bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Análisis melódico del habla en actos irónicos prefabricados
Authors: Martínez Hernández Diana
Published: January 2025

La investigació que es presenta es centra en l'anàlisi i en l'estudi dels indicadors melòdics de la ironia verbal en la oralitat prefabricada, i en el context, principalment. A partir d'aquí s'ha tractat d'aportar una explicació objectiva de la ironia en interacció, en base a una metodologia experimental adequada (model Análisis Melódico del Habla), a partir d'un treball empíric que s'ha suposat la recogida d'un corpus basat en sèrie. de televisió. Aquest mateix ha estat avaluat a través de proves de percepció discriminatòria i analitzada melòdicament amb el propòsit de definir objectivament la melodia de la ironia en la interacció. Los datos apuntan a un mayor número de ejemplos con énfasis de palabra en el cuerpo e inflexión final ascendente (Perfil I); moviments de foc ancho pronunciados e inflexión final circunfleja o de nucli elevat (Perfil II) y contornos planos (Perfil III), que serveixen als actors per exagerar els marcadors irònics i transmetre el missatge precís a l'audiència.
 
Paraules clau: Ironia; Percepció; Melodia; Interacció; Oralitat prefabricada
Pragmática, prosodia y emoción: el papel de la entonación en secuencias conversacionales de conflicto
Authors: Ruano Piqueras Noelia
Published: January 2025

En este artículo se presenta una cala exploratoria basada en el análisis prosódico del conflicto discursivo a partir de muestras procedentes de conversaciones coloquiales. El principal objetivo es reconocer parámetros acústico-prosódicos que ayuden a la delimitación y caracterización de secuencias conversacionales conflictivas ya sea entre familiares y amigos, ya sea entre miembros de una pareja afectiva. Partimos así de una caracterización previa de tipos de conflictos, y hemos tratado de evidenciar, por una parte, si las marcas prosódicas pueden funcionar como mecanismos demarcativos del conflicto, y por la otra, hemos comprobado que las marcas suprasegmentales de la emoción se comportan también de forma diferente según el tipo de relación entre los participantes en el conflicto. Los resultados arrojan diferencias significativas en las características prosódicas del conflicto en contextos familiares (conflictos temáticos) frente a los contextos de pareja (conflictos intratables). Asimismo, las distintas emociones inmersas en el conflicto presentan diferentes parámetros prosódicos en función de cada acto de habla (diferentes F0, intensidad y velocidad de habla), especialmente elevados en emociones como el enfado y la ira.
Palabras clave: Conflicto discursivo; Prosodia; Emoción; Conversaciones coloquiales
Territorialização do capital no Baixo Amazonas: análise dos casos Ford, Cargil e Alcoa
Authors: Almeida Rogerio
Published: January 2025

O presente artigo descreve e analisa três experiências de territorialização do grande capital no Baixo Amazonas, oeste paraense, ocorridas em períodos históricos distintos, onde é possível sinalizar para formas de acumulação primitiva do capital. A primeira ocorre na primeira quadra do século XX, liderada pela empresa Ford, durante o governo de Vargas. Já as demais transcorrem na década de 2000, no contexto de avanço de políticas consideradas neoliberais, tendo como linha de frente a empresa Cargil, que ergue um terminal portuário na cidade de Santarém, em total indiferença às normas ambientais vigentes no país. A última versa sobre o extrativismo mineral da empresa estadunidense Alcoa, no município de Juruti.  Apropriação de terra, expropriação das populações locais, centralidade de Estado autoritário como indutor da economia estruturam os processos.  Após a introdução, o artigo investe no debate sobre a categoria território, já a seguinte apresenta as experiências, seus desdobramentos e os enfrentamentos das populações afetadas pelos empreendimentos.
Pobreza y desigualdad en España según el tipo de poblamiento. Comparativa estadística de la distribución de la renta a escala municipal.
Authors: García-Araque Jesús
Published: January 2025

Se encuentra extendida la idea de que en España hay más pobreza en el medio rural y más desigualdad en las ciudades. Sin embargo, son escasos los estudios recientes que comparen ambos tipos de poblamiento estableciendo estadísticamente el nivel de significación que tiene vivir en el campo o en la ciudad en relación con la distribución de la renta. Este trabajo busca verificar dicha correspondencia e incorporar al análisis un tratamiento bivariante para determinar en qué grado ocurre y, si es posible, establecer una predicción sobre la distribución de la renta en función del tipo de poblamiento. Las operaciones realizadas confirman relación entre el tipo de poblamiento, renta y desigualdad, sin embargo, la correlación no es tan significativa como para establecer predicciones según el ámbito de residencia.
A Universal Sundial Made for Sultan Mehmet II, in the Context of Astronomical Instrumentation in late-15th Century Istanbul
Authors: King David A. , Charette François
Published: January 2025

