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Cast Out of the Covenant
Authors: Reinhartz Adele
Published: July 2024

The Gospel of John presents its readers, listeners, and interpreters with a serious problem: how can we reconcile the Gospel’s exalted spirituality and deep knowledge of Judaism with its portrayal of the Jews as the children of the devil (John 8:44) who persecuted Christ and his followers?

One widespread solution to this problem is the so-called “expulsion hypothesis.” According to this view, the Fourth Gospel was addressed to a Jewish group of believers in Christ that had been expelled from the synagogue due to their faith. The anti-Jewish elements express their natural resentment of how they had been treated; the Jewish elements of the Gospel, on the other hand, reflect the Jewishness of this group and also soften the force of the Gospel’s anti-Jewish comments.

In Cast out of the Covenant, this book, Adele Reinhartz presents a detailed critique of the expulsion hypothesis on literary and historical grounds. She argues that, far from softening the Gospel’s anti-Jewishness, the Gospel’s Jewish elements in fact contribute to it. Focusing on the Gospel’s persuasive language and intentions, Reinhartz shows that the Gospel’s anti-Jewishness is evident not only in the Gospel’s hostile comments about the Jews but also in its appropriation of Torah, Temple, and Covenant that were so central to first-century Jewish identity. Through its skillful use of rhetoric, the Gospel attempts to convince its audience that God’s favor had turned away from the Jews to the Gentiles; that there is a deep rift between the synagogue and those who confess Christ as Messiah; and that, in the Gospel’s view, this rift was initiated in Jesus’ own lifetime. The Fourth Gospel, Reinhartz argues, appropriates Jewishness at the same time as it repudiates Jews. In doing so, it also promotes a “parting of the ways” between those who believe that Jesus is the messiah, the Son of God, and those who do not, that is, the Jews. This rhetorical program, she suggests, may have been used to promote outreach or even an organized mission to the Gentiles, following in the footsteps of Paul and his mid-first-century contemporaries.
Divine Revelation and Human Liberation
Authors: Singleton Harry H.
Published: July 2024

Harry H. Singleton is concerned in this work with the disparate ways blacks and whites have experienced American history and subsequently the way they have fashioned God’s communication to humans, formerly referred to as revelation. This book makes the case that while white Christian leaders have rooted God’s revelation either in an inherently inferior black humanity or a Christian faith void of black suffering, black theologians have rooted that same revelation in the plight of oppressed peoples in general and black people in particular, i.e., that God’s essence is found in the struggle for human liberation. With clarity and passion, Professor Singleton draws on the treatments of revelation of the most celebrated white theologians to demonstrate that the Christian theological enterprise has by intent and effect linked God’s revelation with black inferiority. Black theologians, on the other hand, have countered seeking a more liberating view of black humanity by making the case that the God of the Bible ultimately intervenes in contexts of human oppression not for their perpetuation but rather for their destruction. In this sense, Singleton pushes the reader to the conclusion that although the treatments of revelation between white and black theologians have been as different as their lived histories, the object of revelation has been the same – the humanity of black people! Thus, Singleton puts forth the bold argument that the racial struggle in America has not only been an historical struggle for determining the humanity of black people but a theological struggle for determining the humanity of black people as well. But far from remaining objective, Singleton takes the liberating path for black humanity and presses his way through the pages of this work seeking a new paradigm for revelation that no longer places God at the intersection of the white-black encounter as a condoner of racism or as a disinterested observer in the racial struggle but rather as an eternal light whose very nature is seen in the continuing quest for human liberation.
The Material Image
Authors: Wacome Donald H.
Published: July 2024

In The Material Image, Donald H. Wacome sets out to reconcile the Christian faith and contemporary science by embracing, rather than evading, its naturalistic implications. The sciences are our best way to know ourselves and the world we inhabit, Wacome argues, but this does not make belief in miracles unreasonable. The sciences reveal that we are fully material beings, the product of unguided natural selection. God created human persons for the vocation of sharing in the everlasting Triune life and work, but this creation does not involve design. The mind is the embodied, socially situated brain. There is no immaterial soul; we are the material image of our transcendent Creator. This materialist conception does not preclude the resurrection of the body. The freedom that matters for the human creature is compatible with our being governed by the laws of nature. Morality and religion are natural, merely human, legacies of our evolutionary history, which God employs in pursuit of fellowship with us. Christians can faithfully and enthusiastically welcome the image of human beings given in contemporary science.
Divine Shepherd Christology in the Gospel of Matthew
Authors: Baxter Wayne
Published: July 2024

