bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Poor Sleep, Anxiety And Depression Among The Maritime And Health Sciences Higher School Students
Authors: Andruškienė Jurgita , Barsevičienė Šarūnė , Varoneckas Giedrius
Published: December 2016

Aim of the study was to evaluate the associations
among poor sleep, anxiety and depression in relation
to age and year of studying among the students.
Methods. The study sample consisted of 400 Klaipeda
State University of Applied Sciences students
(96.8% female) and 393 The Lithuanian Maritime
Academy students (78.9% male), from 18 to 46 years
of age. Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI)
was used for subjective sleep quality evaluation.
Hospital Anxiety and Depression (HAD) scale was
used to identify depression and anxiety. PSQI score
≤ 5 was evaluated as good sleep quality; > 5 – poor
sleep. HAD score from 0 to 7 was evaluated as no
depression or anxiety, score >7 indicated depression
and/or anxiety. Additional questions about respondents’
age, gender, study programme and year of the
studying were used. The Chi-square test or Fisher
exact tests were used to estimate association between
categorical variables. Student’s t test was used to
compare means and z criteria was used to test the
difference in two population proportions. Binary logistic
regression analysis was performed to evaluate
the factors influencing poor sleep.
Results. Health sciences students, as compared
to maritime students, had higher prevalence of
poor sleep (69.8% vs 45.0%) and anxiety (55.5%
vs 41.7%). Depression score was higher among
the students with poor sleep, as compared to good
sleep, respectively 4.38 vs 3.20 (20 yrs), 5.16 vs
3.29 (21 yrs), 5.38 vs 3.22 (≥ 22 yrs). Anxiety score
was higher among the students with poor sleep, as
compared to good sleep, respectively 7.89 vs 6.11
(18-19 yrs), 8.73 vs 6.12 (20 yrs), 10.40 vs 6.51 (21
yrs), 10.58 vs 6.40 (≥ 22 yrs). The risk of poor sleep
was significantly decreased by the studying marine
sciences (OR=0.365) and increased by anxiety
(OR=1.172), p<0.001.
Conclusions. Poor sleep and anxiety were more prevalent
among the students of Health Sciences, as
compared to students of Lithuanian Maritime Academy.
Anxiety and depression mean scores were significantly
higher among the students who had poor
sleep, as compared to the ones who had good sleep
in all age groups, during the first, second and third
year of studies. Risk of poor sleep was increased
by anxiety, however maritime studies had positive
effect on sleep quality.
Clinical Case: Sepsis-Induced Cardiac Dysfunction
Authors: Janušonis Tomas , Paškevičiūtė Renata
Published: December 2016

One of the serious sepsis complications is a reversible
cardiac dysfunction. We present a case report
about 31 years old female patient with sepsis following
abortion. Diagnosis of cardiac dysfunction
was based on echocardiography data (decreased
left ventricle ejection fraction, systolic and diastolic
dysfunction of the left ventricle) and laboratory tests
(increase in hsTnI and BNP level). The appropriate
treatment (antibiotics, fluids, dopamine, noradrenaline)
was effective. After 13 days of treatment in the
intensive care unit, the complete recovery from sepsis
and gradual improvement of the cardiac function
were confirmed and the patient was referred to the
cardiology unit.
Transarterial Chemoembolization With Doxorubicineluting Microspheres: Single-Center Review Of Safety Profile
Authors: Bankauskaitė Aušra , Česas Alvydas , Šimkaitis Algimatas , Malinauskienė Loreta
Published: December 2016

Background. Since 1977 when TACE was introduced
for the first time it became a standard treatment
for nonresectable HCC without vascular invasion or
extrahepatic disease. TACE is also performed for other
indications, such as colorectal metastases, cholangiocarcinoma,
neuroendocrine tumors and etc.
Material/methods. the evaluation of interventional
therapy with DEB-TACE of 8 patients each with
unrespectable HCC, cholangiocarcinoma, neuroendocrine
metastatic carcinoma. A comparison of therapy-
associated complications performed.
Results. We analyzed results of DEB-TACE performed
in our Hospital since 2014. DEB-TACE was
technically successful in all patients. A total of 21
DEB-TACE procedure was performed in 8 patients
during the 2-year period. Two patients (20%) had
five treatments, 1 patient (15%) had four treatments,
4 patients (50%) had two treatments and 1 (15%)
had one treatment. Pain, nausea, fever and fatigue
were the most common side effects following DEBTACE,
with a frequency of 76%, 33%, 57% and
71% respectively.
Conclusions. The current results show DEB-TACE
to produce beneficial tumor response and to have
exceptionally low complication rates.
Micronuclei And G2 Assays For Assessment Of Chromosomal Radiosensitivity As Assistant Tool In Radiotherapy: Method-Comparison Study
Authors: Guogytė Kamilė , Plieskienė Aista , Sevriukova Olga , Ladygienė Rima , Žiliukas Julius , Janušonis Vinsas
Published: December 2016

