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The Dynamics of Intercultural Music Making in Granada: Everyday Multiculturalism and Moroccan Integration
Authors: Machin-Autenrieth Matthew 
Published: September 2020

AbstractThis article examines musical exchanges between Moroccans and Spaniards, which are often underpinned by the notion of a shared cultural heritage. Such exchanges promote intercultural dialogue and the social integration of Moroccans in Andalusia. Focusing on one individual, I explore the strategies musicians use to integrate socially and musically in Andalusian society. I examine the ways in which Moroccan musicians negotiate their day-to-day musical landscape and the tensions between overt displays of cultural difference, social integration, and musicians’ own artistic aspirations. In so doing, this article puts ethnomusicology into dialogue with scholarship on the policies and everyday realities of multiculturalism and interculturalism.Este artículo examina los intercambios musicales entre marroquíes y españoles, que a menudo se apoyan en la noción de un patrimonio cultural compartido. Tales intercambios promueven el diálogo intercultural y la integración social de los marroquíes en Andalucía. Centrando mi estudio en un individuo, exploro las estratégicas utilizadas por los músicos para la integración social y musical en la sociedad andaluza. Examino la manera en que músicos marroquíes negocian su mundo musical cotidiano y las tensiones que existen entre los despliegues de diferencia cultural, la integración social y las propias aspiraciones musicales de los mismos. De este modo, el artículo pone en diálogo a la etnomusicología con las políticas y realidades cotidianas de la multiculturalidad y la interculturalidad.
Between Tribute and Transformation: Negotiating the Expressive and Ethical Dynamics of Experimental Afro-Brazilian Song
Authors: McNally James 
Published: September 2020

AbstractThis article discusses the experimental transformation of Afro-Brazilian musical heritage and its implications in the broader African diaspora. As a case study, I examine Juçara Marçal and Cadu Tenório’s 2015 album Anganga, which features reinterpretations of traditional Afro-Brazilian songs within an experimental instrumental texture. I argue that the album allows the artists to negotiate the boundaries of the traditional and experimental spheres in ways that afford distinct expressive possibilities but also raise potential ethical issues. Drawing from “Afrological” narratives of historical consciousness in musical experimentalism, the article proposes a framework for understanding this encounter that challenges Brazilian creative discourses regarding musical mixture.Este artigo se trata da transformação experimental da herança musical afro-brasileira e suas implicações na diáspora africana. Como estudo de caso, o artigo examina o álbum Anganga, 2015, de Juçara Marçal e Cadu Tenório, que apresenta reinterpretações de cantos afro-brasileiras tradicionais com uma textura instrumental experimental. Este álbum permite que os músicos negociem os limites das esferas tradicionais e experimentais em maneiras que ofereçam possibilidades expressivas distintas, mas também levantam questões possíveis de ética. Incorporando narrativas “Afrológicas” da consciěncia histórica no experimentalismo musical, o artigo propõe uma estrutura para compreender este encontro que desafia discursos criativos brasileiros sobre a mistura musical.
Meeting the Garden Halfway: Ethnographic Encounters with a Sound Installation Microculture
Authors: Browning Joseph 
Published: September 2020

AbstractThis article follows the installation of a sound art project titled Pleasure Garden in a historic garden in Sydney, Australia. Discussing various activities, from laying cables to mixing the installation, I argue that an ethnographic perspective can deepen our sense of what is meant when sound art is described as a “practice.” The article discusses the distinctive microculture that emerged around the installation process and traces issues of creative agency, epistemology, and ontology at stake as diverse actors—the creative team, the technological infrastructure, the garden, and its inhabitants—were brought into relationship.
Reported Speech in Greek Tragedy
Authors: Clark James T. 
Published: September 2020

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This article examines reported direct speech embedded in narrative sections of Greek tragedy, analyzing the content of reported speeches, their metrical form, and the descriptions of their sound. Reported direct speech is revealed to be considerably restrained, even when it occurs in highly emotional contexts. This restraint is interesting, given the prevalence of non-linguistic cries in tragedy, and it is brought into particular relief by comparison with the descriptions of violent utterances that often precede or follow sections of direct speech. There is a discernible, though inconsistent, trend towards the loosening of this restraint in later Euripides.
House-Razing and the Relationship ofOikosandPolisin Euripides’sHeracles
Authors: Moore Jocelyn 
Published: September 2020

