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PERANCANGAN SISTEM INFORMASI PENGELOLAAN ARSIP PADA CV ITANDI NUSANTARA
Authors: Pambudi Adi Tegar , Febriyati Nur Ahlina
Published: April 2022

Arsip merupakan bagian penting dari sebuah perusahaan, dan arsip juga disebut memori perusahaan. Tujuan pengarsipan adalah untuk melihat data pelanggan perusahaan setiap saat. Manajemen catatan harus menjadi lebih mudah untuk menemukan data pelanggan yang Anda cari dengan cepat. Dalam operasionalnya, CV Itandi Nusantara menggunakan surat penawaran jasa website untuk menjual jasa website. Setelah surat penawaran layanan situs web selesai, itu menunggu persetujuan pembeli. Sementara itu, masalah lain CV Itandi Nusantara adalah tidak dapat menggunakan sistem untuk mengelola arsip barang olahan, sehingga terkadang sulit menemukan arsip lama dari pelanggan. Dengan adanya perancangan sistem informasi pengelolaan arsip, diharapkan berjalan dengan baik sesuai dengan harapan dan dapat diterapkan serta membantu memudahkan dalam menyimpan semua data informasi project secara akurat dan efisien, sehingga dapat membantu memudahkan dalam hal arsip project sehingga lebih efisien dan efektif dalam hal pelayanan.
Kewenangan Badan Koordinasi Penanaman Modal Pasca Berlakunya OSS
Authors: Santhy Ainun Adrianty  , Lydia Goutama  , Nadya Rizky Nakayo
Published: April 2022

Government Regulation Number 24 regulates business licensing by integrating electronic system or Online Single Submission (OSS). In the implementation of the OSS system, it still faces many obstacles. The existence of Government Regulation Number 24/2018 tends to violate Law Number 25 of 2007 (hereinafter referred to as the Investment Act) concerning Investment because it was allegedly that the OSS institution took over the authority of the Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM) while the Investment Law states that investment licensing is the domain of BKPM. This results in a contradiction in the principle of Lex Superior Derogat Legi Inferior, where the principle states that lower regulations (PP) may not conflict with higher regulations (the Investment Law). In addition to the contradictions in the laws and regulations, OSS also still faces another obstacle, which is the lack of OSS infrastructure, so that the purpose of accelerating licensing services cannot be optimally implemented.
Religious Practice and the Claims of Anthropology
Authors: Keane Webb
Published: April 2022

It is an enormous honor to be here to celebrate the memory of Edvard Westermarck. A Swedish-speaking Finn, a Scandinavian emissary to London, a Northerner intimate with Morocco, a founding figure across the emergent disciplinary boundaries between sociology and anthropology, Westermarck was a cosmopolitan in the best sense of the word. From his position betwixt and between, he was well placed to identify the two central challenges of relativity that have long marked the human sciences in general, and anthropology in particular. One is ontological, the other moral. From the start, given their vast ambition to understand humans in the broadest social context, anthropologists have frequently had to grapple with reality claims and ethical norms far from their own. To his enduring credit, Westermarck had the courage to face the problem directly, and early on staked out one of the more radical and still unsettled positions on the relativistic implications of anthropology. In a world of ever faster and more widely circulating people, images, and ideas, the challenges posed by other reality claims and other moral values have only become more pressing.
Comments on Charles Macdonald’s “Order Against Harmony
Authors: Sillander Kenneth
Published: April 2022

Charles Macdonald has presented a highly interesting and inspiring paper. Its greatest value is indicated by the title: “Order against Harmony”. Its principal achievement is that he has presented a stimulating and widely relevant conceptual model of two basic types of societies: harmony- and order-oriented. Thereby he has created a very useful analytical scheme, one which may be used, among other things, for analyzing modernization in many contexts. For the small-scale harmony-oriented peoples that he discusses, modernity indeed usually involves increasing order-orientation. But order-orientation is of course not exclusively associated with modernity; it is an ancient invention almost inherently associated with the transformation of small-scale societies into large-scale societies, and there are also, as he indicates, small-scale, pre-modern order-oriented societies. One benefit of his model is precisely that it is does not approach things from the viewpoint of modernity, and that it is particularly designed for understanding certain conditions associated with so-called simplesocieties, which, unlike theories of modernity, it takes as the starting point, rather than treating as inverse mirror-images of ourselves.
Official Vodou and Vodou Churches in Haiti
Authors: Thylefors Markel
Published: April 2022

The last decades have seen some new trends within Haitian Vodou such as the first formal Vodou organizations of the eighties, the 2003 presidential decree officially recognizing Vodou as a religion, as well as attempts to ‘structure’, and ‘homogenize’ Vodou on a nationwide scale. This paper explores another, yet related, item among such transformations: namely, public discourse on, and aspirations to create, Vodou churches, marriages, baptisms, and funerals. In this article, such phenomena are foremost interpreted as attributes of the social status and legitimacy of ‘serious religion’ and as having less to do with purely spiritual, or religious, matters. The actual need for such additions—at least, in realized form—however, is less tangible among Vodou practitioners. Here it is suggested that this situation explains why so few Vodou churches are actually established, or marriages celebrated. It is also proposed that through the  mere act of entering the public sphere and making their claims heard, Vodou practitioners to a large extent have already rendered the Vodou religion legitimate.

