bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
МОЛЕКУЛЯРНО-ГЕНЕТИЧНИЙ АНАЛІЗ СІРОЇ УКРАЇНСЬКОЇ ХУДОБИ ЗА ГЕНОМ БЕТА-КАЗЕЇНУ
Authors: Мохначова Н.Б.
Published: January 2024

У статті описані результати дослідження гену бета-казеїну в популяціях сірої української породи корів, який асоціюється з молочною продуктивністю. Найбільш поширеними варіантами β-казеїну у молочних порід великої рогатої худоби є А1 та А2. Варіант CSN2А1 викликає серйозні відхилення в організмі людини, а саме: ряд патологічних порушень в роботі кишечника, ішемічну хворобу серця, діабет, аутизм у дітей. Аналіз наукових публікацій свідчить про те, що ген бета-казеїну (CSN2) не вивчений у аборигенних порід великої рогатої худоби України, які є носіями специфічних генних комплексів та більшості рідкісних алелей. Нами були проведені молекулярно-генетичні дослідження поліморфізму за локусом гену бета-казеїну в популяціях аборигенної сірої української породи з основних репродукторів даної породи в Україні. Геномну ДНК, виділену із цільної крові 173 тварин, ампліфікували з використанням праймерів, які створені на основі послідовностей гену CSN2 великої рогатої худоби. Ампліфікований фрагмент CSN2 довжиною 121 п.н. обробляли рестриктазою DdeI. В досліджених популяціях були виявлені всі три генотипи: гомозиготні CSN2А1А1, CSN2А2А2 та гетерозиготний CSN2А1А2. Аналіз результатів показав, що у корів ДП ДГ "Маркеєво" переважають носії гетерозиготного генотипу CSN2А1А2 (94,2%), генотип CSN2А2А2 відсутній. Результати генотипування ДП "Поливанівка" виявили, що 20% тварин є носіями генотипу CSN2А2А2, які дають А2 бета-казеїнове молоко. Переважав генотип CSN2А1А2, що визначався у 53% корів. Загалом, досліджена порода демонструє досить високий рівень "бажаного" алелю А2 – 0,468, при розчепленні якого не виробляється β-казоформін 7.
ЩЕПЛЕННЯ ЯК ЕФЕКТИВНИЙ СПОСІБ РОЗМНОЖЕННЯ РОСЛИН GINKGO BILOBA L. РІЗНИХ СОРТІВ
Authors: Цибровська Н.В. , Грабовий В.М.
Published: January 2024

Метою дослідження було зʹясування оптимальних термінів та способів щеплення рослин різних сортів Ginkgo bi-loba L. в умовах відкритого та закритого ґрунту. Розмноження його сортів здійснювали, використовуючи наступні способи щеплення для хвойних: весняне (копулювання) – у приклад серцевиною живця на камбій підщепи, у приклад камбієм на камбій та у розщіп верхівкового пагона, а також літнє щеплення – окулірування у приклад. У порівнянні з іншими способами розмноження, щеплення має такі переваги, як збереження сортових ознак, прискорення початку плодоношення, посилення росту, регулювання розмірів (габітусу), підвищення стійкості щеплених рослин проти хвороб і шкідників, а також можливість поєднувати на одній рослині кілька прищеп, формуючи "дерево-сад". У разі весняного щеплення, у контрольованих умовах закритого ґрунту, зрощування прищепи з підщепою G. biloba відбувалося протягом трьох тижнів з початку закладання досліду, при літньому щепленні – навесні наступного року. Найефективнішим і простим у виконанні виявився спосіб щеплення у розщіп верхівкового пагона з приживлюваністю 95,2–96,8%. Результативність розмноження копулюванням у приклад серцевиною живця на камбій підщепи склала 87,6–89,6%, у приклад камбієм на камбій – 58,9–67,7%, при окуліруванні у приклад – 68,4%. Досліджено, що терміни щеплення сортів G. biloba не впливають на якість приживлення підщепи і прищепи. Для успішного щеплення сортів G. biloba потрібні контрольовані умови закритого ґрунту.
ІНВАЗІЙНІ ВИДИ ЯК ЗАГРОЗА ПРИРОДНОМУ ФІТОРІЗНОМАНІТТЮ РЕГІОНАЛЬНОГО ЛАНДШАФТНОГО ПАРКУ "ЯЛІВЩИНА" (ЧЕРНІГІВСЬКА ОБЛАСТЬ)
Authors: Свердлов В.О. , Карпенко Ю.О.
Published: January 2024

Наведено результати дослідження найбільш небезпечних для фіторізноманіття поліфункціональних обʹєктів природно-заповідного фонду поліської частини України видів адвентивної флори на території регіонального ландшафтного парку "Ялівщина", що налічує 42 види судинних рослин, які належать до 25 родин. Дані досліджень подані у формі короткого конспекту із трьох списків: Чорного (14), Сірого (22) та Тривожного (6). Списки укладено на основі викладених адаптованих критеріїв до складання Black, Grey, Watch (white, alarm, alert) Lists, таких як інвазійний статус, поширення, відомий або можливий вплив на біотоп. Стосовно кожного виду наведено інформацію про хроноелемент (група за часом занесення), походження, спосіб занесення, життєву форму, відношення до вологості ґрунту, уточнені типи загального ареалу, еколого-ценотичні відомості щодо трапляння на досліджуваній території. Встановлено, що всі досліджені види інвазійних рослин, які потрапили на територію регіонального ландшафтного парку "Ялівщина", є натуралізованими і перебувають у процесі розширення ареалу шляхом спонтанного поширення.
ВОДНО-БОЛОТНИЙ ОРНІТОКОМПЛЕКС СИВАСЬКОГО ПОДУ: ВИДОВЕ РІЗНОМАНІТТЯ ТА ЧИСЕЛЬНІСТЬ
Authors: Гавриленко В.С. , Старовойтова Т.В.
Published: January 2024

