Gli strali dell’ira: un presunto thema Vergilianum in Claudiano (carm. min. 6)

This paper offers a critical edition and a literary discussion of Claudian, carm. min. 6. Each of the four hexameters of which it consists develops Vergilian materials, namely from two distinct passages in the Aeneid (7.708 and 1.150). The general theme explored by Claudian is that of the improvised ‘weapons’ into which anger turns otherwise innocuous objects. The fortune of the poem, appreciated by both Latin authors and later scholars such as Julius Caesar Scaliger, is also explored.

MATHEMATICAL MODELING OF MICROORGANISM GROWTH (ANALYTICAL APPROACH)

This work is a report "Mathematical modeling of the growth of microorganisms", written at the suggestion of the teacher of mathematics L.S. Akinfieva in 1982, when the author was a student of the 10th grade of a specialized (with in-depth study of biology) school No. 11 in Moscow. All students of this class were asked to write reports (as a "gift for the 60th anniversary of the USSR") within the framework of the general theme "Mathematics in my future profession." The report contains the basic equations of the kinetics of growth and dying of microorganisms, as well as their consumption of a nutrient substrate (Malthus, Monod's equations, Herbert's model). In addition to the equations of microbiological kinetics themselves, some methods of obtaining their approximate solutions in the form of explicit functions (without using numerical methods) are demonstrated.

Teleology of A. P. Chekhov’s Story “My Life” (Theme and Thematical Motifs)

Purpose. The study is devoted to main thematical motifs of Chekhov’s story “My Life”. The correspondence between them reveals thematical integrity of the story. Teleology, the philosofical and conceptual aim of literary creative work, gets its manifestation by means of thematic unity. Results. The hero of the story, Misail Poloznev, breaks off relations with his narrow-minded father, an untalented civil architect. Gentry son, Misail would not choose some respectable job and prefers to work as a house-painter. He declares the importance of manual labor, so he feels like a social outcast in the town. The first leading motif of the story is a labor necessity. Another house-painter, Redka, shares its opinion. His credo is no lie, no deceive, technical skills. True and untrue way of living is the next important motif in the plot and thematical structure of the story. It realizes in two subjects: Masha Dolzhikova’s slogan “Everything is being past through” and Doctor Blagovo’s theory of progress indifferent to ethic goals of self-perfection. Misail Polosnev, on contrary, is sure that “nothing gets past through without a trace”, that a man is responsible on his deeds. The motif of life as a play is a derivate of the responsibility motif. Masha plays in life like an actress. She and Dr. Dolzhikov are completely egoistic, so Misail’s father is. Misail, his sister and Redka live for others’ good. Finally, this way is the only right way to live. Conclusion. The general theme of Chekov’s story “Me Life” is free will of the person tied with his or hers sense of responsibility. Motifs of free labor, true living and common duty units the thematical wholeness of the story. Its teleology is a need of ethic existence for everyone.

Part I Context, Ch.7 Scholarship

This chapter investigates the role of international environmental law scholarship in shaping the sub-discipline, explores its limitations, and reflects on the relationship between scholarship and praxis. It begins by defining the context, content, and key players in international environmental law scholarship. The chapter then looks at major challenges in the area, including fragmentation, reactivity, under-represented voices and issues, and inter-disciplinarity. Finally, it elaborates the important dialectic between theory and practice in international environmental law, touching in particular on the role of international environmental law scholars in litigation, advocacy, and consultancy. The general theme of the chapter is that international environmental law scholarship is a rich, maturing, and increasingly diverse body of work, and yet it lacks coherency in some important respects.

REFLECTIONS OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIA PROCESS ON THE LIFE OF ADOLESCENTS AND THEIR PARENTS: AN ASSESSMENT FROM A PARENTAL PERSPECTIVE

The purpose of this research is to evaluate the parents' perspective of the reflections of the Covid-19 pandemic on the lives of adolescents and their parents. The phenomenology model included in the research, qualitative research was used. The study was carried out in the provinces of 50 parents participating in the “We Are A Team Project” at Burdur Mehmet Akif Ersoy University. A semi-structured interview form was prepared from open-ended questions. The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on parents, its effect on adolescents, its effect on the family, the need for support and expectations are collected under five general themes. The general theme of the Covid-19 pandemic effect on parents; The changes in the lives of the parents were examined under three sub-themes: parents' feelings and thoughts, and things that are beneficial for parents. The general theme of its effect on adolescents; Problems experienced by adolescents with pandemics, feelings and thoughts of adolescents, things that adolescents have the most difficulties and things that are beneficial for adolescents are examined under four sub-themes. The general theme of the effect on the family; The effects of an acquaintance with Covid-19 disease on the family, problems as a family and positive changes in the family were examined under four sub-themes. The theme of the parent's need for support towards himself or his family; During the pandemic process, it was examined under two sub-themes: whether any support was received and feeling the need for support. Based on the findings, it turned out that this process has negative effects on parents and adolescents in general, as well as some positive effects.

