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Ecology and Biodiversity of Major Inland Bodies of Water: Challenges and Opportunities
Authors:   National Academy of Science and Technology, Philippines, DOST Complex, Bicutan, Taguig City 1631, Philippines  The Marine Science institute, University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines, Azanza Rhodora
Published: March 2024

Water is essential to life linking different ecosystems. Wetland or inland water bodies support the widest range of ecosystem services to humanity from being sources of potable drinking water, water for agricultural activities, and hydroelectric power to sites of aquaculture/fishery services. This paper focuses on the Philippines' three major wetlands: Laguna Lake, Lake Lanao and Agusan Marsh. Biodiversity and environmental integrity of these bodies of water are critically confronted by the different problems generated through the services they provide such as introduction of invasive species and rise of domestic, industrial and agricultural pollutants including potential impacts from climate change. Management still remains a challenge in these areas. Localized rehabilitation programs that have been put forward should be implemented urgently to stop and if possible reverse environmental degradation in these major inland bodies of water.
The Systematic Review of Platelet Rich Plasma Induced Olfactory In Patients With Covid 19
Authors: Satyarini Nidyasari Citraningrum , Rasyidah Salma
Published: March 2024

Background:Olfactory Dysfunction (OD) is a common problem, with a substantial percentage of instances linked to COVID-19. This comprehensive study sought to assess the efficacy of platelet-rich plasma (PRP) in the treatment of COVID-19-related OD, which included anosmia, hyposmia, and parosmia. Aim : This study examined the efficacy of platelet-rich plasma (PRP), an autologous blood product with elevated growth factors, in treating COVID-19-related olfactory dynsfunction. Methods: By comparing itself to the standards set by the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA) 2020, this study was able to show that it met all of the requirements. So, the experts were able to make sure that the study was as up-to-date as it was possible to be. For this search approach, publications that came out between 2014 and 2024 were taken into account. Several different online reference sources, like Pubmed and SCIENCE DIRECT, were used to do this. It was decided not to take into account review pieces, works that had already been published, or works that were only half done. Result:In the PubMed database, the results of our search brought up 9 articles, whereas the results of our search on SCIENCE DIRECT brought up 108 articles. The results of the search conducted for the last year of 2014 yielded a total 17 articles for PubMed and 16 articles for SCIENCE DIRECT. In the end, we compiled a total of  5 papers, 4 of which came from PubMed and 2 of which came from SCIENCE DIRECT. We included five research that met the criteria. Conclusion: In summary, injecting PRP directly into the olfactory cleft of individuals with post-COVID COD is a successful and simple treatment. We believe that the therapeutic efficacy of PRP injection may vary depending on the time of OD or with repeated doses. Further randomized controlled studies are needed to confirm these findings and explore the long-term impact of this innovative technique.
Enhanced Two-Stream Bayesian Hyper Parameter Optimized 3D-CNN Inception-v3 Based Drop-ConvLSTM2D Deep Learning Model for Human Action Recognition
Authors: Jeyanthi A. , Visumathi J. , Heltin Genitha C.
Published: March 2024

Human Action Recognition (HAR) has grown to be the toughest and most attractive concern in the domains of computer vision, communication between a person and the surroundings, and video surveillance. In variation to the conventional methods that usually make use of the Long Short Term Memory model (LSTM) for training, this work designed dropout variant Drop-ConvLSTM2D, to provide more effectiveness in regularization for deep Convolution Neural Networks (CNNs).In addition, to speed up the runtime performance of the Deep Learning model, Bayesian Hyper Parameter Optimization (BHPO) is also introduced to autonomously optimize, the hyperparameters of the trained architecture. In this study, a two-stream Bayesian Hyper Parameter optimized Drop-ConvLSTM2D model is designed for HAR to overcome the current research deficiencies. In one stream, an Inception-v3 model extracts the temporal characteristics from the optical frames which are generated through the dense flow process. In another stream, a 3D-CNN involves the mining of the spatial-temporal characteristics from the RGB frames. Finally, the features of Inception-v3 and 3D-CNN are fused using which the Drop-ConvLSTM2D model is trained to recognize human behavior. On perceptive public video datasets UCF-101, and HMDB51, the quantitative assessments are conducted on the Drop-ConvLSTM2D BHPO model. For all hyperparameters, the built model explicitly obtains optimized values in this process, which can save time and improve performance. The experimental outcome shows that with a precision of at least 3%, the designed model beats the traditional two-stream model.
Raising Children in the Military
Authors: Lawhorne-Scott Cheryl , Philpott Don , Scott Jeff
Published: March 2024

Military life places unique demands on military families with children including frequent moves, disruptions in schooling, family separation, health care issues, loss of friends, financial hardships, underemployment of military spouses, and the ever present threat of risk of injury or death of loved ones deployed. But learning how to navigate these challenges can help prepare families for those events as they arise.

