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Music and Its Affects
Authors: Kendrick Robert L.
Published: May 2019

In order to convey the sometimes abstruse theological points of the texts, along with their emotional charge, librettists and composers had recourse to a variety of metrical and formal designs, the former via the alternation among poetic lines, and the latter by means of local shifts in pitch center, here considered using seventeenth-century tonal theory (“church-keys/tuoni”) as a heuristic frame. In this context, laments by various characters were marked by devices not familiar from the lexicon of contemporary Venetian opera (descending bass patterns), but rather by surprising metric or tonal changes. Many of these are evident from a 1684 piece that portrayed the power of words and tears in lamenting Christ, Il Segno della humana salute.
“Imaging the Mind”
Authors: Tsika Noah
Published: May 2019

Focusing on World War II and its immediate aftermath, this chapter offers a genealogy of a particular documentary tendency, one tied to the concurrent rise of military psychiatry and of the military-industrial state. As the psychiatric treatment of combat-traumatized soldiers gained greater institutional and cultural visibility, so did particular techniques associated with—but scarcely limited to—documentary film. This chapter looks at some of the subjectivities—some of the “private visions” and “careerist goals”—of military psychiatrists and other psychological experts whose influence is abundantly evident in a range of “documentary endeavors,” including those carried out (often simultaneously) by Hollywood studios and various military filmmaking outfits, from the Signal Corps Photographic Center to the Training Films and Motion Picture Branch of the Bureau of Aeronautics.
Redemption at the Edge
Authors: Heo Angie
Published: May 2019

“Redemption at the Edge” attends to the external dynamics of the Coptic Church, tracing its tactile expansion through pilgrimage and the sympathetic flow of baraka, "holy blessing," across the Christian-Muslim divide. Highlighting the bordering "edge" of relics, it charts the material reproducibility of saintly parts in contexts of dispersion and dispossession, as well as mass-mediated rituals of virtual extension among the diaspora. More historical in its orientation, this chapter also studies how the church's ritual making of Egypt into "Holy Land" intersected with the anticolonial making of the Egyptian nation-state and its territorial borders. It thus ends with the timely coincidence of two anticolonial returns in the spring of 1968: the Roman Catholic Church's return of St. Mark's relics in the wake of Vatican II and the Virgin's apparitions in Zaytun after the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. These two imagined returns solidified the hierarchy of Christian-Muslim nationhood over the "ecumenical" ties of Christendom.
Public Order
Authors: Heo Angie
Published: May 2019

“Public Order” engages the public nature of holy personhood by examining how the church and state regulate the publicity of miracles across the Christian-Muslim divide. Building on the overlap between Christian and Islamic worlds of holy visions and healing, it turns to the case of a Coptic woman whose dream led to controversy between Christians and Muslims along the Suez Canal. This chapter centers on the miracle-icon of the Virgin in Port Said and the efforts of Egyptian security officials to manage its public circulation. It shows how the policing of public order led to the polarizing segregration of Christians and Muslims, transforming the material circulation of holy power in the process. The containment of the icon, made into a “communal” image, continues to generate new suspicions, rendering open shrines into outposts of secrecy.
Epilogue
Authors: Heo Angie
Published: May 2019

The epilogue centers on the Libya Martyrs, the twenty-one migrant laborers who were beheaded in 2015, and the alarming rise of ISIS across North Africa and the Middle East in 2013–14. It shows how the terrorist execution of Copts and its immediate aftermath activated older strands of religious mediation that have been described throughout this book: the communal dynamics of martyr commemoration, Arab nationalism versus Christian Rome as competing referents of political belonging, the outbreak of contests and threats tied to church territory, and the cult making of contemporary martyrs in the Coptic Church. By recounting the Libya Martyrs' various contexts, the epilogue invites reflection on how acts of violence that exceed the Egyptian national frame—through impoverished Coptic migrants and pan-Islamic militant groups—exacerbate old structures of sectarian tension in a new era of post-revolutionary militarization and the global war on terrorism.
Conclusion
Authors: Vogt Wendy A.
Published: May 2019

Through two ethnographic vignettes at the Mexico’s southern and norther borders, the concluding chapter summarizes the central contributions of the book. It also places the migrant journey across Mexico within a larger global context to understand the far reaching and violent impacts of state securitization and border enforcement across the globe. It ends with a reflection on the power of ethnography to tell important and otherwise untold stories.
From Lonely Isle to Friendly Isle
Authors: Graham Wade
Published: May 2019

This chapter details events following the failure of the sugar enterprises on Molokai. The arrival of the pineapple industry in the 1920s marked the island's first agricultural success story since the heyday of Hālawa Valley. It was in a sense a modern, American echo of the ancient Hawaiian achievements: an extensive, massive, irrigated monoculture, efficiently run by a small caste of managers for nonresident owners who expatriated the profits and worked by a low-wage, low-status lumpenproletariat segregated among themselves by nationality and from the rest of Molokai in company “towns.” Molokai's historical structures were turned upside down. Along with them were changed the island's landscape, communities, economy, politics, and future.
Conclusion
Authors: Graham Wade
Published: May 2019

