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Existing literature predominantly focuses on the technical prospects of blockchain, particularly the possibility of digital economies built from the bottom up and self-governing. However, pressing concerns remain about the sustainability of blockchain applications. Thus, a decolonised, (meaning self-governance) critical transdisciplinary and systemic review of the current implementation of blockchain and how sustainable and supporting it would be in the future is required. The study considers the potential of its adoption and emerging development of applications focusing on social justice and civic good, including the multi-species circular economy project, 'COLife: More-Than-Human Community Codesign Century,' exploring a more-than-human value communication agenda. This review sourced articles from Clarivate and Scopus to investigate the current implementation of blockchain application areas. The review suggests a transition towards the post-Anthropocene, where blockchain presents opportunities for all beings (humans, other species, artificial intelligence, robots) to co-live and co-perform, offering sustainable alternatives to the existing unsustainable extractive and exploitative power dynamic that humans typically exert over other species and technology. For example, pollinators should be paid for their pollinations and for that they could buy a meadow. Our transdisciplinary and systemic critical review shows that some studies denigrate the merits of blockchain applications, mainly because they were written from a reductionist perspective. Our strength lies in boundary critique implementation. We argue the reductionist reviews are inconclusive, while some outcomes were subjective to practical verification and assumption validation. However, they do not consider the complexity of today's world. Lastly, we present the benefits of the drivers for future implementation, showing it outweigh the projected drawbacks and future vision of our COLife project with blockchain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Understanding the connection between the properties of black holes (BHs) and their progenitors is interesting in many branches of astrophysics. Discovering BHs in detached orbits with luminous companions (LCs) promises to help establish this connection since the LC and BH progenitor are expected to have the same metallicity and formation time. We explore the possibility of detecting BH–LC binaries in detached orbits using photometric variations of the LC flux, induced by tidal ellipsoidal variation, relativistic beaming, and self-lensing. We create realistic present-day populations of detached BH–LC binaries in the Milky Way (MW) using binary population synthesis where we adopt observationally motivated initial stellar and binary properties, star formation history, and the present-day distribution of these sources in the MW based on detailed cosmological simulations. We test detectability of these sources via photometric variability by Gaia and TESS missions by incorporating their respective detailed detection biases as well as interstellar extinction. We find that Gaia is expected to resolve ∼300–1000 (∼700–1500) detached BH–LC binaries with signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) ≥ 10 (1) depending on the photometric precision and details of supernova physics. Similarly, the number of resolved BH–LC binaries with TESS is ∼50–200 (∼140–350). We find that 136 − 15 + 15 BH–LC binaries would be common between Gaia and TESS. Moreover, ∼60–70 (∼50–200) BH–LC binaries identifiable using photometry with SNR ≥ 10 may also be resolved using Gaia's radial velocity (astrometry). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

All astronomical missions use charge-coupled devices (CCDs) as vital organs. Usually, silicon (Si) is preferred to build them, which does not perform well without enhancements such as anti-reflection (AR) coatings. Such devices exhibit poor performance in the large (> 800 nm) and small (< 500 nm) wavelength ranges, even with AR coatings. We present studies that signify gallium nitride (GaN) as a potential replacement for Si in astronomical CCDs that operate in a wide wavelength range. For this purpose, SILVACO TCAD software has been used for simulating and comparing the electronic and optical properties of a GaN CCD pixel with a Gaia astrometric field (AF) CCD pixel. Our observations demonstrate that the electronic and optical performance of the GaN-based CCD pixel is significantly better than the Si-based AF CCD pixel. These findings can prove to be the bedrock of future astronomical exploration and broadband astronomical CCDs, as the