Radiation therapy is widely used for cancer treatment.
Medical application of ionizing radiation can
cause different responses in human depending on
individual radiosensitivity. Therefore, assessment
of individual radiosensitivity could be proposed as
assistant tool in optimizing radiotherapy. The cytokinesis-
block micronucleus and G2 chromosomal
radiosensitivity assays were proposed as appropriate
methods for assessment of individual radiosensitivity.
In current study we carried out a pilot
cytokinesis-block micronucleus and G2 chromosomal
radiosensitivity assays comparison by evaluating
specificity of chromatid breaks yield and micronuclei
frequency in peripheral blood lymphocytes
as biomarkers of individual radiosensitivity in
three cancer patients treated with radiotherapy. Our
study revealed positive correlation between higher
increase in frequency of micronuclei and chromatid
breaks after in vitro irradiation in radiotherapy
patients peripheral blood lymphocytes with occurrence
of adverse radiation effects in tissue which are
not being targeted. G2 assay appeared to be more
sensitive than micronuclei assay for assessment of
irradiation-induced alterations in individual radiosensitivity
during the radiotherapy that could affect
development of treatment side effects. Therefore,
further investigations involving more radiotherapy
patients as well as healthy donors are required to
select the most sensitive method and reveal the possible
correlation between individual radiosensitivity
and adverse effect of radiotherapy.
Changes Related To Inpatient Mortality From Acute Stroke In The Stroke Unit Of The Klaipeda University Hospital In 2007-2015
Authors: Kazlauskas Henrikas , Bovina Elena , Žiliukas Geriuldas
Published: December 2016

The aim of the study was to analyse the changes in
inpatient mortality from acute stroke in the stroke
unit of the Klaipeda University Hospital in 2007-
2015. Medical history data of 265 patients who died
from acute stroke in the stroke unit were analysed.
Inpatient mortality rate was calculated among all
patients diagnosed with acute stroke who were treated
in the stroke unit during the entire study period.
The number of deaths in different age groups (up
until 65; 65 and older) and comorbidities in patients
who died from acute stroke were analysed, depending
on stroke type in different treatment periods
(2007-2011 and 2012-2015).
The International Classification of Diseases, Tenth
Revision (ICD-10), Codes I60-I64 were used to
diagnose different stroke types in 2007-2011, while
ICD-10 AM, Codes I60-I64 were used in 2012-
2015. The statistical analysis was performed using
SPSS 17.0 for Windows. Chi-squared (χ2) criterion
and Fisher’s exact test were used for small samples
to evaluate dependency and homogeneity of qualitative
characteristics. The difference between them
was considered as statistically significant at p <0.05.
Data are presented as a percentage. Student’s t-test
was applied for average age comparison. Odds ratio
(OR), reflecting the mortality from acute stroke
in different periods, was established. The comparison
of the two study periods revealed the decrease
in patients who died from acute stroke - from 7.0%
(2007-2011) to 4,3 % (2012-2015), (p<0.001). Mortality
from ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke was
similar. The analysis showed significant age difference
(p=0.007) among patients who died from acute
stroke: in the later study period (2012-2015), the
patients were older than those who died in the earlier
period; however, no significant difference was
observed when analysing them by age groups (up
until 65; 65 and older). The odds of dying in 2007-
2011 were 1.69 times higher than in 2012-2015
(p<0.001), whereas the odds ratio for ischemic stroke
in 2007-2011 was 1.75 times higher than in 2012-
2015 (p<0.0001). No significant difference between
different study periods was established when analysing
the changes in the number of comorbidities in
patients who died from acute stroke. The assesment
of differences in comorbidities depending on the
stroke type revealed that significantly more patients
who died from ischemic stroke had been diagnosed
with coronary heart disease (CHD) (including angina
pectoris (AP) and atrial fibrillation (AF)) than
those who died from hemorrhagic stroke. It was
concluded that, when comparing the two study periods,
the number of patients who died from acute
stroke decreased significantly - from 7.0% (2007-
2011) to 4.3% (2012-2015) (p<0.001). The odds ratio
for dying from acute stroke in 2007-2011 was
established to be significantly higher than in 2012-
2015 and patients who died from acute stroke in the
later study period were significantly older.
Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy After Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy. It Is Worth To Decide!
Authors: Čižauskaitė Agnė , Petrauskas Donatas , Šimčikas Dainius , Česas Alvydas
Published: December 2016

Objective. To evaluate the predictable percentage
of patients that could be eligible for sentinel lymph
node biopsy (SLNB) after neoadjuvant chemotherapy
(NAC) in Klaipeda University Hospital Breast
Surgery Department.
Background. Although SLNB is a standard staging
method for axillar node status assessment for early-
stage clinically lymph node (LN) negative breast
cancer patients, SLNB after NAC is still controversial.
Axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) still
remains standard accepted surgical approach for patients
following NAC regardless of primary LN status.
ALND is associated with significant morbidity
and complications. NAC is now used with increasing
frequency not only for locally advanced but
also for early-stage breast cancer and optimal indications
for SLNB after NAC are required.
Methods. 163 cases with breast cancer treated by
NAC were enrolled in this study. After NAC all patients
at the time of definitive breast surgery, underwent
ALND.
Results. Before NAC, clinical LN status was negative
in 21 cases (13%) and positive in 141 (87%).
When evaluated postoperatively, pN0 in clinically
LN negative group was detected in 21 patients
(100%). Meanwhile in clinically LN positive group,
pN0 was 63 (44.7%) and pN+ 78 (55.3%) of cases.
Conclusions. SLNB should always be performed
before or after NAC in clinically LN negative patients.
Optimal technique should be chosen in node-
positive patients to assure the success of the procedure.
Advanced Modelling Strategies In Preterm Labour Risk
Authors: Aniulienė Rosita , Žilaitienė Birutė , Grigolienė Rasa , Pridotkas Gintaras
Published: December 2016

