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ELEMENTAL ANALYSIS OF SOME LOCALLY PREPARED ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES CONSUMED WITHIN KADUNA METROPOLIS, NIGERIA
Authors: FATIMAH MUHAMMAD KNTAPO  , OKUNNOLA MOSUNMOLA RHODA  , YAGANA BABA ABBA
Published: February 2025

Locally prepared alcoholic beverages are consumed by both low and high income earners in preference to the more expensive brewed ones. The concentrations of both macro elements (Na, K, Ca and Mg) and trace elements (Cd, Ni, Mn and Fe) in different types of locally prepared alcoholic beverages (palm wine (PW), burukutu (BK) and ogogoro (OG)) consumed within Kaduna metropolis, Nigeria were analysed with a view to providing information on the dietary intakes of essential metals and exposure of human to toxic metals. The concentrations of the macro elements were analysed using Flame Atomic Emission Spectro photometer (FAES) after nictric acid and perchloric acid digestion (2:1) while the trace elements were analysed by atomic absorption spectrometer (AAS) after nitric acid and hydrochloric acid digestion (2:1). The mean  levels of the macro elements ranged from 3.170 -242.453 mg/L for Na, 17.358 - 4256.680 mg/L for K, 0.422 - 1700.523 mg/L for Ca and 3.118 - 965 mg/L for Mg. The mean concentrations of the trace elements in the samples ranged from 0.422 - 2.362mg/L for Ni, 0.205–4.320 mg/L for Mn, 0.295-0.702mg/L for Cd and 0.826 - 52.953mg/L for Fe. some values obtained were above the standard limit set by WHO/SON while others were within.  Sorghum-based alcoholic beverages (BK) contained  higher concentrations of most elements while local dry gin (OG) had least concentration with most analysed elements below detection limit (BDL). Despite their nutritive value beverages with metal concentration above their permissible limit could be toxic and deleterious to living things so their production and consumption should be monitored and regulated by appropriate regulatory agencies.
Las Actividades Rectoras Como Estrategia Para Fortalecer La Inteligencia Emocional La Institución Educativa Omar Torrijo
Authors: Calao Sariego Yojaira , Calao Sariego Rosaura , Garavito Campillo Erica
Published: February 2025

El presente articulo aborda los resultados de una investigación enfocada en la importancia de desarrollar e implementar la inteligencia emocional (IE) en los niños de la primera infancia a través de las actividades rectoras. La IE tiene un impacto en el bienestar integral y mental en los infantes. Además, es crucial en los primeros años de vida puesto que, se establecen bases sólidas para desarrollar las habilidades sociales y afectivas que ayudarán a lo largo de su vida. Sin embargo, se ha observado que los docentes de preescolar no implementan estrategias didácticas efectivas para desarrollar esta habilidad en los niños. Esta investigación cualitativa se centra en niños de transición, con el objetivo de crear estrategias didácticas innovadoras que fomenten el desarrollo de la inteligencia emocional, lo que permitirá a los niños manejar mejor sus emociones, establecer interacciones sociales saludables y desarrollar confianza en sí mismos. La población se encuentra un docente y el grado de transición conformado por 17 estudiantes, de los cuales 14 son niñas y 3 niños, entre las edades de 5 y 6 años de la institución educativa Omar Torrijo localizada en la ciudad de Sincelejo sucre. Al fortalecer la inteligencia emocional, los niños podrán enfrentar desafíos sociales y emocionales de manera más efectiva, lo que a su vez contribuirá a su bienestar y éxito en la vida. Es fundamental que los docentes y educadores prioricen el desarrollo de esta habilidad en los niños desde una edad temprana
Prestaciones de las Herramientas TIC para la indagación científica con estudiantes de media académica en la Institución Educativa Número 10
Authors: Mora Flórez Cristian David , Flórez Tovar Jaime , Pereira Hernández Sergio
Published: February 2025

Este estudio analiza las dificultades que enfrenta la Institución Educativa Número 10 de Maicao, Colombia, en relación con la calidad de la enseñanza y el rendimiento académico de sus estudiantes. La escuela presenta serias dificultades debido a la insuficiencia de materiales didácticos, deficiencias en su infraestructura y carencias en la capacitación del cuerpo docente. Estos factores influyen directamente en la educación de una comunidad heterogénea, conformada por jóvenes indígenas Wayúu y estudiantes provenientes de entornos socioeconómicos desfavorables. La investigación se desarrolla bajo un enfoque cualitativo enmarcado en el paradigma sociocrítico y sigue la metodología de investigación acción. Se examina cómo la implementación de un modelo pedagógico centrado en el aprendizaje basado en proyectos, junto con la incorporación de Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación (TIC), puede contribuir al fortalecimiento de las habilidades científicas de indagación en alumnos de los últimos grados de secundaria. Para la interpretación de los datos, se aplican procedimientos de codificación abierta, axial y selectiva, a partir del análisis de entrevistas semiestructuradas, grupos focales y documentos relevantes. Los resultados evidencian que la adopción de estrategias didácticas innovadoras y el aprovechamiento de herramientas digitales favorecen el interés, la participación y el desarrollo de capacidades científicas en los estudiantes. resaltando la relevancia de vincular los nuevos aprendizajes con experiencias previas y de fomentar un entorno que promueva la autonomía y el desarrollo de habilidades esenciales.
The Core Essence and Practical Approaches to Preventing Torture in Criminal Procedure Law
Authors: Wang Sshuaijie
Published: February 2025

