bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Students' and Teachers' Knowledge, Attitudes and Perceptions Towards Bioenergy Resources
Authors: Alemayehu Belete , Menkir Sissay , Basha Garkebo , Nigatu Lisanework
Published: May 2021

The purpose of this study was to assess the level of knowledge, attitudes and perceptions of students and science teachers towards bio-energy resources (BER) and other renewable energy sources (RES) in two randomly selected government secondary schools (Harar and Abadir Secondary Schools) in the Harari regions. The sample consisted of randomly selected grade ten students (N=302), science (Biology, Chemistry and Physics) teachers (N=35) and school leaders (principals and unit leaders) (N=8). The analysis of the data revealed that teachers were found to have a low level of knowledge about BER and geothermal energy, while students have low-level of knowledge about BER and other RES. It was also found out that both students and teachers didn't have clear perception and attitude towards BER and RES. Document analysis revealed that issues related to BER and other RES were not integrated into the curricula of the schools. No school co-curricular activities were observed for issues related to BER and RES. This may be because of the resource limitations; low level of knowledge, attitudes and perceptions held by school community towards BER and RES, schools didn't play their roles disseminating and implementing concepts of BER and RES. Although the issue of BER and other RES is critical nowadays, the study revealed that due attention wasn't given to this issue in schools.
Impact of Collaborative Learning Strategies on Social Maturity of Secondary School Students
Authors: Baliya J. N. , Sharma Shivani
Published: May 2021

The purpose of this research was to study the impact of collaborative learning strategies on social maturity and its various dimensions viz. personal adequacy, interpersonal adequacy, and social adequacy, of secondary school students. The study was quasiexperimental and used matched pairs pre-test post-test research design. A Higher Secondary School in Educational Zone Hiranagar of District Kathua was chosen for the intervention. The study was conducted on sixty-six students of two sections of class 9th. Two sections were randomly assigned to collaborative and traditional learning conditions. Four methods of collaborative learning viz. Think-Pair-Share, Numbered Heads Together, Jigsaw, and Fish-Bowl were used for a period of over five weeks. The results were analyzed using mean, standard deviation and a critical ratio (CR). The results of the study showed that this approach was successful in increasing personal adequacy, interpersonal adequacy, social adequacy and overall social maturity of secondary school students.
STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT IN INDIAN HIGHER EDUCATION
Authors: Sawhney Sahil , Kumar Kulwant , Gupta Ankur
Published: May 2021

Strategic Management (SM) finds wide adoption across the industry, government, military academia and other organizations with a view to ensuring survival and longterm growth. Universities across the world, especially in the USA, UK, Australia, Canada and China, have successfully implemented SM to build strong international brands and consistently maintain top global rankings. Indian Higher Education (IHE) sector, however, has not been proactive in adopting SM to address the numerous challenges that confront it. In this paper, the authors have explored the current state of SM adoption in IHE, highlighting the challenges in its implementation and suggest some ideas to help institutionalize SM for effecting long-term positive change in the sector.
Need for Cognition and Trait Emotional Intelligence in Relation to Academic Achievement of Higher Secondary Students
Authors: Revathy.P  , N. Kalai Arasi
Published: May 2021

This study investigates the need for cognition and trait emotional intelligence of higher secondary students and their relationship to academic achievement. This study also examined the effect of some demographic variables like gender, locale, medium of instruction, order of birth of students on the chosen variables. The study employed a survey method for data collection. The sample comprised 313 (150 boys and 163 girls) higher secondary school students. The Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire-short form (TEIQue–SF; Petrides, 2009) and Need for Cognition Scale (Cacioppo et al., 1984) were used for the study. The results revealed that boys and girls are similar in their need for cognition and trait emotional intelligence. Also, girls outperformed boys academically. Results also show that trait emotional intelligence has a significant effect on academic achievement. There is also a statistically significant relationship between the need for cognition and trait emotional intelligence.
Predictors of Scholastic Achievement of Secondary School Students
Authors: Sharma Princy , Sharma Darshana
Published: May 2021

The present study aims to find the contribution of self-concept, stress, educational aspirations, parental involvement and guidance needs in predicting the scholastic achievement of secondary school students. The sample for the study comprised 205 students studying in 8th, 9th and 10th classes, selected through random sampling technique. The researchers used Children’s Self Concept Scale (Ahluwalia & Singh, 1986), Student Stress Scale (Akhtar, 2011), Educational Aspiration Test (Khan, 2009), Parental Involvement Scale (Chauhan & Arora, 2009), and a self-constructed Guidance Needs Scale in the study. Findings reveal that self-concept, educational aspirations, and parental involvement have a positive relationship with the scholastic achievement of students and stress and guidance needs have a negative relationship. Multiple linear regression analysis was found significant at 0.01 level of significance. Self-concept, stress, educational aspirations, parental involvement and guidance needs contribute significantly to the variance in the scholastic achievement of the students. Implications of these results for parents, teachers, counsellors and school administrators have been reported in the study.
Characterization of Cleaning Potential of Khokhar-Bala, Punjab (Pakistan) Coal and Simulation-Based Study for Identification of Best Strategy for its Cleaning
Authors: Shahzad Muhammad , Arshad Syed Mahmood , Ali Zulfiqar , Ali Rana Ahmad , Shabeer Hamza
Published: May 2021

