bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Mining and Optimization Strategies for Improving the Teaching Ability Path of Chinese Language and Literature Based on Big Data Analysis
Authors: Junlei Dai
Published: October 2024

Teachers must receive pedagogy training, curriculum updates with a variety of texts, and the integration of interactive methods in order to improve the teaching skill path for Chinese language and literature. In order to promote a dynamic and all-encompassing approach to education in the sector, emphasis is focused on language competency, cultural awareness, and technology integration. In this manuscript, Mining and Optimization Strategies for Improving the Teaching Ability Path of Chinese Language and Literature Based on Big Data Analysis (MOS-ITACL-BDA-FBPINN) is proposed. Initially input datas are gathered from Chinese MNIST in CSV Dataset. To execute this, input data is pre-processed using Regularized Bias-Aware Ensemble Kalman Filter (RBAEKF) and it is used to identify the missing datas, from the dataset. Then the pre-processed datas are given to FBPINN for improve the intelligence level of teaching ability of the Chinese Language. In general, FBPINN does not express adapting optimization strategies to determine optimal parameters to ensure accurate intelligence level of teaching ability improvement. Hence, the Binary Battle Royale Optimizer Algorithm (BBROA) to optimize FBPINN which accurately improved the teaching ability. Then the proposed MOS-ITACL-BDA-FBPINN is implemented in Python and the performance metrics like Accuracy, Precision, Recall F1-Score, and Area under the Curve (AUC) Score are analysed. Performance of the CTN-BMS-FRP approach attains 18.75%, 26.89% and 32.57% higher accuracy; 16.87%, 24.57% and 32.94% higher Precision and 18.43%, 25.64% and 31.40% higher Recall when analysed through existing techniques likedisc ussing Retracted: Intelligent Analysis and Application of Preschool Education Language Teaching Quality Based on Deep Neural Network (IAA-PELTQ-DNN), the Convolution Neural Network-Assisted Strategies for Improving Teaching Quality of College English Flipped Class (TQ-CEFC-CNN), and Construction of Chinese Language Teaching System Model Based on Deep Learning under the Background of Artificial Intelligence (CTN-CLTS-ANN), methods respectively.
Development of Service Compositions in Cloud Manufacturing Processes Based on System Sustainability Components
Authors: Ali Vaziri, Pardis Sadatian Moghaddam, Anita Ershadi Oskouei
Published: October 2024

With the emergence of information and communication technologies, manufacturing industries have shifted from centralized production architectures to architectures based on global services. This shift is highly beneficial for identifying emerging customer needs in the market, such as rapid response to custom production, autonomy in organizational network resources, flexibility, and efficiency in manufacturing. Consequently, several leading countries have given special attention to cloud manufacturing in their national development programs. Notable examples include the Industrial Internet program in the United States, the Industry 4.0 framework in Germany, and the Made in China 2025 initiative. Cloud manufacturing adopts the cloud computing paradigm as a foundation for providing shared manufacturing services on demand. The result is customer-centric supply chains that can be tailored based on cost, quality, speed, and customization.
In this study, considering cloud manufacturing systems, the economic, social, and environmental sustainability components were evaluated and analyzed. A sustainable mathematical model was developed and extended in this field. In the conducted analysis, using a small-scale approach with a metaheuristic algorithm, optimal solutions for economic, social, and environmental sustainability were evaluated. Finally, using the NSGA-II metaheuristic algorithm, larger dimensions of the problem were studied and analyzed. In the performed analysis, the algorithm parameters were initially tuned using the Taguchi method, followed by an evaluation and analysis of the problem dimensions based on exact and metaheuristic solutions. It was demonstrated that the development of cloud manufacturing systems is highly practical and executable within analytical models.
Aerodynamic Optimisation of Aerofoils for Martian Rotorcraft Using Direct Numerical Simulations
Authors: Vincent Peter
Published: October 2024

Throughout the last century, designers have worked to optimize aerofoils for a wide range of terrestrial conditions. However, Martian atmospheric density is less than 1% of that on Earth, and Martian surface temperature and atmospheric composition lead to a lower sound speed. Consequently, rotors for a Martian helicopter – such as Ingenuity which flew on Mars in 2021 – must operate in a low Reynolds number compressible regime that is seldom encountered on Earth. Non-conventional aerofoils with sharp edges and flat surfaces have shown improved performance under such conditions, and second-order-accurate Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) and Unsteady RANS (URANS) solvers have been combined with genetic algorithms to optimise them. However, flow over such aerofoils is characterised by unsteady roll-up of coherent vortices that subsequently break down/transition. Accordingly, RANS/URANS solvers have limited predictive capability, especially at higher angles of attack where the aforementioned physics are more acute. In this seminar I will present recent efforts to overcome this limitation via use of high-order GPU-accelerated Direct Numerical Simulations (DNSs).
Novel rebreathing adaptation extends dive time in a semi-aquatic lizard
Authors: Swierk Lindsey
Published: October 2024

Bubble use evolved in many small invertebrates to enable underwater respiration but, until recently, there has been no evidence that vertebrate animals use bubbles in a similar manner. Only one group of vertebrates, semi-aquatic Anolis lizards, may be an exception: these lizards dive underwater when threatened and, while underwater, rebreathe a bubble of air over their nostrils. Although it seems that rebreathing should be adaptive, possibly functioning to extend the time that lizards remain in underwater refugia, this has not been empirically tested. Here, I demonstrate that rebreathing serves to extend dive time in a semi-aquatic anole, Anolis aquaticus. I prevented formation of normal rebreathing bubbles by applying a commercial emollient where bubbles form on the skin to assess the impact of bubbles on rebreathing cycles, gular pumps, and dive times. Lizards that were allowed to rebreathe normally remained underwater an average of 32% longer than those with impaired rebreathing, indicating a functional role of rebreathing in underwater respiration. Unlike rebreathing, gular pumping was unaffected by treatment and may warrant further research regarding its role in supplementing underwater respiration. This study provides evidence that vertebrates use bubbles to respire underwater and raises questions about adaptive mechanisms and potential bio-inspired applications.
Conversation through Dramatic Games
Authors:   National University of Science and Technology, POLITEHNICA Bucharest, University Center Pitești, Nicoleta Florina Mincă
Published: October 2024