Here, the authors have assembled information about common problem areas and have included detailed information about solutions and resources available. The information in this guide has been carefully gathered from hundreds of sources and resources and includes the most up to date information about child services and benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs, allowing serving members of the military with children to quickly access information that they need regarding all aspects of child care, from raising a family to education, and from coping with constant moves to grief counseling. It also covers other critical issues such as wellness, family solidarity, benefits, insurance and problems such as addiction and domestic violence. Readers will gain a better understanding of what child services and benefits are available and how to obtain them as well as secrets for successful relationships and family bonding.
Freud’s Theory of Dreams
Authors: Michael Michael  T.
Published: March 2024

Freud’s Theory of Dreams: A Philosophico-Scientific Perspective evaluates Freud’s theory of dreams in light of the many philosophical and scientific criticisms that have been brought against it. Michael T. Michael addresses the validity of Freud’s method of dream interpretation, the scientific nature of the theory, and how Freud’s ideas bear up to modern research on dreams, engaging on the way with critics such as Ludwig Wittgenstein, Clark Glymour, Karl Popper, Adolf Grünbaum, and J. Allan Hobson. Michael reaches beyond the traditional “for” and “against” polarity to offer a more balanced perspective on Freud’s theory. He argues that reports of the demise of Freud’s theory have been greatly exaggerated, and instead the theory is a live hypothesis fully deserving of continued scientific exploration.
The Unconscious without Freud
Authors: Sand Rosemarie Sponner
Published: March 2024

During the first ten years of his career in psychological medicine, Sigmund Freud espoused a theory of unconsciousness which predated his own. As Rosemarie Sand describes in The Unconscious without Freud, he would evolve this theory over the course of his career and eventually apply it to his own psychological practice. Once Freud's hypothesis of unconscious mental functioning was published, the same professionals who had valued the traditional concept turned against what they considered to be a catastrophic, logically indefensible revision. The scientific investigation of unconscious influences was retarded for decades as a war zone opened between implacable opponents and intransigent defenders of the Freudian concept of unconscious mind. In the din of this battle, the traditional theory, free of the features which Freud's foes could not accept, was forgotten. Sand argues that a return to this original theory, which psychotherapists and experimenters might both espouse, could contribute to a cessation of hostilities and lead to the peaceful development of a theory of the unconscious—one that is free from the stigma that is currently attached to Freudian theory.
Gangland Chicago
Authors: Lindberg Richard C.
Published: March 2024

This engrossing tale of gangs and organized criminality begins in the frontier saloons situated in the marshy flats of Chicago, the future world class city of Mid-continent. Gangland Chicago recounts the era of parlor gambling, commercialized vice districts continuing through the bloody Prohibition bootlegging wars; failed reform movements; the rise of post-World War II juvenile criminal gangs and the saga of the Blackstone Rangers in a chaotic, racially divided city. , Gang violence and street crime is endemic in contemporary Chicago. There is much more to the saga of crime, politics, and armed violence than Al Capone and John Dillinger. Gangland Chicago explores the changing patterns of criminal behavior, politics, gangs, youth crime and the failures of reform in its historic totality.

Richard Lindberg takes the reader on a journey through decades of a troubled past to delve deep into the evolution of street gangs and organized violence endemic in Chicago. Small ethnic gangs organized in ethnic slum districts of the city expanded into the well-known organized crime syndicates of Chicago’s history. Gangland Chicago is full of stories of unchecked violence, lawlessness, and mayhem. Unlike other standard true crime accounts focused exclusively on the Prohibition era, this historical look-back probes the obscure and forgotten dark corners of city crime history. Lindberg details how both “organized” and “dis-organized” street gangs have paralyzed city neighborhoods and transformed the crimes of the Windy City from street thuggery and common ruffians protected and nurtured by politicians into a protected class is gripping.

Gangland Chicago is a revealing look at the Chicago underworld of yesterday and today. This comprehensive volume is sure to entertain and inform any reader interested in the evolution of organized crime and gangs in America’s most representative city of the American Heartland.
Alternative Psychotherapies
Authors: Mercer Jean
Published: March 2024

Alternative Psychotherapies: Evaluating Unconventional Mental Health Treatments addresses concerns about current and newly-emerging mental health treatments that are considered "unconventional." As a parallel to complementary and alternative medical treatments, alternative psychotherapies lack research support, are at odds with established information about human personality and development, and may actually be harmful. Professionals and students in the helping professions may find such treatments confusing and difficult to differentiate from emerging therapies that have not yet established a foundation of evidence; this is especially problematic if clients propose using unconventional therapies they have found on the Internet. Alternative Psychotherapies examines a series of unconventional treatments in terms of the research supporting them, their theoretical and historical backgrounds, and the potential or documented adverse events that may be associated with them. Therapies for both adults and children are included, and topics range from recovered memory therapies to bodywork to treatments for autism and to special education issues. Alternative psychotherapies frequently share certain historical backgrounds, and psychotherapists can use historical insights as well as an understanding of basic research rules and psychological theory to identify unconventional treatments other than the ones discussed. The book concludes with a discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of greater regulation of alternative therapies, as compared to the current situation in which few mental health interventions are banned or limited by law.
National Catholic Reporter at Fifty
Authors: Jones Arthur
Published: March 2024

