Wonderful World Research Articles

Kicking it with Robots: RoboCup and the new Robots Guide are gateways to the wonderful world of robots

Kicking it with Robots: RoboCup and the new Robots Guide are gateways to the wonderful world of robots

Issue Highlights.

Figures from the editors selected issue highlights will be displayed each month in the journal image carousel on the BJCP homepage http://bpspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1365-2125/ One of the first conferences I attended during my time in Leiden was a Modeling and Simulation meeting a few miles outside of Leiden, in Noordwijkerhout, organized by Professor Meindert Danhof. The meeting was a dazzling display of differential equations and brilliant PK/PD models, with one model even more sophisticated and better than the other. It was a time when most lectures were still presented using actual slides, with a few early adapters of power point, if I remember correctly. The best and most memorable lecture of the entire symposium though was not about modeling and simulation. And it was not presented using slides or power point. It was the final plenary lecture of the meeting, and it was presented by an elderly Swedish Professor who had an overhead projector brought to the podium. He placed down an empty overhead projector sheet on which he made small notes with a marker while he presented. He started by complimenting everybody of the M&S community with their brilliant work, but subsequently elegantly explained that our work would have a much, much bigger impact on clinical outcome if we would focus on treatment adherence, and the improvement thereof. And despite the slightly disgruntled feeling it left with the M&S community, everyone wholeheartedly agreed that he was 100% correct. It is therefore great to see that this month's issue of BJCP is about adherence, and more precisely ‘Advancing the management of adherence in the clinical setting’. Adherence is a science in itself, and one that is finally coming of age. Please read the editorial from our guest editors Dan Wright, Klarissa Sinnappah, and Dyfrig Hughes, which provides a nice introduction to a wonderful new Themed Issue. https://bpspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bcp.15722 We are in the business of trying to improve the world. Through research, education, and patient care we try to improve the lives of people. And while our income may be relatively modest, it is all worth it if we see a patient improve as a result of our efforts, at least for me it is. But sometimes even us ‘altruistic’ clinical pharmacologists come across a project that is so noble that it immediately restores any loss of belief in humanity. In a wonderful review David Branford and colleagues from Truro, UK, describe patterns of antiseizure medication prescription in people with intellectual disability and epilepsy. A commendable effort to improve the quality of life of those who benefit from a bit of extra help. https://bpspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bcp.15748 Continuing our efforts to improve the world and ultimately leaving it a better place than we found it, it is worth reading the paper by Valentina Giunchi et al. who implemented a method to timely and cheaply estimate the environmental risk determined by pharmaceutical residues in Italian surface water combining eco-toxicological and consumption data. It is papers such as these that hopefully raise awareness and provide tools to us to decrease the ecological burden from our efforts to improve and sometimes save lives. https://bpspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bcp.15761 But let's not forget that basically all our efforts are geared towards improving the lives of others, whether they are focused on patient care, education, or therapeutics development. Collectively, the rest of the papers in this issue cover all these areas, and this issue of BJCP is therefore once again a good example of the breadth of clinical pharmacology. I will mention just one of these papers. Ying Zhang and colleagues from GSK describe a therapeutics development paper that paves the way for patient care. Using a metabolic probe cocktail, they were able to show in healthy volunteers that their new HIV-1 Maturation Inhibitor, GSK3640254 is unlikely to influence the PK of most other co-prescribed drugs in HIV patients. https://bpspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bcp.15699 I wish you much reading pleasure, and also a wonderful World Conference of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology in Glasgow (should you be able to attend). Have a great summer!

International Microorganism Day: facilitating global outreach events using a decentralized model.

