bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Surgical removal of Aquafilling localized to different sites
Authors: Chalcarz Michał , Krokowicz Piotr , Żurawski Jakub
Published: October 2023

Introduction: Aquafilling, a widely used soft-tissue filler since 2005, shows multiple adverse effects, necessitating the development of effective methods for its removal. We present a surgical method for removal of Aquafilling present in the breasts, breasts with migration to the chest and/or the abdomen, and the buttocks, and elaborate and discuss the advantages of this method.

Aim: The aim of this study was to present a surgical method for removal of Aquafilling (soft-tissue filler) present in the breasts, breasts with migration to the chest and/or the abdomen, and the buttocks, and to elaborate the advantages of this proposed technique.

Materials and methods: The surgical Aquafilling removal method described here was used in 25 patients (age, 21–53 years). The technique was used to remove Aquafilling present in the breasts (14 patients), breasts with migration to the chest and/or the abdomen (7 patients), and the buttocks (3 patients). The detailed course of Aquafilling removal surgery and postoperative treatment for these three types of cases is described.

Results: Surgical removal of Aquafilling with the described method did not cause any of the previously described ailments in each patient, excluding one patient who only showed significant pain reduction in both breasts preceding each menstruation cycle.

Conclusions: The method described herein can be recommended for removal of Aquafilling present in the breasts, breasts with migration to the chest and/or the abdomen, and buttocks, since it allowed thorough Aquafilling removal and decreased the local inflammatory state and the risk of potential carcinogenesis.
Complicated acute appendicitis with compromised appendiceal base: A review of surgical strategies
Authors: Caballero-Alvarado Jose , Lau Torres Victor , Peralta Katherine Lozano , Zavaleta-Corvera Carlos
Published: October 2023

Introduction: Acute appendicitis is one of the most frequent emergencies in hospitals around the world; it requires early surgical treatment in complicated cases. One of the challenges that the surgeon faces during appendectomy is when the base of the appendix is compromised by either a perforation or gangrene. To show the surgical strategies that have been reported, as well as the complications associated with a compromised appendicular base in a complicated acute appendicitis.

Methods: A bibliographic search was carried out in the databases of Pubmed, Embase, Web of Science, and Google Scholar. The search expression (“appendiceal stump closure” OR “Closure of the appendiceal stump” OR “Management of appendiceal stump”) was used to search for articles. The inclusion criteria were observational studies (case reports, case series, or cross-sectional, case-control, or cohort studies).

Discussion: Different techniques have been reported for the treatment of a compromised appendicular base. Among the most used are primary closure, partial resection of the cecum, cecostomy tube, ileocecectomy, and right hemicolectomy. The most frequent complications are surgical site infection, intra-abdominal abscess, postoperative ileus, intestinal obstruction, and others.

Conclusions: The appendicular base, compromised by necrosis or perforation, requires adequate treatment in order to prevent dehiscence of the appendicular stump sutures and fecal peritonitis. A number of surgical options have been reported.
ApoA-I and ApoB levels, and ApoB-to-ApoA-I ratio as candidate pre-treatment biomarkers of pathomorphological response to neoadjuvant therapy in gastric and esophago-gastric junction adenocarcinoma
Authors: Nurczyk Kamil , Nowak Norbert , Orczykowski Tomasz , Bojar Paweł , Duma Dariusz , Gieroba Renata , Wallner Grzegorz , Skoczylas Tomasz
Published: October 2023

Introduction: Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) is a part of the current standard of care in a locally advanced gastric adenocarcinoma (GA) and esophagogastric junction adenocarcinoma (EGJA), but only patients with good pathomorphological response (pR) to NAC benefit from prolonged overall survival.

Aim: The study aims to evaluate ApoA-I and ApoB as candidate pre-treatment biomarkers of pR to NAC in patients with GA and EGJA.

Materials and methods: Serum samples were collected from 18 patients with GA and 9 with EGJA before the initiation of NAC to determine the ApoA-I and ApoB levels. After NAC tumor regression grade (TRG) was evaluated in resected specimens according to the Mandard’s tumor regression grading system and correlated with pre-treatment ApoA-I and ApoB serum concentration, and ApoB-to-ApoA-I serum concentration ratio.

Results: We found a positive correlation of ApoA-I level and pR (95% CI: –0.863 to –0.467; P < 0.0001), a negative correlation of ApoB level and pR (95% CI: 0.445 to 0.857; P < 0.0001), a negative correlation of ApoB-to-ApoA-I ratio and pR (95% CI: 0.835 to 0.964; P < 0.0001).

Conclusions: ApoA-I and ApoB levels, and ApoB-to-ApoA-I ratio are candidate pre-treatment predictors of pR to NAC in GA and may help to guide personalized therapy.
Our work fits into the dynamically developing trend of personalized treatment. It describes a potentially important rationale for further evaluation of apolipoprotein A-I and apolipoprotein B as predictors of cancer response to neoadjuvant therapy.
Skin cancer occurrence: single-center experiences from period 2020–2022
Authors: Łaziński Łukasz , Koziej Mateusz , Antoszewski Bogusław , Fijałkowska Marta
Published: October 2023

Introduction: Skin cancers constitute a group of medical disorders remaining a field of interest for surgeons and dermatologists. Currently, this group is typically divided into malignant melanoma (MM) and keratinocyte cancers (KC).

