bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Optimization of the Shortest Route Using the Djikstra Algorithm to the Nearest Covid-19 Referral Hospital for Communities Exposed to the District of Medan Baru
Authors: Siringoringo Yan Batara Putra , Manurung Asima , Br Tarigan Enita Dewi
Published: February 2025

Abstract: Finding the shortest route is a problem to find a path that connects two nodes with the least amount of weight. Many methods are used in finding the shortest route. One of the methods used is Dijkstra's algorithm. Dijkstra's algorithm is an excellent algorithm used in determining the shortest route from a startingpoint toan end point (destination). In this study, the determination of the shortest route from each kelurahan in the Medan Baru District to the nearest Covid-19 referral hospital can be searched maximally using the Dijkstra algorithm with the distance taken through the google maps application. However, there are some limitations that are limitations in this study. The drawbacks are traffic jams, traffic lights, one-way streets. This cannot be ignored on routes in urban areas. In the future, researchers will look for optimization of determining the shortest route by including some of the problem constraints that occur. The Dijsktra algorithm is an application that must be modernized for more complex constraints.
Website-Based Information System Design At Cahaya Harapan Jaya Building Shop
Authors: Sutrisno Iwan , Sudarmilah Endah
Published: February 2025

Building material stores play an important role in providing building materials, but many still rely on conventional management systems that are less efficient in recording stock, transactions, and employee data. This results in delays in recording transactions, errors in stock monitoring, and the lack of an effective system in managing employee data. Therefore, this study aims to design a web-based information system to improve the operational efficiency of building material stores. This study uses the Waterfall method which consists of needs analysis, design, programming, testing and implementation of this system also uses blackbox testing and system usability scale (SUS) testing. This system is designed to make it easier for administrators and employees to manage products, transactions, employee data, and financial reports in real-time. The results of the study show that the web-based information system improves the efficiency of transaction recording, minimizes stock monitoring errors, and simplifies the management of employee data and financial reports. This system allows building material stores to optimize operational performance, improve data accuracy, and provide better customer service.
Work-Related Stress, Workloads, and Performance: A Case of Senior High School Teachers
Authors: Gudelos Joseph T. , Mabitad Beatrice D.
Published: February 2025

During the 2021–2022 academic year, this study examines the relationship between workload, performance, and work-related stress among Senior High School (SHS) teachers at School X, Cebu, Philippines. Teachers’ performance and well-being have been negatively impacted by ongoing stress and excessive workloads, which is indicative of larger difficulties in one of the most demanding occupations in the world. In contrast to research that looks at these elements separately, this study investigates how they interact to offer a comprehensive picture of their combined influence on teacher performance. All ten, 100% of the SHS teachers were involved in the study using a qualitative and quantitative approach. The researcher applied a simple percentage and mean to analyze profile data, work-related stress scores, workloads, and work performance. Spearman rho was applied to determine statistical correlations between main variables. Qualitative interviews were used to get deeper insights, and quantitative data was collected using validated stress questionnaires, workload measures, and standardized performance evaluations. The results showed that although teachers were able to cope with moderate levels of stress in spite of heavy workloads, performance outcomes were not substantially predicted by either stress or workload. Systemic workload issues are still a major worry, though. In order to address systemic difficulties, the study suggested an action plan based on these findings that included stress management training, modified teaching duties, improved technical assistance, and stakeholder involvement. The goals of these plans are to boost performance, lessen stress, and manage workload better. In order to support teacher well-being and maximize educational outcomes, the study offers policymakers, school administrators, and researchers practical advice based on its insightful analysis of the complex relationships between stress, workload, and performance.
Fostering Self-Regulatory Behaviour through Religious Values: Challenges, Strategies, and the Role of Parents
Authors: Shukor Khairunnisa A , Mohd Noor Ahmad Firdaus , Hussin Nafisah Ilham , Othman Muhammad Atiullah , Dain Hafizan Mohamad , Aizuddin Norafandi Muhammad Nur
Published: February 2025

Self-regulation is a critical skill in moral and behavioural development, encompassing the ability to control thoughts, emotions, and actions in alignment with values and long-term goals. Within the framework of Islamic education, the process of nurturing self-regulation goes beyond behavioural control, emphasizing the development of the soul and character in accordance with divine principles. This study explores the pivotal role of parents in fostering self-regulation through Islamic educational practices, examining the alignment between traditional Islamic methods and modern self-regulation theories. Drawing on Quranic teachings and contemporary research, the study identifies key elements such as reinforcement, role modelling, repetition, and social interaction as essential components of effective self-regulation development. The paper further addresses the challenges parents face, including societal pressures, the dynamic parent-child relationship, the influence of modern technology, and evolving family structures. By integrating Islamic principles with contemporary educational insights, this study highlights a comprehensive approach to nurturing self-regulation, empowering children to navigate life with integrity and purpose while contributing positively to society. This research underscores the importance of parental involvement in shaping morally grounded, self-regulated individuals, emphasizing that such efforts are foundational to achieving both worldly success and spiritual fulfilment.
Mapping Innovation in Chemistry Education: Expert Insights on Innovation Competence and Learning Environments
Authors: Md. Aris Norliyana , Ibrahim Nor Hasniza , Halim Noor Dayana Abdul , Idris Nadzimah
Published: February 2025

