cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Application of the computer vision system for controlling a mobile robot in a dynamic environment
title: Применение системы технического зрения при управлении мобильным роботом в динамической среде
Creators: name: Daeef, Feras
Publisher: name: Computing, Telecommunication and Control
Year: 2020
Subjects: мобильный робот
динамическая среда
навигация
система технического зрения
обнаружение объектов
mobile robots
dynamic environment
navigation
vision system
object detection

description: The article proposes a new approach to the use of computer vision when controlling a robot in a dynamic environment. While moving along an unchanged path to the target point, a robot can encounter any new object (static or moving). We describe a visual analysis to determine the detection distance of moving objects to prevent collisions with the robot in a timely manner. An obstacle detection algorithm in the robot zone was developed based on data from an RGB-D video camera using computer vision methods. Based on ROS in a Gazebo virtual environment with a Turtlebot robot kit and an open source library (opencv), we adopted software implementation of the developed approaches which confirmed their applicability to the detection of objects in the mobile robot environment.
description: Предложен новый подход к применению системы технического зрения при управлении мобильным роботом в динамической среде. Во время движения по неизменной траектории к целевой точке на пути робота может появиться любой новый объект (статический или подвижный). В статье описан визуальный анализ для определения расстояния, на котором должно происходить обнаружение объектов, для своевременного предотвращения столкновения с роботом. Алгоритм обнаружения препятствий в зоне робота разработан на основе визуальных данных от RGB-D видеокамеры с помощью методов компьютерного зрения. На основе фреймворка ROS в виртуальной среде Gazebo, а также при помощи комплекта Turtlebot и библиотеки с открытым исходным кодом (opencv) написана программная реализация разработанных подходов, подтвердившая их применимость к обнаружению объектов в среде мобильного робота.
Socioeconomic Status and Psychosocial Resources Mediate Racial/Ethnic Differences in Psychological Health Among Gay and Bisexual Men: A Longitudinal Analysis Using Structural Equation Modeling
Creators: name: Operario, D.
name: Shangani, S.
name: Masa, R.
Publisher: name: SAGE Publications Inc.
Year: 2021

description: A large body of research demonstrates disparities in psychological health attributed to sexual minority identity, racial/ethnic minority identity, and socioeconomic status (SES). Fewer studies have explicated the role of these multiple attributes on psychological health and explored the role of SES and psychosocial resources in determining outcomes. We analyzed data from Project STRIDE, a longitudinal survey involving a diverse sample of gay and bisexual adult men (n = 198). Using structural equation modeling, we tested hypothesized direct and indirect effects of race/ethnicity, SES, and three psychosocial mediational variables (collective self-efficacy, everyday discrimination, internalized homophobia) on two outcome variables—psychological and social well-being—assessed at 1-year follow-up. Our model indicated that: (1) race/ethnicity and SES were significantly associated with each other and with each psychosocial mediator; (2) higher SES was directly and indirectly associated with both measures of well-being; and (3) collective self-esteem and everyday discrimination mediated the association between SES and both measures of well-being. The model also indicated that racial/ethnic associations with psychological mediators and outcomes are evident in the context of SES, but these effects might be suppressed when the model does not consider SES. Findings highlight the critical role of SES and race/ethnicity in determining the psychological and social well-being of sexual minority men. Specification of mediating variables—collective self-efficacy, everyday discrimination, internalized homophobia—indicates potential intervention targets to improve psychological and social health in sexual minority men. Associations between race/ethnicity and SES support the need for intersectional frameworks in addressing the health of sexual minority men.
(503156) Thomas Younger
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Electronic Supplementary Materials PRSB-2022-1254 from Evidence of selection in the uncoupling protein 1 gene region suggests local adaptation to solar irradiance in savannah monkeys (Chlorocebus spp.)
Creators: name: Gagnon, Christian M.
name: Svardal, Hannes
name: Jasinska, Anna J.
name: Danzy Cramer, Jennifer
name: Freimer, Nelson B.
name: Paul Grobler, J.
name: Turner, Trudy R.
name: Schmitt, Christopher A.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 60408 Genomics

description: Supplementary Materials for Gagnon et al. (doi: prsb.2022.1254))
La genesi asimmetrica dell'individuo
Creators: name: Tenuti, Ada
Publisher: name: Trópos
Year: 2021

