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Open Science in Seismology: The Role of Citizen Science in the Transition from Seismic Observatory to Science Museum
Authors: Yamori Katsuya , Iio Yoshihisa , Shiroshita Hideyuki
Published: May 2022

Catastrophic events, including worldwide pandemics and natural disasters, may lead to ambivalent attitudes toward science among the public. On the one hand, there may be pessimistic feelings toward the limitations of scientific knowledge and technology. On the other hand, there may be optimistic prospects for science-based solutions to the problems caused by these catastrophes. Science communication plays an integral part in shaping societal attitudes toward science. The aim of this research was to build more fruitful relationships between science and society by improving science communication in the field of seismology. Based on the concept of open science, we conducted action research at a seismic observatory as it transitioned from a science facility to a science museum. The museum adopted a citizen-science approach to communicating the science of seismology. In this approach, citizens not only learned about seismology from scientists, but they worked collaboratively with scientists to do science. The results of our research showed that citizen science can play a critical role in making science more accessible and communicating the science of seismology to society.
Accuracy of casts obtained from putty wash impression material using different types of spacers - An Invitro Study
Authors: M Sumati , Rai Rathika , A Ponsekar Abraham
Published: May 2022

Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of casts obtained from two stage putty wash impression material employing three different types of spacers. Setting and design: An in vitro comparison of accuracy of two stage putty wash impression using three different spacers Material and method: A master metal die was fabricated to simulate a three unit fixed partial denture and a custom metal tray was made. Two stage putty wash was made using three different spacers-conventional polyethylene sheet, vacuum formed sheet and micropore tape. Fifteen impressions were made using each of the three spacers and casts poured. The resultant casts were assessed for dimensional accuracy using the coordinate measuring machine, with the master metal die as control. The data obtained were statistically analysed using one way ANOVA and Student t test. Statistical analysis used: The data was subjected to statistical analysis using SPSS version 21.0 software. The intergroup comparison was done using sample t-test, and the study models were analyzed using ANOVA statistical analysis. Results: The results obtained showed that casts obtained from two stage putty wash impression technique using the micropore tape spacer produced least dimensional variation of 0.20% at inter-abutment distance and -1.08%,-0.67% at intra-abutment distance 1 and 2 respectively when compared to other two spacers used. Conclusion: Two stage putty wash impression technique using micropore tape spacer yielded casts that have better dimensional accuracy when compared to the conventional polyethylene spacer technique
Analisis Implementasi Kebijakan Retribusi Kebersihan (Persampahan) Kota Jayapura
Authors: Urip Transna Putra , Jasmiati Jasmiati , Purwadi Marsi Adi , Aminah Siti
Published: May 2022

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui Bagaimana Implementasi Kebijakan Retribusi Kebersihan dalam Hal tingkat optimalisasi Penerimaan Retribusi Kebersihan di kota Jayapura tahun 2012 – 2018 dan Bagaiman Strategi Pengoptimalan penerimaan retribusi kebersihan/persampahan di kota Jayapura. Jenisdata yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini yaitu menggunakan data kuantitatif dan sumber data yaitu data Primer dan Data Sekunder. Metode Pengumpulan Data menggunakan metode wawancara, kepustakaan dan metode dokumentasi. sedangkan dalam metode analisis penulis menggunakan. Deskriptif Kuantitatif yaitu data yang diperoleh dari sampel populasi penelitian dianalisis sesuai dengan metode statistik, metode efektifitas, dan metode AHP yang digunakan kemudian diinterprestasikan. Dari hasil Penelitian, dapat ditemukan Tingkat Optimalisasi Penerimaan Retribusi Kebersihan Kota Jayapura masih sangat jauh berbeda dari Potensi Penerimaan Retribusi Kebersihan Kota Jayapura. hal ini dapat dilihat dari tahun 2012 – 2018 Rata– Rata Potensi Penerimaan Retribusi Kebersihan sebesar Rp 10.728.762.857 sedangkan Rata–Rata Realisasi Penerimaan Retribusi Kebersihan Hanya Sebesar Rp 3.212.546.628. ini menunjukkan masih kurang Optimalnya Penerimaan Retribusi Kebersihan di Kota Jayapura dan Strategi Optimalisasi Penerimaan Retribusi Kebersihan/persampahan Kota Jayapura dengan Analisis AHP sesuai dengan urutan bobot dan prioritasnya adalah : 1) meningkatkan kinerja SDM dengan bobot sebesar 0,347; 2) Evaluasi Kebijakan tariff retribusi Kebersihan dengan bobot sebesar 0,221; 3) meningkatkan penyuluhan dan penegakkan hokum dengan bobot sebesar 0,167; 4) Meningkatkan Sarana dan Prasarana dengan bobot sebesar 0,166; 5) insentif dan disinsentif pengurangan sampah dengan bobot 0,101.Kata Kunci: Retribusi Kebersihan (Persampahan), Kebijakan Pengelolaan
Analisis Efektivitas Pengelolaan Dana Kampung Di Kampung Yoka Distrik Heram Kota Jayapura
Authors: Ohee Jefri Kito , Urip Transna Putra , Kreuta Balthazar , De Quelyoe Flora Yvonne
Published: May 2022