simulated GaN CCD pixel exhibits a high quantum efficiency even without any reinforcements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Through our three-way collaboration we sought to understand Gaia and its political implications from the bottom-up and from within. Here we introduce that view of Gaia and how the dialogue between a philosopher (Bruno), a scientist (Tim), and a historian and philosopher of science (Séb) turned into a research programme. This sets in context a previously unpublished piece by Latour: 'There is nothing simple in a feedback loop – or why goal function is not the problem of Gaia'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the use of Greek mythology in current ecological discourse. In Classical Studies, specifically in Classical Tradition studies, the ecocritical revision of Greco-Latin texts and their survival is still in its infancy. The ecological question is usually approached as a reconstruction of notions and uses of nature, with little reference to the contemporary philosophical and cultural discourse that revolves around the cultural causes of the climate crisis, its historical paradoxes, and its future projections. This has led to a situation in which ancient mythology, especially Greek mythology, is used by ecological discourse representatives for argumentative, explanatory, or informative purposes without the required textual criticism and scientific rigor. This paper insists on the need to critically review the ecological readings of Greek mythology to avoid contradictions, paradoxes, or biased interpretations that could weaken the ecocritical debate. Specifically, two predominant tendencies are analyzed: the argumentative use of myth (e.g., in the case of the adamantine chains of Prometheus or the use of Platonic myths) and its resemanticization for a specific discursive purpose (e.g., the reductionist interpretations of Gaia and Medusa) in authors such as Timothy Morton, Jane Bennett, Ursula Heise, or Donna Haraway. The results show that the treatment of Greek myths in the ecological discourse is often subordinated to argumentative needs, avoiding alternative mythographic sources that relativize what has been exposed or venturing into biased interpretations that can lead to undesired contradictions concerning the postulates of the ecological discourse itself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, I explore Wu Ming-Yi’s reconfiguration of Gaia in his The Man with the Compound Eyes (Fuyan Ren), mainly in light of the reinventions of the term by Isabelle Stengers and Bruno Latour. I first review critics’ interpretations of the novel and its title character, the man with the compound eyes, in terms of the vision and agency it registers. After that, I examine Lovelock’s and Margulis’s conceptions of Gaia and Stengers’s and Latour’s revisions of the notion. According to the latter two philosophers’ reformulations, I examine how in The Man, Gaia operates as an analogy for both the non-totalized whole and for catastrophe, which calls forth human response. Thereafter, I address Latour’s articulations of agent and composition and relate them to storytelling. Based on these, I discuss how The Man sketches a form of agency building on composing well and taking into account. To conclude, I touch on the question of how to go from agent to Gaia and how Wu’s The Man deals with this issue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Characterising the sensory profiles of beers made from new hop varieties is of considerable importance for their application in brewing. New Czech bitter varieties Boomerang and Gaia were tested in three-year pilot brews (200 l) of 12% single-hopped pale lager, produced in kettle and kettle+dry-hopped variants. The hop-derived aroma and bitterness profile of the beers was evaluated using a comprehensive descriptive method. Hop-related volatiles in beer were determined by GC/MS-MS method. Both of these bitter varieties showed a pleasant bitterness profile even in dry-hopped beers. The overall impression of the beers from the varieties tested was favourable, at the level of the control beer (Saaz). The profile of hop derived volatiles and aroma in beers from Gaia and Boomerang varieties were different. The results show the potential of Boomerang for both single kettle-hopped beers and dry-hopped lagers due to its interesting aroma profile (spicy, herbal, floral). The Gaia variety can be used in a similar way, with a preference for dry hopping to give a well-balanced hop-derived aroma profile. Both varieties have shown considerable potential for the production of new beer brands, and their drought tolerance may also help their widespread cultivation.