description: The research of symmetries allows the cognitive activity to find elements that do not change in the processes of transformation that characterize human experience. An epistemological reflection about the symmetry principle, and his role in the transition from modern science to contemporary physics, reveals that symmetries and symmetry breakings are very useful instruments in the modelling of physical reality. These remarks enable to develop a correlation between the concept of asymmetry and the genesis of the individual. In this regard the individuation process described by Gilbert Simondon offers an instructive example of the ontogenetical power of asymmetry.
description: Trópos, V. 13 N. 2 (2020): Potenza, meccanicismo e limiti del digitale: ontologia, matematica, etica
Time is Energy and Dynamic Information, Advances in Theoretical & Computational Physics, Volume 7, Issue 3, pp.1-2
Creators: name: Jöge, Friedhelm
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 519901
subject: Complex physical systems

description: In this present article "Time is Energy and Dynamic Information", there is an argument that time is energy and therefore, according to KURT GÖDEL, does not exist at all or turns out to be Energy and time is an illusion.
Education of Students with Disabilities, Science, and Randomized Controlled Trials
Creators: name: Odom, Samuel L.
Publisher: name: SAGE Publications Inc.
Year: 2021

description: The purpose of this article is to examine the application of randomized controlled trial (RCT) methodology for determining the efficacy of school-based interventions in general and special education. In education science, RCTs are widely acknowledged as the gold standard of efficacy research, with other methodologies relegated to a lower level of credibility. However, scholars from different disciplines have raised a variety of issues with RCT methodology, such as the utility of random assignment, external validity, and the challenges of applying the methodology for assessing complex service interventions, which are necessary for many students with disabilities. Also, scholars have noted that school-based RCT studies have largely generated low effect sizes, which indicate that the outcomes of the interventions do not differ substantially from services as usual. The criticisms of RCT studies as the primary methodology in school-based intervention research for students with disabilities are offered along with recommendations for extending the acceptability of a broader variety of research approaches.
La portata ontologica della negazione in Edmund Husserl
Creators: name: Pilotto, Davide
Publisher: name: Trópos
Year: 2021

description: The contribution aims to focus on the notion of negation in Edmund Husserl, with particular reference to its thematization offered by the so–called genetic phenomenology. By analysing the passages of Husserl’s work in which this element is dealt with and the different theses put forward by the bibliography on the subject, an attempt will be made to highlight the oscillation of Husserl’s thought between the two extremes represented by Franz Brentano and Gottlob Frege, showing the problems that emerge in both cases. In accordance with the project of a genealogy of logic, we will try to support, through the reference to Alexius Meinong, the necessity of an admission of the “not” at the ontological level, showing its essentiality in order not to fall into a monistic ontology of Parmenidean type.
description: Trópos, V. 13 N. 2 (2020): Potenza, meccanicismo e limiti del digitale: ontologia, matematica, etica
La dinastia Kalacuri e il tempio delle 81 dee di Bherāghāṭ
Creators: name: Policardi, Chiara
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies
Year: 2020

description: At the heart of Madhya Pradesh, in Bherāghāṭ, near Jabalpur, rises a temple with characteristics unusual for the Indian architectural landscape. Located on the top of an isolated hill overlooking the river Narmadā, it is circular and hypaethral, namely open to the sky. The entire interior perimeter of the circular walls is sectioned by a series of niches that house sculptures of goddesses. These face towards the courtyard, where there is a small shrine in traditional style, with śikhara and maṇḍapa, dedicated to Śiva. This temple is not an isolated case, since some similar architectural structures, circular and open-air, have been found in different places of India, in an area that extends from Madhya Pradesh to Odisha, with evidence as far south as Kāñcīpura in Tamilnadu. These are dedicated to a group of goddesses or semi-goddesses called yoginīs, whose cult flourished around the 7th-8th century in traditions centered on the god Śiva and closely associated with the tantric phenomenon. These female figures, subject of Indological studies only since relatively recent times, play a decisive role in various texts of the ancient Śaiva tantric literature. However, the cult was not confined to esoteric domains, but from the end of the 9th century it assumed importance in the wider Hindu religious landscape, even in court contexts. Thanks to sovereign patronage, a number of stone sanctuaries dedicated to yoginīs were erected between the 10th and 13th centuries; these are for us monumental attestations of the importance and breadth of the phenomenon. The paper deals in particular with the yoginī temple of Bherāghāṭ, which, although belonging to the peculiar architectural typology, appears as a unicum under different respects. Various inscriptions indicate that it was commissioned by a king of the Kalacuri dynasty, and it was probably a royal chapel, a cultual place especially reserved to members of the ruling family. Indeed, the shrine represents a shining example of the typical alliance between yoginīs and royal power.
description: Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, V. 24 N. 2 (2020)
Captare le forze
Creators: name: Perotto, Francesca
Publisher: name: Trópos
Year: 2021

