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Cobalamin Intake in North Indians by Food Frequency Questionnaire (COIN-FFQ) – A Development and Validation Study
Authors: Rawat Swapnil , Kumari Meena , Nagpal Jitender 
Published: June 2024

Background:Vitamin B12deficiency is widely prevalent in all age groups which is of major concern. However, there is no valid Food Frequency Questionnaire (FFQ) for dietary vitamin B12estimation. Hence, we aimed to develop and validate an FFQ for the estimation of dietary intake of Vitamin B12.Materials and Methods:Commonly consumed B12-rich food items were selected from literature and filtered using a market survey. For concordant and discriminant validation, B12and homocysteine levels were estimated. To establish convergent validity, the Cobalamin Intake in North Indians by Food Frequency Questionnaire (COIN-FFQ) and 72-hour dietary recall (72HrDR) were both administered to the same subjects. The COIN-FFQ was readministered after initial administration for test–retest reliability. Internal consistency of the FFQ was then tested using Cronbach’s alpha.Results:We enrolled 115 adults with a mean age and weight of 31.9 ± 8.7 years and 66.0 ± 11.8 kg, respectively. In total, 19.1% were vegetarian. The dietary B12using COIN-FFQ (n= 60; mean = 4.3 ± 1.8 µg/d) was significantly correlated (r= 0.255;P= 0.049) with serum levels (mean = 120.1 ± 62.6 pmol/L) establishing concordant validity. A significant difference was noted between the dietary, serum B12, and homocysteine levels of vegetarians versus nonvegetarians establishing discriminant validity (mean diff 1.4 (0.5–2.4),P= 0.004; Z-statistic −2.182,Pvalue 0.029, and Z-statistic −2.438;Pvalue 0.015), respectively. FFQ was strongly correlated with 72HrDR and test–retest FFQ (n= 27;r= 0.814,P< 0.001 andr= 0.869,P< 0.001, respectively) establishing convergent validity and test–retest reliability. The internal consistency with Cronbach’s alpha was in the acceptable range, 0.631 (n= 115).Conclusion:The newly developed COIN-FFQ is valid and reliable in estimating dietary B12intake.
Prevalence and Associated Factors of Chronic Respiratory Symptoms among Street Sweepers in Bangkok, Thailand: A Cross-sectional Study
Authors: Chotigadachanarong Pleumjai , Sithisarankul Pornchai , Ratanachina Jate 
Published: June 2024

Abstract

Background:
Chronic respiratory diseases are becoming a more prominent cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Street sweepers are commonly found in low- and middle-income countries. This job involves outdoor work that exposes workers to various health hazards and air pollution, particularly affecting respiratory health. There is still limited research focusing specifically on street sweepers. The study aims to examine the prevalence of chronic respiratory symptoms and the associated factors in street sweepers in Bangkok, Thailand.

Materials and Methods:
We undertook a cross-sectional survey between February and April 2023. A multi-stage sampling technique was employed, stratifying the sample according to district locations within Bangkok, Thailand. Data were collected through a questionnaire assessing demographic characteristics, occupational and environmental factors, and respiratory symptoms using a modified version of the Medical Research Council questionnaire. Data analysis included bivariate analysis and multiple logistic regression.

Results:
The response rate was 98.0% (n = 341). The prevalence of chronic respiratory symptoms among street sweepers in Bangkok, Thailand, with at least one respiratory symptom was reported by 33.7% of the participants, specifically cough (22%), phlegm (20.2%), dyspnea (17.6%), and wheeze (7.0%). The average age of the sample group was 43.2 years, with a majority being female (85.9%). Among the participants, 88.3% were non-smokers, while 37.2% reported exposure to secondhand smoke. All participants reported the use of respiratory protective equipment, with face masks used at 78.9%. 7.3% of the participants lived near sources of pollution, and 12.0% were involved in household pollution activities. An average annual air quality index in the workplace area was categorized as ‘good’ at 57.8%. Multiple logistic regression analysis revealed significant associations of chronic respiratory symptoms with the following factors: exposure to secondhand smoke [odds ratio (OR) =2.3, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.3–4.2] and household activities (OR = 3.0, 95% CI 1.3–6.6).

