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Soil Chemical Properties and Nutrient Status on Various Land Slopes of Gayo Arabica Coffee Plantation, Aceh Indonesia
Authors: Muyassir Muyassir , Helmi Helmi , Rahyunnisa Meidilla
Published: October 2023

The chemical and nutrient properties of soil on various land slopes are related to the management of integrated and sustainable coffee plantation. The aim of the study was to determine soil chemical properties and nutrient availability on various slopes of Gayo Arabica coffee plantations. A total of 12 composite soils for laboratory analysis were taken from Arabia coffee plantation owned by the community in Bandar District, Bener Meriah Regency. The selection of the research location was determined by purposive sampling. The independent variable was slope of the land, while dependent variables were soil chemical properties and available nutrients. The results showed that the soil chemical properties which were significantly different on various land slopes were C-organic, CN ratio, and base saturation. C-organic content and C:N ratio decreased with increasing slope of the Gayo Arabica coffee plantation. On the contrary, base saturation as the slope of the Gayo Arabica coffee fields rises.
Performance Assessment of Multi-story Building
Authors: Saidi Taufiq , Hasan Muttaqin , Muzhaffar Imam , Setiawan Bambang , Juellyan Juellyan
Published: October 2023

Any public infrastructure has a set service life limit. In the Indonesian case, the public building has a 50-year design life. This paper presents a performance assessment of a multiple-story building in Aceh-Indonesia. A multi-story Faculty of Engineering Universitas Syiah Kuala building was used in this study. This multi-story building structure has been used for more than 24 years since it was built in 1998. This structure is 29.4 m long, 13 m wide, and 14.4 m tall in geometric terms. This study reveals how this three-story building behaves, including displacement, base shear, and structure performance level per ASCE 41-17 criteria. The processes in this study are broken down into various stages, including pushover analysis and comparing the building's current natural frequency. ETABS software was used to model building structures. According to the study, the building's performance is still more or less similar to the initial plan. Pushover in the X-direction (Push X) is believed to be immediate occupancy (IO), and pushover in the Y-direction (Push Y) is believed to be life safety (LS). The pushover analysis results for Push X suggested that the structure is safe and retains rigidity. Push Y indicated minor damage within the life safety category after a service life of 24 years. This pushover analysis indicated that the structure has reduced its rigidity, making it less able to resist further displacement. Based on the base shear, which experiences a displacement that is significantly greater than the estimate at the original planning stage, it is known that stiffness decreases.
Probability of Deuterium Atom Electrons in Momentum Space at Quantum Numbers n ≤ 3
Authors: Supriadi Bambang , Lorensia Sinthia Lolita , Shahira Firda , Prabandari Audri Mely , Putri Aurellya Abdillah Wijaya
Published: October 2023

Deuterium is one of the isotopes of the hydrogen atom, which consists of 1 proton, 1 neutron, and 1 electron, also called a hydrogenic atom. The position of electrons in the atom cannot be determined with certainty because it is probabilistic. The probability of finding a deuterium atom electron in momentum space at quantum number n ≤ 3. This research aims to find the probability value of deuterium atomic electrons in momentum space at n ≤ 3. This research uses the mathematical theory study method through several stages, namely collecting the latest and relevant literature sources, making a simulation program, and then validating the simulation program with existing theory. If it has been validated, continue taking data that will be analyzed and then discussed in the results and discussion stage, and the last step is drawing conclusions. The results of this study show that the probability value for finding atomic electrons in momentum space will be more excellent with increasing integration limit values and the value of the principal quantum number (n).
Public Open Space Arrangement Model In Summarecon Bekasi Residential Area Based On Covid-19 Pandemic Mitigation
Authors: Mutia Farah , Idawati Dyah Erti , Achmad Ashfa
Published: October 2023

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (Covid-19), a highly contagious respiratory virus, has spread to more than 200 countries and regions. The high number of Covid-19 cases has led to various regulations regarding social restrictions. Some of the changes that occurred due to the Covid-19 pandemic changed the socio-spatial structure and affected physical and psychological well-being and overall quality of life. The impact of Covid-19 has also occurred in the Summarecon Bekasi settlement, which provides facilities, a commercial center, and various public open spaces that the people of Bekasi City widely use to become more restricted. Researchers used a qualitative approach and descriptive qualitative analysis techniques with interview observations and documentation as the data sources. Research on public open spaces in Summarecon Bekasi, including downtown walk, waterfront, pedestrian paths, and bus stop shuttle bus, shows that these public spaces cannot fulfill all variable indicators of public open space readiness in dealing with post-pandemic conditions Covid-19. The results obtained are based on the weighting of values from the results of observational studies and interviews on each variable indicator of public open spaces. The empirical mean value of public open spaces in Summarecon Bekasi is 89, which is still below the hypothetical mean value of 110 and is at the lower limit of the category 'Not Enough .'Thus, to overcome the condition of public open spaces that are not yet adaptive to Covid-19, a structuring model is designed for public open spaces in Summarecon Bekasi. This structuring model is expected to reduce the percentage probability of social disasters such as the Covid-19 pandemic or other similar things.
Life Cycle Cost Analysis and Payback Period of 12-kW Wind Turbine for a Remote Telecommunications Base Station
Authors: Azmi Adzlin , Sebayang Abdi Hanra , Harjon Aditiya
Published: October 2023