 

Keywords: Haiti, Vodou, the official recognition of Haitian Vodou, marriages, baptisms and funerals.
An Inherent Burden
Authors: Crentsil Perpetual
Published: April 2022

The connection between rural-urban migration, risky survival activities and HIV infections in sub-Saharan African societies has been central among the social and cultural factors associated with the high rates of HIV/AIDS in the continent. But the underlying role of kinship in this relationship has been less documented. This article discusses the connection of kinship in rural-urban migration and HIV infections among the matrilineal Akan of Ghana. There is a pressure on people to migrate from their villages to urban areas where they are expected to be successful and remit to other kin members back home. When people become infected, the burden then turns to lie on kin members to care for the AIDS patients. The article concludes that the family pressures reflected in the stories of many AIDS patients in Akan society are too huge to ignore. It suggests that interpersonal dialogues as campaign strategies should target  both individuals and family members in households.

 

Keywords: kinship obligations, migration, HIV/AIDS, Akan of Ghana
“Keeping the Flame Alive”
Authors: Uusihakala Katja
Published: April 2022

In 1990 ex-Rhodesians—white former colonials who have emigrated from Zimbabwe after its independence in 1980—organized a commemorative event in South Africa in order to celebrate the Centenary of the founding of Rhodesia. In spite of the fact that Rhodesia no longer exists, it continues to have intrinsic weight in the present lives of former Rhodesians. It is held close by social memory practices, which are fundamental to how the diaspora community comes to understand itself and its place in the world. This article examines social memory practices in the context of the Centenary celebrations. The festivities involved the creation of an imaginary Rhodesianaland in a holiday resort in South Africa. The key event during the festivities was the re-enactment of the arrival of the Pioneer Column in Fort Salisbury (Harare) and the founding of colonial Rhodesia. The main objective of the commemorative event was the creation of a ceremonial site in which people could come together to recall and to reflect upon their shared past by re-telling the community’s origin narrative. However, the article also suggests that the mnemonic power and emotional affectivity of commemoration rests on the fact that culturally meaningful experiences are bodily enacted.
 
Keywords: Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, whites, social memory, commemoration
What are the Social Relations that Make a Set of Human Groups and Individuals a Society?
Authors: Godelier Maurice
Published: April 2022

Before beginning, I would like to thank Dr. Minna Ruckenstein and Professor Jukka Siikala as well as the Finnish Anthropological Society for having done me the honor of inviting me to give this lecture.

The question I am going to try to answer today concerns all of the social sciences at once. It is:What are the social relations, of whatever kind they may be—political, religious, economic, kinship, etc.—that have the capacity to bring together and to weld into an all-encompassing whole and to endow with an additional, global and shared identity a number of human groups and individuals who thereby form a ‘society’ with borders that are known if not recognized by their neighbor societies?

The human groups to which individuals belong can be of a great variety of natures: lineages, ‘houses’, clans, orders, castes, classes, local or religious communities, etc.; and an individual usually belongs to several of these groups, each of which provides him or her with one or several particular, specific identities. It is to these identities that is added the global shared identity attaching to all individuals, whatever their particular identity, by the fact of belonging to the same ‘society’, to the same Whole.
Lectio Praecursoria. Women and Marital Breakdown in South India: Reconstructing homes, bonds and persons
Authors: Aura Siru
Published: April 2022

A lectio præcursoria is a short presentation read out loud by a doctoral candidate at the start of a public thesis examination in Finland. It introduces the key points or central argument of the thesis in a way that should make the ensuing discussion between the examinee and the examiner apprehensible to the audience, many of whom may be unfamiliar with the candidate’s research or even anthropological research in general.
Harri Englund. Prisoners of Freedom: Human Rights and the African Poor
Authors: Orock Rogers Tabe Egbe
Published: April 2022

ENGLUND, HARRI. Prisoners of Freedom: Human Rights and the African Poor. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. Pp. 260. ISBN: 978-0-520-24923-3 (hardcover); ISBN: 978-0-520-24924-0 (paperback).
IMPLEMENTASI SISTEM PERHITUNGAN PRODUKSI BAHAN BAKU PLASTIK BERBASIS ANDROID
Authors: Handayani Nurdiana , Prastiyo Dian Adi , Taufiq Rohmat , Mayatopani Hendra
Published: April 2022

The production calculation system is carried out before the production process of plastic raw materials is carried out. The process is done to find out the amount of production based on purchase orders in a company. Often the occurrence of loss or frame of data in the production calculation process because it is still in the form of document archives and untidy scheduling processes. Research is intensively conducted, detailed to find out the problems that occur in the process of calculating plastic raw materials through the process of approaching study cases in the company to produce user requirments specifications and system design. In connecting user incomprehension regarding technical and clarifying the specifications of the user's desired needs in the software development process using prototype methods. Android-based plastic raw material production calculation system in order to help in the production process and scheduling process that is in accordance with the order. Keyword: Production Calculation System, User Requirments Specification, Prototype, Android.
Challenges to the Aarhus Convention: Public Participation in the Energy Planning Process in the United Kingdom
Authors: Heffron Raphael , Haynes Paul
Published: April 2022

