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(Elle est disparue) A meditação da morte e o cuidado de si uma reflexão em dois atos
Authors: Lopes Stephan Cassiana
Published: December 2024

O presente ensaio se dá em dois atos que entrelaçam reflexivamente os desparecimentos de Heliana Conde, em 4 de março de 2024, e de Michel Foucault, em 25 de junho de 1984. Assim sendo, com Conde e a partir de Foucault, problematizo a importância da meditação da morte para a prática do cuidado de si, de modo a colocar em operação um procedimento surrealista de conversação com os desaparecidos que habitam o meu pensamento filosófico. No primeiro ato, indico o paradoxo do desaparecimento, que não pode ser concebido como um sumiço absoluto. Já no segundo ato, trago à tona um relato oral de dimensão histórica que torna manifesto o meu ponto de contato com a professora Heliana Conde, a saber, a filosofia de Foucault. Ao articular esses dois atos, busco evidenciar a dimensão não aceleracionista da conversação com os mortos – dimensão que nos dispõe à meditação da morte como prática do cuidado.
EU SURDO
Authors: Alves Cardoso Silvana
Published: December 2024

Ao escrever em português, muitos estudantes surdos, naturalmente, imprimem em seus registros características estruturais da sua língua natural – no Brasil, majoritariamente a Libras –, características estas que, em certa dimensão, diferem da estrutura linguística do português, o que faz com que, por conseguinte, tal escrita não seja plenamente aceita na sociedade. Uma dessas características diz respeito a não marcação sentencial dos verbos de cópula (ou verbos copulativos) – especificamente os verbos ser e estar –, também conhecidos, pela Gramática Tradicional (GT), como verbos de ligação. Na Língua Brasileira de Sinais (Libras), os verbos copulativos ser e estar, em geral, não são usados, emergindo, na estrutura de superfície, apenas o sujeito e o predicativo (FELIPE, 1998). Nesse sentido, o presente artigo intenta evidenciar a inexistência dos verbos copulares em Libras enquanto particularidade linguístico-estrutural da Libras naturalmente refletida nos textos escritos em português produzidos por estudantes surdos. Para tanto, apresenta discussão teórica apoiada em Felipe (1998), Oliveira (2020), Capovilla et al. (2019a, 2019b, 2019c), entre outros, e analisa redações escritas por estudantes surdos advindas de seleções do vestibular do curso de Letras/Libras da Universidade Federal do Piauí (UFPI). A partir disso, conclui que a não marcação da cópula apresenta motivações linguístico-estruturais claras: a relação entre os constituintes da sentença acontece por meio do contexto de sinalização, a partir de recursos como a apontação e a direção do olhar, os quais se encarregam de estabelecer o sentido das construções copulares, ainda que tais recursos não sejam transportados para a modalidade escrita, ocasionando, assim, uma escrita particular.
THE ASL
Authors: Pires Silva Jorge Adriano , Carolina Morais Ribeiro da Silva Carolina , Saraiva Pereira Josiney
Published: December 2024

Teaching English to Brazilian deaf students faces specific challenges, as English is their third language, followed by Portuguese and Brazilian Sign Language (Libras) as L2/L1, respectively. Traditional English classes emphasize oral production and comprehension; thus, personalized guidance that addresses the specific linguistic needs of deaf students is lacking in national educational documents. This study highlights the importance of New Literacy Studies, advocated by Street (1984, 2000) and Barton et al. (2000), which emphasize literacy practices in diverse social and cultural contexts, crucial to meeting the linguistic and communicative needs of minority groups. Incorporating sign language could increase deaf students’ motivation to acquire English as L3 through visual learning, language transfer, cultural connection, multimodal learning, and student engagement. Wauters and Knoors (2008) found that integrating sign language into English language instruction improved the comprehension, vocabulary acquisition, and overall language skills of deaf students. Our research explores whether American Sign Language (ASL) could be a motivational resource for these students. The study involved observing six lessons in two classes of a regular inclusive school with deaf students, collecting questionnaire responses, and analyzing discourse sequences provided in interviews. Following an intervention in the language laboratory of the Federal University of Pará (UFPA), where English classes were taught in Libras, interviews revealed that the combination of Libras, ASL, and English significantly increased students’ interest and motivation to learn English.
RETRATOS LITERÁRIOS DAS FAVELAS DO ZIMBÁBUE
Authors: Alves Araujo Gilberto
Published: December 2024

Este artigo pretende explorar representações literárias acerca da cidade, particularmente no domínio espacial da periferia, também chamada de township ou favela. Essa incursão se dará no âmbito de três contos da obra Dancing with Life: tales from the township (2008), do escritor zimbabuano Christopher Mlalazi. Como aporte teórico-metodológico, recorremos aos Estudos Culturais a partir dos conceitos de representação e cultura propostos por Stuart Hall (1997) e Du Gay (1997), dentre outros. O debate e análises empreendidas no decurso da exploração dos textos selecionados nos permitem apontar que a arquitetura e a cultura urbana na periferia de grandes cidades do Zimbábue, à semelhança de outros países no Sul Global como o Brasil, tanto conformam quanto fomentam a produção e vivência de sentimentos e experiências psicossociais hostis, sendo estas geralmente contrárias à dignidade, ao conforto e bem-estar social de seus habitantes. Ao mesmo tempo, as profundas assimetrias socioeconômicas, como constituintes da cultura de violência e da opressão socioemocional nas townships, encontra-se refletida também na construção material desses espaços urbanos. Trata-se de um movimento duplo em que a geo-construção da favela zimbabuana não só refrata as condições de seus moradores, mas também afeta sua psique, sua cultura, seus modos de organização e de existência.
INTRA-ACTING SPIRITUALITY/RELIGIOSITY IN LANGUAGE EDUCATION FOR MULTIPOLAR JUSTICE
Authors: Takaki Nara Hiroko , Silva Simone Batista da
Published: December 2024