In this book, Wayne Baxter explores and unpacks the Shepherd Christology in the Gospel of Matthew. By examining Matthew's shepherd motif against the backdrop of the metaphor's appropriation in the biblical tradition, in the writings of Second Temple Judaism, and in the New Testament, Baxter's analysis reveals important convergences and divergences between Matthew and these three groups of authors. One the one hand, the Evangelist's shepherd motif closely echoes that of the Jewish Scriptures; on the other hand, at points Matthew's motif aligns with the trope's usage by Christ-believers over and against its deployment by Second Temple Jewish authors. Sometimes he agrees with the Second Temple writers over and against Christ-believers, and at other times he stands alone, deviating from both Second Temple Jews and Christ-believers. Baxter argues that the reason for these convergences and divergences is Matthew's high Shepherd Christology: In Jesus the messianic Shepherd, YHWH has personally returned in a dramatic way to shepherd his people, Israel.
The Other Black Church
Authors: Tucker Edmonds Joseph L.
Published: July 2024

The Other Black Church: Alternative Christian Movements and the Struggle for Black Freedom examines the movements led by Father Divine, Charles Mason, and Albert Cleage (later known as Jaramogi Abebe Agyeman) as alternative Christian movements in the middle of the twentieth century that radically re-envisioned the limits and possibilities of Black citizenship. These movements not only rethink the value and import of Christian texts and reimagined the role of the Black Christian prophetic tradition, but they also outlined a new model of protest that challenged the language and logic of Black essentialism, economic development, and the role of the state. By placing these movements in conversation with the long history of Black theology and Black religious studies, this book suggests that alternative Christian movements are essential for thinking about African American critiques of and responses to the failures of U.S.-based democracy. These prophets of Black theological thought and their attention to the limits of the state and traditional Black religious formations are most fully appreciated when studied in light of their conversations and interactions with other key Black prophetic and theological figures of the mid-twentieth century. Ultimately, The Other Black Church will use those conversations and archives from these movements to highlight their protest of the racial state, to explore the limits of the Black church, and to argue for their continued significance for thinking about the variety and vibrancy of Black protest, specifically Black religious protest, during the twentieth century.
The Corinthian Correspondence
Authors: Hughes Frank W. , Jewett Robert
Published: July 2024

In The Corinthian Correspondence, Frank W. Hughes and Robert Jewett argue that there were eight original letters by the Apostle Paul to the church in Corinth. In the first part of the book, they use literary and redaction criticism to show the reasons for the partition theory of 1 and 2 Corinthians. Analyzing each of the eight letters and letter-fragments using rhetorical criticism, they show how the original Corinthian letters were edited and reshaped into 1 and 2 Corinthians in the New Testament. After reflections on the rhetoric of these letters and the historical meaning of the reshaping of the images of Paul, a final chapter traces the consequences of the reshaping of the Corinthian correspondence and the adoption of the bound book (codex) instead of the original papyrus scrolls. Several figures help the reader understand the redactional process, and a new translation of the eight reconstructed Corinthian letters is provided.
Biblical ABCs
Authors: Miskotte Kornelis Heiko
Published: July 2024

Biblical ABCs is a theological resistance primer. Its author, Kornelis Heiko Miskotte, was a Dutch pastor, theologian, and antifascist who lived and worked under the Nazi occupation of his country. Miskotte’s family hid Jews inside their home, and Miskotte facilitated underground Christian discussion groups. In 1941, he published an illegal pamphlet as a study guide for these groups. In an atmosphere saturated with propaganda and lies, Miskotte felt that Christians needed a refresher course in the basics of biblical language—an anti-Nazi catechism, as it were. Miskotte presents this instruction in twelve brief, poetic meditations on important terms drawn from the Bible. Like his teacher Karl Barth, Miskotte insists on the primacy of the Word, and like his imprisoned colleague Dietrich Bonhoeffer, he emphasizes the this-worldliness of the Old Testament. Miskotte also shows his deep debt to the Jewish theologian, Franz Rosenzweig. He begins his primer with the A of the biblical ABCs: the Name of God, the Tetragrammaton, which Miskotte sees as the cornerstone of all resistance to authoritarianism and truth decay.
Testimony and Trauma
Authors: Hontz Drury Amanda
Published: July 2024

Jesus’ crucifixion was a traumatic event. After Jesus’ resurrection, the disciples were both astonished and terrified—Jesus was no longer dead, but the wounds from the crucifixion were still etched in his body. The return of Jesus was supposed to be a joyous occasion, but the trauma of the weekend's events nevertheless creeped into the space following the resurrection. The resurrection story is one of betrayal, denial, beatings, public rejection, humiliation, and execution. Experiences like this do not disappear from memory. Christ has died, Christ is risen, but trauma will come again. Testimony and Trauma explores the Christian practice of testimony through the lens of articulation theory in order to facilitate healing.
Receiving Back One's Deeds
Authors: Dally Benjamin M.
Published: July 2024

