bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
The Influence Of Online Advertising On Increasing Sales Of Culinary Product Using Facebook Social Media as a Moderating Variable
Authors: Kurniawan Agus
Published: January 2025

Social media is currently the most widely used promotional tool and place to communicate because it has a very significant impact on business development because it has advantages including the number of users and does not require costs to create an account on a social media. One of the social media that is still in demand today and has many users is Facebook. and the Facebook application itself is easily accessible to any group, does not limit age and is easy to reach. The objectives of the research are (1) The influence of online advertising in increasing sales of culinary products in Berasan Makmur Village, Mesuji Regency , (2) The ability of Facebook social media as a moderating variable in the influence of online advertising in increasing sales of culinary products in Berasan Makmur Village, Mesuji Regency , and (3) Providing an overview of the activities of culinary entrepreneurs who advertise on Facebook social media. This research uses quantitative research type. Where the researcher used primary data obtained from distributing questionnaires to 23 respondents using the Purposive Sampling Technique on students of the Sharia Business Management study program in Bandar Lampung. Namely, culinary sellers via Facebook social media in Berasan Makmur Village, Mesuji Regency
Analisa Resiko Pembiayaan Dalam Upaya Mengatasi Kredit Macet Pada Bank Tabungan Negara (Persero) Tbk. Cabang Bengkulu
Authors: Paddery Paddery
Published: January 2025

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui cara menganalisa resiko pembiayaan dalam mengatasi kredit macet atau NPL pada PT. Bank Tabungan Negara (Persero) Tbk. Cabang Bengkulu tahun buku 2015 s/d 2018.Penelitian ini menggunakan teknik analisa kualitatif. Hasil penelitian menunjukan bahwa Berdasarkan hasil pembahasan dalam penelitian ini, maka penulis dapat menyimpulkan sebagai berikut:Kredit Non - Performing Loans, (NPL) pada PT. Bank Tabungan Negara (Persero) Tbk. Cabang Bengkulu selama empat tahun (2015 -2018) mengalami penurunan tiap tahunnya. Hal ini terlihat dari besarnya rata-rata persentase tingkat risiko PT. Bank Tabunagan Negara(Persero) Tbk. Cabang Bengkulu  yang ditetapkan oleh Bank Indonesia di bawah persentase untuk kredit kategori rendah Artinya  Non - Performing Loans (NPL) PT. Bank Tabungan Negara (Persero) Tbk  cabang Bengkulu selama empat periode (2015 - 2018) tergolong rendah.
ANALISIS PERHITUNGAN BIAYA BERDASARKAN PROSES (PROCESS COSTING) PADA INDUSTRI KOPI BUBUK CAP 3 HARIMAU AIR RAMBAI CURUP
Authors: Meriana Meriana
Published: January 2025

This research is to know the system of cost calculation based on process of Coffee Powder Industry Cap 3 Tiger Water Rambai Curup in order to control company's finance.The analysis used in this research is quantitative analysis method.The results of this study can be concluded that the Coffee Powder Industry Cap 3 Water Tiger Rambai Curup in calculating the production cost contains about the calculation of production costs for mass products and calculation of production costs for products managed by one department. The deviation is large enough to calculate the cost of the finished product that is transferred to the warehouse and the cost of the product in the process at which the end of the month has not been produced. Irregularities occur because the level of sales is influenced by the costs of production, the time factor to complete per unit and per unit of product, and the advantages and disadvantages of costs and materials in the production of mass products. Control is more effective by using process costing (Process costing).
IMPLEMENTASI SISTEM INFORMASI MANAGEMEN KEUANGAN DAERAH (SIMDA) TERHADAP KUALITAS LAPORAN KEUANGAN
Authors: Suci Suci , Ramadhan Abid , Asriany Asriany , Patra I Ketut
Published: January 2025

The Regional Financial Management Information System (SIMDA) is a tool for detecting the quality of regional financial reports and assisting the process of financial and development supervision. This study aims to empirically test the implementation of the Regional Financial Management Information System (SIMDA) on the Quality of the Palopo City Government Financial Reports, especially the Regional Revenue Agency (BAPENDA) of Palopo City. The variables used in this study, namely the independent variable (Implementation of Regional Financial Management Information System (SIMDA)) while the dependent variable (Quality of Financial Reports). The type of research used is descriptive quantitative approach using survey method. The population of this research is employees whose names are registered with the Regional Revenue Agency (BAPENDA). The sampling technique used was the purposive sampling method. The data analysis technique used in this study is simple linear regression using the SPSS Version 22 program. The results of the regression test show that the coefficient value of the Regional Financial Management Information System Implementation (SIMDA) of 0.397 has a positive effect on the Quality of Financial Statements, and the results of partial hypothesis testing (test t) Implementation of Regional Financial Management Information System affects the Quality of Financial Reports.
Sistem Akuntansi Dana Desa (Studi Kasus Desa Kali Padang Kecamatan Selupu Rejang Kabupaten Rejang Lebong)
Authors: Meriana Meriana , Afriansyah Berlian , Paddery Paddery
Published: January 2025