AbstractThis article shows that the demise of Heracles’s household in Euripides’s Heracles draws upon recognizable public values related to the individual household, oikos, at Classical Athens and reflects upon its vulnerabilities. Euripides defines Heracles’s identity in Thebes through his oikos. Threats directed against Heracles’s household implicate a polis which paradigmatically fails to protect one of its oikoi. Throughout the drama methods of depicting the exposure of the oikos to potential harm evoke its frequent appearance in Athenian public performances including speeches, oaths, and spectacles. Particularly important in Heracles is the destruction of the physical house which embodies the vulnerability of the whole household: recurring language of the contemporary punishment of house-razing, kataskaphē, reflects the fraught relationship of Thebes to Heracles and his household.
Plutarch and the “Malicious” Historian
Authors: Chrysanthou Chrysanthos S. 
Published: September 2020

AbstractThis article shows that Plutarch’s principles of historical criticism in On the Malice of Herodotus do not always obtain in the Lives, and that Plutarch’s narrative techniques in his biographies prove to be vulnerable to the criticisms that Plutarch makes of Herodotus in the essay. Yet rather than being a sign of malice and deviousness, as Plutarch argues for Herodotus in On the Malice, it is suggested that these techniques are used in the Lives in a sophisticated way to invite an active response from the readers toward the biographical narrative and engage them all the more profoundly in their individual process of moral reflection and evaluation of history. This insight, in turn, shows that there is more artistry in the composition and purpose of On the Malice than has been hitherto discerned or allowed. Overall, this article advances our understanding of Plutarch’s oeuvre as an integrated corpus in which Plutarch encourages through his use of inconsistencies a provocative readerly experience. It also has some far-reaching consequences for our interpretation of the literary persona that Plutarch evokes in the Lives and On the Malice and his conception of the ideal way of writing and reading history.
A Labor of Love: Statius Silvae 3.1 (Hercules Surrentinus Polli Felicis)
Authors: Putnam Michael C. J. 
Published: September 2020

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My essay is a close reading of the initial poem of the third book of Statius’s Silvae. Its primary topic is the dedication by Pollius Felix of his new temple to Hercules. As the narrative unfolds, we trace how the shrine came into being and the accompanying metamorphoses of the landscape and of the character of the god himself. Pollius and his wife, Polla, play major roles in the proceedings. Statius’s own virtuosity is on constant display not only in his skill as a wordsmith but in his suggestive bows to a series of genres and in his rich allusiveness, especially to Virgil.
Critical Folkloristics, Free Speech, and the “War on Terror”
Authors: McDonald David A. 
Published: September 2020

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In 2008, five affiliates of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) were convicted of conspiring to supply “material support” to the terrorist organization Hamas. One of the convicted was a folksinger, included in the indictment due to a series of music performances given at HLF fundraisers. In this article, I critically interrogate the history and development of the HLF trial, arguing for the development of an activist-oriented critical folkloristics as a powerful tool with which to respond to Islamophobic discourses at the heart of the American “War on Terror.”
(Folk)Life, Interrupted: Challenges for Fieldwork, Empathy, and Public Discourse in the Age of Trump
Authors: Buccitelli Anthony Bak 
Published: September 2020

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This article argues that the political and social developments of the current American moment represent a crisis for folkloristics and other humanistic fields that goes well beyond pragmatic concerns. It makes the case that, in response, we must conduct (or reinvigorate) sustained conversations about how we as scholars of folk cultures should engage with our subjects and with the public more broadly.
“Our Shmuck”: Russian Folklore about American Elections
Authors: Arkhipova Alexandra , Radchenko Daria , Kirzyuk Anna 
Published: September 2020