Our aim is to present a preliminary study by means of a pedagogical practice on spirituality/religiosity, in Language classes at two Brazilian public universities. We argue that coloniality keeps on turning differences into homogeneous values in order to privilege the elite (Mignolo, 2015). It holds a qualitative and interpretive methodological orientation, bringing the multimodal construction of students and criticality. We assume that spirituality/religiosity can function as an intra-action device that makes and unmakes boundaries among humans and non-humans, culture and nature, science, ethics, and the social, to broaden language (Haraway, 2022, Barad, 2007). We partially conclude that identity reconstruction and pedagogical decisions on this bruised planet require attention to Afro-Brazilian and indigenous religions in language studies towards more sustainable becoming.
O PROFESSOR-LEITOR: PERFIL DE LEITURA DE PROFESSORES DE LÍNGUA INGLESA
Authors: Dall'Agnol Samira
Published: December 2024

Análise das práticas de leitura literária dos professores de língua inglesa no intuito de compreendê-las como experiências performáticas. A fundamentação teórica baseia-se em estudos de Solé (1998), Jouve (2002), Britto (2015), Eco (1991) e Petit (2009; 2019), dentre outros. A pesquisa compôs-se por um estudo descritivo das práticas de leitura literária, com vistas a traçar o perfil de leitura do grupo em foco, utilizando-se de um questionário online. Demonstra-se que o perfil do professor-leitor de língua inglesa caracteriza-se por professores licenciados em Letras, com menos de 10 anos de experiência docente, que atuam em escolas de idiomas e declaram proficiência na língua inglesa em nível C1, conforme o CEFR. Esse professor considera-se leitor já que lê pelo menos 5 livros por ano e realiza leituras literárias em inglês e em português, tendo lido seu último texto em inglês há dois meses e em português há um mês (tendo como referência a data de coleta de dados). O professor-leitor de língua inglesa cultiva práticas de leitura comentando sobre os livros lidos com amigos e colegas, bem como seleciona obras literárias por outros motivos alheios à profissão, muito embora considere que as leituras eletivas ampliam o entendimento do mundo e de sua atuação docente.
AVALIAÇÃO DA COMPREENSÃO LEITORA: CONTRIBUIÇÕES DA PESQUISA PARA O ENSINO
Authors: Gonçalves Macedo de Carvalho Margarete , De Souza Ana Cláudia
Published: December 2024

A compreensão leitora é um construto ao qual a ciência da leitura se dedica há décadas, visando desenvolver modelos explicativos dos fatores constitutivos desta complexa competência e a relação entre eles, bem como explicar os processos implicados e sua influência no desempenho leitor. Neste artigo, decorrente de estudo de doutorado voltado ao estabelecimento de parâmetros, critérios e atributos para o desenvolvimento de instrumento de avaliação da compreensão leitora (XXXXX, 2022), objetiva-se, em perspectiva translacional, delinear aspectos relativos à avaliação da compreensão leitora na escola, partindo dos resultados do estudo de tese cujo alvo foi a avaliação da compreensão leitora em pesquisas. Trata-se de estudo teórico bibliográfico, focado nos modelos, teorias e perspectivas de leitura aos quais a Psicolinguística recorre ao se aplicar em investigações dedicadas à aprendizagem e aos processos de leitura. Como resultado, indicamos alguns parâmetros essenciais plausíveis às avaliações escolares sobre aspectos da compreensão leitora para que elas possam ser consideradas confiáveis e relativamente precisas quanto ao que avaliam, quais sejam: fundamentação epistemológico-teórica coerente com a maneira como a leitura é abordada no contexto avaliado; definição do foco da avaliação com indicação da dimensão e da habilidade de compreensão de que trata a avaliação; definição do método de avaliação, com seleção ou elaboração de instrumento(s) de testagem; seleção/adaptação/criação de texto(s) base(s) a partir do(s) qual(is) os itens de testagem são elaborados; criação de rubrica para os itens do teste e definição de sistema de correção e interpretação dos resultados; garantia de acessibilidade incluindo toda a população testada.
ENTRE LINGUAGENS: INTERMIDIALIDADE E A CONSTRUÇÃO DE SENTIDO EM A INVENÇÃO DE HUGO CABRET
Authors: Moreira Simone Maria Bacellar , Duarte Elaine Cristina Carvalho
Published: December 2024

