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U.S.A. and the Totality of Modern Life
Authors: Nemmers Adam
Published: May 2022

This chapter explores John Dos Passos’s U. S. A. in depth, beginning with the innovative form of the novel, which brings together disparate novels, sections, and characters into a single epic. The United States itself is the novel’s protagonist, and its plot is the first thirty-odd years of the twentieth century, a dizzying period of upheaval, boom, and bust. Dos Passos’s sympathies lie with the common man attempting to navigate this landscape, and his epic of the everyman follows a dozen protagonists. subverts the predominant ideology of American society, which held individuals as beneficially distinct and alone, instead placing them into relationship as members of a larger body, who—like or unlike, known or unknown—are brought into contact with each other as a simple and natural matter of existence. Yet he also chronicles the failed promise of interwar Marxism, a futile and pathetic effort that winds up disappointing its adherents.
American Apartheid
Authors: Nemmers Adam
Published: May 2022

This chapter begins by relating a discombobulating episode involving Richard Wright and the Dutch Treat Club, a misunderstanding about his modern(ist) epic Native Son and his protagonist Bigger Thomas, that reveals just how segregated the United States was during this era. It also offers a brief primer on the history of white supremacy in the United States, which I liken to a system of American apartheid designed to whites above and blacks below. A crucial tenet of this system was visibility, which enabled whites to control when they could see and were seen, while Blacks’ views were constricted and controlled. Native Son sends its circumscribed epic hero, Bigger Thomas, on an epic quest across the Chicago color line in an effort to do, be, and seen.
A Quest Across the Color Line
Authors: Nemmers Adam
Published: May 2022

This chapter describes the epic journey of Bigger Thomas in Richard Wright’s epic modern(ist) novel, Native Son as he traverses the color line from and to Chicago’s Black Belt. As Bigger completes his quest by claiming the grail and killing the monster (both in the form of the fetishized white woman, Mary Dalton), he gains a measure of visibility, knowing that he will die, but die having committed a meaningful act for once in his life. Though Bigger’s example is to some extent a tragedy, the end of the novel gestures to a path of racial reconciliation between Bigger and Jan, Mary’s erstwhile boyfriend, with the men meeting in person and working to remove the curtain and enable visibility between them. As Wright posits, this sort of interaction may crucial to dismantling the system of white supremacy in the United States.
Coda
Authors: Nemmers Adam
Published: May 2022

The coda to this volume discusses how minority status and modernism may be intertwined, and especially how those who were considered (or considered themselves) “outsiders” to American society. I also consider the question of whether an American epic could ever be written and accepted as such, and weigh the success of the novels under study in this volume, ultimately deciding that the size and diversity of the country makes such an effort impossible.
Pound’s Vorticist Theory and H.D.’s “Oread”
Authors: Kita Yoshiko
Published: May 2022

Yoshiko Kita provides a case study of the intersection of Vorticism, H.D.’s poem, “Oread,” and the prints from the Edo period of the Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849). Beginning with Pound’s dictum, “The vortex is the point of maximum energy,” Kita juxtaposes H.D.’s poem to three Hokusai watercolors, Mount Fuji at
Sea, The Great Wave off Kanagawa, and Mount Fuji in a
Sake Cup, in order to illuminate “the affinity and, more importantly, the difference between [Pound’s and H.D.’s] poetic criteria during the formative period of Vorticism.” In what for Kita is the epitome of a cross-cultural poem, “Oread” demonstrates an intersection of historical influences—as it “echoes Pound’s definition of a ‘one image poem,’” embodies the classical Greek spirit, and shares structural and thematic elements with Hokusai’s color-engravings. Kita argues for how H.D. drew from the Japanese prints by documenting her keen awareness of Japanese art and underscoring the cross-cultural concurrence in H.D.’s poem of Vorticist art, Greek myth, and “the combination of two different types of natural forces,” evident in Hokusai’s seascapes. She concludes that both Pound’s Vorticist theory and H.D.’s execution of it draw as much from visual art as from literature.
Ritual and Performance in The Pisan Canto s and H.D.’s Trilogy
Authors: Ferreccio Giuliana
Published: May 2022

Ferreccio applies to both Pound’s The Pisan Cantos (1948) and H,D,’s Trilogy (1944-46) Jonathan Culler’s deconstructive concept of the lyric poem which (as Ferreccio defines it) “highlights the performative character of lyric verse and explores . . . the peculiarity of their linguistic acts.” Ferreccio also identifies an important distinction in their technique. Beside his collage method, she describes what she calls Pound’s “Forms of Ritual Address,” evident in his “recurrent, most notable lyrical outbursts,” as well as in his ritualization of memory. These devices contrast H.D.’s more “assertive and inspired” speaker, whom the poet places “in a transitional space” aligned with “the convention of devotional poetry.” Ferreccio argues that the main difference between these two long poems “lies precisely in the status of the lyrical I”: While Pound “offers resistance to that semantic linearity,” for H.D., the “individual voice is forever there in the present tense” and “conducted not by an impersonal mediator but by a priestess figure.” Despite these differences, Ferreccio acknowledges that both poets draw heavily on cross-cultural sources, so that for both the lyrical is situated “in the tension between context and utterance, repetition and creation.”
A Carthaginian Peace
Authors: Coyle Michael
Published: May 2022

