bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Who is skeptical about scientific innovation? Examining worldview predictors of AI, nanotechnology and human genetic editing attitudes
Authors: Većkalov Bojana , van Stekelenburg Aart , van Harreveld Frenk , Rutjens Bastiaan T
Published: June 2023

This work examines worldview predictors of attitudes towards nanotechnology, human genetic editing (HGE) and artificial intelligence (AI). By simultaneously assessing the relative predictive value of various worldview variables in two Dutch samples (total N = 614), we obtained evidence for spirituality as a key predictor of skepticism across domains. Religiosity reliably predicted HGE skepticism only. Lower faith in science contributed to these relationships. Aversion to tampering with nature predicted skepticism across domains. These results speak to the importance of religiosity and spirituality for scientific innovation attitudes and emphasize the need for a detailed consideration of worldviews that shape these attitudes.
Evidence Against Sleep’s Preferential Consolidation of Declarative Memory Associated With Future Retrieval: a Batchelor Degree Dissertation
Authors: Sugita So
Published: June 2023

This study compared whether expectancy for a future retrieval results in memory improvements after sleep. Participants learned declarative memories (word pairs) which was tested before and after a 12-hour retention interval that included a nocturnal sleep or daytime wake. Manipulation of retrieval expectancy was carried out prior to the retention, once the encoding and the immediate baseline test was completed, in which half of the groups were informed of the delayed retest. Retest results showed superior performance among participants who underwent sleep than wakefulness; however, the awareness for the delayed retest did not influence this outcome. The findings challenge the supposed role of future relevance and the active consolidation hypotheses of sleep.
Stakes of Knowing the Truth: A Motivational Perspective on the Popularity of a Controversial Scientific Theory
Authors: Morisseau Tiffany , Origgi Gloria , Branch T.Y.
Published: June 2023

The aim of this article is to provide a different perspective on people's beliefs regarding controversial scientific information. We emphasize that, although people generally aim at getting a fair representation of reality, accuracy about scientific issues only matters to the extent that individuals perceive it as useful to achieve their own goals. This has important consequences in terms of how anti-science attitudes as well as epistemically questionable beliefs must be interpreted, which has consequences for addressing misinformation. We argue that most people who endorse scientific misinformation are not truly interested in its accuracy, and rather that plausibility at face value often suffices when it is meant to be used for social purposes only. We illustrate this view with the example of hydroxychloroquine, which was considered as potential treatment for Covid-19, and which has been the subject of much media hype and public concern, particularly in France.
Association between resting-state and task-related EEG and practice effect in young and older adults
Authors: Jahanian Najafabadi Amir , Küster Dennis , Putze Felix , Godde Ben
Published: June 2023

Abstract We examined whether resting-state and task-related oscillations differently predict the practice effect during virtual tool-use training in young (YA) and older (OA) adults. Thirty-seven YA (Mage: 23.64, SD: 7.07) and forty-one OA (Mage: 68.92, SD: 4.49) learned to control a virtual gripper to grasp a virtual object. The training was organized in two blocks (120 trials each). In one block, vibrotactile feedback was applied to the right hand's palm, thumb, and index fingers through a CyberTouch II glove when the tool touched the object. In the other block, participants only received visual feedback. The total practice effect was calculated per block as the relative gripper size at the end of the block compared to the starting gripper size. The latter has been changed adaptively by decreasing the width of the tool in a 3 down / 1 up staircase procedure. Resting-state EEG was collected before the first and second training block (pre-test) and task-related EEG was collected during first and second training blocks. Results revealed that higher relative beta power at rest predicts stronger practice effect in YA, while there is an inverse association between higher relative beta power at rest and lower practice effect in OA. In addition, higher task-related relative theta power in frontal and occipital regions and lower task-related relative alpha power in frontal and parietal regions predicted stronger practice effect in YA. We, therefore, conclude that the stronger practice effect during virtual tool-use training can be predicted by resting-state relative beta power, higher task-related relative theta power and lower task-related alpha across different regions in YA but not in OA.
Power quality monitoring and analysis of aerodrome supply system: A study in Gautam Buddha International Airport, Nepal
Authors: Neupane Bishnu Prasad
Published: June 2023

The power supply system may contain disturbances leading to variations in voltage and frequency from their nominal value, non-sinusoidal waveform injection, presence of negative and zero sequence components, etc. Power quality is a measure of characteristic disturbances present in the power supply which ensures the importance of quality of service and consumer requirements. Electrical equipment installed in an aerodrome is more sensitive and prone to disturbance present at the power supply end. This study provides results of a theoretical power flow study, power quality monitoring, quality analysis, and probable remedies for power quality issues in an aerodrome electrical supply system in Nepal. Power quality measurement for supply from the utility here, Nepal Electricity Authority, and internal power generations in Gautam Buddha International Airport (GBIA) Siddharthanagar, Rupandehi, Nepal is performed by using theoretical load flow approach and continuous monitoring using a power data analyzer. The scope and origin of various disturbances which may induce power quality issues are analyzed. It is observed that the power supply at GBIA has voltage fluctuations of about ±12% and total voltage harmonic distortion of 6.5% with the presence of negative and zero sequence components. A remedial solution for the power quality problem is proposed for future enhancement of the electrical supply system at GBIA.
Improving classroom thermal comfort of educational buildings: Case of Kantipur City College
Authors: Moktan Bilove , Uprety Sanjaya
Published: June 2023

