bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Dermatofibroma vulvar: relato de caso
Authors: Bettega Ana Laura Ribas Braga , Cuervo Bryan Alexander , Obando Mario Fernando Davila , Almeida Julio Da Silva , Chamorro Daniela Cardeño , Santos Tatianne Rosa dos , Vera Christian Montero , Fernandes Sílvio Silva
Published: September 2023

Introdução: Os tumores vulvares representam apenas 4% de todas as neoplasias ginecológicas e são o 4º em frequência, depois dos tumores do colo do útero, útero e ovário. 98% de todos os tumores vulvares são benignos e apenas 2% são malignos. No entanto, fazer o diagnóstico correto nem sempre é fácil devido às similaridades patológicas. Este relato de caso de dermatofibroma vulvar pretende contribuir para a identificação e tratamento de possíveis novos casos. Relato de caso: A.S.D.S., mulher de 88 anos, procurou o ambulatório com queixa de lesão e prurido na região vulvar há aproximadamente um ano. Relata aumento progressivo da lesão e piora do prurido, mas nega qualquer secreção, dor local e outros sinais ou sintomas que afetem o estado de saúde. Ao ser questionada, a paciente descreve a lesão como não sendo uma massa nem um nódulo. Seu histórico ginecológico e obstétrico indica menopausa aos 52 anos e realização de histerectomia total abdominal e salpingooforectomia bilateral aos 53 anos devido a sangramento uterino anormal, mas não sabe dizer o diagnóstico exato. Não apresenta alterações nos últimos exames, preventivo e mamografia, realizados aos 65 anos. Ao exame físico, foi verificada a presença de uma lesão em placa na região esquerda da vulva, no terço superior e médio, com cerca de 6 × 3 cm, acinzentada, eritematosa, descamativa na periferia e bordas irregulares. Não apresentava alterações no canal vaginal e o toque vaginal era indolor. Foi decidido realizar uma biópsia excisional. Após a ressecção da lesão com margens, a análise histopatológica da amostra sugeriu o diagnóstico de leiomioma. Por sugestão do patologista, foi realizada imuno-histoquímica, que diagnosticou a lesão como dermatofibroma. Comentários: Como existem poucas técnicas utilizadas para diferenciar a natureza do tumor, a biópsia excisional parece ser o melhor procedimento atualmente empregado, além de ser o tratamento de escolha para tais tumores. No caso apresentado, a análise imuno-histoquímica foi de grande valia para fechar o diagnóstico. Anticorpos como caldesmon, actina-alfa e desmina foram utilizados para verificar a existência de células musculares na amostra, revelando um resultado negativo. A possibilidade de estarmos diante de um melanoma também foi verificada utilizando o anticorpo proteína S100 (marcador de células de origem da crista neural, como os melanócitos), o que também foi descartado. A análise imuno-histoquímica se revelou positiva apenas para o fator XIII.
Prevalência das alterações colpocitológicas de mulheres atendidas em um grande hospital militar
Authors: Silva Arleia Ribeiro da , Fialho Susana Cristina Aidé Viviani , Martins Caroline Alves de Oliveira , Guimarães Isabel Cristina Chulvis  do Val , Ramon Amanda Milanezi
Published: September 2023

Introdução: A detecção precoce do câncer de colo de útero por meio do rastreamento de alterações colpocitológicas é uma estratégia importante. A prevenção primária inclui a vacinação contra o Papilomavírus humano (HPV), que é necessário para o desenvolvimento do câncer cervical. Além da persistência da infecção pelo HPV, fatores de risco como imunossupressão, tabagismo, uso de contraceptivos hormonais, múltiplos parceiros sexuais, idade, início precoce da atividade sexual e multiparidade também estão associados ao desenvolvimento de lesões pré-malignas e malignas. Objetivos: O objetivo deste estudo foi estimar a prevalência de alterações colpocitológicas em mulheres atendidas em um ambulatório de um grande hospital militar e avaliar o perfil epidemiológico dessas mulheres. Material e métodos: Foi realizado um estudo retrospectivo, observacional e transversal, utilizando dados coletados de prontuários no período de janeiro de 2016 a dezembro de 2019. A população do estudo incluiu mulheres atendidas no ambulatório de ginecologia e patologia cervical, incluindo militares e dependentes civis de militares de todas as regiões do país e do exterior. Resultados: Foram incluídas no estudo 10.970 mulheres. Foram identificadas 217 mulheres com alterações colpocitológicas, o que resultou em uma prevalência de 1,98%. A média de idade dessas mulheres foi de 40 anos, a média de número de filhos foi de 1,55 e a idade média de início da atividade sexual foi de 18 anos. Em relação às variáveis categóricas, foi observado que 21,20% das pacientes com alterações colpocitológicas utilizavam contraceptivos hormonais e 9,22% das pacientes relataram uso de preservativo masculino. A prevalência de mulheres com algum fator de imunossupressão foi de 5,61%. Além disso, 5,99% das pacientes com alterações colpocitológicas eram tabagistas e 17,05% tinham mais de 3 filhos. A maior prevalência de alteração colpocitológica foi de lesão intraepitelial de baixo grau (LSIL) com 33,64%, seguida de células atípicas de significado indeterminado (ASC-US) com 33,18%. A regressão logística múltipla mostrou uma associação estatisticamente significativa entre tabagismo e lesões NIC 2+ (neoplasia intraepitelial de grau 2, grau 3 ou carcinoma invasor) confirmadas por histopatologia (p<0,05). Não foram encontradas associações estatisticamente significativas entre outras variáveis de risco, nem entre as alterações colpocitológicas como ASC-US e LSIL com lesões NIC 2+. Conclusão: A prevalência de alterações colpocitológicas em mulheres atendidas nesse hospital foi semelhante aos dados do Sistema de Informação do Câncer do Colo do Útero (SISCOLO) de 2016. As alterações encontradas foram predominantemente de baixo risco para lesões NIC 2+. Além disso, identificou-se forte associação entre tabagismo e a evolução do câncer de colo de útero e suas lesões precursoras.
Tratamento de condiloma acuminado extenso com laser de CO2: relato de caso
Authors: Seixas João Alfredo , Melo Yara Lúcia Mendes Furtado de , Rocha Lucas Correa da , Ferreira Talita Reis , Filho Gutemberg Leão de Almeida
Published: September 2023

