bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Ser adulto jovem com doença renal
Authors: Lima Agnaldo Júnior Santana , Ristum Marilena
Published: December 2024

Pacientes com diagnóstico de doença renal crônica podem vivenciar mudanças intensas na rotina, a diminuição de atividades físicas e mal-estar emocional. O diagnóstico e o tratamento podem se constituir em rupturas para os indivíduos, demandando processos de ajustamento e adaptação. O objetivo deste estudo consistiu em explorar como se configuram os processos de significação de indivíduos adultos jovens acerca do adoecimento renal crônico e como se dava a utilização de recursos diante do adoecimento. A Psicologia Cultural foi utilizada como aporte teórico a partir dos conceitos de significações, ruptura e recursos nos processos de transição. Participaram do estudo três indivíduos jovens com idade entre 21 e 31 anos, diagnosticados com doença renal crônica e em tratamento hemodialítico. Foram utilizados entrevistas narrativas e um questionário sociodemográfico. Os/as participantes demonstraram possuir conhecimentos sobre a referida doença e conhecer aspectos sobre prováveis causas do adoecimento. O diagnóstico esteve marcado pelo medo e incerteza quanto ao futuro, mas os processos de transição permitiram que os/as participantes convivessem com a doença renal crônica. Entre os recursos utilizados nos processos de transição, estavam as reflexões a partir de artefatos culturais; as instituições hospitalares e seus/suas profissionais; a família e características particulares dos indivíduos.
LARVICIDAL AND PUPCIDAL EFFICACY OF MOMORDICA CHARANTIA LEAF EXTRACT AND BACTERIAL INSECTICIDE, BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS AGAINST MALARIAL VECTOR, ANOPHELES STEPHENSI LISTON. (DIPTERA: CULICIDAE)
Authors:   Division of Entomology, Department of Zoology, School of Life Sciences, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore - 641 046, Tamil Nadu, India., Subramaniam Jayapal
Published: December 2024

The efficacy ofleaf extracts of Momordica charantia and Bacillus thuringiensis hasbeen proven against larvicidal and pupicidal activities of the malarial vector,Anopheles stephensi. The present study investigated the larvicidal andpupicidal activity against the first to fourth instar lavae and pupae of thelaboratory-reared mosquitoes, An. stephensi. The plant extract showedlarvicidal and pupicidal effects after 24 h of exposure. All larval instars andpupae have considerably moderate mortality; however, the highest larval andpupal mortality was the methanol extract of leaf M. charantia againstthe first- to fourth instars larvae and pupae values of LC50=I instar was 93.45ppm, II instar was 123.74 ppm, III instar was 167.17 ppm, and IV instar was216.15 ppm, and pupae was 256.66 ppm, respectively and bacterial insecticide, B.thuringiensis for the first-to fourth instars larvae and pupae recorded theLC50 values: 53.47 ppm, 62.09 ppm, 79.15 ppm, 95.39 ppm, and 105.76 ppm for theI- IV instar larvae and pupae, respectively. The combined treatment recordedthe values of LC50 85.09 ppm, 90.51 ppm, 111.91 ppm, and 137.61 ppm for I to IVinstars and 154.40 ppm for pupae respectively. The results of the presentinvestigation revealed effect of methanolic extract of M. charantia and B.thuringiensis for controlling of larvicidal and pupicidal properties ofagainst malarial vector, A. stephensi.
BIOCONTROL OF HOME INVADING RUBBER LITTER BEETLE, LUPROPS TRISTIS WITH WEAVER ANTS (OECOPHYLLA SMARAGDINA)
Authors:   Post Graduate & Research Department of Zoology, St. Joseph’s College, Devagiri, Calicut, Kerala 673008, India., P Aswathi
Published: December 2024

Seasonal massinvasion of a litter-dwelling detritivorous beetle, Luprops tristis (Fabricius)(Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) into residential buildings prior to the onset ofsouth west monsoon showers and subsequent aggregation in prolonged state ofdormancy render them a very serious nuisance pest in rubber plantation tracts inthe Western Ghats. Despite their widespread presence as a nuisance pest withastonishing abundance, no efficient strategies for controlling the populationbuild up of L. tristis have been developed and its presence in residentialbuildings during the rainy season and in the bottom layers of rubber litterduring post rainy season makes insecticide based control a tough task.Predatory efficiency of weaver ants (Oecophylla smaragdina, Fabricius)on L. tristis were tested in both lab and field conditions. Active predationof the weaver ants on the beetle L. tristis during both nocturnal anddiurnal conditions and the non-deterrence by the gland secretions indicatesthat weaver ants is an efficient natural predator of L. tristis, and hasthe potential to be used as an effective biocontrol agent to regulate thepopulation build up of L. tristis. However, the lack of host plants of weaverants in the monoculture rubber plantations and the negative attitude ofstakeholders in view of their aggressiveness may hinder the introduction ofweaver ants as an effective predator of L. tristis in rubber plantations.
THE ROLE OF A- AND B-HYDROLASE FOLD ENZYMES AS BIOPESTICIDES IN PEST MANAGEMENT
Authors:   Plant Protection Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Zagazig University, 44511, Egypt., El-Sheikh El-Sayed A.
Published: December 2024

