bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Parental precarious employment and the mental health of adolescents: a Swedish registry study
Authors: Aronsson Amanda E , Thern Emelie , Matilla-Santander Nuria , Kvart Signild , Hernando-Rodriguez Julio C , Badarin Kathryn , Julià Mireia , Alfayumi-Zeadna Samira , Gunn Virginia , Kreshpaj Bertina , Muntaner Carles , Bodin Theo , Mangot-Sala Lluís
Published: January 2025

OBJECTIVE: This study investigates the association between parental precarious employment (PE) and the mental health of their adolescent children, with a particular focus on how the association differs based on whether the mother or father is in PE.

METHODS: This register-based study used the Swedish Work, Illness, and Labor-market Participation (SWIP) cohort. A sample of 117 437 children aged 16 years at baseline (2005) were followed up until 2009 (the year they turned 20). A multidimensional construct of PE (SWE-ROPE 2.0) was used to classify parental employment as either precarious, substandard or standard. The outcome, adolescents’ mental disorders, was measured as a diagnosis of a mental disorder using ICD-10 codes or by prescribed psychotropic drugs using ATC codes. Crude and adjusted Cox regression models produced hazard ratios (HR) with 95% confidence intervals (CI) to estimate the association between parental PE and adolescents’ mental health.

RESULTS: Adolescents with parents in PE exhibited a higher risk of developing mental disorders. The association was more pronounced for paternal PE (HR 1.22, 95% CI 1.10–1.35) compared to maternal PE (HR 1.11, 95% CI 1.00–1.21). These associations largely persisted after adjusting for important confounders, including parental mental health.

CONCLUSION: This study addresses a significant gap in the literature on parental PE and adolescents’ mental health. As PE is growing more common across countries, this study provides relevant insights into the intergenerational role that parental low-quality employment may have in terms of mental health within families.
Production and Characterization of Traditionally Distilled Alcohol (Raksi)
Authors: Rukmani Mabohang
Published: January 2025

Raksi is an ethnic alcoholic drink, distilled from traditional fermented cereal beverages. The objective of this work was to characterize the traditionally fermented alcohol (raksi). We processed six raksi samples at home using traditional methods, and collected four locally from hotels in various districts. During the distillation of raksi, raksi samples were physically analyzed and found to be colorless, strongly concentrated, and alcoholic in nature. While examining the collected alcohol samples, they were found to be light yellow, cloudy, with strong concentration, and unpleasantly alcoholic in nature. All the samples were acidic with a pH range of 3.6-4.5, turbidity range from 3.5-7.8, and TDS less than 14, TSS ranging from 35-850 ppm, and TA ranging from 0.016-0.234%. The alcohol percentage was found in the range 8-46%. Alcohol percentage was highest in sample LAR10, i.e., 45% using a hydrometer, 45.32% using a pycnometer, and 35.95% using HS-GC. Sample LAR4 showed a minimum alcohol % of 10% using a hydrometer, 10.11% using a pycnometer, and 8.68% using HS-GC. There was no detection of methanol and propanol from the HS-GC result; only the ethanol was detected. Almost all the distillates lied in the score panel of “good” to “very good” by using the hedonic scale. The total bacterial count was found in the range of 0-30 CFU/100 ml and 0-7 CFU/ml from the MF technique and pour plate method, respectively. Morphological and biochemical studies confirmed that the isolated organisms were Bacillus spp. We found most of the alcohol samples effective against Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The substrates used for the fermentation of alcohol and their antibacterial efficacy showed insignificant association, i.e., p = 0.82 > 0.05. But the association between the alcohol percentage of samples and their antibacterial effectiveness was significant, i.e., p = 0.01 < 0.05. These findings highlight the characterization and detection of methanol and propanol in raksi, and they enhance the further findings of any hazards.
Indicação de genótipos polinizadores para o cultivar de macieira ‘SCS443 Isadora’
Authors: Kvitschal Marcus Vinícius , Brancher Thyana Lays , Elias Rafaela Walesko
Published: January 2025

Em função do mecanismo genético de autoincompatibilidade gametofítica presente na macieira, é primordial que um pomar possua genótipos polinizadores específicos para garantir a produção de frutos. Este estudo tem como objetivo avaliar diferentes genótipos polinizadores para o cultivar de macieira SCS445 Isadora. A verificação da compatibilidade genética foi realizada via genotipagem de alelos S por marcadores de DNA específicos. Também foram realizadas polinizações a campo em Caçador, SC, por duas safras consecutivas, a fim de verificar a eficiência de cada genótipo polinizador em ambiente de pomar. O delineamento experimental foi em blocos ao acaso, com seis e cinco repetições de 25 inflorescências de duas flores cada, nas safras 2022/2023 e 2023/2024, respectivamente. Os cultivares SCS433 Felix 3, SCS435 Felix 5 e SCS417 Monalisa apresentam compatibilidade plena com ‘SCS443 Isadora’ e, embora ‘SCS425 Luiza’ seja semicompatível com ‘SCS443 Isadora’ por possuir um dos alelos em comum (S5), todas as plantas polinizadoras testadas se mostraram eficientes na fecundação do gameta feminino das flores e são aptas para utilização como genótipo polinizador em pomares do cultivar SCS443 Isadora.
SCS207 Querência
Authors: Kavalco Sydney Antonio Frehner , Nicknich Waldir , Prezotto Thaila Rayssa Potrich , Toniolo Diego Henrique Pilatti
Published: January 2025