Owing to the unavailability of electricity in many remote areas in Peninsular and East Malaysia, these areas do not have access to telephone signals. In remote areas, a diesel generator is used as the power source for the telecommunications base station. Hence, the continuous supply of diesel (which is a fossil fuel) is necessary in these remote areas. In this study, an attempt is made to assess the potential of replacing diesel-generated electricity with wind energy, which is renewable energy. Life cycle cost analysis is carried out, and the payback period of a wind energy system is determined for a remote telecommunications base station in Malaysia. The load characteristics and wind data are obtained from the Mersing Meteorological Station, Malaysia, and it was found that the annual load and base load are 12 kW. Hence, a 12-kW wind turbine is selected for the life cycle cost analysis at the site. The results show that the total specific cost of the 12-kW wind turbine is MYR 0.27/kWh based on a discount rate of 5% and electricity tariff in Malaysia of MYR 0.28/kWh. The payback period and discounted payback period of the 12-kW wind turbine are estimated to be 11.8 and 18.2 yr, respectively. Based on the load characteristics in Mersing, Malaysia, the 12-kW wind turbine is economically viable for the remote telecommunications base station. Nonetheless, the 12-kW wind turbine is not financially feasible because the simple payback period is greater than 1/3 of the wind turbine's lifetime, which is 20 years. The 12-kW wind turbine, on the other hand, is suitable for use as a remote telecommunications base station.
Representation as privilege or burden: centring pay to achieve gender parity and ‘diversity’ in local government
Authors: Jakimow Tanya , Henaway Kat
Published: October 2023

A lack of diversity within local government in Australia and globally is recognised as a problem. Government efforts to increase the representation of women, youth, racialised minorities, people with disabilities and so on do not, however, address a major impediment to their participation: inadequate remuneration. In this article, we present data from a survey, interviews and ethnographic research to reveal the consequences of not paying councillors a living wage. A lens of critical volunteerism exposes the ways in which women are encouraged to become councillors as an extension of community activities, only to be underpaid for their labour. We argue that encouraging under-represented groups to contest for a place on councils without increasing the financial feasibility of them occupying the role will not only fail to address a lack of diversity on New South Wales councils but put too heavy a burden of representation on people least able to bear the costs.
Gendering detention: (re)producing vulnerability for migrant women in British Immigration Removal Centres
Authors: Crossley Megan
Published: October 2023

Less than 10% of migrants in immigration detention in the UK are women, despite high-profile cases such as Yarl’s Wood IRC, and so previous research concerned with the experience of detention focuses on the general migrant population which consists mainly of men. Therein lies an uncomfortable gendered nexus between a feminised vulnerability which sustains anti-detention narratives and the somatic masculinity of the detention estate. The experiences of men are treated as the norm, despite the differing and gendered experiences of detained women.

This article addresses this gap by drawing together theoretical and empirical literature focusing on the experiences of migrant women detained in the UK and conceptualising Immigration Removal Centres (IRCs) as a microcosm through which to theorise the control and dehumanisation of migrant bodies within the contemporary context of the ‘Hostile Environment’. In particular, this article pays close attention to the intersection of gender and immigration status for migrant detainees as their experiences of pregnancy, sex work and sexual violence implicate how they experience detention.
The Hermeneutics of Starvation: Alienation, Reading, and Fish in James Welch’s Winter in the Blood
Authors: Sy Lloyd Alimboyao
Published: October 2023

Abstract: This essay proposes that James Welch’s Winter in the Blood (1974) considers what it might mean to perform interpretation in decrepit situations. To do this it traces various forms of lack in the novel and their conjunction with practices of reading or comprehension, but it especially focuses on the novel’s depiction of scarcity with regards to an important part of the Blackfeet/Gros Ventre diet: fish. The essay argues that the novel’s dearth of fish— among other destitute conditions—forces characters to interpret their situations through what I call the “hermeneutics of starvation.” I suggest that this form of reading, which I base on the statements of the book’s elder Yellow Calf, could characterize the literature of the Native American Renaissance more generally.
Death Drive as the Precipitate of the Traumatic
Authors: Özyildirim Ilker
Published: October 2023

Abstract: The death drive is one of the most controversial concepts in psychoanalytic literature. According to Freud, the death drive has, in essence, a biological origin. This formulation is said to be problematic with regard to the determining qualities inherent to psychoanalytical theory. This article sets forth a different interpretation of the formulation of the death drive, specifically in the context of the traumatic and drive-formation processes. The author asserts that inescapable traumatic impulses tended to gain a comprehensive resemblance with the drive and have connected this proposition (by giving additional details on the fact that phylogenesis refers to the experiences of social history rather than biology) with Freud’s view that drives are the residues of the effect of external stimulation, which caused alterations in the living matter during phylogenesis. Building on these arguments, I claim that the death drive could be designated as the phylogenetic precipitates of the repetitive traumatic experiences and accumulations of the prolonged stage of social history rather than being solely biological; moreover, this thesis of the death drive, which can be referred to as historical and not originary, could show a greater consistency with the whole of Freud’s text.
On Naming the Unnamable—Trauma and Testimony in A Girl’s Story by Annie Ernaux
Authors: Sandbæk Linda
Published: October 2023