刑讯逼供在学术概念上是指，司法人员对犯罪嫌疑人、被告人使用肉刑或变相肉刑，逼取口供的一种违法行为。是被我国刑法所禁止的一种违法行为。是司法公正环节造成众多冤屈案件的根源，也是法治社会刑事诉讼最棘手的硬骨头。由于多方面原因因素的共同作用导致，刑讯逼供一直存在于各个时代和社会发展中，因此对刑讯逼供及其现实对策进行深入地探究与研讨，完善相关法律法规，对促进我国新时代法治社会建设具有重要的意义与深远影响。本文是通过从刑讯逼供的概述，刑讯逼供产生的原因，刑讯逼供解决的现实对策三个方面来论述，意在通过探讨刑讯逼供概述，综合系统分析其产生的原因以及对于刑讯逼供的现实存在情况给予相关解决策略。同时，刑讯逼供的解决策略也是本文的重点，将着重论述该方面的内容。
From Human Anchors to AI Anchors: A Review of Technology, Ethics, and Audience Response in Audiovisual Media Transformation
Authors: NIU YONGBO
Published: February 2025

This review investigates the development and influence of AI anchors in the broadcasting sector, focusing on their significance, theoretical underpinnings, and practical applications. It explores the shift from traditional human presenters to AI-driven systems, with attention to advancements in natural language processing, speech technology, and audience interaction. The findings suggest that while AI anchors improve efficiency and allow for tailored content delivery, they encounter challenges in replicating the emotional resonance of human hosts. The study also highlights existing gaps in research, particularly in areas such as ethical concerns, audience attitudes, and cultural contexts. Recommendations for future studies include deepening the exploration of AI anchors' roles in the media landscape, advocating for an integrated approach that combines the unique advantages of AI and human broadcasters.
Research on the Impact of Digital Tourism Experience on Tourist Loyalty in Rural Tourism Destinations
Authors: Zeng Hui , Yu Shihao , Li Pan , Wang Huinan
Published: February 2025

Advancing the digital transformation of rural tourism holds profound and significant practical implications for rural revitalization. In this study, the data obtained from the field research were systematically analyzed through structural equation modeling (SEM) with digital sensory experience, digital emotional experience, and digital-related experience as independent variables and perceived emotional value as a mediator variable, to reveal the path of the digital tourism experience on tourist loyalty. The results of the SEM analysis showed that: the digital sensory experience directly and positively influenced tourist loyalty; the digital emotional experience and digital-related experience both positively influenced perceived emotional value, and perceived emotional value further positively influenced tourist loyalty. In addition, perceived emotional value played a mediating role in the influence of digital emotional experience and digital-related experience on tourist loyalty. Digital tourism experience enhanced the perceived emotional value for tourists, subsequently leading to an elevation in tourist loyalty towards rural tourism destinations. In light of the conclusions inferred from the antecedent quantitative analysis, this research has propounded particular developmental prescriptions for the digital metamorphosis of rural tourism and endowed robust decision-making sustenance for the sustainable evolution of rural tourism.
Ethical Considerations in Smart Grid Optimization: Promoting Energy Equity and Fairness
Authors: Luo Dongwen , Pan Weihao
Published: February 2025

As the global climate security situation becomes increasingly severe, the development of renewable energy has become an important strategic direction for global energy transformation and addressing climate risks. Terminal energy electrification is a key measure to accelerate this strategic shift from the energy consumption end. By increasing the proportion of clean energy power supply in terminal energy consumption, it can reduce dependence on fossil energy, improve energy utilization efficiency, reduce environmental pollution, and promote sustainable development. Under the "dual carbon" goal, China proposes to build a clean, low-carbon, safe and efficient energy system, accelerate the construction of a new power system with new energy as the main body, and promote the large-scale optimization of clean power resources. However, China's power structure, which is dominated by thermal power, is heavily dependent on coal, and energy resources and power demand are inversely distributed. More than 80% of energy resources are distributed in the western and northern regions, while more than 70% of energy consumption is concentrated in the eastern and central regions. Against this background, the country has adopted macro-adjustment measures such as "west-to-east power transmission" and "north-to-south coal transportation" to optimize energy allocation and promote energy supply and demand balance. At the same time, the western and northern regions have borne many negative externalities of energy production transferred from the eastern and central regions, such as coal-fired power generation, carbon emissions in coal production, environmental pollution, and health impacts. In addition, for resource-based cities and high-carbon industry clusters that are highly dependent on fossil energy, In the short term, terminal energy electrification will increase the burden on economic income, energy security, reemployment, electricity costs, etc., and thus cause new regional social equity issues. Therefore, in the context of China accelerating the high-quality development of new energy in the new era and large-scale layout of renewable energy base construction, it is of great practical significance to focus on the three dilemmas of energy "security, equity, and ecology" and study and identify the spatiotemporal pattern characteristics and key influencing factors of the coupled coordinated development of regional terminal energy electrification and social equity.
Enhancing Student Learning Outcomes through AI-Driven Educational Interventions: A Comprehensive Study of Classroom Behavior and Machine Learning Integration
Authors: Yuan ChunHong , Xiao Nan , Pei YuTing , Bu YuJia , Cai YuLe
Published: February 2025

