In the article “Irreducible modules of modular Lie superalgebras and super version of the first Kac-Weisfeiler conjecture, Canad. Math. Bull. 67 (2024), no. 3, 554–573.” The statement in Theorem 4.7 is improper, which is fixed here. Theorem 4.7 is an isolated result in the article. This correction does not influence any arguments and any main results after that in the original article.

From Ovid to Chaucer, the ‘go, book’ refrain is a recognisable motif in the poetry of the classical tradition. This article collects evidence for the emergence and formalisation of the vade, liber formula from its antecedents in Catullus 35 and Horace Epistles 1.20 to its development in the exile works of Ovid and Martial and beyond. We see that the poetic envoi has its very origins in Latin poetry of the first centuries BCE and CE, without direct Hellenophone precedents. Attending to the dynamics of presence and absence, nearness and farness, fixedness and mobility that are highlighted in the poetic address to the book, the article argues that the personification of the book as an authorial messenger develops in response to the changing sense of spatiality of writers vis-à-vis their real and imagined audiences during the period of Rome’s imperial expansion. In the hands of these authors, the book becomes a moving object.

In 1911, Italy invaded the region now known as Libya, then part of the Ottoman Empire, as part of a larger Italian colonizing foray into northern Africa. Many scholars have pointed out in recent years how intense the sonic environments of war can be, and the Italo-Turkish War of 1911–12 was no exception. Not only was the war itself full of sound and sonic media such as gramophones and telephones, the narration of the war, including most (in)famously that of Futurist author F.T. Marinetti, focused from the outset on the sonic intensities of the conflict. In addition, the war became a site for the cultivation of sonic media: Guglielmo Marconi not only deployed his radio technology for the Italian cause, he personally travelled to Libya to test and refine radio in the unique geographies there. In this article, I consider these Italian-centric narratives of war alongside accounts of the sonic experiences of the Arab and Ottoman Turkish forces in their resistance to the Italian occupation, considering the sonic techniques deployed both for and against Italian colonialism. I focus on three particular sonic techniques of that resistance: first, ‘counterlistening’, or ways of listening that subvert empire’s auralities; second, ululation (mostly by women) on the battlefield and beyond; and third, jihad, especially its sonic articulations as a set of declarations, battle cries, religious chanting, and even poetry. For both sides, sound played a much greater role in the war than just being a by-product of activity; these sonic techniques both shaped the war and were shaped by it, producing new forms of sonic experience that played important roles in constituting the colonial and anticolonial in Libya.

Both skill-biased and routine-biased technological changes risk disrupting employment in Australia, particularly through persistent effects after an economic downturn. Soft skills are considered valuable for employees to reduce unemployment risk from these technological biases, as these skills contribute to employment in skilled and non-routine jobs that are difficult to automate. We investigate how soft skills affected the risk of unemployment from the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) using the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) longitudinal dataset to understand whether these skills could reduce unemployment risk and similar negative employment outcomes for workers during economic disruptions, including the following years during the recovery. We find that the soft skill measures of social capital and low task repetitiveness are associated with lower unemployment, overskilling, and underutilisation risk. The association between social capital and underemployment also strengthened after the downturn. This did not begin immediately after the GFC but instead from 2013 onwards, after the end of the mining boom that had supported Australia during the GFC.

This study examines the ramifications engendered by the personalisation welfare initiative, denominated as ‘Individualised Budgeting’, upon the welfare service framework in Israel. Adopting a supply-side perspective, the study employed qualitative, in-depth interviews with service providers to scrutinise potential successes and failures in service systems. The study’s methodology employed a multi-criteria policy analysis based upon the analytical theoretical framework of Gilbert and Terrell’s welfare service delivery system analysis. Results revealed that while service integration and systematic function distribution align well with the programme, accessibility and accountability only partially fit, suggesting a need for improved regulatory frameworks. New criteria, including economic viability for private suppliers and investment in innovative services, also emerged. Addressing these market inadequacies requires State investment in technological innovations to ensure an effective service delivery system.

