bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
СТЕРЕОСЕЛЕКТИВНІСТЬ ГАЛОЕНУВАННЯ 3-БУТИЛ-2-ПРОПАРГІЛТІОХІНАЗОЛІН-4(3H)-ОНУ
Authors: Кут Д.Ж. , Кут М.М. , Кривов'яз А.О. , Онисько М.Ю.
Published: June 2023

Конденсовані азини відомі своїми цінними біомедичними властивостями. Важливе місце в цьому ряді гетроциклів займають похідні хіназоліну та його конденсовані аналоги, які входять до складу багатьох лікарських засобів. Найбільш оптимальним методом синтезу похідних хіназоліну є електрофільна внутрішньомолекулярна гетероциклізація. Основними факторами, які впливають на процес циклізації, належать: природа нуклеофільного центру, поляризація ненасиченого зв'язку, природа електрофільного реагенту та стеричні особливості.
ОСОБЛИВОСТІ БУХГАЛТЕРСЬКОГО ОБЛІКУ В СИСТЕМІ УПРАВЛІННЯ РЕКЛАМНОГО ПІДПРИЄМСТВА
Authors: Кузуб М.В. , Колісник У.О.
Published: June 2023

Реклама поступово стала нашим щоденним явищем, і сьогодні вона заполонила практично все, що нас оточує. Зараз реклама всюди: в газетах, на рекламних щитах, на ТБ і радіо, в Інтернеті. Ми навіть не завжди розуміємо, наскільки це працює і скільки додаткової інформації ми отримуємо через рекламу щодня. Щоб залучити потенційних покупців, необхідно професійно і з особливою ретельністю підібрати тип реклами, враховуючи різноманітні фактори та умови. Крім того, необхідно правильно відобразити у податковому та бухгалтерському обліку операції, пов’язані з виготовленням та розміщенням реклами відповідно до чинного законодавства.
ОСОБЛИВОСТІ ВИВЧЕННЯ ГРАМАТИЧНОЇ КАТЕГОРІЇ РОДУ НА УРОКАХ УКРАЇНСЬКОЇ МОВИ В ЗЗСО
Authors: Дмитришин Марія , Поляк Ірина
Published: June 2023

Основу української мови як навчальної дисципліни становить система наукових понять, що формують ефективне засвоєння закономірностей і правил. Чинна програма з української мови для 5 – 9 класів передбачає вивчення низки мовних понять, у тому числі граматичних.

Дослідник В. Горпинич зазначає, що в методиці навчання мови, в тому числі і граматики, виділяють три аспекти: «перший – відбір основних мовних понять з метою введення їх до навчальної програми і шкільних підручників; другий – визначення ступеня повноти засвоєння їх; третій – розроблення методики формування мовних понять» [1]. Третій аспект лишається актуальним у сучасній методиці.
ВИКОРИСТАННЯ КОМП’ЮТЕРА В ОСВІТНЬОМУ ПРОЦЕСІ ЗДО
Authors: Чекан О. І. , Сарканич М. Я.
Published: June 2023

Створення українського національного інформаційного середовища у суспільстві відображено в законах: “Про затвердження завдань Національної програми інформатизації”, “Про Національну програму інформатизації”, “Про основні засади розвитку інформаційного суспільства в Україні на 2007–2015 роки”; концепції Національної програми інформатизації; указі Президента України “Про рішення Ради національної безпеки і оборони України від 17 червня 1997 року “Про невідкладні заходи щодо впорядкування системи здійснення державної інформаційної політики та удосконалення державного регулювання інформаційних відносин” тощо.
ІДЕЯ ВІЛЬНОГО ТА ПРИРОДОВІДПОВІДНОГО ВИХОВАННЯ ОСОБИСТОСТІ В ФІЛОСОФСЬКІЙ СИСТЕМІ Ж.-Ж. РУССО
Authors: Грегірчак Дмитро Богданович
Published: June 2023

Педагогiчна спадщина мислителів епохи Просвітництва багата на гуманістичні концепції. Твори педагогів-просвітників, серед яких особливої уваги заслуговує постать Жана-Жака Руссо (1712-1778), виводили суспільство за рамки схоластичної освіти та авторитарного виховання на новий рівень, де в центрі стояла Особистість.
Automated secure configuration guidance from the macOS security compliance project:
Authors: Trapnell Mark , Trapnell Eric , Souppaya Murugiah , Gendler Bob , Brodjieski Dan , Golbig Allen , Scarfone Karen , Heiserman Blair
Published: June 2023

The macOS Security Compliance Project (mSCP) provides resources that system administrators, security professionals, security policy authors, information security officers, and auditors can leverage to secure and assess macOS desktop and laptop system security in an automated way. This publication introduces the mSCP and gives an overview of the resources available from the project's GitHub site, which is continuously curated and updated to support each new release of macOS. The GitHub site provides practical, actionable recommendations in the form of secure baselines and associated rules. This publication also describes use cases for leveraging the mSCP content. Updates from the previous version of this publication mainly involve the new mSCP capability to create a custom benchmark by tailoring a baseline.
Video Games in Transmedia Storyworlds
Authors: Joyce Stephen
Published: June 2023

