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This article discusses the importance of asking questions in the field of bioethics. It emphasizes that while constructing strong arguments is crucial, assuming that we have all the answers can hinder meaningful dialogue and prevent the exploration of new perspectives. The article also explores various topics within bioethics, including the duty to be vaccinated, age-based rationing of healthcare resources, the ethics of abortion, and the integration of environmental advocacy into medical ethics education. The authors encourage readers to question established ideas and consider alternative approaches in these areas. [Extracted from the article]

Nikolaj Lübecker's book, "Twenty-First-Century Symbolism: Verlaine, Baudelaire, Mallarmé," explores the role of poetry in contemporary society. Lübecker argues that poetry can be seen as a form of solid and consistent thought, capable of challenging and reimagining our understanding of the world. The book examines the works of Verlaine, Baudelaire, and Mallarmé, highlighting their contributions to the redefinition of human existence and the relationship between the individual and the environment. Lübecker emphasizes the ecological nature of subjectivity and the importance of relational dynamics in shaping our perception, emotion, and action. The book ultimately celebrates the power of poetry to inspire and enrich our lives. [Extracted from the article]

Tsalicoglou's bilingual edition of a small selection of this prolific author's works constitutes a great service to teaching Greek early modern texts in translation. A complete list of his works and, likewise, critical editions are lacking, so that despite continuous interest - Dapontes must be one of the most discussed Greek authors of the period - his texts are barely taught. [Extracted from the article]

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This document is a correction notice for an article titled "Coding Intensity through Health Risk Assessments and Chart Reviews in Medicare Advantage: Does It Explain Resource Use?" The authors discovered an error in the programming used for the analysis, which affected the values of resource use. However, this error did not significantly impact the main result of the study, which focused on the relative contributions of risk scores from different diagnosis sources to resource use. The authors provided the correct numbers for the affected sections of the paper, and the journal editor confirmed that these changes do not alter the study's conclusions. The authors apologize for the error. [Extracted from the article]

