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Study of the physical and biological properties of nanocomposite materials obtained with laser radiation
Authors: Kurilova U. E. , Gerasimenko A. Yu. 
Published: September 2021

The new method of the formation of nanocomposite materials based on carbon nanotubes for the regeneration of connective tissues has been developed.Aim. Study of the structure, mechanical characteristics and biocompatibility of the obtained materials.Materials and methods. The experimental samples of nanocomposite materials were based on multi-walled and singlewalled carbon nanotubes, the matrix was bovine serum albumin. A layer of liquid dispersion of the components on a silicon substrate or in a container was irradiated with laser radiation to form the solid nanocomposite material. The microstructure of the obtained samples was analyzed with X-ray microtomography, the tensile strength was investigated using a testing machine. Fibroblast cells were incubated with experimental samples for 3, 24, 48, and 72 h and then fixed with glutaraldehyde. Cell growth during incubation with samples was studied using optical and atomic force microscopy.Results. It was found that a slight decrease in tensile strength and increase in the degree of deformation were observed with an increase in the concentration of carbon nanotubes. At the same time, the mechanical parameters of the samples corresponded to the requirements for materials for the restoration of connective tissue defects. Microscopic studies indicate good adhesion of cells to the nanocomposite material, no toxic effect of the samples on the cells was found. After 3 hours of incubation, the cells had their original rounded shape, after 24 hours of incubation cells began to proliferate on the sample's surface and were spindle-shaped. After 48 and 72 hours, the cells practically formed a monolayer on the surface of the samples.Conclusion. The results of the study show that the structural and mechanical parameters of the developed nanocomposite materials meet the requirements of biomedicine. It was also shown that nanocomposite materials do not suppress cell growth and can serve as a scaffold for the regeneration of damaged tissues.
CUSTOS LOGÍSTICOS: O CASO DE UMA INDÚSTRIA BENEFICIADORA DE ARROZ
Authors: Cittadin Andréia , Mantovani Kaline Ribeiro , Schneider Michele Domingos , Guimarães Filho Leopoldo Pedro 
Published: September 2021

A logística se configura pelo gerenciamento das atividades e fluxo de informações relativas à movimentação de materiais ao longo da cadeia de suprimentos, com vista à redução de custos e melhoria dos níveis de serviço. Este estudo tem como objetivo identificar os custos logísticos de uma indústria beneficiadora de arroz do sul catarinense. A metodologia compreende a pesquisa descritiva, com abordagem qualitativa e estudo de caso único. Os dados coletados referem-se ao ano de 2018, obtidos por meio de análise documental e entrevistas. Foram descritas as atividades que compõe a cadeia de suprimentos da entidade, que abrange operações desde o recebimento e armazenagem da matéria-prima, beneficiamento do arroz, transferências para os centros de distribuição e entrega do produto final aos clientes. Os resultados permitiram identificar que o processo logístico de distribuição é o que gera maiores gastos para a organização (21,46% sobre o faturamento); os custos de transportes possuem maior representatividade em relação aos custos logísticos totais (68,76%); e os custos logísticos totais da empresa em estudo representaram 26,25% sobre seu faturamento. Conclui-se que o gerenciamento logístico é fundamental para a redução de custos, melhoria dos processos e serviços aos clientes e geração de vantagens competitivas.
Policy Practice Dilemma in the Interests of the Environmental Case
Authors: Heipakhon Serach , Seruchart Telaphon , Somphorn Do 
Published: September 2021

The purpose of the study to ensuring legal certainty and order in the operation of buildings, each building must comply with the administrative and technical requirements of the building, and all work must be completed in a timely manner. There is always an apparent struggle over whether to take a position in favor of the environment or not. It is essential to exercise extreme caution in order to avert the potential of even higher losses to humanity. This study considered scenarios that may be faced by a variety of different administrations
DARÜLBEDAYİ’NİN KURULUŞUNDAKİ TARTIŞMALAR VE REŞAT NURİ GÜNTEKİN’İN KATKILARI
Authors: DEMİR Bilal 
Published: September 2021

