TOWARDS A SYNERGY BETWEEN DANCE PEDAGOGY AND PRAXIS FOR NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

The initial objective of dance education was to development the art form and harness it’s potentials for societal development. That dance education in Nigeria’s tertiary institutions of learning is largely seen as an isolated and purely academic exercise with little or no relevance to the real sector is hardly in contention as several studies attest to that reality. What is of concern is how to make it more relevant to the present milieu. Against universal trends, major developments in dance in Nigeria are driven by forces independent of academic influences. Various reasons have been advanced by scholars (Ikideh, 1987; Adeyemi, 2010; Onyemuchara, 2017; etc.) Onyemuchara, for instance, contends that the paucity of practice-based curriculum is the bane. Drawing from related disciplinary paradigms, this paper explores the possibility of synergizing the efforts of both the academic and professional/industry dance practitioners to make dance more relevant to national development.

Writing/Righting Menstruation: a Feminist Analysis of New Zealand Women's Knowledge of the Menstrual Cycle

<p>This thesis investigates New Zealand women's menstrual knowledge within a cultural, social and historical context. An analysis or dominant menstrual discourses and their impact on women's menstrual knowledge was undertaken from a feminist poststructural perspective. At the outset, my initial objectives were to examine and record the social construction of menstruation and to determine the extent to which it impacted on New Zealand women's menstrual knowledge. Following a reading of feminist poststructuralism, the initial objective of measuring and quantifying women's menstrual knowledge changed to an approach focusing on discourse. Similarly, I moved to a new methodological focus on feminist epistemologies. As a result, the thesis examines the effects of New Zealand cultural practices and social meanings on women's 'knowing' about menstruation. It seeks to establish the boundaries and markers that both construct and constrain women's menstrual knowledge. Thirty-seven New Zealand women ranging in age from fourteen to eighty-six years contributed their narratives during open-ended interviews. The women's stories located various discursive practices that impacted on their menstrual knowledge and on their adherence to a common or popular menstrual etiquette. Discourses that construct and confine what, and how, women know about their menstrual cycle are identified and discussed. These scientific, medical, and consumerist discourses intersect and overlap to constitute a dominant menstrual discourse. Menstrual product advertising is identified as a prevailing context that surrounds young women as they become menstruants. Discursive practices such as euphemisms, notions of cleanliness and hygiene, authority through technology, and the commodification of feminist imagery contribute to representations that devalue and stigmatise menstruation. This dominant menstrual discourse can be maintained or disrupted through the way mothers impart menstrual knowledge to their daughters. Mothers are faced with the contradiction of preparing their daughters for an experience that is presented as normal yet constructed within strategies of concealment that menstruating women are expected to follow. When young women do become menstraunts, they are faced with the menstrual 'script' that includes the emotional themes of embarrassment, anxiety and ambivalence. The formal acquisition of menstrual knowledge takes place in our schools and again is positioned within a contradictory framework. Menstruation is conveyed as 'ordinary' yet the teaching of the menstrual cycle is often 'extraordinary' 'Menstruation' is routinely taught in sex-segregated classes, in the evening, in the company of parents and often located within scientific and medical discourses. This thesis offers new insight into the different ways New Zealand women construct knowledge about our bleeding bodies. Its uniqueness rests with die theoretical framework used to analyse research data. A feminist poststructuralist discourse analysis enabled the positioning of the women's accounts within a social, historical and cultural context, and the identification of a new way of analysing the impact of discursive practices upon meaning and experience of menstruation.</p>

Writing/Righting Menstruation: a Feminist Analysis of New Zealand Women's Knowledge of the Menstrual Cycle