Aim: The aim of this study is to analyze the cases of skin cancers treated in the Department of Plastic, Reconstructive, and Aesthetic Surgery in Lodz (Poland) during the COVID-19 pandemic (from 2020 to 2022) and then compare the results with the ones from the pre-pandemic period (from 2017 to 2019).

Material and methods: An analysis of histopathological files from the period between 2020 and 2022 was performed. It was based on the following criteria: sex, age, type of skin cancer, subtype of basal cell carcinoma (BCC), location, and dimensions of the tumor. The study sample consisted of 225 patients presenting 241 cases of skin cancers. There were 74 men and 151 women, with the mean age being 71.7.

Results: The most common skin cancer was BCC (175 cases, 72.6%) followed by SCC (59 cases, 24.5%), melanoma (5 cases, 2.1%), and other (2 cases, 0.8% – angiosarcoma and sweat gland carcinoma).

Conclusions: A marked reduction in the number of skin cancers detected during the pandemic period was reported on. Delay in the surgical treatment of skin tumors does not seem to affect the size of the removed lesion. Some models predicting that tumors would be larger after the confinement period are not applicable in reality. However, further investigations with larger samples from multiple centers are needed to confirm these findings and to work out standards on how to deal with healthcare crises in the future.
FILOSOFIA DA EDUCAÇÃO E PENSAMENTO INDÍGENA: UMA PROPOSTA DECOLONIAL CONTEMPORÂNEA
Authors: Menezes Gabrielly Jacob , Silva Hugo Rodrigues da , Almeida Willians Prestes de , Valim Ricardo
Published: October 2023

Em essência, a filosofia busca se ocupar de questões importantes. Considera-se a filosofia como não alienada, mas arraigada em meios aos problemas do mundo. É preciso pensar filosoficamente a realidade a partir de conceitualizações amazônicas. A educação baseou-se durante muito tempo em modelos eurocêntricos que não consideram saberes outros. Neste contexto, a inserção do pensamento indígena em relação ao ser humano e a natureza se mostra como uma das contribuições para a educação no processo de decolonização epistêmica. Objetiva-se refletir sobre as epistemologias indígenas como problema filosófico no qual a própria filosofia da educação deve se ocupar. A metodologia configura-se como revisão bibliográfica. Os resultados da discussão apontam para a necessidade de refletir filosoficamente sobre a importância do pensamento literário indígena em um processo decolonial epistêmico. Conclui-se que um processo decolonial educativo passa pelo crivo da sabedoria indígena e pensado à luz da filosofia da educação, possibilita uma educação integral.
Exploring Volatility and Spillover Effects between African Sovereign Bond Markets and Global Long-Term Interest Rates
Authors: DEBALKE Negash Mulatu
Published: October 2023

The study investigated the existence of volatility and spillover effects between sovereign bond returns of South Africa and Ethiopia and the world’s long-term interest rate using multivariate generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity model. The results showed that volatility from the long-term world interest rate negatively affects the Ethiopian sovereign bond market. The results also showed a one-way spillover from South Africa's market to the U.S. long-term market, then from the U.S. to Ethiopia's market, and further from Ethiopia's to South Africa's market. However, no bidirectional spillover was observed within these markets. Besides, both African markets display high volatility persistence. Besides, the markets have a weak or insignificant correlation with the world’s long-term interest rate. Volatility in the markets is significantly affected by their respective past shocks or volatilities. Finally, it has forwarded policy inputs that should be tailored to the specific economic and financial context of each country.
The Effectiveness of Compassion-Focused Therapy on Resilience, Shame, Internal Self-criticism, and Quality of Life of Patients with Vitiligo
Authors: Fatollahzadeh Saina , Kianimoghadam Amir Sam , Bahri Rogayeh , Khesali Maryam , Pour Seyyed Aghaei Zahra , Masjedi Arani Abbas
Published: October 2023

Background: Vitiligo is a disease of progressive and permanent skin depigmentation. This disease impacts patients' quality of life through psychological distress, which shows itself in various ways. This distress includes shame and internal self-criticism in patients with vitiligo. Resilience can appear as the strength against distress. Objectives: This research aimed to assess the impact of compassion-focused therapy (CFT) on various outcomes, including resilience, shame, internal self-criticism, and quality of life in individuals with vitiligo. Methods: In this study, an RCT design was employed, incorporating both pre- and post-test evaluations alongside a control group, to examine the impact of CFT on resilience, shame, internal self-criticism, and quality of life in patients with vitiligo. Forty patients with vitiligo were selected from Razi Dermatology Hospital in Tehran in 2019. The participants were randomly assigned to either a control or experimental group. The World Health Organization Quality of Life Questionnaire, Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale, levels of self-criticism scale, and Internalized Shame Scale were used to complete the pre-and post-test phases. Compassion-focused therapy based on the Gilbert therapy package was held in eight 2 h sessions once a week for the experimental group. The control group received the intervention after the end of the experimental group intervention. Results: The results of the covariance analysis indicated that CFT significantly increased the quality of life (P < 0.05, F = 308.97) and resilience (P < 0.05, F = 125.75) and reduced shame (P < 0.05, F = 228.30) and internal self-criticism (P < 0.05, F = 53.44) of patients with vitiligo. Conclusions: Compassion-focused therapy can improve the quality of life and resilience and reduce the shame and internal self-criticism of patients with vitiligo.
Arquitectura de la ciudad moderna
Authors: Piñón Pallarés Helio
Published: October 2023

