bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Using Multi-Label Multi-Class Support Vector Machines with Semantic and Lexical Features for Aspect Category Detection
Authors: Shanmugapriya G. , Y Manasa , Mohammad Ali Baig , Ahammad Sk. Hasane
Published: December 2022

In contrast to the aspects, aspect categories are often coarser and don't always appear as terms in sentences. Besides, the typical way to element the types associated with part is generally grainier concerning factors and doesn't exist within verdicts. The primary intent of the study is to investigate the efficacy of Lexicon, linguistic, vector-based, and features correlated to semantics within the aspect of the responsibility built with the finding of aspect category detection ACD). Semantic and emotional data are captured via vector-based features. Further, it examines vector-based feature superiority issues within the compression of features of text-based characteristics. Study purposes to the linguistic efficacy with the Lexicon, linguistic, and semantic features, also vector-based dependent to the system. Also, the information led with vector-based features that capture the semantic with sentimental analysis characteristics. With the experimental outcomes, the performance efficacy with the vector-based features outperformed text-based features. The methodologies associated with deep learning have generated features within the vector orientation relevant to the word-based structures. Therefore, the proposed method achieved effectiveness with the determined constraints by applying the metrics of precision, recall, and F1 scores. Correlating with the performance of ABSA's state-of-the-art techniques, the proposed research process gained superior outcomes.
Seismicity Changes before Major Earthquakes in Sichuan, China, Revealed by a Combination of the RTL Algorithm and ETAS Model
Authors: Zhang Ying , Huang Qinghua
Published: December 2022

As a possible earthquake precursor, seismicity change (especially for seismic quiescence) has been given much attention and tested in intermediate-term forecast studies. The region–time–length (RTL) algorithm is an effective technique for detecting seismic quiescence. The RTL method assumes that each prior event influences the given spatiotemporal point, and the weights of influence vary with the epicenter, time, and magnitude of earthquakes. In the original version of the RTL method, the earthquake catalogs used for calculating RTL value must be preprocessed by some declustering method. This work will take the full sequence of earthquakes into the calculation of RTL values. However, the influence of each event will be weighted by the independent probability (IP), in which IP refers to the probability that the event is an independent or a background event. The IPs of events will be provided by the epidemic-type aftershock sequence (ETAS) model, which is one of the most powerful models for describing the spatial–temporal correlation between earthquakes. Using the new RTL + ETAS algorithm and the complete earthquake catalog provided by China Earthquake Administration, we have detected the seismicity changes in the Sichuan region from 2006 until now. The continuous temporal variation of the RTL parameter indicated obvious seismic quiescence before the 12 May 2008 Ms 8.0 Wenchuan earthquake, the 20 April 2013 M 7.0 Lushan earthquake, and the 1 June 2022 M 6.1 Lushan earthquake. The Q parameter maps showed that these negative anomalies of seismicity were around the epicenters. Moreover, our new RTL + ETAS algorithm does not suffer from the clustering of earthquakes and is sensitive to earthquakes with small magnitudes. Thus, our new method is effective for detecting seismic quiescence related to earthquakes and shows potential for predicting earthquakes.
History and Myth in Times of War: Elementary School History Textbooks in Imperial Japan
Authors: Ito Toshiko
Published: December 2022

Education in times of war has to contribute to the engagement with military conflict. Historical description in history textbooks of Imperial Japan did so effectively by fostering readiness for mobilization and self-sacrifice. This article focuses on the interplay between historical description and myth, and discusses the possibility of making historical description into a tool of resistance against tendentious historical description predicated on the provision of rationales for war.
Wartime Citizenship Education, Discourses of Global Norms and the Contingency of Rights in Sri Lanka
Authors: Bentrovato Denise
Published: December 2022

This short article aims to add to ongoing debates on the nature of citizenship education in wartime and its aftermath, against the backdrop of the worldwide ascendancy of a donor-driven, rights-based "global" model, considered in various circles as a panacea for local and global peace. Drawing on the case of Sri Lanka, the article casts light upon the discursive tensions, visible in externally-funded wartime citizenship textbooks, that may accompany the local adoption and adaptation of "global" norms in societies torn by protracted civil war and its legacies. The findings explore a case of the political harnessing of a global type of citizenship education, intertwined with and undermined by a more traditional approach, with liberal concepts of peacebuilding discursively championed, yet effectively rejected. The study thus raises questions around the implications for national reconciliation in a broader context of imposed "negative peace".
Safeness and effectiveness of entomopathogenic fungi for use as bioinsecticide: A mini review
Authors: Chiew Brendon Fu-jing , Ong Ghim Hock , Wong Rui Rui , Wong Kok Kee , Loh Khye Er
Published: December 2022