US data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey estimates that the prevalence of obesity among US adolescents (ages 12–19) has reached 22.9% of the paediatric population, with nearly 9% meeting criteria for severe obesity (body mass index ≥120% of the 95th percentile or ≥35 kg/m2). These alarming figures underscore the cumulative impact of paediatric obesity, including established associations with impaired cardiometabolic health. The study “Cardiac Geometry Alterations Following Bariatric Surgery in Severely Obese Adolescents: A One-Year Follow-Up Study of a Randomized Controlled Trial” advances this understanding by comparing lifestyle intervention alone versus lifestyle therapy in combination with the application of bariatric surgery (e.g. laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding). As the first prospective randomised trial to assess cardiac geometric and following adolescent metabolic and bariatric surgical intervention, the findings demonstrate significant improvements in cardiac geometry among surgical participants, suggesting partial reversal of obesity-related cardiac remodelling. While these short-term results are encouraging, durability remains uncertain given the study’s small sample size and previous reports of significant weight regain and higher-than-expected complication rates following gastric banding. Considerations for future investigational designs should incorporate an expanded age range with regards to overall eligibility as well as bariatric procedures other than the gastric band, that offer long-term weight loss (i.e., vertical sleeve gastrectomy and gastric bypass). Longer-term and comprehensive follow-up will be critical to delineate the longitudinal cardiometabolic outcomes of surgical versus medical interventions for severe adolescent obesity.

Frank Samperi is a neglected twentieth-century American poet who produced a large body of poetry. Affiliated closely with Objectivist poetics through the mentorship of Louis Zukofsky, Samperi’s work is significantly influenced by the Catholic writings of Aquinas and Dante. With a commitment to linguistic self-reflexivity, an ethics of otherness, and a resistance to abstraction and identity thinking, Samperi’s work enhances and expands our understanding of the key traits of Objectivist poetics, often regarded as relying heavily on Judaic ideas and philosophies. As an Italian American Catholic, his poetry also demonstrates an immigrant’s compromise with Americanization, but an equally clear alignment with the emerging American poetic counterculture in the 1960s.

In discussions on European Neogene continental chronology, the Kastellios Hill section has played an important role because of the presence of strata with planktonic foraminifers and strata with mammalian remains. With the primary papers written in the 1970s and 1980s, the time is ripe for an update on age and taxonomy of the murid rodents from Kastellios Hill by comparing the fauna with time-equivalent southern and central European faunas. This comparison results in a partly revised faunal list consisting of the dominant Progonomys mixtus n. sp., the less common Cricetulodon cf. C. hartenbergeri Freudenthal, 1967 and P. cathalai Schaub, 1938, and the rare P. hispanicus Michaux, 1971 and cf. Hansdebruijnia neutra (de Bruijn, 1976). Based on the updated species list and magnetic polarity data, the most probable age of the Kastellios Hill mammal localities is 9.3–9.1 Ma (Chron C4Ar.1r, late Vallesian, MN10). The genus Hansdebruijnia is narrowed down to two species in an ancestor–descendant relationship: the ancestral type species H. neutra, which is restricted to southeastern Europe and Anatolia, and the descendant species H. magna (Sen, 1977), representing a new combination and including ‘Occitanomys alcalai’ Adrover et al., 1988 and ‘O. debruijni’ (Hordijk and de Bruijn, 2009). H. magna colonized both southeastern and southwestern Europe.

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We report the first identification of nematode parasitism in a nemertean host (Arctostemma arcticum), representing a novel host-parasite interaction in marine ecosystems. Larvae of the anisakid nematode were discovered within the rhynchocoel of A. arcticum collected from the White Sea, suggesting transmission via ingestion of infected crustaceans – a previously undocumented pathway. The nematode was identified as Phocanema bulbosum through both morphological and molecular analyses.

The presence of nematode in nemertean A. arcticum implies trophic transmission through nemertean predation on infected amphipods, supported by hoplonemertean feeding strategy. While some fish occasionally consume nemerteans, their low predation frequency suggests A. arcticum could act as a dead-end host.

