bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Allopurinol Hypersensitivity Syndrome and Acute Myocardial Infarction—Two Case Reports
Authors: Chan Y C , Tay Y K , Ng S K
Published: February 2025

Introduction: Allopurinol hypersensitivity syndrome is an idiosyncratic drug reaction characterised by an acute and severe multiorgan disease. It usually begins 2 to 6 weeks after starting allopurinol. The most important and critical characteristics are the presence of visceral involvement and haematological abnormalities; hepatitis, interstitial nephritis and eosinophilia are most frequently seen. However, cardiac involvement has not been previously reported.

Clinical Picture: Two previously well young Chinese men presented with fever, rash and hepatitis 3 weeks after taking allopurinol. The clinicopathological presentation was typical of allopurinol hypersensitivity syndrome.

Treatment and Outcome: Both men received systemic corticosteroid therapy and had full recovery. A few months later, they each had an acute myocardial infarction with a fatal outcome, despite minimal cardiac risk factors and no family history of coronary artery disease.

Conclusion: The immunologic process in allopurinol hypersensitivity syndrome may have caused coronary vasculitis and subsequent myocardial infarct. Alternatively, the idiosyncratic reaction may have damaged myocardium, with the resultant myocarditis masquerading as coronary artery disease. Patients with allopurinol hypersensitivity syndrome should be followed up for cardiac involvement.
Case Report on Recombinant Coagulation Factor VIIa in the Treatment of Three Haemophilia A Patients with Inhibitors in Singapore
Authors: Ng H J , Lee L H
Published: February 2025

Introduction: We report the first experiences with use of recombinant coagulation Factor VIIa (rFVIIa) in the treatment of haemophilia A patients with inhibitors in Singapore and discuss observations in 3 patients.

Clinical Picture: Case 1 bled on two separate occasions into his neck muscles and vocal cord. Case 2 had gross haematuria from bleeding in the renal calyxes. Case 3 bled into the parotid muscles.

Treatment: rFVIIa in doses, ranging from 50 µg/kg to 90 µg/kg, at different dosing intervals, were used.

Outcome: Excellent responses were seen in doses of 70 and 90 µg/kg.

Conclusion: rFVIIa is highly effective, both clinically and cost-wise, in the treatment of these patients.
Statins and Bone Morphogenetic Proteins: New Pathways in Bone Formation
Authors: Edwards C J
Published: February 2025

Introduction: Osteoporosis is a major public health problem leading to morbidity and mortality in many individuals. Treatment for osteoporosis has generally relied on mechanisms that decrease osteoclastic bone resorption. This review outlines new evidence that the cholesterol synthetic pathway may be important in bone metabolism and that 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A (HMG-CoA) reductase inhibitors or statins may increase bone formation.

Results: An experimental observation reported that statins increase bone formation in rodents and that statins have an important role for the cholesterol synthetic pathway in bone formation. This may be via potent bone-forming growth factors, the bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs). Subsequent epidemiological studies (including a meta-analysis of 8 studies) have suggested that statin use may be associated with increased bone mineral density (BMD) and decreased fracture risk in humans. However, more recently published studies have challenged the effect on fracture risk.

Conclusion: The effect of statins on bone mineral density and fracture risk in retrospective studies suggests an exciting new direction for research in bone formation that may lead to advances in the therapy of osteoporosis.
Eau et culte : réflexions autour du sanctuaire de Bitalemi à Gela
Authors: Albertocchi Marina
Published: February 2025

Résumé
Dans son écoulement perpétuel, l'eau joue un rôle important dans la dialectique des oppositions qui caractérise les principaux
passages de la vie humaine (chasteté/fécondité, pollution/purification, mort/renaissance). L'élément aquatique représente
également une frontière entre la sphère terrestre et celle des Enfers : il apparaît donc particulièrement adapté au culte des
déesses chthoniennes. L'objectif de la contribution est de mettre en évidence le rapport entre l'eau et un sanctuaire dédié à
Déméter Thesmophoros d'après l'épigraphie, tel que celui situé sur la colline de Bitalemi à Gela, intensément fréquenté entre le
dernier quart du viie siècle et la fin du ve siècle avant notre ère. Le thème sera abordé en mettant l'accent sur la valeur liminale
de l'eau qui, dans le cas du sanctuaire de Bitalemi, est suggérée par la présence de la rivière voisine, qui sépare l'aire sacrée de la
colline qui abrite la ville antique, par celle de la mer voisine, et enfin par la présence d'une zone marécageuse située légèrement
au nord-ouest. Les différentes hypothèses relatives à la reconstruction de l'ancien paysage et aux changements possibles des
éléments aquatiques (comme le cours de la rivière, le littoral et la zone marécageuse) par rapport à la situation actuelle seront
examinées. Dans la deuxième partie de l'article, le thème de l'eau sera analysé en tant que ressource vitale et élément rituel, en
vertu de son fort pouvoir purificateur et régénérateur par rapport aux plux importants passages de la vie des femmes.

