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Promptness of health-seeking behaviour among children under five years with fever in Malawi: evidence from the 2017 Malawi Malaria Indicator Survey
Authors: Salim Yusuf M , Cavallaro Francesca L 
Published: June 2023

Background Fever in malaria-endemic countries may be caused by malaria. Malaria infection is a major public health problem with substantial risks for severe morbidity and mortality. It is the leading cause of hospital admissions in children under five years of age worldwide. Despite being managed successfully if diagnosed in a timely way, facilitation of prompt health-seeking behaviour remains a challenge with many children reaching a health facility too late or not at all. We aimed to determine factors associated with prompt health-seeking behaviour among caregivers of children under five with fever in Malawi. Methods We used data from the 2017 Malawi Malaria Indicator Survey (MMIS). Survey records for 2314 children aged under five years were identified of which 794 had fever in the past two weeks. Multivariable logistic regression analysis was carried out to identify factors associated with prompt health-seeking behaviour, defined as seeking health care the same day or day after the onset of fever. Results This study reveals that 40.1% of the children under five years presented with fever in the previous two weeks out of which 30.5% were taken for treatment promptly. Public facilities are the most visited places for under five child treatment (68.1%), followed by private drug sellers/pharmacies (17.4) and private/religious facilities (14.5%). Muslims (adjusted odds ratio, aOR=0.54, 95% confidence interval, CI=0.31-0.94) and children aged four years (aOR=0.56, CI=0.34-0.93) were less likely to be taken for treatment promptly compared to Christians and those less than 1 year, respectively. In contrast, children aged two years (aOR=1.71, CI=1.02-2.86) were more likely to be taken for prompt treatment compared to those less than 1 year. Conclusions Age and religion are factors associated with prompt health-seeking behaviour in Malawi. Health education programs should be intensified to raise awareness among caregivers of the importance of early treatment-seeking regardless of the child’s age. Qualitative studies should be done in Malawi to explore different religious beliefs and their influence on health-seeking behaviours.
THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A ROUGH SET OF PROJECTIVE MODULE
Authors: Dwiyanti Gusti Ayu , Fitriani Fitriani , Faisol Ahmad 
Published: June 2023

In ring and module theory, one concept is the projective module. A module is said to be projective if it is a direct sum of independent modules. (U, R) is an approximation space with non-empty set and equivalence relation If X subset U, we can form upper approximation and lower approximation. X is rough set if upper Apr(X) is not equal to under Apr(X). The rough set theory applies to algebraic structures, including groups, rings, modules, and module homomorphisms. In this study, we will investigate the properties of the rough projective module.
A MULTI-ITEM INVENTORY MODEL WITH VARIOUS DEMAND FUNCTIONS CONSIDERING DETERIORATION AND PARTIAL BACKLOGGING
Authors: Joviani Tania , Lesmono Dharma , Limansyah Taufik 
Published: June 2023

Inventory management is an important thing to be considered in order to run the activities of a company smoothly. By considering deterioration factor, partial backlogging policy and different type of demand functions, we develop a mathematical model for multi-item inventory system. In this paper, three inventory models with constant deterioration, partial backlogging, with various demand functions are developed. We consider inventory-dependent demand, time-dependent demand and exponential demand function in each model. In addition, we also consider the replenishment policies for those three items, viz. individual replenishment, joint replenishment and combination both individual and joint replenishments. Sensitivity analysis of the models is also performed, and we found that the ordering cost greatly affects the total inventory cost when comparing the available replenishment policies.
A Critical Content Analysis of Racial and Cultural Bias In Early Childhood Education Teacher Preparation Textbooks
Authors: Turner Crystasany , Turner Michele 
Published: June 2023

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<p>Through critical race theory (CRT) in education, this critical content analysis examines three textbooks used in an early childhood teacher education program. Findings illustrate how the textbooks propagate notions of white superiority and the normalcy of mainstream white, middle-class values through six distinct, yet intersecting forms of racial and cultural biases—presumption of deficit, selective xenophobia, assumption of privilege, coded language/invisible words, statistical violence, and cultural shaming. In discussion, the authors encourage teacher educators to 1) engage in critical reflection toward unlearning whiteness; 2) offer diverse perspectives in their instructional material; and 3) empower teacher candidates to critique the curricular material provided toward dismantling white supremacy in early childhood teacher preparation.</p>
Sistem Informasi Pelayanan Gereja Anugerah Injil Sepenuh Gideon Kaplingan Surakarta Menggunakan Metode Rapid Application Development
Authors: . Sundari , Sri Rahayu Agustina , Ari Pranata Theofilus Victor Putra 
Published: June 2023

