bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Identifying Vulnerable Population in the Urban Society: a Case Study of Wuhan, China
Authors: Xu Jia , Takahashi Makoto , Li Weifu
Published: January 2023

Abstract. In the context of unprecedented extreme weather and climate events, the internal structural factors of society play a decisive role in the extent to which human beings are affected by disasters and their ability to respond to disasters. In the past few decades, the rapid urbanization process in developing countries represented by China has also greatly increased social vulnerability. The process has generated uneven living conditions and created many vulnerable groups, including urban poverty, migrants, and socially and geographically marginalized groups, who face difficulties in living conditions, education, livelihood stability, and so on. This study sets up indicators from a micro perspective: three indicators of exposure, four of sensitivity, and eight of adaptive capacity are involved. Based on this evaluation index system, this study conducts a social vulnerability assessment of the populations in Hongshan District, Wuhan City, China through individual questionnaire surveys. K-means cluster analysis was used to get the high, medium, and low levels of social vulnerability, which has achieved the comparison of different community types and the identification of vulnerable groups. The results show the close interrelationships between different types of communities in terms of physical and built environments, and different levels of social vulnerability to disasters, in particular pointing to the massive cluster of rural-to-urban migrants living in inferior urban villages, informal settlements in the city, and suffering especially from the instability of livelihoods. The quantitative understanding of the dissimilarity in the degree of social vulnerability between different communities and populations is of great significance for the reduction of social vulnerability and disaster risk specifically and pointedly.
Does soil thinning change soil erodibility? An exploration of long-term erosion feedback systems
Authors: Batista Pedro V. G. , Evans Daniel L. , Cândido Bernardo M. , Fiener Peter
Published: January 2023

Abstract. Soil erosion rates on arable land frequently exceed the pace at
which new soil is formed. This imbalance leads to soil thinning (i.e.
truncation), whereby subsoil horizons and their underlying parent material
become progressively closer to the land surface. As soil erosion is a
selective process and subsurface horizons often have contrasting properties
to the original topsoil, truncation-induced changes to soil properties might affect erosion rates and runoff formation through a soil erosion feedback system. However, the potential interactions between soil erosion and soil truncation are poorly understood due to a lack of empirical data and the neglection of long-term erodibility dynamics in erosion simulation models. Here, we present a novel model-based exploration of the soil erosion feedback system over a period of 500 years using measured soil properties from a diversified database of 265 agricultural soil profiles in the UK. For this, we adapted the Modified Morgan–Morgan–Finney model (MMMF) to perform a modelling experiment in which topography, climate, land cover, and crop management parameters were held constant throughout the simulation period. As selective soil erosion processes removed topsoil layers, the model gradually mixed subsurface soil horizons into a 0.2 m plough layer and updated soil properties using mass-balance mixing models. Further, we estimated the uncertainty in model simulations with a forward error assessment. We found that modelled erosion rates in 99 % of the soil profiles were sensitive to truncation-induced changes in soil properties. The soil losses in all except one of the truncation-sensitive profiles displayed a decelerating trend, which depicted an exponential decay in erosion rates over the simulation period. This was largely explained by decreasing silt contents in the soil surface due to selective removal of this more erodible particle size fraction and the presence of clayey or sandy substrata. Moreover, the soil profiles displayed an increased residual stone cover, which armoured the land surface and reduced soil detachment. Contrastingly, the soils with siltier subsurface horizons continuously replenished the plough layer with readily erodible material, which prevented the decline of soil loss rates over time. Although our results are limited by the edaphoclimatic conditions represented in our data, as by our modelling assumptions, we have demonstrated how modelled soil losses can be sensitive to erosion-induced changes in soil properties. These findings are likely to affect how we calculate soil lifespans and make long-term
projections of land degradation.
Recent Evolution of Supraglacial Lakes on ice shelves in Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica
Authors: Mahagaonkar Anirudha , Moholdt Geir , Schuler Thomas V.
Published: January 2023

Abstract. Accumulation of meltwater on the surface of ice shelves can have severe impacts on the ice sheet – ice shelf stability regime. Meltwater ponding on ice shelves can cause firn air depletion, flexure, hydrofracture and collapse of shelves that could further lead to increased ice-sheet discharge and sea level rise. Despite recent progress in the mapping of supraglacial lakes around Antarctica, there is still limited understanding of their dynamics, climatic and environmental controls, and their role in the Antarctic ice sheet mass budget. In this study, we track the seasonal and interannual evolution of supraglacial lakes on ice shelves in Dronning Maud Land in East Antarctica. The assessment employs an automatized band-thresholding approach to examine nearly 2500 Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 scenes captured between November and March from 2014 to 2021. Large networks of supraglacial lakes and streams were identified over the ice shelves Riiser Larsen, Nivlisen and Roi Baudouin, whereas other ice shelves had only smaller areas with isolated ponds (Fimbulisen and Muninisen) or no significant meltwater lakes at all. Despite large interannual variations in surface ponding, in specific melt years the relative extents were mostly consistent between different ice-shelf regions. The peak extents of supraglacial lakes typically occurred in mid-to-late January and varied from 38.19 ± 29.53 km2 in the low melt-year 2020–2021 to 809.37 ± 206.74 km2 in the high melt-year 2016–2017, corresponding to water volumes of 0.03 ± 0.02 km3 and 0.67 ± 0.16 km3 respectively. Comparison with positive degree days and seasonal temperatures shows considerable correlation with maximum lake extent for some ice shelves, but in total, it cannot explain the large differences in magnitudes of surface ponding over different ice shelves. For instance, melt extents of Fimbulisen and Nivlisen that lie next to each other differ by two orders of magnitude. Our assessments provide important insights into surface hydrology over the region and will be helpful to further constrain the different processes that control the evolution of supraglacial meltwater systems in Dronning Maud Land.
Продажа гражданства в городах эллинистической Ахайи
Authors: Сизов Сергей Кузьмич
Published: January 2023