SCS207 Querência is a new carioca common bean variety, developed by the Agricultural Research and Rural Extension Company of Santa Catarina (EPAGRI). This cultivar exhibits excellent grain yield, has high adaptability and stability, along with improved plant health, particularly showing moderate resistance to anthracnose (Colletotrichum lindemuthianum). Its plants are semi-erect with an indeterminate growth habit, making them suitable for mechanical harvesting. Its grains are characteristic of the carioca group, with a light beige background and a typical brown stripe. Its cultivation is recommended throughout southern Brazil during the main growing season (first) and the second season ("safrinha").
Capacidade germinativa in vitro de pólen de diferentes variedades de bananeiras diploides (Musa acuminata) coletadas ao longo de um ano em Santa Catarina
Authors: Scherer Ramon Felipe , Romani Grace Karina Kleber
Published: January 2025

A banana é uma das frutas com maior importância econômica e social no mundo. A obtenção contínua de novas variedades é crucial para aumentar a resiliência da cadeia produtiva da banana. Uma das principais metodologias de melhoramento é o cruzamento entre variedades comerciais e variedades diploides melhoradas. Assim, este trabalho avaliou a taxa de germinação de três genótipos diploides melhorados de bananeira durante doze meses, analisando e comparando as taxas médias de germinação mensal e total de cada acesso e observou a flutuação das taxas de germinação dentro de cada genótipo ao longo dos meses avaliados. Observou-se uma genótipo dependência nas taxas de germinação mensal e total, sendo que o genótipo 4223-06 apresentou maiores taxas de germinação mensal e total. Observou-se também que em todos os genótipos houve uma flutuação da germinação ao longo dos meses avaliados, havendo uma maior taxa de germinação nos meses do primeiro semestre do ano no período de avaliação, destacando-se as estações do verão e outono meteorológicos.
Venezuelan Migrants’ Resilience Strategies and Cultural Integration: A View from Chile
Authors: Acero Liliana , Pastor Pablo Zuleta
Published: January 2025

There has been a substantial influx of legal and irregular Venezuelan migrants into Chile in recent years, the number of whom was estimated as of May 2024 to be 532.700. They represent 32.8% of total migrants and the majority of foreign residents. Their expectations in migration were based on the global characterisation of Chile as an ‘oasis’ in Latin America. They were looking for either mere survival – given the socioeconomic conditions and violence prevailing in Venezuela – or stability and a better standard of living. The present paper develops a qualitative analysis of their resilience capacity and social adaptation strategies during resettlement. Ten in-depth face-to-face interviews were carried out divided by gender and class. Interviewees’ narratives were analysed with an eye to how they describe their networks and relationships, the personal characteristics that favour their integration, their affinities and differences with the host country’s cultural trends, and their fears of losing their culture of origin, as well as the possibilities of developing a new life project in Chile. The results show that their resilience patterns are mostly conservative and endurance oriented, though with some divergence. This individualistic component overlaps with a strong reliance on their families and close relationships, mostly among compatriots. However, none of them belong to migrant organisations that can defend their rights, despite their living in a ‘hyper neoliberal’ country that offers little state support for the implementation of adequate policies that could facilitate their social integration.
Effects of probiotic supplementation in rearing mud crab larvae (Scylla paramamosain estampador, 1949)
Authors:   Faculty of Agriculture and Aquaculture, Bac Lieu University, Bac Lieu, Vietnam, Le Vu H. ,   Faculty of Education, Bac Lieu University, Bac Lieu, Vietnam, Cao Tuyen B. ,   Faculty of Agricultural Economics, Ca Mau Community College, Ca Mau, Vietnam, Nguyen Bac V.
Published: January 2025

The research was conducted to evaluate effects of probiotics supplementation on growth performance and survival rate of mud crab (Scylla paramamosain) larvae. The experiment was arranged in a completely randomized design with 4 diets supplemented with various probiotics: (i) Control (w/o supplementation), (ii) L. acidophilus, (iii) B. subtilis, and (iv) a mixture of L. acidophilus and B. subtilis. A total of 12 composite tanks were filled with 60 L sterilized saline water (salinity 26 ppt) with a stocking density of 200 larvae/L and water exchange was controlled every 3 days (25% of the water volume). The probiotics (104 CFU/mL) were added separately to the experimental tanks every 3 days over a culture period. The L. acidophilus supplementation resulted in significantly higher total probiotics density (16.38 x 104 CFU/mL) compared with the control (6.37 x 104 CFU/mL) (P < 0.05). Furthermore, the control showed the highest Vibrio spp. density (6.67 x 103 CFU/mL) which differed significantly (P < 0.05) from remaining treatments with probiotics supplementation. The larval stage index (LSI) of mud crab larvae in probiotic supplemented treatments did not differ significantly (P > 0.05). The control had the lowest Crablet 1 ’s survival rate (7.51%) which differed significantly from remaining treatments (P < 0.05). In contrast, the L. acidophilus-supplemented treatment achieved the highest survival rate (10.04%). In conclusion, the obtained results suggested that L. acidophilus supplementation was considered the most potential approach to mud crab larvae production.
Application of electroacupuncture in the treatment of hind limb movement disorders in dogs
Authors:   Faculty of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Nong Lam University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Pham Duyen T. H. , Le Thong Q. , Nguyen Thuong T.
Published: January 2025