Disruptingjuvenile hormone (JH), an important hormone that has a major role in insectdevelopment and reproductive function, will disrupt insect development. JH wasshown to be primarily metabolized by two hydrolytic enzymes in the a /b-hydrolasefold family known as JH esterase (JHE; EC 3.1.1.1) and JH epoxide hydrolase(JHEH; EC 3.3.2.3). The major routes of JH metabolism in Lepidoptera are esterhydrolysis by JHE and epoxide hydration by JHEH. These catabolic pathwaysgenerate three metabolites (JH-acid, JH-diol and JHacid- diol) that are eachbelieved to be physiologically inactive. The most direct use in disruptinginsect life cycle is with baculoviruses through increasing the efficiency ofthem by introducing these two metabolic enzymes into baculovirus genome. Thisrecombinant technology provides in vivo long-term stability andefficiency for pest control. Recombinant baculoviruses with JHE or JHEHproteins represent valuable technology that may has great potential foreffective integration pest management system. Such a demonstration wouldindicate that JHE or JHEH, as novel anti-JH agents, make them as potentbiopesticides and may represent a major step toward a more sustainableagriculture.
NON-CHEMICAL CONTROL OF APHIS SPIRAECOLA PATCH. AND DYSAPHIS PLANTAGINEA PASS. ON APPLE
Authors:   Department of Entomology, Agricultural University, Mendeleev Str., 12, 4000 Plovdiv, Bulgaria,, Andreev Radoslav
Published: December 2024

Non-chemicalmethods for control of the most important aphids on apple in Bulgaria, rosyapple aphid (Dysaphis plantaginea Pass.) and spiraea aphid (Aphisspiraecola Patch.), were evaluated under field conditions in the regionof Plovdiv (Central-South Bulgaria). Two treatments with the kaolin containingproduct, SurroundâWP, applied in October, significantly reduced thenumber of winter eggs of D. plantaginea. Its effectiveness was comparableto that of the defoliation of apple trees. The botanical insecticides Neem AzalT/S (azadirachtin) and Pyretrum FS EC (pyrethrum) showed an excellenteffectiveness against rosy apple aphid but were ineffective againstspiraea aphid. The microbial insecticides Naturalisâ (Beauveria bassiana)and Preferal WG (Paecilomyces fumosoroseus) had a delayed initialeffect. However, on five to seven days after treatment, these pesticides showeda very good effectiveness against A. spiraecola and excellenteffectiveness against D. plantaginea.
COMPATIBILITY OF POCHONIA CHLAMYDOSPORIA WITH OTHER BIOCONTROL AGENTS AND CARBOFURAN
Authors:   Department of Nematology, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore – 641 003, Tamil Nadu, India., M Muthulakshmi
Published: December 2024

Potato (Solanumtuberosum L.) is an important commercial vegetable crop widely grown inmore than 100 countries. Potato cyst nematodes, Globodera rostochiensis (Wollenweber)and G. pallida (Stone) are basically found in temperate climate and arethe most important quarantine pests since they are causing concern to potato productionand trade throughout the world. Studies were conducted to assess thecompatibility of the egg parasitic fungi Pochonia chlamydosporia withother bio control agents viz., Pseudomonas fluorescens and Trichodermaviride and carbofuran 3G in the management of cyst nematode, Globodera sppin potato. The biocontrol agents were evaluated individually and in differentcombinations under pot culture conditions. Observations on plant growth andnematode population were recorded. Combined application of the egg parasiticfungi, P. chlamydosporia along with P. fluorescens and T.viride and carbofuran resulted in significantly higher plant growth andlower cyst nematode population in soil and root. The tuber weight increased by70.57 per cent and the cyst population in soil decreased by 71.93 per cent.There was also significant reduction in the population of eggs and juveniles.The results revealed that the P. chlamydosporia is compatible with otherbiocontrol agents namely P. fluorescens and T. viride andcarbofuran and can be included in integrated cyst nematode management programs.
CONTROL OF ROOT-KNOT NEMATODE, MELOIDOGYNE INCOGNITA BY UREA COATED WITH NIMIN OR OTHER NATURAL OILS ON MUNG, VIGNA RADIATA (L.) R. WILCZEK
Authors:   Section of Plant Pathology and Mycology, P.G. Department of Botany, Kashmir University, Hazratbal, Srinagar-190006, Kashmir, India, AH Wani
Published: December 2024

The presentstudy was undertaken to evaluate the effect of soil amendment with urea coatedwith nimin (neembased product with neem-triterpenes) and oils of neem, castor,and rocket- salad on the root-knot nematode, Meloidogyne incognita, andplant growth of mung in pots. Soil amendment with urea coated with different dosesviz., 0.02g, 0.04g and 0.06g/pot of nimin and oils of neem, castorrocket-salad significantly reduced the development of the root-knot nematodeand thereby improved plant growth and increased chlorophyll content of mungleaves at 1% and 5% level of signicicance. The highest improvement was observedin plants treated with urea coated with nimin than neem oil, castor oil androcket-salad. A significant reduction in root-nodulation was also observed as aresult of soil amendment with urea coated with different doses of nimin andplant oils at 1% and 5% level of significance. Soil amendments with urea coatedwith the larger doses of the treatments were more effective than soil amendedwith smaller doses.
NEEM FORMULATIONS – SAFER SEED PROTECTANTS FOR LONG TERM STORAGE OF RED GRAM AGAINST CALLOSOBRUCHUS CHINENSIS
Authors:   1Regional Agricultural Research Station, Palem, Mahaboobnagar, A.P, India ., Mandali Rajasri
Published: December 2024