This chapter summarizes key themes and presents some final thoughts. It argues that a certain number of patterns are visible in the long history of Molokai and Hawaii, which together add up to a so-called socio-environmental calculus. First, because of the uneven distribution of water in an often marginal environment, the control of water resources is critical to sustaining life and to maintaining control of the political level in a competitive society. Second, the control of natural and human resources tends, where the environmental conditions for bigness (or resource thickness) exist, to become concentrated in a few hands and reinforces the tendencies toward intensification and stratification. The monopoly control of water and land resources exacerbates and drives the feedback loop of environmental degradation; destruction of common resources; and the decline of small, subsistence-based communities, further reinforcing intensification and the control of monopolists.
Introduction
Authors: Finkelstein Ari
Published: May 2019

This chapter situates the book within scholarly discourse about the place of Jews in the late antique Roman Empire, a topic of interest to both historians of Jewish and Roman history. The book investigates how the emperor Julian (361–63 c.e.) uses Jews as ethnic Judeans in his hellenizing project to define Hellenic identity and to disqualify and delegitimize Christian ethnic claims. It concludes by summing up the main takeaways of the book for Jewish, Christian, and Roman historians of late antiquity.
“¿De Dónde Somos?” “¡De Bolivia!”
Authors: Ryburn Megan
Published: May 2019

This chapter provides a fresh angle on migration and political citizenship—emphasis has often been placed on migrants’ formal political practices (i.e., voting) or informal political practices that fall more within Global North concepts of “the political” (i.e., union participation). The Bolivian migrants in Chile in this study did not generally engage in these kinds of practices. An account of ethnographic research with the migrant dance fraternity Corazón de Tinkus reveals, however, the ways in which performing Bolivian carnival dances in public spaces in Chile can be read as a transnational citizenship practice within the realm of the political. So, while they were excluded from political citizenship in the sense in which it is often understood, dancing in public spaces—accompanied by the cry “¿De dónde somos? ¡De Bolivia!” (“Where’re we from? From Bolivia!”)—allowed migrants a politicized means of expressing their hope of greater future inclusion across borders.
Coral Scientists between Hope and Despair
Authors: Braverman Irus
Published: May 2019

Coral Whisperers is structured as a pendulum swinging between hope and despair. Chapter 1, “Coral Scientists between Hope and Despair,”explains the workings of this pendulum and the stakes involved. Relying considerably on my observations at the International Coral Reef Symposium in Hawai’i in June 2016, this chapter relates the intellectual and emotional debates betweenscientists about how to manage the impending catastrophe facing coral reefs. This chapter is, in many ways, a microcosm of the entire book, in that it depicts the oscillation between hope and despair and tells the stories of particular scientists who have experienced this oscillation themselves.
“And Then We Wept”
Authors: Braverman Irus
Published: May 2019

Chapter 2, ““And Then We Wept”: Coral Death on Record,” documents the despair side of the pendulum as it contemplates the existing modes and technologies for recording coral bleaching and death. Here, the trajectory is typically of devastation and gloom, as the numbers are depressing at best. Much of the chapter focuses on the third global bleaching event at the Great Barrier Reef, documenting how scientists have both recorded and narrated this event to themselves and to the general public. I examine the role of monitoring in particular, considering whether enhancing scientific knowledge about corals through monitoring is an act of hope, in that it supports conservation action, or one of despair, as it stifles such action and masks the resulting inaction with more and more monitoring. Finally, the chapter shows that even in the world of numbers and maps, “bright spots” and optimistic indexes still rear their more hopeful heads.
The Cinderella of Corals
Authors: Braverman Irus
Published: May 2019

J Murray Roberts is a professor of applied marine biology and ecology in the School of GeoSciences at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. His main research focus is deep-sea, or cold-water, corals. I interviewed him by Skype on January 27, 2016, and then over breakfast at a café in Edinburgh on April 20, 2016—in between two of his long excursions into the deep sea. I contemplated joining him on one of these excursions, but after finding out that this might require jumping out of a helicopter into the ocean, I thought better of the idea. I was interested in hearing from Roberts why deep-sea coral reefs were not really recognized as reefs by many coral conservation scientists (in his words, they are “Cinderella species”) and how the material differences between deep- and shallow-water corals play out in terms of regulatory regimes and in the relationship between scientists and lawyers in particular. In his focus on the Cinderella of the coral world, rather than her more glamorous and visible tropical sisters, Roberts’s narrative is an outlier. But then so are all of the other interchapter interviews, in significantly different ways....
A Super Coral Scientist
Authors: Braverman Irus
Published: May 2019

