Cosmic Imagery in Psalm 72 חַרֵיָ ילִּבְ־דעַ [ad bli yareah

In this study, the author shows that Luther’s trinitarian understanding is shaped by the royal Psalms’ dialogical model as well as informed by a hermeneutics that moors a trinitarian semantics in the Hebrew text of the Old Testament. The analysis concentrates on Luther’s translation into German of two Hebrew names for God and of passages classically associated with the trinitarian doctrine (Psalm 110:1; Psalm 2:2.12). The result is a trinitarian structure of transparency. The text’s syntax, narrative and direct speech mirror literally the transparency of the divine essence through the distinguishing characteristics of each trinitarian person.

Introduction Adolescent well-being is a multidimensional concept impacting lifelong health outcomes. As video games have become central to youth culture, they offer methodological opportunities to explore young people's perspectives. This study uses Minecraft as an innovative research tool to understand how youth conceptualize well-being. Methods Twelve participants (aged 15-22) were recruited through a French streaming community to create their ideal well-being spaces in Minecraft during a 7-hour construction challenge. A mixed-methods approach combined visual analysis of constructions and thematic analysis of presentations, using the five domains of the UN H6+ framework on adolescent well-being. Results Analysis revealed an uneven representation of well-being domains. Social connectedness and healthy lifestyle dimensions predominated (in 7/12 constructions), manifesting through communal spaces and health-promoting environments. Learning and safety domains were moderately represented (in 4 and 3 constructions), while agency elements were minimal. Natural elements were valued, with most constructions incorporating both outdoor and indoor spaces. Work/study spaces typically integrated with gaming setups rather than being isolated. Discussion This study contributes methodologically by demonstrating gaming environments’ potential as innovative research tools, and empirically by revealing how young gamers conceptualize well-being through social and physical dimensions, challenging gaming stereotypes. The underrepresentation of safety and agency domains may reflect the French context, where personal security exceeds OECD averages. The digital approach offered unique strengths, allowing extended reflection suitable for adolescents. Conclusions Minecraft-based research opens new avenues at the intersection of digital games and youth well-being, with applications for youth-centered health promotion interventions. Key messages • Digital games offer methodological innovations for youth research. Our Minecraft challenge demonstrates how creative expression reveals adolescent perspectives on different well-being domains. • Young gamers challenge stereotypes by prioritizing social spaces and natural environments in their well-being constructions. Gaming platforms offer innovative windows into youth health perspectives.

The Natural and Unnatural Histories of Patricio Guzmán Graig Uhlin (bio) The opening moments of The Pearl Button, the 2015 film from Chilean documentary filmmaker Patricio Guzmán, frame a small block of quartz in close-up. The director's voice-over draws attention to a droplet of water encased inside the mineral unearthed in the Atacama Desert. The trapped water is an estimated three thousand years old. Guzmán offers no commentary beyond these factual observations before the opening credits appear, but this brief prologue introduces the film's extended attention to traces of the past as they are preserved by nonhuman nature. The difficulty and necessity of engaging with the past is a longstanding concern of Guzmán's exilic documentary filmmaking. In films such as Chile, Obstinate Memory (1997), The Pinochet Case (2001), and Salvador Allende (2004), Guzmán returns to the democratic election of the socialist government of Salvador Allende in 1970 and his subsequent overthrow in a United States–financed coup d'état in 1973, which installed the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. These historical events also provide the basis for the director's three-part The Battle of Chile (1975–79), a documentation of Allende's nationalization agenda and the internal strife resulting from it. Guzmán's postdictatorship documentaries confront the national trauma of the Pinochet regime, and they emphasize the importance of sustaining collective memory in the face of its erasure. Accordingly, Guzmán draws on various strategies of remembrance, including personal testimony from survivors and historical records via photography and film. The Pearl Button and the film that preceded it, Nostalgia for the Light (2011), extend Guzmán's cinematic engagement with the fragments of memory to the historical traces preserved by natural elements. These elements—for Guzmán, [End Page 40] primarily earth and water—function as historical agents, and his films consider how nonhuman nature shapes the legibility of the past. In this regard, Guzmán's block of quartz is a media object—that is, an act of mediation that encloses, and thereby transmits, a trace of the past. Mediation is not an operation unique to technological media, as the natural elements, in their ceaseless interactions, continually mediate (act as a medium) for each other. As Sean Cubitt Notes, while human communication marks out meaningful distinctions within this "background hum," mediation itself "precedes the separation of the human and the environmental," which is to say, "precedes all separations, all distinctions, all thingliness, objects, and objectivity."1 Guzmán's block of quartz is itself an inscription of the past, an impression formed by the interaction of natural elements, and the political project of his recent documentaries is rooted in their attentiveness to and exploration of these nonhuman modes of mediation. Dipesh Chakrabarty has observed that from the vantage point of the climate crisis, the separation between human history and natural history is an untenable divide.2 The recognition that humanity acts as a geological force dispels the assumption that the environment is too large in scale and changes at a pace too slowly for human actions to affect it. Natural history is not the stable backdrop to human events. The entanglement of natural history and human history, rather, bridges the gap between temporal scales, placing, as Chakrabarty writes, "the geological now of the Anthropocene," designating a new geological epoch that acknowledges humanity's climatic influences, in contact "with the now of human history."3 Nostalgia for the Light and The Pearl Button confront the problem of scale in narrating history. Of the former film, Nilo Couret argues that it understands nostalgia as a movement across time scales. "Toggling between the human, the geologic, and the cosmic," Nostalgia for the Light mediates historical events by emplotting them along spatiotemporal coordinates that traverse these scales.4 Couret writes, "Guzmán alternates between the small detail that unfolds in time and the unfathomable vastness enfolding in time, carrying an event forward and backward in a string of possible and impossible connections across space and time."5 Like Nostalgia for the Light, The Pearl Button places the national history of Chile in relation to nonhuman temporal and spatial dimensions. The Pinochet...

