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In Mccarthy’s Shadow
Authors: Kabat Julie
Published: May 2024

This chapter explores the atmosphere created by McCarthyism. At the conclusion of his last phone call home, Luke “heard noises which sounded like the wires were being tapped.” If their father heard such noises, he would not have been surprised. He had heard the sounds of wiretapping ever since he had been hounded during the McCarthy period in the early 1950s. At that time, Senator Joe McCarthy was fanning the flames of Cold War hysteria over suspected covert communist activities. The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) was holding hearings. Refusing to fire his friends, the author's father offered to resign from his position instead. In those unsettled years, Luke saw firsthand why it is important not to allow groups of people to be stigmatized.
In the News
Authors: Kabat Julie
Published: May 2024

This chapter illustrates how, through the month of July 1964, while Luke and his fellow activists were busy teaching at the Freedom School, registering voters, attending evening meetings, and singing, they were also staying attuned to any news they could find about Mickey Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney. The local paper, the Meridian Star, carried news articles about searches in the area being conducted by the FBI, despite the fact that state and local officials still claimed the disappearance was all a hoax. The day after their disappearance, when their still smoldering car was discovered in a swamp, supporters around the country mounted protests and held sit-ins at federal buildings. However, even as FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover increased the number of agents in Mississippi tenfold, he reassured white Mississippians that the FBI would not give “protection” to civil rights workers. It was early on the day of August 4 that FBI agents had ordered and supervised the excavation of a fairly recent earthen dam in Neshoba County. Buried deep in the ground, the bodies of the missing men were uncovered.
Segregation up North and Lessons Learned
Authors: Kabat Julie
Published: May 2024

This chapter discusses how, at medical school, Luke needed to find outlets for his activism to maintain a sense of balance in his life. He rented a house in East Palo Alto where the community was integrated. It was not long before he realized that the community lacked resources and political rights in many ways reminiscent of Mississippi. In the South, segregation was out in the open and enforced under Jim Crow laws. This southern system was called “de jure segregation”—segregation enshrined into law. However, redlining, and other widespread practices, created structural inequities—“de facto segregation”—not covered by laws; “de facto segregation” was prevalent throughout the North. Back in July, President Johnson had signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Intentionally, it overturned laws but did nothing to address the customs of informal discrimination that were practiced nationwide. In whatever Luke was doing, nonviolence continued to be his touchstone. He participated in antinuclear protests and volunteered to teach nonviolence after hours at the local public high school in East Palo Alto and at Pacifica High School, a private school in an affluent neighborhood.
“Fired with a Holy Ambition”
Authors: Hunter Lacey P.
Published: May 2024

Though her public speaking career was ephemeral, Maria W. Stewart’s life work as a public intellectual and activist reveal the significance of black women in the development of larger African American intellectual communities. More than this, however, Stewart’s work highlights her importance to black women’s distinct intellectual traditions. Specifically, her use and adaptation of the American jeremiad indicates a wider trend among her peers in free black communities.
Civic Buildings after the Spanish-American War
Authors: Achurra G. Maria Eugenia
Published: May 2024

This book delves into representative Federal Beaux-Arts architecture and urban design from the late nineteenth-early twentieth century in territories acquired by the United States of America during the 1898 Spanish-American War (Cuba, Puerto Rico, and The Philippines, among others). It also studies similar architectural and urban design examples from other U.S. possessions from the Progressive Era, such as the former Panama Canal Zone and occupied territories like the Dominican Republic.
The book defines these edifices as backdrops for an exceptionalist, expansionist spectacle. It describes them as material evidence of the United States’ geopolitical, historical, and commercial meddling in the internal affairs of the Americas and elsewhere. It also emphasizes the command of the seas via the monopoly of the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. This significant condition sets up the grounds for this kind of spectacle.
Its contents expand into three significant sections. It starts by defining exceptionalism and its role in government U.S. Beaux-Arts Federal architecture. Subsequently, it delves into Beaux-Arts civic architecture in the continental U.S. and Latin America. Finally, it describes the works of relevant designers of these facilities and their urban layouts. As examples of government architecture overseas, these magnificent structures still capture a rich, expansionist Stimmung, reminiscent of Progressive America.
Agency-Producing Intellectual Systems in the Digital Age
Authors: Smith Aaron X.
Published: May 2024

This chapter examines the implementation of an Afrocentric Futuristic, philosophical, research-driven journey across the digital divide from avatars to Afrocentric agency. The term “Afrocentric Futurism” adds consciousness to the creation and execution of the past, present, and future political and speculative imagination of artists and intellectuals. In effect, they are creators of something that is based fundamentally on a historical awareness of African and African American assertion of consciousness and agency. The chapter uses an Afrocentric Futuristic chronological connection to modern technology in two primary ways. First is realizing the natural, historical relationship between Africa and advanced technologies, which could significantly serve to increase agency and confidence of Afrocentric Futurists engaging with digital innovation. Second is increasing abilities to utilize technology as a form of resistance to neocolonial domination through attaining a more in-depth understanding of the racialized realities of technological history and contemporary advancements. The chapter also considers agency reduction formation, technological colorism, the role of social media, and agency-producing systems such as the movie Black Panther (2018).
Afrocentricity’s AfroFuturism and the Significance of Asserting African Agency in the Pursuit of African Future
Authors: Moloi Lehasa
Published: May 2024

