bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Бентосные беспозвоночные рек Днестр и Прут в пределах Республики Молдова
Authors: Munjiu Oxana
Published: January 2025

Работа включает результаты многолетних исследований автора (2007 – 2023 гг.), выполненных в Лаборатории гидробиологии и экотоксикологии Института зоологии, а также анализ литературных данных о макробентосных беспозвоночных в экосистемах Днестра и Прута на территории Республики Молдова. В работе рассмотрены вопросы таксономии и распространения бентосных беспозвоночных. Большое внимание уделено доминирующим видам, инвазии чужеродных и распространению редких видов. Дана оценка экологической роли основных групп макрозообентоса в изученных речных экосистемах. Проанализированы: численность, биомасса, продуктивность, сапробность и биоразнообразие, а также воздействие антропогенных факторов на зообентосные сообщества речных экосистем Днестра и Прута.
Книга предназначена для зоологов, экологов, энтомологов, гидробиологов, специалистов по охране окружающей среды и любителей природы.
Aplicação de algoritmos genéticos no rebalanceamento de carteira de small caps na B3
Authors: Magalhães Júnior Antonio Mendes , Sousa Ícaro Viterbre Debique , Silva Alessandro Leonardo da , Gontijo Marcelo Robert Fonseca , Moreira Bruno Martins , Silva Thais Prado Vasconcelos , Vasconcelos Ivana Prado de , Ventura Vania dos Santos
Published: January 2025

A gestão eficiente de uma carteira de ações é fundamental para alcançar retornos superiores ajustados ao risco. Neste estudo, foi empregado um algoritmo genético para otimizar o rebalanceamento de uma carteira composta por small caps da B3, com o objetivo de maximizar o índice Sortino e controlar a quantidade de ativos na carteira. As ações analisadas fazem parte do índice SMLL, conforme a composição válida em outubro de 2024, utilizando dados disponíveis entre 09 de dezembro de 2013 e 30 de outubro de 2024. Os retornos foram avaliados trimestralmente, buscando equilibrar a reatividade às mudanças de mercado com a estabilidade da carteira e capturar o início de tendências. A otimização via GA concentrou-se na maximização do Sortino Ratio e na seleção de quinze ativos. Adotou-se uma estratégia walk-forward, treinando o modelo com dados históricos considerando três situações distintas — quatro, seis e oito trimestres anteriores ao trimestre atual — para simular uma aplicação prática. A carteira otimizada com rebalanceamento alcançou um retorno acumulado máximo de 232,49% em comparação aos 55,01% de retorno do próprio índice SMLL durante a janela temporal observada. Esses resultados destacam o potencial da abordagem proposta para aprimorar a eficiência e o desempenho de carteiras focadas no médio e longo prazo.
Moringa oleifera: technological innovations and sustainable therapeutic potencials
Authors: Simões Alexandre Rodrigues , Souza Alexandre Teixeira de , Meurer Eduardo César , Scaliante Mara Heloisa Neves Olsen , Cortelo Tiago Henrique
Published: January 2025

This article examines the diverse applications of Moringa oleifera, highlighting its role in areas such as water treatment, oil extraction, and the development of nanomaterials with antioxidant and antimicrobial properties. Based on recent studies, the review emphasizes the plant's potential as a renewable and efficient resource for industrial and therapeutic systems. Among the key practical applications are sustainable water treatment in vulnerable communities facing potable water shortages and the production of high-efficiency biofuels that contribute to reducing carbon emissions. Additionally, its use in the formulation of natural cosmetics is noteworthy, valued for its regenerative and antioxidant properties, particularly in protecting against free radicals. Recent findings indicate significant advancements in heavy metal removal through its seeds and the extraction of oils with high oxidative stability. Furthermore, the synthesis of carbon quantum dots derived from this plant shows innovative potential for antimicrobial applications. The discussion addresses challenges related to scaling up the sustainable use of Moringa oleifera and explores opportunities to maximize its environmental and socioeconomic impact, especially in vulnerable regions, establishing it as a multifunctional solution of great importance.
Associations between IL-33 gene and IL1RL1 gene variants in periodontitis
Authors: Goes Fabiane da Silva Reis , Lopes Mabel Proence Pereira , Santos Ellen Karla Nobre dos , Carletto Tatiane Oliveira Teixeira Muniz , Gomes-Filho Isaac Suzart , Figueiredo Camila Alexandrina Viana de , Cordeiro Isis Carolina de Oliveira , Calheira Luiza Trindade , Farias Antônio Pedro Fróes de , Costa Ryan dos Santos , Miranda Patrícia Mares de , Santos Rebeca Bulhosa , Falcão Michelle Miranda Lopes , Carvalho Filho Paulo Cirino de , Cruz Filho Álvaro Augusto Souza da , Trindade Soraya Castro
Published: January 2025

