bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Clicks, Likes, Comments and Shares: Unravelling the Magic of Facebook Engagement in Elite Business Schools
Authors: Munshi Abdul Rahim Ahmed ,   Associate Professor, School of Business, ITM (SLS) Baroda University
Published: February 2025

In the era of pervasive digital communication and the dominance of social media, educational
institutions actively seek methods to enhance their online presence and establish global connections.
This research addresses a notable gap in the existing literature by conducting a cross-cultural
comparison of social media content between business schools, focusing on the Facebook archives
of the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) and Harvard Business School. Analysing
363 posts from August 2022 to January 2023, this study aims to identify and compare topics that
significantly enhance user interaction, shedding light on the content engagement strategies
employed by these institutions. The research methodology involves grouping Facebook postings
into discrete themes and measuring engagement by analysing metrics such as likes, shares,
and comments for each post. Findings reveal that fun and cultural events generate maximum
engagement for IIMA, while Convocation-related posts prove most engaging for Harvard Business
School. Through a comprehensive analysis of these metrics, this study identifies compelling themes
and elucidates the factors contributing to their success. The study’s conclusions offer essential
insights into the social media tactics of esteemed institutions, providing practical guidance for
academic organisations seeking to enhance audience engagement and augment online visibility
Enhancing Talent Acquisition and Retention: Insights from Anticipatory Psychological Contracts of MBA Graduates
Authors: Rani Seema ,   Research Scholar, Department of Commerce, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, Suneja Ajay ,   Professor, Department of Commerce, Kurukshetra University Kurukshet.
Published: February 2025

Master of Business Administration (MBA) graduates are valued for their adeptness in critical
thinking, problem-solving, and innovation, crucial skills demanded by the globalised business
environment. Amidst the “great resignation,” retention of this talent poses challenges, as
evidenced by high turnover rates among professionals, which often stems from unmet expectations
regarding the job. Anticipatory psychological contracts (APCs) offer insights into managing these
expectations and fostering productive employee relationships. The present study aims to explore
the expectations of MBA graduates by collecting data from 302 students. EFA results revealed
that students’ job expectations can be categorised under three factors similar to the patterns
of employees’ psychological contracts. It indicates that students already have a mental image
of the prospective employment relationship. MBA graduates are attracted to organisations that
offer professional and personal growth prospects while selecting their first job. Development is
students’ most important aspect of a job, highlighting a preference for balanced psychological
contracts. At the same time, lower importance is associated with the relational attributes of a job.
The recruiters and HR managers are suggested to consider these findings to recruit, manage and
retain the best talent.
PATTERN OF MENSTRUAL IRREGULARITY IN CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE (CKD) PATIENTS IN TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL
Authors: Ullah Asmat , Abbasi Muhammad Sajid Rafiq , Jawad Muhammad , Shah Muhammad Afnan Ullah , Zia Waqar , Rahat Aqsa
Published: February 2025

Background: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) profoundly affects multiple physiological systems, including the reproductive system, leading to hormonal imbalances that disrupt menstrual cycles. Women with CKD frequently experience menstrual irregularities such as amenorrhea, oligomenorrhea, and menometrorrhagia, which are exacerbated as kidney function declines. These disturbances not only impact fertility but also contribute to anemia, osteoporosis, and reduced quality of life. Understanding the prevalence and associated factors of menstrual irregularities in CKD patients is essential for improving patient management and outcomes.
Objective: To determine the prevalence and pattern of menstrual irregularities among female CKD patients and to identify associated demographic and clinical factors.
Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted at the Department of Nephrology, PIMS Hospital, Islamabad, from August 1, 2024, to January 15, 2025. A total of 140 female patients aged 14 to 45 years with CKD, irrespective of etiology, were enrolled. Patients with a history of postmenopausal status or pre-existing gynecological disorders were excluded. Menstrual irregularities were assessed through structured interviews and medical record evaluations. Data were analyzed using SPSS version 25.0, with qualitative variables presented as frequencies and percentages, and quantitative variables expressed as mean ± standard deviation. The chi-square test was applied, considering a p-value of ≤0.05 as statistically significant.
Results: The mean age of participants was 30.64 ± 8.86 years. Only 26.4% maintained a normal menstrual cycle, while 37.1% had amenorrhea, 22.1% had oligomenorrhea, and 14.3% had menometrorrhagia. Stratification analysis showed that polycystic ovarian syndrome (p=0.015), cerebrovascular accident (p=0.006), and smoking (p=0.041) were significantly associated with menstrual irregularities, while other demographic and clinical variables, including age, dialysis status, and hypertension, were not statistically significant.
Conclusion: Menstrual irregularities are highly prevalent among female CKD patients, with amenorrhea being the most common disorder. PCOS, cerebrovascular disease, and smoking were identified as significant contributing factors. Routine reproductive health assessments and targeted interventions should be integrated into CKD management to address these concerns and improve patient outcomes.
La volonté de puissance nietzschéenne : entre une identité élitiste ou une évidence humaine
Authors:   Université Alassane OUATTARA (Côte d’Ivoire), AMIAN N’guessan Noël
Published: February 2025

