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Across the Unseen Sea and Dinner for Deep Surface Divers
Authors: Stehlíková Tereza
Published: July 2022

Dinner for Deep Surface Divers uses food as a poetic medium, where eating is depicted as a highly sensual act, while exploring the role of the senses and embodiment in informing our vision. Across the Unseen Sea captures the essence of a multi-sensory banquet that I created and which took place in London, in 2013. I based the event on William Morris’s diary entries from his journey to Iceland, in 1871/73 and “translated” these into a multi-sensory immersive performance. The project was developed in collaboration with Charles Michel (cook and researcher at Charles Spence’s Crossmodal Research laboratory, Oxford), as well as a team of dedicated collaborators from various backgrounds and with different professional expertise (set, sound, scent designers, actors, food historians etc.). The film was created with the intention of communicating the subjective, multi-sensory experience of one of the guests, a writer, by audio-visual.
blóm + blóð
Authors: Hunter WhiteFeather
Published: July 2022

Video stills from the 8-minute video, entitled, blóm + blóð, produced during a residency at the Icelandic Textile Centre (Blönduós) in September 2016.
blóm + blóð presents performance as embodied research, in the landscape as laboratory/studio.
The artist navigates the autumnal terrain of Norðurland vestra, collecting natural dye and fibre stuffs, using landscape elements as tools for making, and experimenting with flora and fauna in the creation of a textile work. The end (textile) result is never shown, the emphasis being on process as the creative work in focus, and the acquisition of new knowledge as one of the results. Utilizing the landscape as a laboratory means more than simply the outdoor acquisition of art/craft materials – it mobilizes human empathy (through experiential learning) in gaining an ecological awareness of the source of materials one works with, fostering a working relationship with the environment and its agents.
The video plays with notions of temporality and labour, but also with ideas of material agency, in terms of Jane Bennett’s, Vibrant Matter, where “efficacy or agency depends on the collaboration, cooperation, or interactive interference of many bodies and forces.”
In the video, a deliberate romanticization of landscape (as within the landscape tradition in art, as well as touristic notions of place) is disrupted by the practical necessities of Icelandic life, such as the sheep slaughter. Likewise, engagement with the messiness of the body is embraced as necessary on the path towards aesthetic outcome. The hegemonic notion of studio space, as isolated and hidden rooms where masterpieces are hatched, is subverted as the creative process is literally exposed.
Seasoned
Authors: Mendes Wency
Published: July 2022

Changing human consumption patterns and sustenance have always created new ripples of change. Be it food for our bodies, or material for industries – all progress via trade, barter, exchange and securities has been founded on systems of creating excess. Tea traveled the world and so did coffee and cocoa. Indian food may well be synonymous with chili, but chili was not indigenous to India, nor was the potato or tomato. But then, nothing belongs to any one region any more. Food has traveled from its regions of origin by conquests of colonization or peaceful trade. Yet, what we cook: does it ‘belong’ to us? Do its flavors? Or does it belong to memories, cohabiting with all that lives there: childhood games to see who could shell the most peas, moist kitchen floors, the first time you saw blood, and the lavish spread of both birthdays and Tehravin? What was it for you? How does food tell your story? Whose stories does it tell as it travels from Gujarat, Manipur, Kashmir, Dantewada to the meal you are here invited to share?
Building canada on Our Barbarized Backs
Authors: Fernandes Sabine
Published: July 2022

In this article, I identify and analyze the intersections of propaganda circulated throughout two textual objects connected to my experiences of alienation with the care agency organization L’Arche Canada, and my subsequent assimilation into settler colonial belonging via canadian citizenship eligibility. The first textual object is L’Arche Canada’s anti-racism statement (2020). The second is the Discover Canada citizenship knowledge test study guide (2021). In my analysis, I reveal a common policy of barbarizing racialized migrants in the interest of criphomonationalism. Specifically, I indict L’Arche Canada as an auxiliary of the criphomonationalist canadian settler state, which valorizes desirable (read white) disabled and queer Others, on the backs of Third World care workers who are circulated as nondisabled, cishet, hateful, and disposable.
Goodnight, Dad
Authors: Snyder Lorena
Published: July 2022

The following piece captures the experiences of an Indigenous youth in care who has been historically parentified. He writes of his parental allegiances, his love and devotion to his dad, and his relationship to a foster home. At the heart of the piece, is an exploration of the inherent powerlessness that children endure when their lives are predetermined for them and how, despite this, they continue to hope, to love, and to idealize. The piece is positioned from the imaginative yet honest eye of the child, and models much of the fantastical thinking held by so many of our Indigenous youth who sleep away from home.
VOICE
Authors: Ki Patricia
Published: July 2022