Michael Coyle revisits the work of the now almost forgotten Harold H. Watts, who in 1947 was the first to give Pound’s work “professional attention.” Even before the uproar over awarding the first Bollingen Prize for Poetry to The Pisan
Cantos in 1949, there appeared the first academic study of Pound’s work. But the 1951 appearance of Hugh Kenner’s astutely designed book, The Poetry of Ezra
Pound, with its expressly aesthetic reading of Pound, undermined Watts’s criticism, eventually relegating his work to obscurity. Watts took the doomed position that, as Coyle puts it, “in order to understand Pound better we need to leave Poundian locutions behind,” while in “dramatic contrast,“ he notes, “Kenner strove wherever possible to adhere to Pound’s own figures and formulations.” Not only did Kenner manage “practically to obliterate” Watts’s work, but he became the architect of the foundation of the academic discussion of Pound ever since.
Genealogy
Authors: Aleckson Sam
Published: May 2022

Williams tells of his family history in South Carolina
The Lover
Authors: Aleckson Sam
Published: May 2022

Discussions about the enslaver, "Mr. Ward" and whether or not he was a good master. Examples of his paternalistic surveillance of enslaved people, including violent punishments of unapproved romances among enslaved people.
Silla—The Maid
Authors: Aleckson Sam
Published: May 2022

Silla, a maid in Chrleston is punished severely for daring to wear a hat her enslaver disapproves of.
Mr. Ward’s Return to Pine Top
Authors: Aleckson Sam
Published: May 2022

After the War, Mr. Ward returns to the plantation labor camp. Reunites with people he had abused, especially Mingo.
“One physical–mental inspiration of thought”
Authors: Walker Luke
Published: May 2022

Although he never visited Black Mountain College, Allen Ginsberg developed deep and long-lasting connections with the poets who became known as the “Black Mountain School.” Indeed, Ginsberg appears to have been the first to use this particular term in print, several years before the canonization of the Black Mountain grouping in Donald Allen’s The New American Poetry (1960). At the same time as Ginsberg categorized, befriended, and promoted Black Mountain poets, he also attempted to theorize the commonality of Beat and Black Mountain poetics, often through ideas linking the breath, mind, and body of the poet.
Yugen at the Front
Authors: Belletto Steven
Published: May 2022

This chapter shows how the avant-garde little magazine Yugen staged confrontations between two ostensibly distinct poetic schools, the Beats and Black Mountain, only to finally downplay their differences and present them as a united front against the accepted wisdom of postwar literary production. In particular, the chapter analyzes an exchange between Gregory Corso and Gilbert Sorrentino that played out in the pages of Yugen, and that centered on a disagreement about the proper use of measure in contemporary poetry.
“To open your ears”
Authors: Hart George
Published: May 2022

The open form poetics of the New American Poetry rejected traditional poetic and social forms in favor of spontaneity and improvisation. Through their use of the typewriter, Beat and Black Mountain writers practice an embodied poetics that recovers the experience of space-time from the time crisis of modernity, one example of the social conformity rejected by the avant garde. In Olson’s theory of Projective Verse, the typewriter produces a visual form on the page that is intended to be heard. This chapter argues that Beat-Black Mountain writers such as Jack Kerouac and Larry Eigner use the typewriter, in Olson’s “projective” or “percussive” sense, to produce irreducibly graphic texts that refuse the binary distinctions between writing and speaking, seeing and hearing, space and time.
Hybrid Epistolary Poetic Persuasion
Authors: Grace Nancy M.
Published: May 2022

This chapter explores the rhetorical composition of the hybrid epistolary correspondences of Charles Olson and Diane di Prima in the 1960s and early 1970s. Olson wrote to the Gloucester Daily Times to advocate for the preservation of historical buildings and natural ecosystems. Di Prima wrote partly to complement the Diggers' counterculture street theater in San Francisco, providing practical tactics for perpetuating and surviving a revolution and emphasizing the Edenic nature of the material universe; several were published in the Liberation News Service newspaper, and the set became the opening texts in her Revolutionary Letters. Both Olson’s and di Prima’s letters employ techniques associated with Beat prosody, including the prophetic voice, a mixture of popular culture and literary language, the lament and the jeremiad, and the invective, with both recognizing the role of the poet as the keeper of human history through language.
A Theory of Organic Reading
Authors: Wrighton John
Published: May 2022

