bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Clima, fé, educação: caminhos possíveis num planeta sob pressão
Authors: Villela Maria Rita
Published: November 2024

Resumo: O artigo reflete sobre os campos da antropologia da educação socioambiental e climática e da antropologia da religião e sua relação com o espaço público. Apresenta um histórico do movimento ambientalista no Brasil nos últimos 20 anos e, como estudo de caso, aborda uma iniciativa da sociedade civil brasileira que fomenta o envolvimento de comunidades religiosas como agentes políticos na arena das mudanças climáticas. O texto destaca o papel das religiões e dos conhecimentos tradicionais no surgimento de epistemologias que inspiram novos debates na esfera pública. Além disso, dialoga com o campo da antropologia do desenvolvimento, discutindo o ofício antropológico por meio da interseção entre etnografia, ativismo, policrise, sistemas complexos e políticas públicas.
Letramento em saúde parental, recursos do ambiente familiar e queixas auditivas: estudo preliminar
Authors: Gonçalves Jaqueline Batista Diniz , Escarce Andrezza Gonzalez , Lemos Stela Maris Aguiar
Published: November 2024

RESUMO Objetivo verificar a associação entre letramento funcional em saúde parental com os recursos do ambiente familiar, aspectos sociodemográficos e clínicos. Métodos trata-se de etapa preliminar de estudo observacional analítico, de recorte transversal, com amostra não probabilística, constituída por 39 familiares de crianças na faixa etária de 9 a 12 anos. Foram utilizados os instrumentos: Short Assessment of Health Literacy for Portuguese-speaking Adults, Critério de Classificação Econômica Brasil e Inventário de Recursos do Ambiente Familiar. Foi realizada análise descritiva e bivariada dos dados, por meio dos testes Qui-quadrado de Pearson e U de Mann-Whitney e adotado o nível de significância de 5%. Resultados na análise descritiva foi observado que a maioria dos participantes possuía letramento funcional em saúde adequado. A análise de associação entre o Short Assessment of Health Literacy for Portuguese-speaking Adults e dados sociodemográficos indicou associação com significância estatística entre o letramento funcional em saúde e instrução do chefe de família (p=0,009), ou seja, aqueles que possuíam até superior incompleto apresentaram tendência a serem classificados com letramento adequado. Já a associação entre os domínios do Inventário de Recursos do Ambiente Familiar e as categorias do Short Assessment of Health Literacy for Portuguese-speaking Adults revelou que houve diferença estatística no domínio de processos proximais. Conclusão há associação entre letramento funcional em saúde e grau de instrução dos pais, o que pode refletir no tipo de recursos ambientais ofertado aos filhos na dinâmica familiar.
Comparison of evolutionary algorithms applied to optimal design of water distribution networks
Authors: Muranaka Renata Sayuri , Rangel Jonas Soares , Marotta Marcelo Antonio , Soares Alexandre Kepler
Published: November 2024

ABSTRACT The pursuit of efficient water distribution network (WDN) projects that reflect the complexities of real systems has spurred the development and application of various optimization techniques. Among these, multi and many-objective optimization hold particular significance due to the intrinsic interplay between variables within water distribution networks. Within this domain, evolutionary algorithms have emerged as a promising optimization option, offering a range of methodologies documented in the literature. To systematically evaluate these approaches, a methodology was devised to compare six evolutionary algorithms in the context of water distribution networks optimization: NSGA-II, NSGA-III, U-NSGA-III, R-NSGA-III, MOEA/D, and RVEA, using two distinct objective functions. The comparative analysis utilized as key metrics the efficiency criteria (E), cumulative distribution function (CDF), error statistics and algorithm complexity. The findings revealed that while most algorithms successfully converged to the known global optimum of the employed case study, NSGA-II and NSGA-III exhibited superior performance, notably in minimizing costs. These results demonstrate the efficacy of these algorithms in tackling the complexities inherent in water distribution networks optimization, positioning them as leading contenders in this field.
Pre-individuality and individuation: Simondon and a critique to the idea of subject
Authors: Craia Eladio , Jardim Alex Fabiano Correia
Published: November 2024

Abstract The text intends to exhibit some considerations around some specific questions about the thought of Gilbert Simondon, such as, for example, the notions of individuation and pre-individuality. Simondon will address in his work, a critique developed around the search in tradition for a kind of originary principle, called by Simondon inverted ontogenesis. Simondon presents a critique of the philosophy of consciousness and, in a contrary position, speaks of 'modes of individuation', instead of an idea of objective or subjective synthesis. According to Simondon, when thinking about the individual/life and its genesis, an analysis is carried out based on the individuation processes and their evidence, as opposed to the idea of form and matter. If there are no forms and no subjects, we can only think of differentiation (of a thing, of an animal, of a person), only through affects and dynamic intensities. There is no development plan, only relationships and differentiations.
LEFT-SIDED APPENDICITIS IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF CASE REPORTS
Authors: CHAVEZ-ECOS Fabian A , CONDORI-OROSCO Mayli M , COLINA-SOSA Anahy de la , CHAVEZ-MALPARTIDA Sandra S , DAVILA-HERNANDEZ Carlos A , ZEVALLOS Alba
Published: November 2024