The efficacy ofindigenous neem products like neem seed kernel powder, neem cake, neem leaf

powder, neem oiland commercially available neem formulations viz., Econeem plus®,Neemindia ® and Neemazal ® were evaluated in the laboratory for the control ofpulse beetle, C. chinensis in stored redgram. These were compared withdeltamethrin treatment as a chemical check. The red gram seed was treated withthe neem formulations and stored under ambient conditions for storabilitystudies. Observations on oviposition, insect damage, germination and seedlingvigor index were recorded at three months interval. All the three commerciallyavailable neem formulations viz., Neemazal, Econeem plus, Neem indiarecorded less insect damage (<1 %) on par with neem oil (1%) anddeltamethrin (0.8%) but found significantly superior to other neem products(1.2 to 1.4 %) and untreated control (1.8%) during three months of storage. Econeemplus proved to be superior over other neem formulations with lowest insectdamage (1.28%) on par with Neemindia (3.79%) and deltamethrin (3.07%) comparedto high insect damage recorded with untreated control (49.04%) at six months ofstorage. All the three commercially available neem formulations viz., Econeemplus, Neem india and Neemazal recorded less insect damage (6.9 ,7.3 and 7.5 %respectively) on par with deltamethrin (7.3%) and neemoil (8.7%) anddeltamethrin (0.8%) but found significantly superior to other neem products(> 40 %) and untreated control (64.2%) up to nine months of storage. The resultsindicated that the neem formulations viz., Econeem plus, Neemazal and Neemindiawere found to be very effective against C. chinensis by recording lessoviposition, less adult emergence and less insect damage in stored red gram andalso maintained high viability (>80%) and vigour of seed up to nine monthsof storage.
SYNERGISTIC EFFECTS OF MONOCROTOPHOS WITH BOTANICAL OILS AND COMMERCIAL NEEM FORMULATION ON SPODOPTERA LITURA (FAB.) (LEPIDOPTERA: NOCTUIDAE)
Authors:   Crop Protection Research Centre, St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Palayamkottai-627002, Tamil Nadu, India., S Anbu Radhika
Published: December 2024

The present study was carried out to determinethe synergistic effects of pungam oil, neem oil, vijayneem and biosilvernanoparticles (10, 20, 30, 40 and 50%) blended with monocrotophos and screendagainst third instar larvae of Spodoptera litura (Fab.) (Lepidoptera:Noctuidae) by dermal toxicity bioassay. The dermal toxicity bioassay caused100% mortality in monocrotophos + neem oil and monocrotophos + biosilvernanoparticles in 10% on eighth day, monocrotophos + pungam oil in 20% on secondday and monocrotophos + vijayneem in 50% at ninth day. The highest growth wasobserved in neem oil and biosilver nanoparticles when blended withmonocrotophos. We conclude that either pungam oil or neem oil can be blendedwith monocrotophos for the management of S. litura larvae.
EFFICACY OF BIORATIONALS AND BOTANICAL FORMULATIONS AGAINST HELICOVERPA ARMIGERA HUB. IN SUNFLOWER
Authors:   Department of Agricultural Entomology, UAS, GKVK, Bengaluru-560 065, K Basavaraj
Published: December 2024

Field investigations were conducted tocheck the efficacy of biorational and botanical formulations against capitulumborer, Helicoverpa armigera Hub. infesting sunflower. The resultsrevealed that significant differences existed between the treatments at twodays after first spray and third and seventh days after second spray. At threedays after second spray, lowest population of H. armigera was recordedin spinosad and profenophos treatments (0.05 per plant), followed by garlicchilli kerosene extract (GCKE) (0.11 larvae per plant) and V-Bt (Bacillusthuringiensis) (0.16 larvae per plant), however, untreated check recordedthe highest H. armigera larval population (4.53/plant). Among thedifferent biorationals, the V-Bt treatment recorded highest seed yield(3528 kg/ha.), volume weight (55.14 g/100ml) and oil content (37.78 %). Thecost: benefit analysis revealed that the highest benefit: cost ratio wasrecorded in Parthenium leaf extract treatment (37.29), whereas,intermediate C: B ratios were recorded in Neem seed kernel extract (20.17) >Pongamia seed kernel extract (12.54) > profenophos (8.81) > spinosad(8.36) > IPM module (5.34) > HaNPV (3.85) > V-Bt (2.49) >GCKE (1.48) > panchagavya (0.29) > Bt-Halt (0.04), in that decreasingorder. The findings throw light on the fact that biorationals viz., Bacillusthuringiensis, NSKE and PSKE, show promise in the suppression of H.armigera, besides being economical and ecofriendly.
TOXIC EFFECT OF NEEM, AZADIRACHTA INDICA (A. JUSS) FOLIAGE EXTRACTS AGAINST DIAMONDBACK MOTH (DBM), PLUTELLA XYLOSTELLA (L.) (LEPIDOPTERA, PLUTELLIDAE)
Authors:   Department of Zoology, Delhi University, Delhi- 110007, India., S Sharma
Published: December 2024