National Catholic Reporter at Fifty tells the story of the award-winning Catholic paper the National Catholic Reporter (NCR) in the lead-up to NCR’s 50th anniversary in October 2014. Founded during the Second Vatican Council, NCR has been a powerful progressive voice in the Catholic Church and has broken a number of challenging stories—first covering the nationwide clerical pedophilia crisis, publishing the secret Papal Birth Control Commission report that recommended ending the ban on birth control (which Pope Paul VI overrode), and the scandal that African priests were seducing or raping nuns because they were AIDS-free on a continent that wasn’t. National Catholic Reporter at Fifty takes readers through NCR’s highs and lows, with a focus on its important editors and key themes—race and poverty, peace/foreign policy, women’s issues, sexuality, and the church/papacy.
The Forty Years that Created America
Authors: Lamont Edward M.
Published: March 2024

The names “Jamestown” and “Plymouth” have become synonymous for most students of American history with “founding,” and “birth”—both, of the American nation, and of freedom and democracy themselves. In this book, author Ted Lamont asks us to reconsider our country’s formative years, and explore the stories, lives, achievements, and failures of America’s earliest founding fathers: those who paved the way for the Colonial Era, and the American Revolution. They were explorers, investors, passionate religious leaders, and determined developers who struggled for generations to successfully plant the English flag in this strange new soil. Lamont deftly details the ways in which the stories and struggles of figures like Sir Walter Raleigh, Bartholomew Gosnold, Richard Hakluyt, Sir Ferdinando Gorges, and Captain John Smith were not just related, but connected in ways that help us better understand the colonies and culture born of their efforts. The infancy of America— from Roanoke’s founding in 1585 through the firm establishment of Jamestown and Plymouth in 1625—is where we first see planted the seeds of the rest of America’s colonial, economic, political, and cultural history, that was the immensely difficult, and often overlooked, first step toward the New World we are still working to perfect.
Information and Digital Literacies
Authors: Farmer Lesley S.J.
Published: March 2024

Information and Digital Literacies: A Curricular Guide for Middle and High School Librarians is a practical guide to help school librarians design and deliver effective instruction that addresses the knowledge, skills and dispositions of information and digital literacies.

This curricular guide from one of America’s foremost experts in this area will help librarians prepare students for college and careers. It provides systematic instruction about conducting research and using integration as stated in the Common Core, complying with state and federal mandates for digital safety/competence curriculum, and recognizing the instructional role of school librarians. It should be noted that “canned” programs, particularly for digital safety exist, but they are not aligned with other school standards, and they do not reflect the unique communities of learners, let alone address the need to collaboration and articulation.

The ready-to-implement curricular guide features:

instructional design strategies,

model middle and high school curriculum, including a scope-and-sequence, stand-alone courses, units of instruction, and sample learning activities, and

ties to new AASL and ACRL information literacy standards, ISTE technology standards, 21st Century Partnership framework, and Common Core State Standards.
The Show Choir Handbook
Authors: Alder Alan  L. , Mulvihill Thalia M.
Published: March 2024

With the popularity of television shows such as Glee, American Idol, and The Voice, show choirs have become a vibrant component of college and high school music programs. Music teachers must not only know how to teach choral singing for popular music, but also be versed in show design and production. In The Show Choir Handbook, Alan L. Alder and Thalia M. Mulvihill address both song technique and show presentation, giving show choir directors the full set of tools they need for successful performances.

The Show Choir Handbook is a resource for current and future music educators who administer show choirs. With most literature on the topic either out of date or focused on the teaching techniques limited to vocal jazz (drawing on the choral genre’s origins as “swing choirs”), instructors are in dire need of a resource that addresses music produced by publishers and choral arrangers.
Enemy Brothers
Authors: Smith W. Rand
Published: March 2024

Since the 1920s, Socialist and Communist parties in Europe and elsewhere have engaged in episodes of both rivalry and cooperation, with each seeking to dominate the European Left. Enemy Brothers analyzes how this relationship has developed over the past century, focusing on France, Italy, and Spain, where Socialists and Communists have been politically important. Drawing on fieldwork and interviews in all three nations, W. Rand Smith identifies the critical junctures that these parties faced and the strategic choices they made, especially regarding alliance partners. In explaining the parties' diverse alliance strategies, Enemy Brothers stresses the impact of institutional arrangements, party culture, and leadership. The paperback edition features a new afterword that updates the impact of the current euro-crisis through mid-2014.
Enviromedics
Authors: Lemery Jay , Auerbach Paul
Published: March 2024

Many of us have concerns about the effects of climate change on Earth, but we often overlook the essential issue of human health. This book addresses that oversight and enlightens readers about the most important aspect of one of the greatest challenges of our time.

The global environment is under massive stress from centuries of human industrialization. The projections regarding climate change for the next century and beyond are grim. The impact this will have on human health is tremendous, and we are only just now discovering what the long-term outcomes may be.

By weighing in from a physician’s perspective, Jay Lemery and Paul Auerbach clarify the science, dispel the myths, and help readers understand the threats of climate change to human health. No better argument exists for persuading people to care about climate change than a close look at its impacts on our physical and emotional well-being.

