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Coastal Zone Management in Response to Sea Level Rise in the 21st Century: A Study from Hurst Spit to Lymington, South England
Authors: L. Hackett Michael
Published: May 2024

This study examines the coastal region spanning from Hurst Spit to the mouth of the Lymington River along the Western Solent coast in Hampshire, South England. The area comprises critical habitats for international bird species on the seaward side and is protected by a seawall on the landward side. Rising sea levels pose a significant threat to this area, including habitat loss and potential seawall breaches. To address the uncertainty in sea level rise projections for the 21st century, this study utilises data processing in ArcGIS, including LiDAR data, tidal data, and sea level rise projections. It adopts contingency allowances for sea level rise, resulting in a projected 0.89 metre by 2100. Analysis reveals a significant transformation in habitat distribution, with standing water and mudflats expanding while salt marshes and dry land areas diminish. Salt marsh areas are projected to contract by 64.6%, with the pioneer salt marsh facing the greatest loss. The report recommends a proactive approach, including realigning the seawall in vulnerable areas, allowing for the creation of new salt marshes. This managed intervention strategy can reduce habitat loss to approximately 17.43%, mitigating the potential ecological and human habitat impacts of rising sea levels in that region.
Shaping Critical Thinking Skills of Learners: Rural School Teachers’ Perspective
Authors: D. Guanga Anamer
Published: May 2024

This review unfurled the techniques of rustic teachers significantly shaping the decisive reasoning abilities of the moderate students. The stories were intelligent of the two methodologies and difficulties of educators on shaping the decisive reasoning abilities of the transitional students. There were eight (8) educator members who will be haphazardly chosen from the rundown of educators in Marber Grade School. The information social affair of data in this phenomenological request had utilized top to bottom meeting of members through virtual gathering and restricted eye to eye hence noticing severe consistence of standard wellbeing convention. Utilizing topical investigation, the systems of educators on shaping the decisive reasoning abilities of the middle of the road students were as per the following: Request based learning and Cooperative learning. On the difficulties of the educators' in shaping the decisive reasoning abilities of the halfway students, coming up next were the topics and discoveries of the review: indifference and absence of offices and hardware's. From the methodologies and difficulties of instructors, coming up next were the experiences drawn from the discoveries of the review: direct educators preparing and workshop and arrangement and accessibility of offices and hardware. All along, this study tried to contribute bits of knowledge on shaping the decisive reasoning abilities of the transitional students. The new information drawn from this review was essential for quality conveyance of training in school.
Gesellig Afrikaans Die Tye
Authors: Stander Alison
Published: May 2024

Afrikaans tenses; Die tye in Afrikaans
First Thought, Best Thought
Authors: Bye Reed
Published: May 2024

This essay examines the initial exchange between Western and Eastern meditational poetics that led to the founding of Naropa University. Though many accomplished writers and meditation teachers were involved in these early conversations, and a number of cultural motivations were involved in the Kerouac School project, it was the meeting of Chögyam Trungpa and Allen Ginsberg that most centrally transmitted the germ of communication between Western and Eastern poetic traditions at that fertile moment. The essay will begin with the notion of “first thought, best thought” and then expand to look at its implications for a path of poetic practice presented by Ginsberg and others at the Kerouac School. It will reference Buddhist teachings on the nature of perception and connect them to Ginsberg’s (and through him to his friend and mentor Jack Kerouac’s) understanding of poetry as a practice of direct sense-mind encounter as spontaneous communication.
Ease, Confidence, Difficulty, and Grasshoppers
Authors: Cope Kevin L.
Published: May 2024

One of the most popular, visible, and diverse authors of his time, Abraham Cowley has all but disappeared from the classroom, the literary canon, and research. Weaned on baroque, Metaphysical Verse, but ambitious to explore the ascendant neoclassical idiom, Cowley unnerves both researchers and publishers by combining what we today like to separate, especially by merging rather than contrasting the baroque and the neoclassical. Cowley’s easy, “pop” but also devilishly difficult verse reconciles the complex, harsh, and paradoxical utterances of the English baroque poets with neoclassical demands for clarity and lucidity. Through a process of continuous segmentation and modification, Cowley presents a conceit, image, idea, or metaphor, breaks it into components, and, as his poems progress, casually but instructively transforms these components into a veritable anthology of meanings and implications. Baroque oddity becomes neoclassical teaching as Cowley continuously supplies new information about verse peculiarities. Several case studies, including Cowley’s Pindaric ode to Thomas Hobbes, his well-known Royal Society ode, and his poem on the chair made of fragments from Sir Francis Drake’s ship, culminate with an analysis of Cowley’s whimsical “Anacreontic” on a grasshopper, a segmented creature that Cowley deploys as an epitome of culture and science.
“Broiling on the Coast of Guinea”
Authors: Lee Matthew
Published: May 2024

