Popular Magazines Research Articles

Fabrication of Hybrid Engine Vehicle

Abstract: A hybrid vehicle uses two or more distinct types of power, such as internal combustion engine + electric motor, e.g. in diesel-electric trains using diesel engines and electricity from overhead lines, and submarines that use diesels when surfaced and batteries when submerged. Other means to store energy include pressurized fluid, in hydraulic hybrids. A water-fuelled car is an automobile that hypothetically derives its energy directly from water. Water-fuelled cars have been the subject of numerous international patents, newspaper and popular science magazine articles, local television news coverage, and websites. The claims for these devices have been found to be pseudoscience and some were found to be tied to investment frauds.[1] These vehicles may be claimed to produce fuel from water on board with no other energy input, or may be a hybrid claiming to derive some of its energy from water in addition to a conventional source (such as gasoline). Water is fully oxidized hydrogen. Hydrogen itself is a high-energy, flammable substance, but its useful energy is released when water is formed. Water will not burn. The process of electrolysis can split water into hydrogen and oxygen, but it takes as much energy to take apart a water molecule as was released when the hydrogen was oxidized to form water. In fact, some energy would be lost in converting water to hydrogen and then burning the hydrogen because some waste heat would always be produced in the conversions. Releasing chemical energy from water, in excess or in equal proportion to the energy required to facilitate such production, would therefore violate the first or second law of thermodynamics.

Women's health magazines and postfeminist healthism: A critical discourse analysis

Daily, millions of North American women turn to popular media, like women's health magazines, for health-related advice and information. “Magazines continue to be a popular medium” and, given their power and reach, remain an important site for critical analysis. In this article, we examine the ways in which three popular women's health magazines provide “health” advice to their readers. We first provide an overview of research in feminist media studies exploring postfeminist sensibility, healthism, and now a postfeminist healthism. We then conduct a critical discourse analysis of articles from all 30 issues of Health, Women's Health, and Shape magazines published in 2018. Our investigation of how the magazines portray what it means to have “good health,” suggests that health continues to be conflated with appearance. Moreover, health is presented as confusing, such that maintaining health requires expert help, and as purchasable, and thus linked to economic practices.

Gender-oriented vocabulary in advertising texts

Lexical means of expressing gender orientation in advertising texts are considered in the article. The relevance of the chosen topic is due to the need to take into account gender specificity in advertising slogans, which contributes to the accurate pragmatic impact and more effective construction of advertising communication. The study was based on the texts presented in the ads of popular magazines "Maxim" and "Cosmopolitan". The article considers examples of advertising texts with the indication of the lexical means of gender orientation, which supports the conclusion that the lexical means of gender orientation in the advertising text can include the vocabulary indicating the gender of the addressee, which contributes to the orientation of the advertising campaign to a specific target audience. The article presents an analysis in quantitative and percentage terms, which clearly demonstrates that, for example, adverbs in advertising for a female audience are much more common than in male advertising. The use of verbs in advertising texts, both for male and female advertising, is a priority, since the main semantic load is expressed through them. However, verbs predominate in male-oriented advertising texts, which indicates a man's ability to take decisive action. The verb is expressive and meaningful, dynamic.

Counting Kisses at the Movies: The Screen Kiss and the Cinematic Experience in Egypt

AbstractIn this article, I use the 1969 Egyptian film Abi fawq al-Shagara and the motif of the kiss as a launch pad to explore broader cinematic experiences and cultures in 1960s Egypt and beyond. I argue that the deployment and debates around screen kisses not only represented wider conflicting and shifting impulses around questions of audience tastes, sexuality, and the role of the cinema, but became central motifs through which audiences experienced the movies. Inspired by a historical approach to the study of cinema, one in which media texts and audiences are central, this article shifts the gaze away from the screen to consider the public lens through which films were appreciated, the broader global media landscape in which they existed, and the tensions between audiences and critics. I bring popular magazines, audience reactions and memories, and wider international cultural trends into the frames of analysis not only to nuance our understanding of Egyptian cinematic cultures, but to shed light on an often-neglected component of Egyptian history of the 1960s; the fun, the pleasures, and the anxieties of a quickly changing cultural and leisure landscape, and the wider cultural mood that helped shape a generation's experiences of the cinema.