Well-designed and thermally comfortable learning spaces contribute to better academic performance, enhanced concentration, and improved productivity of students. Thermal comfort is often one of the most overlooked design parameters while constructing educational buildings in Nepal. The Nepalese government has yet to develop design guidelines or regulations which ensures optimum indoor thermal comfort. Due to this, classrooms either lack insulation, have poor ventilation, or have overall poor thermal performance. This study illustrates how the use of passive design measures such as thermal mass, insulation, and glazing can help in improving the thermal comfort of students in such classrooms. Kantipur City College, an engineering college in Kathmandu was selected as a case study to evaluate the thermal environment of the classrooms. The field study also determined the existing comfort levels of students based on their thermal sensations and preferences. Design Builder Software was used to carry out the thermal simulation analysis and evaluate the impacts of passive design strategies when applied to the base classroom model. Field survey showed that the indoor temperatures were in the range of 27-32 °C, and students felt quite uncomfortable during the lesson hours. Results from simulation analysis revealed that providing insulation to the walls and ceilings, applying thermal mass, or changing the window glazing lowered temperatures by 2-4 °C. The study concluded that careful consideration of appropriate passive design measures can help to significantly lower indoor temperature during the summer and maintain thermal comfort in the classrooms.
Ethogram and Time Budgeting of Rhesus Monkey Macaca mulatta (Zimmermann, 1789) in Ramdhuni Forest, Nepal
Authors: Adhikari Ramchandra
Published: June 2023

Ethogram provides a list of behaviours a species exhibits together with explanations of each activity in the form of descriptive words and phrases. With the objective to explore the time budgeting of the major behaviours of rhesus monkey the study was conducted from September 2022 to February 2023 by following scan sampling method in Ramdhuni forest, Sunsari,Koshi province Nepal. A total of 750 events were recorded in field working time 300 hours. The time allocated was documented as for foraging (26.67%), locomotion (18.93%), inactive (30.26%), grooming (20.67%) and fighting (3.46%). There was not significant association in gender regarding with the activities (Chi square=0.97, degree of freedom= 4, at significance level 0.05 and tabulated value= 9.49). There was a close relation between the activities in morning and day time (r= 0.80906).  Likewise, there was a significant relation between time budgeting for activities with the place for activities (Chi square=78.74, degree of freedom= 20, significance level =0.05 Chi square tabulated= 31.41). Most of the activities were recorded on floor and roof of buildings and temples. There was not association between the allocated time for different activities with the change of season (Chi square= 0.9, degree of freedom=4, significance level= 0.05 and chi square tabulated=9.49). It can be recommended that to manage the monkey and reduce probable conflict between human and monkey, pilgrims should be restricted only in forest sides, not in temple premises to provide foods to monkeys.
Shattered Dream in Gopinath Mohanty’s Paraja
Authors: Yadav Prabhu Ray
Published: June 2023

This paper attempts to analyze an amazing picture of the tribal people as known Paraja in the third world countries. They live around the river and ponds of the dense forest. Through the acts of tyranny and atrocity, the moneylenders, exploit their illiteracy and human rights. The unity of Paraja illustrates poverty-ridden Sukru Jani, the protagonist of the novel, Paraja. It portrays the sense of loss and feeling of revenge grown in the tribal people at the end. Though poor and illiterate, he is a giant pillar against the social power system. The novel shows how the moneylender or governor harasses and compels the tribal community. The tribal people innocently fall in the coil of the village landlord agency of the government, because they are not skilled and knowledgeable. They are culturally deprived and exploited by the moneylender in the society.
Professionalism and faith
Authors: Brooke Petra
Published: June 2023

This article explores the role of faith in congregational social work. It investigates The Salvation Army (TSA), an international Christian church that provides social services in local communities. TSA’s congregational social work represents a specific case, in which spiritual values dictated by faith and social work principles are explicitly intertwined. In this article, a community of practice (CoP) perspective is used to analyse empirical data from a multiple-case study of TSA congregations. The article concludes that faith can be part of a professional ethos, by adding important values to a holistic understanding of social work
Pengembangan Chatbot Berbasis Web Menggunakan Model Addie
Authors: Adesfiana Zeny Novia , Astuti Indri , Enawaty Eny
Published: June 2023

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengembangkan media pembelajaran Chatbot berbasis web. Jenis penelitian ini adalah penelitian Research dan Development dengan menggunakan model ADDIE. Prosedur pengembangan Chatbot menggunakan model ADDIE yaitu tahap analisis, tahap desain, tahap pengembangan, dan tahap implementasi. Hasil dari pengembangan ini adalah Chatbot CANTIK (Chatbot Statistik). Dapat disimpulkan bahwa model ADDIE sangat efektif digunakan sebagai salah satu pengembangan Chatbot berbasis Web. Tahapan-tahapan ADDIE juga sangat sistematis sehingga dihasilkan produk yang siap digunakan.
Godło Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego. Dzieje symbolu na pieczęciach uczelni ze zbiorów Muzeum UW
Authors:   Museum of the University of Warsaw, Mordyński Krzysztof
Published: June 2023

This richly illustrated publication presents the history and symbolism of the emblem of the University of Warsaw. In the first part the author describes the circumstances of establishing the emblem in 1817, the ideological content expressed by the symbols considered at the time, the reasons for choosing the White Eagle as a key element of the emblem, its relations to the University seals and new signs of University identity existing after the abolition of the original emblem. The second part contains a study of an unrecognized sphragistic system of the University. The third part is a catalogue of seal matrices preserved in the University Museum.
El Ur-Quijote: nueva hipótesis
Authors: Murillo Luis Andrés
Published: June 2023

