bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Association between lifestyle habits and presenteeism
Authors: Adi N P , Nagata T , Odagami K , Nagata M , Kajiki S , Kuroishi M , Mori K 
Published: July 2023

Abstract

Background
Presenteeism is affected by work-related and individual factors. Among individual factors, the effect of combining various lifestyle habits on presenteeism is unknown.

Aims
This study aimed to determine the relationship between changes in multiple good lifestyle habits with a change in presenteeism and to examine the effect of psychological factors on this relationship.

Methods
We performed a 1-year retrospective cohort study on employees of large Japanese companies. Data were collected from health check-ups and a self-administered questionnaire. Changes in presenteeism were measured using the Quality and Quantity method. Changes in lifestyle habits were measured using a modified form of Breslow’s seven health practices. Psychological factors were measured using the Kessler 6-Item Psychological Distress Scale. Linear regression was used for statistical analysis.

Results
The number of practised lifestyle habit changes was negatively correlated with a change in presenteeism. This result was consistent when adjusted for age, sex and company (B, −0.010; P &lt; 0.05), but became non-significant when additionally adjusted for psychological distress (B, −0.006). When analysed separately, only an improvement in the body mass index (B, −0.054; P &lt; 0.05) and a worsened sleep habit (B, 0.040; P &lt; 0.01) influenced a change in presenteeism.

Conclusions
This study suggests that improving various practised lifestyle habits in combination, rather than improving a single lifestyle habit, is beneficial in reducing presenteeism. Our finding that psychological distress altered the relationship of practised lifestyle habit changes with presenteeism indicates the importance of organizational-level intervention in presenteeism.
Waiting in the Heart of Empire
Authors: Datta Arunima 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
Chapter 2 examines the experiences of travelling ayahs on arrival in Britain, paying particular attention to the cases that appear in the archives due to the abandonment of ayahs by irresponsible employers. The chapter explores the relations between travelling ayahs and their employers as well as the difficult interactions with imperial administrators that travelling ayahs encountered when they found themselves in vulnerable situations. While focusing on how the Empire managed the traffic of the travelling ayahs between India and Britain, the chapter also reveals the contractual expectations that travelling ayahs had of their employers, what happened to travelling ayahs once they disembarked at a port in Britain, and how travelling ayahs made their way back to India. In the process of exploring these questions, the chapter unveils the ways the power dynamics of colonial capitalism and the contradictory migration policies of the Empire imposed periods of waiting ranging from weeks to years on travelling ayahs in Britain.
Creative Resilience in Crisis
Authors: Datta Arunima 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
Chapter 3 focuses on the various kinds of creative agency that travelling ayahs exhibited whilst waiting. Most importantly, the chapter introduces emotion as a lens through which to examine the archives, thus allowing travelling ayahs to become visible as human beings who demonstrated agency in precarious situations of waiting. The chapter focuses on various cases wherein travelling ayahs used emotions explicitly revolving around home, family, and motherhood to negotiate access to social and administrative aid in their attempts to find a way home to India. It demonstrates the busy-ness of travelling ayahs in waiting, as they engaged in planning, emotional appeals, and carefully crafted actions in order to achieve their goals and end their period of waiting.
Precarious Work and Challenges Facing Japanese Unionism
Authors: Keizer Arjan 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
This chapter compares strategies for organizing non-regular workers by two mainstream Japanese union confederations, Rengo and Zenroren, and their affiliated unions. Drawing insights from Hyman’s framework of representation (1997) that distinguishes between who (types of employees), what (objectives), and how (strategies), the chapter demonstrates how Japanese unionism has become increasingly more inclusive. However, three forms of dualism, that are manifested in the labour market, industrial relations, and union identities, have fragmented the labour movement and hindered unions’ ability to contest the prevalence of precarious work and to significantly raise its working conditions. The chapter concludes with the view that more concerted social action is needed to address precariousness.
Passed Down
Authors: Elkins Amy E. 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
Women inherit the craft of their foremothers across culture, place, and history, but also in more intimate, subtle modes that attest to the feminist complexity of this book’s approach to material culture. Moving across transaesthetic registers, this section describes the archival discovery of H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)’s needlework archive, which forms the basis of the next chapter. A handcrafted donkey figurine in the collection, which was inherited by the author and that has taken on a multifaceted symbolism that expresses the endurance of those crafted objects at the fringes of institutional archives, gives way to a reflection on associative methods and epistemologies of feminist resistance, gift economies, and institutional archives.
A modo de conclusión: Imitation and the Future of themodus
Authors: Rabone Richard 
Published: July 2023