The need for conversing is always present in the teaching-learning process of EFL. Teachers must be able to help students develop their conversational competence in the target language. This dramatic game means that the participants can improvise dialogues to fit an already described situation and perform it. The teacher should design three stages: play reading, paraphrasing the play, and performing the dramatic game. To simulate real-life situations, students will begin to think in English without noticing it. They cross the bridge and speak easily. It is the teacher who will experiment, try new methods, and be fearless about having fun.
INTEGER OPTIMIZATION PROBLEM
Authors:   Lipetsk State Technical University, BOBYLEV A.I.
Published: October 2024

Mathematical programming is a mathematical discipline that studies various extremal problems and develops algorithms for solving them. Among the problems are those of mathematical integer programming. Integer programming is indispensable for solving mathematical programming problems in which some or all of the variables take on integer values. The problems include the transport problem. The paper considers the transport problem and three linear programming methods for solving it: the method of potentials, the method of differential rents and the simplex method. The paper analyzes and assesses the effectiveness of the three algorithms for optimizing transport problems. Several linear optimization algorithms have been studied and presented. The paper contains the basic concepts, formulas, and algorithms of the methods used. The method of potentials, the method of differential rents and the simplex method are considered. The results of solving the problem using these methods are presented and compared. All calculations were performed using Excel.
IMPROVING ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN THE PRODUCTION OF APATITE CONCENTRATE
Authors:   Lipetsk State Technical University, SHARAPOV A.I. , NIKIFOROV M.S. ,   Lipetsk State Technical University, STROKOVSKY M.G. ,   Lipetsk State Technical University
Published: October 2024

The article discusses a way to solve the problem of increased fuel oil consumption in the production of apatite concentrate. The production cycle was monitored and the data and operating modes were analyzed. The equipment operation range was determined, which made it possible to improve the performance and increase the energy efficiency of production.
STRENGTH CALCULATION AND HARDNESS CHECK OF A STATICALLY DETERMINATE I-BEAM
Authors:   Lipetsk State Technical University, SUKHANOV A.V. , SUKHANOV A.V. ,   Lipetsk State Technical University
Published: October 2024

This paper presents a strength calculation for a statically determinate I-beam. Diagrams of internal force factors (transverse forces and bending moments) are constructed and the number of the I-beam is selected according to the given external load and the values of the material strength characteristics. The given material characteristics are permissible normal stress, elastic modulus and permissible shear stress. The strength of a beam with a selected cross-section for shear stresses was tested. To construct the I-beam elastic line, the deflections of cross-sections with a unit interval along the length are calculated. The beam deflections were calculated using the universal elastic line equation. The obtained value of the maximum beam deflection made it possible to draw a conclusion about the beam sufficient hardness and operability under given external loads.
Analysis of factors that cause financial distress in Islamic commercial banks
Authors: Lestari Anisa , Rahmayanti Dini
Published: October 2024

This research aims to analyze the factors that cause financial distress in Islamic commercial banks in Indonesia so that Islamic banking companies avoid financial difficulties and reduce the possibility of bankruptcy. The population used in this research were 13 Islamic commercial banks registered with the Otoritas Jasa Keuangan (OJK), and sampling used a purposive sampling technique where samples were taken with certain conditions until 9 Islamic commercial banks were selected with a research period of eight years (2015-2022). Data analysis using multiple linear regression and the results obtained showed that the leverage ratio has a negative and significant effect on the occurrence of financial distress, where leverage measurement uses Debt to Equity Ratio (DER) and financial distress measurement uses Z-Score. At the same time, the liquidity ratio has a positive but insignificant effect on financial distress, where liquidity is measured using the Current Ratio (CR).
Formulation and evaluation of herbal face scrub
Authors: Sushil Kumar Pal  , Shashank Tiwari  , Sunil Mishra  , Dhirendra Maruya
Published: October 2024

Herbal face scrubs have become increasingly popular in recent years due to their ability to improve skin health and are available at a low cost. These scrubs contain natural ingredients such as rice powder and orange peel powder, ficus riligiosa etc. Which work to exfoliate, whiten, and prevent free radical damage. Vitamin E, rose Oil, and almonds are used to hydrate and exfoliate the skin. Neutralizers and herbal preservatives like neem, and rosemary are used in the variuos formulations. The preparation was evaluated for various parameters, such as colour, odour consistency, pH, spreadability, viscosity, and foamability. The results from the evaluation indicated that the scrub was satisfactory after application and was non-irritating to the skin. Ficus religiosa L., commonly known as Peepal tree known to be a native Indian is a medicinally important tree species belonging to the Moraceae family. It is a large evergreen tree found throughout the India. This tree is popular indigenous system of medicine like Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani, and Homeopathy. Ficus religiosa is sacred tree, which is having great traditional uses as well as pharmacological activities. Almost all parts of the tree are useful in traditional system. The various parts like leaf, bark, fruit, and seeds are beneficial in treatment of gastrointestinal diseases, healing and curative, heart diseases, constipation, mumps and boils, gynaecological problems, fever and joint pains, respiratory problems, skin diseases orodental and ear problems. Ficus religiosa tree shows pharmacological activities analgesic, antioxidant, anticonvulsant, antimicrobial, wound healing, ant amnesic, anti-acetyl cholinesterase, proteolytic activity. The present review is hence an effort to give detailed survey of the literature on its pharmacognosy, photochemistry and medicinal applications.
A taxonomy of macro-financial risks and policies to address them
Authors: Melnychuk Mariya , Mencía Javier
Published: October 2024

