bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Effect of Board Size and Board Meeting Frequency on Environmental Disclosure of Listed Manufacturing Firms in Nigeria
Authors: Ladini Mark Juliana , ORBUNDE Associate Professor Bemshima , Kayode Dr. Daniel Emmanuel
Published: January 2024

In contemporary times the environment is more threatened now than ever before as evidenced by increased pollution, emission, degradation, deforestation, and other climate change effects leading to high mortality rate as a relation of deadly diseases across the globe. There fore the study examined effect of board size and board meeting frequency on environmental disclosure of listed manufacturing firms in Nigeria covering the period of ten (10) year 2013-2022. The study adopted ex-post facto research design and secondary data was used for analysis which was obtained from Nigerian Exchange Group. Panel regression analysis technique was used to analyse the research data. The result showed that board size has a positive and significant effect on environmental disclosure of manufacturing firms in Nigeria while board meeting frequency has a negative significant effect on environmental disclosure of manufacturing firm in Nigeria. The study therefore concludes that board size and board meeting frequency has significant effect on environmental disclosure of manufacturing firm in Nigeria. The study recommend that management of manufacturing firm maintain the maximum number of directors that a company can have on its board which will not decline the extent of voluntary and transparent environmental disclosure. These bodies should equally ensure that the maximum number to establish should capture the necessary expertise needed for the effective and efficient running of the business because of the positive effect.
DESAFIOS PARA A EDUCAÇÃO DE SURDOS EM ESCOLA PÚBLICA DO DISTRITO FEDERAL: UM ESTUDO NA ESCOLA PÚBLICA DA ASA SUL
Authors: Teixeira Maciel Jefferson
Published: January 2024

Este estudo tem como objetivo analisar e compreender o processo da Educação Inclusiva nas Escolas Públicas do Distrito Federal e os principais desafios enfrentados por alunos com déficit auditivo e seus professores, as leis que garantem sua inclusão na sociedade escolar sem discriminação e, sobretudo, que garantam uma educação de qualidade. Uma vez que a comunicação com as pessoas surdas deve se dar efetivamente por meio da Linguagem Brasileira de Sinais – LIBRAS. Neste sentido, foi levantado o processo histórico da legislação vigente no Brasil e a legislação distrital, para melhor retratar a realidade da educação inclusiva no Distrito Federal e, particularmente, compreender o que de fato acontece nas escolas públicas. Tendo como ponto focal o estudo de caso de uma escola pública do Distrito Federal. Portanto, foi necessário conhecer a realidade do cotidiano dos alunos com deficiência auditiva e levantar informações sobre os principais desafios enfrentados por eles e pelos professores que os ensinam. Neste sentido, foram realizadas entrevistas para se ter mais esclarecimentos sobre a rotina diária de cada um deles: gestores, professores, servidores, alunos, pais e profissionais da educação que atuam nos serviços auxiliares aos professores, pais e alunos.
CARTAS À MATEMÁTICA: OS ENSINAMENTOS DO MESTRE DE SAMOS
Authors: Da Silva Leão Weliton
Published: January 2024

O presente artigo busca retratar os ensinamentos de Pitágoras de Samos, por meio dos versos de ouro, os ditos versos áureos de Pitágoras. Os estudos e discussões, aqui apresentados, têm caráter bibliográfico, inferindo as literaturas numa harmoniosa relação de construção de ideias e reflexões metafísicas frente ao Arché para Pitágoras. Os resultados descrevem uma análise dos versos dourados discutidos como princípios fundamentais da Escola Pitagórica, num panorama onde as ideias emergem do altar da sabedoria, lapidado por tão belos e atemporais ensinamentos. Neste cenário, aporta-se algo que considero importante: a relação entre os seres humanos na busca pela Sabedoria, a busca por um princípio gerador do universo e o nascimento de uma bela senhora chamada Matemática.
ANÁLISE DAS CARACTERÍSTICAS DA PAISAGEM COMO FERRAMENTA PARA AUXILIAR NO PLANEJAMENTO E GESTÃO AMBIENTAL DA MICROBACIA DO RIO CORUJA, AMAZÔNIA OCIDENTAL, BRASIL
Authors: Silva Marques Santana Eliomar , Fernando Maia de Souza Emanuel , Ferreira Elvino , Adilson dos Santos Hara Francisco , Ânderson Fulan João , Batista Belarmino Rodrigues João , Cleiton Schmidt Cavalheiro Wanderson , Reinaldo Fernandes dos Santos Junior Nilson , Marcelo Silva do Nascimento João , Vendruscolo Jhony
Published: January 2024

