bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
A Phenomenological Study of the Under-Skilled Learners on Reading and Numeracy through Distance Learning: Case of Elementary Schools
Authors:   Bulacan State University Hagonoy Campus, Iba, Hagonoy Bulacan Philippines, Pulumbarit Jaime P. , Pulumbarit Catherine B. ,   Bulacan State University Hagonoy Campus, Iba, Hagonoy Bulacan Philippines, . Pulumbarit ,   Bulacan State University Hagonoy Campus, Iba, Hagonoy Bulacan Philippines
Published: January 2024

Numerous challenges have arisen during this time, including issues with connectivity and access to online materials. Educational psychology can provide valuable insights to sustain education during periods of school closures, such as those experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the effectiveness of online learning has been a topic of discussion, as face-to-face instruction cannot be replicated entirely online. Tackling poverty in education at the elementary level requires a comprehensive approach that addresses the social, economic, and educational needs of disadvantaged students and their families. Students from these backgrounds may face academic struggles and find it difficult to keep pace with their peers. The current study, which is descriptive in nature, suggests a significant decline in the average competency scores of fifth-grade students in reading and numeracy. These findings supplement previous research on the development of individual competency, which revealed a greater reduction in competency levels during the initial wave of the pandemic
Autonomous Learning Process and English Language Autonomy among Grade 10 Learners in Camp Vicente Lim Integrated School
Authors:   Laguna College of Business and Arts, Acosta Ana Caresse V.
Published: January 2024

The main thrust of this study was to determine the level of manifestation of autonomous learning process in relation to the level of English language autonomy of Grade 10 learners in Camp Vicente Lim Integrated School and to be assured that autonomous learning process and language autonomy is successfully implemented and developed most especially among the public school. The action plan for implementing autonomous learning process and improving the level of language autonomy was the output of the study.This study followed the descriptive-correlational method design. Through simple random sampling, the respondents were the 250 Grade 10 learners randomly picked from different sections. Validated researcher-made survey instruments were used for gathering of data. Using four-point Likert Scale and the simple mean, and Pearson-r correlation coefficient, findings revealed that autonomous learning process was highly manifested among Grade 10 learners and the learners’ level of language autonomy was also highly manifested. As regards the relationship between the manifestation of autonomous learning process and language autonomy, the result indicated a significant relationship.
Ungoverned, Unfair, Unacceptable: A UN Solution to Refugee Distribution
Authors:   Western Sydney University, Campbelltown, 2560, NSW, Australia, Silburn MPH FAWM Alan , Tanvir F. ,   Western Sydney University, Campbelltown, 2560, NSW, Australia, Ton J. ,   Western Sydney University, Campbelltown, 2560, NSW, Australia, Lathigara N. ,   Western Sydney University, Campbelltown, 2560, NSW, Australia, Ashraf R. ,   Western Sydney University, Campbelltown, 2560, NSW, Australia, Arndell J. ,   Western Sydney University, Campbelltown, 2560, NSW, Australia
Published: January 2024

This article addresses the pressing issue of refugee and asylum seeker distribution, highlighting the flaws in current policies that rely on a limited number of countries to bear the burden of refugees. It proposes a globally unified approach coordi-nated by the United Nations, utilizing an algorithm based on GDP, population density, and habitable land size to ensure equitable distribution. The paper emphasizes the importance of a comprehensive strategy that includes incentive-based systems, long-term planning, and holistic assessments to create a fair and humane refugee distribution process.
Aerobic training effect on mental health and biological indicators in Post-COVID-19 patients
Authors: Flores Luis Alberto , Villa-García Edith Nahomi , Sánchez-Márquez Yulissa , Salazar-Enríquez Victor Moahatma , Salais-Chaparro Azucena de Jesús , Enríquez-del-Castillo Liliana Aracely
Published: January 2024

Introduction. One of the aspects of health most affected in patients infected by COVID-19 was mental health. Leading organizations worldwide have recommended physical activity as one of the main actions. Objective. To analyze the effect of a short-term aerobic training program on biological and mental health and quality of life indicators in post-Covid-19 patients. Methods. Symptomatology of depression, anxiety, stress, quality of life, vital signs, physical fitness and body composition were measured in 10 post COVID-19 patients. An aerobic physical exercise program was applied at 40-60% intensity, five days a week, 50 minutes per session for four weeks. Results. A 30% decrease in depression symptomatology, 58% in stress and 44% in anxiety was found during the intervention period (p<0.001). Regarding the perception of quality of life, the psychological area was the one that presented a positive effect during the intervention (p=0.035). An increase in leg strength (p=0.018) and a decrease in body fat (p=0.005) were found during the intervention. Conclusion. A short-term physical exercise program shows benefits in mental health indicators in post-COVID-19 patients.
Key Words: Physical activity; Mental health; Quality of life, COVID-19; Fitness.
Searching for memories: narratives about the initiation process of former athletes of the Brazilian futsal national team
Authors: Andrade Marcos Xavier de , Leonardi Thiago José , Cunha Giovani dos Santos , Barros Greyce Débora Caetano , Ramos Suelen dos Santos , Goellner Silvana Vilodre , Voser Rogério da Cunha
Published: January 2024

