bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
A idade como preditora de ansiedade e depressão de adultos brasileiros durante a pandemia da Covid-19
Authors: Vicentini de Oliveira Daniel , Fidelix Yara Lucy , Morais Freire Gabriel Lucas , Yoshida Hélio Mamoru , Teixeira Fernandes Paula , Andrade do Nascimento Júnior José Roberto
Published: May 2022

ResumoObjetivo: analisar o papel preditor da idade sobre os sintomas de ansiedade e depressão de adultos durante a pandemia da Covid-19. Métodos: estudo transversal realizado com 1118 adultos. Foi utilizado um questionário sociodemográfico e a Hospital Anxiety And Depression Scale. A análise de dados foi conduzida por meio da Análise Multivariada de Variância, correlação de Pearson e Regressão Múltipla (p 0,05). Resultados: a idade foi um preditor negativo dos sintomas de ansiedade (R2 = 0,03; p 0,05; β = -0,18) e depressão (R2 = 0,03, p 0,05; β = -0,19) entre os homens. Em relação às mulheres, a idade também se mostrou como uma preditora negativa dos sintomas de ansiedade (R2 = 0,05; p 0,05; β = -0,23) e dos sintomas depressivos (R2 = 0,03; p 0,05; (β = -0,17). Conclusão: existe associação inversamente proporcional da idade com os sintomas depressivos e de ansiedade dos brasileiros durante a Covid-19.
Creating playgrounds in online teaching spaces:
Kanami and Nene’s “hero journeys”
Authors: York James
Published: May 2022

Teaching in 2020 was radically different.
@ddd__yama and Nene’s learning journeys were just plain radical.
In this playground, I interview them to find out what conditions led to their
radical transformation from zero to hero (level of interest in English).
#RadicalTransformation #HerosJourney #ConnectedLearning #FF14
PENGEMBANGAN MEDIA KOMIK UNTUK MENINGKATKAN HASIL BELAJAR SISWA KELAS IV
Authors: Suganda Angga Piki , Setiawan Angga , Ma'ruf Moh Farid
Published: May 2022

Latar belakang dari penelitian ini adalah kreativitas guru kurang dalam menggunakan media pembelajaran dan belum tersedianya media pembelajaran. Jenis penelitian yang digunakan adalah Research and development (RnD) dan menggunakan model ADDIE (Analysis, Design, Development, and Evaluation). Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengukur peningkatan pada siswa setelah menggunakan media komik berbasis media cetak. Penelitian menggunakan instrument berupa wawancara, observasi, lembar angket validasi ahli materi, lembar angket validasi ahli media, lembar angket validasi praktisi, angket respon siswa, dan soal test untuk mengukur pengetahuan siswa. Penelitian ini dilakukan di SDN 5 Siki, dilihat dari tingkat kelayakan media  komik berbasis media cetak ini pada penelitian ini didasarkan pada validasi yang dilakukan oleh ahli materi, ahli bahasa,ahli media dan ahli praktisi. Yang pertama dilihat dari aspek angket validasi ahli materi pembelajaran memperoleh nilai 91,66%,kriteria kevalidan jika dicocokkan yaitu sangat valid sehingga media dapat digunakan dalam proses pembelajaran. Selanjutnya dari aspek angket ahli media pembelajaran memperoleh nilai 80,76%, kriteria kevalidan jika dicocokkan yaitu valid, selanjutnya dari aspek angket ahli bahasa memperoleh nilai 87,5%, kreteria kevalidan jika dicocokan yaitu valid sehingga media dapat digunakan dalam proses pembelajaran dan yang terakhir yaitu ditinjau dari aspek angket ahli praktisi guru kelas IV SDN 5 Siki memperoleh nilai 94,4%, kriteria kevalidan jika dicocokkan yaitu sangat valid, sehingga media dapat digunakan dalam proses pembelajaran. Sedangkan berdasarkan nilai pretest dan posttest digunakan untuk mengukur peningkatan pengetahuan siswa tentang gunung meletus. Nilai pretest memperoleh rata-rata 50,85% dan nilai post test memperoleh nilai 90,71% . Dari perbandingan nilai tersebut dapat diartikan bahwa siswa mengalami peningkatan sebanyak 39,86%.  Nilai pree test dan post test jika dihitung menggunakan N-Gain  nilainya meningkat sebanyak 0,80 termasuk kedalam nilai tinggi.
Pengaruh Penanaman Modal Asing (PMA), Penanaman Modal Dalam Negeri Dan Belanja Langsung Terhadap Pertumbuhan Ekonomi Di Provinsi Papua
Authors: Rumalutur Tince , Kasmando Hemi Rensi , Marlissa Elsyan Rienette , Siahainenia Joddy E. H.
Published: May 2022

Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui dan menganalisis bagaimana pengaruh PMA, PMDN dan Belanja Langsung terhadap Pertumbuhan Ekonomi Provinsi Papua pada tahun 2012-2016. Data yang digunakan merupakan data sekunder dalam bentuk time series, bersumber dari BPS dan BPKAD Provinsi Papua. Metode analis data yang di pakai ialah analisis jalur yang dikenal dengan path analysis. Path analysis digunakan untuk menganalisis pola hubungan antara variabel dengan tujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh langsung maupun tidak langsung seperangkat variabel bebas(eksogen) terhadap variabel terikat (endogen). Hasil analisis menunjukkan bahwa pengaruh langsung PMA terhadap PDRB ialah sebesar 1.214 sedangkan pengaruh tidak langsung ialah sebesar 24.11, sehingga besar pengaruh total PMA terhadap PDRB ialah 24.108. Sedangkan untuk variabel Belanja Langsung memiliki pengaruh langsung sebesar 18.812, sedangkan untuk pengaruh tidak langsung tidak memiliki koefisien, maka pengaruh total belanja langsung terhadap PDRB sebesar 18.812. Penanaman modal asing (PMA) mempengaruhi Pertumbuhan ekonomi (PDRB) Provinsi Papua. Maka semakin tinggi nilai penanaman modal asing maka semakin tinggi pula pertumbuhan ekonomi. Penanaman modal dalam negeri (PMDN) mempengaruhi pertumbuhan Provinsi Papua. Maka semakin tinggi nilai penanaman modal dalam negeri ekonomi (PDRB) maka semakin tinggi pula pertumbuhan ekonomi. Belanja Langsung mempengaruhi pertumbuhan ekonomi Provinsi Papua, serta berdasarkan hasil penelitian penanaman modal asing, penanaman modal dalam negeri dan belanja langsung.Kata Kunci: Penanaman Modal, Belanja Langsung, Pertumbuhan Ekonomi
Studi geomorfologi karst dan potensi pengembanganya sebagai kawasan geowisata di Daerah Wawo Kabupaten Kolaka Utara Propinsi Sulawesi Tenggara
Authors: Alkhatami Syamsul Ali , Hasria Hasria , Hasan Erzam Salahuddin
Published: May 2022

Penelitian ini berlokasi di daerah Wawo, Kabupaten Kolaka Utara, Provinsi Sulawesi Tenggara.  Tujuan  dari  penelitian  ini  adalah  menganalisa  karateristik  geologi  kars  yang terdapat  di  daerah  penelitian  untuk  pengembangan  kawasan  geowisata.  Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini yaitu metode mendiskripsikan dan menganalisis potensi suatu lokasi geologi karst sebagai situs warisan geologi yang meliputi dari nilai - nilai sains, nilai – nilai edukasi, nilai – nilai pariwisata, dan resiko degradasinya. Pada penelitian ini terdapat beberapa objek situs geologi yang menjadi objek pengamatan seperti Gua, Danau dan kondisi geomorfologi.Sedangkan untuk menentukan nilai kelayakan pada pengembangan geowisata yaitu Danau Biru,  Air Terjun Sila dan  Air Terjun  Latawe. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian, terdapat 1 (satu) situs geologi yang termasuk dalam kategori “sedang” artinya berpotensi dan layak menjadi geowisata yaitu situs geologi Danau Biru, situs geologi, dan 2 (dua) yang termasuk dalam kategori “rendah” artinya tidak berpotensi dan layak menjadi geowisata yaitu situs geologi Danau Biru. Wawo memiliki morfologi karst pedataran 30% dari luas daerah penelitian, Morfologi karst perbukitan 20% dan morfologi karst pegunugan  sebesar 50%.
Analisis granulometri dan morfologi butir pada endapan pasir dan kerakal di sepanjang aliran Sungai Trens Daerah Boro-boro
Authors: Laode Mais , Muliddin Muliddin , Okto Ali
Published: May 2022

Daerah penelitian secara administratif terletak di Sungai Trens Desa Boro-Boro, Kecamatan Ranomeeto Barat, Kabupaten Konawe Selatan, Provinsi Sulawesi Tenggara.Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah mengetahui tingkat granuloritas material sedimen, morfologi butir, serta mekanisme sedimentasi di daerah penelitian. Yang dianalisis melalui granulometri, pendekatan visual, serta Interpretasi mekanisme sedimentasi yang terjadi pada endapan pasir dan kerakal di sepanjang sungai Trens didasarkan pada hasil analisis ukuran butir dan morfologi butir. Hasil analisis menunjukkan bahwa material endapan yang terbentuk terendapkan melalui mekanisme transportasi secara bedload dengan kombinasi antara rolling, sliding dan saltasi, akan tetapi terdapat juga mekanisme transportasi berupa suspension pada sebagian kecil partikel sedimen yang berukuran sangat halus.
Karakteristik endapan bijih besi pada batugamping Formasi Wapulaka Daerah Tongkuno, Kabupaten Muna, Sulawesi Tenggara
Authors: Sulaeha Sitti , Masri Masri , Hasria Hasria
Published: May 2022

Penelitian ini terletak di desa Wuna, kecamatan Tongkuno, Kabupaten Muna, Provinsi Sulawesi Tenggara dengan batuan penyusun berupa batugamping formasi Wapulaka. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui mineral pembawa bijih besi dan mengetahui penyebarannya. Adapun metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini yaitu menggunakan analisis petrografi sayatan tipis dan sayatan poles serta didukung oleh analisis susseptibilitas magnetik. Daerah penelitian terbagi menjadi dua satuan geomorfologi, yaitu satuan bentang alam pegunungan dan satuan bentang alam pedataran. Litologi penyusun daerah penelitian berupa batugamping wackstone dan packstone. Terdapat dua jenis endapan besi yaitu bijih besi primer dan bijih besi sekunder. Bijih besi primer ditandai oleh keterdapatan siderit, sedangkan bijih besi sekunder dicirikan dengan keterdapatan magnetit, hematit, dan limnonit. Kehadiran mineral pembawa bijih besi juga dapat diidentifikasi berdasarkan kandungan nilai suseptibilitas magnetik dengan kisaran 8,6 - 2047×10-8 m3/kg.
Analisis Faktor Pengontrol Longsor di Daerah Boro-Boro dan Sekitarnya Kecamatan Ranomeeto Kabupaten Konawe Selatan Provinsi Sulawesi Tenggara
Authors: Batupadang Zeth Yoseptian , Hasria Hasria , Anshari Erwin
Published: May 2022

