bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Preparing Students for Post-COVID Nursing Careers: The Value of International Clinical Placements
Authors: Gower Shelley , Duggan Ravani , Dantas Jaya A. R.
Published: April 2023

Background:

Prior to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, international clinical placements (ICPs) for nursing students were used to build cultural humility and global awareness. This study explored the influence of ICPs on nursing students' career planning and views of the nursing role; the findings were considered against the evolving pandemic context.

Method:

A qualitative, descriptive longitudinal study was conducted with 25 preregistration nursing students who participated in an international placement. Semistructured individual interview data were examined using thematic analysis.

Results:

Participants were interested in patient equity and empowerment, high acuity and variety, health policy, and primary care. Participants developed resilience and nursing confidence. They saw the effects of poor health equity and health policy decisions on population health.

Conclusion:

ICPs expanded participants' understanding of global interconnectedness and also identified new career possibilities. Postpandemic, nursing education should continue to maintain a global focus on health.

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J Nurs Educ
. 2023;62(4):207–214.]
Finding Innovative Strategies to Enhance Adjunct Faculty Support and Retention
Authors: Skinner Helen Machelle , McAtee Brooke , Huston Rachel
Published: April 2023

Background:

Nursing programs continue to use more adjunct faculty members to keep up with the demanding needs of the nursing workforce. Although various nursing programs use adjunct faculty, they differ in the available support and resources offered. A midwestern university offering postlicensure online nursing programs developed an adjunct teaching model to aid teaching requirements.

Method:

The authors proposed innovative strategies the nursing programs could use to enhance adjunct support and retention.

Results:

The integration of onboarding, orientation, and mentorship processes enhanced adjunct faculty support and overall retention within the programs.

Conclusion:

The need for nursing adjunct faculty is expected to continue, and programs must be prepared to use innovative strategies to support them. The use of the outlined onboarding, orientation, and mentorship processes are vital in supporting adjunct job satisfaction and retention.

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J Nurs Educ
. 2023;62(7):408–411.]
Stability of Vancomycin and Ceftazidime With Prolonged Storage at −20°C
Authors: Halperin Scott J. , Greenblatt David J. , Prenner Jonathan L. , Fine Howard F.
Published: April 2023

Background and Objective:

Vancomycin and ceftazidime are commonly used intravitreal antibiotics for suspected bacterial endophthalmitis. Many retina surgical practices prepare aliquoted individual doses in syringes that are then stored frozen for future use, but this practice has not been well studied. This investigation aims to examine the stability of frozen vancomycin and ceftazidime.

Materials and Methods:

Samples of drugs were reconstituted monthly and placed in a −20°C freezer. At the end of 3 months and again at 6 months, a newly reconstituted drug constant was created and compared to a newly created reference sample. The frozen samples were compared to a freshly produced drug solution. Using high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), the peak heights were compared to evaluate stability.

Results:

The vancomycin reference sample was 100 ± 1.67%. Values over time were 97.4 ± 0.75%, 98.8 ± 0.44%, 102.1 ± 0.4%, 100.5 ± 0.12%, 101.8 ± 0.12, 101.5 ± 0.11, and 100.6 ± 1.87 for 1, 2, 3(A), 3(B), 4, 5, and 6 months, respectively. The ceftazidime reference sample was 100 ± 1.8%. Values over time were 100.7 ± 1.78%, 100.0 ± 1%, 102.3 ± 1.55%, 117.5 ± 11.6%, 112.8 ± 1.64%, 123 ± 2.8%, and 117 ± 2.5% for 1, 2, 3(A), 3(B), 4, 5, and 6 months, respectively.

Conclusion:

Both vancomycin and ceftazidime were stable over 6 months under frozen conditions at −20°C.

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Ophthalmic Surg Lasers Imaging Retina
2023;54:281–283.]
Gli ordini mendicanti e la Commedia fra Tre e Quattrocento
Authors: Fiorentini Luca , Parisi Diego
Published: April 2023

La prima parte del saggio analizza due episodi significativi della più antica ricezione della Commedia in ambito religioso, gli antichi commenti dei cosiddetti Anonimo Lombardo e Anonimo Teologo. L’analisi congiunta dei due apparati notulari si giustifica alla luce della tradizione manoscritta comune (i due testi viaggiano sempre insieme) e di una comune formazione culturale, genericamente religiosa per il Lombardo, specificamente domenicana per il Teologo. Il problema del rapporto tra fictio e verità nella poesia dantesca, così come affrontata dai primi esegeti di estrazione mendicante, Guido da Pisa in particolare, e laica, su tutti Benvenuto da Imola, costituisce l’asse portante della seconda parte del saggio.
Médecine et astrologie dans deux anthologies rhétoriques mendiantes de la fin du XVe siècle
Authors: Caby Cécile
Published: April 2023

