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El género de la novelización cinematográfica está presente en la cultura popular española desde los años diez del siglo XX hasta hoy. Durante los años veinte, igual que en el entorno internacional, la novelización vivió en España un primer momento de esplendor. Vamos a acercarnos al mismo a través del caso de dos novelizaciones que se publicaron a partir de la adaptación al cine de El cura de aldea (Florián Rey) en 1926, primera de las filmadas a partir de la obra literaria que Enrique Pérez Escrich escribió en más de un formato a mediados del siglo XIX. El estudio de ambos textos nos permitirá avanzar en la caracterización del fenómeno de la novelización durante los veinte en relación con el panorama nacional e internacional, el denso entramado comercial que la rodeaba, y la forma en cómo se construía desde el punto de vista literario, con el cine al fondo. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Treatment Rationale: Exposure to repeated sexual trauma, particularly during childhood, often leads to protracted mental health problems. Childhood adversity is specifically associated with complex posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) presentation, which is particularly tenacious and treatment refractory, and features severe emotion dysregulation. Augmentation approaches have been suggested to enhance treatment efficacy in PTSD thus integrating first-line psychotherapy with mechanistically informed self-neuromodulation procedures (i.e. neurofeedback) may pave the way to enhanced clinical outcomes. A central neural mechanism of PTSD and emotion dysregulation involves amygdala hyperactivity that can be volitionally regulated by neurofeedback. We outline a treatment rationale that includes a detailed justification for the potential of combining psychotherapy and NF and delineate mechanisms of change. We illustrate key processes of reciprocal interactions between neurofeedback engagement and therapeutic goals. Case Study: We describe a clinical case of a woman with complex PTSD due to early and repetitive childhood sexual abuse using adjunctive neurofeedback as an augmentation to an ongoing, stable, traditional treatment plan. The woman participated in (a) ten sessions of neurofeedback by the use of an fMRI-inspired EEG model of limbic related activity (Amygdala Electrical-Finger-Print; AmygEFP-NF), (b) traditional weekly individual psychotherapy, (c) skills group. Before and after NF training period patient was blindly assessed for PTSD symptoms, followed by a 1, 3- and 6-months self-report follow-up. We demonstrate mechanisms of change as well as the clinical effectiveness of adjunctive treatment as indicated by reduced PTSD symptoms and improved daily functioning within this single case. Conclusions: We outline an integrative neuropsychological framework for understanding the unique mechanisms of change conferring value to conjoining NF applications with traumafocused psychotherapy in complex PTSD. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Storage facilities often comprise the most energy-intensive burden within archives. One green solution is a passive building with high thermal inertia and airtightness, to create stable environmental conditions without mechanical intervention, and provide appropriate temperature and RH ranges and good air quality for preservation. However, where airtightness is concerned, there is potential for accumulation of pollutants within densely occupied repositories such as library and archive stores. This risk is not addressed by current requirements for greener operation, because operational conflicts arise when balancing these three environmental parameters. This article discusses air quality and its effects on archive materials. It contributes to better understanding of green operation for archives. It presents a preliminary study carried out at Norfolk Record Office in the UK on options to increase archives storage capacity whilst improving both public access and preservation. This concluded that an initial programme to replace low-quality packaging which is a generator of VOCs, and the building of on-site passive storage, were the most sustainable solutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

En este artículo se analizan las relaciones entrecruzadas entre género, sexualidad y raza en las experiencias políticas y las existencias cotidianas de personas negras y afrodescendientes disidentes de las normas hegemónicas del género y la heteronormatividad, a través de información de distintas ciudades colombianas, en el marco de una colaboración con la Conferencia Nacional de Organizaciones Afrocolombianas (CNOA). En el trabajo se hace una caracterización general del grupo entrevistado, haciendo particular énfasis en cuestiones raciales y de sexualidad. Se describen y comentan experiencias relacionadas con violencias y discriminación racista y sexista en el ámbito público, laboral y familiar. Así mismo, se explora la forma como las personas responden a esas experiencias de discriminación y violencia. En el documento son expuestas algunas tensiones sobre el accionar político del movimiento de disidencias sexuales y de género y el movimiento afrocolombiano, y la forma como las personas se relacionan con las agendas de estos movimientos. Presto particular atención a la forma como las y los sujetos producen conocimiento (explicaciones, tesis, teorías, etc.) sobre su mundo, en particular la apuesta por una perspectiva entrecruzada para entender sus vidas y para actuar políticamente. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The counterfeit works of Rafael Bolívar Coronado (1884–1924) represent a phenomenon with unusual repercussions on critical reception. This author managed to publish more than twelve volumes with false authorship and content, from "crónicas de Indias" to collections of poetry. This article presents a theoretical approach regarding literary falsification in general and highlights the concepts of lightness and multiplicity to propose an interpretation of the Bolívar Coronado case. This paper also deals with the artistic dimension of literary forgeries as creative works that use the same methods and strategies as fiction writing. The set of falsified works by this author can be interpreted as a conceptual proposal that questions the functioning of the literary field of his time. Likewise, his proposal can also be framed within the cultural criticism that the forgery tradition entails: it questions not only the difficult discernment between the concepts of truth and lies, but also the rigidity of some guardians of cultural institutions and the system of legitimation, awards, and literary reviews. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Geographical scholarship on making has established the interrelations between makers, materials and space. With this paper I explore how this scholarship can be developed to incorporate time through paying close attention to the time of making. Drawing on Karen Barad's (2003) theorisation of multiple and entangled temporalities and materialities; the time of making is interpreted as a constituent of making rather than a homogenous vessel within which making occurs. Using an autoethnographic study of upcycling used domestic textiles into bags, I assemble the practices of making and distribute these into its constituent parts of heterogenous materials, tools and skills. The time of making is studied through autoethnographic reflections on the iterative interactivity between these constituent parts. My reflections on the time of making develop in two ways. First, I consider how the temporal heterogeneity of making segues the (de)stabilising skills of sewing with moments of hesitation, preparation, undoing, repetition and organisation. Second, I detail how the life histories of materials and makers are remade through making. In particular the case study of upcycling reveals how the potential of materials can be realised through re-orientating the skills and practices of makers towards (re)making the life history of materials. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Fear of cancer recurrence (FCR) is one of the greatest problems with which cancer survivors have to deal. High levels of FCR are characterized by intrusive thoughts about cancer-related events and re-experiencing these events, avoidance of reminders of cancer, and hypervigilance, similar to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy focuses on these images and memories. It is effective in reducing PTSD and may be effective in reducing high levels of FCR. Objective: The aim of the present study is to investigate the effectiveness of EMDR for severe FCR in breast and colorectal cancer survivors. Method: A multiple-baseline single-case experimental design (n = 8) was used. Daily repeated measurements for FCR were taken during the baseline phase and treatment phase, post-treatment, and at the 3 month follow-up. Participants answered the Cancer Worry Scale (CWS) and the Fear of Cancer Recurrence Inventory, Dutch version (FCRI-NL) five times, i.e. at the start and at the end of each phase (baseline, treatment, post-treatment, and follow-up). The study was prospectively registered at clinicaltrials.gov (NL8223). Results: Visual analysis and effect size calculation by Tau-U were executed for the daily questionnaire on FCR. The weighted average Tau-U score was.63 (p <.01) for baseline versus post-treatment, indicating large change, and.53 (p <.01) between baseline and follow-up, indicating moderate change. The scores on the CWS and FCRI-NL-SF decreased significantly from baseline to follow-up. Conclusion: The results seem promising for EMDR therapy as a potentially effective treatment for FCR. Further research is recommended. Patients who experience high fear of cancer recurrence (FCR) often have intrusive memories and images about (future) cancer-related events. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy can focus on these intrusions. EMDR therapy is found to be a promising therapy for patients experiencing high FCR. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes how the spatial dimension is incorporated in interactions between universities and their environments, based on three ideal-types of interaction: scientific-technological poles, the establishment of networks, and the university as a locale. This work is based on a systematic analysis of specialized literature and fieldwork that included 120 interviews carried out across four Argentine universities between 2016 and 2021. The main findings indicate that spatial dimension is traditionally understood as a surface where actions take place; we propose to think of space in university–social environment interactions as a product of the different situations of interaction that is contingent and enables or restricts the possibilities of generating lasting impacts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: As Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in adolescents significantly impacts their well-being, effective treatment is of great importance. Little is known, however, about the novel, multi-modal virtual reality supported, exposure-based psychotherapeutic interventions such as 3MDR in this population. Objective: To describe the 3MDR treatment of an adolescent with PTSD who did not respond to previous exposure-based PTSD interventions. Method: A 14-year-old girl diagnosed with PTSD received six sessions of 3MDR embedded in family therapy. Result: The patient tolerated the 3MDR intervention very well. Personalized music and self-selected pictures appeared to be a good fit, contributing to enhanced engagement in and adherence to the therapy. She no longer met criteria for PTSD post-intervention, and at 18 months follow-up. Conclusion: This case report suggests that 3MDR has potential as a trauma treatment for adolescents with treatment-resistant PTSD. Trauma-focused therapy for youngsters is often complicated, with a high percentage of dropouts. Elements of 3MDR such as walking, self-selected pictures, and personalized music are a good fit, contributing to enhanced engagement in and adherence to 3MDR therapy. 3MDR has potential as a trauma treatment for adolescents with treatment-resistant PTSD. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Randomized controlled trials have reported psychoanalytic psychotherapy to improve longer-term post-treatment outcomes in patients with treatment-resistant depression. In this case study, we examine the therapy process of a female trial participant diagnosed with treatment-resistant depression. Structured clinical assessments indicated that the patient's level of depression remained unchanged during and after treatment. Over the course of the therapy, she repeatedly broke away from important others and finally also from the therapy itself, which we linked to the impact of earlier experiences of abandonment on her internal world. In the discussion, we present a variety of reflections that were put forward by the authors during a series of case discussion meetings. Some of these reflections relate to how the inner world of this patient might have triggered a negative therapeutic reaction and a destructive pattern of repetition. The interpretative stance, in which the therapist interpreted this reaction as indicative of a psychic conflict and linked this conflict to the therapeutic relationship, seemed to be experienced by the patient as unhelpful and persecutory. Other elements that were brought up include basic distrust, lack of symbolization and trauma in the patient, as well as the constraints of the research context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