Usage of conventional synthetic insecticide to control insect pests has increased to improve crops yield and production to meet the global food demands of a growing population. However, it should not be neglected that synthetic insecticide causes negative impacts on humans, livestock as well as the environment. This review aims to provide data on entomopathogenic fungi species that can be developed into bioinsecticide to control insect pests, in order to reduce the usage of synthetic insecticide. The fungi are discussed based on two criteria, its effectiveness in controlling the targeted pests, and its safety level to humans, non-targeted organisms, and the environment. Relevant data and information on entomopathogenic fungi from various research tools including Google Scholar, NCBI, Science Direct and Researchgate were compiled into tables for comparison and analysed. Six entomopathogenic fungi namely Beauveria bassiana, Metarhizium anisopliae, Verticillium lecanii, Metarhizium (Nomuraea) rileyi, Paecilomyces fumosoroseus and Hirsutella thompsonii are proposed as having the required criteria having potential to control targeted insects by means of producing various toxins or metabolites with insecticidal properties. Five out of the six species, B. bassiana, M. anisopliae, V. lecanii and N. rileyi are safe to humans, non-targeted organisms, and the environment. Furthermore, all these fungi can be mass produced to ensure their availability to be used as a biocontrol agents. However, future studies are required for further justification for harmful metabolites produced and their impact on environment.
Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (GCMS) analysis of the antagonistic potential of Trichoderma hamatum against Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cepae causing basal rot disease of onion
Authors: Oviya R. , Thiruvudainambi S. , Ramamoorthy V. , Thamizh Vendan R. , Vellaikumar S.
Published: December 2022

Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cepae causing basal rot disease of onion is a destructive phytopathogen resulting in 30-50% yield loss and remains as a major constraint in onion productivity. The management of disease through application of fungicide is not feasible and economically viable. Hence, the present study is focused on investigation of effective Trichoderma sp. and identifying the effective volatile organic compounds produced by it against the basal rot pathogen in onion. A total of ten Trichoderma spp. were isolated from rhizospheric soil of healthy onion plants and tested against virulent Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cepae isolate FCIM1. The Trichoderma isolate (TIM2) showed 77.40% inhibition on mycelial growth of pathogen followed by the isolate (TIV1) with 70.36% inhibition. The molecular identification of effective Trichoderma isolate through the analysis of the rDNA of Internal Transcribed Spacers (ITS) region revealed isolate TIM2 as Trichoderma hamatum. The GC-MS analysis of Trichoderma hamatum unravelled the important volatile organic compounds like Methyl stearate, n-Hexadecanoic, Eicosane, 9-cyclohexy, Heptadecane, Dodecane, 2-cyclohexyl, to 2H-Pyran-2-one, 6-pentyl, 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural, Tetrapentacontane, 1-Dodecanol, 2-Propenoic acid, pentadecyl ester, Benzene, (2-methylbutyl) and 1,2-Dimethyltryptamine with peak area and retention time. These bioactive compounds exert a strong antifungal activity against Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cepae. The scanning electron micrographs of Fusarium paired with effective Trichoderma (TIM2) showed the swollen hyphae with cell wall damage which is clear evident of antagonistic interaction of volatile compounds produced by Trichoderma hamatum.
Eco-friendly management of false smut disease of rice incited by Ustilaginoidea virens through the application of Trichoderma spp
Authors: Anbazhagan P , Theradimani M. , Ramamoorthy V. , Vellaikumar P. , Juliet Hepziba S.
Published: December 2022

False smut disease of rice incited by Ustilaginoidea virens is an organ-specific pathogen that causes chalkiness of grain which leads to a reduction in 1000 grain test weight and yield. The dual culture assay results revealed that each Trichoderma isolates suppress the mean mycelial growth of U. virens under in-vitro conditions. Among the nine different Trichoderma isolates, 3 isolates were selected as effective isolates viz., TKM1, TKT9 and TTN5. Among these three effective isolates, maximum mycelial growth inhibition was recorded in the isolate TKM1 with 80.18 percentage reduction over control. The SEM photographs revealed that the hyphal round off in U. virens which is mainly due to the production of volatiles through direct antagonistic activity and competition through indirect antagonistic activity in which conidial adherence of T. harzianum over the surface of the mycelial mat of U. virens was observed. In 2020, the field experiment results revealed that the minimum disease severity was recorded when the Trichoderma isolate TKM1 was sprayed during booting stage with 4.61%, 50% PE stage with 17.91% and 100% PE with 21.86%. In 2021 the disease severity varied from 9.21% to 69.59%. The lowest disease severity was recorded in the plots sprayed with propiconazole fungicide with 9.21%. However, the disease severity recorded in fungicide treated plots were statistically on par with the Trichoderma isolate TKM1 treated plots at 50% PE spray with 10.60%. The disease severity recorded in the plots sprayed with TKM1 showed non-significant relationship with the fungicide treated plots which clearly revealed that the control efficacy of both TKM1 and Propiconazole treated plots were similar with each other. Among the Trichoderma treated plots the yield gain varied from 10.01% to17.20%. The yield gain was found to be 18.35% in fungicide treated plots. The yield and yield gain obtained by the effective isolate TKM1 (yield = 6405 kg/ha and yield gain = 17.20%) was statistically on par with propiconazole treated plots and significantly showed better yield and yield gain than the control plots. In 2021 among the Trichoderma treated plots the yield gain varied from 4.10% to 10.16%. The maximum yield gain was recorded in the fungicide treated plots (12.00%).
Злоупотребление процессуальными правами в гражданском процессе
Authors: Генералов А.С.
Published: December 2022

Автором рассмотрен институт злоупотребления правом в гражданском процессуальном праве. Проанализировано законодательное закрепление данного института. Рассмотрена его сущность, отмечены некоторые проблемы. Проанализирована судебная практика, сделан вывод о правоприменении положения ст. 99 ГПК РФ, предложены пути решения выявленных проблем.
Профессиональная деформация сотрудников ОВД
Authors: Ковальчук Л.А. , Струганов С.М
Published: December 2022

