bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
A New Life
Authors: Ryan John F.
Published: May 2023

This chapter outlines O’Donovan’s brief period of time working in America and his subsequent return to London. In 1910, he became a resident of Toynbee Hall, a workers’ education settlement in East London, where he was appointed as Sub-Warden. The chapter also describes his marriage to Beryl Verschoyle, who came from a northern Protestant gentry family. This marriage caused O’Donovan to become estranged from his family, although it was welcomed by friends such as Sarah Purser, Constance Markievicz, Douglas Hyde, Horace Plunkett, the artist Dermod O’Brien, AE, and the novelist Francis Hackett. The newlyweds moved to Toynbee Hall but in 1911, with Beryl in ill-health, and in the early stages of pregnancy, O’Donovan reluctantly resigned. On his departure, Canon Barnett, Toynbee Hall’s co-founder, claimed that he had brought ‘order and administration’ into the house in a very short time.
Wartime Service
Authors: Ryan John F.
Published: May 2023

This chapter begins in 1915, when O’Donovan was temporarily commissioned first lieutenant in the Royal Army Service Corps. Appointed to the Humber Garrison, Hull, he was responsible for supplying two thousand men, but he relinquished his commission in October of that year, having been invalided out of the army. Within a month he was employed at Armament Buildings, Whitehall, but he resigned in October 1916. His novel, How They Did It (1920) is based largely on his Whitehall experience. The chapter also explores how the First World War coloured O’Donovan’s attitude to the Easter Rising. In correspondence with Beryl on 27 April 1916, the fourth day of the fighting, he described it as a tragic comedy. On hearing of the executions of the leaders, he wrote that he had known so many of the ‘misguided men and was convinced that the whole sad and terrible fiasco was due to an incompetent government’.
‘O where are you going?’
Authors: Perry Seamus
Published: May 2023

De la Mare mattered to Auden throughout his writing life. Initially he served as a model for the fledgling poet, but subsequently he became more important as a guide to taste: de la Mare’s anthology Come Hither was an important and lasting influence on Auden’s sense of the scope and variety of poetry. Later, when Auden himself became a distinguished anthologist, de la Mare’s example was key, shaping the conception of both The Poet’s Tongue and The Oxford Book of Light Verse; and in the selection he made of de la Mare’s verse, later in his life, the elder poet continues to help Auden articulate some of the central concerns of his literary thinking.
The Critical Reception of Walter de la Mare and the Legacy of I. A. Richards
Authors: Wootten William
Published: May 2023

This chapter examines the critical responses to Walter de la Mare, and charts the decline, and recent upturn, in academic interest in his work. It begins by traces the critical unfashionability of de la Mare’s work to two Cambridge critics of the 1920s and 30s: I.A. Richards and F.R. Leavis, and considers various ostensive factors that caused them to turn against his poetry. It then proceeds to survey the critics and trends that followed, the critical neglect that came in in the 1970s and the beginnings of an upturn in critical interest of recent years. The essay concludes by revisiting the question that most trouble Leavis and de la Mare, that of de la Mare’s rhythm, finding unacknowledged factors that might have conditioned the two critics’ response that are as revealing about the critics themselves as they are about de la Mare.
Literature: tomorrow is yesterday
Authors: Clare Ross
Published: May 2023

The heavy pessimism that weighed upon the New Wave period bled right into the 1980s only to mutate further, and as a result the classical material science fiction writers appropriated and refigured took on new, often revealing characteristics. The upswing in attitudes towards humanity in the early years of science fiction turned into a kind of wistful hopelessness by the 1960s and 70s – although in most cases, from Moorcock to Theodore Sturgeon, the literature provides something of a resolution at the end. In the 1980s and 90s, we see a far less easy to pin down malaise reflected in science fiction, a certain internal anxiety on behalf of western writers. As ever, authors turned once again to the ancient world to explore and externalise these concerns. Works by Murray Leinster, Michael A. Banks and Dean R. Lambe, David Drake, Kirk Mitchell and others are discussed.
Video games: new ground
Authors: Clare Ross
Published: May 2023

Chapter 3 focusses on videogames. The digital, interactive technologies of the videogame are such that consumers of antiquity-flavoured science fiction games may come closer than ever to the ancient (and modern) materials that constitute the text. And with the narrative sophistication of videogames improving at an exponential rate, games stand as an untold, and largely untapped, mine of classical allusions and influences. Readers are first introduced to the differences between videogames and the more ‘traditional’ media of literature and television before being guided through analyses of specific game examples which face the player with now-familiar issues and themes in a very direct way. A fun exploration of early games leads to examination of the first major franchise Fallout: New Vegas (2010), then Mass Effect and Assassin’s Creed.
Poetics of Enclosure: Open Fields to Radical Landscapes
Authors: Eltringham Daniel
Published: May 2023