The objective of this study was to apply and evaluate the effectiveness of electroacupuncture in the treatment of hind limb movement disorders in dogs, the study was conducted from June 2023 to June 2024 at VSA Pet Clinic. The neurological examination assessed the spinal cord lesions such as urinary incontinence, fecal incontinence, hopping, examined and evaluated the animal’s conscious position sense, superficial pain perception and deep pain perception. Classification of hind limb movement disorders in dogs included weakness and paralysis. Using the Acupuncture Unit 20-needle electroacupuncture machine with a 6V power source, frequency 0 - 60 Hz. A total of 32 dogs with hind limb movement disorders had 28.13% of weakness and 71.87% of paralysis, including mixed breed dogs, bulldog, dachshund, poodle, domestic dogs, chihuahua, pomeranian and corgi. Lower motor nerve (LMN) lesions accounted for 46.87%, while upper motor nerve (UMN) lesions were 53.13% (P > 0.05). The results of Glasgow pain score, there was 28 dogs (87.5%) at scoring ≥ 6 points, the average pain scores were 9 points in paralysis cases, 6 points in weakness, 8.33 points in LMN lesions, and 8.00 points in UMN lesions. The effectiveness of treatment was 65.67%, with an average acupuncture time of 20 days, in which the recurrence rate was 14.28%. Electroacupuncture was highly effective and had a low recurrence rate in the treatment of hind limb motor neuropathy in dogs.
Nota Técnica 2 — micropoluentes (fármacos, desreguladores endócrinos e congêneres)
Authors: Silva Luiz Galdino da , Veras Shyrlane Torres Soares , Salviano Betina Andrade , Castro Lucas Vassalle de , Lobato Lívia Cristina da Silva , Chernicharo Carlos Augusto de Lemos , Florencio Lourdinha
Published: January 2025

Os micropoluentes são compostos químicos que estão presentes no ambiente em concentrações muito baixas, em níveis de traços (µg.L-1 a ng.L-1), mas que podem ocasionar efeitos deletérios no desenvolvimento de animais aquáticos e na saúde dos seres humanos. Exemplos são os vários tipos de câncer ligados ao sistema endócrino humano. Nesta nota técnica são abordados alguns aspectos importantes relacionados com a sua presença nas águas superficiais e subterrâneas, nas águas de abastecimento e, principalmente, nos esgotos domésticos. São apresentadas as técnicas atualmente estudadas e desenvolvidas para a sua remoção em estações de tratamento de esgotos (ETE), com um resumo daquelas de interesse, que usam sistemas de pós-tratamento avançados, uma vez que eles não são removidos eficientemente nas ETE convencionais. A importância do tema e alguns estudos relevantes na literatura são destacados nesta nota técnica.
Nota Técnica 4 – Surfactantes em esgoto sanitário e no meio ambiente: presença, remoção e toxicidade
Authors: Silva Luiz Galdino da , Veras Shyrlane Torres Soares , Nogueira Emmanuelle Machado Maia , Brochado Rafael Pessoa Santos , Marinho Idayana da Costa , Freitas Danúbia Maria da Silva , Motteran Fabrício , Paulo Paula Loureiro , Kato Mário Takayuki
Published: January 2025

Os surfactantes ou tensoativos sintéticos estão entre os principais componentes dos produtos de limpeza doméstica, como detergentes e sabões, como também de alguns produtos de cuidado pessoal. Eles têm um alto consumo mundial, fazendo parte da composição do esgoto sanitário. A eficiência de remoção dos surfactantes sintéticos nas estações de tratamento de esgoto (ETEs) pode chegar a até mais de 90%, seja por biodegradação em unidades aeróbias ou por adsorção ao lodo em tanques anaeróbios. A sua toxicidade depende muito da concentração e de uma combinação de diversos fatores. O impacto ambiental mais conhecido, devido à sua visibilidade, é a formação de espumas, tanto em ETEs como em corpos receptores. Elas são formadas devido ao contato do ar com a interface água/surfactante, principalmente sob turbulência. Entretanto, as espumas podem também ser formadas por surfactantes naturais, como por exemplo, os produzidos por certas algas e bactérias, que podem proliferar em ETEs ou em ambientes naturais. Medidas mitigadoras e preventivas, bem como a adequada operação de ETEs, podem eliminar ou minimizar os surfactantes e as espumas.
Exploring the Regularity of Acupoint Selection in Acupuncture Treatment for Peripheral Facial Paralysis
Authors: Wang Jiaxun , Liu Zhibin
Published: January 2025

Objective: To explore the regularity of acupoint selection in acupuncture treatment for peripheral facial paralysis. Methods: Research was conducted on the etiology and pathogenesis of facial neuritis from both traditional Chinese and Western medicine perspectives, as well as on the acupoint selection based on TCM syndrome differentiation and Western anatomical aspects. The significance of acupoint selection in different stages of peripheral facial paralysis treatment and the timing of acupuncture were summarized. Conclusion: Peripheral facial paralysis is a common clinical disease and is one of the indications suitable for acupuncture treatment. The use of a staged treatment approach, combined with the selection of acupuncture prescriptions and reinforcing and reducing techniques, has a significant effect on improving the symptoms of peripheral facial paralysis, with a predominant focus on improving facial paralysis symptoms.
Beyond the norm: “Pyoperitoneum—A rare complication of pyonephrosis”
Authors: Triantafillos Papadopoulos , Charalampos Kypraios , Nikolaos Gianniris , Ioannis Xoxakos , Dimitrios Karamanolakis , Ioannis Efthimiou
Published: January 2025

Introduction: Intraperitoneal rupture of pyonephrosis is an infrequent but serious medical condition, characterized by the escape of pus from a purulent renal collecting system into the peritoneal cavity.