<p>This thesis investigates New Zealand women's menstrual knowledge within a cultural, social and historical context. An analysis or dominant menstrual discourses and their impact on women's menstrual knowledge was undertaken from a feminist poststructural perspective. At the outset, my initial objectives were to examine and record the social construction of menstruation and to determine the extent to which it impacted on New Zealand women's menstrual knowledge. Following a reading of feminist poststructuralism, the initial objective of measuring and quantifying women's menstrual knowledge changed to an approach focusing on discourse. Similarly, I moved to a new methodological focus on feminist epistemologies. As a result, the thesis examines the effects of New Zealand cultural practices and social meanings on women's 'knowing' about menstruation. It seeks to establish the boundaries and markers that both construct and constrain women's menstrual knowledge. Thirty-seven New Zealand women ranging in age from fourteen to eighty-six years contributed their narratives during open-ended interviews. The women's stories located various discursive practices that impacted on their menstrual knowledge and on their adherence to a common or popular menstrual etiquette. Discourses that construct and confine what, and how, women know about their menstrual cycle are identified and discussed. These scientific, medical, and consumerist discourses intersect and overlap to constitute a dominant menstrual discourse. Menstrual product advertising is identified as a prevailing context that surrounds young women as they become menstruants. Discursive practices such as euphemisms, notions of cleanliness and hygiene, authority through technology, and the commodification of feminist imagery contribute to representations that devalue and stigmatise menstruation. This dominant menstrual discourse can be maintained or disrupted through the way mothers impart menstrual knowledge to their daughters. Mothers are faced with the contradiction of preparing their daughters for an experience that is presented as normal yet constructed within strategies of concealment that menstruating women are expected to follow. When young women do become menstraunts, they are faced with the menstrual 'script' that includes the emotional themes of embarrassment, anxiety and ambivalence. The formal acquisition of menstrual knowledge takes place in our schools and again is positioned within a contradictory framework. Menstruation is conveyed as 'ordinary' yet the teaching of the menstrual cycle is often 'extraordinary' 'Menstruation' is routinely taught in sex-segregated classes, in the evening, in the company of parents and often located within scientific and medical discourses. This thesis offers new insight into the different ways New Zealand women construct knowledge about our bleeding bodies. Its uniqueness rests with die theoretical framework used to analyse research data. A feminist poststructuralist discourse analysis enabled the positioning of the women's accounts within a social, historical and cultural context, and the identification of a new way of analysing the impact of discursive practices upon meaning and experience of menstruation.</p>

Identification of copper-containing oxidoreductases in the secretomes of three Colletotrichum species with a focus on copper radical oxidases for the biocatalytic production of fatty aldehydes

Copper Radical Alcohol Oxidases (CRO-AlcOx), which have been recently discovered among fungal phytopathogens are attractive for the production of fragrant fatty aldehydes. With the initial objective to investigate the secretion of CRO-AlcOx by natural fungal strains, we undertook time-course analyses of the secretomes of three Colletotrichum species ( C. graminicola , C. tabacum and C. destructivum) using proteomics. The addition of a copper-manganese-ethanol mixture in absence of any plant-biomass mimicking compounds to Colletotrichum cultures unexpectedly induced the secretion of up to 400 proteins, 29-52% of which were carbohydrate-active enzymes (CAZymes), including a wide diversity of copper-containing oxidoreductases from the auxiliary activities (AA) class (AA1, AA3, AA5, AA7, AA9, AA11-AA13, AA16). Under these specific conditions, while a CRO-glyoxal oxidase from the AA5_1 subfamily was among the most abundantly secreted proteins, the targeted AA5_2 CRO-AlcOx were secreted at lower levels, suggesting heterologous expression as a more promising strategy for CRO-AlcOx production and utilization. C. tabacum and C. destructivum CRO-AlcOx were thus expressed in Pichia pastoris and their preference toward both aromatic and aliphatic primary alcohols was assessed. The CRO-AlcOx from C. destructivum was further investigated in applied settings, revealing a full conversion of C6 and C8 alcohols into their corresponding fragrant aldehydes. IMPORTANCE In the context of the industrial shift toward greener processes, the biocatalytic production of aldehydes is of utmost interest owing to their importance for their use as flavors and fragrances ingredients. CRO-AlcOx have the potential to become platform enzymes for the oxidation of alcohols to aldehydes. However, the secretion of CRO-AlcOx by natural fungal strains has never been explored, while the use of crude fungal secretomes is an appealing approach for industrial application to alleviate various costs pertaining to biocatalysts production. While investigating this primary objective, the secretomics studies revealed unexpected results showing that under the oxidative-stressful conditions we probed, Colletotrichum species can secrete a broad diversity of copper-containing enzymes (laccases, sugar oxidoreductases, LPMOs) usually assigned to “plant-cell wall degradation”, despite the absence of any plant-biomass mimicking compound, and only little amount of CRO-AlcOx were secreted, pointing out at recombinant expression as the most promising path for their biocatalytic application.

