bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Conditions for receiving the basic services by the rural population: the household aspect social innovations in the system of socio-economic relations
Authors:   SO ", Prokopa I. V. ,   Institute for Economics and Forecasting, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine",   26, Panasa Myrnoho Str., Kyiv, 01011, Ukraine
Published: October 2020

The article presents the results of the typologization of Ukraine’s rural settlements by the level of their provision by objects of the service sphere, which characterizes the conditions for the people to obtain a collection of vitally necessary services at the places of residence; and clarifies the changes, which have occurred in the social infrastructure of villages on the household level in the transformational period, and the perspectives to improve the access of the rural population to high-quality services according to the principles of the development of villages.
The housing communal facilities of Ukraine: problems and directions of their solution
Authors:   Institute for Economics and Forecasting National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine 26, Panasa Myrnoho Str., Kyiv, 01011, Ukraine, Tolstov R. D.
Published: October 2020

The author studies the condition of the development of the sphere of housing communal facilities and the housing building in Ukraine in the period of market transformations; characterizes the efficiency of the state’s housing policy to ensure the population by dwelling; analyzes the sharp problems of the housing communal facilities; and offers some measures on both increasing its efficiency and solving the housing problem.
The effect of the teaching for a life on the consumption component of the economic behavior in the Ukrainian society
Authors:   SO ", Levin R. Ya. ,   Institute for Economics and Forecasting, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine",   26, Panasa Myrnoho Str., Kyiv, 01011, Ukraine
Published: October 2020

The results of a sociological poll on the difference of the consumer’s economic behavior of two parts of Ukraine’s economically active population covered and uncovered by the continuous teaching are presented. It is shown that the continuous teaching can become an important factor for the socio-economic growth of Ukraine as one of the purposes of the present millennium, which indicates the economic expediency to activate the state’s policy as for the guarantee of a high-quality teaching during the life.
Destructive megatendencies of the contemporaneity: global conflict, globalization of criminality, international terrorism
Authors:   Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University 77, Pushkinska Str., Kharkiv, 61024, Ukraine, Gerasina L. M. , Trebin M. P. ,   Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University 77, Pushkinska Str., Kharkiv, 61024, Ukraine
Published: October 2020

The main destructive megatendencies of the contemporaneity such as the global conflict, globalization of criminality, and international terrorism are analyzed. The authors show the dual effect of the globalization on the modern civilization, system of world-wide political, economic, and humanitarian connections, transnational criminality, and international terrorism. The main features and the principles of organization of the modern international terrorism are elucidated.
Treatment of Migrant Children on the US Southern Border Is Consistent With Torture
Authors: Oberg Charles , Kivlahan Coleen , Mishori Ranit , Martinez William , Gutierrez Juan Raul , Noor Zarin , Goldhagen Jeffrey
Published: October 2020

The separation of children from parents and their treatment at the US Southern border is cruel, unusual, and constitutes torture requiring action by pediatricians.
The relation of the northwestern shelf deep geological structure of the Black Sea with the phenomenon of gas seeps
Authors: Goshovskyi Sergii V. , Likhosherstov Oleksii O. , Shevchenko Olexandr M. , Slonitska Svitlana G.
Published: October 2020

Geophysical model inputs were the results of a survey on an anomalous magnetic field and a gravitational field of the Black Sea’s north-western shelf. Thegeophysical profiles of the complex effective parameter (CEP) are calculated and graphed. Complex effective parameter characterizes the relationship between the effective densities and the magnetization by their spatial distribution. Effective parameters (magnetization, density, CEP) were calculated within the studyarea with their distribution on the optimum depth. The profiles are meridional and parallel to each other, direction of the profiles from south to north. The distance between the profiles is 50 kilometers. The generalized deep structure of the study area was elucidated using the graphed profiles. The distribution of CEP on vertical sections within the shelf zone of the western Black Sea basin emphasizes the position in the space of tectonic elements. That is gives an idea about the nature and structure of the region’s lithosphere and their relationship with the spatial distribution of deposits and manifestations of hydrocarbons. Structural and geological interpretation of the CEP profile data was performed. According to the spatial consistency of the correlation by structures, the profiles are conditionally divided into two groups, the western and the eastern. Structural differences in profiles are explained by the presence of the Odesa-Sinop fault zone between the groups. According to the results of profiles interpretation and works of previous researchers, paleogeodynamic processes were established. That significantly complicated the geological structure of the Black Sea’s north-western shelf. The interpretation of the CEP field distribution gives additional arguments in favour of the Earth crust evolution on the north-western shelf of the Black Sea in the conditions of a passive continental margin with short periods of reverse motions with obligatory subduction due to the activation of rifting, the nature of which is yet to be studied. According to the results of interpretation, the presence of the Earth’s crust destruction zone was established. With the help of spatial analysis, the spatial regularities of the gas seeping manifestations with the zone of destruction of the Earth’s crust of continental type and sites of rising of the mantle surface are established.
The Names of the Kings of the Fifth Dynasty According to Manetho
Authors: Gundacker Roman
Published: October 2020