The need has never been greater for a grounded, informative, and accessible discussion about this topic. In this groundbreaking book, the authors not only sound the alarm but address the health issues likely to arise in the coming years.
Battling Melanoma
Authors: Cornwall Claudia
Published: March 2024

In June 2013, Gordon Cornwall’s melanoma went metastatic and spread to his brain. He and his wife, Claudia, thought it was “game-over.” But his oncologist encouraged them to look for a clinical trial that might work for his form of melanoma. After embarking on a continent-wide search, they found a study in Texas with spots for just two more patients. They scrambled to get Gordon enrolled, and in August 2013, three days after he had his first infusion, he was astonished to see a lump on his shoulder softening and shrinking. Three months later, in November, a CT-scan revealed that all his tumors had disappeared.

This story of one couple’s battle to beat melanoma illustrates how a new treatment, immunotherapy, can defeat even aggressive forms of the disease. It also shows how patients can access the most advanced therapies by enrolling in clinical trials. Claudia describes Gordon’s case and learns from conversations with eminent researchers. She paints a portrait of an illness that is difficult but not impossible to combat. With vivid firsthand accounts from their diaries, as well as Claudia’s intimate narrative of the ups and downs of cancer treatment, this book will be a ready resource for melanoma patients and their families. It demonstrates how they can fight the disease medically as well as support each other emotionally and physically.
The Abyss
Authors: Avidar Eli
Published: March 2024

Eli Avidar looks into the abyss that divides Israel from its Arab neighbors, in order to understand the inherent flaws, prevailing misunderstandings, and tragic mistakes that characterize the relations and bloodletting, and how, if at all possible, to bridge the differences. In doing so, he offers a new perspective about the reality of the Middle East and all the clichés that have transformed the Hebrew-Arab lexicon into a complex and hopeless minefield. It raises the question of whether the ongoing violent conflict between Israel and its neighbors might also be the result of a serious short circuit in communications. Is it possible that Israel, which has invested efforts and resources in knowing its adversaries, never even bothered to properly understand their language and their culture? Is it possible that Israeli leaders, who made their way to the top through the military and were privileged to know the most deeply hidden intelligence secrets, never learned to send messages of peace and reconciliation that the other side could respect and understand?

Spanning six decades, the book explains why the main diplomatic initiatives have so far failed to solve the Israel-Palestinian conflict, and what needs to be done to break out of the vicious circle of ignorance and mutual suspicion that characterizes the conflict. Avidar uses his experience as diplomatic advisor to former foreign minister Ariel Sharon and as head of Israel’s representative office in Qatar to reveal secret diplomatic meetings as well as the dynamics of the unique and complex diplomacy of the Middle East. He also tells about the activities of the 504 division of the Israel Defense Forces Intelligence Unit, in which he served as an operator of agents.
Gasping for Air
Authors: Glynn Kevin
Published: March 2024

Breathing is a continuous battle between our need for oxygen and forces in nature that attack our lungs. Three hundred thousand Americans will die of respiratory diseases this year. Gasping for Air is the dramatic story of how infections, toxins, carcinogens, and air pollution strike against one of our basic body functions. The book also describes how we come into the struggle with diseases like asthma, cystic fibrosis, and sleep apnea, which make us vulnerable to assaults on breathing from without and within.

We have powerful weapons to defend breathing. Medical science, public health, engineering, and business, all play important roles in the effort to support breathing. Yet, Gasping for Air also reminds readers how breathing support has been at the eye of the storm in many ethical dilemmas of modern healthcare. Here, Kevin Glynn, an experienced pulmonologist and lifelong asthma sufferer tells stories about the third most common cause of premature deaths in the developed world, describes lethal forces in Nature (infections, genetic predispositions) and from human activities (dusty occupations, tobacco smoking, chemical toxins, drug overdoses) that threaten to suffocate us, and offers sage advice for how to prevent and address those threats and the damage they cause.
Listening to Charles Ives
Authors: Burkholder J. Peter
Published: March 2024

Charles Ives is widely regarded as the first great American composer of classical music. But listening to his music is an adventure—hearing how a piece begins may not prepare you for what comes next, or how it ends. Knowing one Ives piece may not prepare you for another.

Award-winning music historian J. Peter Burkholder provides an introduction to the composer’s diverse musical output and unusual career to readers of any background, discussing about forty of the best and most characteristic pieces framed with biographical sketches. Burkholder shows how Ives mastered each tradition he encountered, from American popular music to classical European genres, from Protestant church music to his own unique experimental idiom, and then interwove elements from all these traditions in the astonishing works of his maturity. Listening to Charles Ives contains compelling walkthroughs of select pieces and ultimately reveals that there is an Ives piece for everyone.
China's Millennials
Authors: Fish Eric
Published: March 2024

In 1989, students marched on Tiananmen Square demanding democratic reform. The Communist Party responded with a massacre, but it was jolted into restructuring the economy and overhauling the education of its young citizens. A generation later, Chinese youth are a world apart from those who converged at Tiananmen. Brought up with lofty expectations, they’ve been accustomed to unprecedented opportunities on the back of China’s economic boom. But today, China’s growth is slowing and its demographics rapidly shifting, with the boom years giving way to a painful hangover.

