bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Prendre ou accueillir le risque
Authors: Fino Catherine , Zielinski Agata
Published: February 2023

La prise de risque se vit aujourd’hui sur un arrière-fond d’angoisse existentielle collective, redoublée par l’ambivalence de la technique et la complexité des situations. D’un point de vue théologique, notre tradition de charité pratique intègre la prise de risque dans l’expérience d’une communion solidaire en humanité. D’un point de vue philosophique, il est possible d’accueillir le risque comme sollicitation de notre liberté et mobilisation de toutes nos facultés pour passer à l’action. La vulnérabilité propre à notre condition humaine devient l’occasion de collaborer avec d’autres et de choisir le risque avec eux et pour eux. Accueillir ce que nous sommes permet de discerner avec sagesse, et relance notre responsabilité de construire ensemble un « nous » social suffisamment soutenant.
Product stewardship considerations for solar photovoltaic panels
Authors: Majewski Peter , Deng Rong , Dias Pablo R , Jones Megan
Published: February 2023

While the uptake of solar photovoltaic panels for the generation of clean energy has almost exponentially increased over the past about 10 years, effective end-of-life management legislation is still lacking in many nations. Organizations like the International Renewable Energy Agency have clearly outlined the need and benefit of robust end-of-life management legislations, such as a product stewardship scheme or extended producer responsibility, to avoid a looming significant waste legacy. This article explores a possible design of an end-of-life legislation for solar photovoltaic panels including new and existing panels, necessary legislation for a second-hand economy for solar photovoltaic panels, and options for necessary levies to support an emerging recycling industry for solar panels. The article also tries to make recommendations for a product stewardship scheme for solar photovoltaic panels and its financial support.
Conductors of Abhyankar-Moh semigroups of even degrees
Authors: GARCÍA BARROSO Evelia R. , GARCÍA-GARCÍA Juan Ignacio , SANTANA SÁNCHEZ Luis José , VIGNERON-TENORIO Alberto
Published: February 2023

In their paper on the embeddings of the line in the plane, Abhyankar and Moh proved an important inequality, now known as the Abhyankar-Moh inequality, which can be stated in terms of the semigroup associated with the branch at infinity of a plane algebraic curve. Barrolleta, García Barroso and Płoski studied the semigroups of integers satisfying the Abhyankar-Moh inequality and call them Abhyankar-Moh semigroups. They described such semigroups with the maximum conductor. In this paper we prove that all possible conductor values are achieved for the Abhyankar-Moh semigroups of even degree. Our proof is constructive, explicitly describing families that achieve a given value as its conductor.
On a hyperbolic-parabolic chemotaxis system
Authors: Peng Hongyun , Zhao Kun
Published: February 2023

Stability of steady state solutions associated with initial and boundary value problems of a coupled fluid-reaction-diffusion system in one space dimension is analyzed. It is shown that under Dirichlet-Dirichlet type boundary conditions, non-trivial steady state solutions exist and are locally stable when the system parameters satisfy certain constraints.
1 and 2 Chronicles as a discourse of power
Authors: Geyser-Fouche Ananda
Published: February 2023

This article reflected a comparison of 1 and 2 Chronicles with its source documents. It transpires that the history of Israel and Judah is selectively retold by the authors of Chronicles with deliberate omissions and additions reflecting a certain emphasis. While the northern kingdom is negatively portrayed, the southern kingdom is positively evaluated. David is idealised as the perfect king. He is credited with founding the religious cult, which is contradicting the view in Exodus. The Jerusalem temple cult is legitimised and asserted as representing the only accurate religion. Chronicles 1 and 2 secured the temple elite’s position by legitimising their actions, functioning in this community as a discourse of power for as long as the (second) temple existed. Being a discourse of power, it set margins and excluded various groups usually considered part of the people of YHWH. The destruction of the (second) temple led to the disempowerment of this text, opening the way for it to be included in the Hebrew canon. The key insights of this article were that 1 and 2 Chronicles were used as a discourse of power, but the power block was lifted once the second temple was destroyed.Contribution: This article fitted into the scope of the journal by using historical-critical methods but also concepts from poststructuralism, namely the concept of powers behind texts and in language.
Cerebral faith and faith in praxis in the churches of European origin: The Presbyterian Church of South(ern) Africa
Authors: Duncan Graham A.
Published: February 2023

This article investigated the paradox between church response to apartheid and resulting action at the local level in the South African churches of European origin from the perspective of the Presbyterian Church of South(ern) Africa (PCSA). It indicated that this discrepancy arose between the reflections (cerebral faith) at the highest levels of church councils, which operated in an intermittent manner and at a distance, compared with the responses (praxis as faith in action) of local church members who lived at the coalface of the struggle and sought to witness in a society dominated by racism, where the tension between faith and politics was most evident. The primary focus was on two inter-racial congregations, one of the PCSA, the other a united congregation in which the PCSA participated. This study used primary and secondary sources. The theoretical framework of the article was Thomas Groome’s approach of shared praxis.Contribution: This article contributed to the history of the apartheid era in ecclesiastical contexts. It demonstrated the anomalies that arose within different constituencies within churches of European origin by investigating the situation in one particular denomination. This was a discussion of the relationship of faith and politics in the private and public domains, which takes account of developments within a shared praxis approach.
Risks of Type 2 diabetes among older people living with HIV: A scoping review
Authors: Mhlanga Nongiwe L. , Netangaheni Thinavhuyo R.
Published: February 2023

