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CONGREGATIONAL RELIGIOUS PRAYERS AMID COVID-19 AND PANDEMIC SPREAD – EVIDENCE FROM SOUTHERN PUNJAB, PAKISTAN
Authors: Qureshi Madeeha Gohar , Shahid Muhammad , Ahmed Farooq , Rafiq Shakeela , Malik Najma Iqbal 
Published: June 2021

Purpose of the study: This study explored how opening up mosques amid the COVID-19 pandemic may have increased the spread chances of disease and estimated how many individuals, attending mosques post-pandemic had experienced COVID-19 related symptoms in the study area. Furthermore, it evaluated how successful were the governmental Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for attending congregational prayers in protecting masses against the pandemic in its three dimensions 1) citizens’ following SOPs themselves in mosques, 2) implementation of mosque and prayer guidelines by mosques committee and 3) imams’ contribution in mobilizing the society against the pandemic.
Methodology: Data were collected from 800 respondents between the ages of 18 to 50 years who were going to the mosques regularly during the lockdown using a purposive sampling technique. Descriptive statistics like frequencies and percentages were calculated. The 15 items self-constructed, a piloted questionnaire related to COVID-19 SOPs was used in the current study.
Main Findings: The study’s findings revealed that religious gatherings played a vital role in COVID-19 spread as 66.25% sample that was attending communal prayers at mosques felt that they may have contracted COVID-19 symptoms because of offering prayers in the mosque. Further, evaluation of anti-COVID-19 policy measures namely degree of implementation for citizen SOPs in the mosque by people themselves, degree of implementation for prayers’ SOPs as per governmental announcement by the mosque committee, and imam’s mobilization against the pandemic as per the perception of the sample of people going to mosque post-pandemic were also found to be of the medium level at best.
Applications of this study: The study gave an idea of whether the allowance of communal religious gathering with some anti-COVID guidelines as in the case of Pakistan a useful policy. It provided a useful framework for the evaluation of governmental covid-19 policies (SOPs). Finally, this study could also be useful to know the public response to SOPs and need of community stakeholders like Islamic Mosque imams in policy implementation on the grass-root level during the covid-19 pandemic.
Novelty/Originality of this study: The study’s uniqueness is evaluation of success or failure of anti-COVID measures announced by the government to implement and monitor by the mosque committee. It measures how effective were local mosque imams in mobilizing people against the pandemic– an indeed missed out institutional means in policy debate of fight against the pandemic and creating awareness.
TRANSFORMING IDENTITIES AND RELATIONS: A CASE OF TALIBAN PEACE TALKS IN THE PAKISTANI PRESS
Authors: Warrich Haseeb ur Rehman , Yasin Zaeem , Huma Zil e , Ahmad Raza Waqas , Israr Raazia 
Published: June 2021

Purpose of the study: The study examines the role of Pakistani mainstream print media in framing peace talks between the Taliban and the Government of Pakistan from 1st January 2014 till 1st July 2014. This study focuses on the role played by the print media of Pakistan during the efforts for the peace talks as a LIC.
Methodology: It is a quantitative research study in which researchers have used the content analysis technique to determine how print media framed the peace negotiations between the government and the TTP, editorials, and columns of two English newspapers, namely, Dawn and The News, along with two Urdu newspapers, Jang, Nawe Waqt were analyzed.
Main Findings: The findings of the study show that in the peace talks between the government and TTP, the print media of Pakistan did not engage in constructive talk to facilitate the peace talking process. The media failed to give the communicative space to facilitate the political negotiating process to proceed. Narratives of despair and fear were dominant.
Applications of this study: This study can be used to know about the psychology of newspapers that how they are framing the news, columns, and articles related to complex issues like Taliban peace talks. Along with it, it is necessary to see the role of newspapers in transforming identities and relations.
Novelty/Originality of this study: This study contributed to the existing literature by examining that how print media of Pakistan frame the peace initiatives in the context of resolving the conflict between the Taliban and the government of Pakistan. Apart from it, it is necessary to know about the relationship between the way media was framing the peace negotiations and the way peace talks were taking a turn and whether Pakistani print media played the role of a facilitator of the peace process or framed the peace process as an inevitable risk of more violence or not.
INVESTIGATING EXISTENTIAL INTERPRETATION OF WAITING FOR GODOT: A CORPUS-BASED STUDY OF LEXICAL FEATURES
Authors: Asghar Ijaz , Abbas Shahid , Bashir Muhammad , Ahmad Naveed Nawaz 
Published: June 2021

