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Photography as Visual Activism and Visual Disobedience
Authors: Mokgwathi Kutlwano
Published: January 2024

African women photographers subvert cis-heterosexism, systemic erasure, and redefine identities authentic to their existence through visual activism and disobedience. Through the work of Zanele Muholi, LGBTQ+ communities are rightfully humanised. Through the work of Zubeida Vallie, a humanist perspective of the Anti-Apartheid struggle is documented; her work also creates visibility of the lives of women in Cape Town, South Africa, which demonstrate Black and women of colour as people, not as ‘othered' subjects. Thus, this chapter examines Muholi and Vallie's roles in 1) Actualising revolutionary political and social change, and 2) Rectifying the de-womanisation of African women. The study is a multimodal ethnography consisting of prerecorded interviews of Zanele Muholi, and an interrogation of Zubeida Vallie's work through her Master's Dissertation. Through their own testimonies and analysis, the socio-political uses of photography, the legacies of protest cultures, and the development of visual disobedience in Southern Africa are discussed.
Feminist Policies and Practices in Africa
Authors: Ts'ehlo Neo Jeanett , Musingafi Maxwell Constantine Chando
Published: January 2024

In this chapter a survey of some gender and feminist policies and practices affecting women in Africa is provided. The chapter is a survey of how both the world and Africa have attempted to solve the controversy on women situation through some guiding blueprints and policies that are supposed to guide practices in the international community with special focus on Africa. Specifically, The chapter focuses on broad policies and blueprints like those on the Welfare State; Affirmative Action; Women in Development; Women and Development; Gender and development; gender mainstreaming; and Femocracy. The objectives of the chapter include among others to explain the various global and national attempts at improving women's position in the global community with special focus on Africa.
Grandmothers in Maai Mahiu Kenya Defy HIV Stigma and Transform Their Community
Authors: Njiru Pauline Wanjiru
Published: January 2024

This chapter details the experiences of grandmothers who defy HIV- related stigma to transform their community. After the death of their children, they took the responsibility to raise the grandchildren orphaned by AIDS. They suffered stigma from their families, churches, the community, and themselves. The chapter utilises data collected during the author's PhD research, which examined the source of strength, faith, and hope exhibited by the grandmothers parenting grandchildren orphaned by AIDS in Maai Mahiu, Kenya. Fifteen grandmothers and one health worker participated. The study employed qualitative and grounded theory research approaches. Their responses to the stigma resulted in them gaining and promoting accurate knowledge, the promotion of positive living, and improved standards of living. Their responses positively transformed their own lives and their community. The chapter concludes by restating that in their proactive responses, the grandmothers defied stigmatization and took it upon themselves to ensure the orphaned grandchildren lived.
Westernising African Feminist Epistemology
Authors: Hayes Catherine
Published: January 2024

This chapter serves as a mechanism of recognising and acknowledging the illegitimacy of historic and traditional western approaches to narratives of African feminist epistemology. These approaches have engendered lenses of perspective which are irrefutably skewed by colonialism and whose address is warranted in ensuring both a means of learning about the end of an era and the prospect of a more authentically framed future framed, shaped, and determined from within African culture and context by those. To undertake this acknowledgement and recognition is one of the first and much belated to framing steps in ensuring that the articulation of truth lies best with those whose lived truths they are, rather than any tokenistic perceptions of them, consequently articulated through Western lenses of perspective.
A Review of Big Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence in Industry 5.0 for Smart Decision-Making
Authors: Kalinaki Kassim , Yahya Umar , Malik Owais Ahmed , Lai Daphne Teck Ching
Published: January 2024

Globally, the industrial landscape is witnessing a significant transformation with the emergence of Industry 5.0, marking a new era characterized by seamless convergence of digital technologies, physical systems, and human expertise. This shift hinges on the dynamic interplay between big data analytics (BDA) and artificial intelligence (AI), becoming the cornerstone of intelligent decision-making in Industry 5.0. Accordingly, this study explores the profound impact of integrating BDA and AI in Industry 5.0, emphasizing the pivotal roles of data acquisition, storage, and processing. Additionally, it examines how AI improves human decision-making across various industrial sectors like manufacturing, retail, automotive, energy grid management, and healthcare, showcasing real-world case studies. Moreover, the chapter addresses the challenges associated with managing large-scale data and offers innovative solutions. It concludes by looking ahead, outlining promising areas for future research at the intersection of BDA and AI to foster well-informed decision-making in Industry 5.0.
Machine Learning and Sentiments Analysis
Authors: Singh Pradeep kumar , Setta Showmik , Singh Akhilesh Kumar , Singh Amit Pratap
Published: January 2024