Ruth Gates is director of the Hawai‘i Institute of Marine Biology at the University of Hawai‘i. The institute occupies its own tiny island, known as Moku o Lo‘e, or Coconut Island. She is also the (first female) president of the International Society for Reef Studies. Elizabeth Kolbert wrote about Gates in the ...
Conclusion
Authors: Braverman Irus
Published: May 2019

Conservation is the art of cultivating—here, that means cultivating both corals and hope for the future. The book’s conclusion begins with a description of two art-science collaborations and then moves to review the main themes of the book. It highlights that alongside the story of correlation, complexity, and wonder, Coral Whisperers has also told another story: a story about the polarized state of the scientific community that studies corals. Coral scientists from around the world emerge here not only as harbingers of doom and as messengers of hope but also, perhaps more importantly, as humans facing an existential crisis. The conclusion ends with a discussion of the 2017 documentary Chasing Coral, emphasizing that the journey from ephemeral optimism that can’t besustained to deeper iterations of hope that emerge on the brink of despair and exasperation requires a leap of faith. In the midst of their enormous pain and loss, coral scientists emerge to guide conservationists—and us all—through the perils of the Anthropocene.
Animal Ethos
Authors: Sharp Lesley A.
Published: May 2019

What are the moral challenges and consequences of animal research in academic laboratory settings? Animal Ethos considers how the inescapable needs of lab research necessitate interspecies encounters that, in turn, engender unexpected moral responses among a range of associated personnel. Whereas much has been written about the codified, bioethical rules and regulations that inform proper lab behavior and decorum, Animal Ethos, as an in-depth, ethnographic project, probes the equally rich—yet poorly understood—realm of ordinary or everyday morality, where serendipitous, creative, and unorthodox thought and action evidence concerted efforts to transform animal laboratories into moral, scientific worlds. The work is grounded in efforts to integrate theory within medical anthropology (and, more particularly, on suffering and moral worth), animal studies, and science and technology studies (STS). Contrary to established scholarship that focuses exclusively on single professions (such as the researcher or technician), Animal Ethos tracks across the spectrum of the lab labor hierarchy by considering the experiences of researchers, animal technicians, and lab veterinarians. In turn, it offers comparative insights on animal activists. When taken together, this range of parties illuminates the moral complexities of experimental lab research. The affective qualities of interspecies intimacy, animal death, and species preference are of special analytical concern, as reflected in the themes of intimacy, sacrifice, and exceptionalism that anchor this work.
Abeyta
Authors: Perramond Eric P.
Published: May 2019

The Taos Valley (Abeyta) adjudication case illustrates how settlement outside the formal court process led to a more amenable resolution of difficult and adversarial litigation. The Taos adjudication was sparked by a dam that was never built, but the case continued on to sort out water uses in the valley. Taos Pueblo, at the headwaters of most of the major streams in the area, was well placed to negotiate their Indian water rights. Over time, the regional acequias, the Pueblo, the city of Taos, and other interested water users created a tailored water agreement, now in settlement, that was more in line with historical understanding and practices. Concerns remain over groundwater pumping, shortages, and excluded parties.
Local Settlements Connect What State Adjudication Severed
Authors: Perramond Eric P.
Published: May 2019

This chapter discusses the advantages, disadvantages, and unintended consequences of water settlements in New Mexico. The San Juan–Chama Project moved water (real and fictional) across basins and state borders and sparked adjudication in northern New Mexico, including the Aamodt and Abeyta. This chapter examines the fictional water connection between these two cases in a water transfer example, and it explores why adjudications morphed into out-of-court settlements. Settlements are not easy for all water users and the agencies tasked to meet their terms. These new agreements may rely on moving water that may not exist now or in the future. Furthermore, ongoing disputes regarding limitations on groundwater pumping from private wells may continue to haunt the office of the state engineer.
On the Field
Authors: Kelly William W.
Published: May 2019

This chapter profiles the Hanshin baseball players. A professional Japanese baseball team like Hanshin has a large roster—upwards of seventy players at any one time—so their selection, training, injury management, contract negotiations, career dynamics, retirement prospects, and other features constitute complex and sometimes contradictory hierarchies of accomplishment, authority, compensation, and the irreconcilable tensions between individual competition and team cohesiveness. The prominence of baseball in Japan and the media make professional players among the most public workers in the society. Although the major corporations that sponsor the teams are often committed to lifetime employment for their core employees, a baseball player’s career is brief and unpredictable.
Workplace Melodramas and Second-City Complex
Authors: Kelly William W.
Published: May 2019