This chapter places Smollett’s connections to Atlantic slavery at the center of its analysis. It outlines his association with enslavers in Jamaica in the early 1740s and it speculates about his possible involvement in slave-trade voyages during the first part of this decade. It also discusses his self-acknowledged role in the sale of enslaved people in the 1750s and 60s. Moreover, the chapter examines Smollett’s depictions of the slave trade and enslaved people in Roderick Random. It contextualizes Smollett’s account of the slave trade through a comparison with the private letters of Richard Holden of Baldovie (a Scottish surgeon and merchant based in Bristol during the 1740s and 50s). This comparison of Smollett’s published text and Holden’s private letters underscores the extent of the distortions and silences in Smollett’s portrayal of Atlantic slavery.
“Such a domestic plague”?
Authors: Sullivan Laurence
Published: May 2024

This chapter challenges the perception that Smollett held a negative view of women practising medicine. It considers positive representations of domestic medical practice, including that of Tabitha Bramble in The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771). Although Tabitha Bramble might be dismissed as a frivolous figure of fun, unworthy of either our sympathy or respect, this chapter argues that, through her active interest and skill in domestic medicine, Tabitha proves herself to be an integral part of her household, a conscientious healer, and, by extension, a serious source of stability for her brother.
Smollett, Hume, and the Project of a Politically Skeptical National History
Authors: Pupo Spartaco
Published: May 2024

This chapter focuses on the complex history of the editorial project of the History of England as a reconstruction of national history and its two undisputed protagonists: David Hume (1711–76) and Tobias Smollett (1721–71). They were rival historians united by mutual intellectual esteem and a single interest: the defense of pure truth, liberated from dogmatism, factionalism, ideological zeal, and the Whiggism typical of their time. This intellectual autonomy was the secret of their public success and the main reason for their little-explored friendship. Both writers prove to be the unsurpassed interpreters of a disenchanted and skeptical account of history.
William Byrd’s Pitch Structure
Authors: Long Megan Kaes
Published: May 2024

Contemporary scholars of Byrd’s music have approached the analysis of pitch structure from two distinct perspectives: some scholars treat Byrd’s music as modal in line with Continental polyphony, while others use a key-based framework derived from an assortment of English and Continental theoretical sources. This chapter evaluates these two schools of thought and considers why no serious attempt has been made to reconcile them. Ultimately, these two approaches to pitch structure rely on the same assumptions: the Guidonian diatonic gamut, the pedagogical principles of solmization, and the construction of imitative counterpoint. Consequently, many of the insights gained from modal analyses of Byrd’s music can also be accounted for using native tools.
The evolution of suburban horror
Authors: McLaughlin Robert
Published: May 2024

By the late 1970s and the beginnings of Ronald Reagans conservative movement (and eventual presidency) social anxiety turned to find a means to protect the American way of life of these new middle-class nuclear families from unknown dangers and potential social unrest. This need for protection was not always quantifiable (with outright nuclear war with Russia becoming unlikely) but news narratives induced suburban paranoia fed by a stream of propaganda and political rhetoric from a conservative network of media outlet, reinforced that a social and life-threating threat existed (even a none-defined one) and that an unknown evil could be lurking right around every corner and signalled Americans growing alarm over the ‘stranger danger’ (a mix of xenophobia, nationalism and racism). Suburbia itself however was still a relatively new environment currently, lacking depth of social and communal coherence, historical context, and tradition.
Tricksters and fairy tales
Authors: McLaughlin Robert
Published: May 2024

Poltergeist, for all its social and political commentary on modern living, sunshine and suburbia, is still very much reliant on the need to scare (it is a horror film after all) and framing the film within the context of the lack of American ‘mythology’ must rely more traditional folklore motifs and fairy tale storytelling traditions to underpin its modern narrative setting. The plot takes and utilises direct influences from other more mature cultures delving into a shared public domain of myths, lore, and traditions to instil and present the film’s universal motifs of primal motifs of fears.
All That Glitters: Questioning the Spanish El Dorado through Rachid Nini’s and Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo’s Narratives of Migration
Authors: Tybinko Anna
Published: May 2024

Tybinko’s chapter examines the work of two contemporary authors – both of African origin – whose work has become fundamental for understanding the migrant experience in Spain. While African-born authors such as Donato Ndongo Bidyogo and Rachid Nini are most frequently read as the bulwarks of a burgeoning category of Spanish literature often posed as “immigrant fiction,” this chapter explores their vivid portrayal of the aforementioned economic circumstances in fictional form. Through a re-reading of Ndongo Bidyogo’s El metro (2007) and Nini’s Diario de un ilegal (1995), this chapter offers an alternate view of what canonical authors like Rafael Chirbes have dubbed “los años de pelotazo.” Both texts make manifest how the frenzied build-up that preceded the crash capitalized on immigrant labor and lives. To accentuate this point, Ndongo Bidyogo and Nini play into the Spanish stereotype of a “migrant” as present in the new media: a young, African man, adrift in Spain. However, in doing so they also expose the colonial underpinnings of contemporary Iberian society, and a certain Spanishness that is very much in crisis well-before economic collapse.
Writing from Displacement: Migration and the Works of Najat El Hachmi
Authors: Nistal Lucía Hellín
Published: May 2024

