bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Genome‐wide association studies of response and side effects to the BNT162b2 vaccine in Italian healthcare workers: Increased antibody levels and side effects in carriers of the HLA‐A*03:01 allele
Authors: Magri Chiara , Marchina Eleonora , Sansone Emanuele , D'Adamo Adamo Pio , Cappellani Stefania , Bonfanti Carlo , Terlenghi Luigina , Biasiotto Giorgio , Zanella Isabella , Sala Emma , Caruso Arnaldo , Lombardo Massimo , Gasparini Paolo , De Palma Giuseppe , Gennarelli Massimo
Published: July 2023

The remarkable variability of response to vaccines against SARS‐CoV‐2 is apparent. The present study aims to estimate the extent to which the host genetic background contributes to this variability in terms of immune response and side effects following the administration of the BNT162b2 vaccine. We carried out a genome wide association study (GWAS) by genotyping 873 Italian healthcare workers who underwent anti‐SARS‐CoV‐2 vaccination with the BNT162b2 vaccine and for whom information about anti‐SARS‐CoV‐2 spike antibodies titers and vaccine side effects were available. The GWAS revealed a significant association between the HLA locus and the anti‐SARS‐CoV‐2 Spike antibodies level at 2 months following the first dose of vaccine (SNP: rs1737060; p = 9.80 × 10−11). In particular, we observed a positive association between the antibody levels and the presence of the HLA‐A*03:01 allele. The same allele was found associated with a 2–2.4‐fold increased risk of experiencing specific side effects such as fever, chills and myalgia and a 1.5–1.8‐fold increased risk of joint pain, nausea, fatigue, headache and asthenia, independently of age and sex. This study confirms that the heterogeneity in the immune response to the BNT162b2 vaccine and in its side effects are at least partially influenced by genetic variants. This information, integrated with individual biological and lifestyle‐related correlates, could be of use in the definition of algorithms aimed at the identification of subjects in which the administration of additional vaccine doses would be particularly beneficial to maintain immunity against the virus.
In Other Journals
Authors: Wible Brad , Lopez Bianca , Nusinovich Yevgeniya , Hurtley Stella M. , Szuromi Phil , Suleymanov Yury , Maroso Mattia
Published: July 2023

Editors’ selections from the current scientific literature
Modern and Projected Characteristics of the Seasonal Cycle of Ice Cover in the Russian Arctic Seas
Authors: Semenov V. A. , Cherenkova E. A. , Aldonina T. A.
Published: July 2023

The characteristics of the sea ice conditions in the seas of the Russian Arctic during the period of satellite measurements were studied, and quantitative estimates of their changes in the second half of the 21st century were obtained based on the results of the CMIP6 climate model ensemble using non-mitigation and moderate mitigation scenarios of anthropogenic impact, SSP585 and SSP245, respectively. It has been revealed that the dates of closing (DOC) of the sea ice cover and the length of the open water season (LOWS) are in general successfully reproduced by an ensemble of models. It is shown that DOC will be observed on the average about one month and ten days later under SSP245 scenario and two months later under the SSP585 scenario in 2061–2080 compared to period 1981–2020. At the same time, the increase of LOWS is more than 2.5 months under SSP245 scenario and almost four months under the SSP585 scenario. The most significant changes in DOC are expected in the northern parts of the Barents and Kara seas and in the northwestern part of the Laptev Sea: 2–2.5 months and 2.5–3 months later for the SSP245 and SSP585 scenarios, respectively.
On the secure vertex cover pebbling number
Authors: Hurlbert Glenn H. , Mathew Lian , Quadras Jasintha , Surya S. Sarah
Published: July 2023

A new graph invariant called the secure vertex cover pebbling number, which is a combination of two graph invariants, namely, ‘secure vertex cover’ and ‘cover pebbling number’, is introduced in this paper. The secure vertex cover pebbling number of a graph, [Formula: see text], is the minimum number [Formula: see text] so that every distribution of [Formula: see text] pebbles can reach some secure vertex cover of [Formula: see text] by a sequence of pebbling moves. In this paper, the complexity of the secure vertex cover problem and secure vertex cover pebbling problem are discussed. Also, we obtain some basic results and the secure vertex cover pebbling number for complete [Formula: see text]-partite graphs, paths, Friendship graphs, and wheel graphs.
Derivation of an Outcome-Driven Threshold for Aortic Pulse Wave Velocity: An Individual-Participant Meta-Analysis
Authors: An De-Wei , Hansen Tine W. , Aparicio Lucas S. , Chori Babangida , Huang Qi-Fang , Wei Fang-Fei , Cheng Yi-Bang , Yu Yu-Ling , Sheng Chang-Sheng , Gilis-Malinowska Natasza , Boggia José , Wojciechowska Wiktoria , Niiranen Teemu J. , Tikhonoff Valérie , Casiglia Edoardo , Narkiewicz Krzysztof , Stolarz-Skrzypek Katarzyna , Kawecka-Jaszcz Kalina , Jula Antti M. , Yang Wen-Yi , Woodiwiss Angela J. , Filipovský Jan , Wang Ji-Guang , Rajzer Marek W. , Verhamme Peter , Nawrot Tim S. , Staessen Jan A. , Li Yan ,   The International Database of Central Arterial Properties for Risk Stratification Investigators
Published: July 2023

BACKGROUND:

Aortic pulse wave velocity (PWV) predicts cardiovascular events (CVEs) and total mortality (TM), but previous studies proposing actionable PWV thresholds have limited generalizability. This individual-participant meta-analysis is aimed at defining, testing calibration, and validating an outcome-driven threshold for PWV, using 2 populations studies, respectively, for derivation IDCARS (International Database of Central Arterial Properties for Risk Stratification) and replication MONICA (Monitoring of Trends and Determinants in Cardiovascular Disease Health Survey – Copenhagen).

