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The Exotic in Nineteenth-Century French Opera, Part 2: Plots, Characters, and Musical Devices
Authors: Locke Ralph P. 
Published: March 2022

Nineteenth-century French opera is renowned for its obsession with “the exotic”—that is, with lands and peoples either located far away from “us” Western Europeans or understood as being very different from us. One example: hyper-passionate Spaniards and “Gypsies” in Bizet’s Carmen. Most discussions of the role that the exotic plays in nineteenth-century French opera focus on a few standard-repertory works (mainly serious in nature), rather than looking at a wider range of significant works performed at the time in various theaters, e.g., the Opéra, the Opéra-Comique, and Offenbach’s Bouffes-Parisiens.
The present article attempts to survey the repertory broadly. Part 1 examines various “different” (or Other) lands and peoples frequently represented on stage in French operas. Part 2 discusses typical plots and character types found in these operas (sometimes regardless of the particular exotic land that was chosen) and concludes by exploring the musical means that were often employed to impel the drama and to convey the specific qualities of the people or ethnic group being represented (as a community—through chorus and authority figures—and through the feelings and actions of individual characters). These musical means could include special or unusual traits: either all-purpose style markers of the exotic generally (oddities, one might say) or more specific style markers associated with an identifiable people or region (e.g., tunes, rhythms, and other devices understood as signaling one particular region). But the musical means could also include any of the rich fund of devices that opera composers normally used when creating drama and defining character: melodic, harmonic, structural, and so on. This last point is often neglected or misunderstood in discussions of “the exotic in music,” which tend instead to focus primarily on elements that indisputably “point to” (as if semiotically) the specific land or people that the work is seeking to evoke or represent.
In both Parts 1 and 2, instances are chosen from works that were often quite successfully performed at the time in French-speaking regions and that, even if little known today, can at least be consulted through recordings or videos. The works come from the standard recognized operatic genres: e.g., five-act grands opéras, three-act opéras-comiques, and short works in bouffe style. Composers whose works are mentioned, or discussed in some detail, include (among others) Adam, Auber, Berlioz, Bizet, Chabrier, Clapisson, Félicien David, Delibes, Flotow, Gomis, Gounod, Halévy, Messager, Meyerbeer, Hippolyte Monpou, Offenbach, Ernest Reyer, Saint-Saëns, Ambroise Thomas, and Verdi (Les vêpres siciliennes, Don Carlos).
Examining certain lesser-known works reveals merits that have gone relatively unheralded. As for the better-known works, approaching them in this wide-angled way grants us a richer appreciation of their strengths and their often-enlivening internal contradictions.
Prepuberal insulin secretory indices are long-term predictors of short adult stature in cystic fibrosis
Authors: Battezzati Alberto , Foppiani Andrea , Alicandro Gianfranco , Bisogno Arianna , Biffi Arianna , Bedogni Giorgio , Bertoli Simona , De Carlo Giulia , Nazzari Erica , Colombo Carla 
Published: March 2022

Objective
Diabetes is a frequent comorbidity in cystic fibrosis (CF), related to multiple unfavorable outcomes. During the progression of β-cell dysfunction to diabetes, insulin deficiency could possibly reduce the anabolic support to grow even in the absence of significant glycemic derangements. To test this hypothesis, we evaluated whether prepuberal insulin secretory indices are independent predictors of adult height.

Design
Observational cohort study.

Research design and methods
A longitudinal analysis of 66 CF patients (33 females) from an ongoing cohort received at prepuberal age (median age of 12 years) modified 3-h oral glucose tolerance tests with 30-min insulin and C-peptide sampling, modeling of insulin secretory and sensitivity parameters, anthropometric evaluation. The latter was repeated when adults after a median follow-up of 9 years.

Results
In alternative models, we found a positive association with either basal insulin secretion (mean 0.22, 95% CI 0.01, 0.44 z-scores) or prepuberal β-cell glucose sensitivity (mean 0.23, 95% CI 0.00, 0.46 z-scores) and adult height, while total insulin secretion was negatively related to adult height (mean −0.36, 95% CI −0.57, −0.15 z-scores or mean −0.42, 95% CI −0.69, −0.16 z-scores, respectively). The high total insulin secretion of low adult height patients was mainly due to late (>60 min) secretion and was associated with a worse glucose response during OGTT.