ABSTRACT Background: Worldwide, acute appendicitis (AA) is the most frequent cause of acute surgical abdomen. Although typically associated with pain migrating to the right iliac fossa, AA can also manifest with pain in the left lower quadrant, often linked to anatomical anomalies. Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have the highest incidence of AA compared to other regions of the world. Objective: To explore the sociodemographic characteristics; clinical characteristics, and postoperative outcomes in patients with left-sided AA in LAC. Methods: We performed a systematic review including PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, Embase, LILACS, Dialnet, Redalyc, Scielo, and Google Scholar databases. We considered as inclusion criteria case reports of left-sided appendicitis involving specific anatomical anomalies, and studies conducted in LAC. Morevoer, we assessed methodologic quality using Joanna Briggs Institute tool for case reports. Results: A total of 23 patients were included in 23 case reports. Colombia accounted for the majority of left-sided AA cases. The median age was 37 years (8-65). Initial pain location was diffuse abdominal pain (39.1%), pain was refered (n=5; 55.6%) and migrated (n=11; 78.6%) mainly to left iliac fossa. Situs inversus totalis (SIT) was the most prevalent anatomical anomaly (69.6%), while laparotomy emerged as the predominant surgical approach (65.2%). Conclusion: Considering left-sided AA in the diagnosis of adults with diffuse abdominal pain towards the left lower quadrant is crucial. SIT is the primary associated anatomical variation. These emphasize the significance of understanding atypical presentations for effective management in the LAC population.
Fruit and bean traits of the Coffea canephora genotypes most grown in western Amazon
Authors: Lopes Júnior Hilton , Rocha Rodrigo Barros , Silva Adriele Nunes Rodrigues , Moraes Amanda de Oliveira , Alves Enrique Anastácio , Espindula Marcelo Curitiba , Teixeira Alexsandro Lara
Published: November 2024

Abstract The objective of this work was to quantify the genetic diversity and selection gains regarding the physical traits of the fruits and beans of the 86 Coffea canephora clones most grown in western Amazon. The clones were evaluated as to the effects of genotypes (G), years (Y), and the GxY interaction. Genetic progress was quantified considering combined selection and direct selection for coffee bean weight. Although there was a GxY interaction, based on repeatability estimates the plants presented a similar performance over time. A positive correlation was observed between fruit and bean weight, except for some genotypes, such as R22, AS5, and 'BRS 3210', which presented larger beans and smaller fruit, and as BG180, P42, LB60, G20, and N12, with larger fruit and smaller beans. Using selection for the main trait, the estimates of genetic progress were similar to those obtained through different selection indexes, through which 14 genotypes with a higher bean weight were selected. The evaluated C. canephora clones exhibit high genetic diversity for the selection of plants with higher grain mass.
Pineapple root growth and distribution with the use of plastic mulch and percolation barrier
Authors: Lima Lenilson Wisner Ferreira , Coelho Eugênio Ferreira , Reinhardt Domingo Haroldo Rudolfo C. , Junghans Davi Theodoro , Vellame Lucas de Melo , Barros Damiana Lima
Published: November 2024

Abstract The objective of this work was to evaluate the effect of the use of plastic mulch and percolation barrier on the growth and distribution of pineapple roots. The BRS Imperial cultivar was cultivated using plastic as mulching material and a percolation barrier. The evaluated variables were: relative and absolute root growth rates, root length distribution, and root length density. The use of plastic mulch resulted in a greater accumulation of root dry matter, with or without the percolation barrier. Under drip irrigation, mulching promoted a greater root development. The highest root growth rate occurred from 360 to 450 days after planting. The amount of roots was from 64.1 to 66.7% on the stem, and from 34 to 36% distributed in the 0.10 and 0.20 m soil layer. Black plastic, as mulch or a percolation barrier, contributes to increase the root development of 'BRS Imperial' pineapple under drip irrigation.
Paradoxos da educação liberal de Mill: a crise de angústia e o despertar do sono intelectualista
Authors: Dalbosco Claudio A.
Published: November 2024

Resumo Tomando a Autobiografia como texto referencial, o ensaio investiga alguns aspectos da história educativa de John Stuart Mill (1806-1873), considerando-a como paradigma de uma educação liberal que esbarra em seus próprios limites e, ao mesmo tempo, busca superá-los. Trata de sua história educativa em dois momentos, sendo o primeiro marcado pela influência da educação paterna. James Mill (1773-1836) queria fazer do filho o grande líder liberal de seu tempo e, para tanto, seguiu de perto os princípios da filosofia utilitarista de Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832). Tal propósito incorreu em vários paradoxos, porque a autonomia de pensamento e ação requeridas foram negadas pelo reducionismo educacional proposto, o qual, centrado na formação de apenas algumas capacidades intelectuais, deixou de lado a educação de certos sentimentos indispensáveis à formação da beleza ética da sociabilidade humana na perspectiva democrática. O segundo momento trata da incompletude da formação intelectual paterna, revelada pela crise de angústia experimentada por Mill. Tal crise mostrou ao jovem educando a necessidade de ampliar a ideia de educação, incluindo nela a formação de certos sentimentos cuja referência fora buscada, inicialmente, na dimensão poético-musical. Por fim, o ensaio conclui que é a inclusão do sentimento social na ideia de educação como formação das capacidades humanas que permite a Mill superar a apatia e a indiferença próprias ao individualismo racionalista (calculista) subjacente à educação paterna.
THE APPROACH OF NOMS FRAMEWORK IN THE MANAGEMENT OF SPINAL METASTASIS
Authors: SINAGA BONTOR DANIEL , LTOBING SDOHAR
Published: November 2024

