bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
THE FORMER RED GUARDS AND RED PARTISANS NORTH OSSETIAN COMMISSION’S ACTIVITIES (1924-1935)
Authors: ХУБУЛОВА С.А.
Published: August 2021

Подборка документов посвящена малоизученной в отечественной историографии теме и является своеобразным откликом на имеющуюся потребность освещения некоторых вопросов, связанных с последствиями революции и гражданской войны для российского общества. Впервые представлены документы, связанные с деятельностью Комиссии по делам бывших красных партизан и красногвардейцев, которая выполняла не только функции органа социальной защиты бывших комбатантов революции, но и отслеживала их умонастроения, послевоенную общественную и личную жизнь, давая или лишая их права на карьерный рост, пенсии, бесплатное медицинское обслуживание. Отложившиеся документы позволяют проследить общие тенденции социальной адаптации бывших красных партизан, отношение к ним властей.

The selection of documents is related to the subject insufficiently studied in Russian historiography, and presents a response to an existing need to study the effects the Revolution and the civil war made on the Russian society. For the first time the documents concerning the Former Red Partisans and Red Guards Commission activities are presented. The Commission functioned not only as a social security institution for former combatants of the Revolution, but was tracking their mindset, post-war public and private life, giving or denying them the right to career development, pension, free medical care. Holdover documents allow tracing the general trends of social adaptation of former red partisans and the authorities’ attitude to them.
CINEMATOGRAPHY OF THE PEOPLES OF THE NORTH CAUCASUS IN THE 1960s – 1980s: HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL ASPECTS OF DEVELOPMENT .
Authors: ЦОРИЕВА И.Т. , TSORIEVA I.T.
Published: August 2021

В статье на основе воспоминаний современников и архивных источников рассматри-
вается история развития кинематографа в республиках Северного Кавказа в 1960-е —
1980-е гг. Подчеркивается, что создание телевизионного документального и игрового кино
в регионе во многом было результатом национальной культурной политики. Вместе с тем,
отмечается существенное влияние на становление киноискусства практики культурно-
го патернализма, получившей распространение в среде местной политической элиты в
изучаемый период, и значительный вклад руководителя Гостелерадио Северо-Осетинской
АССР А. Т. Агузарова в создание региональной базы кинопроизводства на Северном Кавка-
зе. Региональное киноискусство развивалось в рамках государственной программы «соци-
ального заказа». Деятели кино решали конкретные задачи пропаганды советского образа
жизни, воспитания людей в духе преданности социалистическим идеалам, патриотизма
и интернационализма. Необходимость соблюдения идеологических, цензурных требований
существенно ограничивала свободу творческого поиска, нередко приводила к схематизму,
плакатности сюжетов и образов. Но в целом транслируемые северокавказским кинемато-
графом гуманистические идеалы добра, справедливости, мирного сосуществования наро-
дов перекликались с настроениями большинства многонационального населения региона и
находили отклик в сердцах обычных людей.

The article on the basis of the memories of the contemporaries and the archival data considers
the history of the development of cinematography in the North Caucasus’ republics in the 1960s
— 1980s. It highlights, that the creation of television documentary and feature films production in
the region was largely a result of the national cultural policy. The practice of cultural paternalism
common among political elite in the reviewed period had an essential impact on the development of
cinematography, also of great significance was contribution of A. T. Aguzarov, then head of the State
television and radio of North Ossetian ASSR, to the formation of a regional base of filmmaking in the
North Caucasus. The regional film art was developed within the frame of the state program of «social
request». Cinematography proponents solved definite tasks for propaganda of the Soviet way of life,
of upbringing in the spirit of devotion to socialist ideals, patriotism and internationalism. The need
to comply with ideological, censorial demands substantially limited the freedom of creative search,
often led to schematism, «posterism» of subjects and images. However in general the humanistic
ideas of goodness, fairness, peaceful coexistence of the peoples, transmitted by North Caucasian
cinematography, resonated with the moods of the majority of the region’ multinational population
and responded in the hearts of ordinary people.
SOZYRYKO BRITAEV AS PRACTITIONER AND THEORIST OF LITERARY TRANSLATION IN OSSETIC LITERATURE
Authors: ДЗАПАРОВА Е.Б. , DZAPAROVA E.B.
Published: August 2021

В статье рассматривается переводческое наследие Созырыко Бритаева, оценивается
вклад переводчика в теорию и практику художественного перевода. Автором анализиру-
ются переводы С. Бритаева, выявляются способы воссоздания в переводном тексте фор-
мы и содержания оригинала. Анализируя рассказ Л. Н. Толстого «После бала» в оригинале
и в переводе С. Бритаева, исследователь рассматривает способы отображения в пере-
водном тексте основного структурообразующего элемента произведения — контраста.
Установлено, что переводчику С. Бритаеву удалось воспроизвести стиль повествования,
систему художественных образов оригинала, архитектонику произведения. Прослежена
передача на языке перевода и образных единиц оригинала (метафор, эпитетов). Перевод-
чик в основном воспроизводит данные единицы перевода в оригинальной творческой мане-
ре русского писателя. Замена отдельных метафорических структур эквивалентами пе-
реводящего языка позволила Бритаеву сохранить структуру тропа, но привела к утрате
его эстетической функции. Перевод некоторых эпитетов требовал отхода от словарных
соответствий и нахождения эквивалентов по смыслу.