This chapter shows how the Hanshin Tiger sportsworld that I encountered in the late 1990s was most immediately produced by trends in professional baseball and in Japanese society in the decades since 1950, when professional baseball was reorganized into two parallel leagues. The chapter surveys the changing structures and rivalries in professional baseball with special attention to the ideology of Japan, Inc. corporatism and to a surging Tokyo-centrism that upset the previous balance between Kansai (Osaka) and Kanto (Tokyo). It surveys a colorful literature on Tiger history that oscillates between the two rhetorical poles of the Fierce Tigers and the No-Good Tigers. For decades, the Tigers were a useful metaphor for the people of the Kansai region—for an imagined Osaka character, for the real Osaka economy, and for asserting an Osaka presence in a Tokyo-centric nation.
Becoming Students
Authors: Childs Geoff , Choedup Namgyal
Published: May 2019

Chapter 7 focuses on secular education and opens with a case study that illustrates some of the dilemmas that arose during the initial years of educational migration, including how variables ranging from gender to birth parity to political instability affect schooling opportunities. It then addresses the questions of why and how parents are sending children away for school and explores parents’ thoughts on the benefits of secular education. The chapter then analyzes educational migration within a framework of migration network theory, extends the cumulative causation argument by demonstrating how monks play a role in finding places in schools for their younger relatives, and discusses the potential for educational migration to enhance rather than reduce socioeconomic disparities.
No Exit
Authors: Feldman Ilana
Published: May 2019

This chapter explores the definition, history, and experience of the refugee category. It considers the apparently paradoxical fact that a category that is not meant to provide political status—that is intended rather to hold politics in abeyance—is a starting point for politics in the humanitarian condition. It looks at the specific challenges of the Palestinian refugee category—delineated by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) to determine eligibility for assistance, not to account for all who suffered losses in 1948. The chapter traces operational changes in the category over decades. It also considers how Palestinians, of multiple generations, have lived with and sometimes against the category. It describes tensions about the political meaning of refugee status.
Introduction
Authors: Roos Hilde
Published: May 2019

The introduction opens with the watershed moment in Eoan’s history, when Verdi’s La Traviata is performed for the first time by an all-colored cast, in 1956. Despite being described as “an unqualified artistic success,” this event laid bare the controversy that surrounded their engagement with Western art music and one that led to the demise of their opera productions twenty years later. The event presents the full spectrum of perspectives on Eoan, which included the many conflicted meanings that opera held for participants and audiences. The notion of “colored identity” as a uniquely South African experience that is different from how American readers understand the concept is discussed.
Eoan’s Best Opera Success: An Amorous Fantasy
Authors: Roos Hilde
Published: May 2019

Chapter 3 deals with the group’s opera productions between 1957 and 1963, which, in hindsight, proved to be artistically their best years. At the time, the idea of a colored opera group that produced Verdi operas continued to mesmerize Cape Town’s white audiences and situated the group in the center of Cape Town’s Western art and music activities. Eoan was, indeed, the first non-European group in South Africa to formally and consistently produce opera on a semiprofessional level. A sense of excitement and wonder is palpable throughout this period, not only in documentation on the reception of the group, but also in the many artifacts in the Eoan Group Archive that document the internal operations of the group.
Postscript
Authors: Roos Hilde
Published: May 2019

The postscript brings the book to a close by briefly contemplating why Eoan has thus far not been celebrated in the public domain and what the legacy of the group may be.
“I Speak for my Difference”
Authors: Álvarez Juliana Sandoval
Published: May 2019

Studies on Chile’s transition to democracy after Pinochet’s regime regarding memory, history, and public space have focused mainly on their massive visual/material expressions, either officially sponsored or created by oppositional activists. Few have studied the battle for memory carried on through alternative means and on a smaller scale by groups excluded both by the retiring dictatorship and the upcoming democracy. This work analyzes how the aesthetic-political actions of the artistic duo Las Yeguas del Apocalipsis, as openly homosexual activists with intentionally fluid identities, embodied a radical and militant difference from which they actively aimed to publicly challenge and broaden the discussions and political culture by which a “new” country was being thought of and built.
Ways of Interpreting Queer Pasts
Authors: Ferentinos Susan
Published: May 2019

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) historical interpretation is an increasingly common feature of museums and historic sites, while at the same time one that often pushes beyond the physical boundaries of historical organizations. This article considers various interpretive methods as tools for delivering LGBTQ history and offers multiple examples of each type of interpretation. Methods discussed include exhibits (both temporary and permanent); special events; arts programming; youth programming; monuments and memorials; historical engagement with the built environment; and digital history projects. The author acknowledges that, in 2019, these efforts still tend to favor the experiences of white cisgender men and to focus on the realm of political activism and offers some suggestions for how LGBTQ interpretation might develop in coming years.
Over the Rainbow
Authors: Cantwell Christopher D. , Hinds Stuart , Carpenter Kathryn B.
Published: May 2019