Background: Periodontitis is initiated by a dysbiosis in the subgingival microbial biofilm and can be related to host genetic factors. This study investigated association between periodontitis and single nucleotide variants (SNVs) in the IL-33 and IL1RL1 genes. Methods: This cross-sectional study involved 359 individuals from a public health service in Brazil. Structured questionnaire was used to collect health status and socioeconomic, demographic and behavioral characteristics. Periodontitis was diagnosed by clinical periodontal examination. Subgingival biofilm was collected at the deepest site of each sextant, and biofilm bacterial DNA was amplified by real time polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) to determine relative quantification of pathogens. Peripheral blood was collected for genomic DNA extraction and SNV genotyping was performed by qPCR. Logistic regression model was used to obtain association measures (95% confidence interval), by ussing the additive model. Results: The C allele variant of IL33 (rs2381416) was inversely associated with periodontitis, even after adjusting for the confounding covariates (p < 0.01 ORadjusted: 0.45; CI: 0.24-0.84), and with the presence of the Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans (Aa) pathogen, adjusting for the same covariates (p < 0.01; ORadjusted: 0.46; CI: 0.27-0.76). Inverse association between this SNV and periodontitis was observed (p = 0.02; ORadjusted: 0.46; CI: 0.28-0.76) using additive genotypic model. Conclusions: Frequency of C allele variant of IL-33 (rs2381416) was lower in individuals with periodontitis and in individuals with relatively higher levels of Aa. Investigations of this variant as a potential predictor of the protective phenotype in the context of periodontitis are needed. This study will contribute to the training of health professionals involved in the treatment of periodontitis.
Can Editing Memories Provide A Treatment For Overcoming Trauma?
Authors: Hsieh Anching
Published: January 2025

This paper reviews on how many have experienced traumatic events in their lives, walking out the shadow is an important topic. In this paper, it argues that editing memory can be a potential treatment for overcoming trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder. Scientists have found that propofol has an effect on memory, moreover, propofol can be used to erase negative emotional responses against a certain event. It is possible to edit a memory and reduce the fear towards it. Additionally, editing memory in this case only treats nondeclarative memory rather than forgetting declarative memory. Thus, it ensures ethics at the same time. Therefore, using propofol to edit memory might be a potential solution to overcoming traumatic events and the pains it brings.
Integration and Optimization of Cloud and Edge Computing in the Application Research of Cloud-based Management Platform for Airport Restricted Area Passes
Authors: Tu Hao , Zhang Ping , Cao Tie
Published: January 2025

With the continuous expansion of global airport scales and the growing demand for enhanced security management, the management of airport restricted area passes faces multiple challenges in terms of efficiency, precision, and security. This paper focuses on the design and implementation of a cloud-based management platform for airport restricted area passes, exploring the application of integrated optimization techniques of cloud and edge computing within the platform. A cloud-edge collaborative architecture is proposed to enhance the efficiency of pass management, ensure data security, and optimize user experience. This platform provides a new solution and technical support for advancing the intelligent and standardized management of airport restricted area passes nationwide.
A Review of “Double Reduction” Policy and “Family Educational Anxiety”: relationship and the distraction of Policy
Authors: Yang Ziming
Published: January 2025

Educational burden and educational anxiety have been obsessed with Chinese families for an extended period. The Central Committee of Central China has further announced the “Double Reduction” policy to reduce the pressure on new generations and Chinese families. The policy has an unprecedented impact on all educational institutions, both public and outside tutoring institutions. Even though the policy is determined to relieve student pressure, the pressure remains. The ignorance of family education and the relationship between the policy and the inherent mindset of parents are essential factors dragging the policy down. The paper is dedicated to reviewing the existing contributions and analyzing how family factors are conducive to the policy. Focusing on the undergoing policy circumstances, lost sight of family education, and parental mindset of children’s life and grades.
The Impact of The Instability of External Economic Policy on The Exchange Rate of Renminbi
Authors: Wu Tong
Published: January 2025

At present, the uncertainty of the international environment has increased significantly. It is of practical significance to study the exchange rate of RMB currencies from the perspective of external economic policy uncertainty to maintain the stability of the foreign exchange market. The article uses a panel quantile regression model to study the impact of external economic policy uncertainty on the exchange rate of RMB currency. The research shows that under the high quantile, the instability of external economic policy has a significant impact on the stability of the exchange rate. In this case, in order to maintain the relative stability of the exchange rate, the state should take into account the uncertainty of external economic policy in the formulation of corresponding policies.
The Dynamic Evolution and Knowledge Base of Agricultural Product Supply Chain Research: A Bibliometric Analysis Based on CNKI Literature
Authors: Shi Lijun , Cheng Hailong
Published: January 2025

