bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Nondestructive instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA) of Tecoma stans (L) Juss. Ex Kunth flower samples collected from different sites in Egypt
Authors: Ghamry Mohamed A. , El-Sweify Fatma H. , Abdou Fatma S.
Published: June 2022

Chemical and radiochemical studies have been carried out on flower samples of the plant Tecoma stans (L) Juss. Ex Kunth which is now increasingly cultivated all over Egypt because of its many useful properties. This plant is considered as an important source of many medicinal phytochemicals. The flower samples analyzed were collected from plants cultivated at different sites in some governorates in Egypt. Nondestructive instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA) technique has been performed in order to determine the inorganic elemental contents of these flower samples. INAA has been carried out under chosen irradiation and decay time conditions. Thus, the irradiations have been for under short and long times. The analyzed elements were: Ag, Al, Au, Br, Ca, Ce, Cl, Co, Cr, Cs, Eu, Fe, Hf, K, La, Lu, Mg, Mn, Na, Sb, Sc, Se, Sm, Th, Ti, U, V, Yb, and Zn. Some elements were major or minor elements whereas others were trace elements. 17 elements were found in all analyzed samples where others were only found in some samples. The determined concentrations of some of the analyzed elements were much higher than those found in soil or earth crust, which may indicate that these elements are important. Generally, plants have high tendency to concentrate elements from sites. On the other hand, some other elements are considered toxic, e.g. Ag, Br, Co, Cr, and Sb. Three certified slandered reference materials have been used to assure the accuracy and precision of the INAA technique; these are IAEA soil-7, IAEA 140/TM (seaweed) and IAEA-155 (whey).
Does Hyperbaric Oxygenation Improve Athletic Performance?
Authors: Šet Vida , Lenasi Helena
Published: June 2022

Šet, V, and Lenasi, H. Does hyperbaric oxygenation improve athletic performance? J Strength Cond Res 37(2): 482–493, 2023—Hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) has been suggested to affect oxygen availability and performance, and delay the onset of fatigue. Many mechanisms of HBO-induced alterations have been proposed, including modulation of various metabolic pathways, and the antioxidant defense mechanisms. As exercise per se affects similar aspects, it is tempting to speculate that simultaneous application of both, exercise and HBO might have synergistic effects. The aim of this review was to search through the currently available literature and evaluate the effect of acute exposure to HBO on exercise performance, potential effects of a combination of HBO and physical training, and to elucidate some possible mechanisms behind. We conducted searches in the PubMed and Scopus databases (search term: “hyperbaric” AND “oxygen” AND “exercise”) and in relevant hyperbaric textbook and assessed potentially eligible full texts for details. Meta-analysis could not be performed because of a few available and rather heterogeneous studies. Twenty-seven studies were included in the final assessment (14 on exercise during HBO, 9 on exercise following HBO, 4 on applying HBO during recovery and rest between exercise bouts, and 3 on a combination of HBO and training). The results are contradictory, showing either positive or none ergogenic effects. There is some risk of bias and placebo effect. Discrepant findings of the available studies might partly be explained by different protocols applied, both regarding HBO and exercise intensity and regimen. There is a need for further research with well-designed trials to evaluate the effect of HBO on performance before recommending it to routine use in athletes.
FPGA-Based Hierarchical Configuration Method for Conservation-Oriented Ecological Garden Landscape for a Smart City Development
Authors: Yu Jia , Yang Rui
Published: June 2022

More and more attention is paid to development and conservation at home. In response to national policies, this paper proposes a field-programmable gate array (FPGA)-based hierarchical configuration method for conservation-oriented ecological garden landscape to build sustainable ecological garden landscapes. Following the principles of uniformity, adapting measures to local conditions, and aesthetics in hierarchical configuration of conservation-oriented ecological garden landscape, this paper gives comprehensive consideration to examination factors and landscape plant rationality in hierarchical configuration and takes scenic beauty estimates to evaluate the plant landscape configuration effect. Under the guidance of hierarchical configuration principles and evaluation indicators for conservation-oriented ecological garden landscape, this paper adopts the FPGA partition algorithm to design the hierarchical conservation design model of the garden landscape. In the subsequent hierarchical configuration of ecological garden landscape, the lowest energy consumption is maintained, plant communities are reasonably collocated to achieve hierarchical configuration of the garden landscape, and energy consumption in the landscape is reduced through measures such as material and water conservation, thus achieving hierarchical configuration of conservation-oriented ecological garden landscape. Experimental research results of a forest park in Quanzhou conclude that this method can achieve hierarchical configuration of the ecological garden landscape in the forest park. Plant collocation is reasonable in the more aesthetic and concise landscape configuration. At the same time, the configuration process saves water resources and reduces energy consumption, demonstrating the advantage of low configuration costs.
The Relationship of International Human Rights Law with International Humanitarian Law in Situations of International Armed Conflicts
Authors: Lubis Muhammad Ikhsan
Published: June 2022