Сиваський під є одним із важливих центрів зосередження птахів водно-болотного комплексу у межиріччі Дніпро–Молочна. В результаті систематичних обстежень (2018–2021 рр.) двох його найбільш поширених водно-болотних біотопів – опріснених ставків з макрофітною рослинністю та мілководних евригалинних водойм з прилеглими територіями – виявлено на гніздуванні, літуванні, під час міграції та зимівлі 75 водно-болотних види, з яких підтверджено гніздування 25 видів. Всі види, які зустрічалися в цьому поді, занесені до національних і міжнародних охоронних списків, зокрема, до Червоної книги України – 21 вид. Найбільш численними серед звичайних видів є турухтан Philomachus pugnax, мартин середземноморський Larus melanocephalus, крячок чорнодзьобий Gelochelidon nilotica, крижень Anas platyrhynchos, з видів Червоної книги України – шилодзьобка (чоботар) Recurvirostra avosetta, ходулочник Himantopus himantopus, дерихвіст лучний Glareola pratincola, журавель сірий Grus grus. Із ряду Лелекоподібних Ciconiformes гніздиться 5 видів, серед яких косар Platalea leucorodia та коровайка Plegadis falcinellus – в списку видів Червоної книги України. Водні біотопи поду є важливим центром зосередження мисливської орнітофауни. Здійснюється полювання на пернату дичину, що впливає на її чисельність та характер перебування.
ЗАБЕЗПЕЧЕННЯ ІНФОРМАЦІЙНОЇ БЕЗПЕКИ В ЛОКАЛЬНИХ МЕРЕЖАХ ЗА ДОПОМОГОЮ КОНТРОЛЮ ТРАФІКУ
Authors: ГОЛУБЕНКО Олександр Іванович , ЛЕМЕШКО Андрій Вікторович , ЦВИК Олександр Сергійович , МІШКУР Юрій Валентинович
Published: January 2024

Розглянуто основи контролю трафіку й можливості збільшення потужності моніторингу мережі. Проаналізовано способи завдання шкоди мережі й створення інцидентів безпеки. Визначено основні аспекти безпеки, що повинні бути включені в моніторинг за мережею. Визначено, як контроль трафіку працює без додаткових сил моніторингу й основні можливості з новими технологіями. Був проведений аналіз основної мережі з використанням контролю трафіку й з вдосконаленням за допомогою додаткових засобів, що сприяло збільшенню можливостей моніторингу мережі й покращення контролю трафіку. Були розглянуті основні додаткові заходи, щодо використання адміністративних та технічні аспектів, що можливо використовувати в мережі задля безпеки. Розглянуто основні принципи контролю трафіку завдяки Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) й Network Behavior Analysis (NBA), завдяки чого з’являється можливість виявлення шкідливого програмного забезпечення (ПЗ) й аномалій в мережі. Проаналізований спосіб моніторингу мережі за допомогою Data Leak Prevention (DLP) й приведені основні привелегії його використання та недоліки. Проаналізовані також системи моніторингу логів Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) й Intrusion Detection System (IDS), завдяки яких є можливість аналізувати додатки й периметр мережі для виявлення загроз.
ДОСЛІДЖЕННЯ ЗАСТОСУВАННЯ ШТУЧНОГО ІНТЕЛЕКТУ У КІБЕРБЕЗПЕЦІ
Authors: ГОЛУБЕНКО Олександр Іванович , ЛЕМЕШКО Андрій Вікторович , ПОЛІЩУК Андрій Русланович , КУЗЬМЕНКО Максим Володимирович , ДЕГТЯРЬОВ Євген Олександрович
Published: January 2024

Схема штучного інтелекту на ринку кібербезпеки допомагає організаціям контролювати, виявляти, повідомляти про кіберзагрози та протидіяти їм, щоб зберегти конфіденційність інформації. Зростаюча обізнаність людей, прогрес в інформаційних технологіях, модернізація розвідувальних і поліцейських рішень для роботи, а також збільшення обсягу знань, зібраних з численних джерел, вимагають використання надійних і вдосконалених рішень кібербезпеки в усіх згаданих галузях. Збільшення інтенсивності та складності кібератак акцентує увагу на потребі розвитку кіберсистем, підтриманих штучним інтелектом. Ростуть численність та масштаб кіберінцидентів на глобальному рівні, що заставляє організації активізувати заходи захисту своєї інформації. Мотивація атак може бути різноманітною: від політичної конкуренції до крадіжки міжнародної інформації та радикальних ідеологічних мотивацій.
БЕЗПЕКА ІНФОРМАЦІЙНИХ СИСТЕМ ВАГОННОГО ГОСПОДАРСТВА
Authors: ДЕМЧЕНКО Юрій Валентинович
Published: January 2024

