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Analyzing the Engagement of Social Relationships during Life Event Shocks in Social Media
Authors: Choi Minje , Jurgens David , Romero Daniel M.
Published: June 2023

Individuals experiencing unexpected distressing events, shocks, often rely on their social network for support. While prior work has shown how social networks respond to shocks, these studies usually treat all ties equally, despite differences in the support provided by different social relationships. Here, we conduct a computational analysis on Twitter that examines how responses to online shocks differ by the relationship type of a user dyad. We introduce a new dataset of over 13K instances of individuals' self-reporting shock events on Twitter and construct networks of relationship-labeled dyadic interactions around these events. By examining behaviors across 110K replies to shocked users in a pseudo-causal analysis, we demonstrate relationship-specific patterns in response levels and topic shifts. We also show that while well-established social dimensions of closeness such as tie strength and structural embeddedness contribute to shock responsiveness, the degree of impact is highly dependent on relationship and shock types. Our findings indicate that social relationships contain highly distinctive characteristics in network interactions, and that relationship-specific behaviors in online shock responses are unique from those of offline settings.
Non-polar Opposites: Analyzing the Relationship between Echo Chambers and Hostile Intergroup Interactions on Reddit
Authors: Efstratiou Alexandros , Blackburn Jeremy , Caulfield Tristan , Stringhini Gianluca , Zannettou Savvas , De Cristofaro Emiliano
Published: June 2023

Previous research has documented the existence of both online echo chambers and hostile intergroup interactions. In this paper, we explore the relationship between these two phenomena by studying the activity of 5.97M Reddit users and 421M comments posted over 13 years. We examine whether users who are more engaged in echo chambers are more hostile when they comment on other communities. We then create a typology of relationships between political communities based on whether their users are toxic to each other, whether echo chamber-like engagement with these communities has a polarizing effect, and on the communities' political leanings.

We observe both the echo chamber and hostile intergroup interaction phenomena, but neither holds universally across communities. Contrary to popular belief, we find that polarizing and toxic speech is more dominant between communities on the same, rather than opposing, sides of the political spectrum, especially on the left; however, this mostly points to the collective targeting of political outgroups.
Information Retention in the Multi-Platform Sharing of Science
Authors: Hwang Sohyeon , Horvát Emőke-Ágnes , Romero Daniel M.
Published: June 2023

The public interest in accurate scientific communication, underscored by recent public health crises, highlights how content often loses critical pieces of information as it spreads online. However, multi-platform analyses of this phenomenon remain limited due to challenges in data collection. Collecting mentions of research tracked by Altmetric LLC, we examine information retention in the over 4 million online posts referencing 9,765 of the most-mentioned scientific articles across blog sites, Facebook, news sites, Twitter, and Wikipedia. To do so, we present a burst-based framework for examining online discussions about science over time and across different platforms. To measure information retention, we develop a keyword-based computational measure comparing an online post to the scientific article's abstract. We evaluate our measure using ground truth data labeled by within field experts. We highlight three main findings: first, we find a strong tendency towards low levels of information retention, following a distinct trajectory of loss except when bursts of attention begin in social media. Second, platforms show significant differences in information retention. Third, sequences involving more platforms tend to be associated with higher information retention. These findings highlight a strong tendency towards information loss over time---posing a critical concern for researchers, policymakers, and citizens alike---but suggest that multi-platform discussions may improve information retention overall.
Online Emotions during the Storming of the U.S. Capitol: Evidence from the Social Media Network Parler
Authors: Jakubik Johannes , Vössing Michael , Pröllochs Nicolas , Bär Dominik , Feuerriegel Stefan
Published: June 2023

The storming of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 has led to the killing of 5 people and is widely regarded as an attack on democracy. The storming was largely coordinated through social media networks such as Twitter and "Parler". Yet little is known regarding how users interacted on Parler during the storming of the Capitol. In this work, we examine the emotion dynamics on Parler during the storming with regard to heterogeneity across time and users. For this, we segment the user base into different groups (e.g., Trump supporters and QAnon supporters). We use affective computing to infer the emotions in content, thereby allowing us to provide a comprehensive assessment of online emotions. Our evaluation is based on a large-scale dataset from Parler, comprising of 717,300 posts from 144,003 users. We find that the user base responded to the storming of the Capitol with an overall negative sentiment. Akin to this, Trump supporters also expressed a negative sentiment and high levels of unbelief. In contrast to that, QAnon supporters did not express a more negative sentiment during the storming. We further provide a cross-platform analysis and compare the emotion dynamics on Parler and Twitter. Our findings point at a comparatively less negative response to the incidents on Parler compared to Twitter accompanied by higher levels of disapproval and outrage. Our contribution to research is three-fold: (1) We identify online emotions that were characteristic of the storming; (2) we assess emotion dynamics across different user groups on Parler; (3) we compare the emotion dynamics on Parler and Twitter. Thereby, our work offers important implications for actively managing online emotions to prevent similar incidents in the future.
Contextualizing Online Conversational Networks
Authors: Magelinski Thomas , Carley Kathleen M.
Published: June 2023