An outsider in Manhattan in the 1950s, Denise Levertov learnt to hear the local vernacular and brought her own spiritual, political, and poetic sensibility to the American field. In the summer of 1969, when Levertov was teaching a poetry class at Berkeley, the alternative press covered the Battle for People’s Park. In her poetry book of the period, To Stay Alive (1971), she developed her use of the line break as measured by the breath and a sequencing or framing of ideas and images. This article develops from her “organic form” a corresponding theory of “organic reading” by adopting a wide perceptual lens encompassing Levertov’s correspondence with William Carlos Williams, her appearance in the little magazines associated with the Beat and Black Mountain poets, and the graphic intertextuality of the alternative press. The method of “organic reading” thereby illuminates both the unique experience of Levertov’s poetic presence and the formal poetics of To Stay Alive as it is integrated within the design strategies of a wider social movement in the postwar period.
“It’s always an adventure ”
Authors: Montefalcone Barbara
Published: May 2022

The literary works of writers belonging to the Beat and Black Mountain circles reveal a specific approach to and interaction with the visual arts. Multi-authored and collaborative works were common in both groups, yet the activity of collaboration was practiced at different levels of regularity and proximity. While keeping in mind the interconnectedness of literary and artistic production of the time, this article focuses on the role played by the visual arts in shaping both Beat and Black Mountain’s poetics. It also analyses the role of each specific community in encouraging transdisciplinary exchanges and explores the particular involvement in collaborative projects of such authors as Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Robert Duncan, Charles Olson, Jonathan Williams, and Robert Creeley.
THE INFLUENCE OF PSYCHOLOGICAL OWNERSHIP AND SOCIAL SUPPORT ON ORGANIZATIONAL RESILIENCE: THE MEDIATING ROLE OF ORGANIZATIONAL IDENTITY
Authors: He Kui , Oláh Judit , Hasan Morshadul
Published: May 2022

Faced with a complex and volatile environment, improving the resilience of organizations to resist various risks, enhancing the viability of enterprises, and ultimately achieving sustainable development capabilities has become a top priority for business managers. This study first explores the relationship between employee psychological ownership, organizational resilience, and social support by combining the relevant literature, constructing a theoretical research model, and proposing hypotheses. Through statistical analysis of 332 valid questionnaires, the results show that employee psychological ownership positively impacts organizational resilience. Also, social supports positively affect organizational resilience and organizational identity in employee psychological ownership, and social supports and organizational resilience both play an intermediary role.
DOES URBANIZATION IMPROVE ENERGY EFFICIENCY? EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM CHINA
Authors: Yu Yantuan , Luo Nengsheng
Published: May 2022

An analysis of urbanization’s effects on energy efficiency (EE) is presented in this paper. We develop an input-oriented data envelopment analysis method to estimate EE in the presence of non-convex metafrontier, and examine how urbanization affects China’s EE using data from 251 cities for the period 2003 to 2016. The findings indicate that demographic urbanization (DU), land urbanization (LU), and economical urbanization (EU) significantly exert positive effects on EE. Specifically, estimates from a Tobit model with random effects show that a unit increase in DU, LU and EU would result in an increase in EE by 0.15, 0.15 and 0.45, respectively. These results are robust across econometric specifications, including fixed and correlated random effects Tobit models. Sensitivity analysis of quasi-DID and stochastic frontier estimations also support our findings. The policy implications suggest policymakers should steer urbanization and energy consumption towards becoming more market-oriented and take advantage of how energy market structure complements energy structure, cultivating new energy industries that can greatly improve EE.
Nonthermal Radio Continuum Emission from Young Nearby Stars
Authors: Launhardt Ralf , Loinard Laurent , Dzib Sergio A. , Forbrich Jan , Bower Geoffrey C. , Henning Thomas K. , Mioduszewski Amy J. , Reffert Sabine
Published: May 2022

Young and magnetically active low-mass stars often exhibit nonthermal coronal radio emission owing to the gyration of electrons in their magnetized chromospheres. This emission is easily detectable at centimeter wavelengths with the current sensitivity of large radio interferometers like the Very Large Array (VLA). With the aim of identifying nearby stars adequate for future accurate radio astrometric monitoring using very long baseline interferometry (VLBI), we have used the VLA in its B configuration to search for radio emission at ν ≃ 6 GHz (λ ≃ 5 cm) toward a sample of 170 nearby (<130 pc), mostly young (5–500 Myr) stars of spectral types between F4 and M2. At our mean 3σ detection limit of ≃50 μJy, we identify 31 young stars with coronal radio emission (an 18% system detection rate) and more than 600 background (most likely extragalactic) sources. Among the targeted stars, we find a significant decline of the detection rate with age from 56% ± 20% for stars with ages ≤10 Myr to 10% ± 3% for stars with ages 100–200 Myr. No star older than 200 Myr was detected. The detection rate also declines with T
eff from 36% ± 10% for stars with T
eff < 4000 K to 13% ± 3% for earlier spectral types with T
eff > 5000 K. The binarity fraction among the radio-bright stars is at least twice as high as among the radio-quiet stars. The radio-bright nearby young stars identified here provide an interesting sample for future astrometric studies using VLBI arrays aimed at searching for hitherto-unknown tight binary components or even exoplanets.
Line Profile Studies of Coronal Active Regions in Fe xii
λ195.12 Using Hinode/EIS
Authors: Prabhakar Maya , Raju K. P
Published: May 2022

