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Pengaruh Pajak Daerah dan Retribusi Daerah Terhadap Kemandirian Keuangan Daerah Pada Pemerintah Kabupaten/Kota Provinsi Sumatera Selatan
Authors: Adelina Chairani , Betriana Meirani
Published: January 2025

This research aims to determine the effect of regional taxes and regional levies on the financial independence of regional governments in South Sumatra Province. This research uses a quantitative approach and quantitative data types with secondary data sources obtained from the LKPD of the Regional Government of South Sumatra Province for 2020 - 2022. The data was processed using the SPSS application and analyzed using multiple linear regression analysis. The results of this research show that regional taxes have an influence on regional financial independence with a significance value of 0.00 < 0.05, while regional levies do not have a significant influence on regional financial independence with a value of 0.176 > 0.05. However, regional taxes and regional levies simultaneously influence regional financial independence with a significance value of 0.00 < 0.05 and with a coefficient of determination of 0.899.
Analisis Dampak Kehadiran Pertashop Pada Penjualan Bensin Eceran Di Warung Kelontong Di Kecamatan Trenggalek, Kabupaten Trenggalek
Authors: Muslikah Fitri Erna , Nurlaely Nurlaely , Rahayu Budi , Sustiyatik Enni
Published: January 2025

— This study aims to determine the impact of the presence of Pertashop retail outlets on the sales of gasoline at local convenience stores in Trenggalek District, as well as the factors and strategies implemented in response to these changes. This research is a descriptive qualitative study. Field data indicate that the presence of Pertashop has a negative impact (viewed as competition) on convenience stores as micro-enterprises (UMKM) located within 1 kilometer of Pertashop. On the other hand, convenience stores located more than 1 kilometer away view Pertashop positively, as it becomes a source for purchasing Pertamax gasoline in bulk. However, overall sales changes are mainly influenced by the general increase in gasoline prices (leading Pertamax users to switch to cheaper gasoline) and the occurrence of major events in the surrounding area. To cope with these changes, the most common strategy is to display gasoline racks at the front (roadside) to make them easily visible from the road. Most stores have already put up signs indicating they sell gasoline, but offering various sizes and providing lighting is still not widely adopted by these business owners.
Strategi Promosi UMKM Susu Kedelai Kota Bengkulu Perspektif Ekonomi Syariah
Authors: Yolanda Agnes , Azis Ismi , Oktasari Orin , Yanto Syafri , Capriyanti Orisa
Published: January 2025

This research aims to find out how the promotional strategy for soybean milk MSMEs can be formulated at the Salafiyah Hidayatul Qomariyah Islamic Boarding School in Bengkulu City and what the promotional strategy for soybean milk MSMEs at the Salafiyah Hidayatul Qomariyah Islamic Boarding School in Bengkulu City is from a sharia economic perspective. as in this study the population was 12 people among MSME administrators and this study used a purposive sampling technique. Data was obtained using interview techniques. The research results of the strategy have gone well. Using 2 strategic systems, namely the traditional system by promoting directly to the students, guardians of the students and the surrounding community during visits and recitation days, both the 3rd Jum'ah recitation and other recitations. Then the second system uses a modern system, namely by using cellphone communication technology through various social media such as WhatsApp and Facebook. The Islamic view regarding promotional strategies is in accordance with the provisions of Islamic law, such as truth and honesty when promoting which is applied by the management, in terms of price. which is in accordance with the market price, which is in accordance with sharia pricing, then the syrup dosage has been adjusted to the size without reducing it. Shodaqoh and infaq are also distributed by the management to orphaned students and also to role model students and underprivileged students at the Hidayatul Qomariyah Islamic boarding school by reducing payments every month and some are even free until the students complete their education level.
Keywords: Strategy, Promotion, UMKM
The Role of Homeopathic Medicine in the Treatment of Acute Pharyngitis
Authors: Patel Dr Meghaben , Yogita Prof. Dr
Published: January 2025

Acute pharyngitis, commonly characterized by inflammation of the pharynx, is often caused by viral or bacterial infections. The treatment of acute pharyngitis usually involves symptomatic relief, with the majority of cases being self-limiting. However, the increasing search for alternative therapeutic approaches has led to growing interest in homeopathic medicine. This article explores the role of homeopathy in the treatment of acute pharyngitis, evaluating its potential benefits, scientific basis, and clinical effectiveness. A review of current literature, as well as individual case reports, suggests that homeopathic remedies may offer symptom relief and accelerate recovery in acute pharyngitis cases, particularly in milder forms or as adjunctive therapy. Further research through randomized controlled trials is essential to establish the efficacy of homeopathy in this context.
STUDI LITERATUR: PENERAPAN KONSEP MEKANIKA LAGRANGE PADA KEHIDUPAN SEHARI-HARI
Authors: Rahmah Arina Alfa , Akhdania Mahsa , Setiaji Bayu
Published: January 2025