On 17 September 1683, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, a Dutch merchant who lacked formal education and fortune, wrote a letter to the Royal Society of London describing for the first time a single-celled organism. As a tribute to this revolutionary discovery, the Portuguese Society of Microbiology with the support of the Federation of European Microbiological Societies in 2017, designated this day as International Microorganism Day (IMD), a day aiming to raise awareness about the wonderful world of microbes. Six years after the establishment of IMD, the knowledge of microbiology outreach around this celebration has expanded greatly, with 5 years of in-person and 2 years of online events. The peak of these commemorations was in 2023, with 63 parallel outreach events and more than 5000 attendees, most of which were children, and young adults. While these in-person events were occurring in the month of September, the #InternationalMicroorganismDay hashtag reached nearly 2.3 million people online, reflecting the number of users who have seen a post containing this hashtag on social media. Using a decentralized model to facilitate 63 grass-roots teams to organize events locally, IMD achieved global representation both online and offline. This paper presents details behind the organization and data on the international impact of the IMD 2022 and 2023 events, outlines plans to expand reach to more countries and audiences, and encourages readers to participate with their own events in future IMD editions so that global impact can be expanded even further.

Drag Race to the Bottom

Drag Race to the Bottom Ariel Munczek Edelman (bio) On the morning of May 10, 2022, standing in front of stock tickers for some of the world's most valuable companies, drag queen Monét X Change proclaimed: "On behalf of RuPaul, World of Wonder, and queer people far and near, it's time to ring the bell, honey!" On cue, seven winners of RuPaul's Drag Race—the hit reality competition TV series, which had just finished its fourteenth season—reached across a logo-strewn podium to announce the daily opening of the world's second-largest stock exchange. "We represent what scholars will one day call the drag revolution," Shea Coulee, the winner of one of Drag Race's many spinoff shows, added. "I want to thank NASDAQ." I started watching Drag Race early in my first year of college. The Emmy Award-winning program puts its drag queen contestants through a gauntlet of challenges, from walking the runway and writing original songs to impersonating celebrities and making costumes from scratch. The competing artists' ingenuity and glamour drew me to the form with a ravenous hunger. I began attending local drag shows and, soon after, performing in drag myself, first for other students and then in bars in Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and Prague. Drag Race has led more people than ever to appreciate art that plays with gender expression, myself included. Drag's unique flexibility allows performers from across the globe to combine breathtaking looks with lip syncs, stand-up comedy, [End Page 11] circus arts, experimental fashion, live music, and endless other art forms. But even as a fan of the show, it didn't take long for me to realize that Drag Race's influence was not entirely benevolent. While some Drag Race alumni leverage their success to pay off student loans or buy a home, others leave the competition with tens of thousands of dollars in debt. Unlike most other reality programs, Drag Race contestants must self-fund the plethora of cosmetics, costumes, wigs, and props needed to compete on the show. As one contestant, Kameron Michaels, recounted, "I spent more coming into this competition than I did as the down payment on my house." As Drag Race's rewards reach new heights—the winner of the most recent season of the spinoff RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars won a cool $200,000, ten times the size of the cash prize for the first season—work for most drag artists remains so precarious that they frequently take on several other jobs to stay afloat. The so-called drag golden age is really a gilded age, where the runaway success of a few is made possible at the expense of the many. And if economic insecurity wasn't enough, local performers increasingly face threats of extremist violence from the right. Even the most diehard drag fans should cast a critical eye on Drag Race and its architects, who have built an unequal drag performance economy while remaking the art of drag in the show's own image. ______ In the late 2000s, superstar drag queen RuPaul Charles felt it was time for a drag competition show. "The Obama movement was happening," he told New York in 2017, "and I could feel it in my bones that it was time." Viacom's LGBT television network, Logo TV, rejected Drag Race several times, out of fear that it would make the network appear too gay. It acquiesced in 2009, however, when RuPaul's production company, World of Wonder, agreed to downplay drag's role in gay nightlife. The reality television genre that emerged in the decades leading up to Drag Race had already proved its value to American network executives: it nearly eliminated writing and acting costs and was less prone to strikes and shutdowns than scripted programs. Early reality programs like The Real World, Road Rules, and Big Brother centered on charismatic, low-paid workers who did labor that previously took several actors or crew members to carry out. Shows like Queer Eye for the Straight Guy and American Idol extended the possibilities of the format with vote-by-texting features, interactive websites, and fan...

Stories and fairy tales - the importance and role in the instructional - educational activities in the kindergarten

"act: For many children, kindergarten is the place where they first come into contact with the wonderful world of stories. Through their richness and diversity of thought, they contribute to the development of thinking, memory, imagination, concentration, language, and to the moral and aesthetic education of children. The role and importance of stories and fairy tales in instructive-educational activities are obvious, as they enrich the vocabulary, develop the ability to communicate and relate, influence intellectual development and will. Stories play an essential role in the formation of the human being because of their ""discourse"" of order and meaning. They are those who, through the beauty of words, bring children into a world of values where good always triumphs over evil, constituting a wealth of meaning and educational value."

