Introduction

The introduction reimagines the historical narrative of rivalry between increasingly specialized cultures of medicine and the arts in the Romantic period as instead a period of mutual exchange. This familiar history is belied by the historical movement of the terms “autopsy” and “verve,” which traveled in opposite directions between medical and literary fields during the height of the British Romantic period. The crossing of “autopsy” and “verve” between fields introduces the book’s principal concerns: how shared concepts and critical practices were exchanged between letters and medicine, how new structures of thought crossed between biological and textual concerns, and how tropes of organicity, disease, and treatment in Romantic texts reveal the diagnostic practices that bridged literary and medical cultures. Through a study of the great developments in the history of medicine in this period, and the “metapothecaries” like Samuel Taylor Coleridge who considered literature and medicine through a shared ontology, the chapter argues that Romantic literature develops the notion of protocols of diagnosis—the idea that the same protocols of critical interpretation can be used by doctors to diagnose disease, and by readers to understand works of fiction and poetry. Outlining four protocols of diagnosis that the rest of the book will elaborate, the chapter concludes by linking these four formulations to modern methodologies of critical reading, exploring the resonance of this history to contemporary reflections on the history of what has come to be called “symptomatic reading.”

Random Walk Hypothesis for Stock Prices in Fiji

The main goal of this paper is to investigate the random walk hypothesis in Fiji using monthly data from January 2000 to October 2017. Applying augmented Dickey Fuller (ADF 1979, 1981) and Phillips-Perron (1988), Zivot-Andrews (1992), and Narayan and Popp (2010) unit root tests, this study finds that stock prices is best characterized as non-stationary. The estimated multiple structural break dates in the stock prices corresponds with devaluation of Fijian dollar by 20 percent in 2009 and General Elections in September 2014, which Fiji First Party won by majority votes. The empirical results indicate that stock prices are best characterized as a unit root (random walk) process, indicating that the weak-form efficient market hypothesis holds in Fiji’s stock market. Hence, it will be difficult to predict future returns based on historical movement of stock prices in Fiji’s stock market.

Data-Driven Simulation of Pedestrian Movement with Artificial Neural Network

To predict pedestrian movement is of vital importance in a wide range of applications. Recently, data-driven models are receiving increasing attention in pedestrian dynamics studies, demonstrating a great potential in enhancing simulation performance. This paper presents a pedestrian movement simulation model based on the artificial neural network, in which two submodels are, respectively, used to predict velocity displacement and velocity direction angle at each time step. Destination information, the pedestrian’s historical movement information, neighboring pedestrians, and environmental obstacles within a semicircular-shaped perception area are used as inputs to learn pedestrian movement behavioral rules. In the velocity direction angle submodel, a novel division method on pedestrian’s perception area is adopted. Specifically, perception radius is divided into several bands, and perception angle range is divided into a number of sectors, establishing a weighted spatial matrix to represent varied influences of neighboring pedestrians and obstacles. Experiments on two typical scenarios, the unidirectional flow and bidirectional flow in a long straight corridor, were conducted to obtain pedestrian movement datasets. Then, a series of simulation cases were conducted to investigate the proper values for critical parameters, including perception radius, perception angle division, weights of the spatial matrix, and historical movement adoption. In comparison of pedestrian trajectory between simulation results and real data, the mean trajectory error (MTE) and mean destination error (MDE) are, respectively, 0.114 m and 0.171 m in the unidirectional flow scenario, which are, respectively, 0.204 m and 0.362 m in the bidirectional flow scenario. In addition, the fundamental diagram representing density-velocity and density-flow relationships in simulation results agree well with that in real data. The results demonstrate great capacity and credibility of the presented model in simulating pedestrian movement in real applications.

On the Comparative Analysis of the Eurasian Region Cultures

An early article is devoted to the study of the concept of Eurasianism in the context of comparative art history. The presented article emphasizes that modern art history requires methodological innovations that will reveal the features not only of the national specifics of music, but also the parameters of its dialogue with other cultures. The article discusses the concept of musical genocide as an analogue of an innate program that determines the vectors of the artistic culture evolution. As a result, it is possible to determine both universal ethnocultural and the specificity of regional conditioned properties of culture. The purpose of the research is to determine the comparative parameters of the Eurasian culture. The research methodology lies in the method of historicism. Of fundamental importance, he can reveal the logic of historical thinking. The prospect of using the method of historicism lies in the possibility of approaching the complex whole of Eurasian culture in its historical movement, in the unity and development of its constituent parts. Behind the variety of manifestations, the main, common lines of the historical development of Eurasia are being built. The scientific novelty of the research undertaken in this article is to form a number of provisions of the comparative analysis. For example, the concept of a gene formula, a typological series. Conclusions. The category of the gene formula formulated in the article is a historically conditioned sign function of culture. The gene formula is generated by the collective experience of the ethnos and has semantic meaning. At the same time, the gene formula defines a specific type of pitch that ensures the vitality of the music and realizes the identity of the culture.

Time series analysis and forecasting of indian economy

India being an entity of highly populated nation across the globe, stands as a developing country with a perceptible economic status relative to the other countries. Integrals such as socio-political activities exert influence on the ups and downs of the economic development of any country. India was the sprightly growing economy in the early 2000’s but at the neoteric time, it is said that the economical maneuver of India has been directing towards the downhill. Prepending to the outbreak of Covid-19, the GDP discern to deflate below 0% at the onset but has shown a substantial upward movement post lockdown period. Thus, it can be ensured that the economical movement of India is progressing in a consistent approach despite the decline. In this paper, we aim at analyzing the historical movement of Indian economy in view with the recent up and downs and thereby also forecast the future economic movement with the help of time series.