Introdução: O condiloma acuminado, também conhecido como verrugas genitais, pode causar desconforto e constrangimento às pessoas afetadas, além de ter repercussões psicológicas significativas. As lesões são percebidas como desfigurantes, impactando a vida sexual e resultando em ansiedade, culpa e perda de autoestima. Além disso, existe a preocupação em relação ao risco de desenvolvimento de câncer. Objetivo: O objetivo principal do tratamento é aliviar os sintomas, reduzir a carga psicológica associada ao estigma social e melhorar o aspecto estético da paciente. Além disso, busca-se reduzir a transmissibilidade da infecção, que parece ser mais alta na presença das verrugas. Relato de caso: Uma mulher de 27 anos foi encaminhada ao ambulatório de patologia vulvar devido a lesões condilomatosas na região vulvar que estavam presentes há 6 anos. Ela havia realizado tratamento com Imiquimod há 5 anos, mas não obteve melhora, e relatou que as lesões vinham aumentando progressivamente desde então. A paciente não apresentava imunossupressão, não havia recebido vacinação para HPV, não utilizava preservativo regularmente e o parceiro não apresentava lesões visíveis. No exame da vulva, observou-se uma lesão condilomatosa abrangendo ambos os grandes lábios. A paciente foi submetida à ressecção cirúrgica completa da lesão utilizando laser de CO2 fracionado (Smartxide) em um centro cirúrgico, seguida pela sutura para aproximação das bordas. No pós-operatório, houve uma pequena deiscência na área da sutura, mas sem sinais de infecção. A avaliação da dor e satisfação da paciente foi realizada por meio de uma escala visual, na qual ela relatou ausência de dor e afirmou estar muito satisfeita com o resultado do procedimento. Comentários: A vaporização com laser de CO2 tem apresentado resultados satisfatórios no tratamento de condilomas acuminados menores, proporcionando uma ablação tecidual eficaz com menor dor local. Para casos de condilomas extensos e bem delimitados, a ressecção cirúrgica parece ser a melhor opção terapêutica. A ressecção com laser de CO2 oferece melhores condições técnicas, com menos sangramento, bom resultado estético e menos queixas de dor no pós-operatório, além de poucas complicações associadas ao procedimento, como observado no caso da paciente. A escolha do tratamento cirúrgico, com consequente redução da carga viral, é uma medida prudente para casos de lesões extensas, inclusive para prevenir a progressão para lesões gigantes.
“I’m On My Own, I Need Support”: Needs Assessment of Community Aged Care Services
Authors: Steiner-Lim Genevieve Z. , Karamacoska Diana , Abramov Gamze , Dubois Shamieka , Harley Anne , McDonald Keith , Hohenberg Mark I.
Published: September 2023

Introduction: Well-integrated community aged care services empower and enable older people to live and thrive in the community by supporting activities of daily living. To inform integrated community aged care service planning and delivery in South Western Sydney Australia, a needs assessment with consumers (i.e., older people), their caregivers, and healthcare providers was conducted. This study details the comprehensive and inclusive needs assessment process undertaken, with a focus on translating the findings into practice to improve integrated care.
Description: Qualitative interviews and community forum-style focus groups engaged 160 stakeholders including GPs, older people, and aged care workers. Transcribed data were thematically coded using an inductive approach. Data were organised into four themes: 1) access to community aged care services; (2) healthcare and medical needs; (3) social concerns and needs; and (4) education and information needs.
Discussion: The needs assessment undertaken identified unmet needs, gaps in service provision, and recommendations for improving integrated community aged care services.
Conclusion: Findings are novel in the context of South Western Sydney, Australia. The study design, methods employed, and lessons learned can be adapted internationally for future needs assessments to inform policy, strategies, and integrated aged care service delivery.
The post-pandemic inflationary episode in advanced economies: a historical perspective
Authors: Ghirelli Corinna , Sastre Teresa , Bonino Nicolás , Álvarez Luis Julián , Santabárbara Daniel
Published: September 2023

Rationale

Inflation surged in the world economy from 2021 owing to a succession of shocks, including most notably the rise in energy prices. However, it appears to have peaked in many countries over the past few months, marking the start of a declining phase. This article analyses, for a group of advanced economies, the features of the current inflationary process vis-à-vis other past episodes, paying special attention to those triggered by energy shocks.

