bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
ПІДПРИЄМСТВА ХАРЧОВОЇ ПРОМИСЛОВОСТІ УКРАЇНИ:
ВИКЛИКИ ТА ПЕРСПЕКТИВИ РОЗВИТКУ
В УМОВАХ НЕВИЗНАЧЕНОСТІ
Authors: Аренович Б. М.
Published: May 2024

У статті викладено основні положення «Стратегії розвитку експорту продукції сільського
господарства, харчової та переробної промисловості України на період до 2026 року». Аргументовано, що харчова промисловість демонструє відносну стабільність порівняно з іншими
видами діяльності, незважаючи на те, що виробники продуктів харчування зазнали великих
збитків через порушення ланцюжків поставок, блокування експортних транспортних шляхів
та пошкодження виробничих потужностей у деяких регіонах. Наведено обсяги реалізованої
продукції харчовою промисловістю за видами економічної діяльності «виробництво харчових
продуктів, напоїв і тютюнових виробів», «виробництво харчових продуктів», «виробництво
напоїв», «виробництво тютюнових виробів». Проведено аналіз діяльності підприємств харчової
промисловості. Розкрито основних учасників Національної платформи продовольчої безпеки
(місцева влада, виробники, фермери, торгівельні мережі, продавці та міжнародні організації),
покликаної сформувати нові логістичні ланцюги для задоволення потреб у харчових продуктах
та товарах першої необхідності мешканців громад, учасників Збройних Сил України та територіальної оборони. Представлено та проаналізовано витрати на персонал суб’єктів господарювання харчової промисловості та товарну структуру зовнішньої торгівлі харчової промисловості
протягом 2020-2022 років. Визначено цільові ринки продукції підприємств харчової промисловості за кордоном. Узагальнено виклики розвитку підприємств харчової промисловості в
умовах сьогодення та окреслено напрями подальшого функціонування та розвитку.
ДЕРЖАВНЕ РЕГУЛЮВАННЯ ГАЗОВОЇ ГАЛУЗІ УКРАЇНИ: АНАЛІЗ
ПРОБЛЕМ ТА ПЕРСПЕКТИВИ ПОКРАЩЕННЯ
Authors: Гудзь Ю.Ф. , Титаренко А.О.
Published: May 2024

У статті розглядається вплив державного регулювання на ринок природного газу в Україні
у контексті постачання газу побутовим споживачам.
Пропонується далі продовжувати процес лібералізації ринку природного газу, забезпечуючи рівні умови для всіх гравців на ринку та знижуючи монопольні позиції. Зосередити увагу на
розвитку власних видобуткових потенціалів, інвестуванні в інфраструктурні проекти та модернізацію газотранспортної системи.
Необхідно забезпечити повну прозорість у формуванні цін на газ та зміцнити нагляд за
оптовими енергетичними ринками зі сторони енергетичного регулятора, а також виключити
можливість маніпуляцій, зловживань та підозрілих дій з боку учасників цих ринків, для чого
імплементувати відповідні норми ЄС. Пропонується збільшення видобутку газу та буріння нових
свердловин шляхом залучення незалежних суб’єктів; формування електронних аукціонів щодо
вільного доступу суб’єктів, які можуть проводити георозвідувальні роботи щодо буріння свердловин та іншої діяльності націленої на збільшення видобутку газу; за критерієм досягнення
енергетичної безпеки газової сфери.
Автор звертає увагу на посилення ролі регулювання діяльності суб’єктів ринку газу через
моніторинг, ліцензування та контроль з боку Національної комісії, що здійснює державне
регулювання у сферах енергетики та комунальних послуг. Застосування нових форм організації взаємовідносин між важливими складовими інноваційного розвитку виробництва, освітньонауковим простором та інформацією.
ОСОБЛИВОСТІ ДІАГНОСТИКИ ІНВЕСТИЦІЙНОГО ПОТЕНЦІАЛУ
ПІДПРИЄМСТВ ХАРЧОВОЇ ПРОМИСЛОВОСТІ
Authors: Аренович І. М.
Published: May 2024

У статті розкрито сутність інвестиційного потенціалу підприємств харчової промисловості.
Узагальнено особливості діагностики інвестиційного потенціалу підприємств харчової промисловості, до яких віднесено: ринкову конкурентоспроможність (оцінювання поточної та потенційної частки ринку підприємства, а також його здатність конкурувати з іншими підприємствами
галузі); фінансову стабільність ( аналіз фінансових показників підприємства, зокрема, загальна
доходність, рентабельність активів та капіталу, оборотність активів); технологічну оснащеність
(дослідження рівня технічного обладнання та здатності підприємства впроваджувати нові технології та інновації); управлінський потенціал (оцінка кваліфікації та досвіду керівного складу
підприємства, а також його здатність приймати ефективні управлінські рішення); інвестиційні
можливості (дослідження ринкових тенденцій у галузі та визначення інвестиційної привабливості підприємства); правові та регуляторні умови (норми права та регуляторних вимог,
пов’язаних функціонуванням підприємств харчової промисловості). Наведено обсяги реалізованої продукції підприємствами харчової промисловості за видами діяльності у 2020-2022 рр.
Розкрито основні проблеми ведення бізнесу в умовах повномасштабної воєнної агресії в Україні: зростання цін на сировину, складнощі із логістикою, брак оборотних коштів, зменшення
попиту на продукцію, державне регулювання курсу валют, брак палива, брак робочої сили,
пошкодження майна або товару внаслідок бойових дій, корупція, проблеми з електроенергією,
водопостачанням та опаленням. Наведено основні галузі України, які мають потужний інвестиційний потенціал та узагальнено проблеми інвестиційної привабливості підприємств харчової
промисловості.
СУЧАСНИЙ СТАН ТА МОЖЛИВОСТІ АКТИВІЗАЦІЇ
ІНВЕСТИЦІЙНОЇ ДІЯЛЬНОСТІ В УКРАЇНІ
Authors: Бойко В.В. , Рябоштан Л.Г.
Published: May 2024