Background: The effectiveness of antiretroviral therapy has enabled people living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) (PLWH) to live longer. With this longevity, there is the risk of developing age-related chronic conditions like Type 2 diabetes. Older PLWH have an increased risk of Type 2 diabetes mellitus (Type 2 DM) because of the natural physiological processes of ageing and risks posed by HIV infection and antiretroviral therapy use. The purpose of this scoping review is to describe risk factors associated with the development of Type 2 DM among older PLWH.Methods: The study adopted a framework for scoping reviews. The first step identified the research question, followed by identifying studies from three databases: PubMed, Mendeley and Cochrane Library. A total of 618 nonduplicate studies were screened, with a final selection of 15 full-text studies from 2012 to 2022. Data were extracted using the Souza (2010) data extraction tool and analysed numerically and with thematic content analysis.Results: Most studies were from Italy, with 60% being cross-sectional studies. On thematic analysis, the risks associated with Type 2 DM among older PLWH were long duration of HIV infection; the use of older-generation antiretroviral therapy; a high body mass index; the presence of hypertension and a lack of knowledge on modifiable risk factors for Type 2 DM.Conclusion: The identification of the risks that increase the likelihood of Type 2 DM among older PLWH facilitates effective screening and focused health education for older PLWH to reduce the development of Type 2 DM.Contribution: The findings of this study of excess risks of Type 2 DM specific to older PLWH complement risk factors of Type 2 DM in the general population. These excess risks facilitate case finding of older PLWH at risk of Type 2 DM especially in primary healthcare settings.
Investigating the link between board independence and dividend distributions in South Africa
Authors: Viviers Suzette , Mans-Kemp Nadia , Janse van Vuuren Michael , Shiel Tyler
Published: February 2023

Purpose: As shareholder-elected monitors, independent non-executive directors (INEDs) should ensure that managers do not retain earnings to promote their own interests. The relationship between board independence and dividend distributions was hence investigated for selected companies listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE). The country offers a well-developed corporate governance framework to listed companies.Design/methodology/approach: Data on the considered companies’ dividend payout ratios (DPRs), board independence and six control variables were obtained from Bloomberg for the period 2007–2021. The significance of the observed trends in these variables was considered by conducting analysis of variance (ANOVA) and Fisher’s least significant difference (LSD) tests. The hypothesised relationship was assessed using a mixed-model regression.Findings/results: The results are in line with prior research showing that dividends are often omitted or reduced during and after crisis periods, that is, the global financial crisis (2008/2009) and the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic (2020/2021). A negative but statistically insignificant relationship was reported between DPR and board independence.Practical implications: Although board independence was not significantly related to dividend distributions for the sampled companies, INEDs still perform an important monitoring role. Shareholders are thus encouraged to play a more active role in the election of these directors.Originality/value: This study extends and refines previous research in South Africa and reveals new insights regarding board independence and dividend distributions during three King regimes and distribution-related regulatory changes.
Perforation of Coronary Artery Side Branch
Authors: Ola Rakesh Kumar , Ruhela Manish
Published: February 2023

In the modern era of cardiology, coronary angiography is a relatively safe procedure. Complication rate occurs in < 1% of cases. We report a case of coronary artery side branch perforation during coronary angiography using 5 French tiger radial catheter. Contrast injection into a side branch following accidental superselective intubation leads to the perforation at the tip and contrast extravasation. We were able to manage the patient conservatively because there is no hemodynamic compromise or pericardial effusion. Check angiography was done after 7 days and there was no leak. During angiography, pressure tracing should always be monitored and dye injection should be stopped if there is superselective intubation of the branch.
Coronary Slow Flow/No-Reflow
Authors: Kanthallu Srinivasan Narayanamoorthy , Sathyamurthy Immaneni
Published: February 2023

No-reflow is defined as failure to restore normal myocardial perfusion despite removal of mechanical obstruction in the epicardial coronary arteries. This phenomenon is associated with high risk of major adverse cardiac events, recurrent heart failure, arrhythmias, and death. The degree of reperfusion injury depends on the duration of preceding myocardial ischemia, infarct size, procedure variables, and patient characteristics. This complication predominantly occurs during percutaneous coronary intervention for acute coronary syndrome. Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging is the gold standard noninvasive method for assessing this phenomenon. Conditions such as flow-limiting dissection, in situ thrombosis, severe spasm, or high-grade residual stenosis should be excluded prior to making a diagnosis of no-reflow phenomenon. The management of no-reflow should be personalized according to the predominant mechanisms contributing to the microvascular obstruction.
Takayasu Aortoarteritis Masquerading Left Ventricular Noncompaction Syndrome
Authors: Gokhale Yojana , Patankar Aditi Sanjiv , Mahajan Ajay U. , Firke Vikrant
Published: February 2023