La volonté de puissance fait son apparition dans la philosophie de Nietzsche comme un concept fondamental qui, non seulement, de par sa formulation suscite attention, mais et surtout est soumis aux diverses interprétations contrariant souvent son sens réel. Dans un monde en proie aux multiples révolutions par rapport au devenir de l’humanité, la volonté de puissance présentée par Nietzsche, apparaîtra souvent à l’analyse de certaines philosophies comme des philosophies qui suscitent des sentiments de domination faisant d’elles des identités élitistes. Par contre, Nietzsche avait fait de volonté de puissance, une évidence humaine non élitiste, mais une évidence humaine. Il nous apparaît nécessaire de déterminer les rapports de la volonté de puissance avec le monde et avec l’homme.
Navigating the Labyrinth of Chaos: Metaphor and Myth in Joker’s Dystopian Capitalism
Authors: Haywood Loraine
Published: February 2025

Navigating the chaos of labyrinthine spaces, the film Joker (Phillips 2019) reverses notions of wholeness in the image of the human subject. The opening scene depicts a dual representation of Arthur and Joker as the film constructs a dystopian dream by merging the labyrinth of the city and the labyrinth of the mind. This duality extends to the smearing of Gotham City’s saviour, Batman, who is the moral opponent of Joker as the villain. This is no longer the story we know. Joker is operating in the labyrinth as both metaphor and myth. At the climax of this journey, Arthur embraces his Joker persona as the film intersects with the standard Batman narrative. By accompanying Arthur, as he embraces his mirror image of Joker, the audience attempts to navigate chaos—a dystopian dream, mediated in the film, mirroring the life world. The film is an intense political statement about the perverse nature of neoliberal Western democracy. The formulas in the capitalist dream of “success” and “happiness,” in this society, are characterised by obscene wealth living alongside abject poverty. The labyrinth of the city space, as the epitome of civilisation, creates monsters which are of its own making. Likewise, we are navigating the labyrinthine chaos of capitalism that results in our displacement and delirium.
Politics of Minor Literature: Decolonized space and Posthumanism in Xenogenesis Trilogy
Authors: Puckett William
Published: February 2025

This essay examines the hierarchic structures present within Octavia E. Butler’s Xenogenesis trilogy in order to explore the problematics of colonisation and subjugation along with the following generations of post-colonial subjectivity that lead toward a questioning of hybridization and originary voice. Consequently, this inquiry will be grounded within a broader theorization of place and space, in order to position the Xenogenesis trilogy within the literary space of minor literature—promoting a mode of action for minority voices within the major language of the coloniser. The text charts the paths of both individual and communal journeys, moving beyond simple understandings of self, identity, community, and place toward a more empowering recognition of and for the potential available in collective histories—toward a posthuman space where, “identity is not in the past to be found, but in the future to be constructed” (Hall 14).
Living in a Dream: Alfred Kubin’s Inner Landscapes
Authors: Sola Rocío
Published: February 2025

This paper seeks to provide an overview of the importance of dreams in the work of the well-known multidisciplinary Austrian artist, Alfred Kubin, through the prism of an aspect not so often addressed: Landscape. From an explanation of how Kubin understands dreams and the perception of images generated by them, the aim here is to create a parallelism between the spatial-temporal rupture within the dream experience and a similar rupture present in Kubin’s written and drawn landscapes. This rupture, corresponding to Michel Foucault’s concept of heterotopia, emphasizes the importance of perception when signifying spaces, thus, creating a strong sense of multiplicity and liminality. The paper dwells in depth on his 1909 novel, Die andere Seite (The Other Side), where these landscapes are described in detail. The novel is understood as an impasse within Kubin’s work, especially as far as the confection of imaginary spaces is concerned. Thus, concepts such as space, landscape, dream, imagination, memory, and fantasy are gathered under the umbrella of Kubin’s creations—always halfway between literature and drawing—elaborating upon a series of works that develop this theme and extend almost until the end of his life.
King Lear, Mandel’s Station Eleven, and the Shakespearean Apocalypse: Meditations on Pandemic and Posthumanism
Authors: Baumlin James S.
Published: February 2025