This chapter explores Afrocentric AfroFuturism as a transformative and combative paradigm, which seeks to restore African people to their own center in the narrative of life. This approach discredits the tendency to rewrite the narratives of African people from Eurocentric particularism, which distorts the consciousness of African people to speak and imagine their realities from dislocated philosophical grounds. Thus, the primary objective of an Afrocentric AfroFuturism is to dispose of the colonial terms of reference and replace them with African perspectives, which are germane to African cultural ethos as a way to restore the dignity of African people against five hundred years of Eurocentric humiliation. An emphasis on African agency is a distinction of Afrocentric Futurism. Until such time as African people are restored to their own terms, there will be no peace nor attainment of common destiny for them.
Afrocentricity’s AfroFuturism and the Count up to the Future
Authors: Asante Molefi Kete
Published: May 2024

This chapter argues that AfroFuturism must mean that people of African descent can project the best ideals and values of a multiplicity of mythological-historical narratives into a speculative space to create a techno-aesthetic ethic based on the best qualities of African people. There can be no Afrofuture without an assertion of African agency, the fundamental element in Afrocentricity. Claiming oneself as an agent of history is the first step to projecting oneself as having something worthy for the future. Indeed, one of the reasons that Afrocentricity has threatened the patriarchy more than many other ideologies is because it asserts African agency by insisting that there is nothing more critical for African people than their own historical experiences. Without those narratives being centered in projections, African people are nothing more than marginal to other futures.
Learning Jazz
Authors: Prouty Ken
Published: May 2024

The nature of learning in jazz is a topic that has consumed its practitioners and advocates from the music’s earliest days. While most studies of jazz learning focus on the nature of institutional contexts (i.e., jazz education), or the kinds of informal learning mentoring long associated with the jazz tradition, Learning Jazz argues that this distinction works against a common identity for jazz audiences and communities. What happens within the institution impacts—and is in turn impacted by—events and practices outside institutional contexts. The chapters in this book articulate these ideas through historical case studies. Chapter one examines the ways that early jazz method books capitalized on a new commercial market, laying claim to a public expertise about the music. The following chapter extends this idea to writing about the development of jazz; one study examines attempts by the critic Paul Eduard Miller to develop a jazz canon; another focuses on the disconnect between the emphasis on “great men” and the everyday realities of jazz artists. Chapters three and four tackle race in jazz education, focusing on influence of Stan Kenton and Maynard Ferguson, public school segregation, Jazz at Lincoln Center, and other topics Chapter five examines jazz’s “public pedagogy,” and the sometimes-fraught relationships between “jazz people” and the general public. An important undercurrent of this story is the nature of the institution in jazz. While formal institutions are relatively well-defined in educational and civic contexts, informally constituted institutions have profoundly influenced the development of jazz and its discourses.
Corporeality, Materiality, Mortality
Authors: Diffrient David Scott
Published: May 2024

From head to toe, the body has been a central component of horror films since the genre’s origins as a discursively formed category of cultural production after the turn of the twentieth century (during the “cinema of attractions” period). As the physical proof of a human or nonhuman existence, the body manifests one’s inner being and makes it possible for the most unbelievable of stories—those involving supernatural events or farfetched scenarios (e.g., demonic possession, paranormal phenomena, the walking dead, etc.)—to attain a degree of plausibility through material solidity, via the actual presence of corporeal forms. Although audiences might be comforted by the thought that the monstrous figures onscreen are merely “lights and shadows,” and thus not a real threat to one’s physical or emotional well-being, horror’s affective power lies in its ability to take hold of the spectator and elicit bodily responses that sometimes mirror the actions of those monsters’ ill-fated victims. Using case studies that foreground both microscopic and sexually provocative imagery, this chapter builds upon the pioneering work of Carol Clover and Linda Williams, whose theorizing of horror as an excess-filled “body genre” makes it possible for us to see (and hear) how certain films play on or prey upon a sensate being’s feelings by way of powerful images and sounds.
Going Deep, Sticking to the Surface
Authors: Diffrient David Scott
Published: May 2024

The bodily fear evoked by classic horror films of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, including those discussed in the previous chapters, is partly triggered by the spectator’s active imagination, put to service in the name of a narrational system that, for reasons of censorship, ethics, and industrial regulations concerning screen content, simply could not show everything. Instead, motion pictures from that period told rather than showed the details of a person’s bad death. This chapter charts the move toward a more direct sort of bodily horror beginning in the 1960s and 1970s; part of what Beth A. Kattelman calls the first wave of “carnographic culture,” which continued into the prosthetics-heavy 1980s and intensified throughout the post-9/11 second wave of gore-filled horror films noted for their thematic emphasis on literal and figurative torture as well as their privileging of “surface” over “depth.” The “carnographic” aspects of the genre are humorously commented on in The Last Drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs (Shudder, 2018–present), a streaming American TV series that serves as a centering case study of this chapter.
The Blasters
Authors: Ensminger David A.
Published: May 2024

This chapter focuses on the contributions of Dave Alvin, who grew up in a small California town and combined his love of blues, R&B, rockabilly, and rock’n’roll with the high energy of punk and became a respected guitarist and storyteller.
Elvis vs. El Vez
Authors: Ensminger David A.
Published: May 2024