A significant amount of user-generated material, notably in the form of customer evaluations, has been produced in recent years as a result of the exponential rise of digital platforms. Utilizing this vast amount of data through cutting-edge methods like machine learning and sentiment analysis has become essential for organizations looking to learn insightful things about their customers' attitudes. This chapter explores how machine learning and sentiment analysis dynamically intersect when used to analyze customer evaluations. The chapter analyses how machine learning algorithms can be efficiently used to uncover complex patterns and feelings hidden in various consumer feedback through a thorough study. By using cutting-edge methodology, it reveals the intrinsic polarity and emotional undertones of these evaluations, offering insightful information about how customers feel. The chapter further illustrates how machine learning-driven sentiment analysis is used in practice across a variety of industries, shedding light on how it influences strategic business choices.
Have Your Cake and Eat It Too
Authors: Mollet Amanda L. , Valley Shay , Fitzsimmons Brynn
Published: January 2024

This chapter offers an invitation to learn about and support asexual and aromantic (ace/aro) students. Asexual students and aromantic students are typically defined as students who do not experience sexual or romantic attraction, respectively. Despite the emerging visibility of this community across social media, college educators still have work to do to increase awareness of these identities and to make campuses affirming places. Using traditional academic citations and citations for sources that emerged from ace/aro community knowledge serves to further amplify the brilliance and labor of the ace/aro communities while encouraging academia to continue questioning our epistemic assumptions, particularly around student identities. This chapter provides foundational information about asexuality and aromantism, describes demographics of ace/aro students, shares about their identity development, and offers educators practical approaches for serving and supporting these students, which includes invitations for continuing learning and development on the part of campus administrators.
You Can Stand Under My Bi+ Umbrella
Authors: Olivo Victoria Barbosa , Prieto Kaity , Copeland Olivia M.
Published: January 2024

This chapter investigates the benefits and costs of using umbrella terms such as plurisexual, bisexual+, or m-spec to describe a diversity of identities, behaviors, and attractions. Language is inherently linked with power and ideology. Through language, political powers and social structures create, maintain, and enforce a social production of identities that are often assumed to be natural. Those who fall under the m-spec umbrella (e.g., bisexual, biromantic, pansexual, panromantic, omnisexual, fluid, and queer people, among many others) challenge the social production of monosexual labels (e.g., straight, gay, lesbian). Despite plurisexuals' disruption of rigid categories, plurisexual students have reported feeling limited by the language available within higher education institutions. The authors explore the limitations of language, enriched by the voices of bi+ undergraduate and graduate student participants from their previous studies, and offer suggestions for serving bi+ students.
At the Intersection
Authors: Ianieri Nicole , Bingham W. Patrick
Published: January 2024

LGBTQIA+ international students in the U.S. have been considerably understudied, only recently gaining attention from scholars, indicating large knowledge gaps exist surrounding students studying beyond their home countries and holding multiple intersecting identities. Practitioners have limited awareness and guidance when supporting this population of students. In this chapter, the authors identify critical areas of intervention, investigating specifically those international students originating from non-Western locations, with particular emphasis on the MENA region and Muslim-majority countries, and who also identify within the broad spectrum of LGBTQIA+ identities. This chapter details specific frameworks for student support and concludes with tailored recommendations focused on individuality, collaboration across campus departments, and adopting a position of non-assumption when working directly with international students in a higher education setting.
Influence of ethnocentrism on the work behaviour of expatriates
Authors: Joachim J. , Weerasekera S.
Published: January 2024

With the surge in internationalisation of corporations, the number of expatriates in the workforce of organisations across the globe has dramatically increased. Presence of expatriates in the workforce has given rise to unique set of challenges. One of such is the effective management of expatriates’ work behaviour in the workplace. Whereas earlier studies have indicated that ethnocentrism is a fundamental determinant of expatriates’ work behaviour. Accordingly, this study aims at identifying the extent to which expatriates are ethnocentric in their work behaviour by analysing the variables intercultural communication apprehension (ICA), patriotism, and xenophobia. This is because it has been identified that these three constructs are related to ethnocentrism. A quantitative methodology was utilised for this study where data were collected from expatriates using an online self-administered questionnaire. Multivariate data analysis techniques were used in data analysis. The study’s results revealed that ICA, patriotism, and xenophobia are related with expatriates’ ethnocentric work behaviour. Thereby, the current study has offered a mechanism to measure the extent to which expatriates are ethnocentric in their work behaviour. A major outcome of this study would be providing insights into ethnocentrism and its influence on the work behaviour of expatriates.
Constraints faced by rural female entrepreneurs in Sri Lanka: a study based on Nuwara Eliya district
Authors: Rathnayaka G. M. K. , Surangi H. A. K. N. S.
Published: January 2024

