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Eugenol Administration Improves Liver Damage Induced by a Fructose-Rich Diet
Authors: Niazi Abbass Ali , Kourkinejad Gharaei Fatemeh , Saebinasab Zahra , Maleki Maryam , Maghool Fatemeh , Fereidooni Fatemeh , Safari Tahereh 
Published: November 2021

Backgrounds:
The prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MetS) is increasing in developing countries that affects the liver in a variety of ways. This study was designed to investigate the protective role of eugenol on liver damage caused by fructose-induced MetS.

Materials and Methods:
Thirty male Wistar rats were randomly divided into five groups: 1: tap water (control), 2: fructose, 3: fructose + eugenol solvent, 4: fructose + eugenol 50 mg/kg, and 5: fructose + eugenol 100 mg/kg. At the end of the experiment, blood samples were taken for measurement fast blood glucose (FBG), serum glutamic-oxaloacetic transaminase (SGOT), serum glutamic pyruvate transaminase (SGPT), low-density lipoprotein, high-density lipoprotein, cholesterol, and triglyceride.

Results:
FBG significantly increased in Group 2 compared to Group 1 (P < 0.001); however, it significantly decreased in Groups 4 and 5 compared to Group 2 (P < 0.05). SGOT and SGPT levels significantly increased in Group 2 compared to the control group (P < 0.001). However, SGOT and SGPT levels significantly decreased in Groups 4 and 5. Malondialdehyde (MDA) and liver tissue damage score (LTDS) significantly increased in Group 2 compared with the control group (P < 0.01), whereas MDA and LTDS decreased in Groups 4 and 5 compared to Group 2 (P < 0.05).

Conclusion:
Eugenol may ameliorate liver damage in a rat model of fructose-induced MetS, and these protective effects may in part be mediated by improving antioxidant status and reducing oxidative stress and lipid peroxidation. It may also reduce hepatic inflammation and fat accumulation as well as fibrosis of liver cells.
Ornitonimia istriana: i nomi popolari del succiacapre europeo (Caprimulgus europaeus)
Authors: Filipi Goran 
Published: November 2021

Il presente saggio tratta i nomi popolari della specie Caprimulgus europaeus (suc­ ciacapre europeo). Il succiacapre fa parte della famiglia dei Caprimulgidi (Caprimulgi­ dae), ordine dei Caprimulgiformi (Caprimulgiformes). È presente più o meno in tutta la zona istro-quarnerina. Vengono offerte soluzioni etimologiche ai nomi popolari raccolti dall'autore in s­ tria e sull'isola di Veglia. Gli ornitonimi presentati appartengono alle parlate is­ trovenete, istriote, istrorumene, croate e slovene. I nomi delle località intervistate vengono riportati in italiano e in croato/sloveno; se la forma italiana non esiste, viene segnata solo quella croata/slovena.
CHAT framework to study affordances in CALL environments
Authors: Dey-Plissonneau Aparajita 
Published: November 2021

This paper proposes to explore the theory of affordances in the light of cultural historical activity theory (CHAT) to study affordances in complex Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) environments. The term ‘affordance’ designates an action possibility that is offered by an environment or an object to an actor in the environment either “for good or ill” (Gibson, 1979). It depends not only on the inherent characteristics of the environment but also on the users’ perception and action capabilities. CALL affordances are said to be a unique combination of social, educational, linguistic, and technological affordances (Blin, 2016a). However, there is limited research to date that looks at affordances from an ecological perspective linking the micro moment-to-moment interaction levels with the macro level within which they are embedded in educational contexts (Blin, 2016a). This paper explores the analytical tools of CHAT (Leontyev, 1978; Engeström, 1987) as particularly suitable to investigate affordances at the macro, meso and micro levels of technology-mediated sociocultural educational contexts in CALL.
Hijos que no quieren saber nada de sus padres, ¿una nueva causa de desheredación?
Authors: Ribera Blanes Begoña 
Published: November 2021

