bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Looking for Longitude
Authors: Barrett Katy
Published: May 2023

Why make a joke out of a niche and complex scientific problem? That is the question at the heart of this book, which unearths the rich and surprising history of trying to find longitude at sea in the eighteenth century. Not simply a history on water, this is the story of longitude on paper, of the discussions, satires, diagrams, engravings, novels, plays, poems, and social anxieties that shaped how people understood longitude in William Hogarth’s London. We start from a figure in one of Hogarth’s prints – a lunatic incarcerated in the madhouse of A Rake’s Progress in 1735 – to unpick the visual, mental, and social concerns which entwined around the national project to find a solution to longitude. Why does longitude appear in novels, smutty stories, political critiques, copyright cases, religious tracts and dictionaries as much as in government papers? This sheds new light on the first government scientific funding body – the Board of Longitude – established to administer vast reward money for anyone who found a means of accurately measuring longitude at sea. Meet the cast of characters involved in the search for longitude, from famous novelists and artists to almost unknown pamphleteers and inventors and see how their interactions informed the fate of longitude’s most famous pursuer, the clockmaker John Harrison.
‘We felt like criminals! And we wurnae, we were just fightin’ for wur job’
Authors: Clark Andy
Published: May 2023

This chapter examines the final factory occupation of the period, launched by the predominantly female workforce at the Plessey Capacitors plant in West Lothian. The town of Bathgate was dominated by mining throughout the early 20th century, and its contraction following WW2 caused significant socio-economic problems. However, in the early 1960s, the future of Bathgate was viewed positively, following the opening of a British Motor Company plant, and the inward investment by Plessey. The chapter outlines and examines these processes, and integrates the narratives of workers to understand their perspectives on working at Plessey and the changes in the town at the time. As with Lee and Lovable, the workers were informed that their multinational employer was closing the plant, and they responded by occupying the premises in opposition. The workers were challenged by Plessey in the court and, with advice from sympathetic lawyers, they stunned the country by winning their case and continuing their dispute. The chapter considers how this legal victory is recalled by respondents, before outlining the end of the occupation and their perspectives on the ‘success’ or otherwise of their action.
‘Ye never think that somebody’s gonnae come along and ask ye questions aboot it’
Authors: Clark Andy
Published: May 2023

This chapter considers the way in which deindustrialisation is commemorated and represented, to analyse the impact of this on collective and individual memory. Through assessing the portrayal of deindustrialisation on TV, film, in political discourse, and public memorials, it is clear that the public memory is a masculine one. The popular sites of memory for industry and the impacts of decline overwhelmingly focus on the male worker. Women – such as those who occupied the factories in 1981-82 – are absent. This marginalisation has had significant impacts on the individual memories of my respondents. Firstly, many actively marginalised their involvement in the disputes, and stressed their lack of importance in a historical study of the period. And crucially, despite evidence of connections between the occupations in 1981-82, by the time these interviews were conducted (2014-2016) none of the respondents could remember the simultaneous actions. They cannot recall that there were connections across Scotland’s central-belt, as women workers refused to accept the closure of their workplaces. Due to a masculine-dominated public memory, these connections no longer exist in the memory of the workers, making a crucial contribution to debates around memorialisation and public memory.
Women and Migration in Contemporary Italian Cinema
Authors: Faleschini Lerner Giovanna
Published: May 2023

This book proposes a transnational feminist approach to Italian screen studies, by focusing on screen narratives that center female experiences of migration from the last twenty years. Progressive discourses and images of hospitality and welcome permeate the Italian cinema of migration. Though these discourses aim toward an ethic of unconditional hospitality, as theorized by Jacques Derrida, they come often short in the face of the perceived threats to national identity, class status, or hierarchies of desire, which migrant characters pose to Italian-born protagonists. As postcolonial, feminist, and queer critics have argued, hospitality can thus reinforce power hierarchies and binaries. The book focuses particularly on the gendered dimension of hospitality, and specifically on its connection to female sexuality, the maternal, and domestic labour. Each chapter offers a case study of one specifically gendered aspect of hospitality, through a theoretically informed close reading of a cluster of films. The book closes with a consideration of first- and second-generation migrant directors, wh push the borders of Italian national cinema and expand the Italian film tradition in transnational and global directions, thereby exploring, representing, and constructing new ways of being Italian today. They move beyond the paradigm of hospitality—they are no longer guests but claim ownership of their Italian home, on screen as on the streets of an Italy that can increasingly be only understood within a transnational framework. The ethics of hospitality that has informed the work of Italian filmmakers has given way to a more “anarchic,” creative, and hopeful framework.
Women and the City: Feminist Forms of Hospitality in Marina Spada’s Come l’ombra and Giulia Ciniselli and Anna Bernasconi’s Via Padova : Istruzioni per l’uso
Authors: Faleschini Lerner Giovanna
Published: May 2023

