This qualitative study examined the influence of peer learning on academic resilience and academic success among tertiary students of Sultan Kudarat State University–Palimbang. Using a narrative analytical approach, six (6) purposively selected students participated in in-depth interviews to describe how peer interactions supported their academic experiences. Results show that peer learning provided emotional support, strengthened coping mechanisms, and enhanced students’ confidence as they navigated academic pressures. Collaborative learning also improved comprehension and retention of lessons, shaped effective study routines, and contributed to the development of a positive academic identity. These experiences helped students perceive themselves as capable and valued learners. The study concludes that peer learning is a meaningful support system that fosters both resilience and academic achievement, especially in communities with limited academic resources. Strengthening structured peer learning initiatives is recommended to further enhance student motivation, well-being, and performance.
History of scholarship and learning. The humanities, Arts in general
In the nineteenth century, the Dutch established time signals in their Atlantic colonies to synchronise maritime navigation with European standards. In Paramaribo (Suriname), a sophisticated sequence of apparatus -- including time balls, noon guns, discs and flags -- operated from 1851 until World War I. Naval officers aboard guard ships used sextants equipped with artificial horizons to determine local noon, thus integrating the colony into the global Greenwich-based cartographic system. This infrastructure was not merely technical; it became a civic ritual, with the daily noon gun structuring urban life and becoming a point of political negotiation between naval commanders and the colonial governor. In contrast, the Dutch Caribbean islands employed simpler, pragmatic systems. Curaçao used a daily time flag, a cost-effective solution suited to its climate and harbour scale, while smaller islands like Aruba and St. Eustatius relied on occasional noon guns. This diversity reflected a decentralised colonial administration that adapted technologies to local conditions and budgets. The history of these time signals reveals a process of hybrid adaptation, not simply replication of European models. They were shaped by environmental challenges, fiscal constraints and local politics, functioning simultaneously as navigational aids and civic landmarks. Their eventual decline, owing to budgetary pressures and new technologies like wireless telegraphy, underscores the fragile and negotiated nature of colonial scientific infrastructures.
Este estudio aborda las razones teológicas de agustinos y franciscanos a favor y en contra del privado durante los últimos años del reinado de Felipe II y el de Felipe III. El discurso positivo sobre el favorito se fundamentó en la idea de amistad perfecta, en la relación de hombres virtuosos e iguales. Sin embargo, los franciscanos juzgaron que esta no podía darse a causa de la desigualdad; los agustinos, en cambio, interpretaron el vínculo como natural, fruto de la gracia y el mérito. Para entender los argumentos de unos y otros comparamos la noción de jerarquía en ambas órdenes religiosas con la ayuda del modelo de la escala angélica. Mientras que los frailes menores comprendieron la organización de grado como razón de subordinación, los agustinos infirieron la escala como modelo de orden. Esas diferencias encierran concepciones antropológicas-teológicas-filosóficas propias que explican las respectivas posiciones relacionadas con el favorito. Por último, atendemos a los discursos positivos sobre el privado de la orden agustina que ofrecen desde la perspectiva teológica nuevas miradas con implicaciones políticas.
History of the arts, History (General) and history of Europe
Conny Aerts, Timothy Van Reeth, Joey S. G. Mombarg
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We combined Gaia DR3 and TESS photometric light curves to estimate the internal physical properties of 2,497 gravity-mode pulsators. We relied on asteroseismic properties of Kepler $γ\,$Dor and SPB stars to derive the near-core rotation frequency, $f_{\rm rot}$, of the Gaia-discovered pulsators from their dominant prograde dipole gravito-inertial pulsation mode. We offer a recipe based on linear regression to deduce $f_{\rm rot}$ from the dominant gravito-inertial mode frequency. It is applicable to prograde dipole modes with an amplitude above 4mmag and occurring in the sub-inertial regime. By applying it to the 2,497 pulsators, we have increased the sample of intermediate-mass dwarfs with such an asteroseismic observable by a factor of 4. We used the estimate of $f_{\rm rot}$ to deduce spin parameters between 2 and 6, while the sample's near-core rotation rates range from 0.7% to 25% of the critical Keplerian rate. We used $f_{\rm rot}$, along with the Gaia effective temperature and luminosity to deduce the (convective core) mass, radius, and evolutionary stage from grid modelling based on rotating stellar models. We derived a decline of $f_{\rm rot}$ with a factor of 2 during the main-sequence evolution for this population of field stars, which covers a mass range from 1.3M$_\odot$ to 7M$_\odot$. We found observational evidence for an increase in the radial order of excited gravity modes as the stars evolve. For 969 pulsators, we derived an upper limit of the radial differential rotation between the convective core boundary and the surface from Gaia's vbroad measurement and found values up to 5.4. Our recipe for the near-core rotation frequency from the dominant gravito-inertial mode detected in the independent Gaia and TESS light curves is easy to use, facilitates applications to large samples, and allows to map their angular momentum and evolutionary stage in the Milky Way.