The existence between International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Law has a different feel from each other, though equally universal. As an example of mistreatment of prisoners of war committed by US Occupation Forces in Iraq, surely all countries say it is an international crimes (war crimes). This paper would discuss concerning how the relationship the International Human Rights with International Humanitarian Law in Situations of International Armed Conflicts. The paper argued that the relationship between human rights and humanitarian law can be distinguished but not separated. The principles of the UDHR can apply to the International Humanitarian Law, but some of the principles of the UDHR and limited humanitarian law apply in times of peace and times of armed conflict alone. Argued that the gap between International Humanitarian Law by the Human Rights bridged together through the enactment of the principles of human rights and humanitarian law principles that cannot be postponed.
Ultra Petita Decision of Constitutional Court on Judicial Review (The Perspective of Progressive Law)
Authors: Sasmito Hery Abduh
Published: June 2022

This research come up from the premise that in the execution of their duties during this time, the Constitutional Court issued many decisions by some legal experts considered break the limits of his authority. One is on a judicial review which contains ultra petita decisions. Regarding to that condition, some parties considered that the Court has acted as an institution that is authoritarian and violated its authority, but on the other hand, the Court instead declared itself as the guardian of democracy and substantive justice. Author argued that, the prohibition to use a doctrine of ultra petita for judge was not generally applicable. Through normative approach and systematic interpretation said that on Law concerning to Constitutional Court (MK, Mahkamah Konstitusi) or other MK decisions did not give any possibilities for Judge to make an ultra petita decision.
Politics of Law on Protection to Folklore in a Regional Autonomy Perspective: Rights for Indigenous People
Authors: Dilaga Auria Patria
Published: June 2022

The study of political law on protection of folklore with the perspective of regional autonomy is expected to be realized ideal protection. The problem in this research is why folklore needs to be protected in the perspective of regional autonomy and how the political law of folklore protection in the regional autonomy perspective. This research approach method using normative juridical approach method. The result of this research is folklore needs to be protected because it is part of the wealth of the Republic of Indonesia. Folklore needs to be protected in the perspective of regional autonomy because it is a work that was born and developed and preserved in their respective regions. The politics of law of folklore protection in the perspective of regional autonomy is by making technical implementation policy up to the level of local regulations for the benefit of folklore protection, one of them with the policy of inventory. The conclusions and suggestions in the research are folklore is a human work that must be protected especially in the perspective of regional autonomy and it is advisable to immediately pass a regulation on the protection of folklore.
Waiting List Patterns in the Implementation of Hajj: The Fulfillment of the Rights of the Congregation (Study of Central Java Province, Indonesia)
Authors: Prasetyo Arif
Published: June 2022

The purpose of this study was to determine patterns in the hajj waiting list by the Ministry of Religious Affairs Regional Office in Central Java, and the pattern of financial management of the waiting list in the pilgrimage by the Ministry of Religious Affairs Regional Office in Central Java in the view of Islamic economics. This research uses a qualitative method. Approach method used normative juridical. Data types are primary data types and secondary data types. Sources of data used are primary, secondary and tertiary data sources. Data analysis used is qualitative data analysis that is deductive. The results showed (1) the implementation of Hajj conducted by the Ministry of Religious Affairs of Central Java Regional Office actually only adjust to the provisions of the Ministry of Religious Affairs. (2) The pattern of financial management of the waiting list (Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MORA) Provincial/District just register and financial payments of hajj directly to account of religious ministry center. The conclusions of this study is the provision of Religious Affairs Center in the organization of the pilgrimage to the pattern waiting list quota of pilgrims in 2013 in Indonesia 211,000 people so discretion is divided 33 provinces in accordance with the Muslim population, while Java was getting quota 23 719 distributed in 35 counties and cities more than 678. The financial system is wadiah amanah, so that the system/how to finance work on the waiting list will not increase due to the result /loss.
How Should Student Behave? A Legal Ethics and Policy towards Nationalism and Anti-Radicalism Characters
Authors: Rodiyah Rodiyah , Laskarwati Batari , Masyhar Ali , Waspiah Waspiah
Published: June 2022

The university has become an important place in the cultivation of character for generations in many countries. Many universities in the world also apply a variety of systems in making policies to shape the character of campus communities, including students. This study aims to analyze legal and ethical policies for students in fostering an attitude of nationalism and anti-radicalism. This study also aims to describe the various forms of implementation of student ethics policies that are applied in the Faculty of Law, Semarang State University, Indonesia. This study uses a qualitative method with direct data collection through observation and interviews. This study bases its analysis on the theory of the operation of Lawrence M Friedman's law. The results of this study indicate that legal and ethical policies for students are interpreted by a variety of different interpretations both between managers and students. Various cases of inequality of perception lead to pros and cons. However, this research proves that the implementation of legal ethics and student character policies have been regulated in various rules, both at the national level (ministerial regulation), university level (rector regulation), and faculty level (dean regulation) all of which emphasize on forming attitudes nationalism and anti-radicalism.
Internet and Crimes: How the Law Responds to Internet Based Crimes? A Book Review of "Aspek Hukum Penipuan Berbasis Internet", Maskun & Wiwik Meilarati, CV Keni Media, Makassar, 2016, 238 Pages, ISBN 978-602-74375-5-5
Authors: Lemuel Yehezkiel
Published: June 2022

