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In the conventional GW method, the three-point vertex function (Γ) is approximated to unity (Γ ∼ 1). Here, we developed an all-electron first-principles GWΓ method beyond a conventional GW method by considering a first-order three-point vertex function (Γ(1) = 1 + iGGW) in a one-electron self-energy operator. We applied the GWΓ method to simulate the binding energies (BEs) of B1s, C1s, N1s, O1s, and F1s for 19 small-sized molecules. Contrary to the one-shot GW method [or G0W0(LDA)], which underestimates the experimentally determined absolute BEs by about 3.7 eV for B1s, 5.1 eV for C1s, 6.9 eV for N1s, 7.8 eV for O1s, and 5.8 eV for F1s, the GWΓ method successfully reduces these errors by approximately 1–2 eV for all the elements studied here. Notably, the first-order three-point vertex corrections are more significant for heavier elements, following the order of F > O > N > C > B1s. Finally, the computational cost analysis revealed that one term in the GWΓ one-electron self-energy operator, despite being computationally intensive, contributes negligibly (< 0.1 eV) to the C1s, N1s, O1s, and F1s. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present study proposed a novel scale for assessing the perception of organizational culture (pOC_TSU) for Vietnam employees. Following a step-wise mixed methods research with 52 interviews, experts' evaluations, and a survey of 329 working adults in four organizations in different sectors, the final scale comprises task orientation (8 items), unity orientation (3 items), and status orientation (3 items). Among the existing organizational culture scales, the latter two are unique. The present study furthers our understanding of workplace relationships in the Confucian socialist country and how these influence the perception of organizational culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The recently resurged Yoruba Nation (YN, henceforth) agitation joins some socio-political movements, social protests, and resistance group discourse in Nigeria that continue to gain traction in (critical) discourse studies. Guided by the theoretical paradigms of van Leeuwen's representational strategies and Martin and White's appraisal framework, 24 representative posts out of a thousand posts culled from Nairaland, Gistmania, and Naijaloaded generated between October 2020 and October 2021 were purposively selected and subjected to discourse analysis. Two levels of construction were realised: YN agitators and YN agitation. YN agitators were associated with four constructions: cowards, violence mongers, terrorists, and organised strategists. YN agitation was associated with three constructions: a threat to sovereignty and national unity, and emancipation from oppression. Negative labels manifested more than positives. The dominant negative constructs of the YN agitation manifested implicitly and explicitly through labelling, negative comparison, appeal to sentiments, expression of detest, and flaming, while the positive constructs manifested through encomium and appeal to ethnic benefit. Online participants do not only project and spread their ideological stances on the YN agitation; they also make efforts to suppress antithetical stances. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Diallel analysis provides basic genetic information that is critically important to identify parents involved in hybridization breeding programs. This study was initiated to estimate combining ability effects and determine the type of gene action involved in inheritance of late blight resistance. Five tomato lines and 10F1 progenies produced by crossing of parents in a 5 × 5 half-diallel fashion were assessed for late blight resistance in field conditions. The combining ability ratio was greater than unity for all traits considered in this stud. At the same time, the degree of dominance was less than unity for all the traits, indicating a greater importance of additive gene effects for the inheritance of late blight resistance. The parents ’Eshete’ and ’Roma VF’ were general combiners, exhibiting significantadverse general combining ability effects for all studied traits. Specific combining ability effects of ’Roma VF × Eshete’ and ’Melkashola × Eshete’ were significantly negative for disease incidence, with all the lines exhibiting significant negative general combining ability effects for the trait, indicating transgressive segregants that are late blight resistant could be produced from crossing of these parental lines. These results, accordingly, indicated that the parents could be utilized in the crossing programme to develop late blight resistant transgressive segregant varieties. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A design is said to be super‐simple if the intersection of any two blocks has at most two elements. A design with index λ $\lambda $ is said to be completely reducible, if its blocks can be partitioned into nonempty collections B i , 1 ≤ i ≤ λ ${{\mathscr{B}}}_{i},1\le i\le \lambda $, such that each B i ${{\mathscr{B}}}_{i}$ together with the point set forms a design with index unity. In this paper, it is proved that there exists a completely reducible super‐simple (CRSS) (v , 4 , 4 ) $(v,4,4)$ balanced incomplete block design ((v , 4 , 4 ) $(v,4,4)$‐BIBD for short) if and only if v ≥ 13 $v\ge 13$ and v ≡ 1 $v\equiv 1$ or 4(mod 12 ) $4\,(\mathrm{mod}\,12)$. A q $q$‐ary constant weight code (CWC) of length v $v$ with weight w $w$ and distance d $d$ is denoted as a (v , d , w ) q ${(v,d,w)}_{q}$ code. The maximum size of a (v , d , w ) q ${(v,d,w)}_{q}$ code is denoted as A q(v , d , w ) ${A}_{q}(v,d,w)$, and the (v , d , w ) q ${(v,d,w)}_{q}$ codes achieving this size are called optimal. CRSS designs with index q − 1 $q-1$ are closely related to q $q$‐ary CWCs. By using the results of CRSS (v , 4 , 4 ) $(v,4,4)$‐BIBDs, A 5(v , 6 , 4 ) ${A}_{5}(v,6,4)$s are determined for all v ≡ 0 , 1 , 3 , 4(mod 12 ) , v ≥ 12 $v\equiv 0,1,3,4\,(\mathrm{mod}\,12),v\ge 12$. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the idea, occasionally discernible in Leibniz's writings, that civil bodies can achieve a real or substantial union through the 'mystical body' of the Church. The starting question is: can the 'person' of the state attain real internal union even if it is not a natural person? This theme is examined in light of Leibniz's interest in the ontology of complex aggregates (including civil 'bodies' or 'persons'), the miracle of the Eucharist, the mystery of transubstantiation, and the unity of the Church. Since his very early Demonstrationes Catholicae, he had strived to demonstrate that the body of the Church, despite being—so to speak—'scattered', can be regarded as a Respublica with a strong internal degree of unity, primarily due to the communion that the faithful share through the Eucharist. This article thus analyses both early and mature texts in which Leibniz discusses the bond established among the faithful by the presence of Christ in the Eucharist, arguing that he experimented with the idea that the spiritual union possible within the Church's 'mystical body' and its aggregative capacity could transform European Christian states not only politically but also substantially. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper provides a fresh redemptive reading of Gen 3:16, viewed in light of a whole mosaic of canonical contexts and intertextual connections. These include, among others, the full equality without hierarchy of man and woman in Gen 1–2; the paradigmatic nature of egalitarian marriage with mutual submission between husband and wife in Gen 2:18–24; the rupture of husband–wife relationships in Gen 3:6–13; the covenant lawsuit of Gen 3:14–19; the meaning of mashal in Gen 1:16–18 and 4:7; the meaning of teshuqah and grammatical–syntactical parallels and contrasts in Gen 4:7 and Song 7:11 (Eng. v. 10); the redemptive aspects of the woman and her seed in Gen 3:15; and the intertextual connections with New Testament passages. Considering this mosaic of contexts and connections, it is suggested that Gen 3:16 must be viewed only in reference to marriage; it is never broadened to include man–woman gender relationships in general. In Gen 3:16, God provides a temporary, remedial measure to preserve harmony and unity in a ruptured marriage relationship, with an implicit call for husbands and wives to return as soon as possible from the mashal–teshuqah relationship to the paradigmatic egalitarian marriage set forth in Gen 2:24. This return to the divine creation ideal for marriage is empowered by the redemptive promises of Gen 3:15, confirmed in the reversal of the Gen 3:16 marital relationship articulated in the Song of Songs—the inspired commentary on Gen 1–3—particularly Song 7:11 [Eng. v. 10]), and reaffirmed in the consistent citations of Gen 2:24 (and not Gen 3:16) in the NT (Matt 19:5, 6; Eph 5:31). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study explores the process of creating avatars for Virtual Reality and metaverse environments using a variety of specialized applications, including VRChat, Ready Player Me, VRoidStudio, Mixamo, Convai, and MetaHuman. By evaluating these platforms, the research identifies the strengths and limitations of each tool in terms of customization, integration, and overall user experience. The practical implementation focuses on avatar creation within Unity and Unreal Engine, highlighting the technical aspects of rigging, animation, and real-time rendering. The study also delves into the broader implications of avatar use, particularly concerning privacy and security. Our findings reveal that while each platform offers unique advantages, the choice of tool significantly impacts the visual fidelity and performance of avatars in virtual environments. For the ease of use, Ready Player Me stands out with its intuitive interface. VRoidStudio is notable for its high degree of customizability, allowing for detailed avatar personalization. In terms of high-quality graphics, MetaHuman leads the way with its advanced graphical fidelity. At the same time, while some platforms excel in personalizing avatars or integrating with development environments (VRoidStudio, Ready Player Me), others are constrained by their limited flexibility or their platform-specific availability (MetaHuman, Mixamo). Understanding the technical intricacies of these tools is crucial for developing more immersive and secure metaverse experiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we propose a novel normalized time-fractional susceptible–infected–removed (SIR) model that incorporates memory effects into epidemiological dynamics. The proposed model is based on a newly developed normalized time-fractional derivative, which is similar to the well-known Caputo fractional derivative but is characterized by the property that the sum of its weight function equals one. This unity property is crucial because it helps with evaluating how the fractional order influences the behavior of time-fractional differential equations over time. The normalized time-fractional derivative, with its unity property, provides an intuitive understanding of how fractional orders influence the SIR model's dynamics and enables systematic exploration of how changes in the fractional order affect the model's behavior. We numerically investigate how these variations impact the epidemiological dynamics of our normalized time-fractional SIR model and highlight the role of fractional order in improving the accuracy of infectious disease predictions. The appendix provides the program code for the model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