Arquitectura de la ciudad moderna es un ejercicio de proyecto de un área urbana, basado en los criterios de ordenación explícitos en la tradición moderna. Una tradición que abarca desde los proyectos de Le Corbusier y Hilberseimer hasta los de Van der Broek & Barema y, especialmente, los poblados dirigidos y los polígonos proyectados y construidos en España a mediados de los años cincuenta.
El formalismo esencial de la arquitectura moderna
Authors: Piñón Pallarés Helio
Published: October 2023

La idea más extendida de la arquitectura moderna la considera una mera faceta de un fenómeno más general, denominado Movimiento Moderno, que vendría a ser un estado de entusiasmo provocado por la culminación de la Revolución Industrial en lo que se dio en llamar "la edad de la máquina". Las obras de arquitectura moderna serían, desde esa perspectiva, transparentes a la función y a la forma, de modo que los arquitectos actuarían como comadronas que asistirían al parto, por si se presentasen complicaciones, pero sin incidir en el resultado del mismo.
La observación atenta de las obras de la arquitectura moderna desmiente rotundamente dicha interpretación, pero la deriva conceptual que pronto adquirió la crítica eclipsó la mirada, tomando "la idea" como estímulo y, a la vez, como criterio de legalidad de la obra.
El presente ensayo propone entender la arquitectura moderna como un formalismo -es decir, un empeño en construir la forma de los edificios con criterios de orden consistente-, igual como el clasicismo se basa, asimismo, en un empeño formalizador.
A partir de la estética de Kant, el autor recorre las teorías formalistas del arte que a lo largo del siglo XIX defendieron la consideración visual del arte, frente a las doctrinas que lo entendieron como la "expresión de una idea".
El recorrido por las vanguardias constructivas del arte, elaboradas a principios del siglo XX, desemboca en una revisión de las principales doctrinas arquitectónicas de la segunda mitad de siglo, que culmina en una consideración sobre la arquitectura contemporánea.
Silencios elocuentes
Authors: Martí Arís Carlos
Published: October 2023

A medida que turbulencias de toda clase caracterizan prepotentemente nuestro clima contemporáneo, va creciendo la centralidad de un puñado de actitudes y obras que, a lo largo del siglo xx, han cultivado la poética del silencio y han sido capaces de interpretar, a través de ella, la realidad caótica y huidiza de nuestra época. Al intento de desentrañar algunas claves de ese talante alternativo van destinadas estas páginas. El texto se estructura a partir de diez breves estudios sobre temas centrales en el arte y la arquitectura contemporánea, y sobre destacados protagonistas que han hecho de la mesura un ingrediente sustancial de su obra: Jorge Luis Borges, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Yasuhiro Ozu, Mark Rothko y Jorge Oteiza. Más allá de las importantes diferencias geográficas y culturales que separan las temáticas afrontadas, hay un rasgo común en todas ellas: el rechazo del arte entendido como una histérica agresión a los sentidos, tal y como es promocionado por la pseudocultura mediática, y —en su contra— la afirmación de una interpretación artística de la realidad como reflexión profunda y elocuente, destinada a intentar desvelar los misterios del mundo.
Quantitative Evaluation of Android Application Privacy Security Based on Privacy Policy and Behaviour
Authors: Tello Alcides Bernardo , Alam Sohaib , Salve Archana Ravindra , Kumari B.M. Kusuma , Arora Meena
Published: October 2023

The emerging landscape of Android applications in mobile phones encompasses industries involving millions and billions of app developers to improve usability and comfort for smartphone users. Popular apps are categorized into social media, entertainment, games, news, lifestyle, health and fitness. In this vein, privacy security is categorized into two major sections: distribution and development of particularities and running software on the user's mobile. According to European Union, the major issues of legal and regulations arising from the requirement from the GDPR, the Personal information protection law of China and other related regulations combined with the behaviour and privacy policy of application. In this article, Privacy security was quantitatively analyzed through data collection and analysis of scores by comparing the comprehensive use of ML, NLP and other technologies. E-privacy was regulated in the environment of mobile applications. The features were analyzed in privacy and data protection. The scope of this study is to evaluate the privacy security of the application in Android devices based on the privacy policy and behaviour.
Stock Market Trend Analysis and Machine Learning-based Predictive Evaluation
Authors: Hurriyati Ratih , A. Ana , Sulastri Sulastri , Lisnawati Lisnawati , Sawangsang Thosporn
Published: October 2023

Financial experts may make successful selections thanks to the stock market's research and forecasting capabilities, which is exciting. This study examines the stock market forecast outcomes through a simple feed-forward neural network (FFNN) model. Then, we contrast those outcomes with those produced using more sophisticated Elman, fuzzy logic, and radial basis function networks. Any problem with finite input-output mapping may be solved using the FFNN as long as it has at least one hidden layer and a sufficient number of neurons. An ANN in which RBFs are used as activation functions is called a radial basis function network (RBFN). Utilizing the Levenberg-Marquardt Back Propagation technique, the FFNN and Elman networks are trained in this study. A Fuzzy Inference System (FIS) of Sugeno type is employed to replicate the predictive procedure within the realm of fuzzy logic. We choose the optimal RBF values using several clustering techniques. The approaches were validated using public stock market data on the National Stock Exchange of Indonesia.
Sentiment Analysis of Halal Media and Recreation Trends in The Last 10 Years
Authors: Maysyaroh Siti , Salmah Siti , Nadia Tri
Published: October 2023