This chapter shows how works by women filmmakers have the potential to offer feminist models of hospitality that challenge the structures of power inherent in traditional host-guest relationship. Marina Spada’s Come l’ombra (2006) and Anna Bernasconi’s Via Padova: Istruzioni per l’uso (2010) in particular are female-centred and share an emphasis on reciprocity and the bonds of friendship between women. In addition, they both explore the city of Milan and its potential as a locus of social experimentation and innovation, a space of welcome and hospitality. Using a feminist framework, this chapter shows how these films foreground collaboration, both as a feminist creative practice and as an ethical stance. They highlight the potential of collaboration between filmmakers, between a documentarist and her subjects, between director and performers, and among all these actors and audiences, as a form of labour that eschews vertical configurations in favour of exchange and collaboration and builds space of hospitality.
No Longer Guests: G2 Filmmakers and Their Stories
Authors: Faleschini Lerner Giovanna
Published: May 2023

This chapter explores the different discourses of presence and belonging that have emerged from first- and second-generation migrant directors, writers, and performers during the last twenty years. It focuses on the shift that these film practitioners have made possible, from a focus on the migrant journey to stories about integration and new Italian identities. These directors experiment with different audiovisual genres, from the drama to the romantic comedy, from documentary film to video art, web and television series. By using these alternative forms, they do not only assert their authority over narratives of displacement, but also push the boundaries of cinematic explorations of migration. Whereas most of the films by Italian-born filmmakers emphasize the experience of the migration journey and arrival, and rarely consider the long-term experiences of those who decide to resettle permanently in Italy, migrant and G2 filmmakers engage with broader issues of integration, cultural hybridity, plurilingual practices in immigrant families and communities, or generational and gender conflicts. The discourse of hospitality that permeates the films of non-migrant filmmakers is rejected in favour of an exploration of new, hybrid forms of identity and belonging. Through their work, G2 filmmakers propose transcultural, translinguistic, and transnational definitions of Italian identity, which disrupt the identitarian hierarchies implicit in the language of hospitality. By visualizing new ways of being Italian, these filmmakers claim for their migrant characters the right to be at home.
Bringing Universal Truths into Dialogue
Authors: Smith Alexis B.
Published: May 2023

Through a comparison of the encyclopedia projects of Leibniz and the early romantic poet and philosopher Novalis, Alexis B. Smith elucidates the continuity of the two thinkers’ overarching principle—that of a pre-established harmony—while distinguishing the aim of their projects. Whereas Leibniz sought to ground a universal language using mathematical principles in order to facilitate the work of Christian missionaries, who were spreading what they thought of as divine truth, Novalis sought access to a universal language of nature so as to subsume artistic and scientific pursuits under what he termed Poesie. Smith highlights entries from Novalis’s notes for Das Allgemeine Brouillon in a reading of Die Lehrlinge zu Sais as a polyphonic or dialogic assemblage, an experiment in the combinatorics of Poesie, in the interest of overcoming linguistic and disciplinary limitations in its quest of an absolute harmony that remains ever incomplete and therefore inexhaustible.
Diffusion and Transnationalism
Authors: Grayson James H.
Published: May 2023

James H. Grayson illustrates how “transnationalism” provides an excellent opportunity to consider the theoretical issues involved in the transmission of culture or aspects of culture across the boundaries of cultural spheres, and within the “internal” boundaries of cultural spheres. He draws on his own theory of “emplantation”, widely used by scholars of religion in East Asia, which provides a model for explaining the process of the diffusion or transmission of culture, specifically the cross-cultural transmission of religion. The transmission of Buddhism from the Indian culture world into the Chinese culture world over a 700-year period from the first to the seventh century is used as a case study to illustrate both the periodisation of the process of cultural transmission and the social, political, and cultural factors which impede or assist in the process of such diffusion.
Translation beyond the Written Word
Authors: Wall Barbara
Published: May 2023

Barbara Wall deals with The Journey to the West, one of the most popular narratives in East Asia. One of the best-known versions of The Journey comes from a Chinese novel, Xiyouji (西遊記‎), written at the end of the sixteenth century. The Journey owes its popularity in large part to the uncountable versions that exist across various times, cultures, and media. Indeed, one of the most popular variations today might be the Japanese adaption Dragonball. This study will focus on a group of often overlooked religiously didactic variations that use The Journey as a missionary medium, including relief images on the pagoda of the Kyŏngch’ŏn Temple from the fourteenth century, wall paintings in the Maitreya Hall of T’ongdo Temple from the eighteenth century, and the lion dance of Pungsan Mask Dance from the twentieth century. This chapter will help students to understand the interwovenness of literature and religion in premodern Korea and to become familiar with the transnational circulation of transmedia storytelling.
Postcolonial Theory in East Asian Studies
Authors: Schneider Julia C.
Published: May 2023

Julia C. Schneider analyses how the concept of colonialism has been used to refer to and analyse the conquest history of the Qing empire in recent decades. She questions whether colonialism, being normativised by an experience that originally assumed a European “centre” that conquers, subjects, and exploits a non-European “periphery”, can be meaningfully transplanted to a non-European historical context, particularly to the transcultural ruling elite of the Qing empire and the people conquered by the Qing. She demonstrates the problems that derive from such a conceptual transfer by examining Qing conquests under the lens of postcolonial theory and of transcultural/transnational understandings of Qing identity.
Multilingualism as a Tool of Resistance against Homogenising National Narratives
Authors: Bachem Nadeschda
Published: May 2023