Female entrepreneurship is the driving force and substance for a country's economy, particularly developing countries. Female business startup activities are increasing year by year. However, regardless of the growth of female entrepreneurship each year, the achievement of female entrepreneurs' businesses is still not up to expectations. Additionally, female entrepreneurs also face challenges to continuing in long-term business. Researchers construct knowledge on female entrepreneurship through various aspects. However, most contributions to the literature on women entrepreneurs came from developed countries, and the results can not be generalized. Thus, the study explores female entrepreneurs' traditional constraints in Nuwara Eliya District, Sri Lanka. The study adopts a qualitative approach, specifically narrative design. The data were obtained from eight respondents purposively. The struggle to balance the family and the business, gender discrimination, culture, human capital, and acquiring business knowledge were the main findings. In addition, the Easter attack and the Covid 19 pandemic worsened female entrepreneurs' constraints The constraints that emerged from the analysis resulted in the development of a new and comprehensive model. The findings provide theoretical and practical implications for the female entrepreneurship area.
Ethical leadership and organisational identification: the mediating effect of psychological contract —evidence from Sri Lankan apparel industry
Authors: Jasintha N.
Published: January 2024

Albeit a plethora of studies were undertaken across many countries, cultures, and industries, ethical leadership in the workplace remains a topic of ongoing debate and inquiry. This study aims to investigate the direct and indirect impact of ethical leadership on organizational identification in employees working in the apparel industry in Sri Lanka. Drawing on social exchange theory, the study further explores the mediating role of psychological contract in the impact of ethical leadership on organizational identification. The study adopted a survey research strategy and the data were collected from conveniently chosen employees working in the apparel industry with the aid of a self-administered questionnaire. The questionnaires were distributed among the respondents via online and a total of 414 responses were received. As a caveat, the fundamental statistical assumptions and the psychometric properties of measures were examined. The results showed that ethical leadership positively impacts organizational identification. The study averred a partial mediation of psychological contract in the impact of ethical leadership on organizational identification. The current study pushes back the frontiers of literature in the terrain of leadership and organizational studies and provides useful practical implications.
Does intellectual capital matter for value creation of companies? evidence from Sri Lanka
Authors: Wanigasekara W. A. D. K. J. , Weligamage S. S. , Karunarathne W. V. A. D.
Published: January 2024

Value creation is the ultimate purpose of any company and it is affected by many factors including capital. In knowledge-based economy, not only the financial capital but also non-financial capital play a pivotal role for creating value for the organizational stakeholders. The non-financial capital includes specially, the intellectual capital and its components; human capital, structural capital and relational capital. Thus, this study tried to explore the impact of intellectual capital and its components on value creation of Sri Lankan companies. The study was carried on the views obtained from the top personnel of 263 Sri Lankan companies out of 814 Sri Lankan companies including both Public Listed Companies and private companies. Further, the value creation was quantified using both financial and non-financial value drivers in this study. Data were analyzed using multivariate data analysis through Partial Least Square Structural Equation Modeling. Intellectual capital and structural capital have a significant positive impact on value creation according to the study’s findings. Human capital and relational capital do not have a significant impact on value creation. Furthermore, the explanatory power of the intellectual capital on value creation was lower than the explanatory power of the components of intellectual capital on value creation. Further, the findings of the study support to the theory, specially they confirm the stakeholder theory, knowledge based theory and intellectual capital based theory. Moreover, the study adds more value to the practice by identifying intellectual capital, human capital, structural capital and relational capital as the major predecessors of value creation of Sri Lankan companies.
Geospatial analysis of end-stage renal disease among patients attending hemodialysis units in Alexandria, Egypt
Authors: EL-Hofy Reham A. , Shehata Safia I. , Abou EL-Naga Azza F. , Bahnassy Mohamed H. , Gewaifel Gihan I. , Gamaleldin Nahla A.
Published: January 2024

Background/aim

End-stage renal disease (ESRD) is increasing worldwide and renal replacement therapy is inevitable to prevent death. Geographic information system (GIS) analysis is particularly suitable for chronic kidney disease (CKD) and ESRD. Spatial analysis is an important tool for better decision-making and planning. The aim of this study was to utilize geospatial analysis of ESRD in Alexandria for understanding the interplay between geography and other risk factors and for guiding resource allocation.

Patients and methods

A cross-sectional study was adopted, 950 ESRD patients were interviewed during the period from November 2021 to December 2022. Data were collected using predesigned structured interview questionnaire, which included sociodemographic information and the patient’s medical history. This information was then used for the development of the spatial representation of data and cluster analysis for ESRD patients attending hemodialysis units in the districts of Alexandria governorate.

Results

The results of the study showed that the mean age of ESRD patients (n=950) was 49±16.2 years. 538 of studied patients (56.6%) were males. Hypertension was the most frequent main etiology of ESRD (31.3%). It was found that 100–150 hypertensive patients were in Al-Ameria and Sharq district. Moreover, greater than 150 hypertensive patients were in Al-Muntazah district. Although Al-Muntazah district had the highest number of ESRD cases (no.= 247), it was not a significant cluster (P= 0.15). On the other hand, Al-Ameria district had a significant cluster of ESRD cases (no.= 177, P= 0.002).

