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Distance Pattern Distinguishing Coloring of Graphs
Authors: Kannankallel Sona Jose
Published: August 2023

Given a connected (p, q)− graph G = (V, E) of diameter d, ∅M ⊆ V (G) and a nonempty set X = {0, 1, ..., d} of colors of cardinality , let fM be an assignment of subsets of X to the vertices of G such that fM(u) = {d(u, v) : v ∈ M} where, d(u, v) is the usual distance between u and v . We call fM an M− distance pattern coloring of G if no two adjacent vertices have same fM. Define f ⊕ M of an edge e ∈ E(G) as  f ⊕ M(e) = fM(u) ⊕ fM(v); e = uv. A distance pattern distinguishing coloring of a graph G is an M distance pattern coloring of G such that both fM(G) and f ⊕ M(G) are injective. This paper is a study on distance pattern coloring and distance pattern distinguishing coloring of graphs.
On D-distance and D-closed Graphs
Authors: M. P Sunil , J Suresh Kumar
Published: August 2023

This paper studies the concepts of D-boundary vertex, D-interior vertex, D-null vertex, D-closure of a graph and D-closed graph, based on the idea of  D-distance. We investigate the structural properties of these concepts and determine whether some special classes of graphs are D-closed or not.
Impact on Employees’ Productivity On-shift in Workplace Environment During Pandemic
Authors: Mullanda Poovaiah Shivani , Mathew Alphy
Published: August 2023

The workplace environment plays an important role in employees' desire for work and outcome. Work and workplace have significant relation, when workers have emotion towards their job, their productivity increases and employees should have a definite environment to work in so that absenteeism will subsidize flexibility in the workplace. An organisation's productivity and success depend on employees’ efficiency and commitment to an organization. Employee coherence will increase contribution and productivity to achieve the organization's objective. Technology has made mankind connect people through the internet from any part of the world. Likewise, employees can work from remote areas and communicate with their colleagues.
Retailer’s Service Quality & CSR as Antecedents of Retailer Personality & Customer Reactions: A Review
Authors: Rashid Abdul , Rokade Varsha
Published: August 2023

This research paper aims to assess the influence of Retail Service Quality and CSR as antecedents of Retailer Personality and Customer Reactions. Also, reviews were done for studies which implemented Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). The relationships and links were identified from a rigorous literature review. A conceptual model has been developed and proposed, with Retail Service Quality and CSR Policy of retailer as antecedents and Customer Reactions as consequences of Retailer Personality. Hypotheses were formulated, recommendations and Scope for future research were discussed.
Impact of Gig Economy and Emerging Challenges on Banking Sector – an Indian perspective
Authors: R. John Ranjith
Published: August 2023

This paper explores the magnitude of changes that is happening in the Indian banking sector in terms of the technology used, human resource deployed and change in the customer experience. The emergence of gig workforce has made banks rework their strategy. Here, we will describe how Indian banking sector is battling legacy systems and trying to adopt to latest technologies. The gig economy which has been playing a major role in many other sectors have not made a significant impact in the banking industry. The paper discusses the reasons this and gives a first-hand perspective of how the banking sector is getting disrupted.
Editorial
Authors: Jonkers Peter
Published: August 2023

Editorial
Mine, Me, I: Śamkarāchārya on the Notion of Self and Identity: A Critical Study
Authors: Kumar Sethy Deepak
Published: August 2023

The proposed study aims to explore the concepts of self and identity in the philosophy of Śamkarāchārya, the Vedantic philosopher. This critical study seeks to foreground Śamkara, the account of the self that overcomes the limitations of the physicalist and the mentalist accounts of the human self. It focuses on the questions of the ownership of the self, the stability of identity despite the change, the consciousness and its relation to the self. It explains the notion of self by equating the self with the body or with the mind, which does not explain our sense of owning or possessing a body or a mind. The idea of self can be philosophically analyzed at two different conceptual levels: 1) one can deal with the notion of self at a metaphysical level attempting to understand the meaning and significance of this notion in general; 2) one could also deal with the notion of self along with its contextualities and particularities where one would want to understand particular conceptualization that the individual self undergoes depending upon its contexts and particularities of its situation. I would try to analyze the notion of self and Identity in Śamkara in both these senses. Other questions that arise with regard to self and identity are as follows: what kind of relationship the self bears with its identity, pre-given or constructed? Is there anything essential about the identity of the individual self? If we take up these questions, then the question of caste and gender also surface in this debate significantly. Conceptually, the self, in Śamkara’s thought, is explained concerning the ‘not self’. He argues that neither the body, nor the senses, nor even the mind can be equated with the self. That is why Brahman has been described negatively as “neti neti-not this not this”. What is the natural self and identity that one is experiencing here and now? How do we identify one self? What does it consist of? These are some of the questions that I will explicate in this paper.
Deconstructive Turn of Ethics: Subversion of Self-identity in Derrida and Levinas
Authors: Koshy Abey
Published: August 2023