This study employs COOC bibliometric analysis, combined with a literature review, to systematically analyze the agricultural supply chain-related documents indexed in China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI). The aim of the research is to reveal the developmental trajectory and current state of agricultural supply chain studies in China, as well as to identify research hotspots and the knowledge base, providing a reference for researchers in this field. The study finds that future research should enhance knowledge cooperation between universities and agricultural research institutions and expand the collaboration network with agricultural supply chain entities. It is recommended that research hotspots be accurately grasped based on national strategies, industry challenges, market demands, and the development status of the supply chain to facilitate the practical application of research outcomes.
Analysis of the Matching Degree Between Talent Cultivation System and Industrial Demand in Jiangmen City
Authors: Li Yingmei , Kuang Shenghua , Dong Tuanxin , Xu Hui , Wu Gan , He Dongjin
Published: January 2025

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the matching degree between talent training system and industrial demand in Jiangmen City, and put forward corresponding policy suggestions. Through the literature review, status quo analysis, industrial demand analysis, and talent training and industrial demand matching degree analysis, this paper reveals the effectiveness and problems in the docking of talent training system and industrial demand in Jiangmen City. It is found that Jiangmen City has made some progress in the docking of talent cultivation and industrial demand through the integration of industry and education, adjustment of professional settings and policy support, but still faces challenges such as the unsound mechanism of the integration of industry and education and the insufficient supply of policies. This paper puts forward policy suggestions such as strengthening the integration of industry and education, optimizing the professional settings, upgrading the faculty, strengthening practical teaching and establishing an evaluation mechanism in order to optimize the talent cultivation system in Jiangmen City. At the same time, it is suggested to build a talent demand prediction model, assess the quality of talent training, evaluate the effect of policy implementation, and establish a long-term monitoring and evaluation mechanism in order to promote a better match between the talent training system and the industrial demand in Jiangmen City, and to promote the high-quality development of the regional economy.
Leaf Economics in Palaeobotanical Research: Theory, Research Progress and Prospects
Authors: Dong Tianqi
Published: January 2025

Leaf Economics, as an important theoretical framework in plant ecology, reveals the use strategies and adaptations of plants to environmental resources through the study of leaf functional traits. In recent years, Leaf Economics has been gradually applied to palaeobotanical research, providing new perspectives for reconstructing palaeoclimate and exploring palaeoecosystem functions. This paper reviews the core theories and methods of leaf economics, analyses the progress of its application in paleobotanical research, discusses the current limitations and challenges, and looks forward to the future development direction.
Applications of the Management Strategies of Supply Chain Risks in Cross Border Business
Authors: Huang Keyue
Published: January 2025

The supply chain is a very important link for cross-border e-commerce sellers, but there are also many risks involved. Effective risk management in the supply chain can bring greater advantages to cross-border e-commerce enterprises. Common supply chain risks in cross-border business include political risk, legal risk, payment risk, logistics risk, and information risk. We can adopt risk prevention strategies, risk control strategies, and risk transfer strategies to manage supply chain risks in cross-border business and build a relatively stable supplier management system.
Research on the Impact of Digital Transformation on Enterprise Operational Efficiency
Authors: Lei Boru
Published: January 2025

With the rapid development and application of information technology, digital transformation has become a key strategy for enterprises to cope with future challenges and achieve sustainable development. This article will delve into the impact of digital transformation on the operational efficiency of enterprises, analyze the opportunities and challenges it brings, and propose corresponding response strategies. By introducing advanced digital technologies such as intelligent systems, data analysis, and automated processes, enterprises can optimize operations, reduce costs and increase efficiency, enhance customer experience, and promote the emergence of new business models. However, digital transformation is also accompanied by issues such as technological updates, management, and cultural changes. Therefore, enterprises need to carefully plan and effectively respond to achieve operational innovation and upgrading.
Image Recognition Method for Corn Northern Leaf Blight of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Based on Deep Learning
Authors: Liu Xianyuan , Su Wei
Published: January 2025

Aiming at the problems of high complexity, false detection and missing detection of maize big spot based on UAV image, an improved algorithm for maize big spot detection was proposed. The algorithm is based on EMA and the improved YOLOv8-BiFPN feature pyramid network. By adding the efficient multi-scale EMA attention mechanism module, the capturing ability of detail information is improved, thus enhancing the feature extraction ability of the model. The YOLOv8 structure is improved into YOLOV8-BIFPN feature pyramid network by integrating BiFPN structure, which can extract context information more efficiently. By introducing WloU loss function, low quality samples in training data are filtered effectively, and the generalization ability of the model is improved. In this paper, the accuracy P was increased by 2.7%, the recall rate R was increased by 4.7%, the average accuracy mAP50 was increased by 3.1%, and the model size was reduced by 2.78M. Compared with other YOLO algorithms, the proposed method has significant advantages in the detection of corn big spot disease.
Artificial Intelligence in Economics and Finance: Applications and Prospects of Machine Learning Methods
Authors: Wan Yingliang , Tao Hong , Zhao Yiheng
Published: January 2025