This chapter’s central argument is that open-field composition as it was received from the North American late modernist Charles Olson by British poets in the 1960s must be understood in reference to the open fields that were emblematic of Romantic enclosure in the poetry of John Clare, and in terms of a poetics of the enclosed landscape expressed as sedimentary layers of historical possibility and foreclosure. Its postwar focus begins with Peter Riley, J. H. Prynne and the poetry “worksheet” The English Intelligencer (1966–68), which it demonstrates was framed in reference to Romantic-era radical publications as a vernacular print commons. The second half tracks critiques of such ideals, following how attention to an open-field poetics of the enclosed landscape shifted into an evolving ecopoetic mode of “radical” landscape poetry in the work of Riley and Peter Larkin, eventually theorised and anthologised by Harriet Tarlo (2011) in the twenty-first century.
Ghost Escapes: Common Returns and Militant Resistance
Authors: Eltringham Daniel
Published: May 2023

The final chapter takes up the question of return, implicit throughout, to argue that contemporary poetic returns to the commons gather, or “common,” historical languages of resistance to project common futures against neo-colonial extractivism. Engaging with Moten and Harney’s The Undercommons (2013), it begins with the 1990 Midnight Notes Collective issue, The New Enclosures, which proposes returning to the radical Romantic land reformer Thomas Spence’s Jubilee as a proletarian liberation from work, debt and slavery, and as an ecological re-set. The chapter then identifies a “commons turn” in post-2008 Anglophone poetry, followed by detailed analyses of transhistorical “commoning” of resistant language in Sean Bonney’s The Commons (2011), Stephen Collis’ The Commons (2008), and Lisa Robertson’s Nilling (2011). It concludes with a reading of Collis’ later work, Once in Blockadia (2016), which returns once more to Wordsworth to give a transhistorical perspective on indigenous resistance to neo-colonial extractivism in British Columbia.
(Re)Imagining Solidarities, (Re)Imagining Serbia
Authors: Rucker-Chang Sunnie
Published: May 2023

This chapter discusses the 2010 creation, by the Serbian government, of the “World in Serbia” project, an international student mobility scheme offering scholarships to students from Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) observer and member countries to study at the University of Belgrade. The announcement came only a few years after the 2008 financial crisis, which was a time when anxieties, fears, and tension toward migrant populations were at a high in Europe. In this chapter she explores Serbian (re)engagement with the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), an organization that lost most of its cultural capital with the demise of blocism and the Yugoslav wars in the 1990s and how, in contradistinction to a contemporary European norm, international students normalization process in Serbia.
Migrants, Moral Panic, and Uneven Development in Croatia
Authors: Peović Katarina
Published: May 2023

This chapter addresses the problematic embrace of the xenophobic, far-right discourse on refugees in Croatian media and discourse on refugees in Croatian media and social networks, which arose with the emergence of socioeconomic normalization in Europe’s postsocialist semi-periphery. Accompanying this association with the West is the acceptance of neoliberal policies, which have precipitated catastrophic oversaturation of precarious jobs, a decrease in minimum wage, significant emigration of the working population, and an unsustainable number of pensioners and workers. Media, especially social media, acts as an instituting process—constructing the Croatian identification with the West and othering and racializing the migrants and refugees.
Madness or Genius?
Authors: Barrett Katy
Published: May 2023

Commentators saw the risk of madness in longitude: either only madmen would attempt this insoluble problem or working on a solution might send you mad. This chapter shows how a range of discussions presented longitude ideas on a fine line between madness and genius. The reader is introduced to ideas on madness by George Cheyne and John Locke. Mathematics is shown to be a key component of the longitude problem particularly through satires on William Whiston. Longitude was also seen as encouraging imaginative, visionary madness, exemplified by the mad poet Kit Smart. Yet new ideas must also show genius, as discussed by Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith and Edward Young. This provides the background to understand how the Board of Longitude might see John Harrison as a madman, why he was so virulently attacked in works by Robert Heath, and how Paul Sandby likewise attacked Hogarth as a mad artist.
A Cultural Instrument
Authors: Barrett Katy
Published: May 2023

This chapter explores the particular role of instruments within social discussions of longitude, offering a means both of measuring and controlling the licence of impolite behaviour.
Moral compasses by John Flavel and Robert Dighton introduce a 1720s map, which played with ideas of latitude and longitude to create a grid marking appropriate political and social behaviours. The chapter considers the role of
clocks as social indicators, focusing on Laurence Sterne’s famous novel Tristram Shandy and resulting satires that connected clocks to both erotic objects and impotence.
Instruments, polite, and impolite science become crucial to considering Harrison’s struggles to negotiate in an appropriate manner with the Board of Longitude in relation to the words ‘experimental exhibitions’. Harrison’s painted portrait sets his wider public image within these debates about longitude and politeness as well as Hogarth’s comments on visiting Harrison’s instruments and their relation to his ‘line of beauty’.
Saying Unsaid
Authors: Gearey Adam
Published: May 2023

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Writing absence
Authors: van der Poel Ieme
Published: May 2023

This chapter focusses on the relationship between migration, memory and how to create a national history that is more inclusive. I argue that works of literature and art could indeed lay the foundations for new forms of collective identity.
The European–Maghrebi cultural exchange
Authors: van der Poel Ieme
Published: May 2023

Moving from Mediterranean ethnology to textual analysis, this chapter demonstrates how the Bakhtinian concept of multivoicedness provides a new reading of Moroccan migrant literature.
Beyond Orientalism
Authors: van der Poel Ieme
Published: May 2023