This study investigates the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in education to enhance student learning outcomes through personalized interventions. Using datasets encompassing classroom behavior, individualized learning paths, and teaching practices, the study identifies key factors influencing student engagement and performance. Employing the XGBoost classifier, it achieves a 96% accuracy in predicting student outcomes, enabling targeted support for at-risk students. A mixed-methods approach reveals the importance of engagement, effective teaching, and personalization in fostering inclusive learning environments. Despite limitations, such as controlled settings and lack of longitudinal data, this research underscores the transformative potential of AI in creating equitable educational opportunities. Future studies should explore scalability, long-term effects, and diverse AI techniques to maximize benefits.
Examining the effects of virtual reality travel on tourist happiness and travel intentions using extended stimulus-organism-response theory: the perspective of Chinese tourists
Authors: Zhaoqi LI , Qian Zhang
Published: February 2025

The purpose of our study was to identify the psychological mechanisms through which VR presence and enjoyment influence travel intentions and explore how elements of different contexts (hedonic and utilitarian values) to influence travel experience satisfaction. We used Credamo to collect our data and used SPSS 28.0, AMOS 28.0, SPSS Process Macro to analyze the data. The results of analysis showed that VR presence and VR enjoyment positively influence travel experience satisfaction, which, in turn, boosts tourist happiness and positively influenced travel intention. Moderating effect indicate that utilitarian values strengthen the relationship between VR presence and travel experience satisfaction and hedonic values strengthen the relationship between VR enjoyment and travel experience satisfaction. In addition, this study potentially reveals the subtle interrelationships between various factors influencing tourists' behaviors. And it offers key insights into tourist psychology in VR-driven destination marketing.
爱国主义教育视阈下中国中小学音乐教材建设的启示
Authors: 林 佳婉 , 尹 新春
Published: February 2025

As an important vehicle for the transmission of Chinese traditional culture and a major medium for the dissemination of national and ethnic value systems, textbooks form the correct core values of patriotism to young people. Since the education reform in the 1990s, Russia has been reshaping the essence of modern school patriotic education on the basis of the research on patriotic education in the Soviet Union, and has provided more possibilities for patriotic education in the reform and construction of primary and middle school music teaching materials. The Russian primary and middle music textbooks (grades 1-8) take the cultivation and development of students' patriotic feelings as their theme, and implement patriotic education through four dimensions: the beauty of nature, the sound of the nation, the love of life, and the inheritance of history, which provides an all-around reference for the construction of primary and middle music textbooks in China.
连接与阻隔：陶渊明诗文中的山
Authors: 方 立娟
Published: February 2025

Mountain is important geographical space in Tao Yuanming's literary works. Some mountains from Yuanming's reading memory and imagination connect some real scenes, and some mountains as real geographical space also connect Yuanming's Xing Yi road and home, or connect the countryside and home, to a certain extent, reflecting the poet's inner emotions. Some mountains have a barrier effect, which is the shelter of Yuanming when he looks at his hometown on the way to Xing Yi, and after Yuanming's retirement, the mountains also block the contact between Yuanming and the outside world to a certain extent, but it is also a barrier to stabilize the inner world. The mountains in the Tao Hua Yuan Ji connect the road into Taoyuan, but also isolate the outside world to a certain extent. Yuanming is like the fisherman in Tao Hua Yuan Ji, who can enter the Taoyuan world from the mountains, and Yuanming is like the man in the Taoyuan, who takes the mountains as the barrier and finally lives in the world close to the Taoyuan. The mountain is the spiritual territory in the life of Yuanming and has special meaning.
拜登政府时期美国对台半导体政策及影响路径
Authors: 黄 佳丽
Published: February 2025

拜登政府上台执政后颁布了一系列供应链重构相关的产业政策，尤其以高科技产业与尖端技术领域为政策核心。美国推动半导体供应链再岸化并通过正向补贴投资和反向管制约束措施加强与台湾地区的半导体产业合作，是以加强全球供应链安全和韧性为借口服务于自身的政治经济利益与国际竞争中的霸权逻辑。拜登政府对台产业政策的实施路径主要包括经济利益路径、国家（地区）安全路径和大国霸权路径，对台湾地区经济格局、政治格局和权力格局产生深刻影响。总的来说，美国对台产业政策使得台湾半导体产业优势缩减，促使台湾经济可持续发展面临挑战；美国将台湾作为中美竞争中重要战略工具，推动台海地区紧张局势愈发激烈；美国对台湾在经济和政治上的拉拢与胁迫，使得台湾在国际权力格局中更加依附美国，丧失了更多自主性。
新质生产力视角下的横琴深合区制度型开放
Authors: 殷 知行
Published: February 2025