Abstract
In its perpetual flow, water plays a significant role in the dialectic of oppositions that characterizes the main passages of human
life (chastity/fecundity, pollution/purification, death/rebirth). The aquatic element represents also a border between the earth
sphere and that of the Underworld: it therefore appears particularly suitable to the cult of the chthonian goddesses. The purpose
of the contribution is to highlight the relationship between water and a sanctuary dedicated to Demeter Thesmophoros on an
epigraphic basis, such as that located on the hill of Bitalemi at Gela, intensively frequented between the last quarter of the 7th
century and the end of the 5th century B.C. The theme will be approached focusing on the liminal value of water, which in the
case of the sanctuary of Bitalemi is suggested by the presence of the nearby river, which separates the sacred area from the hill
that houses the ancient city, by that of the nearby sea, and finally by the presence of a marshy area located slightly northwest.
The various hypotheses relating to the reconstruction of the ancient landscape and to possible changes of the aquatic elements
(as the river course, the coastline and the marshy area) compared to the current situation will be considered. In the second part
of the contribution the theme of water will be analyzed as well as a vital resource and a ritual element, by virtue of its strong
purifying and regenerating power in relation to the most significant passages of the female life.
Les sanctuaires de Zeus explorés par Carl Haller von Hallerstein au début du xixe siècle en Arcadie et Messénie
Authors: Lefèvre-Novaro Daniela
Published: February 2025

Résumé
En suivant les routes empruntées par l'architecte franconien Carl Haller von Hallerstein entre 1810 et 1817, nous décrivons deux
sanctuaires situés au sommet des montagnes du Péloponnèse : les téménè de Zeus Lykaios, en Arcadie, et de Zeus Ithomatas
en Messénie. À partir des observations et des dessins inédits de Haller, ainsi que des données archéologiques récemment
découvertes, il s'agit de passer en revue les caractéristiques de ces sanctuaires et cultes afin de définir leurs origines et leurs
fonctions au sein de l'eschatia arcadienne et sur l'acropole qui domine la polis de Messène et la plaine de Stenyclaros.

Abstract
Following the roads taken by Franconian architect Carl Haller von Hallerstein between 1810 and 1817, we describe two sanctuaries
on the mountaintops of the Peloponnese: the temene of Zeus Lykaios, in Arcadia, and of Zeus Ithome in Messenia. Based on
Haller’s unpublished observations and drawings, as well as on recently discovered archaeological data, the aim is to review
the characteristics of these sanctuaries and cults to define their origins and functions within the Arcadian eschatia and on the
acropolis overlooking the polis of Messene and the Stenyclaros plain.
Construire un paysage sacré, forger une communauté : refléxions à partir du cas de l’Anavlochos (Crète)
Authors: Gaignerot-Driessen Florence
Published: February 2025

Résumé
Les fouilles récemment conduites par une équipe de l’École française d’Athènes sur le massif de l’Anavlochos, en Crète orientale,
ont mis au jour un édifice cultuel à banquette établi à mi-chemin entre l’habitat qui occupe la partie haute du vallon central et la
nécropole qui s’étend à son pied, ainsi que deux importants dépôts de terres cuites votives situés au sommet de la montagne. Ces
découvertes permettent de revenir sur la manière dont un paysage sacré a été formé et transformé entre la fin de l’âge du Bronze
Récent et l’époque classique, de reconsidérer la localisation, la forme et la fonction des espaces cultuels qui le balisent et de
réévaluer plus spécifiquement leur importance pour l’organisation sociale et politique des communautés qui les ont fréquentés.
Cet article consiste ainsi en une présentation préliminaire des espaces et du mobilier cultuels de l’Anavlochos et envisage la
construction de son paysage sacré dans le processus historique de poléogénèse.

Abstract
Excavations recently carried out by a team from the École française d’Athènes on the Anavlochos mountain range in eastern
Crete have uncovered a bench cult building established midway between the settlement located in the highest part of the
central valley and the necropolis extending at its foot, as well as two substantial deposits of votive terracottas, both situated
on the summit of the mountain. These discoveries allow to reexamine how a sacred landscape was formed and transformed
between the end of the Late Bronze Age and the Classical period, to reconsider the location, form and function of the cult spaces
that mark it out and to reassess more specifically their importance for the social and political organization of the communities
that visited them. Thus, this article consists of a preliminary presentation of the cultic spaces and material recovered from
Anavlochos and considers the construction of its sacred landscape in the historical process of poleogenesis.
Fanum oblitterum. Il santuario e la stipe votiva della dea Marica tra vecchi dati e nuove ricerche
Authors: Cioffi Rita
Published: February 2025

Riassunto
Il santuario della dea Marica sorge presso la riva destra del fiume Garigliano, nel territorio di Minturno (LT, antica Minturnae)
e fu scavato nel 1926. La pubblicazione del tempio e della ricca fossa votiva avvenne nel 1938, ad opera di Paolino Mingazzini. Il
santuario, appartenente alla dea Marica, è circondato da un lucus che gli antichi consideravano sacro, situato in prossimità di
un tratto in cui il fiume ha le quote più basse e poggia sulle fondamenta di terreni alluvionali in prossimità di un'area da sempre
paludosa: il nome di Marica indica forse « una donna/dea che si bagna nelle acque stagnanti », in perfetta corrispondenza con
il luogo sacro di cui è stata, ininterrottamente, protettrice per secoli. Ancora oggi, a quasi 100 anni dalla scoperta, il sito è il
principale marcatore documentario per ricostruire la religiosità e la cultura materiale degli Ausoni/Aurunci, sulla cui etnogenesi
ed estensione territoriale le fonti letterarie, sia greche che latine, delineano quadri fortemente eterogenei.

