Analysis of aerosol climate effects under global warming by Li Guo

“…Aerosols, as tiny particles that are widespread in the atmosphere Its climate effects are complex and uncertain, and it is a key factor in global climate change research. This essay first introduces the definition and classification of aerosols, including natural source aerosols and anthropogenic source aerosols. …”
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The Phenomenon of Emmanuel Macron. Book review of ‘Qu’est-ce que le macronisme?’ edited by E. Fottorino by P. G. Loginova

“…The book under review is a collection of essays ‘Qu’est-ce que le macronisme?’ (‘What is Macronism’?)…”
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Cosmotechnologies of Community and Collaboration in Vandana Singh’s Speculative Architectures by Joel P.W. Letkemann

“…For architects, this means considering how much architecture today is constrained by a singular technological paradigm, and how architects can think the many technologies of architecture differently. This essay considers architectural cosmotechnology through discourses in global speculative fiction (SF), fictions proceeding from different ways of understanding and being in the world, to explore the future implications of these fictions for architecture and other technological practices in contrast to the hegemony of global modernism – what I have called cosmotechnologies of community and collaboration. …”
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The role of war cry and its rhetorical function in Shahname by Hamid Rabiei, Ali Mohammasd Shahsani

“…Theses war cries can be studied from different point of views:Revealing the champion’s sources of relianceArousing the hero to fight and protesting against procrastinationProhibiting war and enticing into procrastinationSuitable approaches to learn about the strength of powerReflecting on moralities and using decent languageThe tone and rhythm of speechThe manner of making war cryStrengthening the sense of national pride patriotism.The manner of using rhetorical techniquesBy pointing to the more significant evidences, this essay briefly examines and analyses the aforementioned statements with an emphasis on manners and insights of Shahnameh characters.…”
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L’insularità, l’isolamento e l’autonomia alimentare degli ikoots (Oaxaca, Messico) fra storia, flussi oceanici e catene globali di depauperamento by Cristiano Tallè

“…In recent decades, their communities have experienced an ever-greater dependence on the supply chains which goes hand in hand with a growing territorial conflict and a progressive loss of fish food autonomy, based on an “ocean-political sovereignty” today in deep crisis. The essay tries to read the double bond between dependence on supply chains and conditions of isolation/insularity, “channeling of vital flows” (water, fish, weather, etc.) and environmental impoverishment, taking into consideration a broad time span (from Cortés' businesses to ongoing mega-projects) and in the light of an ethnographic analysis of the local perception of the interdependence between abundant fishing and the circulation of oceanic flows. …”
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Unpleasant Operas or French Music Drama as Heard by Corno Di Bassetto by Eduardo Valls Oyarzun

“…However, this theory changes dramatically when Shaw addresses French authors, ranging from Léo Delibes, Jules Massenet and Georges Bizet to Charles Gounod. This essay examines how Shaw’s vision of the genre changes after his development of the Life Force theory, which, in turn, compels the reader to reassess Shaw’s understanding of the French opera tradition in the late 1880s and 1890s. …”
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Translating French Drama for English Audiences: Adolphe Belot’s L’Article 47 by Barbara T. Cooper

“…These are some of the questions this essay will seek to answer.…”
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Feasts of Indifference: Racialization, Affect, and Necropolitics in 1X War Games by Mahshid Mayar

“…In other words, instead of planning how to best train for, track down, encounter, and ultimately fight against this enemy, the choice that these controversial, post-9/11games offer is to simply eliminate the already out-at-large, under-armed, erratic Muslim enemy in a drone-like, distanced, and lackluster manner. As I suggest in this essay, 1X games promote unappealing and non-immersive, yet overtly political projects of death. …”
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The Ubiquity of Strange Frontiers: Minor Eschatology in Richard Powers’s The Echo Maker by Zachary Tavlin

“…Frontiers are ubiquitous in Richard Powers’s The Echo Maker (2006). This essay first considers the recurring epistemological frontiers in American literature and culture, including within the scholarly American Studies tradition that located ever-present links between Puritan millennialism, American Romanticism, and the settlement of the American continent. …”
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TV is the Devil, the Devil is on TV:Wild Religion and Wild Media in South Africa by Lee-Shae S.Scharnick-Udemans