В настоящее время очень остро муссируется вопрос влияния профессии на личность человека, ведь эта тема уже давно привлекает внимание специалистов различных отраслей науки. Сегодня нами будет рассмотрена ключевая тема, касающая сотрудников органов внутренних дел – профессиональная деформация. Говоря о служебной деятельности, хочется отметить, что в связи с большим количеством подразделений она является очень разнообразной и имеет свои отличительные особенности. Несение службы зачастую связано с обстоятельствами, которые могут повлечь непредвиденный исход событий, общение с различным контингентом граждан, а также могут спровоцировать у сотрудника возникновение физических и психических перегрузов, которые при неоднократном повторении могут перерасти в профессиональную деформацию. Профессиональная деформация возникает у сотрудников полиции в силу невозможности организма справиться с нагрузками, возникающими в процессе служебной деятельности, из-за чего это влечет диссонанс в общении с окружающими людьми и нередко приводит к отрицательной оценке граждан сотрудников полиции, а также нарушению устоев, которые противоречат профессиональной этики сотрудника полиции.
Effect of Pop-Up Advertising and Perceived Intrusiveness on Brand Awareness and Advertising Avoidance With Advertising Value As A Moderation Factor
Authors: Gana bisatya Sanggya , Sukresna I Made
Published: December 2022

The high usage statistics for Youtube make this social media used by companies for advertising. But society has a different attitude in dealing with online advertising. This research aims (1) to analyze the effect of pop-up ads on perceived intrusiveness; (2) to analyze the influence of perceived intrusiveness on brand awareness; (3) to analyze the effect of perceived intrusiveness on advertisement avoidance; and (4) to analyze the role of advertising value in moderating the influence between perceived intrusiveness and avoidance of advertising. This study is a conclusive quantitative study with 120 respondents.The results of the study found that the more pop-up ads that were considered annoying, causing feelings of annoyance, and the ads were avoided, the higher the level of disturbance felt by respondents (Youtube viewers), the greater the opportunity to avoid ads that appeared, the more disturbances felt, the will attract more attention and web advertising content has a greater chance to be easily remembered by the audience, the value of the advertisement is able to reduce a person's chances of avoiding advertisements for the perceived distraction with the advertisement itself.
The impact of innovation strategies on export performance, a case study: textile industry
Authors: Yeganegi Kamran , Najafi Afshin
Published: December 2022

To compete in foreign markets, an exporting company must achieve certain advantages that must necessarily be valuable and rare. Exporting textile products is very important as an important strategy to expand the product supply market from limited domestic markets to large foreign markets. On the other hand, the importance of investing in innovation strategy when pursuing competitive advantage and growth in foreign markets is highly emphasized. This research was conducted with the aim of investigating the impact of innovation strategies on export performance in the textile industry. The current research is a descriptive-correlational and applied research. Also, from the theoretical point of view, it is considered as one of the proof researches and from the point of view of reasoning, it is considered as one of the inductive researches. In this research, two library and field methods were used to collect information. The questionnaire was designed by the researcher based on the model taken from the research of Jude Ndubuisi Edeha et al. (2020), which includes 5 components (marketing innovation, technological innovation, product innovation, process innovation and external innovation collaboration). Also, the export performance questionnaire (Zou et al., 1998) has been used. The statistical population of this research consists of 30 experts of Savis company who are directly and indirectly engaged in export, sales and marketing, as well as 135 members of the commercial department of Arak Chamber of Commerce. The sample size was 115 people who were selected using the simple random sampling method using the sample table of Krejci and Morgan. The research hypotheses were tested using correlation and regression tests. The results of the data analysis showed that all the sub-hypotheses of the research were accepted, so it can be concluded that innovation strategies have an effect on export performance in the textile industry, and thus the main hypothesis of the research was also confirmed.
Re-reading the Archive: A 21st Century Re-appraisal of Kurosawa’s "The Bad Sleep Well" as a Modern "Hamlet"
Authors: Van Zon Stan Reiner
Published: December 2022

Among Japanese film director Kurosawa Akira’s three Shakespeare films, Throne of Blood (1957), Ran (1985), and The Bad Sleep Well (1960), the latter has been relatively ignored in Anglophone Shakespeare criticism. This article investigates the Anglophone reception of The Bad Sleep Well and argues in favor of its re-appraisal as a Hamlet. On reception, it examines three explanations for the neglect: its modern setting, its deconstructive adaptation, and its cinematic quality. Considering the latter unconvincing, the article posits that the first two were only detrimental to the film’s reception because they respectively did not conform to Western expectations of essentially pre-modern ‘Oriental’ Japan and of ‘straight’ canonical Shakespeare. Considering changed attitudes in Shakespeare studies, neither of these should still be held against the film. On re-appraisal, The Bad Sleep Well may be reread in the 21st century as part of our continuing memory of our global Shakespeare discourse. Centering on the film’s innovative presentation of Claudius and The Mousetrap, the article argues for the porous border between ‘straight’ production and ‘crooked’ adaptation, and the value to the tradition of oblique approaches to familiar scenes and characters. By arguing for The Bad Sleep Well as a Hamlet worthy of study, the article furthers discussion on archival silences and new rhizomatic models of global Shakespeare that seek to move past the more reductive qualities of the ‘national Shakespeares’ mode of discourse that dominated in the 1990s and 2000s.
Writing and Rewriting Nationhood: "Henry V" and Political Appropriation of Shakespeare
Authors: Minami Hikaru
Published: December 2022

