bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Suspect and non-target screening of chemicals in household cleaning products, and their toxicity assessment
Authors: Park Jeonghoon , Yun Hyejin , Yoon Chungsik , Lee Kiyoung , Zoh Kyung-Duk
Published: May 2023

In this study, 31 household spray-type cleaning products from 10 categories were examined to identify the substances contained in these products and evaluate their resulting toxicities. After substance detection via LC-QTOF-MS, suspect and non-target screenings were performed using UNIFI software. A total of 48 substances were identified during suspect screening. Among them, surfactant (freq. 22/31(71.0%)), plasticizer (freq. 23/31(74.2%)), antioxidant (freq. 20/31(64.5%)) were detected with high frequencies. Among the 48 compounds, tributyl citrate acetate was the most frequently detected (frequency 13/31, 41.9%). In addition, 51 substances were identified via non-target analysis. Among them, oleamide, a type of surfactant, showed a high frequency of detection (22/31(71.0%)). The toxicities of the 98 substances (suspect: 47 (except for confidence level 5) and non-target: 51) identified were evaluated using the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) database and Toxtree. Among them, 20 substances were classified as a substance of caution. The risk assessment for 3 substances identified with references standards was also performed. The suspect and non-target screening technique proved to be a useful method that can be applied when there are many non-specific chemicals and their components in the consumer products are not well known.
Assistance in Demographic Administration Innovation in Surabaya
Authors: Satrya I Dewa Gde
Published: May 2023

Community service with students in the demographic administration internship program held by the Surabaya City Government’s Demographic and Civil Registration Office is carried out by means of students helping demographic administration tasks in 4 sub-districts within the Sambikerep District area. Namely, Made Village, Bringin Village, Sambikerep Village and Lontar Village. Through this activity, students benefit in terms of growing soft skills in terms of communication skills, adapting to the environment, working with others and time management. The benefits for the kelurahan are getting help from students and enthusiasm in providing services with the involvement of students.
Aile Şirketlerinde Kurumsallaşmanın İç Kaynak Bağımlılığı Üzerindeki Etkisi Üzerine Bir Araştırma
Authors: ÖZGÜN Mahmut , SARUHAN Reşit Şadi Can
Published: May 2023

Araştırmamız kapsamında, “aile şirketlerinde kurumsallaşma ve iç kaynak bağımlılığı üzerindeki etkisi” incelenmiş bu doğrultuda; hem aile hem de şirketin birbirine paralel kurumsallaşmasıyla anlamlı bir kurumsallaşma düzeyine ulaşabileceğini söyleyebiliriz. Aile şirketlerinde iç kaynak bağımlılığı konusunun fayda/maliyet analizi yaklaşımı doğrultusunda rasyonel olarak ele alınmasının sürdürülebilirlik ve kurumsal dayanıklılık açısından gerekli olduğu görüşündeyiz.

Aile şirketleri, küresel ekonomik büyüme ve istihdam açısından hayati önem arz eden yapılardır. Dünyada yüzyıllardır yaşayan başarılı aile şirketleri bulunmakla birlikte, yaygın pratik birçok şirketin üçüncü kuşağa geçemeden ömrünü tamamladığı yönündedir. Diğer yandan, Türkiye’deki aile şirketlerinin performansı dünya ortalamasının altında olup, aile şirketleri yapısal zorluklarla karşı karşıyadır. Bunların başında aile şirketlerinin en temel motifi olan “aile” olma ve şirketteki pozisyonları itibariyle aile üyelerine karşı oluşturulan iç kaynak bağımlılığı bulunmaktadır.

İç kaynak bağımlılığı nedeniyle kurumsallaşamayan aile şirketinin yaşamı kısalmakta ve bu da ülke ekonomisini olumsuz etkilemektedir. Bu bağlamda, tüm dünyada olduğu gibi Türkiye’de de devletler çizdikleri yasal çerçeve ve düzenlemelerle aile şirketlerinin kurumsallaşma sürecine katkıda bulunmaktadır. Bu makalede aile şirketlerinde kurumsallaşma ve iç kaynak bağımlılığı üzerindeki etkisi” inceledikten sonra bu sorunun çözümüyle ilgili önerilerde bulunulmaktadır. Çalışma, Ülke ekonomisinin sağlıklı büyümeye kavuşabilmesi için aile şirketlerimizde sürdürülebilir büyümenin sağlanabilmesi önemli faktörlerden biridir. Türkiye’de ekonomimizin lokomotifi olan aile şirketlerinin faaliyetlerini geliştirmek, iş sürekliliklerini sağlamak, ülkemiz ekonomisinin sağlıklı ve sürdürülebilir büyümesi için büyük önem taşımaktadır. Aile şirketleri, büyümeyi sürdürülebilir kılmak, şirketlerin ömürlerinin uzun olması ve ailenin bir sonraki jenerasyonlara yönetimi aktarabilmesi adına kurumsallaşma, dijital dönüşüm ve yenilikçi iş modellerine odaklanmalıdırlar.
Real Time Implementation of Google Assistant Based Home Automation System
Authors: G Akash , Joshi F Atul , Abins A  , Ramola E
Published: May 2023

