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Imperial Family Portraits: Gender, Race, and Social Rank in the Portrait of Dido Elizabeth Belle and Lady Elizabeth Murray
Authors: Germann Jennifer
Published: February 2025

The portrait of Dido Elizabeth Belle and Lady Elizabeth Murray presents them as intimate companions, but formal distinctions construct visual and social difference. The circumstances of the portrait’s production and its cultural meanings are bound up with the representation of Black figures in European art, the history of colonialism, and the commerce in human beings. Painted following the 1772 Somerset case, this paper traces the influences over the portrait’s ultimate form, illuminating contemporary discourses of social rank, gender, and race, liberty and slavery, and family. Ultimately, I argue, the painting provides an important link to Dido as a historical subject and as a subject for portraiture via her unusual gesture, allowing for a speculative recuperation of her agency.
Madeleine of the Americas: Resituating Benoist’s Portrait of a Young Black Woman in Colonial Art
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Authors: Lafont Anne
Published: February 2025

The Portrait of a Black Woman (1800) by Marie Guillemine Leroulx-Laville (Benoist by her married name) benefited from new visibility and interest following the opening of the Grand Louvre in 1993, when it was displayed in the galleries for the first time. Helen Weston’s path-breaking work on the painting (1999) was followed by a number of important studies. On the basis of this body of work, this essay offers a re-interpretation that proposes to situate the Portrait of a Black Woman in the geography of the Atlantic—both African and American—and can be understood as a methodological adventure, a history of art that takes into account the specifics of the colonial archive as well as the absences of traditional archives regarding the life of slaves.
Theorizing Stephen King
Authors: Blouin Michael J.
Published: February 2025

Readers of all stripes will find something to appreciate in this collection, which illuminates how King’s horror literature as a media form has shifted in relation to cultural understandings over time. Many chapters touch upon how surrounding texts, such as film/TV adaptations, have played into these mediations throughout King’s storied career. For the first-time reader of King, this volume offers a doorway into his works: an array of exciting critical frameworks with which to make sense of King’s fictional universe. For literary critics, this volume argues that King’s corpus remains a site for robust intellectual inquiry. And for all of us, the book provides an occasion—one that is long overdue—to rethink King’s relationship to critical theory as well as his legacy as a major American author. While it may prove impossible to reconcile King and the academy, we might nonetheless explore the evolution of their inescapable bond in hopes of negotiating a greater understanding between them.
Stephen King’s and Peter Staub’s Mythmaking: Jack Sawyer as an American Hero
Authors: Compora Daniel
Published: February 2025

This essay examines Jack Sawyer, the protagonist of two of Stephen King and Peter Straub’s fantasy works, The Talisman and Black House, as a hero in the mythic tradition. It examines Jack’s progression as an adolescent in The Talisman by using mythical theoretical approaches, including Joseph Campbell’s monomyth. The Talisman and its sequel employ several archetypes, with certain characters fulfilling different roles. At the same time, Jack’s journey draws comparisons to Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, placing King and Straub’s works in the context of classic American quest novels. If King and Straub’s fantastical works are indeed mythic, then it is important to illustrate assess the myth’s cultural significance and determine what it says about America.
Cinematic Skeleton Crew: Adapting Stephen King in the Mid-1980s
Authors: Maddrey Joseph , Sederholm Carl H.
Published: February 2025

From the late-1970s to the mid-1980s, Stephen King expanded his brand from bestselling horror novelist to the Master of Horror as the numbers of film adaptations, original screenplays, and television adaptations increased dramatically. This essay argues that, during the mid-1980s, a handful of horror writers, including Dennis Etchison, Harlan Ellison, and George Romero, helped to develop the cinematic Brand Stephen King by showcasing different qualities of King’s work. Together, these writers and their adaptations pushed audiences to experience the wider possibilities of King’s work and why it continues to capture the attention of millions to this day.
“the tongueless voice of the temple whispered”1: Delirious Voices in Rose Madder
Authors: Thompson Theresa Mae
Published: February 2025

Unfortunately, King’s depiction of women’s experiences of domestic violence, even of the caliber depicted in Rose Madder (1995), is not just fiction. Women’s voices have often been violently silenced. Rosie/Rose’s ability to escape domestic violence centers around the married woman’s legal ability to voice dissent with her husband. Rose Madder’s exploration of the struggle regarding whose voice can legally define the parameters of “normal” marital relations recalls Gayatri Spivak’s dilemma of the abused subaltern woman. The subaltern woman was subject to systems wherein her voice did not have authority before the law. What this essay explores, then, is how voice functions as a trope to reinforce entrapment narratives in Rose Madder.
Dead Is Better: Pet Sematary and Animal Studies
Authors: Nilsen Sarah D.
Published: February 2025

The imaginative space of many of Stephen King’s fictional works is inhabited by a wide variety of nonhuman animals, and in particular, domesticated companion animals. King’s frequent use of pet representations is consistent with the dominant role that pets occupy within the majority of homes within the United States. This essay will use animal studies to examine how Stephen King portrays pets, how he characterizes and evaluates their lives and their interests, and how they stand for human interests and concerns. This essay argues that by understanding how King’s pets are represented, we can articulate animals’ place in human imaginaries, animals’ actual material lives across time and space, and changes in how the value of animals is understood.
Author Functions: Stephen King’s Writers
Authors: Weinstock Jeffrey Andrew
Published: February 2025