Conclusions
Abnormal insulin secretion associated with high glucose response during OGTT predicts a decrease in adult height z-score. Our results suggest that insulin secretory defects in CF affect growth prior to the development of fasting hyperglycemia.
Síndrome de agotamiento en profesionales de la salud posterior al primer año de pandemia por COVID-19
Authors: Madero Zambrano Kendy Paola , Ayala Jiménez Diana Paola , Alvis Estrada Luis , Bohórquez Moreno Cristina , Sanabria Artunduaga Magda Esperanza , Salas Taborda Hillary 
Published: March 2022

Objetivo: Determinar el nivel de agotamiento profesional en personal sanitario, posterior al primer año de pandemia por Covid-19
Materiales y Métodos: Estudio observacional, descriptivo, transversal, con muestra de 355 trabajadores de IPS de la ciudad de Cartagena. Se empleó un cuestionario de dos secciones: Aspectos sociodemográficos y laborales (16 ítems) y Maslach Burnout Inventory que determina el síndrome de Burnout a través de las dimensiones de agotamiento emocional, despersonalización y baja realización personal (22 ítems). Se utilizó un análisis descriptivo mediante frecuencias absolutas y porcentajes. El principio ético estuvo regido por la resolución 8430 de 1993 y el Código de Helsinki.
Resultados: Predominó el sexo femenino 78,6%, con formación de pregrado 69,9% y más de 10 años de experiencia laboral 25,6%, laboran en IPS de nivel terciario 41,4%, distribuidos en las áreas de urgencias 22,3%, consulta externa 18%, UCI 15,2%, hospitalización 11% y cirugía 5,9%; en contacto con pacientes positivos para SARS-CoV-2 74,6% y que han padecido COVID-19 11,8%. La dimensión de agotamiento obtuvo un puntaje leve 55,2%, igual la despersonalización con 51,5%, mientras que la realización personal fue severa 62,5%. El Burnout global fue severo 62,5%, moderado 35.5% y leve 5%.
Conclusión: Fue posible determinar que durante la pandemia de COVID-19 el nivel de agotamiento laboral de un grupo de profesionales sanitario fue severo, afectando la salud de los profesionales y su desempeño frente a la atención prestada, lo que sugiere la realización de intervenciones para promover, restaurar y mantener la salud física y mental de los trabajadores de la salud en tiempos de pandemia.
Prácticas letradas en la catequesis de confirmación de una iglesia católica
Authors: Almeida Goshi Claudia Kazuko 
Published: March 2022

En este trabajo se emplea un enfoque etnográfico para poder describir y explicar los usos, por parte de un grupo de confirmación de una iglesia católica, respecto a un texto específico: la Biblia. Por tal motivo, a diferencia de la propuesta de la «gran división», desarrollada por Jack Goody, Erick Havelock y Walter Ong, donde se manifiesta una clara dicotomía entre la literacidad y el contexto social; en este trabajo se utilizan herramientas metodológicas propias de los Nuevos Estudios de Literacidad para poder enmarcar los usos de lo letrado en contextos sociales específicos donde éstos adquieren sentido por medio de los valores que subyacen en las prácticas letradas de los individuos.
Byzantine Patristics in the Polemic of the initial Period of the Split of the Russian Church
Authors: Beliankin Yuriy S. 
Published: March 2022