Present studywas taken up to evaluate the toxic effect of methanol and hexane extracts ofneem
leaf againstdiamondback moth (DBM), Plutella xylostella. The toxic effect of the twoextracts was evaluated atsix different concentrations, viz. 0.5%, 1%, 1.5%, 2%, 2.5% and 3%. Mortality of larvae wassignificantly higher at even the lowest concentration of 0.5% (61.67%) as comparedto control (13.33%). Complete larval mortality with neem methanol extract (NME)was recorded at 3% concentration. Mortality during early larval stages was significantlyhigher as compared to control at all the NME concentrations, and more than 50%larvae died during first two larval stages at 3%, 2.5% and 2% NMEconcentrations. The mortality was mainly due to the failure to moultsuccessfully into next stage. 52.8% mortality was observed during intermoult.At 0.5% NME, 63.64% mortality was recorded during pupal-adult moult. Hexaneextract from neem leaves (NHE) had a significant lethal effect at 1.5%concentration and above as compared to control. Maximum mortality recorded withthis extract was 51.67% at 3% concentration. At 2.5% and 3% NHE concentrationssignificant mortality was recorded during early larval stages. The estimated LC50 calculated fortotal mortality for NME and NHE extracts were 0.61% and 3.95% respectively. Theresults suggest that extract from neem leaves may potentially be used for the managementof P. xylostella.
konsep halal haram dalam ekonomi islam
Authors: Jah Ja Ij , Tie Mala Haya
Published: December 2024

ABSTRACTIn the context of growing globalization, understanding the concepts of halal and haram in Islamic economics is crucial. This concept functions as a guide to determine the legality of actions and reflects the moral and ethical values in Islamic teachings. Halal means “permitted” and haram means “prohibited,” both of which underlie Muslims' economic decisions. The main sources of this concept are the Koran and Hadith, but its application is increasingly complex along with innovations in financial instruments and market developments. This type of research is library research with a qualitative approach. This research pays more attention to the concepts of halal and haram in the lives of Muslims which are clearly outlined in the Naqli proposition. The research results show that Islam teaches that the rules of halal (mubah) and haram are not determined by the needs of individuals or society. Halal has become an integral part of the value framework in Islamic science, functioning as a guideline that directs the behavior of the community. Thus, it can be concluded that halal philosophy includes several aspects. From an ontological perspective, halal is related to understanding the nature of something. From an epistemological perspective, halal rules are related to efforts to understand Islam correctly through a proper study process. This includes efforts or "ijtihad" to apply halal rules in sharia economic transactions. Meanwhile, from an axiological perspective, halal rules play an important role in providing appropriate guidance for humans in living their lives.  Keywords: Halal, Haram, Islamic Economics.
SEGURANÇA RESIDENCIAL INTELIGENTE: DETECÇÃO DE COMPORTAMENTO SUSPEITO POR MEIO DE ANÁLISE DE VÍDEO
Authors: Menezes Ariel Araujo Oliveira , Almeida Leandro Luiz de , Pazoti Mário Augusto , Silva Francisco Assis da
Published: December 2024

This work presents the development of a computational solution for intelligent home monitoring, designed to detect people, analyze their behaviors and issue alerts for abnormal activities. YOLOv8-Pose technology was used to detect people's key points and a modified MLP (Multilayer Perceptron) neural network with LSTM (Long Short-Term Memory) characteristics was used to classify behavior. The training dataset was created by recording videos using a smartphone strategically positioned to capture the frontal area of a residence. This resulted in 154 video clips where the actor exhibited normal behaviors by walking along the scene and 154 videos where the actor performed actions that could lead to home invasion, such as attempting to climb the fence or break the garage gate. To carry out the experiments, videos with multiple actors and different behaviors were analyzed to evaluate the effectiveness of the developed methodology. The results indicated a high success rate in detecting normal behaviors, although challenges remain in scenarios with partial occlusion. The model's accuracy in classifying behaviors was 91.6%, reflecting its effectiveness in correctly identifying normal and abnormal activities.
Processo de Migração de Aplicação Mainframe Cobol para Microsserviços Java na Nuvem
Authors: Florêncio Jefson Rosa , Bentes Cristiana , Castro Maria Clicia
Published: December 2024

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Explorando a Eficiência de Serviços de Conteinerização AWS
Authors: Cavalcante Sara M. , Boeres Cristina , Rebello Vinod E. F.
Published: December 2024

A alocação eficiente de recursos, bem como uma boa escolha de serviços da Nuvem para a execução de aplicações, é crucial para maximizar desempenho e minimizar custos. Este trabalho investiga o impacto do uso de diferentes serviços de conteinerização da AWS, explorando como a distribuição de recursos e carga de trabalho entre contêineres influencia o tempo e o custo da execução de uma aplicação de alinhamentos genéticos par-a-par.
Historical Dictionary of Environmentalism
Authors: Dauvergne Peter
Published: December 2024