The article examines Sozyryko Britaev’s translation heritage, assesses the contribution of the
translator to the theory and practice of literary translation. The author analyzes Britaev’s translations,
identifies methods of recreating in his translated version the form and contents of the original text. The
researcher considers ways of displaying contrast as a basic structure-forming element of the work in
the translated text analyzing the story of L. N. Tolstoy «After the Ball» in the original and in Britaev’s
translation. The study allows to conclude, that Britaev as a translator managed to reproduce the style
of narration, the system of artistic images of the original, the architectonics of the work. The author
traced the translation into Ossetian the original figures of speech (metaphors, epithets). On the whole
the translator managed to reproduces these tropes retaining the original Russian writer’s creative
manner. Replacing some individual metaphorical structures with equivalents of the language of
translating allowed Britaev to preserve the structure of the tropes, but led to the loss of their aesthetic
function. Translation of some epithets required a deviation from the lexical correspondences and
finding semantic equivalents.
ON THE HISTORY OF THE RUSSIAN THEATER IN VLADIKAVKAZ .
Authors: DZALAEVA K.R. , ДЗАЛАЕВА К.Р.
Published: August 2021

Исследование выполнено в рамках Программы фундаментальных научных исследований
Президиума РАН «Историческая память и российская идентичность»
Представленные документы характеризуют причины и условия возникновения Рус-
ского драматического театра во Владикавказе во второй половине XIX в. Материалы
фондов Центрального государственного архива РСО-А и Научного архива СОИГСИ, под-
твержденные сведениями театральной хроники местной периодической печати, раскры-
вают неизвестные страницы истории Русского театра, связанные с его возникновением,
финансово-организационными и кадровыми вопросами, строительством и архитектур-
ным обликом театрального здания в разные периоды времени. Особое внимание уделяется
роли Русского театра в формировании городской общественно-культурной среды Север-
ного Кавказа.

The presented documents characterize the reasons and conditions for the emergence of the
Russian Drama Theater in Vladikavkaz in the second half of the XIXth century. The materials of the
funds of the Central State Archive of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania and the Scientific Archive
of North Ossetian Institute for Humanitarial and Social Studies, confirmed by the information of
the theatrical chronicles of the local periodical press, reveal unknown pages of the history of the
Russian Theater, connected with its appearance, its financial and organizational and personnel
issues, construction and architectural decision of the theater building at different times. Particular
attention is paid to the role of the Russian Theater in the formation of the urban social and cultural
environment of the North Caucasus.
On Approximation of Almost Periodic Functions by Some Sums
Authors: Хасанов Ю.Х.
Published: August 2021

В работе изучаются некоторые вопросы приближения почти периодических функций двух переменных частичными суммами Фурье и суммами типа Марцинкевича в равномерной метрике, когда показатели Фурье рассматриваемых функций имеют предельную точку в бесконечности. Точнее рассматривается равномерная почти периодическая функция двух переменных, показатели Фурье которой имеют единственную предельную точку в бесконечности. Доказывается, что частичная сумма данного ряда с весовой функцией Φσ(t,z)
(σ>0) представима в интегральной форме. Весовая функция Φσ(t,z) является произвольной, вещественной, непрерывной, четной и при x=y=0 принимает значение 1, а в случае, когда либо |x|≥σ, либо |y|≥σ равна нулю. Сначала доказывается почти периодичность рассматриваемой функции f(x,y) и, используя формулу обращения Фурье, для этой функции определяются коэффициенты Фурье. Затем исследуется вопрос об отклонении заданной функции f(x,y) от частичных сумм ее ряда Фурье, в зависимости от скорости стремления к нулю величины наилучшего приближения функции тригонометрическими полиномами ограниченной степени. Далее аналогичным образом устанавливается оценка сверху величины отклонения равномерной почти периодической функции от сумм Марцинкевича.
An Implicit Function Theorem in Non-Smooth Case
Authors: Хачатрян Р.А.
Published: August 2021

Рассматривается уравнение вида F(x,y)=0
, x∈X, y∈M, где M - некоторое множество. Методом шатров (касательных конусов), когда множество M задано негладким ограничением типа равенства, доказывается существование такой дифференцируемой функции y, что F(x,y(x))=0, y(x)∈M, y(x0)=y0. В частности, методом шатров исследуется вопрос существования гладких локальных селекторов для многозначных отображений вида a(x)={y∈Rm:fi(x,y)=0,i∈I,g(y)=0}, x∈Rn. Предполагается, что функции fi, i∈I, строго дифференцируемы, а функция g локально липшицева. При некоторых достаточных условиях доказано, что через любую точку графика многозначного отображения проходит дифференцируемый селектор этого отображения. Это утверждение можно интерпретировать как теорему о неявных функциях в негладком случае. В статье также построены строго дифференцируемые шатры В.Г. Болтянского для множеств, задаваемых негладкими ограничениями типа равенств. Приведено достаточное условие, при котором пересечение строго дифференцируемых шатров является строго дифференцируемым шатром. Показано, что касательные конусы Кларка являются шатрами Болтянскокого для множеств, задаваемых локально липшицевыми функциями.
Satisfacción del servicio de transporte público en los estudiantes universitarios
Authors: Pérez Cruz Omar Alejandro , Pinto Pérez Rogelio
Published: August 2021