‘Unity of virtues’ (UV) in Aristotle is the claim that the ethical virtues are mutually entailing. But commentators typically focus on the fact that wisdom implies all the ethical virtues, without explaining how the ethical virtues themselves are mutually entailing. I argue that the so-called ‘Grand End’ view, understood as applying to both wisdom (φρόνησις) and political expertise (πολιτική), allows us to give an account of UV at the level of the ethical virtues. By discussing the ethical virtues individually, I show how all the ethical virtues can be seen as different aspects of the philosopher-statesman’s multifaceted character. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Inquiry is an aim-directed activity, and as such governed by instrumental normativity. If you have reason to figure out a question, you have reason to take means to figuring it out. Beliefs are governed by epistemic normativity. On a certain pervasive understanding, this means that you are permitted – maybe required – to believe what you have sufficient evidence for. The norms of inquiry and epistemic norms both govern us as agents in pursuit of knowledge and understanding, and, on the surface, they do so in harmony. Recently, however, Jane Friedman (2020, "The Epistemic and the Zetetic." The Philosophical Review 129: 501–536) has pointed out that they are in tension with each other. In this paper, I aim to resolve this tension by showing that reasons for acts of inquiry – zetetic reasons – and epistemic reasons for belief can both be understood as flowing from the same general normative principle: the transmission principle for instrumental reasons. The resulting account is a version of epistemic instrumentalism that offers an attractive unity between zetetic and epistemic normativity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study is interested in how apocalyptic imaginaries establish borderlines as it reconsider the manners in which Abū Ya'qūb al-Sijistānī's discussions of the End Time resisted the messianic sovereignties implicit in 10th-century Fāṭimid Ismā'īlī thought, in particular, as he introduces a Qā'im-ology without specific reference to the Ismā'īlī imām. To do so, this study first takes a broad theoretical perspective on the aesthetics and anesthesia of the destruction and violence of the End Time, giving careful consideration to apocalyptic imaginaries in calibrated political and soteriological landscapes, turning then to Sijistānī's theories of the barzakh, the cyclical resurrection of the soul, the perfection of the human form (ba'th), and the Qā'im as a process of istishfāf, or rendering transparent the human form as the nafs zakiyyah (pure soul). The coded symbolism of a messianism that questions time's time-line points to how the political and historical horizon event of the Qā'im's rising remains obscure in select works of Sijistānī. In Sijistānī's subtle staging of Fāṭimid Ismā'īlī doctrines of messianism and divine guidance, the apocalyptic plot line of returning to an original unity is suspended. As well, the images of the End Time's cataclysmic events are displaced. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There is prima facie evidence that Theophrastus naturalized nous to the extent that he spoke of it in naturalizing terms. But our evidence also suggests that Theophrastus accepted the reasons Aristotle had for excluding nous from the reach of natural philosophy. We show that, far from revealing an inconsistency on Theophrastus' part, this apparent tension results from a consciously adopted strategy. Theophrastus is developing one aspect of Aristotle's account of nous he found underdeveloped and feared might be misunderstood, namely the infrangible organic unity of the whole human being, including its nous. That is why he insists that nous , although 'from outside,' is 'grown together' with us, why he speaks of it as a nature (phusis), and why he insists that thought is a motion (kinêsis). We show how these striking claims can be understood against the broader background of Theophrastus' natural philosophy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We prove the existence and uniqueness of solution of the loop equation associated with a semisimple generalized Frobenius manifold with non-flat unity, and show, for a particular example of one-dimensional generalized Frobenius manifold, that the deformation of the Principal Hierarchy induced by the solution of the loop equation is the extended q-deformed KdV hierarchy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 2010, Zanzibar, a sub-state within the United Republic of Tanzania, became a unique case of power sharing in Africa. The country conducted a referendum before establishing a government of national unity and entrenched it in Zanzibar's Constitution of 1984. The aim was to make the power-sharing system durable and rooted in society to achieve peace and development. Nevertheless, a political system must be accepted, practised and routinised to be rooted in society. Usually, peace settlements involve elites, who negotiate, sign and occasionally benefit from the pact—and Zanzibar is not an exception. What is missing in peace negotiations is the broad-based participation of the citizens. Based on a survey and expert interviews, this article examines how power sharing in Zanzibar has nevertheless become rooted in society over time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Development Studies (DS) demonstrates maturity as a field of inquiry marked by the half-century anniversaries of journals, institutes, and scholarly associations of DS. There is vitality in terms of the volume of research and the buoyant numbers of students engaging with the subject, though DS continues to fragment. The central argument of this paper is that contemporary DS has four broad 'schools of thought' which differ significantly in terms of positions taken on the framing of, and universality of development. A typology of DS is proposed which illustrates this. The paper posits that DS would be healthier intellectually if the divides were the subject of greater dialogue. Potential avenues for initiating this discussion are suggested. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This short article on Peter Fitzpatrick's conception of "responsive law" analyzes the ambiguous temporality that Fitzpatrick discerned in modern law. On the one hand, law makes the claim of being fully present and therefore already and completely contained in itself. This aspect of law reflects the law's claim to "immanence," that is, its claim of always being able to rely strictly on its own operational terms without having to take recourse to any consideration not already contained within itself. It is this aspect of law that renders the ideal of the "rule of law" feasible. On the other hand, the law's claim to doing justice to every unique and therefore every new case also demands that it takes leave of that which is already settled within it. This aspect of law can be called its "imminence." The imminence of the law concerns the reality that law always finds itself on the threshold of that which has not yet been said and must still be said. The article shows how Fitzpatrick relied on Freud's concept of the totem to explain the "wondrous" unity of its immanence and imminence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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A number of philosophers of science have argued that there are important differences between robustness in modeling and experimental contexts, and—in particular—many of them have claimed that the former is non-confirmatory. In this paper, I argue for the opposite conclusion: robust hypotheses are confirmed under conditions that do not depend on the differences between and models and experiments—that is, the degree to which the robust hypothesis is confirmed depends on precisely the same factors in both situations. The positive argument turns on the fact that confirmation theory doesn't recognize a difference between different sources of evidence. Most of the paper is devoted to rebutting various objections designed to show that it should. I end by explaining why philosophers of science have (often) gone wrong on this point. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A novel series of homoconjugated oligomers of azapentacene, linked via the rigid connecting unit bicyclo[2.2.2]octane bridge is presented. The investigation delves into intramolecular singlet fission (iSF) within these dimeric and trimeric frameworks, employing various time‐resolved spectroscopies and quantum chemical calculations. Combining the merits of both through‐space and through‐bond couplings between the constituent chromophores within these rigid homoconjugated structures, iSF proceeds within a few picoseconds, exhibiting a 2–3 orders of magnitude acceleration compared to traditional covalently linked oligomers and achieving an iSF efficiency approaching unity. In the homoconjugated trimer, the larger interplanar angle between neighboring chromophores leads to a relatively slower iSF rate compared to that of the homoconjugated dimer. Furthermore, the active involvement of the charge transfer state is demonstrated to accelerate the iSF process in the trimer, while exerting no influence on the iSF process in the dimer. The study provides novel avenues for investigating the influence of molecular geometry on singlet fission and reveals the crucial role of the interplay between spatial and covalent coupling in facilitating intramolecular singlet fission. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Here we define and report the relationship between the maximum seismic magnitude (M) and injection volume (ΔV) through fluid-injection fault-reactivation experiments and analysis. This relationship incorporates the in situ shear modulus (G) and fault pre-stress as a fraction of the strength drop (c), expressed as M = c/(1-c) GΔV. Injection response defines a sigmoidal relation in M − Δ V space with unit gradient limbs linked by an intermediate up-step. Both laboratory observations and analysis for a rigid fault with slip limited to the zone of pressurization show trajectories of cumulative M − Δ V that evolve at a gradient of unity, are offset in order of increasing pre-stress and are capable of step changes in moment with shear reactivation at elevated critical-stresses – key features apparent in field observations. The model and confirmatory laboratory observations explain the occurrence of some triggered earthquakes at EGS sites significantly larger than expected relative to injection volumes and based on previous models. Through fluid-injection fault-reactivation experiments and analysis, the authors here define and report the relationship between the maximum seismic magnitude and injection volume for fluid-injection triggered earthquakes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper offers an interpretation of Locke's understanding of life, challenging a familiar reading which treats him as endorsing a mechanical reduction of the living body. Against the mechanists, Locke clearly states that the internal movement constitutive of life is excited from within the organism, and he also holds that the coordination of the bodily organs (their unity of function) cannot be understood mechanically. Rather, the different parts of the organism enjoy a ‘vital union', a concept that Locke borrows from Henry More and the Cambridge Platonists. In the final part of the paper, it is shown how personhood, on Locke's understanding, partakes in this vital union and how the person is thus embodied in the human organism, or ‘Man’. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The interpretive approach that Al-Shahrastani highlighted and established in the methods of interpretation is the comparative research in the origins of interpretation and its methods, As the best ideal or ideal approach to be the pioneer in interpretation among the rest of the Islamic sects, Al-Shahrastani became acquainted with the interpretive approaches that arouse a spirit of disagreement among Muslims and tried to criticize and analyze them, As well as getting to know the interpretive approaches that confirm the spirit of unity and searching for its roots and origins, and benefiting from them. He discovered the interpretive approaches that were based on the interpretive approach or the interpretive source through serving the authority that was contemporary with it, whether it was a political authority, an intellectual or. Cultural authority,an ideological authority and so an. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article argues for a version of sacred naturalism within the framework of a processual metaphysics that characterizes the cosmos as an interplay between Chaos (disunity) and Logos (unity). I argue that although creativity is highly valuable from the perspective of life and humanity, at a cosmic scale it is overshadowed by the universal tendencies toward conservation and destruction. Within this metaphysical picture I develop a naturalist notion of the sacred as a phenomenological object inspiring particularly intense feelings of inner harmony but functioning eudaemonically to strengthen mind, body, and soul against forms of Chaos, whether anomie, stress, or personal conflict. After developing some criteria for a sacred but immanent meta-unity in contrast to the transcendental unities of traditional religion, I describe how the unity of the cosmos might be experienced as a sacred object by emphasizing its heterarchical, aesthetic and life-affirming dimensions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article addresses the intellectual suspicion that Islam scholars and intellectuals are only men of religion, of opinion, of spiritual and moral reform and have no interest in political critical studies. We will take a model from the Algerian reformer Abdelhamid Ibn Badis to address this problem by writing about the fall of the Ottoman caliphate in 1924, which was the symbol of Islamic unity. Is there in what Ibn Badis wrote about the fall of the caliphate a thought and an analysis of political critical perceptions? Did he provide in his books authentic and unprecedented perceptions of the caliphate and the unity of the Muslim world? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article describes the German Lawyers' Day of 1933, which is considered as the self-mobilization of the legal professional elite during the formation phase of the Nazi regime. The Lawyers' Day was used by the Nazi regime as a propaganda event, where speakers attempted to align their theories of legal renewal with the Nazi worldview. The Lawyers' Day also served as a platform for young, ambitious legal scholars who benefited from the political purges and dismissals, rising to newly created positions. The event aimed to restore unity within the profession and bridge the gap between lawyers and the people. [Extracted from the article]

Anscombe seems to think that, even though "the knowledge that a man has of his intentional actions" is not "knowledge by observation", it can be aided by observation. My aim in this essay is to explain how I think we should understand this thought. I suggest that, in a central class of cases, knowledge of one's intentional action is knowledge whose canonical linguistic expression is an utterance of the form "I am doing something to that G": knowledge in which the subject, at once, knows himself "as self" (and so, not by observation), and knows an outer object "as other" (and so, by observation). To characterise this knowledge either as knowledge by observation, or as knowledge not by observation, is to characterise it in a manner that abstracts away from its fundamental unity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper considers an algorithm for entangling the states of an exciton qubit on a single quantum dot and a charge qubit on a double quantum dot. The possibility of performing a conditional two-qubit CNOT operation using laser transitions and the Förster effect is analyzed. Estimates of the system parameters are given for which this operation is implemented with a probability close to unity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores Hegel's conception of experience, positing it as the entry point for grasping the implications of the philosophy of nature. The article briefly examines Hegel's view of nature, focusing on its transformative journey from externality to integration with the conscious I. Subsequently, the purpose of Hegel's philosophy of nature is discussed, and recent interpretations are compared. The article unfolds the notion of experience as a bridge between the subjective dimension explored in the Phenomenology of Spirit and the understanding of reality presented in the Encyclopedia. Experience, considered