Takeaways

•The post-pandemic surge in inflation has occurred faster than in previous inflationary periods. However, the scale of the rising inflation in the current episode is similar to that of past episodes arising from energy price increases.

•According to the historical pattern, underlying inflation reaches its peak very near the time headline inflation does. However, in the current inflationary process there is a lag of around six months and underlying inflation is more persistent.

•The synchronisation between countries regarding inflation is greater in inflationary processes caused by energy price shocks and is stronger in the current episode than in the past owing to the confluence of several global shocks.
PENGARUH KESADARAN WAJIB PAJAK, SOSIALISASI PERPAJAKAN, DAN SANKSI PAJAK TERHADAP KEPATUHAN WAJIB PAJAK UMKM
Authors: Agni Mayka Nur , - Masripah
Published: September 2023

The purpose of this research is to find out whether there is influence from taxpayer awareness, tax socialization, and tax sanctions on the mandatory compliance of MSMEs in the culinary sector in Jakarta. Quantitative method as the primary data source as the type of data in this study with the sample being taxpayers of MSME culinary sector who are registered with the Office of Industry, Trade, Cooperatives, Small and Medium Enterprises in the Jakarta area. The use of purposive sampling as a data collection technique with a sample of 100 respondents. Data testing was carried out using the Partial Least Square method with the help of SmartPLS 3.0 software. The results of this study indicate that taxpayer awareness, tax socialization, and tax sanctions have a positive and significant effect on MSME taxpayer compliance in the culinary sector in Jakarta.
PENGARUH DEBT TO ASSET RATIO TOTAL ASSET TURNOVER DAN PERTUMBUHAN PENJUALAN TERHADAP PROFITABILITAS PERUSAHAAN SEKTOR CONSUMER NON CYCLICAL DIBURSA EFEK INDONESIA TAHUN 2019-2021
Authors: Apriliana Mamik , Wafirotin Khusnatul Zulfa , Wijayanti Iin
Published: September 2023

Rasio  yang menunjukkan hubungan antara dua atau lebih data keuangan merupakan ukuran yang sering digunakan dalam menilai kinerja keuangan. Analisis rasio keuangan juga dipakai sebagai sistem peringatan dini (early warning system) terhadap kondisi keuangan perusahaan. Investor perlu menganalisis laporan keuangan sebagai bahan pertimbangan dalam mengambil keputusan berinvestasi agar mampu memperoleh return yang diharapkan. Rasio profitabilitas merupakan rasio untuk menilai kemampuan perusahaan dalam mencari keuntungan. Maka perlu mengetahui faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhi profitabilitas. Pada penelitian ini menggunakan data sekunder yang berupa laporan keuangan perusahaan sektor Consumer Non Cyclical yang terdaftar di Bursa Efek Indonesia pada periode 2019-2021. Jumlah populasi pada penelitian ini sebanyak 82 Perusahaan. Dan perusahaan yang memenuhi kriteria sebanyak 43 perusahaan. Analisis regresi dalam penelitian ini menggunakan regresi berganda. Untuk uji hipotesis menggunakan uji t dan F. Hasil dari penelitian ini secara parsial menunjukkan bahwa Debt To Asset Ratio berpengaruh terhadap Profitabilitas, Total Asset Turnover berpengaruh terhadap Profitabilitas, dan Pertumbuhan Penjualan berpengaruh terhadap Profitabilitas.  Hasil penelitian ini secara serempak Debt To Asset Ratio, Total Asset Turnover, dan Pertumbuhan Penjualan berpengaruh terhadap Profitabilitas.
Specific Postgraduate Programs and the Transfer of the Panama Canal
Authors: Molino Jay
Published: September 2023

This research examines the relevance and context of postgraduate programs offered by the University of Panama, specifically focusing on the “Master’s Program in Maritime Industries with an Emphasis on Port Management, Multimodal Transportation, and Logistics” offered by the Institute of the Canal and International Studies. The study employs Guillermo Briones’ specific reference model and adapts the “Evaluation Guide for Postgraduate Programs” from the IberoAmerican University Postgraduate Association (AUIP). The analysis centers on three dimensions: Academic, linkage, and geographical-political. The results reveal a robust academic relationship between undergraduate and postgraduate programs, with high approval rates from coordinators (66.7%) and students (60%). Regarding linkage, the program demonstrates significant engagement with the business-productive sector, as 40% of respondents indicated. It also exhibits a favorable consideration of international trade rules, with 100% of coordinators affirming that program content incorporates international trade treaties. Furthermore, program graduates reported working in fields related to their education, with more definitive and positive responses than coordinators. This suggests a potential lack of data and ongoing connection between graduates and the institution that provided the program.
Pour une archéologie cinématographique de la condition immersive: La Jetée (Chris Marker, 1962)
Authors: Le Maître Barbara , Pernac Natacha , Verraes Jennifer
Published: September 2023