From the end of World War II through the late 20th century, the Shakespearean vision of apocalypse—of King Lear as harbinger of the Holocaust—predominated in intellectual culture. Whereas postwar critics could speak of “Shakespeare our contemporary,” the 21st century has carried us beyond the world depicted in his drama. Drawing vocabulary from Marxist literary historian, Raymond Williams, this essay offers an epochal analysis of Shakespeare’s early modernism, drawing contrasts with Emily St. John Mandel’s postmodernism. Shakespeare’s Lear and Mandel’s Station Eleven both depict world-shattering catastrophe, though through different literary-cultural lenses. Writing as an early-modernist, Shakespeare continues to mirror aspects of our current lifeworld. But he could not anticipate the technocultural developments that have reinvented the structures and machinery of capitalism, communication, transportation, information, and energy supply, and how these have reshaped and enhanced the embodied human subject. For late 20th century readers, Shakespeare’s Lear prefigures the terrors of Auschwitz and nuclear Armageddon. But the play fails to envision the biological and technoscientific forces that have transformed us in the 21st century, carrying our species into realms of the posthuman. As cyborg assemblages, our lives are electrified and “plugged in” to a global energy grid. And, as a biological corollary to the cyborg, the human body has been reconceived as an “interspecies” organism, “a transversal entity, fully immersed in and immanent to a network of non-human (animal, vegetable, viral) relations” (Braidotti 193). Hence, King Lear fails to anticipate our current lifeworld in its advanced technologies, bodily enhancements, and emerging crises. A viral pandemic—Mandel’s fictive version as well as our own COVID-19—gives the proof.
Spatial, Temporal, Somatic and Spiritual Boundaries. Seen as Virtual Reflection of Expanding Personal Selfhood
Authors: Nemchinov Victor M.
Published: February 2025

This paper represents an attempt to understand how could boundaries of
values be tentatively outlined, described and addressed. Universal natural
categories are observed, experienced and interpreted in the second reality
of human mediated understanding. These circumstances are introduced in
the discussion about various boundaries delimiting real world domains
imbued with values that have been influencing the behavior and giving
meaning to human existence throughout our history. The author ranks
some spatial and temporal boundaries to indicate examples of their
correlation with somatic and spiritual manifestations of what is understood
as viable human values.
Faith, Reason and the Challenges of Epistemic Claims
Authors: Ebijuwa Temisan
Published: February 2025

The debate of the age long relationship between faith and reason
as diverse sources of knowledge of reality has been on for quite some time
and the quest for a clearer elucidation at this time is imperative as well as
compelling because of the sordid condition we have found ourselves in the
world today. The world is bedeviled by a number of challenges that has
questioned the realities of our social existence, as it relates to how we
perceive ourselves, neighbors, circumstances and experiences in our
contemporary society. As a result, there seems to be a general dislocation
of our sense of values, hope and confidence necessary for the activation and
sustenance of the matrix of social solidarity and human development. Some
scholars have poignantly seen science as the only solution to existential
problems. Peter Throdahl, for example, writes that: “In an age in which
science and reason are required to find real solutions to very real problems
in an extremely complex world, science is often taking a back seat to
religious dogma and political agendas. My fear, as well as yours, is that the
younger generation will be educated without an appreciation for scientific
process and our solutions to modern-day problems will not reflect the
knowledge of the day. What a chilling and dark future that would leave for
us all.”2 It is important to note that we are aware that “productivity and
positive results of science plays an important role in human emancipation,
aspiration, self-fulfillment and social progress, but that contrary to
Throdahl`s expectations, they do not certainly exhaust the depth of human knowledge and their aspirations;”3 otherwise, there would not have been
need for the debate under review. My motivation in this study, therefore,
is to activate a certain kind of conversation that will change our
understanding or at least make some skeptics have a second look at the
tension between faith and reason as two ways of knowing and interpreting
human realities.
Deep Spirituality Will Decide Humanity’s Future
Authors: Menamparampil Thomas
Published: February 2025

In the modern age, religion and spirituality stood scrutinised and
criticized. We agree that all criticisms and negative evaluations have a
thought-provoking value. We agree too that people can make of their
spiritual convictions an idle and unproductive force in their lives, if they
choose to do so. On the contrary, if they so decide, they can make of it the
strongest motivating force in the world. A spiritual outlook can generate a
deep sense of responsibility for addressing the current problems of the
world, like the increase of violence and corruption, economic imbalance,
aggravation of poverty, ecological disaster, damage to cultures, erosion of
ethical values, poor governance, biased media, harassment of minorities,
gender bias, and others.
In an increasingly consumeristic world, we notice a steady erosion
of cultures and values. A sense of responsibility must be invoked.
Spiritually oriented citizens can help in a convincing manner. Constructing
inter-cultural relationships too has become extremely important in this era
of intense migrations, which have brought people of diverse cultures and
religions together. The rise of radical fundamentalism was largely a
response to the exaggerations of radical secularism. We ought to explore the
psycho-social reasons for the emergence of this terrible phenomenon in
modern times, observe the emotional content of what is being said and
done, attempt bringing down their anger by making an effort to remove
some of the causes, and engage them in a dialogue once the emotions are
down. An entire world can change with it.
Representatives of every section of the global society must make
such things possible: intellectuals, media men, politicians, business
leaders, religious personnel, students, associations, all must help.
Spiritually motivated persons have the persuasive power to bring such
people together.
Spirituality and the Spirit of Comparative Theology
Authors: Taskin Ahmet
Published: February 2025

The abundance of spiritualities and the decline of traditional
religious thought raise problems for people's spiritual perception because
the ground and conditions of perceptual formation are eclectic and hence
complex. This article proposes comparative theology as a theological
foundation to engage with this eclectic and complex context. After
introducing comparative theology as background, this article discusses the
confessional nature of comparative theology and its role in constructive
engagement for theological and spiritual growth and learning. The
discussion will conclude with reflections on relating comparative theology
to spirituality and spiritual perception.
Barbarians No More. Revisiting the Eastern Contributions to Early Greek Philosophy
Authors: Lupașcu Constantin C.
Published: February 2025