Penelitian ini bertujuan mengidentifikasi permasalahan yang dialami desa terkait pengelolaan dana desa dan untuk memperdalam pehamahan mengenai pengelolaan dana desa dengan menggunakan sistem yang telah terkomputerisasi. Metode Penelitian yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah kualitatif dalam pendekatan deskritif dengan menggunakan teknik observasi, wawancara dan pengumpulan data serta dokumentasi. Dalam penelitian yang dilakukan, ditemukan masalah utama yang perlu di analisis dalam pengelolaan dana desa yaitu kualitas sumberdaya manusia, dimana beberapa pengelola belum memahami sistem akuntansi,selain itu terdapat juga permasalahan lain yaitu masih belum memadainya sumber tenaga jaringan internet dan berbagai macam hambatan dalam proses pengelolaan keuangan desa. Akuntansi Desa merupakan pencatatan dari proses transaksi yang terjadi di desa, dibuktikan dengan nota-nota kemudian dilakukan pencatatan serta pelaporan keuangan sehingga akan menghasilkan suatu informasi dalam bentuk laporan keuangan yang digunakan beberapa pihak yang berhubungan dengan desa.
Pengaruh Pelatihan Kerja, Kompetensi Dan Disiplin Kerja Terhadap Kinerja Karyawan Pada Bank Jatim Kantor Cabang Syariah Kediri
Authors: Arrofi Anik Qurniatin , Utami Sasi , Laely Nur , Marwanto IGG Heru
Published: January 2025

The purpose of this study is to ascertain at Bank Jatim, Syariah Kediri Branch, the effects of job training, competency, and work discipline on employee performance. Following the scientific ideas of concreteness, objectivity, measurability, rationality, and systematicity, this study uses a quantitative research approach since the data consists of numbers and is investigated using statistical techniques. While the sample consists of a part of the employees—specifically, 75 individuals/respondents—the population considered in this study comprises 93 employees of Bank Jatim, Syariah Kediri Branch. Questionnaires, observations, and interviews constitute among the data gathering techniques. Validity and reliability tests, classical assumption tests, multiple linear regression tests, partial significance tests (t-test), simultaneous significance tests (f-test), and coefficient of determination comprise the data analysis techniques. The t-test value for job training of 2.947, which is higher than the t-table value of 1.66671, with a significance value of 0.004, shows that job training has an effect on employee performance. Consequently, it can be said that H1 is approved, so demonstrating the impact of work training on Bank Jatim, Syariah Kediri Branch, staff performance. The t-test result for competence of 2.554, which is higher than the t-table value of 1.66571, with a significant value of 0.013, shows how influence competence has on employee performance. Therefore, it can be said that H2 is acknowledged, thereby reflecting the impact of competency on Bank Jatim, Syariah Kediri Branch, staff performance. The t-test result for work discipline of 2.034, which is higher than the t-table value of 1.66571, with a significant value of 0.035, shows how influence of work discipline affects employee performance. Therefore, it can be said that H3 is approved, thereby demonstrating the effect of work discipline on Bank Jatim, Syariah Kediri Branch, employee performance.
Atomistic Simulation of Temperature-Dependent Interfacial Diffusion between Solid Nickel and Liquid Aluminum
Authors: Alzais Safii  , Yoyok Winardi  , Sudarno  , Desriyanti  , Norhasnidawani Johari  , Ali Selamat  , Rizal Arifin
Published: January 2025

The performance and durability of welded joints are directly influenced by interfacial diffusion between the metals involved, making it essential to investigate the effect of temperature on these processes. The present research examines temperature-dependent diffusion mechanisms at the interface between solid nickel and liquid aluminum using molecular dynamics simulations. Investigations were conducted at 1200, 1300, 1400, and 1500 K to explore the influence of temperature on atomic mobility and interfacial mixing. Radial distribution function analysis revealed a significant increase in the diffusion of nickel atoms into the aluminum phase with increasing temperature, indicating enhanced atomic interactions at the interface. The mean square displacement analysis supported these findings, showing that aluminum atoms were more mobile than nickel atoms at lower temperatures, while nickel atoms exhibited a faster diffusion rate with increasing temperature, surpassing aluminum in mobility. This trend is reflected in the diffusion coefficients, which exhibit a temperature-dependent increase in the diffusion rate of the nickel atoms. These results emphasize the role of temperature in controlling the diffusion dynamics at the solid–liquid interface. The insights gained from this study are critical for optimizing processes, such as dissimilar metal welding, where precise control over interfacial diffusion is essential for achieving the desired material properties and ensuring the structural integrity of nickel–aluminum joints in high-temperature applications.
Alternativa físico-terapéutica para la disartria en pacientes con Síndrome de West.
Authors: Fernández Sánchez Yuliet , Ramírez Soria Ángel Luis
Published: January 2025

Existe un consenso por diferentes autores que consideran que la disartria constituye un diagnóstico bastante frecuente dentro de los pacientes con alteraciones neurológicas de Síndrome de West, lo cual se considera un factor que puede afectar su calidad de vida. Objetivo: por lo que este estudio se planteó como objetivo elaborar una alternativa físico-terapéutica que contribuya al mejoramiento de la disartria en pacientes con Síndrome de West. Materiales y Métodos: para ello se asume un diseño de investigación descriptiva, con un enfoque mixto a partir de la utilización combinada de métodos empíricos y estadísticos matemáticos para obtener información, su procesamiento y valoración. Resultados: los resultados encontrados denotan la necesidad de mayor funcionalidad comunicativa, maximizando la eficacia y naturalidad de la comunicación. Conclusiones: De ahí que la propuesta se centra en los aspectos socioemocionales y la mejora de la autonomía y funcionalidad de estos pacientes, lo debe contribuir en el mejoramiento del funcionamiento del trastorno del lenguaje y la calidad de vida de esta población, contribuyendo a optimizar la atención sanitaria.
Efectos del entrenamiento de alta intensidad en la salud cardiovascular de atletas
Authors: Calvachi Rosero Julio David , Hidalgo Carrillo Yolanda Mercedes , Alcívar Lombeida Angel Mario
Published: January 2025