As informações referentes às características da paisagem nas microbacias hidrográficas são essenciais para a identificação de regiões com potencial agropecuário e com fragilidade ambiental e, consequentemente, para auxiliar no planejamento do uso e ocupação da terra e na gestão dos recursos naturais. O objetivo deste estudo foi avaliar as características hidrogeomorfométricas e a dinâmica da cobertura do solo na microbacia do rio Coruja por meio de geotecnologias e equações. A microbacia tem área de 11,37 km2, perímetro de 22,07 km, forma alongada, altitudes entre 210 e 284 m, predominância dos relevos suave ondulado e plano, rede de drenagem de 9,81 km, padrão de drenagem dendrítico, hierarquia fluvial de 4ª ordem, média densidade de nascentes (2,64 nascentes km-2), média densidade de drenagem (0,86 km km-2), canal principal muito reto, coeficiente de manutenção de 1.159,00 m2 m-1 e tempo de concentração de 1,77 h. No período de 1984 a 2021 ocorreu a redução da área de floresta nativa e o aumento da área de agropecuária, na microbacia (8,19 para 0,79 km2; 3,18 para 10,55 km2) e na zona ripária (0,47 para 0,23 km2; 0,15 para 0,37 km2). No último ano (2021) apenas 6,95% da área total estava coberta com floresta nativa na microbacia, e 37,10% da área total na zona ripária. A microbacia do rio Coruja tem potencial agropecuário, contudo, existem atividades agropecuárias em regiões de elevada vulnerabilidade ambiental, indicando comprometimento do desenvolvimento sustentável da região.
ПЛАСТИЧЕСКИЕ ТРЕНИНГИ ДЛЯ ПРОФЕССИОНАЛЬНЫХ АКТЕРОВ В ТЕАТРАХ КАЗАХСТАНА
Authors: Ембергенова Альфия
Published: January 2024

Профессиональное дополнительное образование важно в любой сфере. Оно помогает профессионально расти, быть в курсе актуальных трендов, тем самым развивать компанию. К сожалению, в Казахстанском театральном искусстве не проводятся лаборатории, резиденции, школы для действующих актеров, как это принято в зарубежных странах. Только маленькая доля театров проводит образовательные мероприятия для своих артистов, приглашая мастеров из других городов и стран. 

Современное театральное искусство ставит новые задачи перед режиссёрами, актерами и театрами в целом. Спектакли приобретают визуальный, экспериментальный, перформативный формат. Пластическое решение сцен стало широко применяемым решением режиссёров в Казахстане. Однако профессиональная подготовка актеров не всегда может соответствовать ожиданиям режиссёра, что сказывается на итоговом результате.

Данное исследование основано на личном опыте автора, который проводил тренинги по пластике для профессиональных актеров. В основу статьи легли результаты тренингов, проведенных в разные годы в период с 2016 года по 2022 год в Казахском Государственном Академическом театре для детей и юношества имени Г. Мусрепова, Туркестанском музыкально-драматическом театре, Корейском Государственном театре, Кызылординском музыкально-драматическом театре им. Н. Бекежанова. Программу тренингов составил опыт автора, полученный за время обучения и стажировок в Dell’Arte International School of Physical theatre в США, Paris Summer Academy во Франции, Janacek Academy of Music and Performing arts (JAMU)в Чешской Республике, Gecko physical theatre company в Великобритании, проектах СТД РФ в России. Статья является теоретическим осмыслением практического опыта. Автор поднимает вопрос важности дополнительного послевузовского образования для профессиональных актёров.
KAZAKH PRIMA-KOBYZ – YESTERDAY, TODAY, TOMORROW
Authors: Junussova Balzhan , Utegalieva Saule
Published: January 2024

The article is devoted to a modernized Kazakh ethnic musical instrument called prima-kobyz, which was reconstructed in the style of the European string-bowed violin instrument. This type of bowed chordophone was created in the 1930s and was generated by the new stage in the development of the musical culture of Kazakhstan and according to the other tasks set for the country, including the creation of a modern orchestra of Kazakh folk instruments. Later, the prima-kobyz became an actively developed solo instrument, allowing the performers to present a wide range of works by Kazakh, Russian, and foreign composers to the public.
Being under reconstruction, all the musical instruments required refinement and improvement of several characteristics at all times. Prima-kobyz has gone a long way in improving its sound qualities and morphological characteristics.
Even though the instrument is in high demand and growing in interest, artisans are still attempting to modernize it. Consequently, the issues of its reconstruction remain relevant and deserve special attention and analysis. In addition, this issue has yet to be reflected in up-to-date ethnomusicology and needs to be studied more.
The state-of-the-art innovative invention - electrokobyz, is considered within the framework of the presented work. Indeed, it has become a factor popularizing prima-kobyz and a new musical instrument that fits perfectly into the creative space of not only Kazakhstan but also the entire Central Asian region.
Being a performer on a modern four-string acoustic prima-kobyz, the author writing the article resorts to the method of interviewing prima-kobyz masters in the process of implementing the study as well as other performers on such instrument, including the only performer on an electro-kobyz. The method of collecting and analyzing the received information was also applied.
TRENDS IN EARLY SCIENCE EDUCATION
Authors: Makarskaitė-Petkevičienė Rita
Published: January 2024

The journal's introductory article (editorial) discusses current trends in science education. Inquiry-based learning, STEAM and project-based activities remain relevant to science education. In the process of inquiry-based learning, the formulation of a question, which determines the hypothesis, the design of the research model, and the search for an answer, rather than the immediate finding of an answer, is becoming increasingly important. A distinctive feature of learning by inquiry is the involvement of the students, which is not just about memorising facts or knowledge, but about deeply understanding what is being explored by delving into the unknown.
It discusses the use of technology, the importance of the principle of visuality in science education, and the emerging need to learn science not only in the classroom, but also increasingly in natural educational environments. This is also useful in exposing topics related to sustainability.
As in pre-primary education, the science curriculum in primary school develops seven competences, but there are six areas of achievement rather than three: knowledge of the nature and development of science, science communication, science exploration, knowledge of natural objects and phenomena, problem-solving and reflection, and the harmony between people and the environment.
Keywords: inquiry-based learning, primary school, science curriculum, science education, visuality in science education
PAPEL DE LA CONTABILIDAD Y LA AUDITORÍA FORENSE EN EL SISTEMA PENAL ACUSATORIO EN LA REPÚBLICA DE PANAMÁ
Authors: Burton Mauricio , Concepción Sosa Marta
Published: January 2024