Potato Landraces and Their Wild Relatives in 3 Micro-centers of Diversity in Ecuador: Farmers' Perception and Ecogeography

Ecuador is one of the centers of diversity for wild and cultivated potatoes. Three micro-centers of diversity were previously identified based on germplasm collecting passport data of potato landraces and their wild relatives. The objective of this study was to understand the potential hybridization dynamic of the genetic diversity present in situ in these micro-centers (provinces of Carchi, Chimborazo and Loja in Ecuador) by means of: 1. Reviewing the possibility of an eventual genetic cross within intercropped potato landraces through surveys to local producers; 2. Reviewing the possibility of potato landraces crossing with their wild relatives, also according to local producers; and 3. Map the actual geographic location of recent collections of potato landrace and wild potato relatives in the study areas. Information from farmers and eco-geographic data demonstrated that there is no potential crossing between wild and cultivated potato species. Probably the existing genetic variability in Ecuador has been accumulated since the historical movement of potato landraces by American ancestors from the center of origin in Peru and Bolivia and the continuum knowledge and seed sharing besides the conscious and unconscious selection of potato landraces by local farmers for centuries. Additionally, we discuss options to conserve both cultivated and wild potato species in Ecuador due to apparent current genetic erosion processes.

Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd: A Study of Financial Movement during Pandemic Times

Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd is the Indian MNC based in Mumbai with largest market capitalization amongst the Indian Pharma companies. The study focuses on the study of the various parameters of financial performance and risk measurement of Sun Pharmaceuticals Industries Ltd during the challenging time of Covid era. The financial variability of return using the Value at Risk concept based on the historical movement of the daily return has been analyzed to understand the trend of the risk related to the variability in return. Also, the trend analysis has been used to analyze the movement of various fundamental financial parameters like Net Income, Operating Income Margin, Net Income Margin

The Inner Form between Logic and Semantics:W. von Humboldt – G. Shpet – R. Jacobson – N. Zhinkin. Zhinkin, Nikolai I., Letter to Pavel S. Popov, Publication by Boris I. Pruzhinin and Tatiana G. Shchedrina

The reason for writing this article was a letter from Nikolai Ivanovich Zhinkin to Pavel Sergeevich Popov (has been reproduced hereafter), which discusses the es­sential logical-epistemological problem of the relationship between conscious­ness and language. The authors immerse the ideas expressed by N.I. Zhinkin in the late – psychological – period of creativity, in the field of his early – philo­sophical – interests, motivated by the conceptual constructions of his teacher G.G. Shpet (first of all, by his phenomenologically oriented studies of the inner form of the word). The concept of inner form, the European sources of its origin, the trajectory of its historical movement in Russia from philosophy (G.G. Shpet) to linguistics (R.O. Yakobson) and psychology (N.I. Zhinkin) is central for the authors of the article, as well as the semantic transformations that occur with him during the transfer from the sphere of philosophy to specific scientific areas of knowledge. At the same time, the historical continuity of Russian pre-revolution­ary philosophy and scientific and humanitarian thought of the Soviet period is demonstrated. In methodological terms, the authors focus on the features of philosophical ideas’ application in their projection onto the emerging positive scientific research itself. When a positive (albeit humanitarian) science assimi­lates any approach initiated by philosophy, it accentuates aspects of its concep­tual content relevant to a given subject area under study, thereby determining its ideological and conceptual potential. Such a semantic limitation of philosophical ideas and concepts, arising in the course of their projection onto positive scien­tific research, stops their dynamics, which is inevitable retribution for their spe­cific cognitive effectiveness.

Hegel's totality as a necessary challenge for the possibility of achieving interculturalism: Polemical writings

The paper presents a polemical examination of the possibility of achieving interculturalism in the context of Hegel's totality, as the truth and the state of the modern world. In considering this problem, we start from the basic concepts of Hegel's philosophy of Spirit, with the aim of providing insight into the key problems of totality in the Hegel's philosophical system. The dialectical relationship that operates within the Hegel's system of Spirit is considered, and the question of the philosophy of history is opened as a specific way of thinking about historical movement that directs us to re-examine the possibility of achieving interculturality in the modern global society. Overcoming the current historical totality - global capitalism, requires a re-confrontation with Hegel's philosophy and setting of a dialectic that exists at the core of the world in which we live. Also, the paper offers an attempt to consider alternative actions, steps towards the realization of the idea and practice of interculturality and the development of a dialectical response to the perverted Hegelian totality that marks the present.

AXIOLOGICAL ASPECT OF L.P. KARSAVIN’S METAPHYSICS OF UNITY

В статье выявляется аксиологическая компонента опыта рефлексии Л.П. Карсавина над ценностно-смысловыми основаниями развития человечества как коллективного субъекта исторического движения к «полноте совершенства». Ряд его умозаключений аксиологического характера свидетельствует об эвристическом потенциале таких интенсивно используемых философом понятий, как «идеал истории»; «к чествованию»; «симфоническая личность». Многие явления и проблемы прошлого, сопряженного и с настоящим и с будущим, рассматриваются и оцениваются в соотнесении с Абсолютом через концепты «идеала всеединства», «полноты совершенства», «идеи культуры». The article reveals the axiological component of L.Р. Karsavin's experience of reflection on the value-semantic foundations of the humanity’s development as a collective subject of the historical movement to the fullness of perfection. A number of his axiological conclusions indicate the heuristic potential of such concepts as the ideal of history, quality, and symphonic personality, which are intensively used by the philosopher. Many phenomena and problems of the past, connected with both the present and the future, are considered and evaluated in relation to the absolute through such concepts as «the ideal of unity», «the completeness of perfection», «the idea of culture».