This paper demonstrates that through video game mechanics and internal narrative elements, Horizon Zero Dawn employs Greek mythology to encourage a perspective shift in the player who comes to inhabit the protagonist, Aloy's, worldview. While inhabiting Aloy, an outcast within her own storyworld, Horizon Zero Dawn subtly subscribes to the tenets of standpoint theory which privilege the perspective of the marginalized, and encourages the player to employ Lugones' "world"-traveling, a skill in which marginalized knowers particularly excel. Horizon Zero Dawn thus engages with Greek mythology and uses the connection that is built between player and avatar to encourage the transcendence of the player situation and to employ Lugones' "world"-travel in order to respectfully and lovingly engage with others, both within and without the game's storyworld. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As a tribute to the German theologian Jürgen Moltmann, who died on 3 June 2024 in Tübingen, Germany, this issue of The Ecumenical Review is publishing a chapter from his book Hope in These Troubled Times, launched during Moltmann's last visit to the World Council of Churches in 2019. This chapter offers a critique of a theological approach that puts the human being at the centre of the relationship toward nature, an approach that has become questionable because of the ecological crisis. Instead, this chapter argues for a paradigm shift from placing the human being at the centre of the world to a cosmic integration of humanity, from the arrogance of global dominion to cosmic humbleness, from a distinction between God and the world to a mutual participation of a "world in God" and "God in the world." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on the data from the third edition of the Gaia catalog, containing the reflectance spectra of asteroids, studies of near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) were carried out. The reflectance spectra of about 100 representatives of the Aten, Apollo and Amor groups were used to determine their spectral class. For 47 asteroids such an assessment was made for the first time. For convenience, the classes were grouped into broader spectral groups (according to Tholen). The distribution by spectral groups (average 60% S-group, 20% C-group, 20% others) was consistent with results obtained previously using other data from a larger sample of objects. This distribution remains similar to what is known for NEAs of different sizes. Despite the numerical predominance of group S asteroids in the NEA data sample, asteroids of primitive types (group C) are also found at very small perihelion distances, which can indirectly confirm the widespread occurrence of the phenomenon of sublimation activity of asteroids. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

El siguiente trabajo analiza Fruta podida (2007) de la escritora chilena Lina Meruane a partir de una indagación en el repertorio afectivo que surge de la coexistencia, el encuentro y la colisión de dos temporalidades en la novela. Una de ellas sigue el pulso de la productividad de los suelos y de los cuerpos diagramando un continuum tóxico (Heffes 2021) entre el campo, donde se cultiva la fruta, y la ciudad, donde se emplaza el hospital que promete alargar la vida de las personas. La otra, avanza clavando su aguja a su paso, realizando cortes abruptos y rebanando los rectilíneos procesos de la productividad. Esta segunda temporalidad responde a un comportamiento de Gaia que Isabelle Stengers llamó “irrupción” (2017). Si bien ambas temporalidades se arman de una paleta afectiva gris, con poco espacio para los afectos “positivos”, el roce entre ellas produce un chispazo completamente original donde despunta la ironía. En lo que sigue explicaré cómo la ironía puede conformar un afecto usual en tiempos de extinción.

In the present essay, Derek Mahon’s last four collections, from Life on Earth (2008) all the way to Washing Up (2020), are analysed in the context of ecology. I argue here that Mahon’s increased attention to man-caused environmental destruction is predicated on a withdrawal from the world of profit-obsessed capitalism in favour of a silent contemplation of nature, which Mahon evokes through the figure of Gaia. Relying on Bruno Latour’s revision of James Lovelock’s Gaia hypothesis, I show that Mahon’s late poetry represents an attempt to caringly engage the mystery and mystique of the Earth understood as a network of interrelated agents. This down-to-earth point of view, which Latour refers to as the terrestrial, characterises the Earthbound: the people who see the environment as an infinitely complex, material realm in which humanity is one subject among many. And it is the terrestrial vantage of the Earthbound perspective that Mahon evokes throughout his work, challenging the hegemony of capitalism and technology in an effort to reach the pulsating rhythms of what he calls “the still living whole”.

