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The Fashion City exhibition at the London Museum Docklands explores the impact of Jewish Londoners on global fashion. The exhibition showcases the stories, lives, and products of famous and forgotten Jewish designers, highlighting London's development as a fashion capital through the lens of immigration. The exhibition is divided into sections that depict the experiences of Jewish immigrants, the development of the fashion sector in London's East End, and the role of Jewish entrepreneurs in fashion retail. It also explores the broader history of immigration in London and the involvement of other migrant communities in the fashion industry. The exhibition is well-researched and curated, providing a comprehensive understanding of the Jewish community's contribution to London's fashion scene. [Extracted from the article]

Elastoinertial turbulence (EIT) is a chaotic flow resulting from the interplay between inertia and viscoelasticity in wall-bounded shear flows. Understanding EIT is important because it is thought to set a limit on the effectiveness of turbulent drag reduction in polymer solutions. Here, we analyse simulations of two-dimensional EIT in channel flow using spectral proper orthogonal decomposition (SPOD), discovering a family of travelling wave structures that capture the sheetlike stress fluctuations that characterise EIT. The frequency-dependence of the leading SPOD mode contains distinct peaks and the mode structures corresponding to these peaks exhibit well-defined travelling structures. The structure of the dominant travelling mode exhibits shift–reflect symmetry similar to the viscoelasticity-modified Tollmien–Schlichting (TS) wave, where the velocity fluctuation in the travelling mode is characterised by large-scale regular structures spanning the channel and the polymer stress field is characterised by thin, inclined sheets of high polymer stress localised at the critical layers near the channel walls. The travelling structures corresponding to the higher-frequency modes have a very similar structure, but are nested in a region roughly bounded by the critical layer positions of the next-lower-frequency mode. A simple theory based on the idea that the critical layers of mode $\kappa$ form the 'walls' for the structure of mode $\kappa +1$ yields quantitative agreement with the observed wave speeds and critical layer positions, indicating self-similarity between the structures. The physical idea behind this theory is that the sheetlike localised stress fluctuations in the critical layer prevent velocity fluctuations from penetrating them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From 1936 to 1939, a travelling art exhibition consisting mainly of paintings by members of the Group of Seven toured South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. All costs were covered by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, a phenomenally wealthy and powerful American philanthropical organization. Canadian art entrepreneurs and Carnegie Corporation officials intended this exhibition as a means to foster nationalist and modernist artistic practices in the other dominions of the British Empire. The model to be emulated, the organizers believed, was that of the critically acclaimed and nationally oriented Canadian school of landscape art associated with the Group of Seven. The venture was in a large measure motivated by the perceived decline of white settler populations outside Europe and the Northern United States and must be understood as part of a general project to strengthen, on a global scale, liberal forms of white supremacy. This article recounts Canadian participation in this Carnegie Corporation scheme, while placing particular emphasis on the exhibition's passage in South Africa. It traces how some members of the Group of Seven and their institutional supporters became involved with American philanthropy, it describes how the Canadian traveling exhibition was assembled and received abroad, and it situates these activities within the racial and cultural politics of the interwar Commonwealth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 2016 the National Museum in Oslo launched a nationwide touring exhibition that allowed visitors for the first time to touch the sculptures of modernist Aase Texmon Rygh. The aim was to encourage visitors to experience these abstract stone works through the body before engaging with various contextualising practices for a more comprehensive process of meaning-making. Allowing members of the public to touch original sculpture in an exhibition context was new not only for the National Museum but also internationally, and the exhibition generated considerable professional and media attention. In my role as the exhibition's curator, I set out to investigate the interdisciplinary process of developing the exhibition concept and the audience response through a practice-led research project. Drawing on different theoretical perspectives, such as learning theory and interdisciplinary sensory research, and audience surveys which were conducted during the exhibition, I wanted to learn more about how audiences experienced touching the sculptures, and how touch affected their process of meaning making. In this paper, I share some of my findings and also reflect on the importance of practitioners