Students in the English Language Arts classroom have access to more author commentary than ever. While following authors on social media may deepen students' engagement with their assigned reading, it also threatens to subdue students' own interpretations of the authors' texts. This essay explains how educators can introduce basic aspects of Roland Barthes's the Death of the Author manifesto to their students. Barthes's concept helps students to recalibrate the value of an author's biography and the author's interpretation when analyzing a text. Just such a power recalibration takes place for teen characters in Green's The Fault in Our Stars. Hazel, the protagonist, demonstrates sharp literary critique informed by Barthes's theory when she engages with most texts. However, she initially rejects the Death of the Author approach when it comes to interpreting one idolized piece of literature: her favorite novel. During the novel's emotional climax, Hazel repositions herself in the author-reader relationship and takes a more empowered position. She then discovers a new parallel text that helps her to find solace and to reclaim authority from the Author-god. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The need to understand and respond to the COVID-19 pandemic presented an enormous stress test for scientists and for scientific research. The need for rapid access to the latest COVID-19 research highlighted a number of longstanding shortcomings in scholarly publishing, most notably delayed publication of scientific findings and barriers to access for both readers and authors to fee-charging journals. During the global health crisis, innovations were made in scholarly publishing toward greater openness, such as accelerated peer review processes and increased use of preprints. However, different stakeholders across the scientific community will need to make a concerted effort to ensure that the openness fostered during the pandemic contributes to long-lasting change in scholarly publishing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Part of a larger yearlong ethnography at a comprehensive, public high school in a Midwestern city in the United States, this article explores a telling case from a bookclub that was part of the school's Genders and Sexualities Alliance. Approaching curriculum as a question of what knowledges are valued in education, in this article I describe the layers of epistemic practices that youth in the bookclub co-constructed and the consequences of these practices for oppressive values with respect to sexuality, gender, race, ethnicity, and language. The telling case features youth talking about young adult author Sáenz's sexuality, his novel Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, and whether and how (literary) authors' identities affect their writing (of literature). My analysis of the case explores epistemological phenomena related to literature, curiosity, authenticity, #OwnVoices, and author–reader relationships, which I consider through critical, especially queer and trans, theoretical perspectives about epistemology, transparency, and opacity. The findings have implications for educators working to disrupt oppressive, anti-LGBTQ+ epistemologies in schools in an effort to encourage humanizing curiosity, promote compassion, and foster joy among and for LGBTQ+ students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The story of the Gerasene demoniac (Mk 5:1-20) is so intrigue that scholars in the past have done their best to apply various methods to analyzing it, and have come to some insightful findings. In this study, we interpret the story through extrinsic analysis and intrinsic analysis, by using the method of ideological criticism. Extrinsic analysis allows us to examine the socio-political and economical structures under which the powers were generated and exercised, and thus to see what is the mainstream ideology and the ideology advocated by the author. Secondly, as to the intrinsic analysis, the author encodes this unfavorable situation and reproduces a new ideology. In the encoding, the author links the spiritual world to the temporal world by insinuating the demon “legion” into the Roman troops, thus also linking theological thoughts to socio-political concepts. The author convinces the reader to believe in Jesus rather than any other ostensibly powerful people, groups, or self-styled gods by presenting his ideology that Jesus, the Son of God, is so powerful that he vanquishes all other evil powers, including satanic power, as well as the Roman empire’s military power. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper investigates how the unsaid, invisible meanings can be brought to light by a process of validated interpretation. Given the variety of literary texts, a single reception procedure cannot be practiced. Poetic writings, novels, essays, and volumes in the field of correspondence or journalism are addressed to different types of readers. Acting as relatively independent elements, textual discourses stand out especially for their communicability insofar as they are coherent and are designed to convey something. The text is not an independent institution but multi-institutional. Books have no value in themselves; literary or scientific productions are waiting to be caught in the global circuit of communication and hope to enter the interpretive radius of the receivers. Interpretive strategies end with the unearthing of meaning. The careful capture of the meaning requires from the reader a strong personal commitment as a result of which the sweet taste of the dialogue with the book is cultivated. This dialogue allows the readers to talk to authors from different times, becoming a universal interlocutor, contemporary with the whole world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article is based on a 2007 conference presentation that used Research-Based Theater (RbT) to identify and articulate the ethical questions facing playmakers and audiences, not to provide answers, but to challenge the participants to address them. The authors pose issues of purpose, power, ownership, permission, and audience participation, addressing ethical problems of RbT for performers, audiences, and informants. In the second part of the article, the authors refer readers to the literature to further explore how these issues have been addressed in a range of contexts worldwide... and the further questions they raise. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article focuses on Czesław Miłosz's translations of parts of the Psalms and their influence on his poetry. For Miłosz, poetry had an eschatological dimension, a view deeply influenced by his distant cousin, the Lithuanian poet and playwright Oscar Miłosz. In his essay "A Few Words on Poetry," Oscar Miłosz claimed that since prehistoric times, poetry has always followed the mysterious movements of the great soul of the people. He criticized his contemporaries—the French Symbolists—for their elitism, which perpetuated the schism between the poet and the great human family. He predicted that the new poetry would be that of the Bible: "a spacious prose hammered into verses." For him, a truly inspired poet of the future will be able to transcend his paltry ego. Czesław Miłosz—thanks to this significant influence—resisted literary fashions. Moreover, in times of despair or dry spells in his writing, Miłosz would turn to translating the Bible. In his poem "Ars Poetica?" he writes: "I have always aspired to a more spacious form / that would be free from the claims of poetry or prose/and would let us understand each other without exposing / the author or reader to sublime agonies." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article tries to demonstrate that Mk 16:1-8 is the effective ending that the author proposes to the reader by taking into account the communicative-pragmatic strategy. The article starts out by outlining the various hypotheses generated by Mk 16:1-8, a text that continues to be a crux interpretum for exegetes and hermeneuts alike. The above is evidenced, from very early on, in the corrections to which it has been victim: mutilations, attempts of harmonization and amplifications that tried to give a "happy ending", to the Gospel of Jesus Messiah Son of God, a Good Announcement (Good News) with ἀρχή, but seemingly without a proper conclusion. The hypothesis suggested is that the strategy of the author of the Gospel according to Mark is to leave the ending of his work open, in order to push the reader through the arduous passage from spectator to disciple. On the basis of the above, the questions formulated for the research are directed, as is typical of the communicative-pragmatic approach, to delineate the effects that Mark wants to achieve with his ending in the different types of readers, bearing in mind the fact that when an author sets a written work in motion, he does so by means of strategies that make the message he is trying to communicate feasible, comprehensible and effective. For this reason, when it comes to the end of the work, the moment of climax, it is essential to question and deepen the performative power of the semantic motifs that unite it. Finally, attention is paid to the way in which it is verified in each of the statements that the communication is directed towards reaching its "happy ending". It is precisely at this point where it is argued that Mark presents, as a result of his strategy, an ending that is as paradoxical as it is paradigmatic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Connecting the personal and the cultural, these pages offer a few impressions of the author's personal immigration narrative. Fleeing an archetypal oppression can lead to a relationship with the archetype of the oppressor. Here, the author takes the reader on her quest for the middle path, the transcendent, the self. Through her mother's experiences as a young Jewish woman in France in WWII, the trauma passed down to the author, and her journey from being hidden to being seen, she mends the broken pieces of her psyche. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Hypertext refers to the electronic links of texts. In the traditional texts, readers have to follow the linearity, and fixity of the book they are reading. Now computers give them a chance to escape this sort of restriction. Computer is a medium for the creation and the reading of texts. Hypertext or digital text, as we know, takes the form of a series of links. These links are adaptable, flexible, and interactive. They question the unity of the text, and the roles of both the reader and the author. Hence, hypertext requires redefining the concepts of author, reader, text, and structure--concepts of great importance to postmodernists. In addition, hypertext consists of fragments, pastiches, different styles and genres. It ignores boundaries, and addresses the mass. In brief, hypertext develops and brings to live many postmodern concepts such as decentering, intertextuality, writerly text and rejection of linearity and fixity of linear narrative. My paper is about hypertext in the light of postmodern theory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Arkivoc is an open access journal for organic chemistry, which since its foundation by Alan Katritzky in 2000, has been free to readers and authors. The journal has a humanitarian mission and publishes many papers written by authors in developing countries. The majority of its workforce are unpaid volunteers working part-time as scientific editors and in other roles. In 2020 it achieved the DOAJ's Seal award for best practice in open access publication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