The names of the kings of the Fifth Dynasty may serve as a prototypical example for the re-evaluation of Manetho’s king-list: Userkaf, Sahure, Neferirkare, Shepseskare, Reneferef, Nirewoser, Djedkare-Isesi and Unas are all recorded in the king-list of Manetho as transmitted by Sextus Julius Africanus according to the Ecloga chronographiae of George Syncellus. Although the names as preserved have obviously suffered on a long way of copying manuscripts over and over again, a closer look at the Greek transcriptions reveals the high quality and the still unbroken relevance of Manetho’s Aegyptiaca for modern Egyptological scholarship, when dealing with chronology, onomastics and linguistics. As will be shown, there is a line, identifiable with variable degrees of difficultly but finally clearly discernible, which leads all the way down from the Old Kingdom to Manetho’s Aegyptiaca.
Growth regulators – a biological means for stimulating photosynthetic activity, nitrogen fixation and the increase of the biological value of protein in forage peas (Pisum arvense L.)
Authors: Minev N.
Published: October 2020

Abstract. The aim of the study was to determine the effect of foliar application of growth regulators on photosynthetic activity, nitrogen fixation and the biological value of protein in two cultivars of winter forage peas – Mir and Vesela. For achieving the aim set, a three-year field trial was carried out in the Training and Experimental Fields of the Agricultural University of Plovdiv, on a plot untreated with commercial fertilizers. The following growth regulators were used: RENI, RENI D, Bormax, Manganese Chelate and Molybdenite, applied at the phenological stage of pea plant budding. The effect of those products on the studied characteristics was compared to the untreated control. The reported three-year results show that foliar applied growth regulators had a positive effect on photosynthetic and nitrogenase activity, as well as on the characteristics of the nitrogen fixation apparatus (total number of nodules, number of active nodules and weight of the nodules) and on the biological value of the obtained protein in both cultivars of winter forage peas.
Green Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticles from Phaseolus vulgaris L. Extracts and Investigation of their Antifungal Activities
Authors: EDİZ Ege , KURTAY Gülbin , KARACA Başar , BÜYÜK İlker , GÖKDEMİR Fatma Şeyma , ARAS Sumer
Published: October 2020

In this study, we aimed to synthesize silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) using leaf, root, and stem extracts of Phaseolus vulgaris L. (Yunus-90) and elucidate their antifungal activities. In this regard, the prepared AgNPs have been characterized by using UV-vis, FT-IR, TEM, SEM, and DLS techniques. Then, the antifungal activity of both synthesized and commercially purchased AgNPs was investigated via (i) agar well diffusion, (ii) fungal colony morphotype diversity, (iii) inhibition of hyphae and (iv) minimum inhibition concentration (MIC) analyses against Colletotrichum sp., Fusarium oxysporum, Fusarium acuminatum, Fusarium tricinctum, Fusarium graminearum, Fusarium incarnatum, Rhizoctonia solani, Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, and Alternaria alternata. The AgNPs derived from the leaf extract displayed significantly higher levels of antifungal activity relative to the AgNPs prepared from the root and stem extracts. The commercial AgNPs also displayed lower antifungal activity than their green equivalents synthesized in this research, and even a low (~50 μg/mL) concentration of synthesized AgNPs was found to be effective in suppressing the growth of Fusarium tricinctum and Colletotrichum sp.
Assessment of the Condition and Instruments of the Food Security Regulation of Countries Taking into Account the Inequality of Their Economic Development and Instability of the World Trade in the Conditions of a Pandemic
Authors: Gushchina Elena , Babkina Darja
Published: October 2020

The differentiation by the level and quality of life, the inequality of income distribution in the worlds regions, as well as occurring global problems reveal the need to assess the degree of stability of state food security systems and search for adequate methods for its regulation at the interstate level. The paper studies the indicators that are used to determine the level of food security of countries in general and the stability of development of their agricultural sector, in particular. Studying the dynamics of food security indicators makes it possible to identify a number of factors that impede the achievement of an optimal level of stability of food systems in different regions of the world and to reveal the dependence of the state of food security on countries economy and social development. The ways of improving the system of ensuring food security of countries are proposed, and threats and prospects for the development of the world and domestic food markets in changing geopolitical circumstances are assessed. Modern methodological approaches to assessing food security and methods for its regulation, as well as the state of affairs in ensuring the stability of the development of the food system in Russia in the conditions of a pandemic, are considered.
Role of the State in Agricultural Development
Authors: Gorshkova Natalya , Shkarupa Ekaterina , Rulev Aleksandr
Published: October 2020

