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Entangled Geographies, Contested Narratives: The Canning Marbles and the Ottoman Response to Antiquity
Authors: Turan Özkaya Belgi̇n 
Published: October 2022

Abstract
The history of archaeology in the nineteenth century has conventionally been studied from the point of view of Europeans, who are credited as the inventors of modern archaeology. Although the blatantly Eurocentric perspective of earlier scholarship has been challenged in recent decades by a proliferation of works on the “source countries” where the bulk of archaeological material originated before being displaced to Europe, the trajectory of European archaeology has not been abandoned as the measure by which to assess emerging sensibilities about antiquity in the nineteenth century. In this essay, I trace the origins of a group of “marbles” from the British Museum, the Canning marbles, and propose to rethink a mid-nineteenth-century Ottoman attempt to establish a museum to house such “marbles” in the light of the Ottoman exhibitionary practices in the longue durée. My aim is to challenge both contemporaneous European narratives on nineteenth-century Ottoman attitudes to antiquity and current scholarship on Ottoman museology that attributes its proper emergence to the last two decades of the century, after the well-known Ottoman polymath Osman Hamdi Bey resumed the directorship of the Müze-i Hümāyūn (Ottoman Imperial Museum).
The Sphero-Conical as Apothecary Vessel: An Argument for Dedicated Use
Authors: Lesoon Courtney 
Published: October 2022

Abstract
Sphero-conical vessels are ubiquitous in the archaeological record. However, their intended use has remained a conundrum. A multitude of conjectures have been proposed, such as that the sphero-conical vessel was a container for mercury, a grenade, a perfume sprinkler, an aeolipile, a beer gourd, a hookah pipe, and a plumb bob. Faced with a seemingly contradictory body of evidence, scholars have concluded that the sphero-conical vessel must have been a multi-use object. I disagree. This study offers a theory of dedicated use: the sphero-conical vessel was intended and produced to store pharmaceuticals, specifically apothecary compounds in personal-use dosages. My argument is built on a close analysis of material form, epigraphic evidence, decorative motifs, and representations of the sphero-conical vessel in other media. The re-inscribing of the sphero-conical vessel into a history of medicine as a tool of the robust Islamic pharmacological industry is rich with potential for furthering our understanding of medicine, apothecary, alchemy, apotropaia, and trade in the medieval Mediterranean.
Coordination strategies in Messapic
Authors: Pitts Reuben J. 
Published: October 2022

Abstract
Messapic, like many ancient Indo-European languages, shows evidence for the existence of more than one coordinating conjunction. Alongside an inherited Indo-European clitic =ti, comparable to Lat. =que or Gk. =τε, Messapic has also grammaticalised an additional coordinator anda from a lexical source. Although the two conjunctions are found in some strikingly similar contexts, this paper argues that they also show noteworthy functional differences, which can plausibly be contextualised against a broader cross-linguistic understanding of how novel coordinators grammaticalise. In this way, the typological study of coordination has the potential to contribute further insights into this fascinating—and as yet insufficiently understood—epigraphic language.
Unpublished Coptic Writing Exercises from Thebes
Authors: Bakr Rowida Abo 
Published: October 2022

The monastic groups that settled in Thebes during the sixth and eighth centuries CE contributed to the prosperity of many aspects of life in Thebes, including education.
The Theban region provides us with many documents related to writing exercises, which reveal the development of education levels; there were many levels of writing and scripts, where the student would practice an entire course of literary education, with the goal of teaching the student to read and write properly. This course differed depending on the student’s level: beginner, intermediate, or professional.
This study aims to track Coptic education levels by publishing three ostraca: the first ostracon is being published for the first time, bears alphabetical exercise, and is preserved in the Metropolitan Museum’s excavation storehouse in Qurna; the photo of the second ostracon was previously published in a catalogue of the Graeco–Roman Museum, bearing biblical extracts, and is preserved in the Graeco–Roman Museum in Alexandria; and the third ostracon, which bears epistolary exercise and is preserved in the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization (NMEC) in Cairo, is being published for the first time as well.
Retour à Saïs: à propos de quelques mots relatifs au tissage
Authors: Servajean Frédéric 
Published: October 2022