This book investigates the relationship between justification by faith and final judgment according to works as found in Paul’s second epistle to the Corinthians within a Protestant theological framework. Benjamin M. Dally first demonstrates the diversity and breadth of mainstream Protestant soteriology and eschatology beginning at the time of the Reformation by examining the confessional standards of its four primary ecclesial/theological streams: Lutheran, Reformed, Anabaptist, and Anglican. The soteriological structure of each is assessed (i.e., how each construes the relationship between justification and final judgment), with particular attention given to how each speaks of the place of good works at the final judgment. This initial examination outlines the theological boundaries within which the exegesis of Second Corinthians can legitimately proceed, and illuminates language and conceptual matrices that will be drawn upon throughout the remainder of thebook. Then, drawing upon the narrative logic of Paul’s Early Jewish thought-world, Dally examines the text of Second Corinthians to discern its own soteriological framework, paying particular attention to both the meaning and rhetorical function of the “judgment according to works” motif as it is utilized throughout the letter. The book concludes by offering a Protestant synthesis of the relationship between justification and final judgment according to works in Second Corinthians, giving an explanation of the role of works at the final judgment that arguably alleviates a number of tensions often perceived in other readings devoted to this key aspect of Pauline exegesis and theology.

Dally ultimately argues a three-fold thesis: (1) For the believer one’s earthly conduct, taken as a whole, is best spoken of in the language of inferior/secondary “cause” and/or “basis” as far as its import at the last judgment. (2) One’s earthly conduct, again taken as a whole, is soteriologically necessary (not solely, but secondarily nonetheless) and not simply of importance for the bestowal of non-soteriological, eschatological rewards. (3) There are crucial resources from within mainstream Protestantism to authorize such ways of speaking and to simultaneously affirm these contentions in conjunction with a robust, strictly forensic/imputational, “traditional” Protestant understanding of the doctrine of justification by faith alone.
The Work of Faith
Authors: Nickel Justin
Published: July 2024

Many scholars assume that Luther advocates for a Christian life in which human beings are always passive recipients of God’s grace as it is delivered in preaching, and mere instruments through which God works to serve their neighbors. The Work of Faith: Divine Grace and Human Agency in Martin Luther's Preaching offers a different reading of Luther’s views on human agency by drawing on a fresh source: Luther’s preaching. Using Luther’s sermons in the Church Postil as a primary source, Justin Nickel argues that Martin Luther preached as though Christians have real, if secondary, agency in the lives they lead before God and neighbor. As a result, Nickel presents a Luther substantively concerned with how Christians lead their lives.
At War in Prayer
Authors: St. Shenouda Fr. Anthony
Published: July 2024

The practice of continuous prayer has been known in the Christian church as early as the second century CE, well before the beginning of Christian monasticism. One of the ways early Christians practiced continuous prayer was through the repetition of short bible verses throughout the day. While this mode of prayer did not have any specific name until the twentieth century, its practice has always been characterized by the imagery of warfare and, more specifically, the use of arrows. It was probably this that gave rise to its name, the Arrow Prayer, on account of its brevity and its use to attack evil thoughts. However, most research on continuous prayer only focuses on the Jesus Prayer. In this book, Fr. Anthony St. Shenouda scrutinizes this conclusion by examining the sources that attest to any practice of continuous prayer, and the cultural backdrop that gave rise to these practices. Ultimately, he argues that the tradition of the Arrow Prayer is much older than the Jesus Prayer, and that it is the parent tradition out of which the Jesus Prayer arose.
Salvation in Melanesia
Authors: Press Michael
Published: July 2024

Salvation in Melanesia explores the views of salvation held by Methodist, Lutheran, and Pentecostal Christians in Fiji and Papua New Guinea, uncovering the ways in which a Protestant theology of unconditional salvation through God’s judgment and grace has been combined with traditional Melanesian religious concepts of reciprocity, retribution, and obedience to cultural laws. While Pentecostal churches have offered new experiences of transformation by rejecting what they regard as the mingling of Melanesian culture with Christianity in other churches, they have also kept certain elements of traditional Melanesian spirituality. Meanwhile, today economic globalization and secularization result in new questions about the relationship between the people, the leaders, the land, and God.

Michael Press uses mission sources and interviews to describe the different concepts of mission, their reception, the main images of God, and the relationship between religion and culture in Melanesian churches, as well as the factors that support or hinder personal transformation.
Sola Scriptura Sacramentaque
Authors: Meeks Charles
Published: July 2024