Through the trope of displacement, this chapter charts the emergence of a new literary trend in Spanish letters. Hellín Nistal finds that when caught in the crosshairs of globalization, forced to move for the sake of survival, those who would typically be deemed migrant authors find the means to write out of that experience. Refusing to feel displaced, their words become a means of creating a new literary space. In this chapter Hellín Nistal develops a method to study authors whom Edward Said would call “out of place” and that she describes as “ectopic.” This chapter will explore the possibilities of this method in relation to the work of Najat El Hachmi, a writer born in Nador, Morocco, but who has lived in Catalonia since she was eight years old. The primary object of study is the intertextual dialogue between her two earliest works: Jo també sóc catalana (2004) and L’últim patriarca (2008). Through an in-depth analysis of the evolution of El Hachmi’s writing, the chapter highlights some of the elements that emerge repeatedly in ectopic literature.
Growing Up a Pirate
Authors: Tan Jiarui , Li Yifan , Briel Holger
Published: May 2024

This chapter contains testimonials by Jiarui Tan and Yifan Li, both of whom display a passion for their preferred medium: music and video gaming respectively. Their narratives give a detailed account of different kinds of structures informing and sharing media discourses and speak of their inventiveness in overcoming such strictures. It explores how much the emerging online community of gamers and music fans has succeeded in creating new collaborations, growing up and enlarging horizons together. The chapter illustrates the liberating, emancipatory, and lasting power of media piracy and the ways in which it can assist individuals and whole generations in developing into far more rounded personalities and societies. Tan and Li’s narratives bear strong testimony to the positive power piratical practices can bestow upon their participants.
Introduction
Authors: Gerolemou Maria
Published: May 2024

The Introduction by Maria Gerolemou and Giulia Maria Chesi discusses the social and historical condition of the emergence of techno bodies as well as the social and other ethical dilemmas they promote, specifically in regard to gender, sex, race and class. It argues that ancient technosomatic bodies anticipate contemporary notions of the organic body from three perspectives: as an early instantiation of techne; as a physiological system without organs and as a fusion of organic and technical elements. The inextricability of the natural and the technical, unavoidably, has an impact on gender and sexuality; it produces bodies that disentangle the normative association of sex and gender, and gives erotic value to criteria of ‘naturalness’.
Introduction
Authors: Smith Eric D.
Published: May 2024

This chapter outlines the narratological and ideological contours of its central periodizing concept—building on the Jamesonian/Trotskyist framework of the WReC and Christopher L. Hill’s theory of a transnational naturalism—in which the form of postcolonial naturalism emerges as an historical symptom, an anxious response to the crisis of representation (political and cultural) in the postcolony. Postcolonial naturalism designates the complementary opposite of the modernist or irrealist pole in Jameson’s Greimasian mapping of modernity’s three cultural stages or logics. However, although the texts routinely placed under its familiar imprimatur or read according to its tacitly inscribed interpretive protocols are often disproportionately favored as representative of the ‘postcolonial condition,’ it remains largely untheorized as a cultural logic corresponding to a (semi-)peripheral structural position in the world-system. This critical framework is then applied to Mariano Azuela’s novel of the Mexican Revolution, The Underdogs (published 1915 in serial form; 1920 as a novel), which the WReC considers as a paradigmatic work of “peripheral realism,” an ambivalent and marginal form that troubles realism of the “ideal-type” with countercurrents of “irrealist” estrangement. I suggest an alternative interpretation of the novel as a work of postcolonial naturalism to flesh out my claims about the specificity of the form.
Neither Us nor Ours The Dialectic of Hysteria and the Beautiful Soul in the Novels of Lewis Nkosi
Authors: Smith Eric D.
Published: May 2024

This chapter focuses on the novels of South African writer Lewis Nkosi. It examines postcolonial naturalism’s management of the dilemma which finds a resistant national consciousness suddenly without a defining oppositional horizon and risks withdrawal into resignedly ironic and subjective self-reference and self-acquittal. This defining quandary, which registers on one level as that between the personal and the political, is thematized here as ‘hysteria’ in opposition to what Hegel calls the ‘Beautiful Soul.’ In the intimate politics of Nkosi’s Mating Birds, we thus find a formal and ethical solipsism, which provides the “private” or subjectivist criteria against which the novel’s presentation of middle-class anxiety must be read. Meanwhile, his late “public” novel of revolution, Underground People, gives voice to the hysteric’s desire to think simultaneously the immiscible domains of the personal and the political as well as the natural and historical.
Conclusion
Authors: Smith Eric D.
Published: May 2024