Immersed in this transition, Eric Fish, a millennial himself, profiles youth from around the country and how they are navigating the education system, the workplace, divisive social issues, and a resurgence in activism. Based on interviews with scholars, journalists, and hundreds of young Chinese, his engrossing book challenges the idea that today’s youth have been pacified by material comforts and nationalism. Following rural Henan students struggling to get into college, a computer prodigy who sparked a nationwide patriotic uproar, and young social activists grappling with authorities, Fish deftly captures youthful struggle, disillusionment, and rebellion in a system that is scrambling to keep them in line—and, increasingly, scrambling to adapt when its youth refuse to conform.
Collection Evaluation in Academic Libraries
Authors: Kohn Karen C.
Published: March 2024

Librarians have long used data to describe their collections. Traditional measures have simply been inputs and outputs: volumes acquired, processed, owned, or circulated. With the growth since the 1990s of cultures of assessment, librarians have sought statistics that are evaluative rather than simply descriptive. More recently, exponentially increasing journal prices and an economic recession have intensified the need to make careful purchasing decisions and to justify these to administrators. A methodical evaluation of a library collection can help librarians understand and meet user needs and can help communicate to administrators that the library is a good use of the institution’s money.

Collection Evaluation in Academic Libraries: A Practical Guide for Librarians equips collections managers to select and implement a method or several methods of evaluating their library collections.

It includes sections on four tools for evaluation:

• Comparison to peer institutions

• Core lists

• Usage statistics from circulation and ILL

• Citation analysis

Chapters on each of these approaches present the advantages and disadvantages of each method, instructions on data collection and analysis—with screenshots—and suggested action steps after completing the analysis. With a unique combination of step-by-step instructions and discussions of the purpose and role of data, this book provides an unusually thorough guide to collection evaluation. It will be indispensable for collection development librarians and anyone looking to strengthen the culture of assessment within the library.
The Food and Drink of Sydney
Authors: Hunwick Heather
Published: March 2024

Sydney, famed for its setting and natural beauty, has fascinated from the day it was conceived as an end-of-the-world repository for British felons, to its current status as one of the world’s most appealing cities. This book recounts, and celebrates, the central role food has played in shaping the city’s development from the time of first human settlement to the sophisticated, open, and cosmopolitan metropolis it is today. The reader will learn of the Sydney region’s unique natural resources and come to appreciate how these shaped food habits through its pre-history and early European settlement; how its subsequent waves of immigrants enriched its food scene; its love-hate relationship with alcohol; its markets, restaurants, and other eateries; and, how Sydneysiders, old and new, eat at home. The story concludes with a fascinating review of the city’s many significant cookbooks and their origins, and some iconic recipes relied upon through what is, for a global city, a remarkably brief history.
Sex Pistols
Authors: Smith Peter
Published: March 2024

The Sex Pistols exploded onto the music scene in 1976, paving the way for the deluge of punk rock that would change the face of modern rock music forever. Their debut album, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols, proved one of the most important rock albums of all time, fusingslammed rock chords with searing vocals. The Sex Pistols simply, and seemingly effortlessly, blew awayall that had come before them, setting an entirely new bar for rock acts that followed in their wake.

In Sex Pistols: The Pride of Punk, Peter Smith explores the impact the band had on launching the punk movement, beginning in 1976 with their debut single and ending in 1978 with their American tour. Despite their brief career, the Sex Pistols illustrate an important set of political and cultural elements of 1970s UK and US culture: disaffected youth, strained international relations, and rapid changes in culture. Peter Smith digs deep to collate the factors that fueled the Sex Pistols and the punk revolution.
Unsettling the World
Authors: Morefield Jeanne
Published: March 2024

Unsettling the World is the first book-length treatment of Edward Said’s influential cultural criticism from the perspective of a political theorist. Arguing that the generative power of Said’s thought extends well beyond Orientalism, the book explores Said’s writings on the experience of exile, the practice of “contrapuntal” criticism, and the illuminating potential of worldly humanism. Said’s critical vision, Morefield argues, provides a fresh perspective on debates in political theory about subjectivity, global justice, identity, and the history of political thought. Most importantly, she maintains, Said’s approach offers theorists a model of how to bring the insights developed through historical analyses of imperialism and anti-colonialism to bear on critiques of contemporary global crises and the politics of American foreign policy.
50 Moments That Defined Major League Baseball
Authors: Constantino Rocco
Published: March 2024

Baseball is a game of incredible moments, awe-inspiring feats, and dramatic finishes. But not all of these events actually impacted the game itself or the players still to come. Moments such as Lou Gehrig’s last Opening Day appearance, the very first All-Star game, or Mickey Mantle’s first game to hit home runs from both sides of the plate are iconic not because they were game-changing plays, but because they affected the course of baseball history.

In 50 Moments That Defined Major League Baseball, Rocco Constantino provides a fresh history of the national pastime by recounting the most extraordinary and iconic moments—both renowned and obscure—that shaped the game as it moved from the Dead Ball Era, through World War II, and on to the modern era. Events include Jackie Robinson’s first All-Star Game, Babe Ruth’s 50th home run in his first season as a Yankee, Hank Aaron’s first career home run, and many more. Highlighting these moments are Constantino’s exclusive interviews with over 50 former Major League Baseball players, managers, and umpires, as they candidly share their memories and provide commentary on these impactful events. Many of the players interviewed played in the World Series or an All-Star Game, including Rod Carew, Fred Lynn, Shawn Estes, and Jeff Montgomery.

