bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Application of the Loewner Equation for Neurite Outgrowth Mechanism
Authors: Saito Minoru
Published: November 2022

Stochastic Loewner evolution (SLE), which was discovered by Schramm, is a kind of growth processes described by the Loewner equation having a stochastic driving function. The SLE is used as a model for random curves in statistical mechanics. On the other hand, there exist many types of self-organized curves in biological systems. Among them, the neurite curves are very diverse and inherently constitute ambiguous messages in their forms, being closely related to their functions and development. Recently, we have proposed a statistical-physical approach to analyze neurite morphology based on the Loewner equation, which leads to not only a physical interpretation of neurite outgrowth mechanism but also a new description of self-organization mechanism of complex curves. In this chapter, we first review the concept of the Loewner equation and its calculation algorithm. We next show that neurite outgrowth process can be described by the Loewner equation having a deterministic (chaotic) driving function, which differs from the SLE. Based on this point of view, we finally analyze induced-pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived neurons from a healthy person and an Alzheimer’s disease (AD) patient and discuss pathological neurite states and the possibility of a medical application of our approach.
The Role of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Support after Pulmonary Thrombo-Endarterectomy
Authors: Loforte Antonio , Gliozzi Gregorio , Giovanni Cavalli Giulio , Mariani Carlo , Botta Luca , Galiè Nazzareno , Pacini Davide , Martin-Suarez Sofia
Published: November 2022

Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) is a rare consequence of acute or chronic pulmonary embolism. Pulmonary endarterectomy (PEA) is the gold standard treatment: expert centers are able to offer this challenging procedure with low in-hospital mortality, excellent hemodynamic results, and significant improvement in exercise tolerance and quality of life. Despite careful preoperative selection and increasing technical experience in PEA, some patients may suffer from life-threatening complications requiring extracorporeal life support (ECLS). ECLS is necessary in case of heart failure, respiratory failure, or both. According to different indications and timing, cardiopulmonary failure after PEA should be managed with a tailored approach: veno-venous or veno-arterial support, and central or peripheral cannulation. In the present chapter, causes, management strategies, and outcomes of perioperative ECLS for PEA are discussed.
The Effect of COVID-19 on United States Pediatric Emergency Departments and Its Impact on Trainees
Authors: Bailey Jessica , Nadeau Nicole , Jordan Kamyron , Yerxa Hannah , Lam Samuel
Published: November 2022

Introduction: The purpose of this study was to quantify the effects of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on pediatric emergency departments (PED) across the United States (US), specifically its impact on trainee clinical education as well as patient volume, admission rates, and staffing models.

Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study of US PEDs, targeting PED clinical leaders via a web-based questionnaire. The survey was sent via three national pediatric emergency medicine distribution lists, with several follow-up reminders.

Results: There were 46 questionnaires included, completed by PED directors from 25 states. Forty-two sites provided PED volume and admission data for the early pandemic (March-July 2020) and a pre-pandemic comparison period (March-July 2019). Mean PED volume decreased >32% for each studied month, with a maximum mean reduction of 63.6% (April 2020). Mean percentage of pediatric admissions over baseline also peaked in April 2020 at 38.5% and remained 16.4% above baseline by July 2020. During the study period, 33 (71.1%) sites had decreased clinician staffing at some point. Only three sites (6.7%) reported decreased faculty protected time. All PEDs reported staffing changes, including decreased mid-level use, increased on-call staff, movement of staff between the PED and other units, and added tele-visit shifts. Twenty-six sites (56.5%) raised their patient age cutoff; median was 25 years (interquartile ratio 25-28). Of 44 sites hosting medical trainees, 37 (84.1%) reported a decrease in number of trainees or elimination altogether. Thirty (68.2%) sites had restrictions on patient care provision by trainees: 28 (63.6%) affected medical students, 12 (27.3%) affected residents, and two (4.5%) impacted fellows. Fifteen sites (34.1%) had restrictions on procedures performed by medical students (29.5%), residents (20.5%), or fellows (4.5%).

Conclusion: This study highlights the marked impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on US PEDs, noting decreased patient volumes, increased admission rates, and alterations in staffing models. During the early pandemic, educational restrictions for trainees in the PED setting disproportionately affected medical students over residents, with fellows’ experience largely preserved. Our findings quantify the magnitude of these impacts on trainee pediatric clinical exposure during this period.
EL ACOSO ESCOLAR Y LOS RETOS DEL APRENDIZAJE EN LA EDUCACIÓN BÁSICA
Authors: Jesiel da Silva de Jesus Jesiel da Silva de Jesus
Published: November 2022