in its threefold meaning of unveiling, actively interpreting, and generating rationality within nature, dynamically shapes both the self‐conscious subject and the natural world across logic, nature, and spirit. Finally, the article highlights experience as mediating both the epistemological and the metaphysical relationship between nature and spirit. The article concludes by arguing that the transformative power of experience plays a central role in overcoming the separation between spirit and nature, fostering a mediated unity between the human subject and the natural world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article offers a detailed analysis of Ilyenkov's conception of the relationship between the logical and the historical. It posits that Ilyenkov, by overcoming the theoretical impasses of mainstream Soviet Marxism, was the first thinker to recognize the centrality of this relationship in dialectics. Through a brief overview of the official conception of Diamat, I explain that the latter broadly understood the relation of the logical and the historical in a rather superficial way. I then argue that Ilyenkov's approach to dialectics as the ascent from the abstract to the concrete, combined with his research orientation towards the method of Marx's Capital and his reevaluation of Hegel's philosophy led him to a much deeper understanding of the inner unity of the method of ascent from the abstract to the concrete and the relation of the logical and the historical. In reconstructing Ilyenkov's analysis on this matter, I explain how the unfolding of the categories throughout the ascent from the abstract to the concrete is inextricably intertwined with the relation of the logical and the historical. Therefore, the article concludes by arguing that Ilyenkov's analysis marks a significant advance in the understanding of dialectics in the history of Marxism, and a core aspect of this deeper understanding is his systematic approach to the relationship of the logical and the historical. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article philosophically analyzes the pathology of inter-party politics in East Timor in 1974-1975, based on Honneth's thought on the politics of recognition. The purpose of this study is to try to see the root of political pathologies between political parties philosophically. In the philosophy of recognition, the inter-party political pathology of 1974-1975, is a form of disrespect between political parties in Timor Leste, which causes various forms of disrespect, such as physical violence (murder), denial of legal rights and denial of way of life. Honneth in his book the struggle for recognition, explains that ireconhecimento can be overcome by forms of recognition, including through love, legal rights and solidarity, so that unity can be realized. And the most important thing that must be done in finding the root of political pathology is pathological diagnosis. Pathological diagnosis will be used as a way to analyze the root of the birth of inter-party political pathology in Timor Leste. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Müfide Ferit Tek, was one of the active women writers of the Second Constitutional Monarchy and Republic periods. Her prominent novel is Aydemir. The idea of Turkic unity constitutes the thesis of the novel. While this idea was transformed into a fictional case, motifs from Turkic mythology were reflected in the novel. In this study, the motifs of Turkic mythology in the novel were analysed one by one and the underlying meanings of the motifs were revealed. The protagonist of the novel, Demir, and the fictional case of the novel were associated with mythological motifs, and it was aimed to reveal the mythological motifs reflected in the novel of Müfide Ferit Tek, who is connected to Turkish belief and thought. In this context, the characteristic of being the protector and saviour of the nation attributed to the protagonist was explained with the symbols of "moon", "iron", "wisdom" and "number 12". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A digital twin (DT) is a virtual/digital model of any physical object (physical twin), interconnected through data exchange. In the context of Industry 4.0, DTs are integral to intelligent automation driving innovation at scale by providing significant improvements in precision, flexibility, and real-time responsiveness. A critical challenge in developing DTs is achieving a model that reflects real-time conditions with precision and flexibility. This paper focuses on evaluating latency and accuracy, key metrics for assessing the efficacy of a DT, which often hinder scalability and adaptability in robotic applications. This article presents a comprehensive framework for developing DTs using Unity and Robot Operating System (ROS) as the main layers of digitalization and communication. The MoveIt package was used for motion planning and execution for the robotic arm, showcasing the framework's versatility independent of proprietary constraints. Leveraging the versatility and open-source nature of these tools, the framework ensures interoperability, adaptability, and scalability, crucial for modern smart manufacturing applications. Our approach was validated by conducting extensive accuracy and latency tests. We measured latency by timestamping messages exchanged between the physical and digital twin, achieving a latency of 77.67 ms. Accuracy was assessed by comparing the joint positions of the DT and the physical robotic arm over multiple cycles, resulting in an accuracy rate of 99.99%. The results highlight the potential of DTs in enhancing operational efficiency and decision-making in manufacturing