doing research on their own practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this study, we aimed to understand how the meaning making occurs during the visit of families to the traveling science exhibition, "Tunnel of Science Max Planck 3.0", from the analysis of their conversations and interactions. The visit of four families was recorded and analyzed using a research protocol focused on interactions and the content of conversations. The analysis provides evidence that reading, children's questions and the role of the explainer contributed to deepening the science themes related to the expository modules. Equally important, the skills of negotiating the way, accessing and operating the interactive devices contributed to the interest and appropriation of the exhibition. In summary, the analysis indicates that there was an effort by the families to signify and understand the interactions established in the group and with the exhibition and that, therefore, the visitors had collaborative learning experiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During rest periods, bedload tracers can be buried, while transport can move them to locations with different bed shear stresses or a different riverbed composition. This affects the mobility of the tracers compared to that of the bedload at the location where the tracers were seeded and has so far limited the explanatory power of field tracer studies on the virtual bedload velocity. This paper proposes a method to assess both the unsteady virtual tracer velocity and the unsteady virtual bedload velocity from field tracer studies. First, the virtual bedload velocity was conceptualized as the velocity of a relay run and contrasted with the velocity of the decelerating runs of bedload tracers. Then, a regression method for deriving the unsteady virtual velocity of bedload tracers was extended to account for tracer slowdown by including a corresponding function of the distance traveled. Finally, data from 65 bedload tracers in the Upper Drava River with very‐high‐frequency (VHF) transmitters were used for method testing. By linking the measured tracer mobility to the hydraulics and bed surface grain size near the seeding location, it was possible to determine the unsteady bedload velocity function as the unsteady tracer velocity function at a travel distance of zero. The tracer travels exhibited increasing slowdown effects with increasing tracer grain size, probably due to the dominant role of advection effects at the study site. The derivation of the bedload velocity ensures comparability to laboratory results and between tracer studies. Key Points: Gaps between laboratory and field are bridged by basing bedload tracer analyses on theories from laboratory and considering slowdownUnderstanding the bedload velocity as that of a relay run as opposed to that of individual tracer runs allowed deriving the bedload velocityThe derived formulas describe well the transport of bedload tracers with measured travel distances reaching more than 30 km [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Missionaries played a significant role as conveyors of transcultural exchanges between Europe and China. The Basel Mission, one of the major German-speaking mission agency to China which worked among the Hakka people in the Canton Province, was a leading actor in transcultural exchanges. Thus, Basel missionaries in China sent artifacts regularly to their homeland as part of the transcultural exchanges between China and Europe in the 19th Century. Using diverse approaches including museums and traveling exhibitions, missionaries transmitted Chinese culture to the public in German-speaking Europe not only to win support for its mission enterprise but also to expose the people to exotic Chinese culture. How did the mission agency organize Chinese exhibits to transmit Chinese culture? What was the image of Chinese culture that the Basel Mission constructed in German-speaking Europe? This article investigates these questions through material archival sources drawn from the Basel Mission Archives and Chinese artifacts conserved at the Museum of Cultures in Basel. The article concludes by arguing that the Basel missionaries constructed an image of a “heathen civilization” in German-speaking Europe. Yet on the other hand, the exhibitions provided a limited window for the public to open their horizons and shape their Eurocentrism identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this research, the solitary wave solutions, the periodic type, and single soliton solutions are attained. The coupled fractional Lakshmanan–Porsezian–Daniel (LPD) equation is depicted the wave pulses' physical properties in birefringent optical fibres containing two vector solitons. Here, the Paul–Painlevé operator is employed to investigate kink soliton solutions. Also, the new modified exponential Jacobi technique is used to find periodic wave and soliton, bright-dark soliton. By utilizing symbolic computation and the applied methods, the mentioned system is successfully investigated. The coupled fractional LPD model is exhibited the travelling waves, as shown by the research in the current paper. Through three-dimensional graph, contour graph, density graph, complex-plot, and two-dimensional design using Maple, the physical features of single soliton and periodic wave solutions are explained all right. The findings the investigated model's broad variety of explicit solutions are demonstrated. As a result, the exact solitary wave solutions to the studied issues, including solitary, single soliton, and periodic wave solution are found. It is shown that the approach is practical and flexible in mathematical physics. All outcomes in this work are necessary to understand the physical meaning and behavior of the explored results and shed light on the significance of the investigation of several nonlinear wave phenomena in sciences and engineering. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is focused on spreading dynamics for a discrete Nicholson's blowflies model with time convolution kernel. This problem arises in the invasive activity of blowflies scattered in discrete spatial environment and has distributed maturated age. We found that for a general convolution kernel, the model can exhibit travelling wave phenomena in a discrete spatial habitat. In particular, we determine the minimal wave speed of travelling waves by deriving the non-existence of travelling waves, and we demonstrate that the minimal wave speed can determine the long time behaviour of solutions with compact initial function. Moreover, we prove that all travelling waves are strictly increasing, which implies that the waveforms remain monotone in the propagation process. Some numerical simulations are also presented to confirm the analytical results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The Tate Modern in London is currently hosting an exhibition called "Magdalena Abakanowicz: Every Tangle of Thread and Rope," which focuses on the early work of Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz. The exhibition showcases Abakanowicz's three-dimensional textile forms made from materials like wool, sisal, and rope. It is organized chronologically and includes sketches, photographs, and videos that offer insight into Abakanowicz's artistic process. The article emphasizes the importance of Abakanowicz's work in pushing the boundaries of art during the 1960s and 70s. It also explores the connections between Abakanowicz's art and experimental theater in Poland, highlighting shared experiences of World War II and Soviet occupation. The author suggests that Abakanowicz's use of "poor materials" in her artwork reflects Poland's history of poverty. The text mentions specific works by Abakanowicz, such as Embryology and Red Abakan, and discusses their significance. It concludes by mentioning Abakanowicz's writings and the availability of a catalogue for further information on her work. [Extracted from the article]

This paper argues that an artistic approach can enhance the power of ethnographic research by slowing down reasoning, processing emotions and complying with the ethics of representation. The author reflects on her experiences during fieldwork in Norway among minoritized Norwegians working in the art and cultural sector, and the intense emotions and bodily reactions she experienced while listening to painful stories of trauma. She describes how this emotional intensity led her to start drawing images, and later to create a traveling exhibition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Black solitons are identical in the nonlinear Schrôdinger (NLS) equation with intensity-dependent dispersion and the cubic defocusing NLS equation. We prove that the intensitydependent dispersion introduces new properties in the stability analysis of the black soliton. First, the spectral stability problem possesses only isolated eigenvalues on the imaginary axis. Second, the energetic stability argument holds in Sobolev spaces with exponential weights. Third, the black soliton persists with respect to the addition of a small decaying potential and remains spectrally stable when it is pinned to the minimum points of the effective potential. The same model exhibits a family of traveling dark solitons for every wave speed and we incorporate properties of these dark solitons for small wave speeds in the analysis of orbital stability of the black soliton. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the overcoming of chronic illnesses such as tuberculosis, venereal disease and alcoholism became a central issue in public health measures in Europe. Tuberculosis had the highest mortality rate among these three illnesses and was therefore a particular priority. Anti-tuberculosis campaigns gained momentum. This article focuses on one particular form of communication that sought to convey information about this illness: the travelling museum. An 'exhibition era' had started in Europe in the mid-nineteenth century, and health education campaigns of the time favoured the use of exhibitions, for example the Dresden International Hygiene Exhibition of 1911, as an educational medium. As this article shows, tuberculosis exhibitions were first established on the initiative of local organizations, but their number grew as a result of cooperation between central organizations and local advocates. Instructions were issued for how travelling exhibits might be displayed and advertised, and when they departed the exhibitions often left behind a new energy for tackling the problems associated with tuberculosis. While the exhibits sought to communicate scientifically established facts, the article notes that issues that were pending resolution were also raised without recognition of ongoing debate. By the 1920s, travelling museums as a means of communication were being overtaken by film. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We investigate the conformists–contrarians model of identical Kuramoto oscillators evolving on a sphere. Using group-theoretic and geometric approach, we reduce the model to the dynamical system on extended Ott–Antonsen manifold. Further reduction yields the system of three scalar ODE's for global variables. This three-dimensional dynamical system is studied analytically in order to investigate an interplay between conformists and contrarians on spheres. Our study demonstrates that conformists–contrarians models on spheres display the same types of equilibria and dynamical phenomena in all dimensions. However, critical combination of parameters, for which particular equilibrium states arise, does depend on the dimension. In particular, models on spheres exhibit traveling waves consisting of contrarians. We derive an exact formula for the relation between parameter values for which such waves arise in different dimensions. Finally, we take a closer look at trajectories of traveling waves on spheres, demonstrating subtleties of this dynamical phenomenon. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The utilization of mobile sensing through the deployment of sensors on third‐party vehicles that pass by an area offers notable benefits in terms of spatiotemporal coverage, precision, timeliness, and cost‐effectiveness for monitoring urban environments. However, the diverse travel behaviors exhibited by different types of vehicle fleets result in varying levels of sensing powers. Drawing inspiration from these phenomena, this study quantifies and compares the travel patterns and sensing powers of bus and taxi fleets. The experimental findings unveiled several noteworthy laws, such as a diminishing rate of increase in sensing power with the stable increasing vehicle number, the high sensing power exhibited by taxis, the comparable spatial coverage between buses, and the relatively low uncertainty associated with buses' sensing power. Furthermore, the impact of travel patterns (i.e., semi‐random behavior of taxis and deterministic behavior of buses) on the powers of mobile sensing was revealed. The aforementioned findings provide valuable insights for the development of efficient mobile sensing schemes and hold significant relevance for the implementation of smart city infrastructure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To tackle the challenge of localization failure due to traveling wave dispersion during a mid-line fault in a long high-voltage cable, this study conducts an in-depth analysis of the refraction characteristics of the cumulative three-phase sheath currents at cross commutation points and direct grounding points, facilitated by detailed theoretical derivation. We introduce the novel concept of a 'first traveling wave attenuation index,' which quantifies the peak of the initial faulted traveling wave. We strategically place distributed traveling wave detection devices solely in the first direct grounding box of each cross-interconnected main section, effectively segmenting the line into five distinct zones. These zones are identified based on the unique transient polarities exhibited by the first traveling wave of fault current at each impedance mismatch point along the cable. To overcome the issue of weak traveling wave signals collected at the first end measurement point, we propose an innovative peak detection method for the first wave. This method harnesses the power of empirical wavelet transform (EWT) and multi-resolution singular value decomposition (MRSVD), providing a significant boost in ranging accuracy compared to traditional wavelet methods. Simulation results validate the efficacy of our proposed fault location method, which accurately pinpoints the fault section by contrasting the polarity of the first wave peak of the sheath current detected at each measurement point. Notably, our method ensures safety and convenience as the equipment does not require direct contact with high voltage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay locates a late 19th-century category of objects variously named as 'industrial' or 'decorative arts' within the specifically imperial institutional circuit of the World Exhibitions. Taking up a segment of the World Exhibitions of the 1880s, it traces a history which connects the three cities of Calcutta, London and Glasgow and creates a trail of travelling exhibits and museum collections of this most proliferating category of objects. It follows in particular the career of the Bengali exhibition commissioner and museum curator Trailokya Nath (T.N.) Mukharji and the anthology he compiled on the Art-Manufactures of India for the Glasgow International Exhibition of 1888 to map a specific network of commissioning, collecting, cataloguing and documenting India's 'art-manufactures'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