Innovation competence is needed to solve many global problems, especially in chemistry. Along with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations, it is essential to achieve a better and more sustainable future by 2030. This study aims to map the views of experts’ chemistry teachers on whether current school curricula and classroom environments foster innovation competence and their views on its necessity for high school chemistry. A semi-structured interview protocol as a research instrument was used with three experts in the field to identify the need for competence development in teaching and learning chemistry and the proposed solutions suitable for teachers to develop students’ innovation competence in chemistry class. Findings indicate a strong need to enhance the learning environment to support innovation competence. A supportive setting with clear, structured resources and active learning strategies in chemistry education will significantly improve student engagement and learning outcomes.
Role of Strategic Planning in Navigating Business Uncertainty in Germany
Authors: Schneider Sophia
Published: February 2025

Purpose: The purpose of this article was to examine role of strategic planning in navigating business uncertainty in Germany.
Methodology: This study adopted a desk methodology. A desk study research design is commonly known as secondary data collection. This is basically collecting data from existing resources preferably because of its low cost advantage as compared to a field research. Our current study looked into already published studies and reports as the data was easily accessed through online journals and libraries.
Findings: In Germany’s dynamic business environment, strategic planning is crucial for navigating uncertainty. By systematically identifying risks and opportunities, companies can allocate resources effectively and adapt to economic fluctuations, regulatory changes, and competitive pressures. This proactive approach enhances decision-making and fosters innovation, enabling firms to build resilience and sustain growth even amid market volatility.
Unique Contribution to Theory, Practice and Policy: Dynamic capabilities theory, contingency theory & complexity theory may be used to anchor future studies on the role of strategic planning in navigating business uncertainty in Germany. Companies are advised to implement comprehensive planning processes that integrate real-time analytics, scenario planning, and iterative reviews. Policymakers can contribute by formulating frameworks and incentives that encourage organizations especially SMEs to adopt robust strategic planning methods.
A Nightnography of Food Couriers: Precarity and Inequality in After Dark Platform Work
Authors: MacQuarie Julius-Cezar
Published: February 2025

Food couriers working after dark are an under-researched group in “platform capitalism,” remaining relatively invisible in digitized cityscapes due to the nature of their night-time work. Drawing upon multi-sited in-person and digital nightnography in London (UK) and Cork (Ireland) and employing impressionistic mini portraits, this chapter documents experiences of precarity and inequality. It argues that existing literature often disembodies platform work, whereas today’s post-circadian capitalist era demands and extracts capital in traditional (bodily) ways through new denominations. Food couriers, especially those working after dark, are under duress from navigating traffic, waiting without getting orders, and staying alert. The chapter also highlights the gendered nature of platform work and contributes to debates on the digitalization of precarity and inequality.
Music within Nocturnal Constellations: A Photo Essay from Two Irish Cities
Authors: Kenny Ailbhe , Young Katie
Published: February 2025

This chapter explores musical spaces at night as experienced by African migrant and diasporic musicians in Ireland. Through a photo essay, musicians featured in this chapter move between and across multiple musical contexts and sites, finding new, open, and sometimes experimental opportunities across urban night space. Rooted in the individual and collective experiences of night clubs, community events, open mic nights and traditional pub settings, the photographs and accompanying text draw together connections and nuanced understandings across disparate nocturnal musical spaces in the cities of Cork and Galway. Taking the musical night as our frame and photographs as our canvas, we provide aesthetic insights into how African migrant and diasporic musicians project identities over space and time at night.
Night Spaces as Terreiros: The Case of Amsterdam’s Theatre Munganga as Ground for Intercultural Citizenship
Authors: Brandellero Sara , dos Santos Velho Francianne
Published: February 2025

This chapter focuses on Theatre Munganga, an independent arts venue in Amsterdam, as a case study to better understand how the production of night-time culture is key to intercultural citizenship within the often-polarized question of migration. It takes its cue from the definition of “night spaces” as “culturally mediated and socially produced” (Williams 2008) and the Brazilian spatial image of the terreiro, which translates into English as “yard,” but also carries multiple and hybrid connotations related to an Afro-Brazilian history of cultural and religious resistance. Drawing on Sodré’s (1988) notion of reterritorialization and Santos’ (1978) notion of the roughness of space, it analyses the material and symbolic resonances of this Amsterdam theatre and the making of the co-produced documentary Munganga (2022).
“La touche d’une femme”: Women Artists in the Age of Revolutions*
Authors: Spies-Gans Paris
Published: February 2025