In 2016 Kansas City installed a marker that celebrated its role as host to the first meeting of the National Planning Conference of Homophile Organizations in 1966. The marker was the first to commemorate this historic gathering of gay rights activists as well as the first to recognize Missouri’s LGBTQ history. This article charts the effort to install Kansas City’s marker as a case study of the issues involved in documenting LGBTQ history. What began as a community collecting initiative quickly evolved into an effort that included students, city officials, and a federal heritage area. The authors—a founder of the community collection initiative, a public history educator, and a public history student—demonstrate how those involved attempted to navigate questions of ownership and shared authority. Ultimately, the authors ask public historians to see themselves as potential allies to, rather than authorities of, the communities with which they work.
METTL7B promotes migration and invasion in thyroid cancer through epithelial-mesenchymal transition
Authors: Ye Danrong , Jiang Yang , Sun Yihan , Li Yuefeng , Cai Yefeng , Wang Qingxuan , Wang Ouchen , Chen Endong , Zhang Xiaohua
Published: May 2019

Thyroid cancer is associated with one of the most malignant endocrine tumors. However, molecular mechanisms underlying thyroid tumorigenesis and progression remain unclear. In order to investigate these mechanisms, we performed whole-transcriptome sequencing, which indicated that a differentially expressed gene,METTL7B, was highly expressed in thyroid cancers. We analyzedMETTL7Bexpression using TCGA and performed qRT-PCR on tissue samples. Moreover, an analysis of clinicopathological characteristics revealed a positive correlation betweenMETTL7Band lymph node metastasis. A series ofin vitroexperiments indicated thatMETTL7Benhanced migration and invasion of thyroid carcinoma cells. Further studies revealed thatMETTL7Bmay enhance TGF-β1-induced epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT). Our results indicate thatMETTL7Bmay promote metastasis of thyroid cancer through EMT and may therefore be considered as a potential biomarker for the diagnosis and prognosis of thyroid carcinoma.
Joint Estimation of Pedigrees and Effective Population Size Using Markov Chain Monte Carlo
Authors: Ko Amy , Nielsen Rasmus
Published: May 2019

Pedigrees provide the genealogical relationships among individuals at a fine resolution and serve an important function in many areas of genetic studies. One such use of pedigree information is in the estimation of the short-term effective population size (Ne), which is of great relevance in fields such as conservation genetics. Despite the usefulness of pedigrees, however, they are often an unknown parameter and must be inferred from genetic data. In this study, we present a Bayesian method to jointly estimate pedigrees and Ne from genetic markers using Markov Chain Monte Carlo. Our method supports analysis of a large number of markers and individuals within a single generation with the use of a composite likelihood, which significantly increases computational efficiency. We show, on simulated data, that our method is able to jointly estimate relationships up to first cousins and Ne with high accuracy. We also apply the method on a real dataset of house sparrows to reconstruct their previously unreported pedigree.
Vegetation changes in the Hotyn Upland over the last 2000 years (based on pollen data)
Authors: Gerasimenko N. , Yurchenko T. , Rohozin Ye.
Published: May 2019

Pollen study of two soil sections, located in two different relief positions (the gully bottom at Sadgora 1 and the upper part of a slope at Ridkivtsi I) enables us to show vegetational and climatic changes in the Bukovyna area (the Chernivtsi region) during the last 2000 years (the end of the Early Subatlantic, the Middle and Late Subatlantic). The reconstructions of past vegetation are based on the analyses of pollen surface samples, taken from the soils of different ecotops in the sites’ vicinity. The reconstructed short-period phases of environmental change correspond well with those established in other areas. These are the end of the “Roman warm period” (before the 14C date of 1.74 ka BP), with the humid climate; the relatively dry “Dark Ages cool period” (before the 14C date of 1.19 ka BP); the wet “Medieval warm period”; the cool “Little Ice Age” (with its wetter beginning and drier ending) and the modern warm phase (the last 150 years).Centennial environmental changes − the cooling within the Medieval Warming (XI cent.) and the warming within the “Little Ice Age” (XV cent.) – have been detected. Human impact on the vegetation can be demonstrated – forest clearance (with the presence of particles of microscopic charcoal and pollen of pyrophitic plants), the introduction of thermophilous walnut during warm periods, and the appearance of pasture lands in the place of former fern patches and woods during the “Little Ice Age”, and the last warm phase (with the presence of pollen of pastoral synanthropic plants). In the last 2000 years, broad-leaved woodland, dominated by hornbeam, grew extensively near Sadgora and Ridkivtsi only during the “Medieval Warm Period”.
Identification of rainfall onset for meteorological use regarding to region in the Algerian highlands
Authors: Benaichata Lazreg , Houari Mahmoud , Maatoug Mhamed , Azzaoui Mohamed , Khadidja Naceur
Published: May 2019

