bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Education in a Functionally Differentiated World Society
Authors: Vanderstraeten Raf 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
This chapter provides an overview of systems-theoretical reflections on education in modern society. It focuses particularly on education as a function system in our world society. Building upon the theories of Talcott Parsons and Niklas Luhmann, three aspects of the sociohistorical evolution of this function system are discussed: the worldwide institutionalization of inclusion imperatives, the limits to professionalization processes, and the triggers of the rapid global expansion of higher education. In light of recent evolutions, also discussed is how the rapid expansion of participation in higher education in recent decades is changing the position and relevance of education in contemporary society. Attention is drawn to the forms of socio-geographical segregation and exclusion that are currently emerged between high- and low-schooled individuals in many parts of the world.
Colonization, Indigenous Resilience, and Social Justice in Caribbean Archaeology
Authors: Herrera Malatesta Eduardo , Sony Jean Joseph 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
This chapter provides an overview of colonization, indigenous resilience, and social justice in Caribbean archaeology. It starts with how the colonial expansion in the Caribbean played a crucial role in shaping the landscape of the European powers. The indigenous history of the local Carribean has been strongly biased towards perpetuating colonialist representations of the past indigenous people. The chapter explains how archaeology can become an important element in the search for balance in the distribution of opportunities, privileges and education for Caribbean societies. It cites that, in order to achieve social justice, the voices of indigenous populations and local communities must be amplified without continuing to maintain an asymmetric relationship between the interlocutors of the past.
Heritage and Institutional Power
Authors: Vawda Shahid 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
This chapter discusses the recognition of heritage and institutional power within the Southern Indian Ocean. It acknowledges heritage as one of the most highly contested issues, spilling over into the political sphere, reflecting and shaping old, new, and invented identities and traditions. Archaeology and anthropology shaped the understanding of heritage matters that reflect real and deeper problems around the symbolic content of public colonial representations. The chapter details how South African heritage legislation and policy showcase the twists and turns of the meaning of heritage as “state authorization” for over eight decades. It also elaborates on the underlying issues surrounding the Rhodes Must Fall movement, citing the erasure of history and the institutional power of the university to impose a solution.
Modernist Poetry and Marathi Modernism
Authors: Dharwadker Vinay 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
In contemporary Marathi and Indian literary cultures, Dilip Chitre continues to be an exemplary figure of the sāṭhottarī period, not only as a bilingual writer but also as an innovative artist in different mediums of representation. A cornerstone of Chitre’s lasting influence is his Anthology of Modern Marathi Poetry (1967), which still frames our understanding of modernism and modernist poetry, not only in Marathi but also in India’s broader multilingual dynamics of the early post-Independence decades. This chapter examines the Anthology’s remarkable legacy more than half a century after its publication as well as the contours of Marathi poetic modernism as they appear today through the lens of Chitre’s work as critic, translator, poet, and theorist.
Elites, Subalterns, and the Postcolonial Nation
Authors: Jani Pranav 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
Indian novels in English, exploding onto the world stage in the 1980s and 1990s in the midst of neoliberal expansion and postcolonial crises, occupied a contradictory space. Written mostly by writers from elite backgrounds and addressing a global audience, the novels benefited from the expansion of markets, the circulation of English writing, and a new interest in postcolonial writing. At the same time, writing in the aftermath of the Emergency, they raised criticisms of the postcolonial nation and its authoritarianism, of rising sectarianism, and of social hierarchies. Examining four major works of the period—Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, Nayantara Sahgal’s Rich Like Us, Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines, and Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance—this chapter draws out the different narrative strategies and perspectives through which writers examined elite subjectivity and subaltern suffering while mobilizing their cultural capital to critique the nation.
Urban Space across Genre
Authors: Goulding Gregory 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
This chapter takes up a major writer of post-Independence Hindi through a focus on his depiction of urban space. The works of Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh (1917–1964) are set in different small- and medium-sized cities across the urban landscape of central India. In his fiction, poetry, and criticism, Muktibodh combined a detailed examination of urban space with a keen sense of local, national, and international scale. The resulting works reveal the unstable grounds of the mid-century Indian city. Through readings of Muktibodh’s short story “Claude Eatherly” and his poem “Cāṁd kā muṁh ṭeḍhā hai” (“The Moon’s Face Is Crooked”), this chapter considers how Muktibodh’s idea of the city was expressed through experimentation with form. These two works consider a range of responses to urban space, from utopian revolutionaries pasting posters across a surveilled, midnight space, to a paranoid internationalism in which an American pilot is held in the center of a newly planned, wealthy city. Both of these pieces present new formal techniques for depicting the city that incorporate both the subjectivity of Hindi modernism and tropes from popular fiction. Muktibodh’s imagination of the city, the chapter argues, offers a unique set of case studies for considering the discomfiting, alienating experience of everyday life.
Bilingual Premchand and His Legacy
Authors: Asaduddin M. 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
This chapter undertakes an end-century assessment of Premchand, who not only pioneered Urdu-Hindi fiction but also shaped and nurtured the readership in these language communities at their formative stages. He used literature as a potent instrument for moral edification, social awakening, and ethical reform. Almost all issues of contemporary Indian life can be seen reflected in his fictional and non fictional writings. Many of the social issues he grappled with have remained as relevant today, at the distance of a century, as they were during his lifetime. One of the difficulties that plagued Premchand criticism is that very few scholars could access the entire Premchand corpus that exists in Hindi and Urdu. They largely limited themselves to only one of the archives, basing their assumptions on that limited archive, without even a gesture toward the “vast unread.” This chapter discusses both the archives for complementary insights, looks at his reception in India and abroad to assess his global impact, and explores how Premchand shows a continuing relevance for both Hindi and Urdu literatures even though many of his contemporary writers have become dated.
Probable, Improbable, and Catastrophic Realisms in Amitav Ghosh’s Fiction
Authors: Ray Sangeeta 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