We report an interesting case of a 20-year-old man who was admitted in intensive cardiac care unit with congestive cardiac failure along with thromboembolic manifestations and a raised erythrocyte sedimentation rate. On the basis of two-dimensional echocardiography, he was diagnosed as left ventricular noncompaction syndrome. However, cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) ruled out noncompaction. After extensive workup, the patient was diagnosed with Takayasu aortoarteritis. Post therapy, the patient has normal cardiac function and cardiac MRI without thromboembolic event in 8 years' follow-up.
Design and Development of a Mechanical Variable Valve Actuation System
Authors: Pierik Ronald J. , Burkhard James F.
Published: February 2023

Compromises inherent with fixed valve lift and event timing have prompted engine designers to consider Variable Valve Actuation (VVA) systems for many decades. In recent years, some relatively basic forms of VVA have been introduced into production engines. Greater performance and driveability expectations of customers, more stringent emission regulations set by government legislators, and the mutual desire for higher fuel economy are increasingly at odds. As a solution, many OEM companies are seriously considering large-scale application of higher function VVA mechanisms in their next generation vehicles.

This paper describes the continuing development progress of a mechanical VVA system. Design features and operation of the mechanism are explained. Test results are presented in two sections: motored cylinder head test data focuses on VVA system friction, control system performance, valve lift and component stress. Dynamometer results from a four-cylinder test engine focus on fuel consumption, emissions, torque and combustion stability characteristics. The paper finishes with a description of proposed future activities.
Deformation and Failure Behavior of Cylindrical Lithium-Ion Batteries Subjected to Mechanical Loading
Authors: Aphale Siddharth , Murugkar Milind , Lulla Soham , Date Prashant
Published: February 2023

It is of critical importance to understand the failure behavior of Lithium-ion batteries subjected to mechanical loading order to improve crash safety of electric vehicles. The deformation of battery pack during collision/crash results in catastrophic events and thus it becomes necessary to study the failure of the battery during such scenarios. The goal of this research was to understand the mechanical and electrical failure characteristics of cylindrical Lithium-ion cells subjected to deformation. This paper discusses on experimental investigations on material failure in the electrode assemblies i.e. the jellyroll of Li-ion batteries after mechanical loading which eventually leads to electrical failure, short circuit and at times violent thermal runaway scenarios. Experiments were carried out on NCA chemistry 18650 cylindrical cells under various loading conditions in a custom designed fumehood which capture the various failure modes of the cell in a module or a battery pack in crash events. The loading conditions include, compression between two flat plates in horizontal and vertical terminals orientations, lateral indentation by a cylindrical rod, hemispherical punch, flat circular punch and three-point bending. The understanding of mechanical abuse induced short circuit behavior of Li-ion cells will aid in further development of battery crash models thereby optimizing battery pack development cycle for xEV applications.
Optimization of Accelerator Pedal Map for Improving the Low-End Performance Feel of an Electric Vehicle
Authors: RT Sangeetha , S MANORANJITHAM , S Chidhanand
Published: February 2023

In recent times, Battery electric vehicles (BEV) have gained a lot of popularity since they can contribute immensely to control the urban air pollution. However, to consider the BEVs as a sustainable mobility solution, a significant improvement is needed in several aspects including performance, range, cost, weight and recharging time. In the present work, the acceleration performance of an electric vehicle is improved to match with its diesel variant by optimizing the accelerator pedal map strategy.

Due to weight and cost constraints, the battery and electric machine capacity of the electric variant of the vehicle was considerably lower (41 % lesser power and 44% lesser torque). However, the expectation from the customers is to have no noticeable difference in the low-end performance feel between the variants. Hence, a unique method was necessary by which the subjective performance feel of the electric variant could be matched to the diesel variant despite the difference in powertrain and vehicle specifications. The experimental results revealed that the vehicle level acceleration with respect to velocity is the most critical factor defining the low-end performance feel of the vehicle. Hence, the higher low-end torque availability of the electric machine was leveraged to deliver a higher output torque even at the lower pedal position. This could be done by completely redefining the accelerator pedal map characteristic in which the motor output torque is defined as a function of accelerator pedal position and motor speed. As a result, the final acceleration performance feel of the electric variant could be closely matched with the diesel variant even with an 8% weight penalty. The results are quantified by doing a comparative vehicle level evaluation.

Thus, the proposed methodology could be used to improve the subjective performance feel of any BEV. Moreover, it can enable the BEVs to meet the customer expectations even with reduced size of the electric powertrain.
Iron-Nickel-Cobalt Alloy, Bars and Forgings 53Fe - 29Ni - 17Co Low Expansion, Glass Sealing K94610
Authors:   AMS F Corrosion and Heat Resistant Alloys Committee
Published: February 2023

This specification covers an iron-nickel-cobalt alloy in the form of bars and forgings.
Static Axial O-Ring Seal Applications Without Anti-Extrusion Devices for Engine and Engine Control Systems
Authors:   A-6C2 Seals Committee
Published: February 2023

This document establishes standard gland design criteria and dimensions for static axial O-ring seal applications without anti-extrusion devices specifically for engines and engine control systems operating at a maximum pressure of 1500 psi (10345 kPa).