This essay investigates the ways King’s own writing theorizes the writing process through a focus on King’s author protagonists and the roles that writing (or failures to write) plays in his fiction. These theorizations of writing in King’s work are addressed in relation to two interconnected categories: identity and creativity. Identity has to do with explorations of the nature of the self and expressions of individual history and personality. Creativity has to do with the author’s expression of original ideas and their relation to genre. Taken together, King’s depictions of authors, writings, and the act of literary creation theorize what we may call authentic literary expression as a revelatory articulation of truth with the power to shape experience in restorative ways.
Botany: Mattioli, Handsch, and Hájek
Authors: Strnadová Lucie
Published: February 2025

The chapter discusses the roles of Renaissance scholars Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Tadeáš Hájek, and Georg Handsch in the publication of Mattioli’s commentaries on Dioscorides. The Latin version, published in 1554, brought Mattioli European prestige. New editions soon appeared, including Czech and German versions, with substantial revisions. Hájek, Handsch, and Mattioli each developed an interest in plants and came from different backgrounds, but for a time, they had a common interest—interpretation of Dioscorides, description of plants, their correct identification, and determination of their possible medical use. The chapter argues that authors of the vernacular versions of Mattioli’s herbal also reflected their own interests and thus created original works.
Punishment, Regulation and Legitimation: A Trans-cultural and Trans-epochal Perspective on Labour Mobility
Authors: Roscoe Katherine , Sen Nabhojeet , Fagbore Adam Simon
Published: February 2025

This chapter introduces a field of research theorising labour, punishment and mobilities from a global and historical perspective. The volume challenges Eurocentric and modernist perspectives, with chapters ranging from ancient Egypt to nineteenth-century French Guiana. It identifies three interconnected themes connecting labour, punishment and legitimation across different historical and socio-economic contexts. First, the question of how punishment shaped new labour regimes and assisted with the management of existing labour relations, challenging distinctions between “free” and “unfree” labour. Second, how punishment shaped mobilities at embodied, local, regional and global scales. And, finally, how the coercion of labour was used to legitimise power wielded by a range of actors, from the local to the state level. It offers a trans-epochal and trans-cultural perspective on how work was coerced, mobilised and legitimised.
The Red and the Black: The State and the Privateers, Different Approaches to Organizing Film Festivals
Authors: Handling Piers
Published: February 2025

The state was the dominant force in the creation of the worlds first major film festivals, the majority of which were European. State control and/or funding, enhanced by a symbiotic relationship with the Fédération international des associations de producteurs de films (FIAPF), ensured a similarity of purpose, regulation and structure. However, in the immediate postwar, a concurrent situation developed. Festivals grew from private initiatives and while some of them took on the characteristics of the FIAPF sanctioned events, many of them did not. These outliers included events in North and South America, Asia, and the British Isles. Forced to rely on individual initiative and creativity they evolved in different ways and brought significant change.
Providing Needed Space for Caribbean and Diaspora Filmmakers in Miami
Authors: Ali Jonathan
Published: February 2025

The Third Horizon Film Festival was founded with the aim of providing a space in Miami to screen films by filmmakers from and about the Caribbean and its diaspora. Since it began in 2016, the festival has grown to encompass both radical and conventional forms of politically committed filmmaking, as well as cinema from other Global South spaces and their diasporas. This chapter argues for Third Horizon as a particular type of event: a film festival that is both identity-based (screening work made by people of a specific identity) and carefully curated (not screening work merely because of the identity of its makers).
Steps to a Greener Film Festival Studies: A Multidisciplinary Subfield and the Environmentalist Turn
Authors: Zielinski1 Ger
Published: February 2025

This chapter sketches out a possible way to green film festival studies, more precisely to seek out a new theoretical framework and accompanying methodologies that may address issues regarding, say, energy use, carbon footprint of related air travel and waste more adequately. Earlier attempts via the “new materialism” scholarship prove useful but require adaptation and the integration of aspects of the growing field of environmental media studies. Our recent experience of the COVID-19 global pandemic and the response to virtualise film festivals prompts questions concerning energy use by digital video streaming platforms and their respective energy sources. The chapter analyses and evaluates possible theoretical approaches offered by environmental media studies with suggestions on moving forward.
Festivals Must Not Only Nurture Audiences: They Must Create Them Too
Authors: Tabachnik Hebe
Published: February 2025

The film curator, producer and festival consultant, Hebe Tabachnik, reflects on dramatic changes in the film festivals since the 2020 onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. Tabachnik was not defeated by the turbulence caused by the pandemic as the festivals she programmed were evolving from online to hybrid formats. On the contrary she recognised how challenging it was going to be to get back to the past practices. The time of the pandemic became the time to adapt, evolve and create new strategies to reach out better to the audience while investing and nurturing the future one. It was also the time for building larger and stronger bridges across cultures, identities, and histories, and expanding synergies among people, communities and organisations.
“Honor Died on the Beach”: Constructing Japaneseness through Monstrosity in Ghost of Tsushima
Authors: Blom Joleen , Ford Dom
Published: February 2025