Partant de deux discours d’éloge de la médecine et de l’astrologie composés par l’Augustin Ambrogio Massari, et publiés ici pour la première fois, l’article propose une réflexion sur la pénétration des pratiques humanistes, notamment oratoires, dans les ordres mendiants dans l’Italie du XVe siècle. Après une présentation du contexte de production des discours et des modalités de leur transmission manuscrite, il s’agit d’étudier les traits spécifiques de leur structure rhétorique et de leur contenu afin de préciser pourquoi et comment ces discours académiques trouvent leur place dans la production et dans le parcours intellectuel d’un frère mendiant italien de la fin du Moyen Âge.
Catholic Church Interiors in Fin-de-Siècle Literature
Authors: Masurel-Murray Claire
Published: April 2023

The works of such late-Victorian writers as Lionel Johnson, Ernest Dowson, Theodore Wratislaw, John Oliver Hobbes and Oscar Wilde represent Catholic churches as retreats set apart from the ugliness and mediocrity of Victorian England—religious versions of Des Esseintes’s Fontenay-aux-Roses house in À rebours—filled with incense, organ music, and coloured light filtering through medieval stained-glass windows. In Dowson’s correspondence or in his poem ‘Benedictio Domini’, in Johnson’s ‘Our Lady of France’, in Wratislaw’s ‘Palm Sunday’ and ‘Songs to Elizabeth’, in some of Wilde’s stories, the opposition between inside and outside expresses figuratively the fundamental incompatibility between an ideal of beauty, embodied in the aesthetic experience of the church, and the coarseness of the outside world. This article explores how such a polarised vision reflects contemporary debates about the interior organisation and decoration of churches. Drawing on William Whyte’s analyses of changing attitudes towards church architecture in the 19th century in Unlocking the Church: The Lost Secrets of Victorian Sacred Space (OUP 2017), it shows how literary representations of church interiors in fin-de-siècle literature reflect the shift from the Protestant aniconic, congregation-centred approach to church design, in favour of an architecture of affect and sensation, where space and ornamentation lead the worshipper to experience the divine through a sensory overload. It focuses on two aspects of church architecture and decoration that are foregrounded in fin-de-siècle poetry and fiction—and were highly polemical in the late Victorian context because of their association with the Ritualist controversy and with ‘Romishness’: the eastward position, i.e. the celebration of the Eucharist on a stone altar fixed to the back of the chancel rather than on a wooden communion table facing the congregation; and altar candles, which were condemned in anti-ritualist pamphlets as both pagan and ‘popish’. Through these two examples, this article argues that fin-de-siècle literary representations of church interiors reflect a major change in the perception of sacred space, from the ‘auditory church’ (Whyte) of the 18th century, where function (essentially focused on the proclamation of the word of God) dictated the organisation of space and even the furnishings, to the ‘visual church’, saturated with symbolism, where the eye, rather than the ear, becomes the central organ of religious experience.
Dualities of Function: Archaeological Approaches to the Study of Movement and Space within the late‒Victorian Department Store
Authors: Morris Kate
Published: April 2023

Department stores, in the second half of the nineteenth century, can be characterised as spaces with multiple functional identities. Retailers aimed to maximise potential sales through a combination of innovative display, modernised architecture, and the curation of customers’ movement, which promoted increased sales opportunities by assistants. In large stores, where sales figures were the only indicator of success, assistants were under pressure to ‘never allow a lady to leave without a sale’. Women, however, were inclined to view department stores as leisure spaces, respectable enough to be visited without an escort. This duality of function, with department store interiors existing simultaneously as sales floor and leisure space, appears to have resulted in tension between sales staff and customers. Drawing on the extensive literature focused on spatial archaeologies of eighteenth-century retail interiors, this article considers the department store as an extension of earlier shopping practice, drawing links between the private pseudo-domestic parlours of the Georgian shop and the refreshment rooms of the department store. It is shown that the creation of subdivided interiors allowed for the separation of retail and leisure space, allowing for the easing of tension between staff and customer, and demonstrating a continuation of the retail owner as peer and host for the customer.
The Author Inside: Celebrity Photography 1840‒1902
Authors: Doussot Audrey
Published: April 2023

L’invention puis le succès de la photographie au dix-neuvième siècle a révolutionné l’art du portrait. Dès ses débuts, elle attire de nombreux écrivains qui se font immortaliser grâce aux techniques successives du daguerréotype, de la carte-de-visite et autres procédés gagnant en praticité qui permettent bientôt à la photographie de sortir du studio professionnel pour explorer l’espace privé. En effet, alors que la photographie suscite l’enthousiasme, un intérêt grandissant pour les célébrités du monde littéraire amène les photographes à produire des images montrant les écrivains dans leur environnement habituel, voire privé. Certaines de ces images sont même destinées à une diffusion dans le grand public en étant incluses dans des publications ou commercialisées à titre d’objet de collection. Dès lors, la représentation de l’espace intérieur dans les portraits photographiques d’auteurs contribue clairement à la construction de la figure de l’écrivain en tant que personnage public et figure socioculturelle. Ce qui peut, à première vue, apparaître comme une simple toile de fond ornant le portrait d’une personne est en réalité révélateur de l’élaboration de l’identité littéraire d’un auteur à travers l’image. Certains portraits de Charles Dickens ou George Bernard Shaw, par exemple, témoignent de l’importance de la mise en scène et des accessoires dans la construction de l’image d’un écrivain, notamment lorsqu’il s’agit de représenter son intérieur comme une possible matérialisation de sa personnalité et de sa psychologie, suggérant ainsi que l’espace dans lequel évolue et crée un écrivain peut se lire comme un prolongement de son intériorité d’individu.
Lounging Men, Standing Women: Pose and Posture in the Aesthetic Interior
Authors: Hayes Richard W.
Published: April 2023