Exploiting data from the NoiseCapture application for environmental noise measurements with a smartphone

NoiseCapture is a smartphone application initially developed as part of a participative approach for environmental noise mapping. After more than 3 years, the database produced from all over the world contributions is considerable (more than 77k contributors, nearly 300k tracks representing about 72 million 1-second measurements, in nearly 200 countries). Beyond the initial objective, other uses of the application have emerged: individually by users for their own needs, by associations of people in charge of the fight against noise pollution, within the framework of educational activities, by researchers for the realization of their own research, by communities to address the subject of noise pollution. As these new applications emerged, the development team of NoiseCapture was led to extend the possibilities of exploitation of these data. Thus, in this paper, we present different possibilities for a user to perform his own data analysis, namely: a local export of data from the smartphone, access to raw data and pre-processed data from the NoiseCapture server, access to formatted GIS layers from OGC standard service. All these methods are enabled thanks to the open source ecosystem, such as Python libraries, R software suite and GIS tools.

Women in neurosurgery and interventional neuroradiology in Brazil and other countries: can lightning strike the same place twice?

Background Neurosurgery is historically a specialty with a wide male predominance. Interventional neuroradiology, considered in many countries to be a subspecialty of neurosurgery (but also radiology and neurology), has never been the setting for this discussion, but the even greater gender inequality of professionals working in this area is well known. Aims The initial objective of this research was to describe the personal and professional profile of the few women in Brazil who practise neurosurgery and interventional neuroradiology, and the difficulties they encountered throughout their careers just because they are women. However, the shocking stories they experienced led the team to expand searches around the world, obtaining data from some other countries, mainly in South America. Machismo, harassment, misogyny, discrimination and wage inequality go beyond borders. Discussion Current times do not allow these situations anymore, but which, according to the narrative descriptions of 28 interventional neuroradiology women interviewed, still occur very frequently. A more inclusive vision must be sought by interventional neuroradiology societies, and it is up to the leaders to take care of those who need more attention (which does not mean they are more fragile).

Sybil Attack with RSU Detection and Location Privacy in Urban VANETs- an Efficient EPORP Technique

Nowadays, Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) has received interest in the research because it is used to provide the information for drivers and passengers. In the urban VANET, security and safety is a main issue in recent days because of different kinds of attacks. From the attacks, Sybil attack can be considered as a very difficult for urban VANET networks. Hence, in this paper Emperor Penguin Optimization based Routing protocol (EPORP) is developed for detecting the Sybil attack as well as increasing the system performance. The main objective of the research is detecting the Sybil attack as well as improve the security in VANETS. The initial objective is achieved with the help of Rumour riding technique which detect the Sybil attack in the urban VANET. Similarly, the security of the system is achieved with the help of Split XOR (SXOR) operation. In the SXOR operation, the optimal key is generated with the assistance of Emperor Penguin Optimization (EPO). The proposed method is implemented in NS2 platform and performances are evaluated by metrics such as delay, throughput, delay, encryption time and decryption time. The proposed method is compared with existing methods such as Whale Optimization Algorithm (WOA), Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Firefly Algorithm (FA) respectively. While analyzing the delivery ratio, the proposed method has 0.96sec and the WOA, PSO and FA is 0.94, 0.92 and 0.90 respectively. From the analysis, the proposed method has the high delivery ratio value compared with the WOA, PSO and FA methods. Similarly, the other parameters are analyzed and compared with the existing methods.