Here again, the Bakhtinian concept of dialogism proves to be well suited to tease out the political implications of literary texts that are otherwise characterized by an incontestably poetic form and style.
Introduction: Screening Migrant Hospitality
Authors: Faleschini Lerner Giovanna
Published: May 2023

This chapter introduces the notion of hospitality as the guiding ethical and aesthetic principle of the Italian cinema of migration in the last twenty years. Jacques Derrida develops – in dialogue with Emmanuel Levinas – the notion of unconditional hospitality as an ethical mandate in the age of global mobility. Understood in dialogue with feminist, queer, and postcolonial critiques, the framework of hospitality is a productive interpretive lens through which to understand the ways in which Italian filmmakers construct screen narratives of migration. Unconditional hospitality subverts the power relations between host and guest and helps to question binaries and boundaries. Hospitality as a theoretical paradigm invites a transnational approach, insofar as it implies multidirectional and intersectional human and cultural trajectories.
Guest Stars: Performing Hospitality in the Italian Film Industry
Authors: Faleschini Lerner Giovanna
Published: May 2023

This chapter explores the ways in which questions of race and national identity are embedded both in cast-selection processes, and in the roles that foreign-born actors tend to play on Italian screens. The focus is on female-identified actors, as the roles in which they are cast and their performances are often revealing of Italian anxieties about demography, reproduction, and the future of the nation. These concerns can be traced back to colonial discourses about Italian whiteness and racial purity, fascist nationalism, and their re-emergence in contemporary political debates about migration, citizenship, and belonging. The chapter opens with a brief history of foreign-born female performers, focusing on a few figures whose presence on Italian silver screens both reflected and contributed to the construction of certain attitudes about female beauty, gender roles, and racial identities. A direct lineage can be traced from these early movie actors to contemporary transnational performers, whose roles complicate stable views of national and ethnic identity. the kind of hospitality the Italian cinema extends to these actors signals, on the one hand, a preoccupation with authenticity in creating audio-visual narratives that reflect the multiculturalism of contemporary Italy and help construct hospitable futures for the nation, while on the other it risks reinforcing existing hierarchies of belonging.
Alexander von Humboldt, the Naturgemälde , and Ansichten der Natur
Authors: Clason Christopher R.
Published: May 2023

When Alexander von Humboldt returned to Europe from his scientific expedition to the Americas (1799–1804), he found it difficult to stamp his influence onto romantic science as it was developing at that time; some possibly could not believe that the breadth and depth of his knowledge could be any more than dilettantish gregariousness. Humboldt did indeed provide a formidable “way” of science, and Christopher R. Clason sketches the significant moral and aesthetic characteristics that run alongside Humboldt’s scientific procedural language. When, in the texts Humboldt penned shortly after his expedition, he told of scenes and incidents that he experienced, he couched his language in the aesthetic discourse of romanticism, giving his essays moral weight and an aesthetically attractive character, honoring the botanical and zoological life forms his party discovered in South America, yet still making the human being in each scene a responsible, moral agent of the environment.
“I cannot explain myself further on this matter” Maimon’s Perplexed Differentials
Authors: Wilner Joshua
Published: May 2023

Salomon Maimon, an important contemporary of Kant, has been given renewed attention thanks in part to the work of Gilles Deleuze. Although like Kant, Maimon sought to bridge the gap between understanding and sensation, concepts, and intuition, he diverged by conceiving of them as differences of degree along a continuum, rather than as different in kind, as had Kant. Despite this departure from Kant, Joshua Wilner demonstrates that Maimon’s assemblage of a priori and a posteriori sources of cognition gets unmoored in ever more infinitesimal concerns. This is the case because of the central, complex role differentials play in Maimon’s thought. As Wilner argues, Maimon’s thought becomes increasingly vexed as he approaches the problem of representation. His explication of the uncertain relation between Vorstellung and Darstellung and between intuitive cognition and symbolic cognition unfolds, or disassembles, with a breadth of creativity worthy of study.
Schlegel, Tieck, and Staël
Authors: Burwick Frederick
Published: May 2023

For Frederick Burwick, it was Napoleon’s siege and defeat of the Austrian armies in Vienna that motivated the German dramaturges to put together a new version of the Elizabethan bard, much to the annoyance of the French emperor. Burwick delves into and unravels the history of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Shakespearean assembly and reveals some of the emperor’s personal qualities that placed him in terrible stead with many of the romantic intellectuals of the time including Germaine de Staël and August Wilhelm Schlegel. In the face of Napoleon’s wielding of raw power during his occupation of Central and Eastern Europe, the image of Shakespeare, bolstered by the new Tieck– Schlegel translation and supported by Madame de Staël’s astute assessments in her critical writings, provided formidable opposition to the emperor’s culture wars and accomplished much in the aesthetic and psychological defeat of the French emperor.
The Theatricality of Perception
Authors: Mottram Robert E.
Published: May 2023