Objetivo: Discutir el problema de la intimidación en el entorno escolar y en la educaciónbásica. Método: Para ello, se utilizó un estudio exploratorio, utilizando la investigaciónbibliográfica. Se trata de un estudio teórico/bibliográfico investigado en bases de datosconfiables, El bullying consiste en actitudes agresivas, violentas, repetitivas yfrecuentes contra personas inocentes, practicadas por un individuo, o en accionescolectivas muchas veces orquestadas. Resultado: Esta práctica ocurre en varios245lugares, pero en este artículo se discute esta práctica en el ámbito escolar, y seobserva que estas actitudes de poder desigual se utilizan para las novatadas, burlas,agresiones físicas y psicológicas, trayendo grave riesgo para la salud de la víctima, yen casos extremos puede llevar al suicidio. Conclusión: Existe una brecha entre lapráctica docente y la práctica del bullying en la escuela primaria, lo que dificulta elcombate incisivo y carece de más estudios sobre el tema.
PENGARUH DEBT TO EQUITY RATIO (DER) DAN TOTAL ASSETS TURNOVER (TATO) TERHADAP RETURN ON EQUITY (ROE) PADA PT. KALBE FARMA TBK. PERIODE TAHUN 2012-2020.
Authors: . Rudiyatno , Kamar Karnawi , Goestjahjanti Francisca Sestri
Published: November 2022

Keberhasilan kinerja keuangan dapat diukur dari return on equity (ROE). Yang diberikan perusahaan tersebut. ROE merupakan tuntutan pemberi dana (investor) kepada manajemen perusahaan untuk mampu memperoleh laba bersih (net profit) dari dana yang diinvestasikan ke dalam perusahaan, sebagai bentuk pertanggung jawaban kinerja manajemen. Besarnya net profit di pengaruhi oleh beberapa faktor seperti debt to equity ratio (DER) dan total assets turnover (TATO). Fokus masalah ini adalah menjelaskan bagaimana kondisi DER, TATO dan ROE serta bagaimana pengaruh variabelvariabel tersebut terhadap ROE. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui, mengkaji dan menganalisis kondisi DER, TATO dan ROE pada PT. Kalbe Farma Tbk. baik parsial maupun simultan, selama tahun 2012-2020. Populasi penelitian ini diambil dari laporan keuangan milik PT. Kalbe Farma Tbk. periode tahun 2012-2020. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah deskriptif dan assosiatif. Penelitian ini dideskripsikan lewat, debt to equity ratio, total assets turnover dan return on equity. Sementara itu, dalam hal terkait asosiatif, penelitian ini ingin menemukan adanya pengaruh debt to equity ratio dan total assets turnover terhadap return on equity. Hasil penelitian secara umum dalam penelitian ini ialah, kondisi debt to equity ratio (DER) menunjukan secara parsial memiliki pengaruh terhadap return on equity (ROE) dengan pengaruh sebesar 54,5%, dan total assets turnover (TATO) menunjukan secara parsial memiliki pengaruh terhadap return on equity (ROE) dengan pengaruh sebesar 85,2%. Secara simultan bahwa variabel DER dan TATO mempunyai pengaruh yang sangat kuat dan signifikan terhadap variabel ROE dengan pengaruh sebesar 94,3%. Persamaan regresi berganda diperoleh ROE= –6.99,405 + 0,313DER + 14,993TATO. Kata Kunci : Current Ratio, Debt to Equity Ratio, Total Assets Turnover dan Return On Equity.
SISTEM PENDUKUNG PENGAMBILAN KEPUTUSAN PEMILIHAN SUPPLIER MENGGUNAKAN METODE SIMPLE ADDITIVE WEIGHTING (SAW) PADA PT. TRIFOLI KAYAKARYA TANGERANG
Authors: . Jumiran , Fitri Aminul
Published: November 2022

PT. Trifoli Kayakarya adalah sebuah perusahaan yang bergerak di bidang industri furniture. Purchasing adalah departemen yang berperan penting dalam perancangan menentukan bahan sebuah produk di PT. Trifoli Kayakarya karena merupakan ujung tombak dalam melakukan pemilihan bahan baku khususnya produk-produk yang akan diproduksi. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui prosedur dan proses penentuan supplier terbaik pada PT.Trifoli Kayakarya. Hal ini dilakukan karena adanya masalah yang terjadi yaitu pada saat proses penentuan, tahapan perhitungan manual yang dilakukan oleh Purchasing memungkinkan terjadinya penilaian-penilaian yang tidak terukur. Dengan permasalahan tersebut akan dirancang sistem pendukung keputusan penentuan supplier terbaik sebagai solusi untuk memecahkan permasalahan - permasalahan yang dihadapi di PT. Trifoli Kayakarya khususnya departemen Purchasing dengan mengunakan PHP dan database MySQL. Supplier terbaik diperoleh berdasarkan beberapa kriteria yang diajukan diantaranya spesifikasi, biaya, lokasi, kualitas dan kondisi barang. Metode pengumpulan data menggunakan metode wawancara, observasi dan studi pustaka. Dalam perancangan sistem yang diusulkan menggunakan konsep berorientasi pada objek dan dipresentasikan melalui notasi Unifield Modelling Language (UML). Dengan dibuatnya sistem pendukung keputusan penentuan supplier terbaik menggunakan metode simple additive weighting ini diharapkan dapat membantu manajemen perusahaan mengendalikan supplier pada PT.Trifoli Kayakarya, sehingga proses pengendalian dapat berjalan secara efektif dan efisien. Kata Kunci : Purchasing, Supplier, Simple Additive Weighting, Purchasing, UML, PHP
PENGARUH NPF, FDR DAN BOPO TERHADAP RETURN ON ASET (ROA) PADA BANK UMUM SYARIAH (TERDAFTAR PADA BURSA EFEK INDONESIA PERIODE TAHUN 2017 – 2021)
Authors: Hartati Ria , Sudiyono Rachma Nadhila , Sasono Ipang
Published: November 2022

ABSTRAKPenelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh Net Performing Financing (NPF), Financing to Deposit (FDR) dan Biaya Operasional dan Pendapatan Operasional (BOPO) terhadap Return on Aset (ROA) pada bank umum syariah yang terdaftar pada Bursa Efek Indonesia periode tahun 2017 – 2021. Penelitian menghasilkan nilai NPF dan FDR tidak memiliki pengaruh terhadap ROA karena nilai T hitung signifikansi diatas 0,05 namun untuk variabel BOPO menghasilkan pengaruh signifikan secara negatif terhadap ROA, maka dapat disimpulkan dari ketiga variabel hanya BOPO yang berpengeruh secara negative terhadap ROA.Kata Kunci: NPF, FDR, BOPO, ROA
PENGARUH NPF, FDR, BOPO DAN CAR TERHADAP PROFITABILITAS PADA BANK SYARIAH PERIODE TAHUN 2016 – 2021
Authors: Hartati Ria , Sudiyono Rachma Nadhila , . Admiral
Published: November 2022

ABSTRAKPenelitian ini bertujuan untuk melakukan pengujian pengaruh NPF, FDR, BOPO dan CAR terhadap Profitabilitas pada bank umum syariah periode tahun 2016 - 2021. Data yang digunakan menggunakan data laporan keuangan tahunan periode 2016 – 2021. Populasi pada penelitian ini selurunya berjumlah sebelas bank umum syariah, setelah melewati tahap purposive sampling akhirnya bank umum syariah yang digunakan berjumlah 6 bank umum syariah. Hasil pengujian didapatkan variabel NPF terhadap Profitabilitas tidak berpengaruh negatif signifikan, untuk variabel FDR terhadap Profitabilitas tidak berpengaruh positif signifikan, namun untuk variabel BOPO dan CAR nilai signifikansi lebih kecil dari 0.05 maka dapat disimpulkan untuk variabel BOPO dan CAR berpengaruh seacara negatif signifikan.Kata Kunci : NPF, FDR, BOPO, CAR, PROFITABILITAS
El cambio de código español/inglés en la letra del rap ”Mentirosa” de Mellow Man Ace
Authors: Flores Ohlson Linda
Published: November 2022

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IMPACT OF DIGITALIZATION ON THE MANAGEMENT OF INNOVATIVE PROJECTS
Authors: Kucher Lesia
Published: November 2022

The article presents the results of a study of the impact of digitalization on the management of innovative projects of agricultural enterprises. A bibliometric analysis of the publication activity of scientists in 1970–2019 in the field of digitalization in the world was performed. A comparative analysis of the dynamics of changes in the rating positions of Ukraine and Poland according to the World Digital Competitiveness Index and the Networked Readiness Index is carried out. The main directions of the influence of digital technologies on the management of innovative projects in the agricultural sector of the economy are characterized.
Through the teacher’s lens: Evaluation of the project-based curricula of Philippine and Japanese science high schools
Authors: Dacumos Leo Peter , Kita Masakazu
Published: November 2022

Specialized science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) high schools provide intensive learning experiences for advanced learners. At the core of these STEM schools is a project-based (research) curriculum that aims to foster research culture among learners, creating critical thinkers and problem-solvers, preparing them to be globally competitive STEM professionals in the future. The Philippine STEM junior high schools system and Japan’s Super Science High (SSH) are amongst implementers of the project-based (research) curricula. Hence, this paper sought to conduct a critical review of these project-based curricula through quantitative analysis of Filipino and Japanese teachers’ perceptions of its effectiveness along the four dimensions of Tyler’s Objective-centered Model for curricular evaluation. Findings show similarities and significant differences in the perception of the project-based curricula' effectiveness between Filipino and Japanese teachers along the four dimensions of Tyler’s Objective-centered Model: (1) learning objectives; (2) learning experiences; (3) organization of learning experiences; and (4) evaluation methods.
Metacognitive Strategy of Chemistry Teacher Candidates in Chemistry Reading Activity
Authors: Sawuwu Benny Yodi
Published: November 2022