Данная публикация содержит комментированный перевод на русский язык двух надписей, относящихся к III в. до н. э., из Димы и Тритеи, городов Ахайи [Rizakis, 2008]. Оба документа представляют собой отрывки из постановлений местных органов власти, вероятно, народного собрания, и регулируют порядок предоставления гражданских прав в обоих городах взамен на уплату тем или иным лицом некоей суммы денег. Покупателями гражданства являлись, по-видимому, местные свободные, но неполноправные жители, подобные по статусу афинским метекам, причем гражданами становились и их потомки. К кандидатам предъявлялись определенные требования; в частности, будущие граждане должны были быть совершеннолетними и свободнорожденными. Надпись из Димы допускает также предоставление гражданства вдовам. Приобретатели гражданства распределялись по филам и приравнивались в правовом отношении к коренным гражданам обоих городов. Продажа гражданства в эпоху эллинизма была новым явлением и отражала новое качество «открытости» греческих полисов. Подобные факты известны в целом ряде городов эллинистического мира, но именно надписи из Ахайи позволяют в деталях проследить саму процедуру возмездной натурализации в этот период.
Speculatores Augusti: организационная структура и функции
Authors: Дороненко Илья Алексеевич
Published: January 2023

Speculatores Augusti составляли особое подразделение преторианской гвардии. Корпус начал свою историю как когорта разведчиков и телохранителей при триумвирах, а закончил ее службой политического сыска и убийств неугодных принцепсу. В историографии и по сей день нет устоявшегося представления о командной и организационной структуре speculatores. Дискуссии в основном ведутся вокруг должности trecenarius, численности подразделения и его включении в состав преторианских когорт. Мы же предлагаем рассматривать спекуляторов как часть гарнизона Рима, что и определяло его структуру и набор функций. Императорская гвардия постоянно изменялась, тогда как причины трансформаций по-прежнему остаются неизвестными.
The effect of tourism village development project on economic sustainability through tourism villages based on natural and cultural potentials
Authors: Basuki Ribut , Wonoseputro Christine , Tarigan Zeplin Jiwa Husada
Published: January 2023

Tourism village development projects have become attractive to the community during the Covid 19 Pandemic and after. This condition is caused by many people in urban areas who wish to travel to natural and indigenous cultural destinations. Tourism village development is a process that emphasizes ways to develop or advance tourist villages. Village green tourism development projects through natural and cultural destinations are expected to provide sustainable village economic sustainability. The distribution of questionnaires to obtain the potential for village tourism development was determined by the project team that will develop in identifying, assigned consultants and key people from local villages, including leaders with a total of 46 respondents. Data processing looks at the relationship between village economic sustainability and village economic sustainability through natural and cultural tourism potential using partial least squares. The data processing results show that the village tourism development project has a positive effect on nature tourism potential, cultural tourism potential, and village economic sustainability by increasing the welfare of local communities. The nature tourism potential of the village, which has attractive mountains and a reliable source of agricultural products, is capable of impacting the local community's interest. Cultural tourism potential owned by the village with attractive tourist performances on a regular and well-scheduled basis and the ability of the village to show dance performances that reveal their identity can impact the village's economic sustainability. The village green tourism development project is set in the finalization stage of project planning by considering the project completion time.
Survey on handling passive nodes in MANETs
Authors:   University of Craiova, Romania, Ilie Mihaela
Published: January 2023

This work handles the topic ad hoc networking between mobile devices and the specific problem of network nodes that choose not to forward messages. These nodes are called passive nodes. In our literature review of of Ad Hoc Mobile Wireless network protocols we identified three approaches: (i) incentives for active node, (ii) isolation of passive nodes. (iii) automatic active node detection. Our analysis of the existing approaches shows the best approach is categorized within the first category: the algorithmic mechanism design approach of applying a Vickery Clark Groves (VCG) mechanism to provide incentive to nodes to be active. This is a truthful mechanism which means that the most lucrative strategy for nodes is to always tell the truth about the required incentive in order to forward messages and always execute this action. The reason this happens is that the node will receive higher incentive than what they asked for when they are chosen to forward messages. In mobile ad-hoc networks the protocol needs to update routing tables therefore incentive requirements can be centralized with minimal impact on the performance of the protocol.
Pattern recognition based on multiple attribute decision making in intuitionistic fuzzy environment
Authors:   University of Craiova, Romania, Iancu Ion
Published: January 2023