1914 yılında devletin ilk ödenekli tiyatro kurumu olarak kurulan Darülbedayi, yüz yılı aşkın tarihi ile Türk tiyatrosu adına çok önemli bir yerde durmaktadır. Kurulduğu ilk yıllarda birçok tartışmaya konu olan Darülbedayi, 1930’lu yıllara kadar ilerleme kaydedememiştir. Dönemin dergi ve gazetelerinde sürekli olarak tartışılan Darülbedayi hem tiyatro muharrirleri hem de dönemin önemli eleştirmelerinin ilgiyle takip ettiği bir tiyatro kurumu olmuştur. Ancak bir türlü istenilen desteği görememiş ve bu nedenle ülkede modern tiyatronun gelişimi açısından beklenilen gelişimi gösterememiştir. Çokça tartışılan kurum, yıllara göre çeşitli polemiklerin odağında yer almıştır.
Tartışmaların içeriğini genellikle kurumun oyun, oyuncu ve yönetim işlerini ilgilendiren ‘edebi heyet’ oluşturmaktadır. Darülbedayi’nin yönetimi ve icrası için çok önemli bir kurul olan edebi heyet üzerindeki tartışmalar, Darülbedayi’nin gelişimini engelleyen en önemli sebeplerden sayılır. Oynanacak oyunların yerli mi adapte mi olacağı, oyuncular, yazarlar ve eserler gibi birçok tartışma da diğer önemli tartışmalardandır. Dönem içinde tartışmalara dâhil olmuş olan Reşat Nuri Güntekin Darülbedayi’nin ayakta kalması için mücadele etmiş biridir. Reşat Nuri’nin katkıları tartışmaların seyrini etkilemiştir. Bu çalışmada Darülbedayi’nin niteliği, kurulma amacı, kuruluşundaki olaylar ve devamında kurum üzerine tartışılan konular ele alınacaktır. Ayrıca Reşat Nuri Güntekin’in Darülbedayi üzerine yapılan tartışmalara olan bakışı incelenecektir.
A Modern History of European Cities
Authors: Wakeman Rosemary 
Published: September 2021

Rosemary Wakeman’s original survey text comprehensively explores modern European urban history from 1815 to the present day. It provides a journey to cities and towns across the continent, in search of the patterns of development that have shaped the urban landscape as indelibly European. The focus is on the built environment, the social and cultural transformations that mark the patterns of continuity and change, and the transition to modern urban society.
Including over 60 images that serve to illuminate the analysis, the book examines whether there is a European city, and if so, what are its characteristics? Wakeman offers an interdisciplinary approach that incorporates concepts from cultural and postcolonial studies, as well as urban geography, and provides full coverage of urban society not only in western Europe, but also in eastern and southern Europe, using various cities and city types to inform the discussion. The book provides detailed coverage of the often-neglected urbanization post-1945 which allows us to more clearly understand the modernizing arc Europe has followed over the last two centuries.
A Beginner’s Guide to Devising Theatre
Authors: Thorpe Jess , Gore Tashi 
Published: September 2021

Winner of the 2021 Music & Drama Education Award for Outstanding Drama Education Resource
Much of the theatre we make starts with a script and a story given to us by someone else. But what happens when we’re required to start from scratch? How do we begin to make theatre using our own ideas, our own perspective, our own stories?
A Beginner’s Guide to Devising Theatre, written by the artistic directors of the award-winning young people’s performance company Junction 25 and is aimed at those new to devising or wanting to further develop their skills. It explores creative ways to create original theatre from a contemporary stimulus.
It offers a structure within which to approach the creative process, including ideas on finding a starting point, generating material, composition and design; it offers practical ideas for use in rehearsal; and it presents grounding in terminology that will support a confident and informed approach to production.
The book features contributions from some of the young performers who have been a part of Junction 25’s work to date, as well as key artists and companies that work professionally in devised theatre, including case studies from Quarantine, the Team, Mammalian Diving Reflex, Nic Green and Ontroerend Goed. The work of Junction 25 is used to illustrate the concepts and ideas set out in the book.
Ideal for any student faced with the challenge of creating work from scratch, A Beginner’s Guide to Devising Theatre offers constructive guidance, which supports the requirements of students taking Drama and Theatre Studies courses. The book includes a foreword by theatre critic Lyn Gardner.
Theory for Theatre Studies: Movement
Authors: Fensham Rachel 
Published: September 2021

