History Research Articles

Authoritarian innovation in the United States: the role of dual subnational systems of labor governance

I apply Curato and Fossati's (2020) concept of “authoritarian innovation” to analyze historic changes in labor governance in the United States that have undermined democratic participation in the workplace and in the polity. Drawing from comparative political economy and welfare state theories, I argue that since the 1930s the U.S. has had not one unified, national labor regime but two competing, subnational regimes: the New Deal and its legacy in the industrialized North and West Coast, and a counter-regime based initially in the former Confederate Southern states. The more anti-union, anti-welfare, and anti-democratic Southern regime survived the Civil Rights era of the 1960s and 1970s, gained ascendance nationally with the rise of neoliberalism in the 1980s and 1990s, and expanded its boundaries in the 2010s into the deindustrialized Midwest. The “dual regime” analysis highlights critical transitions and divergent paths in the reshaping of American democracy.

Strong effect of demographic changes on Tuberculosis susceptibility in South Africa.

South Africa is among the world's top eight tuberculosis (TB) burden countries, and despite a focus on HIV-TB co-infection, most of the population living with TB are not HIV co-infected. The disease is endemic across the country, with 80-90% exposure by adulthood. We investigated epidemiological risk factors for (TB) in the Northern Cape Province, South Africa: an understudied TB endemic region with extreme TB incidence (926/100,000). We leveraged the population's high TB incidence and community transmission to design a case-control study with similar mechanisms of exposure between the groups. We recruited 1,126 participants with suspected TB from 12 community health clinics and generated a cohort of 774 individuals (cases = 374, controls = 400) after implementing our enrollment criteria. All participants were GeneXpert Ultra tested for active TB by a local clinic. We assessed important risk factors for active TB using logistic regression and random forest modeling. We find that factors commonly identified in other global populations tend to replicate in our study, e.g. male gender and residence in a town had significant effects on TB risk (OR: 3.02 [95% CI: 2.30-4.71]; OR: 3.20 [95% CI: 2.26-4.55]). We also tested for demographic factors that may uniquely reflect historical changes in health conditions in South Africa. We find that socioeconomic status (SES) significantly interacts with an individual's age (p = 0.0005) indicating that protective effect of higher SES changed across age cohorts. We further find that being born in a rural area and moving to a town strongly increases TB risk, while town birthplace and current rural residence is protective. These interaction effects reflect rapid demographic changes, specifically SES over recent generations and mobility, in South Africa. Our models show that such risk factors combined explain 19-21% of the variance (r2) in TB case/control status.

Anthropogenic effects on tropical cyclones near Western Europe

There is less consensus on whether human activities have significantly altered tropical cyclone (TC) statistics, given the relatively short duration of reliable observed records. Understanding and projecting TC frequency change is more challenging in certain coastal regions with lower TC activity yet high exposure, such as Western Europe. Here, we show, with large-ensemble simulations, that the observed increase in TC frequency near Western Europe from 1966 to 2020 is likely linked to the anthropogenic aerosol effect. Under a future scenario featuring regionally controlled aerosol emissions and substantially increased greenhouse gas concentrations (Shared Socioeconomic Pathway 5-85), our simulations show a potential decrease in TC frequency near Western Europe by the end of the 21st century. These contrasting trends in historical and future TC frequencies are primarily due to the rise for 1966–2020 and potentially subsequent fall for 2030–2100 in TC genesis frequency in the North Atlantic. The response of large-scale environmental conditions to anthropogenic forcing is found to be crucial in explaining the historical and future changes in TC frequency near Western Europe.

Assessing Trends in the Desire to Avoid Pregnancy: A Cautionary Note.

The desire to avoid pregnancy-to delay the next birth or have no further births-is a fundamental sexual and reproductive health indicator. We show that two readily available measures-prospective fertility preferences and the demand for contraception [Demand] construct-provide substantially different portraits of historical trends. They also yield correspondingly different assessments of the sources of contraceptive change. We argue, with supporting empirical evidence, that Demand enormously overstates the historical trend in the desire to avoid pregnancy because Demand as currently constructed is in part a function of contraceptive prevalence. This makes for "reverse causality" in decompositions of contraceptive change, producing an upward distortion on the order of 25 percentage points in the amount of contraceptive change attributed to a change in fertility desires. Decomposition of contraception change free of the distortion reveals that contraceptive change has been due almost entirely to more complete implementation of fertility preferences. This is explained in part by the surprisingly slight historical change in preferences, a fact we document and then show is a consequence of a historical shift in parity composition toward lower parities.