Differing from the mainstream notion about deconstruction as a differential reading of texts, the paper views it primarily as a process of subversion of self-identity of a person who faces the ‘alterity’ of the other in a concrete ethical situation. Thus it is seen more as an existential experience of the individual rather than a socio-political process. It seeks a pathway from Derrida’s deconstruction of texts to Emmanuel Levinas’s trial of individuality by the ‘face’ of the other. The face of the other that calls for the ethical responsibility of the ‘I’, challenges his autonomy. As human self-identities are unreal constructs produced by ontology through the integration of multiple experiences of phenomena into a uniform apperception of consciousness, its rupture alone will guarantee a passage to the realm of ‘otherness’. ‘Otherness’ manifested in the deconstruction of self-identity in ethics is viewed as more intense and radical than the subversion of identity that takes place in textual experience.
St. Paul’s discourse and dialogue with King Agrippa and Governor Festus as a model for contemporary inter-religious understanding and communication
Authors: John Samuel James Sundar Aaron
Published: August 2023

In a day in which there are different religious system vying for acceptance and probably even dominance, it is high time to identify a peaceful model for inter-religious understanding and communication. St. Paul had several interactions with the Jewish leaders, monarchs and government officials on religious topics and issues in between A.D. 60 to A.D 62 at Caesarea. His interaction with King Agrippa II and Governor Festus can be used as a paradigm for contemporary inter-religious understanding and communication. Even though Paul’s life was hanging on a balance as a prisoner about to be transported to Rome, he  did not resort to violence, verbal abuse or rain down curses, when his religious claims were questioned. Instead, he argued as a seasoned philosopher, prayed as a pious saint and appealed as a prisoner in chains with humility for the ‘veracity and the reasonability’ of his truth claim. The article will interact with few philosophical themes that surface during this discourse and dialogue and also attempt to trace St Paul’s use of rhetoric in his discourse. The title of this article is ‘St. Paul’s discourse and dialogue with King Agrippa and Governor Festus as a model for contemporary inter-religious understanding and communication’. The primary source for this article is the book of Acts in the New Testament and the secondary source would be dictionaries and books.
Source of Moral Knowledge
Authors: Gautam Ayesha
Published: August 2023

One cannot deny the fact that we all have some understanding of moral issues. Each one of us can be said to have some sense of what is right, what is wrong, what is good, what is bad, what ought to be done, and what ought not to be done. This moral understanding can be in the form of some vague idea, notion, or simply a gut feeling. No matter who the person is, from which culture or community the person belongs to, everybody faces a moral quandary sometime or other in one’s life. All of this presupposes that there is some fundamental sense or understanding of what is right and what is wrong. We all seem to have some understanding about actions that are right and those that are wrong. Some actions, for instance, torturing babies just for fun, killing an innocent person, raping, etc. are exemplars of morally wrong actions. Assisting a person in need, giving to famine relief, etc. on the other hand are examples of morally right actions. The present essay is an attempt to delve into the question of the source of moral knowledge. Three sources, experience, reason, and intuition have been identified. Views of philosophers like G.E Moore, WD Ross, Immanuel Kant, JS Mill, Plato, Samuel Clarke, Aristotle Hume, and Anthony Ashley Cooper have been discussed to gain clarity about the issue.
Globalisation, Health Care System & Services, and Health Tourism: A Systematic Review
Authors: Faisal Mohammad , Kumar Dhusia Devendra
Published: August 2023

This paper explores healthcare globalisation’s repercussions on the healthcare system and services through exploring the existing literature. Globalisation has been providing opportunities to people in every area, including health, but it also has harmful effects on people, health systems, and health services. The researcher conducted a systematic literature review to gain insights into the link between globalisation and health. The keywords used for the searches are “Globalisation and Health System”, “Globalisation and Health Services, “Globalisation and Health Tourism”, and “Globalisation and Medical Tourism”. A total of 47 articles were identified as pertinent for inclusion. The study pointed out that the focus of the literature is shifting toward the role of international agencies in healthcare, international relations’ role, global governance in healthcare, more complex nature of social determinants of health (SDHs), etc. The findings of this study will assist health tourism marketers in identifying their target segment of health tourists.
Medical Tourism Awareness and its Potential to Excel in Developing Cities: A Case Study of Mangalore City
Authors: DSouza Verina , Pinto Prakash
Published: August 2023

Medical Tourism, a sector still in an infancy stage in India forms a part of the global Medical Tourism corridor and is acknowledged on the itinerary of a medical tourist. This paper intends to explore the scope of Medical Tourism in developing cities of India. It aims to investigate the reasons for low medical tourism penetration despite possessing all the competitive advantages vital for a medical tourism destination. A survey conducted at 21 hospitals in Mangalore uncovered the extent of awareness among healthcare workers and initiatives taken by the healthcare industry to outperform in this sector. Simple random sampling was employed to arrive at the sample size and the Chi-square test was applied to analyze the data. The findings reveal promotion as a crucial element for awareness creation and show a clear linkage between awareness and the potential of Medical Tourism. The paper presents healthcare practitioners and tour operators with an insight into Medical Tourism in developing cities like Mangalore and the effective strategies imperative to excel in this sector. This study evaluates if developing cities of India have the potential to be promoted as Medical Tourism hubs reaping benefits to the economy of India.
Congruity and Incongruity between Projected (DMO) and Perceived (UGC) Destination image – A Comparative Content Analysis
Authors: T Unnikrishnan , P. S. Sibi
Published: August 2023

