bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
‘SO YOU DON’T GET LOST IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD’ BY PATRICK MODIANO: POETICS OF THE ‘NOVEL ABOUT A NOVEL’
Authors:   Perm State University, Bochkareva Nina S. , Suslova Inga V. ,   Perm State University, Bazhanov Alexander D. ,   Perm State University
Published: June 2021

The article analyzes the novel by the modern French writer Patrick Modiano So You Don’t Get Lost in the Neighborhood (‘Pour que tu ne te perdes pas dans le quartier’, 2014) in terms of the genre poetics of the ‘novel about a novel’. The paper explains the use of the terms ‘novel about a novel’, ‘metanovel’, etc. in modern literary criticism. As part of research, there was studied the writer’s Nobel Lecture, read by him in the year of the novel’s publication, and the works of Modiano’s researchers from different countries. The conclusion is drawn about the game structure of the ‘novel about a novel’, which is architecturally connected with the French modernist tradition (M. Proust, A. Gide, and others). Throughout the novel, the herowriter Jean Daragane dreams of his own life, combining memories and imagination (the process of creative work, according to Modiano). Plunging into the past, Jean Daragane discovers in childhood a source of his loneliness (loneliness is a condition of the writer’s work and the theme of the ‘novel about a novel’). Recorded in a multitude of overlapping texts belonging to different genres (fake passport, business card, note book, phone book, article, letter, police report, dossier, brochure, novel, poems, etc.), the palimpsest novel creates a communicative space of dialogue, which is the only possible way out of loneliness for the writer. Inside the ‘self-begetting novel’ is the story of the creation of the hero’s first novel The Black Color of Summer (‘Le Noir de l'été’) as one of the intersecting storylines. Among the different intertextual references, Natural History by the French naturalist of the 18th century Buffon and the collection of poems by the eight-year-old girl Minou Drouet Tree, My Friend (‘Arbre, mon ami’) (1957) constitute the immediate context of the novel created in the process of reading and testify to its lyrical and philosophical character. Thus, Modiano’s work draws closer to the lyrical type of Proust’s ‘novel about a novel’, although the detective component and third-person narrative reveal the influence of A. Gide. The reference to the tradition of the modernist ‘novel about a novel’ emphasizes the author’s belonging to the ‘intermediate generation’ of writers who represent the difference between monumental novels of the past and fragmentary works of the present as self-reflection of the genre.
SPECIFIC FEATURES OF MUSIC REVIEWS IN CONVERGENT JOURNALISM
Authors:   Perm State University, Kataev Pavel V.
Published: June 2021

The article is devoted to the analysis of music reviews as affected by transformation of the genre and its framework in the convergent media environment. The proposed original structure of analysis is developed and reasoned based on the ideas presented in works by Russian and foreign scholars on the specific features of the review as a genre (Ye. A. Nabiyeva, A. A. Tertychnyi, and others), media convergence (H. Jenkins, T. Rogers, and others), interpretation of music images (T. Adorno, Yu. Strakovich, and others), suggestiveness of media texts (A. Beck, D. Burns, J. Baron and others). The analysis structure includes three basic sections: content, environment of publication, communicative tactics; each section is expanded in several criteria grades. The review is considered as an analytical genre that is traditionally based on suggestion as the leading communicative strategy. However, today this genre is transforming intensively in the mutable deinstitutionalized environment of the network mass media. Distortions, which are inevitable in conversion of an artistic image into a text, become especially identifiable in music reviews and increase subjectivity initially typical for this genre. The structure of analysis elaborated in the article engages particularly a classification of heuristics, or cognitive biases, which are considered to be cognitive distortions turning in opinion journalism into the means of expression and suggestion. These means are regarded as the foundation for the genesis of local media myths. The proposed method is tested on the review published at the Colta web portal. In conclusion, the paper emphasizes the significance of the research done for some general issues of communication studies, and in particular notes the method’s applicability to the analysis of inner cognitive triggers a person feels exposed to in the network society.
ON SEMANTIC AND MOTIVATIONAL RECONSTRUCTION OF NORTH RUSSIAN NAMES OF MEAT DISHES
Authors:   Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Osipova Ksenia V.
Published: June 2021