NOTE: The criteria herein are similar, but not identical, to those in AS4716 and the legacy standard MIL-G-5514.
Brug, De (The Bridge) (1928)
Authors: Hielscher Eva
Published: February 2023

De Brug (The Bridge) is a black-and-white short silent film by Joris Ivens about the Koningshavenbrug in Rotterdam, a railroad lift bridge built between 1925 and 1927 also known as De Hef (The Lift). An iconic title of the Dutch avant-garde, the film brought Ivens international recognition. The film is largely a lyrical and abstract study; it presents the bridge as a masterpiece of modern engineering and shows the motion of, on, and around the steel construction, including all kinds of modern traffic. A train stops when the bridge lifts up, allowing ships to pass underneath on the river Maas. Ivens explores the bridge from multiple perspectives using extreme high and low angles, thus emphasizing a modern perception of fragmentation and re-composition. In a self-reflexive way, he demonstrates this perception as the rationale of cinema by integrating images of his 35mm Kinamo camera and himself at the beginning of the film. Shot against the background of Rotterdam’s skyline in a dynamic composition, the bridge becomes a product of cinema. Ivens’ film celebrates the aesthetic of the machine in its encounter of two pieces of modern technology: The Lift and the film camera.
Mexican Revolution
Authors: Ruiz Tresgallo Silvia
Published: February 2023

The Mexican Revolution is considered one of the first social upheavals of the twentieth century. The military phase of the Mexican Revolution (1910–1920) started in 1910 with the insurrection led by Francisco I. Madero as a reaction to the politics of Porfirio Díaz. General Díaz had seized power in a coup in 1876 and was the president of Mexico for a three-decade period known as the Porfiriato (1876–1911). Díaz stabilized the country and inaugurated a period of modernization and economic growth. However, the cost of modernization was the use of brute force, the manipulation of elections, and the suppression of basic rights such as freedom of the press. In addition, only a select elite of mainly European descent, the hacendados, owned large estates, had access to education, and became wealthy, while the majority of Mexicans were landless, illiterate, and lived in utter poverty.
Read, (Sir) Herbert Edward (1893–1968)
Authors: Kore-Schröder Leena
Published: February 2023

Herbert Edward Read was one of the most influential theorists and promoters of modern art in Britain, with a career spanning over 50 years. He was born in the North Riding of Yorkshire, the eldest of three sons of a tenant farmer. This rural childhood was to acquire a near-Edenic significance that would shape the development of Read’s creative and critical work. The romantic idyll was lost when his father died, causing the family to be evicted in 1903. Read grew up in a Halifax orphanage/boarding school, leaving in 1909 to work in Leeds as a bank clerk.
Aloni, Nissim (1926–1998)
Authors: Abramson Glenda
Published: February 2023

Nissim Aloni is an Israeli playwright and short-story writer. Aloni, who was born in Tel Aviv, was the first playwright to break away from the Israeli preoccupation with social realism and dramatic reportage. However, his first play, Akhzar mikol hamelekh (The king is the cruelest of all), 1953, still utilized a known Hebrew literary convention: the use of a biblical story as a contemporary allegory. In this case the biblical conflict between Jeroboam and King Rehoboam was the basis for an examination of the Israeli political scene at the time.
Callaghan, Morely (1903–1990)
Authors: Ellingwood Leah
Published: February 2023

Morley Callaghan was a renowned Canadian novelist and short-story writer during the twentieth century. While he had a long literary career, his early work is particularly Modernist in its experimentation with colloquial language, pared-down syntax, reportorial prose, and unconventional subject matter. Callaghan was also a well-known Canadian radio and television personality.
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins (1860–1935)
Authors: Moore P. S.
Published: February 2023

Charlotte Anne Perkins was born in 1860 in Hartford, Connecticut, to a family of preachers, abolitionists, suffragists and literary luminaries. In 1884 she compromised her youthful dreams of ‘world service’ for marriage, which she later skewered as unpaid ‘domestic service’. The constraints and demands of married life, compounded by postpartum depression following the birth of her daughter, contributed to her suffering from severe depression. In 1887 she was sent to S. Weir Mitchell for his famous ‘rest cure’—a regime of physical and mental passivity that, she said, nearly drove her mad.
Gray, Stephen (1941–)
Authors: MacKenzie Craig
Published: February 2023

Novelist, poet, dramatist, and critic Stephen Gray was born in Cape Town and educated at the universities of Cape Town, Cambridge, and Iowa, where he was a member of the Iowa Writers Workshop. He edited Granta while at Cambridge and taught in France for some years before taking up a position at the Rand Afrikaans University (now the University of Johannesburg) in 1969, where he taught for some 20 years and became Professor of English. He took early retirement in 1991 and has since then worked as a freelance writer. The author of several works of poetry, drama, and fiction, Gray is also South Africa’s foremost anthologist and literary historiographer.