In this paper we adapt an algorithm from the multiple attribute decision making field in order to be used in pattern recognition, working with intuitionistic fuzzy sets and intuitionistic fuzzy multi sets. Our method is implemented in two versions: using the score matrix (that is characteristic of decision making problems) and using a similarity measure (that is characteristic of pattern recognition problems). Firstly, the method is built to work with intuitionistic fuzzy sets and after it is extended for intuitionistic fuzzy multi sets. Experimental results demonstrate the superiority of the second versions in pattern recognition problems. For each example we compare our results with those given by other measures whose accuracy has been validated by the respective examples and we conclude that our method can be successfully used in pattern recognition instead of some specific methods in this area.
Factors influencing Consumer’s Driving Behavior of Most Preferred Luxury Car Brand in Bangkok Thailand
Authors: Wongsunopparat Sumas , Tapanya Natthanon
Published: January 2023

The luxury car market in Thailand is expected to keep expanding with double-digit growth this year (2022), despite the impact of lockdown measures implemented to contain the spread of COVID-19. Demand for cars and the purchasing power of prospective buyers remain strong in these segments, making Thailand a target market for upper-end car manufacturers. Revenue in the Luxury Cars market segment is projected to reach US$201m in 2022. The purpose of this research is to study factors influencing consumer’s driving behavior of his/her most preferred luxury car brand in Bangkok, Thailand. These factors include six independent first-order variables: Social Status (SS), Social Pressure (SP), Brand Personality (BP), Brand Image (BI), Brand Trust (BT), and Product (PD); three second-order latent variables: Product (PD), Brand (BRN) and Social (SOC) and one dependent variable: Car Usage Behavior (CU). 400 sample were collected using electronic questionnaire through social media. We used second-order Structural Equation Models (SEM) for data analysis. The result shows For data analysis, we employed second-order Structural Equation Models (SEM). The result shows that the RMSEA for this model is.049 (.05), which strongly implies a "near fit," and the Goodness of Fit Index (GFI) value is.968 (>. 90), indicating that the model fits well according to the descriptive measures of fit. CFI and TLI, which are incremental fit indices that compare the fit of our hypothesized model to that of a baseline model (i.e., the model with the worst fit), both have values more than.90 (CFI =.979, TLI =.900), indicating an acceptable fit. More importantly the second-order latent factors included in the model i.e. Product (PD) and Social (SOC) seem to have significant effects on influencing consumer’s driving behavior of his/her most preferred luxury car brand in Bangkok, Thailand due to their p-values are all both less than .05.
Isolation of Erucic acid from the Pseudobulb of Crepidium acuminatum (Jeevak)
Authors: Barai Abir Chandan , Patra Soumen , Bag Braja Gopal
Published: January 2023

Isolation and spectroscopic characterization of a long chain 22C fatty acid erucic acid 1 is reportd from the pseudobulb of Crepidium acuminatum (Jeevak). The molecule constitute a long chain hydrocarbon with one carboxyl group attached at one end of the molecule and a double bond at the C13 position. Energy minimized structure revealed that the molecule is 2.42 nm long having a polar ‘COOH’ group attached at the end of lipophilic hydrocarbon chain making it useful as an amphiphile for nanosicne and nanotechnology.
Olumsuz Ekolojik Koşullar için Verbascum bombyciferum Boiss.’un Generatif Üretimi, Morfolojik ve Fenolojik Özelliklerinin Tanımlanması ve Ex-Situ Korunması
Authors: Yücel Gül , Dogan Yusuf Evren , Tanfer Merve
Published: January 2023

Bu çalışmada Yalova ve Bursa florasında bulunan endemik, nadir ve süs bitkisi potansiyeli olan, Verbascum bombyciferum türünün, süs bitkisi kullanımı ile ilgili bitkisel özelliklerinin ve tohumla üretim yönteminin belirlenmesi amaçlanmıştır. Verbascum bombyciferum 90.33 cm’lik çiçek ekseni üzerinde çiçeğin az olduğu haziran ve temmuz aylarında ortalama 59 adet sarı renkli çiçek açan, 55 gün çiçekli kalan bir türdür. Özellikle kurakçıl peyzaj, bozuk ve verimsiz alanların bitkilendirilmesinde kullanıma uygun, potansiyel süs bitkisidir. Tohumların çimlenmesi için 3 ay nemli katlama ve 400 ppm GA3 kombinasyonu çimlenme yüzdesi ve çimlenme hızı üzerinde en etkili uygulama olmuştur. Ayrıca çalışma süresince tohumdan üretimleri yapılarak elde edilen bitkilerle kültür ortamında, genetik kaynak, tanıtım ve ex-situ muhafaza amaçlı bahçe oluşturulmuştur.
Las especies de Mansilla + Tuñón [1992-2012]
Authors: González Cruz Alejandro Jesús , Maruri González de Mendoza Nicolás , Pina Lupiáñez Rafael
Published: January 2023