The Church schism of the mid- and second half of the XVII century was associated with a number of acute issues and problems of a historical, liturgical and theological nature, which were subjected to detailed research and gave rise to extensive polemics, which were not outlived for centuries. The patristic heritage, mainly of Byzantine church authors, played a key role in the “ideological” struggle between the defenders of “ancient piety” and their irreconcilable opponents from the official Church. With the beginning of the schism the names of one of the greatest representatives of Antiochian theology, Sts. Theodoret, Bishop of Cyrus, and Meletius of Antioch, also John Chrysostom, Simeon of Thessalonica and others thoroughly entered the manuscript and old-printed book tradition, associated with the Church split. The “Skrizhal” compendium, initiated for compilation and publication by Patriarch Nikon, was intended to be a kind of summary of information about the ecclesiastical practice of the Eastern Church with interpretations as well as a source of correction of various church “disorders”. During the development of the controversy many topics came under such close attention for the first time in Russian church history. The issues of the “visible image” of God, of the time of the coming of the Kingdom of Christ and one of the most controversial ones throughout the second half of the XVII century, and not only within the church schism — the topic of the transubstantiation of the consecrated elements and etc. Patristic heritage and the art of its interpretation became the main “tool” in unprecedented disputes, when both parties of the conflict — Archpriest Avvakum, Simeon Polotsky, Priest Lazar, Nikita Suzdalets and others, were in search of some universal and authoritative sources to prove their right.
On the veneration of “avvakums” in Pustozerskaya volost
Authors: Menshakova Elena G. 
Published: March 2022

The publication on concrete facts reveals the tradition of veneration of the ideologists of the early Old Believers — Archpriest Avvakum “with goods” among the local citiazens officially belonged to the Orthodox Chuch (Synodical period) at the place of their execution in the Arctic Pustozersk and its surroundings (now the territory of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug) from the end of the 17th century to the first third of the 20th century.
Old Believers’ icons “Image of the Catholic and Apostolic Church”
Authors: Guvakova Elena V. 
Published: March 2022

The article discusses 19th century icons “The Image of the Church” known as picturing “a high iconostasis crowned by the Crucifixion with Passion icon row”. These icons are known in Russia since the last quarter of the 18th century. This special type of icons was in demand by popovtsy (accepting priesthood) Old Believers and according to contemporaries’ witnesses sacraments used to be performed before them. The article shows that, despite the authoritative protograph (the Assumption Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin iconostasis), in these icons a number of interesting features have been preserved.
Subscription copper-cast plastic from the collection of the Museum of Russian Icon. New discoveries
Authors: Zotova Elena Ya. 
Published: March 2022

At the exhibition dedicated to the history and culture of the Old Believers in the Museum of Russian Icon, a number of objects of copper artistic casting expanding our understanding of the development of this type of applied art were presented. During the pre-exhibition research three signed and dated objects were identified as a part of the complex of Moscow Old Believers plastics. Among them one can find a rare triptych “Deesis, with selected saints” of 1798/1799. The date (from the creation of the world) was engraved on the lower end.The image of the “Mother of God and Child” (“Kazansksya”) 1809/1810 from the museum collection belongs to the same group of dated monuments. These two items are the works created by master Mikhail Gupkin. His career started in Moscow at the end of the 18th century and then continued in Kaluga. Two signed and dated items from the collection of the Museum of Russian Icon appear to be a valuable addition to the complex of copper-cast plastic made by the master in his Kaluga period.The Moscow group of subscription copper casting is supplemented with an icon made after the model of master Ignat Timofeev. This image of the “Mother of God and Child” (“Kazanskaya”) is distinguished by the inscription on the upper smooth frame of the centerpiece: “S IK KA IG TI”. These first letters of five words can be deciphered as followed: “Siya Ikona Kazanskaya IGnata Timofeeva” (“This Kasanskaya icon made by Ignat Timoeev”). Later the works of this master, who carried out orders from the Preobrazhenskaya Old Believers community became the basis of Moscow copper workshops’ range of products.
Teste de reconhecimento de palavras e pseudopalavras: validades de conteúdo e externa
Authors: Pinheiro Ângela Maria Vieira , Vilhena Douglas de Araújo 
Published: March 2022