Robert E. Mottram puts E.T.A. Hoffmann’s late tale “My Cousin’s Corner Window” into dialogue with both Kantian and Schillerian aesthetics by arguing that the tale harbors a double narrative impulse, which he elucidates as an interplay between what he terms the “theory of theater” and the “theater of theory.” On one level, “My Cousin’s Corner Window” is governed by a theory of the theater that, continuous with a classical conception of the work of art, sought to disavow the gaze of others in the interest of shoring up the integrity of the bourgeois subject. The theater of theory, on the other hand, refers to the performative dimension of Hoffmann’s tale, the staging of perception that evades the formalization necessary for it to be taught. Mottram reads Hoffmann’s tale as a dramatization of the contradictions within this aesthetic problematic.
Introduction
Authors: Beek A. Everett
Published: May 2023

The Introduction covers Ovid’s life and the composition of the Fasti and the various Roman calendars. It also summarizes and discusses the Fasti’s connections to Metamorphoses. The Fasti re-tells several stories that are also told in the Metamorphoses, reshaping the narratives and emphasizing different angles. Although there is a superficial resemblance between these two works, the Fasti is much more self-conscious of its Romanitas: it strongly emphasises stories set in Italy and stories that provide aetiologies for Roman religious practices. It also examines how Ovid describes many religious practices and aetiologies that are not otherwise attested, but his reliability as an authority on Roman religion is somewhat questionable. Finally the connections between Greece and Rome are explored; the Fasti includes many stories that describe the colonization of Italy from the Greek world and other eastern civilizations, emphasizing Rome’s cultural heritage and building up Rome’s national mythology as a continuance of venerable traditions.
Ovid
Authors: Beek A. Everett
Published: May 2023

The Latin text is accompanied by a facing-page English translation. The translation is intended to help students read and understand Ovid’s Fasti on a poetic and cultural level, putting it in the context of Ovid’s other works, early imperial history, and Roman religious practices.
Transnational East Asian Studies
Authors: Cawley Kevin , Schneider Julia
Published: May 2023

Transnational East Asian Studies demonstrates how transnationalism as a mode of intellectual enquiry has wide-ranging interdisciplinary potential and has immense value when examining the past, just as much as much as when examining the present. Artificially erected borders, which appear on maps and globes, fail to consider the ways people in diverse regions live and practice their everyday lives, existing beyond boundaries. The people of East Asia have always been on the move, they have never been homogeneous, and have evolved together, not apart. In this sense, people around the globe and also in East Asia have always been involved in a process of change and transformation. Hence, transnationalism is a way to overcome methodological nationalism, not only as a concept of identity and spatiality, but also as a concept temporally situated in the modern, because as a methodology, transnationalism does not take the national as a precondition. It allows us to move beyond and across borders, and to examine how ideas have been used and transformed in different contexts. This book thus underscores the complex interactions in the context of East Asia, past and present, while shaping the future of this complicated region.
The Persistence of the Imperial Question
Authors: Schlez Mariano
Published: May 2023

This chapter analyses the debate on British informal empire in Latin America, pointing out the main historiographical schools, their hypotheses and observables, and concludes on the unresolved questions and the contribution of this book to them. Four main moments in the debate can be identified: the rivalries between European powers leading to the division of Africa and the First World War; the decolonization of Asia and Africa, the crisis of the British Empire and U.S. ascendancy during the second post-war period; U.S. global interventions and Latin American politics since the 1959 Cuban Revolution; and the neoliberal crisis, which gave rise to new imperialist wars and new ‘anti-imperialist’ governments in twenty-first century South America.
Conclusion
Authors: Groen-Vallinga Miriam J.
Published: May 2023

The conclusion brings to the fore that the functioning of social structures like family and associations was crucial to the Roman economy, because they provided information and trust in economic transactions plus a form of legal as well as social security in a society where these were hard to come by. These institutions helped shape the labour market and therefore contributed to the way the Roman economy grew and blossomed under the early empire. These findings sit rather well with recent developments in the history of labour and labour relations. Chapter 6 therefore aims to illustrate the contribution of the Roman case to the patterns that labour historians envisage for researching larger historical periods.
Sailing to Find Utopia or Sailing to Found Utopia? The Pragmatic and Idealistic Pursuit of Ideal Cities in Greek and Roman Political Philosophy
Authors: Beek Aaron L.
Published: May 2023

The Roman general Sertorius is said to have debated sailing off to the Isles of the Blessed to set up his own ‘true’ Roman state rather than continue to contend with Sulla and Pompey for the Roman Empire. In this chapter it is argued that this idea has roots both in the common mythological theme of venturing past the myriad dangers of the sea and setting up a new state overseas (as featured in the foundation legends of Rome, Carthage, and Thebes and also in the mythological lands of the Odyssey, most notably Phaeacia) and also in the hopes behind historical Greek settlements in the Western Mediterranean, as we see in several times in Herodotus.
The chapter also seeks to understand the underlying philosophy of both Greek and Roman colonists.
The Anti-Tyrannical Adriatic in Lucan’s Civil War
Authors: Crosson Isaia
Published: May 2023

