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Multi-Scale Bidirectional FCN for Object Skeleton Extraction
Authors: Yang Fan , Li Xin , Cheng Hong , Guo Yuxiao , Chen Leiting , Li Jianping
Published: June 2022

Object skeleton detection is a challenging problem with wide application. Recently, deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have substantially improved the performance of the state-of-the-art in this task. However, most of the existing CNN-Based methods are based on a skip-layer structure where low-level and high-level features are combined and learned so as to gather multi-level contextual information. As shallow features are too messy and lack semantic knowledge, they may cause errors and inaccuracy. Therefore, we propose a novel network architecture, Multi-Scale Bidirectional Fully Convolutional Network (MSB-FCN), to better capture and consolidate multi-scale high-level context information for object skeleton detection. Our network uses only deep features to build multi-scale feature representations, and employs a bidirectional structure to collect contextual knowledge. Hence the proposed MSB-FCN has the ability to learn the semantic-level information from different sub-regions. Furthermore, we introduce dense connections into the bidirectional structure of our MSB-FCN to ensure that the learning process at each scale can directly encode information from all other scales. Extensive experiments on various commonly used benchmarks demonstrate that the proposed MSB-FCN has achieved significant improvements over the state-of-the-art algorithms.
DF2Net: Discriminative Feature Learning and Fusion Network for RGB-D Indoor Scene Classification
Authors: Li Yabei , Zhang Junge , Cheng Yanhua , Huang Kaiqi , Tan Tieniu
Published: June 2022

This paper focuses on the task of RGB-D indoor scene classification. It is a very challenging task due to two folds. 1) Learning robust representation for indoor scene is difficult because of various objects and layouts. 2) Fusing the complementary cues in RGB and Depth is nontrivial since there are large semantic gaps between the two modalities. Most existing works learn representation for classification by training a deep network with softmax loss and fuse the two modalities by simply concatenating the features of them. However, these pipelines do not explicitly consider intra-class and inter-class similarity as well as inter-modal intrinsic relationships. To address these problems, this paper proposes a Discriminative Feature Learning and Fusion Network (DF2Net) with two-stage training. In the first stage, to better represent scene in each modality, a deep multi-task network is constructed to simultaneously minimize the structured loss and the softmax loss. In the second stage, we design a novel discriminative fusion network which is able to learn correlative features of multiple modalities and distinctive features of each modality. Extensive analysis and experiments on SUN RGB-D Dataset and NYU Depth Dataset V2 show the superiority of DF2Net over other state-of-the-art methods in RGB-D indoor scene classification task.
Recurrently Aggregating Deep Features for Salient Object Detection
Authors: Hu Xiaowei , Zhu Lei , Qin Jing , Fu Chi-Wing , Heng Pheng-Ann
Published: June 2022

Salient object detection is a fundamental yet challenging problem in computer vision, aiming to highlight the most visually distinctive objects or regions in an image. Recent works benefit from the development of fully convolutional neural networks (FCNs) and achieve great success by integrating features from multiple layers of FCNs. However, the integrated features tend to include non-salient regions (due to low level features of the FCN) or lost details of salient objects (due to high level features of the FCN) when producing the saliency maps. In this paper, we develop a novel deep saliency network equipped with recurrently aggregated deep features (RADF) to more accurately detect salient objects from an image by fully exploiting the complementary saliency information captured in different layers. The RADF utilizes the multi-level features integrated from different layers of a FCN to recurrently refine the features at each layer, suppressing the non-salient noise at low-level of the FCN and increasing more salient details into features at high layers. We perform experiments to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed network on 5 famous saliency detection benchmarks and compare it with 15 state-of-the-art methods. Our method ranks first in 4 of the 5 datasets and second in the left dataset.
Extreme Low Resolution Activity Recognition With Multi-Siamese Embedding Learning
Authors: Ryoo Michael , Kim Kiyoon , Yang Hyun
Published: June 2022

This paper presents an approach for recognizing human activities from extreme low resolution (e.g., 16x12) videos. Extreme low resolution recognition is not only necessary for analyzing actions at a distance but also is crucial for enabling privacy-preserving recognition of human activities. We design a new two-stream multi-Siamese convolutional neural network. The idea is to explicitly capture the inherent property of low resolution (LR) videos that two images originated from the exact same scene often have totally different pixel values depending on their LR transformations. Our approach learns the shared embedding space that maps LR videos with the same content to the same location regardless of their transformations. We experimentally confirm that our approach of jointly learning such transform robust LR video representation and the classifier outperforms the previous state-of-the-art low resolution recognition approaches on two public standard datasets by a meaningful margin.
Spatial as Deep: Spatial CNN for Traffic Scene Understanding
Authors: Pan Xingang , Shi Jianping , Luo Ping , Wang Xiaogang , Tang Xiaoou
Published: June 2022