The article deals with North Russian dialect names of meat dishes. The work examines the lexical and ethnographic data presented in card indexes and dictionaries of the Arkhangelsk, Vologda and Kostroma regions, including unpublished materials from card indexes of the Toponymic expedition of the Ural Federal University. The study is carried out within ethnolinguistics and aims to identify the cultural and linguistic features of the names of meat dishes. The theoretical significance of the work consists in that it develops a comprehensive ethnolinguistic approach to the analysis of the lexical group based on the methods of semantic- motivational, onomasiological, and etymological analysis. These methods allow us to characterize the territorial variants of the names of meat products, their genus-species differentiation, origin and motivational ties with other groups of vocabulary. It has been revealed that most of the names of meat dishes have a transparent internal form and duplicate the designations of the corresponding parts of the animal. The names of meat dishes (not from offal) reflect the traditional technology of cooking as well as the peculiarities of consuming the dishes. The following semantic and motivational models are distinguished: ‘internal organ’ → ‘dish from it’, ‘something that has frozen; something cold’ → ‘aspic, jelly’, ‘something that shakes’ → ‘aspic, jelly’, ‘being old’ → ‘prepared for future consumption (about meat)’, ‘thin flat cake’ → ‘jerked beef’. There is proposed motivational reconstruction for the dialect words артиль , жулей , пу- таник . Basing on the analysis of the words, the author has identified the composition of meat diet, the types of dishes, the features of cooking those, the role of meat in festive and everyday meals as well as the regulations that determine consumption of meat. The presence of meat dishes in the diet served as a socio-ethnic marker: consumption of bones and offal was considered a sign of poverty, while consumption of meat – a sign of wealth; meat dishes were mainly prepared by peasants on holidays; eating raw meat or blood, as well as meat ‘with a bad smell’, was attributed to the local Russian or other ethnic groups, etc.
ALEXANDER GRIBOYEDOV IN WORKS BY ARSENIY MARKEVICH
Authors:   V. I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University, Minchik Sergey S.
Published: June 2021

Alexander Griboyedov is a classic of Russian literature. His comedy Woe from Wit (1824) was a manifesto of freethinkers, and many of his friends took part in the Decembrist revolt (1825). In the USSR, Griboyedov was studied with a special interest – Soviet authors described him as a man who struggled for reformation of Russia like a Bolshevik. At the same time, comments concerning his biography and works were accompanied by ignoring and distortion of numerous facts which proved he was not a revolutionary. Nowadays, Griboyedov studies still depend on the hypotheses of the USSR times. That is why the revaluation of works published before 1992 is of particular importance – without taking a critical look at those it is impossible to cease mythologization of Griboyedov. The present article deals with the works of Arseniy Markevich, a historian and corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences. The subject of the study is the scholar’s view on Griboyedov’s Crimean journey of 1825. The report In Memory of A. S. Griboyedov… prepared by Markevich and presented in 1925 is one of the firsts works that focus on the writer’s visit to the peninsula. However, this material was not published. The article establishes a link between Markevich’s unpublished and consequently lost report and his essay Decembrists in Crimea that was translated into Ukrainian and published in 1930 under the title From the Cultural Past of Crimea. This translation is used to reconstruct the author’s conclusions concerning Griboyedov. It is analyzed in the light of the literature about the diplomat and writer known in the 1920s; its conformity to facts is determined based on the sources that may have been available to Markevich. The study establishes the historian’s attitude to revolution and, based on that, reconstructs the ideological orientation of the 1925 report. It also deals with the problem of place where the original essay Decembrists… was kept. Information indicating the main university of Crimea as such a location in the early 1990s is checked based on the analysis of the information source and evidence obtained from employees of the Scientific Library of the Taurida Academy of V. I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University
La guerra como antítesis del derecho y la visión estatalista de la guerra civil Notas a propósito de la guerra civil colombiana de 1859-1862
Authors: Londoño Sierra Sebastian
Published: June 2021

Con base en la propuesta de Norberto Bobbio en El problema de la guerra y las vías de la paz, de 1979, este artículo presenta una aproximación a la relación antitética entre la guerra y el derecho, es decir, aquella en que se considera la guerra como antítesis del derecho, en el contexto histórico de la guerra civil de 1859 a 1862 en la Confederación Granadina. El análisis teórico planteado, que remite a la visión estatalista y moderna de la guerra civil, se complementa con un componente histórico, por medio de un ejercicio de rastreo de sentidos de la mencionada relación antitética, en las cartas que, a propósito de algunos eventos de la guerra citada, intercambiaron el presidente Mariano Ospina y el general Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera.
Corazones partidos. Una revaluación de las revueltas pasionales
Authors: Giraldo-Ramírez Jorge
Published: June 2021

El estado y su ejército, el partido y su guerrilla, han perdido la capacidad de concentrar y orientar las pasiones populares. La pretensión moderna de desconocer y criminalizar las discordias incendiarias ha pasado de propósito a fracaso. La ira se está liberando de las riendas racionales e institucionales y se va haciendo, a la vez, dispersa, volátil y más violenta. Parece apremiante abordar la comprensión de los impulsos destructivos de las multitudes furibundas. El artículo pretende ilustrar esta encrucijada.
Deciphering FARC was to Disarm it. Razón Pública’s Framing of FARC
Authors: Calderon Reyes Emilio
Published: June 2021

This article analyzes the framing of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC-EP) in Razón Pública, a Colombian digital magazine, from July 2008 to July 2018. The article’s methodology combines Natural Language Processing and close reading. Results indicate that the magazine’s language primarily framed FARC as a protagonist of the peace process, and, secondarily, as an actor of Colombia’s armed conflict and drug trafficking. Shortly after Juan Manuel Santos’ first inauguration as Colombian president (2010-2014), some authors forecasted that the conditions were ripe for a peace process with FARC. During the official negotiation, FARC was framed as enigmatic, and rational protagonist of a challenging peace process. Overall, the frames detected in this analysis are an echo of the UNDP Colombian Report (2003) that called for analytic journalism that improves the public’s understanding of the country’s complex armed conflict and proposes negotiated and military solutions.
BİRLEŞTİRİLMİŞ SINIFLARDA ÖĞRETMEN OLMAK: SINIF ÖĞRETMENLERİ İLE YAPILAN GÖRÜŞME ETKİNLİKLERİNİN SINIF ÖĞRETMENİ ADAYLARININ ÖZ-YETERLİK ALGILARINA ETKİSİ
Authors: ERBAŞ Yahya Han , KARAKAŞ Hamdi
Published: June 2021