This chapters outline the impact of Elvis Presley upon the idea and conventions of rock’n’roll and punk. He symbolizes the notion of a gritty outsider who combines black and white musical strains and shakes up the social fabric. The chapter also pays homage to Robert Lopez, formerly of the Zeroes, who became known as the Mexican Elvis -- performance artists El Vez, a flamboyant figure that mixed class-consciousness, visionary tactics, fiery politics, Mexican-American/Chicano pride, subversive pop culture appropriation, queer sensibilities, and a campy humor of Las Vegas-style proportions.
Peter Case
Authors: Ensminger David A.
Published: May 2024

This chapter focuses on the achievements of thrice Grammy-nominated Peter Case, who first emerged in the power pop/pre-punk indie combo the Nerves, whose “Hanging on the Telephone” was covered by Blondie, to tremendous success. In Plimsouls, he forged a style that was lined with roots influences, like Motown pop, and swung with R&B, while his solo career as a singer-songwriter has remained fecund and wide-ranging, focusing on both highly personal and biographic narratives but also showing a deep conscience towards prisoners, the homeless, and underdogs.
Hearing
Authors: Fraser Benjamin
Published: May 2024

This chapter of Ben Katchor explores how the artist emphasizes the aural sense to comment on his preferred urban themes. While many comics are referenced, this chapter includes close readings of the role of sound and onomatopoeia in “The Ringing Pay Phone” (from The Beauty Supply District), “Euro Trash/American Garbage” (from Hand-drying in America), and The Jew of New York, where the Kabbalah is mentioned. Katchor’s interest in spoken and written languages, including Yiddish and Hebrew, is also explored.
Poor Gal
Authors: Gutstein Dan
Published: May 2024

This chapter presents the “Liza Jane” tunes popular among old-time (or Appalachian) musicians, many of whom included the phrase “poor gal” (and even “little Liza Jane”) in their refrains. It goes on to analyze the “Liza Jane” variants collected by early folklorists who published crucial articles in the Journal of American Folklore, as well as related variants presented by Carl Sandburg in his landmark 1927 collection, The American Songbag. “Liza Jane” songs were part of the early wave of country music recordings, even appearing at the legendary Bristol Sessions. The artists included Fiddlin’ John Carson, Uncle Am Stuart, Tenneva Ramblers, The Hill Billies, and Bradley Kincaid, some of whom embraced racist institutions. Tracing the roots of these lyrics carries the narrative to several pieces contained in Thomas Talley’s stupendous 1922 collection, Negro Folk Rhymes, demonstrating that these “country” songs appealed to white and African American audiences alike.
14 Umfassend auf dem Prüfstand
Authors: Seifert Christina
Published: May 2024

Christina Seifert widmet sich in diesem Beitrag der Status-quo-Evaluation der Mineralienausstellung "terra mineralia" an der TU Bergakademie Freiberg. Aus den Ergebnissen leitet sie Empfehlungen für deren Überarbeitung ab. Dabei geht sie den Fragen nach: Wer sind die Besucher*innen der terra mineralia? Wie verhalten sie sich in der Dauerausstellung? Wie rezipieren sie die Dauerausstellung? In ihrem Beitrag stellt sie zuerst die Dauerausstellung der terra mineralia vor und erläutert die Motivation für ihre Arbeit. Anschließend geht sie auf die Untersuchungsmethode der Status-quo-Evaluation ein. An drei konkreten Beispielen legt sie deren Ergebnisse und Empfehlungen dar. Abschließend werden die Erfahrungen mit der Status-quo-Evaluation geteilt.
15 Zwischen fiktionaler Erzählung und echten Emotionen
Authors: Hawig Jana , Rehahn Sarah-Louise
Published: May 2024

Jana Hawig und Sarah-Louise Rehahn widmen sich der Frage nach der Wirkung der Vermittlungsstrategie Storytelling auf Ausstellungsbesucher*innen. Hierzu präsentieren sie die Ergebnisse der summativen Evaluation der DASA-Ausstellung "Pia sagt Lebwohl. Eine Ausstellung über die Arbeit mit Tod und Trauer". Die Erzählung über die fiktive Figur der 17-jährigen Pia wurde im Ausstellungsraum durch eine starke narrative Gestaltung und einen in sich stringenten Plot realisiert. Die im Rahmen eines Mixed-Methods Forschungsdesigns erhobenen Ergebnisse geben Einblick in die vielfältigen Wirkungsweisen einer Ausstellungserzählung: diese ordnet die Inhalte, baut Verknüpfungen zur Lebenswelt auf, wirkt identitätsfördernd, emotionalisierend und immersiv. Dabei ist die Wirkung abhängig von Vorerfahrungen, Interessen und Motivationen der Besucher*innen.
Fremdes und Vertrautes
Authors: Zürner Christian
Published: May 2024

Christian Zürner hinterfragt in diesem Aufsatz Festschreibungen ästhetischer und religiöser Erfahrungen auf Erfahrungen von Alterität und Ohnmacht. Sowohl im ästhetischen wie im religiösen Erfahren finden sich immer auch Elemente intimster Vertrautheit und Stärkung.
Interventionswissenschaft
Authors: Schuster Roland J.
Published: May 2024