The rapid changes led by new quality productive forces are impacting today's society, bringing unprecedented challenges to the construction of an institutional opening-up system in Guangdong-Macao In-Depth Cooperation Zone. The development of new quality productive forces and the institutional opening-up of the Guangdong-Macao In-Depth Cooperation Zone promote each other. Meanwhile, the institutional opening-up aimed at new quality productive forces faces numerous challenges in the planning and development of the Guangdong-Macao In-Depth Cooperation Zone, including institutional barriers, insufficient resource allocation, and an unstable international environment. Enhancing the industrial linkage between Hengqin and Macao, increasing Macao's elements in Hengqin, fully leveraging Macao's platform advantages, attracting high-quality industries, and cultivating professional talents suitable for the new quality industries are effective approaches to tackle these challenges.
The Meanings of Faculty-student Interaction Outside the Classroom: A Phenomenological Study in the Chinese Con-textese context
Authors: Tan Xiaoxi
Published: February 2025

Using a hermeneutic phenomenological approach, this study sought to understand the meanings of faculty-student interaction outside the classroom in the Chinese context by describing and interpreting students’ lived experiences. The study gathered data by interviewing 28 participants from a research university and asking them to write notes. The data were analyzed regarding the three existentials of lived time, lived space, and lived relationships to others. The findings revealed that compensation and creation are the meanings of faculty-student interaction outside the classroom for students. Furthermore, this study suggested that (1) emotional interaction is a significant type, (2) students are the drivers and constructors of their interactions with faculty, and (3) the meanings of faculty-student interaction are rooted in students’ previous educational experience and the cultural context in which they live. Overall, the study extended the understanding of faculty-student interaction outside the classroom. The limitations of this study and some implications for future studies are discussed.
PERTURBATIONS BIOLOGIQUES AU COURS DU PALUDISME D’IMPORTATION : À PROPOS DE 30 CAS
Authors: YASSINE ALAMI MOHAMMED , BELAOUNI MOURAD , BAHRAOUY RABII , KHALID LAHMADI , SBITI MOHAMMED , LOUZI LHOUSSAINE , ER-RAMI MOHAMMED
Published: February 2025

Le paludisme est une érythrocytopathie fébrile et hémolysante due à la présence, au développement et à la multiplication dans les hématies d’un protozoaire du genre Plasmodium, transmis à l’homme par la piqûre d’un insecte, l’anophèle femelle. Il constitue une menace pour les voyageurs en général et les militaires en particulier issus de pays non endémiques et se rendant dans les régions tropicales. Cette infection s’accompagne assez fréquemment de perturbations hématologiques et biochimiques. Quoique non spécifiques, ces signes biologiques peuvent être évocateurs du paludisme chez des patients ayant séjourné en zone d’endémie et présentant des signes cliniques de la maladie. A travers ce travail, nous avons essayé d’étudier les caractéristiques des perturbations biologiques portant sur la numération formule sanguine (NFS) ; la C-réactive protéine (CRP) ; le bilan lipidique et la lacticodéshydrogénase (LDH) du paludisme d’importation. C’est une étude rétrospective réalisée au service de parasitologie de l’hôpital militaire Moulay Ismail de Meknès durant une période de 4 ans, du janvier 2021 à décembre 2024. Nous avons analysé la NFS, le bilan lipidique, la CRP et la LDH chez une série de 30 cas de paludisme d’importation chez des militaires ayant séjourné en Afrique tropicale. La thrombopénie était présente chez 90% des cas (n=27), l’anémie chez 43% des cas (n=13) et la lymphopénie chez 50% des cas (n=15). La CRP était augmentée chez 96,5% des cas (n=27). L’hypocholestérolémie était observée chez 93% des cas (n=27), l’hypoHDLémie chez 88% des cas (n=22) et l’hypertriglycéridémie chez 85% des cas (n=23). Concernant les enzymes, une élévation de la LDH a été observée chez 62,5% des cas (n=10), des ASAT chez 7% des cas (n=2) et des ALAT chez 13,4% (n=4). L’hypoglycémie a été retrouvée chez 7,4% des cas (n=2).

Devant une suspicion d’infection palustre avec un examen direct négatif, la présence associée de ces perturbations biologiques augmenterait la probabilité diagnostique en faveur du paludisme .
THE MAGNITUDE OF CHRONIC DIABETES COMPLICATIONS AND THEIR ASSOCIATED FACTORS AMONG DIABETIC PATIENTS ATTENDING A TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL: A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY
Authors: Mujtaba Ali , Tariq Muqadas , Zafar Bushra , Rehman Muhammad Attique Ur , Ahmed Naveed , Zaman Faheem , Ali Malik Ishfaq , Rehman Ata Ur
Published: February 2025