Purpose of the study: In this study, Samuel Beckett's dramatic writings' major aspects and linguistic qualities are examined, focusing on Waiting for Godot. The importance of these texts' linguistic characteristics has also been investigated. The study also looks into whether linguistic interpretations of Waiting for Godot are compatible with Existential readings.
Methodology: Computational techniques such as UAMCT, MAT, SUAS, and AntConc were used to analyze the data. However, UAMTC was employed as the primary tool, and the other techniques were only used to verify the results' validity and complement specific areas of analysis that UAMCT lacked.
Main Findings: Samuel Beckett's dramatic works are a linguistic paradox, lexically simple but structurally complicated, according to our linguistic analysis. Waiting for Godot's linguistic elements develop themes such as "Pessimism," "Directionlessness," "Skepticism," "Nothingness," "Existence," "Ambivalence," "Boredom," and "Alienation," These topics are consistent with Waiting for Godot's Existential interpretations.
Applications of this study: Applications of this study reside on its far-reaching pedagogical consequences for literature and language. It is extremely important for students and teachers of English Language and Literature and syllabus designers who deal with literature.
Originality/ Novelty: The play has a linguistic spontaneity of Existential themes. In a nutshell, in Waiting for Godot, Beckett has not told the predicament of Existence but made it happen linguistically.
Migrant worker policies and national privilege: A UK case study
Authors: Dupont Pier-Luc 
Published: June 2021

After a long period of decline in the Global North, migrant worker policies are making a comeback on the agenda of the European Union and several of its member states. Inspired by Iris Marion Young and Nancy Fraser’s accounts of structural injustice, this article argues that such policies cannot be reconciled with the principle of equality between migrant and national workers enshrined in international legal instruments such as the Convention on Migrant Workers and the EU Seasonal Workers Directive. To make this point it draws on a selection of UK based empirical literature as well as primary data from a recent study on domestic workers admitted to the UK under temporary visas since 1998. Results suggest that such visas tend to push migrants’ working conditions downwards (exploitation); prevent them from changing employer, enforcing rights in court or mobilising in unions (domination); and ultimately exacerbate racial conflict and stereotyping (stigmatisation).
Received: 10 February 2021Accepted: 14 May 2021
Entre fios, resistências e educação matemática: os tais do Timor Leste
Authors: Savio Diogo , Duarte Claudia Glavam 
Published: June 2021

Este artigo tem como objetivo articular aspectos da cultura do Timor-Leste com a Educação Matemática Escolar. Especificamente, a investigação descreve e analisa os “Tais”, roupas tradicionais, cuja existência antecede o período colonial e são conhecidos por todo o povo do Timor-Leste. A parte empírica da pesquisa foi realizada através de procedimentos de inspiração etnográfica e envolveu cinco mulheres tecelãs de diferentes postos administrativos pertencentes ao município de Lautem no Timor-Leste. O material empírico coletado foi analisado tendo como principal referencial teórico a Etnomatemática. Especificamente, neste artigo, foram analisados os padrões e elementos geométricos presentes nos Tais. Assim, foram evidenciadas possíveis articulações com a Educação Matemática a partir do trabalho com sequências, elementos da geometria, paralelismo, perpendicularidade e transformações geométricas. Afirmamos, ao longo deste trabalho que além dos conteúdos matemáticos, existe a necessidade de que as aulas de matemática abriguem discussões que envolvam diferentes dimensões da vida timorense, seja em seus aspectos sociais, políticos e ou culturais.Palavras-chave: Timor Leste. Tais. Etnomatemática. Educação matemática escolar. Abstract: This article aims to articulate aspects of the East Timor culture with the School Mathematics Education. Specifically, the research describes and analyzes the tais, traditional clothing, whose existence predates the colonial period and are known to all the people of Timor-Leste. The empirical part of the research was carried out through ethnographic inspiration procedures and involved five weavers women from different posts administratives belonging to the Lautem city in East Timor. The empirical data collected was analyzed with the main theoretical framework to Ethnomathematics. Specifically in this article, the patterns and geometric elements present in the Tais were analyzed. Thus, possible articulations with Mathematical Education were evidenced from the work with sequences, elements of geometry, parallelism, perpendicularity and geometric transformations. However, I punctuate that these concepts should not be disconnected from the tais weaving process. Put in another way discuss the need for math classes entertain discussions involving different dimensions of Timorese life whether in its social, political and or cultural.Keywords: East Timor. “Tais”. Ethnomathematics. School Mathematics education.
Long-term cardiovascular damage in Leningrad Siege survivors
Authors: Moguchaia E. V. , Rotar O. P. , Boyarinova M. A. , Alieva A. S. , Orlov A. V. , Vasilyeva E. Yu. , Konradi A. O. 
Published: June 2021