The new hypothesis is that the tale told by Ruy Pérez about himself and Zoraida in I, 39-41 is the most primitive version (Ur) of the ‘ore’ of Part I: the idealized picture of Ruy's relationship to Zoraida is the Ur relationship of Quijote-Dulcinea. In the tale Ruy is the aging captive stirred to action by the figure of the idealized Moorish girl. In the early phase of his evolution as a novelist, Cervantes traced, in the form of a tale (cuento), the improbable nexus between an exotic female and an impoverished hidalgo whose love for her is chaste. He subsequently subverted the relationship into the comical one (Quijote-Dulcinea-Aldonza Lorenso), and the inclusion of the tale in the scenes in the inn was his manner of confirming the connection.
Splitting the Difference: Dualisms in Persiles
Authors: Wilson Diana de Armas
Published: June 2023

Al Persiles se le ha llamado un “enigma” por la misteriosa “escisión” en el texto. Este ensayo examina esta “escisión” como productora de significación. Estructurado como un gigantesco dualismo, el Persiles ejemplifica la producción de sentido mediante oposiciones binarias, muchas veces consideradas como “sutilezas” escolásticas en el Renacimiento. La temática de escisión a lo largo de la narración fortifica este notable juego de diferencia, sexual y de otro signo, en el último “romance” de Cervantes.
The Persistence of Cervantine Romance in Nicholas Wright’s The Custom of the Country
Authors: Colahan Clark A. , Weller Celia E.
Published: June 2023

En el drama The Custom of the Country (estrenado en Londres en 1983) por el conocido dramaturgo de origen sudafricano Nicholas Wright, se encuentran elementos estructurales y temáticos derivados no solamente del drama del mismo nombre por Fletcher y Massinger (1620), el que se basa directamente en Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda, sino ecos inconfundibles del romance cervantino. Aún más que el título y su clara relación con el episodio cervantino de Transila, los elementos del exotismo del lugar (Zimbabwe y Sudáfrica), la barbarie (siendo los europeos imperialistas los bárbaros), personajes femeninos fuertes e independientes, y un final centrado en un casamiento esperanzado ligan este drama con los rasgos mitológicos y valores sociales del romance.
Persiles and the Remaking of Spanish Culture
Authors: Mariscal George
Published: June 2023

La presencia de “nuevos grupos” de seres humanos, producto del encuentro entre Europa y América, problematizó el concepto del cuerpo social de “España.” Frente a la situación cambiante, ¿cómo poder mantener una cultura tradicional basada en las ideologías de la sangre y el estatus? Efectivamente, la idea de “lo español” tuvo que ser reimaginada, y el discurso literario desempeñó un papel importante en el desarrollo de este proyecto. El Persiles hay que entenderlo como otro texto cultural implicado en una red compleja de textos que producían la “nueva comunidad.” El personaje de Antonio hijo demuestra uno de los procesos por el cual los grupos marginados se incorporan a la nación transformada.
Diálogo y poder en la liberación de los galeotes
Authors: Martín José F.
Published: June 2023

The power struggle among Don Quixote, the galley slaves, and their guards lends itself to interpretation as a Bakhtinian dynamic wherein the plurality of opposed discourses overpowers the monoglossia which authority figures attempt to impose. Using strategies such as the appropriation of another's discourse, hybridization, and polyglossia, the characters subvert, first, the official discourse, and then that of Don Quixote. This process is carried out with the complicity of the narrator, who inverts the traditional social hierarchy by privileging the marginal over the central. In this episode Cervantes demolishes monoglossic discourse without, however, providing a substitute; the heteroglossia of discourses in constant struggle is his only alternative to discursive hierarchy and authoritarianism.
The Cervantine Subtext in Góngora’s Las firmezas de Isabela
Authors: Quintero María Cristina
Published: June 2023

Este ensayo establece algunos puntos de contacto entre la famosa novela intercalada de Cervantes, El curioso impertinente, y la obra dramática de Luis de Góngora. La comedia gongorina de Las firmezas de Isabela (1610) anuncia claramente sus deudas temáticas y artisticas con la novela de Cervantes. Representa, en efecto, una dramatización, una variación cómica de las situaciones presentadas en El curioso impertinente. Ambas obras examinan los problemas del honor, los celos y especialmente, el problema de la curiositas. Mientras que en Cervantes la crisis entre fe y curiosidad desemboca en un final trágico. Góngora nos proporciona una versión lúdica, polifónica cuya ambigüedad no deja de explorar las connotaciones graves de la curiosidad impertinente y la confianza desmesurada en la experiencia. A la vez, Góngora desarrolla la técnica cervantina de enfatizar “la ficción de la ficción” para hacer a sus lectores conscientes del artificio implícito en toda producción artística.
Public Indiscretion and Courtly Diversion: the Burlesque Letters in Don Quijote II
Authors: Martín Adrienne Laskier
Published: June 2023