Conclusion

It is recommended to target future screening programs and awareness campaigns in Almeria district to raise public awareness about early detection and prevention of chronic kidney disease this will help to prevent further progression to ESRD. Further studies are required to assess the accessibility to renal dialysis units in Egypt.
Innate Immune Responses in Fish: Antigen Presenting Cells and Professional Phagocytes
Authors: Kordon Adef Othan , Karsi Attila , Pinchuk Lesya
Published: January 2024

Similar to higher vertebrates, the immune system of fish is composed of two major components, innate (non-specific) and adaptive (specific) immune responses. However, the innate immune system in fish has a fundamental importance in preventing pathogen entry as the adaptive immune responses are less efficient compared to mammals. The components of the innate immune system in fish are commonly divided into three compartments: physical parameters, humoral parameters, and cellular factors.
Recently, the fish professional APCs received more attention resulting in the increased numbers of studies on their morphology and function. Following a lengthy gap, in the last decades, considerable progress has been made in the mechanistic understanding of fish APC-dependent immune responses. Dendritic cells (DCs), the universal APCs and the major players in bridging and shaping both innate and adaptive immune responses have been characterized in several teleost fish based on their morphology and function. In addition to innate immunity, macrophages have been demonstrated as essential in initiation of adaptive immunity as another professional APCs in teleost fish. Like in mammals, teleost B cells were characterized as important APCs that activate naïve T cells and initiate adaptive immunity. In this study, we provide an overview of innate immune responses in teleost fish and discuss the current status of the field of teleost fish DCs, macrophages and B cells as professional APCs.
Utility of Rapid On-Site Evaluation on Endobronchial Ultrasound-Guided Transbronchial Needle Aspirate of the Mediastinal and Hilar Lymph Nodes in Patients with Suspected Sarcoidosis
Authors: Pathak Vikas , Richman Mark J. , Jha Prekchha
Published: January 2024

Background Rapid on-site evaluation (ROSE) is a technique where transbronchial needle aspiration (TBNA) cytology samples are rapidly stained and screened for diagnostic material in the procedure room, during the procedure. We hypothesized the sensitivity of ROSE in patients with sarcoidosis is very low, leading to unjustified use of an expensive technique.Data and Methods This was a retrospective study at an inner-city hospital. Medical records of all patients who underwent EBUS-TBNA of mediastinal and hilar lymph nodes with ROSE over a 3-year period were evaluated. The sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative predictive values of ROSE in patients with sarcoidosis were calculated, with pathologic diagnosis by cell block as the “gold standard.” Patients with malignancy were used as a comparison. Results One hundred eighty-four patients who had ROSE on EBUS-TBNA of mediastinal and hilar lymph nodes were included. Thirty were diagnosed with sarcoidosis, 95 with malignancy, and 59 with benign lymph nodes. The sensitivity of ROSE in patients with sarcoidosis was 44%, specificity and positive predictive value were 100%, and negative predictive value was only 17%. Conclusion Given low sensitivity and negative predictive value, ROSE may not be as useful in diagnosing sarcoidosis as it is in diagnosing malignancy.
DESTRUKTIVNI PROCESI PRIVATIZACIJE – EKONOMSKI I SOCIJALNI SUNOVRAT
Authors: Komazec Slobodan
Published: January 2024

In the world economy the historical conflict between labor and capital is intensifying in the process of the dominance of speculative financial capital. The rise of unemployment in the new global crisis leads to the spread of fear for the existence of the masses. There is a general decline in the share of employees' income in the national income, along with a real decline in salaries and wages. The functioning of globalized capitalism and the creation of the precariat are investigated. The aggravation of the conflict between labor and large speculative capital is the path to a permanent crisis. The relationship between private capital, profit and the welfare state are the basis of new crises in capitalism. A critical finding of the process of privatization and its destructive action in society is needed. A special part of the paper refers to the creation of a dependent and indebted economy, along with the discovery of the mechanism of creation of the debt burden. Finally, it investigates where modern economies and society have led to the devastating concept of neoliberalism, privatization and the separation of labor from capital and the results of development. Key words: economy, privatization, capital, debt economy.
CRKVENO PRAVO KAO BOGOSLOVSKA I PRAVNA NAUČNA DISCIPLINA – PREDNOSTI I MANE DVOJNOG NAUČNOG IDENTITETA
Authors:   University of Belgrade, Faculty of Orthodox Theology, Devrnja Zoran
Published: January 2024

The Ecclesiastical law is one of the oldest theological disciplines that expresses the authentic church tradition created by the course of the sacred body of the Church throughout history. Besides its undeniable ecclesiastical identity and eclectic character that appear through the sacred permeating of its canonical testimony and other bearers of the theological traditions such as the science of worship, the patristic spiritual and theological legacy, and the contribution of shaping its dogmatical and ethical testifying, about bearers of literary tradition, and the history of Church, the Ecclesiastical law has been developing in the direction of its identification with the jurisprudent subjects and the methods of exploration from the period of late medieval, which makes it a dual scientific discipline. Albeit it has been the subject of discussions on its positioning in the family of legal and theological sciences during the last three centuries, the Ecclesiastical law withstands rounded and ultimate epistemological definitions, keeping its structural complexity as well as its multi-leveled, unique, and distinctive theological, legal, pastoral, and academic scientific identity. This topic is a reduced attempt to perceive the positive and negative consequences of the dual identity of the Ecclesiastical law.
O SPECIFIČNOSTI PREDMETA PRAVNA POVIJEST RELIGIJSKIH ZAJEDNICA NA PRAVNOM FAKULTETU SVEUČILIŠTA U RIJECI
Authors:   Faculty of Law, University of Rijeka, Croatia, Bartulović Željko , Milković Naum
Published: January 2024