Penelitian ini terletak di daerah Boro-Boro dan Sekitarnya, Kecamatan Ranomeeto, Kabupaten Konawe Selatan, Provinsi Sulawesi Tenggara. Secara geografis daerah penelitian terletak pada koordinat 3°58,56’-4°31.52’LS, dan 121°58’-123°16’BT. Lokasi penelitian termasuk ke dalam Formasi Alangga yang tersusun oleh batupasir dan konglomerat berumur Plistosen. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menentukan faktor pengontrol longsor serta jenis longsor pada lokasi penelitian. Metode yang dipakai pada penelitian ini adalah survey lapangan secara langsung meliputi pengambilan data litologi, sampel tanah, mengukur kemiringan lereng selanjutnya dilakukan  pengolahan data lapangan dan analisis data hasil lapangan. Faktor pengontrol yang berpengaruh di daerah penelitian terdiri dari kemiringan lereng, litologi, dan jenis tanah dengan potensi jenis longsoran berupa luncuran dan runtuhan batuan.
Exploring the fast COVID-19 pandemic of Lesotho
Authors: Desouky Sara , El Beshbishi Alyaa , Serry Reem , Kodsy Mariam , Elbahnasy Samhaa , Ahmadi Attaullah , Lucero-Prisno III Don Eliseo
Published: May 2022

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Acceptability of COVID-19 vaccination in Herat, Afghanistan
Authors: Lucero-Prisno III Don Eliseo , Neyazi Ahmad , Ahmadi Attaullah , Tabesh Omid , Afzali Habibah , Dzhusupov Kenesh , Shariful Islam Md , Nugraha Rayan , Ntacyabukura Blaise , Budhathoki Shyam Sundar , Xu Lin , Majrooh Wahid
Published: May 2022

Background: COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy is one of the major concerns in the roll out of vaccines in many countries. The aim of the study was to assess the level of COVID-19 vaccine acceptability among the population in Herat, Afghanistan, the third largest city in the country.
Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted between 15 April 2021 and 20 April 2021 among the general population of Herat City to examine the acceptability rate of COVID-19 vaccine. Sample size was calculated at 555. Different variables were collected using a questionnaire developed. Data were evaluated in IBM SPSS program.
Results: Only 10.63% of the participants were willing to receive COVID-19 vaccine without having any concern and reservation. 45% were willing to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. 66.5% were concerned about the vaccine and its side effects and 29% were afraid of being infected by transmission of COVID-19 through the administration of vaccine on them.
Conclusion: This research demonstrates that, concerns about the vaccine, myths and misinformation are widespread which will undermine the vaccination process. This study recommends the initiation of more health-related campaigns and awareness programs by the government for general population to enhance and expedite the roll out of COVID-19 vaccine.
Outbreak of Black Fungus in COVID-19 patients: An emerging issue
Authors: Shahid Shehroz , Sohail Fatima , Ullah Irfan , Abdul Jabbar , Tahir Muhammad Junaid
Published: May 2022

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Web Based Aviation Communication Tool Information System
Authors: Amiruddin Erwin gatot
Published: May 2022

In the field of air transportation, the communication system is used as a means of communication between officers on the ground and pilots or fellow officers on the ground. From this, the author wants to design a communication system as a medium to maintain a more effective and profitable communication system used as an air transportation communication system. This study aims to create an information system for reporting maintenance and repair of Aviation Communication Facility equipment at the Public Company (Perum) LPPNPI Makassar Branch by using the Web to make it easier for technician groups to fill out maintenance and repair reports that previously still used conventional methods which used paper and tools. write in doing data recording and requires space for archiving. The data were obtained through (1) field observations, (2) data requests, (3) literature studies. The method and theory used in making the system is the Waterfall method. The results of this study indicate that the information system of Aviation Communication Facilities can run well. Based on the test results using the Black Box testing technique and UAT testing, the results obtained 85% of the 20 respondents, so it was declared feasible to be used at the research location.
Chronic Intraocular Leptospiral Infection Relying on Biofilm Formation inside the Vitreous Cavity Leads to Recurrent Uveitis in Horses
Authors: Wollanke Bettina , Gerhards Hartmut
Published: May 2022

Equine recurrent uveitis (ERU) is a disease known and feared for centuries, as it almost always leads to blindness even with careful and meticulous conservative treatment of the individual episodes of uveitis. In about one-third of horses, both eyes are affected, often necessitating euthanasia. A link between ERU and leptospiral infection has been suspected for nearly 80 years. Vitreous lavage (vitrectomy) can preserve vision in affected eyes. After surgery, no further episodes of uveitis occur in up to more than 95% of operated eyes. With routine performance of vitrectomies, numerous vitreous samples could be used for further investigations. Intraocular anti-Leptospira antibody production was proven, leptospires could be cultured from the vitreous samples, and the LipL32 gene could be detected in the vitreous samples by PCR. Thus, there was convincing evidence of a chronic intraocular leptospiral infection, which can be eliminated most reliably by vitrectomy. Recently, it has been shown that the intraocular leptospires produce biofilm in the equine vitreous. Biofilm formation explains not only the success of vitrectomy, but also the survival of leptospires in the vitreous cavity for many years despite the presence of high intraocular antibody titers and immunocompetent cells, as well as the high tolerance to antibiotics.
Revascularization Strategies in Liver Transplantation
Authors: H. Feier Flavia , U. Melere Melina , Horbe Alex , N. Kalil Antonio
Published: May 2022