El objetivo de esta investigación fue estimar la satisfacción de estudiantes universitarios con respecto a los elementos de calidad de servicio del transporte público urbano del estado de Colima. El indicador de calidad del servicio se diseñó en una encuesta de percepción de 13 ítems que incorporó una serie de aspectos del servicio. El análisis factorial se aplicó a través de una regresión logística tipo logit que permitió identificar los constructos latentes en esta escala. Se identificaron ocho constructos asociados a la calidad percibida del servicio de autobús: horario congruente, precio accesible, personal inspira confianza, servicio cubre las necesidades, tiempo de espera, distancia del recorrido, infraestructura carretera y planeación del recorrido. Estos constructos latentes se exploraron mediante una apreciación de cómo las percepciones hacia la calidad del servicio de autobús varían a través de las cohortes de sexo y ciudad para explicar el grado en que estas percepciones son de utilidad para explicar la variación en la satisfacción percibida con dicho servicio. Los resultados del análisis sugieren que las percepciones asociadas a la calidad del servicio de autobús varían significativamente entre los distintos grupos de pasajeros, siendo las mujeres las que tienden a mostrar un aumento de la percepción de la calidad del servicio que pagan por el TP (1.12 más veces que los hombres). Esto implica que los hombres son más exigentes que las mujeres con respecto al servicio de TP de pagan. La satisfacción en relación con el precio pagado y el servicio recibido es menor en los hombres que en las mujeres. Además, la conveniencia percibida del servicio de autobús parece tener un poder explicativo positivo significativo sobre la satisfacción percibida con el servicio de autobús, lo que sugiere que las mejoras en el horario, el precio, el personal, cubrir las necesidades, el tiempo, la distancia, la infraestructura y la planeación del recorrido probablemente aumentarán la satisfacción percibida entre los pasajeros. Como limitantes se puede señalar que los participantes de los cuales se obtuvo la percepción del servicio de transporte fueron exclusivamente estudiantes de educación media y superior. Aun así, esta investigación demostró el nivel de conocimiento adicional que puede obtenerse a través de un análisis más detallado de los datos generados sobre la política de transporte público y de los servicios ofertados a la comunidad estudiantil.
THE ABILITY OF MATHEMATICS TEACHERS IN USING COMPUTERS, SMARTPHONES, AND INTERNET
Authors: Supianti In In , Saeful Malik Acep , Sagita Anggit
Published: August 2021

This study aimed to determine the ability of mathematics teachers to use computers, smartphones, and the internet according to their birth years (generation) and gender. The ability of teachers to use computers, smartphones, and the internet is beneficial to support mathematics learning using information and communication technologies. The research method was mixed research by surveying 92 mathematics teachers, 35 junior high school mathematics teachers, and 57 high school mathematics teachers in West Java. The results show that: (1) the ability of mathematics teachers in using computers, smartphones, and the internet has supported the application of technology-based learning in mathematics learning; (2) there are differences in the ability to use computers, smartphones, and the internet among the X, Y and Z generation of mathematics teachers. The ability in using computers, smartphones, and the internet of the Y and Z generation of mathematics teachers is better than that the of X generation; (3) there are differences in the ability in using computers, smartphones, and the internet between male and female teachers; male teachers are better than female teachers; (4) there is no significant difference in the ability in using computers, smartphones and internet between mathematics teachers at the high school and junior high school levels; (5) there is no interaction effect between teacher generations and levels of educational institution, on their achievement of the abilities in using computers, smartphones, and the internet
ANALISIS KESADARAN MATEMATIS SISWA DALAM PEMBELAJARAN SNOW CUBE THROWING BERBASIS EKSPLORASI
Authors: Mutiara Sari Nenden
Published: August 2021

The snow cube throwing learning model was developed with the aim of making students appreciate the usefulness of mathematics in everyday life. In accordance with the characteristics of this learning model, students are given various types of contextual teaching materials that aim to make students have good mathematical awareness. This study aims to analyze the mathematical awareness of students who receive snow cube throwing (SCTBE) learning based on exploration in terms of school categories. This study is a mix-method study with an explanatory sequential design. The research subjects were students of class VIII from three schools in Cimahi City. The results showed that: (1) SCTBE learning had the same impact on students' mathematical awareness in each school category. In other words, all students who receive SCTBE learning have the same awareness of the usefulness of mathematics in daily life, future studies and careers; and (2) The results of the analysis on each indicator show that the students' mathematical awareness in each school category is classified as good.
ANALISIS KEMAMPUAN PEMAHAMAN MATEMATIS MELALUI MODEL PEMBELAJARAN STUDENT ACHIEVEMEN DIVISONS (STAD)
Authors: Hermawan Vevi , Dede Anggiana Agus , Septianti Syifa
Published: August 2021