In this study we present a previously-unknown astronomical and mathematical instrument. This is a sundial for all latitudes made in 1477 and dedicated to the Ottoman Sultan Mehmet II who is known for his interest in astronomy. It is a unique example of a type of instrument previously known only from Arabic astronomical texts some two centuries earlier. This sundial, which enables the user to measure time from the solar altitude throughout the year, is conceived for all inhabited latitudes (as in classical geography, this would be from the equator to about 45°). By necessity, therefore, it is based on an approximate but practical formula for timekeeping.
In Islamic civilization sundials have a history of over 1,000 years, but this has yet to be documented on the basis of surviving sundials and texts – of these, universal sundials form a small but significant part. The immediate source of the design for this particular universal sundial can be identified as an Egyptian treatise on astronomical instruments from the late 13th century; however, the device itself was much earlier, maybe originating as far back as Baghdad ca. 900. The formula was known already to the earliest Muslim astronomer al-Fazārī in Baghdad ca. 750. This sundial is a mathematical device as well an astronomical one, in the sense that it was not really intended to be used as a practical time-telling device. It is so small that it would be difficult to measure time with it under any circumstances; the same is true of many hand-held astronomical instruments. It may be «universal» but one could hardly travel about with it. Nevertheless, at some time it was brought from Istanbul to Bucharest, either whilst the latter was still under Ottoman control or even thereafter. In fact, it is simply an intriguing object embodying mathematical quantities associated with an elegant astronomical formula for timekeeping, and a testimony to part of the essence of the transmission of ideas from Antiquity to the early Muslim world, thence to Mamluk Egypt and on to the early Ottoman world. And similar devices appear in Renaissance Europe. This «new» sundial reveals how little we knew previously about the astronomical interests of Mehmet II and their level of sophistication; it invites a new look at the relevant sources. This study deals with materials not yet incorporated into the current history of Ottoman astronomy. It casts light on astronomy and dialling in 15th-century Istanbul and it adds substantially to our knowledge of Mehmet II’s interest in astronomy.
On the Arabic Translations of Eutocius’ Commentary on Book II of Archimedes’ Sphere and Cylinder
Authors: Coşkun Emre
Published: January 2025

In the 9th century, parts of Eutocius’ commentary on Book II of Archimedes’ Sphere and Cylinder were translated into Arabic. Most extant manuscripts of these trans- lations contain only fragments. However, one manuscript, Escorial, Árabe 960, contains the longest known Arabic text of Eutocius’ commentary, at 41 folios long. Comparison with the Greek text reveals that the Arabic text in Escorial 960 is composed of the translations of two disjoint parts of Eutocius’ commentary, on Sphere and Cylinder II.1 and II.4. A comparison of various mathematical terms used in the two parts, which I call Text A and Text B, shows that they differ systematically, and were therefore probably translated by different individuals, in different scholarly contexts.
Roma on the Habsburg Frontier: "Nomad Swarms" or "New Farmers"?
Authors: Olin Timothy
Published: January 2025

Abstract: Based on material from the Austrian State Archives and the writings of contemporary observers, the article explores the two-pronged approach to Roma ("Gypsies") on the Habsburg frontier, particularly the Banat of Temesvár. On the one hand, officials and observers disdained the Romani presence and sought to expel or limit it. On the other, the Roma were recognized as essential to the economic life of the region and thus to be assimilated and integrated into society. Both approaches reverberated into the twentieth century throughout Europe. In the end, neither approach was successful as Roma themselves resisted both expulsion and assimilation.
A Neurocognitive Approach to Rudyard Kipling's Early Works and to Kim
Authors: Hume Kathryn
Published: January 2025

Abstract: Kipling praised Allah for giving him two sides to his head, and the two-sided quality to his works has been noted and explained in many different fashions. Neurocognitive theory gives us a literal basis for two-sidedness, namely the left and right brain hemispheres and their differing functions. Looked at in terms of hemispheric concerns, we can see how different some of his works are. "Baa Baa, Black Sheep" is very right hemispheric in its distress. The Mowgli stories explore the left side functions, with his learning rules and patterns. Stalky & Co . introduces the concept of game and its way of joining left-side rules with the right-side joys of winning. Kim is a particularly rewarding ground for such an analysis. It manipulates readers to feel unusually positive right-hemispheric responses not often felt. The disagreement over how to interpret the end is also comprehensible in terms of critics' own hemispheric emphases.
Stigmatizing Mothers: Qualitative Analysis of Language
in Prenatal Records
Authors: Gross Marielle S. , Mendoza-Cervantes Diana , Zabec Joie L. , Dewan Ananya , Beach Mary Catherine
Published: January 2025

Pregnant people experience moral judgment in healthcare settings that may be coded into clinical documentation. Stigmatizing language in medical records transmits bias between clinicians, potentially exacerbating disparities in maternal morbidity and mortality. We examined obstetrical records from 100 randomly selected patients who received prenatal and delivery care in an academic hospital system. Qualitative analysis sought to identify linguistic features conveying negative attitudes or moral judgment, revealing themes of epistemic injustice: (1) discrediting patient testimony as incompetent, unreliable, and hysterical; (2) unnecessary details that are objectifying, stigmatizing, or unprofessional; and (3) judgments of maternal fitness, where women are labeled “bad mothers” by emphasizing neglectful, selfish, and debauched characteristics. We conclude by advocating for further validation of our findings, revisiting medical education paradigms, and supporting the development of natural language processing (NLP) technologies to detect and intercept stigma.
Predicting the onset of chronic kidney disease (CKD) for diabetic patients with aggregated longitudinal EMR data
Authors: Aminnejad Neda , Greiver Michelle , Huang Huaxiong
Published: January 2025