Research without Films

Dinah Shurey was the only woman to found her own film company in 1920s Britain, producing six films and directing one, all of which, despite their apparent popularity, are lost. Absence of films and (auto)biography, along with the “oddness” of Shurey’s choice of military and naval melodramas, means film history has discounted her. This article explores alternative historical sources—genealogical sites, popular magazines from her family’s publishing house, autobiographies of women she worked with, source novels and short stories, industry meeting and law-court reports, trade papers and reviews, shipping manifests, and hospital records. Drawing on Debashree Mukherjee’s concept of “cine-ecology,” it pursues Shurey’s career at the intersections of shifting social and professional networks and a diversity of sociocultural intertexts. It aims less to restore a forgotten woman filmmaker than garner insight into the lived experience of a career struggle, filtered through cultural changes, social and media events, conflicting industrial interests, and political calculations.

Seeing birds: Dr Casey Wood's (1856–1942) second career

In 1920, Casey Albert Wood (1856–1942), a prominent Canadian ophthalmologist and bibliophile, began what was essentially a second career as an amateur ornithologist and author. This paper examines the path Wood followed as he learned more about birds and developed a network of colleagues that aided his transition to a respected member of the American Ornithologists’ Union (AOU) and prolific author on ornithology. It also seeks to place Wood's ornithological writings within the contemporary scientific and popular literature on birds. After his retirement from medical practice in 1920, Wood and his wife Emma (née Shearer) (1859–1951) travelled extensively and Wood's ornithological observations were published in journals varying from scientific publications like the AOU's The Auk and the Cooper Ornithological Society's The Condor, to more popular magazines like the Audubon Society of the Pacific's The Gull. Wood's contributions often combined natural history observation with literary allusions and personal reminiscence. Towards the end of his second career, Wood turned to his bibliophile interests, publishing a catalogue of the McGill Library holdings in vertebrate zoology as well as a translation co-authored with his niece Florence Marjorie Fyfe (1892–1965) of Frederick II of Hohenstaufen's De arte venandi cum avibus. Wood was representative of an earlier generation of gentlemen ornithologists, eulogized in his obituary in The Auk as “probably the most broadly cultured and deeply learned of his generation in our Union”.

Maria Czaplicka: Gender, Shamanism, Race [Maria Czaplicka: Płeć, szamanizm, rasa; Biografia antropologiczna

Maria Czaplicka: Gender, Shamanism, Race [Maria Czaplicka: Płeć, szamanizm, rasa; Biografia antropologiczna

ЗАХОДИ ПОПУЛЯРИЗАЦІЇ АСТРОНОМІЇ

Astronomy is a natural-mathematical science that opens unknown pages of both our Solar system and Universe. However, most people have the impression that astronomy is only about the stars, romance and astrological. Popular scientific events can accelerate this opinion, namely: scientific exhibitions, locations, popular scientific magazines, films and video clips, excursions to observatories, scientific and educational institutions. The actual problem of natural and mathematical training of students contributed to the growing popularity of entertaining and popular science events. It able be organize interactive lectures, where a trained scientist will tell interesting information in a language accessible to the audience, and answer their questions. If you add demonstrations of objects of the universe to the performance, you can create the illusion of full involvement of the listeners in scientific discoveries and observations. Another way of actively perceiving information is the organization of interactive astronomical locations, such as quests, quizzes, mazes, intelligence tasks, rebuses. It will be appropriate to involve modern digital technologies. Astronomical models and instruments add more visuality to the locations. Students of higher education institutions take part in such events with great pleasure, prepare models, information brochures, draw posters, and create planetary systems. Posters or brochures can be made in the form of applications or developed own electronic makets. This scientific and educational material is used and demonstrated at various events and interests not only students but also their parents. In addition to communication and inspection of models at mass popular science events, visitors can be offered to independently make their own template (for example, a gnomon or a sundial), draw certain constellations, assemble models of the solar system or star constellations, adjust astronomical instrument (for example a telescope for observing distant terrestrial objects or the Sun), and learn to tell time using a self-made watch. Popularization of astronomy as a science is not only interesting, but also contributes to increasing education among the younger generation, students and adults. Properly selected equipment and good material will be able to interest the listener and increase interest in astronomy, as an important component of natural and mathematical science.