Nadeschda Bachem shows how Japan’s colonialism affects South Korean identities up to the present. She uses the story “I Love You” (아이러브유, K. Ai rŏbŭ yu, 1962) by South Korean writer Pak Sunnyŏ as a prism to investigate the struggle with a transcultural identity that was forced upon Koreans growing up under Japanese colonial rule before 1945. Bachem reveals how South Koreans who were faced with Japanese colonial propaganda and assimilation strategies in their childhood and youth try to come to terms with their pre-1945 categorisation as inferior citizens of a Japanese colonial empire, trying to reinvent themselves as a nation of the newly founded South Korean state and at the same time manifesting a clear colonial dichotomy of Japanese perpetrators versus Korean victims.
Fanxiang Toupiao 返鄉投票‎
Authors: Marinaccio Julia
Published: May 2023

Julia Marinaccio addresses the issue of the procedural and institutional obstacles that Taiwanese emigrants face when wanting to exercise their right to vote from abroad. Marinaccio uses the voting of the Taiwanese community in Vienna in the 2020 presidential elections as a case study. In the absence of a system of postal voting, Taiwanese voters must return to Taiwan physically to cast their ballots, which means that they face high travel costs and need substantial time resources. In her study, Marinaccio analyses how Taiwanese emigrants de facto deal with the absence of an external voting system, focusing on processes, actors, and practices in the mobilisation of emigrant voters.
From Liberation to the Great Leap Forward
Authors: Cathcart Adam
Published: May 2023

Adam Cathcart scrutinises how the People’s Republic of China dealt with the trans- national identity of Chinese Koreans, that is, ethnic Koreans who had migrated to the Republic of China during Japanese colonial rule over Korea. Those who did not return to the Koreas in the late 1940s came to be considered an exceptionally loyal “model minority” by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the 1950s. However, with the implementation of the Second Five-Year-Plan, also called the “Great Leap Forward”, in 1958, the CCP began to suspect ethnic Korean intellectuals of adhering to “local nationalism”. Cathcart analyses the assimilationist strategies the CCP used to address this perceived threat to national unity in a region deeply relevant to national security.
Understanding the Latin American Revolutions
Authors: Schlez Mariano
Published: May 2023

This chapter presents an overview of some key considerations: when, how and why the British government found it urgent to know the situation in Latin America; the forms and mechanisms of the circulation of information; the social subjects involved in sourcing intelligence in the region; the production of the first reports, and the links between intelligence, the British industrial, commercial and financial bourgeoisie, and successive government strategies towards Latin America.
Family Economics
Authors: Groen-Vallinga Miriam J.
Published: May 2023

In the non-elite household family members themselves were also labourers. Economic strategies of non-elite families start with demography of the family: creating and timing marriage ties, as well as attempts to influence fertility to determine the number of family members. Children were a welcome addition to the household and sometimes vital in terms of their economic contribution, but having children, adopting them or raising foundlings was costly at the outset considering the fact that infants in particular did not always survive to live up to (economic) expectations. The same considerations must be presumed when the non-elite chose to buy, raise or free a slave; and economic considerations also influenced investment in human capital of a (slave or free) child through some form of job training. Looking at the family as an economic unit initially appears to be in line with the well-known image of a Roman city dotted with many small shops and workshops (tabernae) where a family lived and worked. This book means to show why this is a viable economic strategy, but it also means to go further and emphasize that for many families hired labour was at least as important as the family business.
The Seas are Full of Monsters: Divine Utopia, Human Catastrophe
Authors: Irby Georgia L.
Published: May 2023

This chapter explores the sea as a catastrophic sphere, a metaphor of disaster and death. Greco-Roman literature is replete with accounts of storms at sea: Poseidon’s vengeful squall that buffeted Odysseus; Plato’s cataclysmic flooding in the Critias; and terrifying gales in Vergil, Lucan, and others. These storms, together with even the prospect of travel by water, are made all the more harrowing by the real or imagined presence of monsters in the depths. In this chapter the link between storms at sea and giant sea-creatures that represent or create those very storms is examined. Storms stir up monsters, but monsters are also the cause of storms, as we note in a variety of Greco-Roman artists, poets, historians, and biological writers. These imagined horrors, which forged the perception of the sea as a catastrophic sphere, help explain the ambiguous attitude toward the sea of the seafaring denizens of the Mediterranean.
How to Detain a Tsunami: Impassable Boundaries against Ocean Chaos in Ancient and Modern Imaginaries
Authors: Álvarez-Martí-Aguilar Manuel
Published: May 2023

The aim of this chapter is to study the genesis and evolution, over the centuries, of the image of the sea as a chaotic entity, paradigmatically represented by the tsunami phenomenon and, specifically, by the idea of its detention and contention by the forces of cosmic order. The image of the sea as a chaotic entity posing a constant threat to the earth and its inhabitants is reflected in the mythical and cosmogonic narratives of the Near East such as the Ugaritic Baal Cycle and in the Hebrew Bible. Tsunamis were framed by Christian authors in the context of the struggle between God and the sea. Additionally the image of the miraculous detention of tsunamis by establishing a sacred and impassable boundary was then reworked in the Christian world over the centuries, thus giving rise to a singular case of longue durée.
URBAN QUALITY OF LIFE EVALUATION USING LAND PRICE WITH STATUS-QUALITY TRADE-OFF THEORY AND ECOSYSTEM SERVICES
Authors: Le Thuy P. , Hoang Phe H. , Nguyen Linh X. , Bui Tu N. , Pham Tuan L. , Tran Binh Q.
Published: May 2023