Bu araştırmanın amacı, sınıf öğretmenleri ile yapılan görüşme etkinliklerinin sınıf öğretmeni adaylarının birleştirilmiş sınıflarda öğretmen olma öz-yeterlik algılarına etkisini incelemektir. Yapılan görüşme etkinlikleri öncesi ve sonrası sınıf öğretmeni adaylarının birleştirilmiş sınıflarda öğretmenlik yapma öz-yeterlik algı ortalama puanları ile ölçeğin iki alt boyutundan aldıkları ortalama puanlar hesaplanmış ve puanlar arasındaki anlamlı farklar ortaya konulmuştur. Araştırmada ön-son test tek gruplu zayıf deneysel desen kullanılmıştır. Araştırma, ölçüt örnekleme yöntemiyle Marmara Bölgesi’nde yer alan bir devlet üniversitesinin dördüncü sınıfta okuyan 105 sınıf öğretmeni adayı ile yürütülmüştür. Araştırma sonucunda, sınıf öğretmenleri ile yapılan görüşme etkinlikleri öncesi ve sonrası sınıf öğretmeni adaylarının birleştirilmiş sınıflarda öğretmen olma öz-yeterlik ortalama puanlar arasında farkın istatiksel olarak anlamlı olduğu (p
Effect of Career Days on High School Students’ Irrational Beliefs about Career Choice and on Decision Making Skills about Career
Authors: KUTLU Ahmet , BEDEL Ahmet
Published: June 2021

The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of career days on 10th grade students' irrational beliefs about career choice and on their career decision-making skills. This research was conducted in two high schools affiliated to the Ministry of National Education in the 2019-2020 academic year. There are totally 102 students in the experimental and control groups. In the research, a quasi-experimental model with pretest-posttest control group was used. Within the scope of the research, ten-week career days were organized for the students in the experimental group. No career days were organized for the students in the control group. In the study, personal information form, irrational beliefs relating to career choice scale and career decision inventory were used as data collection tools. Frequency, Percentage and Arithmetic Average analysis was used for statistical information on demographic variables; Mann Whitney U test was used for the significance of the pre-test post-test difference scores of the experimental and control groups. As a result of the research it has been observed that career days are effective in reducing the irrational beliefs relating to career choice and career indecisions of the students in the experimental group. The results of this study emphasize the importance of career days on students' irrational beliefs about career choice and career decision making skills. The research findings were discussed and suggestions for future research and applications were developed.
Bibliometric Analysis of Articles on Computerized Adaptive Testing
Authors: YURTÇU Meltem , GÜZELLER Cem
Published: June 2021

The items that are suitable for everyone's own ability level with the support of computer programs instead of paper and pencil tests may help students to reach more accurate results. Computer adaptive tests (CAT), which are developed based on certain assumptions in this direction, are to create an optimum test for every person taking the exam. It then becomes essential to examine the development process of such important exams and to monitor what studies have contributed to this development in what year. Citespace is a program developed to map information fields, explain the relationship between different disciplines, examine and estimate the studies in a certain period of time, uncover the latest studies and predict the trend issues that occur according to the analysis of bibliographic records of related publications. In this study, it is aimed to find out what articles about CAT are produced in which areas, at what time periods e and which articles have a significant effect in these periods. CiteSpace program was used to make a document/article co-citation analysis. Articles on CAT between 1946-2016 were scanned by “or” connector. A total of 637 articles were used, the analyses were finalized according to the networks. As a result of the research, clusters were determined based on the relationship in the citations, articles that were the most cited and important among studies on CAT were presented
Boris Krajnc in drugi kemiki na dachauskih procesih
Authors: Dolinar Marko
Published: June 2021

At the University of Ljubljana, Boris Krajnc was the first habilitated teacher to cover the subject of biochemistry: he was appointed on January 5, 1946. However, Krajnc’s life ended abruptly. He was arrested on October 17, 1947 and sentenced to death on April 26, 1948 in the mounted Dachau Trial in Ljubljana. He was reportedly shot on May 12, 1948, at the age of 34. The life story of Boris Krajnc is closely linked to the work of several Slovenian chemists who were selected as prisoners at Dachau Concentration Camp to provide technical assistance in human experiments or in the clinical laboratory of the camp hospital. In the post-war period Dachau Trials in Ljubljana, a total of 8 chemists were convicted, 5 of whom were sentenced to death and executed by firing squad. In later evaluations of Dachau Trials it turned out that the charges were constructed and the confessions were obtained by cruel interrogation methods, therefore all judgements were annulled. After the emigration of the enzymologist Richard Klemen (1942) and the expulsion of Maks Samec and Marta Blinc from the university (1945), Boris Krajnc was to supervise biochemistry at the Technical Faculty. After his death, the lecturer of biochemistry was Dušan Stucin from the Medical Faculty. Later, biochemistry was absent from the chemistry curriculum for several years.
THE COMPARISON OF THE STRUCTURAL AND MOTORIC PROPERTIES OF JUNIOR PLAYERS ACCORDING TO THEIR POSITIONS IN SOCCER
Authors: EGESOY Halit , GÜMÜŞDAĞ Hayrettin , KIRKAYA İzzet , İLHAN Aydın , IŞIK Arif Süleyman
Published: June 2021

