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A Vertical Art. On Poetry is a collection of essays in literary criticism by Simon Armitage, Poet Laureate of Great Britain, who based them on a series of his lectures delivered as Oxford Professor of Poetry. The framework of the book is a practice-oriented theory of poetry as a “vertical art” applied to reading a wide range of British and American authors mostly from the mid-20th century up to the present day, but reaching from time to time into the literary past. “Verticality” is a quality of poetic form that is actively engaging reader’s imagination and perception. It implies a demand for inner organization resisting the formlessness of a white page and self-restraining while choosing its own means. The result is a rhythmic pattern, both aural and visual, much unlike the “horizontalness” of extensively growing prose. The rhythmic pattern here is a broad definition covering an interplay between the lucid and the indirect, the sound and the silence, the sign and the gap on various levels. Discussing poetry in the book also involves literary institutions, in particular the contemporary Americanised model of interaction between the poet and the academia through creative writing courses. Apart from the canonical figures of American Renaissance (W. Whitman, E. Dickinson), Armitage’s perspective on American poetry includes E. Bishop, R. Lowell, A.R. Ammons, W.H. Auden, Thom Gunn, Bob Dylan, J. Wright, F. Wright, M. Donaghy, K. Young.

Schulpraktische Studienphasen stellen im Rahmen der Lehrkräfteausbildung ein zentrales Element dar, bei dem der Betreuung durch die begleitenden Lehrkräfte an Praktikumsschulen eine hohe Bedeutung zugeschrieben werden kann. Aufgrund ihrer zentralen Stellung im Rahmen der Einführung von Langzeitpraktika in zahlreichen Bundesländern wurde die Rolle dieser Mentor*innen in den letzten Jahren verstärkt empirisch untersucht. Bis dato lag ein systematischer Gesamtüberblick zu den empirischen Befunden jedoch noch nicht vor. Der Beitrag greift dieses Desiderat auf. Es wird untersucht, welche Befunde zu „Mentor*innen in schulpraktischen Studienphasen“ in empirischen Studien in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland vorliegen und welche Forschungsdesigns und -instrumente genutzt werden. Dazu wurde ein systematisches Review durchgeführt, dasvornehmlich dazu geeignet ist, einen transparenten Überblick über den bestehenden Diskurs zur Thematik zu geben. Aufgrund der zahlreichen Unterschiede zwischen den DACH-Staaten im System der Lehrer*innenbildung und hinsichtlich der Rahmenbedingungen für Mentor*innen beschränkt sich die Auswahl der Studien ausschließlich auf die Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Die in das Review einbezogenen Studien wurden mithilfe einer qualitativen Inhaltsanalyse ausgewertet. Im Ergebnis konnte mittels eines deduktiven und induktiv ergänzten Vorgehens eine Systematisierung der Studienlage zu „Mentor*innen in schulpraktischen Studienphasen“ erarbeitet werden, die auf dem Input-Prozess-Output-Schema nach Scheerens (2017) fußt.

Im Zuge der zunehmenden Durchdringung von Lebenswelten mit digitalen Artefakten veränderte sich das Verhältnis zwischen Menschen und Medien sukzessive und befindet sich weiterhin in einem Transformationsprozess. Virtuelle Lebenswelten sind dabei nicht als Gegenwelten zu begreifen, sondern als unsere Alltagswelten, in denen das Virtuelle bereits ein legitimer Bestandteil geworden ist (vgl. Rieger et al. 2021). Bezogen auf das konkrete Phänomen Ernährungspraktiken haben wir mithilfe eines systematischen Reviews einschlägige Forschungsliteratur gesichtet, um Phänomene zu identifizieren, anhand derer sich dieser Transformationsprozess exemplarisch analysieren lässt. Im Beitrag konzentrieren wir uns auf virtuelle Influencer:innen in sozialen Medien und geben einen Einblick in das Material, bevor wir die Erkenntnisse theoretisch rahmen und einordnen. Abschliessend formulieren wir Implikationen für zukünftige medienpädagogische Forschungsfelder.

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The review focuses on the book by Brian R. Roberts Borderwaters: Amid the Archipelagic States of America (2021) published in Russian translation in 2023. Roberts suggests reconsidering the US culture post-continentally by viewing it as an archipelagic nation. Dispelling the ‘continental dominance’ in American studies, Roberts explores the rich imagery of borderwaters by drawing on fiction (e. g. Mark Twain’s and Zora Neale Hurston’s works) and visual arts (Miguel Covarrubias’s representations of the Caribbean). The reviewer analyzes the role of the ‘archipelagic turn’ in American studies, as well as the specific effects of the critic’s rhetoric strategy.