We often assume that our present world alone has experienced
the phenomenon of globalization and that it is necessarily a feature of the
modern age. And in this we like to imagine the world of the past as made
up of homogeneous monolithic blocks with rigid and well-defined
impenetrable boundaries. Nothing could be further from the truth. The
ancient world enjoyed an interconnectedness as tight if not tighter than
ours is today. Nowhere do we see this connection better than between the
Greek and the Persian world. The conflict between the two serves as the
starting point of the archetypal conflict between the Orient and the
Occident. However, at the same time, Persian culture served as a
foundation for Greek moral philosophy and by extension, had a major
influence on later Jewish, Christian and Islamic philosophy. The transition
from mythological to philosophical knowledge occurs in Greek thought
when it encounters these Magi. In this regard, we shall see that Plato had
a special relationship with the Magi, and the Magi in turn held Plato in
high regard. However, Plato’s example is by no means an isolated case. We
have other equally famous examples of Greek philosophers who we are told
went to study in Persia before Plato, namely Pythagoras and Democritus.
It is with great sadness that we see this Religion of Light is today
in danger of extinction. Zoroastrians rarely receive converts. And their
numbers are rapidly dwindling. However, there is still hope for reform.
Where Zoroastrianism might eventually die as a religion, it might live on
as a moral philosophy unbounded by geography, ethnicity or politics just as
it was in ancient times
A Re-Interpretation of the Post-Modernist Tradition in the Discourse of African Philosophy
Authors: Akinola Festus Adegboyega
Published: February 2025

It is a truism in our world today that the effects of PostModernism have crept into many African societies and are already having
impacts on the people’s culture and philosophy. Many Africans are
consciously or unconsciously exhibiting postmodern tendencies, some of
which negate core African culture, values and philosophy. African
philosophy is a unique philosophy with its own culture that may not agree
many times with post-modern culture. This is because its concern is the
promotion and preservation of fundamental African values and culture.
The concern of this paper is the way post-modern culture is fast eroding
the core existential values of the people of Africa. Some of these values are
important to the livelihood and existence of the people. Sequel to this, this
paper evaluates post modernism in the light of its effects on fundamental
African culture and philosophy. Ultimately, the purpose is to find out how
core African values can be protected in the midst of postmodern incursion.
It is also to interrogate post-modernism in a manner that reveals its
tenets and also exposes these tenets to African understanding.
Synthesis and Humility: Integrative Mindset and Values after Postmodernity
Authors: Svetelj Tone
Published: February 2025

This reflection presents a framework for creating, integrating and
evaluating values needed for our time. Premodern, Modern, and
Postmodern perspectives are taken as complementary reflections, offering
an integrative paradigm of what is healthy, ethical, and spiritual, i.e., what
really matters in our time. This integrative perspective is an opportunity
to reflect critically on the last centuries of our Western intellectual
development, creating a perspective that balances what is knowable and
unknowable, while simultaneously rejecting any radical positions. The
integrative perspective balances faith and reason, spiritual and material,
relative and absolute, authority and freedom. Such synthesis requires a
humble and open mind that does not pretend to know absolute answers but
instead is willing to learn afresh from past experiences and present
challenges.
Unity in Diversity: Hindu Perspective
Authors: Bose Seema
Published: February 2025

Both accommodation and resistance were parts of Hindu
behaviour pattern. caste is related to intolerance and much more.
Mahatma Gandhi and B.R. Ambedkar fought for the rights and upliftment
of the ‘untouchables’ thereby giving them their due place in society. Not
letting them flourish in every possible way is a denial of humanity. Kant’s
advice can be emphasised here: “A social order requires defining the
freedom of the individual in such a way that it discovers its own limits in
other people.” Hinduism accommodates a great variety of life styles and
practices. Hindu communities assimilated people, customs and ideas
despite having a hierarchy based on caste, age sex, and also despite
having geographical diversity and thus bringing in unity without
uniformity in diversity without fragmentation. Within the Hindufold there
are numerous evidences of crosscultural fertilization. Their religious
outlook is unitary. Monier-Williams, a British scholar, wrote that
Hinduism was like ‘the sacred fig-tree of India (the banyan), which from a
single stem sends out numerous branches destined to send roots to the
ground and become trees themselves, till the parent stock is lost in a
dense forest of its own offshoots.’ Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall, a British
literary historian, also wrote: ‘Nowhere but in India can we now survey
with our own eyes an indigenous polytheism in full growth, flourishing
like a secular green bay tree among a people of ancient culture. The sects
of the Hindus are numerous and new sects are coming up but Hindu
sectarianism is not exclusive. The perfect harmony of relationships in this
world is realised through one’s union with other leaving behind the
barrier of social inhibitions, thereby fulfilling the highest mission of the
present age-the unification of mankind.’ This is an ideal for which the
present-day world must strive.
The Merchants of Heavenly Grace: On Academic Journals and Cultural Difference
Authors: Giordano John T.
Published: February 2025