description: In an attempt to reconcile the aesthetic, meant as the theory of the conditions of sensible experience, with the Aesthetics, a reflection on art and beauty, Gilles Deleuze proposes a sui generis aesthetics that traces a diffused topology of the real, crossing Being and Thinking as the proper modality of heterogenesis, of the processes of individuation. The polemical target is the paradigm of representation, opposed to Deleuze’s metaphysics of chaos in which the central notion of formation (inherited from Simondon) is expressed through the concepts of rhythm, refrain and diagram, in a dynamism between the actual and the virtual that draws important lines of continuity between the mechanisms of artistic production and biological individuation. Deleuze’s aesthetics is indeed an aesthetics of immanence, a continuous emission of singularities from a single plane, a perpetual and imperceptible poiesis.
description: Trópos, V. 13 N. 2 (2020): Potenza, meccanicismo e limiti del digitale: ontologia, matematica, etica
(503158) George Younger
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Analysis of the $Λ_c(2625)$ and $Ξ_c(2815)$ with QCD sum rules
Creators: name: Wang, Zhi-Gang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this article, we study the charmed baryon states $Λ_c(2625)$ and $Ξ_c(2815)$ with the spin-parity ${3\over 2}^-$ by subtracting the contributions from the corresponding charmed baryon states with the spin-parity ${3\over 2}^+$ using the QCD sum rules, and suggest a formula $ μ=\sqrt{M_{Λ_c/Ξ_c}^2-{\mathbb{M}}_c^2}$ with the effective mass ${\mathbb{M}}_c=1.8\,\rm{GeV}$ to determine the energy scales of the QCD spectral densities, and make reasonable predictions for the masses and pole residues. The numerical results indicate that the $Λ_c(2625)$ and $Ξ_c(2815)$ have at least two remarkable under-structures.
description: 15 pages, 10 figures
Using a Collective Impact Framework to Implement Evidence-Based Strategies for Improving Maternal and Child Health Outcomes
Creators: name: Henderson, C.
name: Urlaub, D.M.
name: Tucker, C.
name: Owens Shuler, T.
name: Cilenti, D.
name: Magee, E.P.
name: Schaffer, K.
Publisher: name: SAGE Publications Inc.
Year: 2021

description: In 2016, the North Carolina Division of Public Health launched the Improving Community Outcomes for Maternal and Child Health program to invest in evidence-based programs to address three aims: improve birth outcomes, reduce infant mortality, and improve health outcomes for children 0 to 5 years old. Five grantees representing 14 counties were awarded 2 years of funding to implement one evidence-based strategy per aim using a collective impact framework, the principles of implementation science, and a health equity approach. Local health departments served as the backbone organization and provided ongoing support to grantees and helped them form community action teams (CATs) comprising implementation team members, community experts, and relevant stakeholders who met regularly. Focus groups with each grantee’s CAT were held during 2017 and 2019 to explore how CATs used a collective impact framework to implement their chosen evidence-based strategies. Results show that grantees made the most progress engaging diverse sectors in implementing a common agenda, continuous communication, and mutually reinforcing activities. Overall, grantees struggled with a shared measurement system but found that a formal tool to assess equity helped use data to drive decision making and program adaptations. Grantees faced logistical challenges holding regular CAT meetings and sustaining community expert engagement. Overtime, CATs cultivated community partnerships and multicounty collaboratives viewed cross-county knowledge sharing as an asset. Future collective impact initiatives should allow grantees more time upfront to form their CAT to plan for sustained community engagement before implementing programs and to incorporate a tool to center equity in their work.
Paretymologies in the Fuṣūṣ al-Ḥikam in the light of Ibn ʿArabī’s hermeneutic principles
Creators: name: Salvaggio, Federico
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies
Year: 2020

description: In the Fuṣūṣ al-Ḥikam Ibn ʿArabī presents us with several linguistic explanations about the meanings of specific words and expressions (mostly Qur’anic occurrences). From a contemporary linguistic perspective, many of those explanations would be classified within the category of paretymologies or folk etymologies. In the present contribution we will examine the paretymologies in Ibn ʿArabī’s Fuṣūṣ al-Ḥikam against some aspects of the Islamic linguistic thought, as specifically developed by Ibn ʿArabī, and try to make explicit the epistemological and theoretical framework standing behind those disputable etymologies. In so doing we will attempt to show how, far from simply being the product of popular fantasy or fanciful speculations, Ibn ʿArabī’s semantic explanations appear as highly sophisticated hermeneutic practices, grounded in a thorough knowledge of various language-related branches of Islamic science, consistent with the metaphysical vision of language emerging from the Andalusian master's speculations on the nature of the sacred text and on the linguistic structure of revelation.
description: Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, V. 24 N. 2 (2020)
Overcoming Barriers to Walk With Ease Implementation in Community Organizations
Creators: name: Vilen, L.H.
name: Altpeter, M.
name: Callahan, L.F.
Publisher: name: SAGE Publications Inc.
Year: 2021