Ma première rencontre avec Ramadan El-Sayed est, d’une certaine manière, due à la lecture de quelques passages des Lettres et journaux de Champollion se rapportant à Saïs, écrits lors de son voyage en Egypte. Sa description du site, datée du 14 septembre 1828, inspira au jeune homme que j’étais et qui ne connaissait pas encore l’Egypte une sensation de démesure et de désolation:
L’inondation occupait une très grande partie de cette enceinte au moment où je l’ai visitée. L’entrée (…) est tout à fait moderne ; on a abattu la muraille pour donner passage à un petit canal d’irrigation, et la coupe des murs présente les briques égyptiennes entremêlées de lits de paille parfaitement conservés. C’est par cette ouverture que je pénétrai dans l’intérieur, et il est impossible de rendre l’impression que produisit sur moi l’aspect de l’intérieur de cette enceinte si étendue. J’aperçus vers la gauche, et occupant le milieu sur une très grande longueur, une suite de ruines colossales se dessinant sous toutes sortes de formes bizarres et qui, du point de vue où je les voyais, semblaient être les ruines d’un palais de géants ; mais il existe un tel désordre et si peu d’accord entre les parties de cette ruine qu’il est impossible de se former une idée claire de l’ensemble du plan primitif.
The “Ontological Turn” in Anthropology: Self-Silencing Irrealism
Authors: Bråten Eldar 
Published: October 2022

Abstract
This article calls attention to problematic effects of the so-called “ontological turn” that now gains ground in academic anthropology, especially the entailments of perspectival multi-naturalism. I argue that a consistent embrace of this approach challenges public anthropology at its core. The irrealist grounding of perspectival multi-naturalism encourages withdrawal from both analysis and engagement, rendering the application of anthropological knowledge dubious. In order to counter this development, I suggest a reorientation in terms of realist principles, notably those of Roy Bhaskar’s critical realism. The diverging theoretical and ethical implications of these approaches are exemplified through a discussion of threats to health and life in Java, Indonesia.
A Hierarchy of Refugees: Fixing Vulnerability among Refugees from Mali in Burkina Faso
Authors: Bardelli Nora 
Published: October 2022

Abstract
This article discusses the pragmatic dimension humanitarian classifications and discourses play in hierarchical and discriminatory practices taking place in the refugee regime. It does so by focusing on the notion of “vulnerability,” very much used in contemporary humanitarianism. The paper deconstructs the two main uses/understandings of this notion: its use as a humanitarian tool to categorize those most in need among the humanitarian beneficiaries – i.e. its use to categorize “people with specific needs;” and its “unofficial” use by humanitarian workers. In addition to being both limited and stereotyped, they are further in contradictions with each other; yet, they both ultimately reproduce hierarchies and inequalities among refugees from Mali. Eventually, performing the ideal, vulnerable refugee becomes impossible for urban refugees in Burkina Faso, and most other refugees too, thus making it harder for them to be perceived as legitimate refugees in the eyes of the humanitarian community.
Narrating Islamic Origins in the Philippines: From Princess Urduja to Alexander the Great
Authors: Donoso Isaac 
Published: October 2022

Abstract
Different disconnected stories have been associated with the origins of Islam in the Philippines, enforcing historical narratives that have avoid placing the lens on other facts. The story of Princess Urduja that Ibn Baṭṭūṭa included in his Riḥla, dominated the ethos of an Edenic past with Arabic connections. The Spanish concept of Reconquista and the articulation of the so-called ‘Moro Wars’ pervaded ad nauseam the Moro condition and the Philippine national construction. The presence of Alexander the Great in Philippine silsilas have certainly received unequal attention, without going further than folklore. This paper aims to clarify myth and history in narrating the origins of Islam in the Philippines. In doing so recent historiographical trends and insights on Islamic mission in early modern Philippines are examined.
Technology-Mediated Communication and Representations of Islam in Northwest China: Insights from Visual Postings on Weixin
Authors: Cabras Giulia 
Published: October 2022