Through the Development Model of Sport Participation framework and methodological perspective of oral history, this manuscript aims to narrate some fragments of the history of the sports initiation process of former elite athletes of the Brazilian Futsal Team. To this end, two interviews were conducted with athletes in the Brazilian Futsal Team during the 1980s and 1990s. From the oral history of two former futsal players, we identified evidence about the contribution of deliberate play in their initial stage of sport involvement. First, they highlighted the importance of the street and the family in their first contact with games played with feet, particularly futsal. Afterward, they emphasized the school, promoted diversified sports practices, and mentioned the role of the teacher in encouraging futsal practice in the scholar team. Finally, they evidenced the importance of social clubs and soccer practice during the transition to specialization years in futsal. It certainly contributed to their long-life athlete career.
Key Words: Athlete development; School; Club; Family; Sport career
Typology of agricultural holdings: a starting point for understanding the performance of irrigated systems in Baalbek Al Hermel Lebanon.
Authors: Al fakih Ahmad , Darwich Salem , Madau Fabio
Published: January 2024

The Mediterranean region is one of the most vulnerable regions to climate change (CC) which raises important problems for Mediterranean agriculture. In fact, climate disruption creates some uncertainty in the decision-making of farmers in the management of their farms. This understanding can help researchers to better orient agricultural research on adaptation at the farm level and can help policy makers to develop adaptation policies. The semi-arid region of Baalbeck El Hermel is increasingly threatened by climate change. The agricultural systems constituting the main source of household subsistence in this zone show a significant vulnerability to these disturbances, especially about the limit in water resources. In this research we propose a framework to represent agricultural activities using typologies of farms and production units aggregated at a regional scale. We used empirical data from a local case study of the five most representative farming systems in the Baalbek-Hermel Governorate. Analysis of the results showed several behaviors and several levels of resilience of these farms:1-farms specializing in market gardening or perennial crops are very sensitive to drought conditions and are not resilient in the face of water limit conditions;2-the diversified farm with olive tree dominance is less sensitive and more resilient.
Una mirada al proceso de adaptación para estudiantes primer ingreso a la universidad
Authors: Arroyo Brenes Gerardo
Published: January 2024

La investigación indaga acerca del contexto de los estudiantes de primer ingreso a la universidad y cómo afrontan los cursos introductorios de cada una de las carreras a las cuales ingresan. Las habilidades académicas ayudan a los estudiantes y el uso de las tecnologías de la información y comunicación (TIC) les permite desenvolverse de manera más ágil ante las vicisitudes que les presenta el mundo universitario que apenas están conociendo. El objetivo de esta investigación es analizar el desarrollo de habilidades académicas en los estudiantes de primer ingreso a carreras universitarias que requieren de destrezas matemáticas, y el proceso de adaptación y permanencia que los estudiantes y la universidad desarrollan para proponer aprendizajes significativos o exitosos. Metodología: se recolectó información en torno a los discursos de los estudiantes, ya que son la fuente principal, lo cual permitió escuchar la voz de aquellos que muchas veces callan en este proceso de acomodo y sobre lo que deben hacer para adaptarse a la vida universitaria. Por lo que al final de la investigación se plantea una propuesta que recoge estas inquietudes y sistematiza cómo debe presentarse el proceso de inducción de los estudiantes de primer ingreso a la universidad.
Перемены в минерально-сырьевой экономике Севера России
Authors: Лаженцев В.Н.
Published: January 2024

Рассмотрены два направления структурных перемен в минерально-сырьевой экономике северных регионов России:1) стабилизация объемов добычи нефти и газа с ускорением развития нефтегазохимии; 2) рост добычи и комплексное использование рудного сырья. Первое направление предполагает смену приоритетов в освоении арктических прибрежных территорий и акваторий, а также повышение доли в добыче углеводородов средних и малых месторождений на территории староосвоенных районов; второе – рост производства цветных, редких и редкоземельных металлов, крайне необходимых для восстановления машиностроения, электронной промышленности и других отраслей экономики. Новые возможности развития северных регионов показаны в связи с комплексным использованием минерального сырья и порайонной организацией экономики природных ресурсов. Подчеркнуто, что горно-металлургическая промышленность может сыграть такую же роль «локомотива» развития, как и нефтегазовая. Данное обстоятельство несколько уравновешивает экономические потенциалы северных регионов горнорудной и топливно-энергетической специализации.
Факторы инвестиционной активности в российской экономике: выводы 2022 г.
Authors: Калинин А.М.
Published: January 2024

Динамика российской экономики в 2022 г. развивалась не по траекториям, предполагавшимся в большинстве прогнозов. Инвестиции в основной капитал, вопреки ожиданиям, снизились незначительно; в некоторых отраслях наблюдался их рост. В статье предлагается анализ результатов 2022 г. с точки зрения оправданности взглядов на факторы, определяющие инвестиционную динамику.

Исходя из предшествовавших 2022 г. взглядов на проблематику инвестиций в российских научных публикациях, происходившие в этом году процессы представлены как набор событий-шоков. На основе данных Росстата показана описательная статистика инвестиций в основной капитал: кризиса инвестиций, которого можно было бы ожидать по опыту COVID-2019 или 2014-2015 гг., не случилось. Также представлена оценка факторов инвестиционной активности с позиции бизнеса (на основе выборочного обследования, проведенного Росстатом).