This qualitative study was conducted to explore the metacognitive strategy of chemistry teacher candidates in reading activities of a chemical article. There were 15 female chemistry teacher candidates voluntarily on this research from a public university. A chemical article that fulfilled some characteristics was used to stimulate the metacognitive activity, and 25 open-ended questions were posed for self-interviewing to reveal the metacognitive aspects. A think-aloud protocol was conducted during the reading activity. All reading activities were recorded and transcripted. Transcription of the think-aloud activity was considered to the reading rate to classify the think-aloud style into less think-aloud, formal think-aloud, and critical think-aloud. The reading pattern and data from self-interview showed that these three styles of think-aloud had different strategies on chemistry reading activity. The planning and evaluating activity determined the strategy chosen on reading. The monitoring activity was contributed by terms and chemical representatives used on the article.
Perception and Motivation of Female and Male Students Toward STEM in Indonesia
Authors: Karyana Septian , Herliani Elly
Published: November 2022

The aim of this research is to find out the differences of male and female lower secondary school students on the aspects of perception, motivation, and interest in the field of STEM. The sample of this study consists of 370 middle school students in various province in Indonesia who had experience in STEM learning with teacher who had participated SEAQIS STEM training. The instrument used in this study was five scales Likert of SEAQIS STEMs Survey (SS-STEMs), which cover perception and motivation toward Science, Technology and Engineering as well as Mathematics. The instrument was validated by Rasch Model approach using Winstep v 3.7 and was found that it compatible with the model. Winstep software v3.73 was also used for data analysis. It was found that: (1) There is a significant difference between male and female students in the aspects of perception toward mathematics subjects; (2) There is no significance difference between male and female students in the aspects of motivation towards all subjects.
The game of re-writing: From Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter to Parks’ In The Blood
Authors: Sih Emmerencia Beh
Published: November 2022

African-American female playwrights have a durable inclination for social and political change. Their plays frequently reflect and deflect the socio-political events of the society. This study examines how Suzan-Lori Parks in In the Blood, shapes the presentation of a text to a wider sociological context in order to attain greater understanding and recognition of her message. This has been achieved by contextualizing Parks’ In the Blood with Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter so as to assess the interpretation of history and society through the process of re-writing. The paper illustrates that ideas and events can be assembled from different studies, situations, and locations to bring out the meaning. At the core of the analysis, is the theoretical backdrop of intertextuality. This theory is important because when interpreting a text in connection to other texts and pre-texts, interpretation becomes interesting and flexible. Rewriting focusses on how a text is transformed through devices like imitation, repetition, allusion, satire and parody. Texts have no incorporated or unified meaning of their own; they are carefully related to the ongoing cultural and social developments. This theoretical position informs the conceptual praxis that this study maintains. The study indicates that Suzan-Lori Parks’ drama addresses issues that bear meaning to the historical, cultural and socio-political environment within which it grows. In its conclusion, the study demonstrates that not only black, but also white women are being criticized by the same people who place them in their shameful situations.
Satire in post-independence African plays: A study of Efo Kodjo Mawugbe’s Prison Graduates (2015)
Authors: Essuman Jonathan , Ben-Daniels Faith , Ohene-Adu Kingsley Brempong
Published: November 2022

Post-independence African plays have been characterized by the disillusionment of playwrights with African reality. Corruption, which is chiefly political, and of other forms, and other pertinent neo-colonial issues have been religiously dealt with by these writers in their creative works. Through the tents of postcolonial theory, this article attempts to analyze Efo Kodjo Mawugbe’s Prison Graduates as a satire. A normative research method, which is based entirely on the impressionistic observations of the investigator was used in the data collection. Practically, satire has rightly become a preferred form of writing for various writers to express their disillusionment. In his text, Mawugbe uses satire to create a real African world which looks beyond foreign aids in order to claim African dignity and identity.
Online memes in Kenyan social media plat forms as a modality of negotiating gender-based violence in androcentric political contexts
Authors: Were Marciana Nafula
Published: November 2022

This paper examines the re-production of images of gendered political bodies in digital scapes, and how these online forms participate in meaning-making of gender-based violence. The paper reads body images of (wo)men in politics, featured in online memes, as signs embodying society’s negotiation of gender-based violence in an androcentric political culture. It finds that both online and offline Kenyan political discourses generated by mainstream and subversive political discourses portray the female body as a subordinate category around which three notions of marginalisation are produced: the trivialised body, the violated body, and the sexualised body, all products of patriarchal and sexist biases. Online memes are of particular interest because they are means by which the current generation of young Kenyans engage in public discourses in ways that reflect ongoing popular discourses on gender in non-official publics.
Critical appraisement of Monitor Model
Authors: Kamal Adiba
Published: November 2022

Great linguist Sir Stephen Krashen has developed the most famous second language acquisition theory (SLA) which is also known as the ‘Krashen’s Monitor Model’. ‘Monitor Model’ is important to understand the connection between second language acquisition and learning that gets shown in the outcome of the speaker. Krashen’s Monitor Model is one of the hypotheses from his second language acquisition theories. Although Krashen is known for his theories on SLA and he is seminal on that, this particular model also applies to first language adoption. The idea of the monitor hypothesis holds some criticism for being inadequate. The 'Monitor Hypothesis' doesn't really go into detail concerning implicit rules or how monitoring functions in them. Krashen did not define in his hypothesis whether adults and children would take the same amount of time to edit their mistakes. Also, there lies a vague perception about monitoring for the people who are physically active but mentally challenged. These are the lacking that needs to be explained in ‘monitor hypotheses’.
Effects of morphological processes in the nativisation of loanwords in Anufo: A linguistic analysis
Authors: Tasson Solomon Kofi
Published: November 2022