Various internet crimes such as cyberstalking, internet fraud, website scam, cyber aggression, cyber espionage, and child pornography are new types of crime that have evolved from various types of conventional crimes such as fraud and theft which previously could only be done physically have been switched by using only the internet. This book is expected to be academically useful for undergraduate students and the general public who want to find out about cybercrime and internet fraud specifically. With this kind of situation, it is needed a strong legal basis of law to not just ensure the people's comfort and safety in using the internet but also to crack down the perpetrators assertively so that this action will not be repeated in the future.
Understanding the Contents of Indonesian Civil Law: A Book Review Perkembangan Hukum Perdata di Indonesia, Sudikno Mertokusumo, Genta Publishing Yogyakarta, 2019, 206 Pages, ISBN 978-602-0757-08-7
Authors: Azhari Reyhan Nabillah
Published: June 2022

The Book titled is Perkembangan Hukum Perdata Di Indonesia (Development Of Civil Law In Indonesia). Written by Sudikno Mertokusumo, SH., MS. Published by GENTA PUBLISHING in 2019 and this book is the First Printing. The book mainly talk about How far is the Civil Law Evolve from times to time in Indonesia.
Criminal Policy of Adultery in Indonesia
Authors: Widyawati Anis
Published: June 2022

Judge courage needed in deciding adultery cases in article 284 of the Criminal Code for perpetrators who have not been bound by marriage, the judge can apply based on the 1945 Constitution and the Law on Judicial Power, which states the source of law is not only the Law (expansion of the principle of material legality) but can also source from code that lives in the community (customary law). This research is intended to analyze and describe the penal policy (criminal law policy and politics of criminal law) concerning adultery in Indonesia. This research uses normative legal research, where the Author analyze and compare all laws and regulations concerning to adultery in Indonesia and some theories of adultery in global context. This paper emphasized that adultery not only against religious values but also customary values (customary law). The formulation of adultery concept in Indonesian Penal Code affected by religious teachings and national ideology of Pancasila.
Legal Principle Between Concept and Content
Authors: Latyshev Oleg Yurievich , Skorobogatov Andrei Valerievich , Krasnov Alexander Valerievich
Published: June 2022

The article is devoted to the study of the legal nature of legal principles. The purpose of the article is a comprehensive study of the legal and social aspects of the essence and content of the legal principle as a philosophical and legal category. The methodological basis of the article is an integrative approach to the study of legal reality, which allowed us to combine general scientific and private scientific methods developed in various scientific paradigms and study the principles of law not only ontologically, but also epistemologically and axiologically, taking into account the phenomenological and communicative aspects of their content, development, and functioning. This paper emphasized that the study of legal principles not only in the legal, but also in the general social context allows us to conclude that this category is fundamental in the construction of legal reality cognitively, functionally, and normatively. The legal principle is the conventional result of legal communication. As a fundamental category of legal reality, the principle determines the nature of its analysis, interpretation, and evaluation. The scientific novelty of the article is determined by the specifics of the research methodology and the findings obtained, which allow us to determine the fundamental role of the legal principle at all levels of legal reality. The practical significance of the article lies in the ability to use the findings in the study of other aspects of the development and functioning of legal reality, as well as in generating forecasts for the development of the national legal system.
Legal Protection of Indigenous People's Rights Through Strengthening the Licensing Principles Based on Social Sensitivity
Authors: Aditya Zaka Firma , Al-Fatih Sholahuddin
Published: June 2022

The issue of human rights in Indonesia towards the 21st century has shifted from violations committed by the government during the new order to the issue of human rights violations by multinational companies (corporate crime), because of natural resources exploitation is directly proportional to the increase in human rights violations. Many cases of human rights violations by business actors that occur in the form of annexation and seizure of indigenous peoples land that occurs every year. One of the causes of the many cases of human rights violations against indigenous peoples is due to the loosening of permits given by the government to companies wishing to exploit natural resources. Strengthening the Permits principle can be used as a strategic step in reducing the number of violations of poverty that occur to indigenous peoples. Permits used as a means of controlling human behavior which results in rights and obligations born of licenses.
Corrective Justice and Its Significance on the Private Law
Authors: Hage Markus Y , Ningrum Panggih Kusuma
Published: June 2022