La carta bufonesca es una modalidad literaria que alcanza su auge en la epoca áurea. Con sus así llamadas “epístolas familiares,” los bufones oficiales y extraoficiales residentes en las cortes renacentistas sentaron las bases de este festivo recodo de la literatura lúdica. En la segunda parte de Don Quijote, Cervantes se apodera de este subgénero epistolar con el carteo mantenido entre Sancho, Teresa Panza, y la duquesa. Aparte de dibujarnos el matrimonio Panza en plena domesticidad, estas cartas proporcionan una serie de “nuevas de corte” aldeanas que sirven, entre otras cosas, para desinflar la pompa de los duques. Mi ensayo examina las cartas del Quijote de 1615 bajo la luz de esta tradición para esclarecer un aspecto del humor cervantino desplegado en la novela, y para explorar también la estrecha vinculación ideológico —literaria entre Cervantes y la bufonesca— la literatura de puro entretenimiento y de risa.
“El sagaz perturbador del género humano”: Brujas, perros embrujados y otras demonomanías cervantinas.
Authors: Molho Mauricio
Published: June 2023

This paper analyzes various demonomaniacal manifestations in Cervantes’ work: What is the role of the devil? Does Cervantes’ devil belong to the philosophico-religious apparatus of Christianity? What is the nature of his sagacity? How does he operate when he doesn't delegate his powers to witches or warlocks?
Auristela hechizada: Un caso de maleficia en el Persiles.
Authors: Casado Antonio Cruz
Published: June 2023

Cervantes’ fondness for the subject of sorcery is manifest not only in the well known Coloquio de los perros but also in many other areas of his work, among which Persiles y Sigismunda particularly stands out. In the concluding chapters of that novel the heroine is bewitched by means of a malignant spell cast by a Jewess who resides in Rome. The episode is a sort of tour de force which culminates a series of difficulties the lovers Periandro and Auristela have had to undergo. We shall point out an interesting parallel with a similar situation in La española inglesa, as well as some classical antecedents from the Greek narrative of adventures.
Posesión demoníaca, locura y exorcismo en el Quijote
Authors: Hasbrouck Michael D.
Published: June 2023

Critics have proposed various explanations of Don Quixote's madness, such as an excess of melancholy or of choler. I argue in this paper that demoniacal possession is another possibility. In Don Quixote the protagonist's behavior often suggests possession by the devil; in fact other characters often confuse Don Quixote with the devil. I interpret an episode in II, 62 in which Don Quixote exclaims: “Fugite, partes adversae!” as a sort of exorcism; and I also examine the similarities between Don Quixote's trampling by swine (II, 68) and the most famous exorcism in the Bible.
A Poet’s Vanity: Thoughts on the Friendly Ethos of Cervantine Satire
Authors: Close Anthony
Published: June 2023

En este artículo me ocupo de la auto-imagen amistosa proyectada por Cervantes a través de sus textos reflexivos, mayormente los prólogos y el Viaje del Parnaso, considerándola como una estrategia retórica empleada para suavizar el impacto de la sátira literaria. En particular, me centro en los motivos psicológicos de la agresividad polémica que preside la primera parte del Quijote, y que se deriva fundamentalmente del rechazo a las composiciones dramáticas de Cervantes que éste padece al volver a su ‘antigua ociosidad’ (poco antes de 1600). Este revés provocaría el conocido y sólo aparente complejo de inferioridad que Cervantes ostenta con respecto a sus dotes poéticas, y, unido a su sed de fama después de años de anonimato literario, desencadenaría el rencor derramado sobre libros de caballerías, Lope de Vega y su escuela, autores de comedias, y demás obstáculos a su ambición y vanidad frustradas. En los textos reflexivos que siguen al triunfo de 1605, Cervantes recapacita la epopeya de sus amarguras, reveses y logros en una actitud de irónica serenidad, en que van entremezclados el orgullo, la auto-crítica, y una nueva benignidad para con sus rivales literarios. El Viaje del Parnaso es fruto de este examen de conciencia.
El arte de la conversación en el Quijote
Authors: Rodríguez Alberto
Published: June 2023

The art of conversation is a form of dialogue found frequently in the Renaissance, which presents a polite, well-mannered, and elegant interaction between two speakers. To this courtesy and social refinement Cervantes adds a new element, the “subdialogue,” which is an interior level in the conversation that includes the thoughts and reflections of the speakers. We can find the subdialogue in the festive symposium, which presents a discussion of love and friendship in a courteous and well protected environment. At one point in the conversation a character conceives a plan to manipulate Don Quixote and Sancho, or perhaps a character reflects quietly on the foolish beliefs of Don Quixote. The second type of conversation is the asymmetrical dialogue: an interlocutor speaks abundantly while the other listens politely to everything that is being said. By limiting his participation, the listener expresses his courtesy, while at the same time he can sit back to consider and reflect on the ideas of the speaker. In Cervantes’ dialogue the thoughts of characters are as important as the elegant gestures and polite manners.
Periandro/Persiles: Las raíces clásicas del personaje y la aportación de Cervantes
Authors: Casado Antonio Cruz
Published: June 2023

When he set out to compete with the classic Heliodorus in writing Persiles y Sigismunda, Cervantes used as his point of departure the narrative scheme of the old Greek novel, which had been popular in humanistic circles since the mid-sixteenth century. The traits of Cervantes’ character do not merely reproduce those of the protagonist of the Greek/Byzantine narrative, but introduce some aspects that were latent in the ancient hero. Though not a completely original creation, Periando embodies specifically Cervantine characteristics, while at the same time he is transformed into the appropriate hero for the Counter-Reformation.
“Aristotle in Africa: History, Fiction, and Truth in El gallardo español”
Authors: Gerli E. Michael
Published: June 2023

