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Rice, wheat, and maize grains are staple foods, widely consumed for their mineral and nutritional values. However, they can accumulate toxic elements from contaminated soils, posing health risks. This study investigates the bioaccumulation patterns of 52 elements (including nutrients, heavy metals, and rare earth elements) in various parts (grain, husk, straw, and root) of cereals grown in a heavily polluted region. The results revealed that rice grains exhibited a higher accumulation (Σ33.4 mg/kg) of toxic elements (As, Cu, Cr, Ni, and Pb) than wheat (Σ26.6 mg/kg) and maize (Σ16.2 mg/kg) grains, with the high-yield RI64 cultivar (Σ47.0 mg/kg) being the most susceptible. Across the rice plant, accumulation increased in the order of grain < husk < straw < root. Elements like P, K, Cu, and Zn showed the highest enrichment. Worryingly, the most toxic elements, such as As, Pb, and Cd, exceeded permissible limits across grains, straws, and husks. Health risk assessment indicated that wheat and maize pose greater non-cancer and cancer risks than rice. Despite being grown in a highly contaminated region, the study identifies some rice cultivars like Luchai and Sarna as relatively safer options due to a lower accumulation of toxic elements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Colorectal cancer (CRC) poses a significant global health burden, with high incidence and mortality rates. Despite advances in diagnostic and therapeutic modalities, early diagnosis remains critical for improved outcomes. Recent research has realized the important role of gut microbiota in CRC development, highlighting the need to elucidate potential relationships. Methods: In this study, we employed Mendelian randomization (MR) to establish a robust potential link between gut microbial genera and CRC. Data from the MiBioGen database provided curated genome-wide association study (GWAS) summary datasets for microbial genera, while the Finngen database provided CRC outcome data. Instrumental variables (IVs) were identified based on genetic variants associated with gut microbiota. Various MR methods, including Inverse Variance Weighted (IVW), Weighted Median, Weighted Mode, Simple Mode, and MR-Egger, were employed to estimate potential effects. Functional analysis of genes near single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) was performed to unravel potential pathways. Results: Analysis of microbial genera identified five potentially associated with CRC: Eubacterium fissicatena group , Anaerofilum , Defluviitaleaceae UCG011 , Ruminococcus 2 , and Sutterella. Notably, Defluviitaleaceae UCG011 emerged as the only risk factor. Gene analysis revealed hub genes PTPRD and DSCAM near Defluviitaleaceae UCG011 associated SNPs. Expression analysis showed that PTPRD decreased in colon cancer and DSCAM decreased in rectal cancer. The methylation status of the PTPRD gene promoter region indicated potential regulatory alterations. Conclusion: This study establishes a potential relationship between five specific gut microbial genera, particularly Defluviitaleaceae UCG011 , and CRC. Hub genes PTPRD and DSCAM provide insights into potential molecular mechanisms, suggesting the potential role of Defluviitaleaceae UCG011 in modulating the initiation and progression of CRC. Further research is essential to validate these associations and delve deeper into therapeutic implications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article brings together two disparate and so far largely disconnected bodies of research: the critical analysis of cryopreservation technologies and the debate on modes of anticipation. It starts with a short review of the state of the research on the concept of cryopolitics. In the next part I will suggest two revisions. I will problematize the idea of latent life and the focus on potentialities that have been central to the research on cryopolitics so far, proposing to shift the analytic frame to suspended life on the one hand and to modes of anticipation on the other. I argue that cryopreservation practices are part of contemporary technologies of anticipation. They are linked to a politics of suspension by mobilizing a liminal biological state in which frozen organisms or biological material are neither fully alive nor ultimately dead. This seeks to avert and/or enable distinctive futures by extending temporal horizons and keeping vital processes in limbo. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Malaria control has been one of the defining goals in global health. Recently, strategies that aim to control the insect-borne disease by altering mosquito biology have gained interest. One such strategy currently in development is to engineer mosquitoes equipped with so-called gene drives: elements that increase the likelihood of a specific set of genes to be passed on to the next generation. The strategy encapsulates hopes of technological solutions in global health, as well as expectations for the applications of synthetic biology. Hence, gene drive research operates with the potential of genetically modified mosquitoes: to survive in the wild, to reproduce, and to perform the work expected of them in some future timeline. I examine gene drive research with the concept of potentiality and how establishing it has guided gene drive research. Knowledge and uncertainties about mosquitoes and mosquito ecologies emerged through working with the mosquito as a research animal in the laboratory, as population data, and as a regulatable biotechnology. Mathematical modelling made it possible to establish the potential to move from the lab to the wild. In modelling, the mosquito as a research object could be made to work as part of future projections that assembled different kinds of data. As gene drive research progresses, I suggest that the researchers are also modelling how biotechnology handles uncertainty that is related to the ways producing genetic modification in the lab and producing knowledge about their possible environmental effects and efficacy translates into landscapes and mosquito ecologies in the wild. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While sharing some features in common with presentist accounts of time, Hegel’s theory of time fundamentally offers an alternative to standard A-Theories, B-Theories, and C-Theories of time. While compatible with Kantian ideality of time on the one hand and spacetime in the theory of general relativity on the other, Hegel’s theory of time reaches beyond both a transcendental form of sensibility on the one hand and a paradigm for material motion in physics, on the other. Further, while Hegel’s theory of time provides reason to reject such theories of time as the Moving Spotlight, Growing and Shrinking Block, and a range of others, my interest here is in making comprehensible Hegel’s theory of time itself. I will argue that according to Hegel’s theory, the past and the future exist as constitutive of the now, and the now is not separable from space, but rather is itself spatial becoming. Stemming from his underlying logic of actuality and becoming, Hegel espouses the view that history (the past) and future possibility are present and constitutive of the “now.” Understanding his theory of time will also help shed some light on a systematic feature found across his philosophy of nature and mind. Additionally, while his theory presents an elegant notion of time within his philosophy, it also offers an intuitive and productive solution for a traditional identity problem of concrete particulars across time and intervenes in contemporary philosophy of time.

Jesus’ use of mustard seed as a simile or an analogy in the description of faith has been translated and interpreted in diverse ways over the years. Whilst some vernacular and English translations referred to the size of the seed, some retained a fair comparison or analogy of the mustard seed to faith without referring to any salient trait or characteristic. Among both laity and scholars, it remains that some conclude, in reference to Matthew 17:20 and Luke 17:6 that small or little faith is of the essence and to it, acceptable in Christianity and to the Lord. The problem is increased as some also refer to the potency or potentiality of the seed rather than its size. In the attempt to resolve this confusion and to lay bare the veracity of the text in the African context especially, some vernacular translations, as well as English translations (several Africans read the biblical text in English), are compared and analysed vis-à-vis the Greek text. Lexico-syntactical, as well as literary analyses, are applied to the text, especially “If you have faith as small as a mustard seed.” In conclusion, this paper opines that Jesus’ analogy of faith in comparison to the mustard seed refers to the potency or the potentiality of the seed to produce great results although, it is seemingly one of the smallest seeds that nature produces. The emphasis or salient trait in the reference is its potentiality but not its size.

Landscape studies have increasingly been developed as a tool for assessing different environmental systems, thus enabling the understanding of vulnerabilities and potentials linked to various territorial dynamics associated with distinct landscape sets. In Mato Grosso do Sul, the Maracaju Mountain Range emerges as a significant mosaic of landscapes, permeated by varied landscape structures composed of different relief typologies, vegetation types, land uses, and hydrological variety. In this context, the present investigation aims to assess, in the central portion of the mountain range, the different possibilities for the development of tourist activities linked to Nature Tourism. For this evaluation, fieldwork, thematic mappings, and the construction of a synthesis map via GIS were developed. As results, the levels of Nature Tourism and the possible activities to be developed in the research area were presented. In summary, the central portion of the Maracaju Mountain Range is associated with levels 1 and 2 of Nature Tourism, respectively, privileging the development of activities related to the contemplation of natural landscape elements, as well as the promotion of adventure activities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Laboratory practitioners working in oncology are increasingly involved in implementing genomic medicine, operating at the intersection of the laboratory and the clinic. This includes molecular diagnostic work and molecular testing to direct entry into molecular-based clinical trials and treatment decision-making based on molecular profiling. In this article, we draw on qualitative interviews with laboratory practitioners in the United Kingdom to explore the role of laboratory work in genomic cancer medicine, focusing on the handling of patient tissue and making of potentiality to guide patients' present and future care. With an increase in molecular testing to inform standard care and clinical trial participation, we show how practitioners "potentialized" the tissue by carefully negotiating what to test, how to test, and when. This included maximizing and managing small amounts of tissue in anticipation of possible future patient care. Tissue archives also took on new meaning, and potentiality, which practitioners negotiated alongside patient care. Potentiality was key to generating the "big" future of genomic medicine and also involved care work where the tissue emerged as an extension of the patient, as a form of "material patienthood," to secure present and future care for patients through their involvement in genomic medicine. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article we will show the process that allowed Ricœur to apply the Aristotelian ontology of actuality and potentiality to his hermeneutics, and how this development ended up providing him with a speculative solution to the aporetics of time. We will distinguish two alternative solutions: the poetic solution, given in Time and Narrative and the speculative one, developed in Memory, History, Forgetting. Despite the importance of the existential analytic, we believe that the introduction of the Spinozian conatus was decisive for Ricoeur’s change of perspective.