O presente texto se propõe a analisar o livro A invenção de Hugo Cabret, de Brian Selznick, a partir da teoria da intermidialidade. O livro, que é composto de imagens e de texto alfabético, combina dois tipos de linguagem que dão significado à narrativa. De um modo não convencional, a história é contada a partir das imagens e das palavras, sem que uma das linguagens se sobreponha a outra, em uma narrativa que se aproxima da cinematografia. Ao contrário dos textos infantis recorrentes, em que as imagens apenas exemplificam o texto escrito, os desenhos da obra de Selznick não apenas ilustram a narrativa, como é parte integrante dela, pois a história só é passível de significação através das ilustrações e do texto escrito. As imagens emergem no texto em um efeito de movimento, aludindo à narrativa cinematográfica, importante elemento de significação do livro. A partir desse contexto, a obra será analisada sob a ótica da intermidialidade, teoria proposta por Claus Clüver, partindo do pressuposto de que a leitura não se limita apenas ao texto alfabético, como afirma Maria Helena Martins, mas sim de propostas multissensoriais.
EFEITO DO USO DA ARGILA EXPANDIDA COMO AGREGADO GRAÚDO PARA PRODUÇÃO DE CONCRETO LEVE
Authors: Polesello Eduardo , Leite Pozzoco Igor
Published: December 2024

O concreto leve destaca-se como alternativa para situações em que seja necessário a busca por um material de menor densidade em relação ao concreto convencional. A utilização desse tipo de material se justifica, principalmente, pela sua principal característica, a diminuição da massa específica, que é de aproximadamente 1800 kg/m³, enquanto no concreto convencional aproxima-se de 2400 kg/m³. No entanto, é importante destacar que o concreto leve apresenta uma redução na resistência mecânica quando comparado ao concreto convencional, sendo sua utilização, geralmente, especificada para vedações e enchimentos, por exemplo. Diante destes aspectos, este estudo pretende avaliar o comportamento do concreto leve considerando o uso de diâmetros de grãos e percentuais da argila expandida, em substituição ao agregado basáltico, com posterior comparação ao desempenho do concreto convencional. O estudo analisou a resistência à compressão, absorção de água e densidade de massa dos concretos produzidos. Os resultados mostraram que a substituição do agregado graúdo basáltico pelo agregado graúdo leve impacta diretamente na diminuição da massa específica e resistência à compressão, além de um aumento da absorção de água por capilaridade. Ao se substituir totalmente o agregado basáltico pela argila expandida, de composição granulométrica semelhante, registrou-se uma redução da densidade de 30%, diminuição da resistência à compressão de 24% e aumento da absorção de água por capilaridade de 111%.
MEMÓRIA, HISTÓRIAS DE VIDA E ENSINO DE HISTÓRIA
Authors: De Almeida Ignatiuk Wanderley Sonia Maria , Alvarenga Sena Venera Raquel
Published: December 2024

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The relationship between the quality of oncology nursing care and the resiliency and hope of patients with cancer: a cross-sectional study
Authors: Sedri Nadia , Zakeri Mohammad Ali , Sheykhasadi Hakimeh , Shamsi Ala , Akbari Hosna , Hejazi Mostafa , Tavan Asghar
Published: December 2024

Background:

Patients with cancer require emotional support in addition to specialised medical treatments for their physical ailments. The quality of nursing care, resilience and hope can influence a person's cancer trajectory, and understanding these factors and their relationship can be influential in improving the process for these patients.

Aim:

This study examined the relationship between the quality of oncology nursing care and resilience and hope in patients with cancer.

Methods:

The present study is a descriptive analytics study conducted on 160 patients with cancer from April–August 2023. The data collection tools included four questionnaires: a demographic information questionnaire, the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RSC), the Snyder Hope Scale, and the Oncology Nursing Care Quality Scale. The data were analysed using SPSS version 22 statistical software.

Results:

In examining the relationship between demographic ‘variables’ and ‘resilience’, marital status and place of residence had statistically significant correlations (P<0.05). Place of residence, education level, job and first cancer treatment (P=0.004) had statistically significant correlations with hope (P<0.05). There was no statistically significant relationship between the quality of oncology nursing (QON) and its domain with two variables: ‘resilience’ (P=0.76) and ‘hope’ (P=0.37). However, a statistically significant relationship existed between the variables ‘resilience’ and ‘hope’ (P<0.001). The linear regression model results showed that among the entered demographic variables, only the variable ‘hope’ predicted resilience (P<0.001; R=27%). Additionally, the ‘resilience’ variables (P<0.001) and the ‘first cancer treated’ variable (P=0.001; R=34%) were predictors of ‘hope’.

Conclusion:

Given the interrelationship between ‘resilience’ and ‘hope’ for patients with cancer, it is necessary to focus on the factors that impact these qualities. In addition, paying attention to the concept of resilience can improve the level of hope in patients with cancer. Based on the results, it is recommended that interventions to increase QON in patients with cancer be planned and implemented.
ESTUDANTES MULHERES NOS CURSOS TÉCNICOS DOS INSTITUTOS FEDERAIS: A PRODUÇÃO CIENTÍFICA DA PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO BRASILEIRA (2012-2022)
Authors: Guerra de Barros Joyce Karoline , De Lima Andreza Maria
Published: December 2024