Abstract
During the last few decades, Muslim communities in China have experienced a religious revival in which belonging to a global Muslim community has been a central element. At the same time, in recent years, the State’s campaign of Sinicization of Islam (yisilan zhongguohua) has supported Chinese nationalism and targeted symbols of Islam that are alleged to distance the believers from patriotism.
This study explores the capacity for texts, language, and visual choices to build and shape sociality and forms of devotion and to reflect social and political changes.
The research examines visual posting on the multipurpose app Weixin (WeChat), providing insights into local forms of religiousness, self-representation, and aspirational identities of part of the Muslim community in Xining (Qinghai province, Northwest China).
An Innovation’s Path to Mathematics Textbooks: A Retrospective Analysis of the Successful Scaling of the Swedish PUMP Project
Authors: Prytz Johan , Ahl Linda Marie , Jankvist Uffe Thomas 
Published: October 2022

Abstract
In this study, we investigate how the results of the Swedish PUMP project (1973–1977) influenced the content of mathematics textbooks in Sweden. Through analyses of 26 mathematics textbooks and interviews with three key informants, we identified a large impact on textbooks and six different channels for spreading innovations to textbooks, but also teachers. We theoretically frame our results on Coburn’s four dimensions of scaling: depth, sustainability, spread, and shift in reform ownership. Our results showed that although the PUMP project was never officially implemented, its scaling followed a number of official channels. Thus, we argue that the project is an example of what may be referred to as informal implementation. We also hypothesize that while textbooks calling for a change in teaching practice rarely succeed as carriers of innovations, a change in content aligned with existing teaching practice can successfully facilitate scaling innovations without accompanying extensive professional development.
The impact sheet to this article can be accessed at 10.6084/m9.figshare.21080656.
Ethnic Proverbs as Kiswahili Verbal Art Performance
Authors: Mnenuka Angelus 
Published: October 2022

Abstract
The ever-growing expansion of Kiswahili as a lingua franca has depreciated the status of other languages in Tanzania and the ethnic verbal arts embedded in them. This includes proverbs. The disappearance of ethnic proverbs is unfortunate because proverbs serve several functions in society, including imparting wisdom and representing a culturally inherited worldview. Efforts to mainstream them into Kiswahili proverbial performances, the practical approach to rescue them from disappearing, have been relatively unsuccessful because translated ethnic proverbs lack proverbiality. Consequently, they cannot be mainstreamed into the Kiswahili proverb repertoire. In this paper, I argue that in order to deal with this problem, existing ethnic proverbs should be collected and translated into Kiswahili and finally fleshed out with aesthetic Kiswahili devices. Kiswahili proverbial features would enable them to gain immediate acceptance among Kiswahili speakers. In so doing, the endangered verbal art will be preserved.
Sea-Level Rise and State of Necessity: Maintaining Current Baselines and Outer Limits of National Maritime Zones
Authors: Virzo Roberto 
Published: October 2022

Abstract
For some coastal States, the rise in sea levels may cause the baselines and national maritime spaces to regress towards the coast. From a legal point of view, the question arises as to whether, in the event of such phenomenon occurring, the States concerned would be able to maintain their current baselines and outer limits of national maritime spaces. According to some authors, this would be prohibited by the existing rules of the international law of the sea. If this were the case, one would nevertheless still have to consider whether the States affected by sea-level rise could invoke a state of necessity in order not to apply, without committing an internationally wrongful act, any rules of international law stipulating that baselines are ambulatory. In order to answer that question, this essay examines and applies to the present case all the cumulative conditions laid down in Article 25 of the Draft Articles on State Responsibility adopted in 2001 by the International Law Commission.
The Italian Constitutional Court and the Use of Comparative Law: An Empirical Analysis
Authors: Passaglia Paolo 
Published: October 2022