The review focuses on the collective monograph Dreiser’s Path: A View with a Modern Lens (2023). The scholarly work reevaluates Dreiser's significance as a classic of American literature and offers a contemporary perspective on his legacy through the lens of modern methodologies such as critical race theory, postcolonial theory, gender theory, etc. The attention of prominent researchers in American literature and culture from Russia, the USA, Canada, and the UK is drawn to Dreiser's contradictory and hermetic view of society and its artistic projection. The monograph reevaluates Dreiser's creative legacy, considering both major and well-known works as well as minor forms. The researchers featured in the monograph highlight the reasons why certain laws operate in Dreiser's artistic world, align Dreiser's value system with the social norms prevailing during his time, typologize the components of Dreiser's texts, and theorize them using contemporary methodological tools. They also juxtapose Dreiser's texts with other artifacts of American culture and demonstrate the evolution of Dreiser's perception from the times of the USSR to the present day. The monograph was conceived in 2021 as a special tribute to Theodore Dreiser to mark his 150 anniversary.

The article is a brief guide for critics that are about to write their first review of an opera. With a touch of irony, the author suggests ways of organizing the material, analyzing the director’s concepts, and the musical side of the performance (conductor, orchestra, singers).

This edited volume by Grauer and colleagues marks an update on the state of paleopathology as a field of study. The intent of this handbook is not to assist in the identification of pathological conditions and differential diagnoses, a focus already well represented in numerous other recent publications, including Ortner's Identification of Pathological Conditions in Human Skeletal Remains (Academic Press, 2019) and Paleopathology of Children: Identification of Pathological Conditions in the Human Skeletal Remains of Non-Adults (Elsevier, 2018), but rather seeks to provide broader foundational discussions around paleopathology as a discipline along with theoretical syntheses focused on topics addressed by paleopathological research. This handbook primarily engages with pathological conditions among human populations, though contributions on the fossil record (Chapter 29) and zooarchaeology (Chapter 30) are also represented.

Branko Milanovic (empleado del Banco Mundial) es uno de los mayores expertos en el estudio de las desigualdades a nivel mundial y su última contribución más relevante es el libro que comentamos ahora, y cuya primera edición de 2016 ya ha sido suficientemente reseñada en sus aspectos más positivos (Roca, 2017), por lo que nos ceñiremos aquí a los aspectos más controvertidos del mismo, en particular su alegato e impugnación del pensamiento de Marx, el revolucionario bicentenario. Se trata de un libro que ya ha visto la luz en versiones previas y formatos preliminares, tales como comunicación a congreso (I Congreso Internacional de Estudios del Desarrollo, Santander, 14-16 noviembre 2012), como documento de trabajo (Policy Research Working Paper núm. 6259, 2012, del Banco Mundial) y como un par de artículos publicados en Global Policy (vol. 3, núm. 2 de 2012 y vol. 4, núm. 2 de 2013).

El libro de Ramas es una versión sintetizada de su tesis doctoral de 2015 sobre El Capital de Marx (obra cuya primera edición de 1867 está desde 2013 en la lista de la UNESCO del “Registro de la Memoria del Mundo”), que se publica justamente en el bicentenario del economista de Tréveris, en 2018, y que se ha reeditado a finales de 2021. Y el cual ha presentado también en televisión (TVE, 2020). En este sentido, como fruto de un trabajo de investigación doctoral es sobresaliente, no hay nada que objetar. Bien documentado y estructurado y expositivamente elegante, didáctico y novedoso. En particular el libro trata sobre una aparente nueva forma de releer Das Kapital de modo complementario a las lecturas tradicionales. Y en esa complementariedad está quizá su pauta extraña, puesto que renuncia a una crítica verdadera. Utilizando la misma jerga que vertebra la obra –la teoría de la apariencia–, parece que nos encontramos (solo) ante una obra científica que (también) en realidad es más una obra de arte: una danza sobre hielo con giros y piruetas conceptuales de extrema dificultad y belleza y también con clamorosas caídas y derrapes ideológicos. Aunque no hay obra de arte que no tenga en sí misma ciencia, y aunque no sea en sí propiamente algo científico, sino artístico y así deba ser. Igual que a altas revoluciones vemos girar hacia atrás la rueda del coche, aunque vaya hacia adelante y aunque así es como hayamos de verla, al revés. Quizá por ello las revoluciones sociales parecen ir en un sentido cuando en realidad van en sentido contrario.