Penelitian ini menggunakan data kuantitatif yaitu data yang dapat diukur atau dihitung secara langsung dengan menggunakan metode deskriptif kuantitatif. Kemudian data sekunder, yaitu data yang diperoleh dari pihak atau sumber lain yang telah ada, sumber data dalam penelitian ini adalah pemerintah kampung Yoka. Dengan hasil penelitian yang menyatakan bahwa bahwa, penggunaan alokasi dana desa yag ada dikampung Yoka sudah efektif dengan tingkat efektivitas mencapai 100%. Dimana alokasi dana desa yang ada mampu membiayai empat bidang rencana kerja yang disusun dalam RKPK kampung Yoka tahun 2016 dan 2017 diantaranya, Dimana pada tahun 2016 dalam bidang pemerintah kampung mencapai efektivitas sebesar 100%. Kemudian dari bidang Pembangunan kampung juga mampu mencapai efektivitas sebesar 100% dengan kriteria efektif. Kemudian pada bidang pembinan masyarakat juga mampu mencapai tingkat efektivitas sebesar 100% dengan kriteria efektif. Dan pada bidang pemberdayaan masyarakat juga mampu mencapai tingkat efektivitas 100%. Begitu juga dengan ADD yang digunakan pada tahun tahun 2017 mampu menunjang keempat bidang yang ada di kampung Yoka. Dimana semua bidang mampu mencapai kriteria efektif. Dengan rincian bidang pemerintah kampung tingkat efektivitasnya mencapai 100%, lalu bidang pembangunan kampung efektivitasnya mencapai 100%, kemudian bidang pembinaan masyarakat dan bidang pemberdayaan masyarakat juga berhasil mencapai 100%.Kata Kunci: Dana Kampung, Efektifitas, Pengelolaan
Implikasi Produksi Kopi Terhadap Pendapatan Anggota Koperasi (Studi Kasus Pada KSU Amungme Gold Coffee Di Kabupaten Mimika)
Authors: Tuwaidan Anna E. M. , Iek Mesak , Ngutra Risky Novan
Published: May 2022

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui dan menganalisis lebih dalam pelaksanaan program di koperasi KSU Amungme Gold Coffee, mengetahui dan menganalisis pengaruh keberadaan Koperasi Serba Usaha (KSU) Amungme Gold Coffee terhadap peningkatan pendapatan masyarakat (anggota koperasi), untuk mengetahui dan menganalisis Kendala yang dihadapi dalam pelaksanaan program pada Koperasi Serba Usaha (KSU) Amungme Gold Coffee. Metode analisis, untuk menjawab permasalahan pertama penulis menggunakan metode kualitatif yang bersifat deskriptif, menjawab permasalahan menggunakan alat analisis pendapatan, dan menjawab permasalahan ketiga penulis menggunakan alat analisis SWOT. Hasil analisis menunjukkan bahwa dari 7 program yang sudah ditetapkan oleh anggota KSU Amungme Gold Coffee yang hanya di jalankan untuk 2 program di tahun 2017. Berdasarkan rata-rata pendapatan anggota KSU Amungme Gold Coffee di atas rata-rata pendapatan per kapita masyarakat di Kabupaten Mimika. Hasil faktor internl IFAS dan faktor eksternal EFAS didapatkan nilai SO 3,96 disusul nilai ST 3,78 WO 3,59 dan WT 3,41 dan KSU Amungme Gold Coffee ada pada kuadran 1 menunjukan situasi yang sangat menguntungkan bagi KSU Amungme Gold Coffee tersebut.Kata Kunci: Produksi Kopi, Koperasi, Pendapatan Anggota Koperasi
Analisis Kinerja Pendapatan Asli Daerah (PAD) Provinsi Papua 2009-2017
Authors: Sengka Nafrati N. A. , Urip Transna Putra , Ratang Sarlota Arrang
Published: May 2022

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui kinerja pendapatan Provinsi Papua tahun 2009-2017 dan Strategi Peningkatan pendapatan asli daerah di Provinsi Papua. Jenis data yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah menggunakan data runtun waktu selama sembilan tahun yaitu tahun 2009-2017. Objek yang diteliti adalah hasil laporan realisasi pendapatan daerah Provinsi Papua selama sembilan tahun. Metode analisis data yang digunakan adalah rasio kemandirian, rasio ketergantungan dan rasio efektivitas pendapatan. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan secara deskriptif Kinerja Pendapatan Asli Daerah Provinsi Papua dilihat dari tingkat kemandirian keuangan berkisar antara 6,14 persen – 8.67 persen, nilai ini menunjukkan bahwa kriteria penilaian pada tahun 2009-2017 berada diposisi instruktif yaitu pola hubungan dimana peranan pemerintah pusat dari sisi fiskal lebih dominan dari pada kemandirian pemerintah daerah dalam menghasilkan atau menciptakan pendapatannya sendiri atau dalam kata lain bahwa pemerintah daerah belum mampu melakukan otonomi daerah atau masih bergantung pada pemerintah pusat. Ketergantungan pemerintah daerah selama tahun 2009-2017 terhadap pemerintah pusat masih sangat tinggi, hal ini dapat dilihat dari rata-rata rasio ketergantungan sebesar 83.33%. Efektivitas Pendapatan Asli Daerah Provinsi Papua yang diperoleh selama tahun 2009-2017 secara umum dikatakan sangat efektif. Hal ini ditunjukkan dengan rata-rata efektivitas pendapatan sebesar 106.61%.Kata Kunci: Kinerja Keuangan, Pendapatan Asli Daerah
Karakteristik fluida reservoir mata air panas Daerah Buranga Kecamatan Bonegunu Kabupaten Buton Utara Provinsi Sulawesi Tenggara
Authors: Kamil Istihsan , Okto Ali , Muliddin Muliddin
Published: May 2022