Fāṭima al-Qabbāǧ : histoire d’une savante marocaine entre Islam, droits des femmes et construction de la nation

Abstract Fāṭima al-Qabbāǧ was among the first women to graduate from Al-Qarawīyyn University in Fez and the only woman member of the Committee for Iftāʿ within the Council of Higher Knowledge (al-Maǧlis al-ʿilmī al-ʿalā) composed by the most important ʿulamāʾ of Morocco. This article contextualises the biographical trajectory of this major figure of Moroccan Islam in the period at the turn of independence and in the late 20th century–early 21st century, linking it, on the one hand, to nationalist discourses favourable to female education as one of the main pillars of national modernisation and, on the other hand, to the most recent developments brought about by the 2004 reform that incorporated women into the official structures of the Moroccan religious sector. Writing the history of women in relation to Islam in Morocco is not an easy task, given the scarcity of bibliographical sources on the subject. Because of this reason, the article relies on original documentary sources, among which the Review of Women Scholars, Religious Guides and Preachers (ʿAṭāʾ-Maǧalla al-ʿālimāt wa-l-wāʿiẓāt wa-l-muršidāt), published in Arabic in 2011 by the Council of Higher Knowledge, and also on interviews conducted by the author of the article with Fāṭima al-Qabbāǧ and other Moroccan ʿālimāt. The career and thought of this major scholar bears witness to the fact that the transformation of women’s roles in the official structures for the production and reproduction of religious knowledge takes place in a reinvented historical continuity that aims to open up the religious field to women while respecting the framework of certain discursive perimeters functional to the political stability of the Kingdom. At the same time, the article aims also to demonstrate that, far from being a mere object of these dispositives, Fāṭima al-Qabbāǧ – along with other contemporary religious actresses – must be seen as a protagonist of historical change, aware of her social, political and religious role and agency.

The Rise of American Yuppie Culture in the 1980s

In the 1980s, historical and political changes took place in the United States. Under these circumstances, the radical Americans in the 1960s gave way to a new stereotype—yuppies, who were preoccupied with physical fitness, psychic harmony and successful career with high salaries. In summary, historical and political changes converged to contribute to the emergence of American yuppie culture in the 1980s.

The evolution of cultural diversity in Pama-Nyungan Australia

Explaining the processes that produce cultural diversity has long been a focus of anthropological study. Whilst linguistic diversity has frequently been shown to be associated with population splitting during migrations, much less is known about the influence of migration patterns on other forms of culture. Here we compare variation between different cultural types to understand whether their diversity might also be a consequence of historic population change. For our case study, we developed a dataset of 90 cultural traits recorded across around 100 societies in Pama-Nyungan Australia focusing on three cultural forms important in Australian life: adolescent initiation, mortuary practice and rock art motifs. Trait diversity was analysed using phylogenetic methods and compared with language diversity since previous studies have suggested an association between Pama-Nyungan language evolution and population dispersal. We were able to demonstrate a strong association between the phylogenetic history of language and initiation ritual but not between language and mortuary ritual or rock motifs. The finding suggests population migration may have had a significant influence on initiation ritual diversity. It also lends support to the idea, as suggested by some authors, that the development of complex initiation practices may have played an active role in the dispersal of Pama-Nyungan speakers throughout the Australian continent. Our study results suggest that the type of phylogenetic comparative approach applied here can make an important contribution to the reconstruction of deep cultural history over long timescales.

Mediterranean Bioethics in the bioethically lessknown Mediterranean: a struggle for identity

Primarly as a reponse to mainstream bioethics – the one narrowed-down to issues related to medical ethics and research – various kinds of regional bioethics have emerged in an attempt to incoporate values other than those typical for the Anglo-Saxon culture. Among the most promising ones, the Mediterranean Bioethics, reflecting all the colorfulness of the Mediterranean microcosm and an expanded interest to the entire bios (faithful to the original ideas of Fritz Jahr and Van Renssealer Potter), has found its footholds particularly in Spain, Italy, Croatia, and Greece. Leaving aside those four countries with abundant literature and well-known contributions to the general history of bioethics, we wish to direct attention to other cultures and countries of the Mediterranean region, revealing a more complex struggle for identity.