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Throughout the course of the 2016 US presidential election, hundreds of jokes dealing with the topic appeared on the English-speaking internet. While Russian folklore could have simply exploited translations of existing American texts, representing Trump as incompetant, a statistical and semantic analysis of the corpus of jokes that appeared on Russian social media during the 2 weeks following the election shows that a different type of joke, one juxtaposing the election systems in the United States and Russia, was much more popular. Yet 70 percent of the reposts of the jokes suggested an unrelated base meaning—the idea that Russia and the United States exist in a state of constant competition, trying to influence each other’s internal and international policies. For the audience that opposes the Russian president and the loyalist mass media, Trumplore becomes a way to laugh not at the American president-elect, but at Russia’s own administration.
The Policing of Patriotism: African American Athletes and the Expression of Dissent
Authors: Rounds Christopher D. 
Published: September 2020

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From the “Noble Experiment” of baseball player Jackie Robinson to the national anthem protests initiated by football player Colin Kaepernick, the manner in which African American athletes have responded to demands that they demonstrate their patriotism has been critiqued and regulated at every turn. This article seeks to chronicle that history, by exploring the experiences not only of Robinson and Kaepernick but all African Americans who, throughout the history of sport, have challenged preconceived notions and displays of patriotism. This includes boxer Muhammad Ali and sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos, among several lesser-known figures. What is remarkable is the connective tissue, the degree to which the activism of athletes from Robinson to Kaepernick, and the reactions to it, has not fundamentally altered in seven decades.
Ebony Jr! Race, Meritocracy, and Sports in African American Children’s Media
Authors: White Samantha 
Published: September 2020

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This paper examines the relationship between race and sport in African American children’s media in the publication Ebony Jr! (1973-85). Through sport, Ebony Jr! promoted an ideology of meritocracy and heralded the values of hard work and self-determination, the importance of the family unit, and investment in middle-class leisure practices. While these values were present in Ebony, content in the magazine for adults also addressed issues plaguing African American athletes, such as discrimination and the discourse of essentialized racism. Ebony Jr! primarily erased narratives of oppression within profiles of athletes and crafted childhood as a protected space by imagining sport as a meritocratic space for black-child readers. I argue for the importance of including childhood and youth studies perspectives within the field of sport history and examine children’s media as valuable texts for understanding the transmission of ideologies regarding race and sport.
Evaluation of Rice Husk Ash Pozzolan on the Mechanical and Physical Properties of Cement Matrix Composites
Authors: Pamphile Acodji V. , Valéry Doko K. , Emmanuel Olodo E. T. , Abbas Datchossa Tiambo 
Published: September 2020

The present study aims to reduce the use of cement and encourage the utilization of plant biomass. The rice husk ash (loading: 2, 6, 10, 15, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45 and 50%) was used as a cement substitute. The effects of rice husk ash on the physical and mechanical properties of cement matrix composite was investigated. The results of this study show a drop in compressive strength of 19.75 to 5.10 between M0 and MR50 with a remarkable value of 17.02MPa at 10% (MR10). Likewise, we have a variation of the flexural strength from 2.96 to 0.47 between M0 and MR50 with a remarkable value of 1.87 at 10% (MR10). The material MR10 is light and can be used as a filling element.
Assessment of Drought Over Parambikulam Aliyar Basin of Tamil Nadu
Authors: V. Guhan , V. Geethalakshmi , S. Panneerselvam , A. Raviraj , A. Lakshmanan , P. Ramanathan S. , K. Bhuvaneswari 
Published: September 2020

Rainfall has a greater impact on agricultural, hydrological, economic, environmental and social systems. Inconsistencies in rainfall pattern could lead to extremities like drought and flood. Drought is a long period of unusually low rainfall that severely affects crop production and welfare of the people. Understanding the impacts of drought is crucial for planning, mitigation and responses. The Standardized precipitation index (SPI) method was employed for identifying drought occurrence in Parambikulam aliyar basin based on rainfall data of 37 years (1981–2017). SPI method indicated PAP basin had drought once in 4 years. In 19 per cent times, wet situation found to exist in PAP basin, five years exhibited moderately wet condition (1984, 1996, 2010, 2015 and 2017) and two years (1992 and 2005) fell under extremely wet event. Quantification on the drought events forms the scientific basis for decision makers to reduce the societal vulnerability to drought.
Review on Febrile Seizures in Children
Authors: Thadchanamoorthy V. , Dayasiri Kavinda 
Published: September 2020

