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This article offers an example of historians and survivors working together that moves beyond oral history. Drawing on methods of co-producing knowledge, the article explores a number of themes and concepts - ghetto, camp, mobility, dislocation, space, time - that emerge from the experience of survivor Agnes Kaposi, and the historiographical reflections of historian Tim Cole. While the dialogue is suggestive of new conceptualizations of familiar Holocaust experience - ghettoization as practice; dislocation as temporal and spatial experience; 'luck' as intersectional category; the significance of micro-geographies to survival - it also signals the value of coproducing 'integrated' and 'relational' histories of the Holocaust together. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Questions about women's safety have gained importance in both India and Pakistan, as gendered and sexual violence in public spaces has risen. This motivates questions about the presence and mobility of women in public spaces in South Asia and their determinants. In this paper, we extend feminist scholarship on space and time, social reproduction, classical patriarchy, and the everyday by unpacking the concept of mobility into two new categories: instrumental and substantive mobility. We use these categories to dig deeper into spatial and temporal patterns of women's mobility at the national level. Our regression models and tempograms based on nationally representative time-use surveys show that women's presence in public spaces remains abysmally low in both countries. It increases only temporarily with travel for paid/unpaid labor and education in instrumental ways. However, any mobility that breaks the temporal rhythm of the everyday or norms governing space and time is rarely observed. Our analysis also shows that these mobilities are also affected by social contexts such as marriage, class, and caste, among others. Also, despite popular perceptions, we find no substantial differences in the mobility patterns for women in the two countries. This paper makes a case for reassessing interactions between neoliberal economic regimes and classical patriarchy and how "power geometries" of space, time, and social reproduction impact women's mobilities in South Asia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Climate change induces significant changes in storm characteristics, particularly for short‐duration extreme storms (heavy rain features), impacting their intensity and spatio‐temporal distribution. Although alterations in precipitation intensity are well documented, past studies examining changes in spatio‐temporal distribution of storms (storm rainrates) were region‐specific and focused on isolated aspects of change in space or time, eluding a comprehensive understanding of the precise nature and extent of these changes. Bridging this gap, this study introduces a novel grid‐based measure of storm homogeneity, "spatio‐temporal homogeneity" metric and investigates the global patterns of change in combined spatio‐temporal characteristics of extreme storms. Analyzing the 30 min × 0.1° × 0.1° resolution Global Precipitation Measurements, the study finds that extreme storms are shrinking in both space and time due to rising surface air temperatures, predominantly in tropics. In contrast, temperate regions experience expanded extreme storms with increasing temperatures. The study also identifies a global trend toward more front‐loading in storms with rising temperatures, driven by a substantial increase in tropics and southern temperate regions. Conversely, storms in northern temperate regions become slightly more rear‐loaded as temperature increases. Furthermore, the study finds that characteristics of short–duration storms (6–12 hr) are more sensitive to temperature changes. Overall, this study contributes valuable insights into the global spatio‐temporal changes of extreme storms, highlighting regions most susceptible to alterations in storm patterns due to climate change. These findings are essential for developing effective adaptation strategies and flood management practices to cope with the changing nature of extreme storms in a warming climate. Plain Language Summary: Extreme rainfall can lead to floods, affect ecosystems, and challenge water management. How intense the rain is, how wide an area it covers, and how long it lasts are key factors in determining flood risk. Additionally, whether the rainfall starts strong and tapers off (front‐loaded) or begins gently and then fades quickly (rear‐loaded)—also plays a role. As the climate changes, it's crucial to understand how these extreme storm characteristics are evolving to better prepare for the future. This study introduces a new way to measure changes in the size and duration of extreme storms in response to rising temperatures worldwide. It also examines whether warmer temperatures make storms more likely to start strong and taper off or the opposite. The findings show that in tropical regions, extreme storms are becoming effectively shorter and covering effectively smaller areas as temperatures increase. Conversely, in temperate regions, storms are lasting longer and covering effectively larger areas. Additionally, storms in areas below 30°N are tending toward more front‐loading, while those above 30°N are becoming more rear‐loaded. This research helps