Aim: The purpose of this study was made a comparison of young soccer players according to their positions in game in terms of structural and motoric properties. Method: Total 41 soccer players who were between 16-18 ages participated voluntary to this study. Age, height, weight, body mass index, body fat percentage, vertical jumping, anaerobic power,10m -30m speed values were determined. The data were analyzed statistically with SPSS program. Results: At the end of this study, the defender players were taller and heavier than the other position’s players. But this difference was not significant statistically (p<0.05). Conclusion: The attack players were faster than the others in 10m speed test. This difference was significant (p<0.05). In other measurements, there were no relations statistically according to the player’s positions.
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MOTIVATION AND FLOW STATE EXPERIENCE IN TENNIS PLAYERS
Authors: İLHAN Aydın , GÜMÜŞDAĞ Hayrettin , KIRKAYA İzzet
Published: June 2021

Aim: This research was conducted to examine the relationship between motivation levels and optimal performance mood in tennis players. Research, who played tennis federation due to the tennis club in Turkey is evaluated. Methods: Motivation scale and optimal performance mood scale were used as data collection tools. The scales were sent to 400 tennis players. The data of 308 tennis games that filled the scales completely were used in the study. Tennis players participated in the research voluntarily. The tennis players participating in this study were randomly selected. Pearson Product Moment Correlation analysis was used to determine the relationship between motivation and emotional states of tennis players in the analysis of the data. The relationship between motivation sub-dimensions and optimal performance emotional state total scores was examined. The analysis of the data was evaluated at the significance level of p <0.01. Conclusion: After the analysis of tennis players, no statistically significant relationship was found between internal motivation and identification with regulation and optimal performance mood. He showed that there is a statistically significant and negative relationship between identification and regulation and non-motivation and between internal motivation and external regulation. We can say that motivation can have an effect on the optimal performance mood of tennis players.
https://www.mtddergisi.com/eng/dergiayrinti/oyun-mekanlari-tasarim-olcutlerinin-cocuk-gelisimine-etkisi-isik-renk-ve-doku_467
Authors: KÖK Tuğçe , FAKIBABA DEDEOĞLU Esin , YAÇIN Meryem
Published: June 2021

Aim: In early childhood play; is an important activity in terms of mental and physical development. Another factor that is as crucial as the activity’s itself is the playgrounds. In this context the study, examines the artificial environment created in the sense of atmosphere and fittings by addressing uniformization in indoor playgrounds. The main purpose of the study is to analyze the space-fittings relationship in the context of light, color, texture and material in indoor playgrounds designed for children. Therefore, the effects of these spaces on child development and perception will be evaluated. Method: The field of inquiry has been determined as indoor playgrounds in Cepa-Kentpark-Armada-Next Level-Panora and Gordion shopping centers in Ankara. A questionnaire was applied to academician interior designers and child development specialists working at the universities in Ankara. Statistical data analysis was made using the SPSS Program. Results: A total of 64 designers and child development experts were surveyed within the scope of the research. The importance of color, light, texture and material only on gender in the context of space-child relationship at the point of perception and experiencing the space Color- 2.56 (1.36), Texture- 2.39 (1.39), Material- 2.64 (1,32) and Lighting- 2.19 (1.29). For experts from two different disciplines, creativity- 4.93 (0.26) and security- 4.88 (0.43) are the leading criteria when evaluated in terms of child-space. Conclusion: In this study, it is seen that expert opinions from two different disciplines make similar evaluations in the design of indoor playgrounds.
ANALYSIS OF OFFICE BUILDINGS IN THE CONTEXT OF PLAN TYPES; EXAMPLE OF ANKARA ESKİŞEHİR ROAD REGION
Authors: İNCEOĞLU Zuhal , SOYLUK Asena
Published: June 2021