Las modernas estructuras familiares propician situaciones de pérdida de contacto o de mala relación entre padres e hijos. La actitud de los hijos, unas veces pasiva y otras violenta, es reprobada por los padres para quienes no es suficiente con que estas conductas tengan consecuencias desde el punto de vista de la moral o la ética, sino que buscan en el ordenamiento jurídico, y más concretamente en el derecho de familia y sucesiones, instrumentos legales con los que hacer frente a estas actitudes de los hijos que consideran inapropiadas y les provocan sufrimiento. Nuestro Código civil no está adaptado a la realidad social del momento, de ahí que estas actitudes de los hijos no siempre tienen encaje normativo en las causas que el ordenamiento prevé para poder extinguir los alimentos, desheredar o revocar las donaciones recibidas por estos. Mientras la reforma normativa se produce, ha sido la jurisprudencia del Tribunal Supremo la que ha adaptado la legislación a la realidad social, al calificar el maltrato psicológico como causa de desheredación, al permitir la revocación de donaciones por ingratitud debido al maltrato del donatario hacia el donante y al confirmar que es posible extinguir la pensión de alimentos cuando la falta de relación entre padres e hijos mayores de edad sea imputable, de modo principal y relevante, a los hijos. Ya solo queda el último paso, cual es, considerar que la ausencia de relación imputable exclusivamente a los hijos pueda privarles de la legítima.
Ecclesiastes 5-12
Authors: Weeks Stuart 
Published: November 2021

This volume completes Stuart Weeks’ commentary on the book of Ecclesiastes, also known as Qoheleth. Weeks draws together all the relevant tools for understanding this complex wisdom book in the Old Testament. As is the hallmark of the ICC no stone is left unturned as Weeks considers the full range of linguistic, textual, archaeological, literary and theological interpretations of the text.
Week incorporates recent interpretation alongside the history of research to examine the text of Ecclesiastes 6-12 in the closest possible, offering a reading of what may have be the original writer’s linguistic and theological intent.
The volume is a companion to Weeks’ previous commentary on chapters 1-5 of Ecclesiastes, which also contains his exhaustive bibliography of works relevant to the study of the text.
Jesus and the Empire of God
Authors: Froelich Margaret 
Published: November 2021

Margaret Froelich examines the Gospel of Mark using political and empire-critical methodologies, following postcolonial thinkers in perceiving a far more ambivalent message than previous pacifistic interpretations of the text. She argues that Mark does not represent an entirely new way of thinking about empire or cosmic structures, but rather exhibits concepts and structures with which the author and his audience are already familiar in order to promote the Kingdom of God as a better version of the encroaching Roman Empire.
Froelich consequently understands Mark as a response to the physical, ideological, and cultural displacement of the first Roman/Judean War. By looking to Greek, Roman, and Jewish texts to determine how first-century authors thought of conquest and expansion, Froelich situates the Gospel directly in a historical and socio-political context, rather than treating that context as a mere backdrop; concluding that the Gospel portrays the Kingdom of God as a conquering empire with Jesus as its victorious general and client king.
A Jewish Apocalyptic Framework of Eschatology in the Epistle to the Hebrews
Authors: Lee Jihye 
Published: November 2021

In contrast to scholarly belief that the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews envisions the transcendent, heavenly world as the eschatological inheritance of God’s people, Jihye Lee argues that a version of an Urzeit-Endzeit eschatological framework—as observed in some Jewish apocalyptic texts—provides a plausible background against which the arguments of Hebrews are most comprehensively explained. Instead of transcendence to the heavenly world that will come after the destruction of the shakable creation, Lee suggests the possibility of a more dualistic new world.
By first defining Urzeit-Endzeit eschatology, Lee is then able to explore its place in both pre and post 70 CE Second Temple Judaism. In examining Enoch, the Qumran Texts, Jubilees, the Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum, 4 Ezra, and 2 Baruch and finally the Book of Revelation, Lee compares a multitude of eschatological visions and the different depictions of the transformation of the world, judgement, and the new world to come. Bringing these texts together to analyse the issue of God’s Rest in Hebrews, and the nature of the Unshakable Kingdom, Lee concludes that Hebrews envisions the kingdom as consisting of both the revealed heavenly world and the renewed creation as the eschatological venue of God’s dwelling place with his people.
Horror Films for Children
Authors: Lester Catherine 
Published: November 2021