Penenlitian ini terletak di daerah Buranga, Kecamatan Bonegunu, Kabupaten Buton Utara, Provinsi Sulawesi Tenggara dengan letak geografis menempati wilayah dalam koordinat 4047’30” – 4049’48” LS dan 122056’40” – 123010’0” BT. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menentukan tipe fluida dan temperatur reservoir dari mata air panas. Metode dalam penelitian ini adalah geothermometer larutan yang digunakan untuk mengetahui karakteristik fluida panas bumi, diantaranya adalah tipe fluida, suhu reservoir dan kesetimbangan fluida panas bumi daerah Buranga Kecamatan Bonegunu Kabupaten Buton Utara Provinsi Sulawesi Tenggara. Terdapat tiga titik mata air panas di daerah penelitian dengan karakteristik yang hampir sama, yaitu memiliki suhu permukaan rata-rata 40OC dan pH netral (7,3 – 7,5). Dari hasil analisis geokimia air dengan menggunakan perhitungan geothermometer dan pengeplotan diagram terner dapat diketahui tipe fluida mata air panas daerah penelitian merupakan tipe bikarbonat. Karakteristik fluida berada pada zona immature water yang mencirikan bahwa fluida mengalami pencampuran dengan air permukaan sehingga kurang baik digunakan untuk penentuan suhu reservoir daerah penelitian
Pengaruh intrusi air laut terhadap kualitas air tanah Kelurahan Napabalano Kecamatan Napabalano Kabupaten Muna Provinsi Sulawesi Tenggara
Authors: Marwahi Waode , Muliddin Muliddin , Okto Ali
Published: May 2022

Air tanah yang layak untuk dikonsumsi harus memenuhi 3 parameter umum yaitu parameter fisik, kimia dan, biologi. Intrusi air laut mempengaruhi kelayakan air tanah untuk dikonsumsi, maka perlu diketahui pengaruh intrusi air laut terhadap kualitas air tanah pada daerah penelitian. Penelitian dilakukan dengan metode survey hidrogeologi dan analisis laboratorium. Daerah penelitian secara administratif berada di Kelurahan Napabalano, Kecamatan Napabalano, Kabupaten Muna, Provinsi Sulawesi Tenggara. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui sebaran intrusi air laut dan pengaruh intrusi air laut terhadap kualitas air tanah. Daerah penelitian batugamping terumbu Formasi Wapulaka dan endapan aluvium berupa kerakal, pasir halus, dan lempungan berumur Kuarter. Berdasarkan hasil pengukuran muka air tanah memiliki elevasi kedalaman yang beragam. Daerah penelitian memiliki tingkat intrusi yang beragam yaitu intrusi rendah, intrusi sedang, intrusi tinggi, intrusi agak tinggi, dan intrusi sangat tinggi. Tingkat intrusi air lautvdipengaruhi oleh porositas batuan dan elevasi muka air tanah yang mengakibatkan fluida diloloskan melalui porositas batugamping pada daerah penelitian.
Analisis geomorfologi karst Daerah Mawasangka Tengah, Kabupaten Buton Tengah, Provinsi Sulawesi Tenggara
Authors: Rantu Irfan Ade Hidayat , Ngkoimani Laode , Asfar Suryawan
Published: May 2022

Daerah penelitian terletak di Kabupaten Buton Tengah, Sulawesi Tenggara. Berdasarkan aspek geologi wilayah penelitian termasuk dalam Formasi Wapulaka, yang tersusun atas batugamping berumur Kuarter. Tujuan penelitian ini untuk mengidentifikasi geomorfologi karst daerah penelitian, menentukan jenis litologi penyusun daerah penelitian, dan menentukan tipe karst. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah pendekatan deskriptif kualitatif didukung oleh analisis kuantitatif berupa observasi untuk menganalisis geomorfologi karst, mengetahui data sebaran kawasan karst daerah penelitian, dan mengetahui bentuk morfologi karst daerah penelitian dan litologi penyusun daerah penelitian. Hasil analisis menunjukkan terdapat enam jenis morfologi karst: satuan perbukitan karst, perbukitan kerucut karst, perbukitan plateau karst, lembah kering, lembah dolina, dan gua pada daerah penelitian. Satuan litologi penyusun daerah penelitian adalah packstone, wackstone, dan endapan alluvial. Tipe morfologi karst pada daerah penelitian dibagi menjadi tipe organous dan tipe tual
Identifikasi Zona Kerentanan Gerakan Tanah Berdasarkan Data Geologi Pada Daerah Wangudu Raya, Kecamatan Asera, Kabupaten Konawe Utara, Sulawesi Tenggara
Authors: Riyanto Erick , Masri Masri , Hasria Hasria , Bahdad Bahdad
Published: May 2022