The peculiarities of agriculture, which require the creation of conditions for its development, retain the importance of the role of the state in supporting the industry. The need for such participation is reinforced by the latest trends in economy. Export orientation, digitalization, the coronavirus pandemic reinforce the political and economic causes of state intervention. The purpose of this work is to consider key methods and priorities of state support for agriculture and the possibility of their improvement and expansion under the influence of new requirements. Having studied the mechanism of concessional lending to agriculture, it was concluded that it was effective and identified some problems that served as a basis for identifying opportunities for its further improvement. It was concluded that the state plays a dominant role in the development of small forms of agribusiness and the expansion of agricultural export potential. The unique features of the COVID-19 pandemic, which faced not only the world but also Russian economy, have opened up opportunities and created threats to agricultural development. The coronavirus pandemic has given a powerful impetus to the massive introduction of digital technologies. The article considers possible directions of developing methods and directions of state participation in agriculture.
Features and Factors of Developing the Volume of Foreign Direct Investment in Iran and in Russia
Authors: Rasoulinezhad Ehsan , Sabri Parisa
Published: October 2020

The article discusses the features of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Iran and Russia from 2000 to 2018. The research methodology used in the article is focused on two main methods: theoretical and correlation analysis (using the Pearson correlation coefficient test). This test analyzes the relationship between foreign direct investment in the above countries and some macroeconomic variables. The results of the study show that economic structures and the influx of foreign direct investment in Iran and Russia are affected by Western economic sanctions, geopolitical risks and lower world oil prices. In addition, despite similar approaches to the absorption of foreign direct investment in Iran and Russia, the relationships between this indicator and macroeconomic variables (gross domestic product, inflation, employment in industry, services and agriculture, export volume and exchange rate) in these two countries differ significantly in the analyzed period (from 2000 to 2018). As a result of the analysis, it has been concluded that various factors, such as the size of the economy and the level of economic ties with developed economies, make the result of strategies and approaches to them different for these two countries.
Social Institutions Transformation as a Factor of the Social and Economic Development of Modern Russia
Authors: Loginova Elena , Loseva Natalia , Polkovnikov Aleksandr
Published: October 2020

The systemic determinacy of modern Russian society in time and space coordinates allows us to conclude that it is at the process stage of the life cycle of the large-scale social and economic systems functioning within the stage of the digital age that is characterized by the features of environmental systems. It means that the logic of the social and economic development of modern Russia is to ensure the harmonization of the performance and state of all economic systems through communication and coordination, as well as creating conditions for transactions. Following this logic, the article proves the possibility of considering it as a factor providing conditions for socio-economic development using the example of the transformation of the public administration institution. The article defines the subject-object and structural content of the public administration institution. By using the matrix approach, the authors characterize the evolutionary dynamics of the public administration institution. It makes it possible to draw a conclusion about the formation within the local civilizational matrix of modern Russia of a new type of the institutional core – the intellectual one, in which basic and compensatory institutions of the market and distribution types are integrated. The article presents a methodology that allows determining the degree of the formation of public administration, as well as assessing its impact on the social and economic development ofmodern Russia.
Strategies of Socio-Economic Development of the Regions of Southern Russia: Ecological Factor, Hydrocarbon Footprint and Quality of Life
Authors: Mitrofanova Inna , Ivanova Tatiana , Pyankova Svetlana
Published: October 2020

One of the main characteristics provided in the framework of strategic planning of the socioeconomic development of regions is the quality of life. The growth of profits and the increase in consumption increases the burden on the environment. The purpose of this article is to analyze the ecological, hydrocarbon potential, the quality of life of the population in the subjects of the South of Russia, to assess the prospects of their changes in the strategies of socio-economic development. The authors use statistical, tabular, qualitative factor analysis, ranking. The materials of the article are a database of regions of the South of Russia in terms of the environmental, hydrocarbon footprint, quality of life, generalizing economic indicators. The paper accumulates information on Krasnodar krai, Rostov, Astrakhan, Volgograd regions, the Republics of Adygea and Kalmykia. The ecological and hydrocarbon footprint varies by region in different ways. The authors have made a rating of the best regions. The factors of the obtained changes are determined. It is found that the quality of life is determined by the volume of GRP, GRP per capita, gross fixed capital accumulation, the actual final consumption of households. Qualitative analysis shows how these factors affect the ecological and hydrocarbon footprint. It is necessary to break the link between the growth of production and the deterioration of the environmental situation. This is possible due to the development of “green” technologies. The analysis of strategies of the social and economic development of the regions of the South of Russia shows that at large volumes of GRP and the developed industrial sector, subjects of the Russian Federation form “green economy” in different branches, at low level of development – only in the sphere of renewable energy. The authors conclude that the developed strategies of socio-economic development of territories do not fully contribute to overcoming ecological and economic contradictions. The authors have formulated proposals to reduce them.
Personnel Component of the Regions Innovation Infrastructure as a Driver for the Development of Smart Technologies
Authors: Byvshev Vladimir , Panteleeva Irina , Parfenteva Kristina , Uskov Danil
Published: October 2020