description: Introduction: The Arthritis Foundation’s Walk With Ease (WWE) program has been shown to reduce arthritis symptoms and increase physical performance for up to 1 year. However, research on community-based WWE implementation is limited. The purpose of this study was to examine early implementation at community organizations that received 1-year WWE implementation grants from the Osteoarthritis Action Alliance. Method: Program managers at five Osteoarthritis Action Alliance grantee organizations participated in 45-minute telephone interviews. Interviewees represented organizations with the highest WWE enrollment at 6 months (n = 3, >30% of goal enrollment) and no enrollment at 6 months (n = 2). The Planning for Sustainability framework guided qualitative analysis of factors affecting early implementation. Results: All grantees were confident in WWE’s evidence base, thought it a beneficial supplement to other programming, stressed the importance of senior leadership support for WWE, and engaged community partners for marketing support and as walking sites. Implementation experiences unique to low enrollment grantees were (1) recent major structural changes within their organization, (2) difficulties in communicating logistics internally, and (3) difficulties in balancing WWE with other responsibilities. All organizations experienced barriers that required altering their original implementation plans; however, practical solutions like adapting the program to improve flexibility, training organizational staff as leaders, and utilizing community partnerships served to address multiple barriers simultaneously. Discussion: Building organizational capacity by overcoming early barriers is a key element of early implementation. Our findings offer concrete solutions to early WWE implementation barriers and suggest the need for further research on adaptations to improve WWE’s flexibility in community organizations.
Towards a Critique of Algorithmic Reason
Creators: name: Numerico, Teresa
Publisher: name: Trópos
Year: 2021

description: Datification and predictions based on correlations suggest that data–driven procedures in social sciences are interested mainly in tracing the appearances. Big Data science seems to rely on predicting the appearance without taking into account the explanation and the existence of the phenomena. Following Husserl, Arendt and Stiegler it is legitimate to build abstraction criteria to extract data from the phenomena in order to make sense of them. However, it is necessary to be in control of what we are doing, and we need to check models against the effectiveness of the results in understanding phenomena. What happens when the process of abstraction happens in ways and with tools that nobody can check from outside? What happens when the results of the abstraction/technicization process have normative effects on its research objects, imposing expectations and predictions of people’s behaviour according to predictive analytics? Is data science moving beyond Modern Science as we know it? If phenomena under observation rely on uncertain circumstances, there is no way to make predictions that are completely trustworthy. But if the predictions have normative effects, we have to pay attention to the uncontrolled consequences of such a vicious circle.
description: Trópos, V. 13 N. 2 (2020): Potenza, meccanicismo e limiti del digitale: ontologia, matematica, etica
Understanding Living Beings by Analogy with Computers
Creators: name: Montévil, Maël
Publisher: name: Trópos
Year: 2021

description: The analogy between living beings and computers was introduced with circumspection by Schrödinger and has been widely propagated since, rarely with a precise technical meaning. Critics of this perspective are numerous. We emphasize that this perspective is mobilized to justify what may be called a regressive reductionism by comparison with physics or the Cartesian method. Other views on the living are possible, and we focus on an epistemological and theoretical framework where historicity is central, and the regularities susceptible to mathematization are constraints whose existence is fundamentally precarious and historically contingent. We then propose to reinterpret the computer, no longer as a Turing machine but as constituted by constraints. This move allows us to understand that computation in the sense of Church–Turing is only a part of the theoretical determination of what actually happens in a computer when considering them in their larger theoretical context where historicity is also central.
description: Trópos, V. 13 N. 2 (2020): Potenza, meccanicismo e limiti del digitale: ontologia, matematica, etica
The different phases of hairy black holes in AdS5 space
Creators: name: Giribet, Gaston
name: Goya, Andres
name: Oliva, Julio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the thermodynamics of hairy black holes in asymptotically Anti-de Sitter (AdS) space, including backreaction. Resorting to the Euclidean path integral approach, we show that matter conformally coupled to Einstein gravity in five dimensions may exhibit a phase transition whose endpoint turns out to be a hairy black hole in AdS5 space. The scalar field configuration happens to be regular everywhere outside and on the horizon, and behaves asymptotically in such a way that respects the AdS boundary conditions that are relevant for AdS/CFT. The theory presents other peculiar features in the ultraviolet, like the existence of black holes with arbitrarily low temperature in AdS5. This provides a simple setup in which the fully backreacting problem of a hair forming in AdS at certain critical temperature can be solved analytically.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures
La secrète noirceur du lait
Creators: name: Longo, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: Trópos
Year: 2021