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk : (1) Menganalisis konsep kemampuan pemahaman matematis, (2) Menganalisis konsep model pembelajaran Student Teams Achievement Divisions (STAD), (3) Menganalisis kemampuan pemahaman matematis melalui model pembelajaran Student Teams Achievement Divisons (STAD). Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah metode penelitian kualitatif dengan jenis penelitian kepustaan atau library research. Sumber data yang digunakan adalah data primer dan data sekunder. Dengan teknik yang digunakan pada penelitian ini Editing, Organizing dan Finding. Analisi data yang digunakan pada penelitian ini adalah Deduktif, Induktif, dan Histori. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa : (1) Kemampuan pemahaman matematis merupakan kemampuan individu untuk memahami, menjelaskan, serta mengungkapkannya kembali suatu materi pelajaran, dalam pelajaran matematika individu dapat menggunakan konsep, dapat menserjemahkan ke dalam bentuk lain misalnya dari kata-kata menjadi simbol, tabel, grafik, atau bentuk lainnya serta dapat menginterpretasikan ke bentuk penjelasan ringkasan, dan mengaplikasikannya pada kasus yang sederhana atau khusus, (2) Model pembelajaran Student Teams Achievement Divisions (STAD) menuntut peserta didik secara aktif yang terdiri dari lima langkah, yaitu: penyajian materi, pembagian kelompok,tes individual,perhitungan skor individu, dan rekognisi kelompok , (3) Kemampuan pemahaman matematis di tingkatan Sekolah Menengah Pertama (SMP) dan Sekolah Menengah Atas (SMA) mengalami peningkatan setelah menggunakan model pembelajaran Student Teams Achievement Divison (STAD).
Optimalisasi Kinerja Pemerintahan Desa Dalam Penyusunan Rencana Kerja Pembangunan Desa
Authors: Rudiadi Rudiadi , Ilosa Abdiana , Alsukri Saipul
Published: August 2021

Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian kualitatif dengan mengedepankan pendekatan yuridis empiris. Pendekatan yuridis empiris dimasksudkan untuk menganalisis permasalahan dengan memadukan bahan-bahan berupa data sekunder dengan data primer yang diperoleh dilapangan yaitu tentang pelaksanaan Penyusunan rencana kerja pemerintahan desa yang setiap tahun ditetapkan bersama antara Pemerintahan Desa dan BPD sebagai perwakian masyarakat. Penelitian ini dilakukan di Desa Sekeladi Kecamatan Tanah Putih, Kabupaten Rokan Hilir, Riau. Jenis dan sumber data yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini dibagi dalam data primer (wawancara, observasi), serta data sekunder yang diperoleh dari dari bahan kepustakaan. Semua data yang telah dikumpulkan oleh peneliti dilakukan proses analisis berdasarkan standard kinerja menurut Sumoroto yaitu Efisiensi, efektifitas, keadilan, serta daya tanggap. Berdasarkan hasil analisis terkait masalah diatas, maka peneliti memperoleh kesimpulan bahwa kinerja pemerintahan Desa Sekeladi dalam membahas dan menyusun rencana kerja pemerintahan desa selama ini belum terlaksana dengan baik, hal itu dipengaruhi oleh beberapa faktor, yaitu kurangnya kerjasama antar lembaga pemerintahan desa, masih adanya program kerja yang tidak tepat sasaran, kurang tanggapnya pemerintahan desa dalam menyerap aspirasi dan keinginan masyarakat desa.
Students' Satisfaction towards Academic Advising Service
Authors: Ismail Azianti , Roslan Liyana , Ismail Herda Balqis , Mohd Salleh Noor Azlina
Published: August 2021

Abstract: Effective academic advising service has been found to bring positive benefits to educational institutions to increase students' retention rates and graduation. This study sought to find the essential attributes in public university academic advising service in UiTM Pasir Gudang campus, Malaysia, which may be used to improve the service provided to the students. Quantitative research was conducted using a questionnaire adapted from Parasuraman's SERVQUAL model with a sample size of 221. The study aimed to examine the relationship between service quality dimensions and students' satisfaction. Descriptive statistics, correlation, and multiple regression analysis were used to analyse the questionnaires. Multiple regression analyses results showed reliability and empathy were two dimensions that had significant relationship with students' satisfaction. The results also demonstrated a statistical difference in academic advising service satisfaction among the students according to their years of study and meeting frequency with advisors. The findings of this study may be valuable for the institution to understand the factors that are most significant to further improve the students' satisfaction level in academic advising service.

 

Keywords: Academic advising, Students’ satisfaction, Higher education, Service quality
Peningkatan Kualitas Karya Ilmiah bagi Guru-guru Sekolah Dasar Negeri 3 Tejorejo, Kabupaten Kendal
Authors: Tagela Umbu , Sanoto Herry
Published: August 2021

Tujuan aktivitas pengabdian masyarakat ini:  (1) meningkatkan motivasi guru dalam menulis karya ilmiah dan (2) meningkatkan kemampuan guru dalam menulis karya ilmiah berupa laporan penelitian. Tujuan tersebut dicapai melalui pelatihan dengan metode ceramah, diskusi, demontrasi, dan latihan. Setelah aktivitas training dilaksanakan monitoring dan  evaluasi oleh Panitia untuk melihat dan mendampingi guru dalam penulisan karya ilmiah. Hasilnya  menunjukkan bahwa program pengabdian masyarakat berlangsung dengan baik dan lancar. Program ini mampu memberi motivasi kepada guru dalam menulis karya ilmiah dan mampu meningkatkan kemampuan guru dalam melakukan penelitian serta menulis laporan penelitian. Kendala-kendala yang muncul pada tahap penelitian dan penulisan hasil penelitian dapat diatasi dengan metode pendampingan. Adapun saran yang dapat diajukan  bagi guru-guru diharapkan memiliki motivasi dan senantiasa membudayakan kegiatan menulis ilmiah.
Kegiatan Pengabdian Masyarakat IT Telkom Purwokerto Berupa Optimasi Produk Kopi Di Desa Melung Pasca Pandemi Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19)
Authors: Iryani Nanda , Astiti Sarah , Masykuroh Kholidiyah
Published: August 2021