What if an artwork changes its shape and sense with every encounter? Is there such a thing as polyphonic meaning, resulting from the interactions with an artwork? Barbara Preisig's semi-fictional play brings the reader to a scene at Kunstmuseum Bern. It tells the story of a guided public tour through El Anatsui's Solo exhibition Triumphant Scale. The curator, eager to provide key information about the works, finds herself in a vivid discussion around Anatsui's work Gravity and Grace. Does the artwork's shape resemble an elephant? Should the patterns remind us of the colorful Ghanaian fabrics or, in contrast, do they depict nothing but light, form, transparency and physicality? May El Anatsui be called an African artist or not? The audience – among them a protestant pastor, a musician, the artist, seven-year-old Emma – gathers on stage, observed by the narrator, who listens closely to their interpretations. When suddenly five historical busts, part of the neo-classical staircase, get involved in an argument with the artwork, the discussion threatens to get out of hand. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The type of symmetry exhibited by a travelling wave can have important implications for its behaviour and properties, such as its polarization, dispersion, and interactions with other waves or boundaries. The fractional differential Duffing problem refers to the mathematical modelling of nonlinear, damped oscillations of a system with fractional derivatives. It is a generalization of the classical Duffing equation, which describes the behaviour of a nonlinear, damped oscillator (the equation becomes symmetric under time-reversal). The fractional derivatives allow for a more accurate description of the system's memory and hereditary properties. The solution of the fractional Duffing equation can provide insight into the complex dynamic behaviour of various physical, biological, and engineering systems. We are concerned with studying a new differential Duffing fractional problem. It involves some sequential Caputo derivatives with an infinite series of Riemann-Liouville integrals and some other functions. We begin by proving a first existence and uniqueness result, then we discuss two types of stability for the obtained uniqueness result. An illustrative examples is given to show the applicability of the result. We are also concerned with applying the Tanh method to obtain new classes of travelling wave solutions for three important classes of (Khalil) fractional conformable problems; the generalized equation of Duffing, the Landau-Ginzburg-Higgs equation and the Sine-Gordon one. Some numerical simulations are plotted and a conclusion is given at the end. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article informs about the legacy and diverse contributions of Grant McCall, a prominent figure in anthropology and Pacific studies, known for his research on Rapanui, adventurous spirit, and dedication to promoting Pacific studies. Topic include McCall's impactful career spanned from pioneering research on Rapanui governance and culture to establishing educational initiatives and fostering international collaborations in Pacific studies.

Korgen lyfter [Raising Basket knowledge] is a Swedish national project started by handicraft consultants from three different regions in 2019. The project aims to promote basket making and knowledge by strengthening contemporary basket makers, make the diversity of domestic basket traditions visible and increase the interest of basket making. Through efforts in training, inventory work, seminars, lectures and networking, nationally and internationally, the project has made knowledge available and problematized the question of the fragile position of basket making. Among other things, the project has been involved in developing shorter courses in basket making and started a basket appeal related to the UNESCOs convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. Through a traveling exhibition, different events as well as high digital presence, the project has reached many people. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In our modern time, travel has become one of the most significant factors contributing to global epidemic spreading. A deficiency in the literature is that travel has largely been treated as a Markovian process: it occurs instantaneously without any memory effect. To provide informed policies such as determining the mandatory quarantine time, the non-Markovian nature of real-world traveling must be taken into account. We address this fundamental problem by constructing a network model in which travel takes a finite time and infections can occur during the travel. We find that the epidemic threshold can be maximized by a proper level of travel, implying that travel infections do not necessarily promote spreading. More importantly, the epidemic threshold can exhibit a two-threshold phenomenon in that it can increase abruptly and significantly as the travel time exceeds a critical value. This may provide a quantitative estimation of the minimally required quarantine time in a pandemic. Human travel is one of the factors contributing to epidemic spreading. By studying the impact of non-Markovian travel on epidemic dynamics, the authors find that the epidemic threshold can be maximized by a proper travel level and exhibits a two-threshold phenomenon, which provides insight into understanding and controlling real epidemics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article delves into the captivating exhibition "Art of the Scott Sisters Transformations" at Tableland Regional Gallery in Atherton, held from December 13, 2023 to February 25, 2024.