This study involves the characterization of Khokhar-Bala coal of Punjab (Pakistan) coal field to establish its particle distribution data for size, density and floatability through sizing, float-sink tests and release analysis. Khokhar Bala coal contains high amounts of unwanted impurities like ash (35.22%) and sulphur (8.38%). Over 93% of its mass consists of +1.00 mm particles, when run-of-mine coal is crushed to 38 mm. Washability curves, degrees of washing and the S-values show that the coarser fractions (-38+25 mm; -25+13.33 mm; -13.33+3.35 mm) are extremely difficult to clean, whereas the cleaning potential is high for size fractions -3.35+1.00 mm (moderately difficult) and -1.00+0.15 mm (relatively easy). Modelling and simulation of several processing configurations indicate that at 16% target ash content, dense medium cyclone treating 38 x 1 mm coal particles will provide the maximum clean yield of 37.39% with sulphur content of 4.80%.
MODERN METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES OF THE ORGANIZATION'S OPERATIONAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
Authors: Issatayev B. , Omarova A. I. , Almekeeva I. S.
Published: May 2021

The purpose of the research is to characterize the features of operational management in healthcare and medical institutions. In modern conditions, significant changes are taking place in all areas of activity, which determine and influence the formation of the strategy and dynamics of the development of operational management, as organizations have to adapt to the new world.Methodology. When conducting research in this scientific article, such methods as system analysis, synthesis, logical grouping and modern methods used in the analysis of the organization's operational management systems were used.Originality / value of research is based on the fact that operational management performs one of the most important functions of an organization in any field of activity and business. The study of operational management provides an opportunity to understand how to manage resources and business processes in order to increase their profitability. Operations management involves making a variety of trade-offs and interrelated decisions.The results of the study lead to the conclusion that the flexibility and ability of management to quickly respond to the changing market conditions, changes in the volume of demand, characterize the level of competitiveness of the organization.
GASTRONOMIC TOURISM AS A WAY TO ATTRACT ATTENTION TO A TOURIST DESTINATION
Authors: Aktymbaeva B. I. , Trifonova T. V.
Published: May 2021

This article examines the main aspects of gastronomic tourism as a modern type of tourism. This work also tells about the history of gastronomic travel. Analyzed the main problems and prospects for the development of gastronomic tourism, as a way to attract the attention of tourists to tourist destinations in Kazakhstan. The role of this type of tourism in the formation of a tourist destination brand is revealed. The analysis of the development of gastronomic tourism in various countries is carried out and its contribution to the development of tourist destinations in these countries is evaluated.Purpose: to study the influence of gastronomic tourism on the development of a tourist destination, based on the experience of different countriesMethodology: theoretical research of information on a given topic, historical, comparative, analysis of literature on a selected topic, questioning.Originality / value of the research: this research was compiled by the author for the first time and is completely original workFindings: this research has proven the impact of gastronomic tourism on the development of a tourist destination and attracting attention to it. Recommendations have been developed for the creation and implementation of gastronomic tours to countries with potential for the development of this type of tourism.
Nghiên cứu sự biến đổi nồng độ LP-PLA2, APO A-I, APO B, tỷ số APO B/APO A-I huyết thanh trong bệnh động mạch vành
Authors: Tuấn Vũ Anh , Giang Nguyễn Thị Hà , Dung Đặng Thị Ngọc
Published: May 2021

Lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A2, apolipoprotein A-I, apolipoprotein B đã được chứng minh tham gia vào quá trình hình thành các mảng xơ vữa động mạch trong bệnh động mạch vành. Mặt khác, tỷ số apo B/apo A-I còn thể hiện sự cân bằng giữa các hạt cholesterol giàu apo B gây xơ vữa và các hạt cholesterol giàu apo A-I chống xơ vữa. Nghiên cứu sự biến đổi nồng độ Lp-PLA2, apo A-I, apo B, tỷ số apo B/apo A-I huyết thanh ở 105 đối tượng có bệnh động mạch vành với mức độ hẹp động mạch vành ≥ 50% (nhóm bệnh) và 110 đối chứng. Kết quả: Nhóm bệnh có nồng độ Lp-PLA2, apoB, tỷ số apo B/apo A-I cao hơn nhóm chứng và nồng độ apo A-I thấp hơn nhóm chứng (p < 0,001). Phối hợp Lp-PLA2, apo A-I và apo B cho giá trị tốt nhất trong chẩn đoán mức độ nghiêm trọng của bệnh động mạch vành với AUC là 0,986 (khoảng tin cậy 95%:0,974 - 0,997), độ nhạy 98,1%, độ đặc hiệu 90,9%. Vì vậy, nồng độ Lp-PLA2, apo A-I, apo B có thể có giá trị cao trong dự báo sớm nguy cơ xơ vữa và chẩn đoán mức độ nghiêm trọng của bệnh động mạch vành.
Estrategias para la elección de carrera y rutas de ingreso a la universidad
Authors: Pérez Pulido Ignacio , Gómez López Luis Felipe
Published: May 2021