Abstract
The paper analyzes the use of comparative and foreign law by the Italian Constitutional Court. The author carries out an empirical study mainly with two purposes: measuring the impact of comparative law on the activity of the Court and classifying the functions of comparative law in the Court’s decision-making process.
It is impossible to identify all the cases where the Court considers comparative law. Nevertheless, references to comparative or foreign law in rulings can be regarded as significant hints. The Court’s case-law between 2000 and 2021 is examined, and 74 rulings with comparative references are identified. This data is the starting point of the analysis, which shows the increasing use of comparative law by the Constitutional Court. Moreover, the classification of these references shows the growing importance that comparative law has in the Court’s legal reasoning.
War and Peace in the Context of the Multilevel Legal Order for the Protection of the Fundamental Rights of the Persons Requested for the Execution of a European Arrest Warrant
Authors: Venturi Filippo 
Published: October 2022

Abstract
In two judgments issued on 18 November 2021, the Italian Constitutional Court requested the Court of Justice to give a preliminary ruling on the compatibility of the discipline of the European arrest warrant with respect to the fundamental rights of the requested persons as protected by the Italian Constitution and the Charter of the Fundamental Rights of the European Union. This comment expounds the fundamental points of the legal reasoning of the two decisions. In doing so, it underlines the constructive and loyal (but not neutral) attitude of the Italian Constitutional Court, highlighting in particular its use of (legislative and judicial) arguments of European law. After that, the note, sets out the reasons why the common judges raised the question of constitutionality instead of the preliminary reference. In this perspective, Judgment No. 269 of 2017 of the Constitutional Court and the Taricco saga are recalled. In the end, the note emphasizes the value of the two decisions in the current architecture of the multilevel legal system of protection of fundamental rights in criminal matters; however, it also underlines the frailty of the appreciable balance that they strike.
Climatology of Significant Tornadoes within China and Comparison of Tornado Environments between the United States and China
Authors: Zhang Chenyue , Xue Ming , Zhu Kefeng , Yu Xiaoding 
Published: October 2022

Abstract
A climatology of significant tornadoes [SIGTOR, tornadoes rated (E)F2+ on the (enhanced) Fujita scale] within China and in three subregions, including northern, central, and southern China, is first presented for the period 1980–2016. In total, 129 SIGTOR are recorded in China, with an average of 3.5 per year. The tornado inflow environments of the south-central and southeast regions of the United States (USC and USSE) are compared with those of China and its subregions based on sounding-derived parameters including shear, storm-relative helicity, convective available potential energy (CAPE), lifting condensation level (LCL), etc. Soundings are extracted from the ERA5 reanalysis dataset. The results confirm that the SIGTOR in USSE are characterized by high shear, low CAPE, and low LCL whereas those in USC are characterized by moderate-to-high shear, high CAPE, and high LCL. The thermodynamic conditions of tornadic cases are favorable for China, with moderate-to-high CAPE and low-to-moderate LCL, but their kinematic conditions are much less favorable than in the United States, a fact that is believed to be primarily responsible for the lower tornado frequency and intensity in China. The high CAPE in China is due mostly to high humidity. For three subregions in China, the central China cases account for 60% of total samples, and its environmental features are similar to those of China. The average shear with northern China cases is stronger than that with the other two subregions, and the midlayer is relatively dry. The southern China SIGTOR have the most conducive humidity conditions, but the CAPE and shear there are the lowest. The northern, central, and southern China environments can be considered as representative of midlatitude, subtropical, and tropical regions.

Significance Statement
We document the climatological characteristics of significant tornadoes (SIGTOR) within China and compare the inflow environments of SIGTOR in China and its subregions with those in the U.S. central and southeastern regions. The availability of hourly high-resolution ERA5 data makes the environments based on extracted proximity soundings much more accurate than possible with earlier reanalyses. The environmental characteristics show systematic differences in the tornado environments of different regions of China and the United States and suggest different roles played by thermodynamic and kinematic conditions for tornado formation. Overall, the environmental differences are consistent with the resulting frequency and intensities of SIGTOR. The findings are helpful toward improving tornado forecasting and warning or even understanding of potential impacts of climate change on SIGTOR, especially in China, where such studies are rarer.
Impact of Radar Reflectivity Data Assimilation Frequency on Convection-Allowing Forecasts of Diverse Cases over the Continental United States
Authors: Yang Yue , Wang Xuguang 
Published: October 2022