Coronal active regions are studied using Hinode/EIS observations in the EUV line Fe xii
λ195.12 by analyzing their line profiles from 2006 December to 2019 December. The period covers the last 2 yr of solar cycle 23 and solar cycle 24 fully. Active regions are the main source of magnetic field in the solar atmosphere, important in its heating and dynamics. Line profiles were obtained from various active regions spread across the Sun on a monthly basis from which we obtained the intensity, line width, Doppler velocity, and centroid and examined their variation during the solar cycle. The histograms of the Doppler velocity and centroid show that they behave in six different ways with respect to the position of rest wavelength. In addition, the shifts in the centroid were found to be more compared to the Doppler velocity. The variation of the line width with respect to the Doppler velocity or the centroid mostly follows a second-degree polynomial. A multicomponent line profile is simulated to explain the difference in the behavior of the Doppler velocity and the centroid with respect to the line width. We also find that the intensity and the line width of the different data sets show a global dependence on the solar cycle with a good correlation. The implications of the results for the coronal heating and dynamics are pointed out.
Spectroscopic Line Modeling of the Fastest Rotating O-type Stars
Authors: Shepard Katherine , Gies Douglas R. , Kaper Lex , De Koter Alex
Published: May 2022

We present a spectroscopic analysis of the most rapidly rotating stars currently known, VFTS 102 (

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km s−1; O9: Vnnne+) and VFTS 285 (

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km s−1; O7.5: Vnnn), both members of the 30 Dor complex in the Large Magellanic Cloud. This study is based on high-resolution ultraviolet spectra from Hubble Space Telescope/Cosmic Origins Spectrograph and optical spectra from the Very Large Telescope (VLT) X-shooter plus archival VLT GIRAFFE spectra. We utilize numerical simulations of their photospheres, rotationally distorted shape, and gravity darkening to calculate model spectral line profiles and predicted monochromatic absolute fluxes. We use a guided grid search to investigate parameters that yield best fits for the observed features and fluxes. These fits produce estimates of the physical parameters for these stars (plus a Galactic counterpart, ζ Oph) including the equatorial rotational velocity, inclination, radius, mass, gravity, temperature, and reddening. We find that both stars appear to be radial-velocity constant. VFTS 102 is rotating at critical velocity, has a modest He enrichment, and appears to share the motion of the nearby OB-association LH 99. These properties suggest that the star was spun up through a close binary merger. VFTS 285 is rotating at 95% of critical velocity, has a strong He enrichment, and is moving away from the R136 cluster at the center of 30 Dor. It is mostly likely a runaway star ejected by a supernova explosion that released the components of the natal binary system.
Taxonomy of Dianthus (Caryophyllaceae) – overall phylogenetic relationships and assessment of species diversity based on a first comprehensive checklist of the genus
Authors: Fassou Georgia , Korotkova Nadja , Nersesyan Anush , Koch Marcus A. , Dimopoulos Panayotis , Borsch Thomas
Published: May 2022

In this study, we present an overall phylogenetic framework for Dianthus using four plastid regions (matK-trnK-psbA, rpl32-trnL, trnQ-rps16) and nuclear ITS and a species-level checklist for the genus developed by using all available databases and the literature. The trees from the plastid dataset depict a clade of Dianthus that also includes Velezia and a few taxa of Petrorhagia. New combinations in Dianthus are provided for these species. The checklist of Dianthus in this new delimitation covers 1781 names, with 384 accepted species, 150 subspecies, 12 heterotypic varieties and two forms (not counting autonyms), 1050 synonyms, 22 hybrid names and 172 unresolved names, 3 names were excluded. Implications for the evolution of flower characters, life forms, biogeography, as well as sectional classification are discussed based on the phylogenetic framework.
Effects of fishmeal substitution with Hermetia illucens L on the growth, metabolism and disease resistance of Micropterus salmoides
Authors: Wang B.T. , Wu H.L. , Dong Y.W. , Jiang B. , Li W. , Su Y.L. , Huang Y.H. , Liu C.
Published: May 2022

Identifying suitable substitutes for fishmeal has been one of the important issues for the aquaculture industry for decades. Recently, the black soldier fly, Hermetia illucens L (HI) has become one of the most promising alternative protein substitutes for fishmeal in aqua-diets. This study investigated the effects of fishmeal substitution with fresh HI larvae on growth, serum and liver parameters, intestinal enzyme activity, histomorphology and innate resistance to Aeromonas schubertii in Largemouth bass. Three hundred and seventy-five Largemouth bass were randomly allocated into five groups and fed different diet proportions of HI instead of fishmeal as 0, 5, 10, 15 and 20% HI for 49 days. Results showed that the growth performance of fish, including feed conversion ratio and feed intake were not affected by dietary treatments of 5 and 10% HI. However, the levels of them are significantly increased in 20% HI. Serum alanine aminotransferase content in Largemouth bass fed 20% HI were significantly increased. The liver total protein levels of fish fed 15 and 20% HI were significantly increased, while glutathione peroxidase activity was significantly decreased. In fish fed 5% HI, GSH-PX activity was significantly increased. Intestinal amylase activity of fish fed 15 and 20% HI was decreased. The hepatic and intestinal histomorphology of all fish was unaffected, the intestinal epithelial cells were intact and the intestinal villi were clearly visible. After 49 days, it was found that fish fed 5% HI significantly reduced the amount of A. schubertii colonisation in the spleen at 48 h and 72 h after A. schubertii challenge. It was concluded that the replacement of dietary fishmeal with 5% HI did not alter growth performance, and hepatic and intestinal histomorphology and it improved the antioxidant level and disease resistance of Largemouth bass.
Long-wavelength limit for the Green–Naghdi equations
Authors: Li Min
Published: May 2022

