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International Labor Organizations and Organized Labor in Latin America and the Caribbean
Authors: Alexander Robert J. , Parker Eldon 
Published: October 2023

The first scholarly work to focus exclusively on the roles of pan-regional and worldwide labor organizations in the labor movements across the nations of the Caribbean, Central America, and South America.
With a career that covers over a half century, Robert J. Alexander is perhaps our foremost authority on Latin American history and politics. In International Labor Organizations and Organized Labor in Latin America and the Caribbean: A History, Alexander explores one of the most fascinating and often overlooked aspects of the Latin American labor scene he has so meticulously chronicled: the relationships between labor unions within specific nations, region wide organizations, and organized labor around the world.
Alexander has written many of the cornerstone works on labor movements within the nations of Latin America, and this is his first volume to focus on the impact of international unions on Latin American labor issues. Coverage includes the AFL-offshoot Pan American Federation of Labor and the CIA-backed AIFLD; the role of the Russian Union, Profintern; European-based unions like the anti-Communist/anti-Fascist Postal Telegraph and Telephone International; and intraregional organizations like the Confederacion de Trabajadores de America Latina (CTAL)—the first attempt to form a multinational labor organization exclusively for the region.
Justin Timberlake
Authors: Summers Kimberly Dillon 
Published: October 2023

This revealing biography of pop star Justin Timberlake documents his background, childhood career, achievements, and disappointments.
From his first taste of fame as an 11-year-old contestant on the TV show Star Search to making it big with the boy-band 'N Sync and his subsequent solo career to the notoriety following the 2004 Super Bowl halftime performance "incident" with Janet Jackson, this biography presents an accurate overview of Justin Timberlake's life and impact on popular culture.
Justin Timberlake: A Biography gives students access to unbiased insight into how Timberlake achieved stardom. The narrative tone and manageable length make this book easy to read, while the accurate presentation of the historical context of his life's events makes it engaging and relevant for young readers. This title will appeal to teen readers due to their natural interest in pop icons. In addition, the enviable success of Timberlake's career path can serve as a source of inspiration and hope for young adults.
Land and Spirit in Native America
Authors: Porter Joy 
Published: October 2023

This book accurately depicts Native American approaches to land and spirituality through an interdisciplinary examination of Indian philosophy, history, and literature.
Indian approaches to land and spirituality are neither simple nor monolithic, making them hard to grasp for outsiders. A fuller, more accurate understanding of these concepts enables comprehension of the unique ways land and spirit have interlinked Native American communities across centuries of civilization, and reveals insights about our current pressing environmental concerns and American history.
In Land and Spirit in Native America, author Joy Porter argues that American colonization has been a determining factor in how we perceive Indian spirituality and Indian relationships to nature. Having an appreciation for these traditional values regarding ritual, memory, time, kinship, and the essential reciprocity between all things allows us to rethink aspects of history and culture. This understanding also makes Indian film, philosophy, literature, and art accessible.
Latin America and the Origins of Its Twenty-First Century
Authors: Monteón Michael 
Published: October 2023

Latin American societies were created as pre-industrial colonies, that is, peoples whose cultures and racial makeup were largely determined by having been conquered by Spain or Portugal. In all these societies, a colonial heritage created political and social attitudes that were not conducive to the construction of democratic civil societies. And yet, Latin America has a public life--not merely governments, but citizens who are actively involved in trying to improve the lives and welfare of their populations. Monteon focuses on the relation of people's lifestyles to the evolving pattern of power relations in the region. Much more than a basic description of how people lived, this book melds social history, politics, and economics into one, creating a full picture of Latin American life.
There are two poles or markers in the narrative about people's lives: the cities and the countryside. Cities have usually been the political and cultural centers of life, from the conquest to the present. Monteon concentrates on cities in each chronological period, allowing the narrative to explain the change from a religiously-centered life to the secular customs of today, from an urban form organized about a central plaza and based on walking, to one dominated by the automobile and its traffic. Each chapter relates the connections between the city and its countryside, and explains the realities of rural life. Also discussed are customs, diets, games and sports, courting and marriage, and how people work.
Native Americans in the American Revolution
Authors: Schmidt Ethan A. 
Published: October 2023