This article looks at the impact of video games on transmedia fantasy worlds using The Witcher as a primary example. While Hollywood-centred franchises tends to follow a “mothership” model of transmedia, with one dominant platform surrounded by ancillary texts, The Witcher demonstrates an alternate model in which the video game series plays just as central a role as the TV adaptation. The article introduces the concept of “dual industrial core” transmedia to describe this type of franchise and explains its implications for fantastic storyworlds. Whereas mothership transmedia attempts to offer high levels of completeness and consistency, particularly in relation to the storyworld’s mythos and topos, dual industrial core transmedia favours greater flexibility. The key platforms for the storyworld maintain distinct differences between each other, often deliberately choosing to diverge in terms of character and storyworld representation, with the video game praised for its Slavic character while the TV series aims for a more generic fantasy environment reminiscent of Game of Thrones or The Lord of the Rings. What holds the fantasy world together is less a coherent mythos and topos than a particular kind of ethos, allowing creators in different media to expand the storyworld by creating “Witcher-esque” situations that are accepted as authentic if they remain true to the storyworld’s bleak, morally ambiguous worldview. As dual industrial core franchises become more common, we may also expect to see more fantastic storyworlds bound primarily by ethos with significantly less emphasis on a complete, consistent mythos and topos.
Making the Fantastic Real
Authors: Andersen Tem Frank , Jensen Thessa , Vistisen Peter
Published: June 2023

This study - Making the Fantastic Real - provides research into the subject of design fiction, science fiction fandom, sharable digital media content on the one hand, and the design of real-life engineering artifacts on the other. This study has selected the case of The Hacksmith to understand the space of meaning (science, fiction, co-creation, and design) created by the production of “the fantastic” by this specific acknowledged Canadian Youtuber.

 

The Hacksmith Industries is the trademark name of the YouTube channel The Hacksmith (https://www.youtube.com/c/theHacksmith/featured) created by Canadian engineer James Hobson in 2006. One of the signature elements of Hobson’s interests is the lightsaber and the Star Wars franchise. But Hobson explores many other dimensions of popular culture, ranging from nerf wars shooters to superhero artifacts of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. His focus is on how to make elements or objects of the fantastic real, as his slogan goes, not to change any storyline, story arc or franchise world, but to see how far the innate human capability of play and creation can be taken from the fictional realm to reality.
Analyzing The Relationship Between Systemic Inflammatory Index, Neutrophil Lymphocyte Ratios And Covid-19 Infection
Authors: CANBAZ Hayri , ERGÜN SÜZER Neslihan , SİRKECİ Özgür , ERKUŞ SİRKECİ Emel
Published: June 2023

Introduction: There are important parameters in understanding the severity of COVID-19 infection. We aimed to observe the role of systemic inflammatory index and neutrophil lymphocyte ratios in Covid-19 infections and the changes seen during the infection process.

Method: This retrospective single-center study was conducted between April 2020 and May 2020. Clinical, demographic and laboratory data of patients with COVID-19 were analyzed. All COVID-19 case confirmation made with reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction. Neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio and SII change and relationship were examined.

Results: 140 patients were included in our study and 50 of them were female. There was no statistically significant difference in SII according to gender (p>0.05) but there was a difference in SII between age categories (p=0.009). A statistically significant difference was found (p=0.003) regardless of the presence of comorbidities. Tobacco users had a significantly lower SII (p=0.028). A statistically significant difference was found between SII and Covid Severity Index (p=0.020). A statistically significant difference was found in the SII values of those receiving favipiravir treatment and those receiving hydroxychloroquine treatment (p
INVESTIGATION OF COVID-19 ANXIETY LEVELS OF PHYSICIANS
Authors: ÖZBAY Sedat , AYAN Mustafa
Published: June 2023

Background:The Coronavirus Anxiety Scale is a self-reported scanning tool used to detect dysfunctional anxiety about the COVID-19 pandemic. In this study, our aim was to determine the anxiety levels of members of the Medical Chamber of the Sivas and Erzincan provinces of Turkey during the pandemic.

Methods:The Coronavirus Anxiety Scale questionnaire was e-mailed to members of the Sivas-Erzincan Medical Chamber. According to the scores obtained from the questionnaire, the participants were divided into two groups: those without anxiety (Group 1) and those with anxiety (Group 2). The Mann-Whitney U test was used to compare two independent groups for continuous data, and Pearson’s chi-square test was used for frequency data. A p value of
EVALUATION OF POSSIBLE COMPLICATIONS OF IRRADIATION OF BLOOD PRODUCTS ON PATIENTS
Authors: TERZİ Hatice , İNANIR Merve , YILMAZ Hüseyin , YURTSEVER İlkay , ŞENCAN Mehmet
Published: June 2023

Background: Blood transfusion is a life-saving but high-risk procedure in various medical conditions as it is not a simple fluid infusion but an organ transplant. Although blood transfusions save lives, they may cause serious, life-threatening reactions. Nowadays, the number of reactions has decreased significantly with the reduction of leucocyte content of blood products or their irradiation.