The data from several weather stations in Western Algeria show a semi-arid climate during last decades. The entire study region showed a great variability in the occurrences of the first and second rainy days in the year. This variability is associated with a positive trend, showing a continuous increasing aridity in the south Mediterranean and the late arrival of the rainy season is well marked. The rainy season in the north of Algeria, spreads from September to June. The origin of the rains differ according to the seasons. The rainfall from June to October is of localized stormy origin, whereas in winter, the rainfall comes from the classical atmospherically perturbations arriving from North or North West. This work objective was to give a definition of the rainy season onset and to show its inter - annual variability according to the Niño and Niña years. The El - Niño phenomenon by its positive and negative phases seems to affect the start of the rainy season. The variability of the rainfall onset indices is very significant. There is a relative stability of the rainy season length over the long term period. A significant delay in the precipitation onset was observed during certain years. A method to define rainy season onset based on daily rainfall data from a weather station in the Algerian highlands was proposed. This approach is based on a climatic point of view, using a frequency analysis of precipitation and dates of their first occurrence. It delays the first heavy rain day (20 mm) when La - Niña settles. If EL-Niño settles, the first heavy rain (20 mm) day will be earlier. These results will improve the probabilistic forecasts of the beginning of the rainy seasons, the cessation as well as the lengths. This work is a preliminary confirmation that the El-Niño phenomenon really affects the Mediterranean climate.
Geological history of the Dnipro Rapids from Paleogene to Holocene
Authors: Manyuk Volodymyr
Published: May 2019

During its long history, the rapids section of the large river the Dnipro not only posed a problem for navigation, but also attracted people with its picturesque rocky landscapes unusual for the Steppe Prydniprovie. Nobody who had saw their beauty was left indifferent. History has preserved lots of recorded impressions from various visits to the Rapids from the Ancient Greek philosphers to exceptional works of Dmitro Yavornytsky. However, the geological studies were fragmented and there is no integrated source focussing on the geological structure of the Dnipro Rapids. We analyzed the results of the explorations of Valerian Domger, a famous researcher of the geology of Middle Prydniprovie.His routes investigated almost every corner of the then Katerynoslav governorate. After the creation of the Prydriprovie Regional Landscape Park (PRLP) in 2008 within the territory of part of the Dnipro Rapids, a question of restoration of its geological history should have emerged, but that has not happened. The year 2017 became the year of rebirth of the PRLP andrecognition of geological component as the key feature of its restoration. The Pre-Cambrian stage of the geological history of the Naddniprovia Rapids is described in the author`s publication in early 2018, which focused on the most ancient history of the Rapids. The Phanerozoic Eon is analyzed in this work and focuses on the lithogical-facial peculiarities of the sedimentary rocks from Paleogene to Quaternary rocks on the basis of stratigraphic and paleontological data, according to which they have beendivided in detail. We determined the patterns in the structure of Quaternary deposits, the correlation of subaerial and subaquaticformations of different genetic types was made according to the use of the climatic-stratigraphic or paleoclimatic principle of division. Thepossibilities of creating a geological park on the basis of the“Dnipro Rapids” Regional Landscape Park ( "Dniprovi Porohy' RLP) areexplored and substantiated.
Microaggregate composition and other features of the loesses of Kryvyi Rih
Authors: Mokritskaya T. P.
Published: May 2019

The study of the degradation of the properties of subsiding soils under the conditions of technogenesis led to the need for searching the relationship betweenchanges in the soil physical properties, deformability, strength and its dispersity. Many researchers focus on the influence of the soil microstructure and its changes on the processes of deformation and collapse. Current models of the distribution of particles and pores in various soil media, cavities of various origin and cracks are based on the theory of fractals. Techniques for a practical application of the theory to estimating the scope of work, calculating the indicators, and engineering-geological forecasting are being developed. The previous studies showed that the theory of fractals, applied to the investigation of subsidence degradation, allowed an assessment of deformations arising from the decomposition of microaggregates in loess deposits of the city of Dnipro. A long period analysis of changes in the properties of loess deposits on the territory of the city of Kryvyi Rih showed that the changes in physical properties and conditions had a regional character. The paper presents the results of experimental studies of the microaggregate composition of loess samples taken in the depth interval of 1 - 7 m in the zone of influence of Kryvyi Rih. The microaggregate composition was determined by the new method, which we tested while studying the loess of the city of Dnipro. The total number of particle size analyses performed was 128. The results of the analyses were used to estimate the fractal dimension of the function of particle distribution by volume. The values of the function vary slightly, but the nature of the changes differs depending on the method of sample preparation for the analysis and its dispersity. Strength indexes have been determined with Physical. It has been shown that there is a correlation between the content of fine particles and the values of limiting tangential stresses Indicators of the physical condition are the repressors of tangential stress values. According to the results of the correlation analysis, the values of the soil density, the upper and lower limits of plasticity, and the content of particles with a size of 0.05-0.001 mm and less than 0.001 mm were selected as repressors.
Національні інтереси в економічній сфері: сутність та побудова їх ієрархії
Authors: Zavgorodnya S. P.
Published: May 2019