us understand how warming temperatures are changing storm patterns and can inform better flood preparedness and water management strategies. Key Points: Introduces Spatio‐Temporal Homogeneity metric to effectively track comprehensive changes in storm characteristics across both space and timeRising temperature causes "spatio‐temporally peakier" storms in tropics, intense precipitation burst in smaller area over shorter durationRising temperature leads to more front‐loading in storms, notably in tropics and southern temperate regions, increasing flash flood risk [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Within the framework of the postmodern project aimed at humanising the adult-child relationship, decentralising power, and abandoning reductionist approaches to understanding the world and human beings, a number of new problems and paradoxes arise that require critical reflection and resolution. On the one hand, the new paradigm of childhood research, based on the principle of variability and ambiguity, gives rise to a plurality of opinions, multiple worlds of 'childhood' constituted at the intersection of different socio-cultural and natural science systems. On the other hand, this specificity indicates a shift in the goals of the study -- from achieving objective knowledge about childhood to constructing integrative ideas about it. Additional theoretical questions and practical problems arise regarding the implementation and reorganisation of the knowledge gained about this object, the revision of epistemological approaches, axiomatics and methodological optics, and the need to conduct research on the phenomenon of childhood within the framework of interdisciplinary synthesis. The purpose of the study is to carry out a philosophical analysis of the phenomenon of childhood in the context of the risks of modernity and in an inseparable connection with the qualitative aspects of being: space and time, movement and form, possible and real, necessity and chance, individual and general. Research methodology: general scientific methods of analysis and synthesis as philosophical tools. Theoretical reconstruction and comparative analysis, as well as the hermeneutic method were used to identify the peculiarities of the interdisciplinary study of the phenomenon of childhood, as well as the problems associated with it and further prospects. The generalisations presented in the article led to the conclusion that a child is a full-fledged participant in the historical and evolutionary process, capable of making an independent choice of life path, on which he or she transforms the environment, society and himself or herself (the function of 'personality in society'); a bearer of a special human quality acquired in the process of joint activity with people around him/her, in interpersonal ensemble communication ('personality in the team' function); a holistic systemic and semantic image created in the process of assimilation of cultural values ('personality in the self' function). The practical significance of the study lies in the fact that its results allow not only to substantiate the law of dialectical development of adults and children, but also to actualise the study within the framework of interdisciplinary synthesis, which contributes to the identification of multifaceted formulations of the object under study, their connection with the modern scientific landscape, and the transformation of relations between children and adults in society and culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract Climate change induces significant changes in storm characteristics, particularly for short‐duration extreme storms (heavy rain features), impacting their intensity and spatio‐temporal distribution. Although alterations in precipitation intensity are well documented, past studies examining changes in spatio‐temporal distribution of storms (storm rainrates) were region‐specific and focused on isolated aspects of change in space or time, eluding a comprehensive understanding of the precise nature and extent of these changes. Bridging this gap, this study introduces a novel grid‐based measure of storm homogeneity, “spatio‐temporal homogeneity” metric and investigates the global patterns of change in combined spatio‐temporal characteristics of extreme storms. Analyzing the 30 min × 0.1° × 0.1° resolution Global Precipitation Measurements, the study finds that extreme storms are shrinking in both space and time due to rising surface air temperatures, predominantly in tropics. In contrast, temperate regions experience expanded extreme storms with increasing temperatures. The study also identifies a global trend toward more front‐loading in storms with rising temperatures, driven by a substantial increase in tropics and southern temperate regions. Conversely, storms in northern temperate regions become slightly more rear‐loaded as temperature increases. Furthermore, the study finds that characteristics of short–duration storms (6–12 hr) are more sensitive to temperature changes. Overall, this study contributes valuable insights into the global spatio‐temporal changes of extreme storms, highlighting regions most susceptible to alterations in storm patterns due to climate change. These findings are essential for developing effective adaptation strategies and flood management practices to cope with the changing nature of extreme storms in a warming climate.