This article attempts to explore corrective justice and its significant role in private law. Corrective justice can be traced back to Aristotle's ideas of justice and Kant's ideas of rights. Hans Kelsen sharply criticized the concept of corrective justice for only proposing formal ideas without touching anything substantial. Apart from this criticism, corrective justice remains very important in private law studies because it provides solutions between two private actors in which one benefits from the losses experienced by the other. So far, the dispute settlement mechanism in private law gives the winning party a full share, while the loser does not receive any share at all. Corrective justice offers a quantitative measure that balances what the defendant is deducting and what is added to the claimant's loss. The application of this principle encourages the creation of equal punishment between the disputed parties.
Restorative Justice Principles in Law Enforcement and Democracy in Indonesia
Authors: Sukardi Sukardi , Purnama Hadi Rahmat
Published: June 2022

Indonesian legal system has not yet adopted the concept and method of restorative justice; therefore, substantial justice for the Indonesian people has not yet been reflected in legal enforcement in the Pancasila democracy system. The research aims to elaborate on the existence of restorative justice in the criminal justice system, which supports the process of democracy in Indonesia. Normative research is used to establish the aim of the research by using secondary data and primary, secondary, and tertiary legal resources. The urgency of this article is to capture how the legal enforcer is using restorative justice. The findings and conclusion of the research determined that restorative justice is based on legal and cultural values in the society, which gave a conventional resolution that fulfils justice. The application of restorative justice is constructed through standard procedures based on the system theory approach, which accommodates all roles and functions of the criminal justice system elements. Therefore, legitimacy, legality, responsibility, and supervision are warranted philosophically, juridically, and sociologically. As a result, implementing the concept of restorative justice in the criminal justice system is a choice for the strategy in politics of law. Restorative justice will support the law enforcement in Indonesia as required in order to create democracy in Indonesia based on Pancasila and Constitution of 1945.
« L’homme au foulard rouge » ou l’Unheimlich freudien chez Jean Ray
Authors: Jiménez Murillo Juan C.
Published: June 2022

Cet article se centre sur le conte « Mon fantôme (l’homme au foulard rouge) » de l'écrivain belge Jean Ray, qui en est aussi le protagoniste et dans lequel il est déchiré entre son altérité et sa mêmeté face aux apparitions de son fantôme personnel tout au long de sa vie. Pour cette raison, on propose une lecture analytique qui détermine le lien énigmatique existant entre Ray et cet être spectral à partir des notions freudiennes d'Unheimlich et Heimlich, qui se focalisent sur le doute qui naît de la rencontre entre l'inconnu et le familier.
Las antologías: un espacio de la voz narrativa breve en Costa Rica
Authors: Zúñiga Hernández Laura
Published: June 2022

This article describes the perspectives analyzed in the virtual discussion held during the first semester of 2021 between Costa Rica and Nicaragua on anthological microfiction works presented in Costa Rica that have contributed both to increasing the country's literature and to recognizing anthologies as the best means for the publication of the genre and for its contribution to Costa Rican historiography.
Diglosia y contacto lingüístico en Limón, Costa Rica
Authors: Aguilar-Sánchez Jorge
Published: June 2022

This paper provides a description of the language contact situation in Limón, Costa Rica. It presents a theoretical account regarding language contact in this area and discusses why this linguistic situation leads to challenges for the definition of diglossia and bilingualism that have traditionally been used to describe it. The analysis concludes with support for the thesis that two varieties of English interact with a variety of Spanish in the Costa Rican area of Limón and result in a new variety of Spanish due to this language contact. This study highlights the need to explore these varieties of Spanish to fully understand this contact situation.
The Importance of English for the Costa Rican Economy and Curriculum
Authors: Brand Fonseca Kevin Armando , Segura Arias Roger
Published: June 2022

This case study analyzes the role of English in the Costa Rican economy and curriculum. It is grounded on a second language acquisition and learning framework related to socio-cultural and socio-cognitive theories, identity and agency, and motivation. The stakeholders that took part in the study were students, instructors, parents, employers, and heads of English teaching programs at the national level. The conclusions highlight the importance of the English language for the economic system. Also, identity and agency appear to be crucial factors to understand language learning as a complex process.
Affixation in the mental lexicon: morphological priming in russian verbs with orthographic changes
Authors: Chuprina Anastasia
Published: June 2022

Suffixed and prefixed words have common linguistic properties and are closely related to the base word in the mental lexicon. Whether different types of information are important for the storage of different types of derivatives or whether their mental organization is similar is one of the topical psycholinguistic questions. My experimental data point at different ways of storing related verbs in the mental lexicon, linked to the base word through two derivational processes. Between the stem and the suffixed relative, the relationship is closer and based on common lexical properties, while the relationship between the stem and the prefix is ??rather formal. I draw this conclusion on the basis of the robust morphological priming effect from the suffixed verb to its base even if the spelling integrity of the suffixed relative is ??violated. This also holds true only in the condition of an orthographically preserved root morpheme. On the contrary, the priming effect to the base verb disappears from a related verb with an orthographically violated prefix. Furthermore, both suffixation and prefixation do not act uniformly and a closer look suggests that lexical organization is modified through the aspectual information of family members. This information will need to be taken into account in future studies of verbal material of the Russian language.
O perfil editorial do jornalismo independente no Brasil e na França
Authors: Horn Aline Tainá Amaral
Published: June 2022

