Voyage Of Discovery Research Articles

Qualitative Research As “A Voyage of Discovery”: An Interview with Ann Langley on Synergies Between Teaching and Publishing on Qualitative Methods

Qualitative Research As “A Voyage of Discovery”: An Interview with Ann Langley on Synergies Between Teaching and Publishing on Qualitative Methods

Portugal and the Development of the Law of the Sea in Western Europe

Abstract This article examines Portugal’s role in the development of the law of the sea in Western Europe between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries. It argues that the Portuguese voyages of discovery in the fifteenth century, which led to a near century-long Portuguese monopoly of the lucrative spice trade between the East Indies and Europe, were the catalyst for that development. When the Dutch East India Company challenged Portugal’s monopoly at the beginning of the seventeenth century, it commissioned Grotius to justify its position, which he did in his most famous work, Mare Liberum. From the ensuing ‘battle of the books’ between Grotius and his critics, including the Portuguese scholar, Seraphim de Freitas, the regimes of the territorial sea and high seas were eventually forged and later codified in the 1958 Geneva Conventions on the law of the sea.

Viral Hijacking of Host RNA-binding Proteins: Implications for Viral Replication and Pathogenesis

In the intricate dance between viruses and host cells, RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) serve as crucial orchestrators of gene expression and cellular processes. We will delve into the riveting realm of viral hijacking, where viruses deftly exploit host RBPs to manipulate cellular machinery for their replication and pathogenesis. Through a masterstroke of molecular subterfuge, viruses co-opt RBPs involved in various facets of RNA metabolism - from transcription to degradation - to promote viral gene expression and evade host immune defenses. This manipulation leads to global alterations in cellular RNA metabolism, impacting essential host genes vital for immune responses and homeostasis. Unveiling this clandestine alliance between viruses and RBPs is not just a scientific pursuit, but a critical imperative for devising innovative antiviral strategies to disrupt these interactions. By unraveling the intricate interplay between viral proteins and host RBPs throughout the viral life cycle - from entry to assembly - researchers aim to identify vulnerabilities that can be targeted for therapeutic intervention. Strategies such as disrupting viral protein-RBP interactions hold promise for inhibiting viral replication and curbing pathogenesis, offering a beacon of hope in the battle against viral infections. Our manuscript elucidates the indispensable roles played by RBPs in viral replication, translation, and pathogenesis, shedding light on the molecular mechanisms driving viral success. Delving deeper, it explores how viruses intricately entwine with host RBPs, manipulating cellular signaling pathways to create a hospitable environment for viral spread. By dissecting these manipulative tactics, researchers uncover new targets for antiviral therapy, envisioning a future where tailored interventions disrupt viral-host RBP interactions with precision and efficacy. As the narrative unfolds, the therapeutic implications of targeting RBPs or their interactions with viral proteins emerge as a promising frontier in the fight against viral infections. From small molecule inhibitors to RNA-based therapeutics, innovative approaches are on the horizon, offering new avenues for combating viral diseases. We set the stage for future research, beckoning researchers to delve deeper into the molecular intricacies of viral hijacking of RBPs and charting a course towards novel therapeutic interventions that promise to reshape the landscape of antiviral therapy.\ Ultimately, it beckons the scientific community to embark on a voyage of discovery, unraveling the secrets of viral hijacking of RBPs and paving the way for transformative advances in antiviral therapeutics. The stage is set for a new chapter in the battle against viral infections, where knowledge becomes the sword and innovation the shield against the pernicious machinations of viral pathogens.

From Historian to Poet: A Checklist of the Persian Poems of Idrīs Bidlīsī (Hašt Bihišt VI, Nuruosmaniye 3209)

Abstract Many articles have been published on the life and career of Idrīs Bidlīsī (1457–1520) and his contribution to the history of Ottoman Empire. There has been much less research, especially in the West, into the influential role that Persian literature, especially Niẓāmī of Ganğa, played in all facets of his works. Consequently, even fewer studies have been done on Idrīs’ own poetry, which was composed mainly either in late fifteenth century, when he was still at the court of Aqquyunlu, or after his residence at the Ottoman court, especially in early sixteenth century. This study is dedicated to making a “voyage of discovery” of his Persian poems as reflected in the Book VI of Hašt Bihišt, an unpublished book of his magnum opus.

