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Dust Off the Gold Medal: Rediscovering Children's Literature at the Newbery Centennial ed. by Sara L. Schwebel and Jocelyn Van Tuyl

Reviewed by: Dust Off the Gold Medal: Rediscovering Children's Literature at the Newbery Centennial ed. by Sara L. Schwebel and Jocelyn Van Tuyl Kara K. Keeling (bio) Dust Off the Gold Medal: Rediscovering Children's Literature at the Newbery Centennial. Edited by Sara L. Schwebel and Jocelyn Van Tuyl. Routledge, 2022. The subtitle of this anthology caught my eye when I first picked it up: "Rediscovering Children's Literature at the Newbery Centennial." The claim that Newbery Medal winners would need "rediscovery" seemed curious, for what books are more canonical and well known than those judged each year as "the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children"? Bookstores and libraries highlight them in displays, gold medals shining on their covers. Yet the need for such rediscovery, specifically by children's literature scholars, is exactly the claim that Sara L. Schwebel and Jocelyn Van Tuyl persuasively make in the introduction to the volume as they show how much Newbery winners have been ignored in terms of critical evaluation within the academy. Their essay examines the reasons behind this scholarly neglect, [End Page 230] a complex set of circumstances that reflect the ongoing divisions between the "bookwomen" of publishers, booksellers, librarians, and educators of the early- and mid-twentieth century who enshrined the award, and the academic professionals who sidelined children's literature as an area of study until the 1970s, then, as the field gained respectability within the academy, focused first on fairy tales, fables, and Golden Age books as "Literature." Schwebel and Van Tuyl note that while some Newbery winners have received marked critical attention, because of reader popularity and common curricular presence, one third have virtually no extant scholarship on them at all, perhaps because, they theorize, many of the books are "middle-aged": "too new to have the status of Golden Age classics, too old to have been widely read by generations of scholars in the field since the 1970s" (6). As Schwebel and Van Tuyl argue, these unexamined Newbery Medal books are "ripe for attention" on the occasion of the award's centennial, and this critical volume works well to make up for previous disregard (6). The fourteen essays comprising the rest of the book examine novels from every decade since the award's inception, with greater attention to winners from the first three decades of its existence to make up for greater past critical neglect of that era: three essays on books from the 1920s, one from the 1930s, three from the 1940s, and one from each of the subsequent seven decades. Schwebel and Van Tuyl make the point that the Newbery Medal committees' unspecific criterion of literary "excellence" has resulted in a list, over the course of the century, that is predominantly "White in terms of characters, authors, and attitudes" (7). The winning books selected for evaluation within this anthology, however, represent more diversity in terms of cultural identity than a casual glance over the list of Medal-winning titles might lead one to expect. The essays in this volume reveal that older Newbery-winning authors created unexpected portrayals of diverse characters—sometimes revealing and sometimes interrogating assumptions about race, class, and gender in surprising ways. It would be easy to expect an anthology of essays on disparate children's books written over most of a century to have little cohesion beyond the Newbery Medal that each story won, but Schwebel and Van Tuyl through careful editing—and, one suspects, directives to their contributors—have assembled a set of essays that work closely together. Writers within this anthology carefully contextualize their discussions within the Newbery tradition as a whole, especially the authors who examine how early patterns became established in the 1920s. Contributors show the broader historical context surrounding their focal text by examining the socioeconomic forces of the decade it was written and prized in, and how those influences affected the authors in writing their stories as well as the reception of the books by those who shaped the market for children's books, such as publishers, librarians, and teachers. The contributors also frequently make connections [End Page 231] between their focal text and earlier or later Newbery winners and honor books...