The concept of the game-making is not considered in the first decade in the pedagogical science as a tool to increase the involvement and motivation of participants of the educational process. This paper describes the process of the first-year students' period of adaptation to the educational process and social environment, the which becomes a key factor in the successful formation of their professional identity. First-year students face high academic demands, the need to master new forms of learning and professional skills. Effective adaptation at the beginning of higher education is crucial for their further success and integration into the professional community. The study is aimed at developing and implementing methods that facilitate successful adaptation of first-year students and identify interests and skills, necessary for the organization of further professional activities in the university. Theoretical methods were applied: analysis of analogues, systematization of data, modelling. Empirical methods include questionnaires, observation, interviews and content analysis. Practical methods: pilot introduction, development and implementation of competitive programs, practical training. This article proposes and implements the technology of the first-year students' adaptation period, future specialists in the field of culture, aimed at improving their academic achievement, social inclusion and professional identity. The relevance of the research is in developing technology that can improve the adaptation of first-year students, their academic achievement and social inclusion. Addressing this problem contributes to the overall improvement of the quality of education and training in the cultural sphere. The project is available for scaling in other educational institutions.
Sociology (General), Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology
AbstractStandard Arabic (SA) exhibits two common word orders: subject-verb-object (SVO) and verb-subject-object (VSO). In SA, agreement is contingent on word order. In SVO, for instance, the verb agrees in all phi-features (phi features = person, number, and gender) with the subject preceding it. In contrast, in VSO order, the verb only agrees with the post-verbal subject in person and gender but not in number, resulting in partial agreement. The purpose of this article is twofold. First, it attempts to provide a unified account for the subject-verb alternation based on a distinction between ʔal-ʤumllah ʔal-iʔsmiyah “the nominal sentence” and ʔal-ʤumlah ʔal-fiʕliyah “the verbal sentence”. I assume that there is a Functional Phrase (FP) in the CP area, which is responsible for licensing the sentence as nominal or verbal. In light of this assumption, it will be shown that the feature on the Functional head (F) is the locus of word order variation in SA. Second, the current paper aims to account for the agreement asymmetry that is dependent on word order. In a probe-goal configuration, I propose that the subject in (SVO) order values the verb’s unvalued phi (ɸ) features, thereby obtaining full agreement. On the other hand, in a verb-initial clause (VSO), I suggest that because the verb moves to the Functional head (F), which is endowed with an valued singular number feature, the verb always has a singular feature, regardless of the subject (singular, dual, or plural) that follows it. As a result, partial agreement takes place between the verb and the post-verbal subject.
In this essay, I make a case for transversal writing as a method for artistic re search. I use transversal to describe a writing entity that is capable of shifting across media and disciplines, while remaining open for critical reflection. This method is akin to a metamodel, a model not confined to defining itself to the exclusion of other models. Rather, it serves as a heuristic tool for re flecting on how we proceed in an artistic research inquiry.
My inquiry is located in the fields of artist’s film and video, ficto critical writing, and performance. I begin by shortly positioning artistic research as an intentional and original search for new knowledge, with the inherent value of radical openness. I introduce a metamodel for transversal writing, which encompasses but goes beyond the film essay tradition. The hybrid forms of essayistic film and fictocritical writing are shown to carry a common interest in radical openness, turning them into sites of new knowledge. Through a link with performative writing, the concept of the event completes my metaphor of writing from the milieu.
In conclusion, I propose a diagram and a narrative reflection on the making of the artwork seeds of degrowth, whose production is a site of my research.
“The long history of research on Lyon’s Roman aqueducts (France)” is presented here in four stages from the 18th century to the present day. Each stage is marked by a leading figure in the world of archaeology, by the efforts of the Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Lyon, and today by the involvement of professional archaeologists.