The implementation of Google Assistant in home automation provides an intelligent and interactive way for users to control various devices and appliances within their homes. This paper focuses on the real-time implementation of Google Assistant in home automation, outlining the challenges and benefits of integrating the technology into a smart home system. The paper also discusses the various components involved in the implementation, including the hardware and software requirements. Additionally, the paper explores the potential applications of Google Assistant in home automation, such as energy management, security monitoring, and smart entertainment systems. Overall, this paper provides insights into the real-time implementation of Google Assistant in home automation and its potential to transform the way we interact with our living spaces.
A Geografia no Museu
Authors: Sabota Heitor Silva
Published: May 2023

Este texto sistematiza as etapas e os resultados de uma proposta teórico-metodológica destinada a alunos do terceiro ano do ensino médio da Rede Pública do Estado de Goiás, realizada em um ambiente museológico. A atividade ocorreu no ano de 2018 e teve como objetivo principal contextualizar dois conteúdos presentes na grade curricular da rede: aspectos geográficos do Estado e o conceito de paisagem. A proposição partiu do princípio que é possível realizar uma prática educativa geográfica em um museu, adotando uma sequência de etapas que visam promover o entendimento processual do conceito de paisagem, mediadas pelo acervo local, que reúne características históricas e geográficas do Estado de Goiás. Desta forma, estão elencadas no texto o detalhamento dos momentos e etapas referentes à execução da atividade, combinadas com a análise dos resultados observados. No decorrer da realização da proposta teórico-metodológica foi possível construir um elo entre as modalidades formal e não formal de ensino, no qual teve como ponto central o desenvolvimento de habilidades e operações mentais presentes no ensino de Geografia. Ao final, foi possível obter como resultado a identificação dos princípios inerentes a leitura espacial e geográfica que tiveram mais destaque por parte dos alunos e qual foi o benefício deste tipo de atividade para a prática docente.
Palavras-chave
Geografia, Paisagem, Goiás, Museu.
 
Geography in the Museum: theoretical-methodological proposal for teaching the concept of landscape
Abstract
This article brings together stages and results of a school activity aimed at students in the last stage of high school at a Public-School in Goiás, carried out in a museum. The activity took place in 2018 with the objective of contextualizing two subjects present in the curriculum: regional geographic aspects and landscape concept. This activity was based on the principle that it is possible to carry out a geographical educational practice in a museum, executing a sequence of steps whose objective is to promote the procedural learning of the landscape concept, mediated by the museum's collection, which brings together historical and geographical characteristics of the State of Goiás. This article lists the details of the moments and steps related to the execution of the activity, combined with the analysis of the observed results. During the activity, it was possible to establish a collaboration between two teaching modalities, which focused on the development of skills and mental operations inherent in the teaching of Geography. As an outcome of the activity, it was possible to identify the principles inherent to spatial and geographic reading which had the greatest use by the students and the benefits of this type of activity for teaching practice.
Keywords
Geography, Landscape, State of Goiás, Museum.
Edukasi 5 Pilar Diabetes Mellitus Dalam Upaya Pencegahan Hiperglikemia Dan Hipoglikemia di Bima-NTB
Authors: Martiningsih Martiningsih , Ahmad Ahmad , Haris Abdul , Sukmawati Sukmawati
Published: May 2023

Diabetes Mellitus (DM) atau yang lebih dikenal masyarakat dengan penyakit kencing manis adalah penyakit yang ditandai dengan adanya peningkatan kadar gula darah.  Ada  lima komponen dalam pelaksanaan diabetes yaitu Diet, Olahraga, Pemantauan kadar glukosa darah secara mandiri untuk mengendalikan kadar glukosa darah secara optimal, terapi medis jika diperlukan dan pendidikan kesehatan. Tujuan kegiatan pengabdian ini adalah meningkatkan pengetahuan tentang 5 pilar penatalaksanaan  DM sebagai upaya pencegahan hipeglikemia dan hiporglikemia melalui media leaflet edukasi dan demonstrasi pengukuran gula darah dan tekanan darah, yang dilakukan pada  masyarakat di wilayah kerja puskesmas Penanae Kota Bima-NTB. Masyarakat yang mengikuti kegiatan penyuluhan mayoritas perempuan, pada kelompok usia 56-65 tahun, pekerjaan ibu rumah tangga, dengan mayoritas tingkat pendidikan SMP, tekanan darah minimal-maximal  120-190 mmHg, pada kategori hipertensi derajat 1 dan derajat 2  serta Kadar  glukosa darah sewaktu minimal-maximal yaitu 76 - 410 mmol/Lt, 38,5% dengan kategori kadar glukosa darah buruk (>180 mmol/Lt). Hasil pemeriksaan tekanan darah dan glukosa darah ini dapat menjadi skreening awal kondisi kesehatan individu sebagai upaya pencegahan risiko hipoglikemia dan hiperglikemia yang selanjutnya disarankant edukasi terprogram dan pemeriksaan rutin berkelanjutan khususnya pada kelompok yang berisiko.
Assessment of Local Government and Community Cooperation in Rural Development: A Study of Ikwo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State
Authors: Ofodire Innocent Ewah , E.O rof. Chukwuemeka
Published: May 2023