ABSTRACT Malignant tumors often metastasize to spine. Metastases in the spine account for 20-40% of cases in cancer patients. Increased mobility and pain control are two forms of treatment for spinal metastases that aim to improve quality of life. Three components of an interdisciplinary team that offers the best therapeutic treatment for spinal metastases are chemotherapy, radiation and surgery. Different authors have created various decision-making frameworks for the treatment of spinal metastases. They are mainly categorized as prognostic systems based on principles and classifications. Four fundamental and comprehensive assessments are integrated into the NOMS framework, a decision-making approach: neurological, oncological, mechanical (stability) and systemic disease. When NOMS is compared to other scoring systems or methods, it turns out that NOMS can manage almost all facets of spinal metastases. To improve patient outcomes and personalize the treatment plan for each patient, the NOMS framework offers a standardized, evidence-based approach to the treatment of spinal metastases. This approach takes into account many characteristics of the disease to inform treatment decisions. Level of Evidence II; Review Article.
PROCESSO DE BOLONHA NA ESPANHA E FORMAÇÃO DE PROFESSORES DE MATEMÁTICA PARA O CURSO SECUNDÁRIO
Authors: Vilela Denise
Published: November 2024

Com o propósito de ampliar nossa compreensão sobre a formação do professor de matemática buscamos conhecer o modelo espanhol que corresponde às normas do Processo de Bolonha, que visa um modelo convergente para a educação superior e a transnacionalização das estruturas pedagógicas na Europa. Na Espanha, especificamente, a formação do professorado para o curso secundário é um sistema em dois ciclos, com os 8 primeiros semestres de formação de conhecimento específico, completando uma graduação; e o segundo ciclo, uma pós-graduação de 1 ano com a formação para atuação como professor. São dois cursos independentes, sendo ⅕ a proporção entre a pós-graduação em educação e a graduação em matemática.  Tendo como referência pesquisas que apontam a necessidade de uma formação do professor de modo integrado, à primeira vista surpreende o modelo do tipo 4+1 (4 anos iniciais de formação específica). Diante disso, foram colocadas as seguintes questões: Como os docentes envolvidos na formação dos professores avaliam a implementação do Processo de Bolonha no que diz respeito à integração dos conhecimentos? Considerando a teoria de Bourdieu como referencial teórico-metodológico, pergunto: Qual o valor simbólico da matemática nos cursos de formação de professores de matemática nos modelos de formação em questão? Trata-se de uma pesquisa em documentos de livre acesso de universidades espanholas; amplo levantamento bibliográfico e entrevistas com professores que participam da formação de professores de matemática na Espanha.
Truth-tracking with Non-expert Information Sources
Authors: Singleton Joseph , Booth Richard
Published: November 2024

We study what can be learned when receiving propositional reports from multiple nonexpert information sources. We suppose that sources report all that they consider possible, given their expertise. This may result in false and inconsistent reports when sources lack expertise on a topic. A learning method is truth-tracking, roughly speaking, if it eventually converges to correct beliefs about the “actual” world. This involves finding both the actual state of affairs in the domain described by the sources, and finding the extent of the expertise of the sources themselves. We investigate the extent to which truth-tracking is possible, and describe what information can be learned even if the actual world cannot be pinned down uniquely. We find that a broad spread of expertise among the sources allows the actual state of affairs to be found, even if no individual source is an expert on all topics. On the other hand, narrower expertise at the individual level allows the actual expertise to be found more easily. Finally, we turn to learning methods themselves: we provide a postulate-based characterisation of truth-tracking for general methods under mild assumptions, before looking at a couple of specific classes of methods from the belief change literature.
Differentially Private Neural Tangent Kernels (DP-NTK) for Privacy-Preserving Data Generation
Authors: Yang Yilin , Adamczewski Kamil , Li Xiaoxiao , Sutherland Danica J. , Park Mijung
Published: November 2024

Maximum mean discrepancy (MMD) is a particularly useful distance metric for differentially private data generation: when used with finite-dimensional features, it allows us to summarize and privatize the data distribution once, which we can repeatedly use during generator training without further privacy loss. An important question in this framework is, then, what features are useful to distinguish between real and synthetic data distributions, and whether those enable us to generate quality synthetic data. This work considers using the features of neural tangent kernels (NTKs), more precisely empirical NTKs (e-NTKs). We find that, perhaps surprisingly, the expressiveness of the untrained e-NTK features is comparable to that of the features taken from pre-trained perceptual features using public data. As a result, our method improves the privacy-accuracy trade-off compared to other state-of-the-art methods, without relying on any public data, as demonstrated on several tabular and image benchmark datasets.
Bien común e interés público en contabilidad: un hecho institucional desde la teoría de John Searle
Authors: Betancur Héctor Darío , Agudelo Vargas María Victoria , Vargas Gonzáles Carlos Alberto
Published: November 2024