50 Moments That Defined Major League Baseball features rarely seen historic photographs of baseball immortals and modern photos of today’s stars. With two bonus chapters that include first-hand entertaining anecdotes from baseball icons and moving statements about those who helped them reach the sport’s pinnacle, this book is an engaging read for baseball fans and historians alike.
Train Your Mind for Athletic Success
Authors: Taylor, PhD Jim
Published: March 2024

Much too often, the mental aspect of sport performance is overlooked. While all top athletes are in outstanding physical condition and technically exceptional, mental preparation is often what separates the best from the rest. This is just as true for young athletes as it is for pros and Olympians. And even though relatively few athletes will ever reach the top of their sport, the attitudes and life lessons learned from mental training—such as motivation, confidence, focus, perseverance, and resilience—will serve them well in all aspects of their lives.

In Train Your Mind for Athletic Success: Mental Preparation to Achieve Your Sports Goals, Dr. Jim Taylor uses his own elite athletic experience and decades of working with some of the world’s best athletes to provide competitors of every ability with insights, practical exercises, and tools they can use to be mentally prepared when it really counts. His Prime Sport System explores the attitudes that lay the foundation for athletic success, the mental obstacles that can hold athletes back, the preparations they must take, the mental muscles they should strengthen, and the mental tools they need to fine tune their competitive performances. Most importantly, Dr. Taylor shows athletes practical strategies they can use to become mentally strong so they can perform their best when it matters most.

Train Your Mind for Athletic Success goes well beyond the typical mental skills that are discussed in other mental training books. Readers will not only learn why mental preparation is so important to athletic success, but also where they personally are in each area thanks to brief mental assessments in each section of the book. In addition, each chapter includes exercises to show athletes how to incorporate mental training directly into their overall sport training regimen. The most comprehensive and in-depth book on mental preparation for athletes available, Train Your Mind for Athletic Success is an essential read for athletes, coaches, and parents.
State Terrorism in Latin America
Authors: Wright Thomas C.
Published: March 2024

Set in the larger context of the evolution of international human rights, this cogent book examines the tragic development and ultimate resolution of Latin America's human rights crisis of the 1970s and 1980s. Thomas Wright focuses especially on state terrorism in Chile under General Augusto Pinochet (1973–1990) and in Argentina during the Dirty War (1976–1983). The author probes the background of these regimes, the methodology of state terrorism, and the human rights movements that emerged in urgent response to the brutality of institutionalized torture, murder, and disappearance. He also discusses the legacies of state terrorism in the post-dictatorial period, particularly the bitter battle between demands for justice and the military's claim of impunity. Central to this struggle was the politics of memory as two radically different versions of the countries' recent history clashed: had the militaries conducted legitimate wars against subversion or had they exercised terrorism based on a misguided concept of national security?

The book offers a nuanced exploration of the reciprocal relationship between state terrorism and its legacies, on one hand, and international human rights on the other. When the Chilean and Argentine militaries seized power, the international human rights lobby was too weak to prevent the massive toll of state terrorism. But the powerful worldwide response to these regimes ultimately strengthened international human rights treaties, institutions, and jurisprudence, paving the way for the Rwanda and Yugoslavia genocide tribunals and the International Criminal Court. Indeed, Chile and Argentina today routinely try and convict former repressors in their own courts.

This compelling history demonstrates that the experiences of Chile and Argentina contributed to strengthening the international human rights movement, which in turn gave it the influence to affect the outcome in these two South American countries. Ironically, the brutal regimes of Chile and Argentina played the major role in transforming a largely dormant international lobby into a powerful force that today is capable of bringing major repressors from anywhere in the world to justice. These intertwined themes make this book important reading not only for Latin Americanists but for students of human rights and of international relations as well.
PECULIARITIES OF THE FUNCTIONING OF LEGAL VOCABULARY IN FICTION PROSE (BASED ON V. HUGO'S "THE LAST DAY OF A MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH" AND G. MUSSEAU'S "I CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT YOU")
Authors: Деденко Виктория Владимировна , Хажокова Эмма Аслановна
Published: March 2024

В статье предпринята попытка лингвистического анализа произведений В. Гюго «Последний день приговоренного к смерти» и Г. Мюссо «Я не могу без тебя». Особое внимание уделяется функционально-стилистическому аспекту. Установлено, что преобладающее количество юридической лексики, использующихся в текстах проанализированных произведений содержит определенную стилистическую информацию.

The article attempts a linguistic analysis of the works of V. Hugo "The Last Day of a Man Sentenced to Death" and G. Musso "I Cannot Live Without You". Particular attention is paid to the functional and stylistic aspect. It has been established that the predominant amount of legal vocabulary used in the texts of the analyzed works contains certain stylistic information.
ROLE OF COLONIES SETTLEMENTS IN MODERN STRATEGIES OF CRIMINAL PUNISHMENT KYRGYZ REPUBLIC
Authors: Мамаев Омар Жиянбаевич , Мамаева Аманай Жиянбаевна
Published: March 2024

Создание колоний поселений для осужденных, также известных как колонии трудового поселения или колонии-поселения, является одним из методов уголовного наказания. Эта концепция предполагает, что осужденные будут отправлены на отдаленные территории, где им предоставят возможность трудиться и вносить вклад в общество в условиях относительной изоляции. Такие поселения могут быть предназначены для различных категорий, осужденных, от нарушителей мелких правонарушений до более серьезных преступников.