This research aims to examine trends in halal media and recreation in the last ten years globally and is reviewed from scientific studies in the journal published Dimension. This research uses the sentiment analysis method from secondary data in 106 papers published in the last ten years, namely 2013 to 2023, then processed using Microsoft Excel 2019 and SentiStrengh. The research results illustrate that the analysis of good (positive) sentiment is 45.3%, bad (negative) sentiment is 21.7%, and the rest has a neutral sentiment of 33%. The results of this discovery with sentiment analysis found that halal media and recreation trends in the last ten years tend to have positive sentiments. From the results of this analysis, both positive, negative, and neutral sentiments are challenges and opportunities for interested parties, including the government, academics, and so on, to provide a strong understanding regarding halal media and recreation.
The Impact of Covid-19 on The Halal Tourism
Authors: Rusydiana Aam Slamet , As-Salafiyah Aisyah , Marlina Lina
Published: October 2023

This study aims to determine the map of the development of research on the theme of halal tourism during the COVID-19 pandemic published by digital object identifier-equipped journals. The study was conducted in November 2020. The data analyzed were more than 50 published papers. The object of study is a published journal published in 2020. The data is then processed and analyzed using the VOSviewer application program to determine the bibliometric mapping of the development of halal tourism research. The results showed that the most popular countries used as the object of study were Indonesia with 18 papers and Malaysia with 13 papers. The research development map of this theme is divided into 4 clusters. Cluster 1 consists of 11 topics, cluster 2 consists of 11 topics, cluster 3 consists of 10 topics and cluster 4 consists of 8 topics. The findings from this study indicate that the halal tourism sector is also affected by COVID-19 and various countries have made efforts to minimize this impact. The adverse effects of COVID-19 have quite an impact on the halal tourism sector today and in the future, this is because visitors and tourists are reluctant to travel because they are worried about health risks despite the COVID-19 pandemic has ended. However, players in the halal tourism sector must continue to make improvements, by continuing to improve the facilities provided to support health insurance.
Nonnegative controllability for a class of nonlinear degenerate parabolic equations with application to climate science
Authors: Floridia Giuseppe
Published: October 2023

We consider a nonlinear degenerate reaction-diffusion equation. First we prove that if the initial state is nonnegative, then the solution remains nonnegative for all time. Then we prove the approximate controllability between nonnegative states via multiplicative controls, this is done using the reaction coefficient as control.

For more information see https://ejde.math.txstate.edu/Volumes/2020/59/abstr.html
Analiza porównawcza efektywności banków przy wykorzystaniu modelu granicznego kosztów w wybranych krajach europejskich
Authors: Skrzypek Jurand , Trojak Mariusz
Published: October 2023

The aim of this paper is to analyze the comparative effectiveness of commercial banks operating in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the Baltic countries. Selection of a representative group of banks was dictated by the desire to assess the degree of effectiveness in the two groups of countries that started democratic and economic transformation almost simultaneously, but opted for various models of development of the banking sector. The efficiency of banks in the studied groups of countries in 2005–2011 differed significantly, and has demonstrated an analysis using the stochastic frontier model costs.
Zróżnicowanie płacy w Polsce w ujęciu regionalnym i jej wpływ na proces wzrostu gospodarczego
Authors: Mowczan Damian
Published: October 2023

The article presents the statistical series characterizing the uneven distribution of wages in Polish voivodships in 2000–2010, measured in concentration Lorenz index. This information was used to examine the relationship between wage differentials and economic growth at the regional level. The optimal level of wage differentiation understood as the level that maximizes the rate of economic growth was determined.
New Orbit review: American Postmodernist Fiction and the Past, by Theophilus Savvas
Authors: Eve Martin Paul
Published: October 2023

A quick note to say that David Letzler has very kindly submitted a review of American Postmodernist Fiction and the Past, by Theophilus Savvas that is now live in Orbit 1.2. New Orbit review: American Postmodernist Fiction and the Past, by Theophilus Savvas was originally published by Martin Paul Eve at Martin Paul Eve on October 21, 2012.
Q&A with me in Library Journal: Why We Need a Public Library of the Humanities and Social Sciences
Authors: Eve Martin Paul
Published: October 2023

There's a Q&A with me that has just been published in  Library Journal  on why we need a public library of the humanities and social sciences (a "PLOS-like" project -- but not officially affiliated). Meanwhile the project continues to make progress; we're currently building up the various committees and the infrastructure that is needed for these groups to communicate!
My thoughts on DT Max's biography of DFW
Authors: Eve Martin Paul
Published: October 2023

Let me start by stating upfront how much I wanted to dislike this book. I caution students against biographical readings all the time. The author on whom I've done most of my research work, Thomas Pynchon, deliberately obfuscates attempts to read in this way through extreme privacy. I didn't like Max's style from the off (the dropping of the preposition after the verb "write" in its epistolary sense is an Americanism that I still can't forgive).
On the Impurity of the Humanities and Critical University Studies
Authors: Eve Martin Paul
Published: October 2023

There is a proud tradition in many fields of the humanities of critical thinking. Linked to the Enlightenment Humanist tradition, this critique achieves its positivity (better citizens, better societies) through negation: we criticize and think critically because only in negating those wrong aspects of the world can we hope to put things aright.
Orbit: Writing Around Pynchon receives funding from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Authors: Eve Martin Paul
Published: October 2023