In recent years, the rapid development of artificial intelligence technology has significantly advanced research innovations in the field of economics and finance. Particularly, machine learning methods, with their exceptional data processing and analytical capabilities, have been widely applied to areas such as predictive modeling, causal inference, and unstructured data analysis. This paper systematically examines the key differences between machine learning and traditional econometrics in terms of research paradigms, objectives, and data processing approaches. It provides an in-depth exploration of the application scenarios of machine learning in economics and finance, focusing on predictive modeling, alternative data analysis, and causal inference. Furthermore, it highlights the potential and breakthroughs of machine learning in addressing complex economic problems through specific case studies, demonstrating its practical effectiveness in macroeconomic forecasting, financial asset pricing, risk management, and policy analysis. In addition, this paper comprehensively analyzes the current challenges facing machine learning technology in economic and financial research, including issues of model transparency, difficulties in handling small sample sizes and noisy data, as well as data privacy concerns. Based on these challenges, several potential solutions are proposed, including the adoption of explainability tools, transfer learning, federated learning, and privacy-preserving computation. Future research directions are suggested, emphasizing the integration of multimodal data analysis, the exploration of large language models for policy and market analysis, and the deeper alignment of artificial intelligence technologies with industry practices. This study aims to provide theoretical guidance and practical insights for academia and industry, contributing to the advancement of research innovation and application expansion in the field of economics and finance.
Optimization of Environmental Conditioning Equipment Based on Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm and Genetic Algorithm
Authors: Shui Peilin , Zhang Zeyu , Xie Caixing , Zhao Jiaying , Lu Zilun
Published: January 2025

The purpose of this paper is to systematically analyze and design the appearance of the 3-in-1 environmental conditioning device by using particle swarm optimization algorithm and genetic algorithm. Firstly, the particle swarm optimization algorithm (PSO) is applied to simulate the indoor temperature change for the placement of air conditioners, the location of the inlet and outlet, and the direction of airflow to design the optimal shapes and sizes to improve the temperature control efficiency. Second, a genetic algorithm optimization model was constructed for the relationship between the shape of the air purifier and the purification effect, aiming to determine the best design that can maximize the purification effect. Next, an optimization analysis of the shape of the humidifier is introduced, and a multi-objective optimization model for the 3-in-1 device is developed using PSO to maximize energy efficiency, comfort, and air quality. The algorithms and models used in this paper not only enhance the comprehensive performance of the device, but also provide a scientific basis for future product development and promote the innovation and application of smart home devices.
Optimization of Underwater Images Based on Gray World Algorithm and Jaffe-McGlamery Models
Authors: Wu Wendong , Yao Minmin
Published: January 2025

In this paper, a comprehensive scheme for underwater image processing is proposed based on the grayscale world algorithm and the Jaffe-McGlamery model. Firstly, a color bias detection based on grayscale world theory, a low light detection based on HSV color space, and a fuzzy detection method based on frequency domain and Laplace operator are designed to classify different types of image degradation. Subsequently, the corresponding scene degradation models are constructed for different degradation types through the simplified Jaffe-McGlamery model, and the image features under different water conditions are analyzed. Next, an improved gray world algorithm is used to eliminate color bias, the limiting contrast adaptive histogram equalization (CLAHE) technique is utilized to improve the image quality under low-light conditions, and the dark-channel a priori algorithm is optimized by the depth estimation and parameter adaptation modules to remove blurring. The proposed method in this study significantly improves the image quality in different scenarios and provides a new idea for underwater image processing.
A Study on Digital Literacy of Chinese Secondary School Teachers in the Era of Artificial Intelligence
Authors: Zheng Shengsheng
Published: January 2025

The purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive overview of the current state of research on digital literacy among Chinese secondary school teachers in the age of artificial intelligence, and to explore its application and impact in teaching practice. First, this paper analyzes the evolution of digital literacy, especially in response to the challenges of artificial intelligence, and proposes the competency needs of teachers in information technology, data management, and algorithmic awareness. Second, the paper summarizes the understanding and practice of teachers' digital literacy in both domestic and international studies, points out the challenges faced by teachers in the process of enhancing digital literacy, such as technological resistance, insufficient training, and uneven resources, and also identifies the potential of AI tools in teacher training, which are able to promote the enhancement of teachers' competence through personalized learning. Finally, the article offers specific recommendations for improving the digital literacy of teachers in China, emphasizing the need for practical policies and training programs to respond to changing educational needs. The study suggests that the improvement of teachers' digital literacy not only contributes to the quality of education, but is also key to the realization of AI-driven educational transformation.
Effective Control in International Territorial Disputes
Authors: Zeng Yuxin
Published: January 2025