Online social connections occur within a specific conversational context. Prior work in network analysis of social media data attempts to contextualize data through filtering. We propose a method of contextualizing online conversational connections automatically and illustrate this method with Twitter data. Specifically, we detail a graph neural network model capable of representing tweets in a vector space based on their text, hashtags, URLs, and neighboring tweets. Once tweets are represented, clusters of tweets uncover conversational contexts. We apply our method to a dataset with 4.5 million tweets discussing the 2020 US election. We find that even filtered data contains many different conversational contexts, with users engaging in multiple conversations. While users engage in multiple conversations, the overlap between any two pairs of conversations tends to be only 30-40%, giving very different networks for different conversations. Even accounting for this variation, we show that the relative social status of users varies considerably across contexts, with tau=0.472 on average. Our findings imply that standard network analysis on social media data can be unreliable in the face of multiple conversational contexts.
On the Relation between Opinion Change and Information Consumption on Reddit
Authors: Petruzzellis Flavio , Bonchi Francesco , De Francisci Morales Gianmarco , Monti Corrado
Published: June 2023

While much attention has been devoted to the causes of opinion change, little is known about its consequences. Our study moves a first step in this direction by looking at Reddit, and in particular to the subreddit r/ChangeMyView, a community dedicated to debating one’s own opinions on a wide array of topics. We analyze changes in online information consumption behavior that arise after a self-reported opinion change, by looking at the participation to a set of sociopolitical communities. We find that people who self-report an opinion change are significantly more likely to change their future participation in a specific subset of those communities. Specifically, there is a significant association (Pearson r = 0.46) between using propaganda-like language in a community and the increase in chances of leaving it. Comparable results (Pearson r = 0.39) hold for the opposite direction, i.e., joining these same communities. In addition, the textual content of the post associated with opinion change is indicative of which communities will be joined or left: a predictive model based only on the text of this post can pinpoint these communities with an average precision@5 of 0.20. Our results establish a link between opinion change and information consumption, and highlight how online propagandistic communities act as a first gateway to internalize a shift in one’s sociopolitical opinion.
Reddit in the Time of COVID
Authors: Veselovsky Veniamin , Anderson Ashton
Published: June 2023

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, much of life moved online. Platforms of all types reported surges of activity, and people remarked on the various important functions that online platforms suddenly fulfilled. However, researchers lack a rigorous understanding of the pandemic's impacts on social platforms---and whether they were temporary or long-lasting. We present a conceptual framework for studying the large-scale evolution of social platforms and apply it to the study of Reddit's history, with a particular focus on the COVID-19 pandemic. We study platform evolution through two key dimensions: structure vs. content and macro- vs. micro-level analysis. Structural signals help us quantify how much behavior changed, while content analysis clarifies exactly how it changed. Applying these at the macro-level illuminates platform-wide changes, while at the micro-level we study impacts on individual users. We illustrate the value of this approach by showing the extraordinary and ordinary changes Reddit went through during the pandemic. First, we show that typically when rapid growth occurs, it is driven by a few concentrated communities and within a narrow slice of language use. However, Reddit's growth throughout COVID-19 was spread across disparate communities and languages. Second, all groups were equally affected in their change of interest, but veteran users tended to invoke COVID-related language more than newer users. Third, the new wave of users that arrived following COVID-19 was fundamentally different from previous cohorts of new users in terms of interests, activity, and likelihood of staying active on the platform. These findings provide a more rigorous understanding of how an online platform changed during the global pandemic.
Unique in What Sense? Heterogeneous Relationships between Multiple Types of Uniqueness and Popularity in Music
Authors: Yu Yulin , Cheung Pui Yin , Ahn Yong-Yeol , Dhillon Paramveer S.
Published: June 2023

How does our society appreciate the uniqueness of cultural products? This fundamental puzzle has intrigued scholars in many fields, including psychology, sociology, anthropology, and marketing. It has been theorized that cultural products that balance familiarity and novelty are more likely to become popular. However, a cultural product's novelty is typically multifaceted. This paper uses songs as a case study to study the multiple facets of uniqueness and their relationship with success. We first unpack the multiple facets of a song's novelty or uniqueness and, next, measure its impact on a song's popularity. We employ a series of statistical models to study the relationship between a song's popularity and novelty associated with its lyrics, chord progressions, or audio properties. Our analyses performed on a dataset of over fifty thousand songs find a consistently negative association between all types of song novelty and popularity. Overall we found a song's lyrics uniqueness to have the most significant association with its popularity. However, audio uniqueness was the strongest predictor of a song's popularity, conditional on the song's genre. We further found the theme and repetitiveness of a song's lyrics to mediate the relationship between the song's popularity and novelty. Broadly, our results contradict the "optimal distinctiveness theory'' (balance between novelty and familiarity) and call for an investigation into the multiple dimensions along which a cultural product's uniqueness could manifest.
VaxxHesitancy: A Dataset for Studying Hesitancy towards COVID-19 Vaccination on Twitter
Authors: Mu Yida , Jin Mali , Grimshaw Charlie , Scarton Carolina , Bontcheva Kalina , Song Xingyi
Published: June 2023