THE COMPETITION ECONOMICS OF ONLINE PLATFORMS

This paper provides an overview of the competitive issues surrounding online platforms. The general theme is that while much has been made of the structural features of online platforms, there is little hard evidence that these are durable monopolies. Nonetheless, there are concerns about the behavior of large online digital platforms arising from their vertical integration, self-preferencing, killer acquisitions, and agglomeration. Developments in and relevance to ASEAN countries are discussed.

Divine Holiness and Divine Action

Holiness is the attribute most emphatically ascribed to God in Scripture. But there has been little attention devoted to characterizing and considering the entailments of divine holiness. This book defends an account of holiness indebted to Rudolf Otto’s description of the experience of the holy as that of a mysterium tremendum et fascinans. God’s being holy consists in God’s being someone with whom intimate union is both extremely desirable for us and yet something for which we—and indeed any limited beings—are unfit. This notion of divine holiness is useful for addressing disputed theological questions regarding divine action. In contrast to standard accounts of divine action that begin with assumptions regarding God’s moral perfection or God’s maximal love, the appeal to divine holiness supports a rival framework for explaining and predicting divine action—the holiness framework—according to which God is motivated to act in ways that are a response to God’s own value by keeping distance from that which is deficient, defective, or in any way limited in goodness. The book exhibits the fruitfulness of a reorientation from the morality and love frameworks to the holiness framework by showing how such a reorientation suggests distinct approaches to perennial problems of divine action regarding creation, incarnation, atonement, and salvation. From the treatment of these perennial problems, a general theme regarding divine action emerges: that God’s interaction with the world exhibits a radical sort of humility.

Is Wilson’s religion Durkheim’s, or Hobbes’s Leviathan?

This paper critically supports the modern evolutionary explanation of religion popularised by David Sloan Wilson, by comparing it with those of his predecessors, namely Emile Durkheim and Thomas Hobbes, and to some biological examples which seem analogous to religions as kinds of superorganisms in their own right. The aim of the paper is to draw out a theoretical pedigree in philosophy and sociology that is reflected down the lines of various other evolutionarily minded contributors on the subject of religion. The general theme is of evolved large-scale cooperative structures. A scholarly concern is as follows: Wilson (Darwin’s Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, And The Nature Of Society, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2002) draws on Durkheim, (The elementary forms of religious life. Free Press, New york, 1912) using Calvinism as an example without mentioning Hobbes (Leviathan, Edited by E. Curley, Cambridge, Hackett, 1651), but it was Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) who used Calvinism as an example of a leviathanesque religious structure—which is not acknowledged by either Wilson or Durkheim. If there are even any similarities between these authors, there appears to be an omission somewhere which should rightly be accounted for by giving credit to Hobbes where it is due. I issue on conclusion, what it is that makes Wilson’s approach radically different to that it skates on. I also issue it with a cautionary word.

Open Problems Column Edited by William Gasarch This Issue's Column!

In this column we state a class of open problems in Ramsey Theory. The general theme is to take Ramsey-type statements that are false and weaken them by allowing the homogenous set to use more than one color. This concept is not new, and the theorems we state and/or prove are not new; however, the open questions that request easier proofs of the known theorems (or weaker versions) may be new. We use the phrase an elementary proof. This is not meant to be a technical or rigorous term. What we really mean is a proof that can be taught in an undergraduate combinatorics course. A good example of what we mean is the proof of Theorem 9.3.

Book review: Sofia Nagornaya, Shamil Khaziev, The duty of a lawyer and the ethics of a psychologist: mental (psychological) torture in the legal system of Russia, Executive Editor A.S. Kovalets, Introductory speech by Academician of RAS A.A. Huseynov. Moscow, LUM Publ., 2020, 172 p. (In Russian).

The book by psychologist Sofia Nagornaya and lawyer Shamil Khaziev entitled “The duty of a lawyer and the ethics of a psychologist: mental (psychological) torture in the legal system of Russia” is devoted to the actual theme of psychological torture. This work is the first interdisciplinary development of this theme in Russia. The book consists of two parts. In the first part, entitled “The duty of a lawyer”, the authors draw attention to the relevance and current dynamics of the development of the general theme of the prohibition of torture, including psychological torture. The second part, entitled “Ethics of the psychologist (international experience)”, continues the development of the theme of psychological torture with the greatest interdisciplinary psychological bias. Special attention in this part is paid to the analysis of international experience in the fight against mental (psychological) torture.