Preface

Due to recent pandemic, the 2022 International Conference on Physical Chemistry and Metallurgy (ICPCM 2022) which was planned to be held in Dali, China, was held virtually online during May 13-15, 2022. The decision to hold the virtual conference was made in compliance with many restrictions and regulations that were imposed by countries around the globe. Such restrictions were made to minimize the risk of people contracting or spreading the COVID-19 through physical contact. There were 50 individuals who attended this on-line conference, represented many countries including Canada, Singapore and China.ICPCM 2022 is to bring together innovative academics and industrial experts in the field of Physical Chemistry and Metallurgy to a common forum. The primary goal of the conference is to promote research and developmental activities in Physical Chemistry and Metallurgy and another goal is to promote scientific information interchange between researchers, developers, engineers, students, and practitioners working all around the world.The list of Committee member titles are available in this pdf.

Examination of Journal Usage in Rural Sociology Dissertations Using Citation Analysis

Our study explores journal citations from 62 doctoral dissertations in rural sociology from 2004 to 2021 at The Pennsylvania State University. A citation analysis of 7,234 journal citations identified three ranked lists: number of citations (Cit Rank), number of dissertations citing the journal (Diss Rank), and the average combined rank of citation counts and dissertation counts (CD Rank). Our study identifies 31 journal titles based on Cit Rank and Diss Rank 43 unique titles across the three ranking methods. Analysis of variance between (CD Rank and Cit Rank) is 5.51 and (CD Rank and Diss Rank) is 4.77. The average difference in range between Cit Rank and Diss Rank is 9.4. Correlation between (Cit Rank and Diss Rank) using Kendall tau b is .538 and Spearman rho .734. Correlation between (CD Rank and Cit Rank) demonstrates a stronger correlation using Kendall tau b .796 and Spearman rho .934. Correlation between (CD Rank and Diss Rank) demonstrates a stronger correlation using Kendall tau b .757 and Spearman rho .911. In sum, there is a strong correlation between CD Rank and both Cit Rank and Diss Rank. Finally our study assesses our findings organizing them into the following categories: rural studies, sociology, agriculture, development, natural resources and environment, health, demography and geography, general social sciences. The core journal title list that our research has generated will help librarians better develop and manage their collections in support of rural sociology research. The journal title list also provides an excellent starting point for researchers exploring empirical research in rural sociology.

THE 7th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CLIMATE CHANGE PREFACE

Intro and GoalCovid-19 pandemic teaches us that climate change impact sometimes incredibly unpredictable. Not only the increase of heat exposure or natural hazard due to extreme weather, but the emergence of new species or the mutation of microorganism due to the changing ecology may harmful for human beings and another organism. This anthropological climate change phenomenon has negatively altered the most fundamental natural resources for living organism: air, water, and soil. Air has been polluted and warming due to human activities. The quantity of freshwater keeps on depleting, while the ground water recharge intervened with chemical and biological contamination. The sustainability of soil as the natural planting media is under threat due to land use conversion and soil quality degradation. Water acidification and temperature increase have been proved to change the salinity of seawater. Those climate change sensitive exposure may affect the immune system of the living things to survive. Those conditions grow the concern for the health status of humans, crops, farmed and wild animals.Preparing immunity on living organism, especially human is a must to maintain our existence. Vaccine is vital to protect human health from emergence virus and disease which may affected by climate change. But does vaccine can against climate change itself? The 7th International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC) is focusing the discussion on the Covid-19 vaccine roles to against the climate change. Focusing and improving the climatic resilience strategies on immune system will be of considerably important to overcome the key climate change sensitive pathways, as well as to support the achievements some global goals in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).The 7th ICCC 2021 is organized by Dept. of Master Program of Environmental Science, Post Graduate School of Sebelas Maret University (Surakarta, Indonesia), collaborating with The United Graduate School of Agriculture Science (UGSAS), and Gifu University (Japan).This conference aims to accommodate the new related inspiration and innovation about how to minimize the climate change impact at present. Especially at the 7th ICCC 2021, the purpose is to formulate a comprehensive and efficient strategies on how to increase the effectiveness of Covid-19 Vaccine against the climate change. The e-poster of call for papers presented in Figure 1.List of titles Invited Speakers and Guest Editors, Virtual Conference Disclaimer, Date of conference, Location of organizer and Conference model, Location of participants and overall participant number, Committee List, The success of delivery of the conference, Chairman are available in this Pdf.