Vaccine hesitancy has been a common concern, probably since vaccines were created and, with the popularisation of social media, people started to express their concerns about vaccines online alongside those posting pro- and anti-vaccine content. Predictably, since the first mentions of a COVID-19 vaccine, social media users posted about their fears and concerns or about their support and belief into the effectiveness of these rapidly developing vaccines. Identifying and understanding the reasons behind public hesitancy towards COVID-19 vaccines is important for policy markers that need to develop actions to better inform the population with the aim of increasing vaccine take-up. In the case of COVID-19, where the fast development of the vaccines was mirrored closely by growth in anti-vaxx disinformation, automatic means of detecting citizen attitudes towards vaccination became necessary. This is an important computational social sciences task that requires data analysis in order to gain in-depth understanding of the phenomena at hand. Annotated data is also necessary for training data-driven models for more nuanced analysis of attitudes towards vaccination. To this end, we created a new collection of over 3,101 tweets annotated with users' attitudes towards COVID-19 vaccination (stance). Besides, we also develop a domain-specific language model (VaxxBERT) that achieves the best predictive performance (73.0 accuracy and 69.3 F1-score) as compared to a robust set of baselines. To the best of our knowledge, these are the first dataset and model that model vaccine hesitancy as a category distinct from pro- and anti-vaccine stance.
Capturing the Aftermath of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization Decision in Google Search Results across the U.S.
Authors: Perreault Brooke , Dau Lan , Wintner Anya , Mustafaraj Eni
Published: June 2023

How do Google Search results change following an impactful real-world event, such as the U.S. Supreme Court decision on June 24, 2022 to overturn Roe v. Wade? And what do they tell us about the nature of event-driven content, generated by various participants in the online information environment? In this paper, we present a dataset of more than 1.74 million Google Search results pages collected between June 24 and July 17, 2022, intended to capture what Google Search surfaced in response to queries about this event of national importance. These search pages were collected for 65 locations in 13 U.S. states, a mix of red, blue, and purple states, with respect to their voting patterns. We describe the process of building a set of circa 1,700 phrases used for searching Google, how we gathered the search results for each location, and how these results were parsed to extract information about the most frequently encountered web domains. We believe that this dataset, which comprises raw data (search results as HTML files) and processed data (extracted links organized as CSV files) can be used to answer research questions that are of interest to computational social scientists as well as communication and media studies scholars.
Blast resistance of RC columns for varied detonation scenarios: Effect of shear detailing
Authors: Anjani K. K. , Kumar Manish
Published: June 2023

The growing threat of accidental and malevolent blast loading to building structures has necessitated the consideration of blast-resistant design. Columns are the most vulnerable and critical component of a building, so they must be designed against blast to achieve defined performance goals. The influence of transverse rebar detailing on the ultimate capacity and failure modes of rectangular reinforced concrete (RC) columns against blast loads was investigated under different detonation scenarios. The performance of the columns was quantified using the failure charge mass and post-blast residual axial capacity. Pressure–impulse diagrams were used to study the failure modes. The analyses showed that special transverse detailing measures were the most effective for columns subjected to near-field surface bursts. The confinement of concrete due to ties and axial restraint played a critical role in improving the blast performance of columns. The provision of diagonal rebar improved the blast resistance by preventing direct shear failure, and was most effective when coupled with closely spaced lateral ties. Finally, the performance of code-compliant columns against blast was studied to determine the blast safety margin and the scenarios under which it would be necessary to undertake blast retrofitting of the columns in existing critical buildings.
Energy-optimal control of intelligent track inspection trains: design and experiment
Authors: Zhao Xinxin , Guo Xu , Azad Nasser L. , Yang Jue
Published: June 2023

A new energy-efficient control strategy for intelligent track inspection trains (ITITs) was developed and its effectiveness evaluated. A sufficiently simple state-space model for a real ITIT is introduced in this paper. This model was used to formulate and solve a constrained optimisation problem to determine the vehicle's optimal speed profile using the pseudo-spectral method to achieve the highest energy savings. A model predictive control (MPC) scheme was then used to create a controller to follow the resulting optimal speed trajectory as closely as possible. The results obtained from co-simulation between a high-fidelity model of the ITIT built within the Amesim software program and the MPC scheme developed in the Matlab/Simulink software environment showed that the optimal speed trajectory was tracked very well when the MPC scheme was applied to the vehicle's high-fidelity model. During the co-simulations, the energy consumption in terms of the battery's state of charge (SOC) changes for the MPC-based optimal speed trajectory following was around 6% less than that for a conventional non-optimal cruise controller. Moreover, in an experiment with a real ITIT, the energy consumption in terms of the SOC changes for the non-optimal cruise controller was 5% more than that for the MPC-based optimal speed trajectory following.
Hz. Osman’ın Hilafeti ve Yönetim Anlayışına Getirilen Eleştiriler
Authors: Fırat Nurullah
Published: June 2023