We propose a taxonomy of systemic risks relevant for economic growth, with a particular focus on those impairing the normal functioning of the financial system. We also discuss the variety of existing policies – micro- and macroprudential, fiscal and monetary – to address them. Additionally, we analyse their potential combinations and how they can be enhanced under the established governance frameworks. Finally, we review the experience of recent systemic events at the global level and provide descriptive evidence that illustrates how the different policies were used and combined in dealing with these systemic crises.
A Comprehensive Overview Of The Legacy Of Tradition Education In Travancore
Authors: V Lekshmi. C.
Published: October 2024

In Kerala, the educational scenario is far more advanced than in other states of India. Traditional education provides knowledge and skills that help the younger generations survive and live in that era. In this education system, children acquire knowledge of a pious and religious way of life from elders within the family or society and many art forms and skills from mere observation and listening to experienced people. This article attempts to give an insight into the unique characteristics of traditional education and to concede that almost all changes in the field of education were initiated by temples, underscoring their pivotal role in the historical development of education. Most of the learning happened in temples, providing ample facilities to run educational institutions in their precincts. The study suggests that the present educational system may embrace the recognised methods utilised by traditional education.
Multidisciplinary management of severe hyperemesis gravidarum complicated by cannabinoid and opioid use: A case report on the complex interplay of hyperemesis gravidarum, opioids and treatment challenges
Authors: Saxena, Amit  , Hasham, Lawahidh  , Webster, Barbara Wendt  , Al-Snafi, Ali Esmail
Published: October 2024

Hyperemesis gravidarum (HG) presents a significant management challenge in pregnancy due to its debilitating effects on maternal health and fetal outcomes. This case report details the presentation and management of a 34-year-old primigravida at 17 weeks and 4 days gestation with severe HG. The patient’s history includes significant gastrointestinal procedures, a prior child with lissencephaly, and continued opioid use during pregnancy. Her symptoms were refractory to conventional treatments and further complicated by cannabinoid use. A multidisciplinary approach involving gastroenterology, surgery, obstetrics, pharmacists, and dietitians was employed, resulting in significant improvement. This case highlights the importance of a comprehensive care strategy in managing refractory HG complicated by substance use.
Saberes kaingang enquanto resistência e fortalecimento da cultura indígena
Authors: Fidelis Adroaldo Antonio , Battestin Cláudia
Published: October 2024

A escrita deste artigo é resultante de uma pesquisa de cunho bibliográfico, auto etnográfico e etnográfico, basilares para explicar o sentido e saberes do povo Kaingang. Conhecimentos que foram estímulos para dar cada vez mais vida as identificações do povo originário. De tal forma, dado todo processo histórico de dominação, há muito tempo os “saberes tradicionais” oriundos do conhecimento milenar dos povos originários, ao mesmo tempo que foram invisibilizados, passaram por uma série de apropriações indevidas. O que se pretende apresentar aqui é o sentido de ser Kaingang, que vai muito além do que muitos imaginam ser. É nesta motivação que acreditamos na possibilidade de reafirmar a importância da cosmologia, dos saberes e ancestralidades que habitam cada cultura, neste caso, do povo Kaingang.
EFFECT OF APPLICATION METHODS AND RATES OF CALCIUM SOURCES ON SOIL ALUMINUM FORMS
Authors: Gabriel Camila Adaime , Cassol Paulo Cezar , Campos Mari Lucia , Mumbach Gilmar Luiz , Moraes Neto Mário Chaves
Published: October 2024

Effect of application methods and rates of calcium sources on soil aluminum forms. The presence of aluminum (Al) in available forms in the soil can harm cultivated plants. Aluminum forms were evaluated in a Humic Cambisol soil grown with eucalyptus and treated with dolomitic limestone (DL), gypsum (GYP), and lime mud (LM), using surface applications over the total area (TA), to the planting strip (STRIP), and to the planting furrow with incorporation (FRW). The treatments were: Control; DL 3.5 Mg ha-1 TA; DL 1.75 Mg ha-1 STRIP; DL 3.5 Mg ha-1 STRIP; LM 3.5 Mg ha-1 STRIP; DL 3.5 Mg ha-1 + GYP 1.75 Mg ha-1 STRIP; DL 1.75 Mg ha-1 FRW; DL 1.75 Mg ha-1 + GYP 1.38 Mg ha-1 FRW; and GYP 1.38 Mg ha-1 FRW. After 31 and 56 months of applying the treatments, the levels of exchangeable Al (Al3+), Al bound to organic matter (Al - MO) and Al bound to low crystallinity and amorphous oxides (Al - OX) were determined in layers of up to 0.40 m. Al3+ contents decreased in the 0-0.05 m layer when DL and LM were applied in TA and STRIP and, in the lower layers when the first was incorporated in the FRW. Al-OM and Al-OX contents were 2.6 to 5.8-fold higher than Al3+. DL on TA decreases Al3+, Al-OM, and Al-OX contents in the 0-0.05 m layer. GYP application did not affect soil Al contents.
Desbloqueando el Potencial Biotecnológico: El Poder de la Propiedad Intelectual
Authors: Riascos Torres Paula Daniela
Published: October 2024