Interventionswissenschaft hat das Potential, nachhaltige Veränderungen zu ermöglichen. Roland J. Schuster gibt einen umfassenden Einblick in Theorie, Praxis und Entstehungsgeschichte dieser besonderen Form der Wissenschaft. Aus trans- und interdisziplinärer Sicht widmet der Band sich der Bedeutung von Wissen und Bewusstsein in Bezug auf die menschliche Wahrnehmung und Kommunikation. Sieben Forschungsbeispiele zeigen auf, wie Veranstaltungsdesign, didaktische Interventionen oder Gruppenreflexionen neue Wege öffnen können - für ein Mehr an Kreativität in Praxis, Forschung und Lehre.
Klimatransformation - langer Weg, wenig Zeit
Authors: Schaefer Thilo
Published: May 2024

Thilo Schaefer wirft einen ökonomischen Blick auf die Umsetzung der Zielsetzung, bis zum Jahr 2045 netto keine klimaschädlichen Treibhausgase mehr auszustoßen. Deutlich wird die gewaltige Anstrengung, die etwa hinsichtlich des Ausbaus Erneuerbarer Energien notwendig ist, soll diese doch auch die enorme Nachfrage etwa nach Grünem Wasserstoff, E-Mobilität sowie beim Wohnen decken. Der Artikel beleuchtet des Weiteren die Komplexität der Zielkonflikte zwischen den ambitionierten Maßnahmen der europäischen Klimapolitik und den Mechanismen, die einen dadurch implizierten Verlust an internationaler Wettbewerbsfähigkeit abwenden sollen. Abgeleitet wird in diesem Kontext eine auch ordnungspolitisch begründete Notwendigkeit von industriepolitischer Steuerung sowie der Aufruf nach internationaler Klimapolitik.
Politische Theorie des Anarchismus
Authors: Eibisch Jonathan
Published: May 2024

Der anarchistische Politikbegriff erscheint widersprüchlich: Der Ablehnung von Politik steht eine Bezugnahme auf sie gegenüber. Diese Paradoxie entspringt einer bestimmten Denkweise, die dabei hilft, Netzwerke zwischen verschiedenen Strömungen, Gruppen und Diskursen zu weben. So eröffnet sich die Möglichkeit, auf widersprüchliche gesellschaftliche Verhältnisse zu antworten, um sie zu überschreiten. Dies zeigt sich im Modus des Strebens nach Autonomie, in Kontroversen zwischen Individualismus und Kollektivismus und in theoretischen Konzepten wie der sozialen Revolution. In diesem Kontext verdeutlicht Jonathan Eibisch, dass es eine zeitgemäße politische Theorie des Anarchismus gibt - und wie sie aussehen kann.
Pioneering Participatory Art Practices
Authors: Kok Annemarie
Published: May 2024

Participatory art practices allow members of an audience to actively contribute to the creation of art. Annemarie Kok provides a detailed analysis and explanation of the use of participatory strategies in art in the so-called ›long sixties‹ (starting around 1958 and ending around 1974) in Western Europe. Drawing on extensive archival materials and with the help of the toolbox of the actor-network theory, she maps out the various actors of three case studies of participatory projects by John Dugger and David Medalla, Piotr Kowalski, and telewissen, all of which were part of documenta 5 (Kassel, 1972).
Kritische Theorie aktualisieren
Authors: Erxleben Paul
Published: May 2024

Gibt es eine Macht ohne Gewalt? Sind Ideologien eine Form des Wissens? Und wie werden unterworfene Individuen zu mündigen Subjekten? Paul Erxleben sucht Antworten, indem er Theodor W. Adorno mit Michel Foucault ins Gespräch bringt. Kritische Gesellschaftstheorie, so zeigt seine Analyse, aktualisiert sich in der Reflexion auf den Zeitkern zentraler Begriffe. Durch deren Redefinition greifen beide öffentliche Intellektuelle in ihr jeweiliges Theorie-Praxis-Gefüge ein. Vor diesem Hintergrund finden Begriffe von Adorno und Foucault in drei Kraftfeldern zu einer Konstellation zusammen. Aus dem Vergleich erwachsen Thesen über Ohnmacht, positionale Ideologiekritik und mündige Subjektivierungsweisen.
The differing characteristics of Brachypodium pinnatum (L.) P. Beauv. and B. sylvaticum (Huds.) P. Beauv.
Authors: Paszko Beata
Published: May 2024

Brachypodium pinnatum and B. sylvaticum are two well known, closely related and similar species within the genus Brachypodium. A number of differing characteristics between these two species is examined. B. pinnatum and B. sylvaticum cannot be distinguished on the basis of qualitative characteristics suggested by different taxonomists, such as the shape of the ligule, hairiness of leaves and sheaths, and presence or absence of hairs on the leaf margins.
Differentiation of petals in the Malva alcea L. populations from the region of Central and Eastern Europe
Authors: Celka Zbigniew , Drapikowska Maria , Ogrodowicz Katarzyna , Shevera Myroslav V. , Szkudlarz Piotr
Published: May 2024