The application of mechanical concepts to everyday life is important in understanding the physical phenomena that occur. One branch of physics is mechanics which studies the behavior of objects influenced by force and displacement. In complex situations, many variables can be involved in the solution, so it is necessary to involve mathematical methods using the Lagrange equation. This article explains the application of Lagrange's equation in various systems such as pulleys, levers, oscillations, and double pendulum systems that are often encountered in everyday life. In addition, this article provides examples of tools encountered in daily activities that use the application of the Lagrange equation. The method used in collecting data for this article is a literature study method using 10 articles relevant to the theme. It is hoped that this article will be able to provide readers with an overview and understanding of concepts regarding Lagrange mechanics, as well as being able to provide concrete examples of real applications of physical theory in real life.
Acesso aos serviços de saúde reprodutiva na atenção primária à saúde: revisão integrativa
Authors: Marques Daniela Ferreira Bastos , Leal Juliana Alves Leite , Suto Cleuma Sueli Santos , Dourado Ana Karoline Macedo
Published: January 2025

Objetivo: identificar na literatura indexada como a Atenção Primária à Saúde assegura o acesso aos serviços de saúde reprodutiva às mulheres. Método: revisão integrativa realizada por meio de busca nas bases de dados da Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online, Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences Literature, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Web of Science e Scopus. Foram selecionados estudos originais, publicados em inglês, português e espanhol nos últimos 10 anos. Os dados foram extraídos por dois pesquisadores independentes e organizados em quadro sinóptico. A análise foi baseada na integração por aproximação temática. Resultados: os seis artigos incluídos na revisão, foram publicados em revistas nacionais, foram identificadas estratégias com iniciativas de ampliação de horários, a desburocratização para inserção de dispositivos intrauterinos e a capacitação dos profissionais, refletindo aspectos das dimensões de acesso técnica e organizacional. Conclusão: os estudos publicados ao abordarem elementos das dimensões técnica e organizacional, responsabilizam os profissionais pela garantia do acesso. Existe a necessidade de novos estudos que abordam as dimensões simbólica, política e econômico-social para a garantia do acesso para as usuárias.
Liburnija u reklami
Authors: Vlastelić Anastazija , Čipanj-Banja Rene
Published: January 2025

Razvoj turizma u Liburniji, i Opatiji kao njezinu turističkom središtu, seže od sredine 19. stoljeća. Od tada do danas može se pratiti nekoliko faza turističkoga razvoja toga kraja, od zimske destinacije uglednika iz Austro-Ugarske Monarhije, preko isticanja lječilišnih i kupališnih kvaliteta, do mjesta lakih nota i zabave te središta zdravstvenoga, kupališnoga, kongresnoga, obiteljskoga turizma.U radu je dan pregled reklamiranja Liburnije kao turističke destinacije u hrvatskim i mađarskim časopisima te na internetskim portalima tijekom triju razdoblja njezina razvoja: na samim počecima krajem 19. i početkom 20. st., između dvaju svjetskih ratova te u suvremeno vrijeme. Naglasak je na persuazivnim elementima u hrvatskim i mađarskim reklamnim tekstovima, odnosno analizi sadržaja kojima se ističe prednost te destinacije i pozivaju potencijalni gosti u svakom od navedenih razdoblja.
The Worlds of Childhood
Authors: Dumas Hélène
Published: January 2025

The stories open on an idealized past, one of family and social harmony. The powerful filter of nostalgia nevertheless allows us to trace the emotional circles destroyed by the genocide. In this world, the school was the place where discrimination was first experienced. As a result of “ethnic and regional” balancing policies, Tutsi children saw their horizons as being limited. The discovery of their ethnic assignment lifted the veil of secrecy maintained by their parents over past persecution.
Theaters of Cruelty
Authors: Dumas Hélène
Published: January 2025

The genocide was certainly aimed at extermination through murder, but also at the degradation of the Tutsi. At the heart of these theaters of cruelty, women and children were particularly abused. The bodies of the victims were attacked according to a racist imaginary rooted in colonial history. The children’s stories bear clear witness to the deployment of cruelty as a policy of genocide. The words are harsh and the scenes described unbearable. Yet you must be willing to see them in order to understand the fearsome effectiveness of racism inscribed on people’s bodies.
Monument to the Chilean Women Victims of Political Repression
Authors: Aguilera Carolina , Rajevic Manuela Badilla
Published: January 2025

The chapter presents the case of the only memorial sponsored by the state dedicated to the Women Victims of Political Repression during Pinochet’s dictatorship, asking how a central monument, constructed with the support of the state, the city, and civil society, came to be abandoned and is now in ruins. We argue that the reasons are threefold: urbanistic (location), political/institutional (no institution took care about the memorial), and cultural (women remained, until recently, marginalized from public concern).
Mujeres Creando, Plaza Chola Globalizada, La Paz, Bolivia
Authors: León Ana María
Published: January 2025

In 2020, the art collective Mujeres Creando dressed up a monument of Isabel La Católica in the garb of the Bolivian Chola. The essay reads these actions through the Aymara framework of ch’ixi, as explained by scholar Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui. Thinking of this action as a ch’ixi monument provides insights into the nuances and politics of Indigenous identity in the South American Andes.
Female Winged Victory Statues in French Algeria
Authors: Slyomovics Susan
Published: January 2025