Abstract
The sanctuary of the goddess Marica rises near the right bank of the river Garigliano, in the territory of Minturno (LT, ancient
Minturnae) and was excavated in 1926. The publication of the temple and the rich votive pit took place in 1938, by Paolino
Mingazzini. The sanctuary, belonging to the goddess Marica, is surrounded by a lucus that the ancients considered sacred,
located near a stretch where the river has the lowest elevations and rests on the foundations of alluvial soils close to an area
that has always been swampy: the name of Marica maybe indicates “a woman/goddess who bathes in stagnant waters”, in
perfect correspondence with the sacred place of which she has been, continuously, a protector for centuries. Still today, almost
100 years after the discovery, the site is the main documentary marker to reconstruct the religiosity and material culture of
Ausoni/Aurunci, on whose ethnogenesis and territorial extension the literary sources, both Greek and Latin, outline strongly
heterogeneous frameworks.
Roger Chennells All Rise: Tales of Human Rights and Wrongs (2023)
Authors: Bozalek Lee
Published: February 2025

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Adaptive Charging for High-Efficiency Bridgeless CUK Converter
Authors: Nekha N  , Pandi Priya P  , Vinoba J  , Dr. D. Magdalin Mary
Published: February 2025

The design and implementation of a Bridgeless CUK Converter for multiple loads uses an intelligent controller based on NodeMCU for the proposed converter. The proposed converter has the benefit of a new bridgeless topology that improves efficiency and minimizes component count, hence lowering conduction losses. To regulate the output voltages with high accuracy under varying load conditions, and advanced control strategy incorporating PID control and ANN for adaptive tuning, thus achieving the optimal performance and real-time load adaptability. The combination of these techniques enables fast transient response, accurate voltage regulation, and improved dynamic performance. The proposed system is experimentally validated under dynamic load conditions and demonstrates high efficiency and low total harmonic distortion (THD). The results obtained demonstrate that the converter can obtain high improvements in power quality, output regulation, and system reliability. Such a design makes it suitable for applications requiring multiple regulated outputs, including IoT devices, medical equipment, and renewable energy systems. The intelligent control strategy integrated with the bridgeless topology promotes better energy efficiency and adaptability in the system and contributes to the development of advanced power management systems for modern industrial and residential applications.
Banana Production Risk Zoning and Copula Based Income Insurance Rate Determination: a Case Study of Guangdong, China
Authors: Xie Jianming , Singhapreecha Charuk , Chinnakum Warattaya , Autchariyapanitkul Kittawit
Published: February 2025

This study explores the risk characteristics and regional differences in banana production in 21 cities in Guangdong Province through cluster analysis and kernel density estimation. Based on statistical analysis and optimal clustering number selection, cities are divided into three categories: high, medium, and low-risk areas, reflecting the characteristics of resource dependent, economic core, and technological innovation cities, respectively. The estimation of kernel density function reveals the concentration and tail characteristics of production and price distribution in different risk areas. By analyzing the dependence relationship between price and output through the Copula model, t Copula and Frank Copula performed well in high-risk and medium risk areas, respectively. The insurance pricing results show that the premium rate in high-risk areas is more sensitive to changes in coverage, reflecting the significant impact of differences in risk distribution on insurance design. This study provides important references for regional risk management and insurance product optimization.
Positioning The Molecular Characteristics of The Laterally Spreading Tumors Different from The Colorectal Cancer
Authors: Guo Min , Pu Wenjing , Liu Liqiong , Zhang Fenfen , Wang Qiang , Pingping L  , Jingping Wei  , Wenmei Xie  , Wei Zhou  , Shixin Lei  , Jianshe Yang
Published: February 2025

Two classical models have been proposed for the development of colorectal cancer (CRC) from colon epithelial cells. The first model described the process of transformation of adenoma to cancer, and other, the transformation from serrated polyps to cancer. However, clinical data showed that there is still a certain amount of CRC is not derived from the above two pathways, forming the theoretical island of CRC pathogenesis. Laterally spreading tumor (LST) is a special digestive tract tumor, and an important precancerous lesion of CRC. Pathologically, LST has certain similarities to colorectal polyps and adenoma. However, the molecular mechanism of the LST associated carcinogenesis remained unclear. Therefore, we proposed a two-stage cascade mutation hypothesis for LST cancerization. This exploration would have potential value for early diagnosis and precise treatment of CRC.
Um Mapeamento de Proposições para a Educação Ambiental nas Escolas Públicas entre os anos 2011 e 2021, na região Norte do Brasil
Authors: Bhering Mariana Cunha , Loureiro da Silva Marilena
Published: February 2025