User-generated Content (UGC) in the digital world has gained credibility as a kind of word-of-mouth in recent years with the advent of new Information and communication technologies (ICT). Travelers rely on UGC information than DMO content while the travel decision-making process. No previous research has been conducted to correlate both UGC and DMO destination images of Kerala. The study analyzes the dominant attributes of the destination image of Kerala presented through DMO and UGC Visual Content. Also, find out whether there is any commonality in destination attributes between pictures posted by tourists (UGC) and DMO or vice versa. Images of Kerala were gathered for this study from DMO’s website (www.keralatourism.org), Instagram, and Facebook, two of the most popular social media platforms worldwide. By applying content analysis methodology to the collected DMO and UGC images of Kerala Tourism, the research objectives are attained. Data from the last five years were considered for the study to understand the latest trends and changing patterns. The results aid tourism stakeholders in planning effective social media marketing strategies to capture the imagination of tourists, hence creating a better destination image online.
Editorial
Authors: Narayana Sharmila
Published: August 2023

The Journal and Publication Society, School of Law, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), takes pride in placing on record the twentieth issue of the Christ University Law Journal. This issue of the journal comprises researched articles and a book review based on environmental law. The writings are authored by academicians and research scholars. Volume 11, Issue 1 is based on the theme ‘Imbibing Eco-centrism in Environmental Law: Scope, Challenges and the Way Forward’.
Earth Law: Emerging Ecocentric Law
Authors: Subin Sunder Raj Manjeri
Published: August 2023

Anthony R. Zelle et al (Eds.), Earth Law: Emerging Ecocentric Law— A Guide for Practitioners, Wolters Kluwer, New York, 2021.ISBN 978-1-5438-2068-3The concept of standing can be said to be one of the pivotal aspects as far as any law is concerned and has been discussed and deliberated upon for quite a long time. Environmental jurisprudence, too is no exception when it comes to this aspect. Ever since baby steps were taken by Professor Christopher Stone in his seminal work, Should Trees Have Standing?1, the concept has traversed a long way, obviously, with a whole lot of challenges that it had to overcome. But nevertheless, it did taste success on a number of occasions. Stone’s version led to a situation wherein extending standing was not construed as absurd or unlikely, as it was sure that there would always be someone who would speak for the environment itself. Having influenced Justice Douglas in penning down his much-celebrated dissent in Sierra Club v. Morton2, Trees definitely was one article which was not lost in oblivion and one that has been quoted on many an occasion to cement this idea in jurisprudence, especially environmental jurisprudence.
Checking Compliance with Laws and Regulatory Legal Acts During the Audit of the Reorganization of the Audited Entities, As Well As the Audit of Banking Transactions and Other Transactions of the Audited Entity with Credit Institutions
Authors: Egorova I.
Published: August 2023

This article continues the study begun in No. 5 of the audit of compliance with laws and regulations by auditors during the audit. At the same time, we will talk about the specifics of checking compliance with laws and regulations during the audit of the reorganization of the audited entities, as well as checking banking transactions and other transactions of the audited entity with credit institutions, for which a certain sequence of checks and an appropriate package of working documents are proposed.
Management Analysis of the Return on Equity and Invested Capital: Methodology and Information Support Based on IFRS
Authors: Nechitaylo I.
Published: August 2023

The article examines the problems of analyzing the return on equity and invested capital based on modifications of the Dupont’s model. The following issues are reviewed as reflection of receivables and payables, financial investments and short-term loans and borrowings, assessment of financial and operational leverage, as well as asset turn-over in the analysis of profitability. The requirements for systems of indicators of profitability in the management analysis are formulated. The structural model of the return on equity, which can be used in management analysis, is built.

A particular attention is paid to the constraints of the management profitability analysis based on financial statements prepared on the basis of IFRS. The most serious constraints is the poor compatibility of IFRS with direct costing and its later modifications, in particular, with throughput accounting. The constraints related to the problems of capitalization of interest on loans and borrowings, accrual of interest on trade credit and interest on prepayments, as well as interest on assets under the contract, when rev-enue is recognized during the period, are examined in the article.
Main provisions of the concept of physical therapy for patients with rheumatoid arthritis
Authors: Grygus Igor , Nogas Anzhela
Published: August 2023