BackgroundLittle research has been conducted on the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on either birth outcomes or the ability of archival medical records to accurately capture these outcomes. Our study objective is thus to compare the prevalence of preterm birth, stillbirth, low birth weight (LBW), small for gestational age (SGA), congenital microcephaly, and neonatal bloodstream infection (NBSI) before and during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).MethodsWe conducted a facility-based retrospective cohort study in which identified cases of birth outcomes were tabulated at initial screening and subcategorized according to level of diagnostic certainty using Global Alignment of Immunization Safety Assessment in pregnancy (GAIA) definitions. Documentation of any birth complications, delivery type, and maternal vaccination history were also evaluated. The prevalence of each birth outcome was compared in the pre-COVID-19 (i.e., July 2019 to February 2020) and intra-COVID-19 (i.e., March to August 2020) periods via two-sample z-test for equality of proportions.ResultsIn total, 14,300 birth records were abstracted. Adverse birth outcomes were identified among 22.0% and 14.3% of pregnancies in the pre-COVID-19 and intra-COVID-19 periods, respectively. For stillbirth, LBW, SGA, microcephaly, and NBSI, prevalence estimates were similar across study periods. However, the prevalence of preterm birth in the intra-COVID-19 period was significantly lower than that reported during the pre-COVID-19 period (8.6% vs. 11.5%, p

This paper presents a model for assessing the impact of various factors on maritime accidents. This paper discusses the issue of maritime transport and its risks. The taxonomy of causes and consequences used in maritime transport is explained. Two mathematical principles were used, i.e., multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) and principal component analysis (PCA). The analyses were carried out using the Promethee/Gaia method. The connection between causes and accidents constituted the decision problem. The evaluation criteria, a set of actions and preferences, were identified based on the method principles. The results of this research include rankings of causal chains. They were analysed in multi-criteria and single-criteria dimensions. The outcomes are presented numerically and graphically. Such research contributes to improving safety at sea. It allows us to understand how a particular transport system works. Conclusions can be drawn and measures can be initiated to change the situation in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the present essay, Derek Mahon’s last four collections, from Life on Earth (2008) all the way to Washing Up (2020), are analysed in the context of ecology. I argue here that Mahon’s increased attention to man-caused environmental destruction is predicated on a withdrawal from the world of profit-obsessed capitalism in favour of a silent contemplation of nature, which Mahon evokes through the figure of Gaia. Relying on Bruno Latour’s revision of James Lovelock’s Gaia hypothesis, I show that Mahon’s late poetry represents an attempt to caringly engage the mystery and mystique of the Earth understood as a network of interrelated agents. This down-to-earth point of view, which Latour refers to as the terrestrial, characterises the Earthbound: the people who see the environment as an infinitely complex, material realm in which humanity is one subject among many. And it is the terrestrial vantage of the Earthbound perspective that Mahon evokes throughout his work, challenging the hegemony of capitalism and technology in an effort to reach the pulsating rhythms of what he calls “the still living whole”. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Este artigo busca discutir o campo educacional no Antropoceno, época na qual a presença humana, sobretudo nos últimos 2 séculos, vem provocando impactos catastróficos na vida do planeta. Para tal, problematiza a tradição ocidental moderna de pensamento, que coloca o humano (um tipo de humano) na centralidade do mundo e não considera que os demais seres possuem historicidade e, portanto, como seres agentes. Toma a floresta como um entre-lugar que permite elaborar outras e novas estratégias de subjetivação neste mundo em ruínas. Por fim, explora algumas possibilidades de composição entre o campo educacional, notadamente regido por uma visão eurocêntrica de mundo, e o pensamento ameríndio, como forma de conjecturar um outro mundo possível para humanos e extra-humanos.

The GAIA DR3 measurement campaign has produced a MW rotation curve with significantly improved accuracy compared with previous campaigns. In 2023, several authors presented accurate rotation curves calculated from these measurements, within the framework of the dark matter hypothesis. They established new estimates of the Milky Way’s dynamical mass of around [Formula: see text]. Some of these authors showed that, from a radial distance of around 18[Formula: see text]kpc, the Milky Way presents a significant Keplerian decay in the rotation curve, rather than a plateau zone. In this paper, we use a set of data tables from four different authors in a single database. Without making any assumptions about the existence or absence of dark matter, we analyze the observed radial acceleration as a function of the baryonic acceleration. We show that the observed acceleration is an accurate linear function of the baryonic acceleration, making the dark matter hypothesis problematic. Furthermore, we prove that the MW rotation curve can be calculated within the framework of General Relativity without dark matter, using the dynamic metric we published earlier in 2023: “On the incompleteness’ of Birkhoff’s theorem: A new approach to the central symmetric Gravitational Field in Vacuum Space.” In particular, this metric allows us to predict and model the Keplerian decay zone of the rotation curve. Our dynamical mass evaluation does not differ significantly from the value [Formula: see text].