The practice of the sacraments of baptism and the Eucharist allow Christians to read Scripture in the context of the church and in unity with the Trinity. Charles Meeks argues here, however, that over the centuries since the Reformation, Protestant expressions of the church have often allowed the sacraments to assume a minor role that has led to a weakening of Protestant ecclesiology and a disconnection of these ancient rituals from the gospel. To unpack this reality, Meeks relies on the work of fourth-century bishop Hilary of Poitiers and modern theologian Robert W. Jenson to examine the relationship between the sacraments and Scripture, the Trinity, and the church. With Hilary, he retrieves a hermeneutic that starts from the interdependence of the sacraments with all aspects of Christian life, especially the way one reads Scripture, formulates theology, and understands what the church is and is not. With Jenson, Meeks applies this hermeneutic to the modern church in an appeal to recover a premodern sense of God’s relationship to time, and thus how the church relates to God through Word and Sacrament.
The Body of Creation
Authors: Pendleton James B.
Published: July 2024

In the modern period, space has predominately been conceived of as a mere setting for human action, ontologically separate from the body. In Markan studies, the result has been the multiplication of textual geographies that hide the spatiality of Jesus’s narrativized and, thus, living body. Rather than representing Jesus’s body as replicating the spatial configurations of dominant scribal cartographic practice (including imperial practice), James B. Pendleton shows that Mark portrays Jesus’s body as a living production of space that troubles dominant maps. Against readings of Mark that argue that Jesus is either an imperial or an anti-imperial figure, Pendleton argues that Mark presents Jesus’s body, and thus his spatiality, as both inside (as an insider) and outside (as an outsider) simultaneously, in what has more commonly been theorized recently as third spatiality, or thirdspace. Rather than an imperial or anti-imperial economy of spatial production, Pendleton argues, Mark presents Jesus’s body within a both-and and more economy that is kenotic, revealing God’s own royal yet “emptying” body.
The Function of Story in the Hebrew Psalter
Authors: Poe Hays Rebecca W.
Published: July 2024

Providing balance to the general scholarly trend to focus on the non-narrative aspect of Hebrew poetry, this book argues that the Hebrew Psalter does contain stories, and their inclusion in ancient Israel’s worship texts contributes to the rhetorical power of the psalms in ways distinct from other poetic devices. Rebecca W. Poe Hays builds on literary theory and biblical studies of narrative to establish a clear definition of “story” and to identify where story appears in the book of Psalms. The majority of the book explores how these story portions of the Psalter—divided into the three broad categories of retellings of history, testimonies, and paradigms—function within their larger contexts. Each chapter includes a discussion of a particular category’s general characteristics, a close reading of representative texts, and an assessment of distinctive ways each type of story functions in the psalms in which they appear. These poetic, psalmic stories have the rhetorical power to draw readers uniquely into narrative worlds and inspire empathy, to guide readers into particular understandings of history and teach inductively, and to concretize the abstract and so shape the beliefs and behaviors of the communities who regard them as sacred texts.
Rhetoric and the Synoptic Problem
Authors: Duncan Mike
Published: July 2024

Mike Duncan argues that the Farrer Hypothesis is the best working solution to the Synoptic Problem in New Testament studies by way of rhetorical theory, as he sees the Synoptic Problem as less about source and textual criticism and more as a writing problem that concerns how and why they were composed The book’s six chapters feature case studies of different aspects of gospel rhetoric, such as how the different post-resurrection accounts interact with each other and how the apostles are portrayed from gospel to gospel. These chapters form a collective argument—that the synoptic gospels are competing rhetorical narratives about Jesus, with the authors of Luke and Matthew reacting to previous gospels with the goal of superseding the previously composed versions of Jesus’s life. However, Duncan acknowledges that the Farrer Hypothesis has special difficulties and cannot be pushed beyond an educated guess, that the Synoptic Problem remains an unsolvable problem due to a lack of evidence and lost original context, and that it is only a philosophical acceptance of the inaccessibility of a solution that paradoxically allows a frank and unsentimental view of the alternatives.
Christology and Atonement
Authors: Labooy Guus H.
Published: July 2024

This scotistic study in analytical theology presupposes Conciliar Christology and aims at a more profound understanding of two vital and connected Christian doctrines: Christology and atonement. The beating heart of the first part is Duns Scotus’s compelling analysis of the incarnation: his uniquely successful analysis of the “hypostatic union.” Following Marilyn McCord Adams, Guus H. Labooy argues that the problem of Christological predication can be solved by probing the metaphysical backbone of “qua-propositions” (expressions like “as regards his Godhead” and “as regards his manhood”). Labooy dedicates the second part of the book to the analysis of atonement, especially to its most controversial aspect, “penal substitution.” The Messiah dying for our sins is perhaps the storm centre of the confrontation between Christian faith and the secular intellectual mindset. Labooy argues on exegetical grounds that all the current models of atonement are complementary. None of them should be discarded and neither should penal substitution. The account of penal substitution (or vicarious penance) he defends is shaped with the decisive aid of Scotus’s analytical tools.
A Postfoundationalist Comparative Christology
Authors: Sivasubramanian David Muthukumar
Published: July 2024