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are usually built by stacking convolutional operations layer-by-layer. Although CNN has shown strong capability to extract semantics from raw pixels, its capacity to capture spatial relationships of pixels across rows and columns of an image is not fully explored. These relationships are important to learn semantic objects with strong shape priors but weak appearance coherences, such as traffic lanes, which are often occluded or not even painted on the road surface as shown in Fig. 1 (a). In this paper, we propose Spatial CNN (SCNN), which generalizes traditional deep layer-by-layer convolutions to slice-by-slice convolutions within feature maps, thus enabling message passings between pixels across rows and columns in a layer. Such SCNN is particular suitable for long continuous shape structure or large objects, with strong spatial relationship but less appearance clues, such as traffic lanes, poles, and wall. We apply SCNN on a newly released very challenging traffic lane detection dataset and Cityscapse dataset. The results show that SCNN could learn the spatial relationship for structure output and significantly improves the performance. We show that SCNN outperforms the recurrent neural network (RNN) based ReNet and MRF+CNN (MRFNet) in the lane detection dataset by 8.7% and 4.6% respectively. Moreover, our SCNN won the 1st place on the TuSimple Benchmark Lane Detection Challenge, with an accuracy of 96.53%.
Region-Based Quality Estimation Network for Large-Scale Person Re-Identification
Authors: Song Guanglu , Leng Biao , Liu Yu , Hetang Congrui , Cai Shaofan
Published: June 2022

One of the major restrictions on the performance of video-based person re-id is partial noise caused by occlusion, blur and illumination. Since different spatial regions of a single frame have various quality, and the quality of the same region also varies across frames in a tracklet, a good way to address the problem is to effectively aggregate complementary information from all frames in a sequence, using better regions from other frames to compensate the influence of an image region with poor quality. To achieve this, we propose a novel Region-based Quality Estimation Network (RQEN), in which an ingenious training mechanism enables the effective learning to extract the complementary region-based information between different frames. Compared with other feature extraction methods, we achieved comparable results of 92.4%, 76.1% and 77.83% on the PRID 2011, iLIDS-VID and MARS, respectively. In addition, to alleviate the lack of clean large-scale person re-id datasets for the community, this paper also contributes a new high-quality dataset, named "Labeled Pedestrian in the Wild (LPW)" which contains 7,694 tracklets with over 590,000 images. Despite its relatively large scale, the annotations also possess high cleanliness. Moreover, it's more challenging in the following aspects: the age of characters varies from childhood to elderhood; the postures of people are diverse, including running and cycling in addition to the normal walking state.
Curve-Structure Segmentation From Depth Maps: A CNN-Based Approach and Its Application to Exploring Cultural Heritage Objects
Authors: Lu Yuhang , Zhou Jun , Wang Jing , Chen Jun , Smith Karen , Wilder Colin , Wang Song
Published: June 2022

Motivated by the important archaeological application of exploring cultural heritage objects, in this paper we study the challenging problem of automatically segmenting curve structures that are very weakly stamped or carved on an object surface in the form of a highly noisy depth map. Different from most classical low-level image segmentation methods that are known to be very sensitive to the noise and occlusions, we propose a new supervised learning algorithm based on Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to implicitly learn and utilize more curve geometry and pattern information for addressing this challenging problem. More specifically, we first propose a Fully Convolutional Network (FCN) to estimate the skeleton of curve structures and at each skeleton pixel, a scale value is estimated to reflect the local curve width. Then we propose a dense prediction network to refine the estimated curve skeletons. Based on the estimated scale values, we finally develop an adaptive thresholding algorithm to achieve the final segmentation of curve structures. In the experiment, we validate the performance of the proposed method on a dataset of depth images scanned from unearthed pottery shards dating to the Woodland period of Southeastern North America.
Understanding Image Impressiveness Inspired by Instantaneous Human Perceptual Cues
Authors: Yang Jufeng , Sun Yan , Liang Jie , Yang Yong-Liang , Cheng Ming-Ming
Published: June 2022

With the explosion of visual information nowadays, millions of digital images are available to the users. How to efficiently explore a large set of images and retrieve useful information thus becomes extremely important. Unfortunately only some of the images can impress the user at first glance. Others that make little sense in human perception are often discarded, while still costing valuable time and space. Therefore, it is significant to identify these two kinds of images for relieving the load of online repositories and accelerating information retrieval process. However, most of the existing image properties, e.g., memorability and popularity, are based on repeated human interactions, which limit the research and application of evaluating image quality in terms of instantaneous impression. In this paper, we propose a novel image property, called impressiveness, that measures how images impress people with a short-term contact. This is based on an impression-driven model inspired by a number of important human perceptual cues. To achieve this, we first collect three datasets in various domains, which are labeled according to the instantaneous sensation of the annotators. Then we investigate the impressiveness property via six established human perceptual cues as well as the corresponding features from pixel to semantic levels. Sequentially, we verify the consistency of the impressiveness which can be quantitatively measured by multiple visual representations, and evaluate their latent relationships. Finally, we apply the proposed impressiveness property to rank the images for an efficient image recommendation system.
T-C3D: Temporal Convolutional 3D Network for Real-Time Action Recognition
Authors: Liu Kun , Liu Wu , Gan Chuang , Tan Mingkui , Ma Huadong
Published: June 2022