O aumento significativo de sites de jornalismo independentes configura um terreno fértil para experimentações jornalísticas no ecossistema digital. Diante de novas formas de pensar, de fazer e de financiar o jornalismo, este recorte de estudo de uma pesquisa de doutorado sobre cultura e novas práticas jornalísticas busca responder como se configuram as novas possibilidades editoriais das mídias digitais no Brasil e na França (nascidas a partir de 2010). A análise dos textos extraídos da aba “Quem somos” de 108 sites dos dois países oferece pistas quanto a forma de exploração e tratamento do conteúdo jornalístico: no Brasil, com ênfase no conteúdo combativo, em prol das causas sociais; na França, focado nas possibilidades de formatação da notícia via aprimoramento do método de trabalho do jornalista.
Psychedelic therapy for body dysmorphic disorder
Authors: Johnson Shevaugn , Letheby Chris
Published: June 2022

In this opinion piece we propose the investigation of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy for the treatment of body dysmorphic disorder (BDD). BDD is a psychiatric disorder characterised by appearance-based preoccupations and accompanying compulsions. While safe and effective treatments for BDD exist, non-response and relapse rates remain high. Therefore, there is a need to investigate promising new treatment options for this highly debilitating condition. Preliminary evidence suggests safety, feasibility, and potential efficacy of psychedelic treatments in disorders that share similar psychopathological mechanisms with BDD. Drawing on this evidence, as well as on relevant qualitative reports and theoretical proposals, we argue that it would be worthwhile to conduct a phase 2a study aimed at assessing the safety and feasibility of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy in BDD. We also offer some suggestions for how future research ought to proceed.
To Be Announced
Authors: Krause Johannes , Üblacker Jan , Huseljić Katharina , Blömeke Niklas , Rühl Heiko
Published: June 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic and the associated closures of live music venues have confronted operators in Germany with fundamental uncertainty about the prospects of their venues. In the summer of 2020, both public and political debates revolved around the question of whether operators might have to close or could remain open during the crisis, with the overarching viewpoint being that closures were the most sensible option. Using data from the German live music survey (n = 686) and linear regression modelling, this article analyses the factors influencing the expected duration until insolvency. We show that the continuous financial support provided by the state extended the expected time to insolvency, as did the number of actors and initiatives using venues on a regular basis. On the other hand, operators with market venues, venues for lease and venues in big cities had more pessimistic expectations. The results demonstrate the safeguarding function of state support and diverse live music networks in times of crisis and bear important implications for the promotion of resilient live music ecologies.
Impact of COVID-19 on the Welsh Music Industries
Authors: Carr Paul
Published: June 2022

This article reflects upon an extensive report written by Paul Carr for the Culture, Welsh Language and Communications Committee (CWLCC), a body that recommends policy to Welsh Government and holds it to account. After initially providing a brief historical account of the ways in which the UK and more specifically the Welsh Government responded to the pandemic in terms of generic and targeted support, in addition to how private sector bodies “filled the gaps”, the article discusses how the report’s recommendations resonated with both the CWLCC Turn Up the Volume report and the official Welsh Government response, providing an account of how three distinct narratives (the reports from Carr, the CWLCC and Welsh Government) have been able to improve the prospects of live music stakeholders in Wales.
COVID-19 and British Jazz Musicians
Authors: Hytönen-Ng Elina
Published: June 2022

Jazz is a genre that relies heavily on live performance. It is therefore understandable that the COVID-19 related lockdown greatly affected jazz musicians. In this article, I reflect on London-based jazz musicians’ stories by using the idea of “liminal state”, as conceptualized by Arnold van Gennep (1960) and Victor Turner (1982), examining how they described the lockdown, in particular the financial and emotional impacts it had on them. Between spring 2020 and spring 2021, ten structured theme interviews with jazz musicians were conducted. The article commences by overviewing the data gathered and the ethical procedures adopted, after which I examine the overall emotional and psychological effects that COVID-19 had on jazz musicians who participate in live music. After reflecting on the support that the musicians have received during the pandemic, the article proceeds to outline the new skills that the musicians learned during lockdown.
Ethnographic Explorations of the Impacts of COVID-19 on Sociality and Spatiality in a Swiss Live Music Venue
Authors: Gligorijević Jelena
Published: June 2022