Shakespeare’s Henry V is often regarded as a nationalistic play and has been appropriated for political spin and propaganda to enhance the sense of national unity. Shakespeare captures the emerging nationalistic feeling of the Tudor era in Henry’s emphasis on national history and pride, but various parts of the text suggest a more diverse and complex figures of the king and his subjects than a war hero and the united nation. Such complexity, however, is often ignored in political appropriation. Laurence Olivier’s film adaptation during WWII glamorizes the war and defines the English nation as a courageous “band of brothers” through its presentation of Shakespeare’s play a shared story or history of national victory. Kenneth Branagh’s film in 1989, on the other hand, captures the ugliness of war but it still romanticizes the sacrifice for the country. In 2016, Shakespeare was made part of the Brexit discourse of growing nationalism at the time of the EU referendum. Brexit was imagined as a victory that will bring back freedom and sovereignty the country once enjoyed, and Shakespeare was used to represent the greatness of Britain. Shakespeare’s text, however, depicts the war against the continent in a more skeptical than glorifying tone. The war scenes are scattered with humorous dialogues and critical comments and the multi-national captains of Henry’s army are constantly at odds with one another. Shakespeare thus provides us with a wider view of nationhood, resisting the simplifying force of politics.
Inwestycje hetmanów w XVII wieku. Między interesem własnym a państwowym
Authors: Bania Zbigniew
Published: December 2022

W końcu XVI wieku ustaliła się zasada dożywotniego funkcjonowania urzędu hetmańskiego. Być może nieprzypadkowo sprawowanie tej funkcji przez hetmanów owocowało zakrojonymi na wielką skalę inwestycjami, niekiedy wyjątkowo nowocześnie pomyślanymi; były to: Zamość, Żółkiew, Brody, Stanisławów, Kudak i Okopy Św. Trójcy. Obrona południowo-wschodnich terytoriów kresowych, na których bądź w pobliżu których, hetmani posiadali swe największe latyfundia inicjowała powstawanie twierdz, centrów tych latyfundiów a jednocześnie tworzyły te dzieła skuteczny system obrony całego państwa przed zagrożeniami tatarskimi, tureckimi, powstaniami kozackimi. Wyróżniał się Stanisław Koniecpolski, inicjując powstanie szeregu mniejszych twierdz – najsłynniejsza z nich to Kudak – czy Nowy Koniecpol, umacniając bardziej nowoczesnymi fortyfikacjami Bar, myśląc o stworzeniu Szkoły Rycerskiej we Lwowie. Godna podkreślenia jest ewolucja urządzeń obronnych od nieskomplikowanych bastei-puntone jak w Żółkwi, poprzez bastiony Brodów do nowoczesnych, z rozmachem zaprojektowanych fortyfikacji otaczających Lwow w końcu XVII wieku z inicjatywy hetmana Stanisława Jabłonowskiego. Interesujący jest problem wzajemnych relacji twierdza – rezydencja, jak Brody i Podhorce, Lwow i Podkamień, Czy istniały namiastki takich powiązań twierdzy i rezydencji w przypadku Zamościa i Żółkwi, Stanisławowa? Hetmani-latyfundyści jednocześnie nie dążyli do modernizacji pozyskanych starszych zamków, jak na przykład Stanisław Koniecpolski, który nie unowocześnił szesnastowiecznego systemu bastejowego zamków w Mikulińcach i Jazłowcu. Urząd hetmański stosunkowo późno zaczął funkcjonować jako stały element systemu politycznego Rzeczypospolitej, zatem hetmanom obecność w senacie zapewniały takie dodatkowe godności jak kanclerska – Zamoyski, Żołkiewski, oraz kasztelana krakowskiego – Koniecpolski, Jabłonowski. Tylko Stanisław Koniecpolski poczuwał się do podkreślenia swej dodatkowej godności fundując w stolicy starostwa myślenickiego, stanowiącego uposażenie godności kasztelańskiej, w Myślenicach kaplicę dla cudownego wizerunku Najświętszej Marii Panny. Podsumowując inicjatywy fundatorskie hetmanów jako ministrów państwa i latyfundystów w XVII wieku są wyjątkowo ściśle ze sobą splecione, co wynikało zaangażowania ich w organizację ochrony własnych posiadłości najczęściej usytuowanych na Kresach wschodnich państwa, w XVII wieku szczególnie narażonych na działania militarne.
Nowy Zebrzydów – przykład miasta kalwaryjnego położonego w cieniu symbolicznego Miasta Świętego
Authors: Płonka Mirosław
Published: December 2022