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) affects over 13% of the population, totaling more than 800 million individuals worldwide. Timely identification and intervention are crucial to delay CKD progression and improve patient outcomes. This research focuses on developing a predictive model to classify diabetic patients showing signs of kidney function impairment based on their CKD development risk. Our model utilizes electronic medical record (EMR) data, specifically by incorporating patient demographics, laboratory results, chronic conditions, risk factors, and medication codes to predict the onset of CKD in diabetic patients six months in advance, achieving an average Area Under the Curve (AUC) of 0.88. We leverage aggregated EMR data to effectively capture relevant information within the observation year instead of using temporal EMR data. Furthermore, we identify the most significant features for predicting CKD onset, including mean, minimum, and first quartile of estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) during the observation year, along with variables such as diagnosis age and duration of hypertension, osteoarthritis, and diabetes, as well as levels of hemoglobin and fasting blood glucose (FBG). We also explored a refined model utilizing only these most significant features, which yields a slightly lower AUC of 0.86. These variables are typically available in primary data, empowering physicians for real-time risk assessment. The proposed model’s ability to identify higher-risk patients is essential for timely intervention, personalized care, risk stratification, patient education, and potential cost savings. This research contributes valuable insights for healthcare practitioners seeking efficient tools for early CKD detection in diabetic populations.
Influences of pulsed electric field parameters on cell electroporation and electrofusion events: Comprehensive understanding by experiments and molecular dynamics simulations
Authors: Qu Sujun , Ke Qiang , Li Xinhao , Yu Lin , Huang Shuheng
Published: January 2025

Electroporation and electrofusion are efficient methods, which have been widely used in different areas of biotechnology and medicine. Pulse strength and width, as an external condition, play an important role in the process of these methods. However, comparatively little work has been done to explore the effects of pulsed electric field parameters on electroporation and electrofusion. Herein, influences of pulse strength and width on the electroporation and electrofusion of phospholipid bilayers were systematically investigated by using experiments combined with molecular dynamics simulations. Experimental results and machine learning-based regression analysis showed that the number of pores is mainly determined by pulse strength, while the sizes of pores were enlarged by increasing the pulse widths. In addition, the formation of large-size pores is the most crucial factor that affects the fusion rate of myeloma cells. The same trend has taken place on coarse-grained and all-atom MD simulations. The result suggested that electroporation events occur only in an electric field exceeding the strength of threshold, and the unbalanced degree of electric potential between two membranes leads to pores formation during the process of electroporation. Generally, this work provides a comprehensive understanding of how pulse strength and width govern the poration event of bilayer lipid membranes, as well as guidance on the experimental design of electrofusion.
The impact of social networks on rural residents’ engagement in living environment upgrade: An integrated analysis drawing on social network theory and the theory of planned behavior
Authors: Amat Gulsanam , Wang Jing
Published: January 2025

The issue of rural living environment is a critical concern for China and the global community, intricately intertwined with regional economic development. The proactive involvement of rural residents, who are both beneficiaries and influencers of the environment, constitutes a cornerstone in improving environmental standards. Therefore, the factors that shape rural residents’ participation in living environment upgrade must be explored. Drawing upon the theory of planned behavior and social capital theory, this study employs a structural equation model (SEM) to comprehensively examine the determinants of rural residents’ engagement in living environment upgrade, utilizing data from 334 households in Hebei Province, China. The findings can be summarized as follows: (1) Social networks, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control, and attitudes towards behavior significantly and positively impact rural residents’ engagement in upgrading the living environment, (2) Attitudes towards behavior act as mediators between perceived behavioral control and rural residents’ engagement in living environment upgrade, as well as between subjective norms and rural residents’ engagement in living environmental upgrade. (3) Social networks could indirectly influence rural residents’ engagement in living environment upgrade through the independent mediating effect of subjective norms and attitudes towards behavior, as well as through the chain mediating effect of the two. In conclusion, several managerial recommendations are proposed to stimulate rural residents’ active participation in living environment upgrade.
What emotions does music express? Structure of affect terms in music using iterative crowdsourcing paradigm
Authors: Eerola Tuomas , Saari Pasi
Published: January 2025

