A perspective on the widening gap between Covishield vaccine doses in India

The Oxford University-AstraZeneca’s vector-based vaccine called Covishield (ChAdOx1 nCoV- 19 Vaccine) is being manufactured and distributed by Serum Institute of India (SII). National roll out of this vaccine was in a phased manner starting from 16th January 2021. At present, many states are facing shortage of vaccines. Government of India kept changing its policy on dosing gap of Covishield vaccine based on researches. The latest recommendation citing “real-life evidence” from the UK is to extend the two doses of Covishield to 12-16 weeks. This reasonable approach will not only a breathing space for the government but also aids in free up doses for a larger number of people to get their first dose of the vaccine.

Social media use and social connectedness among adolescents in the United Kingdom: a qualitative exploration of displacement and stimulation

Background Connectedness to family and peers is a key determinant of adolescent mental health. Existing research examining associations between social media use and social connectedness has been largely quantitative and has focused primarily on loneliness, or on specific aspects of peer relationships. In this qualitative study we use the displacement hypothesis and the stimulation hypothesis as competing theoretical lenses through which we examine the complex relationship between social media use and feelings of connectedness to family and peers. Methods In-depth paired and individual interviews were conducted with twenty-four 13–14-year-olds in two inner-city English secondary schools. Interviews were transcribed verbatim, coded and thematically analysed. Results Analysis identified four themes: (i) ‘Displacement of face-to-face socialising’ (ii) ‘Social obligations’ (iii) ‘(Mis)Trust’ and (iv) ‘Personal and group identity’. Results indicated stronger support for the stimulation hypothesis than the displacement hypothesis. We found evidence of a complex set of reciprocal and circular relationships between social media use and connectedness consistent with a ‘rich-get-richer’ and a ‘poor-get-poorer’ effect for family and peer connectedness – and a ‘poor-get-richer’ effect in peer connectedness for those who find face-to-face interactions difficult. Conclusion Our findings suggest that parents should take a measured approach to social media use, providing clear guidance, promoting trust and responsible time management, and acknowledging the role of social media in making connections. Understanding and sharing in online experiences is likely to promote social connectedness. Supporting young people to negotiate breathing space in online interactions and prioritising trust over availability in peer relationships may optimise the role of social media in promoting peer connectedness.

“Horizontal” and “Vertical” Semantic Associations in a Poem: A Translator’s Perspective

В статье обосновывается гипотетическая возможность перемещения смыслообразующих элементов — сем, слов, художественных деталей — в пределах стихотворения без нарушения его смысловой целостности. Локальные смещения соседних строк могут быть обусловлены (или, по крайней мере, разрешены) синтаксическими особенностями языка перевода. Перестановка же ключевых элементов из одной строфы в другую иногда также бывает оправдана, но только при условии, что «горизонтальные» (контактные) и «вертикальные» (дистантные) связи в концептосфере стихотворения достаточно прочны и достаточно гибки, чтобы не разрываться и не искажать текстуальную семантику ключевых слов-концептов. Хранителем текстуального смысла может быть и слово, и отдельная сема, которая способна выразить смысл, заложенный в оригинале, будучи встроенной в иную лексическую единицу, иную часть речи. Степень оправданности или недопустимости переводческих девиаций обсуждается на примерах. Основной поэтический материал — стихотворение А. А. Тарковского «И я ниоткуда…» — рассматривается в оригинале и в переводе автора статьи. The paper hypothetically suggests the tentative possibility, for a translator of poetry, of shifting semantic units (words, semantic components, telling details) from one stanza to another within the architectonic structure of a verse. The author examines conditions which may call for such a shift. While local shifts between the neighbouring lines may be necessitated by the peculiarities of the receptor language syntax, more distant (“vertical”) shifts may be risked by the translator in order give more emphasis to a vital image, to give his/her lines “breathing space”, or even for the sake of getting the right rhyme. The paper argues that the intra-stanza and inter-stanza semantic ties are implicitly, but traceably, embedded in the original text. And if these are strong enough and elastic enough to with stand the shifting of concepts, the translated verse retains the poet’s voice and emotional impact, though vital components of this or that key concept may be rendered by a different part of speech. The author’s postulates are illustrated by examples, chiefly drawn from Arseny Tarkovsky’s verse “И я ниоткуда…” (“And from nowhere I came …”), the original being accompanied by our translation into English.

