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Revascularization Therapies for Ischemic Stroke and Association With Risk of Epilepsy: A Danish Nationwide Register‐Based Study
Authors: Ebbesen Mads Qvist Buur , Dreier Julie Werenberg , Lolk Kasper , Andersen Grethe , Johnsen Søren Paaske , Zelano Johan , Christensen Jakob 
Published: July 2024

Background
The association between stroke revascularization therapies and poststroke epilepsy is only sparsely investigated, and results are conflicting. The aim of this study is to investigate whether stroke revascularization therapies are associated with different risks of poststroke epilepsy.

Methods and Results
We conducted a nationwide, register‐based, propensity score–matched cohort study. We identified 40 816 patients admitted with a first ischemic stroke and no prior history of epilepsy in Denmark between January 1, 2011, and December 16, 2018. Of these, 6541 were treated with thrombolysis, 379 with thrombectomy, and 1005 with both thrombolysis and thrombectomy. The 3 treatment groups were each matched 1:1 to patients with stroke not treated with revascularization. Exact matching was done for sex, while propensity scores included information on stroke severity, cortical involvement, age, comorbidities, and socioeconomic parameters. Outcome was any diagnosis of epilepsy. We used Cox regressions to estimate adjusted hazard ratios (HRs) of epilepsy after ischemic stroke. Compared with matched patients with ischemic stroke not receiving revascularization treatment, patients who received thrombolysis alone had 32% lower risk of epilepsy (adjusted HR, 0.68 [95% CI, 0.57–0.81]) and patients who received thrombolysis and thrombectomy had 45% lower risk of epilepsy (adjusted HR, 0.55 [95% CI, 0.41–0.73]). Thrombectomy alone was not associated with significantly lower risk of epilepsy compared with matched patients with ischemic stroke not receiving revascularization therapy (adjusted HR, 0.78 [95% CI, 0.57–1.29]).

Conclusions
Thrombolysis alone and in combination with thrombectomy in ischemic stroke was associated with lower risk of epilepsy, whereas thrombectomy alone was not associated with lower risk of epilepsy.
The Military Coup in Niger Republic
Authors: Sowale Adetayo Olamide 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
On 26 July 2023, Mohamed Bazoum, President of Niger, was deposed by a military coup masterminded by members of his presidential guard. The military junta dissolved the government and on 28 July General Abdourahmane Tchiani, head of the presidential guard, was pronounced Niger’s military leader. Since the coup, there have been widespread responses and reactions (local and international) to the political developments in the Niger Republic. This article uses secondary sources of data to argue that the coup was not an expression of displeasure against democracy, neither did it show solidarity for an authoritarian system. It was a symptom of the failure of democracy, including the operations of its proponents (the West, and France in particular) in the Sahel. The widespread jubilation emanated from the hope that the military leadership would put in place measures to ameliorate the security and economic woes of the country. The study concludes that the security and socioeconomic improvement of the Niger Republic is not tied to either a democratic or autocratic system of government, as proclaimed in international politics by the West, especially the US and France, and Russia and China.
Naturalizing Nous? Theophrastus on Nous, Nature, and Motion
Authors: Falcon Andrea , Roreitner Robert 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
There is prima facie evidence that Theophrastus naturalized nous to the extent that he spoke of it in naturalizing terms. But our evidence also suggests that Theophrastus accepted the reasons Aristotle had for excluding nous from the reach of natural philosophy. We show that, far from revealing an inconsistency on Theophrastus’ part, this apparent tension results from a consciously adopted strategy. Theophrastus is developing one aspect of Aristotle’s account of nous he found underdeveloped and feared might be misunderstood, namely the infrangible organic unity of the whole human being, including its nous. That is why he insists that nous, although ‘from outside,’ is ‘grown together’ with us, why he speaks of it as a nature (phusis), and why he insists that thought is a motion (kinêsis). We show how these striking claims can be understood against the broader background of Theophrastus’ natural philosophy.