Case Report: In this case report we present a 79-year-old male patient with a history of a hydronephrotic, functioning kidney and recent urinary tract infection, which complicated into pyonephrosis and pyoperitoneum.

Conclusion: This clinical case serves as a reminder of the importance of early recognition of the condition and emphasizes prompt management to prevent potentially life-threatening complications.
Media Pembelajaran Berbasis Aplikasi Android Menggunakan Powerpoint Ispring Suite Pada Materi Jaringan Komputer Dan Internet
Authors: Azmi Muhammad , Fitriani Fitriani , Rusdan Rusdan
Published: January 2025

Media pembelajaran berbasis aplikasi Android menggunakan PowerPoint Ispring Suite pada materi jaringan komputer dan internet memiliki beberapa tujuan. Pertama, meningkatkan kualitas pendidikan dengan memanfaatkan teknologi yang modern dan efektif. Kedua, meningkatkan motivasi siswa dalam belajar dengan menggunakan media yang interaktif dan menarik. Ketiga, meningkatkan kemampuan guru dalam mengajar dengan menggunakan media yang mudah digunakan dan dapat diakses secara online dan offline.
Perancangan Notifikasi Konektifitas Jaringan Dengan Interface Aplikasi The Dude Dan Application Programming Interface (Api) Telegram Group Pada Router Mikrotik Lembaga Pendidikan Neo Selecta Lampung Timur
Authors: Hidayat Arif
Published: January 2025

Dewasa ini perkembangan teknologi semakin cepat, seperti teknologi jaringan komputer. Salah satu instansi yang menggunakan teknologi jaringan komputer serta server yaitu Lembaga Pendidikan NEO Selecta Lampung Timur.  LP NEO Selecta Lampung Timur merupakan contoh lembaga pendidikan yang memiliki peran dalam meningkatkan kualitas SDM di Indonesia. Dalam sistem pembelajaran setiap harinya tidak lepas dari penggunaan jaringan internet dan Layanan Learning Management System (LMS). Berdasarkan wawancara kendala yang dijumpai pada instansi tersebut yaitu belum memiliki notifikasi konektifitas jaringan, jadi dapat disimpulkan apabila ada trouble atau kendala admin jaringan tidak langsung mendapatkan notif dari perangkat/ server namun mengetahui kendala dari laporan-laporan pengguna jaringan dan pengguna LMS. Oleh karena itu penelitian ini akan menjawab tentang permasalahan tersebut dengan mengembangkan notifikasi konektifitas jaringan dengan the Dude dan pemberitahuan ke group telegram Lembaga Pendidikan Neo Selecta yang dibangun dengan ADDIE Model (Analysis, Design, Develop, Implement, Evaluate). Kesimpulan penelitian ini yaitu menghasilkan sebuah sistem yang berfungsi memberikan notifikasi secara otomatis dalam bentuk grafik koneksi dari the dude dan penginformasian konektifitas jaringan ke group telegram milik Lembaga Pendidikan Neo Selecta Lampung Timur.
SISTEM PENDUKUNG KEPUTUSAN PENILAIAN KINERJA PEGAWAI SATPOL PP DAN DAMKAR KABUPATEN KEEROM MENGGUNAKAN METODE TOPSIS
Authors: Nugroho Hidayat Kurnia , Tatuhey Emy Lenora , Kungkung Ajenkris Yanto
Published: January 2025

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengembangkan sistem pendukung keputusan (SPK) menggunakan metode TOPSIS untuk evaluasi kinerja pegawai Satpol PP dan Damkar di Kabupaten Keerom. Tujuannya adalah untuk mengatasi keterbatasan dan keterlambatan metode penilaian konten dengan menyediakan penilaian yang objektif dan transparan berdasarkan perhitungan matematika. Kriteria-kriteria yang digunakanseperti Absensi, Tanggung Jawab, Kinerja Lapangan, Kedisiplinan, Kejujuran dan Alternatif serta 10  data pegawai sebagai sampel. Sistem berbasis web ini dibuat menggunakan PHP dan MySQL, menggunakan metode pengembangan waterfall. Proses pengujian menggunakan pengujian black box testing untuk memastikan bahwa semua fungsi berfungsi sesuai spesifikasi, dan UAT (User Acceptance Testing)menunjukkan tingkat keberhasilan 90%. Hasil akhirnya adalah rekomendasipegawai menurut nilai preferensinya (Vi) untuk mengidentifikasi penilaian terbaik. Sistem yang sudah dibangun telah terbukti meningkatkan efektivitas dan efisiensi tinjauan kinerja sekaligus meningkatkan kepercayaan pegawai terhadap transparansi dan keadilan sistem. Dengan demikian, sistem menjadi ide yang baik untuk mendukung pengambilan keputusan dan meningkatkan dukungan pegawai.
Evaluación de la potencia anaerobia y el índice de fatiga en baloncestistas de Holguín.
Authors: Freyre Vázquez Francisco , Méndez Infante Helmer , Velázquez González Argimiro
Published: January 2025