This article examines the tension between the democratic right of public participation on specific environmental issues, guaranteed by European Law, and the degree to which it is being challenged in the UK as a consequence of recent approaches to energy infrastructure planning. Recent trends in UK government policy frameworks seem both to threaten effective public participation and challenge EU planning strategy, in particular those outlined in the Aarhus convention. The research outlined in this study involves an assessment of the changing context of planning and energy policy, in addition to recent changes in legislation formulation in the UK. The research findings, derived from an extensive interview process of elite stakeholders engaged in policy and legislation formulation in the UK and the EU provide a new categorisation system of stakeholders in energy policy that can be utilised in future research. The article concludes with a second order analysis of the interviewee data and provides solutions to increase public participation in the planning of energy infrastructure that emerge from the different perspectives.
Review Commentary: Towards a Deeper Understanding of 'European Citizenship'
Authors: Pfister Thomas
Published: April 2022

This short revireview commentary discusses three recent contributions on citizenship and European integration:

Kostakopoulou, D. (2008). The Future Governance of Citizenship. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Maas, W. (2007). Creating European Citizens. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Shaw, J. (2007). The Transformation of Citizenship in the European Union: Electoral Rights and the Restructuring of Political Space. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
EU-China Cooperation In the Field of Energy, Environment and Climate Change
Authors: De Matteis Pietro
Published: April 2022

The evolution of the energy market and the intrinsic worldwide scope of environmental threats, such as climate change, are two elements that have pushed the world towards shared approaches to global governance via bilateral institutions and international regimes. This article, with the aid of an institutionalist approach, presents the current status of the EU-China relationship, which is characterised by high institutionalisation, and it underlines how their bilateral cooperation has progressively focused on energy and climate change-related issues. In particular, the article sheds some light on the linkages between energy, environment and climate change and how these have created the basis for the upgrade of the EU-China bilateral relationship to its current level. To do so, it underlines some of the tools, the main frameworks and some of the key outcomes of their bilateral cooperation in these fields.
Guarding EU-wide Counter-terrorism Policing: The Struggle for Sound Parliamentary Scrutiny of Europol
Authors: Hillebrand Claudia
Published: April 2022

Since the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, DC (2001), Madrid (2004) and London (2005), the European Union (EU) has stepped up its efforts to develop new instruments and reinforce existing ones to fight terrorism jointly. One of the key aspects of the EU-wide fight against terrorism and serious crime is the facilitation and enforcement of information and intelligence exchange among law enforcement authorities and, to a limited extent, security and intelligence services. This article examines how far the EU’s commitment to democracy, accountability and transparency is actually fulfilled with respect to its efforts at fighting terrorism by drawing on the example of the activities of the European Police Office (Europol). Taking the European Parliament (EP) and National Parliaments (NPs), but also inter-parliamentary forums, into account, the article analyses how, and to what extent, mechanisms of democratic accountability and, in particular, parliamentary scrutiny are in place to hold EU-wide counter-terrorism actors, such as Europol, to account. This is a particularly timely question given that Europol’s parliamentary scrutiny procedures are currently subject to considerable changes due to the change in its legal mandate as of 1 January 2010 and the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty.
Comitology and Parliamentarisation: Strong Causality and Weak Interaction
Authors: Georgiev Vihar
Published: April 2022

The comitology procedures have been an integral part of the European Union legislative decision-making process. The negotiation of the legal framework of the comitology procedures, as well as the administrative practice of the European Commission in drafting implementing acts, is relevant to the legal research on the evolution of European integration. This article studies the dynamic relationship between the process of regulation and implementation of comitology procedures, and the process of parliamentarisation of the European Communities and later of the European Union. Two hypotheses are tested. The first hypothesis claims that there is a clear causal link between the use of newly acquired budgetary and legislative powers of the European Parliament, and the limitation of control by Member States on the Commission by the comitology committees. The second hypothesis claims that a weak system interaction exists between the notion of parliamentarisation and the reform of the comitology system.
Domestic Non-Compliance with an EU Norm: A Case Study of the Capital Punishment System in Japan
Authors: Obara Mika
Published: April 2022

There is a worldwide declining trend in the number of countries that have retained capital punishment since the end of World War II, and the international society has created a series of benchmarks for modern democracies represented by the acquis communautaire by the European Union (EU), and relevant covenants by the United Nations (UN). Despite their efforts to urge Japan to abolish capital punishment, the Japanese government does not try to match it up and is rather running backwards in the international trend retaining inhuman and degrading practices. This paper examines the Japanese institutional and cultural context, and clarifies where the governmental resistance to the anti-death penalty norm stems from. It will critically investigate which institutional frameworks have been constraining anti-death penalty activists from getting involved in Japanese policymaking; and the extent to which cultural factors have been hindering their activities from gaining roots in Japan. Critical assessment of which specific approaches can help EU institutions and other European activist groups influence Japan more effectively concludes this paper.
Overcoming Gridlock: The Council Presidency, Legislative Activity and Issue De-Coupling in the Area of Occupational Health and Safety Regulation
Authors: Warntjen Andreas
Published: April 2022