To capture the diversity within environmentalism, this dictionary takes a global tack with a focus on ideas, events, institutions, initiatives, and green movements since the 1960s. It strives to avoid a common error in many histories of environmentalism: to exaggerate the input of the wealthy countries of Europe and North America and understate the influence of Africa, Asia, South and Central America, and the Polar Regions. It aims as well for a more comprehensive analysis than most histories of the modern environmental movement, understanding environmentalism as emerging not only from grassroots and formal nongovernmental associations, but also from corporate, governmental, and intergovernmental organizations and initiatives. This assumes the ideas and energy infusing environmentalism with political purpose arise from hundreds of thousands of sources: from corporate boardrooms to bureaucratic policies to international negotiations to activists. Thus, environmentalists are not only indigenous people blocking a logging road, Greenpeace activists protesting a seal hunt, or green candidates contesting an election; an equal or larger number of environmentalists are working within the Japanese bureaucracy to implement environmental policies, within the World Bank to assess the environmental impacts of loans, within Wal-Mart to green its purchasing practices, or within intergovernmental forums to negotiate international environmental agreements.

This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Environmentalism contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries on important events, issues, organizations, ideas, and people shaping the direction of environmentalism worldwide. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about environmentalism.
Historical Dictionary of the U. S. Constitution
Authors: Conley Richard S.
Published: December 2024

The Historical Dictionary of the U.S. Constitution covers the Founding of the American Republic and the Framers, the drafting of the Constitution, constitutional debates over ratification, and traces key events, Supreme Court chief justices, amendments, and Supreme Court cases regarding the interpretation of the Constitution from 1789-2016.

The Historical Dictionary of the U.S. Constitution contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries on key figures in the Founding, Supreme Court chief justices, explanations of the Articles and Amendments to the Constitution, and key Supreme Court cases. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the U.S. Constitution.
The Fog of Reform
Authors: Goens George A.
Published: December 2024

American public education has been on a merry-go-round of change for the past 40 years. We made something that is complex by its very nature into a strangled enterprise that is becoming even more knotty and complicated. A fog of reform is created obscuring issues and deflecting our focus from the real mission of schools. We need to emphasize ideals and principles in providing an education for our children in a caring and creative way. This book is about the fog of reform and getting back the ideal of a place called school. The sections describe a new metaphor and approach to change and examine the forces and ideals that can bring about the schools children need. Principles and values transform organizations, not mandates and fear. Recipes for making schools into caring places for children do not exist. Great schools must be created one-by-one. Numbers don't create change; people and passion do. Unless we focus on the moral imperative of educating children, we will fail them and possibly slide into an ethical quagmire.
Behavioral Economics
Authors: Wasserman Jim , Wasserman Jiab
Published: December 2024

Kids today are in a media-saturated environment. Even as they are first discovering who they are and learning about the greater world, they are nudged and swayed by media. To help empower children to be resilient and have more self-guidance in their development, we have written a two-book series about choice-making. This book explores the general process of how we make choices, from consciously rational to subconsciously emotional. Through exploratory lessons supplied in each chapter, kids learn the techniques of effective choice-making so that they have the tools to stand against outside sways.
For Equals Only
Authors: Botts Tina Fernandes
Published: December 2024

This book philosophically explores how changing conceptions of race and equality have affected Supreme Court interpretations of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution over the years. In the years since the 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868, in its decisions interpreting the Equal Protection Clause, the Supreme Court has switched from using a sociocultural concept of race to using a biological concept of race, and during the same time period has switched from using a social to a legal concept of equality. One result of these trends is the recent emergence of something called 'reverse discrimination.' Another result is that the Equal Protection Clause no longer specially protects racialized persons from racial discrimination, as it was originally intended to do. Using the tools of legal hermeneutics, critical philosophy of race, and critical race theory, key cases of racial discrimination in equal protection law are examined through a historical lens. The Supreme Court’s switch, over the years, from interpreting the Equal Protection Clause as specially protecting racialized persons from continued racial discrimination after the end of the institution of chattel slavery, to interpreting the Clause as protecting everyone from racial discrimination, is tracked alongside changing conceptions of race and equality. As the concept of race became biological, the concept of equality became legal, and the result was the elimination of remedying the negative effects of chattel slavery on the equality status of racialized persons from the Supreme Court’s list of priorities.
Historical Dictionary of Ethics
Authors: Bonevac Daniel
Published: December 2024

Ethics, the practical part of philosophy, tries to answer three questions central to human life: What kind of person should I be? What should I do? How should I decide? It defines, describes, and explains the important terms, concepts, theories, and thinkers from all areas and eras of the history of ethics: from ‘Abba Mika’el to Zhuangzi, from the Abilene Paradox to Zen Buddhism, including such central figures as Aristotle, Hegel, Kant, and Plato as well as lesser-known thinkers such as Clarke, Fichte, Meinong, and Xenophon. It covers Western and non-Western traditions, and presents detailed treatments of ancient and medieval ethics, including discussions of each of Plato’s dialogues that concerns ethical topics. It covers both analytic and continental approaches to contemporary moral thinking.