The purpose, main tasks and principles of the author's concept are defined, conceptual approaches to the problems of physical therapy of patients with rheumatoid arthritis are analyzed. The main approaches to the prerequisites for the development of the author's concept of restoring the quality of life of patients with rheumatoid arthritis are considered, which include: biological, social and personal prerequisites. A system of restoration and improvement of the quality of life of patients with rheumatoid arthritis has been developed, which consists in the integrated application of rehabilitation measures, taking into account the individual and interdisciplinary approach to each patient in each of the recovery periods. The methodological approaches in accordance with the domains of the International classification of functioning, taking into account the factors that affect the level of functional impairment and quality of life of the patient, are taken into account. It is emphasised that the proposed concept was holistic in nature, based on the targeted use of a comprehensive psychological, pedagogical, medical and rehabilitation approach, physical therapy programmes were individually selected for each patient, taking into account functional joint disability, rheumatoid arthritis activity, quality of life and health status of patients. The article presents the technology of rehabilitation measures to improve the effectiveness of rehabilitation treatment of patients with rheumatoid arthritis, achieve clinical remission, reduce pain, improve joint motor function, prevent deformities and contractures, maintain performance and improve quality of life. It was noted that the realization of the restorative effect in accordance with the tasks of physical therapy varied. Each patient was given a personalized approach to rehabilitation intervention, taking into account the degree of functional joint disability, participation in work life and psychosocial issues.
Analysis of House Price Determination in 13 G20 Countries: Random Effect Model
Authors: Abasimi Ignatius , Aulia Anisa Rupaningtyas , Khasanah Uswatun
Published: August 2023

A house or a place to live is a primary need for all beings, but the lack of affordable housing to buy or rent can trigger a global housing crisis. After the collapse of the housing market in the US or the subprime crisis of 2008-2009 there was a revival of focus on the housing market. Empirical research has been conducted to look at the variables that affect house prices. However, it is still rare for researchers to examine the influence of macroeconomic variables in countries that have a strong role in the world economy. Therefore this study aims to determine the effect of the Consumer Price Index, Construction GDP, Unemployment Rate, Population Density, Exchange Rate and Power Purchasing Parity on the House Price Index as an indicator that reflects house prices. So, the contribution of this research is to provide novelty in the use of the house price index to determine the determinants that influence it. This research is a quantitative research using secondary data. The regression model used in this study is the Random Effects Model. The result of this study is the Consumer Price Index and Purchasing Power Parity have a significant positive impact on house prices. Therefore, the government needs to maintain the stability of these two indicators so that house prices remain stable. The Unemployment Rate and Exchange Rate show a significant negative effect on house prices. Therefore, the government needs to monitor and maintain the stability of the exchange rate and reduce the unemployment rate so that there is no significant decline in house prices. Meanwhile, construction GDP and population density show no effect on house prices. Additional studies are urgently needed to identify factors and housing price movements contributing to global and regional levels.
Accidental Home Injuries in Children in The Second Wave Of COVID-19: A Single Center Experience
Authors: BENDERLİOĞLU Elif , AKÇA Halise , KURT Funda , AKCA ÇAĞLAR Ayla , AKCAN YILDIZ Leman , TÜMER Miray , ŞENEL Emrah
Published: August 2023

Objective: The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the whole world in terms of health, social life, and economics. In this study, the frequency of pediatric home accidents in the second wave of the pandemic, where social isolation continues, was investigated.

Material and Methods: This is a single center, retrospective study. We evaluated cases of patients under the age of 18 who were admitted to the hospital due to a home accident between November 1, 2020 and January 31, 2021 (the second wave of the pandemic). Results were compared with the patients who were admitted to the same emergency department within the same period of the previous year. Researchers examined home accidents in three groups: crash-fall-incision (1), intoxication-foreign body ingestion (2), and burns (3). The patients were divided into four age groups: 0-1 year, 2-5 years, 6-11 years, and 12-17 years.

Results: The study was completed with 607 cases pre-Covid and 683 cases post-Covid. The median age was 44.4 month (17-57) from 2019-2020 and 49.1 month (18-64) from 2020-2021 (p=0.154). The outpatient and sequela-free discharges were more frequent in both periods (p=0.046). In the second wave of the pandemic, there was an increase in burns and fall related admissions compared to before the pandemic (p<0.001). All types of home accidents were frequently detected at the ages of five years and younger.

Conclusion: In this study, analyzing the second wave of the pandemic compared to pre-pandemic times, Researchers noted a decrease in the number of emergency admissions and an increase in admissions related to home accidents.
A proposed duty to report child abuse
Authors: Finch John
Published: August 2023

A duty to report suspected child abuse would would have a particular impact on those working in healthcare. John Finch, a freelance journalist specialising in clinical law and ethics, considers what such a reporting duty might mean in professional practice
Water Discovered 1.5km Beneath Surface of Mars
Authors: Nathan Stuart
Published: August 2023

ESA uses advanced MARSIS radar system to map wide body of liquid underneath layers of ice and dust
Scanner Seeks to Speed Up Airport Checks
Authors: Ford Jason
Published: August 2023

Removing liquids and laptops may be thing of the past, says Smiths
Vision of the Future
Authors: Nathan Stuart
Published: August 2023

Hailed as the world's most advanced fighter pilot helmet, Striker II will transform aerial combat.
Ceramics Breakthrough
Authors: Nathan Stuart
Published: August 2023

Complex shapes can now be printed
Archives in drag
Authors: Persard Suzanne C.
Published: August 2023