Стаття присвячена опрацюванню питань рівню забезпечення інформаційної безпеки вагоноремонтних підприємств, захисту систем зберігання і обробки комп'ютерних даних, при яких зберігається повна конфіденційність, доступність і цілісність всієї наявної інформації. Головною умовою нормальної роботи, повинні бути максимальні знання про всі структурні складові та критерії інформаційної безпеки комп'ютерних даних. Так з кожним наступним роком зростає нагальна роль інформаційної безпеки виробничих процесів, оскільки наше суспільство вступило в нову епоху інформаційних війн, де цінність первинної інформації має неспірній пріоритет. Хоча навіть проста інформація – це не тільки товар, а й значний інструмент для маніпуляції, порушення технологічних процесів, створенню конфліктів, отримання грошової винагороди. Існує нагальна потреба захисту від інформації людини, що тут розглядати ми не будимо, а розглянемо проблему захисту інформації від людини.  Отже, інформаційна безпека, це комплекс захищеності всієї інформації та зв’язаної з нею виробничої інфраструктури, від всіх, як випадкових так і навмисних дій, внаслідок чого проходить збій в самій наявній інформації, а також в інфраструктурі підтримки. Мета стороннього проникнення в комп'ютерні мережі підприємства ззовні має ціль нанесення шкоди або знищення якихось наявних даних, заволодіння конфіденційною інформацію з можливим її   використанням в противоправних цілях.
Sources of Motivation: Theorists and their Theories
Authors: N Saracho Olivia
Published: January 2024

Motivation describes the reasons individuals behave as they do. Motivation psychologists’ have studied the individuals’ behavior (e.g., ability, strength, persistence) as well as their cognitions and emotional responses that affect them. Some researchers periodically mistake motivation with learning. Many psychologists attempted to recognize the individuals’ instincts or natural frame of mind that guides their behavior. First Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and motivation theories, their theorists, and contributions are discussed. Next motivation theorists are compared. Then there is a discussion of contemporary approaches to motivation that in part have been based on the heritage of the outstanding theories that have are partially addressed. Finally, it closes with a reflection on the future of motivational research.
Axis Policies to Combat Downed Enemy Flyers
Authors: Hall Kevin T
Published: January 2024

Chapter 1 traces the development of Axis policies to combat downed flyers. As the war developed, Axis mistreatment of captured flyers intensified, reflecting the amplified brutality of combat, increased desire for revenge, and relaxed moral boundaries. The US retaliatory attack on Japan on April 18, 1942, commonly known as the Doolittle Raid, along with the Japanese response and the subsequent Allied bombing campaigns, which inflicted severe civilian losses, further induced the mistreatment of downed Allied airmen throughout the rest of the war in the Pacific and in Europe. Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy keenly monitored the mistreatment of the Doolittle Raiders as the air war intensified over Europe and the regime sought ways to combat Allied flyers. Both German and Italian officials supported publicly Japan’s methods and threatened similar treatment would occur in Europe.
War Crimes Narratives: Pacific and Southeast Asia
Authors: Hall Kevin T
Published: January 2024

The second chapter offers ten narratives of American flyers who fell victim to Axis violence in the Pacific and Southeast Asian Theaters. Using postwar trial testimonies by witnesses, perpetrators, and occasionally victims themselves, along with Missing Air Crew Reports (MACR) and Escape and Evasion reports, these accounts piece together the circumstances leading up to, during, and after an airman’s mistreatment. Further, these narratives include perpetrators’ explanations and justifications for their actions.
US Postwar Flyer Trials
Authors: Hall Kevin T
Published: January 2024

Chapter 4 provides a comparative quantitative analysis of the US postwar flyer trials held in Europe and the Pacific to assist in profiling the perpetrators held accountable for the violence committed against American airmen. The relatively extensive judicial sources include investigative files, witness, perpetrator, and occasionally victim statements, a large catalog of Axis documents, transcripts of court proceedings, autopsy reports, appeals for clemency, and justifications for verdicts. As the best-known collection of sources that document the violence committed against downed airmen, analyzing these postwar flyer trials provides an improved opportunity to comprehend the broader extent and parallels of Axis violence that traversed military campaigns and fronts during the global conflict. Further, the sources reveal the complex relationship among the air war, propaganda, the role of civilians, and state-sponsored terror during the radicalized conflict.
Conclusion
Authors: Hall Kevin T
Published: January 2024

Whether spontaneous or premeditated, the violence inflicted upon downed airmen represented an increasing response to the intense and devastating aerial attacks during the total war. The encounters between downed flyers and Axis citizens reveal that “ordinary” civilians played an increasingly strategic role in Axis violence. The mistreatment provided individuals with an unprecedented opportunity for personal retribution that simultaneously relieved the Axis regimes’ inability to deter the air war and combat Allied flyers. Japan’s response to the Doolittle Raid set a dangerous precedent in motion for the rest of the war and directly influenced Nazi Germany’s (and Fascist Italy’s) procedures for dealing with captured Allied airmen.
What It’s Like to Be a Blackened Body, And Why It’s Like That: A Preliminary Exploration
Authors: Coleman Desmond
Published: January 2024

