bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Effects of bisphenol A and bisphenol F on porcine uterus contractility
Authors: Zygmuntowicz Aleksandra , Markiewicz Włodzimierz , Grabowski Tomasz , Jaroszewski Jerzy 
Published: July 2022

Abstract

Introduction
Bisphenols, as endocrine disruptors, may cause a wide range of health problems in humans, but so far, not all of them have been confirmed in animals, including pigs. Since animals are also exposed to bisphenols, we hypothesised that these substances may have an effect on uterine contractility in pigs. Therefore, the aim of the study was to investigate the effect of the most-used bisphenol, bisphenol A (BPA), and a selected analogue, bisphenol F (BPF), on the contractile activity of the pig uterus.

Material and Methods
The investigation utilised smooth muscles from immature pigs (n = 6), cyclic pigs on days 12–14 of the oestrous cycle (n = 6) or early pregnant pigs on days 12–16 of pregnancy (n = 6). Strips of the myometrium were exposed to BPA and BPF at concentrations of 10−13–10−1 M. Smooth muscle contractility was determined with equipment for measuring isometric contractions.

Results
BPA caused a significant decrease in contraction amplitude, and frequency and in myometrial tension in all groups examined. BPF caused a decrease in the amplitude and frequency of contractions in all groups and in myometrial tension in the early pregnant group.

Conclusion
The obtained results indicate that both BPA and BPF relaxed the porcine myometrium, but these changes, especially in the amplitude and frequency of contractions, were more evident after BPF treatment. The extent of relaxation is dependent on the physiological status of the animals.
Europe's cultural diversity as a problem for European integration
Authors: Jordan Peter 
Published: July 2022

Abstract
European integration is obviously impeded by the national and nation-state idea that is still vigorous and motivates European Union (EU) member states’ refusals to cede powers to the EU or subnational levels. Recent events like the global economic crisis, the Euro crisis, the migration crisis and the coronavirus pandemic have, however, demonstrated that it is not just the national idea and the nation state that appear to seriously hinder further integration, but that fundamental differences in cultural attitudes in different parts of Europe are also responsible. They can be traced back to earlier periods of history and a Europe that consisted of parts with very divergent economic, social and political attitudes. These disparities are difficult to equalize. The article highlights Europe's major cultural differentiation processes in history, hints at their current traces in economic, social and political attitudes and relates those attitudes to problems in European integration.
Fabrication and amplified spontaneous emission behavior of FAPbBr3 perovskite quantum dots in solid polymer rods
Authors: Naziruddin Khan M. , Almohammedi Abdullah 
Published: July 2022

Abstract
Formamidinium lead tribromide (FAPbBr3) perovskite quantum dot (PQ-Dot) solution was incorporated in a polymer sol, which was used to fabricate solid nanocomposite rods and disks. The solid nanocomposite samples were studied by different characterization techniques. The absorption, emission, and excitation spectra of the PQ-Dot in the solid rods/disks were quite significant as compared to the spectra of the PQ-Dot solution. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) was used to inspect the structural morphology of the PQ-Dot in the solid environment. The PQ-Dot particles were evidently present in the solid matrix and were confirmed by the SEM images and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX) spectra. The size of the PQ-Dots was examined by transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The majority of the particles were about 3–8 nm in size. The spontaneous and stimulated emission profiles of the solid composite rods/disks were studied using pumping energy ranging from 2 μJ to 18 μJ from a high-power picosecond neodymium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet (Nd:YAG) tunable laser system. The observed emission signal was quite significant. The emission peak of the PQ-Dot solution had a slight change when it was included in the solid matrix. Amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) behavior was obtained from the PQ-Dot composite rod. The ASE peaks were quite steady at different levels of excitation energy. ASE was achieved at low threshold energy. The composite rod with ASE behavior indicates that it is a promising composite material that can be used to achieve lasing in the future. The ASE obtained from the composite rods/disks may improve to achieve lasing if a high concentration of PQ-Dot solution is used in the matrix.
U. S. Political Economy on Migrants-Citizens Relations: State-Raids Vs. Church-Sanctuaries (Charity Re-Privatization)
Authors: Sánchez-Bayón Antonio , Sánchez-Barricarte Jesús J. 
Published: July 2022