This paper studies the long-wavelength limit for the one-dimensional Green–Naghdi (GN) equations, which are often used to describe the propagation of fully nonlinear waves in coastal oceanography. We prove that, under the long-wavelength, small-amplitude approximation, the formal Korteweg–de Vries (KdV) equation for the GN equations is mathematically valid in the time interval for which the KdV dynamics survive. The main idea in the proof is to apply the Gardner–Morikawa transform, the reductive perturbation method, and some error energy estimates. The main novelties of this paper are the construction of valid approximate solutions of the GN equations with respect to the small wave amplitude parameter and global uniform energy estimates for the error system.
On regular solutions and singularity formation for Vlasov/Navier-Stokes equations with degenerate viscosities and vacuum
Authors: Choi Young-Pil , Jung Jinwook
Published: May 2022

We analyze the Vlasov equation coupled with the compressible Navier–Stokes equations with degenerate viscosities and vacuum. These two equations are coupled through the drag force which depends on the fluid density and the relative velocity between particle and fluid. We first establish the existence and uniqueness of local-in-time regular solutions with arbitrarily large initial data and a vacuum. We then present sufficient conditions on the initial data leading to the finite-time blowup of regular solutions. In particular, our study makes the result on the finite-time singularity formation for Vlasov/Navier–Stokes equations discussed by Choi [J. Math. Pures Appl., 108, (2017), 991–1021] completely rigorous.
Impact of Workforce Diversity on Innovation
Authors: Chaarani Hani , Skaf Yehya Adnan , Khalife Daniele
Published: May 2022

The objective of this chapter is to reveal the impact of workforce diversity on the innovation level of Lebanese family firms. Data for this research work was collected from different Lebanese sectors during the first quarter of 2021. Based on sample of 647 Lebanese family firms, the results of SEM model show that gender diversity has a positive impact marketing, organizational, and product innovation. In addition, the results indicate that the presence of youth in family firms enhances both marketing and process innovation. Finally, the results do not reveal any impact of gender diversity on process innovation and age diversity on organizational and product innovation.
Financial Inclusion and Economic Growth in the Central African Economic and Monetary Community
Authors: Kamga Kamga Chrysleine Chantale , Tchouassi Gérard , Tomo Christian Parfait , Danzoumbé Baïnone
Published: May 2022

This chapter investigates the effect of financial inclusion on economic growth in the Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC). The generalized moments method (GMM) was used to capture the effects of financial inclusion on growth indices. The results show that financial inclusion has relative effects on growth. The final public expenditure (information and communication technologies and education) of government is significant and has a relative effect on the level of growth. Trade in goods contributes significantly to improving the level of growth in the Central African Economic and Monetary Community. Digitalization policy must be intensified for more trades. To do this, new tools based on the use of mobile telephony and information and communication technologies (the digitalization of financial services) would be some avenues to explore in the short and medium-term for the amelioration of economic growth. The CEMAC institutions should review the whole regulatory system to provide clear direction, firm control, and confidence in the system using gender analysis.
Organizational Climate Change
Authors: El-Amin Abeni
Published: May 2022

Increasing knowledge and understanding of diversity and inclusion is a continuous process. Appropriately, the organizational chief diversity officer (CDO) provides leadership by implementing strategic business and planning process solutions. The CDO's role presents a unique opportunity for organizations to support the CDO with an onboarding and mentoring framework. Additionally, the role of the chief diversity officer is to mitigate workplace stress. Further, the impact of industrial and organizational psychology on cultural assimilation practices in the workforce improves the understanding of behavioral factors of group dynamics. As a result, group dynamics impact diversity and inclusion initiatives. Provided are recommendations to support CDOs in their execution of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging initiatives.
A Shared Vision for Online Teaching Effectiveness of K-12 STEAM Minority Teachers
Authors: El-Amin Abeni , Austin Saundra Johnson
Published: May 2022

This chapter presents a model to improve the online teaching effectiveness of K-12 science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM) educators who teach underrepresented minority (URM) students. Further, K-12 institutions must consider the imperative by creating a STEAM professional advocacy network (SPAN) through which the online teaching effectiveness of K-12 STEAM teachers is improved. Ultimately, SPAN seeks to broaden the participation of URM students in STEAM from high-need, racially diverse learning environments nationwide. There is an initiated three-phase process through SPAN that begins with a pre-launch phase to convene an advisory board. The three phases of SPAN are program implementation, convene, and refinement. Educational leaders are accountable for the well-being of teachers and student achievement, and this model adapts to continuous improvement efforts for K-12 organizations.
Critical Compound Objects Modelling Using Autodesk
Authors: Gupta Ritwika Das , Agarwal Daksh
Published: May 2022

