This article tells the story of a diasporic Jewish family across generations, continents, and languages through a shared name—Katherine—showing how names serve as talismans, linking present and past. Centered on the author’s grandmother, a Hungarian Holocaust survivor who lived in Europe and Australia, and the author, raised in Japan, it explores how Jewish names act as markers of memory, identity, politics, and religion. The author argues that Jewish naming rituals reflect the diasporic, cosmopolitan nature of prewar Jewish society. She examines tensions between assimilation and non-assimilation, secularism and mysticism, nationalism and cosmopolitanism, advocating for a renewed sense of multilingual, cosmopolitan Jewish identity. Drawing on Judaism, Buddhism, and esoteric mysticism, the author presents multilingualism and cosmopolitanism as inherent strengths of Jewish diasporic life—and as vital in today’s world. Through her own translational upbringing and family history, she offers a deeply personal narrative intertwined with 20th-century upheavals and calls for a revival of prewar Jewish cosmopolitanism.
Rafael Ceja Ayala, Isaac Harris, General Ozochiawaeze
This work extends the factorization method to the inverse scattering problem of reconstructing the shape and location of an absorbing penetrable scatterer embedded in a thin infinite elastic (Kirchhoff--Love) plate. With the assumption that the plate thickness is small compared to the wavelength of the incident wave, the propagation of flexural perturbations is modeled by the two--dimensional biharmonic wave equation in the frequency domain. Within this setting, we provide a rigorous justification of the factorization method and demonstrate that it yields a binary criterion for distinguishing whether a sampling point lies inside or outside the scatterer, using only the spectral data of the far--field operator. In addition, we numerically analyze the Born approximation for weak scatterers in this biharmonic scattering context and compute the relative error against exact far--field data for sample weak scatterers, thereby quantifying its validity as a limited but useful approximation.
The mosaic law of advocating the paying of life with life, and an “eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, [and] stripe for stripe” (Exodus 21:23-25), came out clearly on 15th and 16th October 1953, as the politics of land and freedom [wiyathi na ithaka] in the colonial Kenya brought their ugly faces through a deadly violence. While the 15th October saw the Mau Mau rebels attack and kill two Roman Catholic Sisters (Cecilia Wangeci and Rosetta Njeri) at the Baricho Centre, the 16th October 1953 saw the capture of the rebel’s leader (Wanjagi wa Ndegwa, also known as General Ndaya) and his subsequent killing. In trying to understand the interface between religion, politics, and war in the African context, the research article has sampled the twin issues (the battle of River Ragati and the attacks on the Baricho Catholic Church of 1953)to alert the post-colonial Africa on the dangers of conflict among the trio.Contribution: This research article contributes to the broad scope of Theologia Viatorum journal via a multidisciplinary perspective that interfaces religion, politics, and war. It utilises a theo-historical design, and oral history techniques, such as storytelling, archival sources, personal communications with selected individuals, and through an extensive review of relevant literature.
Alamsyah ., Siti Mahmudah, Habib Shulton Asnawi
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Religion was often used as a political media to win the battle for power, including politics in Indonesia. The terms "Jihad" and "Hijrah" contained in the Qur'an and Hadith are also used by Islamist groups as a campaign tool to win the presidential or governorial elections, as happened on Jakarta’s governorial election 2017 and Indonesia’s presidential election 2019. Jihad which was originally meaningful generally interpreted by this group only as a hard effort to defeat the party or potential leader of the opponents who was considered un-Islamic or not in favor of Islamic interests. Hijrah is also interpreted as a move from a lifestyle that have not been "shar'i" to "shar'i life", Islamic, halal, and good life. The concept of understanding and practice like this will certainly have an impact on the life of the nation and religion in the pluralistic Indonesia. This study used qualitative research, the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) theory to be developed in critical hermeneutics. The finding is that the concepts of jihad and Hijrah were misused on the presidential and governorial elections in Indonesia, especially on 2017 and 2019. The motive is to win the group and defeat opponents who are considered un-Islamic, shar'i, and siding with the interests of Muslims. Identity politics based on narrow and one-sided perceptions has proven to cause unrest and endanger the life of the nation and religion, because it will be cause disharmony and disintegration.