In the paper, the authors analyze the need to carry out a legal course that deals with the organization and legal regulations of religious communities, especially those operating in the territory of the Republic of Croatia, in the legal study program. In their practice, lawyers encounter religious communities and their legal acts, and there is a need to become familiar with basic terms, legal institutes, norms that regulate this matter, and legal practices, including international ones. The question arises whether should be studied only one religious community and its canonical, legal regulations or several religious communities within the framework of the state. The "Rijeka" program includes several communities important for the Republic of Croatia according to numerical and traditional criteria (Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant-Evangelical, Islamic and Jewish), combining a legal-historical, comparative and positive legal approach. Guest lecturers are prominent members of religious communities, including the Serbian Orthodox Church. In this way, the inter- and multi-religious, humanistic and cultural approach to religion that is characteristic of Rijeka stands out.
ISLAMSKO OBRAZOVANJE U REPUBLICI SRBIJI
Authors:   University of Kragujevac, Faculty of Law, Leković Jakub , Coşkun Ertuğrul ,   Turkish Embassy in Belgrade, Serbia
Published: January 2024

The first published Quranic verse of Surah El-Aleq deals with the issue of education and presents the acquisition of knowledge as the main Quranic command. Each subsequent verse that talks about knowledge is a clear indication of the level that belongs to all those who deal with science of any kind, and the importance of knowledge as the most important human resource. The product of a correct awareness of the importance of knowledge is a galaxy of Islamic scholars who made an immeasurable contribution to the development of science, in the field of mathematics, philosophy, medicine, literature and all other scientific disciplines. The result of a correct awareness of the importance of education based on faith is the centuries-old existence of educational institutions Islamic communities on the soil of the Balkans, the former Yugoslavia, and the Republic of Serbia today, which operate through a comprehensive educational system, starting with Islamic pre-school institutions, Koranic schools, madrasas and all the way to Islamic faculties
ANTINOMIJA U RAZUMEVANjU SVETOSTI ŽIVOTA I DOSTOJANSTVENE SMRTI
Authors:   Institute of comparative law, Belgrade, Serbia, Petrović Dragana
Published: January 2024

As the title itself shows, the subject of this paper is not the question of euthanasia in all possible aspects and as a whole. It is only about some segments of that problem. It seems to us, however, the more significant one, because they basically touch the very essence of the question - man's relationship to himself, to his life in all its forms and phases of existence - from birth to death. Equivalent to that, it is insisted that this, very complicated problem with its specific content, i.e. sensitive nature, evokes and provokes lively debates about the bioethical and legal permissibility of "death with dignity". This is, therefore, the plane in the consideration of "mercy killing" where we are faced with numerous contradictions and disputes, inconsistencies and vagueness, imprecise and confused comments... Passing it through the historical prism, the author points out that only "footnotes" were presented in the large to the text of various theoretical positions on the indicated issue (if we want to see it in all its indicated lines). In this context, the Christian religion, more precisely, all types of Christianity (Catholics, Protestants, Orthodox), declare against any form of euthanasia. And all major world religions, from Islam, through Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism and others. oppose this practice of ending life. Our initial position is that, as things stand today, there will be a significant shift in this regard. Even if we are able to reach a solution in this work, to come to the right knowledge, such an effort, once we have already agreed to it, will hopefully open some new perspectives, perhaps illuminate the problem from a different perspective, and offer new possibilities solving the mentioned, very complex and difficult dilemmas that arise in connection with the termination of life out of mercy and compassion.
USTAV SRPSKE PRAVOSLAVNE CRKVE OD 1947. GODINE
Authors:   Serbian Orthodox Church, Belgrade, Džomić Velibor
Published: January 2024