This chapter demonstrates that the revolutionary era was a watershed moment for women artists in France through a qualitative and quantitative analysis of their exhibition activity in the Louvre Salon from 1760 to 1830. By detailing women’s genre choices for the thousands of pieces they exhibited, it shows how female artists fashioned public careers by mainly submitting portrait and narrative works, marketable canvases with traditionally prestigious subjects. In the first decade of the open Salon, female exhibitors fashioned their own public images, exhibiting dozens of canvases featuring women artists. With this identity established, they increasingly showed paintings with scenes from history and literature. As women continued to exhibit in growing numbers, they built lucrative careers while inserting women into the narratives featured on Salon walls.
Chardin’s Girls: The Ethics of Painting
Authors: Lajer-Burcharth Ewa
Published: February 2025

What did it mean to be a girl in eighteenth-century France? How was gender identity developed and maintained in this period? And how did visual representations contribute to the cultural process of gender formation? Linked to a new conception of childhood as a distinct phase of human life, and to the widespread pedagogical literature, visual depictions of youths abound in the eighteenth century. Jean-Siméon Chardin’s paintings, however, distinctly avoid pedagogical emphasis. Instead of instructive scenarios, they visualize the young women’s interiority, hinting at its role in the formation of a gendered self. Representing an interiorized, opaque subjectivity, these images encourage a different mode of looking, raising a broader question of ethics involved in both the production and reception of paintings.
Temporality and Figures de mode: Fashion, Costume, and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Drawings and Prints
Authors: Siegfried Susan L.
Published: February 2025

This essay explores the relationship between two different notions of time that were in play in visual representations of fashion and costume in the eighteenth century. A notion of time as durational continuity was associated with costume and tended to be privileged over a notion of time as provisional and impermanent, which was associated with fashion. The essay questions the classic gendering of fashion as a feminine capriciousness as against a more “masculine” and stable idea of costume and usage. These issues are explored in a fine art practice of drawing exemplified by Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s figures de mode and in a print culture of engraving most ambitiously expressed in Johann Heinrich Eberts’s so-called Monument du Costume (1775, 1777, 1783).
Introduction: Mary D. Sheriff: Charting New Possibilities for Feminist Art History
Authors: Fend Mechthild , Germann Jennifer , Hyde Melissa
Published: February 2025

The introduction presents key ideas in the work of Mary Sheriff that are taken up by contributors to this volume. It offers an account of Sheriff’s contributions to the historiography of feminist art history, and a sense of the significance of her scholarship for feminist art history and eighteenth-century studies more broadly. The central themes of individual essays in this volume and many of the connections between them are also addressed here.
Reading Stephen King through the Years: Theoretical Permutations
Authors: Magistrale Tony
Published: February 2025

A detailed overview of the relationship between critical theories and their influence on major work by Stephen King over the past fifty years. The theories that are applied to King in this essay include: Marxist, psychoanalytic, mythic—particularly Jung and Campbell—archetypes, feminism, critical race and ethnicity, ecocriticism. While not privileging the importance of a single theoretical orientation over any other, this brief survey argues that certain literary theories are more productively aligned with King’s fiction at specific points during his career than at others.
Excursus on Suffering, Meaning, and Metaphysics in Stephen King’s Revival
Authors: Held Jacob M.
Published: February 2025

Stephen King’s Revival is both his longest contribution to Lovecraft’s Cthulhu mythos and most poignant engagement with the philosophical problem of evil. Through the characters of Jamie Morton and Reverend Charles Jacobs the reader is persistently challenged with questions such as: Is there a God, and if so, why does an all-powerful and perfectly good God allow bad things to happen? Is there an afterlife, and if so, can it redeem the suffering of this world? Are these mysteries matters of faith, or are they open to investigation? In this essay, I draw from various philosophical perspectives and figures including J. G. Fichte, Immanuel Kant, and Albert Camus to interrogate the questions above as well as to walk the reader through Revival alongside Jamie and Jacobs, seeking not answers to these questions but a fruitful perspective from which to address our ineluctable ignorance and make this life, and the next, livable.
Towards Infection: Viral Adaptations of King
Authors: Holtmeier Matthew , Wessels Chelsea
Published: February 2025

Though a prolific writer, Stephen King’s track record of adaptation from book to screen is even more impressive compared to his peers. With such volume comes the opportunity for infection, as adaptations begin to infect one another. This essay explores the concept of “viral adaptation,” a term we use to define examples where the adaptations mutate beyond the scope of the original text, while still adhering to the imagined worlds of the source authors. In particular, we look to the example of the television show Haven (2010-15), which is adapted from Stephen King’s The Colorado Kid (2005). Haven provides a useful starting point, because in The Colorado Kid King provides an invitation for infection via the novella’s unanswered mystery.
Transforming Europe in the Images of the World, 1110-1500
Authors: Petrovskaia Natalia I.
Published: February 2025

This is the first book to examine the wide and important geographical tradition that arose from the description of the world in the Imago mundi - a medieval encyclopedic bestseller, almost unrivalled in popularity from its composition in the 1110s well into the age of print.