The processes of digitalization and development of smart technologies today set a new paradigm for the development of economy and society as a whole. From year to year, the market capitalization of companies in the field of digital and smart technologies is growing, which reflects the rapid development of this sphere, but in Russia, the pace of development of the digital sphere is lower than in the leading countries in this area, one of the reasons for the lag is insufficient staffing and brain drain. The purpose of the article is to consider the possibility of developing personnel for digital and smart technologies using the personnel component of the regional innovation infrastructure. As a result of studying the experience of Krasnoyarsk krai, it is concluded that the regional law does not set tasks for the development of the regions human resources infrastructure, although the region has a basis for such development and the human resources component of the innovation infrastructure can act as a driver for the development of smart and digital technologies. However, this requires building a model of the network interaction between postgraduate, higher, secondary, general and additional education, as well as direct coordination with regional authorities and regional innovation infrastructure areas of training that are relevant to development in the region. In addition, coordination may consist in generating demand from the business community for personnel in the field of smart and digital technologies.
Synthetic approaches to 2-aryl/hetaryl- and 2-(hetaryl)ylidene derivatives of fluorinated 1,3-benzothiazin-4-ones
Authors: Nosova Emiliya V. , Batanova Olga A. , Mochulskaya Nataliya N. , Lipunova Galina N.
Published: October 2020

A series of 2-hetaryl- and 2-(hetaryl)ylidene substituted 5-fluoro-8-nitro-1,3-benzothiazin-4-ones was synthesized by interaction of 2,6-difluoro-3-nitrobenzoylisothiocyanate with C-nucleophiles. Cyclocondensation of polyfluorobenzoylchlorides with aryl and hetaryl thioamides represents new approach to 1,3-benzothiazin-4-ones. Some compounds proved to be promising for further development of tuberculostatic agents.
Ishmael Reed and the Problematics of Control
Authors: Hume Kathryn
Published: October 2020

Ishmael Reed's disparate novels analyze control: its origins; its relation to patterns of racial domination in American history; and its role in sex, business, religion, and government. Foucauldian control offers a way to analyze human interactions, as do Freudian theories of sexuality and Marxist economics. American control artists, including Reed, Acker, Burroughs, Mailer, and Pynchon, offer a strangely similar set of visionary concerns: problems with sexual identity, images of homosexuality, grotesque presentations of heads of state, efflorescent anality, magic, and radical revisions of foundational myths. More successfully than these other satirists, Reed manages to suggest an answer to the problematics of control — an alternative social structure, whose center is the cultivation of certain pleasures rather than macho courage, delayed gratification, self-control, or unattached drifting.
The Making of a University Professor, USA—1936–84
Authors: Brée Germaine
Published: October 2020

Thinking back on my life in the precincts of the North American academy, I am struck by the variety it offered within a constant and recognizable ambience that I think of as distinctly American. I have lived and worked in the United States for half a century and feel grateful for both the unforeseen paths it opened for me and the stability it provided.
Where Have I Been, and Where Are “We” Now, in This Profession?
Authors: Booth Wayne
Published: October 2020

As thousands of original thinkers have repeated, life is always a puzzling mixture of choices and chances. Other thousands, with equal originality, have said that all the choices are really determined—they're not really choices at all. In this view, choice and chance get collapsed—usually to a combination of determining genes and determining culture; only half-educated extremists ever claim that it is only one or the other.
Human Rights, Storytelling, and the Position of the Beneficiary: Antjie Krog's Country of My Skull
Authors: Schaffer Kay , Smith Sidonie
Published: October 2020

In the end we are a society of people, not of ideas, a fragile web of interdependent humans, not of stances.

—Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela

One of the most compelling criticisms to emerge during South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) hearings called attention to the fact that those who benefited from the everyday policies and practices of the apartheid regime were neither identified as complicit in perpetuating systemic violence nor called to account. Nor was their implicated position in the apartheid state extensively analyzed in the commission's report. Commenting at the time on the inadequacy of the TRC process to identify beneficiaries of the apartheid regime and expose its structural violence, Mahmood Mamdani wrote that the TRC “has been interested only in violations outside the law, in benefits which are corruptions, but not in the systematic benefit which was conferred on beneficiaries at the expense of the vast majority of people in this country” (“Reconciliation” 3; also qtd. in Young 149). Mamdani here asserts that the ethical concept of the beneficiary is central to truth telling, reconciliation, and transitional nation building. His trenchant critique implicitly questions whether the truth-and-reconciliation project, relying as it does on the management of justice through the juridical statuses of “victim” and “perpetrator,” can deliver on its promise of addressing injustice and the aftereffects of radical injury and harm. Those positioned neither as victims nor as perpetrators are not called to recognize the benefits to them of structural violence, through which power, privilege, and “corporeal vulnerability” are unevenly distributed (Butler, Precarious Life 30). Nor are they asked to “bear moral responsibility to redress” the consequences of injustice (Mamdani, “Diminished Truth” 183). In response to Mamdani's critique, we want to consider how the ethical stance of the beneficiary can become visible in relation to victim and perpetrator positions and to what effect.
“Where Are Human Rights… ?”: Reading a Communique from Iraq
Authors: Keenan Thomas
Published: October 2020