Abstract
This is a Political Economy study on migrants-citizens relations management in the United States of America, with special attention to the religious factor and the pendulum effect. There is a model switch, from integration policies (open doors and melting pot agenda, with expropriation of charity by Public Sector) to official persecution (state-raids and deportations, with re-privatization of charity), under a high social opportunity cost. Also, there is a split between the State and civil society (including the church), causing civil disobedience and sanctuary network across the country. The paper focuses on the development of the Sanctuary Movement, as a case of popular action against to the power elite policies and their sanctions. There was a revival of this movement during the values crisis or 2008 recession, but at the same time there was a critical division into the movement, with higher tension for the migrants.
A Sign of the Types: A Critical Reflection on the Church-Sect Typology
Authors: Paulissen Jarell 
Published: July 2022

Abstract
Religion comes in many shapes and sizes, and the classification of religious movements may help scholars understand how these groups form, develop and change. One of the most common tools used in the sociology of religion to do so is the church-sect typology, which is rooted in the basic idea that religious movements can be placed along a continuum according to their degree of congruence with mainstream society. This article provides an overview of how this kind of thinking developed, in order to show how the church-sect typology has been widely accepted and built upon, as well as being heavily criticised by other sociologists. The first part consists of a survey of early versions of the typology, contains different methods of classifying religious movements and provides further explanations where necessary, especially where the term ‘cult’ is concerned. The next section is focused on the many criticisms of the church-sect typology as a whole, after which some possible solutions are offered, and it will end with some recommendations in the form of a new theoretical framework.
Ecolinguistic Mode in the Language Policy of Ukraine
Authors: Korolyov Igor , Grytsenko Svitlana 
Published: July 2022

Summary
The national language is not only an important component of the internal policy of the state but also an integral factor in interstate relations. It is one of the elements and indicators of geopolitical transformations. In the sociocultural space of Ukraine, the issue of implementing an effective language policy is relevant in the context of the development of statehood and the implementation of the European integration strategy. The language situation in modern Ukraine is defined by sociolinguists as bilingual because two languages “compete” in communicative, social (demographic), and other aspects on the territory of Ukraine – Ukrainian and Russian. In the implementation of modern state language policy, it is necessary to take into account the specifics of the functioning of the national language in a global multicultural continuum. The latter is being asserted as a result of the rapid development of information technologies, as well as the emergence of common challenges for the world community, in particular those related to the COVID-19 pandemic, when the remote intercultural method of communication became dominant for the first time in the history of humanity. The purpose of this study is to analyze the social ecolinguistic mode of the language policy of Ukraine, largely determining the trends in the dynamics of the language situation, because it makes it possible to record, predict and control changes in the structure and status of the language. The problem of the ecology of the Ukrainian language actualizes the creation in Ukraine of a nationwide structure – the Council under the President of Ukraine on the Ukrainian language as a reliable platform both for scientifically sound resolution of issues of language dynamics (Hrytsenko, 2021) and for putting into practice the results of these developments, reducing the distance between the formation new ideas and their implementation.
The Encyclopaedic Meaning of Erythros in Koine Greek Toponyms. A Cognitive Approach to the Definition of the Ancient Colour Cardinal Points System
Authors: Bonda Moreno 
Published: July 2022