The increasing standardization, specialization and
monetarization of academic publishing is designed to foster quality in
research and expression. But these tendencies also pose serious challenges
to the expression of cultural difference, particularly with regard to
philosophy and religious studies. Scholars from various cultural
backgrounds outside of mainstream universities often find themselves
marginalized when the quality of their work is judged through the metrics
of mainstream academic publishing. Smaller journals which give a forum
to local research are gradually disappearing or becoming irrelevant. The
corporate control of publishing limits the access and distribution of
information making it difficult for smaller regional universities to access
and conduct research. But these challenges to the expression of cultural
difference also reflect the deeper tendencies of the information age. To
approach this problem, we need to consider the conflict between culture and
spirit on the one hand, with the flows of information and capital on the
other. I will introduce this problem through an idea of hermeneutics
presented by George McLean. I will then discuss the approaches to this
problem by such writers as Michel Serres, Jean Francois Lyotard, Giorgio
Agamben and Jacques Derrida. I will show that these latter writers devise
strategies to reach something outside of the cybernetic flows of information
in the media age, but that their solutions are incomplete because they rely
on intellectual concepts of redemption and ignore the concrete practices of
spiritual redemption. The issue that cross-cultural journals must consider
is how to emphasize something beyond the merely intellectual; how to
amplify practice within its expression. I will address this issue in the spirit
of a poem by Emily Dickinson entitled “Publication – is the Auction” which
supplies the title of this essay
Inclusive Symbolic Frames and Codes Shaping Cultural Identity and Values
Authors: Osebor Ikechukwu Monday
Published: February 2025

Cultural identity frames, influencing how individuals
perceive themselves and others within a cultural context. The moral
implications associated with symbolic codes in relation to cultural
identity frames include the potential for misinterpretation,
stereotyping, and marginalization. Moreover, the symbolic moral
codes emphasize the importance of recognizing the dynamic nature
of cultural identities and the need for inclusive representations in
symbolic codes to foster understanding and respect across diverse
cultural groups. The study concludes by discussing potential
solutions to these challenges, such as promoting cultural
sensitivity, engaging in dialogue, and embracing diverse
perspectives to create more inclusive symbolic codes that accurately
reflect the complexity of cultural identities. Ultimately, navigating
symbolic codes in cultural identity frames requires a nuanced
understanding of cultural dynamics and a commitment
to respecting other cultural beliefs.
The experience of Deification in the Spiritualities of the Night: from Early Eastern Christianity to Saint John of the Cross
Authors: Cárdenas Paniel Reyes
Published: February 2025

According to the mystical Christian tradition, the utmost
point of union with the Divine is experienced by humans as “deification”. In this study, I show the continuous trend of values and experiences proposed by what we can call “Spiritualities of the night”.
For the spiritualities of the night, the knowledge of God is concealed
to the mind unless the human person undergoes a process of purification and union with God in love, this culminates in ecstasy as an
experience of ultimate union. The darkness involved in the senses
and understanding is, nonetheless, valued as an itinerary of growth.
The study traces the continuity of this tradition from Saint Gregory
of Nyssa, then moves into Evagrius Ponticus, then on Pseudo Dionysius the Areopagite, to Saint Symeon the New Theologian up to
Saint John of the Cross.
Artifacts in Cultural Identity and Spiritual Practice. Disjointedness of Traditional and Modern Artifacts, Symbols and Signs with Living Examples from Africa
Authors: Beyaraza Ernest
Published: February 2025

Animals adapt to nature for survival. Man, instead, makes nature adapt
to him. Animals change identity. Man changes skills and environment. In this
process, man makes artifacts. Artifact is a derivative of Latin arte (skill) and factum
(made) and means what is created through skill and not merely given by nature.
Artifacts, therefore, reflect human success and pride. Indigenous people with
familial heritage from their ethnic groups hand down the heritage from old to new
generations. So, any people is identified with the heritage. In this heritage, artifacts
identify both their producers and the environment. As such, artifacts are typical of
certain peoples and places. They cover whatever is man-made. In changing
environment, man creates a cultural order and superimposes the cultural on the
natural order. Like artifacts, the cultural order mirrors both human ingenuity and
natural reality. Cultural order suits human needs in the specific environment and
so identifies both creative people and nature. Man and nature are not merely
observable physical phenomena. Humanity combines physical, mental or
intellectual and spiritual nature. This tripartite phenomenon is reflected in
cultures. Nature, too, is not inanimate clay from which cultural objects are modelled
- a typical mistake of naturalism and scientism. Man and nature are different
entities but complement each other. There is a supra-natural reality beyond them.
Thus, artifacts are made in reference to personal needs, natural dictates and
spiritual roles. Artifacts also reflect human relations. Human contacts initiate a
cross-fertilisation of ideas, concepts, perspectives, aspirations, practices, artifacts
and other aspects of life. Globalisation through traditional migrations led to ancient
civilisations. These are later destroyed by marauding gangs that culminate into
imperialism, colonialism and modern globalization. Due to capitalism, the new
forces undermine skills and usage of traditional artifacts. Economically, the
artifacts are avoided to open markets for factory products. Mental colonisation turns
victims against their artifacts as inferior, immoral and irreligious. Administrative
colonisation uses force to ban cultural objects and traditions. Science and technology
make local industrialisation produce foreign artifacts that hardly satisfy human, environmental and spiritual needs. Demand is addition of value to people´s raw
materials, make money, and develop in all aspects of life, particularly jealously
guarding Ubuntu. Knowledge and artifacts transfer serve foregn interests.
Independence balances cultures and avoids domination.
Falling in Love
Authors: Giddy Patrick
Published: February 2025