Public space and everyday heritage: An inquiry into children's and adults' perception

The world heritage city Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka, significant for spiritually cherished spatial orientation manifests in the city; reflecting ‘spiritual sustainability’, that integrates nature, natural elements, topography, built elements with the performances of people. This research examines comprehending ‘genius loci’ in heritage city Anuradhapura, and how this occurrence relates to spiritual sustainability. It explores in-depth dimensions of the place, related to ‘spiritual orientation’; a novel approach for understanding heritage sites. This paper proposes an original interdisciplinary study and method to examine ‘spiritual sustainability’ of the place and meanings by employing contextual concepts, and generalised concepts. It utilises Buddhist concepts, to explore in-depth meanings of the place, attached with the locus, vision, and cultural/religious views. Further, it discusses how these meanings shape and sustain the heritage city between divine/mundane dimensions. The same universal concept flourished upon architecture, landscape, villages and cities, from pre-history to the Buddhist city Anuradhapura, gathered in the same locus comprehending ‘genius loci’, established ‘spiritual sustainability’. In conclusion, the Buddhist heritage city sustains between physical and non-physical dimensions, a dynamic process, reveal more in-depth meanings of the place. This study presents a new insight to value heritage places and a new perspective for sustainable developments.

Biological rhythms in humans have cycles ranging from minutes to months. Those rhythms are based on changes in various physiological and behavioral functions of organisms that repeat at regular intervals providing a framework of temporal organization for them. This paper describes the mapping the biological clock concept from humans to machines in the context of a knowledge-based operating system. We have identified three dimensions over which such a new operating system paradigm has to be based: (i) physical dimension, (ii) logical dimension, and (iii) temporal dimension. The physical dimension describes the physical components and their structural relationship. The logical dimension describes the functional characteristics of each physical component and the time dimension is provided in order to enable the entire system to perceive the time flow - as a biological clock in human beings.

Geoheritage and tourism can converge in promoting an appreciation for the genius loci of a territory, but they often conflict when landscapes are reshaped according to the market-driven logic of modern tourism. This is particularly evident in toponymy, where place names are frequently altered to align with popular tourist attractions, such as media products or events. Such practices threaten the preservation of territorial identity, especially in natural areas, by erasing the historical narratives embedded in the environment. Our case study focused on the island of Asinara (Sardinia, Italy), a national park and protected area. The island is characterized by seasonal tourism that often overlooks the deep interconnection between anthropogenic and natural elements. Through an integrated approach that combines cartography and geo-historical analysis, it was explored how place names can serve as repositories of the historical relationship between humans and the environment. Toponyms associated with local flora, fauna, historical events, and human activities were geolocated and analyzed, with particular attention to their interpretation through the Sardinian language. This method provided insights into the multidimensional identity of the territory, encompassing its temporal and spatial dimensions, and moves beyond an anthropocentric perspective. Overall, the findings highlighted the importance of employing toponymy and geoheritage in the development of conscious and sustainable tourism strategies. By leveraging authentic storytelling rooted in the historical and cultural essence of the territory, such approaches could effectively promote the area while preserving its identity and fostering a deeper connection between visitors and the landscape.