Music is assumed to express a wide range of emotions. The vocabulary and structure of affects are typically explored without the context of music in which music is experienced, leading to abstract notions about what affects music may express. In a series of three experiments utilising three separate and iterative association tasks including a contextualisation with typical activities associated with specific music and affect terms, we identified the plausible affect terms and structures to capture the wide range of emotions expressed by music. The first experiment produced a list of frequently nominated affect terms (88 out of 647 candidates), and the second experiment established and confirmed multiple factor structures, ranging from 21, to 14, and 7 dimensions. The third experiment compared the terms with external datasets looking at discrete emotions and emotion dimensions, which verified the 7-factor structure and identified a compact 4-factor structure. These structures of affects expressed by music did not conform to music-induced emotion structures, nor could they be explained by basic emotions or affective circumplex. The established affect structures were largely positive and contained concepts such as “romantic” and “free”, and terms such as “in love”, “dreamy”, and “festive” that have rarely featured in past research.
Citrus diseases detection using innovative deep learning approach and Hybrid Meta-Heuristic
Authors: Butt Nouman , Iqbal Muhammad Munwar , Ramzan Shabana , Raza Ali , Abualigah Laith , Fitriyani Norma Latif , Gu Yeonghyeon , Syafrudin Muhammad
Published: January 2025

Citrus farming is one of the major agricultural sectors of Pakistan and currently represents almost 30% of total fruit production, with its highest concentration in Punjab. Although economically important, citrus crops like sweet orange, grapefruit, lemon, and mandarins face various diseases like canker, scab, and black spot, which lower fruit quality and yield. Traditional manual disease diagnosis is not only slow, less accurate, and expensive but also relies heavily on expert intervention. To address these issues, this research examines the implementation of an automated disease classification system using deep learning and optimal feature selection. The system incorporates data augmentation and transfer learning with pre-trained models such as DenseNet-201 and AlexNet to improve diagnostic accuracy, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness. Experimental results on a citrus leaves dataset show an impressive 99.6% classification accuracy. The proposed framework outperforms existing methods, offering a robust and scalable solution for disease detection in citrus farming, contributing to more sustainable agricultural practices.
Reliability of artificial intelligence-driven markerless motion capture in gait analyses of healthy adults
Authors: Schoenwether Brandon , Ripic Zachary , Nienhuis Mitchell , Signorile Joseph F. , Best Thomas M. , Eltoukhy Moataz
Published: January 2025

The KinaTrax markerless motion capture system, used extensively in the analysis of baseball pitching and hitting, is currently being adapted for use in clinical biomechanics. In clinical and laboratory environments, repeatability is inherent to the quality of any diagnostic tool. The KinaTrax system was assessed on within- and between-session reliability for gait kinematic and spatiotemporal parameters in healthy adults. Nine subjects contributed five trials per session over three sessions to yield 135 unique trials. Each trial was comprised of a single bilateral gait cycle. Ten spatiotemporal parameters for each session were calculated and compared using the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC), Standard Error of the Measurement (SEM), and minimal detectable change (MDC). In addition, seven kinematic waveforms were assessed from each session and compared using the coefficient of multiple determination (CMD). ICCs for between-session spatiotemporal parameters were lowest for left step time (0.896) and left cadence (0.894). SEMs were 0.018 (s) and 3.593 (steps/min) while MDCs were 0.050 (s) and 9.958 (steps/min). Between-session average CMDs for joint angles were large (0.969) in the sagittal plane, medium (0.554) in the frontal plane, and medium (0.327) in the transverse plane while average CMDs for segment angles were large (0.860), large (0.651), and medium (0.561), respectively. KinaTrax markerless motion capture system provides reliable spatiotemporal measures within and between sessions accompanied by reliable kinematic measures in the sagittal and frontal plane. Considerable strides are necessary to improve methodological comparisons, however, markerless motion capture poses a reliable application for gait analysis within healthy individuals.
Optimal sigmoid function models for analysis of transspinal evoked potential recruitment curves recorded from different muscles
Authors: Skiadopoulos Andreas , Knikou Maria
Published: January 2025

Recruitment input-output curves of transspinal evoked potentials that represent the net output of spinal neuronal networks during which cortical, spinal and peripheral inputs are integrated as well as motor evoked potentials and H-reflexes are used extensively in research as neurophysiological biomarkers to establish physiological or pathological motor behavior and post-treatment recovery. A comparison between different sigmoidal models to fit the transspinal evoked potentials recruitment curve and estimate the parameters of physiological importance has not been performed. This study sought to address this gap by fitting eight sigmoidal models (Boltzmann, Hill, Log-Logistic, Log-Normal, Weibull-1, Weibull-2, Gompertz, Extreme Value Function) to the transspinal evoked potentials recruitment curves of soleus and tibialis anterior recorded under four different cathodal stimulation settings. The sigmoidal models were ranked based on the Akaike information criterion, and their performance was assessed in terms of Akaike differences and weights values. Additionally, an interclass correlation coefficient between the predicted parameters derived from the best models fitted to the recruitment curves was also established. A Bland-Altman analysis was conducted to evaluate the agreement between the predicted parameters from the best models. The findings revealed a muscle dependency, with the Boltzmann and Hill models identified as the best fits for the soleus, while the Extreme Value Function and Boltzmann models were optimal for the tibialis anterior transspinal evoked potentials recruitment curves. Excellent agreement for the upper asymptote, slope, and inflection point parameters was found between Boltzmann and Hill models for the soleus, and for the slope and inflection point parameters between Extreme Value Function and Boltzmann models for the tibialis anterior. Notably, the Boltzmann model for soleus and the Extreme Value Function model for tibialis anterior exhibited less susceptibility to inaccuracies in estimated parameters. Based on these findings, we suggest the Boltzmann and the Extreme Value Function models for fitting the soleus and the tibialis anterior transspinal evoked potentials recruitment curve, respectively.
Risk factors of gallbladder cancer in Nepal: A case control study
Authors: Thakur Chanda , Mahato Roshan Kumar , Marasini Sabina , Timalsena Dinesh , Sharma Krishna Sagar , Karmacharya Biraj Man
Published: January 2025

Background

Gallbladder cancer (GBC) is a rare, highly fatal disease with diagnosis in advanced stage and low survival rate. Nepal ranked 4th position with highest rates of GBC for 10 countries in 2020.