A key moment in Henry James’s 1881 novel The Portrait of a Lady occurs when the story’s heroine, Isabel, enters the drawing room in her Roman palazzo to find her husband Gilbert Osmond seated and their guest Madame Merle standing. As several commentators have noted, Osmond violates codes of gentlemanly conduct by remaining seated while the woman stands. The simple detail of the figures’ postures criticises Osmond for his lapse in manners and adumbrates the fact that it is Madame Merle who exerts power over the novel’s main characters. The incident connects with other scenes that align Osmond, an aesthete, with furniture, cushions, and domestic décor as well with the bodily positions of sitting and resting. As Isabel observes of her husband, ‘he has a genius for upholstery’. James continues his focus on posture in his novel on the Aesthetic Movement, The Tragic Muse (1890). Published the year before Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, the novel is set, like Wilde’s, in the two most characteristic milieux of British Aestheticism: an artist’s studio and a theatre. James tells intertwined stories of a painter, Nick Dormer, and an actress, Miriam Rooth. The characters who visit Dormer’s studio are repeatedly described as lounging and reclining; ‘lolling’ is James’s preferred descriptor. Rooth, by contrast, is typically perpendicular: ‘preferring to stand’, she commands attention by a studied management of ‘the plastic quality of her person’. I propose to take a leaf from James’s attention to bodily disposition—pose and posture—to analyse interiors created during the Aesthetic Movement. My focus is on E. W. Godwin, foremost architect of Aestheticism, who is known for the artists’ houses and studios he designed in London in the 1870s and 1880s. To what extent do James’s descriptions of bodily positions in Dormer’s studio—and Wilde’s similar attention to deportment in Basil Hallward’s studio—bear similarities with Godwin’s actual interiors? Are the gender disparities underlined by James reflected in Godwin’s designs as well?
Arnold Bennett’s Naturalistic and Democratic Interiors in The Old Wives’ Tale (1908)
Authors: Mellet Laurent
Published: April 2023

We know the terms in which Virginia Woolf dismissed Edwardian writers for relying exclusively on materialism. However, another take on Arnold Bennett’s specific approach to objects and interior spaces is made possible by a reappraisal of his naturalistic method. This type of Edwardian fiction reveals a political agenda buoyed up by an empirical narrative praxis. Drawing on Bennett’s The Old Wives’ Tale (1908), we show that Edwardian literary interiors turn into literary tools from which considering oneself, the others and the world out there, differently. Interiors in this novel should be read in spatial, physical, and narrative terms, since Bennett invents new modes of dwelling in order to endow his characters with new ways of narrating themselves. The Baines sisters literally and literarily are the place they inhabit, to the point of being unaware of any distinction between inside and outside. The main narrative strategy of the book is inflected by a centripetal movement that makes us move down and within various forms of interior places and narratives, in which interiority leads to unexpected intimate moments. Seeing, understanding and taming interior places so as to assert oneself narratively and intimately: such is the gist of Bennett’s democratic literary proposition. This is how his naturalism based on an empirical art of the narrative and a surprising use of interior monologue gestures towards a democratic opening of literature in which doorframes, windows and thresholds help us reconsider the aesthetic and political meanings of interiority.
Gothic Fault-Lines in Anne Brontë’s Social Fiction: The Case of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)
Authors: Hervouet Isabelle
Published: April 2023

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Anne Brontë’s second novel, has always been the object of much scholarly attention, particularly as regards what was originally thought to be a structural flaw: the use of a frame narrative within which the story of Helen Huntingdon’s flight from a disastrous marriage is embedded. The frame narrator, Gilbert Markham, tells a traditional courtship tale which abruptly turns into Helen’s metanarrative of domestic horror. Recent scholarship has concerned itself with this split in discourse which suggests that Brontë does not challenge the conventional idea that discursive authority is masculine, making it therefore difficult to read her novel as feminist. Studies alternately focus on Brontë’s bold enterprise (the vindication in the metanarrative of a woman’s right to leave an abusive husband) or on the limitations generated by her decision to resort to a male frame narrator. This paper addresses the implications of the novel’s apparently flawed structure, notably exploring the uncertainty surrounding the improvement of Gilbert’s moral character after his reading of Helen’s diary. It contends that critical disagreement on whether or not The Tenant is a feminist novel and the embedded narrative the instrument of Gilbert’s reformation, originates, at least partially, in the generic tension at work within Brontë’s novel, and the presence of Gothic fault-lines. Anne Brontë appears unwilling to espouse realism and social criticism which, if fully embraced, might imply forgoing valued (and cherished) Gothic modes of storytelling. The uneasy co-existence of social realism and Gothic remnants (prominent in the choice of structure and modes of characterisation) may then lie at the heart of the novel’s multi-faceted ambiguity.
Influence of Reaction Temperature on Yields of Multi-Walled CNTs Synthesized with Fe-Co/Al2O3 Bimetallic Nanocatalyst
Authors: Sukhbaatar Enkhtor , Battulga Nomin Erdene , Ragchaa Galbadrakh , Tsendsuren Tsog Ochir , Dashzeveg Rentsenmyadag , Sambuu Munkhtsetseg , Dembereldorj Uuriintuya , Ganbold Erdene-Ochir
Published: April 2023