Constable as a Voyage of Discovery

C. R. Leslie’s influential biography of John Constable highlighted that his friend’s artistic strengths stemmed from his unprecedented geographical “confinement.” The unpublished draft preface, however, compared Constable with a “voyage of discovery.” Attending to Leslie’s conflicting images of confinement and remoteness enriches our understanding of how Constable’s rhetorical preoccupation with the local was a response to his place within expanding global artistic, social, and economic networks. His conception of the English landscape was constructed against a background of exploration, colonization, and international commercial expansion, the negotiation of these realities animating his paintings, prints, and public theorizing.

Dupilumab: VOYAGE of discovery leading to a further EXCURSION

Dupilumab: VOYAGE of discovery leading to a further EXCURSION

From theory to RAPID AMOC observations: a personal voyage of discovery.

I review the history of ideas that have led to the establishment of the RAPID monitoring system for the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) at 26.5° N. This history is closely connected to important events in my personal career. Starting from early and largely unsuccessful attempts at formulating a dynamically consistent force balance for the AMOC, I made theoretical progress by separately predicting the density at the eastern and western boundaries and by invoking exact geostrophic balance throughout, including the western boundary current. A remarkable confluence of individuals and ideas then enabled the establishment of the RAPID array, at its core based on monitoring boundary densities and on geostrophy. The RAPID results, such as the surprisingly large sub-seasonal variability, have encouraged AMOC monitoring approaches at other latitudes. I finish by pointing at two theoretical concepts-first, acknowledging the difference between convective mixing and sinking and, second, considering the advective rather than wave propagation of density perturbations in the deep western boundary current-that, together with continued observations and newly available global coupled simulations at very high resolution, should substantially improve our understanding of the causes of AMOC variability. This article is part of a discussion meeting issue 'Atlantic overturning: new observations and challenges'.

A transcontinental voyage of discovery in advancing our understanding of cardiac genetics: interview with Roger Foo.

A transcontinental voyage of discovery in advancing our understanding of cardiac genetics: interview with Roger Foo.

Favored Races in the Struggle for Life: Racism and the Speciation Concept.

Evolutionary speciation, whether it be cladistic or phyletic, has always been associated with race concepts. Biological races are conceived as definable stages of divergence from a common ancestor. However, the species concept in Western science began within a special creationist framework. The sixteenth century European voyages of discovery resulted in special creationist schemes explaining the origin of the new peoples encountered. These were designed to provide the moral justification for their colonization and enslavement. By the seventeenth century, European naturalists were beginning to seriously question the meaning of the variation within the animals and plants they observed within the context of God's role in creation. By the middle of the nineteenth century, "the species question" was the most important intellectual enterprise within biology. Here I discuss how notions of speciation influenced and were influenced by conceptions of race within Homo sapiens.

Sklaverei und Philosophiegeschichtsschreibung

AbstractThis article is dedicated to a topic that has been largely neglected in the historiography of philosophy to date: the position of philosophers towards the institution of slavery. Especially in survey works on the history of philosophy, positions on slavery and colonial conquest are not addressed, but have so far only been discussed in a few individual studies. From the beginning of European expansion, however, philosophical and political theories no longer emerged independently of these developments, as the expansion forced reflection on how to deal with the conquered regions and peoples, and thus on the problematic sides of the ‘voyages of discovery’: land grabbing, subjugation and slavery. Such entanglements are briefly explained using John Locke as an example. In view of the “colonial ensnarement of the Enlightenment” (Elberfeld) and the need for a critical examination of it, I propose as a methodological approach to include texts by thinkers of African origin, who had first-hand experiences of the institution of slavery and critically reflected on their own social position, the social and political conditions of their time as well as moral questions. Using three selected Black thinkers, the poet Phillis Wheatley (1753–1784), the abolitionist Olaudah Equiano (1745–1797) and the theologian Jacobus Elisa Johannes Capitein (ca. 1717–1747), I discuss the relevance of texts by former slaves for the historiography of philosophy.

Conquering the Pacific: An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery

Conquering the Pacific: An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery

Lessons from a career in space physics

Frameworks for describing magnetospheric substorms are as good as the data on which they are based. While disturbances in the ionosphere are well described by existing data bases, the plasma and field data acquired by satellites in the magnetosphere are sparse and unable to lend an element of uniqueness to any model for substorm activity. This paper describes the voyage of discovery experienced by the author from the leadup to his career to the time of his retirement. Perhaps it will provide young scientists with a sense of how space physics developed and what needs to be done before the solar wind-magnetosphere-ionosphere interaction becomes fully understood.