La biotecnología morada aborda la propiedad intelectual en ciencia, superando dilemas éticos, sociales y ambientales relacionados con la edición genética y transgénicos, promoviendo innovación y valores humanos. En Colombia, regulada por la Ley de Propiedad Industrial, protege invenciones biotecnológicas en campos como agricultura, medicina y energía. Un desafío clave es fomentar la innovación, incentivando la investigación para beneficio social. Sin embargo, la biotecnología puede generar controversias
Llevando la ciencia a donde más se necesita: Investigadora colombiana, Yulieth Alexandra Upegui Zapata, gana premio For Women in Science 2023 por su impacto en comunidades y zonas rurales.
Authors: Suárez Alfonso Aura Elena
Published: October 2024

En esta entrevista, la Profesora e Investigadora Yulieth Alexandra Upegui Zapata, quien trabaja en la Universidad Antonio Nariño y la Universidad Nacional de Colombia en Bogotá, nos comparte su trayectoria profesional y su trabajo actual, además de su experiencia al recibir el premio "For Women in Science 2023". Nos relata su formación desde el pregrado hasta el posdoctorado en la Universidad de Antioquia, y destaca los desafíos de realizar investigación en Colombia con recursos limitados, pero con una gran pasión por la comunidad y la ciencia.
CLINICAL OUTCOMES OF MONO-THERAPY VERSUS DUAL ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY IN PATIENTS PRESENTING AT TEHSIL HOSPITAL IN PAKISTAN
Authors: HUSSAIN J , ALTAF R , SHAKOOR A , ASHRAF M , MANSHA I , ASIM F
Published: October 2024

Hypertension, a prevalent and potentially life-threatening condition, remains a significant public health concern in Pakistan. This article aims to investigate and compare the clinical outcomes of antihypertensive monotherapy versus combination therapy in patients treated at Tehsil Hospital, a critical healthcare facility in the Tehsil region of Pakistan. Objective: To assess and compare the clinical outcomes of hypertensive patients treated with monotherapy and those receiving a combination of antihypertensive medications at Tehsil Hospital, Pakistan. Methods: The study was carried out at Tehsil Hospital, Punjab-Pakistan. All adult participants (30 ≥ and ≤70 years) who were on antihypertensive medicine for at least 6 weeks and were diagnosed as hypertensive (average blood pressure of >140/90 mm Hg on at least two clinic visits) were included in the study from April 11 to June 20, 2022. The data was analyzed by SPSS 20. Statistical tests like chi-square were applied to obtain the required results. Results: A total of 136 study subjects were enrolled. Out of these, 113(81%) were male subjects, 23(17%) were female, 12(17.6%) smokers, and patients suffering from chronic liver disease were as 26(38.2%) treated with mono-therapy as compared with dual therapy with significant p-value 0.00 and 0.001. Other co-morbidities like the previous history of IHD, DM, and chronic kidney disease were treated with both therapies with insignificant p-values as > 0.05. Clinical outcomes were observed, and it was shown that more patients with stroke were treated with mono-therapy as p-value > 0.05 while comparing with major bleeding and control of hypertension showed a significant p-value of <0.05. Conclusion: Treatments in combination are effective and advised. The most important element in the management of hypertension, irrespective of whether medication is utilized, the goal is to get blood pressure down to the desired amount. Effective communication is essential for doctors, other healthcare professionals, and patients to treat patients.
Clinical Changes Evaluations in Amphotericin B Induced Osteoarthritis in Canine Models
Authors: Hamad Rehab , Elmabrok Asma , Hamad Hassan , Hussin Khaled
Published: October 2024

تم تكرار النموذج التجريبي لالتهاب المفاصل العظمي (OA) في ستة كلاب من التهاب المفاصل العظمي الناجم عن الحقن داخل المفصل مع الأمفوتريسين B (AB) في مفصل الركبة الايسرى. كانت المفاصل اليمنى بمثابة السيطرة. تم تتبع الحالة الطبية وبعض المعلمات الهندسية قبل بدء AB وفي الأيام الثلاثين والستين والتسعين بعد الحقن. أظهرت النتائج بشكل مقنع أن نموذج الزراعة العضوية الذي استخدمته المادة الكيميائية التجريبية كرر المرض بشكل فعال في المفاصل الخانقة لدى الكلاب وأظهر تطورًا تدريجيًا للمرض، تمامًا كما هو الحال في حالات التهاب المفاصل المبلغ عنها والتي تؤثر بشكل طبيعي على الكلاب اعتمادًا على وقت الالتهاب. وارتبطت المؤشرات الطبية المدروسة بخطورة المرض.
Interval Valued Anti-Fuzzy R -Subgroups Weak BiIdeals in Gamma near Rings
Authors: Mohammed Samah Said
Published: October 2024

This research was aimed to establish the cogitation of Gammanear-rings (N-Rings) residue class and Interval Valued Anti Fuzzy R -Sub-groups. In Gamma -N-rings, weak bi-ideals, homomorphism, and endomorphism of interval-valued anti fuzzy R sub-groups week bi-ideals are studied.
Microbiological Profile of Ear Infection in Patients with Chronic Suppurative Otitis Media
Authors: Omar Eisa S , Elkarimi Fares A Saleh
Published: October 2024