Malva alcea is a relict of old cultivation and its today’s presence is related to the remains of medieval settlements and anthropogenic habitats located in their vicinity (roadsides, roadside ditches and thickets). The article covers the results of studies on the variability of Malva alcea corolla in seventeen localities in Central and Eastern Europe, in the whole habitat spectrum of the species under study. The largest petals (length and width) were found in Germany and two Ukrainian populations. The same populations reached the biggest values with respect to two other traits: the petal length from its base to the point of incision as well as the incision depth. Analysing the relation between the petal’s length and the incision depth it has been found that the largest petal incisions can be found among specimens of population from North-East Poland, and the smallest ones in German population, Polish population from the Poznań region and two Ukrainian ones. The Principal Component Analysis (PCA) showed differentiation between specimens from particular populations. The specimens formed two groups. The first group consists of plants from Polish populations, one Ukrainian and some specimens from the second population from Ukraine. The second group is made up of specimens from localities in Germany and the last two populations from Ukraine. The cluster analysis performed on the basis of the Euclidean distance indicated two similar groups of populations. The results should be interpreted through the prism of prehistoric and medieval cultivation of Malva alcea in the vicinity of defensive strongholds and settlements, as well as ancient and contemporary spreading of the species to anthropogenic habitats.
Five new species of Pachygenium (Schltr.) Szlach., R. González & Rutk. (Spirantheae, Cyclopogoninae, Orchidaceae) from Brazil
Authors: Mytnik-Ejsmont Joanna , Rutkowski Piotr , Szlachetko Dariusz L.
Published: May 2024

Five new species of Pachygenium (Schltr.) Szlach., R. González & Rutk. (Spirantheae, Cyclopogoninae, Orchidaceae) from Brazil are described and illustrated. Their taxonomic position is briefly discussed. The genus is compared with Pelexia Poit. ex Rich., and the taxonomic status of both genera is discussed.
COMPARATIVE EVALUATION OF EMISSIONS TRADING SYSTEMS AND CARBON TAXES: IMPLEMENTATIONS IN CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION THROUGH CARBON PRICING
Authors: Öztürk Sefa
Published: May 2024

Climate change, driven by human activities, results in global warming, sea level rise, extreme weather, biodiversity loss, and ecosystem damage. To combat these issues, carbon pricing is being utilized. This policy strategy assigns costs to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, considering their negative impact on society and the environment, thus encouraging reduction of emissions. Two main methods of implementing carbon pricing are emissions trading systems (ETS), where the carbon price is market-determined, and carbon tax, where the carbon price is pre-established. This study compares carbon taxes and ETSs as regulatory measures for mitigating climate change. Focusing on aspects of policy design and implementation— efficiency, political durability, policy consistency, flexibility and adaptability, predictability, and environmental certainty—the main argument of the study hinges on the distinct nature of price formation in these mechanisms - carbon taxes define prices directly, whereas ETSs rely on market dynamics for price determination. This fundamental divergence significantly shapes the operational dynamics of climate mitigation policies. The study highlights the unique strengths and limitations inherent in ETSs and carbon taxes, underscoring the necessity of viewing these mechanisms not as alternatives but as synergistic strategies for a policy design in combating climate change.
Dynamic changes in autophagy activity in different degrees of pulmonary fibrosis in mice
Authors: Chen Xiulan , Lin Xin , Xu Lihuan , Liu Yu , Liu Xin , Zhang Chunhui , Xie Baosong
Published: May 2024

The aim of this study is to observe the changes in autophagy activities in lung tissues of mice with different degrees of pulmonary fibrosis (PF), and explore the association between PF and autophagy activity. The PF model was established by bleomycin (BLM, 25 and 35 mg/kg) atomization inhalation in C57BL/6 mice, samples were collected on the 7, 14, and 28 days after BLM administration. Hematoxylin–eosin staining was used to observe the pathological changes in lung tissues. Masson staining was utilized to assess areas of blue collagen fiber deposition in lung tissues. Quantitative real time polymerase chain reaction was used to detect the mRNA expressions of autophagy-related genes, including Atg5, Atg7, and Atg10 in lung tissues. Western blot was used to detect the protein expressions of autophagy-related genes, including p62 and LC3II/LC3I in lung tissues. Compared with control group, BLM dose-dependently decreased PaO2, mRNA expressions of Atg5, Atg7, Atg10, and LC3II/LC3I, while increased lung wet weight, lung coefficient, PF score, the blue area of collagen fibers, and p62 protein on the 7th, 14th, and 28th days. In conclusion, the more severe the PF induced by BLM, the lower the autophagy activity.
On thex-coordinates of Pell equations that are products of two Pell numbers
Authors: Ddamulira Mahadi , Luca Florian
Published: May 2024

Let (Pm)m≥0be the sequence of Pell numbers given byP0= 0,P1= 1, andPm+2= 2Pm+1+Pmfor allm≥ 0. In this paper, for an integerd≥ 2 which is square free, we show that there is at most one value of the positive integerxparticipating in the Pell equationx2−dy2= ± 1, which is a product of two Pell numbers.
Hermite interpolation of type total degree associated with certain spaces of polynomials
Authors: Cuong Le Ngoc , Mai Ta Thi Thanh , Van Manh Phung
Published: May 2024

We study Hermite interpolation for the space of polynomials of total degree in ℝ
N
and the space of homogeneous polynomials in ℝ
N+1. We investigate the relations between the two types of Hermite interpolation. We show that they have the same regularity and continuity property.
On lower density operators
Authors: Ivanova Gertruda , Wagner-Bojakowska Elżbieta
Published: May 2024

The classical density topology is an extension of the natural topology on the real line, as the interior of arbitrary Lebesgue measurable set A is contained in the set of density points of A. Also each density point of A belongs to the closure of A for arbitrary measurable set A.