Where are human rights when more than 200 Muslims are rotting for months in your prisons in a 4x5-meter room, without any of them finding a place even to sit down? Where are human rights when every day prisoners are tortured at the hands of drunken pagans? Where are human rights when Muslims are killed as a result of the torture of your executioners, and their bodies are thrown out in the open? (“Jaish Ansar al-Sunnah”)
Triumphs and Travails of a Cold War Remedy
Authors: Feher Michel
Published: October 2020

The cold war, many people contend, ended sometime around 1989. A number of facts, such as the United States' military hegemony, the demise of the Soviet empire, and China's impeccable capitalist record, tend to corroborate this contention. Yet, with all due respect to the memory of John Adams, stubbornness is not the privilege solely of facts. Certain mind-sets can prove just as obstinate. Dormant or sidestepped during most of the 1990s, cold war mentalities and their mantras—“trace all evil to the main enemy,” “don't let your base be troubled by nuance and ambiguity”—have indeed made a great comeback since the beginning of the new millennium, and their mouthpieces are working hard to turn George W. Bush's post-9/11 pronouncement “You are either with us or you are against us …” into a self-fulfilling prophecy (“President”). To ward off the return of these disciplinary strictures, it is tempting to resort to probably the most powerful cold war remedy of the 1970s and 1980s—namely, human rights discourse and activism. Has this remedy retained its potency in the current context? Addressing this question—or at least stressing its urgency—is the main ambition of the following pages.
For Love and Money: Of Potboilers and Precautions
Authors: Sommer Doris
Published: October 2020

Intercourse means commerce, they told us in school. And we giggled at the explosive word that went off in more than one direction. But the confusion is more than simply a joke of mistaken referents or of metaphoric allusions to intimate contact and interested exchange. It is a tangle of productive sex and enterprising business revealing an adjacency of practices that add up to modernity. In a metaleptic circle of cause and effect, modern desire for family and for wealth seemed to drive those practices, and they helped form the kind of modern subject who desired them. The circularity illustrates what Nietzsche said about the fiction of empirical moorings (279-80). The moorings invented themselves to produce an illusion of stability. This is what happened at the beginnings of European modernity, as Mary Poovey shows inA History of the Modern Fact: truth grounded in empirical facts turns out to be a metaleptic effect of the seventeenth-century fiction of precise accounting, a rhetorical compensation for numbers that could not add up in the precarious conditions of mercantilism. But a century later, precise and transparent accounts were no longer performances that interpreted irregular data; they required proofs of economic and civic credibility. In a broad stroke, we can say that the foundational fiction that followed from honorable entrepreneurship is the dynamic law of desire for development as the natural drive of our particular and collective lives. Laissez-faire was the slogan.
Excerpt from “Coastal Navigation”
Authors: Amado Jorge , Schoolcraft Ralph
Published: October 2020

Can I claim to have known albert camus? I only saw him once, almost in passing; he was leaving Claude Gallimard's office at the publishing house as I was going in. We were introduced, I looked at him in awe, he smiled at me, we shook hands, and I never saw him again. This was at the end of 1949.
From Culture to Biocultures
Authors: Davis Lennard J.
Published: October 2020

In advocating a biocultural approach to literature, one is claiming an ineluctable relation between science and culture. Biology, for example, is as intrinsic to the embodied state of readers and writers as history and culture are intrinsic to the professional bodies of knowledge known as science and biology. To think of science without including a historical and cultural analysis would be like thinking of the literary text without the surrounding weave of active or dormant discursive knowledges. It is similarly limited to think of literature—or to debate its properties or existence—without considering the network of meanings we might learn from a scientific perspective. Combined, these propositions link with a more synthetic argument: that the biological without the cultural, or the cultural without the biological, is doomed to be reductionist at best and inaccurate at worst.
Medical Humanities Do Not Humanize Doctors: The Trouble with Trying to Soften Hard Science
Authors: Metzl Jonathan M.
Published: October 2020

“Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge,” William Wordsworth famously wrote in the Preface to the 1802 version of Lyrical Ballads. “[I]t is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science. Emphatically it may be said of the Poet, as Shakespeare hath said of man, ‘that he looks before and after.‘ He is the rock of defence of human nature; an upholder and preserver, carrying every where with him relationship and love” (xxxvii).
The Library versus the Internet: Literary Studies under Siege?
Authors: Miall David S.
Published: October 2020

Along with many other aspects of north american culture, literary studies is being swept into the digital age. In considering what this might mean, I examine in particular how the Internet, with its many and protean conveniences for literature, is beginning to supplant the library, that traditional bastion of the text. The prospects for literature are not necessarily favorable. While libraries have been attempting to adapt to the Internet, the nature of the digital medium and some of the rhetoric that has attended it invoke troubling questions, raising the possibility that central features of literary studies may be in danger of being disregarded or marginalized. The digitizing of literature affects how we read and what we read, methods of study, the preservation of the archive, and the forms taken by new writing, some of which is specifically designed to exploit the electronic medium. In this paper I offer a sketch of the problems, possibilities, and paradoxes that we face as literary scholars.
Our Puny Boundaries: Why the Craving for Carving Up the Nineteenth Century?
Authors: Wolfson Susan J.
Published: October 2020

It's almost too convenient that carve evolves, via middle high german (kerben), from the greek graphein: “TO scratch, to write.” Ham-fisted or artful, the verb is the mark of desire, of a craving to inscribe. Given a century, carvings display cravings of the mind, motivated assignments in a march of years all beginning 18—. Figuring out how to carve one's shape in history, or how to carve history into shape, was a perplexity, a founding question even, at the dawn of the century:

Who knows the individual hour in whichHis habits were first sown, even as a seed?[………]Hard task to analyse a soul in whichNot only general habits and desiresBut each most obvious and particular thought,Not in a mystical and idle sense,But in the words of reason deeply weigh'dHath no beginning.
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association
Authors: Grenier-Winther Joan
Published: October 2020

The Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association hosts an annual convention attended by more than four hundred scholars and teaching professionals. The 1999 convention in Santa Fe, New Mexico, included over one hundred regular, special-topic, and conjoint sessions on a wide variety of subjects.

Established in 1947, the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association is a nonprofit membership organization that promotes the study and teaching of language, literature, and culture. The RMMLA is one of six regional but independent branches of the Modern Language Association of America.
Midwest Modern Language Association
Authors: Lewis Tom
Published: October 2020

The forty-first annual convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association will be held at the Marriott City Center Hotel in Minneapolis, 4–6 November 1999. More than 150 sessions are planned, covering a wide range of scholarly and professional topics. The informal theme of the convention is “Witness: The Real, the Unspeakable, and the Construction of Narrative.” One evening plenary session and several forums will be devoted to aspects of this theme.
Academic Free Trade? One Canadian's View of the MLA
Authors: Hutcheon Linda
Published: October 2020

In 1988, in the midst of the often acrimonious debates about the North American Free Trade Agreement, a button began to appear on Canadian lapels. It featured a section of the Stars and Stripes with a red maple leaf in the place of one star, and a caption read, “No, eh.” Through this image, the anti-free-trade side offered parodic resistance to what it saw as the assimilation—not to say wholesale economic engulfing—of Canada by the United States. Typically self-deprecatory, Canadian humor demanded that the rejection be couched in a gentle mocking of the national verbal tic: eh? is the terser but less elegant Canadian version of the French n'est-ce pas? and the German nicht wahr? In some ways the intellectual equivalent of NAFTA, the MLA is much older than the economic institution and somewhat less controversial. Nevertheless, it too is not unproblematic for Canadians, and to see why and how, one needs to understand something of the political and cultural relations between a very small and a very large nation when they adjoin.
Modeling exchange rate volatility in the gambia using dynamic conditonal correlaton model
Authors: Kah Fatoumata Baboucar Omar , Diongue Abdou Kâ
Published: October 2020

The relationship between different international stock markets is of importance for both financial practitioners and academicians in order to manage risks. Especially after the financial crisis, the pronounced financial contagion draws the public attention to look into such associations. However, measuring and modelling dependence structure becomes complicated when asset returns present non-linear, non-Gaussian and dynamic features. This paper examines the time-varying conditional correlations to the weekly exchange rate returns for the USD, EURO and GBP against the Gambian Dalasi (GMD) during the period 2000 to 2017. We use a dynamic conditional correlation (DCC) multivariate GARCH model. This model can be simplified by estimating univariate GARCH models for each return series, and then, using transformed residuals resulting from the first stage, estimating a conditional correlation estimator. DCC-GARCH model was implemented for two different assumptions of the error distribution; assuming Gaussian and Student t-distribution. Empirical results show substantial evidence of significant increase in conditional correlation. It is also clean that, the Student t-distributed errors better forecast the conditional correlation.
GenSwab Assay (SARS-CoV-2) v2
Authors: not provided huiyi.chen , Roy Sid
Published: October 2020