Effective control, or effectivites, has long been regarded as one important part in international courts’ decision on territorial sovereignty. The Palmas case (United States v. The Netherlands, 1928) was crucial because it not only addressed territorial sovereignty but also helped solidify the doctrine of effective control as a critical factor in the determination of territorial claims. This article intends to analyze the standard for effective control by going through the development of the concept to its details in application on the basis of the Palmas case and other cases. The article starts by briefly introducing the Palmas case and then goes through the history of effective control, its relationship with other concepts like effective occupation, terra nullius, and also some details of state activities in determining effective control.
Kewenangan BPSK dan BMAI dalam menyelesaikan sengketa asuransi Antara perusahaan asuransi dan pemegang polis asuransi
Authors: Sipahutar Anjani , Sipahutar Ervina Sari , Fauzi Muhammad
Published: January 2025

Disputes can occur in various sectors, one of which occurs in the insurance sector. If there is a dispute or insurance dispute between the insurer and the insured, the parties to the dispute can choose to resolve the dispute they are experiencing through court/litigation or outside court/non-litigation. Dispute resolution that is resolved through court/litigation is regulated in Article 1266 of the Civil Code, and dispute resolution outside of court can be done through Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR). Based on statutory regulations in effect until 2019, the LAPS established for disputes in the insurance sector is the Indonesian Insurance Mediation and Arbitration Agency (BMAI). One example of a dispute in the insurance sector that was resolved through alternative dispute resolution is the case of Decision Number 17/Pdt.Sus-BPSK/2021/PN Llg
Tindak pidana Cyber Pornografy dalam perspektif Undang-Undang Nomor 44 Tahun 2008 tentang Pornografi dan Undang-Undang Nomor 19 Tahun 2016 tentang Informasi dan transaksi elektronik
Authors: Khairiah Umi , Maswita Maswita , Warsiman Warsiman
Published: January 2025

One of the negative impacts of technological progress is the spread of pornographic information, which has become a serious concern for all parties, including the government, law enforcement officials, practitioners and academics, as well as society in general. Pornography crimes most often occur in cyberspace by displaying photos, videos, stories and moving images. For example, the case involving a female YouTuber from Sidoarjo who was convicted of committing the crime of pornography in the Wates District Court Decision Number 23/Pid.B/2022/PN.Wat.
Regulations regarding cyber pornography in the provisions of Law no. 11 of 2008 concerning Information and Electronic Transactions and Law no. 44 of 2008 concerning pornography has complex legal regulations in Indonesia, but for cyber pornography there is no comprehensive regulation. The type of criminal act of pornography via electronic media which is regulated in Article 27 paragraph (1) of the ITE Law is a formal offense because the article only describes prohibited acts, such as every person intentionally and without the right to distribute and/or transmit and/or make it accessible. electronic information and/or electronic documents that contain content that violates decency. Meanwhile, the elements of the consequences of prohibited acts are not described in the article because the consequences of cyberporn crimes are personal offenses, meaning that the consequences cannot be measured objectively. Apart from that, Article 27 paragraph (1) of the ITE Law aims to protect individual rights or concerns a person's right to privacy, therefore this article is regulated as a formal offense, not a material offense. Meanwhile, the prohibition on the dissemination of pornographic content, including via the internet, in the Pornography Law is regulated in Article 4 paragraph (1). The judge's considerations in imposing a crime in decision case number: 23/Pid.B/2022/PN.Wat have taken into account both juridical and non-juridical facts. In choosing the charges, the judge also considered which charges were deemed most appropriate, namely the first charge, namely violating the provisions of Article 29 in conjunction with Article 4 paragraph (1) of Law no. 44 of 2008 concerning Pornography in conjunction with Article 64 paragraph (1) of the Criminal Code. The judge's application of law in the Wates District Court decision Number: 23/Pid.B/2022/PN.Wat is in accordance with the provisions of statutory regulations
Hukum korupsi di Indonesia perspektif multidisipliner
Authors: Tanjung Irwansyah , Riyanto Waryani Fajar
Published: January 2025

Corruption is not just a symptom, it has become a culture. In essence, corruption is a form of structural violence and cultural violence. Various approaches have been offered to provide solutions to eradicating corruption, but the results have not been optimal. In this paper, we will examine various approaches in various scientific disciplines (multidisciplinary: anthropology, morals, philosophy, law and education) to the problem of corruption, including multiple interpretations of terms, to be able to provide a comprehensive understanding. From an anthropological perspective, for example, corruption originates from the traditional concept of tribute, and this tribute tradition originates from the concept of offerings. Then in Islam there are also those who transcend the concept of tribute into zakat, and the concept of offerings with udhiyyah. In another perspective, these efforts include; moral force movement, dualism demarcation tactics and deliberative democracy (communicative action), criminal action (theft), and anti-corruption curriculum.
EXPLORING POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS OF THE METHOD OF CONTRADICTION
Authors: Nikogosyan G. , Manukyan V. , Margaryan L.
Published: January 2025

This paper is devoted to the identification of some possibilities for the effective implementation of the method by contradiction in the school mathematics course. At first the essence of the method by contradiction, the tools for its implementation are presented in the paper, and then the main difficulties, that pupils encounter when applying this method, are highlighted.