This paper presents a quantitative and contrastive analysis of expressions of effective stance in conservative newspaper opinion articles related to irregular immigration and humanitarian crises involving refugees in both English and Spanish contexts. Drawing upon the seminal works of Langacker (2013) and Marín-Arrese (2021a, 2021b, 2023), the study examines six fundamental categories of effective stance expressions established according to factors such as orientation towards self or others, degree of control about the realisation of the event, and agreement with social norms. The dataset under examination comprises a 120,000-word corpus of opinion articles obtained from two conservative newspapers, The Telegraph from the United Kingdom and El Mundo from Spain. The words are evenly distributed, with each newspaper contributing 30,000 words in articles pertaining to three humanitarian crises involving refugees: Syria (2015), Afghanistan (2021), and Ukraine (2022-2023), and 30,000 words relating to articles on irregular immigration coinciding in time with each of the three refugee crises. The primary objective of the paper is to discern notable differences between the two newspapers and across the different refugee and irregular immigration crises under investigation. The analysis of the results, which uncover a larger number of effective stance expressions in the English subcorpus as well as distributional differences of subcategories across the subcorpora in both languages, provides a valuable understanding of the intricate patterns of usage and distribution of effective stance expressions within the realm of newspaper discourse, thereby enriching our comprehension of journalistic portrayals concerning the complexity of refugee crises and migratory movements.

This paper fills a gap in the literature concerning the importance of the categories of potentiality and actuality in the philosophies of Charles Sanders Peirce and John Dewey. Peirce and Dewey derived their positions by revising Aristotle. Their revisions are surprisingly similar in many aspects and different in at least one significant feature -- haecceity. Peirce and Dewey's pragmatic reconstruction of actuality and potentiality is perhaps the most important advance since the Scholastics. The goal is to recover the categories of potentiality and actuality for the future development of pragmatism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper presents a quantitative and contrastive analysis of expressions of effective stance in conservative newspaper opinion articles related to irregular immigration and humanitarian crises involving refugees in both English and Spanish contexts. Drawing upon the seminal works of Langacker (2013) and Marín-Arrese (2021a, 2021b, 2023), the study examines six fundamental categories of effective stance expressions established according to factors such as orientation towards self or others, degree of control about the realisation of the event, and agreement with social norms. The dataset under examination comprises a 120,000-word corpus of opinion articles obtained from two conservative newspapers, The Telegraph from the United Kingdom and El Mundo from Spain. The words are evenly distributed, with each newspaper contributing 30,000 words in articles pertaining to three humanitarian crises involving refugees: Syria (2015), Afghanistan (2021), and Ukraine (2022-2023), and 30,000 words relating to articles on irregular immigration coinciding in time with each of the three refugee crises. The primary objective of the paper is to discern notable differences between the two newspapers and across the different refugee and irregular immigration crises under investigation. The analysis of the results, which uncover a larger number of effective stance expressions in the English subcorpus as well as distributional differences of subcategories across the subcorpora in both languages, provides a valuable understanding of the intricate patterns of usage and distribution of effective stance expressions within the realm of newspaper discourse, thereby enriching our comprehension of journalistic portrayals concerning the complexity of refugee crises and migratory movements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The aim of this paper is to discuss some of the main philosophical and metaphysical implications of quantum physics, especially those which concern the issues of epistemic humility and ontological realism. My thesis is that the impossibility of reaching an objective knowledge of nature does not imply the renunciation of ontological realism, but rather encourages scientists to adopt an attitude of epistemic humility. The argument firstly presents the main theories of quantum physics currently discussed, focusing on the measurement problem and its ontological implications. Afterwords, the issues of objectivity and realism are properly addressed. In the end, we discuss statistics as the new form of scientific epistemology, along with the concept of potentiality as the fundamental category of quantum metaphysics. Throughout, we establish some parallelisms between quantum physics theories and theology to show that, when human beings investigate the foundations of reality, some thought patterns, some core problems, and some possible solutions resemble one another, regardless of the specific perspective and language with which they are formulated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A plethora of services in early childhood care and education