El origen de la forma en el proyecto de arquitectura contemporáneo de Mansilla + Tuñón [1992-2012], está determinado por un motor de arranque, compuesto por sistemas abstractos, reglas de juego y diagramas, y un proceso de oscilación de las ideas a las formas y de las formas a las ideas. La forma inicial del proyecto, abstracta y genérica, fruto de los intereses personales u obsesiones privadas, se concreta y especifica en su contacto con las necesidades públicas o condicionantes particulares. En una aproximación entre lo natural y lo artificial, el proyecto es especie en el origen de su forma, e individuo en su concreción. Las relaciones formales y conceptuales entre los proyectos posibilitan la continuidad evolutiva de las especies, distinguiendo entre familias y series. Las familias relacionan las especies a través de la forma mediante la construcción de árboles genealógicos, y las series relacionan las especies a través de las ideas mediante la construcción de constelaciones. El registro, clasificación y diagramación del universo de relaciones de parentesco entre los proyectos, construye un catálogo de especies abierto, flexible y productivo, donde el concepto de tipo está en permanente re significación y evolución.
The guidance website: Internet strategy implementation at the university in industrial 4.0 content
Authors: Ananda Rusydi , Rafida Tien , Mardhatillah
Published: January 2023

Guidance and counseling are the processes of providing assistance to individuals or groups of individuals at every age stage so that the supervisor can understand and direct himself in accordance with the societal norms and the individual feels happy and effective in his behavior and builds his welfare. This study was carried out with the goals of developing web-based social media advice, implementing guidance web pages, overcoming obstacles and developing students' potential. The ADDIE development research technique was used for data analysis. According to the findings of internet-based online media about university assistance, the study sample consists of eighty different students enrolled at the university in North Sumatra and twelve students use the internet as a tutoring service. The students can easily use the website to solve the issues that they faced and it should be accessible to them at all times.
The Impact of Convictions on Interlocking Systems
Authors: Henkle Langness Teresa
Published: January 2023

What gives a researcher the conviction that a project deserves the time spent collecting data—or does the data itself inspire the research? Conviction, in this context, refers to the confidence that the data will potentially inform or enhance the work in a given field (a system). While objectivity about the collection process itself requires integrity, the decision to apply for funding and move forward requires this more elusive sense of commitment. Discussions about integrity in research assume a universal standard, but only recently have studies examined the varied interpretations of "integrity." More than a moral code, more than a lack of statistical bias, to most researchers, integrity may imply response to an undefinable sense of "truth" (Shaw, Satalkar 2018). Today's constantly changing conditions remain fraught with decisions about topical relevance, questions of bias, and the caution not to act on outdated statistics that confirm our worst assumptions and confuse questions of "truth" (Rosling 2018). This paper draws on research in systems theory, health informatics, environmental and behavioral science, and transdisciplinary education to define an analog for long-term research in which the data itself inspired the conviction to sustain a project with counterintuitive data. Once set in motion, the pattern of sustainability redefined expectations, thus launching parallel research—imitable patterns of hopeful action--in surrounding systems, each driven by new observations and statistics. In these transdisciplinary examples, decisions to expand problem-solving contexts or hypotheses resulted from an analog built loosely on these steps: Statistics-gathering; Collaboration and interpretation of data; Conviction of a need to replicate the results, based on the data; Adaptation of the project (and the thinking) based on the data; Stakeholder actions based on confidence in the data; Long-term impacting one field; and finally, Mimicry or movement in parallel fields of research or institutions or locations, based on the results of the prior steps. In the best-case scenarios cited, a project grounded in data affirms hope and leads to resilience or sustainability over time and across disciplines and interlocking systems (Goodall, 2021, Rosling, 2018, Ribeiro 2021, Langness 2020, Platt 2022).
Multidisciplinary Learning Using Online Networking in Biomedical Engineering
Authors: Hashimoto Shigehiro
Published: January 2023

Multifaceted thinking is important to tackle global issues for a sustainable society. It is difficult to select useful information from big data with one-sided thinking. This article takes as an example the controversy related to "vaccines" and "masks" in pandemics. Online education is useful to help control of infectious diseases. Face-to-face group meetings make it easy to interrupt group activities for individual activities. Online meetings are considering various ideas as an alternative to face-to-face meetings. The field of biomedical engineering includes faculties and students from diverse backgrounds. "Cross-cultural exchange" is also useful for multifaceted experiences. With the keyword "life support technology," a Japanese academic society and a Thai university conducted online networking for information exchange. The academic society is working to encourage students. The university is developing new fields. Information exchange is expected to lead to further developments in complex fields. It is expected to lead to the development of human resources that can deal with global problems.
Health Risk Assessment of Heavy Metals from Selected Fruits and Vegetables Sold in Dutse Ultra-Modern Market, Jigawa State
Authors: Uba Garba , Abdulhadi Yakubu , Lawan Maryam Abubakar , Ahmad Abdussalam , Kabir Auwal
Published: January 2023