This chapter argues that prevailing considerations of the form as stylistic or technical method defines naturalism according to specifications that are at once too narrow and too general. Conversely, a naturalism whose specific features coincide with the “multiplicity of human social life” threatens to dehistoricize the form altogether. A recognition of postcolonial naturalism as a structural causality not only brings narratological and hermeneutic resources to bear on particular works, but it also provides the means to orient postcolonial literary production more broadly within the periodizing field that the WReC name “world-literature,” one defined, this chapter claims, by the four cultural logics of capitalist modernity (realism-naturalism-modernism-postmodernism). Situation within this four-fold schema provides a means to account for the large-scale evolution of transnational form that eludes the diffusionist model but that also avoids either lapsing into rigid formalism or losing meaningful coherence in the face of cultural difference and local incommensurability
Educating the Romantic Poets
Authors: E. Ross Catherine
Published: May 2024

This book combines, for the first time in one volume, studies of Romantic-Era grammar schools, Oxford, and Cambridge, noting the close connections and continuity of their curriculum, practice, and educators. It revises standing opinions about the effectiveness and importance of instruction at these institutions. Drawing upon papers, letters, and teaching notes, it considers curriculum, pedagogies, daily life, locale, and community. It discusses how these factors shaped the literary sensibilities, forms of expression, and careers of writers such as Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Byron and influenced the taste and opinions of their audience. While the title refers only to Romantic poets, many Victorian writers living in the first half of the 19th century were also shaped by the Anglo-Classical traditions explored here. This study aims to renew scholarly interest in classical meters, genres, and themes and invites fresh consideration of cultural factors such as the ancient spaces where education took place, the effects of contemporaneous Anglican beliefs and liturgies, and the lasting effects of living for a time in the quasi-monastic communities of these institutions. Chapters call attention to the remarkable training and practice students received in prosody, memory, and verse composition, as well as in languages, classical and biblical literature, argument, and public speaking. Additionally, the profiles of influential educators provided in the book challenge persistent myths of flogging schoolmasters, drunken college fellows, and complacent professors. The book includes 22 images and two tables.
England’s Public and Grammar Schools
Authors: Ross Catherine E.
Published: May 2024

This chapter explains the methodical way in which very young pupils at the schools were taught Latin and Greek vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammar rules. Every night boys read and parsed short passages from classical texts or scripture, memorized each text and the relevant grammar rules. Several times a week they wrote short imitations in verse. Detailed lessons in prosody were an early and constant part of this instruction. The regularity of writing practice meant that a youngster might enter university having already composed close to 100 prose essays and the equivalent of 300 sonnets. An example of the effects of this training is young Wordsworth’s use of meter in ‘Written as a School Exercise at Hawkshead’. Coleridge’s comments about the long-term effects of verse composition in school are cited. The respect Romantic period critics had for classical prosody is noted as well, along with their disdain for poets who varied from its dictates.
University Life
Authors: Ross Catherine E.
Published: May 2024

This chapter describes the academic year and daily life at the colleges and catalogues the behaviour and amusements of university students. The faculty’s attitudes about and methods of managing student behaviour are explained. College buildings, rooms, and board are described—including dinners in the hall and how ‘super excellent’ or shabby students’ rooms could be depending upon their social status and wealth. Students’ accounts of their days are sources for this chapter, as are a college master’s explanation of the Principles of English University Education and a recent graduate’s Ten Minutes Advice to Freshmen. The chapter concludes that the two universities’ educational offerings, range of amusements, company, beautiful and historic settings, and emphasis upon religious matters meant that college life was more civilized and impactful than critics have heretofore maintained and therefore may be taken more seriously by literary scholars.
Ethnic Champions and the Zero-Sum Game
Authors: DeYoung Elizabeth
Published: May 2024

Chapter Five unpicks the dynamics that caused the first phase of redevelopment to fail. In particular, it highlights the unhappy partnership of Sinn Fein and the DUP during this period, and the ways in which their ‘ethnosectarian entrepreneurialism’ informed policy and planning on a broader scale. Zero-sum resource allocation, tit-for-tat posturing and alleged clientelism between the political and community sector became the status quo. There was a tangible shift in the tone of community relations policy from reconciliation to mutual accommodation. Ethnic outbidding took place in elections, where political parties deployed discourses of fear against the ‘Other’ in order to win votes. Allegations of corruption and ‘pork-barrel’ spending occurred, where resources were allocated along sectarian lines. This context contributed to an increasingly divided political sphere.
The Trouble with ‘Community’
Authors: DeYoung Elizabeth
Published: May 2024

Chapter Seven shifts focus from the political elite to provide background on the landscape of community development and paramilitary influence in Northern Ireland. It explores the various permutations and contradictions inherent in the notion of ‘community’ in Belfast. It explains how the community development sector functions in a place like Northern Ireland, critiques the role of paramilitaries within their geographic ‘communities’ and looks at how these various actors intersect and interact on the ground.
Epilogue
Authors: DeYoung Elizabeth
Published: May 2024