Abstract: Through its indirect, experimental, and often surprising depictions, fiction approaches the gap between experience and survival and can shed light on the complexities of trauma. In this article, Annie Ernaux’s depictions of the narrativization process in her novel A Girl’s Story is used as a point of departure for reflections on how and under what circumstances it might be possible to find words for experiences that have neither been recognized by the person involved nor talked about before. Through close reading, and in dialogue with psychoanalytic theories on trauma, I discuss how we might understand the possibility of representing trauma symbolically and the different modes of such representation. The movement between an experiential and a more reflective mode is discussed as a feature of Ernaux’s narrative that might have enabled the integration of experiences into consciousness. I discuss how Ernaux’s literary project described as “making the personal universal” can be understood as a process aimed at constituting a reality that has been cut off from history: directed toward the possibility of establishing a present external, and hence more authentic, internal witness to past events.
The Writing of Mania: Thomas Melle’s Literary Strategies of Recovery
Authors: Rabaey Bart , Vanheule Stijn
Published: October 2023

Abstract: In this article the authors discuss the work of German author Thomas Melle in relation to his manic-depressive experiences. In the autobiographical book The World at My Back Melle demonstrates how a dysregulation of language is essential to understanding the nature of his manic episodes. Furthermore, Melle explains how he used writing literature as a response to challenges posed by his manic experiences. In this article, the authors explore this link in detail. First the authors investigate the specific dysregulations of language in Melle’s episodes of mania. Based on The World at My Back , three characteristic language disruptions are discerned in the course of his manic episodes: language disintegrates, narrative consistency breaks down, and there is a breakdown of subject and ego. Subsequently, the authors discuss the literary strategies Melle employs throughout his oeuvre and how these address these three aspects of language disruption. Eight literary strategies are identified, which cluster into three broad genres: implicitly autobiographical fiction, explicitly fictional autobiography, and eventually new realism . Starting from Lacan, the authors discuss how Melle’s literary strategies aim at remedying a major issue that accompanies his manic experiences: the workings of language itself. During and in the wake of his autobiographic writing, Melle develops ways of treating language, of keeping language in check, through which he eventually manages to restore his faith in language. The authors discuss Melle’s writing practice and relate it to Lacan’s concept of the sinthome .
"It Has to Stop": Refusing Colonial Narratives in The Only Good Indians
Authors: Simmons Kali
Published: October 2023

Abstract: This article examines Stephen Graham Jones's 2020 horror-revenge novel The Only Good Indians , arguing that the work's diversions from generic convention are an enactment of epistemic and formal refusal. The novel's refusals function to both expose the constraints of settler-colonial subjectivity and story other modes of selfhood and relationality. The framework of refusal can also help scholars and readers to better theorize Indigenous genre works, in particular the ways Indigenous storying practices must respond to the formal, affective, and philosophical expectations obligations that give structure to western genres.
Stadt mit Jüdinnen: Antisemitism and Misogyny in Hans Karl Breslauer's Recently Restored Film Die Stadt ohne Juden (1924)
Authors: Silverman Lisa
Published: October 2023

Abstract: Unlike Hugo Bettauer's 1922 novel, on which it is based, Hans Karl Breslauer's 1924 film Die Stadt ohne Juden features Jewish women. They appear as department store customers, mothers, wives, girlfriends, and synagogue congregants, yet they never engage in dialogue and, with but one exception, are always depicted together with men. Despite its inclusion of Jewish women, the film does little to disturb stereotypical representations of them, severely limiting its ability to challenge the powerful social structures that govern their representation. This article explores how additional scenes that appear in the restored 2018 version of this film address contemporary anxieties about Jewish women's and men's appearance, behavior, and ability to pass as non-Jews. That a film intended to oppose hatred of Jews ultimately cannot confront audiences with the absurdity of antisemitism reveals the limits of interwar films in transmitting critical messages.
Intimate Associations: Reading Community in Sasha Marianna Salzmann's Außer sich (2017) and Else Lasker-Schüler's Der Malik (1919)
Authors: Balling J. Rafael
Published: October 2023

Abstract: This article places Sasha Marianna Salzmann's novel Außer sich (2017; Beside Myself , 2019) in dialogue with Else Lasker-Schüler's experimental prose work Der Malik: Eine Kaisergeschichte (1919; The Malik: An emperor's story) to highlight the shared investments of these two Jewish and gender-variant writers. While situated a century apart, both respond in their work and lives to societal discrimination in similar ways: they make themselves visible as an Other and use the knowledge of their vulnerability as a starting point to build communities that defy antisemitism and gendered oppression. In this context, Lasker-Schüler's rejection of ethnic, religious, gendered, and sexual boundaries and her envisioning of new forms of kinship appear as a precursor of Salzmann's call for inclusive queer-feminist alliances. Reading these works alongside each other invites us to understand the vision of political-personal associations based on the experiences of antisemitism and gendered oppression as an abiding concern of German-Jewish literature.
A Vertically Embedded Orthoconic Nautiloid From the Pennsylvanian of County Clare, Ireland – An Unusual Case of ‘Distraction Sinking’?
Authors: Doyle Eamon
Published: October 2023