This chapter takes up questions of form and genre in Amitav Ghosh’s key novels. It focuses on the use of realism as the chosen mode of representation in Ghosh’s many historical fictions. The chapter argues that despite the choice of realism, Ghosh, in many of his novels, has skillfully delineated the improbable in fictional worlds often governed by the laws of probability and chance. The chapter begins with a critical examination of Ghosh’s nonfictional work, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, before moving on to a discussion of The Glass Palace. The chapter then shifts to an exploration of the explicit engagement with questions of form and ecology in The Hungry Tide and the Ibis trilogy, particularly Sea of Poppies and Flood of Fire. It concludes by exploring Ghosh’s experimental novel Gun Island, which, despite its sweeping historical trajectory and the representation of contemporary crises caused by climate change, fails to provide a successful alternate mode of storytelling to represent catastrophic planetary spacetime.
English in India, India in English
Authors: Sunder Rajan Rajeswari 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
The representation of India in English is a complex and fraught affair, closely intertwined with the phenomenon of English in India. The existence and function of English in India is analyzed in terms of its sociology and its ideology. The demographics of English language users, the official status of English, and its social functions define the former. The ideological double valence of English is more complex. English in India has borne the burden of a secular modernity, shading imperceptibly into (the only true) national identity. The elite, secular, and minority identification of English in the early Nehruvian post-Independence decades has yielded, however, to the impact of the changing configurations of a global economy in the new century. Writing in English in India is viewed as an “alienated” literature because of its elitism. The implications of the changes in the status of English for anglophone literature are identified in terms of an expanded readership, new writing by Dalits, popular fiction, and translation.
Toward a Canon of Modern Indian Queer Literature
Authors: Rao R. Raj 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
Recent anthologies of queer writing from India in a range of languages are redefining the centrality of what was previously seen as a “niche” genre in the modern Indian literary canon. This chapter is a study of four major recent anthologies (which we can use as a tool, both pedagogical and one that also helps create the visibility of writers in a literary field) that give queer writing a more prominent place in Indian literary studies and raise important themes about what counts as queer writing; the place of gay, lesbian and trans writing in the larger body of queer writing; queer aesthetics; and the place of Indian queer writing within Indian literature and South Asian literature more broadly.
How to Play Indian Literature
Authors: Mukherjee Souvik 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
The entry of videogames, as a primarily western medium, into Indian narrative traditions is considered suspect, and, indeed, whether the games even constitute a narrative medium is called into question. As such a medium, although hugely popular among the current generations of Indians, videogames remain in a relative limbo in Indian academia, particularly in connection to literary studies and media studies. Building off the example of the graphic novel and addressing existing discussions around the mediality and the literariness of videogames, this chapter argues for Indian videogames as a literary form that is ensconced within, and, in turn, keeps challenging, the boundaries of literary tradition.
Writing and Being Modern
Authors: Geetha V. 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
This chapter examines the fictional universes of six women writers—two of them, Kruthika and Rajam Krishnan, are from the Brahmin communities of Tamil Nadu, while the rest, Hepsibai Jesudasan, Visalakshi, Tamizhselvi, and Sivakami, belong to what are today designated as backward and forward non-Brahmin castes and as Dalits. All writers engage with the “modern” moment in history, which interrupts the time and space of various social worlds in intersecting ways: through conversion to Christianity, a rejection of untouchability and caste, higher education, nationalism, progressive political and social movements, companionate marriage, and labor migration. Read together, these works of fiction constitute a complex archive of the “feminine” in modern Tamil Nadu, one that allows us to unpack the entangled realities of nation, caste, and family, especially their gendered and affective dimensions. This chapter points to the knowledge encoded in these lifeworlds, and equally to what cannot be—may not be—represented or narrated, except as a careless aside or uneasy afterthought. It suggests that these moments of narrative impasse have to do with caste and the manner it eludes representation.
Cross-Species Comparisons of Human and Non-Human Culture
Authors: Wood Lara A. , Vale Gill L. , Flynn Emma G. , Rawlings Bruce S. 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
Studies that directly compare the behaviour of two or more species can identify important similarities and differences in the psychological mechanisms that underpin culture, social learning, and innovation. This chapter focuses on the phylogenetically closely related human children and non-human primates to justify a comparative approach to understanding culture. Methodological approaches are outlined, and formative comparative research is summarized. We provide an overview of close convergence in many behaviours, highlighting potential evolutionary foundations and the necessary psychological toolkit underpinning culture, social learning, and innovation. Alongside this, the chapter illustrates the equally valuable divergence between species, demonstrating differences in behaviour and cognition that further illuminate our understanding of the mechanisms of culture. The challenges and limitations of comparative approaches are acknowledged and explored, and future avenues of effective comparative research are proposed.
Activating Cultural Evolution for Good When People Differ from Each Other
Authors: Efferson Charles , Vogt Sonja , von Flüe Lukas 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
Interventions designed to promote behaviour change operate through at least two channels. First, an intervention can have a direct effect in that some people directly exposed to the intervention make a choice as a result of exposure. Second, an intervention can have an indirect effect in that some people make choices because they observe other people whose choices have already been influenced by the intervention. The authors surveyed the literature and found that this second cultural evolutionary channel has been offered as a way to amplify the effects of interventions across a spectacular array of domains related to health, human rights, and the environment. The authors argue, however, that ordinary forms of heterogeneity and the intrinsic complexity of cultural evolutionary processes introduce a number of ethical and practical challenges. For example, when people have different preferences, social planners should typically expect a trade-off between the direct and indirect effects of an intervention. Increasing one means decreasing the other, and social planners may often lack the information they need to resolve the trade-off effectively. In spite of these challenges, however, the authors also argue that narratives designed to be both educational and entertaining could play a powerful supporting role given our limited understanding of how to activate cultural evolution for good.
Multimorbidity in rheumatoid arthritis: common mechanistic links and impact and challenges in routine clinical practice
Authors: Surandran Sanggeeta , Ahmed Saad , Walton Tom , Nikiphorou Elena , Dey Mrinalini 
Published: October 2023