Для рассматриваемых факторов инвестиционной активности были выделены признаки (характеристики), которые сопоставлялись с динамикой индекса физического объема инвестиций в основной капитал. Анализ выполнялся с использованием данных и сведений Банка России.

Роль, по крайней мере, некоторых, институциональных факторов в российских условиях, по-видимому, не так велика, как принято считать: в краткосрочном периоде даже серьезные ухудшения институциональной среды не ведут немедленно к сопоставимым изменениям инвестиционной активности. Сферы транспорта, логистики, оптовой торговли показали достаточную гибкость и готовность инвестировать даже в условиях неопределенности. Наибольший вклад в динамику инвестиций внесли, по-видимому, доступность ресурсов, включая кредитные (не только инвестиционные), наличие подтвержденного платежеспособного спроса и технологическая зависимость российских отраслей. Именно на этих направлениях важно сосредоточиться в интересах стимулирования экономического роста.
Методические подходы к оценке возможного ущерба экономическим системам от климатических изменений
Authors: Порфирьев Б.Н. , Акентьева Е.М. , Елисеев Д.О. , Хлебникова Е.И.
Published: January 2024

Обоснованы понятийный аппарат, критерии и параметры формирования перечня климатически уязвимых объектов в России. Представлена авторская методика оценки возможного ущерба указанным объектам от климатических изменений и их последствий, включая ее основные ограничения, этапы и способы расчетов. Отличительной особенностью методики является комплексный подход, учитывающий региональные особенности климатических воздействий, определяющие степени подверженности и чувствительности и обусловленную ими величину климатического риска. Оценка экспертами на основе шкалирования текущей и прогнозной величины указанного риска, а также уровня адаптационного потенциала хозяйственных объектов позволяет рассчитать степень их уязвимости к климатическим воздействиям и, в конечном счете, используя параметр полной (балансовой и восстановительной) стоимости активов, – величину возможного ущерба.
Применение методики МГЭИК для оценки пространственного распределения выбросов СО2 в черной металлургии России
Authors: Петров С.П.
Published: January 2024

В статье представлены оценки выбросов диоксида углерода в черной металлургии по федеральным округам России. Расчеты проведены на основе подхода, разработанного Межправительственной группой экспертов по изменению климата (МГЭИК) с адаптацией для применения на региональном уровне. Основным дополнением к используемым методам расчета выбросов является проведение на первоначальном этапе регионализации производства черных металлов с учетом способа производства и применяемой шихты. Это позволило оценить производство стали по федеральным округам и применяемым технологическим схемам, на основе чего проведены оценки выбросов диоксида углерода. Определение распределения выбросов черной металлургии России по федеральным округам дало возможность выделить пространственные и технологические региональные факторы, определяющие объемы выбросов, что может лечь в основу разработки направлений декарбонизации черной металлургии.
A SAGA DOS DIADEMAS PERDIDOS: UMA HISTÓRIA DE USURPAÇÃO, SOFRIMENTO E RECONQUISTA
Authors: Mendes de Oliveira Vinícius
Published: January 2024

O presente artigo, de caráter ensaístico, tem como objetivo apresentar uma abordagem narrativa para o livro do Apocalipse, que, em geral, tem sido estudado de uma perspectiva mais temática. No texto, a partir das referências aos termos “diadema” e “coroa” interpreta-se o enredo do livro bíblico com foco na guerra milenar entre o dragão e o Filho prometido (Gn 3; Ap 12). A história começa com a usurpação de um reino por um dragão maligno e segue a jornada de uma mulher grávida, que representa a promessa de um libertador. O enredo se desdobra através de interpretações das figuras apocalípticas do dragão, da besta do mar e da terra, representando diferentes aspectos da opressão ao longo da história. A saga culmina com a reconquista dos diademas por um príncipe redentor, simbolizando o triunfo do bem, a restauração da justiça e a esperança de redenção, enfatizando a importância do juízo  e antecipando a vitória final do bem e a união eterna entre Cristo e a igreja.
Analysing Customers’ Trust in Ayurvedic Product Consumption: Development of Conceptual Model
Authors: Bharathi  , Mahale Prasad
Published: January 2024

Purpose: Investigating and analysing the numerous elements that affect consumers' faith in Ayurvedic products is the main goal of the article. In order to create a conceptual model to achieve this, the study undertakes an extensive examination of pertinent literature and current consumer theories. In order to help people develop faith in ayurvedic medicines, this model tries to give them a structured understanding of the essential components. The main goal of the study is to identify, synthesise, and discuss the elements that influence consumer trust in these products within a clear conceptual framework based on well-established customer theories and earlier research.
Design: Accessing books and journal articles via search engines like Google Scholar, ResearchGate, SSRN, Base, Semantics, and Inflibnet is how secondary data for research is acquired. The focus group interaction method is used to formulate hypotheses and pinpoint characteristics that influence trust.
Findings: The study has identified a number of variables that affect consumer trust in Ayurvedic goods. These factors include the items' holistic approach, the value consumers see in them, individual norms, and close customer relationships. It is hypothesised that these elements have a substantial impact on consumers' trust in ayurvedic products.
Originality: This essay focuses on identifying and analysing the various elements that affect consumer confidence in ayurvedic products.
Paper Type: Literature review for the creation of a conceptual model.
El metabolismo de ácidos grasos como diana terapéutica en el cáncer de piel tipo melanoma
Authors:   , Redondo Muñoz Marta
Published: January 2024