Ear infections occur in all age groups. Chronic Suppurative Otitis Media (CSOM) is the most common illness in ear, nose and throat (ENT) practice. It may even cause hearing impairment especially  sensory – neural deafness if not treated properly and with caution.  The aim from the present study is to assess the frequency of microbial  agents in chronic suppurative otitis media and the antibiotic  susceptibility patterns of isolates among patients. A total of 65  patients clinically diagnosed with chronic suppurative otitis media,  the samples were collected using sterile swabs. All bacterial and  fungal isolate were identified by conventional microbiological  methods. Antibiotic susceptibility patterns of the bacterial isolate  were determined by Kirby–Bauer disc diffusion method. Out of total  65 samples 45 (69.2%) positive culture was Pseudomonas aeruginosa  (28.8%) were the most prevalent bacteria isolated, followed by  Staphylococcus aureus (22.2%) Proteus mirabilis (11.1%) Klebsiella  (6.6%), E. coli (4.4%), Staphylococcus epidermidis (4.4%) and  Streptococcus pyogenic (4.4%). Candida albicans (13.3%) was the  most common fungus causing CSOM. The most effective antibiotic  for treatment of bacterial chronic suppurative otitis media was  ceftriaxone, meropenem and amikacin. It is important to know the  major microbial etiologies of CSOM and their antibiotic susceptibility  patterns, both for selection of the most appropriate treatment regimen and prevention of the emergence of resistant strains.
Determination of Nicotine in Juices, Soft and Energy Drinks collected from Libyan Local Markets Using UV–Visible Spectrophotometer
Authors: Elmanfe Galal , Saad Huda , Hossin Yasmine
Published: October 2024

This study aims to determine the nicotine in juices, soft and energy drinks using a UV-Visible spectrophotometer. In the presented study, sixteen samples (four juices, seven soft drinks, and five energy drinks) are collected from local markets in El-Beida - Libya. A rapid, simple, and reliable extraction method is developed and validated for the determination of nicotine in the samples under study using spectrophotometric methods. The method is validated over a wide linear range of 1.62–81.06 µg/mL with correlation coefficients being consistently greater than 0.9999 by UV-Visible Spectrophotometer. The minimum nicotine level was observed in the juices samples, while the energy drinks samples showed the highest nicotine content. The spectrophotometric measurement indicates that the results of nicotine concentrations in juices samples are in the range of 0.3233 - 0.5238 µg/mL, whereas its concentrations in soft drinks samples are in the range of 0.7251 - 0.9949 µg/mL, and the concentrations in energy drinks samples are in the range of 0.8521 - 1.3471 µg/mL. The criteria considered for validation are linearity, the limit of detection, and the limit of quantitation. The nicotine contents in all the samples analyzed in our study were below the allowable limits set by the US Food and Drugs Administration.
Evaluation of Empty Fava Beans Pods as Bioadsorbent for the Removal of Pb2+ from Aqueous Solutions Using Phytoadsorption Technique
Authors: Sharif Salaheddin A. , El-Mugrbi Widad S. , El-Moghrabi Hameda A. M. N. , Mostafa Mohamed A. B. , Alsharkasi Adel , Al Hussein Reham B. A.-H. , Abubakr Khadija A.
Published: October 2024

Environmental contamination with toxic heavy metals is a globally concerned issue. Cleaning up heavy metals from contaminated aquatic systems forces a lot of challenges. Phytoremediation processes are the interesting safe techniques that were focused by scientists and governments during the last decades for the up-taking of toxic heavy metals from ecosystems. Consequently, phytoadsorption approach was applied in this research using dry empty pods of fava beans (Vicia faba L.) to evaluate their potential for the removal of toxic lead heavy metal from its aqueous solutions. We have developed a green and simple method to remove lead ions (Pb2+) from their aquatic system. The obtained results have showed that the 350‒1000-μm biomass particles of fava beans pods were able to take up lead ions at highly rated removal percentages and high adsorption capacity using 100-ml, 100-ppm solutions at room temperature and neutral pH. For example, the highest removal percentage of lead ions was 66.8% with an absorption capacity of 3.34 mg/g using 2.0 g at a shaking rate of 200 OSC/min after 30 min. On the other hand, the removal percentage of lead ions using 0.1 g of fava beans pods biomass was 36.8 % with the highest absorption capacity of 36.8 mg/g at a shaking rate of 800 OSC/min at the same period of time. Therefore, the empty fava beans (Vicia faba L.) pods can be used as potential phytoadsorbents for the removal of lead and other heavy metals from the contaminated aquatic ecosystems.
Fauna Checklists of Al-Abiar Zone (Zaza, Jeera and Takes) Cyrenaica province – Libya
Authors: Al-abdly Aqeelah B. , Abdulghani Abdulghani A. , El-Barasi Yacoub M. , Mohammed Husayn A. , Chammem Mohsen.
Published: October 2024

تكشف القائمة المرجعية لمنطقة الدراسة، التي تم إعدادها بدقة من خلال مزج الدراسات السابقة من المراجع، والزيارات الميدانية والملاحظات المباشرة للمؤلفين، وملاحظات المجتمعات المحلية، عن 36 نوعًا تمثل 29 عائلة. وتتناول القائمة المرجعية توزيعهم الجغرافي، وتسجل تواجدها في منطقة الدراسة. تتيح لنا هذه الصورة الشاملة فهم العلاقة الدقيقة بين كل نوع البيئات التي تعيش فيها. ومع ذلك، يلعب النشاط البشري دورًا حاسمًا في تشكيل التوزيع والكثافة الانواع للحيوانات في المنطقة. إنه بمثابة تذكير قوي بالحاجة الملحة لجهود الحفظ التنوع الحيوي البري في برقه. تضع القائمة المرجعية الأساس لتحديد وحماية الموائل الحيوية والأنواع المهددة بالانقراض، مما يضمن استمرار صدى سيمفونية الحياة في هذا الركن من العالم للأجيال القادمة.
Effect of Changing the Concentration of Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles on the Viscosity of the Polyacrylamide / Polyethylene Glycol Solutions
Authors: Elgheryani Najla Ali
Published: October 2024

