male and 11.04 ± 1.63 in female, this was followed by the least seed consumed Digitaria ciliaris with a mean of 3.44 ± 1.09 in both male and female Q. quelea. The mean value of grits in the crop contents of male Q. quelea was 04.21 ±2.06 and in female was 04.73 ±3.03. Some quantities of insect remains were observed in the crop contents of female Q. quelea, with the highest mean value of 07.13 ±05.01. Analysis of variance was used to compare the mean value of various seeds consumed by the Q. quelea during the period of study. The result shows there was significant difference in the food items consumed by Q. quelea during cropping season. In conclusion, for this period of study September to November, it was observed that Q. quelea is euryphagous, Dactyloctenium aegyptium was the most preferred seed foraged upon, although it varied in quantity, while the least preferred seed was found to be Digitaria ciliaris. Insects remains were found in the diet of female Q. quelea, while grits was found in small quantities in both male and female Q. quelea. The researchers therefore, recommend that further studies should be carried out on biological control on Quelea birds, by the reintroduction of their predators such as the red-necked falcon falco chicquera into the area.
A descriptive study to assess the knowledge of teachers towards the implementation of semester-based curriculum in selected nursing colleges at Nagpur district
Authors: Akshaya Deoman Sadanshiv  , Abhilasha Arvind Shambharkar  , Sakshi Lakhanla Ghormare  , Ayushi Prashant Humne  , Sayali Bharat Gosavi  , Karishma Chokhobaji Ingole  , Nilima Sridhar Hatwar  , Yoginee Sitaram Jogekar  , Shrutika Ajay Goje  , Prajakta Bhaskar Humane  , Shubhangi Panjabrao Gulde
Published: September 2023

A descriptive study to assess the knowledge of teacher towards the implementation of semester-based curriculum. The objective of the study are , to assess the knowledge of the teachers towards the newly implemented semester pattern and to determine the association of knowledge with selected demographic variables. Non-experimental descriptive research design is used in this study and it is conducted over 60 teachers by using non probability convenient sampling technique. Assessment is done by using self-structured questionnaire. The findings reveals that Mean knowledge score is 9.10 3.34, Mean % knowledge score is 45.50 16.71. The knowledge of teachers regarding semester based curriculum is associated with designation.
Evaluation of sensory and microbiological quality of tigernut milk drink sweentened with date palm fruit
Authors: Obasi BC  , Mani VN
Published: September 2023

This study investigated sensory properties and microbiological quality of tigernut milk drink sweetened with date palm fruit. Six samples of the drink were prepared in various ratios, tigernut milk control (TMC 100%), date palm slurry control (DSC 100%) tigernut milk and date slurry (TMD1 90:10, TMD2 80:20, TMD3 70:30, and TMD4 60:40) respectively. The samples were pasteurized at 72°C for five minutes. The tiger nut milk were evaluated using 15- member semi-trained panelists on a 9-point hedonic scale and statistical analysis were carried out on their responses. The result for sensory evaluation revealed that there was significant difference (P < 0.05) among all the samples analyzed in terms of taste, aroma, colour, flavor and general acceptability. However, sample TMD4 was the most preferred in terms of all the parameters assessed which had a range from (6.1-7.5). Standard microbiological methods were used to isolate, characterize and identify microbial isolates. The result obtained for microbial load for total aerobic plate count, coliforms and fungi ranged from 1.90x103–1.26x106, 3.20x103 –1.6x106, and 2.8x103–7.25x105 cfu/ml respectively. The result for microbial flora revealed the following species of microorganisms; E. coli (21%), Staphylococcus aureus (16%), Proteus vulgaris (19%), Bacilli (16%), Salmonella typhi (6%), and Streptoccoccus (8%). The study concluded that milk from tigernut and date palm fruit sources could serve as an alternative for diary milk, and that the date palm demonstrated the potential of being used as an alternative sweetener for tigernut milk drink production based on the general acceptability of the product.
Common Fixed Point Theorems in Bipolar Metric Spaces
Authors: Sunita Soni
Published: September 2023

In this paper, a common fixed point theorem for generalized contractions in bipolar metric spaces is proved. Additionally, these theorems expand and apply a number of intriguing findings from metric fixed point theory to the bipolar metric setting. I also provide a few instances to illustrate my theorems.