Hz. Ömer’in hilafeti döneminde; devletin sınırları genişlemiş, halkın refah düzeyi artmış, yönetimin işlevselliği için kurumsallaşma faaliyetleri yürütülmüştür. Hz. Ömer’in bir suikast girişimi ile ağır yaralanması sonucu tayin ettiği Şûra heyetinin halife olarak seçtiği Hz. Osman dönemi ise, tartışmaların odağında olmuştur. On iki yıllık hilafetinin özellikle ikinci yarısında ortaya koyduğu uygulamalar, aldığı kararlar ve yaptığı atamalar ile eleştirilere maruz kalmıştır. Uyguladığı bu yönetim anlayışı; zamanla siyasi, sosyal ve ekonomik sorunların oluşmasına zemin hazırlamış, ortaya çıkan fitne ve isyanlar neticesinde şehit edilmesi ile sonuçlanan elim olayların yaşanmasına sebep olmuştur. Akrabalarının, kanı üzerinden yürüttüğü siyaset ise siyasi çekişmeleri ve mezhep ayrışmaları beraberinde getirmiştir.
Ecuador: racismo y discriminación étnica en el vaivén de la política pública
Authors: Oviedo Oviedo Alexis
Published: June 2023

El racismo en Ecuador es una herencia colonial que se manifiesta de diversas formas y en los diversos estamentos de su sociedad. Diferentes instancias gubernamentales han hecho esfuerzos para sanar, desde disímiles perspectivas, las heridas raciales. En este artículo se analizan las políticas públicas contra el racismo desarrolladas por el Gobierno ecuatoriano durante los mandatos de los expresidentes Rafael Correa (2007-2017) y Lenín Moreno (2017-2021), a fin de comprender cómo estas políticas han incidido en cambios estructurales a favor de la población afroecuatoriana y si han modificado el comportamiento racista en el país. La evidencia empírica se basa en entrevistas semiestructuradas realizadas a intelectuales y dirigentes, que pertenecen al pueblo afroecuatoriano y ocuparon dignidades de representación popular. Estas interpretaciones son contrastadas con las políticas realizadas durante los períodos de gobierno señalados. Los hallazgos también se apoyan en una revisión histórica de la construcción racial ecuatoriana y de su política pública. Se concluye que, aunque las políticas han transformado ciertos aspectos de la vida social ecuatoriana, por ejemplo, la normativa, aún no inciden decisivamente a favor de la población indígena y afroecuatoriana.
Future temperature-related excess mortality under climate change and population aging scenarios in Canada
Authors: Hebbern Christopher , Gosselin Pierre , Chen Kai , Chen Hong , Cakmak Sabit , MacDonald Melissa , Chagnon Jonathan , Dion Patrice , Martel Laurent , Lavigne Eric
Published: June 2023

Objective

Climate change is expected to increase global temperatures. How temperature-related mortality risk will change is not completely understood, and how future demographic changes will affect temperature-related mortality needs to be clarified. We evaluate temperature-related mortality across Canada until 2099, accounting for age groups and scenarios of population growth.

Methods

We used daily counts of non-accidental mortality for 2000 to 2015 for all 111 health regions across Canada, incorporating in the study both urban and rural areas. A two-part time series analysis was used to estimate associations between mean daily temperatures and mortality. First, current and future daily mean temperature time series simulations were developed from Coupled Model Inter-Comparison Project 6 (CMIP6) climate model ensembles from past and projected climate change scenarios under Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs). Next, excess mortality due to heat and cold and the net difference were projected to 2099, also accounting for different regional and population aging scenarios.

Results

For 2000 to 2015, we identified 3,343,311 non-accidental deaths. On average, a net increase of 17.31% (95% eCI: 13.99, 20.62) in temperature-related excess mortality under a higher greenhouse gas emission scenario is expected for Canada in 2090–2099, which represents a greater burden than a scenario that assumed strong levels of greenhouse gas mitigation policies (net increase of 3.29%; 95% eCI: 1.41, 5.17). The highest net increase was observed among people aged 65 and over, and the largest increases in both net and heat- and cold-related mortality were observed in population scenarios that incorporated the highest rates of aging.

Conclusion

Canada may expect net increases in temperature-related mortality under a higher emissions climate change scenario, compared to one assuming sustainable development. Urgent action is needed to mitigate future climate change impacts.
Sectioning of Mouse Brain by Microtome v1
Authors: not provided maryana.nissan
Published: June 2023

This protocol describes how to use the microtome to prepare and slice mouse brain sections for Immunohistochemistry
PARP inhibitors in colorectal malignancies: A 2023 update v1
Authors: SKOUTERIS NIKOLAOS
Published: June 2023