Since the beginning of history, human beings have made great advances in technology. In the field of architecture, this movement has had reflections such as new construction and application techniques and the use of different materials. In parallel with this rapid progress in building and construction technology, solutions that meet the changing needs in architectural design have started to be offered. Aim: The aim of the research is to find out which plan type is the most preferred in terms of design in high-rise office buildings in Eskişehir road region, which attracts attention with its office building stock in Ankara, and to analyze the relationship of this plan type preference with the building's height and current value parameters. Method: Tracing method was used to find the ratio of plan types in the examined office buildings and to establish the relationship of these plan types with height and m2 current value. Then the obtained data were evaluated statistically and regression values were found by using regression analysis method. Results: In the 12 office structures examined in the study, open office (47%), mixed office (27%), closed (13%) and co-working offices (13%) were preferred, respectively. 66% of the multi-storey office buildings in the sample space of the research have a height of 100 m or more. Closed offices are the lowest value in terms of market value and mixed offices are the highest valued. Conclusion: It is understood that open-plan offices are preferred in the Ankara Eskişehir road region. As a result of the study, it has been revealed that these plan types, which are mostly used in office buildings, have a directly proportional relationship with the concept of current value per m2, but not with the height of the multi-storey building. In this respect, it is possible to say that architectural design decisions directly affect the real estate market of the country and this interaction has formed an important relationship with the country's economy by shaping the capital market.
POPULATION OF THE OCCUPIED TERRITORY OF SAMACHABLO IN THE MIDDLE AGES
Authors: SOSİASHVİLİ Giorgi
Published: June 2021

The significant part of Shida Kartli – Georgia`s historical region has been occupied since the Russo-Georgian August War of 2008. The territory, which was inhabited by the Georgian population from the ancient times and was an integral part of the Georgian area, was turned into South Ossetian Republic by the efforts of the so-called Ossetian separatists and Russian support. The current occupied territories of Didi Liakhvi Gorge were part of Samachablo in the Middle Ages. Samachablo was the feudal land of the representatives of one of the ancient Georgian noble family – the Machabeli. The present work shows the life of Georgians throughout centuries in Samachablo.Traces of population in the Big Liakhvi Gorge can be seen from ancient times, however, there is a lack of statistical data on the exact number of population until the XVIII century. Thus, a comparative analysis of the census ledgers and other documentary material reveal that both, in Tskhinvali and in the villages of the Big Liakhvi Gorge, where the peasants of the Georgian royal family, various noble families and, for the most part, the Machabel feudal house lived, were predominantly Georgians. The Ossetians settled from the North Caucasus in the XVII-XVIII centuries lived only in the mountainous area of Shida Kartli (including the upper part of the Big Liakhvi Gorge). was facilitated by the royal government and various feudal houses (including the Machabels) in order to re-assimilate the deserted villages and increase the number of taxpayers. The migration of the Ossetians living in the mountainous villages to the lowland villages started more on that later. Thus, based on the analysis of the presented documents, we can conclude that the territory of Samachablo, which is forcefully separated from the Georgian area, throughout centuries was inhabited only by Georgians (together with them fragmentarily lived Armenians and Jews, and later, particularly from the XVII century Ossetians, who came from the North Caucasus settled in the mountainous villages of Samachablo). After the August War of 2008, the inhabitants of Didi Liakhvi Gorge, Georgians, have become refugees in their own homeland.
Rapid Protocol for Single Sporing Ascochyta rabiei v1
Authors: Christie Melody , Moore Kevin
Published: June 2021

A rapid protocol for single sporing of A. rabiei. This protocol reduces the time required for single sporing to just 48 hours and allows rapid detection of contamination.
Expression and purification protocol of ULK1 Complex wt or K46I mutant v1
Authors: Shi Xiaoshan
Published: June 2021

The Protocol describes the expression and purification of ULK1 Complex wt or K46I mutant.
Dissociation of Jejunum cells for clumps sorting v1
Authors: Manco Rita , Averbukh Inna , Porat Ziv , Bahar Halpern Keren , Amit Ido , Itzkovitz Shalev
Published: June 2021

Single-cell RNA sequencing combined with spatial information on landmark genes enables the reconstruction of spatially-resolved tissue cell atlases. However, such approaches are challenging for rare cell types since their mRNA contents are diluted in the spatial transcriptomics bulk measurements used for landmark gene detection. To overcome the limitations in reconstructing spatial expression profiles of rare cells, we present ClumpSeq, an approach for sequencing small clumps of attached tissue cells. Sequencing clumps increase the capture rate of rare cell types without the need for antibody enrichment and utilizes the spatial information of the major tissue cell type. We use this approach to reconstruct spatial maps of all intestinal secretory epithelial cell types along the crypt-villus axis, revealing zonated immune-modulatory programs and heterogeneous migration patterns. ClumpSeq can be applied for reconstructing spatial atlases of rare cell types in other tissues and tumors.
[18F]-Fluoroestradiol PET/CT: a modern look at nuclear medicine applications
Authors: Parnas A.   V. , Pronin A.   I. , Ilyakov V.  S. , Meshcheryakova N.   A. , Kamolova Z.  Kh. , Mikhaylov A.  I.
Published: June 2021