Background: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a leading non-communicable disease worldwide, with Pakistan ranking third globally in terms of diabetes prevalence. Chronic complications of diabetes impose a significant burden on healthcare systems, leading to increased morbidity, healthcare costs, and reduced quality of life. Despite advancements in treatment, a substantial proportion of patients develop complications that could be mitigated through early diagnosis, lifestyle modifications, and adherence to treatment. Identifying risk factors and their association with complications is essential for developing targeted interventions to improve patient outcomes.
Objective: This study aims to assess the prevalence of chronic diabetes complications and identify key factors contributing to their development in patients attending a tertiary care hospital.
Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted at Ayub Teaching Hospital, Abbottabad, from September to November 2024. A total of 196 clinically diagnosed type 2 diabetic patients were recruited using a non-probability convenience sampling technique. Data were collected through structured face-to-face interviews, and medical records were reviewed for diabetes-related complications. Statistical analyses were performed using SPSS-27, with associations evaluated through chi-square and logistic regression tests, considering a p-value <0.05 as statistically significant.
Results: The majority of participants (50.0%) were aged 41–60 years, with 55.6% being female. The most prevalent complications were diabetic eye disease (55.6%) and nephropathy (45.4%), followed by coronary artery disease (30.6%), neuropathy (28.6%), hypertension (28.6%), cerebrovascular accidents (27.0%), and diabetic foot disease (25.5%). A significant association was found between regular physical activity and reduced complication risk (p=0.052). Duration of diabetes showed a strong correlation with coronary artery disease, diabetic foot, and diabetic eye disease (p=0.000), and nephropathy (p=0.002). A weak association was observed between BMI and coronary artery disease (p=0.050), while compliance with medications showed a notable association with coronary artery disease (p=0.066).
Conclusion: Age, lifestyle factors, and medication adherence significantly influence the development of chronic diabetes complications. Collaborative efforts between healthcare providers and policymakers are essential to enhance early detection, patient education, and comprehensive diabetes management strategies to reduce complications and improve health outcomes.
LIVED EXPERIENCES OF FEMALE WAITRESS IN PAKISTAN
Authors: Irfan Afia , Ijaz Shirmeen , Tassahuq Sahar , Imtiaz Iqra , Asghar Maryiam , Arif Muhammad Bilal
Published: February 2025

Background: This study investigates the lived experiences of female waitresses in Pakistan, focusing on the challenges and societal perceptions they face. With the expansion of the hospitality sector, understanding these experiences is crucial for addressing issues of gender inequality and workplace discrimination prevalent in service-oriented professions.
Objective: The research aims to explore the range of experiences, both negative and positive, that shape the lives of female waitresses, contributing to the discourse on gender and labor in the service industry.
Methods: A phenomenological research design was employed, utilizing semi-structured interviews to collect data from seven female waitresses aged 18 to 25 years from marriage halls in Lahore. Non-probability, purposive sampling was applied to select participants. Data analysis was conducted using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) to identify key themes.
Results: The analysis revealed significant themes such as job selection, emotional and psychological impacts, social problems, workplace environment, social perception, job satisfaction, and coping mechanisms. Participants reported widespread physical and verbal harassment, financial exploitation, and a lack of supportive colleagues or management. Despite these challenges, some waitresses reported gains in financial independence and improved family conditions.
Conclusion: The findings underscore the need for systemic improvements in the service sector to address harassment, pay inequity, and the lack of career advancement opportunities for female waitresses. Enhancing workplace conditions and societal respect for service workers is critical for their mental health and overall well-being.
“Bhānusingha Thākurer Podābolī”: A Study of Vaiṣṇava Aesthetics in Tagore’s Poetry
Authors: Chakrabarty Ujjaini
Published: February 2025

Rabindranath Tagore’s poems have been the subject of much analysis and discussion for their poetic beauty and philosophical strain. Enriched with metaphor and symbolic imagery, his poems express the experiences of the phenomenal and spiritual world with equal finesse. This same dexterity can be witnessed in “Bhānusingha Thākurer Podābolī,” his first published work as a poet. These poems follow the padāvalī style of poetry popularized by the Vaiṣṇava saints of medieval Bengal, where Rādhā is portrayed not as the divine consort of the God Kr̥ṣṇa, but as a lovesick woman suffering in the absence of her lover, Kr̥ṣṇa. The sensuality of the poems, however, do not compromise with her status as a devotee par excellence. Tagore’s portrayal of Rādhā is akin to the trend that began at least in the 1st century AD, when Rādhā became the muse of both sacred and secular artistic productions. In the sacred tradition, her stature rivals that of Kr̥ṣṇa’s, where her devotion served as a model for the founders of Vaiṣṇava sects in formulating their spiritual practices, while in the secular tradition, her pan-Indian popularity alongside Kr̥ṣṇa is reflected in the performative traditions where their sports in Vrindāvana have inspired music, dance, and the arts of different regions, as well as the popular culture of modern times. The Vaiṣṇava aesthetic theory, which bridges the gap between aesthetics of dramaturgy and religious practices, also owes its development to Rādhā. The present paper explores the development of Rādhā in both secular and religious literary traditions, with special reference to Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavism of Bengal. The paper further attempts to study Rādhā as Tagore’s heroine which was influenced by Vaiṣṇava lyrics and themes, and popularised by poets in Bengal since the 12th century AD.
Thingness of the Work of Art: Reflections on the Ontology of Untranslatability
Authors: Das Sounak
Published: February 2025

The paper begins by disclosing untranslatability not as a given fact, but as a consequence resulting from a certain epistemological attitude towards the work of art. A subjectivist outlook towards art and translation encounters the work in its thingness that eventually resists its reification. Taking cue from the insights of phenomenological thinkers like Husserl, Heidegger, and Ricoeur, this paper seeks to elaborate on the etymology and ontology of the thing while distinguishing it from the notions of aesthetic object and selfhood that have percolated through time since Kant. Thereafter, the approach to the thing as the hermeneutic event of projection is shown as the crucial break from subjectivity, one that leads to a fresh understanding of the literary experience in terms of becoming. This shift absolves untranslatability from the negative connotations of hindrance, and the irreducible otherness of the thing becomes instead the sole enabling condition of the infinitude of our engagement with it. Communication and conversation as modes of being liberate the thing from the delusional specter of untranslatability, shifting translation from being an act of transfer of identity towards a movement generating difference.
Lina Meruane’s Palestine Writing: Becoming-World in World Literature
Authors: Morales Cristina , Rofes Octavi
Published: February 2025