The GenapSys SARS-CoV-2 GenSwab Assay is a reverse transcription sequencing (RT-Seq) test. The assay uses primers and probes that were first designed by OctantBio to detect RNA from SARS-CoV-2 in respiratory and saliva specimens from patients. This is the extraction-free workflow, but can be adapted for use with purified RNA samples.
DAb-seq: Single-Cell DNA and Antibody Sequencing v2
Authors: Demaree Benjamin , Delley Cyrille , N. Vasudevan Harish , A.C. Peretz Cheryl , Ruff David , C. Smith Catherine , R Abate Adam
Published: October 2020

Studies of acute myeloid leukemia rely on DNA sequencing and immunophenotyping by flow cytometry as primary tools for disease characterization. However, leukemia tumor heterogeneity complicates integration of DNA variants and immunophenotypes from separate measurements. Here we introduce DAb-seq, a novel technology for simultaneous capture of DNA genotype and cell surface phenotype from single cells at high throughput, enabling direct profiling of proteogenomic states in tens of thousands of cells. To demonstrate the approach, we analyze the disease of three patients with leukemia over multiple treatment timepoints and disease recurrences. We observe complex genotype-phenotype dynamics that illustrate the subtlety of the disease process and the degree of incongruity between blast cell genotype and phenotype in different clinical scenarios. Our results highlight the importance of combined single-cell DNA and protein measurements to fully characterize the heterogeneity of leukemia.
SPECIFICITY OF THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN COMBATANTS’ EMOTIONS, INTELLIGENCE AND POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS IN EXTRAORDINARY CONDITIONS OF THE JOINT FORCES OPERATION
Authors: Bohucharova O. I.
Published: October 2020

The article analyzes the relationship between post-traumatic stress (PTS) and individual psychological characteristics of the military and police personnel who performed combat tasks during the joint forces operation in the East of Ukraine. The sample consisted of 172 military and police combatants of the National Guard and the National Police; the military personnel had a higher level of resistance to combat stress than policemen-combatants. Police personnel had more difficulties in war than the military ones, demonstrated a lot of correlations with stress indicators including DSM symptoms and deeper depression.
The National Guard’s combatants demonstrated high correlations with hopelessness, neurotisation, general anxiety too. Moreover, their optimism is twice as low as that of policemen. However, there were no clinical signs of PTSD in the sample. Statistically significant differences were determined with the author’s non-standardized “negative emotionality” scale between the group of combatants having psychological signs of PTS and the “norm” group. These differences related to: anxiety, depression, hopelessness, and also intelligence. The higher the intellectual abilities were, the lower the experienced combat stress. The average-high intelligence determined combatants’ low vulnerability to post-traumatic stress (the “norm” group).
Also, it was found that combatants’ individual psychological characteristics played a greater role in appearance of post-traumatic stress signs then belonging to different combat units (military or police).
Execution of various military missions and belonging to different combat units (military or police) were predictors of emotional stability and sensitivity to combat stressors, and, at the same time, different psychological coping resources used by combatants: policemen used socially-psychological resources, military personnel used personality ones. The importance of the cognitive
Clinical Training with Undocumented Latinx Immigrant Minors: Case Examples and Reflections using the Multicultural Developmental Supervisory Model (MDSM) as a Framework.
Authors: Galicia B.E. , Bailey C.A. , Briones M. , Salinas K.Z. , Venta A.C.
Published: October 2020

As of 2017, the number of international immigrants worldwide increased from 220 million to 248 million, and will continue to rise [16]. Growing diversity worldwide requires a stronger emphasis on multicultural competency among mental health professionals. Learning multicultural competency skills is a career-long commitment that begins in practicum training and is modeled and reinforced through supervision. The Multicultural Developmental Supervisory Model (MDSM) is an evidence-based model that focuses on supervisory dyads and multicultural competence [12]. Using the MDSM [12] as a guide reflective of our training, four graduate supervisees share their supervision experiences in learning to conduct clinical interviews in Spanish with undocumented Latinx immigrant minors in government custody in the United States, a rising population with unique clinical considerations. Our supervisor includes her experience in training and fortifying beginning mental health professionals’ skills in conducting these evaluations. In this contribution, we illustrate our trajectory from different training developmental stages, including the process of conceptualizing clinical cases, and transitioning languages in conducting clinical interviews, as well as considering our own cultural identities in clinical work. While our experience focuses on bicultural and bilingual training in the U.S., this aspect of clinical training is growing increasingly relevant around the world, especially in Europe where 54% of the population is multilingual [10]. Although we used the MDSM model as a helpful framework in guiding our multicultural development, empirical research is needed to examine the utility of this model.
Solving Fundamental Solution of Non-Homogeneous Heat Equation with Dirichlet Boundary Conditions
Authors: Wubneh Kahsay Godifey
Published: October 2020