Children and horror are often thought to be an incompatible meeting of audience and genre, beset by concerns that children will be corrupted or harmed through exposure to horror media. Nowhere is this tension more clear than in horror films for adults, where the demonic child villain is one of the genre’s most enduring tropes. However, horror for children is a unique category of contemporary Hollywood cinema in which children are addressed as an audience with specific needs, fears and desires, and where child characters are represented as sympathetic protagonists whose encounters with the horrific lead to cathartic, subversive and productive outcomes.
Horror Films for Children examines the history, aesthetics and generic characteristics of children’s horror films, and identifies the ‘horrific child’ as one of the defining features of the genre, where it is as much a staple as it is in adult horror but with vastly different representational, interpretative and affective possibilities. Through analysis of case studies including blockbuster hits (Gremlins), cult favourites (The Monster Squad) and indie darlings (Coraline), Catherine Lester asks, what happens to the horror genre, and the horrific children it represents, when children are the target audience?
Christopher Nolan
Authors: Goh Robbie B. H. 
Published: November 2021

Christopher Nolan is the writer and director of Hollywood blockbusters like The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises, and also of arthouse films like Memento and Inception. Underlying his staggering commercial success however, is a darker sensibility that questions the veracity of human knowledge, the allure of appearance over reality and the latent disorder in contemporary society.
This appreciation of the sinister owes a huge debt to philosophy and especially modern thinkers like Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud and Jacques Derrida. Taking a thematic approach to Nolan’s oeuvre, Robbie Goh examines how the director’s postmodern inclinations manifest themselves in non-linearity, causal agnosticism, the threat of social anarchy and the frequent use of the mise en abyme, while running counter to these are narratives of heroism, moral responsibility and the dignity of human choice. For Goh, Nolan is a ‘reluctant postmodernist’. His films reflect the cynicism of the modern world, but with their representation of heroic moral triumphs, they also resist it.
Günther Anders’ Philosophy of Technology
Authors: Babich Babette 
Published: November 2021

Gunter Anders' Philosophy of Technology is the first comprehensive exploration of the ground-breaking work of German thinker Gunter Anders. Anders' philosophy has become increasingly prescient in our digitised, technological age as his work predicts the prevalence of social media, ubiquitous surveillance and the turn to big data. Anders' ouevre also explored the technologies of nuclear power and the biotech concerns for the human and transhuman condition which have become so central to current theory.
Babette Babich argues that Anders offers important resources on streaming digital media through his writings on radio, television and film and is, unusually, both a comprehensive and profound thinker. Anders' relationship with key philosophers like Hannah Arendt and Walter Benjamin and his thinking on Goethe, Nietzsche and Rilke is also explored with a focus on the deep impact he made on his peers. It reflects specifically on the intersection of Anders’ thought Heidegger and the Frankfurt school and how influential a figure he was on the landscape of 20th century philosophy. A compelling rehabilitation of a thinker with profound contemporary relevance
Precarious Modernities
Authors: Strava Cristiana 
Published: November 2021

Using rich ethnographic detail, Precarious Modernities offers an immersive account of the multiple scales and entangled actors involved in the objectification and instrumentalization of Casablanca’s margins as part of ongoing and contingent processes of ‘modernization’. Through a focus on the everyday lives and spatial materialities of Hay Mohammadi’s inhabitants, and their interaction with heritage activists, international development agendas, and technocratic planning regimes, the book documents how the depoliticization of the urban margins aids the consolidation of deeply unequal social, spatial, and economic orders.
The result is a unique account of the political continuities, security logics, economic ideologies and competing forces that shape the possibilities open to precarious communities in a storied and sprawling metropolis. As marginalized inhabitants develop pragmatic ways of appropriating or resisting powerful statist and developmentalist agendas, unanticipated and novel forms of political engagement emerge, signaling the revival and reconfiguration of notions of class through creative and alternative spatial practices and their attendant vocabularies.
Beyond and Before, Updated and Expanded Edition
Authors: Hegarty Paul , Halliwell Martin 
Published: November 2021