Abstrak - Saat ini informasi bisa didapatkan dengan mudah dan cepat dengan adanya internet dan pemrograman berbasis web. Selama beberapa tahun terakhir, pemanfaatan teknologi informasi untuk komunikasi di Gereja juga berkembang. Gereja merupakan salah satu organisasi yang bergerak dalam pelayanan masyarakat khususnya jemaat gereja. Di dalam gereja terdapat berbagai macam pelayanan kepada jemaat, seperti pelayanan katekisasi, pelayanan baptis, pelayanan pemberkatan pernikahan, maupun pelayanan dalam kegiatan ibadah. Dalam kegiatan administrasi di Gereja Anugerah Injil Sepenuh Gideon Kaplingan Surakarta, sistem pengolahan data masih dilakukan secara konvensional. Pengelolaan data jemaat, kegiatan pelayanan gereja, administrasi gereja seperti pembuatan kartu anggota, surat baptis dan surat pernikahan masih dilakukan dengan mengisi lembar formulir. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah menghasilkan sistem administrasi gereja berbasis web yang dapat membantu pelayanan kepada jemaat Gereja Anugerah Injil Sepenuh Gideon Kaplingan Surakarta. Dalam membuat sistem informasi administrasi menggunakan metode pengembangan RAD (Rapid Application Development) karena dalam tahapannya hanya membutuhkan waktu yang singkat. Sistem yang dibuat dapat mengelola data jemaat untuk menghasilkan surat baptis, surat pernikahan, kartu anggota dan pengelolaan kas gereja serta menghasilkan laporan dan rekapitulasi yan dibutuhkan. Kata Kunci: pelayanan gereja, web, RADAbstrct - Currently, information can be obtained more easy and quickly with the internet and web based programming. Over the past few years, the use of information technology for communication within the Church has also grown. Curch is one of the organizations engaged in community service, especially church congregations. At the church there are various kinds of services to the congregation, such as catechism services, baptism services, marriage blessing services, as well as services in worship activities. In administrative activities at the Gideon Kaplingan Surakarta Full Gospel Anugerah Church, the data processing system is still carried out conventionally. Congregational data management, church service activities, church administration such as making membership cards, baptism certificates and marriage certificates are still being carried out by filling out forms. This research’s purpose is to produce a web-based church administration system that can help serve the congregation of the Sepuh Gideon Kaplingan Surakarta Gospel Church congregation. Developing an administrative information system using the RAD (Rapid Application Development) development method because the stages only require a short time. The system created can manage church data to produce baptism certificates, marriage certificates, membership cards and church cash management also produce reports and recapitulation needed.Kata Kunci: church service, web, RAD
The Effect of Molecular Imprinting on the Loading and Release of Poorly Water Soluble Drug in Hydrogel Gontact Lenses
Authors: AL-SHOHANI Athmar Dhahir Habeeb , Zahraa Yahya Sabri  
Published: June 2023

Therapeutic contact lenses TCLs is an approach used to enhance corneal residence time and reduce frequent instillation, which is a problem with eye drops. The problem with CLs is loading of hydrophobic drugs. In this research the CLs were prepared with molecular imprinting MI to enhance the loading of itraconazole, which is used as antifungal drug for fungal keratitis. CLs using different concentration of hydroxyethyl methacrylate HEMA and methacrylic acid MAA were prepared with and without MI using PEGDA (25 μL) and AIBN (37 mg) as crosslinker and initiator respectively. All the prepared CLs were clear and have good folding endurance. MICLs had significantly higher drug loading compared to conventional CLs. The release of itraconazole from MICLs was sustained compared to conventional CLs. The optimum formula chosen had 8% MAA due to maximum drug loading (1077 μg) compared to non-MI (288 μg) and sustained release for more than 24 h. MI was successfully utilized as a tool to enhance the loading of poorly water soluble drug into a hydrogel CL.
Lipid -Lowering Effect of Polysaccharide (Pectin) of Viscum album L. Plant in Rats
Authors: Pozdnyakov Dmitry , Adzhiakhmetova Similla , Chervonnaya Nadezhda , Oganesyan Stanislav 
Published: June 2023