This chapter focuses on recent Africana scholarship’s persistent reminder that Africana scholarly contributions resolutely pay attention to understanding the interconnectedness between identity and the body and delves into these spaces located within a historical, social, and religious process. The chapter argues that this sociogenic process is essential for understanding how exterior material-socio-historic conditions become the interiority of the black body/self, similar to that developed by Wynter, Fanon, and Vasquez. The exterior-interiority of black identity as a sociogenic process is a praxis and parasensory. Parasensory describes how even material artifacts and environment shape neurological and cognitive processes—an expansion of the meaning of embodied self, namely the transmuting process of blackening.
The Rhizome and/as the Tree of Life: The Relational Poetics of Wisdom and Decolonizing Biblical Studies
Authors: Rawson A. Paige
Published: January 2024

This chapter examines rhizomes and/as the Tree of Life as a creative analysis of the Genesis passage on the Tree of Life (Gen 2:9; 3:17, 22, 24) and Proverbs’s (Prov 3:18) view on wisdom. The chapter builds on the work of Edward Glissant and Dorothy Akoto-Abutiate to develop a biblical hermeneutic and theopoetics defined as Bibliorality. Bibliorality, as a hermeneutical trope, is developed as a form of biblical scripturalization. Wisdom as metaphorically embodied as the (Baobab) Tree of life, bespeaks of affect, relationality, and a vital reality that unifies humanity’s archipelagic states of existence. Wisdom through Glissant’s Creoleness is a relational and unfolding possibility for an identity that is affective, justice-seeking, diverse, and seeks to tear down old boundaries even as it builds new revolutionary ways of existence. Like most Africana, postcolonial, and critical thought, I explore several disciplinary and discursive boundaries, critique, and explore traditional scholarly parameters.
Solidarity by Sharing Power: An Inculturated Organic Storytelling of Jonah and Mami Wata
Authors: Adegbite ’Shola D.
Published: January 2024

This chapter reads and interprets the biblical story of Jonah in the context of an African worldview in which spirits are real and water is not an inanimate chemical component of the material world. The chapter offers a multi-method Africa-centric approach necessary to break western imperial hegemony present in scholarship and produce a reading that attends to the needs of Africans by taking the African worldviews seriously. Identifying the feminine character of the fish in Jonah’s story in the water, this chapter reads the biblical narrative in light of African/Africana epistemologies about Mami Wata. The chapter reads Jonah’s story as a Mami Wata story—a story at the intersection of power, seduction, gender identity, and survival. Most of all, the chapter affirms Africanness as one formerly suspected of being a Mami Wata.
Envisioning Africana Religions: Seeking a Distinctive Voice for the Study of Religions in Africa and the African Diaspora
Authors: Faraji Salim
Published: January 2024

This chapter theorizes and reflects on Africana religious studies as co-constitutive of four fundamental premises—a conceptual framework that prioritizes the epistemological, hermeneutical, and existential primacy of African Traditional Religions (ATRs) as the core cosmological framework for Africana religious traditions and practices. These include (1) the preeminence of African traditional religions (ATR) as the foundation for a trans-historical paradigm that presupposes an Africana history of religions, (2) the centrality and agency of Africana religious categories in the interpretative enterprise, (3) the ongoing dialogue with Africana religions and cultures as a source for addressing the existential realities that shape the mundane and metaphysical experiences of African-descended people and the global community, and (4) transgressive transdisciplinarity that encompasses various disciplinary approaches to the study of Africana religious expressions. The chapter distinguishes between Africana religions as “religion of the oppressed” in juxtaposition with African religions as “sovereign religion.” These parallel foci incorporate the transdisciplinary insights that the social sciences, humanities, environmental, physical, and biological sciences as well as the arena of foreign affairs, international studies, business, and security and strategic studies can provide.
Deification as Christification and Human Becoming
Authors: Kariatlis Philip
Published: January 2024

Contemporary Orthodox theology has developed two ways of conceptualizing theosis: one in terms of the essence-energies distinction and the other in terms of the hypostatic union. This essay incorporating the thought of Panayiotis Nellas builds on the hypostatic model to conceptualize theosis as a Christification. This Christocentric focus allows for an understanding of theosis that not only makes man divine but also fully human. This theotic anthropology also allows for a better integration of theosis with ecclesiology, sacramental theology, and ascetical spirituality, than an essence-energies model.
Theosis as Kenosis
Authors: Chau Carolyn
Published: January 2024

Even though participation in the divine life pervades the writings of Balthasar, especially his eschatology, the explicit use of divinization or deification rarely appears. However, this essay argues that Balthasar approaches theosis by means of Ignatian spirituality, as seen in his use of terms like indiferencia, but chiefly in his conception of mission. Utilizing the insights of Nicholas Healy, Balthasar’s understanding of theosis is best understood in terms of kenosis, particularly the kenotic nature of mission rooted in the sending of the Son of God into the world as an act of mission and kenosis. Theosis is from this perspective achieved by a self-emptying act of mission to the world to that which is “other.”
Martin Luther on Faith and Union with God
Authors: Stjerna Kirsi
Published: January 2024

Luther’s language and imagination concerning faith and its role in providing a theological ground for thinking about justification provides a promising point of connection with contemporary ecumenical conversations of theosis. Building off the theological work of Finnish Luther scholar Tuomo Mannermaa, this essay emphasizes an oft neglected aspect of Luther’s thought: that justification allows for a union with God and how justification opens up the possibility for “effective” change in the one justified, not merely imputation. Mannermaa argued that theosis was a compatible doctrine inherent in corollary terms found in Luther such as “indwelling” or “inhabitation,” which could also explain the kind of real change that a justifying faith makes possible.
Differentiation as Disfigurement
Authors: Watkins Michele E.
Published: January 2024