Cutaneous melanoma is the most lethal skin cancer, but the availability of novel targeted therapies for patients with BRAF mutations and immunotherapies based on immune checkpoint inhibitors has significantly improved its clinical outcome. Nevertheless, the effectiveness of these treatments is challenged by limitations in sustained responses and relapse due to the development of drug resistance. Resistance of melanoma to targeted therapy and immunotherapy is linked to metabolic rewiring. Here, we show that increased fatty acid oxidation (FAO) during prolonged BRAF inhibitor (BRAFi) treatment contributes to acquired therapy resistance in mice. Targeting FAO using the FDA and EMA-approved anti-anginal drug ranolazine delays tumor recurrence with acquired BRAFi resistance. Single-cell RNAseq analysis reveals that ranolazine diminishes the abundance of the therapy resistant NGFRhigh neural crest stem cell subpopulation. Moreover, by rewiring the methionine salvage pathway, ranolazine enhances melanoma immunogenicity through increased antigen presentation and interferon signalling. Combination of ranolazine with anti-PD-L1 antibodies strongly improves survival by increasing antitumour immune responses. Altogether, we show that ranolazine increases the efficacy of targeted melanoma therapy through its effects on FAO and the methionine salvage pathway. Importantly, our study suggests that ranolazine could sensitize BRAFi-resistant tumours to immunotherapy. Since ranolazine has very mild side effects, it might constitute a therapeutic option to improve the two main strategies currently used to treat metastatic melanoma.
Photostabilization, Thermodynamic and Theoretical Studies of polystyrene by some 2-amino pyridine
Authors: Ibraheem Hiba , Al-Majedy Yasameen , Issa Ali Abdullah , Yousif Eamd
Published: January 2024

Polystyrene (PS) films are photostabilized by 2-amino pyridine derivative compounds. Investigations were conducted on compounds of (a-e). The casting method was used to create PS films with complexes present in concentrations of 0.5 % by weight, while chloroform served as the solvent. By keeping track of the carbonyl indices as the exposure duration progressed, the photostabilization activities of these compounds were discovered. Using chloroform as a solvent, the variations in PS’s viscosity average molecular weight with exposure time were also monitored. The theoretical results of the PS modification compounds showed that the total energy values ​​of PS-D are higher energy content than the rest of the studied models. The negative sign in the HOMO energy indicates stability, that is, it is less effective, where values ​​are shown (HOMO) PS-C is the least effective (stable) and PS-E is the most effective (unstable). The thermodynamic theoretical outcome was shown that all reactions are endothermic and spontaneous, and the results of the (energy gap) values ​​gave a range from 2.38453 eV for PS-C to 2.60277 eV. For PVC-E, which proves that all PS modifications are conductive or semiconducting materials for electricity.
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Chemicals with 2-amino pyridine derivatives were used to study the photostabilization of PS films. For PS films, these chemicals function effectively as photostabilizers. These supplements Through UV absorption or screening, FTIR spectra, weight loss, and optical microscopy, the PS films are stabilized. According to the aforementioned processes and photostability, compound (a) was found to be the most effective in the photostabilization process. The use of molecules (a-e) that are 2-amino pyridine derivatives is encouraged by these mechanisms

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FACTORES QUE INFLUYEN EN EL DETERIORO DE LA CALIDAD DE VIDA DEL PACIENTE CON NEFROPATÍA DIABÉTICA EN HEMODIÁLISIS.
Authors: Hernández Ana , Carrasquilla Ciodelma , Castillo Ixora , Barrios Kenia , Bernal Dinora
Published: January 2024

Se ha demostrado que existen factores pueden afectar la calidad de vida de los pacientes con nefropatía diabética en tratamiento sustitutivo de hemodiálisis.  El objetivo: describir los factores que influyen en la calidad de vida de los pacientes con nefropatía diabética en terapia de remplazo renal por hemodiálisis.
sistema ERP y su importancia en mejora de la eficiencia operativa y optimización de recursos para la empresa, Panamá, 2023
Authors: Muñoz Escudero Arnold Osvaldo
Published: January 2024