Diversos estudios han abordado la desigualdad de posibilidad de ingreso a la universidad a través de análisis estadísticos, otros describen, desde el enfoque cualitativo, el proceso de adaptación de quienes ya ingresaron a las instituciones de educación superior. También se han estudiado las representaciones sociales de los estudiantes de preparatoria sobre la universidad, pero son escasos los que abordan las acciones prácticas que despliegan los estudiantes para lograr el ingreso a esta. Por tal motivo el objetivo de la presente investigación fue develar las estrategias desplegadas y los capitales utilizados por un grupo de estudiantes durante su proceso de ingreso a una licenciatura del Centro Universitario de Los Altos de la Universidad de Guadalajara. Debido a la naturaleza del objetivo el estudio se realizó desde el enfoque cualitativo. Los datos se recabaron mediante una serie de entrevistas a profundidad con 12 estudiantes de las licenciaturas de medicina, enfermería e ingeniería en sistemas pecuarios. Los datos fueron analizados de manera inductiva y se interpretaron desde las concepciones de habitus, campo y capitales de Bourdieu. Mediante el análisis se identificó como surge el interés por entrar a una carrera universitaria, así como cuatro rutas de ingreso: elección temprana, valoración de posibilidades, elección tardía poco informada y cambio de aspiración y la variante de volver a hacer trámites. Se concluye que el ingreso ocurre en un proceso dialéctico entre las subjetividades de los estudiantes (capitales y habitus) y las reglas y condiciones que establece el campo universitario.
A Review of Administrative Reforms in Developing Countries: Why the Limited Success?
Authors: Aliyu Ashiru Olayemi , Singaravelloo Kuppusamy , Mansor Norma
Published: May 2021

This study survey critical issues that have thwarted administrative reform in the power sector with particular reference to developing countries. The study used endnote software to draw 221 articles from the database of 20 top public administration journals. However, only 86 articles were found useful after carefully sorting, and analysis. This was done to avoid duplication and ensure relevance to the main thrust of this study. Also, practical cases were cited to augment the conceptual and philosophical arguments of notable scholars analyzed. Evidence from the literature revealed that lack of political will and commitments on the part of political actors, bureaucrats often truncates positive reform outcomes. Likewise, the reformers poor stakeholder engagement and mismatch of goals and implementation strategies. It is imperative to unravel problems hampering successful administrative reforms. This paper is important to expand the horizon of knowledge (theoretical knowledge) of current and future academics and practitioners. It also contributes to the literature on public sector management by suggesting pre-conditions for successful reform. This study provides a better understanding of obstacles to purposeful reform outcome in developing countries. Moreover, it also serves as a guide to reform implementers, policy-makers, and practitioners towards purposeful reform outcomes.
La pagina gialla
Authors: Ventura Alessandro
Published: May 2021

Vaccinazioni in gravidanza: dalla pertosse al Covid - Chirurgia prenatale: efficace a lungo termine nel mielomeningocele - Microbi efficienti… al posto del pane. Ovvero: come i ricchi pensano al bene dei poveri - Rituximab (e sindrome nefrosica corticodipendente) - Anelli vascolari e anomalie dell’arco aortico
Ginocchio valgo punto per punto: quello che deve sapere il pediatra
Authors: Genovese Maria Rita L. , Vittoria Francesca , Grasso Raffaele , Barbi Egidio , Carbone Marco
Published: May 2021

Knee valgus is one of the most frequent paediatric orthopaedic problems based on the evaluation by the paediatricians. Most cases are physiological variants that resolve spontaneously with growth, however pathological cases require surgical treatment. Therefore, the paediatrician must know how to distinguish between the two entities from the beginning, sending the child to the specialist when necessary, thus respecting the correct timing for treatment. The most frequent condition is idiopathic knee valgus, which occurs when the physiological variant persists after the age of 8 without spontaneous resolution. Children who always need specialist evaluation are those who on physical examination show a tibiofemoral angle greater than 15° with an intermalleolar distance of about 10 cm that persists beyond 10 years of age. The gold standard treatment in these children is growth-guided hemiepiphysiodesis, namely a simple and minimally invasive procedure that reshapes the altered angle of the knees through the application of the 8-plate. The correction is based on the presence of residual growth of the physical cartilages, therefore it should not be performed too late, but not before 10 years of age.
Predicting Household's Mobile Banking Saving Behavior in Western Kenya: An Algorithmic Approach
Authors: Houenou Boris , Djogbenou Ecce F.
Published: May 2021