Conclusion:
Exposure to secondhand smoke and indoor air pollutants in household environments are significant factors associated with the symptoms. Raising awareness about secondhand smoke hazards in household and environmental settings and promoting self-care practices related to various activities with potential exposure to indoor air pollution is crucial.
Does Upper Incisors Procline following Rapid Maxillary Expansion Facemask Therapy?
Authors: Abraham Aby , Peter Elbe , Philip Koshi 
Published: June 2024

Background:
The present study is intended to evaluate the changes in upper incisor angulation, skeletal and dental parameters, soft-tissue and airway dimensions following rapid palatal expansion and maxillary protraction.

Materials and Methods:
Twenty class III subjects (mean age 11.3 years) were given bonded rapid maxillary expansion (RME) and facemask (FM) for 6 months. Pre- and posttreatment cephalogram were compared and dental, skeletal, soft-tissue, and airway changes were quantified.

Results:
The mean increase in SNA was 1.85° (P < 0.001) while SNB decreased by 1.85° (P < 0.001). Upper and lower face height increased (UFH 1.1 mm, P < 0.05; LFH 2.92 mm, P < 0.001). Upper lip moved forward (E line U/lip 1.27 mm, P < 0.001; S line U/lip 1.3 mm, P < 0.01). 1-SN decreased by 4.35° and 1-NA decreased by 4.50° with P < 0.01. Overjet improved by 3.07 mm (P < 0.001).

Conclusion:
RME and FM therapy resulted in maxillary forward movement; mandible rotated downward and backward; UFH and LFH increased. The upper lip exhibited forward movement, resulting in a less concave profile. Upper incisor retroclined and there was increase in overjet and no changes in airway dimensions. The upper incisors following RME and FM does not always procline; it is decided by the interaction of four factors – mesial dental movement, rotation of maxillary/occlusal plane, amount of expansion with RME (expansion effect), and reverse twin block if incorporated with FM.
Residents’ Perspective of the WhatsApp and Videoconference-based Educational Programme
Authors: Gupta Mahima , Bakshi Sumitra G. , Rane Ashwini D. , Shrivastava Anjana , Patole Monali R. , Gaikwad Sheetal V. , Salunke Bindiya G. 
Published: June 2024

Background and Aims:
Training novices in anaesthesia include critical care, pain management and operating room procedures. Due to the vast curriculum and limited classroom teaching slots, an asynchronistic teaching programme for postoperative pain management was started. We aimed to understand the residents’ perspective of the WhatsApp and videoconference-based educational programme.

Methods:
All 30 1st-year residents admitted to the Department of Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Pain in the batch 2020 were included in the study. Five consultants introduced each topic and posted questions in the dedicated WhatsApp group, encouraging active participation. Residents were supposed to post their responses within 2-week intervals, fostering a sense of responsibility. The doubt sessions were taken through videoconferencing, providing a platform for interactive learning. At the end of the program, all 30 residents were given a copy of the questionnaire, including quantitative questions (Likert-based) and open-ended questions, to gather their valuable feedback. Two non-faculty members captured the answers to the open-ended questions on blank sheets, ensuring their opinions were heard.

Results:
Almost 97% of the residents agreed that this online teaching programme was helpful during their bedside pain rounds. Fifty per cent felt optimally involved in the programme, whereas 76% of the residents realised that this mode of online teaching on WhatsApp is good for learning anytime and anywhere. However, 84% of the residents still believed that traditional education is superior to online.

Conclusion:
Most of the postgraduate residents realised that WhatsApp-based training helps improve knowledge and bedside patient management; the knowledge source was handy, available at any time they required and without any screen addiction. However, the residents preferred classroom teaching over WhatsApp-based learning as they were more attentive and grasped better.
Body mass index, socioeconomical status, and physical activity among school-going children: A correlational study
Authors: Desai Rajan , Jahangirpuria Zankhana , Patel Priyanshi , Shah Salvi , Diwan Shraddha 
Published: June 2024

Abstract:

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE:
Childhood obesity is currently one of the major concerns in the pediatric field. Socioeconomic status (SES) and physical activity (PA) are key factors in achieving efficient weight status and help them to prevent obesity in the future. Hence, the present study was undertaken to find out the relationship of body mass index (BMI), SES, and PA among school children.