Was President Andrew Jackson Overcharged? An Economic Evaluation of 19th Century Surgical Charges for Urologic Procedures and their Comparison to the Modern, RVU Era

Objectives Surgical billing is as old as the profession of surgery but there is no published data that has characterized changes in surgical fees over history. Surgical remuneration has been better studied in the Medicare era of relative value units (RVUs)-based payment but what surgeons charged in the American 18th and 19th centuries is unknown. President Andrew Jackson underwent surgery by Dr. James Hall for a hydrocele in 1832 and was billed, and then paid, $30. Our initial objective was to determine the appropriateness of Dr. Hall’s surgical billing for that era. We then wished to determine historical trends in physician billing for similar urologic procedures in the 18th-19th centuries compared to the current RVU era, correcting for inflation. Methods Published fee tables from 18th and 19th century regional medical societies, prevailing charge data from the Center for Medicare Services (CMS) from 1967-1985, and published RVU values and conversion numbers from 1992-2020 (CMS) were used for analysis. To correct for inflation, we used a published consumer price index (CPI) for 1774-2020 indexed to 2020 US dollars. Mann-Whitney U-tests were used to compare unpaired differences without parametric assumptions. Results A total of 43 fee tables from 18 states from 1818-1898 were identified. The $30 charge to President Jackson for hydrocele surgery was similar to other states’ medical society recommendations of the early 1830s. Over the 19th century, there was an insignificant increase in the low-end fee pricing for hydrocele surgery of $18.4 +/- 17.9 in 1818-1840 versus $28.70 +/- 36.83 from 1880-1890 (p > .05), adjusting for inflation. Similarly, for initial male urinary catheterization, the mean surgical fee of $4.28 +/- 1.25 in 1818-1850 was similar to the $4.75 +/- 5.62 mean surgical fee in 1851-1900 (p>.05). Adjusting to 2020 dollars, however, reimbursement for urinary catheterization in 1818-1850, 1850-1900, 1975-1984, and 1992-2020 was $113.04 +/- 38.06, $131.20 +/- 169.53, $73.87 +/- 2.38, and $23.05 +/- 4.69, respectively (p<.01). of 11%. Conclusions Dr. James Hall, physician to 10 US Presidents, appropriately billed the 7th President for what would be now described as a hydrocele drainage and scarification. Fees for that procedure remained stable or decreased throughout the 19th century. Surgical fees for male urinary catheterization, however, decreased 82% from the 1840s to the 2020s, correcting for inflation.

PENGELOLAAN SAMPAH BERBASIS MASYARAKAT MENJADI PRODUK BERNILAI EKONOMI (STUDI DI GAMPONG NUSA KECAMATAN LHOKNGA KABUPATEN ACEH BESAR)