Autodesk 3ds Max is a graphics program for making 3D models, animations, games, and images. Autodesk Media and Entertainment produced it. It has the capabilities to model in 3D and has a flexible plug-in architecture. It is majorly used by video game developers and TV commercial studios. It can also give movie effects to animations. It contains various tools and modifiers to modify a single standard object to different realistic models. It helps in creating natural textures for models and mapping them correctly to the objects. It helps in providing proper light and shadow effects to the models. It has different rendering options for making the models flexible to render. It has new icons, a customizable user interface, and its scripting language. 3ds Max is crucial to game asset artists and architectural designers the most. For animation and rigging, 3ds Max has everything mandatory for professional work.
Lights and Camera Rendering for Living Room Modeling in 3ds Max Platform
Authors: Kamat Raghav Sham , Kepeghom Oruan Memoye
Published: May 2022

Rapid demands for the representation of various scenes and objects have bought in an evolution that ought to bring in the applications, usage, and development of various 3D modeling software. One would have the interest to have a glimpse of a sample (i.e., a 3D model of any structure to be created in the future). This chapter describes the usage and applications of 3ds Max with lights and camera view rendering related to which creating a 3D virtual scene of a living room is briefed. The chapter also includes the methodologies of designing and implementing various features of 3ds Max like editors, materials, lights, modifiers, and camera rendering. Usage of modifiers like edit poly, edit mesh, turbo-smooth, mesh smooth bend, etc. are briefly described. This chapter can assure a variety of map usages like texture maps with various camera angles to have a clear perspective of every object and scene in detail.
Object 3D Effect With Photometric Lighting With Real-Time View
Authors: N. Guruprasad
Published: May 2022

In the rapid developing of modern technology, the digital information management and the virtual reality simulation technology have become the research center. Virtual living room 3D model can not only express the real-world objects of natural, real, and vivid, and can expand the living room of the reality of time space dimensions, the combinations of living room environment and information. This chapter uses 3ds Max technology to create three-dimensional model of wall, floor, and television, etc. This research focuses on 3D objects effect with photometric lighting and living room scene modeling technology and the scene design process in a variety of real-time processing technology optimization strategy. Finally, the result of virtual living room scene with the help of photometric lights is summarized.
Technology-Based Innovation for Business Model Innovation
Authors: Sundaram S Meenakshi , Murgod Tejaswini R. , M. Sowmya
Published: May 2022

Innovation is the commercial application and successful exploitation of the idea. This means introducing something new into the business for improving or replacing business processes to increase efficiency and productivity. Development of entirely new and improved products and services for changing customer or consumer demands or needs, adding value to existing products, services, or markets is called business innovation. It is critical for any forward-thinking organization that technology plays a major role. Choosing technologies that will empower an organization is challenging. Today, technological innovations like internet-enabled mobile devices have allowed businesses to innovate news ways of doing things that were previously unthinkable. Innovation must be more than just technologically feasible and economically profitable. The successful exploitation of new ideas is crucial to a business being able to improve its processes, bring new and improved products and services to market, increase its efficiency, and most importantly, improve its profitability.
Smart City
Authors: Budhani Sandeep K. , Joshi Mukesh , Tewari Naveen
Published: May 2022

In this chapter, the authors discuss advances like 5G, 6G, and 7G. They see that IoT has made our lives so natural, yet if we see it from an Indian point of view, things are completely changed. In India, there are various difficulties. The objective of smart urban communities could likewise be to advance financial development and improvement in regions to establish a perfect and stable climate, to fund-raise for all, to help the hindered, or to make city administration more straightforward. Provided that this is true, the smart metropolitan standards ought to extend and profoundly change our conventional framework by uniting new highlights, unwavering quality, versatility all through the city, and the effortlessness of day-by-day benefits in metropolitan regions. Smart city applications are presently an innovation that administrations match and a blend of numerous direct organizations for arrangements in a wide scope of conditions, for example, medical services, delivery, business and modern organization, and security.
E-appointments at primary care physicians during Covid-19 pandemic: viewpoint and satisfaction of medical consumers
Authors: Denkovski Viktor , Gavrilov Goce
Published: May 2022

INTRODUCTION: Use of e-appointment systems in primary care (EASPC) is a common practice in western countries, however, there is no evidence of implementation in R. N. Macedonia and other similar countries in development.
OBJECTIVES: This study explores the viewpoints and satisfaction of medical consumers (MC) on EASPC, and the impact of Covid-19 global pandemic concerning their appointments at primary care physicians.
METHODS: A survey on MC above the age of 15 years was conducted in July 2020. The results were analysed in SPSS 23.
RESULTS: The majority of participants were in favour on implementing an EASPC despite their neutral satisfaction with the walk-in method. Furthermore, they were confident in its effectiveness in the fight against spreading of Covid-19.
CONCLUSION: The MC opinion and satisfaction is crucial when developing health care systems and their implementation as a mix of services. For the system to succeed, it must be financed and supported adequately and as such, further research is necessary to explore a real-time EASPC usage.
Importance of Sclerostin as Bone-Muscle Mediator Crosstalk
Authors: Aryana I Gusti Putu Suka , Rini Sandra Surya , Soejono Czeresna Heriawan
Published: May 2022