В даній статті досліджено сучасний стан інвестиційної діяльності в Україні та визначено
можливості активізації інвестиційної діяльності. Повномасштабне вторгнення Росії в Україну
призвело до тяжких наслідків для економіки країни. Значні економічні збитки країни обумовлені
частковою або повною зупинкою господарської діяльності підприємств, в тому числі на окупованих
територіях, релокацією бізнесу, руйнуванням та пошкодженням інфраструктурних обʼєктів та
установ призвели до повної чи часткової зупинки діяльності, втрат доходів, зростанню видатків,
тому перед країною постає одне з найскладніших завдань питання відновлення національної
економіки. Відновлення національної економіки України потребує значних інвестицій, як
ключового інструменту для стимулювання економічного відновлення та розвитку. Наразі
нагальним питанням для вітчизняних підприємств постає залучення інвестиційного капіталу
для ефективного провадження господарської діяльності. Виклики спричинені макро- та мікроекономічними умовами, стабільністю законодавства, демографічною структурою населення,
політичною стабільністю, корупцією та війною істотно знижують інвестиційну привабливість
підприємств. Інвестиційна привабливість фактично визначається наявністю сприятливого бізнессередовища для інвесторів, стабільністю політико-економічного клімату та наявністю потенціалу успішного експорту в галузі інвестування. На основі аналізу динаміки ВВП, обсягів прямих
іноземних інвестицій, Індексу інвестиційної привабливості та обсягу капітальних інвестицій,
можна спрогнозувати подальшу тенденцію до зниження зазначених показників. Основні
завдання в найближчий час повинні мінімізацію ризиків пов’язаних з війною, реформу судової
системи, заходи щодо захисту інтересів іноземних інвесторів та впровадження інвестиційного
контролінгу для швидкої адаптації до змін у навколишньому середовищі. Важливо аналізувати
проблеми, які виникають у діяльності інвесторів, зокрема системні та ті, що виникають через
раптові зміни у турбулентному середовищі.
#SaveTheChildren: A pilot study of a social media movement co-opted by conspiracy theorists
Authors: FitzGerald Katherine M. , Graham Timothy
Published: May 2024

In a preliminary analysis of 121,984 posts from X (formerly known as Twitter) containing the hashtag #SaveTheChildren, we found that conspiratorial posts received more engagement than authentic hashtag activism between January 2022 and March 2023. Conspiratorial posts received twice the number of reposts as non-conspiratorial content. Our initial findings of a forthcoming larger multi-platform study suggest that the way that users strategically exploit the #SaveTheChildren hashtag may have implications for the visibility of legitimate social movements on the X platform. Future work should consider other social media platforms to determine if the visibility of legitimate social movements is decreasing more broadly, particularly in the context of 2024 being the largest election year in history.
Réflexions de la Commission d’Ethique de la SRLF à propos du projet de loi fin de vie du gouvernement français projeté pour 2024
Authors: Cremer Robin , Rigaud Jean-Philippe , Le Roux Bénédicte , Poujol Anne-Laure , De Prost Nicolas , Hauw - Berlemont Caroline , Goulenok Cyril , Noizet - Yverneau Odile , Jourdain Mercè , Mercier Emmanuelle , Duvivier Julien , Biancarelli Baptiste , Lafarge Antoine , Grassin Marc , Zuber Benjamin
Published: May 2024

La Commission d’Éthique de la Société de Réanimation de Langue Française (SRLF) a examiné l’avant-projet de loi qui a été présenté au Conseil des ministres en avril 2024 et qui sera présenté au parlement français au printemps 2024.
Le but de cet article est de fournir un résumé de cet avant-projet de loi accompagné des commentaires et interrogations de la Commission d’Éthique de la SRLF destinés à nourrir la réflexion des professionnels de la réanimation.
A Secure Key Exchange Protocol and a Public Key Cryptosystem for Healthcare Systems
Authors: R Yuvasri , A Manimaran
Published: May 2024