Summary
The cartographic and historiographic traditions interpreting the Greek toponym Erythra Thalassa indicate this expression could designate several water basins in classical historiography, though it is usually rendered univocally as the Red Sea. This research applies cognitive semantics to the history of geography to retrieve the encyclopaedic meaning of the term erythros in relation to its dictionary meaning “red”. Computationally generated lists of frequency from about 50 ancient Greek and Latin oeuvres denote a predominant toponymic use of the term and a fixed collocation in conjunction with thalassa “sea”. Additional statistical data extrapolated from the Septuagint and the Greek New Testament reveal the tendency in the biblical tradition to use exclusively the inflected form erythra in fully fixed collocations with the term thalassa. The paper finds out that the specific shade of red denoted by erythors has been used since the seventh century BCE in a number of other toponyms and ethnonyms to convey the conceptual meaning of “southern”. To comparatively verify this hypothesis, several Greek toponyms incorporating the term leukos – “white” or “western” – are discussed in relation to their relative position in the oikumene. Based on comparative chronologies and diatopic attestations of the phenomenon, the hypothesis that the Turkic colour cardinal points system and the linguistic means to convey it was introduced to Greece during the period of contact with the Scythe people is proposed.
Persepsi Pemustaka Terhadap Sikap Pustakawan pada Layanan Perpustakaan di Dinas Perpustakaan dan Kearsipan Provinsi Kalimantan Selatan
Authors: Mashud Ana Rizka , Dewi Rita Octari 
Published: July 2022

Tujuan penelitian ini untuk mengetahui sikap pustakawan dalam layanan perpustakaan dan persepsi pemustaka terhadap sikap pustakawan dalam layanan di Dinas Perpustakaan dan Kearsipan Provinsi Kalimantan Selatan. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan deskriptif kualitatif. Subjek penelitian adalah tiga orang pemustaka. Sampel diambil dengan teknik purposive sampling. Teknik pengambilan data dilakukan dengan observasi dan wawancara. Sedangkan analisis data menggunakan tahapan reduksi data, penyajian data, dan penarikan kesimpulan. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa pemustaka mempersepsikan pustakawan di Dinas Perpustakaan dan Kearsipan Provinsi Kalimantan Selatan baik dan ramah dalam melayani. Namun, dinilai belum peka atau belum memiliki sikap penuh perhatian kepada pemustaka. Pemustaka terlebih dahulu meminta tolong pustakawan, baru setelah itu pustakawan datang membantu pemustaka. User Perceptions of Librarians' Attitudes on Library Services at the Library and Archives Service of South Kalimantan Province. The purposes of this study were to determine the attitudes of librarians in library services to users and user perceptions of librarians' attitudes in library services at the Library and Archives Service of South Kalimantan Province. This study used a qualitative descriptive approach with the research subject of three users using the purposive sampling technique. The data collection technique was carried out by observation and interviews, while the data analysis used the stages of data reduction, data presentation, and concluding. The results showed that the users perceived the librarians at the South Kalimantan Provincial Library and Archives Service as excellent and friendly quality in serving users but were not sensitive or did not have an attentive attitude to the users there yet. However, the librarians first asked for help from the librarians and then the librarians came to help the users who needed it.
IMPLEMENTASI ETIKA PROFESI AMIL DALAM PENGELOLAAN ZAKAT PADA YAYASAN DANA SOSIAL AL-FALAH (YDSF) SIDOARJO
Authors: Yuliastuti Rika , Cayani Lani Regitha 
Published: July 2022

Yayasan Dana Sosial Al-Falah Sidoarjo adalah sebuah lembaga amil yang berfungsi sebagai pengelola dana social dimana kerja utamanya adalah menyalurkan serta menerima dana yang didapat dari masyarakat. Dalam menjalankan fungsi tersebut telah melakukan beberapa upaya untuk lebih mengoptimalkan dalam mendapatkan informasi serta struktur sosial dan ekonomi masyarakat yang mengajukan dana bantuan pada lembaga. Strategi Implementasi penyaluran dana di Yayasan Dana Sosial Al-Falah Sidoarjo ini memiliki beraneka cara yang dilakukan pihak lembaga sudah efektif, sebagaimana data informasi yang didapat dalam mengolah bagian penyaluran dana bantuan adalah dengan penerima langsung atau bisa perwakilan terpercaya yang telah membantu mengajukan untuk penerimaan dana bantuan. Proses dalam pencairan dana bantuan benar-benar sangat diperhatikan diketahui untuk mendapat persetujuan penerimaan dana harus melawati proses survey tempat serta data yang diberikan. Dikarenakan dalam menghimpun dana zakat yang paling utama yaitu transparasi dan akuntabilitas, selain itu kurang maksimalnya pengumpulan dana zakat dapat disebabkan karena kesadaran diri dari orang-orang yang membayar zakat, kebijakan yang baik mendukung kepercayaan muzakki untuk menyalurkan zakatnya pada Organisasi Pengelola Zakat Yayasan Dana Sosial Al-Falah Sidoarjo.
Aesthetics of Affliction
Authors: Guevara Alberto , Nouvet Elysée 
Published: July 2022