METHODOLOGY:
A correlational study was carried out on randomly selected 120 children studying in the 6th, 7th, and 8th standards from two different schools in Surat city. The underweight, healthy weight, and overweight–obesity status were based on BMI percentiles for age and sex. SES was assessed using the Kuppuswamy scale based on parameters such as the head of the family’s educational status, occupational status, and overall aggregate income of the whole family. PA during the previous 7 days was assessed using the Gujarati version of the Physical Activity Questionnaire for Children (PAQ-C [G]). Spearman’s correlation test was applied to find out the correlation of BMI, SES and PA among all the students.

RESULTS:
Overall, boys have higher PAQ-C scores as compared to girls. Inadequate PA was noted among all children. Results of the present study showed that there was a statistically significant weak positive correlation of SES with BMI (r = 0.34, P < 0.05), a statistically significant moderate positive correlation of SES with PA (r = 0.65, P < 0.05) but a statistically significant moderate negative correlation was found for BMI and PA (r = −0.46, P < 0.05).

CONCLUSION:
The study concludes a significant relationship between BMI, SES and PA among school children.
Educação Ambiental Climática e a Contribuição do Monitoramento Ambiental Voluntário (MAV) em Escolas e Comunidades Litorâneas do Sul do Brasil
Authors: Matarezi José 
Published: June 2024

Resumo: Este artigo apresenta a experiência do “Clube Olho Vivo” de Monitoramento Ambiental Voluntário (MAV) em Escolas e Comunidades litorâneas de Santa Catarina e Paraná e indica seu potencial para a Educação Ambiental Climática e como essa prática pode contribuir para estratégias eficazes de prevenção, mitigação e adaptação no enfrentamento das mudanças climáticas. O “Clube Olho Vivo” de MAV em Escolas e Comunidades é uma abordagem metodológica de Educação Ambiental, criada pelo Laboratório de Educação Ambiental (LEA) da Univali em 1997, aplicada e desenvolvida em seis projetos de pesquisa e extensão entre 1997 a 2017. Ao relatar essas experiências, objetiva-se difundir essa abordagem metodológica, que ainda é pouco conhecida no campo da Educação Ambiental brasileira e evidenciar seu potencial para a Educação Ambiental Climática.
Palavras-chave: Ciência Cidadã. Monitoramento Ambiental Voluntário. Mudanças climáticas. Metodologias Participativas. Zonas Costeiras e Marinhas.
1, 2, and 3 John: An Introduction and Study Guide
Authors: Carter Warren 
Published: June 2024

This insightful study engages the debates and interpretations of the brief and somewhat elusive writings known in the Christian canon as 1, 2, and 3 John.Chapter 1 identifies six unknowns about the origins of the three writings: authors, relationship to John’s Gospel, order, date and location of the writings, and their audiences. Chapters 2 and 3 delineate the debate concerning the relationship of these writings to a purported “Johannine tradition” and “Johannine community” in which a schism is claimed to have occurred. An alternative view recognizes that while there are some connections with John’s Gospel, it is more compelling to see the writings as independent rather than derivative, as internally not externally directed, as pastoral not polemical, and as schism-free.
Chapters 4-7 discuss important aspects of 1 John. Chapter 4 argues that its structure or organization is based on rhetorical and conceptual links among the writing’s small units. Chapter 5 reads 1 John as a pastoral “in-house” writing, rather than a polemical attack on opponents. Chapter 6 identifies the genre of I John as not a letter or sermon but an epideictic speech that seeks to strengthen the identity, commitments, and practices of its believing recipients. Chapter 7 outlines theological understandings that underpin the writing’s pastoral work.
Chapters 8 and 9 focus on 2 and 3 John as writings that provide two different approaches to itinerant teachers. The narrative fiction in 2 John presents the elder’s warning and skepticism about itinerant teachers whereas the author of 3 John, by contrast, advocates reception and welcome for itinerant teachers.
This work discusses aspects of the interpretation of these three New Testament writings. The opening section engages the debate concerning the relationship of these writings to a purported “Johannine tradition” and “Johannine community.” Against this approach, it argues that while there are some common connections, the three writings are best interpreted not as derivative but as largely independent. The second section addresses interpretive questions concerning I John, drawing attention to the importance of its disparate units, arguing that it employs epideictic rhetoric and functions pastorally rather than polemically to secure the identity and lifestyle of its addressees. The third section highlights the different approaches to itinerant teachers advocated by the narrative fictions in II John (skeptical) and III John (welcoming).
Shakespeare in the Theatre: Tina Packer
Authors: Goodland Katharine 
Published: June 2024