The original edition of Beyond and Before extends an understanding of “progressive rock” by providing a fuller definition of what progressive rock is, was and can be. Called by Record Collector “the most accomplished critical overview yet” of progressive rock and one of their 2011 books of the year, Beyond and Before moves away from the limited consensus that prog rock is exclusively English in origin and that it was destroyed by the advent of punk in 1976. Instead, by tracing its multiple origins and complex transitions, it argues for the integration of jazz and folk into progressive rock and the extension of prog in Kate Bush, Radiohead, Porcupine Tree and many more.
This 10-year anniversary revised edition continues to further unpack definitions of progressive rock and includes a brand new chapter focusing on post-conceptual trends in the 2010s through to the contemporary moment. The new edition discusses the complex creativity of progressive metal and folk in greater depth, as well as new fusions of genre that move across global cultures and that rework the extended form and mission of progressive rock, including in recent pop concept albums. All chapters are revised to keep the process of rethinking progressive rock alive and vibrant as a hybrid, open form.
Colour Films in Britain
Authors: Street Sarah , Johnston Keith M. , Frith Paul , Rickards Carolyn 
Published: November 2021

The story of Eastmancolor's arrival on the British filmmaking scene is one of intermittent trial and error, intense debate and speculation before gradual acceptance. This book traces the journey of its adoption in British Film and considers its lasting significance as one of the most important technical innovations in film history.
Through original archival research and interviews with key figures within the industry, the authors examine the role of Eastmancolor in relation to key areas of British cinema since the 1950s; including its economic and structural histories, different studio and industrial strategies, and the wider aesthetic changes that took place with the mass adoption of colour.
Their analysis of British cinema through the lens of colour produces new interpretations of key British film genres including social realism, historical and costume drama, science fiction, horror, crime, documentary and even sex films. They explore how colour communicated meaning in films ranging from the Carry On series to Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979), from Lawrence of Arabia (1962) to A Passage to India (1984), and from Goldfinger (1964) to 1984 (1984), and in the work of key directors and cinematographers of both popular and art cinema including Nicolas Roeg, Ken Russell, Ridley Scott, Peter Greenaway and Chris Menges.
PolyTEMPO electrocatalyst for organic electrosynthesis of benzonitrile from benzyl alcohol
Authors: Luyen Thi Tran  , Benjamin Schille  , Robert Francke  
Published: November 2021

Requirements for using Poly (2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidinyloxy-4-yl methacrylate) (PolyTEMPO) as an electrocatalyst for the organic electrosynthesis of benzonitrile from benzyl alcohol were investigated. The research results indicated that PolyTEMPO expressed catalytic activity in the electrosynthesis of benzonitrile from benzyl alcohol in the presence of ammonium acetate. The electrosynthesis yield of benzonitrile from benzyl alcohol with PolyTEMPO catalyst reached the maximum value at 35 °C after 18 hours.
Continuous Glucose Monitoring System Versus Self-Monitoring Blood Glucose in Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus Children: A Randomised Controlled Trial (RoSEC)
Authors: Muhd Helmi Muhd Alwi , Bachok Norsa'adah , Hussain Suhaimi 
Published: November 2021

