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Anna Piazza unternimmt eine systematische und hermeneutische Analyse der Religionsphänomenologie Max Schelers, mit spezieller Betrachtung der Werke Schelers zwischen den Jahren 1912-1921. Ihre Arbeit beleuchtet insbesondere das Problem der Einheit zwischen der metaphysischen und religiösen Gotteserkenntnis auf der Basis der Anwendung der phänomenologischen Methode. Somit wird die Religionsphilosophie Schelers in Zusammenhang mit seiner früheren Phänomenologie ausgelegt. Die Erkenntnisbasis liefert bisher unveröffentlichtes Material (Manuskripte, Typoskripte, Vorlesungen Schelers), das hier erstmals systematisch ausgewer-tet und analysiert wird, um so ein klareres Licht auf bestimmte Interpretationsprobleme zu werfen und Lösungsansätze anzubieten.

Este artículo presenta los fundamentos de la estética trascendental de Marc Richir y su comprensión del arte, que considera la idea, ya investigada por Husserl, de que la imaginación y la fantasía son actos pre-intencionales fundamentales que delinean los horizontes de la relación entre el ser humano y el mundo, tanto afectivamente como epistemológicamente. Se ha estudiado cómo la perspectiva fenomenológica de Richir fue influenciada, por un lado, por el análisis de actos específicos de la conciencia de Edmund Husserl, y, por otro lado, por el esquematismo trascendental de Kant. Sin embargo, en mi artículo muestro cómo la perspectiva de Richir sobre una estética trascendental es particularmente fecunda porque incorpora, no solo el esquematismo kantiano y el Aktanalyse de Husserl, sino también la idea de Merleau-Ponty de una “carne del mundo” y su contribución a la comprensión de la naturaleza afectiva y corporal del conocimiento, que, como se expondrá, ofrece una nueva interpretación de lo trascendental. Esto arroja luz no solo sobre cuestiones epistemológicas específicas, sino también sobre el fenómeno mismo del arte.

This article exposes Marc Richir’s grounding of a transcendental aesthetics and his understanding of art, which considers the idea, already investigated by Husserl, that imagination and phantasy are fundamental pre-intentional acts that delineate the horizons of the relationship of human and world, both affectively and epistemologically. It has been studied how Richir’s phenomenological perspective was influenced on the one hand by Edmund Husserl’s analysis of specific acts of consciousness, and, on the other hand, by Kant’s transcendental schematism. However, in my article I show how Richir’s perspective on a transcendental aesthetics is particularly fertile because it incorporates, not only Kant’s schematism and Husserl’s Aktanalyse, but also Merleau-Ponty’s idea of a “flesh of the world” and his contribution to the understanding of the affective, bodily nature of knowledge, which, as it will be exposed, offers a new account of the transcendental. This sheds a light not only on specific epistemological matters, but also on the fact of art itself.

In the last decades, crypto assets have become particularly popular in financial markets. However, public awareness of the crypto asset landscape is rather limited, and usually associated with sensationalized media coverage of a handful of cryptocurrencies. Moreover, while users of crypto assets primarily collect information on Internet, there is a limited understanding of the relational (online) structures supporting the diffusion of information about these financial products. Therefore, the aim of this study is to uncover the structure of online information referral networks dedicated to crypto assets. By adopting a multi-method approach consisting of web scraping, web analytics, and social network analysis, we use data from the top 200 crypto assets by market capitalization to identify pivotal websites and the overall connectedness of the information referral networks. Our results show that social media and news channel sites play a key role in the information diffusion process, while market and trading sites signal innovation adoption. Overall, cryptocurrencies’ websites do not seem key in the referral network, as opposed to social media websites which, however, cannot be considered mature hubs because of their low connectivity.

Health education and behavior researchers and practitioners often develop, adapt, or adopt surveys/scales to quantify and measure cognitive, behavioral, emotional, and psychosocial characteristics. To ensure the integrity of data collected from these scales, it is vital that psychometric properties (i.e., validity and reliability) be assessed. The purpose of this investigation was to (a) determine the frequency with which published articles appearing in health education and behavior journals report the psychometric properties of the scales/subscales employed and (b) outline the methods used to determine the reliability and validity of the scores produced. The results reported herein are based on a final sample of 967 published articles, spanning seven prominent health education and behavior journals between 2007 and 2010. Of the 967 articles examined, an exceedingly high percentage failed to report any validity (ranging from 40% to 93%) or reliability (ranging from 35% to 80%) statistics in their articles. For health education/behavior practitioners and researchers to maximize the utility and applicability of their findings, they must evaluate the psychometric properties of the instrument employed, a practice that is currently underrepresented in the literature. By not ensuring the instruments employed in a given study were able to produce accurate and consistent scores, researchers cannot be certain they actually measured the behaviors and/or constructs reported.