El Sistema Penal Acusatorio que  rige en Panamá desde septiembre de 2011 trajo nuevos retos para los profesionales de la Contabilidad, muy en especial para aquellos que se dedican a la auditoría forense y al peritaje contable, siendo uno de esos retos la modalidad de la oralidad que rige el Sistema Penal Acusatorio. La Contabilidad siempre ha sido un elemento importante para la justicia puesto que por medio de los informes presentados permite a la fiscalía tener elementos que le ayuden en sus investigaciones y por medio de la intervención oral realizada por los profesionales contables permite a los jueces aclarar conceptos para determinar la culpabilidad o no de un acusado. Por lo antes expuesto es importante que el auditor o contador conozca la importancia de su rol en el Sistema Penal Acusatorio con el objetivo de mejorar su desempeño y aportar con su trabajo a la justicia.
Creación de un Modelo Matemático para Perfeccionar la Dinámica de los Barcos, en la Industria Naval, en el 2023
Authors: Villarreal Cisneros Jorge Antonio
Published: January 2024

La dinámica que presenta los barcos se perfeccionó, por medio de la mecánica analítica, el cual determina la naturaleza real de los navíos.  El objetivo de este proyecto de investigación es construir un modelo de barco mediante las ecuaciones de Euler-Lagrange y no por el método clásico de Newton. La importancia de construir un modelo de barco basado en estas ecuaciones, es que permite tener un barco más resistente a las perturbaciones.

La intención de proponer este modelo matemático permitirá entender, no solo la mecánica del barco, sino también establecer su eficiencia.  La metodología empleada es de enfoque cuantitativo, con un nivel de investigación aplicativo, debido a que se construyó un modelo matemático del barco basado en el principio de mínima acción de Hamilton para obtener las ecuaciones de movimiento. Además, se empleó el software Matlab para simula la cinemática y dinámica del barco diseñado a partir del modelo matemático empleado.  El resultado que se obtuvo demuestra que el modelo matemático utilizado es adecuado para comprender la cinemática y dinámica de los barcos.
Revolución de la IA
Authors: Chen Cheng Carlos , Chung Eduardo , Correa Noriel , Martínez Soto Adam ́s , Chen Cheng Alexis
Published: January 2024

El auge y desarrollo de la Inteligencia Artificial (IA) ha trascendido más allá de las simples máquinas y algoritmos, afectando disciplinas tan fundamentales como la física conceptual. Desde sus inicios en la conferencia de Dartmouth hasta su omnipresencia actual, la IA ha demostrado ser una herramienta valiosa en campos multidisciplinarios, ampliando horizontes y abriendo nuevas vías de investigación y comprensión (Smith & Pérez, 2018). A través de un recorrido por la historia de la IA y la evolución de la física conceptual, este artículo explora cómo la integración de estas dos disciplinas ha conducido a cambios fundamentales en nuestra comprensión del universo. Ejemplos significativos, como la utilización de IA en investigaciones y experimentos físicos, demuestran su papel crucial en la evolución de la física (Ramírez & López, 2020). Además, las innovaciones tecnológicas específicas en IA han propulsado investigaciones en física, mostrando un panorama prometedor para futuros avances. Sin embargo, no está exento de desafíos y limitaciones, ya que la complejidad de los fenómenos físicos presenta obstáculos para la IA. A través de casos de estudio, se ilustra cómo la IA ha sido instrumental en descubrimientos y teorías revolucionarias en física conceptual. Finalmente, se abordan las consideraciones éticas y sociales, reflexionando sobre las ramificaciones de esta integración y su impacto en la sociedad (Torres & Gómez, 2019). En resumen, la revolución de la IA en la física conceptual no solo ha enriquecido nuestra comprensión del mundo, sino que también plantea preguntas esenciales sobre el papel de la tecnología en la ciencia y su interacción con la sociedad.
Reler Marcel Mauss: notas sobre o autor, professor e militante
Authors: Ferreira Vinicius Kauê
Published: January 2024

A história da antropologia e da sociologia acordou a Marcel Mauss a posição de um cânone paradoxal. Por um lado, é indiscutível a centralidade de sua figura para a constituição teórica e a identidade da disciplina, sendo ele um dos nossos mais citados, respeitados e romantizados autores. Por outro lado, nossa compreensão sobre Mauss pode ser excessivamente atrelada à figura de Émile Durkheim, seu tio e primeiro mentor. Neste artigo, partindo de trabalhos biográficos, cartas publicadas, programa de ensino e artigos redigidos por Mauss, revisito essas grandes narrativas de modo a pensar a formação e a trajetória desse intelectual para além da figura de Durkheim e do grupo da Année Sociologique. Exploro sua relação com Paul Fauconnet, Henri Hubert, Sylvain Lévi, Jean Jaurès e Alfred Espinas, assim como seu engajamento com a formação de linhagens e de redes mais amplas. Abordo também controvérsias envolvendo a amplitude de sua obra. Insisto, por fim, nos elementos constitutivos de um pensamento maussiano fundado em suas proposições teóricas e políticas, mas também em sua prática como professor e militante socialista.
Understanding Accreditation Requirement Trends of Teaching Occupation in Occupational Therapy Curricula
Authors: Mernar Thomas J. , Herzberger Leighan
Published: January 2024