La potencia muscular (PM) es relevante en el baloncesto, cuando se manifiesta a diferentes cargas. El rendimiento físico es fundamental en el baloncesto, debido a las exigencias que implica su preparación y participación en competencias. Objetivo. Evaluar la relación de la potencia máxima (Pmax) y el índice de fatiga (IF) en baloncestistas durante la preparación para el Torneo Nacional de Ascenso del Baloncesto cubano sexo masculino. Metodología. Fue utilizado el test de RAST (Runing Anaerobic Sprint Test, de la Universidad de Wolverhampton Reino Unido y Harman, 1995). Resultados. Se realizó una evaluación inicial (pret) y otra al final (post) correspondiente a seis semanas de preparación, con cinco sesiones de entrenamiento por semana, combinando entrenamiento anaeróbico con específico; los resultados indicaron que los dos componentes evaluados mostraron un porcentaje de mejora de en potencia máxima (Pmax), 9,5% en potencia mínima (Pmin), 15,2% en el índice de fatiga (IF%) fue de 60%. Se realizó un análisis de medias con la prueba “Wilcoxon” los resultados indicaron existencia de diferencia estadísticamente significativa (p<0,05) entre las medias pret y post en los dos parámetros evaluados, Pmax (690 vs. 703,3), Pmin (697,2 vs. 806,2), e IF (18,5 vs. 13,5). Conclusión. Hay relación entre la PM y el IF en el baloncesto, hay que seguir realizando una preparación más rigurosa hacia el componente anaeróbico.
Formación de la identidad cultural a través de los juegos tradicionales en el contexto universitario.
Authors: Jefferson Campañá Leidis Adianez , Expósito Ricardo Jorge Marcelino , Suayero Morales Ignacio Julián
Published: January 2025

Este estudio tiene como objetivo desarrollar la identidad cultural local en el contexto universitario mediante actividades de Extensión Universitaria basadas en juegos tradicionales. La investigación, de enfoque mixto, se basó en entrevistas con especialistas, observación participante de talleres de juegos y análisis de documentos históricos. Se diseñó y ejecutó un programa que integró los juegos tradicionales a las actividades de Extensión Universitaria, promoviendo su práctica y la satisfacción de los participantes. El programa se fundamentó en la premisa de que los juegos tradicionales, además de su beneficio físico, sirven como recursos educativos que fomentan el conocimiento de la cultura local y su importancia para la identidad. Los resultados de la investigación demostraron que la recreación de juegos tradicionales en el ámbito universitario contribuyó significativamente a la construcción de una identidad cultural más sólida y relevante. La investigación destaca la importancia de integrar la cultura local en la educación universitaria a través de actividades prácticas como los juegos tradicionales, y resalta la necesidad de desarrollar estrategias de intervención que permitan implementar este tipo de iniciativas de forma efectiva y sostenible.
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La orientación familiar para la rehabilitación físico-terapéutica de pacientes con Parkinson
Authors: Pérez Pérez Denia , Pérez Hernández Esteban Juan , Marrero Pérez María Karla
Published: January 2025

La enfermedad de Parkinson, es la segunda enfermedad neurodegenerativa más común, afecta el sistema nervioso central y la producción de dopamina, un neurotransmisor esencial para el movimiento. Este artículo destaca la importancia del apoyo familiar para las personas con Parkinson y sus seres queridos. El objetivo es orientar a la familia para la rehabilitación de estas personas. Aborda cómo brindar apoyo emocional, comprender las etapas de la enfermedad y adaptarse a los desafíos que surgen. La investigación recopila información bibliográfica sobre el Parkinson y su orientación familiar, utilizando bases de datos académicas como Scielo, PubMed y Elservies. Se concluye que la orientación familiar es fundamental para la rehabilitación de las personas con Parkinson, al brindar apoyo, educación y cuidados compasivos, fortaleciendo los lazos familiares.
Analysis of the Conservative Energy Principle in Loop the Loop Trajectory on Roller Coasters
Authors: Tumanggor Awal Mulia Rejeki , Pawarangan Ishak , Siahaan Berton Maruli
Published: January 2025

The conservative energy principle is one of the fundamental concepts in physics used to understand closed mechanical systems. This research aims to analyze the application of the conservative energy principle through a qualitative approach in the loop trajectory on a simple roller coaster. The research method used is descriptive analysis, with information collected through literature study on the loop trajectory as well as concept analysis and formulation of study results. The analysis results explain that the law of conservative energy can explain how the mechanical energy in the system is maintained while going through the loop trajectory by reviewing important parameters such as normal force, minimum speed, radius of the loop trajectory, and minimum height.
‘It’s never too late’: Insights from the autism and older people workstream
Authors: Crabtree Anna , Rutter Louise
Published: January 2025

Representatives from the autism workstream gave a series of presentations at the FPOP 2024 conference, with around 130 conference delegates attending. Our aim was multifaceted; to present the work carried out by the workstream thus far, to consult with other FPOP members around what is happening nationally around autism and ageing, and to stimulate discussion and conversation amongst delegates around key issues. This article summarises and reflects on the themes emerging from the conference presentations and outlines future hopes and aspirations for the autism workstream.
Tipologi tindak pidana Perbankan dalam perspektif Undang-Undang Nomor 10 Tahun 1998 tentang Perbankan
Authors: Purba Indra Gunawan
Published: January 2025

bank is an intermedial institution, namely a business entity that collects funds from the public in the form of savings and distributes them to the public in the form of credit and/or other forms in order to improve the standard of living of many people. The aim of collecting public funds and channeling them in the form of credit and other forms is to improve welfare, which is also part of the state's goals.Activities that can cause harm and threaten the failure to achieve banking objectives may be subject to criminal charges. Regulations regarding banking crimes are regulated in Law number 10 of 1998 concerning amendments to Law Number 7 of 1992 concerning banking. Several articles regarding acts that can be punished are regulated in this law.In order to make it easier to understand the actions that can be punished in the banking sector, this can be done by identifying the types of banking crimes. This article outlines the typology of banking criminal acts based on laws and regulations in Indonesia.
White Marble and White Women: Adelaide Johnson’s Portrait Monument
Authors: Kroiz Lauren
Published: January 2025