AbstractChapter 6 concludes the book with reflections on the nature of the imitative relationships involved in this literary reappropriation of a philosophical commonplace. It summarizes peculiar complexities that condition the reception of the mean and the discussion in this book. These include: the importance of intermediary texts for the doctrine’s reception, and the need to take account of these when exploring early modern engagements with the doctrine, rather than having recourse simply to Aristotle’s account; the delicate balance of sameness and difference that allows literary texts to thrive as they rework and respond to particular strands of the mean’s reception; and the complication of having to deal with influences and models from both literary and philosophical tradition, as the case studies demonstrate the need for a reader to isolate which aspects of a tradition are relevant for any given work—looking both at the multifaceted ethical tradition outlined here, and at a work’s particular generic heritage. The second part of the chapter then combines with Chapter 2.7 to suggest how the account of the mean’s reception and critical toolkit for literary interpretation offered in this book might be taken forward in future work. These include, for example, extending the study of mythology to other figures linked to facets of the mean; extending the study of drama to other plays which foreground the vices staged in El médico; and extending the discussion of the mean in literary parodies, with useful examples already in Góngora’s poetry and in Don Quixote.
Looking South
Authors: Sloan John 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
As a student from 1861 to 1863 at St Andrews University, Lang founded a college magazine, writing most of its weekly verses, parodies, and cartoons. He was deeply affected in his first year by the death of his closest friend in college. In his second year, he was inspired by Professor James Frederick Ferrier, a defender of the generalist tradition of Scottish university education, who taught moral philosophy. Ferrier’s lectures on Greek philosophy taught him the fallibility of all intellectual system-building and the need to question shared common-sense thinking. Encouraged by his uncle, Lang attended Glasgow University for a session, and, although unhappy there, he succeeded in gaining a Snell Exhibition in Classics at Balliol College, Oxford.
What Makes a Good Historian?
Authors: Wight Martin , YOST DAVID S. 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
Basing his analysis on the insights of Sir Keith Hancock, Wight discusses three ways in which historical works can have “more durable merits than that of being up to date.” These merits are “attachment, justice, and span.” Attachment, “the opposite of detachment,” does not call for “impartiality or objectivity” but for “getting close to people, getting inside situations.” By understanding in depth the viewpoint of each principal party, the historian may achieve “the virtue of justice or fairness, to redress the balance between different attachments” and avoid “partisanship.” The virtue of span provides “an awareness of background” with “proper perspective” for related objects of study. Hancock’s principles complement Wight’s proposed concepts of historical imagination, architecture, and reflection. By imagination he means “to enter the past, to understand it, to re-enact it,” regarding what people thought as well as concrete physical details. By architecture he refers to discovering and communicating an intelligible pattern in events. By reflection he has in mind “the historian’s function as interpreter,” whether the “fundamental beliefs” about theory and philosophy are explicit or implicit and thus “concealed.” Wight concluded that “the greatest history ever written,” the account of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, “whether designedly or not, is a concealed tragic drama.”
Switzerland, the Low Countries, and Scandinavia in The World in March 1939
Authors: Wight Martin , YOST DAVID S. 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