Digitalization holds promises to unlock savings accumulation in Africa. This paper predicts the mobile savings, taking advantage of machine learning to examine a massive set of features known theoretically and empirically to affect household savings behavior. The algorithm fits a generalized regression model through a penalized maximum likelihood. The work anchors in economic theory on savings but differs from the method standpoint to elicit mobile banking savings take-up and savings accumulation. Data covered thirty-six villages in Western Kenya. Predictors clustered into livelihoods, assets inventory, formation and use of assets, income generation and its use, food composition, intake and nutrition, the housing quality and tenureship, water and sanitation, energy use, family structure, social status architecture, adverse shocks to agricultural production (crop and livestock loss events) and demographics. Data include 1600 households from six different communities and 7,700 quarterly observations from 2013 to 2015. Although the results point to shreds of evidence that corroborate previous findings, we highlight in this paper mobile banking's role in the savings accounts ownership and savings accumulation, as well as the effects of age and employment status. Mobile phone ownership is a strong and significant predictor of savings account ownership. However, the mobile phone is a vehicle to fluctuating savings balance and encourages dissaving. Moreover, being young and in the workforce increases the mobile banking savings take-up but also the dissaving behavior, compared to older age group. This work subsets features that could improve product or policy design towards a better financial inclusion of rural poor.
Love in a Universe of Chance
Authors: Raposa Michael L.
Published: May 2021

This chapter begins with an assessment of Peirce’s agapism, and also to some extent of Royce’s talk about love as loyalty, for the purposes of theosemiotic. This leads to an examination of Peirce’s logic of relations, subsequently of his logic vagueness, as key resources for thinking both about the nature of community and the plausibility of theism. Peirce’s anthropomorphism is given serious consideration here, distinguished from anthropocentrism and compared with other attempts to explain the widespread human tendency to perceive nature as personal. Developing these Peircean resources, love is portrayed as a form of semiosis, analogous to gift-giving and perfected in mutuality. In the chapter’s final section, the relationship between love, attention, and volition is explored, illuminated by a consideration of what it might mean to talk about “love of enemies.”
Postlude: The Play of Musement
Authors: Raposa Michael L.
Published: May 2021

This postlude represents an attempt to engage in musement rather than simply to describe it. The instructions from Peirce’s Neglected Argument guide this exercise. Augustine and Ignatius of Loyola also help to shape these ruminations
Introduction
Authors: Yue Genevieve
Published: May 2021

The introduction situates the project among several strands of film scholarship: feminist film analysis, film and media archaeology, and feminist materialism. It begins by casting its investigation of sites of film materiality as a methodological intervention in feminist film analysis, moving inquiry away from representation, which looks at the image onscreen, and toward industrial and institutional processes. Next, the book’s method is distinguished from two approaches: first, feminist scholarship that is oriented toward restoring women to their absent places in film history, and second, aesthetic theories of the origins of art that are predicated on the disappearance of a woman’s (Medusa) body. The chapter argues that gender is more than a lack or a structuring absence and that it can be read in and through the processes that undergird the materiality of film.
Gone Girls of Escamontage
Authors: Yue Genevieve
Published: May 2021

Escamontage designates the coincidence of a subtle cut in film, made without an apparent break in framing, with the disappearance of a woman’s body. This chapter proposes that escamontage constitutes its own form of editing in which concealment is expressed as a formal element and thematic principle. The history of escamontage is conveyed in three key moments: first, its initial articulation in early cinema with Thomas Edison’s The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots (1895); its development in classical Hollywood cinema with Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope (1948); and finally, its realization in contemporary digital filmmaking with David Fincher’s Gone Girl (2014).
A Corporate Stance for Social Justice
Authors: Taylor Cynthia
Published: May 2021

This chapter explores the leadership role the Dominican Sisters of San Rafael played in the social movement known as “sanctuary” that emerged in the Bay Area, California, in the 1980s. The enactment of the 1980s Refugee Act and the political crisis in Central America during the Reagan administration galvanized the San Rafael Sisters to make a “corporate and public declaration” of support and sanctuary for political refugees fleeing the violence of a civil war in El Salvador. This chapter examines this pivotal moment within the larger historical context of the Dominican Sisters’ mission in California since the state’s founding in 1850.
Introduction: Paradise Has Walls
Authors: O’Donnell S. Jonathon
Published: May 2021

Taking point from a post-9/11 spiritual warfare narrative in which models of asymmetric war are used to reconceptualize the demonic, the Introduction argues that figures of the demonic are both consolidating and deconstructive of systems of power, particularly those tied to sovereignty, identity, and empire. Weaving together two definitions of demonology, by Bruce Lincoln and Marcella Althaus-Reid, respectively, it demonstrates that demonology operates as a rubric of knowledge aimed at the classification, comprehension, and control of nonhuman and dehumanized others—the demonized—who simultaneously unsettle those rubrics of knowledge by exposing their categories as constructed and not natural. Mobilizing queer and critical race theory, it then situates the demon’s deconstructive quality in its figuration of passing and counterfeiture, which unsettle territorial boundaries, stable identities, and linear models of temporality.
Nations unto Light: Spiritual Warfare as Orthotaxic Religiosity
Authors: O’Donnell S. Jonathon
Published: May 2021

This chapter is a detailed introduction both to “spiritual warfare” discourses in contemporary America and to the concept of “orthotaxy.” It unpacks how spiritual warriors construct a vision of order through a temporalizing and territorializing imaginary based on conflicting hegemonic ideologies that are figured as either divine (legitimate) or demonic (illegitimate). Drawing on critical race and settler colonial theory, the chapter focuses on spiritual warfare’s concept of the demonic “territorial spirit” or arche, which is understood as ruling over geographical spaces and conditioning the (illegitimate) ideologies dominant within them. Drawing on Derrida’s theorization of the archive and his notion of “heliopolitics” and Spivak’s concept of “worlding,” the chapter unpacks how spiritual warfare’s demonologies operate as attempts to establish mastery over both space (land, bodies) and time (history, the archive) through interwoven claims to territorial and moral integrity, incontestable sovereign right, and historical inevitability
A Fassi Linguascape
Authors: Schulthies Becky L.
Published: May 2021