In making Aesthetics of Affliction our theme for this first issue, our goal was to engage immediately with questions that must remain central in a journal dealing with corpo-realities of structural violence, the senses, and the theatricality of power. These questions are: how can we talk to experiences and situations that evade translation and that are mired with legacies of objectification? What are the possibilities, limits, hopes, and risks when addressing non-linear moves of power, the work of violence, and social yet also intensely subjective effects/affects?
Bubblegum Cannonballs
Authors: ATSA  
Published: July 2022

Specially conceived in keeping with the theme and setting of the Havana Biennial (March 27 - April 27 2009), Bubblegum Cannonballs showcases the paradox that is bubblegum, that symbol of dreams and of lightness. Life through “rose-tinted spectacles” here takes the shape of cannonballs, communicating the perverse effect of globalized overconsumption as a weapon of mass integration, one that certainly has the potential to upset Cuban society’s cultural and ecological equilibrium.
With Bubblegum Cannonballs, ATSA explores the collateral repercussions of the rampant consumerism found in wealthy nations. ATSA’s artists create a playful intervention, storming the El Morro / La Cabaña fortress and “attacking” it with bubblegum-pink cannonballs.
Alongside the cannons, installed is a playful pink-gumball machine—empty—from which there emanates a soundtrack comprising sounds from the initial “shock and awe” bombardment of Iraq, accompanied by a text advising all comers to be wary of such a bubblicious dream.
Caution! The whole thing may just blow up in your face...
A word about ATSA: ATSA (Action Terroriste Socialement Acceptable) was founded in 1997 by artists Pierre Allard and Annie Roy. to create so-called urban interventions: installations, performances and realistic stagings bearing witness to the various social and environmental aberrations which preoccupy the two artists. Their works investigate and transform the urban landscape and restore the citizen’s place in the public realm, depicting it as a political space open to discussion and societal debates. ATSA promotes an open, active and responsible vision of artists as citizens contributing to the sustainable development of their society. ATSA is the recipient of the 2008 Prix citoyen de la culture (cultural citizen award) and the 2008 Artist for Peace prize. For more information: http://www.atsa.qc.ca/pages/home.asp
Wishes, Lies, Dreams
Authors: Chutiwongpeti Sarawut 
Published: July 2022

I wish..., I hope..., I’m angry..., I’m afraid..., I’m sad..., I’m happy..., Come with me.....
Wishes, Lies, Dreams (an ongoing three-dimensional mixed media installation) focuses on the mechanisms of perception and dreams, the private world between fantasy and unconsciousness, nature and the extra-ordinary, memory and immediacy: the conditions underlying the system by which mind and spirit operate.
The (in)-visibility of this structure aims to ignite confusion as the viewer perceives the work and the space where it is placed. There is an intimacy here, but the story is unclear, cannot be clarified. Unlocking a mysterious force at the border of the truth and lie, Wishes, Lies, Dreams creates unexpected angles of approach, which in turn forces the viewer to take up a new position in the observation of the surrounding world. What can we learn, see, know, remember, feel between patterns of tranquillity and the disquieting? Entering the landscape of another’s dreams, provoked is an ambiguous relationship between the viewer, the object, its function and its appearance.
Sarawut Chutiwongpeti graduated from the Department of Fine and Applied Arts at Chulalongkorn University in 1996. Winner of several awards, he has applied his artistic and research practice at the Banff Centre for the Arts (Canada), ImaginAsia Project, Smithsonian Institution (The Freer Gallery of Art and The Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, United State of America), ZKM Project, (Institute for Visual Media, Germany), Designskolen (Denmark), Fukuoka Asian Art Museum; Waseda University; Kobe University of Design (Japan), Central European University (Hungary), International Cultural Centre Jeunesses Musicales Croatia Groznjan (Croatia), The Nordland Kunst 0g Filmskole; The Trondheim Electronic Arts Centre; The Kunstakademiet Trondheim (Norway), Luleå Winter Biennial; The Beeoff/Splintermind; The Ricklundgården and The Royal University College of Fine Arts (Sweden); MAAP-Multimedia Art Asia Pacific, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), Designing Your Future, Berlinale Talent Campus 2005, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Germany) and Biennale Bibliotheca Alexandrina 2005, Arts Center, Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Egypt).
For more information visit: http://www.chutiwongpeti.info
RE:FORM: Becoming Visible
Authors: Medaglia Joseph 
Published: July 2022