Human culture evolved around sporadic elements of nature. Our ancestors developed a special world view of nature around them. While receiving all the material benefits from nature, they in turn expressed their love & respect by worshiping elements in nature. One consequence of such nature worship is that different elements of bio-diversity are conserved and best exemplified in the initiation of ‘sacred groves’. Sacred groves are patches of natural vegetation dedicated by local communities to worship of ancestral spirits and deities. These groves may consist of a multi-species forestry, a clump of trees belonging to one species or even a single old tree depending on the history of the vegetation and local culture. Local communities because of their religious customary taboos and sanction with cultural and ecological implication protect these groves. These sacred groves have sporadic physical and non- physical dimensions in this study area. The regional peoples can easily conserve their fruitful environment through the preserve species of trees and also curtail the pollution impact from our society with the access of this indigenous model station. Key words : Nature worship, Sacred Grove, indigenous model.

I want to tell you about the leper squint in St Mary’s Cathedral in Limerick City, Ireland. This is an architectural feature in the outer wall of the 800-year-old building that was designed to allow lepers to see Mass without having to come into the main body of the church. This was because lepers were feared and considered socially undesirable. As a consequence, they could not be admitted to the main space of the church where the rest of the worshippers were congregated. There are examples of the leper squint in many countries, and they reflect the genuine fear in medieval times that leprosy was contagious. However, we also know that behaviour towards lepers was a function of what sociologist Erving Goffman called ‘social stigma’ . This arises from negative labelling and stereotyping that discredits individuals, dehumanises them, and creates a real distance between ‘us’ and ‘them’.1 In this fifth Helen Lester Memorial Lecture, I would like to explore how the leper squint is an image that we can use to develop our understanding of spaces for participation in primary health care. I will focus on how these spaces are experienced by migrants, because this resonates with the theme of this year’s conference, ‘Populations on the Move’, and Helen Lester’s 2008 article about asylum seekers and the politics of health, which has disturbing parallels a decade later.2 In the social science literature about the conceptualisation of space, Doreen Massey’s work was ground-breaking. Following interpretive rather than positivist thinking, she emphasised that places and spaces not only have physical dimensions but are also shaped by temporal and social dimensions.3 This means that primary health care is something that is arranged and rearranged in different settings, in different ways, and in different times. It is not a ‘fixed’ entity: …

4 - Validating Models of Epilepsy

Psychological interest in crowding has tended to focus on density-related phenomena and their experiential attributes. A synopsis of psychological models and methods is presented, followed by an overview of diverse research interests with relevance to high density situations. The review is organized around personal, social and physical characteristics. Finally it is argued that an ecological analysis of density distributions would involve recognition of temporal, social and physical dimensions, and its relation with the individual's subjective experiences of density conditions.

This study applied Wiener and Dodd’s Theory of Illness Trajectory to patients with liver cirrhosis using a theoretical substruction approach. The purpose was to examine how the theory operates within the context of liver cirrhosis, assess its applicability, and identify areas in which theoretical refinement may be warranted. Through theoretical substruction, the original theory was reorganized into four major concepts—uncertainty, disruption in the illness trajectory, coping with uncertainty, and reconstruction of life. Seven variables were subsequently derived and operationalized using validated empirical indicators appropriate for chronic illness populations. The analysis revealed that patients with liver cirrhosis experience profound uncertainty across physical, identity-related, and temporal dimensions. This multidimensional uncertainty contributes to a perceived loss of control, resulting in disruptions in the expected trajectory of life. Coping with uncertainty involves engaging in uncertainty abatement work and interacting with family, healthcare providers, and broader support networks. Over time, these processes support patients in integrating illness into everyday life and reconstructing a renewed sense of continuity and meaning. Overall, the findings suggest that Wiener and Dodd’s theory is generally applicable to the chronic illness experience; however, certain aspects may require adaptation to adequately reflect the unique physiological and psychosocial characteristics of liver cirrhosis. This theoretical evaluation offers direction for future research aimed at refining and extending the Illness Trajectory Theory to broader chronic illness contexts.

Thappad by Anubhav Sinha is a movie which tells us about the struggles of various aspects of being a woman affecting them in the societal and domestic praxis. The article investigates the availability of space in the context of Indian women to tend their mind for their well being as portrayed in the movie. It also contrasts the realization of women performing their gender as they lose their individuality. The search of ‘self’ is a modern concept in Indian literature often associated with women after long years of being daughter, wife and mother. Gender is a repetitive performance according to Judith Butler. Scholarly debates show that the kitchen tales all around the world signifies the unending entrapment loop of women in the kitchen space still. Though there are women achieving great heights, there are movies like this showcasing the demarcation of gendered spaces and entrapment of women. As Confucian school of thought with its theory of mind helps us to foster the authenticity of mind for the well being of humans. Mencius claims the mind as an entity that exists in space. Its dimensions can be altered with human experiences in turn affecting its horizon. Psychologist Gibson also expresses that space is what constitutes the mind. And the visualizable spaces affecting the mind. Space here has no disparity of physical,mental,and temporal dimensions. Qualitative analysis of space as a category for the mind’s wellbeing and self realization of women losing their self portrayed in the movie is discussed in the article.