The creation of settlement colonies for convicts, also known as labor settlement colonies or settlement colonies is one of the methods of criminal punishment. This concept involves convicts being sent to remote areas where they will be given the opportunity to work and contribute to society in relative isolation. Such settlements can be designed for a variety of convicted offenders, from minor offenders to more serious criminals.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN MEDICINE: CONCEPT AND ROLE IN THE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM
Authors: Щербакова Ирина Викторовна , Эльбердов Азамат Аскерович
Published: March 2024

В работе представлены результаты анализа содержания понятия «искусственный интеллект» и его значения в сфере медицины. Затрагивается вопрос о перспективах применения технологий искусственного интеллекта в медицине и здравоохранении.

The paper presents an overview of the prospects for the use of artificial intelligence technologies in medicine and healthcare. The history of the development of artificial intelligence is considered.
RUSSIAN-CHINESE COOPERATION: FROM HISTORY TO PROSPECTS
Authors: Кристюков Артем Алексеевич , Лобанова Валерия Владимировна , Лещиловский Давид Cтаниславович
Published: March 2024

В первой четверти ХХI века сотрудничество между Россией и КНР получило дополнительный импульс в виду сложившейся конфронтации между этими странами с одной стороны и Северо атлантическим альянсом с другой. Авторы дают анализ российско - китайских отношений в контексте современных экономических и политических условий, а так же делают ряд предложений по вопросам расширения сотрудничества.

In the first quarter of the XXI century, cooperation between Russia and China received an additional impetus in view of the current confrontation between these countries on the one hand and the North Atlantic Alliance on the other. The authors analyze Russian-Chinese relations in the context of modern economic and political conditions and make a number of proposals on expanding cooperation.
НЕЙРОЧИПЫ
Authors: Тупикин Дмитрий Дмитриевич , Реушенко Артём Андреевич , Ботиенко Алёна Витальевна
Published: March 2024

В статье представлена информация о сущности нейрочипов и их преимуществах перед неинвазивным интерфейсом, рассмотрены компоненты интерфейса и выполняемые ими функции, описан процесс внедрения нейрочипа в кору головного мозга с целью восстановления органов чувств и управления протезом, а также перечислены преимущества и недостатки использования нейрочипов.
STUDY OF THE COMPOSITION OF COTTONSEED OIL SOAPSTOCK AND DEDISTILLATE AS SOURCES OF FATTY ACIDS
Authors: Хусанова Нафиса Сайдуллаевна , Гиясов Жавлон Шавкатович , Исроилова Шоира Жамшидовна , Серкаев Камар Пардаевич
Published: March 2024

В связи с содержанием в составе госсипола и его производных, фосфолипидов и других побочных веществ, отходы комплексной рафинации хлопкового масла - соапcток и деодистиллят не представляют из себя готового сырья для мыловарения. В работе представлены результаты исследования состава соапстока и деодистиллята из хлопкового масла и приведены предпосылки по улучшению качества получаемых продуктов.

Due to the content of gossypol and its derivatives, phospholipids and other by-products in the composition, the waste from the complex refining of cottonseed oil - soastock and deodistillate do not represent ready-made raw materials for soap making. The paper presents the results of a study of the composition of soapstock and deodistillates from cottonseed oil and provides prerequisites for improving the quality of the products obtained.
УСТОЙЧИВАЯ КОНКУРЕНТОСПОСОБНОСТЬ АГРОПРОДОВОЛЬСТВЕННЫХ СИСТЕМ: ПЕРСПЕКТИВНЫЕ НАПРАВЛЕНИЯ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЙ
Authors: Неганова Валентина Петровна
Published: March 2024

В статье рассматривается устойчивая конкурентоспособность агропродовольственных систем как перспективное направление исследований для ученых и бизнес-практиков, принимающих управленческие решения в условиях современных вызовов.
ОСОБЕННОСТИ ОФОРМЛЕНИЯ ЗАЧИНА ЭПИСТОЛЯРНОГО ТЕКСТА В ДРУЖЕСКОЙ ПЕРЕПИСКЕ КОНЦА ХIХ - НАЧАЛА ХХ ВЕКА
Authors: Орлова Светлана Леонидовна
Published: March 2024

Статья посвящена описанию структуры зачина неофициального эпистолярного текста рубежа ХIХ-ХХ вв. Материалом исследования послужили письма К.С. Станиславского, В.Э. Мейерхольда, А.А. Блока, А.П. Чехова, С.С. Прокофьева, Л.Н. Андреева и других видных представителей русской интеллигенции. Целью исследования стало описание традиционного зачина и выявление экспрессивных приемов оформления зачина письма.
ROLE POSITIONS OF A UNIVERSITY TEACHER IN THE CONTEXT OF THE MODERN EDUCATION PARADIGM
Authors: Кругликов Виктор Николаевич
Published: March 2024

В статье на основе проведённого исследования рассматриваются базовые ролевые позиции преподавателя вуза, их роль и значение с точки зрения эффективности подготовки специалиста в контексте современной образовательной парадигмы, требующей перехода преподавателей на субъект-субъектную модель построения и ведения образовательного процесса.