The Imago mundi was translated into most European vernaculars and extracts from it were adapted into vernacular works ranging from encyclopedias to literary fiction, verse and prose. This is the first study to examine this tradition as a unified whole. It focuses in particular on the permutations undergone by the depiction of the region designated as ‘Europe’ in the original text and its later adaptations. The book demonstrates the incredible flexibility of the original text and how this enabled the transformation of this spatial description to suit the linguistic, political and cultural needs of vernacular adaptations.
Medicine: Hájek’s Lifelong Practice
Authors: Divišová Bohdana
Published: February 2025

The chapter discusses the life and medical activities of Hájek, and it explains his attitude towards medicine, his medical studies, and his achievements. It also focuses on his views on contemporary medicine, mainly in connection with his foreword to a book by Laurence Gryll. In addition, it covers Hájek’s activity at the imperial court and mentions his unique book on brewing beer. Place is also given to Hájek’s diagnostic methods and to the controversies he was involved in, especially his controversy with Fauchelius. Finally, the chapter presents Hájek as a Paracelsian physician.
Astrology: The Hermetic Context of Hájek’s Work
Authors: Hladký Vojtěch
Published: February 2025

In Astrologia opuscula antiqua (1564), Hájek brought together three astrological treatises and furnished them with commentaries. The first two texts form a sort of elementary astrological encyclopaedia, while the third is supplemented by extensive commentaries. Hájek’s introduction and commentaries outline a coherent world view, according to which the Sun, the Moon, and the planets influence earthly events through a network of sympathetic and antipathetic relations, which has an impact also on the balance of humours which determine human health. Astrology can thus be applied not only to predicting future events but also in medicine, where it helps with choosing appropriate treatments or composing effective medicaments. The book provides a background for Hájek’s various scientific and academic interests.
Alchemy: The Czech Lands and Rudolfine Prague
Authors: Purš Ivo
Published: February 2025

The tradition of alchemical research in Bohemia goes back to the fourteenth century. It continued throughout the sixteenth century, and by the time Emperor Rudolf II came to power, he found fertile soil ready to support his interest in alchemy. The chapter discusses the role of Hájek and his relations with other scholars. It deals with an influential group of educated physicians at the imperial court who were involved in chymiatric medicine in Prague, although they were not Paracelsians themselves. Hájek was convinced of the importance of astrology in the production of medicines and for alchemy itself. This is also evidenced by Hájek’s Herbarz, a Czech reworking of Mattioli’s commentaries on Dioscorides.
Chymiatry: Hájek’s Position
Authors: Purš Ivo
Published: February 2025

In Prague, Hájek was in contact with a circle of foreign alchemists, whom he accommodated in his house. Reports survive of transmutations that were to be carried out there. Hájek conveyed news of these events to Emperor Rudolf II. As is clear from his correspondence with Rheticus and Dudith, he was interested in the work of Paracelsus and in other new currents of medicine (e.g., Fernel). However, he approached the new findings critically and combined them with traditional Galenic medicine. The surviving correspondence with Tycho Brahe is important evidence of these interests and shows that Tycho considered Hájek an expert in chymiatry (medically oriented alchemy). As Hájek got older, he became more sceptical of chymiatry and the possibilities of its implementation.
Astronomy: New Cosmology and Lutheran Theology
Authors: Nejeschleba Tomáš
Published: February 2025

Astronomy was Hájek’s favourite scholarly field and it brought him the greatest fame. The historiography of science has often seen this part of Hájek’s work from a contemporary perspective, neglecting its astrological and theological contexts. Hájek understood astrological predictions he himself made as a knowledge of divine providence, an approach close to Melanchthonian Lutheranism. This theological foundation is present not only in his early works on comets and in his specific interpretation of the so-called Turkish prophecy, but also in his later works. Theological reasoning, specifically the liturgical aspect, is also present in Hájek’s assessment of the Gregorian calendar reform. In all his astronomical or astronomy-related works, Hájek strives for a Christian, pious interpretation of celestial phenomena.
Vagrancy, Punishment, Legislation and Workers’ Agency in Portuguese Africa (1875-1899)
Authors: Terra Paulo Cruz
Published: February 2025

The chapter analyses how legislation, punishment, and anti-vagrancy policies were entangled with labour relations during the process of abolition and post-abolition. It centres on the period between 1870 and 1914, time of relevant legislation concerned to labour regulation and anti-vagrancy policy, and addresses Brazil and the Portuguese Empire in Africa. The main argument is that the anti-vagrancy policy was the central point of the discussion about how to conduct people from slavery to freedom and how to make the ex-slaves work. A difference between existing studies is that this points out that much of the concern with creating legislation was a response to the workeŕs agency in the face of working conditions and their transformations. Another difference is to analyse the processes not closed in itself but in a comparative and connected way. The text intends to discuss how the punishment for vagrancy was used to provide labour through forced labour for the State and private employers. Punishment for vagrancy was also used to deport workers from Portugal to Africa, especially to the penal colonies of Angola and Mozambique. The issue of convict labour was indeed debated constantly, including as a means of avoiding vagrancy.
From Slave Society to Penal Colony: Penalisation of Work and the Penal Workforce in French Guiana, 1794–19531
Authors: Tracol Samuel
Published: February 2025