The globally experienced suspension of cultural life brought about by the COVID-19 crisis has been duly acknowledged and discussed in a growing number of publications, reports and online seminars, most often in terms of the impact of COVID-19 on the music/culture industry. Despite the worsening pandemic situation in Switzerland and elsewhere during the autumn of 2020, I happened to be conducting field research in the city of St. Gallen (in north-eastern Switzerland) where the authorities opted for a “liberal” handling of the health crisis. As a result, the city’s live music venue “Palace”, where I was doing my fieldwork observations, remained open to the public as late as mid-December 2020, albeit with shortened opening hours and with a dancing ban. This allowed me to gain first-hand fieldwork experience during the pandemic’s significant constraints on social behaviour. The present article accordingly addresses the ethical dilemmas that I encountered when operating in this “grey zone” of field research, while also documenting the challenges and adjustments that the Palace venue had to undergo during pandemic times from the perspectives of producers, musicians and audiences alike. The article specifically focuses on understanding and analysing changes in the experience of the Palace’s sociality and spatiality under social distancing rules. Ultimately, this work provides a different angle on the existing body of music-cultural research, which largely focuses on the cancellations and transformations of music events into virtual gatherings.
Impact of COVID-19 on Virtual Guitar Communities
Authors: Lee Daniel A
Published: June 2022

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the music industry was already experiencing uncertainty as musicians experimented with new modes of dissemination and monetization following developments in telecommunications. The arrival of the internet instigated varying, sometimes contradictory, cultural concerns including dispersion, dissipation, preservation, development, homogenization and heterogeneity. Guitar players have traditionally formed local networks and communities in geo-located domains. However, in the twenty-first century, community domains also include virtual spaces. An immersive netnographic study investigated activities in online guitar communities from the perspective of UNESCO’s Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage. Data were analysed using the protocols of Inductive Thematic Analysis generating seven codes, regarding the impact of COVID-19 on virtual guitar communities. Without doubt, the pandemic has had serious negative effects on individual musicians’ and live venues’ income streams. However, it does seem to have acted as a catalyst for fresh vigour within online communities seeking new ways to connect. With more artists sharing and interacting, the result could be a richer environment in the future. However, without a strong recognition of cultural responsibility this richness may result in a homogenous melting pot. Alternatively, it may also bring to light cultural expressions previously suppressed.
Las emociones asociadas a la amistad cívica: una perspectiva psicoeducativa
Authors: Romero-Iribas Ana , Martínez-Priego Consuelo
Published: June 2022

La falta de cohesión social supone un reto para las sociedades de nuestro entorno sociopolítico y cultural. La amistad cívica, aunque tiene carácter ambivalente, puede ser una vía para afrontar este desafío. El objetivo del artículo es doble: analizar las emociones asociadas a la amistad cívica de acuerdo con un modelo jerárquico propio; y proponer orientaciones para su implementación educativa, mediante acciones concretas que preceden o acompañan a las emociones. Este trabajo es teórico y concluye que las emociones específicas de la amistad cívica son las emociones orientadas al otro y que, paradójicamente, siendo la amistad cívica ventajosa, se educa trabajando emociones desinteresadas.
Diseño y validación de la Escala de Percepción hacia la Investigación Educativa en profesores universitarios y no universitarios
Authors: Galindo-Domínguez Héctor , Perines Haylen , Valero-Esteban José-Manuel , Verde-Trabada Ana
Published: June 2022

El presente artículo tiene como objetivo diseñar y validar una escala de percepción hacia la investigación educativa. El instrumento, que se aplicó con una muestra de 324 profesores universitarios y no universitarios, está formado por tres dimensiones: Valor hacia la investigación educativa, Implicación con la investigación educativa y Competencia en investigación educativa. Los resultados arrojaron unos valores de bondad de ajuste y fiabilidad excelentes, haciendo que su uso sea pertinente para el ámbito académico y educativo. Asimismo, se hallaron diferencias estadísticamente significativas en las tres dimensiones del instrumento a favor del profesorado universitario. Estos resultados aportan implicaciones teóricas y prácticas relevantes.
Origen y evolución de las paremias
Authors: Anscombre Jean-Claude
Published: June 2022

Este trabajo se propone valorar tres de las vulgatas más comunes de los estudios paremiológicos, a saber, la antigüedad de los refranes, su origen popular y su pertenencia a la categoría de las expresiones fijas. Basado en datos tanto diacrónicos como sincrónicos, y en el examen de las estructuras sintáctica, semántica y métrica, el estudio pone de relieve el carácter erróneo de esas vulgatas, y sugiere otra pista, basada en el concepto de matriz léxica y resaltando la importancia de los patrones métricos en el proceso de creación y evolución de las paremias.
Fatty Acid Profile of Functional Emulsion-Based Food Products Containing Conventional and Unconventional Ingredients
Authors: Mukhametov Almas , Mamayeva Laura , Yerbulekova Moldir , Aitkhozhayeva Gulsim
Published: June 2022