Accreditation standards covering occupation have evolved across recent versions of the Accreditation Council for Occupational Therapy Education’s (ACOTE®’s) academic B content standards. Because occupational therapy and occupational therapy assistant academic programs are required to provide evidence of compliance with each B content standard, the level of students’ learning of occupation warrants attention. The revised Bloom’s taxonomy offers a useful framework for examining hierarchical learning action verbs that underpin the degree of complexity of students’ learning of occupation within the ACOTE standards. In this column, we provide an analysis of action verbs across ACOTE standards from 2006 to the most recent, 2018 version. The findings reveal a reduction in accreditation requirement trends covering occupation in both lower and higher order cognitive skill levels as described in the revised Bloom’s taxonomy. We advocate for increased curricular content centered on the foundations of occupation so that students and future practitioners can increasingly apply, analyze, evaluate, and creatively use occupation in the classroom and in practice.
Studying the Specificity of Research Reporting for Ayres Sensory Integration® Interventions in the Published Literature: A Scoping Review
Authors: Choudhury Ishanie , Tarver Talicia , Davis Mary , Reynolds Stacey
Published: January 2024

Importance: A contributing factor to the gap between research publication and clinical implementation is the lack of specificity used when reporting findings.

Objective: This scoping review used the Rehabilitation Treatment Specification System (RTSS) to determine which elements of specificity are most often present and omitted from research using Ayres Sensory Integration® (ASI).

Data Sources: The following databases were searched: PubMed, CINAHL, PsycINFO, Cochrane Library, and ERIC.

Study Selection and Data Collection: Eligible studies used ASI in an outpatient setting with children who had sensory integration or processing difficulties. Studies selected were quantitative (Level 1, 2, 3, or 4), available in full text, peer reviewed, and published in English within the past 20 yr.

Findings: Of the 22 studies that met inclusion criteria, 100% included ingredients (actions of the therapist), 63% included mechanisms of action (reasoning behind these actions), 86% included targets, and 23% described client progression. We also found that 49% of all ingredients were listed in conjunction with a target, 15% were listed in conjunction with a mechanism of action, and 11% were listed in conjunction with both a target and a mechanism of action.

Conclusions and Relevance: Findings indicate that many studies list ingredients but often omit the mechanism of action. This omission makes replication of the intervention increasingly difficult and prevents a deeper understanding of the clinical reasoning process behind the intervention.

Plain-Language Summary: Gaps identified in this scoping review highlight inconsistencies in the reporting of treatment specificity that may affect the replication and translation of Ayres Sensory Integration® (ASI) research into practice.
Transities in kunst, cultuur en politiek
Authors: Ponzanesi Sandra , Thiele Kathrin , Midden Eva , Olivieri Domitilla , Oorschot Trude
Published: January 2024

In deze bundel staat de rol van kunst, cultuur en politiek bij transities en de strijd voor sociale rechtvaardigheid centraal. Soms zijn deze transities traumatische en gewelddadige processen zoals in het geval van Zuid-Afrika na de apartheid. In andere gevallen, zoals in Europa, gaat het om langdurige geschiedenissen die verband hebben met kolonialisme, de holocaust en totalitarisme. De auteurs verkennen intersectionele vraagstukken van transitie en sociale verandering in samenhang met bredere debatten over de rol van democratie, burgerschap en mensenrechten. Ze gaan daarbij een dialoog aan met het werk van feministische wetenschapper Rosemarie Buikema.
Caught in a flash, arrested at a standstill
Authors: Wiese Doro
Published: January 2024

This article seeks to articulate in one image the diverse genocides in German history, an image able to capture the piling wreckages of history in a flash. The point of departure is a multimedia installation by William Kentridge called Black Box (2005), in which he thematizes the Herero and Namaqua genocide during German colonial rule between 1904 and 1908. This research wants to respond to Kentridge’s demand for grief work, and relies on Walter Benjamin’s (1968) vision of history writing and Rosemarie Buikema’s (2020) concept of revolts to seek out theoretical and conceptual possibilities that allow it to posit simultaneously the singularity of the Holocaust, to articulate its deep connections with colonial crimes, and to demand a working through of Germany’s genocidal history.
Digital Afterlife of Industrial Film
Authors: Hoof Florian
Published: January 2024

This chapter looks at films of the German car industry and their reappearance in post-cinematic exhibition spaces as an exemplary case to theorize the “afterlife” of non-theatrical film. It is argued that the circulation of such films within digital cultures can be understood as a relation between the persistence of visual forms and changing modes of perception. This results in a mode of cinematic experience that is structured by “weak dispositives,” as part of the exhibition space as choice architecture. The chapter extends existing mostly historical scholarly work on non-theatrical film to concepts of cinematic experience, digital “nudging” and the politics of digital media distribution.
Cinema-going on the Railway Tracks
Authors: Vasudevan Ravi
Published: January 2024