While slavery was abolished in all French colonies in 1848, French Guiana became a penal colony in 1852. Tens of thousands of convicts were sent there for a sentence of forced labour during one century. The hesitations of 1848 regarding the colonial valorisation of French Guiana inscribed the convict labour in a general history of post-abolitionist dependencies. Finally, the penal colony of French Guiana constitutes a situated institution: the convict labour is a response to a specific colonial situation. We will situate the convict labour in French Guiana into a connected history of labour by echoing the models on an imperial scale, both in the metropolis and in the colonies.
Corporal Confinement, Mutilation and Slave Marks: Approaches to Mobility Control in Early Mesopotamia
Authors: Nicholas Reid J.
Published: February 2025

This chapter focuses on approaches to mobility control in early Mesopotamia (c. 3200–1595 BC), which requires consideration of attestations across several historical periods. This chapter’s systematic approach discusses attestations and changes in practices for each period by clearly demarcating the period from which the material is drawn. The aim of these measures was not immobility, but rather controlled mobility. It is concluded that while many of the practices related to mobility control can be connected to the control of animals, some of the measures would not make sense unless humanity was also being acknowledged in some sense.
Coercive Networks in Copenhagen, c. 1730–1820
Authors: Luther Valentin Emilie , Heinsen Johan
Published: February 2025

This chapter studies the Danish-Norwegian capital’s two main prisons: the prison workhouse and the extramural military prison known as Slaveriet (The Slavery). These prisons were central hubs in two interlocking systems of incarceration and penal labour that co-existed but functioned in quite different ways and with different rationales. Based on a dataset of prison stays in the two institutions, the chapter examines the ways in which they were linked to each other as well as to other institutional sites of coercion. Tracing the continuous circulation of convicts, the chapter analyses these links and their logics and asks what kind of penal experiences such a network has created. Finally, the chapter examines the tensions that marred this network and the way they shaped its make-up.
Positionality, Immersive Methodology, and Collaboration in Film Festival Research
Authors: Sendra Estrella
Published: February 2025

Film festival research is largely informed by ethnographic methods, guaranteeing access and participation in events defined by their liveness and multi-faceted dimension. By self-reflecting on the experience of conducting fieldwork in Senegal, this chapter invites reflection on the researchers role and research methods. In an effort and commitment to contribute to decolonising academia, it identifies three main phases in the research design. These are the researchers positionality, their immersion in the film festival, and the collaboration with festival participants and fellow researchers. By reflecting on these three dimensions, this chapter engages with a key research question: how do researchers arrive at film festivals and subsequently move along its circuit, in order to examine them?
Unraveling Curatorial Dilemmas: Practice-Led and Auto-Ethnography in the Study of Human Rights Film Festivals
Authors: Colta Alexandra-Maria
Published: February 2025

This chapter proposes a methodological approach that can reveal the often hidden to the outsider eye, difficult decision-making process and the factors that influence programming and the ethos of human rights film festivals.. Drawing on the main case study (Document Human Rights Film Festival in Scotland) this chapter discusses the use of practice-led ethnography and autoethnography to the study of programming film festivals and the findings they generated. These methods contributed to the understanding of the often difficult-to-articulate subjective decisions behind curation as well as the creative, emotional labour involved in this process. This chapter also reflects on the dual role of the researcher and/as practitioner, the challenges and opportunities of being both insider and outsider, fulfilling industry and academic agendas.
Independent Film and the US Festival Circuit
Authors: Kredell Brendan
Published: February 2025

This chapter considers the relationship of independent cinema to film festivals in the United States, and contextualises this question amidst the immediate pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic and broader trends confronting the film industry. I begin from the premise that the rise of digital cinema was a turning point for festivals, heightening their role as an alternative distribution network for independent film in the United States. Their success in this role, I contend, was in the mutual interests of an otherwise disparate network of stakeholders. Yet the challenges of the pandemic have laid bare the struggle that confronts festivals in continuing to mediate between these groups, as interests that were formerly aligned may increasingly diverge.
Translating Horrific History: Filipino Mythological and Folk Creatures, the Trauma of Colonial History, and the Limits of Nationalism in the Design and Narrative of Nightfall: Escape
Authors: Cerda Christoffer Mitch C.
Published: February 2025

This chapter analyses the Filipino survival horror video game Nightfall: Escape (Zeenoh Games, 2016) and how it represents Philippine mythological and folk creatures as monsters. I focus on how these creatures are used to embody the fantastic aspects of Philippine culture and history, especially the traumatic conflict between colonial and nationalist ideologies. Using the concepts of encyclopaedic containment and statistical encoding, I explore the gameplay and narrative design deployed to translate mythological and folk creatures to a game that helps players understand Philippine culture and history. Lastly, I examine Nightfall: Escape’s place in the growing popularity of horror games based on non-Euro-American cultures in the international video game market, and self-exoticization can be avoided during the process of commodification of culture.
Hidden Monsters: Conspiracy Aesthetics in Video Games
Authors: de Wildt Lars
Published: February 2025