Diffie-Hellman (DH) is the reason for the existence of a solution to the key distribution problem, where two parties can mutually set up a shared secret key over an insecure channel without any previous communication. In this study, a novel key exchange protocol based on the difficulty of the Discrete Logarithm Problem with Factor Problem (DLPFP) utilizing matrices in non-commutative semigroup over semiring is proposed. The security and complexity analyses of the protocol are discussed. Also, an ElGamal cryptosystem based on a group of invertible matrices and DLPFP over a semiring to encrypt the Sensitive Health Information (SHI) in healthcare systems is suggested.
Contribution of Tourism Investments and their Impact on the Local Economies of Kenya: A Case Study of Nakuru County
Authors: Ondieki Eusabia B. , Amwata Dorothy A. , Nyariki Dickson M. , Bulitia Godrick M.
Published: May 2024

Tourism development stimulates growth by attracting foreign direct investment and building new facilities and partnerships. This study sought to establish the contribution of hospitality and tourism investments to the local economy of Kenya, taking Nakuru County as a case study. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design, accommodating qualitative and quantitative methods; both primary and secondary data. Purposive sampling was used to select 51 out of 151 tourism and hospitality investments in the study area. Secondary data were obtained from tourism and hospitality published and unpublished reports from government and non-governmental organisations. Quantitative data were analysed through descriptive statistics, content and regression analyses. Salaries of staff, park entry fees, and curio shops constituted 2%, 21.3% and 0.5%, respectively, of the total revenue generated in the study area.  Regression analysis results indicate that tourism investment accounted for a 36.6% improvement in the economy, as shown by the values [R Square=0.366, F (1, 151) = 87.311, p<0.05]. Tourism and hospitality investments contributed Kshs 10.12 billion, which was 54% of Nakuru County's gross domestic product, showing that tourism and hospitality investments contribute significantly to the local economy and, by extension, to the country’s economy
The Moderating Effect of Internal Controls on the Relationship Between Supplier Pre-Qualification and Procurement Performance in Public Universities in Kenya
Authors: Laboso Jonah Kibet , Keitany Pauline Jeruto , Naibei Isaac
Published: May 2024

As publicly funded institutions, public universities are expected to follow a competitive and systematic tendering process when procuring goods or services. Despite legislation and regulations aimed at ensuring adherence to international best practices and promoting integrity and accountability, there have been instances of inefficiencies in the tendering process, particularly within public universities. The purpose of this study was to assess the moderating effect of internal controls on the relationship between supplier pre-qualification and procurement performance in public universities in Kenya. The study was anchored on stakeholder theory. A positivist research philosophy and a correlational research design was adopted. Target population of the study was 1,016 employees from the selected public universities. The study adopted stratified and simple random sampling to select a sample of 287 respondents. Primary data was obtained using a structured questionnaire, which was self-administered using a drop-and-pick later technique. The validity of the research instrument was ensured through an extensive literature review and consultation with subject experts and supervisors from the procurement department. The reliability of the instrument was examined through a pilot study involving 29 respondents from the University of Kabianga where a Cronbach alpha coefficient of 0.834 was obtained. The obtained quantitative data was analysed descriptively using means, frequencies, and standard deviation, and inferentially, correlation and regression analysis were used. The study established that internal controls had a positive moderating effect on the relationship between pre-qualification (R2, change of 0.075; p<0.05), and procurement performance. The study concluded that pre-qualification of suppliers, was an important factor in determining the procurement performance in public universities because it significantly explained the change in procurement performance. Therefore, the study recommends that public universities improve internal controls to ensure efficiency in the supplier pre-qualification process as well as the procurement performance in public universities in Kenya. The study findings could be significant to the management of public institutions and policymakers in public procurement, enhancing knowledge in academia and theory development in procurement activities
Integration of the Academic and Entrepreneurial Environments to Enhance Development Opportunities for Tourism Enterprises
Authors: Abdullayev Ilyos , Nevmatulina Karina , Ivashkin Mikhail , Aitkazina Madina , Shaitura Nataly , Shelygov Aleksandr , Karshalova Alma , García De Velazco Judith Josefina Hernández
Published: May 2024

The development of modern forms of interaction between science, education, and tourism business perfects the training of specialists who meet the requirements of the tourism market and support the development of the industry. The difficulty of integrating the academic and business environment to strengthen the development opportunities for tourism enterprises necessitates the search for ways to resolve this problem. The study aims to evaluate the integration of academic and entrepreneurial environments as a mechanism for enhancing the development opportunities for tourism enterprises. To achieve the goal, the study employs the qualitative research method of document analysis, as well as the method of expert survey, followed by statistical processing of the obtained data. The authors conclude that the integration of the academic and entrepreneurial environments in the tourism business has to be performed with due regard to the mutual interests of its participants. Key areas of cooperation are increasing the level of services and staff professionalism, improving the quality of training of young specialists through participation in research of tourism, the development of educational programs and improvement of specialists’ competence, the development of incubators and accelerators, and active participation of students in the development and commercialization of business projects.
Determinants of Accounting Information System Quality and Its Impact on Accounting Information Quality: Study on Hospitality in Semarang City, Indonesia
Authors: Srimindarti Ceacilia , Hardiningsih Pancawati , Lisiantara Gregorius Anggana , Payamta Payamta
Published: May 2024