After the end of the Second World War, the Serbian Orthodox Church found itself in new social and political circumstances, but also in the legal system of socialist Yugoslavia, which was significantly different from the legal system of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. In 1946, the new communist government adopted the Constitution of the Federative People's Republic of Yugoslavia, which, among other things, standardized the relationship between the Church and the state. On the territory of the newly formed socialist Yugoslavia, which had just come out of the war, the war against the Serbian Orthodox Church was still raging. From the positions of the new state authorities, liquidations and persecution of bishops, priests and believers of the Serbian Orthodox Church were carried out. Several laws were adopted that were directly directed against the Serbian Orthodox Church and other traditional churches and religious communities. The Law on the Serbian Orthodox Church from 1931 was repealed by the decision of the new communist government, as well as all other regulations that were passed until April 6, 1941. The Holy Council of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church could not be convened in a regular or extraordinary session in wartime conditions and due to the imprisonment of Serbian Patriarch Gavrilo (Dožić). On November 14, 1946, Patriarch Gavrilo returned to the country and assumed his patriarchal duties. The Holy Synod of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church, under the presidency of Patriarch Gavrilo, convened the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church for the first regular session after six years of being prevented from convening the highest church body. The session of the Holy Council of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church was held from April 24 to May 21, 1947 in Belgrade. Although there is a belief that amendments to the Constitution of the Serbian Orthodox Church from 1931 were adopted at that session or that the "Constitution was changed", based on the relevant archival material and on the basis of the formal-legal element of this general ecclesiastical-legal act, it is established that The Holy Synod of Bishops, regardless of the numerous norms that have been retained from the Constitution of the Serbian Orthodox Church since 1931, actually adopted the new Constitution of the Serbian Orthodox Church. The subject of this work is the Constitution of the Serbian Orthodox Church from 1947, which is still in force in the Serbian Orthodox Church today.
Artesãos das palavras: o exercício da transcrição de vozes da comunidade Mumbuca
Authors: Sardinha Adrielle Betina Oliveira , Medina Maria de Fátima Rocha
Published: January 2024

Os dados coletados em pesquisas de campo necessitam de certo tratamento para tornarem-se manuseáveis ao pesquisador e para a publicidade. Dessa maneira, o trabalho de transcrever consiste em decompor as falas dos informantes para transpor à escrita as falas, de modo que não se percam com e no tempo. Este trabalho procura discutir aspectos acerca do trabalho de transcrição de dados coletados na comunidade quilombola Mumbuca no ano de 2012. Destacam-se como resultados a essencialidade de procedimentos convencionados, pautada em bibliografia sobre o tema; e, a fluidez da cultura oral dentre os acontecimentos socioeconomicos.
The importance and political and economic position (Silk Road) of China (review, goals, obstacles and challenges)
Authors: YAWAR Mohammad Ekram
Published: January 2024

Today, as a vast continent, Asia is facing new developments and various actors have presented plans to achieve their goals in its various regions. China is one of these emerging players that have proposed the plan to revive the Silk Road in order to become a world power.
This route represents a fundamental element of China's foreign policy strategy aimed at extending its sphere of influence to diverse regions. Revealed by the head of state of China in September 2013, this initiative encompasses around 4.4 billion individuals, constituting 65 percent of the global population, and involves a substantial portion of the world's gross production, totaling 21 trillion and it consists of two parts of the Economic Belt and Road. "New" "Maritime Silk Road" has been formed.
China's effort and interest in promoting such grand projects, apart from the fact that it can have new economic and political effects for this country, can also expand more and more in China's foreign policy. Qash should have a more active area.
The competition between China and America in the international economy shows the increasing influence of China in the Asian economy and the spectacular growth of China's economic and commercial activities in Africa compared to other powers, especially the United States. By revitalizing the silk road and drawing an economic belt, China will have access to world roads. Facilitation and expansion of an international and reliable transport corridor with affordable costs has been developed in the direction of its national interests.
Based on this, the authors of this article raise their question as to whether China's innovations, despite what the Beijing authorities have said, can appear in practice, or whether the obstacles on the way of these plans prevent them from coming to fruition. Will you come? Our conjecture is that owing to the excessively high expenses, China's plans and the disruptions that the United States may create in competition with Beijing, and also due to some environmental problems and lack of support. The likelihood of success for these plans appears doubtful, at least in the foreseeable future.
Effects of estradiol on fatty acid composition and tissue structure of hepatopancreas in Procambarus clarkii
Authors: Zhao Weihong , Liu Jintao , Zheng Xirui , Lv Linlan , Chen Jiyi , Wang Jiamei , Sui Yanming , Zheng Liang
Published: January 2024

The hepatopancreas of Procambarus clarkii provides lipids and other nutrients for ovarian development and contains hormones such as estradiol related to ovarian development. During the development of the P. clarkii ovary, the hepatopancreas’ tissue structure and fatty acid content undergo corresponding changes. A controlled indoor experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of exogenous estradiol injection on the tissue structure and fatty acid content in the hepatopancreas of P. clarkii. The experiment consists of three experimental groups and one control group. The P. clarkii in the experimental group were injected with 5, 0.5, and 0.05 μg/(g body weight) of estradiol once every 5 days for 5 times and with normal saline injection as the control. After 25 days, the content of fatty acids and changes in tissue structure in the hepatopancreas were measured. The results showed that the main fatty acids in P. clarkii hepatopancreas were C18:4n, C20:3n, and EPA, and polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) content was 57.17%±4.76%. Injecting estradiol mainly affected the content of C16:0, C16:1n, C18:0, C18:1n9, C18:2n, C18:3n6, C18:3n6, C18:4n, C20:1n, C20:2n, C20:3n, C20:4n3, C20:5n3, C22:n (n=1-4), C22:5n, and C22:6n in the hepatopancreas. Injecting estradiol significantly reduced the total content of PUFA in hepatopancreas with the reduction of C18:3n6, C18:4n, C20:3n, C20:4n3, C20:5n3 C22: n (n=1-4) (P<0.05); Estradiol injection significantly increased the total content of monounsaturated fatty acid (MUFA) in hepatopancreas with the increase of C18:1n9, and C20:1n (P<0.05); Injection of estradiol (0.05 μg/g) significantly increased the total content of saturated fatty acids (SFA) in the hepatopancreas (P<0.05) with the increase of C16:0 and C18:0 (P<0.05). Injecting estradiol can increase the volume and quantity of hepatopancreatic B cells, and the 5 μg/g group had the most obvious changes.
Utilização da feromonioterapia em gatas submetidas à ovariohisterectomia eletiva
Authors:   , Silva Alessandra Sayegh Arreguy
Published: January 2024