Objective

To find the association between socio-demographic, behavioral and environmental factors associated with the development of GBC.

Method

A case-control study was conducted in 2021/22 with newly diagnosed gallbladder cancer cases from three cancer-specialized hospitals and one tertiary (superspeciality) hospital. Controls were selected from the same tertiary hospital and one additional hospital providing services to gallbladder pathologies for a huge population, making a total of five hospitals involved in the study. The ratio of cases to control was 1:1. The data collection was done through telephonic interviews using structured questionnaires. The risk factors for GBC were assessed by using unconditional logistic regression to find odds ratios and 95% confidence level for bivariate and multivariate analysis. The statistical analysis was carried out in STATA 18.

Result

A total of 240 respondents were enrolled in the study, among them half were GBC patients (cases) and half were gallbladder patients (controls). The average age of the respondents was 54.82±12.3 years, with female preponderance among both groups. On multivariate analysis, the risk factors studied were; parity ≥3 (AOR = 2.80, 95% CI: 1.17–6.66, P value 0.020), being ethnic group of Terai/Madhesi (AOR = 7.88, 95% CI: 3.16–19.66, P value <0.001), being Janajati (AOR = 3.36, 95% CI: 1.17–6.61, P value <0.001), having gallbladder related disease (AOR = 2.00, 95% CI:1.00–4.02, P value 0.049), consuming alcohol ≥100ml/day (AOR = 3.44, 95% CI:1.11–10.63, P value 0.032), exposed with pesticides ≥2 times in a year (AOR = 4.04, 95% CI: 1.27–12.89, P value 0.018) and consuming less vegetables and fruits (<1 times per day in a week) (AOR = 2.69, 95% CI:1.34–5.40, P value 0.005).

Conclusion

The study reveals key GBC risk factors, offering vital insights for targeted screening, resource allocation, and public health measures to mitigate risks in Nepal.
Exploring the association between sleep quality, internet addiction, and related factors among adolescents in Dakshinkali Municipality, Nepal
Authors: Acharya Sophiya , Chalise Anisha , Marasine Nirmal Raj , Paudel Shishir
Published: January 2025

Background

Poor sleep quality and internet addiction are significant issues affecting adolescents globally, and Nepal is no exception. Several studies have independently assessed the prevalence and associated factors of poor sleep quality and internet addiction among Nepali adolescents and youth, but the relationship between sleep-related attributes and internet addiction remains unexplored. This study aimed to explore the prevalence and contributing factors of poor sleep quality and internet addiction along with the relationship between sleep quality-related attributes and internet addiction.

Material and methods

A cross-sectional study was conducted among 243 adolescents of Dakshinkali Municipality, Nepal. Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index and Young’s Internet Addiction Test scale were used to measure sleep quality and internet addiction. Pearson’s chi-square test and binary logistic regression were performed at a 5% level of significance to examine the associated factors.

Results

The prevalence of poor sleep quality was 27.6% (95% CI: 22.6–33.7) while potential internet addiction was 49.4% (95% CI: 42.0–56.7). Poor sleep quality was associated with internet addiction (aOR: 1.845; 95% CI: 1.344–3.608), poor perceived relation with teachers (aOR: 2.274; 95% CI: 1.149–4.497), and presence of family conflict (aOR: 2.355; 95% CI: 1.040–5.329). Bad subjective sleep quality (aOR: 5.613; 95% CI: 2.007–15.701), sleep disturbance (aOR: 1.781; 95% CI: 1.251–4.872), frequent daytime dysfunction (aOR: 1.902; 95% CI: 1.083–4.638), and poor perceived relation with teachers (aOR: 2.298; 95% CI: 1.233–4.285), and presence of family conflict (aOR: 1.606; 95% CI: 1.202–3.675) were associated with internet addiction.