We analyse the depiction of the Mongol invaders in Ghost of Tsushima (Sucker Punch Productions, 2020) through the lens of monstrosity, showing how their depiction is used as a frame to construct a notion of “pure” Japanese identity. To underscore how the Japanese in this game are “pure,” the Mongols are dehumanized and made monstrous through various devices, such as a language barrier, a collection of cultural Mongol artefacts, and their brute force as invaders polluting the established community. Positioned between the categories of the “pure” and the “monstrous” is the player character, Jin, a liminal figure who blurs these two categories. Highlighting these depictions of the Japanese, nature, the Mongols and Jin, we consider how the construction of a pure Japan works in favour of bolstering the country’s national reputation.
Monstrosity as Neurodiversity and The Procedural Rhetoric of Psychosis in Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
Authors: Meinen Lisanne
Published: February 2025

Game characters with psychosis are commonly stereotyped as monstrous enemies. Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice (Ninja Theory, 2017) is an exception since its protagonist, Senua, experiences psychosis. I use the concept of neurodiversity as a lens to explain the tension Hellblade presents between questioning both the perceived monstrosity of psychosis and the reinforcement of Senua’s otherness. I interpret Senua’s unique abilities as examples of how the game presents the procedural rhetoric of psychosis. While this rhetoric makes psychosis approachable, the embedding of the rhetoric in the game’s visual and textual aspects challenges its perceived monstrosity. Hellblade primarily presents the procedural rhetoric of what psychosis is, instead of the procedural rhetoric of what it means to experience it.
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Virtual Murder: Commodified Monstrosity in Diablo III
Authors: Tuomas Harviainen J. , Granvik Johanna , Korkeila Henry
Published: February 2025

In this chapter, we discuss the environment of Diablo III (Blizzard Entertainment, 2012) and the commodification of monsters. Using an ethnographic approach, we examine the game’s dysfunctional ecosystem, highlighting how monsters inside the game exist only to be repeatedly killed for the player’s benefit, fuelling exchanges with in-game merchants. The game represents an extreme optimization of what we call the “Joy of Destruction”; There is little attention to realism in the game’s fictional world, as the game designers opted instead for a gameplay loop of endless killing that transforms the player characters themselves into monsters. By analyzing how Diablo III commodifies the monstrous, it is possible to see how games’ narratives and settings may merely offer excuses for a mechanical slaughter fostered through procedurality.
Assigning Optimal Multi-Objective Model in Cognitive Radio Networks
Authors: Najwa Mohammed Jawad  , Nahideh Derakhshanfard
Published: February 2025

Radio cognitive technology is a promising solution for 5G communications, capable of addressing stringent spectrum requirements while offering cognitive capacity, reconfigurability, and adaptable transmission parameters. Its primary objectives include spectrum sensing, management, mobility, and sharing. In this study, a cellular telecommunications network is modeled using MATLAB, considering the roles of relays, communication paths, and network capacity. Traffic injection into data centers simulates the proposed strategy's performance. The best relay determination technique enhances data transmission rates, demonstrating that the proposed strategy reduces equipment and resource consumption by approximately 15% while optimizing network load balance. It identifies optimal paths, prioritizes packet transmission, and achieves up to 20% reduction in latency. Simulation results confirm the strategy's effectiveness in maximizing link utilization, improving load balancing, and enhancing network resource utilization. Additionally, the approach selects optimal routes based on user preferences while requiring fewer hardware resources, making it a practical and efficient solution for modern network challenges.
Elektrohydraulische Halte- und Not-Stopp-Systeme: Re-Engineering bis ins Detail
Authors:   Mirco von Stein
Published: February 2025

Nach einer umfassenden ingenieurtechnischenÜberarbeitung präsentiert ein deutscherHersteller sein aktuelles Angebot anelektrohydraulischen Scheibenbremsen.Welchen Mehrwert diese neugestaltetenfederbetätigten und hydraulisch gelüftetenBremssysteme den OEM-Konstrukteuren,Anlagenbetreibern und Instandhaltern bietet,beschreibt der folgende Beitrag.
KẾT QUẢ VI PHẪU THẮT TĨNH MẠCH TINH Ở NAM GIỚI HIẾM MUỘN TẠI BỆNH VIỆN ĐẠI HỌC Y HÀ NỘI GIAI ĐOẠN 2020-2024
Authors: Nguyễn Duy Hiệp , Nguyễn Hoài Bắc , Nguyễn Cao Thắng
Published: February 2025

Mục tiêu nghiên cứu: Đánh giá kết quả phẫu thuật điều trị giãn tĩnh mạch tinh vi phẫu cho nam giới hiếm muộn tại Bệnh viện Đại học Y Hà Nội. Đối tượng và phương pháp nghiên cứu: Nghiên cứu mô tả cắt ngang trên 49 bệnh nhân (BN) có giãn tĩnh mạch tinh được điều trị vi phẫu tại Bệnh viện Đại học Y Hà Nội giai đoạn từ tháng 1 năm 2020 đến tháng 1 năm 2024. Kết quả và kết luận: Thời gian phẫu thuật trung bình là 59,49 ± 18,02 phút; Không có tai biến trong phẫu thuật; Biến chứng sau phẫu thuật chiếm 6,1%; Thời gian nằm viện trung bình là 2,14±1,31 ngày. Tỉ lệ có thai nói chung sau 1 năm đạt 63,3%, trong đó có thai tự nhiên chiếm 53,1% và tỉ lệ có thai do hỗ trợ sinh sản chiếm 10,2%. Phẫu thuật điều trị giãn tĩnh mạch tinh bằng vi phẫu cho nam giới hiếm muộn là phương pháp an toàn, tỉ lệ có thai tự nhiên sau 12 tháng phẫu thuật đạt 53,1%.
KẾT QUẢ ĐIỀU TRỊ U LYMPHO TẾ BÀO B LỚN LAN TỎA NGUYÊN PHÁT TINH HOÀN
Authors: Đỗ Huyền Nga , Nguyễn Thanh Tùng
Published: February 2025