Aluminum-supported iron and cobalt (Fe-Co/Al2O3) bimetallic nano-sized catalyst has been synthesized by the sol-gel method. The average diameter of the Fe-Co/Al2O­3 catalyst was measured to be around 7 nm from SEM images. EDX measurements revealed that Fe-Co/Al2O­3 consists of 59.98% of Al, 20.00% of Fe, and 20.02% of Co by atomic weight. Multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) were prepared with as-synthesized nanocatalyst from a commercial butane gas by the CCVD method at different reaction temperatures. TEM and XRD measurements revealed that Fe-Co/Al2O3 bimetallic nano-sized catalyst is beneficial to fabricating MWCNTs by the CCVD method. The highest yield of MWCNTs was obtained at 690°C.
Silver Nanoparticles for Ultrasonic Assisted Synthesis of Oxidant Agents in Micro-Reactor: Kinetic Analysis and Process Intensification
Authors: Razzaq Ghassan Hassan Abdul , Hamad Khaleel I. , Humadi Jasim Ibrahim
Published: April 2023

Chemical engineering frequently uses "process intensification" to consciously combine various phenomena or procedures. By treating the molecules in such a system in a way that every single molecule experiences the same processing, the selectivity is raised, enhancing productivity. For mass transfer limited reactions, the enhancement of the transport rates & the specific interfacial area are the typical approaches. These enable the reduction of diffusion path length, reduce hold-up and improve the controlling on temperature control, even for highly exothermic reactions. Micro reactor technology (MRT) is a subset of process intensification that aims to reduce the size of equipment, energy consumption, and waste generation. The research of peracetic acid (PAA) and perform acid (PFA) preparation is the focus of the current investigation. Amberlite IR-120H catalyst was used to study the synthesis of PAA and PFA in batch and micro-structured reactors while ultrasonic irradiations were present.. The current research describes a method for synthesizing both compounds in a batch and micro-structured reactors, with and without ultrasonic irradiation. Such a technology might be crucial in the online synthesis of these chemicals as it eliminates the need for harmful components to be transported and stored, assuring safety among other benefits. For these substances, various safety characteristics could be improved.
Nanopowders Created by Irradiating Brass with Relativistic Electrons
Authors: Khartaeva Erzhena , Bardakhanov S.P. , Nomoev Andrey V. , Zobov Konstantin V. , Trufanov Dmitriy Yur'yevich
Published: April 2023

The paper deals with changes in the stoichiometry of nanopowders obtained under staged irradiation of a brass ingot placed in a graphite crucible. Composite core-shell CuO/ZnO nanoparticles, copper nanoparticles, and copper and zinc oxides were obtained. The use of a relativistic electron accelerator is necessary to produce nanopowders on an industrial scale. Transmission electron microscopy and energy-dispersive analysis of the obtained nanoparticles were carried out. Thermodynamic calculation of the temperature dependence of the equilibrium content of copper and zinc is presented for the condensed and gas phases. The formation mechanism of CuO/ZnO composite nanoparticles is discussed.
Development and Investigation of the Properties of a Heat-Protective Coating Containing Active Components with an Endothermic Effect
Authors: Aldebenev N.S. , Toneev I.R. , Zhuravleva E.S. , Demoretsky D.A.
Published: April 2023

The work discusses the problem of development of a heat-protective coating for objects of various purposes which are subjected to the external high-temperature impact. As a solution of the problem the application of heat-absorbing components providing the thermal barrier effect conducing to refraction of heat flows directed to heating of the protected object in the recipe of a heat-protective coating is presented. Temperature conditions of the protected object are provided due to the endothermic reaction which passes in the heat-protective layer by reaching the temperature of the selected component decomposition. Besides, the temperature of the heat absorption reaction has to be lower than the lesion temperature of the protected object.
Microstructure Observation around Hardness Transition Area of Repeated Induction Heated S45C Shaft
Authors: Nakasone Yuki , Xiang Li , Mizobe Koshiro , Matsueda Takahiro , Kida Katsuyuki
Published: April 2023

It had been reported that repeated induction heating process decreased the prior austenite grain size and refined the martensitic structure of JIS SUJ2 samples. In the present work, we compared hardness values and structures of hard surface and soft core of three-times repeated induction heated and once tempered (IH Q3T1) JIS S45C steel bar specimen and once induction heated and once tempered (IH Q1T1) bar. Structures consist of three areas: Hard; Transition; and Soft Core Areas. Martensite, ferrite and martensite, and ferrite and pearlite were observed at the Hard, Transition, and Soft Core Areas. From these observations, it was found that ferrite ratio increased with depth from the surface, and repeated induction heating had little effect on the hardness distribution and internal structure.
Investigation of the Pipeline Coating Properties Degradation to Increase the Energy Efficiency of the Cathodic Protection Stations
Authors: Aginey R.V. , Kapachinskikh Zh.Yu. , Isupova E.V.
Published: April 2023