Materials and Method: A total of 5582 patients who received irradiated blood products in our hospital between 14/08/2020 and 17/02/2023 were included in the present study. Erythrocyte suspension, platelet apheresis, and pooled platelet suspension were irradiated at doses of 25–30 Gy.

Results: A total of 5582 blood products including 4990 erythrocyte suspensions, 282 pooled platelet suspensions, and 310 platelet apheresis were irradiated in the present study. No transfusion-associated Graft Versus Host Disease was identified in any patient included in the present study and there were only mild allergic reactions and febrile non-hemolytic transfusion reactions.

Conclusions: Based on the data obtained here from, it was concluded that irradiation of blood products can prevent the highly fatal transfusion-related Graft Versus Host Disease.
In lim(in)e(s). Post-coloniser les frontières nuyoricaines
Authors: Cavallari Santa Vanessa
Published: June 2023

Avec une condition politique oscillant entre l’indépendance et la dépendance aux États-Unis, Puerto Rico et sa civilisation sont l’incarnation culturelle de la lisière. Lieu de débat fluide et non pas flou, la frontière nuyoricaine forge une identité boricua singulière, issue du binarisme oppositif, mais participant du nomadisme dont s’empare l’époque post-moderne. L’article se propose d’explorer la façon dont la production littéraire de Giannina Braschi problématise le concept de frontière qui devient chez elle, au nom de tous les Nuyoricains, délimitation et séparation (limes) mais aussi seuil poreux habitable (in limine), à la fois lieu de fusion et de friction géopolitique et civilisationnelle. Dans le « trans » qui caractérise l’histoire portoricaine ainsi que la population nuyoricaine, l’identité culturelle n’est plus située dans un tiers espace qui résout les dissonances entre colonisateur et colonisé, mais dans une subversion rendue possible par l’hybridisme…
The role of the “frontier” in conceptualising the Russian imperial identity: a study based on Polish political prisoners
Authors: Gaibulina Karina
Published: June 2023

This article explores the intricacies of constructing and defining the identity of individuals residing at the southern and eastern frontiers of the Russian Empire. The inhabitants of these imperial cities and fortifications, nestled between two cultures, primarily consisted of forcibly displaced individuals and their progeny, apart from those in military or administrative service. The presence of Polish exiles in the eastern and southern peripheries of the Russian Empire was a direct consequence of its expansionist policy. Through the diaries, correspondence, and published works of three Polish political prisoners – Adolf Januszkiewicz, Bronis?aw Zaleski, and Seweryn Gross – we delve into the complex, ambiguous, and multifaceted identities of their oppressors, the steppe dwellers, and the political exiles themselves, all intertwined in complex colonial relations. This investigation challenges simplistic distinctions such as “us” versus “them” and “here” versus “there”.
Ultrashort pulsed neutron source driven by two counter-propagating laser pulses interacting with ultra-thin foil
Authors: Feng Kai-Yuan , Shao Fu-Qiu , Jiang Xiang-Rui , Zou De-Bin , Hu Li-Xiang , Zhang Guo-Bo , Yang Xiao-Hu , Yin Yan , Ma Yan-Yun , Yu Tong-Pu ,   Department of Physics, College of Science, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China,   Department of Nuclear Science and Technology, College of Science, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China,   The First Interdisciplinary Center, College of Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China
Published: June 2023

Neutron production via D(d, n)3He nuclear reaction during the interaction of two counter-propagating circularly polarized laser pulses with ultra-thin deuterium target is investigated by particle-in-cell simulation and Monte Carlo method. It is found that the rotation direction and initial relative phase difference of laser electric field vector have important effects on deuterium foil compression and neutron characteristics. The reason is attributed to the net light pressure and the difference in transverse instability development. The highest neutron yield can be obtained by choosing two laser pulses with a relative phase difference of 0 and the same rotation direction of the electric field vector. When the relative phase difference is 0.5π or 1.5π and the rotation direction of electric field vector is different, the neutrons have a directional spatial distribution and the neutron yield only slightly decreases. For left-handed circularly polarized laser pulse and right-handed circularly polarized laser pulse, each with an intensity of 1.23 × 1021 W/cm2, a pulse width of 33 fs and a relative phase difference of 0.5π, it is possible to produce a pulsed neutron source with a yield of 8.5 × 104 n, production rate of 1.2 × 1019 n/s, pulse width of 23 fs and good forward direction as well as tunable spatial distribution. Comparing with photonuclear neutron source and beam target neutron source driven by ultraintense laser pulses, the duration of neutron source in our scheme decreases significantly, thereby possessing many potential applications such as neutron nuclear data measurement. Our scheme offers a possible method to obtain a compact neutron source with short pulse width, high production rate and good forward direction.
Prevalence of Burnout in Administrative and Industrial Sectors
Authors: Pargov Natasha , Stoyanova Vessela
Published: June 2023

