bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Sacred Soil, Green Ideals
Authors: Kramer Einat , Greenspan Itay , Yoreh Tanhum 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
Shemitah, the Jewish sabbatical year, is increasingly being explored in ecological contexts. This research delves into the concept of stewardship examining the evolving discourse on Shemitah across different community sectors in the Israeli press during the last three sabbatical cycles (2007–2008, 2014–2015, and 2021–2022). Our analysis reveals stewardship worldviews that portray Jewish law as either the practical pathway to implement these worldviews or as an inspiration for contemporary socio-environmental initiatives. The secular-liberal sector emphasizes universal stewardship, aligning with Western environmental concepts, while the national-religious sector integrates both universal and particular stewardship, emphasizing the land’s moral dimensions and connecting religious observance with environmental ethics. The ultra-Orthodox sector, though not explicitly expressing eco-theological views, focuses on soil regeneration. This empirical investigation serves as a significant case study and offers valuable guidance for addressing the challenge of instigating behavioral change in religious and traditional populations.
Reproductive output in a small Mediterranean lizard, the western three-toed skinks Chalcides striatus
Authors: Deso Gregory , Bonnet Xavier 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
The Western Three-toed Skink (Chalcides striatus) is a viviparous species found in arid Mediterranean climates. Using artificial shelters, we captured five pregnant females (snout vent length = 139.2 ± 7.9 mm [SD], 131 to 150 mm; total length = 286.0 ± 9.6 mm, 275 to 292 mm [N = 3, two females with damaged tails]); body mass 15.72 ± 3.89 g, 11.55 to 19.88) and kept them in captivity until parturition. Mean litter size and litter mass were 6.2 ± 1.3 (5 to 8 neonates) and 3.85 ± 0.88 g (2.99 to 5.13 g), respectively. Mean neonatal size and mass were 81.2 ± 4.1 mm (total length = 70 to 90 mm, N = 26) and 0.62 ± 0.07 g (0.49 to 0.82 g, N = 31), respectively. On average, the relative litter mass represented 32 ± 3% (29% to 36%) of the postpartum female body mass. The estimated mass of water lost at birth (total mass loss at parturition minus litter mass) was 0.37 ± 0.39 g (0.00 to 0.98 g), representing 10 ± 8% (0 to 26%) of the individual neonate mass. This low value is in line with that expected for viviparous squamates from arid climates, which is much lower than that observed in oviparous or in viviparous squamates from temperate climates. These results help to fill a gap, as the reproductive output of Chalcides striatus has been poorly documented, but mostly because the importance of extraembryonic water mass has been neglected.
Discovery of the malacopathogenic nematode Pellioditis akhaldaba from the Caucasus in alien slugs in the Main Botanical Garden in Moscow
Authors: Ivanova Elena S. , Spiridonov Sergei E. 
Published: July 2024

Summary
A member of the genus Pellioditis Dougherty, 1953 (syn. Phasmarhabditis Andrássy, 1976) was detected in three introduced gastropod species in Moscow for the first time. Both the nematode and its gastropod hosts were found to have originated from the Caucasus region. No native gastropod species as well as the alien invasive slug Arion vulgaris were infected by P. akhaldaba. The Moscow strain of P. akhaldaba is very close to P. akhaldaba from Georgia in the ITS rDNA (7 bp difference) but they differ significantly in the sequences of COI mtDNA (50 bp difference). However, phylogenetic analysis of both loci showed that these two strains were the closest relative to all other species and strains of the genus Pellioditis studied.