Entering the Wonderful World of Molecular Aggregation: The Appeal of Permeation Diffusion and Surface Tension

Entering the Wonderful World of Molecular Aggregation: The Appeal of Permeation Diffusion and Surface Tension

Glimpses of weird and wonderful world of microbes

Microorganisms can be seen with the help of microscope. Microorganisms include Bacteria, Archaea, Viruses, Fungi, Protist, Protozoa and algae etc. Microbes are omnipresent in the biosphere and their presence invariably affects the environment in which they grow. The effects of microbes on the environment can be beneficial or harmful or in apparent with regards to human measure or observation. The most significant effect of microbes on the Earth is their ability to recycle the primary elements that make up all living systems, especially carbon, oxygen, nitrogen. This article mainly focuses on beneficial and harmful impact of microbes on environment and their role to maintain quality, health and sustainability of environment. Some microorganisms are beneficial while some are non-beneficial for human beings. Some microbes spread different disease in the world and make the world polluted but some clean the pollution of the World.

Появилась возможность узнать, как на самом деле устроена жизнь… (О себе как части поколения, жившего в середине 80-х – середине 90-х годов прошлого века)

The wonderful and diverse world of the Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, and then of the Russian Academy of Sciences, as it was in the mid-80s – mid-90s of the last century, is shown through the eyes of a graduate student, and then a researcher. Entering the graduate school of the sector of criticism of modern bourgeois philosophy of Western countries, the author combined his studies and the preparation of his Ph.D. thesis there with an interested work in the sector of philosophical questions of biology, since he dealt with the topic of the biological foundations of human behavior using the philosophy of American naturalism as an example. The author studied, collaborated and was friends with R.S. Karpinskaya, T.A. Kuzmina, N.S. Yulina, V.M. Mezhuev, G.S. Batishchev, A.I. Aleshin, E.Yu. Solovyov. Subsequently, work on the dissertation expanded, spreading to the topic of the relationship between man and nature, including in the practical agrarian activities of Soviet people. In this, in accordance with the spirit of the times, the central party bodies and the initiative of the People's Academician T.S. Maltsev played a significant role. Work with economists – E.F. Saburov, A.V. Chernyavsky and others, with agricultural historians and ecologists – V.P. Danilov, T. Shanin, V.I. Kiryushin led to the fact that the author in 1994 as Minister was invited to the government of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea (Ukraine), where he had the opportunity to get acquainted in detail with the state and prospects for the development of the agro-industrial complex of the peninsula. On this basis, he prepared a program of agrarian reforms for Crimea, unfortunately, due to the crisis of presidential power and the subsequent resignation of the “Moscow government”, it did not take place. This text is about how it is seen in a quarter-century time interval, even though many friends and colleagues are no longer alive.

The Phenomenon of Holiness in the formation of Religious Consciousness: a Religious-Phenomenological Discourse

The article explores the phenomenon of holiness, which is of particular importance in the formation of religious consciousness. The research work analyzes the concept of holiness using historical-social, comparative-hermeneutical, religious-phenomenological approaches. As a result of the analysis, the theoretical and methodological foundations of the concept of holiness are proposed. In addition, a description of its scientific and practical significance in religious studies, theology, and religion in general is given. Also, from an ontological point of view, the sacred is considered as a high level of reality, separated from everyday life, from an epistemological point of view, true knowledge is beyond understanding, from a phenomenological point of view, the wonderful world, from an axiological point of view, is considered as an absolute, imperative phenomenon. Further, the role of the phenomenon of holiness in religious consciousness is emphasized. This is due to the fact that the content and specificity of religion as a sphere of spiritual life is determined by religious consciousness, and it is this consciousness that can relatively distinguish religion from other ways of practical and spiritual exploration of the world. Religious consciousness has a number of features: visualization caused by feeling, images created by the imagination, symbolism, strong emotional richness. Such features can also be described by the phenomenon of holiness. In addition, the concept of holiness, which is of paramount importance in the development of religious consciousness, arises in connection with mystery and genuine sensation. The value of the study is that the phenomenology of religion considers the concept of holiness in the context of scientific objectivity and shows that holiness determines the main forms found in religion in general, cult, religious understanding and religious consciousness. Keywords: phenomenology of religion, holiness, sacred, sacral, religious consciousness.