This research intends to investigate the user capabilities and culture of an organization on the quality of accounting information systems and its impact on information quality. A quantitative approach was adopted, and 82 questionnaires were distributed to hotel employees in Semarang, Indonesia working in the accounting department. Partial least squares are used to achieve numerical results that can explain the phenomenon under study. The research results show that users’ technical abilities and organizational culture have a positive effect on the quality of accounting information systems. The influence of users’ technical capabilities and organizational culture on the quality of accounting information systems has an impact on the quality of accounting information. This research is one of the first to link user capabilities and the culture of the organization to the quality of accounting information systems and its impact on information quality. This contributes to decision usefulness theory, highlighting systems of accounting information systems and quality of information, systems of accounting information are created to produce good quality information that can be used as a basis for corporate decision-making. The results also contribute to the systems of accounting information literature.
Strangers to Strategic Allies: An Overview of Thriving, Prospering and Blossoming Sino-Saudi Relations
Authors: Kayani Farrukh Nawaz , Saleem Khalil Abu
Published: May 2024

Over the last one-decade, Saudi Arabia has adopted the policy of “Looking East” and is rigorously busy in developing and augmenting its economic and diplomatic relations with China. Since 2016, China and Saudi Arabia have strongly supported and complemented each other via China’s Belt and Road Initiative and the Saudi Vision 2030. In January 2016, Chinese President Xi Jinping paid a grand state visit to Saudi Arabia, during which both countries decided to enter a comprehensive strategic partnership. Later in March 2017, Saudi King Salman bin Abdul Aziz visited China and endorsed the Belt and Road Initiative project of China. By reciprocating, China expressed its support for Saudi Arabia’s pursuit of the 2030 Vision and offered its help to Saudi Arabia in achieving a diversified economy. So, both countries are busy in cementing their relations upon the synergy of their two signature programs i.e. China’s Belt and Road Initiative and Saudi Vision 2030. This article highlights the historical overview of Sino-Saudi relations, describing how the two countries transitioned from mutual apathy to diplomatic relations, and then how this relationship grew to the point that they entered into a comprehensive strategic partnership.
The Round Robin approach applied to nanoinformatics: consensus prediction of nanomaterials zeta potential
Authors: Varsou Dimitra-Danai , Banerjee Arkaprava , Roy Joyita , Roy Kunal , Savvas Giannis , Sarimveis Haralambos , Wyrzykowska Ewelina , Balicki Mateusz , Puzyn Tomasz , Melagraki Georgia , Lynch Iseult , Afantitis Antreas
Published: May 2024

A key step in building regulatory acceptance of alternative or non-animal test methods has long been the use of interlaboratory comparisons or Round Robins (RR), in which a common test material and standard operating procedure is provided to all participants, who measure the specific endpoint and return their data for statistical comparison to demonstrate the reproducibility of the method. While there is currently no standard approach for comparison of modelling approaches, consensus modelling is emerging as a “modelling equivalent” of a RR. We demonstrate here a novel approach to evaluate the performance of different models for the same endpoint (nanomaterials’ zeta potential) trained using a common dataset, through generation of a consensus model, leading to increased confidence in the model predictions and underlying models. Using a publicly available dataset four research groups (NovaMechanics Ltd (NovaM) - Cyprus, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) - Greece, QSAR Lab Ltd - Poland, and DTC Lab - India) built five distinct machine learning (ML) models for the in silico prediction of the zeta-potential of metal and metal oxide-nanomaterials (NMs) in aqueous medium. The individual models were integrated into a consensus modelling scheme, enhancing their predictive accuracy, and reducing their biases. The consensus models outperform the individual models, resulting in more reliable predictions. We propose this approach as a valuable method for increasing the validity of nanoinformatics models and driving regulatory acceptance of in silico new approach methodologies for use within an Integrated Approach to Testing and Assessment (IATA) for risk assessment of NMs.
A Comparative Analysis of Intrusion Detection Systems: Leveraging Classification Algorithms and Feature Selection Techniques
Authors: Shakir Vaman , Mohsin Adnan
Published: May 2024

With the increasing use of the Internet and its coverage of all areas of life and the increasing amount of sensitive and confidential information on the Internet, the number of malicious attacks on that information has increased with the aim of destroying, changing, or misusing it. Consequently, the need to discover and prevent these kinds of attacks has increased in order to maintain privacy, reliability, and even availability. For this purpose, intelligent systems have been developed to detect these attacks, which are called Intrusion Detection System (IDS). These systems were tested and applied to special benchmark datasets that contain a large number of features and a massive number of observations. However, not all the features are important, and some are not relevant. Therefore, applying feature selection techniques becomes crucial, which select the features with the most importance and relevance in order to enhance the performance of the classification model. The aim of this review paper is to conduct a comparative analysis of various state-of-the-art IDS that use algorithm classifications to detect network attacks with the cooperation of feature selection techniques that have been applied to various well-known IDS datasets, such as KDD cup99, NSL-KDD, etc. This comparison is based on several factors, including the utilized classification technique, feature selection used, employed evaluation metrics, datasets used, and finally the highest accuracy rate obtained by each study.
A Systematic Review: Impact of Nurse Led Clinics on Scope, Feasibility and Cost Effectiveness
Authors: Harry Shweta , Ukande Usha
Published: May 2024