Mục tiêu: Đánh giá kết quả điều trị u lympho không Hodgkin tế bào B lớn lan tỏa nguyên phát tinh hoàn. Đối tượng và phương pháp nghiên cứu: Nghiên cứu mô tả chùm ca bệnh tiến hành trên 14 bệnh nhân chẩn đoán là u lympho không Hodgkin tế bào B lớn lan tỏa nguyên phát tinh hoàn được điều trị bằng phác đồ RCHOP + MTX và xạ trị tinh hoàn đối bên tại khoa Nội Hệ tạo Huyết Bệnh viện K từ 05/2019 – 10/2024. Kết quả: Bệnh nhân trong nghiên cứu của chúng tôi có độ tuổi trung vị 62; Các bệnh nhân hầu hết PS=0 (71,4%). Đa số các bệnh nhân ở giai đoạn 1 chiếm 57%. Thể giải phẫu bệnh dưới típ không tâm mầm chiếm 85,7%. Tất cả bệnh nhân đều đạt đáp ứng trong đó tỉ lệ đáp ứng hoàn toàn tại thời điểm giữa kì là 78,6% và tại thời điểm cuối kì đạt 100%. Tỉ lệ gặp độc tính hạ bạch cầu độ 3-4 chiếm 21,4%; hạ bạch cầu có sốt chiếm 14,3%; tỉ lệ tái hoạt virus viêm gan B chiếm 7,1%; độc tính tiêu hóa chiếm 14,3%; độc tính suy thận độ 1 gặp ở 14,3%, tỉ lệ tăng men gan độ 3 chiếm 14,3% và tỉ lệ viêm phổi chiếm 7,1%. Kết luận: Phác đồ RCHOP + MTX dự phòng thâm nhiễm thần kinh trung ương và xạ trị tinh hoàn đối bên có hiệu quả cao và tính an toàn chấp nhận được trong điều trị u lympho nguyên phát tinh hoàn.
Comparison Theorems for Weak Topologies (2)
Authors: Moore Chika S. , Ilo Alexander O. , Omezi Ifeanyi
Published: February 2025

Weak topology on a nonempty set X is defined as the smallest or weakest topology on X with respect to which a given (fixed) family of functions on X is continuous. Let 𝜏w be a weak topology generated on a nonempty set X by a family

{fα: α ∈ ∆} of functions, together with a corresponding family

of topological spaces. If for some
,
on
is not the indiscrete topology and
meets certain requirements, then there exists another topology
on
such that
is strictly weaker than
and
is
-continuous, for all
. Here in Part 2 of our Comparison Theorems for Weak Topologies,

We showed that not every weak topology 𝜏w has a strictly weaker weak topology τw1.
We constructed important examples to show (a) that a weak topological system may not have a strictly weaker weak topology, (b) that a weak topological system can have a strictly weaker weak topology, and (c) that a weak topological system can have both comparable and non-comparable weak topologies.
A further research agenda is (now) set to find out when and why we must use a particular weak topology (instead of the others) in any given context of analysis.
Analisis Strategi Promosi Digital Dalam Meningkatkan Volume Penjualan Pada UMKM Lingkungan Pasar Yaahowu
Authors: Helentina Zebua  , Emanuel Zebua  , Yupiter Mendrofa  , Idarni Harefa
Published: February 2025

This study examines the digital promotion strategies implemented by Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in Yaahowu Market, Gunungsitoli City, and their impact on increasing sales volume. In the increasingly advanced digital era, the adoption of digital technology is important for MSMEs to increase the competitiveness and visibility of their products. This study found that education and training on the use of digital platforms such as social media and e-commerce are crucial for MSMEs who are new to digital technology. Social media has proven effective in attracting new customers, while online marketplaces such as Tokopedia, Bukalapak, and Shopee provide opportunities for MSMEs to expand their market reach. This conclusion highlights the importance of evaluating and adjusting strategies based on the data obtained to ensure the effectiveness of digital promotion campaigns, as well as the need for ongoing support for MSMEs in facing challenges in the digital era.
Creating Vodcasts as A Technological Tool In Teaching EFL University Students
Authors: DMITRIEV Dmitry , ALESHINA Ekaterina
Published: February 2025

The article discusses the possibility of using video in the process of teaching EFL university students. After analyzing the works devoted to this problem, the authors note that the use of video implies not only watching it and doing exercises. Students can create their own videos in the process of studying a specific topic. While numerous studies have highlighted that student-created video tasks can enhance active learning and engagement, there is still limited research on the specific processes students use to create these videos.