The purpose of the article is to reveal the main G. Grisey's concepts regarding spectral composition in the 20th century. The research methodology consists in the use of methods of analysis and synthesis of the works by G. Grisey on the spectral method in the music of the 20th century. Source science and system approaches were used to study interrelated elements in the characteristics of the spectral method in the works by G. Grisey. The scientific novelty of the work consists in the generalisation of the results of studying the spectral method in author's music with the effects of specific sound spectra: attack and decay of sound; beats as prototypes of the rhythmic component; filtering and phase distortion as prototypes of the melodic component; intensity when adjusting the volume. It is noted that the results of the synthesis become the sound of an artificially produced musical space with different conditions for the existence of a natural sound structure in it. In such music, the concepts of time and space are inseparable. Time organises events in acoustic space. The space-time paradigm is multidimensional. It is based on the principle of organisational unity from the level of micro to macro space. Conclusions. The conceptual approaches of space-time in the works of the composer of the French spectral school G. Grisey are analysed. The composer noted that the appeal to the liminal - threshold concept of time and space of spectralism is based on natural and physiological processes. In the treatise of G. Grisey "Tempus ex machina" and his composition of the same name, the philosophical significance of the coordinate axis of the system is substantiated. For this, it was necessary to draw a parallel with Moll's theory of information, the natural-scientific law of Weber-Fechner. The technologies of mastering the intra-sound space in spectralism lead to a new sound concept - sound as a phenomenon of life. Switching plans from the internal composition of sound to external factors, the transition from microphonic to macrophonic space allows us to assert that sound is capable of life and death, when the starting point of understanding time in music is its relativisation as a rejection of absolute meaning. This is actually the conceptual basis in the work of G. Grisey, as one of the concepts of musical time in the compositions of the second half of the 20th century. They are characterised by a high degree of subjectivity of temporary sensations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents a study of the ontotheology of nature, a philosophical and theological approach that synthesizes ideas from ontotheology and the philosophy of nature. The ontotheology of nature is a secular and generalist program that integrates science, philosophy, and formal theology, particularly metaphysics, while also critically engaging with and transcending these disciplines by examining essential and foundational ontological concepts at the intersection of natural science and the philosophy of nature. Specifically, we focus on the relationship between the living organism and biology on the one hand, and the ontology of space, time, and assemblage on the other. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mathematics plays a fundamental role in ecological research, yet its uses remain strikingly separate from advances in the environmental social sciences and humanities. In this paper, I work to address this impasse and outline the motivation and scope for an 'ecological mathematics', an approach to doing mathematics in environmental research which foregrounds relationship, embodiment and human difference. I begin by tracing the historical emergence of mathematics in ecology, noting how life processes have been conceptualised in a way which forces them to fit the ideals of mathematical models transplanted from the physical sciences. I then investigate the cultural factors shaping the evolution of mathematical thought, eliciting a malleability in how mathematical knowledge relates to the more-than-human world. This provides a place from which to rethink the role of abstraction in ecological thought, and develop mathematical methods grounded in ecological concepts. Drawing on ethnographic and perceptual accounts of space and time, I work with topological concepts from both mathematics and the social sciences to suggest a new correspondence between these subjects, elaborating a way of employing mathematical techniques which enliven, rather than deaden, the ecologies under study. The paper concludes with important philosophical clarifications to the approach of an ecological mathematics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The tomb of Sa'd ibn Abī Waqqās, a Companion of the Prophet Muhammad mythologized to have as having been buried in Canton, has attracted pilgrims from across China and beyond for the past three centuries. The repertoire on Abī Waqqās, an arriver from Mecca buried in Canton, is intriguing less for its factual veracity than the its manifold afterlives of the personage. This paper expands the scope of existing scholarship on Islam in China by directing attention to the previously unexamined textual corpus – stele inscriptions, imperial geographic surveys, mosque records, print periodicals, and recent unofficial historical surveys that date between from the fourteenth century and to the present. Transported between different mediums, Abī Waqqās as an ancestral figure has provided a powerful regenerative force for Chinese Muslims' historical consciousness that unfolds through a circular rather than linear time, and incorporates distant geographies without physical mobility. Moving beyond the textual realm, repetitions of the narrative materialized into a cemetery – a focal point that has mediated long-distance travels and donation networks; absorbed hybrid religious rituals ranging from ancestor worship grave rituals to dhikr practices; and capitalized on the Chinese state's rhetoric of silk roads diplomacy. By unearthing rediscoveries of a symbolic figure through tides of time, the article shows how a supposedly unscientific myth narrativized conceptions of dual homes, here and elsewhere, and further established a regional Islamic hub, or a "little Mecca" in coastal China. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The research investigates the system of the Indo-European verb through the lens of Gustave Guillaume's psycho-systematics theory. By employing "mental vision" and phenomenology, the linguistic concept was explored at multiple levels: the surface structure of language in speech and the deeper level within the Indo-European language system. The analysis of the tense system of the Indo-European verb starts with the ontologisation of a person in both the world and language. This perspective highlights the taxonomic relevance of philosophical factors that shape the development of the "image of time" from a prehistoric viewpoint within the Indo-European language family. The purpose of this research is to delve into the Indo-European verb system using Gustave Guillaume's psycho-systematics theory as the theoretical framework. To achieve this, the authors draw on examples from French, English, Ukrainian, and Russian languages. The study aims to examine the process of the Indo-European verb's development within the ontological opposition of space and time and the ontological status of the grammatical tense and mood categories in the Indo-European verb system. It was discovered that grammatical forms of verbs in the Indo-European language family provide insights into their formal essence. These forms represent the "positions" they occupy within the ontological dialectical relationship of space, time, language, and thinking. The research sheds light on the Indo-European verb system by applying Guillaume's psycho-systematics theory. By clarifying the relationship between space, time, language, and thinking, a deeper understanding of linguistic structures and how they reflect human cognition and conceptualization of action can be gained. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In his “Refutation of Idealism” Kant promises what he calls a “refutation [Widerlegung]” of Cartesian skepticism. There are many difficult questions concerning the Refutation. In this article, I focus on a question concerning the Refutation that, to my knowledge, has thus far escaped scrutiny: what does Kant mean, exactly, by a ‘refutation’? By examining Kant's legal, logical, and critical uses of 'refutation', I argue for what I call a ‘diagnostic’ reading of the Refutation: Kant seeks to identify the grounds for why someone might be attracted to Cartesian skepticism and then appeals to his doctrines concerning space and time in the Transcendental Aesthetic to show how such grounds contains a difficult-to-see error. In contemporary terms, Kantian 'refutations' resemble so-called ‘debunking arguments’ which seek to undermine a belief’s rational standing by characterizing the grounds for the belief in question as flawed, defective, or unfavorable.

Worldwide, the quality of freshwater in inland water bodies has been a major issue of concern due to the negative impact of human activities. With the increase in global population, it is projected that the quality of the water resources will deteriorate. Quantitative information on the state of water quality is quite crucial in water resources planning and conservation. Conventional or ground-based measuring tools are more time demanding, expensive for monitoring water quality parameters of inland water bodies, resulting in incomprehensive coverage in time and space. Due to the paucity of images with fine spatial and temporal resolution like Sentinel 2, provides invaluable information at a fine spatial scale for water quality monitoring to supporting progress towards achieving Sustainable Developments Goals (SDGs). This study quantified the spatial and temporal variations of water quality parameters of Total Nitrogen (TN), Turbidity, Chlorophyll-a (Chl-a) and Total Suspended Matter (TSS) derived from cloud free and remotely sensed Sentinel 2 satellite data for a period from 2017 to 2022 for Lake Manyame in Zimbabwe. Furthermore, the research developed empirical models based on the linear regression between in-situ water sample data and water quality indicators of Sentinel 2. The results showed that between 2017 and 2022, the water quality in Lake Manyame significantly fluctuated. The regression coefficients (R²) between remote sensed water quality parameters and field or sample water data ranged from R² = 0.63 to R² = 0.95, providing a promising possibility for operational use of freely available remote sensing data in water quality monitoring in data constrained countries.The study demonstrated the importance and capability of using freely available Sentinel 2 data, with fine spatial and temporal resolution in providing invaluable information and evaluating on the state and indicators of water quality in inland water bodies in space and time. Such information is crucial in informing resource managers and decision makers in conserving water resources.