The phenomenon of falling in love is undoubtedly highly valued but at the
same time is often viewed with skepticism. The “face-to-face” nature of romantic
love, accompanied inevitably by a measure of obsession, seems to conflict with the
more stable friendship-love, imagined as “side-by-side” and focused – as in Aristotle
– on the cultivation of virtues of character. In this paper I argue that a more positive
take on romantic love is made possible by a certain kind of metaphysics of the
person. In particular, Feuerbach’s notion of the “inner life” constitutive of
personhood, can be expanded beyond Feuerbach’s materialism to ground the
possibility of fully transferring one’s self-love to the other person. Key to this
interpretation is Rahner’s idea of the human being’s openness to an infinite horizon,
corresponding to the infinite longing of romantic love, and not at all doomed to the
frustration that Jean-Paul Sartre, for example, would have it. I draw on Aquinas’
distinction between love that is concupiscence and love that is friendship, to make
this point.
Strategi Komunikasi Pengasuh Asrama Dalam Penguasaan Bahasa Asing Santri di Pondok At-Tibyan Tanjung Morawa Deli Serdang Sumatra Utara
Authors: Muhammad Ikhsan  , Junaidi  , Irham Dongoran
Published: February 2025

This research aims to identify the communication strategies used by dormitory caregivers in facilitating the mastery of foreign languages ​​by students at the At-Tibyan Tanjung Morawa Islamic Boarding School, Deli Serdang, North Sumatra. This research also aims to analyze the factors that influence the implementation of these communication strategies in the Islamic boarding school environment. The research method used is qualitative with a descriptive approach. Data collection techniques used include observation, interviews and documentation. The findings show that the At-Tibyan Islamic Boarding School is not only an educational institution that shapes character and morality, but also a place where the younger generation can master world knowledge through mastering foreign languages. The communication strategies implemented by the dormitory caregivers have proven to be effective and have resulted in students' achievements in the field of language. However, dormitory caregivers continue to carry out evaluations to correct deficiencies in language mastery.
Optimasi Tata Ruang Dalam Meningkatkan Kenyamanan Budaya Baca Pemustaka di Perpustakaan Jusuf Kalla Universitas Islam Internasional Indonesia
Authors: Audrey Marchanda Putri  , Raziq Hasan
Published: February 2025

Library spatial planning plays a crucial role in creating comfort and supporting the reading culture of users. This study examines the optimization of the spatial arrangement of the Jusuf Kalla Library at UIII to enhance efficiency, accessibility, and the appeal of reading spaces. Using a qualitative descriptive approach, this research evaluates zoning, lighting, circulation, and ease of access to collections and supporting facilities. The results indicate that natural lighting, clear zoning, and digital technology integration can enhance user comfort. Flexible zoning allows users to choose spaces according to their needs, whether for individual study or group discussions. However, limitations in accessibility, space efficiency, and operational hours remain challenges. As a solution, this study recommends optimizing spatial planning through a more dynamic design, improved accessibility, and the utilization of smart technology to enrich user experiences. This optimization is expected to serve as a model for modern libraries that are more functional and attractive.
Pengaruh Pemberian Video Edukasi Perawatan Payudara Terhadap Pengetahuan Ibu Hamil Tm III Dengan Usia Kehamilan 34 -40 Minggu Di Klinik Kartika Jaya Kota Samarinda
Authors: Mursidah  , Dwi Hartati
Published: February 2025

Background: Breast care during pregnancy is essential for the breastfeeding process. Increasing pregnant women's knowledge can be achieved through health education on breast care using video media. Based on research and questionnaire responses before the provision of video media, 19 respondents (63.3%) had low knowledge about breast care at Kartika Jaya Clinic in Samarinda, indicating a lack of awareness among pregnant women regarding breast care. Objective: To determine the effect of educational video media on breast care knowledge among third-trimester pregnant women. Methods: This study employed a pre-experimental design with a "one-group pretest and posttest design" to assess the impact of video education on breast care knowledge among third-trimester pregnant women. The study used a total sampling method with a sample size of 30 respondents. A questionnaire was used as an instrument to measure knowledge about breast care. Results: The Wilcoxon test showed a p-value of 0.000 (p < 0.05), indicating a significant increase in knowledge, proving that video media is effective in providing health education for third-trimester pregnant women at Kartika Jaya Clinic, Samarinda. Conclusion: Educational videos can enhance knowledge about breast care at Kartika Jaya Clinic, Samarinda. Recommendation: The use of educational video media should be encouraged to make health education more engaging.
Implications of Integrating Nutrigenomic Aspects on Training Ability and Recovery in Athletes: A Literature Review
Authors: I Putu Gede Windhu Saputra
Published: February 2025

