Hope For Future Research Articles

Книга очерков И. А. Бунина "Храм Солнца": История текста

The starting point for the authors is the notion of flexibility and dynamism of Bunin’s text, which was treated by this writer as a narrative that almost never could reach its conclusion, be verified and, since that moment, given an unchangeable version. The travel poems The Temple of the Sun provide one of the instances of that kind of treatment. The uniqueness of the material derives from the following factor – efforts initiated in the 1910s to edit the travelogue were the first experience, unprecedented for Bunin, in dealing with a large form, a prevenient step towards his later and latest works, such as Cursed Days, The Life of Arseniev, The Liberation of Tolstoy, Dark Avenues and Memoirs. For the first time in science, the authors undertake a fullscale reconstruction of the travel poems’ textual history, which became a significant step on the way to complete an academic collection of Bunin’s works that is currently prepared by a team of scholars at the A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The conceptual center of all observations in the article is an emphasis onto the primarily “semantic” character of Bunin’s amendments – loaded with sense and paving the way towards the new poetics. The authors have found four versions of The Temple of the Sun: (1) initial publications of 1907–1911, which for the first time became an entity of “travel poems” within Bunin’s collected works of 1915; (2) the 1917 edition in which travel sketches were intertwined with oriental verses; (3) the thoroughly revised Paris 1931 edition entitled The Shadow of a Bird; (4) the “Nobel prize” version within collected works issued by Petropolis, a publishing house in Berlin, again under the title The Temple of the Sun. The authors analyze the texts that belong to this outlined circle of sources in the perspective of several topographic locations that concentrate around themselves the main motifs of the travelogue. They also single out a number of essential types of correction Bunin made in his opus. Motifs representing the cosmopolitism of world capitals (remarkably, not Western ones but Eastern, such as Constantinople and Alexandria) alongside with the specific sentiment in the narrator’s voice, marked with the feeling of the all-world unity, serve as indicators of the primal, most archaic layer of the text. Its history reveals how gradually (vigorously in émigré years) Bunin tended to reject both the world capitals’ narrative and hopes for a cosmopolitan future of humanity. These shifts encouraged an alteration of Bunin’s oriental poetics as a whole. Now traces of modernity are excluded from East’s images whereas the feeling of antiquity as a kind of a channel that could bring the reader back into the humanity’s past was, on the contrary, reinforced as years went by. A less conspicuous but not less important type of correction was based on erasing from the text the traces of the narrator who sometimes presented himself as a historically authentic figure: his “literary” citations as well as a “bookish” instrumentation of the telling subject in general were radically reduced and sometimes eliminated. All of this finally contributed to a virtual, fictional relocation of this subject out of factual realities of the 1907 travel into timelessness, from history into metahistory. All these strategies of revising the text that the authors singled out are considered in close connection with the real topography of Bunin’s journeys across Turkey, Greece, Egypt, Palestine, and Judaea. In the course of the comparison of the texts that refer to different stages in the travelogue’s history, the dynamics of initial aesthetic and ideological concepts that Bunin applied towards such centres of ancient religions and cultures as Constantinople, Athens, Alexandria, Cairo, Jerusalem becomes more noticeable.

Old Canaan in a New World: Native Americans and the Lost Tribes of Israel

Old Canaan in a New World: Native Americans and the Lost Tribes of Israel

Sudan – towards Democracy

For 30 years, Sudan was ruled by one man – Omar Hassan Ahmad al- Bashir. He went down in history as a dictator. His rule was marked by terror, persecution and suffering. Bashir’s regime led to the displacement of millions, the death of thousands, poverty, a humanitarian and economic crisis in the country, and he was indicted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes and genocide. With the fall of Bashir, there was a short-lived hope for a better future. But it was an illusory hope. The country’s political scene has been taken over by the military, which is still in power despite announcements that it would hand over power to civilians. The purpose of this article is to analyze the political and social situation that led to the fall of the Bashir regime and the current political situation under the military junta. The analysis is based solely on information gathered from open sources of intelligence (OSINT).