We performed a case control study to evaluate risk
factors for preterm labour in 1200 women. 600 women
who delivered prematurely and randomly selected
group of 600 women who gave birth at term
were questioned using a standardised questionnaire.
Simple data analysis, multiple regression analysis,
including logit and probit regression models
and multiple stepwise regression were performed to
identify independent risk factor of preterm labour.
Based on this analysis and in respect of these independent
factors an equation was suggested which
allows to evaluate mathematically risk for preterm
labour and can be used in gynaecologists’ practice.
¿Sujetos peligrosos? Repatriados españoles desde la URSS en la Provincia de Vizcaya, 1956-1963
Authors: Young Glennys
Published: December 2016

Entre 1956 y 1959, al final de la primera década completa de la Guerra Fría, 1900 españoles (niños, exiliados políticos, antiguos divisionarios, pilotos, aviadores) fueron repatriados desde la URSS. Este artículo se aparta de textos académicos anteriores que examinan la “integración” de los repatriados en la sociedad española bajo la dictadura de Franco para centrarse en su voluntad propia, es decir, en las decisiones personales que tomaron a la hora de lidiar con las instituciones franquistas y con otros españoles, a pesar de encontrarse bajo vigilancia por parte del régimen, y de ser frecuentemente interrogados por la CIA bajo el auspicio del “Project Niños”. El artículo ofrece el primer estudio de la repatriación en una sola provincia, Vizcaya, que acogió a más repatriados que ninguna otra en España. Mediante un seguimiento de los repatriados desde la URSS, donde construyeron una “España imaginada” en sus mentes, hasta los reencuentros con los familiares a los que no habían visto en décadas y su búsqueda de empleo en España, este artículo demuestra que los repatriados no se consideraron a sí mismos sujetos pasivos en lo que el régimen entendía como el proceso de “incorporación” a la vida en España. Al insistir sobre su derecho a un alojamiento digno, un empleo y a la convalidación de sus títulos soviéticos en España, así como, en ocasiones, a regresar a la URSS si así lo deseaban, algunos repatriados consiguieron que sus vidas fueran más tolerables. Los repatriados reclutaron a españoles en otros continentes para forma parte de redes de solidaridad internacional para apoyar a aquellos repatriados que habían sido detenidos, arrestados y, en algunos casos, torturados. De esta manera, consiguieron llamar la atención de las instituciones internacionales con poder de transformar la opinión pública mundial sobre la represión franquista.
¿Ha vuelto Mateo Morral? El anarquismo insurreccionalista del siglo XXI y sus antecedentes históricos
Authors: Avilés Farré Juan , Morán Pallarés Miguel
Published: December 2016

En los primeros años del siglo XXI grupos informales vinculados a la nueva tendencia del anarquismo insurreccionalista, promovido a finales del siglo pasado por activistas como los italianos Alfredo Maria Bonanno y Costantino Cavalleri, han cometido varios atentados terroristas, en general no letales, en diversos países, incluidas Italia, Grecia y España. En ellos han evocado explícitamente a sus predecesores terroristas de finales del siglo XIX y principios del XX. Este ensayo ofrece un análisis comparativo de ambas campañas terroristas y concluye que resulta muy improbable que la más reciente pueda llegar a representar una amenaza similar a la anterior. Mateo Morral no ha vuelto.
La nación en el discurso universitario: España en la oratoria de inauguración del curso académico salmantino, 1902-1923
Authors: De Luis Martín Francisco
Published: December 2016

Este trabajo pretende estudiar la aportación de la Universidad de Salamanca al desarrollo y consolidación del nacionalismo español mediante el análisis de los veintidós discursos que con motivo de la inauguración del curso académico diferentes catedráticos de sus distintas facultades pronunciaron durante el periodo 1902-1923. En ese tiempo se pueden apreciar diversos planteamientos ideológicopolíticos en relación al proceso de nacionalización, se discuten las bases sobre el que ese mismo proceso se había construido en el siglo anterior e incluso emergen o cristalizan con fuerza las corrientes y grupos que cuestionan el proceso en sí mismo formulando alternativas. Por otro lado, la centralidad de los discursos inaugurales en el conjunto de los rituales universitarios los convierten en un material privilegiado para conocer la construcción y socialización en el mundo académico de un determinado, aunque plural en su concepción, discurso nacionalizador. Tras analizar la temática y la ideología que destilan estas piezas oratorias, el trabajo se centra en la visión histórica general y la de España en particular que presentan unas y otras.
Sofía Casanova entre Polonia, Rusia y España. Género y nacionalismo durante la Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918)
Authors: Ochoa Crespo Pedro
Published: December 2016

Sofía Casanova fue cronista del diario ABC durante la Primera Guerra Mundial y la Revolución Bolchevique. En sus crónicas, la periodista describía tanto la actualidad geopolítica de la guerra, como su actividad como mujer burguesa al servicio de la Cruz Roja y la vida cotidiana en Polonia y Rusia. En esas páginas, se pueden encontrar formas de capacitación política de la escritora gallega a través de las relaciones transversales que se crean entre las categorías de género y de nación. En este caso, los vínculos de Sofía Casanova con España, Polonia y Rusia funcionan de manera jerarquizante a la hora de estructurar el acceso al poder político, sorteando en ocasiones los límites establecidos en la norma mayoritaria por su condición sexual.
La prisión, espacio cinematográfico y lugar de memoria en el cine español
Authors: Sánchez Noriega José Luis
Published: December 2016