In the context of English language learning, video creation involves a product-based learning activity that embodies a meaning-making process upon the project’s completion. This article describes the practical experience of creating vodcasts in the process of teaching a foreign language at university. During the study, students and their teacher produced several vodcasts and developed guidelines for editing their content. The article outlines the key stages of video creation: the introductory stage, the preparation stage, and the editing and presentation stage.

Data on students’ perceptions of creating their own vodcasts were collected through written feedback and interviews. The findings reveal that students view video production positively, noting improvements in their speaking, writing, listening, and pronunciation skills. Additionally, the results suggest that the process of creating vodcasts enhances students’ motivation to learn English.
ТОЛЫҚ ЕМЕС ОТБАСЫНДА БАЛАЛАРДЫ ТӘРБИЕЛЕУДІҢ ПСИХОЛОГИЯЛЫҚ ЕРЕКШЕЛІКТЕРІ: БАЛАНЫҢ ПСИХОЛОГИЯЛЫҚ ДАМУЫНА ӘСЕРІ
Authors: Садыкова Н.М. , Ибраим Ф.С. , Адилова Э.Т.
Published: February 2025

Мақалада толық емес отбасында тәрбиеленіп жатқан балалардың психологиялық ерекше-ліктері зерттелді. Ата-анасының біреуінің болмауы балалардың эмоционалды және әлеуметтікдамуына айтарлықтай әсер етеді. Қазақстанда статистикалық деректер бойынша соңғы жылдары толық емес отбасылар саны 476 мыңды құраған. Мұндағы басты себеп –ажырасу. Мақалада осындай отбасыларда кездесетін типтік мәселелер, соның ішінде баладағы пайда болатын психологиялық жарақаттар талданды. Психологиялық жарақаттардың пайда болу себептері анықталды. Біз толық емес отбасыда тәрбиеленіп жатқан балалар мен ата-аналардан сауалнама алдық. Сауалнама Аченбахтың балалардың мінез-құлқы шкаласы (CBCL) негізінде жүргізілді. Сауалнама нәтижесінде 100 баланың 17-де психологиялық жарақаттар бар екені анықталды. 17-нің баланың 13-нің психологиялық жарақаты толық емес отбасымен тікелей байланысты болса, 4-де әртүрлі себептерге байланысты туындаған. Мақаланың мақсаты –толық емес отбасындағы балалардың тәрбиеленуінің психологиялық ерекшеліктерін зерттеу, сонымен қатар ата-аналардың біреуінің болмауы баланың дамуына қалай әсер ететінін талдау.
COMPETÊNCIAS SOCIOEMOCIONAIS NA BASE NACIONAL COMUM CURRICULAR (BNCC)
Authors: Carneiro Teresa Magalhães de Araújo , Pinho Alexandra Moreno
Published: February 2025

Diante da necessidade de manter o bom equilíbrio socioemocional para uma convivência saudável na sociedade atual, ressalta-se a importância de competências no contexto educacional. De acordo com a Base Nacional Comum Curricular (BNCC) tais competências ajudam em uma formação com base em uma humanização ética dos alunos, preparados para conviver consigo mesmo e com os outros. Buscou-se, através de uma pesquisa bibliográfica de caráter qualitativo, analisar os aspectos estruturantes das competências socioemocionais para fortalecer as bases teóricas dos professores do Ensino Fundamental I, visando que tal conhecimento seja enriquecedor para a prática diária dos docentes e dos profissionais em educação.
Proglacial methane emissions driven by meltwater and groundwater flushing in a high-Arctic glacial catchment
Authors: Kleber Gabrielle E. , Magerl Leonard , Turchyn Alexandra V. , Schloemer Stefan , Trimmer Mark , Zhu Yizhu , Hodson Andrew
Published: February 2025

Abstract. Glacial groundwater is a conduit for geologic methane release in areas of glacier retreat on Svalbard, representing a large, climate-sensitive source of the greenhouse gas. Methane emissions from glacial melt rivers are known to occur in other regions of the Arctic, but such emissions have not yet been considered on Svalbard. Over the summer of 2021, we monitored methane concentrations in the proglacial groundwater springs and river network of an ∼ 20 km2 valley glacier in central Svalbard to estimate melt season emissions from a single catchment. We measured methane concentrations in the glacial river of up to 3170 nM (nearly 800 times higher than the atmospheric equilibrium concentration) and found the methane to be of thermogenic origin through isotopic analysis. We estimated a total of 1.0 t of methane emissions during the 2021 melt season from the catchment, of which nearly two-thirds are being flushed from the glacier bed by the melt river. These findings provide further evidence that terrestrial glacier forefields on Svalbard are hotspots for methane emissions, with a climate feedback loop driven by glacier melt. As the first investigation into methane emissions from glacial melt rivers on Svalbard, our study suggests that summer meltwater flushing of methane from beneath the ∼ 1400 land-terminating glaciers across Svalbard may represent an important seasonal source of emissions. Glacial melt rivers, including those from small valley glaciers, may be a growing emission point for subglacial methane across other rapidly warming regions of the Arctic.
Long-term variations in pH in coastal waters along the Korean Peninsula
Authors: Lee Yong-Woo , Park Mi-Ok , Kim Seong-Gil , Kim Tae-Hoon , Oh Yong Hwa , Lee Sang Heon , Joung DongJoo
Published: February 2025