Vascular complications following liver transplantation chan jeopardize the liver graft and recipient survival. Aggressive strategies to diagnose and treat these complications may avoid patient and graft loss. With the evolving knowledge and novel therapies, less invasive strategies are gaining importance in the treatment of post liver transplant vascular complications. Portal, hepatic, and arterial thrombosis may be managed with systemic therapies, endovascular approaches, surgical and lastly with retransplantation. The timing between the diagnosis and the directed treatment is paramount for the success. Revascularization by means of interventional radiology plays an important role in the resolution and long-term patency of arterial and venous complications. This chapter will lead the reader into the most up-to-date treatments of post liver transplant vascular complications.
Prosthetic Concepts in Dental Implantology
Authors: Pelivan Ivica
Published: May 2022

This chapter will address evidence-based prosthetic concepts in dental implantology as well as clinical evidence with focus on appropriate logic and technical skills. Those prosthetic factors are as just important as surgical factors, and long-term success can only be achieved if both of those factors are considered, respected, and strictly followed from planning to prosthetic phase of treatment. This chapter will deal with materials selection for prosthetic part, shape, size, and design of supracrestal parts of abutments and their influence on soft tissue and bone stability around dental implants. Furthermore, one of most important decisions is about choosing the proper way of retention: screw- vs. cement-retained restorations, and it will be discussed in detail. Additionally, emergence profile and its function in soft tissues adaptation and adhesion to different prosthetic materials also have important role in long-term success of dental implant restorations.
Hybrid Genetic Algorithms
Authors: Gharsalli Leila
Published: May 2022

Hybrid optimization methods have known significant interest in recent years and are being growingly used to solve complex problems in science and engineering. For instance, the famous evolutionary Genetic Algorithm can integrate other techniques within its framework to produce a hybrid global algorithm that takes advantages of that combination and overcomes the disadvantages. Several forms of integration between Genetic Algorithms and other search and optimization techniques exist. This chapter aims to review that and present the design of a hybrid Genetic Algorithm incorporating another local optimization technique while recalling the main local search methods and emphasizing the different approaches for employing their information. A test case from the aerospace field is presented where a hybrid genetic algorithm is proposed for the mechanical sizing of a composite structure located in the upper part of a launcher.
Socio-Economic Considerations of Universal Health Coverage: Focus on the Concept of Health Care Value and Medical Treatment Price
Authors: Takura Tomoyuki
Published: May 2022

Healthcare systems generally help improve clinical outcomes by increasing public financial investment. Reasonable policymaking is crucial for identifying the financial burden involved, and analytical tools related to the relationship between universal health coverage (UHC) and socio-economic factors are essential. This study, along with the context and reports related to health insurance systems, examines the financial mechanisms that support UHC and the economic factors that dominate the clinical outcomes that benefit from it. The first section examines the socio-economic factors that affect universal coverage. Examples of methods for quantitatively evaluating the relationships and their analysis results are also summarized. The subsequent section summarizes the concept of medical value and the methodology for its evaluation, which are indispensable for examining the appropriate development of medical insurance systems. Research cases related to the significance of lifesaving and drug discovery are introduced, considering the possibility of allocating public resources. In the final section, the concept of price formation, which also considers medical value, is organized from the perspective of economics and medicine, with the optimization of medical treatment behavior in mind. For example, a report that analyzes the factors of price levels, focusing on Japanese private practices, is introduced.
Alteration of Cytokines Level and Oxidative Stress Parameters in COVID-19
Authors: Petrusevska Marija , Atanasovska Emilija , Zendelovska Dragica , Eftimov Aleksandar , Spasovska Katerina
Published: May 2022

In addition to the proinflammatory state, cytokine production, and cell death, SARS-CoV-2 infection is also associated with oxidative stress as demonstrated by increase in reactive oxygen species (ROS) levels and an alteration of antioxidant defense during the infection. Proinflammatory cytokines and chemokines play an important role in respiratory infections caused by viruses including SARS-CoV-2 by activation of the adaptive immune response. In case when the response is not controlled, it can lead to lung tissue involvement in the course of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) or can result in multiple organ failure. Oxidative stress markers show good correlation with several cytokines, which can be measured at the beginning of the disease in a primary care setting to predict the course of COVID-19.
Emergency Department Patients’ COVID-19 Vaccination Status and Self-Reported Barriers
Authors: Harvey Bethany , Kelleran Kyle , Suffoletto Heidi , Ma Changxing , Nan Nan , Penque Michelle , Lerner E. Brooke
Published: May 2022

Introduction: This study surveyed adult emergency department (ED) patients and the adult companions of pediatric patients to determine whether rates of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination were comparable to that of the general population in the region. This study also sought to identify self-reported barriers to vaccination and possible areas for intervention.

Methods: A survey was administered to 607 adult ED patients or the adult companions of pediatric patients from three different regional hospitals to assess their COVID-19 vaccination status, COVID-19 vaccine barriers, and demographic information.

Results: Of the 2,267 adult patients/companions considered for enrollment, we approached 730 individuals about participating in the study. Of the individuals approached, 607 (41% male; mean age 47.0+17.4 years) consented to participate. A total of 403 (66.4%) participants had received at least one vaccine dose as compared to 70% of the adult population in the county where the three hospitals were located. Of those, 382 (94.8%) were fully vaccinated and among the individuals who were partially vaccinated the majority (17 of 21) had an appointment for their second dose. Of those approached, 204 (33.6%) were not vaccinated, with 66 (10.9% of the total population) expressing an interest in becoming vaccinated while the remaining 138 did not want to be vaccinated. Of those who wanted to be vaccinated 32% were waiting for more safety data, and of those who did not want to be vaccinated 26% were concerned about side effects and risks and 28% were waiting for more safety data.