This chapter seeks to explore the impact of so-called useful cinema as it emerges through processes of transportation, circulation and exhibition, mainly in relation to the railways. This instructional cinema related to agricultural improvement, animal husbandry and public health, and it targeted rural and small-town populations in India from the 1920s. The braiding of media forms and transportation technologies was key to how audiences were invited to position themselves in order to access a wider universe of images, spaces, temporalities, technologies, production practices and commodity life. This film culture was driven by governmental and business enterprise, but also by more dispersed commercial networks in which an avowedly useful object and communication medium segued into a complex film, media and commodity ecology.
“There Is No Life More Reckless and Adventuresome Than That of the Oil Prospector”1
Authors: Peretti Luca
Published: January 2024

This chapter analyses the amateur films shot by the employers of the Italian national oil company ENI in Iran between the end of the 1950s and the beginning of the 1960s. At the centre of geopolitical and economic interests, Iran was one of the sites where the Italian company looked for oil, signing agreements with the local government. Several teams of geologists and geophysics worked there at the time, and together with maps and different tools they also brought amateur cameras that they used to shoot at least eighty short films, now preserved in the company’s archive. The chapter discusses these films and how they came to be, at the intersection of sponsored, amateur, ethnographic, and travel cinema.
Saudi Arabia’s John Ford?
Authors: Stollery Martin
Published: January 2024

The premiere of Desert Venture, a colour film promoting the transformative endeavours of the Arabian-American Oil Company (ARAMCO) in Saudi Arabia, is a prime example of how “ephemeral authorship” can be highly relevant to the study of industrial film. Desert Venture was promoted at its premiere and in other contexts as the work of Robert Yarnall Richie, a photographer and filmmaker with a well-established professional reputation within the oil industry. ARAMCO suggested that Desert Venture was the creative product of a “frontiersman” who exemplified many qualities outlined in Frederick Jackson Turner’s “The Frontier in American History” (1893), and in 1930s “nation-building” Westerns, mirroring the celebration in the film itself of the new American oil frontier in Saudi Arabia.
Creative Films for Creative Corporations
Authors: Cecchi Alessandro
Published: January 2024

The chapter proposes to consider the involvement of Italian avant-garde composers as a relevant feature for the definition of an experimental sub-genre of Italian industrial film of the “golden age,” ranging from the early 1960s, with the peak around 1965, to the early 1970s, when production was limited to sporadic cases. In that period, prestige films produced or commissioned by such Italian companies as Edison, ENI, Fiat, Innocenti, Italsider, and Olivetti offered experimental composers significant income, which explains their frequent collaboration. This implies that such composers were considered as expressive resources in these films. The presence of their music had a direct influence on the reputation of the companies concerned, and hence on the “corporate image.” They contributed with other artistic collaborators to authenticate these films as “avant-garde” productions and provided them with strong musical and sonic impact.
Do You Want to Set the World on Fire? Amplifying Player Agency to Demonstrate Alternatives to the Climate Crisis
Authors: Makai Péter Kristóf
Published: January 2024

This chapter demonstrates that the outsized role of player agency in climate change games is a double-edged sword: on the one hand, it illustrates that human action can have a measurable impact on the Earth’s climatic systems; on the other, it sends the message that individuals are empowered to make systemic changes—a notion swiftly undercut by the messiness of political realities. I argue that computer games are particularly suited to model the climate crisis, particularly the interaction between human and nonhuman elements of the climate system. As a corrective to the virtual agency afforded by these simulations, I discuss how, even with inflated player agency, the insights generated by these games are inflected by their difficulty level.
Healing a Life out of Balance: Slowness and Ecosophy in Death Stranding
Authors: Navarro-Remesal Víctor , Torres Mateo Terrasa
Published: January 2024

In this chapter, we analyze Death Stranding (Kojima Productions 2019) through the concepts of collapse, slow gaming, and ecosophy, in particular, Raimon Panikkar’s ecosophical metaphor of the three bodies (self, humanity, Earth). Death Stranding is an ecodystopian AAA game that presents a metaphysical collapse that has affected human existence, society, and the landscape. Unlike similar ecodystopias, the game offers a way forward through slowness and regenerative play. We argue that, by encouraging player reflectivity on encompassing myths of neoliberal societies, the themes and mechanics of Death Stranding problematize disconnection, isolation, and human destruction of the environment, and also highlight a potential healing by working on the interdependences of these ecosophical bodies.
Ecology in the Postapocalypse: Regenerative Play in the Metro Series and the Critical Dystopia
Authors: Farca Gerald
Published: January 2024

This chapter performs an ecocritical reading of the Metro games (4A Games 2010–2019), their themes and development as a series, as well as their narrative, affective, and aesthetic strategies, focusing specifically on the series’ last installment, Metro Exodus (2019). The chapter argues that the gameplay offered by the Metro games, which relates a story about the renewal and rebirth of society from a nuclear wasteland, is regenerative on many levels. Metro Exodus is a playable critical dystopia in that it holds out the potential of hope and regeneration in the face of violence and societal collapse.
There Is No Planet B: A Milieu-Specific Analysis of Outer Wilds’ Unstable Spaces
Authors: Woolbright Lauren
Published: January 2024

Media can make hostile environments such as outer space imaginatively accessible. Through video games players can feel transported and activated, entangled with game environments in ways that have the power to shape how audiences feel about environmental loss. Using Melody Jue’s method of milieu-specific analysis and Karen Barad’s agential realism, this chapter illustrates how the unfettered experience of exploring the nonlinear, mystery game Outer Wilds creates an opportunity for players to reflect on the dubious ethics of careless technological innovation. If we can empathize with a people’s grief at the loss of their worlds and, instead of succumbing to fear, collaborate to enact solutions, we can save our world—and each other.
The Underrealized Ecocritical Potential of ABZÛ
Authors: Trepanier-Jobin Gabrielle , Charre-Tchang Maeva , Largeaud-Ortega Sylvie
Published: January 2024