Abstract. Declining seawater pH, associated with rising atmospheric CO2 levels, adversely affects marine organisms and ecosystems, thereby posing a considerable risk to coastal fisheries and economies. However, the effects of long-term pH variations in coastal waters remain poorly understood. In this study, we investigated the variability in pH in the coastal waters of Korea over an 11-year period (2010–2020) and sought to identify the principal drivers of pH fluctuations. Unlike the persistent pH declines observed in the open oceans and other coastal systems, Korean coastal waters showed no persistent pH variation, thus indicating that local biogeochemical processes may have a greater influence than atmospheric CO2 in determining aquatic pH. Analysis of environmental data including temperature, salinity, chlorophyll a, and dissolved oxygen (DO) revealed a strong correlation between pH and DO. However, instances of pH changes exceeding those predicted by DO depletion alone indicate the influence of additional biogeochemical factors. As global seawaters warm, reduction in DO is anticipated to cause a further decline in the pH of coastal waters. This trend could have a pronounced influence on Korean coastal waters, which support extensive aquaculture operations integral to the local and national economies. Consequently, high-frequency monitoring is essential for extending the current time series and predicting future water quality.
A Diagnostic Intercomparison of Modeled Ozone Dry Deposition Over North America and Europe Using AQMEII4 Regional-Scale Simulations
Authors: Hogrefe Christian , Galmarini Stefano , Makar Paul A. , Kioutsioukis Ioannis , Clifton Olivia E. , Alyuz Ummugulsum , Bash Jesse O. , Bellasio Roberto , Bianconi Roberto , Butler Tim , Cheung Philip , Hodzic Alma , Kranenburg Richard , Lupascu Aurelia , Momoh Kester , Perez-Camanyo Juan Luis , Pleim Jonathan E. , Ryu Young-Hee , San Jose Roberto , Schaap Martijn , Schwede Donna B. , Sokhi Ranjeet
Published: February 2025

Abstract. This study analyzes ozone (O3) dry deposition fluxes and velocities (Vd) from regional-scale simulations that were performed over North America and Europe in Phase 4 of the Air Quality Model Evaluation International Initiative (AQMEII4). AQMEII4 collected grid-aggregated and land use (LU)-specific O3 Vd and effective conductances and fluxes for the four major dry deposition pathways. Consistent with recent findings in the AQMEII4 point model intercomparison study, analysis of the grid-aggregated fields shows that grid models with similar Vd can exhibit significant differences in the absolute and relative contributions of the different depositional pathways. Analysis of LU-specific Vd and effective conductances reveals a general increase in model spread compared to grid-aggregated values. This indicates that an analysis of only grid-aggregated deposition diagnostics can mask process-specific differences that exist between schemes. An analysis of AQMEII4 LU distributions across models revealed substantial differences in the spatial patterns and abundance of certain LU categories over both domains, especially for non-forest partially vegetated categories such as agricultural areas, shrubland, and grassland. We demonstrate that these differences can contribute to or even drive differences in LU-specific dry deposition fluxes. Two recommendations for future deposition-focused modeling studies emerging from the AQMEII4 analyses presented here are to 1) routinely generate diagnostic outputs to advance a process-based understanding of modeled deposition and support impact analyses, and 2) recognize the importance of documenting and analyzing the representation of LU across models and work towards harmonizing this aspect when using air-quality grid models and model ensembles for deposition analyses.
Evaluating Unsaturated Hydraulic Conductivity Models for Diverse Soils and Climates: A Functional Comparison of Additive, Junction, and Kosugi Parameterizations
Authors: Nambiar Asha , de Rooij Gerrit Huibert
Published: February 2025

Abstract. Soil water moves as capillary flow, film flow, and vapour diffusion. The additive model for the unsaturated soil hydraulic conductivity curve adds up conductivities of capillary water, adsorbed water, and an equivalent vapour conductivity. A recently introduced junction model with liquid water in either films or capillaries has one parameter less. We compared calculated water fluxes based on both models and Kosugi’s model (which only considers capillary water) by fitting the RIA soil water retention curve and the three conductivity models to data for three soils. Five subsets of the model parameters were calibrated by fitting, with the other parameters fixed. For all 135 resulting cases, we ran the Hydrus-1D numerical model for uniform columns of these soils subjected to generated weather records for three climates. Hydrus-1D crashed 14 times for the additive model, twice for Kosugi’s model and once for the junction model. The conductivity models and fitting parameter sets only significantly affected the drainage flux at 2 m depth (and, in one case, the transpiration), but the effect was only large in two cases. If the conductivity models disagreed, the additivity model was usually the outlier. An analysis of the water balance terms revealed the impact of soil type to be limited on transpiration or infiltration, but stronger on groundwater recharge. The conductivity models had only a minor effect. The fluxes were insensitive to differences in the dry-range conductivity. Fewer fitted parameters rarely altered the results significantly. This favours the more parsimonious and robust junction and Kosugi models.
Unveiling the Limits of Deep Learning Models in Hydrological Extrapolation Tasks
Authors: Baste Sanika , Klotz Daniel , Espinoza Eduardo Acuña , Bardossy Andras , Loritz Ralf
Published: February 2025