The article, based on the conducted research, examines the basic role positions of a university teacher, their role and significance from the point of view of the effectiveness of specialist training in the context of the modern educational paradigm, which requires the transition of teachers to a subject-subject model of constructing and conducting the educational process.
БРУЦЕЛЛЕЗ И ЕГО РАСПРОСТРАНЕНИЕ В РЕСПУБЛИКЕ ДАГЕСТАН
Authors: Улуханова Лала Уджаговна , Пашаева Саида Алимпашаевна
Published: March 2024

По уровню наносимого экономического ущерба бруцеллез продолжает занимать среди зоонозных инфекций одно из ведущих мест, а его ликвидация остается актуальной глобальной проблемой. Обстановка по бруцеллезу в республике Дагестан за последние 5 лет является нестабильной и определяется выявлением бруцеллеза среди сельскохозяйственных животных и индивидуальных хозяйствах.

In terms of the level of economic damage caused, brucellosis continues to occupy one of the leading places among zoonotic infections, and its elimination remains an urgent global problem. The brucellosis situation in the Republic of Dagestan over the past 5 years has been unstable and is determined by the identification of brucellosis among farm animals and individual farms.
О НЕКОТОРЫХ ОРГАНИЗАЦИОННЫХ АСПЕКТАХ МЕХАНИЗМА РЕАЛИЗАЦИИ НАЦИОНАЛЬНОГО ПРОЕКТА «ЗДРАВООХРАНЕНИЕ»
Authors: Савченко Николай Александрович
Published: March 2024

В статье рассматривается влияние Национального проекта «Здравоохранение» на деятельность системы здравоохранения и особенности его реализации в настоящее время.
ИССЛЕДОВАНИЕ СИСТЕМЫ Bi2Te3-Pr2Te3
Authors: Мирзаева Р.Д. , Гасанова З.Т. , Исмаилов З.И.
Published: March 2024

Методами физико-химического анализа изучено фазообразование в тройной системе Pr-Bi-Te. Построена диаграмма состояния разреза системы: Bi2Te3-Pr2Te3,. В системе обнаружена новое тройное фазы с составом PrBiTe3 и области твердого раствора ~3-5 мол% при 300К.
ФИЗИЧЕСКАЯ АКТИВНОСТЬ, КАК ФАКТОР ВОССТАНОВЛЕНИЯ ПСИХИЧЕСКОГО ЗДОРОВЬЯ СТУДЕНТОВ ПОСЛЕ COVID-19
Authors: Фаизова Диана Эдуардовна , Габдрахимова Рената Айнуровна , Оленичев Андрей Владимирович , Гильмутдинова Лира Талгатовна , Фаизова Эльвира Раилевна
Published: March 2024

Новая коронавирусная инфекция COVID-19 серьезный вызов современной медицине. Считалось, что чаще вирус поражает взрослых, но, к сожалению, заболевание стремительно «молодеет», вовлекая подростков и студентов [1]. Известно, что психическое здоровье студентов значительно ухудшается при чрезвычайных ситуациях [3]. Авторы делятся доступным способом восстановления психического здоровья студентов после ковид.
EFFECT OF MAGNETIC FLUX CREEP ON CRITICAL CURRENT IN PERCOLATIVE SUPERCONDUCTORS
Authors: Кузьмин Юрий Игоревич
Published: March 2024

Рассматривается влияние крипа магнитного потока на критические токи в перколяционных высокотемпературных сверхпроводниках. Сделаны оценки значений критического тока и электрического поля, индуцированного крипом вихрей.

The effect of magnetic flux creep on critical currents in percolation high-temperature superconductors is considered. The values of the critical current and electric field induced by vortex creep are estimated.
ПРОБЛЕМА ВНИМАНИЯ В ПСИХОЛОГИИ
Authors: Евдокимов Владимир Николаевич
Published: March 2024

В статье рассматривается степень научной разработанности проблемы внимания. Также приведены три класса теорий, в рамках которых исследователи изучают вопрос существования внимания как такового. Более детально рассмотрена связь внимания и деятельностного подхода в психологии.
ЗАВИСИМОСТЬ УДОЯ КОРОВ ОТ ИНТЕНСИВНОСТИ ВЫРАЩИВАНИЯ ТЕЛОК
Authors: Адушинов Дмитрий Семенович , Боярина Ольга Александровна , Прокопьев Владимир Алексеевич , Циклер Максим Викторович , Гладких Денис Андреевич
Published: March 2024

С увеличением скорости роста телок при выращивании наблюдается повышение уровня их удоя у коров за 305 дней первой лактации. Высокая молочная продуктивность отмечена у коров, возраст первого плодотворного осеменения которых составил 13-14 месяцев (5309-5476 кг по первой лактации). Наименьший удой по 1 лактации получен от коров, осемененных в возрасте 20 месяцев и старше. Высокую молочную продуктивность в первую лактацию получили от коров с живой массой при первом отеле 541-550 кг, 551 кг и выше (5197-5164 кг). Низкая молочная продуктивность получена от коров с живой массой при первом отеле до 500 кг (4567-5122 кг).