Resumo: O estudo objetiva prover o referencial teórico e as fontes de evidências psicométricas de validade de conteúdo e validade externa para o Teste de Reconhecimento de Palavras (TRP) e o Teste de Reconhecimento de Pseudopalavras (TRPp). Participaram 598 alunos, 52% do sexo masculino, do 2º ao 5º ano do Ensino Fundamental, de 7 a 11 anos, estratificados em 102 salas de aula de oito escolas estaduais. O TRP foi gerado a partir de um banco palavras, analisado via Teoria de Resposta ao Item que, por sua vez, considerou a Acurácia e o Tempo de Reação, com índices de discriminação médio a alto e três níveis de dificuldade (baixa, média e alta). As palavras foram equilibradas com as variáveis psicolinguísticas de: frequência de ocorrência (Alta vs. Baixa), regularidade grafema–fonema (Semi-regulares vs. Irregulares) e extensão (Curto vs. Longo). As pseudopalavras possuem a mesma estrutura ortográfica e número de letras da palavra de referência. Os escores de ambos os instrumentos são dados em Acurácia (porcentagens de palavras lidas corretamente) e Taxa de Acurácia (número de palavras lidas corretamente por minuto). A validade de conteúdo foi fortalecida com as transcrições fonêmicas dos estímulos e com os efeitos de lexicalidade (Palavras vs. Pseudopalavras), frequência, regularidade e extensão significantes. A validade externa convergente, discriminante e de critério foi verificada. Concluiu-se que o TRP e o TRPp demonstraram evidências psicométricas de validade de conteúdo e validade externa satisfatórias.

Palavras-chave: Avaliação educacional; Deficiências da aprendizagem; Dislexia; Estudo de validação; Psicometria.
Obituary - David Zurab Gotsiridze
Authors: Scliar-Cabral Leonor 
Published: March 2022

With great sadness, we received the news that on January 14, 2022, the President of the 11th ISAPL International Congress, held in Tbilisi, Georgia, on June 27-30, 2016, Prof. David Gotsiridze, passed away. We will never forget the generosity with which he welcomed the participants, his constant presence from our arrival in Tbilisi until we left Georgia.
Graduated from Tbilisi State University (TSU) at the Faculty of Philology in 1974, Prof. Gotsiridze has worked there since 1978 and he obtained the title of Doctor of Philology in 1987, becoming the Head of the Institute of Slavic Studies (1987-2006), belonging to the Faculty of Humanities, at the Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. The position of Professor was obtained in 1989. From 2006-09, he worked at Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University.
Prof. Gotsiridze has been also ISAPL President (2013-2016), ellected by the General Assembly, during the 10th ISAPL International Congress, held in Moscow: Until the end of his fruitful days, he contributed decisively to the participation in activities promoted by ISAPL, such as when he organized the Round Table "Psycholinguistic Aspects of Communicational Ethno Style in Art Communication" for the ONLINE ISAPL 12th International Congress.
For the monograph "Essays on the History of Russian Grammatical Thought" (co-author, Prof. G. Khukhuni), Prof. Gotsiridze was awarded the Leningrad State University Science Prize (1984). He also received awards on the history of the Russian and Western European period (Tbilisi, 1986); Principles of Contrasting Research of Phrase Texts (in Der Text und seine Struktur [Text and its Structure], Jena, 1990); Revival and Reformation in the history of translation and translational thoughts, Tbilisi, 1994; Russian Linguistic Thought for the First Third Century, Tbilisi, 2000.
ISAPL pays tribute to the unforgettable image of Prof. David Gotsiridze.
Support Vector Regression for Developing Ground-Motion Models for Arias Intensity, Cumulative Absolute Velocity, and Significant Duration for the Kanto Region, Japan
Authors: Hu Jinjun , Jin Chaoyue , Zhang Hui , Hu Lei , Wang Zhongwei 
Published: March 2022