Desa Melung memiliki produksi kopi yang disebut Kopi Melung, namun datangnya COVID-19 berdampak langsung pada petani dan produk kopi. Hal inilah yang menjadi latar belakang kegiatan, untuk meningkatkan perekonomian masyarakat melalui "Optimalisasi Produk Kopi di Desa Melung Pasca Pandemi Penyakit Virus Corona (COVID-19)". Upaya peningkatan kualitas dan kuantitas penjualan Kopi Melung dilakukan melalui program rebranding, perbaikan kemasan, dan pendirian usaha perdagangan kopi di desa Melung. Program rebranding dan repackaging bertujuan untuk membuat nama, logo, desain kemasan baru yang unik yang menambah daya tarik pembeli. Output yang diperoleh adalah produksi kopi dan tempat usaha, nama produk baru, IPR, dan PIRT sesuai standar peredaran.
Monitoring dan Evaluasi Penyelenggaraan Relawan Guru Pendidikan Kristen dan Katolik BKGS Salatiga
Authors: Ismanto Bambang , Sadjiarto Arief , Luhsasi Dwi Iga , Rina Lelahester , Sitorus Destri Sambara
Published: August 2021

Primary schools lack Christian and Catholic teachers so there are volunteer teachers of the religious teaching staff. The volunteer has not enough education and teaching experiences. Therefore, provision is important both from a spiritual perspective, introduction to vision and mission, core values of BKGS, and as well as intellectually Christian and Catholic learning methods. The method that we used was to distribute the instrument to partner schools. The activity is carried out in several steps: Preparation, Implementation, Evaluation, and Reporting. The outcome and achievement are the performance of BKGS volunteers who are placed in schools, especially primary school in Salatiga, are classified good. This activity implies that teachers can improve learning strategies in schools through evaluations.
Quality of life patients treated with rituximab intravenous versus subcutaneous in B-cell lymphomas: results from outpatient Hematooncology Clinic in Lodz
Authors: Witkowska Magdalena , Witkowska Sonia , Klimczak Marika , Frydecka Anna , Witkowski Michał , Smolewski Piotr
Published: August 2021

Introduction: Nowadays, rituximab is available both as intravenous (IV) and subcutaneous (SC) formulations. The aim of this study is to compare quality of life (QOL) of patients treated in Hematooncology Clinic in Lodz with B-cell nonHodgkin lymphoma (B-NHL) treated with rituximab IV and SC.

 

Material and Methods: In 50 adult patients with B-NHL diagnosis we assessed QOL by three different questionnaries (EORTC QLQ-C30, FACT/ GOG-NTx and EQ-5D). We compared it between patients treated with rituximab IV and SC.

 

Results: In comparison of general condition in EQ-5D-3L and EORTC QLQ-C30 questionnaire patients treated with rituximab SC felt statistically better than with IV administration (p<0.01). In SC group general health was evaluated for 72 while in IV for only 58,1. According to FACT/GOG-NTx questionnaire SC group had significantly better physical well-being. In SC group we observed statistically more complete responses (CR) 21 (88%) versus 17 (65%) in IV group. Moreover, trend was observed in emotional well-being in favor of SC treatment.

 

Discussion: In our study we observed for the first time in the literature statistical difference in frequency of vomiting, nausea, and lack of appetite mentioned from our patients in questionnarie. It is very important that this findings were not published in any other study comparing SC and IV route od administration. Also looking at economic side of SC administration, this type of dosing. As a result it should be preferred form for B-cell lymphoma patients.
Socio-demographic and Health Profile of Schedule Castes of Patna, Vaishali and Nalanda Bihar, India
Authors:   Regional Research, Institute of Unani Medicine, Patna, Bihar, India, Ahmad Faiyaz
Published: August 2021

Background: Patna and peripheral districts (Nalanda and Vaishali) have some dominated area of SC and ST population but the distribution and demographic details of these areas are not properly documented. The main objective of the paper is to analyze the status of the scheduled castes of Patna, with respect to size of the population, sex ratio, literacy level, marital status, occupation and income. Methodology: A pre-tested questionnaire containing information about demographic particulars like caste, age, gender, educational qualification, occupation and monthly income was administered through Mobile health care OPDs under the SCSP. Survey was conducted between the years 2018-2020. These data are shown to be suitable for evaluating the impact of demographic and socio-economic elements on regular health examinations. Result: The analysis of data clearly indicates that there were significant differences with the age group 13-20, 21-30 and >60, caste, with religion of Hindu and Muslim, educational status regarding semi-literate and graduate or above, Mizaj, diet habit and there were no significant differences with respect to gender, religion and addiction behaviour are noticed. By presenting the methods used in this survey and by describing the enquiries mentioned in the dataset, this article aims to promote data-collecting methodologies that can help policy-makers and health communicators derive practical conclusions. Conclusion: It can be concluded that there is significant difference in the age group of SC population. While there were no significant differences with respect to gender, religion and addiction behaviour was noticed. Most of the SC population belongs to balghami temperament and most preferred food habit of them is mixed mostly.
Kiran Desai’s ‘Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard’: A Story of a Modern Godman
Authors:   [Eng.], Vidya Publications, Patna (Bihar), Priydarshi Ashok Kumar
Published: August 2021