This book examines the work of acclaimed director Tina Packer, founder of Shakespeare & Company, whose ground-breaking approach to performing Shakespeare has made her company among the most vibrant and enduring Shakespeare theatres in America.
Tina Packer directed her first Shakespeare play at London Academy for Music and Dramatic Art in 1971. More than 50 years later she continues to direct and teach at Shakespeare & Company, which she founded in Lenox, Massachusetts in 1978. Drawing on new interviews with the original casts and creative teams as well as Tina Packer herself, this book is the first comprehensive analysis of all of her professional Shakespeare productions in their cultural and historical context.
Over a career that spans 5 decades, Packer has directed or acted in virtually all of Shakespeare's plays, along with many other classical and contemporary works. As artistic director she guided her company through times of expansion as well as belt-tightening, driven by her conviction that the purpose of theatre is to heal and that to fulfil that purpose, acting must tell the truth. With in-depth case studies of 12 of her most significant productions, Katharine Goodland offers a clear account of Packer’s work and contribution to Shakespearean theatre in America while illuminating the embedded nature of regional Shakespeare in communities across the United States.
The Empire’s Reformations
Authors: Luebke David M. 
Published: June 2024

The Empire's Reformationsprovides a concise overview of reform movements in 16th-century Germany that gave birth to the modern division of western Christianity into multiple denominations – Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Calvinist, and more. It exposes the origins of modern religious pluralism, both in battle for souls among these emerging camps and in the struggles of political leaders at every level to manage the threat that religious diversity posed to tranquillity and order in a rigidly hierarchical society. As such, it offers a prehistory of religious toleration, not as a positive value – few regarded toleration as inherently good – but as a strategy for keeping the peace.
David M. Luebke considers the reformations of religion in the context of concurrent transformations in the political and judicial structures of the Holy Roman Empire, that sprawling confederation of principalities and city-states that embraced most regions where German was spoken. This allows Luebke to view the religious reforms through the lens of imperial politics, showing how the Empire differed from the Atlantic monarchies, Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, and the Mediterranean. On a different and equally significant level, he examines how ordinary people of all backgrounds experienced the controversy over religion and responded to reforms of doctrine and observance. The inclusion of both the imperial and local perspectives moves the Reformation beyond the familiar story of theological combat and reimagines it as something that had resonance throughout the world, impacting people’s lives in the process.
An Actor’s Guide to Corporate Role Play
Authors: Lowe Syrus 
Published: June 2024

This book provides actors with everything they need to start and build a side-career in corporate role play, utilizing all of the skills they already have in their portfolio.
Detailing what corporate role play is, how to do it, how to get the work and how to get re-employed, this book offers up a roadmap of the field, enabling actors to deliver top-quality role plays and evidenced-based developmental feedback time and time again.
Like the author's masterclasses, the book includes a range of the types of role play briefs an actor may encounter, each one accompanied by top tips on how to execute them successfully.
Herman Melville and Neurodiversity, or Why Hunt Difference with Harpoons?
Authors: Benedí Pilar Martínez , Savarese Ralph James 
Published: June 2024