El objetivo del artículo es analizar la relación entre el bien común y el interés público como un hecho institucional desde la teoría de John Searle, una categoría de la que debe partir el saber/hacer contable para construir una sociedad más justa e inclusiva. El interés público debe conducir al bien común; sin embargo, en el marco de la regulación contable internacional, el concepto se ha privatizado vinculándose con el interés financiero. Los resultados del trabajo indican que es necesario reconstruir el vínculo entre el bien común y el interés público en contabilidad; y que son los reguladores de la contabilidad quienes deben hacer uso y servir al hecho institucional BC/IP, proponiendo objetivos financieros y no financieros, tanto para el inversor bursátil como para las partes interesadas, sobreponiendo lo que es común y público al interés particular. El pilar fundamental de la sociedad es la “confianza” y esta se favorece por la aparición de instituciones y reglas 138 vinculadas a poderes deontológicos que reducen la complejidad y conducen a la cooperación, fundamento de la construcción de la realidad social. El paradigma que orientará este trabajo es el cualitativo, utilizando el enfoque hermenéutico y la técnica de revisión sistemática de la literatura.
Clinical case of mantle cell lymphoma of the prostate
Authors: Trushkin R. N. , Baryakh E. A. , Medvedev P. E. , Lagoyskaya Yu. A. , Semenova E. A. , Fettser D. V. , Chumikov A. A. , Isaev T. K.
Published: November 2024

The article presents a clinical case of mantle cell lymphoma of the prostate in a 75-year-old man who was hospitalized in the Emergency Urological Department of the City Clinical Hospital No. 52 with gross hematuria through cystostomy tube. During examination the patient was found to have prostatomegaly (prostate volume 992 cm3), prostate-specific antigen level was 2.2 ng/mL. Immunohistochemical examination of prostate tissue after adenectomy indicates prostate damage due to mantle cell lymphoma.
Androgen deprivation therapy and cardiological risks in patients with prostate cancer. Are all drugs the same?
Authors: Alekseev B. Ya. , Perepukhov V. M. , Nyushko K. M. , Poltavskaya M. G.
Published: November 2024

Prostate cancer (PCa) is the most common oncological disease in men in Russia. For a long time, long-term androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) decreasing native testosterone level has been the basis of PCa drug therapy. At the time of PCa diagnosis, 2/3 of men have various risk factors for cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) or established CVDs (one fourth of the patients have CVDs associated with atherosclerosis; 45 % have a diagnosis of arterial hypertension). ADT is associated with increased risk of CVD and cardiovascular complications (CVC) development. Patients with PCa die of 2 main causes: directly due to cancer or due to CVD. Previously, luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH) antagonists were considered to have a better safety profile compared to LHRH agonists. Comparison of all LHRH agonists (leuprorelin, triptorelin, goserelin, buserelin) with LHRH antagonists in meta-analyses showed that the risk of serious CVCs during LHRH antagonist therapy was 43 % lower than during agonist therapy. However, comparison of leuprorelin with antagonists did not show a significant difference in CVC rate. Leuprorelin is a drug with the most favorable profile of cardiological safety among the ADT drugs and the most frequently used LHRH agonist in the world. Considering high risk of CVDs and CVCs in patients with PCa, along with treatment of the main disease, careful control and reduction of risks of CVD development from the moment of PCa diagnosis should be implemented, the patients must be informed on the necessity of healthy lifestyle, established CVDs should be treated with rational regimens of antihypertensive, hypolipidemic, and hypoglycemic drugs. Risk control and reduction, as well as CVD treatment, should be performed for the whole duration of ADT. The article proposes an algorithm of cardiometabolic risk stratification prior to ADT initiation and during ADT.
HUMAN AS A PHENOMENON OF HISTORY IN THE POEM T. SHEVCHENKO "THE BLIND" ("SLAVE")
Authors:   Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine, Zadorozhna Liudmyla
Published: November 2024

T. Shevchenko in the poem "The Blind" ("Slave") creates an example of a phenomenal combination of human destiny and a separate stage of Ukrainian history, when Ukraine was at the stage of the most difficult historical trials. The poet's optimism in his view of man reveals the artist's optimistic vision of Ukrainian history. T. Shevchenko's poem "The Blind" ("Slave") shows the intensity and continuity of the struggle of the Ukrainian people against the external enemy. This struggle, however, provides Ukrainians with stability of spirit and nobility of deeds – the way to a progressive existence in the circle of nations.
Pilgrimage in the Context of the Social-Communication Approach in the Process of Institutionalization: Ukrainian and Foreign Experience
Authors:   Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine, Panchenko Svitlana
Published: November 2024

Pilgrimage promotes interaction between people, the formation of communities, and the development of social and communication skills. It creates a unique atmosphere for communication, exchange of experience and knowledge, as well as deepening the spiritual development and enriching the life experience of each pilgrim. During a pilgrimage, people are united by a special sacred goal. To achieve this goal, during small (peregrinationis secundarie) and large (peregrinationes primarie) pilgrimages, they join forces and make a «sacred journey». This study reviews the research of contemporary Ukrainian and foreign scholars who have described the methodology of the SC-approach and examined the phenomenon of pilgrimage and religious tourism as a social and communication Institution. After analysing contemporary scientific research, articles, monographs, dissertations, and specialised journals on social communications and pilgrimage, it can be concluded that this scientific layer is not sufficiently studied and requires a detailed, step-by-step consideration and careful analysis. The author shows that thanks to various fields and scientific directions, pilgrimage has stood out and taken its place, uniting scholars from different fields and scientific directions on the social and communication platform.