Breast cancer is one of the most commonly diagnosed cancers and the leading cause of cancer mortality among women. Approximately 70–80 % of breast cancers are estrogen (ER) and/or progesterone receptor-positive, thus making endocrine therapy an important stage of treatment. Receptor expression in breast cancer cells is usually assessed by tissue immunohistochemistry. The method of positron emission tomography, combined with computed tomography (PET/CT), makes it possible to evaluate not only anatomical and structural, but also metabolic changes in tumor tissue. 18F-Fluoroestradiol (18F-FES) is a radiopharmaceutical drug, an estradiol analogue, which is used in the diagnostics of ER-expressing tumors and is utilized for detection and quantification of ER expression in vivo. Various studies show that 18F-FES accumulation indicates presence of ER-positive tumor tissue, which, in most cases, is confirmed by tissue immunohistochemistry. Although current guidelines recommend 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose PET/CT when routine examinations demonstrate ambiguous results, 18F-FES PET/CT can be the preferable imaging modality in the diagnostics of ER-positive breast cancer. It should be noted, that PET/CT with 18F-FES can also be effective for evaluation of tumors with a high level of ER expression, like ovarian cancer.
Current approaches to the treatment of HER2‑positive breast cancer with brain metastases
Authors: Semiglazova T.  Yu. , Sharashenidze S.  M. , Kerimova S.  N. , Klimenko V.   V. , Malygin A. Yu. , Dashyan G.  A. , Paltuev R.   M. , Semiglazov V.  V. , Krivorotko P.   V. , Novikov S.  N. , Semiglazov V.   F.
Published: June 2021

The article discusses modern approaches in the treatment of HER2-positive breast cancer (BC) with brain metastases (BM).The patients are subject to multidisciplinary, comprehensive and biologically – oriented treatment, with the involvement of a neurosurgeon and a radiation therapist to make a decision considering local treatment of BM, as well as a clinical oncologist to choose systemic drug therapy. Local treatment of HER2+ BC with BM patients includes surgical treatment and/or radiotherapy. Use of targeted anti-HER2 therapy changes “biology” of the disease from aggressive to indolent.In the prospective KAMILLA trial, clinically significant antitumor activity of trastuzumab emtansine was found for the first time both in patients with HER2+ BC with BM, who were previously treated with radiotherapy, and without radiotherapy in the anamnesis, which suggests the validity of further use of trastuzumab emtansine in this category of patients.The antitumor activity of trastuzumab emtansine in patients with HER2+ BC with BM was also confirmed in preclinical models. Despite the similar drug distribution in the tissues, trastuzumab emtansine, in contrast to trastuzumab, significantly slowed the growth of metastases, causing the induction of apoptosis in HER2+ BC models with BM in mice.
News Classification Using Machine Learning
Authors: MAHAJAN SHWETA
Published: June 2021

There are plenty of social media webpages and platforms producing the textual data. These different kind of a data needs to be analysed and processed to extract meaningful information from raw data. Classification of text plays a vital role in extraction of useful information along with summarization, text retrieval. In our work we have considered the problem of news classification using machine learning approach. Currently we have a news related dataset which having various types of data like entertainment, education, sports, politics, etc. On this data we have applying classification algorithm with some word vectorizing techniques in order to get best result. The results which we got that have been compared on different parameters like Precision, Recall, F1 Score, accuracy for performance improvement.
STUDY OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF AIR TEMPERATURE IN A GREENHOUSE HEATED BY AIR TO AIR HEAT PUMP
Authors: Auce Agris , Jermuss Aivars , Rucins Adolfs , Ivanovs Semjons , Grinbergs Ugis
Published: June 2021

The temperature distribution inside the experimental greenhouse heated by air to air heat pumps and its impact on the growth and productivity of tomato plants were studied. Experimental greenhouse located at SIA Rītausma facility in South-East Latvia.Two commercially available regular air to air heat‑pumps with a combined heat power of 10 kW were used. To measure the temperature distribution, 18 temperature sensors with solar radiation shields at different heights and positions among the plants were installed. Additional 4 temperature sensors were used to measure the air flow temperature at the heating elements. Reference air temperature was measured at an industrial production facility heated by a common gas heating system.Temperature was found to be homogenous within 1 °C. Observed temperatures were up to 4 °C lower than set on the control unit of the heat pump. This discrepancy was compensated by higher set values for the controlling unit. As research showed the temperature stability was better than at the water-heated industrial facility at time slots when the sun was suddenly cleared from clouds.The cooling of the experimental greenhouse by air conditioning during summer time was rather challenging for the tomato plants and productivity. 23% of plant stems died until the end of the season and the yield was 50% lower than in the reference greenhouse. The energy efficiency compared to the industrial facility was approx. 8 times better and the estimated CO2 emissions were 8-16 times smaller compared to gas heating. There were no increases of heating costs determined.Further studies are needed to optimize the heating parameters and reach the desired greenhouse productivity.
STRUCTURAL INVESTIGATION OF THE INTERMEDIATE LAYER IN A BIMETAL MILL ROLLER PRODUCED BY THE METHOD OF VERTICAL AXIS CENTRIFUGAL CASTING
Authors: Velikov Angel , Ivanov Ivanov , Georgiev Ivan
Published: June 2021