The majority of NLCs are managed autonomously by nurses, with the assistance of a multidisciplinary team with advanced training and expertise. In these clinics, nurses perform thorough physiological assessments, arrange the patient's care accordingly, administer therapies, monitor the patient's condition, administer medication, educate patients about their health, and refer patients to other colleagues as needed. The purpose of this systematic study was to determine the extent, viability, and cost-effectiveness of nurse-led clinics. The review's goal is to give the best available data on nurse-led clinics so that it may assess if adopting NLCs with a standardized structure is necessary to deliver rigorous treatment and support future attempts to establish nurse-led clinical services. A literature search was conducted using electronic databases such as Medline, Pubmed, Pubmed Central, CINAHL, and Google Scholar to gather information on the impact of Nurse-Led Clinics with respect to scope, feasibility, and cost effectiveness. The search was conducted in accordance with the preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses (PRISMA) guidelines. Two standards were used to evaluate the 117 articles that were found in the search results. First, papers that have been published and are readily available for peer review should be considered substantial information. Second, studies that focused just on the effects of NLC in respect to scope, practicability, and affordability. Studies on the breadth, viability, and cost-effectiveness of NLC were included in the search, whereas research publications published in languages other than English were disregarded. Following screening and the removal of duplicates, 13 papers were found to be eligible, and 10 studies were included in this review. The analysis indicates that access to healthcare has improved dramatically in nurse-led clinics across many specialized areas. Because NLCs are easily accessible, primary care settings are not as burdened and fewer needless emergency visits occur. Strong patient-provider relationships are fostered by nurses' all-encompassing, patient-centered approaches, which raise patient satisfaction and engagement in the healthcare process. The focus of effective nurse-led clinics is on interprofessional treatment and teamwork. Cooperation amongst nurses, doctors, pharmacists, and other medical professionals promotes collaborative decision-making, coordinated treatment, and better patient outcomes. The collaborative model, in which nurses play a crucial role as care coordinators, guarantees that patients receive thorough and seamless care.
Sunflower Stalk ASH: Prime Additive to Latex Paint for Fire Retardancy of Marine Plywood
Authors: Adonis M. Guzman, , Marie B. Grande, Sheena , Mirriam Kaye R. Mendoza, , l Lyzet F. Reyes, Chryste
Published: May 2024

This research study investigates the use of sunflower stalk ash as a prime additive to latex paint for the fire retardancy of marine plywood. Its main goal was to assess the effectiveness of sunflower stalk ash paint in improving the fire retardancy of marine plywood. The researchers employed a simplified flame spread test to determine the effectiveness of the paint, and statistical analysis alongside observation were used to ascertain the ideal concentration required for the sunflower stalk ash paint. The findings revealed that the use of sunflower stalk ash paint can significantly improve the fire retardancy of marine plywood, with the most effective outcome observed in marine plywood that was coated thrice with 16% concentration of sunflower stalk ash in latex paint. This study suggests that utilizing agricultural waste like sunflower stalk ash could serve as an effective and efficient method for enhancing the fire retardancy of marine plywood.
Evaluation of Inflammation Markers and Pregnancy Outcomes of Patients Undergoing Intrauterin Insemination (IUI) for Unexplained Infertility
Authors: Karakaş Hüseyin Erdinç , Çakır Karakaş Merve , Kıncı Mehmet Ferdi , Altun Ensari Tuğba
Published: May 2024

Aim: This study aimed to compare the inflammatory markers in patients who had ovulation induction with clomiphene citrate (CC) and who underwent intrauterine insemination (IUI) due to unexplained infertility in patients who could get pregnant and who could not.
Materials and Method: The study included 125 females with unexplained infertili-ty who underwent ovulation induction with CC and who underwent IUI at the Health Sciences University Ankara Etlik Zübeyde Hanım Gynecology Training and Research Hospital Assisted-Reproduction Therapy Clinic between July 2019 and December 2019. Of the patients, 104 (83.2%) of them could not get pregnant as a result of IUI, and 21 (16.8%) females got pregnant. Hemogram parameters collected from patients on the day of IUI were recorded.
Results: In terms of age, infertility duration, BMI, gravida, parity, number of living children, abortion and stillbirth numbers, no statistically significant difference was found between the two patient groups which were created based on getting pregnant or not (p>0.05). No significant difference was found between the groups in terms of serum estrogen, progesterone, follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH), luteinizing hor-mone (LH), thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH), prolactin, and anti-mullerian hor-mone (AMH) levels, hemoglobin, BM, neutrophil count, lymphocyte count, platelet count, MPV, CRP, and P/L ratio (p>0.05). A statistically significant difference was found in terms of N/L ratio (p
“A final remnant of a sense of duty”
Authors: Breckling Molly M.
Published: May 2024

During his engagement with Wunderhorn, Mahler composed ten lieder based on militaristic themes, almost 42% of the songs. By comparison, only about 10% of the poems found in Arnim and Brentano’s collection present wartime scenarios. Given this incongruity, it seems reasonable to assume that some aspect of these stories must have attracted Mahler. Scholars commonly attribute the sheer quantity of these works to the composer’s childhood fascination with military music. Scholars commonly attribute the sheer quantity of these works to the composer’s childhood fascination with military music. He spoke often about how he heard music emanating from the barracks near his childhood home. The pervading theory suggests that this stirred a desire in Mahler to create works that used martial elements. Perhaps the most complicated aspect of Mahler’s military-inspired Wunderhorn lieder lies in the attitudes that they project. While some songs focus on the horrors of the battlefield and war’s devastating impact on relationships, others focus on camaraderie, the nobility of fighting for a cause, and the excitement of the fight.
Conclusion
Authors: Breckling Molly M.
Published: May 2024