En este trabajo nos planteamos la conjunción de tres cuestiones que, también por separado, tienen un notable interés académico tanto desde las investigaciones y estudios cinematográficos como desde los historiográficos. En primer lugar, la consideración del protagonismo de las mujeres en sucesos del pasado, es decir, la mujer como sujeto histórico y, al mismo tiempo, como sujeto cinematográfico; en segundo lugar, la cárcel como espacio de interés histórico (social, político) en cuanto “lugar de memoria”; y en tercer lugar, la aproximación a obras de un ciclo tan poco cultivado por el cine español como las películas con historias y representaciones que mayoritariamente transcurren en cárceles: el cine penitenciario. La conjunción de estas tres perspectivas tiene lugar en una breve pero significativa filmografía que es nuestro objeto de estudio.
Introducción: Luces y sombras en la interpretación de los estudios del Patrimonio Cultural a través de la participación ciudadana
Authors: Castillo Alicia
Published: December 2016

Introducción: Luces y sombras en la interpretación de los estudios del Patrimonio Cultural a través de la participación ciudadana
Interpretación y Arquitectura mayas: Chichén Itzá como parte de la Narrativa de Patrimonio Cultural
Authors: Barry Kristin M.
Published: December 2016

La Arquitectura actúa como la personificación visual de la cultura en el turismo patrimonial, sugiriendo una historia narrativa de “lugar”. En Chichén Itzá los temas sobre comercialización y desarrollo han eclipsado en ocasiones esta narrativa cultural en lugar de volverse ellos mismos aspectos centrales para comprender el complejo arquitectónico como un moderno sitio de la identidad maya en el Yucatán. Desde los orígenes del turismo en masa en el área en los años 70 y enormemente afectado por la creciente industria turística, el lugar ha visto llegar a turistas de todo el mundo para experimentar los restos arqueológicos por motivos religiosos, espirituales, educativos y de ocio. Sin embargo y pese a esta fama, la interpretación de Chichén Itzá es representativa de un número de temas comúnmente asociados a la presentación de lugares arqueológicos particularmente la introducción del turismo en masa y el cambio hacia la comercialización y accesibilidad del sitio a expensas del patrimonio maya local. A pesar de estas significativas preocupaciones, el complejo de Chichén Itzá puede ser interpretado como representativo tanto de las antiguas como de las modernas poblaciones mayas a través de la participación activa de los residentes locales mayas en la gestión arqueológica del sitio y a través de la conexión teológica de la interpretación de las prácticas culturales de los antiguos maya. La interpretación patrimonial ejemplifica un discurso en creciente desarrollo y crecientemente multidimensionado, donde las prácticas que están surgiendo son investigadas, permitiendo un gradiente de prácticas “exitosas” que son juzgadas utilizando diversos criterios. De forma paralela a la antigua estructura e historia políticas mayas y bajo estos criterios emergentes, la interpretación del sitio puede ser contada a través de las conexiones históricas mayas, poniendo el acento sobre la investigación del pasado para buscar pistas y acomodando las cambiantes necesidades en arquitectura.
An analysis of male cultural hegemony in senior management in UK academia
Authors: Bagilhole Barbara
Published: December 2016

This article examines how academia in the UK is created and perpetuated by men for men. It is based on three of the author’s research projects whose findings indicate patterns of discrimination in UK Higher Education (HE) institutes. The research projects collected both qualitative and quantitative data. The qualitative research involved in-depth semi-structured interviews with 80 academics, both women and men at all levels in the UK academic hierarchy. The quantitative research was undertaken via a website survey of the profiles of senior managers in UK HE institutes. The hypothesis is explored that an important mechanism for the continued narrow male-dominated senior management of HE is the disjuncture between formal and informal processes around university promotion. On the one hand, while transparent formal processes seek to locate promotions policies within Equal Opportunity (EO) legislation, other important informal processes are opaque, if not invisible, e.g. definitions of merit, and ways of fostering career development. Rather, these latter rely on particular forms of self-promotion, promotion by certain influential others, and subjective interpretation of policies in a way that tends to marginalise women. It is argued that male cultural hegemony, in replicating itself, perpetuates structures and practices that are insular and designed to primarily benefit a narrow group of men in senior management. These tend to be predominantly, from the disciplines in the physical sciences or engineering where men predominate. It argues that women need to challenge these structures and processes to make universities more compatible with the aspirations of women in academia and to make them more successful institutionally.
Culturas organizativas de género en la ingeniería académica alemana
Authors: Sagebiel Felizitas
Published: December 2016

Este artículo describirá y analizará cómo las profesoras manejan las normas y valores formales e informales de sus departamentos y organizaciones. El estado del arte incluye diferentes teorías e investigación de género. Con un diseño metodológico cualitativo (especialmente entrevistas y grupos de discusión), se realizaron estudios de caso en empresas, instituciones políticas, organizaciones gubernamentales de investigación y universidades. Desde una perspectiva de género, se analizaron los siguientes aspectos: estereotipos de género y expectativas de liderazgo de género, comunicación transparente y estratégica, expectativas de producción, compromiso y disponibilidad, conciencia de género e integración en redes y redes de género. Los resultados se centran en las culturas de la ingeniería académica en los institutos de investigación estudiados y en una universidad técnica.
La nueva gestión pública y las políticas de igualdad de género en las universidades
Authors: Castaño Collado Cecilia
Published: December 2016