‘Archives in drag: Performing nachaniya towards a queer theory of indenture’ takes as its object the figure of the Indo-Jamaican nachaniya dancer as a paradigm for re-thinking queer theories of indenture. Nachaniya is a highly stylized Indo-Jamaican folk dance featuring a heterosexual male dancing in drag. The performance, which can be traced to the nineteenth century, is still common within present-day Indo-Jamaican communities and the diaspora. Nachaniya therefore presents both parts of a queer historical and living archive. By using an archival photograph from the 1960s of a nachaniya dancer as a point of entry, I consider the ways in which this genre of Indo-Jamaican folk performance demonstrates gender non-normativity as deeply embedded within the indentured archive. Since nachaniya is also read as not necessarily queer but ‘cultural’, I am interested in the tensions between a refusal to categorize the performance as a kind of drag while simultaneously elevating its ‘cultural’ status and the slippage between ‘queer’ and ‘culture’. I consider the figure of the nachaniya dancer as what Anjali Arondekar has termed a site of ‘ordinary surplus’ rather than a site of queer exception. Through a reading of this queer archival photograph, I consider destabilizing narratives of loss or absence that saturate approaches to the queer archive of indenture to suggest that nachaniya is a useful paradigm for theorizing the nexus at which Indo-Jamaican archives and queers of indenture have been theorized as ‘nothing to see’.
Offspring of a virgin’s womb
Authors: Mitchell Michael
Published: August 2023

Robert Antoni’s Divina Trace has not yet found the wide readership that might be expected of the winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, perhaps because it does not conform to its readers’ expectations of a Caribbean novel. And yet it is of particular relevance to the legacy of indentureship and the East Indian presence in Trinidad and to the relationships among the different ethnic groups on the island through its central concern with a black madonna on a fictional island unmistakeably resembling the Divina Siparia worshipped by Catholics or the Hindu Siparia Mai. This essay examines the author’s postmodern techniques with particular reference to his treatment of sexuality, stereotypes, the grotesque and religious themes to discover what could be the significance of the idea of the Virgin and her representation in the black madonna. In doing so it engages with Deleuze’s ideas on repetition to investigate the relationship between storytelling and reality, and the nature of the creative imagination.
The Education of Milkman Dead: The Bildungsroman as Aesthetic Cycle in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon
Authors: Goodhead Dokubo Melford
Published: August 2023

Abstract: Rational critique of one’s existential condition and questions of why, where, when, who, what dominate Morrison’s Song of Solomon. As she clearly shows in the novel, it is in finding answers to these questions that one is better able to deal with one’s existential condition and, where necessary, to make the transition from fragmentation to wholeness as a subject dealing with the history and experience of a racial formation that renders one either as an object or inferior other. In Song, the site of the exploration of these questions is the familial space and the marginal public constituted by black America, through which their unheard voices are given full play. Straddling the various familial spaces and marginal public is the novel’s protagonist, Milkman Dead, whose growth away from a selfish, materialistic young man Morrison tells magically as a bildungsroman, textual revision, and aesthetic cycle.
Humans and the Red-Hot Stove: Hurston’s Nature-Caution Theorizing in Their Eyes Were Watching God
Authors: Randall Heather Sharlene Higgs
Published: August 2023

Abstract: This paper gives critical attention to a porch conversation about nature and caution in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God , identifying the conversation as a tool through which Hurston recasts the traditional anthropological binary of nature and culture. In conversation with Hurston’s literary critics as well as scholars of environmental humanities and multispecies studies, I propose that Hurston employs the porch conversation’s nature-caution epistemology throughout her novel to attain a unified understanding of human and nonhuman.
The Task of Envisioning Security for the Anthropocene
Authors: Morrissey John
Published: August 2023

Our Anthropocene age is defined by a wide array of anthropogenic pressures on planet Earth, which have produced multiple human and environmental insecurities. From climate change to population displacements, from ecosystem degradation to global pandemics, we are faced with unprecedented human and environmental emergencies. Safeguarding the future hinges on generating a wider understanding of ‘security’ that sees the need for holistic strategy, global solidarity and multilateral cooperation. We need a security imaginary transformed by critical and responsible thinking on economic production and planetary precarity, and we require such a vision to manifest in new governmentalities that set us on the right path towards a shared future. This paper reflects on the challenge of establishing holistic understandings of security which can be drawn upon more effectively to respond to the intersecting crises unfolding on the planet. In seeking to reframe global security strategy, the paper underscores an interlinked sense of human-environmental security which extends the UN’s human security concept to address the overlapping precarities of our human and non-human worlds. It considers in particular the role of legal and regulatory mechanisms in curbing the ecological excesses of late modern capitalism; and in seeking to transcend narrow statist formulations of security, the paper illuminates our global interconnections, which require us to renew and support networks of international solidarity and multilateral cooperation.
The Glory of the Scholar: The Nexus of Beauty and Intellect in Chinese and Rabbinic Literature
Authors: Amihay Aryeh , Li Lupeng
Published: August 2023