In 1939 the main neutral European states were Switzerland, the Low Countries (Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands) and the Scandinavian countries (here defined as Denmark, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden). They were all successful parliamentary democracies; and in their foreign policies, Wight observed, “the elements of prestige and competition for power had perhaps a smaller part than in any other states in the world.” They complemented their traditional reliance on neutrality with efforts to promote collective security and disarmament in the League of Nations. Both approaches failed. For example, “At the military conference of 23 May 1939 Hitler declared that the Dutch and Belgian air bases must be occupied by force: ‘declarations of neutrality must be ignored.’” Small Powers such as Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, and Portugal were incapable of defending their colonial holdings. “The disproportion between their weight in the world and their possessions marked them down for attack.” Discussions between Hitler and high-level British officials on colonial matters raised concerns among European neutral states. “The Western neutrals had to trust that Britain, being traditionally more sensitive to disturbances of the balance of power in Africa and the Indian Ocean than in Central Europe, would thenceforward recognize in her policy that the great empires overseas were reciprocally dependent upon the security of the smaller.”
Review of A. J. P. Taylor, The Struggle for Mastery in Europe, 1848–1918 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1954)
Authors: Wight Martin , YOST DAVID S. 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
Wight praised Taylor for his “style of matchless lucidity, vigour, and wit,” with “brief, biting character-sketches.” Taylor, Wight wrote, cuts “through myth and propaganda” with “a kind of inspired and dogged common sense.” Wight observed that “not many indispensable books are so firm in construction, so clear and compelling in narrative.” Wight shared Taylor’s reservations about an economic interpretation of European imperialism in this era: “Foreign policies have deep social and economic springs, but the antecedent causes are usually political and strategic.” Paraphrasing Taylor, Wight noted that “The war of 1859 was the only aggressive war in modern history (Hitler’s included) that had no element of prevention, yet it has been unanimously applauded.” In Taylor’s words regarding this war, “The historian cannot be expected to explain this paradox; while himself approving of the war, he can only record that it was incompatible with any known system of international morality.” Taylor’s insights on the causes of wars show his “decisive and independent mind.” Wight regretted that Taylor “ignores the idea of the Concert of Europe, and does not discuss whether it meant anything more to its advocates than a mode of preserving the Balance [of Power] in their own favour.”
Review of Edouard Perroy, The Hundred Years’ War, translated by W. B. Wells, with an introduction by David Douglas (London: Eyre and Spottiswode, 1951)
Authors: Wight Martin , YOST DAVID S. 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
Historians have neglected the Hundred Years’ War, and Perroy’s book therefore has “neither predecessor nor rival.” Perroy’s attention to individuals is distinctive. In Wight’s words, “In the weight that Perroy allows to the influence of personality in the historical process he is in the great tradition of humane historiography. His character-sketches are exact and fascinating, and his discussion of Joan of Arc’s effect on the war is a model of critical piety.” The book clarifies governmental, artistic, and social developments on each side, including the Black Death, while carrying forward the central narrative of the conflict, “from a quarrel about feudal relationships to a war that is backed by a new national sentiment.” In retrospect, however, “The two senior nation-States of Europe have forgotten the struggle in which they attained self-consciousness… What mutual mistrust survives today, says Perroy, does not go back further than Louis XIV, and that is far enough.”
Jayne Anne Phillips, Lark and Termite
Authors: Godden Richard 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
Combining Randy Martin’s work on “derivative wars,” wars fought to maximize risk and volatility (Iraq, Afghanistan), and Dick Bryan and Michael Rafferty’s account of derivatives as the “new money,” or “flexible gold” of dollar-denominated global liquidity flows, I argue that from Korea to the War on Terror, the U.S. has conducted a form of “monetary imperialism” (Michael Hudson), in which military investment in “open-ended war,” driven by a doctrine of “anticipatory self-defence” (Radhika Desai), underpins the enforced flow of monies from the credit nations of the world into America’s debt factory. Such “fiat monies” (militarized) take their questionable “value” from war (monetized), and consequently rest on military labor, whose literal raw material amounts to opened bodies in pain. Phillips creates, in Termite, a severely damaged child, damaged as an extension of his father’s long-dying in Korea, doing so as a realization of the debilitation attaching to the supposed “New American Empire” and “New American Century.”
Identification with Mortals and Gods
Authors: Ready Jonathan L. 
Published: July 2023