Monumental statuary and memorial sculptures were erected throughout France as well as French Algeria (1830–1962) that attest to a “statuemania” exported from the metropole to their North African prize colony. After World War I, commemorative public statuary emerged from the elevated deaths of the European settler communities and the forcibly conscripted Muslim “native” troops of Algeria. Public statuary of women in both colony and metropole were usually allegorical figures such as statues of the female Winged Victory. This essay compares the interwar Winged Victory statues placed on top of the war memorial in Constantine, Algeria, erected by Algerian Jewish Sculptor Joseph Ebstein (1881–1961) to other victory statues in Algiers, Oran, Er-Rahel, and Sétif. Winged Victory sculptures tell the story of French colonial memorialization, implantation, destruction of walled Arab cities, spoliation, and heritage regimes in the service of an allegorical female sculpture.
Patience on a Monument: A History Painting
Authors: Herwitz Daniel
Published: January 2025

An exploration of a single painting by the feminist South African painter Penny Siopis, Patience on a Monument, from 1988, at a moment of history wherein the Apartheid state is collapsing and the future is not yet closer than the horizon. A moment of uncertainty and for reflection. Patience (a black woman) sits on a monument of rubble, raising many questions about the history of empire, accumulation, trashing of things and people, about what is recoverable from this past for the future, a future for which she has waited patiently but cannot in 1988 yet know. This essay is an exercise in allowing a painting to speak.
Mutuality in El Barrio
Authors: Kasten Carey , Moore Brenna , Benítez Sánchez Norma
Published: January 2025

This book tells the story of the Little Sisters of the Assumption Family Health Service (LSA), a grassroots organization working with immigrant families in East Harlem since 1958. The project weaves together multiple narratives by focusing on the humanity and empowerment of 18 mothers and children who came to East Harlem from Mexico in the 1990s, and at the same time, it recounts a theological history of how LSA’s Catholic mission became more capacious in practice over time. Mutuality in El Barrio prioritizes voices in Spanish and English, combining oral histories from East Harlem residents with archival research of the history, spirituality, and ministry of LSA. The chapters open a window into the world of New York’s Spanish-speaking newcomers and, for the first time, a well-established organization that serves vulnerable populations with a unique approach it calls “mutuality.” The protagonists of the book include a group of Mexican mothers who participated in LSA’s programs, the Catholic sisters who founded the organization, and the laypeople–staff and volunteers–who have carried the mantle at the organization. Through their narratives, we gain greater understanding of the Spanish-speaking immigrant experience in East Harlem and see how an organization that traces its roots to six nuns from Paris grew to become an impactful grassroots organization that succeeded in creating structural change and empowerment for countless families in the city. The book contributes to a deeper understanding of NYC’s diverse, vibrant history, while engaging broader questions of religious change, immigration, and social justice.
“LSA Is Like a Second Home”
Authors: Kasten Carey , Moore Brenna
Published: January 2025

Chapter 2 features the story of Melina Gonzalez, who came to LSA twenty-five years ago as a new mother and who currently works at the organization as a client advocate, immigrant outreach coordinator, and community engagement manager. Melina’s trajectory—from English language learner in LSA’s Parent and Child Development program, to community volunteer, to hired staff member, and now as an award-winning civic leader in her community—embodies the results of LSA’s mutuality in action. Mutuality is embedded in how Melina describes her work as a starting point to give people agency by listening and validating their experiences and their stories. In this way, Melina brings the mutuality model full circle by allowing others to begin the process of finding their own voices.
Voices from the Neighborhood
Authors: Kasten Carey , Moore Brenna
Published: January 2025

In Chapter 3, the voices of the eighteen mothers who were interviewed take center stage. This chapter identifies common themes among their stories of migration and resettlement in East Harlem to examine how they engaged the spiritual ideals and practical skills from LSA’s Parent and Child Development Program into their lives. The multiplicity of the voices serves as a testimonial to the common experiences these immigrant mothers faced in moving to East Harlem. Themes include establishing community, understanding rights and services available, capacity and skill-building, current situation of children, successes and shortcomings, among others. This format allows the reader to see LSA’s programming in action, gaining a greater understanding of the impact of LSA’s mutuality approach while hearing directly from the women about their experiences.
Introduction
Authors: Quigley Jennifer , Keller Catherine
Published: January 2025

What is the relationship of religion to economy, ecology, and democracy? In our fraught moment, what critical questions of religion may help to assemble democratic processes, ecosystems, and economic structures differently? What possible futures might emerge from transdisciplinary work across these traditionally siloed scholarly areas of interest? The essays of this volume are introduced as reflections of scholarly conversations among historians, political scientists, theologians, biblical studies scholars, and scholars of religion that transgress disciplinary boundaries to consider urgent matters expressive of the values, practices, and questions that shape human existence.
The Costs of Citizenship: Politeuma in the Letter to the Philippians
Authors: Quigley Jennifer
Published: January 2025

Recent crises of democracy reveal the ongoing instability of citizenship. What is citizenship? What rights and responsibilities does it entail? Whose citizenship counts? This chapter appraises a claim from the Letter to the Philippians that Christ communities have “citizenship (politeuma) in heaven,” a hapax legomenon in the letters co-written by Paul. As the first century Jew-in-Christ Paul has been invoked in recent philosophical debates over the foundation(s) of universalism (cf. Alain Badiou and Troels Engberg-Pedersen), Paul’s letters continue to be used for political, philosophical, and theological arguments about identity, belonging, and democracy. This chapter argues that politeuma does not appear in the Corinthian correspondence with an ekklēsia, a democratic assembly; but in the Letter to the Philippians, where koinōnia, or venture, is the organizing principle of in-Christ community. Given the complexly unstable legal and financial context of “citizenship” under the Roman empire in the first century CE and the prominence of what I call theo-economics in Philippians, politeuma for Paul is more about divine financial obligations and benefits than self-determination or voting rights. Heavenly citizenship is more about taxation than political taxonomy.
Ambiguous, Amorous, Agonistic, Not Able: An Alternative to Adamant, Apathetic, Antagonistic, Able Society
Authors: Jung Eunchul
Published: January 2025