Abstract: This study explores the relationship between beauty and intellect, often represented as diametrical opposites, in Chinese and Jewish texts, particularly with reference to Confucian and rabbinic texts. Four discourses concerning the nexus of beauty and intellect are presented: antagonistic, complementary, authentic, and epistemic. In both traditions, although more so in Confucianism, intellect is sometimes elided with moral virtue, adding another element to the discussion. The comparison of this theme in distant traditions seeks to highlight their shared resistance to a single interpretation or a consistent outlook: while Confucian texts tend to embrace a complementary discourse, along the lines of a physiognomic tradition, competing views can be detected. Likewise, the rabbinic tradition inherits the biblical view that "beauty is vain" but still manifests some cases of a complementary discourse.
Encountering the Limits of Language: Wang Bi, Wittgenstein, and the Mystical
Authors: Hitchens Alex T.
Published: August 2023

Abstract: The commentaries of Wang Bi (226–249 c.e.), who coined a substantial part of the xuanxue 玄學 tradition, represent one of the most systematic attempts in early China to explore language as limited in its capabilities of expression and how language can be used to deal with issues beyond the reach of language itself. However, few studies on Wang Bi explore his philosophy of language. Therefore, the relationship between what can and cannot be expressed through language, and what lies beyond these limits, is explored via a comparison with the early works of Ludwig Wittgenstein, who himself described this issue as "the cardinal problem of philosophy." I argue that Wang Bi and Wittgenstein share a similar hermeneutical approach, centered on the deficiency of language in mapping determinate sense beyond the manifest world. The factuality of the universe is therefore ineffable and "mystical," and silence becomes an indispensable means of expression.
The Zhuangzi and the Classic of Poetry
Authors: Hunter Michael
Published: August 2023

Abstract: This article contextualizes the thought of the Zhuangzi 莊子 via the Classic of Poetry ( Shijing 詩經), the most canonical textual tradition from the Warring States (fifth century to 221 b.c.e.) into the early imperial period. First, it reads the fantastical vignettes from the opening of chapter 1 "Free-and-Easy Wandering" ( Xiaoyao you 逍遙遊), as parodies of Shi poetics. Second, it argues that the themes of "wandering" ( you 遊) and "lodging" ( yu 寓) stand as critical alternatives to the Shi preoccupation with homeward, ruler-centric movements. Such connections open up new ways of understanding the development of Zhuangzian thought.
Interferometric phase stability from Gaussian and space–time light sheets
Authors: Diouf Mbaye , Lin Zixi , Harling Mitchell , Krishna Krishangi , Toussaint Kimani C.
Published: August 2023

The incredible phase sensitivity of Michelson interferometry has made it useful for a variety of metrology and sensing applications with the trade-off that it is also vulnerable to unwanted fluctuations in the sensing environment. Here, we demonstrate that Michelson interferometry using either Gaussian or space–time (ST) light sheets results in enhanced passive phase stability. Our experiments are absent of any active damping techniques. When using the ST light sheet, the interferometer exhibits 23% higher phase stability compared to the Gaussian light sheet (GLS), and 80% higher stability when compared to the Gaussian beam (GB). We find that while both ST light sheet and GLS exhibit significantly higher phase stability than the GB, ST light sheets have the added advantage of being resistant to speckle generation when a thin diffuser is inserted in the interferometer. Additionally, we show that interferometry using the ST light sheet results in approximately 11× more accurate measure of an oxide thickness on the substrate than the Gaussian beam. Our findings provide a simple approach to improving the stability of optical interferometry for applications, such as high-precision length measurements, enhanced sensing, and quantum optical experiments.
Incidence and predictors of mortality among neonates with respiratory distress syndrome admitted at West Oromia Referral Hospitals, Ethiopia, 2022. Multi-centred institution based retrospective follow-up study
Authors: Legesse Bruck Tesfaye , Abera Netsanet Melkamu , Alemu Tewodros Getaneh , Atalell Kendalem Asmare
Published: August 2023

Introduction

Respiratory distress syndrome is the major cause of neonatal death. However, data on the mortality and predictors related to respiratory distress syndrome were scarce. Hence, this study aimed to assess the incidence and predictors of death among neonates admitted with respiratory distress syndrome in West Oromia Referral Hospitals, Ethiopia, 2022.

Methods

A retrospective follow-up study was conducted among 406 neonates admitted with respiratory distress syndrome at five referral hospitals from, 1 January 2019 to, 31 December 2021 in West Oromia, Ethiopia. The data were collected using a structured checklist and participants were selected using simple random sampling technique. The data were entered into Epi data version 4.6.0.2 and exported to STATA version 14 for cleaning, coding and analysis. The Kaplan–Meier curve was used to estimate survival time. The Weibull regression model was fitted to identify the predictors of mortality and variables with a P-value < 0.05 was taken as significant predictors of mortality.