Alexis Carrel and His Voyage of Discovery: Miracles and the Spirituality of Healing.

In the era of positivism and anticlericalism of France'sBelle Époque, scientist Alexis Carrel stood in stark contrast as one preoccupied with his faith and its relation to scientific scrutiny. Despite his early adult agnosticism, he sought proof of the divine and chose verification of the miraculous cures reported from the shrine at Lourdes, France. It so happened that on his first visit there, he encountered a truly remarkable "cure" of a young woman in the terminal stages of tubercular peritonitis. On a return visit, for the second time, he witnessed the restoration of sight to a blind child. Throughout the rest of his life, Carrel was struck by the proximity of the supernatural to corporeal interactions. He ultimately found a place for his faith as a parallel pathway and not in juxtaposition to the scientific. This paper chronicles Carrel's evolution of belief and reconciliation of faith and science.

Navigating the pathway to ceasing driving-A voyage of discovery.

Ceasing driving for older people is a life transition and can be associated with a sense of loss and decreased wellbeing. Nurses can play a key role in supporting the older person to manage the transitions, especially as the work involved in ceasing driving is often hidden. For example, finding alternative and accessible means of travel and maintaining mobility. Travel itself can be viewed as essential, for example attending health appointments and shopping. Discretionary travel may not be viewed as essential, but provides an important means of maintaining activity and social connection. A case study is presented of Mike's journey in ceasing driving. The concept of transition helps in co-creating with Mike his journey of discovery. Semi-structured interviews took place with Mike over a six-month period and a journey pathway created, which was subject to further iterations during subsequent interviews. Ceasing driving involves a number of transitions encompassing a series of losses, managing uncertainty, problem-solving and learning new skills. Being able to access and adapt to maintain mobility and travel are influenced by structural and environmental barriers. The World Health Organization's strategy to create age-friendly cities and communities is admirable. Like any other strategy this is a long-term plan, and in meantime action needs to happen to support older people in ceasing driving and creating a non-driving life and limit a decrease in well-being. Starting conversations on transitional travel planning is proposed, with nurses playing a central role in making this process happen.

Anthropologist as Nomad

My anthropological journey has consisted in movement not only between different disciplines, but also between languages, countries and continents. This has involved stories of identity (imagined, constructed, or both), changes of place (teaching in six countries on three continents, and in four languages), searches for a safe haven, and belief in understanding the motives that govern human beings. In this wonderful journey, my coming to the Anthropological Journal of European Cultures seems almost an inevitable event. Or perhaps it is just a product of ‘chance and serendipity’.1 In retrospect, I look at my anthropological journey so far as a voyage of discovery – to different places, under different circumstances and in very different parts of the world.

“A Voyage of Discovery”: Reimagining the Walking Woman through Nineteenth-Century Diaries

This article uses a corpus of manuscript diaries to illuminate the practices and meanings of everyday mobility that shaped the lives of nineteenth-century Englishwomen. The female pedestrian has typically been characterized by scholars as a marginal or transgressive figure whose movements are interpreted through comparison to a masculine peripatetic tradition. “A Voyage of Discovery” seeks to broaden our understanding of what it meant to move through the world as a woman in the nineteenth century. Drawing from the narrated experiences of a broad range of little-known diarists, this article outlines a paradigm of “everyday adventure” to describe walking's status as an unremarkable act that nevertheless creates the potential for event and variety. In so doing, it expands on feminist concepts of the everyday, elaborates on the under-theorized relationship between walking and the body, and reassesses the boundaries of socially acceptable mobility.

DEVELOPING THE VOICE OF A HISTORIAN IN FRENCH-MEDIUM CLIL HISTORY COURSES. A STUDY AMONG FLEMISH ADOLESCENTS.