The study was to determine the morphological processes   that affect loanwords in Anufo. The research approach used was qualitative and the design is case study. The data collection strategies used for the study were interview, observation, and documents. The theoretical framework used for the study is Basic Linguistic Theory (Dixon 2010). The study established that Anufo has historically and socially heavily borrowed words from the three main languages, English, Likpakpaln and Akan, to fill lexical gaps. Apart from nouns, the main types of words that are borrowed into Anufo are adjectives, verbs, adverbs, and conjunctions. Phonologically, it came out that Anufo has twenty-seven consonant sounds while English has twenty-four. This study is distinct from others because it looks at loanwords from three different languages: English, Likpakpaln and Twi. Borrowing in Anufo is distinct from other Ghanaian languages such as Likpakpaln. This is because Likpakpaln has closed syllable types like that of English language. Anufo syllables are of the open type therefore, when the borrowed word has a closed syllable, it must be repaired to be nativized. The study contributes greatly to the literature of loanwords because it has been realized that no vowel apart from /a/   can occur at word initial position of Anufo. So, when a borrowed word into Anufo has a vowel other than /a/ at its initial position needs to go through some repair strategies for such a word to be nativised. A semantic and a comparative study of loanwords are recommended to find out differences and similarities of loanword adaptation strategies in the Ghanaian languages.
Revitalizing minority languages using music: Three South-Guan languages of Ghana in focus
Authors: Ansah Mercy Akrofi , Agyeman Nana Ama , Adjei Godwin
Published: November 2022

Several interdisciplinary researchers have been interested in the relationship between language and music thus producing several works in quest of this interdisciplinary connection. This study, on the other hand, attempted to examine how music may be utilized to reinvigorate the understudied minority languages. It focuses on three South Guan languages: Leteh, Kyerepong and Efutu. Studies done in this area have observed that in notable respects, language and music are systematically comparable. For instance, the two are similarly constructed of functional and meaningful units; both possess phonemic and morphemic properties. Furthermore, the phonemic and morphemic units/properties are used to produce utterances by rules of sequencing and re-combination. This study draws on the Affective Filter Hypothesis (Krashen, 1982) which emphasizes the importance of positive emotions in language acquisition. Language surveys were conducted in Winneba, Larteh and Adukrom where the three languages are spoken. The study concludes that the principle behind the use of songs in teaching a second language can be extended to the teaching/learning of less-studied languages/minority languages and ultimately, their revitalization.
The functionality of aesthetic illusion and epistemic relativism in Grace Ogot’s The Strange Bride (1989)
Authors: Diallo Souleymane
Published: November 2022

Throughout a dimensional analysis of rationality and a factual relativism justification, The Strange Bride upholds a temporal perspective and a neo-experience of present within which Grace Ogot methodic metafiction, defines a differential relational model regarding the Be-, the There-ness and norms of belief. This vigorous realm of interaction impels the inflection of alethic modality to stand as a meromorphic function; then, the illusion of time and the spacetime dimension dive the cosmological time, the metaphysic of time, the linguistic conception of time and contemporary cultural theory in a combinatorial set of a pluricellular function and a multifactorial understanding. Through the temporal structure and the representation of the continuum of spacetime, Ogot circumscribes a connectionism transformation; therefore, the form and the content of the Be-ing, the relationalism between space-time continuum and the there-ness dimension of creative imagination become an aesthetic and functional performance. In this dynamic, the problematic of the Be-ing object from the quantitative nominal properties of time characterizes, in this model of narrative, the metaphysic of presence and the cultural theory of time.
A stylometric reading of William Wordsworth and W. B. Yeats’s poetry: Ambivalent cravings in romantic and modernist consciousness
Authors: Kusi David Toh
Published: November 2022

What is peculiar about William Wordsworth and William Butler Yeats is that they represent two variants of the same type of consciousness. Their awareness of the world is linked to aesthetic appreciations. This paper explores this aesthetics with emphasis on the poets’ believe that art, specifically poetry, is an instrument of vision through which nature and humanity, can be appreciated and made perfect. While it is observed that very little has been written comparing Wordsworth and Yeats, this comparative critical assessment juxtaposes these self-seeking poets focusing on their ambivalent romantic yearnings. Stylometric methods with Voyant tools and “R-Stylo” are applied for quantitative and qualitative analyses of the poets’ ambivalent cravings. The question that runs through the paper is how both poets, in the context of periodization do, transcend their eras to establish visionary dimensions of the romantic quest. The results found in the analysis of both poets’s sublime consciousness display to a certain extent the representation of the artists’ contrasting moods. Such moods, however, reveal them as literary connoisseurs who transcended the boundaries of periodization and concentrated on cultural, historical, ideological and philosophical realities as means to rescue mankind from prolong affliction and psychical strain.
COVID-19, “Roll Camera and Action”: Filming culture of a Ghanaian Cinematographer in a Pandemic Era
Authors: Brako Daniel Kofi
Published: November 2022