Interreligious relationships are often hindered by epistemic disparity caused by the nexus between religions and state powers. To solve this problem, David Muthukumar Sivasubramanian develops a postfoundationalist epistemological framework to affirm the epistemic parity and plurality of religions while upholding their particularity and universality. Building on this postfoundationalist epistemology, a comparative Christology paradigm that uses insights from the extant comparative theology method is reformulated with a Christological focus. This model seeks to affirm the exclusive faith assertions of Christianity and the corresponding universal claims for Christ. It also sustains the particular religious identity of a comparative theologian over against any compulsion to assume hybrid identity in the interreligious cross-learning. This comparative Christology framework is exhibited through cross-learning with the Tamil Saiva Siddhanta tradition. This method is shown to affirm not only the particularity and universality of Christianity but also of the Tamil Saiva Siddhanta tradition by defining each religion’s attempt at their revealed truth as a parallel quest for truth. Thus, it facilitates dialogue across religions by securing one’s self-identity and the other’s alterity.
Sacramental Poetics in Richard Hooker and George Herbert
Authors: Douglas Brian
Published: July 2024

This book explores sacramental poetics through the lens of moderate realism in the thought and work of Anglican theologians Richard Hooker (c. 1554-1600) and George Herbert (1593-1648). It does this in relation to the Christian sacraments of baptism and the Eucharist and as a way of exploring the abundance of God. Brian Douglas begins in chapter 1 with a general discussion of a sacramental poetic and sacramentality in the Anglican tradition and proceeds to a more detailed examination of the writings of both Hooker (chapter 2) and Herbert (chapter 3). Each writer explores, in their own way, abundant life, found as participation in and relationship with Christ, and expressed as a sacramental poetic based on moderate realism. Douglas goes on in chapter 4 to explore the idea of conversation and dialogue as employed by Hooker and Herbert as part of a sacramental poetic. The book concludes in chapter 5 with a more general discussion on the abundance of God and living of the good and abundant life and some of the issues this involves in the modern world.
The Solar Nature of Yahweh
Authors: Sarlo Daniel
Published: July 2024

In The Solar Nature of Yahweh: Reconsidering the Identity of the Ancient Israelite Deity, the original nature of the chief god of the Hebrew Bible, Yahweh, is reexamined. Daniel Sarlo challenges the current consensus that Yahweh was initially a storm god by examining the relevant biblical texts and comparing them with Ancient Near Eastern texts, ultimately arguing that Yahweh was a solar deity. The implication of this research is that Yahweh was not a minor god who gradually accumulated characteristics to become the head of the ancient Israelite pantheon, but rather a significant god from the very beginning, or at least before the inception of the United Monarchy.
Christianity Outside the Church
Authors: Yang Jae
Published: July 2024

Wolfhart Pannenberg’s understanding of “public,” based on his view of revelation as history, is that everything is potentially a theology. Of course, a public theology of everything is impossible; therefore, Jae Yang develops a Pannenbergian public theology by correlating Pannenberg’s theological methods (postfoundational, eschatological, and trinitarian) with the aims and methods of public theology, and second, with Pannenberg’s views on various spheres, arguing that Pannenberg’s public theology engages not just the academic world, but also the political, economic, familial, religious, and cultural ones. This book argues that Pannenberg is a public theologian because the public purpose of his theology is not to coerce or inject a Christian agenda onto the public (political theology), challenge and subvert unjust structures (liberation theology), or substitute overtly Christian religion with a publicly palatable secular and vaguely religious one (civil religion), but to cooperate and dialogue with the established order under the presumption of a “Christianity outside the church.”
Progesterone and steroids in/on plants
Authors: Sedaghathoor Shahram , Khadijeh Abbasnia Zare Seyedeh , Shirinpur-Valadi Ali
Published: July 2024

Plants and animals contain many steroid compounds that act as signaling molecules during complicated growth and development processes. Mammal sex hormones (MSHs), such as progesterone, estrogen, and testosterone, are another class of steroids. These hormones play an important role in regulating the mammals’ growth and reproduction processes as well as organic and inorganic metabolism. Steroid sex hormones, such as progesterone, beta-estradiol, and testosterone, support plant life processes including callus expansion, cytokinesis, root and shoot enlargement, and pollination in plants and have appropriate effects on handling abiotic stresses. An interesting impact of MSH is its capability in improving plant resistance to various abiotic stresses. MSH treatment extensively can reduce the adverse effects of environmental stress by promoting the activity of antioxidant enzymes, including superoxide dismutase (SOD), peroxidase (POX), and catalase (CAT), and improving proline production.
Common Ear, Nose, and Throat disorders in childhood
Authors: Srinivasan Dharanya , Raja Kalaiarasi
Published: July 2024

