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I Monster in the Middle i (New York: Riverhead Books [Penguin/Random House], 2021, cloth US$ 27.00), is the second novel by Virgin Islands-born Tiphanie Yanique - in "Bookshelf 2014", we called her first one, the multiple prize-winning I Land of Love and Drowning i , "a gem", and this one is as well. Covid-19 has continued to affect book reviewing this year, as reviewers whom we had to remind wrote us back saying everything from "I'm stuck in Dakar" or "I crushed my right index finger in an anchor mishap two months ago [and] ... typing was problematic for a number of weeks" to "in the midst of the pandemic I fell and broke my leg in two places", not to mention people's frequent child-care/remote learning challenges (for some books, we had to identify and ask as many as nine potential reviewers before one agreed) or the difficulties of getting books from publishers to reviewers in pandemic-bombed Brazil. I Pleasantview i , "a novel in stories" by Trinidad-born and -resident Celeste Mohammed (New York: Ig Publishing, 2021, paper US$ 16.95), includes nine chapters, seven of which have been published as (often prize-winning) short stories. [Extracted from the article]

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The Troubles have spread heartbreak and misery across Northern Ireland, mainland Britain, and Europe for 50 years, claiming the lives of thousands and victimizing tens of thousands. With each death, physical, and psychological injury there are stories of a father, son, brother, sister, daughter, and mother. Human security encapsulates the lives of these people and examines their experiences front and center, and for the first time this sentiment will be adopted in an academic paper to analyze casualty counting in Northern Ireland. This study demonstrates that the Northern Irish Troubles are not just suitable for casualty recording but are also in desperate need of it, as current casualty recording facilities are inadequate in tackling victimization and providing closure to grief-stricken families. This paper analyzes the theoretical aspects of casualty counting and inspects human rights laws in Northern Ireland, seeking to remedy current issues of victim hierarchies in database inclusions, incomplete timelines, and limited accessibility to records, in order to provide Troubles victims with the recognition and answers they yearn for. The overarching theme of this study is that effective casualty recording is a steppingstone to bridging the community divide in Northern Ireland, bringing accountability and ultimately ending the war. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: The paper aims to explore the barriers to father involvement in family social work at the personal, cultural, and structural levels, and their interconnectedness to answer the main research question of how gendered constructions of mothers and fathers in social work affect the involvement of fathers in interventions. Background: This paper contributes to debates about fathers in social work by examining gendered constructions of fathers in social services for families with children in the Czech Republic. The problem is viewed from the perspective of social constructionism, anti-oppressive practice, and the whole family approach. Method: To meet the objective, we used a qualitative research strategy. 44 in-depth interviews with social workers, mothers, and fathers were carried out. After that, three focus groups with 21 social workers were formed. Results: The results show that mothers and fathers are treated differently in social work, and femininity and masculinity are perceived as dichotomous opposites. This hinders fathers' involvement in family services and puts responsibility for solving family problems to mothers. Conclusion: Most of these barriers at the micro- and mezzo-levels are in some way related to system barriers at the macro-level, which are often shaped by gender discourses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article describes the Christological themes that Jerome of Stridon took up in his teaching and which are found in the Letters. The article consists of three parts: the relationship between the Father and the Son, the Deity of Jesus Christ and the Humanity of Jesus Christ. They are related to the defence of the truths of faith about the Trinity and to the formulation of Christological doctrine. At the same time, they show the Monk of Bethlehem as a concerned defender of a right theology. The research carried out reveals the Vulgate Author’s firm grounding in the era in which he lived, while at the same time showing the originality of some of his thoughts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper opens with Mary Beth Rose's question, "Where are the mothers in Shakespeare?" Although Shakespeare's plays often dramatize the emotional bonds between fathers and sons or fathers and daughters, mothers are generally presented as threatening, dangerous, or remarkably absent. Although there are no mothers in As You Like It, embedded within the structure and 'sounding' of Arden there is a powerful maternal voice, the Latin anima or Greek psyche as animating spirit or breath of the greenwood. Ironically access to the maternal voice can be understood through Julia Kristeva's notion of 'the imaginary father,' a 'mother-father-conglomerate,' which she revisions from Freud's 'father of individual prehistory.' Unlike what most readers may think, such a 'father' is not a father but a metaphorical process - a 'becoming' - offering a means to consider how psychoanalytic approaches can lead us to current theories of embodied cognition, ecofeminism, and the ecological nature of play. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses the figural stucco in the Villa Hvězda (1555--1563) in Prague, depicting Aeneas with his father Anchises on his back and accompanied by his son Ascanius and his wife, Creusa. In numerous 16th century representations, Creusa always walks behind Aeneas, and Ascanius is always accompanying Aeneas. In the Villa Hvězda, the protagonists of the Flight from Troy are Aeneas and his wife, Creusa. Aeneas carries Anchises on his back, and in front of him, Creusa leads their son Ascanius. This anomaly calls for an explanation, and it may be this, that Creusa allegorically stands for Queen Anne as a model of a pious matriarch of the Habsburgs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the early Qing dynasty, the Jesuit missionary Louis de Poirot's (He Qingtai 賀清泰, 1735–1814) Chinese rendition of the Bible, Guxin Shengjing (The Ancient and New Testament) (古新聖經), reshaped the figure of Abraham. Contrary to the depiction by Chinese Jews of the era, de Poirot portrayed Abraham as a sage, resonating with the traditional Chinese concept of the "five cardinal relationships" (rulers to subjects, fathers to sons, husbands to wives, among siblings, and between friends), and an exemplar of virtue and faith, devoid of human flaws. Key differences emerged in translating Abraham's name, religious stature, and national identity, influenced by distinct belief systems, attitudes towards Confucian culture, and political dynamics. Analyzing these Catholic and Jewish perspectives on Abraham enhances our understanding of the Bible's contextualization and informs contemporary religious localization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite continuing progress, men remain underrepresented in childcare, domestic labor, and other care work. Because parental leave is discussed as a gateway to increasing men's childcare engagement, we aimed to gain insights into predictors of men's parental leave-taking intentions during the transition to parenthood. Using outcomes on a continuum from behavioral preferences to more behavior-oriented measures, we examine how masculinity and fatherhood beliefs as well as social support become relevant during men's formation of their leave-taking intentions. Planned analyses of data collected from 143 expectant fathers in Belgium and Germany revealed that the support men perceive from their partners for taking leave predicts their parental leave-taking desire, intention, and planned length of leave. Moreover, men's conception of a prototypical man, especially in terms of agency, was linked to their desire to take leave. Against expectations, father role attitudes and workplace support did not emerge as relevant predictors of men's intended leave-taking. Results of exploratory analyses suggest that care engagement of peers, expected backlash, and self-efficacy beliefs additionally play a role in men's intended leave-taking. We discuss parental leave as a negotiation process within couples and review the role of men's normative environment for their intended leave-taking. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Multi-robots can perform complex tasks such as exploration, foraging, and formation. Efficient communication between robots can contribute to the accomplishment of collective tasks through efficient message exchange. This paper proposes a strategy based on the message's propagation technique, Wave Swarm, for the formation task inspired by the Traveling Salesman Problem. The Wave Swarm communication approach uses the concept of wave propagation for message exchange between neighbors, establishing a Father and Son relationship between robots. However, different pairs of Father and Son robots can impact the simulation time, the average distance traveled by each robot, and the number of messages exchanged during the formation task. Thus, given a random distribution of robots into a swarm, we model the problem of assigning one position and route for each robot to achieve its place in the formation as a Traveling Salesman Problem. The routes resulting from the TSP solution establish a new parental relationship between the robots in the swarm. We performed preliminary experiments to define the technique used in the TSP resolution. We tested reinforcement learning and the genetic algorithm using the TSPLIB95 library. Thus, we develop a strategy for formation tasks based on Wave Swarm and TSP solved with reinforcement learning. We adopted the leader–follower approach in an unknown environment to validate the proposal. The results show the behavior of different sizes of robot groups for various desired shapes. Experiments with the robot simulator CoppeliaSim (V-REP) validate the proposed strategy and highlight its efficiency and robustness while running the formation task. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Chinese scholars are increasingly interested in Jewish philosophy and culture and the philosophical concept of redemption. That is bringing about more and more studies on Walter Benjamin and Emmanuel Levinas, two of the most well-known Jewish philosophers. In these studies, conducted with different approaches and from diverse perspectives, Chinese scholars are attempting to connect the philosophers' theories with some of their Chinese counterparts. Overall, they are well received or Sinicized, but in different fields, and to different extent, deserving an in-depth comparative study. Obviously a large amount of works have been produced in attempts to have dialogues with Benjamin and Levinas ' s philosophies, but they are in need of some general commentary and reflection. For example, the political allegories and expectations in Benjamin ' s philosophy of redemption have been eliminated, while his aesthetics has been repetitively studied in apolitical ways. Similarly, Levinas is much too conservatively received, and the relationship between Levinas's ethics of "embracing the other" and qin qin（亲亲）in Confucian ethics also needs further examination. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In some of the earliest Chinese works written by Catholic missionaries in the late Ming Dynasty, St. Augustine became associated with the mystery of the Trinity. When explaining the Trinity to Chinese believers, missionaries would often use an analogy of the mens (mind) and its activities in Augustine's theory of Imago Dei, drawing parallels between "the One" and "the Three". In the Ming and Qing periods, Augustine's mental analogy gave rise to two approaches: the "Augustinian-Ignatian" and the "Augustinian-Thomistic". The former, which was the mainstream interpretation, linked "Mind: memory-understanding-love" to "God: the Father-the Son-the Holy Spirit", using "the word generated by memory" to represent "the Son begotten by the Father" and "love proceeded from memory and understanding" as an analogy to "the Holy Spirit proceeded from both the Father and the Son". The latter, more of a minority interpretation, correlated "mind-understanding-love" to "the Father-the Son-the Holy Spirit", using "word generated by mind" to represent "the Son generated by the Father", and "love proceeded from mind and word" as an analogy to "the Holy Spirit proceeded from both the Father and the Son". The former was mainly adhered to by the Jesuits and the Augustinians, while the latter was favored by the Dominicans. This article examines both approaches and critiques of Augustine's theory of the Trinitarian image in Ming and Qing China. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The first years of Constantine's reign in Britain and Gaul were largely a continuation of the mode of government established by Emperor Diocletian. The son of Constantius I had to ensure that his person was accepted in the Roman provinces where his father ruled. Therefore, it was a priority for Constantine to build lasting ties with the soldiers and civilian inhabitants of the land over which he had succeeded in taking power since 306 A.D. An important role in the process of his propaganda self-creation - in its initial phase at least - would be played by the issuance of coins that featured Virtus. The intention of the author of this text, in relation to the title problem, is therefore to show the context of the creation and practical use of the minted at Constantine's initiative of his first mint issues, on which this ancient Roman military idea was immortalized. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article examines the role and function of the father figure in the libretti of Pietro Metastasio, focusing on the representations of the tyrannous rather than the benevolent father. The bulk of his oeuvre written for the Viennese court, Metastasio's libretti took an active role in propagating the reigning and intertwining social-political systems of absolutist monarchy and patriarchy. The tyrannous father figure served to heighten the usual tension of the contradictory duties of public and private lives, highlighting the dilemma of how far the paterfamilias should be obeyed and his mistreatment towards his child be suffered, analyzed here through the example of Artabano in Artaserse, also pointing out the differing relationship dynamic and dramatic treatment of father-son and father-daughter relationships. Through Astiage in Ciro riconosciuto, the article