“I Owe More to the Royal Favor, Than Any Merit I Posses Can Justly Claim”: The Loyalists As Transactional Leaders

Aim: This study examined the Loyalists and their embrace of transactional leadership style during the American Revolution. Methods: The study relied on primary and secondary historical sources and scholarship on transactional leadership. These included general histories, biographies, memoirs, sermons, public statements, and diaries. Results: In their efforts to oppose the American Revolution, the Loyalists relied on transactional tactics. Despite their prominence, wealth, offices, and connections, the Loyalists proved ineffective in opposing the transformational forces unleashed by the Revolution. Conclusion: While they included some of the most prominent political and religious leaders in the colonies, the Loyalists failed to stop the American Revolution, mainly due to their reliance on transactional leadership style. Recommendations: Studying the Loyalists offers insight into how transactional leadership can prove ineffective in transformational times and settings. When voters and followers demand reform, transactional leadership style and leaders who embrace it will fail to deliver. Scholars should look at the Loyalists as transactional leaders in their efforts to understand the American Revolution.

The Historical Changes and Evolutionary Logic of Transitional Community Governance in China

Effective transitional community governance is an objective requirement for achieving efficient grassroots governance. Analyzing the basic context, internal logic, and development drivers of transitional community governance changes is of positive significance for promoting the modernization of the national grassroots governance system and governance capabilities. Based on the perspective of historical institutionalism, China's transitional community governance has roughly gone through three stages: a government led unitary control system, a core diversified system, and a community governance system. The basic logic of its transformation is from "management" to "governance", from "extensive" to "refined", and from "government led" to "diversified co governance". Further looking ahead to the governance of transitional communities, the main directions lie in three aspects: firstly, continuously absorbing diverse entities and balancing the governance structure of transitional communities; The second is to empower communities with technology through digital empowerment; The third is to promote community cultural construction and eliminate the tension of community governance.

Diffusion hysteresis in unsaturated porous media: A microfluidic study

In unsaturated flow studies, water saturation is commonly used as the sole descriptor for macroscale flow models. However, this approach often results in hydraulic hysteresis in capillary pressure and relative permeability during drainage and imbibition processes. Furthermore, the effects of these behaviors on solute diffusion remain unclear. To address this knowledge gap, we conducted microfluidic experiments to investigate these hysteresis relationships. We firstly implemented drainage and imbibition processes in the micromodel to establish pore-scale water configurations. Subsequently, we upscaled the capillary pressure and diffusion coefficients to the Representative-Elementary-Volume scale. Our results revealed that, at the same saturation levels, the unsaturated diffusion coefficients during drainage were at least 6.1 % higher than during imbibition, indicating the presence of diffusion hysteresis. We observed that this hysteresis was influenced by capillary number and residual water saturation. An increase in the capillary number reduced diffusion hysteresis, similar to the capillary pressure hysteresis. While a decrease in residual saturation rose diffusion hysteresis. We also proposed a quadratic polynomial model that effectively predicts the diffusion coefficient by incorporating both saturation and capillary pressure. This research emphasizes the importance of historical changes in unsaturated water flow, which hold significant implications for modeling solute transport processes.

Application of Big Data in College Student Education Management Based on Data Warehouse Technology and Integrated Learning

Integrated learning has attracted much attention from industry and academia. In the new era, colleges and universities need to discuss information management in light of actual conditions, integrate different data in each information system into the same database, so as to form a data warehouse based on the integrated database which can truly reflect the historical changes of data and provides support for managers' decision-making. This paper analyzes the clustering effect of standard differential evolution algorithm, improved differential evolution algorithm and K-means algorithm. The algorithm is tested using Iris and Wine database marts, the results show that the K-means algorithm is a relatively poor algorithm and its accuracy is significantly lower than the other two. Based on big data, multi-factor interactive variance analysis technology is used to analyze different data indicators and influencing factors. Therefore, colleges and universities can use the database to better understand the problems and advantages in management, thus to improve management efficiency and teaching level.

Taxonomic Impediment for Conservation: The Case of Bees in an Undersampled Tropical Mid-Elevation Site, San Martín, Peru.

In this first field survey of an entire bee fauna for any part of Peru, we report a total of 1796 bees belonging to 181 species or morphospecies in four families. The taxonomic impediment was pronounced with only 80 species of 181 that could be named. With such a high proportion of undetermined species, it is not possible to adequately compare pollinator communities across different studies, assess historical changes or analyze endemism patterns to document ecology, behavior and evolution of the species and genera. This information is required to provide a sound basis for policymakers to protect habitats for the conservation of native pollinators.