Urban Quality of Life (UQoL) is the main objective of sustainable development in the urban context. It is now widely recognised as a multidimensional concept. The satisfaction provided by the elements related to accommodation, such as housing and land, greatly contributes to the satisfaction with quality of life. Meanwhile, the UQoL also contributes to housing and land prices in cities. Our review shows that most current studies on this interrelationship are limited to several dimensions of UQoL and their impact on housing or land prices. This article will fill the gap by using the land price as an input for calculating a UQoL index from the viewpoint of the Status-Quality Trade-Off theory and ecosystem services. A case study was conducted in Cau Giay District, Hanoi, Vietnam, to create a map of the UQoL index and investigate the interrelationship UQoL – land price. In an ideal condition, this interrelationship should be positive (high/low UQoL index – high/low land price). However, this research revealed two other negative scenarios: “high UQoL index – low land price”, and “low UQoL index – high land price”. These negative scenarios can bring many business opportunities and therefore be interesting for stakeholders in the real estate market.
Bayesian Analysis of Neutron-star Properties with Parameterized Equations of State: The Role of the Likelihood Functions
Authors: Jiang Jin-Liang , Ecker Christian , Rezzolla Luciano
Published: May 2023

We have investigated the systematic differences introduced when performing a Bayesian-inference analysis of the equation of state (EOS) of neutron stars employing either variable- or constant-likelihood functions. The former has the advantage of retaining the full information on the distributions of the measurements, making exhaustive usage of the data. The latter, on the other hand, has the advantage of a much simpler implementation and reduced computational costs. In both approaches, the EOSs have identical priors and have been built using the sound speed parameterization method so as to satisfy the constraints from X-ray and gravitational waves observations, as well as those from chiral effective theory and perturbative quantum chromodynamics. In all cases, the two approaches lead to very similar results and the 90% confidence levels essentially overlap. Some differences do appear, but in regions where the probability density is extremely small and are mostly due to the sharp cutoff on the binary tidal deformability

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Kinematics, Structure, and Mass Outflow Rates of Extreme Starburst Galactic Outflows
Authors: Perrotta Serena , Coil Alison L. , Rupke David S. N. , Tremonti Christy A. , Davis Julie D. , Diamond-Stanic Aleksandar M. , Geach James E. , Hickox Ryan C. , Moustakas John , Rudnick Gregory H. , Sell Paul H. , Swiggum Cameren N. , Whalen Kelly E.
Published: May 2023

We present results on the properties of extreme gas outflows in massive (M
* ∼ 1011
M
⊙), compact, starburst (star formation rate, SFR∼ 200 M
⊙ yr−1) galaxies at z = 0.4–0.7 with very high star formation surface densities (ΣSFR ∼ 2000 M
⊙ yr−1 kpc−2). Using optical Keck/HIRES spectroscopy of 14 HizEA starburst galaxies, we identify outflows with maximum velocities of 820–2860 km s−1. High-resolution spectroscopy allows us to measure precise column densities and covering fractions as a function of outflow velocity and characterize the kinematics and structure of the cool gas outflow phase (T ∼ 104 K). We find substantial variation in the absorption profiles, which likely reflects the complex morphology of inhomogeneously distributed, clumpy gas and the intricacy of the turbulent mixing layers between the cold and hot outflow phases. There is not a straightforward correlation between the bursts in the galaxies’ star formation histories and their wind absorption line profiles, as might naively be expected for starburst-driven winds. The lack of strong Mg ii absorption at the systemic velocity is likely an orientation effect, where the observations are down the axis of a blowout. We infer high mass outflow rates of ∼50–2200 M
⊙ yr−1, assuming a fiducial outflow size of 5 kpc, and mass loading factors of η ∼ 5 for most of the sample. While these values have high uncertainties, they suggest that starburst galaxies are capable of ejecting very large amounts of cool gas that will substantially impact their future evolution.
Nuclear Physics with Gravitational Waves from Neutron Stars Disrupted by Black Holes
Authors: Clarke Teagan A. , Chastain Lani , Lasky Paul D. , Thrane Eric
Published: May 2023