This essay aims to further George Florovksy’s project of neo-patristic synthesis from a womanist perspective in order to provide the necessary hermeneutic to expose and deconstruct modern Western notions of race, gender, and class, which have been used to conceptualize the difference among humanity as disfigurement. A number of patristic and womanist sources are leveraged as part of this womanist neo-patristic hermeneutic: Gregory of Nyssa’s Great Catechism, Dolores Williams, Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved, John Zizioulos, and Shawn Copeland. A womanist methodology makes possible a discourse on theosis that can counteract the disfigurement of the “other” by elevating the witness of marginalized voices.
The Ambiguous Meanings of Theosis in Modern and Postmodern Discourse
Authors: Prevot Andrew
Published: January 2024

Considering the early and Eastern Christian sources as well as those of medieval mystics, this essay attempts to address the ambiguity with which various modern and postmodern theologies have approached theosis. In particular modern and postmodern theologies tend to view theosis as a kind of knowledge that surpasses reason or a kind of subversive alternative way of knowing, respectively. These theologies also tend to view theosis from a contemplative perspective in mere psychological terms and from an active perspective in mere political terms. Even though some aspects of these approaches can be appreciated, this essay asks whether the modern and postmodern theological interpretations of theosis are complicit in many cultural maladies that afflict our contemporary societies, which these theologies claim to be trying to remedy.
Indigenous Cosmovisions and a Humanist Perspective on Materialism
Authors: Grim John
Published: January 2024

Materialism in these remarks focuses on entanglements of meaning and giving within a material realm that is spiritually charged. This sacred energy courses through all dimensions of Indigenous communities especially languages, governance, and practices that maintain relationships. “Entanglements” is presented as a way to talk about this differentiated and immanent religiosity inherently manifest in Indigenous lifeways. Materialism, in short, in Indigenous perspectives is a pervasive living wholeness that generates worlds of particular vital and powerful spirits. Cosmovisions are the stories that locate this living wholeness in the lifeways of the people and the powerful realms of spirits. Materialism, grounded in the lands and cosmovisions of Indigenous peoples, gives rise to Indigenous knowledge and traditional environmental knowledge. Materialism points toward Indigenous dispositions to view biodiversity and humans as sharing needs for kinship, cosmology, and food. Cosmopolitics arises when these relationships are threatened and Indigenous peoples bring their cosmovisions to protect those spiritual presences that give life to the people. Indigenous humanities emerge in the flow of cosmovisions through immanent religiosities made manifest in these forms of environmental activism.
Interreligious Approaches to Sustainability Without a Future: Two New Materialist Proposals for Religion and Ecology
Authors: Minister Kevin
Published: January 2024

This chapter draws on new materialisms to make two proposals for shifts in the field of religion and ecology. The first new materialist proposal calls for a reorientation of sustainability away from ways of being that offer hope in a future that preserves life as we know it and toward ways of being that feel out present modes of life that create space for desires foreclosed by the need for heteronormative, white supremacist, capitalist futures. The second new materialist proposal seeks a theoretical shift in the understanding of religiosity in the field of religion and ecology from a world religions model to an interreligious studies model that focuses on the interactive, intersectional, and interpersonal nature of religion. Together, these two proposals create an opening for religion and ecology to focus on the present refusals of heteronormative, white supremacist, capitalist futures as sites of religiosity that make space for feeling out sustainable ways of life.
Planetary Thinking, Agency, and Relationality: Religious Naturalism’s Plea
Authors: White Carol Wayne
Published: January 2024

This chapter features religious naturalism as a new materialist orientation offering insights into the ethical dimensions of planetary thinking. It introduces religious naturalism as a capacious, ecological worldview that re-assesses who we humans think we are in the grand scheme of things, shifting humans’ attention back to ourselves as relational, material processes inextricably connected to other life forms and material processes. With this conception of humanity, religious naturalism affirms inseparable ethical connections between humanity’s relationality with other natural processes on the planet and humans’ activities with each other. A key aim of the chapter is considering how contemporaries in the West might understand human-nature relations, conceptualize agency, and attempt to provide plausible responses to the challenges of climate change by advancing this specific view of humanity. Accordingly, using the concept of metaphysical perspectivism associated with religious naturalism, this essay contends that humans’ perspectives are included with and inflected by the perspectives of other existents in the universe. It also suggests that humans reside within an appreciable universe, positing human valuing as part of a vital sphere of agential activity throughout the biosphere. Finally, there is a brief discussion of the ethical import and type of hope offered by religious naturalism.
Gut Theology: The Peril and Promise of Political Affect
Authors: Bray Karen
Published: January 2024

The possibility of thinking planetarily requires much more than thinking alone; it also requires paying attention to the deep, pre-cognizant habits, feelings, desires, hopes and emotions that shape our embodied realities. In this essay, I argue that in our exuberance about affect, and new materialism, and planetarity, and relationality, we not forget or ignore the fact that affect, material entanglement, and planetary relationality are not simply salvific, or not merely the way out of this climate colonial mess. Rather, what such relational modes of knowing, or such attention to feeling should remind us is that relations and affects are pharmakon-like: they are curse and cure. Perhaps we need, then, to recognize the damage done in our attempt to heal in the face of traumas of Imperial truth-claims and modernist ideas of our fundamental autonomy and disentanglement from planetary relation. We might recognize the damage our very relationality produces. Or, as ecstatic naturalist Robert Corrington has put it, we should not forget that the web is also a killing machine.
Introduction: On the Subject of Ethnonationalism
Authors: Branciforte Joshua , McGlazer Ramsey
Published: January 2024