In this work, Polyacrylamide/ Polyethylene glycol solutions of different molecular weights for Polyethylene glycol and different concentrations (17, 29, 38, 45, and 57 %) of ZnO nanoparticles were prepared by dissolving 0.5g of Polyethylene glycol in 20mL Polyacrylamide, then adding different concentrations of ZnO nanoparticles. Relative viscosity values are calculated by using the efflux time of the solutions, the viscosities(relative viscosity (ƞr), specific viscosity (ƞsp), reduced viscosity (ƞred) and inherent viscosity (ƞint) were calculated for all solutions, where measurements indicated an increase in these properties with increased concentration of ZnO nanoparticles and increased molecular weight of Polyethylene glycol. Viscosity is a significant parameter during the electrospinning process, and if the molecular weight increases, the viscosity of the solutions increases, making subsequent synthesis and purification more difficult. the constants KH and KK were calculated from the slopes of the viscosity values related to the Huggins and Kramer equations. These results can be used in many applications and scientific studies.
Assessment of soil fertility using geographic information systems and fertility indicators: a case study for the Bani Walid area
Authors: Salama Abdulbaset E.
Published: October 2024

يهدف هذا البحث تقييم خصوبة التربة في منطقة الدراسة والتي تعتمد على دراسة استخدام نظم المعلومات الجغرافية ومؤشرات الخصوبة وهي: مؤشر المغذيات (NI)، ومؤشر خصوبة التربة (٪)، ومؤشر جودة التربة (SQ). تم جمع عينات التربة من منطقة الدراسة، وتطبيق GIS، ومؤشرات الخصوبة التي تبين أنها تحتوي على: الرقم الهيدروجيني للتربة يتراوح من (7 إلى 7.50) وهي قلوية بشكل معتدل أو قوية. و EC بأنها غير مالحة -قوية (تتراوح من 0.15 إلى 22.00) و كانت كربونات الكالسيوم في التربة كلسية متوسطة الى جيرية حيث تتراوح من(16.30٪ إلى 41.00٪.) بينما كان محتوى المادة العضوية منخفض فيها لم يتجاوز 55.28٪. حيث تراوحت نسبة المادة العضوية من (0.33% إلى 1.61%). وتراوحت نسبة ESP (من4.35 الى 12.70). (%) وكذلك من (2.43 إلى 25.30). حيث نلاحظ أن معظم التربة غير صودية بنسبة (96.96%)، وكذلك كانت الكثافة الظاهرية للتربة من 1.13 إلى 1.56. القوام للتربة: الرملي طمي> طمييي رملي > طمي > طمي طيني، على التوالي. وتغطي العناصر الغذائية الكبرى والصغرى بشكل عام حوالي 50% منخفضة جداً، ومنخفضة 23%، ومستويات متوسطة 25%، مقبولة 23%، مرتفعة 0.99% , فقيرة جدا 0.0061%، ,فقيرة 1%.  حسب مؤشرات الجودة لثلاث مناطق: NI يعطي نسبة عالية من K وP ومنخفضة بالنسبة لـ N وCu وZn وFe وMn على التوالي. يعتبر SF (%) ممتازًا بالنسبة إلى البوتاسيوم (C1) وغير الزراعي بالنسبة إلى P وN وCu وZn وFe وMn (C6) على التوالي. QS: Q3<Q<2<Q1 على التوالي.
Some properties of *-weak rings with involution.
Authors: Abdulhafed Muna E. , Abduelhafid Aafaf E.
Published: October 2024

Throughout this paper, we introduced the concept of *-weak (*-IFP, quasi-*-IFP, and *-reversible) *-rings also study properties and the basic structure of *-weak *-rings, giving some of the results. Moreover, we will clarify the conditions for the *-weak *rings to extend into subrings with the involution of the ring, at the upper triangular matrices , with the same diagonal).
Goodyera vittata (Lindl.) Benth. ex Hook.f: A new record of Jewel orchid for western Himalaya, India
Authors: Jalal Jeewan , Kumar Pankaj , Rawat Gopal , Pangtey Yash Pal
Published: October 2024

An interesting Jewel Orchid, Goodyera vittata Benth, ex Hook.f. is being reported for the first time from Western Himalaya. Brief description of the species along with illustration, phenology and notes on microhabitat have been provided.
Nowa metoda oceny degradacji chemicznej rękawic całogumowych chroniących przed ciekłymi substancjami chemicznymi
Authors:   Natalia Litwicka, Irzmańska Emilia ,   Paulina Kropidłowska
Published: October 2024

Badanie degradacji chemicznej rękawic ochronnych ma na celu normatywne potwierdzenie ewentualnej niekorzystnej zmiany po kontakcie z substancjami chemicznymi minimum jednej lub kilku właściwości fizykomechanicznych materiałów polimerowych stosowanych w chemoodpornych konstrukcjach rękawic ochronnych. Według normy PN-EN ISO 374-4:2020-03 materiał, w którym zaobserwowano takie zmiany, stanowi nieskuteczną barierę dla przenikających chemikaliów na poziomie molekularnym. Może to wpływać na wykonywanie bezpiecznej pracy, ponieważ pracodawca na podstawie m.in. wyników badań degradacji chemicznej rękawic ochronnych powinien określić warunki ich stosowania oraz podjąć decyzję dotyczącą ich ponownego użycia. Celem artykułu jest zaprezentowanie wyników badania degradacji chemicznej wg normy PN-EN ISO 374-4:2020-03 w wyniku działania ciekłych nieorganicznych substancji chemicznych, tj. wodnego roztworu wodorotlenku sodu o stężeniu 40%, wodnego roztworu nadtlenku wodoru o stężeniu 30% oraz wodnego roztworu kwasu siarkowego(VI) o stężeniu 98%, na materiał rękawic ochronnych (na bazie kauczuku poliakrylonitrylo-butylowego, chloroprenowego oraz poliakrylonitrylowego).
A Crisis in Narration?
Authors: Weinrich Harald
Published: October 2024