This piece refers to a recurring dream about not being able to speak, not being able to be heard, and therefore, not being able to push back against threats of violence. I created it after having conversations with other Asian women about how we are constantly trying to speak out against systemic violence in organizations that claim to be anti-oppressive, and yet, are almost entirely made up of white folx at the managerial level. Our words momentarily capture attention – perhaps people are shocked at the assertiveness and articulateness of Asian women who are stereotyped as passive and politically apathetic – and we receive acknowledgement, apologies, and offers of help. But over time, we realize that not only has no meaningful change been made, but that we are now no longer invited to the table for discussions. The polite responses always drown out the calls for change, or the offers of help are conditional, requiring us to conform to a white middleclass standard of social respectability that erases our very ways of being and the agency of choice. At the same time, my conversations with friends remind me that we can still draw on each other for strengths, inspirations, and creative strategies to persist in our various spaces; to find small ways of resistance against what bell hook (1995) calls “white supremacist capitalist patriarchy” (p. 17); to continue to keep alive the dream of a less violent future.
Our Superior Complex Shadow is Under a Microscope
Authors: Edwards Fiona
Published: July 2022

From the institution of slavery to current waves of systemic oppression, Black people continue to be negatively impacted. This calls attention to the pervasiveness of racism, specifically the anti-Black racism that contorts and constrains Black peoples’ lives. The magnitude of anti-Black racism punctuated human consciousness on a global scale after the public brutal killing of George Floyd, an African-American man in police custody. This poem is inspired by Floyd’s death and the emotional trauma and pain it ignited in Black people around the world. It illustrates the vulnerability of the Black community in respect to ongoing systemic oppression, the inferiorization of Blackness, and the corresponding suffering Black people must endure.
A hoop with no net
Authors: Jones David
Published: July 2022

In the space where photographs elicit memory, I wade between the contours of the metaphor and our ever-present reality to look ahead. The photograph below portrays my cousin Bryan and our favorite pastime growing up. As kids, we would often challenge each other to one-on-one games of basketball. I can still remember my insistent hope that he’d miss every shot. We’d yell “brick!” at one another well before the ball left our dirty fingertips. Every miss became a celebratory moment, and each misstep an inch closer to trading possessions. Now more than ever, I hope he makes every shot. In basketball, as in life, we aim for something. From the moment we bend our knees and push away from the ground that holds us, there’s no promise of whether the ball goes in; nor is there a guarantee that we will get to play the game again. The precariousness of Black life makes me wary of the possibility of a short game. I hope that we get to play all four quarters, on our terms; I hope that your ball is full of air and your shoes tied tight; I hope your arch is pure and that when the ball goes in the rim, it makes the sound of a hoop with no net.
Critical Subjectivity in Algorave’s Post-Work Practices
Authors: Hoyos Lozano Camilo Andrés
Published: July 2022

Algorave is a global community dedicated to expanding the boundaries of algorithms and coding in the context of live electronic music. Through algorithms, Algorave members have discovered the power of altering music’s structure. In the face of a fully automated future, this article queries whether this power may be directed towards defying political, economic, ideological, or ethical systems. First, I present Algorave as an idiosyncratic environment of a post-work society. Second, I develop a critique of Kathi Weeks’ handling of the concept of subjectivity to question a post-work imaginary that comprises the subject. Third, I explain the pertinence of a critical subjectivity praxis for Algorave to enrich their post-work stance, whereby I suggest using their analytical lens on algorithms to prevent subjectivity from passing on to the post-human terrain. From here, I conclude that the subject of automation is the automated subject, and that a post-work society is not possible without overthrowing subjectivity. I ultimately caution the advocates of automation when pursuing post-work, for if automation manages to make subjectivity a part of algorithms with governmental impact, we will be—now and for good—automatically condemned to living as subjects, significantly reinforcing the basis of neoliberal work.
ONLINE LEARNING READINESS LEVEL OF FIRST AND SECOND YEAR STUDENTS AT FACULTY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHER EDUCATION, VNU UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
Authors: Anh Viet Khoa , Khanh Linh Nguyen
Published: July 2022

Recent advances in Information and Technology Communication (ICT) have prompted significant changes in the domain of education, particularly in the rise of online learning. In early 2018, VNU University of Languages and International Studies (VNU-ULIS) started implementing several web-based courses on a Learning Management System (LMS), in an attempt to encourage the development of online learning at the university. The aim of this study was to investigate the level of readiness for online learning of potential learners of LMS so that both course instructors and course participants would be able to identify difficulties that they might encounter in the novel virtual teaching and learning environment. The data collection process was divided into two phases: closed-ended questionnaire and semi-structured interviews afterwards. The main instrument was Online Learning Readiness Scale developed by Hung Chou, Chen and Own (2010).The final results indicated that university students from both academic years get relatively high levels of online readiness, yet the second year student participants had a slightly higher level of readiness than the first year participants. Therefore, the implementation of LMS was probably more suitable for sophomore ones.
Demonstratives as Sentence Final Particles and the Architecture of the Periphery in Vietnamese
Authors: Quy Nguyen Thi Hong
Published: July 2022

