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Total hip arthroplasty in patients with active psoriatic arhtritis (preliminary report)
Authors: Volchenko D. V. , Akhtiamov I. F. , Terskov A. Yu. , Sozonov O. A. , Velichko M. N. , Shpiz E. Ya. 
Published: July 2021

Aim of the research – to evaluate the effectiveness, to analyze the complications and long-term results of total hip arthroplasty (THA) in patients with active psoriatic arthritis (PsA).Materials and methods. The results of THA were studied in 26 patients with PsA (19 men, 7 women; average age 54.8±3.1 years, from 38 to 56 years) up to 2 years after surgery. The diagnosis of PsA was established according to CASPAR criteria.Results. The visual analogue scale assessment showed a significant decrease in the intensity of pain in the hip joint in the postoperative period. The average DAPSA activity index before surgery was 25.9 (11–34), after 2 months – 31.3 (16–38), after 6 months – 30.5 (12–37), with a further decrease to 26.1 (12–35) by 24th month. The results of clinical and functional assessment according to Harris in 19 (73%) patients corresponded to an excellent level, in 7 (27%) – to a good level. No infectious, thromboembolic complications were detected. In 1 (4%) patient periprosthetic intraoperative fracture of the femur was diagnosed No new skin psoriatic elements in the field of surgical intervention was fixed.Conclusion. Our data indicate the effectiveness of THA in active PsA, provided that the requirements for careful planning of the intervention, prevention of possible complications and an individualized approach to rehabilitation are met.
EVALUATION OF SOCIAL MEDIA INFLUENCE IN THE FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION IN NIGERIA
Authors: Ugochukwu Chiemezie Chukwuka 
Published: July 2021

The 2019 corruption perception index report attest to the fact that corruption is on the increase in Nigeria. With the level of widespread corruption in Nigeria, it needs to be tackled for the country to remain relevant among countries of the world. This work is structured to examine how social media have helped in the fight against corruption. The internet has helped the growth of social media in Nigeria because with Smartphone’s and handheld devices, one can easily connect to the social media platform. Technology determinism theory and Agenda-setting theory of communication were used for the study. Library research method was adopted for the study and relevant information about corruption and social media from journals, newspapers and books were analyzed. This study concludes among others that social media are effective in the fight against corruption. It exposes corrupt practices and persons and ensures that persons indicted are prosecuted. The study recommends, among others that government should effectively use social media handles and encourage whistle blowing to help fight corruption in Nigeria.
NEWSPAPER COVERAGE OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN DURING COVID-19 LOCKDOWN
Authors: Ekweonu Chinedu Lawrence 
Published: July 2021

This study examined the coverage of domestic violence against women in select Nigerian dailies. Among the national dailies under review are Daily Sun, Vanguard and Guardian newspapers. The researcher used the content analysis research method in reviewing the manifest contents of the three papers from March 23rd to June 2020. The study period covered a total of 100 days which translates to 300 publications of the three newspapers under investigation. The specific objectives of the study are to ascertain whether the newspapers give prominence to domestic violence; find the dominant source of interventions for victims of domestic violence against women; observe whether the newspapers gave adequate publications to the rising domestic violence against women and find out if the newspapers actually follow-up domestic violence cases within the lockdown in their publications. The social responsibility and Agenda-setting theories served as the theoretical framework for the study. Findings revealed that the newspapers neither gave prominence nor adequate coverage to domestic violence against women within the lockdown period. It was also found that the newspapers hardly follow-up their stories on domestic violence within the period. The researcher concluded that the select newspapers did not do well in their coverage of domestic violence in the period under investigation by publishing only 115 news items on such crimes within the period. The study recommended among others that the media should as a respect to their social responsibility functions expose the people to the harmful effects of domestic violence against women in the country.
Caracterización de recursos hídricos estratégicos en Colombia: un análisis sobre su securitización
Authors: Zabala Giovany 
Published: July 2021