Cover Essay: Visual Images in Sound Studies.

This essay discusses the significance of visual images in sound studies. The field of sound studies allows us to focus on hearing and soundscapes in cultural experiences and has challenged the primacy of vision as a framework for social analysis. This issue's cover shows Japanese Emperor Hirohito examining Type 90 Air Sound Detectors (also known as "war tubas") in 1936. From the mid-1930s to the early 1940s, these acoustic locators featured not only in experts' books but also in air-defense and military textbooks and in popular Japanese magazines. Magazines for young people highlighted their visuality rather than their actual functioning, mechanisms, and technicality. This essay demonstrates that the acoustic locator's visuality was instrumental for public relations, while its auditory function served practical military purposes. The image suggests that visuals play a vital role in studying the complex ecologies of sound.

역사학자 박시형의 민족과 과학

Park Si-hyeong, who studied historiography at Keijō Imperial University, participated in the Chintan Society to develop scientific modern positivist historiography and at the same time published a number of enlightening articles about the culture and traditions of Korea in popular magazines. Si-hyeong’s historical studies during the colonial period can be evaluated as pursuing the science and the nation. Immediately after liberation, Park Si-hyeong was active as a Marxist historian in the atmosphere of left-right collaboration.BR After going to North Korea in August 1946, he led the establishment of North Korean historiography by serving as a teacher at Kim Il-sung University and as director of the Institute of History at the Academy of Sciences. History of Joseon Land Institutions, published in 1960 and 1961, was the result of scientific Marxist historiography that compiled his research since his graduation thesis at Keijō Imperial University, based on the theory of feudal state ownership.BR Park Si-hyeong turned to ancient history research in the 1960s. “For the Study of Balhae History”, published in 1962, is a monumental thesis that placed Balhae in Korean history, and is evaluated as laying the groundwork for future research on Balhae history in the academia of North and South Korea. In addition, Si-hyeong’s interpretation of the tombstone of King Gwanggaeto succeeded to Jeong In-bo’s interpretation. It can be seen that the focus of historiography has shifted from science to nation. Since the 1980s, as the Cold War order has been shaken, East Asian historical exchanges have been in full swing. Si-hyeong visited Japan and China and took on the role of advocating nationalist history common to two Koreas. Even in the South Korean media in the 1980s and 1990s, Park Si-hyeong was introduced as a nationalist historian.

Prasa, książka, biblioteka: analiza dorobku publikacyjnego Ewy Wójcik za lata 1990–2020

This article provides an overview of the scientific achievements of Ewa Wójcik. As a researcher of history of the press and history of the Lviv publishing and bookstore movements in the years 1990-2020, she published 74 original scientific publications, including 7 authored and co-authored monographs as well as 59 articles and scientific dissertations. Ewa Wójcik’s research interests were centred around two main problem areas - the history of the press (37.9%), in particular Polish calendars of the interwar period and popular science magazines until 1939, as well as the history of the publishing and bookselling movements (33.8%). In the second area, the author focused her attention on the Lviv publishing market, investigating the lives of publishers, booksellers and antiquarians. Other works (28%) present, e.g., bibliographies of press studies published in Poland in the years 1939-1945 history of books and press, Cracow, Lvov

Healthcare providers have insufficient up-to-date knowledge of lower limb sports injuries, and their knowledge is similar to that of athletes

