Compound adjectives in the Erzya and Hungarian languages

Introduction. Compounding is one of the leading ways to update vocabulary. A compound word is the result of combining two or more meanings at the lexical-semantic, word-formation, syntactic levels, which determines versatile approaches to its study, including comparative-historical. The purpose of the research is a comparative historical study of compound adjectives of the Erzya and Hungarian languages. It can be achieved by considering the formation patterns of compound adjectives; analysis of compound adjectives in Erzya and Hungarian; identifying the types of relationships between the components of a compound word; statistical calculations. Materials and Methods. The material for analysis was formed by the method of continuous sampling from bilingual dictionaries: Erzya-Russian and Hungarian-Russian. It used the methods for determining the genetic affiliation of language data, establishing a system of correspondences and anomalies in the compared languages; spatial localization of linguistic phenomena. Research and Discussion. Compounding in the Erzya and Hungarian languages are divided into two large groups: 1) formed on the basis of a compositional connection and 2) created on the basis of a subordinate connection between components. As the study showed, complex adjectives of the subordinate type in the Erzya language are few in number, while in the Hungarian language they constitute the majority. This group includes words with the first part – an adjective, a noun, a numeral. Compound adjectives of a compositional type, prevailing in the Erzya language, can be formed as a result of the merger of two proper adjectives, two derived adjectives, repetition of derived adjectives. In the Hungarian language, the share of complex adjectives of the compositional type is small. Among them there are the ones paired and formed by the type of twin words. Conclusion. The results of the study indicate that the formation of complex adjectives in the Hungarian and Erzya languages is an active process.

Peran Orang Tua Untuk Meningkatkan Kualitas Ibadah Keluarga Berdasarkan Ulangan 6:7

This study was developed with the aim of analyzing the role of parents in improving the quality of family worship based on the book of Deuteronomy 6:7. This study use a qualitative method by descriptive approach using literature and journal studies. The results of the study indicate that the inculcation of spiritual and religious values ​​must be carried out by parents. The word 'teach' in this verse uses the Hebrew word shânan and the word shânan here uses the root form of the Piel PERFECT type which means to whet or to sharpen, in Ugarit this is interpreted as the act of repeating, expressing an active process so that shânan is interpreted by teaching diligently. A similar emphasis to the word 'to speak' which comes from the Hebrew word dâbar also uses the Piel form to mean to talk continuously. Shânan and dâbar can be done in well-organized family worship in the morning ang evening as exemplified by parents. Parents can 'teach diligently' by linking children's activities with knowledge of God, at any time and at every opportunity. Parents are important educators for their children to forge, educate, train, guide and discipline their children by promoting peace and harmony. Penelitian ini dikembangkan dengan tujuan untuk menganilisa peran orang tua dalam meningkatkan kualitas ibadah keluarga berdasarkan kitab Ulangan 6:7. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif melalui pendekatan deskriptif dengan menggunakan studi pustaka dan jurnal. Hasil penelitian yang diperoleh menyatakan bahwa penanaman nilai-nilai rohani dan keagamaan harus dilakukan oleh orang tua. Kata ‘mengajarkan’ dalam ayat ini menggunakan kata Ibrani shânan dan kata shânan di sini menggunakan bentuk kata dasar jenis Piel PERFECT yang dimaknai mempertajam atau mengasah, di Ugarit ini dimaknai tindakan mengulang, menyatakan proses aktif sehingga shânan diartikan dengan mengajarkan berulang-ulang. Penekanan serupa dengan kata ‘membicarakan’ yang berasal dari kata Ibrani dâbar juga menggunakan bentuk Piel sehingga diartikan membicarakan terus menerus. Shânan dan dâbar dapat dilakukan dalam ibadah keluarga yang teratur pada pagi dan petang yang dicontohkan oleh orang tua. Orang tua dapat ‘mengajarkan berulang-ulang’ dengan menghubungkan aktifitas anak dengan pengenalan akan Tuhan, di setiap waktu dan di setiap kesempatan. Orang tua adalah sebagai pendidik eminen kepada anak-anaknya untuk menempa, mengedukasi, melatih, menuntun dan mendisiplin anak-anaknya dengan mengasung kententraman dan keharmonisan.

The risks of invisibilization of populations and places in environment-migration research

Recent years have seen an increase in the use of secondary data in climate adaptation research. While these valuable datasets have proven to be powerful tools for studying the relationships between people and their environment, they also introduce unique oversights and forms of invisibility, which have the potential to become endemic in the climate adaptation literature. This is especially dangerous as it has the potential to introduce a double exposure where the individuals and groups most likely to be invisible to climate adaptation research using secondary datasets are also the most vulnerable to climate change. Building on significant literature on invisibility in survey data focused on hard-to-reach and under-sampled populations, we expand the idea of invisibility to all stages of the research process. We argue that invisibility goes beyond a need for more data. The production of invisibility is an active process in which vulnerable individuals and their experiences are made invisible during distinct phases of the research process and constitutes an injustice. We draw on examples from the specific subfield of environmental change and migration to show how projects using secondary data can produce novel forms of invisibility at each step of the project conception, design, and execution. In doing so, we hope to provide a framework for writing people, groups, and communities back into projects that use secondary data and help researchers and policymakers incorporate individuals into more equitable climate planning scenarios that “leave no one behind.”