In recent years, diving ecogames have become an increasingly popular video game subgenre that seems to hold out the promise of raising awareness about environmental issues. In this chapter, a content analysis of the diving video game ABZU highlights its ecocritical potential despite its hints of speciesism, orientalism, and techno-solutionism. A reception study of the game, based on 2,421 comments published on fourteen platforms, however, shows that only fifty-six players mention its environmentalist message. Nevertheless, most of these commenters do pick up on the ecocritical potential of ABZU, sharing their thoughts with other players. Online forums therefore appear as discussion spaces where collective ecological awareness can develop.
Mutate or Die: Neo-Lamarckian Ecogames and Responsible Evolution
Authors: Milburn Colin
Published: January 2024

This chapter examines a set of recent video games that feature nonhuman protagonists living in toxic, environmentally damaged worlds, and who must mutate to survive. Drawing from a long genealogy of science fiction narratives, games such as Maneater (Blindside Interactive/Tripwire Interactive 2020), Evolve (Turtle Rock Studios 2015), and Biomutant (Experiment 101 2021) turn mutagenesis into a gameplay mechanism and represent neo-Lamarckian evolutionary processes as models or metaphors for responsible environmental governance.
Material Infrastructures of Play: How the Games Industry Reimagines Itself in the Face of Climate Crisis
Authors: Fizek Sonia
Published: January 2024

This chapter is an exploration of the materiality of digital play. I want to discuss how it relates to environmental sustainability and how the video game industry addresses the issue. The chapter will provide a hermeneutic analysis of selected parts of the Green Games Guide in a wider ecocritical media context. One of the most crucial questions this chapter wants to address is how the industry responds to the climate crisis and how to read this response vis-a-vis the neoliberal culture of exponential growth, optimization, and planned hardware obsolescence. In other words, are green game-making commitments and self-regulatory initiatives rhetorical PR stunts or could they be read as catalysts of a deeper cultural and political shift within the games industry?
Blooming Fertility: Henrietta Maria and the Power of Plants as Iconography and Physic
Authors: Griffey Erin
Published: January 2024

For Queen Henrietta Maria, in iconography and physic, plants were the life force of maternity, the root of beauty, the source of cleanliness, and the symbolic embodiment of state and marriage. While this is not unique, the role of plants in her iconography, personal care, and domestic recipes demonstrate how they materialised her health and promoted her fecundity as a bride, wife, and widow. Drawing on artworks commemorating the queen, Theodore de Mayerne’s medical case notes on the queen, and The Queens Closet Opened, this chapter argues that plants, in life and in art, presented and maintained Henrietta Maria’s blooming fertility. Botanic material traversed political agendas, dynastic imperatives, social values, medical theories, textual traditions, and cultural conventions.
‘Fairy Bowers’ and ‘Precious Flowers’ in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Elizabethan Court Culture
Authors: Lander Johnson Bonnie
Published: January 2024

This chapter reads the queenly bower of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream alongside Elizabeth I’s lifelong interest in floral imagery and in pansies in particular. It situates Titania’s appetite for flowers, babies, and treasures within two areas of Elizabethan court culture: the emergence of English printed herbals and Anglo-Spanish naval conflicts over access to treasured flowers, spices and cloth dyes, especially cochineal.
Painted Flowers in Later Seventeenth-Century English Portraits
Authors: Dethloff Diana
Published: January 2024

In many later seventeenth-century English portraits female sitters are often placed beside flowers arranged in vases or urns, holding blooms in their laps, threading floral garlands or surrounded by blossoms in idealised landscape settings. But who actually painted these flowers, in some cases beautifully and naturalistically rendered? How was their particular expertise regarded by contemporaries? What light might these works shed on the likely collaboration between the ‘painter of faces,’ the portraitist, and the specialist flower painter, brought in to give greater horticultural specificity and variety? And given the wide interest in horticulture, were there any non-professional flower painters in England during this period? With reference to specific examples of portraits of women, this chapter seeks to address these questions.
Shuilu Rites and the Baodingshan Rock Carvings of Dazu
Authors: Chong 侯沖 HOU , Chao Shin-yi , Ho Eunice
Published: January 2024

The rock carvings at Baodingshan 寶頂山 (Treasure Summit Mountain), Dazu, Chongqing Municipality, represent the high achievement of Chinese Buddhist rock art. Scholars have offered various readings of the site’s design but many questions remain. This article suggests that the Baodingshan site was created, and designed accordingly, to serve as a venue for holding shuilu or the Buddhist rites of deliverance of creatures of water and land. The article first introduces the early states (i.e., the Song times) of the Shuilu rites which are very different from the contemporary version. The next section analyzes three elements at the Baodingshan site that indicate the site to be a ritual space for shuilu: Yuwen Qi’s 宇文屺 verse carved at the foothill of the site; the shared compositional characters of the carvings; and, the gāthā (jie 偈) of jiashi re tielun 假使熱鐵輪.