François Héran acaba de publicar su última obra, titulada Immigration: le grand déni, en la editorial Seuil. Conviene recordar que el actual titular de la cátedra Migraciones y Sociedades en el Colegio de Francia, es doctor en antropología por la Escuela de Altos Estudios en Ciencias Sociales y doctor de Estado por la Universidad París-Descartes. Tras cuatro años de trabajo de campo realizados en el extranjero, se incorpora al Instituto nacional de la estadística y de los estudios económicos, primero, en el seno de la sección Condición de los hogares y, posteriormente, como jefe de la sección de Encuestas y estudios demográficos que produce y analiza los indicadores demográficos en Francia (Collège de France, 2023). A lo largo de estos años, lleva a cabo une serie de encuestas nacionales sobre la sociabilidad, la formación de las parejas (con Michel Bozon); los esfuerzos educativos de las familias y la historia familiar (con Laurent Toulemon); la transmisión de las lenguas y la participación electoral (con Dominique Rouault) y la inmigración. Trata de renovar las principales fuentes sobre la evolución de las estructuras familiares y de la inmigración, como la encuesta Familia asociada al censo o la muestra demográfica permanente. Defiende “el desarrollo de la estadística sobre los orígenes de los migrantes que permitirán estudiar las trayectorias de los descendientes de migrantes, pero también las discriminaciones padecidas” (Collège de France, 2023).

Equine influenza virus (EIV) is highly contagious and causes outbreaks of respiratory disease in horses almost worldwide. Particularly at risk for infection with EIV are "naïve" horses that have had no previous contact with EIV or that have received no or only incomplete primary vaccination. This article is intended, among other things, to give an overview of the scientific findings to date on the immune response of foals to vaccination, which differs from that shown by adult horses due to numerous influencing factors. It will discuss the components of the colostrum (antibodies, cytokines and other maternal cells) and their influence on the immune response of foals. The questions at which age a foal should receive the first vaccination of the primary vaccination against EIV, as well as which vaccination scheme is recommended, are also discussed by summarising the results of numerous scientific studies. This review article is intended to help veterinarians advise their clients on the timing and schedule of primary vaccination against equine influenza in foals based on the individual situation (mare's prepartum vaccination status, foal's age at first vaccination, infection pressure, vaccine availability and practicality) on a scientific basis. Based on new study results regarding the primary vaccination of foals against influenza, it can be summarised that shortening the vaccination intervals leads to a lower humoral immune response against EI, that switching vaccine types leads to a higher humoral immune response against EI and that simultaneous vaccination against influenza, herpes and tetanus does not have a detrimental effect on the humoral immune response against EI. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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[rec. di] C. ÖHLSCHLÄGER et al. (Hg.), Narrative des Humanismus in der Weimarer Republik und im Exil, Brill-Fink, 2023

Methoden der Evidenzsynthese werden in den Sozialwissenschaften immer beliebter, auch im Bereich der Bildungstechnologie, wo die Menge der durchgeführten Sekundärforschung exponentiell zugenommen hat. Während Übersichten einen wertvollen Einblick in den Stand des Feldes geben können, wurden Fragen zur methodischen Strenge und Transparenz aufgeworfen. In dieser tertiären Übersichtsarbeit wird daher untersucht, wie transparent und reproduzierbar die Berichterstattung über die Methoden der Evidenzsynthese im Bereich der Bildungstechnologie in den verschiedenen Arten von Übersichtsarbeiten ist. Zu diesem Zweck wurde eine kritische Analyse einer Stichprobe von 446 Evidenzsynthesen in drei Sprachen (Englisch, Deutsch und Spanisch) durchgeführt. Systematic Review, Meta-Analyse und Literaturreview als die am häufigsten verwendeten Review-Typen wurden für die weitere Analyse. In der Stichprobe wurden Indikatoren für die Replizierbarkeit in kritischen Phasen der Überprüfung identifiziert und nach Überprüfungstyp (Forschungsfrage, Suchstrategie, Datenextraktion und Synthese) analysiert. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass die methodische Transparenz bei der Datenextraktion und -synthese erheblich verbessert werden kann, wobei bestimmte Arten von Übersichten bei den Indikatoren schlechter abschneiden als andere. Es werden Empfehlungen zur Verbesserung der methodischen Transparenz und Strenge der Evidenzsynthese im Bereich der Bildungstechnologie gegeben.

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Although there is no generally accepted definition of school climate and a single position on its dimensions, most authors agree that school climate is a multidimensional and complex construct, which refers to the quality and character of school life. Although the available empirical literature abounds with evidence of the effects of school climate on academic and psychosocial outcomes of education, this relationship continues to occupy the attention of researchers. This paper provides an overview of recent research on this issue with the aim of determining the connection between the key dimensions of the school climate (academic, social and physical) and parental involvement in children’s education. Review and analysis of electronically available literature was performed according to appropriate criteria. After the literature review, the ten most influential research studies were selected for analysis. The most important results of the studies included in the analysis are: between school climate and parental involvement there is a positive connection of moderate to strong intensity; all three dimensions of school climate are significantly related to parental involvement; ethnicity and school size influence the strength of the relationship between school climate and parental involvement. Based on the presented empirical findings, it can be concluded that the school climate is important for improving the cooperation between the family and the school. Accordingly, recommendations for future research and practice are given.