AbstractEarly identification and management of multimorbidity in patients with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMDs), such as RA, is an integral, but often neglected, aspect of care. The prevalence and incidence of conditions such as osteoporosis, cardiovascular disease, pulmonary disease and malignancies, often co-existing with RA, continues to have significant implications for the management of this patient group. Multimorbidity in RMDs can be associated with inflammatory disease activity and target organ damage. Lifestyle factors, such as smoking and inactivity, further contribute to the burden of disease. Inflammation is the underlying factor, not just in RA but also many comorbidities. The current framework of a treat-to-target approach focuses on achieving early remission and inflammatory activity suppression. We describe how the comorbidity burden in people with RMDs impacts on disease outcome and treatment response. The importance of addressing comorbidity at an early stage and adopting a patient centred approach is critical in modern practice.
The term structure of equity yields—a bottom-up approach
Authors: Schröder David 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
This article proposes a novel perspective on the term structure of market equity yields. Instead of using market dividend futures, we aggregate equity yields of individual firms to estimate the market equity yield curve. This approach allows studying the aggregation effect that shapes the market equity yield curve. During the period from 1990 to 2019, we find a positive aggregation effect: companies with high equity yields were expected to grow at higher rates than companies with low equity yields. Thus, high-yield companies were expected to generate an increasing share of total market dividends when expanding the investment time horizon. Under the assumption of flat firm-risk premia, this implies an upward-sloping term structure of equity risk premia. Together with the concave bond yield curve, the market equity yield curve was upward-sloping.
O045 Sleep Duration is Associated with Young Adult's Heart Rate Variability Response to Stress
Authors: Gadam S , Rossa K , Pattinson C , Shekari Soleimanloo S , Mann D , Salmon P , Sullivan K , Smith S 
Published: October 2023