Loss of bone and muscle mass is a frequent aging condition and has become a growing public health problem. The term “osteosarcopenia” denotes close links between bone and muscle. Mechanical exercise was once thought to be the only mechanism of crosstalk between muscle and bone. Sclerostin is an important player in the process of unloading-induced bone loss and plays an important role in mechanotransduction in the bone. Furthermore, bones and muscles are categorized as endocrine organs because they produce hormone-like substances, resulting in “bone-muscle crosstalk.” Sclerostin, an inhibitor of bone development, has recently been shown to play a role in myogenesis. This review discusses the importance of sclerostin in bone-muscle crosstalk.
Transmission Dynamics of COVID-19 in Ghana and the Impact of Public Health Interventions
Authors: Ofori Sylvia K. , Schwind Jessica S. , Sullivan Kelly L. , Cowling Benjamin J. , Chowell Gerardo , Fung Isaac Chun-Hai
Published: May 2022

This study characterized COVID-19 transmission in Ghana in 2020 and 2021 by estimating the time-varying reproduction number (Rt) and exploring its association with various public health interventions at the national and regional levels. Ghana experienced four pandemic waves, with epidemic peaks in July 2020 and January, August, and December 2021. The epidemic peak was the highest nationwide in December 2021 with Rt ≥ 2. Throughout 2020 and 2021, per-capita cumulative case count by region increased with population size. Mobility data suggested a negative correlation between Rt and staying home during the first 90 days of the pandemic. The relaxation of movement restrictions and religious gatherings was not associated with increased Rt in the regions with fewer case burdens. Rt decreased from > 1 when schools reopened in January 2021 to < 1 after vaccination rollout in March 2021. Findings indicated most public health interventions were associated with Rt reduction at the national and regional levels.
Age-related features of gastritis activity in schoolchildren with gastroesophageal reflux disease
Authors: Polivanova Tamara V. , Kasparov Eduard V. , Vshivkov Vitaliy A.
Published: May 2022

Aim. To study age-related features of the association of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) with the activity of the inflammatory process in the gastric mucosa (GM) in schoolchildren. Materials and methods. At the first stage in the Republic of Tuva, we collected data on the presence of gastroenterological complaints in 1535 schoolchildren using a transverse method. At the second stage we performed esophagogastroduodenoscopy with biopsy of the mucous membrane of the antrum and the body of the stomach in two hundred forty six children including 76 cases aged from 7-11 years and 170 patients aged from 12 to 17 years. Morphological assessment of gastritis was carried out according to the Sydney classification after staining biopsy sections with hematoxylin-eosin; diagnostics of Helicobacter pylori - after staining by Giemsa method. The study was approved by the ethical committee and the consent of the surveyed patients was obtained. Results. An increase in the prevalence of GERD was found in the older age group of schoolchildren - 15.6% (7-11 years old - 4.7%; p = 0.0001). GERD schoolchildren showed an insignificant tendency with age to an increase in the activity of the inflammatory process in the mucous membrane of the antrum (p = 0.3408) and the body (p = 0.3346) of the stomach. Among infected GERD schoolchildren in both age groups, gastritis with a high degree (II-III degree) of activity was more often detected than in infected schoolchildren without clinical manifestations of GERD (7-11 years old - p = 0.2551; 12-17 years old - p = 0.0536, respectively) and more often than in those uninfected GERD cases (7-11 years old - p = 0.0082; 12-17 years old - p = 0.0002). The association of highly active forms of gastritis in the body of the stomach in infected schoolchildren with manifestations of GERD has not been established. Conclusion. The presence of GERD in schoolchildren, regardless of age, aggravates the course of the inflammatory process in the antrum. When infected with Helicobacter pylori, GERD and infection in schoolchildren act as factors that mutually aggravate the inflammatory process in the antrum.
Dynamics of indicators of endothelial dysfunction in children with obesity
Authors: Smirnov Ivan Evgenievich , Fisenko Andrey P. , Kucherenko Alla G. , Smirnova Galina I. , Postnikova Ekaterina V.
Published: May 2022