Honoring Doran Ross: The Beads, Body, & Soul Project & Beyond …

Honoring Doran Ross: The <i>Beads, Body, &amp; Soul</i> Project &amp; Beyond …

Review: Charmian Kittredge London: Trailblazer, Author, Adventurer, by Iris Jamahl Dunkle

Review: <i>Charmian Kittredge London: Trailblazer, Author, Adventurer</i>, by Iris Jamahl Dunkle

Editorial: Choosing a Research Title

Steven E. Eckert, DDS, MS: Have you found yourself looking at book titles, wondering which ideas would make your career more successful? The list of titles is almost limitless. The more time you spend looking at the list, the more confused you may become. What I have tried to do is to identify common terms and reassemble them in such a way that clarity is derived from chaos. What I have learned in doing this is that there is no one thought process that appears to demonstrate a truly workable solution. Perhaps a solution is to simply see what “sticks” when the collective relevant ideas are tossed at the wall. The challenge in research is: What do you actually test? What ideas are most important, and how does one design, organize, recruit, and perform a research project deriving meaningful outcomes that can be “thrown against the collective wall” of mankind’s knowledge? To use a pasta analogy, do we need a certain minimum number of noodles sticking on the wall to qualify? If we start with 100 pieces of spaghetti and only 50 stick, does this qualify, or does it fall short of the target number of noodles stuck on the wall? What effect size and what clinical difference this makes are all important and highly relevant questions. Well, with numerous efforts at throwing something against the wall, I realized that this effort may have landed me in “hot soup”! So now, I need to ask if there was a fundamental design error in my study. To stay with the analogy, maybe I needed to be testing different shapes of “noodles,” such as fettuccine, angel hair, ziti, fusilli, or others. Do I count, or do I weigh (a matter of measurement)? Should we perform a sample size analysis to ensure that we are using enough? Would the study be best conducted on a pre-manufactured pasta, or should it be fresh? I think you get the point. Who would have thought that this question could be so complex? At the beginning of the day, the study was initiated to ensure that my time would be spent wisely. I did not want to jump off on some sort of tangent, taking me on frivolous pathways. As I look at this list of factors, perhaps ignoring only the question of how we look at book titles to read the most compelling research, all of those were indeed addressing valid research items—well, maybe not dental implant research—and yet I’m wondering if I may have stepped off in the wrong direction. Steven E. Eckert, DDS, MS Editor-in-Chief

Устойчивое развитие природы и общества Сибири и Дальнего Востока: анализ документопотока электронной коллекции ГПНТБ СО РАН