Chapter one introduces the linguistic soundscape of Fez, giving a sense of the context in which laments about communicative failure arose. It provides some historical background and describes the multilingual resources and sensibilities evoked throughout the book.
Mediating Moroccan Muslims
Authors: Schulthies Becky L.
Published: May 2021

Chapter five brings morality, literate listening, and sonic reading together to explore the semiotics of the “Moroccan model of Islam,” a state-sponsored effort to shape religious discourse and practices via media in the wake of “extremism.” In May 2003, Morocco experienced a major religiously motivated attack, in which thirty-seven Moroccans were killed. Extremist Islam, learned through foreign media, was blamed. In particular, people claimed satellite television and small portable media (like audio cassette and VCR tapes, as well as VCD and DVD disks, and more recently internet videos) had corrupted and confused Moroccans about proper Islam. One of the Moroccan state responses was to re-cultivate what they called the Moroccan model or pattern of Islam نموذج المغربي‎, namūdhaj almaghribī, a historically “moderate” Islam, which they would spread via modern radio and television stations, training institutes, and global dissemination of training materials. The Moroccan pattern of Islam included a bundle of semiotic forms promoted as uniquely Moroccan: clothing, Qur’anic recitation styles, writing scripts, textual reasoning patterns, and television/radio communicative channels for connecting Moroccans to Islam. This chapter examines critical Fassi responses to the state media efforts at semiotically shaping Islam in Morocco and the social non-movements precipitated from those responses.
Arvo Pärt’s Tintinnabuli and the 1970s Soviet Underground
Authors: Karnes Kevin C.
Published: May 2021

This chapter focuses on early, largely forgotten engagements between Pärt, tintinnabuli, and student culture in the 1970s Soviet Union. It documents the embrace of Pärt’s new style among students and young artists and depicts how an informal network of Soviet youth and young musicians played a crucial role in fostering and promoting his earliest tintinnabuli works between the time of the October 1976 premieres and the popular breakthrough of Tabula Rasa in the fall of 1977. While not denying the singularity of Pärt’s achievement with his new compositional language, the chapter rebuts the widespread image of Pärt as a solitary, isolated figure during the time of his greatest creative breakthrough
The Rest Is Silence
Authors: Shenton Andrew
Published: May 2021

Pärt is renowned for his use of silence; however, apart from the acknowledgement of its frequency in his work and its structural and spiritual efficacy, the subject has not been explored in detail. This essay analyzes the spectrum of silences in Pärt’s music first by providing a taxonomy of use by position and length; second, by providing theological explanation using especially the concepts of hesychasm and kenosis; and third, by tackling the problems of performance and notation of silence using examples from works representative of different periods and genres from his oeuvre. Finally, it resituates silence by referring to essays by Susan Sontag and Aldous Huxley which confirm that in Pärt’s aesthetic, where words and music fail, silence expresses the ineffable.
Presence, Absence, and the Ambiguities of Ambience
Authors: Saler Robert
Published: May 2021

This chapter seeks to contextualize the disciplinary interaction between theology and sound studies in the analysis of Pärt’s music within broader theological questions around presence, absence, and idolatry. The chapter engages both classical and postmodern theology to argue that, to the extent that Part’s music enacts an interplay between presence and absence as elucidated by sound studies, it can be a fruitful site of interaction between the two disciplines.
Christian Liturgical Chant and the Musical Reorientation of Arvo Pärt
Authors: Lingas Alexander
Published: May 2021

Working in the spirit of recent scholarship that has enriched our understanding of change and continuity leading up to, across, and beyond Pärt’s nominally “silent” period of 1968–76, this chapter reconsiders Pärt’s relationship to Christian plainchant. The chapter suggests that in tintinnabuli emerged a musical system that recreates by different means some of the key organizational procedures of traditions of Latin, Byzantine, and Slavonic liturgical singing.
In the Beginning There Was Sound
Authors: Yaraman Sevin Huriye
Published: May 2021

This paper approaches Arvo Pärt’s tintinnabuli concept as a point of entry into the unity of two seemingly oppositional states that ground human existence and underline the theology of Sufism: separation from God in longing and union with God in joy. Drawing on wide range of primary sources by classical theologians and Islamic mystics such as Ibn al-Arabi, Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali, and Abu Talib al Makki, this paper seeks to locate the theory of longing, the significance of hearing, and, ultimately, the meaning of music in Islamic mysticism. Finally, this chapter identifies a fundamental convergence between the expression of longing in Sufi poetry exemplified by Yunus Emre’s works and Arvo Pärt’s tintinnabuli technique, illuminating a closeness between the theological traditions of Orthodox Christianity and Islam.
Introduction: Impossible Subjects
Authors: Elam J. Daniel
Published: May 2021