This chapter investigates the inner workings of tribalism and attempts to find an alternative public for a better, and patriarchy-free democracy. Robert S. Corrington’s distinction between a natural community and a community of interpreters not only helps to clearly understand how tribalism and its vicious circle of violence operate in both individual and collective psychologies but also offers a phenomenological and semiotic theory of an ideal form of a truly democratic public. Catherine Keller’s political theology offers a useful contrast between political antagonism and amorous agonism in searching for a new pluralistic public. Nicholas de Cusa’s apophatic cosmology provides a theological insight for a democratic public of multiplicity. Lastly, Byung-Chul Han’s critical cultural theory grounds our discussion on a firm philosophical footing, i.e., his unique philosophy of being able not to be able as opposed to the Promethean philosophy of can, the reigning principle since the dawn of our civilization.
Dolores Huerta Haciendo Más Caras
Authors: Anda Neomi De
Published: January 2025

This chapter explores the life and career of the famous community activist Dolores Huerta as a Catholic woman lay leader through Gloria Anzaldúa’s theory of haciendo caras. This chapter brings together interviews, digital archival materials, and personal stories along with theoretical frameworks from Chicana studies and LatinoXa theologies to delve into understanding Dolores Huerta’s complex relationship with Catholicism. The chapter begins by presenting a discussion on Anzaldúa’s notion of haciendo caras as well as an expansion of haciendo más caras to the theory. Second, the chapter will explore Dolores Huerta as raised in a world haciendo caras to discuss her Catholic upbringing and family story. It will then move toward ripping the seams and recrafting the interfacing to discuss Huerta’s move to a life of solidarity as a community organizer with farm workers. Finally, the chapter will use “hacienda más caras” to show Huerta’s ongoing impact as a Catholic lay woman leader at the age of 91.
Our Lady of the Liturgical Movement?
Authors: Harmon Katharine E.
Published: January 2025

After a brief account of the development of Marian devotion in the West and the United States in particular, this essay looks to American Catholic lay women to discuss the relationship between the liturgical movement and Marian devotions in the mid-twentieth century. In the midst of a powerful Catholic culture which promoted feminine domesticity and Mary’s multi-faceted role in the spiritual lives of the faithful, American Catholic laywomen influenced by the Christ-centered spirituality of the liturgical movement needed new visions of Mary. Rather than rejecting traditional Marian devotions, liturgical movement advocates tended to reclaim them, articulating a liturgical spirituality which placed Mary within a more complex theological landscape: as icon of active participation, located firmly in the unfolding salvation history of the liturgical year; as model of living out the Mystical Body of Christ and social transformation; and as inspiration for communal prayer and unified family life.
A Philosophy of Prayer
Authors: Pattison George
Published: January 2025

The book offers an exploration of prayer within the perspective of post-Kantian philosophy. Against a background of traditional sources, including Augustine, The Cloud of Unknowing, and the seventeenth-century French School of spirituality, the book uses Schleiermacher, Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, Heidegger, Berdyaev, Tillich, Marcel, Simone Weil, Emmanuel Levinas, and Jean-Louis Chrétien to provide an interpretation of what is meant by the passivity and self-annihilation of the praying self, suggesting an “apophatics of the person.” Particular attention is given to the question of language and the implications of the role given to silence in traditional texts. It is argued that language remains a defining element of the human God-relationship and that silence is not to be construed as the negation of language but as the revelation of the depth of language itself. The basic structure of prayer is shown to be implicitly eschatological, oriented toward a coming kingdom of justice and peace while, at the same time, expressing a deep desire for ontological homecoming, a tension manifest in, respectively, Levinas and Heidegger. Prayer calls for and develops a particular orientation of the self toward existence, corresponding to the virtue of humility, long understood as the basic Christian virtue. This is shown to be in tension with modernity’s commitment to strong versions of autonomy. However, the choice of humility is not presented as the reinstatement of religious heteronomy but as a free choice of the praying self.
Preaching
Authors: Pattison George
Published: January 2025

The chapter argues that the conventional distinction between word and sacrament needs to be revised to allow for seeing preaching too as essentially sacramental and, as such, an expression of human embodiment. The power of preaching to speak truth—sacramentally—is explored through Heidegger’s account of truth as alētheia or “unconcealment.” This is seen to require that the preacher, like the poet, must be a listener, listening and waiting, in dialogue with the tradition, for the silence in which the divine word can be spoken. That this is also a waiting upon an essentially futural revelation of God further underlines the weakness of the preacher as s/he calls the Christian community to prayer for the coming kingdom of love.
Height
Authors: Pattison George
Published: January 2025