This valuable book provides a succinct, readable account of an oft-neglected topic in the historiography of the American Revolution: the role of Native Americans in the Revolution's outbreak, progress, and conclusion.
There has not been an all-encompassing narrative of the Native American experience during the American Revolutionary War period—until now. Native Americans in the American Revolution: How the War Divided, Devastated, and Transformed the Early American Indian World fills that gap in the literature, provides full coverage of the Revolution's effects on Native Americans, and details how Native Americans were critical to the Revolution's outbreak, its progress, and its conclusion.
The work covers the experiences of specific Native American groups such as the Abenaki, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, Delaware, Iroquois, Seminole, and Shawnee peoples with information presented by chronological period and geographic area. The first part of the book examines the effects of the Imperial Crisis of the 1760s and early 1770s on Native peoples in the Northern colonies, Southern colonies, and Ohio Valley respectively. The second section focuses on the effects of the Revolutionary War itself on these three regions during the years of ongoing conflict, and the final section concentrates on the postwar years.
Pentecostalism in America
Authors: Robins R.G. 
Published: October 2023

This book offers a chronological and historical overview the many forms of Pentecostalism within the United States.
Pentecostalism is a poorly understood theological movement, despite its recent growth in popularity as well as social and political importance. More and more Americans are encountering neighbors, friends, coworkers, and even political leaders who are aligned with one of the many varieties of American Pentecostalism. In spite of this proliferation, no complete survey of 2lst-century American Pentecostalism exists.
In Pentecostalism in America, author R. G. Robins offers an accessible survey of Pentecostalism in the United States, providing a clear, nontechnical introduction and making this complex and rapidly changing movement comprehensible to the general reader. A historical approach to the topic is presented, guiding the reader through the theological, social, and liturgical variants within American Pentecostalism and its major branches, organizations, and institutions; the movement's relation to its offspring; as well as how Pentecostal groups compare to parallel movements in contemporary American Christianity.
Frictionlessness
Authors: Kemper Jakko 
Published: October 2023

Frictionlessness provides an examination of the environmentally destructive digital design philosophy of "frictionlessness" and the critical significance of a technological aesthetic of imperfection.
If there is one thing that defines digital consumer technologies today, it is that they are designed to feel frictionless. From smart technologies to cloud computing, from from one-click shopping to the promise of seamless streaming—digital technology is framed to host ever-faster operations while receding increasingly into the background of perception. The environmental costs of this fetishization of frictionlessness are enormous and unevenly distributed; the frictionless experience of the end user tends to be supported by opaque networks of exploited labor and extracted resources that disproportionately impact the Global South. This situation marks an urgent need for alternate, less destructive aesthetic relations to technology. As such, this book examines imperfection, as an aesthetic concept that highlights existential conditions of finitude and fragility, as a particularly powerful counterweight to the dominant digital design philosophy of frictionlessness.
While frictionlessness aims to draw the user’s perception away from the exploitative and destructive conditions of digital production, imperfection forms an aesthetic source of friction that alerts users to the fragile nature of technology and the finite resources on which it relies. These arguments are elaborated through a close reading of three technological objects—a video game that was programmed to expire, an audiovisual performance that laments the fate of disused technology and a collection of music albums that dramatize a techno-cultural logic of relentless consumerism. Together, these case studies underline the value of technological aesthetics of imperfection and point to the need for a renewed ethics of care in relation to technology.
Film, Negation and Freedom
Authors: Kitchen Will 
Published: October 2023

Film, Negation and Freedom: Capitalism and Romantic Critique explores cinema in relation to the critical tradition in modern philosophy and its heritage in Romantic aesthetics.
Synthesising a variety of discursive fields and traditions — including Early German Romanticism, Frankfurt School critical theory and the aesthetic philosophy of Jacques Rancière — Film, Negation and Freedom outlines a radical new approach to film by re-examining the work of Arthur Penn and Lindsay Anderson. A distinction between Light and Dark Romanticism is introduced as a means of interpreting cinema's relationship with capitalism, as well as dualistic concepts such as stillness and motion, passivity and activity, pain and pleasure. Film, Negation and Freedom revitalises our understanding of modern audio-visual media, as well as the aesthetic, philosophical and political conditions of Romantic subjectivity, artistic practice and spectatorship.
The “German Illusion”
Authors: Morel Olivier 
Published: October 2023