Las políticas de igualdad de género en las universidades europeas se han aplicado en un contexto de reformas orientadas a la implantación de la lógica del mercado en la gestión de la educación superior (New Public Management). Mayor transparencia y mecanismos de competitividad empresarial podrían poner en cuestión los sistemas tradicionales de producción y reproducción del poder masculino en las universidades. Este artículo analiza la literatura sobre la experiencia de algunos países que nos han precedido en la implantación de políticas de igualdad en paralelo con políticas de transparencia y competitividad con el objetivo de extraer consecuencias que sean útiles para las políticas públicas.
Analizando la demanda: relación entre masculinidad hegemónica y prostitución femenina
Authors: Ranea Triviño Beatriz
Published: December 2016

En este artículo se presenta el estudio exploratorio realizado en 2011en la que se analiza la relación entre la construcción social del modelo de masculinidad hegemónica con el consumo de prostitución femenina. Se trata de un trabajo cualitativo en el que se realizaron entrevistas en profundidad a hombres jóvenes que alguna vez habían pagado por mantener relaciones sexuales. El estudio se centró en las experiencias, actitudes y percepciones de los hombres jóvenes heterosexuales que al menos una vez en su vida, habían pagado por sexo. Para ello, realizamos seis entrevistas semi-estructuradas, en profundidad a hombres de entre 18 a 35 años. Los resultados del análisis de las entrevistas muestran las distintas características sociodemográficas, la frecuencia en el pago por sexo, la diversidad de motivaciones, los espacios de búsqueda de prostitución, etc. Las conclusiones principales destacan que en los discursos de los entrevistados se reproducen estereotipos de género y roles en el ámbito de la sexualidad, así como que la prostitución puede ser interpretada como un escenario de representación de la masculinidad hegemónica.
Community based bioremediation: grassroots responses to urban soil contamination
Authors: Kellogg Scott
Published: December 2016

The past 150 years of industrial processes have left a legacy of toxicity in the soils of today’s urban environments. Exposure to soil based pollutants disproportionately affects low-income communities who are frequently located within formerly industrialized zones. Both gardeners, who come into direct contact with soil, as well as those who eat the products grown in the soil, are at risk to exposure from industrial contaminants. Options for low-income communities for remediating contaminated soils are limited, with most remediation work being carried out by costly engineering firms. Even more problematic is the overall lack of awareness and available information regarding safety and best practices with soils. In response to these challenges, a grassroots movement has emerged that seeks to empower urban residents with the tools and information necessary to address residual industrial toxicity in their ecosystems. Focusing on methods that are simple and affordable, this movement wishes to remove the barriers of cost and technical expertise that may be otherwise prohibitive. This paper will give an overview of this exemplar of generative justice, looking at case studies of organizations that have been successful in implementing these strategies.
El potencial transformador de la democracia monitorizada a debate: contextualización teórica y diálogo con John Keane
Authors: Feenstra Ramón A.
Published: December 2016

El concepto de democracia monitorizada fue propuesto por el teórico Keane en 2009 con la finalidad de explicar ciertas tendencias que se consolidan en las democracias contemporáneas. Entre estas destacan los procesos de filtración de datos y de escrutinio de centros y de relaciones de poder (político y económico) que consiguen alterar las dinámicas tradicionales de una democracia meramente representativa. Este texto tiene como objetivo contextualizar el conjunto de la obra de Keane en relación con este nuevo concepto y, especialmente, profundizar en su propuesta de democracia monitorizada para ver el potencial transformador y analítico que le acompaña.
Fiber arts and generative justice
Authors: Kuhn Sarah
Published: December 2016

The fiber arts, because they are practiced in different forms around the globe, have the potential to teach us much about generative justice that unites labor, ecological, and expressive values. The ecological mutualism documented in Navajo corrals supports traditional weaving, dyeing, food, and medicinal practices in a sustainable and generative cycle that survives despite disruption and exploitation. The network of fiber craftspeople, retailers, ranchers, teachers, spinners, and dyers and their organizations supports the social mutualism of fiber communities. Fiber arts practices can benefit individuals, communities, the environment, and public health, among other things. Conscious fiber activism and critical making can also be used to explicitly draw attention to problems such as overconsumption, waste, industrial “fast fashion,” labor exploitation, environmental degradation, toxic risks, intolerance, and the devaluing of women and their work. Fiber arts have the potential to support environmental and social mutualism and catalyze a new aesthetic of long-term attachment to meaningful objects and communities, reinforcing the creation and conservation of expressive, ecological, and labor value.
Quantitative metrics for generative justice: graphing the value of diversity
Authors: Callahan Brian Robert , Hathaway Charles , Krishnamoorthy Mukkai
Published: December 2016