This introduction offers a brief outline of the contemporary radical right and situates the analyses pursued in the rest of the volume. We consider the competing keywords used to describe the broad socio-political trend that is the volume’s subject. The keyword “nativism” emphasizes the ubiquitous antipathy for outsiders and immigrants and an ideology of national belonging, while “populism” points to the right’s adoption of appeals to the masses often associated with the left and democracy. We use the somewhat less colloquial term “ethnonationalism” as a framing device for our collective inquiry in order to slow down the impulse to place contemporary developments too hastily within familiar categories. What is the “ethnos,” the “people,” envisioned by the radical right today? Where does this right continue the legacies of the fascism, and where has it evolved, modified, or simply rebranded itself to parry familiar critiques and reflexive social rejection? How, above all, does it invoke or create subjects that belong and others that must be excluded or annihilated? Noting the contributors’ debts to psychoanalysis as well as to theories of race and gender, the introduction explains how these questions and others are taken up in each of the volume’s twelve chapters.
The Alt-Right: From Libertarianism to Paleolibertarianism and Beyond
Authors: Cooper Melinda
Published: January 2024

There is by now broad consensus in the critical literature that neoliberalism and social conservatism have frequently coexisted in practice. Yet the alt-right fits none of the previously identified alliances: This is not the neoliberal neoconservatism of the Reagan and Bush years, nor the neoliberal communitarianism of the Third Way, nor even a form of neoliberal authoritarianism. Instead, the alt-right claims intellectual descent from economic libertarianism, on the one hand, and paleo- (as opposed to neo-) conservatism on the other. This paper traces the contours of this “paleolibertarian” alliance, first by following the volatile political trajectory of Murray Rothbard, the foremost philosopher of American libertarianism, and, second, by uncovering precedents in the longer history of the American far right. It will be argued that paleoconservatism makes for a uniquely powerful ally because it offers a workable response to libertarianism’s intrinsic contradictions.
Nationalisms By, Against, and Beyond the Indian State
Authors: Rao Rahul
Published: January 2024

This chapter studies recent responses to the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) passed in 2019. The CAA created a pathway for Indian citizenship for Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi, and Christian migrants from the Muslim-majority countries of Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh, while barring Muslims from this access to legal citizenship. The act’s passage prompted enormous and widespread protests, and Rao considers the redeployment of national symbols in this context. How were these symbols wrested from the Hindu Right, and what were the limits of this effort at reappropriation? Borrowing a phrase from David Lloyd, Rao calls these examples of “nationalism against the state,” arguing that they marshal the symbolic repertoire of nationalism to shame the state for its betrayal of the nation, with a view to repairing the disconnect between state and nation. But Rao also argues that these critical responses to the CAA betrayed a naïve Habermasian faith in the possibility of consensus on the rules of communicative reason. The Indian state’s response gave the lie to such persistent faith, pointing up the hard limits of even those nationalisms that oppose or seek to go beyond the state without at the same time going beyond the humanist discourses of liberal constitutionalism.
Authoritarian Neoliberalism and Neocolonial Subordination: Beyond the National Question (Argentina, 2015–19)
Authors: Catanzaro Gisela
Published: January 2024

This chapter considers the ideology of Mauricio Macri, president of Argentina from 2015 to 2019. The policies of Macri’s administration combined ruthlessly punitive measures at home with postures of ingratiation and subservience with respect to Euro-American “great powers.” Showing how Macri’s neocolonial policies take us beyond the national question and even the category of nationalism as such, Cantarzano complicates sweeping accounts of global ethnonationalism and describes a radical right government working in lockstep with key aspects of the neoliberal program. Macri’s willingness to suspend or subordinate national interests in peripheral countries, whose citizens are now asked to “know their place,” uncovers a dialectic of aggression and submission that, for Cantarzano, characterizes the current punitive phase of neoliberalism.
Introduction
Authors: Van Den Abbeele Georges
Published: January 2024

The relation between sense and singularity serves as a guiding thread to Nancy’s thought, although it is not a relation of conceptual opposites but rather a recurrent pairing and comparing that correlate to Nancy’s reliance on the category of “finitude” as fundamental to his thinking. The introduction places this problematic within the context of philosophy’s own finitude, its apocalyptic coming to an end, which as Nancy articulates, is never simply an end but the occasion for a renewal and redirecting of philosophical thinking, not the finality of an end but the ever-repeated gap or stoppage of an interruption. The interplay of sense and singularity is what underpins the interruptive value of philosophy as a poetics of finitude. The spill or swerve that defines the event of sense marks its own singularity even as sense in its fundamentally iterative structure of re-marking cannot help but efface the very singularity it would target. Thus, singularity is the apocalypse of sense itself, the revelation of its “end,” namely, the senselessness that is the limit of sense, what it inescapably fails to grasp. What sense does is to perform the singular but only as iteration, as the end of its revelation as no longer singular but indubitably multiple. The making or coming of sense thus constitutes the poetics of finitude, each time singular in the plural of its iteration, each time plural in the singularity of its (re)marking.
Elliptical Sense
Authors: Nancy Jean-Luc
Published: January 2024