The character of hope as shaped by the ethical demand for justice is paradigmatically explored in the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, which he develops as a counter to the materialistic Marxist utopianism of Ernst Bloch. Levinas flags this theme with the term “height,” but while this evokes the “height” from which God gave the law on Sinai (and multiple other biblical revelations, extending also to the New Testament), the ultimate figure of height is not God but the “master” or “Lord” revealed in the widow, orphan, and stranger. Although Christianity’s emphasis on the divine descent, as in the Incarnation, may seem to move in an opposite direction, it meets Levinas’s argument in the privileging of the hungry, homeless, and imprisoned in whom we are to see and serve the incarnate Christ. This further enables us to see intercessory prayer as enacting a basic human solidarity, versus ascetical models that privilege the ascent to solitary contemplation.
“We want no slave lecturing here”: The Irish Critique of Abolitionism
Authors: Delahanty Ian
Published: January 2025

This chapter locates the origins of Irish-American opposition to antislavery in famine-era Ireland, where Irish nationalists developed a distinctively Irish critique of abolitionism. From 1840 to 1845, abolitionists in the Hibernian Anti Slavery Society (HASS) attempted to recruit Irish men and women into the transatlantic antislavery movement. Simultaneously, the Irish politician and nationalist leader Daniel O’Connell called for the Irish in the United States to support abolitionism. But O’Connell’s threats to reject the support of proslavery Americans for Irish independence coupled with HASS members’ qualms over receiving famine aid from proslavery Americans led a more militant faction of nationalists, Young Ireland, to denounce abolitionism as inimical to the interests of the Irish people. Taking shape amid the Great Irish Potato Famine, the Irish critique of abolitionism developed by Young Irelanders held that antislavery reformers slighted the poverty of Irish peasants and distracted from the cause of Irish independence.
City Life
Authors: Laborde Katheryn Krotzer
Published: January 2025

In 1948, Flannery O’Connor was a guest at Yaddo, an artists’ colony in Saratoga Springs. In 1949, thanks to a McCarthy Era scandal involving Yaddo’s director, O’Connor suddenly found herself leaving with Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Hardwick for Manhattan. O’Connor lived there for nearly six months, first staying in Tatham House in Murray Hill, followed by months of renting a furnished room in Morningside Heights. By the fall of that year, O’Connor had followed Robert and Sally Fitzgerald to Redding, Connecticut, where she lived until December 1950. (From 1951 on, she lived in Milledgeville when not staying in an Atlanta hospital.) This chapter considers O’Connor’s time living in or visiting New York from 1948 through 1953, and describes time spent with (in addition to Lowell, Hardwick, and the Fitzgeralds), Elizabeth Fenwick, Robert Giroux, Margaret Sutton, and John and Dilly Thompson.
Writers and Other Artists
Authors: Laborde Katheryn Krotzer
Published: January 2025

This chapter delves into the lives of writers and other artists O’Connor listed in her address books. These include writers Elizabeth Fenwick, Elaine Gottlieb, Smith Oliver, and Lettie Rogers; artists Dudley Huppler and Margaret Sutton; and a Vaudeville musician who hailed from O’Connor’s hometown, Edgar Moran.
Epilogue
Authors: Zuckerwise Lena
Published: January 2025

The conclusion turns to prison art and writing in the years following the Attica Prison Uprising. Though often buried and anonymous, these are crucial forms of carceral resistance. The forced worldlessness of prisons is not simply repressive, but also productive of worldly things.
Democratic Anarchy
Authors: Scully Matthew
Published: January 2025

At its core, Democratic Anarchy: Aesthetics and Political Resistance in U.S. Literature grapples with an uncomfortable but obvious truth inimical to democracy: both aesthetics and politics depend on the structuring antagonism of inclusion and exclusion. Synthesizing a broad range of theoretical traditions and interlocutors—including Lacan, Rancière, Edelman, and Hartman—Democratic Anarchy polemically declares that there has never been, nor can there ever be, a realized democracy in the U.S. because democracy always depends on the hierarchical institution of a formal order by one part of the population over another. Engaging with an expansive corpus of American literature and art (Harriet Jacobs, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Louis Zukofsky, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Nari Ward, Ocean Vuong, and Safiya Sinclair), Democratic Anarchy argues that many liberal concepts and institutions are in fact structurally opposed to democratic equality because they depend on regulating what can appear and in what form. By focusing on works that disrupt this regulatory impulse, Scully shows how rhetorical strategies of interruption, excess, and disorder figure the anarchic equality that inegalitarian fantasies of democracy disavow. Democratic Anarchy develops a rigorous theory of equality that refuses to repeat the inequalities against which it positions itself, and it does so by turning to moments of resistance—both aesthetic and political—inaugurated by the equality that inheres in and antagonizes the order of things.
Plato’s Xenoi
Authors: Naas Michael
Published: January 2025

This chapter looks at Derrida’s treatment during his two-year seminar on hospitality of Plato’s many references to hospitality and to foreigners or strangers. We thus consider, for example, Derrida’s reading of the Apology, where Socrates compares himself to a foreigner before the court in which he is being tried, and, especially, his reading of the Sophist, which features a main character named the Stranger (xenos) and which in its opening lines makes references to a pivotal scene of hospitality in Homer, thereby returning to some of the themes of chapters 1 and 4. The chapter concludes by asking what Plato’s reinscription of this Homeric scene of hospitality, where the guest may always be a god in disguise, does to the traditional Greek notion of hospitality and what it does for a thinking of hospitality beyond the human.
Homing Devices: Teletechnology and the Question of Private Space
Authors: Naas Michael
Published: January 2025