El gallardo español es una comedia temprana que hace eco de los preceptos neoaristotélicos al declarar que su propósito es el de “mezclar verdades con fabulosos inventos.” A la vez que Cervantes inscribe la preceptiva neoaristotélica, sin embargo, la somete a un detenido examen crítico que expone su misma artificiosidad. Al situar la comedia dentro de un contexto histórico reciente que incorpora elementos transparentemente ficticios, elabora un sutil juego entre la verdad y la mentira en que, al textualizarse, la una no llega a distinguirse de la otra. A través de intervenciones intencionadamente narrativas en el texto dramático, rompe la ilusión de la verosimilitud de lo dramatizado y llama la atención a la artificiosidad de lo representado. El gallardo, como tanta otra obra cervantina, interroga y somete a juicio los mismos preceptos críticos que constituyen las bases de la teoría de su composición.
La gran sultana: Transformations in Secret Speech
Authors: Lottman Maryrica Ortiz
Published: June 2023

El lenguaje de La gran sultana se enreda con juegos de palabras, soliloquios, rompecabezas, oxímorones, y oraciones íntimas. Mientras se desenlaza la trama, también se revela la verdadera identidad de Madrigal, el esclavo soberbio. Tan chistoso, sorprendente, cruel, y creador como cualquier pícaro, Madrigal cambia de opinión cada dos por tres, y cambia de trabajo igual de rápido. Procuro demostrar que sus poderes creadores y transformativos sobresalen en su habla rica y excéntrica, y que sus palabras secretas o “codificadas” se derivan de sus múltiples oficios. Madrigal se metamorfosea de “cocinero” desgraciado en sastre poco hábil, intérprete confuso, maestro disparatado, y sacerdote falso. Este fanfarrón nos miente al decir que enseña a hablar a un elefante, pero a la vez nos avisa que sí conoce los motivos más profundos del dramaturgo.
Revisión del Cautiverio Cervantino en Argel
Authors: Sánchez Alberto
Published: June 2023

After a critical overview of recent biographies of Cervantes, this article focuses on scholarship concerning the crucially important five years Cervantes spent as a captive in Algiers, examining such controversial issues as: Was Cervantes a converso? Was he a homosexual? Why did Cervantes's master Hasan Pasha spare his life after he attempted to escape? To what extent was Cervantes influenced by Muslim culture?
Recovering the Hetairae: Prostitution in Don Quijote I
Authors: Nadeau Carolyn A.
Published: June 2023

Enfocándose en las mujeres que buscan un matrimonio armonioso —Luscinda, Zoraida, y Dorotea— este ensayo analiza la relación entre las instituciones de la prostitución y el matrimonio; el valor social de la castidad; y el discurso femenino público en la obra El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha. Propongo una recuperación de la figura hetaira, usando el concepto renacentista de la imitación y aplicándola al prólogo de dicha obra, en el cual el supuesto amigo sugiere que se cite a Antonio de Guevara en cuanto al tratamiento de las “mujeres rameras.” El trabajo pone a la luz la manera en que Guevara reescribe las características de esta figura clásica tanto como el modo en que Cervantes las refigura en nuevos contextos y con nuevos propósitos.
The Paper Key: Money as Text in Cervantes's El celoso extremeño and José de Camerino's El picaro amante.
Authors: Armon Shifra
Published: June 2023

Según esta lectura contrastiva de El celoso extremeño de Miguel de Cervantes y El pícaro amante de José de Camerino, el encerramiento de la jovencita Leonor de El celoso corresponde con un modelo económico medieval del acaparamiento de la riqueza: Carrizales “ingresa” a su esposa como un tesoro en la “cajafuerte” de su mansión. Una década después de la publicación de las Novelas ejemplares, José de Camerino contrasta las consecuencias trágicas de este paradigma económico anticuado con el matrimonio exitoso maquinado por su “pícaro amante” con la inocente Leonor. El pícaro Armíndez desencadena una serie de estratagemas de cortejo basada en la utilidad del tiempo y la valorización del crédito, cuyos resultados favorables, yuxtapuestos con el desenlace infeliz de El celoso, ponen de manifiesto la necesidad urgente de reforma económica en la España de los Austrias.
La admiración en el Quijote y el enigma del paje soldado (DQ II, 24)
Authors: Jaime Fernández S. J.
Published: June 2023

Don Quixote's fleeting encounter with the soldier-page after his dream vision in the Cave of Montesinos seems slightly enigmatic. Contrary to what could be called the rule of either astonishment (admiración) or laughter in Don Quixote, the page is neither surprised by the knight nor does he laugh at him. The young character's traits, and Don Quixote's attitude toward him, suggest that he is an anomalous character, not novelesque but real. The page thus appears to be a memory, reflection, or image of the author in his youth. The young man's indifference to Don Quixote is only logical, because he doesn't yet have the author's, or the character's, treasury of lived experience.
Cervantes De / Re-Constructs the Picaresque
Authors: Dunn Peter N.
Published: June 2023

Entre Cervantes y la picaresca se sigue suponiendo una antipatía tanto encarnada en la figura de Ginés de Pasamonte como proyectada a través de sus propias novelas, La ilustre fregona, Rinconete, y el Coloquio. Esta hostilidad se precisa valiéndose de la imagen de un género picaresco monolítico pero reductible, en el último análisis, al Guzmán de Alfarache. Este ensayo sugiere 1) que para el año 1610 ‘la novela picaresca’ es un grupo exiguo de obras cuyas diferencias revelan todo menos un programa literario en común; y 2) que resulta más productivo preguntarnos en qué medida Cervantes ha recombinado estructuras, motivos y otros elementos ‘picarescos,’ y a qué efecto. Si leemos sus obras sin presuponer una tensión antipicaresca, descubrimos las variaciones más audaces sobre estos materiales.
El vestido en Don Quijote: espejo o espejismo de una sociedad
Authors: Azcue Verónica
Published: June 2023