This study assesses local government and community cooperation in rural development with emphasis on Ikwo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State. The problem of the study focuses poor development of the rural communities, mismatch in the projects initiated and what the communities want and poor consultation of the people and collaboration between the communities and the people. The objectives of the study were to assess the extent to which local government and community cooperation have enhanced the provision of infrastructural facilities; improved the quality of education and provision of healthcare facilities in Ikwo Local Government Area of Ebonyi state. Three research questions and hypotheses guided the study. The study adopted a Descriptive survey research method with a sample size of 400 purposively drawn from a population of 384, 400 in Ikwo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State. A 15-item questionnaire was used for data collection. The data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics like frequency count, percentage and mean scores. The hypotheses were tested with Pearson correlation analysis. The study revealed that the existing local government and community cooperation in Ikwo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State has not contributed to high degree in the provision of infrastructural facilities (0.60 > 0.05). However, results showed that the existing local government and community cooperation in Ikwo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State has not contributed to high degree in the quality of education (0.64 > 0.05) and the provision of healthcare facilities (0.62 > 0.05). The study however concludes that the government cannot adequately provide all the basic needs of the rural population neither would the rural communities do, hence the need for partnership between the two, government/community cooperation in Ikwo local government area has not significantly helped in the provision of infrastructural facilities, also government/community cooperation in Ikwo local government area has not contributed significantly in providing quality education and healthcare facilities to the people. Based on the findings, recommendations include that Government and Communities in Ikwo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State should intensify their efforts in the provision of infrastructural facilities in the rural areas to achieve rapid and sustainable rural development. Communities in Ikwo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State should be sensitized on the imperativeness of assisting the government in the provision of quality education to the members of the rural communities. The government should also encourage education by providing help to the poor members of the community to have access to quality education for knowledge and skill acquisition.
Modelo de Autentificación de Doble Factor
Authors: Reyes Riveros Anderson Jhanyx , Salinas Meza Jhon Erick , Mendoza de los Santos Alberto Carlos
Published: May 2023

El presente artículo tiene como objetivo principal el desarrollo de un modelo que permita la autentificación de un usuario para el control de accesos mediante el modelo de Autentificación de doble factor. Para el desarrollo de dicho modelo presentamos un esquema seguro de autentificación de dos factores(TFA) basado en la posesión por el usuario de una contraseña y un dispositivo con capacidad criptográfica. La seguridad de este modelo es de extremo a extremo en el sentido de que el que quiera acceder de una manera fraudulenta se le va a complicar y asi garantizar la seguridad del usuario de dicho sistema, se tuvo como algoritmo Redes criptográficas, el cual es un modelo de doble autentificación. Así mismo se utilizó el lenguaje de programación cakephp 4.0, además de utilizar el programa visual studio code para poder realizar los algoritmos requeridos para que funciones el modelo de doble autentificación.
Predicción de la clasificación ESRB para videojuegos según su contenido usando árboles de decisión
Authors: Huamán Maqque Rodrigo Sebastián , Condori Anahua Graciela , Rojas Carhuas Fátima Gigi , Quispe Huacho Rodolfo Robert
Published: May 2023

Diversos estudios han comprobado que los niveles de violencia en los videojuegos pueden influir negativamente en el desarrollo de los niños, especialmente en la adolescencia y es por ello que se debe tener cuidado en que la clasificación sea la adecuada según el contenido presente. Para el análisis se utilizó la clasificación ESRB, que contiene 7 diferentes categorías, junto con la implementación de un modelo de árboles de decisión, que es una técnica de minería de datos capaz de representar gráficamente la relación entre las variables.  Los resultados arrojaron que el nivel de precisión para un árbol de nivel 6 no supera el mínimo requerido.
Social–psychological responses to trends of sustainable architecture
Authors: Daugelaite Aurelija
Published: May 2023

Sustainable development became the predominant official paradigm of planning, design, and construction policies. This concept with its environmental, social, economic and cultural dimensions has been applied to the field of architecture since the end of the 20th century. However, numerous researchers still notice one-sided technological and ecological orientation of sustainable architecture and the lack of attention to its cultural, place-based and aesthetics aspects. Nevertheless, sustainability as a design paradigm, undoubtedly encourages a change in the way people consider the notion of aesthetics. The efforts to implement sustainability ideas sometimes lead to very unusual designs – provocative experiments, futuristic solutions or re-using - recycling projects that sometimes may lead to conflicting assessments in the society. This research investigates how aesthetics of sustainable architecture is distinguished and psychologically accepted by people.
Urban stages: when cities and architecture become a theatre
Authors: Jara Calabuig Aaron
Published: May 2023

Throughout history, the theatre has played a decisive part in urban space configuration, not only because of the location of theatre buildings within the city. Outdoor performances in squares, streets and community facilities have also assumed an essential role in the organisation of public space. In this sense, touring theatre must be understood as a resource for transforming and revitalising cities. Festivals such as Avignon, Bilbao and Tàrrega are clear examples of how theatre can appropriate the urban or architectural context and generate new atmospheres. The study of these three cases aims to show how performing practice finds or makes its place in the city, adapting itself to existing urban structures and enhancing their value. In addition, the purpose is also to analyse some buildings and public places that have been designed with an evident scenographic vocation. From Piazza di Sant’Ignazio (Rome) to Can Sau (Olot, Girona), several constructions are conceived as street stages, where everyday life becomes a live performance.
Agile architecture: cross-cultural critical considerations of mutability in design
Authors: Sinclair Brian Robert
Published: May 2023