Today we tend to emphasise the technological dimension of immersive devices, insisting on the notions of interactivity, virtual reality or augmented perception— all of which promise to intensify museum experience or the film experience. But it must be recognised that the principle of immersion is older than the more or less recent definitions of immersive devices or museography. Certain primordial forms of scenarisation, of staging and of dramatisation were able to play an immersive role very early on, foreshadowing the installation of the subject of perception in an attitude of adhesion, which can go as far as subjugation. Scripting, staging, psychic projection: if an archaeology of immersion is required, it must include an account of the role of cinema in the formation of the immersive condition. Our hypothesis is that an archaeology of immersion must pass through cinema: not only through its device, but primarily through its fictions, narratives, and figurations. In this perspective, we propose to examine the historical contribution of cinema to the formation of the immersive condition, through an analysis of Chris Marker’s La Jetée (1962). If this unique film has often been studied, its capacity to stage different fundamental aspects of an immersive experience, involving at the same time the interplay of memory, aesthetic relation, and the psyche, has not been considered yet.
CVM: Crossbar-based circuit Verification through Modeling
Authors:   Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, USA., Datta Rajesh Kumar
Published: September 2023

The implementation of Boolean functions using Nano crossbar-based switching lattices has been suggested as a substitute for conventional CMOS-based approaches in digital circuits. This alternative may satisfy the needs of future electronic designs, considering the expected end of Moore’s law. This study introduces CVM, a Crossbar-based circuit Verification through Modeling technique.
Provenance variation in seed characteristics and germination behaviour of Azadirachta indica A.Juss. in Orissa
Authors: Bisht Smita , Jain Avinash , Sharma Neelima , Pandey Samidha , Banerjee Samar
Published: September 2023

Neem seeds of seven provenances from different agroclimatic zones of Orissa were collected from plus trees and their physical parameters like seed length, width, thickness, weight and moisture content were determined. Germination per cent of seeds in sand, germination paper (in laboratory), mother beds and polybags (in nursery) were also recorded. All these traits were correlated with each other and also with latitude and longitude of agroclimatic zones. Seed thickness and seed weight of neem showed a large variation among different provenances and significant relationship with germination behaviour of seeds under nursery conditions. Bhubneshwar and Sambalpur provenances showed their superiority over other provenances of Orissa.
studies on the differences in the loss of moisture from the harvested Som leaves
Authors: Singh P. , Lal Babu , Das P.
Published: September 2023

Moisture content of the harvested Som leaves plays a vital role in successful indoor rearing of muga silkworm Antheraea assama. Considerable delay is noticed between harvesting of leaf and feeding to silkworm during Chotua (February to March) and Aherua (June-July) muga seed crops during indoor rearing. After harvest, the leaves lose their moisture gradually. The loss of moisture during 9.00 A.M. to 4.00 P.M. was determined in the 8 morphotypes of Som (Machilus bombycina). The loss of moisture was least (6.19%) in morphotype M (5) and maximum (24.75%) in M (1), in others it was 9.12% in M (2); 10.57% in M (3); 7.88% in M (4); 6.12% in M (6); 6.36% in M (8) and 7.04% in M (7). Hence M (5) morphotype is recommended for the use in indoor rearing of muga silkworm. Significant differences were also observed among these morphotypes with regard to the leaf area and stomatal numbers. The morpho-anatomical features of the leaf were found to influence the degree of loss of moisture from the leaves.
Analysis of Tourist Attractions, Amenities and Accessibility to Tourist Visit Decisions Mediated by Digitalization Promotion
Authors: Surya Elfitra Desy , Felani Kiki Farida , Felani Virdyra Tasril , Andriani Anggi
Published: September 2023

The purpose of this research is to test and analyze the impact MSME development to improve the image of the Mutiara Beach destination as culinary tourism with digital-based promotions in the City of Pari Serdang Bedagai and to test and analyze the impact of MSME development for enhancing the image of the Mutiara Beach destination as a culinary tour through tourist satisfaction with digital-based promotions in Pari Serdang Bedagai City. The hypotheses in this study are cognitive image, affective image and unique image positive and significant effect simultaneously to enhance the image pearl beach destination as a culinary tour with digital-based promotions in Kota Pari is different, and cognitive image, affective image and unique image partially positive and significant effect to improve the image of the destination Mutiara Beach as a culinary tour through tourist satisfaction with promotions digital based City of Pari Serdang Bedagai. The materials to be used in this study are: Quantitative Materials, where the Quantitative Material in this study relates to the data describe variable X1 cognitive image, variable X2 affective image, variable X3 unique image, Y1 (Mediation Variable) tourist satisfaction, and for the variable Y2 is destination image. The research location was carried out at the pearl beach of Pari City Serdang Bedagai District, North Sumatra Province. Data analysis used are: Quantitative Analysis consisting of Path Analysis (Path Analysis) with a population of 300 consumers and with using the slovin formula obtained a sample of 171 people.
Violence, Terror, and Unwritten Laws
Authors: Zupancic Alenka
Published: September 2023

The chapter looks into the difference between Creon’s and Antigone’s violence and argues that the difference is not that between objective and subjective violence. Using the example of the following joke: “We’re not cannibals; we ate the last one yesterday,” it points at a paradox at work in any constitution of the Law and uses it to define the domain of the “unwritten laws” that Creon violates in Antigone’s view. What happens in Antigone has to do with something implicit in the constitution of the normal social order. It has to do with a very specific, singular moment, with a forced normalization and generalization of that moment, and with its consequences for state power in its everyday, normal course or functioning. The chapter also discusses the role that the figure of Antigone plays in context of the contemporary discussion of terrorism on the one hand and of State violence on the other.
Conclusion
Authors: Gill Michael
Published: September 2023