description: Two aspects are fundamental to the construction of scientific knowledge: access to “reality” and the analysis of its dynamics. We will outline the enormous challenges of measurement, as “access”, in physics and biology, as well as the challenges of intelligibility posed by the diversity of processes. If we identify reality with a database of digital, exact data, we erase the problem of access and if, moreover, we identify any process with a computable function, we no longer see the classical nuances, the quantum fluctuations, the biological historicity. Wolfram and his acolytes explain to us that the Universe is a large digital computer and the laws of nature are algorithms (sometimes interactive ones: ecorithms), that a body falls because it is programmed to fall (little interaction in this case), that numbers are intrinsic to reality, independently of any physical/biological measurement, that «what cannot be computed cannot be thought» (Ladyman, Ross, 2008), that DNA drives organisms in the ecosystem. A new ontology, some explicitly tell us. The ontology of GAFAM and Monsanto. An answer is possible in the reconquest of the meaning of our human gestures in our spaces of humanity, including those proposed by geometry, starting from Euclid.
description: Trópos, V. 13 N. 2 (2020): Potenza, meccanicismo e limiti del digitale: ontologia, matematica, etica
The Place of Human Beings in the Infosphere
Creators: name: Corriero, Emilio Carlo
Publisher: name: Trópos
Year: 2021

description: On the basis of the philosophical tradition of the last century, we can define philosophical anthropology as that discipline which adopts a philosophical reflection on the human being based on scientific knowledge and beyond any metaphysical–theological vision, in order to offer a plausible view of the “place” occupied by human beings in nature (in being) and, contextually, a theoretical basis for their ethical orientation. The place determined and occupied by human beings in the cosmos is to be understood as a free and continuous action on the context and as an interaction between the subjects involved (nature included). The issue of the infosphere can be dealt with as an issue of philosophical anthropology. In the case of the “place” of the human being in the infosphere there is, indeed, the risk that the context created is such as to progressively limit the freedom of the agents involved, who would no longer have an open world (Welt) in front of them in which it is possible to act freely, but rather an environment (Umwelt) to which one must necessarily (and simply) react. The challenge is to think and ethically design the infosphere while constantly keeping the conditions open for a free “positioning” of human beings and therefore for an action not necessarily bound by the context.
description: Trópos, V. 13 N. 2 (2020): Potenza, meccanicismo e limiti del digitale: ontologia, matematica, etica
Grammaticalisation et transcatégorialité : le verbe qim-le en soureth
Creators: name: Skaf, Roula
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies
Year: 2020

description: This paper develops a morphosyntactic description of a verb of movement and position having a particular functioning in several varieties of Northeastern Neo-Aramaic (NENA). The verb found par excellence in our corpus is that which comes from the root qym “to rise / to stand up”. It works as well alone as predicate of an utterance, as a so-called “auxiliary” verb in a periphrastic structure. It is semantically characterized by a "concrete" meaning denoting a change in positioning. The basic semantism can be subjected to an abstraction process which allows the verb to combine with any verb in an asyndetic construction. It thus functions as an auxiliary. In addition, the semantic abstraction of this verb tends to grammaticalize it more with a discursive function.
description: Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, V. 24 N. 2 (2020)
ESHITISHIDA NUQSONI BO'LGAN BOLALR MAKTABIDA TABIATSHUNOSLIKNI O'QITISH METODDARI TUZIMIDA AMALIY ISHLAR
Creators: name: Haydarov, Islomjon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Ushbu maqolada amaliy ishlar eshitishida nuqsoni bo'lgan o'quvchilarni ular faoliyati jarayonida har-xil mehnat opretsiyalariga o'rgatish metodi sifatida qaralishi, amaliy ishlarning samaradorligi eshitishida nuqsoni bo'lgan o'quvchilarning ularni bajarishga tayyorgalik daradasiga bog'liqligi haqida yozilgan.
Profilo sociale dell’emigrazione urbana giapponese nella Manciuria coloniale: il caso della città di Fushun
Creators: name: Dornetti, Filippo
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies
Year: 2020