A desigualdade no acesso à educação, em razão do gênero, colaborou para afastar mulheres de áreas da Educação Profissional e Tecnológica (EPT). Neste artigo, analisamos a produção científica da Pós-Graduação brasileira sobre mulheres nos cursos técnicos dos Institutos Federais (IFs) de 2012 a 2022. Trata-se de um estudo do tipo “Estado do Conhecimento”, de natureza qualitativa e caráter exploratório. Constituíram-se referenciais teóricos autores como Frigotto (2018) e Kovaleski et al. (2013). As fontes pesquisadas foram o Catálogo de Teses e Dissertações da Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) e o Observatório do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação Profissional e Tecnológica (ProfEPT). Para a análise, utilizamos a Técnica de Análise de Conteúdo Categorial. Localizamos dez trabalhos. Os resultados das produções demonstraram que as relações de gênero impactam negativamente o acesso e a permanência das mulheres em áreas predominantemente masculinas. Ressaltamos a necessidade de mais pesquisas sobre o tema.
Representing Iceland on the UN Security Council: Does Nordic membership matter?
Authors: Þorvaldsdóttir Svanhildur
Published: December 2024

Are Iceland’s interests represented on the UN Security Council, even when Iceland is not a member? This paper explores two questions: whether the Nordics share cohesive foreign policy preferences, and whether these shared preferences translate into substantive representation on the UN Security Council. Using ideal points derived from UN General Assembly voting patterns, the study systematically compares the alignment of Nordic preferences with Iceland’s. The analysis finds that while Nordic countries consistently align in their foreign policy preferences, their ability to advance shared goals during Security Council membership is limited. These findings suggest that substantive representation is constrained, but that does not preclude the possibility that Iceland may still benefit from the symbolic and descriptive representation afforded by Nordic involvement. The study contributes to broader debates on small-state collaboration and the complexities of achieving tangible policy outcomes within multilateral institutions.
Adoption's Need for a "Villainous Other": Folklore, Fictions, and Northern Ireland's Jurisliteratures of Redress
Authors: Diver Alice
Published: December 2024

abstract: Certain legal concepts relevant to adoption (such as "legitimate" birth status, relatedness, and the sanctity of family life) seem prone to being influenced by society's lingering fears of a villainous Other. This figure may appear as abandoned child or harmful parent, or indeed as some faceless authority figure or nonhuman actor tasked with decision-making. The systems themselves can be deemed wicked and villainous in the sense that they can become immune to reform: churches, governments and judiciaries can perpetuate some of the darkest folkloric traditions of adoption or abandonment. Decision-makers may inhabit shadowy margins, illegally falsifying or redacting birth records, enforcing vetoes on information or contact, and silencing survivors and victims. This may occur even where redress mechanisms are slowly coming into being. As with folklore, literary fiction, and dystopian fables, cycles of secrecy, shame, stigma, and inequality are difficult to overcome. Northern Ireland's current situation merits discussion: its public consultation on the (apparent) need for truth recovery—and redress—for the victims and survivors of mother and baby institutions has recently concluded but has done little to comfort those who seek meaningful law reforms or recognition of rights violations, past or present.
The Bel(E)Us Brothers: Egypt as a Site of Civil Strife in Statius’s Thebaid 6
Authors: Vecchio Julene Abad Del
Published: December 2024

Abstract: My article is divided into three sections. The first surveys the extant literary evidence for the details of the story of Danaus and Aegyptus. I then examine its importance for Statius’s narrative and unearth the outline of Egypt as a mythical landscape via the significant patronymic Statius uses ( Belides ) in the parade of ancestors—to be read in close connection with the foundational stories of Argos. In the third section, finally, I consider Aegyptus’s portrayal in the hope of amending scholarly views of his presumed innocence by offering a link to Silvae 1.1 and Domitian’s countenance on his equestrian statue in the Forum as seen through Statius’s eyes. In sum, this article reflects on Statius’s renewal of the overdetermined Labdacid mythic tradition, with the grounding of its Egyptian background. This article also contributes to historicising trends in the study of the Thebaid , as well as probing the diegetic role of ekphrasis in the poem and the ekphrasis’ possible, distilled reverberations in the cultural milieu of Domitianic Rome.
Rousseau’s British Readers and the Eloisa Effect
Authors: Litt Veronica
Published: December 2024

Abstract: Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s controversial interclass romance Julie, ou La Nouvelle Héloïse (1761) and its English translation Eloisa: Or, A Series of Original Letters (1761) were noteworthy commercial successes in mid-eighteenth-century Britain and Ireland. By examining commentary by the novel’s first wave of British and Irish readers from 1760–1785, this article recovers how a publishing phenomenon provoked a diversity of reading responses and stoked debates regarding feminine propriety, social rank, and romantic autonomy. Alongside major figures in eighteenth-century literature and culture such as James Beattie, Frances Burney, Thomas Gray, Anna Seward, and Horace Walpole, two key clusters of readers are considered. The article contends that men of the middle ranks (including James Boswell, Richard Hurd, and William Warburton) were validated by the central romance, wherein an aristocratic woman recognizes the intellectual merit of an untitled suitor, while women across social ranks (Sarah Hurst, the Ladies of Llangollen) interpreted the text as supporting womens’ romantic autonomy.
Performing Bookishness on the Second Screen: Readers, Authors, and Agency in the Online T Magazine Book Club
Authors: Harrington-Lueker Donna
Published: December 2024