In the proposed scientific works, social communications are considered from the perspective of Christian approaches to social problems, and therefore require detailed study and analysis from the perspective of a social and communication institution in the field of pilgrimage, since pilgrimage is filled with principles, rules, and functions related to the activities of religious objects. This study also examines the role of social media in the spiritual journeys of pilgrims, and clarifies their role for pilgrimage practices and the discourse on religious tourism.
The Means of Expression in Victor Hugo’s Publicism
Authors:   Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine, Meleshchenko Olexandr
Published: November 2024

The peculiarities of Victor Hugo’s use of tropes and stylistic figures as means of textual expressiveness in his publicistic works are clarified, which, in fact, is the purpose of the article. Head of the literary school of romantics, poet, novelist, playwright, literary critic, publicist, opposition politician V. Hugo used expressive means to enrich his oral and written speech. This especially applies to publicistic broadcasting, which is designed to serve the interests of society, preserve universal human values, basic rights and freedoms, protect the offended and unjustly convicted, expose arrogant or corrupt leaders, and formulate social ideals for future generations.

To achieve the goal, the article used the following methods: working with documents, which made it possible to study the available theoretical sources, to study Victor Hugo’s publicistic texts; the additionally applied bibliographic method made it possible to analyze in the article the flow of documents on the researched topic, their qualitative selection, which ended with the compilation of a bibliographic list; the descriptive method made it possible to describe the means of expression in the analyzed texts; the method of stylistic analysis made it possible to identify linguistic and stylistic devices in the analyzed texts; the generalization method made it possible to summarize the research results.

Tropes and various figures of speech help the author or speaker, working in a publicistic style, to create certain images that play a key role in the publicist’s art of argumentation in order to influence the audience. During this process, images conveyed by tropes and stylistic figures stimulate the imagination of readers and listeners, thus increasing the effectiveness of the expected impact.

The brilliantly educated Victor Hugo in every period of his life – in youth, maturity and old age – saturated his publicistic work with means of expression – lexical (literary tropes) and syntactic (stylistic figures). Among the tropes, this author mostly used comparison, epithet, metaphor, personification, personification, allegory, metonymy, synecdoche, hyperbole, litote, periphrasis, irony, sarcasm. Stylistic figures include question and answer, rhetorical question, rhetorical exclamation (rhetorical exclamation), amplification, allusion, anaphora, epiphora, epanaphora, antithesis, oxymoron (oxymoron), parcellation, polysyndeton, gradation, lexical repetition, paradox. This made his manner of writing, as well as oral speech bright, expressive and effective, which is indirectly evidenced by the popularity of the writer and publicist in the French society of that time, the large editions of his individual book editions and «feuilleton novels» in newspapers, translations of his works into foreign languages.
Small Business Ownership in Black-majority Indianapolis Neighborhoods
Authors: Hji-Avgoustis Sotiris , Wang Suosheng
Published: November 2024

The study explores the demographic characteristics of small business entrepreneurs, including their motivation to become entrepreneurs in Black-majority neighborhoods and the characteristics of their businesses.  The study also attempts to address barriers that may inhibit their success.  The research setting is fourteen Black-majority neighborhoods in Indianapolis whose demographic indicators, such as median household income and poverty rates, trail other neighborhoods in the city.
Segmentation of Local Agricultural Festivals for Collaborative Marketing
Authors: Choo Hyungsuk
Published: November 2024

This study aims to explore the heterogeneity of local agricultural festival attendees by adopting a collaborative marketing approach which enables cross-retention of festival attendees among multiple local agricultural festivals. Using the data collected from the on-site survey at three local agricultural festivals, this study conducted the cluster analysis. Findings indicate the viability of variety seeking and festival loyalty as segmentation criteria involving multiple local agricultural festivals together and suggested four clusters, Multi festival goers, One festival goers, Other festival goers, and No returners. Each cluster demonstrates discrete behavioral and geographic characteristics about their local agricultural festival experience.
Review of The Shakespeare User: Critical and Creative Appropriations in a Networked Culture, edited by Valerie M. Fazel and Louise Geddes Authors
Authors: Gilreath Philip
Published: November 2024

The Shakespeare User: Critical and Creative Appropriations in a Networked Culture by Valerie M. Fazel and Louise Geddes. 257 pp. ISBN 978-3-319-61015-3, ISBN 978-3-319-61014-6. $89.00 (ebook); $119.99 (hardcover). Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Playing with Shakespeare in Silent Hill 3 and Manhunt 2
Authors: Nae Andrei
Published: November 2024