In this chapter it is argued that a dangerous threat for Julius Caesar in his quest for absolute power is the Adriatic Sea. In Book 5 of the Bellum Civile, Caesar tries in vain to cross the tempestuous Adriatic to persuade the troops led by Antony to join him in the fight against Pompey. This defeat at sea alludes to Caesar’s defeat in the Senate, and to the Stoic cleansing of the world through universal destruction. Lucan’s emphasis on the sheer force of the stormy Adriatic, which almost kills Caesar, symbolizes the triumph of divinized Nature over tyranny. Thus in Lucan the sea bears a twofold, contrastive symbolic value: on the one hand, it functions as a traditional spatial theatre of catastrophe; on the other hand, it functions as a site of utopic potential, keeping alive the hope that even the most powerful human dictator might be defeated.
Influence of the Lower Atmosphere on Wave Heating and Evaporation in Solar Coronal Loops
Authors: Guo Mingzhe , Duckenfield Timothy , Van Doorsselaere Tom , Karampelas Konstantinos , Pelouze Gabriel , Gao Yuhang
Published: May 2023

We model a coronal loop as a 3D magnetic cylinder in a realistic solar atmosphere that extends from the chromosphere to the corona. Kink oscillations, believed to be ubiquitous in the solar corona, are launched in the loop. Heating is expected owing to the dissipation of wave energy at small structures that develop from the Kelvin–Helmholtz instability induced by kink oscillations. Increases in temperature and internal energy can be observed in the coronal counterpart of the driven loop. With the presence of thermal conduction, chromospheric evaporation can also be seen. Although the volume-averaged temperature and density changes seem slight (∼4% relative to a nondriven loop), the enthalpy flow from the lower atmosphere redistributes the density and temperature in the vertical direction, thus enhancing the dissipation of wave energy in the corona. The efficient heating in the coronal counterpart of the loop can complement the thermal conductive losses shown in the current model and thus maintain the internal energy in the corona.
Alzheimer’s Pathogenesis and Treatment by Transcranial Pulse Stimulation
Authors: Naydenov Christiyan , Manolova Teodora , Mindov Ivan
Published: May 2023

The article discusses the use of transcranial pulse stimulation (TPS), a treatment method that uses ultrasound to penetrate the brain up to 8 cm. The article aims to review published studies on the effects of TPS on Alzheimer’s disease and to link the mechanism of the treatment with the pathophysiology of the disease. The discussion highlights the pathological triad of senile plaques, neurofibrillary tangles, and granular degeneration that causes Alzheimer’s disease. Patients with diabetes mellitus are predisposed to degenerative diseases, and the overlap between Alzheimer’s disease and obesity may be explained by the use of streptozotocin, which generates reactive oxygen species leading to DNA damage and cell death. The accumulation of beta-amyloid in the brain, mitochondrial malfunction, decreased production of ATP, and energy insufficiency is also discussed. The article concludes that TPS is a potential treatment for Alzheimer’s disease and that it can boost the expression of growth factors, enhance the flow of blood to the brain, trigger the creation of novel blood vessels, and promote the regeneration of nerves.
Early Jurassic silicified woods from Carapace Nunatak, South Victoria Land, Antarctica
Authors: Toumoulin Agathe , Decombeix Anne-Laure , Harper Carla J. , Serbet Rudolph
Published: May 2023

The Jurassic vegetation of Antarctica remains poorly known and, while there have been several reports of large fossil trees from that time period across the continent, detailed anatomical studies of their wood are extremely scarce. Here we describe new silicified woods of Early Jurassic (probably Toarcian) age from Carapace Nunatak, South Victoria Land. The generaAgathoxylonandBrachyoxylonare formally recognized for the first time in the Jurassic of Antarctica. The preservation of the woods is imperfect, which is likely explained by the presence in some of the specimens of fungi, whose anatomical structures are described in detail. Combined with previous reports of pollen, leaves, and cones from South and North Victoria Land, these new specimens support the presence of several conifer families in the Early Jurassic floras of the region.
Native plant community characteristics explain alien species success in post-industrial vegetation
Authors: Anibaba Quadri A. , Dyderski Marcin K. , Woźniak Gabriela , Jagodziński Andrzej M.
Published: May 2023

Biological invasions are one of the major challenges to the restoration of post-mining sites. Most post-mining sites are under technical reclamation with only a few left to spontaneous vegetation processes. Therefore, we know little about alien plant species on spontaneously-vegetated post-coal mine heaps and how native community characteristics predict their establishment. To fill the knowledge gap, we aimed to determine the drivers of alien species colonisation on post-coal mine heaps. Specifically, we asked: (i) Which alien species are the most successful on post-coal mine heaps and why? (ii) What are the drivers of alien species richness and cover, and how are they affected by the native community? (iii) What does it mean for predicting threats from alien species and management? We recorded vascular plant species and their abundance across 400 plots on post-coal mine heaps in Upper Silesia, Poland. We calculated plant community taxonomic and functional characteristics and, using mixed-effects models, we estimated predictors of alien species richness and cover. We found 65 alien species on post-coal mine heaps, comprising 20.4% of all recorded species, including 36 neophytes and 29 archaeophytes. Amongst them – Erigeron canadensis, Solidago gigantea, Solidago canadensis, Erigeron annuus and Impatiens parviflora – were the most frequent on the studied heaps. We showed that native functional richness significantly predicts alien species richness and cover. Similarly, native community-weighted mean (CWM) seed mass and plant height predict alien species cover. However, CWM of specific leaf area for native species marginally predicts alien species richness. We showed that alien species cover decreases with native species cover. Our findings revealed the ecological significance of niche-filling and the biotic acceptance hypotheses on post-coal mine heaps. We demonstrated how exploring native community characteristics can help in understanding the invasibility and management of post-industrial vegetation.
Épidémie covid-19 : règles de distanciation sociale et d’équipement de protection individuelle (EPI) pour un établissement thermal
Authors: Françon Alain , Muela-Garcia Araceli , Erol-Forestier Begum , Forestier Romain
Published: May 2023