In this paper, it is proposed to investigate the influence of the parameter providing the rate of pipeline coating degradation on the protective length of cathodic protection systems (CPS). Comparison of the calculated values of the pipeline coating resistance with the predicted values is carried out according to the theoretical distribution of the pipeline coating resistance in time. The difference between the practical value of the parameter providing the rate of coating degradation of the considered pipeline section from the predicted one is determined. The dependence of the parameter providing the rate of pipeline coating degradation on the protective length of the CPS has been formed, which makes it possible to reduce the number of cathodic protection stations along the pipeline path at the design stage, and to diminish their energy consumption in the electrochemical protection system from corrosion of oil and gas pipelines.
L’applicazione topica di preparati galenici a base di cannabinoidi nel trattamento del dolore in ulcere cutanee croniche degli arti inferiori: case reports
Authors: Polignano Roberto , Gatto Roberta , Ruffino Irene , Pavanelli Alessandra , Falciani Francesca
Published: April 2023

Le ulcere cutanee croniche degli arti inferiori costituiscono una patologia invalidante e sono accompagnate, spesso, da dolore intenso. Colpiscono soprattutto gli anziani e costituiscono una situazione di estremo disagio per la qualità di vita del paziente. Il dolore da procedura rappresenta un evento particolarmente temuto e stressante per il paziente, spesso, associato ad ansia e paura. Ai fini della modulazione e della riduzione del dolore, durante la medicazione delle ulcere degli arti inferiori, il trattamento topico a base di cannabinoidi rappresenta una scelta innovativa. Uno studio canadese (Maida & Corban) ha mostrato risultati promettenti dopo applicazione topica di cannabis su pazienti affetti da pioderma gangrenoso. Ci siamo quindi proposti di condurre uno studio sul trattamento di ulcere cutanee degli arti inferiori dolenti, con due tipi di preparati galenici a base di cannabinoidi. Sono stati trattati 3 Pazienti, nei quali l’olio di Cannabis Flos (19-22% THC; CBD<1%), ha mostrato una buona efficacia nella riduzione della sintomatologia dolorosa e nella riduzione dell’assunzione di analgesici.
Removable sets for Newtonian Sobolev spaces and a characterization of $p$-path almost open sets
Authors: Björn Anders , Björn Jana , Lahti Panu
Published: April 2023

We study removable sets for Newtonian Sobolev functions in metric measure spaces satisfying the usual (local) assumptions of a doubling measure and a Poincaré inequality.In particular, when restricted to Euclidean spaces, a closed set

E \subset \mathbb{R}^n

with zero Lebesgue measure is shown to be removable for

W^{1,p}(\mathbb{R}^n \setminus E)

if and only if

\mathbb{R}^n \setminus E

supports a

p

-Poincaré inequality as a metric space. When

p>1

, this recovers Koskela’s result (
Ark. Mat.

\mathbf{37}

(1999), 291–304), but for

p=1

, as well as for metric spaces, it seems to be new. We also obtain the corresponding characterization for the Dirichlet spaces

L^{1,p}

. To be able to include

p=1

, we first study extensions of Newtonian Sobolev functions in the case

p=1

from a noncomplete space

X

to its completion

\hat X

. In these results,

p

-path almost open sets play an important role, and we provide a characterization of them by means of

p

-path open,

p

-quasiopen and

p

-finely open sets. We also show that there are nonmeasurable

p

-path almost open subsets of

\mathbb{R}^n

,

n \ge 2

, provided that the continuum hypothesis is assumed to be true. Furthermore, we extend earlier results about measurability of functions with

L^p

-integrable upper gradients, about

p

-quasiopen,

p

-path open and

p

-finely open sets, and about Lebesgue points for

N^{1,1}

-functions, to spaces that only satisfy local assumptions.
Factorization of the normalization of the Nash blowup of order $n$ of $\mathcal{A}_{n}$ by the minimal resolution
Authors: Chávez-Martínez Enrique
Published: April 2023

We show that the normalization of the Nash blowup of order

n

of the toric surface singularity

\mathcal{A}_{n}

can be factorized by the minimal resolution of

\mathcal{A}_{n}

. The result is obtained using the combinatorial description of these objects.
Patocenoza a COVID-19. Konteksty środowiskowe i kulturowe pandemii w Polsce
Authors: Chwieduk Agnieszka , Jeszke Jaromir , Polak Beata Anna , Trzoss Adrian
Published: April 2023

Pathocenosis and COVID-19. Enviromental and cultural contexts of the pandemic in Poland In the paper the socially significant issue of the relationship between the course of the COVID-19 pandemic and the discourses about the disease was addressed, their infl uence on social attitudes towards pandemic and how in the spoken debates the patocenotic thinking (Mirko Grmek paradigm on relation between pathogens and pandemics and other dependencies e.g. social, economic, cultural) is presented. The analysis covered three main fields of discourses: 1) scientific-expert (reports of Polish Academy of Sciences, articles of polish medical society), 2) patient-expert (medical advice portals), 3) bottom-up and non-expert discourses (social media). The determinations were made on the errors in both public communication and expert discourse, functioning of technicized and medialized medical advice portals, emotional dimension of discourses in social media, as well as polarization of all those fields.
75 lat polskiej medycyny i farmacji we Wrocławiu (1945–2020). Wybrane elementy historii wrocławskich wyższych uczelni. Część druga (1950–2011)
Authors: Płonka-Syroka Bożena
Published: April 2023