The Weird and Wonderful World of Worms

Animals with long, skinny bodies are often called “worms,” but there are many kinds of worms—even in the ocean. Annelids (segmented worms) include garden earthworms, but their ocean relatives come in many colors, shapes, and sizes. Some are so small that they live between grains of sand, while others can be longer than a human and eat fish! Marine worms are essential to the ocean food web, as both predators and prey. They help create homes for plants and animals by burrowing and building tubes in ocean sediments. Scientists are still discovering new worm species, and there are still many mysteries about how worms eat, why they live in the places they do, and what roles they play in ocean ecosystems. Worms are a fascinating and important part of ocean communities.

The Wonderful World of Welded Art

The Wonderful World of Welded Art

The Wonderful World of Welded Art

The Wonderful World of Welded Art

Critical Discourse Analysis in the “What a Wonderful World” Song Lyrics by Louis Armstrong

This research wants analyse a popular song around the world entitled “What a Wonderful World”. The song has become popular in every generation. This research follows Fairclough’s three inter-related processes of analysis tied to three inter-related dimensions of discourse as follow: (1) The object of analysis (2) The processes by means of which the object is produced and received by human as subjects. (3) The socio-historical conditions which govern these processes. The song lyric become the object of this research. Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) used in analyse the song lyric by connecting to the social context in Indonesia. The result shows (1) Armstrong describes world as wonderful, although the singer himself is a black American that faced prejudice and bitterness (2) The song was written during hard time, a terrible turmoil in American society. (3) The song had released on 1967, on that time, the daily life and politic situation of America are disturbed. It is full of hatred and prejudice of racialism. The lyrics in the song offers description of how the world could be wonderful if we wonders and appreciate nature and create a good friendship, indirectly this song brings hope for the better future. Relate to the social context in Indonesia, this song lyric become as a good reminder for Indonesian to keep the wonderful, peaceful, and harmonization atmosphere, remembering Indonesia has many diverse culture, religion, racial, and ethnic. This research expected to remind people in every field not only in ELT, the power of love in giving hope for the future and to make world become better by what we are doing to the world with love nature and create a good relationship with anyone.

The Wild and Wonderful World of Stream Bugs

Under the surface of most streams a strange world exists, made up of hundreds of small critters called aquatic invertebrates. “Aquatic” means they live in the water and “invertebrate” means they have no backbones or even skeletons. Some have body parts that look like they came from an alien planet. Some have slippery bodies adapted to rushing stream water. These organisms play many important roles. Some live for up to 7 years and others live for as little as 2 weeks. Some eat slime growing on stream rocks and others eat leaves. Some, like the golden stonefly, even stalk and eat other invertebrates, like a tiger in a jungle. In national parks and around the world, scientists use these insects, worms, leeches, and mites to tell if the water is healthy. We can do this because certain stream invertebrates disappear if water is polluted, or if the stream habitat is degraded.