With the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, filmmaking and filmmakers have been affected most across the globe. Predominantly, it has not only changed execution of the role of Cinematographers on film sets during the filmmaking process, but also has certain repercussions on the profession as far as filmmaking is concerned. Based on this situation, this study examines how Ghanaian Cinematographers observe protocols on set when filming during the pandemic. In addition, it considers some effects of COVID-19 pandemic on the Cinematography profession in this part of our world as far as filmmaking is concerned. Findings indicate that personal hygiene, which was disregarded during filming in the past has now become a daily ritual before a camera roll on film sets. It is noted that in spite of some participants being cautious during filming on set caught the disease in one way or the other. Despite its negative effects, it has also introduced various avenues that serve as new opportunities to enhance the Cinematography profession locally. Also, it has introduced alternative ways of capturing images to enable effective visual storytelling on screen. Based on these findings, it recommends that Cinematographers in Ghana should continue to adhere to the conventions and observe protocols to avoid contracting the virus. Also, Cinematographers should accept the situation that we are in the new normal and should further explore current strategies in filming.
Assessment of the perceptions of tea farmers on the effect of temperature and rainfall variation on tea production in Kisii County
Authors: Nyaiyo Norah Moige , Mamboleo Dennis Mabeya , Nyantika Daniel
Published: November 2022

Kisii County’s agricultural systems largely depends on rain-fed conditions which are affected by the weather instabilities that cause climate variability. This has led to fluctuations in diverse crop production and in particular tea yields. The study aimed to assess the perceptions of tea farmers on the effect of temperature and rainfall variation on tea production in Kisii County. The study adopted a correlational research design. The sample size was 400 farmers but only 352 farmers returned duly signed questionnaires. The study targeted small scale tea farmers, Kisii Meteorological Department, and three Kenya Tea Development Agency factories of Kisii County. The study used questionnaires to collect primary data from small scale tea farmers and document analysis was used to collect secondary data. Interview schedules were used to collect data from the field service coordinators who were key informants. Primary data collected from small scale tea farmers included their perception on the effect of temperature and rainfall variability on tea production. Purposive and random sampling were used to choose tea factories and farmers respectively. The findings of the study reveals that the perception of the farmers concerning the effects of temperature is that scanty rainfall reduces tea yields, heavy rainfall causes erosion of top soil and washes away available fertilizer thus affecting tea production, and that frostbites reduce tea yields and production significantly since hailstones destroy the tea leaves and reduces tea yields drastically.
Examining the factors that affect women in land accessibility amongst Talensi of Northern Ghana
Authors: Ba–an Maxwell Tengolzor , Dery Dominic Alimbey , Segbefia Samuel Kwabla , Agbenyo John Stephen , Kpeleku Alberta
Published: November 2022

Agricultural production provides a source of income for millions of families throughout Africa. Women, who constitute the majority and are the poorest in Africa, and particularly those in Talensi in Ghana, are engaged in farming and make significant contributions to agricultural production. Whether or not women have access to land will determine their contributions to the agricultural sector and any other sectors of the economic system. This study investigated factors that affect women's access to land in the Talensi community in Northern Ghana, using a qualitative approach that included in-depth interviews and key informant interviews. The findings were presented in a report. A total of 30 participants from the Talensi area were questioned, including chiefs, Tindans, women, and household heads. The findings of the study covered customary practises on property ownership and inheritance, economic considerations, understanding of land rights, and urbanisation in the Talensi area. According to the findings, future land reforms should involve increased engagement with traditional leaders (gate keepers) to rethink the modalities of getting access to and control over property to be successful.
Post COVID-19 education strategies: Envisaging learning in a post COVID-19 pandemic world
Authors: Oranga Josephine , Matere Audrey
Published: November 2022

In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, learning has metamorphosed rapidly as never envisaged before. Accordingly, lessons learnt as a result of the pandemic will influence and shape the future of learning and assessment as the pandemic has brought about a unique opportunity to actualise changes in the education sub-sector that had hitherto been proposed but never really implemented until the pandemic struck, catching the vast majority of educational systems unawares. Notably, the COVID-19 pandemic led to worldwide closure of institutions of learning, leaving educators and learners’ to undertake learning in completely different modes, situations and locations.  Consequently, remote learning was offered without much preparation and in some cases, without prior digital experience. This article, thus, explores education during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.  The authors attempt to envisage education in a post COVID-19 world in light of the changes made as the pandemic raged. It is, thus, hoped that education and assessment post COVID-19 will be enhanced by the lessons learnt during the pandemic and will remain global, innovative, digital, student centred, personalised and practical.
Revision of the Neotropical species of Pareucamptonyx Olmi (Hymenoptera, Dryinidae) with descriptions of new species
Authors: Martins André L. , Domahovski Alexandre C.
Published: November 2022