Video-based action recognition with deep neural networks has shown remarkable progress. However, most of the existing approaches are too computationally expensive due to the complex network architecture. To address these problems, we propose a new real-time action recognition architecture, called Temporal Convolutional 3D Network (T-C3D), which learns video action representations in a hierarchical multi-granularity manner. Specifically, we combine a residual 3D convolutional neural network which captures complementary information on the appearance of a single frame and the motion between consecutive frames with a new temporal encoding method to explore the temporal dynamics of the whole video. Thus heavy calculations are avoided when doing the inference, which enables the method to be capable of real-time processing. On two challenging benchmark datasets, UCF101 and HMDB51, our method is significantly better than state-of-the-art real-time methods by over 5.4% in terms of accuracy and 2 times faster in terms of inference speed (969 frames per second), demonstrating comparable recognition performance to the state-of-the-art methods. The source code for the complete system as well as the pre-trained models are publicly available at https://github.com/tc3d.
Application of ray methods to one-dimensional site response of inhomogeneous soil deposits
Authors: Garcia-suarez Joaquin , Seylabi Elnaz , Asimaki Domniki
Published: June 2022

The technique referred as ray approximation treats wave propagation in a heterogeneous medium at the infinitely small wavelength limit. This classic simplification allows useful approximate analytical results to be obtained in cases where complete description of the waveform behaviour is virtually unattainable, hence its wide use in physics. In seismology, this approximation has been widely applied. This paper presents an application in one-dimensional site response (1DSR) analysis: it is used herein, first to explain and elucidate the generality of some previous observations as to the use of the harmonic mean of a shear-wave velocity profile to represent the global behaviour of a site; and second to partially settle an open question in 1DSR, namely ‘What are the equivalent homogeneous properties that yield the same response, in terms of natural frequencies and resonance amplitude, for a given inhomogeneous site?’, providing a few assumptions are met – chiefly, that excitations of sufficiently high frequency are considered.
Walt Whitman, Editor at the New-York Atlas
Authors: Schöberlein Stefan , Blalock Stephanie M. , McMullen Kevin , Stacy Jason
Published: June 2022

The Walt Whitman Archive journalism grant team introduces a new discovery and proposes a new theory of Whitman as an editor at the New-York Atlas.
Editorial - HULISANI RAMANTSWANA (UNISA)
Authors: Ramantswana Hulisani
Published: June 2022

The current issue comes out when the world is reeling from the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine. The devastation in Ukraine has turned over six million Ukrainians into refugees and millions of others displaced in that country. This war is deplorable for the suffering it has brought on the Ukrainians and for all the negative effects that are felt across the world, worsening the plight of the poor. We call for an end to the war, hoping it will end sooner than later. As the Tanzanian Proverb states, “For the sake of peace, hard decisions must be made”. The hard decision that needs to be made is to stop the war and strive for peaceful coexistence.
Hannah in Stages and Places: An Exploration of Narrative Space in 1 Samuel 1
Authors: Rembold Stefanie
Published: June 2022

The lack of contributions toward the study of narrative space in biblical literature has been lamented for the last four decades. While handbooks on narratology and narrative art have tried to expand discussions on the presentation andfunctions of space, many of these expositions of narrative space rely on reducing narrative space to setting, which focuses only on providing a basic background to a given narrative. Though these details are important for establishing where, when and how a character's actions take place, this article proposes that the characters' perceptions and experiences in and of places in a story must contribute to the representation of narrative space. The article illustrates this by conducting a synchronic analysis of 1 Samuel 1, focusing mainly on how Hannah, the protagonist, interacts with and in the spaces of the narrative. The study finds that the representation of each place changes according to the phases of Hannah's journey from childless woman to mother and that these changes are a result of Hannah's changing behaviour, psychology and interactions with other characters. These results indicate that space should not be reduced to static and matter-of-fact statements about context but that space should be treated as a malleable facet of narrative which characters can shape and transform.
Killmonger: scoring modes and representation in Black Panther
Authors: Ngubane Ntombi
Published: June 2022