This article analyses the manner in which two survival horror video games, Silent Hill 3 and Manhunt 2, remediate Shakespeare in their attempts to gain the legitimacy of art in the former case, or reject the association between video games and art in the latter case. Despite the radically different purposes behind the use of Shakespeare, the design of both games pays homage to a high-low culture distinction whereby Shakespeare’s status as a symbol of elite British culture is confirmed. Not only is Shakespeare’s canonical status reinforced, but the bard also benefits from these remediations by becoming accessible to a new audience, namely that of video game players. Because knowledge of Shakespeare can lead to a superior ludic or narrative experience of the games, familiarity with the plays is normalized. In this sense, Silent Hill 3 and Manhunt 2 serve the pedagogical function of ‘teaching’ Shakespeare to their players. In spite of these similarities, the two remediations feature a series of traits that undermine their opposing goals. Silent Hill 3’s remediation of Shakespeare is a materialist one that defies the Kantian aesthetics characterising traditional artistic adaptations of Shakespeare. On the other hand, Manhunt 2, which strives to reassert its opposition to art, features a more traditional use of Shakespeare that it employs The Tempest as a hypotext for its storyworld.
Review of Stratford Shakespeare Festival Behind the Scenes
Authors: Aune M. G.
Published: November 2024

Stratford Shakespeare Festival Behind the Scenes. Version 1.0. Apple iTunes Store. 7 December 2012. $4.99.
Shakespeare's Gamer Girls
Authors: Flaherty Jennifer
Published: November 2024

When Matthew Harrison and Michael Lutz gave a comprehensive survey of Hamlet videogames, they subtitled their essay “Actions that a Man Might Play” (2017, 23). The borrowed Hamlet quote inadvertently demonstrates an implicit gender bias—the assumption that the players (and therefore the playable characters) of these games are more likely to be male. While female characters have been the focus of hundreds of Shakespeare adaptations across different media (novels, plays, films, music, etc.), particularly since the rise of feminist theory and girlhood studies, this trend did not initially include video or tabletop gaming adaptations. Shakespeare games with playable female characters remained rare until 2014, the year of the GamerGate scandal, when five new games were announced: two videogame Hamlets with playable Ophelias, two card games featuring Juliet, and a board game with Juliet and Viola as playable character options. Using theories of procedural rhetoric to examine the gendered implications of mapping Shakespeare’s narratives onto rules-based games, this essay explores games that break the pattern established by previous games that automatically placed the player in the position of titular male characters such as Hamlet and Romeo. By allowing (or even requiring) players to take on the goals and perspectives of Shakespeare’s female characters, these new games channel the rhetorical potential of gameplay to challenge preconceived notions of agency in both Shakespeare and gaming.
Review of Shakespeare and Indian Cinemas: "Local Habitations"
Authors: Sharda Saksham
Published: November 2024

Shakespeare and Indian Cinemas: "Local Habitations," edited by Poonam Trivedi and Paromita Chakravarti. New York: Routledge, 2018. 344pp. ISBN-13: 9781138946927. $145.00 (hardback).
Richard Reborn: Neomedievalism as Performance in Dragon Age: Origins (2009)
Authors: Mahaffy Caitlin
Published: November 2024

In the first half of this essay, I suggest that Dragon Age: Origins presents similar neomedieval political maneuvering to that which appears in Shakespeare's plays; thereafter, as I transition into the second half of this article, I suggest that, in addition to being a work of neomedievalism that draws on Shakespeare's depictions of the Middle Ages, the game, due to its format, is ultimately also a form of neo-early modernism. As a roleplaying game, Dragon Age enables the player to, like an actor in an Elizabethan performance, engage with political intrigue in a neomedieval world that features echoes of Shakespeare's history plays'; these echoes invite consideration of which aspects of the bard's work remain relevant in the 21st century. Through analyzing this game, I ultimately suggest that roleplaying videogames with neomedieval content should be categorized as examples of both neo-early modernism and neomedievalism.
Review of Music in Shakespeare
Authors: Preston Leonard Kendra
Published: November 2024

Led by Christopher R. Wilson at the University of Hull, the Music in Shakespeare project catalogues a range of musical references in Shakespeare's plays and poems and offers a variety of reference materials.
Time Travel and the Return of the Author: Shakespeare in Love, "The Shakespeare Code," and Bill
Authors: Wardle Janice
Published: November 2024

In the latter part of the twentieth century, Roland Barthes's reader-orientated theory, "the death of the author," seemed to signal the end of biographical literary investigation. And yet by the end of the twentieth century, fueled in part by the rising wave of celebrity culture, a new strategy in relation to canonical texts emerged: the resurrection of the author via the biographical film. This paper examines the extent to which "time travel" via contemporary film to the early career of Shakespeare in the 1590s has been driven by a search for images of the playwright relevant to modern audiences, whether that be romantic bard or rock star hero. The texts considered here which explore versions of the author Shakespeare include John Madden's Shakespeare in Love (1998), the BBC's Doctor Who: "The Shakespeare Code" (2007), and Richard Bracewell's Bill (2015). The discussion investigates the significance of these filmic travels through time and place and, by linking them to literary tourism, examines how these ideas are utilized to create personal and national memories. It also shows how these representations of time and place, and the attempt to establish contemporary connections with audiences, engages with central questions in adaptation studies about the authenticity and fidelity of texts and performance.
Taking the Kissing Path: Making the Homoerotic Modern in Fixing Troilus and Cressida
Authors: Perkins Kristin
Published: November 2024