Burnout is one of the most common psychological conditions that modern society is increasingly facing with, as it influences health status and can mediate the relationship between workload and mental disorders.
The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of burnout with its dimensions among the specified groups of workers.
A self-administered questionnaire was completed by a sample of three groups of workers to assess burnout with its three dimensions (Maslach Burnout Inventory–General Survey). Pearson correlation coefficient and Spearman rank correlation coefficient were used to determine the relationship between numerical variables with normal/not normal frequency distribution.
The total burnout score was 2.55 ± 1.08, which corresponded to a moderate degree of this dimension. Of the total sample 18.1% were with a severe degree of burnout while 68.9% were with moderate. Significantly the worst was the situation in the industrial respondents, 25% were severely and 69.3% were moderately burned out, followed by the private and public groups.
Our study indicated a high prevalence of burnout, especially in the industrial sectors. The use of accurate results could prove vital in the early detection and management of affected individuals, especially in high-risk professions. Burnout prevention and burnout reduction interventions should be made to highlight the increasing need for the development and deployment of mental health institutions and professionals around the country, in the efforts to pay more attention to mental health.
Influence of "``Avigen Duck" Immunomodulator on Some Humoral Factors of Non-specific Protection in White Pekin Ducks Parents
Authors: Karakolev Rumen , Koynarski Tsvetoslav , Petrova-Tsenin Preslava , Petrova Reneta
Published: June 2023

Field trials were carried out to investigate the impact of “AVIGEN DUCK”  immunomodulator on the IFN-γ concentration, IL-2, IL-6, lysozyme, and betalysine activity in the blood serum in White Pekin ducks’ parents. The IFN-γ, IL-2, and IL-6 were analyzed by immunoenzyme methods, while the lysozyme and beta-lysine activities were determined using conventional techniques. The measured values among experimental birds for most parameters were significantly higher than those in controls during the observed period. An exception to this trend were the concentrations of lysozyme and beta-lysine, in which an inverse relationship was noticed. During the experiments, the challenged flocks were bred without the use of antibiotics. Based on collected data we consider the immunomodulator “AVIGEN DUCK” a successful alternative tool in the fight against microbial resistance associated with the use of antibiotics in poultry farming, as well as a means of enhancing the natural immunity in aquatic birds.
Tactical Publishing
Authors: Ludovico Alessandro
Published: June 2023

How to level up to the next transformative phase of publishing—with a critical methodology that transcends the dichotomy of paper and digital media production.

Publishing is experiencing one of the most transformative phases in its history. In Tactical Publishing, a sequel to Post-Digital Print, Alessandro Ludovico explores the forces driving this historical phase, highlighting the tremendous opportunities it presents. Our task, he believes, is to develop an alternative publishing system that transcends the dichotomy between paper and digital media. He focuses first on the two activities on which publishing is premised—reading and writing (with an emphasis onwriting machines and post-truth in the latter)—and then deconstructs the concept, proposing alternative strategies inspired by recent practices and unconventional uses of technology.

Ludovico shows how the radical and strategic use of print in the past can serve as the basis for our transition to the next phase of publishing. He argues that the new ecology of publishing should be based on three main elements: the stimulation of our senses, the role of software in forming the publishing infrastructure, and the importance of archives. During this transition from the current post-digital phase to the next phase, independent publishers and artists, as well as readers and machines, will enable new structures and actions that realize the potential of publishing and the preservation of content, thereby enriching social practices. The author also considers the crucial social role played by new forms of libraries, as artists and publishers shape the coming publishing world in its various manifestations. Combining analytical accounts of tactical strategies with examples from artworks and experimental practices, the book concludes with a manifesto for publishing in the twenty-first century and an appendix with a selection of one hundred publications representing the “periodic table” of future publishing.
Selected Nonfiction, 1962–2007
Authors: Ballard J. G.
Published: June 2023

J. G. Ballard's collected nonfiction from 1962 to 2007, mapping the cultural obsessions, experiences, and insights of one of the most original minds of his generation.

J. G. Ballard was a colossal figure in English literature and an imaginative force of the twentieth century. Alongside seminal novels—from the notorious Crash (1973)to the semi-autobiographical Empire of the Sun (1984)—Ballard was a sought-after reviewer and commentator, publishing journalism, memoir, and cultural criticism in a variety of forms. This volume collects the most significant short nonfiction of Ballard's fifty-year career, extending the range of the only previous collection of his nonfiction, A User's Guide to the Millennium (1996), which selected essays and reviews published between 1962 and 1995.

A decade on from Ballard's death in 2009, a new generation of readers needs a new collection. In the period following A User's Guide, Ballard's writing addressed 9/11, British politics from New Labour onward, and what he termed “the rise of soft fascism”—a diagnosis that maintains its relevance amid a shift toward right populism in European and US politics. Beautifully edited by Ballard scholar and novelist Mark Blacklock, this volume includes Ballard's editorials and manifestos; commentaries on his own work; commentaries on the work of others; reviews; and more. Above all, it makes the case for the currency of Ballard's work at a contemporary juncture at which so many of his diagnoses concerning the media and politics have become apparent.
The Promise and Peril of Entrepreneurship
Authors: Fairlie Robert W. , Kroff Zachary , Miranda Javier , Zolas Nikolas
Published: June 2023

A clearer view of entrepreneurship, based on new comprehensive data, that upends what we know about job creation and survival among US startups.