What started with a grant from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation to integrate the Dutch Textile Trade Project into the JHNA publishing platform grew into a broader digital art historical project, strengthened by a grant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation to redesign and enrich the Dutch Textile Trade Project site while creating additional technical functionality for JHNA, benefitting not only this textiles-focused issue but also future JHNA authors and readers alike. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The study is a result of a search for the originator of a useful archive aid and its brief evaluation. The author outlined for the reader the profile of a researcher, the life story of which avoided the attention of the public for 75 years, and, as far as the aid itself is concerned, the writer discovered at least some of the sources and possible basis for its creation. In the 1940s, Dr Otakar Kašpárek created unique research aids called School Phases of Genealogical Source and a List of Teachers at Moravian Schools in the Years 1770 - 1872, which have been since then kept in the research section of the Moravian Land Archives in Brno. When the author of this contribution, while having had used these aids for several years, began to take an interest in the person of Dr Kašpárek, he discovered facts so different from his initial idea, that he decided to sum up in this study the biography of this, until now, unnoticed researcher as well as circumstances and parameters of his extraordinary work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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As more alarming truths are being revealed around the horrors of the residential schooling system in Canada, educators are being called to decolonize and Indigenize their teaching practices. As post-secondary teacher educators working in Indigenous education who have gained valuable insights around this difficult teaching, the authors offer readers a conceptual model of reconciliatory education. The model invites educators to move beyond colonial schooling practices to embrace decolonizing and Indigenizing approaches and the powerful potential of relational teaching and learning. Envisioned as an ethical space residing between Indigenizing and decolonizing practices and animated by truth-telling and critical thinking, the extended infinity model, presented in this article, shows the dynamic nature of teaching and learning that occurs when relating together through commitments to decolonizing and Indigenizing. While purposefully engaging in an ethos of ethical relationality, the model carries transformative potential for teaching and learning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The contemporary Romanian novel of the last three decades, having at its center a child-character, changes the reader's attitude towards its value also through the building of the narrative from the narrator's outlook. The author of the text addresses an adult reader, but entrusts the narration to a child's voice. In this case, both the author and the reader pass a comprehension test, the first simulating authentically the innocent speech, the other receiving the figurative narration as a narration itself (T. Todorov). If Aristotle does not value the character so much, considering that the interest towards this removes the narration from the innate sense (the action matters, the character being just its agent), then, in the modern novel that we analyze, the narrator's voice deserves special attention. Through it we follow the growing up, transformation and degeneration, education, disillusionment of the child-character. In this article we propose to state the relationship between the author and the narrator, to clarify the hypostasis of the narrator in the text, to constitute the typology of the narrator specific to the contemporary Romanian novel. Capitalizing „The Dictionary of Narratology" by Gerald Prince, we will identify in some novels of the last three decades the narrative voices exposed or faded, homodiegetic or heterodiegetic, dramatized, authorial, having the role of an agent etc. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Grounded in 10 years of critical literacy work in Puerto Rico, the authors engage readers creatively, to share key events in both our experiences as local teachers and as theatre activists in Puerto Rico. Our long-term purpose has been to explore new creative approaches to doing educational research and pedagogies that rupture traditional colonial structures of doing literacy work in local classrooms. After we share these creative stories we explore the idea of improvisation as Anticolonial literacy (un)doings to disrupt colonial imposed ways of inhabiting classroom spaces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Many law professors now post essentially complete drafts of their articles on SSRN and/or on university-sponsored working paper websites prior to submitting those articles for journal review and possible publication. This "prepublication publication," so to speak, is useful for both authors and their readers, but it raises some self-plagiarism issues. There does not yet appear to be a broad consensus among journal editors on how those issues should be addressed. I argue that this increasingly common practice of SSRN and working paper prepublication of articles prior to their submission for journal review should be recognized as entirely appropriate, particularly if this prior publication is disclosed in the journal submission or is otherwise called to the attention of the journal editors. I also argue that in light of this practice law journals should rather substantially change the way that they operate. They should move to a wholly online format and provide only article abstracts and website links for the articles that they "accept," rather than editing the articles and then providing their readers with full article texts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The first books in Croatia that teach the reader the basics of arithmetic, were written in the middle of the 18th century. Arithmetica Horvatszka (1758), written by Mihajlo Šilobod, and Aritmetika u slavni jezik ilirski (1766) by Mate Zoričić were published in separate parts of Croatia; the former was published in the part of Croatia that was under Austro-Hungarian rule and the latter under the Venetian rule. Although they were not directly intended for school work, the authors wanted to teach the general population the basics of numbers and arithmetic through these books. This paper provides a brief analysis of the calculation methods from that time, as well as the forms of instructions the authors gave to their readers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"Golden Cynthia: Essays on Propertius" is a posthumously edited volume that pays tribute to Barbara Flaschenriem, a scholar of Latin literature. The book includes Flaschenriem's two chapters on Roman elegy, as well as contributions from five other scholars who knew her. The essays explore themes of dreams, ekphrasis (the vivid description of a work of art), and the poet's struggle for control in elegiac poetry. While each chapter offers unique perspectives, they all respond to the concept of incomplete control, expanding the book's scope while maintaining its cohesion. The volume serves as both a fitting tribute to Flaschenriem and a valuable contribution to the study of Roman elegy. [Extracted from the article]