BackgroundBeing up-to-date with evidence-based knowledge of lower limb sports injuries is essential for Healthcare professionals (HCPs). PurposeTo assess whether HCPs possess up-to-date knowledge of lower limb sports injuries by comparing their knowledge to that of athletes. MethodsWith an expert panel, we developed an online quiz of 10 multiple-choice questions on various topics related to lower-limb sports injuries. Maximal score was 100. We used social media to invite HCPs (5 groups: Physiotherapists, Chiropractors, Medical Doctors, Trainers, and Other therapists) and athletes of all levels (amateur, semi-pro, and pro) to participate. We drafted the questions according to conclusions from the latest systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Results1526 participants completed the study. Final quiz scores ranged from zero (n = 28, 1.8%) to 100 (n = 2, 0.1%) and were distributed normally with a mean score of 45.4 ± 20.6. None of the 6 groups' means surpassed the set threshold of 60 points. Multiple linear regressions of covariates indicated that age, gender, engagement in physical activity, learning hours per week, reading scientific journals, reading popular magazines and blogs, trainers, and other therapists’ groups explained 19% of the variances (−5.914<β < 15.082, 0.000<p < 0.038). ConclusionsHCPs have insufficient up-to-date knowledge of lower limb sports injuries, and their knowledge is similar to that of athletes of all levels. HCPs probably do not possess the proper tools to assess scientific literature Academic and sports medicine societies should look into ways to improve the scientific knowledge integration of HCPs.

The Year’s Work in American Humor Studies, 2021

The Year’s Work in American Humor Studies, 2021

Salt-Containing Recipes in Popular Magazines with the Highest Circulation in the United States Do Not Specify Iodized Salt in the Ingredient List

Iodine deficiency is a public health problem in the US, with the iodine status of women of reproductive age decreasing in recent years. This may be attributable to voluntary salt iodization in the US. Magazines, a common source of recipes and nutritional information, may influence salt use and iodine intake. The aim of this study is to assess whether the magazines with the highest circulation in the US include recipes that contain salt and, if so, whether they specify "iodized salt" in the recipes. Recipes in eight of the top ten magazines by circulation in the US were examined. Standardized information was collected on the presence and type of salt in recipes in the last 12 issues reviewed per magazine. About 73% of the 102 issues reviewed contained recipes. A total of 1026 recipes were surveyed for salt; 48% of the recipes listed salt as an ingredient. None of the 493 recipes containing salt specified iodized salt as the type of salt to be used. About half of the recipes in the last 12 issues of popular magazines published in the US included salt in the ingredient list; however, none recommend the use of iodized salt. There is potential for editorial changes among magazines to call for iodized salt in recipes, which may further prevent iodine deficiency in the US.

The Long Civil War: New Explorations of America's Enduring Conflict

The Long Civil War seeks to showcase how recent scholars have widened the Civil War's historical periodization. Inspired by Eric W. Hobsbawm's conception of the “long nineteenth century,” the editors John David Smith and Raymond Arsenault expand the geographic, temporal, and thematic dimensions of Civil War history (p. 1). The volume's ten essays draw on a range of source material, including films, historical fiction, popular magazines, and public history sites. While the collection succeeds in its stated aim of highlighting “periodic fluidity,” it falls short in other capacities (p. 2). Diane Miller Sommerville's examination of the political rhetoric of suicide is a standout essay. Sommerville contends that while “northerners and southerners employed the language of self-destruction” to disapprovingly describe secession, notions of collective self-murder shifted over the course of the war. With defeat on the horizon, many Confederates redefined popular understandings of suicide as honorable, a transformation personified by the “martyrdom” of the fire-eating secessionist Edmund Ruffin (p. 87). This notion of self-destruction as heroic—of secession as destined to fail yet virtuous in motive—became a fixture of the Lost Cause canon.