Startups create jobs and power economic growth. That's an article of faith in the United States—but, as The Promise and Peril of Entrepreneurship reveals, our faith may be built on shaky ground. Economists Robert Fairlie, Zachary Kroff, Javier Miranda, and Nikolas Zolas—working with Census Bureau microdata—have developed a new data set, the Comprehensive Startup Panel, that tracks job creation and the survival of every startup in the country. In doing so, they recalibrate our understanding of how startups behave in the US economy. Specifically, their work seeks to answer three critical questions: How many jobs does each entrepreneur create? Do those jobs disappear quickly? And how long do entrepreneurial enterprises survive? Job creation and survival rates are, the authors conclude, much lower than those reported by official federal sources. Such discrepancies emerge from the more comprehensive picture drawn from this new data set—a picture that, for instance, highlights the important but understudied differences between employer firms (startups that hire people) and nonemployer firms (startups that do not initially hire people but may do so in later years as they grow). This reframing captures the vast number of businesses that start with no employees, a number largely missing from the statistics underpinning the mythos of the riskiness of entrepreneurship. The book also explores who owns startups—focusing on differences by race and ethnicity. With its new, wider view of the realities of job creation and survival among startups, The Promise and Peril of Entrepreneurship has significant implications for economic policymaking and research, and for the billions of dollars that the government and the private sector invest in promoting entrepreneurship.
Fascination of Science
Authors: Koelbl Herlinde
Published: June 2023

An intimate collection of portraits of internationally renowned scientists and Nobel Prize winners, paired with interviews and personal stories.

What makes a brilliant scientist? Who are the people behind the greatest discoveries of our time? Connecting art and science, photographer Herlinde Koelbl seeks the answers in this English translation of the German book Fascination of Science, an indelible collection of portraits of and interviews with sixty pioneering scientists of the twenty-first century. Koelbl's approach is intimate and accessible, and her highly personal interviews with her subjects reveal the forces (as well as the personal quirks) that motivate the scientists' work; for example, one wakes up at 3 am because her mind is calm then, another says his best ideas come to him in the shower. These glimpses into the scientists' lives and thinking add untold texture in this up-to-the-minute survey of the activities and progress that are currently taking place in the broad field of the natural sciences.

Koelbl's interview subjects include Nobel Prize winners Dan Shechtman, Frances Arnold, Carolyn Bertozzi, and cover scientific fields from astronomy, biochemistry, and quantum physics to stem-cell research and AI. Beautifully bringing together art, science, and the written word, Fascination of Science is an inspiring read that shows how creativity, obsession, persistence, and passion drive the pioneering researchers of our time.
After Eating
Authors: Kelley Lindsay
Published: June 2023

An exploration of food, ingestion, and digestion in the emerging field of the metabolic arts.

Food appears everywhere in the arts. But what happens after viewers carry food away in the intestinal networks activated by social practice art, the same way digestion turns food into a body? Exploring the emerging field of metabolic arts, After Eating claims digestion and metabolism as key cultural, creative, and political processes that demand attention. Taking an artist-centered approach to nutrition, Lindsay Kelley cultivates a neglected middle ground between the everyday and the scientific, using metabolism as a lens through which to read and write about art.

Divided into two parts and full of playful chapter titles such as “Food Babies” and “Poop Circus,” After Eating investigates multiple facets of the sociocultural implications of body image and body process in body art from the 1970s to the present. By engaging the notion of “after” as an artistic homage or tribute, metabolism moves beyond the cell to transform into a method for responding to the most difficult cultural, philosophical, and political challenges of the contemporary moment. Metabolic reading rethinks feminist, queer, bioart, installation, and performance projects, providing artists, students, and teachers with new pathways into art theory.
Design, Empathy, Interpretation
Authors: Koskinen Ilpo
Published: June 2023

A new, empathic approach to design research, drawn from the informed experiences of a leading design research program in Finland.

Design, Empathy, Interpretation tells the story of empathic design, a design research program at Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland, that has developed an interpretive approach to design over the past twenty years. As one of the leaders of the Helsinki group, Ilpo Koskinen draws on his own experiences to offer readers a general intellectual and professional history of design research, and argues for what he calls an interpretive approach. Design, Empathy, Interpretation shows how the group has created connections all across the globe, and how a seemingly soft approach to design research can be useful in both industry and government.

Koskinen follows design research's transformation from questions of usability, in the 1980s, through to the revolution in personal electronics and the “user-centered” turn of the 1990s. Using the research community in Helsinki as a case study, and moving between specific projects and theoretical debates, heoffers readers a focused introduction to the major methodological and intellectual challenges—as well as the opportunities—of design research. He argues that all design tasks, however simple or complex, begin with understanding the way humans ascribe meaning, both as individuals and as actors in complex societies. Thus all design research must be interpretive at its core.
The Great Remobilization
Authors: Groth Olaf , Esposito Mark , Tse Terence
Published: June 2023

How the turmoil of recent years gives leaders an unprecedented opportunity to redesign global strategies and systems and to remobilize toward a smarter, more resilient, and equitable future.