Anticipated by many, and equally a site of contention or reverence, Black Panther and its accompanying original musical score as composed by Ludwig Gõrranson is rife for analysis and brings to fore the question: in what ways is a Hollywood practice used in a film with seemingly other aesthetic aims? A score which features few disparate and disconnected vague references to an "African sound" for the imagined country of Wakanda is undercut even more so by the insistent use of an otherwise purely western orchestral score. Firstly, through a brief overview of Goransson's production approaches to the score for Black Panther, and his collaboration with local experts, this article argues for a more nuanced understanding of authorship arising from such collaborations between these expert improvising music and film composers who tend to be the sole credited composers. Furthermore, musical representations are complicated by the recurring theme of the "other" according to Classical Hollywood tropes through the integration of occasional African instruments. In section two, brief transcriptions of the music composed for the character Killmonger are provided, in the search for representation devices - how the music works to or fails to establish the character. Also provided are the authors' personal insights as to whether or not Gõransson's intentions with the music are in fact evident in the film.
Assessment of depression among elderly living in old age homes and within family set up in Bareilly city: A cross-sectional study
Authors: Nandita Gautam , Shivalingesh KK , Anushtha Kushwaha , Lubna Shoaib , Vertika Mahar
Published: June 2022

Introduction: Aging is a natural process but at the same time, the aging population has substantially increased. Socially this stage is considered the total of one lived experience. Materials and methods: The sample size has been 200 which is 100 in each group. Individuals beyond 60 years of age and who will be able to cooperate with the study were included in the study. Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) was used to record depression among the same subject. The data were entered into an excel sheet and transferred to SPSS V. 21. for statistical analysis and Chi-square and ANOVA tests were done. Results: The prevalence of depression in elderly individuals living in family settings was 22% mild, 14% moderate, and 10% severe, whereas, in old age homes, the prevalence was 36% mild, 26% moderate, and 8% severe. On comparison of depression according to marital status among the elderly within the family set up and old age home reported a statistically significant difference between the 2 groups (p < 0.001). Conclusion: We found from this study that the overall prevalence of depression was higher in elderly people residing in old age homes. It is more common in older women than in men.
Cerebral Palsy: A Mini-Review updating the briefings of role of physiotherapy
Authors: Shardeshu Srivastava , Shivani Sharma , Malvika Lal , Niharika Lal
Published: June 2022

One of the most prevalent developmental disabilities is Cerebral Palsy (CP). CP is a term for a group of neurological disorders characterized by mobility and posture problems that limit activities and are caused by a static disruption in the growing brain, which is typically accompanied by other impairments and health problems. CP is not a single diseased entity; it comprises problems with body movement, muscle control, muscle coordination, muscle tone, reflex, fine motor abilities, gross motor skills, oral motor functioning, posture, and balance, to name a few. Approach to promoting the functional and psychological independence of the child with a disability, as well as improving the child’s and family’s quality of life. Physiotherapists, who are known as “movement experts,” play an important part. The goal of this review is to clarify current thinking and physiotherapy practice in the treatment and management of children with Cerebral Palsy (CP).
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Determination of MIC according to the EUCAST E.DEF 11.0 method v1
Authors: El Moussaoui Khalid
Published: June 2022

Determination of MIC according to the EUCAST E.DEF 11.0 method.
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Effect of a pompage protocol on hemodynamic behavior during and on isometric exercise recovery in elderly: randomized and controlled study
Authors: Dezani Gabrielle Varejano , Teles Stephanny Nascimento , Ribeiro Beatriz Pinheiro , Moreira Leila Dal Poggetto , Viscardi Luciana Gonzales Auad , Martins Edmara AP Reis , De Oliveira Adriana Sarmento
Published: June 2022

The aging process is associated with changes in hemodynamic control, such as reduced sensitivity of baroreceptors. Advanced evidence that some manual therapies, expanded physiotherapy specialty in the treatment of basic musculoskeletal disorders, be complementary to physical exercises performed in cardiovascular rehabilitation, studies that are very scarce in this area in Brazil. Objective: to evaluate the effect of a pomping protocol on hemodynamic behavior during isometric exercise in the elderly. Methodology: A prospective randomized controlled interventional study was carried out. 503 elderly people were initially screened, of which 70 elderly were selected to participate in two randomized sessions held on different days: one with a pomping protocol based on Bienfait (1999) and another with a placebo protocol, totaling 140 transactions. The behavior of blood pressure (BP) and heart rate (HR) at rest for 5 minutes and then during three minutes of isometric exercise with handgrip (EH101, Camry) at 30% of the maximum voluntary contraction were adopted. Afterwards, the pompage protocol or randomized placebo was treated for that specific session for 30 minutes and immediately after intervention/placebo they were repeated as calculated grouping. Results: The elderly had a mean age of 69 ± 1.0 years. Regarding BP values (SBP,131±1.4 mmHg; DBP=83±1.6 mmHg), it is possible to observe that most of the elderly were classified as pre-hypertensive, according to the Brazilian Guidelines on Arterial Hypertension. (2020). We emphasize that there was a reduction in SBP only in the pompage group (p < 0.001), a reduction in DBP only in the pompage group in the first minute (p=0.03) and in the third minute (p=0.04) and a reduction in HR in both groups (p < 0.001 and p = 0.02). Conclusion: The pompagens protocol reduced the SBP of the elderly during isometric exercise with the handgrip and the DBP in the recovery from isometric exercise, while there was no change in SBP in the placebo group during isometrics and no change in DBP in the placebo group during recovery from isometric exercise.
Questioning an Attorney as a Witness in the Client’s Case: Issues of Legality of Compelling Appearance and Admissibility of Evidence
Authors: Khaydarov A. A.
Published: June 2022

The paper studies the legal regime of questioning an attorney (defense lawyer) as a witness in the client’s criminal case.