In the last decades, crypto assets have become particularly popular in financial markets. However, public awareness of the crypto asset landscape is rather limited, and usually associated with sensationalized media coverage of a handful of cryptocurrencies. Moreover, while users of crypto assets primarily collect information on Internet, there is a limited understanding of the relational (online) structures supporting the diffusion of information about these financial products. Therefore, the aim of this study is to uncover the structure of online information referral networks dedicated to crypto assets. By adopting a multi-method approach consisting of web scraping, web analytics, and social network analysis, we use data from the top 200 crypto assets by market capitalization to identify pivotal websites and the overall connectedness of the information referral networks. Our results show that social media and news channel sites play a key role in the information diffusion process, while market and trading sites signal innovation adoption. Overall, cryptocurrencies’ websites do not seem key in the referral network, as opposed to social media websites which, however, cannot be considered mature hubs because of their low connectivity.

This investigation assessed whether alcohol consumption was negatively related to grade point average (GPA) among a nationally representative sample of college students. Items from the American College Health Association’s National College Health Assessment (N = 22,424) were investigated. One-way ANOVAs and logistic regression analyses were conducted. Results revealed that respondents with lower GPAs consumed a greater number of drinks compared with those with higher GPAs. Students with higher GPAs engaged in heavy episodic drinking less than students with lower GPAs. Number of drinks consumed was the strongest predictor of academic performance; the likelihood of being an A student decreased with each drink consumed. Similarly, binge drinking was the strongest predictor; the likelihood of being an A student decreased as binge drinking increased. The dynamic, interdependent relationship between alcohol and GPA documented herein confirms previous research, which delineates reduced academic performance as a function of alcohol consumption.

Higher education has recently been identified as a sector of concern by the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). In 2021, the NCSC reported that universities and higher education institutions (HEI) had been exponentially targeted by cyber-criminals. Existing challenges were amplified or highlighted over the course of the global pandemic when universities struggled to continue to function through hybrid and remote teaching provision that relied heavily on their digital estate and services. Despite the value of the sector and the vulnerabilities within it, higher education has received relatively little attention from the cybersecurity research community. Over 2 years, we carried out numerous interventions and engagements with the UK higher education sector. Through interviews with cybersecurity practitioners working in the sector as well as roundtables, and questionnaires, we conducted a qualitative and quantitative analysis of threat intelligence sharing, which we use as a proxy for measuring and analysing collaboration. In a unique approach to studying collaboration in cybersecurity, we utilized social network analysis. This paper presents the study and our findings about the state of cybersecurity in UK universities. It also presents some recommendations for future steps that we argue will be necessary to equip the higher education sector to continue to support UK national interests going forward. Key findings include the positive inclination of those working in university cybersecurity to collaborate as well as the factors that impede that collaboration. These include management and insurance constraints, concerns about individual and institutional reputational damage, a lack of trusted relationships, and the lack of effective mechanisms or channels for sectoral collaboration. In terms of the network itself, we found that it is highly fragmented with a very small number of the possible connections active, none of the organizations we might expect to facilitate collaboration in the network are playing a significant role, and some universities are currently acting as key information bridges. For these reasons, any changes that might be led by sectoral bodies such as Jisc, UCISA or government bodies such as NCSC, would need to go through these information brokers.

[...] the authors identified a linear increase in the relationship between exercise frequency (ie, infrequent, regular, frequent) and drinking frequency, as well as a linear increase in the relationship between exercise quantity and amount of alcohol consumed. [...] current literature not only documents that individuals who drink are more likely to be physically active, but also suggests a potential dose-response relationship. [...] across studies pertaining to youth, college students, the general population, and older adults, it was an almost universal finding that drinkers were more physically active than their nondrinking peers.11 Because it appears college student drinkers (as well as drinkers across an assortment of ages and demographic classifications) are already engaged in exercise, does physical activity truly represent an effective intervention strategy to reduce hazardous drinking behaviors?