Concerns about conspiracy theories arise alongside attempts to debunk them, to pathologize their theorists, or to blame governments and media for spreading misinformation. Often overlooked is the fact that cultural industries thrive on the aesthetics of conspiracy. This chapter examines three video game franchises—Metal Gear Solid, Assassin’s Creed, and Tom Clancy’s The Division—as exemplary of such conspiracy aesthetics. In each, an explicit enemy Other is continuously displaced by a monstrous Self within our own societies. I argue three things: firstly, that conspiracy aesthetics should be regarded as monstrous because they disturb the identification of a conventional enemy Other. Secondly, that conspiracy aesthetics present a slippery monster that eludes direct objectification. Thirdly, that these monsters are systemic and have an elective affinity with video games as cultural commodities.
Monstrous Academics
Authors: Carr Diane , Banaji Shakuntala , Ergül Hakan
Published: February 2025

In this chapter, three academics test an approach to supportive, collaborative writing based on the game known as Exquisite Corpse, while reflecting on difficult aspects of academic practice in monstrous times. Exquisite Corpse is a drawing game during which players take turns to add sections to what becomes a composition of diverse parts. Here, the approach is adapted to an academic context. Drawers become writers; the three authors become three players. We found that this approach gave us a playful space within which to explore concepts of monstrosity and marginality (including abjection, incursion, and erasure) and also to share our perspectives on experiences of affect within the academy. In a final, collective autopsy, the authors share reflections on epistemological status, interdisciplinarity, and the politics of productivity.
Power Allocation in Cell Free Massive MIMO system under Pilot Contamination
Authors: Alrubay Mohammed , Almusa Hayder
Published: February 2025

Cell-free massive MIMO technology holds significant promise as a pivotal enhancement for next-generation 5G and 6G networks. This technology features a network architecture where a single central processing unit oversees multiple access points, thereby enhancing wireless communication capacity and efficacy. By enabling broader connectivity beyond the confines of standard cellular networks, it minimizes signal interruptions and improves spectral efficiency. Despite these advancements, further research is necessary to define a comprehensive implementation strategy for deploying cell-free massive MIMO systems under real-world conditions. The Signal-to-Interference-plus-Noise Ratio (SINR) plays a crucial role in wireless communications. In this paper, the problem of power allocation is addressed under the assumption of pilot contamination. Pilot contamination occurs when multiple users share the same pilot signal. Specifically, two users were assumed to have the same pilot signal, which significantly decreased the SINR and increased the interference among these users. This reduction in SINR leads to potential degradation in achievable data rates and overall system performance. The proposed algorithm aims to reduce the pilot contamination by solving a max-min optimization problem that insure a fairness among all users. The proposed algorithm obtained the optimal power coefficient associated with each user by taking the advantage of uplink-downlink duality and considering all interference terms in the calculations. The proposed algorithm find out the optimal solution in an iterative manner until the feasible solution is achieved. The methodology introduced calculation of achievable rates based on SINR, which is essential for evaluating power allocation in cell-free massive MIMO systems. Specifically, we focus on downlink sum-rate maximization and compare the effectiveness of Zero-Forcing (ZF) precoder against Conjugate Beamforming (CB) precoder.
Pengaruh Tata Letak (Layout) Terhadap Produktivitas Batu Bata di UD. MUSTIKA DESA LOLOWUA HILIWARASI Kecamatan Hiliserangkai Kabupaten Nias
Authors: Syukur Wildman Mendrofa  , Jeliswan Berkat Iman Jaya Gea  , Maria Magdalena Bate'e  , Eduar Baene
Published: February 2025

This study aims to analyze the impact of layout on the productivity of brick manufacturing businesses in Lolowua Hiliwarasi Village, Hiliserangkai District, Nias Regency. The research employs a quantitative approach, gathering data through observations and interviews with business owners and workers. The findings indicate that an efficient layout can enhance productivity by reducing travel time and minimizing disruptions in the production process. A well-designed layout facilitates workflow and improves the effectiveness of space and resource utilization. The study concludes that optimizing the layout of brick manufacturing operations can significantly boost productivity and operational efficiency.
PENGARUH RASA PERCAYA DIRI TERHADAP KEMAMPUAN BERPIKIR KRITIS SISWA PADA MATA PELAJARAN FIQIH : STUDI DI KELAS VIII MADRASAH TSANAWIYAH BUSTANUL ULUM JAYASAKTI
Authors: NGULWIYAH LAELATUL , ULFA HIDAYATI ARINI , ANDRIANTO DEDI , MAULIDIN SYARIF
Published: February 2025