Conclusion

Almost a quarter of adolescents’ experience poor sleep quality, while nearly half screened positive for potential internet addiction. Established interrelations between sleep quality and internet usage underscore the importance of integrated intervention approaches combining lifestyle modification and family/school support to protect and promote the mental health and well-being of Nepalese adolescents.
How telepresence and perceived enjoyment mediate the relationship between interaction quality and continuance intention: Evidence from China Zisha-ware Digital Museum
Authors: Shi Mengjie , Deng Liyuan , Zhang Mingshan , Long Yanghuan
Published: January 2025

The rapid development of digital technologies and the diversification of user needs have made digital museums significant platforms for cultural dissemination and education, attracting unprecedented attention. This study aims to investigate how interaction quality influences users’ psychological responses and their continuance intention to use digital museums. By integrating the Stimulus-Organism-Response (S-O-R) model and telepresence theory, this study proposes a novel model to examine users’ continuance intention. A questionnaire survey of visitors to the China Zisha-ware Digital Museum (CZDM) yielded 414 valid responses, which were analyzed using Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM). The results indicate that: 1) The interaction quality of digital museums (i.e., interactivity, vividness, and authenticity) and users’ psychological responses (i.e., telepresence, perceived enjoyment) significantly affect users’ continuance intention to varying degrees. 2) Telepresence significantly mediates the relationship between interaction quality and continuance intention. 3) Perceived enjoyment serves as an important mediator between interactivity, vividness, and continuance intention, while its mediating role between authenticity and continuance intention is not significant. This study offers theoretical and practical insights for optimizing digital museum user experience design to enhance continuance intention, while also promoting the dissemination of digital culture and supporting educational efforts.
The accidental multiverse: Adaptations and reboots and the new superhero content strategy
Authors: Comerford Chris
Published: January 2025

Ever since Batman Begins (2005) introduced Hollywood audiences at large to the concept of the live-action reboot, it has become a popular strategy for long-tail film and television franchises to wipe the slate (mostly) clean and start afresh for new audiences. Before the 2020s and the cinematic popularization of the multiverse as both a narrative device and a branding umbrella, most franchise reboots were intended to be the dominant continuity for viewers. Thanks to the multiverse, some of these reboots – and the versions preceding them – now exist in a complex web of narrative, thematic and intertextual relationships. This article charts the how, why and so what? of the accidental multiverse; superhero franchises that have multiple narrative versions existing concurrently that were not originally intended to do so. As a potential blueprint for entertainment franchises in the future, the accidental multiverse offers a site for interpreting changing dynamics in industry production and audience reception logics and reminds us that in the streaming, niche-targeted content era, everything is connected.
Masculinity, #MeToo and misleading marketing: The unmet sexpectations of the American Gigolo remake
Authors: Fenwick Abel F.
Published: January 2025

American Gigolo, the 2022 television series which functions as a sequel to the 1980 film, has received an overwhelmingly negative reception with both critics and viewers. An insightful review declaring the show ‘more dud than stud’ encapsulates the problems with viewers’ expectations: despite raunchy marketing promising a direct continuation to the original, there was ‘very little actual sex’ compared to its Paul Schrader written and directed neo-noir predecessor, a choice complicated further with the addition of a controversial backstory in which protagonist Julian Kaye (Jon Bernthal) was revealed to have been a victim of child abuse. The misleading marketing certainly influenced viewer rejection of the show by both promising a continuation to the original and deliberately obscuring the plotline. The post-#MeToo context it was released in, furthermore, may have impacted reception. The sheer venom with which reviewers broached the portrayal of a male victim of abuse, however, raises questions of its own. Despite the rightly criticized aspects of the show, its choice to depict an unconventional male victim as a lead character on primetime television is groundbreaking. Did audiences reject the show for disrupting their nostalgia for Julian, or does heterosexual male victimhood continue to be a societal taboo?
Give us a clew: Solving fictional crime through the adaptive popular mediums of knitting and sewing
Authors: Hackett Lisa J. , Coghlan Jo
Published: January 2025

Perhaps it is apt that people who knit and sew are drawn to solving puzzles, including fictional and actual crimes. The word clew is an archaic spelling of our modern-day clue. It is derived from the old English cliwen or cleowen, meaning a ball of thread. It may also be a nod to the ball of yarn that Theseus used to escape from the minotaur’s labyrinth in Greek legend. Without his clew, Theseus would have no clue how to escape the labyrinth. Its modern-day association with detective work first began with Edgar Allen Poe’s detective C. Auguste Dupin who followed ‘clues’ to solve his crimes and was popularized by Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories. In the past, and more recently fictional and real-life detectives follow clues to solve crimes, and many of them are crafty. This article considers how adaptative the mediums of knitting and sewing are when they are freed from their utilitarian or creative purpose and instead becomes a device to solve crimes.
Missing targets: Engagement metrics and digital organizing in the climate movement
Authors: Mehta Swati
Published: January 2025

Despite limitations and uncertainties, digital media platforms are integral to mobilization and organizing in the climate movement. Their appeal and utility for public engagement is largely attributed to direct interactions among users, increased visibility, and the ability to measure and validate these interactions through quantified engagement metrics. While the affordances of specific platforms and their influence on social movements have been extensively studied in existing scholarship, the relationship between engagement metrics and climate activism requires further attention. Therefore, this article focuses on the relationship between ubiquitous engagement metrics on digital media platforms and digital organizers in the climate movement. It highlights the different kinds of internal and external stakes for digital climate activists as well as the challenges and compromises that occur when platform affordances – especially their tendency to flatten and quantify interactions – come to be entwined with organizing. The article suggests that future scholarship needs to look beyond perspectives that exclusively emphasize either the technical hostility of platforms or the interpretative flexibility of users that currently define scholarly understanding of the relationship between metrics and users. This can be achieved by paying greater attention to sociopolitical conditions, such as internet access, regulatory frameworks and national climate politics that influence the experiences of digital organizers in the climate movement. These insights can support strategies relevant to different regional, technical and temporal constraints that are so crucial to achieving effective climate action.
Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia, Victor Seow (2021)
Authors: Berwald Max
Published: January 2025