Modern architecture is, with limited exceptions, designed and constructed in ways that prove static, staid and resistant to change. Iconic design, crafted by genius architects as sole authors, considered solidity and permanence before responsivity and adaptability. In principle architects knew best what society needed spatially and provided artful designs with expectations that were beyond challenge and not subject to modification. Over the past century there were numerous efforts by designers, such as Gerrit Reitveld, Cedric Price and Kisho Kurokawa, to anticipate change in program, to consider user influence in operations, and to challenge conservative thinking around the monumentality of buildings. In most cases thinking of these innovators outpaced technology’s ability to keep pace. However, in recent years and especially in Japan, technology has advanced in ways permitting greater mutability and heighted agility in architecture. Considering pre-fabrication for example, as one means to increase adaptability and customization in architecture, the Japanese market proves a clear leader, a proven innovator and a pronounced success story. North America, on the other hand, has been intensely resistant to agile design, modularized construction and open building. The present research critically considers these two realms, Japan and North America, deploying case studies to illuminate differences in approach. Included in facets considered from an agile architecture vantage point are psychological posturing around change, legal systems around construction, political attitudes around policy and societal expectations around monumentality. Japanese influences of history, spirituality and culture contribute to a willingness to have architecture that’s transient, temporary and unfixed. In North America values around ownership, materiality and capital resist architecture that’s mutable. This paper analyzes differences in approach and develops a conceptual frame for more appropriate, responsive and responsible architecture for the 21st century.
The influence of acoustic standards in construction: a case study of social housing in Argentina
Authors: Saez Vanesa , Quintana-Gallardo Alberto , Garzón Beatriz , Guillén-Guillamón Ignacio
Published: May 2023

Exposure to high noise levels greatly impacts human health. For this reason, it is necessary to take into account the acoustic conditioning of built interior spaces, since human beings spend a large part of their time in them. To this end, each country must regulate and promote good construction practices that guarantee the mental and physical comfort of its occupants. In the case of Argentina, there is an insufficiency in the development of laws and regulations on acoustic architecture and even more so on acoustics in homes. In this sense, this study aims to evaluate the current acoustic comfort presented by public housing in Argentina, highlighting the existing legal gaps, and enabling recommendations in this regard, taking Spain as the country of reference. This country is taken since Argentine legislation has traditionally replicated European and Spanish standards instead of American ones. To this end, a systemic review and comparison are made between the laws and architectural acoustic regulations of Argentina and Spain. The observation of the noise protection standards in closed areas of these countries will be deepened. For a better understanding of these and to meet the objective, a prototype of public housing was needed in different parts of the country through the PRO.CRE.AR plan is taken as a case study and verified according to each standard. IRAM and UNE. As a relevant result, it is shown that the houses built by the State only partially verify the admissible minimums proposed by the regulations. The lack of laws and complementary documents focused on acoustic conditioning is concluded through the case study.
How does household income affect access to housing?
Authors: Serrano Lanzarote Begoña , Subiron Rodrigo Carmen
Published: May 2023

Accessing to housing, in addition to being a right, should be part of a market sufficiently accesible and diverse so as not to generate excessive expenses for households, which do not allow other necessities to be met or may jeopardisee the quality of life.This article considers the issue of access to housing by analysing the relationship between the average net income per household and the housing rental cost index, with the aim of quantifying the extent to which housing costs affect household income within the Comunitat Valenciana. It focuses especially on the rental system, regarded as the tenure regime prevailing for the most vulnerable households.A compilation of the available data is undertaken, and with this information, the percentage of the average household income of families that must go to rent payment is calculated, and to what extent this economic effort is excessive. Different income brackets are established to analyse which sectors of the population have trouble accessing a home.The results obtained suggest that a high percentage of households have to spend over 30% of income on paying rent, and it is in households with lower income in which this percentage soares, emphasising the situation of vulnerability.Due to a lack of available data, it was not possible to geographically locate the areas with a strained residential market, defined by the Draft Law on the Right to Housing, from which it can be deduced that adding data collection mechanisms to existing ones is necessary to achieve a detailed analysis, essential to implement more effective housing access policies in highly vulnerable areas.
Access to housing. Advantages and disadvantages of cohousing
Authors: Campillo Almajano Alejandro , Llorca-Ponce Alicia
Published: May 2023

Access to housing has become a problem for a large number of the population. This work is inspired by the search for new forms of access to housing beyond the traditional system of buying from a private developer. For the future resident, the cost of access between the alternatives is compared. For this, we work from the case method starting from a plot in the city of Valencia on which a comparative cost study is carried out. In the case of cohousing, a management model based on the cooperative is proposed. On the other hand for traditional development, the usual steps of feasibility studies applied to the real estate sector will be followed with the analysis of the profitability of the project. The results indicate that access through the cohousing system is a lower cost for families than access through the purchase from the developer. The analyses carried out indicate that access through cohousing represents a saving of almost 30%. The work also exposes the advantages and disadvantages for families of each of the access systems.
Construction and demolition waste management: from obligation to necessity. New trends and some tools focused on architectural projects
Authors: López Mateu Vicente , Pellicer Teresa María
Published: May 2023