In 1886 sculptor Adelaide Johnson began creating a monument to the suffrage movement. In 1921 she installed her marble Portrait Monument conjoining Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony in the United States Capitol Building to mark the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment enfranchising women. This chapter examines Johnson’s lengthy process, considering battles over the monument by drawing together episodes in the complex history of both suffrage and neoclassical sculpture. In analyzing the conjoining rendered possible and impossible in Johnson’s form, material, and medium, the essay traces Johnson’s representation of white women while considering the ways the sculpture ignored, effaced, and made materially impossible black women feminists, as well as how white racism is naturalized in a monument that seems to grow from the Carrera stone itself.
Memorial to the Black Mothers of the Periphery Fighting against State Terrorism, Rio de Janeiro
Authors: Sandler Daniela
Published: January 2025

This essay discusses a grassroots memorial to Black mothers who fight against police racism in a low-income district in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This community-built mural, located in a public soccer field, depicts the multi-generational roles of Afro-Brazilian women as spiritual figures, social leaders, and political activists, focusing on their struggle against the state-sponsored systematic murder of young Black men.
Humanizing Stories
Authors: Kasten Carey , Moore Brenna
Published: January 2025

The book’s introduction describes the origins of the book project and its roots in longstanding relationships of trust between LSA and the authors. We describe the process of community-engaged research that rejected an extractive model of research and aimed for a scholar-organization relationship based on mutual respect. We outline the chapters, the aims for the book, and the contributions we hope to make to scholars, activists, and engaged people concerns with creating more inclusive, thriving, welcoming cities.
Democratic Socialism in the USA: History, Politics, Religion, and Theory
Authors: Dorrien Gary
Published: January 2025

The convention that democratic socialism is un-American has become unsettled. U.S. Americans are losing their tolerance for extreme class disparities that Europeans do not allow. European social democracy has created mixed-economy welfare states that extend the rights of political democracy to the social and economic realms. The government pays for everyone’s healthcare, higher education is free, elections are publicly financed, and solidarity wage policies restrain economic inequality. In the United States, healthcare depends on what you can afford; many have no health coverage at all. Students enter the workforce with crippling debt, private money dominates the political system, and severe inequality worsens constantly. American politicians denigrate the goals of rectifying inequality and building a green economy as socialist, which makes socialism sound pretty good to the generation that grew up under neoliberal globalization and does not remember the Cold War. This chapter interprets the history, politics, and theory of U.S. American democratic socialism, devoting approximately equal treatment to intertwined secular democratic socialist and religious socialist traditions.
The Immanence and Transcendence of Christianity, Capitalism, and Economic Democracy: Alternatives to Ecological Devastation
Authors: Rieger Joerg
Published: January 2025

Ecological devastation has often been attributed to disregard for material reality, as found in certain conceptions of religion that focus on the transcendent rather than the immanent. If this analysis were correct, the solution would be to focus more on the immanent—the worldly—rather than the transcendent—the otherworldly. While capitalism fits that bill, its focus on the immanent has been no less damaging to the environment, and even its transcendent presuppositions are increasingly challenged. How might scholars of religion and theology address these problems in more constructive fashion and, in the process, reclaim both the transcendent and the immanent? What might be the contributions of economic democracy and new materialism to this conversation?
In Whose Interest? Matthew 25:14–30 as a Theo-Economic Parable Hard at Work
Authors: Mckane Hilary
Published: January 2025

Traditionally, the parable of the entrusted money in Matthew 25:14–30 has been interpreted as an allegorical exhortation to Christians encouraging risk taking in pursuit of the kingdom of God. Yet, its reliance on the language and structures of money, lending, banking, and earning interest points to more complex entanglements among the economic, political, and theological realms. Drawing on Devin Singh’s work on the influence of money on theology and how it shapes the economic order, this chapter argues that the parable has historically functioned to provide divine sanction for money lending and capitalism, as interpretations of the parable have been largely shaped by the contextual ubiquity of lending money at interest and dependence on a credit market. In conversation with Kathryn Tanner’s attempt to provide a “Protestant anti-work ethic,” the parable can be read as a cautionary tale against the unbounded pursuit of monetary interest by challenging us to confront the uncomfortable connections between faith in divine sovereignty and faith in the money market. This chapter will offer a reading against the grain which proposes that the character of the third slave exemplifies a model for critiquing and pushing back against unquestioned participation in free market capitalism.
Introduction
Authors: Rademacher Nicholas K. , Yocum Sandra
Published: January 2025

This collection of twelve essays has one thing in common: they feature the lives and work of twentieth-century US Catholic laywomen. Each woman discussed made unique contributions to Catholic life and thought across the twentieth century. Some are cradle Catholics; others are converts. Some come from wealth; others, from modest means. Taken together, they provide a glimpse at the ethnic and racial diversity in US Catholicism. All of these women display creative leadership, often beginning in their own local Catholic communities and then extending to the national arena and often the international. The scholars who have recovered their stories bring their expertise from multiple disciplines, including history, religious studies, ethnography, and theology. Even this small sample highlights the importance of recovering women’s stories in order to expand our understanding of their influence in the church both locally and across the globe.
Nina Polcyn
Authors: Clites Brian J.
Published: January 2025