Pośród wszystkich typów nowożytnych miast polskich osady leżące w cieniu kompleksów kalwaryjnych zostały nazwane zbiorczo miasteczkami kalwaryjnymi. Zaliczany do tej grupy najstarszy przykład – Zebrzydów vel Nowy Zebrzydów (ob. Kalwaria Zebrzydowska) – był miastem prywatnym, stanowiącym zaplecze dla znacznie większego od siebie miasta symbolicznego, którym była skopiowana na ziemiach starostwa lanckorońskiego i barwałdzkiego za traktatem Christiana van Adrichema Jerozolima. Budowa polskiej Ziemi Świętej naruszyła jednak dotychczasowe zasady lokacji miast. Już w pierwszych latach wznoszenia kaplic pojawił się ogromny problem, ponieważ pod budowę kompleksu Mikołaj Zebrzydowski oddał najlepsze ziemie chłopów z okolicznych królewszczyzn – Stronia i Leśnicy. W związku z głodem chłopi zmuszeni byli do przymusowej migracji, m.in. do Zebrzydowa, w którym niedługo potem tworzyli stan mieszczański. Wraz z ich pojawieniem się w mieście zaszczepiono kulturę uprawiania ziemi, która obok handlu dewocjonaliami i obsługi pielgrzymów stanowiła główny dochód mieszczan. Do tego lokowane przez Mikołaja, a później jego syna Jana miasto miało być „godne” Miasta Świętego. Zabroniono więc wypasu zwierząt hodowlanych w obszarze Jerozolimy, nakazano należycie święcić w mieście uroczystości kościelne, a także zakazano osiedlania się tu Żydom oraz heretykom. Celem artykułu jest doprecyzowanie definicji miasteczka kalwaryjnego na przykładzie Zebrzydowa, uwzględniając dodatkowo m.in. ideowe znaczenie tego typu ośrodka jako miasta czysto katolickiego.
Sobre la naturaleza del delito de colusión del artículo 384 del Código Penal: Análisis del debate jurisprudencial
Authors: Chanjan Documet Rafael , Espinoza Marmolejo Omar , Avendaño Cotrina María Luisa , Santa María Alcázar Felipe , Choque Moya Alonzo , Gutiérrez Hinojosa Lucrecia Samantha , Vega Malpartida Adler Donnovan
Published: December 2022

El presente artículo analiza la naturaleza del delito de colusión regulado en el artículo 384 del Código Penal peruano, a la luz de la reciente jurisprudencia de la Corte Suprema de Justicia. Se examinará la relación existente entre el ilícito del primer párrafo del referido artículo -denominado “colusión simple”- y el segundo párrafo -denominado “colusión agravada”-, sus bienes jurídicos protegidos y su naturaleza de delitos de lesión o de peligro. Sobre este punto, se efectuará un análisis crítico de algunos pronunciamientos jurisprudenciales y se adoptará una postura sobre la naturaleza autónoma de ambos ilícitos a fin de solucionar problemáticas prácticas como el momento de consumación del delito, la tentativa y la participación delictiva.
Effect of Feeding Probiotics and Synbiotics on Hematological and Serum Biochemical Parameters in Murrah Buffaloes
Authors: Ajay B. , Rao K. Ananda , Latha P. Asha , Muralidhar M.
Published: December 2022

Background: The present study was carried to find the effect of probiotics and synbiotics supplementation on haematological and serum biochemical profile in Murrah buffaloes. Methods: Eighteen Murrah buffaloes in their early lactation were randomly assigned into three groups. The control group viz Group-I was fed with basal diet (Hybrid napier, paddy straw and concentrate). The Group-II was supplemented with 30 gms of probiotic and Group-III was supplemented with 20 gms of synbiotic respectively, along with the basal diet for three months. Result: No significant effect was found on haematological profile viz., Total leucocyte count, Total erythrocyte count, haemoglobin, Packed cell volume, Mean corpuscular volume, Mean corpuscular haemoglobin. Biochemical profiles viz. serum cholesterol levels, glucose levels, calcium levels, phosphorous levels were also not significantly different among the treatment and control groups.
​Identification of Lactic Acid Bactria in Dairy Products using Culture-independent Methods: A Review
Authors: Nurye Muhammed , Wolkero Takele
Published: December 2022

The microbiota of dairy products is composed of starter and non-starter lactic acid bacteria, as well as other bacteria, yeasts and filamentous fungi that form secondary microbiota and play an important role in cheese ripening. The use of combined LAB strains based on compatibility and/or coexistence tests plays an important role in food production and preservation, while combinations of strains that exhibit mutually inhibitory properties must be avoided. For centuries, researchers have focused on the exploration of autochthonous LAB biodiversity from various ecological dairy niches in order to address its role in texture and flavour formation and to select strains for use as starter cultures. Recent advanced technological tools like next-generation sequencing machines have played a significant role in the fast and accurate characterization and isolation of microbial communities from dairy products. However, the characterization and isolation of LAB using culture-independent methods is also a reliable and cost-effective method for studying a bacterial community without prior cultivation. These methods include single-strand conformation polymorphism (SSCP-PCR), denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE), thermal gradient gel electrophoresis (TGGE), real-time PCR (qPCR), terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP), length heterogeneity PCR (LH-PCR), automated ribosomal intergenic spacer analysis (ARISA), and fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH). Therefore the goal of this review is to compare and describe the most recent culture-independent molecular-based methods for the characterization and isolation of LAB in dairy products.
Risk Factors and Occurrence of Bovine Brucellosis in the Limpopo Province, South Africa
Authors: Seanego L.M. , Tyasi T.L. , Dhau I. , Chitura T.
Published: December 2022