El presente trabajo busca contribuir al análisis del recurso hídrico en Colombia desde una perspectiva estratégica para el Estado. Para ello se realiza una aproximación desde la óptica de los recursos naturales estratégicos intentando precisar cuáles fuentes y cuencas son las principales para el Estado colombiano y argumentando porque pueden ser consideradas como tales, en los sectores del consumo doméstico, la generación de energía eléctrica, y la producción agrícola como principales usos dados a este recurso. Para este propósito se hace una revisión y uso de las unidades de análisis definidas por entidades como el Instituto de Hidrología, Meteorología y Estudios Ambientales (Ideam), como entidad rectora en la materia, realizando una breve caracterización de los mismos a nivel geográfico y su relación con la infraestructura en cada sector analizado. Se explora además algunas de las principales amenazas que se ciernen sobre este recurso en la actualidad y se analiza el grado de involucramiento del agua dentro del proceso de securitización definido en la Escuela de Copenhague. Más allá de buscar reafirmar la importancia que un recurso como el agua tiene por naturaleza, el presente trabajo busca resaltar de forma precisa, las características y condiciones puntuales que hacen del recurso hídrico un elemento estratégico para el sostenimiento del Estado colombiano.
Changes in Physico-Chemical and Microbiological Properties in Thai Cocoa Bean Fermentation
Authors: TIKAPUNYA Tiparat 
Published: July 2021

The purpose of this research is to investigate the quality-related physical, chemical, and microbiological changes in Thai cocoa beans during fermentation in 2 types of wooden containers. The results will compose a book of guidelines for good Thai cocoa fermentation in order to educate Thai farmers. Fresh Thai cocoa beans have a low pH value (5.0 - 5.5) compared to those from other countries in general (6.0 - 7.0). However, fermented temperature is able to reach 40 - 45 °C in 6 days, which is a main criteria for finishing cocoa fermentation. The color of fresh cocoa beans changes from white to brown within 2 days; after that, cocoa beans are mixed from the top to the bottom of the containers. Three groups of microorganism are evaluated with 3 different sampling points in wooden containers. The results reveal that yeast is grown quickly in 2 days on the top of containers, and then acetic acid bacteria and lactic acid bacteria are grown by the utilized yeast’s metabolites. These behaviors were found in both of the 2 wooden containers; however, a heap of cocoa beans (200 - 250 kgs) in a wooden box showed better quality of cocoa fermentation than a small volume (40 - 50 kgs) in a wooden tray.
HIGHLIGHTS

Understanding changes in Thai cocoa beans fermentation based on traditional method
Two type of wooden containers applied for comparing all quality-related cocoa fermentation
Proper cocoa beans fermentation process composed to a book of guideline for Thai Farmers

GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT
Alcohol consumption and breast cancer risk
Authors: Elaskri Khadija , Fakhri Nada , Chad Mohamed Amine , Rherissi Bouchra , Boubrik Fatima , El Kadmiri Nadia 
Published: July 2021

Background: Breast cancer (BC) is the most common disease in women around the world. The risk factors associated to BC have been widely discussed in the literature, however, the possible effect of alcohol consumption remains unclear and requires further clarification and in-depth understanding. In this mini-review, we discusse numerous prospective studies conducted from 1989 to 2018 to monitor the emergence of BC, and to clarify the association between alcohol consumption and BC risk. Results: Alcohol consumption is positively associated with the risk of BC compared to non-drinkers. The findings showed that this positive association could be influenced by several factors, including age, premenopausal and postmenopausal status, social factors ,duration and intensity of alcohol use and family history. Conclusion: There is a positive effect of alcohol consumption BC risk at all levels of consumption.
Cantharis 200c counters heat stress in germinating seeds of Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.
Authors: Sarkar Tandra , Konar Atheni , Sukul Nirmal Chandra , Sukul Nirmal Chandra 
Published: July 2021

Background
Thermal stress during early imbibitional phase of germination causes disruption of redox-homeostasis by increasing accumulation of ROS Reactive Oxygen species (assessed in terms of hydrogen peroxide) and significant reduction of antioxidative defense (assessed in terms of catalase and peroxidase) in germinating tissues of cowpea (Vigna ungiculata). It also induces oxidative damage to newly assembled membrane system by aggravating membrane lipid peroxidation [measured in terms of thiobarbituric acid reactive substances (TBARS)]. Cantharis is a homeopathic remedy used for treating burn injuries in humans. The objective is to see whether potentized Cantharis could ameliorate heat stress in germinating seeds of cowpea.