75 yeart of Polish medicine and pharmacy in Wrocław. Selected elements from the history of higher education in Wrocław. Part two (1950–2011)

Professional training in medicine and pharmacy hat begun in Wrocław by the 1945. The Faculty of Medicine was created within the structure of Wrocław University and Wrocław Universite of Science and Technology. In 1950, a specialized medical school was developed from University, functioning briefl u under the name the Medical Academy (which was changed to the Academy of Medicine), with an independent Faculty of Pharmacy. In 1979, the Medical Analytics Department was established within the Faculty of Pharmacy. In 1978, the Faculty of Nursing was created which was transformed into the Faculty of Public Health in 2001 and into the Faculty of Health Sciences in 2008. Starting in 1989, the school was called the Academy of Medicine in Wrocław (Akademia Medyczna im. Piastów Śląskich). In 1992 the Post-Graduate Faculty of Medicine was distinquished from the Faculty of Medicine, In 2000 the Department of Dentistry was transformed into the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry. As a part of the school, liberal arts and social studies connected with medicine were also developed in units located within the structure of various departments of the AM. The Academy existed in Wrocław until 2011 when the decision was made to transform it into Wrocław Medical University (Uniwersytet Medyczny im. Piastów Śląskich we Wrocławiu), functioning until now. The article presents the major stages in the history of medical schools in Wrocław after 1945. The second part discusses the history of Academy of Medicine in the years 1950–2011.
Free-living Heterotrophic Flagellates (Protista) from Two Hypersaline Lakes in Turkey
Authors: Aydin Esra Elif , Lee Won Je
Published: April 2023

This study was carried out in two hypersaline lakes (Acı and Meke Lakes) in Turkey to understand the diversity and geographic distribution of free-living heterotrophic flagellates. Heterotrophic flagellates of hypersaline environments have not previously been studied in Turkey. We found seventeen morphospecies of heterotrophic flagellates with one unidentified protist. The observed species belong to Craspedida, Heterolobosea, Apusomonadida, Neobodonida, Bicosoecida and Protista incertae sedis. Of the 17 species, ten species were new records for Turkey. All of the morphospecies described here except one unidentified protist were previously reported elsewhere and appear to be cosmopolitan.
Teatr dla wszystkich? Spór o rolę Teatru Miejskiego na tle dyskusji społeczno-politycznych w Kaliszu lat trzydziestych XX wieku – zarysowanie problematyki
Authors: Tabaka Anna
Published: April 2023

Theatre for All? A Clash Over the Role of Municipal Theatre in Kalisz Framed Within the Socio-Political Discussions of the 1930s. A Reconnaissance In this short essay – proposing an outline of the research in progress – Author offers several questions regarding the interwar reconstruction and functions of the municipal theatre building in Kalisz. What kind of socio-political message was conducted in the Neoclassical architecture of this ediffice, designed by Czesław Przybylski in 1919 and then in the 1930s refurbished and redesigned (interiors) by Juliusz Żórawski in modernist and streamline design? What kind of educated subject, a new Pole, was the subject for theatre perceived as a medium of education and political tool in this middle-seized interwar Polish town? Who attended the auditorium and who was expected to attend and why? Author explores preliminary press and archival sources, focusing on the (mostly unexplored by historians of Kalisz) discourse of nationalism and even chauvinism that fueled several aspects of the debate around the municipal theatre and its roles in Kalisz.
Sztuka (nie)znanych kobiet. Scenografka Aniela Wojciechowska w świetle unikatowych źródeł ze zbiorów specjalnych Książnicy Pedagogicznej im. A. Parczewskiego w Kaliszu
Authors: Celer Bogumiła
Published: April 2023

Art of (un) famous women. Set designer Aniela Wojciechowska in the light of unique historic collection of the Alfons Parczewski Pedagogical Library in Kalisz

The article is and attempt to get acquainted with the creative output of Aniela Wojciechowska, Polish set designer. Material traces related to Wojciechowska are kept, among others, in the special collections of the Alfons Parczewski Pedagogical Library in Kalisz. These materials, donated to the library by Fr. Andrzej Gładysz, became part of the legacy of the Wiłkomirski family collection. Aniela Wojciechowska was the daughter of Kazimierz Wiłkomirski (1900-1995), a world-famous musician, cellist, conductor, composer and teacher. Her work as a set designer remains mostly forgotten.
PROXIMATE ANALYSIS AND MINERAL DETERMINATION OF Calliandra surinamensis SEED
Authors: Irabor E. E. I. , Eze P. N. , Unuigbe C. A. , Imafidon M. I. , Omoruyi U. , Emmanuel V.
Published: April 2023