Resumo: Neste artigo, objetivamos, por um lado, analisar as reflexões teóricas de Haroldo de Campos sobre a tradução como transcriação a partir da prática transcriadora apresentada pelo poeta. Por outro, apresentaremos as peculiaridades do texto de Nietzsche enquanto estabelece uma ligação ente pensamento e vida, forma e conteúdo, escrita e sangue, visando a verificar em que medida os textos dele não remetem os leitores a uma criação paralela e autônoma, ainda que recíproca, indo ao encontro da perspectiva proposta por Haroldo de Campos no que concerne à tradução e no que tange à busca da criação de novas linguagens para expressar novos conteúdos.
This study addresses critical challenges of cybersecurity in digital substations by proposing an innovative task-oriented dialogue (ToD) system for anomaly detection (AD) in multicast messages, specifically, generic object oriented substation event (GOOSE) and sampled value (SV) datasets. Leveraging generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) technology, the proposed framework demonstrates superior error reduction, scalability, and adaptability compared with traditional human-in-the-loop (HITL) processes. Notably, this methodology offers significant advantages over machine learning (ML) techniques in terms of efficiency and implementation speed when confronting novel and/or unknown cyber threats, while also maintaining model complexity and precision. The research employs advanced performance metrics to conduct a comparative assessment between the proposed AD and HITL-based AD frameworks, utilizing a hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testbed for generating and extracting features of IEC61850 communication messages. This approach presents a promising solution for enhancing the reliability of power system operations in the face of evolving cybersecurity challenges.
The Mongolian peoples traditionally associated crucial events and processes with the name of Genghis Khan. Nonetheless, that name acquired a nominal significance in one sphere, specifically as a title or an auxiliary name to the first, where it became a special name. The Genghis Khan name itself held a holy and tabooed implication that guided its subsequent realization. The study aims to investigate the impact of religion on the utilisation of Genghis Khan’s title by the Mongolian leaders during the XVII- XVIII centuries. The study focuses on two leaders of Mongolian peoples, the Chakhar in the east and the Oirat-Hoshut in the west, to examine the uniformity and diversity of interpreting and implementing this name as a title. They were Ligdan and Lkhavzan, with Ligdan being a direct descendant of Genghis Khan and Lkhavzan was considered to be a descendant of Khabutu, the younger brother of Genghis Khan. The author came to the following conclusions: such use of Genghis Khan’s name became possible due to the influence of a number of factors that actualised Genghis Khan’s name: 1) the struggle against separatism under the influence of external force; 2) the desire to “start anew”, to lead a “new era of prosperity”; 3) the need to identify oneself as a true leader under the increasing role of religion. The scientific contribution is to determine the multidimensional meaning of Genghis Khan’s name; its use as a title had common grounds and characteristics, and in general had the expected (albeit in the short term) results.
Szukając odpowiedzi na pytanie czy Jezus jest Bogiem, P.Lisicki w pierwszej kolejności analizuje krytyczne koncepcje, zwracając uwagę na błędne przypuszczenia i niewłaściwe wnioski. Następnie prezentuje stanowisko współczesnych biblistów, którzy zrekonstruowali proces narodzin kultu Jezusa. W końcu, prezentuje swą własną argumentację, ukazując pierwotną koncepcje deifikacji Mistrza z Nazaretu. Argumentacja prezentowana przez P. Lisickiego jest dojrzałą apologią Jezusa jako Boga.
We integrate foundational theories of meaning with a mathematical formalism of artificial general intelligence (AGI) to offer a comprehensive mechanistic explanation of meaning, communication, and symbol emergence. This synthesis holds significance for both AGI and broader debates concerning the nature of language, as it unifies pragmatics, logical truth conditional semantics, Peircean semiotics, and a computable model of enactive cognition, addressing phenomena that have traditionally evaded mechanistic explanation. By examining the conditions under which a machine can generate meaningful utterances or comprehend human meaning, we establish that the current generation of language models do not possess the same understanding of meaning as humans nor intend any meaning that we might attribute to their responses. To address this, we propose simulating human feelings and optimising models to construct weak representations. Our findings shed light on the relationship between meaning and intelligence, and how we can build machines that comprehend and intend meaning.