Background: Febrile seizures are a common, yet benign neurological disorder and characterized by convulsions associated with fever in childhood due to the effect of fever on the immature brain. All treating clinicians must understand the nature and evaluation of this benign condition.
Objective: To provide up-to-date knowledge on febrile seizures and their evaluation.
Methods: A search was conducted with key terms “febrile seizures” or “febrile convulsion” in various databases and writings. The literature included clinical trials, descriptive and observational studies, meta-analyses, and randomized control trials.
Results: Febrile seizures occur between the ages of 6 months to 5 years in all ethnic groups. The exact mechanism has been still unknown although several etiologies have been proposed including genetic and environmental factors. Febrile seizures can be either simple or complex. Febrile seizures generally occur within the first day of fever but rarely happen after 24 hours. Most of the time, febrile convulsions are short-lasting and self-limiting. The diagnosis is mainly based on the clinical description, and investigations have a limited role. Children less than one year of age with suspicion of bacterial infection need lumbar puncture to exclude meningitis. Management mostly depends on control of fever and the treatment of underlying conditions which precipitate fever. Some children can have prolonged convulsions which need anticonvulsants to abort an acute attack. Otherwise, long term prophylactic anticonvulsants have an insignificant role in the prevention of recurrences of febrile seizures. Physical methods also play an insignificant role. As the condition commonly carries a favorable prognosis, unnecessary interventions should be avoided. Since febrile seizures recur in a significant proportion of children, they may bring needless fears and anxieties in parents. However, proper health education for parents by health care personnel might alleviate the anxiety and improve the quality of life of children with febrile seizures.
Conclusion: Febrile convulsions are benign and self-limiting. Continuous use of anticonvulsants to prevent the recurrence of febrile seizures is not endorsed. Intermittent prophylaxis at the time of fever is also not routinely recommended. Both physical methods and antipyretics have limited value in the prevention of febrile seizures.
Synthesis, Molecular Modelling and Biological Evaluation of Novel Pyrimidine Derivatives as Anti-inflammatory Agents
Authors: Ahmed Naglaa Mohamed , Nofal Shahira , Awad Samir Mohamed 
Published: September 2020

Aim: As part of ongoing studies in developing new anti-inflammatory agents, 2-thioxo-1,2,3,4-tetrahydropyrimidine derivative 1 was synthesized by direct Biginelli condensation and used for the synthesis of novel series of pyrimidin-2-thione derivatives (2a-d to 7a-b).
Materials and Methods: All compounds were examined for their anti-inflammatory activity using the carrageenan-induced rat paw edema assay in comparison to ibuprofen, as a reference drug. Molecular docking studies were carried out using SYBLYL-X v.2.1 software.
Study Design: A series of pyrimidine derivatives were synthesized by a simple and available method leads to a molecule of promising anti-inflammatory activity, the docking studies show good agreement with anti-inflammatory results. Future researches are recommended to assure the importance of these new derivatives for various applications.
Place and Duration of Study: Pharmaceutical Organic Chemistry Department and Pharmacology and Toxicology Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt, between February 2018 and March 2019.
Results: Compounds showed 61 to 86% anti-inflammatory activity where-as ibuprofen showed 69% activity. Compounds 2a, 2b, 2c, 2d, 3a, 3b, 3c, 3d, 7a, 7b induced strong anti-inflammatory activity, comparable with that of ibuprofen, they showed significantly difference at 4h post-carrageenan. Compound 3c (86%) showed the best result of edema inhibition in rats. Moreover, compounds 1, 2c and 3c were subjected to in vitro enzyme assay investigations against COX-1 and COX-2. All tested compounds showed higher potency towards COX-2 over COX-1. Compound 3c realized higher potency towards COX-2 (IC50= 0.046 μM) than compounds 1(IC50= 0.21 μM) and 2c (IC50=0.11 μM) as well as ibuprofen (IC50= 43.628 μM). Structure-activity relationship (SAR) has been discussed.
Conclusion: A series of pyrimidine derivatives were synthesized by a simple and available method gave a molecule of promising anti-inflammatory activity, the docking studies showed good agreement with anti-inflammatory results.
Monitoring the Presence of Bacteria, Fungi and Parasitic Pathogens Associated with Swimming Pools in Port Harcourt Metropolis
Authors: Onosakponome E. O. , Adedokun A. A. , Dick A. A. 
Published: September 2020