This study expands the known host range of Anisakidae, though it remains uncertain whether nemerteans serve as competent hosts in the P. bulbosum life cycle. Nevertheless, the findings highlight the need to assess nemerteans’ potential influence on parasite dynamics in fisheries and aquaculture, particularly where they coexist with intermediate and definitive hosts.

This study examines the overlooked protests at the 1968 Venice Biennale to reassess the role of the media in Italy’s sessantotto. While mainstream newspapers largely dismissed the student and cultural demonstrations, illustrated magazines and television news offered more varied and sometimes sympathetic coverage, reaching millions. First-hand accounts of police violence in the work of photojournalist Gianni Berengo Gardin and in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s evolving commentary for Tempo magazine show that protest could come from within the media itself. The analysis highlights the significance of television’s innovative current affairs programming, which, despite censorship, brought global and Italian unrest into homes. By exploring the media ecosystem beyond newspapers – magazines, photojournalism, and television – this research shows how these platforms played a crucial role in shaping public understanding of 1968’s cultural and political conflicts, offering a fresh interpretation of Italy’s ‘1968’ and the complex relationship between protest and the media.

This article is the publication of the first bilingual inscription from Hatra, combining Greek with Hatran Aramaic. It is known only from a slide in the archives of the Italian Archaeological Mission to Hatra and, as the first bilingual document from the city itself, it deserves special attention from a multidisciplinary perspective. The inscription is discussed here in its wider context, first with regard to what it can contribute to our understanding of codeswitching between Greek and Aramaic, at Hatra itself and within the wider Near East, and second concerning our knowledge of the development of the city’s local religious life. It is argued that the new inscription casts light on the way in which the goddess ʾAllāt, under influence of the royal house, came to join the Sun god Šmeš (Šamaš) at the heart of Hatrene religion.

Environmental issues have an international dimension, with causes and consequences that extend beyond national borders—including the effects of the policies designed to address them. This paper investigates how different levels of environmental regulation influence the long-term spatial distribution of firms and households. The results suggest that only highly asymmetric regulations align with the Pollution Haven Hypothesis, causing firms to cluster in areas with lax environmental standards. In contrast, moderate differences in regulation tend to improve environmental quality across regions and can generate positive spillovers for countries adopting greener policies, such as attracting new residents and stimulating investment. While this lends support to the Porter Hypothesis, it does so through a less conventional mechanism. Rather than fostering innovation, stringent regulations enhances regional attractiveness by expanding the market size.

Why do incumbent governments carry out harsher repression against some opposition groups than others? Drawing on research on the coalitional nature of revolutions, we contend that governments target repression at segments of the challenger group they perceive as most threatening in order to fragment the challenger coalition. We illustrate this argument by analyzing protest repression during the 2011 Syrian uprising. We find that protestors in majority-Kurdish towns in Syria’s northeast region were significantly less likely to face lethal repression than those in nearby Sunni Arab towns protesting at the same rate. Qualitative evidence from interviews and the Arabic-language secondary literature demonstrate that the Syrian regime shaped its strategy of repression around diverting Kurdish protests from the regime-focused demands of the revolution, thereby separating Kurds from the primarily Sunni Arab opposition. These findings have implications for how ethnic and other identities can be used by incumbents and how incumbent regimes communicate with their populations through the selective deployment of violence.

Existing research analyzes government-recognized Indigenous autonomy as a late twentieth-century phenomenon. Yet even in the unlikely case of nineteenth-century Latin America, where central states systematically targeted Indigenous groups for exploitation, discrimination, and assimilation, governments sometimes adopted policies to recognize Indigenous communal landholding and self-government rights. This paper explores when and why this surprising recognition of Indigenous autonomy occurred. It argues that incumbents were most likely to recognize autonomy when (1) they viewed Indigenous leaders as valuable allies and (2) rural elites were sufficiently weak and could not block government policies they disliked. The former condition incentivized incumbents to recognize autonomy, while the latter gave them the capacity to do so. I test this argument using within-case comparisons across several nineteenth and early twentieth-century cases, which include Guatemala, El Salvador, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, and Mexico. The findings offer important insights into historical autonomy and the more recent expansion of Indigenous rights in Latin America.