In this paper, we concentrate on lower density operators for which the inclusions mentioned above are not fulfilled. In the first part, examples of such lower density operators generated by measure-preserving bijections are given. There are introduced three conditions to investigate lower density operators for which only the second inclusion holds.

In the second part, the concept of operator D introduced by K. Kuratowski is applied to the characterization of such operators.
In memory of Paolo
Authors: Cavaliere Antonio , Cavaliere Paola
Published: May 2024

Paolo de Lucia passed away on March 18, 2022 in Nyon, Switzerland.

He was undoubtedly one of the most respected experts on Real Analysis and Measure Theory, but most of us miss him first of all as a scientific role model, colleague and fatherly friend.

Last year, some of his coauthors, students and friends attended the ‘Abstract Measure Theory and Applications: a symposium remembering Paolo de Lucia’s contributions’, held in Naples on March 30–31, 2023, and contributed orally with lectures and speeches in the section ‘Memories’.

For this reason, this year we wish to commemorate him by transcribing our two contributions and keeping them unchanged, albeit without the familiar context of the symposium, because unchanged is the sorrow for his loss and the weight of his absence for those who knew him.

So, despite an unbridgeable distance, we can imagine him blushing slightly, smiling and saying ironically “At last, for me even a jurist agrees to publish in a mathematics journal”.
Exact-m-majority terms
Authors: Lipparini Paolo
Published: May 2024

We say that an idempotent term t is an exact-m-majority term if t evaluates to a, whenever the element a occurs exactly m times in the arguments of t, and all the other arguments are equal.

If m < n and some variety 𝓥 has an n-ary exact-m-majority term, then 𝓥 is congruence modular. For certain values of n and m, for example, n = 5 and m = 3, the existence of an n-ary exact-m-majority term neither implies congruence distributivity, nor congruence permutability.
Solving Fredholm integro-differential equations involving integral condition: A new numerical method
Authors: Kadirbayeva Zhazira , Bakirova Elmira , Tleulessova Agila
Published: May 2024

In this work we investigate a nonlocal problem for the Fredholm integro-differential equation involving integral condition. The main tool used in our considerations is Dzhumabaev parametrization method. We make use of the numerical implementation of the Dzhumabaev parametrization method to obtain the desired result, which is well-supported with numerical examples.
Non-commutative effect algebras, L-algebras, and local duality
Authors: Rump Wolfgang
Published: May 2024

GPE-algebras were introduced by Dvurečenskij and Vetterlein as unbounded pseudo-effect algebras. Recently, they have been characterized as partial L-algebras with local duality. In the present paper, GPE-algebras with an everywhere defined L-algebra operation are investigated. For example, linearly ordered GPE-algebra are of that type. They are characterized by their self-similar closures which are represented as negative cones of totally ordered groups. More generally, GPE-algebras with an everywhere defined multiplication are identified as negative cones of directed groups. If their partial L-algebra structure is globally defined, the enveloping group is lattice-ordered. For any self-similar L-algebra A, exponent maps are introduced, generalizing conjugation in the structure group. It is proved that the exponent maps are L-algebra automorphisms of A if and only if A is a GPE-algebra. As an application, a new characterization of cone algebras is obtained. Lattice GPE-algebras are shown to be equivalent to ∧-closed L-algebras with local duality.
Lower separation axioms in bitopogenous spaces
Authors: Richmond Tom , Šlapal Josef
Published: May 2024

Several naturally defined lower separation axioms for bitopological spaces obtained by modifying the axioms T
0, T
1, and R
0 appear in the literature. We introduce and study analogous separation axioms for bitopogenous spaces. In particular, we investigate relationships between the axioms and discuss the conditions under which the relationships are similar to those between the corresponding separation axioms for bitopological spaces.
Zu Risiken und Nebenwirkungen fragen Sie Ihren Arzt oder Notenbanker: Steigende Immobilienpreise infolge der Anleihekäufe des Eurosystems?
Authors: Afflatet Nicolas
Published: May 2024

Critics of the Eurosystem’s asset purchase programmes have long cautioned about unintended and undesired side-effects of the programmes. One of these potential side-effects are rising housing prices. There is good reason to assume that the lowering of security yields has lowered mortgage rates which in turn would have boosted demand for properties. Yet, while there is ample evidence that the security purchases have lowered long-term interest rates, the link between the latter and housing prices is looser than may be expected. Housing prices have grown stronger with the Eurosystem’s purchases, but not significantly stronger. Given the serious effects of highly and potentially overvalued housing markets, the ECB and other central banks are still well-advised to assess the side-effects of their policy measures thoroughly.
Techno-Economic Evaluation of a Residential Photovoltaic System: A Case Study From the Residential Complex Kass Suwailem in Hilla, Iraq
Authors: Neama Nagham H. , Alfahed R. K. Fakher
Published: May 2024