La cardiología deportiva ha adquirido una importancia creciente en la salud cardiovascular de los atletas, y dentro de este campo, el entrenamiento de alta intensidad (HIIT) ha surgido como una estrategia efectiva para mejorar tanto el rendimiento físico como la capacidad aeróbica. Caracterizado por intervalos de alta intensidad alternados con períodos de recuperación, desafía los límites fisiológicos del organismo, buscando optimizar la capacidad cardiovascular, respiratoria y metabólica. El objetivo de este estudio es investigar los efectos del HIIT en la salud cardiovascular de los atletas, evaluando su impacto en la condición física y cardíaca. Se realizó una revisión exhaustiva de la literatura científica, enfocándose en estudios que analizan el consumo máximo de oxígeno (VO2 Max), la respuesta del sistema nervioso autónomo, la capacidad de recuperación después del esfuerzo, y la eficiencia cardíaca. Los resultados muestran que el HIIT mejora significativamente el VO2 Max, la capacidad de recuperación y la eficiencia cardíaca, cruciales para el desempeño deportivo y la prevención de enfermedades cardiovasculares. Sin embargo, también conlleva riesgos como el sobre entrenamiento, la fatiga crónica y las lesiones musculoesqueléticas, lo que destaca la necesidad de una supervisión adecuada y un enfoque personalizado. En conclusión, el HIIT ofrece importantes beneficios para la salud cardiovascular y el rendimiento atlético, siempre que se implementa de manera segura y adaptada a las necesidades individuales de los atletas. La combinación de supervisión y personalización es esencial para maximizar los beneficios del HIIT y mitigar sus riesgos, convirtiéndolo en una herramienta poderosa en el deporte.
PENERAPAN MODEL PEMBELAJARAN INKUIRI DENGAN METODE PICTORIAL RIDDLE TERHADAP HASIL BELAJAR PADA MATERI HUKUM GAS IDEAL DI SMA N 1 LIKUPANG
Authors: Mongan Veronika Yohana , Silangen Patricia Mardiana , Umboh Sixtus Iwan
Published: January 2025

This study aims to determine how the application of inquiry learning model with pictorial riddle method on learning outcomes on ideal gas law material at SMA Negeri 1 Likupang. The method used in this research is quantitative method, with the research design is One Group Pretest-Posttest. The sample in this study was class XI MIA 1 which amounted to 20 students. Assessment data was collected using a test instrument in the form of a description. The average pretest score was 33.50 and the average posttest score was 85.25, the results of the data processing showed an increase. The results of the N-Gain Test obtained an N-Gain score of 0.8438 which indicates that there is an increase in student learning outcomes in the high category with a percentage of 84.38%. Based on the results of this study, it can be concluded that the pictorial riddle method of inquiry learning model can improve students' cognitive learning outcomes seen from the results of pretest and posttest data analysis using the N-Gain test, there are 18 students in the high category and 2 students with N-Gain scores in the medium category. With a percentage of 90% of students in the high category and 10% of students in the medium category. Then obtained the value of Sig. (2-tailed) is 0.000 <0.05 so it can be concluded that the application of the inquiry learning model with the pictorial riddle method can improve the learning outcomes of students in class XI MIA 1 even semester of SMA N 1 Likupang
PENGARUH KOMPETENSI PROFESIONAL GURU TERHADAP MINAT BELAJAR PESERTA DIDIK PADA PELAJARAN FISIKA DI SMPN 3 TONDANO
Authors: Wenda Yes , Palilingan Rolles Nixon , Tumimomor Farly Reynol
Published: January 2025

Teachers' professional competence refers to their ability to master learning materials comprehensively and in-depth, enabling them to guide students in achieving the competency standards set by the national education system. This study aims to analyze the influence of teachers' professional competence on students' interest in learning Physics at SMP Negeri 3 Tondano. Data collection was conducted using observation, questionnaire, and documentation methods. The data analysis results indicate that the coefficient of determination is 0.4773, meaning that 47.73% of students' interest in learning is influenced by teachers' professional competence. Based on regression analysis, the equation Y=93.85+1.29X was obtained. Meanwhile, the remaining 52.27% of students' interest is influenced by other factors. Therefore, it can be concluded that there is a positive relationship between teachers' professional competence and students' interest in learning Physics.
Developing British Psychological Society approved guidance
Authors: Lord Natasha , Dykes Kathryn , Kaiser Polly
Published: January 2025

One of the recognised outputs of FPOP is to provide timely and relevant guidance that members can use to be able to promote the voice of older people and support conversations with commissioners, services and wider colleagues. Previously published BPS documentation has come under scrutiny; therefore, the following article summarises the process for all BPS approved documentation.
Arctic Cooperation under the BRICS Framework: Exploring the New Pattern of Arctic Scientific Cooperation and Arctic Governance
Authors: Jia-Yi Wang
Published: January 2025