Result

Four hundred six neonates with respiratory distress syndrome were included in the analysis. The overall incidence of neonatal mortality was 59.87/1000 neonates-days observations (95%CI: 51.1–70.2) with a proportion of 152 (37.44%) (95% CI: 32.7–42.2). The median time of follow-up was 11 days (95% CI: 10–23). Very low birthweight (AHR = 4.5, 95%CI: 2.0–10.9) and low birth weight (AHR = 3.1, 95%CI: 1.4–6.6), perinatal asphyxia (AHR = 2.7, 95%CI: 1.8–4), Chorioamnionitis (AHR = 2.2, 95%CI: 1.4–3.5) and multiple pregnancies (AHR = 2.2, 95%CI: 1.4–3.4) increased the hazard of death, whereas, antenatal corticosteroid administration (AHR = 0.33, 95%CI: 0.2–0.7) was negatively associated with neonatal mortality.

Conclusion and recommendation

High mortality rate of neonates with respiratory distress syndrome was observed. Chorioamnionitis, perinatal asphyxia, low birth weight and multiple pregnancies increase the, mortality hazard while administering antenatal corticosteroids decreases it. Thus, administering corticosteroids- before giving birth and special emphasis on children with Chorioaminoitis, asphyxia, low birth weight and multiple pregnancies is important for reducing neonatal mortality.
Study on the influence of traveling wave effect on Γ-type combined structure using equivalent simplified model
Authors: Sun Laite , Bai Yu , Lai Zhengcong
Published: August 2023

The Γ-type combined structure is an unconventional high-rise long-span structure, and there is no research literature about the influence of traveling wave effect on such structure at present. This study established an accuracy equivalent simplified model for such structure, employed the modified large mass method to carry out a time history analysis on the seismic response such as the shear force, axial force, and bending moment of the model affected by the traveling wave effect, and summarized the corresponding laws through the analysis results of different working conditions such as time difference, mass ratio, and stiffness ratio. The results demonstrate that, with the increase in the input time difference of seismic wave, the bending moment of the control section increases gradually, while the shear force and axial force decrease first and then increase, and traveling wave effect response within a certain range of time difference is weaker than the uniform excitation response. The differences of traveling wave effect responses due to the change of mass ratio between the vertical and horizontal parts of the structure are less than 10%, while the differences due to the change of stiffness ratio are greater than 20%.
“You know how the game goes, Baby”: Exploring Intersections of Power in Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song
Authors: Quattrone Tillie
Published: August 2023

Existing academic discourse surrounding pioneering Blaxploitation film, Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (Melvin Van Peebles, 1971), regularly frames the titular character as the forerunner of an eventual collection of aggressive, hypersexual, and macho Black heroes. These texts accordingly examine Sweetback’s characterization with limited nuance, and therefore overlook the film’s more complex contentual and formal engagement with masculinity and power. Via close analysis of the film and marketing materials, I propose that Sweetback’s macho behavior can be re-contextualized via attention to his repeated displays of passivity, which jointly signal the film’s engagement with notions of “ideal” Black masculinity, generational oppression, and trauma.
Horror Film and Otherness, Adam Lowenstein (2022)
Authors: Crawford Chloe
Published: August 2023

Review of: Horror Film and Otherness, Adam Lowenstein (2022)

New York: Columbia University Press, 248 pp.,

ISBN: 9780231205771 (pbk), $35.00, ISBN: 9780231205764 (hbk), $140.00, ISBN: 9780231556156 (ebk), $34.99
Olivia de Havilland: Lady Triumphant, Victoria Amador (2019)
Authors: Mattice Lauren
Published: August 2023

Review of: Olivia de Havilland: Lady Triumphant, Victoria Amador (2019)

Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 404 pp.,

ISBN: 9780813177274 (hbk), $40.00
The Thought of Stanley Cavell and Cinema: Turning Anew to the Ontology of Film a Half-Century After The World Viewed, David LaRocca, ed. (2020)
Authors: Mitchell Audrey
Published: August 2023

Review of: The Thought of Stanley Cavell and Cinema: Turning Anew to the Ontology of Film a Half-Century After The World Viewed, David LaRocca, ed. (2020)

New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 336 pp.,

ISBN: 9781501349164 (hbk), $150.00, ISBN: 9781501384073 (pbk), $39.95
Modeling and Optimization of Antibody-drug Conjugate Production Using Process Intensified Solid-phase Method
Authors:   Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 778843-3122, Gairola Anirudh , Hilaly Ahmad K. ,   Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 778843-3122, Karim M. Nazmul ,   Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 778843-3122
Published: August 2023

Conventional solution-phase method currently employed for the production of Antibody-drug Conjugates (ADC) has certain drawbacks, which makes production inefficient and cost extensive process. In this study, we developed a rigorous cost model for an intensified solid-phase production method utilizing a packed bed resin column to carry out all the steps involved in the production of ADC, at an industrial scale. The aim of this study was to find a suitable operating region (column length and feed velocity) to minimize the cost of ADC production. Simulation results showed that productivity was maximum when the process was operated at a linear velocity ranging between 120-140 cm/hr and unit cost of ADC production was minimum when column length was 60 cm and operated at 100 cm/hr. We found that production cost is highly dependent on monoclonal antibody (mAb) cost, followed by cytotoxic drug as being the second-highest contributor to the overall production cost.
How the Next Generation Antibody Drug Conjugates Expands Beyond Cytotoxic Payloads for Cancer Therapy
Authors:   MabPlex USA, Gingrich Jon
Published: August 2023

