Anton Korošec in slovenska manjšina na Primorskem med obema vojnama

In this article, the author presents the role and importance of Anton Korošec between the world wars, in maintaining the national consciousness of Slovene and Croatian minorities in Venezia Giulia. Based on the material from the archive of Engelbert Besednjak, the author presents organized action of the Secret Christian Social Organisation and the activities of the Slovene Clergy from the Primorska region between the world wars. A crucial role in the political and especially material support for the Slovene minority was played by Anton Korošec, who took care of an ongoing funding of anti-fascist and national defence initiatives of the Secret Christian Social Organisation and the Slovene Clergy from the Primorska region. He has also cooperated with Engelbert Besednjak and other representatives of Slovenes from the Primorska region.

IVF laboratory management in COVID-19 pandemic

Background: Since the first report of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), widely known as COVID-19, in late December 2019, it has spread worldwide. The eventual return of new normal has started to happen in most countries where the COVID-19 curve has flattened, and Assisted reproduction technology (ART) services are eventually resuming. Well-organized ART (embryology/andrology) laboratories safeguard the wellbeing of all staff, patients, and their gametes/embryos. Main body: A well-organized pandemic management plan must be implemented in anticipation of possible subsequent COVID-19 waves. Apart from local and national guidelines, some mandatory changes need to be taken into considerations that will allow us to overcome the fear of this deadly pandemic, work smoothly and stop any possible transmission without comprising the quality control for successful treatment. These mandatory changes include conserving different supplies, reducing manpower needs, and various protective measures for non-clinical and clinical staff, patients, and gametes/embryos. Conclusion: The current pandemic of COVID-19 suggests a well-organized action-oriented emergency plan to assure the wellbeing of all stakeholders.

South Africa and Xenophobia

In this chapter, the authors problematize the narrative that South Africans are xenophobic through a critical historiographical and philosophical critique. They disentangle state agency from civil society agency (organized and non-organized) action and reject this narrative as false, and as an opportunistic obfuscation of problems confronting South Africa and the African continent in general. They suggest, rather, that the South African government or the state is xenophobic, as state ideology in Africa does not always translate into popular ideology in society. State ideology is often resisted and militated against by society in various ways both consciously and unconsciously, as the two arise from different social formation processes.

Assessing Capability and Power of a Socioterritorial Complex System

Empowerment of civil society, beyond its own value, seems to be a nice lever for the efficiency of sustainable development programs and the Brazilian government has embarked on this path. If economic results are quite easy to measure, this is not the case for the evolution of power relationships toward a better balance between social actors' positions. This article shows how to apply the SocLab framework, a modeling approach that considers power relationships within systems of organized action, to shed light on this issue in The Southern Rural Territory of Sergipe. The simulation results of the model showed significant changes from 2010 to 2016 mainly in the capability, but also in the power of the Associations despite their internal problems to put into practice their ability of negotiation or even of real engagement in the territory.

Organized Action Colorized White Radio in the Crescent City

Black voices on radio provided community building opportunities for African Americans. As such, blacks created an alternative public sphere which allowed them to engage in discourse that unifies people into a collective. The Urban League on the national and local levels aided community building by organizing its members to approach radio station managers beginning in 1941. The organization's directives led to the establishment of the “Negro Forum,” an Afrocentric talk show that integrated the airways in New Orleans in 1946. WNOE station owner James Noe provided O. C. W. Taylor 15 minutes of free airtime on Sundays from 10 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. Noe's decision to accept the “Religious Forum” was also influenced by his interest in gaining Federal Communications Commission approval to change his position on the dial and increase the station's broadcast power from 250 watts to 50,000 watts.