Community-based waste management is a large program that focuses on reducing plastic waste by turning it into goods of economic value. Within the program, there are several sub-programs that have produced derivative activities that have been shown to have a real impact on people's lives. Community-based waste management in Gampong (Desa) Nusa has also been around since 2006, the initial objective was to eliminate the existing waste during the tsunami disaster, but over time the waste management in Gampong Nusa made the community feel good impacts that had economic value, so that the products -products created by the people of Gampong Nusa have been sold to various groups. The purpose of this study was to determine the environmental conditions of Gampong Nusa, and waste management with economic value in Gampong Nusa. This type of research is field research (field research) with a qualitative approach. The data collection techniques used were observation, interview and documentation, then the research results were analyzed descriptively. The results showed that community-based waste management into an economic value product is to turn Gampong Nusa into an environmentally friendly village, making the results of waste management into products of economic value. Community-based waste management strategies become products of economic value, namely by providing understanding and practice directly with the community, so that the results are clear and the processed waste products can be used directly by the community.Keywords: Waste Management; Society; Economy.Abstrak: Pengelolaan sampah berbasis masyarakat adalah program besar yang berfokus pada upaya pengurangan timbunan sampah plastik dengan mengubahnya menjadi barang bernilai ekonomis. Di dalam program tersebut terdapat beberapa subprogram yang telah menghasilkan aktivitas turunan yang terbukti mampu memberikan dampak nyata bagi kehidupan masyarakat. Pengelolaan sampah berbasis masyarakat di Gampong (Desa) Nusa juga sudah ada sejak tahun 2006, tujuan awalnya untuk menghilangkan sampah-sampah yang ada ketika bencana tsunami, namun seiring berjalannya waktu pengelolaan sampah di Gampong Nusa membuat masyarakat merasakan dampak baik yang bernilai ekonomi, sehingga produk-produk yang dikreasikan oleh masyarakat Gampong Nusa sudah terjual ke berbagai kalangan. Tujuan dari penelitian ini untuk mengetahui keadaan lingkungan Gampong Nusa, dan pengelolaan sampah bernilai ekonomi di Gampong Nusa. Jenis penelitian ini adalah penelitian lapangan (field research) dengan pendekatan kualitatif. Teknik pengumpulan data yang digunakan adalah observasi, wawancara dan dokumentasi, selanjutnya hasil penelitian dianalisis secara deskriptif. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa pengelolaan sampah berbasis masyarakat menjadi produk bernilai ekonomi adalah menjadikan Gampong Nusa menjadi gampong yang ramah lingkungan, menjadikan hasil pengelolaan sampah menjadi produk bernilai ekonomi. Strategi pengelolaan sampah berbasis masyarakat menjadi produk bernilai ekonomi yaitu dengan cara memberikan pemahaman dan mempraktikkan secara langsung bersama masyarakat, sehingga hasilnya terlihat jelas dan produk olahan sampah tersebut dapat dimanfaatkan secara langsung oleh masyarakat. Faktor hambatan dalam melakukan pengelolaan sampah di Gampong Nusa yaitu ketika pemerintah tidak turun tangan dalam membantu mensejahterakan masyarakat dalam hal bimbingan maupun bantuan fisik sehingga masyarakat bergerak sendiri untuk mensejahterakan gampong.Kata Kunci: Pengelolaan Sampah; Masyarakat; Ekonomi.

Efficacy of Lutetium-Peptide Receptor Radionuclide Therapy in Inducing Prolonged Tumour Regression in Small-Bowel Neuroendocrine Tumours: A Case of Favourable Response to Retreatment after Initial Objective Response

<b><i>Introduction:</i></b> The efficacy of 177Lu-Dotatate was shown in the NETTER-1 trial, an international, open-label, multicentre phase III clinical trial that evaluated the safety and efficacy of 177Lu-Dotatate in patients with well-differentiated, advanced midgut neuroendocrine tumours (NETs) with evidence of disease progression. Recently, retreatment with peptide receptor radionuclide therapy (PRRT) has been proposed as a valid therapeutic option in patients without other effective options who had responded to initial PRRT; however, data on this therapeutic option are still inadequate. <b><i>Case Report:</i></b> In this report, we present the case of a patient who achieved a delayed complete radiological response after initial 177Lu-Dotatate treatment and who had a complete tumour response with PRRT retreatment 5 years later. <b><i>Conclusions:</i></b> This case report shows that, although rare, a complete, prolonged tumour response may occur in patients with advanced small-bowel NETs receiving PRRT. Retreatment with PRRT may be a valid option in cases of subsequent disease recurrence.