Abstract: Research on the social practices of book clubs and shared reading is both well established and on-going, with researchers increasingly turning to the ways in which the affordances of social media and digital cultures both reinforce and complicate our understanding of reading practices. This article examines the New York Times ’s T Magazine Book Club, a mix of literary events, elite branding, and online conversation launched in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using a combination of online affordances—from YouTube videos and Twitter threads to the so-called “second screen” of live-chat—and sponsored by the iconic fashion brand the House of Chanel, the T Book Club offers insights into what Simone Murray and others have termed the digital literary sphere, the most important of which center on the shifting sands of curation and authority in contemporary book culture and on the uniquely performative nature of bookishness in a pandemic-driven online community of readers. With its incorporation of the free-wheeling and ephemeral world of live chat—where conversations unroll in fits and starts independent of the discourse on the main screen—the T Book Club bears witness to the messiness of reading and the continued resilience and agency of readers.
Comics in the Classroom: Amplifying American Indian Voices and Visibility
Authors: Lewis Courtney
Published: December 2024

ABSTRACT: In the spring of 2022, I achieved a longtime aspiration of teaching a course solely focused on American Indian-produced comics and graphic novels. The purpose of this course was to (1) illustrate the importance of comics and, consequently, the importance of the American Indian representations they create; (2) facilitate knowledge of American Indian federal policy and current topics of importance in Indian Country; and (3) elevate American Indian voices in an accessible, multimedia format. The course was an immediate success in attracting students and in fulfi lling the above goals. However, it was not until spring 2023, after moving to Duke University, which has a larger Indigenous student population, that the course truly began its work of refl ecting and inspiring Indigenous student voices and facilitating conversations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous students. By diving deeply into comics not just as entertainment but also as a form of Indigenous resistance, knowledge transmission, and futurisms—especially in the wake of regularly occurring threats of termination and genocide—students were able to more quickly understand the stakes of these discussions. In addition, the fi nal project—an “unessay” in which students choose the form of their project—created a platform for Indigenous students to showcase their own creativity through submissions such as beading, Indigenous language translations, and screenwriting. In this article, I refl ect on my experiences of teaching this course; student responses to the course; and, fi nally, the specifi c ways that comics and graphic novels enable the inspiring of Indigenous students as well as facilitate the education of and dialogue between Indigenous and non-Indigenous students regarding the critical issues American Indians are addressing today.
Framing, Reframing, and Deframing: Disclosure in Indigenous Comics
Authors: McCall Sophie
Published: December 2024

ABSTRACT: This article demonstrates how Indigenous comic creators disrupt or reclaim the conventions of comics in four works: The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book by Gord Hill (Kwakwaka’wakw), 7 Generations: A Plains Cree Saga by David Alexander Robertson (Cree), Deer Woman: A Vignette by Elizabeth LaPensée (Anishinaabe, Métis), and Dakwäkãda Warriors by Cole Pauls (Tahltan). These comics use innovative paneling to expose silence and denial in settler-colonial societies, to disrupt linear concepts of time, and to assert Indigenous presence expansively across settler-colonial borders. American comic book theorist Scott McCloud, author of several celebrated books on the “vocabulary of comics,” argues that comics create a “dance of the visible and invisible” in the production of “closure” across panels (McCloud 92). In the context of reading comics, McCloud defines closure as “observing the parts but perceiving the whole,” which he further glosses as the reader’s act of silently filling in the gaps between panels, allowing that reader to comprehend the action even between two seemingly unrelated panels. However, without critical self-awareness, a reader risks imposing closure in ways that maintain settler-colonial norms. The comic books that I discuss mobilize strategies of dis closure to contest a reader’s assumptions about the production of meaning across panels. I argue that disclosure interrupts readers’ unconscious mobilization of established narratives that invisibly guide interpretation, and turns the mirror back on the readers themselves. These comic books’ insurgent acts of disclosure challenge settler-colonial impositions of closure and powerfully activate narratives of Indigenous resistance, cultural continuance, empowerment, and resurgence.
"Crazy He Calls Me": Using the Work of Charles Mingus to Read the Overlap of Fantasy and Reality in Gayl Jones's Eva's Man
Authors: Moore Emily Jane
Published: December 2024

Abstract: This essay uses the literary and musical output of the double bassist and bandleader Charles Mingus to read the overlap of fantasy and reality in Gayl Jones's Eva's Man . This essay suggests that Mingus's work evinces the same blurring of boundaries and understands this overlap to be a blues concept, an instance of what Jones describes as "the 'both/and' one finds in African American music, rather than an 'either/or' of the West." The essay finds the overlap between fantasy and reality is particularly relevant to the blues because they express the link manufactured and precipitated by white supremacy between blackness and madness. Finally, the essay contends that Jones and Mingus's blues express a similar iteration of Black madness that attempts to resist oppressive power structures and systems of abuse (particularly antiblack psychiatry) and to cultivate a democratic community that makes ethical demands of its members
Nothing to See Here: Containing Eva's Man
Authors: Soros Erin
Published: December 2024