Identifikasi zona kerentanan gerakan tanah telah dilakukan di daerah Wanggudu Raya, Kecamatan Asera, Kabupaten Konawe Utara, Sulawesi Tenggara. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menyajikan informasi kerentanan gerakan tanah melalui peta tematik. Penentuan zona kerentanan dengan menggunakan metode pembobotan berdasarkan parameter litologi dan struktur geologi (faktor internal) dan kemiringan lereng dan tata guna lahan (faktor eksternal). Hasil pembobotan kemudian dibagi menjadi beberapa rating tingkat kerentanan gerakan tanah (rendah, sedang, tinggi). Daerah penelitian tersusun atas peridotit dengan tanah penutup. kemiringan lereng bervariasi dengan tutupan lahan berupa semak belukar dan area perkebunan. Peta zona kerentanan gerakan tanah pada daerah penelitian menunjukan 2 kelas zona kerentanan gerakan tanah, yaitu zona gerakan tanah rendah dan zona gerakan tanah sedang. Zona rendah dicirikan oleh morfologi landai, sedangkan zona sedang dicirikan oleh morfologi terjal dan jejak longsoran yang teridentifikasi dengan baik.
Impairment of the Cardiovascular System during SARS-CoV-2 Infection
Authors: Tudoran Cristina , Tudoran Mariana , Elena Lazureanu Voichita , Raluca Marinescu Adelina , Novacescu Dorin , Georgiana Cut Talida
Published: May 2022

Although the infection with the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS-CoV-2) virus affects primarily the respiratory system, it became evident from the very beginning that the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is frequently associated with a large spectrum of cardiovascular involvements such as myocarditis/pericarditis, acute coronary syndrome, arrhythmias, or thromboembolic events, explained by a multitude of pathophysiological mechanisms. Individuals already suffering of significant cardiovascular diseases were more likely to be infected with the virus, had a worse evolution during COVID-19, with further deterioration of their basal condition and increased morbidity and mortality, but significant cardiac dysfunctions were diagnosed even in individuals without a history of heart diseases or being at low risk to develop such a pathology. Cardiovascular complications may occur anytime during the course of COVID-19, persisting even during recovery and, potentially, explaining many of the persisting symptoms included now in terms as subacute or long-COVID-19. It is now well accepted that in COVID-19, the occurrence of cardiovascular impairment represents a significant negative prognostic factor, immensely rising the burden of cardiovascular pathologies.
Evolution of Organoids in Oncology
Authors: Thayakumar Basanthakumar Allen , Chandrasekhar Darlybai Janitha , Ganesh Jyothsna
Published: May 2022

An organoid is an in-vitro platform that recreates 3D multicellular aggerates to form tissues that fabricate the human cellular environment in the lab and imitate the functionalities of the specific organ or disease. Organoids effectively overcomes the gaps in research between 2D cell line and in-vivo models. For organoid development, both pluripotent stem cells and embryonic stem cells can be utilized, and recently Patient-Derived Organoids (PDO) was developed that overcome the limitations caused by using other cell lines. With the development of many advanced technologies in the field of research, the organoid evolution also progressed slowly into the development of patient-specific organ structures. Since tumor organoids were heterogeneous as well as patient-specific, it has many advantages that aid cancer therapy effectively. Apart from cancer treatment, organoids have a variety of applications in cancer research, the study of tissue-specific models, and also in the analysis of the relationship between tissue-specific cancer with various pathogens. Thus, the development of organoids in an effective way can pave the way for various biomedical applications. This chapter focuses on the trends in the journey of organoid research and the latest technologies developed specifically for organoids.
Libertines
Authors: Horsley Adam
Published: May 2022

Chapter 1 provides a word history of ‘libertin’ from Antiquity through to the early seventeenth century. It demonstrates how two central connotations of libertinage – freedom and an opposition to Church teachings – have their origins in Roman law and the Bible respectively. A further theme – the indulgence of physical appetites and the cult of pleasure – is traced back to medieval goliard poetry and Calvinist polemics. The chapter then traces a wealth of examples of the term’s use from a wide variety of seventeenth-century texts, before turning to descriptions of libertines by François Garasse and Marin Mersenne, who were both reacting specifically to libertine literature. Although Garasse has understandably been condemned for his profuse vitriol against free-thinkers, this chapter shows how his influential yet apparently imprecise accusations of libertinage were not in fact as problematic for the term’s use, or indeed as uncommon, as we might first assume.
Autonomy, Public Space and Emplacement: An Examination of Graffiti on Los Angeles’s Skid Row
Authors: Phillips Susan A.
Published: May 2022

The relationship of homeless graffiti and the construction of public space on Los Angeles’s Skid Row reveals a visual politics of place that thrives in situations of severe constraint. Homeless policy in the contemporary United States pathologises individuals and furthers cycles of profound marginalisation. The hypervisibility and invisibility that characterise contemporary homeless populations are largely defined by outsiders. Homeless residents navigate this de-personification through social, spatial and visual interventions that they create for themselves. In graffiti, Skid Row residents fuse person and community to an already altered landscape that renders visible the writers’ and society’s flaws simultaneously. Studying graffiti is one vector for accessing the voices and concerns of homeless individuals. Homeless residents write graffiti in order to emplace themselves on the street, countering marginality with autonomy and emplacement.
Framing the Crime: Anthony Luvera in conversation with Julian Stallabrass
Authors: Luvera Anthony , Stallabrass Julian
Published: May 2022

The socially engaged artist Anthony Luvera has collaborated with people who have experienced homelessness in cities and towns across the United Kingdom for 18 years. This conversation takes two recent projects – Assembly, created in Brighton between 2013 and 2014, and Frequently Asked Questions, an ongoing project created with Gerald Mclaverty since 2014 – as a starting point to unpack issues related to the production and consumption of imagery and other representational texts that depict homelessness in the context of contemporary art. Topics include the politics of aesthetics, the ethics of collaboration, the problems of representation, the intersection of art and activism, the agency of and power relations between the artist and participant, the potential and limits of socially engaged art practice in relation to cultural democracy, and the history of tropes of representation that have dominated visual discourse in relation to housing precarity and homelessness.
Introduction: ‘A Thing All Living Faces’
Authors: Sperl Stefan , Dedes Yorgos
Published: May 2022