The Epilogue acknowledges shifts in Northern Ireland’s political fortunes. In the wake of the DUP’s catastrophic mismanagement of a renewable heating initiative in 2017, Sinn Fein collapsed the Assembly. The uneasy dynamics that built the Girdwood Hub had finally run out of road. The two parties’ inability to come to another shared-out compromise meant political stasis between 2017 and 2020, leaving Northern Ireland rudderless during the Brexit campaign and negotiations. A brief reunion occurred in 2020, but Unionist identity politics around the Irish border informed another collapse. The Epilogue observes that years later, the 2022 elections showed a move towards centrist politics. And new voices and demands have filled the vacuum left by politicians: activism around equal marriage, bodily autonomy, Irish language rights, support for refugee and asylum-seekers and social housing is very much alive in Northern Ireland and has supplanted identity politics as the status quo.
Introduction
Authors: Wylie Lesley
Published: May 2024

This introduction sets out the importance of plants to the societies and cultures of the American Tropics as well as the interconnectedness of the histories and trajectories of plants and people across the region. It examines how in the American tropics, plants have been fundamental to ecological and cultural shifts and enmeshed in circuits of power and resistance, especially by Indigenous people. Post-Conquest, it argues, plants have—and continue to be—regarded first and foremost as commodities and sources of exportable wealth.
“A Home of Cactus and Maguey”: Dwelling and Cultural Representation of Succulents of the Americas
Authors: Cisneros Odile
Published: May 2024

This chapter examines human-succulent interactions from the pre-colonial period to the present. With a focus on the succulents native to the tropical and subtropical dry regions of North and South America, it opens by establishing the historical and ecological contexts of agave and cacti, including peyote. It then moves on to analyse the representation of succulents across a range of texts, from Mesoamerican codices and colonial writing to nineteenth- and twentieth-century poetry by Juan de Dios Peza, Alfonso Reyes, Carlos Pellicer, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, Homero Aridjis, Jose Vicente Anaya, and others.
Wagon
Authors: Fuggle Sophie
Published: May 2024

The second-floor window selected to tell the story of the suicides in August 1942, offers a clear, direct view of the commemorative cattle truck. Located slightly in front of the train tracks, the truck, the inauguration of which pre-dates the creation of the museum, functions as both symbolic marker and reconstruction of the trains that arrived in 1942 to deport Jewish individuals and families to Auschwitz via Drancy. Recognising the global iconography of the cattle truck as well as the centrality of the railway to mass human transit since the late nineteenth century, the chapter will situate the cattle truck at the memorial alongside other media representations of the train journey. Throughout the chapter, the view of the wagon as a reconstruction will be privileged above its role as memorial. At stake is the tension between the assumption of the position of the women who awaited and watched the arrival of the train from the window and the impossibility of ever really imagining what they saw. With reference to camp records, journals and other documentation relating to the deportations in August 1942, the chapter considers the silences around the women who never boarded the train, choosing instead to take their lives.
Landscape
Authors: Fuggle Sophie
Published: May 2024

In this chapter, the landscaped area at Les Milles provides a starting point for examining the more general role of ‘landscape’ at Holocaust memorials. The chapter first considers how the therapeutic role of nature and horticulture presented at memorial sites are often posited against the violence and suffering produced by human culture and technology. It goes on to challenge the potentially neutralizing effect such a presentation of nature as associated with purity and innocence can have on the site as a whole. Where a landscaped area such as the small space at Les Milles might aim to operate as a form of containment, marking out the limits of memorial activity, the chapter argues for a wider understanding of landscape drawing in particular on W.J.T. Mitchell’s reading of landscape and power. The chapter will consider the memorial landscape in France more generally and how commemoration of resistance is often celebrated over above the internment and deportation of Jews occurring at the same sites and across the same landscapes. It also provides a more detailed focus on the wider internment ‘galaxy’ around Les Milles, linking the memorial site to hotels in Marseille – Hotel Bompard, Hotel Levant and Hotel Terminus des Ports - that once housed women and children later transferred to Les Milles for deportation.
“Upon the whole I expect he took me for an aventurière”
Authors: Gleadhill Emma
Published: May 2024

This chapter will analyse the ways in which contingent meanings of femininity emerged and gained legitimacy through women’s efforts to record their mountaineering experiences in their journals and take specimens from their vertical feats. Women could enlist these texts and objects as prompts to tell stories of their bold explorations long after returning home. Eighteenth-century women’s accounts of mountaineering have not yet been considered in light of subsequent women’s mountaineering memoirs, but the inclusion of this chapter in Mountains and Memoir will suggest that there is more continuity between the two than has been acknowledged. A historical view reveals the aesthetic and cultural work that mountains have long performed as women have described them in ways designed to communicate messages about mountain environments and themselves.
“The Woman Business”
Authors: Lonsdale Sarah
Published: May 2024