This chapter follows the theme of technology, in particular teletechnology, through the two-year hospitality seminar of 1995–1997. This theme, Derrida argues, is absolutely crucial to thinking hospitality today. For if technology and teletechnology will have always been central to hospitality, the technological innovations at the end of the twentieth century—television, email, the internet, cyberspace, telephone, and especially, as we will see in Derrida, the mobile phone—will have made this structural law linking hospitality to technology all the more palpable, pressing, and, indeed, unavoidable for any contemporary thinking of hospitality. As Derrida shows, these forms of teletechnology challenge the very limits of what we understand to be the “home” or the “nation-state,” opening the home or the state to incursions or interruptions from the outside that require a rethinking of the very nature and limits of hospitality.
Speculative Revolutions
Authors: Hudson Renee
Published: January 2025

Chapter 5 analyzes Martin Delany’s Blake (1859) alongside Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead (1991) to investigate how the turn to the speculative more broadly informs their construction of revolutionary imaginaries. An African American writer, Delany revises the history of revolution in the Americas by underscoring the importance of Cuban revolutions to African American revolutionary imaginaries, particularly the Ladder Conspiracy. Hudson then examines how Leslie Marmon Silko offers an indigenous perspective of what liberation would look like for all people, thus demonstrating how Silko, like Delany, revises Latinx revolutionary imaginaries by positing latinidad as a politics that creates a community capable of rising up, which Hudson reads via José Esteban Muñoz’s theory of a brown commons.
Banality: Mapping the Asymptote
Authors: Kozol Wendy
Published: January 2025

This chapter introduces the book’s asymptotic approach through a study of banality as it appears in The Day Nobody Died (2008) by Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin. Despite the enticing title and its promise of witnessing, the project asymptotically refuses the gratifications of wartime photojournalism in two disruptive postures. The first is a 23-minute video of a large box of light-sensitive photographic paper as it travelled from London to Helmand Province in Afghanistan and back. The second is an exhibition of large-scale, single frame, abstract photograms created by exposing the paper from the box to sunlight during conventional photo-ops. This analysis of tedium and repetition in military operations also explores alternate forms of photographic indexicality through a consideration of the meta-indexical features of the video and the hyper-indexical traces that comprise the photographs.
SEGMENTAL PHONOLOGY OF KAIPENG
Authors: Haokip Dr. D. Mary Kim , D Tariang Lorina
Published: January 2025

This paper aims to present the segmental phonology of Kaipeng, an endangered language spoken in the two North-Eastern states namely, Tripura and Mizoram. The total number of Kaipeng speakers in Tripura is approximately 15000. The term Kaipeng is used to represent both the language and the people. The word ‘Kaipeng’ is derived from two words: kai meaning ‘to lead’ and peng meaning ‘another way or path’. Thus, Kaipeng literally means leading someone towards another path. Linguistically, Kaipeng belongs to the Kuki-Chin sub-group of the Tibeto Burman language family. It has close affinities with other Kuki-Chin languages like Hrangkhol, Ranglong, Biate, Thadou, Chiru etc. The present work presents the segmental phonology including vowels, consonants, diphthongs and syllable structure of Kaipeng. This paper will mainly focus on the Kaipeng spoken in the state of Tripura. Thus, this paper attempts to highlight the findings and analysis of the data collected based on the fieldwork carried out in Teliamura village, Khowai, district of Tripura.
CHARITY AND SOCIAL HARMONY: THE TEACHINGS OF YOGI VEMANA
Authors: Dr. A.Meenakshi
Published: January 2025

Yogi Vemana’s philosophy of charity stands as a beacon of non-violent means for social equality amidst the turbulent history of violent revolutions for attaining it. As a prominent Telugu poet and yogi, Vemana advocates charity, particularly food donation, to foster harmony between the rich and poor. His teachings highlight the spiritual significance of generosity, suggesting that true wealth lies in giving rather than accumulating material possessions. Vemana’s verses celebrate the selfless acts of historical figures and stress the importance of humility in charitable actions. Vemana believes that charity leads to spiritual growth and divine favour when done with pure intentions and detachment. His teachings on spiritual growth and divine favour resulting from charity make us feel spiritually enriched and favoured. Through his poetic discourse, Vemana encourages proactive generosity, illustrating that the impact of altruism transcends the material realm, enriching both the giver and receiver. His timeless message urges a compassionate approach to wealth, advocating for charity as a sacred duty that enhances societal welfare and individual spiritual enlightenment.
Evaluating the Impact of Gliricidia sepium-Based Alley Cropping Practices on Growth and Yield of Stem Amaranth
Authors: Alam Abu Syed Md. Jobaydul , Saha Satya Ranjan , Suhag Md. , Miah Md. Giashuddin , Rahman Md. Mizanur , Islam Md. Rafiqul , Ahammed Sohag , Mondal Satyen
Published: January 2025