description: Making sense of the spectacular performance of postwar Japanese economy is one of the central issues in Japanese contemporary history. Recently, economic and business historians are debating on the role of the colonial experience in respect of the Japanese postwar economic boom. In the light of this new issue, the analysis of life histories of Japanese commoners who migrated in the colonies is gaining relevance. This paper attempts to contribute to this debate focusing on 69 Japanese who lived Fushun in the first four decades of the 20th Century. Fushun, the “city of coil” of Manchukuo, was a medium-sized company town created by the South Manchurian Railway Company around the local coil mines. The main source of the paper is the biographical annals of notable Japanese people in Manchuria (Manshū shinshiroku), recently collected in a volume by Takenaka Shin'ichi. The evidence gathered for this contribution suggests that Fushun was as a city quite selective towards highly skilled Japanese migrants, and that not a few people had the chance to collect professional experience in Fushun, which could have been an important asset after the war. My analysis was focused on a small sample of male self-employed, employed in small firms, or public servants in Fushun. I plan to extend this survey in a new article considering also a sample of the numerous Railway Company employees in the same city.
description: Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, V. 24 N. 2 (2020)
Dalle piazze a Twitter contro l’egemonia di Abe: La strategia comunicativa del Partito democratico costituzionale alle elezioni del 2017
Creators: name: Zappa, Marco
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies
Year: 2020

description: Japan ranks second in the world in terms of the number of Twitter users. Since 2009, under the Democratic Party’s 3-year permanence in power, politicians and administrators have turned to Twitter massively to build a direct communication with their constituency. It was, however, only in 2017 that Twitter has become a propaganda tool and a locus of political debate among Japanese politicians and netizens. The Constitutional Democratic Party (CDP) is an exemplary case of this transition. Born a few weeks before the vote of 22 October 2017, it managed to get attention and consensus, also thanks to a massive use of social networks, and, finally, to confirm itself as the first opposition party. A year after its foundation, however, it has failed to broaden its electoral base and consolidate itself locally. However, the article aims to identify the factors behind its swift success: on the one hand the role of the leader Edano Yukio and on the other the construction of a "counterhegemonic” narrative (though short-lived) capable of obtaining consensus in the immediacy of the election. This analysis intends to use the textual material available online (for example: tweets more relevant from a political-programmatic point of view) to identify the narrative framing of the political campaign, regularities and innovations within it to enlarge the CDP’s chances to gain at the ballot. In addition, the article intends to assess the role of social networks such as Twitter for politicians even in a seemingly neutral web space such as Japan’s.
description: Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, V. 24 N. 2 (2020)
Numérisation et incommensurabilité
Creators: name: Chiurazzi, Gaetano
Publisher: name: Trópos
Year: 2021

description: Digital ontologies are presented as a revival of the Pythagorean vision according to which there is a perfect coincidence between being and number, understood as “whole number”. The discovery of incommensurable magnitudes in Greek antiquity overturned this ontological postulate and brought about a wholly new vision of reality through the introduction of the concept of dynamis (the name used by Theaetetus to refer to these new magnitudes), up to the definition of being itself as dynamis that Plato gives in the Sophist. In this paper I will try to show the ontological meaning of the incommensurable magnitudes, which Leibniz also linked to factual truths, magnitudes which, as G. Chaitin clearly states, should not exist in a purely digital ontology.
description: Trópos, V. 13 N. 2 (2020): Potenza, meccanicismo e limiti del digitale: ontologia, matematica, etica
(503151) Ilelia Harriet Cuff
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
From “Homegrown” to Research-Ready: Converting an Existing Practitioner-Developed Violence Prevention Intervention Into an Evaluable Intervention
Creators: name: Embry, V.
name: Taraskiewicz, L.
name: Moracco, K.E.
name: Scheffey, K.
name: Macy, R.J.
name: McCort, A.
name: Moore, A.
Publisher: name: SAGE Publications Inc.
Year: 2021

description: There is an increased call for research on promising prevention programs already embedded in communities (“homegrown interventions”). Unfortunately, there is limited guidance to help researchers prepare these types of interventions for rigorous evaluation. To address this need, this article presents our team’s process for revising a promising community-based sexual violence prevention intervention for rigorous research. Our extensive and iterative process of reviewing and revising the intervention was guided by evaluability assessment (EA) approaches, implementation science, and a close collaboration with our community partners. Our EA process allowed us to specify the intervention’s core components and develop a “research ready” standardized curriculum with implementation fidelity assessments. We offer four lessons learned from our process: (1) even with existing materials and an extensive history of community-based delivery, community-developed programs are not necessarily research-ready; (2) close collaboration and a trusting relationship between researchers and community partners throughout the revision process ensures the integrity of core program components are maintained and implementation in diverse community settings is feasible; (3) observations of program implementation are a crucial part of the revision process; and (4) it is important to budget adequate time and resources for such revisions.
No Sex and the Paradise City: A critical reading of Murata Sayaka’s Shōmetsu sekai (2015)
Creators: name: Specchio, Anna
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies
Year: 2020