This chapter traces the intertwined trajectory of two seemingly unrelated subjects: anticolonialism and philology. Drawing on Frantz Fanon, Erich Auerbach, and other thinkers from the 1920s and 1930s, this chapter argues that both subjects were committed to imagining an impossible but necessary world, beyond colonialism and fascism.
M. K. Gandhi’s Lost Debates
Authors: Elam J. Daniel
Published: May 2021

This chapter traces key moments in Gandhi’s career, when he apologises for being wrong, or asks to be “given up as foolish.” What might it mean that Gandhi preferred to lose debates, and to be forced to apologise, rather than to be correct? This chapter suggests Gandhian renunciation is double—the renunciation of the ability to renunciate—which produces an impossible egalitarianism.
Epilogue: Stopping and Leaving
Authors: Elam J. Daniel
Published: May 2021

This chapter draws on the conclusions of B. R. Ambedkar, Frantz Fanon, and Erich Auerbach for a theory of anticolonialism “in the final instance.” Given that we will meet our end before colonialism meets its end, what practices are necessary to imagine an anticolonial collective and act on its behalf? Reading Ambedkar and Fanon together, this epilogue shows how both thinkers theorized stopping, quitting, leaving, and exiting as ways “out” of the colonized world.
Exordium
Authors: Williams Gareth
Published: May 2021

The Preface offers the reader an introductory illustration of the relation between infrapolitics and the every-day language of contemporary turmoil. It examines the words of the Extinction Rebellion leader Greta Thurnberg and the way she places the routine political calculations internal to capitalism in another light, reconverting the familiarity and ordinariness of home, for example, into the unfamiliar ground of an existential conflagration. Thunberg insists on safeguarding a distance from reigning forms of political calculation and power brokering. She does this in order to speak freely about the epoch which is ours. If it were not for that commonplace distance from political calculation itself, she would be just another bureaucrat of the given in search of a way to live in the shadow of a fully accepted master discourse. Via a discussion of Martin Heidegger’s “Letter on Humanism”, this section illustrates the relation between contemporary globalization and the question of existence. Infrapolitical Passages announces itself herein as an approach to the question of the inseparable relation between existence, responsibility, and the future of reason. The Preface stages infrapolitics as a necessary distance from the political, in the name of existence.
Narco-Accumulation
Authors: Williams Gareth
Published: May 2021

This passage examines narco-accumulation—or illicit globalization—as a contemporary modality of war with specific existential connotations. It challenges previously sovereign national territory, which is now reconverted into the ritualized performance, living geography, and paramilitary end-game of post-katechontic force. For example, it realigns Mexico’s military-economic relation to the North, while also redefining and intensifying Mexican paramilitary force’s relation of dominance over the impoverished political spaces of, and the migrant bodies that flee from the social violence in, Central America. The national territory of Mexico becomes the new border, the tomb of the proper, the negation of space by space. The passage ends with the image of contemporary Central American migration to the U.S. as the site for an infrapolitical thinking of existence, capable of undermining the domination of the political over existence. This is the clearing promised throughout the book.
Talking Machines
Authors: Vandeputte Tom
Published: May 2021

Journalism plays a decisive role in Kierkegaard’s early work, especially his largely neglected early writings. The “age” is presented in these writings in the form of a comedy whose main protagonists are reporters and newspaper readers, phrases and hearsay, and mistaken announcements and errant messages. Through a close reading of his newspaper articles of the 1830s, this chapter shows that this farce revolves around a certain “confusion” that, for Kierkegaard, finds an emblematic expression in the language of journalism. The scrutiny of the language of the newspapers undertaken here does not only form the basis of Kierkegaard’s early critique of philosophies of progress and development; as this chapter shows, it is also key to understanding his later attempts at developing a new theory of historical time—one that would crystallize in his concept of an “instant” (Øieblik) in which the flow of time is interrupted and exposed to an unforeseeable future.
Deconstruction in a Nutshell: The Very Idea (!)
Authors: Derrida Jacques
Published: May 2021

This chapter discusses the idea of deconstruction in a nutshell. The very meaning and mission of deconstruction is to show that things do not have definable meanings and determinable missions, that they are always more than any mission would impose, and that they exceed the boundaries they currently occupy. A “meaning” or a “mission” is a way to contain and compact things, like a nutshell, gathering them into a unity, whereas deconstruction bends all its efforts to stretch beyond these boundaries, to transgress confines, to interrupt and disjoin all such gathering. Whenever deconstruction finds a nutshell, the very idea is to crack it open and disturb this tranquility. The thrust of each of the questions put to Jacques Derrida in the “Roundtable” was to press him about the relevance of deconstruction to the most traditional values of institution, tradition, community, justice, and religion. Ultimately, Derrida was eloquent about the place of deconstruction at the heart of the most time-honored institutions.
The Determinant of Budget Fiscal Deficit of the Palestinian Authority and the Economic Factors Affecting It
Authors: Zubdeh Khaled Hasan
Published: May 2021