ABSTRACT
This study aims to determine the effect of self-confidence on students' critical thinking skills in the subject of Fiqh at MTs Bustanul Ulum Jayasakti. A quantitative method with a correlational design was used in this research. The sample consisted of 35 eighth-grade students, with data collected through questionnaires to measure self-confidence and tests to assess students' critical thinking skills. Simple linear regression, normality test, linearity test, and homogeneity test were used to analyze the data. The results showed that self-confidence had a positive and significant effect on students' critical thinking skills, with a contribution of 74%. Based on the hypothesis test, the significance value of 0.000 < 0.05 means that the alternative hypothesis is accepted. Therefore, it can be concluded that increasing students' self-confidence has the potential to improve their critical thinking skills. This study recommends the development of teaching strategies that can enhance students' self-confidence as an effort to support the improvement of their critical thinking skills in the future.
Keywords: Self-Confidence, Critical Thinking Skills, Learning
ABSTRAK
Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh rasa percaya diri terhadap kemampuan berpikir kritis siswa pada mata pelajaran Fiqih di MTs Bustanul Ulum Jayasakti. Dalam penelitian ini, digunakan metode kuantitatif dengan desain korelasional. Sampel yang digunakan sebanyak 35 siswa kelas VIII, dengan pengumpulan data melalui angket untuk mengukur rasa percaya diri dan tes untuk mengukur kemampuan berpikir kritis siswa. Uji regresi linear sederhana, uji normalitas, uji linearitas, dan uji homogenitas digunakan untuk menganalisis data. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa rasa percaya diri memiliki pengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap kemampuan berpikir kritis siswa, dengan kontribusi sebesar 74%. Berdasarkan hasil uji hipotesis, nilai signifikansi sebesar 0,000 < 0,05, yang berarti hipotesis alternatif diterima. Oleh karena itu, dapat disimpulkan bahwa meningkatkan rasa percaya diri siswa berpotensi memperbaiki kemampuan berpikir kritis mereka. Penelitian ini menyarankan perlunya pengembangan strategi pembelajaran yang dapat meningkatkan rasa percaya diri siswa, sebagai upaya untuk mendukung peningkatan keterampilan berpikir kritis mereka di masa mendatang.
Kata Kunci: Rasa Percaya Diri, Kemampuan Berpikir Kritis, Pembelajaran
PARA ALÉM DA VIOLÊNCIA: CONSTRUINDO UM MODELO DE SEGURANÇA PÚBLICA BASEADO NOS DIREITOS HUMANOS
Authors: Barros Flávia Leite do Rêgo , Lima Maria Segunda Gomes de , Lima Ronnei Prado , Borba  João Victor do Rêgo Barros
Published: February 2025

O presente artigo analisa a efetividade dos direitos humanos na segurança pública, destacando a discrepância entre a normatividade jurídica e a realidade das práticas policiais no Brasil. Fundamentado na teoria do garantismo penal de Luigi Ferrajoli e na crítica à seletividade do sistema penal de Eugênio Raúl Zaffaroni, investiga-se como a atuação das forças de segurança frequentemente viola os princípios da legalidade e da proporcionalidade. A pesquisa adota a metodologia qualitativa, baseada em análise bibliográfica e documental, examinando obras de juristas, legislação nacional e internacional e jurisprudência dos tribunais superiores. O objetivo geral é compreender os desafios da implementação dos direitos humanos na segurança pública e propor soluções alinhadas ao modelo de segurança cidadã. Justifica-se a pesquisa pela necessidade de superar a lógica repressiva e militarizada da segurança pública brasileira, promovendo um modelo preventivo e humanizado, conforme recomendado por organismos internacionais, como a Corte Interamericana de Direitos Humanos. Conclui-se que a redução da letalidade policial e o respeito aos direitos fundamentais dependem do fortalecimento dos mecanismos de controle social e judicial sobre a atividade policial.
Parameterization of particle formation rates in distinct atmospheric environments
Authors: Li Xinyang , Nieminen Tuomo , Baalbaki Rima , Zhou Putian , Paasonen Pauli , Makkonen Risto , Zaidan Martha Arbayani , Sarnela Nina , Yan Chao , Jokinen Tujia , Salma Imre , Vörösmarty Máté , Petäjä Tuukka , Kerminen Veli-Matti , Kulmala Markku , Dada Lubna
Published: February 2025

Abstract. Atmospheric particle formation rate (J) is one of the key characteristics in new particle formation (NPF) processes worldwide. It is related to the development of ultrafine particle growth to cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) and, hence, to Earth radiative forcing in global models, which helps us to better understand the impact of NPF on cloud properties and climate change. In this work, we parameterized four semi-empirical J models for 5 nm atmospheric particles using field measurements obtained from distinct environments that varied from clean to heavily polluted regions and from tropical to polar regions. The models rely primarily on sulfuric acid as a condensing vapor, condensation sink to account for the vapor loss, and relative humidity for meteorological contribution to J. The parameterization results showed that our models were able to produce plausible predictions for boreal forest environments, heavily polluted environments, and biogenic environments with high relative humidity. We further tested the models in the global simulation module Tracer Model 5 (TM5, massive parallel version) to simulate particle number size distribution across 14 global atmospheric measurement sites. The simulated results showed satisfactory predictions on particle number concentrations for all the tested environments, with significant improvement in the nucleation mode, and better prediction accuracy for Aitken and accumulation modes compared to the binary sulfuric acid-organic vapor model in Riccobono (2014). Our study has successfully provided powerful tools to predict J5 on a global scale across various environment types using the most essential and more accessible variables involved in the NPF processes. Essentially, this work reinforces the necessity for global research into the investigation of environment-oriented meteorology-involved NPF processes.
The next generation sea-ice model neXtSIM, version 2
Authors: Ólason Einar , Boutin Guillaume , Williams Timothy , Korosov Anton , Regan Heather , Rheinlænder Jonathan , Rampal Pierre , Flocco Daniela , Samaké Abdoulaye , Davy Richard , Spain Timothy , Chua Sean
Published: February 2025