This paper analyzes Vietnamese demonstrative sentence-final particles (SFP) from the perspective of generative syntax. Such demonstratives as đây, kia, này, kìa, and đấy can be used at the end of a sentence to mark the psychological distance between the speaker and the proposition.
These SFPs can be divided into two groups: particles in Group I (namely đây and kia) are used to describe the relation between the speaker and the proposition while elements from Group II (i.e., này, kìa, and đấy) are employed to call for the addressee’s attention or to persuade the addressee to believe in the propositional content. đây này, kia kìa, and kia đấy are three cases of SFPs used in clusters.
From Generative Grammar and Cartography’s perspective, the sentential periphery can be split into three functional projections. The lowest functional projection, namely AttP, encodes the speaker’s commitment to the proposition, while attP encodes the addressee’s propositional attitude. The highest layer DiscP represents the speaker’s attitude towards the addressee. Particles from Group I are base-generated at the Head position of AttP, whereas Group II belongs to attP.
RESEARCH ON THE USE OF JAPANESE TEXTBOOKS AND LEARNING MATERIALS ON JAPANESE STUDIES
Authors: Thi My Binh Than
Published: July 2022

This study aims to clarify the use of Japanese learning materials and textbooks on specialized subjects in or oriented to Japanese studies. The data was collected through questionnaires from 530 learners and interviews of 05 lecturers of the courses in Japanese studies, along with statistics of Japanese textbooks at online libraries of 05 universities that offer this program. The study reveals: 1. Other than the materials provided by lecturers directly during the lesson and according to the course's requirements, learners rarely use reference books and materials in Japanese; 2. Reference books and supplementary materials in Japanese available at libraries are still eminently limited, and have not been updated for a long time, while their content is too academic and not suitable for most learners; 3. There are not many books and materials in Japanese by Vietnamese scholars and Japanese language teachers; furthermore, both the teaching and learning materials are provided by the teachers themselves. Given this situation, learners want to update their knowledge regularly through a larger number of materials on a variety of topics, which are easier to understand and more attractive in terms of content, and they should be in both Japanese and Vietnamese languages. On the other hand, lecturers all aspire for solutions to curate quality resources for classes such as access to more supplementary materials, and facilitation to the publication of teaching and learning materials in Japanese compiled by the teachers themselves.
Evaluative Language in Conclusion Sections of Vietnamese Linguistic Research Articles
Authors: Hong Nguyen Bich
Published: July 2022

Evaluative language has recently been of great concern as, according to Hunston, “evaluation is one of the most basic and important functions of language worth studying deeply” (2011, p. 11). However, the term seems to be rather new in Vietnamese linguistic community. In order to shed further light on the use of evaluative language in Vietnamese, this article is to examine how evaluative language is exploited by Vietnamese linguists in the conclusion section of their research articles. This study combines both quantitative and qualitative approaches to analyse the ways explicit evaluative language is used in the corpus of 30 Vietnamese empirical research articles in three reputable journals of linguistics in Vietnam. More specifically, the study investigates various evaluative acts classified in the three systems of the Appraisal Framework (by Martin & White, 2005) including Attitude, Engagement and Graduation. Findings are expected to show outstanding patterns of evaluative language used in this section of linguistic research articles such as the salient occurrence of certain evaluative domains or sub-systems, etc. Results of the study are hoped to be of reference for article writers as well as to enrich literature materials for the fields of evaluative language and academic writing pedagogy in Vietnam.
The Implementation of Flipped Classroom Approach in an Academic English Course
Authors: Thinh Nguyen Thi
Published: July 2022

Since flipped classroom (FC) approach was first implemented over a decade ago, it has been gathering great momentum with more and more research conducted in different fields over the past years. As an attempt to better understand this promising new model, this study aimed to apply it in an academic English language course and examine its effects on student’s perception and the quality of their assignment together with the instructor’s self-reflection. The participants were 21 sophomores attending an academic English course (integrated reading and writing section) at a state university in Hanoi, Vietnam. Combining both quantitative data from survey and qualitative data from feedback forms together with the instructor’s reflection and analysis of students’ work, findings of the study indicated positive perception towards flipping learning mode from both the students and instructor’s perspective and the analysis of the submitted end-of-course assignments showed a good mastery of essay genres, argument development and text selection. However, synthesizing skill as well as the use of APA in-text citations and references needed more guidance and required more practice. The study also pointed out some limitations and recommendations which further research should take into consideration for a better implementation of a flipped classroom.
WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM STUDENTS’ WRITTEN REFLECTIONS IN AN INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION THEORETICAL COURSE?
Authors: Thi Hoang Mai Vu
Published: July 2022

The implementation of intercultural communication (IC) courses has been excitedly scrutinized particularly in multicultural education and training environments. However, little has been talked about such courses as a compulsory theoretical subject at tertiary institutions, especially where communicating across cultures is not a mandatory daily practice. Inspired by the researched merits of reflective thinking, this paper investigates what a lecturer of such a course can learn from her students' assigned written reflections. The analysis, both quantitative and qualitative, of the reflections of eight classes of third year students at a language education university in Hanoi throughout an IC theoretical course has revealed informative implications with respect to: (1) the students' interest and critical thinking in particular issues and/or frameworks in IC; (2) the students' self-regulation in studying such a theoretical subject; (3) the students' reflection levels and their conceptualization of the knowledge and their own learning. This analysis also attempts to discover the effectiveness of reflective writing in an IC theoretical course at the investigated institution, thereby proposing some recommendations to the reflection pedagogy currently employed at the university.
William Faulkner and the Search for American Southern Identity: An Anthropological Approach
Authors: Anh Ho Thi Van
Published: July 2022