Lina Meruane’s work on Palestine began in 2012 and comprises what throughout the text will be addressed as the author’s Palestine Writing, a mesh of pieces belonging to different genres that, understood through Deleuze and Guattari’s framework, constitute Meruane’s literary machine. Analysing the book’s title, Volverse Palestina, this paper discusses the two different meanings wrapped in it—Returning to Palestine and becoming Palestine. Meruane’s return is impossible because one cannot return from where one has never been, and her transformation is the result of a series of unexpected encounters and collaborations. This paper considers Meruane’s Palestine Writing as a form of becoming-Palestine that takes place not only through an inherited identity but also through a kind of cultural contagion. Following this argument, Palestine Writing can be understood as a part of worldish literature; a becoming-world instance of literature that can relate to other literary works, opening the door to a new understanding of world literature, based on a consolidated definition of what the “universe” of world literature is.
Duelo, or the Cryptic Translation of Mourning: Friendship Between Languages
Authors: Méndez Noraedén Mora
Published: February 2025

The experience of loss and the possibility to overcome mourning has been a concern for both psychoanalysis and philosophy. Loss is also important in the practice of translation; Walter Benjamin and Jacques Derrida, among other thinkers, have insisted on the complication between texts in translation and the concepts of life, death, survival, and love and friendship. This paper follows these complications to argue that the word duelo in translation, as well as translation itself, enacts and symptomizes the frictions that arise between languages and friendship. By closely reading Sigmund Freud’s and Nicholas Abraham and Maria Torok’s psychoanalytic theories of mourning, melancholia, love object, and crypt, the paper traces loss of meaning in translation and translation as a work of mourning. The word duelo in Spanish is a homonym that comes from two different roots in Latin, one corresponding with the term mourning, dolus, and the other with duel, duellum. By reading two of Jorge Luis Borges’s short stories about different duelos the paper shows how translation embodies the loss of meaning between languages that is also present in friendship and love. This paper reads friendship between different languages and examines how the idea of friendship is transformed in translation. In this sense, this work takes duelo as the struggle between languages to suggest a cryptic translation, a seemingly contradictory task based on friendship that aims to highlight the nuances of the text in translation. This paper wants to insist on friendship and alterity between languages as part of the dynamic that translation entails, not an ideal or diplomatic friendship, but one that is complicated and involves love, mourning, and combat. To translate cryptically, to maintain a duelo in translation, would mean to resist the impulse of one language comprehending or dominating the other, and strive for a loving friendship.
Reading Silences of Suffering: Narrative Medicine Approach to George Saunders’s “Home”
Authors: Wooden Shannon R.
Published: February 2025

Literary writers have for centuries professed literary language’s unique ability to convey those aspects of the human condition which are too deep, complex, or painful to simply tell. From Romantic poets insisting on literature’s divine vision of truth to Virginia Woolf’s exhortation to “turn to the poets” for language compatible with the inexpressible experience of illness, writers have championed the pleasure, the mutuality, and the ambiguity of reading as paths to these profound human experiences and the potential ethicality of reading/listening well. More recently, interdisciplinary thinkers in medical settings have explored the specific tension between a suffering person’s urgent need to speak their suffering and the limits of language’s capacity to convey its depth and complexity. This essay borrows from medical sociologist Arthur Frank, and the founding director of Columbia University’s Program in Narrative Medicine, Rita Charon, the purposeful critical vocabulary they have lent to this ongoing conversation. Frank describes various narrative shapes that may contain the “chaotic” disruption that illness, injury, and trauma may make into a person’s life, but even more powerful is the attempt to honor the chaos itself. In the classroom, such an endeavor may provide rich ethical training for readers, students, and teachers alike. In this paper, I read George Saunders’s short story “Home” as exemplary of this practice, arguing that attention to the silences and gaps where trauma cannot be spoken affords a teaching tool for cultivating empathy, within and beyond the classroom.
Reifying, Reinscribing, and Resisting Manicheanisms in Representations of the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda
Authors: Rede Lauren van der
Published: February 2025