Background: Bovine brucellosis causes substantial loses in livestock production systems through abortions and infertility. The aim of this study was to determine whether the occurrence of bovine brucellosis is influenced by climatic variabilities. Methods: Data on confirmed cases of bovine brucellosis from the year 2013 to 2018 was retrieved from the Limpopo Department of Agriculture Land Reform and Rural Development. Temperature and rainfall data was retrieved from the South African Weather Services. A semi structured questionnaire was used to gather information on management related risk factors from 60 purposively selected farmers. Data were analysed using microsoft excel, simple linear regression, Pearson’s correlation coefficient and Mann-Kendall test. Result: The average occurrence rate of bovine brucellosis was 3.96%. Simple linear regression coefficient analysis indicated a non-significant (p greater than 0.05) effect of temperature and rainfall variabilities on occurrence of bovine brucellosis. Seventy seven per cent of cattle farmers were aware of bovine brucellosis and 83% experienced cases of abortion in their herds.
Trichoderma Species: An Overview of Current Status and Potential Applications for Sustainable Agriculture
Authors: Awad-Allah Eman F.A. , Mohamed Ibrahim A.A. , Allah Sherin F.A. Awd , Shams Amany H.M. , Elsokkary Ibrahim H.
Published: December 2022

In agro-ecosystems, Trichoderma species are beneficial microorganisms that improve soil health and crop development. They form mutualistic endophytic relationships with a wide range of plant species, promoting host growth, protecting against pathogen attack, and improving micro-and macronutrient uptake and use efficiency. As a result, they should be promoted because they have the potential to improve agricultural sustainability while reducing the use of harmful chemicals in agriculture. This review provides an overview of the current and potential applications of Trichoderma species for sustainable agriculture, their beneficial roles and how they can be used to boost plant growth and crop yield.
Rasgos de masculinidad en hombres bogotanos sin empleo
Authors: Mendieta Izquierdo Giovane , Franco Riaño Laurent Nicolás , Ramírez Rodríguez Juan Carlos
Published: December 2022

This article explores the masculinity traits of unemployed heterosexual men from Bogotá with families. The study followed an interpretive paradigm with a qualitative approach. A multiple - exploratory case study was proposed with seven heterosexual men from Bogotá, Colombia, located through a proven, purposeful, and convenience snowball. Seven in-depth interviews were conducted before informed consent, using textual and contextual narrative analysis. Some masculinity traits were recognized: aggressiveness, felt as the social authorization to get annoyed or bothered; mastery and control of domestic dynamics and over their emotions; social recognition of their behaviors by others; and spaces for sociability, reflected in need for spaces for homosocialization. Such masculinity traits are reconfigured by hegemonic masculinity. In addition, the lack of sociability spaces in which they can talk about their emotions freely, away from gender prejudices and masculinity stereotypes, is highlighted.
Importancia del maíz en el turismo gastronómico en cuatro municipios de Cundinamarca, Colombia
Authors: Silva Barrera Claudia Lucia , Cote Daza Sandra Patricia , Barón Chivara Jesús Alexis
Published: December 2022

El turismo gastronómico presentó un crecimiento importante en la última década. Una de sus principales virtudes es la vinculación directa entre los actores de la cadena de valor: los agricultores, los mercados tradicionales, los distribuidores, entre otros. El maíz es un producto significativo en este tipo de turismo para países de Latinoamérica, por ser un ingrediente esencial en platos tradicionales; no obstante, Colombia importa más del 70 % del maíz que consume. Esta investigación identificó la percepción de los diferentes actores sobre el desarrollo del turismo gastronómico enfocado en dicho alimento. Para ello, se utilizó una metodología mixta, y se analizaron los informes de producción y consumo de maíz en el país. En los resultados se identificó que este es un elemento representativo en la gastronomía; sin embargo, la disminución de los cultivos de maíz y la preferencia por los productos elaborados con harina de trigo genera una pérdida de recetas tradicionales.
In vitro Investigation of Rutin-Loaded PLGA Nanoparticles on Leishmania infantum Promastigotes
Authors: Kahvecioğlu Çetin Fulya , Canım Ateş Sezen
Published: December 2022

Leishmaniasis is a group of illnesses occasioned Leishmania (L.) parasites transmitted by the bites of infected female Phlebotominae class flies and it is endemic in 102 countries. It is seen worldwide, particularly in developing countries. In the present study, the antileishmanial efficacy of free rutin and nanoparticles formed by encapsulating flavonoid rutin in a polymer nanoparticle system on Leishmania infantum promastigotes were contrasted. The efficacy of rutin-loaded PLGA nanoparticles (RT)NPs on the proliferation of promastigote form of L. infantum parasites was examined for the first time by counting the in vitro antileishmanial activities of (RT)NPs using the MTT assay and counting on the thoma slide. It has been observed that (RT)NPs significant affect the proliferation of parasites at concentrations of 1000, 750, and 500 μg/ml at 72nd and 96th hours. The viability% value decreased 10-fold at 1000 μg/ml concentration of (RT)NPs. While the IC50 value of promastigote form of L. infantum parasites was 29.2 ± 4.5 μg/ml in the specimens treated with RT at varied concentrations, the IC50 value of promastigote form of L. infantum parasites was found to be 23.0 ± 2.7 µg/ml in the specimens treated with (RT)NPs. It was observed that the absorbance measurements of (RT)NPs were lower compared to RT at concentrations of 1000, 750, and 500 μg/ml at 48th hour.
Yığma Yapıların Düzlem İçi Davranışının Kafes Model Yaklaşımı ile Analizi
Authors: Güner Yunus , Nuhoğlu Ayhan
Published: December 2022