Focusing on the difference between lower-level perceptual processes in the “neural unconscious” and higher-order thought in the frontal lobes, this open access book shows how Herman Melville sought to reclaim the fluid world of the sensory, with its precategorical and radically egalitarian impulses.By studying this previously underexamined facet of Melville’s work, this book offers an essential corrective to the “pathology paradigm,” which demonizes departures from a neurological norm and feasts on pejorative categorization.
The neurodiversity movement arose precisely as a response to how so-called “mental disorders” have been described, understood, and treated. Unlike standard neuroscientific or psychiatric investigation, Melville’s work doesn’t strive to explain typical functioning through the negative and, in the process, to shore up a regime of normalcy. To the contrary, it exploits the lack of congealed diagnoses in the 19th Century, much more neutrally asking the question: what can an atypical body-mind do?
Steeped in current studies about autism, Alzheimer’s, Capgras and Fregoli syndromes, Mirror-touch synesthesia, phantom limb syndrome, stuttering, and tinnitus, and fully conversant with Melville scholarship,Phenomenological Primitivesdemonstrates what the humanities can contribute to the sciences and what the sciences can contribute to the humanities.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded in part byGrinnell College.
Biopolitics as a System of Thought
Authors: Richards Serene 
Published: June 2024

Our contemporary mode of life is characterised by what Serene Richards inBiopolitics as a System of Thoughtcalls: Smart Being.Smart Being believes in the solutions of techno-capital where living is always at stake and directed to survival. Armed with this concept, this book examines how we arrived at this mode of being and asks how it could be that, while the material conditions of our lives have increasingly worsened, our capacities for effective political action, understood as the capacity for transforming our existing social relations, appear to be diminishing.
Drawing from jurists and philosophers such as Pierre Legendre, Yan Thomas, Giorgio Agamben, Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze, Richards argues that biopolitics intervenes at the most minute level of our everyday lives. She argues that there are conceptual truths presupposed in the mode of biopolitics’ functioning, for instance that life can be assigned a value for the purpose of intervention, abandonment, or death, which have implications for our politics. In exciting engagements with political movements such as the post-May 1968Mouvement des travailleurs Arabes(MTA), Richards shows how demands to transform our system of social relations are undermined by institutional models that proffer to offer rights protection while simultaneously annihilating the living altogether. Through a reappraisal of law, governance and capital, Richards seeks to reconceptualise our collectivity of thought, arguing for a politics of destitution that could form the basis of a communism to come.
Freudians and Schadenfreudians
Authors: Berman Jeffrey 
Published: June 2024

Sigmund Freud can be a polarizing figure, beloved by many and despised by some. Focusing on eight key writers and scholars who either passionately loved or gleefully loathed Freud, this book represents Freud’s wide legacy, the reach of his ideas, their controversies, and their ability still to provoke, inspire, confound, outrage, and compel.
The book begins by focusing on four highly prolific authors whose admiration for Freud is boundless: Lionel Trilling, Harold Bloom, Kurt R. Eissler, and Peter Gay. Berman then explores four more writers whose aim was not simply to debunk Freud and destroy his monstrous creation but to cast both into hell: D. H. Lawrence, Vladimir Nabokov, Thomas Szasz, and Frederick Crews. Each chapter discusses the author’s involvement with Freud, exploring the continuities and discontinuities of his or her writings, as well as offering snapshots of the writers, suggesting how their personal and professional lives were inextricably related.
Berman draws out some surprising commonalities between the Freudolaters and Schadenfreudians, going on to discuss the current state of psychoanalysis and the “psychoanalytic credos” by which contemporary analysts live.
Corporate Life in the Digital Music Industry
Authors: Bennett Toby 
Published: June 2024

Drawing on a deep and long-term first-hand engagement with major labels in the early years of the 21st century, this book sheds new light ‘behind the scenes’, at a time of drastic and far-reaching transformation. Refreshingly, it centres not on artists and the most powerful decision-makers but on everyday experiences of work and back-office corporate employees.
Doing so reveals the internal activities and conflicts that, while hidden from public view, enable processes of change: from paperwork, data systems, managerial pressures and redundancies to graduate training schemes, departmental politics and shared playlists, providing a new route into understanding the broader cultures and infrastructures of the global recording industry. This oft-forgotten office work tells a different story of contemporary digital music , one more sensitive to the complex intersections that texture the conduct of work and organizational life.