Explaining and commenting the effectiveness of the application of the method by contradiction, the main tools are presented and interpreted in the form of methodological guidelines, thanks to which the use of this method in various problems of proof and/or refutation becomes easier. Accordingly, the essence of both the coloring method and the extreme rule, the possibilities of their application are presented and covered in detail, and it is also shown that for the effective implementation of the method by contradiction in various typical and atypical problems of proof and/or refutation encountered in the school mathematics course, both the coloring method and the extreme rule can be effective tools.

Various typical and atypical problems of proof and/or refutation, selected from well-known problem books, are discussed in the present paper, according to the principle of gradual complication. For the latter, generalizations were made, as a result of which the method by contradiction was used to solve problems considered in a more general setting, and it was shown that both the coloring method and the extreme rule can be an effective tool for the successful implementation of the method by contradiction, which is the scientific methodological novelty of the article.
THE METHODOLOGICAL SYSTEM FOR GEOMETRIC INTUITION DEVELOPMENT OF PRIMARY SCHOOLCHILDREN
Authors: Hayrapetyan G. , Arustamyan M.
Published: January 2025

This article examines the methodological system for geometric intuition development of primary schoolchildren and its usage in the process of teaching mathematics in primary grades, which makes the lesson interesting, effective and purposeful, and the solution of assignments becomes more visual and accessible.

The content’s theoretical analysis, as well as practically reasonable interpretations are the basis of the research-experimental part of geometric intuition’s methodological system, which enables students to self-education and allows a creative knowledgeable teacher to have flexible control.

In particular, the article presents a primary schoolchild’s geometric intuition as a special means of cognition, which is characterized by direct perception of truth, its formation and condition for the development of preliminary knowledge of geometry. In this sense, developing problem of learner’s higher thinking is the basis of modern educational system, and often primary schoolchildren’s geometric intuitive thinking exceeds their arithmetic thinking.
However, when studying the content and learning process of teaching preliminary geometric knowledge in primary school, intuition is manifested both as a form, as a method, and as a means of cognition, which is carried out through subconscious processing of information received by learners, aimed at developing of primary schoolchildren’s geometric intuition using assignments’ system.
Meanwhile, based on the studied theoretical material, pedagogical and psychological characteristic features and experimental analyses, we implement an innovative author’s lesson.
Introduction
Authors: Rozas-Krause Valentina , Shanken Andrew M.
Published: January 2025

This essay introduces the topic of women and memorialization. It establishes the key problems and issues of the book through prominent examples and by connecting them to the chapters and essays. Finally, it ranges beyond the scope of the contributions by suggesting the wider possibilities of the topic.
“We Shall Beg No More”: Helen Keller, Politics, and Commemorations in the National Statuary Hall
Authors: Rooney Sierra
Published: January 2025

This chapter traces the commission and dedication of a statue honoring Helen Keller in the National Statuary Hall in 2009 through newspaper accounts, federal proceedings, and commissioning documents. The resulting analysis reveals the underlying political goals as well as the ableist and infantilizing rhetoric of the stakeholders that are at odds with the life and activist work of Keller. The patronage and reception of the statue raises difficult questions about the limits of commemorative artworks to redress inequities within the civic sphere.
The Myth of the Passive Woman in Confederate Monuments
Authors: Walker Nathaniel Robert
Published: January 2025

Since 1932, one of the most visually powerful monuments to the Southern cause in the Civil War has stood on the waterfront of Charleston, South Carolina. It depicts a placid woman standing behind a heroic male solider. She represents the city while presenting, as in other Confederate monuments featuring female forms, the passive virtues of Southern women, who stand and wait in meek devotion to strong white men. There are several problems with this monument: first, it was the Southern army that ultimately tried to destroy the city of Charleston and killed many of the city’s women; second, Southern women were not passive bystanders to life during or after the war. It was, in fact, precisely during the 1920s and ’30s that Southern women were rapidly gaining political power, and in Charleston they were mobilizing to protect the city’s historic architecture from the demolition agendas of mostly male business leaders. Seen in context, this sculpture, as well as others with important similarities, seems less like sincere commemorative tributes or history lessons and more like rhetorical embodiments of wishful thinking on the part of a patriarchy seeking to shore up its crumbling claim to dominance over the past, present, and future.
The Colonial Marianne: Representing Liberté and France in Occupied North Africa
Authors: Coslett Daniel E.
Published: January 2025

The depiction of women in the public spaces of French colonial North Africa was largely limited to allegorical depictions of La Marianne or Liberté. Representing freedom, victory, and the French state, these statues contributed to the physical and symbolic occupation of space in European-built cities and towns. This chapter introduces French statuemania and its development in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Algeria and Tunisia through a series of Marianne case studies (built and unbuilt), as well as Tunisian appropriation of the allegorical form as a means of anti-colonial resistance. Such personifications of liberty may thus be understood as statements of competing sovereignty and compelling evidence of postcolonial cultural hybridity in North Africa.
Regifting the Divine Economy: Transitioning Petroleum-Based Energy Regimes
Authors: Grau Marion
Published: January 2025