In this study, we developed a solution of nonhomogeneous heat equation with Dirichlet boundary conditions. moreover, the non-homogeneous heat equation with constant coefficient. since heat equation has a simple form, we would like to start from the heat equation to find the exact solution of the partial differential equation with constant coefficient. to emphasize our main results, we also consider some important way of solving of partial differential equation specially solving heat equation with Dirichlet boundary conditions. the main results of our paper are quite general in nature and yield some interesting solution of non-homogeneous heat equation with Dirichlet boundary conditions and it is used for problems of mathematical modeling and mathematical physics.
Augmented Reality Model Framework for Maritime Education to Alleviate the Factors Affecting Learning Experience
Authors:   the Northern Philippines College for Maritime, Science and Technology, Brgy. Lingsat, San Fernando City, La Union, Philippines, Balcita Rommel E. , Palaoag Thelma D.
Published: October 2020

The maritime industry in the Philippines had several deficiencies that must be addressed seriously in order to maintain strong reputation in producing competitive seafarers worldwide. This affects student’s educational skills and knowledge before finishing their education and training. This research led in identifying several factors affecting learning experiences to be addressed by incorporating advance technologies to further enhance student’s learning experiences. The learning strategies used in this study are focused on using presentation, multimedia, simulator and hands-on. But these are not enough to satisfy students craving to learn due to some constraints during learning. In this study most of the factors identified are from literatures, monitoring reports, previous surveys and studies conducted in one of the maritime institution north of the Philippines. A descriptive research method was applied with the 32 marine engineering third year students as the respondents. Results extracted from questionnaires revealed important points that must be considered on the different learning strategies. The learning experiences of students on the different learning strategy used in the learning process exposed several learning factors to be regulated. The findings suggest that there is still an opportunity of improvement on student’s learning experiences by introduction emerging advance technology by developing an augmented reality model framework to enhance learning experiences.
Psychosocial profile of women reporting with breast related symptoms and their association with time taken for presentation, a hospital based study
Authors: Sood Neelam , Sood Medhavi , Bansal Swasti , Singh Dweep Chand
Published: October 2020

Background: The paper aims to study psycho-socio- demographic factors of women presenting with breast symptoms, find their correlations with (TTP).Methods: This cross sectional study was conducted in the Breast diagnostic clinic of a tertiary care hospital over a period of 2 months with the aim to approach all those women attending the breast diagnostic clinics and who had not started any treatment so far.  The data collection was done using self-administered questionnaire and interview based questionnaire as required for a period of 2 months. 80 patients were included in the study. Their socio-demographic data, health seeking behaviour were collected and personality traits, life orientation and coping styles were assessed using the standardized tests. Descriptive, correlation analysis and stepwise linear regression followed by logistic regression, using SPSS20 software.Results: TTP was long with mean 6months. It was found to be negatively associated with size of the lump and education and positively with awareness about risk of cancer. Life orientation styles and personality traits showed no correlation. Pessimism was the seen in the majority of women.Conclusions: Education and increasing awareness about risk of cancer in the women can help them to report for treatment without delay. The understanding of coping skill, life orientation and personality domains and their relationship with TTP in the pre-diagnostic stage can help in future planning strategies during the course of treatment for breast cancer.
Assessment of knowledge, attitude and practice towards COVID-19 and its' psychological impact among the public of a metropolitan city of South India
Authors: Salam Hiba , Bhat Nuthan , Chakraborty Ananya , Acharya Supriya
Published: October 2020

Background: Our study assessed the knowledge, attitude and practice towards COVID-19 and its’ psychological impact during the rise in COVID-19 cases and the subsequent implementation of lockdown in India.Methods: We distributed an online questionnaire to 500 people between March 2020 to April 2020. We measured knowledge about COVID-19, attitude regarding the virus, practices, preventive measures and psychological responses.Results: Out of the 500 responses, 64.6% (323) were women and 35.4% (177) were males and all the participants had completed high school. 95% (475) of the respondents had ≥75% knowledge, 86.8% (434) had positive attitudes, 98.2% (491) followed adequate preventive measures, 14.2% (71) reported moderate to extremely severe depression, 13.6% (68) reported moderate to extremely severe anxiety and 6.6% (33) reported moderate to extremely severe stress.Conclusions: Knowledge, attitude and practice scores varied across age, sex, level of education and occupation (p<0.001). Higher knowledge was found to be associated with better attitudes and practices (p=0.08). The rise in COVID-19 cases and deaths in India and the subsequent implementation of lockdown had an impact on the psychological health of the respondents. Better knowledge scores indicated better psychological health in terms of anxiety and stress but yielded higher depressive symptoms which were not statistically significant.