In view of the complex geopolitical situation in the Arctic region caused by the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, Russia sees the BRICS cooperation mechanism as an important basis for counteracting the West's isolationist tactics and defending its Arctic interests. Currently, the strategic deployment of the BRICS countries in the field of Arctic science is becoming more and more perfect. This study attempts to map out BRICS actions in the field of Arctic science and to examine carefully how BRICS member states can play a more important role in Arctic governance through Arctic science cooperation. In addition, this study discusses the strategic considerations of BRICS member states in promoting Arctic scientific cooperation from the perspectives of both Russia and other BRICS member states. At the same time, the dilemmas facing scientific cooperation are analyzed in terms of both internal constraints and external constraints of the BRICS countries. The results of this study indicate that the deployment of BRICS countries in Arctic science is getting better, but the lack of substantive activities leads to limited cooperation. The study finds that BRICS efforts in the field of Arctic scientific cooperation appear weak and insufficiently safeguarded. Despite the limitations, the scientific field is the primary strategic pathway for BRICS member states to engage in Arctic governance by promoting deeper Arctic cooperation within the BRICS framework.
Decolonialidade e contravisualidade no cinema de horror negro brasileiro
Authors: Fortes Lucas Bitencourt , Ripoll Daniela
Published: January 2025

This article aims to discuss Brazilian Black horror cinema, connecting it to a decolonial approach and the concept of counter-visuality, through an analysis of the short film Gênesis 22 (1999), directed by Jeferson De. To this end, it draws on the theoretical field of Cultural Studies, using a methodological tripod consisting of screen ethnography, critical visual methodology, and cultural analysis. It is understood that Black individuals, for many years, have faced a series of issues in the audiovisual world, related to invisibility and stereotyping, many of which unfortunately still persist. Thus, a reaction emerges with the rise of Black cinema, which begins to manifest a decolonial and counter-visual character. It is noted that this cinema refers to a broad cinema, encompassing even the horror genre. Through the analysis of Gênesis 22 (1999), by Jeferson De, the potential of Black cinema becomes evident, even in relation to the horror genre, significantly contributing to the reflection and problematization of hegemonic visualities. Moreover, it is a production that, despite its short duration, produces important lessons about the socio-cultural context from which it emerges.
Relação da química na moda em uma sociedade de consumo
Authors: Basso Micheli Cristiani Aiello , Sant’Ana Diana Dutra , Fujita Allynson Takehiro , Silva Fernando Melo da , Meireles Eduardo , Gomes Wellington Silva , Silva Camilla Polonini Salgado , Cruvinel Guilherme Ferreira Araújo , Moreira Rafael da Silva , Melotti Leonardo Marcondes Domingues , Leal Adriano Pinheiro de Souza , Carvalho Fabricio Pires de , Ventura Rafael
Published: January 2025

O presente trabalho trata da relação existente e crescente entre a ciência química e a moda, trazendo conceitos do setor têxtil, como a definição de fio e tecido, a fim de facilitar o entendimento de quem não pertence a área da moda, além de exemplos efetivos da química empregada ao setor têxtil mundial, ainda, demonstrando através de dados coletados da Associação brasileira da indústria têxtil e da confecção, por meio da pesquisa bibliográfica, demonstrar a importância da química na moda, da moda no setor têxtil e do setor têxtil na economia do país, bem como retratando o poder destrutivo dos componentes químicos inseridos na cadeia produtiva têxtil em contraposição ao seu alto potencial também na recuperação do meio ambiente prejudicado pelo mesmo e com breve análise da sociedade de consumo, a qual figura em conjunto com os componentes químicos como agente responsável pela poluição do planeta. No mais, trata-se este estudo, de uma reflexão derivada de pesquisas as quais, possuem diversos exemplos e aplicabilidades, e, portanto, sem pretensão de esgotar o conteúdo da matéria.
Simulação do circuito de remoagem de bolas da Samarco Mineração
Authors: Castro Gabriel Gava de , Alves Vladmir Kronemberger , Cirilo Paulo Henrique , Uliana Alexandro
Published: January 2025

Moinhos tubulares de bolas com transbordo por overflow são bastante utilizados na moagem e remoagem de minério de ferro em todo o mundo, os quais estão associados a grandes volumes de minério e a um alto OPEX (devido, principalmente, a elevados consumos energéticos). Testes industriais, portanto, acabam demandando muito tempo e recursos financeiros. Objetivando respostas mais rápidas e de menor custo para otimização do circuito de remoagem da Samarco, foi realizado um teste em escala laboratorial para simular o processo industrial através do levantamento de parâmetros do modelo do Balanço Populacional. O desenvolvimento nos últimos anos de simuladores vem contribuindo significativamente para este tipo de estudo, como o conjunto de planilhas MolyCop Tools, o qual foi utilizado no presente trabalho. O processo consistiu, primeiramente, na amostragem de todos os principais pontos da remoagem da Samarco para caracterização das amostras. Posteriormente, fez-se o balanço de massas e compuseram-se alíquotas para testes de cinética em bateladas no Laboratório de Desenvolvimento de Processos da Samarco. Por fim, foram calculados os parâmetros das funções quebra e seleção.  Por fim, constatou-se aderência do modelo e, portanto, pode-se utilizar técnicas por meio detestes laboratoriais para simular diferentes cenários no moinho de remoagem em questão, permitindo otimizações.
Towards Better Cooperation: Legal Analysis on Coping with Climate Change in the Mekong River Basin
Authors: Wang Lian
Published: January 2025