Abstract. Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks have shown strong performance in rainfall-runoff modelling, often surpassing conventional hydrological models in benchmark studies. However, recent studies raise questions about their ability to extrapolate, particularly under extreme conditions that exceed the range of their training data. This study examines the performance of a stand-alone LSTM trained on 196 catchments in Switzerland when subjected to synthetic design precipitation events of increasing intensity and varying duration. The model’s response is compared to that of a hybrid model and evaluated against hydrological process understanding. Our study reiterates that the stand-alone LSTM is not capable of predicting discharge values above a theoretical limit, and we show that this limit (73 mm d-1) is below the range of the data the model was trained on (183 mm d-1 when trained on CAMELS-CH). Furthermore, the LSTM exhibits a concave runoff response under extreme precipitation, indicating that event runoff coefficients decrease with increasing design precipitation-a phenomenon not observed in the hybrid model used as a benchmark. We show that saturation of the LSTM cell states, alone, does not fully account for this characteristic behavior, as the LSTM does not reach full saturation, particularly for the 1-day events. Instead, its gating structures prevent new information about the current extreme precipitation from being incorporated into the cell states. Adjusting the LSTM architecture, for instance, by increasing the number of hidden states, and/or using a larger, more diverse training dataset can help mitigate the problem. However, these adjustments do not guarantee improved extrapolation performance, and the LSTM continues to predict values below the range of the training data or show unfeasible runoff responses during the 1-day design experiments. Despite these shortcomings, our findings highlight the inherent potential of stand-alone LSTMs to capture complex hydro-meteorological relationships. We argue that, more robust training strategies and model configurations could address the observed limitations, preserving the promise of stand-alone LSTMs for rainfall-runoff modelling.
Satellite-based Analysis of Ocean-Surface Stress across the Ice-free and Ice-covered Polar Oceans
Authors: Liu Chao , Yu Lisan
Published: February 2025

Abstract. Ocean-surface stress is a critical driver of polar sea ice dynamics, air-sea interactions, and ocean circulation. This work provides a daily analysis of ocean-surface stress on 25-km Equal-Area Scalable Earth (EASE) Grids across the ice-free and ice-covered regions of the polar oceans (2011–2018 for Arctic, 2013–2018 for Antarctic), covering latitudes north of 60° N in the Arctic and south of 50° S in the Antarctic and Southern Ocean. Ocean-surface stress is calculated using a bulk parameterization approach that combines ocean-surface winds, ice motion vectors, and sea surface height (SSH) data from multiple satellite platforms. The analysis captures significant spatial and temporal variability in ocean-surface wind stress and the resultant wind-driven Ekman transport, while providing enhanced spatiotemporal resolution. Two sensitivity analyses are conducted to address key sources of uncertainty. The first addresses the fine-scale variability in SSH fields, which was mitigated using a 150-km Gaussian filter to smooth three-day SSH datasets and enhance compatibility with the other monthly product, followed by linear interpolation to achieve daily resolution. The second investigates uncertainty in the ice-water drag coefficient, which revealed that variations in the coefficient have a proportional influence on the computed ocean-surface stress under the tested conditions. These uncertainties are most pronounced during winter, with median values reaching 20 % in the Arctic and 40 % in the Southern Ocean. Validation efforts utilized Ice-Tethered Profiler velocity records, revealing moderate correlations (r = 0.6–0.8) at monthly timescales, effectively capturing low-frequency signals but with small northward biases. Satellite-derived velocity fields, including both Ekman and geostrophic components, explain 40–50 % of the total variance. The unexplained variance reflects unresolved processes, such as mesoscale dynamics and other unparameterized factors. This dataset is publicly available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14750492 (Liu & Yu, 2024).
OLDER ADULTS’ RESPONSES TO MISINFORMATION ON SOCIAL MEDIA
Authors: Baines Annalise , Hargittai Eszter
Published: February 2025

Social media offer the opportunity for much public discourse, which also has the potential to spread misinformation far and wide. This study investigates how older adults respond to misinformation on social media and how older adults’ responses to encountering false information on social media vary by sociodemographic factors and digital skills. Based on survey data collected in 2023 from 2,000 adults ages 60+, we find that many users take a multifaceted approach to assessing false or misleading information on social media. Their most common strategies are checking the source and reading the comments for validation. These responses to misinformation highlight older adults’ active participation in information verification on social media.
MY PRODUCT, YOUR GREEN CHOICE: EXPLORING THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN INFLUENCER’S SUSTAINABILITY COMMUNICATION AND GREEN MARKETING STRATEGIES ON TIKTOK
Authors: Bombaci Mael , Nespoli Francesco
Published: February 2025

This paper examines the ways in which companies collaborate with green influencers on TikTok in order to combine sustainable communication with product sponsorship. TikTok, with its highly visual and meme-based communication style, offers companies a channel to align their marketing strategies with green messaging. Green influencers play a central role in this dynamic, blending activism and promotional content to raise awareness about sustainability while endorsing products. However, the actual willingness of these narratives to challenge the capitalist neoliberal logic has been questioned in the literature.

A content and thematic analysis of 45 TikTok videos was conducted to see how companies express their environmental commitment through the affordances offered by the platform, including visual and viral aspects. Indeed, the aim of the paper is to explore the main actors, central themes and recurring narratives in these collaborations.