Field experiments were performed to study the feasibility of growing stem amaranth in alley cropping system under different alley widths and nitrogen (N) doses. The experiments were set up following split-plot design with three replications. Three alley widths of Gliricidia sepium viz. 3.0 m, 4.5 m, and 6.0 m (W3.0, W4.5, and W6.0) comprised the main plot treatment, and five nitrogen (N) doses viz. N0, N25, N50, N75, and N100 (0%, 25%, 50%, 75%, and 100% of recommended N doses, including pruned biomass from G. sepium) were distributed as sub-plot treatments. Control plots (without tree) received allied N doses but no pruned material was added. The findings showed that, yield and most of the yield attributes of stem amaranth were found higher in alley cropped plots compared to the control. It was found that, the 3.0, 4.5, and 6.0 m alley widths provided 32, 52 and 68% higher yields of stem amaranth compared to the control (without trees). Gliricidia sepium-established alley cropping augmented the crop yields, where the highest stem amaranth yield (55.57 t ha‒1) was recorded in 6.0 m alley width with 100% N dose which was statistically similar to 75% and 50% N doses in the wider alley width (6.0 m). The above findings suggest that Gliricidia sepium-based alley cropping is a potential approach for increasing crop productivity and reducing synthetic N fertilizer use.
Assessement of Radiological Anatomy of Prostatic Artery on 3D DECT in Symptomatic Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy
Authors: Binh Nguyen , Thien Le , Huyen Dang , Duy Ngo , Anh Nguyen , Dung Le , Hung Nguyen
Published: January 2025

Background: Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BHP) is a common disease in the urinary system and often appears in old male patients with the incidence increasing proportionally to age. Objective: The study aimed to describe the anatomy and imaging findings of the prostatic artery (PAs) on 3D rendering dual-energy multi-sequence computed tomography (DECT) in patients with symptomatic benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH) treated by prostatic artery embolisation (PAE). Methods: The study was conducted on 64 patients with BPH who underwent DECT scans with 3D rendering of the pelvic artery before intervention from August 2022 to November 2023. The PAs were independently evaluated for each side, focusing on the number of branches, origin, tortuosity, atherosclerotic plaque, and anastomoses with adjacent arteries. Results: Among 128 pelvic sides where the PAs can be observed, the rate of finding 01 prostate artery on each side was high (96.1%), and the rate of 02 prostate arteries on each side was rare (3.9%). In 133 prostatic arteries, the most common type of prostatic artery according to origin is type I (29.6%), followed by type III (24.6%). The atherosclerotic prostatic artery rate is 24.6%, and the average diameter is 1.5±0.4 mm. The tortuosity prostate artery accounted for 74.6%. The anastomosis to the contralateral prostatic artery rate is 48.4%, followed by the penis and rectum anastomoses. Conclusion: PAs have abundant original varies between the left and right sides and between patient to patient. The most common form arises from the internal pudendal artery.
Spigelian Hernia in Cirrhotic Patients: When and How to Repair?
Authors: Telmesani Nosibah , Boumarah Dhuha , Alkhaldi Naif , Alsadery Humood , Busbait Saleh , AlOthman Anas , Alaqeel Faten
Published: January 2025

Background: Spigelian hernia, also known as spontaneous lateral ventral hernia, is defined as a protrusion of abdominal contents through an abdominal wall defect within the transversus aponeurosis. The entity was first reported in 1742 and named after Adrian van der Spieghel. It is recognized as a rare condition, accounting for 1 to 2% of all abdominal wall hernias. Cirrhotic patients, in particular, are more predisposed to hernias of all types. When Spigelian hernia is accompanied by hepatic cirrhosis, the decision to repair gets into a controversial aspect. Herein, we present the emergency management of an incarcerated spigelian hernia in a cirrhotic patient, highlighting the challenges in managing similar cases. Case Presentation: A 65-year-old lady, presented to our emergency department complaining of a left lower quadrant (LLQ) abdominal pain associated with a painful swelling for 9 hours duration. Upon assessment, the patient was jaundiced and haemodynamically stable. Abdominal examination revealed a soft and lax but distended abdomen, with irreducible tender swelling over the LLQ, measuring around 3x2 cm. Laboratory investigations showed anemia, hypoalbuminemia, hyperbilirubinemia, lactic acidosis and prolonged coagulation profile. A contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) scan of the abdomen showed evidence of incarcerated left spigelian hernia. Moreover, advanced cirrhosis of the liver was detected with hypertrophy of the caudate lobe, extensive ascites and splenomegaly. After establishing the diagnosis of incarcerated spigelian hernia, with a picture of advanced liver cirrhosis, Child-Pugh-Turcotte (CPT) score of C and a Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) score of 19 and Mayo score for post-operative mortality of 16% in 7 days and 53% in 30 days. Given the patient’s condition which necessitates urgent operative intervention beside the risk of decompensation of pre-existing liver disease and high mortality. Decision was made to proceed with laparoscopic hernia repair. Intraoperatively, ischemic small bowel segment was resected with creation of end ileostomy. Conventional anatomical repair of the hernia defect was performed. Postoperatively, the patient was managed and resuscitated in critical care unit and then discharged home in a satisfactory condition on post-operative day 15. She passed away prior to liver transplantation, thirty-two days post-operatively in a different institution. Conclusion: The surgical management of complicated hernias in an emergency setting comprise a notable number of cases encountered by surgeons. It always needs special attention. Moreover, cirrhotic patients with their predicted high morbidity and mortality require even further vigilance. Therefore, a patient-tailored approach is always recommended when managing similar cases to provide optimal outcomes.
Synthesis, Characterization, and antibacterial activity of Combine Mentha piperita - Silver nanoparticle on Multi-drug Resistant Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae from clinical sources
Authors: Usman Nazeef , Umar Ahmed , Iliyasu Mahmud , Abdulwahab Aminu
Published: January 2025