The Wisdom of Crowds with Informative Priors Pernille Hemmer (phemmer@uci.edu) Mark Steyvers (msteyver@uci.edu) Brent Miller (brentm@uci.edu) Department of Cognitive Sciences, University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA, 92697-5100 Abstract In some eyewitness situations, a group of individuals might have witnessed the same sequence of events. We consider the problem of aggregating eyewitness testimony, trying to reconstruct the true sequence of events as best as possible. We introduce a Bayesian model which incorporates individual differences in memory ability, as well as informative prior knowledge about event sequences, as measured in a separate experiment. We show how adding prior knowledge leads to improved model reconstructions, especially in small groups of error-prone individuals. This Bayesian aggregation model also leads to a “wisdom of crowds” effect, where the model's reconstruction is as good as some of the best individuals in the group. Keywords: Eyewitness Testimony; Wisdom of Crowds; Rank Ordering; Bayesian Modeling; Serial Recall. Introduction Studies of eyewitness testimony have shown that human memory can be incomplete and unreliable (e.g., Loftus, 1975). In real world situations, there might be multiple eyewitnesses, all of whom witnessed the same set of events. This raises the possibility of recovering the true account of events by analyzing the similarities in the recalled memories across individuals. Different individuals might also recall different aspects of the events, such that an aggregate narrative, based on the group’s memory, would be closer to the true sequence of events than that of any one individual. An investigator might try to manually reconstruct the aggregate narrative, or witnesses might be allowed to discuss the events in order to develop the group narrative. Communication between witnesses however, has been shown to lead to much worse performance (Gagnon and Dixon, 2008), and humans have been shown to be inconsistent in assessing group information from multiple sources (Stasser & Titus, 1985). To avoid these problems, we propose a model of aggregation that can integrate the recalled memories from a number of independent individuals, while also taking in other important factors, such as individual differences and prior knowledge, into account. Research on the “Wisdom of Crowds (WoC) has shown that an aggregation of independent judgments often leads to a group estimate that is closer to the ground truth than that of most of the individuals (Surowiecki, 2004). These group estimates are often simply found by taking the mean, median, or mode of responses (Galton, 1907; Surowiecki, 2004). Much of the previous literature on aggregation of judgments has focused on tasks where individuals estimate numerical quantities and probabilities (Budescu, Yu, 2007; Hogarth, 1978; Wallsten, Budescu, Erev, & Diederich, 1997). It is, however, often that case that eyewitness have to retrieve information more complex than single numerical estimates. The WoC effect can also be demonstrated with more complex problem sets. For example, the WoC effect has been demonstrated with solutions to problem-solving situations such as finding minimum spanning trees for a set of nodes (Yi, Steyvers, Lee & Dry, in press). Steyvers, Lee, Miller, and Hemmer (2009) showed that order information from semantic memory can also be combined across individuals to give high accuracy in reconstructing the true order of items along some physical or temporal dimension; when individuals recalled the order of US presidents, or the order of rivers according to length, many of the individual orderings were error-prone, but the aggregate orderings were more accurate, on average. In Steyvers et al. (2009), a number of aggregation models for order information were tested. It was found that using Bayesian models that incorporated psychologically plausible representations, cognitive processes and individual differences outperformed basic heuristic aggregation approaches, such as taking the mode. When errors across individuals are uncorrelated (as they tend to be when individuals independently give their judgments) the errors will cancel out in the aggregate. Therefore, one expects the best results in WoC experiments with a large number of individuals. In eyewitness situations however, there is rarely a crowd available to witness the same set of events. In these cases, we have to rely on a small number of individuals (in many cases, just one) and significant errors might not cancel. Therefore, it might not be sufficient to just analyze the commonalities across the witness reports. We propose that it is better to combine the witness reports along with prior knowledge about the particular event sequence. Combining prior knowledge with noisy information has been shown in other domains to improve the recovered estimate (Hemmer & Steyvers, 2008; Konkle & Oliva, 2007; Kan, Alexander, Verfaelle, 2009). We focus in this research on the problem of reconstructing event sequences. The goal is to reconstruct

This study examined the lived experience of disability inclusion on the University of Georgia’s main campus in Athens, Georgia using photovoice. Photovoice is a creative research approach that combines photography with qualitative methods to promote social justice and advocacy related to an issue or topic. Ten project partners from various backgrounds participated in this study for four weeks. Through qualitative analysis of focus groups, nineteen themes were uncovered, fifteen of which were featured in a culminating exhibition at the Georgia Museum of Art to promote disability inclusion on campus. The themes representing the lived experience of disability inclusion on campus spanned social, emotional, physical, political, and temporal dimensions. We took the project a step further by collaborating with disabled individuals as project partners and using poetry as a method.