METHODS:

A risk-carrying PWV threshold for CVE and TM was defined by multivariable Cox regression, using stepwise increasing PWV thresholds and by determining the threshold yielding a 5-year risk equivalent with systolic blood pressure of 140 mm Hg. The predictive performance of the PWV threshold was assessed by computing the integrated discrimination improvement and the net reclassification improvement.

RESULTS:

In well-calibrated models in IDCARS, the risk-carrying PWV thresholds converged at 9 m/s (10 m/s considering the anatomic pulse wave travel distance). With full adjustments applied, the threshold predicted CVE (hazard ratio [CI]: 1.68 [1.15–2.45]) and TM (1.61 [1.01–2.55]) in IDCARS and in MONICA (1.40 [1.09–1.79] and 1.55 [1.23–1.95]). In IDCARS and MONICA, the predictive accuracy of the threshold for both end points was ≈0.75. Integrated discrimination improvement was significant for TM in IDCARS and for both TM and CVE in MONICA, whereas net reclassification improvement was not for any outcome.

CONCLUSIONS:

PWV integrates multiple risk factors into a single variable and might replace a large panel of traditional risk factors. Exceeding the outcome-driven PWV threshold should motivate clinicians to stringent management of risk factors, in particular hypertension, which over a person’s lifetime causes stiffening of the elastic arteries as waypoint to CVE and death.
Description of a new Brazilian species of Acanthoderini, new records in American Cerambycinae and Lamiinae, and a replacement name for a genus (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae)
Authors: HEFFERN DANIEL , SANTOS-SILVA ANTONIO
Published: July 2023

A new species of Acanthoderini is described from Brazil: Penaherreraus birai sp. nov. New records: Susuacanga rotundipennis (Bates, 1884) (Cerambycinae Eburiini) is recorded from the Mexican state of Jalisco; Psyrassa xestioides (Bates, 1872) (Cerambycinae, Elaphidiini) from the Mexican state of Oaxaca; Anisopodus dispar Bates, 1885 from Nicaragua (Lamiinae, Acanthocinini); and Lasiolepturges zikani Melzer, 1928 from Brazil (Pará) (Lamiinae, Acanthocinini). Variations in Urgleptes navarretei Santos-Silva, Nascimento, Botero & McClarin, 2021 are reported. Charlesella is proposed as a replacement name for Pygmaeopsis Schaeffer, 1908 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae, Desmiphorini), preoccupied by Pygmaeopsis Warren, 1907 (Lepidoptera, Geometridae).
6. Isabelle Agnès Élisabeth de Charrière
Authors: Isbell John Claiborne
Published: July 2023

Destins de femmes is the first comprehensive overview of French women writers during the turbulent period of 1750-1850. John Isbell provides an essential collection that illuminates the impact women writers had on French literature and politics during a time marked by three revolutions, the influx of Romantic art, and rapid technological change.

Each of the book’s thirty chapters introduces a prominent work by a different female author writing in French during the period, from Germaine de Staël to George Sand, from the admired salon libertine Marie du Deffand to Flora Tristan, tireless campaigner for socialism and women’s rights. Isbell draws from multi-genre writers working in prose, poetry and correspondence and addresses the breadth of women’s contribution to the literature of the age. Isbell also details the important events which shaped the writers’ lives and contextualises their work amidst the liberties both given and taken away from women during the period.

This anthology fills a significant gap in the secondary literature on this transformative century, which often overlooks women who were working and active. It invites a further gendered investigation of the impact of revolution and Romanticism on the content and nature of French women’s writing, and will therefore be appropriate for both general readers, students, and academics analysing history and literature through a feminist lens.
18. Marie Françoise Sophie Gay
Authors: Isbell John Claiborne
Published: July 2023

Destins de femmes is the first comprehensive overview of French women writers during the turbulent period of 1750-1850. John Isbell provides an essential collection that illuminates the impact women writers had on French literature and politics during a time marked by three revolutions, the influx of Romantic art, and rapid technological change.

Each of the book’s thirty chapters introduces a prominent work by a different female author writing in French during the period, from Germaine de Staël to George Sand, from the admired salon libertine Marie du Deffand to Flora Tristan, tireless campaigner for socialism and women’s rights. Isbell draws from multi-genre writers working in prose, poetry and correspondence and addresses the breadth of women’s contribution to the literature of the age. Isbell also details the important events which shaped the writers’ lives and contextualises their work amidst the liberties both given and taken away from women during the period.

This anthology fills a significant gap in the secondary literature on this transformative century, which often overlooks women who were working and active. It invites a further gendered investigation of the impact of revolution and Romanticism on the content and nature of French women’s writing, and will therefore be appropriate for both general readers, students, and academics analysing history and literature through a feminist lens.
21. Adélaïde Charlotte Louise Éléonore, Comtesse de Boigne
Authors: Isbell John Claiborne
Published: July 2023

Destins de femmes is the first comprehensive overview of French women writers during the turbulent period of 1750-1850. John Isbell provides an essential collection that illuminates the impact women writers had on French literature and politics during a time marked by three revolutions, the influx of Romantic art, and rapid technological change.