description: Murata Sayaka is a controversial story writer who questions our current values of love, sex and the nuclear family, pivoting on issues like gender and power. In her novel Shōmetsu sekai (Dwindling World, 2015), she depicts a parallel Japan where sex has disappeared, and modern birth control technology is used by the population. Thus, the novel has been labelled as dystopic, and Murata’s readers think of her literary world as disturbing. In the Shōmetsu sekai scenario, gendered-based social differences disappear for the community wellbeing and the new biotechnology is used to improve social conditions. Therefore, should it be considered simply a dystopian work of fiction? By approaching the text from the perspective of feminism and posthumanism, and contextualizing it within Japanese society and Murata Sayaka’s literary framework, I argue that it is possible to consider Shōmetsu sekai as an example of utopic feminist work of fiction, and that the neutralization of sex as we know it today should be intended as a means of social improvement.
description: Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, V. 24 N. 2 (2020)
(503153) Clara [Wilson]
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Politicizzazione del sacro e identità in Aurobindo Ghose (1872-1950)
Creators: name: Castagnetto, Marco
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies
Year: 2020

description: The present contribution analyzes the political thought of philosopher and revolutionary Aurobindo Ghose in the wider scenario of Indian nationalism, highlighting the peculiar hermeneutics of hindū philosophical and religious tradition that he expressed through many articles on the main nationalist magazines. Furthermore, Aurobindo’s thought analogies and differences with the main exponents of anti-British interventionism will be contextualized. Some peculiar interpretations of the broad philosophical and religious tradition of India as theorized by Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar and Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar are particularly relevant, ideas through which an attempt was made to create a form of religiously legitimated ethno-nationalism stressing on the cultural, ethnic and spiritual primacy of hindū population. Finally, the paper will briefly discuss the influence of Aurobindo Ghose’s legacy on Rāṣṭrīya Svayaṃsēvaka Saṅgha’s political perspectives and on current Indian Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi’s agenda.
description: Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, V. 24 N. 2 (2020)
Introduzione
Creators: name: Tenuti, Ada
Publisher: name: Trópos
Year: 2021

description: La pervasività della “ragione algoritmica” tra le avanguardie della ricerca scientifica, come nella sfera pubblica, spiega la rilevanza di una riflessione sui metodi computazionali di accesso e modellizzazione del reale nel discorso epistemologico e filosofico contemporaneo. Questa riflessione assume la forma di una ricognizione sui limiti della digitalizzazione e dell’aritmetizzazione del reale promosse dall’ontologia digitale su cui poggiano le “filosofie numeriche”. Voci provenienti da diversi ambiti disciplinari forniscono uno spettro di prospettive teoriche da cui captare le premesse implicite e le possibili conseguenze di questo modo di fare scienza. Nella convinzione che questioni di questo calibro vadano affrontate da discorsi variegati, consapevoli delle loro traduzioni in pratiche che impattano tanto sul futuro della ricerca quanto sulle forme della cittadinanza.
description: Trópos, V. 13 N. 2 (2020): Potenza, meccanicismo e limiti del digitale: ontologia, matematica, etica
The Future of Secularism
Creators: name: Baranove, Vaida
Publisher: name: Trópos
Year: 2020

description: In this article, I address the problem of secularism as an ideology. I analyze its relationship to the concept of secularization as well as secularism’s foundations and influences. I discuss the key points of the most prominent proponents of secularism, J. Rawls and J. Habermas, that rely on the idea, central to most liberal thinkers, that rational discourse is the sole form of discourse that should be used in the public sphere. I will oppose the reasoning for the primacy of rationalism in the public sphere by utilizing P. Kahn’s interpretation of Schmitt’s sociology of concepts, his particular interpretation of analogical thinking and the primacy of rhetoric in political discourse. My analysis will show that Kahn’s contemporary political theology is the key to a successful opposition of the primacy of rationality in politics and opens a gateway to alternative modes of understanding that may be useful in recalibrating the future relationship between Church and State.
description: Trópos, V. 13 N. 1 (2020): The Future as a Problem. Between Philosophy and Cultural Studies
A Scoping Review of Vicarious Trauma Interventions for Service Providers Working With People Who Have Experienced Traumatic Events
Creators: name: Macy, R.J.
name: Kim, J.
name: Franchino-Olsen, H.
name: Chesworth, B.
Publisher: name: SAGE Publications Ltd
Year: 2021