It is with great pleasure that I am able to announce that Orbit: Writing Around Pynchon has entered into a partnership with Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. LMU have generously provided the funding that we need to cover our technical costs for the entire coming year. In turn, Orbit is offering editorial experience to several postgraduate students at a crucial time of transition to the Open Access model.
The Clause Model of Adorno's Dialectical Sentences
Authors: Eve Martin Paul
Published: October 2023

Earlier this week I participated in a small reading group on Adorno's "The Essay as Form" and there was one particularly good sentence from this piece that I thought worth sharing in the light of that discussion as it forms a perfect examples of Adorno's model of the dialectical sentence.
Fixing scanning on an HP Photosmart C6300 series in Ubuntu 12.10
Authors: Eve Martin Paul
Published: October 2023

If you own an HP Photosmart C6300 series and upgraded to Ubuntu 12.10, you may have noticed that you are unable to set the scan resolution (DPI) in any of your programs. gscan2pdf has the scan resolution dropdown menu greyed out and you will be unable to get xsane to present you with a list of resolutions. The answer is that the models.dat shipped with hplip versions under 3.12.10 contains an error.
Publication: 'Review of Theophilius Savvas, American Postmodern Fiction and the Past', Literature and History, 21, 2 (Autumn 2012), pp. 106-108
Authors: Eve Martin Paul
Published: October 2023

My review of Theophilius Savvas'  American Postmodern Fiction and the Past  is now out in  Literature and History  , 21, 2 (Autumn 2012), pp. 106-108. As the DOI link seems to be broken for now, it's also available via ingentaconnect.  Update: following email confirmation from Ryan Sweet at Literature & History, I can confirm that I am allowed to post the full text pre-print. 
Using bumblebee for opteron graphics on Ubuntu 12.10 on a Samsung Chronos 7 Series laptop
Authors: Eve Martin Paul
Published: October 2023

Getting this to work has been the bane of my morning, so here's what I did to eventually get it working: Edit /etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf (as root). Change: Edit /etc/bumblebee/xorg.conf.nvidia (as root). Change: Option "ConnectedMonitor" "DFP" to Option "ConnectedMonitor" "CRT" A reboot now should enable you to do: "optirun glxgears" without any problems. If it isn't working, make sure that bumblebee-nvidia is actually installed.
Opisthocoelicaudia is Just Plain Wrong
Authors: Wedel Matt
Published: October 2023

I was cruising the monographs the other night, looking for new ideas, when the humerus of  Opisthocoelicaudia  stopped me dead in my tracks. I think you’ll agree it is an arresting sight:  Opisthocoelicaudia  right humerus in medial, anterior, lateral, and posterior views, from Borsuk-Bialynicka (1977: figure 7) I’d  seen  it before, but somehow I had never grokked its grotesque fatness.
PeerJ launches today! (and we’re in it!)
Authors: Wedel Matt
Published: October 2023

 Apatosaurus lousiae  1/12 scale skeleton in left antero-lateral view, modelled by Phil Platt, assembled and photographed by Brant Bassam. Image courtesy of BrantWorks.com. Today our paper on sauropod neck anatomy is formally published in PeerJ.
What an amazing day for open access
Authors: Taylor Mike
Published: October 2023

Well, yesterday was insane. In the morning, we had the UK House of Lords report on its inquiry into open access: fearful, compromised, regressive, and representing the latest stage in the inexorable defanging of RCUK’s policy. I happened to be going out yesterday evening; when I left the house it had been the worst day for open access in recent memory.
The House of Lords’ terribly disappointing report on Open Access
Authors: Taylor Mike
Published: October 2023

A while back, I submitted evidence to the House of Lords’ inquiry into Open Access — pointlessly, as it turns out, since they were too busy listening to the whining of publishers, and of misinformed traditionalist academics who hadn’t taken the trouble to learn about OA before making public statements about it. Today the Lords’ report [PDF version] is out, summarised here. And it’s a crushing disappointment.
Predatory online journals include subscription access journals
Authors: Mounce Ross
Published: October 2023

Just a quick post to say that I think Beall’s list of “predatory journals” should be expanded to include dubious subscription access journals. I think it’s rather unfair on the open access movement to claim it’s just the open access business model that faces this kind of desperate exploitation.
Personal milestones: publishing the Ph.D
Authors: Taylor Mike
Published: October 2023

If you’ll forgive me a rather self-indulgent post, the neck-anatomy paper that I and Matt recently had published in PeerJ is important to me for three reasons beyond the usual satisfaction of getting a piece of work out in a good journal.  Taylor and Wedel (1023:figure 4).  Extent of soft tissue on ostrich and sauropod necks.
Neu erschienen: Kulturen und Ethiken des Teilens
Authors: Pachali David
Published: October 2023

Im Verlag der Universität Innsbruck ist gerade der deutsch-englische Sammelband „Cultures and Ethics of Sharing / Kulturen und Ethiken des Teilens” erschienen. Herausgegeben von Wolfgang Sützl, Felix Stalder, Ronald Maier und Theo Hug nimmt der Band das Teilen aus verschiedenen wissenschaftlichen Perspektiven in den Blick und streift damit, kaum überraschend, auch das Urheberrecht.
How disruptive is PeerJ?
Authors: Taylor Mike
Published: October 2023

Matt and I were discussing “portable peer-review” services like Rubriq, and the conversation quickly wandered to the subject of PeerJ. Then I realised that that seems to be happening with  all  our conversations lately. Here’s a partial transcript. —  Mike:  I don’t see portable peer-review catching on. Who’s going to pay for it unless journals give an equal discount from APCs?
Tarifreform: Die GEMA will warten
Authors: Wragge Alexander
Published: October 2023