Conclusion: Adult ED patients and adult companions of pediatric ED patients were vaccinated at a slightly lower rate than the general population in our county. A small but significant proportion of those who were unvaccinated expressed the desire to be vaccinated, indicating that the ED may be a suitable location to introduce a COVID-19 vaccination program.
The Power of One: The Media and Homeless Stereotypes
Authors: Atherton Paul
Published: May 2022

Homelessness is presented in the British media through the lens of a stereotype: the words alcoholic, drug addict and gambler, accompanied by an image of a dishevelled, usually male, figure in a doorway, sitting on cardboard with a begging bowl and looking broken, sad or desperate.
It is explicitly designed to elicit an emotional response from the reader, listener or viewer, but at the same time, to explain the causes of homelessness. The problem, though, is it also allows for people to draw conclusions, apportion blame and produce ‘othering’.
The tropes are repetitive and inevitable. The notion that this situation could never happen to me is fully embedded in society. ‘I’d never drink/gamble/drug my way to homelessness’ comes the cry of resistance, but ‘we can pity the homeless, help out, but not really concern ourselves with the issue because it’s not a problem we are ever going to face’.
In this next chapter I am going to draw on my own experience of long-term homelessness to demonstrate how damaging this stance from the media is. Not just to those who suffer homelessness, but how it impacts on societal perception at large and in turn how this affects government and public policy.
To end homelessness you have to change the media narrative entirely. The following explains why change is needed and how to do it.
Neoplatonism and Poetics in Ancient Greek and Byzantine Literature
Authors: Fuente David Hernández De La
Published: May 2022

The influence of Neoplatonic themes and leitmotivs can be traced in Greek literature during the Late Roman and Byzantine periods, especially in hexametric poetry where ancient Homeric models were updated and enriched with theological and philosophical nuances. This article examines the origin of Neoplatonic Aesthetics and Poetics in the context of this philosophical school by classifying the first examples of the use of poetry in Neoplatonism and aiming at some general taxonomy of Neoplatonic poetry. The central focus is on early Byzantine poetry: the so-called Nonnian School (fifth-seventh centuries), arguably the first example of the application of such aesthetics. Examples from several poets, such as Nonnus, Christodorus, Paul the Silentiary, John of Gaza and George of Pisidia are examined. Lastly, I present some instances of later Neoplatonic poetry, with a survey of select examples of Middle and Late Byzantine literature. From its very beginning, this poetry was influenced by Neoplatonism, a common ground for all Byzantine philosophy and theology. The aim of this contribution is to provide a general overview of the issue of Neoplatonism and Poetics in pre-modern Greek Literature.
Beauty Stings: Plotinus and Rūzbihān Baqlī on Beauty
Authors: Murata Kazuyo
Published: May 2022

Love of beauty has long been recognised as a major theme in Sufi literature. Among numerous Sufis who spoke on beauty, Rūzbihān Baqlī (d. 1209) stands out for the sheer amount and sophistication of his discussion on beauty, expressed in prose and verse, in Arabic and Persian. His analysis of beauty may appear reminiscent of Plotinus’s thought, though it is virtually impossible to prove the latter’s influence on Rūzbihān. Instead of attempting to prove or disprove ‘influence’, the present study compares Plotinus and Rūzbihān — with occasional reference to the Arabic Plotinus corpus — on key questions on beauty, including its origin, its role in cosmogony, why human beings find beauty to be attractive and pleasurable, proper attitude to bodily beauty, difference between beauty and goodness, and why beauty mattered to Rūzbihān and Plotinus. A three-directional comparison of Plotinus, Rūzbihān, and the Arabic Plotinus on questions on beauty reveals unexpected affinities and divergences of thought among them.
‘ Nostro intelletto si profonda tanto ’: The Philosophical Background of Dante’s Paradiso I, 1–12 and IV, 22–60
Authors: D’ancona Cristina
Published: May 2022

The topic of the inadequacy of human language to express the divine reality witnessed in the Empyrean shapes Dante’s Paradiso. Stated at the very beginning of the first canto, it is accounted for by Beatrice in the fourth as part and parcel of the solution to the doubt occasioned by the literal interpretation of a passage in Plato’s Timaeus. The fourth canto has been interpreted along the lines of the distinction between the literal sense (integumentum) and the intended meaning (sensus), as voiced especially by William of Conches. The present article suggests that Dante’s ideas about intellectual vision, memory, and the language apt to express them are best understood against a background that also includes Plotinus’s treatment of Platonic myths, as stated especially in his remarks on the Timaeus. As a possible intermediate source, Macrobius’s Commentary on the Dream of Scipio is suggested.
‘A Man within a Woman, or even a God’: Vittoria Colonna and 16th-Century Italian Poetic Culture
Authors: Brundin Abigail
Published: May 2022

This essay focuses on the famous friendship between Vittoria Colonna (1490–1547) and Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564). The pair met in Rome some time in the 1530s, and continued to correspond until Colonna’s death. Despite Michelangelo’s towering artistic reputation, Colonna was the dominant party in the friendship. Michelangelo looked to her for spiritual guidance and openly acknowledged his need for her support in ‘refashioning’ him as a better man and Christian. In the poetry that these friends exchanged, the Neoplatonic emphasis is clearly in evidence. In particular, in a manuscript gift of 103 sonnets that Colonna sent to Michelangelo in around 1540, Colonna demonstrates how far she has advanced in her journey towards God, and offers her example as a model for Michelangelo’s own spiritual ascent. Notably, the Neoplatonic frame allows the female poet to adopt the role of teacher and leader, confidently claiming this status as a result of her greater spiritual understanding, which ultimately transcends gender so that Michelangelo describes her as ‘a man within a woman, or even a god’.
Neoplatonist Echoes in Modern Arabic Poetry: The Case of Muḥammad ʿAfīfī Maṭar
Authors: Ghazoul Ferial J.
Published: May 2022