“Living substance is biosphere's driving force whom main activity type is biogeochemical work in biosphere”. Biosphere development problems came up in twentieth century. Conception of sustainable development as translational headway which provides with society rational needs and conservation of environment state for future generations was accepted in 1922 at UN international conference, Rio de Janeiro. In Russia in 1992 were issued presidential decree № 236 and government decree № 217-r. In SPSTL SB RAS creation of bibliographical database of society and nature sustainable development started in 1997 due to theme actuality and large amount of scientific researches in Russia and in the world entirely. Since 2011 it is introduced in “Scientific Sibirica” database as a topic section. Deposit copies and public access scientific publications are the main database information sources. To cover all theme aspects literature selection and systematization methods and documents analytical processing structure were set up. State Classifier of Scientific and Technical information, not normative key words and thematic classifier are used as language support. Thematic classifier reflects main civilization problems represented in SB RAS research establishments priority areas of activity: general issues (historical, philosophical, law, informational), social and ecological issues, economical issues of sustainable development. Analysis of database information since 1998 to 2017 showed up next points: • reflection of social processes in data store by focus on particular sustainable development directions. • topic actuality. Annual large stock of publications (8700 documents averagely) which are highly dissipated (1236 periodicals (39%) and 5899 scientific events materials (35%) are represented by only one publication). • prevalence of scientific publications for: 13623 symposiums, seminars, conferences (81%); 605 productive Russian journals included in scientometrical systems; 448 (43%) productive Russian journals included in State Commission for Academic Degrees and Titles list. • various access levels of articles full texts: on electronic scientific library (E-library.ru) 531 (68%) productive Russian journals are at free access, the others may be viewed only directly from library or by subscription; on E-library and in Open Access systems materials of symposiums, conferences and seminars are partly accessible and temporarily published on the Internet. In the interest of specialists' and scientists' time economy they receive information by selective dissemination of information system since 1997. Since 1998 information is available by WEB-oriented information retrieval system of SPSTL SB RAS which includes optimized set of retrieval parameters; retrieval by all resources or by some certain resources; various retrieval modes; retrieval result improvement by retrieval vocabulary or hyperlinks in publications description; retrieval result saving in common formats; retrieval request saving and edition; subscription on new arrivals by e-mail; access to information by retrieval result (publications full texts browsing, print media order). From 2019 new WEB-oriented IRS will be supplemented by: full-text retrieval, retrieval by natural language phrase; faceted navigation; various access rights and full texts references registration and other options. Bibliographical resources in-formational opportunities will extend as 22655 documents (17%) from “Sustainable development of society and nature” section of “Scientific Siberica” database already have links on their full text (publications having DOI, publications on CD-ROM; publications in the public domain; published scientific events materials which arrive at libraries in printed format). For Internet-oriented customers on the web-site there are: topic sector description allowing switch to WEB IRS; virtual literature collections are represented (in xml-format) allowing full texts browsing and switch to WEB IRS. There is another advanced research direction -semantic WEB projects based on authority files of authors, personalities, organizations, subject and geographical headings. Update of “Scientific Siberica” bibliographical database and specially “Sustainable development of society and nature” section is directed at next points: documents analytic processing extension; functional files of authors, personalities, organizations, subject and geographical headings authority setting up; links on opened fulltext Internet resources addition; user interface development in WEB IRS and on the SPSTL SB RAS web-site.

La presenza della letteratura polacca per l’infanzia sul mercato italiano. Il caso di Nasza Księgarnia

The history and publishing output of Nasza Księgarnia, Poland’s biggest publisher of children’s and young adult literature founded in 1921 and still operating, has been extensively researched by bibliologists and literature scholars over the last decades (Bylina, 1961; Aleksandrzak, 1972; Rogoż, 2009; Jamróz-Stolarska, 2014; Biernacka-Licznar, 2018a; Gawryluk, Lajborek &amp; Korobkiewicz, 2021). However, the post-2000 productions of contemporary Polish writers and their translations into Italian have not attracted interest from Polish researchers yet. The paper aims to examine the publishing repertory of Nasza Księgarnia and identify the list of titles that made their way into the hands of the Italian reading public between 2012 and 2022. Based on the bibliometric method and interviews with the NK staff, the study generated reliable data and yielded a detailed account of the repertory released on the Italian publishing market in the last decade.

REPRESENTASI MULTIKULTURALISME DALAM PRAKTIK SELEKSI KOLEKSI PERPUSTAKAAN SMA KOLESE GONZAGA JAKARTA

The value of multiculturalism needs to be applied in the school library to help school member to be able to foster a better tolerance. The school member at Gonzaga College High School who have a high diversity, this value is carried out through the practice of library collection selection. This study aims to identify the representation of multiculturalism in practice selecting collections Gonzaga College High School Library, Jakarta. The school library as a means of supporting teaching and learning activities in schools is also responsible for fostering the value of multiculturalism in students, instilling an attitude to respect diversity in language, ethnicity, and religion. This study uses a qualitative approach with ethnographic analysis methods. Data collection uses participant observation and interviews from December 2019 to April 2020, and document analysis. Determination of informants uses purposive sampling, with a total of 10 consisting of school administrators, library administrators, and students. The findings obtained indicate that the collection selection practice is carried out by referring to the school curriculum and subject-based from various disciplines. The selection tools used are book reviews from social media such as book review webinars, book title lists, and publisher catalogs, suggestions from subject teachers, school principals, and their representatives in the field of curriculum, vice principals of facilities and infrastructure, and lists of books borrowed by users. Decision-making in the practice of selection is carried out by deliberation between the head of the library and the principal based on the awareness of multicultural values on both parties, even though the decision is still held by the principal. Collection development is based on reflection and evaluation carried out by educator community as stated in Our Way Proceeding which is a guidebook in acting and deciding something. The conclusion shows that the representation of multiculturalism in the collection selection practice at the Gonzaga College High School Library applies egalitarian and democratic values. The suggestion that needs to be done is to increase regular communication between decision-makers and the head of the library.