A new frontier for the study of Buddhist rituals in medieval China can be opened by closely reading the rock carvings at Buddhist sites within the framework of shuilu ritual.
The Worship of the Ten Kings of Purgatory during the Ming-Qing Period
Authors: Chien-chuan 王見川 WANG , Chao Shin-yi , Cao Xinyi , Ho Eunice
Published: January 2024

This essay investigates the cult of the Ten Kings who are believed to be infernal rulers administering postmortem justice. The Ten Kings’ worship, originating in Buddhist monasticism, reconfigured the earlier Chinese underworld landscape that was shaped in medieval liturgical Daoism. Meanwhile, the worship itself also underwent Sinicization along with localization. In the fifteenth century, thanks to the legend of Li Qing 李清 returning from the dead, the practice of observing the Ten Kings’ birthdays took shape. The Li Qi legend was incorporated into various genres such as ritual manuals, piety books, and precious scrolls (baojuan) with various degrees of modification. Buddhist monasteries, in the meantime, continued to be the hub of producing and distributing liturgical manuals venerating the Ten King through the Qing dynasty.
Development of Comics Based on the Local Wisdom North Sumatra Culture in the Mathematics Subject Geometry Material in Elementary School
Authors: Kartika Indah Ayu , Lestari Nila
Published: January 2024

This research addresses the inadequacy of existing teaching materials in elementary school mathematics, particularly in Medan, Indonesia, by proposing the development of a Comic-Based Local Wisdom of North Sumatra Media for Geometry Learning in Grade 5. Current materials lack a focus on local wisdom and fail to align with the diverse cultural context. The research utilizes a modified 5D model, involving (1) Define, (2) Design, (3) Development, (4) Effectiveness Testing, and (5) Dissemination. The study emphasizes the importance of incorporating local traditions and cultural elements into teaching materials to enhance students' interest and understanding. The comic-based media integrates geometry concepts with North Sumatran culture, offering an alternative and engaging learning tool. The validation process involves content experts, media experts, and learning experts, all of whom declare the developed media highly suitable for instructional use. The locally-based wisdom comic media proves effective in making the learning process more engaging and facilitating students' comprehension, contributing to the improvement of mathematics education in elementary schools.
Large contribution of soil N2O emission to the global warming potential of a large-scale oil palm plantation despite changing from conventional to reduced management practices
Authors: Chen Guantao , Veldkamp Edzo , Damris Muhammad , Irawan Bambang , Tjoa Aiyen , Corre Marife D.
Published: January 2024

Abstract. Conventional management of oil palm plantations, involving high fertilization rate and herbicide application, results in high yield but with large soil greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This study aimed to assess a practical alternative to conventional management, namely reduced fertilization with mechanical weeding, to decrease soil GHG emissions without sacrificing production. We established a full factorial experiment with two fertilization rates (conventional and reduced fertilization, equal to nutrients exported via fruit harvest) and two weeding methods (herbicide and mechanical), each with four replicate plots, since 2016 in a ≥ 15-year-old, large-scale oil palm plantation in Indonesia. Soil CO2, N2O, and CH4 fluxes were measured during 2019–2020, and yield was measured during 2017–2020. Fresh fruit yield (30 ± 1 Mgha-1yr-1) and soil GHG fluxes did not differ among treatments (P≥ 0.11), implying legacy effects of over a decade of conventional management prior to the start of the experiment. Annual soil GHG fluxes were 5.5 ± 0.2 Mg CO2-C ha−1 yr−1, 3.6 ± 0.7 kg N2O-N ha−1 yr−1, and −1.5 ± 0.1 kg CH4-C ha−1 yr−1 across treatments. The palm circle, where fertilizers are commonly applied, covered 18 % of the plantation area but accounted for 79 % of soil N2O emission. The net primary production of this oil palm plantation was 17 150 ± 260 kgCha-1yr-1, but 62 % of this was removed by fruit harvest. The global warming potential of this planation was 3010 ± 750 kgCO2eqha-1yr-1, of which 55 % was contributed by soil N2O emission and only < 2 % offset by the soil CH4 sink.
Tsunami Vulnerability Mapping of Coastal Areas to Confront the Banda Detachment Tsunami (Case Study at Tual City)
Authors: Rikumahu Viona Dika
Published: January 2024

Abstract. Tsunami is a natural disaster that is most feared by humans, especially for people who live in coastal areas that are directly adjacent to seismically active seas in Indonesia. Dullah Island in Tual City is located in a coastal area directly adjacent to the Banda Sea, making this area have a high level of tsunami hazard. The Banda Sea is known as an active sea that emits earthquake energy, both those that do not have the potential to cause a tsunami. The existence of previous research on the run-up height of tsunami waves in Tual City makes it important to study the characteristics of the Tual City area to formulate disaster mitigation-based planning using the GIS (Geographic Information System) based qualitative spatial analysis method with variables of slope, height of the area, distance from the coastline, and land use. The high level of tsunami hazard and extremely high population exposure considering that the majority of the population in the coastal area lives on the coast, it is important to study the characteristics of the region to formulate disaster mitigation-based planning to create a Build Back Better region and community.
Two-year intercomparison of three methods for measuring black carbon concentration at a high-altitude research station in Europe
Authors: Tinorua Sarah , Denjean Cyrielle , Nabat Pierre , Pont Véronique , Arnaud Mathilde , Bourrianne Thierry , Dias Alves Maria , Gardrat Eric
Published: January 2024