Evaluation of the lethal effect of hydrogen peroxide on the root-knot nematode, Meloidogyne javanica, and the disruption in the activity of enzymes related to its biosynthesis
Authors: Zahra Hosseini , Navazollah Sahebani 
Published: July 2024

Summary
In this study, the accumulation of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) in different parts (healthy root, gall, root attached to gall, aerial parts) of healthy tomato plants and plants infected by the root-knot nematode, Meloidogyne javanica, was investigated after treating the roots with β-aminobutyric acid (BABA). In addition, the effects of different concentrations of H2O2 (0-2 mM) on mortality, body structures and the digestive system of second-stage juveniles (J2) were also investigated in in vitro experiments. Results showed that exposure to concentrations of more than 1 mM H2O2 is lethal for J2, while the digestive system is not able to tolerate concentrations of more than 0.2 mM. Evaluating the activity level of enzymes related to biosynthesis and removing H2O2 in treated plants also showed that the nematode has significant suppressive effects on the biosynthesis enzymes of this compound, and this effect is greater in the site of nematode activity than in other parts of the plant. By contrast, the activity of catalase enzyme, as one of the H2O2-removing enzymes, shows a significant increase in all parts of nematode infected plants (especially in galls).
Politicizing Ontological Guilt: Arendt’s Transformative Appropriation of Heidegger’s Existential Analytic
Authors: Wittendorff Thomas Ø. 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
To the limited extent that Arendt’s stance on Heidegger has been studied in relation to her thinking on guilt, the focus has been on her outright repudiation of Heidegger’s controversial ontologization of guilt. However, that Arendt does not simply repudiate Heidegger’s account of guilt becomes clear if we recognize that she deals with guilt, albeit less explicitly, in her theory of political action, particularly in her notion of “trespassing” as a specifically political form of harm. In this context, Arendt appropriates key features of Heidegger’s account. I argue that, in doing so, she transfers Heideggerian features into a political framework, insisting that they proceed not from individual existential indebtedness but from political intersubjectivity, or what she polemically – with a redefined Heideggerian term – calls the “with-world” (Mitwelt). This politicization testifies to Arendt’s overall approach to Heidegger’s existential analytic: a critical-transformative appropriation through her signature concepts of action and plurality.
Synergy of Inter-Regional Knowledge Innovation System from the Perspective of Industry-Science-Research Collaborative Networks
Authors: Guo Wenxiu , Lv Yanhua , Yu Qi , Tai Yangfang 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
Knowledge innovation networks formulated by the collaborations between entities (industry department, school, research center and laboratory) evolving over time, varying by regions, is an indicator of inter-regional knowledge innovation linkages. In this work, we proposed a novel synergy analysis approach, taking the structural value of industry-science-research collaborative network as knowledge innovation subsystem parameter. The changing of this parameter indicates the synergy of Inter-Regional Knowledge Innovation System (IRKIS), incorporating the network structure evolution and systematic collaboration, also analyzing the IRKIS synergy capability.
We collected 18,776 articles from 2009–2020 that are related to Alzheimer’s disease participating in China from Web of Science, and 7,941 patent data from the USTPO database. Then, we extracted knowledge innovation departments based on the dimensions of industry-science-research, constructed inter-regional knowledge innovation network, selected Degree Centrality, Close Centrality and Structure Hole as parameters of industry-science, industry-research, and science-research subsystems to analyze the synergy degree of IRKIS. The results indicated that evolution law of IRKIS could be explained through the perspective of industry-science-research collaborative network.
The trend of more international collaborations illustrated by the rapid increasement of inter-regional knowledge innovation network parameter, however, the average synergy level of IRKIS in Alzheimer’s research is still low.
Building the Lesser Caucasus Monumental Landscape during the Bronze Age: Life and Death on the Javakheti Plateau (Georgia)
Authors: Biagi Paolo 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
Surveys carried out in the Javakheti Plateau during the last decade have improved our knowledge of the Bronze Age archaeology of this highland zone of the Lesser Caucasus of Georgia. Surveys have been conducted all over the area surrounding the Mt. Chikiani volcano, along the southern terraces of the Tsalka Reservoir, and some of the north-western slopes of Mt. Paravani. All these territories have yielded impressive evidence of megalithic monuments, stone-walled villages, kurgans, basalt and schist quarries, as well as obsidian extraction and production areas. Among these latter is an important circular platform made of basalt boulders, above which a workshop for the manufacture of obsidian bifacial arrowheads and spearheads was discovered. All the aforementioned features have been GPS-recorded and photographed with the use of a non-professional small drone. They show that the entire region is a monumental landscape, which most probably started to be built around the beginning of the Bronze Age, as many of the lithic finds would suggest.