Synergistic tetracycline removal using dual-polymers based PIM doped with graphene oxide

The problem of chemical instability of the polyvinyl (PVC) based-PIM in alkaline media has been recognized as a major drawback to its industrial prospect. This study, therefore, synergistically fabricated stability-enhanced polymer inclusion membranes (PIMs) y from varied Polysulfones (PSF) partially substituted PVC-polymers doped with graphene oxide via automatic thin film solvent castingtechniques in the absence of added plasticizer. The physically stable fabricated F-PIMs were subsequently characterized by fourier transformed infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), contact angle (CA), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and prolonged transportation chemical stability (96 h). The PIM's stability and performance evaluation with 10 mg/L simulated aqueous tetracycline wastewater show that a more stable and efficient PIM can be fabricated using PSF - PVC composite base polymer. In addition, the removal efficiency of ∼ 80 % was obtained for the optimum partially substituted F-PIM 3 (10:90 w/w % PSF: PVC), while the control F-PIM 1 (100 % PVC-based polymer) has ∼ 70 % removal efficiency. The results of the physical and chemical stabilities showed that the PIM stability was enhanced increasingly with the progressive addition of PSF polymer. Therefore, the partial substitution of PVC with PSF resulted in a more stable PIM. However, the transportation of tetracycline across all the PIMs is generally low, with the optimum transportation efficiency of ∼ 23 % obtained for the control FI-PIM 1 and ∼ 21 % obtained for the optimum PSF-PVC FI-PIM 3. Hence future research work hopes to enhance its transportability.

Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)-Cas13a: Future Hope to Tackle Anti-Microbial Resistance

Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)-Cas13a: Future Hope to Tackle Anti-Microbial Resistance

Moving towards empowerment? Rural female migrants negotiating domestic work and secondary education in urban Ethiopia

Increasing numbers of rural girls and young women in Ethiopia are migrating to urban towns and cities and taking up employment as domestic workers, some of whom continue their education by attending evening classes. For urban households, rural migrants help to fill the domestic work gaps created by the entry of urban women into employment. For rural young women, migrating as a domestic worker is an important strategy for achieving social mobility and empowerment. However, domestic workers are vulnerable and largely hidden in the city and we know little about their lived experiences. In this paper, we start to address this gap, drawing on interviews with eight rural female migrants who are working as domestic workers in the city and attending evening classes in urban secondary schools. Informed by a critical framing of empowerment, we explore the extent to which intersecting inequalities in rural areas disempower these young women, and how migration and education become important strategies for improving their lives. We show how the support of social network members is crucial in enabling participants’ migration, yet how this also leads to power asymmetries and exploitation. We reflect on how the ability of rural young women to achieve better futures is limited due to their status as poor, rural, female migrants, yet how many wait in the city in the hope of a better future. Our analysis demonstrates the importance of critical approaches to female empowerment that includes a focus on structural inequalities and power imbalances.

Development of GeoGebra-Based Learning Media for Flat Field Analytical Geometry Courses for Students of the Mathematics Education Department

All aspects of life, including the education system, have undergone many changes due to the Covid-19 pandemic. We need media that can facilitate and attract students to carry out learning activities. This study aims to develop GeoGebra-based mathematics learning media. The method used in this research is Research and Development (R&D) with the ADDIE model (Analysis, Design, Develop, Implement, and Evaluate). The research was carried out at UIN Sayyid Ali Rahmatullah Mathematics Study Program in semester 3. The research subjects for the small-scale field test were class A, which had 32 students; for the large-scale field test, there were 132 students in Mathematics Education 3rd Semester. The results of research on the development of GeoGebra-based learning media in the Flat Analytical Geometry course for students majoring in Mathematics Education at UIN Sayyid Ali Rahmatullah Tulungagung were declared valid, practical and effective. The future hope for developing similar media is to expand the scope of the material discussed because the media developed is limited to flat analytic geometry operations.

MEXICAN EXPERIENCES OF B. TRAVEN: THE POSSIBILITY OF IMAGOLOGICAL READING

The article presents the historical-literary analysis of The Cotton-Pickers (Die Baumwollpflücker), the first novel by the German writer B. Traven, who spent most of his intellectual life living and writing (in German) in Mexico, where he died, and focused his main works on the life of the native people of the state of Chiapas. The Cotton-Pickers did not emphasize the issue of the native population, whose representatives only appear episodically in the text, and described the experience of the author-narrator who recently arrived in Mexico in his search for work. Until today, this novel has been analyzed mainly as an autobiographical text and from a sociological perspective, highlighting the author's leftist attitude. However, it has not been taken into account how B. Traven is creating, throughout the narrative, a cultural image of the country that enchanted him throughout his life. The social and cultural aspects of the Mexican Revolution, those that attracted the author who, at the same time, does not stop being critical about the current state of things, are highlighted too. In this way, an imagological perspective is proposed in the reception of the work. Likewise, despite the fact that B. Traven's researchers always underlined his leftist orientation (anarchist in nature) in the reception of this revolution, few were those who valued the emphasis he placed on the role of the native population in the revolutionary process. Meanwhile, B. Traven described the role and destiny of the Indians in the revolution earlier than Mexican-born writers did it. It was he who wrote the first novels in Mexico that presented the Indians as active participants in the revolutionary processes. And it was also he who placed special emphasis on the autochthonous component as the spiritual core of the Mexican nation and on its role in the hopeful future of the country.

