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TOOL´'N TELL: Visual Essay on Creative Writing
Get PDFThe present visual essay addresses tools of work in the educational domain, specifically within the realm of creative writing. It assumes a metaphorical approach based on an analogy between tools from different fields of activity: it draws a parallel between the operational means of workshop construction and the conceptual means of writing. In this context, ideas such as order, discipline, and organization are still regarded as opposites to creative work. Paradoxically, it is common for the tools, means, and tasks to be perceived by those who use them more as obstacles rather than facilitators. Added to this are stigmas and misconceptions about words, writing, text, and, by extension, books, and authors, whose deconstruction is a workshop task. It is in this sense that the present work is oriented, aiming to create proactive conditions for raising awareness, exploration, reflection, and analysis, seeking to requalify the experience, perception, and self-knowledge. Specifically, it involves recoding a message of awareness to encourage personal and interpersonal engagement in writing, as well as implementing conceptual tools for guided experimental activities
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Get PDF"noop_090-ath" is a vibrant art fanzine that captures the essence of 90s nostalgia through a unique blend of urban diary photographs, evocative poems, and reflective texts. Each issue immerses readers in the raw energy of the decade, showcasing candid snapshots of city life—graffiti-covered walls, bustling streets, and intimate moments that resonate with collective memory. With its aesthetic, "noop_090-ath" serves as both a tribute to the past and a canvas for contemporary voices, creating a bridge between eras and inviting a dialogue as each reader experiences it with their own eyes
Regional Cardiac Needs - Africa: How to Heal the Global South
Get PDFBackground: The current population of Africa of 1.4 billion will double by 2050. Similarly the pediatric (43%: 387,6 million, < 15 yrs old) as the student age (< 25 years) population (60% : 884 millIion) will double. About 1- 4% of babies are born with congenital heart disease and 1-30% are susceptible to develop preventable rheumatic heart disease caused by streptococcal throat infection associated with rheumatic fever. Only 2% (0.5-3.4%) of children with heart diseases have access to heart surgery. Open heart surgery per million population in sub-Saharan Africa is 5/million as compared to 116/ million in South America, WHO recommends 400 OHS/million which is currently impossible in Africa even the 40 OHS/million suggested by PASCaTS remains unmet
Eirene-Sophia Kiapidou, Byzantine Historiographical Prefaces (4th–15th Centuries): A Study on the Praxis and Culture of Writing History in B yzantium (Byzantioς: Studies in Byzantine History and Civilization 23), Turnhout 2025
No full textEirene-Sophia Kiapidou, Byzantine Historiographical Prefaces (4th–15th Centuries): A Study on the Praxis and Culture of Writing History in Byzantium (Byzantioς: Studies in Byzantine History and Civilization 23), Turnhout 2025.Eirene-Sophia Kiapidou, Byzantine Historiographical Prefaces (4th–15th Centuries): A Study on the Praxis and Culture of Writing History in Byzantium (Byzantioς: Studies in Byzantine History and Civilization 23), Turnhout 2025
Richard Calis, The Discovery of Ottoman Greece: Knowledge, Encounter, and Belief in the Mediterranean World of Martin Crusius
No full textInfestation of Olive Groves by the Olive Whitefly, Aleurolobus olivinus (Silvestri, 1911) (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) in Bouira, Algeria
No full textΗ λευκή μύγα της ελιάς, Aleurolobus olivinus (Silvestri, 1911), θεωρείται δευτερεύον επιβλαβές έντομο για τις ελιές. Ως έντομο που τρέφεται με χυμούς από το φλοίωμα και ανήκει στην οικογένεια Aleyrodidae (Hemiptera), επηρεάζει αρνητικά την υγεία και την παραγωγικότητα των δέντρων, προκαλώντας πρόωρη φυλλόπτωση και ευνοώντας την ανάπτυξη μαύρης καπνιάς λόγω της έκκρισης μελιτωμάτων. Υπό ευνοϊκές συνθήκες, το A. olivinus μπορεί να προκαλέσει σημαντικές απώλειες στην παραγωγή και αύξηση του κόστους διαχείρισης. Είναι ειδικευμένο στην οικογένεια Oleaceae, ιδιαίτερα στο είδος Olea europaea L., αλλά παραμένει σχετικά λίγο μελετημένο. Η παρούσα τριετής μελέτη πραγματοποιήθηκε σε ελαιώνα στην περιοχή Ταγζούτ (Μπουΐρα, Αλγερία), εστιάζοντας στην ποικιλία ελιάς Chemlal για τη διερεύνηση της δυναμικής του πληθυσμού του εντόμου. Η δειγματοληψία πραγματοποιήθηκε με χειροκίνητη συλλογή φύλλων και χρήση κολλωδών κιτρινόχρωμων παγίδων. Παράγοντες που ευνοούν την εξάπλωση της λευκής μύγας περιλαμβάνουν την απουσία εντομοκτόνων επεμβάσεων και την εγγύτητα σε φυτοκαλυμμένες περιοχές. Το προνυμφικό στάδιο είναι ιδιαίτερα επιβλαβές λόγω της συνεχούς διατροφής και της ενίσχυσης της δημιουργίας μαύρης καπνιάς. Ωστόσο, οι φυσικοί εχθροί ενδέχεται να συμβάλλουν στη διατήρηση των πληθυσμών κάτω από τα επιβλαβή όρια. Βρέθηκε ισχυρή θετική συσχέτιση (συντελεστής συσχέτισης Pearson r = 0,899) μεταξύ των αριθμών ακμαίων και προνυμφών, υποδεικνύοντας στενά συνδεδεμένες τάσεις πληθυσμιακής εξέλιξης στα διάφορα στάδια ζωής.The olive whitefly, Aleurolobus olivinus (Silvestri, 1911) (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae), is considered a secondary pest of olive trees. As a phloem-sap-feeding insect, it adversely affects tree health and productivity by inducing premature leaf drop and