The article presents an overview of the impact of Neoplatonism and Sufism on modern Arabic poetry. It addresses specifically the example of the Egyptian poet Muḥammad ʿAfīfī Maṭar (1935–2010) and the correspondence of his poetic universe with that of Plotinus. As a student and later an instructor of philosophy, Maṭar was influenced by his mentor ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Badawī who had edited the Arab Plotinus. Maṭar’s poetic collections, interviews, and memoir point to his Neoplatonist and Sufi drive through references, allusions, and subtexts. In Maṭar’s visionary ascension in the poem Qirāʾa (Recital), Qur’anic phrases intersect with philosophical motifs of Plotinus’s Enneads.
Corporate Complicity During the Peruvian Armed Conflict: Deploying Archimedes’ Lever in the Case of Campesino Communities
Authors: Barboza-López Miguel Ángel
Published: May 2022

In Peru, the armed conflict (1980-2000) took over 60,000 civilian lives, and particularly affected campesino communities. In 2000, with Fujimori fleeing the country, Peru started a transitional process. In terms of accountability, practitioners and academics have both focused on the role of state actors in the atrocities, and there have been scant efforts to draw attention to the role that economic actors in Peru played in the violence of the armed conflict. This chapter seeks to start a conversation and push the agenda for practitioners and academics alike. The objectives of this chapter are two-fold. Firstly, to use the data in the Truth Commission report to present a much needed more systematic analysis of corporate complicity with the conflict. Second, use the Archimedes’ Lever model (Payne et al., 2020) to explain the limited outcomes in terms of accountability and suggest ways in which the weight of corporate accountability can be lifted. For this purpose, I will use the case of the forced disappearance and murder of nine campesinos of the Santa mentioned in the Truth Commission report which involved businessman Jorge Fung, owner of Molinera San Dionisio
Transitional Justice, Corruption and Mutually Reinforcing Accountability: What the Global South Can Learn from the Philippines
Authors: Carranza Ruben
Published: May 2022

This chapter addresses the question of how countries emerging from authoritarian rule or armed conflict can hold corrupt ex-leaders accountable, recover their ill-gotten assets, and ensure that those harmed by human rights violations and large-scale corruption can achieve justice, truth, reparations, and overcome marginalisation. The chapter traces the creation of a ‘Latin American’ transitional justice model that has emphasised prosecutions of state actors for crimes against humanity while ‘erasing’ their economic crimes. Yet examples such as Argentina’s Junta, Chile’s Pinochet, and Peru’s Fujimori, indicate that these state actors were also engaged in large-scale corruption. Neoliberal ideology and the marginalisation of Asian cases help explain erasure of economic crimes from the predominant transitional justice model. The chapter employs the Archimedes’ Lever to consider how alternative frameworks have, and could in the future, change the transitional justice orientation to include accountability for economic and social crimes. It focuses on asset recovery in the Philippines as a form of corporate accountability and truth-telling in the aftermath of Marcos’s brand of ‘crony capitalism’ and martial law. The chapter concludes by suggesting that corruption can be a lever and a key to mutually reinforcing accountability for economic and physical integrity crimes in the global south, and perhaps someday in the global north.
Learning Abroad
Authors: Ansell Richard
Published: May 2022

Where histories of the Grand Tour emphasise movement, this chapter places settled learning at the heart of elite travel culture. Indeed, contemporaries only used the word ‘tour’ to describe bounded periods of heightened mobility, rather than one’s whole time abroad. It was over months or even years at French, Dutch and German universities and academies that young men acquired the French language and physical exercises for which they had been sent across the Channel. These ‘settlements’ have been greatly underestimated, not least because travellers tended only to keep journals during mobile periods, but they were the bedrock of encounters with the Continent, to which some – but by no means all – travellers added Italian tours. Families blended universities and academies in a mixed economy of education, as they had at home, with these institutions preparing some for onward travel and others for an immediate return. Although historiography is still dominated by the Italian Grand Tour, educational travel between 1650 and 1750 was primarily about pursuing Francophone culture in France or neighbouring territories. The gentry was far more familiar with the Continent than is usually recognised, and the French language and manners far more important aspects of landed culture.
Reframing Eusebius-Jerome’s Chronicle
Authors: Ward Graeme
Published: May 2022

Jerome’s Latin translation and continuation of Eusebius of Caesarea’s Chronicle profoundly influenced how the chronology and the overall shape the human past was understood in the early medieval West. This chapter uses Frechulf’s reception of the Chronicle to reveal how he went about compiling the first volume of his Histories, and also takes into account how Eusebius-Jerome informed his sense of time and its progress. Lastly, this chapter argues that by reframing the distinctive graphic layout of the Chronicle as a book- and chapter-driven narrative, Frechulf brought into sharper relief the Eusebius-Jerome’s exegetical emphasis.
The Paduan Philosopher at Prayer: The Continuity of Being in Niccolò Leonico Tomeo’s Sadoleto
Authors: Corradi Allegra Baggio
Published: May 2022

This chapter analyses the theory of prayer contained in Niccolò Leonico Tomeo’s Sadoleto, a dialogue published in Venice in 1524 as part of the Dialogues, a collection of texts on the powers, life and afterlife of the soul. The main focus is on Tomeo’s doctrine of prayer and, specifically, on the way in which this coheres with his Christian humanism, his understanding of late Platonism and his approach to natural magic. Each one of these three elements will be considered in light of Tomeo’s philological and philosophical activity. It will emerge that prayer as it is described in the Sadoleto, is a token of Tomeo’s eclectic theory of the soul as a mixed substance, both eternal in essence and temporal in activity.
Pletho and Scholarios on Using and Abusing Plato and Aristotle
Authors: Karamanolis George
Published: May 2022