The creation of new emulsion-based food products has great potential for the food industry at the present stage of its development. The purpose of the paper is to explore the physical and chemical characteristics (content of fatty acids and tocopherols) of nine mixtures (blends) of conventional and unconventional vegetable oils with regard to the changes in the peroxide values of the oil blends stored under different temperatures for different periods. The study was conducted in 2020 in Almaty (Kazakhstan). Nine vegetable oil blends were prepared by mixing conventional and unconventional ingredients. Each of the resulting blends was tested in 30 replicates for the content of fatty acids (oleic, linoleic, and linolenic acids) and tocopherols. The blends were stored at 10°C and 20°C. Samples were taken to determine peroxide values. The results were compared to the control (refined sunflower oil). In all nine blends, the optimal ratio of the evaluated fatty acids and the optimal concentration of tocopherols were confirmed. After 6 months of storage, the peroxide values of blend No. 1 stored at 10°C and 20°C were 3 and 6, respectively. Blend No. 2 stored for the same period at the same temperatures demonstrated the respective peroxide values of 2.5 and 4.5. For blend No. 3, the respective values obtained were 2.5 and 5.5, and for blend No. 4, the respective values were 3.0 and 6.5. The most drastic changes were observed in blend No. 5, with respective peroxide values of 2.5 and 7.2. The respective peroxide values of blend No. 6 were 3.7 and 5.5, blend No. 7, 3.5 and 7.0, blend No. 8, 4.0 and 6.5, and blend No. 9, .5 and 5.5. All in all, the peroxide values of the nine tested blends were significantly lower than those of the control (p ≤ 0.05–0.01). The proposed nine blends can be used as food additives exhibiting biological activities. After 6 months of storage, the minimal changes in the peroxide values were observed in blend Nos. 2 and 3, while the maximum changes were reported for blend Nos. 5, 7, and 8. In the future, an investigation of the therapeutic effects of the obtained blends should be undertaken, with a focus on possible adverse heating-induced changes in some components (flaxseed oil).
Introducing Nominals to the Combined Query Answering Approaches for EL
Authors: Stefanoni Giorgio , Motik Boris , Horrocks Ian
Published: June 2022

So-called combined approaches answer a conjunctive query over a description logic ontology in three steps: first, they materialise certain consequences of the ontology and the data; second, they evaluate the query over the data; and third, they filter the result of the second phase to eliminate unsound answers. Such approaches were developed for various members of the DL-Lite and the EL families of languages, but none of them can handle ontologies containing nominals. In our work, we bridge this gap and present a combined query answering approach for ELHO--a logic that contains all features of the OWL 2 EL standard apart from transitive roles and complex role inclusions. This extension is nontrivial because nominals require equality reasoning, which introduces complexity into the first and the third step. Our empirical evaluation suggests that our technique is suitable for practical application, and so it provides a practical basis for conjunctive query answering in a large fragment of OWL 2 EL.
Learning to Rank Effective Paraphrases from Query Logs for Community Question Answering
Authors: Figueroa Alejandro , Neumann Guenter
Published: June 2022

We present a novel method for ranking query paraphrases for effective search in community question answering (cQA). The method uses query logs from Yahoo! Search and Yahoo! Answers for automatically extracting a corpus of paraphrases of queries and questions using the query-question click history. Elements of this corpus are automatically ranked according to recall and mean reciprocal rank, and then used for learning two independent learning to rank models (SVMRank), whereby a set of new query paraphrases can be scored according to recall and MRR. We perform several automatic evaluation procedures using cross-validation for analyzing the behavior of various aspects of our learned ranking functions, which show that our method is useful and effective for search in cQA.
Understanding and Predicting Interestingness of Videos
Authors: Jiang Yu-Gang , Wang Yanran , Feng Rui , Xue Xiangyang , Zheng Yingbin , Yang Hanfang
Published: June 2022

The amount of videos available on the Web is growing explosively. While some videos are very interesting and receive high rating from viewers, many of them are less interesting or even boring. This paper conducts a pilot study on the understanding of human perception of video interestingness, and demonstrates a simple computational method to identify more interesting videos. To this end we first construct two datasets of Flickr and YouTube videos respectively. Human judgements of interestingness are collected and used as the ground-truth for training computational models. We evaluate several off-the-shelf visual and audio features that are potentially useful for predicting interestingness on both datasets. Results indicate that audio and visual features are equally important and the combination of both modalities shows very promising results.
Preemptive Strategies for Overcoming the Forgetting of Goals
Authors: Li Justin , Laird John
Published: June 2022

Maintaining and pursuing multiple goals over varying time scales is an important ability for artificial agents in many cognitive architectures. Goals that remain suspended for long periods, however, are prone to be forgotten. This paper presents a class of preemptive strategies that allow agents to selectively retain goals in memory and to recover forgotten goals. Preemptive strategies work by retrieving and rehearsing goals at triggers, which are either periodic or are predictive of the opportunity to act. Since cognitive architectures contain common hierarchies of memory systems and share similar forgetting mechanisms, these strategies work across multiple architectures. We evaluate their effectiveness in a simulated mobile robot controlled by Soar, and demonstrate how preemptive strategies can be adapted to different environments and agents.
Agent Cooperatives for Effective Power Consumption Shifting
Authors: Akasiadis Charilaos , Chalkiadakis Georgios
Published: June 2022