Muitos são os desafios encontrados pelos clínicos veterinários na pesquisa e utilização de feromônios sintéticos. Em 2004, foi publicado o primeiro guia com a American Association of Feline Practioners (AAFP) para auxiliar os Médicos Veterinários em sua prática clínica com as chamadas técnicas “amigáveis a felinos”. Nestas, é recomendada a utilização de feromonioterapia e, desde então, muitas pesquisas foram feitas com a utilização de feromônios e sua influência no comportamento felino. O presente estudo teve como principal objetivo avaliar a influência da feromonioterapia com a fração F3 felina no comportamento de gatas no período pré-operatório, pós-operatório e em ambos, e sua influência no tempo de recuperação anestésica dos animais, bem como no leucograma de estresse. Para a avaliação do tempo de recuperação anestésica foram utilizadas 48 gatas, hígidas, divididas aleatoriamente em quatro grupos, com o mesmo número de animais por grupo. Todas foram submetidas à ovariohisterectomia eletiva, sendo os protocolos anestésicos a associação de tiletamina e zolazepam por via intramuscular, anestesia epidural com metadona e lidocaína contendo vasoconstritor. Todos tiveram a anestesia mantida com isofluorano diluído em 100% de oxigênio até a finalização do procedimento cirúrgico. Um grupo foi o controle, onde não se utilizou a feromonioterapia; no segundo grupo, os animais foram submetidos à feromonioterapia no período pré-operatório, 20 minutos antes do procedimento; no terceiro grupo, os animais foram expostos ao feromônio no ambiente por seis horas após o procedimento cirúrgico, e no grupo quatro, os animais foram expostos à feromonioterapia em ambos os momentos. Para avaliar o tempo de recuperação dos animais, foi marcada a hora exata em que os animais foram anestesiados, e a hora exata em que esses animais se recuperaram da anestesia, e o tempo contabilizado em segundos. Foi constatado que a utilização da feromonioterapia auxiliou na diminuição do tempo da recuperação anestésica e demonstrou-se útil na promoção do bem-estar animal, evitando a leucocitose fisiológica. Para a avaliação doleucograma, participaram da pesquisa 22 felinos, fêmeas, com idades variadas, hígidas ao exame físico. Os animais foram divididos em dois grupos, com exposição ou não de feromonioterapia antes da coleta de sangue na veia cefálica por gotejamento. A avaliação dos resultados dos leucogramas foi realizada por três observadores independentes, que estudaram os exames do período pré-operatório e imediatamente antes da cirurgia, em ambos os grupos. Nesta pesquisa não foram observadas alterações de leucócitos características de estresse agudo, no entanto, o grupo de animais onde se utilizou a fração F3 do feromônio facial felino demonstrou valores menores de leucócitos, neutrófilos, linfócitos, monócitos e eosinófilos em seus resultados, influenciando positivamente na diminuição do estresse nestes animais. Palavras-chave: Anestesia. Bem-estar. Estresse. Felinos. Feromônio. Recuperação anestésica.
Polytomous key for selecting plants according to decorative, phenological, phenotypic traits when landscaping cities in the south of Russia
Authors: Trusheva N. A. , Rezchikova O. N.
Published: January 2024

The classic selection of plants for landscaping the urban environment is a rather labor-intensive process involving the use of a large number of reference materials, atlases and plant catalogs. It is necessary to consider various characteristics of plants, taking into account their decorativeness, mutual compatibility, survival in the natural conditions of each region, etc. The purpose of the research was developing a polytomous key and creating it using a modern computer program to simplify the selection of plants according to decorative, phenotypic and phenological characteristics for landscaping cities in the southern Russia. The method of compiling a polytomous key was used as a way to identify plants by several leading characteristics, when the original groups were simultaneously divided into several smaller ones. The life forms, size, habitus of plants, characteristics of the trunk and crown, characteristics of flowering and fruiting, as well as environmental requirements were taken into account. On the basis of the research results the assortment of ornamental plants in large nurseries of the Krasnodar Territory and the Republic of Adygea, a list of plant names was compiled and their characteristics were encoded using a polytomous key. The key consisted of 8 sections, thanks to which it was possible to give the most complete description of the plant according to 36 parameters. The resulting database received state registration certificate No. 2023621905. The base and operation of the polytomous key are like a computer program. The functioning of the program has been successfully tested. The created program greatly simplifies the work of choosing an assortment of plants for landscaping, reducing it to a few minutes.
The influence of plant components on microbiological and oxidative processes in dry fish and plant products during storage
Authors: Zolotokopova S. V. , Koroma I. , Nevalennaya A. A. , Lebedeva E. Y.
Published: January 2024