The American South is the cultural root and archetype for the fictional world of William Faulkner, a prominent author in modern world literature. The theme Faulkner and the South has been studied exhaustively and elaborately, especially from historical and cultural perspectives. However, the issue of Faulknerian Southern identity remains a gap in the current literature, so this study sets out to address that gap. This paper is an anthropological approach to Faulkner, with two research questions: how did Faulkner interpret American Southern identity? how should a set of keywords that encapsulates Southern identity in Faulkner’s writing be established? Applying anthropological theory of identity and the method of generalization and identification of cultural patterns, this study focuses on the four outstanding novels in Faulkner’s legacy. These novels provide a picture of the Southern identity, wrapped up in a set of keywords whose two main pillars are burden of the past and agrarianism. The other traits - pride, nostagia, melancholy, complex, conservativeness, indomitability - intertwine and promote each other, creating the very Faulknerian South.
READING STRATEGIES USED BY STUDENTS OF DIFFERENT LEVELS OF ENGLISH READING PROFICIENCY
Authors: Thi Bich Thuy Nguyen
Published: July 2022

Reading plays a vital role in academic development, particularly when learners have to work over a huge amount of foreign language materials for their own specialist subjects (McDonough & Shaw, 2013). Strengthening English reading ability is necessary for students to promote individual ability in university education. This study was conducted to explore if there were any differences in the use of reading strategies among university students of different levels of self-rated English reading proficiency. 957 students from 6 universities in the North of Vietnam participated in the study. The results of the study through the questionnaire adapted from Oxford’s (2013) Self-Strategic Regulation model (S2R) show that there were significant differences in the use of reading strategies among students of different self-rated levels of English reading proficiency, especially between students of good and poor proficiency. The highest frequencies in the use of each strategy category were in the group of self-rated good readers and the students of the poor group reported the lowest frequencies. The study also reveals individual strategies used the most and the least by each group of students.
THE INTERCULTURAL DIMENSION IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING: VIETNAMESE UNIVERSITY ENGLISH TEACHERS’ VOICES
Authors: Nguyen Lan Thi Thuy , Biebricher Christine , Ward Gillian
Published: July 2022

In recent decades, there has been increasing interest in implementing the intercultural dimension (ID) in foreign language teaching to enhance students’ intercultural communicative competence (ICC), the capability to interact across linguistic and cultural boundaries. This article reports on a study that examines the English language teaching (ELT) of two Vietnamese university English teachers (VUETs) to investigate if and how they implemented the ID in their teaching. Situating the study within a qualitative case study approach, we collected data from interviews, classroom observations, and documents. Findings of this study show that these two teachers have not yet fully implemented the ID in their lessons. More specifically, they could transmit intercultural knowledge to their students; however, they could not develop their students’ intercultural attitudes, skills, or awareness. When providing cultural knowledge, they primarily relied on the prescribed textbooks’ cultural content and their understanding. The article sheds light on influential factors for VUETs’ ELT practices and offers implications for enhancing Vietnamese students’ ICC.
A Corpus-Based Study on Reporting Verbs Used in Tesol Research Articles by Native and Non-Native Writers
Authors: Tham Duong My , Nhi Tran Phuong
Published: July 2022

This corpus-based research aimed to compare the use of reporting verbs in TESOL research articles between non-native and native English writers. Two corpora including 30 for the non-native corpus and 30 for the native corpus were constructed for analysis. The data in the form of plain text were processed via AntConc software version 3.5.7. The findings indicated significant differences in terms of frequency, function, and position between the two corpora. Specifically, more reporting verbs were found in the non-native corpus than in the native corpus. Of four verb groups of Argue, Find, Show, and Think, Argue group was the top priority used in TESOL research articles by both non-native and native English authors. The results of the functional and positional analysis in both the corpora also showed that two most common functions of reporting verbs were (1) presentation and (2) evaluation and examination, and most of the observed reporting verbs were in neutral position.
THE CONCEPT OF TRAUMA IN LITERATURE VIEWED FROM THE TRANSITIONING MODELS OF TRAUMA IN THE WEST
Authors: Oanh Dang Hoang
Published: July 2022

The article analyzes and highlights the change in the view of trauma in the trauma research trends in the United States and the West from the 90s of the 20th century to the present, specifically through the case of Cathy Caruth and the waves of post-Caruthic research. By referring to the trauma perspective of Cathy Caruth in classic work Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History and later studies, we show the shift from the traditional model (trauma as a structural concept) to a pluralistic theoretical model where trauma is seen as a discourse. The article aims to provide a complete, comprehensive conceptualization of trauma while also providing theoretical tools for reading the text.
QRCV APPROACH TO ENHANCING CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS IN ESP LEARNING
Authors: Chung Sim Ri , Chol Su Kang , Yong Hyong Kim
Published: July 2022