Cervantes’ novel incorporates conventions and stereotypes used in comedy and farce, thereby reproducing their concept of decorum. In this way, clothing, though influenced by satirical and symbolic tendencies, is used mainly as a stable instrument of social classification. The frequent use of costumes in the novel is a destabilizing factor, yet one still limited by certain conventions common to Golden Age dramatic genres. The second part of the paper focuses on the presence in Don Quixote of an important theory of clothing, which transcends the use and meaning of clothing in comedy and farce. Through the ethical and intellectual development of the main characters, the novel reveals the non-correspondence between outward appearance and individual worth as determined by social class.
Auctoritas y experiencia en “El curioso impertinente”
Authors: Fernández David Arbesú
Published: June 2023

This article offers a new interpretation of “El curioso impertinente,” examining the discussion of Anselmo and Lotario as a medieval “debate” in dialogue form. Taking into consideration the key concept of curiositas, the article analyzes how this notion unfolds into yet another medieval literary topos: the opposition of knowledge obtained from the auctoritas of the classics (represented here by Lotario) to that derived from experience (Anselmo). The analysis of “El curioso” from this perspective reveals closer connections between it and the plot of Part I of Don Quijote, as well as the work's theme of “knowledge.” The article thus provides further support for the “pertinence” of this “impertinent” story.
La Señora Peregrina as Mediatrix in “La ilustre fregona”
Authors: Lee Christina H.
Published: June 2023

Este estudio focaliza la lectura de “La ilustra fregona” en el personaje de la madre de Costanza, referida en la historia como “La Señora Peregrina” (secularización de la advocación de “Nuestra Señora Peregrina”). Es ella la que moviliza los eventos más significativos que llevan a la redención y reestabilización de la familia Carriazo. Es ella la verdadera heroína de la novela, y no su hija Costanza. El rol de Costanza (hasta el desenlace) es más bien metonímico, ya que encarna alegóricamente la figura de su madre, a la par de imágenes sagradas de altares marianos que simbólicamente representan a la madre de Jesucristo, a la mediatriz.
Galeotto fu ‘l libro: Don Quixote, Amadis, and The Tempest
Authors: Armas Frederick de
Published: June 2023

Este artículo presenta al Amadís de Gaula como "galeotto," es decir, como libro intermediario que establece una estrecha relación entre Cervantes y Shakespeare. Se sugiere que Cervantes, al igual que Shakespeare, utiliza, entre otros elementos, las ínsulas del libro de caballerías para forjar sitios de maravilla. En la primera parte del Quijote, aparecen, a través de extrañas transformaciones, al menos dos de las islas del Amadís: Peña Pobre e Ínsula Firme, esta última transformada en el reino de Micomicona y en los archipiélagos de Sao Tomé y Principe. En The Tempest, la historia de la Ínsula Firme sirve de base para la trama de la obra, sitio desconocido a donde Próspero (nuevo Apolidón), llega desterrado.
Of Rodajas, Redomas, Ruedas, Vitro, Vitriolo, V.I.T.R.I.O.L., Vidriera: The Occult Symbolism of the Title Character Names in “El licenciado Vidriera.”
Authors: Stoops Rosa María
Published: June 2023

En el prólogo de la colección de historias cortas publicado en 1613 con el título Novelas ejemplares, Miguel de Cervantes reconoce haber incorporado misterios escondidos entre líneas, sin identificar la naturaleza de estos misterios. Lo que Cervantes no confiesa de manera explícita es que la colección contiene una gran abundancia de referencias y alegorías alquímicas y que la trama de cada una de las trece historias ilustra diferentes aspectos del proceso alquímico de transformación espiritual, según la concepción renacentista. En el caso específico de "El licenciado Vidriera," los diferentes nombres otorgados al personaje principal, así como la secuencia específica de los acontecimientos de la historia, señalan un proceso de transformación representado por la máxima alquímica Visita Interiora Terra Rectificando Invenies Lapidem (Visita el interior de la tierra y rectificando descubrirás la piedra oculta).
La risa en el Quijote y la risa de don Quijote
Authors: Trueblood Alan S.
Published: June 2023

The focus is on those instances in Don Quijote in which Cervantes' comic outlook crystallizes in the form of laughter. Burlesque laughter, however raucous, sometimes serves to foreground laughter of more spontaneous effect, provoked by the unexpected. Laughter interacts with various non-laughable moods and states of mind. Laughter may be expressive of sheer happiness and high spirits. The laughter most characteristic of Cervantes communicates human warmth and understanding. Observable primarily in Don Quixote, it helps to delineate his feeling for Sancho. To his dying day, Cervantes sees himself as the “joyous writer,” taking seriously the implications of that calling. He knows the therapeutic value of laughter, the importance of the relaxation playfulness provides. The recent tendency to see his comic intentions primarily in terms of the burlesque and the satirical overlooks the ludic limits which Cervantes places about the comic in a serious world. It fails to consider the more subtle and benevolent strains of humor in the Quixote, increasingly evident as the work progesses.
Tragic Reparation in Cervantes’ El celoso extremeño
Authors: Weber Alison
Published: June 2023