Background and Aim
Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) are recognized for their strong theragnostic properties and diverse applications in biomedical fields, including their effective use as antimicrobial agents. The study aimed to synthesize AgNPs using aqueous M. piperita extract and test its antibacterial activity against MDR-HvKp isolated from clinical sources.
Methods
The AgNPs were synthesized using M. piperita, physicochemical characterize EC, TDS, TDO, Ph, FTIR, and SEM. The antibacterial activity of M. piperita extract, AgNO3, and synthesized AgNPs was measured using the agar diffusion method, MIC, and MBC. Electrical conductivity of AgNPs (2130 µS/cm, normal range: 0-2500 µS/cm).
Results
Total dissolved solids (AgNPs: 768 ppm, normal range: 50-300 ppm), dissolved oxygen AgNPs: (3.20 mg/L, normal range: 6.5-8.0 mg/L), and pH, AgNPs: (7.0, normal range: 6.5-7.6). The AgNPs with size 400 nm (2.08 absorbance), after a 7days incubation period. The FTIR indicates AgNPs are capped with organic molecules, with peaks related to various organic functional groups such as C-H, C=O, and C-O are present. The SEM findings validated the production of spherical AgNPs with a crystalline structure and an average diameter of 20.42 nm. The M. piperita-AgNp conjugate record high MIC of 16mm(30 µg/ml) 14mm(25 µg/ml), 10mm(20 µg/ml) and 8mm(15 µg/ml). Followed by AgNPs with 6mm (30 µg/ml) and 4mm(15 µg/ml), whereas Mentha piperita records 10mm(30 µg/ml) and 4mm(15 µg/ml), with an MIC of 20µg/ml and MBC of 25µg/ml.
Conclusion
M. piperita's bioactive components enhance AgNP synthesis and antimicrobial activity against MDR-HvKp. Future research is needed to optimize component concentrations, synthesis parameters, and extraction methods for broader pathogen efficacy.
Molecular Detection of (I1307k) Mutation in the Adenomatous Polyposis Coli Among Sudanese Colorectal Cancer Patients, Sudan
Authors: Mohamed Samah , Idris Alkhair
Published: January 2025

Background
Several studies have reported that early detection of Adenomatous Polyposis Coli (APC) mutation can improve outcomes and our understanding of the unique biology of colorectal cancer (CRC). This study aimed to identify the (I1307k) Mutation in APC among patients with CRC in Sudan.
Methods
This prospective comparative, laboratory-based study included, archival paraffin-embedded samples obtained from 50 with colorectal cancer and 30 controls.

Molecular assessment was performed. The amplification of (I1307K) APC gene with a length of 79pb was performed using published primers, APC-1, APC1307W, and APC1307M to amplify the gene. Preparation of reaction mixtures, including wild-type and mutant-type mixture amplifications, and visualization of PCR products according to known method in literature.
Results
The study examined 80 samples. Degree of differentiation among cases groups was studied. A significant difference was observed between the APC gene and cancer stage (p=0.022).
The age groups of the study were 23 (28.7%) aged from 20 to 40 years, 31 (38.7%) aged from 41 to 60 years, and 26 (32.5%) were aged > 61 years old with mean (51.5500), with no statistical significance (p=0.937) between APC gene and age. The participants were comprised of 42 (52.5%) males, and 38 (47.5%) females. The association between APC gene and sex showed statistical not significance (p=0.86). The association between APC gen and cancer stage showed statistical significance (p=0.022).
Conclusion
The results of this study showed that there is an association between colorectal cancer and (I1307) mutation in APC. Well differentiated is the predominant abnormality in this study. In addition, no relationship was found between age and APC gene mutation.
The Importance of Nursing Management for Patients with Internal Diseases in Albania
Authors: Milloshi Rajmonda , Lako Aida
Published: January 2025

Background: Nursing management is essential in the care of patients with internal diseases, supporting disease management, health promotion, and patient education. Objective: This study examines the impact of effective nursing management on patient outcomes in Albania. Methods: Data was collected from 175 patients diagnosed with various internal diseases across healthcare facilities. Participants were divided into two groups based on the nursing management approach received. Group A received standard nursing care, while Group B received enhanced nursing interventions, including structured patient education, medication management, and coordinated care. The effectiveness of these interventions was evaluated through a pre- and post-intervention design, assessing patient compliance, health outcomes, and satisfaction levels. Descriptive statistics were applied using SPSS software, with chi-square tests to compare groups and multiple regression analysis to explore relationships between nursing management practices and patient outcomes. Results: Results showed that patients in Group B who received enhanced nursing management had significantly improved treatment adherence compared to Group A. The mean compliance rate increase was 30% higher in Group B. Conclusion: This study highlights the critical role of nursing management in managing internal diseases in Albania and supports the need for enhanced training and resources for nursing professionals to adopt comprehensive management strategies. Prioritizing effective nursing management can lead to better patient outcomes, improved health, and quality of life for individuals with chronic and acute internal conditions.