Gravitational waves from neutron star–black hole (NSBH) mergers that undergo tidal disruption provide a potential avenue to study the equation of state of neutron stars and hence the behavior of matter at its most extreme densities. We present a phenomenological model for the gravitational-wave signature of tidal disruption, which allows us to measure the disruption time. We carry out a study with mock data, assuming an optimistically nearby NSBH event with parameters tuned for measuring the tidal disruption. We show that a two-detector network of 40 km Cosmic Explorer instruments can measure the time of disruption with a precision of ≈0.5 ms, which corresponds to a constraint on the neutron star radius of ≈0.7 km (90% credibility). This radius constraint is wider than the constraint obtained by measuring the tidal deformability of the neutron star of the same system during the inspiral. Moreover, the neutron star radius is likely to be more tightly constrained using binary neutron star mergers. While NSBH mergers are important for the information they provide about stellar and binary astrophysics, they are unlikely to provide insights into nuclear physics beyond what we will already know from binary neutron star mergers.
Sociodemographic Factors and Nutritional Knowledge Impacts on Overall Vitamin B12 Intake in Older Women
Authors: Amani Patwa , Adriani Donna , Putri Mustika Anggiane , Imran Yudhisman , Rachmiyani Irmiya , Hairunisa Nany
Published: May 2023

BACKGROUND: The older population is at high risk for vitamin B12 deficiency, leading to various significant and chronic health problems.

AIM: This study aimed to determine the association between sociodemographic characteristics, nutritional knowledge and overall vitamin B12 intake among older persons.

METHODS: An observational study with a cross-sectional design was directed to 69 older women aged > 50 years. Data was collected from subject responses to various questions on the google platform, guided by professional assistance.

RESULT: The study showed an inversed association between employment status (p<0.05), income level (p<0.001) and overall vitamin B12 intake, including dietary and supplement intake. The results provided new insights on monthly income level playing a crucial role in VB12 rich food consumption patterns in older persons, which were mostly unemployed.

CONCLUSION: Efforts are needed to increase the coverage of VB12 supplementation, either peroral or intramuscular injection, as a solution to meet the needs of VB12 source that is affordable and effective for the older population.
The Comparison of Normoxic and Hypoxic Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Regulating Platelet-derived Growth Factors and Collagen Serial Levels in Skin Excision Animal Models
Authors: Daryanti Erni , Putra Agung , Sumarawati Titik , Amalina Nur Dina , Prasetio Ardi , Sidiq Husni Ahmad
Published: May 2023

BACKGROUND: The healing process of a skin excisions involves a complex cascade of cellular responses to reverse skin integrity formation. These processes require growth factors particularly platelet-derived growth factors (PDGF). On the other hand, hypoxia- preconditioned mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) could secrete growth factors that notably contribute to wound healing acceleration, characterized by the enhancement of collagen density.

AIM: This study was aimed to investigate the role of hypoxia-preconditioned MSCs in regulating the serial levels of PDGF associated with the enhancement of collagen density in the skin excision animal models.

METHODS: Twenty-seven male Wistar rats of skin excision were created as animal models. The animals were randomly assigned into four groups consisting of two treatment groups (treated by normoxia-preconditioned MSCs as T1 and hypoxia-preconditioned MSCs as T2), positive control (treated with phosphate-buffered saline) and sham (non-treated and healthy rats). PDGF levels were examined by ELISA. The collagen density was determined using Masson‘s trichrome staining.

RESULTS: This study showed that there was a significant increase in PDGF levels on days 3 and 6 after hypoxia- preconditioned MSCs treatment. In line with these findings, the collagen density was also increased significantly after hypoxia-preconditioned MSCs treatment on days 3, 6, and 9.

CONCLUSION: Hypoxia-preconditioned MSCs could regulate the serial PDGF levels that lead to the enhancement of collagen density in the skin excision rat’s model.
Mining biodiversity databases establishes a global baseline of cosmopolitan Insecta mOTUs: a case study on Platygastroidea (Hymenoptera) with consequences for biological control programs
Authors: Moore Matthew R. , Talamas Elijah , Bremer Jonathan S , McGathey Natalie , Fulton James C , Lahey Zachary , Awad Jessica , Roberts Cheryl G , Combee Lynn A
Published: May 2023

In the past decade, several platygastroid biological control agents were found to be adventive in North America and Europe while under evaluation in quarantine. The scope and relative risk of this phenomenon is not fully known, but it is clearly a trend with implications for classical biological control. As a means of assessing the issue, and providing a global baseline, we implemented a data-mining approach with DNA sequences in the Barcode of Life Database, which yielded 201 platygastroid BINs with intercontinental and island distributions. At least fifty-five BINs displayed exact COI barcode matches across continents, with many more BINs being inconclusive due to sequence length variation. These intercontinental and island BINs include biocontrol agents known to be adventive and many species identified only to genus. We provide 2,500 identifications for platygastroid BOLD BINs, 88% to genus, to encourage additional research on this distributional phenomenon. The intercontinental BOLD BINs were compared to literature records and GBIF occurrences of cosmopolitan species to identify gaps and discordance across data sources. A small COI barcode dataset from localities in Florida and Germany, including topotypical specimens, revealed more intercontinental matches. To assess the scale of intercontinental distributions for host taxa, and to examine the scale for a broader range of taxa, we analyzed COI sequences in BOLD for the entirety of Insecta. The discovery that adventive parasitoids are following their invasive hosts has important implications for biosecurity and biological control and may lead to an increased emphasis on early detection.
Description of the male of Erromyrma Bolton & Fisher, 2016 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)
Authors: Ramamonjisoa Manoa M. , Rasoamanana Nicole , Fisher Brian L.
Published: May 2023