Discussing the Feminist Agenda in Margaret Atwood’s Dystopian Novels

In this article, an analysis is made of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) and MaddAddam (2013) from a gendered and generic perspective. The Handmaid’s Tale was one of the novels that marked the dystopian turn in the 1980s writing of fiction, while MaddAddam is, for some critics, a feminist critical dystopia in which the ending retains hope for a better future. Consequently, both novels belong a priori to a specific branch of the dystopian genre: the feminist dystopian novel. However, some ambiguity or even contradictory readings can be inferred in both texts. This article explores The Handmaid’s Tale and MaddAddam’s portrayal of women and their acts of resistance in order to assess these texts’ liberatory or still inherently conservative messages of their endings, especially regarding women.

Budućnost prožeta nadom

Despite valid criticisms and the challenge of definition, evangelicalism remains a real and vital coalition of like-minded Christians committed to the historic Christian faith both globally and in Croatia. Evangelical Christianity in Croatia has its distinct history, challenges, and needs for itas future, and its theologians will need to play a crucial role in the ongoing life and growth of evangelical churches. Four important areas are highlighted for the role of the theologian: commitment to scriptural teaching and discipleship in local churches; critical evaluation of outside influences; engagement with and contribution to the global evangelical faith, and engagement with wider Croatian society and Roman Catholicism. While some evangelicals approach the future with optimistic, pessimistic, or realistic approaches, the future of evangelical Christianity in Croatia is rather rooted in a hopeful view: the eschatological hope of the Gospel. The life, death, and resurrection of the Messiah Jesus and the gift of the eschatological Spirit to the church form the historical basis by which evangelical Christians in Croatia are called and empowered to live out their future hope in the present.

Collegium Biblicum… et Coranicum

This article argues – on the occasion of Collegium Biblicum’s 75 anniversary – that qurʾānic studies belong to an important and longstanding scholarly object of investigation in biblical studies – in the past, present, and future. The article sets out with three sections. The first outlines a striking resemblance between the qurʾānic and the biblical universes. The second exemplifies how the Qurʾān stages itself in dialogue with the biblical tradition. The third sketches some characteristic Christian responses to the Qurʾān. The article then proceeds to outline how Danish university theology from early on engaged with the Qurʾān and its language, Arabic. The penultimate section summarizes state-of-affairs since year 2000 and the last section points to current trends and future scenarios and hopes.

Immunotherapeutic approaches in Hepatocellular carcinoma: Building blocks of hope in near future

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common type of primary hepatic cancer and is among the major causes of mortality due to cancer. Due to the lack of efficient conventional therapeutic options for this cancer, particularly in advanced cases, novel treatments including immunotherapy have been considered. However, despite the encouraging clinical outcomes after implementing these innovative approaches, such as oncolytic viruses (OVs), adoptive cell therapies (ACT), immune checkpoint blockades (ICBs), and cancer vaccines, several factors have restricted their therapeutic effect. The main concern is the existence of an immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment (TME). Combination of different ICBs or ICBs plus tyrosine kinase inhibitors have shown promising results in overcoming these limiting factors to some extent. Combination of programmed cell death ligand-1 (PD-L1) antibody Atezolizumab and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) antibody Bevacizumab has become the standard of care in the first-line therapy for untestable HCC, approved by regulatory agencies. This paper highlighted a wide overview of the direct and indirect immunotherapeutic strategies proposed for the treatment of HCC patients and the common challenges that have hindered their further clinical applications.

Sanur Special Economic Zone as Milestone of Future Quality Tourism in Bali

Despite the growing global tourism industry that proposes unforgettable leisure experiences, Bali continuously holds the top of mind as one of the best world-class tourism destinations. However, the Indonesian government planned to transition from mass tourism to quality tourism. The government and tourism businesses were required to improve the quality of tourism to survive in the industry’s competition. Proposed in a concept of potential regional development and a sustainable economy, the central government, in collaboration with Bali provincial government, launched the 19th Special Economic Zone. The special economic zone, or Kawasan Ekonomi Khusus (KEK), was built in Sanur with IDR 10.2 trillion worth of investment commitment from PT Pertamina Bina Medika (IHC). The area encompasses 41.26 hectares, complemented by the brand-new look of the Grand Inna Bali Beach (GIBB) Hotel, supported with various facilities such as the Convention Center, Ethnomedicinal Botanic Gardens, and Commercial arcades to accommodate local MSMEs. The presence of health tourism complements the diversity of wellness tourism inherent on the island of God. This Sanur Special Economic Zone is the future hope of well-organized and sustainable tourism. The investment was said to be a bold move to mature and refresh Bali’s cultural tourism.