Readers' Advisory: RUSA Books Awards: Listening to the Experts Who Create the Lists for America’s Readers

To celebrate the past and present work of the RUSA book award committees, we asked a selection of chairs, vice-chairs, and members to discuss the work that goes into choosing the winning titles and how to use the lists when working with readers. Their thoughtful comments and reflections inform, excite, and invite new ways of using the award lists and expand and enrich advisors’ work. The column concludes with a curated list of titles to share with readers.—Editors

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Bryan White. Music for St Cecilia’s Day: From Purcell to Handel.

Bryan White. <i>Music for St Cecilia’s Day: From Purcell to Handel</i>.

Edición y comunismo: Cultura impresa, educación militante y prácticas políticas (México, 1930–1940)

Sebastián Rivera Mir explores the overlap between a Leninist “doctrina del libro”—the belief that spreading Marxist theory led to revolutionary transformation—and Mexico's broader print culture in the 1930s (p. 42). In this carefully researched and elegantly written volume, the world of Communist publishing radiates out from the books themselves to a complex web of editors, printers, vendors, and readers. It was truly transnational, as were parallel editorial traditions throughout Latin America. Europe in general and Moscow in particular were central: for much of the period, the vast majority of Communist books circulating in Mexico were theoretical texts written by Russian (Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Vyacheslav Molotov) and European Marxists and published in Spain. Even as production moved to Mexico in the 1930s, decisions in Moscow often determined which books were published. Thus, the early militant posture of the Comintern's Third Period, its shift to an antifascist Popular Front strategy, and subsequent Soviet purges and the short-lived Soviet-Nazi alliance in the late 1930s inevitably shaped editorial efforts in Mexico. The world of Mexican editorials was also peopled by militants from Europe, Latin America, and the United States, some sent by national Communist parties, some seeking political refuge, and some drawn by the cultural effervescence of Cardenista Mexico. And in turn, Mexican publications crossed porous borders and offset the earlier influence of Spain.The author inserts Mexico's “edición comunista” within a national history and print culture that goes back to nineteenth-century liberalism. The central institutional actors are Mexican: the Mexican Communist Party (PCM), the Confederation of Mexican Workers (CTM), the Universidad Obrera de México, the Secretaría de Educación Pública, and unions like the Unión de Obreros de Artes Gráficas. So too are his three case studies, the “no tan rojo” Ediciones Frente Cultural, the PCM's own Editorial Popular, and the semimaverick Editorial América (p. 85). Rivera Mir suggests multiple ways that Mexicans made European texts their own: the decisions of Ediciones Frente Cultural to publish books from a variety of socialist traditions; the golden age of quantity and quality of Marxist book production under Lázaro Cárdenas; the interventions of editors and translators in the prologues, footnotes, and texts of European authors; and the eventual decision of the PCM's Editorial Popular to focus on national affairs and texts written by their own leaders.Nowhere is the narrative richer than in the author's re-creation of editorial networks and the people who participated in them, “desde libreros a escritores, pasando por traductores, dibujantes, distribuidores e impresores,” people who often “se transformaron en activistas incansables” (p. 16). We learn how editor Carlos Rojas Juanco worked without pay and often without eating, and how the young Benita Galeana, then barely literate, sold Communist publications in the Mercado Hidalgo and the Carolina textile factory (a rare glimpse of women in a print world dominated by men). One short chapter re-creates an even more understudied world of print, that of conservative militants and their publishers. The parallel worlds of Communist and conservative print were often antithetical: Luis Islas García left the PCM youth organization to become a militant Catholic and author of anti-Communist books. Rivera Mir makes clear that the world of edición comunista contained all the contradictions of global Communist culture in the 1930s, as when a book by Nikolay Bukharin disappeared from the Ediciones Frente Cultural list of titles in newspaper ads after he was purged in the Soviet Union. Particularly interesting is Rivera Mir's profile of militant bookseller Rodrigo García Treviño, who in his brief role as editor of Editorial América insisted on the right to dissent from the flip-flops of PCM policy.This book about books re-creates the world of edición comunista and also hints at its limits. For example, Rivera Mir observes that many of the books that he painstakingly tracked down had uncut pages or margin notes only in early chapters. The Communist ideal of a militant readership was sometimes at odds with a membership, rural and urban, with limited time and literacy to digest dense Marxist texts (consider the unread books on my shelves). These theoretical books seem mostly divorced from the better known and undoubtedly more accessible forms of Mexico's radical print culture, periodicals like El Machete and illustrated pamphlets and posters. Future research might explore the extent to which editors, press operators, and vendors of these distinct forms of Communist publication overlapped. Similarly, to what extent were prints, songs, and stories, often linked to forms of popular culture, able to convey changing Communist doctrine while balancing indoctrination with the urgencies of socialization and the appeal of nationalism? Edición y comunismo provides a pioneering model and new directions for research on radical print culture.