In this chapter I argue for additional coalitions between racial justice, disability justice, environmental justice, and food allergy activism to be expanded to food justice. A coalition arguing for free healthcare, sustainable access to food, socially welcoming spaces for all dietary practices, injectable epinephrine and prescription drugs, and an end to institutionalization and incarceration can help dismantle systems of oppression and center the lives and experiences of BIPOC disabled people.
“A Long-Cherished Plan”
Authors: Quist John W.
Published: September 2023

Following the American Revolution, Americans and Canadians pondered and debated, for well over a century, the prospective integration of their countries. Americans favoring Canadian annexation expressed their sentiments irregularly but were widespread in the Whig, Democratic, and Republican parties. They generally held that Canada’s entry to the United States would occur peacefully and be welcomed by Canadians. The loudest and most belligerent talk regarding Canadian annexation, though, occurred during the half-dozen years following the U.S. Civil War and stemmed from disputes with Great Britain over the unresolved Alabama Claims. Michigan Senator and Detroit resident, Zachariah Chandler, led the annexation chorus. For decades beforehand—and thereafter—Detroit residents, living along the U.S.-Canadian border, had followed Canadian affairs more closely than most U.S. residents. Their perceptions thus provide an instructive window into the broader U.S. debate regarding Canada and Canadian annexation.
From Memphis to Mexico
Authors: Slap Andrew L.
Published: September 2023

During the American Civil War, the borders between civil and military authority crumbled, as United Sates generals asserted independent authority to set government policy. In the aftermath of the conflict, generals continued to make decisions outside of civilian control, ranging from domestic military tribunals in Memphis, Tennessee, to ignoring the Secretary of State’s foreign policy in dealing with the French invasion of Mexico. The army has often been considered an instrument of sovereignty, but at least during the Civil War era the army often appropriated sovereignty to itself.
Global Implications of Climate Change
Authors: Gareau Tara Pisani , Gareau Brian J.
Published: September 2023

This essay describes how our Complex Problems course, Global Implications of Climate Change, is designed to introduce students to interdisciplinary dimensions of a pressing problem while helping them during their educational journey into adulthood. To help students consider the ethical dimensions of climate change and their personal connection to this complex problem, we created a novel reflection model called the Purposeful Ongoing Discussion (POD) Leadership Program. POD Leaders—upper-class students who are trained by the professors through weekly seminars—co-lead small group exercises and discussions with the first-year students taking the course. This multi-level model of mentorship (faculty mentoring student leaders, student leaders mentoring their near-peers) has allowed for intellectual, moral, and spiritual formation to flourish in our course. While we certainly believe the content of our core course is deeply important, the mentorship component allows students to leave our course able to engage with difficult problems, possessing the skills to facilitate challenging discussions with others and the intent to become active, moral citizens.
Aesthetic and Spiritual Exercises, in and beyond the Classroom
Authors: Callahan Daniel M. , Robinette Brian D.
Published: September 2023

This chapter discusses the linked Enduring Questions courses Aesthetic Exercises: Engagement, Empathy, Ethics and Spiritual Exercises: Engagement, Empathy, Ethics. These courses explore the roles of training, habit, attention, empathy, discernment of desire, and contemplation surrounding experiences of the beautiful and the divine. The courses introduce students to various modes and theories of aesthetic and spiritual practice in the West, from antiquity to the present, and invite critical inquiry into the forms of life they foster and, most importantly, into the students’ own embodied experiences with these practices, whether attending a symphony concert or practicing silent meditation. Theology, study of the arts, and philosophy are presented not as disciplines to be mastered but as lived exercises indispensable to cultivating attention, being alive, and serving the common good. Training for, and consequent appreciation of, aesthetic and spiritual experiences are integral to the personal formation at the heart of a liberal arts education.
Spending a Semester with “A Possession for All Time”
Authors: Bartlett Robert C.
Published: September 2023

This chapter details the two paired Enduring Questions seminars taught by Robert Bartlett and Aspen Brinton. Sharing the title “Justice, Power, and War,” the courses explored questions of just war theory in ancient and modern times; readings included Thucydides, Thomas Hobbes, Reinhold Niebuhr, Michael Walzer, and other thinkers. Students were challenged to analyze difficult texts while keeping in mind the overarching moral, political, and theological questions the phenomenon of war has posed in antiquity and now. Additional Reflection sessions included conversations with two veterans—one from the Vietnam War, one from the Iraq—and gave students the opportunity to bring the knowledge they gained from the seminars to real-world discussions of actual warfare and its consequences.
Crossings
Authors: Anderson Lynne , Graver Elizabeth
Published: September 2023