The introduction begins by situating the book against the background of the identity conflicts which have radicalized the political debate in Europe and beyond. It explains the objective of the work as aiming to highlight the common heritage shared by the principal cultures of the greater Mediterranean through focus on Neoplatonism and its interface with poetry. The introduction proceeds to justify why Neoplatonism was singled out for such a comparative endeavour and expounds key ideas of its founder Plotinus with a view to their poetic elaboration in the literatures represented in the book. Next, the fifteen chapters on pre-modern poetry are located in the intercultural transmission history of Neoplatonism. A comparison of the poems they discuss raises the question whether they share a recognisably ‘Neoplatonic poetics’ and how it may be defined. The introduction ends by comparing the seven chapters on modern poetry and finding in the texts cited by their authors kindred forms of identity creation which draw on, or indeed revive, Neoplatonic roots variously mediated across the ages. Viewed together, the sense of selfhood these poems convey is shown to hold a message of relevance to the current debate over identity formation in a pluralist world.
Ottoman Poetry: Where the Neoplatonic Dissolves into an Emotional Script for Life
Authors: Andrews Walter G.
Published: May 2022

The roles of poetry in Ottoman life from the fifteenth through the nineteenth centuries indicate that Ottoman poetry cannot be understood by considering it merely as an entertainment vehicle or leisure activity or reflection of life and the times or as the residue of past cultural practices or philosophical concepts. As illustrated with examples by Ḫayâlî (d. 1557) and Caʿfer Çelebi (d. 1515), its ubiquitousness and popularity suggests that it is a significant primary actor or agent in constructing/creating/making an emotion-grounded world view that gives both form and meaning to the observable universe of nature, material objects, and human beings as well as to the universal, immaterial, and essential reality that is thought to lie behind what we experience directly. This seems to correspond to a philosophical ‘Neoplatonist’ formulation and raises the question of whether there is such a thing as a (small ‘n’) ‘neoplatonic’ life, a life or approach to life fundamentally informed by a ‘Neoplatonic-like’ point of view.
Poetry and Ishraqi Illuminationism among the Esoteric Zoroastrians of Mughal India
Authors: Ernst Carl W.
Published: May 2022

The Zoroastrian mystic Āẕar Kayvān (d. between 1609 and 1618), born in Shiraz, inspired a remarkable intellectual and religious movement of the Mughal era, notable for its nostalgic imagination of the ancient Persian kings as ascetic philosophers; this vision was portrayed through the lens of the Ishraqi Illuminationism of the martyred Persian thinker Suhrawardī (d. 1191), with attention to Ibn Sīnā’s religious writings as well. Positivist historians have rejected Āẕar Kayvānī writings as fraudulent, for their imaginative reconstruction of supposedly ancient esoteric texts in an invented pure Persian language, but recent scholarship has begun to investigate the significance of this school of thought in its own right. This essay explores the poetic expression of Āẕar Kayvān’s Unveilings, a Persian masnavi composed in an archaic style, in which he recorded his ascensions through the heavens. It concludes by questioning the benefit of lumping such a text into the broad category of Neoplatonism; despite the ubiquity of the basic Neoplatonic framework, the distinctive characteristics of such an example demand a more nuanced and historicized analysis.
The Ascent of the Soul: Neoplatonic Themes in the Literature of Golden Age Spain
Authors: Thompson Colin P.
Published: May 2022

The works of Plato and Plotinus were well known in Golden-Age Spain, not least through Ficino’s Latin translations, and the influence of Neoplatonic ideas was pervasive in the literature of the period. I draw on the Enneads of Plotinus and the Renaissance Dialoghi d’amore by the Portuguese Jew León Hebreo to demonstrate this, though it is often difficult to trace the precise manner of transmission. I show how neo-Platonic language about beauty and the soul informed the secular love poetry of the period and the more philosophical poetry of Fray Luis de León, which adheres more closely to Neoplatonism as it passed into Christianity through St Augustine. The writings of the Spanish mystics, especially St John of the Cross, show the closest parallels with Neoplatonic thought, but also reveal the ways in which it was adapted by Christian theology.
An Equivocal Echo: Eugenio Montale
Authors: Robinson Peter
Published: May 2022

Building on early encounters with a possible Neoplatonic echo in his poetics, this chapter explores how Montale adapted the ‘donna amata’ in Dante to an aesthetic wrestling with his times — the years from his first meeting with the Dante scholar Irma Brandeis in 1933 to the publications of Le occasioni (1939) and La bufera (1957). With the end of their involvement in 1939, Montale cast the relationship with Brandeis as an echo of the spiritual philosophy of his great forebear. From their meeting until plans to be united were abandoned with the introduction of the 1938 Racial Laws — Brandeis being American Jewish — and the coming of war in 1940, Montale’s poetry constitutes a spiritualised resistance to the Fascist Italy in which the poet lived as an inner émigré, a resistance in which being driven inwards by events also drove on the spiritual ascent.
Introduction
Authors: Bernal-Bermúdez Laura , Payne Leigh A. , Pereira Gabriel
Published: May 2022