Mekong River is facing the severe Challenges of Climate Change, but the legal regime of the Mekong River has some deficiencies in terms of cooperation scope, substantive rules and procedural rules to adapt to Climate Change, such as lacking a basin-wide, and legally binding agreement, lacking enough Climate Change adaptative clauses in the agreement and basin-wide dispute resolution mechanism. Thus, this paper claims that riparian states should incorporate all procedure rules into the 1995 Mekong River, revise substantive rules in the 1995 Mekong River, negotiate a MOU on water allocation provisions between all riparian states, and enhance cooperation under LMC.
THE ROLE OF MULTILEVEL MODELING OF PROBLEM IN THE PROCESS OF PHYSICS TEACHING
Authors: Larchenkova L. , Tsaturyan A , Serobyan E. , Manukyan V. , Nikoghosyan G.
Published: January 2025

This paper is devoted to the role of multilevel problem modeling in a physics course. The usefulness and importance of such an approach for analyzing physical problems are presented. Important patterns of motion of a body falling to the Earth without an initial velocity are discussed. The main physical factors that have a significant effect on the body’s motion are presented. These are the dependence of the gravitational force acting on the body from the Earth on the height and the presence of air resistance. A general problem is formulated for a falling body, which is considered within the framework of three models, which is the scientific and pedagogical novelty of this work. First, the simplest model is considered, when the gravity force is considered constant, and there is no resistance. Then, the problem of falling in the case of the influence of the resistance force, which has a directly proportional dependence on the speed, is discussed. In the end, the problem of a body falling from a great height is discussed, taking into account the dependence of the acceleration of gravity on the height. The mathematical apparatus is used that corresponds to the students’ knowledge, and interesting and important applications of the Taylor expansion are shown. It is shown that in cases where it is difficult to apply analytical methods, computer software for mathematical calculations can also be effectively used in teaching.
A Multi-Server Queuing-Inventory System with Attraction-Retention Mechanisms for Impatient Customers and Catastrophes inWarehouse
Authors:   Department of Mathematics, College of Natural and Computational Sciences, Arba Minch University, Arba Minch, Ethiopia, Berhanu Berhanu ,   Department of Mathematics, College of Natural and Computational Sciences, Arba Minch University, Arba Minch, Ethiopia,   Department of Mathematics, College of Natural and Computational Sciences, Haramaya University, Harar, Ethiopia, Thillaigovindan Natesan , Wole Getinet Alemayehu
Published: January 2025

This paper presents a multi-server Markovian queuing-inventory system (MQIS) that incorporates attractionretention (AR) mechanisms for impatient customers and models catastrophic inventory losses within a warehouse setting. The system consists of C identical servers, a limited waiting area, and a storage capacity of Q items. Periodic disruptions may destroy all inventory in the system, compelling waiting customers either to remain until stock is replenished or to exit the system. A subset of servers may take joint vacations when no customers are waiting. To analyze this queuing-inventory system (QIS), we derive balance equations using a three-dimensional continuous-time Markov chain framework, solving for steady-state solutions through a recursive method. We then derive performance metrics and identify special-case queuing-inventory models within the broader system. A cost-loss model is formulated to optimize the service rate and server vacation strategies, minimizing overall costs. A genetic algorithm is employed to conduct a cost analysis. We collected primary data from the Ethio Telecom district head office in Arba Minch, Ethiopia to validate our theoretical findings. The empirical analysis serves a dual purpose: to investigate performance measure sensitivity to parameter variations and to discuss an optimization problem aimed at minimizing expected total cost (ETC) while assessing the impacts of AR mechanisms and catastrophic events on ETC.
Prologue
Authors: Weed Elizabeth
Published: January 2025

While struggles over gender, once the object of theoretical study, have taken to the streets, academic feminist theory has become flat and descriptive. “Gender,” once a theoretical category, has for decades functioned as an identity, fully displacing the conundrum of sexual difference. Afro-pessimism—one field to have defied neoliberal postcritique—heightens the contrast between a dynamic critique of racism and the flat response to misogyny, particularly racist misogyny. A proper response will not come through neoliberal gender identity. The impossibility of sexual dfference demands once again—still—to be read.
Reading the Feminist Impossible
Authors: Weed Elizabeth
Published: January 2025

The question of sexual difference has long been eclipsed by discourses of identity politics. And yet there is a new urgency to resist the logic of capital for which “there is no such thing as the impossible.” In Lacan’s view, that resistance carries a distinctly feminist imperative.
Postscript
Authors: Pattison George
Published: January 2025

A short autobiographical reflection on the Ten Oxherding Pictures of Zen Buddhism as presented by D. T. Suzuki, showing the movement from sensual life through nothingness to love.
Politics in Captivity
Authors: Zuckerwise Lena
Published: January 2025

Before Hannah Arendt fully developed the concept of world in The Human Condition, she formulated the idea of worldlessness in The Origins of Totalitarianism. This chapter looks to totalitarian worldlessness as a theory of Black captivity before exploring ways in which enslaved and incarcerated people resist this condition through concerted acts of world-building. Forming relationships with one another; deliberately sabotaging the built landscape and infrastructure of white domination; making objects of use and beauty; writing songs and composing blues music; creating new cultural traditions that hybridized African and American rituals, such as conjuration; and destroying property: All should be read not only as political resistance to plantations and prisons, but also as efforts to create a world in common in the face of forced worldlessness.
Threshold Phenomena
Authors: Naas Michael
Published: January 2025