Preface The 5th International Conference in The Era of Uncertainty (ICPEU) 2021

We would like to thank everyone for your enthusiasm and participation in the 5th International Conference on Planning in the Era of Uncertainty at Universitas Brawijaya. ICPEU is a biennial event held by Department of Regional and Urban Planning – Universitas Brawijaya (Malang, Indonesia) since 2013. The conference series has focused on the discussion of sustainable development since the very beginning, as we truly believe that this topic is very relevant to what we, in the field of planning, face at the moment and in the future.In 2013, we started off the discussion with a big question, can planning theory be applied thoroughly in practice? It was a very memorable discussion as we explored many interdisciplinary problems and solutions in planning. We then developed our topic to sustainable development in 2015 as we considered this as an underlying topic for all relevant problems and solutions. Again, the discussion was remarkable. Papers from different countries participated in the event. In 2017, we started publishing our papers on IOP Proceedings, which is a Scopus-indexed form of publication. And in 2019, we raised the topic of bridging the rural-urban development gap-strengthening sustainability goals. We believe that this event at this moment will be more successful than our predecessors.The 5th ICPEU was held on 19th July 2021 with the topic “Rural-Urban Connectivity”. This topic addressed a concern about spatial equality and sustainability with particular relevance to the pandemic situation. This year, ICPEU was held in a completely different way due to the pandemic. Covid-19 pandemic and travel restrictions did not demotivate us to strengthen our academic community and organize the conference. The current information technology in the form of video conference (webinar) helped us to tackle the distance obstacle. This virtual platform gave us three benefits i.e., 1) made the overall presentations and discussions more efficient, 2) the technology gave us opportunity to effectively communicate with the keynote speakers as well as made all sessions enjoyable for them, and 3) reached more participants. This year we had in total 250 participants including the presentersWe organize the conference in the form of plenary session by presenting eight keynote speakers. They talked about the concept and practices of sustainability in a broad range of disciplines including social capital, disaster management, infrastructure, regional development and public policy. The keynote speaker’s session was followed by panel sessions. All panel presenters had 15 minutes to share their ideas continued with 5 minutes discussion for each presentation. Regarding the panel session, we have received papers from Australia, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Japan, and also Indonesia, discussing and showcasing multi-level efforts in achieving sustainable development from different perspectives. In short, the response that we received has been overwhelmingly positive. We received a total of 83 extended abstracts for this event, and unfortunately, we can only accept 70 selected ones to be published in our upcoming publications.We would like to thank our invaluable sponsors, Universitas Brawijaya, the Faculty of Engineering, PLN UP3 Malang, and Bantex Indonesia for their supports that have allowed us to organize this event. Thank you to Hastirin Widi Astuti, S.Pd, M.A (TESOL) for the proofreading and editing services so that we can make prepare these articles for publication. Therefore, I would like to congratulate all authors that have made it this far.Lastly, we would like to acknowledge fellow colleagues who have made this conference successful: Prof. Ir. Hadi Suyono, S.T., MT., Ph.D., IPU., ASEAN Eng. (Dean of the Engineering Faculty, Universitas Brawijaya), Dr. Ir. Abdul Wahid Hasyim, MSP (Head of the Regional and Urban Planning Department, Universitas Brawijaya), The keynote speakers: Prof. Kiyoshi Kobayashi and Prof. Kenichiro Onitsuka (Kyoto University – Japan), Prof. Murakami Keisuke (University of Miyazaki – Japan), Prof. Joe Ravetz (University of Manchester – UK), Dr. Suprapedi. M.Eng (Ministry of Village, Development of Disadvantaged Regions, and Transmigration – Indonesia), Ir. Mochamad Basoeki Hadimoeljono, M.Sc., Ph.D. (Ministry of Public Works and Housing – Indonesia), Dr. Emil Elestianto Dardak, M. Sc. (Vice Governor of East Java Province – Indonesia), and Dr. Tech. Christia Meidiana (Universitas Brawijaya – Indonesia)List of titles Steering Committee, Organizing Committee, Technical Assitance, Documentation Keynote Speech, Parallel Session are available in this Pdf.