The chapter provides an overview of the volume. It presents the volume as a study of economic actors' involvement in grave human rights violations in the past, the present, and most likely in the future unless action is taken to close the impunity gap. It summarises the findings from analysis of the original – Corporate Accountability and Transitional Justice – database, specifically when, where, how, and why victims and their advocates have advanced corporate accountability and where they have not. It shows that these patterns of violations have prevailed since the Holocaust and to the present. The chapter defines key terms and concepts, including ‘corporate’, ‘human rights violations' and ‘complicity’. It, finally, offers a brief description of each chapter in the book.
Archimedes’ Lever: An Alternative Conceptual Framework for Understanding Corporate Accountability for Human Rights Violations
Authors: Payne Leigh A. , Bernal-Bermúdez Laura , Pereira Gabriel
Published: May 2022

The chapter develops the theoretical framework guiding the volume. That framework adapts the notion of an Archimedes’ Lever: that even weak actors (victims of business and human rights abuses in the Global South) with effective tools (institutional innovation) and the fulcrum in the right position (contexts favouring corporate human rights accountability), can lift up heavy weights (human rights accountability for economic actors' abuses) from under opposing forces (veto players in the business community and their allies). This ‘from below’ process challenges two existing frameworks. It first questions whether the transitional justice focus on the importance of international pressure is useful when such pressure has been very weak with regard to corporate accountability for past human rights abuses. It secondly disputes the business and human rights 'bottom up' approach that advances foreign courts in the Global North as the protagonists of corporate human rights accountability when the dynamism resides in Global South courts. The chapter introduces the set of factors that have led to corporate accountability in the world and the obstacles that have prevented it.
Corporate Accountability in Argentina: Fighting Corporate Impunity in Provincial Transitional Justice Contexts
Authors: Pereira Gabriel
Published: May 2022

The chapter discusses corporate judicial accountability in Argentine provincial settings. Although Argentina is regarded as a leader in corporate accountability efforts in transitional justice contexts, few final convictions have been achieved. Using the Archimedes’ Lever approach, it analyses how human rights mobilisation, institutional innovation of legal actors and veto players interacted in a changing political context to produce advances, setbacks and stagnation of judicial accountability processes.
It focuses on the still pending La Fronterita case, which involves an allegation of the sugar mill’s involvement in crimes against humanity of at least 64 victims between 1975 and 1978 in the province of Tucumán, where transitional justice processes have followed a distinct pattern. The province’s distance from the country’s principal political centres placed heavy demands on local human rights groups. They carried the burden of drawing attention to, and solidarity behind, the human rights claims to attract national and international attention. Their work, moreover, unfolded in a provincial context in which economic actors accused of complicity enjoy enhanced social, economic and political privileges that enabled them to pose obstacles to accountability efforts. The strength of these so-called ‘veto players’ increased over time, particularly with a political context unfavourable to corporate accountability.
Complete Gentlemen
Authors: Ansell Richard
Published: May 2022

Complete Gentlemen is the first study to look beyond the Italian Grand Tour to the wider culture of educational travel that thrived among British and Irish landowners between 1650 and 1750. The ‘lure of Italy’ still distorts most scholarship, but this study uses a broader conception of educational travel and analyses it as part of family strategy. Different experiences emerged from the varying means, ambitions and obligations of families, who invested time, money and effort in the hope of social return. Historians usually pick up travellers as they arrive on the Continent and drop them as they recross the Channel, but this book also pays unprecedented attention to what families thought and did before, after and instead of time abroad, stages that are equally important to understanding its meanings. This new approach requires a deep source base over several generations, provided by the letters, journals and financial accounts of four clusters of families from England and Ireland. They allow the book to relate travel, too often a stand-alone topic, to broader questions in social and cultural history. It can therefore examine the role of time abroad in social mobility and elite formation, as well as its meanings for landed identity, masculinity and Englishness.
Conclusion
Authors: Ansell Richard
Published: May 2022

Existing scholarship overestimates the Italian Grand Tour but underplays a wider culture of educational travel. Continental experience was far more common among the gentry and nobility of Britain and Ireland than is usually thought, as young men pursued diverse forms of travel that must be understood as part of family strategy. Different journeys emerged from trade-offs between means, ambitions and obligations, but culminated in the popularisation of continental educational travel between 1650 and 1750. This period was distinctive for the pursuit of French culture in France and neighbouring territories, rather than for the ‘lure of Italy’. Time abroad became crucial to both social mobility and elite formation: it was an investment for the ambitious and a requirement for the established, helping the sons of British and Irish landed families to become men, gentlemen and Englishmen. This conclusion considers avenues for further research within an expanded field of educational mobility, including the experiences of girls and Scottish families. It ends with the place of educational travel in wider European engagement, charting the decline of this form after 1750, tracing its successors through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and considering its implications for what might come next.
Introduction
Authors: Corrias Anna , Soldato Eva Del
Published: May 2022

The curators situate the volume, which is informed by a novel research attitude towards the Plato-Aristotle relationship, that will make a significant contribution to both the history of Western philosophy and classical scholarship. In particular, it will challenge the dichotomous approach which established Aristotle as the most famous opponent of Plato and will demonstrate that the paradigm ‘Plato versus Aristotle’ is not at all obvious.
Reading the De anima with Aristotle’s Student: Marsilio Ficino on Theophrastus on the Intellect
Authors: Corrias Anna
Published: May 2022