A vertically embedded orthoconic nautiloid is recorded for the first time from the Clare Shale Formation (Carboniferous; Pennsylvanian) of County Clare, Ireland. The specimen is compared to the few recorded examples of vertically preserved orthocones in the rock record and previously proposed models of this unusual preservation are reviewed. A new model of self-propelled accidental emplacement during predator avoidance manoeuvres is proposed as one possible mode of emplacement.
Porosités du moi dans deux romans du Pacifique francophone: Le Roi absent et Quintet
Authors: André Sylvie
Published: October 2023

Abstract: Les deux romans analysés, Le Roi absent du Polynésien Moetai Brotherson, publié en 2007, et Quintet du Caldoche Frédéric Ohlen, paru en 2014, reconstituent des sagas familiales et, pour le premier, rejoint parfois la biographie de l’auteur. Au-delà de leurs différences et à travers les intrigues entremêlées, les auteurs se livrent à une réévaluation des diverses instances du moi, telles que définies par la culture occidentale, notamment le moi rationnel, l’enveloppe corporelle, le rapport à la nature, la relation à la langue maternelle, marqueur identitaire par excellence depuis le 19e siècle. Il ne s’agit pas, pour les deux romanciers, de les rejeter ou de les adopter absolument, mais plutôt de tenter de “composer un monde commun,” selon l’expression de l’anthropologue Bruno Latour.
Les Heures italiques de Nicolas Kurtovitch: Autofiction, polyphonie et universalisme
Authors: Eyeyong Sandrine Joelle Eyang
Published: October 2023

Abstract: Caldoche, c’est-à-dire descendant de colons en Nouvelle-Calédonie, Nicolas Kurtovitch reconnaît la légitimité du peuple kanak en tant que peuple premier de l’archipel. Conscient de l’évolution sociopolitique de la société néocalédonienne, Kurtovitch s’inscrit dans la mouvance des écrivains du Pacifique qui tentent de dépasser les clivages identitaires pour créer les conditions d’un destin commun, dans un même pays. Son roman, Les Heures italiques (2009), relève à certains égards de l’écriture de l’autofiction. À travers l’analyse des trajectoires et des monologues des personnages, nous tenterons de mettre en évidence l’idée d’un processus de (re)construction du moi, qui fait sens et porte un espoir: au-delà des luttes collectives, l’essentiel est de chercher à devenir individuellement un être humain meilleur et juste. L’auteur esquisse une pensée universaliste, qui s’appuie sur les philosophies asiatiques et repose sur une exigence éthique, qui demeure un plaidoyer pour le vivre-ensemble.
La Parole “autochtone” de Déwé Görödé
Authors: Lawson-Hellu Laté
Published: October 2023

Abstract: En écrivant son roman Tâdo, Tâdo wéé! Ou “No more baby” (2012), la romancière d’origine néocalédonienne, et kanak du point de vue culturel, Déwé Görödé, propose un regard historique et personnel sur l’actualité politique de son espace d’origine, durant le 20e siècle. Ce regard, qui se veut à la fois personnel et collectif, s’inscrit, du point de vue épistémologique, dans la vision du monde de sa culture de référence et de revendication, sa parole “autochtone.” Toutefois, ce roman dépasse la simple revendication d’un espace culturel. Le recours aux approches herméneutiques et éthiques actuelles, comme la théorie du care [soin] ou, moins récemment, la perspective postcoloniale, démarches adossées à la réflexion proposée par la philosophie écologique, permet d’entrevoir les éléments de réponse de la romancière aux grands enjeux contemporains, y compris existentiels, de la vie de l’être humain.
Loneliness, Nature, and Technology: Questions of Embodiment in Haushofer's Die Wand and von Steinaecker's Die Verteidigung des Paradieses
Authors: Schaper Benjamin
Published: October 2023

Abstract: This article re-reads Marlen Haushofer's seminal novel Die Wand (1963) through the lenses of Sigmund Freud, Friedrich Nietzshe, and her 21st-century successor Thomas von Steinaecker. On the basis of Freud's Das Unbehagen in der Kultur (1930) and Nietzsche's notion of homo natura as elaborated in Jenseits von Gut und Böse (1886), the article first interrogates notions of loneliness depicted in Haushofer's novel, then questions the Cartesian emphasis on the mind rather than the body as creator of knowledge, and exposes the tensions created by the human drive to control nature through technology. Finally, the article undertakes a critical comparative reading of Die Wand and von Steinaecker's Die Verteidigung des Paradieses (2016). Demonstrating the influence of Haushofer on von Steinaecker's novel will reveal how crucial developments in discourses around loneliness, nature, and technology from the second half of the 20th century are reworked and reimagined for our highly technologized contemporary age.
A Paratextual Threshold: Epigraphs and Postcolonial Literary Authority in Michelle Cliff's No Telephone to Heaven
Authors: Love Margaret Grace
Published: October 2023