Given the opinion of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, the author considers in which cases it is necessary to obtain a preliminary judicial determination on the performance of investigative activities against an attorney. The paper analyzes the constitutional and legal positions of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, given in the ruling of April 11, 2019 No. 863-O, and the emerging court practice. The author concludes that the investigative practice of calling upon and questioning an attorney as a witness in their clients’ cases without a preliminary court determination can be adjusted by the specified definition of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation. Based on the constitutional and legal positions reflected in the ruling of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation No. 863-O, an attorney cannot be brought to trial in a criminal case where he provides legal assistance to the client. Also he should not be forced to participate in investigative actions that are being carried out against him without obtaining a preliminary determination.

If there is a preliminary court determination to conduct investigative actions against an attorney in the status of a witness in his client’s criminal case, it is impossible to challenge the attorney in this criminal case. If the investigator fails to comply with these requirements, the recognition of the evidence obtained in this way should be deemed inadmissible, and the right of the principal to defense should be considered violated. This violation should be recognized as significant and regarded as an obstacle to consideration of the criminal case on the merits in the judicial stages of the domestic criminal process. If we are talking about violations of a criminal law nature on the part of a lawyer, his principal or a third party, the guarantees of the regime of lawyer secrecy do not apply to such relations. It is not necessary to obtain a preliminary court determination on the questioning of a lawyer as a witness in such situations.
Improving the Ways of Recording Criminal Proceedings amid Digital Technologies Development
Authors: Nabatov M. B.
Published: June 2022

The paper is devoted to the problem of reliability and accuracy of criminal proceedings records made with shorthand recordings and audio recordings of a court hearing. The current opinions on this issue, of both scholars and practitioners, are analyzed in detail. Based on empirical data, namely the disciplinary practice of the qualification board of judges, the results of a study of 255 verdicts, 200 criminal cases, surveys of 257 Russian lawyers, as well as the professional experience of the author, who is a practicing lawyer, it is concluded that this problem remains relevant and topical. In order to resolve the problem posed by the author, it is proposed to introduce a number of changes to the criminal procedural legislation, namely, Art. 259 Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation. The issue of using the possibilities of digital technologies in order to strengthen guarantees for the protection and realization of the rights of participants in criminal proceedings through the introduction of an electronic format of a criminal case is also being considered.
Improvement of Frequency–Bessel Phase-Velocity Spectra of Multicomponent Cross-Correlation Functions from Seismic Ambient Noise
Authors: Luo Song , Hu Shaoqian , Zhou Guili , Yao Huajian
Published: June 2022

The frequency–Bessel (F–J) transformation method is effective for the extraction of multimode surface wave dispersion data from ambient noise cross-correlation functions (CCFs). Recently, this method has been improved in terms of increasing resolution and reducing artifacts (or cycle skipping) in Rayleigh wave dispersion measurements. However, these advances are restricted to the ZZ-component F–J method, which is only applicable to Rayleigh waves. In contrast, they have not been extended to Love waves, which are fundamental for determining the horizontally polarized shear-wave velocity and the radial anisotropy associated with it. Furthermore, there is still a lack of a methodology for combining these advances. In this study, we propose a modified multicomponent F–J (MMFJ) method to extract high-quality dispersion data of both the Rayleigh and Love waves. To achieve high resolution, we derive formulas to optimize the MMFJ spectra. With synthetic ambient noise data and USArray data, we demonstrated the effectiveness of the MMFJ method in eliminating “crossed” artifacts and enhancing resolution. In particular, the “crossed” artifacts are greatly reduced using the MMFJ with small seismic arrays when the interstation distances in the seismic array are not dense enough. As such, the new MMFJ method has significant potential for handling seismic arrays with a limited number of receivers and the subsequent tomography of radial anisotropies at high precision.
Editorial
Authors: Santos Rafael Duarte Coelho dos , Vijaykumar Nandamudi Lankalapalli
Published: June 2022

Editorial da Coordenação Científica da Edição Especial Computação Aplicada ao Meio Ambiente
Research Insights: Why Did Some Countries Suffer Sudden Stops in Capital Flows during the Pandemic While Others Did Not?
Authors: Cavallo Eduardo A. , Powell Andrew , González Jaramillo María José
Published: June 2022