Direct Provision, Immigrant Detention, and the Wonderful World of Avoca

Direct Provision, Immigrant Detention, and the Wonderful World of Avoca

Defect‐Induced Effects in Nanomaterials

Defect‐Induced Effects in Nanomaterials

Project activities in music lessons in preschool education

The article considers the issue of implementing project activities in the educational process of preschool education. Today, design penetrates into life phenomena, processes, spheres of society: more and more things are products of conscious human activity and are a unique way to ensure co-creation, cooperation of adults and children. Project activities allow to implement a personality-oriented approach to the upbringing and education of preschool children and promotes the development of their creative abilities, turns them into active participants in all events taking place in preschool education. The aim of the research is to reveal the essence of the concepts of «project», «project activity», as well as the peculiarities of using the method of projects in music lessons in preschool education. Project activity is the most important component of pedagogical activity. This process includes educational systems of different levels, the content of education, pedagogical technologies, management of the pedagogical process, planning and monitoring the development of educational institutions. It is shown that the method of design, a modern method of integration of activities, allows you to solve a set of problems subordinate to one topic, a variety of techniques and methods, gradually and in the system. The method is relevant and effective. It gives the child the opportunity to synthesize the acquired knowledge, develop creative abilities and communication skills. It is noted that project activities allow children to develop research skills and cognitive interest, there is an integration between common ways of solving different problems and activities. Project activities help to connect learning with life, develop communicative and moral qualities. The main task of the educator is to involve the child in the wonderful and beautiful world of music, to develop children's musical and creative abilities, to help through the artistic perception of musical images to understand the connection of musical art with the world, to form moral and aesthetic attitude to it. «Project» management of the music-educational process in the preschool institution contributes to the further improvement of music-educational work with preschool children in the modern education system.

New World of Wonders: Rafique Hussain's Short Stories

New World of Wonders: Rafique Hussain's Short Stories

Art, Science, and the Paradox of Knowledge: Decolonizing the European Avant-Garde

Art, Science, and the Paradox of Knowledge:Decolonizing the European Avant-Garde Thomas O. Haakenson (bio) The 2021 GSA Distinguished Lecture In the Thick of German Studies: The GSA Distinguished Lecture Series As part of the German Studies Association's cooperation with the Free University of Berlin's Program for Advanced German and European Studies, it was both an honor and a pleasure to launch our winter semester 2020/21 with the GSA Distinguished Lecture by Thomas O. Haakenson, Associate Professor in Critical and Visual Studies at the California College of the Arts on October 20, 2021. In his timely contribution, Art, Science, and the Paradox of Knowledge: Decolonizing the European Avantgarde, Professor Haakenson offered critical reflections on the European avant-garde's role in conceptualizing Western knowledge since the mid-nineteenth century. Haakenson's presentation was the ninth in our annual Distinguished Lecture Series. Initiated by GSA long-time Executive Director David Barclay, the series is designed to feature outstanding research by GSA members at Free University of Berlin and to strengthen ties between scholars working in these fields. We have had the privilege of hosting distinguished speakers on a broad array of subjects and it was David Barclay who delivered the first lecture on "Old Glory und Berliner Bär. Die USA und West-Berlin 1948–1994" in 2013. Suzanne Marchand followed in 2014 exploring "Orientalism and the Classical Tradition in Germany." For 2015, Joy Calico spoke on "Arnold Schoenberg's A Survivor from Warsaw in Postwar Europe: Musical Remigration and Holocaust Commemoration." Irene Kacandes took up another timely subject in 2016 and examined possibilities for "Memory Work for/ in the 21st Century." In her 2017 intervention "The Proletarian Prometheus," Sabine Hake applied the notion of cultural appropriation to examine the working class's use of bourgeois cultural tropes for political empowerment. Exploring the statue of a Hawaiian female deity in Berlin's ethnological collection, H. Glenn Penny engaged with the public controversies around ethnological museums in Europe in his 2018 contribution "Kihawahine: German Ethnology and its Histories of the World." Another compelling matter was taken up by Johannes von Moltke in 2019 who explored "The Meme is the Message: Alt-Right/Neue Rechte and the Political Affordances of Social Media." A strong case for considering Europe as a progressive alternative to Trump's America was made by historian Konrad H. Jarausch in his 2020 lecture "Embattled Europe: A Progressive Alternative." [End Page 329] The GSA Distinguished Lecture Series has given us much food for thought in the last decade and has served the program's central mission, to deepen the understanding of Germany and Europe in an exemplary way. Karin Goihl, Berlin Program Academic Coordinator, Free University of Berlin [End Page 330] The Wonderful World of Words My aunt Hiede Miyazaki was born in Kumamoto, Japan, on March 10, 1931. She was an excellent student, preparing at the end of World War II for college when her father passed away from cancer (Figure 1). At seventeen years old, she became the family's primary provider, often working several jobs and going hungry to support her mother, four siblings, and herself. Eventually, Hiede's English-language skills led to a position with the US Armed Forces at Camp Kumamoto and later on at both Itazuke Air Base in Fukuoka and Johnson Air Base in Tokyo. She continued her creative practice at the same time and became a skilled, much-sought-after Japanese Sumi-E artist, exhibiting widely and teaching classes in mainland Japan, the United States, Canada, and Germany. In the early 1960s, my Aunt Hiede met, and shortly thereafter married, my Uncle Gene. They were together for almost fifty-eight years. My first encounter with Germany, with German culture and the German language, was made possible thanks to my Aunt Hiede. In 1987, when I was fifteen years old, I flew to Germany to visit her and my Uncle Gene, who at the time lived in a small town in southern Germany near a US military base. I traveled alone transatlantically, with no German language skills and, quite frankly, a rather limited grasp of the English language as well. It was only my second time aboard an...