The term ‘Critical Thinking’ increasingly appears in education and language teaching. It would be among key skills for any 21st century learner (Hughes, 2014). Recently, considerable attention has been paid to critical teaching approaches in studying foreign languages. It is usually difficult for students to acquire financial knowledge in English even though they have already passed a basic English course in non-English speaking countries. We introduce the QRCV approach for enhancing learners’ CT skills so that learners can overcome challenges in ESP learning. The main principle of the QRCV approach is heuristic Questioning, Reasoning, Considering the issues from different angles, and Visualizing in learning ESP. Our study aims at validating the QRCV approach in enhancing learners’ CT skills in ESP learning. Participants were 72 students learning finance in English. During a semester, the experimental group (n=36) took the financial English course through the QRCV approach while the control group took it in a conventional approach. The self-developed instrument, Critical Thinking Skills Test for Financial English (CTSTFE) was used as a pretest and posttest, and their results were scored by instructors in accordance with relevant criteria for CT skills. The findings indicate that the experimental group outperformed the control group in the course achievement, especially in the dimension of Considering from multiple-perspectives. Implications for applying QRCV to other ESP courses in general are suggested.
HỆ QUI CHIẾU ĐƯỢC ĐỀ XUẤT CHO NGHIÊN CỨU TƯƠNG ĐỒNG - DỊ BIỆT TRONG GIAO TIẾP GIAO VĂN HÓA VÀ SỰ CỐ DỤNG HỌC TRONG GIAO TIẾP LIÊN VĂN HÓA: QUI CHIẾU BIỂU HIỆN (VĂN HÓA) (BÀI 2)
Authors: Nguyễn Quang
Published: July 2022

Sau khi tổng quan các cách tiếp cận của các học giả khác nhau ở bài viết trước, trong bài viết này, tác giả đề xuất một cách tiếp cận chiều qui chiếu ‘Biểu hiện’ với 14 bình diện phạm trù cùng các biểu hiện siêu dụng học và các biểu đạt dụng học của chúng. Tác giả cũng đưa ra mô hình ý niệm mang tính bản thể và nhận thức cho qui chiếu biểu hiện nhằm, một mặt, nêu rõ góc nhìn và cách nhìn của tác giả và, mặt khác, gợi ý cho việc thiết lập các mô hình vận hành khi nghiên cứu liên/giao văn hóa về các biểu hiện/biểu đạt của các bình diện phạm trù cụ thể.
LANGUAGE TEACHING AND LEARNING IN EMERGENCY REMOTE TEACHING: ARE LEARNERS REALLY ENGAGED?
Authors: Thanh Ha Le , Phuong Hong Ngoc Vu , Thi Thanh Canh Truong
Published: July 2022

This study analyzed the students’ engagement in emergency remote teaching (ERT) environment as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. The subjects were 49 business-majored students at a university in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam. The research was drawn upon Moore’s interaction framework with the adoption of a 5-Likert scale questionnaire to examine learner-content, learner-learner and learner-instructor engagement. Open-ended questions at the end of the survey and videos synchronous classroom observations from four lessons provided insights into students’ perceptions and behaviors. The quantitative result reveals learner-instructor engagement to be the strongest among the three categories, and the lack of interaction with their peers was the most frequently observed and reported. The fundamental cause lies in the loss and lack of human interactions. The engagement of both learnerlearner and learner-instructor were dwarfed by superficial interaction in synchronous learning platforms. The paper ends with some recommendations to increase students’ learning engagement in the uncertain times of ERT.
USE OF RESOURCES AND ACTIVITIES FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING BEYOND THE CLASSROOM BY ENGLISH-MAJORED STUDENTS AT A UNIVERSITY IN VIETNAM
Authors: Nguyen Vu Khanh , Bach Le Truong , Anh Chien Duong
Published: July 2022

This paper was part of a large-scale research into the use of resources and activities for English language learning after class time by English-majored students at a university in Vietnam. To explore the range of resources and activities frequently used by the researched students, a survey questionnaire was delivered online to 200 respondents via Google Form. The results revealed that online/computer-based/mobile-based and traditional broadcast materials were the most preferred resources for English language learning outside the classroom, whereas Watch YouTube, Listen to songs, Surf the Internet, and Use social media were the activities with the highest frequency of use. In addition, the self-directed naturalistic language learning activities were prevalent among the subjects, followed by self-instruction ones. By contrast, the studied participants tended to avoid taking part in activities that involved naturalistic language learning.
PELOD-2 Score Mortality Prediction Ability in Children with Multiple Organ Dysfunction
Authors: Anh Tuan Ta , Thi Lan Dinh
Published: July 2022

This study evaluates PELOD-2 score mortality prediction ability in children with multiple organ dysfunction. The descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out on 110 children with Multiple Organ Dysfunction at the Pediatric intensive care unit in Vietnam National Children’s Hospital from 1st January 2015 to 31th June 2016. The study results show that the average PELOD-2 score was high (8.8 ± 3.85 points); the PELOD-2 score of the mortality group was significantly higher than the survivor group with 7.07 ± 2.37 and 10.43 ± 4,28, respectively; mortality rate was directly proportional to PELOD-2 score; the PELOD-2 score could separate the mortality group from the survivor group with the area under the ROC curve of 0.76 and the cut-point PELOD-2 score  of 8.5. If children with multiple organ dysfunction had over 10 points of PELOD-2 score, their mortality prediction  value was nearly the same as the actual mortality rate. The study concludes that PELOD-2 score was significantly correlated with associated multiple organ dysfunction syndrome and useful in predicting mortality.