Los sistemas de planificación de recursos empresariales ERP (Enterprise Resources Planning) aportan a las empresas múltiples beneficios si se implementan y utilizan correctamente, debido a que centralizan la información y automatizan procesos en las áreas diversas de la empresa como ventas, proyectos, producción, finanzas, recursos humanos, operaciones, servicio al cliente, Supply Chain, entre otras. Al centralizar información de estos departamentos las empresas poseen los recursos para gestionar de forma eficiente la producción, mejorar calidad y sus tiempos de entrega, esto genera un aumento en la rentabilidad, elimina la duplicidad, gestiona el capital humano, optimiza procesos y facilita la operación de la empresa al obtener información en tiempo real. El objetivo de esta investigación es determinar la importancia de implementar un sistema ERP en las empresas para mejorar la eficiencia y optimizar los recursos. El alcance de este trabajo está sustentado en un enfoque cualitativo, de tipo documental que incluye una revisión exhaustiva de la literatura existente sobre el tema, a través de escritos confiables. El impacto tecnológico que genera la adecuación de un sistema informático dentro de la empresa significativo, debido a este impacto la empresa debe planificar capacitar al recurso humano e invertir en un proyecto tecnológico interno que consiste en reconfigurar su arquitectura, infraestructura y personalización del sistema. Para que la implementación del ERP en las empresas genere mejora sobre la eficiencia operativa y optimización de recursos es importante gestionar correctamente la pre-implementación, la implementación y la post implementación. Algunos aspectos a considerar al momento de seleccionar un ERP son: presupuesto, opciones de plataforma tecnológica con las que cuenta o planea integrar la empresa, procesos existentes (tomar en consideración cuales se pueden automatizar y eliminar los trabajos duplicados para evitar reprocesos), capacitar al talento humano y un partner certificado. En el mercado existen diversas soluciones de sistemas ERP, no todos son iguales. Estos se diferencian por razones estructurales y del modelo de negocio.
Gestión sostenible y los Sistemas Integrados de Gestión (SIG) en las Organizaciones 4.0
Authors: Herrera Vicencio Carlos
Published: January 2024

El concepto de gestión sostenible en el aseguramiento de recursos para las actuales y futuras generaciones no solo es en el logro, sino también en el cómo, al incluir factores sociales, medioambientales, económicos y éticos en el desarrollo sostenible de las organizaciones basado en sistemas de gestión holísticos, en empresas que aplican inteligencia artificial.

El objetivo del artículo, es desarrollar un enfoque ingenieril y social, la relación de la sostenibilidad, los Sistemas Integrados en las organizaciones 4.0 y el desarrollo de la cultura organizacional en la prestación de servicios y generación de productos, en un competitivo mundo empresarial, donde en su evolución las organizaciones se encuentran el desafío de alcanzar el desarrollo sostenible mediante la innovación, dentro de la cual está la Inteligencia Artificial (IA) y sus retos globales como el cambio climático o las crisis sanitarias, entre otras.

Para el desarrollo de esta, visón se realizó una revisión de documentos en los que se encuentran tesis, artículos publicados en revistas indexadas, informes y documentos de trabajo de organizaciones relacionadas con la temática abordada, dando como resultado un texto que versa sobre el contexto histórico de los SIG, del papel de normativas como las ISO y el papel de la IA en la gestión sostenible y los SIG en las Organizaciones 4.0.

 En conclusión, la gestión sostenible y los SIG han demostrado ser excelente herramientas de gestión, por su contribución a la cultura de las organizaciones y apoyo a líderes 360°, para generar filosofía de trabajo digno y sostenible que permite lograr crecimiento y desarrollo.
“A relação com o inglês mexe até com minha autoestima”: dilemas sobre acesso à língua estrangeira e inclusão em uma iniciativa didática no PPGAS-USP
Authors: Tiriba Thais Henriques , Ribeiro Carla Brito Sousa , Moutinho Laura
Published: January 2024

Neste artigo, partimos de uma iniciativa em andamento no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia Social da Universidade de São Paulo. O trabalho pretende oferecer a seu corpo discente letramento em língua estrangeira, a partir da facilitação de acesso e debate de textos antropológicos em inglês no sentido de contribuir para uma discussão que se refere a diferentes dimensões do ensino e aprendizagem do ofício da antropologia. Iniciamos o texto trazendo reflexões sobre idiomas estrangeiros e acesso à pós-graduação, seguido por considerações sobre linguagem, poder e possibilidades de diálogos Sul-Sul a partir do inglês falado e escrito por não nativos. Apresentamos, então, a estrutura das oficinas, bem como nossa metodologia voltada para estudantes com pouco ou nenhum conhecimento do idioma. Em seguida, realizamos debate sobre permanência apresentando os perfis e os retornos dos participantes e concluímos o texto com considerações sobre o presente e futuro de nosso projeto e o papel da docência e dos PPGs na formação da próxima geração de antropólogos.
The Palestine Liberation Organization
Authors: Baracskay Daniel
Published: January 2024

This meticulous and in-depth book chronicles the evolution of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)—one of the most powerful and influential terrorist organizations in modern Middle Eastern politics and world affairs.

The Palestine Liberation Organization continues to exert considerable influence in Middle Eastern politics: ongoing hostilities between Palestinian militants and the state of Israel have affected the region significantly and continue to threaten prospects for a lasting peace. The PLO has expanded over time to encompass numerous factions that share the vision of liberating the Palestinian homeland, with aspirations for governing through self-determination. And with the PLO's financial assets estimated at $8–10 billion, it has the monetary clout to help determine the direction of affairs in the region.