This paper analyzes the representation of Achilles and Patroclus as lovers in Fixing Troilus and Cressida written by Kirk Lynn and produced by the Rude Mechs. This production is part of a heritage of theatre-makers and scholars debating the nature of the relationship between Achilles and Patroclus. By exploring historical understanding of these characters' sexuality and relationship, this essay reveals the fluidity of sexual discourse from antiquity to the early modern period and to now. The opacity of the original text opens the possibility of queer otherness that the "fixed" sexuality in the new adaptation does not. Ultimately, while Fixing Troilus and Cressida aims at representational inclusivity, the adaptation presents a fixed sexuality that precludes more queer readings of the historical "other."
A Study of Shakespeare: An Instructive Game
Authors: Jensen Michael
Published: November 2024

This note examines card games that were popular in women's reading clubs in America.
"Because Survival is Insufficient": Sir Patrick Stewart's #ASonnetADay and the Role of Adaptation in a Pandemic
Authors: Gearhart Stephannie
Published: November 2024

This essay locates the popularity of Sir Patrick Stewart’s COVID-19-inspired Instagram series, #ASonnetADay, in its presentation of opposing forces. It begins by explaining how the tension between the actor Sir Patrick Stewart and the character he is well known for playing (Captain Picard) produces two irreconcilable Shakespeares in #ASonnetADay: one that is defanged and “universal” and another that chafes readers with 21st century sensibilities. The essay then focuses on the audience’s perception of Stewart as a celebrity in order to point out his presentation of himself as familiar, likable, and domestic, on the one hand, and as famous, privileged, and aloof, on the other, noting how this self-presentation echoes and buttresses the dual image of Shakespeare found in the series. Opposites such as these are unsurprisingly present in #ASonnetADay because contradictory characteristics are inherent in all adaptations; acknowledging one of these opposing pairs – repetition and difference – explains the appeal of #ASonnetADay and illuminates the role adaptations play in contexts such as ours, when survival proves to be insufficient.
Get Out and the Remediation of Othello's Sunken Place
Authors: I. Corredera Vanessa
Published: November 2024

As a result of director and writer Jordan Peele's remediation of the horror genre to create a racially polemic film, breakout horror-thriller Get Out (2017) has achieved critical and commercial success while substantially affecting how Americans think about and approach race. As stories about a black man amidst an all-white community who ultimately strangles his white female lover, Get Out and Shakespeare's Othello share obvious narrative overlaps. Othello, however, maintains a more tenuous status regarding race and its function within the storyline than does Get Out. Othello remains a play mired in questions about how or even whether it can be staged (or filmed) in a way that shakes off its legacy of vexed racial dynamics. Get Out does not suffer from such questioning; instead, it achieves the difficult feat of spurring multicultural audiences to root for the black Chris Washington (Daniel Kaluuya) as he successfully murders the Armitages, a neoliberal, upper-middle-class white family. Get Out's unexpected success, I argue, suggests a powerful framework for reorienting how we conceive of Othello's racial dynamics to imagine more ethically the play and its racial representation in the 21st century. Specifically, through its central concepts of the "coagula" and "the sunken place" — concepts that explain the visceral threats of whiteness upon black individuals — the film articulates a racial framework that places blame for Othello's extreme responses not on his blackness, but rather on the physiological and psychological violence enacted upon him by white supremacy. Thus, using Get Out as a framework for reconsidering Othello opens up a means of remediating the racial representation that continues to haunt Shakespeare's tragedy.
Founding Fathers: Patriotic Ceramics and Shakespeare in the United States Authors
Authors: A. Hopkins Helen
Published: November 2024

This essay examines an early nineteenth-century bowl from the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust's US collection to explore the ramifications of seeking and finding connections to Shakespeare in such an item. With no direct link to Shakespeare or his works, the bowl illustrates Christy Desmet's concept of accidental appropriation and reveals the ambivalent relationship between US independence and a reliance on the Old World as a source of refined cultural identity that endured for most of the nineteenth century. As this reflects on US annexation of Shakespeare as a symbol of refinement, Shakespeare's cultural capital is also recognised in its manner of arrival in the collection, and indeed, in the desire by SBT curators and researchers to 'find' Shakespeare within it.
"Our language is the forest": Landscapes of the Mother Tongue in David Greig's Dunsinane Authors
Authors: Vomero Santos Kathryn
Published: November 2024