How can leaders faced with tremendous global upheaval create more resilient and trustworthy systems? In The Great Remobilization, Olaf Groth, Mark Esposito, and Terence Tse (along with research partner Dan Zehr) diagnose tectonic shifts in the global economy with an eye toward designing a smarter “operating system” for the world. Through their FLP-IT (forces, logic, phenomena, impact, and triage) framework for strategic leadership, the authors chart a path forward, providing guidance for a new breed of “design activist leader.” Focusing on key tectonic shifts they call the Five Cs—COVID and pandemic management, the cognitive economy and crypto, cybersecurity, climate change and carbon management, and China—they examine the implications that new forces and logics will have on countries, organizations, and individuals.

Drawing from one hundred interviews and conversations with top-level executives, entrepreneurs, policymakers, diplomats, generals, scholars, and other leading experts from around the world, the authors show how to create new inclusive visions with the aim of rebuilding the trust that will allow for both human and economic growth. Insightful and forward-thinking, The Great Remobilization powerfully illustrates the rare opportunity that we have in this historic moment to actively redesign our fragile, overpressurized global systems and develop new strategies and leadership approaches for the future. Authored by three scholar-practitioners, their synthetic perspectives and insights are at once rooted in deep research and focused on relevance for leaders and their organizations.
Subject Matter
Authors: Vinegar Aron
Published: June 2023

A theorization of habit that emphasizes its excessive and unsettling qualities rather than its mediating, adaptive, and stabilizing functions.

Subject Matter offers a bold counterpoint to prevalent conceptions of habit characterized by bodily fluidity and ease, as the stabilizing foundation of an emerging subjectivity, or, more negatively, as a numbing and deadening force. Instead of facilitating the coordination of action with goal and self with environment, habit appears here as a disruptively recursive operation with extreme ontological implications that are often more quotidian than exceptional. Vinegar theorizes habit's more perturbing aspects, from repetition compulsion to kenosis to breakdown, through an encounter between Hegel's philosophy (of habit), psychoanalytic dimensions of repetition, Tom McCarthy's novel Remainder, and Omer Fast's feature-length film interpretation of the novel.

Vinegar starts with the premise that habit is an “unhappy mediator,” a disturbance of the very medium and milieu that is constitutive of the subject. Subject Matter pays close attention to those aspects of habit that are usually considered deviations from, or potential threats to, habit proper and that generate a logic of breakdown: automaticity, mechanization, thingness, inertia, and fixity. By plotting a topology of habit's unbearability through detailed accounts of its manifestation in writing, art, aesthetics, and visuality—and through an attentiveness to the unbalanced nonrelations between mediation and immediacy, being and having, fixity and fluidity, vanishing and overflowing, abbreviation and excess, beginning and ending—Vinegar exposes habit's failure to mediate and inhabit. In doing so, he offers new and counterintuitive insights into how habit generates the unruly grounds it is supposed to settle, thus allowing us to ask how we might break down differently.
The Brain in Motion
Authors: Grillner Sten
Published: June 2023

An evolutionary perspective—from lampreys to humans—on how the forebrain coordinates movement while the networks in the brainstem and spinal cord handle the execution.

All living creatures interact with their environment: even the most basic have a set of innate motor circuits they rely on to feed, locomote, fight, and flee. In The Brain in Motion, Sten Grillner describes the evolution of the motor repertoire of vertebrates, from protovertebrates to primates. With breadth and depth, Grillner explores how the brain uses the different microcircuits in the brainstem and spinal cord, coordinating them through commands from the forebrain. He also considers the normal function of the brain as a platform for understanding clinical conditions such as stroke, Parkinson´s and Huntington´s diseases, and spinal cord injury.

Grillner also explains in The Brain in Motion how the remarkable finding that the lamprey forebrain has all the components of the mammalian one has radically changed scientists' views on the evolutionary origin of the vertebrate forebrain. We now know that the basic organization evolved 560 rather than 300 million years ago, as was previously thought. The forebrain, says Grillner, is like an orchestra conductor, while the microcircuits, with their reaching, grasping, posture, locomotion, and numerous other patterns of behavior, correspond to the members of the orchestra. The conductor determines when each will be called into action.

Providing an elegantly integrated perspective, The Brain in Motion is essential reading for anybody that works professionally with movement control and function and dysfunction, whether in basic research, clinically, or in the training of motor skills.
The Stuff Games Are Made Of
Authors: Barr Pippin
Published: June 2023

A deep dive into practical game design through playful philosophy and philosophical play.

What are video games made of? And what can that tell us about what they mean? In The Stuff Games Are Made Of,experimental game maker Pippin Barr explores the materials of video game design. Taking the reader on a deep dive into eight case studies of his own games, Barr illuminates the complex nature of video games and video game design, and the possibilities both offer for exploring ideas big and small.