This study was conducted to assess the health risk of heavy metals from some fruits and vegetables sold in the Dutse Ultra-modern market, Jigawa State. Two fruits (watermelon and orange) and two vegetables (okra and spinach) were selected randomly from two vendors for two consecutive periods within one week. The samples were transported to the laboratory for acid digestion. Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer (AAS) was used for the determination of heavy metal (Cd, Pb, Zn, Fe, Mg, Cr and Ni) concentration in the various samples. Bioaccumulation factor, pollution index, hazard quotient and hazard index were calculated and compared with WHO standard. Results obtained in the present study revealed that Cd levels in the samples were significantly higher as compared with the control value (0.2 mg/mL). Pb, Fe, Cr and Ni evaluated were insignificant as compared with their control (2 mg/mL, 1 mg/mL, 1.3 mg/mL and 10 mg/mL, respectively). The results revealed only Cr (1.5) and Ni (1.7) have significantly high bioaccumulation factors while all other heavy metals show relatively low bioaccumulation. The pollution index of heavy metals in the samples of fruits and vegetables evaluated shows a relatively low pollution index, values obtained vary from 0.11 in Pb to 0.9 in Ni. While hazard quotients and hazard index were insignificant. The study concludes that okra, spinach, orange and watermelon in the Dutse ultra-modern market in Jigawa state despite their proximity to the mechanic village and a lot of activities occurring may not cause a serious health threat to human consumption. The study recommends further studies on other fruits and vegetables not selected for this study.
Emotion Regulation Strategy Choices Following Aversive Self-Awareness in People with Nonsuicidal Self-Injury or Indirect Self-Injury
Authors: Boccagno Chelsea , Hooley Jill M.
Published: January 2023

Emotion regulation difficulties are implicated prominently in self-injury. Additionally, emotion regulation strategy selection is a core component of the emotion regulation process. Yet it is unclear how people who engage in different forms of self-injury attempt to regulate negative affect when multiple strategies are available to them. This laboratory-based study examined emotion regulation strategy choices in individuals who engage in non-suicidal self-injury (n=40), indirect forms of self-injury (disordered eating and problematic substance use; n=46), and controls (n=48). Following a self-relevant stressor (negative autobiographical memory recall), participants selected one of six strategies based on what they believed would most effectively alter their affect. Strategies spanned behavioral (physical pain, a snack, word activity) and non-behavioral (rumination, reappraisal, doing nothing) domains. Compared to controls, individuals who engage in NSSI and indirect self-injury were more likely to select behavioral strategies. In addition, people with NSSI and indirect self-injury were more likely than controls to choose physical pain and less likely to ruminate. Findings indicate that people with direct and indirect forms of self-injury alike are more likely to take action than engage in further thought when experiencing aversive self-awareness, even when cognitive strategies are made salient. Results illuminate intervention targets for these clinical populations.
Potrzeba autonomii pracy wybranych przedstawicieli pokolenia Z w kontekście cech autonomii i praktyk informacji zwrotnej
Authors: Ulrych Wojciech
Published: January 2023

Celem artykułu było przedstawienie możliwości zrealizowania deklarowanej potrzeby autonomii pracy wybranych młodych pracowników pokolenia Z w kontekście doświadczanych cech tej autonomii i praktyk informacji . W sytuacji globalnego kryzysu (np. pandemii) coraz częściej wymaga się od młodych pracowników korzystania z możliwości, jakie daje autonomia pracy. Jednak badania innych autorów wskazują, że to pokolenie pracowników niechętnie chce z niej korzystać. Poza tym wymaga ono określonych praktyk związanych z dostarczaniem informacji zwrotnej dotyczącej efektywności pracy. Nie jest zatem jasne, czy pracownicy, którzy deklarują potrzebę wysokiej autonomii i korzystają z niej, mogą jednocześnie oczekiwać od przełożonych rozwiązań z zakresu praktyk informacji zwrotnej. Badania przeprowadzono wśród celowo dobranych 131 pracujących studentów w wieku 18–24 lata Wydziału Zarządzania Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego. Wyniki badań wskazały, że deklarowana przez respondentów potrzeba autonomii pracy jest wspierana przez osobiste doświadczanie jej cech, ale już nie przez praktyki informacji zwrotnej. Taka sytuacja utrudnia budowanie tzw. ogólnego potencjału motywacyjnego (MPS) danej pracy w sytuacji kryzysu i wymogu autonomicznego trybu jej świadczenia przez zatrudnionych. Istnieje jednak możliwość poprawy tej sytuacji poprzez edukację oraz wyjaśnienie młodym pracownikom istoty autonomii pracy i wdrażanie oczekiwanych praktyk informacji zwrotnej.
„The steps were made of asphalt the steps were made of the blood of nothingness”: On Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz’s Cycle Six Poems for Orpheus
Authors: Czardybon Marcin
Published: January 2023

The article discusses Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz’s late poetic series titled Six Poems for Orpheus with the aim to explore the metapoetic dimension of these poems and the continuities between them. Rymkiewicz wrote these poems within a time span of over ten years, hence their varied historical and political contextual references. The article also identifi es the specifi c features of Rymkiewicz’s Orphism and addresses the possible meanings of both the Thracian poet’s catabasis and the romance with the nothingness on the part of the subject of Rymkiewicz’s mini-cycle. It also looks at the implications of the concept of blurring the line between death and life in Rymkiewicz’s poetic writing.
Język monstrualny
Authors: Gruntkowska Dominika , Szwabowski Oskar
Published: January 2023