A pressing issue in the food industry is providing the population with adequate nutrition. According to the concept of healthy eating, a person needs to increase the consumption of plant foods without reducing the consumption of foods containing complete protein. We have created dry fish and plant products, in the form of food concentrates, containing all the necessary macro- and micronutrients. The purpose of the research was to study the influence of plant components on the microbiological and oxidative processes of dry fish and fish-plant products during storage. To achieve the intended goal, the tasks of determining microbiological indicators and oxidation products at the beginning and end of the storage period were solved. Storage of dry fish and plant products was carried out for 12 months in polymer packaging at a temperature of plus 20±5℃. All analyses were carried out using generally accepted standard methods. As a result of the studies, it was established that the microbiological indicators of a dry fish-plant product, due to the addition of vegetables and corn flour, were higher than those of a dry fish product (0.5x104 and 0.2x104 CFU per 1 g, respectively), but during storage the bacterial contamination of dry of fish and plant products decreased from 0.5x104 to 0.1x104 CFU per 1 g of product. Also, plant components affected the oxidative processes in dry fish and vegetable products. The acid number in samples of dry fish product increased from 0.71 to 2.67 mg of KOH, and in samples of dry fish-plant product – from 0.65 to 1.87 mg of KOH after 12 months of storage. Thus, plant components inhibited the oxidation process and maintain the quality of the product during storage.
Employment the database of software (Microsoft Access) in implementing and printing official documents
Authors: Hussein Hamid Khudair
Published: January 2024

As a result of higher development in the world in all its fields, the circle of requirements of that development has increased in general and in administrative work specially expanded in terms of the introduction of new administrative systems and generated a routine movement that disrupts the flow of transactions in all government institutions, this has a negative impact on the speed of completing transactions and the exertion of great effort. By employees in exchange for a small number of completed transactions compared to the large numbers of uncompleted transactions. The need for technological intervention in this field has necessitated the solution of this problem, through the use of the technological capabilities available in those institutions, which are within the reach of the institution’s employees and which do not cost anything. Financial sums, as it meets the actual need to complete administrative work in a complete and simplified manner in a very short time, and there is no need to contract with software companies that work to design a special program for the organization for very exorbitant amounts, in addition to the complexity of the programs, which requires enrolling employees in training courses on how to use it, in addition to an inventory. Update to the program by the company that designed it.
Types of Visibility: Disruption, Consent & Contemporary Politics
Authors:   FPT University, Vietnam, Van der Walt Nadia
Published: January 2024

This paper analyses representations of the coming-of-age process in contemporary narrative films that challenge dominant social and political ideologies. Through an intersectional analysis of Tomboy (2011), Girlhood (2014), and Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019), all of which were directed by Céline Sciamma; Inxeba (2017) by John Trengove, and Moffie (2019) by Oliver Hermanus, I demonstrate how specific scenes and sequences expose and critique gender, race, class, and sexuality norms. Drawing from feminist, queer, and postcolonial theories, I identify three types of visibility across the films: disruption, consent, and contemporary politics. The analysis reveals how the selected films contest dominant cinematic gazes and scopic regimes by giving visibility to diverse identities and experiences. I argue that this study yields generative insight into the complexities of the coming-of-age process on the body as it is represented in contemporary narrative film.
Assessment of the Challenges in Care of Patients with Substance Use Disorder among Caregivers at Parirenyatwa Hospital Psychiatric Unit, Zimbabwe
Authors: Mahara Princess , Malvirn T Phiri , Kanganisai Kusowa , Bhake Cynthia , Mazwi Nicola , Nyikadzino Rosemary
Published: January 2024

This paper assesses the challenges in care of patient with substance use among care givers at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals psychiatric Unit, Zimbabwe. This paper seeks to further explore the experiences of care givers supporting family members with substance use disorder and their engagement in self-care. Exploratory Qualitative research design was employed to facilitate the exploration of family experiences affected by Substance Use Disorder and to identify the necessary assistance they may require. A Sampling size of 21 participants was used to avoid biased information and participants were recruited using purposive sampling technique, by selecting individuals with members affected, by Substance Use Disorder. The findings from the study strongly indicated that family members were significantly affected by the responsibility of caring for individuals with substance use disorder. This article extensively explores the intricate and multifaceted challenges faced by the caregivers supporting individuals grappling with substance use disorder. Researchers recommended that it is crucial for health care system, to acknowledge the indispensable role played by caregivers and extend the necessary support system.