In 1987 Nancy writes on Derrida for the first time. At first, he hesitates. After all, they are so close, and Derrida himself says that there is a violence in writing. Yet Nancy has often written in the space of that closeness, moving in an elliptical proximity. That is the ellipse of the title—a deformed circle tracking the lack of simple identity—and also the title of Derrida’s essay in “Voice and Phenomenon.” Elliptical sense, existence surpassing its sense, withdrawing and exceeding it—that’s what writing is.
The Judeo-Christian
Authors: Nancy Jean-Luc
Published: January 2024

What can the Judeo-Christian mean? Perhaps a sort of Christianity, perhaps a sort of Judaism, or perhaps it is a matter of the juxtaposition of opposites, the hyphen stretching across a void. In a reading of the Epistle of James, which address the relation of works and faith, love and freedom, Nancy leads us to a consideration of the figure of the “messiah in glory,” and faith—James’ central theme—emerges as a matter of inadequation, the inadequation in which existence exists. The hyphen is crucial, in the end, since it is what reminds us that all religion must take a distance from itself.
Derrida in Strasbourg
Authors: Nancy Jean-Luc
Published: January 2024

Between 1970 and 2001, Derrida visited Strasbourg on very many occasions at the invitation of Nancy, Lacoue-Labarthe, or Lucien Braun. He participated in various colloquia on philosophy and literature and dissertation defenses and once spoke at an event at the European Court of Human Rights on the death penalty. The city is a port and a bridge on the Rhine and not far from Freiburg. In the early 1970s there were opportunities to cross the river and visit Heidegger there, but Derrida somehow never got around to making that journey.
Parallel Differences: Deleuze and Derrida
Authors: Nancy Jean-Luc
Published: January 2024

Once, Nancy invited Deleuze and Derrida to participate in a philosophical event were each of them would respond to some questions he would pose. They both agreed, but there were delays and then it was too late. Here he contemplates their differences, not least the difference between Deleuze’s thought of differenciation and Derrida’s differance. For each of them, philosophizing meant leaving identity behind and entering into difference.
Book
Authors: Weinstock Jeffrey Andrew
Published: January 2024

This chapter focuses on written communications as privileged Gothic objects exerting uncanny agency. Considering Gothic “books” in relation to J. L. Austin’s concept of performative utterances, this chapter argues that, in one way or another, all written messages within Gothic narratives end up as performatives causing something to take place, and these “books” can be grouped into five sometimes overlapping categories of escalating agency starting with the recovered history or archive and then including four forms of what I call accursed books: the corrupting book, the grimoire, the portal, and the living book. What these forms of Gothic books have in common is that they literalize and amplify commonplace clichés and understandings of how written language functions, highlighting the unsettling aspects of these associations. The language we often use to describe the experience of reading already affords written language a kind of thing-power. Gothic narrative capitalizes on this and uses it to uncanny effect. In Gothic narrative, words can break your bones every bit as much as sticks and stones, and books can bite.
Introduction “Surprise Me”: Going inside the “Black Box” of Catholic Fiction
Authors: O'Connell Michael
Published: January 2024

The introduction opens by discussing the various narrative techniques that Catholic writers use to point their characters, and their readers, beyond the horizon of secularity, and toward an idea of transcendence. Catholic writers believe in the power of story to affect the reader, and this chapter, and the ones that follow, demonstrate this through close readings focused on the strategies that Catholic writers employ to shape their readers’ experience of the work. One central technique employed by many authors discussed in the book is narrative violence, and the introduction demonstrates this by looking at three works from American Catholic writers not discussed elsewhere in this book: Tobias Wolff’s “Bullet in the Brain,” Andre Dubus’s “A Father’s Story,” and Ron Hansen’s Mariette in Ecstasy. The introduction also includes chapter overviews for the rest of the book.
Phil Klay, Kirstin Valdez Quade, and the State of Contemporary Catholic Literature
Authors: O'Connell Michael
Published: January 2024

The epilogue focuses on the work of Phil Klay and Kirstin Valdez Quade, two representatives of a younger generation of Catholic writers that is continuing to develop and expand the dimensions of Catholic literature. In Klay’s fiction, violence is tied directly to the experiences of war and its aftermath. This section of the chapter focuses primarily on “Prayers in the Furnace,” which is about how individuals respond to violence, both that they themselves have perpetuated and that they have experienced. Quade’s fiction connects pervasive violence to systemic breakdowns in the social fabric, but also to the experience of faith itself, and she explores whether moments of violence really lead to insight and grace. We see this through close readings of her story “Christina the Astonishing (1150–1224),” the short story “The Five Wounds,” and the novel of the same name. Both Klay and Quade explore the nature of suffering and use their work to provoke their readers into a reflection on what it takes to actually change.
Introduction
Authors: Cousins Thomas
Published: January 2024

In the introduction, the key concepts that frame the ethnography are laid out, namely capacity, labor, repair, and amandla. Starting with a description of the working day, the introduction argues that enduring the demands of life around the timber plantations has less to do with the supply and circulation of calories and micronutrients than with a concern with one’s capacity to meet the demands of the day—that is, a capacity to navigate several distinct regimes, or arrangements, of life and its governance. “Capacity” is a central object of concern vital to the effort to endure, and to thrive, under conditions of extreme exploitation and fragmentation. It is the material of moral reflection, conduct, and evaluation, which Michel Foucault called “ethical substance.” The historical context of the nutrition intervention is described, as well as the participants and fieldwork activities.
The Game of Marriage
Authors: Cousins Thomas
Published: January 2024