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The article under studies deals with the issue of the comparative aspects of genre. Particular emphasis has been placed on the genre form (in the sense of a characteristic matrix/canon as a complex of specific factors), which functions in terms of a continuous literary process and, accordingly, adapts to its contextual changes, deviations, objections, innovations, correlations, needs of the receptive environment. The author's and the reader's perception of the meanings, contained in a particular genre, do not necessarily coincide. Consequently, the issue of the so-called multiplicity of genre logic (Jean-Marie Schaeffer's proposal) directly appeals to the comparativistic experience of studying typological coincidences or borrowings that affect the genre as such. Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel The Adolescent is taken as an example of genre modification. Its genre is regarded in contamination with the genre of confession by means of comparing the individual plot lines and interpreting the main characters, which are perceived in the biblical context. Besides, it acquires a different perspective in clarifying the general author's idea. Finally, the article singles out such terminological syntagms as genre polymorphism, genre modifications, and genre metamorphism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The folklorist Vladímir Propp identified a curious phenomenon in his study of 100 Russian fairy tales: despite their tremendous surface variety, they followed a single narrative structure or morphology. This article argues that the same phenomenon applies to SoTL articles: despite the tremendous variety of content and methods that SoTL articles evince, they have come to tell the same kind of story. They tell, over and over, a story of redemption. I identify two problems with the story of redemption, the first having to do with ethos (the character that an author projects to their readers), and the second having to do with plausibility. I propose an array of narrative possibilities to enable SoTL authors to tell other kinds of stories-- possibilities based on problematizing rather than easily solving. I argue that these possibilities better realize how some of the foundational thinkers in SoTL wanted the field to evolve. While benefiting all SoTL practitioners, such an expansion of narrative possibilities will make the field a more welcoming place to humanities scholars in particular, many of whom share a skepticism about the possibility of linear progress and perpetual self-improvement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A corrigendum published in the journal Molecular Medicine Reports addresses errors in the primer sequences for GAPDH in a study on MYCN-amplified neuroblastoma cell-derived exosomal miR-17-5p. The correct forward and reverse primer sequences are provided, and proof of purchase of the primers used in the study was requested. The authors express gratitude for the opportunity to publish the corrigendum and regret any inconvenience caused by the mistakes. [Extracted from the article]