This article has focused on the initial ideas and steps undertaken in view of creating a National Museum and Archives in South Sudan, following its independence. When the country was established, questions were posed around what might serve as the foundations for a sense of cohesion in this culturally diverse country: one in which local identities have generally been more important than belonging to a nation-state. How could South Sudan turn its newly independent status into stable and sustainable nationhood, creating a country in which all citizens saw themselves included and their historical experiences reflected in national institutions? These questions gave rise to the idea of creating cultural institutions: ones whose purpose is not only to display objects, but to use heritage to build peace through fostering a sense of unity and national identity. In our case study, we described the rationale and approaches used for creating new cultural institutions, which mostly allow for people to exhibit and celebrate their culture in ways that emphasise commonalities between communities while contextualising their differences. It was also crucial to do this in ways that are relevant for a population comprising many people who would likely never visit an institution in the capital city of Juba. Stepping away from the need for a new, monumental building, to instead attempt to localise cultural meaning by focusing on festivals, lived experiences, dance and stories and other intangible forms of local heritage was a major part of our strategy around reaching out to non-urban communities and populations. The participatory model of the travelling exhibition that engaged with a broad population in South Sudan further clarified what was already expressed by cultural leaders in the country: heritage offered a way to re-build South Sudan's badly damaged social order and ethnic relations. As things stand in the present day, the use of culture to repair a social fabric battered by war remains an important concept. Anyone hoping to strengthen peaceful coexistence and understanding among different communities and ethnic groups, and to build a sense of sustainable collective belonging to the nation, has to consider museums and other cultural institutions as essential for the viability of a new nation. When this project was launched, we had not expected that a new war would erupt only two and a half years later, bringing everything to a halt. The conflict meant that participatory collecting and exhibiting became vastly more complex, and that part of the collection ended up leaving the country. While the participatory model revealed some practical challenges, the renewed conflict added an important additional factor to consider: how to act responsibly towards those individuals who had already contributed to the collection, honouring the promise that had been made to exhibit and 'use' their donated objects and stories as part of the National Museum, and as part of a broader programme to unify the nation? This seemed a prerequisite to achieving the project's peacebuilding goal. Parallel efforts to map south Sudanese objects in foreign collections have also shed more light on the need to address the absence of key objects on national territory and the complexity of doing so when 'having a museum' remains the global standard. Ultimately, both the travelling exhibition pilot and the question of returning objects to South Sudan challenged the idea of a travelling museum, and revealed the importance of simultaneously operating a physical institution. Yet the question of whether heritage is a sure way to build a sense of collective belonging to a nation, and whether it can heal a troubled past by guiding citizens to identify with the nation alongside their ethnic identities, remains a real test for new or post-conflict nations. The project may have come to a temporary halt, but the future still holds opportunities to build on the lessons learnt and to move forward. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Throughout history, animals have been involved in human life in various ways. People have attributed a special role to birds of prey or exotic birds, including ostriches, whose involvement in entertainment and sports began in the first half of the nineteenth century. This article discusses the origins, development and reception of the ostrich entertainment industry in two areas of nineteenth-century Europe that had significantly different social, political and economic circumstances: the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (as it was then known) and partitioned Poland (the example of the Grand Duchy of Posen). The first uses of ostriches for entertainment purposes in Europe consisted of bird exhibitions in travelling menageries, hippodromes and in circus shows. Among the pioneers of this kind of entertainment in the British Isles was William Batty, and in the culturally excluded territories of partitioned Poland it was Ernst Renz, whose Olympic circus, thanks to its diverse programme of shows and performances, provided important entertainment and educational opportunities for Poles under occupation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article analyzes the United Nations' photographic project in Latin America between 1945 and 1980. It examines the relationship between photography, development, and technical assistance in the region, highlighting the influence of magazines such as Time, Life, and Reader's Digest in the dissemination of images. It also emphasizes the importance of the visual culture of development in this project. The document mentions different magazines and related topics, such as the knowledge of the State and teaching about the United Nations. It includes references to periodical publications and primary sources. [Extracted from the article]