Background: Colorectal carcinoma (CRC) is one of the most common malignancies in the Western world, and metastatic disease is associated with a dismal prognosis. Poly-ADp-ribose polymerase (PARP) inhibitors gain increasing attention in the field of medical oncology, as they lead to synthetic lethality in malignancies with preexisting alterations in the DNA damage repair (DDR) pathway. As those alterations are frequently seen in CRC, a targeted approach through PARP inhibitors is expected to benefit these patients, both alone and in combination with other agents like chemotherapy, immunotherapy, antiangiogenics and radiation. Methods: In this review, we discuss the rationale for the use of PARP inhibitors in CRC, based on preclinical evidence and data arising from current clinical trials. Furthermore, the few relevant ongoing clinical trials are presented. Results: Current evidence supports the utilization of PARP inhibitors in CRC subgroups, as monotherapy and in combination with other agents. Up to now, data is insufficient to support a formal indication, and further research is needed. Conclusion: Efforts to precisely define the homologous repair deficiency (HRD) in CRC – and eventually the subgroup of patients that are expected to benefit the most – are also underway.
DNA extraction (BOMB) v2
Authors: Huang Yin-Tse
Published: June 2023

DNA extraction (BOMB)
Índice de sustentabilidade ambiental na atividade de avicultura na Região Extremo Oeste catarinense
Authors: Heberle Éder Luis , Vogt Kilian
Published: June 2023

O objetivo deste estudo foi de identificar o índice de sustentabilidade ambiental na atividade de avicultura das propriedades da região extremo oeste de Santa Catarina. Para tanto, a realização desta pesquisa ocorreu mediante o estudo teórico-empírico descritivo, com cunho de abordagem quantitativa, por meio do método survey, na qual se obteve a participação de 50 respondentes. Os resultados evidenciam que são os dejetos que mais estão em conformidade dentre os parâmetros, representado com 99% do total, água com 97,5%, queimada 100% e erosão com 96% da pontuação máxima. Já os elementos limitantes são a declividade do solo, representado por 56%, e uso da terra, equivalendo somente 25% da pontuação total a ser alcançada. Observou-se que os demais pontos avaliados necessitam de controle e adoção de práticas sustentáveis para assim se obter resultados melhores, permitindo que a atividade da avicultura seja realizada de forma correta na visão ambiental e economicamente viável.
Landslide hazard prediction and impact on comminity: main approaches, principles and methods
Authors:   Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine, Ivanik O. , Shevchuk V. ,   Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine, Kravchenko D. ,   Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine, Hadiatska К. ,   Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine
Published: June 2023

The problem of predicting the landslide hazard is a priority area of research in the field of assessment of risks and natural disasters, which requires a comprehensive in-depth analysis of the factors of landslide formation, as well as the synthesis of existed theorethical and empiric data for a full understanding of the problem of landslide hazard and comprehensive assessment of its impact on community. The presented research is aimed at the development, implementation, and application of a comprehensive methodology for predicting landslide hazards and assessing their impact on the infrustructure. The research was carried out within the framework of national and international projects with the partiсipation of international
partners from universities in France, Austria and Great Britain. The methodology of regional landslide hazard prediction for different structural regions of Ukraine is based on the methods of spatial modelling and aims at the landslide susseptibility mapping, creating multifactorial spatial models. As a result of a comprehensive analysis of landslide factors and spatial modelling integrated landslide hazard maps were created. These maps provide an opportunity to comprehensively assess the landslide hazard for different regions. Methods of local prediction of landslide hazard based on the application of a rational complex of geological, physical, remote, thermographic studies, and deterministic modelling enable to identify the main features and potential activity of landslide processes within landslide-prone areas and suggest preventive measures for risk mitigation. Examples of the integrated methodology applications for landslide hazard prediction within model sites in Kaniv and Kyiv regions are given. The concept of informing people about the potential geohazards was given.
Geodynamic evolution of the Caspian megadepression and adjacent territories
Authors:   Azerbaijan State of Oil and Industry University, Baku, Azerbaijan, Aliyeva S.
Published: June 2023

The South Caspian Basin (SCB) is the deepest submerged sedimentary basin in the World and occupies the entire southern deep-water part of the Caspian Sea and the Kura and West Turkmenian lowlands adjacent to it from the west and east. The SCB has the thinnest (6...8 km) consolidated oceanic-type crust and the thickest sedimentary cover (25...30 km). The thickness of the Pliocene-Quaternary deposits is 10...12 km. The thickness of the main oil and gas complex – Productive-Red-Colored Strata of the Lower Pliocene is 7 ... 8 km. More than 6 km of volcanic-sedimentary deposits accumulated within the Lesser Caucasian trough at the Mesozoic stage of development. However, in the western part of the trough the translucent pre-Jurassic basement which has a northeastern orientation formed a similar orientation of the overlying deposits. All of the above mentioned events took place under conditions of compression in the north of SCB which were realized at the level of the consolidated crust by subduction, and at the level of the sedimentary cover by structure forming processes. Primary migration passes into the lateral from the submerged zones to the uplifted ones. Deep faults that have formed transverse folding can also serve as migration routes. The submerged predominantly gas-bearing depositional zone of the Productive Strata is represented by folding of both Caucasian and anti-Caucasian strike. Despite the fact that the Kura-South-Caspian depression at the present stage covers the territory from the Dziruly massif in the west to the West Turkmenian depression in the east inclusive as a single negative structural element, in the Mesozoic time as follows from the above it represented two independent areas of subsidence and sediments accumulation in the Transcaucasian microcontinent (western part) and the Greater Caucasian-South Caspian rift basin (eastern part). Therefore, the anti-Caucasian folding of the Kura-South Caspian depression has a different genesis and naturally a different oil and gas potential.
Geophysics of pedosphere in Kyiv University
Authors:   Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine, Sukhorada А. , Menshov О. ,   Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine, Bondar К. ,   Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine, Kruglov O. ,   NSC "Institute for Soil Science and Argochemistry Research n. a. O.N. Sokolovskiy", Kharkiv, Ukraine, Khomenko R. ,   Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine, Popov S. ,   Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine
Published: June 2023