A prolonged fiscal deficit is an inheriting problem for the Palestinian economy. This leaves the Palestinian authorities unable to pay for salaries and other needed money to spend on the infrastructure, education, health, and other services. The main aim of this study is to examine the relationship between the budget deficit and some indicators, gross domestic product, balance of trade, inflation rate, unemployment rate, and current account, using ordinary least square and ARMA methods for collected quarterly data for the years 2000-2018, and applying the data to a number of other tests such as unit roots test, Johansen cointegration test, normal distribution test, heteroskedasticity test, Breusch-Pagan-Godfrey, variance inflation factors, etcetera, using Eviews10 program. The study’s main findings showed a long-run cointegration relationship between the budget deficit and the independent variables included in the study. The gross domestic product, balance of trade, and unemployment rate have a significant negative relationship with the budget deficit, while the remaining variables, inflation rate and current account, have a significant positive relationship with budget deficit.
Role of Subscapularis Tendon Repair in Reverse Total Shoulder Arthroplasty
Authors: Jawa Andrew , Colliton Eileen M.
Published: May 2021

In anatomic total shoulder arthroplasty (TSA), subscapularis repair is essential for shoulder stability and function postoperatively; however, the role of subscapularis repair in reverse TSA remains unclear. Some evidence suggests that subscapularis repair is associated with improved postoperative stability and range of motion, whereas other evidence indicates that repair is unnecessary and has no effect on clinical outcomes. In this review, we will analyze the existing literature addressing subscapularis repair during reverse TSA and discuss the effect of medialized and lateralized prosthesis designs on the utility of tendon repair.
Imagens em movimento nas aulas de história e o seu impacto no desenvolvimento de competências de autoaprendizagem em estudantes da educação básica
Authors: Pinheiro Miguel , Dias-Trindade Sara , Alves Pedro
Published: May 2021

As imagens em movimento foram ganhando, com o tempo, cada vez mais importância na sociedade e, também, na educação. O cinema ou o filme documentário, por exemplo, têm a capacidade de representar de forma dinâmica certos acontecimentos ocorridos no mundo real e auxiliar na compreensão dos conteúdos lecionados, ao mesmo tempo que promove um ambiente descontraído e motivador. Com base neste pressuposto, este artigo tem como objetivo apresentar um estudo de caso qualitativo realizado com 14 estudantes de educação básica em Portugal, para avaliar de que forma as imagens em movimento contribuem para o desenvolvimento de competências de autoaprendizagem nas aulas de História nas dimensões consideradas: Aprendizagem Ativa, Iniciativa e Autonomia. Os resultados mostraram que a utilização desta estratégia pedagógica contribui para o desenvolvimento de competências de autoaprendizagem, sobretudo em relação à motivação para aprender, a autonomia e a iniciativa individual para aprofundar conhecimentos.
“Artes de fazer” da infância: entre a casa e a escola
Authors: Teixeira Lisley Canola Treis , Otto Claricia
Published: May 2021

O artigo apresenta narrativas memorialísticas sobre vivências da infância, nos caminhos percorridos entre a casa e as instituições escolares do centro urbano de Florianópolis (SC), na primeira metade do século XX: os Grupos Escolares Lauro Müller, Dias Velho, Silveira de Souza e Arquidiocesano de São José. As memórias sobre as “artes de fazer” da infância, capturadas por meio de quinze entrevistas, gravadas em áudio e imagem, são compreendidas na perspectiva de Michel de Certeau, especialmente no que se refere aos conceitos de “espaços praticados” e de “táticas”. Dentre as conclusões, ressalta que as memórias relampejam de um intenso processo de interação entre entrevistador e entrevistado e que a infância de outrora, nas memórias, é um agente social que faz uso de táticas dentro de uma margem própria à ordem social de cada tempo e contexto histórico.
“HEI DE CUMPRIR ESSES MEOS DEVERES DA MILHOR FORMA POSSIVEL”: indícios da presença italiana em São Paulo a partir do processo disciplinar contra professor público (Brotas, 1895/1896)
Authors: Panizzolo Claudia , Barros Gabriel Meneses , Sousa Andrea Faria
Published: May 2021

Em 1895 foi iniciado um processo contra Luigi Pericles Salmena, de nacionalidade italiana que atuava como professor interino, em uma escola provisória na cidade de Brotas, interior do Estado de São Paulo. Este artigo tem por objetivo problematizar o exercício da docência pelo imigrante, valendo-se de um caso de processo disciplinar da Instrução Pública Paulista. Interroga-se assim, qual o lugar da docência nas pesquisas sobre história da imigração italiana em São Paulo. Ancorado nos referenciais da História Cultural e da História da Educação e tendo a análise documental como procedimento adotado, tem como fontes o processo disciplinar, leis, decretos e a imprensa local. Toma-se de empréstimo a conceituação de tática e estratégia de De Certeau (2014). Como conclusão tem-se as disputas de poder entre as Câmaras Municipais e os inspetores de distrito; bem como a inserção do imigrante italiano na Instrução Pública desde fins do século XIX.
“The Blackest Kernel”: Irony and the Poetics of Fear in Selected American Texts of the War in Vietnam
Authors: Musiał Aleksandra
Published: May 2021