Disturbances of lipid metabolism is a predisposing factor of cardiovascular diseases, which are accompanied by high mortality rates of the population - ischemic heart disease and ischemic stroke. Plant polysaccharides can be promising remedies for correction of lipid imbalance.
In this regard, the aim of the study was to assess the hypolipidemic activity of polysaccharides isolated from the leaves of mistletoe.
The test-object was the leaves of the white mistletoe (Viscum album L.) growing on the apple (Malus domestica Borkh.), and the pear (Pyrus communis L.). Polysaccharides (water-soluble polysaccharides and pectin substances) were quantitatively determined by the gravimetric method followed by reprecipitation from ethanol. The qualitative composition was evaluated by thin layer chromatography. Functional groups in polysaccharides were determined by titrimetric method. The hypolipidemic activity of the obtained polysaccharides was determined under oral administration at a dose of 100 mg / kg in Wistar rats by the change of the concentration of total cholesterol, triglycerides, LDL and HDL cholesterol. The change of the content of cholesteryl ester transfer protein and Niemann-Pick C1-Like1 protein was also determined.
As a result, it was found that among the polysaccharides in the leaves of mistletoe, pectin substances are predominate, which belong to the group of low-esterified pectins. A significant content of free carboxyl groups in pectins from the leaves of mistletoe was also found. The study of hypolipidemic activity showed that, among the polysaccharides of mistletoe leaves, pectin substances exert a more pronounced effect on lipid metabolism, the use of which reduced the content of triglycerides, total cholesterol and LDL cholesterol with an increase in LDL cholesterol in rats, probably due to a decrease in the activity of cholesteryl ester transfer protein and Niemann-Pick C1-Like1 protein. At the same time, at the level of the trend, mistletoe pectins showed a higher level of activity than analogous compounds obtained from the leaves of host-plants. It should be noted that the severity of the pharmacological effect of mistletoe pectins did not depend on the host-plants.
Thus, based on the obtained results, it can be assumed that pectins obtained from the mistletoe leaves can be a potentially effective and safety hypolipidemic agent.
The Royal Engineers, 1858-1863: Theatrical Entertainment for and by the Enlisted Men
Authors: O’Neill Patrick B. 
Published: June 2023

From the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, part of the British officer’s cultural attainment was his assistance in the provision of theatrical entertainment; however, it was not necessarily part of the attainment of enlisted men, many of whom, during the first part of the nineteenth century, could neither read nor write. For the enlisted men, private theatricals on a large scale began during the 1840s as a conscious attempt to “provide recreation and harmless amusement for the troops . . . so as to wean them away from the low beerhouses where they are encouraged to desert and commit other military offenses” (Bermuda). By 1842 Sir J.E. Alexander advised officers trying to decrease the desertion rate in British North America specifically to encourage theatricals in the barracks: Music has a most humanizing tendency; it would be well to encourage that in a corps: and if theatricals can be conducted with the strict propriety of dialogue they will have a beneficial effect, and amuse the men in the long winter evenings. (475)
Dance and Space at the New World Stage
Authors: Knowles Ric 
Published: June 2023

New World Stage, International Performance. Harbourfront Centre, Toronto. January-June 2007 New World Stage is the latest reincarnation of what used to be the DuMaurier World Stage festival held at Harbourfront every other spring, alternating with the Theatre Festival of the Americas in Montreal. Ever since the withdrawal of tobacco funding, Harbourfront has been struggling to reinvent the festival. Two years ago, as the World Stage Festival: Flying Solo, it economized while maintaining thematic focus by featuring solo work. Now it returns as a kind of serial festival, featuring seventeen shows (including one double-header) spread over six months rather than the usual two or three weeks and linking up with the Harbourfront Festival’s HATCH : Emerging Performance Projects and with Toronto’s new Luminato interdisciplinary arts festival in June.
Number Eleven, in Particular
Authors: Wells Ker , Grimes Varrick , Rucker Elizabeth , McLean Alex , Wells Jane 
Published: June 2023