Antibody-drug Conjugates or ADCs combine the selectivity of antibodies with the efficacy of small molecule drugs, allowing for more precise, targeted, therapeutic applications. Combining the advantages of antibodies in binding a specific target with the capabilities of a therapeutic payload, the majority of ADCs in preclinical and clinical development are for indications in oncology and hematology, where the cytotoxic payloads linked to antibodies are targeting antigen-expressing cancer cells.[1] Over the last two decades, researchers have also explored opportunities to develop ADCs beyond cancer, into other disease indications including autoimmune disease, difficult-to-treat bacterial infections, and atherosclerosis. However, to succeed in the development of these non-oncologic ADCs, a number of challenges need to be resolved in order to fulfill the larger promise of ADC technology.
Automating ADC Manufacturing with Electricity
Authors:   Express biolabs, Houser Derrick , Beaver Scott ,   ChemTalk
Published: August 2023

Combining the specificity and stability of antibodies with the potency of small molecules has always been at the core of the antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) field. The technological challenge to this therapeutic approach is in bringing two disparate molecules in union with one another. Once this was achieved, the next technological hurdle was, in essence, automation. Early versions of an ADC were the product of technical skill which also required trial and error. Bioconjugation experts investigated many combinations of antibodies, small molecule drugs, conditions, and reaction times to produce stable and efficacious final drugs. This work serves as a technical knowledge base from which to convert new antibodies into ADCs. Even with compendium textbooks like Bioconjugate Techniques, trial and error is still required especially to manufacture an ADC at clinical scale.
How Process Enabling Closed Systems Offer Maximum Safety in ADC Manufacturing
Authors:   Single Use Support, Moloney Brian
Published: August 2023

Since Antibody-drug Conjugates (ADC) are already approved for the treatment of relapsed Hodgkin’s lymphoma, HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer and B cell lymphoma, among others, high expectations are placed on this class of bioconjugates. Indeed, more than 100 different ADCs have been studied for various applications by 2022, presumably with several more to follow. Due to their composition, however, advanced risk management is necessary during ADC manufacturing, processing and transport. With a monoclonal antibody, a cytotoxic payload and a linker being their three main constituents, individual characteristics and risks of these three components have to be considered. In particular, but not limited to, cytotoxic payloads present unique challenges and pose considerable risks at multiple levels. Therefore, end-to-end solutions for bioconjugation processing are playing an increasing role in ADC processing and the task to cope with these challenges and provide a safe way to make the unique advantages of antibody-drug conjugates more accessible.
Educação, leitura, pobreza e analfabetismo em tempo de pandemia em Codó, Maranhão
Authors: Silva José Carlos Aragão , Costa Cristiane Dias Martins da , Lima Alex de Sousa
Published: August 2023

Este artigo trata de educação, leitura, pobreza e analfabetismo em tempo de pandemia em Codó, localizado no estado do Maranhão. O texto é resultado de observações realizadas no ano de 2020 a partir do início da pandemia do Novo Coronavírus, quando o fechamento das escolas estaduais e municipais e a limitação do acesso ao trabalho pelas camadas populares tornou mais evidente as condições de pobreza em que se encontra o município de Codó. Para adentarmos nos temas centrais desse trabalho, iniciamos com uma discussão sinóptica acerca das bases para uma educação democrática e de qualidade, onde evidenciamos a importância da Constituição de 1988, marco referencial para a democratização do país, assim como da escola e, consequentemente, do acesso à leitura da palavra e de mundo pelos discentes. Nossa interpretação sobre a importância da leitura de mundo ou do letramento social é realizada com base nas análises de Freire (1987, 1989), Street (1995) e Soares (2000, 2017) acerca do tema. A última análise que realizamos no texto está focada na pobreza e no analfabetismo como fenômenos crônicos em nosso país, nosso estado e, inegavelmente, em Codó. Nessa parte interpretamos e evidenciamos os dados que mostram a relação permanente e histórica que existe entre a pobreza e analfabetismo, a qual submete e exclui ainda milhões de brasileiros.
Electronic title certificate as legal evidence
Authors: Permadi Iwan , Herlindah
Published: August 2023

This paper analyzes the increasing use of electronic title certificates in the land administration system. On 12 January 2021, the Minister of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning/Head of the National Land Agency issued Regulation No. 1 of 2021 on Electronic Certificate. This Regulation marks a turning point in the reformation of the system of land governance and security of tenure in Indonesia. By streamlining the land registration and dispute-resolution procedures, the use of the digital land title could increase the legal certainty of the Indonesian system of land tenure. It is possible that the digital certificate might transform the present method of a negative publication system with positive elements – the present mechanism for demonstrating ownership of land rights – into a positive publication system.

Index words: Indonesia, electronic title certificate, land tenure, land registration system, systems theory, girik rights, garapan rights