“…In light of its recent history of apartheid and transition into democracy in the middle1990s,when paradigmatic constitutional and political changes took place in which the relationship between religion and the media wasreconstituted, the South African context, in particular, is ripe for exploring media technology and practices in relation tothe political economy of the sacred. This essay pays tribute to David Chidester by testing the possibilities of his theory of ‘wild religion’against two vignettes of wild media in South Africa. …”
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Between Objective and Subjective Architectural Experiences: Conceptualizing Refractive Neuroarchitecture Phenomenology by Yongjun Shin

“… This analytical essay is aimed at developing a conceptual framework to assess how people experience the built environment both objectively and subjectively through a critical literature review of neuroarchitecture, architectural phenomenology, and neurophenomenology. …”
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Towards a cyber ecology by Carlo Ratti, Daniele Belleri

“…This essay traces how designers are facilitating an extraordinary, double convergence between the natural and artificial worlds. …”
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COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF TRADITIONAL AFRICAN AND WESTERN PEACE BUILDING by TANKO SHAWULU PAUL PAUL, KINGSLEY PHILIPS NOYE, EMMANUEL ACHUS JAH

“…Hence both the traditional African method and the Western style method still live with us and peace is what everyone need. This essay is an attempt to harmonize the Africa traditional conflict resolution and western methods of peace building in conflict management in the African environment with specific touch on the IGBO of the South East Nigeria and the BUEM of Ghana . peace building theory was used. …”
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From Painting to Picturebook: Bhajju Shyam’s Insider Indigenous Art by Indraprastha University, India

“…My research uses literary and visual analysis of the picturebooks, as well ethnographic interviews with the Adivasi artists, to explore artistic agency exercised in the illustration of picturebooks. In this essay, I focus my analysis on the 2014 Creation, a collection of origin stories found in the Pardhan Gond repertoire. …”
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La Asociación Sud-Americana de Paz Universal y Ángela Oliveira Cézar: pacifismo, activismo trasnacional y «diplomacia femenina» by Paula Bruno

“…It also focuses on the actions promoted by the association in contexts of conflict and fraternity between countries of the American continent –such as the placement of the Christ of the Andes on the border between Chile and Argentina, symbolic corollary of the signing of the Pact of May 1902–. The essay is part of the «New Diplomatic History», a developing area that has given rise to the study of women in transnational scenes.…”
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Beyond nationalism? The inter-war period and some features of the complex transformation of southeastern Europe by Basciani Alberto

“…Agrarian reforms, changes in political structures, increasing urbanisation, population growth, and ad hoc legislation for minority rights protection were some of the most important issues addressed in those years. This essay aims to elucidate the main knots and contradictions in the internal and international life of the countries of Balkan Europe, showing how efforts to change political and social structures encountered enormous obstacles in the intrinsic weakness of those socio-economic structures, but also in the will of important segments of the Balkan ruling classes, especially those who had realised the nationalistic dreams of the decades before the Great War, to reassert the supremacy of their respective power and ethnic groups. …”
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Traditional Songs of Ìlọrin: Enacting Identities, History, and Cultural Memories by Hakeem Olawale

“…As a response to this concern, traditional songs of Ìlọrin like dàdàkúàdà, bàlúù, agbè, wákà, kèǹgbè, orin ọlọ́mọ-ọba Ìlọrin, among others sung in Yorùbá language become a site of contestation of ethnic and cultural identities. Te focus of this essay is to analyze Ìlọrin traditional songs as they portray and contest ethnic identities, reconstruct history, and revitalize cultural memories of indigenes. …”
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Ethnomethodology and the study of online communities

“…Drawing from the authors&#146; current research programs, this essay explores the basic dimensions of online communities and the concomitant need for scholars to rethink the assumptions that undergrid historic paradigms about the nature of social interaction, social bonding, and empirical experience (<a href="#cer">Cerulo, 1997</a>). …”
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The Brass-Bells Drum: An African Literary Writer’s imaging of Neo-colonial woes in Nigeria by Arinpe G. Adejumo, Emmanuel Akinyinka Ilori

“…Novels, a genre of literature, images of socio-political realities with a view to proffering solutions to some of the threats to human and social development. This essay examines the depiction of postcolonial disillusion and neo-colonial woes in Nigeria as represented in Akińwùmí Ìṣọ̀lá’s Saworoide translated, as The Brass-Bells Drum by Pamela Olubunmi J. …”
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Will decarbonising buildings be enough? Constrain and redistribute growth in floor area by David Ness

“…In reviewing growth projections, and employing creative systems thinking and ‘innovability’, the essay introduces the role of ‘sufficiency’ in avoiding, reducing and prioritising demand in the built environment, coupled with novel ways of meeting service needs enabled by digitalisation. …”
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