The construction of a building is an activity that generates a considerable use of materials and diverse resources. Likewise, new materials and supplies are used to maintain or renovate buildings, some of which are historically reused, partially or entirely. These processes generate a series of residues or waste materials C&DW, especially at the end of the building’s useful life with its demolition. These elements are becoming increasingly important from the point of view of new approaches to the circular economy. Therefore, these elements previously discarded are now considered valuable resources. The agents involved in the building process are becoming increasingly aware of these issues. There is an evolution from the obligation imposed by the regulations toward new perspectives and trends. For that purpose, current tools will be discussed and compared, helping to understand the additional challenges and possibilities for architecture.
Towards the real estate project. The architect in the new paradigm of real estate investment
Authors: Pérez Royo David , Llorca Ponce Alicia , García Martínez Fernando
Published: May 2023

After the financial crisis of 2008, which hit the real estate sector particularly hard, there was a paradigm shift in the real estate investment process. Traditional development was drastically reduced, giving rise to the emergence of other agents. The model of analysis, decision-making and development has been redefined. It is assimilated to other types of more abstract investments, while maintaining a clear local component. A tour of the different investment mechanisms that have burst into the sector is made like venture capital funds, crowdfunding platforms, participatory companies and investors with foreign capital. This paper deals with the question of how external circumstances have an impact depending on the objective of the investment. And another point analyzed is the real estate as a product or the real estate as a tool for the sale of another product (tertiary sector). The aim of this paper is to analyze the position of the architect in the new context of identifying opportunities in the real estate sector. In this new context the architect plays a key role in the investment strategy taking into account what both society and the investors need, and thus participates in all phases of the process.
Difusão do conhecimento científico sobre evolução biológica
Authors: Rodrigues de Andrade Winis Henrique , Gouvêa Silva Antônio Fernando , Faria Franco Fernando
Published: May 2023

No presente trabalho analisamos comentários de internautas emitidos em matérias de divulgação científica relacionadas a temas de evolução orgânica. O objetivo específico foi diagnosticar limites conceituais relacionados ao entendimento e aceitação da teoria evolutiva. Foram definidas três categorias organizacionais para a classificação dos comentários coletados: (i) concepções criacionistas cristãs (24 comentários); (ii) concepções transformacionistas Lamarckistas (15 comentários), e (iii) concepções que estão de acordo com a teoria vigente (01 comentário). Com base nos resultados, buscamos fazer uma análise epistemológica com base em Ludwik Fleck (1896-1961), articulando a divulgação científica e a circulação de ideias. Identificamos diversos limites conceituais nos comentários emitidos pelos internautas. Discutimos três aspectos fundamentados na epistemologia de Fleck que parecem ser fundamentais para uma divulgação científica socialmente comprometida: ciência como construção humana sócio-histórica e sistematizada; ciência como processo conflituoso, mutável e não produto definitivo e; ciência como atividade intra e intercoletiva envolvendo diferentes concepções e valores.
Sei o que sei e o que não sei?
Authors: Soares Cíntia Dilcéia , Rosa Cleci Teresinha Werner da , Darroz Luiz Marcelo
Published: May 2023

O estudo parte da seguinte pergunta: qual a potencialidade do uso didático de vídeos curtos em termos da ativação de mecanismos de monitoramento e controle da própria compreensão por estudantes do ensino médio? O objetivo está em analisar a potencialidade do uso de vídeos curtos como recurso didático estratégico em Física, capaz de promover a tomada de consciência dos estudantes sobre seus próprios conhecimentos, ou, alternativamente, a falta deles. Para tanto, foi estruturada e aplicada uma sequência didática com uma turma de ensino médio, tendo sido utilizado como dados de pesquisa, os vídeos produzidos pelos estudantes ao final da sequência didática e também a um questionário respondido por eles vinculado à produção desses vídeos. Os resultados revelam que a produção de vídeos oportuniza ativar o pensamento metacognitivo à medida que leva os estudantes a construir explicações sobre os fenômenos físicos em discussão, tomando consciência de seus próprios conhecimentos e traçando estratégias para suprir lacunas, incompreensões e inconsistências de conhecimento.
The School of Hillah and the Formation of Twelver Shiʿi Islamic Tradition
Authors: Ali Aun Hasan
Published: May 2023

Twelver or Imami Shi'i Islam has long been understood through the concepts of the authority of jurists and political theology. However, building upon recent scholarship in the fields of religious studies and anthropology, this book argues that Imami Shi'ism is better understood as a discursive tradition, and that from the late Abbasid to the post-Ilkhanid period, Hillah, in southern Iraq, was a center of scholarship, debate and exchange, challenging the traditionally authoritarian view of the development of Shi'i Islam's largest sect.

Aun Hasan Ali applies the techniques of social network analysis to bio-bibliographical sources to reveal the school of Hillah as a formative period where outstanding and landmark works were written in practically every field of classical Islamic scholarship. He uses state-of-the-art electronic databases to study the transmission of knowledge and networks of kinship, learning, and patronage to show the way that the school was socially, politically and historically embodied, covering over 200 individuals and their writings. In the process, he reveals the way that Imami Shi'ism emerged in a historically specific and interfaith dynamic, becoming a discursive tradition unified and sustained by disagreement and an awareness of its minority status.
Selected Stories of Katherine Mansfield
Authors: Mansfield Katherine , Chapman Wayne K.
Published: May 2023

Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923) was one of the leading figures in the development of the modernist short story and her writings were a profound influence on writers such as Virginia Woolf and D.H. Lawrence. Presenting for the first time draft manuscripts of some of her most important stories, this book gives scholars and students alike vivid new insight into Mansfield’s creative process.