Abstract: Braiding the author's experiences of psychiatric incarceration together with a lyrical meditation on Gayl Jones's Eva's Man , this creative-critical essay asks us to consider how the location of our reading affects our experience of a book. She dwells on the rooms of Eva's Man and tells of her own apartments and her own experiences of sexual and police violation inside and outside them. The essay weaves reflections on carcerality together with recollections about Hogan's Alley, Vancouver's historic Black neighborhood that was destroyed so that the city could build a viaduct to the suburbs. The essay considers the intimacies and complicities of white people in relation to this location, ultimately marking the author's own interpretations as implicated in the kinds of displacements she decries.
"Surrender"
Authors: Wilkinson Crystal , Gumbs Alexis Pauline , Villegas Sydney R.
Published: December 2024

Abstract: Crystal Wilkinson and Alexis Pauline Gumbs explore Gayl Jones's impact on creative writing practice in this abridged keynote conversation, transcribed by Sydney R. Villegas. Together they explore the ways the creative, the critical, and the political blend together in the author's work while they also challenge listeners to take up Jones's "unflinching" methods. Their dialogue traverses a range of topics including the importance of oral storytelling as a literary tool, the transformation and extension of the first-person perspective through the practice of active listening in daily life, and the reclamation of space, breath, and narrative for Black women. Ultimately, the conversation invites "surrender to the flow of Black women's genius," as Gumbs states, by making and reclaiming space to explore Black women's experiences in their entirety with room for repetition, layering, and breath.
All Those Women in One Woman: Silent Stories and Gender Possibility in Gayl Jones's Palmares
Authors: Firedancing Calen
Published: December 2024

Abstract: In Palmares , Gayl Jones returns to formulations of silence and gender in a spiritual coming-of-age story that demands an expansion of scholarship on these recurring themes in her novels. Almeyda, another silent protagonist in Jones's oeuvre, becomes a woman while both her enslavement and fugitivity bring her across Brazilian landscapes to its largest quilombo . This paper examines two fugitive disguises in the novel that stage the complex links between Almeyda's silence, her gendered coming of age, and her diasporic storytelling. The framework of "silent stories" aims to explore the novel's productive paradox of silence alongside encounters with queer gender and sexuality that mark Almeyda's coming of age. As Almeyda becomes a woman, or perhaps many women, her stories embody gender possibility and paint silence as more than a restitutive and resistant strategy for those in the diaspora, but rather as a spiritual necessity.
The impact of migration on state-building and national identity
Authors: Sukhodolska Anastasiia , Kulinich Oleg , Derevianko Artem , Mokhonchuk Bohdan , Makovetska Nelia
Published: December 2024

Abstract: Global migration, which became widespread in the second half of the twentieth century, has become not only an important factor in social transformations but has also caused significant changes in the ethno-national context. The dynamic nature of contemporary migration flows requires constant study of changes in the mechanisms and strategies of national identification and state formation. Thus, the urgency of the problem, as well as the insufficient theoretical and practical development, determined the relevance of conducting a study in this area. The study used systematic analysis, analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction, empirical approaches (document analysis, content analysis, and observation), modeling and deconstruction. The study aims to examine how migration affects national identity and state institutions, accounting for opportunities and obstacles for state-building initiatives.
Post-Pandemic Pedagogy: Multimodal Tools in French Instruction
Authors: Zwanziger Elizabeth
Published: December 2024

ABSTRACT: The challenging periods of emergency remote teaching, and face-to-face teaching with face coverings, forced educators to rethink and revamp pedagogical tools and techniques, many of which endure in teaching today. Multimodal tools such as collaborative posting boards increased student-to-student interaction and offered more teacher feedback during virtual learning. Audio and visual flashcards provided auditory and visual speech cues that were lacking while teachers wore masks. Although some uses of these tools may have shifted since the pandemic, they remain intact as part of current pedagogy in today’s French classroom. Abstract: Les périodes difficiles d’enseignement à distance d’urgence et d’enseignement en présentiel avec le visage masqué ont contraint les enseignants à repenser des outils et des techniques pédagogiques. Les tableaux d’affichage collaboratifs ont facilité une interaction accrue entre les élèves et permis une rétroaction continue de la part des enseignants lors de l’apprentissage virtuel. Les cartes mémoire audio et visuelles ont fourni les indices qui faisaient défaut lorsque les enseignants portaient des masques. Bien que certaines utilisations de ces outils aient pu évoluer depuis la pandémie, elles restent essentielles à la pédagogie actuelle dans la classe de langue française.
Reducing measurement time for intraocular lens focus using two different approaches with a USAF test setup
Authors: Mirsalehi Maziar , langenbucher Achim
Published: December 2024

The United States Air Force (USAF) test target is utilised to assess the sharpness of images generated by intraocular lenses (IOLs). In this paper, we compare two techniques for finding the best focus of an IOL: the quadratic fit method and the fminunc optimisation function. Results show that the quadratic fit method provided greater accuracy in measuring sharpness. Also, it proved to be more efficient, completing the process faster than fminunc. This study highlights the advantages of using quadratic fit for finding the best focus of an IOL, offering both improved precision and speed in evaluating IOL performance in clinical applications.
Therapeutic efficacy and safety of botulinum toxin A injection in plantar fasciitis: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Authors: Li Qian , Zhang Jing , Sun Jie , Gao Chengfei , Zhao Jing
Published: December 2024

Objective

The purpose of this meta-analysis was to evaluate the therapeutic efficacy and safety of botulinum toxin A (BTA) injections for treatment of plantar fasciitis (PF).