A Educação Ambiental é uma forma interdisciplinar de proporcionar espaço de reflexão para a população em relação às causas e consequências das mudanças climáticas e demais problemas ambientais causados pelo modo de vida moderno.  O artigo tem por objetivo apresentar a proposta de pesquisa que visa mapear proposições sobre Educação Ambiental para a escola pública, a partir dos artigos científicos anexados à base SciELO, de 2011 até 2021, na região Norte do Brasil.  Assim, utiliza-se da pesquisa qualitativa com uso da análise de conteúdo. Desse modo, enfatiza a importância da ampla divulgação, análise e sistematização dos artigos acadêmicos sobre educação ambiental com proposições pedagógicas, políticas e teóricas que norteiam os avanços e desafios da educação ambiental.
A Horta Escolar como Instrumento de Educação Alimentar e Nutricional no Ensino da Geografia
Authors: Fatima Simone , Nunes Gracieli , Garcia Jaciara Reis Nogueira
Published: February 2025

Há a compreensão da importância da alimentação para o crescimento intelectual e para o desenvolvimento cognitivo do indivíduo e por isso, com o objetivo de estimular e orientar os alunos e seus familiares sobre as vantagens de uma alimentação adequada e saudável para melhoria da qualidade de vida, bem como a produção de conhecimentos científicos, realizou-se um trabalho nas aulas de Geografia por meio do cultivo de uma horta escolar. Para tanto, foram desenvolvidas, com alunos do 5º ano de uma escola municipal de Marechal Cândido Rondon no Paraná, várias atividades que com a interação entre alunos, pais e outros membros da comunidade escolar voltadas para a formação de valores e conhecimentos acerca da Agroecologia com vista à uma educação alimentar. Como resultados, verificou-se que com o cultivo da horta orgânica na escola, foi possível discutir práticas sustentáveis, preparação dos canteiros, adoção de adubo orgânico e materiais recicláveis para o plantio de mudas de hortaliças, ervas medicinais, temperos, entre outros. Considerou-se que com esforço e união, a intervenção pedagógica foi desenvolvida com êxito, possibilitando uma nova visão em relação à Agroecologia, conservação do meio ambiente, alimentação saudável e qualidade de vida.
Architecture, Empire, and Trade
Authors: Jackson Iain , Harrison Ewan , Tenzon Michele , Woudstra Rixt , Tunstall Claire
Published: February 2025

This open access book tells a new and untold history of the architecture of West Africa in the colonial era, as revealed for the first time through the archives of the United Africa Company (UAC).

From the imperial Royal Niger Company’s charter in the 1890s through to its suave African department stores of the 1960s, the UAC – a British company firmly embedded in the economies of colonialism, extraction, and exploitation – became the largest commercial firm in West Africa, involved in almost every commercial enterprise and sector, and responsible for procuring architecture, infrastructure, and city real-estate across a vast region.

Based on unprecedented access to the UAC archives, this book pieces together a new architectural history of West Africa from the high colonial period through to independence. It reproduces an extraordinary array of newly-uncovered material – from photographs of streetscapes, buildings, and West African everyday life to civic reports and city plans – and presents these alongside critical and theoretical discussions to reveal an alternative account of the architecture of the region which stands in contrast to more conventional state-focused histories. The book explores technological, aesthetic, and political shifts through an architectural lens, and brings to the fore an awareness of the violence and appropriation which underlie each architectural episode, showing how the UAC, as a case-study, presents a unique opportunity to investigate how architecture manifests power, culture, and identity in colonial and post-colonial contexts.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the University of Liverpool.
Black Panthers and the Soviets
Authors: Roman Meredith L.
Published: February 2025

The contemporaneous movements for human rights that Soviet rights defenders and the Black Panthers waged during the 1960s are analysed in a comparative fashion here for the very first time. The book also examines the extra-legal measures that both the KGB and FBI employed to destroy them.

The Black Panthers and the Sovietsinnovatively compares Soviet human rights activists’ exposure of the workings of the Soviet police state with the miniature, city-level surveillance police states that the Black Panthers exposed as operating across the United States. It illuminates the legal tactics of counter-surveillance that Soviet rights defenders and the Black Panthers employed as a means of restraining acts of state-sanctioned violence. The book also highlights how the U.S. production of knowledge about Soviet ‘dissidents’ reified white supremacist, anti-communist notions of dissent, human rights, and state violence that facilitated the repression of the Black Panthers and the mass incarceration of African Americans as criminals.