This book provides a thorough and systematic analysis of the historical events which culminated in the creation of the Palestine Liberation Organization. It begins with an introduction to key people, places, and events in the history of the PLO that includes the organization's creation and ideological foundations, its support base, financial structure, and recruitment strategies. Later topics include the PLO's role in the politics and affairs of specific countries, including Jordan and Lebanon; recent trends in its existence; and its evolution into being a terrorist organization.
Culture and critique
Authors: Belia Vasiliki , Candidatu Laura , Colpani Gianmaria , Trakilović Milica
Published: January 2024

In her work on cultural critique, Rosemarie Buikema conceptualises culture as a terrain for the elaboration and contestation of collective memory, a form that mediates social formations, and a practice that critically supplements the political. Taking the polysemic relationship between culture and critique as our starting point, we bring Buikema’s reflections to bear on our own work on post-Yugoslav visual art, feminist graphic narratives, and digital media. We pay special attention to the question of “medium specificity”, which is central to Buikema’s conceptual intervention. Our goal is to illustrate the expansive reach of this intervention across multiple fields of inquiry.
De huid van de feministische dekoloniale wetenschapper
Authors: Buikema Rosemarie
Published: January 2024

In this chapter Rosemarie Buikema elaborates on how decolonial feminist artists and scholars are engaged in knowledge production by means of deploying a poetics of recycling as a way to re-orientate themselves towards the relation between the subject and the object of knowledge, matter and form, signifier and signified. Buikema analyses the work of El Anatsui and Nandipha Mntambo to illustrate the power of this poetics of recycling and gives the example of an exhibition in which the Museum of Equality and Difference (MOED) re-curated the cultural heritage of abolitionism, giving centre stage to the black, previously enslaved woman Sojourner Truth, rather than the white Dutchman Nicolaas Beets. She concludes that the collective field of decolonial feminism envelops engaged scholars and artists like a sensitive skin that continuously responds to the context in which it finds itself.
Revolt: The sense and non-sense of Kristeva
Authors: Ftouni Layal , Górska Magdalena , Mascat Jamila
Published: January 2024

Revolt, for Julia Kristeva, is not as a singular socio-political moment of breaking away, but as Rosemarie Buikema puts it, “a process of movement and repetition” (Buikema, 2020, 6), “a reversal, a relocation, a transformation, but also a return” (7). The article returns to Kristeva’s original approach to revolt. It will first retrace Kristeva’s peculiar conceptualisation of this notion; particularly focusing on its psychoanalytical dimension vis-à-vis ‘the semiotic’ and ‘the symbolic’. The article further discuss the limits of revolt’s intimate framing and the shortfalls of what we argue is Kristeva’s exorcism of the political from the spirit of revolt.
In gesprek met Iris Kensmil
Authors: Kensmil Iris , Kerchman Astrid , Wevers Rosa , Benedicty-Kokken Alessandra
Published: January 2024

This article is focused on Professor Buikema’s intellectual oeuvre and the relation between art and politics as it materialised in MOED (Museum of Equality and Difference). Astrid Kerchman and Rosa Wevers, MOED’s former project coordinators, reflect on their collaboration with Buikema through an interview with artist Iris Kensmil on the important role of art in complex social issues relating to emancipation, representation, and resistance. Drawing on the interview with Kensmil and Buikema’s Revolts in Cultural Critique (2020), Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken reflects on the meaning of feminist leadership within an institutional context.
Hou toezicht op de emancipatie!
Authors: Senden Linda , Derks Belle , van Veelen Ruth
Published: January 2024

For numerous public interests there are supervisory bodies, such as the Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) and the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM). Drawing on the multidisciplinary Transformative Equality Approach that was developed in the UU Gender and Diversity Hub, we argue that it is high time to establish a Netherlands Authority for Emancipation (NEMA). Rather than putting the onus for emancipation and equality on those who suffer from inequality, the government should take ownership of inequality problems by establishing a supervisory body for effective compliance and enforcement of equal treatment legislation.
Li Bo and Hu Ziyang: Companions of the Way
Authors: Kroll Paul W.
Published: January 2024

Kroll’s essay explores a series of poetic and prose compositions by High Tang poet Li Bo dedicated to Hu Ziyang, a Daoist master who transmitted to Li Bo the esoteric technique of absorbing solar essence and conferred Daoist registers on other of Li Bo’s companions. Li Bo’s most extensive composition on Hu Ziyang is an inscribed stele erected at his tomb site, again alerting us to the significance of materiality in discussing the effect and efficacy of texts. As Kroll reminds us, Li Bo was asked to eulogize Master Hu by the Buddhist monk Zhenqian, revealing the close personal links among Buddhist monks, Daoist priests, and poets.
The Vicarious Angler: Gao Pian’s Daoist Poetry
Authors: Verellen Franciscus
Published: January 2024

Verellen’s chapter examines the Daoist poems by late Tang dynasty general Gao Pian, who was also an alchemist, an engineer and architect of citadels, and a poet with a deep interest in Daoism, as well as in military cults and esoteric techniques. The ten poems analyzed in this essay were inspired by the Daoist rite of “Pacing the Void,” alchemical practice, and local cults. Several poems were dedicated to Daoist masters sought by the general. The Daoist poetry of Gao Pian reminds us of the complex and contested socio-cultural identities of Tang officials and military leaders.
“True Forms” and “True Faces”: Daoist and Buddhist Discourse on Images
Authors: Raz Gil
Published: January 2024