Geochemical indices and sedimentation rates in the Pardo River basin, São Paulo state, Brazil

Sediment geochemical indices and sedimentation rates data from the Pardo River watershed, São Paulo State, Brazil, provide relevant reference guidelines for stakeholders to plan future actions aiming to achieve the appropriate management of that hydrographic basin. The watershed includes 20 municipalities where about 650,000 inhabitants are living and whose waters after withdrawal and treatment supply ∼300,000 people in that region. Six sediment cores provided the geochemical and radiometric dataset, which was obtained from sampling sites located in the following cities: Ourinhos, Santa Cruz do Rio Pardo, Águas de Santa Bárbara, Avaré, Botucatu, and Pardinho. The concentration data for some metals were compared with the reference values established by the Brazilian environmental legislation for sediment dredging because currently there is a lack of specific quality guidelines for marine or fluvial sediment in Brazil. Also, the entire dataset was used in the calculation of two traditional geochemical indices, i.e., the enrichment factor (EF) and contamination factor (CF). In some cores, both indices provided insight revealing possible anthropogenic inputs of magnesium oxide (MgO), potassium oxide (K2O), sulfur trioxide (SO3), vanadium oxide (V2O5), copper (II) oxide (CuO), and other constituents due to development of activities related to the crop production. The constant rate of supply (CRS) of the unsupported/excess lead 210 (210Pb) model has been successfully applied to the obtained a radiometric 210Pb dataset, yielding mean values of the mass accumulation rate (MAR) between 0.86 and 7.23 g/(cm2·y) and linear sedimentation rates (LSR) ranging from 2.9 to 7.1 cm/y. Both of these rates exhibited a significant correlation, representing physical weathering processes occurring in the basin. Chemical weathering rates reported in the literature indicate values much lower than the physical weathering rates and such findings have also been confirmed in the current study when the obtained data were compared with results from previous investigations in the Pardo River watershed. The CRS 210Pb chronological model was useful to track historical changes in the MgO and CuO concentration in the sediment cores, allowing curves to be plotted exhibiting major peaks in core 1 (1980–2010) and core 3 (2000–2010), a continuous increase from 1970 onwards until 2010 (core 4), and a sharp increase at the end of the monitoring period, 2017 (cores 5 and 6). Data available for the harvested area at a municipality located within the basin for the period 1990–2022 have indicated a more pronounced increase over the last years in the production of sugar cane, soybeans, and oranges, implying an increasing use of fertilizers and agricultural correctives for crop production, whose chemical composition would justify the trends observed for MgO and CuO concentrations in the sediment cores. The current study also revealed a wide range of significant relations involving the concentration of ferric oxide (Fe2O3) and other analyzed constituents, with iron tending to accumulate in the finer grain sizes (from 0.125 to <0.037 mm) of the sediment. The CRS 210Pb chronological model permitted evaluation of the history of the iron flux up to the present, which could represent baseline guidance levels for indicating future anthropic inputs in the basin.

Geniusz rozkładu. Nikołaj Bierdiajew wobec sztuki Pabla Picassa

Picasso occupied a very special place within Nicolai Berdyaev’s philosophical considerations. What motivated him to assess avant-garde art was an exhibition at the art gallery owned by Sergey Shchukin in 1914. The Russian thinker became personally acquainted with the exhibition. In his attitude towards Picasso’s art, Berdyaev shows the universal category of assessment which he had applied earlier to random artistic phenomena. The philosopher gives avant-garde art the status of the verifier of spiritual changes, at the same time pointing to the evolution of people’s attitude towards both the surrounding reality and themselves. By paying so much attention to the works of the Spanish artist, Berdyaev formulates a thesis concerning the spiritual crisis of the culture occurring in statu nascendi. That is to say that he perceives avant-garde art as, on the one hand, the foreshadowing of inevitable socio-political changes and, on the other hand, a graphic equivalent of the spiritual changes which are about to happen. In the role of category which should present the direction of assessing not only Picasso’s works, but also, in a broader sense, the historical and cultural changes, Berdyaev uses the terms of crisis, freedom, beauty, humanism and spirituality. The Russian philosopher considers Picasso a helpless exposer of illusions of materialized and synthesized beauty, whose paintings are the proof of the crisis occurring in art, self-awareness and, in a broader sense, also within humanity.