The findings reveal that companies from diverse sectors integrate product sponsorship into educational narratives that inform users about environmental issues while positioning the sponsored product as a solution. This approach aligns with the storytelling styles of green influencers, potentially enhancing the credibility of their content. However, there is a predominant focus on individual behavioural changes with limited emphasis on collective action or broader societal responses to sustainability challenges. This reflects a tension that simultaneously critiques unsustainable practices while remaining rooted in neoliberal consumer logics. As a result, these collaborations may promote sustainable consumption but fail to address the social dimensions of sustainability, restricting the potential for fostering a more comprehensive approach to environmental advocacy.
THE DARK SIDE OF LLM-POWERED CHATBOTS: MISINFORMATION, BIASES, CONTENT MODERATION CHALLENGES IN POLITICAL INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
Authors: Kuai Joanne , Brantner Cornelia , Karlsson Michael , Van Couvering Elizabeth , Romano Salvatore
Published: February 2025

This study investigates the impact of Large Language Model (LLM)-based chatbots, specifically in the context of political information retrieval, using the 2024 Taiwan presidential election as a case study. With the rapid integration of LLMs into search engines like Google and Microsoft Bing, concerns about information quality, algorithmic gatekeeping, biases, and content moderation emerged. This research aims to (1) assess the alignment of AI chatbot responses with factual political information, (2) examine the adherence of chatbots to algorithmic norms and impartiality ideals, (3) investigate the factuality and transparency of chatbot-sourced synopses, and (4) explore the universality of chatbot gatekeeping across different languages within the same geopolitical context.

Adopting a case study methodology and prompting method, the study analyzes responses from Microsoft’s LLM-powered search engine chatbot, Copilot, in five languages (English, Traditional Chinese, Simple Chinese, German, Swedish). The findings reveal significant discrepancies in content accuracy, source citation, and response behavior across languages. Notably, Copilot demonstrated a higher rate of factual errors in Traditional Chinese while exhibiting better performance in Simplified Chinese. The study also highlights problematic referencing behaviors and a tendency to prioritize certain types of sources, such as Wikipedia, over legitimate news outlets.

These results underscore the need for enhanced transparency, thoughtful design, and vigilant content moderation in AI technologies, especially during politically sensitive events. Addressing these issues is crucial for ensuring high-quality information delivery and maintaining algorithmic accountability in the evolving landscape of AI-driven communication platforms.
EXPLORING THE NEXUS OF K-POP DANCE CHALLENGES: CHILDREN’S K-POP DREAM, INTERNET STARDOM, AND CUTE LABOR IN THE EVOLVING CULTURE INDUSTRY
Authors: Lee Jin
Published: February 2025

For its global popularity and market expansion, K-pop idol culture has been integrated into child peer culture on social media, particularly in the Asia Pacific region. This is particularly noticeable in the form of K-pop dance challenges on short-form platforms/functions like Instagram Reels, TikTok, and YouTube Shorts, where people replicate choreographic moves from latest K-pop songs and post short-form videos with hashtags. Children casually join the trending challenges for fun and post videos by themselves, their parents, and even third-party companies, including child influencer agencies and K-pop training companies. This paper interrogates how this phenomenon has evolved into children’s new peer culture within the context of the influencer and K-pop culture industries. I discuss how children are positioned and presented in the evolving landscape of culture industries in the Asia Pacific region. I argue that this genre serves as a new version of ‘child pageant programs’ where childhood is performed and presented as a mixture of cuteness, innocence, immature maturity, and prodigious skills for the adult gaze. Pertinent issues surrounding children’s agency and wellbeing are also discussed, such as children’s everyday digital labor and the subsequent normalization of commodified childhood innocence in the industries. Crucially, the virality-centered algorithms of social media platforms underpinned in K-pop dance challenges further normalizes children’s seamless labor of cute, with the myth of instant internet virality, stardom, and K-pop dream. This study is based on a 4-year ethnographic observation of children’s K-pop dance challenges in the Asia Pacific region.
THE ROLE OF THE DRAMA INTERPRETATION INDUSTRY IN THE TRANSNATIONAL RECEPTION OF KOREAN TV SERIES IN CHINA
Authors: Lin Hui
Published: February 2025

This article examines how the drama interpretation industry on video-streaming platforms influences the transnational reception of Korean TV series in China. Combined with new background music and the creators’ interpretations, drama interpretation videos extract drama clips from the long episodes and reproduce hours-long TV series into 3-5 minute short-form videos. With the rise of this industry, a lack of studies has noticed the phenomenon and its influence on transnational audience reception. Thus, this study is pioneering research to address how interpretative commentary videos affect audience reception of international TV series in China, how Chinese audiences engage with Korean TV content on user-generated platforms, and whether dissemination of clip-sharing on user-generated platforms benefits or detriments Korean TV series. Adopting the Korean drama Glory as a case, this study used qualitative content analysis, augmented by semi-structured interviews, to examine these user-generated interpretive videos and their associated comments on Douyin and Xiaohongshu. This study found that video creators replaced obscure terminologies with other terms familiar to audiences within a Chinese cultural context, and viewers mainly discussed characters in the Korean drama Glory without mentioning Korean culture or cultural differences. Therefore, this study argues that interpretive videos can be regarded as a form of user-generated localization of international TV series, making foreign dramas understandable to local audiences and helping with the dramas’ dissemination, while this re-production of TV series, which eliminates cultural differences, is detrimental to the spread of foreign culture.