This essay analyses Marsilio Ficino’s interpretation of Theophrastus’s view of the Aristotelian concept of ‘potential intellect’, as found in the fragments preserved in Priscian of Lydia’s Metaphrasis of Theophrastus’s Physics, which Ficino translated and commented on at the end of his life (publication year 1497). Theophrastus’s view, as interpreted by Priscian, was that ‘potential’ does not mean ‘potential to knowledge’, but ‘potential to knowledge in act’. Ficino was thrilled by this finding, for it proved, contra Averroes, that the human mind could not be described as ‘pure potentiality’ and, as such, compared to matter. On the contrary, the mind was an independent substance which did not need external agency in order to initiate and perform thinking.
Interpreting Plato’s Geometrical Elements in Renaissance Aristotle Commentaries
Authors: Martin Craig
Published: May 2022

Sixteenth-century commentaries on Aristotle’s De generatione et corruptione, De coelo, and Meteorologica written by Agostino Nifo, Pietro Pomponazzi, Francesco Vimercato, Francisco Vallés, Lucilio Filalteo, and Lodovico Boccadiferro considered Plato’s views on the nature of matter and the geometrical formation of the elements, subjects for which Aristotle vehemently criticised Plato. Medieval commentators showed little interest in the historical Plato and largely accepted what they considered to be Aristotle’s interpretation. Renaissance commentators, however, had access to the entirety of the Timaeus and more writings of Platonists and Aristotelians from late antiquity. Consequently, Renaissance scholars discussed the Platonic solids and considered the criticisms of Aristotle found in Simplicius and Philoponus. The reading of Plato in universities dominated by Aristotelianism was tempered by the long tradition of textual reconciliation promoted by Neoplatonists and by their commitment to Galenic medicine, which also consolidated Aristotle’s and Plato’s views on nature, matter, and the elements.
Between Past and Present: Paganino Gaudenzi (1595–1649) and the Comparatio Tradition
Authors: Soldato Eva Del
Published: May 2022

In 1643 the professor of rhetoric Paganino Gaudenzi (1595-1649) published in Pisa a work entitled De philosophiae apud Romanos initio et progressu. Though it concerns ancient philosophy, in it Gaudenzi was mainly interested in critiquing the cultural battles of his own day, such as the proper teaching of Plato’s and Aristotle’s philosophies, by rejecting the harmony between the two thinkers. Gaudenzi resolved these issues, which bitterly divided many early modern writers, in a celebration of speculative pluralism. The article argues for the general coherence of Gaudenzi’s philosophical program, while discussing the decline of the comparatio genre to a mere pedagogical tool.
Leitura e escrita na cultura digital
Authors: Conte Elaine , Kobolt Maria Edilene de Paula , Habowski Adilson Cristiano
Published: May 2022

O ensaio visa repensar o impacto que a cultura digital causa nos processos de leitura e escrita na educação, à luz dos novos dispositivos tecnológicos que são estratégicos à reprodução dos sistemas simbólicos. O debate imerso na teoria crítica da sociedade se soma ao itinerário hermenêutico para esboçar os sentidos desses mecanismos digitais no diálogo com a cultura contemporânea. Na cultura digital lidamos com bens não escassos que vão do lápis à tecla e do impresso à tela. O problema encontrado aqui gira em torno da intensa estimulação das tecnologias digitais, vistas como uma obrigação ou necessidade do uso das telas de computador ou celular para estudar, ler, escrever e atuar na vida cotidiana. Enfrentamos uma espécie de disputa de atenção entre o impresso e o digital. Entretanto, o que nos inquieta não é o uso dos instrumentos culturais em si, mas o processo de recepção do texto digital e impresso pelos sujeitos. Concluímos que a inclusão digital abre horizontes compreensivos do texto, com o ressurgimento de mundos ampliados pela abertura intersubjetiva, possibilitando à educação reconstruir o elo vital com as tradições culturais para recontextualizar as práticas educativas. Os textos digitais ou impressos só recebem significados na inter-relação crítica com as diferentes linguagens em metamorfose, na tensão linguístico-expressiva e social da escrita que só se realiza no projetar-se do encontro pedagógico com o outro.
Sargonic Texts from Telloh in the Istanbul Archaeological Museums Part 2
Authors: Foster Benjamin R.
Published: May 2022

This volume continues publication of the Sargonic tablets from Telloh in the Istanbul Archeological Museums begun with STTI in 1982. Presenting transliterations of 693 texts from this site, it represents a further step towards meaningful engagement with the Sargonic records from Girsu.
Mythological Passages in Hittite Rituals
Authors: Görke Susanne
Published: May 2022

This article presents four examples of Hittite magical rituals—KUB 12.26 (CTH 441.1); KUB 30.20 (CTH 430.1); Bo 3617 (CTH 434.1); KUB 9.12 (CTH 403.1)—that contain short mythological stories. These stories are not known from other texts within the Hittite corpus and seem to relate specifically to the aim of the ritual. They served as historiolae to ensure the success of the ritual or as narratives that defined the role of particular divinities. The texts are too fragmentary to inform us as to why they used these mythological stories, but they nevertheless provide clear examples for the convergence of Hittite myth and ritual.
Ritual Practices, Food Offerings, and Animal Sacrifices: Votive Deposits in the Temple of the Kothon (Motya)
Authors: Spagnoli Federica
Published: May 2022

Votive deposits in the Temple of the Kothon devoted to Baal, excavated by Rome La Sapienza University Expedition to Motya in recent years, provide a highly representa- tive set of data for considering religious and cultural features of Phoenicians’ culture in the West. The analysis of faunal and malacological remains, and the study of items and pottery found inside such deposits, brought new clues for disentangling the procedures and the meanings of ritual customs and cult practices. Fruits and food offerings, as well as animal slaughter performed in the sacred area give back a clear picture of Phoenician religious traditions as reelaborated in western Sicily.
Romantic Receptions, or, The Aeginetan Sculptures’ Long March to Munich
Authors: Ruprecht Louis A.
Published: May 2022