The male of the myrmicine genus Erromyrma is described for the first time on the basis of two specimens of Erromyrma latinodis (Mayr, 1872) collected in northern Madagascar. We used COI barcoding to confirm the identification of the male specimens as conspecific with Erromyrma latinodis. We provide an illustrated male-based key to the four Myrmicinae tribes (Attini, Crematogastrini, Solenopsidini, Stenammini) and to the Solenopsidini genera (Adelomyrmex, Erromyrma, Solenopsis, Syllophopsis and Monomorium) for the Malagasy region.
Cure thermale en double orientation “Rhumatologie-Phlébologie”
Authors: Françon Alain , Muela-Garcia Araceli , Erol-Forestier Begum , Forestier Romain
Published: May 2023

La cure en double orientation “Rhumatologie-Phlébologie” connait un succès grandissant. Ce succès peut s’expliquer non seulement par la fréquence de l’association des pathologies articulaires et veineuses dans la population des curistes mais aussi la bonne efficacité respective des traitements thermaux pour ces pathologies. Certaines pathologies articulaires sont susceptibles d’aggraver l’insuffisance veineuse et inversement l’insuffisance veineuse serait susceptible d’être un facteur aggravant comme pour le cas de l’arthrose du genou : un effet bénéfique croisé des traitements thermaux pour la pathologie phlébologique ou rhumatologique associée peut être également évoqué. La prescription des soins thermaux doit dans certains cas être adaptée pour tenir compte de certaines contre-indications. Une évaluation clinique rigoureuse des effets de la double cure “Rhumatologie-Phlébologie” est nécessaire.
Enhancing sensor duty cycle in environmental wireless sensor networks using Quantum Evolutionary Golden Jackal Optimization Algorithm
Authors: Lu Zhonghua , Tian Min , Zhou Jie , Liu Xiang
Published: May 2023

Environmental wireless sensor networks (EWSNs) are essential in environmental monitoring and are widely used in gas monitoring, soil monitoring, natural disaster early warning and other fields. EWSNs are limited by the sensor battery capacity and data collection range, and the usual deployment method is to deploy many sensor nodes in the monitoring zone. This deployment method improves the robustness of EWSNs, but introduces many redundant nodes, resulting in a problem of duty cycle design, which can be effectively solved by duty cycle optimization. However, the duty cycle optimization in EWSNs is an NP-Hard problem, and the complexity of the problem increases exponentially with the number of sensor nodes. In this way, non-heuristic algorithms often fail to obtain a deployment solution that meets the requirements in reasonable time. Therefore, this paper proposes a novel heuristic algorithm, the Quantum Evolutionary Golden Jackal Optimization Algorithm (QEGJOA), to solve the duty cycle optimization problem. Specifically, QEGJOA can effectively prolong the lifetime of EWSNs by duty cycle optimization and can quickly get a deployment solution in the face of multi-sensor nodes. New quantum exploration and exploitation operators are designed, which greatly improves the global search ability of the algorithm and enables the algorithm to effectively solve the problem of excessive complexity in duty cycle optimization. In addition, this paper designs a new sensor duty cycle model, which has the advantages of high accuracy and low complexity. The simulation shows that the QEGJOA proposed in this paper improves by 18.69$ % $, 20.15$ % $ and 26.55$ % $ compared to the Golden Jackal Optimization (GJO), Whale Optimization Algorithm (WOA) and the Simulated Annealing Algorithm (SA).
Prudential Redemption and Its Significance
Authors: Liu Ying
Published: May 2023

The Shape-of-a-Life phenomenon is widely recognized by philosophers of well-being: an upward life trajectory seems better than its downward equivalent if the sum of momentary well-being is held fixed. But what if we hold fixed the sum of momentary well-being in an upward trajectory, are certain ways to improve from the bad times better than the others? Velleman suggests that a redemptive trajectory is better than a bare upward trajectory. In this paper, I elaborate this proposal by developing a mediating factor account of prudential redemption. I argue that, in redemptive trajectories, there is a mediating factor that bears certain relations with the negative and the positive events respectively, one that does not necessarily appear in bare upward trajectories. Prudential redemption, compared to mere improvement, can enhance a person’s lifetime well-being because a redeemed event is made less bad by virtue of the mediating factor. This result has implications for making decisions in the face of equally good options and for evaluating the rationality of honoring sunk costs.
Oppression, Domination, and the Structure of Graded Inequality
Authors: Hominh Yarran
Published: May 2023

What structure do paradigm cases of oppression and domination, like racism and capitalism, have? Most theories of oppression and domination take them to have a binary structure. There are the oppressors and the oppressed, the dominators and the dominated. I argue that a better model for many paradigm cases of oppression and domination is a structure of graded inequality. Such a structure comprises multiple groups arranged in hierarchically ascending and descending order. A model of graded inequality has both descriptive and explanatory advantages over a binary model. It better illuminates some mechanisms by which oppression and domination stabilize themselves. Understanding those mechanisms allows us better to destabilize them. That is so even though good reasons may hold for adopting the binary (or some other) model for other purposes. The larger methodological upshot of the paper is to connect more closely social philosophy to moral psychology.
Les adolescents face aux stratégies de TikTok
Authors: Philippe Sandrine
Published: May 2023