Objective. To assess the prevalence of markers of preclinical vascular, kidney and brain damage in the survivors of the Leningrad Siege (SLS) in the long-term period of life, as well as to determine a possible connection with starvation in the prenatal period and early childhood.Design and methods. A prospective cohort study of 305 SLS was initiated in 2009–2011. In a control sex- and age-matched group we recruited people born in the same time period in other regions of the Soviet Union and permanently residing in Leningrad after the World War II (n = 51). At the second visit in 2013–2014, 252 residents of besieged Leningrad were examined (the response rate was 82,6 %). Blood pressure measurement and anthropometry were performed according to standard methods. The laboratory examination included the assessment of fasting glucose, lipids, and creatinine with the calculation of the glomerular filtration rate (GFR) according to the CKD-EPI formula. The concentration of albumin and creatinine was determined, and the albumin-creatinine ratio was calculated. All patients underwent assessment of the pulse wave velocity by the applanation tonometry (SphygmoCor, AtCor, Australia), cardio-ankle vascular index (CAVI) and ankle-brachial index (VaSera VS 1500, FukudaDenshi, Japan). For cognitive assessment, the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) scale was used.Results. The analysis included data of 184 residents of besieged Leningrad (52 males (28,3 %) and 132 females (71,7 %), average age 74,7 years old) divided into three groups depending on the age period during the Siege: 132 people in the first group (late childhood and adolescents), 28 people in the early childhood group, 24 people in the third “intrauterine” group. The control group included 44 people: 13 males (29,5 %) and 31 females (70,5 %), average age 75,5 years old. The survivors of the besieged Leningrad showed lower anthropometric characteristics — lower weight (p = 0,005) and body mass index (p = 0,004) compared with the control group. There were no differences in the prevalence of vascular, renal and cerebral lesions. The lowest arterial stiffness according to the CAVI index was detected in the “intrauterine” group compared to early, late childhood and adolescent groups (p = 0,015). Renal dysfunction was detected only in the first group (late childhood and adolescents).Conclusions. The residents of the besieged Leningrad demonstrate low prevalence of renal dysfunction and arteriosclerosis of the large arteries and atherosclerosis of the peripheral arteries, as well as preserved cognitive function. The increased arterial stiffness and decreased GFR in SLS who experienced the siege in late childhood and adolescence are most likely due to the older age.
Visit-to-visit blood pressure variability in patients after acute coronary syndrome
Authors: Brazhnik V. A. , Minushkina L. O. , Galyavich A. S. , Khasanov N. R. , Chichkova M. A. , Kosmacheva E. D. , Zateyshchikov D. A. 
Published: June 2021

Objective. The aim of the study was to assess the possible association of visit-to-visit blood pressure (BP) variability and the risk of adverse outcomes in hypertensive (HTN) patients after acute coronary syndrome.Design and methods. We analyzed data of 1,456 patients (mean age 65,6 ± 12,2 years, 875 (60,1 %) men) discharged from the hospital after acute coronary syndrome and followed up for 1 year in 4 vascular centers in Moscow, Astrakhan, Kazan and Krasnodar in 2014–2017. BP, heart rate, and adverse events were recorded on the day of discharge and on days 25, 90, 180 and 360 after discharge. The visit-to-visit BP variability was assessed by the VIM coefficient (variation independent of mean).Results. The systolic BP variability was 7,81 ± 0,226 mm Hg, diastolic BP variability was 9,89 ± 0,577 mm Hg during follow-up. In total, 110 deaths from any cause, 63 coronary deaths, 130 repeated non-fatal coronary events, 33 ischemic strokes were recorded. A decrease in BP variability was associated with the dihydropyridine calcium antagonists (10,21 ± 6,45 and 7,99 ± 4,70 mm Hg, p = 0,024) and thiazide diuretics (10,34 ± 6,59 and 7,63 ± 9,63 mm Hg, p = 0,049). Multivariate analysis showed that high long-term variability of BP is a more significant factor associated with the overall mortality rate than the initial severity of HTN and even the fact of achieving target BP. The risk of ischemic stroke in patients with HTN was associated with factors such as atrial fibrillation, heart failure, a history of stroke, and high visit-to-visit BP variability.Conclusions. Visit-to-visit BP variability is an important characteristic of BP control and is associated with the risk of death from any causes and stroke in patients with coronary heart disease.
PENGEMBANGAN ALAT PERAGA DARI LIMBAH PLASTIK UNTUK MATERI GEOMETRI BIDANG DATAR JENJANG SEKOLAH DASAR [CREATING TEACHING AID FROM PLASTIC WASTE ON PLANE GEOMETRY IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL]
Authors: Pangaribuan Firman , Pangaribuan Rut K 
Published: June 2021