This chapter discusses a paired course—Literature Core and Freshman Writing Seminar—designed for a mix of advanced English language learners (many of them Generation 1.5) and native English speakers. Course content intersects with the students’ own varied linguistic and cross-cultural experiences and invites them to make meaningful connections between text and world. Differences of language background and culture, which can sometimes feel like a liability to multilingual students, become a strength. Author Chimamanda Adichie’s formulation of the “danger of a single story” provides a framework for unpacking stereotypes, examining power dynamics, and probing the intersections between narrative and identity. The concept of “roots and routes” provides a multivalent way to think about migration and crossings, as well as about concepts of community—including in the classroom itself—and home.
Covid Core Lessons
Authors: Shlala Elizabeth H.
Published: September 2023

The University Core Curriculum is a site of historical continuity for promoting and achieving student learning goals linked to the University’s mission. In the covid-19 era, the core became a central institutional place for sharing best practices, providing resources to faculty, and assessing student learning outcomes. The core’s response to the impact of covid-19 included collaborating with faculty across disciples and engaging with partners across campus to maintain excellent teaching and encourage student engagement in person, hybrid, and online. There were many creative and inclusive pedagogical responses to teaching in the core. The core’s documentation of teaching and learning during the covid-19 pandemic provides an archive of lessons learned for programming future in-person courses for faculty and students in creative and inclusive ways.
Moroccan Other-Archives
Authors: El Guabli Brahim
Published: September 2023

Combining the study of Amazigh activism, testimonial prison literature, and novels focused on the absent Jewish communities, this book investigates how Moroccan cultural production after the passing of King Hassan II (reigned: 1961–99) and the end of the violent “Years of Lead” (1956–99) has created other-archives, situated at the intersection of fiction, documentary cinema, testimonial literature, and scholarly history to rewrite popular understandings of post-1956 Moroccan history. The book demonstrates that the post-independence Moroccan state foreclosed the promise of a citizenship-based democracy through three acts of silencing: facilitating Jewish emigration, disappearing political opponents (imprisonment, exile, assassinations), and institutionalizing historiographical and mnemonic silence about the state’s contested past by repressing academic historians and denying them access to official archives. The book argues that the concomitant emergence of cultural productions about Amazigh identity, political imprisonment, and Jewish emigration is a de facto rewriting of the nation by narrating Moroccan history through the eyes of its excluded victims whose voices were erased from official history, state archives, and canonical memory. Moreover, the book draws on discourses about transitional justice, human rights, and constitutional reforms in the country to articulate the ways in which the production of other-archives has become synonymous with the practice of citizenship. Using Amazigh, Arabic, Darija, French, and English sources, the book offers an unprecedented investigation of loss as a locus for the redefinition of the Moroccan nation through the cultural production that revisits stories of Moroccan Berbers, Moroccan Jews’ emigration, and memories of enforced disappearance.
Introduction
Authors: El Guabli Brahim
Published: September 2023

The introduction theorizes other-archives and contextualizes their emergence within Morocco’s history of loss. Conceptualizing other-archives as loci in which emerge the historiographical agency of excluded, disappeared, and marginalized Moroccan constituencies required an in-depth engagement with cutting-edge memory studies and historiographical theory. In particular, the introduction demonstrates that the application of conventional archival theory to the Moroccan context is inadequate, given the fact that we are not concerned with the inaccessibility of archives and their silences as we are with the very inexistence of archives in the first place. Moreover, the introduction provides the rationale behind the comparative study of Berbers, Jews, and political prisoners in one book as well as the historical background in which the losses under study took place. By combining theorization with historical and contextual analysis, the introduction allows the reader to understand the significance of other-archives and their multidimensional contributions to our comprehension of history and archive creation processes as bedrocks for the practice of citizenship in Morocco after the “Years of Lead.” The introduction also highlights the assumptions that underlaid Morocco’s Equity and Reconciliation process in order to reveal how history and citizenship have become crucial for the rewriting the post-1956 nation.
Emplaced Memories of Jewish-Muslim Morocco
Authors: El Guabli Brahim
Published: September 2023

This chapter introduces “mnemonic literature,” which is authored by younger generations of Moroccan Muslims about their departed Jewish co-citizens and reveals how memories of place are crucial for the recuperation of Morocco’s Muslim-Jewish past. Drawing on Le Captif de Mabrouka (The Captive of Mabrouka, 2009), Zaghārīd al-Mawt (Trills of Death, 2010), Shāmma aw Shtrīt (Shāmma or Shtrīt, 2013), Anā al-Mansī (I Am the Forgotten, 2015), Casanfa (2016), and Cintra (2016), the chapter analyzes and highlights the myriad ways in which Moroccan novelistic output participates in the recovery and creation of an other-archive of the erstwhile shared Jewish-Muslim life in Morocco. The combination of close reading of mnemonic literature with theoretical reflections on microhistory, home-as-archive, and distinctions between space and place allows this chapter to delve into memory’s importance for re-imagining and recounting the taboo history of the Moroccan Jews’ exodus five decades after their negotiated relocation to Israel/Palestine, Europe, and the Americas.
Tattered Sound
Authors: Brehm Brett
Published: September 2023