Dorothy Pilley’s account of her first experience of climbing in the Alps in the summer of 1920 defiantly places a woman, in breeches, sweating and panting in a physically dangerous environment amidst the ‘unshaven’ manly mountaineers of the interwar period. It also, unusually, reveals a woman meditating on the beauty and vastness of ‘the wild’, attempting to understand the urge to propel oneself to the limits of physical strength in order to participate in it. The passage also expresses this woman’s sense of being out of place, an intruder, and only of use to supply a hairpin to help unblock a male mountaineer’s pipe. This memoir of early post-First World War climbing, published in 1935, is so much more than a technical log of new routes, equipment used and peaks conquered, of which there were dozens published during the interwar period. Dorothy Pilley’s Climbing Days is a radically feminist text: it chronicles the first ‘manless’ rope ascent of an Alpine peak at a time when women mountaineers, who climbed without male guides or leaders, were characterised as ‘insane’ and ‘a disgrace’ in the leading mountaineering publication of the age, the Alpine Journal (1929, p423).
Facing Modern Times
Authors: Busteed Mervyn
Published: May 2024

Examines the decline of the Order as it struggles to cope with socio-cultural changes, clearance of traditional working-class districts and hollowing out of traditional attractions of lodge life, through professionalisation and commercialisation of entertainment, insurance and leisure industries, growth of mass media and a moneyed youth culture. Analyses how redefinition of Britishness as more inclusive social construction, decline in religious observance, and warmer relations between Catholic and Protestant in the ecumenical movement alarmed lodge members as local Christian leaders developed closer relations, resulting in public disputes especially in lead up to 1982 Papal visit. Concludes lodges survive on family tradition of membership plus social bonding.
Conclusion
Authors: Busteed Mervyn
Published: May 2024

Stresses how the Order successfully transferred to Liverpool because its Protestantism resonated with the traditional anti-Catholicism in English and British popular nationalism, further stoked in reaction to growing numbers of Irish Catholic immigrants and the entrenchment of apocalyptic Protestantism within working-class districts. Emphasises how members thrilled to share in wider patriotic and imperial loyalties and were also attracted by intense bonding created by the attraction of ritual, intense socialising, parading and common social origins and localism, despite internal strains over alcohol and gender roles. Stresses how Conservatives held Orange electoral support by adoption of a Protestant, socially inclusive and welfarist ethos, but dissatisfaction with a perceived lack of commitment provoked foundation of a breakaway church and party. Concludes deep seated social and cultural change gradually eroded the basis of the Order’s appeal and role in city life.
Introduction
Authors: Jaising Shakti
Published: May 2024

The introduction lays out the book’s central argument by responding to longstanding debates about postcolonial and world literature, as well as recent conversations about the relationship between neoliberalism and cultural production. It outlines the book’s arc and shows how the political-economic and cultural context of “new” or post-liberalization India complicates assumptions about the radical difference of nations from the Global South.
The Reader in/of Stevens
Authors: Mildenberg Ariane
Published: May 2024

This chapter develops a sophisticated phenomenological approach in order to consider two interrelated questions: how does Stevens depict readers in his poems, and how do these models of reading affect our own reading experience of Stevens? The chapter thinks about the scene of reading as a threshold between inside and outside – and the threshold between ‘in’ and ‘of’. The chapter develops an analogy between listening and reading, deriving influence from the materialist philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty. It compiles original readings of Stevens’ reader poems such as ‘Large Red Man Reading’.
UNVEILING THE ROLE OF INDUSTRIES FOR EUROPEAN FINANCIAL STABILITY. INSIGHTS FROM THE ENERGY SECTOR
Authors: Lupu Iulia , Lupu Radu , Criste Adina
Published: May 2024

Extensive analysis of intertwinement with other industries caused the energy sector to gain momentum in the recent economic literature. This paper aims to create an indicator that captures the impact of financial stability for energy companies on all other industrial groups. To this end, we use daily data from 2007 until the end of 2021 to compute financial stability metrics for all European companies from the STOXX 600 index. The main contribution of our study is to harness the neural network forecasting power to predict extreme levels of this impact. We motivate this choice with evidence from the literature that documents the improved performance of these methods in predicting crises. Our methodological approach also employs an outlier detection algorithm based on copula (COPOD) to identify situations when the energy sector substantially impacts other industries and develop a framework to predict out-of-sample situations. We found evidence that the Deep Renewal model has superior forecasting accuracy to the standard Croston model. The main conclusion is that the design of this methodological framework allows authorities to monitor the impact of shocks produced by the energy sector on financial stability at the European level and undertake strategic management actions.
The Massive and Distant Clusters of WISE Survey 2: Equatorial First Data Release
Authors: Thongkham Khunanon , Gonzalez Anthony H. , Brodwin Mark , Trudeau Ariane , Saha Ripon , Eisenhardt Peter , Stanford S. A. , Moravec Emily , Connor Thomas , Stern Daniel
Published: May 2024