Methods

This review adhered to the PRISMA guidelines, conducting a comprehensive search of the PubMed, Web of Science, EMBASE, and Cochrane Library databases for eligible studies from their inception to December 30 2023. The inclusion criteria were limited to randomized controlled trials (RCTs) comparing BTA injections with control interventions in terms of pain reduction, functional improvement, or the occurrence of adverse events in treating patients with PF were extracted for meta-analysis. Relevant data were extracted using an electronic spreadsheet and analyzed with Stata 16.0 software. The quality of included studies was assessed using the Cochrane Collaboration’s tool.

Results

A total of 655 studies were retrieved and subsequently screened. Seven RCTs, comprising 305 participants, met the eligibility criteria and were included in the meta-analysis. The pooled results indicated that BTA injections led to significant pain reduction only at 1-month posttreatment (SMD = -1.72, 95% CI [-3.10, -0.34], p = 0.01]) and sustained functional improvement over twelve months (SMD = 25.10, 95% CI [9.67, 40.53], p = 0.001) compared to the control group. There was no significant difference in the occurrence of adverse events between the BTA and control interventions (OR = 0.16, 95% CI [-1.00, 1.32], p = 0.79).

Conclusion

This meta-analysis suggested that BTA injection could be an effective and safe therapeutic strategy for plantar fasciitis. However, further larger-scale, rigorously designed RCTs are needed to validate these findings and determine the optimal injection dosage and site for BTA in the treatment of plantar fasciitis.
Studies on the hysteresis of trunk muscles—Muscular specificities must be taken into account
Authors: Anders Christoph , Rosenow Leon
Published: December 2024

Hysteresis refers to a physical phenomenon in which the response or state of a system depends on both the input variable and its history. Hysteresis phenomena are also observed in biological systems and have been described for the sensorimotor system. The aim of the present study was to determine whether hysteresis phenomena can also be detected in trunk muscles during isometric load-varying situations. To this end, 40 healthy individuals (19 women) were subjected to isometric tests, where the applied load was systematically altered by complete rotations of the entire body in the Earth’s gravitational field. The study was conducted with 25%, 50%, and 75% of the upper body weight. Additionally, we varied the starting point (forward tilt and backward tilt) and the direction of rotation. The activity of a total of six trunk muscles was recorded using surface EMG (sEMG). The sEMG amplitudes were compared between the phases of increasing and decreasing load levels for each test situation. Hysteresis behavior was observed in all examined muscles, with the movement half-phase with increasing load showing higher amplitudes than the half-phase with decreasing load. However, this was consistently verifiable only for the multifidus muscle. For the abdominal muscles, the longissimus, and the iliocostalis muscle, the occurrence of hysteresis depended on the starting position: it could only be demonstrated if the starting point was chosen to correspond with the muscles’ main force direction. Thus, only the multifidus muscle exhibits a situation-independent hysteresis, whereas all other examined trunk muscles only show this phenomenon if subjected to load already at a loading situation. This indicates a physiologically determined functional weakness for load impacts on primarily unloaded muscles, posing a potential injury risk.
El engagement de La Nación y Clarín en Facebook
Authors: Raimondo Anselmino Natalia , Cardoso Ana Laura , Rostagno José
Published: December 2024

En este artículo se analiza el engagement obtenido (durante el período 2010-2017) por las cuentas oficiales que poseen en Facebook los dos principales referentes de la prensa de circulación diaria en la Argentina con presencia tanto en papel como online: Clarín y La Nación. Dichos resultados son parte y colofón de una investigación interdisciplinaria (basada en una estrategia de combinación metodológica denominada como semiodata) que se propuso conocer las modalidades discursivas que asumen estos medios en sus fanpages, el tipo de vínculo que le proponen allí a su público, y el modo en que ello varía a lo largo del tiempo.
Argentinako diasporako euskal prentsaren hastapenak eta garapena: Laurak Bat (1878-1891), La Baskonia (1893-1943) eta Irrintzi (1903-1923)
Authors: Zelaia Bolinaga Kepa
Published: December 2024

Ikerketa honek Argentinako diasporako euskal prentsaren sorrera eta garapena aztertzen ditu,  XIX. mende bukaeran hasi eta Espainiako Gerra Zibila arteko garaian sakonduz. Horretarako, Laurak Bat (1878-1891), La Baskonia (1893-1943) eta Irrintzi (1903-1923) aldizkariak aztertzen ditu lanak eduki-analisiaren bidez. Aldizkari mota ezberdinak (instituzionala, kultural-intelektuala eta politikoa) argitaratu ziren testuinguruan kokatu dira, diasporako komunitatearen zein beharri erantzuten zioten azaldu da, eta landu zuten diskurtsoa ere aztertu da.
Los fitinfluencers y su repercusión en la percepción y valoración corporal en jóvenes y en el desarrollo de la vigorexia masculina
Authors: Koralsky Vatiu Nicolas
Published: December 2024