Abstract: With epigraphs derived from a broad range of sources—Yoruban hymns, Jamaican proverbs, and contemporary poets, among others—Michelle Cliff's 1987 novel No Telephone to Heaven produces a Caribbean literary archive that differs compositionally and qualitatively from the colonial English canon's construction of literary authority. The epigraphs in Cliff's novel, read as a metanarrative, open up an explicitly literary space of resistance to enact a radical reordering of the aesthetic, historical, and cultural frameworks that shape most readers' understandings of what the term "canonical literature" encompasses. Cliff's epigraphs collectively comprise a network of influence that refuses conventional hierarchies of gender, national origin, and genre. In Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation , Gérard Genette outlined four functions for the epigraph, namely, elaborating on a primary work's title, commenting on the main text of the work, making a gesture of affiliation with the author of the epigraphed text, and indicating "the genre, or the tenor of a piece of writing … [giving] a signal (intended as a sign ) of culture." Cliff's text performs what I argue to be the epigraph's fifth function—that of conferring authority—to declare her own canon.
Narrative Intersubjectivity: Voice and Connection in Stories about Intimate Partner Violence
Authors: Andrus Jennifer
Published: October 2023

Abstract: This study of narratives about intimate partner violence (IPV) asserts that narrative can exemplify a patterning of language that weaves a complex structure of "voice." For Jan Blommaert, voice is the ability to have one's speech heard such that the speaker is understood as closely as possible to his or her intended meaning and that the speaker's subject position is recognized/recognizable. Like narrative, voice is produced in on-the-ground performances that are by nature social. Taking a discourse analytic approach to narrative, narrative is a discourse that responds to the changeable nature of ongoing interaction and contextualization, and thus we find voice performed in storytelling. Perhaps due to its social, interactive, and performative nature, narrative is a place where people can encounter an/other, and the storyteller can offer up their stories in contexts that can involve and create something like empathy, contexts that create real connections between interlocutors (Ritivoi). That is, through narrative, storytellers can make their experiences available to interlocutors in ways that create intersubjectivity. In the context of violence described here, stories about trauma are told to an auditor in ways that ask for trauma to be witnessed and for empathy to develop. Using discourse analysis to analyze the stories told by an IPV victim/survivor, this article argues that through the construction of voice in narrative, trauma and vulnerability become present to an interlocutor who may have never experienced such.
A Phenomenology of Mutual Woundedness: Paul Ricoeur Speaks to Rita Charon's Narrative Medicine
Authors: DeFord Brad
Published: October 2023

Abstract: When Rita Charon wrote Narrative Medicine (2006), she found that Paul Ricoeur's "three mimeses" from his Time and Narrative supported, from a literary criticism perspective, her three taxonomies of attention, representation, and affiliation, or what she called "the three movements of narrative medicine." In her appeal to Ricoeur's hermeneutic phenomenology, she implicitly invited additional application of other concepts from his work. Here, specifically, Ricoeur's concept of "narrative identity," in both its "fragility" and "mutuality," leads to an understanding of the intersubjectivity of the practice of narrative medicine. This includes a recognition that both the body of the physician and the body of the patient come into play. In other words, narrative medicine is not just about the stories each one tells from within their roles. It also accounts for the shared woundedness they experience in the pursuit of healing. Without shared woundedness, Charon's narrative medicine leaves itself vulnerable to the critique that it is a "disembodied," dualistic practice. With the recognition of the shared woundedness of physician and patient comes an alteration of the medical narratives to include empathy and compassion. Employing additional concepts from Ricoeur both supports and expands Charon's narrative claims and ethical aims.
Where Have the Guardians Gone? Law Enforcement and the Politics of Supranational Forbearance in the European Union
Authors: Kelemen R. Daniel , Pavone Tommaso
Published: October 2023

abstract: Why would a supranational law enforcer suddenly refrain from wielding its powers? The authors theorize the supranational politics of forbearance—the deliberate underenforcement of the law—and explain how they arise from cross-pressures between prosecutorial discretion and intergovernmental policy-making. The article then traces why an exemplary supranational enforcer—the European Commission—became reluctant to launch infringements against European Union member states. While the Commission's policy-making role as engine of integration has been controversial, its prosecutorial role as guardian of the Treaties has been viewed as less contentious. Yet after 2004, infringements launched by the Commission plummeted. The authors demonstrate that the Commission's political leadership grew alarmed that aggressive enforcement was eroding intergovernmental support for its policy agenda. By reining in the bureaucrats managing enforcement and embracing conciliatory dialogues with governments, the Commission sacrificed its role as guardian of the Treaties to safeguard its role as engine of integration. The article's findings highlight the consequences of politicizing international institutions and the tradeoffs facing executives double-hatting as prosecutors and policymakers.
Vaccine Diplomacy: How COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution in Latin America Increases Trust in Foreign Governments
Authors: Barham Elena , Daly Sarah Zukerman , Gerez Julian E. , Marshall John , Pocasangre Oscar
Published: October 2023

abstract: Vaccine distribution in the Global South has created opportunities for vaccine-developing countries to improve their international reputations. Leveraging a panel survey conducted in early 2021, this article evaluates whether vaccine diplomacy affects trust in foreign governments in six Latin American countries. Among vaccinated respondents, trust in the government of the country that they believed developed their vaccine increased relative to trust in the governments of other foreign powers. Furthermore, providing information about the aggregate distribution of vaccines within a respondent's country increased vaccine-eligible respondents' trust in the governments of countries from which more vaccines were delivered. In each case, greater trust principally reflects updated perceptions of a common good motivation. The article's empirical findings suggest that vaccine distribution—especially by China, but for other vaccine-developing countries as well—can cultivate favorable international public opinion. These favorable opinions may in turn facilitate great powers' economic, political, or military foreign policy goals.
Healthcare provider-targeted mobile applications to diagnose, screen, or monitor communicable diseases of public health importance in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review
Authors: Geldsetzer Pascal , Flores Sergio , Flores Blanca , Rogers Abu Bakarr , Chang Andrew Y.
Published: October 2023