Subject of the investigation is a bimetallic mill roller with external, working layer from high chromium material and inner, supporting layer from ductile cast iron. The processes, accompanying the formation of a transition layer in bimetallic castings, produced by centrifugal casting have been investigated. Attention has paid to the structural changes in the transition zone, caused by the diffusion processes occurring during the casting and crystallization.
FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT OF MICRO-ENTERPRISES IN LATVIAN FISHERIES SECTOR
Authors: Biukšāne Inese
Published: June 2021

competitiveness of the Latvian fisheries sector in the long term depends on thought-out financial management of enterprises and objective and timely identification of various risks. Sound and innovation- and knowledge-based entrepreneurship can contribute to substantial success and growth. The aim of the research is to assess the financial management of micro-enterprises in the Latvian fisheries sector, at the same time providing recommendations for the need in structural reforms and ensuring sustainable financial stability. Based on the chosen assessment methodology, the skills and opportunities of micro-enterprises in creation of capital structure, distribution of financial resources and return were analysed. The information reflected in the framework of the research can assist the institutions, entrepreneurs and researchers involved in establishment and implementation of fisheries policy to better understand the need in successful financial management to ensure a sustainable operation of the sector.
CLIENT RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT IN LATVIAN RETAIL ENTERPRISES UNDER COVID-19 CIRCUMSTANCES
Authors: Linina Iveta , Zvirgzdina Rosita , Vevere Velga
Published: June 2021

Ensuring customer satisfaction is the key to a successful retail business. The process of attracting new customers always involves more money, time and energy. In order for a company to retain existing customers and build relationships with them, one of the basic tasks is to know the factors and levels that affect their satisfaction. In the current situation of COVI-19, this poses even greater obstacles and challenges. In order to identify the company's ability to ensure competitiveness in a crisis situation, the authors have set the goal of the research to study the factors influencing retail consumer behavior under COVID-19 circumstances. This study will provide retail businesses with an understanding of the need for consumer relationship management in a restricted situation. From the scientific point of view, the authors have analyzed the theoretical aspects and summarized the approach to the understanding of buyers' behavior in crisis conditions. As a result of the research, the authors conclude that even in crisis situations, companies can manage the relationship with consumers and shape the attitude of buyers, which can be one of the tools for ensuring competitiveness.
UPCYCLING OF TECHNOGENIC MINERAL WASTE – CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS
Authors: Noviks Gotfrīds
Published: June 2021

Industrial mineral waste accounts for a significant proportion of all global waste. In the European Union it is more than 71% (2,5 Gt ) of the total amount of non-hazardous waste - construction and demolition waste, ash and slag, tailings residues, unconditioned waste rocks, etc. In Latvia, the share of this waste is about 20%. Due to the fact that they are inert, non-biodegradable materials and cannot be used for energy production and cannot be reduced by incineration, their stocks are increasing every year. Their utilization volumes are low and focused mainly on use as backfill when carrying out various earthworks. At the same time, mineral waste, both in terms of composition and structure, physical and chemical properties, is a serious mineral resource, the processing of which can result in high-quality useful products, thus implementing the waste upcycling principle - the newly acquired product has higher added value than the original. The paper evaluates the physical and technical possibilities and perspectives for the production of eco-innovative materials from mineral waste - geopolymers, glass ceramics, porous ceramics and mineral-organic composite materials.
APPLICATION OF LOW-COST OPTICAL PM SENSOR FOR MONITORING OF PARTICULATE MATTER AIR POLLUTION IN THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT: A CASE STUDY IN ESPLANĀDE HOUSING ESTATE, DAUGAVPILS CITY
Authors: Soms Juris , Soms Haralds
Published: June 2021

The harmful health effects of airborne particulate matter (PM) pollutants are well-known. However, the spatial coverage of automated air quality observation stations of Latvian Environment, Geology and Meteorology Centre (LEGMC) is sparse. Therefore the capability for PM concentration detection was examined by using the low-cost optical PM sensor to improve the spatial resolution of environmental data. The aim of the study was to perform 24h/7d measurements of PM2.5 and PM10 concentrations during a period of one year and to identify air quality in Esplanāde housing estate, Daugavpils city. For data obtaining on the concentration of PM2.5 and PM10 particles measurements have been performed by optical sensor Nova SDS011; meteorological data were obtained using the database of LEGMC; for processing, analysis and visualization of obtained data statistical methods were applied. Evaluation of PM2.5 and PM10 daily average concentration variability in 2020 indicates that air quality in the urban environment could be assessed as good. A well-expressed statistical correlation between meteorological factors (t°C, relative humidity) and the average concentration of PM particles was not found. It highlights the necessity of further research.
SIMULATION OF A SCHOOL CANTEEN TO UNDERSTAND MEAL DURATION IMPACT ON FOOD WASTE
Authors: Kodors Sergejs , Zhukov Vitaliy , Zarembo Imants , Litavniece Lienite , Lonska Jelena , Zvaigzne Anda
Published: June 2021

A system simulation is a one of the approaches to understand business processes or to explain them to other people. It is an excellent decision making solution to provide data-driven conclusions based on system modelling and experiments. This paper proposes simulation results of a school canteen. The aim of the research was to investigate the relation between a food waste amount and meal time duration. The proposed simulation was based on business process analysis, business process modelling, a Monte Carlo method and expert knowledge. The frequency distributions were constructed based on children meal duration observation completed by their mothers. It is a magnificent citizen science solution to involve mothers in the research because they can additionally better understand their children meal preferences and habits. Therefore, a questionnaire for citizens was developed, which can be applied to collect statistical data for model accuracy improvement and extension.
THE PRESSURE OF TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS IN MEETING AND EVENT INDUSTRY UNDER THE COVID-19 INFLUENCE
Authors: Bukovska Galina , Mezgaile Anda , Klepers Andris
Published: June 2021