Se emplea una orientación psicoanalítica para examinar el sentimiento de culpa en “El celoso extremeño.” Los celos del protagonista se interpretan no sólo como manifestación de un deseo triangular, sino a modo de máscara defensiva ante el deseo y agresividad primitivos. El cambio de dirección genérica (de la comedia a la tragedia) señala la iniciación de un proceso de reparación, o de resarcimiento de culpa. Debido a esto, Carrizales logra sostener tal sentimiento de culpa, y abandonar así sus defensas de adquisición obsesiva, y de proyección. A pesar de indicar un paso hacia la salud, la reparación es trágica y parcial; tardía y frustrada, dada la carencia de una confianza básica.
Cervantes v. McCarthy: Manuel Altolaguirre’s Critique of Anglo-American Modernity in Las maravillas
Authors: Patterson Charles
Published: June 2023

Las maravillas (1958) de Manuel Altolaguirre es un guión cinematográfico basado en El retablo de las maravillas de Cervantes y "El traje nuevo del emperador" de Hans Christian Andersen. Altolaguirre era un republicano español exiliado en México, donde desarrolló una perspectiva en que la cultura hispánica, simbolizada por Cervantes, contrastaba con la cultura anglosajona, caracterizada por el consumismo y la paranoia anticomunista. Este artículo sitúa a Las maravillas en este contexto y plantea que la obra, al alegorizar el macartismo que dominaba la política estadounidense del momento, intenta demostrar la superioridad humanística de la cultura hispánica sobre la anglosajona.
The Wormhole of Montesinos: Don Quixote’s Cave Adventure as a Tale of Science Fact and Fiction
Authors: Gordon Michael Ross
Published: June 2023

El episodio de la Cueva de Montesinos ha generado un debate crítico lleno de explicaciones de amplio espectro que ha tocado casi cada campo del conocimiento. No obstante, ningún estudio hasta ahora ha analizado esta aventura desde un prisma científico, lo cual tiene sentido si tenemos en cuenta que, a lo largo de la segunda parte, don Quijote demuestra ser un filósofo natural de la Revolución Científica. Es más, se puede explicar la discrepancia temporal que se experimenta en la Cueva de Montesinos por un teórico fenómeno astrofísico. En dos palabras, don Quijote pasa por un agujero de gusano, lo cual convierte ese episodio en una aventura caballeresca simultáneamente científica y de ciencia ficción.
Ring Around the Hermeneutic Circle
Authors: Dudley Edward
Published: June 2023

En el capítulo XX del Quijote (1605) Don Quijote y Sancho procuran interpretar el significado de un sonido desconocido. Utilizando la metodología que Wilhelm Dilthey desarrolla acerca del problema del círculo hermenéutico es posible analizar la forma en que Don Quijote y Sancho fracasan en sus intentos. El texto de Cervantes demuestra que el error radica en la confusión de los géneros. Don Quijote cree que el ruido es anticipo de alguna aventura caballeresca, mientras que Sancho lo entiende como un rasgo de un cuento folklórico. Cuando Cide Hamete revela que el ruido es producido por unos mazos de batán, ambos, caballero y escudero, deben reconocer su confusión.

Por otra parte, Cide Hamete al mismo tiempo que aclara la causa del ruido, abre la posibilidad de cuestionar su propio sistema narrativo. Todo esto subvierte el círculo hermenéutico que Cide Hamete trata de cerrar al final de la novela.
The Italian Origins of the Episode of Don Quijote and Maritornes
Authors: McGrady Donald
Published: June 2023

Los estudiosos están de acuerdo en que Cervantes no tomó ningún episodio importante del Quijote de los novellieri italianos. Esto no se debe a una falta de afición de Cervantes a la Novella, sino a que utilizaba sus fuentes de una manera muy difícil de descubrir. Mientras que la mayoría de los escritores tomaban prestados fragmentos bastante extensos de sus modelos, Cervantes echaba mano de porciones más pequeñas; además, modificaba fundamentalmente el mismo núcleo del episodio imitado. Un excelente ejemplo del procedimiento seguido por Cervantes se halla en la aventura amorosa de don Quijote con Maritornes (I, 16), donde el escritor adapta un cuento de Boccaccio y Bandello. En todas las tres versiones, un caballero enamorado cree tener entre sus brazos al hermoso objeto de sus pensamientos, pero en realidad está con una criada de ella, la cual es horriblemente deformada —un error debido a la absoluta oscuridad del lugar. Además de esta similitud de trama, hay paralelos en las descripciones físicas de las tres mozas. Sin embargo, el episodio de Cervantes se diferencia fundamentalmente de los de Boccaccio y Bandello, pues el encuentro de don Quijote con Maritornes se debe a la casualidad, mientras que en los italianos, una dama importunada por un enamorado se venga de él poniéndole una cita en la oscuridad, a la cual manda a su criada feísima. Con todo, se hace evidente que Cervantes —al igual que otros grandes escritores del Siglo de Oro— se inspiraba en la Novella italiana.
The Problem of Cervantes in Bakhtin’s Poetics
Authors: Reed Walter L.
Published: June 2023

Cervantes y su Don Quijote reciben relativamente poca atención en la teoría de Mikhail Bakhtín. Sin embargo, el examen del papel de Don Quijote en la obra de Bakhtín será de interés a los cervantistas. Asociado principalmente con otras obras del Renacimiento, el Quijote cobra relieve como “el ejemplo clásico y puro de la novela.” Por otro lado, es interesante considerar la prefiguración de Bakhtín en la poética de Cervantes, en el examen en el Quijote de varias poéticas de la novela.
Ilusión de la verdad y fake news: Las mentiras repetidas de Hitler, Trump, el independentismo catalán y los bulos de la COVID-19
Authors:   Ministerio de Defensa de España, Martínez-Sánchez Juan Antonio
Published: June 2023