Scholarship utilizing the Generative Justice framework has focused primarily on qualitative data collection and analysis for its insights. This paper introduces a quantitative data measurement, contributory diversity, which can be used to enhance the analysis of ethical dimensions of value production under the Generative Justice lens. It is well known that the identity of contributors—gender, ethnicity, and other categories—is a key issue for social justice in general. Using the example of Open Source Software communities, we note that that typical diversity measures, focusing exclusively on workforce demographics, can fail to fully illuminate issues in value generation. Using Shannon’s entropy measure, we offer an alternative metric which combines the traditional assessment of demographics with a measure of value generation. This mapping allows for previously unacknowledged contributions to be recognized, and can avoid some of the ways in which exclusionary practices are obscured. We offer contributory diversity not as the single optimal metric, but rather as a call for others to begin investigating the possibilities for quantitative measurements of the communities and value flows that are studied using the Generative Justice framework.
An introduction to generative justice
Authors: Eglash Ron
Published: December 2016

Marx proposed that capitalism’s destructive force is caused, at root, by the alienation of labor value from its generators. Environmentalists have added the concept of unalienated ecological value, and rights activists added the unalienated expressive value of free speech, sexuality, spirituality, etc. Marx’s vision for restoring an unalienated world by top-down economic governance was never fulfilled. But in the last 30 years, new forms of social justice have emerged that operate as “bottom-up”. Peer-to-peer production such as open source software or wikipedia has challenged the corporate grip on IP in a “gift exchange” of labor value; community based agroecology establishes a kind of gift exchange with our nonhuman allies in nature. DIY citizenship from feminist makerspaces to queer biohacking has profound implications for a new materialism of the “knowledge commons”; and restorative approaches to civil rights can challenge the prison-industrial complex. In contrast to top-down “distributive justice,” all of the above are cases of bottom-up or “generative justice”
“Freedom from jobs” or learning to love to labor? Diversity advocacy and working imaginaries in Open Technology Projects
Authors: Dunbar-Hester Christina
Published: December 2016

This paper examines imaginaries of work and labor in “open technology” projects (especially open source software and hackerspaces), based on ethnographic research in North America. It zeroes in on “diversity initiatives” within open technology projects. These initiatives are important because they expose many of the assumptions and tensions that surround participatory cultures. On the one hand, these projects and spaces are organized around voluntarism; in theory, everyone who wishes to participate is welcome to do so. On the other hand, diversity initiatives form in order to address the “problem” of imbalance in the ranks of participants. Technology is a unique domain for the discharge of political energies. In collective imagination, it has been vested with the power to initiate change (even as this belief obscures the role of social and economic relations). Multiple ideas circulate about the relationships between diversity in open technology projects and paid labor. This paper argues that in part due to the legacy of technical hobbies as training grounds for technical employment for much of the twentieth century, as documented by historians of radio (Douglas, 1987; Haring, 2006), voluntaristic technology projects are vexed sites for imagining political emancipation. To a large degree, diversity initiatives in open technology projects are consistent with corporate values of diversity as a marketplace value.  At the same time, collectivity formations around technology that incorporate feminist, antiracist, or social justice framings may begin to generate connections between diversity advocacy in tech fields and social justice movements or policy changes in order to effect deep social change.
Juventud, cultura y NTICs: ¿triángulo o prisma?
Authors: Sequeiros Bruna Costán , Puente Bienvenido Héctor , López Jiménez Mélida , Fernández Ruiz Marta
Published: December 2016

El mundo cambia a una velocidad acelerada por la globalización y los avances tecnológicos, de los cuales las nuevas tecnologías de la información y el conocimiento (NTICs) son una pieza central. La juventud, ávida de nuevas experiencias y productos, suele encontrarse en la vanguardia del uso e innovación con estas nuevas tecnologías, adaptándolas a sus necesidades e intereses y contribuyendo a crear y difundir formas originales de interacción. Cuestiones como la alfabetización tecnológica, los discursos tecnófilos y tecnófobos, los conceptos de nativos analógicos y digitales son elementos cada vez más importantes del debate social actual y merecen un estudio en profundidad. Siendo un ámbito de estudio novedoso y en cambio acelerado, la investigación en este espacio se encuentra con numerosas complicaciones y trabas metodológicas pero también a nivel de los objetos de estudio, entre los cuales fenómenos crecientes como los videojuegos son a menudo dejados de lado por ser considerados poco académicos.
Uso comunitario de pequeños vehículos aéreos no tripulados (drones) en conflictos ambientales: ¿un factor innovador desequilibrante?
Authors: Paneque-Gálvez Jaime , Vargas-Ramírez Nicolás , Morales-Magaña Marcela
Published: December 2016

En Latinoamérica, los territorios indígenas y campesinos enfrentan graves problemas que generan numerosos conflictos ambientales. En estos territorios, con frecuencia las comunidades padecen situaciones graves de pobreza y exclusión social, carecen de los medios necesarios para hacer frente al deterioro ambiental causado por empresas y otros actores, y no cuentan con el estado para solucionar sus problemas. Por ello, diseñar e implementar participativamente programas de mapeo y monitoreo territorial en estas comunidades, puede resultar muy útil para generar evidencias de los impactos causados y, así, enfrentar un conflicto ambiental con mayores garantías de éxito. En estos casos, pensamos que la utilización comunitaria de vehículos aéreos no tripulados (drones), puede resultar en una innovación social con potencial para desequilibrar la balanza de fuerzas a favor de una comunidad. No obstante, creemos que este desequilibrio también puede darse en sentido inverso, es decir, en contra de la comunidad, dependiendo de diversos factores internos y externos. Con el objetivo de dilucidar el potencial de la herramienta en una situación de conflicto ambiental, en este estudio describimos dos experiencias en México en las que capacitamos a una comunidad indígena en situación de conflicto ambiental en el uso de un dron. Extraemos de ellas varios aspectos para la reflexión e identificamos algunos retos y oportunidades que consideramos de particular relevancia con respecto al objetivo planteado.
Reseña/Review (Brossat, Alain, "El gran hartazgo cultural". Madrid: Ediciones Dado. ISBN: 9788494507205, 186 pgs., 2016)
Authors: García Arnau Albert
Published: December 2016