The Massive and Distant Clusters of WISE Survey 2 (MaDCoWS2) is a new survey designed as the successor of the original MaDCoWS survey. MaDCoWS2 improves upon its predecessor by using deeper optical and infrared data and a more powerful detection algorithm (PZWav). As input to the search, we use grz photometry from the DECam Legacy Survey (DECaLS) in combination with W1 and W2 photometry from the CatWISE2020 catalog to derive the photometric redshifts with full redshift probability distribution functions for Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)-selected galaxies. Cluster candidates are then detected using the PZWav algorithm to find three-dimensional galaxy overdensities from the sky positions and photometric redshifts. This paper provides the first MaDCoWS2 data release, covering 1461 (1838 without masking) deg2 centered on the Hyper-SuprimeCam Subaru Strategic Program equatorial fields. Within this region, we derive a catalog of 22,970 galaxy cluster candidates detected at a signal-to-noise ratio (S/N) > 5. These clusters span the redshift range 0.1 < z < 2, including 1312 candidates at z > 1.5. We compare MaDCoWS2 to six existing catalogs in the area. We rediscover 60%–92% of the clusters in these surveys at S/N > 5. The medians of the absolute redshift offset are <0.02 relative to these surveys, while the standard deviations are less than 0.06. The median offsets between the detection position from MaDCoWS2 and other surveys are less than 0.25 Mpc. We quantify the relation between S/N and gas mass, total mass, luminosity, and richness from other surveys using a redshift-dependent power law relation. We find that the S/N-richness relation exhibits the lowest scatter.
Spectroscopic Survey of Faint Planetary-nebula Nuclei. IV. The A35-type Central Star of Pa 27*
Authors: Bond Howard E. , Zeimann Gregory R.
Published: May 2024

We present optical spectroscopy of the 12th-magnitude central star of the planetary nebula (PN) Patchick 27 (Pa 27), obtained during a survey of faint PN nuclei (PNNs) with the Low-Resolution Spectrograph of the Hobby–Eberly Telescope. The optical spectrum of Pa 27 is that of a K0 III red giant with rotationally broadened lines. However, the star is detected in the near-ultraviolet (near-UV) with GALEX, showing that a hot binary component is also present. The spectral-energy distribution from the near-UV to the mid-infrared can be fitted with a combination of the K0 III giant and a hot PNN with an effective temperature of about 50,000 K. Photometric observations of Pa 27, both ground-based and from TESS, show a low-amplitude sinusoidal variation with a period of 7.36 days, probably due to starspots on a rotating and magnetically active cool giant. Pa 27 is a new member of the rare class of “A35-type central stars,” which are binary PNNs consisting of a spotted late-type star and a hot pre–white dwarf. They are likely the result of a situation where an asymptotic-giant-branch (AGB) star ejects its outer layers in a dense wind, part of which is captured by a distant companion, spinning up its rotation by accretion of material and angular momentum. We suggest several useful follow-up observations.
Mercury’s Chaotic Secular Evolution as a Subdiffusive Process
Authors: Abbot Dorian S. , Webber Robert J. , Hernandez David M. , Hadden Sam , Weare Jonathan
Published: May 2024

Mercury’s orbit can destabilize, generally resulting in a collision with either Venus or the Sun. Chaotic evolution can cause g
1 to decrease to the approximately constant value of g
5 and create a resonance. Previous work has approximated the variation in g
1 as stochastic diffusion, which leads to a phenomological model that can reproduce the Mercury instability statistics of secular and N-body models on timescales longer than 10 Gyr. Here we show that the diffusive model significantly underpredicts the Mercury instability probability on timescales less than 5 Gyr, the remaining lifespan of the solar system. This is because g
1 exhibits larger variations on short timescales than the diffusive model would suggest. To better model the variations on short timescales, we build a new subdiffusive phenomological model for g
1. Subdiffusion is similar to diffusion but exhibits larger displacements on short timescales and smaller displacements on long timescales. We choose model parameters based on the behavior of the g
1 trajectories in the N-body simulations, leading to a tuned model that can reproduce Mercury instability statistics from 1–40 Gyr. This work motivates fundamental questions in solar system dynamics: why does subdiffusion better approximate the variation in g
1 than standard diffusion? Why is there an upper bound on g
1, but not a lower bound that would prevent it from reaching g
5?
Detectability of Solar Panels as a Technosignature
Authors: Kopparapu Ravi , Kofman Vincent , Haqq-Misra Jacob , Kopparapu Vivaswan , Lingam Manasvi
Published: May 2024