Acculturation strategies and their impact on the mental health of migrant populations

Abstract Objectives This systematic review examined the correlation between the different types of migrant acculturation strategies according to Berry's model of acculturation (integration, assimilation, separation, marginalisation) and their effects on mental health. Methods Three databases (PubMed, Ovid and Ebsco) were searched using different combinations of terms to identify relevant articles. Search terms included relevant synonyms for “migrants”, “mental health” and “integration”. The list of article titles from these searches were filtered using inclusion and exclusion criteria. Common mental health conditions including suicide/self-harm, depressive disorders, psychosis, as well as substance misuse were analysed. Results 21 primary studies were examined, which assessed 61,885 migrants in total. Of these, 7 were cohort studies and 14 were cross-sectional studies. Most studies showed that marginalisation was associated with worse depression symptoms, compared to integration, assimilation and separation, while integration was associated with the least depressive symptoms. Marginalisation triples the likelihood of anxiety-related symptoms compared to integration. Similarly, separation increased the likelihood of anxiety-related symptoms nearly six-fold. Our study has also identified 16 factors that negatively impact level of migrant acculturation, 19 factors that adversely impact general mental health of migrants, and 22 factors that increases risks of depressive symptoms in migrants. Conclusions Our review found out that marginalisation had the worst effects on migrant mental health while integration had the most positive effects. The study also established multiple factors associated with low levels of acculturation and poor mental health in migrants. Given the problem of limited public resources, governments can identify at-risk individuals using factors highlighted and channel these scarce resources to develop targeted mental health interventions for them. Key messages Our review found out that marginalisation had the worst effects on migrant mental health while integration had the most positive effects. The study identified factors associated with low levels of acculturation and poor mental health in migrants. Governments can develop targeted mental health interventions for these at-risk individuals.

Dariusz Galasinski: exploring language in mental health

“I think of myself of a linguist, although I am fairly certain that a lot of linguists would say I wasn't”, Dariusz Galasinski (University of Wroclaw, Poland) tells me. He is Professor and Head at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research into Health and Illness, a social scientist and psychologist (academic, not clinical), but really the bones of his work examine how people communicate using language. Run down a long list of publication titles and you will find descriptors such as critical discourse analysis, and titles such as Language and Psychiatry (2018), Language matters: a linguist's view on medicine (2017), and many more.