У статті на основі результатів аналізу теоретико-методологічних засад забезпечен-ня національної та економічної безпеки визначено сутність національних інтересів векономічній сфері і на цій основі запропоновано визначення дефініції «національніінтереси в економічній сфері» та підхід до побудови їх ієрархії, згідно з яким вказаніінтереси запропоновано розподіляти на два види: зовнішні та внутрішні, а в межахкожного виду - на три групи, а саме: реалізація яких має найвищу, середню та низькуступінь важливості для забезпечення економічної безпеки. Показано, що необхідноюпередумовою ефективного функціонування системи державного управління еконо-мічною безпекою є знаходження оптимального (раціонального) співвідношення ін-тересів в економічній сфері в трикутнику: людина (індивід) – суспільство – держава.
Розвиток громадянського суспільства як об’єкт наукового дослідження
Authors: Volynets S. S.
Published: May 2019

У статті проаналізовано стан і тенденції наукового дослідження розвитку громадянського суспільства у вітчизняному суспільствознавстві. Наведено розроблену М. Розумним періодизацію еволюції наукових поглядів на питання розвитку громадянського суспільства в Україні. Наголошено, що дані питання охоплюють широке коло проблем і носять міждисциплінарний характер. Подано стислий огляд колективних досліджень, наукових розробок, монографій, аналітичних доповідей та записок, які присвячені різноманітним аспектам розвитку громадянського суспільства. Запропоновано тематичний розподіл зазначених вище наукових робіт. Встановлено основні напрями дослідження зарубіжного, в першу чергу, європейського досвіду щодо розвитку громадянського суспільства, а також взаємодії органів державної влади з громадськістю як критерію ефективності механізмів державного сприяння цьому процесу. Виявлено недостатній рівень комплексного аналізу державної політики сприяння розвитку громадянського суспільства у вітчизняному суспільствознавстві, відсутність наукових дослідницьких робіт та монографій, присвячених цілісному, всебічному і ґрунтовному дослідженню її теоретичних та практичних аспектів. Зроблено висновок про необхідність більш глибокого, детального і ретельного вивчення питань розвитку громадянського суспільства з боку вітчизняної науки державного управління.
Особливості державного регулювання міграційних процесів у Дніпропетровській області
Authors: Tarasenko K. M.
Published: May 2019

Розглянуто основні причини міграції населення на прикладі Дніпропетровського регіону, як внутрішньої, так і зовнішньої. Виявлено чинники, які стимулюють трудову міграцію працездатного населення в цілому. Встановлено тенденцію до збільшення рівня смертності і помірного зростання рівня народжуваності. Розглянуто проблеми міграційних процесів, спричинені економічною кризою, безробіттям, низьким рівнем життя населення та політичною нестабільністю. Визначено, що кардинальним стимулом є різниця в оплаті праці, адже середньомісячний заробіток трудового мігранта приблизно 1 000 дол. США, а середня заробітна плата дніпропетровця не перевищує 150 дол. США. З’ясовано, що одним із факторів, який впливає на процеси сучасної міграції Дніпропетровщини, є нестабільна ситуація, яка склалась на сході України та призвела до збільшення переміщених осіб, які значно підвищили кількість населення області. Проаналізовано сучасний стан міграційних потоків Дніпропетровської області, виявлено проблеми та запропоновано шляхи їх вирішення.
Dnipropetrovs’k University under the Pressure of Stalinism of the 1930s
Authors: Ivanenko V. V.
Published: May 2019

The article uses Dnipropetrovs’k University to exemplify the nature, dynamics, scope and peculiarities of the Soviet penal policy and practice of the 1930s regarding the intellectuals as the most educated and active part of Ukrainian society. The emphasis is placed on the fact that millions of Soviet citizens, including hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians, fell innocent victims to the state terrorism. Most of them, being labeled «nationalists», «saboteurs», «trotskists», «enemies of the people», have for numerous years been artificially erased from the historical memory of Ukrainians and subjected to oblivion, which significantly weakened the nation’s gene pool, the background and traditions of the national self-awareness and intellectual potential of Ukraine.Substantial evidence makes it possible to trace the lives of numerous university workers, mainly from the cohort of professors and senior managers. In total, we identified the names of 96 people who had been prosecuted or oppressed by the authorities in the mentioned period. Many of them were physically destroyed, that is, shot. The author argues that those were irretrievable losses among the most highly-qualified staff members of the university, those who, through their intelligence, talent and commitment, determined the main trends and content of the university development under deep social transformations of the 1930s. It obviously made a significant impact on the efficiency of both educational and academic activity of the university as one of the leading centers of classical higher education in Ukraine.In turn, the atmosphere of overall suspiciousness and fear caused, to high extent, by the repressions existingin the-then Soviet society despite the parade reports of the Communist Party leaders, and coupled with other negative factors in the system of government greatly affected the rate of economic growth, development of education, science and culture as well as the country’s defense capability in pre-war years.
Noosphere approach to development of education in the economy of knowledge
Authors: Khanin I. G.
Published: May 2019