Abstract
The Kanto region is an earthquake disaster-prone area where it is necessary to conduct regional seismic hazard analysis. Ground-motion models (GMMs) of Arias intensity, cumulative absolute velocity, and significant duration are developed by support vector regression (SVR) for the Kanto region, Japan. In contrast to traditional regression programs used in previous models, which are usually expressed as a mathematical function with a minimum observed training error as constraints, the SVR algorithm has one major feature: it minimizes the generalized error bound to improve robustness. In the database for this study, the regional ground-motion database contains 15,960 ground-motion records of 130 earthquake events from 2000 to 2020 with the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) with a magnitude MJMA 5.0–8.0 and a rupture distance less than 200 km. In developing SVR GMMs, the moment magnitude (Mw), rupture distance (Rrup), and shear-wave velocity averaged in the top 30 m of soil (VS30) were adopted to characterize the source, path, and site conditions. To verify the rationality and effectiveness of the SVR GMMs, the performance indices (e.g., correlation coefficients and slope coefficients) and residuals are analyzed. The residuals of the SVR GMMs have no significant deviation in magnitude, rupture distance, or VS30. The standard deviations of model residuals are calculated using the regional ground-motion database, and the standard deviations of SVR GMMs are less than those of previous models developed based on a Japanese or global database. Furthermore, the SVR GMMs are also compared with observed data and the previous GMMs. Data-driven SVR method constrains statistical theory and probability theory to develop GMMs, which can eliminate the problem that the specific form of the previous models may affect the prediction performance and capture the regional attenuation characteristics effectively.
A prospective study of amblyopia and its risk factors in selected school going children of Bhopal region
Authors: Kubrey Suraj Singh , Bamhane Preeti , Singh Priti , Kumar Kavita , Morsokole Sheetal , Raichandani Divya , Tekam Dev Kumar 
Published: March 2022

In vision 2020, amblyopia is a major preventable and treatable cause of low vision in paediatric age group. If not treated at appropriate time, paediatric amblyopia can result into monocular and binocular low vision with associated deterioration in Quality of Life indices in adulthood. This should be the hallmark of the blindness control programme in India. So this study was carried out to assess the magnitude of amblyopia and its associated risk factors in school going children and to correct the amblyopia by whatever treatment modality possible depending upon the type of amblyopia and to follow up the patient for any improvement in it. This was a prospective, observational study on 1200 school going children between 5-16 years of age. All the children were subjected to visual acuity examination. Those children with refractive error were further screened at Hospital. : Out of 1200 cases, 30 cases had amblyopia. Prevalence of amblyopia was 2.5%. Anisometropia was the most predominant risk factor associated with amblyopia (53.33%). Anisometropic amblyopia (53.33%) was most common. Amblyopia was more common in children with lower socio-economic background (40%). Maximum patients had unilateral (80%) and moderate amblyopia (46.7%). Association between duration of occlusion therapy and visual improvement in children with amblyopia was statistically insignificant (p=0.19). Amblyopia is one of the major hidden visual problem in the society which can be prevented by early identification and proper management in appropriate time. Early diagnosis and treatment can prevent and minimize risk of permanent deficit of vision in amblyopia if detected earlier especially before 10 years of age. Screening programs in school going children can detect amblyogenic factors earlier to prevent major permanent deficit in vision by amblyopia so screening of children should be done through school surveys, awareness should be spread through various campaigns among the teachers and parents of the children about amblyopia and its adverse consequences not only on visual impairment part but also functional, psychological, social, economic impact.
An ophthalmologist’s perspective on post COVID mucormycosis
Authors: Tawar Arti , Rawat Priti , Bhaisare Vijay , Walia Shweta , Kori Neetu , Gautam Manushree 
Published: March 2022

: Due to the surge of post COVID mucormycosis in India there has been a significant patient load seen in hospitals we have observed that mucor is not the only culprit and there has been other fungi like aspergillus and candida, who have led to increased morbidity and mortality.: To conduct a retrospective analysis on laboratory reports of specimens sent after surgical intervention of patients admitted with mucormycosis and to identify the weightage of different fungal infections in the post COVID era.: It is a hospital based retrospective review of mycology and histopathology reports of post COVID rhino orbital mucormycosis patients referred from ophthalmology, ear nose throat surgery, oral maxillofacial surgery, neurosurgery department of mahatma gandhi memorial medical college, Indore, Madhya Pradesh from 1 June to 7 July 2021. : Out of 240 samples sent for histopathology examination, 1.6% samples showed mucormycosis with secondary aspergillosis while 98.33% samples showed primarily mucormycosis likewise 270 KOH mount reported around 8.51% mucormycosis with secondary aspergillosis, 4.81% reported primary aspergillosis, 72.15% reported primarily mucormycoses.: We acknowledge that aspergillus and candida has contributed significantly in post covid mycoses and that mucor is not the only culprit.