A member state of the European Union can use its term as the Council president to make progress on pending but stalled proposals which it would like to see adopted. This case study of the directive on the risk arising from physical agents shows how a Council presidency can use issue subtraction, additional meetings and compromise proposals to overcome gridlock in the Council. There is a notable difference in terms of legislative activity between the presidencies of high regulation and low regulation countries. High regulation countries put forward compromise proposals and scheduled additional meetings to resolve outstanding issues. The case study also demonstrates the importance of issue subtraction. The original proposal was gridlocked in the Council for five years. Only after the original proposal was split up into several dossiers (issue de-coupling) was it possible to reach agreement.
Between Europeanisation and Domestic Influences: Portugal's Post-colonial Relations with Angola
Authors: Raimundo Antonio
Published: April 2022

This paper builds on the Europeanization literature to explore the impact of EU membership on Portuguese foreign policy towards Angola. The analysis is centred on trade issues, focusing on Portugal’s accession negotiations and the reform of the Lomé Convention. Portugal is a small and open economy, with a colonial past in Angola. Trade is one of the most integrated policy areas of the EU, which has long and highly institutionalised relations with Africa. Preliminary results point to great evidence of Europeanization understood as national adaptation to the EU. However, the projection of Portuguese priorities onto the European level also received some support. History, cultural links and the presence of strong national interest groups appear to have limited the EU’s impact on Portuguese preferences. Such findings give support to studies stressing the need to adequately account for domestic conditions, even in highly integrated EU policy areas and for smaller member states.
Civil Procedure Harmonization in the EU: Unravelling the Policy Considerations
Authors: Vernadaki Zampia
Published: April 2022

This article examines the role and significance of the fundamental right of access to justice in the EU (Article 47 CFREU) in the context of the fragmentation of EU law, as evidenced in the area of civil procedure law. As member states’ procedural regimes are considerably divergent, EU institutions intervene, more and more often, to ensure EU law is effectively enforced in an equivalent manner across the EU. This work thus addresses a preliminary question: when should EU institutions provide civil procedure rules that promote effective dispute resolution and enforcement of EU law? In other words, which are the policy parameters that render such a proactive stance on the part of the EU institutions both desirable and feasible? EU institutions will have to answer this question for every legislative proposal in the area of civil justice. Therefore, this article only offers the broad lines along which such in concreto justification for legislative action in civil justice will have to take place. It is argued that EU institutions should take into account the various cultural, economic, social, and historical implications of civil procedure law in order to achieve a coherent approach. Against this background, the fundamental right to effective remedy and fair trial should tie all policy parameters together.
Practising EU Security Governance in the Transatlantic Context: A Fragmentation of Power or Networked Hegemony?
Authors: Zyla Benjamin , Kammel Arnold
Published: April 2022

Security governance is commonly understood as an answer to the new and constantly changing security environment after the Cold War. In the context of the European Union (EU), the governance approach is believed to understand better the evolving institutional characters, networks, and processes of the EU’s actions in global politics. By employing a neo-Gramscian framework we challenge the 'orthodox view' in the EU governance literature that networks are flexible and hierarchy-immune responses to increasingly global policy challenges. We argue that networks in and of themselves reproduce existing power structures, and discuss the presence and replication of hegemony through these networks by examining the EU’s governance system post the Lisbon Treaty.
Security Governance Matters
Authors: Missiroli Antonio
Published: April 2022

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European External Trade Policy: The Role of Ideas in German Preference Formation
Authors: Alons Gerry
Published: April 2022

In the literature examining European Union external trade policy, the relative influence of the Commission, the member states and interest groups are an issue of ongoing debate. This article will argue that member states can still play an important role and that a focus on member state preferences is therefore crucial in understanding European external trade policy in general. An interest-based explanation of state preferences is proposed in which both material (political and economic) and ideational variables are included, whereas material explanations alone dominate the current research in the trade policy field. An in-depth case study of German preference formation and position taking with regard to the agricultural chapter of the GATT Uruguay Round (1986-1993) shows the interplay between material and ideational interest. As well as German preference formation being guided by Germany’s trade interests and political interests (particularly when these interests were united and governmental sensitivity was high), considerations concerning the Franco-German friendship, affecting Germany’s ideational interest, also proved to be a constant in the preference-formation process.
The Power of Economic Ideas: A Constructivist Political Economy of EU Trade Policy
Authors: Siles-Brügge Gabriel
Published: April 2022

