The War of Words: The Subversive Use of “Christ the King” and the Otherworldly Politics of the Catholic Laity in Mexico, 1925–1929

Alfonso Adolfo Rodolfo Gomez Rossi

The International Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Society

septiembre 2025

The establishment of the Feast of Christ the King on New Year’s Eve, 1925, can be understood as a political statement aimed at censuring political changes in Europe and the Western hemisphere wrought by World War I (1914– 1918). The disorder brought on by

CANoE: A Context-Aware Notification Model to Support the Care of Older Adults in a Nursing Home

Sandra Edith Nava Munoz

Sensors

septiembre 2025

In this paper we propose CANoE, a model for the design of context-aware notifications in critical environments, such as a nursing home. The main feature of this model is that it considers three sources of context.

The State, the Catholic Church, and LGBT Rights in North America

Alfonso Adolfo Rodolfo Gomez Rossi

Feminist (im) mobilities in fortress (ing) North America: rights, citizenships, and identities in transnational perspective

septiembre 2025

Since the establishment of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) tensions concerning immigration trends and policies, which continued to escalate at the turn of the millennium resulted in revised national security policies in Mexico, Canada, and

The Construction of Catholic Male Chastity: A Modern Understanding of Catholicism‟s Views on Sex through the Life of the Saints (1859-1954)

Alfonso Adolfo Rodolfo Gomez Rossi

International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR)

septiembre 2025

In History of Sexuality Volume 1, Foucault claims that despite commonly held beliefs that Victorians restricted public references to sex, they and subsequent generations could not stop talking, writing, and researching topics that dealt with intercourse. I

Project Zacchaeus: A Mexican Group’s Desire to be Recognized as Catholic and Gay

Alfonso Adolfo Rodolfo Gomez Rossi

The International Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Society

septiembre 2025

In July 2013 a schism within the apostolate called Courage Latino went unnoticed by society in general a small group of five men led by a parish priest decided to form an alliance of people who have “same sex attraction” (SSA) and also desired to remain i

The Rosary and the Virgin Mary in Mexico: The Symbol of a Just War from 1883–1929

Alfonso Adolfo Rodolfo Gomez Rossi

The International Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Society

septiembre 2025

During the last quarter of the nineteenth century and first thirty years of the twentieth, the Catholic laity was encouraged to pray and meditate on the mysteries of the Rosary to remedy perceived evils caused by the ideology of modernity, understood by de

The Holy Name Society: Catholic Masculinity and the Fight Against Modern Manhood in the United States During the Papacies of Benedict XV and Pius XI (1909–1929)

Alfonso Adolfo Rodolfo Gomez Rossi

The International Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Society

septiembre 2025

During the papacies of Benedict XV and Pius XI, a tumultuous era marked by the rise of fascism and communism, a clash over definitions of what correct masculinity should be, emerged within nation-states. Governments critical of Christianity, influenced by

Mujeres en la autoproducción de vivienda, una visibilización necesaria para asimilar lo aprendido

Sandra Flores Velazquez

La ciudad de la Pandemia organización, exclusión y sostenibilidad. 2do Congreso Internacional de Estudios sobre la ciudad

septiembre 2025

Dentro del Libro La ciudad de la pandemia, organización, exclusión y sostenibilidad, se integro el capítulo: Mujeres en la autoproducción de la vivienda, una visibilización necesaria, como una oportunidad para asimilar lo aprendido en el espacio doméstico.

The evolution of exceptional diversity in parental care and fertilization modes in ray-finned fishes

Oscar Garcia Miranda

Evolution

septiembre 2025

Ray-finned fishes show diverse parental care. From 7,600 species, we found transitions linked to fertilization: oviductmouth favor female care, brood pouch male care. Internal fertilization without care is unstable, revealing aquatic-driven flexibility.

El porqué de la coloración animal

Oscar Garcia Miranda

¡Órale! Revista de comunicación de la ciencia del Posgrado en Ciencias Biológicas de la UATx

septiembre 2025

La coloración animal, estudiada por Darwin, Wallace y múltiples disciplinas, sigue siendo un enigma fascinante: un espectáculo natural aún sin respuesta definitiva.

Fast species diversification among dragonflies (Anisoptera: Odonata: Insecta) inhabiting lentic environments regardless of wing pigmentation

Oscar Garcia Miranda

Ecological Entomology

septiembre 2025

In dragonflies, we tested how wing pigmentation and habitat shape diversification using state-dependent models. Pigmentation slightly increases diversification, but habitat is key: lentic species diversify more. Ancestors were non-pigmented and lotic.

Territorial damselflies are larger and show negative allometry in their genitalia

Oscar Garcia Miranda

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

septiembre 2025

We tested the functional allometry hypothesis in 59 damselfly species. Aggressive territorial species were larger and showed shallower genital allometric slopes, suggesting males invest more in body size than genitalia when size drives reproductive success