L'articolo analizza il caso delle 'Letters of an Exile', le corrispondenze orientali pubblicate in lingua inglese da Cristina Trivulzio Belgiojoso sul New York Daily Tribune dal 1850 al 1853 e mai raccolte in volume. Le lettere vengono esaminate a partire dal nesso tra esilio e scrittura che condiziona in maniera determinante la natura dell'opera, smarcandola dal genere odeporico e rivelandone la trasversalità veicolata dai molteplici sconfinamenti tra i generi letterari. Al fine di circoscrivere le caratteristiche della scrittura ibrida e dislocata delle corrispondenze è stato utilizzato come principale strumento di lettura il pensiero sull'esilio di María Zambrano. Rintracciata allora la genesi dell'opera nello strappo dell'esilio, viene individuato un modello nuovo di scrittura definita, secondo un prestito zambraniano, come desterrada. Una parziale evasione dalla condizione irreversibile dell'esilio è attestata solo nelle ultime lettere, dedicate al reportage di viaggio. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

El artículo propone analizar el guion como una práctica profesional creativa pero también como un discurso que construye e imagina el proceso de escritura de una determinada manera. En el contexto de las plataformas digitales, el medio audiovisual se ha convertido en un sector estratégico de las políticas nacionales y los guionistas españoles han pasado de ser un colectivo marginal de la industria a situarse en el centro del sistema. Nuestra hipótesis de partida es que este proceso ha supuesto la construcción de una identidad común, una representación del guionista profesional contemporáneo que ha encontrado en internet el espacio privilegiado en el que compartir sus relatos. El artículo propone como estudio de caso la creación en 2009 del site Bloguionistas.com, un popular blog colectivo cuya vocación es la de ser "la voz de los guionistas en castellano". Se analizan sus primeros posts para describir, por un lado, el modo en el que el asesoramiento de guion se inscribe en la lógica del capitalismo emocional, generando un espacio público digital desde el que compartir experiencias y colectivizar un malestar laboral y profesional compartido por muchos guionistas y aspirantes a acceder a la industria audiovisual española. Por otro lado, se observa el modo en que los guionistas participan en la lógica del emprendimiento cultural propia de las profesiones creativas, lo que les permite adquirir capital simbólico desde el blog y reclamar autoridad para definir qué es ser un guionista profesional en España. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Using the case of the mobile preschool we focus on how children's prosthetic citizenship is constructed in relation to notions of mobility and place in the accounts of Swedish mobile preschool professionals. Mobile preschools are preschools in buses that visit different places in and around the city on an everyday basis. Analysis of interviews and workshop discussions with mobile preschool professionals shows how three different conceptualisations of children's 'proper' citizenship operate in parallel in these accounts – children as 'not-yet-citizens', children as 'not-here-citizens' and children as 'here-and-now-citizens'. These different conceptualisations are constructed in relation to the everyday mobility of the mobile preschool and notions of places as more or less beneficial for children's proper future and Swedish citizenship, and reveal how mobility is not only a consequence of citizenship relations but also constitutive of them. This paper contributes to knowledge on how mobility and notions of place constitute ideas on citizenship, and how forms and geographies of mobility produce subjects as more or less citizen. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

L'articolo esamina le declinazioni di cittadinanza, sudditanza e nazionalità che presero forma nel contesto dell'espansionismo coloniale italiano durante gli anni della Grande Guerra e del primo periodo postbellico. Viaggiando attraverso il territorio dell'impero formale italiano in Libia e nella concessione dell'impero informale a Tientsin in Cina, il saggio unisce – per la prima volta in un'unica indagine – l'analisi dei tre concetti in oggetto tra metropoli, sponda nordafricana e lembo asiatico dell'oltremare; e fornisce altresì importanti elementi per comprendere il ruolo svolto dalla Grande Guerra nella definizione di quei legami di appartenenza. Situato all'intersezione degli studi sulla Prima guerra mondiale nelle colonie, sulla politica della cittadinanza nel Regno d'Italia, e sulla dimensione transnazionale della storia coloniale, questo saggio offre un innovativo confronto inter-imperiale del caso italiano basandosi sull'interazione di preziosi documenti inediti degli archivi italiani, fonti parlamentari, scritture edite della memorialistica, letteratura italiana coeva, e recenti studi storici in lingua italiana, inglese e francese. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Durante la dictadura franquista se llevó a cabo un proceso de (re)adecuación de signos a priori opuestos a los valores políticos imperantes. Entre ellos, Guernica (1937), de Pablo Picasso, fue sometido a una reinterpretación propiciada por su naturaleza maleable. A partir de la semiótica analizaremos el proceso de despolitización a través del cual se introdujo la obra en el consciente español, así como los mecanismos empleados para tal fin. Entre ellos destaca la censura literaria cuyos expedientes, hasta ahora inéditos, revelan el interés oficial por suprimir la memoria espaciotemporal e histórica en que fue concebido el cuadro. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores community responses to 'Golden Head', a guerrilla artwork that was installed covertly in a Melbourne park in early 2020 by unknown persons. Focusing on local residents' reactions to this mysterious, unsanctioned statue, we document an ongoing array of playful speculations, creative responses and imaginative interactions that unfolded both in situ and via social media. We argue that in eliciting an outpouring of jokes, memes, stories, photographs and other creative rejoinders, this enigmatic object has strengthened and renewed a collective sense of place. We also consider Golden Head's reception in light of recent challenges to the legitimacy of many traditional memorial statues, and as a response to the increasingly over-regulated city. We conclude that this outpouring of imaginative local reactions to Golden Head constitutes a playful form of collective place-making that implicitly critiques the grandiose ambitions of official statues and affirms the oft-neglected ludic potential of urban space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In defining successful collaborative international projects within the theory of change or logic model, focus is often on 'outcome' and 'impact'. Less empirical information is available regarding the 'input' and 'activities' aspects of this model. To address this knowledge gap and to offer insight into pivotal elements for management, this study focused on the lessons learned from the development and management of the international, intercultural, and interdisciplinary collaboration Caring Society (CASO) project. A needs analysis among project members was performed using a cross-sectional questionnaire with 31 multiple-choice and 10 open-ended questions. The combined quantitative and qualitative findings resulted in seven key elements being identified: information/communication, personal capacity building, finance, organization, time, facility, and quality. These elements are related in that the elements information/communication and organization play a central role with the element time mediating this role. Other elements such as finance, facility, and quality are on a secondary level of importance while personal capacity building is a meaningful outcome. The lessons learned from managing CASO as an international, intercultural, and interdisciplinary project are that: (1) managers should focus on how information is structured and disseminated as this increases the quality of organizational processes, (2) open dialogue through hybrid communication methods foster better levels of accountability and ownership of tasks, also leading to personal capacity development, enhancing a sense of belonging, and development of intercultural and interdisciplinary competencies, and (3) the role of finances, time and resources cannot be ignored as these impact quality, management, and organization of international projects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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I All views are personal. i Notas al final 1 Comité para la Eliminación de la Discriminación contra la Mujer, Recomendación General n. 39 (2022) sobre los derechos de niñas y mujeres indígenas, 31 de octubre 2022, CEDAW/C/GC/39, disponible en https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/general-comments-and-recommendations/general-recommendation-no39-2022-rights-indigeneous. Sin embargo, en el caso de Augostina el Estado ha desconocido dicha labor desde la criminalización y descrédito de la justicia comunitaria en un proceso por secuestro agravado denunciado por los propios mineros, cuando Augostina, junto a otros líderes de la organización, retuvo a mineros ilegales en su territorio ejerciendo su derecho jurisdiccional de acuerdo con el Convenio 169 de la OIT. For example, Augostina Mayan, an Awajún leader, has been denouncing the effects of the increasing levels of mining in indigenous lands in the northern Peruvian Amazon region since 2009 (Hurtado [7]). [Extracted from the article]

The lexicon of the old kingdom of León shows signs of expansion in the Spanish of Spain and America, so academic digital resources should show this fact, indicating these geographical marks in the same word, in addition to a possible documentary record. The objective of this research is to verify how this dialect lexicon is collected in two academic resources: in Enclave-RAE and in the Fichero General, and to analyse this information with the current theoretical framework. The investigation designed through a preferably quantitative methodology with more than a hundred voices has shown the divergences between the selected data that appear in Enclave and those collected in the Fichero General. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although literary geography has become an established subfield, to date, there are no in-depth geographical studies on literary groups that gather to celebrate a specific author and/or genre. To address this lacuna, my paper investigates Vancouver's official Sherlock Holmes society, The Stormy Petrels of British Columbia (hereafter Petrels). Drawing on the methods of participant observation and semi-structured interviews, as well as Jacques Lacan's concept of 'le sinthome' (hereafter sinthome), which defines how creative modes of (un)conscious enjoyment knot together psychical and social space, I explore three ways through which the Petrels' enjoyment of Sherlock Holmes gives consistency to their individual and collective lives: first, through 'nomination' wherein the Petrels identify with Sherlockian characters and make names for themselves; second, through what Lacan refers to as 'lalangue,' that is, enigmatic meanings produced by the musical flows and babbles of speech; and third, through the surplus accumulation of memorabilia, what I call 'sintholmes,' which hold a powerful attraction as sublime objects of Sherlockiana. The article concludes by considering the political dimensions of the sinthome in terms of the changes in the Petrels' demographics and the wider context of Sherlock Holmes fandom. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Digital platforms have quickly become popular thanks to the algorithms that have made it possible to work from a smartphone. The potential benefits of job flexibility and easy complementary income for "delivery partners" have been highlighted. However, work through tasks precariously paid, the impossibility of organizing in a labor union and the constant monitoring of labor performance has put platforms to the test. Despite these working conditions, delivery staff are not passively under surveillance, but rather the platforms are a space of frictions. In this article, we seek to abandon the idea of delivery platforms as objectified entities that are the natural/universal result of technological progress in the city by adressing the frictions and local practices of reproduction of the platform. Through a 6-month fieldwork consisting of interviews with Uber Eats delivery workers in Santiago de Chile, this article seeks to describe and delve into practices of subversion that delivery staff use to resist excessive surveillance at work, where indicators such as rating are essential to avoid being "deactivated". Our findings indicate that Uber Eats' platform deploys various strategies that we will call friendly surveillance, which operates as veiled nudges in which the system seeks to keep delivery staff engaged through incentives and promotions. At the same time, the platform collects data and defines what it means to be an efficient delivery partner. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and technological advances are currently a new paradigm with ample potential to provide therapeutic solutions to multiple diseases. The purpose of this study was to survey granted patents related to biopharmaceutical products. The most important results show that most of these inventions are concentrated in the United States, and European and Asian countries, and that US companies are the clear leaders in this area of knowledge, reaffirming its position as one of the most important technological markets in the world. Additionally, the technological classes, established according to search criteria, that have shown the most progress over time has to do with medicinal preparations containing antigens or antibodies, as well as those associated with peptides. Finally, the role of the Latin American market is not relevant for the production of this group of technologies; consequently, it is important to define strategies for their inclusion in countries in the region and to promote cooperation in terms of research and development. This course of action will provide the region with the possibility of increasing technological capabilities that will allow it to innovate within the sector. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this article is to analyze the colonial viewpoint that underlies Design, Social Design and their methodology, Design Thinking. We study this theoretical scaffolding and its application in eight projects carried out by designers in the city of Puebla, Mexico, with Indigenous Peoples from different communities in the country. We explore the approach to Social Design and Design Thinking from their historical configuration in articulation with empirical information obtained through interviews with professors of Social Design, the designers of the 8 projects, and with a design studio. Design has been conceived as a neutral discipline although it presents its social dimension as the answer to various problems facing society. This article argues that design has a modern-colonial core that permeates its sub-disciplines, orienting them towards the cultural whitening of populations. The findings show that when implemented, Social Design becomes a practice of cordial racism and a form of epistemicide that give continuity to the attempts to make invisible, eradicate or appropriate the knowledge of Indigenous Peoples. The findings also show that the methodology used by Social Design, Design Thinking, has a fundamental role in contributing and possibly masking this epistemicide. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in the workforce are paramount for the betterment of the scientific endeavor. Colombia is a country with great scientific potential, but also multiple long-lasting socioeconomical difficulties. Here, we provide a quantitative analysis of the temporal trajectories of gender parity in scientific publishing in Colombia. Data was dissected based on education level, researcher's rank and research area, in order to elucidate differential patterns of scientific publishing. We controlled for gender-based differences in number of researchers by quantifying per capita scientific productivity. Our results show widespread gender disparity in scientific publishing persistent across time. Gender-based differences in per capita scientific publishing indicate that gender disparity persists even after controlling for differences in the number of researchers. Temporal trajectories revealed a decrease in women publishing in the medical sciences and a widening of the per capita publishing gender gap. Women senior researchers and women researchers with doctoral degrees had the lowest publishing participation within their group, suggesting access to postgraduate education or entering the workforce in themselves do not prevent women from being underrepresented. We highlight the need to understand the problem of underrepresentation in science and possible ways to address it beyond increasing the number of women researchers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper aims to study some linguistic features of para-scientific language, by analysing seven brief texts, published online, which are linked to veganism and try to explain the benefits of this way of life to their readers. First of all, peculiar traits of the scientific language are discussed, in order to underline the differences between this particular kind of language, which is based on a full application of the scientific method, and the para-scientific one. The textual corpus shows quite clearly that the authors make specific and regular choices which deal with the lexical, syntactic, semantic, stylistic and rhetorical levels of the language. These choices, moreover, seem to be quite similar to those usually present in the language of deception and in fake texts in general, as both kinds of texts share a common target, i.e. avoiding the traits that are commonly expected in scientific language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article tries to carry out a critical review on the conception that ethnobiological and anthropological studies sustain regarding the relationship between indigenous knowledge and the environment, taking as a particular case the studies on knowledge of the P'urhépecha, people settled in Michoacán, Mexico. Without denying the advances regarding the field of indigenous knowledge, there are three problematic axes presented by the analyzed works: the tendency to naturalize knowledge and the indigenous-nature relationship; to reify indigenous knowledge a whose singularity and opposition to western knowledge lies in you immunity to social change; lastly, the difficulties of making visible the power relations that mediate the production and reproduction of knowledge, where indigenous