Stephen Gray’s early novels are the satirical Local Colour (1975) and Invisible People (1977), and the historical Caltrop’s Desire (1980). His fascination with history is also reflected in John Ross: The True Story (1987), a fictionalized treatment of the life of Charles Maclean (‘John Ross’), a ship’s boy who survived a shipwreck off the Natal coast in 1825 and spent several years at the court of King Shaka. Later novels include Time of Our Darkness (1988), Born of Man (1989), and the semi-autobiographical War Child (1991). His autobiography, Accident of Birth, appeared in 1993.
Péret, Benjamin (1899–1959)
Authors: Freed-Thall Hannah
Published: February 2023

Benjamin Péret was a French surrealist poet whose expansive body of work exemplifies the surrealist commitment to adventure, sacrilege, and irrational, marvellous imagery. Born at the turn of the century in Rezé, Péret participated in Paris Dada before joining the surrealist movement. He authored over 30 volumes of poetry, essays, and fiction, and co-edited the first three issues of the journal La Révolution surréaliste, the movement’s mouthpiece during its founding years.
Reverdy, Pierre (1889–1960)
Authors: Caws Mary Ann
Published: February 2023

Pierre Reverdy was born in Narbonne, France, on 13 September 1889, and died in Solesmes, home of the St Peter’s Abbey, on 17 June 1960. He was the famously understated poet of cubism (‘please God let me not be well-known’, he is said to have prayed), and was associated with the cubist poets Max Jacob and Guillaume Apollinaire, with Juan Gris, and with Picasso. He had a famous, on and off again love affair with Coco Chanel—after which he left, at 37, for the Abbey. A poem of his stands at her grave. The ‘pope of surrealism’, André Breton, called him ‘the greatest poet of our time’.
Salmon, André (1881–1969)
Authors: Guédon Cécile
Published: February 2023

French poet and art critic. Associated with Guillaume Apollinaire and Max Jacob, he also developed a long-lasting friendship with Pablo Picasso. His first literary endeavour was inspired by pictorial Cubism, and promoted a new lyricism: Créances (1905–10) mixes fragments of Symbolist aesthetics with Modernist features, such as the insertion of non-literary materials within the text. Carreaux (1918–21) shows more clearly a Cubist-inflected ars poetica as it puts together collage-like fragments, making a liberal use of juxtaposition techniques and multiple voices while coupling free verse with alexandrine metre. He is also well-known for his art criticism in support of the ‘Bateau-Lavoir’ generation of artists—in particular, through the journal Le Festin d’Esope and with his pamphlets La Jeune peinture française (1912), La Jeune sculpture française (1918), and L’art vivant (1921).
Zhou Zuoren (周作人) (1885–1967)
Authors: Tang Yan
Published: February 2023

A writer and critic in the New Culture Movement (新文化运动), Zhou Zuoren was one of the most prominent literary figures in the early twentieth century in China. He advocated ‘humanist literature’ (人的文学), arguing that literature should break away from conventions and render true human nature. Zhou was among the first who used vernacular Mandarin (白话) to write poetry and prose. His poems, such as 小河 (A Little River) and 路上所见 (A Scene on the Road), were widely praised by Zhu Ziqing (朱自清) and Hu Shi (胡适). Zhou also firmly believed in democracy; he supported individual freedom and social justice, sparing no effort to critique Chinese feudalistic systems and backward superstitions in the 1910s. After the New Culture Movement ended, he left the forefront of political activities. Between 1928 and 1938, he published rather pacifistic essays such as 闭户读书论 , 哑巴礼赞, and 麻醉礼赞. The political controversy around his agreement to work for a pro-Japanese government in the 1930s caused him several years of prison life (Yan 2009, 2649–50; Daruvala 2000, 4). He returned to Beijing after being released in 1949, and died in 1967 during the Cultural Revolution.
Pick, Frank (1878–1941)
Authors: Johnson Michael
Published: February 2023

Frank Pick was a design patron and early champion of modernism in Britain. As the head of London Transport, he transformed the company into the world’s most advanced public transport system and developed a corporate identity based on radical modernist aesthetics. Under his enlightened patronage, stations, posters, and signage presented a unified visual style that gave London Transport an instantly recognisable brand, while helping to introduce modernism to a sceptical British public.
Skupina výtvarných umělců (The Group of Fine Artists)
Authors: Moseman Eleanor
Published: February 2023

Skupina výtvarných umělců (The Group of Fine Artists) was an avant-garde artist group active in Prague in the years 1911–17. Skupina consisted of Czech painters, sculptors, architects, designers, illustrators, art historians, and art critics. Many of Skupina’s members seceded from the Mánes Union, Prague’s dominant association for modern art, to form the new group. The foundational meeting in May 1911 was attended by Emil Filla, Josef Gočár, Otto Gutfreund, Pavel Janák, Vlastislav Hofman, František Kysela, Zdeněk Kratochvíl, Ladislav Šíma, and Václav Špála. These founders were joined by Vratislav Brunner, Josef Chochol, Vilém Dvořák, František Langer, Jan Thon, Vincenc Beneš, Josef Čapek, and his art critic brother Karl Čapek, with the later additions of Antonín Procházka and art historians Vincenc Kramář and V. V. Štech.
de Chirico, Giorgio (1888–1978)
Authors: Greeley Anne
Published: February 2023