The innovation in technologies is one of the principal external forces that has a direct influence on the competitiveness of the meeting and the event industry. Therefore, implementation and adaptation of the new technological solutions in it has continuously followed the innovations in technological industry itself. However, the COVID-19 pandemic with the following lockdowns has pushed the industry to search for new technological alternatives to innovate their way out of the crisis in a very short time period. This was the first time when all the events from small family celebrations and weddings up to the international conferences and product launch events, have had to be cancelled or postponed or could have happened only to a very limited extent and under strict regulations excluding any larger gatherings of people. The event providers were forced to find new solutions to continue their business and not to hibernate with the minimum downtime allowance granted by the state to the employees. Technologies supporting various types of online events became the ultimate digital tool that helped event planners to execute projects from the beginning to the end after March 2020. The purpose of the research is to explore these changes in the usage of the technologies in meetings and events organized in Latvia caused by COVID-19. The quantitative analysis of the structural on-line survey data provides insights on what extent technology adoption in meetings and events businesses has been before and during COVID-19 and what are the future prospects supplemented by the in-depth interview data and qualitative analysis. Authors are investigating what is the amount of virtual and hybrid events organized in Latvia before and after COVID-19, what platforms the organizers used for their virtual events, what is the level of satisfaction and what kind of challenges the event organizers faced in the process of adoption of new technologies. The results of this research not only state the current position within the framework of the industry, but also enriches discussion about the adoption of new technologies to innovate the way out of the crisis and could help in some degree to strengthen the productivity growth in a long term perspective.
RESEARCH OF APPROACHES TO THE RECOGNITION OF SEMANTIC IMAGES OF SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS BASED ON NEURAL NETWORKS
Authors: Bruttan Iuliia , Antonov Igor , Andreev Dmitry , Nikolaev Victor , Klets Tatyana
Published: June 2021

The paper is devoted to the problems of orientation and navigation in the world of verbal presentation of scientific knowledge. The solution of these problems is currently hampered by the lack of intelligent information retrieval systems that allow comparing descriptions of various scientific works at the level of coincidence of semantic situations, rather than keywords. The article discusses methods for the formation and recognition of semantic images of scientific publications belonging to specific subject areas. The method for constructing a semantic image of a scientific text developed by Iuliia Bruttan allows to form an image of the text of a scientific publication, which can be used as input data for a neural network. Training of this neural network will automate the processes of pattern recognition and classification of scientific publications according to specified criteria. The approaches to the recognition of semantic images of scientific publications based on neural networks considered in the paper can be used to organize the semantic search for scientific publications, as well as in the design of intelligent information retrieval systems.
FORMATION OF TOP JOB SKILLS OF TOMORROW AMONG COMPUTER ENGINEERING AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS IN THE PROCESS OF LEARNING ENGLISH
Authors: Malykhin Oleksandr , Aristova Nataliia , Dichek Nataliia , Dyka Nataliia
Published: June 2021

The main aim of the study was to investigate Computer Engineering and Information Technologies undergraduate students’ attitude towards the most important job skills of tomorrow and to provide methodology for their enhancing in the process of learning English. To collect data essential for developing methodology aimed at enhancing top job skills of tomorrow in the process of learning English, 295 Computer Engineering and Information Technologies undergraduate students aged from 17 and 21 were selected to take part in the web-based survey. In total, research sample was presented by 64 female students and 231 male students. The team of researchers developed the educational content of the English elective course targeted at developing top job skills of tomorrow among undergraduate students. Taking into account the fact that English holds great didactic potential for developing knowledge, skills and aptitudes among students of different specialties at higher education institutions necessary for reaching success in the future, the educational content of the English elective course is oriented towards increasing motivation to master English among undergraduate students of the mentioned specialties, on the one hand, and to boost the identified job skills of tomorrow, on the other hand. The realization of the proposed educational content is based on the integration of the fundamental principles of action-oriented, competence-based, mastery-based and project-based approaches. Considering English as an efficient medium of instruction we can suggest the following idea: upgrading the educational content can provide endless opportunities for professional development of undergraduate students. To be exact, on their way of gaining professionally valuable knowledge and skills generally subdivided into two groups (soft skills and hard skills) they are involved in the activities that could guarantee the development of abovementioned skills. Thus, the created English elective course could serve as an example to follow.
POSTPROCESSOR AND MACRO PROGRAM FOR CALCULATION OF THE DISPLACEMENTS OF THE WORKING COORDINATE SYSTEMS WHEN WORKING BY THE METHOD 3 + 2 AXES
Authors: Kaldashev Tsvetan
Published: June 2021

Тhis article discusses the possibility of developing a postprocessor and macro program for automatic calculation and input of the displacements in the working coordinate systems when working by the method 3 + 2 axes. The ability to take the information from the CL Data file and its subsequent use by a macro program for certain calculations is used. For this purpose, a generalized G-POST postprocessor and a specialized FIL language are used.