Preventing Juvenile Delinquency with An Invitation to Read

Abstract In 1936 Fiorello H. La Guardia, the mayor of New York, established the Committee for the Selection of Suitable Books for Children in the Courts after local newspapers published criticism of Jacob Panken, one of his judicial appointments to the Domestic Relations Court. Justice Panken had begun to assign books for reading and reporting rather than detention as a method of rehabilitation, and the papers faulted his choice of reading material. Mayor La Guardia asked Rebecca Rankin, the director of the Municipal Reference Library, to serve as the committee's secretary and act with his authority to direct and supervise its work. Rankin oversaw the publication, An Invitation to Read: The Use of the Book in Child Guidance by F.H. La Guardia. The booklet contained a list of annotated titles grouped for boys and girls of different ages and reading levels. The list of books compiled for judges in the Children's Court contained suggestions for their use in addressing the problems of juvenile delinquency through reading. An Invitation to Read went on sale in January 1938 and generated nationwide interest. The committee updated the booklist in 1941 and renewed its efforts to place collections in the courts and hire librarians to guide the selection of reading material, which proved futile without the full support of the mayor.

Contribution of professor Tuviy Yakovlevich Aryev to development of topical issues of thermal trauma. Main research and publications for 1958-1972

The data on the experience of creating the first specialized departments for the treatment of victims of thermal injury in the Soviet Union are presented. Outstanding representatives of military medicine took an active position in this process: I.I. Dzhanelidze, S.S. Girgolav, I.S. Kolesnikov, B.N. Postnikov, T.Ya. Ariev, etc. The topic of their scientific research and publications, as well as of colleagues from various research and medical institutions in our country, indicates that burns and frostbite were a very urgent scientific problem for scientists of that time. However, due to objective reasons, the studies were carried out separately, were often aimed at solving particular problems, and had no confirmation in a clinical setting. The situation changed radically after the creation in 1960 at the Military Medical Academy named after S.M. Kirov Department of Thermal Injuries with a clinic for 100 beds. Its first boss was T.Ya. Ariev. A highly qualified scientist, a comprehensively trained surgeon, a teacher with extensive work experience, an experienced methodologist was able to form a team of like-minded people in a short time. Under his leadership and with his direct participation, the department began to solve a wide range of urgent scientific problems associated with thermal injury. This is evidenced by the list of topics and titles of publications that were found in the fundamental library of the Military Medical Academy named after S.M. Kirov. A careful attitude to the publications of that time is of great educational value for the student cadets, trainees, students and all employees of the academy. Thus, we preserve the memory of those representatives of military medicine who created the history and glory of our academy.

Follow the Title Then Read the Article: Click-Guide Network for Dwell Time Prediction

In article recommendation, the amount of time user spends on viewing articles, dwell time, is an important metric to measure the post-click engagement of user on content and has been widely used as a proxy to user satisfaction, complementing the click feedback. Recently, the sequential pattern of impression-click-read has become one of the most popular type of article recommendation service in real world, where users are presented with a list of titles at first, then get interested in one and click in for reading. Predicting dwell time in such service is conditioned on the click, since the user reads the article only after he clicks the corresponding title. We argue that conventional models for dwell time prediction, which mainly focus on the relevance between the content and the general preference of user, are not well-designed for such service. There is a natural assumption in recommendation system that the click indicates user's getting attracted by the item. Therefore, in the pattern of impression-click-read , the user might get interested and curious on some other concepts different from his general preference while reading, due to the attraction of the title. Conventional models tend to ignore the gap between such temporary interest and the general preference of user in the reading behavior, which fails to use the pattern of impression-click-read and the assumption of the click very well. In this work, we propose a framework, C lick- g uide N etwork (CGN) for dwell time prediction, which makes good use of the sequential pattern and the assumption to model the ”guidance” of the click on user preference. CGN is a joint learner for dwell time and click through rate (CTR). We introduce the CTR task as an auxiliary task to help us better learn the preference of user and the representation of title. Besides, we propose the Guider to capture the user's temporary interest raised by the title. We collect the data from WeChat , a widely-used mobile app in China, for experiments. The results demonstrate the advantages of CGN over several competitive baselines on dwell time prediction, while our case studies show how the Guider effectively capture the temporary interest of user.