Kurangara in Queensland?: A Critique of Duncan‐Kemp's Account

ABSTRACTA particular historical travelling religious complex in northern Western Australia, usually known as Kurangara, has been the subject of anthropological attention since the late 1930s. Overlooked in all the literature is a similar account assigned to 1912–1918, in the distant Channel Country of southwest Queensland. This is in Alice Duncan‐Kemp's last book, published in 1968. My examination shows that a good deal of Duncan‐Kemp's account repeated parts of a 1954 popular magazine about Kurangara in the Pilbara. In other respects Duncan‐Kemp may have drawn on her own childhood experiences, but in the absence of corroboration her account has to be considered unreliable.

How to navigate a pandemic: Competing discourses in The Australian Women's Weekly magazine

As the Covid-19 pandemic caused schools, workplaces, and childcare centres to close, pressures in the home increased. Much of the additional unpaid work required under these conditions was done by women. Most women's magazines at this time urged women to stay positive and develop wellbeing routines to help them flourish. This approach reinforces normative neoliberal subjectivity with its roots in therapeutic culture and the happiness industry. While the focus on self-care may seem empowering, it puts more pressure on women in times of upheaval. Based on a thematic analysis of pandemic-related content in Australia's most popular women's magazine, The Australian Women's Weekly, we identified three key themes: ‘finding the silver lining’, ‘making lifestyle choices’, and ‘recognising hardships and social divides’. While self-responsibilising discourses were prominent, some articles acknowledged the broader structural issues impacting women, revealing a tension between competing discourses.

Propaganda of soviet space achievements in the 1960s and 1970s: forms, methods, restrictions

The article is devoted to the study of forms and methods of Soviet scientific and technical propaganda in the 1960s and 1970s. The main focus is on ways to promote Soviet space achievements. The article is based on archival documents, as well as on the materials of a number of popular magazines of this period. The following issues were carefully considered: the organization of scientific and technical propaganda in the USSR; methods of censorship control. The general conclusions of the study give an idea of two forms of coverage of scientific and technical achievements in the Soviet press of this period. The organization of scientific and technical censorship, in which the key role belonged not to the Glavlit, but to experts of branch research institutes and the Academy of Sciences, is also analyzed in detail.

Periodicity, Subscription, and Mass Circulation: Mail-Order Book Culture Reconsidered

Connections between periodical studies and book history run deep. Building on this&amp;nbsp;existing work, this contribution discusses untapped potential at the cross-section of book&amp;nbsp;studies and periodical studies, especially when considering mass-market periodical and&amp;nbsp;book formats. Several popular magazines, among them&amp;nbsp;Psychology Today&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;Playboy,&amp;nbsp;created book series and even book clubs, expanding their brands and diversifying their&amp;nbsp;income streams. The article offers a case study of the mass-market book club ‘Reader’s&amp;nbsp;Digest Condensed Books’, launched by the magazine&amp;nbsp;Reader’s Digest&amp;nbsp;in the 1950s. This&amp;nbsp;popular club reached millions of households in the second half of the twentieth century&amp;nbsp;and still continues to play a role in the book industry today with the series ‘Reader’s&amp;nbsp;Digest Select Editions’.

THE PERSONIFICATION OF FIGURATIVE WORDS IN TRUBUS MAGAZINE: A MODERN STYLISTICS STUDY

Personification is one of the figurative languages used in casual and academic texts. One of the popular magazines that employs figurative language to attract readers is Trubus. The current study aims to analyze the classification, structure, rhyme words, lexical meaning, and imagery styles of personification in Trubus magazine. It is descriptive qualitative research using the Metaphor Identification Procedure (MIP) approach. The data source in this study is Trubus magazine, edition 2021. Data analysis covers the personification of figurative language's reduction, assessment, and inference. The result found that the personification style in this magazine belongs to inanimate objects, which tend to be abstract. Meanwhile, the rhyme words employ the beauty of the alliteration sound at the beginning of the word. Further, the grammatical structure is general. Lastly, grammatical, textual, and contextual fields contribute to meaning-making.