Ker Wells In 1997 I left Primus, the theatre company I had co-founded eight years before, and with which I began to make theatre (“devising” was a term I had yet to encounter). I moved from Winnipeg, where Primus was based, to Toronto, with plans to continue making my own work, and spent a difficult year wondering if I had walked away from my true calling.
Icaria
Authors: Grimes Varrick , McLean Alex , Rucker Elizabeth , Wells Jane , Wells Ker 
Published: June 2023

Production History The first version of Icaria premiered in the turret room of the Khyber Arts Centre in Halifax from November 23 to 29, 1998. Icaria was created and performed by Varrick Grimes (as Pat), Sondra Haglund (Mother), Alex McLean (Thomas), and Elizabeth Rucker (Daphne), under the direction of Ker Wells.
Views and Reviews
Authors: Houston Andrew 
Published: June 2023

It Is By Performing That We Think Hegel remarks somewhere that “It is by naming that we think”; postmarxism would reply to this that “In naming, we construct a social formation which is eminently re-cognisable; and, in this re-cognisability there lies a fundamental ‘identity principle’ which is inimical to thinking as such: naming is the contradiction of thought”. This principle not only “identifies” the world (as phenomenal Object), but also “identifies” its thinker (as its stable and authoritative subject). Thomas Docherty
Women’s Auto/biographical Theatre: Affirmation, Preservation and Intercultural Communication
Authors: Couture Selena 
Published: June 2023

Auto/biography has gained new respect through theory written by feminist scholars. People have produced autobiographies for many years, but they have generally been considered either instructive, as when great leaders explain how they became who they are, or merely the product of a self-absorbed person. As Sherrill Grace explains in her introduction to Theatre and AutoBiography, “Until fairly recently, the anti-personal bias of modernism dismissed the auto/biographical as self-indulgent, effeminate, and thus as a failure of art itself” (“Theatre” 20). By focusing on ideas of gender oppression as well as on the lives of women, feminist theatre theory and practice have participated in the societal discourse that has encouraged women to write their own work. This increasingly positive atmosphere has had results. There has been a 23% increase in women playwrights being produced in Canada in the twenty years since Fraticelli’s report on the status of women in Canadian theatre (Burton 21). Auto/biographical theatre is a natural outcome of this work. Women feel stronger in their lives; they are aware that their voices matter (and that they will be listened to carefully) and therefore are compelled to present themselves: [T]he autobiographical voice and eye/l are available to minorities and to groups, such as women, who have been excluded from the dominant discourse and whose stories have been dismissed as worthless … [A] desire for agency, voice, visibility, and subjectivity has surfaced, clamouring for attention and seeking ways to create meaningful identity .. . While this predilection for AutoBiography no doubt satisfies a basic voyeuristic impulse (and does well in the marketplace), it also represents a crucial site for inscribing and preserving cultural memory. (Grace, “Theatre” 14-5)
Native Interpretive Arts: A Source of Vision and Change
Authors: Durand Yves Sioui , Perez Fernando Hernandez 
Published: June 2023

Before, those whom we now call the Natives lived openly on this land, this country. Before, from the rising to the setting of the sun, on the banks of the great river, each of their gestures, their songs, their dances, each of their tools of stone and bone, belonged to them in their language, in their vision of the world; that used to be the way of life, their culture.
LA BRUTA INTERFERENCE
Authors: Kurapel Alberto , gaucho le Guanaco 
Published: June 2023

Alberto Kurapel le Guanaco gaucho was born in 1946 in Santiago, Chile, and received a degree in theatre from the University of Chile in 1968. He worked with the University of Chile Theatre Institute and as an actor on radio and television until he emigrated to Canada following the 1973 coup d’état. In 1981 he founded La Compagnie des Arts Exilio in Montreal. Breaking cultural barriers, his works are noted for their striking imagistic performances and their deep commitment to freedom and justice in art and life. His plays have been seen at various festivals in Montreal, Cape Breton, France, Argentina, Peru, Washington, D.C. and, in 1992, in Chile. Four volumes of his theatre work have been published by Editions Humanitas / nouvelle optic.
Celebrating Twenty Years
Authors: Filewod Alan 
Published: June 2023