The development of studies of geophysics of pedosphere in Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv over the past thirty years is considered. The pedosphere is a unique and extremely informative object for the geophysical research. The physical and chemical properties of the objects within the pedosphere are related to the mineral deposits, soil science processes, anthropogenic influence during agricultural production, environmental pollution, paleogeographic processes, the history of human development as an archaeological heritage. In Ukraine, the study of soil magnetism began in the 90s of the 20th century in Kyiv University on the basis of the Student Design and Research Bureau. At the present moment, the investigation of all the initiated processes continues. The understanding of the physical foundations of the method is essential. The magnetic mineralogy of soils is investigated depending on the conditions of formation or introduction: pedogenesis, technogenesis, influence of hydrocarbons, etc. The new data at the same time verify the already existing theory, as well as deepen the not yet known aspects of the study of the pedosphere, raise new challenges to researchers. Analyzes are carried out both at the macro level within agricultural fields, urban agglomerations, oil and gas-bearing regions, and at the micro level for the smallest soil aggregates (pedon), magnetic minerals, magnetoactive domains, etc. The results of magnetic, magnetometric, electrometric and ground-penetrating radar studies in various spheres of the national economy are given.
Factors Associated with Depression among Middle Aged Adults in Their 40s and 50s
Authors:   Research Institute For Life And Culture Sogang University, Yang Sonam
Published: June 2023

The purpose of this study is to examine factors affecting depression among middle aged adults in their 40s and 50s. This study used the 2020 Gyeonggi Provincial Life Quality Survey data and selected 7,644 adults in their 40s and 50s out of a total of 16,000 respondents. Hierarchical multiple regression was conducted. For study results, being female, being older, and having higher education were associated with higher level of depression. Perceiving higher socioeconomic status and being employed were associated with lower the level of depression. As for health related factors, higher level of stress and having had suicidal thoughts increased the level of depression. As for social environmental factors, higher family satisfaction, higher social relationship satisfaction, and having person who provided help were statistically associated lower level of depression. Based on these results, implications about reducing the level of depression for the middle aged adults were discussed.
What Do We Need? Accommodations in the Workplace: People with Lupus Share Their Work Experiences
Authors: Calderon Orly , Giffords Elissa D. , Kane Kaycee
Published: June 2023

This article discusses disability inclusion in the workplace. It identifies barriers and makes recommendations to help meet employment needs of people with disabilities, utilizing lupus as an example.  A convergent mixed method design study examined the workplace experiences and needs of individuals with lupus.  Availability sampling yielded 1,776 participants from across the United States. The results revealed 69% of the respondents reported lupus symptoms had a negative impact on their employment and 48% of the participants reported needing help or accommodations in the workplace.  An inductive thematic content analysis with an inter-coder agreement ranging from 71% to 73%, yielded 4 themes encompassing issues related to productivity, interpersonal relationship in the workplace, and adjustments in work responsibilities and work environment, respectively. The results suggest that training programs about the American with Disability Act may have a positive impact on organizational functioning. Employers have a responsibility to maintain a flexible work environment whenever possible to address variability in employees’ needs. Employers and employees should engage in ongoing discussions that seek to identify the accommodations that will help employees with disabilities meet their workplace responsibilities and to enhance their contribution to the organization.  Managers and administrators are encouraged to create an environment that values a diverse workforce, including persons with disabilities.
Adaptive Neural-Fuzzy controller design combined with LQR to control the position of gantry crane
Authors: Van Dinh Do
Published: June 2023

As the world grows, the demand for transporting goods is increasing, the number of goods in factories and ports is increasing, to transport all these goods, cranes are indispensable. In fact, currently, crane rigs working in factories and ports operate with low stability, when working or the phenomenon of swaying of the load occurs, leading to inaccurate positioning, loss of safe transportation of goods. To overcome these shortcomings, the paper proposes the design of a neural-fuzzy adaptive controller combined with an LQR controller (ANFIS-LQR) to control the forklift's position in the shortest time to achieve the desired exact position. At the same time, we want to control the deflection angle of the load so that the vibration when working is minimal. To check and evaluate the quality and stability of the system; the proposed design controller is simulated on MATLAB/Simulink software in the case of changes in system parameters and noise affecting the gantry crane system. To evaluate the superiority of the paper compared with published works, the author compares ANFIS-LQR with other published control methods such as DE-PID, Fuzzy-PD, Fuzzy dual and Fuzzy sliding, the simulation results show that the neural-fuzzy adaptive controller combined with the proposed LQR controller works well t_xlvt=2.1s , t_xlgt=3.5s, 0max=0.3(rad).
Thriving with Support: The Continued Journey of Persons with Down Syndrome.
Authors: Peters Vincent
Published: June 2023