peoples as agents confront, with other internal or external agents, in a struggle for meaning, appropriation and control of processes of validity of knowledge and truth, in contexts of social change and environmental deterioration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on research from previous pandemics, studies of critical care survivors, and emerging COVID-19 data, we estimate that up to 30% of survivors of severe COVID will develop PTSD. PTSD is frequently undetected across primary and secondary care settings and the psychological needs of survivors may be overshadowed by a focus on physical recovery. Delayed PTSD diagnosis is associated with poor outcomes. There is a clear case for survivors of severe COVID to be systematically screened for PTSD, and those that develop PTSD should receive timely access to evidence-based treatment for PTSD and other mental health problems by multidisciplinary teams. We anticipate that up to 30% of survivors of severe COVID will develop PTSD, yet PTSD is frequently undetected in primary and secondary care settings. There is, therefore, a clear case for establishing systematic screening and ensuring timely access to treatment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Green Revolution exemplifies the capital-intensive modernization model of resource plunder and labor exploitation. This has provoked small-scale producers and civil society groups to counterpose an agroecology-based solidarity economy (EcoSol-agroecology), especially in Latin America. But their efforts encounter dominant models – of innovation, management, markets, nature, etc. – which limit alternatives. To clarify a transformative agenda, advocates have elaborated agroecological innovation through several complementary practices. Nature is framed as agri-biodiversity complementing socio-cultural diversity. Short food-supply chains (circuitos curtos) build consumer support for production methods enhancing producers' livelihoods, providing socio-economic equity and conserving natural resources. Through diálogos de saberes, i.e. knowledge exchange among farmers and with external experts, cultivation and water-management methods are designed or adapted as socio-environmental technologies. Capacities are built for collective self-management of those solidarity relationships. In such ways, agroecological innovation co-produces specific forms of nature, technoscientific knowledge and society; their practices construct a distinctive socionatural order. Such order arises through several instruments – making identities, institutions and discourses – as understood by STS co-production theory. Here this theory illuminates two Brazilian agroforestry initiatives whose cooperative practices seek to transform their own participants' lives and wider agri-food systems. By combining diverse sources, composite cultures deepen the social basis of territorial belonging. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From September 2015, the deaths of hundreds of pet cats in Croydon, London and the UK have been attributed to the actions of one or more killers. In September 2018, the police operation to catch the 'Croydon cat killer' was called off, with the deaths attributed to the actions of cars and foxes. This paper considers what the case says about our relations with other animals in the city, why we accept some animal deaths as normal, and others unnatural forms of violence. We focus on the concept of 'predation' in media representations, and how predation may mean different things to different audiences. The paper looks at the logic, optics, and politics of predation in turn, meaning the analytical premises, the framing devices that make these narratives visible, and the broader political positions taken by protagonists. The role of the media in promulgating these narratives of predation is central to what we term 'fabulous ecologies', speculating that nonhuman animals inhabit a cultural as well as a physical environment. Narratives of animal killers and animal victims have the potential to make the metropolis more, or less, viable to our nonhuman animal neighbours. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the relationship between social cohesion and Latin American socio-environmental conflicts. A case study was carried out about the largest socio-environmental conflict in El Bolsón, Patagonia Argentina, where part of the population has been rejecting a real estate development project on Perito Moreno Mountain, a protected area which is the headwater basin. By means of a theory triangulation, the representations and practices of the parties involved were investigated, through document analysis (press media, technical reports from the companies, and government organizations involved), in-depth interviews with key informants, and participant observation. In conclusion, this socio-environmental conflict acted as a thermometer to measure social cohesion: on the one hand, exposing its weaknesses at the level of the community as a whole, and on the other hand, uncovering its strengths in the group that rejects this project. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There are numerous excellent papers on probiotics and food supplements' authenticity and safety, but this article is unique compared to the others. It summarizes judicial events regarding the authenticity of a probiotic formulation (the De Simone Formulation (DSF)) commercially available under the trademark VSL#3® until 2016. In 2019, the U.S. District Court found the distributors of the "new" VSL#3® liable for having sold an untested "copy product" different from the DSF. The jury required one of the distributors to pay the owner of the DSF $15 million dollars, and the District Court entered judgment in this amount. The District Court's monetary judgment was affirmed by the U.S. Court of Appeals in 2021. This article arises from this judicial affair to examine the rules and regulations protecting patients and doctors from misrepresentations and the potential role of class actions brought by consumers to dissuade companies from taking advantage of regulatory deficiencies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Seven different methods of DNA extraction were performed and compared in order to have the better DNA recovery in terms of quality and quantity. A PCR assay was realised based on the Cytb mitochondrial gene to identify 53 commercial food products of wide range diversity (Scombridae Thunnus species) commercialised in the Tunisian market, and we checked whether these products were correctly labelled under European and national legislations. Phylogenetic analyses on Cytb mitochondrial gene were used to study the relationships among the considered species. Tuna species was easily differentiated and confirmed by direct sequencing. The results showed a high deficiency in labelling: 96% of canned tuna did not specify the species, although the name of the species had to be mentioned. Partial least squares regression (PLS) showed relatively high values (45%) in all analysed data, suggesting substantial difference between the extraction procedures and matrices with SDS/PCI method being the most convenient. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a geoethnographic study of street football games in Lisbon's Metropolitan Area. The study explores how soundmaking is used by young people to generate micro-worlds and territories in street football games in urban space. The insights of the study contribute toward the field of sonic geographies by demonstrating that directing our focus away from the act of listening can provide novel insights into the role that sound plays in making space and connecting subjects. We present four related arguments to sustain this claim. First, we argue that human soundmaking must be understood as a whole, including the making of lexical and non-lexical, representational and non-representational sounds. Secondly, we argue that human soundmaking is closely related to listening, even if this relationship surpasses consciousness, but it is by no means a mere consequence of listening. Third, we show that human soundmaking is interwoven with everyday acts of worldmaking. Lastly, we posit that by taking part in everyday worldmaking, soundmaking also plays a significant role in the production of everyday urban territories. With this in mind, we point future directions for the field of sonic geographies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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O objetivo deste artigo é analisar a influência do Integralismo Lusitano na configuração do pensamento nacionalista do compositor e musicólogo Luís de Freitas Branco (1890–1955). O seu apego ao roteiro ideológico integralista é evidente na revalorização do 'ser português' que subjaz a todos os seus escritos. Para o efeito, analisarei duas fontes da sua autoria como estudos de caso. Do seu estudo podem ser observadas a exaltação nacionalista da música portuguesa, o interesse em distinguir-se da tradição musical espanhola, a utilização de uma narrativa ao serviço de uma leitura ideológica específica, e a idealização da denominada Escola de Évora. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Remittances to developing countries are complex and multi-faceted, warrant closer examination and analysis. This paper examines remittance flows to Ethiopia in more depth, paying particular attention to remitting behavior by migrants from Ethiopia, and to the dynamics of how remittances are used in Ethiopia. The paper draws from an extensive survey (N = 544), interviews and focus groups conducted in Gondar, Northern Ethiopia. It provides new insights into the complex remittance relationship, including dynamics between the layers of hierarchies and family structures, the relationship between senders and recipients, and how remitting behavior changes along with the changing demographics of sending and receiving families across time and space. In particular, it shows that remittances are increasingly sent beyond the immediate family circle, often to neighbors, community or religious organizations, or to extended family members living in Ethiopia or in other countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Traumatic events can be related to severe transgressions or violations of moral boundaries. Moral injury (MI) has been described as 'the lasting psychological, biological, spiritual, behavioral and social impact of perpetrating, failing to prevent, or bearing witness to acts that transgress deeply held moral beliefs and expectations.' These events can provoke emotions such as remorse, guilt and shame, and affects someone's self-image and identity. Objective: The aim of the study is to evaluate a treatment protocol that addresses the specific characteristics of moral trauma in treatment of PTSD, next to anxiety. Method: Brief Eclectic Psychotherapy for Moral Trauma (BEP-MT) is an adaptation of the evidence-based Brief Eclectic Psychotherapy for PTSD (BEPP). BEP-MT integrates components of cognitive-behavioural, psychodynamic, constructivist, and systemic psychotherapy. In the current study treatment progress of a refugee Dusan was monitored. Prior to and after treatment the Clinical-Administered PTSD Scale for DSM-5, the PTSD Checklist (PCL-5), the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) and the Moral Injury Appraisal Scale (MIAS) were administered. Every session moral emotions were assessed on a Likert scale. Results: Whereas PTSD complaints and strong feelings of guilt and shame were manifest prior to treatment, during BEP MT a gradual decline in the intensity of the moral emotions was found. After BEP-MT Dusan no longer met criteria for PTSD and his psychological complaints diminished. Conclusion: The case of Dusan has shown it is worthwhile to address moral trauma and BEP- MT is a promising treatment protocol for patients suffering from PTSD after moral trauma. Further research is needed to examine the effectiveness of BEP-MT. BEP-MT is a promising treatment protocol that addresses moral injury, which encompasses emotions such as remorse, guilt and shame, and negative self-image, after traumatic events that include transgressions or violations of moral boundaries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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PTSD in pregnant women is associated with adverse outcomes for mothers and their children. It is unknown whether pregnant women with PTSD, or symptoms of PTSD, can receive targeted treatment that is safe and effective. The purpose of the present paper was to assess the effectiveness and safety of treatment for (symptoms of) PTSD in pregnant women. A systematic review was conducted in accordance with the PRISMA guidelines in Pubmed, Embase, PsychINFO, and Cochrane. In addition, a case is presented of a pregnant woman with PTSD who received eye-movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy aimed at processing the memories of a previous distressing childbirth. In total, 13 studies were included, involving eight types of interventions (i.e. trauma-focused