The third data release of Gaia introduced a large catalog of astrometric binaries, out of which about 3200 are likely main-sequence stars with a white dwarf (WD) companion. These binaries are typically found with orbital separations of ∼1 au, a separation range that was largely unexplored due to observational challenges. Such systems are likely to have undergone a phase of stable mass transfer while the WD progenitor was on the asymptotic giant branch. Here we study the WD mass distribution of a volume-complete sample of binaries with K/M dwarf primaries and orbital separations of ∼1 au. We find that the number of massive WDs relative to the total number of WDs in these systems is smaller by an order of magnitude compared to their occurrence among single WDs in the field. One possible reason can be an implicit selection of the WD mass range if these are indeed post-stable-mass-transfer systems. Another reason can be the lack of merger products in our sample compared to the field, due to the relatively tight orbital separations of these systems. In addition, we find that about 14% of these systems have distant tertiary companions within 1 pc.

With some justification, Michel Serres claimed that he was one of the first to make ecology a central question for philosophy. Many of his books explore the ecological emergency and spell out the need to include the more-than-human in any ethical and political response. Yet Serres' thought has been generally neglected in scholarly debate outside France. To highlight the importance of Serres' philosophy, I contrast aspects of his work with Latour's sustained search for a political ecology. I contend that Serres' thought overlaps with but also challenges Latour's approach that has increasingly turned for inspiration to the theory of Gaia proposed by Lovelock and Margulis. I argue that drawing from science, history, fables, the humanities and his own experience, Serres brings together a narrative of the commonality of all living and non-living things that exposes a contractable obligation and formulates the grounding for a new politics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, we introduce some simple models, based on rolling dice, to explore mechanisms proposed to explain planetary habitability. The idea is to study these selection mechanisms in an analytically tractable setting, isolating their consequences from other details which can confound or obscure their effect in more realistic models. We find that the observable of interest, the face value shown on the die, "improves" over time in all models. For two of the more popular ideas, Selection by Survival and Sequential Selection, this is down to sampling effects. A modified version of Sequential Selection, Sequential Selection with Memory, implies a statistical tendency for systems to improve over time. We discuss the implications of this and its relationship to the ideas of the "Inhabitance Paradox" and the "Gaian bottleneck." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Deborah Bird Rose uses the Aboriginal Yol'ngu term bir'yun – shimmer – to describe the inherent capacity to experience nature's ancestral and ongoing power (2022). Using Rose's concept as a leitmotif, this article investigates contemporary figurations of the animal spirit as it moves through the margins of contemporary science, philosophy, and literature. Using becoming figurations like sympoiesis, Gaia, the holobiont, and the Body without Organs (BwO), my argument is underpinned by Deleuze and Guattari's (1987) philosophical attempts to subvert the dogmatic anthropocentric image of thought via becoming-animal/becoming-intense concepts. Beginning with an exploration of how science is beginning to overturn its own mechanistic view of the animal via new figurations of the animal assemblage, the article turns to a literary example – Robert Holdstock's Lavondyss (1988) – to examine how we might go about addressing the nature of the becoming-animal assemblage to recapture the experience of shimmer as an ecologically aesthetic praxis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Using Gaia DR3 data, we identified an extended a ~60 pc group of stars sharing common motion but scattered in space, including from 150 to 300 probable members, named Group V. It can be associated with a group identified by Getman et al. (2019) and by Jerabkova et al. (2019) as a relic of a gas filament, traced by the mutual position of stars after the gas is swept out. We estimate its age to be approximately 16 million years. A combination of methods is applied to select probable members of Group V. We discuss the kinematic characteristics of the stars of Group V and the controversial clues they provide for understanding its nature. Due to the vicinity of a number of open clusters in the space, differentiating between members of the group and of the clusters is problematic, and mutual contamination is inevitable. The pair of clusters Gulliver 6 and UBC 17b is wrapped inside Group V but differs from it in kinematics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The recently discovered Gaia BH1 binary system, a Sun-like star and a dark object (presumably a black hole), may significantly change our understanding of the population of binaries. The paper presents the components mass ratio (q) distributions of binary systems of different observational classes. They all show a significant shortage of low-q systems. In this work, I demonstrate (quantitatively) how our ignorance extends, and point out the importance of discovering and studying systems like Gaia BH1. In addition, an approximate mass–temperature relation and mass ratio–magnitude difference relation for main-sequence stars are presented here. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the third data release of the Gaia mission, Gaia DR3 with its precise photometry and astrometry, it is now possible to study the behavior of stars at a scale never seen before. In this paper, we developed new criteria to identify T-Tauri stars (TTS) candidates using UV and optical color-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) by combining the GALEX and Gaia surveys. We found 19 TTS candidates and five of them are newly identified TTS in the Taurus molecular cloud (TMC), not cataloged before as TMC members. For some of the TTS candidates, we also obtained optical spectra from several Indian telescopes. We also present the analysis of distance and proper motion of young stars in the Taurus using data from Gaia DR3. We found that the stars in Taurus show a bimodal distribution with distance, having peaks at 130. 17 - 1.24 1.31 pc and 156. 25 - 5.00 1.86 pc. The reason for this bimodality, we think, is due to the fact that different clouds in the TMC region are at different distances. We further showed that the two populations have similar ages and proper motion distribution. Using the Gaia DR3 CMD, we showed that the age of Taurus is consistent with 1 Myr. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Justin, an adult very anxious about the fate of planet Earth in this era of climate change, is shocked and angry at the vague but tenacious indifference he observes among his contemporaries in the face of the risk posed by the ecological threat to the whole of life on Earth. Is this indifference the result of denial, splitting, or derealization? Conversely, what is at work in those for whom, like Justin, eco-anxiety is opposed to this indifference? In ecological anguish and distress, what are the links between the intimate and the collective, between everyday life and history? What phantasmatic representations take hold of planet Earth, with its likely unique psychic status? The complex status of Gaia, primordial goddess of Greek antiquity, allows us to examine the phantasmatic underpinnings of our relationship to Mother Earth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This memorial to Latour is not an appraisal of his fifty-year research career but the report of a traveling companion with a story to share about the apparent lack of continuity, the sudden, unapologetic, unprincipled changes of position, with which he surprised or scandalized his colleagues and readers. In the first place, was he a sociologist, an anthropologist, a philosopher? Though he did not make lasting commitments of that kind, he did make deeper ones that did not change—above all, never to explain anything in terms of something more general and, thus, never to accept the position of judge. To follow Latour's problematic changes—sometimes referred to as his "versatility"—demands that we follow the changes of the very terms of the problems that his basic commitment bound him to confront. From the 1980s, when his work dealt with technoscientific progress, to the years of his growing concern with political ecology, and finally to his recognition of the oncoming climate chaos, dizzying leaps were entailed by his resistance to the temptation of judging. Involved in, but never the cause of, various of his leaps, Stengers describes her friend as responding, perforce, to changing times, rather than as behaving like a theorist thinking mainly of his image, reputation, and career. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Mary Midgley challenges the dominant conceptions of human nature, ethics, community and ecology taught at A-Level. This article considers some of the key themes of her thinking. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The prior issue of Krisis (42:1) published Critical Naturalism: A Manifesto, with the aim to instigate a debate of the issues raised in this manifesto – the necessary re-thinking of the role (and the concept) of nature in critical theory in relation to questions of ecology, health, and inequality. Since Krisis considers itself a place for philosophical debates that take contemporary struggles as starting point, it issued an open call and solicited responses to the manifesto. This is one of the sixteen selected responses, which augment, specify, or question the assumptions and arguments of the manifesto.

This paper presents a model for assessing the impact of various factors on maritime accidents. This paper discusses the issue of maritime transport and its risks. The taxonomy of causes and consequences used in maritime transport is explained. Two mathematical principles were used, i.e., multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) and principal component analysis (PCA). The analyses were carried out using the Promethee/Gaia method. The connection between causes and accidents constituted the decision problem. The evaluation criteria, a set of actions and preferences, were identified based on the method principles. The results of this research include rankings of causal chains. They were analysed in multi-criteria and single-criteria dimensions. The outcomes are presented numerically and graphically. Such research contributes to improving safety at sea. It allows us to understand how a particular transport system works. Conclusions can be drawn and measures can be initiated to change the situation in the future.