W tekście autorzy zaproponowali pojęcie „język monstrualny”. Wychodząc od doświadczeń dyslektycznych i dyslektycznej metodyki, skonstruowano takie podejście, które przekroczy horyzont Człowieka. Język monstrualny zarówno indywidualizuje bycie w języku, jak i je kolektywizuje. Pozwala na rozwinięcie perspektywy, która nie będzie miała charakteru normalizującego, ale która umożliwi bardziej radykalne, nie-ludzkie formy demokracji, bycia razem.
Opowieść o sztuce parzenia herbaty. Rzeczy w terapii osób z zaburzeniami psychicznymi
Authors: Jabłoński Maciej
Published: January 2023

Opowieść została poświęcona idei pedagogiki/terapii skupionej na relacji rzeczy i ludzi. Z jednej strony postaram się ukazać/pokazać/nakreślić, iż „jedyna i słuszna” droga w spotkaniu z osobą z zaburzeniami psychicznymi jest swoistą przemocą systemową, której zadaniem jest utrzymywanie poziomu normalności w społeczeństwie. W działaniach pomocowych nie dostrzegamy jej, ponieważ porządkuje rzeczywistość (zawarta jest właśnie w systemach społecznych, ekonomicznych i politycznych (Žižek, 2010, s. 5–6; Misiarz-Filipek, 2015, s. 10), która polega na stwarzaniu pozorów, że coś jest konieczne, gdy w rzeczywistości jest dobrowolne, „wrzucając” człowieka w patologizujący system opieki/terapii/pomocy. Z drugiej strony będę chciał ukazać świat innej nie-ludzkiej relacji z chorym/innym/niepełnosprawnym. Dzięki czemu (mam taką nadzieję) zobaczymy istniejący nierozerwalny związek pomiędzy nimi. Ludzie to nie rzeczy, ale jednocześnie tam gdzie nie ma rzeczy, nie ma też tego, co ludzkie (Krajewski, 2007, s. 43).
Transformations of the Katabasis Topos in the Works of Juliusz Słowacki
Authors: Wybodowska Olga Wiktoria
Published: January 2023

The aim of the article is to trace the transformations of the topos of the katabasis in the works of Juliusz Słowacki, on the example of selected works. I try to capture the changes in the style and representation in the image of the afterlife, as a result of which I single out three types of katabasis and characterize them. There are melancholic, baroque and genesis katabasis.
IMPACT OF FINANCIAL MARKET DEVELOPMENT ON GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS AND FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT
Authors: Sundari B , Alfatihah Pradivta
Published: January 2023

This study aims to test and analyze the impact of financial market development (FMD) on the global competitiveness index (GCI) and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), case study in Indonesia during the 2007-2017 period. This study was analyzed by using linear regression to test the relationship or influence of the dependent variables and independent variables. This study employs a quantitative approach with secondary data obtained from global competitiveness report and Investment Coordinating Board website. The study revealed that eight indicators used to measure FMD were affected positive significant. The study also shows that FMD affects positive but insignificant on GCI and same results for GCI on FDI..
ANALISIS PENGARUH PENGGUNAAN SISTEM PEMBAYARAN DIGITAL DAN DIGITAL MARKETING TERHADAP KEPUTUSAN PEMBELIAN
Authors: Achmad Fauzi  , Shifa Ashila Salwa  , Aniar Safitri  , Eka Amelia Chiesa Julianti  , Sindy Nur Fazriyah
Published: January 2023

The purpose of this research is to find out the interest in using digital payments and also to find out how much interest in digital marketing that is used at this time towards purchasing decisions. The research method is using a systematic literature review method or systematic literature review which can be interpreted that the relationship between Purchase Decisions on the Use of Digital Payments and Digital Marketing, the relationship between the variables Use of Digital Payments and Purchase Decisions, and the relationship between Digital Marketing variables and Purchase Decisions was showing valuable positive relation. And in this research it is also to understand the factors that influence user was having an interest in digital payments and perceptions of trust uploaded through digital marketing.
ANALISIS BREAK EVEN POINT SEBAGAI DASAR PERENCANAAN LABA JANGKA PENDEK PADA BANANAYS.CO
Authors: Khadijah Eva , Taufani Yulia Amara
Published: January 2023

Tujuan dari penelitian ini untuk mengetahui bagaimana titik penjualan saat mengalami Break Even Point,Margin of Safety, dan perencanaan target laba pada bulan September – November 2022. Data yangdigunakan adalah data kuantitatif dan data kualitatif. Hasil penelitian dapat diketahui pada bulanSeptember mencapai Break Even Point sebesar 252 unit atau Rp 523.994, dengan Margin of Safetysebesar Rp 51.006 atau 8,87% dan perencanaan laba 20%, maka penjualan periode selanjutnya harusmencapai Rp 628.792 atau 302 unit. Pada bulan Oktober mencapai Break Even Point sebesar 471 unitatau Rp 980.929, dengan Margin of Safety sebesar Rp 294.047 atau 23,06% dan perencanaan laba 20%,maka penjualan periode selanjutnya harus mencapai Rp 1.177.144 atau 565 unit. Pada bulan Novembermencapai Break Even Point sebesar 484 unit atau Rp 1.008.328, dengan Margin of Safety sebesar Rp541.639 atau 34,94% dan perencanaan laba 20%, maka penjualan periode selanjutnya harus mencapai Rp1.209.994 atau 581 unit.
REPRESENTATION OF EXISTENTIAL FEMINISM IN THE LYRIC OF ‘I MADE YOU LOOK’ SONG BY MEGHAN TRAINOR
Authors: Lestari Indah , Putri Erna Pranata , Nitisari Dwi
Published: January 2023