Sacred Sorrow, Sacred Joy
Authors: Woodward Tanya Jo 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
The Psalmic is less tidy and linear than popular interpretation, and author Edwidge Danticat explores the non-linear tensions between lament and joy. Her writing is cyclical rather than linear. As Danticat explores the individual and communal juxtaposition of tragedy and celebration, her writing echoes the varied tenor and emotions of the Psalms. Haunting tales of national and personal life and death, separation and reunion are structurally played across her works. The heartrending sequence of life and death is eloquently explored through personal stories set against larger tales of Haitian immigration. Just as the Psalmist employs the vav adversative, or turning movements of joy and lament, Danticat likewise expresses her fluid engagement with the range of human experience (Card 75, 70). Danticat’s Psalmic aesthetic and her “fully awake and alive” wrestling with grief and celebration helps readers reconsider personal and national tragedy and triumph.
Daniel 4 and the Cultural Schema of the Akītu-Festival
Authors: Buster Aubrey E. , Walton John H. 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
The king’s condition in Dan 4 has invited significant discussion. Proposed interpretations of the king’s condition in Dan 4 include various medical diagnoses, imagery from the underworld, primitive uncivilized behavior, or imagery associated with divine displeasure and affliction. The current study argues, however, that the key to interpreting these images should be found in the passage’s connection to one of the most prominent rituals of royal legitimation in ancient Mesopotamia, the akītu-festival. The akītu-festival celebrated the divine legitimation of the king through a ritual of 1) the king’s loss of royal status before it is returned; 2) a decree of destiny; and 3) a dramatic exit and re-entry into the city as a symbol of exit and re-entry into the ordered world. It is within the narrative arc of this festival that the animalian imagery of Dan 4 finds its most compelling explanation.
Worldview, Conflicting Spiritualities and Religious Ecology in Nigeria
Authors: Adebayo Francis Kehinde 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
This article contributes to the religion and environment field by analyzing the environmental impact of two divergent ethical responses within Nigerian Christianity. Based on different interpretations of a specific aspect of African spiritual cosmologies, African Indigenous churches (AIC s) and African independent Pentecostals (AIP s) in Nigeria have formulated conflicting spiritualities that shape their ecotheologies. Based on this same cosmology, the ecotheology of the AIC s shows continuity with the indigenous notion of sacred space which also encourages the preservation of the ecosystem especially trees and wet forests. The AIP s, on the other hand, interpret the same notion differently by segregating the public space into holy and evil ecologies. To rid these habitats of perceived evil spirits in the ecosystem, some AIP s have constructed a theology of evangelism and spiritual warfare to expel these spirits by destroying their habitats and converting such habitats into holy use such as building churches and prayer camps. Based on data obtained through observation and literature, the proliferation of prayer camps along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway is analysed as a product of these notions of holy and evil ecologies.
Shy–bold behaviours in dragonfly larvae: syndromes or personality?
Authors: Zenni Tatiene M. , Crivelaro Amanda Z. , Pestana Gabrielle C. , Guillermo-Ferreira Rhainer 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
Researchers have recently focused efforts on the study of animal personality and behavioural syndromes, exploring consistent behaviour variations and correlations. Dragonflies, with their diverse behaviours, have become good models to improve our knowledge on animal behaviour. Here, we addressed whether dragonfly larvae exhibit shy–bold behaviours, akin to personality traits or behavioural syndromes. We made a series of experiments where we restrained larvae and noted their behaviour — some larvae exhibited thanatosis, playing dead when touched, while others boldly reacted with aggression. Later, we tested how active the larvae were in a water channel by analysing their movement. These experiments were made in three trials with 15 days apart. Our results show that larvae display consistent behaviours over time, hence, they exhibit personalities in terms of predator avoidance behaviour. Nevertheless, we found little evidence for behavioural syndromes. The boldness of larvae was only partially correlated with larval activity in the experimental channel. In conclusion, dragonflies emerge as a potential model for insect personality, prompting future studies on how cognition and personality impact fitness in different environments. Unravelling whether behavioural syndromes are a true phenomenon in these insects awaits further investigation.