Constructing, Revealing and Concealing Identity through Oaths in the Late Ancient Eastern Mediterranean
Authors: Blidstein Moshe 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
In this article, I will examine the functions of oaths in narratives of encounter, confrontation and polemic between religious communities in late antiquity, especially Jews and Christians. Through an analysis of these narratives, I hope to show that oaths had several functions: specific oath formulae were strongly associated with specific religious identities, and as such could be used to highlight distance between religious groups. However, oaths could be used to demonstrate the permeability of religious boundaries, or even be deployed cunningly to conceal one’s identity or subvert expectations of its performance.
Between Politics and Justice: International Criminal Law in Hungary
Authors: Hoffmann Tamás 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
Hungary has had an intense engagement with international criminal justice. During communism and democracy alike, the normative framework and language of international criminal law was used to delegitimise the political opponent. This article aims to describe the way international criminal law was repeatedly instrumentalized to not simply serve as a genuine tool for justice but also as a potent political pawn through presenting the use of international criminal law in four different time periods: (1) during the post-World War ii war crimes trials at the People’s Tribunals; (2) the adoption of universal jurisdiction during the communist era as a tool of Cold War status competition; (3) in the 1990s, as an instrument of transitional justice; and finally, (4) in the post-2010s, as a tool for memory politics and anti-migration propaganda.
Appropriation and Contestation of Akan Traditional Healing Approaches in the Healing of Mentally Ill Patients at Prayer Camps in Ghana
Authors: Benyah Francis Ethelbert Kwabena 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
Prayer camps are Pentecostal healing centres established across various parts of Ghana. Prayer camps in Ghana have become notable centres offering mainly spiritual help to people with mental health conditions. Arguably, prayer camps serve as a breakpoint or watershed between traditional healing shrines and the ‘gardens’ operated by Spiritual churches, popularly known as Sunsum sorè, in Ghana. Analysing data collected from fieldwork between 2019 and 2021, this article shows that the healing rituals for the mentally ill at prayer camps in Ghana share similarities with traditional healing shrine practices. The article argues that while such practices reveal the appropriation of traditional healing approaches at prayer camps, they also bring the tension and contestation inherent to the concept of appropriation into perspective.
A Second Violation of the Sharia Provision: Egypt’s SCC’s Ruling of 12 May 2013, in the Case No. 37/xxxiii (Annotated and Translated)
Authors: Parolin Gianluca 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
In mid-2013, Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court found a statutory provision in force at the time of the decision to be in violation of the constitutional provision declaring the principles of Islamic sharia the chief source of legislation (Article 2). It was the second time since the provision was originally introduced in the Constitution in 1971 and later amended in 1980. It had only happened once before, in 2006. In the ruling considered here, the Court confirmed its conventional construction of Article 2, and declared that in the case at hand the legislator had simply overstepped its boundaries by restricting the exercise of the grandparents’ visitation rights to the case of the absence of parents. In the eyes of the Court, the legislator was entitled to regulate grandparents’ visitation rights, but in doing so it did not properly align its intervention with the overall objectives of sharia (maqāṣid). The ruling was issued in a relatively peaceful phase that followed a fierce and prolonged confrontation between the Court and Islamists the previous year.
Pentecostal Missiology: Encountering Wounded Society through a Scholarship of Engagement
Authors: Kgatle Mookgo Solomon 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
A scholarship of engagement is an approach that connects knowledge systems to the challenges facing society in a meaningful way. This article reviews the literature on Pentecostal missiology to make a new contribution through a scholarship of engagement. Previous studies on Pentecostal missiology have focused on how Pentecostals conduct their mission and very little on how they engage societal problems. This leaves a gap in how Pentecostal missiology as a discipline engages wounded society, particularly in a South African context. Wounds found within South African society, such as gender-based violence, crime, effects of COVID-19, corruption, climate change, and economic crises are highlighted. This article aims to illustrate that Pentecostal missiology must be aware of societal wounds to be able to truly engage with wounded societies. The study challenges Pentecostal missiologists to not only focus on Pentecostal missions inwardly but to also engage society and its challenges through a scholarship of engagement.