Keywords: Multiple organ dysfunction, PELOD-2 score.

References

[1] B. Goldstein, B. Giroir, A. Randolph, International Pediatric Sepsis Consensus Conference: Definitions for Sepsis and Organ Dysfunction in Pediatrics. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Vol. 6, 2005, pp. 2-8.[2] J. D. Wilkinson et al., Mortality Associated with Multiple Organ System Failure and Sepsis in Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, The Journal of Pediatrics, Vol. 111, 1987, pp. 324-328[3] J. A. Tantaleán et al., Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome in Children, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Vol. 4, 2003, pp. 181-185[4] T. K. Hao, Clinical Characteristics and Prognostic Value of PELOD Score in Pediatric Population With Multi-Organ Dysfunction, 11th Pediatric National Conference, 2014 (in Vietnamese).[5] S. Leteurtre et al., PELOD-2: An Update of the Pediatric Logistic Organ Dysfunction Score, Critical Care Medicine, Vol. 41, 2013, pp. 1761-1773.[6] J. P. Gonçalves et al., Performance of PRISM III and PELOD-2 Scores in A Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, European Journal of Pediatrics, Vol. 174, 2016, pp. 1305-1310.[7] T. K. Hao, Evaluation of PMODS Score in Patients with Multi-organ Dysfunction Syndrome at A Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Journal of Practical Medicine, Vol. 805, 2012 (in Vietnamese).
Disease Pattern of Hospitalization in 198 Hospital in 2019 according to the ICD-10 System
Authors: Thanh Tung Nguyen , Van Hien Nguyen , Thi My An Nguyen , Dang Tuan Mac
Published: July 2022

This study aims to illustrate the disease module of a number of patients who were treated in inpatient departments in 198 Hospital in 2019. The study used the retrospective description of the inpatients’ retrospective data from case reports in the named hospital from 1st January 2019 to 31st December 2019. The results show that most inpatients were freelancers (33.89%) and retired people (25.81%). The proportion of elder people in the over-60 age group was the highest - 34.34%, whereas that of under-20 age group was the lowest - 2.91%. The most popular inpatient department was the Center for High Quality Health Care Services - 3.08%. The Hematology-blood Transfusion Center had the smallest number of inpatients (1.39%). The disease module shows that the percentage of inpatients who had diseases of circulation system led the way with 12.38%, followed by the groups of patients who had infectious and parasitic diseases (12.07%). Musculoskeletal-joint and connective tissue diseases, and gastrointestinal diseases took the third and fourth places with the rates of 10.54% and 9.70%, respectively. The least common chapters in this disease module according to ICD-10 system were congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities; and Codes for special purposes, estimated at 0.09% and 0%, respectively. External causes of morbidity and mortality, and mental and behavior disorders also belonged to the lowest common diseases groups, with 0.18% and 0.63%, respectively. Overall, most of the inpatients were elder people, working as freelancers or retired at hospitalization. Inpatients commonly received treatment due to diseases of circulation system or infectious and parasitic diseases. The proportions of digestive diseases, and infectious and parasitic diseases groups were large and similar across the age groups.

Keywords

Disease pattern, hospitalization, ICD-10,

References

[1] P. Q. Cu, Research on Disease Models and Solutions to Manage and Improve the Health of Officers and Soldiers of the People's Police. Scientific Project of the Ministry of Public Security, 2012, pp. 88-91 (in Vietnamese).[2] D. Y. Na et al, Research on Disease Structure of Soldiers and Soldiers treated at 19-8 Hospital - Ministry of Public Security, Ministerial-level Scientific Research Project, Hanoi, 2004, pp. 47-51 (in Vietnamese).[3] D. X. Sang, Disease Model of Police Patients Inpatient Treatment at 19-8 Hospital, Master's Thesis of Medicine, Hanoi, Military Medical Academy, 2005, pp. 57-59 (in Vietnamese).[4] P. T. Ngoc, Research on Disease and Accident Injury Models of Patients Who are Police Inpatients at 19-8 Hospital in 2011, Master's thesis on Hospital Management, Hanoi University of Public Health, 2011, pp 61-65 (in Vietnamese).[5] Ministry of Health and Institute of Information Technology – Central Medical Library, Health Statistics, Hanoi, 2012 (in Vietnamese).
Clinical, Subclinical Characteristics and Classify Urinary Tract Malformation in Children with Urinary Tract Infections at the National Children’s Hospital
Authors: Van Dem Pham , Ngoc Bich Vu , Thi Phuong Luong , Thu Huong Nguyen
Published: July 2022