Die GEMA bietet an, die geplante Tarifreform für Clubs zu verschieben. Erst einmal bis Ende Juni. Am Dienstag forderten die Wirtschaftsminister der Bundesländer, die für den 1. April 2013 geplante GEMA-Tarifreform auf Eis zu legen. Die GEMA solle warten, bis die zuständige Schiedsstelle beim Deutschen Patent- und Markenamt (DPMA) im Streit mit den betroffenen Clubbesitzern und Veranstaltern eine Entscheidung getroffen hat.
Open Access Week mit Podiumsdiskussion am Dienstag in Berlin
Authors: Pachali David
Published: October 2023

Heute beginnt die Open Access Week, eine seit 2008 stattfindende Aktionswoche, die für den freien Zugang zu wissenschaftlichen Informationen wirbt. Nach eigenen Angaben findet sie „überall”, also international statt und ist übrigens nicht zu verwechseln mit den Ende September in Wien abgehaltenen Open-Access-Tagen.
Opportunity Knocks
Authors: Mounce Ross
Published: October 2023

A few months ago I gave a short talk about the Open Knowledge Foundation and its activities as relevant to academics at a small (but good!) palaeontology conference in Cambridge (which I blogged about previously). I didn’t

need

to give this talk. Neither the OKF nor my academic progression required me to give this talk.
This is why you never just hit the Accept All Changes button
Authors: Taylor Mike
Published: October 2023

Whenever I write a complicated document, such as my submission to the Select Committee on open access, I get Matt to do an editing pass before I finalise it. That’s always worthwhile, but I have to be careful not to just blindly hit the Accept All Changes button.
Can repositories solve the access problem?
Authors: Taylor Mike
Published: October 2023

The progressive RCUK policy on open access has recently come under fire, particularly from humanities scholars, for favouring Gold OA over Green.
FDP: Diskussion zum Online-Fernsehen
Authors: Wragge Alexander
Published: October 2023

Bei Aldi steht gerade ein Online-Fernseher im Regal. Bei Saturn und Mediamarkt sieht man zahlreiche Facebook-, YouTube- und LOVEFiLM-Buttons auf den TV-Bildschirmen. Fernseher werden zum Riesen-Tablet für’s an die Wand hängen. Offline-TV könnte schneller verschwinden als man denkt. Sind Politik und Wirtschaft schon auf das IP-TV im großen Stil vorbereitet?
Störerhaftung für WLAN-Betreiber: SPD, Linke und Grüne wollen Reform
Authors: Pachali David
Published: October 2023

Nachdem der Bundesrat vor kurzem eine Initiative beschlossen hat, die mehr Rechtssicherheit für WLAN-Betreiber bringen soll, landet das Thema heute auch im Bundestag – allerdings noch ohne Aussprache. Hintergrund des Streits sind die Probleme, die sich für WLAN-Betreiber ergeben haben, seit das Urteil des Bundesgerichtshofs im Fall „Sommer unseres Lebens” offene Funknetze zum Haftungsrisiko erklärte.
The Recapture Creek sauropod: the reveal
Authors: Wedel Matt
Published: October 2023

If you’re just joining us, this post is a follow-up to this one, in which I considered the possible size and identity of the Recapture Creek femur fragment, which “Dinosaur Jim” Jensen (1987: page 604) said was “the largest bone I have ever seen”. True to his word, Brooks Britt at BYU got back to me with measurements of the Recapture Creek femur fragment in practically no time at all: Now, taking plaster off a bone is not going to make it any
PDF metadata: different tool, same story
Authors: Mounce Ross
Published: October 2023

So a week ago, I investigated publisher-produced Version of Record PDFs with

pdfinfo

and the results were very disappointing. Lots of missing metadata was found and one could not reliably identify most of these PDFs from metadata alone, let alone extract particular fields of interest. But Rod Page kindly alerted to me the fact that I might be using the wrong tool for this investigation.
Further info about the licences that free/open access journals use
Authors: Mounce Ross
Published: October 2023

I’ve been quoted in a Nature News story about Open Access journal licencing. I’m a staunch defender of the use of the Creative Commons Attribution licence, as it’s a good licence for academic research. Here’s just some of what I sent Richard Van Noorden (Nature News) by email. I don’t blame him for only using select quotes.
Clean-IT: Was für ein (Kommunikations)-Desaster
Authors: Wragge Alexander
Published: October 2023

 Was ist Clean-IT?  Eine NICHT-legislative Initiative des holländischen Innenministeriums. Eine privat-öffentliche Partnerschaft. Eine Quasselrunde, in der Vertreter der europäischen Polizeibehörde Europol und nationaler Sicherheitsbehörden mit Wirtschaftslobbyisten über Maßnahmen gegen die „terroristische Nutzung des Internets“ schwadronieren. Eingeladen sind auch alle Vertreter der Zivilgesellschaft.
Evaluation of the performance of trading companies in Serbia using the FF-WASPAS and WASPAS methods
Authors: Lukić Radojko
Published: October 2023