cognitive behavioural therapy, exposure therapy, EMDR therapy, interpersonal psychotherapy, explorative therapy, self-hypnosis and relaxation, Survivor Moms Companion, and Seeking Safety Intervention). In three studies, the traumatic event pertained to a previous childbirth. Five studies reported obstetrical outcomes. After requesting additional information, authors of five studies indicated an absence of serious adverse events. PTSD symptoms improved in 10 studies. However, most studies carried a high risk of bias. In our case study, a pregnant woman with a PTSD diagnosis based on DSM-5 no longer fulfilled the criteria of PTSD after three sessions of EMDR therapy. She had an uncomplicated pregnancy and delivery. Despite the fact that case studies as the one presented here report no adverse events, and treatment is likely safe, due to the poor methodological quality of most studies it is impossible to allow inferences on the effects of any particular treatment of PTSD (symptoms) during pregnancy. Yet, given the elevated maternal stress and cortisol levels in pregnant women with PTSD, and the fact that so far no adverse effects on the unborn child have been reported associated with the application of trauma-focused therapy, treatment of PTSD during pregnancy is most likely safe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study critically examines how development interventions are imagined for singular places and subjects through a political process of product scripting that reconfigures the socio-technical meaning of second-hand objects from unwanted commodities to solutions that are appropriate for sub-Saharan Africa. Tracing the flow of second-hand goods demonstrates how development subjects are imagined to be adult, economically productive, rural beings. The paper finds that the second-hand mountain bicycle is inserted into an imagined place with a predetermined purpose that does not attend to alternative and heterogeneous urban and rural identities and needs. The paper highlights the compromises undertaken in designing development interventions as they are entangled with processes of waste recycling, commodification and philanthropy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

En los territorios de la Sierra Norte de Puebla, principalmente habitados por indígenas nahuas y totonacas, confluyen procesos de diversificación biológica, lingüística y agrícola que se manifiestan en actividades económicas, políticas y sociales cuyos signos y significados comunitarios imparten características muy específicas a la región. Tales procesos y actividades han propiciado una defensa ardua de los territorios indígenas frente a los retos que implica la expansión capitalista, destacándose la importancia de la generación de valores de uso por encima de los valores de cambio. El conocimiento del territorio del municipio de Cuetzalan del Progreso y la organización activa de sus habitantes, principalmente los indígenas nahuas, han sido fundamentales para consolidar proyectos de permanencia y transformación que promueven alternativas al sistema capitalista. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article focuses on the case of Juan Meléndez, tailor and comedy author, and funds of notarial protocols of the Peruvian capital and part of rejoicing that in public festivities. It mentions theatrical professionalization in European Spain show how important were in this process the urban trades and people skilled in theater to perform during the Corpus Christi celebration. It also mentions celebration of the Corpus Christi in Mexico is a request from the union of tailors.

The earthquakes that struck Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2010–11 ruptured both the material and sociocultural architectures of the city. Subsequent examinations of the landscape have explored the alternative imaginations and narrations of urban space that have taken hold during recovery. Focusing on the prolific presence of transitional organisations in the city-centre, some of these have argued that the alternative subjectivities and places that arose post-quake represent responses that challenge and contest state expectations of what constitutes 'recovery'. This paper develops these ideas further, arguing that such practices and imaginaries can also be observed in other spaces of the ruptured city. Specifically it explores the relocation decisions made by citizens who were subjected to a globally unprecedented state-buyback scheme. Through a typological analysis I argue that, rather than representing submission to state recovery ideologies, the decisions made by movers invoked new kinds of identity, meaning and value amongst participants. In doing so this paper explores the multiple spaces through which ethical fidelity to the perceived transformational nature and potential of the disaster has been performed. Such analysis problematises narratives of what constitutes 'recovery' and raises questions about how the transformational potential of disasters pervade landscapes through multiple spaces and scales. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From the 1980s to the end of 2000s, the Turkish military was actively involved in the construction of Islam as a threat to national security, and in doing so it securitized religious identities in the political arena and in its own ranks. In the process, Turkish military bases became infused with public tensions around religion and secularity and became sites that produced social divisions along these lines on a daily basis. This article explores the uniquely emotional and corporeal the intertwinement of secularism and security as was experienced within the mundane social interactions in the daily life of military bases through ethnographic research conducted in 2011. It focuses on the narratives of the daughters and wives of military officers whose bodies were mapped on to the opposite ends of a security paradigm based on a secular/religious dichotomy. Caught in between designations of security and risk, women's bodily and emotional experiences reveal the spatial constructions of secularism and the inherently vague and ambiguous distinctions secularism cultivates as a function of modern power. Looking at the gendered and spatially mediated meanings of secular, religious, security and risk, this article contributes to scholarship in cultural and social geographies of secularism through an analysis of corporeal and emotional experiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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