The genocide which unfolded in Rwanda in 1994 remains one of the most harrowing examples of annihilatory violence in recent memory. It is framed infamously as an expression of violence which in 100 days saw the murder of approximately one million people, the displacement of millions more, and psychological, social, and economic devastation that remains immeasurable. This paper seeks to explore how the literary makes legible the ways in which Manicheanism, which in many ways was foundational to the genocide in Rwanda, is translated into the categories of “perpetrator” and “victim,” and how this contributes to the perpetuation of the single story of the genocide. This paper reads three texts (Uwem Akpan’s short story “My Parents’ Bedroom,” Alan Whelan, Eoghan Rice, and Elena Hermosa’s documentary Let the Devil Sleep: 20 Years after Genocide in Rwanda, and Hugo Blick’s Netflix series Black Earth Rising) which literarily trope the Rwandan Genocide and abide by a logic of Manicheanism according to which the world can be split between good and evil, and its inhabitants organized accordingly. The selected texts gesture toward the unboundedness of trauma but abide by the logic of Manicheanism that textured the colonial legacy in Rwanda, which was in many ways foundational to the genocide. They are distinct in form but individually stage and make available for critique expressions of Manicheanism, before, during, and well after the massacres of 1994. This paper offers a critique of these texts’ literarily troping of the Rwandan Genocide and argues, in abiding by the unboundedness of trauma as it is staged in these texts, that genocide be read as, what Barthes calls, a text. Thus, the paper, in turning to the literary as itself a mode of reading but also a mode of writing grand narratives, attempts to think what is at stake in representations that reify and reinscribe, but also invite resistance to representations that do not abide by plurality.
Keeping It in the Family: Domestic Violence and Spectral Testimony in Contemporary American Memoir
Authors: Sutton Summer
Published: February 2025

This essay considers how the cultural valuation of transparency within life writing prohibits the state to recognize and address the harm against marginalized subjects. To do so, this essay turns to two recent memoirs of childhood stricken by domestic violence: Rachel Sontag’s House Rules (2008) and Kiese Laymon’s Heavy (2018). House Rules documents Sontag’s childhood growing up with an emotionally abusive father in an upper middle-class white, Jewish household, while Heavy documents Laymon’s childhood experiences of sexual, physical, and emotional abuse in a single parent, Black Southern household. The essay focuses, in particular, on how much of the violence Sontag and Laymon depict traces back to the nuclear family’s role as a state disciplinary technology that enforces white supremacist and patriarchal kinship structures. It shows disruption of the private-public binary by excavating how Sontag and Laymon’s accounts of violence in the home entangle the dysfunction at the heart of the U.S. nuclear family with the dysfunction at the heart of the U.S. nation-state. Ultimately, it proposes a life writing hermeneutic of spectrality that focuses on the structural realities that exceed the boundaries of the individual memoir.
Locating Innocence in Sexual Difference: Problematized Masculinity in Hemingway and Baldwin
Authors: Toumi Rachid
Published: February 2025

This paper examines the theme of gender in Ernest Hemingway’s The Garden of Eden and James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room. Both expatriate artists interrogate in their novels an American gendered identity tied to innocence and trauma in historical junctures. For these influential members of the New/Lost Generation, sexuality is less a biological fact than a social construction and a performativity. In their counter-narratives, both iconoclastic American writers dramatize traumatized and problematized masculinity which clings to a false sense of security. They depict the male protagonists as troubled patriarchal subjectivity-formations struggling to rehabilitate the innocence and happiness of an Eden-like social space against the “sea change” of history and the dazzling light of personal experience. As transatlantic modernist icons whose literary sensibility is framed by the experience of the Great War and its aftermath, Hemingway and Baldwin are witnesses to a historical era characterized by a social order in flux in which hegemonic patriarchy is in crisis against the backdrop of emerging new identities. In exilic space, they put under review the standards defining gendered identity by positing the loss of innocence connected to sexuality and the embrace of sexual difference as a condition for endurance and the maintenance of a civilized and sustainable democratic social arrangement.
Becoming Sahibs: Bengali Bhadralok Travel Cultures and a Colony in Paschim, c. 1850–1911
Authors: Maitra Ahana
Published: February 2025

From around the second half of the nineteenth century, the Bengali Bhadralok were no longer travelling only for the purposes of pilgrimage. By this time secular travel cultures were emerging, and the Bengali Bhadralok who had come into close contact with the discourses of colonial modernity began to travel extensively. Many of these Bhadralok travellers were converging on what was known as Paschim—a set of sites on the western end of undivided Bengal, and currently falling within the post-independence Indian states of Bihar and Jharkhand. By situating this travel culture in relation to the history of precolonial travel as it was prevalent in the region, the paper proposes to understand the reasons for which the journeys to Paschim might be said to have constituted a new modality of travel—constituted by the Bhadralok’s discursive adaptation of the colonial gaze, which in turn, as the paper will argue, made it possible for such travellers to establish a Bengali colonial centre there. In this context, the paper analyzes to what extent travel narratives as cultural texts shaped such expeditions into the region. Three of the earliest instances of the new Bhadralok travellers’ documentation of their travels to the region—Bholanath Chunder’s The Travels of a Hindoo to Various Parts of Bengal and Upper India, Sanjibchandra Chattopadhyay’s Palamau, and Rabindranath Tagore’s “Chotanagpur”—will be studied to trace the development of a discourse on the region which proved to be both textually and materially influential. In connection with this, the paper also proposes to attend to a predominant strand of this history: the practice of vacationing in the “west,” i.e., Paschim, as health tourists, which became an integral part of the leisure and recreational repertoire of the upper and upper middle class Bengali Bhadralok. Attending to this aspect of Bhadralok’s involvement with Paschim, the paper will attempt to investigate its particular role in furthering their emerging colonial ambitions.
AI ASSISTANTS IN THE NEW AI-DRIVEN REVOLUTIONARY ERA: TRANSFORMING HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION AND SOCIETAL PARADIGMS
Authors: K.Thangavel
Published: February 2025