Yığma yapılarda, malzeme parametrelerindeki belirsizliklerin yanı sıra düzensiz duvar örgü biçimi ve taşıyıcı elemanlarda oluşan hasarlar da göz önünde bulundurulduğunda yapısal davranışının ve taşıma kapasitesinin belirlenmesi oldukça karmaşık bir hale gelmektedir. Bu durumlarda nümerik analizlerde basitleştirilmiş yaklaşımların tercih edilmesi, çözüme pratik olarak ulaşılmasına olanak sağlar. Bu çalışmada, yığma taşıyıcı sistemlerin düzlem içi hasar oluşumları ve taşıma kapasiteleri kafes elemanlardan oluşan sayısal analiz modeli kullanılarak belirlenmeye çalışılmıştır. Yığma yapılarda kullanılması açısından yenilikçi bir yaklaşım olarak önerilen bu yöntemde, sadece uzun ekseni doğrultusunda yük taşıyan çubuk elemanlar kullanılmaktadır. Böylece oluşturulan eşdeğer hesap modeliyle gerçekleştirilen doğrusal olmayan analizler ile yapıda dış yük etkisinde meydana gelebilecek hasarların ve maksimum taşıma kapasitesinin elde edilmesi amaçlanmıştır. Literatürde daha önce incelenen yığma yapıların esas alındığı çalışmada, yöntemin avantajları ve dezavantajları karşılaştırmalı olarak değerlendirilmiştir. Gerçek yapıdaki süneklik tepkisinin tam olarak temsil edilememesine rağmen, maksimum taşıma kapasitesinin ve hasar oluşum bölgelerinin kabul edilebilir düzeyde doğrulukla belirlenebileceği görülmüştür. Yaygın olarak tercih edilen kapsamlı modelleme prosedürlerine bir alternatif olarak önerilen eşdeğer kafes model yaklaşımının umut verici olduğu sonucuna varılmıştır.
Creating Welfare for Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Role of the State
Authors: Debora Debora , Siallagan Haposan , Madelene Michelle Lucky
Published: December 2022

The Covid-19 pandemic has weakened the performance of the financial services industry and ruined the Indonesian economy and the welfare of society, including the creative economy sector. Access to finance is often a major problem for Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs). The role of MSMEs is very much needed in multidimensional, namely economic, social, environmental, and community. However, the role of MSMEs is often constrained in terms of capital accessibility. This study focuses on how the legal protection for MSMEs in the welfare state and how the role of the State in realizing welfare for MSMEs during the Covid-19 Pandemic. This research uses normative juridical research, namely examining material law which contains normative legal principles. This study concludes that first, welfare will be realized if the Government is able to provide legal protection to MSMEs. In order to provide legal protection for MSMEs, this is realized through the existence of Law Number 20 of 2008 concerning MSMEs. Second, the Government has compiled 9 programs to anticipate the impact of Covid-19 on MSMEs. The form of support provided starting from coaching, mentoring, and funding is an effort by the state to prosper the community, especially MSMEs.
Physical and mental health of military personnel as a social value
Authors: Novikov Nikolai S. , Naumov Petr Y. , Utyuganov Aleksej A.
Published: December 2022

We consider the problems of formation of the main vital aspects of military personnel, such as physical and psychological health, endurance, the ability to maintain high combat readiness in extreme conditions and in the presence of danger associated with a threat to life and health. The emergence of the army is a natural phenomenon, caused by the need to protect the society from both external encroachments on the sovereignty of the state, and on the internal balance in society. To maintain a high level of combat readiness in the army, a physically prepared and spiritually healthy serviceman is needed, capable of performing the tasks assigned to him in conditions that involve a risk to his life. The subject of the study is the physical and mental health of servicemen as a social and legal value. As a research methodology, systemic and subject-activity approaches to the analysis of social and legal phenomena creatively interpreted by the authors are used. We prove that the content of the vital values of servicemen is born in their interaction with the values of the psychological and spiritual level required in professional military activity. We raise the issue of developing a methodology for educating the skills of professional military activities that ensure the preservation of the life of society, as well as the necessary norms of law and order that ensure it. We note that in accordance with the tasks facing the society and the army to ensure the activities of the society and its citizens, it is necessary to develop a legal framework that allows us to successfully solve the tasks facing the state in medical support for the army.
Scientific discourse on the balance of interests in law
Authors: Zavgorodniaia Anastasiia A.
Published: December 2022