Proximate composition (moisture, carbohydrate, protein, ash, fat and fibre) and mineral composition (K, Na, Ca, P, Mg, Se, Fe, Cu and Zn) of Calliandra surinamensis seed were determined using standard methods. The % moisture content obtained was (12.80 ± 0.04), % carbohydrate (59.81 ± 0.07), % crude protein (5.95 ± 0.70), % ash (2.63 ± 0.20), % crude fat (4.74 ± 0.17), % crude fibre (14.07 ± 1.33). The mineral content that was analysed in the seed in mg/kg were; K (13.72 ± 1.09), Na (9.50 ± 1.53), Ca (36.92 ± 0.55), Mg (27.50 ± 0.61), Se (0.28 ± 0.11), Fe (0.78 ± 1.29), Cu (0.09 ± 0.08), Zn (0.49 ± 0.10) and P (1.79± 0.07). The result revealed that Calliandra surinamensis seed has a good shelf-life, high carbohydrate content, moderately and acceptable values for crude protein and lipid. The seed was found to be rich in macro mineral elements of calcium, magnesium, sodium and with a higher potassium content compared to sodium.The sodium to potassium ratio (Na+/ K+ 0.69) fell within the range (Na/K ≤1.0) recommended by World Health Organization for prevention of cardiovascular diseases. The seed is also a good source of essential micro mineral elements of iron, selenium, zinc and copper which can aid the development of cell tissues. Therefore, composition of Calliandra surinamensis seed from this study suggests that it would be beneficial for both domestic and industrial applications as complementary food source.
Identity in Britain
Authors: Thomas Bethan , Dorling Daniel
Published: April 2023

Danny Dorling and Bethan Thomas have brought together this outstanding atlas to provide us with a unique visual picture of identity and geography combined. Identity in Britain explores our changing identities as we progress from infancy to old age and tells the story of the myriad geographies of life in Britain.
Shoot to Kill
Authors: Punch Maurice
Published: April 2023

This book provides a fresh, accessible and much-needed overview of a neglected and widely misunderstood area for students, academics, police and criminal justice officials, policy makers, politicians and for members of the public concerned about police use of fatal force.
A Novel Fast Approach for Protein Classification and Evolutionary Analysis
Authors:   School of Science, Minzu University of China, Ai Liang , Feng Jie ,   School of Science, Minzu University of China, Yao Yu Hua ,   School of Science, Minzu University of China
Published: April 2023

In this paper, we propose a new fast alignment-free method for protein sequence similarity and evolutionary analysis. First 20 natural amino acids are clustered into 6 groups based on their physicochemical properties, then a 12-dimensional vector is constructed based on the frequency and the average position of occurrence of amino acids in each reduced amino acid sequences. Finally, the Euclidean distance is used to measure the similarity and evolutionary distance between protein sequences. The test on three datasets shows that our method can cluster each protein sequence accurately, which illustrates the effective of our method.
Analysis of the impact of the coronovarus pandemic on the agricultural industry of the East Kazakhstan region and its innovative potential
Authors: Kaldybaeva D. O. , Moldakenova Ye. K. , Utegenova Zh. S.
Published: April 2023

The crisis caused by the spread of COVID-19 coronavirus in the world has led to global changes in almost all spheres of human activity, including food production and agriculture. This article analyzes the impact of the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic on the level of development of agricultural enterprises in the East Kazakhstan region. Particular attention is paid to the level of change in the production of major food products in kind and in money terms for the last 11 and 12 months of this year compared to the same period last year. It was revealed that the impact of the coronary crisis on the agrarian industry led to some decrease, but this impact was small, and there was even an improvement in some types of products. There is a high increase in food prices, the reason for which is both the increase in costs of enterprises and the changes that occurred in the consumer market, which are associated with the transformation of customer preferences and the psychology of food purchases. The article also pointed out various opportunities for the use of innovation potential and digital technologies in the agricultural sector, which emerged during the crisis, and gave their predictive assessment. There is a high increase in food prices, the cause of which is both an increase in the costs of enterprises and changes in the consumer market. which are associated with the transformation of customer preferences and the psychology of product purchases. The article also identified various opportunities for using innovative potential and digital technologies in the agricultural sector that arose during the crisis and gave them a predictive assessment.
Main problems of food processing enterprises and ways to solve them
Authors: Alipbeki O. A. , Zhenshan D. , Turekeldieva R. T. , Karbozov T. E.
Published: April 2023

The stability and security of the food system directly affects the socio-economic factors necessary for the survival of people. The purpose of the study is to provide the main mechanisms for its development and effective organization, conducting a scientific study of current problems in food processing enterprises of Kazakhstan. In order to analyze the current state of development of processing enterprises in the country applied the methods of statistical and economic, analytical, comparative analysis. To summarize the result obtained, systematic, monographic, and constructivist approaches were used. The article analyzes the prices of socially important food products in Kazakhstan for 2016– 2022, by socially important types of products for 2016–2022. The differences between the volume of production per capita and the rate of food consumption per capita have been studied. In addition, possible ways of solving the problem of food security of the country in the coming years are considered. In order to adequately provide the population with socially important types of food, it is important to strengthen the work of processing enterprises with the support of the state, taking into account the level of specialization of the regions. This proposal will simultaneously solve several problems in the country: a unique tool in improving the quality of products and the formation of price stability, increasing the share of domestic products on the domestic market, increasing export potential, creating a stable source of income for the rural population, an effective way to market products at favorable prices for farmers and small farms, the effective use of science and technology for agricultural specialists, high possibility of linking production.
Problems and prospects of the technological entrepreneurship: experience of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Authors: Nuralim A. E. , Niyetalina G. K.
Published: April 2023