Meredith L. Roman disrupts the enduring Cold War binaries of authoritarianism-democracy and oppression-freedom that obscure our understanding of the complex, overlapping histories of these two superpowers. Roman convincingly argues that the Soviet rights defenders and the Black Panthers’ vast documentation of domestic human rights abuses and the repressive measures that they faced for mobilizing to end them serve as an important societal reminder; they reaffirm that genuine democracy and the safeguarding of human rights are incompatible with authoritarian practices,the conditions of racial capitalism, and the ideology of national security.
American Artists in Postwar Rome
Authors: Miller Peter Benson
Published: February 2025

Drawing on unpublished archival sources, this book reconstitutes the experiences of a wide range of American artists, critics, and writers working in Rome in a charged environment of “Cold War cosmopolitanism.”After the Second World War, American artists flocked to Rome in record numbers, even as the United States shored up Italy as a bulwark against the spread of Communism. While the market for modern art in Rome was less vigorous as those in Paris and New York, numerous galleries, artist-run spaces, and other institutions acted as important catalysts, making Rome an international artistic hub. The city attracted now canonical figures Lee Bontecou, Philip Guston, Robert Rauschenberg, Paul Thek, and Cy Twombly, along with less well-known artists, such as Eugene Berman, Gene Charlton, Carlyle Brown, Peter Chinni, William Congdon, Claire Falkenstein, Marcia Hafif, John Heliker, James Leong, Beverly Pepper, and Laura Ziegler, among many others.

Rather than focusing on institutions and diplomatic relationships, the book centres the experience of artists, and also addresses Rome’s gay subculture and the role of female artists during the period, eschewing traditional narratives of the male “cultural ambassador.” Through case-study based investigation, Peter Benson Miller explores the reciprocal relationships between American modernist artists and Italian artists in postwar Rome, and reveals how these artists perceived Rome as less constrained by the demands of a national school, and as an alternative to New York. This congenial creative atmosphere yielded “new pictorial forms” developed in tandem with or absorbed from like-minded Italian artists, engaging the city and its multiple layers of history, from antiquity to the profound trauma inflicted by the recent conflict.

The book also establishes the entangled social networks, galleries, exhibitions, and institutions sustaining their work and providing entrée into local artistic circles. Focusing on a series of specific exchanges, this study contributes to our understanding American modernism in an international context.
Esotericism in Western Culture
Authors: Hanegraaff Wouter J.
Published: February 2025

This accessible introduction by the world’s leading expert explains why the study of esotericism is not a marginal pursuit but belongs at the center of modern research in the humanities. Reflecting updates in the field since the foundational publicationWestern Esotericism: A Guide for the Perplexed(2013), Wouter J. Hanegraaff demonstrates that the exclusion of “rejected knowledge” from normative accounts of Western civilization is the reflection of a narrow Eurocentric ideology that became the template for discrediting and ultimately destroying so-called “primitive” cultures associated with “superstition” and “pagan idolatry” during the global colonial age.

Rejecting this “rejection of rejected knowledge” means restoring the suppressed to its legitimate place in history and cultural analysis. Through this approach, Wouter J. Hanegraaff depicts a radically inclusive vision of the Greater West and its forgotten histories, from pagan antiquity through Jewish, Christian, and Islamic cultures up to secular modernity and beyond.
Stoic Capitalist
Authors: Rosenkranz Robert , Hallsworth Ian
Published: February 2025

The Stoic ideal ofa well-lived life has been around since 300BC, but what can we learn from it 2,300 years later?

InThe Stoic Capitalist, Robert Rosenkranz shows how its teachings can lead to a life of accomplishment, fulfillment, and impact. Stoic principles are applied not just to help you cope but to achieve your most ambitious goals. He offers an astute combination of philosophical, psychological, and business observations, along with practical advice spanning topics as diverse as finance, investments, negotiation, hiring, time management, art collecting, philanthropy, and longevity. He explains how ancient philosophy and its psychological insights can be used to create extraordinary outcomes in your personal and professional life.

Each of the short chapters offers ideas you can use to thrive. Along the way, you meet a lively global cast of RAND nuclear strategists, pioneering artists, scientist-entrepreneurs racing to extend the human lifespan, and iconic figures in the Wall Street boom years. The book offers an insider’s perspective on the creation of such major developments as private equity, hedge funds, and junk bonds.

Rosenkranz writes as he speaks, with the engaging voice of a Renaissance man who is insatiably curious, eager to learn, open to all viewpoints, but embracing none without critical thought. Reading this book may help you realize your childhood dreams.
Crescent Dawn
Authors: Sheppard Si
Published: February 2025

A groundbreaking new history of the wars of the Ottoman Expansion, a truly global conflagration that crisscrossed three continents and ultimately defined the borders and future of a modern Europe.

The determined attempt to thwart Ottoman dominance was fought across five theaters from the Balkans to the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean, from Persia to Russia. This intercontinental melee is expertly re-told in this fascinating new history by historian Si Sheppard.

