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2026 EN
Galipeau Steven
This is a companion piece to the article by Tia Galipeau in this issue documenting her ongoing journey with trees, particularly giant sequoias and a certain redwood. It picks up on her ongoing connection with Stuart Moskowitz, the caretaker of the redwood “Luna,” and her relationship with the giant sequoia she came to call “Tree Mother.” Quotes from Jung are interspersed to highlight how important our ongoing relationship with nature is. This article follows Tia’s resourcefulness to stay connected to these splendid trees when she had to wait three years to see whether the fires ravaging the sequoia forests and the rest of our land had harmed or destroyed “Tree Mother,” the giant sequoia who called to her as she described in her paper. Meanwhile, she developed a relationship with another sequoia she came to call the “Bleeding Tree.” Together with the west wind, which comes from the plains of the ocean, I journey across the green countryside, I roam through the forests, and bend the young grass. I talk with trees and the forest wildlife, and the stones show me the way. — C. G. Jung, Liber Novus: The Red Book Together with the west wind, which comes from the plains of the ocean, I journey across the green countryside, I roam through the forests, and bend the young grass. I talk with trees and the forest wildlife, and the stones show me the way. — C. G. Jung, Liber Novus: The Red Book
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2026 EN
Nabozhenko Maxim V. · Bekchanov Norbek Kh. · Bekchanov Khudaybergan U.
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The tenebrionid genus Dailognatha Steven, 1828 (Pimeliinae: Tentyriini) of Central Asia is reviewed. The members of this genus are some of the most numerous beetles in mountains and foothills, which are distributed from the plains to an altitude of over 3000 m in the Tian-Shan, Alay and Hissar mountain systems. In total, 13 species are distributed in Central Asia (without Afghanistan), seven of which are described here: Dailognatha asperipunctata Nabozhenko & N. Bekchanov, n. sp. (Tajikistan), D. angrena Nabozhenko & N. Bekchanov, n. sp. (Uzbekistan), D. kaltaevi Nabozhenko & N. Bekchanov, n. sp. (Kyrgyzstan), D. peropaca Nabozhenko & N. Bekchanov, n. sp. (Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan), D. sogdiana Nabozhenko & N. Bekchanov, n. sp. (Tajikistan), D. similata Nabozhenko & N. Bekchanov, n. sp. (Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan), D. skopini Nabozhenko & N. Bekchanov, n. sp. (Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan). A new synonymy is established: Dailognatha gracilitarsis Kaszab, 1968, n. syn. for Dailognatha nasuta (Ménétriés, 1849). Lectotypes are designated for Dailognatha gracilicornis Reitter, 1897, D. granimentum Reitter, 1897, D. arnoldii Bogatchev, 1947 and Anatolica nasuta Ménétriés, 1849. Five species-groups are distinguished for Central Asian species based on the body shape, the sculpture of mentum and the comparative length of metatarsomeres. New country records: D. bogatshevi bogatshevi G.S. Medvedev, 1964 for Uzbekistan; D. granimentum Reitter, 1897, D. ferghanensis (Kaszab, 1962) and D. arnoldii Bogatchev, 1947 for Tajikistan. Dailognatha gracilicornis Reitter, 1897 is excluded from faunistic lists of Kazakhstan and China, D. nasuta from the list of Afghanistan and D. crenata Reiche & Saulcy, 1857 from the list of Iran. Maps of distribution and a key to Central Asian species of Dailognatha are presented.
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2026 EN
Simon Steven
Phase one of the ceasefire in Gaza has sharply reduced the scale of violence. But the 7 October 2023 Hamas attack injected Israeli society with existential purpose. Israeli military power subdued Hizbullah and Iran, which judged that a major war with Israel would diminish them more than exposing the weakness of the ‘axis of resistance’. For Israel, growing isolation affirmed right-wing claims that Hamas was just the tip of an eternal anti-Semitic spear. European and Middle Eastern powers were sufficiently ambivalent about Israel’s brutal response to 7 October that isolation never evolved into punishment. Although many equated Israel’s conduct with genocide, this is not an adjudicated fact, and redress has consisted only of empty gestures towards Palestinian self-determination. Perhaps the most strategically conspicuous aspect of the war was the United States’ lack of leverage over Israel. This casts doubt on whether the far more ambitious phase two will be realised.
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2026 EN
Fieldhouse Harry · Keen Steven · Cole David
Understanding of driver behaviour can provide invaluable insight for the design of vehicles and driver assistance systems. Most existing human driver models do not incorporate driver learning or the effect of a driver's confidence in their predictions of future states, both of which affect human-generated control actions. In this paper, human driver steering control is assessed based on experimental data, then a driver model is proposed which captures driver learning and is capable of reproducing a wide range of human control styles by the selection of appropriate parameters. The driver model learns an internal model of the vehicle dynamics from experience, using a Gaussian Process, then selects control actions via Model Predictive Control. The results verify the model's capacity to capture the learning drivers achieve over time and to replicate various observed cautious and adventurous behaviours.
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2026 EN
Dwyer Sean M. · Nikolaev Boris · Bradley Steven W.
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This study builds on research at the intersection of religion and entrepreneurship by examining the psychological underpinnings of how religious faith promotes goal persistence among self-employed individuals. Applying random-effects and structural equation modeling on a sample of 725 self-employed individuals in the United States drawn from two time periods, we examine the effects of religious coping on the mental health and well-being and goal persistence of the self-employed. We introduce a fully mediated psychological model of faith-driven persistence highlighting the influential role of three dimensions of mental health and well-being (purpose in life, personal growth, environmental mastery) in linking religious faith to goal persistence. We reveal that religious affiliation alone is not enough but that individuals must hold and use religious faith to experience this psychological effect. Altogether, this study contributes to the limited research on the psychological aspects of religion in entrepreneurial well-being and entrepreneurial persistence literature