As we try to unravel the webs of consumption and corruption that extend the life of global fossil fuel dependency, anti-democratic tendencies and destructive authoritarianisms continue to threaten people and planet. The next few years will be crucial in how people across the globe meet these challenges. Equity, human rights, and environmental integrity are under pressure; we need narratives, faith, and rituals that help prepare and sustain one another for the coming times of loss and transformation. To muster decolonizing and decapitalizing resources for the transformation of society, theology, and religious communities, this chapter proposes a critical petro-theology that makes the forms of economic and spiritual dependency on extractivism visible. Further, it ponders the ways those who have benefited most from such extractivism let go and learn “to die in the Anthropocene,” as Roy Scranton suggests, forgoing the ways of petrocapitalism and transitioning to a different economy. As theologians, and as humans, it behooves us to remove legitimation from such demonic economies and consider ways of committing to this process that do not further injure fellow creatures. Rather, this chapter ponders how to help communities find ways to abstain from petromania and its set of habits and patterns.
“We Are Not Here to Convict but to Convince”
Authors: O’Connell Maureen H.
Published: January 2025

Anna McGarry, Philadelphia native and mother of the national interracial justice movement, serves as a viable model for racial justice efforts in today's Church not so much because of what she did but rather why she was so committed to racial inclusion and equity and how she went about her racial justice work. This essay considers elements of her witness to make explicit the implicit call to racial justice in the Catholic social tradition in a variety of contexts—parish, archdiocese, and national—with potential import for those engaged in advancing the Catholic social tradition and lived commitments in this regard.
The Road to Friendship House
Authors: Rademacher Nicholas K.
Published: January 2025

Ellen Tarry and Ann Harrigan were pioneering Catholic social activists in the United States during the middle decades of the twentieth century. Tarry and Harrigan are both remembered for their respective contributions to the pursuit of racial justice in the United States and in the Catholic Church. Their efforts coincided briefly through their involvement with Friendship House, a Catholic interracial movement that Catherine de Hueck Doherty founded in Harlem, New York City, and which subsequently spread to several other locations across the United States. Together, Tarry and Harrigan co-founded the Chicago branch of Friendship House. For different reasons, both Tarry and Harrigan were at first reluctant to undertake the initiative but through careful discernment of their life’s purposes found themselves in Chicago to promote racial justice in church and society. This chapter explores the history and contemporary relevance of their respective journeys to Friendship House and their eventual move to Chicago. Tarry’s auto-biography, A Third Door, and Ann Harrigan’s diary from the year 1940, as she discerned a full-time commitment to Friendship House, serve as the primary source material for the evaluation of their respective decision-making processes.
The Ruse of Techne
Authors: Vardoulakis Dimitris
Published: January 2025

The Ruse of Techne offers a reappraisal of Heidegger’s entire work by focusing on the forms of activity he regards as separate from instrumentality. Non-instrumental activities like authenticity, poetry, and thinking—in short, the ineffectual—are critical for Heidegger as they offer the only path to the truth of being throughout his work. By unearthing the source of the conception of non-instrumental action in Heidegger’s reading of Aristotle, Vardoulakis elaborates how it forms part of Heidegger’s response to an old problem, namely, how to account for difference after positing a single and unified being that is not amenable to change. He further demonstrates that an action without ends and effects leads to an ethics and politics rife with difficulties and contradictions that only become starker when compared to other responses to the same problem that we find in the philosophical tradition and which rely on instrumentality. Heidegger’s conception of an action without ends or effect forgets the role of instrumentality in the tradition that posits a single, unified being. And yet, the ineffectual has had a profound influence in how continental philosophy determines the ethical and the political since World War II. The critique of the ineffectual in Heidegger is thus effectively a critique of the conception of praxis in continental philosophy. Vardoulakis proposes that it is urgent to undo the forgetting of instrumentality if we are to conceive of a democratic politics and an ethics fit to respond to the challenges of high capitalism.
Reading the Impossible
Authors: Weed Elizabeth
Published: January 2025

The book looks at how the practice of critique has diminished in the academy under the pressure of neoliberal discourses that are so successful in negotiating the transactional logics of the market that they close over the disruptive work of language and the unconscious. Where critical readers once explored the liberatory possibilities opened up by the collapse of foundationalism, much of the focus today is on the permutations of identity politics, with the impossibility of sexual difference replaced by the predictability of “gender.” The book returns to the famous debate on sexual difference between Jacques Derrida and Jacques Lacan, not to repeat canonical arguments, but to revive the power of the impossible, including the misogyny of the Real; and to put into sharp relief the stakes of today’s academic debates on reading and interpretation.
Reading Sexual Difference
Authors: Weed Elizabeth
Published: January 2025