American Christian Nationalism and the Meaning of “Religion”

American Christian nationalism highlights the entanglements of identity and power as they relate to the category of “religion.” Like many populist movements, Christian nationalism emerges out of a power-devaluation crisis stemming from the diminishment of White Christians’ social and political hegemony, coalescing around the affirmation that the US is a properly “Christian” nation. However, an examination of Christian nationalism reveals that the meaning of “Christian” within Christian nationalism cannot be captured by traditional measures of individual religiosity that tacitly presuppose that religion is essentially private, belief-focused, and non-political in nature, but must recognize that it expresses a complex social identity involving multiple social domains (e.g., race, gender, political ideology) and, as such, contests of power. This analysis is significant for religious studies because it suggests that religion is better approached analytically as an active process of socially-shared identity formation than as a belief system or Gestalt of individual religious practices.

“To Love the Rest of His Thoughts as Myself” – Translating Mendelssohn’s Singular Bildung

The conceptual history of Bildung, the German term for self-formation, encapsulates the ethical revolution of modern German thought, associated with the Kantian moment and its aftermath. Reshaped in modernity to respond to a post-Kantian, critical sensibility, the modern term emphasizes the reflexive, active process of self-formation, in contrast with the medieval theological sensibility which emphasized the receptive imprint of the image of God. In this article, I unpack Moses Mendelsohn’s idiosyncratic notion of Bildung. I show that what is unique, indeed, singular in Mendelssohn’s notion of Bildung is the way it merges the traditional, theological notion with the modern one. For Mendelssohn, to imitate God is to come to value one’s contingent being. The imitation of the ideal, the most perfect, is tantamount to embracing the perfectible, and the process of perfection or self-actualization. Jacobi, Mendelssohn, Bildung, Contingency, Pantheism affair, Moral Perfectionism

Understanding insomnia as systemic disease

Sleep plays a critical role in homeostasis of the body and mind. Insomnia is a disease that causes disturbances in the initiation and maintenance of sleep. Insomnia is known to affect not only the sleep process itself but also an individual’s cognitive function and emotional regulation during the daytime. It increases the risk of various neuropsychiatric diseases such as depression, anxiety disorder, and dementia. Although it might appear that insomnia only affects the nervous system, it is also a systemic disease that affects several aspects of the body, such as the cardiovascular, endocrine, and immune systems; therefore, it increases the risk of various diseases such as hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and infection. Insomnia has a wide range of effects on our bodies because sleep is a complex and active process. However, a high proportion of patients with insomnia do not seek treatment, which results in high direct and indirect costs. This is attributed to the disregard of many of the negative effects of insomnia. Therefore, we expect that understanding insomnia as a systemic disease will provide an opportunity to understand the condition better and help prevent secondary impairment due to insomnia.

Pathophysiology of Vascular Calcification and Bone Loss: Linked Disorders of Ageing?

Vascular Calcification (VC), low bone mass and fragility fractures are frequently observed in ageing subjects. Although this clinical observation could be the mere coincidence of frequent age-dependent disorders, clinical and experimental data suggest that VC and bone loss could share pathophysiological mechanisms. Indeed, VC is an active process of calcium and phosphate precipitation that involves the transition of the vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) into osteoblast-like cells. Among the molecules involved in this process, parathyroid hormone (PTH) plays a key role acting through several mechanisms which includes the regulation of the RANK/RANKL/OPG system and the Wnt/ß-catenin pathway, the main pathways for bone resorption and bone formation, respectively. Furthermore, some microRNAs have been implicated as common regulators of bone metabolism, VC, left ventricle hypertrophy and myocardial fibrosis. Elucidating the common mechanisms between ageing; VC and bone loss could help to better understand the potential effects of osteoporosis drugs on the CV system.

Fast adaptation of cooperative channels engenders Hopf bifurcations in auditory hair cells

Since the pioneering work of Thomas Gold published in 1948, it has been known that we owe our sensitive sense of hearing to a process in the inner ear that can amplify incident sounds on a cycle-by-cycle basis. Termed the active process, it uses energy to counteract the viscous dissipation associated with sound-evoked vibrations of the ear's mechanotransduction apparatus. Despite its importance, the mechanism of the active process and the proximate source of energy that powers it have remained elusive—especially at the high frequencies characteristic of mammalian hearing. This is partly due to our insufficient understanding of the mechanotransduction process in hair cells, the sensory receptors and amplifiers of the inner ear. It has previously been proposed that a cyclical binding of Ca2+ ions to individual mechanotransduction channels could power the active process. That model, however, relied on tailored reaction rates that structurally forced the direction of the cycle. Here, we ground our study on our previous model of hair-cell mechanotransduction, which relied on the cooperative gating of pairs of channels, and incorporate into it the cyclical binding of Ca2+ ions. With a single binding site per channel and reaction rates drawn from thermodynamic principles, our model shows that hair cells behave as nonlinear oscillators that exhibit Hopf bifurcations, dynamical instabilities long understood to be signatures of the active process. Using realistic parameter values, we find bifurcations at frequencies in the kilohertz range with physiological Ca2+ concentrations. In contrast to the myosin-based mechanism, responsible for low-frequency relaxation oscillations in the vestibular hair cells of amphibians, the current model relies on the electrochemical gradient of Ca2+ as the only energy source for the active process and on the relative motion of cooperative channels within the stereociliary membrane as the single mechanical driver. Equipped with these two mechanisms, a hair bundle proves capable of operating at frequencies in the kilohertz range, characteristic of mammalian hearing.