Historical Dictionary of Ethics, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 600 cross-referenced entries on the important terms, concepts, theories, and thinkers from all areas and eras of the history of ethics. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about ethics.
Historical Dictionary of the British Monarchy
Authors: Panton Kenneth J.
Published: December 2024

The foundations of the British monarchy date from the era, more than a millennium ago, when Anglo-Saxon, Celtic, and Viking peoples competed for dominance. Early sovereigns exercised near-absolute power but over time that authority dwindled as the changing role of women, the democratization of society, dynastic intermarriage, financial demands, religious convictions, struggles for economic and political control, and territorial aggrandizement combined to promote change. The strengths and weaknesses of rulers such as William the Conqueror, Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, and Mary, Queen of Scots, and Queen Elizabeth also contributed to the evolution of the monarchy and are documented here.

Historical Dictionary of the British Monarchy, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 800 cross-referenced entries that cover significant events, places, institutions, and other aspects of British culture, economics, politics, and society. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the British monarchy.
Ground-Penetrating Radar for Archaeology
Authors: Conyers Lawrence B.
Published: December 2024

Ground-penetrating radar is a near-surface geophysical technique that can provide three-dimensional maps and other images of buried archaeological features and associated stratigraphy in a precise way. This revised edition, by the expert in the field, provides the basics of the physics, chemistry, geology, and archaeology in a clear fashion, unburdened by complex equations or theory. Additions to the forth edition include:

Updates to recent hardware and software advances in three-dimensional antenna array systems and antenna offset technology;

Expanded data processing methods that explains how to get more from your raw data, with examples to show why this is necessary and the results obtained;

Expanded examples from around the world and in various environmental settings that explains how non-traditional data analysis steps can provide clarity to results in ways that are not usually done with traditional.

The reader will be able to understand how the latest equipment and software and the results of data collection and processing can be used effectively in a number of different settings. Both potential pitfalls and successes and the reasons for them are discussed. With over 100 images and important tables and graphs, this book is a useful reference in the field and for data processing in GPR.
Bach's St. John Passion for the Twenty-First Century
Authors: Fuchs Michael , Jenson Bradley
Published: December 2024

Since its composition and first performance in 1724, Bach’s St. John Passion has captured the spiritual and musical attention of musicians, audiences, and congregations. This bookexamines this monumental work from a twenty-first century perspective, providing a new and comprehensive examination of the music and libretto.

Michael Fuchs and Bradley Jenson explore the historical context of the work as well as its performance history and practice. They address important questions regarding the Gospel of John, Martin Luther’s theology, and anti-Judaism and antisemitism in the libretto. Combining expert theological and musical analysis, as well as a new English translation, this bookis a useful resource for students, musicians, and scholars while being accessible to general audiences with a strong interest in the music of J.S. Bach, highlighting the composer’s compositional creativity.
Coach of a Lifetime
Authors: White Gaylon H.
Published: December 2024

The inspirational true story of a high school football coach who motivates and encourages ordinary kids to do extraordinary things on and off the field

He’s called simply “Coach.” But Louie Cook of Notre Dame High School in Crowley, Louisiana, is much more than that. He’s a father figure to his players, regardless of their race, ethnicity, or religion; the mentor players can turn to for discerning advice; the man students and parents go to for comfort in challenging times; and most of all, a caring leader with a servant’s heart.

Coach of a Lifetime: The Story of Lewis Cook Jr., Legendary High School Football Coach recounts the inspiring, selfless path Cook has traveled as a football coach and, more importantly, as a leader in a small Louisiana town. While other high school coaches have won more games and sent more players to the NFL, none have proven better at developing the raw talents of high school kids from a handful of farming communities and turning them into champions on the football field and in life.

The story of Louie Cook is about much more than football. It’s about developing and motivating young people, about putting faith and family ahead of wins and losses, and about building relationships that will last a lifetime. Cook may be one of the winningest high school coaches in the nation, but he will be the first to tell you, “Winning isn’t everything; winning the right way is.”
The Problem with Capital Punishment and Why It Should Be Abolished in America
Authors: Jones Vincent R.
Published: December 2024

One of the most controversial subjects in criminal law is whether or not we should continue to use capital punishment as the ultimate punitive sanction. The intended focus of The Problem with Capital Punishment and Why It Should Be Abolished in America is to take a harsh, critical look at theories in support of the use of this form of punishment and expose the truth about capital punishment: it is extremely costly; it is arbitrarily applied; there have been too many innocent persons exonerated from death row; and the only consistency with execution seems to be that of the mentally ill, the poor, and those without adequate legal representation and by using methods that are inhumane and “cruel and unusual”.