Despite the sharp contraction in portfolio flows in March 2020, only six of 22 Latin American and Caribbean countries analyzed suffered a sudden stop in net capital flows during the COVID crisis. Outflows were the main driver of these sudden stops, as residents decided to increase their savings abroad. In other cases, external borrowing was crucial to avoid sudden stops. Without sovereign debt issuance or multilateral lending, sudden stops would have been considerably more widespread. Strong fundamentals are critical to maintaining access to external sovereign debt markets. Countries that suffered sudden stops had weaker pre-crisis macroeconomic indicators.
Military and Alternative (Non-Military) Service of Religious Citizens in Ukraine
Authors: Bilash Oleksandr , Karabin Tetyana , Selivanov Anatoliy
Published: June 2022

The article considers the essence of the proper legal regulation of the military and alternative (non-military) services of religious citizens in Ukraine, which has gained a new relevance in the background of the another stage of the Russian-Ukrainian war. The right to replace the military service with an alternative one, its legal regulation, and the possible enhancement of such regulation are the subject of a full-scaled analysis. The article identifies the issues of the implementation of the right to freedom of conscience in military service in the modern state of war conditions and changes in the religious map of Ukraine. Conclusions were made on the need to preserve the institution of alternative service and the establishment of a full-fledged institution of military chaplaincy.
Symbole i stroje religijne w przestrzeni publicznej – uwagi na tle orzecznictwa Europejskiego Trybunału Praw Człowieka
Authors: Milczarek Ewa
Published: June 2022

Symbole i stroje religijne to istotny element realizacji wolności sumienia i wyznania. Zmiany społeczne, w tym pogłębiająca się laicyzacja oraz dyfuzja kulturowa, doprowadzają do pogłębiania się sekularyzacji. Religia jeszcze nie tak dawno spełniała w państwach istotną rolę, przenikając się z władzą publiczną i stanowiąc ważki element polityki państwowej. Obecność symboli i strojów religijnych w przestrzeni publicznej, w tym w przestrzeni związanej z administracją publiczną, w konsekwencji była czymś naturalnym. Efektem wspomnianych zmian społecznych jest również zakwestionowanie obecności tych symboli i poddanie pod weryfikację standardów ich występowania. W tym kontekście istotne jest znalezienie balansu pomiędzy neutralnością przestrzeni publicznej, a prawem do wyrażania swoich uczuć religijnych. Celem badawczym artykułu jest określenie standardów dopuszczalności strojów i symboli religijnych w sferze publicznej w orzecznictwie Europejskiego Trybunału Praw Człowieka.
LINGUOSEMIOTICS OF COLOR IDIOMATICS IN FOREIGN POLICY DISCOURSE
Authors: Belyakov Mikhail V.
Published: June 2022

Aim. To analyze the functioning of idioms with color components as one of the actual components of the speeches of open diplomatic discourse and foreign policy discourse for the period 2020–2022.

Methodology. The research was carried out by means of corpus analysis, as well as by means of лшconversational analysis in a modified version proposed by the author, namely, a variant of communication in the mode of mediated dialogue / polylogue.

Results. The linguopragmatics of the use of color idioms in foreign policy communication, acting as echo phrases in the framework of mediated communication, is considered on the example of the collocations red line/line and black swan.

Research implications. It is revealed on the analyzed material that a phrase, clause, collocation within the framework of foreign policy discourse acts as a trigger for a protracted dialogue / polylogue. The modified type of conversational analysis contributes to obtaining new data on communication in different types of discourse, including the study of the behavior of idioms with a color component, which plays a prominent role in foreign policy and diplomatic discourses.
Inhibition of mycelial growth of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici by isolates of Trichoderma spp.
Authors: Vilar Fernandes Ítalo , Perez de Carvalho Hebe , Perez de Carvalho dos Santos Ana Carolina , Galvão Chagas Yuri José
Published: June 2022

Tomato crops have great economic importance in Brazil and worldwide; however, its economic return is dependent on the control of several diseases, including Fusarium wilt, caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici. The control of this disease is usually based on biological products, which are commonly manufactured with antagonist isolates of Trichoderma sp. Therefore, the antagonistic potential of Trichoderma sp. should be better studied against other phytopathogens, thus expanding the biofungicide options on the market. The objective of the present work was to evaluate the antagonistic potential of different isolates of Trichoderma against the in vitro mycelial growth of F. oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici. Four isolates of Trichoderma spp. were tested, three collected in litterfall and one commercial isolate (T. asperellum). The Trichoderma spp. isolates were evaluated for antagonistic potential against F. oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici using the culture pairing technique. The variables evaluated were: mean colony size (MCS), mycelial growth inhibition percentage (MGIP), mycelial growth rate index (MGRI) of phytopathogen, and antagonism of isolates of Trichoderma spp. through a scale of grades. All isolates of Trichoderma spp. tested reduced the in vitro mycelial growth of F. oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici.
Estimation of failures in soybean crops from aerial images obtained by RPA
Authors: Silva Jadson Maximiano da , Pereira José Luiz de Andrade Rezende , Silva João Edson Costa Ferreira da , Oliveira Ângelo Marcos Santos , Carvalho Taiane Aparecida Fernandes
Published: June 2022