has not sufficiently resulted in equitable practice for families and, specifically, families of Color across the globe. Despite numerous programs geared toward alleviating literacy challenges, families of Color worldwide continue to experience Eurocentric approaches to addressing the literacies of their children, as well as the practices they hold dear. This insistence on programming that is focused on family literacy and not "family literacies" has created a context where the playing field remains unlevel, and all students are not provided with equal opportunities. Moreover, even with largely sanctioned programming, the potentiality of the multiple literacies of families of Color has been left untapped and thus obscured, making it impossible to identify the meaningful contributions that such families can provide to the field. The authors argue in this article that this obscured potentiality, engendered through centuries of assumptions made about the supposed 'illiteracy' of families of Color, and inadvertently reinforced by the silencing of parents and families of Color in drawing from the imagination of their children and on the extant narratives of their daily lives, continues to be maintained through Eurocentric mechanisms that tout a false notion of what young children of Color can and cannot do. In response, parent-of-Color stories is presented as a mechanism for recognizing and restoring the potentiality of families of Color worldwide. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper investigates contemporary applications of the Aristotelian conception of potentiality in limit cases of life and death arising from developments in modern science in order to argue that in its current usage, the term is often so far from its Aristotelian context that its philosophical rigor and, hence, usefulness is undermined. By analyzing the account of the soul in Aristotle’s De Anima, I argue for the necessity of a conception of nature that can contextualize the relevant sense of potentiality by giving a telos arising from the subject’s nature, which orients that subject’s potentiality. I argue that these contextualizing components of nature and teleology are necessary for using a philosophically rigorous sense of potentiality. I begin by surveying the current use of potentiality to delineate beginning and end-of-life cases in order to show that these various uses are not robust enough to offer answers to the challenging cases of life and death in a non ad hoc way. I then address John Lizza and Joel Feinberg’s suggestions for making the concept of potentiality more robust, namely, a more specified framework of ‘normal’ internal conditions and ‘important’ external conditions to which the subject’s potentialities can be referenced. I argue that the insufficiency of the current uses of potentiality is more specifically due to a lack of an Aristotelian conception of a teleological nature that directs the subject’s potentiality and further that this Aristotelian framework of the subject’s nature can provide an answer to Feinberg and Lizza call for a context of normalcy of internal features and external environment in a more robust way. In the final section, I turn back to the problematic cases of life and death in order to highlight how, given a more specific and robust conception of a teleological nature, my account can offer three suggestions for applying the concept of potentiality.

BackgroundColorectal cancer (CRC) poses a significant global health burden, with high incidence and mortality rates. Despite advances in diagnostic and therapeutic modalities, early diagnosis remains critical for improved outcomes. Recent research has realized the important role of gut microbiota in CRC development, highlighting the need to elucidate potential relationships.MethodsIn this study, we employed Mendelian randomization (MR) to establish a robust potential link between gut microbial genera and CRC. Data from the MiBioGen database provided curated genome-wide association study (GWAS) summary datasets for microbial genera, while the Finngen database provided CRC outcome data. Instrumental variables (IVs) were identified based on genetic variants associated with gut microbiota. Various MR methods, including Inverse Variance Weighted (IVW), Weighted Median, Weighted Mode, Simple Mode, and MR-Egger, were employed to estimate potential effects. Functional analysis of genes near single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) was performed to unravel potential pathways.ResultsAnalysis of microbial genera identified five potentially associated with CRC: Eubacterium fissicatena group, Anaerofilum, Defluviitaleaceae UCG011, Ruminococcus 2, and Sutterella. Notably, Defluviitaleaceae UCG011 emerged as the only risk factor. Gene analysis revealed hub genes PTPRD and DSCAM near Defluviitaleaceae UCG011 associated SNPs. Expression analysis showed that PTPRD decreased in colon cancer and DSCAM decreased in rectal cancer. The methylation status of the PTPRD gene promoter region indicated potential regulatory alterations.ConclusionThis study establishes a potential relationship between five specific gut microbial genera, particularly Defluviitaleaceae UCG011, and CRC. Hub genes PTPRD and DSCAM provide insights into potential molecular mechanisms, suggesting the potential role of Defluviitaleaceae UCG011 in modulating the initiation and progression of CRC. Further research is essential to validate these associations and delve deeper into therapeutic implications.