Review of: Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia, Victor Seow (2021)

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Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man, Joshua Bennett (2020)
Authors: Leong Diana
Published: January 2025

Review of: Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man, Joshua Bennett (2020)

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 224 pp.,

ISBN 978-0-67498-030-3, p/bk, $18.95

Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World, Zakiyyah Iman Jackson (2020)

New York: New York University Press, 320 pp.,

ISBN 978-1-47983-037-4, p/bk, $30.00
ESC: Sonic Adventure in the Anthropocene, Jacob Smith (2019)
Authors: Tejeda Amaru
Published: January 2025

Review of: ESC: Sonic Adventure in the Anthropocene, Jacob Smith (2019)

Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press

ISBN 978-0-47299-901-9, open access
The aesthetic of the unreadable: The impact of logotype readability on the corporate identity of death metal bands
Authors: Palacios Antonio
Published: January 2025

Logos provide instant brand identification, which also applies to music bands, where they must stand out among their competition through distinctive visual attributes. In the context of heavy metal bands, particularly in the death metal genre, the elaborate and heavily ornamented style of logotypes creates a challenge for easy identification, leading to potential or visual overload. Therefore, the primary aim of this study is to investigate how the complexity of readability in death metal band logos affects the identification, differentiation and retention of these groups. To achieve this, a triangulation of experiments was conducted. Initially, a questionnaire gathered quantitative data on desired attributes in a logo and qualitative responses from individuals with and without an affinity for metal music. Subsequently, interviews were conducted with corporate identity experts. Finally, musicians from Peruvian extreme metal bands were interviewed. This study indicates, first, that logotypes reflect the sonic-musical experience of extreme music, preserving a tradition and delivering a visual impact. Second, it emphasizes the importance of readability in corporate identity, aiding quick band recognition. Third, the silhouette and formal attributes of the logotype contribute to establishing a connection with the band, even if the textual content is not legible. Finally, it demonstrates the feasibility of balancing an aggressive aesthetic in line with extreme music with a visually understandable design for the target audience, serving as a promotional and dissemination tool for bands. These findings hold significance in comprehending logotype design within the realm of extreme metal bands, an underexplored subfield of corporate identity.
El Derecho a la desconexión digital y su tratamiento jurídico
Authors: Gil Pérez María Encarnación
Published: January 2025

Las herramientas digitales de trabajo requieren un tratamiento legal específico ya que el trabajador se ve inmerso en un nuevo escenario. Los medios e instrumentos de trabajo colocan al trabajador en diversas situaciones que si no son bien gestionadas pueden afectar a sus derechos básicos, tales como la salud y seguridad, derecho a la intimidad, derecho de conciliar su vida personal y familiar con la vida laboral, derecho a la desconexión, entre otros, me refiero a los medios digitales cada día más utilizados tanto en el ámbito laboral como personal.
Nuevas formas de trabajo flexible: la ordenación del tiempo de trabajo para favorecer la conciliación de la vida laboral, personal y familiar
Authors: Aguas Blasco Ana
Published: January 2025

La ordenación del tiempo de trabajo ha asistido en los últimos tiempos a una intensa transformación en la que, junto con otros factores, ha tenido también un importante papel el componente socioeconómico; entre otras cuestiones, las personas trabajadoras demandan mayor flexibilidad en la ordenación del tiempo que dedican a la prestación de su actividad laboral y, más concretamente, buscan poder conciliar su vida laboral, personal y familiar, lo que ha llevado a la adaptación de la regulación a estas crecientes necesidades. En el presente, las personas trabajadoras cuentan con la posibilidad de prestar sus servicios a través de modalidades de trabajo que, gracias al uso de las nuevas tecnologías, favorecen la tan requerida flexibilidad en el tiempo, pero también en el espacio de trabajo, como son el teletrabajo y el novedoso smart working. Aunque no son fórmulas creadas específicamente para conseguir el objetivo conciliador, sus principales rasgos caracterizadores pueden llevarlas, con la correcta configuración, a posicionarse como herramientas idóneas para alcanzarlo. Sin embargo, sin un marco regulador y unos términos de su ejercicio –rol que tiene asignado en gran parte la negociación colectiva– adecuados, sus ventajas pueden verse mermadas.
Brechas de género en el empleo de la Economía Azul: en especial, en el sector marítimo
Authors: Bernal Santamaría Francisca
Published: January 2025