Each of the book’s thirty chapters introduces a prominent work by a different female author writing in French during the period, from Germaine de Staël to George Sand, from the admired salon libertine Marie du Deffand to Flora Tristan, tireless campaigner for socialism and women’s rights. Isbell draws from multi-genre writers working in prose, poetry and correspondence and addresses the breadth of women’s contribution to the literature of the age. Isbell also details the important events which shaped the writers’ lives and contextualises their work amidst the liberties both given and taken away from women during the period.

This anthology fills a significant gap in the secondary literature on this transformative century, which often overlooks women who were working and active. It invites a further gendered investigation of the impact of revolution and Romanticism on the content and nature of French women’s writing, and will therefore be appropriate for both general readers, students, and academics analysing history and literature through a feminist lens.
Introduction
Authors: Isbell John Claiborne
Published: July 2023

Destins de femmes is the first comprehensive overview of French women writers during the turbulent period of 1750-1850. John Isbell provides an essential collection that illuminates the impact women writers had on French literature and politics during a time marked by three revolutions, the influx of Romantic art, and rapid technological change.

Each of the book’s thirty chapters introduces a prominent work by a different female author writing in French during the period, from Germaine de Staël to George Sand, from the admired salon libertine Marie du Deffand to Flora Tristan, tireless campaigner for socialism and women’s rights. Isbell draws from multi-genre writers working in prose, poetry and correspondence and addresses the breadth of women’s contribution to the literature of the age. Isbell also details the important events which shaped the writers’ lives and contextualises their work amidst the liberties both given and taken away from women during the period.

This anthology fills a significant gap in the secondary literature on this transformative century, which often overlooks women who were working and active. It invites a further gendered investigation of the impact of revolution and Romanticism on the content and nature of French women’s writing, and will therefore be appropriate for both general readers, students, and academics analysing history and literature through a feminist lens.
Prevalence of increased risk of type 2 diabetes in general practice: a cross-sectional study in Norway
Authors: Riise Hilde Kristin Refvik , Graue Marit , Igland Jannicke , Birkeland Kåre I. , Kolltveit Beate-Christin Hope
Published: July 2023

Background

Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a global public health problem, but the onset can be delayed or prevented with adequate intervention in individuals with increased risk. Therefore, a major challenge in general practice is to identify individuals at risk of diabetes. However, limited knowledge is available about the prevalence of high diabetes risk individuals in a primary care population. In a cohort of consecutive patients in general practice we examined the prevalence of known diabetes and estimated risk of diabetes using The Finnish Diabetes Risk Score (FINDRISC) calculator, by sociodemographic and clinical characteristics.

Methods

This study was a cross-sectional study conducted in four general practices in Western and Eastern Norway. A total of 1682 individuals, 20–80 years of age, were assessed for eligibility from May to December 2019. We excluded patients who actively declined participation (n = 112), were lost because of various organization challenges (n = 103) and patients who did not fulfil the inclusions criteria (n = 63). Diabetes prevalence and prevalence of individuals at risk of T2D with 95% confidence intervals (CI) were estimated for the total sample, by age group and for men and women separately. We tested for differences between groups using t-test for continuous variables and chi-square test (Pearson Chi-Square) for categorical variables.

Results

Of 1404 individuals, 132 reported known diabetes, yielding a prevalence of 9.9% (95% CI 8.4–11.6). Among participants without a known diagnosis of diabetes, the following estimates of elevated risk assessment scores were found: FINDRISC score ≥ 11 32.8% (95% CI 30.3–35.4) and FINDRISC ≥ 15 10.0% (95% CI 8.6–11.9). Comparable results were found between the sexes.

Conclusions

Detection of unknown diabetes and individuals with increased risk, is of high public health relevance for early implementation of preventive measures aimed to reduce the risk of diabetes and its complications through lifestyle modification. A simple, non-expensive questionnaire, such as FINDRISC, may be valuable as an initial screening method in general practice to identify those in need for preventive measures.
Geological history of the land area between Okinawa Jima and Miyako Jima of the Ryukyu Islands, Japan, and its phylogeographical significance for the terrestrial organisms of these and adjacent islands
Authors: Watanabe Nana , Arai Kohsaku , Otsubo Makoto , Toda Mamoru , Tominaga Atsushi , Chiyonobu Shun , Sato Tokiyuki , Ikeda Tadahiro , Takahashi Akio , Ota Hidetoshi , Iryu Yasufumi
Published: July 2023