Tracing early visits to and excavations of Dunsinane Hill in Perthshire, Scotland, this essay argues that Shakespeare and the overpowering legacy of his "Scottish play" have left an imprint that is both ecological and ideological. Situated within broader conversations about cultural heritage, literary tourism, colonialism, and nationalism, my analysis of Shakespeare's indelible mark on Dunsinane Hill -- as a place and an idea -- provides a theoretical and literal groundwork for understanding how Scottish playwright David Greig activates the territorial lexicon of appropriation in his 2010 play Dunsinane. For Greig, the act of appropriation is not just about speaking back to Shakespeare but about doing so on land that was never his and in a language that he never understood in the first place. I show how Greig concentrates the power of his speculative sequel in and around the figure of Gruach (the historical Lady Macbeth), who not only embodies the deeply gendered relationship between language and landscape but also reclaims that relationship in order to critique the longstanding and devastating colonial conflation of women's bodies, mother tongues, and the land itself.
Review of Shakespeare and the Players Authors
Authors: Borsuk Amy
Published: November 2024

Shakespeare and the Players is a digital archive of Emory University professor Dr. Harry Rusche's nearly one thousand postcard collection of late Victorian to Edwardian Shakespearean actors in England and the United States, ranging from c. 1880 to 1914.
Taking the Measure of One's Suppositions, One Step at a Time
Authors: Buccola Regina
Published: November 2024

One Step at a Time Like This, a Melbourne-based theater company, developed an astonishing interactive meditation on Measure for Measure for Chicago Shakespeare Theater's World's Stage Series in the fall of 2014. An immersive, ambulatory theater experience, Since I Suppose pushed audience participants to examine the complex sexual politics of Shakespeare's play, the city of Chicago, and their own personal moral identities through a variety of different lenses. Since I Suppose challenged its audience participants' assumptions of imperviousness to the corruption of a political aspirant like Angelo, the weakness of a political figure such as the Duke, or the myriad temptations of a sprawling city. In the manner of the best productions, One Step at a Time Like This produced an adaptation of Measure for Measure that left audience members with not merely a different understanding of the play, but of themselves. Diving deeply into a corrupt world of substitute political leaders, substitute sexual partners, and substitute decapitated criminals, Since I Suppose left its audience to contemplate the profundity of the most basic question of identity: Who are you?
We Are Not All Alone Unhappy
Authors: Manning Cat
Published: November 2024

“We Are Not All Alone Unhappy” is a short interactive narrative piece made in Twine which interrogates the idea of the Shakespearean happy ending. It asks players to create a pairing between two characters who received canonically unhappy endings in Shakespeare’s plays. I refer to it as a “Shakespearean sandbox” to convey the sense of plucking the characters from their particular textual grounding and placing them in an ambiguously modern world in which they can all interact. In doing so, it references the events of the plays; the characters still remember betrayal and murder, and have not (necessarily) forgiven those who wronged them. These characters carry their personalities and preoccupations into these meetings, and success or failure in a conversation is determined by (my judgment of) what might fulfill each character’s emotional arc. Failure text hints at what each character is looking for, and who might fulfill that; however, some hints are based upon my own imaginative reconstructions of events that do not happen in Shakespeare’s texts.
Finite element modeling of the influence of FRP techniques on the seismic behavior of an arch stone bridge of historical interest
Authors: Zekavati Mehdi
Published: November 2024

In this paper, a masonry bridge is simulated in order to assess both its structural and seismic vulnerability. Therefore, the present study aimed to approximately analyze the real behavior of Mikron Bridge structure. The modeling was conducted by combining the finite element method (FEM) and discrete element method (DEM) using the ABAQUS® software. By comparing the results of numerical and experimental modal analyses, the accuracy of simulation was verified. To simulate the seismic behavior of the Mikron Bridge, the component of Erzincan earthquake occurred in 1992 was used. The results extracted from the seismic analysis show that some parts of the bridge structure are damaged but not destroyed.
A Personal Prelature’s Legal Position According to the Documents Issued by Pope Francis from 2022-2023. Part II
Authors: Pietras Dawid
Published: November 2024

The legal status of the Personal Prelature of Opus Dei, which was established in 1982, has changed due to the documents issued by Pope Francis from 2022-2023. This was permitted by the apostolic constitution Praedicate Evangelium, the motu proprio Ad charisma tuendum, and the motu proprio modifying canons 295 and 296 of the 1983 Code of Canon Law. As a result, this Prelature lost its status as an ecclesiastical circumscription and hierarchical structure. It has been equated with a clerical public association of the faithful under the pontifical right. The Prelate lost his position as an Ordinary and became a Moderator with the faculties of an Ordinary. The lay faithful, who, together with the incardinated clergy, organically participated in this community through incorporation, ceased to be members of the Prelature in the strict sense. However, they can still cooperate with it on the basis of a canonical contract. These significant changes in the legal position of the Opus Dei are to be reflected in the Statutes, which are to then be approved by the Apostolic See.
Prawo do zrównoważonego rozwoju regionalnego w świetle adhortacji apostolskiej Laudate Deum
Authors: Szewczak Marcin
Published: November 2024

Współczesny rozwój społeczno-gospodarczy obejmuje zarówno kwestie ochrony środowiska, jak i nowe wyzwania technologiczne, co w sumie składa się na zrównoważony rozwój regionalny. Każdy człowiek ma prawo do życia w zgodzie z zasadą zrównoważonego rozwoju, z zachowaniem swojej godności i możliwości. Kościół katolicki od lat w swoim nauczaniu podkreśla ważność problematyki kryzysu ekologicznego i jego wpływu na gospodarkę.