El movimiento de ‘retorno a Kant’ del siglo XIX se constituye en sus orígenes a través del rechazo a la filosofía especulativa de Hegel. Por diversos motivos que no han sido debidamente clarificados aún, este movimiento filosófico culmina su derrotero a principios del siglo XX afirmando la necesidad de una renovación del hegelianismo. El objetivo del presente estudio es explicar los motivos y las consecuencias de la transformación progresiva del neokantismo de Baden en una variante de neohegelianismo.
Palabras clave: Neokantismo, escuela de Baden, Hegel, Windelband, Kroner, filosofía de la historia.
A lo largo de su obra Ronald Dworkin ha planteado una cuestión crucial acerca de la libertad de expresión: ¿es un derecho tan importante que su protección exige permitir formas de expresión que consideramos despreciables, ofensivas o socialmente dañinas? En este trabajo me gustaría analizar la reflexión del filósofo en torno a tal cuestión, centrándonos en la pornografía y los discursos del odio. Estas formas de expresión constituyen un desafío para los defensores de esa libertad, pues nos obligan a revisar los argumentos tradicionales empleados en su defensa. Para ello, consideraré en primer lugar la cuestión de si existe un derecho a la pornografía y cómo se podría justificar. Después revisaré su polémica con autoras feministas como Catharine MacKinnon a propósito de la prohibición de la pornografía, pues varias de las cuestiones son pertinentes en relación con los discursos del odio. Para concluir examinaré el modo en que R. Dworkin replantea la defensa de la libertad de expresión, pues tiene relevancia en el contexto de la discusión sobre la penalización de los discursos del odio.
Let k be an algebraically closed field of characteristic p>0 and let G be a symplectic or general linear group over k. We consider induced modules for G under the assumption that p is bigger than the greatest hook length in the partitions involved. We give explicit constructions of left resolutions of induced modules by tilting modules. Furthermore, we give injective resolutions for induced modules in certain truncated categories. We show that the multiplicities of the indecomposable tilting and injective modules in these resolutions are the coefficients of certain Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials. We also show that our truncated categories have a Kazhdan-Lusztig theory in the sense of Cline, Parshall and Scott. This builds further on work of Cox-De Visscher and Brundan-Stroppel.
Adam Ivankay, Ivan Girardi, Chiara Marchiori
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Attribution maps are popular tools for explaining neural networks predictions. By assigning an importance value to each input dimension that represents its impact towards the outcome, they give an intuitive explanation of the decision process. However, recent work has discovered vulnerability of these maps to imperceptible adversarial changes, which can prove critical in safety-relevant domains such as healthcare. Therefore, we define a novel generic framework for attributional robustness (FAR) as general problem formulation for training models with robust attributions. This framework consist of a generic regularization term and training objective that minimize the maximal dissimilarity of attribution maps in a local neighbourhood of the input. We show that FAR is a generalized, less constrained formulation of currently existing training methods. We then propose two new instantiations of this framework, AAT and AdvAAT, that directly optimize for both robust attributions and predictions. Experiments performed on widely used vision datasets show that our methods perform better or comparably to current ones in terms of attributional robustness while being more generally applicable. We finally show that our methods mitigate undesired dependencies between attributional robustness and some training and estimation parameters, which seem to critically affect other competitor methods.
Psychologists are increasingly interested in studying the psychological effects of engaging with various forms of the arts and humanities because of their significance and ubiquity in human life. There is, however, a lack of a robust conceptual framework to support a systematic and integrative approach to the study of the psychological effects of the arts and humanities. Through an extensive review of the extant literature on conceptual and operational definitions of the arts and humanities engagement from historical, institutional, and disciplinary perspectives, the present article further expands an initial conceptualization of the arts and humanities presented in Tay, Pawelski, and Keith. The implications and limitations of the integrative conceptual framework of arts and humanities engagement, as well as directions for future research, are discussed.