During the late fifth century local communities composed of Buddhist and Daoist adherents installed dozens of stelae that combined Buddhist and Daoist iconographies, aspirations, and motivations. Engraved with the earliest anthropomorphic image of Lord Lao, the physical manifestation of the ineffable Dao, and inscribed with theological apologetic statements, these stelae indicate a shift in Daoism from a profound aniconic theology to an iconographic practice. Intriguingly, at the same time Buddhists began to inscribe statues with similar apologetic statements. Focusing on the terms “true forms” (zhenxing 真形) and “true faces” (zhenrong 真容), Raz examines the confluence of Buddhist and Daoist rhetoric, discourse, and practice in medieval China.
My Back Pages: The Sūtra in Forty-Two Chapters Revisited1
Authors: Robson James
Published: January 2024

The Sūtra in Forty-Two Chapters (Sishi’er zhang jing 四十二章經) has been celebrated as the first Indian Buddhist sūtra brought to China, where it was, supposedly, translated into Chinese in 67 CE. This sūtra has become a favorite for Western translators and is often used as an introduction to the transmission of Buddhism to China and to Chinese Buddhism in general. Robson traces the textual history of this text in a range of Chinese sources, focusing on the earliest exemplar of this sūtra in a Daoist text. This chapter also discusses how and why this short text came to play such a significant role in Western accounts of Chinese Buddhist history.
Epilogue
Authors: Bokenkamp Stephen R.
Published: January 2024

As a response to the essays collected in the volume, Bokenkamp’s epilogue is both a reflection on the intersection of poetry and Daoism and a consideration of the state of Daoist Studies. Focusing on the Daoist term, “Golden Gatetowers,” (金闕), the chapter tracks its changing meanings across a variety of primary sources as well as various translations of the term by modern scholars. These (mis)translations reveal a lack of understanding of the shifting meanings of the term in its various contexts, which in turn reflects the current state of (mis)understanding of Daoism.
Climate–Game–Worlds: A Media-Aesthetic Look at the Depiction and Function of Climate in Computer Games
Authors: Möring Sebastian , Schneider Birgit
Published: January 2024

This chapter seeks to establish a coherent and critical framework that can aid in future analyses of the depiction of climate and weather in computer games. In its attempt to generate an analytical schema, the chapter expands on existing media-aesthetic, media-ecological, and existential-ludological perspectives, thereby mixing methodological approaches with concepts drawn from climatology. This mixed-methods approach allows the authors to put forth a number of key insights, most importantly that the examination of climate as an in-game actor—that is, as a component that has an impact on gameplay—can lead to new levels of analysis in the field of games studies. The authors conclude by testing their critical schema on the survival-crafting game Eco (Strange Loop Games 2018).
Remediating Green Practices: Landscape Photography and Nature Documentary Filmmaking in Video Games
Authors: Werning Stefan
Published: January 2024

The chapter examines how contemporary forms of digital metagaming, specifically in-game photography and recording in-game wildlife documentaries, reenact and reinterpret constitutive practices of earlier environmental movements. The first part of the analysis explores how ingame landscape photography in Red Dead Redemption 2 remediates earlier aesthetic traditions going back to landscape painting. The second part investigates fictional nature documentaries using footage from games like GTA V and Destiny 2, retracing how the focus gradually shifts from nature photography and documentary as (digital) ‘objects’ towards replicable and inclusive practices. To conclude, the chapter briefly reflects on other epistemic ecopractices like the remediation of ‘community gardening’ in games like Stardew Valley and Animal Crossing: New Horizons during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Introduction: Flowers and the Courts
Authors: Lyon-Whaley Susannah
Published: January 2024

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, flowers enthralled men and women, kings and artists, gardeners and scientists. This introduction charts the development of a distinctive floral culture in the English court and its extended circles from the beginning of the Tudor dynasty till the twilight of the Stuarts. While flowers have long registered in various histories, this volume aims to bring different floral disciplines—visual and material culture, literature, gardens, medicine, and foodstuffs—together. Real or representations, flowers mattered in court culture, bound to local ambitions and enmeshed with the most violent aspects of colonisation during these centuries, in which members of the court—and their desire for flowers—played a leading role.
Feasting with the Great-grandmother: The Tea Banquet Ritual Programs and the Worship of the Mother of Wutong
Authors: Yongchao 陳泳超 CHEN , Chao Shin-yi , Ho Eunice , Cao Xinyi
Published: January 2024

The Tea Banquet, popular in the reaches of Lake Tai (Taihu 太湖), especially in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, is a veneration ritual of making offerings to Taimu 太姥 (tailao in Mandarin, Great-grandmother) along with her sons, the famous Wutong 五通 gods, and her daughters-in-law. Through historical records and fieldwork, this essay presents the trajectory of the ritual’s transmission and transformation.