But this is not the story of a clash of civilizations between East and West as you might assume. Europe was not united against the Turks; the scandal of the age was the alliance between King Francis I of France and Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. Meanwhile, the resistance of the Saadi dynasty of Morocco to Ottoman encroachment played a critical role in denying Constantinople direct access to the Atlantic Ocean. By the same token, though religious imperatives were critical to the motivations of all the key actors involved, these in no way fell neatly along the Christian Muslim divide.Crescent Dawnexpertly shows how the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V desired nothing more than to eradicate the Protestant heresy metastasizing throughout his domains, but the threat of Turkish invasion forced him to stay his hand and indulge his Lutheran subjects to ensure a common defense. Nevertheless, the collective effort to constrain the expansion of the Ottoman superpower did succeed with the ultimate victory in 1571 the tipping point in reordering the trajectory of history.

Crescent Dawnfeatures some of the legendary figures of the era – from Mehmet the Conqueror, and Suleiman the Magnificent on the Ottoman side, to Charles V and Vasco de Gama on the other – and some of the most exotic locales on Earth – from the sumptuous palaces of Constantinople to the bloody battlefields of the Balkans to the awe-inspiring mountains of Ethiopia. This is a colorful history that brings the great battles of the age to life and clearly shows how the western struggle against the Ottomans constituted the first truly world war.
Second Arakan 1943–44
Authors: Moreman Tim
Published: February 2025

A detailed examination of one of the crucial campaigns of World War II in Burma, in which British and Commonwealth forces achieved their first decisive victory over Japanese arms.

The hard-fought Second Arakan campaign was a second attempt by Allied arms to advance in the coastal Arakan region in western Burma, following a failed first effort in early 1943. The battles fought shattered the myth of Japanese invincibility that had for over two years crippled the Allied cause, and for the first time offered the prospect of successful offensive operations against the Japanese in Burma.

Military historian Tim Moreman examines the wide range of actions that made up the Second Arakan campaign, from XV Indian Corps’ initial push down the Burmese coast towards Akyab Island, to the key events of the major JapaneseHa-Gooperation launched by Twenty-Eighth Army. These include the Battle of the Admin Box near Sinweyza, where the surrounded 7th Indian Division inflicted a serious defeat on the Japanese 55th Division; the reinforcement of Imphal and Kohima; and the seizure of Razabil, the Tunnels and Point 551 between March and May 1944.

Packed with maps, diagrams, battlescene artworks and photographs that guide the reader through this complex campaign in easy to follow detail, this work provides a must-have illustrated companion to this decisive victory for British and Commonwealth arms over the Imperial Japanese Army.
B-26 Marauder vs Me 262
Authors: Forsyth Robert
Published: February 2025

An illustrated account of the clashes between the Luftwaffe’s Me 262, the first operational jet fighter, and the USAAF’s B-26 Marauder bomber during the final months of the war in Europe.

As the world’s first jet-engined fighter aircraft, the Luftwaffe’s Messerschmitt Me 262 heralded a new dawn in design, performance, and combat capability upon its operational debut in 1944, outclassing its Allied counterparts for both speed and firepower. The skies over Austria and southern Germany saw the Me 262 enter savage aerial clashes as fighter ace Adolf Galland’s JV 44 engaged three USAAF bomber groups, targeting their formidable – but ill-prepared – Martin B-26 Marauders with often devastating results.

In this dramatic new study, Luftwaffe historian Robert Forsyth examines how USAAF crews in twin-engined Marauders endeavoured to fulfil their bombing missions while jet pilots in Me 262s attacked with 30 mm MK 108 nose-mounted cannon and, eventually, 55 mm R4M air-to-air rockets. First-hand accounts, newly commissioned artwork and archive photography enhance the fascinating and action-packed story of these two aircraft and the fearsome combat that was waged between them.
Eyes Wide Shut
Authors: Chion Michel
Published: February 2025

Stanley Kubrick died on 7 March 1999 at his Hertfordshire home, having finished the editing of his last film. Eyes Wide Shut was released later that year. Adapted from Arthur Schnitzler's 1926 Viennese novel Dream Story, relocated and updated to contemporary Manhattan, Eyes Wide Shut stars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman as a prosperous couple whose marriage is tested in the aftermath a series of sinister events. The film baffled many of its first audiences. It had all the lavish attention to detail of a Kubrick film but it seemed slow, enigmatic, too much of a dream. Michel Chion's extraordinary study of Eyes Wide Shut makes the case that it is one of Kubrick's masterpieces and a fitting testament. To appreciate this, though, it is necessary to look at what happens on the screen without bringing preconceptions to bear. The film needs to be taken at face value. Looked at this way, Eyes Wide Shut reveals itself to be a deeply moving film about characters who are not so different from real people, a film about life in which questions of meaning and motive lose their value.
Cléo de 5 à 7
Authors: Ungar Steven
Published: February 2025