The modern and Late Pleistocene terrestrial fauna of Miyako Jima and adjacent islands (the Miyako Islands) in the southern Ryukyu Islands, southwestern Japan, includes some endemic taxa or genetically unique populations that exclusively have closest allies in the more isolated Okinawa Jima and adjacent islands (the Okinawa Islands) than in the Yaeyama Islands, which are located southwest of the Miyako Islands with much narrower intervening straits. Those taxa or populations include representatives of lineages that have physiologically highly limited ability for over-sea dispersal and the Miyako Islands are currently separated from the Okinawa Islands by at least 300 km of open water; therefore, the formation of this phylogeographical pattern is perplexing. In this study, we review the late Cenozoic geology of the Miyako Islands, southern Okinawa Jima, the Okinawa–Miyako submarine plateau (OMSP; a plateau located between Okinawa Jima and Miyako Jima), and the Kerama gap, which is a depression between the OMSP and Okinawa Jima. We then consider the origin of the modern and Late Pleistocene terrestrial animals, including a number of non-volant vertebrates on the Miyako Islands. Finally, we propose a new hypothesis (the OMSP hypothesis) to explain the enigmatic composition of modern and Late Pleistocene terrestrial vertebrate fauna of the islands. Southern Okinawa Jima was uplifted and emerged after ca. 2 Ma and was temporarily connected to the OMSP, which is likely to have emerged earlier than southern Okinawa Jima, to form a large island extending from Okinawa Jima to the Miyako Islands with a NE–SW direction of ~ 400 km. Subsequently, Okinawa Jima became separated from the OMSP when the Ryukyu Group—which is composed of Quaternary reef and associated fore-reef and shelf deposits—began to accumulate around the island at 1.7–1.4 Ma. During the interval from 2.0 to 1.7–1.4 Ma, numerous terrestrial animals, including flightless vertebrates, extended their distribution to the OMSP. Although the Miyako Islands repeatedly underwent complete submergence during deposition of the main part of the Ryukyu Group (1.25–0.4 Ma), they were uplifted and emerged to become a land area after ca. 0.4 Ma. In contrast, the OMSP subsided after ca. 0.4 Ma and was almost completely submerged after 0.27 Ma. During ca. 0.4–0.27 Ma, terrestrial animals migrated from the OMSP to the Miyako Islands.
Learning research: theory building and theory testing in educational technology innovation and beyond
Authors: Regele Matthew D.
Published: July 2023

This study draws on extensive ethnographic data and a multiple case study design to develop new theory about innovation processes and techniques. By contrasting the experiences and outcomes of five innovation projects in an educational technology company, the study considers two distinct, if often interrelated, strategies to navigating market uncertainty: theory building and theory testing. The paper theorizes how the appropriate balance between these two strategies is driven by the multiplicity, or number of and relationships between relevant stakeholders and stakeholder interests, in the innovation context. The data suggest that multiplicity increases the value of rigorous – and potentially more time-consuming – theory building, while simultaneously increasing the potential risks and costs of poorly grounded theory testing. These insights challenge contemporary views on innovation teaching and practice, which have increasingly emphasized action over analysis.
Denominaciones de Origen Protegidas del cerdo ibérico y territorio. Una lectura desde la perspectiva de la agroalimentación territorializada
Authors: Silva Pérez Rocío , Leco Berrocal Felipe , Pérez Díaz Antonio
Published: July 2023

Se indagan los comportamientos territoriales de las Denominaciones de Origen Protegidas del cerdo ibérico. La fuente básica son los Pliegos de Condiciones, analizados comparativamente desde las lógicas de los sistemas agroalimentarios localizados y sus atributos de proximidad en la cadena alimentaria y arraigo agroecológico. Ciclos productivos ganaderos y agroindustriales se correlacionan con las circunscripciones normativas de estas DOPs (áreas de producción y elaboración). Proximidades se asimilan a cercanías potenciales o reales entre áreas de producción ganadera y de elaboración agroindustrial, y entre éstas y las radicaciones de las agroindustrias. Se entiende por arraigo el enraizamiento de las explotaciones ganaderas con las bases naturales y culturales de sus territorios; se averigua a través de extensiones de áreas de producción y en sus relaciones con la dehesa. Los resultados abundan en distorsiones del territorio, en su consideración como arraigo, extensión, proximidad/lejanía y concentración/dispersión administrativa. Se concluye en la existencia de distintos modelos.
In memory of Bondarenko Vladimir Olegovich (07.06.1960–15.08.2022)
Authors: Kim I. V.
Published: July 2023

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A Study on the Acceptability of Homomorphic Causative/Passive Verbs in Korean
Authors:   The Society Of Modern Grammar, Park Ji-Hoon , Um Hong-Joon
Published: July 2023

The purpose of this paper is to show the relations of acceptability changes between the lexical causative and lexical passive constructions. In order to do this, using the constructions with homomorphic causative/passive verbs, the acceptability between the lexical causative and lexical passive constructions is investigated through questionnaire survey and the analysis of the result is executed by SPSS 27.0 program. The paper is structured as follows. First, the acceptability between the lexical causative and lexical passive constructions is presented using descriptive statistics. In order to examine the changes in the acceptability between the lexical causative and lexical passive constructions, the 'Welch test' is conducted in this analysis. I focus on comparing the acceptability between the lexical causative and lexical passive constructions according to the age groups, respectively. Afterwards, it is demonstrated through Pearson correlation analysis and Two Way Anova that there are some relationships between the changes in the acceptability between the lexical causative and lexical passive constructions. Also, the tendencies of the acceptability changes is claimed to be predicted in the lexical causative and the lexical passive constructions. Finally, the thesis concludes by presenting a hypothesis of the interactions on the acceptability between lexical causative and lexical passive constructions.
Städtenetze – Raumordnungspolitische Ziele und Anforderungen an den weiteren Ausbau städtischer und regionaler Vernetzung
Authors: Baumheier Ralph
Published: July 2023