The European Union’s (EU’s) 2006 Global Europe communication established an offensive Free Trade Agreement (FTA) agenda premised on serving the interests of the EU’s upmarket exporters at the expense of the EU’s remaining “pockets of protection”. This has remained in place with the advent of the 2010 Trade, Growth and World Affairs strategy. Such a development defies both rationalist International Political Economy (IPE) explanations – which emphasise the protectionist bias of societal mobilisation – and accounts stressing the institutional insulation of policy-makers from societal pressures because the recent economic crisis and the increased politicisation of EU trade policy by the European Parliament have coexisted without leading to greater protectionism. Adopting a constructivist approach, we show that this turn of events can be explained by the neoliberal ideas internalised by policy-makers in the European Commission’s Directorate-General (DG) for Trade. We then deploy a novel heuristic to illustrate how DG Trade acted upon these ideas to strategically construct a powerful discursive imperative for liberalisation.
EU Soft Power and the Capability-Expectations Gap
Authors: Nielsen Kristian L
Published: April 2022

The European Union has in the past ten years frequently emphasised its soft power as its primary currency in international affairs. Yet a systematic analysis of the EU’s foreign policy performance, through the prism of the classic ‘capability-expectations gap’, suggests that soft power in itself does little to address the weakness of the EU as a foreign policy actor. This article elaborates on the soft power concept and on the interplay between hard and soft power as seen in the EU’s foreign policy. It argues that in few of the roles the EU seeks to fulfil does soft power in itself bridge the gap between the expectations and the capabilities. Rather, soft power, when it is present, widens that gap even further by adding to expectations, thus leading to even greater eventual disillusionment when the EU’s hard power capabilities do not match.
PEREMPUAN KOREA SELATAN DALAM PERANG KOREA
Authors: Afriadi Afriadi
Published: April 2022

Perang selalu diidentikkan dengan peran laki-laki, termasuk juga Perang Korea. Namun, pada kenyataannya, tidak sedikit perempuan Korea Selatan yang memberikan kontribusi aktifnya demi mempertahankan negara. Tulisan ini berusaha melihat peran perempuan Korea Selatan dalam bidang militer, yakni sebagai tentara perempuan dan perawat militer; serta bidang nonmiliter sebagai partisipan gerilya. Dengan menggunakan metode sejarah yang meliputi heuristik, kritik, interpretasi, dan historiografi serta memanfaatkan sejumlah studi literatur, tulisan ini menunjukkan bahwa peran perempuan Korea Selatan tidak hanya terbatas pada ranah domestik sebagi penyokong keluarga, karena mempertahankan negara adalah kewajiban seluruh rakyat terlepas dari apapun jenis kelaminnya.Kata kunci: Perang Korea, Perempuan Korea Selatan, Militer
Perfil sociodemográfico, clínico e terapêutico de pacientes com feridas neoplásicas
Authors: Brito Débora Thaise Freires de , Macêdo Elton de Lima , Agra Glenda , Andrade Fábia Letícia Martins de , Formiga Nilton Soares , Costa Marta Miriam Lopes
Published: April 2022

Objetiva-se traçar o perfil sociodemográfico, clínico e terapêutico de pacientes com feridas neoplásicas atendidosem um hospital referência de Campina Grande-PB. Trata-se de um estudo documental, retrospectivo e descritivo, comabordagem quantitativa, em que foram utilizados dados secundários – sociodemográficos, clínicos e terapêuticos -extraídos de prontuários de pacientes com feridas neoplásicas, no intervalo de janeiro de 2009 a dezembro de 2015.A amostra foi composta por 852 prontuários, destes, 447 eram mulheres (53%), com idade igual ou maior que 60 anos(58,2%), casadas (28,6%), sem escolaridade (28,5%), agricultoras (23,9%) e aposentadas (36,3%). A maioria (50,6%)foi diagnosticada com câncer de pele, as lesões apresentavam dor (9,6%), sangramento (3,9%), odor (2,5%), exsudato(2,0%) e sinais de infecção (1,1%). Quanto à modalidade terapêutica, a maioria (50,7%) dos pacientes realizoubiópsia, seguida de radioterapia (42,2%). Conclui-se que faz-se necessário implementar políticas públicas no tocanteà prevenção dos cânceres de pele, boca e mama, a fim de diminuir o risco para adoecimento; educação em saúdepara esses pacientes, como também reduzir complicações locais e sistêmicas, tais como as lesões neoplásicas; ecriar estratégias efetivas para o registro das informações sociodemográficas, clínicas e terapêuticas completas dopaciente em prontuários eletrônicos ou convencionais pelos profissionais de saúde.Palavras-chave: Neoplasias Cutâneas; Oncologia; Cuidados de Enfermagem.
Primary School Teachers’ Educational Thoughts
Authors:   Pamukkale University, Turkey, Kumral Orhan
Published: April 2022

Every science exists on a philosophical basis / thought and becomes functional. As in all sciences, philosophy forms a necessary basis for the educational science. The need for philosophy, emanated from the need to make learning environments meaningful, as well as to find answers to the questions of why and how education should be done. The basic purpose of this research is to investigate educational philosophies of primary school teachers who are still working in a medium-sized province in Turkey within the framework literature. Quantitative survey design was employed in the study. The study group is comprised of 225 primary school teachers working in primary schools within a medium-sized Anatolian city in terms of demographic structure. The “Educational Thoughts and Practices” scale was used to collect the research data. The variance was conducted parametric one-way analysis. One of the significant results of the study is that the primary school teachers participating in the study mainly adopt popular educational thoughts and practices. Given the overall results of the study, it is seen that the scores close to each other in the popular and traditional dimensions. It can thus be implied that teachers are aware of the attractiveness of the creative learning environment ensured by student-centered learning, however, they do not give up on their duties and habits of transferring knowledge.
The Accuracy of Endometrial Sampling and Clinical Affecting Factors as a Predictor of Final Surgical Pathology in Endometrial Cancer
Authors: Promwattanaphan Lukkana , Satitniramai Sikarn
Published: April 2022