description: Health and human service providers who aid traumatized individuals frequently experience vicarious trauma (VT). Although VT plays a critical role in service providers’ mental health and well-being, as well as in the quality of their service provision, little information is available concerning the development and implementation of VT interventions for service providers. To advance the development of evidence in this area, we undertook a scoping review in which we reviewed existing interventions intended to address VT among service providers working with traumatized clients. Searches of electronic databases were conducted to identify studies published in peer-reviewed journals, with no date restrictions. Over 1,315 citations were reviewed, and a total of 27 studies were included in the final review. The findings show that VT interventions in the literature can be divided broadly into four categories: psychoeducation, mindfulness intervention, art and recreational programs, and alternative medicine therapy. The VT interventions reviewed generally showed promise in their key outcomes, including reductions in secondary trauma stress, compassion fatigue, burnout, and other mental health outcomes. However, the current body of research is lacking both in rigor and in specificity regarding the definition of VT. Furthermore, existing VT interventions are generally self-care based and tend to focus on general stress management rather than addressing the specific effects of VT. Therefore, we call for an increase in efforts to tailor VT interventions to different service settings and participant characteristics, as well as greater attention to developing primary VT interventions at the organizational level.
title: An examination of the parking goddess and gendered vulnerability on the US West Coast
Creators: name: Carr, Sujittra Avery
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04haebc03
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: This thesis explores the role of the parking goddess and related vernacular religious parking practices in mitigating gendered vulnerability when parking. The use of rhymes and rituals calling on Asphalta (or similar figures) by Neo-Pagan or new age practitioners were explored for their connection to women’s gendered experiences of parking. Seven women residing on the West Coast of the US participated in semi-structured interviews. The interviews took place both in person and over the phone due to Covid-19 restrictions. The results indicated that participants use their vernacular religious parking practices as a means of mitigating the fear they experience due to the vulnerability of parking as women. Vernacular religious parking practices helped relieve stress in liminal situation, protect against violence, manifest prosperity, and connect to a feminine spiritual lineage. Additionally, this research shows that the study of small-scale daily spiritual and religious folklore can illuminate larger social and political issues.
Yazdandukht and Mar Qardagh: From the Persian martyr acts in Syriac to Sureth poetry on YouTube, via a historical novel in Arabic
Creators: name: Mengozzi, Alessandro
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies
Year: 2020

description: Videos posted on YouTube show how stories of East-Syriac saints have found their way to a popular web platform, where they are re-told combining traditional genres with a culturally hybrid visual representation. The sketchy female characters Yazdandukht and Yazdui/Christine and the fully developed epos of Mar Qardagh, who belong to the narrative cycle of the Persian martyrs of Erbil and Kirkuk, inspired an Arabic illustrated historical novel, published in 1934 by the Chaldean bishop Sulaymān Ṣā’igh. A few years after the publication of the novel, a new cult of Mar Qardagh was established in Alqosh, in northern Iraq, including the building of a shrine, the painting of an icon, public and private rites, and the composition of hymns. In 1969 the Chaldean priest Yoḥannan Cholagh adapted Ṣā’igh’s Arabic novel to a traditional long stanzaic poem in the Aramaic dialect of Alqosh. The poem On Yazdandukht, as chanted by the poet himself, became the soundtrack of a video published on YouTube in 2014.
description: Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, V. 24 N. 2 (2020)
How much Arabic? The speech of second-generation Moroccan children in Turin
Creators: name: Ventura, Giulia
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies
Year: 2020

description: This article provides an analysis of Moroccan Arabic-Italian codeswitching, starting from a selection of texts by a group of second-generation Moroccan children living in Turin. The aim of this research is to explore the language proficiency of second-generation children and to find out how much of their parents’ language actually remains in their everyday speech. In order to do so, codeswitched utterances will be interpreted both from a grammatical and a sociolinguistic point of view.
description: Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, V. 24 N. 2 (2020)
Excitonic fine structure splitting in type-II quantum dots
Creators: name: Křápek, Vlastimil
name: Klenovský, Petr
name: Šikola, Tomáš
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Excitonic fine structure splitting in quantum dots is closely related to the lateral shape of the wave functions. We have studied theoretically the fine structure splitting in InAs quantum dots with a type-II confinement imposed by a GaAsSb capping layer. We show that very small values of the fine structure splitting comparable with the natural linewidth of the excitonic transitions are achievable for realistic quantum dot morphologies despite the structural elongation and the piezoelectric field. For example, varying the capping layer thickness allows for a fine tuning of the splitting energy. The effect is explained by a strong sensitivity of the hole wave function to the morphology of the structure and a mutual compensation of the electron and hole anisotropies. The oscillator strength of the excitonic transitions in the studied quantum dots is comparable to those with a type-I confinement which makes the dots attractive for quantum communication technology as emitters of polarization-entangled photon pairs.