In his stories, Primo Levi presents contrasting planetary visions of Earth: one depicting it as an expanding technosphere made of entangled beings, and the other as a world of disparities impacted by the agency of a mutated humanity. But Levi's ideas of planet do not solely advocate for a utopian cosmopolitanism of all living beings; he critically probes the tension between technology's promises in industrialized societies and the worldview that sees Earth merely as an exploitable resource. Moreover, his stories emphasize the divisions and the contradictions created by the planetarization of the logic of industrial modernity. This essay analyzes selected short stories from Vizio di forma, seeking to unpack Levi's intricate engagements with planetary concepts and the emergent idea of a terrestrial condition. Central to this exploration is how Levi's planetary vision reflects the inherent tensions between the individual and the collective, and between different scales and ways of existing.

We report two anti-reflection (AR) coatings that give better quantum efficiency (QE) than the existing AR coating on the Gaia astrometric field (AF) charged coupled devices (CCDs). Light being the core of optical astronomy is extremely important for such missions, therefore, the QE of the devices that are used to capture it should be substantially high. To reduce the losses due to the reflection of light from the surface of the CCDs, AR coatings can be applied. Currently, the main component of the Gaia satellite, the AF CCDs use hafnium dioxide (HfO2) AR coating. In this paper, the ATLAS module of the SILVACO software has been employed for simulating and studying the AF CCD pixel structure and several AR coatings. Our findings suggest that zirconium dioxide (ZrO2) and tantalum pentoxide (Ta2O5) will prove to be better AR coatings for broadband astronomical CCDs in the future and will open new avenues to understand the evolution of the milky way. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article seeks to discuss the educational field in the Anthropocene, a time when human presence, especially in the last 2 centuries, has been causing catastrophic impacts on the life of the planet. To this end, it problematizes the modern Western tradition of thought, which places the human (a type of human) at the center of the world and does not consider that other beings have historicity and, therefore, as agent beings. It takes the forest as an in-between place that allows the elaboration of other and new subjectivation strategies in this world in ruins. Finally, it explores some possibilities of composition between the educational field, notably governed by a Eurocentric view of the world, and Amerindian thought, as a way of conjecturing another possible world for humans and extra-humans. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In his stories, Primo Levi presents contrasting planetary visions of Earth: one depicting it as an expanding technosphere made of entangled beings, and the other as a world of disparities impacted by the agency of a mutated humanity. But Levi's ideas of planet do not solely advocate for a utopian cosmopolitanism of all living beings; he critically probes the tension between technology's promises in industrialized societies and the worldview that sees Earth merely as an exploitable resource. Moreover, his stories emphasize the divisions and the contradictions created by the planetarization of the logic of industrial modernity. This essay analyzes selected short stories from Vizio di forma, seeking to unpack Levi's intricate engagements with planetary concepts and the emergent idea of a terrestrial condition. Central to this exploration is how Levi's planetary vision reflects the inherent tensions between the individual and the collective, and between different scales and ways of existing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract Background Little research has been conducted on the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on either birth outcomes or the ability of archival medical records to accurately capture these outcomes. Our study objective is thus to compare the prevalence of preterm birth, stillbirth, low birth weight (LBW), small for gestational age (SGA), congenital microcephaly, and neonatal bloodstream infection (NBSI) before and during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Methods We conducted a facility-based retrospective cohort study in which identified cases of birth outcomes were tabulated at initial screening and subcategorized according to level of diagnostic certainty using Global Alignment of Immunization Safety Assessment in pregnancy (GAIA) definitions. Documentation of any birth complications, delivery type, and maternal vaccination history were also evaluated. The prevalence of each birth outcome was compared in the pre-COVID-19 (i.e., July 2019 to February 2020) and intra-COVID-19 (i.e., March to August 2020) periods via two-sample z-test for equality of proportions. Results In total, 14,300 birth records were abstracted. Adverse birth outcomes were identified among 22.0% and 14.3% of pregnancies in the pre-COVID-19 and intra-COVID-19 periods, respectively. For stillbirth, LBW, SGA, microcephaly, and NBSI, prevalence estimates were similar across study periods. However, the prevalence of preterm birth in the intra-COVID-19 period was significantly lower than that reported during the pre-COVID-19 period (8.6% vs. 11.5%, p