Written records of the Tea Banquet can be found as early as in the mid-Ming dynasty, and there are numerous liturgical manuals in the possession of local ritual experts. This essay first introduces the Tea Banquet from records of the Ming-Qing period. The next section presents detailed summaries of selected liturgical manuals. The manuals are grouped into two distinct traditions: that of Daoist experts and that of masters of “precious scroll” (baojuan) recitation. In conclusion, an analytic comparison of the Tea Banquet ritual performances between historical and contemporary times will illuminate the changes the ritual underwent.
Knowledge and Ritual: The Dual Nature of the Scripture Illustrating the Holiness of Emperor Guan (Guandi mingsheng jing)
Authors: Shih-wei 李世偉 LI , Chao Shin-yi
Published: January 2024

This essay offers a close reading of a spirit-writing text about the Emperor Guan (or Lord Guan), the deified general Guan Yu 關羽 (d. 220 CE), one of the most popular deities in China since late imperial times. The text under investigation, Guandi Mingsheng jing 關帝明聖經 (Scripture Illustrating the Holiness of Emperor Guan; hereafter mingsheng jing), was produced in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth centuries and was regarded as divine revelation. This text represents a revisionist effort to promote the “correct” religious beliefs in three aspects: first, the text Confucianizes the godhead of Lord Guan; second, it Sinicizes the beliefs of reincarnation along with purgatory; and third, it repudiates Buddhist postmortem redemption rituals. The Mingsheng jing also includes the rituals of recitation both in private and collectively. A revisionist interpretation of Lord Guan was thus produced, authenticated, and disseminated in the forms of reading, chanting and public lecturing.
The Aporias of Cinema History
Authors: Elsaesser Thomas
Published: January 2024

Understanding the cinema as an archeo-topological medium of the Anthropocene, this chapter looks at some of the consequences of studying cinema from a post-human perspective. The ecology of humans interacting with technology serves as a starting point for reconsidering cinema history, where the uncanny ontology of the cinema becomes apparent in its dual role as an accelerator of post-human progress, aligning several relevant elements towards an eventual transition between humanity and technology, and an emergency brake on this road of no return, underlining the still growing importance of film heritage, of the archive, and of cinema as the cultural memory of mankind in its humanity and diversity. Therefore, one way to salvage history from cinema’s (and not only cinema’s) uncanny ontologies, is to open historical thinking up to the archeo-topographies of cultural memory, and especially to its traumatic remainders and apparently obsolescent values.
What Next? The Historical Time Theory of Film History
Authors: Gaines Jane M.
Published: January 2024

Our particular problem of technological change, from the photochemical to the so-called “digital,” requires engagement with theories of history. Given that comparing emerging technologies a century apart raises the question of “differences of times,” I turn to Reinhart Koselleck’s theory of historical time, or the relativity of past, present, and future, with particular attention to the problem of historical prognostication or prediction. The case at hand compares motion picture film duplication 1897–1907 and contemporary cyberlocker storage technology as charged in their moments with “piracy” or illegal “taking.” Thus intellectual property doctrine draws parallels between historically different “piratical practices” as evidencing responses to the problem of technological “newness.” But Koselleck is canny as he challenges us to consider that paradoxically every new time is both new and “not so new.”
A Film-maker’s Film Histories
Authors: Turquety Benoît
Published: January 2024

An artist should probably not be a historian of their art. But when they are, they produce specific kinds of histories. In this chapter, I argue that their position entails a reluctance towards literary forms of history writing, towards explanations and comments. Film-makers aspiring to historical construction have rather relied on paratactic forms of discourse, mainly through non-literary practices such as film programming. This idea implies a reconsideration of such endeavours within a wider network of mostly modernist conceptions of collecting and curating as historiographical projects. Juxtaposition, montage, and blank spaces are then the tools of a historiography based on the fundamental principle of adjacency, and the anthology becomes the major form of the artist’s history of their own art.
The Rise and Fall of Secular Realism
Authors: Rajagopal Arvind
Published: January 2024

In this chapter, I argue that a deeply influential turn in Indian history was signaled and influenced by a series of videos circulated by Hindu nationalists in the late 1980s. This turn in Indian history helped prepare the political sphere for its rejection of secularism, and for the onset of more exclusionary forms of nationalism. These videos conveyed a largely fictious history in the style of a factual film, with soundtrack and voiceover mimicking newsreel or documentary footage. Rather than treat this cinematic detour as irrelevant or epiphenomenal, as the prevailing scholarly division of labor has assumed, this chapter seeks to outline a series of mediatic forms that accompany the ascendance of Hindu nationalism, and to clarify the mechanism of their succession.
The History of Film on Film
Authors: Thanouli Eleftheria
Published: January 2024

The history of cinema is an object of study in numerous academic publications, which seek to recount and explain the filmic past. This chapter focuses on how non-fiction films perform the same operation by narrating the history of the medium with its own tools, namely images and sounds. Using two reflexive documentaries as key case studies, Maximilian Schell’s Marlene (1984) and Chris Marker’s The Last Bolshevik (1992), the author aims to investigate how the formal parameters of these works determine the historical explanations that arise from their respective portraits of Marlene Dietrich and Alexander Medvedkin. In addition, she discusses how the aspect of self-reflexivity in historical film-making invites a more complex and contextual approach to the filmic past.
Audiovisual Film Histories for the Digital Age
Authors: Grizzaffi Chiara
Published: January 2024

The essay focuses on videographic criticism as a form of audiovisual historiography. The introductory section proposes a brief reflection on those material and cultural changes which make it possible for cinephiles and scholars to resort to practices of appropriation and reuse of film images that were once the prerogative of smaller groups of artists and professionals. The second section aims at historicizing online videographic criticism, thus retracing its steps from the work of early practitioners to its progressive institutionalization. Finally, the essay addresses some examples of audiovisual essays that focus on film history issues to argue for the innovative potential of the audiovisual approach.