The dissemination of Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) in the agricultural sector made it possible to map crop failures and disease incidence. This work aims to estimate crop failures. For that purpose, we conducted three experiments with a soybean crop at the IFSULDEMINAS school farm - Inconfidentes Campus, by carrying out an aerial survey with an RPA, which generated an orthophoto of the area of interest. To quantify the failures existing in the experiments, we carried out a supervised classification to distinguish the soybean plants of the exposed soil. After the classification, the kappa index was calculated to verify whether the classification was satisfactory. With this, it was possible to calculate the percentage of failures obtained in each plot of the experiment. Finally, we analyzed the variance to verify if the percentage of failures of each plot had significant differences between them. We observed that in two experiments, there was a statistical difference in the number of failures, and in one experiment there was no difference.
The ecology and tree species of urban green areas within the municipality of Campestre, Minas Gerais
Authors: Sobral Lilian Martins , Marcelini Diego Pereira , Reis Miguel Gama , Ferreira-Júnior Walnir Gomes
Published: June 2022

Urban green areas produce benefits such as reduced air pollution, climate mitigation, reduced wind action, less noise pollution, shelter for fauna, and increased water uptake from the soil as well as increased water infiltration to the soil. This work carried out a floristic survey related to its diverse and characterized habit and dispersion, and also related to the origin of the species existing in four public squares within the municipality of Campestre, Minas Gerais. Thus, the floristic and ecological aspects of trees and shrubs were surveyed in four urban green areas of the municipality. All arboreal and shrubby individuals were marked and identified. Each identified species was classified according to habit, dispersion, and origin. In total, 313 tree individuals, shrubs, and palm trees were registered and distributed among 73 species, (62 genera and 30 botanical families). When considering all squares, Shannon’s diversity was 3.72, and Pielou’s evenness coefficient was 0.87. Lower values of diversity and evenness were observed for each public square. There was greater richness and number of individuals of native species compared to exotic ones. The yellow ipe (Handroanthus serratifolius) was the only species present in all studied squares. Sassafras (Ocotea odorifera) and pau-brasil (Paubrasilia echinata) are endangered species and underrepresented. The most represented forms of dispersion were zoochory and anemochory.
Growth and production of ‘Grand Nain’ banana in response to application of simple superphosphate and monoammonium phosphate to an area irrigated with calcareous water
Authors: Nascimento Edinon Manoel , Pacheco Dilermando Dourado , Silva Tatiane Carla , Jacome† Wallison Fagundes , Alcântara Sérgio Ferreira , Montanari Rafael
Published: June 2022

The supply of water of adequate quality for irrigation purposes is becoming increasingly scarce, forcing producers to use restrictive water, such as that with high concentrations of calcium bicarbonate, which is widespread in northern Minas Gerais. This leads to severe chemical imbalances in the soil and in the plants, which significantly reduces the longevity of the farms. The objective of the present work was to evaluate the growth and production of ‘Grand nain’ bananas over a production cycle in response to phosphate fertilization based on simple superphosphate and monoammonium phosphate (MAP) in a soil irrigated with calcareous water. The doses tested were 0, 5, 10, 20, and 30 g P2O5 from simple superphosphate (18 % P2O5) and MAP (48 % P2O5) fertilizers, for a total of nine treatments every three months. Ammonium sulfate and potassium chloride were used in the monthly fertilization, and boric acid, magnesium sulfate, zinc sulfate, and tanned cow dung common to all plants were used in the quarterly fertilization. The results show that the simple superphosphate fertilizer provides a greater productive response of ‘Grand nain’ bananas compared to MAP in most doses tested. Thus, the hypothetical chemical imbalance caused by irrigation with calcareous water and enhanced by the simple superphosphate fertilizer was not observed in the first cultivation cycle of the ‘Grand nain’ banana.
Medicinal plants used by urban and rural inhabitants of Luziânia, Goiás, Brazil
Authors: Neves Delgado Marina , Pinto Gome Jessica s , Braz de Castro Raphaela , Araújo de Sousa Judite
Published: June 2022