Städtenetze als neuer raumordnerischer Ansatz sind mit dem Raumordnungspolitischen Orientierungsrahmen verstärkt in die bundesdeutsche Diskussion eingeführt worden.Der Beitrag stellt die Hintergründe für dieses raumordnerische Konzept dar, benennt die spezifischen raumordnerischen Interessen und versucht eine erste Systematisierung von Städtenetzen. Im Mittelpunkt stehen die konkreten Forschungsinteressen des neu eingerichteten Forschungfeldes „Städtenetze“ im Experimentellen Wohnungs- und Städtebau.
Grenzüberschreitende Zusammenarbeit im Tourismus auf der Ebene der öffentlichen Hand an der westdeutschen Staatsgrenze
Authors: Wachowiak Helmut
Published: July 2023

Der europäische Binnenmarkt begünstigt die internationale und interregionale Integration. In diesem Zusammenhang läßt sich auch im Tourismus in den letzten Jahren eine Intensivierung von Kooperationen über die Staatsgrenzen hinweg auf lokaler, regionaler und nationaler Ebene beobachten. Im Rahmen der europäischen Regionalpolitik wird dieser Entwicklung durch die Förderung grenzüberschreitender Maßnahmen verstärkt Rechnung getragen. Trotz zum Teil massiver Förderungen von touristischen Einzelprojekten (z. B. im Rahmen der Gemeinschaftsinitiative INTERREG) mangelt es jedoch an allgemeinen Informationen, anhand derer die grenzüberschreitenden Tourismusaktivitäten seitens der öffentlichen Hand in grenznahen Räumen charakterisiert werden können. Es wird daher der Frage nachgegangen, welche Formen der Zusammenarbeit im Tourismus bestehen, wie europäische Förderprogramme diese Bemühungen unterstützen und welche Faktoren die zukünftige Entwicklung grenzüberschreitender Tourismuskooperationen beeinflussen können (1).
Antioxidant, sensory, and functional properties of low-alcoholic IPA beer with Pinus sylvestris L. shoots addition fermented using unconventional yeast
Authors: Dziedziński Marcin , Stachowiak Barbara , Kobus-Cisowska Joanna , Faria Miguel A. , Ferreira Isabel M. P. L. V. O.
Published: July 2023

The study investigated the potential use of pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) shoots and standard and unconventional yeast strains for the production of low-alcohol IPA beer. For this purpose, control worts without added shoots, and worts enriched with pine shoots at 10 g/L were prepared. Worts were inoculated with yeast: Saccharomyces cerevisiae var. chevalieri SafBrew™ LA-01, Saccharomyces cerevisiae var. boulardii, Pichia kluyveri NEER™, and Saccharomyces cerevisiae Safale US-05. The final beer was tested for yeast cell number, basic physicochemical properties, effects on cell line and antioxidant properties. Pine shoots and the tested yeast strains were shown to be suitable for developing low-alcohol beers with potential functional effects. Pine shoots have no negative impact on the beer-making process and may increase the antioxidant potential of beer. Beers supplemented with pine shoots were shown to increase the ability to quench DPPH free radicals in vitro, while all low-alcohol beers tested were found to have the ability to reduce nitrite production by lipopolysaccharide-induced RAW264.7. Depending on the yeast used, pine shoots affect the flavour and aroma profile differently, possibly masking foreign aftertastes and odours resulting from the use of unconventional yeast.
Thinking Black
Authors: Waters Rob
Published: July 2023

It was a common charge among black radicals in Britain in the 1960s that Britons needed to start “thinking black.” As state and society consolidated around a revived politics of whiteness, thinking black, they felt, was necessary for all who sought to build a liberated future out of Britain’s imperial past. Thinking Black reveals black radical Britain’s wide cultural-political formation, tracing it across new institutions of black civil society and connecting it to decolonization and black liberation across the Atlantic world. A new history of black activism that retells the formation of New Left politics in Britain, this book shows how, from the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s, black radicalism defined what it meant to be black and what it meant to be radical in Britain. Chapters explore the growth of British black radicalism through the U.S. and Caribbean Black Power movements; how activists negotiated gendered and ethnic difference and sought to utilize and transform new black expressive cultures; the popularization of black critiques of the British state; how black studies reformulated British education politics; and intellectual responses to conflicts between young black people and the police. The book closes with the decline of this politics in the mid-1980s, placing it in its national and international contexts.
Evaluation of the emission inventory for large point emission sources in South Korea by applying measured data from the NASA/NIER KORUS-AQ aircraft field campaign
Authors: Park Minwoo , Hu Hyejung , Kim Younha , Fried Alan , Simpson Isobel J. , Jin Hyungah , Weinheimer Andrew , Huey Greg , Crawford James , Woo Jung-Hun
Published: July 2023