La investigación en psicología ha mostrado que tendemos a dar mayor veracidad a aquella información que recibimos de manera repetida y reiterada. Este sesgo cognitivo, denominado efecto de ilusión de verdad o de verdad ilusoria, se basa en la mayor facilidad que tenemos los seres humanos para procesar cognitivamente la información que nos resulta familiar. En este artículo se describe este sesgo cognitivo y su relación con la propagación de noticias falsas en determinados contextos y acontecimientos sociohistóricos, como instrumento para confundir y manipular a la opinión pública. Entre estos acontecimientos podemos citar las mentiras difundidas por la Administración Bush en 2003 en torno a la supuesta posesión de armas de destrucción masiva por parte de Irak; el uso indiscriminado de fakes por el expresidente de los Estados Unidos, Donald Trump; la campaña de distribución de información falsa por parte del independentismo catalán; y la propagación incontrolada de fakes y bulos en nuestro país durante la pandemia de COVID-19
Russian influence on the European Integration process of the Western Balkan countries: A comparative analysis
Authors:   University for Business and Technology – UBT, Marleku Alfred , Aliu Dafina ,   University for Business and Technology – UBT
Published: June 2023

This article explores the correlation between Russian influence and the European Union (EU) integration process in the Western Balkans. The focus is on analyzing the impact of Russian influence expressed through political, economic and cultural means on the region’s integration into the EU. The article argues that the Russian foreign policy toolkit inhibits the EU accession process for the six countries of the Western Balkans, as it interferes with the internal functioning of these countries, which, in turn, affects their ability to fulfill EU requirements. Using a comparative case approach this study has found evidence that Russian cultural, political and financial support negatively affects the Western Balkans’ European integration process, hindering progress towards accession. Additionally, the findings support the argument that Western Balkans countries with Slavic populations are more susceptible to Russian influence. The article highlights the significant impact of Russia on the EU integration process in the Western Balkans and underscores the need for EU policymakers to address this issue to ensure a smooth and successful accession process for the region.
Closed and open structures in traditional Kazakh Women rites
Authors:   Fund for the development of culture ", Z.Zh. Naurzbayeva ,   Otuken"
Published: June 2023

Women’s initiatory rituals or women’s rites of passage in which the status of a woman changes is one of the least studied areas in cultural anthropology and history. The reason is the closeness of this sphere from the external view, especially from the view of an outside male researcher. Ethnographic information is usually rather scarce and contradictory, and historical information is almost absent. Some exception, perhaps, is the wedding ceremony, which marks the most important stage in a woman’s life in traditional society and is reflected in the literature more widely. It would be interesting to reconstruct the system of women’s rituals as a whole, but based on the available material this is a difficult task. The article has a more modest goal — to try to reveal the “logic” of symbolic thinking, which manifests itself in women’s rituals of transition on the example of a wedding ceremony. According to our hypothesis, the status of an unmarried girl is characterized by closed structures, a closed contour, for example, the side strands of hair “tulym” are woven into one braid, the bride’s earrings are connected by a chain. After marriage, the structures open, the circuit opens, for example, “tulym” is braided into two separate braids, and the chain connecting the earrings is removed. The reasoning of the archaeologist E.R. Usmanova and her co-authors about the gender symbolism of a medieval Turkic female statue became the impetus for revealing this “logic”. The symbolism of the knees of the girlish stone image brought together and the relaxed position of the legs of the statue of a nursing woman is obvious. It can be assumed that it was this symbolism that was developed in other open and closed structures associated with women’s rites
Intercultural potential of using unmanned aerial vehicles in the context of multidisciplinary research
Authors:   Nanjing Pedagogical University, R. Shadiev , A.N. Kalizhanova ,   Karaganda University of the name of academician E.A. Buketov, M.V. Bedelbayeva , A.U. Aupenova ,   Academy "Bolashaq"
Published: June 2023

This article describes an experience of using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) to create cultural and educational videos with their further demonstration and discussion in online intercultural communication between 10 students from Indonesia and 10 students from China. Direct outreach to the students was provided in online mode due to the quarantine posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. In this regard, an issue arose with respect to the use of UAVs for creating cultural and educational content following the rules of physical distance. The experiment revealed five affordances of UAVs such as (1) provision of visual and aural feelings of being in a place; (2) provision of details on a circular route beyond the human eye level; (3) provision of landscape overviews; (4) provision of detailed observations at higher altitudes, and (5) ability to fly to a specific area. Suggestions and conclusions made upon this research can be found useful in intercultural learning and multidisciplinary studies in Kazakhstan higher education.
The history of Chechens and Ingush in Northern Kazakhstan: from deportation to the dismantling of the system of special settlements
Authors:   North Kazakhstan University named after M. Kozybaeva, N.A. Abuov , Z.K. Kartova
Published: June 2023

The article deals with the history of the Chechens and Ingush in Kazakhstan during the existence of the special settlement system. The publication analyzes normative documents, office correspondence, sources from the funds of the regional and central archives of the republic, revealing the fate of the deported Chechens and Ingush in the North Kazakhstan region. The main aspects of the article are features of the process of admission, housing, food security, employment, moral and psychological adaptation of the deported Chechens and Ingush, as well as the process of their release from the special settlement.