Down syndrome (DS), often caused by trisomy 21, is the most common form of intellectual disability among newborn infants worldwide 1 . Differences in annual live births have been observed per continent: around 17,000 annual live births of children with DS have been estimated in Europe 2 , around 5,100 annual live births of children with DS have been estimated in the US3, and around 300 annual live births of children with DS have been estimated in Australia and New Zealand 4 . The presence of prenatal screening and elective terminations has negatively influenced the live birth rates of children with DS. The availability and accessibility of prenatal testing (like non-invasive prenatal testing) and genetic counselling certainly have a current and future impact on the number of live births with DS 5 . In addition, there is a risk of the routinization of prenatal screening, where parents are no longer facilitated to make informed decisions based on their own moral and practical considerations, but family members, relatives, and friends alike, implicitly or explicitly expect that parents will choose prenatal screening, diagnostic testing, and, perhaps the termination of pregnancy 6,7 . Such potential societal pressure may increase the effect of the availability of prenatal screening on the live birth rate of children with DS. Other factors - such as religious beliefs, economics, the complexity of society, changing maternal ages, cultural beliefs, and social norms - likely play additional roles. The anticipated quality of life for a person with DS might also be an essential consideration in the decision-making for some expectant parents 6 .
Dynamic Control Analysis of Internally Heat Integrated-Top Dividing Wall Column
Authors: Liu Jingjing , Chen Haisheng
Published: June 2023

Although The Dividing Wall Column (TDWC) with a top partition is an effective alternative for the separation of ternary mixtures dominated by the lightest component, it can be further intensified by introducing the Internal Heat Integration-The Dividing Wall Column (IHI-TDWC). However, strong internal mass and energy integration complicates the process dynamics and influences the system controllability. In the current work, a kind of decentralized temperature control scheme involving four temperature control loops is developed. The separation of the ternary mixture with methanol, ethanol, and n-propanol is chosen as an illustrative example to evaluate the controllability of the IHI-TDWC through open-loop and closed-loop dynamic process simulation. The results show that the IHI-TDWC keeps good rejection of the throughput and feed composition disturbances.
Endoplasmic reticulum stress involves the high glucose-induced nucleus pulposus cell pyroptosis
Authors: Xiong Xiaochun , Wu Ying , Long Hengguo , Liang Tianzi , Liang Wenqing , Huang Xiaogang , Li Guijin
Published: June 2023

Objective: Diabetes has been identified as a risk factor for intervertebral disc degeneration (IDD). The aim of this study is to investigate the potential mechanism underlying diabetes-related pyroptosis in nucleus pulposus (NP) cells. Methods: We used a high-glucose environment to mimic diabetes in vitro and examined the endoplasmic reticulum stress (ERS) and pyroptotic response. Furthermore, we utilized activators and inducers of ERS to explore the role of ERS in high-glucose-induced pyroptosis in NP cells. We evaluated the ERS and pyroptosis levels using immunofluorescence (IF) or RT-PCR and measured the expression of collagen II, aggrecan, and MMPs. Additionally, we used ELISA to determine the levels of IL-1β and IL-18 in the culture medium, and CCK8 assay to test cell viability. Results: High-glucose conditions promoted the degeneration of NP cells and triggered ERS and pyroptosis. A high level of ERS aggravated pyroptosis, and partially suppressing ERS resisted high-glucose-induced pyroptosis and alleviated the degeneration of NP cells. Inhibiting caspase-1-based pyroptosis under high-glucose conditions helped relieve the degeneration of NP cells but did not affect ERS levels. Conclusions: High-glucose induces pyroptosis in NP cells via the mediation of ERS, and suppressing ERS or pyroptosis protects NP cells under high-glucose conditions.
PLEBEIAN TRIBUNE PUBLIUS FURIUS: PROBLEMS OF HIS POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY
Authors:   State Academic University for the Humanities, Korolenkov A.V.
Published: June 2023

the article is devoted to some problems of Publius Furius’ political biography. The author accepts the opinion that Furius had been a plebeian tribune in 100 BC, not 99 BC. Furius offered the publicatio bonorum of L. Appuleius Saturninus, but we do not have any information that the proposal on the confiscation was implemented in spite of popular historiographical view. The author believes that there were two trials of Furius and not one as some historians presume. In the author’s opinion the reason why Furius was killed by the mob during the trial before the popular assembly (the unprecedented case) was that his enemies apprehended his acquittal.
AEOLIANS, AEOLIAN MIGRATION: ANCIENT TRADITION AND HISTORICAL REALITIES
Authors:   Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Solomatina E. I.
Published: June 2023