Este estudio aborda la manera en la que tres influencers de fitness y desarrollo personal promueven modos de incrementar la testosterona de manera natural en sus canales de YouTube. Se profundiza en cómo los fitinfluencers o fitfluencers buscan transformar los estilos de vida de la audiencia desde la producción de la hormona. Para hacerlo se utiliza el análisis cualitativo de contenido examinando las diversas fórmulas o recomendaciones que presentan en sus videos para entrenar la testosterona. Los resultados indican que, para incentivar el incremento de testosterona, en dos de los tres casos estudiados, se apela a representaciones negativas estereotípicas de la masculinidad.
“Si no enseño mi cuerpo ahora, ¿cuándo lo voy a hacer?” Corporalidad y cosificación a través de las influencers en Instagram
Authors: Cuenca Orellana Nerea , Dueñas Mohedas Sonia , Martínez Pérez Natalia
Published: December 2024

Este estudio examina el uso de Instagram y su impacto en la formación de la imagen corporal en adolescentes femeninas. Para ello, se exploran las representaciones y discursos de género promovidos por la plataforma para identificar las estrategias, tanto visuales como lingüísticas, empleadas por los influencers más destacados. Mediante un análisis estructural-semiológico de los cuatro perfiles de Instagram más seguidos en España por la Generación Z, el estudio revela cómo los estereotipos y roles de género son presentados, y reflexiona sobre las implicaciones para la prevención de la cosificación y auto-cosificación.
Verse bien > sentirse bien. Impacto de las colaboraciones entre marcas e influencers sobre el culto al cuerpo para adolescentes
Authors: Zozaya-Durazo Luisa , Yáñez-Galdames María Jesús
Published: December 2024

Los influencers se han convertido en un grupo de interés clave para las empresas y la consecución de sus objetivos. La combinación de funciones que desempeñan, su amplio alcance e influencia, son algunos de los motivos que explican su creciente integración en las estrategias de comunicación de las marcas. El artículo estudia el impacto de estas colaboraciones estratégicas mediante la percepción que aportan 55 adolescentes en grupos focales sobre los influencers que realizan publicidad sobre el culto al cuerpo. A partir de un enfoque cualitativo se realizaron grupos focales en España. Los resultados dejan ver la relevancia social por encima del beneficio a la salud física y mental que estos contenidos tienen para los adolescentes.
ENTRE FLUXOS COMUNICATIVOS E SISTEMAS DISCURSIVOS
Authors: Vieira de Melo José Florentino
Published: December 2024

Objetivo: Este ensaio teórico explora as abordagens da Comunicação Constitutiva das Organizações (CCO) e da Análise Sociológica dos Sistemas Discursivos (ASD), investigando como cada uma delas contribui para a compreensão da comunicação como elemento formador e transformador das organizações. A análise discute as diferentes camadas teóricas e epistemológicas dessas abordagens, destacando a ASD como uma ferramenta para investigar relações de poder, identidade e cultura nas práticas discursivas organizacionais.
Metodologia: Com base nas perspectivas epistemológicas oriundas da Virada Linguístico-Pragmática, o estudo oferece uma análise teórica, enfatizando a diversidade das abordagens CCO e ASD e como elas podem se complementar ao iluminar aspectos distintos do discurso e da comunicação organizacional.
Resultados: As discussões revelam que tanto a CCO quanto a ASD fornecem perspectivas valiosas para a compreensão da comunicação organizacional. A CCO examina as organizações como formadas a partir da atividade comunicativa, enquanto ASD permite um exame aprofundado das camadas simbólicas e relacionais dos discursos, evidenciando como as práticas comunicativas moldam e são moldadas pelas estruturas organizacionais.
Implicações teóricas e práticas: Este ensaio contribui para os Estudos Organizacionais ao expandir a análise das organizações como fenômenos constituídos discursivamente. Ao propor uma perspectiva reflexiva e multifacetada, o estudo convida pesquisadores a explorar a interação entre comunicação e poder em diferentes contextos organizacionais.
Originalidade: Ao integrar a ASD no estudo da comunicação organizacional, o artigo propõe um enfoque teórico original que incentiva o desenvolvimento de novas perguntas e a continuidade do debate crítico, ampliando os caminhos de investigação em fenômenos comunicativos no ambiente organizacional.
Liberation Theology and Praxis in Contemporary Latin America: As it Was in the Beginning?
Authors: H.D. Geraghty Niall
Published: December 2024

This interdisciplinary volume brings together approaches from history, theology, cultural studies, architecture, sociology, and anthropology to reevaluate the legacy and significance of liberation theology in Latin America.

Liberation theology was born in the 1960s at a time of Church renewal and socio-economic ferment, as many sought radical solutions to the perceived exhaustion of developmentalist projects and the institutionalised violence of capitalism and dependency. By focussing on praxis – the lived experiences, spiritual, and embodied practices of those engaged in social action – the book challenges the assumption that liberation theology had reached its twilight by the late 1970s. Indeed, it demonstrates that liberationist Christianity was more diverse and internally conflicted, more widely resonant outside ecclesial confines, and more interconnected over time, than often allowed.

The chapters provide new perspectives on liberationist engagements with, and influence on, ecclesiology, Participatory Action Research, architecture and urbanism, feminism, human rights, ecofeminist political theology, and more, from the 1960s to the present moment in Latin America. Drawing these threads together, the book invites us to reconsider liberation theology’s praxis in retrospect and the continuities and changes that reach into the present day.