AbstractThis chapter explores the portrayal of Agamemnon in Iliad 11, Hera in Iliad 14, Thetis in Iliad 18, Andromache in Iliad 22, and Priam in Iliad 24. It also investigates the funeral games in Iliad 23 and the Homeric Hymn to Demeter. These close readings show how the Iliad provides numerous opportunities for its audiences to identify in various ways with its mortal and immortal characters. At the same time, breaks from and impediments to identification help audiences recharge for the next moment of identification. These analyses, as well as the arguments found in the previous chapters, enable a critique of earlier scholarship’s discussions of the politics of identification.
Conclusion
Authors: Ready Jonathan L. 
Published: July 2023

AbstractImmersion in a narrative and identification with its characters are complex and variable experiences. From that perspective, one factor not yet considered in this book merits discussion: the Homeric poet’s oral performance of the poetry, a performance that would have involved gestures, vocal effects, and music. If we can only speculate on how their oral performance affected their audiences’ experiences of immersion and identification, we do know that immersed recipients do not counterargue and that immersion and identification can have profound effects on recipients. We can attribute the Iliad’s impact to its audiences’ experiences of these phenomena. In that spirit, instructors should talk about immersion and identification with their students.
Fagin in America
Authors: Anthony David 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
Chapter 4 focuses on various novels from the 1850s that borrow from and revise Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist (1838). As in Dickens, these narratives revolve around downwardly mobile middle-class characters pitted against the scheming machinations of a criminal Jew. Also as in Oliver Twist, the Fagin-like Jew is in these novels intent upon abducting the child to whom an unexpected inheritance is due. The result is a subgenre revolving around the pathos of class decline and the projection of this issue onto the urban Jew. But in these novels, the very forms of sentimental affect displayed by newly impoverished characters become the means by which they are identified as truly middle class. As such, the Fagin character acts as the convenient and even necessary means by which true class identity is manifested, even in the face of economic stress and uncertainty. Conversely, even though, as per the Oliver Twist plotline, the American Fagin is inevitably killed off, arrested, or otherwise jettisoned from the storyline, this removal is cosmetic. Even in his absence, the leftover waste of the ambivalence the Jew represents remains. Where the Jew is involved, especially when packaged in the familiar form of Fagin, closure is always partial or indeterminate.
A Continental Middle Way
Authors: Bollard Alan 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
Chapter 4 builds on the experience of Ludwig Erhard, a little-known economist, brought up during the instability of late nineteenth-century Germany, who rose rapidly to the position of Economy Minister under the US Occupation Administration. Erhard and the ordo-economists practised ‘social market’ economic policies, releasing the market from its wartime controls but with active social support. Erhard crossed paths with Jean Monnet, who was promoting a quite different ‘common market’ approach. Erhard’s economic policies helped to spark the miracle economy growth that was to bring prosperity to post-war Germany and would establish the country as a pillar of the Cold War Western Alliance.
How the Norwegian SWF Balances Ethics, ESG Risks, and Returns
Authors: Halvorssen Anita Margrethe 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
As the largest sovereign wealth fund (SWF) in the world, the Norwegian SWF’s efforts to move in a more sustainable direction are often followed by other institutional investors. This chapter examines how the Norwegian SWF (officially, the Government Pension Fund—Global, or GPFG) has evolved into a responsible investor, balancing ethics, environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risks with returns. The focus is mainly on its actions to address financial climate change risks. If the GPFG continues to evolve toward sustainable investment and acts on the latest International Energy Agency report that calls, among other things, for an end to all new fossil fuel production, it can serve as a good model for other institutional investors to deal with the challenge of climate change while remaining profitable.
Why ReadaboutNietzsche, Instead of Just Reading Nietzsche Himself?
Authors: Millgram Elijah 
Published: July 2023

AbstractNietzsche was the philosopher of disintegrating agency, and he wrote as though he was coming apart at the seams. (Which he was.) That makes him hard to read, and this book is here to help. This Introduction previews the main themes of the book, and gives a chapter-by-chapter roadmap. Each of the coming five chapters shows how to read one of Nietzsche’s books by first identifying its implicit author.
Who Was Nietzsche’s Convalescent?
Authors: Millgram Elijah 
Published: July 2023

AbstractThe Gay Science marks a turning point in Nietzsche’s writing, from the Rochefoucauld-like middle works to books that make their point by presenting their implicit authors. In its second edition, the “French moralist” who wrote the first edition is made out to be recovering from realism, a sickness whose cure is borrowed from Stendhal. Nietzsche’s appropriation of Stendhalian “crystallization” has it that the secret to a successful life is to see the both the world and oneself in the unrealistic manner that love-stricken young men imagine the objects of their crushes.
Regulatory State-Building and Authoritarian Survival
Authors: Duvanova Dinissa 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
Formal rules that do not restrict regulatory agencies' discretionary authority empower state officials and low-level bureaucrats to make arbitrary regulatory decisions and selectively enforce regulatory compliance. When the bureaucrats engage in such behavior, the resulting regulatory regime often makes it costlier for the firms to comply with regulations. As the amount of red tape grows and costs of compliance increase, alternative strategies (collusion, bribery, and rent-seeking) become more attractive to businesses, which may dampen the overall effectiveness of economic regulations. Politicians may anticipate these effects and strategically empower the state bureaucracy with discretionary powers as a mechanism for rewarding political loyalty, or they may constrain the state bureaucracy's regulatory discretion to enhance economic performance. Considerations of political survival may pressure rulers to sacrifice sound economic policy for economic rent opportunities extended to their political supporters. The chapter concludes by developing a set of testable hypotheses to empirically evaluate the theoryâ€™s implications.
Regulatory Details and Economic Development in Kazakhstan
Authors: Duvanova Dinissa 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
The chapter describes the institutional makeup of the Kazakh state and its allocation of regulatory authority and surveys the major directions of economic policy and civil service reforms. It then tests the hypotheses about economic effects of discretion in authoritarian settings. Using a newly assembled dataset containing information on the number, length, and types of all legislative statutes, executive orders, and bureaucratic bylaws adopted by the regional legislative and administrative authorities, it examines the effects of region-specific economic regulations on investment decisions and the development of the regional small and medium enterprise sector. Analysis shows that more-specific regulations positively impact capital investment and aggregate performance of small private companies. The statutory mechanisms for restricting bureaucratic discretion are no less effective than the administrative bylaws. This means that the regulatory specificity (but not the legislative oversight) is the main mechanism connecting the development of formal regulatory norms to better economic outcomes.