Located in the heart of downtown Chicago, St. Benet’s Bookstore (1931–1973) was a vibrant site for the liturgical arts, a magnet for adult education and socialization, and home to many of the diocese’s Catholic Action initiatives — and it was operated exclusively by women. This chapter argues that midcentury stores like St. Benet’s functioned as “third spaces” where laywomen could engender alternative visions of Catholic authority in the decades preceding Vatican II. Sarah O’Neill founded St. Benet’s as a space for liturgical celebrations and intellectual debates. The store’s second owner, Nina Polcyn, increased St. Benet’s popularity by emphasizing handcrafted liturgical goods designed for daily devotional use, which she called “living art.” The history of St. Benet’s offers a glimpse into the friendships and faith of educated middle-class laywomen during the 1920s through the 1960s.
Laywomen as Church Patrons
Authors: Osborne Catherine R.
Published: January 2025

This chapter describes three church buildings funded by wealthy American laywomen in the mid-twentieth century: St. Ann (Palo Alto, CA), funded by Clare Boothe Luce; the Chapel of the Holy Cross (Sedona, AZ), funded by Marguerite Brunswig Staude; and the Rothko Chapel, originally intended as a chapel for the University of St. Thomas, Houston, TX, and funded by Dominque de Menil with her husband Jean de Menil. It asks how money, gender, expertise, and lay status shaped these women’s interactions with bishops and priests as they pursued these passion projects that were also intended to be working Catholic churches. Ultimately, it concludes that lay status rather than gender was the most important factor shaping how much power these women were able to exert over Catholic liturgical space.
The Conflation of Causality and Instrumentality
Authors: Vardoulakis Dimitris
Published: January 2025

The chapter provides a detailed reading of the genesis of the ruse of techne in the early Heidegger, through the conflation of causal and instrumental ends. The key is Heidegger’s early engagement with Aristotle’s practical philosophy, especially the conception of phronesis in the Nicomachean Ethics. Vardoulakis shows how Heidegger’s works from this period, such as the lectures course Plato’s Sophist, provide the basis for this conception of action, namely, the ethical and political importance of an action without ends and effects, or the ineffectual. Following Heidegger, such a conception of action has been assumed without questioning it in the continental philosophical tradition.
The Ontology of Conflict
Authors: Vardoulakis Dimitris
Published: January 2025

The chapter examines the works from the early 1930s, situating them within the discourse of the “turn” in Heidegger’s thought. The chapter demonstrates that the development of Heidegger’s thought is better understood as a response to the impasse that his earlier answer to the problematic of action, namely, that its conception of action was trivial. Vardoulakis argues that Heidegger addresses this earlier deficiency by developing a conflictual ontology with direct reference to monism—e.g. to Parmenides. But by persisting with the conflation of causality and instrumentality, Heidegger’s second attempt at addressing the problematic action is now in danger of presenting all ethical and political action as determined by whoever controls the instrumental ends of action, that is, implicitly supporting pre-existing structures of power.
Humility
Authors: Pattison George
Published: January 2025

The virtue corresponding to the character of prayer described in this study is humility, called by Thomas Aquinas “the first” of Christian virtues. This was also emphasized in texts such as Thomas à Kempis’s Imitation of Christ and in the French School of early modern spirituality (de Sales and others). In Fénelon, it is a virtue that reveals the ontological nothingness of the self. However, humility was criticized through the following century for its abuse (as in Molière’s Tartuffe), and as a result of new attitudes in moral philosophy put forward by David Hume, Adam Smith, and Kant, popularized in the nineteenth century by Emerson and apotheosized by Nietzsche but also critiqued by Dostoevsky as the hubris of the “Man-God.” A retrieval of humility is attempted with reference to Tillich, Levinas, and Dostoevsky, emphasizing the fundamental obligation to the other revealed in the praying self.
Irish-American Unionism and Slavery
Authors: Delahanty Ian
Published: January 2025

This chapter explains how a unique strain of Unionism among the American Irish shaped their perspectives on the sectional conflict over slavery that escalated between 1850 and 1854. Irish-American Unionism emerged from convergences in Irish and American history during the mid-1800s that led influential journalists and exiled nationalists to view the perpetuity of the American Union as critical to the political and economic prospects of Irish immigrants and the cause of Irish independence. As it did, the Union itself seemed imperilled by an increasingly rancorous debate over the future of American slavery, one that was exacerbated by the arrival of the Irish temperance leader and erstwhile abolitionist Father Theobald Mathew in 1850. Deploying the Irish critique of abolitionism, Irish Americans blamed antislavery reformers for fanning the flames of disunion and thereby threatening the welfare of Irish people on both sides of the Atlantic. While many Irish Americans proved willing to accede to the demands of proslavery southerners in order to preserve the American Union, they ultimately rejected the idea—endorsed in 1854 by the prominent Young Ireland exile John Mitchel—that slavery was a positive good.
Conclusion: Irish America and Ireland after the Civil War
Authors: Delahanty Ian
Published: January 2025

This chapter surveys Irish-American history from the end of the Civil War through the early twentieth century and highlights the many ways in which it remained entwined with the socio-economic and political circumstances of Ireland. Prior to and during the Civil War, Irish-American Unionists had argued that preserving a robust American Republic was vital to the economic and political prospects of current and would-be Irish immigrants, as well as the potential for Irish nationhood. Although halting, Irish Americans’ socio-economic advancement and political ascent was evident by the turn of the twentieth century. At the same time, Irish Americans continued to take part in and at times even altered the trajectory of Irish nationalist politics, up to and including the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War. Ultimately, Irish-American Unionists’ beliefs were prescient—but they only bore fruit because a critical mass of Irish Americans had embraced emancipation.
Historical and Theoretical Erasures of Slave Resistance
Authors: Zuckerwise Lena
Published: January 2025