Examines Jewish-German “tropes” in Hélène Cixous’s oeuvre and life and their impact on her work as a feminist, poet, and playwright.
Hélène Cixous is a poet, philosopher, and activist known worldwide for her manifesto on Écriture feminine (feminine writing) and for her influential literary texts, plays, and essays. While the themes were rarely present in her earlier writings, Germany and Jewish-German family figures and topics have significantly informed most of Cixous’s late works. Born in Algeria in June 1937, she grew up with a mother who had escaped Germany after the rise of Nazism and a grandmother who fled the racial laws of the Third Reich in 1938. In her writing, Cixous refines the primitive scene of a “German” upbringing in French-occupied colonial, antisemitic Algeria.
Scholar and filmmaker Olivier Morel delves into the signs and influences that “Germany,” “German,” and “Osnabrück” have exerted over Cixous’s work. Featuring an exclusive interview with Hélène Cixous and stills from their travel together to Osnabrück in Morel’s 2018 documentary, Ever, Rêve, Hélène Cixous, Morel’s The “German Illusion” examines the unique literary meditation on the Holocaust sustained throughout her later texts.
Morel helps us to understand an uncannily original oeuvre that embodies the complexities of modernity’s genocidal history in a new way.
Impuestos sobre la Renta y el Patrimonio en las Leyes 21/1993 y 22/1993, de 29 de diciembre
Authors: López Carbajo Juan M. 
Published: October 2023

En las próximas líneas se intenta un análisis pormenorizado de las dos normas con rango de ley que instrumentan la política fiscal para el año 1994, en concreto en lo que se refiere a los Impuestos sobre la Renta y el Patrimonio de las Personas Físicas. Se trata de la Ley 21/1993, de 29 de diciembre (BOE 30 de diciembre) que aprueba los Presupuestos Generales del Estado para 1994 y de la Ley 22/1993, de 29 de diciembre (BOE 31 de diciembre), de Medidas Fiscales, que acompaña para este ejercicio a la de presupuestos.
I. EL CONTEXTO ECONOMICO Y PRESUPUESTARIO
En el propio documento «Presentación del Proyecto de Presupuestos Generales del Estado para 1994», publicado por el Instituto de Estudios Fiscales, aunque el Ministerio de Economía y Hacienda prevé un contexto internacional menos desfavorable para 1994 del existente durante 1993, sobre todo a la vista de los síntomas de recuperación de la economía de Estados Unidos, reconoce la elevada incertidumbre y la falta de coordinación de las actuaciones de política económica europeas para hacer frente a la crisis sin duda todavía existente, lo que puede suponer una dificultad añadida en su superación.
En cuanto a la economía española, no obstante aceptarse un contexto externo más favorable y esperarse una tasa de crecimiento positivo y una suave recuperación de la demanda interna, se reconocen unas previsiones en la tasa de paro del 23,4 por 100, incluso suponiendo moderación salarial y flexibilización del mercado de trabajo, lo que constituye el problema principal y más acuciante de nuestra economía.
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DO CACAU AO CHOCOLATE: UMA ANÁLISE DOS DESAFIOS ENCONTRADOS POR EMPREENDEDORES DO RAMO DA AGROINDÚSTRIA DO CACAU NO SUL DA BAHIA
Authors: Oliveira Bruno , Assis Pablo Roberto de 
Published: October 2023