This is a descriptive qualitative study that aims to describe how existential feminism is represented in the lyrics of a popular song entitled 'I made you look' sung by Meghan Trainor. Lyrics are a series of related poems in which some sort of broad narrative is tantalizingly offered (Culler, 2017). The aims of the research are 1) to find out the meaning of the lyric of ‘I made you look’ song and 2) to describe the existential-feminism represented in the lyric of ‘I made you look’ songThe method used in this research is descriptive with the approach of syntagmatic and paradigmatic relation by Ferdinand de Saussure (1983) and the theory of existential feminism by Beauvoir (1949). The results obtained are from the 5 stanzas of the lyrics, there are phrases containing existential feminism that is being self-confidence about femaleness, about sexual roles, about community, and about body.
The Organ for Zschortau
Authors: Butler Lynn Edwards
Published: January 2023

Built in the last decade of Scheibe's life, in a village that likely was his birthplace, Scheibe's new organ in St. Nicholas's Church, Zschortau, was examined by J.S. Bach in August 1746. This chapter discusses Scheibe's proposal and contract, questions that arise from Bach's written report, and details of the organ's design and construction. Because it still exists, was recently restored and fully 85% of its original pipework survives, the Zschortau organ is of prime importance for understanding Scheibe's approach to organ building. This chapter contains specifics concerning stops, materials used, and methods of construction.
Construction Details of the St. Paul’s Organ
Authors: Butler Lynn Edwards
Published: January 2023

This chapter deals with the details of how and with what materials the Scheibe organ at St. Paul's was constructed in the years between 1710 and 1716, palpably evoking an era in which everything was made by hand. Weekly records of expenditures as well as individual invoices from the artisans providing tin, lead, wood, leather, wire, screws, sculpture, painting—to name just the most obvious—provide a fascinating record of German organ-building practices in the early eighteenth century. They form the basis of extensive descriptions of the organ's case and façade, keyboards and key desk, stop and key actions, bellows, wind chests and wind supply, transmissions, couplers, and pipework.
Sound, Music, Pastoralism, and Nature in Mongolian Sound Worlds
Authors: Post Jennifer C.
Published: January 2023

This chapter addresses the sounds, soundscapes, and music that Mongolians use to maintain relationships to pastoralism and nature. The topic is introduced with information on geophysical and social diversity in Mongolia and Inner Mongolia, a discussion of rural social spaces for maintaining established social divisions of labor and responsibility, and values and beliefs about nature that provide pathways to spiritual health. Focus on sonic practices shares information on ways pastoralists use sounds and music in their daily lives and how music expresses valued relationships to the natural world in both rural and urban contexts. Evidence of these values is shared in embedded references to lands and landscapes through melodies and song lyrics and in other narrative information about sounds, soundscapes, and places. The chapter concludes with a case study on sound and music of pastoralists in the westernmost Mongolian province of Bayan-Ölgii where Mongolian Kazakh relationships to sounds, soundscapes, and music are expressed in the context of their local ecosystems and established social patterns.
The Politics of Regional and Ethnic Identities in Contemporary Mongolian Urtyn Duu
Authors: Yoon Sunmin
Published: January 2023

How and why do we create authority over cultural and musical practice that divides us from others? And who is Othering whom, in fact, in a culture? This chapter explores these questions through the case studies of the practices of the folk song genre, urtyn duu (long-song), that exhibit diversified regional and ethnic styles as key features of the tradition. Mongolian culture historically has developed two distinctive forms: the major ethnic culture of the Khalkh, in the central and eastern regions; and the various Oirad ethnic cultures in the western regions. The urtyn duu tradition has also followed this division, referring to the central and eastern melody (züün ayalguu) and western melody (baruun ayalguu) styles. The tools to distinguish these two divisions, and to define musical authority, operate through particular singing techniques, song classifications based upon these singing techniques, as well as through song repertories. However, by experiencing the landscape and natural surroundings in Mongolia’s geography through the author’s ethnographic journey to the western provinces, the chapter concludes that regional and ethnic politics surrounding musical practice came, in fact, only from the discursive field of the practitioners. However, the various regional and ethinc styles of urtyn duu have always been authentic and responsive to the singers’ lifeways and to what resources they might have could provide.
The Tovshuur and Oirad Identity in Mongolia’s Western Provinces
Authors: Chuluunbaatar Otgonbayar
Published: January 2023

This paper examines a two string long-necked lute called tovshuur that is used in the Mongolian Altai mountains. Although this instrument is part of the cultural heritage, it has not received as much scholarly attention as other instruments. Knowledge about this instrument that accompanies Oirad epic singing is scant. During Soviet times, many of Mongolia‘s traditional musical instruments were changed for ideological reasons; however, this was not accomplished with the tovshuur. Based on my many years of field studies this paper presents the instrument, its role in the lives of the people, and the musicians‘ cultural influence. In the meantime, our fast-paced and more complex lives have left clear marks on the knowledge of epic singers, on their singing, as well as on the instrument. Current results show a fundamental shift in the social structure and its impact on the tovshuur.
Poor Farm Women
Authors: Birk Megan
Published: January 2023