<p>Plastic waste that is difficult to decompose is a serious problem in environmental pollution. Geometry is a difficult subject for students, and plastic waste can be used as teaching aids to help students learn geometry. This research is a type of development research and aims to develop teaching aids from plastic waste in learning plane geometry in fifth grade elementary school. The results showed that the teaching aids developed were valid, practical and effective. Teaching aids are called practical if they meet the interesting, gradation, independent, auto-correction, and contextual aspects. The validity of the teaching aids is obtained through aspects of suitability, completeness, convenience, and clarity. Based on the assessment of the three validators, an average score of 3.50 was obtained so that the teaching aids were categorized as valid. The practicality of teaching aids by students showed that 95% of students stated that they were interesting, graded, and independent, 74% of students stated that it was auto-correction and 91% stated that it was contextual. The effectiveness of the teaching aids can be seen from the significant difference between the average pre-test score of 46.2 and the post-test average score of 77.3. The props from the plastic waste that were developed are stored and will be used later for the same lesson in the future.</p><p><strong>BAHASA INDONESIA ABSTRACT: </strong>Limbah plastik yang sulit terurai adalah masalah yang serius dalam pencemaran lingkungan. Geometri merupakan pelajaran yang sulit bagi siswa, dan limbah plastik dapat digunakan sebagai alat peraga untuk membantu siswa dalam belajar geometri. Penelitian ini adalah jenis pengembangan dan bertujuan mengembangkan alat peraga dari limbah plastik dalam pembelajaran geometri bidang datar di kelas V SD. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa alat peraga yang dikembangkan valid, praktis dan efektif. Alat peraga disebut praktis jika memenuhi aspek menarik, bergradasi, mandiri, <em>auto correction</em>, dan kontekstual. Kevalidan alat peraga diperoleh melalui aspek kesesuaian, kelengkapan, kemudahan, dan kejelasan. Berdasarkan penilaian tiga validator diperoleh skor rata-rata 3,50 sehingga alat peraga dikategorikan valid. Kepraktisan alat peraga oleh siswa menunjukkan bahwa 95% siswa menyatakan menarik, bergradasi, dan mandiri, 74% siswa menyatakan <em>auto correction </em>dan 91% menyatakan kontekstual. Keefektifan alat peraga terlihat dari perbedaan yang signifikan antara skor rata-rata pre tes 46,2 dan skor rata-rata pos tes 77,3. Alat peraga dari limbah plastik yang dikembangkan disimpan dan akan digunakan kemudian untuk pelajaran yang sama di kemudian hari.</p>
Antonio Bento e Romero Brest
Authors: Bedtcher Araceli Barros J. 
Published: June 2021

O presente artigo analisa a produção crítica de dois expoentes do cenário cultural latino-americano do século XX: Antonio Bento e Romero Brest. Esses autores são contemporâneos entre si e amealharam importantes contribuições para a crítica de arte de seus respectivos países, Brasil e Argentina, na consolidação do abstracionismo. Através de uma abordagem comparativa sobre ambos os críticos, destacaram-se as aproximações e diferenças nos seus discursos em um cenário de importantes transformações culturais: a fundação do MASP (1947) e a I Bienal de Artes (1951). Por fim, buscou-se evidenciar as contribuições de uma crítica de arte especializada no entendimento e promoção da arte abstrata como linguagem artística também válida para o Brasil e Argentina.
América Latina em contexto
Authors: Gonçalves Lisbeth Ruth Rebollo 
Published: June 2021

O presente dossiê reúne textos que põem o foco em questões significativas para o estudo das artes visuais, especialmente pensando a realidade latino-americana. A proposta que lancei aos autores que interagiram comigo, no meu papel de orientadora ou supervisora, ao longo de suas carreiras, foi a de oferecer um artigo com tema de interesse aos estudos latino-americanos. Pensa-se, neste dossiê, o Brasil inserido no contexto da América Latina e mundial. Cada autor realiza uma reflexão no campo da produção ou circulação da arte e tem de modo explícito ou subentendido, como um dado inerente à sua análise, a questão da “decolonização” ou “descolonização”. Nos artigos, este ponto crucial aparece como uma episteme fundamental, direta ou indiretamente explícita. Seus textos partem de suas pesquisas recentes e muitos temas decorrem de estudos que realizaram para sua titulação universitária. A arte indígena atual, a expressão popular no contexto da cultura, assim como as exposições e sua visitação e a prática da crítica de arte são temas presentes neste conjunto. Trata-se de um dossiê com textos apoiados em debates atuais. Isto quer dizer: encontramos leituras das experiências da arte, fundamentadas em discussões conceituais hoje presentes no campo das Ciências Humanas e nas Artes.
Effect of Acute Exposure of Cigarette Smoke on Endometrium Thickness and Number of Ovarian Follicles in Rats
Authors: Abiyasa Putri Izdihar Ramadhanty , Aswin R Haryanto , Yuliawati Tri Hartini 
Published: June 2021