This historical overview of the apparently increasing narrative use of the passé composé, traditionally a tense of discussion, begins with Old French, which has been considered chaotic in its tenses, but turns out to be normal in prose and distorted in verse for the sake of assonance. French Classicism imposed a “rule of 24 hours,” limiting the passé composé to events of the last day, meticulously observed, for instance, by Mme de Sévigné and by Racine. Starting in the 18th century, newspapers favored the passé composé to emphasize recency and may thus have contributed to the eventual displacement of the passé simple. Camus’s Stranger, narrated in the passé composé, illustrates the complications of narrating in what is originally a discussion tense. Oral narrative in contemporary French continues to feature highlighting, compensating for the disappearance of the preterit with an abundance of temporal adverbs. The simple past has also disappeared from South German dialects, also beginning in the sixteenth century, and the compensations to retain highlighting are similar to those in French, though not identical.
The Niqab in France
Authors: De Féo Agnès
Published: October 2024

Agnès De Féo’s The Niqab in France: Between Piety and Subversion is a surprising and intimate study of a topic that has been the object of fierce controversy in France for decades: a garment—the niqab, or full-face veil—and the women who choose to wear it. This book, the result of ten years of research by sociologist and documentary filmmaker Agnès De Féo, includes both a researched sociological study of the phenomenon of niqab wearing in France and a series of first-person accounts from French and Francophone women who wear or have worn the niqab in France’s Salafi communities. With the backdrop of the French government’s 2010 ban on full facial veiling in public spaces, which itself has shaped the phenomenon, De Féo draws on her subject’s words to show their agency, working against the clichés that often underlie public views of the niqab that it is purely the result of masculine pressure, for example, or extreme religiosity or nationalism, or the submissive desire to disappear. Instead, she shows, the niqab is multivalent: women wear it for reasons that range from religious piety to the desire to rebel against mainstream society, family, or the rule of law. These reasons may be complex, overdetermined, contradictory, or even inconsistent, but they are these women’s own.
The Sociology of Niqab Wearers
Authors: De Féo Agnès
Published: October 2024

This chapter gives an overview of De Féo’s subjects throughout the book and in the context of the Muslim world. It differentiates the neo-niqab as worn in France from other Muslim veiling practices inside and outside France (the jilbab, hijab, and other traditional veils), differentiating between the traditional veil and the re-appropriated veil. It provides an overview of French niqab wearers, including their family situations, religious education levels, relationships to female beauty standards, ages, and relationships to society. It elaborates some of the reasons women wear the niqab (including religion or religious obligation, self-development and fulfilment, and fighting objectification) while stressing the absence of masculine coercion to wear the garment.
A Global Odyssey
Authors: Hayes Patrick J.
Published: October 2024

This chapter explores the movement across time and cultural settings of the icon of Our Mother of Perpetual Help (OLPH). Known famously as a miraculous icon whose original is ensconced above the main altar in the Redemptorist Church of San Alfonso, the image made its way to the United States in 1868. Its presence was given wider publicity in Boston after 1871, when the Redemptorists at Our Lady of Perpetual Help (aka, the Mission Church) began promoting it through a weekly novena. Its reputation was carried forward by various means, not least by Redemptorist chaplains during the Second World War, who encouraged devotions to take root in the Philippines. Today it is the most ubiquitous Madonna and Child on the planet.
Illuminated in Black: Arturo Alfonso Schomburg’s Revolt against Colonial Historicization—An Anti-Colonial Reflection on the Philosophy of (Black) History
Authors: Curry Tommy J.
Published: October 2024

The recent interest in expanding American philosophy into the Americas has often led to comparative theorizations between Latin America and white American or European philosophical traditions. Black and Africana authors and traditions have often been ignored or altogether erased from the emerging historiographies concerning Americana philosophy. This chapter explores Arturo Schomburg’s philosophy of history and attempts to decenter the dominant white supremacist myths of civilization at the dawn of the twentieth century. This chapter argues that Black theorists and historians developed theories and schools of thought such as the Negro Society for Historical Research to refute the erroneous philosophy of a primitive Africa and savage Blackness.
Latin American Thought as a Path toward Philosophizing from Radical Exteriority
Authors: Vallega Alejandro A.
Published: October 2024

This article unfolds a thinking in radical exteriority, a thinking with a sense of alterity that may rekindle philosophy from beyond its traditional articulation. This is a thinking never enclosed by the dominating rationalism or ideologies that see themselves as holding a universal word that may speak for all or name all, or measure, determine, and ultimately make all difference accessible objects of knowledge and production. The point is a radicalizing and intensifying of philosophical thought by recognizing thinking, ways of being, and configuration of knowledge that traditionally remain for the most part buried and excluded, obscured, and misrepresented. In listening to those voices, in letting philosophy turn to the oppressed and excluded, one finds possibilities opened by experiences figured by border thinking, hybrid thought, deconstruction, and pluriversal hermeneutics.
Afro-American Writing: Motifs of Place
Authors: Haile, III James B.
Published: October 2024