Recently, the construction of residential complexes has spread significantly in all cities of Iraq. Hence, incorporating renewable energy into residential buildings provides multiple advantages as an essential component of the global sustainability initiative. In this study, a techno-economic analysis of a photovoltaic (PV) system has been evaluated in residential buildings of Kass Suwailem I and II, Iraq-Hilla, as a case study. The evaluation involved the technical and economic feasibility of implementing a solar power generation system in this residential setting. Furthermore, it assessed the costs, benefits, and financial viability of installing and operating a PV system for electricity generation. The optimal size of the PV system based on the energy consumption, local solar irradiation levels, and electricity demand patterns for each apartment unit has been evaluated. For each apartment unit, the total PV system cost is assumed to be $12,470 consisting of a 14.7 kW array, 8-battery bank of 230 Ah each, controller, and 10 kW inverter. Life-Cycle Cost analysis has been employed to determine the comprehensive cost of the PV system, encompassing all expenditures accrued throughout its operational lifespan. The calculation of the installed PV system involves annual energy rationalization, along with determining the amount of cost reduction and comparing the system with a generator or any other source that uses fossil fuels.
Un reconto de bens da Catedral de Ourense escrito en galego no ano 1493
Authors: Rodríguez Raquel
Published: May 2024

Neste estudo ofrécese a edición interpretativa dun documento medieval parcialmente inédito escrito en galego, un reconto de bens da Catedral de Ourense, datado no ano 1493 e custodiado no arquivo da dita catedral. Ademais, cotéxase o texto cos fragmentos transcritos por Castro e Martínez Sueiro (1923: 458-461), publicados pola Comisión Provincial de Monumentos Históricos y Artísticos de Orense baixo o título Documentos del Archivo de la Catedral de Orense. Acompáñase a lectura dunha introdución na cal se aborda a descrición e estudo do documento e se achegan dous índices, un toponímico e outro antroponímico.
Neuroosteoartropatia Charcota czy zapalenie kości i szpiku w przebiegu infekcji tkanek miękkich? Studium przypadku w świetle wytycznych IWGDF 2023
Authors: Szkiler Elżbieta , Bitenc-Jasiejko Aleksandra , Kirpichnikova Alina
Published: May 2024

Stan zapalny kości i szpiku może występować zarówno w przebiegu infekcji niezakaźnej, jak i w neuroosteoartropatii Charcota (CNO). W obu przypadkach diagnostyka radiologiczna może nie wykazać żadnych zmian. Badania laboratoryjne pozwalają jedynie na potwierdzenie lub wykluczenie stanu zapalnego, nie są więc skuteczne w różnicowaniu problemu. Leczenie CNO oraz zapalenia kości i szpiku wymaga odmiennego postępowania leczniczego. W obu przypadkach, w szczególności w przypadku osteolizy, konieczne jest natychmiastowe odciążenie i unieruchomienie kończyny w celu uniknięcia poważnych powikłań, jakimi są trwała deformacja i dysfunkcja kończyny, a nawet amputacja. W 2023 r. po raz pierwszy wydane zostały zalecenia Międzynarodowej Grupy Roboczej ds. Stopy Cukrzycowej (11 dokumentów), dotyczące m.in. zapobiegania i leczenia CNO, a także leczenia owrzodzeń i infekcji u osób z cukrzycą. Niniejszy artykuł stanowi analizę wytycznych, z jednoczesnym studium przypadku, ukierunkowaną na możliwość ich zastosowania w przebiegu zapalenia szpiku i kości. Celem pracy była odpowiedź na pytanie: „Czy rekomendacje mogą mieć zastosowanie zarówno w przypadku podejrzenia zapalenia kości i szpiku (wraz zapaleniem i/lub owrzodzeniem tkanek miękkich), jak i w neuroosteoartropatii Charcota?”.
Quality detection of alfalfa hay based on multisource information fusion: A preliminary study
Authors: Yang Huihe , Li Jie , Wu Guifang , De Xuehong , Zhang Yong , Guo Fang , Yan Shubin , Bai Xiangping , Xiao Haowen , Cao Yang
Published: May 2024

The quality detection of alfalfa hay is crucial for the development of animal husbandry. In this study, a method for quality detection of alfalfa hay based on the fusion of multisource information including near-infrared spectroscopy, image processing techniques, and electronic nose is proposed. After SG convolution smoothing, feature wavelengths were extracted using Competitive Adaptive Re-weighting Scheme and Successive Projections Algorithm from the spectral data. The image data were denoised using adaptive wavelet thresholding, and color and texture features were extracted using color histograms and random forest algorithms, respectively. Electronic nose data using principal component analysis was used for data dimensionality reduction. Support Vector Machine, Extreme Learning Machine, and Multi-Layer Perceptron were employed to establish quality detection models of alfalfa hay based on spectroscopy, image, gas information, and their combination, respectively. Experimental results demonstrate that the fusion of near-infrared spectroscopy, image data, and gas information effectively enhances the classification accuracy of the model. The accuracy of the test set reaches 100%, with root mean square error and determination coefficient values of 0.1728 and 0.9239, respectively, surpassing prediction models established solely on individual information. This study provides new insights into alfalfa hay quality detection.
A review study on trigonometric transformations of statistical distributions
Authors: Tomy Lishamol , Satish Gokul
Published: May 2024

For the past few years, various forms of statistical distributions based on trigonometrical transformation were proposed by researchers to model data and thereby finding the suitable distribution to predict the possibilities, and application of it in real life. This article aims to review the recent developments and contributions brought about by the various families of trigonometric functions in statistical distribution and its application in data modelling. Several generalised trigonometric distributions are reviewed and compared along with their properties and uses.
The Need for Islamic Counseling Services for Couples with Marital Problems
Authors: Bustan Radhiya , Riyono Bagus , Amalia Rizqi Maulida , Amelia Zahrina
Published: May 2024