Technological Transformation And Progress Of Agricultural Development In Gudiyattam Taluk – An Assessment

The present day farming habitually employ trendy know-how such as automation, warmth and moisture sensors, aerial images, and GPS know-how. These highly developed devices and accuracy farming and mechanical structure permit business to be more money-making, competent, safer, and extra environmentally gracious. Contemporary farming knowledge is used to develop the wide types of production learn working by farmers. It is the basis of technological transformation. Advocating technology transfer should believe the various kinds of social capital as a choice policy alternative to the existing top down move towards in order to get better smallholder source of revenue. The key technological know-how modernization in the breathing space encompass paying attention about the areas such as indoor vertical farming, automation and robotics, livestock technology, modern greenhouse practices, precision agriculture and artificial intelligence, and block chain. Contemporary agricultural practices use mechanized tools for irrigation, tilling and harvesting beside with hybrid seeds. In India, the cultivation know-how are labour intensive, whereas the contemporary agriculture equipment are mostly capital intensive. In this background, the researcher mainly concentrates on Technological Transformation and Progress of Agricultural Development in Gudiyattam Taluk of Vellore of Tamil Nadu in analytical perspectives.

Your Good Name

Can people protect their reputations? What if someone is circulating vicious lies about them? The US Supreme Court has given broad protection to libelous statements, saying that it must do so in order to allow “breathing space” for free speech. That idea is a cornerstone of the law of free speech. But in the modern era, and in light of the potentially devastating effects of falsehoods on individual lives and democracy itself, constitutional law should be updated. People should be allowed to demand retractions when they have been libeled, and they should also be able to obtain at least a modest amount of compensation. Much more needs to be done to allow people to protect their good name.

Breathscapes: Natural Environments in Eighteenth-Century Physiology and Psychosomatics of Breathing

The eighteenth century was obsessed with the physiology and pathology of respiration and the necessity of clean air and strong winds for health and well-being. Air referred not only to the air we breathe, but also to the natural environments that produce (i.e., breathe) and determine the quality of air. Knoeff’s essay is concerned with the question of how the (psycho) pathology of respiration is bound up (conspires) with natural environments, not only in the literal sense (in urban spaces as well as the countryside) but also as represented in the material and visual culture of households, most notably in landscape paintings in living rooms. It was thought that the viewing of spacious landscapes would stimulate the imagination and literally give breathing space.

A Narrow Breathing Space. The Issue of Prisoners in Bishop János Vásárhelyi’s Correspondence between 1944 and 1945

"In his study, the author focuses on analysing how the issue of war prisoners and of Reformed civilians dragged away from their homes is presented in the corre-spondence of Bishop János Vásárhelyi, the leader of the Reformed Church District of Transylvania. He also discusses the steps the bishop could take to obtain the re-lease of the captives. The author lists a number of examples illustrating the measures implemented in September 1944 at first by the Hungarian military authorities leaving northern Transylvania and then by the Romanian and Soviet military authorities marching in and whisking along Hungarian ecclesiastical personalities and also members of the congregation. One can find out from the study the efforts Bishop János Vásárhelyi made to convince the Hungarian authorities to release the members of Romanian Greek Catholic and Orthodox high clergy they had in their custody, and afterwards how he attempted to obtain the release of the Reformed Church’s clergymen, teachers, and professors and also of one of his family members imprisoned by the Romanian authorities in Romanian lagers. Furthermore, the study points out the fact that in that period many Hungarians who were transported to the Soviet Union in large prisoner trains via Kolozsvár/Cluj asked for help too, and the bishop tried to help within the narrow margins and with the few means that he had. Keywords: Bishop, János Vásárhelyi, World War II, Reformed Church District of Tran-sylvania, prisoner, Groza."

Latin American TPS extensions give breathing space

Headline LATIN AMERICA/US: TPS extensions give breathing space