Introduction: Nutrition impacts sports performance significantly, influencing each athlete differently. Factors such as age, ethnicity, and genetics affect how athletes respond to nutrition. This review investigates how incorporating nutrigenomics enhances training and recovery in athletes.
Methods: A systematic search following PRISMA 2020 guidelines was conducted to find relevant studies that examine the impact of genetic variations on nutritional effects related to athletic performance and recovery. The included articles are non-observational studies selected based on specific inclusion and exclusion criteria and were qualitatively analyzed.
Results: The review included nine studies, primarily clinical and randomized controlled trials, conducted in Iran, Brazil, and Canada. Most studies focused on male athletes aged 15 to 40 years. The studies suggest that caffeine and vitamin D effects on performance may vary based on individual genotypes, but specific genes do not consistently influence these effects.
Conclusion: Adopting genetic-based nutrition and supplementation approaches holds promising potential for optimizing athletic performance by tailoring nutrient intake to individual genetic profiles.
Análise dos desafios do marketing digital em uma empresa distribuidora de ferro e aço: estudo de caso
Authors: Lisbôa Antonio Henrique Carriel , Botelho João Pedro Machado , Costa Gustavo Mendes de Vasconcelos , Pakes Paulo Renato , Rocha Tiago Soares da
Published: February 2025

Definido como a gestão lucrativa do relacionamento com os clientes, o marketing nas organizações constitui hoje uma área fundamental para a criação de valor no mercado-alvo, e sua prática se dá por meio de diferentes formas. O presente artigo visa compreender o funcionamento da empresa X, fundada em 1988, sediada na cidade de Itapetininga/SP. O estudo busca identificar e analisar os principais desafios enfrentados pela referida empresa no âmbito do marketing digital. O método selecionado, em função de sua adequação com a abordagem e contingências da pesquisa, foi o estudo de caso, conduzido em três grandes fases, iniciando-se pela construção do quadro teórico, seguindo para a pesquisa de campo e, por fim, realizando a divulgação dos resultados observados. Constatou-se que a empresa enfrenta desafios em personalizar a comunicação com seus clientes e adaptar seus produtos às necessidades do mercado, sem uma estratégia clara de marketing digital.
Gestão do treinamento: a interferência do ciclo menstrual em atletas de handebol
Authors: Fernandes Lisiane Coelho , Kanan Lília Aparecida , Falk Paulo Roberto Alves , Pedroso Samuel Ramos
Published: February 2025

Considerando a relevância de entender como fatores biológicos influenciam o desempenho das atletas, este estudo objetiva analisar a interferência do ciclo menstrual na percepção de esforço das jogadoras de Handebol. Para tanto, a pesquisa contou com a participação de onze atletas, que responderam a questionários sociodemográficos e sobre o ciclo menstrual, além de preencherem a Escala de Percepção Subjetiva de Esforço (PSE) após cada sessão de treinamento. O estudo comparou a percepção das atletas com o planejamento do treinador, em até 30 minutos após os treinos. Os resultados indicaram que a percepção de esforço foi maior durante a fase lútea do ciclo menstrual, sendo menor na fase folicular. Desse modo, observa-se que as variações hormonais influenciam diretamente a percepção do esforço, o que pode afetar o desempenho das atletas. Conclui-se que a personalização dos treinamentos, levando em consideração o ciclo menstrual das jogadoras, é essencial para otimizar o desempenho no esporte e respeitar a individualidade biológica das mulheres. A pesquisa reforça a importância de monitorar essas variáveis para um planejamento de treino mais eficaz.
Impact of Stressors on Academic Performance: A Case Study of Business Students in Karachi
Authors: Waheed Saba , Khan Asif , Ameer Aqsa , Khan Muhammad Zair , Masi Maristella
Published: February 2025

The study examines how perceived stress affects academic performance at Karachi's business schools. It tries to discover how stressors affect students' capacity to achieve academic success by looking at the particular setting of business education. This study has the potential to provide insight into tactics that can improve students' success and well-being in the challenging academic setting of Karachi's business schools. The study aims to examine the role of students' perceived stress on academic performance in the business schools of Karachi, Pakistan. The quantitative approach has been adopted for data collection, and 384 sample responses have been gathered from university students. The PLS-SEM analysis technique has been used for data analysis. The results have identified that academic load positively and significantly affects perceived stress. Financial constraints have a positive and significant effect on perceived stress. Perceived stress has a negative and significant effect on academic performance. Social support has a negative and significant effect on perceived stress. Time management has a negative but insignificant effect on perceived stress. Additionally, in this study, the factors which cause stress to students in university life are discussed. Keeping in focus this study, the practitioners should try to adopt practices which can reduce the stress level for students so that they can perform better academically and get better results. Financial constraint is considered one of the biggest reasons contributing to students' stress.
Empirical Analysis of the Growth Dynamics and Instability of Cotton, Jute, and Mesta in India
Authors: Mishra Arpit , Kumar Manish , Singh Gulshan , Singh Subhi
Published: February 2025