Methodology
Seeds, imbibed in water overnight, were divided into four groups (n=50/group): Control I (Water 200c), Control II (Ethanol 200c), treated with Cantharis 200c and untreated and unstressed. Water soaked seeds were dipped in control/drug solution for 5 min and then washed. Control II and Cantharis 200c were diluted with water 1:1000 to minimize the ethanol effect. Except the fourth group, all other groups were subjected to heat stress (450C for 8 hours). All the groups were allowed to germinate for 5 days in germination chamber at 25 Â± 20C. Groups 1 and 2 (Control I and II) served as systematic negative controls throughout the experiment. Ten independent replications were performed for each group in parallel. All experiments were randomized and blinded.

Results
The systematic negative controls (I, II) did not produce any significant effect. The results in terms of germination, growth, soluble sugar, protein, accumulation of reactive oxygen species and loss of membrane permeability clearly exhibit that Cantharis 200c could mitigate heat stress significantly (p
A vacuous screenplay in search of rigour
Authors: Batty Craig 
Published: July 2021

A university professor with a reputation for creative practice research finds himself at a crossroads when, en route to an international conference, he meets a younger and somewhat modest dementia researcher whose work is clearly having an impact on people’s lives. A keynote at a creative writing conference in Hawaii, the professor is impelled to reflect on his own research practice and piece together fragments of his work history to reassure himself that what he does is not only valid as research, but also that it has rigour. With flashbacks to a variety of painful and often comic encounters with colleagues trying to articulate their practice as research, he is able to overcome his midflight, mid-career crisis and come to a renewed and satisfactory understanding of what good creative practice research is, and how that can be articulated clearly and confidently to others. Originally performed at the University of Southern Queensland’s inaugural ‘Scriptwriting as Research’ symposium in 2016, _A Vacuous Screenplay in Search of Rigour_ thus interrogates not only the very mode of creative practice research, but also the broader (and varied) institutional research cultures within which it operates.
Sluglines as ghostly presence
Authors: Taylor Stayci 
Published: July 2021

This short screenplay casts the screenwriter as investigator of screenplay formatting, through the writing of a script within which she performs this practice. That is to say, the writer uses a creative practice methodology to critique and examine screenplay formatting conventions through screenwriting practice itself. Specifically, she explores the role of the slugline (or scene heading) and the creative possibilities of this element of ‘scene text’ (Sternberg 1997), beyond its practical function in screenwriting and screen production. The writer drinks with authors, theorists and the fabled typing monkeys in her exploration of the slugline as punctuation; asking how it might contribute to rhythm and transitions in screenplays. She considers the slugline in its capacity as ‘extrafictional voice’ (Ingelstrom, 2014) and asks: can sluglines guide editing and mise-en-scene, as Claudia Sternberg suggests of the impersonal narrative voice? Can sluglines be used repetitively (as in songwriting) to reinforce imagery and rhythm? The work critically engages with the traditional INT. and EXT. and also floats a broader question: what might the language of online abbreviations have to offer screenwriting conventions? A subplot sees a cast and crew meet for a table read, putting voice to an industry potentially suspicious of such an endeavour, and providing a playful commentary on the different ways in which the roles within screen production engage with the traditional screenplay.
Inside the writer’s head: embodying reflection on creative writing processes
Authors: Cake Susan 
Published: July 2021