With manuscripts for each text presented in facsimile and transcript, detailed notes throughout compare early drafts with later revisions and the final published work. In the final section of the book leading scholars offer vivid new critical readings exploring the manuscript history of these stories. A detailed descriptive listing of the major Mansfield archives is also included to help researchers explore the work further.

The stories included are: ‘Je ne parle pas francais’; ‘Sun and Moon’; ‘Revelations’; ‘The Stranger’; ‘The Daughters of the Late Colonel’; ‘Mr and Mrs Dove’; ‘Marriage à la Mode’; ‘The Voyage’; ‘Six Years After’; ‘The Fly’.
The Drama and Theatre of Annie Baker
Authors: Muse Amy
Published: May 2023

In the first book-length study of Annie Baker, one of the most critically acclaimed playwrights in the United States today and winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship and a MacArthur “genius” grant, Amy Muse analyzes Baker’s plays and other work. She illuminates their intellectual and ethical themes and issues by contextualizing them with the other works of theatre, art, theology, and psychology that Baker read while writing them.

This volume argues that Baker is finely attuned to the language of the everyday: imperfect, halting, marked with unexpressed desires, banalities, and silence. Called "antitheatrical," these plays draw us back to the essence of theatre: space, time, and story, sitting with others in real time, witnessing the dramatic in the ordinary lives of ordinary people. Baker’s revolution for the stage has been to slow it down and bring us all into the mystery and pleasure of attention.

Through close discussions of Baker's plays, this book immerses readers in her use of everyday language, her themes of loneliness, desire, empathy, and storytelling, and her innovations with stage time. Enriched by interviews and engaging essays by three scholars, Thomas Butler, Jeanmarie Higgins, and Katherine Weiss, this is a companionable guide for students of American literature and theatre studies, which deepens their knowledge and appreciation of Baker’s dramatic invention.
Livecasting in Twenty-First-Century British Theatre
Authors: Liedke Heidi Lucja
Published: May 2023

This significant contribution to the study of the live and recorded broadcasting of stage plays focuses on National Theatre Live a decade after its launch in 2009. Assessing livecasting through the concepts of spectacle, materiality and engagement, it examines the role played by audiences in livecasting. Illustrated by in-depth analyses of recent NT Live shows, including A Midsummer Night‘s Dream (2019), Antony and Cleopatra (2018) and Small Island (2019), the book is complemented by insights from practitioners involved in the making of the livecasts. Finally, livecasting is contextualized within recently emerged forms of Covidian (virtual) theatre during the pandemic in order to offer some thoughts on the future of the genre of theatrical performance.

Combining lively analyses of recent theatre performances with auto-ethnographic accounts, Heidi Lucja Liedke turns to 20th-century thinkers such as Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht in order to understand livecasting’s place in a continuum of developments taking place on the borders of media, film and performance for the past 100 years.

As well as embedding livecasting in its historical context of 19th-century electrophone technology, Liedke assesses its position in contemporary discourses on the meaning of theatre for spectators in the pre- and post-pandemic moment, and points towards the form’s future.
Slow Food
Authors: Siniscalchi Valeria
Published: May 2023

Written by one of the leading experts on food activism, this is the only independent, full-length study of the Slow Food movement. Slow Food is a grassroots organisation that embraces a slow way of life, linking the love of food with community and environmental support. Based on three years of ethnographic fieldwork inside Slow Food’s international headquarters in Italy, Valeria Siniscalchi reveals what really goes on behind the scenes of this enigmatic organization. Observing daily meetings, decision-making processes, and major events, she explores the contradictions, complexities, and ambiguities of the movement – as well as the passionate commitment of its employees, members, and leaders.

Through talking to insiders and people who have ‘broken’ with Slow Food, Siniscalchi makes a major contribution to our understanding of one of the most high profile and controversial food movements in the world – and to our knowledge of activist organizations more broadly.

This is an essential read for students and scholars in food studies, anthropology, geography, and sociology and anyone interested in Slow Food.
An Atonal Cinema
Authors: White Robert G.
Published: May 2023

This is a book about Palestinians elsewhere and Palestinian elsewheres. Articulating an ambiguous right to remain out-of-place as a spatialized response to the fossilized present, the films and filmmakers in this book examine Palestine, as a place and idea, from the dissonance of exile. An Atonal Cinema: Resistance, Counterpoint and Dialogue in Transnational Palestine theorizes a transnational consciousness within contemporary Palestinian cinema as one which articulates an ‘atonal’ cinema, utilizing contrapuntal dialogue as a mode of resistance with which to respond critically to the ‘place-myth’ of Palestine in films produced within Palestine but without Palestinians. Drawing on a genealogy of Edward Said’s atonal thinking of counterpoint, I argue that the films in this book display a ‘double-consciousness’, through which Palestine is simultaneously elided and re-inscribed in a contrapuntal dialogue between the ‘here’ of its contemporary reality and the ‘elsewhere’ of its historical image.