What political and theoretical lessons might one glean from extraordinary and everyday forms of slave resistance? They were both exceptional events and daily practices. They mocked planters’ aspirations of total domination, though they occurred under conditions of force, violence, coercion, and control. This chapter does not intend to provide an exhaustive historical account of slave rebellion, though it will mobilize the insurgent activities of bondspeople for two purposes: first, to refute several oft-repeated assumptions about their political subjecthood and second, to propose an alternative view of plantation politics that is dually defined by their subjection to and liberation from white power. I argue that both the consensus among historians that enslaved people were voiceless, and the related tendency of political theorists to overlook their politics are rooted not only in academic structures of white domination, but also a dearth of concepts. Thus scholars simply do not properly see slave resistance for what it is: a radical politics vital to antebellum US history and Western traditions of freedom and liberation, with enduring effects on the present.
Parataxis and Metalepsis, or Figures of Democratic Equality
Authors: Scully Matthew
Published: January 2025

Chapter 2, “Parataxis and Metalepsis, or, Figures of Democratic Equality,” turns to the twentieth century and to the problem of democratic equality as articulated by Louis Zukofsky’s “A” (1928–1974), Thomas Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon (1997), and Toni Morrison’s A Mercy (2008). All three authors invite figural excess into their narratives, which troubles any totalizing formal order. They also challenge American exceptionalism through archaeologies and genealogies of the early U.S. that foreground its indeterminate origins and histories of heteropatriarchy, settler colonialism, and slavery. Yet Zukofsky’s theory of “Objectivism” shows how a formalist aesthetic project works to regulate and police its figurative excess and lack; in contrast Pynchon and Morrison resist the impositions of form to theorize the possibility of an emancipatory aesthetic. Collectively, “A”, Mason & Dixon, and A Mercy generate their political critiques through the use of interruptive figures—especially parataxis and metalepsis—that puncture the fantasmatic and metaphoric “whole” of American ideals.
Coda: Disavowal and Figural Annihilation
Authors: Scully Matthew
Published: January 2025

This brief coda synthesizes the various threads of Democratic Anarchy by foregrounding the role of disavowal in aesthetic and political processes that construct fantasies of democracy by at once acknowledging and negating the democratic equality constitutive of them. By referring to some of the book’s central interlocutors and discourses—Jacques Rancière, Black studies, and political theory—this coda argues once again for dissensus as a means of interrupting the normative political orders and aesthetic ideologies that perpetuate forms of inequality. In the face of the very real threats to any possibility of a future, democratic anarchy figures not a democracy-to-come but an equality here and now.
Stranger Things
Authors: Naas Michael
Published: January 2025

This chapter looks at the place of the question in Derrida’s treatment of hospitality. It begins by following Derrida’s powerful idiom in one of the opening sessions of his seminar—“question of the foreigner”—and it tries to distinguish at least three valences within it, namely, a definitional question posed about the foreigner; a socio-political question posed by the sovereign to the foreigner, that is, for example, to the one asking for hospitality or asylum; and, finally, a questioning of the sovereign by the foreigner, a questioning that disrupts the supposed power and authority of the sovereign and opens the door to what Derrida will call “unconditional” hospitality. It is this latter, a questioning that is no longer simply definitional or informational and, indeed, no longer socio-political, that takes us in three steps from Plato (who asks the definitional question) to Kant (who asks the socio-political question) to Emmanuel Levinas (who poses the ethical question or the question of ethics before ontology and politics).
Conditional and Unconditional Hospitality
Authors: Naas Michael
Published: January 2025

This is the first of two chapters on the crucial distinction made by Derrida throughout his two-year seminar on hospitality between a conditional and an unconditional hospitality. The chapter follows in some detail Derrida’s attempt to oppose a limited, economic hospitality that reaffirms the power of the host, that is, a conditional or conditioned hospitality, and a hospitality that is irreciprocal, beyond economy, and that puts the power of the host into question, that is, an absolute or unconditional hospitality. The chapter shows how Derrida attempts to argue for an endless negotiation between these two hospitalities, since the one without the other leads either to a hospitality that is nothing other than mutually beneficial exchange, a hospitality that thus hardly merits the name, or a hospitality without compact or law that risks turning into the worst kind of xenophobia.
Romancing Revolution
Authors: Hudson Renee
Published: January 2025

Chapter 2 considers how José Rizal revised the conversion narrative into one of guerrilla conversion which operates on a model of revolutionary education. Building on scholarship that examines the Philippines within a Latin American context, Hudson reads Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere (1887) and El Filibusterismo (1891) alongside Jessica Hagedorn’s and Ninotchka Rosca’s treatment of the Filipino People Power Revolution (1986) in Dogeaters (1990) and State of War (1988) respectively. Both Hagedorn and Rosca extend the literary tradition of the guerrilla conversion narrative inaugurated by Rizal. However, where Rizal suggested homosociality as the basis for nationalism, Rosca and Hagedorn modify the guerrilla conversion narrative to include women as political subjects who can also convert to the cause. Operating outside the national romance paradigm thus allows Rosca and Hagedorn to imagine the possibility of a future, successful revolution that incorporates the guerrillas’ vision of kinship into a non-familial notion of the nation.