Global Palestine Solidarity and the Jewish Question
Authors: Haugbølle Sune 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
From its emergence in the late 1960s, global Palestine solidarity has had to defend itself from charges of antisemitism. Activists have responded with different strategies, ranging from rejection to admission and self-critique. Such strategies were often the result of deliberation with Palestinian revolutionaries. In this way, differently situated problem-spaces of ‘the Jewish Question’ – that of settler colonialism in Palestine and that of post-Holocaust politics in Europe – became entangled. Resulting inter-sectional alliances with, for example, Jewish voices and groups have often afforded the best protection from allegations of antisemitism. Despite these efforts, recent legislation criminalising Palestine solidarity shows that Israel’s well-funded campaigns to equate anti-Zionism with antisemitism have been partially successful. This article looks for answers to today’s impasse in 50 years of solidarity on the Left and corresponding efforts to criminalise support for the Palestinian cause. Drawing on the archives of solidarity movements in Denmark and other European countries, it traces the current aggressive pushback to its roots in the early 1970s, when Palestine solidarity movements learned important lessons about how to balance their critique of Israel with public sensitivities around the Jewish question, and how to reckon with race and religious identity.
When Monopsony Power Wanes
Authors: Kumar Ashok 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
In this Part 2, Subjective Agency, I delve into the evolving power and agency of workers as structural conditions undergo transformation. Part 1 described how the law of competition propels firms towards centralisation, gradually diminishing the monopsony power wielded by global buyers in labour-intensive sectors. While manufacturers gain more power and significance, capable of undermining workers’ power, they also become susceptible to disruption. This section introduces the concept of Degree of Spatial Inflexibility (dsi). It posits that as a manufacturer’s monopoly power increases, the monopsony power in the supply chain decreases. However, this elevated monopoly power simultaneously establishes a higher dsi, amplifying the potential for worker disruption. It is essential to recognise that structural power shifts do not guarantee automatic benefits for workers; instead, they necessitate workers to capitalise on these vulnerabilities. This establishes a dialectical relationship between the evolving conditions of capital outlined in Part 1 and the subjective agency of workers, as detailed in Part 2 below.
Kujūla Kadphises’ “Roman” Coin: an Issue for Merchants
Authors: Magnani Alessandro 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
The paper studies a copper coin type issued during the reign of the Kuṣāṇ king Kujūla Kadphises (ca. 40/50–90 AD) called “Roman Emperor Type”. These coins, dated towards the end of the first century AD, present on the obverse the image of a ruler recalling the imperial iconography of the Julio-Claudian period, and on the reverse Kujūla himself seated. The coin is a real innovation in the history of ancient Indian numismatics and can be the starting point to understand the political choices of Kujūla in a context still embryonic for the Kuṣāṇs. This paper, through the literary, epigraphic, and archaeological sources at our disposal, aims to demonstrate that the issuing was influenced not only by the halo of authority that the Romans had in India, but mainly by the economic and religious context of the city, which the sovereign used as a place of experimentation for this particular hybrid type of coin.
Drawing on Children’s Mobilisation in the Chinese Soviet Republic, 1933–1934
Authors: Tillman Margaret Mih 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
After the White Terror of 1927, the Chinese Communist Party relocated from Shanghai to the border region between Jiangxi and Fujian; one of the major challenges that the new Chinese Soviet Republic faced was transition from urban to rural. While political historians explored the ensuing conflicts between Soviet and Chinese influences, the lens of children’s history indicates that children’s organisations—and children themselves—freely adopted Soviet influences for their own local needs. By examining the visual and textual representation of children and by children in two major periodicals, this article suggests that children participated in the creation of a new political culture and imagination with important legacies for wartime propaganda.