Today, in order to develop the innovation and technology sector in Kazakhstan, work is underway to create favorable conditions for the development of technological entrepreneurship. The development of technopreneurship implies the existence an effective national innovation system transforming new knowledge into new technologies, products, and services. The volume of innovative products is declining; one of the main reasons is the lack of connection between science and production. Innovative entrepreneurship is underdeveloped, hence technological entrepreneurship is underdeveloped. Innovative passivity is 89.5% that is the result of internal and external factors. In the scientific community, most studies focus on external factors, but in this study, the authors recommend paying attention to the importance of in-depth study of internal factors (personal experience and cultural characteristics). The purpose of the scientific article is to identify problems and prospects for the development of technological entrepreneurship in the Republic of Kazakhstan. To conduct the study, the authors used the method of descriptive statistics, based on data from the Agency for Strategic Planning and Reforms of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The authors applied basic statistical procedures for data analysis, analysis of basic statistics and logical analysis. The key aspects of the development of technological entrepreneurship in the Republic of Kazakhstan, highlighted by the authors, are the development of innovative ties, the knowledge economy and high-tech production. Thus, the article analyzes the level of development and factors hindering the development of technological entrepreneurship and offers recommendations that contribute to their minimization.
Analysis of the formation of enterprise development strategy and its competitive positions
Authors: Zhanassilova A. T. , Mukina G. S. , Sultanova M. B. , Aidaraliyeva A. A.
Published: April 2023

The purpose of the study in the article is to consider new approaches to the formation of an enterprise development strategy (using the example of furniture production in the Pavlodar region). In particular, the purpose of the study is to assess the competitive position of the enterprise, based on the use of the method of expert assessments, taking into account the spatial model (Space Model) and factors of the internal and external environment. Approaches to the formation of an enterprise development strategy include determining the methods for formulating a strategy and the results of their application. When obtaining the initial data, the study used the method of expert assessments, including quantitative and qualitative research methods based on a questionnaire. The initial data was collected using a survey composed of preapproved questions using a six-point scale, the SPACE model was used, which allows determining the most optimal type of development strategy for the enterprise, taking into account the parameters of the external environment and the state of the internal environment. The authors also propose the following strategies for intensive growth: the first is a strategy for expanding the boundaries of the market; the second is a deep market penetration strategy.
Modern methods of increasing transparency and quality of the state apparatus formation process
Authors: Abdanbekov A. A. , Buralkiyeva B. B. , Kassymzhanova A. A.
Published: April 2023

The formation of a professional state apparatus is one of the main tasksset by our authorities. According to the previous experience, reforming the selection process at civil service without proper transparency cannot ensure objective and quality recruitment. The issue of finding and hiring candidates with appropriate competencies and high motivation, as well as increasing the motivation of current employees is of particular relevance today. The main purpose of the work is to develop proposals to improve the transparency and quality of the personnel selection process in the civil service on the basis of a study of the existing system. According to the authors’ predictions, increasing the role of the institute of observers and the use of coaching technologies in the selection process will help to improve the quality and transparency of personnel selection. The authors examine problematic issues in the formation of the state apparatus, focusing on its transparency. In the course of the study, the authors interviewed both the experts who form public service policies and the public servants involved in their implementation. At the same time, an analysis of normative legal acts was conducted. Based on the results of the work, recommendations for improving the transparency of the selection to the civil service were developed, and a mechanism for identifying and selecting motivated employees through the use of modern technologies was considered.
Research of the effectiveness of launching functionality in mobile applications based on big data
Authors: Khegay E. L. , Essimzhanova S. R.
Published: April 2023

The issues of increasing the success of launching a new feature in mobile applications are quite acute, especially during the post-pandemic period, as a result of the implementation, development and improvement of technologies. This period of time has shown how much the market and consumer behavior has changed in terms of using mobile applications. This article discusses the definitions and issues of application and user engagement. The process of consumer engagement is described in detail. From the theoretical perspective, the concept of lean production, first described by Eric Rice, was studied and analyzed, and later was applied in practice at Innoforce, which is the developer of the mobile application called “Avtobys”. The survey method was chosen as the research method. A user base has been assembled for conducting interviews. Several semi-structured interviews with users were conducted to compile and test the questionnaire. The feedback received from the test group allowed us to change the wording of some questions. With the help of the company’s official resources, a call for the study was published. The development of the new feature took 3 weeks of working time. After one month a comparative analysis of the level of engagement, the number of engagement events per user and an analysis of the effectiveness of the concept was carried out. The results were obtained about the effectiveness of the lean manufacturing methodology using databases and business intelligence systems. As a final result, not only economic effect, but also an increase in engagement, events and key application metrics from the application of this concept in production was obtained. This work will help businesses to launch more successful functionalities in mobile applications with low production cost risks.