Women made up a minority of poor farm residents but were more likely than men to use the institution across their life cycle. Single women gave birth at poor farms, married women fled abusive husbands, abandoned women brought their children, and older women with no family arrived when they could no longer self-support. By admitting women for these reasons, poor farms intervened in the patriarchal household structure. Typically, at poor farms women were not punished for breaking social norms such as unwed motherhood. Poor farms also served as a resource for women seeking wage-earning work, because they hired servants, cooks, nurses, and other staff. Matrons hired alongside their husbands served as domestic managers, with responsibilities for the residents, kitchen, laundry, and garden.
Public Memory and the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum
Authors: Martin Lou
Published: January 2023

This chapter examines the public memory of the West Virginia Mine Wars and the creation of the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum, the latest development in the struggle over this history. The Mine Wars represent a painful past of violence, division, radical critiques of capitalism, and unconstitutional state actions. Given the recent tough times in southern West Virginia, it may not seem like a past that residents would want to preserve, but thousands, especially from the members of UMWA Local 1440, have supported the creation of the museum. Its mission includes helping coalfield residents reclaim their history while contributing to heritage tourism to the area. Many retirees and their family members see the Mine Wars as a significant chapter in the nation's history and want to preserve the memory of past generations' sacrifice and struggles, especially as some towns and a way of life are fading away.
Interpreting Barre, Vermont’s Granite Industry in All Its Rich Complexity
Authors: Gustin Amanda Kay , Lane Karen , McLaughlin Scott A.
Published: January 2023

Heritage interpretation of Barre, Vermont’s granite industry, has occurred for the past 125+ years – almost as long as the industry itself. This chapter discusses these interpretative efforts, from an early focus on industrial processes by major granite companies to a modern people-focused interpretation of the community by lay and professional historians and preservationists. The Barre Historical Society, Vermont Historical Society, and Vermont Granite Museum initiated much of the modern interpretative work. Interpretative partnerships have allowed local nonprofit and for-profit organizations to accomplish what no single organization could hope to achieve for lack of space, resources, personnel, or funding. These efforts exemplify the collaborative, community-based approaches of ecomuseums. The chapter discusses how Barre's industrial heritage is preserved and interpreted by three nonprofit organizations with different missions, collections, and approaches, creating a more comprehensive interpretation of one community's industrial history.
Shadow Traces
Authors: Creef Elena Tajima
Published: January 2023

Shadow Traces examines little-known visual archives attached to four historical groups of Japanese/American and indigenous women that include the Ainu who participated at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, early 20th century Japanese picture brides, Nisei women in World War II internment camps, and World War II Japanese war brides. Less historiography than a critical reflection on the meaning of visual representations within the intersectional context of empire, indigeneity, migration, war, and racism, the book guides us through various photograph archives, identifying their formations as well as our own investments in these public and private collections and what they can especially yield for feminist and Asian American studies readers. With each of these groups, their photographic images not only function as key components of their unique archives, but invite us to consider their visual histories in new ways. Photographs play an important role in how we think about documenting the present and its relationship to the past—and vice versa. Creef carefully reveals the desires we have for archives, documentation, and photographs, especially when our desires themselves guide our memories and understandings of history. Shadow Traces builds on and expands on Creef’s earlier work by focusing on the representation of Japanese, Japanese American, and indigenous Ainu women as explicit subjects of photography.
Introduction
Authors: Creef Elena Tajima
Published: January 2023

This introduction begins with the premise that photography offers us a unique representational window into history. At the same time, photographs are inherently unstable objects that lend themselves to a wide range of interpretive reading methods and interventions. Shadow Traces builds on and expands Creef’s earlier work by offering a lesson in how we might look at the legacy of Japanese, Japanese American, and indigenous Ainu women who have left their traces in photographs culled from a variety of collections. Shadow Traces showcases the ways that historical photograph archives—both public and private—have captured these different groups of Japanese and Ainu women in America as exoticized, idealized, and domesticated mothers, Others, wives, and feminine beauties.
Those “Mysterious Little Japanese Primitives”
Authors: Creef Elena Tajima
Published: January 2023

“Those ‘Mysterious Little Japanese Primitives’” launches the book with its close attention to the photographic archive chronicling the nine indigenous Japanese Ainu men, women, and girl children who traveled from Hokkaido to participate in an anthropological exhibit at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair. University of Chicago anthropologist Frederick Starr recruited this group to participate as a “living cultural exhibition” at the fair. Looking at the archival photographs of the Ainu in St. Louis gives us a rare opportunity to consider questions of the representation of indigeneity and primitivism alongside critical examinations of the intersection of race, class, and gender in turn of the century photographs of Japanese in America.
Epilogue
Authors: Creef Elena Tajima
Published: January 2023

The epilogue closes the book with a personal reflection on the connection between family history, memory, mythmaking, and photographs as a kind of shadow archive that can be created for our lives. How can we create contemporary readings of past realities embedded in old photographs? The answer suggests that the visual language of intimate family photography offers us nothing less than a new way of looking at Asian American history.