With these words, Don Rubin launched CTR in 1974, and twenty years later we’re still trouping on. Twenty years is a long run for a theatre magazine in Canada. In fact it’s a record. Hence this celebration issue. These past twenty years have seen vast changes in Canadian theatre; many names have come and gone, careers have started and ended, literally thousands of new plays have played to ever more demanding audiences. The topography of the theatre as a public institution has undergone radical changes since 1974. Through all these years, CTR’s successive editors have worked to be at the wavefront of change.
Making It Happen A Commercial Model for Self-Production
Authors: Dempsey Shawna , Miliari Lorri 
Published: June 2023

Lorri Miliari and I became friends in 1986. I arrived at the first day of rehearsal for Michi’s Blood (a Crow’s Theatre Production), and found her, the stage manager, knee deep in water in Harbord Street’s Ohm Performance Space. Flooding was a new foible to Ohm, but neither of us were particularly surprised, and together, stoically, bailed it out. I had begun my professiona l wo rk in theatre in 1984, stage managing for D.O. Kugler, and acting as summer administrator for Nig htwood Theatre. In both of these capacities, my duties included countless tasks that one would not usually consider part of these job descriptions. This was to be the case during my six years as a worker in alternative and children's theatre. Everybody did everything because we had to. Lorri's career was not dissimilar. At the age of sixteen she learned to run a lighting board one afternoon, so that she could operate it that evening for one of the first annual Rhubarb! festiva ls. Through these do-or-die situations we both acquired a tremendous number of skills, all of which enabled the presentation of live art. Mopping the floor of Ohm was yet another adventure in how to make theatre happen.
Thinking About Boards: Survival Tips for the Theatre
Authors: Bouzek Don 
Published: June 2023

Think about a Christmas Carol For a moment picture Alastair Sim poking his head out the window, looking down at some poor street kid, laughing and telling him to buy a big turkey for Bob Cratchit. Later he will offer Cratchit a pay raise and a doctor for Tiny Tim. Usually I get caught up in the Christmassy feel of all this. I seldom think about the fact that it might be Cratchit’s right to have food on the table, decent medical care for his kids and a living wage. All this without having to ease his employer’Sconscience for years of abuse. It’s the Victorian view of life - social services are the result of the largesse of those with money.
Tokyo Festival of Canadian Drama
Authors: Akihiko Senda , Poulton Cody 
Published: June 2023

For many years now, Canadian theatre has really been an unknown quantity for most Japanese theatre-goers. Economic relations between Canada and Japan have been deep and long-lasting but cultural, especially theatrical, ties between the two countries have been few and far between. When you ask Japanese people about English-language theatre, virtually to the man (or woman) they will think of hit plays and musicals from Broadway and the West End. British and American theatre and musicals are extremely popular on the Japanese stage, both as touring shows and local productions translated into Japanese. This flood of hit shows from England and the United States has left Canadian theatre almost completely in the dark.
Performing Asian Canadian in Vancouver
Authors: Yhap Beverly 
Published: June 2023

The scene opens in the dark and stays that way for what feels uncomfortably long until Voice A says: A: Hey, people! I came for a show. (beat)Come out, come out, wherever you are! B: Sssssh! Can’t you see - it hasn’t started. If you’d be quiet, may be the lights would goon and - A: Was I talking to you? B: You wereventing …
New Theatre North Playwrights Festival
Authors: Nolan Yvette , Shantz Valerie 
Published: June 2023

It is 20 April 1996, the last day of Nakai Theatre’s New Theatre North Playwrights Festival and Miche Genest is writing what will be voted the Best Yukon Play – The Fasting Girl – in the 24 Hour Playwrighting Competition, the last event of the NTN Festival. So wha t? There are 24 Hour Playwrighting Competitions across the country. Ofte n, for the playwright and the sponsoring company, this represents the end of the play; the thea tre rarely has the resources to fur the r develop the fruits of the com pet ition, much less prod uce them. For Yukon playwrights there are few opportu ni ties to develop a scrip t; Whitehorse’s Nakai Theatr e is the only professional theatre north of 60 and the only one with a man date to develop new northern writers and sto ries. As the company that held the first Canadia n 24 Hour Playwrighting Compe tition, Nakai Thea tre also has stockpiled ten years’ worth of scripts with little or no means to develop them.