This chapter presents a case of a 47-year-old male with confusion secondary to hyponatremia, caused by beer potomania (excessive beer consumption). The case highlights the approach to a patient with an altered mental status, seizures, and severe hyponatremia. The approach to diagnostic testing, stabilization, and interventions to prevent progression and deterioration to a comatose state are described.

This chapter introduces tools for tuning and debugging acceleration techniques.

This chapter proposes global experimentalist governance as an ideal framework for addressing ocean acidification (OA). Global experimentalist governance consists of five elements: identifying a shared problem, setting open-ended goals, delegating solutions to lower governance levels, establishing feedback and peer-review mechanisms, and adjusting goals based on learning. This approach aligns well with OA’s characteristics, which are both scientific and part of a regime complex. The framework accommodates OA’s complexity through recursive learning cycles, multilevel participation, and provisional goal setting that can adapt as scientific understanding advances. A central unit coordinates, but does not control, the process, using ‘penalty defaults’ to encourage reluctant actors to cooperate. Favourable background conditions for experimentalist governance exist for OA, such as strategic uncertainty due to problem complexity and polyarchic power distribution with no single dominant actor. The chapter concludes that this governance approach could leverage OA’s existing regime complex rather than replace it, making it a promising framework for tackling this emerging environmental challenge.

This chapter provides comprehensive guidance on navigating media interactions and developing a professional social media presence in academia. It details essential strategies for conducting successful media interviews, emphasizing the importance of clear communication, professional conduct, and maintaining scholarly integrity. The chapter outlines specific techniques for engaging with journalists, including using accessible language, providing concise responses, and managing unexpected situations. It also addresses the growing importance of social media in academic careers, offering practical advice for building a professional brand while maintaining academic credibility. Special attention is given to content strategy, professional networking, and reputation management across various digital platforms. The chapter emphasizes the delicate balance between increasing visibility and maintaining scholarly standards, providing concrete guidelines for effective research communication in both traditional media and digital spaces.

Chapters 2 and 3 form the ethnographic heart of the book, exploring the economic niches that form an informal welfare system largely reserved for disabled people. Chapter 2 considers brokering at the Kinshasa-Brazzaville border, an activity viewed by some as ‘given’ by the state as a form of compensation for the lack of social welfare. Examining in detail the dynamics of community and the activities performed at the border, the chapter shows how the social values underpinning personal relationships were tested in the moral dilemmas over a common rhetoric of individualism: ‘fending-for-yourself’ rather than caring for mutually dependent relationships. A moral emphasis on the value and nature of professional relationships was shaped by the knowledge that life and work at the border might only ever be a temporary arrangement, as the most dramatic incarnations of ’crisis’ (mpiaka) drew attention to the temporal frame in which these value debates took place.

Examines the impact of digital technologies on higher education, focusing on online instruction, MOOCs, and edtech. Highlights successful examples like MIT’s OpenCourseWare and Arizona State University’s transformation. Emphasizes the need for strong dynamic capabilities to harness technology for strategic renewal.

The human body is tied to a distinctive form of natural beauty, for Hegel proposes that there is something about the human body in its given, natural form that makes it uniquely capable of manifesting self-conscious spirit or mind. Since, ontologically speaking, the being of spirit is of a higher order than anything in nonhuman nature, the capacity to give off the distinctive look and sound of a spiritual way of being amounts to the human body’s capacity for a higher, fuller beauty as well. This chapter focuses primarily on the naturally given, predominantly involuntary ways in which the human body allows spirituality to appear. Because Hegel characterizes artworks generally as involving a “spiritualizing” of otherwise natural forms, we are encouraged to think of the human body’s distinctive, spirit-manifesting demeanor as a kind of root aesthetic vocabulary with which all of the more developed “languages” of art are familiar and from which they grow. But it also seems that for Hegel it ultimately takes art, and in particular classical sculpture, to reveal the purportedly natural beauty of the body, and this complicates the sense in which bodily beauty is natural after all.

Mycenae’s LH IIIA2-IIIB palatial stonework was spectacular, and attention is given here to the innovative construction processes and specialized stonecutting tools that elicited awe. A fresh look at Mycenae’s final three tholoi illustrates the strategy of conveying power through stonework. The chapter also assesses the semiotics of the site’s architectural sculpture.

Based on a talk delivered on the occasion of the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, this brief account reflects my personal path—from the earliest days of supersymmetry to the discovery of Supergravity and the subsequent developments that have helped shape an exciting frontier of modern theoretical physics.

This chapter explores the health and wellbeing of Elders and older Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and the factors that are important to consider in their care, including chronic conditions, a shorter lifespan and culturally safe and appropriate aged care. Older Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and their families make conscious decisions around care, and the role of the nurse is to support individuals and their families in making informed decisions. Reasons are presented for why some Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people may be viewed by various health professionals as non-compliant or disengaging from the health system and their ongoing care, including palliative care, when in fact they are making conscious choices that can be culturally defined and seen as a cultural determinant of health.

This chapter surveys the wide range of definitions of belief in recent scholarship and explores the potential of the cognitive science of religion for generating new approaches. It rejects the assumption that it is possible to talk about the presence or absence of ‘belief’ in Greek religion in a monolithic way, such that the Greeks either believed wholly in their gods or they did not, and challenges the related assumption that beliefs combine to form stable, internally consistent systems. It draws on a range of concepts from cognitive science to explore how contradictions between beliefs and between beliefs and experience might be managed and argues for a dynamic, contextual and plural understanding of Greek religious belief.

We review the development of understanding for the problem of ultraviolet divergences in supergravity. This history proceeds from initial constructions of counterterms invariant under the relevant degrees of local supersymmetry, through a deeper understanding of non-renormalisation theorems for the relevant degrees of ``off-shell’’ linearly realisable supersymmetry, and on to current understanding of limitations on counterterm eligibility based on the duality symmetries of supergravity theories, as well as of the related structures emerging in superstring theory.

The implications of tool distributions and exceptional building projects in the Argolid and Boeotia are discussed. Substantial gaps remain in the story of transregional craft and political ties, but the present study offers new clues about the political makeup of at least part of the Mycenaean world.

Derrida stated in Specters of Marx that the twentieth century was, among other things, the century ‘of the ego cogito – and of the very concept of nar¬cissism whose aporias are, let us say in order to go too quickly and save ourselves a lot of references, the explicit theme of deconstruction’. Although one can make too much of such rare, bombastic moments that seem to offer a ‘master-concept’ around which we might understand Derrida's oeuvre as a unified whole, it is not difficult to imagine some of the references he could have offered to demonstrate that narcissism has indeed been his theme, albeit not always terribly explicitly. For example, although Voice and Phenomenon never uses the word ‘narcissism’, its deconstruction of the ‘ideal or absolute solitude of “proper” subjectivity’ in its supposedly ‘pure auto-affection’ – performed via exposing the constitutive role of the indicative sign in ‘hearing-oneself-speak’– can be understood as an engagement with narcissism in at least two senses. Not only does it dispute the tenability of the phenomenological philosopher's narcissistic dream of achieving the view from nowhere of a pure and objective scientific knowledge, it does this through showing that the closed-in-on-itself, world-constituting, self-constituting and self-sufficient transcendental subject or ego cogito is an illusion, in at least the Freudian sense.