RE:FORM: Becoming Visible explores the tensions between gay visibility, representation and embodied subjectivity, challenging the assumption that visibility equals liberation and functions transparently.
The overall purpose of this piece is to explore how the invisibility of gay sexuality becomes visible and manifests through the body. In order to do this, I draw from the mythic figure of the monster - a figure that embodies difference and otherness.
In the video, the monstrous body erupts from a green coloured field and constitutes a visual pattern while at the same time the visual pattern constitutes the body. This relationship symbolizes the paradox of visibility, as the visual structure exists only through the display of bodies. In culture, the representation of identities exists through the visibility of identities, yet identities are limited by concrete representations that replicate dominant ideologies.
The visual pattern is intended as a metaphor for structures inherent in representation that attempt to reproduce dominant ideologies. By subjecting the representation of the monster to the visual pattern, I explore the tensions between dominant ideologies and subjects. The growth and collapse of the monstrous body denotes the possibility of resistance to structures in representation.
RE:FORM: Becoming Visible resists the efforts to limit identities and explores the possibilities of open, incomplete subjectivity. New forms are created through resistance. The result is a display of growth, collapse, beauty, desire, sexuality and embodiment.
Joseph Medaglia is a scholar, artist, designer and educator. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Art and a Master of Arts in Communication and Culture. His research examines the relationship between representation, identity and the body, in particular as it relates to gay subjects. His creative work employs methods of experimental video, costume, interactive design and more recently, robotics and physical computing. For more information visit www.jmedaglia.ca
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Authors: Belmore Rebecca 
Published: July 2022

I remember the long hot summer of 1990. Twenty years since Oka. I easily recall images of the Canadian military surrounding the Mohawk nation. This moment in our history affirmed what I have known since childhood. I was born in a colonial space.
I am aware that our land and Aboriginal rights are constantly being eroded. We must continually fight to hang onto what we have left. Using my intellectual and physical abilities I create images that mark our experience, mapping our space in time. This is how I view my role as an artist amongst our people. I imagine this is the way it has always been.
X, responds to Oka in the immediacy of the present space of Price Choppers in Peterborough. They are having a ceremony across the street to rebury a two thousand year old Aboriginal man, found when they created the parking lot. What strikes me about the reburial site is that it is such a generic setting - between a parking lot and a sidewalk on a very busy street - no trees, no meandering sidewalk, no benches, absolutely outside of public spaces created out of civic pride.
The repetitive actions of marking, erasing, marking and erasing large X’s – two Aboriginal women, contemporary individuals, with specific identities are going about our work in current time and space. And yes, across the street, a ritual of return, a reburial of what was disturbed and removed is taking place.
The ancient ones obviously used this site in a very different way. Us –with our vehicles, parking lots, grocery stores, telephones and cars. The sacred fire for the reburial, the spiritual return quietly takes place while contemporary life moves on.
I guess on some level, I am seeing us as them and them as us. How long before Price Chopper and the parking lot become something else?