One of the major issues in determining a region’s air quality is the uncertainty of large point sources (LPSs) emissions, which significantly affect the local-regional air quality. In this study, the SO2 and NOx emissions of 5 major LPSs in South Korea were evaluated by comparing the emissions-based concentrations employing a Gaussian dispersion model with aircraft-based measurements from DC-8 “around-the-stack” flights through the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)/National Institute of Environmental Research (NIER) KORea-U.S. Cooperative Domestic Air Quality (KORUS-AQ) aircraft field campaign. The ratio between modeled and measured concentrations for all 5 LPSs ranged between 0.42 and 1.30 and 0.39 and 1.01 for NOx and SO2, respectively. The results for the Boryeong, Dangjin, and Seocheon power plants (PPs), where the locations and sizes of stacks are easier to specify than industrial complexes (Hyundai Steel and Hankook Glass), yielded better performance, which ranged between 0.82 and 1.30 and 0.79 and 1.01 for NOx and SO2. This level of agreement was very encouraging, considering that the modeled concentrations were based on 30-min averaged emissions compared to less-than-a-minute DC-8 around-the-stack measurements. Based on our analysis, the uncertainty of LPS emissions, at least for NOx and SO2, appears to be small, which implies that the point sources inventory emissions are reasonably accurate. The Dangjin PP’s analysis reveals that the actual measured emissions should be considered in addition to “the official” inventory amounts to reduce emission uncertainty. This detailed comparative analysis verified the method used for this study. The findings of this study are expected to enhance the performance of future LPS emission inventory assessments. In terms of recommendations, the data from the raw emission inventory should include more clear information about the locations of measured stacks to obtain more accurate emission estimates. In addition, the flight measurement duration should be long enough to fly around several times to reduce uncertainties, and the flight positions and altitudes should be varied. By improving LPS inventories through accurate evaluations, more accurate air quality forecasts and better policies could be made. As a result, it is expected that public health can be improved by reducing the time people are exposed to high concentrations of air pollutants.
Asistencia personal en el sistema español de cuidados
Authors: Riobóo-Lois Breogán , Grech Clara , Frieiro Paula , Verde-Diego Carmen
Published: July 2023

España combina tradicionalismo familiar con una incipiente cobertura pública de los cuidados. La Ley 39/2006, de 14 de diciembre, de Promoción de la Autonomía Personal y Atención a las Personas en Situación de Dependencia, lejos de romper la dinámica, ha favorecido la mercantilización de los servicios. La Convención sobre los Derechos de las Personas con Discapacidad tampoco consagró el desarrollo de políticas de atención que preserven y favorezcan la autonomía personal y la vida independiente. Por ello se busca analizar la evolución de la asistencia personal en España y su integración en el sistema de cuidados desde la perspectiva de sus profesionales. Para ello se analizaron datos secundarios de organismos oficiales y se realizó un estudio cualitativo con profesionales (n=31) de la asistencia personal en activo. La asistencia personal supone el 0,53% de las prestaciones reconocidas en el Sistema para la Autonomía y Atención a la Dependencia, con una evolución muy desigual según el territorio y sin contar con apoyo social ante la escasez de información dirigida a las potenciales usuarias y sus familias. Las políticas públicas deben responsabilizarse de la prestación del cuidado a quienes no pueden asumirlo por sí mismas y el Trabajo Social ha de asumir un rol decisivo en la implementación y desarrollo de instrumentos como la asistencia personal que favorecen la inclusión.
A satisfação de mulheres trans trabalhadoras do sexo com a qualidade do suporte social prestado pelos serviços sociais
Authors: Ramalho Nélson
Published: July 2023

O artigo procurou analisar a satisfação de mulheres trans trabalhadoras do sexo com a qualidade do suporte social prestado pelos serviços sociais. Através do desenvolvimento de uma pesquisa de natureza qualitativa, na qual foram realizadas oito entrevistas semiestruturadas a mulheres trans que realizavam trabalho sexual em contexto de rua, em Lisboa (Portugal), foi possível identificar que estas se confrontavam frequentemente com barreiras e limitações no acesso aos serviços sociais, bem como com a falta de apoio material e emocional ou a concessão de recursos inadequados ou em tempo não útil por parte destes. O “suporte social problemático” atribuído comprometeu fortemente a disposição das entrevistadas para recorrerem novamente aos serviços sociais. Deste modo, considera-se que os serviços sociais deverão desenvolver esforços para eliminar todas as barreiras que afastam as pessoas trans, de género diverso e não binário do suporte social, devendo evitar práticas e comportamentos opressivos que favoreçam processos de vitimação secundária, com vista a se transformarem em espaços verdadeiramente seguros e inclusivos.
Чтение в мире без книг. О литературе в Манараге Владимира Сорокина
Authors:   Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, Wydział Neofilologii, Instytut Filologii Rosyjskiej i Ukraińskiej, Jaworski Mateusz
Published: July 2023

The paper is an attempt to interpret the metaliterary aspect of Vladimir Sorokin’s novel titled Manaraga. Thorough analysis of the text has revealed the postmodern understanding of literary activity as the pivotal element of Sorokin’s narration. Thus, the narrator along with his words do not represent reality but create it in an almost divine manner. The interpretation also suggests that the novel has an underlying message seeping from its every page – cognition and reading are inextricably connected. Moreover, deep cognition needs a plurality of ideas/views/points of view, which is present only in a world in which books are read and not consumed.
О времени детей и подростков (Е. Водолазкин Брисбен, Н. Дашевская Около музыки)
Authors:   Uniwersytet Gdański, Wydział Filologiczny, Instytut Rusycystyki i Studiów Wschodnich, Kopac Tatiana
Published: July 2023