This article discusses several American texts about the war in Vietnam, paying particular attention to Michael Herr’s memoir Dispatches and Gustav Hasford’s The Short­Timers. Using Paul Fussell’s model of the ironic pattern of war experiences recounted in literary texts authored by soldier-writers, the article argues that the close entanglement of the poetics of fear and a sense of Fussellian irony permeate the representations of the Vietnam War in these, as well as in other American books. The article also attempts to briefly categorise the representations of fear in several narratives of the war.
“I Discover the World as It Is, Real.” Traveling through the Peripheries of (the World of) Czesław Miłosz.
Authors: Kłosowski Mateusz
Published: May 2021

The review discusses the book Peryferie Miłosza. Nieznane konteksty, glosy, nowe rozpoznania, edited by Marek Bernacki. By problematising the centre-periphery
opposition, it shows the shifting ranges and boundaries of both concepts in the research on the works of the Polish Nobel Prize-winner carried out by the
contributors of the mentioned book.
Why Trust Academia? A Reflection on the Credibility of Specialists
Authors: Jajszczok Justyna
Published: May 2021

Using examples from popular culture and history, the author speculates on the reasons and possible solutions to the crisis of trust in academia, especially along the line dividing specialists from non-specialists. The article begins with two case studies (of Yuval Noah Harari and Gustave Le Bon) that highlight the problem of conscious or otherwise data manipulation and the intention behind it. In the second part of the article, a broader approach is adopted to the matters of ethics of research and especially the crucial issue of the awareness (or lack thereof) of self-limitations and biases of which perhaps no academic is free. The article ends with the assertion that rather than individual researchers, we should trust in the academic process of the never-ending peer review.
MythBusters, or Why “the Only Difference Between Screwing Around and Science Is Writing It down"
Authors: Bemben Alicja
Published: May 2021

This article focuses on the popular-science programme MythBusters to illustrate the various ways in which it employs science. On the basis of my analysis of these, I, first, argue that the popculture of the early twenty-first century generates products in which multiple uses of scientific activity are a standard. Second, it is also substantiated that this multiplication of the uses of science translates into it being forfeited in favour of entertainment even in broadcasts that are, or at least seem, targeted at it.
Between Science and Pop Culture: The Role of Mathematics in Films
Authors: Piotrowska Alicja
Published: May 2021

The present analysis is focused on the issue of interactions of individuals with mathematics in films and strives to show why the question of the accuracy of mathematical formulas is not crucial to films and, therefore, what their main functions in the creation of the diegetic and the outer world are. In order to achieve the set aim, I ground my reflection in the idea suggested in Math Goes to the Movies, i.e. that mathematics is not presented in films only as an abstract theory, but it also carries a creative potential. Good Will Hunting (1997), A Beautiful Mind (2001) and Pi (1998) are the films in which mathematics is a substantial driving force, influencing both the gradual development and consolidation of characters. In this work, the films serve as the research material.
A Sociological Perspective on the Representation of Science in Climate Change Novels
Authors: Hempel Fabian
Published: May 2021

According to a comprehensive scientific consensus, the environmental impact of modern societies is a significant cause for the current experienced effects of global warming. In addition to science’s function as a diagnostic instance of the Anthropocene, it occupies at least two additional roles in the story of humaninduced climate change. Modern science tries to act as a therapist as it proposes numerous actions that need to be taken when tackling the risks, causes, and consequences of climate change. Moreover, the institution of science is a (co-) producer of anthropogenic risks due to the intentional and unintentional utilization of scientific knowledge and science-based technologies for societal purposes. Therefore, this contribution asks from a sociological point of view how representations of science in exemplary climate change novels, a body of contemporary literature that deals with human-induced global warming and its societal implications, depict this multi-layered embedding of science as a producer, diagnostician, and therapist of societal risks in the story of humancaused climate change.
Scientific Narratives in Contemporary Egyptian Pocket Novel Series
Authors: Gadomski Sebastian
Published: May 2021

Popular literature occupies a significant part of the publishing market in Egypt and has had quite a large group of admirers for many decades. It is noteworthy that, in this sector, the series of Egyptian pocket stories published by the Modern Arab Association occupy a special position. It should be noted that the authors of the stories are heavily inspired by the latest scientific discoveries in many fields. In their works, medical facts, advanced technologies and genetic engineering not only set the background for the adventures of the characters, but are often the key elements of the plot and literary composition, as shown in this article.
Influences on the Sport Marriage
Authors: Ortiz Steven M.
Published: May 2021

This chapter identifies and examines personal and occupational realities that strongly influence the sport marriage and the wives’ lived experience. Key concepts emerging from the research are introduced: the spoiled athlete syndrome, motherization, boundary work, the virgin-prostitute syndrome, organizational dominance, an institutionalized brotherhood, and a culture of infidelity. It discusses the wife’s internalization of a “we” partnership and the couple’s construction of marital teamwork, an arrangement that usually benefits the husbands rather than the wives. It describes a hierarchy of wives that mirrors the husbands’ team and occupational status and the institutional brotherhood of teammates that strongly influences the husbands’ interpretations of masculinity, normalizes male dominance, and sanctions the husbands’ extramarital activities. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the implicit marital bargain between couples in most sport marriages.