The review focuses on the book Becoming T.S. Eliot: The Rhetoric of Voice and Audience in “Inventions of the March Hare”, 2021, written by Jayme Stayer, the American researcher of modernist poetry and T.S. Eliot’s work. Stayer uses rhetorical approach for studying poems from Eliot's notebook, refers to the concepts of ethos, logos and pathos, and analyzes the forms of existence of Eliot's lyrical voice, the development of his own poetic language, his interaction with real and imaginary audiences. The review briefly outlines the milestones of Eliot’s way as a poet from 1899 to 1915. Special attention is paid to the poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”. The author of the review examines the composition of the publication, consisting of eight chapters, notes the main theses of Stayer’s book.

Recently, the long-awaited archaeological monograph of one of the most complex fortresses in Romania, with an area of 15,282.66m2, an important tourist attraction in Țara Bârsei, was published. The information that Adrian Andrei Rusu gives us runs on 430 pages, of which the color and good quality illustration represents almost a hundred pages. Some chapters are not completely unknown to us, as they have been discussed before, in the form of articles or issues in the synthesis books published by the author.

Background: A rapid and reliable diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS) is crucial to initiate adapted disease-modifying treatment. The 2017 McDonald criteria were revised with the aim of further improving the diagnostic performance. Objective: In this article the published studies comparing the use of the 2017 and 2010 McDonald criteria were reviewed and analyzed in terms of diagnostic performance. Material and methods: A total of 20 studies and 1 review article with a total of 3006 evaluated patients were identified by means of a literature search in the PubMed database (search term: McDonald criteria 2010 and McDonald criteria 2017). Results: Using the 2017 McDonald criteria, a diagnosis of MS was made in more patients (2277/3006 patients, 76%) and in an earlier stage (3–10 months) compared with the 2010 revision (1562/3006 patients, 52%). Of the additional MS diagnoses, 193/715 were due to the adjustment of the imaging criteria of temporal dissemination and 536/715 were due to the introduction of oligoclonal bands as a diagnostic criterion. Conclusion: The revised McDonald criteria of 2017 have achieved their goal and enable the diagnosis of MS in a higher proportion of patients at the first clinical event. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article is devoted to the analysis of the genre system of the mass media nutritional discourse with a special emphasis on texts dealing with the problem of healthy nutrition. The relevance of this study is due, on the one hand, to the significant growth and development of information technology and the significant role of modern media that influence all areas of society life, and on the other hand, the popularity of ideas and principles of proper nutrition. The purpose of this article is to consider the specifics of the genre space of the English mass media nutritional discourse, as well as to analyze the linguistic features of texts on healthy nutrition. The research material is texts on healthy nutrition published in English journals and posted on the Internet. Based on the results of the analysis of 1,500 mass media texts, and taking into account the subject of discussion, the pragmatics of messages, as well as the way information is represented, the author speaks about the existence of analytical and imperative genres within the mass media nutritional discourse. Analytical genres, which include reviews (food and dishes, cooking methods, etc.) and reports (results of scientific research, experiments, etc.) make up 43.5% of the sample material, they contain an analysis of a phenomenon, its justification and commentary. In turn, imperative genres represented by instructions, primarily culinary recipes, which account for 56.5% of the sample material, are characterized by a special nature and contain a clear algorithm of certain actions necessary for implementation. According to the results obtained, complex sentences, nominal forms and specialized vocabulary (terms, professionalisms, etc.) are common in analytical genres of mass media nutritional discourse, in turn, imperative genres are characterized by the frequency of use of verbal forms, emotional-evaluative vocabulary and expressive language means.

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This work provides an assessment of the Italian experimental literature in the field of education. We review 25 RCTs completed between 2009 and 2020, analysing their alignment to the CONSORT guidelines. Our findings show that the scientific reporting is on average of good quality; however, there are areas where a significant improvement is needed. We suggest viable solutions, aimed at improving the robustness of experimental research in sociology, taking advantage from consolidated rigorous praxis developed in other disciplines.

Section 30P of the Pension Funds Act 24 of 1956 (hereafter PFA) is an important procedural tool that allows those dissatisfied with the Pension Funds Adjudicator's determinations to apply to the High Court for such determinations to be set aside. This article discusses this section and demonstrates that neither the legislature nor the courts have provided clarity on whether what is intended by this section is an appeal, a review or a reconsideration of determinations of the Pension Funds Adjudicator. It also illustrates the confusion that has been created by the courts with the High Court referring to this procedure as sui generis and the Supreme Court of Appeal, without referring to previous High Court decisions, referring to this procedure as an appeal in the wide sense. In this article a reflection on whether these two formulations are synonymous or if there is a need to settle for only one of them will be made. Furthermore, a call for judicial reconsideration of the applicability of the Plascon-Evan Rule in section 30P applications will be made in this article.

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