Cléo de 5 à 7 (Cléo from 5 to 7), Agnes Varda's classic 1962 work depicts, in near real-time, 90 minutes in the life of Cléo, a young woman in Paris awaiting the results of medical tests that she fears will confirm a fatal condition. The film, whose visual beauty matches its evocation of early-Fifth Republic Paris, was a major point of reference for the French New Wave despite the fact that Varda never considered herself a member of the core Cahiers du cinéma group of critics-turned- film-makers. Ungar provides a close reading of the film and situates it in its social, political and cinematic contexts, tracing Varda's early career as a student of art history and as a photographer, the history of post-war French film, and the lengthy Algerian war to which Cléo's health concerns and ambitions to become a pop singer make her more or less oblivious. His study is the first to set a reading of Cléo's formal and technical complexity alongside an analysis of its status as a visual document of its historical moment. Steven Ungar's foreword to this new edition looks back upon Varda's film-making career and considers her contributions as a female auteur and in the context of the French New Wave.
The Birds
Authors: Paglia Camille
Published: February 2025

Drawing on Daphne du Maurier's short story and contemporary newspaper reports of bird attacks in California, Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963) featured Tippi Hedren in her first starring role. Camille Paglia's compelling study considers the film's aesthetic, technical and mythical qualities, and analyses its depiction of gender and family relations. A film about anxiety, sexual power and the violence of nature, it is quintessential Hitchcock. Camille Paglia's foreword to this new edition reflects upon the relationship between Hitchcock and his leading lady Hedren in the light of recent debates about male power, female agency and the #MeToo movement.
Meshes of the Afternoon
Authors: Rhodes John David
Published: February 2025

Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) is the most important film in the history of American avant-garde cinema and one of the most significant and influential films in the whole of film history. It was made by Maya Deren and her then husband Alexander Hammid in their bungalow above Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles for a mere $274.90.

The artistic collaboration between Deren and Hammid – which was by all accounts harmonious – finds its distorted and unhappy reflection in the vision of the tormented female protagonist in Meshes of the Afternoon. The film’s focus – through a series of intricate and interlocking dream sequences – on female experience and the domestic sphere link it to the Hollywood melodramas of the period, while its unsettling atmosphere of dread, death and doubles makes it a counter-cinematic cousin to film noir. The film has made its influence felt not only on the entire subsequent history of experimental film and video production, but also on the work of Hollywood auteurs. It is a touchstone of women’s film-making, of modernist cinema and of modern art.

John David Rhodes traces the film’s history back into the lives of Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid, but in particular that of Deren. He places special significance on the film as a culmination of Deren’s abiding interest in modernism and her intense engagement in socialist politics. Rhodes argues that while the film remains a powerful point of reference for the feminist film-makers and experimentalists who have claimed it as their birthright, it also offers itself as an example of political art in the broadest terms. In Rhodes’s original study, Meshes of the Afternoon emerges as a film that is not only artistically ingenious, but also rich in historical significance and political potential.
Black Girl (La Noire de...)
Authors: Dima Vlad
Published: February 2025

Ousmane Sembène was one of the greatest, most groundbreaking filmmakers in the history of cinema, an acclaimed novelist, and the most renowned African director of the twentieth century.Black Girlwas his brilliant, blistering debut.Released in 1966, it won the Prix Jean Vigo at the Cannes Film Festival that year. The film is about a young Senegalese woman, played powerfully by M’Bissine Thérèse Diop, who moves to France to work for a wealthy white family as a nanny, but quickly discovers that life in their apartment is a prison, both figuratively and literally; but it is also a searing, nuanced critique of the lingering colonialism in the supposedly postcolonial world.

Vlad Dima's study ofBlack Girlargues that the film helped to map the future of African cinema. He situates it within its postcolonial context, considering its adaptation from the eponymous short story first published in 1962. He examines the performances of Mbissine Thérèse Diop (Diouana), Anne-Marie Jelinek (Madame) and Robert Fontaine (Monsieur), considering the ways in which they embody or subvert postcolonial, French archetypes, and then goes on to examine the technical aspects of Sembene's filmmaking, such as his innovative use of framing and aural composition. Finally, he traces the film's lasting influence on African cinema, from Sembène’s ownXala(1975), to Safi Faye’sMossane(1996), Joseph Gaï Ramaka’sKarmen Geï(2001), Jean-Pierre Bekolo’sSaignantes(2005), and Mati Diop'sAtlantics(2019).
Electronic Waste
Authors: Lepawsky Josh
Published: February 2025

The United Nations has reported that the world is on track to produce over 180 billion pounds of electronic waste (e-waste) by 2030.

This tidal wave of discarded electronic products, including cellular phones, laptop and desktop computers, televisions, solar panels, major household appliances, and telecommunications equipment, poses a host of serious environmental and public health problems and challenges.

Electronic Waste: A Reference Handbookprovides readers with an illuminating survey of the myriad issues and controversies surrounding the collection, treatment, disposal, and recycling of electric and electronic products, including trends and challenges related to public health, social justice, and environmental protection and stewardship. It also discusses ways in which increasingly electronics-dependent societies and economies are factoring environmental, social, and public health considerations into their e-waste mitigation, recycling, and disposal strategies. The book is further supplemented with perspectives from experts in the field of electronic waste, profiles of important organizations and agencies, and a chronology of major events and developments.
1970s Jazz Fusion
Authors: Reed Baker Matthew
Published: February 2025

The once derided musical hybrid that is 1970s Jazz Fusion has since become one of the most influential genres of music in jazz, rock, soul, and hip-hop.