La distanciation physique et le port d’équipement de protection individuelle (EPI) font partie des mesures non pharmaceutiques (MNP) fondamentales pour réduire la transmission respiratoire du virus Sars-Cov2. Une métanalyse a validé scientifiquement leur intérêt. Des règles de distanciation physique et de port des EPI dans un établissement thermal ont été établies à l’intérieur d’un protocole de référentiel sanitaire. Il a été élaboré à partir des travaux conduits au sein d’une cellule multidisciplinaire formée par les différentes organisations du thermalisme français. L’application de ce protocole, qui a été validé par la Direction générale de la santé, apparaît indispensable pour assurer la sécurité des curistes et du personnel du centre thermal. Nous en présentons ici les principaux aspects.
Quel est le potentiel thermal de la Corse et quelles sont les propositions faites pour le développer ?
Authors: Giacomini Thierry
Published: May 2023

Sur les 12 sources d’eau minérale naturelle identifiées comme potentiellement exploitables pour le thermalisme en Corse, cinq pourraient accueillir des cures thermales contre une seule actuellement. La région ne manque pas d’atouts pour développer la filière thermale : une population locale adaptée, un flux touristique important, un environnement naturel exceptionnel. Cependant la difficulté d’accès aux stations thermales, le manque d’hébergement et de restauration de proximité, peuvent être dissuasifs pour les curistes. Il existe une volonté politique pour développer le moteur économique de la filière thermale en accompagnant les projets. Il sera nécessaire de mettre en place un mode de gestion efficace des établissements thermaux, de rénover et de développer les structures existantes. Pour développer le thermalisme en Corse, il faut adapter les cures thermales à la saisonnalité touristique, diversifier l’offre thermale avec le thermoludisme et les activités complémentaires de bien-être. Il faut fédérer tous les acteurs de la filière thermale : le corps médical de la région, les universitaires pour la réalisation des études cliniques, les spécialistes du bien-être et des activités physiques et les professionnels du tourisme.
Public key exchange protocols based on tropical lower circulant and anti circulant matrices
Authors: Amutha B. , Perumal R.
Published: May 2023

In recent years, many efficient key exchange protocols have been proposed based on matrices over the tropical semirings. The tropical addition of two elements is the minimum of the elements, while the tropical multiplication is the sum of the two elements. This paper proposes a novel key exchange protocol based on the min-plus semiring ($ \mathbb{Z}\cup\{\infty\}, \oplus, \otimes $) by introducing anti-$ s $-$ p $-circulant matrices, which forms a commutative subset of $ M_{n \times n}(\mathbb{Z}\cup \{\infty\}) $. We have given further analysis of the protocol in detail using upper or lower-$ s $-circulant matrices. Additionally, we prove that the set of all lower-$ s $-circulant matrices is a sub-semiring of the tropical semiring $ M_{n \times n}(\mathbb{Z}\cup \{\infty\}) $. We discuss the detailed security analysis of the protocol with upper or lower-$ s $-circulant matrices and provide cryptographic algorithms for both key exchange protocols with detailed explanations. We compare the protocol based on upper or lower-$ s $-circulant matrices and our proposed protocol in terms of time complexity and memory usage. Finally, we analyse the security and show that our protocol is safe against popular attacks of tropical key exchange protocols. The security of these protocols relies on the difficulty of solving tropical non-linear equations.
Pythagorean fuzzy $ N $-Soft PROMETHEE approach: A new framework for group decision making
Authors: Akram Muhammad , Sultan Maheen , Adeel Arooj , Al-Shamiri Mohammed M. Ali
Published: May 2023