An Atonal Cinema’s radical approach includes cinematic texts from Europe, South America and Israel in its corpus, which have both triggered and been shaped by critical responses in contemporary Palestinian Cinema. Drawing on both literature and cinema, An Atonal Cinema draws on the work of Edward Said, Mahmoud Darwish, Jean Genet and Carlo Levi. Films by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Jean-Luc Godard, Menahem Golan and Miguel Littín are read contrapuntally through contemporary responses from Ayreen Anastas, Basma Alsharif, Mohanad Yaqubi, Elia Suleiman and Kamal Aljafari.
Disasters are as much cultural as natural phenomena. For centuries, news about catastrophic events has been disseminated through media such as chronicles, pamphlets, newspapers, poems, drawings, and prints. Nowadays, we are overwhelmed with news about the cataclysmic effects of recent forest fires, floods, and storms. Due to the ongoing climate crisis, extreme weather events will likely have ever greater impacts on our lives.
This volume addresses cultural representations of catastrophes such as floods, epidemics, and earthquakes over the centuries. In the past as now, artists and authors try to make sense of disasters, grasp their impact, and communicate moral, religious, or political messages. These creations reflect and shape how people learn and think about disasters that occur nearby or far away, both in time and space. The parallels between past and present underline how this book contributes to modern debates about cultural and creative strategies in response to disasters.
Authors: Broomhall Susan
Published: May 2023

This chapter explores how the Italian engineer and artist Leonardo
da Vinci conceptualised forms of violence in nature, to nature, or by
nature. In using the term ‘natural violence’, this chapter aims to capture
Da Vinci’s broad-ranging consideration of such violence related to the
natural world upon which he reflected across his work and to which he
gave varied and ongoing responses over the course of his life. It argues
that his perception of temporality, emotion, and gender were important
aspects that helped Da Vinci make sense of natural violence. In doing
so, the chapter suggests that while Da Vinci may have been radical in
some aspects of thinking, in others he was representative of his era, and
that investigating his conceptualisation of natural violence brings these
distinctions into sharper focus.
Early Modern Community Formation
Across Northern Europe
Authors: Hulsenboom Paul
Published: May 2023

The Delft Thunderclap, a massive gunpowder explosion which in 1654
devastated the Dutch city of Delft, elicited numerous responses by
authors and artists from the Northern and Southern Netherlands. This
chapter analyses another reaction, printed outside the Low Countries: a
hitherto unknown Latin poem by the Silesian-Polish polymath Joachim
Pastorius. His poem was published in 1657 in the Polish cosmopolitan
city of Gdańsk, which maintained strong commercial and cultural ties
with the Northern Netherlands. Pastorius had many Dutch contacts and
likely based his verses on Dutch sources, specifically a famous poem by
Joost van den Vondel. Pastorius applied a well-known rhetorical framework
to inspire solidarity with the mourning Dutch. The disastrous Delft
Thunderclap thus provided Pastorius with the opportunity to shape
a transnational emotional community of learned readers and writers
across Northern Europe, bridging Poland and the Dutch Republic.
Cultural Resilience during Nineteenth-
Century Cholera Outbreaks in the
Netherlands
Authors: Jensen Lotte
Published: May 2023

The nineteenth century saw several severe outbreaks of cholera in the
Netherlands. This chapter discusses how Dutch society responded to this
new and frightening disease. It is argued that cultural responses played an
important role in increasing societal resilience. Resilience was strengthened
and shaped by cultural media, such as paintings, prose, poems, songs, prints,
novels, sermons, and concerts. By offering moral and religious explanations,
cultural responses helped people to make sense of the disruptive events and
to cope with their fears and uncertainties. Cultural responses also aimed at
fostering a sense of community by raising money for the sufferers. Citizens
were called to action in the local and national newspapers, poems, songs,
and sermons. This led to impressive amounts being collected in a short time.
Dealing in Disasters
Authors: van Egeraat Marieke
Published: May 2023

Sixteenth-century pamphlet sellers made a profit by marketing disasters.
This contribution takes a closer look at this activity by focusing on
apocalyptic motives and the commercial consequences of putting these
themes in the pamphlet. By comparing the reactions to the All Saints
Flood (1570) in Dutch and German pamphlets, the article highlights the
religious and political contexts of the two regions to explain the different
uses of the Apocalypse. In Lutheran regions in Germany, printers chose
the Apocalypse as an interpretation, while in Catholic regions disasters
were seen as God’s punishment. Because of the clear religious choice in
Germany (at least after 1555), writers knew exactly what interpretation to
put in their disaster pamphlets. In the Low Countries, however, authors
focused on God’s wrath but, considering the diverse religious landscape,
still included apocalyptic notions. In this way, they expanded the possible
readership of the pamphlet, resulting in potentially bigger profits.
‘Hungry Balliz Wants Weel Fillin’
Authors: van Os Sophie
Published: May 2023