In this paper, we present a directly applicable scheme for electricity consumption shifting and effective demand curve flattening. The scheme can employ the services of either individual or cooperating consumer agents alike. Agents participating in the scheme, however, are motivated to form cooperatives, in order to reduce their electricity bills via lower group prices granted for sizable consumption shifting from high to low demand time intervals. The scheme takes into account individual costs, and uses a strictly proper scoring rule to reward contributors according to efficiency. Cooperative members, in particular, can attain variable reduced electricity price rates, given their different load shifting capabilities. This allows even agents with initially forbidding shifting costs to participate in the scheme, and is achieved by a weakly budget-balanced, truthful reward sharing mechanism. We provide four variants of this approach, and evaluate it experimentally.
Online Optimization with Dynamic Temporal Uncertainty: Incorporating Short Term Predictions for Renewable Integration in Intelligent Energy Systems
Authors: Garg Vikas , Jayram T. S. , Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan
Published: June 2022

Growing costs, environmental awareness and government directives have set the stage for an increase in the fraction of electricity supplied using intermittent renewable sources such as solar and wind energy. To compensate for the increased variability in supply and demand, we need algorithms for online energy resource allocation under temporal uncertainty of future consumption and availability. Recent advances in prediction algorithms offer hope that a reduction in future uncertainty, through short term predictions, will increase the worth of the renewables. Predictive information is then revealed incrementally in an online manner, leading to what we call dynamic temporal uncertainty. We demonstrate the non-triviality of this problem and provide online algorithms, both randomized and deterministic, to handle time varying uncertainty in future rewards for non-stationary MDPs in general and for energy resource allocation in particular. We derive theoretical upper and lower bounds that hold even for a finite horizon, and establish that, in the deterministic case, discounting future rewards can be used as a strategy to maximize the total (undiscounted) reward. We also corroborate the efficacy of our methodology using wind and demand traces.
Multiscale Manifold Learning
Authors: Wang Chang , Mahadevan Sridhar
Published: June 2022

Many high-dimensional data sets that lie on a low-dimensional manifold exhibit nontrivial regularities at multiple scales. Most work in manifold learning ignores this multiscale structure. In this paper, we propose approaches to explore the deep structure of manifolds. The proposed approaches are based on the diffusion wavelets framework, data driven, and able to directly process directional neighborhood relationships without ad-hoc symmetrization. The proposed multiscale algorithms are evaluated using both synthetic and real-world data sets, and shown to outperform previous manifold learning methods.
Joint Object and Pose Recognition Using Homeomorphic Manifold Analysis
Authors: Zhang Haopeng , El-Gaaly Tarek , Elgammal Ahmed , Jiang Zhiguo
Published: June 2022

Object recognition is a key precursory challenge in the fields of object manipulation and robotic/AI visual reasoning in general. Recognizing object categories, particular instances of objects and viewpoints/poses of objects are three critical subproblems robots must solve in order to accurately grasp/manipulate objects and reason about their environ- ments. Multi-view images of the same object lie on intrinsic low-dimensional manifolds in descriptor spaces (e.g. visual/depth descriptor spaces). These object manifolds share the same topology despite being geometrically different. Each object manifold can be represented as a deformed version of a unified manifold. The object manifolds can thus be parametrized by its homeomorphic mapping/reconstruction from the unified manifold. In this work, we construct a manifold descriptor from this mapping between homeomorphic manifolds and use it to jointly solve the three challenging recognition sub-problems. We extensively experiment on a challenging multi-modal (i.e. RGBD) dataset and other object pose datasets and achieve state-of-the-art results.
Unified Constraint Propagation on Multi-View Data
Authors: Lu Zhiwu , Peng Yuxin
Published: June 2022

This paper presents a unified framework for intra-view and inter-view constraint propagation on multi-view data. Pairwise constraint propagation has been studied extensively, where each pairwise constraint is defined over a pair of data points from a single view. In contrast, very little attention has been paid to inter-view constraint propagation, which is more challenging since each pairwise constraint is now defined over a pair of data points from different views. Although both intra-view and inter-view constraint propagation are crucial for multi-view tasks, most previous methods can not handle them simultaneously. To address this challenging issue, we propose to decompose these two types of constraint propagation into semi-supervised learning subproblems so that they can be uniformly solved based on the traditional label propagation techniques. To further integrate them into a unified framework, we utilize the results of intra-view constraint propagation to adjust the similarity matrix of each view and then perform inter-view constraint propagation with the adjusted similarity matrices. The experimental results in cross-view retrieval have shown the superior performance of our unified constraint propagation.