This chapter builds on scholarly inquiry about Baudelaire and the noise of Paris by setting noise in dialogue with the technological. Baudelaire’s ambivalence about photography is reconsidered through the frame of acoustics. These particular angles on Baudelaire provide novel approaches to the poet, his texts, and more broadly to the beginnings of modern audiovisual media relations in the nineteenth century. Sounds of the past mingle with sounds of the modern city in Baudelaire’s life, writings, and in his friendship and sometimes rivalry with the photographer Félix Nadar (1820–1910), who spoke of an “acoustic daguerreotype,” a means of “seeing noise,” decades before the invention of mechanical sound recording. While this chapter engages with Walter Benjamin’s writings and recent scholarship on Baudelaire’s relationship with the noise of Paris, the chapter approaches Baudelaire and nineteenth-century Paris from a different angle, namely the nexus of optical devices, phonography, and Félix Nadar.
Conclusion
Authors: Brehm Brett
Published: September 2023

The conclusion highlights Luigi Russolo’s Futurist “Art of Noises” (1913) and Erik Satie’s “What I am” (1912) as two emblematic moments in the historical avant-garde with ties to the nineteenth-century kaleidophonic imagination revealed in this book. These figures help develop the import of the book’s claims about the art and aesthetics of noise. Turning then to broader theoretical debates, the conclusion addresses concepts of remediation by comparing the idea of the acoustic daguerreotype with the tinfoil souvenirs of Edison’s early phonograph demonstrations. Finally, the conclusion advances a synthetic argument about the figures highlighted in this book, namely that the acoustic envelope of artistic expression in the modern city might be thought of as a shield, in the Benjaminian and Freudian sense, both to protect from the onslaught of urban noise and to discover a path for the future of audiovisual media technologies and their interactions with literature and the arts.
Person, Gender, Sex, Sexuality
Authors: Rich Bryce E.
Published: September 2023

A second contemporary Orthodox theological anthropology also suggests a parallel between God and the image of God of God found within humanity. Theological personalism suggests that human persons, like their divine prototype, are essentially unknowable. Like their Trinitarian counterparts, we can describe human persons, at best, in relation to other persons. This fundamental unknowability opens possibilities for each unique, free, and relational human person to act in ways that exceed their inheritance from the common human nature. Personalism offers an antidote to the determinism of an essentialist anthropology that limits the roles, gifts, abilities, and activities of persons based on their categorization of male or female. Theological personalism parallels biological discoveries in human sexual differentiation as well as arguments from gender and queer theories. Embryos begin with a common inheritance of structures that develop or atrophy to produce typical male and female bodies as well as an array of indeterminate, intersex forms. Gender and queer theories argue that gender roles and sexualities are products of human cultures that tend to obscure the human persons they attempt to describe. A personalist approach denies the determinacy of labels, creating space for the unique possibilities of each interpersonal relationship.
Conclusion
Authors: Rich Bryce E.
Published: September 2023

The conclusion briefly reviews the topics covered in Part II of the book, highlighting the difference between essentialist and personalist approaches to the questions in the preceding chapters. A brief note highlights that not all Orthodox scholars who espouse personalism (e.g., Hopko, Yannaras) carry their insights to their fullest personalist conclusions. The section ends on a note calling for serious study by bishops in order to fulfill their roles as teachers and shepherds. It also calls for the use of oikonomia in pastoral care with an ultimate goal of fostering divine-human communion.
Assemblage
Authors: Spragins Elizabeth
Published: September 2023

The corpse is a social entity that disrupts distinctions between persons and things, subjects and objects, agency and passivity. Assemblages made up of living, dead, animate, and inanimate entities collaborate to allow their members to be carried along a trajectory toward a shared, mutually beneficial goal—motivating action, restoring political stability, burying the corpse, moving living and dead bodies through space. Juan de Silva, Philip II of Spain’s diplomat in Portugal, injured and aware of his own reduced powers to disseminate information, grasps the lingering subjectivity Sebastian’s cadaver retains its status as a repository of epistemological power. He succeeds in bringing himself within the gravitational pull of its orbit long enough to be carried along the trajectory of its translation from North Africa to a Portuguese mausoleum. This powerless living narrator forges a symbiotic alliance with the more animate and mobile royal corpse, joining its trajectory home. Silva’s efforts to associate with or substitute his own injured bodies with the dead one highlights the power of the corpse in early modern economies of knowledge.
What Is Extinction?
Authors: Schuster Joshua
Published: September 2023

Life on Earth is facing a mass extinction event of our own making. Human activity is changing the biology and the meaning of extinction. We must seek to understand the past and present events of extinction to comprehend the magnitude of this loss of life. This book examines several key moments that have come to define the terms of extinction over the past two centuries. It discusses instances of animal and human finitude and the cultural forms used to document and interpret these events. The chapters provide close readings of several scenes of extinction, with case studies of both animal and human extinction, including historical instances of genocide that were attempts by some humans to condemn others to oblivion. Thinking extinction involves bringing together multispecies studies with concepts from existential and media-specific formalist thinking to comprehend what happens to the end of a form of life. My book proposes that different discourses of limits and lastness appear in historically specific extinction events in response to changing attitudes toward species precarity and finitude. Understanding these extinction events also involves examining what happens when the philosophical, psychological, and cultural forms used to account for species finitude are pressed to their limit ends as well. Overall, this book proposes a critical theory for the critically endangered. As this book shows, becoming knowledgeable about extinction also means becoming rededicated to sharing the Earth and, even in a time of animal lastness, developing new art forms of address and redress across species.
The Philology of Life
Authors: McLaughlin Kevin
Published: September 2023