Aims: Ideal water for swimming should meet the portable water standard by being transparent, odorless, and tasteless. However, these qualities can be affected by the presence of infectious agents which directly or indirectly contaminate pool water. This study aims at monitoring the microorganisms (bacteria, fungi and protozoa parasites) and pH associated with swimming pool water.
Study Design: A random sampling technique was adopted to select the five (5) swimming pools for the study based on accessibility and visitation.
Place and Duration of Study: The study was carried out in Port Harcourt Metropolis, Port Harcourt Local Government Area, Rivers State between March 2016 to August 2017.
Methodology: Five (5) outdoor swimming pools attached to hotels in Port Harcourt Metropolis, Port Harcourt Local Government Area of Rivers State, Nigeria were randomly selected for the study. Water samples were aseptically collected in duplicates and analyzed for total heterotrophic bacterial count, total heterotrophic fungal count, protozoa and pH using appropriate techniques.
Results: The results show that swimming pools with sodium thiosulphate pentahydrate had a mean THBC range from 4x101 cfu/ml - 1.58x103 cfu/ml, mean THFC, 0 cfu/ml - 8x101 cfu/ml and mean pH, 5.9-6.4; for samples without sodium thiosulphate pentahydrate, the mean THBC ranged from 0 cfu/ml - 9.2x101 cfu/ml, mean THF, 0 cfu/ml - 8x101 cfu/ml and mean pH, 5.6-6-2. Protozoa (parasites) were absent in all water samples analyzed. The results further reveals that 95.9% and 100% of the swimming pools samples failed to the meet the <100 cfu/ml and 7.0 – 7.8 World Health Organisation Standards for THBC and pH respectively. The bacteria identified are Bacillus spp., Escherichia coli, Stapylococcus aureus while the fungi identified are Aspergillus spp., Rhizopus spp. and Penicillium spp.
Conclusion: The study finds the levels of THBC in the samples with sodium thiosulphate pentahydrate, the presence of Escherichia coli and the pH range a threat to health of bathers. Therefore, the owners should ensure routine decontamination and assessment of water quality.
The impact of gender, puberty, and pregnancy in patients with POLG disease
Authors: Hikmat Omar , Naess Karin , Engvall Martin , Klingenberg Claus , Rasmussen Magnhild , Tallaksen Chantal M. E. , Samsonsen Christian , Brodtkorb Eylert , Ostergaard Elsebet , de Coo Rene , Pias‐Peleteiro Leticia , Isohanni Pirjo , Uusimaa Johanna , Darin Niklas , Rahman Shamima , Bindoff Laurence A. 
Published: September 2020

AbstractObjectiveTo study the impact of gender, puberty, and pregnancy on the expression of POLG disease, one of the most common mitochondrial diseases known.MethodsClinical, laboratory, and genetic data were collected retrospectively from 155 patients with genetically confirmed POLG disease recruited from seven European countries. We used the available data to study the impact of gender, puberty, and pregnancy on disease onset and deterioration.ResultsWe found that disease onset early in life was common in both sexes but there was also a second peak in females around the time of puberty. Further, pregnancy had a negative impact with 10 of 14 women (71%) experiencing disease onset or deterioration during pregnancy.InterpretationGender clearly influences the expression of POLG disease. While onset very early in life was common in both males and females, puberty in females appeared associated both with disease onset and increased disease activity. Further, both disease onset and deterioration, including seizure aggravation and status epilepticus, appeared to be associated with pregnancy. Thus, whereas disease activity appears maximal early in life with no subsequent peaks in males, both menarche and pregnancy appear associated with disease onset or worsening in females. This suggests that hormonal changes may be a modulating factor.