Communicable diseases remain a leading cause of death and disability in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). mHealth technologies carry considerable promise for managing these disorders within resource-poor settings, but many existing applications exclusively represent digital versions of existing guidelines or clinical calculators, communication facilitators, or patient self-management tools. We thus systematically searched PubMed, Web of Science, and Cochrane Central for studies published between January 2007 and October 2019 involving technologies that were mobile phone- or tablet-based; able to screen for, diagnose, or monitor a communicable disease of importance in LMICs; and targeted health professionals as primary users. We excluded technologies that digitized existing paper-based tools or facilitated communication (i.e., knowledge-based algorithms). Extracted data included disease category, pathogen type, diagnostic method, intervention purpose, study/target population, sample size, study methodology, development stage, accessory requirement, country of development, operating system, and cost. Given the search timeline, studies involving COVID-19 were not included in the analysis. Of 13,262 studies identified by the screen, 33 met inclusion criteria. 12% were randomized clinical trials (RCTs), with 58% of publications representing technical descriptions. 62% of studies had 100 or fewer subjects. All studied technologies involved diagnosis or screening steps; none addressed the monitoring of infections. 52% focused on priority diseases (HIV, malaria, tuberculosis), but only 12% addressed a neglected tropical disease. Although most reported studies were priced under 20USD at time of publication, two thirds of the records did not yet specify a cost for the study technology. We conclude that there are only a small number of mHealth technologies focusing on innovative methods of screening and diagnosing communicable diseases potentially of use in LMICs. Rigorous RCTs, analyses with large sample size, and technologies assisting in the monitoring of diseases are needed.
All the world’s a stage: Drama therapy within a greater ecology
Authors: Sajnani Nisha
Published: October 2023

In this editorial, principal editor Nisha Sajnani introduces this general issue through the lens of ecology with consideration to a rapidly warming climate and to the relational ecologies that characterize each contribution. This issue consists of three research articles, three clinical commentaries, one interview, report and performance review as well as two book reviews that may be of interest to drama therapists.
Art as a Language for Autism: Building Effective Therapeutic Relationships with Children and Adolescents, Jane Ferris Richardson (2023)
Authors: Demaine Krystal L.
Published: October 2023

Review of: Art as a Language for Autism: Building Effective Therapeutic Relationships with Children and Adolescents, Jane Ferris Richardson (2023)

New York: Routledge, 214 pp.,

ISBN 978-1-31517-330-6, e-book, $31.96
The Social Impact of Creative Arts in Australian Communities, Sandra Gattenhof, Donna Hancox, Helen Klaebe and Sasha Mackay (2021)
Authors: Dennis Rea
Published: October 2023

Review of: The Social Impact of Creative Arts in Australian Communities, Sandra Gattenhof, Donna Hancox, Helen Klaebe and Sasha Mackay (2021)

Singapore: Springer, 142 pp.,

ISBN 978-9-81167-357-3, e-book, €106.99
Alzheimer’s Disease and Nutrition
Authors: Atak Esra Rana
Published: October 2023

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that accounts for the major cause of dementia in the world. The likelihood of developing AD increases with aging, genetics, medical factors as well as nutrition and lifestyle. Overall diet has a huge impact on brain function. Following a healthy dietary pattern and obtaining the essential nutrients is associated with a reduced risk of AD and dementia. For instance, diets that are high in saturated and trans fats, overconsumption of alcohol and high-calorie intake were indicated to be triggering factors. On the contrary, diets that promote the consumption of fruits, vegetables, fish, healthy fats and light to moderate alcohol intake were associated with lower incidence of AD. Additionally, other non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, high cholesterol, hypertension and obesity are found to be associated with AD. As a result of improving dietary habits and taking essential nutrients, the prevalence of these diseases may be reduced. Accordingly, the progression of AD can be lowered. This report aims to analyse the relationship between dietary constituents and AD, as well as its association with other disorders. However, existing studies and evidence are still inconclusive and controversial, which indicates that further investigations and elucidations are required.
Curating, Community, Collaboration
Authors: Baker Sheila , Shulsky Debby
Published: October 2023

What began in a library science course as a collection development project serendipitously transformed into varied learning experiences for students across disciplines and program levels. This article shares the journey of how a singular lesson idea blossomed into an unintentional, multidisciplinary project that led to unexpected learning outcomes for all involved.
Dinamismo da ciência e necessidade de atualização profissional como base para a boa prática clínica
Authors: Cortelli Sheila C.
Published: October 2023