Abstract. Black carbon (BC) is one of the most important climate forcer with severe health effects. Large uncertainties in radiative forcing estimation and health impact assessment arise from the fact that there is no standardized method to measure BC mass concentration. This study presents a two-year comparison of three state-of-the-art BC measurement techniques at the high-altitude research station Pic du Midi located in the French Pyrenees at an altitude of 2877 m above sea level. A recently upgraded aethalometer AE33, a thermal-optical analyzer Sunset and a single-particle soot photometer SP2 were deployed to measure simultaneously the mass concentration of equivalent black carbon (MeBC), elemental carbon (MEC) and refractory black carbon (MrBC), respectively. Significant deviations in the response of the instruments were observed. All techniques responded to seasonal variations of the atmospheric changes in BC levels and exhibited good correlation during the whole study period. This indicates that the different instruments quantified the same particle type, despite the fact that they are based on different physical principles. However the slopes and correlation coefficients varied between instrument pairs. The largest biases were observed for the AE33 with MeBC values that were around 2 times greater than MrBC and MEC values. The principal reasons of such large discrepancy was explained by the too low MAC and C values recommended by the AE33 manufacturer and applied to the absorption coefficients measured by the AE33. In addition, the long-range transport of dust particles at PDM in spring caused significant increases in the bias between AE33 and SP2 by up to a factor 8. The Sunset MEC measurements agreed within around 17 % with the SP2 MrBC values. The largest overestimations of MEC were observed when the total carbon concentration were below 25 µgC cm−2 , which is probably linked to the incorrect determination of the OC-EC split point. Another cause of the discrepancy between instruments was found to be the limited detection range of the SP2, which did not allow the total detection of fine rBC particles. The procedure used to estimate the missing mass fraction of rBC not covered by the measurement range of the SP2 was found to be critical. We found that a time-dependent correction based on fitting the observed rBC size distribution with a multimodal lognormal distribution are needed to accurately estimate MrBC over a larger size range.
A decade of marine inorganic carbon chemistry observations in the northern Gulf of Alaska – insights into an environment in transition
Authors: Monacci Natalie M. , Cross Jessica N. , Evans Wiley , Mathis Jeremy T. , Wang Hongjie
Published: January 2024

Abstract. As elsewhere in the global ocean, the Gulf of Alaska is experiencing the rapid onset of ocean acidification (OA) driven by oceanic absorption of anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. In support of OA research and monitoring, we present here a data product of marine inorganic carbon chemistry parameters measured from seawater samples taken during biannual cruises between 2008 and 2017 in the northern Gulf of Alaska. Samples were collected each May and September over the 10 year period using a conductivity, temperature, depth (CTD) profiler coupled with a Niskin bottle rosette at stations including a long-term hydrographic survey transect known as the Gulf of Alaska (GAK) Line. This dataset includes discrete seawater measurements such as dissolved inorganic carbon and total alkalinity, which allows the calculation of other marine carbon parameters, including carbonate mineral saturation states, carbon dioxide (CO2), and pH. Cumulative daily Bakun upwelling indices illustrate the pattern of downwelling in the northern Gulf of Alaska, with a period of relaxation spanning between the May and September cruises. The observed time and space variability impart challenges for disentangling the OA signal despite this dataset spanning a decade. However, this data product greatly enhances our understanding of seasonal and interannual variability in the marine inorganic carbon system parameters. The product can also aid in the ground truthing of biogeochemical models, refining estimates of sea–air CO2 exchange, and determining appropriate CO2 parameter ranges for experiments targeting potentially vulnerable species. Data are available at https://doi.org/10.25921/x9sg-9b08 (Monacci et al., 2023).
Գիրքը Հայաստանի Հանրապետությունում (ազգային մատենագիտություն)
Authors: Arakelyan Narine
Published: January 2024

So we can say: the printed heritage is one of the most important manifestations of civilization. Armenian printing and bibliography have a centuries-old history. State and national bibliography has an important role in the collection, processing and transmission of the printed heritage to the descend-ants in the Republic of Armenia. It also plays a big role in popularizing print culture.
Penguatan Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) Melalui Kegiatan Edukasi Hingga Evaluasi di PT. XYZ
Authors: Amelia Sofianty Ardhia Putri , Jariyah Jariyah
Published: January 2024

XYZ merupakan perusahaan BUMN yang memfokuskan produksinya pada produksi teh. Produk utama teh yang diproduksi adalah teh hitam, teh hijau dan teh putih. Untuk menjalankan produksi dan menjaga kualitas pada produk teh yang dihasilkan, PT. XYZ melaksanakan persyaratan dasar yaitu penerapan Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP). Namun, masalah yang dihadapi adalah ditemukan ketidaksesuaian pada lapangan dengan aspek GMP yang diterapkan. Sehingga hal tersebut mendukung dilakukannya kegiatan ini untuk memberikan edukasi dan evaluasi aspek GMP pada karyawan pabrik PT. XYZ. Kegiatan ini dilakukan melalui pendampingan yang meliputi edukasi, perencanaan, penerapan, serta audit internal GMP. PT. XYZ telah menerapkan beberapa aspek dari GMP diantaranya aspek Pengawasan Proses, Pemeliharaan dan Program Sanitasi, dan Fasilitas Sanitasi. Namun terdapat beberapa aspek yang perlu diperhatikan oleh PT. XYZ diantara aspek Karyawan. Berdasarkan penilaian hasil skoring aspek GMP, pada PT. XYZ mendapatkan skor 78 dari total skor 100, berdasarkan aspek penilaian Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) dalam kategori baik dengan persentase sebesar 78%.