The Historical Change of the Vowels а/ә/е in Turkic Languages

The Historical Change of the Vowels а/ә/е in Turkic Languages

An evolutionary knowledge transfer framework for solving workgroup reconfiguration problem in aircraft final assembly

Final assembly is a crucial aspect of aircraft manufacturing. The introduction of reconfigurable workgroups to aircraft final assembly lines (AFALs) significantly increases assembly flexibility and efficiency. However, the number of reconfigurations and their corresponding assignments in the constraint-complex AFAL must be considered jointly during the assignment of reconfigurable workgroups. This presents a great difficulty when optimizing the reconfiguration strategy. In this study, an optimization framework based on evolutionary knowledge transfer (EKT) is proposed to efficiently search the metameric-encoded search space. EKT extracts and transfers valuable knowledge in different reconfiguration sub-problems according to the temporal relations between encodings. Meanwhile, the scope of the EKT is constrained based on the historical individual changes of different sub-problems and different regions of the objective space. The experimental results show that the proposed framework outperforms state-of-the-art algorithms on real-world production data. The behavior and mechanism of the EKT approach during the optimization process are also investigated in detail.

Investigating the impact of urban growth on land use using spatial autocorrelation methods in Konya/Türkiye.

Land use land cover (LULC) change, global environmental change, and sustainable change are frequently discussed topics in research at the moment. It is important to determine the historical LULC change process for effective environmental planning and the most appropriate use of land resources. This study analysed the spatial autocorrelation of the land use structure in Konya between 1990 and 2018. For this, Global and Local Moran's I indices based on land use data from 122 neighbourhoods and hot spot analysis (Getis-Ord Gi*) methods were applied to measure the spatial correlation of changes and to determine statistically significant hot and cold spatial clusters. According to the research results, the growth of urban areas has largely destroyed the most productive agricultural lands in the region. This change showed high spatial clustering both on an area and a proportional basis in the northern and southern parts of the city. On the other hand, the growth in the industrial area suppressed the pasture areas the most in the north-eastern region of the city, and this region showed high spatial clustering on both spatial and proportional scales.

Effect of a comprehensive geriatric assessment nursing intervention model on older patients with diabetes and hypertension.

The Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) was introduced late in China and is primarily used for investigating and evaluating health problems in older adults in outpatient and community settings. However, there are few reports on its application in hospitalized patients, especially older patients with diabetes and hypertension. To explore the nursing effect of CGA in hospitalized older patients with diabetes and hypertension. We performed a retrospective single-center analysis of patients with comorbid diabetes mellitus and hypertension who were hospitalized and treated in the Jiangyin Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine between September 2020 and June 2022. Among the 80 patients included, 40 received CGA nursing interventions (study group), while the remaining 40 received routine nursing care (control group). The study group's comprehensive approach included creating personalized CGA profiles, multidisciplinary assessments, and targeted interventions in areas, such as nutrition, medication adherence, exercise, and mental health. However, the control group received standard nursing care, including general and medical history collection, fall prevention measures, and regular patient monitoring. After 6 months of nursing care implementation, we evaluated the effectiveness of the interventions, including assessments of blood glucose levels fasting blood glucose, 2-h postprandial blood glucose, and glycated hemoglobin, type A1c (HbA1c); blood pressure indicators such as diastolic blood pressure (DBP) and systolic blood pressure (SBP); quality of life as measured by the 36-item Short Form Survey (SF-36) questionnaire; and treatment adherence. After 6 months, the nursing outcomes indicated that patients who underwent CGA nursing interventions experienced a significant decrease in blood glucose indicators, such as fasting blood glucose, 2-h postprandial blood glucose, and HbA1c, as well as blood pressure indicators, including DBP and SBP, compared with the control group (P < 0.05). Quality of life assessments, including physical health, emotion, physical function, overall health, and mental health, showed marked improvements compared to the control group (P < 0.05). In the study group, 38 patients adhered to the clinical treatment requirements, whereas only 32 in the control group adhered to the clinical treatment requirements. The probability of treatment adherence among patients receiving CGA nursing interventions was higher than that among patients receiving standard care (95% vs 80%, P < 0.05). The CGA nursing intervention significantly improved glycemic control, blood pressure management, and quality of life in hospitalized older patients with diabetes and hypertension, compared to routine care.

Non-book history of book by Julia Shcherbinina

Book rewiew: Shcherbinina Yu. V. The book as an illusion: Caches, false libraries, art objects. Moscow: Alpina non-fiction,2023. 384 p.