Para manter uma boa prática clínica, é preciso estar atento à evolução da ciência e se manter atualizado por meio de fontes confiáveis, como as revistas científicas e os eventos promovidos pelas entidades de classe, que reúnem vários nomes e mostram diferentes opiniões. A ciência é dinâmica e exige proatividade dos profissionais. Para exemplificar, vou citar o caso da Homeopatia. Por que lugares como o Reino Unido deixaram de subsidiar os custos com tratamentos homeopáticos? E por que, em julho de 2023, o jornal O Globo noticiou que o Brasil pode rever sua posição? Os principais objetivos da pesquisa clínica são avaliar a eficácia e a segurança dos tratamentos e dispositivos para a saúde. No caso da Homeopatia, os estudos não conseguem comprovar resultados positivos. Como consequência, a comunidade científica passou a rejeitá-la e saiu em busca de novos modelos.
Gamma irradiation of eggplant seeds influences plant growth, yield and nutritional profile in M1 generation
Authors: OBOK Ekemini , NWAGWU Francis , AKPAN Samuel
Published: October 2023

The study examines agromorphological traits and nutrient compositions in three genotypes of eggplants (Solanum melongena ‘African Beauty F1’ and ‘Melina F1’ and S. aethiopicum ‘Kotobi’) grown from seeds irradiated by gamma rays (γ-ray) with 100 Gy. Experiments were carried out in the screenhouse and experimental field of Crop Science Department, University of Calabar, Nigeria. Completely randomised design with four replications and randomised complete block design with three replications was used in the screenhouse and field experiments respectively. Eggplant × γ-ray effect reduced (p ≤ 0.05) seedling emergence, plant height and number of leaves in the nursery at 2 and 4 weeks after sowing. In the field, these traits were consistently lower for irradiated Melina F1 and Kotobi (p > 0.05) at ten weeks after transplanting. Irradiated African Beauty F1 had the highest (p ≤ 0.05) upper canopy leaf area (429.54 cm2), higher (p > 0.05) plant height and stem width; lower (p > 0.05) number of branches and leaves. Un-irradiated and irradiated Kotobi had the highest (p ≤ 0.05) fruit load, lower (p ≤ 0.05) fruit volume, weight and yields over four harvest intervals. Carbohydrate and energy contents of Kotobi fruits grown from 100 Gy gamma-ray irradiated seeds were concurrently improved (p ≤ 0.05). Gamma ray irradiation had both positive and negative influences on the agromorphological traits, mineral composition and nutrient profile of eggplants. However, 100 Gy dose of irradiation had a negative effect on fruit characteristics in general. From the results of this study, inconsistent variations in the agromorphological traits of the irradiated eggplants of the three varieties were reported. Therefore, the goal of mutation breeding in eggplant should not undermine the importance of the eggplant genotype as well as the actual radiation dose.
Do mutations modifying the leaf area (nr3) and the number of potential seeds (dfc) influence photosynthetic gas exchange characteristics in common buckwheat Fagopyrum esculentum Moench?
Authors: FESENKO Ivan N. , AMELIN Alexandr V. , FESENKO Aleksey N. , BIRYUKOVA Oksana V. , ZAIKIN Valeriy V. , CHEKALIN Evgeniy I. , IKUSOV Roman A.
Published: October 2023

Contemporary buckwheat breeding in Russia is based mainly on a Mendelian  mutation det. Some additional mutations are being considered for inclusion in buckwheat breeding programs. Among them are the nr3 (narrow leaf 3) and dfc (determinate floret cluster). We evaluated the effects of the mutations on both the characteristics of photosynthetic gas exchange and the number of seeds per plant. The nr3 reduces the leaf surface area by 1.4 times. The mutant plants show some compensatory increase in photosynthesis rate, which, however, is not enough to reach the level of the source ability as in the wild type since the number of seeds per plant is significantly decreased. The possibility of using this mutation in buckwheat breeding depends on the accumulation of modifiers that increase either leaf size or photosynthesis rate. The reduced number of flowers of the dfs mutation is compensated by an increase in flower fertility, and the number of seeds per plant does not change compared to the wild type. It explains the absence of differences between the dfs and wild type in terms of the photosynthesis rate. This experiment did not reveal any problems for using the dfc mutation in breeding. In general, the results of the work support the photosynthesis rate in buckwheat is regulated based on the source-sink ratio.
Pinched sunflowers (Helianthus annuus ‘Teddy Bear’) produce high-quality flowers under high nitrogen fertilizer
Authors: SELAHVARZI Yahya , KAMALI Maryam , KARIMPOUR Sajede , KHARRAZI Mahdiyeh , KARIMI Mohammad
Published: October 2023