The features, problems and prospects of scientific discourse on the balance of interests in law are consi-dered. It is noted that today the balance of interests in law has acquired the value of not only value, but rational discourse, which is based on the search for some reasonable relationship between private and public interests. Different approaches to the definition, establishment of a balance of interests in law are given, approaches to the study of the essence of the balance of interests in the theory of law, as well as their branch differences in different legal sciences, which consider such a phenomenon as a balance of interests, as consent, as an agreed result, are considered, as a state of optimal conflict or lack of conflict, as a general legal, constitutional value, a legal method, as a means, etc. The variety of approaches confirms the complexity of the phenomenon of balance in law. The main discussion is in relation to the hierarchy of values and interests, as well as the criteria for admissibility of the priority of interests in the procedures for their balancing. Based on the analysis of a wide range of scientific studies on the balance in law, the balance of interests in law is considered as an element of a more general phenomenon in law. The purpose of the study is to establish the systemic characteristics of balance as a multidimensional phenomenon in law (reality), its prerequisites. The methodological basis includes the use of general scientific and special research methods. Separate methods of analysis, generalization, reconstruction of theories are used, applied within the framework of axiological, structural-functional, formal-legal, comparative-legal approaches. It is concluded that today the balance in law remains a concept, the semantic and content completeness of which is rather uncertain, and the pluralism of views on the definition of the essence of the balance of interests is due to various methodological approaches in its study and the goals set by the researcher, in connection with which the use of teleological approach allows us to recognize it as a goal, with an instrumental, pragmatic one – a means of effective legal regulation, with a structural-functional (systemic) approach to law – balance is an element of legal consciousness and legal ideology, a principle; with the formal legal (jurisprudence of concepts) – the concept; in the socio-humanitarian approach – as a state of social interests.
Current transformations of law about diseases presenting a danger for outside
Authors: Naumov Petr Y. , Zemlin Aleksandr I. , Utyuganov Aleksej A.
Published: December 2022

The relevance of the study is due to the need to understand the phenomenon of the pandemic of a new coronavirus infection in social practice and the development trends of legal norms in connection with its occurrence. The main subject of the study is the transformation of legislation in the field of legal regulation of issues of combating diseases that pose a danger to others. Solving problems of studying legislation on diseases that pose a danger to others, the current changes that have been made to the law in connection with the pandemic of a new coronavirus infection are being studied. We analyze and synthesize the changes promptly introduced by the legislator into the Federal Law “On the Basics of Protecting the Health of Citizens in the Russian Federation”, Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation dated December 1, 2004 No. 715 “On Approval of the List of Socially Significant Diseases and the List of Diseases that Constitute a Danger to Others”. Also, research attention is drawn to the features, norms and rules approved by the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of July 2, 2020 No. 973 “On the features of organizing the provision of medical care in the event of a threat of the spread of diseases that pose a danger to others”, as well as to the new sanitary and epidemiological rules SP 3.1 .3597-20 “Prevention of a new coronavirus infection (COVID-19)”, approved by Rospotrebnadzor.
Situating Some Aspects of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) in South African Higher Education Within Southern Theories
Authors: Chaka Chaka , Shange Thembeka , Ndlangamandla Sibusiso , Mkhize Dumisile
Published: December 2022

This paper discusses aspects of the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) in South African higher education (HE) and locates it within what it calls Southern theories. Three examples of such theories that the paper advances are Southern decolonial theory, decoloniality, and transversality, which it frames from the Global South standpoint. Concerning the first theory, the paper argues that SoTL, both as a notion and as a practice, needs to be problematized, critiqued, and contextualized according to the Global South HE settings in which it is applied. One of its key points in this regard is that SoTL has to question and critique the dominant epistemic practices and scholarly practices underpinning the curricula of Global South higher education institutions (HEIs), and through which students are framed in these HEIs. With reference to both decoloniality and transversality, the paper foregrounds components of SoTL that are aligned to these two approaches in a way that dismantles their hierarchical relations. Most importantly, it contends that transversality is capable of decentering Western truth claims in favor of polycentric epistemologies, frameworks, and methodologies that resonate with and that have applicability to the Global South.
Relocating English Studies and SoTL in the Global South: Towards Decolonizing English and Critiquing the Coloniality of Language
Authors: Chaka Chaka , Ndlangamandla Sibusiso
Published: December 2022

South Africa has policies and frameworks for curriculum design, transformation, and quality assurance in each public institution of higher education (HE). These policies influence the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), particularly at the departmental and disciplinary levels of English Studies. Despite the policy narratives and rhetoric, English Studies still carries vestiges of colonialism and apartheid in South Africa. Similarly, in other disciplines, scholars in the Global South have highlighted coloniality, epistemicides, epistemic errors, and epistemic injustices, but not in a dual critique of SoTL and the English language.
Hypercritical self-reflexivity by academics should be the norm in SoTL, and this should be linked to language-based curriculum reforms and module content designs. All of these self-reflexive efforts should foreground how the mission to transform and decolonize is entangled with Eurocentric paradigms of English language teaching.
This paper characterizes the nexus between SoTL and the coloniality of language within South African higher education. It also discusses and critiques the nature of an English department in a post-apartheid and postcolonial South Africa. In addition, it critiques the coloniality of language and imperial English language paradigms often embraced by higher education institutions (HEIs) in South Africa, and delineates curriculum transformation, Africanization, and decolonizing English within this educational sector. Finally, the paper challenges Eurocentric SoTL practices and colonialist English language paradigms by framing its argument within a critical southern decolonial perspective and a post-Eurocentric SoTL.
The “Elephant in the Room”: Why and How Medium of Instruction and Decolonisation of Education are Linked
Authors: Van Pinxteren Bert
Published: December 2022

The content of education and the medium in which it is delivered are generally seen as two different things: a curriculum that is in need of being “decolonised” can still be delivered in a colonial language. Likewise, a curriculum that is colonial in nature could in theory be delivered in any medium of instruction. This article argues that, seen from a macro perspective, this belief is incorrect. In African settings (and probably elsewhere as well), the medium of instruction and the content of that instruction are intricately linked. Evolution towards a decolonial educational system has to include a change in the medium of instruction if it is to be successful.