In the study of the equations of motion of systems of various physical nature, there are problems in determining the qualitative indicators and properties of motion according to the known structure and properties of the equations under consideration. Such qualitative indicators for finite-dimensional systems are, in particular, integral invariants — integrals of some functions that retain their value during the system movement. They were introduced into analytical mechanics by A. Poincaré. In the future, the connection of integral invariants with a number of fundamental concepts of classical dynamics was established. The main purpose of this work is to extend some notions of the theory of integral invariants to broad classes of equations of motion of infinite-dimensional systems. Using a given Hamilton’s action, the equations of motion of potential systems with an infinite number of degrees of freedom are obtained, generalizing the well-known Birkhoff equations. A difference analog with discrete time is constructed for them. Based on it, a difference approximation of the corresponding integral invariant of the first order is found.

Rice, wheat, and maize grains are staple foods, widely consumed for their mineral and nutritional values. However, they can accumulate toxic elements from contaminated soils, posing health risks. This study investigates the bioaccumulation patterns of 52 elements (including nutrients, heavy metals, and rare earth elements) in various parts (grain, husk, straw, and root) of cereals grown in a heavily polluted region. The results revealed that rice grains exhibited a higher accumulation (Σ33.4 mg/kg) of toxic elements (As, Cu, Cr, Ni, and Pb) than wheat (Σ26.6 mg/kg) and maize (Σ16.2 mg/kg) grains, with the high-yield RI64 cultivar (Σ47.0 mg/kg) being the most susceptible. Across the rice plant, accumulation increased in the order of grain < husk < straw < root. Elements like P, K, Cu, and Zn showed the highest enrichment. Worryingly, the most toxic elements, such as As, Pb, and Cd, exceeded permissible limits across grains, straws, and husks. Health risk assessment indicated that wheat and maize pose greater non-cancer and cancer risks than rice. Despite being grown in a highly contaminated region, the study identifies some rice cultivars like Luchai and Sarna as relatively safer options due to a lower accumulation of toxic elements.

Biobanking in Singapore is characterized by contested relations between funding ambitions and research practices, and different notions of what the (potential) value of storing samples and data for medical research is. Different biobanking efforts anticipate the production of public goods from stored materials in specifically situated ways. These efforts to produce public goods in the form of scientific and economic value can be fruitfully understood in terms of extraction, a complex sociotechnical process of retrieving (potential) value from raw materials, which both informs and is informed by specific social values. In exploring the extraction of potential value in relation to practice values, I propose the notion of value formations to account for the coproduction of and intersections between different forms of value(s) in scientific practices situated in particular social contexts. I trace value formations across the life span of biobanking collections, which range from recruitment, collection, and processing of samples to their storage, retrieval, and use. Observations along this life span show the social and temporal complexity of value-making in biobanking in Singapore, pointing to the contextual specificity of how biobanking is understood as a public good. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Bangladesh heavily relies on groundwater resource for all major uses and ranks sixth in the global league of large groundwater extracting countries. Its northwest part—the drought-prone Barind Tract faces challenges in rainfall scarcity and drought; constrain for runoff water conservation due to improper management; low infiltration capacity of thick top surface clay soil layer (Barind clay) to recharge aquifer insufficiently; loss of major portion of runoff water runs toward canals (Kharies), surrounding rivers, etc., immediately after rainfall; less potentiality of groundwater resource development results its depletion due to over-exploitation for domestic and agriculture sectors and eventually discharged into surrounding canals, rivers, etc., in both the dry and monsoon seasons. At the same time, unsustainable water management practice consequences are a rapid declination of groundwater level since the last few decades, the system leads to unbalance condition. Unfortunately, no such study for sustainable water source management has yet been conducted for the area. In this context, rainwater harvesting through artificial recharge of groundwater using managed aquifer recharge (MAR) has been considered as a viable solution to revert the ongoing depletion of this resource and to restore the water balance scenario as a terrific and challenging task. Here, the potentiality of MAR has been considered as an integrated approach of remote sensing and geographical information system using multi-criteria decision-making technique as time-consuming and cost-effective efforts. The potentiality of MAR application covers an area of 448 km2 (20%) as 'highly suitable'; that of 1456 km2 (66%) as 'moderately suitable'; and that of 312 km2 (14%) as 'unsuitable.' Here, 35% of rainfall is lost as runoff and the remaining 14% as soil moisture. Again, groundwater resource used for irrigation equals 24% of the annual rainfall, whereas that of only 8.5% infiltrates to recharge aquifer naturally, and the rest 68% of runoff water has a scope to injection artificially to revert balanced condition. Using MAR, the cost of recharge per cubic meter of water is about US$ 0.18. Although this is little bit expensive, it can be a valuable gift for economically marginalized and unprivileged Barind communities facing hardship for drinking and agricultural water. Finally, the present study provides a guideline to water resource managers and decision makers to ascertain availability of water resource as lauded in the Bangladesh Water Act (BWA) (2013). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article provides a commentary on the work of Elizabeth Povinelli, a theoretical anthropologist, and its relevance to the sociology of language. Povinelli's ideas, although abstract, focus on the concept of quasi-events and their transformation into "events" through media or statistics. The article explores the connection between linguistic citizenship and quasi-events, discussing five strategies for configuring events into quasi-events. The case studies presented demonstrate how events can flourish despite attempts to marginalize them. Additionally, the article discusses four contributions that explore the concept of "otherwise" in various contexts, including the transformation of a large event into an art installation, alternative understandings of historical events through linguistic citizenship, fostering sociality and mutual respect in a university classroom, and language ideologies and discrimination in Mozambique. These contributions contribute to a sociolinguistics of potential and raise questions about the implications of abstract ideas in concrete examples. [Extracted from the article]

This article documents the social generation and experience of potentiality in the context of radical uncertainty. After a booming decade, the oil bust in mid-2014 wrought havoc on Angola's economy. Immigrant traders and entrepreneurs from West Africa responded to the crisis by assessing their possible livelihoods in and away from Angola. They further couched their search for economic potential in a discourse on Angola's own potential for recovery. By (de)potentializing economies and livelihoods, traders entrenched potentiality, rather than actuality, as a pervasive aspect of their sociality and their ethical orientations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Статья освещает выявленные в результате анализа модального плана Правил дорожного движения в Российской Федерации корреляции модальных значений. С учётом коммуникативно-целевой семантики выявлен наиболее частотный функционально-семантический тип высказываний, который оформляет Правила дорожного движения, а именно: констатация-сообщение необходимых действий. Проведённый анализ позволил выявить следующие типы корреляций: имплицитная достоверность + необходимость + потенциальность; имплицитная достоверность + необходимость + возможность + потенциальность; имплицитная достоверность + необходимость + возможность + потенциальность + общая аксиологическая оценка + интеллектуальная оценка в разных подзначениях; имплицитная достоверность + необходимость + возможность + общая аксиологическая оценка + телеологическая оценка; имплицитная достоверность + необходимость + возможность + потенциальность + общая аксиологическая оценка + нормативная оценка; имплицитная достоверность + необходимость + потенциальность + интеллектуальная оценка, имплицитная достоверность + необходимость + возможность + потенциальность + интеллектуальная оценка; имплицитная достоверность + необходимость + потенциальность + телеологическая оценка; имплицитная достоверность + реальность + потенциальность + необходимость + возможность + общая аксиологическая оценка + телеологическая оценка + интеллектуальная оценка.Анализ выявленных корреляций позволил сделать следующие выводы: в рамках одного высказывания частотно коррелируют общая аксиологическая оценка и частнооценочные значения; для Правил дорожного движения характерна комбинация необходимости и возможности; часто встречается сочетание различных подзначений по одной оценочной модальной шкале: возможность и невозможность в одном предложении-высказывании, реальность и потенциальность, различные виды интеллектуальных оценок.

The introduction of the concept of the field of rationality and its correlates (the field of potentiality and the formal field) by Józef Życiński and Michał (Michael) Heller opened up space for the philosophical explanation of the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in capturing regularities built into the physical reality. The presented study is a response to the clear incentive of these authors towards the development of the understanding and applicability of these concepts. It is argued that identifying symmetries within the field of rationality not only helps to articulate the fundamental role of symmetries in physics but also provides a better grasp on the issue of potentialities for the emergence of complexity in the Universe. Additionally, some global properties of this field can be more deeply comprehended. By indicating the drawbacks and limitations of this approach, perspectives for further inquiry into the meaning and usefulness are suggested.