Threshold Phenomena: Derrida and the Question of Hospitality reexamines Jacques Derrida’s thinking of hospitality in light of his recently published two-year seminar on the topic from the mid-1990s (Hospitality 1 & 2, seminar of 1995–1997). The work follows Derrida’s rereading of several central figures and texts on hospitality (Sophocles’s Oedipus at Colonus, Plato’s Apology, Kant’s Perpetual Peace, and Levinas’s Totality and Infinity, among others) in an attempt to rethink questions related not only to private but also to public “hospitality” in the form of immigration law, the contemporary treatment of migrants or stateless peoples, the establishment of cities of asylum, and so on. The work also follows many of the central themes of Derrida’s seminar—the relationship between hospitality and teletechnology (telephone, internet, etc.), the role played by a nostalgia for a fatherland or a mother tongue, questions of purity, immunity, and xenophobia, and the possibility of extending hospitality beyond the human—to animals, plants, gods, and clones. Finally, this work turns around a figure that Derrida himself returns to several times throughout the seminar: the threshold—a figure of hospitality par excellence, though also, in this seminar, another name for what Derrida will have been calling since the 1960s différance. Threshold Phenomena concludes that Derrida’s seminar on hospitality is one of the best introductions we have today to Derrida’s work in general, a seminar that is at once fascinating and engaging in its own right and absolutely crucial for analyzing today’s increasingly nationalistic and xenophobic political climate.
Introduction: Sighting the War In-Between
Authors: Kozol Wendy
Published: January 2025

The Introduction begins by troubling the assumption that the only way to garner worldwide attention to military conflict is to feature dramatic scenes of violence and trauma. Instead, through a discussion of “Occupied Pleasures,” a photographic series of everyday life in Palestine by Tanya Habjouqa, I argue for the value of seeking out different vantage points on militarism, survival, and endurance. Difficulties, though, arise in representing the everyday, which is, by definition, unspectacular, and mostly unseen. These difficulties then carry over into the challenges of looking. This chapter introduces the three interrelated concepts that frame the book’s attempt to “stay” in the moment of looking at alternative visualities of war: the war in-between identifies terrains of survival and endurance in geographies saturated by militarism; indexicality references material or visual properties that give shape and depth to the war in-between; and an asymptotic approach uses the geometric concept of the asymptote to remind us that the gap between representation and event means that viewers can never fully access the war in-between.
A theology of humanity through identity politics: reading the Book of Esther
Authors: Cheung Wai Lok
Published: January 2025

Humanity obligates respect. To respect someone is to intend what the person intended that one intends. A daughter respected her father if if he intended that she rests regularly, then she does so with the correct motive. Jesus' Greatest Commandment, through the Worship of Yahweh identified via the First Commandment, interacts love with respect. If to love is to value the loved one's welfare, valuing it for its own sake differentiates a malignant form of love from one out of respect. From gender, through ethnicity and humanity, I bring out the theological insight from us being created in the image of God. Why respect? Because we are human. But why does humanity obligate respect? Because Yahweh commanded so. The vice of idolatry, ecologically, is constituted by self-disrespect - a form of worship that demeans and defiles oneself. That we are grateful to be Designed thus enlightens our life.
STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL IN NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE’S THE SCARLET LETTER: FEMINIST PURSUITS
Authors: Habib Dr. Md. Jakaria
Published: January 2025

This article aims to address how Nathaniel Hawthorne portrays the character of Hester Prynne embarking on her life under the presumption that the protagonist, Hester, is morally deficient due to her act of adultery, which is considered very forbidden in her day. The analysis tries to consist of many explanations to facilitate the readers’ comprehension of how Hester Prynne’s resilience enables her to thrive.
READING PRACTICES AND SKILLS OF INDIAN UNDERGRADUATES
Authors: Radhika
Published: January 2025

The sub-skills of reading form an important part of the reading process. Good readers make use of an appropriate sub-skill unconsciously to suit the specific purpose of reading. This paper aims to explore and evaluate the relation between self-awareness of the sub-skills and reading abilities of first-year Undergraduates in an Indian university. To achieve this, a self-assessment questionnaire of sub-skills was administered to 15 undergraduate students enrolled in a central university. The software DIALANG was then used to measure the reading comprehension of the students. The analysis of the results showed that most of the subjects were aware of the important sub-skills required to be a good reader. However, this awareness was not reflected in their reading comprehension as the DIALANG test revealed that the reading proficiency of the 15 students varied from A2-C2 CEFR levels. The results provide an insight into the reading abilities of Indian students.
Assessment of Smallholder Farmers’ Responses to Flood Incidence in the Oti River Sub-Basin
Authors: Takal Silas Uwumborge , Tahiru Abdul-Wahab
Published: January 2025