the article presents results of the study of the ancient tradition about the Aeolians in general and about the Aeolian migration as a part of this tradition. The ancient literary tradition in the process of its formation, starting from the first scattered references to the Aeolians and ending with data on the territory of settlement, common language, self-name and reasons for finding a new place of residence, included not only historical facts, but, mainly, the ideas of the Greeks about these facts and their interpretation. And although these ideas contain anachronisms and are not always confirmed by other types of sources, nevertheless, these notions are of high interest for study, as they characterize the society that gave rise to them, reflecting its needs for creating iconic myths and forming an identity at a certain stage of its formation.
RED-FIGURED AND BLACK-GLAZED POTTERY FROM KURGAN 2 OF THE KURGAN GROUP «TSEMENTNAYA SLOBODKA I»
Authors:   Lomonosov Moscow State University, Egorova T.V. , Il’yashenko S.M. ,   Lomonosov Moscow State University
Published: June 2023

during the study of the necropolis «Tsementnaya Slobodka I» on Ak-Burun Cape in the burial mound 2 the remnants of the funeral feast were found. It was seventeen attic red-figured and black-glazed vessels dated back to the 4th century BC. Fish-plate of Pierides painter and lekythos Talcott class, which were very rare for the Northern Black Sea Region, as well as red-figure pelike and ascos, were among them. In general, the complex has analogies in funeral feasts from the Hospital barrow, South-East Necropolis of Phanagoria and Necropolis of Nymphaeum.
Effect of nifedipine with and without sildenafil citrate for the management of preterm labor in pregnant women: A randomized clinical trial
Authors: Nasrolahei Shahla , Hoseini Seyedeh Arezoo , Hosseini Seyedeh Azadeh , Hosseini Seyedeh Narjes Khatoon , Hosseini Seyedeh Sahar , Lotfi Parsa Moradian
Published: June 2023

Background: Preterm labor is one of the main causes of neonatal mortality and its treatment is still challenging.
Objective: The study aimed to compare the effectiveness of nifedipine (Nif) with and without sildenafil citrate (SC) for the treatment of preterm labor in pregnant women.
Materials and Methods: In this clinical trial study, 126 pregnant women referred to the Fatemieh hospital, Hamadan, Iran with a complaint of preterm labor were evaluated. Participants were randomly divided into 2 groups of Nif 20 mg orally (single dose), then 10 mg every 6-hr, and at the same time vaginal SC 25 mg every 8 hr (Nif + SC) or Nif alone. Treatment was continued for 48-72 hr if uterine contractions did not resolve in both groups. Delivery rates at the time of hospitalization and neonatal outcome were compared between the 2 groups.
Results: No statistically significant difference was observed between the 2 study groups in terms of mean age, gestational age, body mass index, and parity. 76.2% of Nif + SC participants in the first 72 hr of hospitalization and 57.2% of Nif participants remained without delivery (p = 0.02). The neonatal hospitalization rate of the Nif + SC group in the neonatal intensive care unit was 25.4% and in the Nif group was 42.9% (p = 0.03).
Conclusion: Nif with SC is superior to Nif alone in women at risk of preterm labor due to increasing gestational age and better neonatal outcomes.
Key words: Nifedipine, preterm labor, Sildenafil citrate, Randomized trial.
Kerpiç Yapılarda Koruma Sorunu Olarak Deprem Etkileri
Authors: OLĞUN Tuba Nur , KARATOSUN Müjgan
Published: June 2023

Mimarlık yapı üretmeye yönelik eylemlerle birlikte, üretilmiş olanı korumaya dair çalışmaları da bünyesinde barındırmaktadır. Bu bağlamda mimarlıkta koruma uygulamaları, tarihi yapıları ve dokuları; doğal, sosyal ve kültürel pek çok değeri koruyabilmek adına yapılan etkinliklerle günümüzdeki hâlini almıştır. Bu değerler, aynı zamanda özgün ve doğal yapı malzemelerini de içine almaktadır. Bu malzemelerden biri de kerpiçtir. Yapı üretme eyleminin başladığı zamandan bugüne kadar en sık kullanılan ve en kolay ulaşılabilen malzemelerin başında kerpiç gelmektedir. Ancak kerpiç malzemenin kullanımı günümüze ulaşan süreçte giderek azalmış ve yıkıcı etkileriyle öne çıkan depremler, son yıllarda kerpiç mimari mirasa en fazla zarar veren afetlerden biri olmuştur. Bu bağlamda çalışmanın amacı, kerpiç malzemeli yapıların korunmasının önemini ortaya koymak ve buna engel teşkil eden bir koruma sorunu olarak depremin etkilerini irdelemektir. Bu kapsamda koruma kavramı-deprem ilişkisi araştırılmış; ardından Anadolu’da kerpiç yapı yoğunluğunun en fazla olduğu yerleşimlerden biri olan Malatya’daki kerpiç yapılardan çeşitli örnekler aktarılarak depremin bu yapılar üzerindeki etkileri koruma bağlamında değerlendirilmiştir. Çalışma yöntemi, ilgili kaynakların incelenmesi ve alan çalışmalarından oluşmaktadır. Çalışma sonucunda kerpiç yapıların depreme karşı dayanımının arttırılmasına yönelik çeşitli öneriler getirilmiş ve bu anlamda kerpiç mimari mirasın korunmasına katkı sağlamak hedeflenmiştir.