The main goal of this research paper is to comprehensively analyze the performance of trading companies in Serbia and propose appropriate measures for future improvement. In the specific case study, DELHAIZE Serbia achieved a return on sales of 2.50%, a return on assets of 3.56% and a return on capital of 6.95% in 2021. On the other hand, LIDL Serbia achieved a return on sales of 5.77%, a return on assets of 6.66% and a return on capital of 12.55% in the same year. Thus, LIDL Serbia performed more successfully than DELHAIZE Serbia. In general, foreign retail chains demonstrate better performance than domestic ones. One reason for this is that they adopt newer business methods and have a higher degree of digitization of the entire business.
The impact of digital technologies on employee engagement: Case study of company "A" in Serbia
Authors: Lukić-Nikolić Jelena
Published: October 2023

The rapid and progressive advancement of modern digital technologies and tools, as well as their widespread application, have changed the working environment and working conditions. As a result, many concepts, methods, practices, and activities related to employee engagement must be reconsidered and adapted to the needs of the new workplace. This paper highlights the key changes in employee engagement caused by digital technologies. Obtained results from conducted case study in one IT company from Serbia showed that modern technologies enable remote work, flexible working hours, more challenging and interesting tasks, but also lead to a variety of challenges among which are technologically caused stress, over-reliance on technology, work-life conflict, and burnout syndrome. The findings presented in this paper can be useful for managers and leaders who want to build, improve, and nurture employee engagement in the digital age. Human resource managers also have valuable information on how to develop practices and methods for using digital technologies and tools in the best possible way, without negative effects and consequences on employee engagement.
Perspectives of Serbian-Albanian relations in the light of the "Open Balkans" initiative
Authors: Stanković Marko , Krstić Zoran
Published: October 2023

The paper aims to show the possibilities and perspectives of improving Serbian-Albanian relations through the establishment of the "Open Balkans" project. Confrontation policies enabled the creation of inter-ethnic intolerance and provided support to political elites, leading these societies in the direction of conflicts and rejection of mutual cooperation. In the era when Serbia and Albania are trying to become part of the European Union, there are numerous obstacles and a lack of support from European countries on this path. Accordingly, these countries initiated regional political and economic integration. "Open Balkans" was designed as an initiative of the countries of the Western Balkans with the aim of advancing these countries on the European path. Part of the criticism of this project is reflected in the expectation of help from the countries of the European Union, which was absent in the original processes of European integration. This initiative represents a mini-precedent in the European history of integration and is the way to restore friendly Serbian-Albanian relations. "Open Balkans" should open a new economic space for cooperation between Serbian and Albanian economies, help overcome inter-ethnic prejudices and create preconditions for faster adoption of European values.
Dynamicity of interaction in academic discourse: Evidence from a corpus-based study
Authors: Farahani Mehrdad Vasheghani
Published: October 2023

Metadiscourse features are the rhetorical devices that serve to maintain the writer-reader and speaker-audience interaction. The way metadiscourse features are utilized in spoken and written modes may differ given the nature of these two modes of communication. For this reason, the present study set to unpack the distributional pattern of metadiscourse features as well as investigate the construction and maintenance of writer-reader and speaker-audience interaction in academic written and spoken English. To achieve this goal, two corpora of The British Academic Written English Corpus and British Academic Spoken English Corpus were utilized as the data gathering resources. To categorize the metadiscourse features, Hyland's taxonomy was selected. The quantitative analysis of the data showcased that the written corpus was more interactive oriented despite the fact that the spoken corpus showed a propensity towards the interactional category of metadiscourse features. On the other hand, the analysis of the concordance lines illustrated that academic conventions differed significantly in spoken and written academic English which resulted in a dynamic interaction between writer-reader as well as speaker-audience. The results of the study at hand may have implications in such lines of research as corpus linguistics, contrastive analysis and genre studies.
Regulasi Diri Mahasiswa Penghafal Al-Qur’an dalam Menjaga Kualitas Hafalan Al-Qur’an di Fakultas Tarbiyah dan Ilmu Keguruan UIN K.H. Abdurrahman Wahid Pekalongan
Authors: Sari Lina Farah Intan Sari
Published: October 2023

Mahasiswa penghafal Al-Qur'an mempunyai peran ganda dalam dunia perkuliahan yakni peran menjaga hafalan Al-Quran dan juga peran menjaga prestasi akademiknya. Oleh karena itu kontrol diri dan manajemen waktu sangat diperlukan mahasiswa agar memiliki keseimbangan keduanya. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif deskriptif dengan pendekatan field research (penelitian lapangan). Tujuan penelitian untuk mendeskripsikan regulasi diri yang dilakukan oleh mahasiswa penghafal Al-Qur'an UIN K.H Abdurrahman Wahid sebagai upaya kontrol diri dan manajamen diri. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa mahasiswa UIN KH. Abdurrahman Wahid menerapkan regulasi diri dalam menyeimbangkan hafalan dan prestasi akademik. Regulasi tersebut meliputi tiga aspek diantaranya: (1) Regulasi diri aspek metakognisi, melalui: tahap perencanaan, tahap organisir dan tahap pengukuran diri atas usaha-usaha yang dilakukan dalam proses menghafal (2) Regulasi diri aspek motivasi sebagai salah satu penggerak mahasiswa dalam mempertahankan semangat menghafal (3) Regulasi diri aspek Perilaku yaitu cara mahasiswa untuk mampu beradaptasi dengan lingkungan. Faktor yang mempengaruhi regulasi diri mahasiswa penghafal terdiri dari faktor pendorong dan faktor penghambat. Faktor pendorong diantaranya fasilitas yang diberikan kepada mahasiswa penghafal Al-Qur'an, support dan motivasi dari orang-orang terdekat serta kemampuan para mahasiswa untuk mempertahankan motivasinya. Selanjutnya faktor penghambat diantaranya rasa malas, menemukan kata-kata yang sulit saat menghambat dan pengaruh gadget.
Genetic Investigation of Yield and Related Components in Some Landraces of Brinjal (Solanum melongena L.)
Authors: Susmitha J. , Eswaran R. , Kumar N. Senthil
Published: October 2023