How do we define movement in performance? Who or what is being moved and how? And which movements are felt, observed, or studied, in theatre?
Part of the Theory for Theatre Studies series which introduces core theoretical concepts that underpin the discipline, Movement provides the first overview of relevant critical theory for students and researchers in theatre and performance studies. Exploring areas such as vitality, plasticity, gesture, effort and rhythm, it opens up the study of theatrical production, live art, and intercultural performance to socio-political conceptions of movement as both practice and concept. It covers movement training systems and considers how they have been utilized in key works of the 20th and 21st centuries. The final section traces the convergence of movement in theatre with other media and digital technologies.
A wide range of in-depth case studies helps to equip readers to explore new methodologies and approaches to movement as a performance concept. These include analysis of Satoshi Miyagi's production of Sophocles' Antigone (2017), Thomas Ostermeier's production of Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler (2008), the Berliner Ensemble’s Mother Courage (1949), The Constant Prince (1965) performed by Ryzsard Cieslak, and the National Theatre’s production of War Horse (2007). The final section considers a suite of concepts that shape postdramatic and intermedial theatre from China, Germany-Bangladesh, Australia, the United States, and United Kingdom. The volume is supported by further online resources including video material, questions, and exercises.
Theory for Theatre Studies: Emotion
Authors: Tait Peta 
Published: September 2021

Theory for Theatre Studies: Emotion explores how emotion is communicated in drama, theatre and contemporary performance and therefore in society. From Aristotle and Shakespeare to Stanislavski, from Brecht to Caryl Churchill, drama and theatre are revealed to inform but also to warn about the emotions. The term ‘emotion’ encompasses the emotions, emotional feelings, affect and mood, and the book explores how these concepts are embodied and experienced within theatrical practice and explained in theory. Since emotion is artistically staged, its composition and impact can be described and analysed and in relation to interdisciplinary approaches. Students and other readers are encouraged to consider how emotion is dramatically, aurally, and visually developed to create innovative performance.
Case studies include productions of Medea, Twelfth Night, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, and performances by Mabou Mines, Robert Lepage, Rimini Protokoll, Anna Deavere Smith, Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio, Marina Abramovic and The Wooster Group. By way of these detailed case studies, readers will appreciate new methodologies and approaches for their own exploration of ‘emotion’ as a performance component.
Introduction to the Alexander Technique
Authors: Connington Bill 
Published: September 2021

Introduction to the Alexander Technique is the first textbook about the Alexander Technique written specially for undergraduates. Part of the Acting Essentials series, this eight-week program can be taught over the course of half a semester, a full semester, or dipped into as needed to address students’ issues with physicality, movement, breathing, voice and performance habits.
The Alexander Technique has been a vital part of training for performers since the early 20th century. It is a core part of the curriculum at most acting conservatories and in many BFA programs. Sometimes considered purely a movement discipline, the Alexander Technique in fact takes into consideration the entire person—mind, body, emotions, and imagination. Introduction to the Alexander Technique addresses the student’s self as a whole and is suitable for beginning acting students in any academic setting, including those who take performance classes as an elective. The book also includes more than 150 practical, easy-to-follow exercises that help students reduce tension and improve their alignment, flexibility and poise.
The textbook is supported by a range of online videos demonstrating key exercises described throughout the book.
Design and Digital Interfaces
Authors: Fass John , Revell Tobias , Stopher Benjamin , Verhoeven Eva 
Published: September 2021