In this work, we assess the potential detectability of solar panels made of silicon on an Earth-like exoplanet as a potential technosignature. Silicon-based photovoltaic cells have high reflectance in the ultraviolet-to-visible (UV-VIS) and in the near-infrared, within the wavelength range of a space-based flagship mission concept like the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO). Assuming that only solar energy is used to provide the 2022 human energy needs with a land cover of ∼2.4%, and projecting the future energy demand assuming various growth-rate scenarios, we assess the detectability with an 8 m HWO-like telescope. Assuming the most favorable viewing orientation, and focusing on the strong absorption edge in the UV-VIS (0.34–0.52 μm), we find that several hundreds of hours of observation time are needed to reach a signal-to-noise ratio of 5 for an Earth-like planet around a Sun-like star at 10 pc, even with a solar panel coverage of ∼23% land coverage of a future Earth. We discuss the necessity of concepts like Kardeshev Type I/II civilizations and Dyson spheres, which would aim to harness vast amounts of energy. Even with much larger populations than today, the total energy use of human civilization would be orders of magnitude below the threshold for causing direct thermal heating or reaching the scale of a Kardashev Type I civilization. Any extraterrestrial civilization that likewise achieves sustainable population levels may also find a limit on its need to expand, which suggests that a galaxy-spanning civilization as imagined in the Fermi paradox may not exist.
Existence, uniqueness, and blow-up analysis of a quasi-linear bi-hyperbolic equation with dynamic boundary conditions
Authors: Desova Begüm Çalışkan , Polat Mustafa
Published: May 2024

For this study, we investigate the existence and uniqueness of local solutions and derive a blow-up solution for a quasi-linear bi-hyperbolic equation under dynamic boundary conditions. We utilize the contraction mapping concept to demonstrate the solution's local well-posedness and employ a concavity approach to establish the blow-up result.
On the central limit theorem for the elephant random walk with gradually increasing memory and random step size
Authors: Aguech Rafik
Published: May 2024

In this paper, we investigate an extended version of the elephant random walk model. Unlike the traditional approach where step sizes remain constant, our model introduces a novel feature: step sizes are generated as a sequence of positive independent and identically distributed random variables, and the step of the walker at time $ n+1 $ depends only on the steps of the walker between times $ 1, ..., m_n $, where $ (m_n)_{n\geqslant 1} $ is a sequence of positive integers growing to infinity as $ n $ goes to infinity. Our main results deal with the validity of the central limit theorem for this new variation of the standard ERW model introduced by Schütz and Trimper in $ 2004 $.
New insights into the effects of small permanent charge on ionic flows: A higher order analysis
Authors: Mofidi Hamid
Published: May 2024

This study investigated how permanent charges influence the dynamics of ionic channels. Using a quasi-one-dimensional classical Poisson–Nernst–Planck (PNP) model, we investigated the behavior of two distinct ion species—one positively charged and the other negatively charged. The spatial distribution of permanent charges was characterized by zero values at the channel ends and a constant charge $ Q_0 $ within the central region. By treating the classical PNP model as a boundary value problem (BVP) for a singularly perturbed system, the singular orbit of the BVP depended on $ Q_0 $ in a regular way. We therefore explored the solution space in the presence of a small permanent charge, uncovering a systematic dependence on this parameter. Our analysis employed a rigorous perturbation approach to reveal higher-order effects originating from the permanent charges. Through this investigation, we shed light on the intricate interplay among boundary conditions and permanent charges, providing insights into their impact on the behavior of ionic current, fluxes, and flux ratios. We derived the quadratic solutions in terms of permanent charge, which were notably more intricate compared to the linear solutions. Through computational tools, we investigated the impact of these quadratic solutions on fluxes, current-voltage relations, and flux ratios, conducting a thorough analysis of the results. These novel findings contributed to a deeper comprehension of ionic flow dynamics and hold potential implications for enhancing the design and optimization of ion channel-based technologies.
Research Work for Students: Its Peculiarities at Ukrainian Higher Education Institutions in the Conditions of Martial Law
Authors: Shunevych Bohdan
Published: May 2024

The paper presents analysis of two ways for organizing the research work for students at the Department of Foreign Languages in Lviv National Environmental University: a) the use of modern technologies, robotization of production processes abroad and in Ukraine; b) educational material researched by students from massive open online courses platforms, other electronic resources for students as additional educational materials to the main ones proposed by teachers for the taught disciplines. There are also considered some electronic educational materials implemented for students and discussed by professors of different Ukrainian higher educational institutions at teachers’ conferences as well as the ways of spreading the results of students research work and exchanging their experience in usage of the reviewed materials are proposed. Under martial law, the research work for students of higher education institutions of Ukraine should be brought to a new level, especially in the military sphere and for helping our people to quickly restore all spheres of the national economy destroyed during the Russian-Ukrainian war. The results of the students research can be used by the teaching staff for planning and improving the educational process at our and other universities.