The study of cultural artifact provenance, tracing ownership and preservation, holds significant importance in archaeology and art history. Modern technology has advanced this field, yet challenges persist, including recognizing evidence from diverse sources, integrating sociocultural context, and enhancing interactive automation for comprehensive provenance analysis. In collaboration with art historians, we examined the handscroll, a traditional Chinese painting form that provides a rich source of historical data and a unique opportunity to explore history through cultural artifacts. We present a three-tiered methodology encompassing artifact, contextual, and provenance levels, designed to create a "Biography" for handscroll. Our approach incorporates the application of image processing techniques and language models to extract, validate, and augment elements within handscroll using various cultural heritage databases. To facilitate efficient analysis of non-contiguous extracted elements, we have developed a distinctive layout. Additionally, we introduce ScrollTimes, a visual analysis system tailored to support the three-tiered analysis of handscroll, allowing art historians to interactively create biographies tailored to their interests. Validated through case studies and expert interviews, our approach offers a window into history, fostering a holistic understanding of handscroll provenance and historical significance.
We consider a simple string model to explain and partly demystify the phenomenon of quantum entanglement. The model in question has nothing to do with string theory: it uses macroscopic strings that can be acted upon by Alice and Bob in ways that violate, or fail to violate, in different ways Bell-CHSH inequalities and the no-signaling conditions, also called marginal laws. We present several variants of the model, to address different objections that may arise. This allows us to make fully visible what the quantum formalism already suggests, about the nature of the correlations associated with entangled states, which appear to be created in a contextual manner at each execution of a joint measurement. We also briefly present the hidden measurement interpretation, whose rationale is compatible with the mechanism suggested by our string model, then offer some final thoughts about the possibility that the quantum entanglement phenomenon might affect not only states, but also measurements, and that our physical reality would be predominantly non-spatial in nature.
The magnetic field dependent critical current $I_{\text{c}}(B)$ of a Josephson junction is determined by the screening currents in its electrodes. In macroscopic junctions, a local vector potential drives the currents, however, in thin film planar junctions, with electrodes of finite size and various shapes, they are governed by non-local electrodynamics. This complicates the extraction of parameters such as the geometry of the effective junction area, the effective junction length and, the critical current density distribution from the $I_{\text{c}}(B)$ interference patterns. Here we provide a method to tackle this problem by simulating the phase differences that drive the shielding currents and use those to find $I_{\text{c}}(B)$. To this end, we extend the technique proposed by John Clem [Phys. Rev. B, \textbf{81}, 144515 (2010)] to find $I_{\text{c}}(B)$ for Josephson junctions separating a superconducting strip of length $L$ and width $W$ with rectangular, ellipsoid and rhomboid geometries. We find the periodicity of the interference pattern ($ΔB$) to have geometry independent limits for $L \gg W$ and $L \ll W$. By fabricating elliptically shaped S$-$N$-$S junctions with various aspect ratios, we experimentally verify the $L/W$ dependence of $ΔB$. Finally, we incorporate these results to correctly extract the distribution of critical currents in the junction by the Fourier analysis of $I_{\text{c}}(B)$, which makes these results essential for the correct analysis of topological channels in thin film planar Josephson junctions.