More and more Flemish pupils are taking history courses in a foreign language. In that school subject, pupils develop historical insight and learn to report on historical events, their possible interpretations and the importance of those events for the further course of history in the CLIL-language. This study examined the extent to which CLIL and non-CLIL pupils from the second grade of secondary education (15-year-olds) can express this historical view ("the voice of the historian") in a French-medium written text in the context of history lessons. Two Flemish CLIL classes and one non-CLIL class were given an essay question containing three types of questions that historians usually ask themselves: ‘what are the objective facts?’, ‘How can I interpret those facts?’, ‘How do I estimate the importance of the events?’. These questions were answered with respect to contents relating to the Great Voyages of Discovery and Reformation and Counter Reformation. A qualitative interpretative linguistic-semiotic discourse analytic approach, inspired by Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistic Framework (Halliday & Mathiessen, 2014) and Martin & White’s (2005) ‘evaluative language’ framework, was used to analyze the data. Thus, our analysis involved checking whether the learners were able to realize the textual, interpersonal and ideational functions of written discourse in the CLIL-language (French) using a neutral, non-graduating register. The results based on an analysis of 36 essays show that students of that age can produce a coherent text in answer to the set essay questions and demonstrate the ability to use the voice of the historian within an educational context. Thus, they are able to address the three elements of the voice of the historian (facts, interpretations, importance) in their texts, at least at a level that can be expected of 15-year-olds. CLIL learners appear to be able to do this slightly better than non-CLIL learners. On the other hand, non-CLIL learners are able to realize the textual dimension, as defined within the SFL framework, somewhat better than CLIL learners, noting especially that CLIL learners use a somewhat more subjective, more graduating style, than non-CLIL learners. Overall, however, CLIL learners' texts score 5% higher than those of non-CLIL learners. This small-scale qualitative study on students’ ability to write as historians in a foreign language within the context of CLIL-education demonstrates that the knowledge, skills and ways of reasoning to be acquired within history education can be acquired equally well, if not better, in CLIL-classes as in non-CLIL-classes. Awareness and understanding of the linguistic demands involved in the acquisition of the ability to realize the textual, ideational and interpersonal functions of historical reports in a foreign language may constitute an important step in further professionalizing CLIL-teachers. We hope our research may inform policy makers and teacher educators about the need to educate CLIL-teachers in this respect, ultimately to improve the quality of all CLIL education.

Plantes sous serres: Acclimatation, conservation de la nature et savoirs végétaux à Paris au XVIIIe siècle

AbstractThis article focuses on the development of greenhouses and particularly in Paris in the 18th century. Faced with the increase in the number of naturalist specimens in the Jardin du Roi and the enlargement of the areas of supply, under the dual impact of imperial expansion and voyages of discovery, the conservation of plants became a central issue, mobilising knowledge of climate, soil and geography. The development of greenhouses was accompanied by intense discussions on the most appropriate way to acclimatise, even though plant conservation remained a highly complicated process.

Petr Rychkov’s Map of Iske (Inner or Old) Kazan of 4 July 1770

Research objectives: On the basis of a recently discovered map – found in the manuscript library of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg – of Iske Kazan’s fortification made by P.N. Rychkov in 1770, this article investigates the manner in which its population protected itself against its foes in the restless era that witnessed the dissolution of the Golden Horde and the transition to the Kazan khanate. It additionally asks why in fact this map was composed. Research materials: Combining the evidence of Rychkov’s map with archaeological findings and in dialogue with the relevant historiography, the authors place the map in its historical context and ponder its significance, and suggest why this map was made in 1770. Results and novelty of the research: It appears that Iske Kazan’s inhabitants turned to a unique manner to defend themselves against their enemies, using a wall-moat-wall design to prevent any storming by mounted troops, different from what has been hitherto thought about the ruins of this defensive structure. This manner of defending seems eminently well suited to the restless conditions prevailing in the Volga-Kama region around 1400 and the art of war as practiced in this region. The article additionally suggests why this map was made in 1770, linking it to the general desire of the Romanov government to discover much more precisely how its subjects lived their lives. This impetus was born from the introduction of the Western-European scientific mindset in Peter I’s reign, which paid much closer heed to a realistic understanding of nature and culture. The Russian Academy of Sciences mounted from the 1720s onward a host of scientific expeditions, which almost resemble voyages of discovery, to map the tsarist empire, of which Rychkov’s travels formed a part. The article hints at the possibility that such fact-finding missions gradually allowed the central government in St. Petersburg to increase its power over its subject peoples.