The study is part of the doctoral thesis Congruence of space and time in the novels of the 70s which aims to investigate the way in which space and time, respectively time and space interact in the narrative score of the novels of the “neo-” modernist/realist corpus that I selected and exposed to (re)examination. Taking into account the prevailing socio-cultural circumstances throughout the 70s, with the investigation of the chronotopic/ topochronic assemblage, the conjunctures that mark the imprint of the “neo-”realist/- modernist imaginary will be highlighted as it is transposed into the texture of some Romanian categories that I opted and which I subjected to “(re)reading”. One of the urgencies of the study is the (re)view of the cultural-literary phenomenon specific to the “seventies” school in the conditions of unconditional ideological and political access to the reinforcement of the neomodernist canon.

This article attempts to analyze Witold Gombrowicz's, Harold Pinter's, Samuel Beckett's, and Tadeusz Różewicz's works by using methods that are associated with performative literary studies. The author refers to concepts of quantum physics and introduces a new aesthetic category, "entangled arts". Among these arts are, for example, drama and theater, which are seen from an anti-binary perspective. This approach eliminates the traditional division of arts into the art of literature and performing arts, thus leading us to look on literature as a performing art. Therefore, the idea of "entangled arts" is not about "the synthesis of arts", but about their unresolvedness and an act of reading which requires one to simultaneously exist and be active in two (or more, potentiality) different realities, for example, in a digital and imagined world, or in film and on stage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The editorial discusses the volume's assumptions and goals by briefly characterizing the covered issues (digital archive, liberature, literary reading of history, literary entanglement, relationships between literature, film, the theater, and video games) conceptualized in various research perspectives. The problem of the role of applying operational notions, such as re-enactment, remixability, indeterminacy, possibility, potentiality, virtuality, etc., which are used in attempts at creating a new onto-epistemology, are also considered. Therefore, literature is a constant performative re-enactment of the process of making the entangled world present. In this process, literature constantly reestablishes the world of different possibilities of existing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In arid and hyper-arid areas, groundwater is a precious and rare resource. The need for water supply has grown over the past few decades as a result of population growth, urbanization, and agricultural endeavors. This research aims to locate groundwater recharge potential zones (GWPZs) using multi-criteria evaluation (MCE) in the Wadi Qena Basin, Eastern Desert of Egypt, which represents one of the most promising valleys on which the government depends for land reclamations and developments. These approaches have been used to integrate and delineate the locations of high groundwater recharge and the potential of the Quaternary aquifer in the Wadi Qena basin. After allocating weight factors to identify features in each case based on infiltration, land use/land cover, slope, geology, topology, soil, drainage density, lineament density, rainfall, flow accumulation, and flow direction, these thematic maps were combined. The results of the GIS modeling led to the division of the area's groundwater recharge potential into five groups, ranging from very high (in the western part) to very low (in the eastern part of the basin). The zones with the best prospects for groundwater exploration turned out to be the alluvial and flood plains, with their thick strata of sand and gravel. The groundwater recharge potential map was validated using data from the field and earlier investigations. The promising recharging areas show high suitability for soil cultivation. The results overall reveal that RS and GIS methodologies offer insightful instruments for more precise assessment, planning, and monitoring of water resources in arid regions and anywhere with similar setups for groundwater prospecting and management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For the globally degrading groundwater resources in terms of quantity and quality, proper assessment and management become crucial for their sustainable use. This study aims to delineate the groundwater potential zones using an integrated approach of geographic information system (GIS) and the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) in the Siwalik of the Kankai River Basin, Eastern Nepal. Different thematic layers like hydrogeomorphology, land use/land cover, lithology, slope, topographic wetness index, drainage density, normalized difference vegetation index, lineament density, and aspect were prepared and processed with suitable weights on Saaty's scale. The delineated groundwater potential zones in the study area were categorized as low, moderate, and high. The results showed that approximately 49.38% (130.85 km2) of the total study area has a low potential for groundwater. The moderate zone includes approximately 35.5% (94.07 km2) and the high potential zone includes only 15.05% (39.88 km2) of the area. The potential map was validated with a 70.6% prediction rate using the spatial distribution of the springs in the area. The analysis shows that hydrogeomorphology, LULC, and lithology have a significant control on the occurrences of groundwater. The study signifies the scarcity of groundwater resources, which needs a better management plan and strategies for sustainable use. HIGHLIGHTS The study deals with the delineation of groundwater potential zones using geospatial analysis along the Siwalik of the Kankai River Basin.; The occurrence of groundwater along the Siwalik is mainly controlled by hydrogeomorphology, LULC, geology, and slope.; About 50% of the area lies on the low potential zone for groundwater occurrence.;