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In the text, we primarily deal with the observation of the latest manifestations of the Orthodox lity procession ritual and ways of sacralising the space on the example of Belgrade. Accordingly, attention is also paid to the symbolism of different spatial landmarks, which is emphasized at the level of several semantic layers. Recent events have once again actualized the importance of the Lity procession ritual - deeply rooted in both folk tradition and religion - as well as its manifestations, both in the Republic of Serbia and in the wider Serbian ethnic area. The basic and most visible function of Lity is the consecration and marking of space, but also of time, with special significance for a certain ethnic-social context, community or place. However, Lity also have a pronounced cohesive and identity function, as was particularly clearly demonstrated in the example of the defense of holy sites, i.e. of basic religious rights, precisely through Lity in Montenegro. Consequently, Lity proved to be one of the most effective weapons against attempts to deconstruct the Serbian identity. In accordance with the relevant indicators, in our work, with a multidisciplinary approach, various structural and semantic dimensions and possibilities of Lity are considered. This primarily refers to the level of the Belgrade area, but in a more general sense it is also directly related to field and other research on related issues, which were carried out in a much wider area during the previous decades.

Simple Summary: The treatment of lung cancer poses a challenge due to the alterations in the characteristics of the same cancer cell. The altered characteristics make therapeutic strategies dynamic and evolutionary. To create a more appropriate therapeutic strategy for patients with lung cancer and improve their prognosis, we need to know how the alterations occur and how the alterations affect the treatment. This review aims to summarize the various variations in cancer characteristics and describe a more comprehensive multidisciplinary therapeutic strategy for lung cancer. The diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer (LC) is always a challenge. The difficulty in the decision of therapeutic schedule and diagnosis is directly related to intratumoral heterogeneity (ITH) in the progression of LC. It has been proven that most tumors emerge and evolve under the pressure of their living microenvironment, which involves genetic, immunological, metabolic, and therapeutic components. While most research on ITH revealed multiple mechanisms and characteristic, a systemic exposition of ITH in LC is still hard to find. In this review, we describe how ITH in LC develops from the perspective of space and time. We discuss elaborate details and affection of every aspect of ITH in LC and the relationship between them. Based on ITH in LC, we describe a more accurate multidisciplinary therapeutic strategy on LC and provide the newest opinion on the potential approach of LC therapy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article recuperates Cheryl L. West's domestic drama Before It Hits Home (1991) as a milestone in HIV/AIDS drama. Home is the first full-length play to examine the destructive impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on the African American community and one of the first HIV/AIDS plays written by an African American woman. Before It Hits Home has not received the scholarly recognition it deserves; this article aims to rectify that neglect with the help of Black studies and queer theory. In particular, the article undertakes an in-depth examination of the play's overlooked spatio-temporal possibilities, demonstrating that West's use of juxtapositions and overlaps offers an alternative to white and heteronormative spatio-temporalities. I argue that West's liberating reconstruction of time and space not only queers white spectatorship but also resists a predominantly white HIV/AIDS canon. Building on Frantz Fanon's notion of disalienation, I further conclude that West's theatre destigmatizes the seropositive diagnosis, allowing for emancipatory possibilities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Galileo's Principle of Relativity (GPR) states that the laws of mechanics are the same in any inertial frame of reference. By determining that all inertial reference frames are equivalent, this principle implies a relativity of motion. On the other hand, even considering the GPR as fundamental for mechanics, Isaac Newton introduces the concepts of absolute time and space and presents arguments, of a dynamic nature, in defense of absolute motion, justified by the differentiation between inertial and non-inertial reference frames. The Special Relativity Theory (SRT) criticizes the notions of absolute time and space, but preserves the privileged role of inertial reference frames in the description of the laws of nature. Only with the General Relativity Theory (GRT) is equivalence established between all references, regardless of their state of motion and, thus, the notion of absolute motion is overthrown. This work aims to discuss the main doubts and issues that arise when studying the aforementioned concepts, as well as to investigate the apparent dubiousness between the PRG and the absolute movement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The definitions of yu 宇 and zhou 宙 in the "Gengsang Chu 庚桑楚" chapter of the Zhuangzi have been cited as the earliest definitions of space and time in the Chinese philosophical tradition. However, careful analysis of chosen modern translations reveals that the definitions entail rather obscure relationships between the Dao and space and time. I argue that the obscurity is not inherent in the text, but arises from the practice of rendering yu and zhou as the conceptual counterparts of space and time or related concepts. Instead, I propose that we leave the terms untranslated. This practice would not only forestall interpretive difficulties concerning the Dao's relations to space and time, but it would also preserve the Zhuangzist yu and zhou as two distinctive, ontic notions that indicate the Dao's indeterminate modes of existence, a unique feature of the Zhuangzi. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]