The present study focuses on exploring the scenario of instability and growth rates in area, production, and yield of commercial crops viz., cotton, jute and mesta in India, on utilizing Cuddy-Della Valle (CDV) instability indices and compound growth rates (CGRs). For the empirical analysis, secondary time series data pertaining to area, production, and yield of the concerned crops have been collected for the period 2000-2021. Furthermore, to carry out the comparative assessment, the concerned period has been classified into period-I (2000-2010), period-II (2011-2021), and the pooled (or overall) period (2000-2021).The statistical coefficients viz., coefficient of variation (CV) and coefficient of determination  have been evaluated. The key findings of the investigation reveal that, during the overall period, cotton reported highest instability in terms of production (i.e., 17.89 %) and yield (i.e., 17.12 %) as compared to the area (i.e., 7.36 %). Moreover, jute and mesta reported low instabilities in area (i.e., 3.30 %), production (i.e., 5.05 %) and yield (i.e., 3.07 %). Furthermore, in terms of growth rate of cotton, the period-I witnessed significant growth in area (i.e., 2.80 %), production (i.e., 13.24 %) and yield (i.e., 10.16 %), as compared to the period-II. However, jute and mesta witnessed negative growth rates in terms of area and production during the period-I, period-II and the overall period of investigation. Hence, focus of attention is required for enhancing the production of cotton, jute and mesta, and future policy formulation.
Assessing the Antidiabetic Properties of Methanolic extract of Baccaurea motleyana leaf in Alloxan-induced Diabetic Mice
Authors: Ashhab Md. Atiq , Islam Md. Monirul , Haque Md. Muhaimanul , Ahmed Md. Sohan , Raji Md. Mehebub Al , Rohman Mokhleshur , Juthi Zakia Sultana , Islam Mohammad Amirul
Published: February 2025

Background: Medicines made from Baccaurea motleyana are used to treat a wide range of illnesses. The current study targeted to investigate the methanolic extract of Baccaurea motleyana leaf's antidiabetic qualities.
Results: The leaf extract of Baccaurea motleyana at a concentration of 100μg/ml, the α-amylase activity was found to be 37.01% inhibited and the α-glucosidase activity to be 55.05% inhibited in the α-amylase inhibition experiment. The leaf extract considerably (P < 0.05) reduced blood glucose levels and improved lipid profile levels such as (TG, LDL, TC, VLDL & HDL) in diabetic mice, based on the findings of antidiabetic tests conducted in in-vivo. When compared to diabetic animals that were not treated, treatments with the extract of methanol of Baccaurea motleyana leaf for 24 days significantly (P < 0.05) decreased the effects of the ALT and AST enzymes in the diabetic mice (alloxan induced) also.
Conclusion: According to this study, the leaf extract of Baccaurea motleyana has strong antidiabetic effects. Because of this, they may be able to help avoid diabetes mellitus and its complications.
Narrative Analysis of Aboriginal Knowledge as A Tool for Learners’ Socialisation: Implications for Best Child-upbringing Practices in Cameroon
Authors: Lukong Tani Emmanuel , Feh Che Mary Lum
Published: February 2025

Aboriginal (Indigenous) knowledge systems are culture specific; they form the basis for a people’s livelihood. Folklore and Children’s traditional songs and games are one aspect of Indigenous knowledge systems. Through the songs and games children got to know their environment and acquired life skills among other things. This article dwells on the existence and performance of traditional children’s songs and games and the use of proverbs and folktales among children. Traditional children’s songs and games are no longer as popular as they used to be. In fact, it is possible that they are facing extinction. This paper also establishes that this status quo is as a result of quite a number of factors for example formal education and technological advancement among several others. Therefore, educationists and other key players are called upon to consider coming up with frame works which help advance Indigenous knowledge. Africa has always been an important source of rich information for knowledge production. The paper was anchored on the Eco-Cultural (ontogenesis) Theory of Bame Nsamenang (2015). Nsamenang (2015) explains the eco-cultural theories of development in what is known as social ontogenesis. The study created a theoretical stance known as social ontogenesis, which is grounded on an eco-cultural viewpoint and an indigenous West African idea. Curiosity about Africa has always existed, catering to many interests and imaginations. However, how can we educate and learn about Africa in a way that is influenced by an understanding of the rich cultural knowledge, complexity, and historical struggle of indigenous peoples to forge their own paths and aspirations? One could argue that understanding socialization and education techniques provides some crucial guidance in this quest for indigenous knowledge and epistemology. To educate young people, traditional African education has made use of a range of teaching and pedagogical techniques in addition to manuals and materials.