This study concludes with a short (4500 word) look at the reception history of Mahler’s songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn. As Mahler’s music made its resurgence in the past sixty years, audiences have largely come to forget the cultural, social, and political context which these songs were born into, commented on, and helped to shape. This book hopes to begin to remedy that situation and provide audiences and performers alike with the hermeneutic windows through which they can come to understand Mahler’s songs as he intended them, as “Blocks of marble which anyone might make his own.”
Abraham Cowley’s Six Books of Plants and the Diversification of Textual Authority
Authors: Lecky Katarzyna
Published: May 2024

In the final decades of a century that saw the study of medicinal plants develop into a complex field blending naturalism with nationalism as well as political dissent, Abraham Cowley published his Plantarum Libri Sex (1662). Translated into English by Aphra Behn and other well-known authors soon after Cowley’s death, this verse epic enjoyed a long and robust history of reprints and new editions ranging from octavo to folio throughout the eighteenth century. My chapter asks why Cowley’s vegetable poetry captured the imagination of broad and diverse readerships even as poetic latinity faded along with practical herbalism before new botanical practices privileging vernacular prose and scientific clarity. I argue that Cowley’s work offers an alternate, Horatian mode of textual authority that situates itself outside of an expanding sphere of literary, political, and scientific writings shaped by the investments of the post-Restoration state. The Englished Plantarum, in particular, crafts a creative space of retirement at a remove from this sphere, a space open to those alienated by the increasing consolidation and institutionalization of knowledge systems. His book creates not a collective exile of those marginal to the late seventeenth-century mechanics of intellectual state formation, but rather a poetic mode that disrupts all systemic understanding with its delight in a botanical world characterized by entanglements and rhizomatic growth—a world in which the category of usefulness falls to the inutile pleasure of experiencing the disordered, weedy matter of common English nature.
“Be not solitary, be not idle”
Authors: Severson Erin
Published: May 2024

By reading the structure of Smollett's Humphry Clinker as Burtonian cure, this chapter aims to resolve a problem of form. The book’s fractured, erratic style resonates with the logic of Burtonian cure, in which the afflicted are healed by arousing their spirits and diverting their humors. The text’s structure is itself a defense against idleness and its narrative ethos of community offers protection from solitude. Furthermore, by engaging with a distinctly Burtonian form of “cure,” with its roots in humoral medicine, Smollett’s novel provides a model for not only eradicating but also living with disease.
The Life and Adventures of Tobias Smollett
Authors: Jones Richard J.
Published: May 2024

This chapter attempts to find a narrative distributed across the writings of Tobias Smollett. Although Smollett’s works might be studied individually, this chapter suggests that, when his writing is taken as a whole, another performance or ‘work of writing’ is disclosed. The chapter takes its lead from Smollett’s earliest writings – two little-studied medical pamphlets – in order to suggest how his work becomes a form of serial publication, informed by a performance as a periodical writer. The chapter thus sees Smollett’s relationship with Cervante’s Don Quixote as a defining part of his work. In the end, what matters is not the work of a particular text: instead, Smollett directs us to an ongoing work of mediation (through which everything must be read).
“This is a laugh riot”
Authors: Serebrennikov Artem
Published: May 2024

This chapter offers an overview of the reception of Tobias Smollett's work in Russia before the Bolshevik Revolution. In some ways, the fortunes of Smollett in Russia echoed his reception elsewhere on the continent and in Britain; in others, it offered unusual interpretations of his writing and knew highs and lows uncharacteristic of other countries. While Smollett did not enjoy a popularity or influence in Russia comparable to that of Laurence Sterne, Walter Scott, or Charles Dickens, his reception in the country is rich and thought-provoking enough to deserve a special critical study.
“Classless and unconfined”
Authors: Ferris Daniel H.
Published: May 2024

At the outset of the third decade of the twenty-first century, Tobias Smollett’s name remains far removed from the spotlight, the result of treatment by hostile nineteenth-century critics. This chapter breaks away from the banal confines of academic taxonomy and exposes the mind of a thinker who deserves to be considered alongside another often misunderstood, but somewhat better treated public intellectual, Albert Camus. Inspired by Smollett’s first and final novels, and the sadly overlooked study of Smollett’s life by Donald Bruce, the chapter shines a light on a universal Smollett, one whose majors works should be understood as timeless testaments to the human condition.
William Byrd as Literary Innovator
Authors: Chapman Juliana , Harris Sharon J.
Published: May 2024