The modern Italian painter Giorgio de Chirico was born in the port city of Volos in the Grecian province of Thessaly. After training in Athens and Munich, he lived briefly in Milan and Florence before moving to Paris in 1911. There, between 1911 and 1915, he developed the highly original, ‘metaphysical’ style of painting on which his reputation is chiefly founded. With this singular idiom––epitomised in his 1914 painting The Enigma of a Day––and the critical support of Guillaume Apollinaire, he established himself as one of the luminaries of the Parisian avant-garde, alongside Pablo Picasso and André Derain.
Mawson, Thomas Hayton (1861–1933)
Authors: Csepely-Knorr Luca
Published: February 2023

The self-trained English landscape architect and town planner Thomas Hayton Mawson became one of the most successful designers of the first decades of the twentieth century. He started his career as a nurseryman, founding the family business Mawson Brothers’ Lakeland Nurseries in Windemere in 1884. A few years later he separated the design part of the business and began to run his own consultancy. His office, Thomas H. Mawson and Sons, quickly became successful and included influential and powerful clients like Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919) and William Hesketh Lever (1851–1925). They even designed gardens for royals like Alexandra of Denmark (1844–1925) and King Constantine of Greece (1868–1923).
Natural Synthesis
Authors: Rice Erin M.
Published: February 2023

The concept of Natural Synthesis was set forth by members of the Zaria Art Society. They called for the merging of the best of Western and Nigerian traditions, forms, techniques, and ideas in the arts into a hybrid art-making practice and conceptual framework. The concept was developed in the late 1950s alongside a gathering momentum towards independence in search of a modern art that would suit the new nation. Proponents of Natural Synthesis were responding to concerns that much of Nigeria’s artistic heritage was being lost to the influence of foreign culture and academic traditions.
Weakening and Iterating Laws using String Diagrams
Authors: Goy Alexandre
Published: February 2023

Distributive laws are a standard way of combining two monads, providing a compositional approach for reasoning about computational effects in semantics. Situations where no such law exists can sometimes be handled by weakening the notion of distributive law, still recovering a composite monad. A celebrated result from Eugenia Cheng shows that combining $n$ monads is possible by iterating more distributive laws, provided they satisfy a coherence condition called the Yang-Baxter equation. Moreover, the order of composition does not matter, leading to a form of associativity. The main contribution of this paper is to generalise the associativity of iterated composition to weak distributive laws in the case of $n = 3$ monads. To this end, we use string-diagrammatic notation, which significantly helps make increasingly complex proofs more readable. We also provide examples of new weak distributive laws arising from iteration.

Comment: Conference version (proceedings of MFPS 2022)
Simulative Souveränität: Eine Soziologie politischer Ordnungsbildung
Authors: Kretschmann Andrea
Published: February 2023

Um ihre Einsätze bei Straßenprotesten zu trainieren, laufen Polizistinnen und Polizisten in der Rolle von Demonstrierenden durch selbst gebaute Straßenzüge. Sie sind schwarz gekleidet und maskiert, tragen Spruchbanner vor sich her, stimmen Sprechchöre an und halten Redebeiträge. Sie werfen mit Steinen und Molotowcocktails und zünden Autos an. Souveränität ist simulativ geworden. Dies ist die These von Andrea Kretschmann, die sie anhand einer teilnehmenden Beobachtung polizeilicher Simulationen für das Policing von Protest in Europa entwickelt. Im Rahmen dieser Simulationen wird politische Ordnung vor allem auf sinnliche Weise hergestellt: Inszenierung, Theater und Spiel laden die inneren Abläufe der Staatsgewalt mit einer neuen Expressivität auf und lassen ein assoziativ-ereignisgetriebenes Vorgehen erkennen, das im Gegensatz zu klassischen Herangehensweisen dezidiert unsystematisch verfährt. Das hat unmittelbare Folgen für das Politische, denn die polizeilichen Simulationen stützen en gros gegenwärtige kriminalpolitische Tendenzen, Artikulationsformen abseits parlamentarischer Verfahrenswege als Sicherheitsproblem zu betrachten. Zugleich bahnt diese spezifische Perspektivierung des Politischen der Ungleichbehandlung unterschiedlicher politischer Spektren durch die Polizei den Weg. Die Autorin legt mit ihrem Buch eine Kultursoziologie des Staates vor, die dieser Bedeutung des Simulativen im soziologischen Rahmen des Verhältnisses von Gesellschaft, Demokratie und Staatlichkeit innerhalb eines kulturalisierten Kapitalismus Rechnung trägt. Damit gibt sie einen empirisch gesättigten Einblick in eine verschlossene Welt, der für eine kritische Würdigung polizeilicher Tätigkeit wie der spätmodernen Problematik politischer Ordnungsbildung unentbehrlich ist.
Enhancing Market Basket Analysis Through the Interplay of Advertisement and Technology
Authors: Tiwari Shivam , Prakash Prem , Dixit Vaishnavi
Published: February 2023