facilitating the development of sooty mold through the secretion of honeydew, particularly under favorable environmental conditions. It is specific to the Oleaceae family, particularly Olea europaea L., yet remains relatively understudied. This three-year study was conducted in an olive orchard in Taghzout (Bouira: Algeria), focusing on the Chemlal olive variety to investigate the pest's population dynamics. Sampling was performed by manually collecting leaves and using yellow sticky traps. Factors favoring whitefly proliferation included the absence of insecticide treatments and proximity to vegetated areas. The nymphal stage is particularly harmful due to its continuous feeding and promotion of black sooty mold formation. Nevertheless, natural enemies may help keep populations below damaging thresholds. A strong positive correlation (Pearson’s r = 0.899) was found between adult and nymphal counts, indicating closely linked population trends across life stages
Ubuntu as Social Ethics
No full textThis paper explores the indigenous African philosophy of Ubuntu and its implications as both a worldview and social ethics. It argues that Ubuntu not only describes the African understanding of personhood, emphasizing connectedness, interdependency, and relatedness, but also prescribes a moral framework grounded in principles such as identity, solidarity, tolerance, justice, respect, compassion, and human dignity. By clarifying Ubuntu’s principles and differentiating it from related concepts such as community, communalism, communism, and communitarianism, the paper addresses the following key questions: What is Ubuntu? How does it differ from similar concepts? What values define Ubuntu? Can Ubuntu contribute meaningfully to global ethical discourses? This paper significantly dwells on the individual-community debate within the context of Ubuntu philosophy, arguing that Ubuntu philosophy offers a compelling ethical alternative in the face of the prevailing dominant social paradigm of exploitation, oppression, hatred, division, religious conflicts, terrorism, and intolerance at the local and international levels
Becoming Differently, Open Identities, and Going into the Wild
No full textBecoming is the concept of unexpected links that are opened up by agency. Understanding that concept is, at the same time, understanding the changing possibilities expressed by those who play with reality and action based on the assumption that reality is uncontrollable. In such a way, existential experiments and reality possibilities are deeply connected scenarios. In this context, we will engage with recent debates about the concept of becoming, drawing on current interpretations of Deleuze and Guattari’s work and Thomas Nail’s contributions. In pursuing that aim, we will illustrate the idea of becoming through two concrete narrative devices: The Lover by Marguerite Duras and Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer. We follow a hermeneutical approach to identity formation processes, informed by the interdisciplinary methodological connection between text and action – i.e., the interplay between subjectivity and reflectivity in qualitative research. The central thesis is that narrated living trajectories refer to experiential scenarios associated with life experiences, disclosing reality in its diverse dimensions and possibilities. Following that consideration, we argue that becoming enables hermeneutical possibilities to comprehend open and creative enterprises
On the Divine and the Humane in Modern Context
No full textEver since the dawn of humanity and civilization, the question of divinity has been a major power of thought, conflict and inspiration for cultures, individuals, religions, and countries. In modern times, the term of God has been structured in terms of either religion, or conservative viewpoints that in many ways, are no longer relevant to the world of science and knowledge discovered throughout the years of modern history. Along with scientific and technological developments that improve and reconstruct humanity, a question arises: where are we all heading? To be more precise, we wish to reveal what is the ultimate goal of mankind. Solutions that were once given by religions of all sorts, are now a matter of technicality. As longevity, physical and mental wellness, communication, human knowledge of the universe all become more and more advanced, omnipotence of the human race as a whole is no longer a belief, but a goal, that gets closer as time advances. This paper aims to investigate these purposes and goals of humanity in light of our current state and knowledge, and what challenges we have left to complete our journey in time
An Aporetic Reading of the Apology
No full textThe thesis of this paper is that Plato’s Apology has an internally structured dialogue which may be read aporetically and may be used to read its monologic external structure as a dialogue proper. The aporia of the Apology has to do with the notion of ‘justice’ (dikē). Drawing from Hesiod’s observations as to the ambiguity of the term ‘justice,’ I argue that the same type of ambiguity is implicitly exploited by Socrates in the Apology. It is traditionally the case in Plato’s aporetic dialogues that Socrates’ interlocutor(s) are the ones reduced to a state of aporia. I argue that under this reading, the jury plays a dual function, acting both as Socrates’ audience and interlocutor, and that they find themselves at an impasse (aporia) as to what justice is and whether they have acted justly