This chapter examines how Byrd’s three major song collections, published in 1588, 1589, and 1611, were motivated by questions of genre and poetics. Several scholars have discussed the earlier two songbooks, their relation to Philip Sidney, and how they approximate a sonnet sequence in song form, but little has been done with their connection to Byrd’s final songbook in 1611 as a capstone to his work in this form. Byrd’s song sequences put Sidney’s musico-literary theory into practice and foreground Byrd’s sequences as modes of performance that exceed the coterie poetic circulation of manuscripts. This chapter connects the 1611 collection to the earlier two and considers how Byrd crafted his songbooks with an eye to literary sequence genres that were popular at the same time.
One Hundred Years of Byrd’s Consort Music
Authors: Bryan John
Published: May 2024

100 years ago there were few opportunities to hear performances of the Byrd’s consort music for viols. Since then approaches to editing and performing this music, and perceptions of its importance, have changed. This study investigates these developments in editing, focusing initially on the significant work of Edmund H. Fellowes, the growth of viol consort playing in the UK and beyond during the twentieth century, research into the instruments and playing techniques with which the music might have been performed, and performers’ attitudes towards it. This survey of developments in the performance practice of Byrd’s consort music reflects the ever-widening understanding of the contexts in which Byrd’s music was written, and considers how performers create sonic images that bring to life the many ways in which researchers have approached its study.
Television and trauma
Authors: McLaughlin Robert
Published: May 2024

With Poltergeist Hooper and Spielberg purposely set out to extenuate ‘the age of television’, as screens are always present and on within the film – be that when the children are at breakfast, having friends around to watch the football or for the family too fall asleep in-front of. The ability to stop or avoid the presence of the ‘Invasive Other’ of the television into the living environment is shown to no longer be possible.
African Cities: Space, Borders, and Identities
Authors: Fraticelli Barbara
Published: May 2024

Barbara Fraticelli sheds light on a particular type of African narrative that has emerged since independence. More specifically, this chapter highlights the use of space as a crucial means of identity formation—and, surprisingly, of traversing cultural boundaries. Fraticelli takes the stance that, when it comes to the Iberian world, centuries of colonialism have had the ironic effect of blurring the continental constructs of “Africa” and “Europe” rather than reifying them, at the service of the maintenance of racial capital. Some African cities such as Luanda (Angola), and Maputo (Mozambique), have a recent convulsive and controversial history. After the independence from the metropolis, the descendants of Portuguese officials, businessmen or emigrants were driven to an uncertain destiny. Many of them felt like sudden foreigners in the country they were born and in which they no longer feel secure. Out of this insecurity a forced “return” or exodus began to a land, Portugal, that often presented a significant unknown and where these return travelers have sometimes been considered second-class citizens.
Borders, Race, and Immigration in Ozkar Galán’s Castigat ridendo mores
Authors: Coleman Jeffrey K.
Published: May 2024

This chapter takes on what, in recent years, has been referred to as a growing migrant crisis in the Mediterranean through the lens of theatre. Here, Coleman explores how theatrical production, specifically Castigat ridendo mores, through the mechanism of reenactment, offers a means of questioning the theatricality of illegalized border crossings - whether by land or sea. During the 1990s, it was common to see headlines about the “drama” of immigration, referring to the risky, and often deadly, manner in which migrants attempted to enter Spain. These dramatic scenes were attracting international attention at a time when Spain was entering the global spotlight after years of isolation under dictatorship (Graham and Sánchez). It is fitting then that Spanish playwrights wished to capture these dynamics in their works because as Marco Kunz astutely establishes in describing immigration dramas, theatre’s corporality makes it the art form best able to react to current events and provoke discussion, thereby contributing to the political debate of the time (Kunz 216). Building on that claim, Coleman explores the relevance of theatre for understanding what has truly become a migration spectacle in Spain and beyond.
Resistance of the Flesh: Black Lives and Racist Violence in Portugal
Authors: Mester Anna
Published: May 2024

In recent years, highly publicized incidents of police violence against young Black men in the suburbs of Lisbon have revitalized discussions of race and belonging with regard to African migrant communities and Portuguese of African descent. Social movements like Djass (Associação de Afrodescendentes), SOS Racismo, Plataforma Gueto, Consciência Negra and Casa Brasileira de Lisboa, inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement from the United States, have shifted discussion away from concerns of (im)migrant communities to the question of black lives, racially motivated violence, and institutional racism in Portugal. Protestors carrying signs with “vidas negras importam” demand police accountability for killings and torture of young Black men. Through this type of activism long histories of racialized violence have been made visible, sparking public discussions of race and racism in Portugal. Similarly, rappers (namely Valete, Allen Halloween, JCap, and Capicua) have collaborated on projects relating to condemning racialized violence and examining role of blackness in Portuguese society. Inspired by the work of Alexander G. Weheliye, this chapter analyzes interventions made by afro-descendent social movements and rappers as they shift focus from migration to an examination of the centrality of race to notions of citizenship, belonging, and humanity.
Blockchains, Threats, and Parasites
Authors: Tselenti Danai
Published: May 2024

This chapter connects cutting-edge developments in digital blockchains with piracy issues, propelling the latter into the future. It talks about supporters of blockchain technology that focus on its positive disruptive potential to revolutionise interactions, foster privacy, and strengthen democracy. It also mentions detractors of the technology that take a critical view on blockchain technology and tend to emphasise its social and political dangers related to alleged neoliberal strategies in turn leading to greater control and authoritarian outcomes. The chapter studies the blockchain ecosystem in connection to piracy, particularly with regard to the ways it reconfigures and re-evaluates the concept of threat in the general sense of the term. By focusing primarily on the Bitcoin and Ethereum ecosystems, the chapter challenges notions of security and disintermediation by examining how processes of continuous interruptions, modifications, and respective optimisations become operationalised within the blockchain ecosystem.
Short Introduction: Prosthetic Beauty
Authors: Chesi Giulia Maria
Published: May 2024