Market Basket Analysis (MBA) is a crucial technique used in the field of data mining to understand consumer purchasing patterns. The importance of advertisement in an MBA has been widely acknowledged as a key factor in influencing consumer behavior. With the advent of technology, MBA is undergoing a paradigm shift, with new tools and techniques being developed to improve its accuracy and efficiency. This research paper focuses on the various techniques used in MBA, the role of advertisement in MBA, and the impact of technology on the improvement of MBA. The paper discusses the various algorithms and data mining techniques used in MBA and their advantages and disadvantages. Additionally, it analyzes the importance of advertisement in MBA, its impact on consumer behavior, and the role of technology in enhancing MBA. The paper concludes by highlighting the potential of technology in revolutionizing the MBA field, providing more accurate and efficient results, and ultimately improving business outcomes.
Corporate Social Responsibility in Post COVID-19 Period
Authors: Dandwani Deepali , Kumar Hemant
Published: February 2023

The paper offers some initial examination on how Covid-19 pandemic has influenced the developments of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). The researcher argues that Covid-19 pandemic offers a great opportunity for businesses to shift towards more genuine and authentic CSR and contribute to address urgent global social and environmental challenges. The research study focuses on post COVID impact on CSR by the selected iron and steel industry to the societal development. For the study nine companies were selected namely, Godawari Power & Ispat Ltd., Jindal Power and Steel Limited, Hira Steel Limited, Jayaswal Neco Industries Limited, Shri Bajrang Power, and Ispat Limited, Prakash Industries Limited, Real Ispat, Sarda Energy & Minerals Limited, and Shivalay Ispat and Power Private Limited. The study also includes post COVID impact on CSR in Indian context. The study helps one identify some potentially fruitful research ideas. In terms of CSR, this paper encompasses its impact on CSR opportunities, trends, and consumer ethical decision making.
The Role of Surgery in the Palliative Care of Cancer: A Retrospective Analysis of 22 years
Authors: J Spiliotis
Published: February 2023

Aim: Surgical procedures in palliative care are common, however the indications, risks and outcomes are not well described. We present a retrospective review of the management of cancer patients. Material and Methods: During the period 2000-2022, 11.700 of cancer cases (abdominal, gynecological, urological and breast) were recorded in our registries and are analyzed. Group A: All 6000 patients (51,3%) included in this group had a therapeutic intent in their management which include surgical procedures ± neoadjuvant and systemic chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Group B: Palliative approach was applied in 2650 cases (22,6%) with both surgical and medical
management being performed. Medical management consists of systemic chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Surgical procedures for palliation, include resections, reconstructions, ostomies, functional repairs, tube drainage and biopsies.
Group C: Best supportive care was applied in 3050 cases (26,1%) which includes nutritional management with home parenteral or enteral nutrition, pain management, physical and respiratory physiotherapy, and fistulas or ulcers management.
Primary end points include survival advantages while Quality of Life (QOL) was set as a
secondary benefit. The risk of morbidity and treatment related mortality are also calculated between the different groups. Results: A median follow up of 80 months was observed. The median O.S. for group A was 44,4 ± 16,3 months and for palliative care group (B) was 26,3+11,7 m (p<0,01). On the other hand, the median O.S. for the group C (Best supportive care) was 8,7 ± 5,2 m. More specifically the group of patients with peritoneal metastasis which include 5200 patients (44,5%) of the total cancer patients was subdivided in 4 subgroups. The role of palliative surgery with or without systemic or neoadjuvant chemotherapy, offer a better O.S. when compared with only systemic
chemotherapy (13,4 ± 7,5 m vs 71 ± 4,3 m) with acceptable morbidity and mortality rates. Conclusion: In conclusion, the need for holistic palliative care in cases of incurable malignancy is not entirely clear how it is best to integrate into palliative surgical principles. The essential roles of surgical palliation are, initial evaluation of the disease, local control, control of discharge or hemorrhage, control of pain and reconstruction and rehabilitation
Designing line transect surveys for complex survey regions
Authors: Thomas Len , Williams Rob , Sandilands Doug
Published: February 2023

Line transect surveys are widely used to estimate the density and/or size of cetacean populations. Good survey design is essential for obtaining reliable results using standard (design-based) analysis methods. Even for more complex (model-based) analysis methods, a good survey design is valuable. A ‘good’ design is one (a) that employs randomisation in laying out transects; (b) that is stratified if density is known to vary on a large scale; (c) where each location within a stratum has an equal probability of being surveyed (uniform coverage probability); (d) that produces an even distribution of transects throughout each stratum (e.g. systematic random designs); (e) that produces at least 10-20 transects per stratum; (f) that, given the previous points, gives maximum efficiency per unit effort – for example by minimising time spent travelling between survey lines (off-effort time). We discuss strategies for creating good designs given the constraints inherent in many shipboard surveys of cetaceans: severely limited ship time and complex topography. We advocate the use of computer software, such as the program Distance, to create designs and compare their properties using simulation. We provide a link between the concepts and their implementation through a concrete example of survey design: a multi-species survey of cetaceans in coastal British Columbia. The design uses an equally spaced zig-zag configuration of transects in more open strata combined with sub-stratification to minimise off-effort time. In the highly convex inshore stratum we develop a systematic cluster sampling algorithm, and within the selected clusters use a systematic parallel line layout to ensure equal coverage probability in the long, narrow fjords. To aid those wishing to learn automated design methods, we provide Distance project files online.
Distribution and habitat use patterns of southern right whales, Eubalaena australis, off Uruguay
Authors: Costa Paula , Piedra Mariana , Franco Paula , Paez Enrique
Published: February 2023