Zhang, X. (2024). Labor Market Reentry Among White-Collar Female Ex-Prisoners in China: A Feminist Desistance Perspective. Feminist Criminology, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/15570851241238469Post-publication of the above article, the author noticed error in the article and contacted Sage to correct Table 1. The authors provided an updated Table and the references related to Table 1 in the article.The table and its references are updated to reflect the corrections.The journal editor confirms that these changes do not alter the conclusions.The author apologizes to readers for this inadvertent error. [Extracted from the article]

The article "Correction: Bio-inspired copper complexes with Cu2S cores: (solvent) effects on oxygen reduction reactions" published in the Dalton Transactions journal addresses an error in the chemical representation of complex 1. The correction acknowledges the omission of a tertiary nitrogen atom in the figure and provides the accurate depiction. The Royal Society of Chemistry apologizes for any inconvenience caused by the error. [Extracted from the article]

The article "Examining the dynamics of pro-social rule-breaking among grassroots public servants" published in Humanities & Social Sciences Communications has been retracted due to the authors not receiving approval from an appropriate ethics committee before conducting the research. The retraction was prompted by the authors themselves requesting a correction to the article's ethics declaration, which was published in error and did not address the initial concerns. Some authors disagreed with the retraction, while others did not respond to the publisher's correspondence. [Extracted from the article]

Statistica Neerlandica is transitioning to a continuous publication model to better meet the changing habits of readers in the academic landscape. This new approach will allow articles to be published online as soon as they are finalized and accepted, rather than waiting for a full issue compilation. The benefits of this model include immediate access to finalized articles with all necessary citations, eliminating delays and backlogs typically associated with traditional publication methods. This shift aims to ensure that authors' research reaches its audience quickly and efficiently, reflecting the journal's commitment to adapting to the needs of the academic community. [Extracted from the article]

A correction is presented to the article "Climate Policy and Pediatric Asthma: How Transition to Nonhydrofluorocarbon Propellants Will Disproportionately Impact Children" published in a previous issue of the periodical.

The article titled "Steering Sulfur Reduction Pathways via Cisplatin Enables High Performance in Lithium‐Sulfur Batteries" has been withdrawn by agreement between the authors, the journal's Executive Committee, and Wiley‐VCH GmbH. The authors requested the withdrawal after being unable to reproduce the Raman patterns shown in Figures 3a and 3c through further experimentation. The journal provides supporting information supplied by the authors, which is peer-reviewed but not copy-edited or typeset. [Extracted from the article]