The purpose of the article is to consider the influence of music education on the organization of the time of children and adolescents, to emphasize the educational role of music in the period of growing up. “Children’s” fragments of E. Vodolazkin’s novel Brisbane and a collection of stories by the children’s writer N. Dashevskaya About Music, with reference to her other books, are analyzed. The subject becomes a cross-cutting motif of music, which holds together the artistic whole of the texts. It participates in the construction of plots, organization of the system of characters, influences the structural characteristics and lexical composition of texts. The importance of the musical motif lies in presenting to readers the relationship “teacher (master) – student” as a realization of the teenagers’ need for authority.
Концепция времени и события в романе Григория Служителя Дни Савелия
Authors:   Uniwersytet Gdański, Wydział Filologiczny, Instytut Rusycystyki i Studiów Wschodnich, Pavlenko Svetlana
Published: July 2023

The aim of this article is to study the chronotope (relation between time and space) and literary time diversity in contemporary Russian literature on the basis of Grigoriy Sluzhitel’s The Savely’s Days. Martin Heidegger’s concept of event (Ereignis) related to the temporal structure of the text is analysed as well. Different configurations of literature time were described. The author examined: 1) real historical time on a social scale; 2) lifetime of a particular person; 3) time of everyday life divided into periods of work and recovery; 4) idyllic time as well as a period of crisis; 5) one’s inner perception of time, including memories and the oneiric time. It was discovered that the borders between different layers of time in The Savely’s Days, Sluzhitel’s first novel, are conditional and permeable. Time in the novel is not only a category of literature, but one of the most significant concepts, as it becomes an object of the main character’s (cat Savely’s) reflection. In addition, the issue of memory and memories as well as literary time-space relations was analysed.
Implementation of the Omnibus Law Concept and Consolidated Texts: Amalgamation of the Common Law and Civil Law Legal Systems
Authors: Fauzia Ana , Hamdani Fathul , Rusdianto Rusdianto , Mohamed Muhammad Azimuddin
Published: July 2023

Laws serve as normative prescriptions to guide human behavior in social life, ensuring the proper functioning of a society. However, the adoption of the omnibus law concept in Indonesia does not guarantee immediate perfection. To address this, an additional instrument, known as a consolidated text, is necessary to create systematic and easily understandable legal products for the public. This study aims to explore the application of consolidated texts in other countries and examine how they can be implemented in Indonesia's law formation process, particularly in relation to the omnibus law concept. The research employs normative research methods, incorporating statutory, conceptual, and comparative approaches. The findings reveal that Indonesia's adoption of the omnibus law concept would be ideal if accompanied by consolidated texts. Several countries, including the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand, have already embraced consolidation methods in the development of their laws and regulations. Through the consolidation approach, all revised laws and regulations can be consolidated into a single text, complemented by additional regulations such as court decisions that provide further explanations regarding modified or unchanged articles or paragraphs.
Factors Affecting Students' Intentions to Use the University's E-Payment System
Authors: Listiyono Hersatoto , Sunardi Sunardi , Sugiyamto Sugiyamto , Utomo Agus Prasetyo
Published: July 2023

Purpose: Most universities prioritize online payment administration because_of_advances_in_information_and communicatio_ technologies, especially for online­_banking transactions. Benefits from online banking services such as  transactions via Internet banking are very convenient compared to traditional payment methods.  On other side is traditional payment methods transactions must queue and come directly to the bank. This study was done to find out what factors in Semarang City affected the adoption of university E-PS as online banking.Methods: 123 students have participated in this research. Six charactersitics were considered in a new study model that examinated how students’ intention to use E-PS was affected: convinience, perceived usefullness, risks, perceived trust and reputation. To validate the reearch model, the structural equation model approach using PLS-SEM was apllied.Result: The empirical result showed that perceived convinience, perceived usefullness and trust had e significan positive relationship with students’ intention to use the University’s E-PS.  The empirical results showed that perceived convenience, perceived usefullness, and trust had a significant_positivee_relationshipp_withhstudents’ intentions_to_use the E-PS university. Perceived convinience was also found to have a positive and significan effect on the perceived usefullness of students using E-PS. However, the perceived risks showed a non-significan negative relationship with tudents’ intentions to use E-PS.Novelty: While previous studies have explored the intentions to se E=PS. This research contributes the literature by invetigating the specific factors that influence the adoption of E-PS in the context of tertiary institutions. Additionally, this research provides empirical evidence on the relationhip between perceived convinience and perceived convience and perceived usefullness of using E-PS in univerities. Overall, this research offers a new perspective on the adoption of E-PS in tertiary institutions and contributes to the development of strategies to improve the adoption and use E-PS in universities.
Alicantinos en Argelia. Un viaje de ida y vuelta
Authors: Valdés Peña Alba
Published: July 2023

Tras la colonización de Argelia por parte de Francia, en 1830, el país africano comienza a ser poblado por europeos: italianos, malteses, españoles y, por supuesto, franceses. En esta emigración española, los alicantinos van a ser uno de los colectivos más numerosos, tanto por la cercanía a las costas africanas como por las características del trabajo a realizar en la colonia francesa. Durante el siglo XIX y principios del XX estuvieron llegando alicantinos a Argelia, muchos se nacionalizaron franceses, otros mantuvieron la identidad, pero cuando comenzó la guerra de independencia en 1955, una parte de ellos volvió a Alicante pues la patria francesa les era desconocida.Abstract:After Algeria´s colonization by France, in 1830, the African country began to be populated by Europeans: Italian, Maleteses , Spanish and of course, French people. During this Spanish migration, people from Alicante were one of most numerous groups, Both because of its proximity to African coastline and the characteristics of the work carried out in the French colony. During 19th century and early 20th, Alicantinos arrived to Algeria, many nationalised French, other maintained the identity, but when the War of Independence began in 1955, a part of them returned to Alicante, because French homeland was unkwon to them.
Fiber loading of hardwood pulp by in-situ precipitation of aluminosilicate
Authors: Chauhan Vipul S. , Singh Surendra P. , Bajpai Pramod K.
Published: July 2023