environments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores bottom-up responses to the Kremlin's approach to nation-building in a multi-ethnic state. How do residents of ethnically mixed cities navigate conflicting themes of unity and diversity in the federal discourse of Russia as a multi-ethnic nation (mnogonatsional'nyi narod)? This discourse runs counter to assimilative policies and a concurrent vision of Russia as a civilisation rooted in Slavic culture. In the diverse city of Kazan, the discourse is shown to be easily adopted by residents in narrating belonging, while being a problematic basis for nation-building. The discussion highlights the importance of regional and ethnic subject positions in bottom-up engagement with nation-building in Russia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The core object of this paper is a pair (L,e)$(L, e)$, where L$L$ is a Nijenhuis operator and e$e$ is a vector field satisfying a specific Lie derivative condition, that is, LeL=Id$\mathcal {L}_{e}L=\operatorname{Id}$. Our research unfolds in two parts. In the first part, we establish a splitting theorem for Nijenhuis operators with a unity, offering an effective reduction of their study to cases where L$L$ has either one real or two complex conjugate eigenvalues at a given point. We further provide the normal forms for gl$\mathrm{gl}$‐regular Nijenhuis operators with a unity around algebraically generic points, along with seminormal forms for dimensions 2 and 3. In the second part, we establish the relationship between Nijenhuis operators with a unity and F$F$‐manifolds. Specifically, we prove that the class of regular F$F$‐manifolds coincides with the class of Nijenhuis manifolds with a cyclic unity. Extending our results from dimension 3, we reveal seminormal forms for corresponding F$F$‐manifolds around singularities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The terms "politics" and "political" have become so overdetermined that it is difficult to use them in any effective manner. We argue that this has dangerous political consequences, and that this could be addressed by providing a new, sounder, notion of politics. This paper argues that defining politics in relation to the notion of play can provide a notion both intuitively appealing and able to withstand the problematic overdeterminations. We argue that politics is the set of practices through which the indeterminate of Spielraum is made more determinate. This suggests that politics is always partly a matter of play: it is about instituting values without making any claims about the legitimacy of this instituting act. With reference to Huizinga and Nietzsche's analyses of play, we define play as the living unity of seriousness and frivolity, and non-play as either seriousness without frivolity or frivolity without seriousness. In order to illustrate this, we comparatively analyse the attitudes of Barack Obama and Donald Trump in the single context of the well-known yearly White House Correspondent's Dinner. There, we see two opposed attitudes to playfulness. Our analysis allows us to apply our Spielraum model of politics to show that the thrust of Obama's attitude involves an embrace of the non-foundational nature of politics as play, whereas Trump's attitude is politicidal: it is animated by a refusal to acknowledge its own lack of foundation, leading to an oscillation between over-seriousness and over-frivolity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper tackles Husserl's early analysis of alien experience and its relation to the methodological framework of the Logical Investigations (LI). Since intersubjectivity first becomes a central theme for Husserl in his writings of 1905 (Seefeld Blätter), less attention is usually paid to his analysis of our experience of other minds in the LI. In this context, I attempt to highlight both the fundamental insights gained by Husserl in this analysis that will also remain key for his later accounts of empathy, as well as the challenges alien experiences raises for the theoretical framework of LI. I begin by discussing the main relevant traits of the phenomenological project of LI as a preparatory endeavor for the elucidation of logical objectualities, and the radical way in which Husserl defines its domain, i.e., the sphere of immanent content. Then I analyse Husserl's understanding of alien experience in terms of an indicative unity based on associative motivations. I argue that, in doing this, Husserl accounts for a non-inferential intuitive access to other minds and, at the same time, maintains their essential alienness. Finally, I show that this account rests on what I call an "intentional contamination" of Husserl's reductive method of LI. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The 1897 colonial conference coincided with Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee and an outpouring of late‐Victorian imperial sentiment. Against this backdrop of imperial celebration, colonial leaders met with Secretary of State for the Colonies, Joseph Chamberlain, whose own views as to the importance of imperial reform were taking shape. For the most part, while grateful for Chamberlain's interests, Australian leaders feared significant imperial reform might undermine rather than reinforce imperial unity. As a result, the conference struggled to translate pro‐imperial sentiment into tangible commitments. This article argues that the meetings between Chamberlain and colonial leaders in 1897 are worthy of examination not only because they shed light on Anglo‐Australian relations but also because they provide insight into a significant period in the history of late‐Victorian British imperialism and the development of Australian federation. Drawing on the confidential proceedings of the conference, this article offers a close reading of the key imperial issues under discussion and their resonance in contemporary Australian and imperial political discourse. Moreover, it contends that the conference debates reflected not only important issues in Anglo‐Australian affairs, but also a series of broader ambitions and limitations when it came to the campaign for imperial unity in the late‐Victorian era. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Summary: This paper presents a new CMOS‐based second‐generation current controlled conveyor (CCCII), based on a mixed translinear cell composed of CMOS‐based translinear elements, which offers a wide tunable range of four decades for the X‐terminal input resistance RX. The current‐controlled grounded and floating tunable resistors and multifunction filter with tunable cut‐off frequency have been realized to show the practical utility of the proposed CCCII architecture. Various performance evaluations have been carried out through simulations conducted on Cadence Virtuoso software using 0.18 μm gpdk CMOS technology at a supply voltage of ±1.5 V. Simulation results show the effectiveness of the proposed CCCII in attaining a wide tunable Rx ranging from 130 MΩ to 13 kΩ, offering good linearity, nearly unity voltage and current transfer gains, high input impedance at port Y varying from 3.7 GΩ to 1.18 MΩ, high output impedance at port Z varying from 67.63 GΩ to 13.19 MΩ, with the power consumption in the range of 3.68 μW to 18.78 μW for variation in bias current (Io) from 100 pA to 1 μA. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Purpose: The IC Profiler (ICP) manufactured by Sun Nuclear Corporation (SNC) is an ionization chamber (IC) array used for linear accelerator dosimetry measurements. Previous work characterized response of the ICP under various conditions, but there is limited work of its implementation into monthly QA measurement procedures. This work quantifies ICP accuracy and variables that affect accuracy for beam output measurements, and demonstrates feasibility of using the ICP for all recommended monthly dosimetry measurements. Methods: A total of 1985 output measurements on six Varian TrueBeam and Edge linear accelerators were performed using three ICP with quad wedges (QWs) and were compared with conventional IC measurements. The accuracy of the ICP for beam output was characterized as the difference between the ICP and IC. Variables that affect ICP accuracy, including gain settings, calibrations, and template baselining as well as machine or energy‐specific bias were investigated. Measurements of profile constancy, energy, dose rate constancy, wedge factors, and gating were performed. Results: The initially observed mean output difference between the ICP and IC was 0.16% (0.61%). When gain settings were optimized, the output difference accuracy improved to −0.02% (0.38%). The output accuracy of the ICP was not dependent on array, dose, temperature and pressure calibrations, or template baselining. Statistically, ICP output accuracy was dependent on machine and beam energy, but clinically, all measurements fell within 0.5% of unity. ICP measurements of energy, dose rate constancy, and wedge factors matched passing results with conventional IC in water measurements. Gating and beam profile constancy measurements demonstrated good stability using the ICP. Finally, monthly dosimetry QA using ICP was completed in an average of 33 min compared to 66 min using the IC. Conclusion: This work demonstrated the feasibility and efficiency of using the ICP, with specific considerations, as a measurement device for dosimetric linear accelerator monthly QA. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article demonstrates that the Schuman Plan and the European Economic Community (EEC) challenged the unity of pre-existing European business associations. It emphasises the effects of coexisting European integration processes between the late 1940s to the 1970s on the development and the structuration of European business associations. The UNICE, the EEC's main employers' organisation, was first founded in 1952 as a committee of an employers' organisation within the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation (OEEC), and was relaunched in 1958 within the EEC. Studying the shift from the OEEC to the EEC provides new insights into how European business associations adapted to the redefinition of European political spaces. Based on archives from European business associations, this article presents the forgotten structural development of UNICE, from its initial foundation in 1952 to its refoundation as the EEC's representative European business organisation in 1958, and its later gradual structuring in the early 1970s. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Anscombe seems to think that, even though "the knowledge that a man has of his intentional actions" is not "knowledge by observation", it can be aided by observation. My aim in this essay is to explain how I think we should understand this thought. I suggest that, in a central class of cases, knowledge of one's intentional action is knowledge whose canonical linguistic expression is an utterance of the form "I am doing something to that G": knowledge in which the subject, at once, knows himself "as self" (and so, not by observation), and knows an outer object "as other" (and so, by observation). To characterise this knowledge either as knowledge by observation, or as knowledge not by observation, is to characterise it in a manner that abstracts away from its fundamental unity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]