Through a variety of engaging and approachable examples, Barr shows how every single aspect of a game—whether it is code, graphics, interface, or even time itself—can be designed with and related to the player experience. Barr's experimental approach, with its emphasis on highly specific elements of games, will leave readers armed with intriguing design philosophy, conceptual rigor, and diverse insights into the inner life of video games. Upon finishing this book, readers will be ready to think deeply about the nature of games, to dive into expressive and experimental game design themselves, or simply to play with a new and expanded mindset.
A Gallery of Recuperation
Authors: Semprun Jaime
Published: June 2023

The first English translation of the French cult classic that lampoons France's most popular intellectuals of the post-1968 period and their ideas, which became forces of counterrevolution.

Eric-John Russell's translation of Jaime Semprún's brutal takedown of France's best-known intellectuals of the post-1968 period, A Gallery of Recuperation, is one of the first full English versions of any of Semprún's books. Originally titled Précis de recuperation, the book is a scathing critique of ten major thinkers, including Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Jean-François Lyotard, and Cornelius Castoriadis. Semprún uses this catalog of careerism to reflect on the concept of recuperation—capitalism's uncanny ability to coopt anticapitalist critiques and subvert subversion. His central question: What happens to revolutionary ideas, including Marxism itself, in the hands of professional intellectuals?

Semprún's idiosyncratic and playful style of polemics takes existentialism, humanism, structuralism, poststructuralism, postmodernism, aesthetics, and psychoanalysis to task, casting new light on the figures who have become dominant staples of modern Anglophone academia, and proving the necessity of critiquing intellectuals' roles within contemporary capitalism. A cult classic among the French radical left and scholars of the Situationist International and May 1968, A Gallery of Recuperation never made the impact it should have. Russell's translation marks a major step in recognizing Semprún's work beyond its French context.
The Hidden Factor
Authors: Skaggs Steven
Published: June 2023

An exquisitely illustrated introduction to the gestural mark in the designed world, exploring the tension between marks, which are felt, and images and words, which are conceptual.

In The Hidden Factor, Steven Skaggs provides a beautifully illustrated and explained introduction to the mark—from those as physical as a scratch made by an animal, to those as accidental as a splatter of paint, to those as intentional as hand-drawn characters. Skaggs makes the case that, in the visual arts, gestures and mark-making operate on an equal level with image and word. While we might think of content as that which is communicated through text and images, Skaggs shows, through visual examples, that the gestural mark is often hidden within both images and the typographic forms that convey words.

By mapping different kinds of marks and showing how marks combine with image and word, The Hidden Factor explains that our desire for conceptual information suppresses our awareness of marking. This is especially the case with the tension between word and mark, where we desire legibility. As a result, one of the most conservative of arts—calligraphy—has the potential of being the most radical, since gesturally expressive handwriting is a natural threat to the legibility of a text.

Filled with expressive calligraphic art, graffiti, and other gorgeous marks, The Hidden Factor is an eye-opening read that brings to the fore the importance—and indeed, the prevalence—of the mark in everything we see.
The Napoleon of Notting Hill
Authors: Chesterton G.K.
Published: June 2023

A satire set in a future England, in which a neomedievalist contest among London neighborhoods takes a disastrous turn.

When Auberon Quin, a prankster nostalgic for Merrie Olde England, becomes king of that country in 1984, he mandates that each of London's neighborhoods become an independent state, complete with unique local costumes. Everyone goes along with the conceit until young Adam Wayne, a born military tactician, takes the game too seriously. . . and becomes the Napoleon of Notting Hill. War ensues throughout the city—fought with sword and halberd!

G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) was an English author, poet, critic, and newspaper columnist known for his brilliant, epigrammatic paradoxes. His best-known character is the priest-detective Father Brown, featured in over fifty stories published between 1910 and 1936, who solves mysteries and crimes thanks to his understanding of spiritual and philosophic truths; and his best-known novel is The Man Who Was Thursday (1908), a metaphysical thriller. In addition to The Napoleon of Notting Hill, his first novel, he wrote several other near-future satires of England.
The Night Land
Authors: Hodgson William Hope
Published: June 2023

A romance of the far future, in which humankind has relocated underground, where it is beset by monsters from another dimension—but love leads on.

In the far future, humankind's survivors huddle below Earth's frozen surface in a pyramidal fortress-city that, for centuries now, has been under siege by loathsome “Ab-humans,” enormous slugs and spiders, and malevolent “Watching Things” from another dimension. When our unnamed protagonist receives a telepathic distress signal from a woman whom (in a previous incarnation) he'd once loved, he sallies forth on an ill-advised rescue mission—into the fiend-haunted Night Land!

“Like certain rare dreams,” C. S. Lewis wrote of Hodgson's masterpiece, The Night Land can give “sensations we never had before and enlarge our conception of the range of possible experience.” H. P. Lovecraft agreed that this is “one of the most potent pieces of macabre imagination ever written.”