Response to Distinguished Lecture

Response to Distinguished Lecture Maureen O. Gallagher I am grateful for the opportunity to read and respond to Thomas O. Haakenson's essay and contribute to a broader discussion of decolonization in the field of German studies, which is a topic long overdue to reach the pages of German Studies Review. Haakenson's thought-provoking essay discusses the decolonial potential of Dada and the avant-garde more broadly. Haakenson's essay reflects on Dada as both an art movement with a specific chronology associated with cities such as Zurich, New York, Paris, and Berlin and connected to the racialized legacies of colonialism and appropriation, as well as an artistic praxis, with techniques such as juxtaposition and obfuscation rife with critical possibilities. This is what is at work in Black Dada, as exemplified by Adam Pendleton's Dada Dancers. As Haakenson describes, Pendleton's use of obscured and layered versions of the source photograph of Dada artists Sophie Taeuber and Erika Schlegel dressed in costumes modeled after Hopi Kachina figures challenges the primacy of the appropriative image, drawing attention back to the original Hopi reference. Pendleton's approach resists simple categorization and allows for ambiguities and double meanings, and it is here, Haakenson argues, that we see the critical power of the avant-garde and Dada's decolonial potential. I find Haakenson's description of Pendleton's methods and this type of critical praxis a convincing account of the potential for this kind of avant-garde criticality, perhaps particularly appealing to those of us who advocate for the centrality of the humanities, in particular world languages, for teaching critical thinking and new perspectives, but I wonder how generalizable Pendleton's approach is. Is the kind of "aesthetic appropriation as a form of intersectional solidarity" that Haakenson describes practicable as a pedagogical and methodological approach in the field of German studies more broadly? I think here of Audre Lorde's reminder that "the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house."1 In his essay, Haakenson engages with Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang's groundbreaking 2012 essay, "Decolonization is not a Metaphor."2 Haakenson rightly points [End Page 351] out that theirs is a narrower or more specific conceptualization of decolonization than that which dominates Europe and consequently German studies, exemplified by the title of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's influential 1986 book, Decolonising the Mind, and focusing on the more immaterial impact of colonization on structures and conceptions of knowledge.3 As important as this type of decolonization is, Tuck and Yang bring a more specific focus. When they center the concept of repatriation in their definition of decolonization, they are not primarily talking about the repatriation of cultural artifacts but instead the literal return of the land. For those of us who teach and research in the field of German studies in settler states such as the United States, Canada, Australia, or Aotearoa (New Zealand), we do so on expropriated Indigenous land, and when Tuck and Yang argue against the metaphorization of decolonization, they are asking us to remember this fact. Haakenson's inclusion of a land acknowledgment in his essay is a reminder of this important point. While Haakenson gave his lecture in Berlin, I tuned in live from Kansas City, home to many Indigenous nations, including the Sioux, Osage, Kaw, and Kickapoo peoples. When I began drafting these remarks, I was in an airplane somewhere over the Pacific, embarking on a long-delayed journey to a new academic position in Australia after eighteen months of remote teaching and research, and I finish them from my new office in Ngunnawal and Ngambri country. My story of migration and displacement is not entirely dissimilar to Haakenson's aunt Hiede to whom he dedicates the essay. Haakenson's invocation of the "wonderful world of words" is for me an expression not just of the personal impact that learning German has had on my life and career but also a reminder that German studies is not solely embedded in European contexts. The settler contexts of German studies in which many of us work, teach, study, and research require grappling with a different set of questions and circumstances than...