Travel risk perception and tourist behavior have been of paramount importance since the COVID-19 pandemic. As the nature, intensity, and consequences of these perceptions and behaviors vary, an extensive study on the perceptions of tourists??? attitudes toward COVID-19-associated travel risks and travel behaviors related with gender, age, and educational level is essential, particularly in East India, one of the world???s most densely populated urban areas. The major outcome incorporates logistic regression showing how traveling with family exhibits a different behavior during the COVID19 outbreak, with distinctive gender-specific characteristics influencing future choices and travel decisions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the book "Nazi Volksgemeinschaft Technology: Gottfried Feder, Fritz Todt, and the Plassenburg Spirit" by John C. Guse, the author explores the concept of Volksgemeinschaft, Nazi ideology, and technology during the National Socialist (NS) era. Guse argues that technology played a crucial role in Nazi thought and action, both economically and militarily. The book focuses on key figures Gottfried Feder and Fritz Todt, examining their contributions to the NS regime and their differing approaches to technology. Guse also discusses the Plassenburg, a school where engineers were indoctrinated with Nazi principles, and the use of propaganda to promote technology as a key element of NS ideology. Overall, the book provides a comprehensive survey of the transition from a völkisch technocracy to a totalitarian Deutsche Technik, supported by archival documents and a focus on key figures and institutions. [Extracted from the article]

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The article focuses on the activities and projects conducted by the LWL Literature Commission for Westphalia, Germany, between September 2022 and September 2023. It highlights events, publications and exhibitions carried out during this period. Additionally, it emphasizes the commission's efforts in digitalizing previous publications and promoting their accessibility through open access.

Males in scramble competitive species that are in better condition are expected to have better endurance and thus be able to travel farther during bouts of mate searching. In this study, we use radio telemetry to field test the hypothesis that male Cook Strait giant weta Deinacrida rugosa (Orthoptera: Anostostomatidae) in better body condition accrue more mates because they are more mobile (i.e., travel farther per night in mate searches). Our study showed that males travel significantly farther, on average, each night than females and that individuals exhibit consistent travel distances and body conditions across days. As predicted, we found that male mating success was influenced by body condition and travel distance; however, contrary to expectation, both variables were negatively related to mating success. Contrary to expectation, we did not find an effect of body condition on travel distance in either sex nor did we find that increased nightly travel was more costly to body condition. We suggest that males in our study population that are lighter for their body weight (i.e., poorer condition) might be superior in sprints for nearby females. Consequently, these successful males will then reduce their movement because females are relatively sedentary. If a male is unable to acquire a female that is nearby, he is likely then obligated to engage in a prolonged mate search that is generally unsuccessful. Significance statement: Males in better body condition are expected to be more successful in scrambles for mates because they should have better endurance and thus be able to travel farther while mate searching. Our field test found, as predicted, that the mating success of male Cook Strait giant weta Deinacrida rugosa (Orthoptera: Anostostomatidae) was influenced by body condition and travel distance; however, contrary to expectation, both variables were negatively related to mating success. Contrary to expectation, we found that nightly mate searching had no effect on body condition and vice versa. Our study presents rare evidence of male mating success in a scramble competitive species being affected by body condition and mate-searching effort (as measured by travel distance) albeit in a manner opposite to prediction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]