La economía azul es un sector estratégico, motor de la economía y que está en pleno auge. En la actualidad, numerosos foros académicos y profesionales tratan de enseñar sobre la importancia y la utilidad de las actividades que comprende la economía azul, muchas de ellas con altos beneficios económicos y para la riqueza de las naciones. En cualquier caso, es un sector indispensable para la vida humana y para la sociedad, para el intercambio de mercancías y para la transformación de los países y que debe ser sostenible e inclusivo. Efectivamente, en la actualidad se apuesta por una economía azul sostenible e inclusiva que debe tener presente la perspectiva de género. En esta sede de análisis apuntaremos los datos económicos y laborales que reseñan el valor económico y social, y nos detendremos para analizar los problemas que padecen las mujeres en las actividades laborales del sector marítimo y portuario. El motivo de esta elección descansa en que son industrias de las que se tienen datos sobre el nivel de presencia y de integración de las mujeres, pero que, sin embargo, siguen presentes unas brechas de género muy importantes que se deben combatir.
Claves de lectura sobre la inaplazable reforma del tiempo de trabajo
Authors: Trillo Parraga Francisco José
Published: January 2025

La impronta del tratamiento normativo del tiempo de trabajo en las sucesivas reformas y de la irrupción y consolidación de la tecnología digital ha provocado la desaparición del modelo espacio-temporal propio de la era industrial para adentrarnos en una experiencia con el tiempo de trabajo que está basada en instantes inconcebiblemente breves que permiten “el carácter simultáneo de las relaciones sociales” reemplazando el espacio real por procesos realizados en tiempo real. Proceso que ha desencadenado una fragmentación que borra o difumina el comienzo y el final de la jornada de trabajo para dar lugar a “la conectividad constante”. Con ello, se asiste a una ordenación de la sociedad expresada de forma general en la idea de que los tiempos de descanso laboral no constituyen ya límites eficaces para la preservación y desarrollo de aquéllos.
Social facts, circularity and causal-historical connections in experimental semantics
Authors: D'Agruma Nicolò
Published: January 2025

This paper offers a critical analysis of Ding and Liu’s (2022) contribution to the ongoing debate stemming from Machery et al.’s (2004) experimental investigation of Kripke’s Gödel Case. Machery et al. test referential intuitions on proper names among laypeople from American and Chinese backgrounds and contend that their results challenge Kripke’s refutation of descriptivism. Ding and Liu argue that descriptions in Gödel-style scenarios are ambiguous between a brute-fact and a social-fact interpretation, and Machery et al. overlook the latter. Building upon this ambiguity, Ding and Liu conduct several studies, maintaining that the results reveal that Machery et al. misclassify some descriptivist answers as causal-historical. If that is the case, the challenge that experimental philosophy poses to Kripke’s refutation of descriptivism is even more substantial than Machery et al. claim. In this paper, I argue that, even granting some specific points that Ding and Liu endorse, their main experiment (Study 3) fails to provide the intended evidence. Despite the authors’ attempted rejoinders, the social-fact interpretation of the description in the Gödel Case is either circular or implicitly presupposes a referential role for the name’s causal-historical chain. Hence, in contrast to Ding and Liu’s interpretation, from their premises, they can only conclude that their main experiment’s results do not bolster Machery et al.’s (2004) challenge against Kripke’s refutation of descriptivism, but rather diminish it.
Teoría de las cantidades conservadas: ¿análisis empírico o análisis metafísico de la causación?
Authors: Herrera Manuel
Published: January 2025

La Teoría de las Cantidades Conservadas (TCC) de Phil Dowe se sustenta en las siguientes tesis: (a) la TCC es el fruto de un análisis empírico y no de uno conceptual, (b) la TCC es metafísicamente contingente y (c) la TCC es refutable. El presente artículo argumenta, por un lado, que las tesis (a), (b) y (c) no solo son problemáticas en sí mismas, sino que, además, son incompatibles entre sí y, por otro lado, que la elección de estas tesis se explica por la posición particular que el autor abraza respecto de la relación entre la metafísica y la física.
The representational and phenomenal richness of perceptual experience
Authors: Sacchi Elisabetta
Published: January 2025

This paper deals with the issue of the admissible content of perceptual experience at the centre of the debate that opposes Conservatives and Liberals —who advocate, respectively, a Sparse and a Rich Content-View— and aims, specifically, to consider how this debate interacts with the Externalism/Internalism debate in philosophy of perception. Indeed, apart from a few exceptions (Siegel, 2006, 2010, 2013; Bayne, 2009; Ashby, 2020a; Raleigh, 2022), this issue has not yet been sufficiently addressed, and the present paper, in the wake of the aforementioned works, aims to focus on this issue in order to assess whether it would be more congenial for a Liberal to adopt content internalism or rather content externalism. In my paper I argue that the best move the Liberal should make is to endorse externalism with regard to the content of perceptual experience and internalism with regard to its phenomenal character. But, as it will turn out, this combination can only be sustained consistently if the Liberal discards the standard interpretation of one of its central claims, the so-called (Ashby, 2020a, p. 689) “phenomenal reflection claim” (PRC) —the claim according to which perceptual properties are reflected in/reverberate in the phenomenology of the experience— and adopts a different interpretation of it. To indicate what alternative interpretation of PRC the liberal should provide is one of the main goals of the paper.