This study was investigated the effect of removing the central bud (pinching) and different levels of nitrogen fertilizer urea on some morphological and physiological traits of ornamental sunflower. This study was conducted as a factorial experiment in a randomized complete block design with four replications on ornamental sunflower (Helianthus annuus ‘Teddy Bear’) at Horticulture Farm, Department of Horticulture, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran, in 2020-2021. The first factor was pinching in two levels (pinching and non-pinching) and the second factor was using urea at four levels (0, 200, 300, and 400 kg ha-1) in the form of water-soluble fertilizer. Results showed that the highest flower dry mass (59.25 g) was observed in pinched plants fertilized by 400 kg ha-1 of urea. Besides, the application of a high level of urea fertilizer and pinching treatment increased the amount of total chlorophyll and chlorophyll b. By removing the central bud, the amount of N, P, K, Ca, Zn, and Fe elements in the leaf increased by 1.5, 1.6, 1.3, 1.9, 1.4, and 1.5 times, respectively. Therefore, pinching and the adding of urea fertilizer at 400 kg ha-1is recommended for the production of high-quality sunflower plant ‘Teddy Bear’.
Mycoviruses: trends in plant-fungus-mycovirus interactions and ‘biocontrol’ prospects in agriculture and the environment
Authors: NDIFON Elias Mjaika , CHOFONG Gilbert Nchongboh
Published: October 2023

Mycoviruses are cosmopolitan in plants, animals, fungi, bacteria, in soils, and water. There is a scarcity of information about them, which necessitated this review to provide some leads on where research should focus. Mycoviruses are able to persist in disparate types of hosts by utilizing diverse measures. They may engage either parasitic, pathogenic, or mutualistic tendencies. Mycoviruses employ many existential strategies that can be utilized by man. Hypovirulence may be induced in fungal hosts by mycoviruses via RNA silencing, alteration of genetic expression, and disruption of the transcriptome. Mycoviruses interact with killer phenotypes of yeasts and Ustilago spp. and proffer advantages to these fungi. Mycovirus interaction with some plants result in provision of thermal tolerance to plants. Based on their mode of microbe destruction mycoviruses may be used for waste disposal and termination of some life processes. For instance, grazer viruses completely oxidize the organic content of their host into carbon dioxide and inorganic nutrients, while lytic viruses release the organic material from their hosts without modification. Viruses may be utilized to facilitate the exchange of genetic material from one host to another. However, pathogenic mycoviruses exist especially in mushrooms.
Optimización de un método de cribado rápido de fármacos en sangre mediante la técnica de cromatografía de líquidos acoplada a espectrometría de masas
Authors: Rodrigo Valero Alba M. , Quintela Jorge Oscar , Bravo Serrano Begoña , Ayuso Tejedor Sara
Published: October 2023

Objetivos

La cromatografía líquida acoplada a la espectrometría de masas ha ganado en popularidad en los laboratorios en los últimos años debido a una mayor especificidad de la técnica, la posibilidad de determinar múltiples analitos en una sola inyección de la muestra, la medición de analitos en una variedad de matrices diferentes y a una drástica reducción de las interferencias analíticas en comparación con el inmunoensayo. El tratamiento y preparación de las muestras biológicas es un proceso esencial cuando éstas han de ser analizadas mediante sistemas cromatográficos. Los principales interferentes en el análisis de las muestras de sangre son los fosfolípidos y las proteínas. El objetivo principal de este estudio es mejorar la sistemática analítica toxicológica en el cribado general de fármacos mediante la técnica LC-MS/MS a través de un nuevo método de preparación de muestras en sangre basado en la precipitación de proteínas y eliminación de fosfolípidos.

Métodos

Se ha evaluado el nuevo método de preparación de muestras en sangre basado en la precipitación de proteínas y eliminación de fosfolípidos mediante la tecnología LC-Q-q-LIT.

Resultados

Se ha determinado el límite de detección, el límite de cuantificación y rango de medición para las 56 moléculas seleccionadas y se han comparado los resultados de once casos con las extracciones e instrumentación tradicionales.

Conclusiones

La metodología propuesta de preparación de muestras en sangre y análisis mediante técnicas más sensibles como LC-Q-q-LIT ha resultado comparable a la metodología tradicional en cuanto a resultados y, ofreciendo, además, una reducción de tiempo y coste.
Paolo Marzolo and Cesare Lombroso: a semiotic-medical inheritance between word, sounds, and face
Authors: Orrù Alice
Published: October 2023

Within the interdisciplinary context of the nineteenth century, the paper scrutinizes the relation between Paolo Marzolo’s theory of signs and Cesare Lombroso’s anthropological-criminal approach. Best known for his unfinished work Monumenti storici (1847–1866), Marzolo (of whom Lombroso calls himself a disciple) investigates, in his last Saggio sui segni (1866), the origin and development of languages by combining the positivist approach with an eighteenth-century encyclopedic Enlightenment perspective, as well as the earlier anatomist tradition. In his view, the human production, learning, and use of signs, resting upon sensory experiences and mnemonic activity, involves the process of imitation with a pivotal role of the speakers’ phonic, gestural, and facial expressions (i.e., physiognomy), related to geographical, linguistic, and anthropological differences among human individuals, as well as the cultural element of civilization. Conceived as case(s) of semiotic ideology rooted between linguistics and medicine, the Marzolo–Lombroso filiation shows an increasing correlation between race, language, and climate in the wake of social Darwinism and akin to other coeval physiognomic theories. In Lombroso’s perspective, a radical translation from a linguistic and phonic-semiotic field to an anthropological and somatic-semiotic plane seems inevitable, emphasizing the (para) scientific flavor and widening the gap between anthropometric and ethnoanthropological approaches.