Aim: To describe clinical, subclinical characteristics and classify urinary tract malformation in children with urinary tract infections at the National Children’s Hospital. Subjects and research methods: A cross-sectional descriptive study on 100 children with urinary tract infections and urinary tract malformations treated at the Department of Nephrology and Dialysis of National Children’s Hospital from June 2019 to June 2021. Results: The rate of malformed urinary tract infections in children accounted for 2.1% of the total urinary tract infections. The male/female ratio was 1.22/1. The most common age was from 3 months to 3 years old (78%). The most common clinical manifestations were fever (89%) and urination disorder (52%). Symptoms of other organs included the digestive system 45%, respiratory system 24%, and nervous system 17%. Children with white blood cell count ≥15 G/L and CRP ≥ 20 mg/L accounted for 60% and 77% respectively. Kidney failure was 11% of children. There was a strong correlation between nitrite-positive and children with positive urine culture (OR: 4.7, Cl95% [1.2-15.2]). Vesicoureteral reflux was the highest observed of urinary malformation of the kidney (78%), followed by the duplex kidney (16%) and ureteropelvic junction narrowing (14%). The rates of recurrence and complications were 59% and 11%, respectively. The rate of recurrent urinary tract infections increased with the severity of reflux. Conclusion: The clinical and subclinical characteristics of urinary tract infections in urinary tract malformations children are most commonly fever, urination disorder, and vesicoureteral reflux get the highest rate.
Herbal Extracts: Importance, Classification, Quality Characteristics, and Control
Authors: Bien Tran Trong , Tuyet Tran Thi , Phuong Bui Thi Lan , Van Pham Thai Ha
Published: July 2022

Herbal extracts are one of the herbal preparations obtained by the extraction method. There has been an increasing trend of application of herbal extracts to replace traditional medicinal herbs in using and manufacturing of drug dosage forms. The quality characteristics of herbal extracts roots from their multi-components nature, leading to multiple targets and mechanisms of action. Thus hindering the development of quality assessment systems and also the application of pharmaceutical technologies in the development of modern dosage forms, leading to a decrease in therapeutic efficacy in clinical practice. This review systematizes some information related to herbal extracts: the position and importance of herbal extracts in drug research and development, classification, characteristics, and quality control strategies. The purpose of this review is to consolidate and expand the general understanding of the “pharmaceutical nature” of herbal extracts and to provide some quality control strategies using markers and reference materials

Keywords

Herbal extracts, quality characteristics, classification, quality control, pharmaceutical nature.
Study the EGFR and HER2 Receptors Inhibitory Effect of Compounds in Siegesbeckia orientalis L. for Supporting Cancer Treatment
Authors: Thi Hang Do , Hoang Mai Tran , Thi Huong Le , Thi Hong Khanh Do , Thi Thuy Nguyen , Van Khoi Nguyen , Thi Thanh Binh Nguyen , Thanh Tung Bui
Published: July 2022

Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and Human epithelium receptor 2 (HER2) are important targets in cancer treatment such as lung cancer, breast cancer. Siegesbeckia orientalis L. is a medicinal plant that has the ability to inhibit the proliferation of cancer cells. In this study, we evaluated the ability to inhibit EGFR and HER2 receptors of compounds from the Siegesbeckia orientalis L. by molecular docking method. Based on the published phytochemicals of Siegesbeckia orientalis L., we have collected 50 isolated compounds. Molecular docking results showed that the ability to inhibit EGFR was higher than erlotinib with 34 compounds, higher than icotinib with 7 compounds, higher than almonertinib with 21 compounds, and higher than olmutinib with 3 compounds; 4 compounds with higher ability to inhibit HER2 than neratinib, and 4 compounds may inhibit both EGFR and HER2 receptors simultaneously. Analysis of Lipinski's rule of five and predicting pharmacokinetic - toxicological parameters, we obtained two compounds that have drug-like properties. Therefore, these two compounds have the potential to be drugs that inhibit EGFR and HER2 receptors for cancer treatment and need to be studied further.

Keywords

EGFR, HER2, Molecular docking, Siegesbeckia orientalis L.
Fourth Graders’ Perceptions of the Use of Reciprocal Teaching Model in English Reading Comprehension
Authors: Tham Duong My , Sang Nguyen Thi Thu
Published: July 2022

Developing reading skills plays one of the vital roles in teaching EFL learners, especially young learners; however, not all teaching models and approaches can be properly employed in teaching young learners. The mixed-methods study endeavours to explore fourth graders’ perceptions of the use of the reciprocal teaching model (RTM) in learning English reading comprehension at a Ho Chi Minh City-based international school. A cohort of fifty students were involved in answering the questionnaire, and fiusefteen of them participated in semi-structured interviews. The quantitative data from the questionnaire were processed by SPSS in terms of descriptive statistics, and the qualitative data from interviews were analysed using the content analysis approach. The findings showed that participants believed that the use of RTM impacted positively their English reading comprehension. They could foster the use of reading strategies and improve their vocabulary and reading comprehension ability. Such preliminary findings can help to further research to confirm the effectiveness of RTM in teaching reading comprehension to EFL learners in general and young learners in specific.
Classroom Behavior of English Majors at Ho Chi Minh University of Banking in Chinese Language
Authors: Vu Luu Hon
Published: July 2022