Reseña/Review (Brossat, Alain, "El gran hartazgo cultural". Madrid: Ediciones Dado. ISBN: 9788494507205, 186 pgs., 2016)
Fluxo assistencial de usuárias com câncer de mama na rede pública de atenção à saúde
Authors: Tolêdo Silvia Rosa de Souza , Almeida Nilza Alves Marques , Souza Marta Rovery de , Minamisava Ruth , Freitas Júnior Ruffo
Published: December 2016

Estudo transversal analítico que objetivou analisar a prevalência e os fatores associados ao fluxo assistencial nos três níveis de atenção à saúde exclusivamente no Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS) de usuárias com câncer de mama. Entrevistaram-se 92 mulheres com câncer de mama, entre 29 e 82 anos, em tratamento ambulatorial em nível terciário de atenção à saúde do SUS. A prevalência de utilização do fluxo realizado exclusivamente no SUS, nos três níveis de atenção à saúde, foi de 43,5% (IC95% 33,6-53,7). Cerca de um terço das mulheres realizou consultas ou exames na rede privada, principalmente a mamografia. Os fatores associados à utilização do fluxo exclusivamente SUS, nos três níveis, foi idade ≤20 anos na primeira consulta ginecológica (OR=2,55) e estar sem trabalho remunerado (OR=3,28). Estes resultados sugerem a necessidade de melhoria de acesso na rede pública de atenção à saúde para mulheres com câncer de mama.
Promoção do aleitamento materno no ensino fundamental: revisão integrativa
Authors: Martins Fernanda Demutti Pimpão , Leal Luciana Pedrosa , Guedes Tatiane Gomes , Javorski Marly , Pontes Cleide Maria
Published: December 2016

Estudo com o objetivo de analisar as abordagens sobre a promoção do aleitamento materno no ensino fundamental. Revisão integrativa realizada na BVS, PUBMED, SCOPUS, CINAHL, COCHRANE e SciELO, sendo encontradas 1.598 publicações e sete selecionadas para a amostra final. Categorias identificadas - Abordagens sobre o conhecimento, percepções, crenças e experiências de aleitamento materno na perspectiva das crianças: as entrevistas revelaram conhecimentos e crenças desfavoráveis à amamentação; -  Abordagem do conteúdo de promoção do aleitamento materno no ensino fundamental: o conteúdo é abordado superficialmente nos livros didáticos e os educadores afirmam não ministrá-lo em aula. A abordagem da amamentação no ensino fundamental demonstrou-se variada, porém, reduzida, especialmente em relação às intervenções educativas. Ao enfermeiro cabe ampliar essa abordagem, com metodologias ativas e lúdicas, com vistas a impactar no futuro das próximas gerações.
Conteúdos representacionais da violência doméstica contra a mulher entre discentes de enfermagem
Authors: Silva Camila Daiane , Gomes Vera Lúcia de Oliveira , Fonseca Adriana Dora da , Arejano Ceres Braga , Gomes Giovana Calcagno
Published: December 2016

Objetivou-se analisar os conteúdos representacionais da violência doméstica contra mulher entre discentes de enfermagem. Pesquisa qualitativa, fundamentada na Teoria das Representações Sociais. Coletaram-se os dados, entre agosto e novembro/2014, por entrevistas semiestruturada, analisadas por software. Participaram 33 discentes, 16 das séries iniciais e 17 das finais. Identificou-se duas categorias: conteúdos representacionais adquiridos no período pré-universitário e universitário. As séries iniciais elencaram o ensino médio, casos ocorridos com familiares e colegas. Entre as séries finais, o conhecimento foi adquirido durante semanas acadêmicas, grupos de pesquisa, atividades práticas e estágios. O conhecimento do senso comum é constante, principalmente, entre as discentes das séries iniciais e o reificado, entre as das séries finais. As ações do futuro cotidiano profissional podem ser pautadas nas vivências pessoais, no conhecimento do senso comum, reificado e no saber prático gerado durante a graduação. Destaca-se o impacto na formação para prestar assistência a mulheres/pessoas em situação de violência.
Determinants of Capital Structure in Bahrain Stock Market
Authors: Meero Abdelrhman Ahmad
Published: December 2016

The aim of this paper is to examine the determinants of capital structure (profitability, size, risk and growth). The sample is composed of 39 Bahraini firms listed in Bahrain Stock Market. The study covered the period 2011-2015. Correlation and regression analysis have been used to identify the relationship between the capital structure determinants and debt leverages (book leverage and market leverage). Correlation analysis aims to identify this relationship at market level and at sectorial level. Regression analysis objective is to anticipate the models characterizing the relationships between determinants and capital leverages. Results of the analysis shows negative significant relationship between profitability and dependent variables, with more significance relationship with market leverage. This relationship is demonstrated in market level and in insurance and services sectors between profitability and book leverage. When the market leverage is the dependent variable this relationship is valid in market level and in banking, hotels, insurance and services sectors. Positive significant relationship has been found between size and both leverages in market level. Similar result is detected on sectorial level in banking, industrial, investment and services when the dependent variable is book leverage. Size-market leverage relationship is positive and significant also in insurance, investment and services sectors. The relationship risk—book leverage is significant only on sectorial level in Industrial, insurance and investment sectors. In term of market leverage—risk relationship, significant relationship is detected in market level and in investment and services sectors. Regression analysis results present a significant linear model reflecting the relationship between determinants of capital structure and leverages.
Singing Sustenance: An Ethnographic Account of Village Songs and Community Development in Postwar Rural Japan
Authors: Hasan Eid-Ul
Published: December 2016