Flag Independence without Flags? Mozambican Decolonization on the Periphery of the New Nation
Authors: Zeman Andreas 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
This article examines the history of Mozambican decolonization on the periphery of the new nation, in the province of Niassa. The article offers new insights into our understanding of Mozambique’s decolonization process “on the ground,” complicating Frelimo’s still dominant liberation narrative. As a central argument, the article challenges the romantic idea of the pioneering role of Niassa’s so-called “liberated zones” in Mozambique’s nation building process. It shows that it was not local (wartime) practices that informed national plans, but rather national directives that were imposed on local experiences. Drawing mainly on sources from the Arquivo Permanente do Gabinete do Governador in Lichinga, the article also hopes to highlight the potential of post-colonial archives in Africa, which continue to be neglected.
The Ambiguous Religiosity of Justin Martyr
Authors: Banna Pierluigi 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
The comparison that Justin Martyr makes between the Christianity to which he converted and the traditional cults of his time has two sides that make Justin’s religiosity essentially ambiguous. On the one hand, Justin critically attributes the concepts and practices of ancient religiosity to the influence of demons. On the other hand, he wants to justify the universality of the Logos in human history. For this reason, he recognizes, in an appreciative way, certain traces of truth and morality in Greek wisdom, which finds its fullness and fulfillment in Christ, Logos made flesh.
In the light of this ambiguous religiosity, one can understand why Justin coins the phrase “Christians before Jesus” as a category for Socrates and others. The driving force behind this operation is certainly confessional and proselytising, but for contemporary dialogue it can stimulate a sincere and passionate exchange with the religious position of one’s interlocutors.
The Embassy as an Extension of the Diplomatic Persona
Authors: Verpoest Lien 
Published: July 2024

Summary
Built by the architect Louis Montoyer in Vienna between 1803 and 1808 for the Russian ambassador to Austria, Andrey Razumovsky, the famous Razumovsky Palace would become the centre of anti-Napoleonic diplomacy in the early nineteenth century and a fixture in Vienna’s lively cultural scene. This article first discusses how the ambassador used his embassy as a meeting place for formal and informal diplomacy that contributed to Russia’s positioning against Napoleon long before the Grande Armée invaded the empire. Secondly, the architectural outline of the Razumovsky Palace is linked to the different cultural functions of the embassy that underpinned and strengthened Razumovsky’s diplomatic network. The final section of the article explores the role of the Razumovsky Palace as a determinant factor in the ambassador’s decision to leave diplomatic service and remain in Vienna until his death in 1836.
On the Ideological and Practical Significance of Siddur Inner Cover Illustrations in Modern Eretz Israel
Authors: Gafni Reuven 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
This study focuses on one visual component within the envelope of the siddur (the Jewish prayer book) that has yet to receive scholarly attention: the artistic illustration appearing on its inner cover (for the siddur in Hebrew, on the first left page). Specifically, it examines the inner cover illustration of six modern Ashkenazi prayer books from Eretz Israel, delving into the marketing and ideological messages embedded within each illustration. The comparative study of these six Ashkenazi siddurim – most of which were created at a time when the liturgical and ideological design of the prayer and synagogue in Eretz Israel was being re-examined, affecting also the design and identity of each siddur – allows us to make an in-depth comparison between the different illustrations, placing each of them within a specific, comparative context.
Response to Frank Ankersmit, Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen, and Paul Roth
Authors: Mitrović Branko 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
In this text I analyze Frank Ankersmit’s, Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen’s, and Paul Roth’s responses to my claim that anti-realism in the philosophy of history entails that the past did not happen. I conclude that Ankersmit has failed to understand the argument I presented, Kuukkanen de facto agrees with my view, while Roth has addressed my earlier criticism of the view that the past can be changed and not the argument that is currently under discussion.