Life after the Failed Voice
Authors: de Villiers Bertus 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
The proposition of this article is that it is time to re-think Aboriginal self-determination. A process should be allowed to develop that is perhaps less grandiose than the failed Voice, which was rejected in October 2023, but more practical and reflective of Aboriginal social, linguistic, and cultural organisation. A process of self-determination that starts at the bottom and then, if necessary, works its way to the state and federal levels. The post-Voice world of Australia is uncertain. The rejection by public referendum of the Aboriginal Voice has left a void that will take a long time to fill. It is contended in the article that life after the Voice is best to be found by empowerment of local Aboriginal communities; by encouraging hundreds of local voices; by enabling those voices to become a keystone for local community affairs; and for those local Aboriginal voices to cooperate as advocates at the state and federal levels. It is suggested that a bottom-up, rather than a top-down model, would be consistent with Aboriginal social and cultural organisation, and ultimately would endow greater credibility and legitimacy for Aboriginal self-determination initiatives.
A Normative View from the Periphery: Serbia and the EU Asylum Acquis
Authors: Djurovic Rados 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
Since 2014, as part of the EU accession negotiations, Serbia is meticulously conducting legal, policy, and institutional reforms in order to align its asylum and migration law and policy with the EU acquis. At the same time, as a consequence of the European policies put in place since 2015 (fences, large-scale pushbacks), Serbia faces a high risk of becoming a buffer zone in between EU Member States Greece and Bulgaria (whence many refugees enter Serbia) and Croatia and Hungary (which many refugees seek to enter).
While aiming to implement EU law as a candidate Member State, Serbia is simultaneously trying to avoid stronger migration pressure and becoming a hotspot which are the consequence of implementing the EU acquis. Caught between these two conflicting policy aims, Serbia is following the example of Greece in limiting migration pressure by keeping its asylum system dysfunctional, ignoring refugee needs and undermining refugee protection. The substandard character of the Serbian asylum system in practice (both when it comes to its slow and inefficient asylum procedure, limited access to legal aid and information, as well as when it comes to an unsustainable and dysfunctional reception and integration system) makes returns to Serbia a violation of European Human Rights law (i.a., ECtHR 21 November 2019, Ilias and Ahmed v Hungary, application no. 47287/15), while it also gives migrants and refugees a strong incentive to move on to the EU.
This combination of formally adopting, but not implementing, the EU acquis will be analysed as a normative response to the perceived lack of legitimacy of the EU acquis, which uses the weak position of peripheral Member States like Greece and neighbouring countries like Serbia to impose a disproportionate burden on them.
Between Active Matter and Letters: Kabbalah, Natural Knowledge, and Jewish How-To Books in Early Modern East-Central Europe
Authors: Paluch Agata 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
This essay focuses on Jewish practical kabbalistic books of recipes that were produced in early modern East-Central Europe. These handwritten sources document the Jewish engagement with practical forms of expertise, which were informed by the theoretical foundations of kabbalistic knowledge. Through two case studies, the article highlights Jewish vernacular ideas about nature and matter, and the techniques used to transform these ideas into practical things during the early modern period. It also explores the phenomenon of recording these ideas and methods in the form of practical kabbalistic books of recipes, which serve as a prime example of practical episteme. In so doing, the article sheds light on the significance of kabbalistic theosophy and practical kabbalistic traditions, particularly those developed in East-Central Europe, in the broader history of Western European knowledge production.