Women who labor in the timber plantations play a game they call umshado wokudlala, which could be glossed in English as “game of marriage,” “play marriage,” or “playing-at-marrying.” An anthropological rendering of the term would suggest that it is a practice that celebrates affectionate relations among women by riffing on customary marriage practices. The chapter offers a description of the game and its various presuppositions in order to trace out the political and ethical implications of how umshado wokudlala conditions the work of repair. By naming and describing the elements of what laborers called a “game,” the chapter attends to the various texts, traditions, and trials that are indexed by the gestures and utterances of the participants as they bring kin terms and affections into new relations. It gives a history of anthropology’s invention of kinship and customary marriage in southern Africa, followed by an account of two ritual events, and a set of reflections by three participants. The chapter ends with an analysis of the implications of the forms of praxiographic critique that the game itself stages for how we think about endurance, work, and repair.
A Study Examining Gender Bias of Female Students in Group Activity Teams
Authors: Liu Yixin
Published: January 2024

Gender bias is a pervasive issue, and group activities that are commonly seen in schools, workplaces, and other environments may be a form in which gender bias is manifested and exacerbated. Therefore, understanding the existence and impact of gender bias in group activities is of great significance for promoting gender equality and justice. This study adopted a mixed-methods research design, integrating both questionnaire surveys and in-depth interviews, and explored whether female students feel gender bias in group activity teams, in order to further understand the specific manifestations of gender bias in group activity teams and the real experiences of female students. The study found that after group activities, the average scores of Hostile Sexism and Benevolent Sexism among female students increased, indicating that the activities may exacerbate gender bias and strengthen gender stereotypes. In-depth interviews further validated this finding and provided more specific examples. The interviewed female students reported that they experienced gender bias such as interruptions to their speaking and dismissal of their opinions, as well as stereotypical expectations of gender roles. To minimize gender bias, they suggested countermeasures such as grouping by gender and increasing gender equality education and training. These findings reveal the potential impact of group activities on gender bias and provide important references for improving activity design and promoting gender equality.
The Influences of Utilitarianism on Rawls Theory of Justice
Authors: Sun Ruanzhengqi
Published: January 2024

Concerning political philosophy during the second half of the 20th century, Rawls theory of justice stands out, particularly in its critique of utilitarianism. The currency of utilitarianism deeply influences the emergence of Rawls veil of ignorance and two principles of justice. Classical utilitarianism provides Rawls with a theoretical framework, informing him with the importance of predominant criteria to govern a society. While the fact remains that the impairment of individual rights, which is inherited in classical utilitarianism for maximizing the collective welfare, has long been denounced by liberals. To address this, Rawls introduces the social contract theory, arguing for the priority of the right over the good. Whereas the prevalent of average utilitarianism brought Rawls to notice with shortcomings among the traditional version of social contract. By applying the veil of ignorance as an approach of justification, Rawls refutes two premises of average utilitarianism, which are the law of insufficient reason and the analogous preferences of social members. This lays a foundation for his two principles of justice, the greatest equal liberty principle and the difference principle. Justice as fairness incorporates the merits of utilitarianism, providing liberalism with a constructive force, concurrently elucidating the defects of utilitarianism. Accordingly, Rawls argument effectively challenges utilitarianism, coupled with failings of utilitarians to deal persuasive counterattacks, as a consequence, bringing a shift of the dominant in political philosophy from utilitarianism towards liberalism.
Electrical stimulation of acupuncture points in the treatment of arterial hypertension
Authors: Готовский Михаил Юрьевич , Роик Роман Олегович
Published: January 2024

Цель. Проанализировать и обобщить публикации о применении электрической стимуляции точек акупунктуры при лечении артериальной гипертензии, оценить эффективность, безопасность и характеристики лечебного воздействия. Методы. Обзор публикаций в российских и зарубежных электронных библиотеках за период с 1990 по 2023 год с отбором оригинальных статей и результатов клинических исследований, опубликованных в рецензируемых журналах, по результатам применения электрической стимуляции точек акупунктуры при лечении артериальной гипертензии в рандомизированных условиях с контрольными группами. Результаты. Вошедшие в обзор исследования свидетельствуют о гипотензивном эффекте электрической стимуляции точек акупунктуры Заключение. Электрическая стимуляция точек акупунктуры может быть эффективным и безопасным средством лечения артериальной гипертензии. Дальнейшие запланированные исследования предоставят более подробную информацию.

Aim. To analyze and summarize publications on the use of electrical stimulation of acupuncture points in treatment of arterial hypertension, to evaluate the effectiveness, safety and characteristics of the therapeutic effect. Methods. Review of publications in Russian and foreign electronic libraries for the period from 1990 to 2023 with a selection of original articles and results of clinical studies published in peer-reviewed journals on the results of the use of electrical stimulation of acupuncture points in the treatment of arterial hypertension in randomized conditions with control groups. Results. The studies included in the review indicate the hypotensive effect of electrical stimulation of acupuncture points. Conclusion. Electrical stimulation of acupuncture points may be an effective and safe treatment for hypertension. Future planned studies will provide more detailed information.