A gyorslábú Atalanté és a történeti idő paradoxona

The Paradox of Historical Time and Atalanta “The Swift-footed Huntress”
 The historian, to whom time is the chief ingredient of history, perceives multiple dimensions of time. They look back onto the studied past (past-present) from their own present (present-present), but they also know the past of the studied past (past-past), and the future of said studied past (past-future). This past-future encompasses the future vision of the people of the studied past, as well as all interpretations of it, all the way up to the present of the historian. Ultimately, the historian in their own present cannot distance themselves from the future vision of their own present, their future expectations, hopes or fears (present-future). Historical cognition is therefore characterised by the combined effect of plural time dimensions, not by linear thinking.
 Keywords: history, past, time dimensions, linearity, multitemporality, Judaism, longue durée

Towards a New Ireland

Towards a New Ireland

Commemorative Volumes in Archaeology and the (Preclassical) Southern Levant

Commemorative Volumes in Archaeology and the (Preclassical) Southern Levant

“Again you will plant vineyards”

Studies of prophecy in the context of Judaism have predominantly attended to how messianic sects react when prophecies fail to be fulfilled; they have drawn on the concept of cognitive dissonance to explain how such setbacks tend to bolster rather than weaken belief. Less attention has been paid to how subjects react to and live with the perceived fulfillment of prophecy. This article describes religious Jewish winemakers in West Bank settlements whose phenomenal experience of meta-historical time in the temporal frame of ge’ula, redemption, displaces the precarity and uncertainty of the contemporary settlement projects, renders the moral and political stakes of the occupation less disturbing, and fosters hope for a prosperous future. The temporal consequences of lived prophecy for the settlers can be understood as “temporal dissonance,” characterizing the disjuncture between the harsh reality of the political present and the prophesied idyllic future.

Reflections of Good Practice of Infusing ESD to Improve Education Outcomes for Indigenous Learners in Light of a Global Pandemic

Abstract The COVID-19 global pandemic presented an unprecedented challenge to the sustainability strategies and initiatives of many nations. In many countries, education strategies and funding were negatively impacted and, consequently, especially vulnerable groups were highly affected, amongst them Indigenous communities around the world. As Indigenous communities were already amongst the most vulnerable before 2020, a strategically and well-planned recovery from this pandemic would be vital to secure their well-being. This article offers reflections on the potential of infusing Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in the classroom, the school and the community as a whole, to deal with known and yet unprecedented sustainability challenges in presenting commonalities of 32 good practice reports from 21 countries collected in advance and during the global pandemic. Authors make the point of considering the pandemic and its widespread impact as yet another sustainability challenge and position ESD as a potential tool to achieve quality education and unleash the full potential of education for society when planning recovery efforts in hope for a better future of Indigenous communities in the long term. As the good practices were also included in a report of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples to the 48th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, focusing on the post-pandemic recovery efforts for Indigenous Peoples, further thoughts on both official reports and their alignment with the overall 2030 Agenda from an ESD perspective are included.

Time, grief, and hope on film

Time, grief, and hope on film

The capacity of stem cells in treatment of diabetes

Diabetes, a chronic metabolic disease, is recognized as the most frequent disorder in the endocrine system with hyperglycemia dealing with either insulin resistance or insufficiency or both. This disease is usually associated with numerous acute and chronic complications. Also, the treatment of diabetes complications has imposed a heavy financial burden on most societies. During the last decade, pancreatic islet transplantation has been widely studied as a potential therapy for diabetes. Of course, due to its limitations removing pancreatic cells from the corpse is very difficult. Stem cells are renewable cellular sources that are proposed as a substitute for organ transplantation. These cells which can be found in almost all multicellular organisms are capable of division and transforming into highly specialized cells, they can also replace injured and lost cells. The possibility of using stem cells in diabetes therapy and building insulin-producing islets has long been considered by most scientists and can be a future hope for controlling diabetes. Interestingly, human stem cells derived from hematopoietic organs, liver, pancreas, and embryonic human stem cells are among these factors. In this article, a series of studies carried out on this field is briefly reviewed.