Background: We conducted a retrospective study to evaluate the correlation between preoperative and final histologic diagnoses of endometrial cancer and to identify clinicopathologic factors associated with the concordance between initial and final hysterectomy specimens. Methods: Patients who underwent primary surgical treatment for endometrial cancer at our institute from January 2016 through December 2020 were enrolled. The International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) grade and histologic subtype in the pathologic reports were recorded. The level of agreement of tumor grade and histologic type were analyzed. Results: A total of 425 cases were recruited. The overall level of agreement between preoperative grading was moderate according to kappa statistics (κ = 0.469, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.385, 0.553). Furthermore, agreement related to the histologic subtype was substantial (κ = 0.778, 95% CI: 0.682, 0.874). The most frequently used endometrial sampling methods were the office endometrial sampling and endometrial curettage (49.2% and 32%, respectively). Among each diagnostic method, manual vacuum aspiration and endometrial curettage had high tumor grade correlation between the preoperative sampling and final pathology (κ = 0.743, 95% CI: 0.549, 0.937 and κ = 0.624, 95% CI: 0.512, 0.736, respectively). Negative peritoneal cytology was was the significant factor associated with concordance between preoperative endometrial sampling and final surgical pathology, with an adjusted odds ratio (OR) of 2.01 (95% CI: 1.03, 3.92; p = 0.040). Conclusions: Regardless of the different diagnostic methods, preoperative endometrial biopsy has limitations in predicting tumor grade compared with final hysterectomy specimens in women with endometrial cancer.
Computational systems pharmacology analysis of Tong-Jing-Yi formula in the treatment of dysmenorrhea
Authors: Li Yueyan , Zhu Jialei , Tang Jing
Published: April 2022

Background: Tong-Jing-Yi (TJY) formula consists of Leonurus, fried Toosendan and processed Cyperus, etc. The therapeutic effect of TJY on dysmenorrhea has been clinically validated, but the underlying mechanism remains unclear. The present study aimed to explore the possible molecular targets of TJY and the potential mechanisms. Methods: The components of TJY formula were identified by ultra performance liquid chromatography–quadrupole-time of flight/mass spectrometry. SwissTargetPrediction database was used to predict the targets of TJY formula, and targets associated with primary dysmenorrhea were also collected through other databases. Gene Ontology (GO) and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) pathway enrichment analyses were conducted. Results: A total of 91 compounds with identified structures were screened, including 3 groups of isomers. The results predicted 854 TJY formula-related targets and 363 disease-related targets. GO and KEGG analysis showed that the top 5 target genes were PIK3CA, AKT1, EGFR, AKT2 and CYP19A1. PI3K-Akt signaling, chemokine signaling, focal adhesion, and Rap1 signaling were ranked in the top 15 pathways. Conclusion: TJY formula might play roles in the treatment of dysmenorrhea underlying mechanisms relating to the involvement of TNF-α, interleukin and PI3K-Akt signaling pathway. Potential pathways have been identified that need mechanistic confirmation in a laboratory setting in the future.
Autologous Mesenchymal Stromal Cells Combined with Gelatin Sponge for Repair Intervertebral Disc Defect after Discectomy: A Preclinical Study in a Goat Model
Authors: Yuan Qiuming , Du Lilong , Xu Haiwei , Zhang Kaihui , Li Qifeng , Zhang Hao , Liu Yue , Ma Xinlong , Xu Baoshan
Published: April 2022

Background: The defect of intervertebral disc (IVD) after discectomy may impair tissue healing and predispose patients to subsequent IVD degeneration, which is thought to be an important cause of recurrence. Cell-based approaches for the treatment of IVD degeneration have shown promise in preclinical studies. However, most of these therapies have not been approved for clinical use due to the risks of abnormal differentiation and microorganism contamination of the culture-expanded cells. Selective cell retention (SCR) technology is non-cultivation technique, which can avoid those preambles in cell expansion. In this study, we used a commercially available BONE GROWTH PROMOTER device (BGP, FUWOSI, Chongqing, China) to concentrate mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) from bone marrow aspirate (BMA) through SCR technology. Methods: A small incision was made on the L2/3, L3/4 and L4/5 discs of goats and part of nucleus pulposus (NP) was removed to construct IVD defect model. The L2/3 disc was subjected to discectomy only (DO group), the L3/4 disc was implanted with enriched BMA-matrix (CE group), and the L4/5 disc was implanted cultured autologous bone marrow MSCs matrix (CC group). And the intact L1/2 disc served as a non-injured control (NC group). The animals were followed up for 24 weeks after operation. Spine imaging was analysis performed at 4 and 24 weeks. Histology, immunohistochemistry, gene expression and biomechanical analysis were performed to investigate the IVD morphology, content and mechanical properties at 24 weeks. Results: The CE and CC groups showed a significantly smaller reduction in the disc height and T2-weighted signal intensity, and a better spinal segmental stability than DO group. Histological analysis demonstrated that CE and CC groups maintained a relatively well-preserved structure compared to the DO group. Furthermore, real-time PCR and immunohistochemistry demonstrated that aggrecan and type II collagen were up-regulated in CE and CC groups compared to DO group. Conclusions: The strategy of MSCs enrichment combined with gelatin sponge by SCR technology provides a rapid, simple, and effective method for cell concentration and cell-carrier combination. This reparative strategy can be used in clinical treatment of IVD defect after discectomy. Clinical Trial Registration: NCT03002207.
Autoantibodies to Tumor Necrosis Factor in Patients with Active Pulmonary Tuberculosis
Authors: Kireev Fedor D. , Lopatnikova Julia A. , Laushkina Zhanna A. , Sennikov Sergey V.
Published: April 2022