Aerial surveys and behavioural observations from land were conducted 2001-03, between July and November, to evaluate the status and habitat use patterns of the southern right whale (Eubalaena australis) along 220km of the Uruguayan Atlantic coast. Photo-identification was carried out only during the aerial surveys, and group composition as well as spatial and temporal distribution was studied. For the analysis of distribution, the area was divided into four zones. Behaviour was studied from nine fixed points along the coast, analysing the relative frequency of three states (interacting, travelling and resting) and five events (flipper, spy hopping, tail-up, belly-up and flipper slap). Most individuals (90%) were seen from August to October (H=16.446, p=0.003) and there was no significant difference in sightings between the four zones (H=5.11, p=0.163). In 80 sightings, 174 individuals were observed, of which 8% (n=14) were cow-calf pairs and 92% (n=160) were unaccompanied whales (whales without calf). Out of these, 76.9% (n=123) were found in groups that ranged 2-13 individuals (mean=3.4; SD=2.7) and the rest (23.1%; n=37) were solitary. Sixty individuals were identified, one of which was re-identified within a season. Focal sampling on unaccompanied whales took place on ninety-three occasions; 64 on groups and 29 on solitary individuals. For groups, the most frequent behavioural state was interaction (57.8%), and all events were observed, spy hopping being the most frequent. Given the high proportion of unaccompanied whales and interacting groups recorded, Uruguay is thought to be an important social area for the species, where behaviour similar to those previously described as courtship and mating were observed. The dynamics of the different categories of individuals off the Uruguayan coast is discussed and investigation priorities are suggested.
Cetacean diversity around the Mozambique Channel island of Mayotte (Comoros archipelago)
Authors: Kiszka Jeremy , Ersts Peter J. , Ridoux Vincent
Published: February 2023

The Indian Ocean was designated as a whale sanctuary in 1979. While cetacean research has been conducted throughout the sanctuary, few studies have been conducted to assess the diversity, distribution and abundance of cetaceans inhabiting the waters surrounding the islands in the northern Mozambique Channel. In order to contribute to management and conservation efforts in this area, a series of small boatbased surveys were undertaken around the island of Mayotte from July 2004 to August 2005 to assess the diversity of cetaceans in the lagoon and surrounding waters, i.e. external barrier reef slope, insular slope (200-1,000m) and oceanic (>1,000m) waters. During this period, more than 284 hours were spent at sea on-effort and 17 cetacean species were recorded around Mayotte (n=286 sightings). One mysticete (1 Balaenopterid) and sixteen odontocetes (1 Kogid, 1 Physeterid, 13 Delphinids and 2 Ziphiids) were observed: spinner dolphin, n=118; pantropical spotted dolphin, n=61; Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin, n=44; humpback whale, n=37; melon-headed whale, n=5; Blainville’s beaked whale, n=4; Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin, n=4; common bottlenose dolphin, n=2; Risso’s dolphin, n=2; false killer whale, n=2; dwarf sperm whale, n=2; sperm whale, n=1; pygmy killer whale, n=1; short-finned pilot whale, n=1; Fraser’s dolphin, n=1; and Longman’s beaked whale, n=1. In addition to these 17 species recorded during dedicated surveys, two other cetacean species were observed opportunistically and subsequently identified as the Ginkgo-toothed beaked whale and the blue whale. The relatively large diversity of cetaceans around Mayotte is attributed to the wide range of marine habitats, such as coastal, reef-associated and oceanic, within close proximity to one another.
Geographical variations in the external body proportions of Baird’s beaked whales (Berardius bairdii) off Japan
Authors: Kishiro Toshiya
Published: February 2023

The use of morphometrics in stock identification studies for cetaceans has been widely employed. In this study, 14 measurements of external body proportions of 172 Baird’s beaked whales caught by small-type whaling operations off the Pacific coast of Japan, the Sea of Japan and the Sea of Okhotsk from 1988 to 2004 were examined using canonical discriminant analysis (CANDISC) and ANCOVA with body length as a covariate. The canonical variates obtained from the CANDISC could discriminate between whales from the Pacific coast and the Sea of Japan for both males and females, although some overlap was observed. The flipper size (maximum width and straight length) of the Pacific coast whales was significantly larger (3.9-8.3%) than that of the Sea of Japan whales. The canonical variates of the Sea of Okhotsk whales were located in the middle area between the Pacific coast and the Sea of Japan and a significant difference was not observed, however the Sea of Okhotsk samples consisted of data measured by several researchers and so a sampling error may have been introduced. The morphological differences observed between the Pacific coast and the Sea of Japan whales suggest different stocks occur in these two waters.