Human Security and Accountability in the Central African Republic: A Bridge Half-Crossed
Authors: Buitelaar Tom 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
In its rhetoric, the United Nations foregrounds the importance of individual accountability for human rights violations. It also emphasizes the necessity of transitional justice in which individual survivors deserve recognition for their suffering and should take a central place in decisions on what happens after periods of violent unrest. These commitments are in line with the central tenets of human security, another key discursive element of the UN’s work, which calls for putting people front and center in the organization’s conflict response. People working in and on UN peace operations have put considerable effort into mainstreaming this approach in the organization’s accountability work. However, this commitment runs into several obstacles on the ground. This paper analyzes these challenges in the context of the UN’s efforts to support transitional justice efforts in the Central African Republic, where the UN has an exceptionally extensive mandate to promote accountability for atrocity crimes.
Weser Old Frisian Dative Plural -on: A West Germanic Isogloss?
Authors: den Hertog Simon 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
The Weser Old Frisian a-stem dative plural ending -on is unusual, since the other Old Frisian dialects reflect -um. This article discusses whether -on is the result of affix borrowing from Old Saxon or the result of a regular sound change, guided by typological and dialectological considerations. The truth appears to lie somewhere in the middle: The ending -on is likely the result of a small-scale sound change that only affected the dialects ancestral to Weser Old Frisian, Old Saxon, and Old Dutch.
Labial Fricatives in the History of Frisian
Authors: Laker Stephen 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
The article has two aims: (1) to survey the main developments of labial fricatives in the history of Frisian; (2) to explain the varied developments of the voiced labial fricative more effectively based on the evidence Old Frisian spellings and reflexes in Modern Frisian dialects. As to the latter aim, it is argued that the currently accepted structural phonological explanation for the emergence of a systematic voicing alternation /f ~ v/ in early Old Frisian is too rigid. In agreement with Theodor Siebs, variable retention and lenition of the voiced bilabial fricative [β] presents another way of accounting for many of the Old Frisian spellings and Modern Frisian dialectal forms.
The Digital Afterlives of Dambudzo Marechera
Authors: Mushakavanhu Tinashe 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
Dambudzo Marechera who died in 1987 remains a fascinating phenomenon in African literary culture. He is very much alive in the visual culture in which he circulates digitally. He is at once posthumous, multiple, and contemporary. Even though Marechera did not live to see the 21st century, he left versions of himself that remain both relevant and resonant. This paper considers the various ways Marechera’s digital afterlives manifest and force us to interrogate the intersections of life, death, personal data and human autonomy and presents a critique of unethical digital resurrection. Who does digital Marechera belong to?
An Afro-cosmological Approach to Marechera’s The House of Hunger (1978)
Authors: Fingson Kundai Watson , Ngara Kudzayi 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
Marechera and his literary texts do not fit easily into Africanist categories of reading, principally due to his vitriolic invocation of the ‘f-word’ when asked if he was an African writer. Despite this iconoclasm, Afro-cosmic creeds undeniably inform aspects of his novella. An Afro-cosmological approach acknowledges non-empirical influences for certain behavioural traits portrayed by various characters in the novella which Marechera utilises and assails to address a ‘diseased’ colonial life. Using Falola’s Ritual Archives (2017), we approach this novella as a repository of Shona social ideation and cultural mythologies of haunting, and the Isisism trope of putting material remains back together. Numerous invocations of Shona cosmologies demonstrate Marechera’s socialisation into an African cosmology which manifests itself in his writing and life in unlimited ways. In sum, we interrogate the author’s use of culture codes to relocate him within an African rationale, thus, unmooring him from the Western-centric frameworks emphasised by Veit-Wild’s memoir (2020). We offer insights into the spirituality surrounding Marechera, his vagabondage and his seemingly self-sabotaging behaviour succinctly summarised by Veit-Wild as ‘biting every hand that fed you.’ Flora Veit-Wild, using the logic of a European, fails to appreciate this aspect of his life. In this article we recentre an African cosmology through the topos of being haunted to conceptualise Marechera’s writing and life to account for non-Western occurrences and modes of psychic distress which find no diagnosis in Western psychiatry.