This book shows that our current system of capital punishment is fraught with error, insanely expensive, and administered in such a manner that the possibility of executing a completely innocent person is not only possible but likely if we continue upon our present course. After reading this book, the reader will be left with no reasonable doubt that the time has come to abolish capital punishment in America.
A Semiotic Theory of Community
Authors: Cárdenas Paniel Reyes
Published: December 2024

This book shows the unity and novelty of Josiah Royce’s philosophy, one that he called an Absolute Pragmatism. The development of Royce’s thought led him to propose a synthetic-semiotic view of community that constitutes a unique and unparalleled metaphysical vision in a world in great need of integration. Royce’s proposal also fosters the prominent value of loyalty and reconnects the individual human being to its more radical needs of transcendence. A Semiotic Theory of Community: Josiah Royce’s Absolute Pragmatism explores the mediation provided by community as a means by which to respond to the big questions entertained by humans at all times: through an ongoing and always open process of interpretation towards the Absolute, the community of interpretation in all its different forms provides an ideal of loyalty. Paniel Reyes Cárdenas argues that by undertaking the process of interpretation and recognition of ourselves and the Other, we become true persons, and that we get a hold of the sense of purpose and loyalty we crave—both individually and in a universal unlimited community.
Images of Women and Gender Identity in John Marston's Plays
Authors: Senapati Sukanya Behura
Published: December 2024

Images of Women and Gender Identity in John Marston's Plays contends that, although the Jacobean period was known for its misogyny and John Marston for his quarrels with his fellow poets, Marston’s plays deserve reevaluation and critical interrogation through a feminist lens. Arguing that patriarchy and ownership of private property are intimately meshed together, Senapati posits that Marston interrogates the misogyny of the Jacobean period by delimiting two predominant myths that have crippled women through the centuries—the beauty myth and the myth of the weak and sexual female—both constructs of patriarchy. Through the tracing of the history of five prototype images of women in literature—wench, wife, widow, sex worker, and witch—from antiquity to the early modern period, Sukanya Behura Senapati demonstrates Marston's explosions of binary gender categorizations to open space for experimental constructions of fluid and flexible gender identities.
Listening Deafly and the Rhetoric of Sound
Authors: Mayberry Scott Sarah
Published: December 2024

In this book, Sarah Mayberry Scott bridges the seemingly insurmountable divide between sound studies and deaf studies by considering the persuasive nature of sound at the intersection of sound, rhetoric, and deafness. Using three contemporary films as critical touchstones, CODA (2021), A Quiet Place (2018), and Sound of Metal (2019), Scott investigates how the history and values of Deaf culture provide opportunities for expanding the concepts of voice, silence, and listening to include a plurality of embodied experiences. Through utilizing an innovative rhetorical approach of listening deafly to sound, the author asserts that it is possible to understand voice without orality, to experience sound without hearing, and to listen in multi-modal ways to show that all bodies are sound bodies. Scholars of deaf studies, sound studies, and rhetoric will find this book of particular interest.
A Potent Moment
Authors: Moyer Jeffrey
Published: December 2024

A Potent Moment assesses the current state of cannabis laws in the United States in the context of broader discussions about drug policy and advances a framework for future efforts to use cannabis legalization to advance social equity. It describes the racist origins of cannabis criminalization and the ways in which the prosecutors of the War on Drugs have disproportionately harmed people of color. It also offers numerous detailed case studies to identify both the successes and failures of the more recent movement to legalize cannabis at the state level, particularly in terms of their efficacy at using cannabis policy to redress social inequality. At the same time, the author considers the difficulty of crafting effective policies in the face of ongoing cannabis criminalization at the federal level, a theme which is present throughout the book as well as in a chapter dedicated to weighing the benefits—but also real dangers—of various proposals for national legalization. A Potent Moment ends with a forceful call to reorient American drug policy away from fear, stigma, and punishment and toward evidence-driven approaches that are applied with compassion.
Breaking the Boundaries of the Colombian Socio-Racial Order
Authors: Viveros-Vigoya Mara
Published: December 2024

In Breaking the Boundaries of the Colombian Socio-Racial Order: Black Middle Classes through an Intersectional Lens, anthropologist and intersectional feminist Mara Viveros-Vigoya examines what it means to be Black and middle class in Colombia and how that meaning has been configured over almost a century of the country’s history. By applying an intersectional perspective, this book introduces two important theoretical shifts. First, it challenges the perception of Afrodescendant ‘communities’ as uniformly impoverished and second, it emphasizes the interconnectedness of class with geographical and historical contexts and with axes of social inequality such as gender, race, and age. Viveros-Vigoya argues that since the inauguration of neoliberal multiculturalism in the 1990s, while Blackness and upward social mobility have become more compatible, it remains to be seen whether we are advancing towards a global agenda of social justice or if we are simply opening some spaces for social and political mobility that serve largely to reproduce the status quo in the name of racial equality.
A Phenomenological Reading of Hosea 12:4-5 And 11:1-2
Authors: Oberg Andrew
Published: December 2024

A Phenomenological Reading of Hosea 12.4-5 and 11.1-2: Commune with Us explores two passages from the Hebrew Bible’s prophetic book containing puzzling plurals in the original language, pieces so enigmatic they are usually changed entirely in translation. Andrew Oberg, however, considers them delightfully confusing, and through in-depth examinations builds a “patchwork” version for each. These reconstructions are then brought to bear on four separate interpretative interactions per pairing, based on alternative pre-comprehensions that the author investigates using phenomenological methods to trace, describe, and wonder on the resulting responses. Finally, Oberg widens the focus of study and presents an approach to engaging with scripture, of whatever faith and lineage, that applies the lessons taken into a technique that could be used by any reader towards a deeper “interrogation” of their literary heritage. Oberg finds that the treasures we have received from tradition still – yet, always – have volumes and volumes to speak.
Modernist Parasites
Authors: Williams Sebastian
Published: December 2024