Très populaire auprès des adolescents, TikTok répond au modèle de plateforme dans le contexte du digital labor. Ses revenus provenant des données d’activité des usagers, elle emploie des stratégies pour capter leur attention et les encourager à consacrer davantage de temps à la consultation de contenus. Nous avons cherché à mieux connaître l’expérience d’adolescents sur TikTok et leur perception de ces stratégies grâce à des entretiens semi-directifs menés avec 22 jeunes âgés de 11 à 18 ans. Ils sont d’abord séduits par l’économie temporelle particulière de l’application, qui leur permet de rentabiliser les moments creux de leur emploi du temps. Pour autant, ils regrettent le temps excessif qu’ils consacrent parfois à TikTok et perçoivent alors certains mécanismes à l’origine de leur perte de repères. Leurs propos révèlent alors une méconnaissance du fonctionnement et des intérêts des plateformes.
RGPD, un révélateur des logiques subreptices des plateformes envers la jeunesse
Authors: Bessot David , Fiorentino Alessandro
Published: May 2023

Les stratégies commerciales mises en œuvre par les plateformes de réseaux socionumériques leur ont permis de devenir les leaders de la nouvelle économie de l’attention. Elles sont en situation de monopole sur un marché captif. Quotidiennement, les jeunes prennent l’habitude de communiquer et jouer sur ces plateformes. Par l’utilisation des services proposés, ils échangent volontairement des informations personnelles et laissent involontairement des traces de navigation. La stratégie de ces plateformes, au travers l’ancrage des habitudes, est de créer une dépendance psychologique des utilisateurs et d’utiliser diverses techniques prédatrices de collecte de données personnelles.
L’incommunication : une nouvelle vision de la délibération
Authors: Dacheux Éric
Published: May 2023

Pour J. Habermas, la légitimation de la norme démocratique est liée à la délibération publique, sans cette dernière les décisions prises en suivant les procédures institutionnelles sont légales, mais non légitimes. Mais qu’est-ce au juste que la délibération ? Pour le philosophe allemand c’est un échange d’arguments rationnels permettant de déboucher sur un consensus. Or, les sciences de l’information et de la communication conduisent à remettre en cause cette définition : même en cas de volonté réciproque d’entrer en communication de la part d’acteurs appartenant au même monde vécu, la communication est souvent un échec, nous disent les chercheurs réfléchissant à l’incommunication. Autrement dit, l’incompréhension est la règle de la communication, puisque chacun est, pour l’autre, une altérité radicale (qui possède donc des interprétations différentes) et libre (à qui l’on ne peut imposer un sens). Il convient donc, pour penser correctement le processus communicationnel qu’est la délibération, de renoncer à une théorie de l’agir communicationnel au profit d’une pensée dialogique mettant en relation communication et incommunication. C’est, en tout cas, la thèse que nous défendrons dans cet article théorique qui propose de définir la délibération comme un conflit intégrateur qui vise à construire un monde commun en permettant la reconnaissance des positions de chacun.
Quelle mise en visibilité des méthodologies de recherche en SIC ?
Authors: Pinède Nathalie , Dussarps Clément
Published: May 2023

Dans cette étude, nous cherchons à identifier les principales méthodes mobilisées en Sciences de l’Information et de la Communication (SIC) et la manière dont se matérialise la démarche méthodologique choisie dans la production scientifique en SIC. Nous nous appuyons pour cela sur l’analyse (selon une grille pré-établie) d’un corpus de 245 articles (issus d’un tirage aléatoire effectué sur une sélection de revues reconnues en SIC). Les analyses nous montrent que les articles étudiés ont majoritairement une vocation empirique, mais avec des degrés de précision variables sur la restitution du processus méthodologique. L’approche qualitative apparait comme étant la plus utilisée. Nous proposons également une comparaison entre articles empiriques et non empiriques, ainsi qu’entre les articles écrits par des auteurs en SIC et hors SIC.
Institutionnalisation des « SIC sénégalaises » : entre émergence et transfert de modèles
Authors: Correa Patrice , Ndiaye Marième Pollèle
Published: May 2023

Cet article est issu d’un projet de recherche en cours visant à révéler les singularités des sciences de l’information et de la communication au Sénégal. Plus précisément, en partant du constat de l’influence francophone notamment française en matière de SIC au Sénégal, l’hypothèse avancée est qu’il existerait des « SIC sénégalaises » avec une littérature fragmentée susceptible d’être reconstituée dans un processus de mise en lien des idées. La contribution dresse alors un état des lieux synthétique de la naissance de la discipline à l’échelle locale en intégrant la diversité des trajectoires des auteurs et les thématiques de recherche abordées. Finalement, l’étude révèle que si les SIC au Sénégal se déploient progressivement ; elles ont besoin de mieux se structurer en coordonnant l’institutionnalisation officielle avec l’institutionnalisation empirique, à l’échelle tant locale que globale.
Quelle(s) réponse(s) à l’enjeu d’acculturation aux données ? Un état de l’art des caractéristiques de la data literacy
Authors: Verdi Ugo
Published: May 2023