Every couple hopes for eternal married life until the end of life. However, various challenges faced them. The divorce rate in Indonesia is increasing. Based on an interview with the counselor of the Advisory Board for the Development and Preservation of Marriage (BP4), one of the leading causes is the lack of religious internalizing. So that couples need help to build family relationships that are blessed by Allah SWT, one of which is through counseling services with an Islamic psychology perspective. This study wants to empirically examine the description of the needs of married couples who have marital problems in obtaining Islamic counseling services. This study using a mixed method with an explanatory sequential design type. The data collection tool is a questionnaire which uses descriptive quantitative analysis. Survey was carried out using a google form to 205 married respondents with accidental sampling. Then, in-depth interviews were added to the three of them. The results showed that when facing problems in their marriage, more than 50% of respondents stated that they tried to think positively that they were able to face the problem, then looked for the best information and solutions, made self-introspection and increased worship. This explains the importance of focusing on individual strengths, from a spiritual aspect. Meanwhile, for responses related to seeking assistance from external source, only less than 50% of respondents. For this external source, most of the respondents prefer to discuss with their close person compared to professionals. When talking to external parties, they are also more likely to come to ustaz to obtain suggestions from the spiritual side compared to professionals such as counselors, psychologists and psychiatrists. It describes that the religious perspective serves as one of the important factors needed in solving any problems faced by married couples.
Building Image Through Food Choice: The Effects of Unfamiliar Companion, Impression Management, and Emotional Eating on Food Portion
Authors: Zahra Aqilah Az , Undarwati Anna
Published: May 2024

The global rise in the obesity epidemic is largely driven by the consumption of foods that contribute to significant health risks. This research study focuses on the social and personal factors that influence food portions, in addition to environmental factors. The study is designed to investigate the effect of unfamiliar companion, impression management, and emotional eating on food portions in Indonesia. The study employed a quasi-experimental research design in a laboratory setting, using a fake food buffet by recruiting 245 undergraduate students. The results indicated that unfamiliar companion, impression management, and emotional eating had a significant main effect and interaction effect on individuals' food portions (p < 0.05). This was demonstrated by the difference in food portion between people eating alone and in the presence of an unfamiliar companion. It might explain that individuals are aware of maintaining a positive image during meals by choosing food portions that are perceived to reflect positive perceptions when dining with a person who lacks familiarity or personal connection. The research findings can be utilised as a reference for fundamental understanding of mitigation strategies for reducing food portions among adults.
Self-Compassion: Unveiling Mental Health Through Emotion Regulation in High-school Students
Authors: Syafitri Nellinda , Lubis Rahmi , Indrawan Yudistira Fauzi , Choong Thum Chern
Published: May 2024

This study aims to examine the effect of self-compassion on mental health, with emotion regulation as a mediator variable. Adolescents experience rapid physical, cognitive, emotional and psychological changes in themselves that have the potential to cause mental health problems. The key to success in maintaining mental health is learning to be kind and compassionate to oneself, especially in stressful and difficult situations, or self-compassion. Self-compassion plays an important role in mental health outcomes, where self-compassion will include the emotion regulation component, helping individuals to face and understand negative emotions as adaptive coping. Effective emotion regulation will shape healthy adolescents, so it is suggested that emotion regulation may mediate the influence of self-compassion on mental health. This research uses quantitative methods and was conducted on 574 high school students in Medan, aged 14-19 years. The instruments used were the Warwick Edinburg Mental Wellbeing Scale (WEMWBS), the Self-Compassion Scale, and the Emotion Regulation Scale. The results of the mediation analysis using PLS-SEM4 show that emotion regulation significantly mediates the influence between self-compassion and mental health (T-statistic = 3.694 > 1.96 and P-values = .000 < .05). The results showed that emotion regulation plays a partial role in the effect of self-compassion on mental health. Adolescents who practise self-compassion will try to develop positive thinking skills and reduce the pressure and tension resulting from negative emotions, which will ultimately improve their mental health.
Working Conditions as a Predictor of Employees’ Well-Being in Selected Broadcasting Organisations in Southwestern Nigeria
Authors: Ogunola Abiodun Adekunle
Published: May 2024

The study examined the predictability of working conditions on the well-being of employees of selected broadcasting organisations in Southwestern Nigeria. It also assessed the differences in the well-being of these employees based on their form of ownership. A research questionnaire comprising of standardized instruments: the Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire and the Work and Well-being Outcome Scale were used to generate data from the respondents. A sample of 412 employees in the eleven selected broadcasting organisations participated in the study.  This study made use of both descriptive and inferential statistics such as frequencies, means, multiple regression, least squared difference, and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) to analyse data. The results indicated that working conditions which is a compendium of various organizational factors within the selected broadcasting organizations significantly predicted employees’ well-being of the selected organizations. Differences were also found in the well-being of employees of federal, state, and privately-owned broadcasting organisations as these employees are exposed to different physical and psychosocial work environments based on the level of structure and organization of tasks, activities, and the physical and human resources available to these organizations. The study concluded that having pleasant working conditions can play a crucial role in the retention of satisfied and loyal employees and the promotion of their all-round well-being.