Background: Cigarrete smoke has been ascociated with many health-related problems especially in long time use. One of many health problems that are affected is the reproductive system that give negative impact in fertility. However, there are limited studies about this in acute exposure of cigarette smoke.
Objective: The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of acute exposure of cigarette smoke on endometrial thickness and number of ovarian follicles in rats.
Methods: Thirty adult female rats were randomly divided into 3 groups: P0, P1 and P2. The P1 and P2 groups were exposed to cigarette smoke for 15 days with dose of 2 and 4 cigarettes daily, respectively. Vaginal swab was done twice, before and after the last treatment, to determine the proestrus phase of the animals. Histological slide of uterus and ovarium using Haematoxylin Eosin staining were observed under light microscop. Number of ovarian follicles were measured, and the thickness of endometrium was meassured using CellSens software version 2.3 (Olympus Life Science). Statistical analysis of data was performed using MANOVA in SPSS software version 23 for Windows.
Results: There were no significant differences in both endometrial thickness and number of ovarian follicles between 3 groups (p>0.05). However, we found that there were a downward trend of some variables (endometrial thickness, number of primary follicles, de Graff follicles, and corpus luteum) from P0 to P2.
Conclusion: We concluded that acute exposure of cigarette smoke not yet influenced the female reproductive organ, based on histological appearance of endemotrium and ovarium.
Aile sağlığı merkezlerine başvuran kişilerde kronik hastalık, multimorbidite ve yaşam kalitesi ilişkisinin değerlendirilmesi
Authors: OKTAR Didem , ÇAM Cüneyt , AKBULUT ZENCİRCİ Sevil , AYGAR Hatice , DAĞTEKİN Gökçe , ÇALIŞKAN PALA Seval , ÖNSÜZ Muhammed Fatih , METİNTAS Selma 
Published: June 2021

Amaç: Kronik hastalık ve multimorbiditenin uzun süreli tedavi ve takip gerektirmesi,hastaların yönetilmesi ve izleminde yaşam kalitesinin değerlendirilmesini gündeme getirmiştir. Çalışmada yetişkinlerde kronik hastalık ve multimorbiditenin yaşam kalitesi ile ilişkisinin değerlendirilmesi amaçlandı. Yöntem: Çalışma, Eskişehir’de hizmet veren Aile Sağlığı Merkezleri(ASM)’ne başvuran yetişkinde gerçekleştirilen kesitsel tipte araştırmadır. Çalışma verileri, sosyodemografik özellikler, riskli sağlık davranışları ve hekim tanılı kronik hastalık varlığını sorgulayan sorular ile Dünya Sağlık Örgütü Yaşam Kalitesi Anketi-8(EUROHİS-OQL-8) ölçeğinden oluşan anket formuyla elde edildi. Verilerin analizinde Mann-Whitney U, Kruskal Wallis ve Çoklu Lineer Regresyon Analizi kullanıldı. Bulgular: Çalışmaya katılan 2324 kişi arasında en sık bildirilen hekim tanılı kronik hastalık hipertansiyon (%33.3) idi. Yapılan çoklu lineer regresyon modelinde yaşam kalitesiyle ilişkili faktörler kontrol edildiğinde, yaşam kalitesinin para ve yaşanılan evin koşulları dışındaki alt boyutların kronik hastalık varlığıyla negatif yönde ilişkili olduğu bulundu. Hiperlipidemi dışında belirtilen kronik hastalıkların tümünde, yaşam kalitesinin negatif yönde değişim gösterdiği saptandı. Sonuç: Kronik hastalık ve multimorbiditenin yaşam kalitesini azaltan önemli bir sorun olduğu bulundu. Aile sağlığı merkezlerinde kronik hastalık yönetim ve takibinde, yaşam kalitesinin de ele alınmasının önemli olduğu sonucuna ulaşıldı.