examines the role of the tyrant, the political 'bad father', and how his figure ultimately serves to reinforce the absolutist system and the claim of the divine right of kings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, a second-generation author explores the conflicts and challenges of post-war Jewish identity and the inheritance from her father, through the medium of literature by and about sons and daughters of Holocaust survivors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The Constitutions of the Society of Jesus employ familial metaphors to create emotional bonds between members and to create disciplinary responsibilities, both between fathers (superiors) and sons (rank and file members) as well as among brother Jesuits. Familial charity and love became the guiding principles for the order's disciplinary procedures, which became routinized as the order grew. As evidenced by correspondence between Rome and the province of Aragon, paternal and fraternal correction frequently used one-on-one advice to encourage improvement and bring about change. Beyond private counsel, more public penances, often performed in the refectory, offered visible repentance and helped define acceptable standards of comportment for all members of the community. By the seventeenth century, general congregations added measures, like transfers to other colleges or houses, to encourage Jesuits to reflect on and modify their negative behavior, even if they did so prior to their departure from the order. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Disappointment is associated with negative parent-child relationships. It is linked to fathers' expectations of what fathering is, or should be, and the emotional and relational density underpinning the hopes fathers carry. Analyzing fathers' responses provides important insights into what power actually feels like for a father who loves his son. Parenting challenges, like disappointment, provide opportunities for fathers to confront themselves and, sometimes, to change. Acknowledging these aspects is important for anyone wanting to understand, or work with men. Practitioners need to help fathers see and value the various ways they can draw close to their sons, or "be" with their sons, in the absence of shared activity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Male colour patterns of the Trinidadian guppy (Poecilia reticulata) are typified by extreme variation governed by both natural and sexual selection. Since guppy colour patterns are often inherited faithfully from fathers to sons, it has been hypothesised that many of the colour trait genes must be physically linked to sex determining loci as a 'supergene' on the sex chromosome. Here, we phenotype and genotype four guppy 'Iso-Y lines', where colour was inherited along the patriline for 40 generations. Using an unbiased phenotyping method, we confirm the breeding design was successful in creating four distinct colour patterns. We find that genetic differentiation among the Iso-Y lines is repeatedly associated with a diverse haplotype on an autosome (LG1), not the sex chromosome (LG12). Moreover, the LG1 haplotype exhibits elevated linkage disequilibrium and evidence of sex-specific diversity in the natural source population. We hypothesise that colour pattern polymorphism is driven by Y-autosome epistasis. Extreme colour pattern variation in male Trinidadian guppies are influenced by natural selection and sexual selection. Here, the authors phenotype and genotype four guppy lineages finding that colour pattern is associated with a diverse haplotype on an autosome. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Previously, using data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) we showed that sons of fathers who had started smoking regularly before puberty (< 13 years) had increased fat mass during childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood. We now show that if the paternal grandfather had started smoking pre-puberty, compared with later in childhood (13–16 years), his granddaughters, but not grandsons, had evidence of excess fat mass at two ages: mean difference + 3.54 kg; (P with 1-tailed test) = 0.043 at 17 years, and + 5.49 kg; (P1 = 0.016) at age 24. When fathers of maternal grandfathers had started smoking pre-puberty, their great-granddaughters, but not great-grandsons, had excess body fat: + 5.35 kg (P1 = 0.050) at 17, and + 6.10 kg (P1 = 0.053) at 24 years. Similar associations were not found with lean mass, in a sensitivity analysis. To determine whether these results were due to the later generations starting to smoke pre-puberty, further analyses omitted those in subsequent generations who had smoked regularly from < 13 years. The results were similar. If these associations are confirmed in another dataset or using biomarkers, this will be one of the first human demonstrations of transgenerational effects of an environmental exposure across four generations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]