The emergence of advanced AI assistants marks a pivotal transformation in human-computer interaction, fundamentally reshaping how individuals and organizations engage with technology. This paper examines the revolutionary impact of AI assistants across various domains, analyzing their current capabilities, implementation challenges, and future trajectories. We explore how these systems are catalyzing changes in workforce dynamics, educational methodologies, and social interactions while addressing critical concerns regarding ethics, privacy, and human agency. Through comprehensive analysis of recent developments and emerging trends, this study provides insights into the evolving relationship between humans and AI assistants, suggesting frameworks for optimal integration and responsible deployment in an AI-driven future.
INVESTIGATING THE APPLICATION OF PHYSICAL PRINCIPLES TO BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS: INSIGHTS INTO PROTEIN FOLDING AND CELL MECHANICS
Authors: Muhammad Usman Arshad
Published: February 2025

The intersection of physics and biology, particularly in the realms of protein folding and cell mechanics, has garnered significant attention in recent years. The application of physical principles to biological systems offers a deeper understanding of molecular behavior and cellular function, enhancing our ability to address health-related issues and improve biotechnology applications. This article explores the mechanisms behind protein folding, the role of physical forces in cellular mechanics, and the implications of these phenomena for diseases like Alzheimer’s and cancer. Additionally, the paper highlights current research advancements and technologies that utilize these physical principles for therapeutic purposes. Through the application of concepts from statistical mechanics, thermodynamics, and biomechanics, we can better understand the intricate behaviors of proteins and cells in the living system.
Perancangan Sistem Layanan Pengaduan Masyarakat Pada Kantor Pertanahan Kabupaten Asahan
Authors: Liestya Arista Kusuma
Published: February 2025

The Land Office of Asahan Regency faces challenges in managing public complaints, which are still handled manually. This results in inefficient, non-transparent, and less accountable service processes. This study aims to design a web-based public complaint service system to facilitate the community in submitting complaints and to assist the Land Office in recording and processing complaints more effectively. The research methods used include interviews, field research, and literature studies. The designed system includes features such as complaint data management, complaint submission by the public, responses from the administrator, and real-time complaint status monitoring. The implementation of this system is expected to improve efficiency, transparency, and accountability in the management of public complaints at the Land Office of Asahan Regency.
Impacto de la pérdida de células endoteliales tras cirugía de catarata en la función visual
Authors: Llundo Chango Anahí , Azón Agustín Blanca , Soriano Pina Diana
Published: February 2025

Relevancia: La cirugía de cataratas puede afectar a la densidad de células endoteliales y a la calidad visual. Este estudio analiza los cambios postoperatorios en la córnea y su impacto en la visión, proporcionando datos clave para mejorar la práctica clínica oftalmológica.Propósito: Evaluar la pérdida de células endoteliales corneales tras la cirugía de catarata por facoemulsificación y su relación con parámetros de calidad visual, como aberraciones ópticas, sensibilidad al contraste y presencia de halos en visión nocturna.Material y Métodos: Se realizó un estudio observacional en 43 pacientes sometidos a facoemulsificación. Se midieron la densidad celular endotelial, aberraciones ópticas y grosor corneal antes y un mes después de la cirugía. Se emplearon el microscopio especular SP-1P, la biometría óptica Anterion® y pruebas de agudeza visual, sensibilidad al contraste y halometría.Resultados: Se observó una reducción significativa del recuento endotelial postoperatorio (p < 0,001). El astigmatismo y las aberraciones de alto orden aumentaron significativamente (p < 0,001). No se encontraron diferencias significativas en el grosor corneal. La sensibilidad al contraste y la visión nocturna se mantuvieron dentro de la normalidad.Conclusiones: La facoemulsificación causa una pérdida significativa de células endoteliales sin afectar la calidad visual global. El aumento del astigmatismo y las aberraciones de alto orden sugiere la necesidad de un seguimiento cuidadoso.
On the issue of the essence of administrative and legal regimes of state control (supervision)
Authors: Golubeva Tat'yana Mihailovna
Published: February 2025

The issues of the essence of administrative and legal regimes of state control and supervision are considered. The concept of the regime of state control and supervision is defined. The characteristics of administrative and legal regimes of state control and supervision are considered. A list of state control and supervision regimes is provided. The essence of administrative and legal regimes of state control and supervision is revealed through the following elements: objectives of the establishment and implementation of regimes; regulatory legal framework; legal status of subjects; means of ensuring; consequences (sanctions) violations of regime rules; principles of state control and supervision regimes. In the author's opinion, the main principle of state control and supervision regimes is considered – the principle of balance in the activities of control and supervisory authorities in achieving the goals of state control and supervision. The methodological basis was provided by general scientific (analysis, synthesis) and special (formal-legal, comparative-legal) methods of cognition. As a result of the conducted research in the field of state control (supervision) through the application of the necessary and sufficient regime of state control (supervision), the following conclusions can be drawn. The implementation of administrative and legal regimes of state control and supervision makes it possible to avoid continuous inspections as an ineffective model of control and supervisory activities. The result of the establishment and implementation of the necessary and sufficient administrative and legal regime of state control and supervision is the establishment of a balance in the activities of control and supervisory authorities in achieving the goals of state control and supervision. State control (supervision) regimes make it possible to ensure optimal administrative pressure on business entities.