Livak , Leonid A Reader's Guide to Andrei Bely's ‘Petersburg’ (review)

REVIEWS 553 knew Russia perfectly well. He understood the government’s requirements and could flatter it until the flattering became sickening — not out of conviction, surely, but out of the (fundamentally flawed) principle that this is what needs to be done.’ UiT The Arctic University of Norway Andrei Rogatchevski Livak, Leonid (ed.). A Reader’s Guide to Andrei Bely’s ‘Petersburg’. The University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, WI, 2021. vii + 272 pp. Notes. Recommended critical literature in English. Index. $21.95 (paperback). This compendium of articles by fifteen scholars offers an informative and well-coordinated course-book for an English-speaking seminar on Russian or international literary Modernism, the Twentieth-Century Novel, the Russian Silver Age or, indeed, as the title claims, ‘Andrei Belyi’s Petersburg’. Leonid Livak’s excellent editing ensures that contributors, unless otherwise specified, have used the same translation: John Elsworth’s (Pushkin Press, London, 2000) version of Leonid Dolgopolov’s 1981 edition of the original text, first published in 1916. The translator, who has himself written extensively on Belyi’s life and work, contributes an engaging piece ‘On Translating Petersburg’, in which he explains why he chose this particular edition and some of the difficulties met with in the course of his work. Further, to Livak’s credit, he has avoided unnecessary repetitions by seeing his authors make cross-references to each other’s work. Finally, he has provided an introductory article on the symposium as a whole and its separate authors and, in the last, fourth section, a clear and concise ‘Annotated Synopsis of Petersburg’s First Edition (1913)’, a list of ‘Recommended Critical Literature in English’, an annotated list of contributors and a serviceable index. Footnotes to individual articles are kept brief and provided, in user-friendly fashion, at the end of each paper. Part One of the book offers eight papers on ‘The Intellectual Context’: Lynn E. Patyk,‘RevolutionaryTerrorismandProvocationinPetersburg’;MariaCarlson, ‘Petersburg and Modern Occultism’ (useful on theosophy and anthroposophy); E. W. Clowes, ‘Petersburg and Russian Nietzscheanism’; Timothy Langen, ‘Neo-Kantianism in Petersburg’; Hilary Fink, ‘Petersburg and the philosophy of Henry Bergson’; Judith Wermuth-Atkinson, ‘Petersburg and the New Science of Psychology’; Henrietta Mondry, ‘Petersburg and Contemporary Racial Thought’; and David M. Bethea, ‘Petersburg as Apocalyptic Fiction’. Part Two concentrates on ‘The Aesthetic Context’: Steven Cassidy, ‘Petersburg and Music in Modernist Theory and Literature’; Colleen McQuillen, ‘Russian Modernist Theatricality and Life Creation in Petersburg’; Olga Matich, ‘Petersburg and Modernist Painting with Words’; Taras Koznarsky, ‘Petersburg and Urbanism SEER, 99, 3, JULY 2021 554 in the Modernist Novel’; and Violeta Sotirova, ‘Petersburg and the Problem of Consciousness in Modernist Fiction’. The question remains, as so often with publications of collections which, of necessity, lack a single authorial ‘voice’: who is the potential ‘reader’ of this Guide? The answer, most probably, depends on whether we are to understand the title as promising a ‘companion volume’ to a difficult and fascinating book for a reader not particularly well-versed in Russian language and literature or as a collection of specialist articles designed to facilitate the teaching of a university course on a hitherto somewhat neglected classic? As a teaching aid, I would recommend the book unreservedly. As a ‘companion volume’, I regretted the absence of the map of St Petersburg, an internet reference to which is given by the editor, and, perhaps, some other visual material, and found Part Two more reader-friendly than Part One, perhaps because the apt and insightful contributions tend to be more tightly interwoven with Belyi’s enchanting text. Part One, with its greater emphasis on general background and what Belyi read when, though useful and scholarly, provides information rather than involves the reader in a voyage of discovery, though contributions by Lange, Fink and Bethea provide agreeable exceptions. These reservations notwithstanding, this ‘Reader’s Guide’ is to be heartily recommended to all serious students and teachers of European modernism and should be available in every university library. Department of Russian Avril Pyman University of Durham Efimov, Mikhail and Smit, Dzheral´d [Smith, Gerald]. Sviatopolk-Mirskii. Zhizn´ zamechatel´nykh liudei, vol. 2025 (1825). Molodaia gvardiia, Moscow, 2021. 701 pp. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. R792.00. Prince Dmitrii (occasionally Dimitrii, but Dim to his...