The genus Pareucamptonyx Olmi, 1991 is endemic to the New World and comprises three described species, two from the Neotropical region and one from the Nearctic. Here is presented the first revision of species of Pareucamptonyx from the Neotropical region, including four new species described from Brazil: P. albopictus Martins sp. nov., P. kumagaiae Martins sp. nov., P. niger Martins sp. nov. and P. paranaensis Martins sp. nov. Detailed illustrations, distribution map, and key to females are provided, as well as a revised diagnosis of the genus and notes about the method of collection. Additionally, new distribution records for P. townesi (Olmi, 1984) are reported.
Impact of frequent downsizing exercises on organisational culture
Authors:   , Williams Lewis Adegboyega
Published: November 2022

Organisational downsizing has been shown to produce mixed results, more negative than positive when managers of organisations pursue short-term economic effects aimed at improving their productivity or efficiency (Cascio, 2005) without considering its organisational culture. This requisite glue that keeps organisations together. Incidentally, there is no existing research focusing specifically on the impact of frequent downsizing exercises on the all-important, continually emerging phenomenon called organisational culture, yet a range of studies have explored the core concepts of organisational culture and organisational downsizing. Hence, this study's primary theoretical focus relates to these currently established theories, extensively researched as conduits to expose their interactions and inter-relationships. Consequently, this study explored the impact of frequent downsizing exercises on the organisational culture of an international oil company operating in Nigeria, whose “cultural branding” had once been “people-oriented”. However, the organisation's attrition rate increased significantly when the company embarked on a series of “back-to-back” downsizing exercises. In addition, the sudden departure of some key staff members across the organisational strata created gaps that changed how things were done. A qualitative, inductive, and interpretative approach was used with in-depth interviews of thirteen (13) organisation members as the primary data source between 2017 and 2019 (pre-Covid-19 years). The data obtained from the semi-structured interviews were analysed using general thematic approaches. The hermeneutic phenomenology methodology permitted access to phenomena that are often subconscious and provided a means for interpreting participants' lived experiences. Findings from the study indicate that frequent downsizing generates effects (such as uncertainties, increased workload, anxiety, inattentional blindness impeding safety culture, increased turnover intentions, loss of collective organisational pursuit, etc.) which negatively impact people in organisations. Consequently, the organisation’s culture is affected, even to reputation loss and organisational death. While some themes generated were isolated and independently acting, others displayed traits of v interdependent actions that emphasised how their impact on organisational culture was exacerbated. Thus, the study produced a conceptual framework, which helps to explain how the themes interact to influence organisational culture significantly. The revelation of the depth of the impact is a significant contribution to the body of knowledge and management praxis as it helps managers of organisations to see the colossal associated social costs of frequent downsizing exercises and prevent them. This ground-breaking research thus serves as an inaugural effort in a possibly massive range of research aimed at closing the gap in the literature on the impact of frequent downsizing on organisational culture, especially in the Nigerian context.
Tax Behavior as a Criterion for Differentiating the Territories for the Purposes of Preventing Tax Violations and Influencing the Level of Tax Culture
Authors: Kataeva Vasilina Andreevna , Goleva Olga Ivanovna
Published: November 2022

Within the framework of the "Strategy for improving financial literacy in the Russian Federation for 2017-2023" developed by the Government of the Russian Federation in order to form an understanding among the population of the importance of paying taxes, to increase confidence in the tax system of the Russian Federation, they actively carry out activities aimed at forming a positive attitude towards the tax policy of the state. The purpose of this work is to develop a mechanism for identifying areas of influence on the level of tax culture of individuals for the purposes of a risk-based approach in the prevention of tax violations. The subject of the study is the level of tax culture of a particular region of the Russian Federation, determined through the amount of debt of citizens to pay taxes and fees. As part of the development of a differentiated approach, an analysis of legal documents and a content analysis of the statistical base of court decisions based on Article 48 of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation for 2019-2021 were carried out. With the help of graphical analysis, the development of a map with QGIS technologies using the Jenks natural discontinuity classification method, a cluster analysis of territories was implemented and municipalities were identified, the tax culture of the population of which must be given priority impact. The novelty of the study lies in the fact that, using the example of a separate subject of the Russian Federation, a mechanism was formulated and tested to identify areas of influence on the level of tax culture of individuals for the purposes of a risk-based approach in the prevention of tax violations. The practical significance lies in improving the efficiency of the supervisory activities of tax authorities.
The integrality of the Genocchi numbers obtained through a new identity and other results
Authors:   Laboratoire de Mathématiques appliqueés, Faculté des Sciences Exactes, Université de Bejaia, Farhi Bakir
Published: November 2022

In this note, we investigate some properties of the integer sequence of general term a_n := \sum_{k = 0}^{n - 1} k! (n - k - 1)! (\forall n \geq 1) to derive a new identity of the Genocchi numbers G_n (n \in \mathbb{N}), which immediately shows that G_n \in \mathbb{Z} for any n \in \mathbb{N}. In another direction, we obtain nontrivial lower bounds for the 2-adic valuations of the rational numbers \sum_{k = 1}^{n} \frac{2^k}{k}.
Leibniz on Binary
Authors: Strickland Lloyd , Lewis Harry R.
Published: November 2022

The first collection of Leibniz's key writings on the binary system, newly translated, with many previously unpublished in any language.

The polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) is known for his independent invention of the calculus in 1675. Another major—although less studied—mathematical contribution by Leibniz is his invention of binary arithmetic, the representational basis for today's digital computing. This book offers the first collection of Leibniz's most important writings on the binary system, all newly translated by the authors with many previously unpublished in any language. Taken together, these thirty-two texts tell the story of binary as Leibniz conceived it, from his first youthful writings on the subject to the mature development and publication of the binary system.

As befits a scholarly edition, Strickland and Lewis have not only returned to Leibniz's original manuscripts in preparing their translations, but also provided full critical apparatus. In addition to extensive annotations, each text is accompanied by a detailed introductory “headnote” that explains the context and content. Additional mathematical commentaries offer readers deep dives into Leibniz's mathematical thinking. The texts are prefaced by a lengthy and detailed introductory essay, in which Strickland and Lewis trace Leibniz's development of binary, place it in its historical context, and chart its posthumous influence, most notably on shaping our own computer age.
Shapes of Imagination
Authors: Stiny George
Published: November 2022

Visual calculating in shape grammars aligns with art and design, bridging the gap between seeing (Coleridge's “imagination”) and combinatoric play (Coleridge's “fancy”).

In Shapes of Imagination, George Stiny runs visual calculating in shape grammars through art and design—incorporating Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poetic imagination and Oscar Wilde's corollary to see things as they aren't. Many assume that calculating limits art and design to suit computers, but shape grammars rely on seeing to prove otherwise. Rules that change what they see extend calculating to overtake what computers can do, in logic and with data and learning. Shape grammars bridge the divide between seeing (Coleridge's “imagination, or esemplastic power”) and combinatoric play (Coleridge's “fancy”).

Stiny shows that calculating without seeing excludes art and design. Seeing is key for calculating to augment creative activity with aesthetic insight and value. Shape grammars go by appearances, in a full-fledged aesthetic enterprise for the inconstant eye; they answer the question of what calculating would be like if Turing and von Neumann were artists instead of logicians. Art and design are calculating in all their splendid detail.
Two decades of Open Access Campaigns
Authors: Goveas Jenice Jean , Sayer Lizzie , Sud Megha
Published: November 2022

At the start of this century, the Open Access movement gained momentum, largely fuelled by the Budapest (2002), Berlin (2003), and Bethesda (2003) declarations. The past two decades further witnessed several advocacy campaigns that challenged excessive profiteering through scientific publication, and advocated for revolutionising the scholarly publication system. Several attempts have been made to raise a voice for researchers’ rights that have been swallowed by the commercial publishing model. This study aims to give an overview of some major campaigns and organisations advocating for open access and analyses their efforts through the lens of their objectives, outcomes, opportunities, challenges and achievements. The assessment reveals some missing pieces that require careful consideration especially for current and future advocacy campaigns, as they are key building blocks of the Open Science movement. Such a mapping and understanding is crucial for sketching effective strategies needed to accelerate the progress towards achieving genuine and universal open access.
Inheritance Pattern of Important Qualitative Traits in Safflower (Carthamus tinctorious L.)
Authors: Devi Yengkhom Linthoingambi , Shrivastava Rajeev , Parihar Roshan
Published: November 2022

Safflower is an important oilseed crop with poorly studied genetic inheritance of the characters. In this study genetically diverse parents were selected which had many contrasting qualitative traits. The parents used in the study were GMU-1217, GMU- 6854, GMU-6891, GMU-2830, EC 755673 and EC755664. Crosses were made between the parents. Observations of parental traits, traits appearing in F1 and F2 were studied and the data were analysed for goodness of fit by χ2 test for appropriate ratio. A total of seven qualitative characters were studied, they were, branching type, mode of branching, mode of spininess, length of bract, leaf dentation, form of leaf shape, flower colour change at maturity, segregation in F2 generation for different traits showed the presence of either complementary or inhibitory gene action for all the characters studied while other crosses were found to have a combination of both monogenic and digenic gene action.A proper knowledge of inheritance of Agronomic traits helps in planning of efficient strategy for further crop improvement.
Unexpected Cause Behind Life-threatening ECG Changes—A Diagnostic Challenge
Authors: Wang Hao , Fan Yi-Wei , Dai Xiao-Ce
Published: November 2022

This case report describes a patient in their 60s who presented to the hospital with sudden loss of consciousness and foaming at the mouth.