This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of the most prevalent Ear, Nose, and Throat (ENT) disorders encountered in pediatric populations. Drawing insights from medical literature, the chapter delves into the multifaceted landscape of ENT disorders affecting children, exploring their etiology, clinical manifestations, diagnostic approaches, and contemporary management strategies. The discussion encompasses a wide spectrum of conditions, including otitis media, adenotonsillitis, and pediatric stridor. Emphasis is placed on the unique challenges posed by these disorders in the pediatric population, considering factors that affect physical and psychosocial development and age-specific treatment considerations. This chapter also highlights the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration between pediatricians, otolaryngologists, and other healthcare professionals in delivering optimal care for children with ENT disorders. Through a synthesis of evidence-based recommendations and practical clinical insights, this chapter aims to serve as a valuable resource for healthcare practitioners and medical students involved in the care of pediatric patients with ENT conditions.
Perspective Chapter: Optical Waveguides for Quantum Computation
Authors: Hayati Raad Shiva
Published: July 2024

Quantum computation demands various types of optical devices such as beam splitters, ring resonators, delay lines, switches, modulators, multiplexers, Mach-Zehnder interferometers, and phase shifters, to name a few. These devices are essentially engineered optical waveguides, in which the geometrical and material properties are chosen such that the optical losses are minimized, to preserve the single photon’s operation. Scattering loss, arising from the wall roughness, is the dominant loss mechanism in the optical waveguides, and its minimization should be taken into account, by either design or fabrication considerations. Different types of waveguide geometries including slab waveguides, strip waveguides, rib waveguides, Bragg grating waveguides, and hybrid waveguides have been utilized in this regard. Moreover, there are three main material categories, with generic fabrication processes, regarding the refractive index contrast of the core and cover. These include low, medium, and high index contrast materials, each owing its pros and cons. Finally, designing the bend waveguides with low bending loss is highly desirable, and circular bends, sinusoidal bends, Euler bends (normal and modified), and spline bends are some of the frequently used curvatures. This chapter reviews the key points in the design of optical waveguides for quantum applications.
Classification of Industrial and Commercial Facilities Using Machine Learning Techniques
Authors: GERZ Serkan , CENGEL Talha Alperen , OZTURK Turan , GENCTURK Bunyamin , BOZ Ender , YASIN Elham , KOKLU Murat
Published: July 2024

The performance of machine learning algorithms for the automatic classification of industrial and commercial facilities were examined within the scope of this project. A dataset containing a total of 47,683 data points, including 27,691 warehouses, 6,441 retail stores, and 13,551 factories, was used in this study. To classify these facilities as "factory," "warehouse," or "retail," ANN, RF, and kNN machine learning models were applied and compared. The ANN achieved the highest classification accuracy with 76.9%. This was followed by the RF algorithm with 73.9% and the kNN algorithm with 63.9%. The high performance demonstrated by the ANN indicates that it could be a powerful tool for automatic facility classification in industrial and commercial sectors. This classification can provide significant contributions such as increasing operational efficiency of businesses, more effectively guiding marketing strategies, and better management of resources. Future studies can expand research in this field by further increasing model accuracy and testing in various application scenarios.
The lexical approach in teaching a foreign language at the primary stage in institutions of additional education (based on the material of the teaching kit “Family and friends")
Authors: Турланова С.К. , Агаларова Р.И.
Published: July 2024

в данной статье выделяются и характеризуются особенности лексического подхода как продолжения коммуникативного подхода. Научная новизна исследования состоит в том, что в работе рассмотрены характеристики формирования иноязычной коммуникативной компетенции учеников на начальном этапе обучения посредством применения лексического подхода в учреждениях дополнительного образования. Для достижения вышеуказанной цели исследования необходимо решить следующие задачи: – рассмотреть некоторые из существующих подходов к обучению иностранному языку; – обосновать необходимость применения лексического подхода для развития иноязычной коммуникативной компетенции при обучении учащихся начальной школы; – представить структурное описание модели обучения учеников иностранному языку на начальном этапе в учреждениях дополнительного образования на основе лексического подхода; – разработать серию упражнений на базе лексического подхода для обучения иностранному языку младшеклассников в учреждениях дополнительного образования. В результате проведенного исследования была представлена разработана серия упражнений с применением лексического подхода. Практическая значимость работы заключается в возможности использования разработанной серии упражнений при составлении заданий, ориентированных на развитие коммуникативной компетенции обучающихся.

the article highlights and characterizes the basic features of the lexical approach as a continuation of the communicative approach. The novelty of the research lies in considering the features of the formation of foreign-language communicative competence of primary school students using a lexical approach in institutions of additional education. To achieve the above-mentioned research goal, it is necessary to solve the following tasks: – to consider some of the existing approaches to teaching a foreign language; – to justify the need to apply a lexical approach to the development of foreign language communicative competence in teaching primary school students; – to present a structural description of the model of teaching students a foreign language at the initial stage in institutions of additional education based on a lexical approach; – to develop a series of exercises based on a lexical approach for teaching a foreign language to elementary school students in institutions of additional education. As a result of the conducted research, a series of exercises based on the application of the lexical approach was developed. The practical significance of the work lies in the possibility of using the developed series of exercises in the preparation of tasks focused on the development of communicative competence of pupils.
On the issue of verbalization of the concept of prohibition in the Avar linguistic culture
Authors: Магомедова П.А. , Джаватханова С.И.
Published: July 2024