Abstract
The sensitivity of convection-allowing forecasts over the continental United States to radar reflectivity data assimilation (DA) frequency is explored within the Gridpoint Statistical Interpolation (GSI)-based ensemble–variational (EnVar) system. Experiments with reflectivity DA intervals of 60, 20, and 5 min (RAIN60, RAIN20, and RAIN5, respectively) are conducted using 10 diverse cases. Quantitative verification indicates that the degree of sensitivity depends on storm features during the radar DA period. Five developing storms show high sensitivity, whereas five mature or decaying storms do not. The 20-min interval is the most reliable given its best overall performance compared to the 5- and 60-min intervals. Diagnostics suggest that the differences in analyzed cold pools (ACPs) among RAIN60, RAIN20, and RAIN5 vary by storm features during the radar DA period. Such ACP differences result in different forecast skills. In the case where RAIN20 outperforms RAIN60 and the case where RAIN5 outperforms RAIN20, assimilation of reflectivity with a higher frequency commonly produces enhanced and widespread ACPs, promoting broader storms that match better with reality than a lower frequency. In the case where RAIN5 performs worse than RAIN20, the model imbalance of RAIN5 overwhelms information gain associated with frequent assimilation, producing overestimated and spuriously fast-moving ACPs. In the cases where little sensitivity to the reflectivity DA frequency is found, similar ACPs are produced.
CLCA2 overexpression suppresses epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition in cervical cancer cells through inactivation of ERK/JNK/p38-MAPK signaling pathways
Authors: Xin Wenhu , Zhang Jian , Zhang Haibin , Ma Xueyao , Zhang Yunzhong , Li Yufeng , Wang Fang 
Published: October 2022

AbstractCervical cancer is an important malignant tumor threatening the physical and mental health of women in the world. As a new calcium activated chloride channel protein, calcium activated chloride channel (CLCA2) plays an important role in tumorigenesis and development. But its role and exact regulatory mechanism in cervical cancer are still unclear. In our study, we found CLCA2 was significantly decreased in cervical cancer cells, and overexpression of CLCA2 inhibited the proliferation, migration and invasion, and promotes apoptosis of cervical cancer cells, and CLCA2 inhibited EMT (Epithelial-mesenchymal transition) through an p38 / JNK / ERK pathway. The results in vivo were consistent with those in vitro. In conclusion, overexpression of CLCA2 inhibited the progression of cervical cancer in vivo and in vitro. This may provide a theoretical basis for CLCA2 as a new indicator of clinical diagnosis and prognosis of cervical cancer or as a potential target of drug therapy.
Non-invasive near-infrared spectroscopy assessment of the spinal neurovascular response in a patient with transverse myelitis: a case report
Authors: Oyarzún Juan Esteban , Caulier-Cisterna Raúl , González-Appelgren Juan Pablo , Gonzalez Leticia , Trujillo Oscar , Eblen-Zajjur Antonio , Uribe Sergio 
Published: October 2022

Abstract
Background
Transverse myelitis (TM) is characterized by acute development of motor, sensory and autonomic dysfunctions due to horizontally diffused inflammation in one or more segments of the spinal cord in the absence of a compressive lesion. The not well-known inflammation process induces demyelination resulting in neurological dysfunction.

Case presentation
In this case report we used a functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) technique to evaluate changes in the peri-spinal vascular response induced by a peripheral median nerve electrical stimulation in a patient with chronic transverse myelitis (TM). fNIRS showed drastically reduced signal amplitude in the peri-spinal vascular response, compared to that obtained from a healthy control group throughout most of the C7-T1 and T10-L2 spinal cord segments.

Conclusion
The potential use of this relatively non-invasive fNIRS technology support the potential clinical application of this method for functional test of the spinal cord through the assessment of the spinal neurovascular response.