Background: Tumor necrosis factor (TNF) plays an important role in immune responses to the causative agent of tuberculosis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Additionally, TNF can also mediate many negative disease manifestations. The aim of this study was to assess the contribution of anti-TNF autoantibodies to the pathogenesis of active pulmonary tuberculosis (TB). Methods: The levels of anti-TNF autoantibody classes and subclasses were determined by applying enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs). The levels of TNF and of its soluble receptors were also evaluated using commercial ELISA kits. Results: The levels of both types of soluble TNF receptors were lower patients with TB than in healthy donors. Patients with TB had higher titers of immunoglobulin (Ig)G class and IgG3 subclass anti-TNF autoantibodies in comparison with healthy donors. Patients who had a disseminated TB infection had higher TNF level and IgG, IgG1 and IgG3 autoantibody titers compared with patients who had a localized TB infection. Conclusions: Changes in the titers of anti-TNF autoantibody classes and subclasses were noted in patients with TB, suggesting their possible contribution to the disease pathogenesis of TB.
Neovascular Remodeling and Subretinal Fibrosis as Biomarkers for Predicting Incomplete Response to Anti-VEGF Therapy in Neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration
Authors: Wu Jing , Zhang Jingfa
Published: April 2022

Purpose: To compare the progression of neovascular remodeling and subretinal fibrosis in neovascular age-related macular degeneration (NVAMD) after anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) therapy. Methods: Twenty eyes from 20 patients with subretinal fibrosis complicating NVAMD were retrospectively reviewed. All patients complied with at least three consecutive monthly intravitreal treatments and final follow-up visit at 12 months after the initial anti-VEGF treatment of aflibercept or ranibizumab. Using optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA), the central macular thickness (CMT), microvascular density in the superficial capillary plexus (SCP), deep capillary plexus (DCP), choroidal neovascularization (CNV) lesions, as well as subretinal fibrotic lesions were compared between baseline and final visit. Results: The mean number for anti-VEGF injections was 4.40 ± 0.88 during the 12 months of follow-up. There was no significant difference in best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) and vascular density in SCP and DCP (p > 0.05) between baseline and final follow-up. The CMT decreased from 434.95 ± 87.62 μm at baseline to 365.15 ± 78.92 μm at final visit (p = 0.02). Compared with the baseline, the fine vessels, such as capillary tufts, regressed and the relative density of CNV lesion decreased by 19.12% (p = 0.01), while the relative density of the subretinal fibrosis increased approximately 1.21-fold (p = 0.03) at the final follow-up. Conclusions: The progression of neovascular remodeling and subretinal fibrosis may serve as biomarkers to predict incomplete response to anti-VEGF therapy in patients with NVAMD. Subretinal fibrosis complicating NVAMD remains a major obstacle for the management of NVAMD, and anti-VEGF treatment is a potential therapeutic strategy to target neovascular remodeling and subretinal fibrosis as either an additive or alternative therapeutic approach for NVAMD.
ON THE MECHANISM OF MINERAL NANOMETRY
Authors: Kazantseva Tamara Timofeevna
Published: April 2022

In our time, the manifestation of significant interest in natural mineral individuals of nanometric dimensions has become natural and necessary. A new branch of geological science, nanomineralogy, has also been developed. An analysis of the data accumulated on this problem made it possible to speak of two ways for the formation of natural nanosized crystals: a) crystallization and b) deformation. The first of them, crystallization, is the natural origin of the crystallization of any mineral individual in its characteristic initial period. Convictions are expressed that all crystalline particles — germs — have nanosizes, and all minerals began their development from nanocrystals. The appearance of individuals of this size is also characteristic of the initial stages of recrystallization of volcanic glasses. Nanoscale values are characteristic, for example, of opals. The second way is deformational, when the development of geological matter is determined by the peculiarities of tectonic evolution, its geodynamics.
CLAYEY ROCKS OF THE UPPER PROTEROZOIC SUIROVO FORMATION, WESTERN SLOPE OF THE SOUTHERN URALS: SOME FEATURES OF GEOCHEMISTRY
Authors: Maslov Andrey Victorovich
Published: April 2022