статья посвящена проблеме языковой экспликации концепта Запрет в аварском языковом сознании. Исследуемое понятие рассматривается в лексико-семантическом и лингвокультурологическом аспектах. Проанализированы понятийная, ценностная составляющие указанного концепта, рассмотрены: парадигматика лексико-семантического поля Запрет; компонентный анализ значения ядерных лексем-вербализаторов данного понятия; разноуровневые средства репрезентации указанного понятия (лексические и грамматические); табу и запрет в религиозном дискурсе исследуемой лингвокультуры. В основе различных структур представления знаний о запрете как норме лежит концептуальная схема, где схема – абстракция, которая позволяет приписывать определенные объекты или события к общим категориям, способным наполняться конкретным содержанием. Концептуальная схема Запрета, понимаемого как норма поведения, поддерживаемая социумом или традицией, предполагает последовательность элементов, которая устанавливает определенное отношение между определенным субъектом, находящимся в определенных обстоятельствах, и определенным поведением. Принцип однозначности в текстах запретительного дискурса достигается за счет того, что предписание строится на определении используемых в них терминологических единиц. Тексты запретительного характера имеют в своей основе концептуальную схему нормы, отношения между элементами которой строятся в виде определения и предписания.

the article is devoted to the problem of linguistic explication of the concept of Prohibition in the Avar language consciousness. The concept under study is considered in lexico-semantic and linguocultural aspects. The conceptual and value components of this concept are analyzed, the following are considered: the paradigmatics of the lexico-semantic field of Prohibition; component analysis of the meaning of nuclear lexemes-verbalizers of this concept; multilevel means of representation of this concept (lexical and grammatical); taboos and prohibition in the religious discourse of the studied linguistic culture. The basis of various structures of knowledge representation about prohibition as a norm is a conceptual scheme, where the scheme is an abstraction that allows you to attribute certain objects or events to general categories that can be filled with specific content. The conceptual scheme of Prohibition, understood as a norm of behavior supported by society or tradition, assumes a sequence of elements that establishes a certain relationship between a certain subject in certain circumstances and a certain behavior. The principle of unambiguity in the texts of prohibitive discourse is achieved due to the fact that the prescription is based on the definition of the terminological units used in them. Prohibitive texts are based on a conceptual scheme of the norm, the relations between the elements of which are built in the form of definitions and prescriptions.
ORGANIZATION OF SUSTAINABLE RECREATION ZONES IN GLOBALIZING LARGE CITIES
Authors: Mustafayeva Fidan
Published: July 2024

Abstract. The article discusses the urgent need for multifunctional, large recreational areas that play an important role in the development of Baku and developed cities of the world at the stage of globalization. During the research, the concepts of restoration and development presented in the context of globalization for Baku and major cities of the world were compared, and a suitable solution to the problem was identified. As a result of the analysis, the sphere of influence of the issue of creating recreational zones was determined, which is the basis of concepts that will direct cities at the stage of globalization in a positive direction. At the same time, the main points that should be paid attention to when organizing the purpose and functional diversity of recreational zones designed in large cities at the stage of globalization are identified. In general, we come to the conclusion that the design of large recreational areas with the correct functional purpose in large cities at the stage of globalization will improve the quality of life of the population and prevent chaotic urban expansion. At the same time, to correctly resolve the issue, it is necessary to seriously compare the social needs of the population of large cities, the ecological balance of the city, the urban structure, the directions of city development and present the correct project proposal. Keywords: sustainable recreation areas, big cities, globalization process, urban organism, multifunctional parks
Description of four new species of the Neotropical genus Scione Walker, 1850 (Diptera: Tabanidae)
Authors: Oliveira Lia Pereira , Henriques Augusto Loureiro , Buestán Jaime , Krolow Tiago Kütter
Published: July 2024

After 94 years after the last revision of the genus and after 22 years since the last species was named, we describe four new species of Scione from Ecuador and Peru: S. cooperi sp. nov., S. gertrudeae sp. nov., S. kroeberi sp. nov. and S. merianae sp. nov. We provide diagnoses, descriptions, photographs and discussions for each of the species.
Membangun Kesadaran Masyarakat Tentang Pentingnya Pendidikan Melalui Kuliah Kerja Nyata ( KKN ) Di Desa Maju Jaya Kecamatan Pelepat Ilir Kabupaten Bungo Jambi
Authors: Enramika Tomi , Riadi M. Irfan , Deni Priyanto  , Anjar Muanifah  , Suhartati  , Ridwan
Published: July 2024