O Sul da Bahia é amplamente reconhecido como a região líder na produção de cacau no Brasil, contribuindo com cerca de 60% do total produzido no país em 2013, de acordo com o IBGE. A importância do cultivo de cacau para essa região é inegável, estando intrinsecamente ligada à sua história e à dinâmica econômica local. A cacauicultura no Sul da Bahia é praticada em diversos sistemas de cultivo, abrangendo desde plantações novas a antigas, com e sem consorciação, e com diferentes níveis de aplicação de tratos culturais, entre outras variações. No entanto, destaca-se a prática regionalmente conhecida como "cabruca." A Bahia foi reconhecida como a maior região produtora de cacau no Brasil. No entanto, devido à crise que afetou esse sistema agrícola, resultando em uma considerável queda na produção, o Brasil se tornou um importador de cacau, e o principal sistema agrícola de produção no Sul da Bahia entrou em declínio. Nesse contexto, o presente estudo teve como objetivo compreender as estratégias adotadas pelos produtores de cacau diante de um ambiente de incerteza. As conclusões apontam para um ambiente favorável à formação de arranjos produtivos inovadores na lavoura cacaueira. Isso não se deve apenas à determinação de alguns produtores empreendedores que buscam a qualidade como meio de obter vantagens competitivas, mas também ao aumento do diálogo no setor. Embora persistam desafios relacionados ao isolamento social característico da cultura cacaueira no Sul da Bahia, o setor está explorando alternativas sustentáveis por meio do associativismo e da cooperação. O objetivo é criar políticas públicas, estabelecer parcerias e fortalecer as instituições do setor, visando revitalizar a produção de cacau na região.
Mechanisms of closure of central and peripheral retinal tears using PRP plasma
Authors: Shamkin S. S. , Subbotina S. N. , Stepanyants A. B. 
Published: October 2023

Introduction Research into the use of platelet-enriched plasma has been conducted in various fields of medicine over the last decade. In ophthalmology, autologous blood plasma products are widely used for retinal pathologies such as macular rupture, retinal detachment, and inflammatory and degenerative corneal diseases.The aim of the work was to prove on the basis of current data on the pathogenetic mechanisms of platelet-enriched plasma its effectiveness and safety in retinal surgery and to substantiate the possibility of its use in eye injuries.Materials and methods A search of scientific literature and publications in PubMed, CyberLeninka, eLibrary databases and electronic libraries was performed using the search words and phrases: platelet-rich plasma, platelet growth factors, macular rupture, retinal detachment, vitrectomy.Results and discussion The mechanisms of action of PRP plasma in retinal surgery are due to the high concentration of platelets. By participating in hemostasis, these blood cells trigger a cascade of reactions leading to the formation of a fibrin mesh, which, by contracting, pulls the edges of retinal tears together. In addition, the rich composition of platelet alpha granules after degranulation provides the tissue with a pool of growth factors that stimulate and accelerate tissue regeneration. The most studied of these are: PDGF, VEGF, TGF, IGF1, PF4, EGF, bFGF.Conclusion Platelet-enriched plasma preparations and their individual components are promising in the treatment of retinal diseases and are safe because they are autologous. Studies prove their efficacy in the treatment of retinal tears, which can be used to close defects of traumatic etiology.
Dynamics of lipoperoxidation and amino acid spectrum in patients with delirium after intramedullary osteosynthesis with ropivocaine epidural anesthesia
Authors: Nedbailo I. N. , Shatrova Ju. M. , Ulianov A. A. , Shamaeva T. N. 
Published: October 2023