Inside the writer’s head is a response to Ian Macdonald’s discussion of alternative approaches to assessing screenwriting within Higher Education (2001). Macdonald argues for consideration of the reflective work of students when assessing their screenplays. As both an assessor of student screenplays and a doctoral student engaged in creative practice-led research, this prompted me to consider how my own narrative comedy screenplays might be assessed as research outputs. My methodology of writing narrative comedy screenplays mirrored McKee’s (1998) writer’s method and occurred within an action research cycle of ideation, planning, writing, analysing, reflecting and evaluating (Christie et al. 2015). Reflective and creative writing processes such as idea generation, concept development, research and critical feedback were documented in a reflection journal. This action research cycle generated numerous ideas for screenplays. The screenplay discussed in this paper uses characters to explore the often competing rational, intuitive and emotional aspects of screenwriting and in doing so, contributes to the body of screenplays-as-research artefacts (Baker and Beattie 2013; Baker 2013, 2016; Batty 2014). The characters in Inside the writer’s head articulate thought processes behind ideation, the role of research and consideration of audience in developing screenplays. Inside the writer’s head challenges learners of screenwriting to consider why we write. The screenplay embodies critical reflection and demonstrates how reflective and creative perspectives can be integrated within the screenplay form. In doing so, Inside the writer’s head illustrates a hybrid form of screenplay for how screenplays might be assessed within an academic context.
Ordinary pain: pilot script
Authors: Hart Phoebe 
Published: July 2021

This creative work - an hour-long television pilot “dramedy” screenplay entitled Ordinary Pain - emerges out of a scriptwriting as research project within the academy, and seeks to reposition characters with an intersex variation as ‘an everyday social type’. Ordinary Pain is the story of Zoe, a hermaphrodite and creative type based in the bohemian suburbs of the Brisbane postcode of 4101. She is a rare blend of both male and female, and, and is overcoming traumatic experiences of growing up. This subject could be perceived as unwieldy and sad. Yet the core character of Zoe is an extraordinary one, trying to live in the ordinary world with the courage to overcome shame and adversity. Ordinary Pain explores family, gender, sexuality and place in engaging, inspiring and funny ways, and is informed by reflection on and within screenwriting practice.
Hallwalkers: queering gender and attraction through/in scriptwriting
Authors: Baker Dallas 
Published: July 2021

This creative work (screenplay) is informed by queer theory relating to gender and sexuality and explores the complex negotiations and disclosures that gender nonconforming persons are often forced to undertake in social situations that are largely structured by heteronormativity. The screenplay foregrounds the mutable nature of sexual attraction and actively imagines a scenario in which gender non-conforming persons are not confronted with fraught, and often dangerous, social navigations and disclosures about their gender status. The screenplay foregrounds dialogue and direct address as a subversion of mainstream (masculinist) screen conventions that accentuate the visual (masculine) over the verbal (feminine) and verisimilitude over self-reflexivity. The script also makes a contribution to the rethinking of attraction itself, presenting it as fluid and negotiable rather than fixed. The script deploys these ideas in an accessible way, in the form of a LGBTIQ romantic drama.
Urban girl: writing the female gothic in the Australian landscape
Authors: McVeigh Margaret 
Published: July 2021

Urban Girl is a creative exploration of the use of metaphor and imagery to create thematic layering in a screenplay by its “power to involve, influence, and instruct by the combination of form and content” (Mehring, 1990). In writing the short romantic comedy, Urban Girl, I explore the love travails of a country girl who works in the city. Maddy is the quintessential successful twenty-something corporate girl. Pretty much an urban cliché. But in the love stakes she’s cactus. To make it worse, every time she rents out her spare room, her flat mate finds love. Determined to sort the problem, Maddy embarks on a one-day makeover of her inner-city apartment. The Feng-Shui way. But she doesn’t reckon with the forces of nature to disrupt her plans. Urban Girl owes its inspirations to the landscape and characters of my country childhood and the image of the female figure in the landscape - urban or rural. In her discussion of the Female Gothic, Eva Rueschmann (2005) notes that the Gothic in the landscape is both “character and metaphor, setting and psychic space” expressing the “colonialization of the land through stories about women who find themselves geographically and psychologically displaced”. In this script, the imagery of the Gothic with its sense of foreboding and entrapment (Davies, 2016) and the lyrics of the over-the-top country music soundtrack, serve as metaphors for how a young woman may be trapped by roles and expectations that thwart her in her quest for true love.
Seven ways to fate and all
Authors: Wade Bryan 
Published: July 2021