This study aimed to assess the responses of smallholder farmers to incidence of floods in the Oti river sub-basin. The findings provide useful information for enhancing the adaptive capacity of smallholder farmers to respond to flood hazards and improve their resilience and disaster preparedness in the study area. This study used the simple random sampling procedure to select 399 farmers and descriptive statistics was used to identify and examine response strategies adopted by smallholder farmers. The results of the study showed that livelihood of smallholder farmers were greatly impacted by factors such as: Distance to River, Elevation of Communities below the River, Increase in Rainfall, Lack of Early Warning Systems and Lack of Emergency Response Systems. The results further showed that the farmers responded to flood incidence through: Building of Raised Beds, Crop Diversification, Livestock Relocation, the use of Conservation farming practices.The majority (87%) of the farmers stated that they were vulnerable to the impacts of floods in the study area. The findings of this study enhanced understanding on access to relevant and timely information such as an early warning to farmers during the start of the farming/ rainy season to support their adaptive responses to floods.
The Role of TP53, KRAS, CDH1, Demographic and Clinical Variables in Gastric Cancer
Authors: Siyam Ali , Ababneh Suha , Odat Ibrahim , Ababneh Sokiyna , Alkhatib Ahed
Published: January 2025

Background: Worldwide, gastric cancer remains the fifth most prevalent type of cancer and is the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths. Gastric cancer is responsible for around 7% of global cancer occurrence and approximately 9% of annual cancer-related mortalities. Objective: The aim of the study was to analyze gastric cancer dataset posted on Kaggle (https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/datasetengineer/gastric-cancer-gc-dataset). Methods: This dataset comprises 212354 participants, of whom 10% had gastric cancer. This dataset was analyzed to extract the information regarding gastric cancer. The analysis of data was performed SPSS version 25. Descriptive analysis was used to describe data including frequency and percentages to describe categorical variables such as age, and the mean and standard deviation to describe non-categorical variables such as age. The relationships between variables and gastric cancer were calculated based on Chi-Square and One Way ANOVA tests, significance was considered if p value ≤0,05. Results: The mean age was 53.2580±18.98 years. Seventy percent of participants were males. About 30% of participants had a family history of gastric cancer. About 40% of participants were smokers. About 50% of participants were alcoholic. About 75% of participants had Helicobacter pylori. 80% of participants were at high salt intake. About 50% of participants had chronic gastritis. Abnormal endoscopic image reports were reported in approximately 30% of participants. Biopsy results were negative in 90% of participants. The reports of CT scans were negative in approximately 80%. Genetic mutations were detected in Tp53 (50.1%), KRAS (20%), and CDH1 (29,9%). No significant relationships were found between gastric cancer and study variables. Conclusion: Most of the people had risk factors such as Helicobacter pylori infection, salt intake, and mutations in TP53, KRAS, and CDH1. However, statistical analyses did not find significant correlations between those and gastric cancer.
Écrire et imaginer la retraite : un regard fantasmé sur Tibère à Capri
Authors: Servet Aymeric
Published: January 2025

De l’asile de débauche au refuge mélancolique, le départ de Tibère à Capri fut propice à toutes les interprétations au fil du temps. L’étude de la postérité littéraire de l’épisode contribue non seulement à dévoiler la plasticité du motif de la retraite, mais aussi à situer son intérêt narratologique, en particulier pour une littérature moderne préoccupée par les conditions d’accès à une vérité de l’individu. Tibère semble être devenu au fil du temps le sujet propice à une réflexion sur les limites de la prétention du regard extérieur à l’objectivité. L’Empereur et son île restent fondamentalement énigmatiques, mais c’est ce qui offre à la littérature un vaste champ pour l’exploration de cette distinction tragique entre l’être et le monde, grâce notamment à l’opposition polyphonique des voix de la masse et de celle de l’individu exilé.
Christa Wolf. Genealogie, relazioni, saperi e poteri
Authors: Giardini Federica
Published: January 2025

Medea, in Christa Wolf’s version is liberated from the functional, archetypal trait of the wild feminine fury that overflows into infanticide. The essay presents also how in Wolf’s Medea shows the literary outcomes of a new feminist atmosphere, as it matures between the Eighties and Nineties of the Twentieth century. A laboratory of alternative civilizations, shared by those feminisms that take seriously the opportunities to radically redefine the criteria of human coexistence and its productions.
L’icona e la redenzione
Authors: Calabrò Irene
Published: January 2025

Starting from music video by The Carters performing Apeshit, where the two Afro-Americans artists celebrate their socioeconomic success, becoming icons that represent the redemption of black people, this paper tries to reflect on the relationship between icon and redemption in capitalistic socioeconomic system - relationship that develops from Christology’s “economic of salvation” and the historical domain of whiteness.
Infinito e limite nell’universo lucreziano
Authors: Piazzi Lisa
Published: January 2025

The opposite and complementary concepts of infinity and limit are essential in Epicurean philosophical speculation and in particular in Lucretius’ De rerum natura. Through the analysis of some passages of the I, II, V and VI books, which deal with the question of the infinity of the universe and foreshadow the end of our world, the article will try to show the ethical implications of this teaching about the limit, also in relation to the discussion on death contained in the third book.
Fili e tessuti, cose e simulacri
Authors: Tuppini Tommaso
Published: January 2025

Lucretius’s poem let us perceive the world as a large fabric made of atomic threads and void. Things are woven, the same goes for simulacra, which are very thin fabrics. The events of the world are fabrics that meet or tear, this applies as much to the process that constructs reality as to the way in which we know things. The art of weaving and the mythical-poetic diction which is a consequence of the divine Verwobenheit are the two poles that allow us to understand the meaning of De rerum natura as a simulacral fabric which explains the way of functioning of matter and its processes of organization.
Dark Lucretius: The Birth of Death
Authors: Nail Thomas
Published: January 2025