The Brazilian flora is highly diverse, with the Cerrado biome featuring as the savanna with the highest richness of species in the world. Furthermore, the use of medicinal plants is a common and traditional practice among the Brazilian population. In that regard, it is expected that the populations of historical cities located in the Cerrado should have vast ethnobotanical knowledge. From this perspective, this study aimed to record the medicinal plants used by the inhabitants of Luziânia (GO), Brazil, and evaluate their socio-economic profiles. The inhabitants (18 from the urban area and 20 from the rural area) were selected by the ‘snowball’ technique and underwent semi-structured interviews that addressed socio-economic and ethnobotanical aspects. Among the interviewees, 74.4 % were women, with adults and older adults constituting the main connoisseurs, and 71 % had incomplete primary education. Most interviewees cultivated medicinal plants in their backyards and cited using leaves as the main plant organ for medicinal purposes. The interviewees from the urban and rural areas differed with regard to the form of obtaining knowledge (c2= 10,367; p < 0,05) since its origin was attributed to family transmission, reading, and from third parties in the urban area, whereas the rural inhabitants reported mainly family transmission. The interviewees cited 95 species, with no statistical difference between exotic and native species. However, the mentioned species were predominantly exotic. Lamiaceae, Asteraceae, and Fabaceae were the most representative families, and herbs were the most common type of medicinal plant. The most used species were Lippia alba (lemon balm), Menthaarvensis (mint), Dysphania ambrosioides (mastruz), and Plectranthus barbatus and Plectranthus grandis (boldo). The main health problems treated with medicinal plants were cold, indigestion, stress, and respiratory problems.
Nitrogen fertilization on topdressing and soil water replacement levels on carrot crop yield
Authors: Santana Márcio José de , Mendonça Ana Paula Leite de , Silva Marcos Vinícius Pires , Xavier Acácio Gomes , Rossi André Maria Eduarda Rocha
Published: June 2022

Nitrogen is a fundamental nutrient required in large quantities for carrots, which raises concerns about the right time and doses to be used. Although irrigation is also an essential practice for crop success, the deficit or excess of water can provide unfavorable conditions for the development of carrots. This work was carried out aiming at evaluating the effect of nitrogen fertilization on topdressing and soil water replacement levels on carrot yield. The experiment was conducted at Federal Institute of Education, Science, and Technology of the Triângulo Mineiro (IFTM) – Uberaba Campus, MG, Brazil, in a 4 × 4 factorial and randomized blocks involving four nitrogen doses applied to the topdressing (0 kg ha-1, 42 kg ha-1, 84 kg ha-1, and 126 kg ha-1) and four water replacement levels (70 %, 100 %, 130 %, and 160 %) based on the estimated values of the ETc of the crop. The interaction was significant only for the root diameter variable. Among the results, we can see that the N dose for the 119.4 kg ha-1 topdressing was the one that provided the maximum number of commercial roots, while soil water replacement of 86.94 % induced maximum total productivity.
La dignidad humana en el derecho privado. Una lectura desde el concepto de dignidad como estatus
Authors: Gamonal Contreras Sergio , Pino Emhart Alberto
Published: June 2022

El artículo tiene como objetivo plantear que la noción de dignidad humana puede tener un rol relevante en el derecho privado, tanto en el derecho civil como en el derecho laboral. Se sostiene que el entendimiento de la dignidad humana como rango o estatus, elaborado por Jeremy Waldron, le da un contenido concreto al concepto, prohibiendo los tratos humillantes o degradantes en contra de cualquier persona humana. Luego se analizan algunas proyecciones que pueden articularse a partir de esta interpretación en el ámbito del derecho de los contratos, la responsabilidad civil y en el derecho laboral.
Cuidado personal de niños, niñas y adolescentes en caso de separación de los padres en Chile: desde el cuidado único de la madre hasta la custodia compartida
Authors: Barría Paredes Manuel , Sánchez Pezo Gabriela
Published: June 2022

El presente trabajo expone la evolución legislativa de la institución del cuidado personal de los hijos e hijas en el ordenamiento jurídico chileno, mostrando la consagración legal de la institución y sus modificaciones legales. Además, profundiza en la situación actual de la institución en comento, abordando tópicos como la corresponsabilidad parental, el cuidado personal compartido, las situaciones de inhabilidad de los padres y el ejercicio del cuidado personal por personas diferentes. Finalmente, se hace un breve análisis proyectivo de la cuestión a la luz de estándares establecidos por instrumentos internacionales de derechos humanos y la realidad chilena contemporánea.
La nulidad de la compraventa de bien embargado: ¿un verdadero caso de objeto ilícito? Análisis de la sentencia CSJ-SC041 de 2022
Authors: Riaño Saad Anabel
Published: June 2022

La sanción en caso de una compraventa de bien embargado es un tema controvertido. En la sentencia SC041-2022, la Corte Suprema de Justicia reitera la tesis según la cual el contrato de compraventa de un bien embargado estaría viciado de nulidad absoluta (num. 3 del art. 1521 del c. c.), pero afirma la posibilidad que tienen las partes, a efectos de evitar la nulidad, de someter a modalidad la obligación de transferir, atenuando así el rigor de la sanción. Sin embargo, la posición de la Corte suscita interrogantes; el primero, acerca de la pertinencia de extender la nulidad al contrato de compraventa; el segundo, respecto a la justificación de la nulidad absoluta como sanción en el caso de enajenación de un bien embargado.