The use of Pythagorean fuzzy $ N $-soft sets (PFNSs) enables the examination of belongingness and non-belongingness of membership degrees, as well as their combinations with $ N $-grading, in the unpredictable nature of individuals. This research aims to enhance our understanding of a popular multi-criteria group decision making (MCGDM) technique, Preference Ranking Organization Method for Enrichment of Evaluations, under the PFNS environment, aiding in making effective decisions for real-life problems, as fuzzy set theory is directly relevant to real-life applications. The PROMETHEE technique's main principle is to calculate the inflow and outflow streams of alternatives based on the deviation of their score degrees, ultimately providing partial and complete rankings of the given options. To capture the uncertainty of human nature, which demands both the association and disassociation of the considered criteria and provision of $ N $-grading, the PFNS PROMETHEE technique is introduced in this research article. First, an Analytic Hierarchy Process AHP is used to check the feasibility of the standard weights of the criteria. The article then explains the detailed method of the fuzzy $ N $-soft PROMETHEE technique to rank alternatives, with all the steps presented in an extensive flowchart for better understanding of the methodology. Furthermore, the practicality and viability of the proposed technique are demonstrated through an example of selecting the best chemical element in cloud seeding, where the most suitable choice is identified using an outranking directed graph. The credibility of the PFNS PROMETHEE technique is assessed by comparison with an existing method. Finally, the proposed technique's strengths and weaknesses are discussed to demonstrate its efficiency and drawbacks.
Boundedness of sublinear operators on weighted grand Herz-Morrey spaces
Authors: Zhang Wanjing , He Suixin , Zhang Jing
Published: May 2023

In this paper, we introduce weighted grand Herz-Morrey type spaces and prove the boundedness of sublinear operators and their multilinear commutators on these spaces. The results are still new even in the unweighted setting.
Tu commentes donc je suis : stratégies de captation du public adolescent par les plateformes de lecture. Le cas de Webtoon
Authors: Rio Florence , Tadier Elsa
Published: May 2023

À travers l’analyse des stratégies de Webtoon, plateforme de lecture coréenne visant à capter prioritairement le public adolescent, à la croisée de pratiques de production et d’appropriation, cet article vise à questionner un processus particulier au cœur de l’industrialisation de la lecture par le numérique, à savoir l’intensification d’une dynamique relationnelle comme un moteur de l’économie des plateformes culturelles. Cette économie relationnelle du lire, particulièrement porteuse auprès du public adolescent qui développe son autonomie et ses pratiques de sociabilité, se donne à voir sur Webtoon par le statut singulier accordé aux commentaires. Elle prend sens au sein d’une logique plus générale visant à s’adresser aux jeunes en s’appuyant notamment sur leur support privilégié : le smartphone. Ce faisant, les plateformes de lecture nous donnent à saisir une certaine représentation du public des lecteurs adolescents que questionne cet article, en analysant à la fois leurs modes d’adhésion et de contournements du fonctionnement de ces industries culturelles.
Atypical Wolf Warrior Strategy in China’s Digital Public Diplomacy during the Pandemic
Authors: Huang Zhao Alexandre , Zhang Yuwen , Wang Xifei
Published: May 2023

Wolf warrior diplomacy has become Beijing’s primary method for defending its core interests during the COVID-19 pandemic. China’s public diplomacy actors have used social media platforms to diffuse rumors and aggressive statements to promote its discursive power and reshape international order during the pandemic. Although existing studies on online wolf warrior diplomacy include China’s intermestic dimension and audiences, scholars have not examined the Chinese diaspora. Thus, we focused on how China used its domestic social media platform WeChat to conduct diaspora diplomacy during France’s first COVID-19 lockdown period to influence French and European Chinese-speaking populations. The aim was to underline how local pro-China media have used WeChat to defend Beijing’s interests and devalue the policies and COVID-19 measures of host countries.
Digital Humanities
Authors: Wulff Enrique
Published: May 2023

The National Library of Spain (NLS, Biblioteca Nacional de España [BNE]) for the target audience of digital humanities (DH), within the last two decades, has taken up major challenges to be into line with other main national libraries (France, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, Germany, and the Library of Congress). The chapter presents NLS's success in the emerging digital scholarship and BNElab Digital Humanities (DH) projects and digital editions (e.g., the Leonardo da Vinci Madrid I & II Codices or Quixote), demonstrating the most necessary steps of libraries to take in the digital age, especially when DH is forming the mainstream and obtaining momentum. The importance of the NLS and its patrimony is in line with its commendatory policy of collaborating with a wide variety of DH projects, and with that of making its digital patrimony freely available. Through a case study of the opening up of cultural heritage data for the arts and humanities (A&H), NLS is challenged from its Semantic Web vision to find the expertise required by the key issues of contemporary digital humanities.
Revolutionizing Agriculture Through Digital Twins
Authors: Attaran Mohsen , Attaran Sharmin , Celik Bilge Gokhan
Published: May 2023

The rise of digital twin (DT) technology is transforming the way businesses operate, with its applications and use cases expanding across various industries. This article focuses on the agriculture industry and explores how DT can enable intelligent automation. Through a comprehensive review of DT's concept, evolution, and development, as well as a discussion of its key enabling technologies, trends, and challenges, the authors identify potential use cases for DT in agriculture. By presenting this analysis, this article aims to provide insights into how DT can streamline operations and enhance productivity in the agriculture industry.
The Influence of Gamification Elements in Educational Environments
Authors: Luarn Pin , Chen Chiao-Chieh , Chiu Yu-Ping
Published: May 2023