‘Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard’ is a novel by Kiran Desai published in 1998. It is her first book and won the top prize for the Betty Track Awards in 1998. It is set in the Indian village of Shahkot, [State of Punjab] and follows the exploits of a young man, Sampat Chawla, trying to avoid the responsibilities of adult life. Fed up with his life in Shahkot, Sampat goes to a guava orchard and settles himself in a guava tree, where he uses the gossip he learned while working at the post office to convince people he is clairvoyant and soon becomes a popular “holyman”. In this novel, Kiran’s purpose is to mirror the life of modern man by the tool of satire satirizing the blind religiosity and innocent superstitious faiths of Indians in so-called “Babas”.
Antidiabetic drugs and the risk of cancer: beneficial, neutral, or detrimental?
Authors: Azeez Taoreed Adegoke , Folorunso Sharif Adeniyi , Eguzozie Chinedu , Adegboyega Adeleke Adedapo
Published: August 2021

The prevalence of diabetes mellitus is rapidly rising, especially in low- and middle-income countries. Also, early-onset diabetes is on the rise, and millions of individuals have to be on antidiabetic medications for a prolonged period. Therefore, more people are getting exposed to the adverse effects of antidiabetic medications.

Cancer is among the top ranking causes of death worldwide. Researches are still ongoing to understand the etiologies, precipitants, risk factors, correlates, and predictors of cancers. Diabetes mellitus is associated with various cancers, as extensively documented in the literature. There are conflicting reports about the association between antidiabetic drugs and cancer. This is even of crucial importance, considering that the prevalence of diabetes is rising.

Insulin glargine is reported to be associated with cancers, but clinical trials have not confirmed this. Metformin is largely believed to be beneficial in oncologic practice. Glibenclamide is reported to reduce tumor growth. The association between pioglitazone and bladder cancer is still an area for further research. Meglitinides have also been associated with cancers. Incretin-based therapy and the α-glucosidase inhibitors appear to have beneficial effects on cancers.

There is still a need for randomized multicentric clinical trials to further substantiate and clarify reports from epidemiological studies. Further in vitro studies will also be necessary to characterize the interaction of these pharmacological agents with other molecules in the body.
Impact of vitamin D serum levels on clinicopathological features and outcome in advanced pancreatic carcinoma
Authors: Mohammed Amrallah A. , Salem Reham A.
Published: August 2021

Background

Growing evidence encourages the preventive role of vitamin D in pancreatic carcinoma (PC). Meanwhile, the prognostic or predictive role needs more investigations. This study aimed to evaluate the correlation between serum vitamin D levels and the clinicopathological features with the outcome in advanced pancreatic carcinoma (APC).

Materials and methods

The current prospective study included 176 patients with APC. Assessing 25-hydroxy vitamin D is the most accurate method to measure the serum vitamin D levels. Serum vitamin D levels <20 ng/ml are defined as vitamin D deficiency, while levels ranging from 20 to 29 ng/ml are defined as vitamin D insufficiency. Before any treatment modalities were administered, the serum vitamin D levels were measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA).

Results

Serum vitamin D insufficiency and deficiency were detected in 28.4% and 31.8%, respectively. A large tumor size, higher grade, liver metastasis, higher serum level of CA 19-9, poor ECOG PS, and low overall response rate (ORR) were associated with lower serum vitamin D levels (p = 0.000). The median follow-up period was 7.6 months (range 0.6–18.6). The ORR was 23.2%, 54%, and 82.9% of vitamin D deficiency, insufficiency, and normal levels of vitamin D, respectively. The median OS was 11.4 months for patients with normal serum vitamin D levels, compared with 2.7 and 7.03 months for serum vitamin D deficiency and insufficiency, respectively.

Conclusions

Among patients with APC, serum vitamin D levels are considered a promising prognostic factor. It is associated with various poor prognostic features and worse survival outcome.
Катастрофы субъективных оценок и их модели: к вопросу инструментализации диагностики эффекта «зловещей долины»
Authors: Филимонов В. А. , Чернявская В. С.
Published: August 2021

Анализируются исследования феномена «зловещей долины», который проявляется в отсутствии монотонной зависимости симпатии к роботу от степени его антропоморфности. Приводятся примеры интерпретаций феномена с позиций разных подходов. Рассмотрены исследования данного эффекта как проявления и отношения к антропоморфности роботов, как проблемы идентичности, преодоления органичности, «протезности сознания». Описаны трудности и опыт измерения субъективных оценок: психосемантических методов, экспертных оценок. Представлены варианты анализа субъективных оценок, которые являются исключительно сложным феноменом. Проанализирован опыт использования разработанных методик исследования и диагностики феномена «зловещей долины», анализируются недостатки методик, показа-на ограниченность полученных результатов. Рассматриваются феномены бистабильности восприятия в контексте эффекта «зловещей долины». Констатируется наличие гистерезиса как причины таких феноменов. Явление гистерезиса подразумевает зависимость поведения системы от её предыстории. Обосновывается методика диагностики феномена «зловещей долины» с помощью фотороботов с разным уровнем человекоподобия и шкалами оценки и двумя вариантами диагностики в соответствии с обходами точки бифуркации, фотографий реальных роботов, игрушек и персонажей фильмов. Фотографии были отобраны таким образом, чтобы организаторы эксперимента могли классифицировать их по шкалам степени человекоподобия и угрозы, а также размещать по одной фотографии в каждой позиции матрицы эксперимента, названной нами Матрица-25. Предложены два варианта проведения диагностиче-ской процедуры: левый обход (L): сначала снижается степень сходства с человеком, затем увеличивается угроза; правый обход (R): сначала увеличивается угроза, затем уменьшается степень сходства с человеком.
Multi-Scale Selective Feedback Network with Dual Loss for Real Image Denoising
Authors: Hu Xiaowan , Cai Yuanhao , Liu Zhihong , Wang Haoqian , Zhang Yulun
Published: August 2021