La donnée, objet conceptuel ayant connu une nouvelle mise en lumière avec l’apparition du big data, de l’open data, de l’intelligence artificielle, du machine learning et des algorithmes, considérée comme le « nouvel or noir économique du 21e siècle » (Lemaire, 2022), comme avantage compétitif certain (Cnil et BpiFrance 2018) et comme pilier de l’industrie 4.0 (Mandon et Bellit, 2021), est l’objet de guerres commerciales et l’enjeu de débats citoyens récurrents. La nécessité de sa maitrise est constamment évoquée, réaffirmée depuis la pandémie de Covid-19 (Commission Européenne, 2020). Dans ce contexte, la data literacy est vue comme la solution miracle, la compétence-clé du XXIe siècle (Alliancy, 2021) centrale pour la formation de « lettrés de la donnée » capables de comprendre et de maîtriser ce phénomène. Se pose alors la question de la manière dont la data literacy s’empare de cet enjeu d’acculturation aux données : quelles visions déploie-t-elle ? À quelles compétences et connaissances forme-t-elle ? Apporte-t-elle une solution unique ou une pluralité d’applications ? Parlons-nous alors de data literacy ou de data literacies ? Pour y répondre, nous apporterons un éclairage sur ses caractéristiques en rappelant ses héritages, ses évolutions et en listant les questionnements qui s’imposent à elle.
Exploration on Construction of Mobile Communication Experimental Teaching Based on Virtual-Real Combination
Authors: Yu Fahong , Chen Meijia , Zhu Qiang , Yu Bolin , Liu Jianhua , Cai Zhaoquan
Published: May 2023

Aimed to adapt the experimental teaching to keeping up with the actual application of the experimental scene, an experimental teaching based on virtual-real combination for mobile communication was proposed in this article, which realized the collaborative mode of combining online virtual operations and real operations. The virtual experiments were complementary to real experiment operation and on-the-spot experience through sharing virtual software, instruments and equipment and remote equipment control with automatic logging for experimenter's data contained knowledge learning, experimental operation process and experimental results so as to evaluate the experiment. Compared with regular sessions, the degree of curriculum achievement in experimental class has improved significantly and the distribution of scores was more reasonable according to tracking the whole process of students. The system with virtual-real combination enriches the practical strategies and improves the quality of mobile communication experiment studying effectively.
Bilateral Matching Decision-Making Method Considering Regret Avoidance in Second-Hand Transactions
Authors: Wang Rui , Liang Juan
Published: May 2023

Effective methods of bilateral matching decision-making could make the second-hand transaction market and platforms more dynamic and healthier for development. However, the loss of description about the characteristics of sellers and buyers and the weight information of their inner preference can affect the matching result. By developing a method for a second-hand transaction, this paper proposes a novel approach that considers the matching parties' psychologies, which can improve the matching efficiency. A mathematical model of seller and buyer is performed, and then the price and other evaluation indicators of sellers and buyers are described by five different types. A bilateral matching multi-objective decision-making model is constructed and solved. A real case study of property trade platform is presented to illustrate how the proposed approach could be applied in practice. The results of this research indicate that the proposed approach is a useful tool for matching the sellers and buyers and has substantial practical application.
Decentralized Blockchain-Enabled Employee Authentication System
Authors: Rai Bipin Kumar , Sharma Pranjal , Singhal Sagar , Paruti Basavaraj S.
Published: May 2023

In recent years, there have been many attempts to introduce blockchain-based identity management solutions, which allow the user to take over control of his/her own identity. In this paper, the authors have reviewed in-depth existing blockchain-based identity management papers and patents published online. Based on that analysis of the literature, a system will be implemented which will come up with the current issues and try to minimize them. Being transparent, immutable, and decentralized in nature, blockchain mechanism is found to be a better technology which can reduce the corruption in the experimental scenario. The objective is to develop a decentralized system which can be used for the verification of the employees in an organization. This is done to stop or reduce the cases of identity theft and data leakage in recent time. This system will be using Ethereum blockchain platform for monitoring the information and smart contract for authentication.
Recatadas y pudorosas: El vestuario de los personajes femeninos españoles como reflejo de las cualidades morales de la mujer en el franquismo (1939-1952)
Authors: Gil Gascon Fátima , Chicharro Merayo María del Mar
Published: May 2023

Esta investigación tiene como objetivo analizar el vestuario femenino en las películas españolas realizadas entre 1939 y 1952. Se parte de la premisa de que el Régimen utilizó las pantallas de cine como una escuela de comportamiento. Un modo aparentemente inocuo de adoctrinar a la población en los principios imperantes en una sociedad dividida y recién salida de una Guerra Civil. Las películas se convirtieron en los planteamientos visuales de lo aceptado y aceptable en cuestiones como el amor, el sexo, las relaciones de género o la forma de vestir. Controlado por la censura, el cine contribuyó a instaurar un código de vestimenta femenino que, además de fijar parámetros estéticos, definía categorías morales. Estableció los límites del pudor, pero también, potenció a partir del desarrollo de las tramas y de la repetición de personajes estereotipados, un sistema que señalara los itinerarios socialmente correctos e incorrectos, las claves del éxito y del fracaso.