My story begins in the early nineteenth century when Romantic Grand Tourists began to make Greece part of their itinerary, and began looting in the name of the nascent discipline of archaeology. There was a brief window—between 1803 when Napoleon closed the Italian peninsula to enemy tourists, and 1821 when the War for Independence against the Ottomans broke out—when Greece became an important travel destination. Byron’s epic, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (1812) set the Romantic taste for Greek travel and his caustic poem, “The Curse of Minerva” (1811), roundly condemned the activities of Lord Elgin’s men on the Athenian Acropolis. When Byron departed from Athens at the end of his tour in April of 1811, he did not know that the last of Elgin’s loot was in the hold of his ship. That same day, four friends from the winter circuit in Athens (Charles Cockerell and John Foster from Britain, Jakob Linckh and Carl Haller von Hallerstein from Bavaria) sailed past Byron’s boat, boarded for a farewell drink, then crossed overnight to the island of Aegina. Two days later they were on the mountaintop site of the Temple to Aphaia which they intended to sketch. Instead, they were to spend the next six weeks pulling an impres- sive cache of some sixteen statues out of the ground. In this presentation, I will trace the long, strange course of the Aegina Marbles from their rediscovery (1811), auction (1812), restoration (1816–1818), installation (1830), Nazification (1934), de-Nazification (1948), de- restoration (1966), and reinstallation (1972). Religion, as I hope to show, was a very complex register in this story, due in large part to the long reach of Romantic neopaganism.
Current challenges in laboratory diagnostics of autonomous cortisol secretion in adrenal incidentalomas
Authors: Antonić Tamara , Petrović-Mucok Ana , Stefanović Aleksandra
Published: May 2022

Adrenal incidentalomas are unexpectedly identified adrenal masses without prior suspicion of the existence of adrenal disease. The majority of adrenal incidentalomas are benign adrenal adenomas (80-90%), and they are non-functioning adrenocortical adenomas in more than 70% of cases. Mild hypercortisolemia is the most common finding in hormonally active adrenal incidentalomas. It is defined as autonomous cortisol secretion in up to 15% of patients. Despite a lot of research that anticipated higher cardiometabolic risk in patients with autonomous cortisol secretion, there is still no clear consensus on biochemical criteria for an autonomous cortisol secretion diagnosis in patients with adrenal incidentalomas. This review delineates the advantages and limitations of different laboratory tests recommended for the diagnosis of autonomous cortisol secretion in adrenal incidentalomas.
Biomarkers of dyslipidemia in patients with diabetic foot
Authors: Vujčić Sanja , Stefanović Tatjana , Zeljković Aleksandra , Mihajlović Marija , Vekić Jelena
Published: May 2022

Diabetic foot (DF) is one of the most severe complications of diabetes that significantly reduces the quality of life and survival of patients. Besides firmly established risk factors, novel data indicate that alterations in lipid metabolism might also be implicated in the development and progression of DF. Diabetic dyslipidemia is characterized by the atherogenic triad, consisting of increased triglycerides (TG), decreased high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) levels and the presence of small, dense low-density lipoprotein (LDL) particles. Accumulating evidence suggests that profound hypertriglyceridemia and HDL-C reduction are common findings in patients with diabetic neuropathy and significantly contribute to an increased risk for DF, amputation and mortality. Small, dense LDL particles play an important role in the development of cardiovascular complications of diabetes, but their clinical importance in patients with DF remains to be established. In this paper, we will discuss the significance of standard and novel lipid biomarker determination in the assessment of the risk for the development and progression of DF.
The role of laboratory biomarkers in diagnostics and management of COVID-19 patients
Authors: Perović-Blagojević Iva , Bojanin Dragana , Ristovski-Kornic Danijela , Marković Jelena , Aleksić Predrag , Subošić Branko , Vekić Jelena , Kotur-Stevuljević Jelena
Published: May 2022

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the cause of a highly transmittable and heterogenic infection of the respiratory tract, characterized by a broad spectrum of clinical manifestations with a different degree of severity. Medical laboratories play an important role in early diagnosis and management of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients. Indeed, the results of several laboratory tests are essential for assessing the severity of the disease, selecting appropriate therapeutic procedures and monitoring treatment response. Routine laboratory testing in COVID-19 patients includes biomarkers of acute phase reaction, hematological and biochemical parameters that indicate tissue injury. The aim of this review paper is to describe the role of these biomarkers in the diagnostics and management of adult and pediatric COVID-19 patients.
Utilization of Amaranthus spp. grains in food
Authors: Bodroža-Solarov Marija , Šimurina Olivera , Kojić Jovana , Krulj Jelena , Filipović Jelena , Cvetković Biljana , Ilić Nebojša
Published: May 2022

Recently there has been a rediscovery of some ancient crops due to increased consumer demands for a healthier diet with medicinal and therapeutic effects. One such crop is a pseudocereal Amaranthus sp., which is nutritionally more favourable than many widespread kinds of cereal and meets most of the requirements of modern diets. The incorporation of amaranth species in food formulations would expand the assortment of food products present on the market. The high nutritional quality and potential functionality of amaranth-based food products have been the subject of extensive scientific research. This study aims at reviewing the currently available data on the application of amaranth grains in the food industry and manufacturing and focuses on the functionalities of these products, providing an overview of the current amaranth value chain.