Sowa Rigpa, Vajrayana Buddhism, and COVID-19 Vaccines in India and Bhutan
Authors: Gerke Barbara 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
In this paper, I explore how both the Central Tibetan Administration in Dharamsala, India, and the Bhutanese government utilized Buddhist leaders and religious practices to promote public health measures during the pandemic, considering that there was a high acceptance rate of COVID-19 vaccination in these Buddhist communities. I also touch upon how classical Sowa Rigpa understandings of infectious disease transmission and prevention might have played a role in vaccination acceptance. I hypothesize that Buddhist leaders in Dharamsala and in Bhutan were able to utilize their authority to support the advice of their health departments in multiple ways partly because ideas of disease prevention and protection – Sowa Rigpa protective pills, Buddhist rituals, and vaccination history – were already prevalent in the communities. Specifically, I argue that during 2021/22, medico-religious and ritual engagements played a supportive role in COVID-19 vaccination efforts. They reveal different layers of trust, such as in existing public health systems and in religious and political authorities. I raise further questions about how Sowa Rigpa was utilized differently in Dharamsala and Bhutan and to what extent it was integrated into public health efforts. This paper is largely based on articles that were published during the pandemic between 2020 and 2022.
Three Decades of Manufacturing Religion
Authors: McCutcheon Russell T. 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
This essay introduces the theme issue, “Manufacturing Religion: From Christian Origins to Classical Islam.” It emphasizes the enduring relevance of paying attention to matters of classification and definition in the study of religion. The article highlights how the institutionalization and operationalization of understandings of “religion” have social effects, and thus, that the study of religion investigates nothing transcendental or sui generis, but rather ordinary human social actions and events.
Role of Agricultural Extension Services (AES) on Farm Productivity and Household Food Security in Tanzania
Authors: Kauky Monica S. 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
This study explores the effects of agricultural extension services on farm productivity and food security in Tanzania using data from the 2019/20 National Sample Census of Agriculture. The study used an Ordinary Least Square and Tobit regression models to examine the effects of agricultural extension services on agricultural productivity and food security measured in harvest per acre and Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS) respectively. The findings highlight a significant positive correlation between using agricultural extension services and increased farm productivity and food security. These results emphasize substantial policy implications suggesting a strategic focus on enhancing the accessibility and effectiveness of extension services particularly among smallholder farmers. Furthermore, the government and stakeholders need to prioritize and invest in expanding extension services to smallholder farmers. This involves improving service quality to address the specific needs of smallholder farmers. Such approaches may contribute to improved farm productivity and food security in Tanzania.
Understanding the Role of African Religion in Enhancing Morality in Africa Today
Authors: Kivinge Ivan B. 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
Today, Africa, just like any other parts of the world, is rapidly changing in many aspects of life, morality being part of it. The question which has to be posed and answered at once is: is Africa, in terms of morality, changing for better or worse? Despite the presence and influence of other foreign religions in Africa such as Christianity and Islam, commentators argue that a plethora of unethical acts are persistent. Using the philosophical approach, this paper intends to examine the changing morality in Africa focusing on the nature, possible causes for such change and proposes the possible solutions. The proposed solutions are derived from African religion which is understood as having intrinsic connection with African ethics. Ethical values which are derived from such interface are identified and rethought as normative forces for enhancing morality in Africa today. Indigenous ethical values, which constitute the identity of Africans, ought to guide contemporary African societies rather than relying on foreign ethical models.
Curating the Past
Authors: Imaz-Sheinbaum Mariana 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
We talk about curatorship as a process in which someone carefully and thoughtfully chooses and organizes a way to present particular artworks to the public. Some have theorized that curating an art exhibit and exercising the selection and organization of artworks is very similar to telling a story. This analogy invites us to expand it and reflect on how it can help illuminate what historians do as storytellers of the past. The central point of this paper is to think of historical work as a curatorial practice. This, in turn, allows us to understand the constructive enterprise that historians engage in and challenge a rooted and prevalent commitment in the historical discipline that the past is discovered rather than constructed. Historians as curators of the past select and organize undetermined materials that become determined when subsumed under a narrative that bestows the past with a particular meaning. The analogy also serves to clarify that no epistemic or metaphysical tension need exist between a notion of the real and an acknowledgment of narrative construction.