This short introduction to Section II: Body Technologies and Gender, by Giulia Maria Chesi, sets out the parameters for the following discussions in chapters 6-11 on prosthetic beauty.
Epilogue
Authors: Langlands Rebecca
Published: May 2024

The Epilogue by Rebecca Langlands concludes the volume. Although ancient anxieties about the trajectory of humanity and the place of humans in the world are not couched in terms of our modernity, or postmodernity, or posthumanism, there is much about them that is recognizable. The chapters in this volume make it clear that neither technological innovation nor the morally charged anxieties that arise from it can be thought of as modern phenomena, in the sense of belonging only to our recent history. The texts analysed in this volume contain morally-charged debates which mobilise deep commitments to social and cultural hierarchies, binary gender categories, sexual, social and aesthetic norms; however these are also probed, critiqued and re-negotiated in strange and refreshing ways.
Pearls
Authors: Mendes Alexander
Published: May 2024

“Pearls” presents a case study of newly arrived immigrant adolescent students in a French as a second language class (FLE) in a Corsican middle school. I provide context on the policies and curricula which shape the FLE classroom, including standardized assessments that shape day-to-day logistics. I analyze three speech events and develop a metaphorical heuristic, pearls, for their interpretation as illustrative of the everyday influences of globalizing surges—unruly globalization phenomena outside our control—in the language classroom. I argue that no language teaching or learning is outside the reach of globalization and is at the same time deeply personal.
Introduction
Authors: Ross Catherine E.
Published: May 2024

Reminding readers of the important, long-term effects of education, this chapter claims that detailed knowledge of the pedagogies as well as the curriculum used to train the Romantics offers new tools for scholars to understand and interpret their texts, careers, and contemporaneous reception. It explains why schooling for dissenters and women is not covered and reviews extant scholarship about education in the period. The chapter calls attention to how closely connected the grammar schools and colleges of Oxford and Cambridge were and thereafter collectively refers to these institutions as the ‘Anglo-Classical Academy’. It lists the book’s contributions, including reminders about the length of time Wordsworth et al. spent in school; the effects of place, including historic architecture and surrounding spaces; and the daily religious worship, regular verse composition, and nightly memory exercises. It asserts as well that education was part of the Romantic ethos,
England’s Public and Grammar Schools
Authors: Ross Catherine E.
Published: May 2024

This chapter explores the ‘little worlds’ of the schools. It notes the lasting effects of their founding religious principles, outlines the school calendar, and describes daily routines, including meals, classes, playtime, and chapel. The chapter explains that school sports and popular amusements such as debating societies and literary magazines were organized by the pupils, not adults. Notice is taken of the sophisticated contents of several of the schoolboy magazines, such as The Etonian, Westminster’s The Trifler, Christ Hospital’s Album, and The Rugby Magazine. This chapter also discusses the ‘darker side’ of school life including bullying, school riots, and punishments. Southey’s experience with flogging and his dispute with his headmaster over The Flagellant are discussed. Forced school service, also called ‘fagging’ or ‘sweating, is explained. The evidence presented about these matters debunks the notion that cruelty by boys and headmasters was widespread and daily.
England’s Public and Grammar Schools
Authors: Ross Catherine E.
Published: May 2024

This chapter explores grammar school curriculum in detail. It cites the authors and literature in Latin and Greek that were most often used for instruction and notes the wide variety of genres that were read, translated, memorized, and imitated by pupils. The chapter cites specific arguments and themes that were prevalent in the classical and biblical texts that were read. It also reviews pupils’ early instruction in rhetoric and public speaking. The chapter looks closely at composition training, calling attention to the effects of daily translation exercises, memorization, and schoolmasters’ attention to “the beauties” of literary forms. The chapter also explains how schoolmasters assessed students’ work and progress. The effects of schoolmasters’ oral correction, of often-fierce peer-to-peer competition, and of annual school events where pupils read their compositions to dignitaries and parents are discussed.
Religious Instruction and Worship in the Anglo-Classical Academy
Authors: Ross Catherine E.
Published: May 2024

Chapter 5 explains how religion in the form of daily Anglican worship, scriptural study, and instruction in theology and church history was part of everyday life for those who attended the Anglo-Classical Academy. It claims that the founding religious mission of these institutions imparted a tone of seriousness and moral obligation to the work of reading, writing, and learning. Noting the utilitarian and eudaimonic nature of the Anglican church in the period, this chapter describes daily church services as well as confirmation and communion. Noted as well are classroom lessons in faith, the language of the Book of Common Prayer, chapel architecture, church music, and student prayer groups. The chapter takes note of religious statements by Byron, Shelley, Coleridge, and Wordsworth. It focuses on four phenomena of Wordsworth’s writing and career that can be explained by the poet’s religious education