William Hope Hodgson (1877–1918) was an English poet, sailor, bodybuilder, and weird fiction pioneer whose horror, fantastic, and proto-sf novels—in addition to The Night Land—include The Boats of the “Glen Carrig” (1907), The House on the Borderland (1908), and The Ghost Pirates (1909). He also wrote stories in the Sargasso Sea series, the Captain Gault series, and a series about the occult detective Carnacki.
We, the Data
Authors: Wong Wendy H.
Published: June 2023

A rallying call for extending human rights beyond our physical selves—and why we need to reboot rights in our data-intensive world.

Our data-intensive world is here to stay, but does that come at the cost of our humanity in terms of autonomy, community, dignity, and equality? In We, the Data, Wendy H. Wong argues that we cannot allow that to happen. Exploring the pervasiveness of data collection and tracking, Wong reminds us that we are all stakeholders in this digital world, who are currently being left out of the most pressing conversations around technology, ethics, and policy. This book clarifies the nature of datafication and calls for an extension of human rights to recognize how data complicate what it means to safeguard and encourage human potential.

As we go about our lives, we are co-creating data through what we do. We must embrace that these data are a part of who we are, Wong explains, even as current policies do not yet reflect the extent to which human experiences have changed. This means we are more than mere “subjects” or “sources” of data “by-products” that can be harvested and used by technology companies and governments. By exploring data rights, facial recognition technology, our posthumous rights, and our need for a right to data literacy, Wong has crafted a compelling case for engaging as stakeholders to hold data collectors accountable. Just as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights laid the global groundwork for human rights, We, the Data gives us a foundation upon which we claim human rights in the age of data.
Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground
Authors: Horvath Stu
Published: June 2023

A richly illustrated, encyclopedic deep dive into the history of roleplaying games.

When Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson released Dungeons & Dragons in 1974, they created the first roleplaying game of all time. Little did they know that their humble box set of three small digest-sized booklets would spawn an entire industry practically overnight. In Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground, Stu Horvath explores how the hobby of roleplaying games, commonly known as RPGs, blossomed out of an unlikely pop culture phenomenon and became a dominant gaming form by the 2010s. Going far beyond D&D, this heavily illustrated tome covers more than three hundred different RPGs that have been published in the last five decades.

Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground features (among other things) bunnies, ghostbusters, soap operas, criminal bears, space monsters, political intrigue, vampires, romance, and, of course, some dungeons and dragons. In a decade-by-decade breakdown, Horvath chronicles how RPGs have evolved in the time between their inception and the present day, offering a deep and gratifying glimpse into a hobby that has changed the way we think about games and play.

Illustrations by Kyle Patterson.

A deluxe edition of this book is also available from MIT Press.
Cloud Computing
Authors: Ruparelia Nayan B.
Published: June 2023

An updated, revised, and comprehensive overview of the concepts related to cloud computing, including recent applications, innovations, and its future evolution.

In this Essential Knowledge volume, Nayan B. Ruparelia provides an updated and revised version of Cloud Computing, first published in 2016, to address not only the fact that cloud computing has become a ubiquitous part of mainstream computing since then but also has made strides in other key aspects of the technology's development, including:

• cloud computing's history,

• updated security fundamentals that provide examples of Identity and Access Management (IAM) use that illustrate the difference between on-premise (i.e., conventional) security and cloud-based security implementation and Security Information and Event Management SIEM),

• an updated discussion of data migration to the cloud,

• a new chapter on data integrity,

• cloud native computing,

• the use of microservice design patterns,

• cloud automation using orchestrators and tools such as Kubernetes,

• a comparison of common public clouds (Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and Amazon AWS),

• and a future outlook for cloud computing.

An indispensable guide to cloud computing for the layperson, Cloud Computing cuts through the technical jargon and details that are irrelevant to nontechnologists, as well as the marketing hype, and explains clearly what cloud computing is, when to use it (and when not to), how to select a cloud service, how to integrate it with other technologies, and what the best practices are for its adoption.
More Than a Health Crisis
Authors: Kirk Jessica
Published: June 2023

How the West African Ebola epidemic was transformed from an urgent and distant tragedy into an existential threat to American lives—establishing the dynamics that would later dominate the US response to epidemics such as COVID-19.

In 2014 and 2015, the viral Ebola epidemic in West Africa inspired breathless US media coverage and became the subject of heated public debate over just how to understand the security issue that the outbreak presented. Was it a security concern because of the lives at risk in West Africa? Or because of its threat to regional and global stability? Or was it potentially a threat to the American people? In More Than a Health Crisis, Jessica Kirkreveals how these varied positions spoke to divisions within the American public, concerning how we think about and respond to uncertainty, competing expertise, and securitization.

Kirk insightfully examines how experts in different fields offered conflicting assessments of the risks posed by Ebola, and then goes on to analyze how the US press undermined the authority of the public health experts who accurately predicted that the virus posed little danger to Americans. Reading the media coverage of the Ebola epidemic as a case study in the biopolitics of fear, Kirk considers how the US response reflected not only anxieties over globalization but also long-held narratives about the “Dark Continent.” Finally, Kirk shows how the US and global public response to the Ebola outbreak challenged traditional models of securitization and identifies patterns that have tragically recurred with subsequent epidemics such as COVID-19 and monkeypox.