The once derided musical hybrid that is 1970s Jazz Fusion has since become one of the most influential genres of music in jazz, rock, soul, and hip-hop. This book is a celebration of one of the most adventurous but unappreciated eras in popular music, wherein the traditional sounds of jazz were melded and mashed up with funk, soul, hard rock, and electronics. Even as they were accused of selling out and contaminating traditional jazz, artists like Miles Davis, Weather Report, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, and the Mahavishnu Orchestra made some of the most creative and invigorating music of the era.

Full of the musicians’ personal stories and anecdotes, this book provides a discussion of their albums and the cultural context for their music. That context also includes how these albums have been passed down through generations and have reverberated through the music of today, inspiring both hip-hop and electronic artists through sampling and contemporary jazz and soul artists who are less constrained by traditional genres. Though recorded decades ago, jazz fusion remains culturally vital and sonically thrilling to this very day.
Schizophrenia
Authors: Vitelli Romeo
Published: February 2025

Schizophrenia is one of the most misunderstood and stigmatized mental illnesses. Discover the truth about this condition, which affects roughly 25 million people worldwide.

Part of theQ&A Health Guidesseries, this book offers a broad introduction to schizophrenia. The book’s questions cover what schizophrenia is and its common characteristics, the factors that may lead to its emergence, how schizophrenia is diagnosed and managed, and how to best support friends or loved ones living with schizophrenia.Schizophrenia: Your Questions Answeredhelps readers better understand a psychiatric disorder that has been falsely portrayed in the media for decades.

Augmenting the main text, a collection of 5 case studies illustrate key concepts and issues through relatable stories and insightful recommendations. The common misconceptions section at the beginning of the volume dispels 5 long-standing and harmful myths about schizophrenia, directing readers to additional information in the text. The glossary defines terms that may be unfamiliar to readers, while the directory of resources curates a list of the most useful books, websites, and other materials. Finally, whether they’re looking for more information about this subject or any other health-related topic, readers can turn to the guide to health literacy section for practical tools and strategies for finding, evaluating, and using credible sources of health information both on and off the internet.
Sicherungsringe: Lagesicherung bei hohen Drehzahlen
Authors:   Julius Moselweiß
Published: February 2025

Smalley Flachdraht-Sicherungsringevon TFC bewähren sich heute invielen Bereichen der Antriebstechnik – vom Rührwerk überVentilatoren bis zu rotativenHochgeschwindigkeitsAnwendungen imFahrzeugbau. Insbesondereals Problemlösung beischwierigen Einbauszenarienund innovativen Konstruktionenbieten sie deutliche Vorteile gegenüberherkömmlichen Spreng- und Seegerringen.
Predstavljanje studenata na univerzitetima i pravnim fakultetima u državama Zapadnog Balkana
Authors: Mikić Vladimir
Published: February 2025

Models of student representation at universities and law faculties in the countries of the Western Balkan are revolving around several central topics. Using the comparative legal method, the paper analyzes the strategic position of student representatives within the framework of the higher education system and laws on student organizations. Normative bases for ensuring the autonomy of student representation are examined, as well as guarantees for student representation in the senate, council and other bodies of the university, the lecturing and scientific councils and other bodies of law faculties. Students’ representatives at the most prestigious universities and law faculties in the countries of the Western Balkans have active and passive voting rights. The paper also explores the sensitive issue of the exclusivity of student representative bodies in the field of electing students to bodies of universities and faculties. Higher education institutions are obliged to finance the work of student representative bodies, and these bodies also have special roles prescribed in detail by law and statute.
A identidade narrativa, de Paul Ricoeur, como explicitação da noção de formação no Bildungsroman conforme entendida por Mikhail Bakhtin
Authors: Silva Edson Ribeiro da
Published: February 2025

O presente artigo parte do conhecido ensaio de Mikhail Bakhtin sobre o Bildungsroman para confrontar suas ideias acerca da representação, por esse gênero romanesco, da formação do homem, com o conceito de identidade narrativa, de Paul Ricoeur. O filósofo francês entende a narrativa como única possibilidade de constituição da identidade do sujeito, o que pode ser estendido ao modo como o Bildungsroman, o romance de formação, procura mostrar a constituição do caráter das personagens. A dialética entre mesmidade e ipseidade explicita os modos de esse gênero configurar-se como narrativa.
Maniobras en el Caribe ¿Revivirá el CONDECA?
Authors: E. G. D.
Published: February 2025

No abstract available.
ECA Estudios Centroamericanos, Vol. 36, No. 396-397, 1981: 1019-1020.
Leyendo al Diario oficial no. 396-397
Authors: Cruz Alfaro Ernesto
Published: February 2025

No abstract available.
ECA Estudios Centroamericanos, Vol. 36, No. 396-397, 1981: 1038-1043.