The article presents the results of the analysis of some geochemical features of the clayey rocks of the Suirovo Formation (Bashkirian meganticlinorium, Southern Urals). It is shown that the Zr/Sc and Th/Sc ratios in mudstones, as well as a number of lithochemical modules, gives reason to believe that thin-grained aluminosilicoclastics of the first sedimentation cycle prevails in their composition. The distribution of the mudstone data points on the La/Sc — Th/Co and Cr/Th — Th/Sc diagrams indicates the presence of a noticeable part of the products of destruction of the basic igneous rocks. The same can be assumed on the basis of their inherent average values (La/Yb)N and Eu/Eu*. Localization of the mudstone data points on the (La/Yb)N — Eu/Eu* diagram with fields characterizing the composition of the fine-grained suspension of the estuarine parts of modern rivers of different categories suggests that the provenances of the Suirovo basin were composed of a diverse complex of rocks (sedimentary rocks, acidic and basic igneous and volcanic rocks), and the rivers that transported thin-grained aluminosilicoclastics were classified as large. On the Th — La — Sc diagram, the mudstone data points tend to the field of compositions typical of oceanic island arcs, which is consistent with their position on the (Fe2O3* + MgO) — Al2O3/SiO2 diagram.
Regional Payment Systems of Asia, Africa, Latin America as a Tool for Regional Integration. Prospects for the Eurasian Economic Union
Authors:   Financial Research Institute, Moscow 127006, Russian Federation, Shvandar Kristina V. , Khomyakova Lyubov I. ,   Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, Moscow 125167, Russian Federation
Published: April 2022

The article considers the mutual payment systems of regional associations in Asia, Africa and Latin America in line with the global trend to reduce the share of the US dollar in settlements among countries belonging to trade, regional or integration blocs. We took for the research the Regional Payment System SML (Sistema de Pagamentos em Moeda Local) of the MERCOSUR countries, the Regional Mutual Settlement System SUCRE (Sistema Único de Compensación Regional) of the ALBA countries, the Regional Clearing and Settlement System REPSS (Regional Payment and Settlement System) of the COMESA, Settlement system of the Asian Clearing Union. It reveals features of these mutual payment systems, analyzes their contribution to the servicing of mutual trade turnover (noted such a feature of existing systems as their centric organization). The role of these systems in stimulating the use of national currencies by economic entities has been determined. It is indicated that the dedollarisation processes are closely related to the development of cross-border payments and the achievement of certain agreements on the development of a common payment space among countries of the same region that have economic ties, first of all active mutual trade. Based on the model and data on mutual trade turnover and the currency structure of settlements of the Eurasian Economic Union countries given Latin American, African and Asian experience, it forecasts an increase in the share of their national currencies in the servicing of mutual trade in goods and services.
A “drunken triumvirate” (M.I. Glinka — N.V. Kukolnik — K.P. Bryullov in 1836—1844): influence on artistic life
Authors: Ostrovsky Oleg , Demidova Anna , Orlyanovsky Vitaly
Published: April 2022

The authors of this article have tried to systematize memoir testimonies, some archival data and scientific publications about the creative union of the composer M.I. Glinka, the writer N.V Kukolnik and the painter K.P. Bryullov. Here we consider the influence of the “triumvirate” on the artistic life of the capital and the fate of representatives of Russian culture close to it. Special attention is paid to the “Art newspaper” of N. V Kukolnik. The article examines its content, value judgments and influence on the development of contemporary Russian culture.
Behind a dense veil of rumors and speculation: touches to the portrait of F.R. Kozlov
Authors: Sushkov Andrey
Published: April 2022

The article examines some myths that have developed around the Soviet politician Frol Romanovich Kozlov - “the number two person” in the leadership of the USSR during the reign of N.S. Khrushchev. The myths were not only replicated in the periodical press, but also used by the authors of a number of scientific studies. The article shows that the formation and dissemination of these myths was facilitated by the uncritical perception of the materials of journalistic publications, as well as the memoirs of some former heads of state authorities.
“Taiga Leningrad women”: the everyday life of women in Angarsk in 1950s—1960s
Authors: Pushkareva Natalia , Belov Sergej , Zhidchenko Alexander
Published: April 2022

The authors analyze the history of the everyday life of the inhabitants of the Soviet Angarsk, built in the 1950s-1960s in Eastern Siberia according to the project of Leningrad architects as an exemplary city. Analyzing the history of the creation of the sociocultural environment of the city, landscaping and landscaping, they show the ways of forming a new urban environment in which the daily life of the workers of the Soviet petrochemical industry unfolded, the features of everyday life in the new city in terms of work, leisure, raising children. Particular emphasis is placed on the reflections of Soviet filmmakers, who chose Angarsk as a typical city of post-war Siberia, preserved on film the details of women’s everyday life in the new city, as well as on the perception of the “American threat” during the “Cold War”. The conducted research confirmed the hypothesis that the everyday life of Angarsk residents was part of the Soviet gender project.