Heretofore, Africana phenomenology has been largely the historization of the flesh. That is, Africana phenomenology has almost exclusively focused on embodiment—locating the concept of “place” in the body; blackness within the historical embodiment of “black” persons trapped in and reduced to their bodies—to the exclusion of other more expansive understandings or aspects of our living engagements. Gordon’s introduction of the concept of “the geography of reason” and the notion of “shifting the geography of reason” means expansion beyond the metaphorical or analytical to an engagement with place as the beginning of thinking of the Africana itself. Place in the Africana context, then, is a taking-back, a self-naming, a proclamation of disinvestment of the “land” from the colonial, dislocated, or alienated context. As Europeans ironically created the context to think the “Americas” as a place distinct from the Mother continent, so, too, in the works of Richard Wright, George Lamming, and Dorothy E. Mosby, do we get the emergence of a new settlement of resistance and existence, bringing in and settling together the North, South, Central, and Caribbean “American” experiences in the process of land-making, land-masking.
Decolonial Feminisms and Indigenous Women’s Resistance to Neoliberalism: Lessons from Abya Yala
Authors: Pitts Andrea J.
Published: October 2024

This chapter traces several threads of indigenous resistance by women in two distinct geopolitical sites of Abya Yala. The aim of doing so is to help situate and critique modes of gender analysis and feminist theory within the Anglophone North American philosophical academy in an effort to develop coalitional strategies with indigenous scholars and activists working across Abya Yala. With conceptual resources from decolonial theory, the chapter examines the writings of several authors and activists based in Bolivia and Mexico who are carrying out distinct forms of political organizing in the service of indigenous rights. In each context, the author specifies variations within contemporary neoliberal policies and practices, and the counter-claims made by indigenous women in these contexts. The chapter thereby aims to highlight strategies of resistance as well as theoretical methods of critique used by several indigenous women in Abya Yala.
Loving Your Neighbor across the Sea
Authors: Park Haeseong , Rausch Franklin
Published: October 2024

Haeseong Park and Franklin Rausch discuss the impact of Nagai Takashi’s life and literature on readers in Korea. Through a study of translations and reactions to Nagai’s work, and by looking at the activities of the Korean “Love Your Neighbor Association,” Rausch and Park show how Nagai and his works became immortally popular in Korean. While only two of his works, The Bells of Nagasaki and We of Nagasaki, were translated into English, three times as many of his works have been translated into Korean. For Korean translators and readers, Nagai Takashi’s desire to make sense of the suffering caused by the horrors by suffusing his books both with his Catholic worldview and a genuine desire to help his readers overcome tragedy regardless of religion or nationality became the most appealing aspects of his works. Park and Rausch’s chapter shows us how a key component of the Christian image of ground zero has reached far beyond Japan, and, importantly, beyond dichotomic comparisons with Hiroshima.
Fragmented Memory
Authors: Gasha Anna
Published: October 2024

Anna Gasha introduces us to the afterlife of several pieces of the Urakami Cathedral ruins in the years following their removal in 1958. Gasha points out how a visitor to Nagasaki today in search of places of atomic memory finds different pieces of the Urakami Cathedral, of varying degrees of authenticity, strewn throughout the city. She argues that the physical separation of the Cathedral’s architectural fabric reveals a dissonance that dismembering and replication creates in contemporary visitors’ understandings and impressions of the bombing as an historical event.
Slave Agency, the Emancipation Monument, and History’s Reckoning
Authors: Bell Karen Cook
Published: October 2024

The narrative of President Lincoln as the “Great Emancipator” has undergone scrutiny in the midst of the Black Lives Matter protests that enveloped the nation after the death of George Floyd. A national reckoning of slavery has taken place that has led to reassessments of Confederate and other monuments as well as American leaders with ties to slavery. The Lincoln Emancipation Memorial in Washington D.C., which portrays a kneeling slave at the feet of Abraham Lincoln, became the target of protesters who viewed the memorial as racist subservience and historically inaccurate in light of recent scholarship on self-emancipation and what many regard as Lincoln’s racist views of African Americans.
Jim Crow Then, Jim Crow Now
Authors: Eatmon Myisha S.
Published: October 2024

Generations after African Americans were murdered during the Jim Crow era, images of similar murders flash across our screens almost daily. Police officers continue to arbitrarily murder Black American citizens, those they swore to serve and protect. Black citizens are not even safe in their homes, as Burford and Breonna Taylor’s cases show us. Like Burford, Breonna Taylor was murdered in her home by police in 2020. Like Burford, Taylor had not committed a crime, but officers barged into her home in the middle of the night and executed her as she slept. The prosecutor did not charge the officers for her murder. Like those of us who are still fighting for justice for Black Americans executed by police officers in the twenty-first century, Black Americans living under Jim Crow used tort law to gain recourse for white-on-black and police violence.
Carpetbagging the Colfax Riot Marker
Authors: Keith LeeAnna
Published: October 2024

The Colfax Massacre took place eight years after the collapse of the Confederacy, in 1873, when white supremacist militiamen overran a Black town, destroyed a courthouse, and killed or executed an estimated 150 victims in post-election political violence. The state of Louisiana placed an historical marker there in 1950 celebrating the violence. Though roughly one hundred Confederate and racist monuments were removed before the end of 2020, the Colfax Riot marker and the majority of the offensive monuments in the United States remained in place. State lawmakers have responded to public protests with legislation to protect the status quo, and white supremacist extremists have manifested their willingness to kill and injure in the name of historic preservation at Charlottesville and in other confrontations. Though finally removed in May of 2021, the history of commemorations on the site of the Colfax Massacre suggests that the price of its removal might easily become a matter of life and death for local people.