Are digital interfaces controlling more than we realise? Can designers take responsibility, and should they?
From domestic appliances like Siri and Amazon Echo, to large scale Facebook manipulation and Google search prediction, digital interfaces are ubiquitous in everyday life and their influences affect how people live, feel and behave. As they grow in complexity and increase integration into our lives we need to address the social, ethical, political and aesthetic responsibilities of those designing and creating the computer systems all around us.
Through discussion with cutting-edge designers and thinkers and with international examples, the authors explain how we need an expanded aesthetic, critical and ethical awareness on the part of designers willing to act with sensitivity and understanding towards the people they design for and with.
This critical take on the process and implications of interface design looks beyond the mechanics of making, and into the techno-political realm of deliberate and unintended consequences.
Clown
Authors: Dieffenbacher Joe 
Published: September 2021

Clown: The Physical Comedian is a detailed and comprehensive workbook for those interested in the art of clowning and physical theatre, including actors, directors, improvisers, stand-up comedians, circus artists, mask performers and devisers of new work.
Offering an extensive and hugely diverse compilation of tried-and-tested exercises and games, the book is for students, teachers and practitioners to aid ensemble-building, character development, devising theatre, physicalising text and vocalising movement, plus creating cabaret acts, clown routines and adding physical play to scripted scenes. It offers advice on subjects such as developing presence onstage; increasing strength, flexibility and physical expression; developing partner and trio relationships; understanding the power of the mask; and working with an audience – in particular, turning a performance into a conversation with the audience and increasing the actor’s ability to connect with a crowd.
The exercises and teachings have been developed in classrooms, workshops and theatres all over the world and the book is packed with insights from the author, who has worked for over 35 years in a wide variety of venues, from intimate performance spaces to large-scale sports stadiums.
Andean Aesthetics and Anticolonial Resistance
Authors: Rivera Omar 
Published: September 2021

Informed by Gloria Anzaldúa’s and José Carlos Mariátegui’s work, as well as by Andean cosmology, Omar Rivera turns to Inka stonework and architecture as an example of a “Cosmological Aesthetics.” He articulates ways of sensing, feeling and remembering that are attuned to an aesthetic of water, earth and light. On this basis, Rivera brings forth a corporeal orientation that can be inhabited by the oppressed, one that withdraws from predominant modern/Western conceptions of the human. By providing an aesthetic analysis of cosmological sensing, Rivera sets the stage for exploring physical dimensions of anti-colonial resistance, and furthers the Latinx and Latin American tradition of anti-colonial and liberatory philosophy. Seeing aesthetic involvements with the cosmos as a source for embodied modes of resistance, Rivera turns to the work of María Lugones and Enrique Dussel in order to make explicit the aesthetic dimensions of their work.
Andean Aesthetics and Anticolonial Resistance creates a new dialogue between art historians, artists, and philosophers working on Latin American thought, phenomenology, and hermeneutics. It weaves together a Latin American philosophy that connects pre-Columbian cosmologies with contemporary thinkers. Rivera's original approach introduces us to the living, evolving and aesthetic alternatives to coloniality of power and of knowledge, overhauling current understandings of decolonial theory and opening the tradition in transformative ways.
Christianity in Brazil
Authors: Fernandes Sílvia 
Published: September 2021