This study investigated the classroom behavior of Chinese as a second foreign language among 246 English majors at Ho Chi Minh City University of Banking. The survey results show that students’ learning orientation has the highest frequency of use, and their dominating others has the lowest frequency of use. In terms of gender, there were significant differences in the frequency of dominating others use between male and female students. In terms of grades, there was a significant difference in the frequency of verbal participation between second- and third-grade students. In terms of home life area, there were no significant differences in various classroom behaviors between students from urban areas and those from rural areas. Students’ academic performance was positively correlated with verbal participation, learning orientation, and support-seeking. Based on the above research results, this study puts forward some teaching suggestions.
Extension of Objects Eligible for Industrial Property Right Protection as Inventions in Vietnam
Authors: Quoc Nguyen Phan
Published: July 2022

Vietnamese law on intellectual property in general and industrial property rights protection as inventions in particular stipulate the patentable subject matters that are considered suitable with the international laws. However, to increase the patent filing number and promote the protection and exploitation of patent, the list of ineligible objects for industrial property rights protection as inventions needs to be shorter. The article analyses some international experience in extending the objects.
The Application of Teaching Methods at VNU School of Law
Authors: Dang Mai Hai , Thai Pham Hong
Published: July 2022

This study examines the current situation of applying teaching methods and its effectiveness of these methods at VNU School of Law. The research was carried out in 2020-2021 using quantitative method with questionnaires distributed to teachers and students at VNU School of Law. The two research questions were raised: 1) What are teaching methods applying at VNU School of Law? and 2) What are the effects of applying teaching methods at VNU School of Law? The data obtained in the study were analyzed by the software SPSS 20.0. The results of the analysis proved the effectiveness of applying teaching methods at VNU School of Law. Teachers have actively innovated teaching methods to ensure teaching goals and students have made great efforts, acquired knowledge, skills. As a result, students have enhanced the self-discipline, initiative and creative in the process of studying and researching. Based on the research findings, some recommendations are proposed to improve the efficiency of the innovative teaching methods at VNU School of Law.

Keywords: teaching methods, application of teaching methods, innovative teaching methods, VNU School of Law.
Duty to Provide Information in the Pre-contractual Period from A Law-and-Economics Perspective
Authors: Nha Nam Bach Thi
Published: July 2022

Under the influence of the market economy, there is a large degree of information asymmetry in the process of negotiating and concluding contracts between the contracting parties. This has imbalanced the interests of both parties in the transaction to a certain extent, as well as seriously affected equality and social justice. This article studies the impact of information exchange, disclosure and transmission in the case of information asymmetry from the perspective of economic efficiency of the transaction on the basis of classification of productive information and functional wealth distribution. Based on this theoretical framework, the article argues that the obligation to provide pre-contractual information is a legal solution to overcome the information asymmetry in the process of negotiating the transaction, and proposes the exception possibility of the duty.
The Constitutional History of China From the Republic Era to Today
Authors: Tam Nguyen Minh
Published: July 2022

Constitutional history is always a vivid picture, reflecting the socio-political context of a country in each certain historical period. By analyzing the historical context and constitutional text, the article outlines three ups and downs periods of China’s constitutional history from 1949 to the present. The article points out some features of the Chinese Constitution, namely personalization of leaders, affirming and consolidating the leadership of the Communist Party of China, adopting Western constitutional values, making efforts to reform the state system.

Keywords: Constitutionalism, constitutional history, rule-of-law based state.
Judicial Reform for Justice, Human Rights, Building a Rule-of-law State and International Integration in Vietnam in the Current Period
Authors: Kien Tuong Duy
Published: July 2022

Judiciary, albeit being understood in the broadest sense of the word (i.e. activities undertaken by all the state agencies in charge of investigation, prosecution, adjudication, law enforcement, including judicial support institutions) or in the narrowest sense (i.e. only the adjudication of the courts), has a direct and decisive impact on political life, rights, freedoms and interests of individualss/citizens. In order that human rights and freedoms are respected and protected, it is necessary to promote judicial reform (making the judiciary be constantly clean and strong, serving public interest and abiding law, so that it can be the mainstay of justice). Therefore, successful implementation of judicial reform will contribute to protecting justice, human rights, and successful protection of justice, human rights will be a critical determinant of successful building rule-of-law state and international integration. For these reasons, the 13th National Party Congress has required the judiciary to have responsibility for protecting justice and human rights. This is an important and consistent guideline for reforming the judiciary in Vietnam up to 2030, with a vision to 2045.

This article makes an in-depth analysis of the objective requirements for protecting justice, human rights in the context of building a socialist rule-of-law state and international integration; and the relationship and interdependence between protection of justice, human rights and judicial reform. The article argues that successful protecting justice and human rights will be an important factor for the success of building a rule-of-law state and international integration in Vietnam.

Keywords: Justice, human rights, judicial reform, rule-of-law state, international integration.