This book proposes to retrace the outlines of the philological project developed by Walter Benjamin in his literary critical essays on Hölderlin, the Romantics, and Goethe that were composed from 1914 through 1922. This philological program provides the methodological key to Benjamin’s work as a whole. The fundamental importance of this “philological” method in Benjamin’s work seems not to have been recognized by his contemporary readers, including Theodor Adorno who considered it to be lacking in dialectical rigor. It was also not appreciated in the initial reception of the two-volume edition of Benjamin’s writings, Schriften, in 1955 and in the collections that appeared in the 1960s and 1970s under the titles of Illuminations and Reflections. But the publication of a wider range of Benjamin’s writings in recent decades has made it possible to retrace the outlines of a distinctive philological project that starts to develop in his early literary criticism and extends into the late studies of Baudelaire and Paris. By bringing this innovative method to light this study proposes “the philology of life” as the key to the critical program of one of the most influential intellectual figures of the past few decades in literary studies and the humanities.
“Goethe’s Elective Affinities”
Authors: McLaughlin Kevin
Published: September 2023

This chapter conducts a detailed investigation of what is considered the culmination of Benjamin’s early literary criticism, specifically, his essay on Goethe’s Elective Affinities that was published in 1924–1925. After an explication of Benjamin’s reflections on philological method in the first part of the essay, the chapter focuses on the figure of Ottilie in Goethe’s novel as the author’s “concession” to a modern aesthetic theory. But the key to this essay consists in the crucial critical action of the philological method that combines with the analytical operation of commentary, according to the simile introduced at the beginning of the Goethe essay. The combining of the textual elements that reveals the meaning or the “truth content” of the given literary work corresponds to what Benjamin characterizes as the alchemy of critique, which is the indispensable counterpart to the chemistry of commentary.
Coda: The Afterlife of Philology
Authors: McLaughlin Kevin
Published: September 2023

This chapter concludes by underlining the fundamental importance of Benjamin’s development of a “philological” method to his work as a whole and emphasizes that this seems not to have been recognized by his contemporary readers, including even Theodor Adorno who considered this aspect of Benjamin’s work simply lacking in dialectical rigor. Benjamin’s philological method was also not appreciated in the initial reception of the two-volume publication of his Writings in the mid 1950s or in the collections edited by Hannah Arendt and Peter Demetz in the 1960s and 1970s under the titles of Illuminations and Reflections. But the editorial labor of teams of scholars and translators working in several languages in recent decades has made it possible now to retrace the outlines of this distinctive philological project that starts to develop in Benjamin’s early literary criticism and that extends into the late studies of Baudelaire and Paris. By bringing this innovative method to light the present study proposes the philology of life as the key to the critical program of one of the most influential intellectual figures of the past few decades in literary studies and across the humanities.
Recycled Legality
Authors: Suresh Mayur R.
Published: September 2023

This chapter offers the concept of ‘recycled legality’ to describe how the terror-accused come to inhabit the courtroom by constantly doing things with legal language and provide them with a way to imagine a future path to an acquittal. Through my time in the courts, I saw that the terror-accused came to understand the law by establishing a sensuous familiarity with it. Terror-accused sought to understand the law to use it instrumentally. But there is more than the law’s instrumentality that is at stake in understanding a rule—the idea of feeling at home in legal language, and not to feel lost in this city of words. The terror-accused were able to make the legal language their own, and thus they were able to make their way through the legal process.
​How Real Is the World?
Authors: Soars Daniel
Published: September 2023

In Chapter 5, I suggest that there are also some limits to how far the case for an advaitic (non-dualist) Christianity can be pushed by examining what each tradition means by saying that the world—as effect—exists ‘in’ God, its supreme cause. Firstly, I show that Aquinas and Śaṁkara both have recourse to ostensibly similar metaphysical strategies to explain how the world is pre-contained in, ‘unfolds’ out of, and continues to exist ‘in’ God. They do this via the concepts of nāmarūpa (in Śaṁkara) and of divine ideas (in Thomas). In the second part of this chapter, I explore the Neoplatonic concept of ‘participated being’ in Aquinas, which is a logical extension of Grant’s work on relation. While this doctrine means that the world exists only by participating in the unqualified existence of God, I argue that there is a greater emphasis in Aquinas and in Christian theology generally, than there is in Śaṁkara and Advaita, on the relative reality of the created order in all its fine-grained discrete particularities.
Introduction
Authors: Spitzer Jennifer
Published: September 2023

The introduction reads Conrad’s “The Secret Sharer” as an allegory for the intimate entanglements of the modernist and psychoanalytic projects. Literature and psychoanalysis were closest bedfellows during the first half of the twentieth century; yet modernism’s frequent resistance to this contiguous form of knowledge was intensified by a climate of specialization and professionalization in which authorial identities and levels of expertise were at stake. As Freud, Ernest Jones, Alfred Kuttner, Haans Sachs, Marie Bonaparte, and other analysts turned to literary works as case studies, modernists invoked arguments on behalf of aesthetic autonomy to challenge what they viewed as the generalizing, demystifying, and reductive literary readings of psychoanalysis. In examining how Anglo-American modernists responded to the advent of psychoanalysis, the intro discusses how modernists responded to a rival hermeneutic that claimed the upper hand in generating insight about literary texts.