This paper focuses on the controversy over the primacy of either Plato or Aristotle in the last years of Byzantium and it sets out first to address first the question of why such a controversy broke out and, secondly, to investigate the main arguments that figured in it. I argue that one important factor for the Byzantine controversy was the centuries-long tendency of Byzantine philosophers for centuries to draw on both Plato and Aristotle and often blend their doctrines without explaining how the two philosophies diverge and often without explicitly committing themselves clearly to the one or the other philosophical school. In the second part of my paper I will focus on the controversy itself and I will argue that the decisive arguments were not of a purely philosophical nature but were rather supported by historical and cultural factors, namely an appeal to antiquity, truth, and Christianity. I will discuss each of these and try to trace their origins to the ancient sources.
Mestrado em Educação: contribuição da formação continuada para docentes de Institutos Federais Brasileiros e da Demanda Social
Authors: Sampaio Marize Setubal , Souza Nádia Maria Pereira , Vita Gilmar Ferreira
Published: May 2022

O objetivo desta pesquisa foi caracterizar o perfil dos egressos da área de Educação e Gestão do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação Agrícola, da Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, docentes de Institutos Federais de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Brasil (IFECT) e da Demanda Social, e ratificar a contribuição do Programa na qualificação desses profissionais. Tratou-se de uma pesquisa aplicada, qualitativa e quantitativa, com levantamento de dados sobre os sujeitos participantes e aplicação de questionário. Os resultados demonstraram maioria do sexo feminino (62,75%), formados em Pedagogia (21,57%) e Letras (15,69%), idade na titulação entre 35 a 45 anos (49,02%) e provenientes da região Sudeste (47,06%). Verificou-se que, após a conclusão do mestrado, grande parte permaneceu na atividade docente (74,51%) na sua instituição de origem (78,43%). Ficou estabelecido ainda que o Programa tem contribuído para a qualificação dos docentes, seja em aprimoramento técnico científico, satisfação pessoal e/ou ascensão profissional, apontado por 98,04% dos informantes.
Olhares descoloniais na formação continuada de professores desde a América Latina
Authors: Silva Gilberto Ferreira da , Zawaski Tatiane Peres , Machado Juliana Aquino
Published: May 2022

Neste trabalho parte-se das seguintes questões: em que estágio se encontra a formação continuada de professores na região latino-americana? Onde se concentram as similaridades e diferenças entre as diferentes nações da região? Que sínteses são possíveis de realizar? Que horizontes operacionais emergem dessas perspectivas de formação? Para dar conta desse desafio recorre-se a produção do tipo estado da arte disponível, tomando por critério, estudos que contemplem o máximo de países latino-americanos. Na exploração e análise do material selecionado foi possível constatar, dentre outros aspectos, que a abundância e a diversidade de ações empreendidas no campo da formação continuada de professores são geralmente acompanhadas pela descontinuidade, dificultando ou até mesmo impossibilitando o acompanhamento dessas ações.  A falta de institucionalização das ações formativas, através de políticas públicas, agrava o quadro. A abertura dos meios acadêmicos para ações planejadas, contemplando e priorizando demandas originadas do chão da escola ainda permanecem sendo desafios a serem enfrentados.
“Vai que a universidade se Trans*Forma”: experiências e epistemologias trans*
Authors: Rocha Késia dos Anjos , Brito Ariel Matos , Dias Alfrancio Ferreira
Published: May 2022

O artigo apresenta alguns dos resultados e reflexões produzidos a partir da pesquisa Escrevivências Trans* como potência, desenvolvida na Universidade Federal de Sergipe (UFS) entre agosto de 2019 e julho de 2020. A partir de relatos e entrevistas com estudantes trans* do ensino superior da UFS, procuramos discutir uma epistemologia sobre ser trans* na universidade e sobre como essas existências contribuem para ressignificar a dinâmica espacial e relacional daquele espaço. Os saberes que advém da presença de pessoas trans* na universidade se apresentam como potentes estratégias de subversão da epistemologia binária que a compõe. A pesquisa adota uma metodologia qualitativa, que busca observar essas experiências sem a intenção de julgá-las, mas tomando forma de aprendizado com as diferenças. Embasamos nossas análises nos preceitos dos estudos de gênero, das teorias transfemistas e queer e procuramos apontar algumas das potencialidades das produções epistemológicas que emergem da presença desses sujeitEs, muitas vezes entendidEs como subalternEs, nas universidades e na sociedade. A ocupação das universidades pelas pessoas trans* nos oferece a oportunidade de avistarmos um cenário mais potente e, portanto, mais democrático.
Religious Convergence in Hittite Anatolia: The Case of Kizzuwatna
Authors: Gilan Amir
Published: May 2022

Hittite “religion” is often described as the dynamic product of a long-term trans- culturation process, as “Culture in the Making.” According to this view, Hittite “religion” seems to have integrated throughout its history a variety of elements—Hittite, Hattian, Lu- wian, Palaic, Hurrian, North Syrian, Kizzuwatnean, and Mesopotamian—producing each time a unique constellation. Perhaps the best-documented change in Hittite “religion” oc- curred with the rise of the New Hittite kingdom in the middle of the fifteenth century BCE. In this period, new religious traditions, mostly Hurrian-tinged, originating from Syria and especially from Kizzuwatna (classical Cilicia) were acquired. This flow of traditions has been extensively studied in recent years, both from religio-historical as well as redactional, textual, and archival perspectives. These studies provide an excellent vantage point to the study of religious convergence in Hittite Anatolia. This article reviews several pertinent ritual texts from the Kizzuwatna dossier and address some of the questions that originate from them, questions that explore the nature, degrees, and modes of religious convergence in Hittite Anatolia, as well as the nature of the rituals themselves.
Native Religious Traditions from a Lydian Perspective
Authors: Payne Annick
Published: May 2022