Abstract

Introduction
Young adulthood is a critical developmental period typified by heightened exposure to stress, and a tendency towards insufficient sleep. The relationship between sleep loss and stress may have lifelong health consequences. Currently, our understanding of this relationship in young adults is limited. Heart rate variability (HRV) is an important indicator of balance in the autonomic nervous system. We examined the association between sleep duration and HRV in response to cognitive stressors.

Methods
Seventy-six young adults (M=20.6±1.9, 72.4% female) who self-identified as short sleepers were recruited. Habitual sleep duration was monitored with actigraphy for two weeks. Participants subsequently underwent an in-lab experiment where their HRV was recorded during baseline, and during a cognitive stress condition involving the completion of computerised cognitive stress tasks. Participants also reported their habitual stress levels and sleep quality.

Results
Actigraphy assessment revealed that participants slept within the recommended sleep durations (M=7.8±0.7). The participants reported high habitual stress but normal sleep quality. Our moderation analysis indicates that shorter sleep duration was associated with elevated HRV during the cognitively demanding tasks.

Conclusions
Our findings demonstrate an association between sleep duration and HRV in the context of a cognitive stressor, indicating that sleep and stress are related in young adults. An unexpected negative relationship between sleep duration and HRV during the cognitively demanding tasks suggests complexity in this relationship; however, we should still look to reduce stress and improve sleep where we can in young adults. This association may be better understood via direct manipulation of sleep duration.
The Association Between Family Resources and Language Among Young Children Who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Authors: Townsend Julia , Conrad Cassandra , Williams Sara , Wiley Susan , Meinzen-Derr Jareen 
Published: October 2023

Abstract:

Objective:
Our study (1) examined demographic factors in families with children with bilateral hearing loss and how they relate to Family Resource Scale (FRS) questionnaire data and (2) examined correlations between FRS data and measures of language.

Methods:
Children aged 6 months to 10 years with bilateral hearing loss were enrolled. Parents completed the FRS questionnaire to assess their access to socioeconomic resources at the first language measurement visit. Assessments measured receptive and expressive language, nonverbal intelligence quotient, and adaptive functioning.

Results:
Among the 85 children included in the analysis, approximately 40% had hearing loss classified as mild to moderate and 25% had a cochlear implant. Participants' mean FRS score was 130 (SD 16.6) (with the highest possible score of 150 and indicating better access to resources). Significant positive correlations (p-value ≤ 0.05) were found between maternal education, paternal education, and family income and several FRS subscales (Growth and Support, Necessities in Health, Childcare, Personal Resources). Significant positive correlations were found between the Necessities in Health subscale and all the language measurements.

Conclusion:
Children whose parents reported better access to socioeconomic resources related to health care had higher language performance scores. Although early access to intervention services has improved for deaf or hard-of-hearing children, there are other variables contributing to language development, including access to socioeconomic resources. This study highlights the need for further research addressing more specific and modifiable resources to improve language performance for deaf or hard-of-hearing children.
The macrophage STING-YAP axis controls hepatic steatosis by promoting the autophagic degradation of lipid droplets
Authors: Yang Tao , Qu Xiaoye , Wang Xiao , Xu Dongwei , Sheng Mingwei , Lin Yuanbang , Ke Michael , Song Ci , Xia Qiang , Jiang Longfeng , Li Jun , Farmer Douglas G. , Ke Bibo 
Published: October 2023

Background and Aims:
The hallmark of NAFLD or hepatic steatosis is characterized by lipid droplet (LD) accumulation in hepatocytes. Autophagy may have profound effects on lipid metabolism and innate immune response. However, how innate immune activation may regulate the autophagic degradation of intracellular LDs remains elusive.

Approach and Results:
A mouse model of a high-fat diet–induced NASH was used in the myeloid-specific stimulator of interferon genes (STING) knockout or STING/yes-associated protein (YAP) double knockout mice. Liver injury, lipid accumulation, lipid droplet proteins, autophagic genes, chromatin immunoprecipitation coupled with massively parallel sequencing, and RNA-Seq were assessed in vivo and in vitro. We found that high-fat diet–induced oxidative stress activates STING and YAP pathways in hepatic macrophages. The acrophage STING deficiency (myeloid-specific STING knockout) enhances nuclear YAP activity, reduces lipid accumulation, and increases autophagy-related proteins ATG5, ATG7, and light chain 3B but diminishes LD protein perilipin 2 expression. However, disruption of STING and YAP (myeloid STING and YAP double knockout) increases serum alanine aminotransferase and triglyceride levels and reduces β-fatty acid oxidation gene expression but augments perilipin 2 levels, exacerbating high-fat diet–induced lipid deposition. Chromatin immunoprecipitation coupled with massively parallel sequencing reveals that macrophage YAP targets transmembrane protein 205 and activates AMP-activated protein kinase α, which interacts with hepatocyte mitofusin 2 and induces protein disulfide isomerase activation. Protein disulfide isomerase activates hypoxia-inducible factor-1α signaling, increases autophagosome colocalization with LDs, and promotes the degradation of perilipin 2 by interacting with chaperone-mediated autophagy chaperone HSC70.

Conclusions:
The macrophage STING-YAP axis controls hepatic steatosis by reprogramming lipid metabolism in a transmembrane protein 205/mitofusin 2/protein disulfide isomerase-dependent pathway. These findings highlight the regulatory mechanism of the macrophage STING-driven YAP activity on lipid control.