The use of gamification might offer a partial solution to the decline in students' motivation and engagement the school system is currently facing. Specifically, this study aimed to examine whether gamification elements (perceived collaboration, perceived competition, favorable feedback, unfavorable feedback, self-expression, sense of control) contribute to intrinsic learning motivation. A survey method was used to gather the information from students, and regression analysis was used to examine these results. The results indicated that perceived collaboration, perceived competition, favorable feedback, self-expression, and sense of control are key aspects that impact students' intrinsic motivation. Overall, the findings contribute to a better understanding of learning motivation for research theories and offer concrete suggestions for using gamification to improve teaching.
Development of a Novel Low-Energy Building: Effects of Room Orientation and Wall Materials
Authors: Sedaghat Ahmad , Soleimani Sayed Mohamad , Al-Khiami Mohamad Iyad , Sabati Mohammad , Rasul Mohammad , Narayanan Ramadas , Khan Masud M. K.
Published: May 2023

The development of low energy buildings in hot subtropical and desert like climates such as Australia and Kuwait, requires strategies that are rather challenging. Five (5) experimental rooms are going to be built to assess these energy saving techniques for a research program jointly between Kuwait and Australia. Before the construction phase, these rooms are simulated in TRNSYS18 for the two sites based on available weather data collected from Kuwait International Airport and Rockhampton Airport. The objectives are to investigate room orientation and walling materials on energy performance of the rooms. It was found that all rooms return identical temperature profiles in each of the eight (8) dominant directions, i.e., N, NE, E, SE, S, SE, E, and NW. Five (5) different commercially available wall materials were employed for the five (5) simulated rooms in Kuwait and Australia. It was found that autoclaved aerated concrete (AAC) wall materials and north (N) building face orientation are the preferred construction material and orientation in both sites. The energy performance index (EPI) showed that AAC wall materials for the room faced towards north (N) provides the lowest cooling EPI of 646 and 448.4 kW/m2/year in Kuwait and Rockhampton, Australia, respectively.
Stability and Power Analysis of Schmitt Trigger Based Low Power SRAM Bit-Cell Using CMOS and CNTFET Technology at 22nm Technology Node
Authors: Shirode Ujwal R. , Kanphade Rajendra D. , Gaadhe Ajjay S.
Published: May 2023

SRAM (Static Random Access Memory) is an essential component of memory devices such as laptops, phones, etc., which act as a semiconductor memory. The “Carbon Nanotube Field Effect Transistor (CNTFET)” is silicon associated high-stability, low-power device with excellent performance. CNTFET has been verified to be very advantageous for Very large-scale integration circuit designs in the nanoscale range because of its remarkable properties of metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET). The material was brought to light because of its genuinely incredible electrochemical performance. Carbon nanotubes have unique properties such as high charge carrier mobility, high voltage, small footprint, exceptionally short and high control over pulse duration, and large current densities. In traditional MOSFET, bulk silicon is used, which has high leakage current and high field-effect; thus, CNTFET has been used as an alternative in recent years. When compared to the 10T CNTFET SRAM Bit cell is designed using HSPICE Tool in 22nm technology. Long-term stability and significant process variable changes are significant challenges with nanoscale SRAM cells.
Influence of Cell Design and Gate-to-Source Voltage on Avalanche Robustness of SiC MOSFET Integrated JBS Diode
Authors: Jiang Chong Yu , Xu Hong Yi , Yang Song Lin , Wang Heng Yu , Ren Na , Sheng Kuang
Published: May 2023

In this work, 1200 V SiC JMOS devices with different Wsch (2 μm, 2.5 μm and 3 μm) are fabricated. The single unclamped inductive switching (UIS) tests under different Vgs_off (-5 V and 0 V) are carried out to investigate the avalanche capability. The avalanche robustness among various Wsch under same Vgs_off is also compared and analyzed by simulation. The different failure mechanisms between different Vgs_off are studied by failure analysis and simulation. The method of improving avalanche ruggedness of JMOS is proposed.
Development of Architectural Green Mortar Incorporating Waste Glass and its Impact on Energy Saving in Buildings
Authors: Eisa Mervat Gaber , Sameh Hesham , Abd El-Razik Mahmoud M.
Published: May 2023

Waste materials are deemed an environmental burden; although, they can be recycled in the production of sustainable building materials. The aim of this study is to develop an aesthetic architectural rendering green mortar with utilizing recycled waste colored glass as supplementary fine aggregate. Limestone Calcined Clay Cement (LC3) has been prepared as a green and sustainable binder by replacing 60 wt% of white Portland cement () with a blend of limestone (LS) powder and metakaolin (MK) with a LS: MK of 1:2 (wt%). LC3-based mortars were prepared in which the binder was combined with expanded polystyrene beads (EPS) as fine aggregate with aggregate volume content of 75%. EPS was partially replaced with recycled waste glass (RWG) at various percentages of 10, 20, and 30 vol.%. Bulk density, thermal conductivity, solar reflectivity and flexural strength of the hardened mortars were determined after 7days of curing. The contribution of the newly developed mortars into reducing internal thermal loads and energy use has been evaluated for administrative/ office building in EGYPT. The mortars incorporating 10 and 20vol.% of RWG possessed thermal conductivity values in the range of thermal insulation rendering mortars. The incorporation of RWG led to enhanced solar reflectivity, an increase by about 77% has been achieved relative to the traditional one coat - rendering mortar; in addition, the newly developed rendering mortar provided a reduction in electric cooling energy annual consumption by about 30%