Abstract. While many large-scale sea ice models can represent regional to global sea ice evolution, their representation of sea ice dynamics varies little between models. This is because they all use rheologies based on the hypothesis that sea ice behaves as a visco-plastic solid. This works reasonably well for several quantities (e.g. sea ice volume) but fails to capture sea ice deformation features at coarse and moderately high resolutions (i.e. coarser than about 5 km resolution). This may be problematic since these deformations result in the formation of leads and ridges, which likely play an essential role in ice-atmosphere-ocean interactions, and because these are the resolutions at which sea ice models run in coupled models such as Earth System Models. An alternative is to use brittle rheologies that better capture these features independently of the resolution. The neXtSIM model has been at the core of the effort by its developers and users to explore the usage of brittle rheologies and new modelling approaches in geophysical scale simulations of sea ice. Here, we document neXtSIM, now in version 2 of its development, to foster its use for the sea ice community and release a public version of the model. We describe the sea ice dynamics and the core of the model in detail and give insights into the parameters specific to the brittle rheologies included in neXtSIM. We also document the model's specificity associated with its Lagrangian framework and how it affects the coupling with other components of Earth system models. We hope that the insights provided in this study and the public release of the model will trigger innovative research in the sea ice modelling community.
Եղիշե Չարենց: Մատենագիտություն (1914-2022) / Yeghishe Charents: Bibliography (1914-2022)
Authors:   Bibliography and Library Science Department of the National Library of Armenia
Published: February 2025

The publication includes the works of Yeghishe Charents published in the years 1914-2022, the books compiled and edited by him, the epigraphs of Charents' works, lists of series are also included.
РОЛЬ И ВОЗМОЖНОСТИ ИСКУССТВЕННОГО ИНТЕЛЛЕКТА В СОВРЕМЕННОЙ ЦИВИЛИСТИКЕ
Authors: АРУТЮНЯН Р.Э. , АГАБЕКАЯН И.А.
Published: February 2025

Статья посвящена исследованию искусственного интеллекта (ИИ) и его влияния в правовой сфере. Авторами проанализированы плюсы и минусы использования искусственного интеллекта, судебные иски, а также Указ Президента РФ и статья 141.1 «Цифровые права» ГК РФ. В работе рассматриваются ключе- вые области применения ИИ в цивилистике, такие как предсказание судебных решений, автоматизация состав- ления договоров и помощь в разрешении споров.

The article is devoted to the study of artificial intelligence (AI) and its influence in the legal field. The authors analyzed the pros and cons of using artificial intelligence, lawsuits, as well as the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation and Article 141.1. «Digital Rights» of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation. The paper examines key areas of AI application in civil law, such as predicting court decisions, automating the drafting of contracts and assistance in dispute resolution.
РЕСОЦИАЛИЗАЦИЯ ОСУЖДЕННЫХ В РОССИИ: СОВРЕМЕННЫЙ ВЗГЛЯД
Authors: СТРИЛЕЦ О.В.
Published: February 2025

В статье рассматривается современное состояние процесса ресоциализации осужденных в России. Автор отмечает, что этот процесс охватывает как правовые, так и социально-психологические аспекты, требуя координации усилий различных государственных органов и общества в целом. Обосновывается пози- ция о том, что основной целью ресоциализации является снижение рецидивной преступности в стране. Выска- зывается соображение о значении Федерального закона «О пробации в Российской Федерации» для процесса ресоциализации осужденных. Основываясь на анализе современных проблем ресоциализации, автор приходит к выводу, что процесс ре- социализации осужденных имеет комплексный характер и напрямую зависит от деятельности законодательной и исполнительной власти.

The article examines the current state of the process of resocialization of convicts in Russia. The author notes that this process covers both legal and socio-psychological aspects, requiring coordination of the efforts of various state bodies and society as a whole. The position is justified that the main goal of resocialization is to reduce recidivism in the country. A consideration is expressed about the significance of the Federal Law «On Probation in the Russian Federation» for the process of resocialization of convicts. Based on the analysis of modern problems of resocialization, the author concludes that the process of resocialization of convicts is complex and directly depends on the activities of the legislative and executive branches.