On the basis of some recent new references to divinities in the Lydian text corpus, this article reconsiders what inscriptions in the Lydian language contribute towards a re- construction of Lydian religion and how these findings are reflected in the archaeological record. While the size of the available text corpus necessitates gaps in the resulting picture, it can be shown that progress is possible with questions of detail, for instance, regarding the controversial deity Qλdãns, and that, for a long time, Lydia was a region of encounter and exchange of religious traditions, where, among others, Anatolian and Greek traditions met.
The Convergence of Guardian Statues in the Ancient World: Top-Down or Bottom-Up?
Authors: Faraone Christopher Athanasous
Published: May 2022

Sometimes when scholars discover similar iconographic types in both the domes- tic and the civic spheres, they tend to assume that the politically “lower” or less complex order is imitating the higher, and there are good parallels for this in other cultures, for example, the “democratization” of Pharaonic art and symbols by noblemen. In the Greek case, however, such arguments are often compromised by the fact that the “original” civic image is no longer extant and must be reconstructed from the domestic “imitations” or by the fact that the so-called imitations are so different from one another that it is impossible to imagine a single, authoritative model. Here I examine three cases of statues, which (I argue) were originally domestic guardians or talismans that at some point were copied in monumental form for use in the city: the rectilinear Athenian herm used as a threshold guardian, but said by the Greeks to have been invented by Hipparchus, the son of the ty- rant Peisistratus; the triple-bodied Hecate, also used as a threshold guardian, but said by Pausanias to have been invented by the sculptor Alcamenes for placement at the doorway of the Athenian Acropolis; and the so-called Praxiteleian Harpocrates, a standing figure of the god holding a cornucopia and other divine signa, that is said by some modern scholars to have been designed as a cult statue in Alexandria, Egypt. In each case I will show that the image originated as a popular form of amulet or talisman at the domestic level and was then imitated both upwards by the city, but also downwards by individuals, who in the late Hellenistic or Roman period begin to wear the image on their body for similar reasons.
The Tonaia and Samian Identity
Authors: Beck-Schachter Aaron
Published: May 2022

The Tonaia or “binding” on Samos has traditionally been interpreted as a pre- marriage ceremony (e.g., Varro ap. Lactant. Div. inst. 1.17.8) or, more recently, as a New Year’s ritual in which the normally chained cult image was set free. This article argues that a dichotomy between autochthonous and colonial narratives can recontextualize these theories. According to Menodotus of Samos (BNJ 541 F 1 ap. Ath. 15.672), the celebrants of the Tonaia bring the statue of Hera to the beach, purify her and then reenthrone her in her temple. This ritual is a reflection of the myth where Argive pirates attempted to steal the image of Hera (ἁρπάσαι τὸ βρέτας), and the superstitious, barbarian Karians could not trust that the goddess did not leave of her own free will (αὐτόματον) so they fastened her tight to a mat of willow shoots (πρός τι λύγου θωράκιον ἀπερείσασθαι). The performance of the Tonaia mediated the complex relationship between the belief in the autochthonous ori- gin of the Heraion, the Argive ancestry of the cult of Hera, and the inclusion of the Karian population from the Ionian coast. The removal, binding and final loosening and reconsecra- tion of her bretas represented the possibility of the goddess’ forcible theft or repatriation back to Argos, as well as the aition for the Karian’s marginal status in the festival.
Sargonic and Pre-Sargonic Cuneiform Texts in the Yale Babylonian Collection
Authors: Foster Benjamin R.
Published: May 2022

This volume publishes hand copies of 292 cuneiform texts in the Yale Babylonian Collection dating to the Sargonic and Pre-Sargonic periods. It continues publication of the Pre-Ur III texts begun by George Hackman and Ferris Stephens in the series Babylonian lnscriptions in the Collection of J. B. Nies, volume 8. The tablet copies presented here include accounts and records from Isin, Nippur, Shuruppak, Umma, Zabala, Girsu, Umma, Lagash, Eshnunna, and Kish, as well as the Mesag archive.
Plant bioactive compounds affecting biomarkers and final outcome of COVID-19
Authors: Gjorgieva Ackova , Maksimova Viktorija , Smilkov Katarina
Published: May 2022

Herbal medicinal products are known for their widespread use toward various viral infections and ease of disease symptoms. Therefore, the sudden appearance of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-related Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and COVID-19 disease was no exception. Bioactive compounds from natural plant origin could act on several disease levels: through essential immunological pathways, affecting COVID-19 biomarkers, or by halting or modulating SARS-CoV-2. In this paper, we review the recently published data regarding the use of plant bioactive compounds in the prevention/treatment of COVID-19. The mode of actions responsible for these effects is discussed, including the inhibition of attachment, penetration and release of the virus, actions affecting RNA, protein synthesis and viral proteases, as well as other mechanisms. The reviewed information suggests that plant bioactive compounds can be used alone or in combinations, but upcoming, extensive and global studies on several factors involved are needed to recognize indicative characteristics and various patterns of bioactive compounds use, related with an array of biomarkers connected to different elements of inflammatory and immune-related processes of COVID-19 disease.