Max Imdahl is situated on the border between the theory and practice of visual arts. His life is an experience of combining academic art history with cutting-edge art criticism. His ‘ikonik’ was intended as a continuation and completion of the methodological development of art history from iconography to iconology. Instead of the hermeneutics of the immanent meaning of an artwork, the semantics of an act of vision becomes the object of his interpretation, and criticism of cognitive capacities of language as a means of articulating artistic experience becomes his purpose. Imdahl juxtaposes his ‘ikonik’ as a theologised variant of receptive aesthetics with Hans Sedlmayr’s structural analysis. For Imdahl, Sedlmayr falls under suspicion for his all too static picture of the semantic element of an artwork, which, according to Sedlmayr, is divided into layers of meaning, unified by a single irrational (“endothymic”) basis. By contrast, ‘ikonik’ refers to the semantics emerging as simultaneous affects of the act of vision, which embraces dynamic oppositions of meaning, having a scenographic and choreographic character. Thus, the interaction with an artwork is equated to a performative act, which ensures the apophatic growth of meaning and the approach to the Revelation. The tropological decomposition of the structures of the contemplative mind (Sedlmayr) is continued by the eschatological deconstruction of the verbal discourse in the form of art history (Imdahl). Макс Имдаль располагается на границе между теорией и практикой визуальных искусств. Его жизненный путь – это опыт совмещения академической истории искусства и актуальной художественной критики. Его иконика задумывалась как продолжение и завершение методологического развития искусствознания от иконографии к иконологии. Вместо герменевтики имманентного произведению смысла объектом толкования становится семантика акта зрения, а целью – критика когнитивных возможностей языка как средства артикуляции творческого опыта. Свою иконику как теологизированный (с помощью неотомизма) вариант рецептивной эстетики Имдаль противопоставляет структурному анализу Зедльмайра, подозревая последнего в слишком статичной картине семантического устройства художественного произведения, якобы разделённого на смысловые слои, объединённые единым иррациональным («эндотимическим») основанием. Иконике же подвластны смыслы, возникающие как симультанные аффекты акта зрения, охватывающего динамически взаимодействующие смысловые противоположности сценографически-хореографического свойства. Тем самым взаимодействие с произведением искусства приравнивается к перформативному акту, что обеспечивает апофатический прирост смысла и приближение к собственно Откровению. Тропологическая декомпозиция структур созерцающего сознания (Зедльмайр) продолжается эсхатологической де-конструкцией самого вербального дискурса, имеющего вид истории искусства (Имдаль).
يهدف هذا البحث إلى الوقوف على استخدامات (لكنّ) ووظائفها النحوية كما صوّرها العلماء مع التركيز على ما يأتي : أولاً: معرفة موقف النحويين من حقيقة هذه الكلمة ونوعها, أهي بسيطة أم مركبة؟ ثانياً: معرفة خصوصية هذه الأداة عند العرب ، وما تتضمنه من دلالات. ثالثأ: معرفة ما إذا كانت الواو الداخلة عليها من جسم الكلمة أم لا.
History of scholarship and learning. The humanities, Arts in general
La imagen de la Segobriga altoimperial se verá alterada a partir del siglo iv con la ocupación
de los edificios públicos y el entramado viario. En el foro augusteo se producirá la ocupación de los pórticos, tabernae y basílica en el mismo momento en el que se construirán estructuras domésticas en el tramo del kardo maximus por el que se accedía. Este proceso convirtió al espacio público –locus celeberrimus– de los segobrigenses en un lugar de habitación y trabajo. Entre el material mueble hallado en su excavación se encuentran algunos recipientes de vajilla broncínea –acetres/ sítulas, cuenco y pátera– utilizados en el servicio de mesa, que presentamos aquí.
History of the arts, Museums. Collectors and collecting
Japan is a capitalist country that puts profit at the center of the organization of industrial relations, but puts the "man" at the center of the organization of society and, accordingly, attaches great importance to human resources. Sport, as part of a healthy lifestyle, is one of the ways to promote longevity in Japan. In addition to many other elements, it contributes to a higher quality of life along with a particular diet. In Japan, stress is present because change is part of everyday life, and in the elimination of stress, it helps the sport as part of a healthy approach to life. Japan has a very long history of traditional martial sports and that are part of the budo, namely: judo, kendo, kyudo, sumo, karate-do, aikido, shorinji kempo, naginata, and jukendo. The very English term "martial arts" implies both martial sports and martial arts, though the two terms are distinguished. For example, a traditional martial sport is sumo, a martial arts is aikido, while karate is both a sport and a martial art. The main difference between martial sports and martial arts is that martial sports have competitions and firm rules in line with which athletes compete, while the arts have no contests and competition rules, but rather respect the principles of the martial art itself. Today, martial sports aim to improve a person's potential and abilities through learning, and to lead them to a fair triumph. The main point of martial arts is the acquisition of combat skills that are applicable in every situation.
Ninetta Leone, Simone Parisotto, Kasia Targonska-Hadzibabic
et al.
Our interdisciplinary team Mathematics for Applications in Cultural Heritage (MACH) aims to use mathematical research for the benefit of the arts and humanities. Our ultimate goal is to create user-friendly software toolkits for artists, art conservators and archaeologists. In order for their underlying mathematical engines and functionality to be optimised for the needs of the end users, we pursue an iterative approach based on a continuous communication between the mathematicians and the cultural-heritage members of our team. Our paper illustrates how maths can speak art, but only if first art speaks maths.