Of the various branches of academic feminism, one branch of feminist theory turned to Derrida and Lacan and other continental theorists for help in grappling with the fact that Woman in Western thinking and religion is inextricable from Man, whereas the reverse is not the case. While Derrida the philosopher and Lacan the psychoanalyst intersected in many ways during the explosion of structuralist and poststructuralist theory of the ’60s and ’70s, they differed radically on the question of sexual difference. Both read its impossibility—Derrida through undecidability, Lacan through the Real—with the difference having to do with the limits of language on the one hand and the limits of the unconscious on the other.
Reading the Stamp of History
Authors: Weed Elizabeth
Published: January 2025

To read the impossibility of sexual difference is to grapple with non-foundational language and systems of meaning that bear the modern gap between meaning and being. Given that, as Marx teaches us, epistemology and political economy are inextricable, to read the impossible through the stamp of history is to attend to how we read in the neoliberal era. The chapter looks at how both critique and postcritique address the conjunction.
Words
Authors: Pattison George
Published: January 2025

Early twentieth-century literature emphasized the ineffability of religious experience, countered since the 1970s by the “linguistic turn” of philosophy of religion, reconceptualizing religious experience as a cultural construct. The chapter argues that Heidegger’s account of the belonging together of language and being gives a more adequate account, doing justice to both pre-verbal and verbal dimensions, silence and language. The interrelationship of silence and language is tracked through Martin Buber, The Cloud of Unknowing, Kierkegaard, and Dostoevsky to yield a set of words basic to Christian spiritual life: Help! (Save us!), Amen, Alleluia.
Embracing Emancipation
Authors: Delahanty Ian
Published: January 2025

Between 1840 and 1865, Irish Americans’ involvement in the debate over the future of African American slavery was influenced by their backgrounds in and continuously renewed connections with Ireland. During the Great Irish Potato Famine, Irish nationalists criticized the transatlantic antislavery movement as one that slighted the poverty of Irish peasants and jeopardized American support for Irish independence. During the sectional crisis, that Irish critique of abolitionism was adapted by Irish Americans, who alleged that all forms of antislavery threatened the perpetuity of the American Union and thus the welfare of Irish people on both sides of the Atlantic. Irish-American Unionism invested the political freedoms and economic advancement of Irish immigrants as well as the hopes of an independent Ireland in a robust American Republic. Whereas prior to secession and the outbreak of civil war in 1861 virtually all Irish Americans regarded antislavery as the principal agent of disunion, during the war many of the Irish in America, especially Irish-American soldiers in the Union army, embraced emancipation as a means of restoring the Union. Wartime developments in the United States and Ireland affirmed Irish-American Unionists’ belief that restoring the Union was critical to the future prosperity of Irish people on both side of the Atlantic. Long neglected in the vast scholarship on the Civil War, Irish Americans who recanted their opposition to antislavery and embraced emancipation evaluated the question of slavery’s future through a transatlantic lens.
“Over the broad Atlantic”: Abolitionist Appeals to Emigrants and Immigrants
Authors: Delahanty Ian
Published: January 2025

This chapter examines Irish abolitionists’ efforts to recruit Irish immigrants into the antislavery movement between 1840 and 1850. Throughout the 1840s, antislavery reformers and the Irish politician and nationalist leader Daniel O’Connell made frequent appeals for the Irish in America to join the abolitionists. They did so amid a dramatic increase in immigration from Ireland during the Great Irish Potato Famine, including the arrival of exiles from the 1848 Young Ireland rebellion. Irish and American abolitionists hoped that Irish immigrants who decried the injustice of British oppression in Ireland would oppose the oppression of American enslavers. However, their appeals were rejected by Irish-American journalists and exiled nationalists who argued that abolitionists on both sides of the Atlantic turned a blind eye to Ireland’s social and political ills and threatened to tear asunder the American Union. Thus, the Irish critique of abolitionism began a process of adoption and adaptation by Irish Americans.
“As if I was a common Irishman”: The Irish-American Critique of Antislavery
Authors: Delahanty Ian
Published: January 2025

This chapter explains how the Irish critique of abolitionism was transformed into a broader Irish-American critique of antislavery between 1854 and 1860. As northern proponents of free labor resisted proslavery expansionists’ efforts to legalize slavery in western territories, Irish Americans pointed to their pitiable circumstances in the northern economy as proof that preserving the West as a free labor was not worth the risk of deepening sectional divisions. Because many champions of free labor flocked to the nativist Know Nothing Party in the aftermath of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, Irish Americans came to associate not only abolitionism but also more moderate antislavery politics as inherently anti-Irish. Thus, as proslavery expansionists in the Democratic Party and champions of free labor in the Know Nothing and later Republican Party dug in their heels between 1854 and 1860, Irish Americans asserted that their transatlantic interests in preserving the Union required them to support the former. Even as economic, social, and political forces within the United States exerted a stronger influence on how Irish Americans viewed the sectional crisis over slaver in this period, the transatlantic tenets of Irish-American Unionism that took shape during the famine years remained intact.