Modernist Parasites: Bioethics, Dependency, and Literature, Post-1900 analyzes biological and social parasites in the political, scientific, and literary imagination. With the rise of Darwinism, eugenics, and parasitology in the late nineteenth century, Sebastian Williams posits that the “parasite” came to be humanity’s ultimate other—a dangerous antagonist. But many authors such as Isaac Rosenberg, John Steinbeck, Franz Kafka, Clarice Lispector, Nella Larsen, and George Orwell reconsider parasitism. Ultimately, parasites inherently depend on others for their survival, illustrating the limits of ethical models that privilege the discrete individual above interdependent communities.
Reconstructing Metaphorical Metaphysics in Traditional Chinese Philosophy
Authors: Chen Derong
Published: December 2024

Based on the influential metaphysical concepts of yin-yang, dao, and li in traditional Chinese philosophy and a clarification of their metaphysical objects, methods, and purpose, Reconstructing Metaphorical Metaphysics in Traditional Chinese Philosophy: Meta-One and Harmony proposes three new metaphysical categories: Meta-One (元一), Multi-One (殊一), and Utter-One (全一). These categories describe three dynamic stages of development, which are associated with four dynamical models of harmony: potential and factual, temporary and permanent, partial and full harmonies, and four models of static harmonies (unitary, binary, ternary, and multiple). In order to outline methodological principles for metaphorical metaphysics, Derong Chen classifies general metaphysical methods into direct vs. indirect, positive vs. negative, and logical vs. metaphorical methods, and establishes various methodological principles based on the features of Meta-One, Multi-One, and Utter-One, respectively. Chen argues that this new system of metaphorical metaphysics is rooted in and developed from traditional Chinese philosophy and is the metaphysical foundation of natural, social-political, ethical, moral philosophy, and aesthetics in the twenty-first century.
Fictions of Proximity
Authors: Personn Tim
Published: December 2024

Fictions of Proximity: Skepticism, Romanticism, and the Wallace Nexus tells the story of a nexus of contemporary novelists around David Foster Wallace who took up the legacy of logical positivism and reworked it between the 1980s and the 2000s in a way that has affinities with romanticism. The book shows how the writers of this ‘Wallace nexus’ use fiction’s complexities to challenge the idea that in human interactions, only complete fusion and transparency may count as instances of knowing. In place of this positivistic ideal of absorption, the book offers the freshly defined concept of ‘proximity,’ a closeness with separateness. It reads key novels of contemporary Anglo-American literature as ‘fictions of proximity,’ i.e., as texts that dramatize, problematize, and enact the movement into this position of proximity. To tell this story, the book draws on unpublished archival materials and understudied connections, advancing new interpretations of four novelists: David Foster Wallace, David Markson, Bret Easton Ellis, and Zadie Smith. Fictions of Proximity provides new readings of these writers, both of their canonical texts and of lesser-known works, and situates them with respect to prominent figures in contemporary post-positivist philosophy.
How Germans and Russians Made Their Orthographies
Authors: Levinson Kirill
Published: December 2024

How Germans and Russians Made Their Orthographies: Dealing With the “Spelling Distress” is the first social constructionist study of spelling norms and spelling mistakes. Starting from the question of why, in the modern world, misspelling is considered evidence of incompetence, laziness, stupidity, or carelessness, Kirill Levinson traces the origins of such attitudes in German and Russian societies of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Analyzing publications and archival sources, this book illustrates how the unification and codification of spelling rules in Germany and repressive attitude to errors were the result of the increased value ascribed to accuracy, unambiguity, and error-freeness in the economy and everyday life. The critical context to the development of such attitudes can be found in the challenges of the industrial revolution, the political reaction following 1848 upheavals, and the development of national school systems that used formalized grading and combined the academic training and moral education of schoolchildren. In Russia, the borrowing of Prussian models during the school reform of the 1860s played a key role to a similar repressive attitude towards spelling mistakes. The rigorous orthographic regime established in the second half of the nineteenth century persisted for many decades, even though alternative solutions were proposed to overcome the significant problems that the inconsistencies of German and Russian orthographies posed: optimizing the rules to make them easier to learn and follow, moving from alphabetical writing to shorthand, and liberalizing school.
Aggression and Bullying in Multicultural Canada
Authors: Khayambashi Shila
Published: December 2024

Aggression and Bullying in Multicultural Canada: The Experiences of Minority Immigrant Girls and Young Women argues that the dominant culture in Canada segregates and ostracizes minority immigrant women and subjects them to aggression and humiliation. This book problematizes Canadian democratic racism, which facilitates the label of an outsider for minority immigrant women, even young adults, who were born in Canada.

Based on extensive research in Greater Toronto Area, York Region, and Hamilton, this book explores first- and second-generation immigrant women’s experience with aggression and xenophobia in various spaces of their daily activities, as well as in different stages of their lives. These young women tolerate their parents’ post-migration frustration, abusive and neglectful school personnel’s attitude, and surrounding societal disapproval regularly. Khayambashi examines the aggression against minority immigrant women at micro, mezzo, and macro levels through a qualitative methodological approach. This book questions how directed aggression and micro-aggression would affect minority women’s identity formation and sense of belonging to their host country.