Objectives: The primary and secondary objectives were to compare the glycaemic control and frequency of hypoglycaemia between continuous glucose monitoring system (CGMS) and self-monitoring blood glucose (SMBG). Methods: A single centre, randomised, parallel-group controlled trial was conducted involving twenty-two type one Diabetes Mellitus (T1DM) patients with the mean age of 13.8 years assigned to either intervention or control group. All respondents wore the CGMS device at the beginning of the study. Intervention group (n=11) had their insulin adjusted based on the CGMS data, while the control group (n=11) was based on SMBG. Monthly average blood sugar level (BSL) and monthly mean hypoglycemic events per week (HE/wk) were measured at baseline, first month, second month, and third month. HbA1c levels were measured at baseline and in the third month. Results: The baseline characteristics were similar. The data were analysed using repeated measure analysis of variance (ANOVA). The mean difference of HbA1c within the group was not statistically significant with p=0.322. There were significant differences in the monthly mean HE/wk within and between groups, p=0.004, and p=0.037. Conclusion: In conclusion, CGMS is equivalent to SMBG in optimising glycaemic control but is more effective in detecting hypoglycaemia in children.
Changes of the Biochemical Parameters of the Blood Serum of Wistar rats Exposed to Chronic Stres
Authors: Kidun K. A. , Litvinenko A. N. , Ugolnik T. S. , Golubykh N. M. , Solodova E. K. 
Published: November 2021

Objective: to assess the effect of chronic nonspecific stress on changes of the biochemical parameters of the blood serum in male Wistar rats.Material and methods. The experimental study was performed on sexually mature male Wistar rats. The experimental group (n = 71) was exposed to chronic nonspecific stress according to the Ortiz method. The control group of the animals included intact animals (n = 31).Results. The study has revealed changes in the biochemical composition of the blood serum of the rats: increased activity of ALT, LDH, ALP, urea, uric acid, and cholesterol, a decreased level of triglycerides.Conclusion. These changes may indicate the alteration of the level of the intensity of the physiological processes of energy supply in the conditions of chronic stress.
Ischemic-Cervical Insufficiency as a Risk Factor for Intrauterine Infection
Authors: Zakharenkova T. N. , Kaplan Yu. D. 
Published: November 2021

Objective: to study the clinical and morphological parallels in women with ischemic-cervical insufficiency (ICI) and to analyze the relationship between the development of intrauterine infection (IUI) of the fetus and the outcome of pregnancy.Material and methods. Pregnant women (n = 88) with corrected pessaries of ICI (main group) were examined, in 32 of which pregnancy ended in premature birth and in term birth in 56 women. The control group consisted of 30 women with the physiological course of pregnancy. The course of pregnancy has been analyzed, the morphological features of the fetoplacental complex and the health status of the newborns have been studied.Results. Regardless of the term of labor, the patients with ICI have an increased risk for IUI in the newborn by 36 times compared with the control group (p = 0.012), and inflammatory changes in the placenta are observed in 96.6 % of the cases (2р(F) < 0.0001). In spontaneous preterm birth associated with ICI, chorioamnionitis is observed 7.3 times more often (p = 0.0005) than in urgent birth and is related to premature rupture of the fetal membranes (r = 0.34; p = 0.023) and is 3 times more often accompanied by the development of IUI of the newborn (p = 0.017).Conclusion: ICI is an important risk factor for intrauterine infection and the development of intrauterine infection of the newborn, which must be taken into account in the management of pregnancy in patients with ICI.
The Surgical Anatomy of the Intrapelvic Branches of the Superior Gluteal Artery in People of the Brachymorphic Somatotype
Authors: Kuzmenko A. V. , Radzetskaya K. A. 
Published: November 2021

Objective: to determine the topography variants of the intrapelvic branches and anastomoses of the superior gluteal artery (SGA).Material and methods. 29 cadavers of males (the intravital age ranged 27-75) and 11 cadavers of females (the in-travital age ranged 32-82) who had died of accidental causes not related to pelvic pathology were used as the research material. The preparation method, vascular injection method, and statistical method were applied to achieve the objective.Results. It has been established that most often the formation of the intrapelvic branches and anastomoses of the SGA in the males and females is found in the proximal and middle thirds of the intrapelvic part of the artery, rarely - in its distal third. Stable hemostasis with a high probability can be achieved by excluding the proximal and middle thirds of the intrapelvic part of the SGA from the bloodstream by means of selective emboli or ligation.Conclusion. The performed research has demonstrated the presence of a certain pattern of origination of the in-trapelvic branches and anastomoses of the SGA in the males and in females.