This paper offers an ethnographic account of seven village songs associated with community development in postwar rural Japan. These songs belong to Oyama Town in the southern island of Kyushu in Japan, and were created by the local community members mostly between 1961 and 1965. In Japan the village songs in prewar period were rooted in daily village life, and sang the glory of nostalgia in the form of work songs, party songs, calendrical or communal festival songs. In the postwar period, however, village songs embraced modernity as their focal theme. These seven village songs, created during high growth days, are songs with a difference as they portray efforts to bring about community development, under the New Plum and Chestnut (NPC) movement, with plum and chestnut as main crops, against the backdrop of a strongly centralized policy oriented rural Japan. The research found that the village songs had encouraged and motivated a rural community like the Oyama Town to create a “sense of community” through shared values and common goal. By exploring these songs, the research also identified that the local government such as the town office, which acted as a legitimate vehicle either by nurturing the potential local human resources or by entrusting the responsibility of community development with the local employees, had played an important role in devising and materializing the common goal—the development of Oyama.
Criminalization on Husband Wife Relationship towards Nushuz in the Perspective of Islamic Law and Criminal Code
Authors: Mukarromah Oom , Ubaidillah Asep
Published: December 2016

The purpose of this study was to determine the criminalization law of nusyuz behavior both in Islamic law and the Criminal Code, and to know the relevance of Islamic law with the Criminal Code and Law No. 23 of 2004 in criminalization law of nusyuz behavior. The study used juridical normative approach in order to find the principle or the doctrine of positive law relevant to the issues studied, such as the opinions and ideas of jurists on the criminalization of the nusyuz behavior. This study used literature research method, which is a research conducted with data resources obtained from books or other writings relevant to the subject matter. The sources drawn from various works that discuss the problems of the family, the rights and protection of women, domestic violence and some literature on criminal law from the perspective of Islamic law and positive law. From the study, it can be concluded that: First, under the Islamic law, any form of physical violence against the wife is categorized in the form of jarimah (a criminal act) which is regulated in Islamic criminal law (fiqh jinayah). Second, in a substance, criminal law of physical violence against wife in the Domestic Violence Act is part of jarimah, a criminal act besides the soul. According to the Islamic criminal law, criminal act is classified into jarimah takzir.
Updates on animal models of systemic sclerosis
Authors: Soare Alina , Ramming Andreas , Avouac Jerome , Distler Jörg H.W.
Published: December 2016

Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a connective tissue disease of unknown etiology that is characterized by fibrosis of the skin and several internal organs, vasculopathy, inflammation and autoimmunity. Animal models have improved our understanding of the pathogenesis of SSc. Many inducible and genetic animal models of SSc have been developed and characterized in the last years. All of these models have different strengths and limitations and mimic different aspects of the pathogenesis of SSc. The purpose of this review is to summarize the characteristics of the various animal models of SSc and to provide an outline of how to use these models to study certain aspects in the pathogenesis of SSc and to test the effects of potential therapeutic approaches.
An additional larval type in the genus Chironomus – the yama-type.
Authors: Martin Jon , Chingangbam Dhananjoy S
Published: December 2016

A new larval type in the genus Chironomus is suggested.
In memoriam: Hiroshi Hashimoto (1924–2015)
Authors: Niitsuma Hiromi
Published: December 2016

Dr Hiroshi Hashimoto, Emeritus Professor of Shizuoka University, passed away quietly on 26 February 2015 in Kanagawa, Japan, at the age of 90. He was a distinguished entomologist and authority of Japanese dipterology, and produced many conspicuous achievements, especially on chironomids. He was also an excellent taxonomist of fresh-water hydroids.
Benefits of chironomid research: Perspectives from undergraduate researchers
Authors: Anderson Alyssa , Roberts Nathan J. , Durnin Tessa I. , Wollman Katherine M.
Published: December 2016

Benefits of chironomid research: Perspectives from undergraduate researchers
Memory and Propaganda in Venice after the Fourth Crusade
Authors: Berto Luigi Andrea
Published: December 2016

By examining the first Venetian chronicle written after the Fourth Crusade, the Historia ducum Venetorum (1102–1229), this article shows how the Venetian ruling elites wanted to present their recent past. In particular, it proves that the author of that work and probably many of his fellow countrymen wished to point out that the Venetians gave fundamental support toward the defense and strengthening of the Kingdom of Jerusalem without expecting any material reward. Moreover, the Venetians had always been good friends and allies of the Byzantines, and the deterioration of this relationship and the conquest of Constantinople had to be attributed to the irresponsible behavior and ingratitude of the Byzantine emperors. By distorting or omitting a few events, they also wanted to demonstrate that Venice always enjoyed a perfect internal harmony and, therefore, represented an ideal society.