This book offers a novel approach to considering Brazilian Christianity’s interplay with global processes from its inception to the present day. It adopts a multi-scalar approach to Brazilian Christianity, linking local grassroots practices and beliefs with processes at the various spatio-temporal levels. These include regional (rural-urban diversification) and national (secularization, the radical pluralization of the Christian field, and intensified detraditionalization and retraditionalization) and transnational.
Sílvia Fernandes also identifies longue durée dynamics that connect colonial Christianity with current events, including the rise, crisis, and resurgence of Progressive Catholicism, and the election of right-wing populist Jair Bolsonaro with support from a sizable number of Evangelical Protestants and Charismatic Catholics, as well as “traditionalist” Catholics.
This book demonstrates that as Christianity enters its third millennium, it is increasingly shaped by churches and movements based in the “Global South” that have transnational and diasporic reach through the circulation of migrants, religious entrepreneurs, pilgrims, and tourists, as well as by the expert use of electronic media.
The Nazi Dictatorship
Authors: Kershaw Ian 
Published: September 2021

‘Unquestionably the most authoritative, balanced, readable, and meticulously documented introduction to the Third Reich.’ - International History Review
Sir Ian Kershaw is regarded by many as the world’s leading authority on Hitler and the Third Reich. Known for his clear and accessible style when dealing with complex historical issues his work has redefined the way we look at this period modern European history. The Nazi Dictatorship is Kershaw’s landmark study of the Third Reich. It covers the major themes and debates relating to Nazism including the Holocaust, Hitler’s authority and leadership, Nazi Foreign Policy and the aftermath, including issues surrounding Germany’s unification. The Revelations edition includes a new preface from the author.
Theory for Theatre Studies: Sound
Authors: Bennett Susan 
Published: September 2021

Sound provides a lively and engaging overview of relevant critical theory for students and researchers in theatre and performance studies. Addressing sound across history and through progressive developments in relevant technologies, the volume opens up the study of theatrical production and live performance to understand conceptual and pragmatic concerns about the sonic. By way of developed case studies (including Aristophanes’s The Frogs, Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Cocteau’s The Human Voice, and Rimini Protokoll’s Situation Rooms), readers can explore new methodologies and approaches for their own work on sound as a performance component. In an engagement with the burgeoning interdisciplinary field of sound studies, this book samples exciting new thinking relevant to theatre and performance studies.
Part of the Theory for Theatre Studies series which introduces core theoretical concepts that underpin the discipline, Sound provides a balance of essential background information and new scholarship, and is grounded in detailed examples that illuminate and equip readers for their own sonic explorations. Volumes follow a consistent three-part structure: a historical overview of how the term has been understood within the discipline; more recent developments illustrated by substantive case studies; and emergent trends and interdisciplinary connections. Volumes are supported by further online resources including chapter overviews, illustrative material and guiding questions.
Online resources to accompany this book are available at: https://bloomsbury.com/theory-for-theatre-studies-sound-9781474246460/
Theory for Theatre Studies: Memory
Authors: Gluhovic Milija 
Published: September 2021

Why has memory become such an important political tool in response to the challenges of modernity? How can performance be used to probe and recuperate aspects of the past, and what are the ethical and political questions that arise when it does so? And how should the discipline of theatre studies define and deploy the term ‘memory’ theoretically and in practice?
Theory for Theatre Studies: Memory provides a comprehensive introduction to the intersections between contemporary theatre and performance, the field of memory studies and the politics of memory across the globe. Beginning by offering a fresh critical snapshot of the major theoretical foundations for the study of memory today, the author presents vivid theatrical examples drawn from a wide variety of cultural contexts and compellingly illustrates the centrality of memory for the theatre as well as the vital role of theatre in transmitting individual and collective memories.
Featuring in-depth case studies of a range of performance works – including Lola Arias’s Minefield, Yael Ronen’s Common Ground and Robert Lepage’s The Seven Streams of the River Ota – it explores how theatre artists have grappled with issues of memory and the tensions between memory and history. A final section examines the problematics of memory in a global context by exploring the subject of migration/immigration.
Memory is supported by further online resources including section overviews and discussion questions.
Online resources to accompany this book are available at: https://www.bloomsburyonlineresources.com/theory-for-theatre-studies-memory/theory-for-theatre-studies-memory_section-one