This paper argues that Lucretius ended his epic poem De Rerum Natura with the death of the world and the plague at Athens because he was not merely a philosopher of life and creativity as many scholars believe. For Lucretius, the entropic processes of death and dissolution are the origins of creativity and life. I also argue, against the Epicurean interpretation of Lucretius, that the conclusion of De Rerum Natura shows how different the two thinkers were. In particular, the article looks closely at lines 91-234 of book five and offers an alternative interpretation of Lucretius’ philosophy of history and death in which the ending of the book fits perfectly not despite its darkness but because of it.
Poetiche della contingenza
Authors: Turrini Nicola
Published: January 2025

In this text the Lucretian concept of “clinamen” is read through the psychoanalytic notion of “clinic” in a Lacanian perspective. The basic idea is that the “clinamen” defines a materialism of the encounter that overturns the posture of critical theory in order to open up a new philosophical gesture that we define as “clinical”.
Ha ancora una voce la natura? La dimensione prescrittiva della natura nel De rerum natura e nel pensiero scientifico moderno
Authors: Mutchinick Joaquin
Published: January 2025

In Lucretius' poem, the knowledge of natural phenomena offers an understanding of things capable of freeing human beings from ignorance and fears. This prescriptive dimension of nature seems foreign to modernity. In the present work, we start from this presumed difference between the two forms of investigation to show that science, despite the communis opinio, actually possesses a normative charge. In the last section, we will consider the prescriptive dimension of contemporary science to tackle the issues emerging from the current ecological crisis.
Les puissances de la danse
Authors: Daniel Dupuis Joachim
Published: January 2025

This article evokes two phantasmagorical transformations of Jane Avril through the cinema. A first attempt, oriented towards reverie, is exploited by V. Minnelli: dance is not only a vector of remembrance, but a means of transfiguring reality. As if caught in a time crystal, Mulligan, the hero, sees himself as a “white nigger”, dancing in the arms of his beloved who has taken on the features of Jane Avril. Another attempt, this time focused on the frightening nightmare, operates a stronger hybridization. The figures of the Black and the Madwoman now merge. All that remains of Jane is the “epileptic dance” performed on a scary zombie body. It is no longer a question of transfiguring reality, but of showing the liberating powers of dance.
Apparatus and ethics
Authors: Miller Jacob
Published: January 2025

Many have taken up the question of ‘what is an apparatus (apparat)’ since it was posed to Foucault. In the concatenating series, Agamben is one such author who has published the work, What is an Apparatus?. In order to glean a clear understanding of Agamen’s work, Kafka’s In the Penal Colony must be addressed. In adopting a literary approach, the paradigm presented by Kohlberg on moral development can be useful when determining an appropriate readership for such works as mentioned above. By an inspection of such themes found within In the Penal Colony as the guest’s dilemma and capital punishment, one may be resituated, hermeneutically, with a renewed appreciation for Kafka’s work.
Davanti alla letteratura, fuori dalla morte
Authors: Bottacin Cantoni Lorenza
Published: January 2025

This essay, titled Before the literature, outside the death, aims to examine the relation between writing and death in Blanchot’s thought. Through the analysis of Kafka’s novels, tales, diaries and letters, Blanchot gains a peculiar conception of the figure of the writer. Kafka becomes the paradigm of this interpretation, which leads to discover the revolutionary power of literature by redefining both the idea of death and the notion of writing.
Lettere di sfida all’Altro
Authors: Palumbo Fabio Domenico
Published: January 2025

Letters are always written for the Other. More specifically, they are addressed to the inconsistency of the big Other, as a protest against its powerlessness. The childish complaint aimed to the Other’s evanescence, in accord with Lacanian psychoanalysis, can be understood in terms of perversion, particularly in its masochistic variant. When Kafka blames his own father for having used rude educational means, he actually blames him for not being powerful enough: according to Slavoj Žižek, this can be ascribed to a perverse strategy which tries to restore the Other’s power in order to reanimate the Self.
La prima donna Marilyn
Authors: Eouzan Fanny , Hervé Stéphane
Published: January 2025

This essay tries to explore the ways opera invents personae of Marilyn Monroe. Actually, the star can be regarded as an equivalent of a prima donna of the 19th century or a lyrical heroine. Despite its mythical tendencies opera could offer destituent processes able to deconstruct all the narratives explaining Monroe’s death and to make it not a defeat but an irreducible event. Besides opera singing will be considered as the expressive form of the impossible identity. Contemporary productions, Ferrero’s Marilyn and de Raaff’s Waiting for Miss Monroe, as well as Warlikowski’s staging of Janáček’s Věc Makropulos will be here analyzed.
Planches de salut : (trans)figurations théâtrales de Marilyn
Authors: François-Deneve Corinne
Published: January 2025

Marilyn Monroe, an actress on its own, did well on theatre as well. She was indeed the heroin of numerous plays, and was “embodied” by various actresses. What is the point of putting a film star on the boards? Is it to offer her some kind of artistic redemption? What about her charismatic and so well-known body, thus transferred into another one, living, and offered anew to renewed male and female gazes?