Introduction. Constitutionally exogenous obesity (CEO) belongs to a number of significant medical and social problems of the modern world, assumes epidemic proportions and leads among alimentary-dependent pathology in children. The aim of the work was to determine changes in indicators of endothelial dysfunction (ED) in children of different age with obesity of various severity. Materials and methods. One hundred twenty six children aged of 6 to 17 years were comprehensively examined, data on changes in the serum content of ED mediators in CEOs grade 1-3 were presented by quantitative determination of nitric oxide, endothelin-1, leptin, homocysteine, intercellular adhesion molecules and vascular cell adhesion-1, tissue-type plasminogen activator inhibitor antigen, Willebrand factor and his antigen. Results. The regularities of changes in the concentrations of these compounds in the blood depending on the age of patients and the degree of obesity, which reflect the functional state of the endothelial system and can serve as criteria for the severity of ED requiring adequate and timely correction in children, have been established. Conclusion. Indicators of endothelial dysfunction can serve as criteria for its severity, their detection will allow optimizing early diagnosis and determining the amount of timely therapy.
Igualdad y acceso al empleo público
Authors: Penalva Alejandra Selma
Published: May 2022

La protección de la maternidad ha llevado a nuestros jueces y tribunales a declarar que el hecho de que una concurrente se encontrarse en situación de parto en la fecha prevista de realizar un examen de acceso a un puesto de trabajo de carácter público no puede perjudicar sus expectativas profesionales. Estas sentencias abren una nueva vía de tutela, hasta ahora prácticamente desconocida que, aunque sin duda, loable, todavía tiene muchos aspectos pendientes de concretar, y que, por lo tanto, puede generar confusión, inseguridad jurídica, y por supuesto, el consiguiente recelo, en el resto de concurrentes.
Hardness and tribological properties of laser irradiated PMMA based nano-microcomposites
Authors:   Independent Researcher, Cairo, Egypt, Hebatalrahman Hebatalrahman A.
Published: May 2022

In this work, new composite material is manufactured from poly(methyl methacrylate) PMMA matrix reinforced by glass fibre type E-glass. The effect of volume fraction of fibre and length to diameter ratio is studied, and friction and wear characteristics were determined at different volume fractions and fibre sizes. The hardness and wear resistance of randomly distributed PMMA matrix composite were significantly enhanced, and the maximum conditions for reinforcement of PMMA matrix composite to improve tribology characteristics were evaluated. The effect of laser irradiation on the mechanical properties was evaluated by irradiation of composite material after manufacturing, with different kinds of lasers. The continuous wave (CW) argon-ion laser and pulsed Nd:YAG laser were used to irradiate composite material. Hardness, wear rate, and coefficient of friction were evaluated at the same test condition of the unirradiated composite. The significant improvement in improvement in the mechanical properties at certain irradiation conditions was evaluated. Keywords: structure, hardness, wear, PMMA, random distribution.
Biopolítica y subjetivación de los cuerpos medicalizados
Authors: Zoya Paula G. Rodríguez
Published: May 2022

El artículo problematiza los procesos contemporáneos de medicalización con el doble propósito de consolidar un enfoque teórico en clave filosófica, sociológica y semántica de estos fenómenos, y de aportar evidencia empírica sobre el modo en que la discursividad de la medicalización se estructura y circula socialmente, así como los efectos subjetivos que genera. Se afirma la premisa que la problemática de la medicalización requiere concebir al cuerpo, la salud y la vida como entidades complejas, tejidas de discursos e imaginarios, posiciones subjetivas y materialidades corpóreas que manifiestan síntomas y malestares. La medicalización y la construcción de enfermedades son comprendidas en la articulación de tecnologías bio-noo-políticas de gobierno de los cuerpos, los signos y las subjetividades. Se adopta una perspectiva discursiva que lleva a primer plano la construcción significante del cuidado de la salud como problemática central del campo de Comunicación y Salud. La indagación empírica que sustenta el trabajo tiene el objetivo de identificar y comprender las significaciones asociadas al cuerpo y la salud en discursos que contribuyen a la medicalización y patologización de procesos normales de la vida. Con este fin se efectúa un análisis de discursos publicitarios de laboratorios farmacéuticos y dermocosméticos, atendiendo particularmente a los referidos al embarazo, el parto y el envejecimiento, principales procesos vitales considerados “no-enfermedades” que resultan medicalizados. Los emergentes del análisis enfatizan las operaciones significantes relativas a nociones como cuerpo, salud, vida, bienestar, enfermedad, malestar, dolor, para cada uno de los tres procesos vitales mencionados, así como su integración e interpretación conjunta.
Man Wild-Life Conflict in Katra (Jammu and Kashmir)
Authors:   Lecturer-Government Degree College Katra, Jammu and Kashmir., . Vasudha
Published: May 2022

The study was carried out in two main blocks of Reasi district that is Panthal and katra and few villages prone to man-wildlife conflicts, namely: Manion, Kunya, Manoon, baniya, sool, kakryal, dadoora, Chak Bhagtha. As human population extends to wild animal habitats, Natural life territory is displaced. The population density of wildlife and human overlaps increasing their interaction thus resulting in increase physical conflict. Increase in the population results in decrease of the forest area. Majority of the people are living near the forest area and they are encroaching the area, they directly or indirectly interfering in the habitat of wild animals. Mostly the people of these villages are dependent on the agriculture; few have their owned business like shops. In the study area, the causative factors regarding these conflicts have been identified as natural attraction towards crop and scarcity of food. Monkeys have been found to be the most problematic animals, followed by leopard and bear.