Through Real Work Lecture (KKN) activities, we are required to practice science and also benefit the village. We are expected to be motivators and facilitators of development efforts, especially in rural areas. The community can share existing problems and find solutions by participating in KKN, establishing cooperation in the development process in the local area. Based on the results of a survey conducted by researchers in the field of education in Maju Jaya Village, it was found that some people still do not consider education too important, and there are still children who drop out of school. One of the objectives of this KKN activity is to change the mindset of the community about education and provide motivation for the people of Maju Jaya Village to continue their education at every level. This community service activity in the form of KKN lasts for one month, and the method carried out to obtain this data is to use observation and interviews directly with the community. The implementation of this KKN activity is carried out in the form of socialization and activities by involving the community directly. Some of the results achieved from this KKN activity include helping the community increase awareness of the importance of Education and providing motivation and solutions to Education problems.
Adaptable Architecture for the Digital Transformation of the Cameroonian University Ecosystem: A FORM/BCS Approach
Authors: Ngoumou Amougou
Published: July 2024

The university education ecosystem in most developing countries where demographics are evolving exponentially, faces the problem of the massification of education with its corollaries in terms of teacher shortages and deterioration in the quality of training, Cameroon is not left out. Faced with this situation, most stakeholders agree that the digital transformation of the ecosystem makes it possible to tackle this problem. Several solutions are proposed, ranging from the digitization of training materials downloadable by learners to the implementation of hybrid training combining the face-to-face model with distance training in direct streaming, including models “semi-face-to-face single-teacher multi-room synchronous” training courses, thus qualified because it would consist of exploiting ICT to allow the same teacher to be, through dedicated screens, simultaneously followed in several classrooms by learners with the possibility for the latter to communicate in real time with him thanks to judiciously positioned cameras. However, whatever the formula adopted, problems persist such as time which is not always sufficient, the shortage of teachers and insufficient infrastructure. Thus, this article, through the analysis of the proposed solutions and the use of the software product line engineering paradigm, proposes a formula and adaptable reference architecture for a computer system making it possible to deal with the problem of massification of teaching
Metamorphosis through Yoga: Transforming Character and Inclination
Authors: Pramanick Ratan , Karmakar Moumita , Halder Malay , Adhikari Samirranjan
Published: July 2024

Yoga is the science of healthy living. Yoga is primordial desire for oneself. It promotes self-control, self- confidence and independent judgment. As per ancient yogic principles, it implies that how the practice of yoga leads to profound changes in individuals, both internally and externally. Yoga is essentially a spiritual science which emphasizes on placement between mind and body. Yogic practices are found effective for character development and make set ofmind. Through the integration of physical position, mental well-being, meditation and ethical guidelines, yoga help as catalyst for personal growth and self-awareness. It investigates the psychological mechanism behind this transformation, role of mindfulness, emotional regulation, fostering resilience and well-being. It is emphasizing the holistic nature of yoga as a path towards holistic transformation, including education, health care and workplace wellness programme. It also helps us best our relationship with our parent, teachers, friends, and others. In today’s lifestyle, stress, suppressed emotions etc have taken a terrible form within us. So, for that we need to have a good health and mind. Practicing yoga, we can retain our good character, health, and mind.
Psychological Impact of Competitive Stress on Female Athletes: A Review
Authors: Dutta Neetu , Das Mritunjoy , Sahu Deba Prasad
Published: July 2024

Competitive stress in female athletes can have significant psychological impacts, encompassing a spectrum of challenges unique to their athletic pursuits. Female athletes encounter an innumerable stressor, including sport inequities, violence, abuse, body image concerns, disordered eating behaviours, and mental distress. These stressors not only affect their performance on the field but also have significant implications for their mental well-being. In particular, female athletes are at a heightened risk of developing personalized disorders such as depression and anxiety, which can be further intensified by sports-related injuries like anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries, patellofemoral joint issues, and stress fractures. The intersection of competitive stress and psychological well-being presents a complex landscape for female athletes. Research indicates that these stressors can impede injury recovery and contribute to lower return-to-sport rates among female athletes. To mitigate these challenges, targeted interventions tailored to the specific needs of female athletes are essential. Collaborative efforts involving coaches, sports psychologists, and healthcare professionals can play a pivotal role in addressing the psychological impacts of competitive stress on female athletes. By recognizing and addressing the psychological toll of competitive stress, stakeholders in the athletic community can foster a supportive environment that promotes not only physical performance but also mental resilience among female athletes. Prioritizing mental health initiatives and providing comprehensive support systems are crucial steps in enhancing the overall well-being and success of female athletes in competitive sports.