Sodium aluminosilicate has been precipitated in-situ as filler on hardwood bleached kraft pulp fibers using papermaker’s alum and sodium silicate. The filler was produced in two ways, first in the absence of the fibers and second in the presence of fibers, i.e. in-situ precipitation of filler. The filler produced in absence of fiber was then added to the pulp slurry. Various pulp and paper properties were compared for direct loading of market filler, fresh filler loading, and filler prepared in-situ with fibers. In-situ precipitation technology provided paper with significant improvements in various properties of paper as compared to fillers directly added to the stock. Bulk and stiffness of the handsheets prepared with in-situ precipitation were much higher as compared to those of sheets prepared with fillers directly added to the pulp. There was no appreciable increase in brightness and whiteness of paper with in-situ precipitation, as an appreciable proportion of filler was precipitated inside the fibers. In-situ filler loaded pulps showed a higher filler retention value as compared to directly filler loaded pulps, as a high dose of retention aid was needed with the fillers directly added to the stock.
Novel sources of fungal cellulases for efficient deinking of composite paper waste
Authors: Soni Rohit , Nazir Asiya , Chadha B. S. , Saini H. S.
Published: July 2023

Twenty thermophilic/thermotolerant fungal strains were isolated from compositing soils and screened for production of different enzymes (Endoglucanases, β-glucosidase, Fpase and xylanases) to assess their deinking efficiency. Three isolates, Aspergillus sp. AMA, Aspergillus terreus AN1,and Myceliophthora fergusii T4I, identified on the basis of morphological and sequencing of amplified ITS1-5.8S-ITS2 rDNA region, showed significant deinking of composite waste paper (70% magazine and 30% Xerox copier/ laser print paper waste) as well as improved properties (brightness, tensile strength, tear index) of recycled paper sheets. The chosen strains Aspergillus sp. AMA, Aspergillus terreus AN1and Myceliophthora fergusii T4I, showed 53, 52.7, and 40.32% deinking with increase in brightness by 4.32, 3.56, and 3.01 % ISO, respectively. These cultures were found to produce multiple endoglucanases and were characterized to lack a cellulose binding module (CBD), which may be responsible for their better deinking efficiency.
Preparation of macroporous cellulose-based superabsorbent polymer through the precipitation method
Authors: Chen Yu , Liu Yun-fei , Tan Hui-min
Published: July 2023

Superabsorbent polymer was prepared by graft polymerization of acrylic acid onto the chain of carboxymethyl cellulose. This superabsorbent polymer was further treated by the solvent precipitation method. We found that the water absorption rate of the treated polymer was greatly increased and the microstructure of the treated polymer was changed from close-grained structures to loose macropores. The swelling processes of the polymers before and after modification fit first-order dynamic processes. The amount of the residual acrylic acid was detected through high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) with aqueous solution of MOPS of 0.02mol/L (pH=5.70) as the mobile phase. It was found that the amount of the residual acrylic acid decreased from 83.8×10-4 % to 6.7×10-4 % after treatments.
Association of Rural Residence With Surgical Outcomes Among Infants at US Children’s Hospitals
Authors: Georgeades Christina , Vacek Jonathan , Thurm Cary , Hall Matt , Rangel Shawn , Minneci Peter C. , Oldham Keith , Van Arendonk Kyle J.
Published: July 2023

OBJECTIVES

Disparities in pediatric health outcomes are widespread. It is unclear whether rurality negatively impacts outcomes of infants with surgical congenital diseases. This study compared outcomes of rural versus urban infants requiring complex surgical care at children’s hospitals in the United States.

METHODS

Rural and urban infants (aged <1 year) receiving surgical care at children’s hospitals from 2016 to 2019 for esophageal atresia, gastroschisis, Hirschsprung’s disease, anorectal malformation, and congenital diaphragmatic hernia were compared over a 1-year postoperative period using the Pediatric Health Information System. Generalized linear mixed effects models compared outcomes of rural and urban infants.

RESULTS

Among 5732 infants, 20.2% lived in rural areas. Rural infants were more frequently white, lived farther from the hospital, and lived in areas with lower median household income compared with urban infants (all P < .001). Rural infants with anorectal malformation and gastroschisis had lower adjusted hospital days over 1 year; rural infants with esophageal atresia had higher adjusted odds of 30-day hospital readmission. Adjusted mortality, hospital days, and readmissions were otherwise similar between the 2 groups. Outcomes remained similar when comparing urban infants to rural infant subgroups with the longest hospital travel distance (≥60 miles) and lowest median household income (<$35 000).

CONCLUSIONS

Despite longer travel distances and lower financial resources, rural infants with congenital anomalies have similar postoperative outcomes to urban infants when treated at children’s hospitals. Future work is needed to examine outcomes for infants treated outside children’s hospitals and to determine whether efforts are necessary to increase access to children’s hospitals.
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Authors: An Nguyen Tac , Van Nguyen Thanh
Published: July 2023

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