Between 1862 and 1864, the Illustrated London News (1842) published several
wood engravings which directly or indirectly referenced the Lancashire Cotton
Famine (1861–65). Though poetic responses to this disaster have recently
received scholarly attention and their significance has been recognised, visual
representations of the Cotton Famine have remained largely unexplored. To
uncover how early Victorian illustrated periodicals attempted to visualise
famine, this article will examine press renderings of three nineteenth-century
instances of hunger – the Great Irish Famine (1845–51), rural poverty in Dorset
(1846), and the Lancashire Cotton Famine (1861–65) – drawing parallels
between these three case studies in terms of subject, form, and stylistic
registers. It argues that illustrations of the Lancashire Cotton Famine belonged
to a larger nineteenth-century cultural repertoire of depicting hunger, poverty,
and famine in the Victorian illustrated press that dated back to the 1840s, a
decade that has become synonymous with hunger in historical discourse.
Rinderpest in Dutch Regional Fiction
Authors: Scholten Anneloek
Published: May 2023

This article investigates the portrayal of the social and cultural consequences
of disaster in Dutch rural literature during the long nineteenth
century, primarily its final decades, in which fiction often emphasised the
precariousness of rural existence. Following a discussion of how several
regional texts represent both the emotional and economic impact of failed
harvests and loss of livestock, the analysis focuses on the representation
of an outbreak of rinderpest in Josef Cohen’s Ver van de menschen (1910),
set in rural Overijssel. The events in the novel have a historical referent:
they are based on the 1865 outbreak of rinderpest across the Netherlands.
This article thus contributes to a better understanding of the nineteenthand
early twentieth-century literary imagination of rural vulnerability
and calamity, which, in turn, provides insights into dynamics of social
relations in the face of disaster and into how (past) natural disasters are
made meaningful (in the present).
„Uns läuft die Zeit davon“
Authors: Hugo Pascal
Published: May 2023

Klärschlammentsorgung ist derzeit alles andere als ein leichtes Geschäft. Wir sprachen anlässlich der DWA-Klärschlammtage (23. Bis 25. Mai, Würzburg) mit dem DWA-Experten Rainer Könemann von hanseWasser Bremen über die derzeitigen Marktbedingungen, den Entwicklungen bei der Phosphorrückgewinnung und warum die Politik im Düngemittelrecht für Klarheit sorgen muss.
Chemisches Recycling in Europa
Authors: Schütz Robert
Published: May 2023

Das chemische Recycling weckt großes Interesse in der Kunststoffindustrie. Bis 2030 will die Chemische Industrie in Europa rund 7,2 Milliarden Euro investieren. Zahlreiche Projekte stehen in den Startlöchern oder sind bereits vollendet. Wir klären mit unserer FAQ bestimmte Fragen rund um das Chemische Recycling und stellen einige Projekte und Unternehmen vor.
Carboliq startet durch
Authors: Hugo Pascal
Published: May 2023

Die Kunststoffindustrie hat ein großes Problem: Die Recyclingquoten verbessern sich zwar, doch von einer umfassenden Kreislaufwirtschaft ist die Branche nach wie vor weit entfernt. Der mittelständische Folienhersteller Südpack hat bereits vor Jahren in das Carboliq-Verfahren investiert – und will das Verfahren nun zum Industriestandard für das chemische Recycling von Multilayer-Verpackungen und andere, nicht mechanisch recycelbare Kunststoffverpackungen erheben.
Händler mit Fans
Authors: Mende Jan
Published: May 2023

dm verbindet seit einem halben Jahrhundert erfolgreich Werte mit Wirtschaftlichkeit. Über ein Unternehmen, das mit Prinzipientreue, niedrigen Dauerpreisen, modernen Eigenmarken und einem klaren Kundenfokus zur Nummer eins der Drogeriemärkte wurde. Jan Mende
Für Händler gibt es noch Potenzial
Authors: Ingelmann Anja
Published: May 2023

Kundentreueprogramme sind bei deutschen Konsumenten beliebt. Der Markt für Bonusangebote ist in Bewegung. Für eigene Händler-Apps gibt es vor allem im Drogerie- und Lebensmittelhandel Chancen. Einige Verbraucherwünsche sollten Händler dabei besonders berücksichtigen.
Tierwohlabgabe macht das Rennen
Authors: Schirmacher Henrike
Published: May 2023

Berlin. Mitglieder der Ampelfraktion haben sich auf eine Tierwohlabgabe zur Finanzierung des Umbaus der Tierhaltung geeinigt. Zudem haben die Umweltminister von Bund und Ländern einheitlichen Regelungen im Rahmen der TA Luft zugestimmt. So soll der Um- oder Neubau von Ställen mit höheren Tierhaltungsstandards erleichtert werden.
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Authors: AYVAZYAN ANDRANIK
Published: May 2023

Although there are many references to the phatic function of language in linguistic and anthropological literature, little is said about its underlying causes. In this article, which is predominantly an analytical study, through combining relevant facts, a hypothesis is put forward that the phatic function of language is based on a number of psychophysiological reasons. In order to clarify them, we have studied a number of psychological (a model developed by the transactional method of Eric Berne) and biological phenomena (facts from observations of the behavior of primates carried out by Robin Dunbar), which we have compared with the results of a survey conducted at Brusov State University. We have come to the conclusion that many statements often used during everyday conversation are based both on the instinct of self preservation, and, therefore, on the desire to be in a certain group, and on physiological changes (in particular, an increase in the number of
endorphins) that occur between interlocutors when they convey verbal caresses to each other.