Introduction The pathogenesis of postoperative delirium, its causes, and factors contributing to its development remain a subject of debate. We consider it promising to study the dynamics of lipoperoxidation, cortisol levels and amino acid metabolism in patients with postoperative delirium. Such studies will reveal diagnostic and prognostic markers.The aim was to identify differences in the dynamics of lipoperoxidation, amino acid balance and cortisol levels in patients with and without delirium.Materials and methods A total of 41 patients who underwent surgery for a femoral fracture under epidural anaesthesia were included in the study. All patients underwent a daily test, the Confused Consciousness Assessment Method. If it was positive, delirium was diagnosed; thus, two groups were identified: with postoperative delirium (n = 12) and without delirium (n = 29).Results In the preoperative delirium group, there was a relative lack of glucocorticosteroids as measured by reduced cortisol levels (pU < 0.01) and inhibition of lipid peroxidation as reduced Schiff bases (pU = 0.01). There were no significant differences in amino acid metabolism of the major amino acid pools. The intraoperative period in both groups had similar characteristics and no significant differences. In the postoperative period inhibition of lipoperoxidation in the delirium group changed into its greater activation, which was revealed by increased levels of ketodienes and conjugated trienes in isopropanol phase (pU < 0.01). There was also an increase in the aromatic pool (pU < 0.01) due to an increase in large neutral amino acids (phenialanine, pU = 0.0, tryptophan, pU = 0.02, tyrosine, pU < 0.01) and a decrease in the aliphatic pool (pU < 0.01). Cortisol levels remained significantly lower in the delirium group (pU < 0.01).Discussion The preoperative decrease in the studied indices in the delirium group may indicate initial reductive stress. In the postoperative period, patients with and without delirium differ in their metabolic activity with respect to lipoperoxidation and amino acid metabolism, and cortisol levels remain significantly lower in the delirium group.Conclusion The development of delirium is facilitated by initial reductive stress and a tolerant adaptation strategy.
Forecasting trends in the tuberculosis epidemic situation using a simulation dynamic model
Authors: Cherniaev I. A. , Tsvetkov A. I. , Chugaev Yu. P. , Chernavin P. F. 
Published: October 2023

Introduction Sverdlovsk region still has a high prevalence of HIV infection and tuberculosis, which affects the effectiveness of anti-tuberculosis measures. The new coronavirus infection for a number of years makes it necessary to redistribute the limited health care resources of the subject of the Russian Federation. This determines the need to develop science-based methods for analyzing and forecasting the development of the epidemic process in tuberculosis infection in the region.The aim of the work is to scientifically substantiate the method of forecasting the epidemic situation of tuberculosis on the territory of the subject with a set of municipalities with the construction of mathematical models and application of artificial intelligence.Materials and methods The source material for the study was statistical data obtained in 2007–2012 from state statistical reporting forms: Form No. 8 “Information about diseases with active tuberculosis”, Form No. 33 “Information about tuberculosis patients”, Forms 089u/tub, data from the Federal Register of Tuberculosis Patients, police registers of tuberculosis patients in health care institutions of Sverdlovsk region. Information processing was carried out using MS Excel, complex analytical tables of absolute values and epidemiological coefficients were compiled. Using artificial intelligence technology, a mathematical simulation dynamic model of the tuberculosis epidemic situation at the regional level and in the context of 63 municipalities of the Sverdlovsk region was developed.Results Comparison of the forecast values made in 2017 with the actual values of 2018–2021 revealed a reliable coincidence of the trend of movement of tuberculosis epidemiological indicators in the region, the maximum deviation was no more than 14.8 %.Discussion The proposed dynamic model made it possible to identify, reliably calculate and graphically display trends in the movement of the values of the studied characteristics of the tuberculosis epidemic process, despite the insignificant discrepancy between actual and forecast values.Conclusion The forecast results obtained using the simulation dynamic model can be used in practice for operational resource planning of resources for the implementation of measures to counter the spread of tuberculosis at the regional level.
30 years of Microsurgery in Tomsk: technological trends
Authors: Baytinger V. F. , Selyaninov K. V. , Baytinger A. V. , Kurochkina O. S. , Stepanov M. Yu. , Lepunov V. V. 
Published: October 2023

September 30, 1994 in Tomsk Regional Clinical Hospital (TRCH) was open the Department of Reconstructive and Plastic Microsurgery. In 2002, after two stages of reorganization of the department into the Institute of Microsurgery, its work began to be carried out in 4 directions: medical, scientific, educational, publishing. An analysis of the medical work was carried out in term of the microneurovascular surgery development, from the Department of Reconstructive and Plastic Microsurgery of the TRCH up to the present, in the status of the Institute of Microsurgery (established on 06.02.2002). The results are showen the following main trends in the development of Reconstructive Microsurgery in Tomsk: autotransplantation of tissue on axial vessels, supermicrosurgery, nanomicrosurgery.