The feedback mechanism in the human visual system extracts high-level semantics from noisy scenes. It then guides low-level noise removal, which has not been fully explored in image denoising networks based on deep learning. The commonly used fully-supervised network optimizes parameters through paired training data. However, unpaired images without noise-free labels are ubiquitous in the real world. Therefore, we proposed a multi-scale selective feedback network (MSFN) with the dual loss. We allow shallow layers to access valuable contextual information from the following deep layers selectively between two adjacent time steps. Iterative refinement mechanism can remove complex noise from coarse to fine. The dual regression is designed to reconstruct noisy images to establish closed-loop supervision that is training-friendly for unpaired data. We use the dual loss to optimize the primary clean-to-noisy task and the dual noisy-to-clean task simultaneously. Extensive experiments prove that our method achieves state-of-the-art results and shows better adaptability on real-world images than the existing methods.
Instance-Aware Coherent Video Style Transfer for Chinese Ink Wash Painting
Authors: Liang Hao , Yang Shuai , Wang Wenjing , Liu Jiaying
Published: August 2021

Recent researches have made remarkable achievements in fast video style transfer based on western paintings. However, due to the inherent different drawing techniques and aesthetic expressions of Chinese ink wash painting, existing methods either achieve poor temporal consistency or fail to transfer the key freehand brushstroke characteristics of Chinese ink wash painting. In this paper, we present a novel video style transfer framework for Chinese ink wash paintings. The two key ideas are a multi-frame fusion for temporal coherence and an instance-aware style transfer. The frame reordering and stylization based on reference frame fusion are proposed to improve temporal consistency. Meanwhile, the proposed method is able to adaptively leave the white spaces in the background and to select proper scales to extract features and depict the foreground subject by leveraging instance segmentation. Experimental results demonstrate the superiority of the proposed method over state-of-the-art style transfer methods in terms of both temporal coherence and visual quality. Our project website is available at https://oblivioussy.github.io/InkVideo/.
Dual Reweighting Domain Generalization for Face Presentation Attack Detection
Authors: Liu Shubao , Zhang Ke-Yue , Yao Taiping , Sheng Kekai , Ding Shouhong , Tai Ying , Li Jilin , Xie Yuan , Ma Lizhuang
Published: August 2021

Face anti-spoofing approaches based on domain generalization (DG) have drawn growing attention due to their robustness for unseen scenarios. Previous methods treat each sample from multiple domains indiscriminately during the training process, and endeavor to extract a common feature space to improve the generalization. However, due to complex and biased data distribution, directly treating them equally will corrupt the generalization ability. To settle the issue, we propose a novel Dual Reweighting Domain Generalization (DRDG) framework which iteratively reweights the relative importance between samples to further improve the generalization. Concretely, Sample Reweighting Module is first proposed to identify samples with relatively large domain bias, and reduce their impact on the overall optimization. Afterwards, Feature Reweighting Module is introduced to focus on these samples and extract more domain-irrelevant features via a self-distilling mechanism. Combined with the domain discriminator, the iteration of the two modules promotes the extraction of generalized features. Extensive experiments and visualizations are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness and interpretability of our method against the state-of-the-art competitors.
CIMON: Towards High-quality Hash Codes
Authors: Luo Xiao , Wu Daqing , Ma Zeyu , Chen Chong , Deng Minghua , Ma Jinwen , Jin Zhongming , Huang Jianqiang , Hua Xian-Sheng
Published: August 2021

Recently, hashing is widely used in approximate nearest neighbor search for its storage and computational efficiency. Most of the unsupervised hashing methods learn to map images into semantic similarity-preserving hash codes by constructing local semantic similarity structure from the pre-trained model as the guiding information, i.e., treating each point pair similar if their distance is small in feature space. However, due to the inefficient representation ability of the pre-trained model, many false positives and negatives in local semantic similarity will be introduced and lead to error propagation during the hash code learning. Moreover, few of the methods consider the robustness of models, which will cause instability of hash codes to disturbance. In this paper, we propose a new method named Comprehensive sImilarity Mining and cOnsistency learNing (CIMON). First, we use global refinement and similarity statistical distribution to obtain reliable and smooth guidance. Second, both semantic and contrastive consistency learning are introduced to derive both disturb-invariant and discriminative hash codes. Extensive experiments on several benchmark datasets show that the proposed method outperforms a wide range of state-of-the-art methods in both retrieval performance and robustness.
Fractional Matchings under Preferences: Stability and Optimality
Authors: Chen Jiehua , Roy Sanjukta , Sorge Manuel
Published: August 2021

We study generalizations of stable matching in which agents may be matched fractionally; this models time-sharing assignments. We focus on the so-called ordinal stability and cardinal stability, and investigate the computational complexity of finding an ordinally stable or cardinally stable fractional matching which either maximizes the social welfare (i.e., the overall utilities of the agents) or the number of fully matched agents (i.e., agents whose matching values sum up to one). We complete the complexity classification of both optimization problems for both ordinal stability and cardinal stability, distinguishing between the marriage (bipartite) and roommates (non-bipartite) cases and the presence or absence of ties in the preferences. In particular, we prove a surprising result that finding a cardinally stable fractional matching with maximum social welfare is NP-hard even for the marriage case without ties. This answers an open question and exemplifies a rare variant of stable marriage that remains hard for preferences without ties. We also complete the picture of the relations of the stability notions and derive structural properties.
Multi-Level Graph Encoding with Structural-Collaborative Relation Learning for Skeleton-Based Person Re-Identification
Authors: Rao Haocong , Xu Shihao , Hu Xiping , Cheng Jun , Hu Bin
Published: August 2021