This text aims to trace, through Darin Tenev's thesis on the relationship between possibility and negativity, how Heidegger's thinking proposes death as a self-possibility and how not-being-able-to-be in superposition against the horizon of the world ultimately can be interpreted as "sublated" in death as "Dasein's ownmost possibility". Blanchot, who follows Heidegger in many respects, takes a radically different position towards death, speaking of death as an impossibility, which in the process of dying is less and less owned death. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The distinction between potentiality and possibility in Aristotle's modal teleology is sometimes conflated by the implicative conjunction that potentiality implies possibility and possibility implies potentiality. In his unpublished doctoral dissertation Richard Rorty warns that trying to pin down Aristotle's definition of potentiality often leads to treating the term as a "mere façon de parler." Consonant with Rorty, this paper observes that the definition of possibility in Aristotle's works is not without its own share of semantic snags. Subsequently, I abide by Rorty's caveat not only to resist the lure of expressive convenience some commentators have taken in describing potentiality, but also to elucidate possibility's two-fold field of modal application. Consequently, this paper aims to present a nuanced account of how notions of potentiality and possibility are presented in Aristotle's treatises for the sake of demonstrating that both sides of the potentiality/possibility conjunction do not mutually imply. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This 2021 paper discusses the prehistory and some elements of political culture of the new Russian emigration which has been growing since the return of Putin as Russia's president. Following a sociological study, I argue that a qualitative change occurred between 2012 and 2018 in the moods and action predispositions of the new émigrés which can contribute to a strong anti-authoritarian political culture of a significant part of the diaspora. Small recent additions deal with the Seventh Wave of emigration caused by Putin's war in Ukraine, and the possibilities of structuration and further mobilization of the cross-border Russian prodemocracy movement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sarah Kate Wilsons's article 'Painting's liveness' is written from her vantage point, as an artist/curator/researcher/collaborator/educator. Here she reveals how painting's relationship with performance, particularly during the second part of the twentieth century, has led to painting's liveness. This, she asserts, is apparent in paintings by Daniel Buren, Robert Rauschenberg, Yoko Ono, works by the Gutai Art Association and performances by Ei Arakawa. The inauguration of a performance programme at Bauhaus in Germany, Black Mountain College in America and the formation of the Gutai Art Association in Japan are highlighted by Wilson as important milestones. Writing by RoseLee Goldberg and Peggy Phelan on performance, J. L. Austin's speech act theory as well as Satori, an expression from Zen Buddhism meaning enlightenment, are woven into this text. David Joselit's declaration that the medium of painting is live and 'On Air' is drawn into her argument for painting's liveness, whilst Catherine Wood's curatorial project A Bigger Splash: Painting After Performance (2012) Tate Modern, London and her own curatorial project Painting in Time (2015–16) set the stage for this text. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author depicts, relying on several of Giorgio Agamben's philosophical concepts as well as a psychoanalytic developmental perspective, the origins and features of inoperative love and spaces, especially as they pertain to oppressive situations wherein social, political, and economic apparatuses undermine the psychosocial well-being of individuals, families, and communities. In addition, the author conceptualizes psychoanalytic therapy as an inoperative space wherein patients actualize their capacity for impotentiality and experience singularity and rapport. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Starting from Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s critique of paranoid reading and her call for reparative reading, this article proposes two experimental readings of Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho“ (1991). Drawing on the writings of Roland Barthes and Eugenie Brinkema, we consider the text’s affective possibilities and potentialities as well as moments when it may surprise its readers, in order to ask what a reparative reading can look like in the case of American Psycho“. First, we read the novel for its potentialities of different affective modes—in this case, boredom and disgust—by looking closely at its syntactic structure. Second, we impose formal constraints on our reading itself, reading the novel as if it was a comedy. Through these modes of reading, our approach opens up new possibilities for parallel interpretations, instead of positing another master reading of the text.

Review of Adam Kotsko (2020), Agamben’s Philosophical Trajectory. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 241.