An experiment was conducted at Shivapuri, Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India for estimation of genetic variability parameters. The genetic investigation studies in 46 brinjal genotypes estimated genetic variability parameters namely Phenotypic (PCV) and Genotypic (GCV) coefficient of variation, range, mean, genetic advance and heritability. The ANOVA due to genotypes is found to be significant indicating the genotypes under study are diverse. The PCV for all characters were slightly higher than GCV, indicating the presence of little environmental influence. The high values of heritability and GAM for yield per plant and yield related traits like fruit weight, fruit length, number of fruits per plant and number of fruits per cluster suggest the inclusivity of these genotypes for yield improvement in brinjal. Further, the genotypes could be studied for genetic and specific combining ability, in-order to include valuable landraces in location specific and objective specific breeding programs.
ORGANIZATION OF THE ACTIVITIES OF FEDERAL STATE BODIES TO ENSURE AND PROTECT HUMAN AND CIVIL RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS IN AN EMERGENCY SITUATION
Authors: Moreva Anna , Aseev Ilya
Published: October 2023

The relevance of various global dangers necessitates the establishment of special legal regimes to regulate social relations during emergencies. In the last few years, the solution of this issue has become

a priority in the activities of various countries of the world. The tragic consequences of emergency situations show that the delay of the state in making decisions, negligent attitude to the measures and restrictions imposed can lead to a complication of the socio-economic and political situation. All this often leads to significant human casualties, numerous destruction and destruction, a rapid flow of refugees, disruption of infrastructure, colossal material damage, humanitarian catastrophe. These circumstances pose a real threat to the national security and territorial integrity of the State. The authorities and local self-government bodies are required to take immediate measures. Also, the state faces a new task – the optimization of public administration, forcing it to quickly create previously unrealized legal mechanisms for the introduction of emergency legal regimes in order to maintain law and order and ensure the rule of law in the state.
FORENSIC PREVENTION AS A BASIS FOR IDENTIFYING AND PREVENTING DANGEROUS SITUATIONS DEVELOPING IN THE ARCTIC REGION
Authors: Polstovalov Oleg
Published: October 2023

Proposes the broadest possible interpretation of the scope of forensic prevention, which, according to the author, should work already at the level of the very emergence of a dangerous situation with initially unknown or inaccurately established root causes of its occurrence. The author dwells on the features of the traditional scientific approach in forensic science and the difficulties in overcoming the conservatism of forensic scientists. The specific features of the implementation of forensic prevention measures as an integrating principle for all natural science branches in the collection of initial data on the crime and the person who committed it in the Arctic are emphasized.
Interval-Valued Fermatean Neutrosophic Shortest Path Problem via Score Function
Authors: Broumi Said , Prabha S. krishna , Uluçay Vakkas
Published: October 2023

Contemporary mathematical techniques have been crafted to address the uncertainty of numerous real-world settings, including Fermatean neutrosophic fuzzy set theory. Fermatean neutrosophic fuzzy set is an extension of combining Fermatean and neutrosophic sets. A Fermatean neutrosophic set was developed to enable the analytical management of ambiguous data from relatively typical real-world decision-making scenarios. Decision-makers find it challenging to determine the degree of membership (MG) and non-membership (NG) with sharp values due to the insufficient data provided. Intervals MG and NG are suitable options in these circumstances. In this article, the shortest route issue is formulated using an interval set of values in a Fermatean neutrosophic setting. A de-neutrosophication technique utilizing a scoring function is then suggested. A mathematical version is also included to show the framework's usefulness and viability in more detail.
Effect of Biocides Blend on Microorganisms in Produced Water
Authors:   Department of Chemical Engineering, Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun, P.M.B. 1221, Effurun, Delta State, Nigeria., Ohimor Evuensiri Onoghwarite , Akakabota Ambrose Onajite ,   Department of Chemical Engineering, Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun, P.M.B. 1221, Effurun, Delta State, Nigeria.
Published: October 2023

The exploration and production of crude oil lead to the production of a significant quantity of associated gas and produce water. The produce water is either reinjected into the oil well or discharged into the environment. There is therefore a need for the water to be treated before any of the aforestated operations are carried out, as it contains a significant amount of microorganisms that pose a threat to production facilities as well as the environment. This research studies the use of a combination of two types of biocides, quaternary ammonium chloride (QUAT) and tetrakis-hydroxymethyl phosphonium sulfate (THPS), at various ratios in order to determine which is most effective. The pour-plate method for total viable bacterial enumeration was applied. It was discovered that, generally, the blends of biocide proved to be more effective in combating bacterial activities in produce water at lower concentrations and longer reaction times than the individual biocides. Thus, the 75% THPS + 25% QUAT as well as the 50% THPS + 50% QUAT were most effective at a concentration of 1000 ppm and a reaction time of 9 hrs in reducing the microbial population from 1.53 ×108 bacterial cells/ml to 3.3×102 bacterial cells/ml and 3.7×102 bacterial cells/ml, respectively.