This article is devoted to the development of the noospheric approach to the development of education in the knowledge economy based on the teachings of V. Vernadsky about the noosphere. The role of education, in the knowledge economy, is greatly expanded, and the significance of education is repeatedly increased. However, modern education is full of problems and not only material, but more significant - existential problems. The education development is connected with the methodology development of cognition and management processes. The study goal is to explain the features of the noospheric approach to the education development and the relationship with models of paradigmatic innovation development and vertical integration of knowledge. The semantics of the word “noosphere” is the sphere of humanitarian, in other words, political, cultural, legal, cognitive, religious and other social phenomena. The noosphere is a logical continuation of a variety consisting of the sphere of physical and chemical (geosphere) and biological (biosphere) phenomena. The phenomena of which the noosphere consists are integrated through information phenomena (the infosphere).The noospheric approach to the development of education is based on noospheric thinking, as well as the conceptual model of paradigmatic innovation development and the vertical integration of knowledge methodology.Noospheric thinking is replacing the existential thinking that currently dominates. The model of paradigmal innovation development considers three phases: the empirical-heuristic phase, the paradigmatic and the scientific.The methodology of vertical integration of knowledge includes: practice (business), construction and technology, applied theories, fundamental theories, philosophy. The parabola of knowledge become a model of learning based on the knowledge integration from philosophy to practice. One of the most important conditions for implementing the noospheric approach to the cognition development and economy is a high-quality education. Therefore the main ideas of its development in the part of submitting material, understanding the goal, additional education, bridging the gap between the natural and human sciences are put forward. The importance of teaching philosophy, as well as close connection with practice, is grounded. The ways of strengthening interaction between science, education and business are considered.
Theory of practice in the version of Theodor Schatzki
Authors: Skokova L. G.
Published: May 2019

The article is devoted to the features of the conceptual vocabulary of the theory of practices according to the version of T. Schatzki. The study showed that practical-theoretical approaches distinguish themselves from ontological individualism, for which social phenomena are constellations of individual activities. Practices are treated as organized activities of many people (and not the activities of individuals); human actions, thoughts, motives, identities are formed under the influence of involvement in practices and should be considered in conjunction with the context of the practices. The study emphasized the importance of practical knowledge, corporality, materiality and analyzed the definition of the «practice» concept as an open, dispersed spatio-temporal nexus of doings&sayings, differences in disperse and integrative practices, concepts of «practice organizers» (practical understanding, rules, teleoaffective structures, generalized understanding). Material components, the external context of practice is explained by the term «practice-arrangement bundle». In order to explain the mechanisms of the formation of bundles of practices and arrangements, Schatzki reveals five types of relations: causality, prefiguration, constitution, intentionality, intelligibility. Binding of relations of all five types can be more or less dense, intensive. It is the concentrated density, the connection between practices and arrangements creates a bundlе. The reorientation of the analysis from the level of the individual, that is, the placement of values, motivations in the individual consciousness, to the level of practice as a constellation of elements, opens the new ways to studying cultural practices, optimizing the ways of their performance. The study showed the applicability of the Schatzki`s practice-theoretical concepts for the sociological study of cultural practices in a broad sense (as membership in a particular culture) and for applied analysis of practices in specific fields of culture (art, literature, media, leisure etc.).
Theoretical review of manifestations and features of social solidarity
Authors: Doktorova D. S.
Published: May 2019

This article is dedicated to issues of social solidarity actions and it`s features in modern Sociology theoretical framework. The literature review reviled that definition of social solidarity is a complex concept, which is not distinct from related definitions. Separation of Social solidarity characteristics form a significant contribution of this article. They exist in the group, where respect, mutual feelings, trust, unselfishness, pride and suffer from loss or betrayal occur. The forms of social solidarity existence have a substantial role and operate on different levels: around, for and according to something. Solidarity ties have a great importance, which quality depends on the level of covetousness. Such ties can also be motivating factors. Article describes the human behavior in the relations of social solidarity, which varies depending on level of organization, roles (major and secondary), scale. Time factor could be found in the center of the social solidarity concept. It can unite the group and have a simultaneous impact in past, present and future. This article shows the value of social solidarity brought by motives of the group members and moral rules, which might or might not be followed.