Skeleton-based person re-identification (Re-ID) is an emerging open topic providing great value for safety-critical applications. Existing methods typically extract hand-crafted features or model skeleton dynamics from the trajectory of body joints, while they rarely explore valuable relation information contained in body structure or motion. To fully explore body relations, we construct graphs to model human skeletons from different levels, and for the first time propose a Multi-level Graph encoding approach with Structural-Collaborative Relation learning (MG-SCR) to encode discriminative graph features for person Re-ID. Specifically, considering that structurally-connected body components are highly correlated in a skeleton, we first propose a multi-head structural relation layer to learn different relations of neighbor body-component nodes in graphs, which helps aggregate key correlative features for effective node representations. Second, inspired by the fact that body-component collaboration in walking usually carries recognizable patterns, we propose a cross-level collaborative relation layer to infer collaboration between different level components, so as to capture more discriminative skeleton graph features. Finally, to enhance graph dynamics encoding, we propose a novel self-supervised sparse sequential prediction task for model pre-training, which facilitates encoding high-level graph semantics for person Re-ID. MG-SCR outperforms state-of-the-art skeleton-based methods, and it achieves superior performance to many multi-modal methods that utilize extra RGB or depth features. Our codes are available at https://github.com/Kali-Hac/MG-SCR.
Enhance Image as You Like with Unpaired Learning
Authors: Sun Xiaopeng , Li Muxingzi , He Tianyu , Fan Lubin
Published: August 2021

Low-light image enhancement exhibits an ill-posed nature, as a given image may have many enhanced versions, yet recent studies focus on building a deterministic mapping from input to an enhanced version. In contrast, we propose a lightweight one-path conditional generative adversarial network (cGAN) to learn a one-to-many relation from low-light to normal-light image space, given only sets of low- and normal-light training images without any correspondence. By formulating this ill-posed problem as a modulation code learning task, our network learns to generate a collection of enhanced images from a given input conditioned on various reference images. Therefore our inference model easily adapts to various user preferences, provided with a few favorable photos from each user. Our model achieves competitive visual and quantitative results on par with fully supervised methods on both noisy and clean datasets, while being 6 to 10 times lighter than state-of-the-art generative adversarial networks (GANs) approaches.
Proposal-free One-stage Referring Expression via Grid-Word Cross-Attention
Authors: Suo Wei , Sun MengYang , Wang Peng , Wu Qi
Published: August 2021

Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) has become one of the most important tasks in visual reasoning, since it is an essential step for many vision-and-language tasks such as visual question answering. However, it has not been widely used in many downstream tasks because it suffers 1) two-stage methods exist heavy computation cost and inevitable error accumulation, and 2) one-stage methods have to depend on lots of hyper-parameters (such as anchors) to generate bounding box. In this paper, we present a proposal-free one-stage (PFOS) model that is able to regress the region-of-interest from the image, based on a textual query, in an end-to-end manner. Instead of using the dominant anchor proposal fashion, we directly take the dense-grid of image as input for a cross-attention transformer that learns grid-word correspondences. The final bounding box is predicted directly from the image without the time-consuming anchor selection process that previous methods suffer. Our model achieves the state-of-the-art performance on four referring expression datasets with higher efficiency, comparing to previous best one-stage and two-stage methods.
Spline Positional Encoding for Learning 3D Implicit Signed Distance Fields
Authors: Wang Peng-Shuai , Liu Yang , Yang Yu-Qi , Tong Xin
Published: August 2021

Multilayer perceptrons (MLPs) have been successfully used to represent 3D

shapes implicitly and compactly, by mapping 3D coordinates to the

corresponding signed distance values or occupancy values. In this paper, we

propose a novel positional encoding scheme, called Spline Positional

Encoding, to map the input coordinates to a high dimensional space before

passing them to MLPs, which help recover 3D signed distance fields with

fine-scale geometric details from unorganized 3D point clouds. We verified

the superiority of our approach over other positional encoding schemes on

tasks of 3D shape reconstruction and 3D shape space learning from input

point clouds. The efficacy of our approach extended to image reconstruction

is also demonstrated and evaluated.
Weakly Supervised Dense Video Captioning via Jointly Usage of Knowledge Distillation and Cross-modal Matching
Authors: Wu Bofeng , Niu Guocheng , Yu Jun , Xiao Xinyan , Zhang Jian , Wu Hua
Published: August 2021

This paper proposes an approach to Dense Video Captioning (DVC) without pairwise event-sentence annotation. First, we adopt the knowledge distilled from relevant and well solved tasks to generate high-quality event proposals. Then we incorporate contrastive loss and cycle-consistency loss typically applied to cross-modal retrieval tasks to build semantic matching between the proposals and sentences, which are eventually used to train the caption generation module. In addition, the parameters of matching module are initialized via pre-training based on annotated images to improve the matching performance. Extensive experiments on ActivityNet-Caption dataset reveal the significance of distillation-based event proposal generation and cross-modal retrieval-based semantic matching to weakly supervised DVC, and demonstrate the superiority of our method to existing state-of-the-art methods.