This script is the outcome of a practice-led research project exploring the exponential growth in British Columbia of fentanyl-detected illicit drug overdose deaths. A September 2017 summary from The BC Coroners Service’s confirms a 143% increase in the number of deaths. In the canon of dramatic screenplays, few scripts explore the domain of drug addiction exclusively as a subject. In The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), Frank Sinatra plays Frankie Machine, a drug addict who becomes clean in prison and yearns to be a drummer. Yet, his heroin addiction is never specified. In Clean and Sober (1988) Michael Keaton is an alcoholic and cocaine addicted realtor who hides in a treatment center. However, in the recent, Emmy Award winning television series, Breaking Bad, Walter White’s sidekick, Jesse Pinkham, is clearly a heroin addict. My screenplay differs from the above dramas in that most characters are not confirmed addicts. In my dramatized script I portray characters from many walks of life: teenagers, parents, actors, politicians, and the homeless, and show how they struggle with the impact of illicit drug usage. It can happen to anyone. As a character states in Way Five, “It (meaning addiction) is a health issue.” Rather than a screed about illicit opioid use, my screenplay attempts to inform, open conversations and transform attitudes.
Who killed Desdemona?
Authors: Alderdice Scott 
Published: July 2021

Despite widely documented innovations integrating theatrical approaches into secondary school in-classroom engagement with the works of Shakespeare, evidence remains that students and teachers struggle with applying those techniques to the pedagogy of interpretation. Who killed Desdemona? introduces a clown-based approach to an interpretation of Shakespeare’s play, Othello, within a school familiar setting. The screenplay is undergirded by the theories of John Dewey and Jerome Bruner in scaffolding collaborative processes of situated and authentic learning, and integrates the social and peer-learning paradigms of Lev Vygotsky and Etienne Wenger. The screenplay introduces clown-based play and interactivity with both text and live/video attendant audience in negotiating a process of performance-in-rehearsal, where the clowns critically and irreverently unpack and interpret Shakespeare’s text through intermittent discourse and enactment.
Infection rate by TOXOPLASMA GONDII in free-range and broiler chickens in the states of Rio Grande do Norte and Paraíba, Brazil
Authors: Cecilia Farias dos Santos Maria , Morais de Medeiros Brito Ramayana , Wagner de Almeida Vitor Ricardo , Andrade Neto Valter Ferreira de 
Published: July 2021

Toxoplasmosis is a zoonosis caused by Toxoplasma gondii, a protozoan that has a cosmopolitan geographic distribution and low specificity for intermediate hosts. Domestic chickens are among the most important hosts in toxoplasmosis epidemiology, since they are potential sources of infection for humans, in addition to indicating environmental contamination by protozoa. In this work, we studied the prevalence of T. gondii infection in chickens in different breeding systems from distinct mesoregions of Rio Grande do Norte and Paraiba States: broiler chickens from commercial farms and free-range chickens from small farms. Indirect fluorescent antibody test (IFAT) and ELISA techniques were used for detecting specific antibodies in blood samples from the birds. There were no seropositive samples among the broilers tested, indicating that intensive management limited the chances of infection for these animals. Amongthe free-range chickens, the frequency of IgG anti-T. gondii detected by IFAT and ELISA were 37.9% and 40.4% respectively. Among the seropositive samples by IFAT, 33 (27.1%) were positive at a dilution of 1:16; in 1:32, 31 (25.4%); in 1:64, 24 (19.7%); 15 (12.3%) in 1:128, and 19 presented titers greater than or equal to 1:256 (15.6%). The substantial concordance observed between IFAT and ELISA signifies these methods are effective methodologies for the diagnosis of avian toxoplasmosis. The high prevalence of specific antibodies among poultry in the studied region highlights the potential risk of T. gondii transmission to humans through consumption of infected meat.KEY WORDS: Toxoplasma gondii; chicken infection; toxoplasmosis transmission; seroprevalence.